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CLASSIFIED ADS LEGAL NOTICES Office Space Available- FAMILY COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Prime Location, Yorktown Heights COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER 1,000 Sq. Ft.: $1800. Contact Wilca: 914.632.1230 In the Matter of ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE SUMMONS AND INQUEST NOTICE Prime Retail - Westchester County Chelsea Thomas (d.o.b. 7/14/94), Best Location in Yorktown Heights A Child Under 21 Years of Age Dkt Nos. NN-10514/15/16-10/12C 1100 Sq. Ft. Store $3100; 1266 Sq. Ft. store $2800 and 450 Sq. Ft. Store $1200. Adjudicated to be Neglected by NN-2695/96-10/12B Suitable for any type of business. Contact Wilca: 914.632.1230 FU No.: 22303 Tiffany Ray and Kenneth Thomas, Page 26 Respondents.The Wes Tches Ter Guardian X ThursdaY, FeBruarY 23, 2012 HELP WANTED NOTICE: PLACEMENT OF YOUR CHILD IN FOSTER CARE MAY RESULT IN YOUR LOSS OF YOUR A non profit Performing Arts Center is seeking two job positions- 1) Direc- RIGHTS TO YOUR CHILD. 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FeatureTHE HEZITORIAL ANALYSISSection $55 Million Shortfall Discovered at Yonkers Board of Education Governor Cuomo to Cover Yonkers Board of Education’s $55 Million Shortfall in Part or in Full

By HEZI ARIS storyline is that Superintendent Pierorazio City Council. Winning their majority the rationale behind the entry. Had Mr Administrative Officer and CFO Joseph advised Mayor Spano. Yonkers Tribune vote, returns the document to the mayor DeSantis presented the issue to Mayor Bracchitta and YPS Superintendent YONKERS, NY -- suggests it was CPA Nick DeSantis, new who then sends it to New York State Spano as the Yonkers Tribune contends, Bernard Pierorazio were instrumental in Yonkers City Hall has to gaining oversight of the YBoE budget, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli who Mr DeSantis, unfamiliar with the changes forging the YBoE proposed budgets. They been in disarray since who noticed what he regarded as an abnor- must underwrite and validate the integ- that transpired over the last two years was accomplished their annual task under the Yonkers Mayor Mike mality. It was Mr DeSantis that brought the rity of the budget. Comptroller DiNapoli ignorant of the GEA or I.O.U. formality. aegis of a still “unknown” and “unrevealed” Spano was advised that bad tidings to the mayor. is demanded to oversee CoY’s budget so The fact that Mr DeSantis has yet to figure accounting firm assigned to the YBoE. The the Yonkers Board of Perhaps Mr DeSantis believed the as to deny the need for Yonkers to suffer out how all debt over the last two years was accounting firm is said to still be unknown Education (YBoE) had suffered upwards $26.9 million and the $28.1 million were a New York State imposed control board satisfied has him baffled. to Yonkers City Hall and Superintendent of a $55 million shortfall over the last false entries when he could not find the such as presently imposed onto Buffalo, Yonkers City Hall advises they do Pierorazio has yet to return three inquiry two years. Yonkers City Hall claims coffers to which the funds were deposited and suffered by Yonkers a few times over not know! They are stuck trying to ascer- attempts of him with a return telephone it was Yonkers Public Schools (YPS) or from which coffers the “spent” funds were the recent years. tain if all or a part of the $55 million call. Superintendent Bernard Pierorazio who paid. The Yonkers Tribune asserts the crisis The aforementioned being the case, “non-existent” funding shortfall was spent Ancillary to the issues delineated personally advised the mayor of the deficit. is not a crisis at all. In fact, it may have been it is improbable the Comptroller’s Office even though the actual funds were never above, rumors have begun to swirl about Yonkers Tribune contends it was Certified initialized inadvertently by Mr DeSantis’ would not have discerned the entry the received. While Yonkers City Hall awaits the respective positions of the Albany Public Accountant (CPA) Nicholas being unaware of the GEA concept and first year it was introduced into the ledger. the auditor’s tally of the money spent, the Delegation as to their standing / position (Nick) DeSantis of the accounting firm it being permissible as entered in the two Should an “error” have been made in the pertinent issue is how did the Yonkers on a proposed change to the governance of O’Connor Davies Munns & Dobbins, budgets, further, that it was an agreed upon first year, it is illogical that the Comptroller’s Board of Education function for two years the YBoE; that of transforming the present LLP, who revealed the questionable protocol that was demanded be placed each Office would not have caught the second with every teacher, custodian, school aide, independent school district from being only respective entries of $26.9 million in 2012- of those two years as they were. Remember year’s entry. The Comptroller’s office was CSEA workers, and vendors, et al, satisfied dependent on funding through the City of 2013, and $28.1 million in 2013-2014 to this was not “spin-up” money, this was an aware of the GEA concept and recognized on all due them? How were all those debts Yonkers to that of a department of CoY. Mayor Spano. Were the entries defined I.O.U. concept. The reason for it to have it immediately during each respective year satisfied? From what source or sources was The rumors were quick to gain credibility in legitimately with respect to a standardized been correct is understood when you of auditing CoY’s books. That being said, the money derived? Who signed off on dis- the backroom hideouts of political opera- mechanism known as the Gap Elimination appreciate the process revealed in the next the suggestion that Mr Pierorazio advised bursing “phantom” funds? Did the YBoE tives. Even so, each elected official it turns Adjustment (GEA) to assuage New York paragraph. Mayor Spano of the $55 million finan- have a “credit card” from which to draw out assert they would not support a change State’s financially exhausted coffers while cial “crisis” flies in the face of credulity down? Was there a slush fund? in governance at this time. awaiting better financial times? It may be The process of creating, validat- ing, certifying, re-verifing is an annual because Mr Pierorazio would have known Yonkers Public Schools’ Chief prudent to consider the GEA entry similar Continued on page 4 to an I.O.U ( I owe you ), rather than what protocol at the YBoE. The process begins is more familiar to Yonkersites as “spin-up with Yonkers Superintendent Pierorazio, money. “Spin Up” infers there is money in in conjunction with CFO Joe Bracchitta the next year’s budget, which was not the creating a proposed budget. Once com- OUR TOTAL HIP REPLACEMENTS case here. An I.O.U. suggests money will be pleted, the proposed budget is presented ARE FULLY ENDORSED paid when it can but not within any specific to the nine-member Yonkers Board of timeframe. So what happened? Education Trustees for study, validation, and approval. After winning a majority vote The crisis that befell the City of Yonkers ST. JOHN’S RIVERSIDE HOSPITAL’S from the Trustees, the proposed budget (CoY) was revealed on Friday, January 17, is thereafter presented to the Office of REVOLUTIONARY NEW APPROACH FOR 2014. In the communiqué issued on behalf C Mayor Mike Spano who presents both ANTERIOR HIP REPLACEMENTS of Mayor Mike Spano by the Mayor’s the YBoE proposed budget in conjuncM - Office of Communication, revealed a WITH MAKOplasty™ OFFERS tion with Mayor Mike Spano’s ProposedY $55 million “deficit” was uncovered. The Yonkers (city) Budget to the Yonkers LESS PAIN AND CM FASTER RECOVERY.

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Westchester On the LevelCMY is the ONLY medical facility in with Narog and Aris NICK BAVARO, MD K ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON Westchester to offer this. Designated a “Featured” BlogTalk Radio program, has been operating for over two years via the Internet with Co-Hosts Richard Narog and Hezi Aris every weekday, from 10 ST. JOHN’S RIVERSIDE HOSPITAL a.m. to 12 Noon. Listen to the show live or YOU’RE GOING TO FEEL THE DIFFERENCE on demand. Share your perspective by calling (347) 205-9201 or by clicking onto the following 914.964.4DOC | RiversideHealth.org hyperlinks: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ westchesteronthelevel © 2014 St. John’s Riverside Hospital | All Rights Reserved. Page 4 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, FEBRUARY 6, 2014

