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Community/GovernmentSection EDITORIAL
The People Have Spoken: On Tuesday, Nov 4th voters sent a message to an increasingly tone-deaf president, that they have had enough: bolstering Republican control of the House and delivering them a critical majority in the Senate. How effective this will be in countering the policies of a President who prefers to rule by Executive Privilege, remains to be seen. Congratulations to Governor Cuomo who will be returned to office on Jan. 1, 2015, despite Rob Astorino’s best efforts to unseat
him. The election results are sobering: Democrats suffered stunning losses, Nationally, the Republicans picked up governorship of three traditionally Blue states: Illinois, Maryland and Massachusetts, as those who voted, voted for their economic interests. A majority of Americans understand that: • Obama Care is a disaster. Throughout history, countries have •
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defended their borders; when they fail to do so, something is very wrong. The Middle Class is being hollowed out as a stalled economy, hampered by regulatory policy fails to produce jobs that offer a comfortable life style. Too many
of the middle class now find that they are marginally getting by and rightly fear for their futures. • Though victorious in the Mid-term elections, Republicans share in the blame for the state of our Republic and Third
Party candidates will continue to gain traction as Americans increasingly reject the politics of “Business As Usual,” and turn their support to candidates who think out outside the box.
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Economic Development
Sustainable Playland Makes a Comeback in Rye By NANCY KING This week, Catherine Parker, County Legislator from District 7 in Rye hosted an informational meeting concerning the future of Playland Amusement Park in Rye. The future of the park has been a controversial topic in county government since 2009 when Rob Astorino was first was elected as County Executive. Running on the
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platform that Playland is the only amusement park run by a government in America and is costing the taxpayers money, Astorino embarked on an ambitious plan to “re-invent” the park. When he chose the group known as Sustainable Playland to oversee the reinvention, it wasn’t long before Rye residents discovered that Sustainable Playland (SPI) wasn’t about park re-invention; it was about development. The founding members of SPI were developers who had contributed to the CE’s campaign and were rewarded with this slick marketing ploy. Of course five years later we all know how that turned out…. SPI limped away after throwing up the white flag of defeat and the county is currently hearing proposals from two professional amusement companies both of whom would like to
manage the park. Democratic legislator Catherine Parker represents this area of the county and has had a hard time finding a side to stand on. Though a Democrat, Parker has often sided with the Republican CE and originally agreed that SPI would indeed be a great group to re-invent the park; until plans revealed a 95,000 square foot field house to be built in the parking lot right next to a nature sanctuary. However after a year of legal wrangling, botched environmental studies and threats of lawsuits, SPI walked away and Parker changed her position. She now says that SPI wasn’t a good fit for the park and that she wants to be known as the environmentalist legislator. Did she have an epiphany about environmental hazards
of development or has she suddenly woken up to realize that she is coming up for re-election? Countless Rye residents showed up for her informational session but the most interesting attendee was developer Kim Morque, who was/is the President of Sustainable Playland. What was even more surprising was that Mr. Morque has suggested that Sustainable Playland be afforded the opportunity to submit a proposal for a new RFP to perhaps compete with the current proposals from Central and Standard Amusements. It was however Ms. Parker’s nod of agreement to Mr. Morque that lit a fire in the belly of those Rye residents in attendance. Just earlier in the evening she had described herself as a “crunchy granola” type of environmentalist who wanted to preserve the eco-balance of Rye and not less than an hour later there she was nodding her head in agreement that
perhaps, Playland should be developed as something more than an amusement park. This kind of flip-flopping is what makes taxpayers wary of the officials they’ve elected to represent them. This meeting clearly saw an elected official who is unable to stand behind her community and defend their stance. The concerns of the residents of Rye went un-noticed and their questions went un-answered. It made this observer wonder whether Catherine Parker represents the citizens of Rye or the County Executive’s agenda to develop the Playland property. January will be here shortly and along with the other legislators at the county board, Catherine Parker will be up for re-election. Judging by the anger expressed this week by her constituents; this reporter believes she’ll get a challenger from her own community. As for Playland, its future may lie in the outcome of this upcoming legislative race.
