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JOHN F. McMULLEN Read All About It! Page 4

SHERIF AWAD Children of the Nile Page 5

BERNSTEIN & HARWITZ Jewish Day School Collaboration Network Page 6

RAYMOND IBRAHIM Press Needs Christian Copts Threatened with Genocide Page 9

Some Moral PAM YOUNG All or Nothing at ALL Page 10

Guidelines JOHN SIMON Pulitzer Prizes, 1953 and 2012 By BOB WEIR, Page 19 Page 14 Mayor MARY C. MARVIN Defining the Role Governor Cuomo Declares of Trustee State Public Health Emergency Page 15 in Response to Severe Flu Season CARLOS GONZALEZ Page 7 Klein Handcuffs Senate Democrats Page 17 Page 26 The WesTchesTer Guardian ThursdaY, FeBruarY 23, 2012

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 $2800Page and26 450 Sq. Ft. The WesTchesTer Guardian ThursdaY, FeBruarY 23, 2012 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 Tiffany Ray and Kenneth Thomas, 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 STACLASSIFIEDYS IN FOSTER CARE FOR 15 OF THE MOSTADS RECENT LEGAL NOTICES tor of Development- FT-must have a background in development or expe- 22 MONTHS, THE AGENCY MAY BE REQUIRED BYOffice LAW TO FILESpace A PETITION Available- TO TERMINATE FAMILY COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK rience fundraising, knowledge of what development entails and experi- YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND COMMITMENT PrimeOF GUARDIANSHIP Location, Yorktown AND CUSTODY Heights OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER ence working with sponsors/donors; 2) Operations Manager- must have a CHILD FOR THE PURPOSES OF ADOPTION,1,000 AND Sq.MAY Ft.: FILE $1800. BEFORE Contact THE END Wilca OF THE: 914.632.1230 15-MONTH In the Matter of ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE good knowledge of computers/software/ticketing systems, duties include PERIOD. SUMMONS AND INQUEST NOTICE overseeing all box office, concessions, movie staffing, day of show lobby UPON GOOD CAUSE, THE COURT MAY ORDER AN INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINE WHETH- staffing such as Merchandise seller, bar sales. Must be familiar with POS Prime Retail - Westchester County Chelsea Thomas (d.o.b. 7/14/94), ER THE NON-RESPONSENT PARENT(s) SHOULDBest BE LocationCONSIDERED in Yorktown AS A RESPONDENT; Heights IF 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 A Child Under 21 Years of Age Dkt Nos. NN-10514/15/16-10/12C 438-5795 and ask for Julie or Allison COURT MAY ORDER AN INVESTIGATION1100 Sq. TOFt. DETERMINEStore $3100; WHETHER 1266 Sq. THE Ft. storeNON-RESPONDENT $2800 and 450 Sq. Ft. THE WESTcHESTER GUARDiAn THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2012 Store $1200. 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Communitybusiness Section Palisades Hudson Financial Group Turns 20 Grows from One-Man Shop to Top Wealth Manager

SCARSDALE, NY -- Launched as a York City suburb of Hastings-on- The newest of the four was one-man shop in 1993, Palisades Hud- Hudson. He wanted to offer soup- Shomari Hearn, who was just a year son Financial Group has become one to-nuts financial advice to senior out of college. Today Hearn is the firm’s of America’s top independent wealth executives, business owners, creative or vice president and also head of the Fort two dozen, spread across the country Both clients and staff have stayed managers. It manages more than $1.1 athletic individuals, and wealthy fami- Lauderdale office, which he opened in – senior manager David Walters has for the long term. billion of assets and provides compre- lies. And he knew he wanted to build 2005. moved to Portland, Ore., to open a “Our clients today include chil- hensive financial planning to affluent a real firm. “It’s a great working environment,” forthcoming office there – but operat- dren and grandchildren of people I first clients from its offices in Scarsdale, NY, But Elkin had few customers at Hearn says. “We have an intelligent ing as a single team. Larry and Linda counseled 20 or even 25 years ago, go- Fort Lauderdale, FL, and Atlanta, GA. first, so he wrote the first book on fi- group of individuals who have our cli- Elkin treat the staff like a second family. ing back to my Arthur Andersen days,” “Surprisingly, the business I nancial planning for unmarried couples ents’ best interests at heart. The work is Elkin, a former journalist, still edits he says. “There are some great-grand- launched 20 years ago turned out al- and started publishing his client news- challenging and rewarding, as our cli- Sentinel, which is outspoken and frank, children on our client list, too. If my most exactly as I envisioned,” says Larry letter, Sentinel. entele tend to have complex planning unlike the typical bland financial news- luck holds, I’ll be able to stick around M. Elkin, president. By 1998, Palisades Hudson was needs that require creative solutions.” letter. for another 20 years to see these fourth- Elkin had left Arthur Andersen, well established, but still small, with Like Hearn, most financial pro- “Sentinel has drawn some angry generation clients grow to adulthood.” where he was a senior manager in the a staff of four, including Elkin’s wife, fessionals at the firm were hired right letters, but it has also attracted fan mail,” More information about Palisades personal financial planning practice, Linda, who set up its recruiting and out of college or soon afterward. Today, he says. “I have never heard of another Hudson can be found online at www. and opened a small office in the New marketing functions. the staff is a close-knit group of about financial firm newsletter that received palisadeshudson.com or by calling 914- fan mail.” 723-5000. CALENDAR

ary 19th. The sold-out clinic at the Katonah News and Notes from Northern Westchester It’s nice to see the New York private school will feature Jason Kidd, Knicks give back to our community Steve Novak, Ronnie Brewer, Rasheed By MARK JEFFERS as members of the team will serve as Wallace, Chris Copeland and Pablo Hills. Everyone is invited to join the This event could be out of this coaches at the Harvey School’s Mar- Prigioni alongside other coaches affili- runners both young and old on this of- world…the Sci-Fi Book Club will be Our neighbors cheered tin Luther King, Jr. Youth Basketball ated with the Knicks community youth ten grueling spring morning… maybe reading “Cinder” by Marissa Meyer at and our electric com- Clinic on Tuesday, January 22nd. program. it should be called Run Up and Down the Katonah Village Library on Janu- Continued on page 4 pany cried, as we finally the Hills… my wife thinks she has took down our outside talked me into participating this year, holiday lights, polar but we will see how the training goes… bears, frosty, flamingos (yes, I said fla- stay tuned. mingos) and tons of lights have been Did you know January is National stored away. My daughters will now Tea Month and this week NoKa and have their friends back over and all is NoKa Joe’s in Katonah are celebrating well, so please enjoy this week’s orna- with their very own tea week where you ment free edition of “News and Notes.” can get a discount on your tea all week, Good news to report, the Cortlandt I wonder when we celebrate coffee… Emergency Food Bank’s pantry is full Congratulations and good luck again after last month’s successful appeal. goes out to Hastings-on-Hudson’s Thank you and good luck are in Benh Zeitlin and his independent order for two of our neighbors…first, movie, ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild,’ thank you to Whitney Serrell Barbera for receiving four Academy Award for her service as the secretary for the nominations, including Best Picture. Bedford Hills Neighborhood Associa- “Love, Loss and What I Wore” tion, as Whitney steps down after two will be performed at the Conant Hall years, and good luck to Britta Vander in Pound Ridge at 8pm on January 17, Linden who stepped forward to fill 18 and 19. Written by Nora Ephron Whitney’s shoes. and Delia Ephron and based on the SOUTH STREET SEAPORT Another note from the BHNA… th book by Ilene Beckerman, at our house, EXHIBITION CENTRE Save the date for the 4 annual BHNA this title means my wife would love to Run for the Hills 5K road race on Sat- th lose the clothes I choose to wear, enjoy urday April 13 in beautiful Bedford the show… RADIO Westchester On the Level with Narog and Aris Westchester On the Level is heard from Monday to Friday, from 10 a.m. to 12 Noon on the Internet: http://www. BlogTalkRadio.com/WestchesterontheLevel. Join the conversation by calling 1-347-205-9201.

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News and Notes from Northern Westchester Our Katonah neighbor and friend sale, face painting, games, and delicious ture damage and will answer any ques- Michael Balkind has released his latest baked goods for sale. tions from the audience. Continued from page 3 book entitled “Gold Medal Threat,” Here’s an event that could help Area hospitals and medical au- them a call at 800-775-8387 to sched- hope to see it on the best seller list soon. save your house from damage…the thorities say we are in a very bad flu Dawn Orza will present a talk ule a pick up. Speaking of books, Reading Bedford Garden Club is holding a season…as we all know, I am not very about Briarcliff Manor and its history Okay all you Winter Olympic th th Dream’s 4 Annual ‘Snow’tacular Kids post-Sandy Tree Symposium at the brave, but I got my flu shot, so check at the February 8 Briarcliff Manor want-to-bees, Hickory Hill Figure Fair will be held on Saturday January Bedford Historical Hall on January with your doctor and go get a flu shot Garden Club meeting. Skating Club’s sessions for adults have 19th from 1pm – 3pm at the Cyrus 17th at 7pm. This event is open to the today…see you next week. The Vietnam Veterans of Amer- begun so if you are interested in im- Russell House in Cross River. Reading public for a fee of $5. A moderated ica are looking for some slightly used proving your basic skating techniques Mark Jeffers resides in Bedford Hills, Dream is a nonprofit organization that panel discussion, with three tree ex- New York, with his wife Sarah, and three clothing for their drive this year, they it’s time to sign up. Skating will take sends books to children and schools in perts, will address the best strategies for st daughters, Kate, Amanda, and Claire. will be in our area on January 21 ; give place at the Maxwell Evarts Memorial need, there will be hand-made crafts for saving, maintaining, and preventing fu- Rink at the Harvey School in Katonah. CREATIVE DISRUPTION

