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EDITORIAL

Constitutional Rights, If They Are To Be Rights At All, Must Have Some Discernable Remedy. – Federal Judge Thomas P. Griesa, Southern District of New York As regular readers of our paper are aware, beginning in 2009, our publisher, Sam Zherka ran a series of articles about confiscatory tax policies and held rallies/ seminars throughout the county to increase public awareness of this issue, and he has criticized certain public officials for corruption. Mr. Zherka also spent considerable time and effort to organize a Tea Party in New York State, primarily used for educational purposes. Mr. Zherka claims that his IRS application for a tax-exempt status for this organization was scrutinized to an extraordinary degree, forcing him to abandon this effort.

Mr. Zherka further alleges that starting in 2011, IRS Agents Ryan and Ashcroft

launched an investigation into his commercial real estate dealings, issuing over 75 subpoenas to his business associates, threatening them with criminal prosecution, should they fail to turn over information incriminating our publisher. As a result of this, Mr. Zherka claims that during the course of an investigation which has continued for more than 24 months, many of these business associates terminated their relationship with him, not wanting to “run asunder” of federal agencies, causing a loss of business, a chilling of his political activities, damage to his reputation and great emotional distress. Moreover, these agents inquired into Mr. Zherka’s political affiliations and activities, he claims,

“demonstrating a motivation to retaliate against him for his political speech.”

Subsequently, Mr. Zherka filed a lawsuit against Lois Lerner, Director of the IRS Exempt Organizations division, along with IRS Agents Ryan and Ashcroft. On September 30th, 2014, Southern District of New York Federal Judge Thomas P. Griesa dismissed Lois Lerner from the suit, citing insufficient service. Judge Griesa noted that while federal officials cannot be sued in their official capacity, they can be sued personally and ruled that Mr. Zherka’s lawsuit against Agents Ryan and Ashcroft may proceed.

Among the points that Judge Griesa made in his ruling were the following:

“The allegations are troubling. The plaintiff is not alleging a mere retaliatory tax audit, but a retaliatory investigation involving criminal sanctions…constitutional rights, if they are to be rights at all, must have some discernable remedy; … a purely administrative remedy would be no remedy at all. “ “…These actions are disturbing and sufficiently shocking to allow plaintiff ’s claims to go forward. While defendants did not subject plaintiff to forced -stomach pumping or other physical deprivations, they have allegedly investigated him for nearly two years based solely on his political message. Defendant’s alleged conduct appears to have jeopardized many if not

I was giving out flyers in the 80’s for a cause I supported – a man with a heavy Balto-Slavic accent told me, “Don’t stop.

I see here (the U. S.) the same thing that happened in my country.” Scary?! Where do we go? What can we do? How can we stop what is happening to Sammy, and all that is happening to this nation and its citizens?

Should you have demonstration / fundraiser, I will do everything in my power to be there.

May God help Sammy Zherka and all of us.

Respectfully, Maria Baldwin Place

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Oct. 20, 2014 To The Westchester Guardian, I am at the boiling point since reading your Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014 paper.

Sammy Zherka is being denied his Constitutional Rights. We as Americans should be alarmed. This serious situation is an attack on our rights and freedoms.

As a patriotic American and daughter of a WWI veteran, I am very, very concerned that our Constitution and Bill of Rights are being destroyed. We owe it to all who have died, those who never came home (MIA) and all the wounded who swore to defend our Constitution at all costs to continue to uphold, honor, and defend it.

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most of plaintiff ’s business relationships, causing him dramatic and permanent harm. Given plaintiff ’s low burden at this stage in the litigation, he has alleged facts egregious enough to shock the conscience in the constitutional sense.“ …“defendants Ryan and Ashcroft’s motion to dismiss is denied in its entirety.”

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Government/CommunitySection Event Coverage: Freedom Fest NYC Outliers of a Political Renaissance Might Just Be The Savior of our American Republic

By Kurt Colucci

the Alternative Media.

Another darling of the movement is Larken Rose who openly challenged the IRS to a legal battle and served a year in prison unjustly. However, in the process Rose exposed the hypocrisy embedded in the enforcement agency of our federal government and has gone on to author two of my personal all-time favorite books “The Most Dangerous Superstition” and “How to Be a Successful Tyrant (The Megalomaniac Manifesto)” The tickets for the event were approximately $20, the door worked on the honor system – the promoter of the event didn’t even check for tickets.

The Sean Hannitys and Bill O’Reillys of the world cannot even step on the same intellectual playing field as many of the people in attendance, let alone the speakers.

Without the support of the huge news organization, Fox, O’Reilly and Hannity would be nothing but shallow voices. Neither can hold a candle to the leading characters in the freedom movement. That is why we will never see a Stefan Molyneux or a Larken

Rose on Fox or CNN or MSNBC. Where did it all start?

The ‘Freedom Movement’ is an outgrowth of the Ron Paul Revolution which took the country by storm. Media blackouts and harsh criticism without a platform for rebuttal categorized his 2008 presidential run. But by the time the 2012 presidential debates arrived it became clear that the ideas of Ron Paul represented the ideas of average Americans who see through and reject those who been empowered by news organizations that have endless financial resources and use their platform as a “bully pulpit” to anoint the messengers of a modern-day empire.

There’s a reason why the mainstream media organizations do not cover events

like this and that is because gatherings like LibertyfestNYC captivate minds and force people to think - and ultimately awaken people to the sad reality that surrounds them…the reality that they are not free. I relate it to the scene in the Matrix where Keanu Reeve’s character Neo saw the inner workings of the Matrix for the first time and was able to see the world for what it actually was…a highly controlled deception where codes and regulations governed human behavior.

Re-read that last sentence again… and tell me if you’d prefer the “Red” pill or the “Blue” pill?

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The fifth annual LIBERTYFEST – took place on Saturday, Oct 11th at the Warsaw Concert Hall, in Brooklyn. This little known, but remarkable event, made up of one part politics, one part philosophy and one part passion, hosted somewhere in the ballpark of 200 people; not a huge gathering by any means, but it points to what is on the political horizon.

The Grammy Award winning Vice News covered the event. However, Fox News, MSNBC, CNN and other major media outlets blatantly ignored it.This alone is a clear indication that a new generation of ideologues and journalists are emerging, who will soon bury the old establishment.

The program ran from 11 AM to 5 PM, and featured approximately 20 speakers, including former two-time presidential candidate, Gary Johnson. Adam Kokesh, a former veteran, TV show and podcast host of the famous “Adam vs the Man” also spoke at LIBERTYFEST NYC. Kokesh, author of the new and powerful book “Freedom” - was once brutally slammed to the ground by a law enforcement officer simply because he and other protestors were dancing in protest of a ridiculous “no dancing law” at the Jefferson Memorial. The video went viral and has had millions of YouTube views. Last year Kokesh was held for months in a federal prison, because he made a video of himself loading a shotgun in Liberty Square in Washington DC, to peacefully protest guncontrol and expose the current legislative hypocrisy for the joke that it is.

Also in attendance was Jeffrey Tucker, author of the must read book “It’s a Jetsons World: Private Miracles and Public Crimes”. Tucker is the publisher of Laissez Faire Books and a “Distinguished Fellow of the Foundation for Economic Education; an adjunct scholar with the Mackinac Center for Public Policy and an Acton University faculty member.”

“The world’s funniest economist” and author of “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism” and “Lessons for the Young Economist,” Robert Murphy tickled the funny bone with jokes referencing economists such as von Mises, Rothbard and Hayek…and “pseudo economists” like Paul

Krugman.

