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SHERIF AWAD
The Network
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EVAN S. LEVINE, M.D.
Why Are Dentists immune
To Obamacare?
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RICH MONETTI
Viktoria Barbarakis
Wins Writing Contest
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JOHN F. McMULLEN
Google: Wonderful?
Or Bad? Or Both?
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JOHN SIMON
Betrayal, Hunting, Real
And Potential Murders
Page 12
By HEZI ARIS,
PAGE 3
Mayor MARY C. MARVIN
Murdered
Christian Children
The Price of Obama’s Pro-Brotherhood Jihad
By RAYMOND IBRAHIM, Page 5
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BOB K. BOGEN
Pinning the Tail On the
Republican Donkey
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THE HEZITORIAL
Yonkersites Made Politically Inconsequential
By HEZI ARIS
Political milk has been
nurtured and suckled
for over millennia, yet
the last two generations
have exacted costs even
greater than the value of spilled political
milk. In days remembered by a minority,
and by those who would study archives
of historical references and perspectives,
a difference from then to today are the
insatiable demands greed has wrought
onto the political paradigm, and those
who dwell within its realm. The promise,
inculcated into the United States
Constitution by the “founding fathers”,
have after many years disintegrated into
a state of dysfunction perceived rightly
by “The People”, but not by those who
stand before them to gain their vote. The
culprits, cloaked in the green of greed
have had their way. They took and took
and took, leaving little behind. Even so,
the City of Yonkers (CoY) continues
to be defiled by each in their own way.
CoY’s “godfathers” continue to exact
their pound of flesh from Yonkers. You
know them all – they maintain their
hold of Yonkers by the throat: former
Yonkers Mayors Angelo Martinelli,
John Spencer, Phil Amicone, and former
New York State Senator Nicholas “Nick”
Spano. Each in his/her own way was
part of the debauched gang rape of CoY.
Silent at every violent attack against
her, Yonkers proudly hangs on to her
vision aspiring to regain her footing in
her “city of gracious living”. The silence
that harkens from every one of these
“godfathers” is as complicit as those
who perpetrated the “crimes”. They are
NYS Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins,
successor to former NYS Senator
Nick Spano; NYS Assemblymember
Shelley Mayer, successor to present
Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano; NYS
Assemblyman Gary Pretlow; and
NYS Senator Jeff Klein, succeeded by
NYS Senator George Latimer representing a constituency no longer the
purview of Senator Klein’s. They have
each been enabled the “godfathers” by
their individual and collective silence of
Yonkersites all. “Bitching” among one
another is of no consequence. It it were
a winning formula it would have been
replicated a thousand times over. It hasn’t
worked in Yonkers, or anywhere else.
YONKERS CITY HALL:
In all these years the colleagues of
the “godfathers” named accommodated
the “wrongs” in silence. Their successors have conveniently sloughed off
any responsibility in setting the record
straight.The most egregious of the lot has
been former NYS Assemblyman Mike
Spano who professed he did not know
how bad things where in the approximately two decades he represented
CoY in the New York State Legislature
as its assemblyman. Whether real or
feigned ignorance, Yonkers Mayor Mike
Spano, 22 months in office, claims he
has managed to uncover the many
managerial deficiencies of his predecessor Phil Amicone, yet he divulges
not one concern descerned, much less
rectified. Mayor Spano has yet to place
responsibility, much less blame, on the
corrupt conduct of Phil Amicone, whose
demeanor to abide by the Yonkers City
Charter, New York State Constitution,
and the U.S. Constitution are stated, but
never engaged; Mike Spano swore an
oath to his God before invited guests to
his Inaugural Swear-in Ceremony when
he acceded to the Office of Mayor of the
City of Yonkers to set much that was in
disorder on a corrected path. All talk;
nothing but talk. Mayor Mike Spano’s
reluctance to call a spade a spade has
revealed Mayor Mike Spano’s disinterest in righting and writing the wrongs in
neither proclamation, nor in law. Mayor
Mike Spano’s comfort zone seems to
reside with ease and confort in attending
inane and inconsequential ribbon cutting
ceremonies at ribbon cutting events of
his staff’s making. The pertinence, relevance, and responsibility demanded and
expected of Mayor Mike Spano escapes
his abilities and those of his staff who
continue to assert they are fully engaged
in the inefficiencies, ineptitude, and / or
corruption advised them ad nauseum
by the Yonkers Tribune. Assertions have
been expressed but proof has been
lacking. They say they have taken care of
the issues plaguing CoY, but have issued
not one document of proof to assert their
loquacious expression otherwise.
STUNTED ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT:
So far, Yonkers City Hall has
disguised their effort as desirous of correcting the wrong. Lacking any proven
results other than their telling it “off
the record” permits understanding that
is anathema to what they say and is in
reality an effort to cloak their effort to
take control of every economic development prospect into the future. The
Master Development Project on the
Yonkers Waterfront long a treasured
fiefdom, held under the aegis of Struever
Cappelli Fidelco, expired in February
2013, but City Hall claimed they did
not want to contest the 12-year-old
project that produced nothing, while
Fidelco, City Hall claimed, was contesting the contract was viable into
September 2013. Fidelco was the last
viable member of the Srueer, Fidelco,
Cappelli troika. Now the end of October
/ beginning of November, 2013, Yonkers
City Hall has made no statement
revealing the expired status of the SFC
Yonkers Project; worse, a successor of
financial worth has yet to be found,
much less revealed. Why? No successor has been revealed. Not one person
on the Yonkers City Council, presently
or those who will succeed and comprise
the 2014 Yonkers City Council have
said a word with regard to the financial
health and viability of CoY with respect
to these concerns. Yonkers needs development in a bad way. New York State
Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli advised
in an October 23, 2013 report that 36
percent of real estate properties in CoY
are tax exempt. That’s a revelation if ever
there was one!
The economic prospects for
Yonkers seem to presently gravitate
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about the Glenwood Power Station and
Trevor Park. Standards of law and protocol
with respect to developer Ron Shemesh’s
effort regarding the project have exceeded
the parameters and boundaries acceptable
and binding by law and exceed governance,
protocol, and boundaries that do not conform
and do not abide with law and protections of
differing levels of acceptable standards of governance, much less law.The project was rushed
through in 2013. There is no funding to have
anyone consider this project viable. Alas, with
those who can set the record straight reluctant
to critique the mayor, his governance which
was to overstep his legal limits and boundaries, all is still safe and in Mayor Mike Spano’s
control. It still cannot stand the scrutiny of law
abiding jurists. Whew! Mayor Mike Spano is
safe; for now!!!
DECEPTIVE ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT:
Cross County Shopping Center advises
it is not relevant for the public to be made
aware of why and exactly when the proposed
Cross County Hotel will be built or whether
two restaurants, part of a chain operation, that
of The Olive Garden and Longhorne Grill,
will be built, despite Yonkers IDA approval
on every front when announced in November
2012. What was the rush? New York Stock
Exchange listed firms issue press notices of
delays and explain the rationale for the decisions and conduct that follow. Yonkers has
found a way to disenfranchise the public every
step of the way in a process that one way or
another is holding Yonkersites hostage to
the silence on the developers’ part, as well as
on the part of Yonkers City Hall. Yonkers
IDA and Yonkers City Hall is not holding
the “developers?” accountable to produce in a
timely fashion. Why? This was a project inked
by Mayor Mike Spano. Why has he enabled
the developers to be silent on their intentions
and their projected timeline? Why was this
aspect of grave concern to CoY not inculcated
into the contract? Is Yonkers Corporation
Counsel permited to review these contracts
or is someone else demanding these loopholes
exist and so thereby disallowing quick remedy
and / or penalty for delays to be imposed?
A plan to revive a faltering Central
Avenue, as well as the roads running from
West to East have yet to be expressed.
It is bad enough that Yonkersites have
been sidelined while their elected officials
sit twiddling their thumbs crying out that it
is they who are striving to find accommodation in a city in which non-aggression pacts
for political expediencies are written in blood
in every election cycle, but vision, plans, and
projects that must be engaged and nurtured
toward fruition and substance languish from
ever being imprinted on the Yonkers landscape. While the talk professes concern, 22
months of ineptitude have been relegated to
history and have evaporated like the mirage
it always was. Poof; gone! What’s the “plan”?
Is there a plan? Is the “plan” a New York
State Control Board? Seems that is exactly
where Yonkers is headed; and “No!”, it will
not expunge the financial responsibilities by
which Yonkers is present;ly entangled, and
that includes the pension funds.
P3forE - PUBLIC PRIVATE
PARTNERSHIP FOR
EDUCATION:
The Yonkers Board of Education Board
of Trustees have yet to gain control of the
Public Private Partnership for Education
Project. While Yonkers Public Schools
Superintendent Bernard Pierorazio has
shepherded the P3forE project to revitalize,
rebuild, and / or refurbish a dilapidated school
infrastructure, having spent over $2 million in
studies that are fraught with issues to which
NYS Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has
raised fiscal concerns and suggested caution
be exercised with respect to fiscal prudence,
and the Commission of Inquiry have asked
for rationale and definition of values in
Pierorazio’s analysis still unresolved, the
Yonkers Board of Education (YBoE) chooses
to lie about whether a meeting is being held
when asked by this writer, and the material
discussed will not be released to the public
or the media. Rather than working for the
benefit of delivering excellence in education,
the YBoE is engaged in construction. They
wish to become developers. That is where
the money is. Yonkers taxpayers will pick up
the tab despite the financial burden it will
create. You won’t learn about it until you get
the bill demanding payment. And that goes
double even if you learn of the contract, but
you will never be able to examine it, as it will
be deemed proprietary, and none of your
concern, except for paying for the financial debacle it already is. Thank you Yonkers
Superintendent Bernard Pierorazio; Thank
you Yonkers Board of Education Board of
Trustees President Dr. Nader Sayegh, Esq.;
and the “open minded” Yonkers Mayor Mike
Spano. ROTFLMAO while crying.
YONKERS CITY COUNCIL
PRESIDENT:
Assisting in “fooling” the public in these
endeavors of deceit of the public interest,
the political powers that be: Democrat,
Republican, Conservative, and Independence
have resolved to crown their heir apparent
prior to the first vote being cast. The voter is
inconsequential; they have been summarily
dismissed. They are simply unnecessary in
“electing” the “good ol’ boys and girls” who
will, upon acceding to office, kow tow, submit,
and conform to any legal or other contrivance,
as long as it suits the “godfathers’ “ collective
“non-aggression” pacts at the moment. You
see, “non-aggression” pacts are fluid. They are
meant only to serve Yonkers’ self-proclaimed
“godfathers”.
Yonkers City Council President contenders Liam McLaughlin, Mike Rotanelli,
and Grace Borrani have each engaged in a
script that is presented for show. The “nonaggression” pact has Liam McLaughlin
crowned the winner. Mr McLaughlin’s
resume was won over a decade’s time on
the Yonkers City Council. Those who are
desirous of casting a vote know the value of
Mr McLaughlin’s resume. In the few years
Mr McLaughlin has not been in elected
office has he shown he is worthy of being
voted into office? At issue is whether he will
serve the public interest or that of the mayor’s
directive? Think the latter. If you do, you will
be on target.
Mr Rotanelli brings nothing to the
table other than a stand-in ready to submit
to the acclaimed successor to President
Chuck Lesnick, that is, Mr McLaughlin.
Mr Rotanelli has no experience in government except for a failed campaign to gain
office to represent the 3rd Yonkers City
Council District. Mr Rotanelli has recoiled
from any public announcement; comforted
in staying in the background. He defers to
his extensive distribution of signs extolling
his candidacy. Mr Rotanelli has claimed that
he loves Yonkers and he knows what is best
for the city! If you hear him slamming his
fist on the table in pronouncing his position,
there is nothing to be concerned about. You’re
hearing is OK. Mr Rotanelli’s “Father Knows
Best!” routine is as old as his outmoded standards of governance. The take-away; he is
only interested in a “sweet” contract for his
towing business and for his fiancée holding
onto her employment after the General
Election results are in. The horror of it all is
that Mr Rotannelli’s silence, and the numbers
of Democrats who are unaware of him in
every sense, may vote for the re-affirmation of
the “Peter Principle” taking hold in CoY and
vote Mr Rotanelli to the Office of Yonkers
City Council President not knowing for
whom they are casting heir vote. Democrats
definitely outnumber all three lines under Mr
McLaughlin’s belt! Yikes.
