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CLASSIFIED ADS LEGAL NOTICES Office Space Available- FAMILY COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Prime Location, Yorktown Heights COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER 1,000 Sq. Ft.: $1800. Contact Wilca: 914.632.1230 In the Matter of ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE SUMMONS AND INQUEST NOTICE Prime Retail - Westchester County Chelsea Thomas (d.o.b. 7/14/94), Best Location in Yorktown Heights A Child Under 21 Years of Age Dkt Nos. NN-10514/15/16-10/12C 1100 Sq. Ft. Store $3100; 1266 Sq. Ft. store $2800 and 450 Sq. Ft. Store $1200. Adjudicated to be Neglected by NN-2695/96-10/12B Suitable for any type of business. Contact Wilca: 914.632.1230 FU No.: 22303 Page 26 Tiffany Ray and Kenneth Thomas,The WesTchesTer Guardian ThursdaY, FeBruarY 23, 2012 Respondents. X HELP WANTED NOTICE: PLACEMENT OF YOUR CHILD IN FOSTER CARE MAY RESULT IN YOUR LOSS OF YOUR A non profit Performing Arts Center is seeking two job positions- 1) Direc- RIGHTS TO YOUR CHILD. IF YOUR CHILD STAYS IN FOSTER CARE FOR 15 OF THE MOST RECENT tor of Development- FT-must have a background in development or expe- 22 MONTHS, THE AGENCY MAY BE REQUIRED BY LAW TO FILE A PETITION TO TERMINATE rience fundraising, knowledge of what development entails and experi- YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND COMMITMENT OF GUARDIANSHIP AND CUSTODY OF THE ence working with sponsors/donors; 2) Operations Manager- must have a CHILD FOR THE PURPOSES OF ADOPTION, AND MAYCLASSIFIED FILE BEFORE THE END OF THE 15-MONTH ADS LEGAL NOTICES good knowledge of computers/software/ticketing systems, duties include PERIOD. Office Space Available- FAMILY COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK overseeing all box office, concessions, movie staffing, day of show lobby Prime Location, Yorktown Heights COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER UPON GOOD CAUSE, THE COURT MAY ORDER AN INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINE WHETH- staffing such as Merchandise seller, bar sales. Must be familiar with POS 1,000 Sq. Ft.: $1800. Contact Wilca: 914.632.1230 In the Matter of ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE ER THE NON-RESPONSENT PARENT(s) SHOULD BE CONSIDERED AS A RESPONDENT; IF SUMMONS AND INQUEST NOTICE system and willing to organize concessions. Full time plus hours. Call (203) THE COURT DETERMINES THE CHILD SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM HIS/HER HOME, THE 438-5795 and ask for Julie or Allison COURT MAY ORDER AN INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINEPrime RetailWHETHER - THEWestchester NON-RESPONDENT County Chelsea Thomas (d.o.b. 7/14/94), Best Location in Yorktown Heights Page 2 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN PARENT(s) SHOULDThursda BE SUITABLEy, SEPTEMBER CUSTODIANS FOR 26, THE 2013 CHILD; IF THE CHILD IS PLACED AND A Child Under 21 Years of Age Dkt Nos. NN-10514/15/16-10/12C REMAINS IN FOSTER CARE FOR FIFTEEN1100 OF Sq. THE Ft. MOST Store RECENT $3100; TWENTY-TWO 1266 Sq. Ft. MONTHS,store $2800 THE and 450 Sq. Ft. THE WESTcHESTER GUARDiAn THURSDAY,AGENCY MAY BE FEBRUARY REQUIRED TO 23,FILE 2012 A PETITION FOR TERMINATIONStore OF PARENTAL $1200. RIGHTS OF Page 3 Adjudicated to be Neglected by NN-2695/96-10/12B FU No.: 22303 THE WTHEEST cWESTCHESTERHESTER GUARD iGUARDIANAn THURSDAY,THE PARENT(s)THURSDAY, FEBRUARYAND COMMITMENT MARCH 23, 2012 OFSuitable 29,GUARDIANSHIP 2012 for any AND type CUSTODY of business. OF THE Contact CHILD FOR Wilca: THE 914.632.1230Page 3 PURPOSES OF ADOPTION, EVEN IF THE PARENT(s) WERE NOT NAMED AS RESPONDENTS IN Tiffany Ray and Kenneth Thomas, THE CHILD NEGLECT OR ABUSE PROCEEDING. Respondents. X RADIO Of Significance HELP WANTED NOTICE: PLACEMENT OF YOUR CHILD IN FOSTER CARE MAY RESULT IN YOUR LOSS OF YOUR Of Significance A NON-CUSTODIAL PARENT HAS THEA non RIGHT profit TO REQUEST Performing TEMPORARY Arts Center OR is PERMANENT seeking two CUS job- positions- 1) Direc- RADIORADIO TODY OF THE CHILD AND TO SEEK ENFORCEMENT OF VISITATION RIGHTS WITH THE CHILD. 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Feature MAYOR Marvin’s COLUMNSection GOVERNMENT Business Welcoming Attributes of Bronxville By MARY C. MARVIN to merchants and their employees are, however, looking into other to park in remote available loca- options offered including an inspec- This summer the tions versus feeding the meters on tion fee schedule for vacant spaces. Village Trustees, in the prime parking streets thereby Are the Village’s Planning / partnership with filling spaces better used for poten- Zoning regulations and approval the Chamber of tial customers? process timeframe in line with like Commerce, engaged Is better signage needed to communities competing for the the services of the consulting firm direct shoppers to the available same businesses? Phillips Preiss Grygiel LLC who parking places off the major thor- Is it beneficial to encourage specialize in strategies for business oughfares? And, as a corollary, more outdoor dining? If permit- district revitalization. how do we change the culture that ted, should it be subject to a yearly Given the continuing appear- assumes if there is no parking on permit review based on cleanli- ance of empty storefronts coupled Pondfield Road or Park Place, there ness, noise and proper amount of with less than robust sales for some is no parking to shop? approved seating? existing businesses, expert advice And most importantly, under Is there a fair, non-subjective seemed the prudent approach. the parking aegis, how do we balance method to monitor the outdoor In essence, in this very com- the need for parking enforce- display of merchandise? As example, petitive environment, we want ment both in terms of the revenue beautiful flowers and plants add to ensure that the Village has no it produces as well as ensuring a beauty to the streetscape whereas barriers that serve as disincentives turnover of spaces for additional snow shovels and cases of water do to opening a business in Bronxville shoppers with the loss of goodwill not. when compared with neighboring generated with perceived aggressive Are the Village’s Code pro- communities. and uneven enforcement, cognizant visions relating to signs in store With the steady rise for Internet of the fact that loss of goodwill has a windows in concert with current commerce and big box retailers, the monetary value as well? needs? Should our regulations be shopping paradigm has clearly How do we market the Village, enforced more vigorously to achieve changed requiring an examination of perhaps with a more regional a more attractive visual appearance? methods for conducting commerce. approach utilizing the growing Per our current Code, none of Some of the questions / issues benefits of the social media while in the signs posted advertising school requiring review are the following: concert emphasizing to Village resi- plays, charity auctions, etc. are per- The Village’s active discourage- dents the nexus between shopping missible. Yet it is very hard for ment of national chains (yet, we have local and lower taxes? merchants to turn down students the king of all national franchises – Is there recourse when landlords or loyal customers who ask to post Starbucks). Is this still good policy? make demands in leases that cause an announcement of community Should the procedural and prospective renters to do business events. location restrictions currently placed elsewhere? Net / net, times have changed on service businesses versus the sale of This is a particularly frustrat- for good or for ill in the business retail goods be minimized in light of ing issue as an inflexible landlord environment and the Village has the fact that many of the successful new can keep a store empty rendering it to keep pace with the overarching businesses are those with a product that unattractive to the overall streetscape goal for any discussion on the above cannot be purchased at midnight on the as well as dampening the perceived subjects to maintain the beauty and Internet? For example, a ballet class or vitality of the rest of the business aesthetics that make Bronxville the tutoring service. district – and if empty long enough unique and historical Village it is. Many parking issues come to can petition the Village for a tax Mary C. Marvin is the mayor of the the fore (operating under the caveat reduction. Village of Bronxville, New York. If you that we cannot increase inventory New York State law has no have a suggestion or comment, consider immediately.) provisions for penalty taxation of directing your perspective by directing How do we give an incentive perpetually empty storefronts. We email to [email protected]. RADIO Westchester On the Level with Narog and Aris Westchester On the Level is heard from Monday toFriday, from 10 a.m. to 12 Noon on the Internet: http://www.BlogTalkRadio.com/WestchesterontheLevel. Join the conversation by calling 1-347-205-9201. Page 4 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

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infirm spouses or relatives. series appeared, Mayor Vincent Gray loved ones, families should make sure that Losing a Home Over a Trivial Debt Young and old property owners alike said that he, along with a D.C. Council copies of tax notices and important com- in Washington were also at risk of falling member, would pursue emergency reform munications go to someone equipped to By LARRY M. ELKIN by Steven Berman, who was previously victim to the local government’s own legislation. deal with them, rather than an ill or elderly caught rigging bids at tax lien auctions clerical errors. The Post found that one in Yet David Umansky, a spokesman for person who lacks capacity to handle such It sounds like a caution- across Maryland. A report by the National every five liens was been sold by mistake in the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, matters. It is common for an adult child or ary tale too outlandish not Consumer Law Center last summer cited D.C. Even when the liens were not applied says the office has no intention of stopping a sibling to step in and request copies of to be exaggeration: Miss a similar cases of elderly or ill homeowners in error, the foreclosures that resulted hit the practice due to the mayor’s call for a utility bills, and there is no reason not to property tax payment of a losing their homes this way in other states, the District’s poorest neighborhoods with moratorium. “It’s up to the mayor and the do the same with property taxes. This can few hundred dollars, and including Montana and Rhode Island. disproportionate force, penalizing those Council to draft and pass legislation,” he keep vulnerable homeowners out of debt lose your home and all the equity you have Though senior citizens are not the without the resources to fight aggressive said. Umansky also criticized the Post for in the first place, and will help nip any accumulated by owning it. only homeowners who have faced fore- tactics by lien purchasers. focusing on cases that predated the tax problems in the bud. For some residents of Washington closure due to lien sales, they represent a I can’t think of another scenario where office’s decision to stop auctioning the You would think local tax departments D.C., however, the scenario is painfully particularly vulnerable population. One a creditor can keep the entire proceeds of smallest delinquencies. The Post, in turn, would act with discretion and humanity real. reason is that they are more likely to an asset’s sale, instead of just satisfying the observed that finance officials acknowl- toward their frailest citizens. In most places Last week, following a 10-month have paid off their mortgages and own outstanding debt. In most places, a bank edged this decision was designed to keep I imagine they do, and I honestly don’t investigation, The Washington Post pub- their homes outright. Properties with that forecloses on a defaulted mortgage the volume of tax liens manageable, rather know how the rest go to sleep at night. lished three stories about egregious local mortgages rarely get to the point where and sells the property keeps only the than to protect homeowners from losing Losing a home over a trivial debt sounds tax practices that are putting some of the property taxes put them in danger of fore- unpaid mortgage balance along with their property. too outrageous to be true. The outrageous capital’s most vulnerable residents out on closure, because banks receive copies of the accrued costs. The idea of a $150,000 home If state and local governments don’t thing is that it actually happens. the streets. The first described how D.C. property tax bills and usually pay the taxes being sold to satisfy a $500 tax debt, with provide basic consumer protections in ® Larry M. Elkin, CPA, CFP , has provided homeowners with liens on their property through an escrow account. This protects the excess all staying with the party who their property tax systems, Congress ought personal financial and tax counseling to a faced foreclosure after private companies the lender’s collateral. paid the $500 owned to the city, ought to expand federal laws governing debt-col- sophisticated client base since 1986. After bought the liens and inflated the amount to fall under the legal principle of “unjust lection practices to stop the worst abuses. The other reason elderly homeowners six years with Arthur Andersen, where he owed with exorbitant fees, expense charges enrichment.” Under basic principles of The federal government may not have the are most vulnerable to tax lien foreclosures was a senior manager for personal financial and interest rates. One in three of the law, you don’t get something for nothing standing to tell states how to collect their is because this population has a higher planning and family wealth planning, he homeowners who have lost their proper- – every contract requires “consideration.” own debts, but it certainly has the right to instance of dementia and other health founded his own firm in Hastings on Hudson, ties in recent years originally owed less Ordinarily, you don’t get something of regulate the interstate commerce involved problems that can leave the homeowner N.Y., in 1992. That firm grew steadily and than $1,000, the newspaper reported. great value for next to nothing, either. in selling liens to companies like those without the capacity to manage financial became the Palisades Hudson organization, Washington residents are not alone mentioned in the Post story, which often affairs and protect their own interests. The government in D.C., however, which moved to Scarsdale, N.Y., in 2002. The in struggling with the effects of tax lien operate across state lines. Those who still have all their faculties may has been content to turn a blind eye as firm expanded to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in auctions. Three of the six companies who be fighting physical ailments or tending to long as it got its taxes paid. After the Post In the meantime, to protect their dominated D.C. auctions were owned 2005 and to Atlanta in 2008. THE ECONOMIST The Issue Isn’t the Minimum Wage; But the Effective Minimum Wage Population