Social Networking
White Plains Attorney Tweets Racial Slurs Against Candidate Chris Moss It has been said that if you need a hug, login to Facebook but if you want to be noticed, send a message out through Twitter. Social media has changed the way we live, gather information and disseminate news and campaign for elected office. This election cycle was no different particularly in the New York State gubernatorial race. Many of the negative tweets in the campaign came from the Rob Astorino team. With a group of tweeters led by the anonymous tweeter @CuomoWatch, twitter subscribers endured tweets that compared Governor Cuomo with alleged child murderer Casey Anthony. A tweet like this is in poor taste but it is by no means so offensive that it warranted a complaint to authorities. All of that changed on the eve of Election Day this year when White Plains attorney @AndyBarovick tweeted the following: “In light of election loss Sheriff Moss mulling offers to be new spokesperson for either Cream of Wheat or Uncle Ben’s Rice”.
Sheriff Moss, an African American law enforcement officer from Chemung County was the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor. Both labels on those products depict African American men and have been used for decades. With that single tweet, Barovick made the assumption that upon the loss of the election, Chris Moss would be reduced to nothing other than a nameless face of an African American male. His tweet also sent those of us who cover politics right over to his entire twitter feed. What everyone saw was tweet after tweet of incendiary comment toward County Executive Astorino and his campaign. Barovick’s support of the reelection of Governor Cuomo was evident in his Twitter feed and there were tons of anti-Republican rhetoric as well but his tweet about Sheriff Moss was nothing more than a racist smear. The Westchester Guardian has always been and will continue to be a paper that promotes 1st Amendment rights
but it has also always been a publication that has always exposed both veiled and blatant racism against African Americans. Sometimes one can excuse hate filled racism as a form of ignorance and stupidity but Mr. Barovick is neither ignorant nor stupid; he chairs a committee on the New York State Bar Association and oversees medical malpractice suits. He’s also a member of the Westchester Democratic Committee and has a prominent law practice in White Plains. The disconnect between a professional individual who defends people by day and spews hatred by night just defies all sensibility and leaves the average person not only aghast but asking some very hard questions as well. Will the Westchester Democratic Committee under the leadership of Reginald Lafayette (an African-American) toss Mr. Barovick out of the Committee? It would be hard to excuse this sort of racism by any member of a political party much less one who is a party leader. Since
many of Mr. Barovick’s tweets showed his support for Governor Cuomo, it is unclear as to whether he was affiliated with governor’s team or whether he was just spouting his own opinions on that Twitter feed. So far the Governor’s office hasn’t responded to that question. The New York City Bar Association is now reviewing their association with Mr. Barovick. Mr. Barovick himself has made conflicting statements about his tweet as well. After the groundswell of negative publicity that his tweet generated, Barovick begrudgingly deleted his tweet and offered a weak apology. In later interviews, he only offered up “no comment” when asked about the racial vitriol directed at Sheriff Moss. However, nobody has been able to track down Mr. Barovick’s law partner Anselmo Alegria to ask him how he felt about his business partner’s racial tweet; Mr. Alegria himself is Black.
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GOVERNANCE
Paradise Lost: America’s Descent Into Chaos And Desperation. What is Involuntary Servitude? By Kurt Colucci I think that all of us can agree that involuntary servitude, laboring against one’s will to benefit another under coercion, is not how one consciously opts to spend one’s life. The argument that I’m about to present might seem like an inappropriate parallel, but I think it’s a very worthwhile parallel to make and a necessary topic to explore. I believe that taxes equal involuntary servitude. Why? To answer this I’d like to first layout my reasoning and logic behind this statement. I believe that we, as individuals, are the rightful beneficiaries of what our time, effort, energy and a lifetime of developed talent yields. The minutes of your life belong to you. No one else has a right to claim ownership on a percentage of your life. In our modern time, working people are forced to pay taxes. Taxes come in all forms, shapes and sizes; property tax, state and federal income tax, city tax, gasoline tax, indirect taxes like inflation, and of course
taxes on the goods, products and services that we need to survive. The logic and reasoning behind my assertion speaks to the fact that half of our time is spent working to pay taxes, which is on equal footing with involuntary servitude because it is the same thing is stealing the minutes of your life. Every tax that is put in place by a law passed by legislators, represents the potential threat of force used against you, an American citizen. What do I mean? Look at this way, if you don’t pay your taxes, in whatever form it may be, the government (State Federal or Local) can either confiscate your property or lock you in a cage. This is not a positive characteristic of a free society. My claim that “taxes equal involuntary servitude” is meant to be controversial and incendiary, but if you can manage to get past the initial emotional shock of the statement and look at the logic and reason behind it I think it will begin to make sense. If you added up all the minutes of your life that you spent working to earn