Grace Borrani, while long on energy has
yet to learn to engage the public in a vision
she has yet to postulate and cannot seemingly fathom the prospect of how to move
anything through the corrupt Yonkers City
Council, controlled as they are by the likes of
their respective party affiliations. Nice try, but
poorly executed.There is little room for on the
job training in a city that requires expertise
metered with ethical resolve. She has none of
the former and professes to possess the latter.
McLaughlin may win office to assuage
the “godfathers” so that he may be Mayor
Mike Spano’s “patsy”; Rotanelli is not even a
consideration except for those who pull the
lever without knowing for whom they have
voted, and Borrani needs to develop credentials proving her worth to stand for office at
another time.
YONKERS CITY COUNCIL –
2nd District:
Yonkers City Council Majority Leader
Wilson Terrero’s voting record, often aligned
with the Republican minority, afforded
the minority a majority vote and became
Mr Terrero’s fulcrum by which to serve
Mayor Mike Spano’s directives, thereby
hiding Mayor Spano’s courtship of the three
Republicans on the Yonkers City Council
while purporting that he, Mayor Spano,
was indeed the champion of all Democrats
in Yonkers while maintaing the viability of
the Republican brand within the Yonkers
landscape by breaking arms to benefit the
Republicans in the gerrymandering process
that Mayor Mike Spano had a hand in
undermining the Democrat Party majority.
Despite Mr Terrero’s political intrigues in
public and behind closed doors, Mr Terrero
forgot to serve Yonkers 2nd Council District.
He achieved nothing over a four-year incumbency that holds any relevance to the district
he claimed to serve. If he had, then he would
have proven that his passion, drive, and
whatever else he brought to the table was
good enough but it was not. Nice guy; even so,
he is blatantly ineffective. Mr Terrero is always
willing to carry Mayor Mike Spano’s water, I
mean Mayor Mike Spano’s perspective, and
to vote accordingly, without concern for the
constituents he has seemingly not represented.
Many, to this day, don’t even know his name.
Corazon Pineda challenged Mr Terrero
in a primary contest and she beat the incumbent Mr Terrero. She enters the General
Election with the coveted Democratic Party
designation. She has not revealed her vision or
her role on the Yonkers City Council vis-à-vis
the other members and importantly, Yonkers
Mayor Mike Spano. Of certainty is that she
cannot accomplish less than Mr Tererro who
accomplished nothing. Ms Oineda seems to
have the upper hand. Jose Roman seemingly
campaigning for the opportunity to represent
the 2nd Councilmatic District has receded
from the limelight. Time and reflection
reveals his effort was strictly for the purpose
of undermining Ms Pineda’s effort. No
matter; it seems Mr Terrero is wounded and
likely will not survive the final voter outcome.
Should Mr Terrero lose the race, we will in
weeks advise the position he will gain when
the 2014 Yonkers City Council membership
take their seats in January 2014. It will shock
at first; and then everyone will say, “Yeah, that
makes sense! Mayor Mike Spano knows
how to take care of his boy.” Besides, Mayor
Spano needs a guide next time he travels to
the Dominican Republic. Mr Terrero knows
the places to party!
4th District:
Incumbent Councilman Dennis
Shepherd has been one of the most reticent
political protagonists during the past four
years in office. He and Councilman Mike
Breen (5th District) have in the last two years
taken guidance and maintained lock-step
with Minority Leader John Larkin and his
directives. Mr Shepherd has little name recognition and little economic development
prospects other than talk. Even so, it is said as
long as a politician hasn’t committed murder,
he will likely be returned to office.
Challenge of Mr Shepherd’s incumbency is forged under the candidacy of
Euthimios “Tim” Theotokatos who is very
quietly conducting a door-to-door, meet and
greet effort to gain favor in the district.
Also, Brandon Neider’s third party line
effort may reveal some recognition of his
candidacy to represent the 4th Councilmatic
District due to his use of social networking,
email contact, among other modes of Internet
based outreach.
Shepherd and Theotokatos stand with
the greatest prominence before the voters
as the respective designated Republican
and Democrat standard bearers. Neider will
likely attract a Democrat, Independence
voter assisting Sherpherd’s efforts. Even
so, Theotokatos could pull an upset win if
turnout by Democrats is strong.
6th District:
Yonkers City Council Republican
Minority Leader John Larkin has solidified an expected win by challenging a poorly
directed and managed opponent, Jason
Hundgreder. Mr. Larkin holds a large lead
over Mr Hundgreder who is to be found on
the Working Families Party. Mr Larkin is
poised to become the Yonkers City Council
Majority Leader should Mr McLaughlin
capture an ordained win.
So where does the above scenario leave
Yonkers? Forsaken, abused, and maligned for
at minimum, shy of two more years under
the Mike Spano regime, who will drive every
conceivable project favoring patronage for the
future prospects of Mike Spano to the detriment of Yonkersites all except for the “family
and friends” network that brings our “godfather’s” to the table, no longer even needing
to promise a crumb to anyone other than the
retreads from the past.
Thanks to Yonkers politics, Yonkersites
have been outwitted to the point of
inconsequence.
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Murdered Christian Children
The Price of Obama’s Pro-Brotherhood Jihad
By RAYMOND IBRAHIM
Who is more deserving of punishment by the
United States? Millions of
Egyptians, for ousting the
Muslim Brotherhood? Or
the Muslim Brotherhood, for habitually terrorizing and murdering Christians, among
many other crimes?
According to the unmistakably clear
actions of the Obama administration, it is
the millions of anti-Brotherhood Egyptians
who deserve punishment.
Last Sunday, the Church of the Virgin
Mary in Waraq near Cairo was attacked
during a wedding ceremony, leaving four
dead and many wounded. According to Dr.
Hisham Abdul Hamid of forensics, two of
those who were murdered were Christian
children—two girls; two Marys: 12-yearold Mary Nabil Fahmy, who took five shots
in the chest, and 8-year-old Mary Ashraf
Masih (meaning “Christ”), who took a bullet
in the back which burst from the front.
It should be noted that this scene—
attacked Coptic churches and murdered
Christians, especially on holy days and celebrations—has become a normalized aspect
of Egypt’s landscape (see Crucified Again:
Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians, especially pgs. 42-43 and 56-62).
So too are the murders of Christian
children increasingly common in Egypt.
Indeed, along with Sunday’s two murdered
Marys, back in July, another Christian girl,
10-year-old Jessi Boulos, was shot dead
while walking home from Bible class.
All of these church attacks and murders
are a direct byproduct of the Muslim
Brotherhood’s incitements against Egypt’s
Christians in retaliation for the June 30
Revolution, which saw the ousting of the
Brotherhood.
Needing someone to scapegoat in
order to set Egypt ablaze, Brotherhood
leadership—including supreme leader
Muhammad Badie, Safwat Hegazi, and Al
Jazeera’s Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi—repeatedly demonized the nation’s Christian
minority, leading to any number of atrocities
committed against the Copts.
As today’s headline from one of Egypt’s
most read newspapers, Tahrir News, put
it: “The Brotherhood’s crime in Waraq
[location of Sunday’s church attack].
Seventeen murdered Copts and 85 torched
churches since ousting of Morsi… Copts
pay price of June 30 Revolution.”
Now consider the response of the
United States concerning the conflict
between Egypt and the Muslim
Brotherhood in the context of U.S. aid.
For years, human rights activists have
been imploring the Obama administration
to make aid to Egypt contingent on respect
for the human rights of all Egyptians,
including Christian minorities. Such a move
would dramatically ameliorate the plight
of the Copts, since all potential Egyptian
governments, including the ousted Muslim
Brotherhood, are more interested in securing
money than in killing Christians.
Instead, the Obama administration’s approach has been 1) to ignore
the plight of Egypt’s Christians and 2)
when attacks are especially egregious (and
exposed by the MSM) offer perfunctory
condemnation. (After all, if the administration was able to get away with the
lip-service approach among Americans—
vocally condemning and promising to get
the Muslim Brotherhood-linked murderers
of Americans in Benghazi but then ignoring
it—surely it will not hesitate doing so with a
foreign nation.)
Christian churches (including an unprecedented attack on the holiest Coptic
church back when Morsi was still president) and the murders of Copts and their
children finally get ousted by the Egyptian
people and their military, it is then that the
Obama administration cuts hundreds of
millions of dollars in U.S. aid to Egypt—
thereby punishing all of Egypt for ejecting
the Muslim Brotherhood from power. (In
other nations, like Syria, the administration supports the Christian-slaughtering,
al-Qaeda linked terrorists).
What more proof can any sensible
American need to know that the Muslimnamed president of the United States
of America is in league with Muslim
terrorists?
First published in FrontPageMagazine.
com October 23, 2013
http://www.me f or um.org/3649/
egypt-murdered-christians
Raymond Ibrahim, author of Crucified
Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on
Christians (Regnery, April, 2013) is a
Middle East and Islam specialist, and a
Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz
Freedom Center and an Associate Fellow at the
Middle East Forum.
As for making U.S. aid to Egypt contingent on respect for human rights, that
has been out of the question for the Obama
administration.
And yet, when those who are responsible for the destruction of nearly 100
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News & Notes from Northern Westchester
By MARK JEFFERS
Kids, it’s time to put on
your best costume and
find the biggest bag you
can. Parents, it is time to
schedule an appointment
with your family dentist… Happy Halloween
Everyone! I was trying to find a wild and crazy
costume for this year, and thought that the
Webmaster for Obamacare would be perfect,
but I couldn’t get on the site for my research.
So, instead I just went to my desk, grabbed a
handful of candy corn and wrote this week’s
costume free edition of “News & Notes.”
If you didn’t get a chance to wear your
Halloween costume or you want to show
off your favorite outfit, come to the Katonah
Museum of Art on Saturday, November
2nd, at 10:30am. The museum is celebrating the transformative power of dress with
stories about special clothes read by costume
designer Deanna Berg MacLean; a fabric art
project will follow. Story time at the Katonah
Museum of Art is free and for the family.
On Wednesday, November 6th, at
12:00pm, the Neighbors Link “Women
and the Global Immigrant Experience”
luncheon will be held at Glen Arbor Golf
Club, in Bedford Hills. Maria Otero, former
Undersecretary of State for President Obama,
will speak about empowering women;
all proceeds from the event will benefit
Neighbors Link Northern Westchester.
Congratulations and great work goes
out to WHUD’s 9th Annual Children’s
Miracle Network Hospital’s Radiothon benefiting Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital at
Westchester Medical Center as they raised
over $150,000 to help the hospital and all the
kids in Westchester and the Hudson Valley
who depend on this world-class facility.
Since I can barely turn on my computer,
this event is right up my alley… discover a
world of digital books at The Field Library
in Peekskill on November 13th, with an introduction to e-Readers and
e-Books. Learn about e-books and
e-readers, different models and features, as
well as the library service OVERDRIVE - a
website where library members can download
FREE e-books & audiobooks from home,
usable on most e-readers, computers, and
mobile devices.
Cellist Edward Arron will perform as
guest soloist along with Anthony Newman
and the Bedford Chamber Ensemble on
Wednesday, November 6th, at 8:00pm, at the
St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, located in
Bedford.
The Farm to Table Fundraiser for Global
Focus on Cancer will be held on November
2nd, at 5:00pm at the Hilltop Hanover Farm
in Yorktown Heights. Tickets start at $100
per person and include a four-course gourmet
dinner, wine, beer, soft drinks, and a silent
auction. All proceeds from this event go
directly into funding GFC programs.
The Lewisboro Library blockbuster film
series continues with a countdown to the
November 22nd, release of “Hunger Games:
Catching Fire.” Join the countdown with a
party celebrating all things “Catching Fire” on
Monday, November 4th, at 7:00pm, for grades
6 and up. You can register for the party by
calling the library at 914-763-3857.
Congratulations to Fox Lane High
School Seniors, Nina Wagner and Charlotte
Herber, who have qualified as 2014 National
Merit Semifinalists.