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the task of assessing the “true” cost of a for the securities toward the hotel project. $55 Million Shortfall Discovered at Yonkers Board of Education project. For example, let us imagine needing The bond will be paid over time. The hotel to build a hotel. The expectation is that project begins to take shape and a few years advised he would not challenge the position part or in full in the near future, that which Continued from page 3 the hotel would cost about $100 million. later is completed. of Senate Leader Stewart-Cousins because is unpaid will in time be paid, remember, Senate Conference Leader Stewart- Recognizing that projects are sometimes The actual cost is revealed to an she is more familiar with the issues at hand. this is an I.O.U. Cousins, through a spokeperson, advised delayed and costs rise over time beyond the esoteric few. The total bill tallied up to $110 Assemblyman Gary Pretlow could not The last issue that must be explored is she has yet to consider the issue of gover- time of the original costing, an additional million. Additional incurred costs amount be reached , but Assemblymember Shelley how, if no money was ever sent to CoY for nance noting that all stakeholders had not $25 million is added to what is likely to to $5 million more than originally conjec- Mayer adamantly stated, “I see no need for the benefit of Yonkers and money sent to yet been engaged openly over the issue. be the final cost. Before agreeing on the tured. $175 million bond value less actual any change in governance to the Yonkers CoY for the benefit of the YBoE, that all Senator Stewart-Cousins’ desire to be final $125 million figure, those pulling the costs of $110 million and $5 million more, Board of Education.” employees, all goods ordered, all services inclusive of her constituency in the process strings up the figure to a final grand total a total of $115 million in actual costs leave a rendered for the Yonkers Public Schools and its requisite discourse was taken by True to form to the rationale of $175 million. It is the final $175 million difference of $60 million profit on that con- was satisfied over the last two years? You’ll some feeble minds to “understand” she and purpose of the Gap Elimination project that is presented to the Yonkers jectured project. The leftover funds are kept quickly get it when the Yonkers Tribune was either for or against a change in gov- Adjustment, best considered as an I.O.U., City Council, who after likely hearing from in that account. When there is a need for a shines the disinfectant on the scheme. It ernance. The reality is that the Senator will Governor Andrew Cuomo tasked top a Bond Counsel representative from Harris specific project, those funds pay the needs of has worked like a charm because there has make up her mind after hearing from her aide Lawrence Schwartz, Secretary to Beach LLC, will advise the need to rush the Yonkers Board of Education, or budget been no oversight. It’s a ploy only “boys” can constituency. the Governor, first to ascertain the exact the bonding process forward as quickly as shortfalls, or other such gimmicks. This is play… wink, wink. The false allegations with respect amount spent over the past two years and possible in order to get the best possible rate Yonkers slush fund. We’re in the money! to process how much assistance New York It began years ago under former John to the intentions of Conference Leader from the Wall Street bond market. When That is how to create a “slush fund.” State can manage to assist Yonkers in miti- Spencer’s Administration and continued Stewart-Cousins moved the rumor mill to the bonding effort is completed, a notice of Now we all know how it’s done! gating the financial burden, in part or in full. through former Mayor Phil Amicone’s concoct a scenario where it was said Senator correspondence to the mayor is noted in a Next week’s edition will reveal where Whatever sum may be afforded through Administration. When development George Latimer would promote legislation Yonkers City Council agenda as to what a the money came from! Stay tuned. to change governance of the YBoE to a the Office of NYS Governor Cuomo must projects were to be built and funding was great percentage rate CoY earned through department. Far from it, Senator Latimer also be understood that whether paid in required, city departments would undertake the efforts of Harris Beach’s bond counsel BOGEN PERSPECTIVE Serious Reform for Winter Olympics as well as Summer Olympics By BOB K. BOGEN perhaps even the second millennium BC. society.” all possible physical feats for a world book beings, including boxing and various so- It is clear from the modern Olympic Unfortunately, the commercial mass of records. called “martial arts.” Short of the enormous Charter, as well as from recent state- media, national political leaders, even Too often changes in the Olympics Few object to some Summer Olympic US Super Bowl football ments from the International Olympic public interest and the I.O.C. itself, act to add more so-called sports that work against events from early Greek sports that have extravaganza and major Committee (IOC), which was founded in promote and facilitate nationalist, chau- the great goals of the Olympic Games. not been associated with war-making since international soccer tour- 1894 and manages the modern Olympics, vinist inclinations that are in conflict with the invention of gunpowder and firearms: naments, there can be no Over the years many sports have been that the competitions must be seen, explic- Olympic principles, particularly the second the discus, javelin, shot-put, and perhaps sporting event that can even come close added to, and deleted from, the Olympic itly, as “between athletes, not countries.” Olympic objective, to promote interna- even modern wrestling. to the summer or winter Olympiad Games. tional goodwill. celebrations. Nevertheless, public focus unfortu- Over the last century, at least 14 sports Another even more controversial nately concentrates pervasively on each I have found several other state- change would reduce or eliminate those It is an amazing testimony to the current have been eliminated from the summer nation’s total medal “win”. It would be more ments that express Fundamental Olympic events that clearly do not emphasize indi- confidence of Russian President Vladimir games, including power boating and consistent with the most laudable second Principles from the past that may clarify vidual athletic excellence and demonstrably Putin concerning his control of the diverse croquet, even baseball and softball were to Olympic objective of promoting interna- Olympic ideals: generate an even higher degree of national Russian diverse nation that he is undertak- be cut in the Summer Olympics. tional goodwill to reverse this chauvinist, chauvinism. Perhaps the most obvious is ice ing the winter Olympics this year in Sochi. A) Exalting and combining in a A more serious, consistent policy for nationalist perspective, and highlight the balanced whole the qualities of body, will hockey, perhaps the most violent of inter- The location is in the very southern consideration of sports to be eliminated significant and impressive total number of and mind. national “contact sports,” which is known region of Russia. It is near the current from the Olympics seems overdue. nations whose great athletes won medals. for its generation of team and national obscene Syrian conflict, and also practically b) The Olympic spirit requires mutual Perhaps most obvious, we could elimi- In recent Olympics athletes from antagonisms. in the shadow of Chechnya, probably the understanding with a spirit of friendship, nate some ‘sports’ which are merely military about half of all nations in the world par- To be consistent, it may also be argued most violent, terrorist prone portion of that solidarity and fair play. exercises for killing. ticipated, and in fact won medals! that all team events have some of that sprawling nation. c) The Olympic Games are compe- The Olympic sounding Biathlon It might even be noted that this is far impact upon goodwill among nations, and In any event there is much else to titions between athletes… not between is merely a Scandinavian winter army more than the number of sports disciplines, after all are not focused on individual excel- say about unfortunate current Olympic countries exercise, combining cross-country skiing 51 in summer Olympics, in which gold, lence, so might well also be left to other activities. d) Olympism reaches its peak with the with shooting, an activity seldom seen on silver, and bronze medals are awarded. international competitions. And perhaps It is important to recall the original bringing together of the world’s athletes at civilian resort ski slopes. The prefix Bi does The Olympic Charter is clear. the most peculiar of so-called team sports intent of the Olympics. a great sports festival, the Olympic Games. signify combining two elements, but the The “Fundamental Principles” in prefix Di also suggests two functions, and are gymnastics, composed entirely of dem- It was to generate widespread Certain changes should be considered the Charter include the following words: might be more understandable. onstrations of individual athletic excellence. individual physical development while cel- in returning the Olympics to demonstrate “exalting and combining in a balanced whole Finally, it is not only boring but also ebrating individual excellence in sports and its original principles, to accentuate the It would also seem rational to exclude the qualities of body, will, and mind.” positive and reduce the negative, as the old those sports, which use weapons of war and contrary to Olympic objectives to hear to promote goodwill among nations as well national anthems played over and over and as good sportsmanship among competing “…endeavor to place sport at the service of song urged. violence, at least guns [in both the summer humanity and thereby to promote peace. ” The Olympics are, after all, not merely as well as the winter Biathlon]. It would also over again when medal awards are made athletes.. The concept of goodwill and an as well as the repeated display of national “Olympic Peace” goes back to the original ”The goal of Olympism is to place sport another TV spectacular to be made more be appropriate to exclude other activities at the service of the harmonious development profitable by nationalistic fever and even that can be expected to cause serious harm, flags. Similarly, as a result of one individual’s Greek games at least as far back as 776 suggestion, since the 1956 Olympics in BC, and according to some archaeologists, of man, with a view to promoting a peaceful military exercises, nor even a collection of including brain injury, to other human Continued on page 5 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, FEBRUARY 6, 2014 Page 5

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Serious Reform for Winter Olympics as well as Summer Olympics as international goodwill, which are sig- New England Regional Commission; as a nificant stated objectives of the Olympic major United Nations official in Pakistan; Continued from page 4 as opposed to the rather martial opening time, public, governmental, and IOC Games. Board Chairman of the Communications ceremonies of marching national teams leadership could drop the inappropri- Coordinating Committee for the United Bob K. Bogen served as comprehensive long- Melbourne, Australia, international with their flags. ate, inconsistent, and counterproductive Nations; and Principal Representative of range facilities planning director for the goodwill is clearly promoted by the mixing Any such additional changes will no activities for a more global peaceful focus Architects / Designers / Planners for Social New York Metropolitan Regional Planning of national teams in the closing ceremony, doubt generate resistance. Even so, over on individual athletic excellence as well Responsibility to the United Nations. Commission; as planning director for the PUBLIC POLICY

cannot live on the minimum wage, which as an afterthought. If the focus is only on a Minimum Wage and the Tragedy of the Commons has the effect of relegating the issue to an small segment of the labor market that earns anti-poverty argument. The larger argument the minimum wage we are ultimately left By Prof. OREN We can see the same thing happening This tragedy of the commons appears to of the macroeconomic effects is only offered Continued on page 6 LEVIN-WALDMAN with the minimum wage. In micro-theory, have had two results. First it has allowed two at the level of a company / firm, it makes opposing sides on the political debate over In his State of the Union perfect sense to pay workers as little as the minimum wage to cloak their respec- Address the President possible. In this vein, it is logical that employ- tive positions in economic terms. Those who called for an increase in the ers will respond to workers lowering their oppose the minimum wage can always point minimum wage, and already wage demands by demanding more of their to the micro-model to justify their position. those on the right are yelling about how labor services. But if all workers were to pay They can easily rationalize the payment of harmful it would be for the economy in this their workers as little as possible, there would substandard wages by pointing to the dis- period of slow growth. Shying away from be no demand for firms’ goods and services employment effects predicted by the model. the topic of income inequality, the President because workers wouldn’t have the where- Their outspoken concern for those who talked about opportunity ladders and how withal to purchase them. will lose their jobs surely sounds nicer than the minimum wage might be one of those What typically happens, however, is coming out and saying that they don’t want for the working poor. What he neglected economists often take the micro-model to sacrifice anything to pay their workers to mention was the larger benefits of the and attempt to couch it in macro-terms: if more. Those who favor the minimum wage minimum wage for the middle class. Perhaps all workers lower their wage demands, more point to the macro-model to make their our politicians can be forgiven for their con- employers will hire them and the result will case that an increase means that those who fusion on the matter because at times it be the absence of unemployment, or so that receive it will have more money to spend, appears as though the economists are equally is the case in a purely competitive market. and that the increased demand will ulti- confused. What about the fact that workers who have mately ripple through the economy. Their confusion would appear to a be now agreed to accept lower wages will have The problem, however, is that they do a function of the distinction typically made less purchasing power, which will result in a not usually make this argument. Rather they between micro-economics on the one shrinkage of aggregate demand? The model talk about how minimum wage workers hand, and macro-economics on the other. simply assumes that prices will readjust The competitive market model is clearly themselves downward so as not to have that a micro-model: when workers lower their shrinkage in demand. wage demands, employers will hire more The problem with this assumption is workers. The idea that workers whose wages that there is a limit to how low prices can fall are increasing will be able to demand more because most employers have reduced costs. goods and services in the aggregate because Moreover, the fundamental assumption of they have greater purchasing power is a the competitive market model that the cause macro-model. When the two collide, the of unemployment is wage rigidity — the result in many ways resembles the tragedy of refusal of workers to accept lower wages, the commons. which is only hardened by a minimum wage The tragedy of the commons is the that creates a floor — is just flat out wrong. theory developed by Garret Hardin that Unemployment is caused by the absence of when individuals act on their own, and ratio- demand for goods and services. As workers nally according to their self-interests, the are forced to accept lower wages demand shared resource of the community will be less, the result will exacerbate unemployment depleted. By depleting the common resource as other businesses are forced to lay people the group’s long-term interests will be under- off. A worker could theoretically accept a mined. The theory was based on William wage of zero and still be unemployed if the Forster Lloyd’s 1833 pamphlet about land would-be employer has no need for him tenure in Europe. 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Minimum Wage and the Tragedy of the Commons which was, along with collective bargain- issue, and it can be restored to its rightful com/books/details/9780415779715/#reviews); ing, to create labor market institutions that place if we emphasize its middle class value. The Political Economy of the Living Wage: A Continued from page 5 would stabilize labor-management relations. Study of Four Cities (M.E. Sharpe 2005); and benefit the middle class. When presented Oren Levin-Waldman is professor of public By inflating wages in a depression where The Case of the Minimum Wage: Competing with the tragedy of the commons, whereby as a middle class issue, the more macro- policy in the School for Public Affairs at wages were already depressed, the minimum Policy Models (SUNY Press 2001). He is a each side speaks past each other. model can come out of hiding. Moreover, Metropolitan College of New York (olevin- wage would assist recovery efforts by offering researcher for the Employment Policy Research The macroeconomic argumentto talk about it in macroeconomic terms is [email protected] ) and author of workers enhanced purchasing power. The Network (EPRN), and some of his work can needs to be couched in terms of how the to return the minimum wage to where it several books on wage policy. They include the minimum wage was initially conceived of be found at http://www.employmentpolicy.org/ minimum wage through its likely ripple was originally supposed to be when the Fair just published: Wage Policy, Income Distribution as a labor-management or human resources people/oren-levin-waldman. effects throughout the wage distribution will Labor Standards Act was enacted in 1938, and Democratic Theory (http://www.routledge. CommunitySection CALENDAR