By Prof. OREN those who earn the “effective minimum Critics often claim that those who earn of black workers earning more the average they don’t need the money, then there is LEVIN-WALDMAN wage,” which may be defined as any wage the minimum wage are primarily teenag- annual hourly wage was 38.2 percent less. no good reason to pay a higher wage that between the statutory minimum and a ers, and otherwise secondary earners. That Of course critics might point to low may lead to lower employment. Once it The minimum wage has wage which is 50 percent of average annual is, they are not the primary earners in their wageworkers’ lack of skill. On average, becomes clear that not only might there recently been in the news hourly earnings. Historically, efforts were households. It is true that 17.1 percent of those earning an effective minimum not be adverse employment effects, but because of the fast food made to keep the minimum at 50 percent effective minimum wage workers were wage are less educated in that more have that these are workers who genuinely may workers’ strike for a wage of of average annual earnings. Data from 18-24 years old compared to 12.1 percent no more than a 12th grade education need the money — and being a second- $15.00 an hour. Critics claim the $15.00 the Current Population Survey (CPS) for of all workers. But 67.6 percent of effective and fewer have Associates, BA, and/or ary earner in no way means that person’s hourly pay rate, if realized, would cause 2012 shows that the average annual hourly minimum wage workers were between the Graduate and Professional degrees. But income is not essential to the support of unemployment. There is a tipping point, earning was $21.43. This means that the ages of 25 and 54, which is only 3.3 percent the common portrait of minimum wage that person’s household — the moral but we don’t really know where that is. The statutory minimum wage was 33.8 percent less than all workers. In 2012, 47.5 percent workers being teenagers looking for some imperative to raise the minimum wage principal reason minimum wage increases of the average annual hourly earning. It of all workers were women, compared to funny money simply does not hold here. becomes even stronger. have not led to disemployment effects is was 48.7 percent of the median hourly 56.5 of effective minimum wage workers Those who earn an effective minimum that the minimum has been so far below Oren M. Levin-Waldman, Ph.D., is profes- wage of $14.90. Had the minimum wage which is 18.9 percent higher. 7 percent wage are more likely to be women, black, a market-clearing wage. In the case of sor at the Graduate School for Public Affairs been indexed to inflation and remained at of all workers were in food prepara- in their prime working years, and working proposed fast food industry increases, so and Administration at the Metropolitan 50 percent of the average annual hourly tion and service related occupations, but in food preparation and service related long as they are below the tipping point, College of New York. Direct comment or wage, it would have been $10.72. Were the 12.5 percent of effective minimum wage occupations. are likely to lead to increases in employ- inquiry to olevin-waldman@metropolitan. statutory minimum wage to be increased workers were in these occupations, which Therefore, when fast food workers ment because the fast food industry is edu. Learn more: read the just published Wage $10.72, it would still be below a market revealed a difference of 78.6 percent. Also go on strike for wages that appear to be a labor monopsony. That is, they are the Policy, Income Distribution, and Democratic clearing wage, and therefore not likely to a higher percentage of effective minimum in line with the median hourly wage, we principal employers of minimum wage Theory: http://www.routledge.com/books/ have adverse employment consequences. wage workers were black. Consider that as a society should consider just who these workers. details/9780415779715/#reviews A look at the effective minimum the percentage of black effective minimum workers are. Those who like to dismiss The issue, however, is not those who wage population reveals a different picture wage workers was 20.9 percent higher them as secondary earners are trying to earn the statutory minimum wage, but presented by critics of the minimum wage. than all black workers, but the percentage obscure the moral issue here, which is if THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, SEPTEMBER 26, 2013 Page 5

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Army rebel groups. humanitarian relief through US-AID, the Balancing On the Syrian High-Wire What has not been said by either side, UN, CARE and related groups. or by any in the US mass media [who are not Bob K. Bogen: BA Antioch College; MCP By BOB K. BOGEN under direct governmental control], is the election recount in Florida]. Of course the simultaneous Op-Ed by University of Pennsylvania; served as Long- Kerry was replying to a reporter’s query Putin in the New York Times seemed merely continuing fact of Russian ships and troops It’s a long way down from Range Planning Director for the New York if there could be any event that might halt a sermon calling the US back from its in the principal Syrian port of Latakia. It is the Syrian “high wire”. We Metropolitan Regional Planning Commission, plans for US military action as a consequence “exceptionalism,” and back to God, he said. unlikely that either the UN or the US could are way up there with the which ended in the South Tower of the of massive civilian gassing death by the At the same time that Op-Ed did put Russia provide such security troops. It would seem Russians and the UN at this World Trade Center; Planning Director for Syrian government. As you will recall, Kerry on center stage in current international clear that Russia could provide the required pivotal moment in history. the New England Regional Commission; threw out the slim possibility, clearly without politics legitimately, even if it did also attack search team security forces if they truly wish A misstep means a fall from amazing hope Comprehensive Planning Director or for any expectation of such a development, that the use of US language during the crisis and to act on their words. for Syrian lives and a new era of world arms the United Nations Development Program all this would change if chemical weapons in other old criticisms. Finally, all such efforts will take a good control, down into more massive death and in Pakistan; Board Chairman of the Syria were eliminated. Despite the usual Republican jihad many months. The humanitarian needs destruction for that benighted land: murder Communications Committee for the United against Obama, the US administration he of at least a third of Syrians forced out of for thousands of innocent men, women, To the amazement of the world, within Nations; Principal Representative of Architects/ leads, with its threat of military action, the their homes in-country and the two million and children, still there after the death of days Putin responded that Russia would Designers/ Planners for Social Responsibility to president must be credited with generating refugees who have left for nearby lands must many tens of thousands and the horrendous push for that to happen! This is expected the United Nations; and Chair of the Quaker the historic Russian initiative in response to be assisted. If the US is to be considered by national loss of refugee millions escaped to to require removal of the 100,000 tons of Regional Committee for Peace and Social Order the point made by Kerry. the world, as well as by the Syrian people, as a adjoining countries with nothing. Syrian chemical weapons and certainly to all for eight Friends congregations in the New York stockpiles of poison gas materials, its projec- Syria is required to report locations concerned nation, we must make truly major Each day brings new developments and Metropolitan Region. tiles, and all related activities specified in the of chemical weapons within a mere week government efforts immediately to provide hope for the first time in the two-and-a- immediately following negotiations and pact according to the new Russian / US Pact just half-year horror of the current Middle East developed by Kerry and the Russian leaders negotiated in Cairo. Failure to produce an turmoil, particularly in the current Syrian in Cairo. The world was shocked by Russia’s acceptable inventory might cause the threat- civil war. continuing support for Syria, a major client ened US military attack. Only a week since the last Westchester of Russia, including military equipment Even so, few can have confidence that Guardian issue [including my article, Down and continuing joint denial of any chemical such reports will account for all 100,000 to the Wire on Syria,] went to press, more weapons in Syria. tons! A serious search to confirm all related amazing, even historic, events have tumbled However, as I described, this Putin materials would surely require extensive out. Major columnists report they have had action might well be explained by Russian nationwide surveys by international search to rewrite their articles even hour by hour. fears that Syrian chemical weapons might teams; presumably by the UN. The many It all started, as recounted in my easily be taken by those extremist Muslim search teams would require on the spot sub- article last week, with the apparently casual jihadist rebel groups in Syria across into stantial security troops, according to a more comment by our Secretary of State John Russian Chechnya, just 40 miles away, where recent Pentagon estimate of 75,000 troops, Kerry [who many believe was elected US Russia had one of its most murderous con- up from an earlier estimate of 60,000, in that President nine years ago but for the Supreme flicts just a few years ago, or in other Russian war zone of many foreign jihadist troops Court declaration halting the presidential Muslim border areas. not under restraint by the native Free Syrian

DĂƐƚĞƌŝŶŐKƵƚĐŽŵĞƐǁŚŝůĞDŝŶŝŵŝnjŝŶŐ^ƵƌŐĞƌLJ CommunityART Section Hudson Valley Surgical Group provides the latest in Minimally Figurative Artist Marilyn Kalish Brings Movement and Invasive Surgery ƵƟůŝnjŝŶŐƚŚĞŵŽƐƚ Emotion to the Village of Bronxville advanced Laparoscopic Technology. BRONXVILLE, NY -- Years in the ZŽďĞƌƚ:͘ZĂŶŝŽůŽ͕DͻDŝĐŚĂĞůtĞŝƚnjĞŶ͕K making, artist Marilyn Kalish comes to ,ĂƌŚŝ>ĂƵ͕D Westchester for her opening reception of her exhibition “Reflections of Movement “These doctors really dŚĞŝƌĚŝƐƟŶĐƟǀĞĂƉƉƌŽĂĐŚƌĞƐƵůƚƐ and Emotion” on Saturday September 28th understand how important in ƐŚŽƌƚĞƌƐƚĂLJƐ͕ƐŚŽƌƚĞƌƌĞĐŽǀĞƌLJ from 6 – 9 pm. it is to get me back in ƟŵĞƐ͕ƉůƵƐƐŝŐŶŝĮĐĂŶƚůLJůĞƐƐƌŝƐŬ Imagine for a moment painting with the game.” and less ƉĂŝŶƚŽƉĂƟĞŶƚƐ͘ your eyes closed, guided by the smells of a ƌ͘DĂĚĚĂůŽ͕KƌƚŚŽƉĞĚŝĐWŚLJƐŝĐŝĂŶ handful of graphite and the sounds of your EĞǁzŽƌŬZĂŶŐĞƌƐ Where doctors go for their surgery. media scraping the canvas searching for your next character to appear. You work until you touch upon something familiar, something you can build upon. These are the creations HudsonValleySurgeons.com Hudson Valley Surgical Group of Marilyn Kalish. This deeply sensory 914.631.3660 777 N. Broadway, Ste. 204, Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591 experience is what separates her from other © 2013 Hudson Valley Surgical Group | All Rights Reserved. Continued on page 6 Page 6 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

