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Mission Statement The Westchester Guardian is a weekly FeatureCENTER ON CONGRESSSection AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY newspaper devoted to the unbiased reporting of events and developments more straightforward. And failing to share that are newsworthy and significant to information can ensnare an administration readers living in, and/or employed in, Why Government Openness Matters Westchester County. The Guardian in worse problems than it was trying to will strive to report fairly, and objec- By Hon. LEE H. HAMILTON operation of representative democracy. branch of government — all too often lets avoid. Iran-contra, Watergate, the Pentagon tively, reliable information without This unwillingness to be open often the Executive get away with it. Papers: each of these had a major impact on One of the fundamental favor or compromise. Our first duty arises for the wrong reasons. In many cases, Failing to share information makes our constitutional system, and each was char- lessons of the 9/11 tragedy will be to the PEOPLE’S RIGHT officials claim they’re trying to prevent harm us weaker. It enfeebles congressional over- acterized by efforts to suppress information. was that our government TO KNOW, by the exposure of truth, to the national security, but actually want to sight, which is one of the cornerstones of In short, on most issues we’re better off carried a share of blame without fear or hesitation, no matter avoid embarrassing themselves or to sidestep representative democracy and which, when if the American people know what’s going where the pursuit may lead, in the for the failure to stop the the checks and balances created by our aggressively carried out by fully informed on. Full disclosure doesn’t produce good gov- finest tradition of FREEDOM OF attacks. Not because it was asleep at the Constitution. legislators, can strengthen policy-making. It ernment by itself, but it makes it more likely. THE PRESS. switch or ignorant of the dangers that Al makes it far more difficult to maintain our To be sure, on occasion secrecy is Qaeda posed, but because the agencies So secretiveness infiltrates govern- The Guardian will cover news and system of checks and balances. It exacerbates legitimate and necessary, but representative charged with our safety did not share what ment culture. The White House has events relevant to residents and busi- become remarkably adept at making sure mistrust between branches of government government — with its systems of checks nesses all over Westchester County. they knew, either up and down the chain of the President rarely faces an unscripted or and between the government and the and balances — cannot function properly As a weekly, rather than focusing command or with each other. The attacks American people. And it chips away at the without openness and the presumption on the immediacy of delivery more were preventable with shared information. uncomfortable moment — a trend that’s been building for decades. The government foundation of our system, which rests on a should always be in its favor. If officials want associated with daily journals, we will This insight was highlighted in the classifies far too many documents at too high public that is well-informed about what gov- to keep information secret, they should bear instead seek to provide the broader, report of the 9/11 Commission — on which a cost, to the point where vital information is ernment is doing and why. the burden of explaining why. I hope you’ll more comprehensive, chronological I served — and became a key driver of the inadequately protected because of the sheer Without that information, we are join me in pushing for an era of openness in step-by-step accounting of events, reforms instituted by the U.S. intelligence enlightened with analysis, where volume of needlessly classified information. poorer in our ability to exercise discriminat- government. community over the last dozen years. Within appropriate. ing judgment on the conduct of policy and For information about our educational the government, there are plenty of people Federal agencies often keep informa- of politicians, and we lose our advantage over resources and programs, visit our website at From amongst journalism’s classic who now understand that sharing informa- tion from inspectors general, our nation’s authoritarian societies: the spread of knowl- www.centeroncongress.org. Go to Facebook key-words: who, what, when, where, tion and using it to inform planning and appointed watchdogs. They do their best to edge to people searching for a solution to our to share your thoughts about Congress, civic why, and how, the why and how will debate produces better policy: rooted in facts, put strict limits on what Congress finds out; society’s challenges and problems. education, and the citizen’s role in represen- drive our pursuit. We will use our more well-vetted, and more robust. I often get the impression that the execu- abundant time, and our resources, to tive branch would prefer an uninformed In fact, if you look at the public discus- tative democracy. “Like” us on Facebook at So it’s worrisome that today it seems get past the initial ‘spin’ and ‘damage Congress to one knowledgeable enough sion of any number of recent controversies “Center on Congress at Indiana University.” harder than ever to know what our govern- control’ often characteristic of imme- to press high-ranking officials, including — Benghazi, NSA surveillance, the IRS ment is doing, and not just when it comes Lee Hamilton is Director of the Center on diate news releases, to reach the very the President, on their understanding of rulings, reform of the VA, the subsidies going to national security. Secrecy and a wide- Congress at Indiana University. He was a heart of the matter: the truth. We will policy challenges, the steps they’re taking to solar manufacturer Solyndra — what’s spread failure to share information both member of the U.S. House of Representatives for take our readers to a point of under- to address them, and the articulation of the clear is that as more information became standing and insight which cannot be within government and with the American 34 years. policy. Congress — ostensibly the people’s available, resolving the problem became obtained elsewhere. people remain major barriers to the effective To succeed, we must recognize from the outset that bigger is not neces- POLITICS sarily better. And, furthermore, we will acknowledge that we cannot be all things to all readers. We must Ferguson, Obama and Rand Paul: Demilitarize the Police and Politics carefully balance the presentation of relevant, hard-hitting, Westchester By Hon. RICHARD of us, and particularly those in low-income Americans. Stop-and-frisk had fairly broad vigilance, surrender -- call it what you will. news and commentary, with features BRODSKY neighborhoods. When we ask them to be support, even within minority communities. Then comes Ferguson. and columns useful in daily living agents of social policy, problems emerge. And we seem to have collectively shrugged Suddenly, we see images of police/ and employment in, and around the Cops have a difficult, some- Since 9/11, we’ve accepted changes about the way private corporations collect citizen interaction and we are appalled. No county. We must stay trim and flexible times impossible, job. It’s in what we will tolerate in government our data and control our communications. one yet knows how or why Mr. Brown was if we are to succeed. tough enough when we ask intrusion in our daily lives. There’s been no I suspect that we will understand the shot to death. It’s also hard to understand them to handle crimes, the sustained outcry against government collec- depth of change in American society only day-to-day lawbreaking that threatens all tion of the speech and communications of over time, and as a consequence of fear, Continued on page 3 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, August 28, 2014 Page 3

POLITICS Ferguson, Obama and Rand Paul: Demilitarize the Police and Politics Continued from page 2 government and governed. And, bam, we values. Limitations on government over- whether the police’s initial refusal to name don’t like it very much. reach, as it affects police or government the shooter was a justified protection in the How much of this has happened across surveillance, are ingrained in the ideology of face of threats, or a double-standard by which the nation is unknown. Which departments both movements. An alliance can be forged police protect their own. But watching police have tanks and other military paraphernalia? on this issue if both men and both move- in the dress of soldiers pointing rifles at What plans have been developed for their ments have the courage to work alongside peaceful protestors, or rousting reporters in a use? Who decides when and how to deploy? each other. McDonalds, or tear gassing TV cameramen, What the hell is going on? Political change never comes on a that hit like a bolt from the blue. This goes much deeper than it first smooth curve. Specific events create almost The depth of the reaction is not that we appears. Individual police officers and instantaneous changes in public perception have an isolated example of police excess. It’s departments should be held accountable for and action follows. That’s what’s going on that we’ve quietly and without examination their mistakes. But the implications of what in Ferguson and across America. We don’t created a system of military policing, and we’ve done can’t be worked through in the want or need our police to treat citizens the bam, we’re watching a new kind of America. context of an individual tragedy. The presi- way they are treated in Egypt or Moscow. The comparisons with the days of Bull dent and his congressional supporters like We, citizens and political leaders, can seize Conner and Selma are inevitable. But this Rand Paul (?) are stepping forward, talking the moment, and reach a new consensus on 2014 by the Huffington Post http:// tank in New York City and at the Wagner is a new kind of problem as well. We’ve about “demilitarizing” American police. The how to organize our lives in a post-9/11 era, www.huffingtonpost.com/ School at New York University. Follow Richard trained our police forces, given them military ironies of this are rare and special. There has consistent with the constitutional and social richard-brodsky/ferguson-obama-and- Brodsky on Twitter: www.twitter.com/ uniforms and equipment, and encour- always been a connection between the grass- genius of the American experience. rand-p_b_5682172.html richardbrodsky aged a new kind of relationship between roots Tea Party concerns and progressive First published August 15, Richard Brodsky is a fellow at the Demos think PUBLIC POLICY

that those who are poor through no fault A Strategic Political Argument for the Minimum Wage of their own — widows, the disabled, and orphans — should be treated charitably By Prof. OREN M. on frivolous things. At the same time, to English Poor Laws of the 1500s. Beggars, while those who are able-bodied should be LEVIN-WALDMAN argue the benefits that accrue to the poor is i.e. those considered able bodied were to be treated harshly. Within this framework one unfortunately a weak argument because of treated harshly. For the first offense, they is poor because of some moral defect, and the The minimum wage has society’s tendency to stigmatize the poor. were often flogged and then sent to a juris- notion of market failure does not constitute long been thought of as an Our views about the poor still rest diction to do work; for subsequent offenses being poor through no fault of one’s own. issue that only affects the on a distinction between the worthy and they might even be put to death. The Arguably one who works even for the low-wage labor market, i.e. unworthy poor that harkens back to the American distinction similarly maintains Continued on page 4 the working poor. Broader construction of the minimum wage population, however, centerpiece of a political strategy to increase shows that not to be the case. When the the minimum wage. For too long the debate minimum wage labor market is defined as surrounding the minimum wage has mani- the effective minimum wage population fested itself in a sideshow between those — those who earn around the minimum arguing the adverse employment conse- rather than those who earn the statutory quences specifically for teenagers and those minimum — the proportion earning an arguing the benefits to specifically the poor. effective minimum wage is considerably Herein lies the problem. Politically speaking larger. Moreover, if we understand that an it is a non-issue. increase in the statutory minimum wage C “The doctors understood how important A focus on teenage employment con- it was to get me back to work in a week.” can ripple upwards through the wage dis- sequences only feeds the myth that onlyM a tribution, we can then understand that the Ricky R., colon patient small segment of the labor market reallyY minimum wage is ultimately about helping derives benefit. Moreover, because this the middle class. small segment are teenagers, they are secCM -