“During the first day of a baby’s life, ENIAC creators John Mauchly and J. in the long series), writes very well and, the amount of data generated by humanity Presper Eckert, Verena Huber-Dyson unlike many books, dealing with tech- Read All About It! is equivalent to 70 times the information (George and Esther’s mother), John nology, The Blue Nowhere contains By JOHN F. McMULLEN to our attention how much data exists contained in the Library of Congress.” -- Himely Bigelow, Kurt Godel, Claude no grievous technical errors. It is a very about each of us, how much more will Book Text Shannon, Willis Ware. Edward Teller, good read. As a guide to under- be available, and how it will be used. “Each of us now leaves a trail of digi- Stanislaw Ulam, Abraham Flexner, Coincidentally, as I was writ- standing where we’ve Through illustrations and graphics, tal exhaust, an infinite stream of phone Norbert Weiner, Oswald Verblen, Jack ing this piece, I was reading “Law been, where we are, and in-depth explanations, quotations, and records, text, browser histories, GPS data, Rosenberg, and many others as he and Order” creator Dick Wolf ’s first where we might be go- essays by experts (Esther Dyson, Juan and other information that will live for- brings us along with him in describing novel, “The Intercept” on my Kindle ing, nothing beats books Enriquez, Kate Greene, A.J. Jacobs, ever.” -- Book Text the chain of events that brought both Fire. A minor part of this police / ter- (whether printed or electronic). Books Gareth Cook, Mark Goodman, Mi- In addition to the material in the the digital computer and the H-bomb rorist novel deals with cryptography tend to focus on particular subjects and chael S. Malone, Susan Karlin, Aaron printed book, there is a free smartphone to fruition. The book is well-written and steganography (the hiding of files the good ones are heavily researched Koblin, and Jonathan Harris), this 221 / tablet App available at humanfaceof- and I recommend it heartedly. behind computer pictures; see http:// and provide us both with facts of which page book is just plain terrific and is bigdata.com/viewer. One way to avoid having the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganogra- we might not be aware and an overview well worth the price (Its corporate spon- George Dyson, historian of tech- technology that you write about be ob- phy). This technology was supposedly which ties the subject together. sorship by EMC, FedEx, Cisco, vmware, nology (and son of famed mathematical soleted is to make it part of a fictional used (rumored but never confirmed) by Each of the types mentioned has Originate, and tableau actually held the physicist Freeman Dyson and brother work set in a particular time. One of the 9/11 bombers as communication its own challenges for the writer. Books buyer price down to $40.). of trained cosmonaut and technology the best books that I have read, both tools. The technology is explained very relating the past require heavy research Some of the interesting facts and guru / angel investor Esther Dyson), for its story and its use of technology well in the story without burdening the and the author is dependent on the quotes from “The Human Side of Big in his book “Turing’s Cathedral -- The is Jeffrey Deaver’s “The Blue Nowhere” reader with technology overload. As quality of the sources with which he/ Data”: Origins of the Digital Universe” (Vin- (Pocket Books, 2002, $7.99). The pro- technology makes greater and greater she works; books dealing with the “From the dawn of civilization until tage, 2012, $16.95), takes us back to the tagonist, Wayne Gillette, is a convicted inroads into our lives, I think that we present run the risk of being outdated 2003, humankind generated five exabytes late 1940’s and ‘50s when Hungarian- felon released from prison to work with will find it seeping more and more into before they hit the book stores so the of data. Now we produce five exabytes ev- born American mathematician and the California Computer Crimes Unit our literature. author must give us an indication of ery two days. and the pace is accelerating.” recognized genius John von Neumann to attempt to track down a “hacker” or I think that readers of this column where we might be going and her/his -- Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, gathered a team of scientists at the “In- “hackers” using the Internet and other will enjoy all of the books mentioned indication may or may not be accurate; Google. stitute for Advanced Studies” (“IAS”) technology to set up murders and thefts above both for the information con- and predictive works, particularly in the “We’ve reached a tipping point in in Princeton, New Jersey to build one (I put hacker in quotation marks be- tained within and for the quality of the field of technology run the great risk of history: today more data is being manufac- of the first computers to “realize Alan cause it has become a media shorthand writing. Happy reading! being totally wrong - so great is the risk tured by machines, server, and cell phones Turing’s vision of a Universal Ma- for computer criminal, a usage that is Creative Disruption is a continu- that as Ed Regis relates in his January than by people.” -- Michael F. Driscoll chine.” Dyson’s father, Freeman, came offensive to some, such as Steve Woz- ing series examining the impact of con- 2013 Scientific American piece, “A Bold “We crave information the way we to IAS in 1948 and provides George niak and Linus Torvalds, who consider stantly accelerating technology on the And Foolish Effort To Predict The Future crave sex, down into the synapses of our with “living memory” to go along with themselves “hackers” who push tech- world around us. These changes nor- Of Computing,” well-known technolo- brains.” -- Nicholas Carr his own research. nology’s limits and feel that computer mally happen under our personal radar gy experts Stewart Brand, George Dy- “We’ll see this as the time in history The time period of Dyson’s book criminals should be called simply that until we find that the world as we knew son, Ivan Sutherland, Vinton Cerf, and when the world’s information was trans- contains the development of both the or, at the least, “crackers”). Gillette him- it is no more. Stephen Wolfram all say that the future formed from an inert, passive state and Digital Computer and the Hydrogen self had been convicted of computer can’t be predicted (Some others quoted John F. McMullen has been involved in into a unified system that brings the infor- Bomb and Dyson describes both of related crimes and is brought in, over make fairly innocuous predictions: technology for over 40 years and has writ- mation alive.” -- Michael Nielsen their development – what the back the objections of some of the unit, as a Nanotechnology oracle Eric Drexler -- ten about it for major publications. He may “Criminals, terrorists, and hackers cover of the book describes as the “most last resort in trying to apprehend those “There will definitely be computers. They’re be found on Facebook and his current non- understand the power of our interconnec- constructive and destructive of twenti- causing mayhem. The story is complex more fundamental than the wheel.” and technical writing, a novel, “The Inwood tivity: if you control the code, you control eth century inventions.” and full of accurate information about Danny Hillis, early developer of mas- Book” and “New & Collected Poems by the world.” -- Marc Goodman Even for someone who has been in the technology involved, presented in sively parallel computer processing -- johnmac the bard” are available on Ama- “The decisions we make during this the industry for 50 years (as I have), it is a non-threatening way – the criminal We will have computers but they may zon. He is a professor at Purchase College period will frame the kind of world we’ll hard to believe that “in March of 1953 even plots his mayhem to occur on the not be made of electronics.”). and has previously taught at Monroe Col- leave for future generations.” -- John Bat- there were 53 kilobytes of high-speed anniversaries of important technology “The Human Face of Big Data,” lege, Marist College, and the New School telle random access memory on planet breakthroughs. Deaver, author of the created by Rick Smolan and Jennifer for Social Research. “Soon we’ll salt the oceans, the land, Earth” (32kb were at IAS) – but that’s popular Lincoln Rynne mystery series Erwitt (Against All Odds Productions, and the sky with uncounted numbers of all there was. Dyson’s narrative takes (the 2004 book, “The Bone Collector,” Comments, experiences and questions can 2012, $40) is a large “coffee table” sensors invisible to the eyes but visible to us forward from there, chronicling made into a movie starring Denzel be directed to [email protected]. book that transcends both the present one another.” -- Esther Dyson the contributions of von Neumann, Washington, is the most famous book and the near-term future as it brings THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 2013 Page 5

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Children of the Nile JOIN NOW AND By SHERIF AWAD in Paris, Chauleur continues to work for cultural festivals while using her A new documentary SAVE BIG ! camera in personal projects related to called Children of the music and children. After Mozambi- Nile marks another co, Sketching the Music, her first docu- chapter of the ongo- mentary on the traditional music of ing French interest Mozambique, Chauleur is currently in Egyptian heritage whether it is making a series of poetic documen- ancient or modern. Its French direc- taries by children and for children. tor Aurélie Chauleur, who gradu- Children of the Nile is the first effort GUARANTEED FOR LIFE! ated from the University of Sophia with an intended follow-up in Mo- New Members Only. Must Present Ad. Antipolis in Nice, France, began her rocco and another in India. 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Now based Zumba® , Kickboxing, Spinning® and More! Some of the “Children of the Nile”. GYM HOURS AWAD: How many days did could not direct the whole family Mon. - Fri. 4AM-Midnight you spend shooting Children of the to perform in front of the camera Nile? in such a short period. However, Sat. & Sun: 6AM-8PM CHAULEUR: 80% of the they were used to my camera and I documentary was shot in the course just followed them in their daily life of 6-days last March. Some images while being sure I was covering what are taken from my first trip in Au- the Indian children asked me. Since gust 2011 when I stayed with them I did not know the language, I had for 10 days. to follow my intuition a lot. Living 914.235.3300 AWAD: How did you research with them made me understand this documentary? more easily their space. They really RetroFitness.net CHAULEUR: My idea was welcomed me like I was part of the (NEXT TO CITIBANK) to make a film for children by the family. children. So when I was in India AWAD: What was the feed- 236 NORTH AVE., in the beginning of 2012, I showed back about the documentary where NEW ROCHELLE the 14-minute footage to Indian it was screened? Folkloric Cane Dance in Luxor. Continued on page 6 Page 6 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 2013

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Children of the Nile Some of them also knew the musicians The Sufi singers from Upper-Egypt some voices that try to ban music and lali. And the last song in the documen- although they never went to Egypt and we auditioned in Mohamed Mourad’s arts. Do you feel this will affect similar tary is by Mahmoud Gomaa whom Continued from page 5 were happy to see their entire family house for this special performance in families that do music for a living? you see as well and who performed it in and its grandchildren. Paris were all very interesting and de- CHAULEUR: Yes of course it a wedding when I was there. CHAULEUR: The French chil- AWAD: Did you feel that these serve all international exposure. But will. And let’s be honest, for this family The Westchester Guardian reader dren really enjoyed it. I’m waiting to rural areas have a lack of education? transmission is as important as expo- for instance, though its musicians are is invited to check the video of French show it to the Indian children who CHAULEUR: It’s actually in sure. And giving a clue about the culture very famous abroad and has traveled children reviewing “Children of the helped me researching it this coming Luxor itself so I would not say it’s in around the Oriental arts to children to- all over the world, they also need to Nile” through this hyperlink: February. I guess I will have different a rural area. But yes, they still live in a day with this documentary, in France, or play their music in the touristic places http://www.youtube. comments depending on the where- gypsy style and the education is not the in other countries, give them the curios- for a living. With the current political com/watch?feature=player_ abouts of the audience, whether from most important concern for them. They ity to discover this kind of music. I could situation, tourism is in decline. Now embedded&v=Xksx9BDDuJA a rural or from an urban background. would rather teach music to their chil- see that in the exhibition where visiting banning music and arts is even worse… Born in Cairo, Egypt, Sherif Awad is a When I organized an interactive exhi- dren because it’s their way of earning a children wanted to try the instruments I can’t imagine those families doing bition to complete the traveling experi- film / video critic and curator. He is the living. What is most frustrating for me and listening to the musicians live. So something else for a living. Marriages, film editor of Egypt Today Magazine ence, I asked the French children what as a woman is the gender difference be- the interest generated will give space to mawleds, how can those traditional cel- they liked about the documentary… (www.EgyptToday.com), and the artis- tween boys and girls. more artists. As producers, we have a ebrations survive without music? tic director for both the Alexandria Film They were very enthusiastic about their AWAD: You have great interest in role in preserving the heritage between AWAD: How did you compile music, about their sweets and drinks, Festival, in Egypt, and the Arab Rotter- the Oriental arts and music heritage of generations and we try as much to help the soundtrack for the film? dam Festival, in The Netherlands. He also their animals and especially their rela- Upper-Egypt. When did that start? the artists teaching their own children. CHAULEUR: I used a few tracks tion with the horse, they also liked the contributes to Variety, in the United States, CHAULEUR: I’m very much in- For instance, I am involved in a learning of the album “Down by the River” from and is the film critic of Variety Arabia tanura dance, the magician, the house, terested in traditional music from all over center for the new generation of a spe- “The Musicians of the Nile” published the clothes, they liked the fact they have (http://varietyarabia.com/), in the United the world as I was working in this field cific community with the SarojiniT rust. by the music label “Long Distance” in Arab Emirates (UAE), the Al-Masry a different way of living. The adults also for the last ten years as a producer. I feel It is set in a small Indian village called 2006: “Al Bahr al-Zama” from Mo- appreciated the tone of the documenta- Al-Youm Website (http://www.almasry- it’s very important to highlight Oriental “Pugal” at the border with Pakistan. hamed Mourad, “Taksim al-Hama” alyoum.com/en/node/198132) and The ry because they felt comfortable going arts in this context of globalization when AWAD: Right now in Egypt, from Mustafa Abdel Aziz and “Ya back to reflect on their own childhood. Westchester Guardian (www.Westchester- everything tends to get standardized. with its current Islamic rule, there are maawad men sabar” from Yunis-al-Hi- Guardian.com). ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Yorktown’s Roma Building Renovation in Offing By HEZI ARIS effort to renovate The Roma Building, cirillo’s rendering for the 25,000-sq. excited about it, Yorktown needs some- situated at the intersection of Routes foot building reveal design features to thing new. We want to make it more YORKTOWN, NY 202 and 35. Last month’s request for a embellish the structure’s inherent at- inviting, attract people from other — Commercial and building permit was submitted with an tributes. “The idea is to break up the communities. It’s a great location.” She residential real estate expectation for initiating a renovation facade, with different colors, different said the goal was to begin the work as developer and The process in creating a rejuvenated face shapes, gables, a different roof line. It soon as possible after receiving approv- Westchester Guardian and roofline that will embellish both will give it more of a ‘village’ sense,” Pic- als. A dollar estimate for the work was Publisher Sam Zherka and Dominica the venue and resurrect its curb appeal. cirillo advised. not available. Rendering of The Roma Building. O’Neill, co-owner of The Roma Build- Project Architect Michael Pic- Dominica O’Neill said, “We’re Project Architect Michael Piccirillio. ing property are moving ahead in their EDUCATION school leadership programs. A distin- Introducing: The Jewish Day School Collaboration Network guishing feature of the Network is the role of participating day school profes- By MAYA BERNSTEIN education.” Meaning, our institutions Jewish life, and the environments of solutions to major strategic challenges sional leaders, for they serve as partners and of Jewish education need to foster and growth we foster for them. This is no that confront Jewish day schools today. in establishing its goals and design. This RABBI ED HARWITZ train individuals to achieve the ultimate small challenge, and we could benefit, This initiative emerged from dis- unique collaboration includes four sec- purpose of Jewish life, in this case, they as Rabbi Lehmann suggests, from in- cussions between The Jewish Educa- tors: the leadership in the day schools; In his eJewish Philan- must help train people to “tap into and creased creativity as we tackle it. tion Project and a group of leading day a communal agency and networked thropy post last month, unleash individual and communal cre- It is in this spirit that UpStart Bay school educators in New York. Given non-profit, represented by the Jewish Toward Creativity: A ativity.” Area and The Jewish Education Proj- the impactful and often transformative Education Project; the Jewish innova- Theological Goal for Jew- While we are not convinced that ect, funded by a generous grant from experiences that they received through tion sector, represented by UpStart; ish Education, Rabbi creativity is the ultimate goal of Jewish UJA Federation of New York, are col- day school leadership programs, these and the secular world of leadership and Daniel Lehmann raises living, we do agree with Rabbi Lehm- laborating to bring creativity tools to professionals expressed a need and social entrepreneurship, represented by the question of the ann that it is a necessary tool toward a group of Jewish day schools in the desire for advanced opportunities for experts such as Marty Linsky from overarching purpose of achieving the array of potential answers NY Metropolitan Area. Starting in professional collaboration, resources Cambridge Leadership Associates, and Jewish life. He argues, to the questions that face us as a com- December, teams within and across for shaping their school cultures and UpStart’s design team of Ben Gross- “Judaism calls on the human being, munity: What does it mean to live a schools will explore the methodology platforms for sharing and spreading man-Kahn at Nordstrom’s Innovation and the Jew in particular, to emulate Jewish life in the 21st century? What of Design Thinking, and use it as an success across the field. Lab, Ela Ben Ur formerly of IDEO, God’s creative nature and to become a does it gift us? What does it demand instrument for building school leader- The Day School Collaboration and Maureen Carroll and Melissa creative being.” He then explains that of us? And we agree that it is critical ship. Through this shared experience, Network is an experimental response Pelochino of Lime Design. “if we take this theological proposition that we think very deliberately about school leadership will become better to these needs, designed to comple- As we embark on this process, we as a fundamental goal of Jewish living,” the concrete links between the relation- equipped with creative, innovative tools ment and leverage experiences already will seek to embrace the mindsets of it becomes a “necessary focus of Jewish ship the next generation will have with and mindsets to address and develop provided to professionals in their day Continued on page 7 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 2013 Page 7