New York’s Bernard Goetz teamed up with none other than Jimmy “The Rent Is Too Dam High” McMillan to introduce, and officially endorse, the New York Libertarian party candidate for Governor Michael McDermott. This gathering was a mix of “old-school meets new-school” liberty minded individuals that seek personal choice and personal freedom.

This is not the Tea Party. This not Occupy Wall Street. This is something greater and more evolved. It is the emergence of the ‘Freedom Movement’. And it is beautiful to watch it unfold.

Needless to say this is a very diverse group of individuals; many different backgrounds but one ideology: Freedom from force, fraud, and violence - and any form of oppression… modern-day radicals, just as the founders of this nation were once considered to be.

Today, though many have a diminished sense of personal responsibility and in the face of government abuse, some people are standing up to challenge the existing paradigm… the two-party monopoly that holds us hostage to politics and as a result delivers poor government.

This movement represents an emerging generation of freedom fighters who are not content with being a subculture. But the best part about this group of liberty minded individuals is not their historical, political and economic IQ, nor is it their willingness to engage and promote and defend their ideas. Instead, their greatest collective attribute is their kindness and willingness to live and let live.This is the Internet generation manifesting its ideas, and resurrecting the ideals of past “ideological radicals” like our founding fathers. The “Liberty Movement” is bringing ideas to the forefront using new media and making the old message of freedom new.

It holds liberty, personal freedom and personal choice as its highest ideal.

The freedom movement is in its infancy and the intellectual Oracle of movement is Canada’s Stephan Molyneux; host of Freedomain Radio which is the “largest and most popular philosophy show on the web, with over 75 million downloads” and is free of cost and has no commercial content. Molyneux was recently named one of the Top 10 Most Influential People in

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Women’s Equality Party Takes Center Stage in Governor’s Race

By NANCY KING “You’ve Come a Long Way Baby”. If you’re a baby boomer over the age of 50, you’ll remember this ad from the 1970’s. Never mind that it was a commercial for the unhealthy habit of smoking, it was a commercial geared for women. After being granted the right to vote and burn our bras, tobacco manufacturers had created a cigarette just for us to celebrate our rights of equality. Thirty years later, cigarette advertisements are banned from television now and we know that smoking was a habit that was slowly killing us. Those ads have been replaced by ads from political candidates who are promising women everything we could possibly dream of if we can guarantee them our vote.

This week, Governor Andrew Cuomo launched an advertising campaign featuring his three daughters and girlfriend Sandra Lee. The Cuomo family women are inviting the women of New York State to cast their vote for the incumbent on the new Women’s Equality Party Line.

In his 2013 State of the State Address, Governor Cuomo proposed the Women’s Equality Act. This act would certainly level the playing field economically for women around the state but it also would provide a safety net against discriminatory practices that women encounter every day.

Sadly enough, the bill has had difficulty seeing the light of day, due to the quiet and closeted conservatism in New York.

The core of this bill would protect women from a myriad of situations that can only be described as gender bias. Included would be equal wages for equal work, housing discrimination, fair legal representation, protection from sexual harassment, human trafficking, protect reproductive rights and provide safety from domestic violence and abuse. Most men, and women as well, are under the false assumption that women already are protected from those aforementioned examples of gender bias, but unfortunately that just isn’t true. For every dollar that a man makes here in New York State, a woman makes just about 77 cents. Even in 2014, it remains difficult for a woman to lease a home, secure a mortgage or even hire legal representation.

Governor Andrew Cuomo

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And, although a woman’s right to choose remains a law here on the books in New York, obtaining those reproductive services isn’t always easy. Domestic violence also continues to be a shady and secret problem for women, not only here in New York, but nationwide as well. In 2014 there remain very few resources for women who experience not only physical violence, but emotional abuse as well.

The big question here remains: why can’t lawmakers in Albany get this bill passed, but instead use their “empty” promises geared toward women, for their campaigns? Cuomo isn’t the only candidate to toss around the “woman card” either. Republican candidate Rob Astorino has touted that he too believes women should have equal rights, but as a pro-life candidate, can’t fully support the

reproductive rights of women. However, as to not offend too many women in hopes garnering their votes, he’s been able to side-step that issue by stating that if he is elected governor, he will not seek to reverse abortion rights in New York, but will make it illegal to have a late term abortion. What a silly statement…late term termination of a pregnancy isn’t the norm; as a matter of fact it is a treatment of last resort when the life of a woman is threatened. Sheesh, we may be women but we’re not stupid, Rob. Touting the formulation of a new political party just to capture votes in November isn’t what women need.

Women need to have their rights protected by those we elect to office. The New York State Senate, failed to pass this act last year and as a result there is no equal pay, equal choice or equal protection for women in New York State. A few slick commercials prior to Election Day aren’t going to get this act passed. If this act ever gets to see the light of day, it will be due largely to the hard work and diligence of women (and perhaps a few brave men). Until this act gets passed, women will have to wake up and realize that we haven’t come quite as far as that old commercial would like us to believe.

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Viewing Political Corruption More Broadly

By Lee Hamilton A hefty majority of Americans believe that government is run on behalf of a few big interests. A focus on private concerns can lead to neglect of the common good.

Earlier this year, veteran political writer Thomas Edsall reported an eyebrow-raising fact about Americans’ views toward government. Polling by Gallup, he noted, found that the proportion of Americans who believed that corruption is “widespread” in government had risen from 59 percent in 2006 to 79 percent in 2013. “In other words,” Edsall wrote, “we were cynical already, but now we’re in overdrive.”

Given the blanket coverage devoted to public officials charged with selling their influence, this shouldn’t be surprising.

Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife were convicted last month of violating public corruption laws. Former mayors Ray Nagin of New Orleans and Kwame Kilpatrick of Detroit were good for months of headlines. So were Republican Rep. Rick Renzi, convicted last year on influence-peddling charges, and Democratic Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who pled guilty to charges of misusing campaign funds.

If you add state and local officials who cross the line, it might seem that we’re awash in corruption. Yet as political scientist Larry Sabato told The New York Times, that’s more perception than reality. “I’ve studied American political corruption throughout the 19th and 20th centuries,” he said, “and, if anything, corruption was much more common in much of those centuries than today.”

Nor have the numbers over the past couple of decades risen. In 1994, according to the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section, 1,165 people were charged in public-corruption cases, of whom 969 were convicted. Last year, 1,134 were charged, of whom 1,037 were convicted.

Corruption is hardly a negligible issue.

Americans rightly have very little tolerance for public officials who are on the take. Officials who violate the law in this regard should face criminal prosecution and incarceration.

But what’s notable about our corruption laws is how narrow they’ve become.

This point is driven home by Fordham Law School Professor Zephyr Teachout in her new book, Corruption in America. “As a matter of federal constitutional law,” she writes, “corruption now means only ‘quid pro quo’ corruption.” Prosecutors today have to prove an intentional exchange between “briber” and public official, in which the official receives a benefit for taking action.

Teachout argues that our Founders were quite resistant to public behavior promoting private interest. She quotes George Mason, for instance, arguing against giving the President the power to appoint key officials: “By the sole power of appointing the increased officers of government,” Mason insisted, “corruption pervades every town and village in the kingdom.”

As late as the second half of the 1800s, American society was alarmed by the notion that private individuals might seek to influence government on their own or others’ behalf. “If any of the great corporations of the country were to hire adventurers... to procure the passage of a general law with a view to the promotion of their private interests, the moral sense of every right-minded man would instinctively denounce the employer and the employed as steeped in corruption,” the Supreme Court declared in 1874.

We have another word for “adventurers” these days. We call them lobbyists.

Americans remain uncomfortable with “corruption” as our forebears viewed it.