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Argument for the Minimum Wage A NON-CUSTODIAL PARENT HAS THE RIGHT TO REQUEST TEMPORARY OR PERMANENT CUS- Continued from pageTODY 3 OF THE CHILD AND TO SEEK ENFORCEMENTclass households OF VISITATION are still RIGHTS WITH THE CHILD. essential to the mainte- minimum wage is alsoBY ORDERpoor through OF THE FAMILY no fault COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK nance of their households. of his or her own. Surely,TO THE this ABOVE-NAMED person is not RESPONDENT(S) WHO RESIDE(S) OR IS FOUND AT [specify address(es)]: Rehearsing these a beggar. But opponents of the minimum Last known addresses: TIFFANY RAY:arguments 24 Garfield Street,really #3, Yonkers,gets NY 10701 wage have managed to apply the worthy us nowhere other than / unworthy distinctionLast knownto minimum addresses: KENNETHwage THOMAS: 24 Garfield Street, #3, Yonkers, NY 10701 both sides managing to earners. They are Anstill Order unworthy to Show Cause because under Article 10 of the Family Court Act having been filed with this Court seeking to modify the placement forspeak the above-named past one child. another. they lack the skills necessary to command YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONEDStrategically, to appear supporters before this of Court at Yonkers Family Court higher wages. Put another way, they still located at 53 So. 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OPT-OUT Putnam County Clerk’s Office to Mail Opt-Out Forms to Permit Holders

The Putnam County Clerk’s Office wants this “Opt-Out” provision in the law, more to make sure every pistol permit holder who notably the 120 day moratorium period, was wants to remit an “Opt- Out” form which very confusing to the public it was designed keeps their personal information confidential to protect. The wording of the law, along has the opportunity to do so. First Deputy with its misinterpretation by certain media County Clerk Michael C. Bartolotti stated, outlets, led to confusion by the public that “We feel so strongly about this subject that once the moratorium period ended no “Opt- we are mailing Opt-Out forms to all pistol Out” forms would be accepted. We just want permit holders that have not yet remitted to stress to all pistol permit holders that is one.” Bartolotti added, “if you receive corre- not the case and nothing is further from the spondence from our office in your mailbox truth. reminding you to ‘Opt-Out’ we ask that you In closing, Bartolotti urged all pistol please return the completed ‘Opt-Out’ form permit holders that receive an “Opt-Out” to our office as soon as possible.” mailing from the Clerk’s Office to please Putnam County is continuing to fight return the completed form as soon as for the right to protect our citizens from possible. Bartolotti stressed that “currently, an unwarranted invasion of their safety and the only protection you may have from personal privacy, but they can’t do it alone. disclosure is to have an approved ‘Opt- Bartolotti stressed that “It’s not too late to file Out’ form in your permit file. The sooner your ‘Opt-Out’ form.” “Please return your you get this completed form back to our completed ‘Opt-Out’ form to your Putnam office, the sooner YOUR PERSONAL County Clerk’s Office so you can HELP US INFORMATION WILL REMAIN HELP YOU.” CONFIDENTIAL.” During our latest wave of community Michael Bartolotti, 1st Deputy County outreach to our pistol permit holders to assist Clerk can be contacted at 845-808-1142. in the filing of their forms, we learned that (L-R):Dennis, Lea, and Michael of the Putnam County Clerk’s Office preparing the mailing of “Opt-Out” forms to permit holders.

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Dept. for-approved-conditions/treatmentsites/ Research and Education at 271 North Ave., per year on average in New Rochelle, has also grown and over experience all around.” of Education list *** http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/ Although some assert that the and up to $92,000 per requirements and oes292032.htm the next few months, the program will tran- th percentile, according to the Ultrasound Field is saturated with tech- year for the 90 professional licensure. The cur- sition to their new home at 333 Westchester May 2013 B L S report. *** Ave., in White Plains. CURE will also offer nologists, Nussbaumer finds that “thousands riculum includes compassion training and

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the preserve can be submitted for entry on special concert will offer a high quality string News & Notes from Northern Westchester Saturday and Sunday, September 6th and quartet (two of the members play with the 7th, from 10am to 3pm, at the Conservancy NY Philharmonic) and also a vocal quartet By MARK JEFFERS Annual Golden Apple Bicycle Tour will be the Taconic Opera’s top operatic artists who in Rye. All submissions must be framed and of singers from the Warsaw and Muenchen held on August 31st with proceeds ben- will take you on a thrilling musical voyage ready for hanging. There is a maximum of Philharmonic, the Houston Grand Opera, The Ice Bucket Challenge efitting Friends of Karen, a nonprofit that into the Netherworld of some of the world’s three submissions per person and all age the Minnesota Opera, the Pittsburgh has hit the Jeffers family and supports children with life-threatening most famous operas. The special guest of groups are welcome. The exhibit, titled Symphony Orchestra and the New York we were so glad to partici- illnesses. the evening will be the famous international “Marshlands in Poetry,” will open Sunday, City Opera. Besides beautiful and known pate in the ALS fundraiser Taconic Opera, now in its 17th season opera diva, Renata Scotto. September 14th, from 2pm to 5pm, with a melodies, Neapolitan Songs, and the most where over $15.6 million in Westchester, will present an unusual fund- Big Brothers Big Sisters are looking for reception for the artists and the public. It will popular arias and vocal ensembles, there in donations have been made to date. So raiser on Thursday, September 18th in White your reusable items, especially clothing, and remain on view weekends from through the will be two extra attractions: dancers in their congratulations to the organizers and we Plains at the CV Rich Mansion. The Gala’s will be holding a local Westchester pickup end of March. period costumes, dancing the Polonaise and would like to dedicate this week’s “cold, wet theme, “Opera Goes to Hell,” will take you on September 2nd, please call 877-399-2570 Something that happens at our house the Royal Piper playing “Amazing Grace” and happy” edition of “News & Notes,” to all on an infernal journey into perdition (sounds to schedule your pickup. every Fall “Autumn Frolic” will take place on and “Ode to Joy,” first as a bag piper’s solo those dunkers… Saturday, September 13th at 7:30pm at the and then ending triumphantly, together rd like a wild trip to me…). The event includes a All poetry and verse that was inspired The Westchester Cycle Club’s 33 sumptuous meal and an opportunity to meet by Marshlands Conservancy or created at Irvington High School Auditorium. This Continued on page 7 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, August 28, 2014 Page 7

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scheduled to coincide with the annual Mt. September 4th, for its upcoming production Good luck and safe travels to all our News & Notes from Northern Westchester Kisco Chamber of Commerce Sidewalk of “Oliver” at Bedford Hills Community local college bound students and remember Continued from page 6 14th. Sales Days, which attracts shoppers from House. to give them a great big hug as they head off across Westchester and lower Fairfield Auditions for boys and girls ages 8 and to school, they will remember it and you’ll with the instrumental and vocal quartet as a Or here is another running opportu- nity… The first road race in Mount Kisco counties. The Run will include a food older will be held from 4:30pm to 6:30pm, feel better too… see you next week. symbol of unity in memory of 9/11. donation component benefitting Mt. Kisco’s adult auditions will be held from 7pm to history will kick off on Sunday, September Mark Jeffers resides in Bedford Hills, New York, After all the BBQs and picnics this st 21 at 8am. The Mount Kisco 5K Run, Interfaith food pantry. 10pm. Performance dates are scheduled summer, how about a “Hike Around the th with his wife Sarah, and three daughters, Kate, which will include competitive and less Actors alert… Bedford Community for Friday, November 14 through Sunday, Lake” at the Cranberry Lake Preserve in th st Amanda, and Claire. competitive runners and walkers of all Theatre is looking for actors to audition November 16 and Friday, November 21 North White Plains at 1pm on September nd rd ages (perhaps a few skippers, too) has been on Tuesday, September 2 and Thursday, through Sunday, November 23 . CURRENT COMMENTARY Law-and-Order Tactics Bring Neither to Ferguson River Rock Landscapes Presents NOWA Production’s By LARRY M. ELKIN State officials were remarkably slow to protect for years. Judicial restraint and AUTUMN FROLIC to intervene – it took Gov. Jay Nixon days a mayor who campaigned on a platform CLASSICAL POPS We don’t know for sure before holding a news conference – and of restricting the practice, however, have The most popular melodies, waltzes, Neapolitan songs, tshardash, favorites from exactly what happened in when they did, it was with a series of ineffec- dialed back stop-and-frisk significantly. In opera and operetta, duets & vocal ensembles, dance & the Royal Piper. the moments before the tive and quickly reversed decisions. There was Brooklyn, stop-and-frisk incidents are down STRING QUARTET FEATURING first bullet struck Michael no curfew, then there was, then there wasn’t. 99 percent compared to the same period last Brown on August 9, 2014. Krzystof Kuznik, Claire Smith-Bermingham, Malgorzata Kellis, Hyona Kim, The curfewwould not be enforced with tear year. Shootings are up in the same neighbor- Maurycy Banaszek, Marta Bedkowski-Reilly Theodore Chletsos, Juan Jose Ibarra However, we do know with certainty, gas, until it was. The Highway Patrol was hoods, though homicides are down. because the evidence is abundantly clear, that in charge of maintaining order, but then Even assuming the increase in THE POLISH AMERICAN FOLK DANCE COMPANY at nearly every juncture since that moment, the National Guard was called. As of this shootings can be tied to the decline in stop- local authorities in Ferguson, Missouri, have writing, there is still no independent state- and-frisk, which is hardly a given, those of escalated and exacerbated the situation. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 @ 7:30PM level investigation or special prosecutor to us who objected to stop-and-frisk never IRIVINGTON HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM, 40 NORTH BWAY, IRVINGTON, NY 10523 At least five more bullets are reported take control of the investigation into Brown’s claimed that the program achieved abso- to have struck Brown, who was unarmed. General Admission $25; Early Bird Sale by Aug 30, 2014: $20; Tkts. avail. @ door & at: shooting. The governor has reportedly said lutely nothing. The objection was that the https://autumnfrolic.brownpapertickets.com or www.NoWaProductions.com Two of those shots apparently hit him in the he lacks the legal authority to appoint them. costs in community alienation – and the risk head. Police withheld the name of the officer Federal authorities stepped into this of a misunderstanding escalating to tragedy who fired the shots for a week, then released political and moral vacuum and, in this – were not worth the benefits. The statistics it at the same time they released a video pur- instance, it was not an overreach. The parallel from the first half of this year seem to bear portedly showing that Brown had robbed a investigation by the Justice Department, convenience store shortly before he was shot. and calls for calm from Eric Holder and Continued on page 8 But the police promptly admitted that the President Obama, have been among the few 90th Annual officer who shot Brown had no knowledge genuinely soothing steps any authority figure of that robbery, making the alleged robbery has taken. There have certainly been almost irrelevant to the shooting. According to their none from the local officials, who have done Yorktown Grange Fair accounts of the officer’s story, the unarmed little other than ensure the situation contin- teenager was merely walking in the road ues to escalate. September 4 — September 7 rather than on the sidewalk when the officer The heavy-handed tactics in Missouri Grange Fairgrounds • 99 Moseman Road, Yorktown Heights confronted him. have not brought law and order. They have An officer sees a youth walking in the not stopped the nightly demonstrations nor Rides ~ Exhibits ~ Livestock ~ Contests ~ Live Music road and ends up firing at least six shots? removed the cover they provide to miscreants It certainly sounds like an overreaction. who take advantage of them. They certainly Square And what we have seen in Ferguson in the have not started the process of rebuild- Dancing with aftermath of Brown’s death indicates that ing community trust or securing justice for Audience The overreaction is standard operating proce- Brown and his family. The tactics achieved Participation Friendly dure. From firing tear gas in the direction of nothing, in fact, other than to parade the Contests Squares crowds including journalists and children to heavy weaponry in the hands of local police detaining and sometimes arresting (though and to convince most of the country that the never charging) journalists and photogra- police are unfit to handle that equipment phers, including one from The Washington responsibly. Post, the authorities there seem convinced The incendiary nature of the juncture Antique Exhibits & Contests For the Kids that the only way to get the community’s between police department overreach and Produce ~ Flowers Annie &the obedience, if not its respect, is through force. racial tension is not unique to the suburbs Tractor Soon enough, opportunists took of St. Louis, though events in Ferguson have Parade Art ~ Photography Natural Wonder Band advantage of the ensuing anger and unrest. reached a higher pitch than in many parts Baking ~ Legos Ventriloquist Ferguson residents have largely maintained of the country. New York City’s controver- Needlework Jonathan Geffner that most criminal activity is the result of sial stop-and-frisk program, about which I outsiders exploiting the town’s upheaval. have written more than once, strained com- Some protesters have stepped in to try to munity relations between NYPD officers www.yorktowngrangefair.org protect businesses against looters. and the communities they were charged Page 8 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, August 28, 2014

