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Vol. VI, No. XIII
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PROSECUTORS
ELLIOT JACOBSON AND PERRY CARBONE
UNETHICAL AND
CORRUPT
HYPOCRITES!!!!!
By TED ZELMANN, Page 3
Assembly Speaker Sheldon
Silver Lends His Support to
Yonkers Board of Education
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RACHEL McCAIN
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JOHN F. McMULLEN
Mr. Gates Is In
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CHRIS ROSTENBERG
Pro-Choice Liars
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JOHN SIMON
Fairy-tale Musicals
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LARRY M. ELKIN
The Last
NATO President
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LEE H. HAMILTON
Fixing Congress
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eventually going to indict Sam Zherka.’’
In and around December 10, 2011,
and just about two weeks after subpoena’s
were served on Zherka by the IRS, and
FBI, as part of the targeting against the
T.E.A. Party advocates, Arthur Glover, an
investigator from the Westchester County
District Attorney Janet DiFiore’s office,
with first hand knowledge contacted an
attorney who did work for Zherka and
warned her of the pending federal Grand
Jury investigation which was not made
public knowledge and nearly 18 months
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Party organizations and their supporters nationally, while here in Westchester
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America in May 2013 was once again
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the unscrupulous and unconstitutional
targeting of Americans who considered
themselves part of the Tea Party platform,
who spoke out against corruption, incumbent career politicians, high taxes, and
against predatory and abusive government.
The Tea Party was subjected to targeting as early as 2010 by IRS agents,
and agents from other federal agencies, in
an attempt to intimidate and silence this
ever so powerful movement of everyday
hard working Americans who believe in
America, the American Dream, and who
are against the economic enslavement of
the American People.
During 2009 and 2010, Publisher
Sam Zherka, organized over a dozen
well-attended rallies and press conferences
throughout Westchester County and New
York City, in support of the Tea Party and
in an effort to form a minor statewide
political party called T.E.A.
In attendance at these rallies and press
conferences were people of all persuasions,
ethnicities, and political affiliations who
supported the message of the Tea Party
and what it stood for.
THE JANET DiFIORE CONNECTION
In and around the spring of 2009,
prior to the Tea Party Evolution (T.E.A.),
Westchester County District Attorney
Janet Difiore contacted federal prosecutor Perry A. Carbone, 56 (happy belated
birthday), a 20-year resident of Yorktown,
and asked that he and Elliot Jacobson, 60
(happy belated Birthday), a Greenburgh
resident, also a federal prosecutor, to investigate Sam Zherka, as a favor to her and
her husband and in retaliation for negative
articles previously published about her and
her husband in in Publisher Sam Zherka’s
newspaper, The Westchester Guardian.
DiFiore and her husband Dennis
Glazer, have for many years interviewed
and discussed employment opportunities
with federal prosecutors which included
employment at one of the nations largest
law firms, “Davis Polk and Wardwell”,
where DiFiore’s husband is a partner.
In and around 2009, Andy Grosher,
an investigator for the Westchester County
D.A.’s office stated to an attorney, who
for this article shall be kept anonymous
and who did not have any relationship
with Sam Zherka, “ that the feds were
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Prosecutors Elliot Jacobson and Perry Carbone
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County United States Assistant Attorney’s
Elliot B Jacobson, and Perry A. Carbone,
saw the opportunity to assist in the IRS’
unconstitutional targeting of Sam Zherka,
“ the loudest tea party voice in New York”,
as a favor to their dear friend Janet DiFiore,
the Westchester County District Attorney.
Elliot B. Jacobson, a registered liberal
Democrat since March 1996 with a JD
from Harvard University is licensed to
practice law in the State of New York since
1981. Jacobson has spent almost 32 years
as a prosecutor. Jacobson briefly left the
public sector only to return after failing
to make a living in the private sector as an
attorney. Jacobson has been accused several
times in the past of unethical and corrupt
behavior and prosecutorial misconduct.
For many years Jacobson and Carbone,
two political hacks, have been seeking a
political ally and favor to assist in securing
either a promotion at the United States
Attorneys office or appointments to federal
judgeships.
Over the past two years and after
hundreds of subpoena’s Jacobson and
Carbone, with the help of the IRS Agents
who were targeting Sam Zherka for his
Tea Party activities, have interviewed many
people who have done business with Sam
Zherka in the past. Some people were questioned in a Grand Jury which was convened
to hear evidence, and others were interviewed in a conference room at Jacobson and
Carbone’s office in White Plains.
Anthony (Tony) Nikc, a Westchester
County resident who is in the commercial real estate business, was interviewed
by members of the IRS, specifically by
Elliot Jacobson and Perry Carbone for
nearly 6 ½ hours. In and around 2012
and through 2013, Mr Nikc contacted a
friend, Antonio Raimondo, and on several
occasions complained about the corrupt and
unconscionable false admissions Carbone
and Jacobson asked Nikc to make in order
to secure an indictment against Sam Zherka.
“ They want me to lie about Sam Zherka”,
stated Nikc to Mr Raimondo.
Nikc also stated” They are threatening to prosecute me, if i don’t lie about cash
under the table which never happened.”
“These people are corrupt”, said Tony Nikc.
Mr Nikc told this writer that in his opinion
these people, meaning Perry Carbone and
Elliot Jacobson, have a personal vendetta
against Sam Zherka.” This is personal, they
fucken hate Sam Zherka”
In and around the spring of March and
April 2012, two men Pasquale (Pat) Scarpa,
and Kevin Sisti, of Connecticut who were
previously contacted by the IRS and received
subpoena’s from Jacobson and Carbone,
via the IRS Agents, expressed their disbelief and astonishment as to the existence of
any inquiry regarding dealings with Sam
Zherka, especially since all their dealings
with Zherka were legal and above board. “
I never thought we would be targeted for
doing real estate deals, legitimate real
estate deals, this is crazy”, said Scarpa.
Scarpa, during at least two meetings,
made it very clear that the IRS and the
prosecutors have a “real hard-on for
Zherka” “and reiterated Jacobson’s hatred
and venom for Zherka, and his statement
that, “everyone around Sam Zherka is a
target.”
One year later and after Pasquale (Pat)
Scarpa and his attorney Mr Kevin Kitson,
of White Plains met with Prosecutors
Jacobson and Carbone, and IRS Agents
investigating Tea Party activity, Mr Scarpa,
contacted his partner Kevin Sisti, who
solely negotiated each and every real estate
deal in the New England area involving
Sam Zherka and or his affiliated entities.
On behalf of prosecutors Jacobson and
Carbone, and IRS Agents investigating the
Tea Party, Pasquale (Pat) Scarpa attempted
to solicit the help of Kevin Sisti, “to change
the story”, and abort from the truth and
tell the prosecutors , what they wanted
to hear. Scarpa asked Sisti to manufacture evidence to avoid being targeted by
Jacobson, Carbone, and the IRS. Scarpa
delivered Jacobson’s message, “ Join team
America because team Sammy is going
down”.
Kevin Sisti stated that he was shocked
and astonished that Pasquale (Pat) Scarpa
would ask him to lie and fabricate evidence
in order to appease these rogue prosecutors and IRS agents in an attempt to secure
an indictment of Zherka, who to the best
of his knowledge is guilty of nothing more
than speaking out against politicians, government officials and corruption. Sisti,
refused to participate in any such unethical,
unconstitutional and corrupt activity.
In and around 2012 and 2013,
Jacobson, and Carbone along with IRS
agents investigating Zherka for his Tea
Party activities, interviewed Vincent
D’Agnillo, a Queens, NY, mortgage
broker. Carbone and Jacobson along with
IRS agents, threatened D’Agnillo, directly
and through his attorney with imminent
prosecution if D’Agnillo did not agree to
fabricate evidence and admit to criminality
he had no knowledge of and which did not
exist involving Sam Zherka.
In and around November 2011, an
attorney who’s name shall be kept anonymous for this article, was served with a
subpoena’s by IRS and FBI Agents. In and
around early 2012, this attorney was invited
by Jacobson and Carbone to their office for
an interview. This attorney declined the
invitation and asked to be questioned only
in front of a Grand Jury. Perry Carbone,
reluctantly convened a Grant Jury, and cross
examined this attorney (witness) in front of
a panel of Grand Jury jurors.
Perry
Carbone,
“deliberately
attempted to mislead the Grand Jury
jurors in an attempt to secure a fabricated
indictment”, stated this attorney. Carbone
finally asked the witness to leave after the
witness lashed out at Prosecutor Carbone
about his frivolous investigation which was
nothing more than a fishing expedition.
An attorney who’s name shall be kept
anonymous for this article and who had
contact with Perry Carbone regarding this
First Amendment retaliatory investigation
stated, “the amount of money spent on this
bogus investigation is a crime in of itself ”.
Perry A. Carbone and Elliot B.
Jacobson, two ethically challenged, corrupt
political hacks, along with IRS Agents
and others, have shown that they are
more willing to break laws, suborn perjury,
fabricate evidence, and outright lie, in an
attempt to violate Sam Zherka’s constitutional rights in retaliation for his political
speech, free press and Tea Party affiliations.
Basically, the Tea Party came under
attack, investigation and scrutiny by the IRS
and other Federal Agencies, and the likes of
Carbone and Jacobson saw the opportunity
to jump on board to attempt to receive political favor for their personal benefit.
Every American should be very concerned with any attack on civil liberties by
corrupt government officials no matter
what the message. Whether you approve
or disapprove of the political speech, editorial or opinion, no one who has sworn
to uphold the Constitution of the United
States should betray his oath for any reason;
and in doing so is betraying the fabric of
what this country was built on, and betraying the mothers and fathers whose sons
and daughters died defending the very
Constitutional rights which are currently
under attack.
Mr Elliot B. Jacobson, a bonafide
hypocrite is no different than his former
Democratic buddy one-time Governor
Elliot Spitzer, and should be more concerned with being seen frequenting
massage parlors where happy endings run
rampant, than indulging in fishing expeditions and constitutional violations for
political favor.
Ted Zelmann is a Westchester county resident
who has been writing writing on the issue
of prosecutorial misconduct and government
abuse for eight years. He is a freelancer and very
familiar with issue of government abuse which
is plaguing our county and America
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ARTS & LEISURE
Lifelong Creative Journey Brings Former Chappaqua Resident Hank Kimmel Full Circle
By LEE DANIELS
Last
month,
former
Chappaqua resident and
playwright Hank Kimmel
hit the big time, performing
in one of his own plays at
Lincoln Center.
OK, so the venue was the performance
space at the local New York Public Library,
but Kimmel was nonetheless elated to be
there.