a living and deduct all the taxes you paid in the form of income or other taxes you would realize that more than half of what you earn is confiscated from you under the threat of force by your government. Now this is the point of the conversation where “intellectuals” will argue the point and say “no, no, government doesn’t take half ”. But when you look at the taxes that are embedded in all of the products, services and goods that come to market, and if you factor in the additional taxes at each level of either production, delivery or sale, then it’s easy to realize that we are paying well over half in taxes. We don’t only pay with money, we pay with our time. This issue is not about dollars and cents, it is about your time and the precious minutes of life that you have on this earth. I recognize that the time it takes me to go out and earn the money I pay in taxes represent a valuable resource to me - my time, which is a nonrenewable resource. This idea applies to all of us. None of us will ever recapture the minutes of
our lives that represent the time spent working to pay state and federal local and all these other taxes. Ingrained in any form of government are the seeds of its own destruction, whether it be a dictatorship, democracy or a republic. Every state entity that is considered the governing body of a society has a monopoly on the use of force. Because of this, the potential seeds of its own destruction are planted in its very foundation. History has proven over and over again that groups of individuals who intend to “serve the public good” can always abuse or involuntarily misuse power. Many times their purpose is to serve noble interests, but oftentimes they prove to be the handmaidens of wickedness and deceit. The reason why I so harshly criticize forced taxation and the governing bodies that ‘legalize theft’ is because I believe that a truly voluntary society is the only kind that respects the right of the individual to express freedom of choice and live in a manner that they see fit. Peaceful
coexistence is possible only if the next generation learns from a history that is riddled with mistakes – last century over 260 million people were killed by Democide alone. While one generation may create the framework of a society that is going to be handed off to the next generation, in it are the outliers who speak out against the momentum of history and plant the seeds of change for the next generation to water. My question is, what seeds are we planting for the next generation to water? Any legislation that ties human beings to serve one another by force instead of choice is only a fleeting glimpse into a desperate future. It’s time to tame this monster of our own creation and put the genie back in the bottle.
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POLITICS
Conservatism: A Thinking Man’s Game It is important that we continue to think. By LUKE HAMILTON
Conservatives must rigorously apply the full capacity of our reason and intellect to evaluate any substantial idea. It’s possible that this is one reason why conservatism has lost so much ground over the past three decades. At some point along the way, we stopped challenging and defeating the failed ideas of the Left; either because we took it for granted that Americans understood the worth of conservatism, or because those with the best means of conservative communication weren’t equipped to fulfill that task successfully. Even today, despite the fact that we have a number of large, articulate voices fighting the good fight, we continue to allow flawed logic to pass as if it was valid. Any time we allow the discussion to move forward under illogical premises, we lend credibility where there should be none. Thus modern liberalism, founded on the failed political fallacies of generations past, has staked its exclusive claim to be the default setting for American intellectualism, thereby drawing young minds as moths to a funeral pyre. Overwhelmingly, it’s the conservative who is painted as a Luddite: this despite the fact that modern liberalism still drives the same brokendown ideological Yugo with nothing
more than a fresh coat of Kool-Aid-red paint. Somehow we are idiots because we don’t believe in ideas which have failed whenever they have been implemented. And we allow this slander to stand. The Neo-Utopianism of modern liberalism is a perfect example of an idea which must be strenuously challenged and defeated. This concept of a unified, benevolent government which triumphs over greed, corruption, and ignorance to create a blissful and progressive utopia has been selling t-shirts in this country ever since Dear Leader won the Democratic primary in 2007. It has become so prevalent (and powerful) that many of the feckless, so-called conservative politicians have decided to adopt this ideology instead of fighting it. If it weren’t for talk-radio and a handful of reliable, conservative writers and filmmakers, we might be neck deep in Michelle’s Government cheese (lactose free!). Lord knows the ones who should be protecting us from totalitarian utopianism want nothing more than to get their hands on the soft-tyranny machine known as the government of the United States of America. Why does Utopia fail? Why is it such a bad idea, apart from the fact that it has never worked? For the same reason in each and every case: some people suck. In a sense, we should agree with Jean-Paul