On Saturday, November 2nd, at 10:00am,
the Armstrong Education Center is hosting a
Nature Photography Workshop with professional photographer Dan Goldman and the
Pound Ridge Land Conservancy.The day will
include an explanation of basic and advanced
principles of photography (don’t take pictures
of your thumb, like I do), a trail hike of the
Armstrong Preserve, and a closing slide show
of everyone’s photographs. The workshop
is free and everyone is asked to bring their
camera, hiking shoes, and a bagged lunch.The
Armstrong Education Center is located at
1361 Old Post Road, in Pound Ridge.
Grab your knife & fork; it’s time to get
ready for fall Hudson Valley Restaurant Week,
a 14-day culinary celebration, November 4th
through the 17th. It’s your chance to discover
world class dining at an amazing price,
three course pre-fixe dinners for $29.95 per
person and three course lunches for $20.95.
Obviously, my diet starts after this food fest…
It was a beautiful fall day in the Hudson
Valley as Team Jeffers recently walked to end
Alzheimer’s disease, there are many such walks
for a great number of very worthy causes, so
next weekend, go for a walk and help someone
less fortunate…see you next week.
Mark Jeffers resides in Bedford Hills, New York,
with his wife Sarah, and three daughters, Kate,
Amanda, and Claire.
CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES
The Network
By SHERIF AWAD
Melbourne-born
documentary filmmaker Eva
Orner moved to New York
in 2004 with a career background replete with twelve
years in making documentaries and feature
films in Australia. Her body of work as a
producer include Untold Desires (1994) that
won Best Documentary at the Australian
Film Institute Awards; Strange Fits of Passion
Documentarian Filmmaker Eva Orner.
(1999) that was nominated for the Critics’
Award at the Cannes Film Festival; and
Taxi to the Dark Side (2007) that earned her
the Oscar for Best Documentary in 2008.
Directed by Alex Gibney, the latter retold
facts about the torture practiced by the
United States Army in Afghanistan, Iraq
and Guantanamo Bay while focusing on the
story of an innocent Afghan taxi driver who
was tortured to death in 2002.
Orner’s directorial debut,
The Network, brought her back to
Afghanistan where she spent three
months dodging bullets and suicide
bombings and almost stepped on a
landmine. Only this time she was
focusing on an intercultural story
About Afghanistan’s first independent television network called
Tolo TV and the group of family
members and dedicated staff that
stand behind it. Launched in 2004,
the Tolo TV network has grown to
be Afghanistan’s largest and most
successful television network employing over 800 Afghans. Collectively,
they produce news, current affairs,
drama, comedy, music, and lifestyle
programs. But as the country faces
the impending withdrawal of foreign
troops, with the backdrop of rapidly
deteriorating security, the film reveals
an uncertain future for the network
and its employees; many of whom
are women. “I had read about Saad Mohseni,
the founder of Tolo TV, and seen him on
television, being the only one to know there
could be a film about him and his network”,
said Orner. “Eventually, I called him in
Kabul and quickly raised some development
financing and headed up there in 2011… I
first went there for a month with a camera
Documentarian Filmmaker Eva Orner and Director Alex Gibney winning the Oscar for “Taxi
to the Dark Side”.
by my side only to return for two additional
months with my director of photography…
I have been producing film for twenty years
and hadn’t really thought about directing…
but this story spoke to me and I knew I had
to tell it”.
Under the Taliban no media had
operated, that is until Saad Mohseni, often
referred to as the Rupert Murdoch of
Afghanistan, came to found Tolo TV with
his family. Mohseni was born in the United
Kingdom, one of four children of an Afghan
diplomat. He spent his early years in London,
Kabul, Islamabad, and Tokyo, before immigrating to Melbourne. As the Chairman
and CEO of MOBY Group, the channels
offered on Tolo TV currently specialize in
reaching millions of Dari, Farsi, Pashto and
English speaking people across the Middle
East and South Asia. Its hard-hitting current
affairs news shows, locally produced dramas
and documentaries have received accolades
and recognition in the international arena,
including two awards at the 2010 Sundance
Festival for its moving documentary Afghan
Star, and a Seoul Drama Award for its Eagle
4. In 2005, Reporters Without Borders recognized MOBY’s Afghan operation of the
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CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES
The Network
Tolo TV channel for its ongoing battle for
the right to inform the public. The channel,
along with Tolo News – launched in 2010
– has aided in rooting out corruption,
empowering civil society, and serving the
Afghan people as they seek transparency and
accountability from their government.
Documentarian Filmmaker Eva Orner
shooting “The Network” in Afghanistan
“When I started working on this
film I thought it would be a surprisingly
positive story about a place and a war
shrouded in negativity. And to some extent
it is. However as the withdrawal of foreign
troops rapidly approaches and violence and
instability grows, the future for those at Tolo
TV, and in Afghanistan, look increasingly
uncertain”, explained Orner. “I was interested to find out what had been created in
the decade following the foreign invasion.
I am not a war correspondent and I am
not used to being in dangerous situations
so three months in Afghanistan was a life
changing experience for me. What really
drew me to this story was that it tells very
different narratives of Afghanistan from the
Tolo TV founder Saad Mohseni.
Poor kids watching Tolo TV in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Eva Orner is a long-time producer
Eva is as comfortable working with everyday
one most of us are familiar. It is not a story
with the self confidence to finance docupeople as A-list celebrities. Little fazes Eva.
about war and the military, but instead a
Arab Rotterdam Festival, in The Netherlands.
mentaries while expecting income later. Ms She is simply obsessed with great stories that
film about the reconstruction of a country
He also contributes to Variety, in the United
Orner believes the American audience has are likely to find an audience.
and the power of media. It is a story about
States, and is the film critic of Variety Arabia
developed an interest to go and see films
how a handful of people can completely
(http://varietyarabia.com/), in the United
Born in Cairo, Egypt, Sherif Awad is a film /
change a country. And it is the story of a other than Hollywood blockbusters. “I think
Arab Emirates (UAE), the Al-Masry Al-Youm
video critic and curator. He is the film editor of
independent
film
is
alive
and
kicking.
Not
group of brave, young, talented Afghans
Egypt Today Magazine (www.EgyptToday. Website (http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/
all documentaries are cinema worthy or
who just want a chance in the scheme of
node/198132) and The Westchester Guardian
com), and the artistic director for both the
life. Shooting in Kabul is not like shooting appropriate for wide release, but I believe
Alexandria Film Festival, in Egypt, and the (www.WestchesterGuardian.com).
in other places. There are security concerns; some are… and audiences come to attend
them. Obviously television and video onso getting around isn’t as simple as I am
demand are great outlets for documentaries
used to. We had a security guard with us on
but I think people enjoy watching docs on
some occasions, but not always. We had a
big screens”.
few close calls, missed a suicide bombing
that killed over 80 people within minutes of
Eva has just returned from Beirut where
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minimum, just my director of photography
seeking asylum in the U.S. She is known for
and me, as I wanted to be as low profile as
putting everyday people at ease in front of
possible and operate under the radar”.
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The Conservative Party’s Amendment Recommendations
By PEGGY GODFREY
An enthusiastic gathering of the Westchester and
Putnam’s Right to Life
Political Action Committee
heard County Executive
Rob Astorino’s words of encouragement.
On October 19th the group’s attention was
then directed to its Honoree 2013, Michael
Long,New York State Chairman of the
Conservative Party. His opposition to
same-sex marriage and support for the
sanctity of life are well known.
Incidents of his past political career were
recalled by Long. In particular he told about
how when he was first elected to the New
York City Council he found himself swamped
with requests to vote “yes” on the city budget.
When the vote was taken, it was 34 to 1 (his
vote). After that, for the next three weeks, no
Councilmember would talk to him or even
look at him. He felt the lesson learned was
the need to have the courage to make difficult
decisions for the future and “to do what’s right
for society.” Further, the right thing should be
with respect of the unborn, “who can’t speak
for themselves.” Although this battle for life is
not easy, it is “won” by hundreds of thousands
of people,” Long said. Helamented thatalthough New York State isthe “abortion capital
of the United States,”the Governor wants to
expand abortion.
A list of the New York State 2013 proposals, which will be on the ballot, and the
Conservative Party positions were distributed to the people in attendance. The first
proposal was an amendment to authorize
casino gamblingfor seven casinos in upper
New York State so that jobs can be created,
more school aid can be given, and local government property taxes can be lowered. The
Conservative Party disagrees because they
have always supported lowering taxes and
promoting job growth. Casino gambling, they
feel,will not accomplish this goal. As evidence,
they mention that in 1966, before the lottery
was approved, New York residents were told
approval of the lottery would reduce taxes,
butthis did not happen.
Proposal number two would give additional service credits to disabled veterans. The
Conservative Party supports this Amendment
because they hold “our disabled veterans in the
highest regard” and know the sacrifices they
made for ourfreedom.
However, proposal number three, which
excludes certain indebtedness is not viewed
favorably. This proposal would extend for l0
years (to January 2024) the right of counties,
cities, towns and villages to exclude this
constitutional debt limits indebtedness for
sewage facility construction or reconstruction.
The Conservative Party feels citizenswill not
receive a “true picture” on how much debt its
locality has if this passes.
Proposal four is to settle disputed title
of forest preserves in Long Lake, Hamilton
County. This long standing dispute needs
to be settled and could be settled by the
State Legislature only if they found the land
conveyed couldbenefit the forest preserve
more than parcels in this dispute would.
The Conservative Party recommends a “yes”
vote.The fifth proposal is an amendment to
exchange lands withNYCO Minerals, Inc.
The exchange of land parcels needed is not
presently allowed, butit would permit the
company, NYCO Minerals, to increase their
quest for minerals, keep people employed and
protect the forest.This amendment is also
supported by the Conservative Party.
The last proposal, number six, would
allow for increasing the maximum age for
certain state judges: Supreme Court judges for
five additionaltwo year terms after 70 years,
and Court of Appeals judges for an additional
l0 years beyond the present retirement age
of 70. This resolution would allow Supreme
Court justices to serve an additional four years
and Court of Appeals judges to serve up to
ten additional years. The Conservative Party
does not feel judges need to serve for such
long periods of time. Particular note was made
that Court of Appeals judges are appointed.
Everyone was encouraged to vote on
Tuesday November 5.
WHAT YOUR DOCTOR WON’T (OR CAN’T) TELL YOU
Why Are Dentists Immune To Obamacare?: I’m Not Smiling!
By EVAN S. LEVINE, M.D.
“Taking care of your teeth
and gums isn’t just about
preventing cavities or bad
breath. The mouth is a
gateway into your body’s overall health.
And since gum disease and other health
problems may be linked, brushing and
flossing are more important than ever.
See your dentist regularly to keep your
smile, and yourself, healthy. “ This is a
statement made by the American Dental
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WHITE PLAINS, NY -- The
Westchester Community for Humanistic
Judaism will feature Bennett Muraskin,
noted author, lecturer, and journalist, on
Saturday, November 2nd, at 2 PM, at
the Community Unitarian Church, 468
Rosedale Avenue, in White Plains discussing “You Know More Yiddish Than You
Think”.
Mr Muraskin will lead an interactive
exploration demonstrating how we all may
know more Yiddish than we think. Mr
Muraskin explains, “There are hundreds
of words that have entered the English
vocabulary”. You will be surprised.
There is no charge for admission.
For more information visit http://
wchj.org, or call Charlotte Klein at
914-218-8535.
Photo by and courtesy of Charles Williams
Association so why isn’t dental care, with
the exception of children, included in the
Affordable Care Act?
For the middle-class, the cost of
dental care has become so prohibitive that many are forgoing routine care
while others are in debt to their dentists
for recurrent costly procedures like
root canal treatment, the placement of
crowns, or periodontal work. Some of
my own patients report to me that they
borrowed money or are late paying other
bills because they were charged several
thousand dollars for treatment of their
teeth.
My colleagues and I are now
seeing patients with rotting teeth, with
infectious endocarditis caused by poor
dentition, and people in chronic pain
from old caries. When one considers
how commonplace these conditions are,
one can understand how chronically poor
dental care contributes to locking many
into chronic poverty. Heart surgeons are
doing careful dental exams because they
are concerned that patients have smoldering gum and tooth infections and that
could compromise a newly inserted valve.