Decidedly laconic--especially for a
former stand-up comic--and with his trademark dry, self-deprecating delivery, Kimmel
in a recent interview described the path that
led him to publish nearly 50 plays, and what
brought him to New York to perform in his
one-act play, “The Lunch-Time Panelist.”
“I got involved in theater my last year of
college (Brown University), too late to make
an impact on not much more than my few
buddies who came to my shows. (As soon
as I got involved with theatre, any girlfriend
became an ex-girlfriend). I did a lot of
stand-up comedy, and realized that while I
liked writing jokes, I wasn’t geared toward
performing them in front of strangers,” said
Kimmel.
Nevertheless, upon graduation from
college, he moved to New York and took a
couple of classes at the New School, one in
improv and one in juggling.
“The juggling led nowhere, but Paul
Simon was one of the other students, oddly
enough. After one of the improv classes, I
went up the instructor and started talking
to her about comedy. I told her I was interested in writing, and she told me that she was
producing cabarets and was always on the
lookout for new material. We took a cab to
her studio in midtown Manhattan (46th and
8th), and went upstairs to her studio where
her talent (writers and actors) were about to
have a meeting. I thought, ‘Wow, this is great;
I’ll have the chance to meet some other joke
writers.’ The group of about 20 was already
assembled. When we walked in, she said to
the group, ‘This is Hank Kimmel. He’s going
to join us. He’s a playwright.’ This woman
had such a strong personality that I figured
if she said I was a playwright, then, well, I
guess I’m a playwright. I started writing for
her cabarets, mostly short skits. It was a great
experience in that if you wrote something
in the morning, you’d see it acted out in the
evening. Though the quality of our work
was less than scintillating, there were a few
moments of pure joy. I decided that that’s
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what I wanted to become, a playwright”
explained Kimmel.
After attending journalism school in
New York then working as a sportswriter at
Gannett Suburban Newspapers in White
Plains, Kimmel and his wife headed to
Atlanta, where he enrolled in law school, as
his wife was leaving her full-time work to
devote more time to raising their two small
children.
“While at Emory, I worked for Georgia
Lawyers for the Arts. I kept meeting playwrights and theater artists and found the
community here more embracing than in
New York. With my lawyerly skills, I incorporated Working Title Playwrights, an
Atlanta-based theatre company dedicated
to the development of playwrights and new
plays (www.workngtitleplaywrights.com)
and, thanks to an enabling law school dean,
I was able to get an independent research
project in law school in which I could
research plays with some kind of legal components. Those plays I researched remain
my most produced and viable plays,” said
Kimmel.
“Upon graduation, I ended up going
into mediation, which is the highest-paying way to be a lawyer, but creates the least
residue. Each mediation is its own play-some kind of conflict needed to be resolved
in a short amount of time--and then it’s
over. The courthouse became a good place
to write plays--and to be inspired to write
plays. If a judge is late to the bench, I pull
out my pad and start writing (or editing),”
ruminated Kimmel.
Kimmel appeared at the beginning of
this month in ‘Lunch-Time Panelist,” at
the New York-based Piney Fork Theater
One-Act Play Festival, the first of three productions to be by the theater group this year.
His portrayal of a panelist in a daytime
TV show as he awaits his turn to review cake
the show’s panelists are supposed to taste
begins in a sedate, almost meditative monologue by Kimmel but culminates in a snappy,
explosive finale that surprised and delighted
audience members.
After the play, as he nibbled at his
main prop for the play--a piece of New
York cheesecake--Kimmel reflected on the
lengthy but fulfilling journey that has led
him to this particular venue.
“In a strange way, a lot of my life and
experiences have come full circle. When
the Piney Fork people asked for one of my
monologues, they said they would find me
an actor. But when that actor fell through, I
figured, what the heck, I should get up there
and do it myself. Might be good for me as a
writer to have the experience again being on
stage. So, in a sense, the performance in New
York was an opportunity for me to go a long
distance out of my way to come back a short
distance correctly. I was on a New York stage,
not performing comedy, but being on stage
trying to make people laugh,” said Kimmel.
Johnny Culver, managing director of
Piney Fork Press Theater, created the festival
as an alternative to others in New York City
that charge submission, reading and participation fees.
“Piney Fork Press Playwriting Festival,
now in its third season, gives stage writers
from around the United States an opportunity to have their works directed and
performed by New York professionals, at no
cost, in a casual and supportive atmosphere,”
said Culver in an interview this week.
Among Kimmel’s creative influences,
he cites friend and mentor Geoff Marchant,
his former English teacher and coach at the
Hotchkiss School; award-winning playwrights Gary Garrison and Susan Charlotte;
college theater professor, playwright, director
and proponent of the Regional Alternative
Theatre movement Erik Ehn; and playwright Margaret Baldwin.
Hank Kimmel
“While I appreciate (and feel blessed
about) where I have ended up, it has not been
a direct path to get there,” mused Kimmel.
“My favorite quote in literature (and my
guiding principle in life) comes from “Zoo
Story” by Albert Albee: ‘Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of your way
to come back a short distance correctly.’”
The Third Piney Fork Theater One-Act
Play Festival, which will include another
play by Hank Kimmel, will take place this
summer. Rounds one and two will be held
on June 7th and July 19th at the New York
Public Library Alvin Ailey Auditorium on
West 115th Street, at 1:00 p.m. The third
round will be held in August. More information will soon be available at: www.
pineyforkpress.com.
Lee Daniels is Arts & Leisure writer for The
Westchester Guardian and editor for Kiev,
Ukraine-based ICU.
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By MARK JEFFERS
Here’s a real shocker, Forbes
magazine has rated the New
York
City-WestchesterHackensack, N.J., area as the
nation’s most overpriced area
to live in; I am sure glad our paper is still the
best priced periodical in the area, so sit back
and enjoy this week’s “economically sensible”
edition of “News & Notes.”
We can all help The Community
Center of Northern Westchester help
students attend their proms and graduation
parties this year. Donate your gently-used
prom dresses, tuxedos, shoes and accessories.
They want to help ease the burden of buying
that perfect dress or suit to wear, by supplying formalwear to local kids from families of
limited means. For one night in April, girls
can shop their prom closet at a very special
private event, graciously hosted by Mt. Kisco
boutique Elephant’s Trunk.
High school students who need this
help should call the Center. They will do
their best to accommodate them, while
maintaining their privacy.
Congratulations to Equinox as they
have taken over The Gym in Armonk and
our friends a ProClinix Sports Physical
Therapy Chiropractic will continue their
professional practice operations within the
facility.
The Center for the Arts at the
Westchester Community College in White
Plains will hold a Summer Art Classes for
Kids. Registration begins April 4th.
On Sunday, March 30th from 2 to
3pm, the Katonah Museum of Art presents
a Meet the Artist day with author artist
Rosemary Wells. Anyone with children
is familiar with her beloved picture books
featuring the character Max and Ruby. Join
Rosemary for a special reading and conversation. Learn about her artistic process, listen
to a Max and Ruby story, and participate in a
fun family book-making project. Ms. Woods
will have prints and signed books for sale.
I usually have this after chowing down
on chicken wings… Sticky Fingers, a Rolling
Stones tribute band is set to perform at
the Mount Kisco Tavern on Friday April
4th, hopefully all attendees will get some
“Satisfaction...”
Three cheers go out to Mount Kisco
Elementary School staff members who
recently participated in a districtwide fundraising volleyball tournament at the Fox
Lane High School. The event raised more
than $1,000 for the Mount Kisco Food
Pantry.
Our business friends up in Yorktown
have formed The Yorktown Small Business
Association to help economic development
in the area.
On Saturday, March 29th at 11:00am
the Copeland House in Mount Kisco is
presenting a free children’s concert “The
Dot and the Line.” It is the story about a
frivolous dot that falls in love with a squiggle,
only to realize how much the dependable
straight line loves her. This multi-media performance, narrated by Jamie Bernstein, is a
lively and engaging journey into geometry,
art, and an enchanting and delirious world
of sound. The performance ends with an
instrument “petting zoo,” featuring over 25
percussion instruments that are all used in
this performance. Call 914-788-4659 for
more information.
Did you know that the Bedford
Historical Society offers wonderful educational events and programs for children and
the community? Celebrated Journalist and
Author Cokie Roberts will be at the Bedford
Village 1787 Court House on Saturday,
April 5th promoting her children’s book
titled “Founding Mothers: Remembering
the Ladies,” she will give a talk and sign
some books.
Like everyone else, I am in search
of spring… The folks at Teatown Lake
Reservation in Ossining are too, and they
are searching for signs with a hike around
the lake on Saturday March 29th at 1:00pm.
Join them as they look for the greening of
the skunk cabbage and the first signs of red
maples and explore all of the other tell-tale
clues that spring is on its way.
The Bedford Hills Lions Club is
seeking classic cars, sponsors and vendors
for their 16th Annual Car Show on Sunday,
June 22nd, at the Katonah Commuter
Parking Lot #3.
Here I go again dating myself… but
does anyone else remember Dennis Elsas on
WNEW FM? On Saturday night, March
29th, at 8:00pm, the North Castle Public
Library will present “Rock’n’Roll Never
Forgets with Dennis Elsas,” a multimedia
journey through the historic rock ‘n’ roll
archives of the legendary NY radio personality, at Whippoorwill Hall.
Tax season is in full swing, or as Uncle
Sam likes to say “It’s the Most Wonderful
Time of the Year”… See you next week.
Mark Jeffers resides in Bedford Hills, New York,
with his wife Sarah, and three daughters, Kate,
Amanda, and Claire.
EDUCATION
Yonkers Board of Education Policy Committee Announces Plans to Update Fiscal Policy
YONKERS, NY – March 21, 2014 -Continuing efforts to increase financial
accountability and transparency, the Yonkers
Board of Education’s (YBoE) Policy
Committee has announced plans to draft
suggested changes to Board Policy Series
6000, Fiscal Management. The recommendations will include adjusting the timeline
for submitting the YBoE’s annual proposed
budget to the City, enlisting membership of
the City Council Education Chair to the
Audit, Budget and Finance Committee,
and increasing collaboration with the City’s
finance staff.
“We believe that changes to the
District’s fiscal management should be
made through Board policy not through
legislation,” said Board Vice President Steve
Lopez, who chairs the Policy Committee.
“Therefore, we have committed to instituting
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policy changes that offer transparency and
accountability while creating a cooperative
venture among representatives from the
District, City, County and State.”
The committee’s focus reflects the
Dr. Nader Sayegh
Board’s commitment to engage stakeholders
in the District’s decision-making processes.