please no actual cheering in the museum… Two Westchester County high school News & Notes from Northern Westchester I am happy to say that we are done seniors, Ivan Paskov from Edgemont and with the college search process, but for those Anubhav Guha of Horace Greeley High By MARK JEFFERS Each year more than 4 million people techniques of organic gardening and per- of you with high school sophomores and School in Chappaqua have been named in about 20 countries participate and have maculture. Gardeners of any skill level are juniors, head over to the Bedford Village among the 40 national finalists in the Intel Sure glad the Super Bowl raised more than $400 million. The Somers encouraged to participate and will come Library Thursday evening at 7:00pm for a Science Talent Search, way to go! hoopla is over! I hope the relay alone has raised over $300,000 in the away with a planting list, schedule, and map presentation on how to build a college list My brother-in-law Brecks’ dream has tri-state businesses did well; last three years. of their own garden ideas. and how to get the most out of your college come true, as Alan Daniels has opened a I did not. No pool winners, Up in North Salem, there will be a The Katonah Chamber of Commerce visits. Having gone through the process three 20,000 square-foot store dedicated to beer no box winners. My team “Conversation with Local Gardeners,” held cordially invites you to an event that is sure to times, I know that each child is different and in Mamaroneck, he has over 2,000 brews for lost and I ate too much at our friend’s Super at the Ruth Keeler Memorial Library on warm you up. The fifth annual Chili Tasting any advice offered should be taken. sale, looks like Breck and I will need to spend Bowl party; not to worry, the NBA All-Star th February 8 . will take place at the Katonah Village Here’s a tasty trip… would you like to a weekend together soon… Game is in NYC next February… please sit th Library on Thursday, February 6 from 6:00 learn how maple syrup is made? Then head Finally, there was a little relief from the back and enjoy this “sports free” edition of My wife has been gazing out the window longing for the spring and her time to 8:00pm. The cost is $20 per person and over to the Rye Nature Center on February bitter cold weather, so I took off one of my “News & Notes.” th in the garden so I am sending her off to the well worth it as a fine selection of craft beers 15 and get a peek at the sugaring process ten layers and walked around the block, it felt Local Somers residents will celebrate Armstrong Education Center in Pound and wines will be paired with scrumptious in the center’s own sugar shed, as Jackie great… see you next week. cancer survivors; remember those lost, and Ridge on Saturday morning February 8th chili offerings. What a great way to meet up Gleason once said, “How sweet it is…” fight back against the disease by raising Mark Jeffers resides in Bedford Hills, New York, From 10:00am to Noon, PRLC’s Land with friends and neighbors and chase the Our living room is experiencing this as funds during the next four months for the with his wife Sarah, and three daughters, Kate, Steward / Educator will get you started on winters “chill” away. we speak, “Houseplant Propagation, Learn annual Somers Relay for Life which will take Amanda, and Claire. th your dreams for the 2014 growing season. Congratulation and three cheers to the How to Multiply your Houseplants” pre- place on May 30 . The Jeffers crew will be Plan now to provide fresh, clean food for Neuberger Museum in Purchase as they sentation will be held at Lasdon Park and there supporting this great event. th th your family and for wildlife, using the recently celebrated their 40 anniversary, but Arboretum in Somers on February 9 . TECHNOLOGY CREATIVE DISRUPTION

we may soon have (if we do not have already) as a desire to halt innovation and progress. agree that we are better off with the access Malthus Was Almost Right an over-population when it comes to job Society at all levels has been benefited that people now enjoy. A similar case can opportunity. greatly by the explosion of information also be made for the replacement of Rand By JOHN F. McMULLEN most vicious, the tendency to a virtuous attach- I have written often here and in other and technology in recent years -- Google, McNally and other mapmakers by Google ment is so strong that there is a constant effort places of what I call “Creative Disruption,” GPSs and smartphones alone have brought and Yahoo Maps coupled with the advent of The Reverend Thomas towards an increase of population. This constant the elimination of jobs through techno- great benefits across all levels of the popula- low-cost personal GPS devices. Robert Malthus effort as constantly tends to subject the lower logical innovations (ex. robotics, off-shoring, tion. Two new books of merit, “Big Bang The new technology that I see as both (1766 – 1834) was one of classes of the society to distress and to prevent any on-line bill paying, iTunes, digital photogra- Disruption” by Larry Downs and Paul very exciting and a long range major disrup- the first person, if not the great permanent amelioration of their condition” phy, on-line shopping, Google, etc.). To develop Nunes and “Average Is Over: Powering tion to employment is IBM’s “Watson,” the first person, to publicly raise (Malthus T.R. 1798. An Essay on the Principle these new technologies, we need a growing America Beyond The Age Of The Great computer system first known for defeat- the fear of over-population. He argued in of Population. Chapter II, p 18 in Oxford supply of computer scientists, develop- Stagnation” by Tyler Cowen bring home ing the reigning human champion on his 1798 essay, “An Essay on the Principle World’s Classics reprint). ers, entrepreneurs, and managers to drive these points very well while setting up strat- “Jeopardy.” of Population,” that population growth Malthus’ primary concern was the the constant expansion of technology. No egies to attempt to deal with the on-going IBM has just set up a separate business generally expanded in times and in regions supply of food, a concern that has mainly matter how large the requirement is for these disruption. unit for Watson (the announcement explaining of plenty until the size of the population gone by the wayside. Today’s supply of food relatively high-paying positions, innovation A case in point of great innovation is the new unit is available at http://m.youtube. relative to the primary resources caused is certainly enough to provide subsistence for is eliminating many more positions at all the aforementioned Google (and Wikipedia com/watch?v=rB7VkrUYCAg; it is long but distress” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ the world’s population if we had the will and levels of income and type of work, with the as well) that has brought information to the is worth watching, at least the beginning, to get a Thomas_Robert_Malthus#An_Essay_ distribution methods to do so. However, as majority of disruption in the middle and low masses while sounding the death-knell for flavor for the system). IBM defines the system on_the_Principle_of_Population), was pointed out to me recently by the sage income groups. encyclopedias. While we might bemoan the as “cognitive computing” and uses the slogan writing, “Yet in all societies, even those that are death of encyclopedias, I think most would of my household, Barbara E. McMullen, None of the above should be taken Continued on page 7 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, FEBRUARY 6, 2014 Page 7

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the setting up of a separate business unit is Malthus Was Almost Right a major commitment by IBM, mentioning previous organizational moves of this type – Continued from page 6 me that, at some point, the balance will tilt System 360, the IBM-PC, and IBM Global “You don’t program Watson; you work with from Watson learning from us to an equal Services. Diana O’Neill Watson” to further define the system. footing and finally to us learning from (and / Every great new technology causes a I’ve been involved in technology for or being directed by) Watson with the majority significant reduction in jobs that is not offset Holistic Health Services fifty years and I don’t think I have ever of those humans involved simply providing in any way by the jobs created by the tech- been as impressed with a system as I am input or, more probably, links to input. Once nology – the jobs created tend to be high with Watson. A wonderful video, “IBM connections are made to more and more ticket technical jobs, limited in numbers in Watson: The Science Behind an Answer” data sources, including to Google, and to the comparison to the lower priced jobs which (https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ “Internet of Things,” sensors and intelligent are replaced. If Watson is successful – and I community/blogs/video-portal/entry/ devices linked together without the need of expect it to be (and expect like technologies to ibm_watson_the_science_behind_an_ human intervention, it will be easy not only follow), there will be continued employment answer?lang=en) provides an in-depth to have Watson arrive at solutions but also net attrition. analysis of how Watson “thinks.” to implement them. Then we would have We have not been able to deal with the IBM has partnered with a number of reached a world in which a “Global Mind” effects of technological employment dis- organizations to date to develop what it calls is controlling things which we have never ruption to date; we must find a way as the the “Watson Ecosystem,” a collection of “IBM dreamed of! This certainly may sound like disruption accelerates. Watson isn’t going Clouds” into which data has been inputted science fiction – but so, in the non-distant away – and we don’t wish to either. past did walks on the moon, robots, satel- over the last few years by such partners as Creative Disruption is a continuing series lite communication systems, smartphones, Memorial Sloan Kettering, as the material examining the impact of constantly accelerat- digital cameras (I have one in my watch), etc. on which Watson may work with to provide ing technology on the world around us. These business, healthcare, and economic solutions. At this stage of the game, IBM is changers normally happen under our personal Among the other partners in the initial eco- just ushering in this massive effort – it has radar until we find that the world as we knew system are Fluid, inc.; MD Buyline, Inc; increased the Watson staff from the 27 it is no more. Welltok, Inc.; Healthline; and Elance (case research scientists who worked to develop studies for some of these projects are available at the system which won at Jeopardy to a Please send comments and or questions to http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/ current 200 with the aim at a staffing level [email protected] watson/watson_power_applications.shtml). of 2000, developed a Watson headquarters Links to other writings, Podcasts, & Radio Announcing Watson, IBM CEO in downtown New York City announced Broadcasts at http://www.johnmac13.com; Virginia Rometty stressed the work which the building of 15 new “Cloud Centers” hear my interview of Westchester Guardian its partners have done over the last few throughout the world, and spun off Watson editor Hezi Aris at www.blogtalkradio.com/ years and stated “Watson will learn from us – as a separate business unit. In announcing rapidtalk/2013/10/13/the-johnmac-show and we will learn from Watson.” It seems to the moves, Ms. Rometty pointed out that

CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES Grigris By SHERIF AWAD I will journey with you

