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Vol. V NO II Thursday, January 13, 2011 Westchester’s Most Influential Weekly White Plains the County Seat Page 7 What Manner of Man Town of Mamaroneck by Robert Scott Page 9 Surprise Guilty Page 2 Plea Page 7

Village of Tarrytown Page 12

John Q. Barrett Four Freedoms Page 13

Ed Koch Death is Part of Life Page 15 John Simon A Small Fire & Dracula Page 21

Mayor Mary Marvin Page 10

Letters to the Editor, Page 14; Murtagh’s Press Conference by Joan Gronowski, Page 18; The Anatomy of Humor, What’s so Funny by the Westchester Jokester, Page 11 westchesterguardian.com Page 2 The Westchester Guardian THURSDAY, January 13, 2011

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Cover...... 2 Ballet...... 46 Remembering the Life and Times of Community...... 6 Courts...... 7 Economic Development...... 7 Martin Luther King Jr. Government...... 7 By Robert Scott Humor...... 11 Once again it is time to celebrate the birth who represented Harlem in Congress for many Investigations...... 13 of Martin Luther King Jr. 82 years ago. This terms and who was himself a minister, will call Letters...... 14 weekend vote-seeking politicians will make him a failure and refer to him contemptuously Music Scene...... 14 their annual pilgrimages to churches in black as Martin “Loser” King. neighborhoods. As they praise a man they But he will be in distinguished company OpEd...... 15 never knew, their words will reveal how little when he is awarded the 1964 Nobel Peace Politics...... 18 they understand the black experience in these Prize, the twelfth American, the third black, Radio...... 18 United States in the 1950s and 1960s. and--at age 35--the youngest person ever to Spoof...... 19 Sadly, too, generations of young people have receive this coveted honor. The first black to grown up with no knowledge of the one whose be so honored had been Ralph Bunche, the Sports...... 19 birth is being celebrated this coming Monday, American diplomat who won the 1950 Nobel Technology...... 20 Jan. 17. Nor do they have any perception of Peace Prize for his work on the United Nations Theatre...... 21 the quiet revolution in constitutional rights he Palestine Commission. A decade later, South sparked. African Zulu leader Albert Luthuli, who advo- Legal Notices...... 23 Let us revisit now the troubled times a half- cated nonviolent resistance to apartheid, won century ago when there were two Americas, the 1960 Prize. one white and one black: In the South, restau- In a journey that will start in Montgomery, rants, movie theaters, public toilets and parks Ala., and end in Memphis, Tenn., Martin are racially segregated. Even separate drinking Luther King Jr. will do more than any other fountains are provided for whites and blacks. American--white or black--to expose the Everywhere in the South, blacks must hypocrisy of de facto segregation in a land dedi- occupy seats at the back of the bus. If these are cated to freedom, equality and justice. Westchester’s Most Influential Weekly filled, they are forced to stand, although seats Strikingly in contrast with his message of at the front reserved for whites may be empty. nonviolence, upon his martyrdom in 1968, more than 130 cities in the nation will explode A Prophetic Phone Call in a turbulent Götterdämmerung of rioting. Guardian News Corp. It is a December day in 1955. The telephone P.O. Box 8 Before it ends, 34 blacks and five whites will be rings in the home of an obscure 26-year-old dead. Property damage will reach the millions New Rochelle, New York 10801 pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in of dollars. Yet this frenzy of fire and destruc- Montgomery, Ala. A tired black woman, Mrs. tion marks no failure of his philosophy. Rather, Sam Zherka , Publisher & President Rosa Parks, a department store tailor’s assistant, it only confirms the message he preached about has just been arrested after she politely refused [email protected] the emptiness and malignity of violence, the to leave the seat she had taken at the front of uselessness of riot. the bus. The caller, a Pullman porter, asks the Hezi Aris, Editor-in-Chief & Vice President pastor, a Montgomery resident of only two Who Was This Man? [email protected] years, to join a committee organizing a boycott Who was this remarkable man that in of the city’s bus lines. twelve short years almost single-handedly Advertising: (914) 632-2540 The pastor reflects for a moment and then stirred the conscience of America? Born in agrees. This fateful decision will catapult the Atlanta, Ga., Martin Luther King Jr. experi- News and Photos: (914) 632-2540 Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to the leadership of enced none of the economic deprivation of his Fax: (914) 633-0806 a crusade of nonviolence and bring him world- race. Two years after his birth, his strong-willed wide attention and acclaim. The boycott will father became pastor of that city’s prestigious Published online every Monday last 381 days. It concludes a year later when the Ebenezer Baptist Church. Print edition distributed Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday Supreme Court rules that racial segregation is Nevertheless, young Martin was well unconstitutional on Alabama’s city busses. acquainted with the indignity of racial discrim- Before his mission ends with his assassina- ination at an early age. Riding with his father, Graphic Design: Watterson Studios, Inc. tion little more than a dozen years in the future, who had been stopped by a white traffic cop and wattersonstudios.com this old-fashioned preacher with extraordinary addressed as “Boy,” he heard the elder Rev. King’s rhetorical skills will be beaten, reviled, jailed. His correction. “That’s a boy,” his father said emphat- westchesterguardian.com home will be bombed, and he will be scorned- ically, pointing to his young son. “I’m a man.” -even by blacks. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Continued on page 3 The Westchester Guardian THURSDAY, January 13, 2011 Page 3

WHAT MANNER OF MAN Remembering the Life and Times of Martin Luther King Jr. Continued from page 2 with evil is as much a moral obligation as Martin Luther King Jr. was educated is cooperation with good. No other person at Atlanta’s Morehouse College, entering has been more eloquent and passionate in at 15 after skipping the final year of high getting this idea across than Henry David school. The Crozer Theological Seminary, Thoreau. As a result of his writings and a Baptist institution in Chester, Penna., personal witness, we are the heirs of a followed. At Boston University, he legacy of creative protest.” received his Ph.D. in systematic theology. As a theological student, after hearing The philosophies of three seminal a lecture on the life of Mahatma Gandhi figures would play a part in his spiritual given by the president of Washington’s development: the social gospel of Walter Howard University, he felt moved. “His Rauschenbusch, the Baptist religious message was so profound and electrifying,” leader; the civil disobedience of Henry King said, “that I left the meeting and David Thoreau; and the nonviolence bought a half-dozen books on Gandhi’s of Mahatma Gandhi, who sparked the life and works. My skepticism about the nonviolent disobedience that forced power of love gradually diminished, and I Great Britain to grant independence to came to see for the first time its potency India in 1947. in the area of social reform. I came to feel Walter Rauschenbusch was a social that this was the only morally and prac- prophet and pastor of New York’s Second tically sound method open to oppressed German Baptist Church on West 43rd people in their struggle for freedom.” Street in Hell’s Kitchen, a poor and He came to believe that nonviolent dangerous neighborhood. Although he died action is different from simply ignoring an in 1918, Rauschenbusch in his writings evil. Instead, it is a “courageous confronta- provided the theological basis for King’s tion of evil by the power of love, in the social activism, giving him hope that the faith that it is better to be the recipient of church could play a pivotal role in correcting violence than the inflictor of it.” the inequities of American society. Martin Luther King Jr. adopted Rauschenbusch insisted that the Gandhi’s dictum: “If cowardice is the only gospel required the church to concern alternative to violence, it is better to fight.” itself with the whole man, not just his Nonviolence was thus not synonymous spirit. King would write, “It has been my with cowardice or the passive acceptance conviction that any religion that professes of evil. A victory won through nonvio- to be concerned about the souls of men lence was preferable to one achieved and is not concerned about the social and through violent means. Early in 1959, he economic conditions that scar the soul is a made a trip to India to visit the land that spiritually moribund religion only waiting Gandhi had freed. King regarded it as a to be buried. It has been well said: ‘A reli- special trip. “To other countries I may go gion that ends with the individual, ends.’” as a tourist,” he said, “but to India I go as In 1846, the 29-year-old Henry David a pilgrim.” Thoreau moved into his famous cabin on The following year, he resigned as land owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson pastor of his church in Montgomery, at Walden Pond in Massachusetts. telling the congregation that the time had After Thoreau refused to pay his taxes come for a broad, bold advance against as a protest against slavery in America, injustice in the South. He then prepared he was remanded to jail. His aunt paid to move with his family to Atlanta and his taxes for him, and he was released to commit the rest of his short life to the the next morning. He then wrote his struggle for freedom. essay “Resistance to Civil Government.” King’s speeches and public statements Published in 1849, and also known as all had their roots in the traditional sermon- “Civil Disobedience,” it argues that a izing characteristic of black churches--a person has a right--even an obligation- time-honored ritual consisting of the -to disobey any law that is evil or unjust. pastor’s measured affirmations and the King wrote in his autobiography, “I congregation’s spirited responses. became convinced that noncooperation Continued on page 4 Page 4 The Westchester Guardian THURSDAY, January 13, 2011

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PAGE 20 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 2010 without its senseless casualties. On Aug. Remembering the Life and Times of Martin Luther King Jr. 4, 1964, FBI agents found a grave under CLASSIFIED 15 feet of dirt in a new earthen dam on the Continued from page 3 young people to integrate interstate Commerce Commission banned segrega- farm of Olen Burrage, near Philadelphia, Employment Real Estate Taking an active part in the strug- buses. Their bus had been firebombed in tion on buses and trains. Miss. In it were the bodies of three civil Exp’d drivers wanted. CDL & TLC INVESTMENT Anniston, Ala. Set upon and beaten upon Upon receiving word that he had been Lic. needed. PROPERTY UNIMPROVED gles of an America in turmoil, after the rights workers who were engaged in voter Mount Vernon - Commercial bldg lot, boycott of Montgomery busses, he partic- reaching Montgomery, they hesitated, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Martin registration and had been missing for six 914.663.1006 9500 sq. ft. Corner bldg. Apts with ipated in the Albany, Ga., confrontation considering whether to go on to Jackson, Luther King Jr. announced that he weeks. For Rent stores. Must sell. $875K. Make offer. in which he was arrested in an attempt to Miss., where death threats had been made. would donate the $54,123 prize money Andrew Goodman and Michael OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT 914.632.1230 desegregate public facilities. He witnessed King had not been on the bus ride, but he to the civil rights movement. Soon after, Schwerner were Jewish and from New Prime Ossining loc - Rt. 9. hastened to Montgomery to become the Archbishop Paul Hallinan of the Roman 950 sq. ft. & 500 sq. ft. the horror of Birmingham, in which York, and James Chaney was an African- lightning rod, as he always did, to draw Catholic archdiocese of Atlanta visited 917.363.4366 black churches were bombed and Sunday American from nearby Meridian. They School children murdered. He also took trouble. He told his assistants to caution King to offer his congratulations. As he Chaney had been brutally beaten, and part in the ultimately successful march the young people not to continue. concluded his visit, he asked, “May I give all three had been shot. Neshoba County LEGAL NOTICES from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. His “I will go to Jackson, and Ralph [Ralph you my blessing?” sheriff Lawrence Rainey and his deputy, targets were the many forms of discrimi- Abernathy, King’s principal assistant] will King consented and received the Cecil Price, were arrested and charged nation and segregation practiced in the go,” he announced. “But I was not put traditional blessing as the archbishop with violating the victims’ civil rights. The South, and his weapons were dignity and here on this earth to send children to get made the sign of the cross. Then, to deputy and six others were convicted; the self-respect. “A man can’t ride your back hurt.” When the adults got to the bus King’s surprise, the Catholic leader sank sheriff was found not guilty. unless it’s bent,” he told listeners. station the next morning, the young bus to his knees and said, “May I receive your The parallels between Martin Luther riders were there in full strength, waiting blessing?” King obliged but felt humbled King Jr. and another apostle of love and King’s Character to accompany King on the bus. His will- at this sign of respect and encouragement nonviolence some two thousand years Nothing highlights King’s character ingness to take risks on their behalf had from the leader of Atlanta’s Catholics. earlier are too striking not to record more than an incident in 1961 during strengthened their resolve. As a result of Ultimately, King made the discovery here. Both had a wide knowledge of a Freedom Ride through the South by the Freedom Rides, the federal Interstate that the nonviolence he preached nation- Eastern wisdom gleaned from their study ally had a wider aspect. Despite the of systematic theology, and both made admonitions of black leaders that he “stick frequent use of metaphors and parables. to civil rights,” he began denouncing the Their typical mode of public address was Vietnam War. King’s reasons were basic. not the secular oration but the sermon. He felt that the war was morally wrong, Each spent his early years in relative and he was keenly aware of its diversion obscurity. Both were often assailed with of funds from poverty programs. doubt about the rightness of their actions. Mission Statement Moreover, it made no sense for the Each had a close relationship with his e Westchester Guardian is a weekly newspaper devot- nation to be “guaranteeing the vote” disciples--and was denied by them. Some ed to the unbiased reporting of events and developments for Asians while black and poor white staffers referred to King privately as “little that are newsworthy and signi cant to readers living in, Americans were denied these rights. His Lord Jesus” or “de Lawd.” Each also and/or employed in, Westchester County. e Guardian death 40 years ago came at a critical time, exhibited an uneasy apprehension about will strive to report fairly, and objectively, reliable informa- just as he was beginning to form a coali- the police and the courts, and often voiced tion without favor or compromise. Our  rst duty will be tion of racial, populist, intellectual and a premonition of death. to the PEOPLE’S RIGHT TO KNOW, by the exposure national groups. of truth, without fear or hesitation, no matter where the Southern whites had always insisted Death in Memphis pursuit may lead, in the  nest tradition of FREEDOM OF that blacks be submissively nonviolent. Prophetically, King spoke at a rally THE PRESS. King’s unique contribution was a new at the Memphis Masonic Temple on e Guardian will cover news and events relevant to and realistic black attitude--a policy April 3, 1968. Outside, it was raining residents and businesses all over Westchester County. As a of cautiously modulated militancy in heavily. Thunder reverberated in the hall. weekly, rather than focusing on the immediacy of delivery demanding long-overdue civil rights, Lightning flashes eerily punctuated his more associated with daily journals, we will instead seek to provide the broader, more comprehensive, chronological step-by-step ac- but one that expressly disavowed phys- words. It was a night to remember. “Let counting of events, enlightened with analysis, where appropriate. ical violence, even in the face of vicious us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. From amongst journalism’s classic key-words: who, what, when, where, provocation. Let us stand with a greater determination. why, and how, the why and how will drive our pursuit. We will use our more Many parts of the South did not And let us move on in these powerful abundant time, and our resources, to get past the initial ‘spin’ and ‘damage willingly surrender the outdated segre- days, these days of challenge, to make control’ o­ en characteristic of immediate news releases, to reach the very gation of hundreds of years. Reluctant America a better nation. And I want to heart of the matter: the truth. We will take our readers to a point of under- to accept social change, they had to be thank God, once more, for allowing me standing and insight which cannot be obtained elsewhere. dragged, kicking and screaming, into the to be here with you. I don’t know what To succeed, we must recognize from the outset that bigger is not neces- 20th century. Worse yet, malfeasance and will happen now. We’ve got some diffi- sarily better. And, furthermore, we will acknowledge that we cannot be all violence on the part of local officials were cult days ahead. But it doesn’t matter with things to all readers. We must carefully balance the presentation of relevant, common. me, now, because I’ve been to the moun- hard-hitting, Westchester news and commentary, with features and columns taintop. And I don’t mind. useful in daily living and employment in, and around, the county. We must The Graves in the Dam stay trim and ƒ exible if we are to succeed. The civil rights struggle was not Continued on page 5 The Westchester Guardian THURSDAY, January 13, 2011 Page 5