Therefore, many patients having heart
surgery are first having a number of teeth
urgently removed. But under Obamacare
the patient’s surgery will be covered, the
heartsurgeon will be paid about $2,300
( CPT code 33403) for his work, that
includes all his postoperative care and
visits, and the patient will likely be billed
thousands of dollars, by the dentist.
Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA),
patients having life-saving heart surgery
will have more out of pocket expenses for
that dental bill than for the heart surgery!
Without affordable dental care
many will forego seeing a dentist because
they just cannot afford to. Others will
lose their savings to pay-off their dentist.
Once again those running this country
have really screwed up. IfObama believes
we all deserve affordable health care
then why isn’t dental care part of the
Affordable Care Act?
If the American Dental Association
(ADA) tells us “The mouth is a gateway
into your body’s overall health,” then
why isn’t that gateway to our overall
health part of Obamacare? Did the lobbyists for the ADAconvince the Obama
Administration to exclude affordable
dental care?
I’ve noticed that every member of
congress has a perfect smile and that’s
because they have dental insurance and
will not participate in Obamacare.
Dr. Evan S. Levine is a cardiologist in
New York, NY and Yonkers, NY. He is also
the author of the book “What Your Doctor
Won’t (or Can’t) Tell You”. He resides in
Connecticut with his wife and children.
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OFBLUE
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Muscle Shoals Movie Magnolia Pictures
By Bob Putignano
Directed by Greg Camalier; director of
photography Anthony Arendt, edited by
Richard Lowe, produced by Stephen Badger
and Camalier, released by Magnolia Pictures.
One hour and fifty-one minutes.
Since the sixties Muscle Shoals,
Alabama; (famous for the Muscle Shoals
Sound) produced albums that helped
shape the history of music. This wonderful
documentary’s main focus is on Rick Hall
of FAME Studios. Plus later on competitors; Atlantic Records Jerry Wexler, and the
former FAME musicians who left Hall to
form the Muscle Shoals Sound Studios.
Also included are an abundance of interviews with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Jerry
Wexler, Percy Sledge, Clarence Carter, Bono,
Alicia Keys, Jimmy Cliff, Steve Winwood,
and other well known music stars.
Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Percy
Sledge, The Rolling Stones, Lynryd Skynrd,
Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Otis Redding,
Rod Stewart, Elton John, Eric Clapton,
and Duane Allman both as a session player
as well as with the The Allman Brothers
Band and countless others all recorded in
Muscle Shoals. Speaking of Duane: There’s
a recently recorded segment (during an
interview with Duane’s brother Gregg
Allman.) Gregg recalls Duane’s time recording at Muscle Shoals; it’s a touching tribute.
Gregg also speaks of Duane’s (non musical)
issues fitting in as a long-haired hippie. For
the record: It was Duane who factually
recommended that Wilson Pickett record
the Beatles “Hey Jude.” Everyone thought
Duane was crazy, but it was Pickett’s only
number one song. Btw: Duane’s solo on
“”Hey Jude” is riveting, as is his guitar playing
on Boz Scaggs’ lengthy “Loan Me a Dime”
both were recorded in Muscle Shoals.
The movie recounts FAME’s initial
success and when Atlantic Records legendary producer Jerry Wexler decides to start
recording at FAME. Not long afterwards
Hall and Wexler separate and become
competitors, but both continue on with
monumental success. It was at this time that
Wexler took Aretha Franklin from Muscle
Shoals to New York City and produced
some of her greatest recordings. Not to be
defeated Hall reinvented himself and took
flight to Chicago to form a business relationship with Leonard Chess. Hall brought
the great Etta James to Muscle Shoals
where they recorded the hit “Tell Mama”
amongst many others. Speaking of Aretha,
the segments of Frankin in the studio (and
other similar segments) enhance this documentary. But watching the (not yet crowned)
Queen of Soul surrounded by studio musicians (specifically Spooner Oldham who
conjured up with the now famous piano
groove) on “I Never Loved a Man (The
Way I Loved You.” A young Aretha states
it was her first million selling record and that
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song put her on the map. The feud continues Wexler threatens Hall by proclaiming
that he’ll never have another hit record, but
Wexler’s warnings didn’t pan out as both
men continued to prosper. Hall also loses his
studio musicians known as the Swampers
who breakaway from Hall to open their
own recording studio (Muscle Shoals Sound
Studios.) Barry Beckett, Roger Hawkins,
Jimmy Johnson, and David Hood went
on to capture and catapult the careers of
the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skyrnd, the
Rolling Stones, Traffic, Elton John, Boz
Scaggs, The Staple Singers, Herbie Mann,
Bob Seger, Willie Nelson, Paul Simon, Bob
Dylan and a lengthy list of musical heroes.
Meanwhile Hall turned his attention away
from soul music to pop music and recorded
mega hits for The Osmonds, Paul Anka,
andTom Jones. In ’71 Hall was awarded as
the Billboard Producer of the Year. During
the eighties Hall focused on Country Music
where he had hits with Mac Davis, Bobbie
Gentry, Jerry Reed, and the Gatlin Brothers.
This movie must have been a longtime
in the making, and was properly researched,
as many interviews (like Jerry Wexler’s) were
recorded years ago, (Wexler has since passedon in ‘08.) Other highlights include learning
about how Lynyrd Skyrnd couldn’t get their
nine minute “Free Bird” released as a single,
but claimed fame when they went on the road
opening for The Who. Remember the lyrics
from “Sweet Home Alabama” “Now Muscle
Shoals has got the Swampers, and they’ve
been known to pick a song or two, Lord they
got me off so much, they pick me up when I’m
feeling blue, now how about you?” There are
also memorable interviews with diverse artists
like Jimmy Cliff talking about his “Sitting In
Limbo,” Steve Winwood talking about using
Muscle Shoals drummer Roger Hawkins
and bassist David Hood for the album “The
Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys.” There are
also discussions about how Bob Seger put so
much passion into his vocal on “Main Street,”
plus fond reminiscing from former Grateful
Dead vocalist Donna Jean Godchaux, and
others who all similarly opined how the music
of Muscle Shoals came from the heart and
that’s why it always sounded so very special.
Long story short: There’s so much
musical history that came from Muscle
Shoals, and not enough room to elaborate in
this column. But I will repeatedly watch and
absorb this documentary, and recommend
that you should view it as many times as
you can. Muscle Shoals was and will forever
preserve musical history.Thanks to Magnolia
Pictures and producer Camalier it’s now
appropriately presented and documented
for everyone to learn from and enjoy. Kudos
and applause to all involved with making this
long overdue tribute about the monumental
music from Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
See the movie trailer at: http://www.
youtube.com/watch?v=ECeqDBNCBsE or
just search Muscle Shoals movie trailer.
Bob
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Third Grader Viktoria Barbarakis Wins Somers Elementary School Writing Contest
What I Like About Somers, New York
By RICH MONETTI
This past June, Primrose
Elementary School in
Somershad every child in
the third grade spend the
school day putting together
an essay on “What I like about Somers, New
York.” Blue suburban skies, ample fields of
play and a close knit community of kids, the
literary types among the class of 2022 must
have reveled in a day to show off their aptitude
to put prose to paper. “I was not that excited,”
says Viktoria Barbarakis. “It was the end of
the year so I didn’t want to do it.” But she
didn’t let the natural inclination to reach for
summer get in the way of her inspiration and
beat out 200 other students for first prize.
A good day’s work definitely had its just
reward. “She won a $30 cash prize,” said her
mom.
Of course, with no guarantees in the face
of swimming pools, camp and kicking back,
the effort demonstrates her ongoing maturity,
according to her dad. “She’s getting more and
more independent,” said Minas Barbarakis.
Her lead in was exactly where most of it
would start. “I like Somers the way it is as a
cute and small town,”she penned in her paper.
Soccer and baseball fields galore at Reis
and Fireman’s Parks, Somers meets Victoria’s
approval in its ability to let all in on the action.
“Everybody can play sports in Somers,” she
wrote.
The big town get-togethers are not to be
missed either, according to her piece, and the
Halloween parade of kids this past October
was memorable – even if the costume she
wore was not readily available to her recollection. “I forgot, it was from last year,” she
pleaded.
Her composition had a better handle on
the annual April carnival where rides, friends
and food dominate the day but still doesn’t
amount to the most important part. “I like
going there because I really get to bond with
my family,” it says on page two.
That’s what Sundays are for, too. And
the Angle Fly Preserve suits her just fine over
kick off time. “One time it was so beautiful
outside that we decided that we should have
a picnic outside and in the stream. So we
Third Grader Viktoria Barbarakis of Primrose Elementary School in Somers with Dad, Minas
Barbarakis by her side.
packed the cooler, brought some beach chairs,
and we were on our way,” she scribed.
Outdoors aside, good eats are just as
important to kids as the chamber of commerce
and the “delicious burgers” at the Burger Barn
certainly suffice. It’s also easy to understand
her high rankings for its ambiance. “Because
it’s like a barn,” she asserted.
Old Bet – elephant of Somers circus
pioneer Hachaliah Bailey – perhaps knowing
that feeling in Victoria is sure where the town
stands in terms of its rich past. “Somers has
a lot, and I mean a lot of history,” she wrote.
And even though Richard Somers
wasn’t an Indian chief like the one to the south
in Mt. Kisco, she says, “He was an honorable
man who died on a ship that blew up.”
Sort of missing the part where Somers’
ship exploded prematurely in its effort to
take out a British ship off Tripoli, Victoria
Google: Wonderful? Or Bad? Or Both–Part II
only functions that could be performed in this
manner was foreign to most and off-putting
to many.
It took a while but finally the
“Chromebooks” arrived, and as an owner of
two (one made by Samsung and one by
ASUS -- Hewlett-Packard also now makes
a very powerful model), I think they are
terrific and recommend them highly -- with
only one caveat; the user must be prepared to
accept cloud processing.
The beauty of cloud processing is that
your data is available wherever you have access
to a computer (standard or Chromebook),
tablet or Smartphone. There are many Cloud
admitted her own struggles during social
studies. “I’m not good at history,” she clarified.
Or maybe she actually did miss that day
and doesn’t give herself enough credit – a possibility that was proven when she completed
her essay. “I thought it was ok, but not the
winning piece,” she said.
Still, winning was not as easy as it sounds.
Having to get up and read her story in front
of 200 classmates, left the answer obvious on
how she felt about winning. “What do you
think? I was really nervous,” she joked.
But Dad had no doubts – especially
when a representative from the Somers
Women’s Club showed up at the house and
presented the prize. “We were very proud and
pleasantly surprised,” he said.
Looking forward, Dad doesn’t see any
problem maintaining the new bar that his
daughter has now set for herself.
She just has to make sure she doesn’t
wear the same Halloween outfit from last year.
Rich Monetti has been a freelance writer since
2003 and lives in Westchester.
CREATIVE DISRUPTION
By JOHN F. McMULLEN
Google has been so successful as a Search Engine, a
provider of productivity tools
(mail, calendar, maps, social
networking, word processing, spreadsheets, and presentation graphics), its
“Cloud” presence, and other catching applications such as “Google Earth” and “Google Sky”
that it is easy to overlook its movement into
hardware and other major development areas.
It is these areas, however, that show the vast
reach of the company and its willingness to
undertake major large-scale projects.
When Google announced the “Chrome”
operating system, built around its browser
also named Chrome, there was some confusion among the computing public -- why
another operating system when it already
had the “Android” operating system operating
on smartphones (and the soon to be rereleased
tablets)? -- And, if it was only for computers,
why compete with the established operating
systems -- Windows xx, MacOS, and Linux?
The answer, as Google said then, was
that the operating system was for a whole
new class of computers, neither standard
laptop / desktop nor smartphone tablet, but
for an ultralight laptop that’s processing and
storage was to be totally based in the Cloud.
Google had, with its “Google Docs” software
(a Clouded-based alternative to “Microsoft
Office,” been one of the pioneers in Cloudbased applications for consumers, but the
idea of a computer that restricted its users to
tools available, including Google Docs (now
contained on “Google Drive”, a Cloud repository for much more than Office functions).