BUSINESS Wheelabrator Westchester and White Plains Linen Announce Renewable Energy Partnership PEEKSKILL, NY -- Wheelabrator laundry operations, we are helping to clean Westchester and White Plains Linen the air, protect the environment and preserve announced a first-of-its-kind renewable natural resources for future generations. We energy partnership in Peekskill, which will are proud to make this green investment in enable the county’s largest commercial our business and in our host community of laundry operation to reduce its carbon foot- Peekskill.” print by 90 percent. “The stability of this reliable energy Under a long-term supply agreement, source from Wheelabrator Westchester steam from the Wheelabrator Westchester to power our plant will help us to plan waste-to-energy plant is being piped our growth strategy for the future,” said directly to White Plains Linen’s adjacent Leonard Labonia, vice president of opera- 100,000-square-foot commercial laundry tions for White Plains Linen. “This type facility via a newly-constructed steam of energy source does not react to political line. White Plains Linen is converting its unrest overseas or spike due to unforeseen natural gas-fueled laundry equipment and shortages.” room heating systems to steam. Now that Designed, constructed and operated the conversion is completed, White Plains by Wheelabrator Technologies, the Linen will significantly reduce the amount Wheelabrator Westchester plant processes of natural gas it uses to make steam and up to 2,250 tons per day of municipal solid hot water, from 1 million therms per year to waste. Inside the plant, waste is transferred less than 90,000 therms per year. This steep to utility-type boilers that recover thermal reduction in natural gas usage will eliminate energy in the form of high pressure steam, 4,775 metric tons of greenhouse gas emis- which is converted to electrical power by a Aerial view of Westchester’s Wheelabrator Technologies, Inc. plant, a wholly owned subsidiary of Houston, Texas based Waste Management (left), sions annually, equivalent to taking 995 turbine. The plant generates 60,000 kilowatts and White Plains Linen (further back). passenger vehicles off the road. of electricity — enough to power 88,000 White Plains Linen is Peekskill’s largest New York homes. Waste-to-energy plants use advanced · Recycled nearly 520,000 tons of Waste Management, based in Houston, employer and has made a multimillion dollar “After nearly 30 years of successfully environmental control systems that clean ferrous metals Texas, is the leading provider of comprehen- investment in building a state-of-the-art, converting post-recycled waste into clean emissions to meet stringent state and federal The facility directly employs 64 New sive waste management services in North green laundry operation to serve the tri-state electricity for Westchester homes and busi- standards while producing clean energy with York-area residents, many of whom live in America. To learn more, visit http://www. area’s restaurant, catering and hospitality nesses, this innovative project puts additional less environmental impact than almost any Westchester County, and last year created wm.com or http://www.thinkgreen.com . industries. In addition to the steam power steam from Wheelabrator Westchester source of electricity, according to the U.S. approximately $30 million of economic For over 75 years, White Plains Linen project, the company has installed systems to use by a large industrial operation and Environmental Protection Agency. activity in the region through direct and has been metropolitan New York’s and the to capture rainwater and recycle filtered rinse major employer in the City of Peekskill,” said Since opening in 1984, Wheelabrator indirect jobs, purchases of goods and services, entire tri-state area’s leading supplier of fine water for use in its laundry operations, and Mark Weidman, president of Wheelabrator Westchester has: and city and state tax payments. linens, specializing in full restaurant and has installed more energy efficient lighting Technologies. “We are proud to partner · Processed over 19 million tons of A wholly owned subsidiary of Waste catering needs, anywhere from tabletop throughout its facility. with White Plains Linen in reducing green- waste — enough material to fill a line of Management, Wheelabrator Technologies linens to kitchen garments and cleanup “This partnership with Wheelabrator house gas emissions and expanding the use tractor trailer trucks over 8,061 miles long — Inc. is a leader in the safe and environmen- merchandise. For a complete look at all of Westchester makes White Plains Linen an of renewable power sources. The reliable longer than the distance from Seattle, WA, tally sound conversion of MSW and other the new product updates and their specific industry leader in the use of eco-friendly, delivery of clean energy such as steam to to Miami, FL. renewable waste fuels into clean energy. To details, please visit http://www.whiteplain- alternative energy,” said Bruce Botchman, support local industry and economic growth · Generated over 12 million megawatts learn more, visit slinen.com . president of White Plains Linen. “By practi- is a business solution we hope to provide to of electricity — enough to power nearly 328 http://www.wheelabratortechnologies. cally eliminating the use of fossil fuels in our additional customers in the future.” million homes com .

Figurative Artist Marilyn Kalish Brings Movement CALENDAR and Emotion to the Village of Bronxville News & Notes from Northern Westchester Continued from page 5 Lombardo. The exhibition “Reflections By MARK JEFFERS is home to seven of the wealthiest people and Irv Myones from Pound Ridge. Their artists and that grabs your attention when of Movement and Emotion” by Marilyn in the country, according to the recently family and house will be the subject for an viewing her art. Kalish opens on Saturday, September Here’s a real shocker… looks released Forbes 400 Ranking of the Richest upcoming HGTV TV show “I Brake For Attend the visual journey where 28 at Objects & Images Fine Art at 117 like we did not make it into Americans? Katonah resident George Soros Yard Sales,” airing this fall. dancers whirl and twirl lifted by poly- Pondfield Road in Bronxville, NY, and the alleged racy secret diary ranked at No. 19 on the Forbes list, as the On Saturday morning, September carbonate panels that arc from the walls. will remain up until November 4th. They written by Bedford resident th wealthiest Westchester resident, with a net 28 … grab a cup of coffee from our gal Kerry Striking women portrayed in 6 ft x 6 ft will be hosting a special opening reception Robert F. Kennedy Jr., so I worth of $20 billion. I don’t think we made at Tazza and head over to the Community canvases in deep hues of purple and red. for the artist from 6 to 9 pm on the 28th. may start my own secret diary right after I the top 400, or even the top 4 million… Park at 205 Business Park Drive in Armonk Monochromatic paintings produced finish this week’s edition of “News & Notes.” Objects and Images Fine Art, a The good folks from the Bedford to take in the Armonk Outdoor Art Show. on raw linen depicting nothing but pure unique story in itself, took a once single Live longer and help others, sounds Chowder and Marching Club are holding Over 185 artists from the US and abroad human emotion. story gas station in this historic village and good to me… then sign up for the their annual Fall Fundraiser Bash on featuring works of art in oils / acrylics, water- “This exhibition and the art of transformed it into a three story building Westchester Heart Walk set for Sunday, th th Saturday, October 5 at the Bedford Golf & colors, mixed media, sculpture, photography Marilyn Kalish is a visual masterpiece with bi-level gallery matching the historic October 6 at the Kensico Dam, in Valhalla, Tennis Club. and more. not to be missed” states owner Dean features and look of the original structure. to benefit the American Heart Association. Congratulations to our friends Alexis Did you know that Westchester County Continued on page 7 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, SEPTEMBER 26, 2013 Page 7