CURRENT COMMENTARY Law-and-Order Tactics Bring Neither to Ferguson Continued from page 7 will suffer in much the same way as Detroit and Newark after the riots of 1967, or south that out. central Los Angeles after the unrest of 1992. An officer shooting an unarmed citizen Those places have never really recovered, should always be handled with the utmost even today, from anger and alienation that seriousness, especially when it fits into a ultimately turned inward and consumed pattern disproportionately affecting minori- them. If the police can’t protect Ferguson, ties nationwide. The situation in Ferguson Ferguson will have to protect itself. cries out for strong state-level leadership that is strikingly absent. The governor should be Larry M. Elkin, CPA, CFP®, has provided on the scene, personally assuring residents personal financial and tax counseling to a that he will take responsibility for the safety sophisticated client base since 1986. After six of their young people. Then he should back years with Arthur Andersen, where he was a up those assurances with actions, includ- senior manager for personal financial planning ing an independent state-level investigation and family wealth planning, he founded his and constraints on the local police, who are own firm in Hastings on Hudson, N.Y., in behaving like an occupying army, and are 1992. That firm grew steadily and became the armed like one. Palisades Hudson organization, which moved to In the absence of that leadership, the Scarsdale, N.Y., in 2002. The firm expanded to community has to take its welfare into its Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in 2005 and to Atlanta own hands. There is a real risk that Ferguson in 2008. Protesters in Washington, D.C., exhibiting solidarity with the citizens of Ferguson, Missouri. Photo by and courtesy of Elvert Barnes. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT The College of New Rochelle Becomes First Private College in Mid-Hudson Region to Earn START-UP NY Designation Applications to be Accepted from High-Tech Businesses New Rochelle, NY -- The College of New opportunities. This partnership will also Rochelle Thursday, August 21, 2014th create new employment opportunities and announced that it is the first private college attract new investment locally, spurring addi- in the Mid-Hudson Region to be designated tional economic growth in New Rochelle as a START-UP NY location. The College and across the Westchester area. We are will now begin accepting applications from extremely grateful to those who supported qualified “high-technology” businesses that our application, particularly New Rochelle align with the College’s academic mission. Mayor Noam Bramson and our New York “We are very pleased to have been State representatives, Assemblyman Steven selected for the START-UP NY program Otis and Senator George Latimer.” and extremely proud to support Governor “This big win for both The College Cuomo’s transformative initiative to stimu- of New Rochelle and the City will help late economic development in New York position New Rochelle as a leader in leverag- by growing business and creating jobs,” said ing higher education to promote job creation Judith Huntington, President of The College and economic growth,” said New Rochelle of New Rochelle. Mayor Noam Bramson. Through the program, The College of Described by Governor Andrew New Rochelle will seek to establish a partner- Cuomo as “the most ambitious economic ship with high tech businesses in fields such development program in New York’s recent College of New Rochelle-Start-Up NY as biotechnology, information technology, history,” START-UP NY provides major re-manufacturing, advance materials, engi- incentives for businesses to relocate, start York State, a company from out-of-state that directly from the campus population, or by all-women School of Arts & Sciences, and neering, or electronic products. The College up, or significantly expand in New York is relocating to New York, or an expansion undertaking numerous other mutually ben- three schools which admit women and has designated 20,334 square feet in Maura State through affiliations with public and of a company that already has employees in eficial partnerships. men: the School of New Resources (for Hall on its main campus in New Rochelle, private universities, colleges, and community the state. Eligible businesses will undergo a For more information about eligibil- adult learners), the School of Nursing and for use by the selected business. colleges. Eligible businesses have the oppor- competitive analysis to ensure there are no ity and the application process and to apply the Graduate School. The main campus of competitors in the area, followed by a valida- the College is located in lower Westchester “This opportunity is particularly impor- tunity to operate state and local tax-free for the START-UP NY program at The tion process to ensure the company’s business County, 16 miles north of New York City. tant to us because it personifies The College and their employees to pay no state or local College of New Rochelle, go to http:// is aligned with the College’s mission. A The College maintains five other campus of New Rochelle’s commitment to embrac- personal income taxes for up to ten years, startup.ny.gov/. company might support this mission by locations in New York City for the School ing an entrepreneurial spirit,” said President while partnering with higher education The first Catholic college for women allowing faculty to perform applied research, of New Resources in Brooklyn, The Bronx, Huntington. “Through our participation institutions. in New York State, The College of New establishing internship and experiential and Manhattan. Visit the College’s website in this program, our students will benefit In order to be eligible for the program, Rochelle was founded in 1904 by the learning opportunities for students, hiring at www.cnr.edu. from internships and experiential learning businesses must be a new company in New Ursuline Order. Today, it comprises the THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, August 28, 2014 Page 9

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By RODDY SCHEER “Heavily fortified foods may sound like and DOUG MOSS a good thing, but it when it comes to children and pregnant women, excessive exposure Dear EarthTalk: Is to high nutrient levels could actually cause it true that much of short or long-term health problems,” says our food—includ- EWG research director Renee Sharp, who ing cereals and co-authored the report. “Manufacturers snacks eaten by children—is actually use vitamin and mineral fortification to sell over-fortified with excessive amounts of their products, adding amounts in excess of vitamins and minerals that can be danger- what people need and more than might be ous to our health? prudent for young children to consume.” -- Diane Summerton, Waukesha, WI Sharp adds that excessive levels of Added nutrients in the processed foods we vitamin A can lead to skeletal abnormali- eat could indeed be too much of a good ties, liver damage and hair loss, while high thing, especially for kids. According to a doses of zinc can impede copper absorption, report from non-profit health research and compromise red and white blood cells and advocacy group Environmental Working impair immune function. Also, too much Group (EWG), nearly half of American vitamin A during pregnancy can lead to fetal kids aged eight and under “consume poten- developmental issues. And older adults who tially harmful amounts of vitamin A, zinc get too much vitamin A are at more risk for and niacin because of excessive food forti- osteoporosis and hip fractures. fication, outdated nutritional labeling rules EWG suggests it’s time to overhaul our and misleading marketing tactics used by food labeling system to better account for food manufacturers.” EWG’s analysis for the how ingredients may affect children as well “How Much Is Too Much?” report focused as adults. “In other words, when a parent on two frequently fortified food categories: picks up a box of cereal and sees that one Photo by Andy Melton, courtesy of Flickr. breakfast cereals and snack bars. serving provides 50 percent of the Daily Of the 1,550 common cereals studied Value for vitamin A, he or she may think their kids in favor of so-called whole foods least risk,” says Ashley Koff, a registered how-much-is-too-much. (unprocessed, unrefined fruits, vegetables dietitian and a former ad executive for kid’s by EWG, 114 (including Total Raisin Bran, that it provides 50 percent of a child’s recom- EarthTalk® is written and edited by Roddy and whole grains) that deliver the right cereals and snack bars. “We owe it to parents Wheaties Fuel, Cocoa Krispies, Krave and mended intake,” says EWG researcher and Scheer and Doug Moss and is a registered trade- amounts of nutrients naturally. and kids to make it easiest to choose better others) were fortified with 30 percent or report co-author Olga Naidenko. “But he mark of E - The Environmental Magazine “Research consistently shows that the quality foods.” more of the adult Daily Value for vitamin A, or she would most likely be wrong, since the (www.emagazine.com). Send questions to: nutrient amounts and types found in whole CONTACT: EWG’s “How Much Is zinc and/or niacin. And 27 of 1,000 brands Daily Values are based on an adult’s dietary [email protected]. of snack bars studied (including Balance, needs.” foods provide optimal nutrition as well as Too Much?” report, www.ewg.org/research/ Kind and Marathon bars) were fortified EWG is working on the U.S. Food with 50 percent or more of the adult Daily and Drug Administration (FDA) to update Value for at least one of these nutrients. its guidelines for Nutrition Facts to better Commercial • Industrial EWG researchers based their analysis on reflect how foods affect children as well as & Residential Services Nutrition Facts labels on the various food adults. In the meantime, parents might want items’ packaging. to consider scaling back on fortified foods for Roll-Off Containers 1-30 Yards Home Cleanup Containers