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Introducing: The Jewish Day School Collaboration Network swer to the broad question of the pur- were introduced to the method of De- pose of Jewish education, and how it sign Thinking, with the goal of using this Continued from page 6 dom to contribute their minds to something, wonders will connects to the purpose of Jewish life, unique method to address major strategic Deeply collaborative – the belief ensue we believe that a creative approach – challenges facing day schools today. The the Design Thinking methodology, that our diversity of perspectives and We look forward to sharing our one that listens deeply and truly to the DSCN is the first case where Jewish day which align organically with Jewish opinions strengthens us, and helps us learning, our accomplishments, and experiences of the students, teachers, schools have employed design thinking as educational values: be more effective our “fail forward” moments with the and parents connected to the schools, a tool for advancing the quality and value Action Oriented – the belief that Experimental – the belief that it is broader community, and to generating one that challenges us to think dif- proposition of Jewish day school education. it is in our hands to provide exceptional better to tackle challenges than not, and more dialogue and creativity as we seek ferently and expansively, and one that Just last Sunday, 60 Minutes profiled the schools for our children that failure is a critical component for to answer our shared questions and cre- pushes us to align our shared values, Design Thinking Method and its founder Human-centered – the belief that learning and growth, and ate new paradigms to address them. and explore our differences – can only - check here: http://www.cbsnews.com/ it is the children, their families, and the Optimistic – the belief that when While each of the schools involved benefit our community as a whole. video/watch/?id=50138327n teachers who are at the center of this dedicated, passionate individuals put in this pilot might have a different an- process, and who have invaluable wis- The educators and authors of this article HEALTH Governor Cuomo Declares State Public Health Emergency in Response to Severe Flu Season Executive Order Issued to Permit Pharmacists to Administer Flu Vaccinations to Patients Between Six Months and 18 Years of Age

ALBANY, NY and NEW YORK, a flu shot to schedule one immediately, all health care workers should be vac- and people with weakened immune NY -- Governor Andrew M. Cuomo as influenza cases continue to rise cinated against influenza and other systems or chronic medical conditions. today declared a Public Health Emer- sharply across the State. To ensure all communicable diseases to protect Individuals who have flu-like gency for all of New York State in re- New Yorkers know the importance of their health and the health of their symptoms like a fever, cough, or sore sponse to this year’s increasingly severe - and have easy access to - flu shots, the patients. throat, should call their doctor first flu season. The Governor issued an Governor announced that the State Symptoms of influenza resemble before heading to the hospital. Many Executive Order which allows phar- Health Department (DOH), work- those of a cold, but come on swiftly New Yorkers are going to the emer- macists to administer flu vaccinations ing closely with county, regional and and are more pronounced. A person gency room with mild symptoms; to patients between six months and 18 private health care partners as well as who has the flu usually has a fever, there’s no need to go to the hospital years of age. This Order suspends for local health departments, will launch chills, a severe headache, and muscle unless your doctor advises you to. the next 30 days the section of State a broad promotion of flu immuniza- aches, as well as a cough or sore throat. For additional information about Education Law that limits the au- tion. As part of the promotional effort, Although most people will usually influenza, including statewide surveil- thority of pharmacists to administer ongoing flu-related information and recover from flu without complica- lance, visit the State Health Depart- immunizing agents only to individuals resources will be continuously updated tions, the virus poses a more serious ment website at: http://www.health. 18 years of age or older. and disseminated via press advisories risk for individuals younger than age ny.gov/diseases/communicable/influ- Already 19,128 cases of influenza and media events, dedicated websites two, those over 50, pregnant women, enza/seasonal/ have been reported in New York this and social media sites such as Face- season, far more than the total of 4,404 book and twitter. positive laboratory tests that were re- The State Health Department ported all of last season (2011-2012). will also continue to issue health ad- Additionally, as of January 5, 2013, visories to healthcare providers, hos- the New York State Department of pitals, long-term care facilities, local influenza A (H1N1) and influenza A Health (DOH) received reports of health departments and pharmacies to (H3N2) viruses that have been tested 2,884 patients hospitalized with labo- strongly advise all New Yorkers who match the vaccine and approximately ratory-confirmed influenza, compared have not already received their influ- 69 percent of the known influenza B viruses match the vaccine. to 1,169 total hospitalizations in 2011. enza vaccine to do so immediately, and Sunday, Jan. 27th The Governor reminds New To date, two children in New York to encourage all providers to continue State and eighteen children across the to administer the influenza vaccine Yorkers who have not been vaccinated United States and have died as a result to their patients. DOH provides to for influenza that it is NOT too late of this year’s seasonal influenza. health care facilities a web-based tool to get a vaccination. Flu vaccine can “We are experiencing the worst kit for influenza vaccination programs: be obtained at health care providers’ flu season since at least 2009, and in- www.health.ny.gov/prevention/im- offices, local health departments, and fluenza activity in New York State is munization/toolkits/. pharmacies across the state. Since flu widespread, with cases reported in all New Yorkers can find a local vac- often continues into late winter or ear- ly spring, vaccinations at this time of 57 counties and all five boroughs of cine provider by visiting http://flushot. New York City,” Governor Cuomo healthmap.org/ and entering their zip year offer important protection. DOH recommends that everyone six months said. “Therefore, I have directed my code. New Yorkers without internet Administration, the State Health access can call 1-800-522-5006 or of age or older receive a flu vaccination. Department and others to marshal all through TTY access at 1-800-655- Those under six months of age cannot needed resources to address this public 1789 to find a nearby provider. get a flu vaccination. health emergency and remove all bar- The federal Centers for Disease Since the flu virus can spread riers to ensure that all New Yorkers - Control and Prevention (CDC) has through coughing or sneezing, it is children and adults alike - have access been testing this year’s known influ- important that family members and Co to critically needed flu vaccines.” enza viruses and matching them to people who regularly come in contact with young children or individuals at The Governor strongly urges the three viruses included in the 2012- New Yorkers who have yet to receive 2013 flu vaccine.T o date, all of the high risk get a flu shot. 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CHRONICLES OF CROTON’S BOHEMIA Lillian Nordica, 2: Tragedy in the South Pacific By ROBERT SCOTT Suffrage Last Act Lillian Nordica’s am- In England, Lillian had acquired a Almost as though she had a pre- bitious plan for a new mission: women’s right to vote. She monition of her own death, she told Westchester version of was inspired by Emmeline Pankhurst, William Armstrong, a former music Germany’s Wagnerian British suffragette leader, who advocat- reporter for the Chicago Tribune, “At my opera festival was widely ed militancy and violence to gain public funeral I want a baritone to sing Wotan’s publicized. recognition. Farewell, and an orchestra to play the Responding to a group of report- It quickly ran into trouble on both Funeral March from Götterdämmer- ers, Lillian said, “Smash windows? Yes! sides of the Atlantic. ung. For me that music has such dear When men take the view that to gain an “Well, I suppose she has a few acres memories.” end warlike methods are excusable, they of land somewhere or other,” observed She continued, “And then I want are heroes. Many a man has fought and some great speaker to say . . .” She German-born operatic promoter Oscar gone to prison for his principles, and I Hammerstein, perhaps sensing a com- broke off, searching for the right words. Lillian Nordica wanted to build in Harmon, New York, an exact replica of Richard think no great reform has been brought Changing the mood and almost mock- petitor. “But that is the only solid thing about without there being those will- Wagner’s massive Festspielhaus in Bayreuth, Germany. It is the largest free-standing about the scheme. The rest is dream, ing her somber tone, she supplied timber structure ever erected. ing to cast themselves into the breach the desired sentiment: “She did her pure dream, a sheer dream.” and fight. It is all very well for those in Hammerstein was something of damnedest.” power to keep on their way, ignoring us. At the age of 56, Lillian Nordica an expert on opera houses. In New York We have to draw attention to ourselves. City, he had built the Harlem Opera embarked on an ill-advised concert tour If we are to be heard, we have to make that would take her around the world. House on 125th Street in 1889 and ourselves obnoxious, perhaps, at times.” the Manhattan Opera House on 34th Following successful concerts in Aus- She sang in June 1910 in a concert tralia, she had a complete emotional and Street in 1906. These offered opera at for the suffrage cause at Irvington, her popular prices far below those charged physical collapse. hometown in Westchester, and town After resting, she resumed her tour. by the Metropolitan. fathers had the village clock’s chimes Her next concert was to be in Batavia “Anyhow, who wants a home for stopped for two hours. in the Dutch East Indies. Ironically, her Wagnerian opera?” he questioned. “I have,” she declared, with a touch train to Sydney was late and the Nor- “I can see New Yorkers trooping out of wry wit, “sung perhaps at more dedi- dica party wired the captain to hold the to some God-forsaken place up the cations of church steeples, vestry carpets, Hudson in search of a German opera orphan asylums and sewing circles than ship, the Tasman, for their arrival. house.” To soften the blow of his harsh any other woman of my profession.” In the Torres Strait, the Tasman ran aground on a reef and was damaged. judgment, he added, “I hope Madame In 1912, she appeared in a giant The seating capacity of Lillian Nordica’s replica opera house in Harmon would have Nordica will wake up from her dreams suffrage pageant staged at the Metro- Forced to stay on deck because of the danger of sinking, Lillian contracted been 1,925 opera lovers. before they have cost her all her salary.” politan Opera House at which former Epilogue Her plan for a music school and president Theodore Roosevelt spoke. pneumonia from exposure during a After a brief funeral service in the same opera house in Harmon was equally Lillian, regal-looking as Columbia in storm and was taken to a primitive church in which she had been married After Lillian’s death, a plan was an- scorned in Germany, where it was a crown of stars (one for each state in hospital on Thursday Island. Here she only five years before, she was cremated. nounced to erect a statue of her as Isolde made a new will leaving nothing to her pointed out that what made the Ger- the union in which women had been It was the only one of her wishes that in New York’s Central Park. The sculp- avaricious husband. man festival so successful was its at- emancipated), sang the national anthem was fulfilled. Her husband returned to tor was to have been Gertrude Vander- Among the patients in the hospi- mosphere. Atmosphere could not be “with great fervor.” It was the last time New Jersey with her ashes that she had bilt Whitney, but the First World War tal was a small American boy who had exported to the Hudson River, “which, her voice would be heard in that hall. wanted to be given to her sisters. intervened, and the idea was forgotten. been taken ill while on a world tour with as everyone knows, is a low, unhealthy A lightning rod for controversy, Lillian Nordica’s estate was valued During World War II, a Liberty a San Francisco boys’ club, and had been river where only malaria and mosqui- in 1913 she submitted to an unusual at more than a million dollars. George Ship named the S.S. Lillian Nordica set ashore from the steamship Moanu. toes are bred.” public interview on the stage of the W. Young, who had never repaid his was launched at the New England Married Again Hudson Theater on 44th Street. Her Lillian sang softly to him and comfort- debt of $400,000, immediately sought Shipbuilding Company’s yard at South interrogator was Robert Erskine Ely ed him. The child seemed to be growing to break the will that excluded him. Lil- Portland, Maine. Her wartime crew In April of 1909, Lillian announced of the League for Political Education, better, but had a relapse and died. Sick as lian’s jewelry and furs were auctioned off dubbed the ship the “Lucky Lillian.” her engagement to George Washing- which eight years later would open the she was, Lillian remembered this lonely in New Jersey. On two occasions, ships in the convoy ton Young, a dapper, white-haired Wall Town Hall on 43rd Street. little boy. In a cemetery on Thursday Is- In the end, after witnesses to its around her were torpedoed, but she Street financier on the board of several Lillian outlined her position, ex- land stands this gravestone: signing were produced, the courts up- came through unscathed. She also sur- corporations. He wooed her with gifts plaining that she was for equal pay for In Memory held the will Lillian had made on re- vived the German saturation bombing of emeralds and pearls, and they were of my mote Thursday Island. By then, much of the harbor of Antwerp. married in London in July of that year. equal work. Asked whether she be- lieved women would stand together, Little American Friend of the fortune she had earned in a life- Lillian’s birthplace in Farmington, Her newest husband soon reported George McDonald time of rigorous opera and concert sing- Maine, is maintained as the Nordica doleful financial reverses, and Lillian she responded by asking if women did not already stand by their families, if who died February 13, 1914 ing was eaten up by legal expenses. The Homestead Museum and displays her began advancing money to him. Before costumes, music, personal mementos and women were not the trusted secretaries Far Away from Home residue was divided among her three long, he had run up his debt to her to gifts she received. The 400-seat Lillian of businessmen, and if 30,000 working from his countrywoman surviving sisters. George W. Young died more than $400,000. He also convinced Nordica Auditorium in Merrill Hall of girls then on strike were not standing Lillian Nordica in 1926 in Atlantic City. her that the site of her German opera the University of Maine at Farmington together. At her request, she was taken to a No operatic role sung by Lillian festival should be in Deal, N.J., an At- hospital in Batavia in Java, where her Nordica ever ended more tragically. No commemorates her last concert in 1911 lantic beachfront community where he Years ahead of her time, she said heart began to fail. One of her last acts baritone sang Wotan’s Farewell. No or- in the town of her birth. It is reputed to be was building an opulent new home-- she believed in higher education for was to make still another will cutting off chestra played the Funeral March from haunted by Lillian’s ghost. with her money. Young turned out to women and added that she would vote her husband. She died there on May 10, Götterdämmerung. And no great speak- be less a financier and more a smooth for a woman for president should one Robert Scott is a semi-retired book publish- 1914. er intoned the words she hoped would talker. A sadder but wiser Lillian soon ever run. She reminded her listeners she er and local historian. He lives in Croton- Her body was placed in a teak- be said about her. realized that none of her marriages had had never lost money with a female im- on-Hudson, N.Y. wood coffin and brought to London. brought her happiness. presario. THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 2013 Page 9