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American Bake Sale, which supports an end expensive it is - so why not learn how to celebrating the glory of our beautiful Hudson News & Notes from Northern Westchester to childhood hunger, will offer Pinkalicious build one yourself. You can learn and vol- Valley. This Hudson River Valley Ramble is cupcakes and other great treats. The Festival unteer at the Armstrong Education Center, suitable for all ages. Meet on Upper Shad Continued from page 6 $70.00 at the door. Truly the see and be seen will take place on October 5th, at Robert Bell 1361 Old Post Rd., in Pound Ridge, on Road at 1:00pm to welcome autumn with a event of the fall. All proceeds go to support When you were in college, didn’t you Middle School in Chappaqua. Free admis- Saturday, September 28th at 10:00am. Join lovely family hike. this great local institution and no overdue always want to have a party in the library… sion and free parking at the Chappaqua train your neighbors and local veteran stone wall fines will be charged that night… The Fall Recreation Guides came out well here is your chance. Our good friend station. Books will be available for sale. builders in the construction of an outdoor last week, after reading about all the great For another celebration of the written Doug McLaughlin has invited everyone Three cheers and congratulations to seating area in the dry technique (no mortar) area events to participate in I decided to take word… More than 65 renowned children’s to join him for Autumn in New York and North Salem High School seniors Daniel of stone wall construction. a long nap in our hammock…see you next book authors and illustrators will participate Books that Changed Our Lives at the Selzer and our buddy Sean Devey as they If you are still in Pound Ridge the next week. in the first Chappaqua Children’s Book Katonah Village Library. The ‘party” is were recently named semi-finalists in the day, join Pound Ridge Land Conservancy’s th Festival. Families can meet and have books Mark Jeffers resides in Bedford Hills, New York, Friday evening September 27 at 8:00 pm. 2014 National Merit Scholarship Program. Land Steward / Educator who will co-lead There will be music, festive drinks, heavy signed by their favorite authors and illustra- with his wife Sarah, and three daughters, Kate, If you have ever paid anyone to a hike with Paul Zafnos of the Westchester hors’doevres and an extraordinary silent tors, participate in arts and crafts activities, Amanda, and Claire. build a stone wall ,you are well aware how Land Trust as part of a series of events auction. Advance tickets are $60.00 and and enjoy local food. In addition, the Great CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES Nick from Mamma Francesca To Their Posterity is back at the same location with By SHERIF AWAD writing medium. Across the ages, the WATERVIEW • RESTAURANT • MOJITO BAR Middle East was the place where the Linguistically, the English paper industry flourished until it moved Italian and Latin Cuisine - The Best of Both Worlds! word “paper” came from to European countries where the first the Latin word “Papyrus”, machine of papermaking was invented in Introductory which is named after the eighteenth century. In Japan, a unique the aquatic Nile plant Pre-Fixe Dinner for $20 culture also developed using Washi paper “Cyperus Papyrus” used Sunday – Thursday 4-7pm that was not only a writing medium but by the ancient Egyptians as their first also incorporated into different aspects Outdoor Patio Dining Overlooking the Sound Happy Hour 12–7PM • Thursday Ladies Night Kazzu Kinoshita at work in his studio. of daily life, such as clothing and housing www.capricciolatino.com material. Egyptian papyrus and Japanese washi were reflections of their respectively CAPRICCIO LATINO 414 PELHAM RD. NEW ROCHELLE 914-636-1229 unique culture and thirst for study of the sciences, creating interweaving arts and techniques highlighted by dialogue and cultural exchange between the two great civilizations and cultures. The contemporary Japanese painter Kazzu Kinoshita, who was born in 1942, in the city of Hiroshima, became a new symbol of these intercultural Middle East and Far East waves through his painting that reflected Egyptian history from the Ancients to the Coptic and the Islamic eras. From a Japanese perspective, the Mosques of the Egyptian Countryside by Kazzu Kinoshita. artist was bringing down the imperative ‘Past’ to the ‘Future’, a message that was culminated in his series Nokosareshimonohe (To Their Posterity ) that featured Egyptian antiquities of the Pharaonic Period with the backdrop of modern-day scenes as painted on canvas by his brush strokes. “Nokosareshimohe doesn’t mean our heritage, rather us who are actually alive at this moment. Now the heritage talks to me and asks me how I can retrace the thou- sands of years of Egyptian eternal history and encountering nature and space time”, explained Kinoshita. Upper-Egyptian Locals Near the Luxor Temples by Kazzu Kinoshita. Continued on page 8 Page 8 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES To Their Posterity Continued from page 7 Kinoshita began showing his work at the age of twenty, only to hold his first solo exhibition in 1971. In the beginning, he did not have any intentions to paint about Egypt. But when his wife insisted that he accompany her on a tour of Luxor and Aswan in January 1994, he was moved by the iconic Egyptian monuments. “I was really hesitant, because I seldom travel outside Japan”, remembered Kinoshita. “But suddenly, I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the Egyptian antiquities and the natural scenery. I did not make many sketches during that visit; but when I went back to Japan I felt that something had ignited in me. I also started watching videos on the ancient history of Egypt before returning again and again”. Ancient and Islamic Egypt depicted by Kazzu Kinoshita. The Pyramids by Kazzu Kinoshita. When taking a look at his painting, one should note that Kinoshita uses a mimicked European techniques. My from the past and continue to be compe- want to deliver a message to the viewer in The Netherlands. He also contributes predominance of red and blue in differ- challenge, across those years, was to bring tent to future challenges.” Yet it is not only that our past, present and future cannot be to Variety, in the United States, and is ent degrees. “It might have been because Japanese originality to my artworks”. the ancient statues that are prevalent in separated.” the film critic of Variety Arabia (http:// of the hot climate in Upper Egypt, but Kinoshita was very much infatuated Kinoshita’s paintings. The sun and moon Born in Cairo, Egypt, Sherif Awad varietyarabia.com/), in the United Arab these were my colors, that I was using even with the historical character of Ramses II are always there; shining over the scenes. is a film / video critic and curator. He is the Emirates (UAE), the Al-Masry Al-Youm before coming to Egypt. The traditional who ruled ancient Egypt for a long time. “I was keen to depict the sun and the film editor of Egypt Today Magazine (www. Website (http://www.almasryalyoum. colors I use are originally made out of rock “What is more amazing is that after all moon just to give the feeling of continu- EgyptToday.com), and the artistic director com/en/node/198132) and The Westchester and I mix them with oil colors as well. these years his monuments have survived... ity or eternity,” he says. “It is the same sun for both the Alexandria Film Festival, in Guardian (www.WestchesterGuardian. Many Japanese artists of my generation His message to us is to take the wisdom that rose on the Pharaohs, after all. I just Egypt, and the Arab Rotterdam Festival, com). HOUSING the City Council for their favorable votes Market Interest Rate (BMIR) assistance. Carrington Arms Apartment Renovation Proceeds on the two senior citizen Maple Avenue Rents average $1,249 per apartment. . rehabilitation projects and mentioned Councilman Jared Rice asked what By PEGGY GODFREY able to be referred to by an agenda number “extensive negotiations” had taken place. the public hearing on the bonding issue tenants could expect during the renova- at the September 17th meeting of the The $200,000 municipal impact fee for needed for this project. He expected to tion. Madeo said he had met with the In New Rochelle the City Council. Even at the Committee of neighborhood improvements Mountco close on the acquisition of the property tenants and there would be a meeting Carrington Arms 111 the Whole (public comment prior of the would pay for was considered an asset for before Thanksgiving. next month. Rice expressed great concern apartment complex th City Council agenda) on September 11 , the community. One benefit is a survey of The financial structure for the over whether the rents would increase. rehabilitation is moving the City Council limited knowledgeable the school population, which will be paid purchase of Carrington Arms will The Mountco Company could include an forward. This moderate discussion, by omitting information, spe- for by funds obtained from the devel- require a purchase price by Mountco of outside consultant. A public hearing has income housing project near Lincoln cifically the 32-year PILOT (payment opment. New Rochelle Mayor Noam $7,450,000. Capital improvements were been scheduled for a New Rochelle City Avenue opened in 1972 under a not for in lieu of taxes) which constrained Bramson stated this would be a significant listed at $7,446,000 or $67,000 per unit. Council meeting in October to authorize profit agreement with the City of New concerns and limited criticism. The New investment in housing stock, but added The existing mechanical systems will be the New Rochelle IDA to issue $11.4 Rochelle. It is now being changed by Rochelle Industrial Development Agency when schools were concerned, that there replaced, as will all appliances. There will be million of housing bonds (which would be Mountco Construction to “for profit” (NRIDA) must approve the PILOT; the was a “tipping point” of additional students a 32-year PILOT and a sales tax exemp- subject to the statewide bonding cap for housing as a limited liability corporation. NR City Council members will cast their which could require expansion of a school. tion on construction materials in addition this type of bond expenditure). Mountco Construction has recently taken approval or disapproval for the necessary Certainly a study of the school population to the mortgage recording tax exemption. The Westchester Guardian learned ownership and renovated the two senior bonding process prior to giving their per- will be helpful for this purpose he added. According to Luiz Aragon, New Rochelle that the owner / developer, Joel B. Monty, housing buildings on Maple Avenue in spectives and rationale to the vote they For this project, the large number of Development Commissioner, the creation in 2011 had given $1,000 to the Bramson New Rochelle. intend to cast. children and the PILOT generated were of a Housing Development Finance for New Rochelle Mayor campaign. That The New Rochelle City Council voted At the September 11, 2013, New enumerated. A public hearing has been Corporation (HDRC) is necessary and donation was fortuitously presented in the to approve Mountco’s ownership takeover Rochelle City Council meeting a subdued scheduled for an October City Council the 32-year PILOT starting at $122,000 weeks just before the company acquired at the September 17, 2013 meeting, and and brief mention was made of the PILOT meeting to authorize the New Rochelle would increase by 2.5% annually. 35 Maple Avenue for which the New induced the project with a tax abatement. and the ancillary municipal housing agree- Industrial Agency (IDA) to issue $11.4 Since IRS rules mandate that 51% Rochelle City Council gave a 30-year It was listed on the New Rochelle City ments. Development Commissioner Luiz million of housing bonds (which would be of the costs be tax-exempt, the private PILOT comprised of $150,000 per year. Council’s Consent Agenda, meaning it Aragon asserted the Carrington Arms subject to the statewide bonding cap for investment bonds of the IDA will be was placed on the agenda by unanimous Peggy Godfrey is a freelance writer and Apartment Project would be a mixed use this type of bond expenditure.) 52% of the tax-exempt private activity vote of the New Rochelle City Council former educator. development, that is, with some com- John Madeo, executive vice presi- bonds. It should also be noted all rents will the previous week. It was therefore, only mercial space permitted, and advised that dent of Mountco Construction, thanked either receive Section 8 funding or Below THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, SEPTEMBER 26, 2013 Page 9

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committing billions of dollars of money more. Syria means additional taxes, not years. It was a senseless waste of at least president, secretary of state, and others, Syria-Tired Yet? we do not have to impact an area of the less taxes. 58,000 American lives and for so long it pertaining to our involvement. Over the world that already hates us. Here at home Many of us can still remember how seemed it would never end. We endured months the promises will change, as there By GLENN MOLLETTE we have millions who cannot find a job. tired we were of Vietnam. My brother Iraq for eight years and lost almost 4,500 will be new developments, revelations We have millions more who cannot feed served a year in Vietnam and it was a long more soldiers and yet today the country is and new commitments of weapons, food, I suspect you are already their families with the paycheck they year for our family. Fortunately, he came in constant chaos. Today we have allowed soldiers and your money. tired of hearing about bring home. All the while our roads and home. An older friend who lived just Afghanistan to surpass Vietnam as our Brace yourself because history is about Syria. bridges need desperate repair. We need up the road named Junior was killed in longest war. With all the noise about Syria to repeat itself and we’re already tired. The future path is new school buildings for our children. We Vietnam. I’ll never forget his funeral. The do not forget we are still in Afghanistan. Glenn Mollette is an American columnist blurry - even to our president. Assad will have made our military do more with less expression on his father’s face said it all We will spend $100 billion dollars in and speaker. He is the author of “American still be in power. How many has he killed but we continue to ask them to do more. when a finely dressed soldier handed him Afghanistan this year and risk the lives of Issues” and nine other books. Find his books at without chemical weapons? Who is using We continue to put our aging seniors at the folded American flag and expressed more American men and women. www.BarnesandNoble.com . Contact him the chemical weapons? It sounds to me risk as we make it harder for us to pay his appreciation on behalf of America for The story we are hearing about Syria at [email protected], like his Facebook page like the real problem is the one issuing the social security and cover our huge medical Junior’s service. keeps changing. We’ve been hearing about at www.facebook.com/glennmollette. orders in Syria. tab. Needless to say the tax debt for our Vietnam went on for twelve long Syria for at least two years. Now we are Americans are now on the verge of children and grandchildren grows all the hearing all the promises made by our MIDDLE EAST FORUM

blasphemy accusation; and last March News report. are being utilized as new ways to perse- Vote for Me or Else in Joseph Colony, Lahore, some 3,000 “The late Javed Masih used to tell cute Christians and other minorities in Muslims attacked Christians, destroying the peasants to vote according to their countries such as Egypt and Pakistan— Islamists’ Latest Excuse to Kill Minorities 175 homes and burning their churches, conscience and not get intimidated by which differ in many ways except for the By RAYMOND IBRAHIM then opponent—many insist he actually again, because a Christian was accused gangsters like Mehr [Abdul Sattar],” practice of Islam—intimidation by fun- won the elections—the Islamists blamed of insulting Islam. said Younas Iqbal, chairman of a peasant damentalists is alive and well across the In what seems to be the Copts. Tarek al-Zomor, a prominent And the calls for violence against movement fighting for land rights: “His Islamic world. a pattern in many figure of al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya—the the Christians who did not vote efforts bore fruit, and Mehr lost the Muslim nations of First published by the Gatestone notorious “Islamic Group” which earlier for Mehr Abdul Sattar have been general election in 2008. Unfortunately, finding new pretexts to Institute on September 17, 2013. slaughtered some 60 European tourists effective. Among other things, his sup- Masih had to sacrifice his life for the justify anti-Christian— http://www.meforum.org/3612/ during the Luxor Massacre—even porters ambushed a convoy of about 100 cause, while several others were injured and “anti-Other”—behavior, Egypt’s islamists-election-threats “demanded an apology from the Copts” Christians on their way to congratulate in an armed attack by Mehr’s men. Christians and their churches are under for voting for Shafiq, adding that “this his opponent on his victory. This latest “humiliating defeat Raymond Ibrahim is author of Crucified attack, ostensibly because Christians was a fatal error.” Though notified, police failed to further stoked anger in Mehr, and he’s Again: Exposing Islam’s New War in joined the June 30 Revolution, which Now consider how this same respond. This is unsurprising, consider- now bent upon punishing us,” added Christians (published by Regnery in coop- led to the ouster of the Muslim paradigm—threatening Christians to ing that Sattar himself is connected to Iqbal, pointing out that Sattar has eration with Gatestone Institute, April Brotherhood. vote for or support the same Islamist the murder of Javed Masih, a Christian targeted no Muslims for opposing him. 2013). He is a Shillman Fellow at the Lesser known is that, even before leaders who persecute them, or else— who had opposed him in a 2008 If modern systems of governance, David Horowitz Freedom Center and an the revolution back during the 2012 has manifested itself in other countries, election, according to the Morning Star such as voting, elections, and democracy associate fellow at the Middle East Forum. presidential elections, Christians for example, Pakistan. were often threatened and sometimes According to a May 20 report by attacked simply for not voting for the Commercial • Industrial Morning Star News, a Muslim politi- Muslim Brotherhood—an absurd & Residential Services cal candidate suspected of murdering expectation considering that it has long a Christian has instigated calls from Roll-Off Containers 1-30 Yards been the Brotherhood and its many mosque loudspeakers for attacks on Home Cleanup Containers Islamist/jihadi offshoots that have ter- Christians, whom he blames for his May rorized Egypt’s Christians for decades. 11 election loss. Tensions were high in Turn-Key Demolition Services Even popular columnist Khaled Punjab Province’s Okara district after Montasser, an Egyptian Muslim, had DEC Licensed Transfer Station provincial assembly seat candidate scoffed at the idea that Copts could Mehr Abdul Sattar, sought by police ever vote for Morsi in an article pub- DEP Licensed Rail Serve in connection with a 2008 murder, lished around presidential elections. Transfer & Recyling Services on May 13 arranged for mosque calls www.citycarting.net Among other things, Montasser docu- for violence against Christian villages. mented how the Brotherhood had in City Carting of Westchester Licensed Demolition Contractor “Burn their homes to the ground … years past issued fatwas calling for the Punish them such that they forget Gojra Somers Sanitation destruction of churches and the pre- Locally Owned & Operated and Joseph Colony,” was the cry from B & S Carting vention of burying unclean Christian Radio Dispatched village mosques in the district [emphasis AAA Paper Recycling “infidels” anywhere near Muslim graves. added]. Concluded Montasser, “After such Bria Carting Fully Insured - FREE Estimates “Gojra and Joseph Colony” are ref- fatwas, Dr. Morsi and his Brotherhood CRP Sanitation erences to two separate incidents when colleagues can ask and wonder—’Why On-Site Document Destruction Pakistani Christians were especially are the Copts afraid?’” 800.872.7405 • 203.324.4090 persecuted: in 2009 in Gojra, eight Same Day Roll Off Service Even so, due to the good showing Christians were burned alive, 100 houses 8 Viaduct Road, Stamford, CT 06907 of presidential Ahmed Shafiq, Morsi’s looted and 50 homes set ablaze after a Page 10 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