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to be a farmer or even a Yorktown resident Yorktown Grange Fair Celebrates Its Agricultural Heritage to enter. Entries for the arts and craft cat- egories (art, photography, needlework, YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, NY – year’s fair: - Horse Costume Class (Sunday at 2:15) animals and their owners are competing and Legos) can be submitted September st nd Carnival rides, midway games, cotton candy, for the coveted blue ribbons. Showmanship 1 and 2 . Baking and jelly/jam entries - Tractor parade from the YCCC building to - Parade of animals (Sunday at 3:30) rd th and lots of live entertainment – sure, you’ll competition and judging times are scheduled are due on the 3 and 4 , and flowers and the Grange fairgrounds (Saturday at Noon) - Produce Auction: baskets of award winning th th find all of that at the Yorktown Grange Fair. - Draft horse pulling demonstration by produce are auctioned for charity (Sunday at as follows: produce entries are due the 4 and 5 . All But it’s the livestock and agricultural exhibits Rock Hill Farm (Saturday at 12:30) 7:00pm) - Horses (Saturday at 2:30) rules and entry forms are online at www. that make this annual country fair unique in - Oxen pulling/driving demonstration by As in years past, the Grange Fair will - Cows (Sunday at 11:00) YorktownGrangeFair.org. all of Westchester. Celebrating its 90th year th th Rock Hill Farm (Saturday at 5:00) also play host to an impressive menagerie of - Goats (Sunday at 1:45) For more information, including schedules on September 4 thru 7 , the Yorktown - Horseback riding demonstrations by farm animals, including: 5 breeds of goats; The animals are not the only ones of all events and performances, go to www. Grange Fair remains true to its origin as a Dusty Stables (Saturday and Sunday) 3 breeds of sheep, 4 breeds of cows, draft competing for blue ribbons. There will also YorktownGrangeFair.org. competition and showcase of local farmers’ - Wool spinning demonstrations by the horses, oxen, piglets and more than 100 be competitions and exhibits of produce, livestock, poultry and produce. Hanover Spinners/Knit-In group (Saturday ducks, geese, turkeys, chickens, and roosters. flowers, baking and crafts, and entries are Following are some of the signature and Sunday) And in keeping with tradition, all of these open to the general public – you do not have special events and demonstrations of this HEALTH

me in shape but would clear the chaos in my able to make it from one period of time until “steps” in had become the sum and substance Confessions of a Fitness Addict head by replacing it with endorphins. Buying the next. I was so high from working out of my life. I had exited one toxic relationship some Mizono running shoes, a sports bra that every week I increased my running or and had entered into the obsessive body dys- By NANCY KING on their own obsessive fitness vision quest. and a pair of running pants, I embarked workout schedules. I was so addicted that I morphic one and so I stopped. I went from Looking at them both, constantly moni- on my running journey. I lasted that first was even dreaming about working out when running about 50 miles a week to less than It’s been said that toring their steps and how much hydration run, a whopping 4 minutes. There were no I slept. That’s when I began to enter races. 10. I gave up body sculpting and once again admitting you they were taking actually prompted me to endorphins on board after that first endeavor. Selling my old jewelry (because when took to my couch. have a problem explore what drives us over the edge to what There were only the heaving breaths of a I got dumped so did most of my income), I now run when I feel like just for the is the first step is no more than a socially acceptable form of chunky person with the dream of getting I entered races. Marathons, half-marathons, pure joy I get from it and I work out at toward recovery. addiction and escape. back into the sport. Again, it was one more Spartan Races and mud-runs, I did them all. times with my friends who have started Well I’m here to In January of 2013 I found myself at 5’2” disappointment in what was turning out to Barely taking a body resting breath, I ended their journey to fitness. Sadly however, I’m admit that I had nearly weighing in at 170lbs. Personal pain be a series of monumental disappointments. up with shin splints and compartment watching them morph into the obsession I become a fitness had caused me to have developed a relation- Every day I added two more minutes to my syndrome in my calves. During that brief had just a year ago. Armed with their fit-bit addict. My drug ship with Ritz Crackers. I just couldn’t get running plan and continued to privately down time of recovery, it was time to re-eval- devices and gallons of water and, their quest of choice was enough of them. I ate them with cheese, I ate work out when I wasn’t running. If I couldn’t uate my running and work out obsession. I to enjoy a healthier lifestyle, I asked them either running, them with peanut butter and I ate the plain; control the level of chaos going on in my day was registered for a myriad of races through what their motivation was for their new- or working out. I sleeve after sleeve of them. Those crackers to day life I could control my workout ( or so December but my once healthy obsession found, move-more, eat less lifestyle. Like crave sweat, pain had replaced a family member who was in I thought). It only took about two weeks for was now wreaking havoc on my body. I was me a year and a half ago, it was all about and the 24-hour turn replacing me with a new snack of their it to begin controlling me. now down 50lbs and folks were wondering if wanting to change how people perceived high it gives you own.That buttery but salty taste reeled me in Three months into my obsession I I had a serious life threatening disorder. Yet, them. Somehow two smart women are more until you do it time after time. In danger of crossing into the had lost 30 lbs. and folks were beginning I still kept working out and running. By the worried about getting the coveted thigh gap again the next plus size corner of a clothing store, I began to to whisper about my change in appearance. time 2013 was nearly over, I found myself that we somehow think will magically trans- day. Rather than work out but I didn’t see the scale budge. It Baggy clothes are always the first to give up running a race in blizzard conditions. You’ve form one’s life. Ladies, do it for you. Do it for cute kitten heels wasn’t until I was told that I was being traded your secret. Four months into this upheaval, got to really consider if one addiction really the pure joy of a sport or health. Doing it for and strappy little in for that new snack did the scale begin to I was losing more weight, running upwards isn’t any different than another. That was the others will never get you the results you were dresses, my closet has become a repository inch downward. However, it was dropping in of 2-hours at a time and working out like a day I made the decision not to train to race looking for in the first place and won’t replace for running shoes, compression pants, racer the unhealthiest way. I had lost my appetite, mad woman. By this time, the dumping that anymore or work out for several hours a day what you think is missing. You’ve got all you back shirts and sports bras. I find myself in and my love affair with Ritz Crackers had I was told to expect had arrived. Running seven days a week. need, you’ve got you. stores not looking at fashion trends for the and working out were the only things that Like any other addiction, I had crossed been replaced with projectile vomiting. Nancy King is a freelance reporter residing in upcoming season but at what’s trending in kept the anxiety and stress vomiting from the line from healthy to obsessive. I reveled Twenty-five years earlier I had been an Westchester County. active wear. I never thought this was much occurring on a daily basis. After a long run, in the fact that I was now 109 lbs. and had avid runner and thought maybe a little bit of of a problem but more of a lifestyle choice; those endorphins were doing their job; I was gone from a size 11 to a size 3. Getting those that is until two people close to me started running on the treadmill will not only get

was indeed a tragic life-ending event, espe- thousands, being mutilated and slaugh- Robin Williams—Gaining Perspective cially for the grieving family and friends of tered each and every day by brutal heartless the deceased, we should consider what has barbarians, death is ever present. Are any By BOB PASCARELLA have been the reason for Robin Williams’ at the onset of Parkinson’s disease, a neuro- happened in context and not lose perspec- of these lives less important than Robin untimely death from suicide, and what could logical disorder that added to the burdens, tive. All of this attention and adulation is Williams’? Life is sacred in all its aspects The heartfelt expressions of sadness and have prevented it from happening. Some both physical and emotional, from which he being paid to this one solitary life, when in and diversity, and has meaning and worth. regret over the death of Robin Williams have even rather callously referred to it as a suffered. Perhaps a stronger person grounded fact we are living in a world where misery, In some parts of the world, however, life is were to be expected. The media has given coward’s way out. in faith could have withstood Mr. Williams’ pain, death and destruction are a daily cheap, even worthless, a mere convenience much attention and extensive coverage, Robin Williams’ life seemed to have trials and tribulation, but in all the coverage occurrence. and used for sinister purposes. exploring the many faces of this gifted actor been a constant battle with many demons, that I reviewed there was no mention of Whether from the abomination of Let us also consider this irony and clash / comedian. Voices have spoken out; many substance abuse, monetary woes and personal religion in his life. abortion, or innocent men, women and of cultures; in America and most of the words have been written on what could travails. We just recently learned that he was Death has many faces. Although this children by the tens, even hundreds of Continued on page 11 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, August 28, 2014 Page 11

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to bring glory and homage in the name of a The demise of Robin Williams from throughout the world who, unlike Robin Robin Williams—Gaining Perspective higher power. Other than the victims of this suicide should sadden us all. We pray for Williams, never had a chance to live a ful- Continued from page 10 end result is death, and it is forever. But in heinous act, no tears are shed for the suicide Mr. William’s immortal soul, that he finds filling life, their hopes and dreams squashed, other parts of the world, suicide can be seen bomber; there are only thanks and praise. eternal rest, and for his family in their time they never stood a chance, they were too busy western world suicide is a destructive and in an entirely different context; not to put an The family is honored, and proud of their of great sorrow and loss. But also, let us not just trying to ‘stay alive’. highly emotional act of a life in torment. The end to one’s suffering, but in a religious fervor loved one, and no one sends regrets. forget the persecuted and brutalized peoples