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun during challenging times was born in 1960 in Chad. and help you find the psychic energy He studied film in Paris and journalism in Bordeaux, to cope with whatever arises. France. After writing for Counseling • Energy Healing • Hypnotism several years for various regional dailies, he wrote and directed his first short film Maral Spiritual & Psychic Healing Tanié in 1994. In 2006, he won the Special By Appointment, only Jury Award at the Venice Film Festival for his third feature, Daratt, a Dry Season. In Free consultation given on first visit. the same year, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York paid tribute to 914.630.1928 Haroun by hosting a retrospective of his The crippled Grigris still impresses with his dancing moves. films. In 2010, his fourth feature A Screaming for the main competition at the Festival dashed when his father-in-law falls criti- Man won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film de Cannes in 2011. Shot in Chad in 2012, cally ill. To save him, Grigris decides to Festival. In that same year, he garnered the Grigris is his fifth feature. work with gasoline (petro) traffickers. In Holistic Health Services prestigious “Robert Bresson Award” at Despite a paralyzed leg, the twenty- 2011, while attending the FESPACO 1600 Harrison Ave., Ste.307A, the Venice Film Festival, and the “Premio five-year old young Chadian man Grigris Film Festival in Ouagadougou, Burkina Mamaroneck, NY 10543 Humanidade” at the 34th Mostra in Sao (Souleymane Démé) is still dreaming of Faso, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun discovered Paulo, Brazil. He was a member of the Jury becoming a dancer. His dreams are however Continued on page 8 Page 8 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, FEBRUARY 6, 2014

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take long before I thought I had a convinc- community you create for yourself when, at About the dancing sequences, and others stepped in upon his behalf. I find ing script; it had a documentary quality in some point in life, you recognize yourself in Mahamat-Saleh Haroun let his actor it scandalous that normal people are stopped Grigris telling Souleymane Démé’s story. However, I others. Once they meet, they move toward take complete charge of the choreogra- while travelling about inside Europe”. wanted to only focus on his dancing persona building a kind of family and accepting phy. “Démé worked on it for a very long Born in Cairo, Egypt, Sherif Awad is a film / Continued from page 7 and how he came to dancing. I didn’t want to themselves, no matter what challenges they time”, says Haroun. “I asked him to express video critic and curator. He is the film editor of find out too much about his background in have to overcome. You learn a lot about toler- emotion in his dance and that’s just what Souleymane Démé, a dancer whose left Egypt Today Magazine (www.EgyptToday. order to make room for the fiction. I usually ance from their relationship”. he did. He doesn’t speak much; not in the leg was crippled. “When he got on stage, com), and the artistic director for both the like to start with true facts and then branch Haroun initially hoped to cast a film either. He expresses himself through I thought that he was hero of the story I Alexandria Film Festival, in Egypt, and the out to fiction which paves the way for ques- Chadian actress for the role of Mimi. When his body using the language of dance as his wanted to tell”, remembered Haroun “ Back Arab Rotterdam Festival, in The Netherlands. tions and perspectives”. French-born Anaïs Monory showed up for vehicle for expression”. then, Démé dyed his hair blonde and there He also contributes to Variety, in the United In the morning, Grigris works as a the casting call, she was the only who insinu- Although Haroun and his films are was something supernatural about him States, and is the film critic of Variety Arabia photographer at his father-in-law’s studio ated some originality into the scene. Haroun renowned in Europe, particularly in France, that drew me closer. That encounter helped (http://varietyarabia.com/), in the United where he meets the beautiful Mimi (Anaïs then modified the screenplay to portray her his actor, Souleymane Démé had difficulties me come up with the storyline of Grigris, Arab Emirates (UAE), the Al-Masry Al-Youm Monory) who despite their differences as a woman of mixed race whose father is on his journey to Cannes last year. “Démé which is based on his life. It was a comfort- Website (http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/ falls in love with Grigris. “The connection French. There are people like that in Chad. had a regular visa and in Brussels the police able process because I was familiar with node/198132) and The Westchester Guardian between the two characters accounts for There are military bases and the soldiers tend arrested him because he looked strange!”, his body language and his choreography; it (www.WestchesterGuardian.com). their mutual attraction”, explains Haroun. helped me to write the narrative. It didn’t to leave children behind. revealed Haroun. “My actor was detained for “I’m always deeply moved by the kind of five hours until the Cannes Festival Board

Souleymane Démé as Grigis and Anaïs Monory as his love Mimi. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun on location in Chad. Mimi met Grigris while on a modeling shoot at a studio location.

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professional community has certainly taken Yorker, subject to the state’s jurisdiction? The Trick To Cutting New York Taxes notice of it. The restored gift tax would be I have no idea how to answer these collected via the New York estate tax return. questions, though I have major doubts about By LARRY M. ELKIN coupling a headline-grabbing but long-term compared to the states that have no death An obvious and common complication a state’s ability to enforce estate tax against a cut in the estate tax with a surreptitious, lit- taxes at all, which is most of them, lowering will arise if the estate in question belongs nonresident decedent who has cut all other New York is a pretty expen- tle-noticed provision that would soon revive the rate is at least a step in the right direction. to someone who was a New York resident New York ties prior to death. sive place to live, and its New York’s long-dormant gift tax. The net So far, so good. when a gift was made but is a nonresident New York already has a reputation for harsh estate tax (placing the effect is to cost the state relatively little tax But here’s where the trick comes in: at death. A nonresident’s estate might still making it hard for former residents to cut state among the minority revenue. In fact, if the estate tax cut is later Cuomo also proposes to impose a deferred file a NY estate return if the estate includes such ties effectively. The result is that those that still impose one) means scaled back, the change might even bring in gift tax on New York residents for gifts made New York real estate or other property who wish to establish domicile elsewhere it can also be a costly place to die. more money, which New York lawmakers on or after April 1 this year. located within the state. Would the state try at all must do so thoroughly, leaving state This is not news to affluent New are never at a loss for ways to spend. New York has not had a gift tax to collect the tax from a nonresident in that tax authorities little grounds for argument. Yorkers. My colleagues and I, like most Here is how the tax code sleight of since 1999. The state has long been con- circumstance? We can’t be certain because no The best way, which is exactly what Cuomo financial advisers, have long suggested that hand would work. In his budget proposal cerned about the ability of its residents to law has yet been passed, but it seems likely. seemingly hopes to prevent, is for departing older New York clients whose ties to the released last week, the governor announced shift taxable income out of state via trusts What about a situation in which the taxpayers to sell their New York homes and state are less than ironbound consider estab- his intention to raise New York’s estate tax established in other jurisdictions, however. gift is made when the donor is a New York any other property they own in the state. lishing domicile in friendlier tax climes, such exemption, currently $1 million, to be in line Restoring the gift tax will bolster state coffers resident, but the donor moves out of state The New York Times reported that, if as Florida. Apparently enough New Yorkers with the federal estate tax exemption. This in two ways: by discouraging such transfers, and subsequently dies without owning any adopted, the estate tax change would cost are getting the message to make the state’s would make the exemption $5.25 million by thus protecting current income taxes, and by New York property? Under current law no the state $33 million in the 2014-15 budget, leaders want to at least appear more hospi- 2019, indexed for inflation (assuming future collecting tax on the gifts themselves. New York estate tax return must be filed and an additional $175 million in 2015-16. table to the people who pay the lion’s share lawmakers and governors actually allow the and no tax is due. Will New York take the That the state wants to make up the differ- of Albany’s bills. But the trick seems to be to But unlike the federal and most state phased-in increase to happen, which is not gift taxes, which are paid by the donor at the position that a nonresident’s executor must ence wherever it can is predictable, but this make the tax laws appear friendlier without a sure thing). Cuomo also proposed that file a tax return in Albany anyway? If it delayed-fuse gift tax may undo the hoped- actually giving up too much tax revenue. time the gift is made, New York’s tax col- the state lower the estate tax rate for estates lection would be deferred until the donor’s takes such a position, could it constitution- for effect of encouraging New Yorkers not to Notice that I use the word “trick.” Gov. exceeding the threshold, from 16 percent to death. This might help keep the new gift tax ally enforce it? Would it make a difference move away in their final years. Andrew Cuomo seems to have hit upon an 10 percent. While 10 percent state tax in off most residents’ financial radar, though the if the decedent was a nonresident but the Continued on page 9 approach that might suit Albany’s needs, addition to the federal tax is not a bargain decedent’s executor happened to be a New THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, FEBRUARY 6, 2014 Page 9

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be careful not to be a New York resident or may not actually occur, with roughly the senior manager for personal financial planning The Trick To Cutting New York Taxes when you die. The state may never actually probability of the Mets winning the World and family wealth planning, he founded his Continued from page 8 to make your gift until you’re re-established match the federal exemption, or it could do Series. It isn’t scientific and it may not even own firm in Hastings on Hudson, N.Y., in elsewhere – but avoid Connecticut, which so and then change course in a future year be fair, but my approach does not let me 1992. That firm grew steadily and became the One piece of advice for wealthy New was the only state to hold on to a gift tax that finds it in need of more revenue. down too often, either. Palisades Hudson organization, which moved to Yorkers who want to make substantial gifts is when other states abandoned theirs in the My approach when evaluating Albany ® Scarsdale, N.Y., in 2002. The firm expanded to to make such gifts before April 1 if possible, Larry M. Elkin, CPA, CFP , has provided 2000s, or Minnesota, which established a tax policy is skeptical to the point of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in 2005 and to Atlanta and then die as a resident of some other state. personal financial and tax counseling to a new gift tax last summer. cynicism: I assume any new taxes are perma- in 2008. The second-best solution would be to move sophisticated client base since 1986. After six nent, any repealed taxes may be resurrected out of New York as soon as possible, waiting If moving now is off the table, do what years with Arthur Andersen, where he was a you need to do, including making gifts. Just at any time, and any deferred tax cuts may FROM WHERE I SIT