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good, green and plain, they stick out by their comes with simply knowing you are better of civil rights or the emancipation of women, A Country for No Men inability to fit in. Imagine, in Manhattan, no and smarter than the rest of us. As for the to be sure noble efforts, who were eager makeup, or hair coloring or fragrance. The men; these are not your father’s men. The for validation of their closed little club. The By BOB MARRONE writer, I go there to report back to the great women look like Janice Joplin, and the men chic are decidedly metro-sexual. The older rest of the attendees were older, stuffy and unwashed, that which they will never be able look like, well, Janice Joplin. Anyway, you get fellows are well dressed and effete. There are super serious, again, self consciously looking Last week, I wrote a to afford, or for that matter, quite figure out. my point. The granola, organic flack seed oil no Mets hats or Eli Manning jersey in this around to among themselves validate their column essentially defend- First, let me say this. They, which is to crackers and vegetables-strangely devoid of crowd. They drink coconut milk, eat ice rice superior pedigree. ing the record of Michael say Manhattan residents, are not like the rest color and looking limp-flew off the shelves; cream and fiber, lots and lots of fiber. As I returned to the subway, I again ran Bloomberg, and throwing of us. Whereas we regular American folk The latter obviously because they are organic To be fair, the casual arrogance of these among the workers and visitors and vendors the city’s liberal Democrats have faith we will live forever; these people and presumably better for you. fine people probably comes from the knowl- that crawl along the city street like ants in so far under the bus they qualify for are certain of it. Most of the others were pure, unadul- edge that they know what is good for them. a colony. And as I walked down the stairs TWU membership. In the wake of my terated up-scale, young and old alike, It’s just that they don’t act like us that sticks at 34th Street, I realized that it is all good. spleen venting, I decided to spend a day in I took a walk in a Trader Joe’s near mid- town. It was, at once, a throw back and surge Manhattanites. It’s funny, but the young out. Manhattan is just another different place in Manhattan, the recognized center of the ones who were dressed casually, which is to Next, I headed up to CUNY to hear a city of different places. As I got on the train civilized universe and get the feel of the place. forward. The place was full of people, none- theless from different but elite lifestyles, who say with thin tight T-shirts and jeans, right a lecture on biography writing. It was… headed towards Brooklyn, I noticed that the I worked in “the city” for over 25 are certain they know better. There were the out of the pages of Esquire or Cosmo, shared interesting. The lecturer, a gifted and note- Italians, Jews, and other ethnic groups that years, split 60-40 between Wall Street and hippies and neo hippies, dressed in granny the passion for those combat boots. Anyway, worthy writer, delivered his “inside baseball” used to make their way to Bay Ridge were mid-town, and so I am no babe in the dresses, flannel shirts, combat boots (so I digress. Moving up the age and economic treatise like he was auditioning for a John now replaced by Asians and Mexicans. canyons. But then again, I was a working help me God) and corduroy slacks, self con- scale, the women wore expensive shoes of Houseman role. His snide remarks about Things will be different there as well. stiff commuter who spent his time with sciously pushing their shopping carts up and the Prada type, Louis Vuitton bags, and faces the NSA leaks, military culture and other I don’t think I would fit very well in coworkers, cabbies and food vendors. It is down the aisles, reading the ingredients on by L’Oréal. The self-serious look they have super liberal agenda items punctuated an Manhattan. I am a little too rough around a different way to experience the city than, food packages with the gravity of a prosecu- reveals a form of happy with which I am not otherwise interesting, if mostly pompous the edges, and have an aversion to excep- say, as a tourist or someone who makes the tor checking an indictment. These folks stood familiar, but which bears a resemblance to overview of his career. He knew his audience tionalism, which by its very nature excludes Haj for the purposes of taking in the culture. out the way grass roots environmentalists do. the self-consciousness of the hippies over in well. They were mostly academics who were people. But I am glad its there. Now, I am of the latter variety. As well, as a aisle three. I got the feeling that this carriage working on projects dealing with the history The paradox is that in their attempts to be Bob Marrone is an author and freelance writer. MUSIC

Wolf ’s latest recording “Wolfgang,” also on the Mack Ave. record label. I’d recently THE SOUNDS interviewed Gregory Porter on my WFDU radio show who told me he was really The 34th Detroit Jazz Festival looking forward to playing at the Detroit OFBLUE Jazz Fest. Gregory didn’t disappoint and August 30th, 31st, September 1st, and 2nd, 2013 put on a first rate set, his band was tight, By Bob Putignano as they performed many songs from his recently released and sumptuous “Liquid This was my second consecutive visit to the Soul” his debut recording for the legend- Detroit Jazz Festival and once again there ary Blue Note record label. Expect to hear was an abundance of quality performances a lot of good things coming from Porter’s to absorb and enjoy. Artistic director Chris voice, songwriting and band for many years Collins continues to attract talent that’s to come. I adored veteran John Scofield’s quite strong and impressive. set that featured bassist Andy Hess, second Highlights: I enjoyed the telepathic guitarist and various computer generated interplay between two fine pianists Renee sounds by Avi Bortnick and drummer Tony Rosnes and Bill Charlap. Under the Mason. Sco’s unit is titled Uberjam, direction of Rodney Whitaker the Mack their second release “Uberjam Deux” on Avenue Superband dazzled (as they did the Decca label follows his 2002 “Uberjam” last year,) members of the band included album, both of these fine albums are also Kirk Whalum, Carl Allen, Gary Burton, worth your time to add to your album Sean Jones, Warren Wolf, Aaron Diehl, collection. Scofield was on fire (he almost Evan Perri, and DJF artist-in-residence always is) as he squealed and screamed pas- Danilo Perez. Checkout their debut release sionate growls from his emotive guitar, it that was recorded at last years Detroit Jazz was a powerful set and one of my favorite Fest at: www.MackAvenue.com where you performance from this edition of the will also see that many of these artists in Detroit Jazz Fest. The amazing eighty- this superb band who also have their own three year old Ahmad Jamal closed out my albums solo readily available on Mack Ave night with a very memorable set on Sunday Records. It was great to see Thornetta Davis eve. Ahmad also has a brand new recording lay down the blues with her tight band, and “Saturday Morning” at www.JazzVillage. organist Tony Monaco oozed B3 grease com . with his trio that featured Fareed Haque. On the final day it was a joy to see I’d never seen Johnny O’Neal perform Freddy Cole croon and tickle the keys but always enjoyed his studio recordings, Ahmad Jamal. during his afternoon set. I wanted to see the O’Neal didn’t disappoint with his vocals solos. I was mesmerized with Bill Frisell’s can be found on Frisell’s 2011 “All We Are out. Warren Wolf dazzled on vibes Miles Smiles band featuring Larry Coryell, he was also extremely sharp on keys and set where he featured the tunes authored by Saying” CD on the Savoy Jazz record label and marimbas during his Sunday set for Alphonse Mouzon, Wallace Roney and exhibited waves of sounds during his piano John Lennon, many of the Lennon tracks which is definitely worthwhile to seek further evidence listen to snippets from Continued on page 11 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, SEPTEMBER 26, 2013 Page 11

GOVERNMENT The Sounds 0f Blue: The 34th Detroit Jazz Festival

Continued from page 10 star-studded names, and it was obvious that this year’s concerts were less attended. other musicians, but their start time was Nonetheless I have to admit that I enjoyed running very late, so I passed which was this year’s festival at least as much if not a shame. more than last year. Much of this might be Last but not least I had the pleasure attributed to budget cuts at the embattled to dine with bassist Dan Pliskow and his city, but I can tell you this: Detroit residents lovely wife, I wasn’t aware of Dan’ jazz are a very proud bunch, and exhibited a lot accomplishments, of hope for their future. Good for them. but he proudly told me he is this years So until next year keep checking www. Jazz Guardian award winner. Dan’s in very DetroitJazzFest.com for updates. good company as the other Guardian Special thanks to the folks at: http:// winner is the one and only Dave Brubeck dlmediamusic.com head honcho and all- Bill Frisell. Felix Pastorius of the Yellowjackets. who was awarded posthumously, congrats around good guy: Don Lucoff, Maureen and good spirits. Demand Radio: http://wfdu.streamrewind. Editor to: http://www.Bluesrevue.com , Mr. Pliskow! McFadden, plus best wishes to the depart- com/show/profile/11 , WFDU’s Sounds http://WestchesterGuardian.com, and http:// Perhaps it’s not fair to compare this ing Jordy Freed, and to Dr. Jazz: http:// Bob Putignano www.SoundsofBlue. of Blue is the most pledged to program for YonkersTribune.com. year’s festival to the 2012 edition, last drjazz.com for his fabulous Sunday brunch com. Now celebrating 13 + years on the air 5 consecutive years. Senior Contributing years edition seemed to feature more at WFDU - http://wfdu.fm , 24x7 On