The Board’s five committees – Facilities,
Instructional Affairs, Legal AdHoc, Policy
and Audit, Budget and Finance (ABF)
- hold meetings in public and encourage
interested parents and citizens to attend. The
community is also encouraged to attend the
Board’s Workshop Meeting, during which
trustees review and inquire about upcoming
resolutions.
Board President Dr. Nader J. Sayegh,
Esq., noted, “The Board has unveiled several
measures to increase cooperation in the
budget process, including the enactment of
the current Inter Municipal Agreement.”
President Sayegh said that the ABF
Committee Meeting on March 11 exemplified the open dialogue among external
auditors, City of Yonkers finance staff and
the YBoE finance staff. “For the first time,
we were actually talking the same financial
language; we agreed on what the deficits
were and what shortfalls existed. This kind
of collective conversation makes it easier
to move toward solutions,” said President
Sayegh.
The members of the Board Policy
Committee are Vice President Lopez, Chair,
and Trustees Trevor Bennett and Judith
Ramos Meier. Dr. Sayegh, as president, is
ex-officio member of all Board committees.
The next Policy Committee Meeting,
originally scheduled for Monday, April 7, has
been rescheduled for Monday, April 14 at
5:00 p.m. on the fourth floor of the Yonkers
Board of Education building, One Larkin
Center. The topics will include Board Policy
Series 6000, Fiscal Management, and 7000,
Facilities Development. The community is
encouraged to attend.
SOURCE: Maura Lamoreaux,
Yonkers Public Schools Public Information
CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES
From Luxor
By SHERIF AWAD
In its 3rd edition (18-24)
March, the Luxor African
Film Festival organized
a press conference for
American film star Danny Glover and the
Bissau-Guinean Director Flora Gomes
replete with tribute to them both. The conference was attended by Sayed Fouad, the
festival’s president, and Azza el-Husseini, the
festival’s director. It was moderated by Film
Critic Sherif Awad.
After thanking the festival’s organizers
for their hospitality and tribute, Glover spoke
about his film, “The Children’s Republic”,
which was presented at the opening, revealed
he had a chance to visit some African countries in 2004 only to see the effects of civil
war on children in particular. He also made
notice of the presence of about one million
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Luxor African Film Festival (LAFF) conference.
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mines along many border areas in Africa
that caused the fall of many victims to landmines and the arming of children as part of
the allies in conflicts.
Glover added that when he was offered
the film’s script, he recognized the script
was a recapitulation to him of many of the
events and circumstances with which he had
become familiar. He felt the script presented
an alien concept, that of the often overlooked
changes beginning to take hold in Africa.
The growing reality is that Africa is moving
toward societies dreaming of peace and
prosperity. Those changing visions acknowledge women and children are first to suffer
casualties, indignities, and trauma in any and
all conflicts, and therefore must be the basis
of respect in order to reconstruct of a new
society among their nations.
On his first visit to Luxor, Glover said
that this is his fourth time visiting Egypt; his
wife’s first time to do so. He revealed that his
wife is Brazilian and works as a professor of
education with a focus on the education of
children of African descent. He added that
their combined experiences brought them
personal relevance with respect to Egypt,
especially when they viewed the temples in
the Valley of the Kings.
Glover shared his desire for many years
to participate in African. In fact, he has shot
seven African films including a TV film for
HBO in which he played the protagonist
Mandela.
From his perspective, Director Flora
Gomes thanked the festival’s organizers
and the French producer for his support in
bringing awareness of issues depicted in the
film to larger audiences. Gomes added that
his friend Danny Glover supported the film
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from the first minute and helped to realize
his dreams to cast an American star in film.
Gomes also revealed that he was influenced
by many since his childhood, including the
former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel
Nasser, an epic film of the Arab leader
Gomes is currently preparing.
At another location, the film workshop
tutored by US based Ethiopian Film
Producer Haile Gerima had 40 young
filmmakers participating; including 20
Egyptian and 20 Africans. For the first
time, the workshop had visiting filmmakers
coming from such African countries such
as Eritrea, Comoros, Madagascar , Burundi,
and Rwanda. Gerima is assisted by Daniel
Williams and Ambessa Jir Berhe, filmmakers and US based film professors who
once were his students. During breaks, the
students were taken by the festival’s shuttles
for daily visits to various Luxor monuments
at the West Side and Karnack Temple.
On March 18th, the festival’s 3rd editon
kicked off with the presence of Luxor
Governor Tareq Saad, former Egyptian
Prime Minister Dr Essam Sharaf, and a
large number of Egyptian artists, including
Elham Shahine, Hala Sidky, Jehan Fadel,
and Mamdouh Abdel-Aleem, Sabri Fawaz,
Manal Salama, Hind Akef , and Egyptian
Directors Magdi Ahmed Ali, Omar AbdelAziz, Sharif Mandour, Amir Ramses
Mandour , and Egyptian singers Essam
Karika and Samo Zein.
The celebrations began at the heart of
the Nile River, with guests arriving from
their hotels to Luxor Temple on cruise lines
traversing the majestic Nile River to attend
the ceremony held there.
Born in Cairo, Egypt, Sherif Awad is a film /
video critic and curator. He is the film editor of
Egypt Today Magazine (www.EgyptToday.
com ), and the artistic director for both the
Alexandria Film Festival, in Egypt, and the
Arab Rotterdam Festival, in The Netherlands.
He also contributes to Variety, in the United
States, and is the film critic of Variety Arabia
(http://varietyarabia.com/ ), in the United
Arab Emirates (UAE), the Al-Masry Al-Youm
Website (http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/
node/198132) and The Westchester Guardian
(www.WestchesterGuardian.com ).
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a French baguette, donated by a local
supermarket. Everyone is bundled up in
coats, layered with sweaters and sweatshirts. From the body heat and warmth
of the heaters, the cafeteria is cozy. For
now, the room is quiet, except for a few
muffled conversations.
The smell of stale alcohol and
pungent body odor mix with the aroma
of marinara sauce. On today’s menu is
spaghetti and meatballs.
“That’s exactly what I had last night,”
says an elderly female. She appears to be
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Free Foreclosure Assistance in White Plains
By RICH MONETTI
When a homeowner misses
four consecutive payments
on their mortgage, the bank
doesn’t hesitate to issue foreclosure documents. It is then
not uncommon for the homeowner to go it
alone without any professional assistance and
seek a loan modification. In other words, the
length of the mortgage is increased or the
rate of repayment is increased toward the
back end when financial difficulties have
hopefully alleviated. The math is simple
enough, yet the process can easily succumb
to the intricacies of the paper work so enlisting the help of a nonprofit agency such as
the Westchester Residential Opportunities
can make all the difference and save a family
home.
Not properly filling out and completing documents, omitted crucial information
and getting lost in bank bureaucracy, means
delays and adds arrears to what is already
delinquent. As such, if that figure gets too
high, a loan modification might not be
possible based on income level and other
debt.
On the other hand, foreclosure
specialists like Veronica Raphael can make
much more ado of the bank’s requirements
when homeowners are under her care. “We
have to go through the same process as they
go through. The difference is that we notice
the information that the bank wants,” says
WRO’s Director of Foreclosure Prevention,
and the delays are cut to a minimum.
Hopefully, all this plays out before the
stated falling off point. WRO also provides
legal backing under the New York State
regulation that banks must hold a settlement
conference with the homeowner. “We are
with them in the courtroom and speak on
their behalf,” she says.
WRO’s assistance helps verify for the
judge that the bank has been timely with
documents they need to process, are submitting accurate and up to date information,
and do not withhold pertinent information
to the homeowner’s case. “The value of a
housing counsel agency is to prevent these
distractions and the issues that arise from
them,” she says.
Once the details are in place, a temporary loan modification is issued. “They’re
allowed to make three payments over three
months. It’s like a good faith effort. If they
complete that, the homeowner is issued a
permanent modification and then we’re
done,” she says.
With the mortgage crisis five years
behind us, the effect is coming due of sorts
for WRO’s workload. “The State of New
York required that banks were not allowed to
foreclose on all the robo-signed mortgages
because they could not prove they owned the
paper to do so,” she says. “Now that back log
is what we are dealing with.”
Either way, the service comes at no
cost to the homeowner, and while many
people find legitimate lawyers to assist them,
among all the scams, the high legal price tag
doesn’t imply you get what you pay for. “We
normally get people after they’ve paid $4,000
or $5,000 to an attorney and they didn’t do
anything,” she says, “and then we end up
getting them the modification.”
Whether that sinks in or not, she reiterates the most important piece of counsel.
“Early intervention is really necessary,” she
concludes.
For more information, call (914)
428-4507 or direct email to www.wroinc.org
Rich Monetti has been a freelance writer since
2003. He lives in Westchester County.
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MUSIC
THE SOUNDS Grateful Dead “Dave’s Picks Vol. 9”
OFBLUE
Missoula, MT. 5/14/74 - www.Dead.net www.Rhino.com
By Bob Putignano
By BOB PUTIGNANO
Dave’s Picks, Vol. 9: Harry Adams Field
House, U. of Montana 5/14/74 finds the
Grateful Dead in the midst of their “Wall of
Sound” period, utilizing a complex system of
amplifiers, monitors, and other various audio
gear that created one of the most intricate
stereo systems known to live performance
at that time. Still possessing an uncluttered
sound with just one drummer (Kreutzmann)
saying the Dead were deep into yet another
of its jam phases; would be an understatement. Their song selections were
expanding into exploratory versions, but they
still offered crowd favorites like “Jack Straw.”
Their stunning rendition of “Weather
Report Suite” morphs into a particularly epic
“Dark Star,” as well as some of the most jazzinfluenced playing the Dead would branch
into that year. This set collects audio from
the entire show spanning over three hours
of music over three CD’s,. The analog Wall
of Sound audio converts superbly, so you can
clearly hear each instrument, and presents
lifelike vocals on this above-par digital mix.
The show opens with a burly version
of “Bertha.” But their opening sets starts to
become more interesting when they unveil
the relatively new “Scarlet Begonias” (where
it is stated that this was just the second time
the band played it live,) it does not parlay
into the usual “Fire On the Mountain” here,
instead they roll into a upbeat version of “It
Must Have Been the Roses.” Also included
are very strong renditions of “Deal,” and “Big
River,” but they save the best for last closing
with a lengthy (nearly twenty-one minutes)
of “Playing In the Band” that not only enters
the stratosphere but also provides a glimpse
what was yet to occur during set two.