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half of Iraq’s Christian population has either been butchered or fled the na- Egyptian Cleric Threatens Christian Copts with Genocide tion, and all under U.S. auspices. By RAYMOND IBRAHIM More recently, Dr. Wagdi Gho- play with fire!” you that Egypt is a Muslim country…. Claiming that the Copts are only neim — who earlier praised Allah for Along with trying to incite Egypt’s if you don’t like the Muslim Sharia, four million while the Muslims are 85 Gatestone Institute the death of the late Coptic Pope She- Muslims against the Copts, and threat- you have eight countries that have a million — even as Coptic Orthodox December 28, 2012 nouda, cursing him to hell and damna- ening them with annihilation, Gho- Cross on their flag [in Europe], so go Church registries maintain that there Middle East Fo- tion on video — made another video, neim made other telling assertions, to them. However, if you want to stay are more than 15 million Copts, and rum entitled, “A Notice and Warning to the including: here in Egypt with us, know your place most outside analysts say 10 million, SHOUTOUT: Crusaders in Egypt,” a reference to the Addressing the Christians of and be respectful. You already have all in Egypt— and adding that Morsi “The day Egyptians…feel you are nation’s Copts, which he began by say- Egypt as “Crusaders,” once again your rights — by Allah, even more was only being nice by saying, as he did against them, you will be wiped off the ing, “You are playing with fire in Egypt, showing Islam’s simplistic, black-and- than Muslims… No one investigates during one of his speeches: “There are face of the Earth.” — Dr. Wagdi Go- I swear, the first people to be burned white vision, which clumps all Chris- your homes, no one investigates your no minorities in Egypt.” Ghoneim fails neim by the fire are you [Copts].” The video tians — of all nations, past and present, churches. In fact, in the past, the Islamic to explain, if Copts are so few — four Islamic leaders continue to portray was made in the context of the Tahrir regardless of historical context and groups used to fake their IDs and put million compared to 85 million — how the popular protests against President protests against Morsi: Islamic leaders, denomination — as one, in accordance Christian names on them when they could they be so influential, and flood Morsi and his recently passed Shar- such as Hegazy and Ghoneim, seek with an Islamic tradition that states “All would go out for [jihadi] operations, so the Tahrir protests with such large ia-heavy constitution as products of to portray the Copts as dominant el- infidels are one religion.” that when the police would catch them, numbers? Egypt’s Christians. Recently, Muslim ements in those protests; according Comparing Christian Copts to they would see they are Christians and Mocking new Coptic Pope Brotherhood leader Safwat Hegazy to them, no real Muslim would par- animals: “Respect yourselves and live be left alone.” Ghoneim misses the Tawadros—not surprising considering said in an open rally, as captured on ticipate. Ghoneim even went on to say with us and we will protect you… irony of what he says: Police know that his great hate for the former Pope— video: that most of the people at the protests Why?… because Allah has forbidden Egyptian Christians are not going to by claiming that the new Pope urged A message to the church of Egypt, were Copts, “and we know you hid me to be cruel to animals. I’m not try- engage in terror; Egyptian Muslims are Copts to protest; that the new Pope from an Egyptian Muslim: I tell the your [wrist] crosses by lowering your ing to compare you to animals … but if suspect. wants to see Morsi and Sharia law fall, church — by Allah, and again, by Allah sleeves.” I am not cruel to animals or plants, shall Saying, in mocking tones, towards and by adding, “Is it not enough that — if you conspire and unite with the The heart of Ghoneim’s message I be cruel to a soul created by Allah? You the end: “What do you think — that you have all those monasteries?” remnants [opposition] to bring Morsi was genocidal: “The day Egyptians are an infidel in Allah’s sight — and it America will protect you? Let’s be very down, that will be another matter…. Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow — and I don’t even mean the Muslim is for him to judge you. However, when clear, America will not protect you. If so, our red line is the legitimacy of Dr. at the David Horowitz Freedom Center Brotherhood or Salafis, regular Egyp- you live in my country, it is forbidden it would have protected the Christians Muhammad Morsi. Whoever splashes and an Associate Fellow at the Middle tians — feel that you are against them, for me to be unjust to you — but that of Iraq when they were being butch- water on it, we will splash blood on East Forum. you will be wiped off the face of the doesn’t mean we are equal. No, oh no.” ered!” — a reference to the fact that, him.” earth. I’m warning you now: do not Telling Copts: “I want to remind after the U.S. ousted Saddam Hussein, LEARNING Donated Computers Turn After- WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY FOR HUMANISTIC JUDAISM Schoolers into Bloggers with a Cause INVITES YOU TO CELEBRATE TU B’SHVAT: JEWISH EARTH DAY By RICH MONETTI Duh, you’re a writer Rich, they have something called blogs that makes Through the generosity everybody a journalist now. But who of one very community really wants to write unless you’re get- minded individual, the ting paid. Mt. Kisco Childcare People who call themselves blog- After School Program found itself the gers, I guess. I didn’t want to set that recipient of five brand new computers. precedent with my kids. I decided, As the computers appeared, excitement we’re going to generate some cash. emerged among students and staff. But (MKCCC a nonprofit, we’d have to as the technician was tweaking us to- follow suit and donate the proceeds). ward operation, anxiety replaced my ex- Before getting into the business citement as a teacher at the center. How model, let’s begin with content. I see a where we going to put our little neural soccer game breakout in the backyard net to good use? Continued on page 10 Saturday, January 19, 2pm Community Unitarian Church, 468 Rosedale Ave, WP Cost $10 pp non members • Light Vegetarian Refreshments • A Humanist Kiddush • A Nature Themed Service by • Shared Readings Rabbi Tamburello • Music RSVP before 1/17—Rhoda Kleiman 212-724-7840 Make checks payable to WCHJ send to I. Kleiman, 165 West End Ave, Apt.12D, New York 10023 Stephen Mains playing makeshift ping pong for upcoming blog entry. Page 10 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 2013

LEARNING Donated Computers Turn After-Schoolers into Bloggers with a Cause Continued from page 9 them. good, because it feels good to know I need to get better at this inspira- your work is being recognized,” says or one of our Feed me Fresh cooking tion thing, and bringing them the jar Meyerski projects begins. I hand somebody with with 76 cents accumulated, isn’t quite Why not, are they any different a camera. If the lucky child happens to it either. Stephen’s Mom Kris isn’t so than us? I don’t know, maybe they will be older, she must blog a story to go worried about that as MKCCC’s kids be. with the photo. th who can be just as mum about their By clicking the link at the end of So if you ask 4 grader Kiduce days as any others. “I’m excited to get each blog entry, a page view is recorded Daniel, who drew the first assignment the latest – especially the pictures – be- for that specific article on my Associ- with his friend Stephen Mains to re- cause it gives me a snapshot of what my ated Content dashboard. This amounts port on the shiny tomatoes grown in kids are doing that day,” she says. to $0.16 per click. I bring the pennies our garden, he’s perfectly honest on The center’s director of curricu- in everyday and click them into a little James Giokaris’ artwork for November what he likes most about the arrival of lum concurs and goes that one better. glass jar. Upon reaching $25.00, the the computers. “Playing all the com- 5th entry on Felix Baumgartner’s “It’s a great way for parents to see that money will be lent to Kiva.org, which is supersonic freefall from 32,000 feet. puter games,” he says without hesita- the things that go on here go beyond a micro-financing organization. Mean- tion. Paulina Chacon Muñoz shows off her this just being a place to keep their kids ing, we will go to the website, choose a traffic, my email [email protected] . Why not and are we any different October 10th blog entry replication of a busy,” says Dawn Meyerski. small business from a developing coun- Blog when it comes to work and play? Van Gogh Piece with mentor and Art And maybe a little in print public- try and get the money back just like any http://mkcccblog.blogspot.com/ Teacher Kathy La Rosa-Lach. Photo An educational innovator I sarcas- ity produces enough inspiration that loan. At that point, we will relend or tically tell myself to tie the two together. Rich Monetti has been a freelance writer by and courtesy of 6-year-old Gabby the bloggers ask for the camera rather donate to another charity. Tortorello. “You want to play, you got to pay. Do than the keys to the click that begins If you’d like to get on my email since 2003 and lives in Westchester. a story and the games are yours,” I tell their games. “Any encouragement is list or have suggestions to bring more MAKE IT FUN! that our pants hurt and we’re scared to and family you don’t know the peace unloving to that little one? Think how All or Nothing at ALL get on the scale. We’re not like the frog that attends an organized and smoothly children enjoy life. I think we are meant that stays in the water as it is heated to running household. If you are afraid to to enjoy life and it should get better and By PAM YOUNG one pound in a week, yet if we gained a boiling and cooks to death, instead, we open your mailbox and your heart races better. You are in self-improvement pound a week, we’d gain 50 pounds in schlep along until we snap. when it’s time to pay bills, you are miss- mode or you wouldn’t be reading this There’s a huge differ- a year. I don’t know anyone who’s done It’s after the snap that we typically ing the constant joy of being debt-free. essay. Celebrate that desire to be better ence between a drastic that and you probably don’t either. make the decision to do something. There is this beautiful place be- and enjoy the in between of all or noth- transformation and If you’re like me, you tend to have We rarely think to be something. If tween all and nothing at all and I love ing at all as you become grateful and change that takes place that notion: All or nothing at all. When you think, “I want to be happy in my that place. It’s called grateful patience. patient on your way to a better life. as gracefully and gradu- we want to get organized usually we’ve body,” or “I want to be comfortable in It’s incremental progress and it takes ally as a baby turns into a toddler. But For more from Pam Young go to www. come to a place where every room is my home” or “I want to be debt free,” all being patient, kind and loving with when we’re fed up with our old ways we makeitfunanditwillgetdone.com. You’ll laced with chaos. When we decide to those thoughts will cheer your heart. If yourself and celebrating the small stuff. tend to want an instant and dramatic find many musings, videos of Pam in the fix our finances it’s when the power’s you’ve gained enough weight to have it Be easy with yourself. Find a photo fix. That’s what impatience is all about. kitchen preparing delicious meals, vid- been shut off or we max a few credit be a major problem you probably barely of you when you were a child and when Take weight for example, we want the eos on how to get organized, ways to lose cards and sink into financial depres- know the healthy, happy you that’s you look at it see if you can imagine that weight to come off faster than we put it weight and get your finances in order, all sion. When we want to lose weight it’s under the fat. If you are overwhelmed child still within you because she (he)is. on. We get frustrated with a loss of just from a reformed SLOB’s point of view. usually because we’ve let it go so long with the operation of running a home How could you be mean, impatient or MOVIE REVIEW Ed Koch Movie Reviews By Edward I. Koch