Sartre when he wrote, “Hell is other people”. Conservative thought says that this is true, but not in a misanthropic sense. Sartre is correct because the downfall of Utopia is humanity itself, more specifically a subsection of humanity which will never buy into the namby-pamby idealism which Utopia requires to function. During a recent trip back home, I wanted to provide my family with an authentic glimpse at the weird underbelly of Oregon. Our last night there, I booked us a room at a popular hotel east of Portland. The facility is a former “poor farm” of the county, which began housing and feeding the area’s paupers in the mid-19th century. Since then, it was purchased and rehabbed into a hotel by a successful Oregonian brewery. The site boasts a brewery, a winery, a handful of restaurants, an outdoor concert venue, a small movie theater, and even a sevenfoot tall bronze statue of Jerry Garcia. As we arrived and walked around the property, it was apparent that the facility was alive with a bohemian spirit of jubilance which is quintessentially Oregonian. We walked through the gardens, picking and eating berries from the wild berry bushes on the property. Then we dined on food at the main restaurant which had been grown in the same gardens we had just perused. Finally, we headed up to our
room, which was decorated entirely with a hand-painted mural, depicting a local folk hero. It was a blissful evening and a truly unique experience and I was proud of myself for introducing my true-blue Midwestern family to the best of Oregon’s eccentricities. Shortly thereafter, the compost hit the fan. After obtaining the keys to our domicile, we discovered that the bathrooms were communal, there was only 1 bed in the room for the 3 of us, and our windows opened directly onto a sun porch where I swear Cheech & Chong were reliving the good old days. (This is what happens when you hire hippies to run the reservation desk of a hotel.) Once we had taken a few trips up to the front desk, to get our reservation straightened out, we noticed that the hallways smelled like a cross between an aquarium that should’ve been cleaned out three weeks ago and poop. Those fun-loving bohemians who were inhabiting that peaceful community of love and peace spent the entire night running up and down the halls, puking in the communal bathroom next door, and screaming the lyrics to Phish songs in the courtyard outside the window of our new room. This is why Utopianism fails and will always fail. There will always be those who selfishly exploit a situation for their own benefit, either through malice, ignorance, or selfishness. There will never be a time when everyone will willingly follow
the rules to the benefit of all. That’s why utopian paradise quickly turns to dystopian totalitarianism; because some people won’t stop peeing in the pool. History and common sense demonstrate the foolishness of such ideology and yet it lingers in the air like the smog from Al Gore’s private jet. In the 80’s, conservatives like the Gipper, Margaret Thatcher, Solzhenitsyn, Milton Friedman, William F. Buckley, and others worked to deflate the intellectual viability of communism. They combated it so successfully that for a time communism became a laughingstock amongst all but the most die-hard apparatchiks. If we mean to eliminate the progressive utopianism taking root in today’s America, then our burgeoning ranks of conservative political leaders would do well to follow in the footsteps of our conservative predecessors. Luke Hamilton is a classically trained Shakespearean actor from Eugene, Oregon who happens to be a liberty-loving, rightwing Christian constitutionalist. When not penning columns for ClashDaily. com, Hamilton spends his time astride the Illinois-Wisconsin border, leading bands of liberty-starved citizens from the progressive gulags of Illinois to (relative) freedom. Hamilton is the creative mind/voice behind Pillar & Cloud Productions, a budding production company, which resides at www. PillarCloudProductions.com He owes all to his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, whose strength is perfected in his weakness. © Luke Hamilton 2014
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ready for him. It was only 50 years later, when the World Wide Web came to mass attention that humans were able to flitter from knowledge data to knowledge data and, as more and more high-powered tools (ex. “Search Engines”) appeared, our brains had to adapt to a new way of absorbing information. As we spend more and more time on-line using the new technologies and jumping from one place to another, we strengthen our brain’s ability to deal with this new way of learning – but, also, begin to discard the “old-fashioned” linear way of proceeding through a narrative from start to finish. If we wish to maintain the ability to read novels and other linear narratives, we must practice – read books and magazines from start-to-finish as well as forays into the multi-layers of the World Wide Web. Additionally, we have the on-going compression of time – what Douglas Rushkoff calls “Present Shock” in his 2013 book of the same name (“Present
Shock When Everything Happens NOW”). There is very little past, present and future – no buildup as there was to World War II; ISIS just appears (as does Ebola); any phone or computer that you buy today is disposable – these devices, unlike their comparable predecessors, are already obsolete no matter how early in the product cycle they are purchased. We can’t catch up; there are always new tools to be mastered, new challenges to be faced! So, everything is / will be different – memory, balancing of learning methodologies, time constraints. It all sounds terribly difficult to deal with – but we will – because we must!