A hefty majority believe that government is run on behalf of a few big interests. And Congress, whose ethics committees have not been rigorous in looking for misconduct that brings discredit on their chambers, has

contributed to that view.

I would hardly contend that all who seek to promote their private interests are corrupt. But I do think the Founders had a valuable insight when they saw that a focus on private concerns could lead to neglect of the common good.

I have the uneasy feeling that too many politicians are self-absorbed, failing to put the country first, and using their office to promote their private interests.

Our Founders had very firm ideas about the importance to the nation of “virtue” in a public official — and they were thinking expansively about the basic standards of public accountability.

Maybe it’s time we looked to them for guidance, and not think of corruption only in the narrow sense of violations of specific laws or precepts, but more broadly in terms of failing to pursue the common good.

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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By Luke Hamilton

Why does Hollywood rot so badly as of late? More than usual, I mean. Have you been to the theater lately? I’ve been in halfempty theaters on weekend nights! From the moment you walk in the theater, you’re bombarded by advertising, in the form of

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Commercials before ads, before more commercials, followed by movie previews. And even the previews aren’t a fun part of the experience anymore; 45 minutes of sequels, remakes, and shoulda-never-mades.

Thus far in 2014, box office revenues are down 6% from last year, for the top 12 studios. The current #1 grossing film this year has been Guardians of the Galaxy, which is a fine film I’m sure but not #1 material. So

what gives? Perhaps this downturn is a result of people increasing their consumption of digital media. Digital media sales and rentals seem to be surging as DVR, Netflix, and Redbox attain the status of household words. iTunes, Google Play, Xbox Live, Amazon, the list of digital media stores is growing every day and technology is quickly scaling up to the streamable world of digital media consumption. But instead of explaining dismal theater attendance, this just reiterates

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sometimes topping $15 for a matinee, folks just can’t afford to go to the movies like they used to; and you can forget about buying a tub of popcorn, box of candy, and 2 soft drinks, unless you really didn’t want that $50 to stay in your pocket!

Another explanation is that TV shows are outpacing films in quality and popularity. Some of the best writing and acting in Hollywood now belongs to the small screen.

With the critical success of series like The Sopranos, The Walking Dead, Duck Dynasty, Breaking Bad, and Game of Thrones, movie studios are taking it on the chin. Their budgets no longer dwarf those of television shows and a two to three-season run on a television series can be a much more effective vehicle for on-screen talent than a two to three-hour movie which gets forgotten two months after the premiere. Also film actors are increasingly seeking other work in television and voice acting. Silver screen icons like Morgan Freeman, Kiefer Sutherland, Gary

Sinise, and Maggie Smith are turning up on television more and more regularly.

There’s also the most obvious explanation of all: the movies suck. Go ahead and spend four minutes perusing the upcoming release schedule and tell me I’m wrong: Dracula Untold, Horrible Bosses 2, Annie, Hot Tub Time Machine 2, Night at the Museum 3, Amityville, Taken 3, Poltergeist, Paranormal Activity 43. Sequels, remakes (even a re-remake), and other assorted, rehashed crap. Now “reboot” has become the most popular word in Hollywood. The Spiderman franchise “rebooted” five years after the previous booting. Batman is going to reboot four years after he hung up his cape. Studios aren’t even waiting until Burger King has finished selling all their commemorative cups before they reboot the franchise and rehash the same, tired stories over and over and over again. Producers are getting lazy and losing the ear of the American people.

The best explanation borrows a bit from each of these suggestions: Hollywood isn’t speaking to us anymore. They’re making movies for each other and marketing the crap out of them in the hopes that we’ll continue to fork over wads of cash for (re) warmed-over manure.

Box office anomalies have shown that Americans will always go to the theater to see a good film. The problem is that Hollywood is rarely releasing good films. Thankfully independent studios continue to gain in quality and reputation. Films like God’s Not Dead, Soulsurfer, and October Baby arrived with little fanfare, yet performed exceedingly well. God’s Not Dead had a budget of $2m and has earned $62m worldwide. This is without considering runaway, smash hits like The Passion of the Christ and The Blind Side which further reinforce the fact that a well-made film that rests on a Judeo-Christian foundation is a recipe for box office success. And it’s not just feel-good Christian dramas which

perform well. Hard-hitting, artistic documentaries like 2016, Waiting for Superman, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed demonstrate that conservative cinematic messages have an audience and a voice in the industry.

The bottom line is that Hollywood isn’t making movies for us anymore. They’re making movies for each other. That’s why the Oscars is such a snooze-fest, akin to watching footage of lunch at the “cool kids’” table. The movie industry is one big inside joke and Hollywood’s plummeting box office revenues have become the ironic punchline. Let’s continue to support wellmade films with a strong moral foundation.

If there is one thing that gets Hollywood’s ear, it is revenue; and in today’s audiencestarved environment, our support for conservative, Christian cinema will stand out all the more starkly. © Luke Hamilton 2014

PepsiCo Gives Back Day Assists Area Community Organizations

the outfits together according to the children’s sizing needs at The Sharing Shelf, a program of Family Services of Westchester.

The Sharing Shelf collects gently used clothing, sorts them by size, season and gender, and distributes these to children in need at no cost to these children and their families. The program serves more than 125 children monthly through over 20 agencies countywide. The Sharing Shelf is located at 47 Purdy Ave., Port Chester, NY 10573.

Volunteers worked at The Food Bank of Westchester from 9 to 11:30 AM where they broke down and re-packaged food and non-food products into suitable sizes for distribution to the Food Bank’s member programs. The Food Bank for Westchester is located at 200 Clearbrook Road, Elmsford, NY 10523. The Food Bank solicits, stores, sorts and distributes surplus, but good quality, food to Westchester’s emergency food programs, fighting hunger by engaging, educating and empowering the community.

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the fact that folks are willing to wait for Hollywood’s fare on BluRay or Netflix, streaming at home instead of streaming to the theater. Streaming devices and digital recorders have been around for years but this is the first prolonged box office downturn in several years. No, the increase in appetite for home media is a result of decreased interest in going to the theater, not the other way around.

Why are so many people staying home? Probably one reason is that is costs a small fortune to go to the theater. With our national unemployment rate hovering around 11.8% (the real U-6 rate, not the government-massaged rate they pretend represents all unemployed Americans), folks have better ways to utilize their dwindling entertainment budgets. With ticket prices

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Purchase, NY — On Thursday, October 16th, more than 500 PepsiCo employees at the company’s Westchester offices participated in the sixth annual “PepsiCo Gives Back Day,” which included volunteer activities throughout Westchester County and the surrounding areas. Through PepsiCo’s partnership with more than 25 different local non-profits, company employees donated their time and skills to organizations including The Food Bank for Westchester, Family Services of Westchester, Job Readiness Through Volunteerism and many others.

- “PepsiCo is dedicated to what we call Performance with Purpose. This means delivering great performance while doing the right things for people and communities around the world. I’m so proud to work for a company that believes doing good is good for business. Volunteering today in Westchester

and in other Tri-State area communities where PepsiCo has a presence allows me

and my fellow associates to live this ideal and bring it to life helping others.” – Sue Norton,

More than 500 PepsiCo employees at the company’s Westchester offices participated in various volunteer activities across the county during the sixth annual “PepsiCo Gives Back Day” last week.

Vice President, Global Citizenship, PepsiCo. The Westchester PepsiCo Gives Back Day was part of a larger effort, during the first two weeks of October, which included PepsiCo locations throughout the Americas.

PepsiCo employees in 18 countries joined together during a day of volunteering for all PepsiCo associates, aided by the PepsiCo Foundation – the company’s philanthropic arm.

This year marks PepsiCo’s 6th year of service to Westchester residents and the company is now also partnering with the Robin Hood Foundation, New York’s largest poverty-fighting organization.