falling off, but my father, who is a doctor, said who were the multidimensional navigators After a long walk, I returned home to Manic in Manhattan–Part VII it was possible. He was right: risperdol can aboard a magical ship that I wrote about; find my mother was not home to let me in cause ulcers. The medical staff stuck a camera I was on the brink of suffering hallucina- and I became furious. A friend gave me a By CHRIS ROSTENBERG shorts, dress shoes and orange socks. While up my rectum (uncomfortable!) to look for tions. I was under the impression that our ride to the train station (and the Rubik’s cube I was in his car, he freaked out, opened the abrasions and a long straw down my throat whole civilization was about to collapse. At which I would give to the child). I had no I had no direction in life. I passenger door, grabbed my leg, and hit me (painful!) into my stomach to suck up blood. the same time, I imagined that I would stop money, but figured I might find some, when asked family what career I repeatedly with a metal bar. He wanted me This was one of the most miserable times aging, become president of the planet earth I suddenly discovered a five-dollar bill on the should pick, and they said, out, but I would have fallen prone so he of my life. My roommate was a silent old and marry several of my former girlfriends. I platform (!). I meant to take the local train to “get any job,” which didn’t could strike my head. I couldn’t explain this man who kept defecating in his bed (gross!), looked sideways through a magnifying glass Manhattan, but got on the Amtrak instead help at all. I’m not a violent to him because he was screaming like the stinking up the whole room, and the nurses that I had brought with me and believed I and I felt that the train was traveling very person but violence followed me in my lunatic he was. So I made a fist and destroyed took their time cleaning it up. It was horrible. was peering through time. I saw old Japanese fast, miles beneath the surface of the earth. aimless travel, poor jobs and doobitch. When his windshield with it. That summer, I got sicker. I was con- kamikaze fighter jets fly into the Empire I visited my aunt, raving about nuclear war, I worked as an usher it was commonplace to The medicine’s side-effects were not vinced that my doctor, who insisted I State Building, and saw it topple over. I also then ran away into the darkness. do inventory by counting every missing soda through with me. When I was put on ris- needed to be hospitalized, was a spy out found a feather, which seemed to pop into cup as a soda sold. 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(www.suicidology.org). Suicide: Some Thoughts Treatment of Children with Mental Illness. A booklet from Publications.USA.gov Continued from page 11 Richard Cory over one-million annual deaths by suicide By Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) (Publication # 719). Answers to frequently into an abyss and certain aspects of my life worldwide? Whenever Richard Cory went downtown, asked questions about the treatment of were not brought up in therapy. I did not Why are there 4 male suicides to every mental disorders in children. Online PDF recognize those omissions until much later. female, but three times as many females We people on the pavement looked at him; available. 5 pgs. Released in 2009. attempting suicide versus males? I could not discern the signals or the subtle He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Center for Disease Control and Prevention Why are people with a family history of signs. Clean favored, and imperially slim. (www.cdc.gov) This desire is not and never should be suicide at an increased risk? No gene has yet considered a moral failing but a biological been detected. And he was always quietly arrayed, National Alliance on Mental Illness (www. and chemical failure occurring somewhere Trauma at any age increases the risk of nami.org). And he was always human when he talked; in the brain, anyone’s brain, everyone’s suicide. Why does it take so long to retrain Our Culture does not help. A minor brain. Understand that the brain is the most the brain? But still he fluttered pulses when he said, song written by Paul Simon entitled powerful of man’s instruments whose inner Is it purely a human act? “Good-morning,” and he glittered when he walked. “Richard Cory”, suggests suicide is favor- workings are far beyond today’s capacity of Over 90 percent of people who die by able over poverty of life. Not one of their hits. understanding. Knowing it is such a terrible suicide have been diagnosed with mental And he was rich-yes, richer than a king- Fortunately. For humans, the goal seemingly act, how does the mind block out all the hurt illness. At the time of the act it’s probably And admirably schooled in every grace: is the creation, maintaining and stockpiling that will be caused by such a deed and yet still 100%. We with mental illness are tired of of wealth, nothing about what the beauty perform the act? being treated as less than human. What if 90 In fine, we thought that he was everything that life and faith can offer. The sufferer may not announce their percent of the people who attempted suicide To make us wish that we were in his place. You can never do too much to help. intention. I did not show any outward signs. had, God forbid, cancer, would there be a Involvement in community or religious Spontaneous or preplanned, the mind may greater outrage? So on we worked, and waited for the light, organizations may decrease the risk of have already isolated itself from the outside As with any other medical illness, a And went without the meat, and cursed the bread; suicide. Stay involved, communicate, and world and their closest companions. Once thorough evaluation is needed. Your primary don’t shut yourself in your own private the thought is accepted, calmly faced, the act doctor may be very good, but would you And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, terror. Suicide can be prevented by love prevails unless prevented by luck or circum- see him or her if you needed treatment for Went home and put a bullet through his head. displayed. Clergy, religious leaders are stances, a miracle or somehow God’s will. cancer or would you seek a specialist? A also there for us; professional medical Rehabilitation and therapy may take place psychiatrist knows the best drug combina- report from the Center for Disease Control suicidal thoughts or know someone who help is just a call away. Please see my prior thereafter. And always the thought that tions and which work best in conjunction (CDC) reflects a reality that we know has expressed such thoughts, contact orga- article on suicide – June 9, 2011 (http:// suicide is an available option when things with psychotherapy. Fight the stigma! Seek too well; suicide continues to be a national nizations such as the Westchester Chapter westchesterguardian.com/6_9_11/ get too difficult increases as prior attempts the specialist! Ongoing psychiatric treat- health issue,” said Christine Moutier, M.D., of AFSP-Hudson Valley New York @914- WG_6_9_fin.pdf ) increase the risk for future attempts. ment is helpful for most people with suicidal Chief Medical Officer of the American 610-9156 or http://www.afsp.org. National Glenn Slaby is married and has one son. A We’ve been inundated with statistics thoughts and behaviors. Some forms of Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP). contact number is 888-333-AFSP (2377). former accountant with an MBA, he is a free- since Robin Williams’ death and they are not psychotherapy—including cognitive behav- If someone’s behavior has changed, if These are not crisis lines. September is lancer associated with The Westchester Guardian, encouraging. They are everywhere. That does ioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavior they seem depressed or upset, talk to them, Suicide Prevention Month. Join AFSP’s, suffers from mental illness, writes part-time, not help the issue unless we keep asking the therapy (DBT) have proven to work well a phone call can change a life; can save a Walk to Prevent Suicide, Sunday, October and works at the New Rochelle Public Library right questions, repeatedly. among some sufferers. life. Organizations such as the American 5th. The National crisis hot line: 1-800-273- and at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Harrison, New What are the national, international, U.S. national suicide deaths rose slightly Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) TALK (8255). York. racial, social and economic data and com- for the fifth year in a row to 12.3 per 100,000 will help you and help others, especially Other sources: in 2011 (the last year of released data). “This ponents and correlations occurring with if you don’t know what to say. If you have · American Association of Suicidology MUSIC

starts with the fiery Garcia / Lesh / Hunter “Cumberland Blues” and it’s immediately THE SOUNDS obvious that the band is hitting on all cyl- inders. Marty Robbins “El Paso” is also spiritedly performed. I never know what OFBLUE to expect with “He’s Gone” but this version Grateful“Dave’s Picks: Volume 11” Wichita, Dead KS 11/17/1972 (3 CD’s) moves at a quicker than usual pace that’s By Bob Putignano www.Dead.net – www.Rhino.com resolute with short gospel choruses, as there’s more emphasis on the jam, Garcia Recorded by the legendary Owsley “Bear” You will probably notice that almost beautifully, squirming and burning majesti- Johnny Cash’s “Big River.” Garcia amps- up guides lifting off with a power solo for his Stanley these original tapes have been re-mas- everything during the lengthy first set has cally towards faraway and (at times) peaceful on “China Cat Sunflower” especially during bandmates to support and follow, it’s also tered in HDCD, like many of these rerelease that little extra edge to it, starting with Chuck places. The Dead didn’t forget “Jack Straw” the transition to the traditional “I Know You performed here standalone which didn’t series (Dave’ Picks, Dick’s Picks, Road Trips, and Berry’s “Promised Land.” John Philips of the (who like this concert is also from Wichita,) Rider” that includes bombs from Lesh’s bass happen often. Their anthem “Truckin’” gets etcetera) the sound quality noticeably improves as Mamas and the Papas wrote “Me and My “cut his buddy down, dug for him a shallow concluding disc one. hot and heavy as the entire band burns, the evening wears on, similarly the Dead become Uncle” it’s short, sweet and sparkly executed grave, and laid his body down.” Yet the Disc two opens with (still from the shifting towards the bombastic Weir- hotter as the evening progresses. ’72 was the first here, and the Garcia-Hunter “Tennessee Lesh-Hunter, and (somewhat) rarely per- first set) the second Chuck Berry cover Kreutzman “The Other One,” soaring year I had seen the band in concert so I have a Jed” offers a eruptive jam during the outro, formed “Box of Rain” suffers with Phil’s “Around and Around” with Weir urging through the universe like a supernova cata- biased fondness for almost every show from this but Weir’s Black-Throated Wind” trudges- ragged vocals. The traditional “Don’t Ease Garcia to hop-on, not that Jerry needed clysmic explosion that eventually crashes into spectacular era (which in this particular case) is on for far too long logging in at over seven Me In” swings in a bluesy vein, as does the encouragement. “Casey Jones” ends the set “Brokedown Palace,” where Garcia’s vocal derived from almost forty-two years ago. minutes. Alternately “Bird Song” glows punchy “Beat it on Down the Line,” and with a locomotive like rush. The second set Continued on page 13 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, August 28, 2014 Page 13

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gorgeous and superlative for nearly eleven these November 1972 recordings that can The Sounds of Blue minutes. The final three-piece segment now be found encapsulated as “Dave’s Picks Continued from page 12 opens with Buddy Holly’s thumping “Not Eleven.” No matter, these performances are Fade Away” squarely punching into the quite solid, the group often creates with ease, and guitar solo is soulfully sweet. A playful traditional “Goin’ Down the Road Feeling reckless abandon, and fluent improvisations, Garcia toys during the instrumental segment Bad,” back to “Not Fade Away” (total time making this latest edition (now nearing the of the Weir-Hunter “Sugar Magnolia” that approximately eighteen minutes for this end of its third year,) a very worthwhile ends disc two, but doesn’t end the set. trifecta) that closes the Oklahoma City addition to the never-ending flow of concert Disc three starts with a mostly la-de-da show, as well as disc three. Note: The Dead material unearthed from the Dead’s vaults. “Uncle John’s Band” until the jam as Weir performed “Not Fade Away” five hundred Expect more concert releases, as I and Lesh lock-in with Garcia and roll. and thirty times. believe there’s a bottomless pit of unique and The third Chuck Berry cover of the night The early spring and fall runs of ‘72 quality material to choose from. Enjoy! “Johnny B. Goode” rocks and rolls everyone shows rarely receive the props and kudos they home with delight. Disc three also has five Putignano can be directly contacted deserve, probably because those early and tunes from a two night prior set performed at: [email protected] late 1972 gems are overshadowed by their in Oklahoma City. Starting with a righteous momentous (and better documented) spring For fifteen years Bob Putignano has been and enormous “Playing In the Band” (30:57.) jaunt to Europe. Plus the 1972 fall shows did pivotal at WFDU http://wfdu.fm with his The jam starts out focused, until Garcia starts not include Ron “Pigpen” McKernan (who Sounds of Blue radio show: http://www. to tinker with his wah-wah rig, Weir’s very passed just four months after this concert.) SoundsofBlue.com ; Previously a senior con- sharp with his creative rhythm playing and Pigpen was a major loss for the band’s sound tributing editor at Blues Revue, Blueswax, and guitar fills as the band explores beyond the that exuded a soulful, bluesy and grittier Goldmine magazines, and Music Editor for the boundaries of planet earth with plenty of path. The Grateful Dead continued to wildly Yonkers Tribune, The Westchester Guardian, impromptu jamming that doesn’t get too prosper and grow without Pigpen, and their and Making A Scene. Direct email to Bob weird. A standalone “Wharf Rat” is lush, newer paths and directions sprouted from Putignano: [email protected] RENOVATIONS Bronxville Public Library Painting Project Will Close Children’s Room September 6th to14th By GABRIELLA RADUJKO inviting as the books are!” Day) and Friday, September 5 will receive an Library users will be happy to learn that incentive for “planning ahead” in anticipation The Children’s Room at the Bronxville the paint colors will remain the same. The of the closing. For every five books a child Public Library will be closed beginning Children’s Room will reopen on Monday, takes out, he or she will receive a “First Day Saturday, September 6 for a painting project. September 15, at 9:30 a.m. During the of School” photo card! In addition to painting walls and ceilings, painting project, a “pop-up” children’s library painted book shelves will receive a fresh Gabriella Radujko is Bronxville Public Library will be set up in the Young Adult Room with coat of paint. Shelving with natural wood Director. Direct email to bronxvilledirector@ selections for every reading level. finishes will not be painted. Erin Schirota, wlsmail.org and learn more at www.bronxvil- Head of Youth Services said, “We’re making Children who come in between lelibrary.org every effort to keep the Children’s Room as Tuesday, September 2 (the day after Labor