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SECURITIES and EXCHANGE COMMISSION / CURRENT COMMENTARY Has the Securities and Exchange Comission Forgotten Its Mission? By LARRY M. ELKIN The three Democratic commis- averages; it asked for medians. And, as SEC, imposed a $920 million fine on sioners – newly appointed chairman I understand it, the SEC rule excludes JPMorgan Chase for failing to super- There was a moment Mary Jo White, along with Luis the CEO calculation from the median vise the traders involved in the “London this week when I had Aguilar and Kara M. Stein – say (though it would have a trivial whale” debacle, which cost shareholders the sinking feeling that I they are merely implementing a effect for most public compa- more than $6 billion last year. At the have been wrong about an mandate Congress imposed nies anyway). In our example, insistence of White, the bank will also article of faith: That the in 2010 as part of the the median compensa- admit fault, making it more vulnerable Securities and Exchange Commission Dodd-Frank financial tion of the nine workers to class-action lawsuits brought in the exists primarily to protect investors. regulation overhaul. other than the CEO name of its shareholders. The commis- So I was relieved to find an affir- To my knowledge, is just $24,000, the sion has already gone to court against mation on the SEC’s website. The Congress does not amount earned by two bank employees who ostensibly commission’s mission is “to protect have a mission the seasonal super- covered up the sinking value of the investors, to maintain fair, orderly, and statement. The visor. Four workers trades, though the trader who actually efficient markets, and facilitate capital mission changes earn more than this placed the bets (and is cooperating with formation.” By the SEC’s own account, according to figure, four earn the commission) has not been charged. protecting investors comes first. Those whoever happens less, and one earns So let’s get this straight: the bank’s other goals about maintaining fair and to be in control on the exact amount shareholders, who already lost $6 billion efficient markets and facilitating capital Capitol Hill. That as the median. The on the errant trades – an amount that formation (which means creating busi- was Nancy Pelosi ratio of CEO comp was inflated because SEC-mandated nesses and other stuff that makes society and Harry Reid, to this median is disclosures allowed the entire trading better off ) are good things, too. They do together with their 8.33:1. world to take advantage of the bank’s not conflict with investor protection. fellow Democrats, back This is why Daniel desperate position – are now to pony up There is nothing in the SEC mission in 2010. Investor protec- Gallagher, one of the two nearly another $1 billion, plus whatever statement about advancing the careers tion and capital formation Republican commissioners the bank may lose in suits brought by of commissioners and staff members, were not anywhere near the top who opposed the rule, said it was contingency-fee lawyers in the name of or scoring brownie points with jour- of their priority list. crafted to yield “eye-popping” results those very same shareholders. The bank nalists, or placating the political base Still, the SEC went out of its way to that are of no practical value. being penalized and made to admit fault of whomever happens to occupy the craft a rule that is of no use to anyone, and half less. Let’s Investors cannot tell from these is the same one that was allegedly vic- White House. That’s good. I was getting except to labor unions that claim cor- consider a hypothetical tax-preparation ratios whether CEOs are overpaid, or timized by its own employees. worried about what the SEC is actually porate CEOs are overpaid. That’s office. The CEO makes $200,000 a year. whether they are doing a good job of If I don’t imagine JPMorgan share- trying to accomplish. sometimes true, but the SEC’s approach Two full-time tax specialists, who work holding down expenses by hiring (in holders will thank the SEC for its efforts Perhaps my concerns can be won’t be of any help to investors or on complex returns and help clients our example) high-priced workers only to protect them. It’s as though a fellow addressed simply by getting all five com- markets, and it will impede American with tax planning and IRS audits, for the periods in which they can be walks into a police station, says he has missioners to read their agency’s own capital formation by encouraging prom- make $100,000 each. Two administra- kept productive. Generally, shareholders been beaten, and then has to let the cops website. They may have overlooked it. ising companies to stay private. tors make $50,000 each. Four seasonal want managers to keep all costs as low punch him repeatedly in the face so they How else can we understand the The new rule, which is now open to employees, who prepare returns during as possible, including labor costs. CEOs can understand what happened. Or as commission’s 3-2, party-line vote requir- public comment, requires companies to the April 15 deadline rush, make who are good at this are worth more they used to say in Vietnam, “we had to ing public companies to compute and include part-time and seasonal workers $19,000 each for four months of intense than those who are not. destroy the village in order to save it.” publish a useless ratio that compares in their calculation of median employee work, and a fifth seasonal worker who The SEC also requires compa- Sometimes we get so wrapped up CEO compensation to the median pay. The median is the level at which half acts as a supervisor makes $24,000 for nies to include workers outside the in the tasks we set for ourselves that earnings of all the company’s employees? the employees receive more compensation, the same four months. United States in their calculations. That we forget what we were trying to do in The average compensation of the means the median compensation of an the first place. At such times it helps to four-full time employees other than the American tech firm is affected by the remember the mission. CEO is $75,000. Assuming the CEO wages paid to call center workers in Before speaking to the police...call is also an employee, it seems to me we India, along with the values assigned ought to include his compensation in to fringe benefits provided to those George Weinbaum the all-employee average as well. Doing workers (what is the U.S. dollar value of ® Larry M. Elkin, CPA, CFP , has provided ATTORNEY AT LAW so means the five full-time workers earn a lunch provided in a company cafeteria personal financial and tax counseling to a an average of $100,000. The CEO’s ratio in Bangalore?) and the fluctuating value sophisticated client base since 1986. After to this figure is 2:1. of the Indian currency. The lower cost of six years with Arthur Andersen, where he living in India is not considered. FREE CONSULTATION: I don’t know why we would want to was a senior manager for personal finan- Another example of dubious consider the five seasonal workers. We cial planning and family wealth planning, Criminal, Medicaid/Medicare Fraud Matters investor protection, and one that cannot have no idea what else they do all year, or he founded his own firm in Hastings on be blamed on Congressional mandates, White-Collar Crime & Healthcare Prosecutions how much they earn doing it. If we add Hudson, N.Y., in 1992. That firm grew is the new SEC chairman’s insistence them to the all-employee average, they steadily and became the Palisades Hudson that corporations admit fault in most T. 914.948.0044 F.914.686.4873 bring it down to $60,000. Excluding the organization, which moved to Scarsdale, settlements of SEC misconduct charges. CEO from the employee average drops N.Y., in 2002. The firm expanded to Fort that figure to $55,556. Yesterday morning, several gov- 175 MAIN ST., SUITE 711-7 • WHITE PLAINS, NY 10601 Lauderdale, Fla., in 2005 and to Atlanta But the SEC did not ask for ernment agencies, including the in 2008. THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, SEPTEMBER 26, 2013 Page 13

SOCIETAL NORMS Decay is a One-Way Street— Diana O’Neill Time to Excise the Rot Holistic Health Services By LUKE HAMILTON the light. Disease isn’t made up from a presidential candidate who under- nothing; you get it by ruining health. stands absolute morality and seeks When was the last Notice that this doesn’t work the righteousness and we might get one. time you cleaned out other way around-you can’t get light Or we can quibble about electability your fridge? If you by blocking darkness or health by and respectability until the pro- were cleaning out the ruining disease. So God created only gressives running the GOP give us refrigerator and found good things, but some of them have another sad-sack to lose 2016 for us. a Tupperware container with that been spoiled.” The choice is clear. The course 3-Bean Dip you made for the Stanley Decay is a one-way street. of action could not be more cut and Cup Finals, tucked away behind the Honest Americans admit that we dry. Can we make the hard choices Country Crock, would you pull it have cultural gangrene to some necessary? Will we risk alienating out and transfer it to a Ziploc bag degree, yet refuse to treat it as such. friends and family to stand for what for further preservation? Would you The only way to treat a condition is right? The Federal Leviathan needs pop the lid off the moldy and putres- such as this is isolation and removal. surgery to remove branches and cent remains of your award-winning If the decay is too wide-spread, the departments which overstep their chip dip and put a couple layers of entire appendage is removed. How Constitutional boundaries. Instead fresh saran wrap on it? Would you foolish is it to hope that the leprous of silent disapproval, Hollywood toss it in the microwave and heat doctors running the clinic will effec- and the music industry need to hear it up, like nothing was amiss? Of tively restore our body to its former vociferous condemnation over their course you wouldn’t! You would grab health? Or to trust in the worm attempts to pervert and subvert our a clothes-pin for your nose, open the which is boring through my mushy children. Washington needs a deeper garbage can, and shovel the spoiled apple to heal it to an edible condi- cut than the rest, because the gangre- mess into the bin of no return. Then tion? Yet we leave the future health nous tendrils have nearly reached the you’d likely empty half a container of of this country to union organiz- bone. Mandatory term limits for all dish soap into the Tupperware, let it ers, career politicians, unscrupulous Federal elected officials will ensure soak for 4 days, and pay some brave lobbyists, bloodless regulators, and that our politicians are motivated neighborhood kid to try and take vapid, coked-up film stars. to serve, not to make a career of your garbage bag from your waste leeching our prosperity to build their bin to a dumpster without passing Compromise is not possible own personal fiefdoms. out from the stench. with decay. It is imperative that we identify where the decay lies in our Will we be Ninevah the Why? Because the food is nation and amputate it. Logic and Repentent and Resolute? Or spoiled and we understand that food history dictate this course of action. Ninevah the Razed? Signs point to does not unspoil. There is no special, Time and again in the Bible, the slow the latter, but let the faithful remnant top-shelf Mrs. Dash which can be regression to Gomorrah was only remain true and let us keep our added to spoiled food in order to (temporarily) halted when a people powder dry. remove the mold and make it safe full of conviction made the hard I will journey with you for consumption again. So why do Luke Hamilton is classically-trained, decision and cut bait. Sometimes it we think it functions any differently Shakespearean actor from Eugene, during challenging times worked, as in the case of Ninevah with social rot? All around us we see Oregon who happens to be a lib- after being visited by Jonah. And and help you find the psychic energy the rancid fruit produced by decades erty-loving, right-wing, Christian sometimes the warning signs were of moral decay in our society and we constitutionalist. When not penning to cope with whatever arises. ignored, as in the case of Ninevah’s pretend that we can unspoil it. The columns for ClashDaily.com, Hamilton destruction by the Assyrians, proph- Counseling • Energy Healing • Hypnotism foundations of our culture decom- spends his time astride the Illinois- esied by Nahum. But there is no pose before our eyes. In our school Wisconsin border, leading bands of Spiritual & Psychic Healing alternate course of action. classrooms, halls of legislature, court liberty-starved citizens from the pro- By Appointment, only chambers, studios of our entertain- Whether this degree of iso- gressive gulags of Illinois to [relative] lation and amputation from the ment, pages of our literature, and freedom. Hamilton is the creative Free consultation given on first visit. the sanctuaries of some churches, leprous factions of our body politic mind/voice behind Pillar & Cloud is possible at this late stage, I know rancid putrefaction swallows the last Productions, a budding produc- 914.630.1928 vestiges of righteousness and honor. not. If the American people demand tion company which resides at www. school waivers and put politicians in In his excellent book, “How PillarCloudProductions.com. He owes power who will force the issue, the to Stay Christian in College”, J. all to his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, public school system will collapse in Budziszewski says the following: whose strength is perfected in his Holistic Health Services a soggy, rotten mess. If we continue “The only way to get a bad thing weakness. to try and reform the public schools 1600 Harrison Ave., Ste.307A, is to take a good thing and spoil it. from within, the decay will continue Mamaroneck, NY 10543 For example, darkness isn’t made up unabated. Likewise, we can demand from nothing; you get it by blocking Page 14 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

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life? Cherry died in prison in 2004. The Nature of Prejudice Hopefully, all 3 of the aforementioned are serving for eternity in the hottest By BOB WEIR a constant reinforcement of the notion corner of Hell. Blanton is 83 and still in that they were inferior to the dominant prison. Eleven year-old Carol race that controlled the power structure. The Scriptures tell us that we Denise McNair laughed Such an environment would create a should forgive our enemies and pray for playfully with her 3 sad and hopeless situation for even the them. Sorry! I’m not going to forgive older friends, fourteen most positive of thinkers. Yet, African- or pray for people who use bombs to year-olds Cynthia Americans, even in the Deep South, kill children. Nor am I going to pray Wesley, Addie Mae Collins and Carole held on to their sanity by forming their for people who dedicate their lives to Robertson, as they headed to church on own groups, businesses, and churches. killing, maiming, or abusing people Sunday. Wearing their prettiest dresses They formed large congregations that because of the color of their skin, their and shiniest shoes, they giggled and huddled together regularly for religious religious beliefs, their sexual preferences, joked with each other the way most instruction and they sought a better or their closely held opinions. That level children their age will do. But they were future through faith in God. of forgiveness is the exclusive province not like most children. There was some- However, the antithesis of that faith of God. Instead, I’ll pray for the souls thing about them that was instantly thrived in the pernicious wasteland of 16th Street Baptist Church of the 4 young spirits whose lives were noticeable. It wasn’t their clothing, their evil minds. Not satisfied with the daily snuffed out by the demented nature of demeanor or their sense of humor, or must live. BUT NOT IN CHURCH! magnitude to make people pay atten- assault on the sensibilities of the second- prejudice. May they rest in peace. even their body language, for they were, Yes, even the governor of your state tion to the inhumanity in their midst. class citizens under their dominion, th in every reasonable sense of the term, proudly proclaimed that your children September 15, was the 50 anniversary Bob Weir is a veteran of 20 years with some lowlife creatures planned even just 4 little girls enjoying life. But this had no right to attend school with white of that disgraceful day in our history. the New York Police Dept. (NYPD), ten more horrifying consequences for their was Birmingham, Alabama in 1963, and children. BUT, SURELY THEY ARE It took many years before the savage of which were performed in plainclothes social and psychological captives. Try to those 4 little innocent children were SAFE IN CHURCH! murderers were forced to confront the undercover assignments. Bob began a imagine being the parents of those four guilty of the worst possible crime; they The church was the last hope for charges. Herman Cash died before writing career about 12 years ago and had black children on September 15, 1963. had a dark pigmentation in their skin. those with nowhere else to turn for sal- being indicted, while another suspect, his first book published in 1999. Bob went When you sent your little girls to church That meant constant abuse and vation. On that gruesome Sunday, when Robert “Dynamite Bob” Chambliss was on to write and publish a total of seven that Sunday morning, you had every humiliation from their fair skinned those children were worshipping in the convicted in 1977 and died in prison in novels, “Murder in Black and White,” “City reason to expect that they were in the th counterparts. It meant drinking out of safety and sanctity of the 16 Street 1985. The third and fourth members of to Die For,” “Powers that Be,” “Ruthie’s safest place on Earth. Yes, the ugly face of water fountains that read: colored only; Baptist Church, bigotry reached an all the subhuman quartet, Thomas Blanton, Kids,” “Deadly to Love,” “Short Stories of racism was an omnipresent reality. BUT, it meant sitting in the back of the bus, time low. The monstrous explosion that and Bobby Frank Cherry were convicted Life and Death,” and “Out of Sight.” He CHILDREN WOULD BE SAFE IN even if there were empty seats up front; took their lives tore at the conscience of in 2001 and 2002 respectively, and were also became a syndicated columnist under CHURCH. Yes, the merciless crunch of it meant being refused service in many all decent Americans and exposed, like sentenced to life terms. Life terms? Is the title “Weir Only Human.” bigotry was a constant reminder of the white-owned restaurants; and it meant never before, the malevolent nature of that justice? They gave death to 4 little dreadful circumstances under which you prejudice. Sadly, it took a tragedy of that innocent girls and our system gave them