The second set opens with the refurbished “U.S. Blues” (it was previously
performed as “Wave That Flag.”) But after
covers “El Paso” and “Row Jimmy” the band
performs the entire three-part version of
Bob Weir’s “Weather Report Suite.” Keith
Godchaux’s heady keyboard’s pushes the
limits encouraging an on-ready Garcia to
roar and soar. (Note: www.Dead.net offers
this free sixteen minute version of “Weather
Report Suite.” From this jam comes one of
the darkest and wildest “Dark Star” complete
with distortion and other sci-fi moments,
it rages on for nearly twenty-seven minutes
until the band reenters earth’s atmosphere
with a pretty “China Doll.” They aren’t done
yet as it’s rock and roll time with a short cover
of Chuck Berry’s “Promised Land,” and they
close the set with a rush “Not Fade Away”the
segues a hot “Goin’ Down the Road Feeling
Bad.” Still not done, the band encores with
powerful “One More Saturday Night” concluding an all-encompassing genre busting
night of exceptionally high-level music.
It’s hard to believe that it was forty years
ago (1974) that the Dead toured with the
massive “Wall of Sound” system designed
by LSD chemist Owsley Stanley. It nearly
bankrupted the band, so much so they’d
(temporarily) abandoned touring by year’s
end. But on this era-signifying evening from
Montana the Grateful Dead left their unique
mark upon their fans, and likely converted
scores of new Dead-Heads as well. This is a
very special night of music. Note how Jerry
Garcia’s guitar and Keith Godchaux’s Fender
Rhodes sculpture jams that are somewhat
similar to Miles Davis’ free-funk “Bitches
Brew” zones. The Dead’s piloting skills are
vast, limitless, and impressive here. Enough
said. Enjoy.
For fifteen years Bob Putignano has been pivotal
at WFDU with his Sounds of Blue radio show:
www.SoundsofBlue.com - Previously a senior
contributing editor at BluesWax, Blues Revue,
and Goldmine magazines, and present Music
Editor for The Westchester Guardian and
Yonkers Tribune. Putignano can be contacted at:
[email protected]
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The return of Bill Gates to
an active role in Microsoft
has led to much speculation on just how much of an
impact his presence will have. It is obvious
that Gates is not only brilliant but also an
inspiration – even a folk hero -- at Microsoft
so, from that aspect, his presence has to be
extremely beneficial.
There are, however, other factors to be
considered. The first is whether his presence
will prove to support or undermine the new
Chief Executive Officer, Satya Narayana
Nadella. I am not really worried about this
factor – Gates and, I assume, Nadella should
be close enough to make this work. In the
event that, at some point, it all comes apart,
a la Jobs and Scully, Gates will have both the
power and stock to take total control.
In a March 19th New York Times interview (his first since taking over as CEO),
Nadella seemed to put any fears on this issue
to rest, saying “The outside world looks at it and
says, “Whoa, this is some new thing.” But we’ve
worked closely for about nine years now. So I’m
very comfortable with this, and I asked for a real
allocation of his time. He is in fact making some
pretty hard trade-offs to say, “O.K., I’ll put more
energy into this.” And one of the fantastic things
that only Bill can do inside this campus is to get
everybody energized to bring their “A” game. It’s
just a gift.”
What is of more concern is that, during
the last years of Gates’ active participation
and thereafter, Microsoft went from being
a great company to being a very good one
(as some observers now think Apple will become
in the post-Jobs years). Microsoft is now in
the position, vis-à-vis Apple, Facebook,
Google, and Amazon, that Apple, IBM,
and Lotus were in relation to it in the 1980s
and 1990s. They are the sexy darlings of
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I can, of course, be proven wrong
but I don’t ever see Microsoft returning
to its loft position high above the technology world. The aforementioned four firms
(Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon), have
advanced too far and, while one or two
may stumble, it is hard to imagine them all
falling on bad times. What Microsoft can do,
however, is to expand its position in certain
segments of the marketplace in which it
has both present strength and / or potential.
What this expansion will require, however, is
that Microsoft correct previous failings and /
or perceptions of failure:
Windows 8 --Many pundits and, more
importantly, much of the general public
just don’t like Windows 8. (Anecdotal case in
point – Long term technology trainer Barbara
McMullen was recently teaching a class on the
use of Windows 8 to a group of experienced
computer users. One fellow, at the conclusion of
the first class, told her “I came here feeling that
Windows 8 was awful but had the nagging
doubt that I was doing something wrong and
was missing a lot. I now realize that I was right
– it is awful.” He then left, probably to buy a
Macintosh or a Chromebook).
I disagree with those who disparage Windows 8. I think it is a good system
with a good interface. The problem for most
people is that it is different – and different
requires “getting used to” and mastering. It
should be remembered that Windows 8 is
Microsoft’s first unique user interface that it
has ever created. The command line interface in “MS-DOS” was created by Seattle
Products, the firm that Microsoft purchased for “OS/86” (which became “PC-DOS”
and MS-DOS) and, although the syntax
was different, the interface and user prompt
(“>”) were the same as in the CP/M operating system. Additionally, the Windows user
interface was pioneered by Xerox on its “Star”
minicomputer, was operational on Apple’s
“LISA” and Macintosh systems long before
it was workable on a WINTEL (“Windows
+ Intel”) system. Windows 8 is different than
anything that has come from Microsoft
before -- even when Microsoft added
Windowing to MS-DOS, knowledgeable
users had already seen the Macintosh and
were familiar with the concept (additionally,
users knew that they needed to be able to run the
first Graphic Web Browser, “Mosaic”).
The reaction to Windows 8 reminds
me of standing in a ComputerLand one
day shortly after the LISA was introduced
– people were standing around gazing at
the LISA and oohing and ahhing at the
LISA while they waited to take home their
IBM-XTs. Peter Norton, developer of the
“Norton Utilities,” said at the time “IBM
introduces no machine ahead of its time.” in reference to the LISA being “ahead of its time”
(of course, IBM is now out of the PC business
and Apple is not).
I’m running Windows 8 on a “Surface
2” and on a laptop and it works very nicely.
It takes a little getting used to but so did the
Macintosh and the Chromebook. Microsoft
must continue to enhance the product and
users must continue to increase their familiarity with it – it’s worth it.
Microsoft Office – While Office file
formats remain the standard of the industry,
the dominance of the product itself has
eroded over the years as the free compatible
systems, such as “OpenOffice,” “LibraOffice”
& “NeoOffice,” and the Cloud-based
systems, such as “Google Docs” and “Zoho
Office,” came into prominence and Apple
introduced its own suite, “iWork” (putting it
into competition with MS-Office for the Mac,
long the most used Macintosh application).
Perhaps, even worse, Microsoft missed the
demand for Office-type systems on the
Apple and Android tablets, concentrating
instead on Windows tablets which went
nowhere (it’s possible that had MS-Office been
available for the iPad from day1, iWork never
would have taken off).
Microsoft has begun to strike back with
“Office 365,” a subscription basis full version
of MS-Office that provides for free updates
and Cloud storage, a Cloud service, initially
called “SkyDrive” and now “One Drive,”
which runs across platforms and contains
slightly watered down versions of the full
office, and a complete version of Office
installed on the Surface Pro (on which this is
written). Microsoft’s initiative in this area has
caused the type of discussion in the industry
about Microsoft products that has not been
present for a good while (other than the generally negative buzz about Windows 8). A
15-page section in the March 2014 issue of
“PC Pro” magazine, entitled “Office – Rent?
Buy? Dump?” compares Office 365 with
the leading alternatives (including “Office
2013”) and generally finds Office 365 to be
the superior choice of all. I think that these
moves by Microsoft portend a strong future
for the Microsoft productivity suite and it
further seems to me that, should the subscription system be as successful as I expect
it to be, it will stop the erosion of Microsoft’s
position in the Office competition.
Xbox One – Microsoft’s game machine
has come a long way since its introduction
in 2001 – to the point that it is now a true
home entertainment system. It now seems
somewhat mired in second place behind
Sony’s “PlayStation 4” (“PS4”) system in the
game machine world. The PS4 led the Xbox
by a wide margin in January 2014 but the
Xbox One came back in February to account
for 90% of the PS4 Sales (Microsoft released
sales figures of 258,000 units for February).
With the Xbox’s higher price ($100 higher),
this increase resulted in Microsoft receiving a
higher revenue from its game machine than
Sony did from its.
Analysts pointed to the release of the
“Titanfall” role player game for the Xbox as
the prime factor for the increase with Forbes
Magazine reporting that Xbox sales in the
UK increased by 96% over the prior week
when Titanfall was introduced. On March
14th, Titanfall, developed by Respawn
Entertainment and published by Electronic
Arts as an exclusive for Microsoft platforms
(Windows, Xbox 360, and Xbox 0ne) received
exceptional pre-release reviews.
It seems to me that Microsoft has
a built-in advantage in arranging exclusive deals with developers because of its
Windows PC platform. It also appears to
me that the only way that the Xbox One can
compete in the arena where most games are
available for Xbox and PS4 systems is to be
price competitive since most reviews call any
differences in hardware capability marginal–
the $100 price difference can put the Xbox
out of some gamer’s range.
The Surface line strikes me also as
very important, The Surface 2 tablet, in my
judgment, is certainly the best hardware that
Microsoft has produced since the Xbox and
rivals the iPad in elegance (a term not often
associated with Microsoft). The “Surface Pro
2” laptop also calls for the elegant adjective
and I am impressed enough with its capabilities and weight to buy one. The forerunner
of Microsoft’s Surface brand, the “Surface
TableTop,” now renamed the “Microsoft
PixelSense,” is a multi-user touch screen 360degree rotating system designed for use in
public places The hardware, now manufactured by Samsung and running “Microsoft
Surface SDK 2.0,” has been installed in
current and previous versions at Disneyland,
Harrah’s Entertainment, Sheraton Hotels,
MSNBC, and other locations. Although
a niche product, I think PixelSense can
re-cement Microsoft as the main resource
for business microcomputer technology
resources.
It’s obvious to me that Microsoft has
its “mojo” going again and that the return
of its brilliant co-founder, the last of the
original microcomputer icons, can only add
to Microsoft’s resurgence. The only negative
on his return, other than concern on the
possible impact on the new CEO came
from Wired Magazine columnist Steve
Levy when I interviewed him on my radio
show on February 16th. Steve thought that
Bill’s return can only benefit Microsoft and
thus the whole industry – he’s not worried
about any internal conflicts -- BUT – “hopes
that it won’t impact the even much more important work that he has been doing fighting disease
and poverty through the Gates Foundation.” I
agree – and sincerely hope that he can do both.