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what we must live by. We must meet hate Remembering the Life and Times of Martin Luther King Jr. with love.” At a mass meeting after four Continued from page 4 peace; I was a drum major for righteous- was dynamited in Montgomery, he told Montgomery black churches and several “Like anybody, I would like to live a ness. And all of the other shallow things the angry crowd that gathered in front of homes were bombed, he was heartbroken long life; longevity has its place. But I’m will not matter. his damaged house, “We must not return at the wave of white violence that followed not concerned about that now. I just want “I won’t have any money to leave violence under any conditions. I know this successful local bus integration. Blacks, he to do God’s will. And He’s allowed me to behind. But I just want to leave a is difficult advice to follow. We must love said, had been the “victims of the most go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked committed life behind. And that’s all I our white brothers no matter what they startling and appalling expression of man’s over. And I’ve seen the Promised Land. want to say. If I can help somebody as I do to us. We must make them know that inhumanity to man. To have bombed I may not get there with you. But I want pass along, if I can cheer somebody with we love them. Jesus still cries out in words the homes was unpardonable, but to you to know that we, as a people, will get a word or song, if I can show somebody that echo across the centuries: ‘Love your have attacked a house of God was tragic to the Promised Land. So I am happy that he’s traveling wrong, then my living enemies; bless them that curse you; pray barbarity, devoid of moral sensitivity. tonight. I’m not worried about anything. will not be in vain. If I can do my duty as for them that despitefully use you.’ This is Continued on page 6 I’m not fearing any man. Mine eyes have a Christian ought, if I can bring salvation seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.” to a world once wrought, if I can spread the message as the master taught, then my In less than twenty-four hours he would Before speaking to the police... call be dead. living will not have been in vain.” Dignitaries from the worlds of poli- His coffin was carried outside the tics, entertainment and sports, including church and placed on a farm cart drawn George Weinbaum four candidates for the American presi- by two mules. The assembled multitude, ATTORNEY AT LAW dency, attended his funeral service five a veritable river of humanity, filled the days later in his father’s church in Atlanta. streets and followed it in a slow proces- FREE CONSULTATION: The tape of his own eulogy was played at sion to South View Cemetery. His body Criminal, Medicaid, Medicare the service for the sobbing crowd in the was later transferred to Atlanta’s Martin Fraud, White-Collar Crime & church and the tens of thousands gath- Luther King Jr. National Historic Site. Health Care Prosecutions. T. 914.948.0044 ered outside. “Yes, if you want to say I was During his short life, King’s faith F. 914.686.4873 a drum major, say that I was a drum major in the power of redemptive love was for justice; say that I was a drum major for frequently put to the test. After his home 175 MAIN ST., SUITE 711-7 • WHITE PLAINS, NY 10601 It’s Our Mission. Quality Health Coverage Child Health Plus with Fidelis Care • Free or low-cost health insurance coverage for children up to age 19 in New York State. • Checkups with your child’s doctor • Immunizations (shots) • Hospital and emergency care • Prescription drug coverage • Dental and vision care • Speech and hearing services • More than 42,000 quality providers Proof of age, income, and address necessary to enroll. Some children who had employer-based health insurance coverage within the past six months may be subject to a waiting period before they Child Health Plus is a New York State-sponsored health insurance program offered by Fidelis Care. can enroll in Child Health Plus. This will depend on your household income and the reason your children lost employer-based coverage. To find out if you are eligible for one of our government-sponsored health insurance programs, call Fidelis Care at: 1-888-FIDELIS (1-888-343-3547)

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WHAT MANNER OF MAN BALLET Remembering the Life and Times of Performance Opportunity for Talented Martin Luther King Jr. Continued from page 5 speechless. “I had no words to comfort my Children in Westchester! “Lord, I hope no one will have to die husband,” she recalled. “I could not say, ‘It won’t happen to you.’ I felt he was right.” New Rochelle, NY -- Ajkun Ballet as a result of our struggle for freedom in Theatre, a New York City based profes- Montgomery,” he intoned. “Certainly, Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, and lived exactly sional ballet company, invites children I don’t want to die. But if anyone has to of Westchester County, grades Pre-K die, let it be me.” Cries of “No! No!” came 39 years, two months and twenty days. - 8, to participate in their 2011 produc- from the audience. Some wept openly. It This gentle, humble man walked among would be the first of his premonitions of us all too briefly until his cruel murder tion of Don Quixote. Children partake death. at the hands of his fellow men. He was in rehearsals of dance or theater (child’s With the publication of his 1958 called to teach us while he lived; in death choice, divided by age) at a local venue book titled Stride Toward Freedom: The he can teach us, too. The impact of his taught by AjkunBT’s Professional Montgomery Story, he began an author message can now only be perceived in the Artists on Saturdays throughout March tour to promote it. As he was autographing long-term results of his ministry. It is our and April. In April and May, participants copies of his book at Blumstein’s depart- behavior, individually and collectively as a perform alongside artists of Ajkun Ballet nation, that alone can show whether his ment store on 125th Street in Harlem, a Theatre in this spectacular audience legacy still lives on. deranged black woman stabbed him with favorite: Don Quixote. AjkunBT’s Staff a letter opener, piercing the outer wall of The dark and bloody years of the 1960’s spawned a mean climate of violence is committed to making this experience a his aorta. After a three-hour operation to unique and enjoyable one for all children, repair the damage, as the anesthetic wore that led to the assassinations of a succes- sion of public figures: MedgarE vers, Jack with or without previous training. off, he inquired about his assailant. “This Registration is limited. A suggested person needs help,” he said. “Don’t do and Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther donation of $35 for your child’s participation will help cover the cost of instructors’ trans- anything to her, don’t prosecute her. Get King Jr. Those who committed these portation to and from New Rochelle. her healed.” The woman, Izola Curry, foul murders never understood a simple who had never met King, was eventually truth that has resounded down through Contact Info: AjkunBT Young Dancers Performance Program, 193 Cross Street; committed to a mental hospital. the years: Although they may succeed in NYC, NY 10464-1225. Telephone: (917) 599-6915. Direct email to artisticstaff@ In 1963, upon hearing the news of killing the dreamer, they can never kill the ajkunbt.org President Kennedy’s assassination, he told dream. his wife, Coretta, “This is going to happen Rest in peace, great heart. to me also. You know, I don’t think I will Robert Scott, a retired book publisher, is a live to reach forty because this country is writer and editor. too sick to allow me to live.” His wife was

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Empty Bowls Fundraiser. Clay Art Center maintains the mission of Clay (CAC) provided all materials, Art Center, which is to “to Port Chester, NY -- Clay Art and CAC artists volunteered kindle a passion for the ceramic Center celebrates its commu- their time during the event, and arts and to provide a sharing nity service and outreach month after to trim and glaze each bowl community for that passion to by hosting its 10th year of the created. flourish.” Clay Art Center is a Empty Bowls event and fund- For those who missed the not-for-profit ceramic art orga- raiser. Empty bowls is a national opportunity to throw or donate nization offering exhibitions, organization raising awareness a bowl you may consider joining clay classes for adults and chil- about issues of hunger and food CAC during the fundraising event dren, studio spaces for clay artists insecurity. to be held on Sunday, January and outreach programs in the This year they invited people 30th at 11am at Rye Presbyterian community. It is located in the to the Clay Art Center on January Church, located at 882 Boston heart of Port Chester at 40 Beech 8th to share their generosity by Post Road, in Rye, NY. With Street, Port Chester, NY 10573. helping to make bowls for the each bowl purchased, a local Port Gallery hours are Monday event. Clay Art Center staff, Chester bakery will donate their through Saturday, 10am-4pm or artists, students and volunteers delicious and unique soups and by appointment. To learn more, created one of a kind bowls of breads. All proceeds from Empty contact CAC Director Leigh all shapes and sizes on and off Bowls will be donated to local Taylor Mickelson, leigh@clay- the potter’s wheel, and each bowl soup kitchens. artcenter.org or 914-937-2047. CAC students, artists and teachers created dozens of bowls for the made on site was donated to the This community project 2010 Empty Bowls fundraising event. The Westchester Guardian THURSDAY, January 13, 2011 Page 7

COURTS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Surprise Guilty Plea in Yonkers Cappelli Abandons LeCount Square but Firefighter Trial New Rochelle’s Planned Parenthood By Nancy King Remains By Peggy Godfrey White Plains, NY, January 7, 2011 Department formed a double line outside -- Rafael Roldan (below) pleaded guilty the courtroom. After family members The new year rings claim 324,000 abortions were performed, today to murder and assault charges for passed through the line, Joyce’s widow “in” for New Rochelle but a 6% increase from the previous year. setting a fire at 149 Waverly Place in Tara stopped to thank the firefighters for “out” for Louis Cappelli’s There were 9,400 adoption referrals. Yonkers on October their support. proposed LeCount Square Another $700 million was spent to 2, 2009. This blaze “In one project. Councilman Al encourage use of contraceptives and for resulted in serious senseless act, Tarantino confirmed that abortions internationally. injury to Firefighters this defen- because no discussions George Imburgia on the other hand Lt. Joe Murray and dant set fire were held recently on the sale of the New looks to the future and stated, “Now that Firefighter William to an occu- Rochelle Post Office, that the LeCount Louis Cappelli is no longer the developer Kancyh and the pied building Square project is dead. for LeCount Square, he will not be able death of Firefighter in the middle But among the empty apartment and to relocate Planned Parenthood to a new Patrick Joyce (right). of the night, took the life of one fire- commercial buildings on the block is the location which is a pity. This is because Roldan’s plea brings with it a sentence fighter, ended the career of another, Planned Parenthood facility. Cappelli Planned Parenthood is a grim reminder of 20 years to life. He will be formally seriously injured a third and permanently had plans to construct this organization of all the human lives that were put out sentenced on April 12th. changed the lives of their families,” said a new building a number of blocks away of existence. Planned Parenthood does According to Scott Tulman, Roldan’s District Attorney Janet DiFiore after the on North Avenue when the construc- not belong in a business district.” It can defense attorney, Roldan had expressed defendant’s guilty plea. “This defendant’s tion of the LeCount Square development be added here, the long sought after remorse for his actions and is said to guilty plea today, with the full support of commenced. Now it is apparent that Kohl’s which was part of a package deal to have wanted to spare the Joyce family the Firefighter Joyce’s family, Lt. Murray’s the Planned Parenthood facility which bring retail to New Roc across the street pain of sitting though the trial. Though family and Firefighter Kanych’s family, is across from New Roc Entertainment was recently reported in Lifenews.com admitting to having set the fire, Roldan hopefully will give some measure of Center and Trump Plaza will remain. (1/3/11) as stating they would no longer maintained that he only set the fire to closure to them and the members of the City Council members that voted for the support Planned Parenthood. Talk of the punish a cousin who had evicted him Yonkers Fire Department.” LeCount Square Plan have never stated Sound reported recently that Cappelli was from her apartment fo non payment of Sentencing will be on April 12th, how they evaluated Planned Parenthood’s negotiating to sell commercial space never rent. Jurors had been scheduled to hear 2011. presence in the downtown area. Others rented in Trump Tower which is also that confession had the trial progressed. Assistant District Attorney Timothy are not reluctant to express their views. within one block of Planned Parenthood. As Roldan was led away from the Ward, Chief of the Arson Unit, pros- There is a faithful group of pro-life On the thirty-eighth anniversary of courtroom in handcuffs, approximately ecuted the case. New Rochelle residents and another group Roe v. Wade, we are reminded that 53 sixty members of the Yonkers Fire from a nearby community who go every million abortions have been performed Thursday morning to pray the rosary for in this country. Supreme Court Justice GOVERNMENT the abortions that take place at this site. Antonin Scalia was reported saying Roe One of the most dramatic moments came v. Wade was an “absurdity” and that the a few weeks ago as they were praying. A Constitution does not indicate anyone car had stopped and the woman in it was has a right to an abortion. But this, in his White Plains, The County Seat staring at the group praying. One of the view, “doesn’t mean you can’t prohibit it,” people praying went over to the car. The and nothing stops citizens from making By Adam Bradley woman asked if they were praying for the abortion the law. Scalia also feels equal babies aborted and suggested the group protection for women is not guaranteed in On Tuesday, January national recession. should keep it up. Sadly she then said how the 14th Amendment 5, I was pleased to stand My she had an abortion some years ago and Has the presence of Planned with other elected offi- Administration dedi- has never forgiven herself. The member Parenthood in the business district of cials and local business cated significant time of the rosary group that had gone over to New Rochelle had any impact on the busi- leaders to officially open and effort and worked closely with devel- her car told her God always offers forgive- nesses in the area? Or is this too delicate a the new ShopRite store at opers to make this a reality. Additionally, ness. Another member told her how to get subject for anyone to discuss openly? City Center in the heart last week the Common Council approved of White Plains. This grand opening the site plan for Metropolitan Plaza that counseling at Lumina which is a place for Peggy Godfrey is a freelance writer, a commu- not only brings expanded service and will feature new retail shops, restaurants healing after abortion. nity activist, and former educator. choices at reasonable prices to the citi- and office space. Planned Parenthood is big business in zens of White Plains, it also creates more The opening of ShopRite and plans this country. When its annual report was than 400 new local jobs at a time when for Metropolitan Plaza is the latest mile- released it cited $363 million was received our economy begins to emerge from the Continued on page 8 in Federal Funding in 2008-2009. They Page 8 The Westchester Guardian THURSDAY, January 13, 2011