I use Microsoft’s “Sky Drive,” a cloud system
that provides not only storage space but also
“Office-like” applications from which I can
download the files directly into full versions of
Microsoft Word or Excel on my Mac or PC
back in my office (I’m writing this piece at
the moment on Sky Drive accessed through
the web on a traditional Windows desktop in
my office at Purchase College; usually I write
these and other pieces on a Chromebook in
my local Barnes and Noble bookstore and
then, upon arriving back in my office, bring
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Google software services (Gmail and Maps
with Glass and Google Drive with Fiber).
While this should come as no surprise, it
further raises the question -- is the simultaneous expansion and tightening of the Google Web
a good thing, a bad thing, or both? Stay tuned
for Part 3.
Links to other writings,Podcasts,& Radio
Broadcasts at http://www.johnmac13.com;
hear my interview of Westchester Guardian
editor Hezi Aris at www.blogtalkradio.com/
rapidtalk/2013/10/13/the-johnmac-show
Creative Disruption is a continuing series
examining the impact of constantly accelerating
technology on the world around us. These changers
normally happen under our personal radar until
we find that the world as we knew it is no more.
CREATIVE DISRUPTION
Google: Wonderful? Or Bad? Or Both–Part II
the document down into my Mac by going
to Sky Drive and “downloading” -- it is very
smooth. Additionally, I have access to these files
on any laptop, my iPad, Nexus 7 (more on that
later), and smartphone. All have versions of Sky
Drive, either through the web or as an app (I’m
not limited to Sky Drive -- I could be using Google
Docs, the Zoho Suite, CloudOn with DropBox or
many others -- I just like Sky Drive).
If I can access these Cloud systems
through the web on a laptop, then, what’s the
advantage of a portable Chromebook? There
are two major ones -- they are very light and
low cost. My Samsung unit cost slightly over
two hundred dollars ($200) and the Asus
slightly under $200. I have major power at a
very reasonable price.
My only annoyance with the
Chromebook -- and it is minor-- is that I
do not have access to the full compliment of
apps in the “Google Play” library (the one that
I miss particularly is “Skype” which I use for my
radio show). The Google Play library is a very
comprehensive collection of Cloud apps that
run across the full gamut of systems using
Google’s Android operating stems and I have
access to them on my Nexus 7 tablet and
even my Nook e-reader (many of the Google
Play apps do have versions for the Chromebook,
including Sky Drive but the missing Skype is an
annoyance).
I’ve mentioned the Nexus 7 (it carries
Google’s name but is made by Asus) a few times
-- it’s my present favorite tablet. It has a great
display, all of the Google Play apps, front and
back cameras, and is $200 cheaper than the
comparable iPad Minis (so you could buy a
Chromebook and a Nexus 7 for the same price
as an iPad Mini). I have a case with a built-in
Keyboard for the Nexus 7 (purchased for under
$60) so, if I wish to write spontaneously, I
always can.
For me to choose a Google tablet was
a major decision -- I was a very early iPad
purchaser (ordered from Apple on the day of its
announcement) -- and purchased the iPad 2
and recommended the iPad to all who would
listen -- but the Nexus 7 is not only cheaper,
it provides one address book and calendar as
well as standard apps across all my portable
devices.
“Google Glass”is another foray by Google
into expanding the reach of its software
services. The head-mounted display, in the
form of traditional glasses, provides wearers
with the ability to display the answers to questions (search, directions, etc.), display Gmail,
and take video and still photos. Additionally,
Goggle has released “Mirror API” to allow
developers to develop apps for the display and
there have already been announced apps for
display of news from the New York Times
and CNN and for integration with Facebook
and Twitter. The initial cost of the headset is
$1,500 but Google has stated that the price
will drop dramatically when the units are
available to consumers (aimed at 2014). and
competitive units have been announced with
prices in the $500 - $600 range.
There have already been concerns by
privacy advocates that unsuspecting persons
may be photographed or made part of a video
through the use of such headsets – but that
goes on today through smartphone photographing or videoing of persons without their
knowledge or consent, a practice that police
departments have objected to when it is their
officers being photographed. My take is that
we will simply have to get used to living in a
world with this type of transparency.
Google’s move into hardware might
have been anticipated as it was a logical extension of its Cloud strategy - its moves into
“driverless cars” and “wired cities” are more
than that!
The Google Driverless Car project
involved equipping cars with “Google
Chauffeur,” a combination of software,
sensors, and cameras, which allows safe navigation through city streets and on highways.
In 2012, Nevada, Florida, and California each
passed laws allowing the use of “autonomous
cars” on public roads for testing purposes.
Wikipedia documented the testing procedures used – “The project team has equipped
a test fleet of at least ten vehicles, consisting of
sixToyota Prius’, anAudi TT, and three Lexus
RX450hs, each accompanied in the driver’s seat
by one of a dozen drivers with unblemished
driving records and in the passenger seat by one
of Google’s engineers. The cars have traversedSan
Francisco’sLombard Street, famed for its steephairpin turnsand through city traffic.The vehicles have
driven over theGolden Gate Bridgeand aroundLake Tahoe.The system drives at the speed limit it
has stored on its maps and maintains its distance
from other vehicles using its system of sensors. The
system provides an override that allows a human
driver to take control of the car by stepping on the
brake or turning the wheel, similar tocruise controlsystems already found in many cars today. In
August 2012, the team announced that they have
completed over 300,000 autonomous-driving
miles (500 000 km) accident-free, typically have
about a dozen cars on the road at any given time,
and are starting to test them with single drivers
instead of in pairs.” (http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/Google_driverless_car).
The
Wall Street Journal has an excellent schematic, depicting the workings of the car at
http://online.wsj.com/news/interactive/
GOOGCAR_pg?ref=SB10000872396
390443493304578034822744854696
Google’s wiring of whole cities to
provide high-speed fiber-optic connections
for Internet, television, and telephone delivery
has already taken place in the Kansas Cities
(Kansas and Missouri) with plans to install in
Austin, Texas and Provo, Utah. Subscribers to
this service, known as “Google Fiber,” have the
ability to sign up for one of three options:
A free broadband Internet option
A 1 Gbit / s Internet option for $70 per
month which includes 1 terabyte of Google
Drive service
A version that has television service for
$120 per month, and includes a Nexus 7
tablet to be a remote control for the television,
a 2 terabyte DVR recorder (in addition to the
Google Drive service), and the ability to stream
live program content to iPad and Android
tablets.
It should be noted that both Google
Glass and Google Fiber tie the users into
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EYE ON THEATRE
Betrayal, Hunting, Real and Potential Murders
By JOHN SIMON
Everywhere mistakes are
made, the Nobel Prize in
literature no exception.
A mistake, in my view,
was the award to the late
Harold Pinter, who has written a couple of
worthwhile plays and a good many deeply
annoying ones. A prize example of the
latter, now in its second Broadway revival,
is his “Betrayal.” Like the musical “Merrily
We Roll Along,” it moves backward in time,
but unlike it, with no good reason. There is
no significant evolution in the characters.
The play is in nine scenes between
1977 and 1968, going backward in six
and slightly forward in three. Robert is a
publisher, Jerry, his best friend and regular
squash and luncheon partner, a literary
agent. Gallery owner Emma, Robert’s wife,
has been Jerry’s afternoon lover in a rented
flat for seven years. Jerry is married to
Judith, a doctor; both couples have two kids.
It emerges that Emma told all to
Robert four years ago, unknown till the
opening scene to Jerry. Robert (we didn’t
see this) has been similarly unfaithful to
Emma, as the lovers learn only in 1977.
Much of the play is about who knows
what and when, and who for long does not.
But frankly, who cares? The characters are
mostly super-ficial, occupied with trivia of
one kind or another. What the play is really
about is palaver and lengthy pauses, for the
latter of which Pinter is noted.
The dialogue consists largely of endless
Rafe Spall as Jerry and Daniel Craig as
Robert in “Betrayal”.
repetition or inching forward by minute
increments. There is chitchat about trips,
squash, and food and drinks, but very little
about literature. There is also some sex.
None of it is consequential, which may be
the point, although that doesn’t make it
more interesting.
with Ann Roth’s costumes and Jeff Croiter’s
lighting contributing handsomely. James
Murphy’s background music is agreeable
enough, but do we really need any of this?
Production photographs of “Betrayal”
by and courtesy of Brigitte Lacombe.
Venue: Ethel Barrymore Theatre,
243 West 47th Street, between
Broadway and 8th Avenue, New
York, NY 10026. Accomplish ticket
purchase by telephone: (212) 239-6200.
The cast of “The Snow Geese”.
Daniel Craig as Robert and Rachel Weisz as
Emma in “Betrayal”.
The production is fine. Mike Nichols
has neatly directed three accomplished
British actors: Daniel Craig (Robert), Rafe
Spall (Jerry) and Rachel Weisz. Good sets
by Ian MacNeil keep being hoisted out of
sight and replaced by descending others,
“The Snow Geese,” by Sharr White, is even
more gratuitous than his previous “The
Other Place.” It dawdles in and around a
hunting lodge near Syracuse in 1917, but
there is scant feeling for either time or place.
White clearly thinks of himself a worthy
heir of Chekhov, but what he has concocted
does not achieve so much as even a notable
imitation.
We have here an extended family at the
start of hunting season. Theodore Gaesling,
the father, has just died from a stroke,
leaving behind Elizabeth, a widow at sea.
Her sons are clever show-off Duncan, 20,
Daniel Craig as Robert and Rafe Spall as Jerry in “Betrayal”.
who has given up Princeton for the Army, (Elizabeth), charming even in an uninvolvand is raring for overseas action; and the
ing role. The others do what they can, with
somewhat younger, envious Arnold, respononly Danny Burstein’s Max making a telling
sible but gloomy, having studied the books impression. Evan Jonigkeit and Brian Cross,
and found the family bankrupt. Further
as Duncan and Arnold, do what they can, but
there are Elizabeth’s sister, the inordinately
their parts impart little. The valiant Victoria
pious Clarissa, married to the German-born
Clark (Clarissa) and Jessica Love (Viktoria)
but naturalized, jolly doctor, Max, who after are of even lesser import, with Christopher
twenty solid years is shunned or attacked by Invall, as Theodore, gone in a blink.
everyone as an “enemy” German. In a brief
flashback, Elizabeth and Theodore are frolicking. And there is Viktorya, the maid, only
survivor of a rich Ukrainian family, now a
philosophical servant. Arnold is smitten with
her, and she seems not entirely unresponsive.
Something could have been made of
this by a better author. Here the characters
are rather less involving than the wild geese,
swarms of which are seen in vivid projection,
Evan Jonigkeit as Duncan Gaesling and
with 25 of them bagged by the boys, and
Brian Cross as Arnold Gaesling in “The Snow
three getting eaten. Except for some perGeese”.
functory dances by Mimi Lieber and Jane
Greenwood’s persuasive costumes, nothing
much is truly in period. Such frustrated exisDaniel Sullivan has directed decently,
tences are absorbing in Chekhov, but otiose but by far the best thing here are John Lee
in White.
Beatty’s sets: evocative, handsome, and wonderfully mobile, a steady pleasure to watch.
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EYE ON THEATRE
Betrayal, Hunting, Real and Potential Murders
Venue: Samuel J Friedman Theatre,
261 West 47th Street, between Broadway
and 8th Avenue, New York, NY 10036.
Accomplish ticket purchase by telephone at
(866) 276-4887.
Production photographs of “Betrayal”
by and courtesy of Joan Marcus.
“A Time to Kill” is a courtroom drama
based on the John Grisham novel and
the striking movie made from it, now in a
skillful stage adaptation by Rupert Holmes.
It concerns Carl Lee Hailey, a black father in
1980s small-town Mississippi, who, avenging
the rape of, and severe injuries to, his ten-yearold daughter, guns down two white slackers.
For the defense, there is Jake Brigance
Broadway’s “A Time to Kill”.
(Sebastian Arcelus), an apt and dedicated
young lawyer; for D.A., Rufus Buckley
(Patrick Page), a booming-voiced, histrionic
demagogue. We also get Lucien Wilbanks
(Tom Skerritt), the jocular, disbarred old
mentor of Jake, helping him out, as does an
eager graduate law student (a squeaky-voiced
Sebastian Arcelus, Patrick Page and John
Douglas Thompson star in Broadway’s “A
Time to Kill”.