two”; if he brought them to “within two,” the language offensive, perhaps we should Shumpert brings the Knicks to down by Language – Use & Misuse they would be losing by one. “Within” find the user offensive. two – and, if it could, the papers would not means “inside of ” and not “equal to.” Language is the way we describe spell it correctly anyhow – so it would truly By JOHN F. McMULLEN To treasure language I get even more frosted when I hear the world around us – the way we com- be “no problem! To chose words carefully people whom I expect better from to municate – the way we express ourselves. Links to other writing, Podcasts, and radio When I was about 9, constantly misuse the word that I associ- It should be accurate and as precise as my father, a New York To respect the literal meaning of broadcasts at http://www.johnmac13. words and phrases ate with passionate lovemaking, “f---” as a possible. Descriptive adjectives are fine as com; hear my interview of Westchester City Police Officer, said meaningless adjective as either a curse or a long as they are accurate and make sense. something that I didn’t With that background and the Guardian editor Hezi Aris at www.blog- added layers of being an English major, throwaway word to refer to another driver, The rain can no more perform a sexual talkradio.com/rapidtalk/2013/10/13/ quite get and I, probably the rain, a nasty neighbor or any old thing. act then can our television set when Iman reading “Popeye” at the time, quoted J. a constant reader and a fairly prolific the-johnmac-show . writer, I have become a bit of a nudge on It gets even worse when the word becomes Wellington Wimpy, saying “Beg Pardon.” part of every sentence. I have a friend who, My father took off his glasses – he had the subject of words. For instance, it galls me to hear someone say “No problem” after concluding a story with “I should been reading a book – and said “What did have called the f---ing cops,” looked at me you say?” I replied, “Beg pardon. I didn’t in response to “Thank you.” rather than “You’re welcome.” There is some equality incredulously when I replied ”or you could hear you.” He said “No. Don’t use that have called the regular ones.” expression – convicts beg pardon. You say between “Thank you” and “You’re welcome.” When the response is “No (Now, I know that, according to ‘excuse me’ or ‘I’m sorry. I didn’t hear you.’” Wikipedia, the word has been used as a I tried to explain about Wimpy but to no problem,” it somehow takes away from the respect that my “Thank you” is due. I curse since 1475 but I wasn’t around then avail – “Wimpy is a comic book character. to throw up my hands and say “Stop – You are a human being. Use the language might not be thanking you if what you did sofoschiropractic.com was no problem at all. you’re ruining a wonderful word” so I’m properly.” End of discussion – he went doing it now!). Although it’s not used as often, I also don’t understand why men use a term for PRESENT THIS AD FOR $50 OFF FIRST VISIT an intimate part of a woman’s body as a LIMITED TO FIRST 20 CALLERS • EXP 2.28.2014 curse – when we are told that most men think of acts involving that part quasi-con- 100 Mamaroneck Ave,. 2nd Fl., White Plains, NY 10601 stantly. The whole thing sounds bi-polar to me! While I find the misuse of words as offensive, I find no word offensive in itself. I do recognize, however, that some people do see words relating to sex or Before speaking to the police...call bathroom functions as offensive and so we have George Carlin’s “The Seven Words” that you can’t use on television” – words George Weinbaum proscribed as offensive (and punishable ATTORNEY AT LAW by fine) if used on radio and television. Newspapers have tended until recent years to go along with FCC list of words Comedian George Carlin and his “The Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television” but now, I suppose to better inform their FREE CONSULTATION: readers (and to sell more papers), they back to his reading and, as I remember, I even get annoyed when I hear the turn the most frequently used word of that I never found out what he had originally best sports announcer of my lifetime Criminal, Medicaid/Medicare Fraud Matters type into ”f#*k” or something like that. Do said. (maybe any lifetime), Marv Albert, con- they really think that children or people White-Collar Crime & Healthcare Prosecutions He was both wrong and right. stantly misuse a word – and now the young who might be offended by the word don’t “Pardon” is used as a synonym for “Excuse” Marv Albert, Mike Breen, does the same immediately know what f#*k should be as in “Pardon Me” when trying to move thing. If the New York Knickerbockers are T. 914.948.0044 F.914.686.4873 read as? Do they really think they are that through a crowd. When you add “beg” to losing 109-104 to the Boston Celtics and stupid? it, however, he is right, particularly in his Iman Shumpert hits a three-point shot, he If the press is reporting what the late frame of reference as an NYPD officer, and does NOT “Bring the Knicks to within 175 MAIN ST., SUITE 711-7 • WHITE PLAINS, NY 10601 John Gotti – or Dick Nixon – or JR Smith I learned something from that exchange: two” – he brings them TO “behind by was saying, let them report it. If we find Page 10 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, FEBRUARY 6, 2014

PEOPLE Accomplished Brian Carney Fondly Remembers his Father Art Carney By RICH MONETTI of you. He didn’t have to lay a hand on you. He’d walk in my room, bang the door with Like other kids’ fathers, the flat of his hand, and I’d just about go in Brian Carney’s dad left for my pants,” he remembers. work everyday from their Even so, he affectionately remembers Yonkers home in the ’50s. him as a good father and is proud of the On the other hand, the seven Emmys and Oscar he received for then elementary student soon noticed that Harry and Tonto in 1974. his father’s profession had the attention of almost everyone. “It seemed everybody An honor nearly equaled by his co-star talked about what he did,” says Carney of his Jackie Gleason, in The Hustler, but their father Art of The Honeymooner’s fame. But relationship was mostly a professional one. if the picture above looks familiar, it should; “They didn’t socialize much,” says Carney. the son attaining a measure of celebrity of his Brian’s own interaction was also limited. own. In the few times they met, his Dad would “I played opposite the Geiko Gecko as usually say, “do you remember my son” and the CEO from 2008-2011,” says the Purdys, the larger than life star typically greeted him New York, resident. in passing. “Hi-yaah pal, how’s school going,” Gleason would bellow, noted Carney. While enjoying the very lucrative run, At the same time, Carney is mum on the creative interplay between the lizard and Brian Carney Today. him was appealing. That opportunity was the any untold stories that have been conjectured catalyst of him being regarded a “celebrity”. Acting, though, was not something his about and have passed down to him from “I really enjoyed being recognized by people,” father pushed him toward. “I wanted to be a some of the old timers. “My father took the says the 69 year old. veterinarian, but I found out I had to become Fifth on them, so if he didn’t admit to them, I’m not going to start talking about them. The experience also gave him a sense of a doctor first and then go to more school. I Nothing that I’ve heard would have been what his father went through and shed light didn’t want to do that,” he remembers. any real trouble,” he concluded. on why he rejected the spotlight. “It could His other interest was music, singing become wearing on you,” Carney revealed. in the glee club and the church choir. He These days, Carney still loves to tee up Brian Carney on tour in the mid 1960s. The Honeymooners’ marathons when they Still, that doesn’t mean the long time eventually learned guitar, and after high run. voice over and commercial actor had any school, took to playing a college circuit of years ago for Chase Bank. “You don’t make it better himself, but the son admits any reservations about doing the spots. “I was coffee shops for almost ten years. “It was very nearly as much money in TV commercials attempts to imitate his father usually fell Brian Carney reveals his father took a hoping they’d go for 15 or 20 years,” he says. rewarding, I learned a lot about life and saw as people think,” he advised. short. “One thing he did have was impec- $100,000 buyout in 1955 for the entire series much of the country,” he says. cable timing. I would hear things he would of episodes, “because he needed the money.” But despite the success of the ads, he Still, he’s not complaining and prefers do and try to recreate them, and in that split knew ultimately they would end. “You get In those days Carney served in the this to the occasional TV roles because of No problem, this Carney is going to second, it wasn’t as funny,” shared Carney. a letter saying your services are no longer National Guard. He maintained a full head all the free time it leaves to do things like keep doing what he’s doing; playing parts needed,” he advised. of hair during those days stuffing his locks fishing and riding his Harley-Davidson. “No As for instances in which fatherly dis- that may not get as many laughs as his father, under a short hair wig. “I got away with it for crashes but I have dropped the bike a couple cipline had to be handed down, the younger but keeps him rolling nonetheless. The impetus turned out to be a change three years,” he said of times in gas stations moving from one never experienced any confusion in the wake in ad agencies, but it certainly hasn’t left him Rich Monetti has been a freelance writer since pump to another,” he said. of the goofy character the rest of us knew. a lack of work. “I’ve gotten into elderly medi- The grind did finally catch up with him, 2003 and lives in Westchester. “When he got mad, he’d scare the hell out cations. My latest is for Advair,” he says. and he landed his first commercial almost 40 Ed Norton couldn’t have scripted READING Latimer: Time To Do Right By Mount Rushmore’s Italian American Chief Carver

State Senator George Latimer (Democrat sculpting the faces of its greatest heroes. - 37th Senate District) thinks it’s about “This country owes Luigi Del Bianco time that the United States Department of the love -- the recognition -- of his accom- the Interior recognizes the late Luigi Del plishment,” he continues. Bianco for having served as chief carver of A member of the Italian American the Mount Rushmore National Memorial. State Legislators Conference, a bipartisan In Carving a Niche for Himself; The organization of New York State Assembly Untold Story of Luigi Del Bianco and Mount and Senate members who are actively Rushmore, author Douglas J. Gladstone’s involved in promoting and celebrating valentine to the obscure Italian American the state’s Italian-American community, immigrant who served as chief carver at Latimer was elected in 2012. the monument from 1933 through 1940, Featuring a foreword by Italian Latimer, who represents such areas as Port American businessman Robert Benedetto, Chester, White Plains and Rye in the NYS the chairman of Benedetto Guitars in Senate, says that Del Bianco “showed the Savannah, Georgia, Carving a Niche for State Senator George Latimer love for his adopted country by lovingly Continued on page 11 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, FEBRUARY 6, 2014 Page 11

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Latimer: Time To Do Right By Mount Rushmore’s Italian American Chief Carver book, A Bitter Cup of Coffee; How MLB & and topics, it has produced groundbreak- The Players Association Threw 874 Retirees ing scholarship and research consistently Continued from page 10 clearly indicates that Luigi Del Bianco was multi-culturalism. A Curve (Word Association Publishers, used in university courses. Founded in the glue that held the project together, Del Del Bianco, a native of Meduno 2010), was widely credited with helping 1989 by Fred Gardaphé, Paolo Giordano, Himself examines the selfless efforts of pro- Bianco for some inexplicable reason has in the Province of Pordenone, died on retired Major League Baseball (MLB) and Anthony Juilan Tamburri, Bordighera fessional storyteller Lou Del Bianco, who never received the credit in scholarly publi- January 20, 1969 of accelerated silicosis players win long overdue financial compen- Press’ books are carried by Small Press resides in Port Chester, to honor his late cations or documentaries on the creation of that was brought on, in part, by his years of sation from MLB. Distribution. grandfather. The late Del Bianco’s studio rd the memorial that many individuals believe not wearing a mask while working at the Headquartered at 25 West 43 Street For more information about the book, was located on Clinton Street; Latimer’s he is deserving of. monument. in New York City, Bordighera Press is contact either Gladstone at 518-817- district office is located in Port Chester as The book takes the National Park Carving a Niche for Himself, which is recognized as the foremost publisher of 8253 or Tamburri at 212-642-2005. To well. Service to task for its failure to honor Gladstone’s second book, is scheduled to Italian-American literature and poetry reach the Senator’s office, please contact Though Rushmore sculptor and Del Bianco, despite the agency touting be released in May 2014 by Bordighera in North America. Featuring works by or Victor Mallison at 518-455-2031 or designer Gutzon Borglum’s own cor- a long standing policy of pluralism and Press. The author’s critically acclaimed first about Italian and Italian American authors 914-934-5250. respondence in the Library of Congress SPORTS Larchmont’s Rebecca Moros Seeks Her Fifth Championship in the United States