“Tabu” (-) that the story is simply uninteresting. How (played by Carloto Cotta as a young man a film about a love affair in a Portuguese and by Henrique Espirito Santo as an old- It was Sunday, and I wanted to see a movie. African colony could be uninteresting is er man), and a huge number of servants. I read the Daily News’ capsule review by itself a question. In addition, the subtitles Her life, in my judgment, was boring, even E.W. who gave the film four stars, stating, are too light and flash by too quickly, at though occasionally she had a servant feed “This gorgeous, strange, black-and-white least for my eyes. a rat to a crocodile. There was lots of drink- romance is worth seeking out when you’ve The movie jumps, by way of recall, ing, dancing and sex, the latter tame by any had enough of grand Oscar bids or empty from modern-day Lisbon to Africa. The standards. None of the actors were familiar popcorn pix. As an elderly woman dies in life of a rich Portuguese woman, Aurora to me. Lisbon, we learn of her early history in co- (played as a young woman by Ana Moreira Don’t waste your time. (In Portuguese, lonial Africa, which is told in enchanting and as an older woman by Laura Soveral), with English subtitles.) style.” is depicted. Other characters include her What a disappointment. “Tabu” is a husband (Ivo Muller), a lover, Ventura terrible film for a host of reasons. One is Continued on page 11 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 2013 Page 11

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lowed is heartbreaking. sage from the representatives of the Ed Koch Movie Reviews We on the East Coast recently area who threatened, if they were suffered the effects of Hurricane Republicans, to bolt. In the case of Continued from page 10 Simon (Oaklee Pender- Sandy. While the lives lost were Peter King, he urged residents of “The Impossible” gast), locate their father, relatively few by comparison (here New York not to contribute to Re- Henry (Ewan McGregor). Thomas less than 200; in Asia more than publican candidates. The Speaker (+) and Simon are placed on a transport 200,000), the devastation and hu- turned around and scheduled a vote to higher ground while Henry con- man suffering was enormous and for no later than January 15, 2013. This docudrama depicts the tinues to look for Maria and Lucas. still goes on. Everyone then embraced and were tsunami of December 26, 2004, that The movie focuses on the wall The most perfidious act of friends once again. Nevertheless, involved 14 countries and killed a of water that flung itself on vaca- Congress that I can recall was the for other reasons, the Speaker lost quarter-million people in southeast tioning guests at a beach resort. refusal of the House of Represen- about ten Republican votes and Asia. Details of this particular family’s tatives this past weekend before it won reelection as Speaker by a mar- The movie is based on the true experience, separation and reunion adjourned to pass the $62 billion gin of two votes over the minimum story of a family of five caught in the are depicted. The only real character Senate bill for the rebuilding of the required. The Speaker also called for first wave. The wife, Maria (Naomi development is that of Lucas who tri-state area, much of it needed in a vote on a nine billion dollar in- Watts), who is injured, is pushed takes on near unbearable responsi- New York City, the Rockaways, and terim bill. All’s well that ends well. inland with her oldest son, Lucas bilities for his family for someone on Staten Island. Shame on Con- Peter King and his colleagues per- (Tom Holland). Her two younger his age. Watching the tsunami take gress, particularly Speaker Boehner. formed a miracle. sons, Thomas (Samuel Joslin) and place and the devastation that fol- Speaker Boehner got the mes-

“Silver Linings (Robert De Niro), is a compulsive nifer Lawrence), a neighbor who ies to learn more: http://www. gambler. Their son, Pat, Jr. (Bradley used to be caught up in a promis- mayorkoch.com/. Playbook” (+) Cooper), who appears to be in his cuous lifestyle, has a crush on Pat Jr. The Honorable Edward Irving Koch The screenplay, based on a 30s, is being released from a mental I enjoyed this picture. The act- served as a member of Congress from novel by Matthew Quick, projects facility. His problem is anger man- ing is very good, particularly that of New York State from 1969 through the lives of a several people, particu- agement but he doesn’t appear to Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Law- 1977, and New York City as its 105th larly that of Dolores ( Jacki Weaver), be dangerous. Pat, Jr. is looking to rence. The plot reminded me of a Mayor from 1978 to 1989. striving to be supportive of family reconcile with his wife, Nikki (Brea 1950’s movie, like “Marty” starring members. Bee), who has taken out a restrain- Ernest Borgnine. Dolores’s husband, Pat Sr. ing order against him. Tiffany ( Jen- Visit the Mayor at the Mov-

NAJAH’S CORNER RESOLUTIONS pensions for personnel needed to im- Thirst Resolutions for the Year 2013 prove instruction. Yet there is another By NAJAH MUHAMMAD RYAN important goal of a real estate tax cap By PEGGY GODFREY “trigger violence ,,,including homicide.” stable members of society. of 2% promoted by Governor Cuomo. Another doctor, Peter D. Dreggin, a Resolution # 2 - Education of our youth Money needed to improve instruction Day by day Resolution # 1 - The Harvard trained psychiatrist, wrote in must be given a high priority. for school children must be found. In As day break and day rise Ravages of Guns in a scholarly journal in 2003 that SSRI School boards throughout New the new year serious discussions need I do walk the valley Our Society Needs to be drugs could be related to suicide, vio- York State must deal with all the cur- to take place on the priorities, both past Addressed lence and extreme abnormal behavior. rent problems in the state including the and present, which school boards face. Open ears, open eyes Governor An- He expressed great concern about the funding from the Federal government Resolution # 3 - Proper methods for pro- drew Cuomo has stated he plans to Jar in hand, aching thighs risks associated with these drugs. and mandates for evaluating teach- tecting our environment should be used. present a “full package’ of gun control Heavy hearted and yet This is an urgent priority in our ers based on their students’ test scores. When fracking decisions in New laws But how can the public, especially I do walk the valley society which must be addressed in These mandates do not consider stu- York State must be made, State officials school children be protected? Un- the new year. More attention needs dents’ background and preparation for should take heed that despite all their provoked gun attacks, for example, in to be paid to the availability of guns . learning. Another serious problem is computer simulations which say frack- My sore legs and mouth dry Newton, need to be stopped. Innocent But more important young people who the cost of pensions. According to a ing is safe, the EPA’s (Environmental The river has nothing children in a classroom were killed in have demonstrated lack of emotional published report, Boards of Education Protection Agency) was unable to find Not for me heart breaking gun attacks. Our reli- stability need to be helped to become must acknowledge the rising costs of gious leaders need to speak out more Continued on page 12 I loathe its discretion on the inhumanity and immorality of ADVERTISEMENT I’m not to drink until I see my using guns for revenge. reflection A British Psychiatrist, Dr. James Healy, founded RxIsk.org, an inde-

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payments to small businesses that hired these buildings have been required to Resolutions for the Year 2013 unemployed workers has been found determine how much more energy ef- to be an effective way to reduce unem- ficient they are. Worse yet, some “green” Continued from page 11 made to reduce the rate of unemployment. cal and county levels has resulted in ployment. buildings have been found to use more Resolution # 5 - All levels of government energy. In the New Year all “green” con- even one company willing to test water State Senator Andrea Stewart- more workers being laid off from their should fairly assess the “Green: programs struction should have mandated energy before and after drilling for fracking. Cousins has stated she wants to put a jobs. Our elected leaders at every level established. audits so these costs can be compared Computer simulations are also fre- priority on creating jobs in New York. should continue to find ways to operate Municipalities, especially, should with pre-”green” costs. quently used in Environmental Impact This is a laudable goal. But unemploy- more efficiently, but they need also to get “real” and fairly evaluate their claims Statements and actual testing of the air ment problems need to be addressed use innovative ways to create jobs espe- Peggy Godfrey is a freelance writer, a com- that “green” buildings are more energy should be required to validate the com- on every level: local, county, state and cially those that will make our economy munity activist, and former educator. efficient. Apparently, as reported in puter findings. federal. It has become apparent that grow. Most new jobs are created by the Journal News (12/25/12) “none” of Resolution # 4 - All efforts should be the state imposed tax cap at the lo- small businesses. For example, bonus SPORTS Sylvie Binder Wins Gold at Super Youth Circuit National Fencing Tournament

DURHAM, NH – Armonk, NY, resi- bout over Anna Zhou (13) of Boston, dent Sylvie Binder (13), captured the Massachusetts. Y14 (women’s foil) gold medal in the Binder’s next major test will come United States Fencing Association’s in two weeks when she is scheduled to Super Youth Circuit fencing tourna- compete at the United States Fencing ment held in Durham, NH on January Association’s North American Cup 5, 2013. where she will compete among older Binder bested a field of 61 fencers fencers – including several Olympi- from all over the country to win the top ans from the 2012 London Games. spot in the tournament and secure ad- In February, she will compete at the ditional national ranking points placing USFA’s Junior Olympic competition to her in the nation’s top echelon of young be held in Baltimore, MD. female fencers. Binder presently ranks Sylvie Binder is in 8th grade and number 12 in the USA in the Y14 age attends H.C. Crittenden middle school (L-R) Sylvie Binder (13) faces off against Anna Zhou (13) in the gold (L-R): Sylvie Binder, Anna Zhou, Melissa Du, category and with her New Hampshire in Armonk. She trains at the Fencing medal bout at the United States Fencing Association’s Super Youth Cynthia Liu, Rachel Zhang, Alexandra Banin, weekend’s top finish, her ranking will Academy of Westchester in Haw- Circuit tournament on January 5, 2013. Binder won the gold medal. Tiffany Luong, and Grace Ding. only improve. thorne, NY, and her coach is two-time Binder, defeated four other fencers Olympian, Slava Grigoriev. on her way to winning her gold-medal Rye’s Alex Singer Competing Professionally in Germany’s Frauen-Bundesliga

By RANDY VOGT ginia to playing professionally for teams At Rye High School, she was League and Disney Showcase come to mind in four different countries. Alex played MVP and four-time All-League hon- since they were in a fun environment RYE, NY -- Alex Singer helped for the Eastern New York Youth Soc- oree, leading the school to the 2005 and places. What stands out to me was lead 1.FFC Turbine Potsdam to the cer Association (ENYYSA) Olympic sectional championship. She scored all of the relationships and bonds with Frauen-Bundesliga championship last Development Program, starting as a 83 goals and 75 assists for the Garnets teammates and other players as well as year and the squad is in second place Girls-Under-12 player and continuing during her five-year high school soccer coaches. I made some incredible friends this winter behind only Wolfsburg. with ODP through high school. Her career. and close relationships that I still keep The 25-year-old native of New mother, Laurie, volunteered as the team “When I think about playing today and it’s been fun to follow along York City grew up in Rye and soc- manager for six ODP-North teams. youth soccer, my experiences are full everyone’s path in their careers.” cer has taken her from travel teams to Alex played club soccer for the of good memories. I was lucky to have At 18 years old, she helped lead the ODP to the Region 1 team to a full Rye Tornado, Larchmont Wildcats some very knowledgeable coaches and Long Island Fury to the 2006 Women’s scholarship at the University of Vir- and Eastchester Patriots 87 of the technical trainers over the course of Premier Soccer League national cham- Westchester Youth Soccer League plus my years as a youth player,” Alex com- pionship in the inaugural season for starred as a teenager for the Albertson mented. “Going to tournaments and the team. She also won a W-League Express of the Long Island Junior Soc- trips with the teams was exciting, espe- championship with the Washington Alex Singer in blue playing for Turbine cer League, winning four State Open cially when we were older and college Freedom in 2007. Potsdam in Germany. Cups along the way with Albertson. coaches were watching. The Surf Cup Paul Riley coached her on the Long Island Fury and stated, “Alex is a Before speaking to the police... call tremendous player with speed, skill and a great final delivery. She loves to attack George Weinbaum and beat players. Always a true profes- ATTORNEY AT LAW sional and a fitness level second-to- FREE CONSULTATION: none. She can also play on both sides of Criminal, Medicaid, Medicare Fraud, White-Collar Crime & the ball and reads the game really well. Health Care Prosecutions. T. 914.948.0044 True team player who gets the most F. 914.686.4873 out of her teammates.” 175 MAIN ST., SUITE 711-7 • WHITE PLAINS, NY 10601 Continued on page 13 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 2013 Page 13