Ashley Williams). Important, too, are the
sardonic judge (Fred Dalton Thompson), the
doughty black sheriff (Chike Johnson) and
Carl Lee’s loving wife (Tonya Pinkins).
Lesser parts are all well taken under
Ethan McSweeney’s stalwart direction.
Powerful too are James Noone’s towering set,
David C. Woolard’s authentic costumes, and
Jeff Croiter’s lively lighting. It is a procedural, a
genre play with built-in limitations, but good
of kind and not lacking in either suspense or
humor.
Production photography of “A Time to
Kill” by and courtesy of Carol Rosegg.
Venue: Golden Theatre, 252 West 45th
Street, between Broadway and 8th Avenue,
New York, NY 10036. Accomplish ticket
purchase at (212) 239-6200 or at http://telecharge.com
“Luce,” by young JC Lee, has an arresting subject but is saddled with much that is
unexplained and some that’s all too improbable. Luce, an African orphan, was adopted
at age seven by a white couple, Amy and
Peter, who raised him lovingly. He is now a
high-school athlete and prize pupil, though
in an ambivalent relationship with Harriet,
a teacher.
He has written a paper in praise of a
murderous Eastern European terrorist, avers
his predilection for Independence Day fireworks, and is discovered by Harriet to have
secreted away some potentially life-threatening ones in his locker. Harriet, who feels
especially endangered, inexplicably hands
them over to the parents, but are they safe
there? How did Luce get them in the first
place, and what has made him subversive?
There is much cat-and-mouse game
playing, some of it adroit and effective, but
some long-drawn-out and repetitive, and
ultimately unconvincing, with dialogue
ranging from vivid to inert. Okieriete
Onaodowan is dead-on as Luce, and Sharon
Washington (Harriet) and Neal Huff (Peter)
are hardly behind. Unfortunately unappealing, however, are Marin Hinkle as Amy, and
Olivia Oguna as Luce’s Asian American exgirlfriend, the latter in an extraneous subplot.
May Adrales has directed smartly in
Timothy R. Mackabee’s peculiar décor (why
the transparent back wall?), with Kay Voyce’s
judicious costumes and Tyler Micoleau’s
assured lighting on target. Altogether, “Luce”
registers as a provocative near-miss.
Production photos of “Luce” shot by
and courtesy of Jeffrey Daniel.
Venue: Lincoln Center Theater –
Claire Tow Theater, 150 West 65th Street,
between Broadway and Amsterdam, New
Marin Hinkle as Amy, Okieriete Onaodowan as Luce and Neal Huff as Peter in “Luce”.
York, NY 10023. Ticket purchase accomplished by telephone: (212) 239-6200, or
online at http://lct3.org
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,
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JUDGE JOHN P. COLANGELO
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KNOWLEDGE BASE
Mental Brita – Develop Your Inner Band-Pass Filter
By LUKE HAMILTON
In the world of audio
engineering, there exists a
wonderful tool called the
band-pass filter. When a
sound is generated, waves of
energy transmit from the source to a receptacle, which collects and interprets them, i.e.
an eardrum. Sound waves function at a wide
range of frequencies and a band-pass filter
functions as a funnel for these waves. The
audio engineer sets a low-frequency limit
and a high-frequency limit for his filter and
runs the audio sample through the filter. This
funnel effectively removes any frequency
operating above or below the proscribed filter
levels but allows the rest to pass through. In
this manner, audio engineers isolate valuable
audio previously buried under high- or lowfrequency garbage.
Dear Reader, Americans need a bandpass filter. The average American remains
minimally-informed, despite the unimaginable amount of information available to
him. Anyone with an e-reader, an Amazon
account, and $10 can purchase a CD containing 15,000 of the greatest books in the history
of literature, 6,000 of which can then be transferred to a device that fits into a breast-pocket
and weighs less than a sandwich.
To put this in context, the Grand Vizier
of Persia, Saheb Ibn Abad, used to travel
with all of his 117,000 books, even to war.
He carried them on 400 camels, which were
trained to walk in a specific order so that his
books would remain alphabetized, allowing
him to locate a specific volume at will. Today,
thanks to some money-grubbing capitalists,
the owner of a Kindle Fire can tote around
what would have taken Saheb Ibn Abad
51 camels to carry, without the tedium of
dromedary-alphabetization.
So the citizens of this nation are not
minimally-informed because the knowledge
is unavailable or inaccessible.This was the case
in times past, when knowledge was hoarded
by an anointed few, but today such knowledge
is available at the tips of our fingers, literally.
Today the problem lies at the opposite end of
the spectrum. Americans need a band-pass
filter because there is too much information
available and truth is obscured. The sheer
amount of information available is just as
much an impediment as the sequestration of
information was in previous periods, especially
given the manner in which our public schools
have neglected to teach critical thinking.
Humanity was created with an innate
band-pass filter: Reason. Our Creator
designed existence to correspond to this
band-pass filter; this being readily apparent
when we examine how closely the laws which
govern existence adhere to a logical framework. Of course logic and reason are no longer
kosher because we have elevated emotion over
truth, but they remain the best tools we have
for finding truth in an increasingly facetious
world. The Tolerance Police bray that maintaining an open mind is the best policy an
enlightened mind can hold, yet the words of
Chesterton ring with more verisimilitude.
“Merely having an open mind is nothing.
The object of opening the mind, as of opening
the mouth,is to shut it again on something solid.”
Instead of allowing your mind to become
an intellectual landfill, where every half-baked,
lame-brained, weak-sister idea is allowed to
obscure pearls of truth, filter. Measure the
words of everyone with the tuning-fork of
truth, measure the words of so-called experts
twice, and jettison that which exists outside
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the frequencies of fidelity. When politicians
predict that the United States will “default on
our debt”, parse the truth from the noise to
glean the kernel of truth; with today’s caliber
of politician the truth/tripe ratio is dismayingly small. The kernel of truth is this: the 14th
Amendment to our Constitution forbids the
U.S. Government to default on our debts and
what these politicians are proposing is a threat,
not a prognostication.
Logically, the only way we could
“default on our debt” is by disregarding the
Constitution. This is not an impossibility,
given the disdain our President holds for the
principles of constitutional republicanism, but
it is impossible in the context which is being
asserted. The defaulters would have to directly
violate the laws of this nation and the accused
party shows no indication of planning to do
so. It is an accusation which is neither logical
nor likely and should be filtered from the
national conversation, yet it is allowed to echo
unchallenged by virtually anyone.
As ever, what needs to be done will never
be done by those in a position to do so with
ease. We cannot depend on those who control
the purse strings to restrain themselves to live
within our collective means. And so we must
bring them, kicking and screaming, to the
forced-retirement party and hold their faces
in the right direction until their blubbering
puts out the candles on their cake, which reads
“Sinonara, suckers!” If our elected representatives will not hold the line against fiscal insanity,
we will find some who will. But first we must
hone the effectiveness of our band-pass filter,
to deal with the inordinate amount of bullroar
in the air these days. Stop swallowing talking
points, simply because the pundit appears frequently on Fox News Channel or has an (R)
after their name. Weigh the words you ingest
and learn to filter without remorse, because the
days are short and the lies are many.
Luke Hamilton is classically-trained,
Shakespearean actor from Eugene, Oregon
who happens to be a liberty-loving, right-wing,
Christian constitutionalist. When not penning
columns for ClashDaily.com, Hamilton spends
his time astride the Illinois-Wisconsin border,
leading bands of liberty-starved citizens from
the progressive gulags of Illinois to [relative]
freedom. Hamilton is the creative mind/voice
behind Pillar & Cloud Productions, a budding
production company which resides at www.
PillarCloudProductions.com. He owes all to his
Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, whose strength is
perfected in his weakness.
MAYOR Marvin’s COLUMN GOVERNMENT
By MARY C. MARVIN
The Trustees and I are
working on a myriad of
projects; some in infancy
and others about to reach
fruition.
Just this week, we received very good
news that the hydrant maintenance bill that
we have championed for several years with
nine other communities was passed by both
State houses and sits on the Governor’s desk
for signature. If signed, the bill will allow our
water company to spread the cost of hydrant
maintenance over all water users instead of
the responsibility placed solely on the Village
property taxpayers. The Village will realize
$130,000, equating to almost one and one
half tax percentage points, if the law goes
into effect.
Almost four years in the making, the
County of Westchester and the Town of
Eastchester agreed to contributing upgrades
of over $800,000 to the Scout Field complex,
with Eastchester taking a lead role in field
scheduling. In the coming days, the Town
of Eastchester and the Village of Bronxville
will enter into an inter-municipal agreement
delineating the field needs of the Bronxville
School and in turn the responsibilities the
school and the Village will undertake as
partners with the Town. With the closing
of the Day Camp, the Village does not have
any events on the field, but by law all agreements with the County and Town on such
usage must be government unit with government unit and not a school district.
We are still working with all the parties
involved – the County, the City of Yonkers,
the Town of Eastchester and our Village –
to formulate an equitable distribution of the
cost to repair the Parkway Road bridge. Our
hope is that the responsibilities can be resolved
without seeking legal review. Upon the
request of neighbors, we did petition the State
Department of Transportation to remove
the large, unsightly signage. We ask for your
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await a response. In desperation in the past,
the Village has offered to step in on cosmetic
repairs but was denied due to jurisdictional
and liability issues.
In concert with our Police Department
and Department of Public Works, Trustee
Poorman and I have undertaken an effort
to rid the Village of duplicate, useless,
faded or damaged street signs. We have
become numbed to the steady proliferation
of signage, but a closer look at some of our
poles will demonstrate the unattractiveness
of sign pollution. If you notice a damaged or
duplicate sign in your neighborhood, email
me at [email protected] and we will add
it to the list for removal or refurbishment.
In an effort to reintroduce our residents
to our unique Village asset – our paddle
courts – we have lowered the cost of the
resident permit to $100 individual/$150
family. Our hope is that more Villagers,
young and old, will take up what is a lifelong
sport! Permits can be purchased at Village
Hall from Monday through Friday from
9AM to 4PM or by mail. If you are also
interested in serving on our Village Paddle
Committee, please volunteer by calling
Karen Buccheri at (914) 337-6500.
Pinata till all the goodies fall out. But the
Republicans have already collected all the
goodies, including with all their efforts to
reduce taxes on their sponsors, billions of
dollar goodies for a few.
Among the key players in this
Washington game, just concluding, are
Senators Paul Ryan and Ted Cruz, along
with a few other House and Senate
MAYOR Marvin’s COLUMN GOVERNMENT
patience as we find an equitable solution.
We are about to embark on Phase II
of our downtown business district revitalization plan which will be two pronged at
the outset. The experts are to offer us ideas/
potential Village Code changes to streamline the business approval process while not
sacrificing quality review. Our neighbors in
Scarsdale recently accomplished this with
much success. On a parallel path, a parking
analysis will focus on identifying strategies to
maximize existing parking resources through
smart management of time intervals, pricing,
location restrictions, etc. and evaluating the
amount of needed future additional parking
especially in light of the increase in food and
service businesses.
At the October Trustees’ meeting, the
Village Board approved a revamping of our
Village website to make it more informative,
user friendly, and allow residents to access
services from home.
As Fall is upon us and night comes
earlier, we are very mindful of the need for
enhanced Village lighting. We will soon
be embarking on a Village-wide plan to
increase and upgrade lighting throughout
the Village with an emphasis on energy efficiency. In the interim, we will soon be adding
temporary additional lighting at the Park
Place and Kraft Avenue intersections near
Starbucks. We are vigilant in changing street
light bulbs and if a light is out in front of your
home for more than a few days, it is a Con
Ed issue. We are efficient about alerting Con
Ed to the problems, but find the response
time unacceptable.
We also operate with a similar level
of frustration with our other monopoly,
Metro North railroad. The condition of
our underpass, which is a Metro North
responsibility, has deteriorated to beyond
unattractive levels. Assured that there is no
structural integrity issues, I have nonetheless
sent photos of the underpass conditions to
everyone I could think of at Metro North. I
Mary C. Marvin is the mayor of the Village of
Bronxville, New York. If you have a suggestion
or comment, consider directing your perspective
by directing email to [email protected].