PepsiCo staffers assisted the following organizations:

From 9 AM to Noon, volunteers helped sort and pack a week’s worth of seasonally appropriate clothing, putting

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From 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM, volunteers worked with Bridge to Independence & Career Opportunities, 22 Eagle Road, Danbury, CT 06810, teaching interviewing and resume writing skills to corporate edge students and adults. TBICO teaches people how to take control of their lives via an educational, employment and resource center to enhance their future and the futures of their children.

The Child Care Learning Center, Inc. seeks to provide quality education and care for young children and their working families within the Stamford and Greenwich communities. From 9-11:30 AM volunteers worked with children to build motor and social skills as they decorated pumpkins and gourds, told stories, learned about the seasons and read books. The center is located at 64 Palmers Hill Rd., Stamford, CT 06902 PepsiCo volunteers spread woodchips and finished setting up for the Haunted trail at Harrybrooke Park, in New Milford, from 9Am-3: 30 PM. The park, a peaceful, serene spot, borders a rushing waterfall on the Still River and is a wonderful destination for walking, biking, rollerblading, jogging, picnicking, fishing, outdoor events and parties.

Harrybrooke Park is located at 64 Lanesville Road, in New Milford, CT 06776.

Volunteers worked in the commercial kitchen, assisting with deep cleaning and painting, at the Lounsbury House at the Ridgefield Community Center / Ridgefield Veterans Memorial Community Association, from 9 AM-3 PM. The Center is committed to “preserving and promoting the historic

significance of The Lounsbury House, which serves as the heartbeat of Ridgefield community life;” 137 Main St., Ridgefield, CT 06877.

Tarrywile Park, in Danbury, has over 21 miles of trails, ponds, wildlife and many scenic vistas. The park benefitted from the efforts of PepsiCo volunteers who re-made trails, painted picnic tables and gazebos from 9:30 AM—12:30 PM. The Mansion, Danbury’s community center, is used for meetings, parties and wedding receptions.

Tarrywile Park is located at 70 Southern

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From 9:30 AM-1 PM, PepsiCo staffers assisted the chef at the Carver Center in Port Chester, preparing meals and snacks for up to 450 kids. The Carver Center offers programs and resources designed to meet the educational, recreational, cultural and civic needs of underprivileged youth. The Carver Center is located at 400 Westchester Ave., Port Chester, NY 10573.

Job Readiness Through Volunteerism is a program designed to increase the awareness of job seekers of the valuable role volunteering can have in the community, helping them translate their volunteer work into a stronger resume and improve their interview skills. From 9 AM-2 PM, volunteers conducted mock interviews of students taking a business class where they pitch an idea and write a business plan.The students are part of the Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship program. Job Readiness Through Volunteerism is located at 1 Tamarack Road in Port Chester, NY 10573 PepsiCo volunteers pitched in at Hilltop Hanover Farm to remove weeds around the conference center, plant mums, mulch garden beds and re-paint trim on the walls from 9:30 AM-4: 30 PM. Hilltop Hanover Farm and the Environmental Center are a

working crop farm and education facility located in Yorktown Heights, NY. The former dairy farm dates back to the 1600s and now acts as a regional hub offering programs on health and sustainable food.

The farm is located at 1271 Hanover St. in Yorktown Heights, NY 10598.

Only Make Believe is a non-profit organization that creates and performs interactive theatre for children in hospitals and care

facilities. Volunteers turned the conference room at PepsiCo, Somers into a costume workshop, from 9:30 AM – Noon, assisting OMB to create one of-a-kind costumes for kids that they serve in hospitals, using materials provided by OMB. PepsiCo Somers is located at 1 Pepsi Way, Somers, NY, 10589.

Open Door Family Medical Centers, a Federally Qualified Health Center, strives to offer quality health care and human services at affordable prices to the community, especially to the economically disadvantaged.

Founded in the basement of the Ossining First Baptist Church 40 years ago, the Open Door is now one of the largest providers of health care for low-income patients in central and northern Westchester, serving over 40,000 patients annually. Open Door has nine sites, located in Ossining, Sleepy Hollow, Port Chester and Mount Kisco, as well as five school-based health centers

in Port Chester. Volunteers worked with young patients at the Ossining center, 165 Main St., Ossining, NY 10562, focusing on Nutrition (beginning with a healthy breakfast), Literacy (to build excitement for reading to promote kindergarten readiness), and Fitness (through an active life-style), from 8:30AM to 3PM. From 10 AM-3 PM, volunteers replaced fence boards in horse paddocks, stained and painted decks, a small shed, gate and barn door for Pegasus Therapeutic Riding, located at 310 Peach Lake Road in Brewster, NY 10509. The program offers equine assisted activities and therapies to individuals with special needs, along sensory trails that include woodland paths, slopes, turns, varied footing, natural sights and sounds along with man-made sensory experiences.

The Somers Manor Nursing Home seeks to provide a home-like atmosphere for all residents, despite the constraints of institutional living. Volunteers sponsored a jumbo sized “Pepsi Bingo” for the residents at 189 Route 100 in Somers, NY 10589, from 1:304:30 PM. Volunteers at PepsiCo Somers worked with the American Red Cross sorting hundreds of holiday cards for soldiers from 10 AM-12: 45 PM. The American Red Cross is a volunteer-led non-profit humanitarian organization that provides relief to individuals affected by disasters. PepsiCo Somers, 1 Pepsi Way, Somers, NY 10589.

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Volunteers at Echo Park assisted staff members in helping children ages 5-18 complete homework assignments, improve academic skills, create arts & crafts projects, practice sports and play games, participate in structured recreational activities and computer instruction, from 2:30-6 PM. ABC is located 1841 Park Avenue @ East 126th St., New York, NY 10035.

The Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) is dedicated to providing immediate employment services to men and women with recent criminal convictions. Their highly structured and tightly supervised programs help participants regain the skills and confidence needed

for successful transitions to stable, productive lives. Volunteers worked with formerly incarcerated individuals to build their skills to find a job by helping them craft an “elevator pitch,” conducting mock interviews and offering general feedback on their performance, from 9:30 AM -3 PM. CEO is located at 50 Broadway, #18, New York, NY 10004.

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Volunteers also assisted in setup, food distribution and cleanup. City Harvest is located at 1-17 Astoria Blvd. in Queens, 11102.

West Side Campaign Against Hunger is a community-based emergency food program and social service agency located at 263 West 86th St., NY, NY 10024. Organized as a customer-cooperative, supermarket-style food pantry, WSCAH alleviates hunger, creates a culture that promotes self-reliance and works for change. WSCAH has created a network of social service partners, on site and off, who greatly increase their ability to connect customers to programs that help. The program has also developed in-house chef training and exercise programs. PepsiCo volunteers helped bring in deliveries, stock shelves, bag bread, pack rice and beans, break down boxes, assist customers with shopping, work the checkout area and much more, from 1-4 PM. Part of the Solution (POTS) A leading provider of emergency food, social and legal services in New York City, POTS has developed a “one-stop-shop’service delivery model designed to help move people from crisis to stability, and ultimately self-sufficiency.

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Upwardly Global aims to promote a change in inefficient labor markets and practices that result in employment barriers for skilled immigrants. They develop best practices and resources to educate decision makers about skilled immigrants and build awareness that leads to the adoption of more

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PepsiCo volunteers assisted Upwardly Global clients from 10AM to 1PM at the Design Center, Broadway, in Manhattan, writing resumes and conducting mock interviews. Upwardly Global is located at 350 Hudson St., NY, NY 10014

It was very different, however, from the way the WELL was used – there was little collaboration and little planning of future activities. The functions still existed in “textbased virtual realities” (such as “LambdaMoo,” “BioMoo,” “MediaMoo,” and “Diversity University”) where users got together for specific purposes or just to socialize but these systems, at that time, did not have graphic user interfaces (“GUI”).