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effectively reduce our costs and share ensure that the City could purchase and White Plains, The County Seat services with the school district. develop the lots, so that we don’t have Continued from page 7 Given the severity of this outlook, my My Administration took the painful another hole in the ground in downtown yet necessary steps to deal with the dire White Plains. stone in our Main Street Project that administration took immediate action. We consolidated several administrative fiscal crisis we inherited, while doing More recently, we dealt with an inten- will extend all the way to Broadway and everything possible to minimize the sive snowstorm during the last week of revitalize our downtown and stimulate positions, initiated two rounds of layoffs, and cut nearly $1 million from various impact on our taxpayers. We have also December. My Administration worked the local economy. Other businesses worked hard to find ways to improve through the night to ensure a full and and restaurants are on the way, and I am other budget lines. City staffing is now at its lowest level in at least 25 years, yet the the quality of life in White Plains and expansive response and communicated confident that White Plains is finding make the city run “greener.” We created to citizens with regular updates regarding its footing once again, even while nearby scope of services provided to our residents remains the same. the Sustainability and Environmental road conditions, power outages, school communities continue to struggle. Enhancement Committee, which meets closings and resumption of city services. This is a vastly different and much In conjunction with the Common Council, we worked very hard to seek regularly to review and improve the envi- I am proud of our efforts to handle this improved economic picture than when ronmental footprint of White Plains in natural crisis, particularly those of our I took office just one year ago. When I further reductions. In May, we adopted a budget that called for a 6.85% property a thoughtful manner that is responsible, police and fire departments and members became Mayor, many businesses were cost effective, and healthy. Additionally, of the Department of Public Works. I boarded up and abandoned, more people tax increase – down from initial estimates of an increase of 18.9% - which was still a we increased wetland setbacks to preserve believe it is fair to say that we were better were losing jobs than finding them and and expand our open spaces, and we prepared and faster to respond than many the City of White Plains was on the brink lot to ask from taxpayers, but far less than we feared. improved recreation and park services of our neighboring communities. of a fiscal calamity. It was clear that hard such as Ebersole Skating Rink, which is Unquestionably, 2010 was a difficult choices would have to be made. Some of the proactive steps taken by my Administration include the creation now wired for television and WiFi and is year. We’ve already come a long way, and Estimates showed we faced a budget clearly a better place for kids and families from the accomplishments I’ve shared, shortage of $5.7 million in expected reve- of a Tax Stabilization Fund to replenish our depleted reserves and protect long- than just one year ago. it is clear that we are making progress nues as well as $2.1 million less of fund We also dealt with several natural for our city. I look forward to continue balance available to help offset any prop- term fiscal viability, amending the Taxi Medallion legislation to meet revenue calamities last year, most tragically in working on your behalf in the New Year erty tax increase. When certain mandated July with the fire that destroyed an entire to bring new successes and opportunities cost increases were factored in, we were goals while increasing the number of hybrid vehicles operating as taxis, and city block along East Post Road. When to White Plains. heading for at least a 23.5% property tax the fire had been extinguished, my increase in 2010-2011. forming a City-School Shared Services Adam Bradley is the Mayor of White Plains. and Consolidation Committee to more Administration took immediate steps to Assemblyman Castelli Appointed as Ranker of The Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee

Local officials from the 89thA ssembly For their service, we owe them our District hosted a public-swearing in undying gratitude and support for the ceremony for Assemblyman Robert J. often difficult transition back to civilian Castelli (R, C – Goldens Bridge) this past life.” Saturday, at the South Salem Fire House Assemblyman Castelli is already in Lewisboro. Assemblyman Castelli was working on new legislation to help joined by friends and family as he took enhance the quality of life for veterans, his oath of office, officiated by Lewisboro military service personnel and their fami- Town Justice Marc A. Seedorf. lies. That legislation includes: South Salem, NY -- Assemblyman • Providing a simple and straightforward Robert J. Castelli (R, C – Goldens Bridge) mechanism allowing parents facing has been appointed as the Ranking military deployment to appoint a short- Republican Member of the Assembly term guardian for their children while Robert J. Castelli sworn in by Judge Seedorf at So Salem Firehouse 1.1.11 Veterans Affairs Committee by Assembly serving their nation. Minority Leader Brian Kolb (R, I, C – • Granting academic credits at state-oper- employees to be compensated for up to Castelli’s son, Lt. Colonel Robert Canandaigua). Castelli, a Vietnam War ated institutions of the State University 49 days of military deployment per year, Christian Castelli, currently serves with combat veteran, has been a strong advo- of New York and the senior colleges and a performance of duty disability the US Army Special Forces, and has cate for veterans since his election to the of the City University of New York to retirement benefit for those employees completed five tours inA fghanistan. Assembly last February. veterans. who are members of the military and are In addition to being named ranker “I am honored that Assembly • Establishing the Yellow Ribbon injured in combat. of the Assembly Veterans Affairs Minority Leader Kolb appointed me as Reintegration Program to help with “As a candidate for the state Assembly, Committee, Assemblyman Castelli the Ranking Member of the Veterans the reintegration of veterans who have I pledged to fight for New York’s veterans was appointed to the Environmental Affairs Committee and I am committed suffered traumatic brain injury and post- and shake up the status quo if elected,” Conservation Committee for his strong to advancing legislation that will enhance traumatic stress disorder. Castelli said. “As the Ranking Republican environmental advocacy, as well as the the lives of New York’s service men and • Providing a recruitment incentive and Member on Veterans Affairs, I take these Government Operations, Election Law women and their families,” Castelli said. retention program for members of the commitments very seriously and I will and the Alcoholism and Substance Abuse “New York’s veterans and current armed New York national guard, creating a continue to work to improve the lives of committees. forces’ personnel have and continue to veterans recruiter assistance program, our military personnel, past and present.” make sacrifices to protect our freedoms. allowing state, county and municipal The Westchester Guardian THURSDAY, January 13, 2011 Page 9

GOVERNMENT Town of Mamaroneck Issues its State of the Town Message for 2011 By Bary Alyssa Johnson

The Board was to elaborate on was evidenced eliminating some official staff Aside from budgetary concerns, the members of throughout her Message. members are a primary element Town has addressed and already begun to the Town of The Mamaroneck Town in the formula devised to regain offer solutions to environmental concerns. Mamaroneck’s met Supervisor stood as a beacon control over current tax levels. As a result of a previous initiative to last week to discuss of this hope, even in the Another essential compo- reduce its carbon footprint, Mamaroneck regular agenda face of tremendous adver- nent in budgetary and has already been successful in imple- issues as well as to sity affecting citizens all tax-related relief is the menting vegetable oil-fueled dump hear Town Supervisor Valerie O’Keefe’s throughout the country. unfortunate reality that trucks. Thanks to funds provided by a annual State of the Town Message. While O’Keefe the Town may be forced Federal grant, the Town will introduce its The key issues affecting this commu- acknowledged that to reduce the number of very first hybrid dump truck in 2011. nity over the past year and into the new there is much work to services it provides its “Our continued service to the one were highlighted throughout the be done in tackling residents. community as stewards of the environ- Message. Solutions to any issues plaguing difficult constraints, she Between Public ment is an ongoing activity for the Town,” the Town were also offered up by an opti- highlighted the Town’s Safety, Sanitation and O’Keefe said. “We have long prided mistic and forward-thinking O’Keefe. work in preparing Recreational Services, ourselves on the many projects conducted Her Message to local residents came innovative solutions to whatever lies Mamaroneck may need to get rid of some by the Town to maintain and protect our on the same day that New York’s newly- ahead in 2011. of its privileged and arguably excessive natural resources.” elected Governor Andrew Cuomo “The end of the calendar year also luxuries (or “programs”) that residents For example, 2010 brought the (D-NY) publicized his own State of the marks the end of the fiscal year for the have historically been able to enjoy. The completion of a project aimed at State Message to all New Yorkers. Town of Mamaroneck and we have two most reasonable areas to cut back on improving bank stabilization along the Both Messages seemed to echo each just completed one of the most diffi- are Children’s Recreational Programs and Sheldrake River. Going forward, in 2011 other on two pivotal themes: Budget cult budget preparation cycles in recent Senior Citizen Activity and Nutrition the Town will be working to improve issues with a focus on property tax relief memory,” O’Keefe said. “After multiple Programs. water quality in the Sheldrake River and and efforts to restructure and streamline years of poor revenue performance, the “If we are serious about stabilizing Long Island Sound. A recent grant will government efficiency. Town was forced into a number of diffi- property taxes for Town services…We allow for the installment of filtration “I address you with hope and endorse- cult decisions.” will need the help of the residents to iden- devices designed to purify pollutants from ment of Governor [Cuomo’s] goals,” Principal among these decisions tify areas of concern and level of tolerance storm water. O’Keefe said, preceding her Message. “A was the need for property tax increases for significant services changes or reduc- A final notable endeavor for new day has dawned and we have got to for Town residents. A major concern, tions,” O’Keefe pleaded. Mamaroneck in the near future will be a turn things around.” however, is the length of time the commu- An additional cost-cutting solution comprehensive re-evaluation of property Indeed, a renewed sense of hope in nity can realistically sustain the tax hike. would examine the area of Mandated in the entire Town. The Board Members the local government efforts that O’Keefe Reducing Town expenditures and Costs. These costs, which include employ- will seek out the most competent firm ment pensions, medical insurance and that proposes to undertake the re-evalua- workers compensation insurance, were tion. It will work with this firm through a found to be the main culprits responsible thorough educational process about how Host your own Radio Show! for driving up the 2011 Budget. to successfully accomplish such a feat in O’Keefe and the rest of the Board time for its completion deadline in 2013. New prime time available Members look to the new Governor for O’Keefe closed out her speech with assistance and cooperation in reducing many thanks to Town officials and Board on both Whitney stations! and modifying these mandates, which Members for working hard together to “should” impact the Town Budget in a accomplish maintenance goals for the positive way. community’s high quality of life. • Complete metro tri-state coverage! Powerful new transmitters! The Board will also turn to its “2011 will indeed be a busy year for • Hour and half hour prime time avails on both WVOX and WVIP. “sister communities” for opportunities the Town,” O’Keefe said. “In addition to First come, first served! •S pecial Rates: for Educational … Religious at consolidating and sharing services overseeing the operations of the govern- … Public Affairs … Discussion … Music Shows … Health & between the Town of Mamaroneck, the ment, our discussions of the Town Budget Village of Mamaroneck and the Village will soon begin again as we evaluate Wellness … Multicultural (English language and others!). of Larchmont. These three communities service delivery for town residents.” share a strong history of past collabora- Local resident Bary Alyssa Johnson covers Reserve Now! tion and will work together on creating Contact: David O’Shaughnessy 914-636-1460 Larchmont, Mamaroneck, Rye, and Rye additional shared services this year. Brook, as well as the evolving world of elec- tronics and technology. Page 10 The Westchester Guardian THURSDAY, January 13, 2011

MAYOR Marvin COLUMN GOVERNMENT

who shoulders none of the tax burden or implications of the settlement, does not By Mary C. Marvin have to consider the “ability to pay” as a Tax Cap and Municipal Consolidation major decision factor. • Stop the continuous stream of unfunded The topics of a can legally challenge our property assess- resulted in New York being the highest mandates directed at municipali- tax cap and municipal ments, but have no avenue to challenge taxed State in the country. ties. Just this week, the Village was consolidation are the a tax rate that is artificially inflated by • The entire pension system must be notified that the State’s new Star tax issues du jour in State the State government for purely political reformed. Our elected lawmakers should exemption provision now requires government as we reasons. lead the way by changing their own municipalities to somehow verify the enter 2011. Looking again close to home at the pension plan from one of defined benefit incomes of individual residents eligible Many believe County level, the pension – health care to a defined contribution plan, replicated for the exemption. The time and money these initiatives to be paradigm is staggering. The cost of the the pensions received by 4/5 of the rest needed to devote to this State require- the answers to New York State’s prop- average County employee is $120,000, of their constituents. ment will be reflected in our next local erty tax woes. While they may have with pension and health care benefits property tax bill. great political appeal in their simplicity accounting for 59% of this number. • Our legislators must also change the of message and sound bite resonance, Westchester County is also only one “Tier Structure” to really have a financial The consolidation theme mirrors I believe they only serve as distractions of four counties in the State that asks impact. The recent and much heralded the tax cap mantra in its political appeal from focusing on the underlying cost employees to contribute 0% to their enactment of a Tier 5 which requires a and simplicity of message, but again does drivers that have created systemic prob- health care costs. By way of comparison, minimal contribution from future State not address the true underlying issues. lems that will continue to plague the State General Motors could not remain a viable municipal employees total exempts Eliminating a few positions in a Police or unless our elected officials confront them company because 39% of their costs per police and firemen, who account for a Public Works Department does nothing head on. Chief among these are employee employee went to pension and health care lion’s share of the pension increases. to ameliorate the underlying unsustain- pensions and health care costs that are benefits. • Require some health care contribution able pension system. Rather, consolidation funded at the local level. So what is a New York State employee from public employees and retirees. puts an added distance between the tax Using the Village as an example, we pension worth? If you wanted to retire in Presently, the health care fund for payer and their government. I would also recently received an unanticipated “bill” the private sector at age 60 after 20 years teachers and municipal employees is argue that elected officials closest to the from the Comptroller’s Office to cover of service, one would have to accumulate underfunded by $130.5 billion and impact of their decisions and sharing the our portion of the shortfall in the State a $1.3 nest egg in savings to replicate the growing. financial consequences thereof make the Pension Fund. We were assessed $250,000 pension stream of a retired State employee more efficient decisions and are directly in added costs, representing a 3.5% tax and this does not even include the health • Repeal the Wick’s Law which adds 20% answerable to their constituents be it at increase in the next Village budget for this care benefits. The average New YorkS tate to 30% to the cost of every construction Village Hall or in the aisles of the A&P. one item alone. So regardless of prudent employee retirement benefit in 2009 was project undertaken by a school district As well informed and involved citi- financial management at the local level, this more than double the comparable corpo- or municipality versus a similar project zens, I ask you to reach out to our State unfunded State mandate would force us to rate or union employee package. in the private sector. elected officials and demand long term exceed the Governor’s 2% tax cap on an However, it would be misplaced • Repeal the MTA tax which adds one solutions to financial issues that are at the item that brings no services to the Village to blame the State’s financial woes on half of a tax point percentage increase root of New York’s financial woes. It is and is totally devoid of local control. State employees. The responsibility rests every year to the Village budget. Rather no coincidence that the four states losing Net, net, poor State fiscal control, squarely with our elected officials who force the MTA to account for their inef- Congressional representation in the 2010 mismanagement at the highest levels and allowed this to happen. ficiencies and corporate bonuses. Census are the four highest taxed states in capitulation to special interests will cause Before a tax cap is instituted, the country. • Reform the Taylor Law which requires your next tax bill to rise without an equiv- lawmakers must have the backbone to compulsory arbitration with police Mary C. Marvin is the Mayor of the Village alent increase in local services. confront the underlying issues and reform and fire unions if a contract impasse is of Bronxville. It is frustrating that as taxpayers we and restructure a broken system that has reached. The independent arbitrator, Senator Stewart-Cousins Appointed to Gov. Cuomo’s Mandate Relief Redesign Team