(For a current view of Gates’ thoughts on
The Gates Foundation, disease, poverty, charity,
inequality, Edward Snowden, Facebook, Steve
Jobs, religion, and God, see his interview in
the March 27, 2014 issue of Rolling Stone -http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/
news/bill-gates-the-rolling-stone-interview-20140313)
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.
on your views whereas your position literally restrict my choices and my rights.”
Enough of the claim that pro-choice
is the neutral, hands-off position, the
norm, and that the anti-abortion is the
position of diminished rights! Pro-choice
is not noninvolvement, it is an attack. If
any other group of human beings were
banished from the sphere of equal protection that the rest of us enjoy, so that
they could have their limbs ripped off and
their bodies poisoned, we would recognize
that as hostility. Slavery advocates did not
want all white people to be forced to own
slaves, they wanted white people to have a
choice to own slaves. Were slavery advocates pro-choice on slavery, or were they
pro-slavery? Pro-choicers are pro-abortion. A second type of pro-abortion person
is the rarer kind, who thinks abortion is a
good thing rather than a necessary evil,
and these people are often racists, population controllers, and/or make a living off
killing children. This second group might
be called “pro-abortion-enthusiasts” to
contrast with “pro-abortion-choicers.”
Since there are two types of pro-abortion
people, pro-choicers are likely to say, “I
don’t like abortion, so I’m not pro-abortion.” This is a mistake.
Sally Kohn said to the pro-lifers,
“conservatives say they want smaller government. How do you defend the dramatic
expansion of government power to control
women’s bodies and their choices?” This
is ridiculous. It is the pro-choice attack –
banishing unborn babies from the sphere
of equal protection – that is the “big government” position. The norm is that the
unborn get protection under law – that
is the small government position. Roe vs.
Wade and Doe vs. Bolton are not constitutional law; the justices supporting it are
judicial tyrants. People defending them
are akin to people who support a dictator
because they like his policies. If Americans
could vote on the price of postage stamps
and nothing else, they would not live in a
democracy. Since the Supreme Court has
usurped the legislative function in prenatal
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ROE v. WADE and DOE v. BOLTON
Pro-Choice Liars
By CHRIS ROSTENBERG
Nine month pro-choicers (those who support
unqualified
abortion)
have many weapons in
their arsenal, but none
are more powerful than obfuscation, the
deliberate confusion of ideas. On the
forty-first anniversary of Roe vs. Wade
and Doe vs. Bolton, right after the March
for Life, CNN invited Lila Rose, president of the pro-life youth group, Live
Action, onto its show to debate Ilyse
Hogue, president of NARAL Pro-Choice
America. Crossfire was hosted by Sally
Kohn on the left and Newt Gingrich on
the right. Ms. Rose seemed to this writer
to be the winner of the debate, but the
pro-choicers were successful in employing
dishonest arguments that there was not
time to undo. http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=WdPIgsGmDcU Let’s try to
clear up some of the confusion now.
The show began as Ms. Kohn said to
Newt Gingrich, “This isn’t about personal
views on abortion. I respect your views.
The difference is my views don’t infringe
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homicide, we do not live in a democracy.
In fact, since abortion is genocide, broadly
defined, our society is not even civilized.
Ms. Kohn asked Ms. Rose about
her “extremism” in opposing prenatal
homicide. But to be pro-choice is to be
a nine-month abortion supporter, in all
situations and all fifty states. That is what
“abortion on demand” means. When
pro-abortionists say the government, controlled by men, have no right to forbid
prebirth infanticide, they are demanding
abortion until birth. When pro-choice-tokill advocates say women have the right to
control their bodies, again, they are insisting on the right to kill children the day
before they would be born. Furthermore,
our law allows for abortion through all
nine months, contrary to conventional
myth. Roe vs. Wade cannot be taken at face
value and cannot be understood without
its companion case, Doe vs. Bolton. Taken
together, they comprise the most extreme
abortion law possible. As for anti-abortionists being “extremists,” I only oppose
late abortion and take no position on first
trimester abortions or baby killing due to
rape or incest. I am a pro-compromiser,
not a pro-lifer. Far too much time on the
show was dedicated to rape, incest and the
beginning of pregnancy.
It is absurd for pro-kill activists to say
pro-lifers and other anti-abortion people
misrepresent the issue. Why would we?
What incentive do we have to rationalize the issue or to be in denial? We are not
defending ourselves. In fact, the rights of
unborn children can seriously burden us,
and strictly limits the sex we can have.
When one of my feminist college professors said “Pro-life is just about a bunch
of men who want to punish women for
having sex,” I didn’t know whether to
laugh or vomit. Nine-month pro-abortionists on the other hand, are defending
the interests of adults like themselves (or
so they think) and they grant themselves
the right to be incredibly irresponsible. It
is easy to empathize with women, hard
to empathize with children in the womb
and it takes a particularly wise person to
realize the two groups are really not in
conflict with each other. Progressives say
they want an inclusive society for people of
color, women and gays, but they hypocritically deny all rights to the most vulnerable
human beings in the world. Pro-choicers
are the most destructive bigots history has
ever seen. They are adult supremacists.
The pro-choice attack which banishes
all human beings at the beginning of
their lives has nothing to do with advancing women’s rights – only their liberties
– and has everything to do with denying
babies all rights whatsoever. The antiabortion position is not about babies being
superior to women, or about caring more
about babies than women. It’s about life
being more important than a temporary
infringement of bodily integrity. Women
do indeed have the right to privacy, the
right to control their bodies – and guess
what? They had their bodies before they
were born.
Men don’t have the right or need to
kill their babies under any circumstances,
even ones worse than crisis pregnancy. If I
were thrown into prison for life for a crime
I did not commit, and I could escape by
killing my own child, who says I would
have the right to do so? If women are not
held to this same standard, they are seen as
weak, hysterical and incapable of handling
their own bodies or their own lives. Prochoicers talk about empowerment. The
Mafia is powerful. Pro-choicers are not
feminists, but witches in sheep’s clothing.
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EYE ON THEATRE
Fairy-tale Musicals
By JOHN SIMON
Here now is the show
based on the 1992 cartoon
movie musical “Aladdin.”
It is a fairly sophisticated
fairy tale, music by Alan
Menken (additions by Michael Kosarin),
lyrics by the late Howard Ashman and
Tim Rice, and additional lyrics and
libretto by Chad Beguelin.
That many different—and I do
stress different—cooks might spoil the
brew, and some dissociation of sensibility
does prevail. It is most noticeable in the
up-tempo numbers being generally effective, whereas the romanticones, either cut
from or unwritten by the original, tend to
be somewhat soggy.
Nevertheless, like other respectable
fairy tales—despite modern variations,
superimposed satire, and tongue-incheek anachronism—“Aladdin” has a
basic, unalienable attraction that latches
on to our attention. Surely the lampdwelling Genie, the three granted wishes,
the comic villains, the befuddled sultan
with the rebellious daughter, the princess’s rejection of princely suitors until,
incognito in the marketplace, she meets
the handsome young thief, are reliable
fairy-tale elements that redound and
resound with atavistic charm.
Now add largely lush scenery by
the old magician Bob Crowley, prime
Hollywood-worthy costumes by Gregg
Barnes, and insinuating lighting by
Natasha Katz, each a dependable help.
All this topped by tireless choreography from the director, Casey Nicholaw,
deftly melding traditional and innovative
elements, and you have a real old-fashioned musical from when fabulousness
was the surefire formula.
I have nothing but nods for the
immensely personable, athletic Aladdin
of Adam Jacobs, the Olympian arrogance
of Jonathan Freeman’s villainous Vezier
Jafar, the cuteness of Courtney Reed’s
Princess Jasmine, the cunning litheness
of James Monroe Iglehart’s sassily corpulent Genie, the wrangling of Aladdin’s
three jovial sidekicks (Brandon O’Neill,
Brian Gonzales, Jonathan Schwartz)
and the bumbling of Jafar’s bootlicking
henchman, Iago (Don Darryl Rivera).
This is the marriage of Tinsel town
and the Great White Way, and whatever
smartypants cavils you may harbor, by
Allah, it works. John Steinmeyer’s flying
carpet alone, which craftily denies us
espied ropes, epitomizes the show’s
professionalism, with other tricks in
abundance.
Now if you want a fairy-tale musical
to share with the kiddies, “Aladdin” is it. If,
rather, you want one to enjoy their temporary absence, there is “Rocky.” Based
on Sylvester Stallone’s wildly successful
1976 movie, and even retaining some
of its music, it follows the original story
faithfully enough. Reviewing the film, I
wrote, “’Rocky’ is a pugnacious, charming,
grimy, beautiful fairy tale.”
And so it is. In both “Aladdin” and
“Rocky” an unlikely youth (thieving or
enforcing debts for a shady character)
given an almost impossible chance at
greatness, makes amazingly good, and
gets the girl (either a princess in disguise
or a lowly shopgirl with potential once
she removes her glasses), and all ends
wondrously well, whether involving
golden gloves or glass slippers.
Since you could not have avoided
seeing, or at least hearing or reading
about, the film, I need not go into the
details of the plot about how a not-soyoung, no-account, Philadelphia boxer,
the self-styled Italian Stallion (it rhymes,
he explains) with a good heart, gets the
unlikely opportunity to fight the world
champion Apollo Creed, is able to take
a beating and stay with him for fifteen
rounds. Even if he loses on points, he
wins, not only the shy Adrian of the
ignorantly masculinized name, but also
the respect of his previously jeering
townsmen.
Two problems faced the writers (the
experienced Thomas Meehan and, once
again, Stallone): how to put boxing on
stage, and how to make a primitive boxer
into a singing protagonist. Somehow this
was solved by the co-authors, the co-choreographers Steven Hoggett and Kelly
Devine, and the director, Alex Timbers;
all of them resourceful and persuasive.
Only once does the show go surreal,
when the training Rocky multiplies
into several adjacent Rockies, as choreographed as the many sides of beef
hanging in the cold room of the butcher
shop where Rocky’s friend Paulie, brother
of Adrian, works.
The beef almost takes the place of
chorus girls, although the latter, in the
retinue of champion Creed, aren’t lacking
either. The best of the movie remains,
even the museum staircase as training
ground, and the comic pseudo-phone call
shouted through an open window.
But perhaps most deserving is the
lyricist Lynn Ahrens, who, to her partner
Stephen Flaherty’s perhaps appropriately grubby music, turns out simple yet
pleasant lyrics of this kind: “See that
poster on the wall?/ Rocky Marciano/
Never took a single fall/ Not Rocky
Marciano./ He and me,/ We share a
name/ I think of that a lot/ How one
Rocky gets the top of his game/And the
other Rocky gets/ What I got.” We also
get songs like “My Nose Ain’t Broken”
and “Fight from the Heart,” which, as I
wrote about the movie, warms the heart
without shaking the head.