The advent of the graphic browser had another, perhaps unforeseen, result.

It brought the Windows-based system into full use on MS-DOS based systems (Compaq, HP, Dell, IBM, etc). Microsoft’s Windows GUI interface for these computers had been a fairly abysmal failure since its inception (as opposed to the Macintosh’s GUI which worked extremely well). The main underlying problem was that the hardware that Windows was attempting to run on was sub-standard for a GUI system; the monitors did not have the resolution necessary to present readable graphic-configured text on the screen. Additionally, Microsoft’s early versions were more than a little buggy.

By the time that the graphic browser came along, however, these problems had

been solved. Windows 3.0 had a very clear display but the system still had bugs; Windows 3.1, which followed, did not have major bugs. So, Windows use should have taken off, right? Not exactly! The “techies,” responsible for computer maintenance in corporations and at universities, by in large hated Windows. They maintained that it was inefficient and that “they could do much more at the command line.” Management, who usually knew very little about this technical stuff, let them get away with it – until the graphic web browser came along and would only run on systems that had a graphic user interface (Windows on MS DOS systems, Macintosh, or UNIX systems running “X-Windows”). The demand was so great for a graphic World Wide Web that techies were bound to cave in.

The impact of the Graphic Web has been terrific – it has allowed us to gather more information in a month by “Googling” than we probably would have amassed in a year, a decade, or even a lifetime, it has allowed us to shop all over the US and the world for more products at lower prices than ever before, it has allowed us to take courses

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benefits. Volunteers assisted in the Dining Room greeting more than 425 guests, plating and serving meals and washing dishes. POTS is located at 2759 Webster

Ave, Bronx, NY 10548.

Reading Partners is a national education non-profit dedicated to improving reading skills in Title 1 elementary schools, supporting students in low-income communities who are reading 6 months to 2.5

years below their grade level. Guided by a site-coordinator, a prepared curriculum and lesson plans, volunteers helped students learn important literacy skills they missed during their regularly scheduled tutoring slot from 8:15 AM to Noon at PS 137, 293 East

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by John F. McMullen We really didn’t see it coming when we first used the power of the Internet. It was an extension of physical meetings, of idea sharing, unencumbered by distance – but that was before the advent of the World Wide Web. It should be understood that the Internet and what we do on the Internet are two very different things. The Internet is merely the infrastructure of worldwide connectivity. It is analogous to the physical infrastructure of New York City – the roads, the bridges, and the tunnels. There are general rules for that infrastructure – red means stop and stay to the right – these are the “standards” understood and accepted by all, just as TCP/IP (“Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol”) is the standard for the Internet.

All of the things that we do on the infrastructure of New York City have their own standards – motorcyclists must wear helmets and keep their lights on; busses have pre-approved routes, trucks are confined to certain streets, etc. It is the same for telecommunications; each of the things we do on the Internet has its own standard – e-mail, the web, texting, instant messaging, tweeting, etc. The difference between what is done on the physical infrastructure of New York City and on the Internet is that the activities or functions on the Internet keep expanding as bright people keep coming up with new possibilities, develop a way of bringing those possibilities to life (a new standard) and promote its use and – Voila! Twitter is born!

– with its 140 character limit, hash tags, etc.

These “things to do” on the Internet developed through the 1970s and ‘80s, gaining popularity in the late 1980s among other than the original computer scientists and researchers who developed and used the functions. Academics got into the act and soon others followed. A limiting factor in wide-spread deployment of the power of these functions – “File Transfer” (ftp), e-mail, “Remote Login” (telnet), “News Reading” (newsnet) – was that one had to be heavily “techno-literate” to use the functions;

one had to learn “commands” and the ways to navigate through arcane systems.

One of the most powerful of these functions was “telnet” – the ability to connect to remote systems. While this function was originally used to grant employees and students remote access to their business or university system, soon entrepreneurs set up “bulletinboards” or “conferencing systems” that the public could join. Often systems were free – the user incurred telephone charges for their use (this was before “broadband”) but there was no access charge – while other commercial systems did have access fees.

One of the most successful and interesting of these commercial services was the “WELL” (“Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link”), founded by Stewart Brand, founder of the famous “Whole Earth Catalog,” and Larry Brilliant. The system provided e-mail within its own boundaries and was divided into conferences where people with a common interest might have discussions. There were Grateful Dead conferences, Hacker conferences, Education conferences, and so on. In the technology conferences, a group of us got together and planned the first “Computers Freedom & Privacy Conference,” now going into its twenty-fifth year. The conference brought together for the same time in the same venue hackers, law enforcement, privacy advocates, and commercial players and has been a bell weather since its inception in increasing understanding in these seemingly disparate worlds.

The WELL also brought together Lotus Development founder Mitch Kapor, ex-Grateful Dead lyrist John Perry Barlow, and political activist and founder of Cygnus Solutions John Gilmore for the first time – they would soon found the Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff. org), still the most important advocacy group for a transparent and open Internet. It was also where this writer met the editor of “MicroTimes” and wrote for that publication for a number of years.

The WELL, in short, was a meeting place unencumbered by distance and, as people weren’t always present, they could “catch up” on subjects of interest by reading

postings (for a complete view of the WELL in its glory days -- it is still in existence, albeit in a much different format -- see Katie Hafner’s 2001 book, “The Well: A Story of Love, Death & Real Life in the Seminal Online Community”). The WELL was, however, not for everyone – in the early days, one had to dial either directly or through a communications service causing either long-distance charges or surcharges and, once the WELL was connected to the Internet, users had to connect to their Internet Service provider and then “telnet” to the WELL server. No, decidedly not for everyone!

The advent of the graphic browser, “Mosaic” for the World Wide Web changed all that (there was a World Wide Web before the graphic browser but one had to telnet to it at info.cern.ch). Now anyone could gather information, read newspapers, and purchase information from their home or office and the graphic browser became the “killer app” to bring computers into the home (as the spreadsheet had been for the office).

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Trying to schedule your Thanksgiving Dinner…please keep in mind some of our struggling neighbors and donate holiday food items to the Community Center of Northern Westchester in Katonah. In addition to the items listed on their website, beginning now and through the holidays the Center asks for frozen turkeys (up to 12 lbs.), frozen roasting chickens, and frozen turkey breasts, sugar, flour, cake mixes, hot chocolate, coffee, tea bags, and fruit juice.

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Bedford Chamber Concerts will be presenting their first concert of the new season on Wednesday, October 29th, starting at 8pm. Launched through the efforts of the all-volunteer Music Committee of St. Matthews Episcopal Church in Bedford, the Bedford Chamber Concerts has drawn on the talents and resources of renowned musician, conductor and composer Anthony Newman who serves as Music Director.

This just in from our gourmet reporter, award-winning chef Michael White will be opening Campagna, a new restaurant in the former Farmhouse at Bedford Post Inn. If he is looking for food critics, my wife and I are available…

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“On the Town” was the first full-fledged musical by he team of Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Leonard Bernstein. It was based on a popular one-act ballet by Jerome Robbins, “Fancy Free,” about three sailors on 24-hour shore leave in New York City, and brilliantly danced by Robbins, Harold Lang and John Kriza. The time was, however, 1944, and after the rambunctiously sightseeing and girl-chasing sailors re-embarked, there was a good chance that World War Two might swallow them up.

Hence comedy edged with pathos.