Westchester, NY State of the State Address last Wednesday, relief to our local governments, who are force is chaired by Larry Schwartz who is -- Senator Andrea will explore the numerous unfunded or struggling with revenue shortages and a Senior Advisor to Governor Cuomo and Stewart-Cousins underfunded state mandates on local budget deficits,” said Senator Stewart- who also served as Secretary to Governor was appointed to governments and school districts and Cousins. “It is time to get to work on David Paterson. Governor Andrew determine which are ineffective, wasteful reducing the cost of government in this “The formulation of this diverse team Cuomo’s Mandate or outdated. The initial recommendations State and identifying ineffective and sends a clear message to the people of the Relief Redesign Team, of the Mandate Relief Redesign Team are wasteful State mandates.” State of New York that we are ready to joining a group of twenty three business, due to the Governor by March 1st, 2011, Senator Stewart-Cousins was recom- work together to tackle this issue. Now, government, education and labor leaders but the Team will continue its review until mended to the Mandate Relief Redesign with all of the stakeholders at the table, from across the State of New York. The the end of Fiscal Year 2011- 2012 . Team by Senate Minority leader John we can find ways to reduce the burdens Commission, created by Executive Order “This Team has an outstanding Sampson, and is one of only two State of State mandates on local governments,” and announced in Governor Cuomo’s opportunity to provide much- needed Senators appointed to the team. The task concluded Senator Stewart-Cousins. The Westchester Guardian THURSDAY, January 13, 2011 Page 11

THE ANATOMY OF HUMOR

head? Answer: Beatrix. small I can hardly turn around in it. The Verbal jokes were common around bed is as hard as a rock,” the first woman What’s So Funny? the world--except for one country, continues. “The entertainment in the “It was difficult to find joke-telling in evening, especially that unfunny come- By The Westchester Jokester Japan,” Dr. Wiseman said. He pointed dian, is dreadful.” Her friend nods again. out that his findings also reflect funda- “To make matters worse, our waiter is Is there a joke that people all over millions of galaxies and potentially mental differences in the ways in which insulting and surly. And the food! This the planet would find funny? Does a billions of planets. Astrologically, it tells males and females use humor. Men use food I wouldn’t even give to a dog, it’s so universal sense of humor exist? Could me that Saturn is in Leo. Timewise, it humor to appear superior to others, awful.” Her friend agrees, “Yes, and such study of it further our knowledge of appears to be approximately a quarter while women, being more linguistically small portions.” the workings of the human brain? Dr. past three. Theologically, it’s evident the skilled, prefer word-puns. One of the greatest 20th-century Richard Wiseman, a psychologist at the Lord is all-powerful, and we are small and Ever the classifier and explainer, joke tellers was Myron Cohen, who had University of Hertfordshire in England, insignificant. Meteorologically, it seems writer Isaac Asimov once divided jokes never intended to become a standup was determined to find out. He created we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. into less than a dozen broad catego- comic. For the first half of his adult a Web site and asked people around Holmes, what does it tell you?” ries: (1) anticlimax; (2) shaggy dog; (3) life, he plied the trade of silk salesman, the world to judge jokes posted on the Holmes is silent for a moment, and paradox; (4) put-down; (5) word play; calling on necktie and blouse manufac- Internet site and also to contribute their then speaks. “Watson, you idiot, it tells (6) tables turned; (7) Jewish; (8) other turers. As any salesman knows, half the own. me that someone has stolen our tent.” ethnic; (9) religion; (10) marriage; (11) battle for an order is to make customers The experiment attracted more than As well as identifying the joke that bawdy, including limericks. Three classic want to see you. Myron Cohen did it 40,000 jokes and almost two million appealed most to people around the jokes that did not score in the Wiseman by carrying a stock of carefully honed ratings. People logging onto the Web world, the experiment revealed wide survey all fall within Isaac Asimov’s first humorous dialect stories along with his site were invited to rate jokes using a differences between nations in their category, anticlimax jokes: silk samples. He became so adept at “Giggleometer” that had a five-point appreciation of humor. Researchers A woman carrying a baby gets on a storytelling, friends and customers urged scale ranging from “not very funny” to found that different nationalities have bus. As she pays the fare, the bus driver him to give up selling silk and try his “very funny.” When the results were varying senses of humor, and men and looks at the baby and says, “Ugh! Lady, hand at entertaining. tallied, the consensus rated the following women do not always find the same that’s absolutely the ugliest baby I’ve To fellow comedians who claimed joke the winner: joke funny. One interesting result was ever seen.” The woman is fuming. Still that Jewish dialect humor was A couple of hunters are out in the that the stereotypically straight-laced carrying the baby, she walks back toward demeaning, Cohen’s retort was, “It’s only woods when one of them falls to the Germans--not known for having a sense the rear of the bus, finds an empty seat demeaning if you’re trying to demean.” ground. He doesn’t seem to be breathing; of humor--found almost everything and sits down. She says to a man sitting Burnished to perfection, a Myron Cohen his eyes are rolled back in his head. The funny, and did not express a strong pref- next to her, “The bus driver was terribly joke had not an ounce of fat on it, not a other hunter whips out his cell phone erence for any particular type of joke. rude to me when I got on. I’ve never been single unnecessary word in it. Here’s an and dials 911. He gasps to the operator, Out of eleven nationalities, Germans so insulted in all my life! I’ve got half a example: “My friend is dead! What can I do?” The rated more jokes “very funny” than mind to tell him off.” The man says, A Jewish grandmother is watching operator, in a calm soothing voice, says, anyone else, preferring puns that rely on “And that’s what you should do. Don’t let her grandchild playing on the beach “Just take it easy. I can help. First, let’s word play. him get away with insulting you. Walk when a huge wave comes and sweeps make sure he’s dead.” There is a silence, Canadians have the weakest sense of right up there and let him know how you him out to sea. She pleads, “Please God, and then a shot is heard. The hunter’s humor, according to the survey. One of feel. Go ahead, I’ll hold your monkey for save my only grandson. I beg of you, voice comes back on the line. “OK, now the favorite jokes in Germany was: Why you.” bring him back.” And another big wave what?” is television called a medium? Answer: The following was one of comedian comes and washes the boy back onto the According to Dr. Wiseman, the joke Because it is neither rare nor well done. Alan King’s favorite jokes. Although he beach, as good as new. She looks up to was seen as funny by many different Other jokes voted funny in several coun- was fond of telling it, he did not include Heaven, and says: “He had a hat!” nationalities, and appealed to men and tries included this one in France: You’re it in his Alan King’s Great Jewish Joke The Westchester Jokester mines his volumi- women and young and old alike. “Many a high-priced lawyer! If I give you $500, Book. Woody Allen used a severely trun- nous collection of humor each week in the of the jokes submitted received higher will you answer two questions for me? cated version of it in his filmAnnie Hall. pages of The Westchester Guardian. ratings from certain groups of people, Absolutely! What’s the second question? Two older women are dining in but the hunter joke had real universal Belgians laughed at: Well, you see, there the restaurant of a appeal,” he said. Runner-up was this joke are basically three kinds of people in the Catskill summer about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: world. Those who can count and those who hotel. One woman is Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson can’t. picking at her food go on a camping trip, set up their tent, Swedes found this one funny: A listlessly. “What a 914.426.0359 and fall asleep. Some hours later, Holmes man phones the local hospital and yells, terrible place,” she ... for beginners wakes his faithful friend.” Watson, look “You’ve got to send help! My wife’s gone exclaims. “The day • Get Fit up at the sky and tell me what you see.” into labor!” The nurse says, “Calm down. we arrived the staff • Build Self-Confi dence Watson replies, “I see millions of Is this her first child?” He replies, “Hell, at the front desk was • Self Defense stars.” Watson ponders for a minute, no! This is her husband!” And Canadians positively rude.” Her and then continues. “Astronomically laughed at: What do you call a woman friend nods in agree- Join Our Classes Now Men,Women, Children belmars.com speaking, it tells me that there are who can balance four pints of beer on her ment. “My room is so 5 PROSPECT AVE. • GROUND FL. • WHITE PLAINS Page 12 The Westchester Guardian THURSDAY, January 13, 2011

INVESTIGATIONS Village of Tarrytown in the Hole Over PESH Report By Nancy King

Four months after a tragic accident the village did receive previous written took the lives of two Village of Tarrytown requests for training and did nothing. workers / volunteer firefighters, the New They willfully exposed their DPW York State Division of Public Employee employees and their Fire Department Safety and Health (PESH) Bureau has personnel by denying them their right to released its report of the incident that receive training in permit required confine occurred on September 6, 2010. The 25 space operations. As late as Tuesday, page report is painful to read on so many January 4th, the village was also claiming levels but it is clear in its findings. The that they had provided this training to report finds the village to be guilty of two the Tarrytown Police Department as willful violations and one serious viola- well. This statement was refuted by PBA tion in their responsibility in protecting President Lisa Carlucci who stated to all village employees who may be called to the Village Board, that no training had perform a job in a below ground confined ever been offered to the members of the space situation. As early as September 9, Tarrytown Police Department. 2010, Village of Tarrytown Administrator So where does this leave the Village Michael Blau, and Tarrytown Mayor administration? Obviously it makes them Drew Fixell held a press conference appear to be unable to lead the resi- where they stopped, just short of blaming dents and employees of the Village of Anthony Ruggerio and John Kelly for Tarrytown in an efficient or safe manner. their own deaths, by not following the Never before has a Village Administrator village’s confined space work protocol. know at all times what operation is taking that his members were trained in how to like Michael Blau had to stand before an The village claimed that both men had place, and through an accountability operate the equipment. If this incident open meeting and begrudgingly apolo- been trained extensively, not only by the system, who is providing that service. doesn’t constitute an emergency then I gize to the community for saying that village itself, but by the volunteer fire Mr. Saracelli clearly did neither; perhaps don’t know what else is? Firefighters inter- the District Attorney’s investigation of department that both men had belonged. if he had only taken the necessary classes viewed for this report testified they had this matter was closed and should be put The PESH report indicates other- that are mandated by the State. At the not received adequate respirator training behind them. How embarrassing for the wise. The village initially claimed that it time of the accident, Chief Saracelli was and regular mask fit testing that would Village and how heartbreaking for the provided equipment to the Department lacking three of the mandated classes that keep dangerous gasses from seeping deceased men’s families when they had of Public Works (DPW), Fire depart- New York State Fire Chiefs must have in through an improperly fitted face mask. to hear from a representative from the ment (FD) and Police Department order to take command. I guess the Board The Tarrytown DPW has similar Westchester County District Attorney’s (PD) departments to protect them from of Fire Commissioners and the Village problems when it comes to providing office inform them that the investigation hazards when entering permit required Board overlooked those vital pieces of safety for its employees. While the village was still indeed active. And how embar- confined spaces. The village also claimed protocol, as well. But it defies logic that maintains that DPW workers never enter rassing it was to sit through that meeting to have a standard policy barring DPW if Chief Saracelli didn’t have the necessary permit-required confined spaces, three where the entire Village Board, looked to workers from entering those permit State training, he did have the experience workers testified that they do indeed enter be disinterested, disengaged and disgusted required manholes. However, the PESH of being a firefighter / line officer for many such spaces often in full view of their super- with their constituency. We wish we report indicates that the policy was not years. Wouldn’t a “life experience” judg- visors and never once were they instructed could end the story here but alas, through implemented and the equipment was not ment call by Chief Saracelli have saved not to enter such spaces. Did their super- discovery conducted while preparing this brought up to the scene until the second John Kelly’s life? The Westchester Guardian visors really believe that a training session article, several village residents reached out man, John Kelly had fallen unconscious. learned this week that Chief Saracelli may hosted in 2007 constituted full training? to The Westchester Guardian concerning So what is it? Did the Village “forget” not have completed his State coursework Or did foreman Scott Weaver think that the desecration of about 19 dedicated trees they had a policy or did they just out and until the end of October 2010; after the because he told a PESH inspector in that a condominium board requested to out try to lie to the investigators? Also incident occurred. Of course, while every 2007 that no one ever entered a permit- be removed because it was blocking their troubling is the fact that Tarrytown Fire department is different, most of them required confined space coupled with the view. Of course, Village Administrator Chief Peter Saracelli allowed two more require that a line officer should complete single training seminar would indemnify Blau told them it would be no problem. employees into that manhole to conduct coursework in Preparing for Command, the village? Did the village think that by Next week’s installment will cover just the rescues using improper equipment. Ladder Operations and HazMat. issuing DPW workers safety goggles, a how far this board will go to satisfy their The Chief Engineer of any fire depart- The Tarrytown Fire Department has reflective vest, and a certificate that this political motivations and just how some ment acts as the Incident Commander at confined space equipment. It consists of a would be considered adequate training? of the members of the Village Board are any emergency scene whether it is a car tripod, a four-gas meter, an air blower and Yes, the Village and its administra- spending your hard earned tax dollars. fire or a confined space rescue. Through carabineers. As indicated in the PESH tion knew that it was inadequate training the use of his command board, he should report, Chief Saracelli states that they and to be frank, they seemingly just didn’t were only to be used in an emergency and care. As indicated by the PESH report, The Westchester Guardian THURSDAY, January 13, 2011 Page 13

INVESTIGATIONS

of Eastchester. By now, tens of thousands of dollars have been paid out in legal fees Breaking News from Eastchester By Nancy King on the backs of hard working people. The reputation of the Supervisor, the Police Sometimes a story does have a happy Eastchester and Police Chief Timothy the charges brought against him by Chief Chief and the Police Department has ending. The Westchester Guardian learned Bonci with racial bias. Sources close to Bonci. Chief Bonci alleges that Meyer been tarnished and the trust that residents late on Tuesday, January 4th, 2011, that the case have reported that Mr. Rosado struck him during a particularly heated put in their elected officials has been suspended Eastchester Police Officer will take his back pay which had been town board meeting. Conditions of the compromised. However, a painful this Ray Rosado had accepted a position with suspended since July 2010 with him to dismissal of these charges have included process has been to all parties involved, the Mount Vernon Police Department. Mount Vernon. a request from Bonci that an order of open and transparent government must As reported earlier herein, Mr. Rosado In addition, retired Police Officer Jeff protection be granted for a period of one be guaranteed to all residents of every had been suspended without pay from Meyer, who was an outspoken supporter year against Meyer. town in America. the Eastchester Police Department after has been offered an Adjournment in Sadly enough, this whole fiasco was filing a lawsuit charging the Town of Contemplation of Dismissal (ACD) to paid for by the good taxpayers of the Town