Admiring mention must be made of
the entire cast. Andy Karl is a very close,
very likable copy of the movie’s Stallone,
who still also manages to be his own
man. Margo Seibert is the perfect mousy
Adrian, Terence Archie, the splendidly
swaggering Apollo, and Dakin Mathews
as Mickey, even without resembling the
movie’s delightful Burgess Meredith, a
suitably tough but dedicated trainer.
Special mention must be made of
two Christophers: Barreca, who has
designed both majestic and intimately
grungy scenery, and Akerlind, who
provided compelling lighting for both the
glittering arena and the shabby gyms and
dwellings. The climactic fight is superbly
staged, with the ring moved forward
into the audience, and the thus unseated
persons from the front rows moved up
onto the stage to become the sporting
spectators, providing even some clever
audience participation. Oh yes, wonders
still exist, whether out of Disney Arabia
or dingy South Philadelphia.
Venue for Aladdin The Musical: The
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York, NY 10036. Box Office: (212) 2822900; order by telephone (800) 901-4092.
Venue for Rocky on Broadway:
Winter Garden Theatre, 1634 Broadway,
between West 50th and 51st Streets, New
York, NY 10019. Box Office: (212)
239-6200 or www.Telecharge.com
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But it is not at all certain that NATO
would honor that policy if called upon.
Would Germany, for example, send
military forces back to the Baltic in defense
of states that the Nazis overran when they
invaded the USSR in 1941? I think it is
unlikely, despite pledges of support from
Germany’s foreign minister. To make it
even less likely, Putin and his associates
have been quick to denounce pro-West
Ukrainians as fascists. It sounds bizarre to
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By LARRY M. ELKIN
Kaliningrad, the city
that serves as the administrative center of the
Kaliningrad Oblast, was
once the German city of
Konigsberg. (An oblast is an administrative division in many Slavic countries,
including former members of the Soviet
Union.) Kaliningrad Oblast became
Soviet territory when Stalin pushed
borders west at the end of World War II.
The region adjoins Lithuania, which had
been occupied and annexed by the Soviet
army in 1940. After a battle with Hitler’s
forces for control of the region, the Soviets
reconquered Lithuania and it became one
of three Soviet Baltic republics, along with
Latvia and Estonia.
But when the Soviet Union broke up
and the Baltics became independent states
– and more recently, members of NATO –
Kaliningrad remained part of Russia, now
isolated from the rest of the country, sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland.
Estonia and Latvia have large ethnic
Russian minorities, as is the case with
Ukraine, and Lithuania has Kaliningrad
practically at its back door. All three of the
Baltic states are as suspicious of Russian
interests as they are potentially vulnerable
to Russian economic or military aggression. Many of the pretexts that Vladimir
Putin has used to justify intervention in
Crimea, which he annexed this week,
and his threats against the other parts of
Ukraine could easily apply to Lithuania
and its neighbors. Lithuania faces the
added twist that Russia could claim that
future intervention there is an attempt to
“rescue” an isolated Russian outpost.
“We are following the situation with
[Russia’s] increased military readiness and
drills at our borders,” Lithuania President
Dalia Grybauskaite told reporters, according to Reuters. She also said that Lithuania
and Poland could raise the issue with
NATO, and called Russia “dangerous” and
“unpredictable.” Estonia and Latvia have
both refused to recognize the legitimacy of
the Crimean secession referendum.
The question then becomes whether
NATO members in general, and Obama
in particular, can really be expected to
honor their mutual defense commitment,
in which an attack on one is treated as an
attack on all. Clearly, this commitment is
something the leaders of the Baltic states
are counting on: Latvia’s foreign minister,
Edgars Rinkevics, was explicit that entry
into NATO was an “insurance policy”
against Russia.
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our ears, but to a country that lost over
20 million of its people in World War
II, any hint of German military muscleflexing strikes a strong emotional chord.
Putin’s stance against Ukraine’s pro-West
factions has propelled his popularity
within Russia to multiyear highs.
If Germany won’t intervene to
protect its eastern neighbors, is Obama a
credible deterrent? In light of the president’s vacillations on Syria and almost
ludicrously weak sanctions in the face of
the Crimean annexation, would Putin
seriously expect him to send troops to
defend Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital? Or,
for that matter, to defend Warsaw?
After all, few Americans could find
Vilnius, or even Lithuania, on a map.
Obama is not the kind of leader to
explain why they should bother.
As Stephen Blank, a senior fellow for
Russia at the American Foreign Policy
Council, said of Putin, “[He] counted on
the weakness, irresolution and confusion
of NATO and Obama and, sad to say, he
was right.” The Baltic states have cause to
worry that Putin will decide that the lack
of a strong response regarding Crimea
and Ukraine is encouragement enough
for further incursions in the region should
he be inclined to make them.
Marko Mihkelson, who chairs the
Estonian parliament’s foreign policy
committee, tweeted “If West does not
wake up to Russian aggressive foreign
policy today, tomorrow will be too late.”
He is certainly not the only citizen of the
Baltic states who fears such an outcome.
On Tuesday, Obama invited G-7
leaders for an emergency meeting to
discuss the situation in Ukraine. But
given that, at the time of the meeting,
member countries could not even seem to
agree on whether Russia was suspended
from the G-8 or simply not invited to the
meeting, the sign is not as hopeful as it
might be. Vice President Joe Biden was
visiting Poland and Lithuania this week,
but the lack of significant American
action is likely to speak louder than its
vice president’s words.
Putin makes no secret of his resentment of NATO’s expansion toward
Is Barack Obama the last NATO president? The answer may lie in a tiny corner of Russia, wedged deep within NATO territory.
Russia’s borders. Already his government
has convinced the interim government in
Kiev to disavow any intention of joining
NATO. For Putin, a major success
and political goal would be to remove
NATO from the Russian frontier by
separating the Baltic republics from their
post-Soviet allies. He – and the Baltic
states, along with the rest of the world
– must wonder whether Obama and
NATO are prepared to stop him.
If not, for all practical purposes,
NATO is extinct, and Obama will be the
president who presided over its demise.
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Why the Media Doesn’t Cover Jihadist Attacks on Middle East Christians
By RAYMOND IBRAHIM
“To their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all
over again and subjecting
Him to public disgrace”—
Hebrews 6:6
The United Nations, Western governments, media, universities, and talking
heads everywhere insist that Palestinians
are suffering tremendous abuses from
the state of Israel. Conversely, the greatest
human rights tragedy of our time—radical
Muslim persecution of Christians, including in Palestinian controlled areas—is
devotedly ignored.
The facts speak for themselves.
Reliable estimates indicate that anywhere
from 100-200 million Christians are persecuted every year; one Christian is martyred
every five minutes. Approximately 85% of
this persecution occurs in Muslim majority
nations. In 1900, 20% of the Middle East
was Christian. Today, less than 2% is.
In one week in Egypt alone,
where my Christian family emigrated,
the Muslim Brotherhood launched a
kristallnacht—attacking, destroying, and/
or torching some 82 Christian churches
(some of which were built in the 5th
century, when Egypt was still a Christianmajority nation before the Islamic
conquests). Al-Qaeda’s black flag has been
raised atop churches. Christians—including priests, women and children—have
been attacked, beheaded, and killed.
Nor is such persecution of Christians
limited to Egypt. From Morocco in the
west to Indonesia in the east and from
Central Asia to the north to sub-Saharan
Africa to the south; across thousands of
miles of lands inhabited by peoples who
do not share the same races, languages,
cultures, and/or socio-economic conditions, millions of Christians are being
persecuted and in the same exact patterns.
Muslim converts to Christianity and
Christian evangelists are attacked, imprisoned, and sometimes beheaded; countless
churches across the Islamic world are
being banned or bombed; Christian
women and children are being abducted,
enslaved, raped, and/or forced to renounce
their faith.
Far from helping these Christian
victims, U.S. policies are actually exacerbating their sufferings. Whether in
Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, or Syria, and under
the guise of the U.S.-supported “Arab
Spring,” things have gotten dramatically worse for Christians. Indeed, during
a recent U.S. congressional hearing, it
was revealed that thousands of traumatized Syrian Christians—who, like Iraqi
Christians before them are undergoing a
mass exodus from their homeland—were
asking “Why is America at war with us?”
The answer is that very few Americans
have any clue concerning what is happening to their coreligionists.
Few mainstream media speak about
the horrific persecution millions of people
are experiencing simply because they wish
to worship Christ in peace.
There, is of course, a very important
reason why the mainstream media ignores
radical Muslim persecution of Christians:
if the full magnitude of this phenomenon
was ever know, many cornerstones of the
mainstream media—most prominent
among them, that Israel is oppressive
to Palestinians—would immediately
crumble.
Why? Because radical Muslim
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persecution of Christians throws
a wrench in the media’s otherwise
well-oiled
narrative
that
“radical-Muslim-violence-is-a-productof-Muslim-grievance”—chief
among
them Israel.
Consider it this way: because the
Jewish state is stronger than its Muslim
neighbors, the media can easily portray
Islamic terrorists as frustrated “underdogs” doing whatever they can to achieve
“justice.” No matter how many rockets
are shot into Tel Aviv by Hamas and
Hezbollah, and no matter how antiIsraeli bloodlust is articulated in radical
Islamic terms, the media will present
such hostility as ironclad proof that
Palestinians under Israel are so oppressed
that they have no choice but to resort to
terrorism.
However, if radical Muslims get a
free pass when their violence is directed
against those stronger than them, how
does one rationalize away their violence
when it is directed against those weaker
than them—in this case, millions of
indigenous Christians?
The media simply cannot portray
radical
Muslim
persecution
of
Christians—which in essence and form
amount to unprovoked pogroms—as
a “land dispute” or a product of “grievance” (if anything, it is the ostracized
-
and persecuted Christian minorities who
should have grievances). And because the
media cannot articulate radical Islamic
attacks on Christians through the “grievance” paradigm that works so well in
explaining the Arab-Israeli conflict, their
main recourse is not to report on them
at all.
In short, Christian persecution is
the clearest reflection of radical Islamic
supremacism. Vastly outnumbered and
politically marginalized Christians
simply wish to worship in peace, and
yet still are they hounded and attacked,
their churches burned and destroyed,
their women and children enslaved and
raped. These Christians are often identical to their Muslim co-citizens, in race,
ethnicity, national identity, culture, and
language; there is no political dispute, no
land dispute.