Such was this hit that it occurred to Lenny and his nightclub-performing partners to expand it into a Broadway musical. Thus another hit, often revived. “On the Town” has a terrific score, a great deal of dancing, and a razzmatazzy travelogue through 40’s New York outdoors and in. No matter that the story was merely serviceable; it proved a good enough hanger for a coat of many colors.

The sailors are the romantically yearning Gabey, the comic juvenile Chip, and the down-to-earth Ozzie, who determines that he and Chip must help track down that month’s Miss Turnstiles, Ivy Smith, for Gabey, smitten with her image in the subways. The text with her picture, enumerating her interests, provides clues. Ozzie is off to a museum, Gabey to Carnegie Hall,

and Chip—well, to a taxicab.

In the process, Ozzie meets Claire de Loone, an anthropology student at the Prehistoric Man exhibit, where she takes his measurements and finds them pleasurably comparable to those of homo pre-sapiens.

The two get carried away, even wrecking a dinosaur exhibit and enlisting stodgy but permissive Judge Pitkin, Claire s fiancé, to follow them in the search for Ivy. Chip is seduced by Hildy, a randy cab driver, into coming to her apartment, where she can cook too, as well as provide other services. Later, reluctantly, she joins Chip in the Ivy chase.

Gabey, at the music studio of the outrageous Madame Maude P. Dilly, a true termagant, finds Ivy taking a lesson. When she, a ballerina and cooch dancer, makes a late date with Gabey at Nedick’s, the uncouth coach does

her sabotaging worst.

What follows is a mostly danced but also sung and richly comical search for Ivy, whose cooch dancing job is in Coney Island, which leads the searchers to a variety of ethnic night clubs providing exotic floor shows, and even contrasting ballets between an imaginary Coney Island and the real one.

Throughout, Robbins devised wonderful dances that also moved the story ahead.

And what songs there are! Even their titles are yummy: “New York, New York,” “Carried Away,” “Lonely Town,” “I Can Cook Too,” “Lucky to Be Me,” “Ya Got Me” (to console a love-lorn Gabey), and “Some Other Time” (for the final, melancholy partings). Also several others, scarcely less effective, as they cover a spectrum of motley moods.

Splendid as was the Robbins choreography, the current one by Joshua

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Editor’s Note:

With apologies to John Simon and the cast of “You Can’t Take It With You” and “The Country House”, we wish to make the following correction to photos that were mislabeled in our Oct 9th paper: P. 12, top, caption should read Rose Byrne for Kristine Nielsen. On pgs.

12 bottom right and 13 top, for Scott Foley read Daniel Sunjata.

On October 16th, Page 15, column 2, 7 lines from bottom: “al race across,” should read always. Column 3, “highly talented actor” but no name given, should be Alex Sharp.

We regret these errors and will strive to be more careful going forward / MK

Clyde Alves, Tony Yazbeck and Jay Armstrong Johnson in On The Town

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Thursday, OCTOBER 23, 2014

EYE ON THEATRE

Found “Town,” Lost “Found”

Megan Fairchild and the cast of On The Town

Megan Fairchild and Tony Yazbeck in On The Town

Megan Fairchild and Jackie Hoffman in On The Town

Clyde Alves, Tony Yazbeck and Jay Armstrong Johnson and in On The Town

Megan Fairchild and the cast of On The Town

Clyde Alves and Elizabeth Stanley in On The Town

Jay Armstrong Johnson, Alysha Umphress, Tony Yazbeck, Elizabeth Stanley and Clyde Alves in On The Town

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Found “Town,” Lost “Found” Continued from page 11

Bergasse is a not unworthy successor. It stems from the Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where this revival successfully originated accounting for the many new names on exhibit here.

Bergasse’s work is athletically different, even

Tony Yazbeck in On The Town

if he has too many girl dancers jump up and hook their legs around the boys’ waist, and perhaps too often bodies clustered around an Ivy, raised up high.

Ivy is a great role for a ballerina (taken in 1944 by the stunning Sono Osato), now the utterly charming City Ballet prima ballerina, Megan Fairchild, who proves more than equal to it. Well partnered, she turns every number into a dream ballet, and is winning even performing a bit standing on her head.

Tony Yazbeck makes a fine, wistfully amorous Gabey; Jay Armstrong Johnson demonstrates marvelously acrobatic clownishness as Chip; and Clyde Alves scores as a rational but delectably carried away Ozzie.

Alysha Umphress is hilarious as the sexually voracious Hildy; Eizabeth Stanley, as Claire, is equally apt nuzzling Ozzie and leading Judge Pitkin (a good Michael Rupert) by the nose; and the numerous others, often dutifully doubling, are all beyond reproach.

My only quarrel is with Jackie Hoffman, playing Madame Dilly and all too many other boisterous roles (Old Lady, exotic dancers), a gaping-mouthed and

Jay Armstrong Johnson, Tony Yazbeck and Clyde Alves in On The Town

Jay Armstrong Johnson and Alysha Umphress in On The Town

arm- waving comedienne whom I have always abhorred. She turns what is meant to be grotesque into leeringly ghastly, and I am sad to report that the audience laps her up.

There are clever sets and canny projections by Beowulf Boritt that move around almost as abundantly as the dancers; endearingly outré costumes by dependable Jess Goldstein, and lighting by Jason Lyons of the brightest brio. John Rando is the cunning director, though he frequently pushes comedy into unbounded farce, which he is best at, getting laughs galore from the audience. Even if not for all, the show can be savored for much.

“FOUND”

Until the other day, I was blissfully unaware that there were people dumb enough to leave messages to sometimes specific persons, on scraps of paper left in unlikely places, or carelessly dropped just anywhere. Typical location: under the windshield wipers of a stranger’s car. Then along came a crafty opportunist, Davy Rothbart, to pluck them up for a magazine “Found,” which eventually yielded “Found” books, and now has several equally benighted— or shrewd—others turn into the hapless musical “Found.”

That musical has book by Hunter Bell and Lee Overtree, with music and lyrics by Eli Bolin, the first-named co-author of the dismal musical [title of show], the latter two deeply involved with Story Pirates, a traveling troupe performing children’s shows based on the writings of other children, with Overtree the co-founder and director, and Bolin the resident composer-lyricist. It seems that “additional material” for “Found’ was “created in collaboration with” additional Story Pirates.

Although there is a flimsy, contrived plot featuring a bumbling protagonist named Davy, the material is mostly those found messages, either projected on the walls of the set in various simulated handwritings, or simultaneously and redundantly recited aloud by one or another actor or, chorically, by all ten. An initial recorded announcement declared all these gems authentically found and none invented, which is a bit hard to believe, I ask you: Have you ever found such absurd missives on your windshield or anywhere else? Or even just one; dropped on the ground, deliberately or accidentally? To say nothing of oodles enough for magazine issues and book collections? I certainly haven’t, and the only reason I can give an ounce of credence to the declaration is that it might be too arduous for one person, or even three, to come up with such stupid stuff.

Let me quote some of the shorter, more striking finds. “Dear Mom, summer

The cast of Found camp isn’t fun anymore, everyone is dying.” thickly covered with paper scraps, is fun.