Creative Disruption
Our “Outboard Brains” By John F. McMullen
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, we might begin to read about him but then go off on a tangent about Eleanor Roosevelt, Hyde Park, Winston Churchill, World War II, or whatever triggered our interest from reading about Franklin. We might then, from the path we had just taken, go off on another tangent, and on and on – or come back to the original article or source. In other words, we think differently than we read. While Bush’s analysis was righton-the-money, the technology wasn’t
Comments on this column to johnmac13@ gmail.com John F. McMullen is a writer, poet, college professor and radio host. Links to other writings, Podcasts, & Radio Broadcasts at www.johnmac13.com, his books are available on Amazon, and he blogs at http://open.salon.com/blog/ johnmac13. 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. © 2014 John F. McMullen
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I did not come up with the term “Outboard Brain;” as far as I know, Clive Thompson, a writer for Wired Magazine did in his 2007 article “Your Outboard Brain Knows All”– or, at least I first read of the term when Nicholas Carr, in his 2010 book “Shallows,” quoted him “as referring to the “Net” as an “outboard brain” that is taking over the role previously played by inner memory. Thompson wrote “I’ve almost given up making an effort to remember anything because I can instantly retrieve the information online” and “by offloading data onto silicon, we free our own gray matter for more germanely ‘human’ tasks like brainstorming and daydreaming.” This analysis is not unique to Thompson. Carr also quotes New York Times columnist David Brooks, writing in a 2007 column “The Outsourced Brain,” “I had thought that the magic of the information age is that it allows us to know more but then I realized the magic of the information age was that it allows us to know less. It provides us with external servants – silicon memory systems, collaborative online filters, consumer preference algorithms and networked knowledge. We can burden these servants and liberate ourselves.” Carr completes the attack on the value of human memory by quoting the technology writer, Don Tapscott in his 2009 book, “Grown Up Digital,” as writing “Now that we can look up anything with a click on Google, memorizing long passages or historical facts is obsolete. Memorization is a waste of time.” “Memorization is a waste of time??” What a kick in the teeth that is! One of the things that most of my friends know about me is that I have an exceptional memory – I can give you the starting teams of the 1948 Cleveland Indians and the Boston Braves (yes, they were in Boston then, before Milwaukee and finally Atlanta) who played against each other in the World Series as well as that of the 1927 New York Yankees (who played long before I was born); I can give you a run down on who all the players have been in the history of computing; tell you about old radio and television shows; and give a pretty good history with names, songs, and labels of Rock and Roll. In short I value my memory both for its usefulness in my writing, teaching, and radio show hosting and because I saw terrible Alzheimer’s disease destroy the memory of my older brother, a brilliant college professor, to the point that he no longer
knew who I was. Memory has always been valued but now, as Tapscott correctly points out “we can look up anything with a click on Google.” So, if we now do not have to “know things” but merely know how to “find things,” what shall we be using this new freed up brain capacity for? Brooks tells us that we can “liberate ourselves” and Thompson writes, “Free our own gray matter for more germanely ‘human’ tasks like brainstorming and daydreaming.” Well, if we don’t have to occupy ourselves by memorizing things, we could read a book – a good novel perhaps. Reading a novel, however, has become difficult for some avid Internet users; people who once read a lot have said that they now have “difficulty getting through a novel.” The reason for this new difficulty is that the World Wide Web often keeps us from practicing novel reading enough. What is known as the “plasticity of the brain” refers to the ability of the human brain to modify itself to both adapt to new requirements and eliminate unneeded requirements. The first great change that comes to mind is when the development of the printing press changed the method of obtaining knowledge from listening to and remembering oral information to reading after the invention of the printing press. In her 2007 book, “Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain,” Tufts University professor Maryanne Wolf explains this transition to reading, “We were never born to read. Human beings invented reading only a few thousand years ago. And with this invention, we rearranged the very organization of our brain, which in turn expanded the ways we were able to think, which altered the intellectual evolution of our species. ... Our ancestors’ invention could only come about because of the human brain’s extraordinary ability to make new connections among its existing structures, a process made possible by the brain’s ability to be shaped by experience. The plasticity at the heart of the brain’s design forms the basis for much of who we are, and who we may become.” Once we had made the transition, we read only one way, “linearly” – from top-to-bottom, from beginning-to-end. In August 1945, however, science advisor-to-the-President Vannevar Bush, in an Atlantic article, “As We May Think,” described a computer system that would help us as we think – in an “associative” fashion, jumping from one thing to another – ex. If we wanted information on