INVESTIGATIONS Four Freedoms (January 6, 1941) By John Q. Barrett

A few over seventy inaugurated to start that term two weeks peacetime life for its inhabitants—every- to be sure to get seats. years ago, two young later. where in the world. The adjoining gallery was filled with pages carried two In the meantime, President Roosevelt The fourth is freedom from fear— members of the international diplomatic locked boxes into had chosen January 6, 1941, as a date on which, translated into world terms, corps. All eleven seats and every inch of the chamber of the which to comply with his constitutional means a world-wide reduction of arma- standing room was filled. Every major United States House duty to “from time to time give to the ments to such a point and in such power, with the exception of Germany, of Representatives. A Congress Information on the State of a thorough fashion that no nation Italy and Japan, was represented. joint session of Congress was meeting the Union….” The joint Senate-House will be in a position to commit an John Q. Barrett is a Professor of Law at in the House chamber. The boxes session was assembled not only to receive act of physical aggression against any St. John’s University in New York City, contained the votes of the Electors who the Electors’ votes, but also to hear the neighbor—anywhere in the world. where he teaches constitutional law, crim- had, after being appointed by each State, President. As the President delivered his inal procedure and legal history. He also met in their respective States and voted FDR spoke that afternoon, a time of speech, including the powerful and chal- is the Elizabeth S. Lenna Fellow and a for one person to be President of the national challenge and global peril, for lenging call for the “Four Freedoms” that board member at the Robert H. Jackson United States and another to be Vice more than thirty minutes. He explained has come to be history’s purchase on the Center in Jamestown, New York. Last President. The boxes also contained, his commitments to national policies address, he looked out on a chamber summer, Professor Barrett taught in St. pursuant to Amendment XII of the U.S. of defense buildup, to aiding besieged packed with family, friends, colleagues, John’s program at ISDE/University of Constitution, distinct lists, signed and democracies, and to the rejection of political supporters and, yes, some polit- Barcelona in Spain. Professor Barrett has certified, identifying and giving the vote appeasement. He described the need for ical opponents. been named a “Professor of the Year” by St. total for each person who received an the U.S. to support Great Britain in its The Senate leaders in the front row John’s law students and received a Faculty electoral vote for either office. defensive war against Nazi Germany and included Harry S. Truman of Missouri. Outstanding Achievement Medal from the The boxes were presented to the its allies. And he explained that these The Cabinet officers in the front University. He is a graduate of Georgetown President of the Senate, Vice President policies emanate from the U.S. commit- row were Treasury Secretary Henry University and Harvard Law School. John N. Garner. In the presence of all ment to universal freedoms: Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of War Henry assembled, he opened the certificates. In the future days, which we seek to L. Stimson, Attorney General Robert The Jackson List: Professor Barrett sends The votes were counted. Tellers then make secure, we look forward to a world H. Jackson, Postmaster General Frank periodic emails to over 15,000 subscribers announced that a majority of the Electors founded upon four essential human Walker, Secretary of the Navy Frank who are interested in Justice Jackson and had chosen Franklin D. Roosevelt of freedoms. Knox, Secretary of Agriculture Claude related topics. To read archived copies of New York to be president and Henry The first is freedom of speech and Wickard, and Secretary of Commerce some Jackson List posts, click here. To join A. Wallace of Iowa to be vice president. expression—everywhere in the world. Jesse Jones. the Jackson List, which does not display (For the detailed vote totals, click here.) The second is freedom of every In the executive gallery above recipient identities or email addresses, send Franklin Roosevelt already was, of person to worship God in his own way— the House floor, First Lady Eleanor a “subscribe” note to [email protected] course, then completing his eighth year everywhere in the world. Roosevelt sat in the front row with as President. By the process which had The third is freedom from want— Crown Princess Martha of Norway. just been completed, the Electors had which, translated into world terms, Others in the gallery included Irene chosen him for a third term. He would means economic understandings which Jackson and other Cabinet wives—they be, along with Vice President Wallace, will secure to every nation a healthy had arrived early, before the First Lady, Page 14 The Westchester Guardian THURSDAY, January 13, 2011

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and recommendations to the Town Board make significant cuts. The commission last year). The citizens task force will must also balance the costs ofgovernment follow up on the recommendations made with the need to provide services that Letters to the Editor in last years report. The Commission will the citizens of our community expect as also look for ways to reinvent the way part of the quality of life in their Town. Environmental they believe the lies? When our elected local government operates. The citizens We must also consider the safety net that officials put their own interests above the commission will provide documentation government provides for those less fortu- Terrorism health and well being of their constituents and analysis to support their recommen- nate. If you are interested in working with Dear Editor: then we have been terrorized in the worst dations. The commission will be charged the citizens commission please e mail me I read Peggy Godfrey’s 2010 Election possible way. No unmanned drone could with looking at all internal operations of at [email protected] or Alan Year Questions for New Rochelle wreck more havoc on people then the town government. They will spot check Hochberg at ahochberg@greenburghny. Residents and I feel that one of the most Agent Orange that has been allowed to programs, look at sharing and/or consoli- com. It was easier managing town serious questions that demands an answer fester all these years in Echo Bay. dation opportunities with neighboring government when times were good --and from our elected representatives is the Frank Mancuso villages. And, they will be asked to explore when local governments had the revenues environmental terrorism perpetuated on New Rochelle, NY possible restructuring of town govern- we needed to support great programs and us from the toxins in Echo Bay. For over ment. The commission will also advocate initiatives. These difficult economic times 25 years the West Branch of Echo Bay The Budget, Fire District for state legislative changes that could provide all of us with an opportunity to has remained undeveloped, costing the Consolidation, and make government less costly and more take a new look at how we’re spending taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars Corrections efficient. The commission shall consist of your tax dollars and to work harder than distinguished citizens who have skills in ever to give you the maximum value for in lost tax revenue because of the serious To the Editor: business, finance,the community, govern- your tax dollar. I look forward to working pollutants buried in the mud, and in the One of the reasons why I enjoy ment, and all walks of life that can enhance with the commission and encourage fish from the area. TheE PA has classified reading The Westchester Guardian is the commission and have support in the Greenburgh residents to partner with the area a “Brown Field.” Why is it local, because your paper encourages readers community. The work of the commission your town government in this important county, and state officials all keep their and elected officials to reflect on poli- is critical for this will allow our political initiative. heads buried in the sand while a far less cies. I read, with interest, Nancy King’s leaders to make informed decisions based Paul Feiner serious mater is being cleaned up in the recent column, “Here’s your Budget on a careful analysis of the facts not just Greenburgh Town Supervisor Hudson River by General electric (GE) Greenburgh; Happy New Year.” In 2011 opinions. We have a window of opportu- PS: Nancy wrote in her column that I at a cost of over $1 billion to remove the the town will be addressing our budget nity to make these changes now because received a salary hike in 2011. Correction: PCB’s there? Why have all the grandiose by making additional cuts and looking the public and the media are clamoring I haven’t received a salary increase in 3 development plans stalled? How many for greater efficiencies. I am planning for greater efficiencies in government. years. Many of the department heads who more people must get sickened and die? to appoint a follow up citizens commis- New York State is seriously considering work under me currently receive salaries But, the biggest question of all is why do sion to the Fire District Consolidation a property tax cap --which will limit tax that exceed mine. the Citizens of New Rochelle allow it? Commission (which released their report Have they been lied to for so long that hikes and require local governments to

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THE SOUNDS OFBLUE By Bob Putignano Jerry Garcia and Howard The Meaning of Song Wales Hooterall? Titles and Life in the ’70s

Hooteroll? was Jerry Garcia’s first non- ’69. Record producer Alan Douglas the Hooteroll tour in January of 1972. studio tracks are Garcia’s longtime friend Grateful Dead recording. About one year was in attendance at some of these Matrix When the Rykodisc CD was released, and underrated bassist John Kahn, Curly later Garcia started a longstanding touring jams and coaxed Wales and Garcia somehow “A Trip To What Next” was Cook on rhythm guitar, Bill Vittand and recording relationship with another into recording what eventually became omitted. Fortunately it’s included on Michael Marinelli on drums, and two horn B-3 specialist, Merl Saunders, who went Hooteroll?, released on the Douglas record this Wienerworld edition. The original players, the recently departedMartin Fierro on to record several albums with him on label in 1971. LP had seven tracks, the Ryko CD had on sax and trumpet player Ken Balzall. All the jazz label Fantasy. This edition, titled Hooteroll? + eight, and this current edition has eleven horn arrangements are by Fierro. Garcia first met Howard Wales at 2, contains all of the tunes (all written tracks with two previously unreleased live The track sequencing was altered from impromptu jams at the tiny Matrix club or co-authored by Wales) from the performances. the original LP on both versions of the CD during Monday night sessions in 1968 and vinyl edition, plus two live tunes from Backing Wales and Garcia on the Continued on page 15 The Westchester Guardian THURSDAY, January 13, 2011 Page 15

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Wales intensifies the mode with B-3 grease, Jerry Garcia and Howard Wales Hooterall? much like he did with Harvey Mandel on Continued from page 14 late-night tune meanders itself into explor- Baby Batter, then delivers a soulful solo himself. Near the end of Torres’ closing releases. Why? I really don’t know. That atory zones led by Wales’ wild B-3. There’s nice solos by Fierro on sax and Balzall’s chorus, the real sweet cocaine must have said, “Morning In Marin” kicks things off. kicked in as the blues evolves into a boiling It’s a perky/funky jam where it is immedi- trumpet, then back to main theme with some tasty Garcia licks, nice. jam where the band sounds a bit dissonant, ately apparent that this is not going to be an but it worked for me, especially Jerry’s final extension of the Dead’s music. It’s far more “DC-502” bears similarities to “South Side Strut” with its bouncy nature that screeching note. jazzy and Jerry’s way out there. Fierro’s During a recent radio interview I ques- screams on sax, too. Wales is resolute and twists into a funky romp for Wales’ burning B-3 and Garcia’s unusual (but fascinating) tioned Wales about the Hooteroll tour. He crazed and really digs deep, stretching out said that it was an “amazing blur,” and went on B-3. The more sedate “Da Bird Song” guitar fills. No horns here. Appropriately Palace Theatre in Providence, Rhode titled “One A.M. Approach,” this is Island, where there’s a long pause between on to make comments about the full back- has Wales on piano, Fierro switching to page photo where they are passing a joint, flute, and Kahn way down at the bottom. another late-night spacey track. Wales the previous studio segments that works is back at the electric piano and Garcia’s well, segueing into the live performances. calling it “the sharing photo.” I also asked Also, Garcia’s acoustic guitar is striking on what does the word “hooteroll” mean? this very pleasant and beautiful tune that guitar is beautiful both in the way it was Autry Inman’s “She Once Lived Here,” recorded and in his stylistic approach. By also recorded by George Jones,Gram Parsons Wales said, “Not suitable to talk about on ends inexplicably with a dog barking. air,” but we concluded that it had to do The percolating “South Side Strut” the way, “One A.M. Approach” is a duo of the Flying Burrito Brothers, and a handful performance, sans bass, drums and horns. of others, is an odd selection considering the with hooters and not related to the blond was the kickoff track on the LP, and it’s lady on the cover shot. Wales also said that one of the more catchy songs included. The upbeat “Uncle Martin’s” is another far more creative endeavors that preceded it romp for Wales’ B-3 and Jerry’s scorching in the studio. It’s on these live selections that Garcia was a great human being, a solid Garcia shines with striking creativity individual, a good friend, and said there throughout, Wales wails, and the horn and discordant wah-wah guitar. Wales kills the band sounds a bit more like the Dead throughout, and Garcia’s fills are totally in and/or Garcia’s sometime work with Merl was no one else like him. He still misses charts are dynamite and brilliant remi- Jerry, too. Wales went on to say that this niscent of the Bay Area’s Tower of Power. synch on this high-speed prance. “Evening Saunders, but it’s not lengthy, clocking in at In Marin” is not at all like the opening under five minutes. Jerry sounds fine with creative ’70s era was a renaissance period John Kahn’s mesmerizing bass line on “Up during which music such as Hooteroll was From the Desert” is perfect, Garcia’s eerie “Morning In Marin,” sounding more like both his vocals and guitar. an alternate take of “Up From the Desert.” Closing out the disc is an almost thir- more accepted by the listening audiences. I guitar captures your soul with Wales elec- wholeheartedly agree! tric piano, and the haunting horn charts Nonetheless, it’s exquisite in its beauty and teen-minute “Sweet Cocaine,” where bassist add texture on this gorgeous inclusion. is the last studio track on this edition. Torres steps up to the microphone and Bob Putignano is a senior contributing editor Previously omitted on the Ryko CD, On to the two live tracks: Backing states, “We’re gonna do a little bit of blues.” at BluesWax. He is also the heart of WFDU’s “A Trip To What Next” is welcomed Wales and Garcia are Roger “Jelly Roll” Torres is a capable vocalist who has the audi- Sounds of Blues at www.SoundsofBlue.com. here with Wales’ introductions on B-3 Torres on bass and vocals, Jim Vincent on ence applauding the drug. Garcia pushes Bob would like to hear your thoughts about his and Kahn’s elaborate bass lines. Tender guitar, and Jerry Love on drums. Recorded the blues envelope with a slow-burning solo, Top Ten and your own. You can email Bob at: horn charts become powerful as this cool, near the end of January in 1972 at the complete with emotional bending notes. [email protected]. ED KOCH OPED

drugs and extraordinary measures. But expending government dollars Death is Part of Life By Ed Koch – Medicare and Medicaid – is another matter and one that is subject to limi- An op-ed by David treatments.” Congress removed that part insurance company these powers, adding tation. Those expenditures should, in Rivkin Jr. and Elizabeth of the bill. But the article states, “The a comment worthy of Marie Antoinette, my judgment, not be open-ended, but Price Foley in the administration has resurrected that provi- “You’re free to shop around.” Ridiculous. subject to panel decisions, appealable to December 30, 2010 Wall Street Journal sion through regulations and Medicare I dare say every offered policy has these the courts, which would decide whether reported, “ObamaCare created a commis- will now pay for such counseling as part powers given to the insurance company. an expenditure was warranted, taking sion – the Independent Payment Advisory of elderly ‘wellness assessments.’ Yes, the So the issue is really whether Medicare into consideration the costs and benefits, Board – tasked with limiting spending on ‘death panels’ charge is somewhat crude, and Medicaid – government provided including the quality of the extended life. Medicare. Its recommendations will be but combine cost-based rationing with care – should have those same powers. I recall discussing with friends about binding, unless Congress can come up end-of-life counseling and well, here we I am 86 and not yet on Medicare 30 years ago a case involving an infant who with equivalent cost-savings of its own. are.” because I am still working. Under existing was described in the media as needing a For the first time, an unelected group will The article attempts to draw a distinc- law, if I have private insurance, which I replacement of every organ in the child’s be empowered to limit health spending tion between “government imposed do, Medicare is not my first provider. body to live, at a cost of $300,000. The for the vulnerable elderly.” rationing and treatment decisions in Irrespective of whether my provider is a participants in the discussion were split on This brings us back to a discus- the private sector.” Their reference is private insurance company or Medicare, I whether the expenditure should be made. sion of “death panels.” In the original to treatment deemed “experimental” by believe there should be reasonable limits Today, the $300,000 cost would prob- Obama legislation, there was a section the insurance company or “not medi- on insurance and government expendi- ably be a million or more. In our current “that would have provided for end-of-life cally necessary.” The authors say that’s tures – while allowing individuals to use climate, every editorial writer and many counseling that might coax the elderly okay because the policyholder agreed their own money without limitation -- government leaders are urging changes away from life sustaining but expensive to the contract language giving the to extend life through hugely expensive Continued on page 16 Page 16 The Westchester Guardian THURSDAY, January 13, 2011