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all those runs across matter. “Our success A 13-3 loss to Somers, a climatic final thrown, out recorded and batted ball was A Perfect Red Storm is really built around our pitching,” he says game awaits and then the playoffs. met with resounding cheers. “It was really – singling out starters Joey Iorizzo, Mike Nonetheless, Barbagallo believes a special game for us – even though we got Somers Perfect Red Storm Cruise Toward Undefeated Season Napolitano, and Logan Carriero. Somers holds an edge when the little things beat so bad,” he says. By RICH MONETTI to a big blast, Barbagallo doesn’t give their But in that regard, winning takes a can’t equal a two out clutch hit. Citing all the Certainly doing Somers proud, best hitter a lecture on the basics. “Brandon backseat to preserving the health of his tournament play Somers did this spring, he Barbagallo notes that these kids not only When compiling a 15-0 LaSpina is hitting the ball really hard and slingers. “I used to pitch, and nobody really says, “We have an advantage in the pressure play well inside the lines but are also pretty record in which your leading the team in most batting statistics,” took care of my arm,” he says. “I ended up situation because we put ourselves in that good at reading between them. “They all take team outscores opponents he says. hurting myself so I try to focus the boys on situation a lot.” their academics seriously and do very well in 263-43, paring the unavoid- throwing the ball right.” school,” he says. Helping him ring up the ribbies, John Their performance at The Cooperstown able bloop with a multitude Mollaghan leads off with the table setting A caution he puts into practice. “If Dreams Tournament in July speaks directly Looking forward, he doesn’t have a read of blasts must be the general mindset. But and makes sure – for the meat of the order – somebody has any issue we shut them to this. Playing six preliminary games to yet on next year since teams usually disperse en route to this undefeated onslaught, the that the meals are always on wheels. “His on down,” he says. bracket play, Somers ranked 31 of 104. at the next level. He’s got his pitch ready, coaches of the Somers Red Storm WPBA base percentage is .657, he’s fast and a good Luckily, his 11-man roster is the defi- Barbagallo was particularly proud of the regardless. “If this team stays together, I will Little League team drills an understanding base runner,” says Barbagallo. nition of depth. Great middle relief from team’s first round 10-6 comeback win against assuredly be coaching them,” he concludes. that baseball success largely hinges on maxi- Brandon LaSpina, Drew Lasher, Joey the 34 seed. But the fundamentals can only Note : Red Storm won their final three mizing the minutia Even so, the coach quickly realized that the bottom of the order would not only Carino lets them mix and match, while son go so far when you share the bracket with games and then cruised to the champion- “The little things are what makes the be able to roll the top but give it a run for Michael Barbagallo and Dylan Morzillo put a team consisting of players from all across ship with 16-4, 1-0 wins over Lewisboro and difference,” says head coach Joe Barbagallo its money. “In our first game, it took eight out the game ending fires. Nevada and California. “I don’t really want Bedford and a 17-7 win over Mamaroneck Moving the runners over with produc- batters before we had an out,” he recalls, Not overlooking catchers Jack Gorton to say the score,” he laments the blowout to in the final. tive outs or taking a pitch if the runner is on (while boasting a team OBA of .518). and Anthony O’Donnell to drop the the second seed. the move, he says, “We started that message Rich Monetti has been a freelance writer since Foretelling, in his estimation, the season’s signs, the resulting goose egg in the loss But conceding the details of the 24-0 last year, and we continue to reinforce it.” 2003. He lives in Westchester County. success, Barbagallo knows that keeping the column only provides a one game edge on drubbing was eased by the support his boys Of course, if the fundamentals succumb ball down and hitting the corners makes Larchmont/Mamaroneck. received from Somers fans. Every strike

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terrorists might attempt to use weapons of The Future? mass destruction around 2030.” OFFICIAL 2014 Even scarier is the fact that “the PRIMARY ELECTION NOTICE By JOHN F. McMULLEN average group opinion was that a SIMAD Pursuant to the provisions of attack killing 100,000 or more could occur Section 4-118 of the Election In a recent column, I before 2050.” Law, notice is hereby given that mentioned an article by While it is obvious that our world the official Jerome C. Glenn, CEO leaders have a lot to do to put a cap on Primary Election of the Millennium this threat – and we must demand that will be held on Project and the Global they do so – it should be remembered September 9, 2014 Futures System (www.themp.org) that predictions of the future are often from 6:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M. entitled “Our Global Situation and wrong. It has been said that short-term Prospects for the Future” (http://www. for enrolled voters of the predictions in the technology area are wfs.org/futurist/2014-issues-futurist/ Democratic, Republican, usually over-estimations while long- september-october-2014-vol-48-no-5/ Conservative, Independence and term ones tend to be under-estimations. our-global-situation-and-prospects-) Green Parties in those political I remember when Bill Gates wrote his which appeared in the September – subdivisions of Westchester for first book, “The Road Ahead” in 1994, he October 2014 issue of “The Futurist,” the which public offices are indicated that the “World Wide Web would contested, as follows: publication of the World Future Society be very important in 2000 and after.” By (www.wfs.org). The article is adapted PUBLIC OFFICE the time the book was published in 1995, from a much longer work “2013-14 State DEMOCRATIC PARTY the Web was already very important. To of the Future” (http://www.amazon. “Creative Disruption” has focused on the (“SIMAD” stands for “Single Individual Gates’ credit, he not only re-did the Governor com/gp/dp/0988263912/ref=mtr_f_ elimination of jobs due to technological Massively Destructive). The study states book to make it Web-informed before Lieutenant Governor abba-metro_dp_f?tag=abba-metro- innovation – an on-going and accelerat- that ”The number of terrorism incidents its publication as a paperback in 1977, New York State Senate us-20&tagbase=abba-metro&tbId ing happenstance often occurring “under increased over the past 20 years, reaching he revamped Microsoft to compete in 34th Senatorial District =li%3CL%24%25IC%2F%5EWY the radar” – it is well to remember that 8,441 in 2012 and more than 5,000 in the the online arena with” MSNET” and bG%254%5B%22a), the 17th annual there are many other factors that affect first half of 2013” and points out that “Of New York State Senate “Internet Explorer.” report card on the future of the world our well-being. all terrorism, the lone wolf type is the most 36th Senatorial District produced by The Millennium Project, One particular section that I found insidious, because it is exceedingly difficult There is much to this book that New York State Assembly an accumulated intelligence from over especially important, as we are faced to anticipate, given the actions and intent demands discussion – more than in the 90th Assembly District of individuals acting alone.” A study space that is available to this column or 4,500 thought leaders selected by its with the almost unbelievable brutality Village of Mamaroneck made by the Israeli mode of the project any column. I encourage all those inter- 50 Nodes around the world. While the of “ISIS” (or “ISIL”), “The Islamic Trustee “maintained that nearly a quarter of ter- ested in where we might be going to six page article is a wealth of informa- State of Iraq and Syria,” is the eight Village of Ossining rorist attacks carried out in 2015 might be purchase the book tion, complete with charts and tables, page chapter “SIMAD and Lone Wolf Mayor and contains recommendations for what Terrorism: Prospects and Potential by a lone wolf” and “about half of the par- The authors finish up with some may be done to make the future a better Strategies to Address the Threat” ticipants in the study thought that lone wolf Continued on page 16 DEMOCRATIC PARTY place, it only skims the surface of the MEMBER OF COUNTY complete two hundred page study. THE ROMA BUILDING COMMITTEE The Executive Summary of the Town of Rye book, after listing the “Variables used COMMERICAL SPACE FOR RENT District 28 in the 2013-2014 State of the Future City of Yonkers Index” (there are 30 of them, with such Ward 4, Districts 8,11 common indicators as “Unemployment Ward 7, Districts 3,4,25 %,” “Population Growth -- annual %,” Ward 8, Districts 2,15,24,26 “Literacy Rate -- % of adults 14 and over,” PUBLIC OFFICE “Internet users per 100 people,” etc. as well REPUBLICAN PARTY as qualitative (and subjective) ones such New York State Senate as “Levels of Corruption,” lists the areas 40th Senatorial District in which “we” (the world) are “winning” (improving) and “losing” (deteriorating) PUBLIC OFFICE over the 30 year period 1993 – 1923 CONSERVATIVE PARTY (there is also a table of “unclear” or “little Prime Yorktown Location New York State Senate 35th Senatorial District change”). Great Visibility • Centrally Located The areas in which we are winning INDEPENDENCE PARTY include “Life Expectancy at Birth,” OFFICE SPACE: STOREFRONT: OFFICE SPACE: MEMBER OF COUNTY “Infant Mortality,” “Literacy Rate,” 1160 Sq. Ft. 950 Sq. Ft. 470 Sq. Ft. Rent COMMITTEE “School Enrollment,” “Internet Users” Yonkers & “Physicians” while the categories in Rent $1650/ Month Rent $3250 /Month $850/Month Ward 7, District 9 which we are losing include “Economic PUBLIC OFFICE Income Inequality,” “Terrorism Call for Details: GREEN Incidents,” and “CO emissions from 2 914.632.1230 New York State Senate fossil fuel and cement emissions.” IVER 40th Senatorial District While this series of columns, 2022 SAW MILL R RD., YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, NY Page 16 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, August 28, 2014