BOB K. BOGEN PERSPECTIVE
Pinning the Tail On the Republican Donkey
By BOB K. BOGEN
Major columnist and Nobel
Economist Paul Krugman
finally really pinned the
donkey tail on the “Grand”
old elephant. Right up
the rump, you might say. He began with a
gamey, idiomatic OpEd story of the nasty
neighbor who unaccountably sues you and
even threatens your family bodily harm, but
finally is willing to “compromise,” and end
the useless law suit, as well as stop threatening your family… at least for a week or two, if
you only give him your car. But his family is
unsatisfied and so also insists you must shoot
your dog. [I couldn’t stop laughing, at least
until I thought of the obvious children’s party
game: Pin the Tail on the Donkey]
But perhaps it is much too kind to
consider current Republican leadership as
merely blindfolded, spun around dizzy, and/
or merely disoriented children. Still, their
teetering, almost giggling, group departure
from their caucus to plan their recent game
or program of shutting down the government, cutting our health care and generally
destroying our government, except for a few
functions useful to the obscene growth of
the billionaire sponsors that fund, elect, and
control them.
It seems there is also an adult, drinking
version of the game in which either the
“winner” in pinning the tail on the offending
animal’s rump is given a martini, or alternatively, only all others drink. But even in that
model of the current Washington game it is
assumed that more or less rational adults are
playing the game.
I understand the Japanese have a
similar game, I wouldn’t dare pronounce it,
called Fukuwarai, which includes the word
war, and would seem to sound like a curse
in its first four letters. Of course the other
somewhat similar children’s game in another
nation is the Mexican Bash and Smash the
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Pinning the Tail On the Republican Donkey
Republican leaders. I understand Cruz is
giving up his salary during the shut down
to charity. That’s nice, but I don’t know what
his salary is over the weeks involved and
understand the cost of an earlier temporary
shut down was a couple of billion dollars.
A failure of the temporary Shut Down, or
even threat to allowing the extension of the
“debt ceiling” is understood to downgrade
our credit rating and therefore increase
interest rates on new federal bonds. That will
cost us much more than any current losses
in terms of the rise on our major federal
bond interest payments on new bonds sold
to all the foreign and domestic bond buyers
who will be paid at those higher rates over
the life of those bonds. These “amusing” and
now clearly useless, Republican games will
be paid by all Americans and their children
including many billions over many years
ahead. Current estimates call for almost
$20,000,000,000 in added interest costs for
us to pay over the next ten years. If voters
catch on and remember over the next year or
two, will any Republican even be able to be
elected to be dog catcher?
Specifically, these self styled patriots
all trumpet their belief in the capitalist,
American system of monetizing, making
costs in dollars as a means of making real
decisions, and taking responsibility for
economic consequences of actions. Perhaps
economist Krugman would calculate the
cost of their personal responsibility from
these leaders for their actions. Just how many
millions or tens of millions each should pay
our U.S. Treasury to avoid us each from
much higher taxes. This is no “temporary
inconvenience” as some Republicans whine.
Such fun and games is known to raise those
federal bond interest rates and our costs. Our
federal debt, measured in trillions of dollars,
that is thousands of billions, was accrued
largely from all our wars since our nation was
founded, over two centuries ago. This debt,
Republicans at least should well recall was
doubled by their hero, Ronald Reagan and
his vice president just a generation ago.
The recent crisis arose, as most readers
know, when Republicans would not
approve the usual agreement to extend the
current federal budget at the same weekly
rate for weeks or months [with a so-called
Continuing Resolution] until Congress can
adopt a new annual budget. All amounts
involved had all been adopted by Congress
and signed by the President.
The last time this occurred was a year
earlier when the Republicans were successful in forcing the crude device of a unique
Sequester to force cuts off a more or less total
range of federal expenditures including for
national defense. Many in both parties see
the Sequester as very arbitrary and an unfortunate slashing of public services.
However a Continuing Resolution will
most likely extend the Sequester slashing
until a new budget is adopted. Republicans
seized this opportunity to “hold the nation
hostage” in their amazing effort to discredit
our black president and the Affordable
Health Care Act he led to become law. A
new budget, for the next year, will have to
revisit all the arbitrary effects of the Sequester
element forced into the last annual budget by
the same hard liners.
The other element in the recent federal
crisis was the peculiar Department Limit
concept. Such an opportunity for the current
political war did not exist in federal budgeting before the First World War. One device
to restrict the use of this concept in blocking
our government in the last generation was
the law that specified the Debt Limit would
be automatically raised when the budget and
its appropriations are adopted. In the nineties
that sensible rule was dropped and so the
opportunity to screw up to budget before
Congress planned the next annual budget
was set up again.
In any event, over the next couple of
months Congress will have to struggle over
next year’s budget. But the even bigger,
underlying issue remains the system of
Congressional District borders must by
changed so that a party, as in this last election,
failed to come even within 1,400,000 votes
of winning a majority of votes for the House
of Representatives cannot end up with a
controlling majority of House members.
That surely is not majority rule. Existing
systems are available, as discussed in earlier
columns, to bring majority rule on budget
and all other matters if we are to avoid more
of the recent useless insanity.
Bob K. Bogen: BA Antioch College; MCP
University of Pennsylvania; served as
Long-Range Planning Director for
the New York Metropolitan Regional
Planning Commission, which ended in the
South Tower of the World Trade Center;
Planning Director for the New England
Regional Commission; Comprehensive
Planning Director or for the United Nations
Development Program in Pakistan;
Board Chairman of the Communications
Committee for the United Nations; Principal
Representative of Architects/ Designers/
Planners for Social Responsibility to the
United Nations; and Chair of the Quaker
Regional Committee for Peace and Social
Order for eight Friends congregations in the
New York Metropolitan Region.
ENDORSEMENT
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Earned Your Vote
By HEZI ARIS
When voters in Westchester
County go to the polls on
Tuesday, November 5, the
first contest on the ballot
for their consideration will
be the election of New York Supreme Court
judges in the Ninth Judicial District (which,
in addition to Westchester County, also
includes Rockland, Putnam, Dutchess and
Orange Counties).
Among the many candidates who
will be on the ballot for the Ninth Judicial
District, is a sitting New York Supreme
Court Justice who is most deserving of your
vote: Justice Daniel D. Angiolillo.
Justice Angiolillo’s distinguished service
on the bench, and the dedication he has
rendered to his family, and to his community,
are most noteworthy.
Elected in 1993 as a County Court
Judge in Westchester County, Justice
Angiolillo was resoundingly elected Justice
of the New York Supreme Court in 1999
(where he presided over New York’s – and the
nation’s – first Integrated Domestic Violence
Court). Then, in 2006 and 2010, former
New York Governors George E. Pataki and
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ENDORSEMENT
NY Supreme Court Justice Daniel Angiolillo Has Earned Your Vote
David A. Paterson appointed him to serve
on the Appellate Division of the Supreme
Court, and as a Constitutional Associate
Justice, respectively.
For the past 20 years, Justice
Angiolillo has professionally, thoughtfully, and fair-mindedly, considered and
rendered decisions on a myriad number
of complex legal cases. His service on the
bench has received high praise from his
fellow jurists, and from parties and attorneys who have appeared before him. His
approach to the law, and his application
of it, are perfect examples of a jurist who
has consistently demonstrated an even
judicial temperament.
Justice Angiolillo’s service to family
and community are also exemplary. He
has been a devoted husband and father
for over 30 years, and he and his wife,
Mary, have lovingly raised, and continue
to personally care for, a special-needs
daughter who is afflicted with PraderWilli Syndrome (Justice Angiolillo is
President Emeritus of the Prader-Willi
Alliance of New York, Inc.). Among the
many service awards he has received are
the “In the Trenches” Award from The
Lawyers Committee Against Domestic
Violence, and the Victim’s Assistance of
Westchester County “Art of Courage”
Award.
The Westchester Guardian enthusiastically recommends our readers cast their
ballots for New York Supreme Court
Justice Daniel D. Angiolillo on Tuesday,
November 5. Justice Angiolillo is a jurist
who has earned your vote.
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OP-ED
Bramson Slams Astorino as a Tea Party Republican
By NANCY KING
The final two debates
of this election cycle
saw Democratic challenger and current New
Rochelle Mayor Noam
Bramson come out and call incumbent
County Executive Rob Astorino a Tea
Party Republican. Citing Astorino’s
Conservative views on gun control and
his views on abortion, and cutting services
for the neediest of Westchester’s residents,
Mayor Bramson made his final pitch to
persuade Westchester voters why he is the
right man for the job. Astorino, on the
other hand, made his pitch for re-election
by touting his achievement in lowering
taxes by 2% and being able to pass what
he called a bi-partisan budget.
It was however during the final
debate, sponsored by the League of
Women Voters on October 23rd, at the
Pace University Graduate Center in
White Plains, where the questions asked
of both candidates took an unusual turn.
Both candidates were asked what had
been their biggest mistake they had
made while in office. Bramson, to his
credit actually owned up to the blunder
he had made concerning a controversial
land-use issue that arose while he was a
councilman in New Rochelle. Whether
he was referring to the failed development of downtown New Rochelle when
Louis Cappelli bailed out of a development project, or the mess that is the Echo
Bay project, is unclear. The Echo Bay
project itself has divided the City of New
Rochelle and for that, one assumes that
pushing this project through is probably
Bramson’s biggest regret. When asked the
same question, Astorino firmly replied
that he had no regrets and that he stands
by his principals.
While Astorino has indeed lowered
the taxes by that hallowed 2%, it has
come with a cost. Bramson is correct in
his assessment that many of those cuts
are being borne on the backs of those
who can ill afford them. The safety net
of services provided by neighborhood
health centers has shrunk and all but
disappeared. They’ve been replaced with
Westchester Medical for profit health care
facilities. These facilities are often out of
the way and not on bus routes that those
needing local health care can easily get to.
As for the bus service here in Westchester,
well that’s been cut as well while fares for
riders just keep rising. Subsidized childcare costs here in Westchester have also
been increased. Parents who qualify as the
“working poor” are now paying an extra
dollar a day for day care. One dollar a
day may not seem like a lot of money but
when those dollars are added up in terms
of days, the result is about is thirty dollars
extra a month.
County Executive Astorino maintains that his administration has created
22K jobs in the county during the last
four years. Citing PepsiCo’s retention and
Regeneron’s expansion, and of course all
of those Westchester Medical facilities
popping up in office parks, are for sure,
good signs that economic development
is creeping its way back into Westchester;
but surely this doesn’t add up to 22K
people who are now working here in
Westchester. Astorino has also claimed
that he has streamlined county government through attrition, retirements,
terminations and a hiring freeze. But if
you call the HR department of the county,
the receptionist will tell you that new hire
orientation is on alternate Monday’s. And
what about the patronage positions that
replaced some of the rank and file that
was downsized? Do those members of
the “friends and family network” make up
some of those 22K new workers? It seems
like just another case of fuzzy math.
Mayor Bramson has not been the
most perfect government leader in the
history of Westchester County but it
appears that he still understands that hard
times continue for many of us here in
the county and is pretty frank about the
fact that if you want to have goods and
services, then taxes may have to go up.
Like his opponent, he acknowledges that
by consolidating some redundant services,
the tax levy may be held at bay. This time
around though, neither candidate really
touched on the crux of Westchester’s tax
problem, which is the school tax. County
taxes only make up 18% of the total tax bill
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with the debates done, it is all about
the ground game now. Will a heavily
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The Washington Generals
By JOHN JAMES
KIRKWOOD
So the shutdown is over,
the Republicans decided
to go into victory formation with first and goal on
the Democrats one-yard line, still down
by 1. That’s right, forget the quarterback
sneak, forget the field goal, Coach McCain
wants to run out the clock because,
somehow losing will be a moral victory. So
Mitch McConnell takes the knee and the
RINO cheerleaders do “the perfect cheer,”
but the fans go home deflated.
In the mean time, McConnell gets a
new multi-million dollar bonus for losing.
Make sense to you? If John McCain and
John Boehner were the head coach and
offensive coordinator of any football team
in the country, at any level, would they still
have a job?