By RANDY VOGT Chelsea in 2013. Association (ENYYSA) stretches from “I had a great time in Japan! I spent Montauk Point, Long Island to the The professional players two years there and learned a lot, includ- Canadian border. ENYYSA exists to who win four champion- ing a ton of Japanese, which I continue promote and enhance the game of soccer ships often wind up in to study, although a little less rigorously for children and teenagers between the their sport’s Hall of Fame. now that I don’t have a use for it in my ages of 5 and 19 years old, and to encour- Rebecca Moros is that rare player in any daily life,” she said. “I hope some Japanese age the healthy development of youth sport who has not only won four cham- players will join the NWSL so I’ll have a players, coaches, referees and administra- pionships but she did it on four different chance to talk to them.” tors. No child who wants to play soccer is teams. When her former coach, Paul turned away. ENYYSA is a proud member In 2005, the Larchmont resident Riley, was selected to coach the defend- of the United States Soccer Federation and competed for the New Jersey Wildcats ing National Women’s Soccer League United States Youth Soccer Association. and won the W-League championship. champion Portland Thorns, the Duke For more information, log on to http:// In 2006, playing as a forward, Rebecca graduate, who was an all-Atlantic Coast www.enysoccer.com/. scored on a 12-yard shot in the 89th Conference selection from 2004 to 2006, minute in the Women’s Premier Soccer Randy Vogt is director of Public Relations for wound up coming back to the United League final to give the expansion Long Eastern New York Youth Soccer Association. States. Island Fury the title, 1-0, over River Cities “Becs is a total professional. She FC and was named to the All-WPSL understands the importance of planning Photo of Rebecca Moros (center) the moment before taking a goal shot in Japan. playoff team. and preparing and that has been a major In 2007, she scored in the first minute reason for her success,” commented Coach on a 20-yard chip to lead the Washington Riley. “The opportunity to bring her to Freedom to a 3-1 victory over the Atlanta Portland was almost too good to be true. A Cause For Paws Pet Adoptions Silverbacks in the W-League final in She is bright and clever on the ball, fit as Rochester, New York. a fiddle and her soccer IQ is outstanding. In 2011, Rebecca played right I’m excited to coach her again and I hope defender as the Western New York Flash Portland will provide her with another outlasted the Philadelphia Independence, platform for success and longevity.” 5-4, in penalty kicks after tying 1-1 in Rebecca played for him with the Long overtime to win the Women’s Professional Island Junior Soccer League’s HBC Fury, Soccer championship. winners of five State Open Cup and two After the WPS folded, she went to Region 1 titles, and with the Long Island Japan to play for INAC Kobe Leonessa. Fury eight years ago. Prior to the Fury, She continued her role in leading her she played for the Larchmont Leopards, team to titles as INAC Kobe Leonessa Soundview United and Yorktown Jaguars were Nadeshiko League champions of the Westchester Youth Soccer League. in 2012 and 2013, Nadeshiko League The now 28-year-old also played for the Siggy is an 8 yr. old, neutered male Solo is a friendly and energetic 2 yr. Whiskey is a very friendy cat who Cup champions in 2013, Japan/Korea Olympic Development Program (ODP) orange tabby. He is very calm and old neutered male pit mix. He loves is looking for a loving home. He is good with dogs, cats & kids. Whiskey Women’s League Championship winners of the Eastern New York Youth Soccer easy going, and is good with dogs, to play and go for runs. He is good is a neutered male and is 2 yrs old. in 2012, Empress Cup All-Japan Women’s Association (ENYYSA) for an amazing cats & kids. with dogs, cats & kids. Football Tournament Champions in 2012 six years and for Region 1 ODP for an To submit an adoption application or to inquire about other cats and dogs looking for homes, please contact and 2013 plus Mobcast Cup International equally impressive five years. Women’s Club Championship winners vs. Eastern New York Youth Soccer [email protected] Page 12 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, FEBRUARY 6, 2014

EYE ON THEATRE Murderous Machinery, Tragic Supership By JOHN SIMON ends up marrying the “greasy-fingered” whose decor may well be the chief interest. boss. It is a boxlike structure on a revolve, with There is something sad That character, known as Husband, all scenes set in confining boxes that, when about an author who does not bring solace to YW, what with revolving, pass along grimly mute other wrote numerous plays his smugness, dullness and deadeningly boxes. but survives only for one. repetitious platitudes. She does take on Some of these scenic effects are Such is the case of “Machinal” by Sophie a lover (played in the 1928 premiere by not in the script, like, for instance, the Treadwell, who was also an actress and Clark Gable), but he, a bit of a vagabond, opening tableau of a speeding subway car, prominent journalist. Less sad, though, abandons her and even testifies against with YW’s anguished face spotlighted than no success at all. her by mail in her trial for murder. Well, among the other gray, shadowy figures. “Machinal,” the title, is an archaic yes: she ends up killing her undesirable Similarly unscripted is a passing glance at word derived from the French, meaning husband. The play is very loosely based YW looking bereft at her all too typical something like mechanical or machine- on the story of a real-life murderess, Ruth wedding. made. It applies to life as perceived in this Snyder, who, motivated by greed rather What helps a good deal is the highly expressionist play by its heroine than revulsion, was indeed electrocuted. fine lead performance by yet another identified as Young Woman. She works in The play comprises nine “episodes,” Englishwoman, Rebecca Hall, who pow- an office surrounded by typical nonenti- relatively short and with mostly erfully conveys mute or voiced despair, and ties, and at home is urged by her termagant snappy dialogue. It is directed here by sometimes delivers stylized monologues in Mother to marry her eager boss, however Englishwoman Lyndsey Turner, and a kind of trance. She is equally moving in repulsive he may be. Young Woman keeps Rebecca Hall as Young Woman. designed by Englishwoman Es Devlin, her briefly unleashed happiness with the hoping for a wonderful Somebody, but VENUE: American Airlines Theater, cast, devised, together with the composer, handsome Lover. 227 West 42nd Street, New York, NY a version for only twenty performers and Michael Compsty, a bit too virile 10036. Tickets: (800) 901-4092. six musicians, reduced plot and shorter for Husband, nevertheless conveys the running time. There remain, however, dreariness of six years of marriage to him. couples and some individuals from first, Morgan Spector is apt as the nonchalant The musical “Titanic” won five Tony second and third class, along with various Lover, and Suzanne Bertish convinces as awards in 1997 for composer / lyricist crew members, and, in first class, some the Mother from hell. Lesser parts are Maury Yeston and book writer Peter very rich and famous people. passably, though a trifle too realistically, Stone, despite the fact that musicals, also Given that there were far too many handled. known as musical comedies, tend not to be tragic, let alone on so catastrophic a scale: amenities and far too few lifeboats, those What we have here is a bit of feminist over 1500 dead and only 711 survivors. saved were women and children and a few propaganda couched in effectively melo- first-class men obviously favored. There dramatic form, a play that must have This was a huge, very costly Broadway were as well some women choosing to die shocked contemporaries, but that still does production with sets and costumes by with their husbands. Displayed was much not lack crude punch. It does, however, Stewart Laing, direction by Richard Jones, heroism along with some selfish cowardice, cheat somewhat in not showing us the choreography by Lynne Taylor-Corbett, including that of J. Bruce Ismay, chairman murder, thus arrogating the privilege and a distinguished cast of forty some. Not of the White Star Line that owned the of Greek tragedy. It all proves perfectly least impressive was a three-tiered model Titanic, and who kept prodding the watchable, supported by Michael Krass’s of the Titanic, its progressive sinking captain to ever greater, indeed fatal, speed. persuasive costumes and Jane Cox’s fine, plainly visualized. The historic plot involves abundant sometimes tricky lighting. Great, but unfortunately not repeat- bad luck as well as human error, and a great Production photos of Machinal by able on a smaller stage and budget. So Don Stephenson, a member of the original Rebecca Hall as Young Woman and Michael Cumpsty as Husband. and courtesy of Joan Marcus. Continued on page 13

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Yeston’s score is not quite up to his Murderous Machinery, Tragic Supership best, as in “Nine,” but still good enough, Continued from page 12 Moller’s costumes, and Andrew Gnoser’s with especially notable choral numbers, however much of the lyrics gets lost in deal of that survives even in this shorter lighting, with Howard Werner’s projec- the process. Various types of musical version. The set designer, Patrick Rizzotti, tions perhaps a bit more rudimentary numbers are involved—there is even did what he could for this revival by the than strictly necessary. In any case, enough some comedy—always respectable albeit Westchester Broadway Theatre with its remains for audiences not to feel cheated. The cast is still too numerous for not outstanding. There is also a surpris- ing amount of dancing, commendably performed. And absence of the original version’s large orchestra proves not too drastic, what with that able handful of musicians under Ian Weinberger’s direction. AUCTION- MT. VERNON! Do try to catch this show that, rather Online Ending Wednesday, 2/19 @ 1:01PM rare among musicals, leaves you with 465 South 11th Avenue, Mt. Vernon quite something to think about on top of Opening bid $50K. 2,600 sq ft building stripped in preparation having been generously entertained. How of single family home. Close to NYC, Metro & shopping would you have behaved under these dire Showing 2/16 @ 1PM by appointment circumstances? For tickets call (914) 592-2222 or Details: AARauctions.com. (845) 635-3169 visit www.broadwaytheatre.com. John Simon has written for over 50 years on theatre, film, literature, music and fine arts for the Hudson Review, New Leader, New Criterion, National Review, New York Magazine, Opera News, Weekly Standard, Broadway.com and Bloomberg News. Mr. APARTMENTS • 47 RIVERVIEW AVE., YONKERS Simon holds a PhD from Harvard University in Comparative Literature and has taught at intimate playhouse and 3/4 in the round MIT, Harvard University, Bard College and seating, but not a little is left up to the individual mention, though it should Marymount Manhattan College. audience’s imagination. be noted that the original production’s To learn more, visit the JohnSimon- Hearty praise, though, for Don Drew McVety returns in a couple of Uncensored.com website. Stephenson’s direction, Liza Genaro’s roles, doubling prevailing pretty much choreography, Derek Lockwood & Ryan throughout. 1 & 2 BR APARTMENTS AT A GREAT PRICE! - 1 BRs STARTING AT $1098! • 2 BRS STARTING AT $1315! FLEETWOOD RENOVATED APARTMENTS FOR RENT 914.798.9410 • Luxury Apartment Living at a Great Value • High Rise Building in in Yonkers with Hudson River Views • Nearby Public Transportation, Shopping and Restaurants • Fitness Center On-Site • 24 Hours Access Control Patrol OPEN HOUSE • Large State of the Art Laundry Room SATURDAY • 24 Hr. Maintenance February 15th 10AM- 2PM • On-Site Management Beautiful, Newly Renovated, Spacious 1 Bedroom Apartment • Indoor Parking On-Site, with Controlled Access $1350/month • Resident Lounge Brand New Kitchens, Living Rooms & Bathrooms • Granite Counter Tops • Business Center New Cabinets, Stoves & Refrigerators, Credit Check Required • Beautiful Landscaped Courtyard in the Center of the Complex Elevator Building • 1 Block from MetroNorth Fleetwood Station • Monthly Parking Nearby Available Immediately Call Management Office for details: 15 MINUTES 914.632.1230 FROM NYC VIA 80 West Grand Street, Fleetwood METRO NORTH! Page 14 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, FEBRUARY 6, 2014