The only problem is that they
are Christian and so, Islamists believe
according to their scriptural exegesis,
must be subjugated.
If mainstream media were to report
honestly on Christian persecution at
the hands of radical Islamists so many
bedrocks of the leftist narrative currently
dominating political discourse would
crumble, first and foremost, the idea that
radical Islamic intolerance is a product of
“grievances,” and that Israel is responsible
for all Jihadist terrorism against it.
First published in The Torch Winter 2014.
http://www.meforum.org/3798/
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LEE HAMILTON COMMENTARY
Fixing Congress
By LEE H. HAMILTON
These are hard times for
Congress. Its approval
ratings have seen a bump
from their historic lows of
a few months ago, but it’s
a small one. Our representative democracy’s keystone political institution is
widely derided as ineffective, unproductive, irrelevant, and sadly out of touch.
It is no coincidence that this comes
while Congress has developed a taste
for so-called “unorthodox lawmaking,”
wandering far outside its traditional procedures. That’s why I would argue that as
grim as things seem now, there is a fix for
what ails Congress.
Broadly speaking, it involves congressional process. Let me quote John
Dingell, the canny U.S. House member
from Michigan who recently announced
his retirement. “I’ll let you write the substance,” he once told a House Judiciary
subcommittee, “...you let me write the
procedure, and I’ll screw you every time.”
In legislative bodies, whoever controls
the process controls the result. If it wants
to restore itself, Congress must make its
processes exemplary and fair.
Members should begin by opening
the floor to more amendments. At
the moment amendments are tightly
limited, if not banned outright, in an
effort by the leadership to control the
outcome. This restricts debate, impedes
the free flow of ideas, and strengthens
leaders while disempowering ordinary
members.
The leadership also needs to give up
its concentrated power and hand more
authority to congressional committees.
However worthy congressional leaders
may be, they cannot do the job that the
committee system was designed for:
holding hearings, inquiring deeply into
issues, eliciting facts, laying out options,
arguing over amendments, finding the
common ground needed to advance
legislation.
The simple truth is that members of
Congress are there primarily to legislate
— not to raise money or score political
points on television. Yet Congress seems
to devote less and less time to crafting
and passing legislation; it is losing the
habit and the skills, and its work product
suffers. It needs to work harder at the job
Americans expect.
To make this possible, the Senate
should do more of its business by simple
majority vote of the senators present
and voting. I know that many senators
like the ability to filibuster, and do not
want to abandon the rule that requires
60 votes to close debate. But here’s the
thing: the super-majority rule, as it has
been applied recently, has become a
formula for impotence and disorder.
Every democratic institution in this
country operates by majority rule except
the Senate, where a small minority can
completely gum up the works.
It’s important for the majority to
assure fair procedures that take minority
views fully into account, but at the end
of the day Congress needs to work, not
be hamstrung by loyalty to a Senate rule
that has outlived its purpose.
Which is not to say that tradition
has no place on Capitol Hill. Many of the
procedures it developed over long years
of practice were designed to improve
its functioning — especially in designing and enacting the federal budget.
That process is completely broken now.
Congress needs to focus its attention
on returning to the traditional budget
process of considering separate appropriations bills, as opposed to lumping
the entire budget into a single bill.
Other key processes also need
mending. The confirmation of presidential appointees is absurdly slow,
seriously jeopardizing a president’s
ability to govern. Some 50 ambassadorial nominees await votes in the Senate,
some of them having cooled their heels
for months, and foreign governments
are noticing and taking offense. The
congressional ethics committees are
dormant. Travel privileges are routinely
abused — the government should pay
for legitimate congressional travel and
no trips should be paid for by special
interest groups. The crucially important
oversight process has become a political sideshow. Campaign expenditures
should be limited and donors should be
disclosed.
The point of all this is that Congress
is listing, but it can right itself. It may
not be able to tackle all of these proposed
fixes at once, but each is within its power.
Members should quit throwing up their
hands and protesting that they can’t do
anything about their own institution’s
problems. It’s their job to put Congress
back in working order and they have the
power to do it.
Lee Hamilton is Director of the Center on
Congress at Indiana University. He was a
member of the U.S. House of Representatives for
34 years.
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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Will a Grant Hasten Waterfront Development in New Rochelle?
By PEGGY GODFREY
New Rochelle Commissioner of Development Luiz
Aragon placed emphasis
on development of the
waterfront at the March
11, 2014, New Rochelle City Council.
In his PowerPoint presentation, Aragon
highlighted the three “Development
Opportunities” specifying transit oriented
development, downtown development, and
waterfront development.
The City of New Rochelle (CoNR)
severed its relationship with Forest City
Residential (FCR) in February 2014. FCR
is the company that had been given New
Rochelle City Council (NRCC) permission to develop the Echo Bay waterfront
property. Aragon stressed the key reason
for urgently selecting a new waterfront plan
was the $1.5 Consolidated Funding grant
awarded to the City of New Rochelle for
waterfront infrastructure work. Aragon cautioned the NRCC membership they could
lose the grant funding if they did not quickly
decide on a developer for the area.
Several options were given. The NRCC
could return to the original proposals submitted by Forest City Residential when
they had initially been selected for the
Echo Bay Development Project. Another
proposal previously presented was by the
Twining Company; their suggestion was
considered a good alternative. Twining
Company had proposed a 70,000-squarefoot retail, 270,000 square-foot residential,
and a 45,000-square-foot hotel. Forest City
Residential’s final plan had a retail footprint
of 25,000-square-feet, and 285 residential
units. The Twining Company advise they are
willing to resubmit the proposal to NRCC.
Corporation Counsel Brian Powers advised
the NRCC membership that the Twining
Company can make small changes to their
initial proposal; if too many changes are
made the NRCC would have to issue a new
request for proposals (RFP).
The other two choices Aragon presented
were to expand the Armory Design Award
winning proposals and add the New
Rochelle City Yard. (There are presently
three winners of this design competition but
CNRR was not made privy to the plans originally scheduled for last December’s NRCC
meeting.) A hotel, a low-density residential, and a restaurant, would be possible to
combine with a winning Armory proposal.
According to Aragon, the timeframe was
crucial; an August or September selection
date was sought for a development choice.
Aragon was concerned that if no developer
was selected, New Rochelle could lose the
Consolidated Funding grant.
Mayor Noam Bramson was very
impressed by Aragon’s presentation, believing it was a culmination of Aragon’s efforts
to date. NRCC members Jared Rice and Ivar
Hyden inquired about the master developer
concept. There were concerns, for example,
about getting private owners “on board” for a
proposal, and about the possibility of getting
bogged down on one site for other reasons. If
the city was incapable of generating enough
inquiries for a master developer, Aragon suggested presenting a “Plan B” as an alternative.
Councilman Lou Trangucci said he
supported the idea to “see what we get,” but
had concerns over the plans devised for The
Armory; he wanted to know how the four
(now three) selected Armory Design Award
plan finalists would be included. The selected
finalists’ plans for the Armory were never
given a chance to present their plans before
the NRCC membership. New Rochelle
City Manager Charles B. “Chuck” Strome,
III said, “all four” plans would require
changes because of deed restrictions for the
Armory. Trangucci disputed Strome’s assertion. Trangucci is of the understanding that
the Save Our Armory proposal met the deed
requirements.
Bramson shared the excitement.
Bramson entered the fray with the admonition that there are “hard choices” that must
be made and flexibility may be needed.
After additional discussion over possible
development options, Councilmember
Hyden inquired over whether the CoNR
could move the process forward.
When Aragon suggested developing a
larger area, inclusive of the Mancuso Marina,
Nelstad property, and Armory site, Bramson
advised a new RFP (request for proposals)
would be required.
Bramson divulged he believed the
NRCC membership had always been
desirous of the “larger vision” for the development. NRCC Councilwoman Shari
Rackman suggested use of a master developer for the “larger vision” would afford
the NRCC less freedom in their decisionmaking ability. Bramson also offered that he
could live with any of the choices, but that no
choice was a bad choice.
Tarantino, referring to the large development parcels, said many neighborhoods
would be impacted and perhaps make the
effort “impossible.” He asked why a master
developer would be needed to “bite off more
than we can chew”; setting the city back in its
economic development aspirations..
After a lengthy discussion about
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whether the NRCC should request an
updated proposal from Twining, or issue a
new RFP (request for proposals), Bramson
asked if the Council agrees that they have
to make a decision soon. Strome added this
itethe answer to the question would be part
of the NRCC agenda very soon.
Peggy Godfrey is a freelance writer and former
educator.
MAYOR Marvin’s COLUMN GOVERNMENT
A Community’s Best Interest Must Always Trump Political Agendas
By Mayor MARY C.
MARVIN
Governor Cuomo has
announced a two-year
property tax freeze as
a hallmark of his 2014
agenda. However, it is facing growing
opposition from both political parties,
school districts and local governments, as
well as the non-partisan New York State
Conference of Mayors and Municipal
Officials.
The two-year tax freeze is for individuals (outside of New York City) with an
adjusted gross income of under $500,000.
In order for a taxpayer to receive the
property tax credit, the local governments
must remain under the cap. In our case
that would include all taxing jurisdictions
such as the Bronxville School District,
the Village of Bronxville, the Town of
Eastchester, Westchester County and the
Eastchester Fire District.
In order to benefit from the “freeze”
in a second year, the local governments
would have to remain within the tax cap
as well as agreeing to various consolidation
plans with other communities.
The impetus for this new iteration
in an election year is prompted by the
Governor’s belief, “that the State needs to
pressure municipalities to cut spending in
order to establish long term tax savings in
a state with among the highest taxes in the
nation.”
There is not a community anywhere
in New York that is increasing services by
2% each year, nor does any elected think
that is a good idea, rather we are cutting
personnel and services to meet Albany’s
bills.
Although the Governor promised
that the implementation of the initial
property tax cap would be followed by
meaningful mandate relief to help local
governments live within the cap, that
promise was not kept and in addition state
aid was cut.
No mandate relief is in sight but
election year pressure is increasing. The
hypocrisy of all of this is astounding. An
example, since I have been mayor, our staff
has been cut by over 15% in an effort to
meet the increasing mandates/bills sent
directly from Albany. If the Village did
not buy a new pencil last budget cycle,
just retained the status quo, taxes would
have increased 5.5% because of bills from
Albany.
The two percent tax cap was a great
sound bite for a world that does not
exist or for a public one assumed was not
informed.