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Thursday, NOVEMBER 13, 2014
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Long-standing flaws in Community Development Peggy Godfrey’s Report on Mayor Bramson Discusses New Rochelle’s Downtown points out long -standing flaws in Community Development in the Queen City. It perpetuates the myth that the faults we face reside other than with our current elected officials. Noam indicts past leadership as being responsible for the fading glory of our beloved City. Sad, very sad. What is not said is that Noam shares much of the burden of shouldering the responsibility. He has been a member of both the City Council and elected Mayor; although in a fashion not granted to him, by the City Charter. He is culpable or, at least, negligent in carrying out the mandates explicit in our City Charter. He is also the leading voice, and in some cases, the only voice for management practices that lead to mistakes such as not using the prior 1996 Comprehensive Plan. This important document should have been out forward as an on-going planning
document for Council control and monitoring. Properly used it would have been a baseline record and focus for on-going Strategic and Operating Plans. We are also managed largely by fee revenue; an invasive process that too often punishes commercial interests and its clients for being in business. That is an oversimplification, but a conversation with a small business owner on Huguenot, Main, or North Avenue would bear witness to this statement.
mayor system.
I am here not to condemn Noam but to remind him that he bears his share of responsibility for our diminished business district. So do the other Council Members who do not insist that the mandates of the City Charter are adhered to as our rule of law. Equally chilling is not recognizing that our electorate has over the past several decades, voted against a referendum to change our Charter from its current “weak” or Ceremonial mayor over to a “strong”
I would have no problem supporting him as a strong mayor, but he must be more honest in assigning responsibility. He might be less sophistic in his language. The late and revered Ruby Dee is not, as he indicated, and I paraphrase, larger than New Rochelle. What then of Rockwell, Remington, Gehrig? What does he mean by people standing up and saying something “supportive”?
Noam must accept that the fault is not in Caesar or in the Stars. It rests with him, his party leaders, and with the rest of the sitting Council. I have supported Bramson for years. He is a brilliant young man, but his tendency is to blame others. The economy was a favorite target and now this preposterous claim indicting other administrations. This young man has been in significant leadership positions for over twenty years.
Let me try. You will have the
support of all citizens who love this community if you commit to transparency, involvement, and honesty. Your “master development” and team that you have pronounced having a nonpareil national reputation (again I paraphrase), should be adept enough to be able to separate form from substance, understand and apply state of the art techniques in Assessment and Strategic Planning and I hope that is their intent and not simply presenting a solution in search of a real problem. There is so much preliminary work that should be done; it is like preparing the ground before planting seed. These include basic enablers such as looking at what really induces commercial and yes, residential interests, to invest in our City. It begins with overhauling our Charter and Codes. We need to have non-political conversations on reassessment and not look at Certiorari in the ways that we do. Do we really understand what public and private investors look for when assessing our community? That means a formal arrangement with the
School District, moving some services downtown, much more even if it is not “pretty” such as an off Main municipal vertical garage to support commercial growth or expansion. Yes, we need to provide inducements for investors; abatements likely are needed, but their terms and oversight require strong legal support. If RDRXR cannot provide this, then we need a different team. Al Tarantino is wrong when he denies the need for taking over some private property. It may be inevitable. Ivar Hyden is correct, absolutely correct in asking for bipartisanship. Any sniff of special interests or parochial interests must be eradicated. Noam speak as one voice that embraces the Council. That gets you one vote, my vote. We have a nucleus of a fine Council and any primary challenge will be, itself, noted and interpreted for what it is. Just leave well enough alone, make the basic enabling changes, and there is your positive message. Warren Gross, citizen
BUILDING
Sharing Community Cited for Building Violations at 1 Hudson St., Yonkers At deadline on Friday, the Guardian learned that the Sharing Community Day Program, “Host, ” (Homeless Outreach Service Team) located at 1 Hudson Street in Yonkers, has been cited for