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of sea, sky, mountains and the beaches of separated the invited from – well, from those Cidade Maravilhosa—Carnival Time in Rio Lagoa, Ipanema and Leblon. who were not. I Could Have Danced All Flashbulbs popped as I entered this By BARBARA BARTON Gentle waves washed the shore and Fast forward to the 21st century with the classic hotel and once inside, pure fantasy. SLOANE the ocean curved off into the distant, odd- event drawing 500,000 foreign visitors and Night This event offered the chance to mingle shaped mountains beyond. tens of thousands participating in spectacu- That evening, I had the special privi- with the glitterati, international VIPs, top Cidade Maravilhosa – lar parades with fantasy floats and dancing lege of attending the prestigious Carnival starlets and models, the works. Wonderful City. Brief is Best till dawn at the Sambodrome – an event that Ball, an event I like to refer to as my very The theme of the ball was “Opera This is the name the To call Rio informal is a gross everyone must experience at least once in life. own “15 Minutes.” Why? Because to enter Magic” and as I wove my way through the Cariocas (residents of Rio) fondly call their understatement. During these four days offices, banks the Palace, I walked a Red Carpet while costumed Carmens, Aidas, Rameses and town – and with good reason. The sidewalks teemed with people in and shops close. hundreds pressed up against a fence which Continued on page 15 A city of six million inhabitants, Rio various stages of undress – short shorts, Everything stops and the insanity de Janeiro has a special vibe all its own – a minis and teeny, tiny string bikinis that begins. Samba vibe, to be sure, and it all begins when adorned bronzed, beautiful bodies. A Truly Heavenly View we deplane at Tom Jobim, an airport like no This is not a place for the shy, the Gearing up for my first night of other. retiring, or for my boring, one-piece black Carnival, I spent an inordinate amount of Warm smiles greet us, music pulses bathing suit. time that morning choosing my dress for the from all corners of the building, and men and In fact, I’m sure the color black must famed Copacabana Palace Ball. women sway to the beat of Samba. be banned in Brazil. Satisfied that I had a killer outfit, I was The city is gearing up for its most Instead, a kaleidoscope of riotous famous event – Carnival – and so am I! ready for some serious Rio sightseeing. color reigns. Later, peering from my And what should be my first sight? First reached in January, 1501 by window at 3 a.m., I was surprised to see Portuguese explorers in an expedition the beach still alive with countless stroll- Just the largest art deco statue in the led by Amerigo Vespucci, the Europeans ers, water gently lapping at their ankles. world, Cristo Redentor, Christ the Redeemer, the beloved symbol that looms over the city and is considered its protector. It is 73 years old, 98 feet high and rests atop Corcovado Mountain. My reward for climbing the 220 steps to the top (there’s an elevator if you don’t fancy the climb) is a euphoric feeling of standing on top of the world with a panoramic view Rio’s Copacabana Beach is the world’s most famous beach! National Park.

Christ the Redeemer overlooking Rio de Janeiro atop Corcovado Mountain in the Tijuca Forest National Park. I’m told that Rio’s citizens routinely thought at first the Bay of Guaranbara hit the beach on their lunch hour, as well. was the mouth of a river which they then For them, the beach is an integral, named “Rio de Janeiro,” river of January. necessary part of life. My ride from the airport to Quite simply, here life is a beach. I Copacabana Beach seemed to take just planned on getting in some beach time about as long as it probably took those myself, but the main reason I’m here is for explorers to discover Rio. Carnival so let the cutir (fun) begin! Traffic here is appalling and driving The first records of this festival date even a very short distance takes hours. back to 1723 when immigrants from the Finally ensconced in my hotel room, Portuguese islands introduced it to Rio I checked out the scene from my window. and, by 1855, Carnival acquired unique Below all was bustling and vibrant. elements derived from the African I smiled as I glimpsed the familiar culture – organized parades, luxurious sight I’d long associated with Rio, costumes, music, masks and flowers. the wave-patterned sidewalks and Carnival; Sambodrome celebration. Courtesy of Google Images. Copacabana Beach. THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, FEBRUARY 6, 2014 Page 15

LEAVING ON A JET PLANE Cidade Maravilhosa—Carnival Time in Rio Continued from page 14 Passarela do Samba, the runway. The event ends at dawn the next morning. Rudolfos, I had to pinch myself to believe I The phrase Samba School is actually was really there. somewhat of a misnomer. Like most other Carnival events, this It is not a teaching institution; you ball lasted till dawn and I was grateful that cannot go there to learn to Samba (a dance next day’s sightseeing was put off till very late unique to Brazil and invented by poor morning. Afro-Brazilians). Onward and Upward Instead, the 70 Samba Schools in Rio represent eight neighborhoods that work all Because of its height and its unmistak- year to build the floats, make the costumes able outline, Sugar Loaf is one of Rio’s main and choreograph the dances they will attractions. perform in the parade. On a cable car that has been in opera- All night I sat mesmerized, viewing tion since 1912, the first leg of my ascent took the parade in this amphitheater which was me to a height of 720 feet above sea level and designed by the renowned Brazilian archi- stopped at the Morro da Urca plateau. There tect Oscar Niemeyer. our car was boarded by a group of boisterous musicians who gaily played and sang us to Back in the mid-eighties, the Samba the summit. Parades had become too big for improvisa- tion in the streets and needed a professional Sugar Loaf is a green, unearthly peak site to perform in. that rises over the city and affords a bird’s eye view from Copacabana Beach to the When commissioned to build the Corcovado Mountain. Sambodrome which was to be completed in 110 days, Niemeyer said “We built the Feeling adventurous? capital Brasilia in four years. You can take a helicopter ride which We certainly can build the Sambodrome leaves from the first plateau. in four months,” and he did. Really adventurous or slightly mad? Try About the Samba Parade, may I just climbing up this mountain. say that it is an utterly unbelievable spectacle I peered down over the sheer vertical in color, grandeur and splendor, something side of Sugar Loaf to see tiny, ant-like figures you’ve gotta see to believe. attempting to make their way to the top. Too soon, Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday They, more than we who rode a cable arrived. car, would find the stunning views a most Carnival in Rio is a unique experience. Carnival festivities. Courtesy of Google Images. just reward. Discard inhibitions, wear a wild This Girl in Ipanema costume, just let go and have a blast. Commercial • Industrial Throughout the four days of Carnival, In short, it’s a moment you will never, there are Bandas (street parades) that take ever forget. And, however cheesy it may be, & Residential Services place in the many Rio neighborhoods. Rio de Janeiro - mad, magical and mysteri- Roll-Off Containers 1-30 Yards Each Banda consists of an orchestra ous - allows you to live out, if only for a brief playing well-known music that everybody moment, your most far-out fantasies and Home Cleanup Containers sings along with. dreams. I marched along the Ipanema Banda Cutir - Party on! Turn-Key Demolition Services irreverently titled “Que Merda E Essa?” (no RIO de JANEIRO 411: translation needed). DEC Licensed Transfer Station Carnival 2014: February 28 through The streets were filled with hordes of March 4 enthusiastic people dancing the samba in Brazil Tourist Office DEP Licensed Rail Serve costumes, bathing suits, special T-shirts and www.iexplore.com/dmap/brazil www.citycarting.net Transfer & Recyling Services even in drag. The crowds were so thick I was liter- Photos by Michael Sloane and courtesy of City Carting of Westchester Licensed Demolition Contractor ally carried along, at times wondering if I’d Michael Sloane Photography. Somers Sanitation ever see my safe, relatively quiet hotel again. Locally Owned & Operated Happily, I hung in there and made it! Travel Editor Barbara Barton Sloane is con- B & S Carting stantly globe hopping to share her unique Radio Dispatched All Night Long experiences with our readers; from the exotic AAA Paper Recycling The highlight of Carnival is the Samba to the sublime. As Beauty / Fashion Editor she Bria Carting Fully Insured - FREE Estimates Parade which is held at the Sambodrome keeps us informed on the capricious and engaging CRP Sanitation (this year on March 2nd fashion and beauty scene. On-Site Document Destruction and 3rd). The parade features six Samba Schools, 800.872.7405 • 203.324.4090 Same Day Roll Off Service each group with as many as 10,000 revelers 8 Viaduct Road, Stamford, CT 06907 (you read it right) marching down the Page 16 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, FEBRUARY 6, 2014

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by no means replace the use of coins in the If you missed the tax payment Police Department asks that you let them Village Procedures same meter. We are also currently inter- deadline of December 31, 2013, the result- know if you have anyone in your home viewing companies who provide meterless ing penalty is not a local decision, rather requiring special needs or a different By MARY C. MARVIN parking meters were enforced on Martin parking payment services via coins, bills New York State imposed. The same is true approach to assistance, be it a wheel chair Luther King Day, a Federal holiday. This and credit cards. One can only imagine for the lien sale for unpaid taxes that takes bound parent or a child on the autism This week’s column will th has been a point of confusion in the past the beauty of this Village without 1,100 place before March 20 . The Village, by spectrum. Knowing your specific needs serve as a compilation as people link the meter usage to holidays parking stantions. choice, does not print the names of the makes for better policing. of some of the most fre- versus the actual purpose of the meters, Residents and merchants who delinquent taxpayers but per statute must The first of the year also signals a flip- quently asked questions to which is to stimulate the movement of purchase yearly parking passes must identify the parcels by section, block and flop in garbage schedule pick-up to fairly Village Hall staffers as well cars to increase customer parking for our display them clearly to avoid a violation. lot number in the newspaper of record. even out all the Monday holidays across as reminders/clarification of certain time businesses. The meters are enforced only At present, our parking enforcement The $50 fee for Village alarm permits the Village. A paper schedule was mailed sensitive Village procedures. on holidays on which most businesses officers do not have the capability to access was also due on January 1, 2014 with a to all resident and the same is now on-line Coming on the heels of two snow- are closed and these are enumerated on the entire database so the visual inspection grace period extending until February 1st. as well. storms, it is the opportune time to remind a sticker on every meter. On a day such is required. If the police must respond to an alarm On this subject, I want to thank residents and merchants of the rules for as Martin Luther King Day, when all the Unfortunately, this time of year is with an expired or non-renewed permit, our stellar Department of Public Works safe passage in the Village. If you are an stores are open, free meters could very well also property tax season. Any resident the owner will receive an appearance ticket Department employees for the top notch owner of property in the Business District, cause Pondfield Road to be populated by who believes their home value is inaccu- requiring attendance at our local court. job they did during all of the recent storms whether vacant or not, one must clear commuter cars from dawn to dusk, thereby rate after reviewing the new tentative tax Each calendar year, residents are permitted with special kudos for even picking up snow and ice from the sidewalk by 9AM taking away all the potential parking for roll, available in Village Hall or on-line two false alarm responses without charge, recycling immediately post-blizzard. We and 4PM of each day whether or not snow store customers. Hence, the need for on February 1st, may grieve the value then a third response costs $25, and a have a great team here at Village Hall. is still falling. All paved sidewalks in the enforcement even on a national holiday. on February 18th from 5PM to 9PM. fourth, $50. These accumulated charges rest of the Village must be cleared of ice Mary C. Marvin is the mayor of the Village At the most recent Trustees’ meeting, Applications will be available on-line and are billed yearly. and snow within 12 hours of the cessation of Bronxville, New York. If you have a sug- we discussed adding the option for paying at Village Hall. Residents are required to Continuing on the police front, in of snow falling. gestion or comment, consider directing your for our metered parking via a phone app. make duplicates of the application and any light of the recent plight of the autistic perspective by directing email to mayor@ Also apropos of this time of year, The app would strictly be an add-on and supporting data. young man in Long Island City, Chief vobny.com. several shoppers questioned why our Satriale asked me to reiterate that our INTERNATIONAL—CURRENT COMMENTARY