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the Berger Commission, ably chaired by Death is Part of Life Stephen Berger, which recommended Continued from page 15 hospital closings in 2006. There is enor- The Governor’s Speech mous local resistance to closing hospitals, in the Medicare and Medicaid programs By Henry J. Stern or any other state facilities. Whether they – meaning reductions in services and are medically needed or not, they are job coverage – so as to keep the programs providers, like the upstate prisons and solvent. Yet I do not doubt that the Wall Cuomo Warns in the 20th century are Charles Evans juvies (juvenile detention facilities) which Street Journal op ed represents the opinion Legislature Fiscal Hughes (1916), Alfred E. Smith (1928), Cuomo specifically targeted in his remarks. of many, perhaps even a majority in the Disaster Lies Ahead Thomas E. Dewey (1944, 48), and Nelson We think the Governor jumped the U.S. with no limits on expenditures in Without Sharp A. Rockefeller (1960, 64 and 68). George first hurdle nicely, with spirit and good extending the life of an individual. Reductions Pataki tested the waters in 2008 and found humor, showing his desire to bring people My opinion is firmly to the contrary. The new Governor Cuomo deliv- them frigid, as everyone knew. together, which is urgently needed. The I believe that Americans are unduly afraid ered his first State of the State message Perhaps the most dramatic non- next test will be his executive budget, which of death. Death is an inevitable part of life. I watched the speech and found it cred- candidacy occurred on December 21, is due on February 1, twenty-six days from We start the process of dying the day that ible and constructive. Cuomo seems to 1991, when Governor Mario Cuomo, today. The deadline for adopting the we are born. What I hope is the Almighty be making a conscious effort to get along whose staff had chartered two planes to budget is April l, but that date is rarely met, does not engage in what I call “salami with the legislature. At the same time, fly him and the press corps to Concord, and no one seriously expects a ten billion tactics” when He decides He wants me. I he outlined spending reductions, ethics New Hampshire - where he would have dollar gap to be closed in two months. ask that I not be sliced up and suffer in the reforms, independent redistricting and paid a $1000 filing fee and announced his We enjoyed the spirit and verve of process of dying. I think it quite reason- other proposals which have been anathema candidacy in the Democratic Presidential Andrew Cuomo’s speech: the young able that a panel be authorized to decide to the Senate and Assembly in years past. primary in front of the State House - lancer laying out the problem and part of whether expenditures of public funds for Politics requires a certain level of opti- unexpectedly left the aircraft waiting on his plan (if there be a plan); the Albany extraordinary efforts to extend a life should mism, and with a new governor, there is the tarmac when he decided not to take veterans, expressing verbal support and be authorized, taking into consideration more reason for hope than there has been flight. That afternoon, Cuomo announced encouragement, the infighting necessarily a number of factors agreed to by medical for many years. The wrenching disap- his decision in the New York State Capitol. left for another day and a place outside experts and ethicists including common pointments of the Spitzer and Paterson He said that the Republicans, who then public view. Nonetheless, Cuomo made sense, age, dignity and other factors. I do administrations are now behind us, the controlled the State Senate, had made it real progress, speaking bravely about the believe you can use your own money to ever-mounting budget deficit is before us. impossible for him to run “for their own fiscal chasm. For a Democratic governor, provide services the government will not The device of expert panels proposed by purposes”. Click here to read a fascinating it was an astounding admission of reality. provide, as we are permitted to do in every Governor Cuomo in his speech will have Times account of that eventful day. There were no impractical schemes to tax other aspect of our capitalist economy. limited impact in reaching agreements It was twenty-nine years ago that rich people who, by pressing a button, can Perhaps if we call the panels “life or even postponing the day of reckoning, budget problems obstructed Mario move their industries and their income panels,” people who are put off by the very but to the extent that it brings new people Cuomo’s presidential campaign, and those outside the state. word “death,” would be able to examine into the mix of decision-making it may be difficulties have only grown in the years The merger of the Departments of the issue more responsibly, taking into helpful. that followed. Although there have been Banking and Insurance is quite sensible. consideration the needs of their fellow citi- I liked the informal approach of years of unheeded warnings that the days Since the repeal of Glass-Steagall by zens covered by the same limited pools of Cuomo’s PowerPoint presentation in of reckoning were at hand, the national Congress, the same companies are in both money. principle, although it was not particularly recession of the past two years and the fields. The Consumer Protection Board When I lay in bed in intensive care in proficiently executed. That will be cured continuing spiral in health and pension will find a home in a larger agency. I was New York-Presbyterian Hospital back in by staff training or staff upgrading. The benefits have brought a number of state in city consumer affairs, first deputy to June 2009, having had a quadruple bypass governor of 19 million people should have governments to the brink of insolvency. Commissioner Bess Myerson, in 1970, with serious consequences that on two the highest level of technical support when Some cities and counties have been when the state agency was formed by occasions caused my physicians to believe he reaches out to the public. through bankruptcy, but no state has Governor Rockefeller with Betty Furness, I was in danger of death, I was visited by The substance of the message showed yet defaulted on its sovereign debt. No formerly with LBJ’s White House, as chair. Edward Cardinal Egan, a friend – I am clearly the Governor’s awareness of fiscal government wants to be the first to blow, A great deal will depend on who is Jewish – and I said to him, “Your Eminence, reality and his willingness to make hard so fiscal reality has been widely concealed chosen to staff the new State Department I am not afraid of death. I believe in God choices. Of course, he didn’t get around to by bookkeeping devices loosely described of Financial Regulation, but it will give and the hereafter, and reward and punish- specifying those choices precisely; that will as Enronian. The budget problems that Governor Cuomo a piece of the action ment. I hope to be rewarded. But if the presumably come in the budget message New York State faced in 1992 are dwarfed in a field otherwise likely to be domi- Almighty needs a good lawyer and decides next month. What seems clear, today, is by the $10 billion deficit the state must nated by the new Attorney General, Eric to take me now, I am ready to go.” that Andrew Cuomo is conscious of how deal with today. However, New York is Schneiderman, a man who is as ambitious Cardinal Egan responded, “Don’t his policy decisions will be perceived not not the worst. The California state budget and as enterprising as his two immediate worry, He’s not taking you. Your rates are just by New Yorkers, but by people across deficit is expected to be $19 billion in the predecessors, the Governors Spitzer and too high.” the nation as well, the potential greater next fiscal year - and this after seven years Cuomo. I am not lowering them in 2011. constituency. with Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was not Let the games begin. Happy New Year to all. It was said that in the French Army, a weak public figure, as governor. every corporal has a field marshal’s baton in There is a problem in the governor’s Henry J. Stern writes as StarQuest. Direct The Honorable Edward Irving Koch served his cap. So it is that every governor of New plan to enlist groups of stakeholders to email to him at [email protected]. New York City as its 105th Mayor from 1978 York State dreams of the White House. recommend policy changes and service Peruse Mr. Stern’s writing at New York Civic. to 1989. Let Mayor Koch know your thoughts So far three have made it, Martin van reductions. Many of these stakeholders by directing email to [email protected]. Buren (1837-41) and the two Roosevelts, have directly conflicting interests, and it is Theodore (1901-09) and Franklin (1933- hard to foresee what they might agree on 45). Among those who tried and failed to suggest to the governor. Cuomo evoked The Westchester Guardian THURSDAY, January 13, 2011 Page 17

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boat collisions that leave them mutilated or dead; and to teach all of Florida’s resi- Lend Your Voice to Manatees dents and visitors that our daily actions affect this species, even if we don’t directly By Dr. Katie Tripp of the high afternoon tide to get even cross paths. As we look ahead to the next closer to the warm water boiling from the 30 years, there’s no doubt that manatees spring, had the appearance of a mermaid will continue to need support from strong, – her paddle-shaped tail had been muti- caring voices to ensure their survival. lated into a forked shape, again by a boat We’ll be here for them. Will you? collision. For more information on the plight I often think about what it was like of the manatees or the Club’s Adopt- to be a manatee in Florida 100 years ago A-Manatee® program, go to www. – how much different life was for them savethemanatee.org. – how much quieter it was. To say that Katie Tripp has been Save the they have had to undergo a steep learning Manatee Club’s Director of Science and curve to adapt to our ditching, diking, and Conservation since May of 2008. She draining of Florida, and the construction received her PhD in Veterinary Medical of mega-marinas, seawalls, ports, and Sciences from the University of Florida, docks that have resulted from Florida’s where she conducted research on manatee growth, would be the understatement of physiology. the century. Save the Manatee Club was estab- Save the Manatee Club (SMC) is lished in 1981 by singer/songwriter celebrating our 30th Anniversary in 2011. Jimmy Buffett and former U.S. Senator In 2010, 767 manatees were docu- coast, I observed manatees huddled in For these last 30 years, this organiza- and Florida Governor, Bob Graham, to mented to have died or been killed discretely marked sanctuaries, motionless tion has been “the voice of manatees.” protect endangered manatees and their in Florida, with a significant number for hours, resting and conserving energy While groups like SMC and federal and aquatic habitat for future generations. of deaths resulting from last winter’s beyond the reach of human visitors. state agencies have taken great strides to Today, it is the world’s leading manatee prolonged cold temperatures. These Nearly every manatee I saw was scarred protect manatees, all I could think about conservation organization. The Club is numbers are an all time high, shattering from previous boat collisions. The barrel- as I watched the barrel-rolling manatee a membership-based, national nonprofit the previous record of 429 set in 2009. rolling Blue Spring manatee had a series and his counterpart with the mermaid tail organization that promotes public aware- Last week I watched a manatee barrel of four propeller scars down the left side in Crystal River, was how these mana- ness and education; sponsors local and roll down the spring run at Blue Spring, of his body, suggesting he may have been tees need our voices now more than ever international scientific research and on the St. Johns River, as the rising late trying to roll away from the oncoming to protect their warm water habitat from rescue, rehabilitation, and release efforts; morning temperatures and shining sun boat that struck him and left him perma- aquifer over-pumping and nutrient pollu- and advocates for the conservation of made it safer for manatees to venture nently scarred. One of the manatees who tion; to safeguard seagrass beds from manatees and their essential habitat based into the cold river to feed. This week, at swam so gracefully up the spring run at propeller scarring and oil spills; to educate on the best available scientific data. Three Sisters Spring, on Florida’s west Three Sisters Spring to take advantage boaters so that fewer manatees suffer from

Changing Politically Charged Tectonic Plates Pay 5 Percent By Hezi Aris; followed by the Op-Ed, Murtagh’s Press Conference By Joan Gronowski, and the January 7, By Hezi Aris 2011, editorial published in The Journal Within days of backs of each chair alternating with the potential contenders for mayoral office News, Symbolism Won’t Fix Troubles with reporting about the next. When the music stops each partic- from the Republican side of the political Overtime Pay. potential candidates pant scrambles to find a chair upon which divide are mentioned. They are John While still in the running, the weak- running for the office they may sit. The one partygoer, or political Murtagh (present Yonkers City Council ened Mr Murtagh may now more of mayor of the City contender if you will, found not sitting on Minority Leader), William “Bill” Regan fully comprehend he is on his own. of Yonkers (CoY) in one of the designated chairs is eliminated,. (present Yonkers Deputy Mayor), Richard Endorsement from the Right to Life our sister publication, In so doing, the process is repeated until Martinelli (former Yonkers City Council membership has gone elsewhere. Funding the Yonkers Tribune, the musical notes there is one seat and two players. The one President), John Spencer (former Mayor will be deflected towardR ichard Martinelli to the “Musical Chairs” birthday activity that gets to sit last when the music stops of Yonkers), Dee Barbato (former Yonkers who has many in his network, particularly comes to mind. It may be the second most is the final winner, the political standard City Councilwoman, among others of through his dad, former Mayor Angelo popular activity of sticking the tail on the bearer. Who could imagine the world of even fewer qualification. Martinelli, the Chairman of the Board of donkey (no pun intended). Remember politics is taught and may be learned in our Since that telling, John Murtagh the Yonkers Chamber of Commerce, as how it went? A tune is played while all formative years. was admonished and taken down a peg well as Chairman of The Hudson Valley the participants walk about a set of chairs The first article published on January or two by the January 5, 2011 article: Bank. Angelo Martinelli can easily afford that number one less than the number of 2, 2011 was the The Hezitorial: Political Murtagh Espouses But Does Not Adhere the $400,000 to $500,000 needed to be a participants, lined side by side, with the Controversy By Hezi Aris, in which to His Suggestion for Legislators Cutting Continued on page 18 Page 18 The Westchester Guardian THURSDAY, January 13, 2011