Monica Bill Barnes’s choreography is Or: “You bring the paper bag. I’ll bring the handcuffs . . . let’s party.” Or: “Dear Ron, I simplistic, possibly to match the cast’s terpsichorean prowess. Ten or fifteen minutes love you, but things have not been the same since we found out we were related.” Or, of this stuff might be funny; over two hours I found an ordeal. Not so the mostly but spoken by one of the five male actors, “You’re not exclusively downtown audience, which an amazing guy! I’ve always wanted a gay laughed, applauded and cheered maniacally, friend.” Or: “Hi Andy. We need a plan to get some money and working is clearly not the almost bursting out of their skins or at least their seats. answer. [Signed] Dad.” Perhaps most striking were the six Some are even shorter, sometimes a musicians. Two of them were hidden by single word. Others are longer or turned the set, but four others, two on each far side, into lyrics and sung. I can’t reproduce the were half visible protruding from their four music (not too bad in some cases), but here is a characteristic, unsung longer one: respective apertures in the stage floor. If only everything else could have been half, or pref“This letter is in regard to the invasion of erably all, similarly concealed. my privacy. Periodically, for ten years, there have been famous and non-famous strangers John Simon has written for over 50 years on watching me in the privacy of my home via theatre, film, literature, music and fine arts for the wireless technology. Wherever I exist in the Hudson Review, New Leader, New Criterion, world, these strangers stalk and invade my National Review, New York Magazine, Opera privacy. As I am typing this letter, I am being News, Weekly Standard, Broadway.com and watched by over thirty groups of hostile Bloomberg News. He reviews books for the New strangers stationed all around my apartment.

York Times Book Review and Washington Post.

People such as . . .”

To learn more, visit the www.JohnSimonThere follows a list of genuine celebrities Uncensored.com website. from Tom Hanks and Bill Gates to “Some members of the Rolling Stones” (we are not On The Town told which), all in block capitals, sometimes Lyric Theatre intoned by the entire chorus, sometimes 213 W. 42nd St. by the five men or the five women. Nine NY, NY 10036 of these are sufficiently unsightly to be Photos by Joan Hart appropriate, only Betsy Morgan, playing a scheming TV producer, stands out as attractive. Nick Blaemire portrays Davy Rothbart goofily, and the leading lady is distinguished only by her name, Barrett Wilbert Weed, the last especially apt.

David Korins’s set, mostly five walls

Found

Linda Gross Theatre 336 West 20th St. NY, NY 10011 Photos by Kevin Thomas Garcia

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CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES

Cairo Drive

By Sherif Awad The traffic in the streets of Cairo has always been an interesting and funny subject for Egyptian filmmakers and singers to tackle. In the late 1970s, Egyptian folkloric singer Ahmed Adaweya sang Zahma ya Donya Zahama (A Crowded World), a folk song that was popular in taxi cabs and microbuses cruising all over the city. Later, in 1996, Egyptian

opportunity to capture the unspoken codes of conduct, frustrations, humor, fatalism, and life-or-death decisions of driving in a city where the only rule is: there are no rules!

Sherief Elkatsha was born in Ohio to an Egyptian father who immigrated to the US during the days of President Nasser. An official in General Electric, Sheriff ’s father was assigned in 1980 to go back to the Cairo office of the company and so the whole Elkatsha family found themselves living in Cairo for following eleven years. During that period, Sherief joined the Cairo American College (CAC) in the Cairo neighborhood of Maadi until he went back to the US to finish his higher education in Boston University, majoring in Communications, with an emphasis on Cinema.

“I started to work in features films like Boys Don’t Cry building props and sets”, remembered Sherief who travels back and forth to Egypt. “I also worked in the

Muppets Studio in the Upper East Side of New York for three years doing the same the thing until I decided to make my own films.

After working in many types of production, I decided that documentaries should be my main focus”.

In 2006, Sherief debuted with the documentary Butts Out in which he followed the stories of five American smokers and their struggles to quit. The 58-minute documentary got the Best Award at the New England Film and Video Festival and also was an official selection at The Rhode Island International Film Festival, the Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival, and the Hollywood DV Festival.

Shayfeen.com: We’re Watching You was Sherief ’s next documentary, which he co-directed with Jehane Noujaim, the Egyptian-American director now famous for her Oscar nominated documentary The Square. “We shot this film in 2005 and

Director Shereif Elkatsha filmmaker Khairi Beshara directed the feature film Isharet Muroor (Traffic Light), which took place in the middle of one Cairo Street and revolved around a group of people caught up in traffic. For an up and coming Egyptian-American filmmaker like Sherief Elkatsha, traffic across the congested streets of Cairo is full of diverse characters—from taxi drivers to ambulances, traffic cops to normal citizens— So it seems like a great

Family on a mororcycle across Egyptian streets

Multi-levels of traffic in downtown Cairo

focused on the Egyptian multi-party elections in Egypt during Mubarak regime, through the eyes of three women working to ensure the election’s legitimacy under the auspices of the NGO Shayfeencom, which translates as we are watching you”,

Traffic in the famous Tahrir Square

said Sherief. “When we were working on that documentary, we got the feeling that a revolution in Egypt was going to take place, sooner or later”.

Four years later, Sherief returned to Cairo to shoot Cairo Drive: a challenging experience from day one as he tried to obtain a license to film across the streets of the crowded city. Shooting lasted for many months to come. “Even though, I was acting as my own cinematographer and I was shooting from inside the passenger seat of taxi cabs, I needed to secure permits from the State Information Service, the national entity dealing with the foreign filmmakers and press coming to work in Egypt”, laughed Sherief as he remembered that there are camera-shy, auto-censorship feelings among the pedestrians and the drivers in Cairo. “Some people are distrustful of cameras and are constantly asking me: what are you shooting or stop what you are doing”!

Cairo Drive premiered November 2013 in the Abu Dhabi Film Festival (Emirates) then crossed the Atlantic to the True/ False Film Fest in Colombia, Missouri last March before premiering in Egypt during

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Cairo Drive

by finding the lightness in everything”.

Being a documentary filmmaker based Image Sheet in the States make it difficult to get funds for Continued from page 14 projects. “In the States, we rely on the Public Northern Baroque Splendor Broadcasting Service aka PBS to get funds the Ismailia COLLECTION Festivalfrom:last June. “I think the The HOHENBUCHAU LIECHTENSTEIN. The Princely Collections, Vienna for documentaries”, explained Sherief. “On audience outside of Egypt responded in a very positive way to the Egyptian charac- the other hand, rest of the funds are easy to ters as showed in the film”, observed Sherief. get from European countries but in that case, one must have a European crew member “The Egyptians are dealing with the difficulties of daily life with a great sense of humor working in the film. Also for documentaries, you can write what you want in proposals

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for funds but in the end, the footage you will be able to get is the one that will make your film. For Cairo Drive, I financed all by myself and secured a first cut until I launched an IndieGoGo Crowdfunding to polish the film in post-production” Next for Sherief, is a documentary he is preparing about women playing drums across the world. “One of them is a beautiful young Egyptian woman called Sabrine El Hossamy, who plays the goblet drum aka

darbuka, that is made out of Nile fish skin,” Alexandria Film Festival, in Egypt, and the revealed Sherief. “I used some of Sabrine’s Arab Rotterdam Festival, in The Netherlands. music in Cairo Drive and I think it will be He also contributes to Variety, in the United interesting to document her musical perforStates, and is the film critic of Variety Image ArabiaSheet mances mixing Jazz and Oriental musicRelease on (http://varietyarabia.com/), in the United For Immediate Media Contact Karen Barry Schwarz my next film”.

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The Hohenbuchau Collection at Primarily comprised of Dutch and Flemish seventeenth-century paintings, the collection exhibits all the naturalism, visual probity and technical brilliance for which those schools are famous. While many modern collections of Old Masters specialize in a single style or subject matter, the Hohenbuchau Collection is admirable for offering examples of virtually all the genres produced by Lowland artists – history painting, portraiture, genre, landscapes, seascapes, still lifes and flower pieces, animal paintings and hunting scenes.

25th and 26th.

Oceanographic Institution—sharing their Saturday, October 25th, The Splendor of a real-life discoveries from the farthest reaches of the earth.