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Rye’s Alex Singer Competing Professionally in Germany’s Frauen-Bundesliga bug and needed players as it prepared “I would love to return to the for the second half of its season. Sight States and play in the new league,” Continued from page 12 unseen, Turbine Potsdam signed Alex she commented. “It’s very exciting and After graduating from the Uni- to a two-and-a-half-year contract and encouraging that there will be a pro versity of Virginia, where Alex was a it was off to eastern Germany. league again, and it will be interesting four-year starter, she was drafted as a “At first I didn’t want to go,” Alex to see how things pan out this upcom- midfielder eighth overall by the Free- commented. “I had a little life in Swe- ing season. I’ve gained so much experi- dom in the first Women’s Professional den. I had some stability after bopping ence playing overseas, especially in the Soccer draft and signed a standard con- around the world. My first thought was Bundesliga and Champions League tract that paid the sum of $27,000. That I don’t want to do it. And how can a top for Turbine Potsdam, playing on such winter, she found employment a world team in Germany, that hadn’t even seen a high level. I’ve had to adapt, and away in Australia, playing for the Perth me train, want me? But they wanted an through this have added pieces to my Glory. After returning stateside, she experienced defender, fast, tall and good game. So, I’m excited at the possibility was waived by Washington in 2010 so in the air, and able to play in their very of playing pro again at home. We’ll wait she went back to Australia, then landed direct style in the 3-4-3 formation — and see what happens.” in Sweden to play for Dalsjofors, which only three defenders.” With 123,843 youth soccer play- had just been promoted to the First Along with American teammates ers––68,587 boys and 55,256 girls–– Division. Alyssa Naeher and Keelin Winters, and more than 25,000 volunteers, the “We only won one game, but I Alex has settled in Germany. non-profit Eastern New York Youth loved it in Sweden,” Alex told The New “I can understand a lot of German Soccer Association (ENYYSA) York Times. “I learned the language. I and I’m able to express myself. It’s im- stretches from Montauk Point, Long made about $30,000, had an apartment portant because our coaches only speak Island to the Canadian border. Mem- and car provided by the club. But after German. I went to classes for a while bers are affiliated with 12 leagues we were relegated, I had to ask myself and will probably return when I’m back. throughout the association, which cov- what I was doing there. I knew I had There’s a lot of words that are similar to ers the entire state of New York east of done well and then offers would come Swedish so that’s helpful. I would say Route 81.For more information, log on in from other teams in Sweden and the hardest part is the grammar, but I’m to http://www.enysoccer.com/, which Denmark.” getting there.” receives nearly 300,000 hits annually Then came a life-changing call Alex is currently spending the from the growing soccer community. Frauen-Bundesliga’s winter break in from her agent. Turbine Potsdam, the Randy Vogt is Director of Public Rela- Rye. When her contract is up next year, club that went on to win its fourth con- tions, Eastern New York Youth Soccer As- she is thinking about playing in the secutive Frauen-Bundesliga champi- Alex Singer in purple playing for the Perth Glory in Australia. sociation. onship last season, was hit by the injury new National Women’s Soccer League.

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is also a protracted unleashed dance se- in imitation of Roz Russell on he mov- daughter, who, still a teenager, has Pulitzer Prizes, 1953 and 2012 quence for several bacchants, which can ie version—a couple of octaves south to run off with one of her mother’s col- prove exciting, though in this produc- score some facile points. leagues. They are Bostonians, with By JOHN SIMON quite ordinary underneath. tion, as choreographed by Chase Brock, The rest are satisfactory, and Gold a summer home on Cape Cod, the Inge’s mother kept a boarding- it turns unduly grotesque. keeps them moving steadily and, on other place, where the action climaxes William Inge was a de- house, which was home to several spin- Casting is a bit of a problem. As the whole, rather inventively. Andrew in a rather unbelievable twist or two. serving but not-quite- ster schoolteachers, most notably the Hal, Sebastian Stan (surely that name Liberman’s set convinces down to All this is written in the faintly top-flight playwright, inspiration here for the Owens tenant cries out for reversal) is almost right, al- discarded car tires and up to a solitary hysterical style espoused by much of whose “Picnic” won the Rosemary Sydney, desperate to hook though in the later scenes, with his hair lamppost; even the unusual backdrop women’s television, and tautly direct- 1953 Pulitzer Prize. A the contentedly bachelor shopkeeper slicked down, he loses some appeal. of real-looking perpendicular dark- ed by Joe Mantello on an abstract set native Kansan, who had his share of Howard Bevans before it is too late for Maggie Grace is a duly pretty Madge, brown planks is surprisingly apt. David by Eugene Lee and Edward Pearce, Broadway hits and flops, he wrote his both of them. Hal and Madge are in- even if a smidgen too tall for the men. Zinn’s costumes contribute valiantly. which looks like a labyrinth gone ver- And give credit also to a daring autho- tical. As Juliana, the admirable actress rial touch: Inge does not let us see the Laurie Metcalf does well enough— eponymous picnic—only what leads to perhaps even a trifle too much—and and away from it. there is staunch support from Daniel “Picnic” performed at the Ameri- Stern as the husband and Zoe Perry can Airlines Theatre, 227 West 42nd (a real-life Metcalf daughter) in three Street, New York, NY, 10036. Ticket roles: the young doctor, the fugitive Services: (212) 719-1300. daughter, and yet another woman. Photos of ”Picnic” by and courtesy of Justin Townsend’s lighting com- Joan Marcus. bines with William Cusick’s video and projections to convey Juliana’s

(L-R): Ellen Burstyn, Sebastian Stan and Maggie Grace. first play at 34, and was by 60 depressed eluctably drawn to each other at once, And even if Sam Gold’s direction is enough—perhaps also by being a clos- and constitute the main plot element. generally good, the attraction between eted homosexual—to commit suicide. The play has divided the critics. Hal and Madge is a trifle too slow to In what you could call Smalltown, Brooks Atkinson of the Times called combust. But by the end of Act One, it Kansas, the incursion of Hal Carter, a (L-R) Dennis Boutsikaris, Aya Cash, Laurie Metcalf. it “a rich and fundamental play” with does rivetingly explode. sexy drifter visiting his affluent college a “tremendously moving last act”; to Reed Birney is utterly convincing roommate Alan Seymour, causes quite Quite possibly the best thing Robert Brustein it is “a satyr play glo- as the irresolute but likable Howard, troubled fantasies, including a haunt- a stir. Sundry females are attracted to about Sharr White’s “The Other rifying the phallic male.” I find partial and Mare Winningham is touching as ingly recurrent yellow bikini that is him, especially to his exposed mus- Place” is, somewhere between 70 and truth in both positions. Inge himself the Hal-opposing mother, Flo. As the part of the trumped-up conclusion. cular torso, as on a hot Labor Day he 80 minutes, its brevity. It is the story was dissatisfied with the it, and rewrote friendly, permissive neighbor, Helen, Fritz Patton’s sound design intensifies does some gardening for his landlady, of a woman scientist, Juliana Smith- it as “Summer Brave,” chiefly chang- Ellen Burstyn looks a touch too similar the chaos, and while the ado is not Helen Potts. Those affected include ton, turned publicist for a drug of her ing the ending and considering it an to Flo, but is otherwise fine. As Millie, exactly about nothing, it does huff the daughters of neighbor Flo Owens: invention, who, while boosting it to a improvement, in which, I feel, he was Madeleine Martin comes across too and puff as if in acute emphysema. the teen-aged tomboy and bookworm Saint Thomas gathering, has a sud- mistaken. much like an ethnic New Yorker for Nothing whatsoever, though, Millie, and her older sister, Madge, the den, dramatic collapse. In any case, the Hal-Madge af- a member of this Kansas family. As works in Quiara Alegria Hudes’s town belle, Alan’s less than enthusiastic fair makes for good romantic theater, Rosemary, the gifted Elizabeth Marvel “Water by the Spoonful,” the middle quasi-fiancee. Being every male’s lust while the secondary characters supply rather overdoes both comedy and pa- item of—dreadful to contemplate--a object is a burden to Madge, who is comedy and additional suspense. There thos, even forcing her voice—perhaps trilogy about a crack-addicted La- tino family in Philadelphia. Dialogue, characters and plot are equally inept, as well as pretty much inscrutable, without providing the slightest in- centive to puzzle them out. Almost all the acting is condignly poor under Dennis Boutsikaris, Laurie Metcalf. Davis McCallum’s impotent direc- Is it a brain tumor, as she thinks, tion on Neil Patel’s unsightly and or some other form of dementia, as preposterous set. her oncologist husband, whom she Of any interest is only that the unjustly suspects of adultery, main- first part of this trilogy about the (L-R): Maggie Grace, Ben Rappaport, Elizabeth Marvel, (L-R): Ben Rappaport, Maggie Grace, Elizabeth Marvel, Ortizes was a runner-up for the Pu- Reed Birney, Madeleine Martin and Sebastian Stan. tains? A young woman doctor is Reed Birney, Sebastian Stan and Ellen Burstyn. investigating. Then there is Juliana’s Continued on page 15 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 2013 Page 15

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New Leader, New Criterion, National Pulitzer Prizes, 1953 and 2012 Review, New York Magazine, Opera News, Weekly Standard, Broadway.com Continued from page 14 conducted Samuel J. Friedman The- and Bloomberg News. Mr. Simon holds a PhD from Harvard University in litzer Prize, which this second part atre, 261 W. 47th St., New York, NY. Tickets: (212) 239-6200. Comparative Literature and has taught actually won. The sole conceivable at MIT, Harvard University, Bard explanation would seem to be that Photos of “The Other Place” by and College and Marymount Manhattan the author is a woman and a Latino, courtesy of Joan Marcus. College. which, however P. C., strike me as John Simon has written for over 50 insufficient grounds for escaping the To learn more, visit the JohnSimon- years on theatre, film, literature, music wastebasket. Uncensored.com and fine arts for the Hudson Review, “The Other Place” performances Aya Cash, Laurie Metcalf.

G MAYORO MarvinVER’s COLUMN NM GOVERNMENTENTSection ing plan, extensive sewer / drainage have been Mayor, our pension obliga- In order to decrease the esca- Defining the Role of Trustee repairs and a retooling of all of the tion has increased 6,000 fold and we lating property tax burden on their Village’s public streetlights. It seemed are still doing much better than most residents in 2013, many communities By MARY C. MARVIN Village’s aging infrastructure. Tak- more than an opportune time to of our peers. Colleagues in upstate are now evaluating their services with ing advantage of the historically low undertake these long-term improve- communities are now spending more an eye toward who uses them and The New Year opens cost of borrowing money, one of the ments. on mandated costs than on their op- charging accordingly. with much on the few bright spots in the current econ- Unfortunately, 2012 brought the erating budget, necessitating a Dra- As illustration, municipalities agenda of the Board omy, the Trustees and I approved a Village the 2% tax cap legislation conian lessening of village services. It have carved out specific sewer, paving of Trustees, chief $2,526,560 Capital Improvement but not the promised corresponding is no wonder the State lost two Con- and sanitation districts and charge all on the list is a very Program at our December meet- mandate relief. gressional seats in the recent census who benefit from the service propor- ambitious capital ing. The big ticket items in the plan As we begin 2013, the State as residents leave for states with less tionately, regardless of their taxable program to maintain / improve the include funds for an aggressive pav- mandates are truly crippling. Since I tax and better services. Continued on page 16 Commercial • Industrial & Residential Services