Although, Bruce Vain may be on to
something when he blogged this week,
“Basketball is a better fit. The Democrats
looked like the Harlem Globetrotters
and the RINOS like the Washington
Generals. Any way you look at it, it was a
fixed game!”
One of the Democratic talking
points that the mainstream media was
all too happy to pass along was that the
Republicans were holding the government
hostage: either Rush Limbaugh hypnotized the tea party or Ted Cruz slipped us
a date rape drug, but someone had raided
dad’s gun cabinet and was stopping our
dear leaders from their essential and nonessential work. I wish it were true!
I, for one, would love it if our government were «held hostage.» Sure, have
at it! Waterboard the little tyrants while
you›re at it. Did they really think that
they could drum up sympathy for the
government with half the country out
of work and congress less popular than
Jeffrey Dahmer? I’d even be willing to do a
prisoner exchange.
Recently an NBC/WSJ poll was
commissioned that showed 60% of
Americans would like to see the whole
of congress voted out. What do you think
the percentage would be if we commissioned a poll that asked “Should congress
be detained indefinitely at Guantanamo
Bay?” Or, “Should congress get ‘perp
walked’ out in Sheriff Joe’s pink boxers and
be forced to pick up litter on the side of
I-55?”
The best-case scenario is for these
guys to be furloughed until the next
election, but no, the Republican leadership decided to bend over, and collect a fee.
Some things are just that obvious - they’re
simply rank whores.
The good news is that there are
around 18 senators and 70 congressmen that get it and are still worthy of our
support and encouragement. We must
never allow cynicism to blunt our vigilance. Rage is the order of the day!
Rage against the machine and against
the dying of the light! Rage against a complicit press corps and in the face of a docile
“opposition party!” Rage at the school
board meeting and in the town hall!
Rage in person and on the phone;
rage in email and through snail mail! Let
your light shine and your voice be filled
with beautiful, passion-filled, outspoken righteous indignation! Summon the
AWOL, shame the silent and cry out at
injustice! Weave the three strand whip,
turnover the tables of the money-changers! Never tire! Never give up!
The moment that fatigue begins to
set in think of the sacrifice of your fathers,
think of the chains that would be your
sons. Summon the strength of faith to
endure, we are not blind to the path, just
follow the blood stained footprints of
those who tread freedom’s trail just yesterday. Our enemies want us to give up
or at least to give in. Let not evil triumph
because the righteous have abandoned the
field.
As Burke has warned, “The only
thing necessary for the triumph of evil is
for good men to do nothing,” so I, would
have you believe, that “the good man, once
informed, will never choose apathy!”
The history of the Republican Party
has been one of fighting injustice in the
behalf of true freedom; we should not
suffer RINOS who sell our heritage for ‹a
bowl of lentils› or Democrats who ‹plough
with our heifer› in their plot to deceive.
We had a team prior to this one that
was comfortable just showing up and
never talked about victory, then a guy nicknamed the Gipper came along and gave
us the game plan, “We win and they lose!”
It’s time once more that we dared to challenge the status quo and moved beyond
“détente.”
I would not have you switch teams
or give up the game all together but as for
the current Republican Party, it’s time we
forced new leadership and gave the ball to
Ted Cruz.
John Kirkwood is a son of Issachar. He
is a Zionist, gun-toting, cigar-smoking,
incandescent light bulb-using, 3.2 gallon
flushing, fur-wearing, Chinese (MSG)
eating, bow-hunting, SUV driving,
unhyphenated American man who loves
his wife, isn’t ashamed of his country and
does not apologize for his Christianity.
He Pastors Grace Gospel Fellowship
Bensenville, where “we the people” seek
to honor “In God we Trust.” He hosts
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shot of espresso on UncommonShow.
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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER
----------------------------------------------------------Index No.: 54815/2012
DLJ Mortgage Capital, Inc.,
Filed: 9/19/13
Plaintif,
-against-
SUPPLEMENTAL
SUMMONS
Plaintiff designates
Westchester County
as the place of trial.
Venue is based upon the County in which
the mortgaged premises is situated.
George J. Lambert, Westchester County Public Administrator, as Administrator for the
estate of James W. Lancia, his/her respective heirs-at-law, next-of-kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors, and successors in interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said
defendant who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, any right,
title or interest in the real property described in the complaint herein, Janice M. Lancia,
as heir to the Estate of James W. Lancia, James Lancia III, as heir to the Estate of James
W. Lancia, United States of America, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance,
Defendants.
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TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEfENDANT(S):
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy
of your Answer or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the attorneys for the plaintif within twenty (20) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; or within thirty (30) days after service is complete if
this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York; or within sixty
(60) days if it is the United States of America. In case of your failure to appear or answer,
judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.
NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT
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Dated: Bay Shore, New York
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TO:
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By Linda P. Manfredi, Esq.
(Attorneys for Plaintiff)
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Loc: Westchester. SSNY designated as agent
for service on LLC. SSNY shall mail a copy of
process to: 100 Riverdale Ave., Ste. 16-J, Yonkers, NY 10701. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.
SMOOTH SKIN CARE LLC Articles of Org.
filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/6/13. Office in
Westchester Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC
upon whom process may be served. SSNY
shall mail copy of process to C/O United States
Corporation Agents Inc. 7014 13th Ave Ste. 202
Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Registered Agent United States Corporation
Agents Inc. 7014 13th Ave Ste. 202, Brooklyn,
NY 11228.
VMS ENDEAVORS LLC Articles of Org. filed NY
Sec. of State (SSNY) 10/2/13. Office in Westchester Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be served. SSNY shall
mail copy of process to The LLC 8 Fairway Dr.,
Mamaroneck, NY 10543. Purpose: Any lawful
activity.
Notice of formation of Goeprof, LLC. Articles
of Organization filed with Secretary of State
of NY (SSNY) on 07/16/2013. Office loc.: Albany
County. SSNY has been designated as agent
of the LLC upon whom process against it may
be served. The PO address to which the SSNY
shall mail process to 1737 Congress Ave, Peekskill, NY 10566. Purpose of LLC: Distribution of
e-learning material.
LEGAL NOTICE: NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A
LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC), Name:
GREAT DAY FAMILY CHILD CARE LLC; Articles
of Organization filed with the Secretary of
State of New York (SSNY) on 09/16/2013; Office Location: Westchester County; SSNY has
been designated as agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be served; SSNY shall
mail copy of process to: C/O GREAT DAY FAMILY CHILD CARE LLC, 22 Siebrecht Pl, New Rochelle, NY 10804
HARRISON REAL ESTATE GROUP, LLC Articles
of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 9/11/13.
Office in Westchester Co. SSNY design. Agent
of LLC upon whom process may be served.
SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 287
Bowman Ave Purchase, NY 10577. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
FOURTH GENERATION PARTNERS, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY)
8/13/13. Office in Westchester Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The
LLC 707 Westchester Ave Ste 401 White Plains,
NY 10604. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
FOURTH GENERATION PRIVATE EQUITY
PARTNERS, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 8/5/13. Office in Westchester
Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom
process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to The LLC 707 Westchester Ave
Ste 401 White Plains, NY 10604. Purpose: Any
lawful activity.
TENANT KING LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 10/2/13. Office in Westchester
Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom
process may be served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to C/O Michael Rossi 44 Loop
Rd Bedford, NY 10506. Purpose: Any lawful
activity. Registered Agent: Michael Rossi 44
Loop Road Bedford, NY 10506.
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DOUGLAS A. COLETY
Commissioner
Fax 914-995-3190
NANCY E. MEEHAN
Deputy Commissioner
REGINALD A. LAFAYETTE
Commissioner
Fax 914-995-7753
JEANNIE L. PALAZOLA
Deputy Commissioner
25 Quarropas St., White Plains, NY 10601
914-995-5700
www.westchestergov.com/boe
OFFICIAL 2013 GENERAL ELECTION NOTICE
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 4-120 of the Election Law, notice is hereby given that the official General Election will be held on
November 5, 2013 from 6:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M.
for registered voters in the County of Westchester for the public offices listed below:
PUBLIC OFFICE
Supreme Court Justices
County Executive
District Attorney
County Clerk
County Court Judge
Family Court Judge
County Legislator - CLD 1
Town of Bedford - Supervisor
Town of Bedford – Councilmember
Town of Bedford – Town Clerk
Town of Bedford - Town Justice
Town of Cortlandt - Supervisor
Town of Cortlandt – Councilmember
Town of Cortlandt – Town Clerk
Town of Cortlandt – Town Justice
Town of Cortlandt – Receiver of Taxes
Village of Croton-on-Hudson – Mayor
Village of Croton-on-Hudson - Trustee
Town of Eastchester - Supervisor
Town of Eastchester - Councilmember
Town of Greenburgh - Supervisor
Town of Greenburgh - Councilmember
Town of Greenburgh - Town Clerk
Town of Greenburgh – Receiver of Taxes
Village of Ardsley – Mayor
Village of Ardsley – Trustee
Village of Dobbs Ferry – Mayor
Village of Dobbs Ferry – Trustee
Village of Dobbs Ferry – Village Justice
Village of Irvington – Mayor
Village of Irvington - Trustee
Town of Harrison - Supervisor/Mayor
Town of Harrison - Councilman/Trustee
Town of Harrison - Town/Village Clerk
Town of Harrison – Town/Village Receiver of Taxes
Town of Lewisboro - Supervisor
Town of Lewisboro – Councilmember
Town of Lewisboro – Town Justice
Town of Lewisboro – Receiver of Taxes
Town of Mamaroneck - Supervisor
Town of Mamaroneck – Councilmember
Town of Mamaroneck - Town Justice
Village of Mamaroneck - Mayor
Village of Mamaroneck - Village Trustee
Town/Village of Mount Kisco - Mayor
Town/Village of Mount Kisco – Trustee
Town/Village of Mount Kisco – Town Justice
Town/Village of Mount Kisco - Library Trustee
Town/Village of Mount Kisco – Library Trustee (Unexp.)
Town of Mt. Pleasant - Supervisor
Town of Mt. Pleasant - Councilmember
Town of Mt. Pleasant - Town Clerk
Town of Mt. Pleasant – Receiver of Taxes
Town of Mt. Pleasant - Superintendent of Highways
Town of New Castle - Supervisor
Town of New Castle – Councilmember
Town of New Castle – Town Justice
Town of North Castle - Supervisor
Town of North Castle - Councilmember
Town of North Castle – Town Justice
Town of North Castle – Receiver of Taxes
Town of North Salem- Supervisor
Town of North Salem - Councilmember
Town of North Salem – Receiver of Taxes
Town of North Salem – Superintendent of Highways
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Town of Ossining - Supervisor
Town of Ossining - Councilmember
Town of Ossining - Town Justice
Town of Ossining – Receiver of Taxes
Town of Ossining - Superintendent of Highways
Village of Ossining - Trustee
Town of Pelham - Supervisor
Town of Pelham - Councilmember
Town of Pelham - Town Clerk
Town of Pelham – Receiver of Taxes
Town of Pound Ridge - Supervisor
Town of Pound Ridge - Councilmember
Town of Pound Ridge - Town Justice
Town of Pound Ridge – Receiver of Taxes
Town of Rye – Councilmember
Town of Rye – Town Clerk
Town of Rye - Town Justice
Town of Somers - Supervisor
Town of Somers - Councilmember
Town of Somers – Receiver of Taxes
Town of Yorktown - Supervisor
Town of Yorktown - Councilmember
Town of Yorktown - Town Justice
Town of Yorktown – Superintendent of Highways
City of Mount Vernon – City Comptroller
City of Mount Vernon – Councilmember
City of Mount Vernon – City Court Judge
City of Peekskill - Mayor
City of Peekskill – Councilmember
City of Peekskill – Councilmember (Unexp.) *
*Special Election
City of Rye - Mayor
City of Rye – Councilmember
City of White Plains - Mayor
City of White Plains – Councilmember
City of Yonkers – City Court Judge
City of Yonkers – City Council President
City of Yonkers – 2nd Council District
City of Yonkers - 4th Council District
City of Yonkers - 6th Council District

October 31, 2013 - WestchesterGuardian.com

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