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sometimes conflicting national government and punishment in the future. We need paragraph: “Summerville High School in problems raised in “2013-14 State of the The Future? policies to a world increasingly governed very user-friendly and publicly accessible Summerville, South Carolina, is wasting Future” – or maybe not; the book ends by coordinated and mutual global policies computer models that make the potential no time: A 16-year-old student was with “Ridiculing idealism is shortsighted, Continued from page 15 implemented at national and local levels. consequences of our actions and inactions arrested and suspended for writing a story but idealism untested by the rigors of pes- comments not likely to “go down” well GFIS (“Global Futures Intelligence visually clear.” in which he used a gun to kill a dinosaur. simism can be misleading. The world needs with our most conservative citizens – System” -- https://themp.org/) – like I agree with all of this but am wary of The student, Alex Stone, was assigned by a hardheaded idealists who can look into the “The global challenges facing humanity systems will be needed to support this. the “punishment” if we are not somewhat teacher to write a story about himself. Stone worst and best of humanity to create and are transnational in nature and transin- Economic growth and technological inno- more common-sensical than we are now. chose to embellish his story with obviously implement strategies of success.” stitutional in solution. No government, vation have led to better health and living I saw a story just today on Dave Farber’s fictional details, like dinosaurs. But the Where can we find these “hard- international organization, or institution conditions than ever before in history for list that leaps from the page right into teacher saw the word “gun” and the rest is headed idealists?” more than half the people in the world, but the “Book of Nonsense” – The story, history.” acting alone can solve the problems described John F. McMullen is a writer, poet, college unless our financial, economic, environ- “Teen Arrested, Suspended for Shooting Wow! Maybe I’m naïve in thinking in this report: climate change, cybersecurity professor and radio host. Links to other mental, and social behaviors are improved a Dinosaur (In a Story He Wrote)” was that a country, with administrative threats, organized crime, rich-poor gaps, writings, Podcasts, and BlogTalkRadio along with our industrial technologies, the originally written by Robby Soave on lunacy like this, a Congress that can’t environmental pollution, international broadcasts at www.johnmac13.comhttp:// long-term future is in jeopardy. Business- the Reason Magazine blog (http:// deal with a debt ceiling in a month, and finance, gender discrimination, changing www.johnmac13.com/. disease situations, and the need for sustain- as-usual is an environmental security reason.com/blog/2014/08/20/ very few who seem to understand that able development. The world may have threat. Environmental damages that teen-arrested-suspended-for-shoot- our constant strides with great techno- Your comments are welcome. Direct them to move from governance by a mosaic of people and organizations got away with ing-a-d) and contained the following logical innovation, can deal with the to: [email protected] in the past are less likely to escape exposure EYE ON THEATRE Women Playwrights By JOHN SIMON muffins, previously vomited up but naively bitten into by another’s mouth, that Rebeck The two women playwrights concocts her comedy-drama, and for the I write about are both most part it works. There are, however, also established veterans, but improbabilities and needless reiteration that couldn’t be more different. neither Evan Cabnet’s solid direction nor all- They are Theresa Rebeck, round good acting can quite redeem. who is likable, and Naomi Wallace, who is Brian Avers is a suitably sarcastic and intolerable. contentious Ian, and Heidi Armbruster a Rebeck’s current play, “Poor convincingly troubled and teary Maureen. Behavior,”not one of her very best, is at any Jeff Biehl’s Peter is staid-verging-on-dull rate her most ambitious, and as such deserves enough until jealousy at Ella and Ian’s car- respect. It concerns, like many of hers, man- ryings-on embitter him, and Katie Kreisler woman relations, but it also extends to manages to be both sexy and metaphysical in metaphysics and politics. Ms. Rebeck knows her speculations about goodness, contested how to write pungent dialogue, which is her by Ian. Lauren Helpern’s weekend-cottage first strength, and also how to make it often set is sheer excellence down to some skis witty, which is her second. incongruously displayed in summer, and We have here two high bourgeois New Jessica Pabst’s costumes are a perfect fit. York couples, Peter and Ella in their upstate A problem, though, is that we don’t weekend retreat, and this weekend’s guests, learn what anyone does for a living, which their friends Ian and Maureen. The latter gives the proceedings a bit too much are not exactly a happy pair, Ian being Irish abstractness. Equally questionable is an and sardonic about both the U.S. and Irish emphatically ambiguous ending, making Catholicism, and Maureen being kind of for a certain shaggy-dogginesss. But how crazy and suicidal. He may have married her can one not respond to lines like Ian’s, “Why for her money or a green card, though back do Americans persist in thinking that it (L-R): Jeff Biehl, Evan Cabnet, Brian Avers, Heidi Armbruster, and Katie Kreisler kick off the run of Theresa Rebeck’s Poor then even out of love. is ‘moral’ and ‘good’ to remain addicted to Behavior at Primary Stages. Interest is cannily generated from an institution [marriage] which has driven Rebeck’s poor behavior makes you think. has ever received the MacArthur (so-called Flea More” has been incorporated in the comestibles: pretentiously flavored muffins them mad? You all think the most insane (“Tomato muffins? People have too much Venue: Primary Stages at The Duke Genius) Award. Further, her ghastly plays Comédie-Française’s permanent repertoire. and dangerous leaders imaginable are decent nd nd on 42 Street, 229 West 42 Street, New have been produced not only in the U.S., Herewith, from my book John Simon on time on their hands”), shellfish possibly left as long as they’re in a supposedly sound York, NY 10036. Telephone: 646-223-3010. but also in the U.K., Europe and the Middle Theater, the opening paragraph of my “Flea” unrefrigerated, and a vandalized, home- marriage.” And again: “Why are you trying Performances through September 7, 2014. East, and she has also garnered the Susan review. “Naomi Wallace . . . is a very confused grown basil plant. But there is also an earlier, so hard to be good, if goodness is death? Or Smith Blackburn Prize, Joseph Kesselring young woman. For one thing, she is still a fifteen-minute incident of mildly adulterous not even death. What if it’s only an anaes- Primary Stages Photo by Erin Prize, and Horton Foote Prize for best Marxist after the collapse of Marxism. For clandestine kissing, recalled by Ian as several thetic? If goodness is only an anaesthetic, is it Resnick, courtesy of Primary Stages. American play. Also a National Endowment another, she has taken the title from a won- kisses in a coat closet, by Ella as merely one still goodness? Especially if anaesthesia isn’t for the Arts grant, and Southern Writers’ and derful poem by John Donne, “The Flea,” kiss in a less compromising walk-in closet. finally just an excuse . . . Our own little excuse I doubt whether a more untalented, Obie Awards. And her abominable “One specifically from the line, “Oh stay, three lives So it’s out of trivial matters such as those for poor behavior?” At the very least, Theresa undeserving individual than Naomi Wallace Continued on page 17 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, August 28, 2014 Page 17

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looking at the ceiling and waiting for you “Powerful and touching . . . unforgettable”; and courtesy of Matthew Murphy. to come home. J: Did you sleep? D: Yeah. and, from Variety: “One of the most subtle John Simon has written for over 50 years on Women Playwrights I dreamed I f**ked my mother. J: Oh. How and politically engaged . . . playwrights.” theatre, film, literature, music and fine arts Continued from page 16 many times? D: Just once. J: The dream male employer, adult Dee gives head for What is the world coming to? for the Hudson Review, New Leader, New or—D: Both. Do you find me disgusting?” adult Jamie. In the end, after much dreary Venue: The Pershing Square Signature Criterion, National Review, New York in one flea spare,” meaning spare a flea that There are also powerful one-liners, such as altercation and passionate reconciliation, Center / Romulus Linney Courtyard Magazine, Opera News, Weekly Standard, sucked your blood and mine, and thus united Dee’s “Only man worth kissing is a man the pair (exploited by capitalism) commit Theatre, 480 West 42nd Street, between Broadway.com and Bloomberg News. He us. But by itself, “One Flea Spare” can mean who’s got teeth like a horse.” at most one extra flea, which has no demon- double suicide under the gaze of their Dyer and 10th Avenues, New York, NY reviews books for the New York Times Book I could quote example after example of strable bearing on the play. Finally, she has younger selves, all four intoning chorically, 10036. Box Office / Tickets: 212-244-7529. Review and Washington Post. To learn more, Wallace’s wonders, which have earned her written a piece that is not only pretentious “Hush”-- the very word that should have Performances through September 14, visit the www.JohnSimon-Uncensored. critical raves. Thus we read : ”Unmissable and boring, but also empty, pointless, and been directed at Wallace when she accosted 2014. com website. . . . devastating, moving”; “Compelling”; totally preposterous.” her pen or laptop. And I And Silence production images by

Rachel Nicks as Jamie and Samantha Soule as Dee in And I And Silence. Samantha Soule as Dee Rachel Nicks as Jamie in And I And Silence.

This applies perfectly to “And I and Silence” (2011), now at the Pershing Square And as if this weren’t bad enough, Signature Center. Once again Wallace has the writing, which maddeningly alternates A Cause For Paws Pet Adoptions ineptly plundered for a prestigious epigraph between scenes with the younger and the a poem this time by Emily Dickinson, older women, abounds in near incompre- but whereas ”And I, and Silence” makes hensibility, what with cryptic utterances, very good sense in context, nonsensically sentence fragments, non sequiturs, apo- excerpted without the commas, it is, to siopesis, and subliteracy. (Sample: the rephrase Dickinson’s title, “A Funeral in widespread but illiterate ‘til for the correct [Naomi’s] Brain.” till.) Consider the plot. Young Jamie, 17 and Even the prison is inauthentic, what black, and Young Dee, 16 and white, meet with unlikely amenities and free socializing in a women’s prison where both are doing between cells, but let’s get to the writing. nine years. One of them as accessory in a Thus Jamie, about the view from a cell: robbery (hardly a nine-year offense), and the “They go together, birds and trees. You can’t other for an unspecified reason. They form a have one without the other. And you can’t highly emotional relationship, sort of closet learn to dust right thinking about rags. You can only dust right thinking about flitter. lesbian, and, upon release, share a modest city Whiskey is a very friendy cat who Flitter lives in the mind. Flitter and dust Siggy is an 8 yr. old, neutered male Solo is a friendly and energetic 2 yr. apartment, both pursuing—sometimes suc- is looking for a loving home. He is they go together. You put rags in your mind, orange tabby. He is very calm and old neutered male pit mix. He loves cessfully, sometimes not— careers as maids easy going, and is good with dogs, to play and go for runs. He is good good with dogs, cats & kids. Whiskey in separate households. you got nothing.” cats & kids. with dogs, cats & kids. is a neutered male and is 2 yrs old. The relationship is of an S&M variety, Or take this sample of Wallace’s each woman taking turns caning the other. beloved stichomythia. “JAMIE: You sick To submit an adoption application or to inquire about other cats and dogs looking for homes, please contact In a crucial scene, in pretense of re-enact- again? DEE: No. Just resting. J: Lately ing oral sex forced upon her by an elderly you’re always resting. D: Nah. I just like [email protected] Page 18 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, August 28, 2014