is aggressively pursuing what it says are its After Further Review, A Border Dispute Is Settled rights in the region, and even by China, a non-Arctic country that nevertheless says By LARRY M. ELKIN peaceful and neutral arbitration over the thing about the disputed territory between get the chance to settle these issues. Right it has interests in the polar seas, if only exercise of raw power. Chile and Peru is that nobody lives there now China’s military seems too interested because of the potential for cross-Arctic When emotions run high Peru and Chile are the perfect example except fish and marine mammals. There are in demonstrating its growing clout to seek shipping. Regardless of whether the court and both sides want to win, of how this can work. At this moment in thousands of native Falklanders who over- outside mediation, and the civilian govern- decides in our favor, establishing a prec- an impartial referee can history, the governments in both places whelmingly prefer to be part of the United ment appears disinclined to say no to the edent for the court’s authority in the matter prevent mayhem. This prin- are stable, democratic and not particularly Kingdom, and no tribunal has a chance of commanders. may be a worthwhile end in itself. ciple is on display at this jingoistic. It is hard to imagine that the persuading them otherwise. Britain would There could be a better chance for Against this geopolitical backdrop, week’s upcoming Super Bowl in New Jersey International Court of Justice could have see conceding sovereignty as abandoning the international court’s involvement in the Chile-Peru dispute is just a baby step and also, far to the south, in the equatorial been called upon to resolve a maritime its own citizens. Meanwhile, Argentina future conflicts in the polar regions. The toward international justice. But it is, at Pacific Ocean off South America. boundary issue during the right-wing seems disinclined to give up its claims Arctic basin is increasingly a global hot least, a step that seems to go in the right For the past six years, Peru and Chile government of Gen. Augusto Pinochet in regardless of what any outside panel might spot, despite the weather. Even the U.S. direction. have disputed control of a swath of the Chile, or under the corrupt and authoritar- say, and Argentine governments are often and Canada disagree over the right of free Pacific off their western coastlines. They ian government of Peru’s Alberto Fujimori. eager to use the Falklands-versus-Malvinas navigation there, as supported by the U.S., took their disagreement to the International In fact, the Chilean government’s arrest and dispute to distract attention from their own or the exercise of territorial sovereignty Court of Justice in The Hague, which ruled extradition of Fujimori in 2005 may have numerous failures. Canada claims in the straits that thread ® on Monday on a new maritime border that Larry M. Elkin, CPA, CFP , has provided helped create the cooperative atmosphere Nor is an uninhabited zone, by itself, through the Arctic archipelago. If Ottawa largely favors Peru. Sebastián Piñera, Chile’s personal financial and tax counseling to a in which the border dispute has now been any guarantee that the parties disputing and Washington cannot work out the issue president, said in a televised address that sophisticated client base since 1986. After six resolved. Such a resolution is valuable insur- it will accept an outside verdict. China is on their own, they would be good candi- although Chile disagreed with the decision, years with Arthur Andersen, where he was a ance against some nationalist politician in engaged in multiple maritime disputes dates to involve the international court. his nation would abide by it nonetheless. senior manager for personal financial planning either country trying to use the boundary with several surrounding nations, includ- The United States only accepts the The Peru-Chile case demonstrates the and family wealth planning, he founded his issue to whip up domestic support in the ing Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines. court’s jurisdiction on a case-by-case basis, power, as well as the limits, of international own firm in Hastings on Hudson, N.Y., in future. As with the Chile-Peru dispute, the terri- but if we can’t accept it in a dispute involv- tribunals to peaceably settle conflicting 1992. That firm grew steadily and became the Does this case provide a useful example tory in question is essentially uninhabited, ing our closest and most friendly neighbors, claims. It is a power that could help defuse Palisades Hudson organization, which moved for settling the long-running dispute over including the islands at the center of it is hard to see when we ever would. some of the most troublesome potential to Scarsdale, N.Y., in 2002. The firm expanded the Falkland Islands? It would be nice to China’s controversy with Japan. Maybe the Besides, it could be a useful precedent to conflicts of the 21st century, but it is only to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in 2005 and to think so, but probably not. The convenient International Court of Justice will someday help resolve Arctic claims by Russia, which useful in situations where nations value Atlanta in 2008. THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, FEBRUARY 6, 2014 Page 17

MIDDLE EAST FORUM Top Islamic Leader Calls on U.S. to Wage ‘Jihad for Allah’ Don’t Waste Your By RAYMOND IBRAHIM Time Anywhere Else A video of Dr. Yusuf al- The New Qaradawi calling on the U.S. government to wage jihad for Allah in Syria, is currently making the Don’t Waste Your rounds on Arabic media and Facebook, Time Anywhere Else to mockery and dismay. The New In the recorded speech, Qaradawi— one of the most influential Islamic clerics in the world, spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, author of over 100 books on Muslim doctrine, and head of the International Union of Muslim Scholars—sarcastically thanks the U.S. for supporting the “freedom fighters” in Syria, adding that “Allah willing, your [U.S.] aid will increase.” Yusuf al-Qaradawi (center) draped in a “Free Syria” flag. (Image source- Wikimedia Commons). Then, while working himself up because the U.S is only providing weapons As Clare Lopez summarizes for the an invitation to Abdullah bin Bayyah to the jihadis in Syria, as opposed to Gatestone Institute: (al-Qaradawi’s vice president at the directly intervening, Qaradawi declares “[T]he current administration con- International Union of Muslim Scholars), ClubNew York in frustration: “We want America to take a sistently and repeatedly appeared to who told an Al-Jazeera reporter that, manly stand—a stand for Allah!” respond eagerly to the calls for revolution “We demand Washington take a greater Needless to say, all Muslim from the Muslim Brotherhood’s senior role in [Syria].” It took the U.S. less than Brotherhood opponents in the region are Islamic scholar, Yousef al-Qaradawi. one week after al-Qaradawi’s fatwa to announce authorization of stepped-up NEW YORK’S pointing to this as yet more proof that When al-Qaradawi said that Mubarak Qaradawi and the Brotherhood are mer- had to go, the U.S. waited a whole three military aid to the al-Qa’eda-and-Broth- days before throwing America’s key ally erhood-dominated Syrian rebels. 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Christians are called to be salt and light Free Crack Pipes and the Hidden Gospel in America in this world. Salt has many uses. The reason why Roman soldiers were paid By LUKE HAMILTON administrators are distancing themselves in salt was because it was valuable and from the suggestion and denying its cred- versatile. It could season your meal or We want everyone to feel ibility, but they had the same reaction preserve your meat. It could also serve as good. There is no room in when someone first suggested free a disinfectant when poured into a wound. Obamatopia for anyone needles for heroin users. The city now As a church body in America, we have to suffer deprivation, be has more than a dozen needle exchanges. lost this use of salt in our engagement it physical, emotional, They’ll come around… with the world. Not because there aren’t or social. That is unless you believe in Examining the proposal itself, it any wounds which need cleansing, but limited government or unalienable rights. seems odd. At least with needles, it’s clear because we want to spare our wounded Then it’s a one-way ticket out of the land how the virus might be spread from user the pain which precedes the healing. We of milk and tolerance into a railcar bound to user. But how could HIV be spread via offer comfort instead of healing, prefer- for Camp Re-education; but as long crack pipes? Wouldn’t heating a glass pipe ring to serve as the salt around the rim of as you toe the thin pink line, things are potentially kill the virus instead of helping the margarita glass, rather than the life- gravy. Any discomfort which might crop it spread? According to Laura Thomas, a giving disinfectant which could burn and up will get imperially quashed in order to member of the HIV Prevention Planning cleanse the septic wounds of the dead and avoid harshing your Soma™ buzz. Not Committee, the primary objective is not dying which surround us. satisfied with your minimum wage job? to prevent the spread of HIV via crack Let’s craft federal regulation so you make Luke Hamilton is classically-trained, pipes after all. “Once you can bring as much as your boss. Tired of living in Shakespearean actor from Eugene, Oregon people into your program, make them feel another country which doesn’t hand out heal. who happens to be a liberty-loving, right- respected, taken care of, then they’re more One Who gave His blood to cleanse us free stuff? Come on down to the ol’ US wing, Christian constitutionalist. When likely to come back and get on HIV meds When examined in the abstract, of this sin. 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Education and Economic training in economics, the idea that disgruntled thought declared that “The that inequality has a natural place in the Inequality presented itself seemed to have been more perfect the capital market, the human condition even when it is found drawn from, or had the aura of, a college higher the rate of return on capital is in in the populations of adjoining school On January 28, 2014, after Obama’s economic text book. In any case, as I held comparison to the rate of growth of the districts which a sly, unread governor, speech, I went to our deck to check the forty pound feed bag angularly over economy, and the higher that ratio is, the obsessed with the presidency, longs to whether our bird feeder required a the opening in the roof of the feeder, and greater the inequality”. tinker? reloading sufficient to meet the needs as I watched the fast flow of the small What does this all mean? Was I of the morning. As I was bent over the Harry Reynolds seeds, I suddenly heard Obama’s state- experiencing the fragmentary intrusion feeder, an idea suddenly struck me out of Scardsdale, NY ment about economic inequality and the of economic logic into my 85-year-old the blue. necessity of doing something about it, brain as a sign of impending dementia? Although I have absolutely no whereupon in my mind the unbidden, Or was my mind telling me, a Democrat, THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, FEBRUARY 6, 2014 Page 19

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