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numerous building violations and barred from allowing clients to sleep in the basement. The Guardian was alerted to the situation, by homeless activist Laura Case, on behalf of the clients served there, who are concerned that they will have to find alternative sources for services they provide: breakfast, lunch and communal space in the afternoons, to get out of the weather. A call to the Mayors office was promptly returned. In a conference call with Communications Director, Christina Gilmartin and Wilson Kimball, Acting Commissioner of Planning & Development for the City of Yonkers, the Guardian learned that the City Dept. of Buildings received an anonymous complaint regarding building violations on this site. A subsequent inspection found that clients have been allowed to sleep in the basement, which has no sprinklers, no lighted exit signs and no emergency backup generator, to light up the non-exist exit signs: a disaster waiting to happen. These are
serious building violations in a space where clients had been allowed to sleep at night and the city has acted in good faith to call these deficiencies to the attention of the property owner along with the tenant, so that they can be amended promptly. Though a great inconvenience to the clients on a chilly day, one shudders to think what could have happened had the City failed to act. Residents were allowed to spend time in ground floor lobby to get out of the weather. Ms. Kimball also pointed out that the ground and upper floors of the building are still usable for the services delivered there; only the basement is off limits. Ms. Case states that the staff of the Sharing Community has not been forthcoming about their ability to deliver services there, which led to frantic calls to City agencies for information. The Certificate of Occupancy for The Sharing Community expired in 2000 and their paperwork to many City and County Departments has been deficient for the past 14 years,
according to Ms. Kimball. The shelter is a non-conforming zoning use for the building, owned by St. John’s Episcopal Church and leased to The Sharing Community, whose lease is due to expire in 2017. Allowing anyone to sleep in the basement, however well intentioned, has never been an acceptable use of the space with regard to zoning requirements, safety regulations or the expired Temporary Certificate of Occupancy. Ms. Case also raised the question as to whether the City is looking for a problem at this site, to shut down services there, due to increasing gentrification throughout the downtown district. Ms. Gilmartin assures the homeless that the City has a total of 9 shelters throughout Yonkers and Mayor Spano, along with his staff, take very seriously, its obligation to aid those most in need of city services. She states that the City has tasked Captain John Mueller, of the 4th Precinct (Shonnard Place) and 2 officers there with outreach to the homeless community. Those in need
of emergency shelter can call the precinct at 914.377.7402 and ask for the designated day or evening shift officer on duty for assistance. Ms. Kimball reiterates that the City will make every effort to aid residents, if they call for assistance. “This is a problem which requires an immediate, a middle and a long-term solution,” notes Kimball. Barring people from using the basement as repairs commence is a necessary disruption to ensure a safe environment for the Sharing Community program. Efforts to improve delivery of services there, to better meet client needs, will require more work and take more time. Due to the late hour at which we received this information, we have not had time to contact the Director of the Sharing Community or St. John’s Episcopal Church for their response to the building violations and hope to report back on this in our next edition.
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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
New Rochelle Residents’ Reactions to Proposed Downtown Development By Peggy Godfrey The New Rochelle City Council has approved the selection of a master developer, RDRXR, for a mixed use, transit oriented development in the downtown district. This firm has said they want to work with the community and citizen input should be part of this process. In an effort to better understand what New Rochelle residents are looking for, in a revived business district, The Westchester Guardian has gone out to the community and gathered residents’ opinions from various sections of the city. In a few instances the person did not want his or her name used. Here is a sampling of the people contacted. 1. Louise Kuklis: “I listened to a presentation by Luiz Aragon, Commissioner of Development and I thought he gave us a very nice introduction to this new development and he was very excited about it. New Rochelle needs some work downtown to draw people, especially during the day and I’d like to see people drawn to the library and the shops and restaurants there. People like me, living in the north end, find it very easy not to go down there - and many of my neighbors have never been downtown to the library, restaurants and galleries. It can’t end up like Scarsdale and Larchmont because it is too expensive to open up businesses in these communities.” 2. Ina Arnou: “It sounds promising, but depends on what it ends up with. I’m hopeful for the city.” 3. Laura Case, (homeless): “I don’t think it is being done the right way. I don’t think the citizens are being consulted. I’ve seen about 30 businesses on Main Street leave and that resulted in unemployment and hardship. I feel that part of the reason the homeless are being sent into programs is to reduce their visibility because of gentrification.” 4. District 4 resident: “I think it is too grand, especially building a new library. They just did renovations there. I would like to