Adding insult to injury, the new tax
cap freeze incentive only benefits communities who came to the game late and only
recently began to consider consolidating
and sharing services. Communities like
Eastchester, Bronxville and Tuckahoe who
have been doing it for years will receive no
credit for past efforts.
Again in a poorly planned rollout,
the current iteration property tax cap plan
will prove to be a disincentive to consolidating any future services due to the fact
that when a municipality consolidates
services with another municipality its tax
levy cap is reduced, however this ignores the
fact that the municipality still needs to pay
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another local government for the service.
The State powers that be must also
recognize that there are very different types
of local governments with very different
needs that do not lend themselves to certain
consolidations be it a school system, police
department or 24/7 snow and ice equipment. The best interest of a community
must always trump other political agendas.
The cap also does not exempt the cost
of repairing aging infrastructure throughout the state, thus creating a powerful
disincentive to do needed repairs that may
not be visible to the taxpayer.
Before forcing municipalities to cut
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OpEdSection
Virtue
By BOB PASCARELLA It is the sum of all that is
good and the quintessential attribute of our nature.
Courage, faith, hope,
charity, fortitude, chastity,
kindness, temperance, humility, justice,
prudence, diligence and patience, are
the Cardinal, Heavenly and Theological
Virtues. Virtue can best be defined as
moral excellence, an effective force or
power. The question is what is its significance, if any, in America today?
America has come a long way in
its 238-year history. Since its founding
countless people from all over the world
have made the perilous journey across the
seas and emigrated from their homelands,
most seeking a better life for themselves
and their families, others sought refuge or
asylum from hostile or oppressive environments, all looking to America as their
best hope for a safe and prosperous future. Together we’ve seen great invention
and technological advancement, a better
life for most. But such progress does not
come without a price; human folly and
its repercussions; war, civil strife, poverty,
ignorance, and what at times seems
unending conflict of one sort or another.
Yes we have transgressed and made
mistakes, we are not perfect beings, but
we are also a generous and compassionate people, with unwavering faith, and in
most cases respect and tolerance for the
rights and dignity of others. Since its inception America has
gone through a transformation and
mostly for the good. But over the last
60 years something has changed in the
American ethos. Some say it’s a culture
war, and a manifestation of a weak and
misguided people that have succumbed
to demagogues and false prophets. That
we have become recalcitrant toward
virtue, yielding to overwhelming desires
and overpowering extraneous forces, succumbing to our inner demons. And with
the advancement of new technologies,
especially TV, the major media, computers, the Internet, and social exchanges, a
new dynamic has been added.
Voices from the past speak to us;
teaching, at times warning, the people
and their leaders of the consequences of
moral turpitude. The Founding Fathers
expressed their thoughts toward virtue
in the people and those in leadership,
and spoke eloquently on this. The father
of this nation and its first president
George Washington on a number of
occasions spoke of virtue in the body of
the people; “If that virtue erodes by a corruption of morals, profligacy of manners,
and listlessness for the preservation of
the natural and inalienable rights of
mankind, America would degenerate into
tyranny”. Also, “There is no truth more
thoroughly established than there exists,
an indissoluble union between virtue and
happiness”.
Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Only a
virtuous people are capable of freedom.
As nations become more corrupt and
vicious, they have more need of masters”.
And Thomas Jefferson, “No government can continue good but under the
control of the people, and their minds
informed by education of what is right
and wrong; to be encouraged in habits of
virtue and deterred from those of vice”.
For example, many states that truly
care about their employees and want to
create a sustainable pension system plan
created a hybrid model, with a 401K type
model blended with defined benefits.
The New York Legislature’s solution
was to create a Tier 6 which now requires
any new hires to pay 3 - 6% towards their
future pension. The problem is no one is
hiring, rather reducing staff to meet the
current pension burdens and even if a new
Alexander Hamilton wrote, “The institution of delegated power implies that there
is a portion of virtue and honor among
mankind which may be a reasonable
foundation of confidence”. The Founders were patriots, learned
Americans, men willing to sacrifice their
lives, fortunes and sacred honor to a cause
greater than themselves. They believed in
the American dream, and the need for a
good, just and virtuous people to uphold
and sustain the ideals they hoped would
survive future generations. At issue is
whether we heard their accumulated
wisdom and knowledge imparted to us
down through the centuries, or whether
we closed our minds to these voices from
the past.
There is growing concern among
many that traditional values and institutions are being eroded, and that we have
strayed down a path that can only lead to
a place of darkness and empty dreams,
when the truth is, the only real things
that matter and sustain, and will survive
through time and remain for the good of
the American people and humanity, are
those conceived in the minds and hearts
of the thinkers, achievers and the virtuous
among us.
The persistent confluence of these
cultural expressions, and the images they
generate, exploit and depersonalized the
person, especially the young, who when
cast into the public spotlight must deal
with success, and sadly falling prey to
their own weaknesses and excesses end
up out of control, in rehabilitation, or
dead. Virtue is a particularly efficacious
good and beneficial quality, and its place
in a culture and how it is ascribed to
hire is added, the financial benefit will be
achieved in twenty plus years.
If the State government was truly
serious about bringing property tax relief to
local property taxpayers, they would begin
by doing what every other state across
the nation has done - pay for State and
Federal social service programs with State
revenue not County property tax and sales
tax revenue. In Westchester County alone,
each person has been much debated over
time. But there is one overriding evolving
concept, the essence of which is that it
cannot be imposed, but is something that
is realized and voluntarily lived up to by
each individual. In other words, virtue and
its nemesis vice, do not go about saying
here we are, this is right, this is wrong. It
demands careful and sustained reflection
by every man and woman before it can
become part of one’s life.
America is more than purple mountains majesty and amber waves of grain.
Her greatness lies in the people, men
and women of indomitable strength and
spirit; they are the heart of a great nation.
And for that nation to thrive, prosper, and
maintain honor and dignity in the world,
the goodness of her people is tantamount.
We owe America - each of us have a duty
to live up to the highest of ideals and
moral standards.
The words of Alexis de Tocqueville,
French historian and political thinker,
author of “Democracy in America”, said
it best, “I sought for the greatness and
genius of America in her commodious
harbors and her ample rivers, and it was
not there; in her fertile fields and boundless prairies; it was not there; in her rich
mines and vast commerce, and it was not
there. Not until I visited the churches of
America and heard her pulpits aflame
with righteousness did I understand the
secret of her genius and power. America is
great because she is good, and if America
ever ceases to be good, America will cease
to be great”.
Bob Pascarella is a freelance writer,
designer of posters, and greeting cards. He
is the author of “Short Stories In Verse”; the
Website: www.ShortStoriesInVerse.com.
$225 million collected annually at the
local level are paid to Albany for the State
Medicaid program. Westchester County
taxpayers could see $225 million in local
tax relief immediately if the Governor and
the State Legislature would only do what
49 other states have done already. That
would be action, not a tedious and wasteful
exercise. We deserve better.
Mary C. Marvin is the mayor of the Village
of Bronxville, New York. If you have a suggestion or comment, direct your perspective
by e-mail to: [email protected] .
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with SSNY on 12/16/2013. Office Location: Westchester County. SSNY designated as agent of the
LLC upon whom process against it may be served.
SSNY mail shall mail process to: C/O UNITED STATES
CORPORATION AGENTS, INC. 7014 13TH AVENUE,
SUITE 202 BROOKLYN, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.
MELVILLE GARAGE LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 2/5/14 Office in Westchester Co.
SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may
be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The
LLC 305 North Ave New Rochelle, NY 10801. Purpose:
Any lawful activity.
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Sec. of State (SSNY) 2/20/14 Office in Westchester
Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process
may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to
The LLC 6 Hadden Road Scarsdale, NY 10583. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
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(SSNY) 3/10/14 Office in Westchester Co. SSNY
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State (SSNY) 3/4/14 Office in Westchester Co. SSNY
served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to C/O Zussman Law PLLC Attn: Michael J. Zussman, Esq. 425
E. 79th St Ste. 1F New York, NY 10075. Purpose: Any
lawful activity.
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of State (SSNY) 3/11/14 Office in Westchester Co.
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be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Stern
Keiser & Panken, LLP 1025 Westchester Ave Ste. 305
White Plains, NY 10604. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
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FeatureSection
BREAKING NEWS EXCLUSIVE
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver Lends His Political
Support to Transforming the Yonkers Board of
Education into a Department of the City of Yonkers
By HEZI ARIS
On March 20, 2014,
Yonkers Tribune learned
that New York State
Assembly
Speaker
Sheldon
Silver
has
endorsed Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano’s
request of him to permit the transformation of the Yonkers Board of Education
(YBoE) into a Department of the City
of Yonkers (CoY). The clout the NYS
Assembly Speaker has lent to Mayor
Spano’s interest in making the YBoE
a Department of CoY consolidates the
YBoE and Yonkers City Hall into one
entity promoted toward that end to save
money, bringing about greater transparency of the money allocated, and a
humongous bastion for future patronage,
and control of the most important aspect
of the soon to be former YBoE, that is,
the beginning of resurrecting a school
buildings infrastructure, best known
as the Public Private Partnership for
Education (P3forE), that two years ago
was valued at $2.7 billion. By such standards, the 2014 figure should likely hover
closer to $5 billion.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver
The silence among students, parents,
teachers, politicians, among other stakeholders have been mum. The lack of
discussion is tantamount to submitting
It will be announced within hours
despite the protestations of the Albany
Delegation.
The losers are NYS Democratic
Conference Leader Andrea StewartCousins, NYS Senator George Latimer,
NYS Assemblyman Gary Pretlow, and
NYS Assemblymember Shelley Mayer.
The Yonkers City Council Democratic
Caucus, especially the Democratic
Minority Leader Michael Sabatino
whose intent to speak to the issue at news
Tuesday’s, March 26, 2014th Yonkers
City Council is too little, too late. When
the dust settles, Yonkersites will also
realize they have been hoodwinked again.
The winners are Yonkers Mayor Mike
Spano, former NYS Senator and lobbyist
Nick Spano, NYS Assemblyspeaker
Sheldon Silver, and the P3forE concept
moving forward. The Republican
Majority Caucus of the Yonkers City
Council may think themselves winners,
but they will soon learn it is only the
Yonkers City Council President Liam
McLaughlin who will earn a share of the
wealth.
HOW’S
Mayor Mike Spano
the deal is correct for CoY. The Yonkers
Tribune will not hold its breath for fiscal
solvency to take place. We advised last
week that the deal would go through.
HOW’S MIKE
Despite all that was at stake, and
despite that no vision for fiscal restraint
and scrutiny is mentioned, no legal mechanisms have been formalized.
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