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Located in the Philipse Manor railroad and useful. with marketing, selling and basic entre- Selling Your Dream station in Sleepy Hollow, NY, the As for the reading mentioned preneurship (one of them, coincidentally, Writers Center is a full-time resource above, some of the books chosen has the same title as this piece, “Selling By JOHN F. McMULLEN there are two types. The first type is for writers with classes in all aspects (certainly not all -- not even a large The Dream” -- the connection was not a reading and criticism group where of writing, lectures by well known percentage) should be on the craft and intended when I started the piece). As readers may know, I writers read a short selection of poems, practitioners in the field and a once business of writing. I’ve mentioned The APE in the title of the book write on other subjects in short stories, and / or pieces of novels a month “Open Mic” session (held on in other pieces that my favorite book stands for “Author - Publisher - other modes of writing and then submit themselves to criticism the third Friday of every month at 7:00 in this genre is Stephen King’s “On Entrepreneur” and, while the thrust of -- there is a list of prose by their peers. Usually, the criticisms PM) where attendees read five minutes Writing” (with Annie Lamott’s “Bird this very comprehensive 380 page book and poetry at my web are received as they are intended -- as worth of their work (Caution -- I often By Bird” not far behind). Recently a is on “self-publishing,” the sections on home ( www.johnmac13.com ) and suggestions to improve the offering read some of my poetry there). The reading new book, “APE: How To Publish A author and entrepreneur are equally I am currently making some progress through some modification, but a of one’s work at the two writers groups Book” by Guy Kawasaki has made that as relevant to traditional publishing as on a series of vignettes about my “old “thin-skinned” person might have dif- is completely different; at the Mahopac dynamic duo a holy trinity. Guy, a long self-publishing. Gone are the days of neighborhood” (Inwood, Manhattan ficulty at times. I regularly (when not group, the participants are seated time high-energy level technology publishers spending significant dollars Island, NYC), a novel (the second in teaching) attend the weekly meetings of around a table and the criticism time acquaintance and casual friend, writes to promote new or mid-level authors. the “Jackie Devine” series and a Poetry the “Mahopac Writers Group,” which may last longer than the reading time very well and has enjoyed non-fiction No matter how you publish, you’re on Chapbook. meets Thursday evenings at 7:00PM in while at the Writers Center, the reader success since his 1989 best seller, “The your own to promote and that’s where I’m fascinated by the written word; the Mahopac Public Library (Route is at a podium with a microphone and Macintosh Way.” The current book effective use of e-mail, Facebook, the process of writing and publishing, 6, Mahopac, NY). I find the group both the other attendees are “the audience” is the tenth since the first and, in my LinkedIn, Google +, Twitter, YouTube, and the methods of promoting one’s congenial and professional in their -- this is a performance event rather judgement, is the best (in fairness, part Tumblr, Web presence, etc. come in -- writing -- in other words, by the whole interest in the writing craft. than a collaborative one (although there of the reason for my assessment, I’m sure, is and Kawasaki touches them all! deal. I, therefore spend a great deal of The other group in which I am is much talk before and after the session the fact that I find the subject of this book The need for self-promotion was time reading (writers must read) and active is the “Hudson Valley Writers and contact information is exchanged). I more interesting than some of the others). brought home to me years ago when attending writers’ groups, of which Center,” ( http://writerscenter.org/ ). find both experiences both enjoyable Most of the other work is involved Continued on page 15 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, SEPTEMBER 26, 2013 Page 15

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So, here is a new business with a quality product Don’t Waste Your Selling Your Dream – not an author publisher – but still in need of some of the wisdom from Kawasaki’s book. The owner Continued from page 14 must market – use all types of Social Media, wrangle Time Anywhere Else my oldest friend wrote a non-fiction book about the interviews on local newspaper, radio and cable TV, The New overthrow of a Latin American dictator that read like post stories on the local community boards for all an adventure novel. The book was published by one events, advertise in the local church bulletins, post of New York’s largest publishers under the supervi- videos of the coffee house on YouTube, go to local sion of possibly the best-know editor in New York business breakfasts and lunches, place business cards Don’t Waste Your and, additionally, received the best review of this type in local delis (his present cards don’t have his Facebook of book that I have ever seen in the New York Times address on it – it must, if that is how he is announcing his Time Anywhere Else Sunday Book Review. Yet he got little or no promo- The New events), speak to the local Rotary and other fraternal tional support from the publisher -- I only remember organizations, announce a discount card for the local him being on an Albany AM and a Washington FM American Legion and VF, etc – really whatever makes radio station for interviews, both late at night. sense – and all advertising must be linked with web, Coincidently, at the same time, two other friends Facebook and other social media addresses (drive the also had their first book out, also from the same pub- audience to whatever connection suits them best). lisher. They were advised by friends to hire their own Much of this activity is foreign to people who Public Relations representative -- and they wound up have talent as writers, computer consultants, coffee on the “Today Show” and other major media outlets. house owners, etc. They have a talent and it should be These writers’ experiences were before the Social sought after!! Wrong! That’s not how it works now – Media tools mentioned above so they had to pay for Marketing is Survival! such penetration. This expense is no longer necessary I’ll never forget years ago meeting a fellow who if the author has both adequate knowledge of the had taken one of the first buyouts from IBM. I knew ClubNew York tools and the will to use them. Kawasaki’s book (co- him as a very competent person and I asked him authored with Shawn Welch) provides the reader with what he was doing -- “Oh, I’m consulting” – “Great. the necessary knowledge and the encouragement to use them. I highly recommend it. How’s it going?” – “Really, not very well – nobody’s calling.” It turned out that he, also, was depending on I was reminded of the need for promotion just NEW YORK’S word-of-mouth! last week when I stopped in a new coffee house that has opened at a lake near my house. It’s a true old style When we depend on word-of-mouth, we are NEW YORK’S Greenwich Village-type coffee house with coffee, depending on others who have no vested interest in PREMIER tea, and pastries on the menu, a television for news the success of our enterprise – they may wish us well and discussion, music, and a stage for entertainment. but they will receive no financial benefit or loss based It is not meant to be competition to Starbucks and on our success or failure. It’s up to us to be our own GENTLEMEN’S marketers. PREMIER Dunkin’ Donuts but rather a place for entertainment, good conversation, and light refreshment. The place is With more and more people losing full time clean, the layout nice and roomy and the only visible jobs with benefits and going into the marketplace as CABARET problem is that the building is not clearly visible from entrepreneurs, the competition will be cutthroat. The the road (a big quality sign is needed on the outer quality of the product or service will always be the GENTLEMEN’S fence). most important thing but, given quality, the battle for Escape Reality… I spoke to the owner on a Friday afternoon and initial customers will be decided by marketing. With found him very enthusiastic with a good plan to the power of a public relations firm in our personal Escape to The VIP Club! have entertainment and create a good after-movie or computers -- video recording for YouTube postings, CABARET wrap-up of a date night. When I found that he was audio recording for podcasts, social media connec- having an “Open Mic” session for music, poetry, and tions, e-mail, Web searching, etc. – there is no excuse First Class Adult Entertainment, comedy that night, I decided to call two friends and for us not doing a professional job in getting our word come in to participate. out! Sushi Bar and Lounge. Only one friend was available – and we were the Read Guy’s book (particularly, if you’re a writer)! Escape Reality… only two people there! I asked the owner how he had HAPPY HOUR @ THE VIP! publicized it and he replied that he had listed it as an Creative Disruption is a continuing series examining the event on his Facebook page and that he was depend- impact of constantly accelerating technology on the world 2-For-1 Drinks ing on “word-of-mouth” to attract people. around us. These changers normally happen under our MonEscape – Sat Beforeto The 9PM VIP Club! Word-of-mouth??? This isn’t Greenwich Village personal radar until we find that the world as we knew where thousands of people walk the streets, run into it is no more. 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By JOHN SIMON

“The Old Friends,”

Fall season is upon us, and shows are opening in bunches. Take, first, “The Old Friends,” an early play on which the late, great Horton Foote worked fitfully revising. It now gets its first full production, directed by the Foote specialist Michael Wilson, with fine sets by Jeff Cowie and canny costumes by David C. Woolard. Once again we are in Harrison, Texas, pseudonym for the small town where Foote grew up and most of his plays take place. Once more Foote conjures up an extended family, kin by blood or marriage, coming together to love and hate, but mostly bicker over farm- lands and monies that some Betty Buckley as Gertrude Hayhurst Sylvester Ratliff, Adam LeFevre as Albert Prince, and possess and the others crave. Veanne Fox as Julia Price. Here is expert charac- terization and dialogue for a variety of yokels and pseudoso- phisticates, hard workers and hopeless drunks, languishing women and brazen adulteresses, sexually confused and confusing creatures who get Continued on page 17

Betty Buckley as Gertrude Hayhurst Sylvester Ratliff. Lois Smith as Mamie Borden and Novella Nelson as Hattie.