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war wherever we encounter resistance. It The Pavlovian Response of a Wussbag Worldview will undoubtedly provoke hatred. We’ve seen glimpses of the riotous wrath which By LUKE HAMILTON of Israel, it is idiotic to pretend that the then….nada. So when we see the footage bubbles to the surface whenever conserva- two positions are reconcilable. There is no and watch the interviews from places tives dare to draw a line in the sand. When Why do we assume that “compromise” possible since the two posi- like Ferguson and Murrieta, it’s readily Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin compromise is a good tions deny the validity of the other apparent that the two sides aren’t even sent salvos across the bow of USS Obama thing? The word itself side’s position. Would Secretary sharing the same ballpark. Those in her nomination acceptance speech, the provokes a Pavlovian Mashed Potato-Face favor an who held the line against immi- conservative base was rejuvenated almost response across Western agreement where Israel is gration anarchy in Murrieta overnight. As was the hateful opposition, culture, but is compromise categorically half-annihilated? This is stood for the rule of law, who dragged her name, family, and career a good thing? By definition, compro- synthesis, the attempt a secure border, and a through the mud in order to compro- mise requires all parties involved to meet to blend together two clear legal immigration mise her candidacy. But Sarracuda is still somewhere in the middle of their respec- incompatible concepts. policy. How does one standing, stronger than ever; as are the tive positions, yet half of Evil is still Evil, In this way, and compromise on any of principles of Constitutional conservatism. is it not? Should we applaud those who many others, we have those positions without We can either confront Totalitarianism in compromised with Josef Stalin for their abandoned logic and losing the foundation America, paying the requisite price, or we statecraft? How does history view Neville reason for emotion. We of your position as a can kiss the ring of Compromise, purchas- Chamberlain and the lives which were take a stand for what whole? Should they ing the esteem of total strangers at the cost lost as a result of his lack of intestinal feels right instead of settle for adherence to of our nation’s soul. fortitude and willingness to compromise? what is logically possible. the rule of law every other Compromise can be a good thing, but Luke Hamilton is classically-trained, In addition to this emo- week? Should they accept not when two positions are diametrically- Shakespearean actor from Eugene, Oregon tional governance, we’ve been a mostly-secure border? Or a opposed. In that type of situation, there who happens to be a liberty-loving, right- indoctrinated to believe that moderately-clear immigration is no way to meet in the middle without wing, Christian constitutionalist. When not conflict is a bad word. Progressive policy? denying the validity of your own position. penning columns, Hamilton spends his time ideals have been so fully-assimilated The reality is that one of the world- Francis Schaeffer was masterful when astride the Illinois-Wisconsin border, leading into our culture that we prize progress views on display in America will win. We he spoke against this fallacy of synthesis or bands of liberty-starved citizens from the (e.g. moral and cultural erosion) over prin- will either complete the fundamental “dialectical thinking”. He realized that our progressive gulags of Illinois to [relative] cipled opposition. Thus we see progressive The political climate in America transformation into a socialist, progres- culture has shifted from thinking in terms freedom. Hamilton is the creative mind/ Republicans asking for compromise and today is not a result of disagreement on sive state or we will return to our roots of of thesis / antithesis, preferring to ignore voice behind Pillar & Cloud Productions, a standing with the Left, helping to vilify policy. This is not a political spat which liberty, bucking the whip and chain. So logic and reason in order to embrace syn- budding production company which resides conservatives for their stubbornness to get will blow over in an election cycle or two. for us to pretend that if we play enough thesis. So when the nation of Israel states at www.PillarCloudProductions.com. He into the boxcar. Too often we crave com- This is an ideological war over the future patty cake they’ll give us our Legos back their position to be unequivocal in regards owes all to his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, promise and run from conflict, when we of America and (by proxy) the rest of is beyond naïve, it is dangerous. There is to the safety of their citizens and Hamas whose strength is perfected in his weakness. should crave conflict and run from com- Western civilization. It’s clear that there is only one way conservatism will prevail states their position to be unequivo- promise, when the stakes are ideological. no other “shining city on a hill”. It is us and and that is by fighting this ideological cal about the annihilation of the nation

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same age, and also experienced the lack feel “stoned” and can actually counter the Cannabis is not recommended for most Chris has worked though the largest of of real progress and terrible side effects of psychoactive effects. of us, to be used 24/7 and is more effec- his issues, I too have a better life, than I these drugs. I too, had sometimes unpleas- In addition, the lonely cannabis tive in smaller amounts, and indeed from thought was possible back then. I did have ant experiences then with ‘doobitch’. Part consumer, is precluded from meeting with age 25 is more ideal. It sounds like Chris long years of alcoholism, which thank God of the latter is due to prohibition. We have others who prefer this elixir to alcohol, was using this to help ease emotional and I have put behind me, one day at a time. Manic in Manhattan learnt in the last few years of the cannabi- in public retail settings. I have visited psychological pain, rather than, as a way to But the possible ills of alcohol are great, diol (CBD) compound in the plant, and Amsterdam many times, and am able relax after a long hard day at work, as is and we are seeing data from Colorado, of and New Jersey now many strains are grown that have there to be a normal consumer, purchase done by most responsible, adult consumers less auto fatalities and accidents, less crime I have been reading with interest the more of the CBD. This is a more medicinal exactly what I want, and sit and socialize of any elixir. In the end, it did not kill him. overall; in a place where prohibition has series by Chris Rostenberg, “Manic in strain and helps manage pain and anxiety. with others. Prohibition, fosters the men- We should not be punishing people been repealed. Manhattan”. I too, was given Thorazine *CBD is a compound in cannabis that has tality of the ‘down low’ and this fits in with who prefer this to alcohol, and would gain Paul Fraser and other ‘anti-depressants’ at around the medical effects but does not make people the lonely, who often feel this way 24/7. greatly from legalization. I am glad that Fair Lawn, NJ THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, August 28, 2014 Page 19

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CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES Sugar On the Side By SHERIF AWAD Panorama Section. An interview… AWAD: Why did you leave Egypt for Basel Ramsis, a docu- Spain? mentary director and film columnist, Basel Ramsis RAMSIS: There were many personal is among many Egyptian and political reasons. Some of them were direcors who left the related to my political activism during the country to work and study abroad. They university years and others were related to would come to observe the continuing my sense of fulfillment during the third year challenges and sociopolitical concerns that at the Egyptian Institute. Despite great pro- pepper daily occurrences. After graduating fessors, like Dr. Yehia Azmy, I chose Spain from the Faculty of Commerce, Ain Shams because Spanish cinema in the 1990s was University, in 1995, Ramsis enrolled in the in a period of cinematic ascendancy. I also Egyptian Film Institute to study script- admired Spanish films by such great direc- writing. He dropped out in his third year tors like Luis Buñuel and Carlos Saura. departing instead to Spain where he con- AWAD: How did you conceive of tinued his filmmaking studies and earning Sokkar Barra? a cinema diploma from the Seventh Art RAMSIS: While I was in Egypt School in Madrid. During his second year at shooting another documentary, I was Nehmedo, selling arugula from a stall alongside a commercial street awaits her husband to conclude the business day. the film school, Ramsis started to make his invited by Azza Kamal, the founder of the Center of Appropriate Communications own films. of the problems experienced by the Egyptian Techniques for Development (ACT) to lead industry through co-production? a six-day workshop for young women from RAMSIS: It is difficult now because el-Hawamdeya, Abou el-Noumros, and after 2008, the European Fund support- al-Aziziyah villages who went through the ing co-production between the north and endeavors of arranged marriages with rich south of the Mediterranean was severely men coming from the nations of the Arab cut. Likewise, a large number of festivals Gulf . The workshop was intentioned to that used to bring the cultures of Africa show the women how to retell their stories in and Europe disappeared. Moreover, I don’t front of small cameras. Since the workshop think that even if we find subjects that can created some kind of trust between them be co-produced among two countries, such and me, I decided to make a documentary as a European and an Arabic country, we about their lives and the challenges they wouldn’t be able to resolve the main issue, underwent. Although I was constrained that specific to Egyptian cinema distribu- by very limited funds, I was driven by the tion. If an Egyptian film cannot recoup its subject subject. I have long been focused on costs from its Egyptian exhibition, it will not expressing gender problems in cinema. I was Nehmedo and Hanan, two of the women portrayed in Sugar on the Side. have a future in other countries. Films that shooting Sokkar Barra in December 2012 AWAD: You have chosen three main What happened? are produced to be screened only in foreign where Egypt was going through a lot of villages to shoot your documentary although RAMSIS: According to my past festivals have a very short lifespan. Any film Film Director Basel Ramsis. turmoil so it was an opportunity to show the we know that this practice exists in other experiences in similar festivals, such as belonging to that category may be included sociopolitical effects on these women. I also He debuted with a documentary called rural areas. In 1995, Inas el-Degheidi Documenta Madrid, I know that every in festival circuits here and there but at the wanted to show how Islamists were objec- The Other Side about immigrants residing in directed a film called Lahm Rikhis (Cheap festival has a selection and viewing com- end, it will not reach its main audience, the tifying women. This was obvious during the neighborhood of Lavapies in Madrid. Meat) taking place in the countryside mittee that watch and review many films Egyptian moviegoers. Then, a few years later, the discussions of the 2012 constitution He followed this debut with two other where she pointed out the same concerns. until a final selection is reached through a such a film will be relegated to antiquity, where they were trying to decrease the age documentaries for “Odessa”, the Spanish You also show a clip of that film in your voting selection process. I applied to Ismailia belonging to the cinema archive where film of marriage for teenage girls. Although the Portuguese television network. Ramsis went documentary… by sending two screening copies of Sokkar historians and film critics will check it out Muslim Brotherhood was ousted, the ideas on to teach filmmaking at the Madrid Film RAMSIS: The choice of the three loca- Barra. Although I learned through inside from time to time for their essays. Institute in 2003, and The International about arranged marriages to the wealthy still tions I chose is related to the fact that they information that it got the highest voting School of Film and Television in Cuba. exist in some rural areas across the country- are of common knowledge to seekers of from the viewing committee, the festival Born in Cairo, Egypt, Sherif Awad is a film / Sokkar Barra (Sugar on the Side) is side due to the lack of education and the this kind of marriage. El-Hawamdeya is no board decided to move it to the Panorama video critic and film festival curator. He is the Ramsis’s latest documentary that revolves evident rise in poverty. longer a village;it became a small city because category, a section which is non-competitive film editor of Egypt Today Magazine (www. around the temporary arranged marriages AWAD: Why did you choose Sokkar of the influx of money. There are poor homes and doesn’t get the attention of the attend- EgyptToday.com ), and the artistic director for between rich visiting Arab tourists and the Barra as the title of your film? set next to big villas. The latter belong to ing press. Hence, I, and the film producer, both the Alexandria Film Festival, in Egypt, poor women living in Giza’s southwest RAMSIS: Sokkar Barra or Sugar on the the middlemen who arrange these kinds of Azza Kamal, decided to withdraw the film and the Arab Rotterdam Festival, in The region, specifically the villages of el-Hawam- Side is a name derived from our colloquial- marriages. They are like brokers who have from the festival. I don’t know what really Netherlands. He also contributes to Variety, in deya, Abou el-Noumros and al-Aziziyah. The ism, our daily slang. When someone orders transformed some of the rooms of their villas happened behind the scenes and I don’t want the United States, and is the film critic of Variety documentary was supposed to premiere last tea and asks for the sugar to be on the side, it to become motels to receive the newlyweds to point the finger toward anyone. Arabia (http://varietyarabia.com/), in the June at the Ismailia Documentary Festival means you can put in as much sugar as you in marriages they helped to conceive. AWAD: Do you think that directors United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Al-Masry but Ramsis withdrew the entry because like. So the title refers to those women who AWAD: The film was supposed to be like yourself, living between two cultures and Al-Youm Website (http://www.almasryaly- it was designated in the non-competitive are like merchandise ordered according to screened at the Ismailia Festival last June. two continents, can help in resolving some oum.com/en/node/198132 ) and The Westchester the needs to their would-be husbands. Guardian (www.WestchesterGuardian.com). WWW.WESTCHESTERGUARDIAN.COM