OPED POLITICS Changing Politically Charged Murtagh’s Press Conference Tectonic Plates By Joan Gronowski Continued from page 17 Spano (present NYS Assemblyman) their viable contender for mayor of Yonkers real or perceived wrong doings because Mr Yonkers Liam McLaughlin. Yet, Mr. on his own. True to form, Angelo Lesnick was part of the non-aggression Councilmember Murtagh, in the year prior to his Martineeli will get OPM (Other People’s pact that suited those elected to office John Murtagh held conjectured run for mayor, and at Money) for his son’s benefit. The Yonkers rather than The People who were offered a press confer- a time when Yonkers faced one Tribune on January 6, 2011 reported, nothing but promises that years later have ence to call for the of its most financially damaging BREAKING NEWS: Martinelli Garners been proven to be stillborn. Luckily for Yonkers City Council to take a budget periods – decided to Mr Lesnick there is talk of indictment of Endorsement of Right to Life Party in his voluntary 5% salary cut, further increase his staff. While we were Nick Spano, former NYS Senator, which Mayoral Candidacy Effort By Hezi Aris boasting that he took a 10% cut faced with once-a-week garbage The majority voice voted endorse- if true, though no proof has come forward, would severely wound Mr Mike Spano’s in salary last year. Although I Yonkers collections, loss of firefighters and ment of Richard Martinelli sidelined Mr cannot answer for my colleagues, Councilmember decreased police presence, Mr. Murtagh somewhat. The influx of RTL chances for election. Should the chatter prove without basis or foundation, which I I, myself, was not invited to John Murtagh Murtagh took on an additional members having recently joined the rank this press event. Moreover, Mr. staff member. and file of the Yonkers City Conservative believe is presently the situation, Mr Mike Murtagh mentioned nothing of this “Perhaps Mr. Murtagh might have Party under the aegis of Vincenza Restiano, Spano can emerge a most formidable will meld support for Mr Martinelli. candidate. If an indictment of Nick Spano concept to me during our city council better served the citizens of Yonkers Should Mr Murtagh wish to remain perti- came to pass, Mr Mike Spano’s chances to committee meeting the evening before. had he not voted for a 14.97% property nent to the mayoral race he must mend acceding to the office of mayor of Yonkers “As Minority Leader, Mr. Murtagh tax increase for the 2006 Fiscal Year. I and strengthen his ties to the Conservative are nil. was entitled to an additional stipend think that might have saved the citizens Party. It is Mr Murtagh’s only hope to They greatest tragedy for Yonkers which he apparently declined to accept. of Yonkers considerably more than the sustain his candidacy. Should he falter, Mr would be Mr Murtagh winning the However, he did accept an additional staff combined city council savings of $13,300 Martinelli will have eclipsed a potential Conservative endorsement, Mr Martinelli person – also a “perk” for the Minority a year suggested by his self-promoting adversary with the RTL membership, the winning the republican endorsement, and Leader – a fact that Mr. Murtagh has press release.” Conservative Party, and the Republican Mr Lesnick walking away with the prize seemingly failed to address in his press Joan Gronowski is the Yonkers City Party. of winning the election. Mr Lesnick’s ace in the whole may be his trusting he may release praising his frugality. This second Councilwoman representing District 3. Mr Martinelli’s prominence, should staff position went unfilled during the it come to be during what will prove to again win the support of the Westchester County Independence Party. At issue is time I served on the City Council with the be massive tectonic shifts in the political former Minority Leader, Councilmember arena, have catapulted him to the head whether Dr. Giulio Cavallo is daft enough of the pack. With Mr Murtagh injured to make a deal with “Lesnick the Liar” in somewhat, and Mr Regan hoping the the hope there will be a quid pro quo down fickle finger of fate as cast by present the line. Yonkers Mayor Phil Amicone will indeed In musical step with the republicans, appoint him Mayor of Yonkers during Mr the democrats will have lost the spoken Amicone lame duck term as reported on but publicly unknown contenders from the September 12, 2010, in The Hezitorial: Democrat aisle still in contention. Dennis The Catalyst Behind the Charter Revision Robertson has seemingly timed his ascent Commission’s Referendum May Be an to slowly to ever get traction now. Shelley Impending Indictment of Mayor Amicone By Mayer may also have been outmaneuvered. Hezi Aris Only Mr Lesnick and Mr Spano have Seemingly lost in the shuffle is Ms survived the initially rounds. Barbato. Mr Spencer has seemingly folded The scenario above is credible. The Curt Carlucci On the Level his own tent to enter the grander tent twist will come about if Mr Lesnick is being built by Mr Martinelli. cajoled to step to the side. I believe he will The tune being played for the next be told to do just that by the most powerful with Narog and Aris round leave Mssrs Martinelli, Murtagh, forces within the Democrat Party who New Rochelle, NY -- Kurt Colucci, author of A Taxslaves Manifesto is Richard and Regan in contention on the Republican have branded Mr Lesnick’s failed resume Narog’s and Hezi Aris’ guest this Tuesday, January 11th, from 10 am through 11 destructive to governance in Yonkers. side. In less than a week’s time, two am, on WVOX-1460 AM on your radio dial and worldwide on www.WVOX.com. contenders have been either kicked to the Notice if you will that all these changes have taken place without public input. Trends Journal Publisher Gerald Celente will be their guest on January 18th during curb or found more fortuitous prospects. the first half of the show, and the second half will be a surprise. Lest we forget, Mr Murtagh’s Democracy at work. They never taught diminishing performances may have this in school. Listeners and readers are invited to send a question to [email protected] emboldened Chuck Lesnick (present It leaves Yonkers aimlessly in search of for possible use prior to any shows’ airing and even during the course of an interview. Yonkers City Council President), known a candidate as we stand before the edge of a blurred vision and an economically chal- Wednesday mornings at 8:37 am when he and Bob Marrone discuss issues on to too many for his good as “Lesnick the the Good Morning Westchester radio program hosted by Bob Marrone. Liar.” The shame of it all for Mr Lesnick lenging precipice. is that he may not be able to fight either Mr Martinelli’s camp or those of Mike The Westchester Guardian THURSDAY, January 13, 2011 Page 19

THE SPOOF SPORTS Centers for Disease Control (the CDC) 24/7­Pittsburgh Penguins vs Outlaws GOING VIRAL By Gail Farrelly Washington Capitals “We are sick and she said. “He reminds me of the big bad By Albert Caamano tired,” announced the wolf in that fairy tale, the Three Little An HBO special four-part series Director of the CDC Pigs.” She stared into the distance. “I’m documenting the events leading into a at a press conference thinking of that line; you know, where the game that would be played at the Heinz in Atlanta today, “of wolf says, “Then I’ll huff, and I’ll puff, and outdoor arena on January 1st 2011 had seeing people and things -- especially I’ll blow your house in.” HBO cover the inner workings of the Internet stories and rumors -- GOING “Hey, no sweat,” her colleague said. teams from management to daily life. It VIRAL.” “Just think of how that third little pig would seem the Washington Capitals’ He continued, “We are stopping it as handled the wolf. Remember? He knew struggles mimic the struggles politicians of today. Gone, kaput. GOING VIRAL that the wolf would be trying to get into are having in the team’s home town. The is now against the law. Too many germs the house through the chimney, so he put comparisons are hard to deny; recently are spread; and as a result, we gotta work a huge vat of boiling water at the bottom coach. Sidney Crosby learned to develop a winning only two out of nine games and overtime. That’s just not fair, especially of the chimney.” The guy paused and then shared mind set with his team mates as he being humiliated in a game against the around the holidays and in this bad continued, “The wolf fell right into it and acceded to captain. He included everyone New York Rangers, they are having a hard weather.” was cooked for dinner.” in the play relieving the pressure on time finding the answers. In juxtaposi- “But, um, how can you stop it?” a timid “Ooh, that’s right. I forgot about himself, while nurturing a focused team. tion, the Pittsburgh Penguins are having female reporter in the first row asked. that part,” she responded, continuing, “I Ovenchkin dissects his game into arenas a mighty winning run with their leader The CDC Director took off his glasses feel better already. Let’s forget about that of responsibility that forces him to bear Sidney Crosby. He has scored consecu- and looked at the reporter. He glanced at GOING VIRAL hocus pocus.” the greatest responsibility, denying his tively over the last 24 games, defining the her nametag. Then he gave an icy smile He smiled. “Wanna go for a burger?” team mates to share the responsibility and statement whispered by most, that he may and said, “Wait and see what happens if the accolades they are destined to earn for Gail Farrelly (www.FarrellySisters Online. be one of the best players ever to play the anyone tries to stop us from clamping the completion of their task. Ovenchkin com) writes mystery novels and short stories as game. down on the GOING VIRAL epidemic.” is micro managing the game when he well as Op-Eds. She also publishes satire pieces Even so, no one can deny the The reporter shivered. She didn’t like the would be better off delegating respon- (Gail Farrelly’s satire and parody stories) on Washington Capitals’ leader Alexander threatening look in the guy’s eye. Nor did sibility to his team mates. Ovenchkin TheSpoof.com, a British website. Her latest Ovenchkin his due. Born to both a mother she like the way he laboriously spat out cannot fathom winning by delegating mystery novel is Creamed at Commencement: A and father of Russian stock, each having the word EP-I-DEM-IC. more responsibility to his team mates so Graduation Mystery. The first chapter is avail- earned Olympic gold, they comprehend A few minutes later as she left the he hobbles himself because he is uncom- able on her website. Gail is working on a fourth the the elusiveness of gold and in over- press room, she chatted with a male fortable relinquishing control. mystery, The Virtual Heiress. whelming the odds of garnering them. colleague. “That guy gives me the creeps,” I always coached with the under- Their prowess at the Olympic fields are standing when you give the puck you will etched in gold. Their son, Alexander get it back. The hardest thing to do when Ovenchkin, has earned his pedigree by you score a lot of goals is to give up the earning awards in every category but one, Football puck. Watching the 24/7 show you soon the Stanley cup; an achievement Sidney realized how young the players really are. Crosby has attained. Understandably, Special Averaging 20-23yrs of age and now at the when these two teams meet, you can feel 1 Order of Wings age of 30 you are considered a veteran. the tension. Large Pie At one point we enter the Washington Notably meeting at the Stanley Cup Any Hero or Wedge Capitals’ locker room. Coach Brudroe Finals in 2009, Pittsburgh went home 2 Liters of Soda is spitting all imaginable directive with

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SPORTS 24/7Pittsburgh­ Penguins vs Washington Capitals Continued from page 19 change. Circumstances not fully appre- the practices and have the patience to ciated in New York City, considering understand they need be taught the game the the recent blizzard and the resultant the way you perceive it. traffic debacle. Both teams got on the The week was full of games and fun ice wearing the retro jerseys from their activities for the fans which included historical past. daily open skate that had skates available The temperature was initially about for the general public including a youth 34-44 degrees; it would get colder as game ended with the Washington Capitals hockey game. The day before the game, the minutes passed by. Even so, perfect winning followed by some confrontation was an Alumni game that included Hall outdoor skating weather. The players over the last seconds of the game in question of Fame members from respective teams. reminisced about their childhood and leaving the ceremonial hand shake for another The final score ended in a 5-5 tie. Capitals or Sidney Crosby vs Alexander told of remembering playing outside with time. Overall, the National Hockey League The schedule had the Washington Ovenchkin. Overall the NHL did an their friends on the ice. With 68,000 plus (NHL) and everyone connected with the Capitals practice followed by their family outstanding job with community activi- fans in attendance, the game began at game did a great job and this event will bring and friends’ open skate. Pittsburgh ties. After all, the object of the game 8:12 p.m. The game did not disap- attention to the public who generally watch Penguins’ practice followed with their played at an outdoor stadium is to bring point. It felt like we were playing with our standard sports. friends and familyskate after the teams more fans to the game. The schedule for friends against a team from another block Albert Caamano has coached ice hockey where taken care of, that is, they had a the game was pushed back from 1pm to for bragging rights. for 15 plus years to include recruiting young skate to include the referees’ family and 8pm because the weather forecast called It was a hard game with no one wanting to players in preparation for college, prep schools friends. for rain. Making sure the safety for the give up real-estate. Nonstop, end to end action and tournaments, and also worked Goalie January 1st 2011, Game Day at Heinz fans and players were taken into account which included a fight with two towering camps and clinics with former Olympic Arena. The Bridgestone Winter Classic and giving the fans a day’s notice to make fighters ready to motivate their teams and give coaches and college players. Pittsburgh Penguins vs Washington sure they could adjust to the unexpected notice no one would be backing down. The TECHNOLOGY NVIDIA Technology Fuels the Future for the Automobile Industry By Bary Alyssa Johnson NVIDIA the automobile industry, and here are the vision capability and other fierce driver used the 2011 first forward-looking players in the field: assistance features. Consumer Tesla Motors has used the Tegra 2 “A year ago we had a vision to deliver Electronics Show GPU to make great advances with its the most advanced, intuitive, state-of- (CES) as a plat- Model S type car. NVIDIA proces- the-art navigation system,” said Elmar form to announce sors will power their “infotainment” and Frickenstein, Executive Vice President partnerships instrument cluster systems as well as navi- of Electrics/Electronics and Driving within the automobile industry and to gational units in the Model S. Meanwhile, BMW America has been Experience Environment at BMW. “In show off the capabilities of its Tegra 2 The infotainment-entertainment hard at work on its 7-series, 5-series, our quest for superior graphics perfor- Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). CES system features a 17-inch high-resolution 3-series, Mini Cooper line and X-Series mance, no one came close to what is the wildly popular annual consumer touch screen center console that boasts of SUVs, which will feature the compa- NVIDIA brings to the table.” electronics exposition that is held in early today’s greatest graphics. The touch ny’s iDrive intelligent control concept Moving on, Audi CEO Rupert January in the heart of Las Vegas. screen was designed to be responsive to for in-car features. These navigational Stadler delivered an impressive but far NVIDIA showed that its next- the driver and it has a fully intuitive user and vehicle information systems will be out keynote speech at CES 2011. He used generation processors will take visual interface. powered by NVIDIA GPUs. this opportunity to usher in the concept computing to an interactive level. The Navigational capabilities offer real- Navigation will offer vivid graphics of the revolution that he says is taking company will accomplish this with time traffic and weather information. The with detailed terrain models on high- place within the world of automobile advanced 3D graphics offerings that all-digital instrument cluster leaves tradi- resolution next-generation interfaces. electronics. BMW, Audi and Tesla automotives are tional analog gauges and dials in the dust Vehicle information systems will make Stadler maintains that Audi has the integrating into several lines and models and makes for a stylish dashboard design. available real-time traffic reporting and pole-position in this transformation that of their newest, most tech-friendly vehi- “The model S is a modern marvel,” intuitive driving capability. we will see take place in front of our eyes cles. These companies joined alongside said Dan Vivoli, Senior Vice President NVIDIA technology also makes in the coming months and years. “We NVIDIA at the expo to inform and capti- at NVIDIA. “Tegra’s combination of possible automatic detection of traffic wanted to solve the disconnect between vate with their wares. graphics power and energy makes it a signs, blind spots and of lane departure. It the mobile Internet…and the mobile NVIDIA has pioneered the future of perfect match for the Model S.” also offers driver alertness monitors, night individual,” he said. The Westchester Guardian THURSDAY, January 13, 2011 Page 21