Golden Age:Topics in Northern Baroque Art. This international scholarly sympo- Extreme Habitats: Into the Deep Sea sium features some of the world’s foremost N o w authorities in the world of art history, includt h r o u g h ing experts from the Metropolitan Museum November 9th, of Art in New York and the National 2014 Gallery in Washington, D. C., as well as Explore the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and theSheet the Vast and Image Maruitshuis at The Hague. extraordinary th , The Explorer’ s deep sea, the last frontier on this planet.

Sunday, October 26 Antarctica: Photographs by Diane Tuft Journey: Pushing Boundaries • Discover the extremophiles that form the A livefoundation of a hydrothermal vent streamed event • Witness the bizarre appearances and adapfeaturing some tations of deep-sea species of the bright• Learn about the technology that makes est minds in deep-sea explorations possible science – from • Feel like you are in a deep-sea submersible award-winning explorers and aero-scientists as you look through view ports. to oceanographers from the Woods Hole

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2_ ter Brugghen Hendrick ter Brugghen (1588 – 1629) A Laughing Bravo with his Dog (Diogenes?), 1628 Oil on canvas, 83.2 x 68.5 cm HOHENBUCHAU COLLECTION, on Permanent Loan to LIECHTENSTEIN. The Princely Collections, Vienna

The Hohenbuchau Collection from: Liechtenstein.

The Princely Collections, Vienna, Major, Rare Exhibition to Open at the Bruce, Displayed in Multiple Galleries

ntiou Fromantiou (1633/34 – 1694) th Dead Partridge, Pheasant, and Hunting Gear, 1670 s, 61 x 48 cm HAU COLLECTION, on Permanent Loan to LIECHTENSTEIN. The ections, Vienna

4_van Goyen Jan van Goyen (1596 – 1656) A River Landscape with a Parish Church, 1651 Oil on canvas, 55.5 x 67 cm HOHENBUCHAU COLLECTION, on Permanent Loan to LIECHTENSTEIN. The Princely Collections, Vienna

Bruce Museum, One Museum Drive, Greenwich, Connecticut

GREENWICH, CT, September 3, 2014 – One of the largest and most varied collections of Northern Baroque art assembled anywhere in recent decades will be on view at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich beginning this fall. Northern Baroque Splendor, The HOHENBUCHAU

COLLECTION from: LIECHTENSTEIN. The Princely Collections, Vienna will be displayed across multiple galleries at the Bruce beginning on September 20 and continuing through April 12, 2015.

The Hohenbuchau Collection was gathered by Otto Christian and Renate Fassbender and has been on long-term loan to the Collections of the Prince of Liechtenstein in Vienna, where it was exhibited in its entirety in the former LIECHTENSTEIN MUSEUM in 2011.

A selection of some 80 paintings from The Hohenbuchau Collection was recently shown at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart in Germany (11/08/2013 – 02/23/2014), and paintings from The Collection are regularly being displayed alongside The Princely Collections, in the permanent exhibition in Vienna as well as on touring exhibitions worldwide. The selective showing of

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Bruce Museum to Host WorldRenowned Thought Leaders

World-renowned experts in the fields of art and science are the featured panelists and speakers in a prodigious and unprecedented weekend of learning, inspiration and exploration at the Museum on October

1_Cosmic Surge Cosmic Surge, Lake Vanda Photograph by Diane Tuft

2_Display Background Bruce Museum Exhibition Preparator Sean Murtha painting hydrothermal vent display background.

Photo by Sean Murtha

4_ Angler Fish Deep sea angler fish (Bufoceratias wedli) Photo by Larry Madin © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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2_Barnes Glacier Barnes Glacier 10:00 AM Photograph by Diane Tuft

FOCUS Films

Kill The Messenger

By Mary Keon “Be happy Gary Webb, you thought you were getting a piece of cheese but I gave you the mouse!“ smirked the drug dealer’s girlfriend, as his case was inexplicably dismissed in Federal Court - due to National Security concerns.

Kill the Messenger, starring Jeremy Renner as Gary Webb, a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for the San Jose Mercury News, chronicles the rise and fall of Webb’s career after he exposed the shadowy nexus connecting the Nicaraguan drug trade to the crack epidemic raging across America during the 1980s and 1990’s; the CIA and guns for the Contras. The movie is based upon the book of the same name, by Nick Schou and upon Dark Alliance by Gary Webb.

Webb’s Dark Alliance, first published in 1996 was illustrated with a crack pipe superimposed upon the CIA logo and quickly became an explosive national news story, aided by the growing popularity of the internet.

During the 1980’s, profits from the Nicaraguan drug trade supplied arms for the CIA backed Contras, to stem the rising tide of Communism in South and Central America - a war Congress refused to fund.

Outraged that drugs were seemingly, deliberately targeted to under-privileged and largely black communities, (a charge that Webb never made), Representative Maxine Waters demanded that CIA Chief John Deutch come to her district and speak with her constituents; Deutsch resigned several weeks later.

The CIA, who at best, turned a blind eye to the source of funds used to arm the contras and failed to alert the DEA, marshaled its resources to kill what quickly became a national news story. Utilizing assets and willing lapdogs in the mainstream media, they denied the allegations, attacked Webb’s conclusions and when that did not work, witnesses who would not recant, disappeared, ultimately destroying Webb’s career.

Andy Garcia plays drug lord Norwin Meneses, living large in lockup, with debonair charm. Ray Liota plays the elusive CIA source, capturing the disillusionment of an undercover CIA agent who “joined the agency out of college to do good and fight evil empires” ultimately learning that “many of the revolutionaries he befriended and some, he slept with, disappeared when their only crime was to demand free elections and a democratically elected government.” Olive Platt plays Jerry Cepos, Webb’s fair weather friend and executive editor of the San Jose Mercury News.

Webb’s story lacked an on-the record CIA source and this was the faultline that detractors seized upon. Webb was driven out of investigative reporting and eventually left journalism entirely. The media outcry against Webb is puzzling, given the results of a Senate Sub-Committee report, Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy released on April 13, 1989. The committee, chaired by Senator John Kerry, found that with regard to Nicaragua, Panama, Haiti, the Bahamas and other countries, “the US had knowledge of, and tolerance for, drug smuggling

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4_ Caughley Beach Caughley Beach, Cape Bird Photograph by Diane Tuft

5_Snow Folds Snow Folds, Scott Base Pressure Ridges Photograph by Diane Tuft

6_ Divergent Gases Divergent Gases, Lake Vanda Photograph by Diane Tuft

“I was once you,” explains NSA source Fred Weil, played by Michael Sheen. “They controversialized me, ...they will make up a story: ‘you beat your dog...you are a pedophile.’

No one remembers the story that you filed; now the story is about you. You cease to exist...

You can turn a simple man’s life into a circus side-show. You know that.”

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under the guise of national security. In the name of supporting the contras, the Kerry Committee concluded in a sad but stunning indictment, officials ‘abandoned the responsibility our government has for protecting our citizens from all threats to their security and well-being.’”

In 2004, profoundly depressed and hell-bent upon his own destruction, Webb committed suicide via two gunshot wounds to the head.

Jeremy Renner gives a passionate performance as Webb, a man who is outraged that inner city kids were dying as the result of an indifferent government. Producers Jeremy Renner, Naomi Despres, Pamela Abdy and Scott Stuber are to be commended for bringing Webb’s story to the screen. Kill the Messenger was directed by Michael Cuesta.

The excellent script was written by Peter Landesman. This is an important film. Do not miss it. MK *Columbia Journalism Review Jan. -Feb. 1997; The Storm Over Dark Alliance

by Peter Kornbluh.

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