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fordable Housing judgment. As yet, these times to that of a football player some frequency in front of the Post Defining the Role of Trustee nothing that we have put forward has who plays both ways, both offense Office.U nless they are blocking the met the economic viability test. What and defends in the same game. sidewalk or harassing passers-by, Continued from page 15 currently charge both resident and is particularly crippling, especially in One not only has to think and their actions are Constitutionally regard to rental units, is the settle- act proactively to make positive im- protected. The same is true for door- status. Other communities are asking non-resident fees for tennis and pad- dle usage, the fees do not nearly cover ment’s requirement that the unit(s) provements to the Village but also be to-door solicitors who are not selling their tax-exempt institutions for PI- be encumbered for 50 years, some- very mindful of actions or inactions a product, rather an idea, be it Green- LOTS (Payments in Lieu of Taxes) the cost of operating these amenities, the shortfall being shouldered by ev- thing unheard of in residential rental that may be detrimental to the Vil- peace or the Jehovah Witness. We to fund the municipal benefits that parlance. lage. even had to curtain our assistance to accrue to them. ery Village taxpayer. Other high priority initiatives A four-year labor agreement was Constitutional issues of equal the annual Christmas pageant due to In our own sphere, Bronxville has reached with our police department protection, separation of Church and Constitutional concerns. joined with nine other communities for the Trustees in 2013 will be a continued emphasis on assisting our late in 2012 and we hope to settle State and First Amendment rights We have an experienced group to petition the State Legislature to with the CSEA, which represents our have figured into many recentT rust- of Trustees who bring all needed skill change the way hydrant maintenance business district and promoting local shopping by using some of the pro- library staff, and theT eamsters who ee decisions. sets to the table so I am very confi- fees are allocated. Currently 100% of represent our Public Works employ- As illustration, we chose to leave dent 2013 will be a positive and pro- the cost falls on property tax payers ceeds of the recent television/movie shoots to enhance our business com- ees in early 2013. the free newspaper boxes standing on ductive year for Village government. regardless of usage, and the cost is Labor settlements produce a lev- Village streets understanding there not insignificant; $105,614 equating munity. Mary C. Marvin is the mayor of the Recently, there has been renewed el of harmony and stability that then was a free speech component. Neigh- Village of Bronxville, New York. If you to 1.5 tax points in the Village’s last allows us to focus on the real work of boring communities who chose to budget. We are all looking to spread interest in developing the Kensington have a suggestion or comment, consider Road property so a conversation with the Village. However, desirable and remove the boxes either settled with directing your perspective by directing the hydrant costs across all water us- beneficial this end result, theT rustees the publisher or lost in court with ers, creating a much more equitable neighbors and residents will come to email to [email protected]. the fore again in 2013. and I are acutely aware that we are penalties in the hundreds of thou- paradigm. only stewards of taxpayers’ dollars and sands of dollars. In that same vein, the Village We continue to work pro-active- ly with the County of Westchester negotiate accordingly. Supporters of political figure Board will be taking a fresh look at I liken the job of a Trustee in Lyndon La Rouche are seen with our recreational facilities. Though we as a named community in the Af- FINANCES The Friends of the Hastings Library present: Yonkers Seeks to Collect Over $900,000 in Unpaid Real Estate Transfer Tax YONKERS, NY –Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano on January 13, 2013 an- nounced his administration is pursuing approximately $938,000 in unpaid real estate transfer taxes from 123 Yonkers property owners. “It has come to the attention of the administration that, once again, there are individuals and businesses ments and transfer of deeds for each who believe they can bypass the sys- property. Overall, with assistance from tem and avoid paying a tax that goes the County, we look for this process to directly into our funding stream,” said be more efficiently managed.” Mayor Spano. “Time has come for this The collection of these unpaid tax- to stop. I’ve called upon our legal and “We believe that with the assis- es comes as Mayor Spano has worked finance teams to aggressively pursue tance of the County, we can eliminate to create a new solid and thorough these property owners so we can collect the failure of parties, involved in a real finance department, which will be ag- money rightfully owed to the City.” estate transaction, to pay the transfer gressive in monitoring the number of Douglas Rushkoff The City ofY onkers has reviewed tax,” added Mayor Spano. “Assistance title companies and sellers that are not “Talking in Code: HTML to LOL” real property transactions dating from will not only serve to ensure compli- timely with their transfer tax payments. July 2009. Since November 2012, the ance with the City’s Code, but will also TheY onkers real estate transfer City sent demand notices to owners, benefitY onkers residents by ensuring tax is pursuant to Chapter 15 [http:// sellers, and title agencies and has re- availability of this much-needed rev- ecode360.com/15126330], Article V Sunday, January 27, 2:30 p.m. solved 74 of the 123 properties to date, enue source for City services.” of the Yonkers City Code, which im- James Harmon Community Center for a collection total of $294,333. As a result of the high number of poses a tax on the transfer of each deed for real estate property. According to 44 Main Street, Hastings-on-Hudson Additionally, as a way to solve the properties with outstanding tax fees, issue of non-payment, Mayor Spano Yonkers City Council also has passed the City Code, the tax must be paid to Douglas Rushkoff is a Hastings resident who wears has asked the Westchester County new legislation which will require all the City “before the recording of such several hats: media theorist, blogger, author, lecturer, Clerk Office to request enforcement of transfer taxes to be paid within seven deed and evidence of payment must be graphic novelist, and documentarian. Many of his books, the City Code that requires payment of days, not the previous 30 days, from affixed to the deed before it is record- including the upcoming Present Shock: When Everything the tax on the transfer of any deed for date of the property sale. ed.” The transfer tax rate inY onkers is Happens Now, explore the intersection of media, real estate property, asking the County Mayor Spano continued, “Chang- 1.5% of the property’s final sale price. technology, and culture. to refuse to record of any deeds which ing the due date of the transfer tax will SOURCE: Yonkers Communi- are subject to the transfer tax without provide us the opportunity to better cations Director, Office of the Mayor, proof of payment. monitor the completion of the pay- Christina Gilmartin THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 2013 Page 17

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The Majority Coalition Leaders gations and Governmental Operations; as a campaign tune for LSD guru Tim- Klein Handcuffs Senate Democrats designate jointly a date in writing after and Local Government Committees othy Leary’s campaign for California’s which no bill or original resolution shall now consist of 9 rather than 8 senators. governor, a different tune was delivered By CARLOS GONZALEZ swers to how this unprecedented and be introduced. The IDC is given proportionate to New York’s governor. unusual control agreement will work,” All resolutions must be provided membership on committees to the size Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon, the ALBANY, NY – No- he said in a release. “The people of New 48 hours in advance to all conference of their conference. widow and son of singer-songwriter body is getting along York deserve clear answers and deserve leaders rather than just the Majority The Majority Coalition Lead- John Lennon, came to the state capi- in Albany, except for to know they will get the progressive and Minority Leaders. ers rather than solely the Temporary tol on Friday to deliver an anti-hydro- Senator Jeff Klein and government they demanded and Sen- Only the Majority Coalition President can refer a bill to the Finance fracking letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo Senate Majority Leader ate Democratic will work to ensure that Leaders shall deem a resolution privi- Committee. and some 204,000 comments to the Dean Skelos, if you can still call him happens.” leged under the new rules. The fast roll call on final votes for NYS Department of Environmental majority leader. We at The Westchester Guardian The Finance Committee swells to bills and resolutions includes the lead- Conservation. That’s because the rules of the have done our best to decipher the nuts 37 rather than 35 senators. ers of each conference rather than sim- Lennon said that concern for his New York State Senate were changed and bolts of what the new rules mean. Education, Higher Education, and ply the Majority and Minority Leader. family’s farm upstate got him inter- this week literally handcuffing and Here’s the skinny of it: Insurance committees now consist of Conference Leaders don’t have to ested in fracking. He said, “it’s not just marginalizing Senate Democrats, a The new rules recognizes the Sen- 19 rather than 18 senators. present for floor votes. heebie-jeebie hippie nonsense.” conference Senator Jeff Klein always ate is composed of three conferences; Crime Victims; Crime and Cor- Conference Leaders have last “The State of New York is not go- wanted to control. the Republicans, Democrats and the rection; Environmental Conservation; word before debate closes on a bill or ing to be crazy,” said Ono, despite her Now new rules enshrine the five- IDC. Cultural Affairs,T ourism, Parks and resolution. being a longtime resident. member Independent Democratic The Republican conference and Recreation; Veterans, and Homeland A senator sponsoring a bill may “Don’t count on your husband’s hit Conference (IDC) into an official third IDC together called the “Majority Security and Military Affairs commit- speak for up to 5 minutes on the roll records,” we told Ono. conference of the chamber, along with Coalition” and its leaders the Majority tees now consist of 13 rather than 14 call vote. Governor Cuomo didn’t meet the Senate GOP and Senate Demo- Coalition Leaders. senators. The formula for allocating fund- with Ono or Lennon and instead opt- crats, thus giving Klein what he always The Chair of Rules is the Majority Aging; Civil Service and Pensions; ing for central staff for the Democratic ed to dispatch a former press agent for wanted; it’s called control. Coalition Leader with most members Commerce, Economic Development Conference is changed, seemingly re- Senator Jeff Klein and intercept New The kumbaya-style change require rather than the Temporary President; and Small Business; and Energy and sulting in a reduction of funding. The York’s newest anti-fracking advocates. IDC Leader Jeff Klein and Republican in effect, this is the same person: Sena- Telecommunications committees now Democratic conference will be stripped Leader Dean Skelos to sign off on any tor Dean Skelos. Carlos Gonzalez pens The Albany Cor- consist of 11 rather than 12 senators. to 30 percent of all funding for central bills that come to the floor for a vote The rules select the Secretary of respondent column. Direct comments Agriculture; Consumer Protec- staff. while rotating the Senate presidency. the Senate rather than the staff of the and inquiry to [email protected]. tion; Mental Health and Developmen- Where the frack was he? Through a forward from a third Legislative Library, to use the Internet tal Disabilities; Racing Gaming and Though the Beatles released party, Democratic conference spokes- and other electronic media to provide Wagering Committees now consist of “Come Together” in the 1970’s, a song man Mike Murphy called the proposed access to the public policy debates, 11 rather than 12 senators. that was originally intended by Lennon rules changes “unprecedented and un- decision-making process and legisla- Elections; ususal” and cast doubt on whether the tive records of the Senate. So much for Housing Con- coalition government will function. transparency. struction and “The rules were made available Majority Coalition Leaders deter- HOUSE close to midnight the night before the Community De- OPEN mine where and which standing com- AT. vote and we still don’t have all the an- velopment; Investi- S Jan 19th mittee’s bills go to upon introduction. 10AM-2PM POLITICSSection CAMPAIGN TRAIL John Kirkpatrick Named to White Plains Common Council By NANCY KING by Common Council Chair Beth Smayda and sec- onded by council member Ben Boykin, Kirkpat- White Plains lawyer John Kirkpat- rick was unanimously voted into the White Plains rick was nominated and voted on Common Council. With this appointment, the this week as the Common Coun- White Plains Common Council remains a totally cil held their first meeting of 2013. Democratic entity. Mr. Kirkpatrick is replacing David rd Mr. Kirkpatrick is a partner in the law firm Buchwald who now represents the 93 Assembly of Oxman, Tulis, Kirkpatrick, Whyatt and Geiger District in Albany. The White Plains City Charter LLP of White Plains. This firm’s field of expertise mandates that the council must nominate and vote is in the areas of zoning, land usage, real estate and for a replacement for any seat vacated on the coun- government. It has also represented developers who cil for any reason. After Buchwald’s election to the have appeared before the common council before. Assembly, Kirkpatrick sought out Mayor Roach Mr. Kirkpatrick has stated that his firm will not be and expressed interest in the open seat. Nominated representing White Plains at any time in the future Page 18 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 2013

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four years ago. As of this date, one floor these very challenges. The work that John Kirkpatrick Named to White Plains Common Council in one building has been done… that’s the White Plains Common Council it. The common council will have to ad- undertakes will not only affect the resi- to prevent a conflict of interest. At this will be the following: mer Scholz Buick Auto lot. There isn’t dress this hold up vis-a-vis the White dents of White Plains but these elected date his firm is representing the Pepe *FASNY – Despite the protests of anything on West Post Road currently Plains Housing Authority and HUD. officials as well. New Councilmember Auto Group which does have plans many residents in the south end of the other than botanicas and pawn shops. It makes one wonder if HUD is so Kirkpatrick will be up for re-election in before the council. Kirkpatrick will re- city, it appears that the council will vote Economic development to that area of embroiled in their fight with County November as is Mayor Roach who will cuse himself from any vote concerning to move this project forward. Develop- the city is crucial to the financial health Executive Rob Astorino over afford- be looking to garner his first full term his firm’s client. However it is hoped ment of the former Ridgeway Country of our city. able housing they have forgotten about as the elected Mayor of White Plains. that with his experience with develop- Club by the French American School *Comprehensive Plan - The com- the City of White Plains and the ten- Roach was appointed to the position ers, Mr. Kirkpatrick can help the city of New York (FASNY) has divided mon council will have to decide wheth- ants living in Winbrook who remain in after then mayor Adam Bradley re- generate more economic development. this community and since the Recre- er the City of White Plains needs a limbo. signed after being convicted of domes- Mr. Kirkpatrick is also currently the ation District Ordinance hasn’t been comprehensive plan to ensure the eco- *Police and Fire Arbitration tic violence. Which roads these leaders Secretary of the Friends of Westchester amended to attract another developer, nomic growth of the city. If you want to - The city has to negotiate those con- take White Plains down in the coming Parks. it seems that FASNY will be a go. move forward, you need a plan. Since tracts again for FY2013-2014. Unless months will no doubt affect their cam- Mr. Kirkpatrick told members of *Sunrise Detox Center – Located the great recession, there hasn’t been a some increase in sales tax receipts re- paigns and re-election bids. the media that he hoped his time on at 37 DeKalb Avenue, right smack dab lot of development in the city. While veal themselves, those negotiations are Nancy King is a freelance investigative the board would be used to promote in the middle of a residential neighbor- residents are looking forward to the going to be rough. Currently, the city’s pedestrian safety in the city, and to help hood, this will more than likely to be Metro-Plex and the Cambria Suites… reporter; a resident of White Plains, New sales tax receipts are 5% lower than they York. City Hall go paperless in the future. approved by the common council since more is needed. were this time last year. While this council meeting’s agen- it will generate revenue for the city. *Winbrook Housing Complex - While these are challenging times da was on the light side, the members *West Post Road – Long forgot- Also located in the West Post Road / for the City of White Plains, it is also are going to have to address some chal- ten by previous administrations, this South Lexington Avenue corridor, this refreshing to see a local government, lenges the city will be facing in 2013. depressed area currently has a pro- housing complex is over 50 years old acknowledge that there are indeed Coming before the council this year posal for the development of the for- and was scheduled to be rehabilitated challenges and is prepared to act on