TECHNOLOGY EYE ON THEATRE NVIDIA Technology Fuels the Future A Small Fire and Dracula for the Automobile By John Simon It is no 60-year-old husband, John, on some sort the wedding, but Emily, yearning for Industry easy thing of leave from an unspecified job; Jenny, normality, insists on no change of plans. to write their 30-year-old daughter, about to get The scene at the after-wedding party, With such a determined focus on a tragedy married; and Billy, the black foreman where John must describe the festive, moving forward, the swanky automobile nowadays. In working for Emily. funny, and foolish goings-on to Emily, manufacturer refused to settle for old- hard times, people want to laugh. Besides, We meet Emily on a construction who even had to be helped with her dress school options in terms of mobility. It just are there true tragic heroes these days? site, talking to Billy. She is clearly tough and make-up, is extraordinarily moving. wouldn’t do to attach an iPad or iPod to Movie stars, sports figures, pop musi- and efficient, but no martinet, and not But Emily’s isolation will be even your auto interior anymore. cians and TV personalities won’t quite without a sense of humor. It is a fine more drastic as her hearing also goes. One The carmaker’s CEO explained do. Oprah and Lady Gaga, even with establishing scene, as is the next one with communicates with her only by squeezing that this sort of bygone behavior would a possible severe setback, wouldn’t be husband John, as they discuss the forth- her hand: one squeeze for yes, two for no. antique the technology, making it feel Medea and Electra. coming wedding arrangements. Emily John lovingly stands by, won’t even go “old” to the end user. To attach sepa- But what about the flawed common doesn’t like Henry, her prospective son- out for an airing Jenny urges him to take. rate mobile devices in your car is also Jenny, however, doesn’t cope that well, dangerous, Stadler warned. He explained and presently, as Henry’s job shifts to the that these devices are designed expressly Carolinas, is about to leave. Now what? to catch user attention. “In a vehicle you None of this would work so power- fully if Bock’s psychology, compassion, want the exact opposite,” he said. and dialogue weren’t pitch perfect. He Stadler informed CES consumers even manages humor, as when the mutely that Audi has built the best interface to suffering Emily bursts out with, “This is deliver the best information, and feels stupid! It is the stupidest of stupid any strongly that they have succeeded. “We’ve stupid anything. God damn it! F---!” Or done so in terms of both hardware and when Emily queried how she put up at software,” he said. Using the Audi A8 as an example of “the technologically most advanced vehicle you can buy today,” Audi has paired a multimedia infotainment center with a touch screen and voice recognition capabilities. NVIDIA’s GPU technologies offer up 3D graphics and a responsive user interface featuring a Smartphone and a next-generation digital cockpit. The Michelle Pawk as Emily, Celia Keenan-Bolger as Jenny and Reed Birney as John in a scene from decked-out-dash shows current speed, A Small Fire fuel level and plenty of other car status information in divine graphic design, man or woman who suffers serious in-law, or his family, and there is friction thanks to the Tegra 2 processing chip. misfortune and may face total failure, between her and Jenny, who much prefers This working relationship between pennilessness or death—is he or she not her easy-going, amenable father. Audi and NVIDIA enables the car a potential tragic hero or heroine? Arthur Suddenly, Emily doesn’t smell the company’s futuristic concept where Miller thought so, and created Willy smoke from a small kitchen fire, and “we see a world where the car is fully Loman and Eddie Carbone. But were soon she is diagnosed as having perma- connected to the Internet, to the other not their flaws either too commonplace nently lost her sense of smell, with which cars, to the cloud,” Stadler said. “This car or unappealing, and the language not comes loss of taste. At first, she and the of the future is part of the mobile world, elevated enough? Death of a Salesman and family try to make light of this; after in every sense of the word.” A View From the Bridge were successes, but all, she has no tumor, and who needs NVIDIA has partnered with many the more discriminating critics perceived smell all that much? But then, equally them as melodramas attitudinizing as suddenly, shegoes blind. The play is made additional car companies that were not tragedies. up of short scenes that make their point featured at CES 2011. Among them: Now comes Adam Bock’s A Small without undue lingering. Maserati, Peugeot, Citroën, Fiat and Lancia. Fire, which strikes me as a highly Now, I don’t know whether there Local resident Bary Alyssa Johnson covers successful bourgeois tragedy, way above is a clinical explanation for these symp- Larchmont, Mamaroneck, Rye, and Rye anything Bock has previously written. We toms, and none is offered. But somehow Brook, as well as the evolving world of elec- have here four characters: Emily Bridges, this doesn’t matter: we understand that tronics and technology. a strong 58-year-old businesswoman, Fate can be unkind without owing us owner of a construction company; her an accounting. Jenny is for postponing Page 22 The Westchester Guardian THURSDAY, January 13, 2011

EYE ON THEATRE Theatre Review: A Small Fire and Dracula the wedding with her despised in-laws, replies, “I liked them Be too are remarkable. much work not to.” And then there is the truly amazing What further happens, you’ve got to see. Enough to say that, ending, which, like Pandora’s box, does in 80 minutes, A Small Fire is able to say a great deal and move us offer one precious glimmer of hope, to the marrow. This stems also from the superb acting of Michele one small fire to warm our imagination. Pawk (Emily). Reed Birney (John), Celia Keenan-Bolger (Jenny) Hamilton Deane and John and Victor Williams (Billy). Add to this simple yet ingenious Balderston’s Dracula is pushing 90, scenery by Loy Arcenas, which allows scenes to debouch on quite and does not wear its age well. Except, different scenes with cinematic smoothness, and the expert direc- that is, for the eponymous protagonist, tion of Trip Cullman, whose eye for detail and feeling for movement Count Dracula, who after five centuries of bloodsucking looks, in this revival, no older than 25. Classics, of course, do not age, but boulevard entertainments tend, after a few decades, to creak worse than a coffin lid being pried open. Surely everyone knows the story well enough to spare us further Emily Bridges as Lucy and Michel Altieri as Dracula-Photo by Carol Rosegg rehashing. A 1977 Broadway revival made the mistake of camping things George Hearn, a distinguished musical-comedy up, thereby stripping them of the last remaining leading man, speaks his lines as if he would prefer edge. The present mounting avoids that, which is singing them. just about the only error it does not commit. Horror John Buffalo Mailer (son of Norman), as An intimate look at the art of theatre criticism stories on stage can enjoy improved technology Renfield, is a reasonably persuasive madman; as and life as a critic today, but not if, like this revival, they cut corners Lucy’s father and sanatorium director, Timothy right and left. Jerome comes off best. Rob O’Hare, as a sanato- featuring: The play depends greatly on its special effects, rium guard, has more accent trouble than most of such as Dracula as a bat buzzing around frequently; the others, and a forelock, perhaps to emulate bats, but this production is batting close to zero. Only eager to take flight.A s the Sewards’ maid, Katharine once does a winged creature butt against a trans- Luckinbill (daughter of actors Laurence Luckinbill lucent door, and even then it looks less like a bat and Lucy Arnaz), manages tolerably. With so many than a seagull. Not even the wolflike howls outside famous parents’ progeny, the bored spectator can at or Dracula’s invisibility inside mirrors is properly least indulge himself as celebrity watcher. conveyed. But there is worse. A Small Fire Peter D. Kramer Andy Propst Dana Kell’s sets seem to be mostly card- Award-winning reporter and educational Associate Editor of Theatremania and Playwrights Horizons board—and probably are—but even so cannot nd theatre advocate with The Journal News founder of AmericanTheaterWeb.com 416 West 42 Street change noiselessly and without unseemly slowness. Tickets: (212) 279-4200 or This despite the fact that the theater is a good one, www. playwrightshorizons.org unlikely to lack equipment. When an effect does work, like an empty chair jiggling and shaking, one Dracula is inclined to attribute it less to the supernatural than Little Shubert Theatre to rickettiness. 422 West 42nd Street Still, strong direction and acting could have (212) 239-6200 or made a difference, but there is not much on view. www.telecharge.com John Simon True, the leading actress was dumped four days John Simon has written for over 50 years on Esteemed author, and literary, theatre and film critic before the opening, but one wonders what spared theatre, film, literature, music and fine arts for Currently with The Westchester Guardian and the Yonkers Tribune some of the others a similar fate. Dracula is played the Hudson Review, New Leader, New Criterion, by Michel Altieri, a Pavarotti protégé who has National Review, New York Magazine, Opera News, performed mostly in Italy and looks far too young Weekly Standard, broadway.com and Bloomberg January 23, 2011 for the part. He scowls, leers and drawls, and even News. He reviews books for the New York Times when swirling his cape, comes across not so much Book Review and Washington Post. He has written 7:00 PM like a fearsome gian bat spreading its wings than as a profiles for Vogue, Town and Country, Departures Spanish dancer showing off his costume. and Connoisseur and produced 17 books of collected Emily Bridges (real-life namesake of the Small writings. Mr. Simon holds a PhD from Harvard Admission $15 Fire heroine, and daughter of actor Beau Bridges) University in Comparative Literature and has taught Reception Included looks less the beautiful maiden in distress than an at MIT, Harvard University, Bard College and anemic schoolmarm, with blood sucked even out of Marymount Manhattan College. To learn more, her performance. Having seemingly only one all- visit the JohnSimon-Uncensored.com website. 11 City Place, White Plains, NY 10601 purpose garment doesn’t help either. As Jonathan Located on the 3rd Floor of City Center, downtown White Plains Harker, her fiancé, Jake Silverman is stiff as a board, perhaps to prop up the flimsy scenery should For Tickets call 877.548.3237 or visit www.wppac.com it collapse. As vampire-hunter D. Van Helsing, The Westchester Guardian THURSDAY, January 13, 2011 Page 23 LEGAL NOTICES

Notice of Formation of ZANICK Three, Mike S Boyle LLC Articles of Org. filed SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS. Index No. 12593-2010. LLC a domestic Limited Liability Com- NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/21/2010. Of- STATE OF NEW YORK. SUPREME COURT. COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. pany (LLC). Articles of Organization fice in Westchester Co. SSNY design. filed with Secretary of State of NY on Agent of LLC upon whom process CHASE HOME FINANCE LLC, Plaintiff, -vs- THE HEIRS AT LARGE OF MICHAEL GAGLIARDI, DECEASED, and all persons who are wives, widows, grantees, mort- 12/15/2010. NY office location: WEST- may be served. SSNY shall mail copy gagees, lienors, heirs, devisees, distributees, successors in interest of such of them as may be dead, and their husbands and wives, heirs, devisees, distributees CHESTER County. 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Mortgaged Premises: 16 Riverview Avenue, Tarrytown, N.Y. 10591. 2 William street suite 202 White Plains, ter Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC NY 10601. Purpose: To engage in any upon whom process may be served. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer lawful act or activity. SSNY shall mail copy of process to on the plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after the completion Notice of Authority of ValBacher, LLC; The LLC 100 Riverdale Ave Ste 3K Yon- of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant Application for Authority to do busi- kers, NY 10701. Purpose: Any lawful in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by ness in the State of New York was activity. default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. In the event that there is a deficiency in the sale proceeds, a deficiency judgment may be entered against you. filed with the Department of State NOTICE OF FORMATION of The NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME. If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney on November 3, 2010; Office Loca- Gourmet Gluten Free Food Company, for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with court, a default judgment may be entered and you can tion:, Westchester County; SSNY has LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Secy. lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your been designated as agent of LLC of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/31/2010. property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON upon whom process against it may Office location: Westchester County. THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. be served; SSNY may mail a copy of SSNY designated as agent of LLC This action is being amended to add ‘THE HEIRS AT LARGE OF MICHAEL GAGLIARDI, DECEASED’, ‘WENDY ANN VAN HOUTEN-GAGLIARDI A/K/A WENDY ANN service of process to, 119 North Road, upon whom process against it may GAGLIARDI, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS EXECUTOR OF THE ESTATE OF ELFRIEDA VAN HOUTEN A/K/A ELFRIEDA G. VAN HOUTEN, AND AS HEIR-AT-LAW TO THE White Plains, NY 10603. Purpose: Any be served. SSNY shall mail process ESTATE OF MICHAEL GAGLIARDI, DECEASED, AND AS GUARDIAN O/B/O JONATHAN AND JULIAN GAGLIARDI, MINOR HEIRS TO THE ESTATE OF MICHAEL lawful Purpose. to: c/o the LLC, 15 Kensico Knoll Place, GAGLIARDI, DECEASED’, DOMINICK GAGLIARDI, DIANE GAGLIARDI AND JOSEPH GAGLIARDI, AS HEIRS-AT-LAW TO THE ESTATE OF MICHAEL GAGLIARDI, NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED White Plains, NY 10603. Purpose: Any DECEASED’. This action is also being amended to add JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.’, ‘CAPITAL ONE BANK’, and ‘METRO PORTFOLIOS’, as necessary parties LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: AKT lawful activity.” to the action as judgment creditors to the possible heirs to the Estate of MICHAEL GAGLIARDI. LLC Articles of Organization filed with Anesthesia Leader, PLLC Articles of WESTCHESTER County is designated as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the mortgaged premises. the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 11/09/2010. Office location: Westches- 10/21/2010. Office in Westchester Dated: August 30, 2010. /s/, Mark K. Broyles, Esq., FEIN, SUCH & CRANE, LLP, Attorneys for Plaintiff, Office and P.O. Address, 28 East Main Street, Suite 1800, ter County. The SSNY is designated as Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon Rochester, New York 14614. Telephone No. (585) 232-7400. agent of the LLC upon whom process whom process may be served. SSNY (SECTION: 16A, BLOCK: 85, LOT: 15, 16, & 17A). against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail copy of process to The PLLC NATURE AND OBJECT OF ACTION. The object of the above action is to foreclose a mortgage held by the Plaintiff recorded in the County of WESTCHESTER, State shall mail a copy of process to the 280 Dobbs Ferry Rd Ste 206 White of New York on April 14, 2008, in Document No. 480940565; said mortgage was assigned to the Plaintiff by virtue of an Assignment of Mortgage dated March 16, LLC, 201 W.89th St., #11G, New York, Plains, NY 10607. Purpose: Any lawful 2010, and recorded April 5, 2010, in Document No. 500893437. NY 10024. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. activity. TO THE DEFENDANT, except WENDY ANN VAN HOUTEN-GAGLIARDI A/K/A WENDY ANN GAGLIARDI, AS EXECUTOR OF THE ESTATE OF ELFRIEDA VAN White Plains Homeowners Coalition, HOUTEN A/K/A ELFRIEDA G. VAN HOUTEN and MICHAEL GAGLIARDI, deceased, the plaintiff makes no personal claim against you in this action. LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. NOTICE OF FORMATION of Apostle To the above named defendants: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Hon. Orazio R. Bellantoni, a Justice of Management LLC. Arts of Org filed of State (SSNY) 10/8/2010. Office in Westchester Co. SSNY design. Agent the Supreme Court of the State of N.Y., dated September 13, 2010 and filed along with the supporting papers in the Westchester County Clerk’s Office. This is an with the Secy of State of New York action to foreclose a mortgage. The premises is described as follows: (SSNY) on 10/01/10. Office location: of LLC upon whom process may be Westchester County. SSNY desig- served. SSNY shall mail copy of pro- All that certain plot, piece of parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Village of Tarrytown, Town of nated as an agent upon whom pro- cess to The LLC 980 Broadway, Ste. Greenburgh, County of Westchester and State of New York, shown and designated as Lot No. 195 and parts of Lots Nos. 196 and 197 on a certain map entitled, cess may be served and shall mail a 225 Thornwood, NY 10594. Purpose: “Benedict Park, Subdivided & Developed by Miller Brothers in the Village of Tarrytown, Town of Greenburgh, Westchester Co., N.Y., Scale 1” 50”, dated Septem- copy of any process to the principal Any lawful activity. ber 2, 1924, made by Ward Carpenter & Co., Inc., C.E., and filed in the hereinafter called the Register’s Office of Westchester County, now County Clerk’s Office, business address: Gelfand, Rennert & Lewbel LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Division of Land Records, Westchester County, N.Y. on September 6, 1924 as Map No. 2660, said lot and parts of lots, when taken together as one parcel, are more Feldman, 360 Hamilton Ave., Ste 100, Sec. of State (SSNY) 12/31/2010. Of- particularly bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point on the easterly side of Riverview Avenue where it is intersected by the division line between White Plains, NY 10601. Purpose: any fice in Westchester Co. SSNY design. 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Purpose: the division line between Lots Numbers 194 and 195, a distance of 110.35 feet to the easterly side of Riverview Avenue at the point or place of Beginning. Premises SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon Any lawful activity. known as 16 Riverview Avenue, Tarrytown, N.Y. 10591. whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Kenneth Murawski 23 Red Oak Lane Cortland Manor, NY 10567. Purpose: Any law- ful activity. Abcmind LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 11/9/2010. Office in Westchester Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to C/O United States Cor- poration Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Ave, Ste 202 Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Registered Agent: United States Corporation Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Ave, Ste 202 Brooklyn, NY 11228. Event Leadership Institute, LLC Au- thority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/23/2010. Office location: Westchester Co. 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