Hallie Foote as Sybil Borden and Cotter Smith as Howard Ratliff. Deborah Rush as Dorene Hallie Foote as Sybil Borden and Betty Buckley as Gertrude Hayhurst Sylvester Ratliff. THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, SEPTEMBER 26, 2013 Page 17

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photos by and courtesy of Joan Avenue and 10th Avenue, New Quaint or Worse Marcus. York, NY 10036. Venue website: Continued from page 16 “The Old Friends” is showing signaturetheatre.org; Venue involved or disengaged in bizarre, at The Pershing Square Signature Phone: (212) 244-7529; Box often exotic but always credible Center/Irene Diamond Stage, 480 Office: (212) 279-4200. ways. West 42nd Street, between Dyer We have them all in a play with somewhat too many char- acters, lots of hard-to-follow back stories, references to unseen persons, often pungent talk and occasional bursts of violence. Oddly, it manages to be both too much and too little, but never dull. The nine actors are perfect, with the main women—Betty Buckley, Open 7 Days A Week Veanne Cox, Hallie Foote (the author’s daughter) and Lois Smith as the old quasi-historian of the town—uniformly outstanding. If you go without excessive expecta- tions, you will be rewarded with a NYC’s #1 hectic but gripping time. Cotter Smith as Howard Ratliff and Betty Buckley as Gertrude Hayhurst Sylvester “The Old Friends” production Ratliff. “Women or Nothing,” TOPlESS In “Women or Nothing,” Ethan of the two chiefly film-making Coen brothers, undertakes his second excursion onto the stage. The adroit but not truly believ- able play concerns an early-middle-aged SPORTS lesbian couple, Gretchen and Laura, who want to have a baby, but wish to avoid an unknown sperm donor whom they view as a lonely and unsavory test tube masturbator whose semen might yield a highly undesirable progeny. BAR Gretchen, herself sterile, proposes Chuck, a nice colleague • Gentlemen’s Club in her law office about to move to Florida to join his ex-wife and charming young daughter, as the Susan Pourfar as Laura & Robert Beitzel as Chuck. • sushi RestauRant one to have a one-night stand with her concert pianist lover, Laura, and then be out of the way. Laura, • Fine DininG “a gold-star lesbian,” i.e., one who never slept with a man, is strongly opposed, but finally persuaded, and NYC’s oNlY BoDY SUSHI the play concerns how this cun- ningly arranged coupling affects everyone, even Laura’s visiting widowed mother, the sardonic and, 252 West 43rd St. she belatedly reveals, manifoldly adulterous Doreen. (Between 7th & 8th Ave.) As several critics noted, one night’s sex is nowhere near a guar- antee of conception, and constitutes 212-819-9300 a rather shaky premise. Moreover, Coen’s text avoids the most chal- www.mycheetahsnyc.com lenging scene, and settles for a lot of largely psycho-philosophical FREE ADMISSION WITH THIS PASS Deborah Rush as Dorene, Robert Beitzel as Chuck and Susan Pourfar as Laura. Continued on page 18 Page 18 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

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most sought-after director, David Romeo and Juliet Quaint or Worse Cromer, is nothing special. There are Romeo and JulietThe faulty governing good laugh lines throughout, as when Continued from page 17 idea behind the production of “Romeo and Laura objects, “I would not sleep with a Juliet” is that the Montagues are white and conversation. The dialogue is often normal man. How could I sleep with a the Capulets black, and the whole thing witty and maintains a modest interest, man who wants to live in Florida?” predominantly modern but of no particular but the basic improbability fatally Production shots of “Women or shadows the proceedings. Nothing” by and courtesy of Kevin The acting by Robert Beitzel, Thomas Garcia. Halley Feiffer, Susan Pourfar (Laura) Atlantic Theater Company Linda and Deborah Rush (Doreen), is apt, Gross Theater, 336 West 20th Street, New although the staging, by the currently York , NY 10011. Tickets: (866) 811-4111.

Conrad Kemp as Benvolio and Orlando Bloom as Romeo.

Christian Camargo as Mercutio. There is Jayne Houdyshell hamming it up as Nurse, and carrying on as if she were the central character. There is a Friar Lawrence, well-spoken by the good Brent Carver, but about whom there is nothing religious. Orlando Bloom as Romeo and Condola There is the monochrome snarling Tybalt of Rashad as Juliet. Corey Hawkins. And there is the excellent Susan Pourfar as Laura and Halley Feiffer as Gretchen. Benvolio of Conrad Kemp, who outshines place, none of which the play can accommo- the merely acceptable Romeo of movie star “Mr. Burns,” date. This includes a Romeo who arrives on a Orlando Bloom. motorcycle, and a Nurse who pushes around And then there is the famous balcony, Finally, a few words about the catastrophic “Mr. Burns,” by Anne Washburn, from which I fled a bicycle she manifestly cannot ride. And the here a peculiar structure low enough for in horror after the seemingly endless, stultifying first act. This self-styled Post-Electric Play, Prince here is black, sealing the illogic. Romeo to chin himself on, looking like deals with a post-apocalypse world, whose scant survivors are huddled around an electric fire. There are all kinds of meaningless nothing on earth and having to double Rabid “Simpsons” fans, they allude to, quote, or reenact bits from that cartoon, and are scruffy fires all over the place, except in the perfor- as Juliet’s bedroom. If after all this—and and repellent enough for instant antipathy. mances, and the men keep jumping on one more—you still want to see this aberration, Brent Carver as Friar Laurence. Nevertheless, this junk has elicited rave reviews in D.C. and N.Y.C. (and elsewhere for all another, piggyback or prone, once even in a on your head let it be. Criterion, National Review, New York I know), with author Washburn’s other plays, as guessed from their titles, equally outlandish. threesome. Condola Rashad’s Juliet speaks Production images of “Romeo and Magazine, Opera News, Weekly Standard, Washburn also boasts commissions from any number of distinguished theaters, no wonder in a maddening singsong; Chuck Cooper’s Juliet” by and courtesy of Carol Rosseg. Broadway.com and Bloomberg News. Mr. after such raves. Go figure—or, rather, stay home and don’t even try to figure out. Capulet bellows like a demented trombone; Richard Rodgers Theatre, 226 West Simon holds a PhD from Harvard University Production photo of “Mr. Burns” by and courtesy of Playwrights Horizon. Christian Camargo’s Mercutio carries on like 46th Street, New York, NY 10036. Tickets: in Comparative Literature and has taught at nd th th Playwrights Horizon, 426 West 42 Street, between 9 and 10 Avenues, New York, a flagrant homosexual; the death of Paris, like 800-220-6282 • 212-962-6577. MIT, Harvard University, Bard College and NY 10036. Tickets Online: Visit Ticket Central (Noon–8pm daily) and log in to order your so very much else, has been cut; and instead Marymount Manhattan College. seats via their automated system; by Phone: call Ticket Central, the box office for Playwrights of germane and fascinating swordplay, we get John Simon has written for over 50 years on To learn more, visit the JohnSimon-Uncensored. Horizons, at (212) 279–4200. In Person: visit the Ticket Central Box Office (Noon–8pm quick, prosaic stabs by switchblades. theatre, film, literature, music and fine arts for the Hudson Review, New Leader, New com website. daily) at 416 West 42nd Street. The usual trouble, this, when one of the world’s worst directors, David Leveaux, whose Britishness must seem to some proof of quality, is in charge. Why he is repeat- edly imported only to ruin everything he touches is beyond comprehension. Here again nonsense prevails. The set is a giant quasi-Renaissance mural that can split in three, the top mounting out of sight, the rest bisected, off to opposite sides. A large bell is omnipresent, displayed at various heights, but rung only one not particularly compel- ling time. There is a rather measly masked ball, with animal masks worn flat on the top of heads, or missing altogether. There is Juliet’s bed, with her on it, raised sky-high and overhanging several scenes. There is a Lady Capulet with shaved head looking ridiculous. Justin Guarini as Paris and Chuck Cooper as Lord Capulet. THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, SEPTEMBER 26, 2013 Page 19

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SSNY shall mail process served to: CONVINCING EVIDENCE, THIS FINDING MAY CONSTITUTE THE BASIS TO TERMINATE Prime Yorktown Location Leighton Ave. Wanted 22 Yerkes Rd. N. Salem, NY 10560: purpose any YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND TO COMMIT GUARDIANSHIP AND CUSTODY OF YOUR Office Space: 470Sq. Ft. Yonkers / Bronx border. lawful ac CHILD(REN) TO THE AGENCY FOR THE PURPOSES OF ADOPTION. Rent Quiet st. Arts, Craft and Gift Fair to EZRA STOLLER ARCHIVE, LLC Articles of Org. $900/Month New Kitchen. Pvt. En- be held indoors in Bronx- filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/9/13. Office in UPON GOOD CAUSE, THE COURT MAY ORDER AN INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINE 2 Room Office Space: trance. ville, NY by Building Westchester Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC WHETHER THE NON-RESPONDENT PARENT(s) SHOULD BE CONSIDERED AS A RESPON- upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall DENT; IF THE COURT DETERMINES THE CHILD(REN) SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM HIS/ 1160 Sq. Ft. Call 914.613.7487 Hope for the New Yon- mail copy of process to The LLC 222 Valley Pl Rent $1675/Month kers Animal Shelter New Mamaroneck, NY 10543. Purpose: Any lawful HER HOME, THE COURT MAY ORDER AN INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINE WHETHER Office Space: 305 Sq. Ft. items only - contact: Ju- activity. THE NON-RESPONDENT PARENT(s) SHOULD BE SUITABLE CUSTODIANS FOR THE Rent $500/Month lie 914-924-0708; Email: Notice of Formation of Stand Style Distillers, LLC CHILD(REN); IF THE CHILD(REN) IS PLACED AND REMAINS IN FOSTER CARE FOR FIF- Wilca: 914.632.1230 [email protected] Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/20/13. Office Lo- TEEN OF THE MOST RECENT TWENTY-TWO MONTHS, THE AGENCY MAY BE REQUIRED cation: Westchester County. SSNY designated as TO FILE A PETITION(S) FOR TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS OF THE PARENT(s) AND agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Stand COMMITMENT OF GUARDIANSHIP AND CUSTODY OF THE CHILD(REN) FOR THE PUR- Style Distillers, 38 East Devonia, Mount Vernon, POSES OF ADOPTION, EVEN IF THE PARENT(s) WERE NOT NAMED AS RESPONDENTS IN STORAGE SPACE AVAILABLE FOR RENTT New York 10552. Purpose: any lawful purpose. THE CHILD NEGLECT OR ABUSE PROCEEDING. MAJIC MATTERS LLC Articles of Org. filed NY A NON-CUSTODIAL PARENT HAS THE RIGHT TO REQUEST TEMPORARY OR PERMANENT Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/10/13. Office in Westches- CUSTODY OF THE CHILD(REN) AND TO SEEK ENFORCEMENT OF VISITATION RIGHTS ter Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom WITH THE CHILD(REN). process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 12 Hageman Ct Katonah, NY 10536. Purpose: Any lawful activity. BY ORDER OF THE FAMILY COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENT(S) WHO RESIDE(S) OR IS FOUND AT [specify Notice of Formation of JMS MOVING & DE- address(es)]: LIVERY SERVICES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/26/13. Office location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon ANITA BARNES ( Mother) whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail Last Stated Address: process to Junior M. Soogrim, 601 Bellevue Ave N, Yonkers, NY 10703. Purpose: any lawful act 27 Claremont Avenue, 6H Spacious, clean storage. Strong cinder block bldg. w 1 lrg. 2,400 sq. ft. unit ($4,000 /M) or activity. Mount Vernon, New York or separate locked 1,200 sq. ft. units ($2,000 each/M). All spaces are subdividable. 8 Notice of Formation of ZANICK Seven, LLC a do- and to [specify name(s) and address(es) and relationship to child(ren)]: Ft. Ceilings. One unit has a full garage door ent. No extra fees. 6 mo. to 1 year rental mestic Limited Liability Company (LLC). Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State options. Convenient, safe religious org. setting in Ossining. 24x7 campus security. 7 of NY on 7/15/2013. NY office location: WEST- N/A day (8A - 6P) access. Bldg monitored/doors alarmed. Call Jim @ 914. 941. 7636 (x 2395) CHESTER County. Secy of State is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may A Petition under Article 10 of the Family Court Act having been filed with this Court, and be served. Secy of State shall mail a copy of any annexed hereto process against the LLC served upon him/her to DACK Consulting Solutions, 2 William street YOU AND EACH OF YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to appear before this Court at 111 Dr. suite 202 White Plains, NY 10601. Purpose: To Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., 3rd Floor Annex, White Plains, New York 10601, on NOVEM- engage in any lawful act or activity BER 8, 2013, at 9:30 o’clock in the  morning  afternoon of that day to answer the petition and to be dealt with in accordance with Article 10 of the Family Court Act.

WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Upon your failure to appear as herein directed, a warrant may be issued for your arrest LEGAL ADVERTISING: and/or the Court may proceed to Inquest and hear and determine the petition as provided 914.576.1480 by law. 10:30AM-5PM Dated: August 31, 2013.

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