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Unless we are not playing with a full to the discretion of the court, dimin- yearns for a speedy disposition. His cars in which many gun permit holders, deck, a disclosure made in connection ishes the risk of death or injury by de- attorney will inquire into every factual wary of criminals, probably keep their with an application for a gun permit fendant’s use of his gun, a defendant and legal test available. In short, unless guns. that the applicant drinks alcohol exces- indeed who ordinarily is unknown to there is a suspension of the defendant’s Our legislators and bar leaders sivley would cause a denial of the appli- the court and whose conduct, insofar as gun permit and a consequent hand- should advocate for a bill providing for cation. From this it follows that, upon it is known to the court, suggests that ing over of the gun to the police, the the suspension of a gun permit during the lawful arrest of the holder of a gun the defendant may be troubled and risk attending defendant’s continued the pendency of an action for driv- permit for driving while intoxicated, may have an impaired judgment. Fur- possession of his gun is exacerbated ing while intoxicated. The public must the evidence supporting the arrest is a ther, the delay that seemingly is the life by the inevitable delay. The number of wonder why such a law does not exist. Suspension of Gun sufficient predicate for the temporary blood of our law will inevitably infuse guns that might be handed over is, so Harold Reynolds Permit in DWI Action suspension of the permit. itself into the prosecution. The conse- to speak, sobering, for recent arrest sta- Attorney at Law A statute providing for such a quences of a finding of guilt are sub- tistics disclose that about 28,000 New Scarsdale, NY 10583 suspension, whether compelled or left stantial and rare is the defendant who York drunks annually stagger into their OP-ED

United States without a substantial Obama’s Second Presidential Honeymoon Slipping Away military. Perhaps all have noticed that in Congress the term ‘military‘ is of- By BOB K. BOGEN in Obama’s second honeymoon offer the promised end of ill-advised and need to look at these basic functions. ten used in matters of ‘military’ action, important and urgent opportunities exorbitant U.S. major military murders Those of us who have hung around ‘military’ expenditures, ‘military’ forces, Much of historic impor- for achieving, or at least initiating, those abroad; and 4] the continuing, but now a good while remember that, until after and ‘military’ equipment, but not ‘de- tance was achieved dur- changes that were promises or suggest- demonstrable urgent, need to repair the the euphoria ending the Second World fensive ‘ expenditures, ‘defensive’ equip- ing President Obama’s ed, but not completed during his first intolerable corruptions and gross dis- War, we had a well respected War De- ment [e.g. ’defensive’ tanks, ‘defensive’ first term, even in his four-year term. tortions in our elections and related at- partment. We lost that clearly named fighter planes, ‘defensive’ rockets etc] . first “Presidential Hon- Without reciting all the promises, tempts at representative government. . major agency title for any nation that Isn’t it about time, after a half-century eymoon”. And much else in major hopes, and achievements, it is impor- Before digging in on specifics it believes it can not afford to be without of phony George Orwell “1984” New- destructive threats has been avoided tant to at least list here some of the seems helpful to hit a couple of sig- a defensive, [or offensive?], military ca- Speak, that we give up the misleading in his second election, that is, all of the most crucial national needs still on the nificant semantic and jurisdictional pability. semantic euphemisms of the so-called abominations threatened by an alterna- table. Most prominent are the needs to problems. The new twin nominations Even as an active Quaker for many Defense Department, the Secretary tive presidential candidacy. But we still resolve 1] the economy/jobs and hous- of a new Presidential Cabinet member decades and, before that, as an officer of Defense, and the Defense Budget. have serious expectations that were not ing horrors; 2] the accelerating domes- for military affairs, and a major agency of the armed forces in Asia, I can see Perhaps we could revert to the original achieved in the first term, and are even tic personal safety threats of horrific chief for the related major CIA ‘intel- no way to preserve and enhance the term, the War Department, or simply now in serious doubt. The weeks ahead gun abuse, 3] the urgency to accelerate ligence’ direction emphasize the timely economic and moral obligations of the Continued on page 19 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 2013 Page 19

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Obama’s Second Presidential Honeymoon Slipping Away issue now among concerned Americans other country where gun possession is high-school civics club in the 1940s.] and the serious disruptions around the somewhat less common but the next As some will be old enough to recall, Continued from page 18 greater than the next 20 largest national world as the CIA now runs many un- most common after our own nation, Nixon was first elected President in part due to his assurance that he would be honest about our Military Depart- military expenditures around the world, manned Drone planes who have killed namely Yemen. Of course, if Texas has How can we forget the quickly end the disgraceful and horrible ment, and its equipment, actions, [‘ad- combined!. many civilians. Aside from the seri- its way and is liberated from the U.S., most serious warning by Five-Star Viet Nam war. Actually ending that ventures’?], and missions. ous questions of ‘extra-judicial killings’ [perhaps to return to Mexico], Assault General and President Dwight murder of ‘them’ and ‘ours’ within his Even the nominated head of the away from a battlefield, the underlying Weapons might be more acceptable Eisenhower, that our nation must notion of ‘peace with honor’ stretched so-called Defense Department has jurisdictional issue that such activities there. the killing on for years, doubling the been clear in his view that after the end avoid the dangerous depredations of might more acceptably be ordered and Jobs and housing remain crucial previous 25,000 American deaths, and of Bin Laden, it is time now to leave the ‘Military-Industrial (He might well run by the so-called Defense Depart- problems requiring federal spending, only God knows how many Vietnam- Afghanistan. And he has also been have added, Congressional)] Complex.’ ment, which is the agency tasked with despite the continuing economic insan- ese deaths. President Obama’s similar vigorous in his denunciation of much As for the other half of the Obama military actions such as Drone attacks, ity that is still devastating Europe with promise, beyond the actual end of the of the enormous so-called Defense bargain, in the nomination of a new and might find more appropriate pro- austerity that only adds to the problem. Iraq war and his doubling of commit- Expenditures that were not even re- hard-line CIA Chief, jurisdiction is a cedural methods to justify, select , and More on that in a following column. ment in Afghanistan, has similarly been quested by the military, and seem only troublesome issue. Again, some of us manage such attacks. More billions for billionaires with ‘aus- extended six years so far in Afghanistan, ‘required‘ by Congressional members to who were around more than a half- As described in my earlier column, terity’ for the 99%, may appeal to some making it the longest war in U.S. his- line their own pockets and those who century will well recall the CIA’s war- the President, with the advice of his legislators, but such foul-minded igno- tory, with at least another regrettable finance their election campaigns. time predecessor, the O.S.S, the Office Vice President, Joe Biden’s Task Force, rance rather deserves tar and feathers two years expected.” The proposed use of such clear of Strategic Services. My next-door should direct legislation to control all The pathetic state of our elections: speech for military decisions, both by neighbor for many years had para- Assault Weapons sales and perhaps gross private financing, wholesale cor- Bob K. Bogen served as comprehensive the Administration and the Congress, chuted into Eastern Europe and later provide a modest payment for turning ruption of representative government long-range facilities planning director [as well as the press and in other media into China during WW II for the OSS over any such weapons and magazines with avoidable Gerrymandering, in- for the New York Metropolitan Regional discussions] might help us to use more with medals and disabilities to prove to police, possibly to include other cluding massive voter suppression was Planning Commission; as planning di- rationality in setting national policy, it. [His later distinction included his semi-automatic weapons, within a rea- grotesquely demonstrated this last year rector for the New England Regional expenditures, and actions. All the Re- vociferous action to ‘tell off ’ Joseph sonable number of weeks, after which and must all be dealt with. More later. Commission; as a major United Nations publican blather and dishonest block- McCarthy’s Un-American Activities their possession might be set as a felony. “In the meantime we are haunted official in Pakistan; Board Chairman ing obfuscation, particularly in both the Committee in their hearings.] Some might suggest an alternative, by a particular memory of Richard of the Communications Coordinating House and the Senate, about the deficit But even when Congress renamed where any citizen would be permit- Nixon, the legitimately most disgraced Committee for the United Nations; and unbelievably avoids the enormous por- the OSS as the CIA after the war, in ted, or encouraged to obtain grenade President in our nation’s history. [I had Principal Representative of Architects/ tion of the national budget devoted to 1947, they continued to limit the func- launching attachments and rocket fir- a number of personal contacts with that Designers/ Planners for Social Responsi- so-called Defense Budget. As some tion of the agency to intelligence gath- ing bazookas. After that, nuclear-dirty villain as my Congressman, before he bility to the United Nations. readers know, our military budget is ering, with no military, ‘police or law projectiles might be facilitated. Any became a Senator, Vice President and enforcement’ functions. This is a major who objected might want to go to an- President, when I acted as chair of my WEIR ONLY HUMAN

that puts women in danger from stalk- can do to a community or to a group Press Needs Some Moral Guidelines ers? Additionally, how about the thou- of innocent people, the least we can do sands of people who live very private is hold it up to public scorn. Shame is By BOB WEIR that conclusion. A mentally disturbed be a bulwark that protects the public lives because of their past experiences? a powerful weapon when used against young man goes on a shooting binge in from oppressive government by expos- For example, there are victims of do- those who feel invulnerable to criticism All good people with a nearby state, so a publisher decides to ing corruption and editorializing about mestic violence who are trying to live or legal action. I don’t expect a scarlet common sense want tell everyone in her paper’s distribution civic and political matters. How were quietly and anonymously. There are for- letter on their forehead (or, in this case, to do something to area who the legal gun owners are and the people being protected by expos- mer police officers who have put some their masthead), just a slap in the face prevent future trag- where they live? ing legal gun owners to public scrutiny? vicious criminals behind bars. Should a by a public that is outraged by their lack edies like that which Imagine if that same paper decided Not only does the criminal element road map to their homes be provided of decency. occurred in Newtown, Connecticut. to post a reporter outside a Planned know who has guns in those areas, but by a newspaper with no qualms about What one newspaper in Westchester Bob Weir is a veteran of 20 years with the Parenthood center when abortions are they know who doesn’t have guns. stretching the Constitution to fit their County, New York, did was not good, New York Police Dept. (NYPD), ten of being offered. Suppose the reporter fol- The paper was able to get the info leftist agenda? nor was it sensible. What The Journal which were performed in plainclothes un- lowed women who had visited the cen- on gun owners via a public information In my opinion, we need a serious News did by publishing the names of dercover assignments. Bob began a writ- ter and then published their names and request, which is also legal. But, Put- conversation about the boundaries of gun permit holders in its Westchester ing career about 12 years ago and had his addresses with a disclaimer saying that nam County, another of the paper’s dis- freedom. In the wake of the Newtown and Rockland papers is legal under first book published in 1999. Bob went on it’s not known whether an abortion had tribution areas, has refused a request to tragedy we heard a lot about the need the First Amendment provision of the to write and publish a total of seven nov- occurred, but the paper just wanted turn over the info about their residents, to modify the Second Amendment. Constitution, but it was at the very least els, “Murder in Black and White,” “City people to know who visited the place. citing safety concerns. In one instance, Should the same be said about the an ethical violation of the peoples’ right to Die For,” “Powers that Be,” “Ruthie’s How about if the paper published all reported by the Putnam County Clerk, First? I’m not one who advocates tin- to privacy. Those gun owners registered Kids,” “Deadly to Love,” “Short Stories of the names and addresses of people on a woman who was “stalked for a num- kering with our freedoms because of with their government, as they’re re- Life and Death,” and “Out of Sight.” He welfare and how much money and ber of years,” took great pains to find a the slippery slope theory. Yet, I think quired to do, yet didn’t expect to have also became a syndicated columnist under food stamps they’re receiving? I think “peaceful neighborhood.” Three days most decent people would agree that their names and addresses published the title “Weir Only Human.” it’s fair to say that the left in this coun- after The Journal News story surfaced, when a media outlet stretches the in a local paper for all to see. A state- try would be apoplectic and calling for he said, the woman, who was in The Constitution like Turkish Taffy, not- ment from The Journal News stated a new ruling on the First Amendment. Journal News database, started to get withstanding the potential for harm it that they knew publishing of the info Educated people respect the freedom hang-ups on her phone late at night. would be controversial, “but we felt of the press and recognize how vital it ThoughThe Journal News didn’t publish sharing info about gun permits in our CLASSIFIED ADS is to the function of a democracy. How- phone numbers, the clerk said its infor- Office Space Available- Prime Retail - Westchester County area was important in the aftermath ever, just because you have the right to mation abetted stalkers. The county will Prime Location, Yorktown Heights Best Location in Yorktown Heights of the Newtown shooting.” Really? I’d 1100 Sq. Ft. Store $3100; 1266 Sq. Ft. do something, doesn’t mean that it’s have to defend its position in court, but 1,000 Sq. Ft.: $1800. Contact Wilca: like to know what logic was involved in 914.632.1230 store $2800 and 450 Sq. Ft. Store $1200. right to do it. 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