see more programs in New Rochelle for the youth: put more cultural and youth activities. Other cities have concerts all summer long. I also don’t see a need to tear down the library.” 5. District 5 resident: “I am against all the new development ideas. They are not for the betterment of the city.” 6. Peter Korn: “It’s an interesting development proposal but right now I am more interested in bagging leaves.” 7. Sara Kaye: “I am pro development. I would love to see some transit oriented development.” 8. Gene Tozzi: “I think it’s the only way to keep taxes from going sky high.” 9. South End resident, District 2: “We went through this before! The politicians told us that businesses (department stores and other businesses) would not come to New Rochelle because there were not enough people (consumers) here. So we built the apartments and other housing, we raised taxes and fees, but no businesses (stores) came. I am against more housing.” 10. Resident, Shore Road area: “They built the two Avalon and the Trump buildings near the train station. All the people that live in these buildings do is get on the train to go to the city or Stamford. They spend their money where they work and when they come home at night, they go to sleep. It is stupid to build apartments near the train station. How are they spending money here? The residents are going to be burdened with extra taxes because of tax abatements the city will grant.” 11. Resident in Iona College area: “The only businesses that survive now are food stores and dollar stores. We have enough lofts and apartments. Businesses and lower rents are needed in downtown. At present, I am disturbed by college students in the wee hours of the morning. There should be more security patrols to quiet the commotion.” 12. Fifty year old female, District 5: “I don’t shop in New Rochelle because there are no stores to shop in. What’s here
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are dollar stores and fruit and vegetable stands. It is hard to park. Traffic on Main Street is horrendous. The traffic backs up. Nobody speaks English and I pay a lot of taxes - for what? There are always homeless people soliciting for money. They are all over the city, thanks to Mayor Bramson.” 13. James O’Toole: “I don’t think a company is necessary to tell us what we need in downtown New Rochelle. We need retail. We don’t need tall towers. I don’t see any influx of people with disposable income coming into the downtown.This proposal will be another failed project.” 14. Steve Mayo: “What are we to make of the unfinished master plan? Were all the meetings to keep residents busy? Wouldn’t it be prudent to approve a master plan that could be followed? If this administration wants residents to be involved, then take us seriously. Don’t throw out master plan excuses. The politicians treat the residents like water out of a spigot, which goes on and off.” 15. Larraine Karl: “Whatever development comes into downtown should be geared to the future. Putting in more residential is not the answer.” 16. Lorraine Pierce: “Main Street in New Rochelle is a disaster, but the new proposal for downtown should focus on Main Street rather than the train station. Traffic in downtown is horrible. No matter when you go there it is filled with cars, trucks and buses. It’s no wonder something has to be done.” 17. Lou Felicione: “I just hope this is not a repeat of Cappelli, Anyone knows the library needs maintenance. I understand abatements have to be given but after five or ten years at half taxes, full assessment must be used for taxes. There should be no flipping of tax abatements if any building is sold. Improve the infrastructure; otherwise secondary streets are going to suffer. If rental apartments are built the additional students in the schools will increase school taxes. Port Chester is a good example of commercial development. Instead of putting up
apartments, open restaurants.” 18. Betty Lewin: “The downtown proposal should not require tax abatements. Monroe College is an example of a company that does not require tax abatements. The present vendors in downtown are catering to the needs of the city’s changing population. Towers, Avalon I and II have made little difference. Stores that have opened to serve these minute populations constantly fail. The present administration is remote from the citizens and it looks like a pie in the sky solution. One only has to look at the mall in Mount Vernon with Target, and a host of other vendors, which make a profit. One huge attraction for coining to this mall is adequate free parking. New Rochelle all the while is installing sophisticated new meters on every street it can find and reducing services the
population needs. This constant disregard of the desires of the citizens of New Rochelle by the administration makes the city unattractive for the people. This grandeur idea that New Rochelle is in competition with New York City, White Plains and Stamford is totally irrational.” 19. Greg Varian, Public Library Trustee: “I see this proposal as a positive development. I’ve promoted the idea that we need to determine the value of air rights over the Main Library. Mainly there is some way to monetize to reduce stress on the taxpayers who provide the majority of our revenue.” 20. Bob Petrucci: “With all the grandiose schemes and developments, how much revenue has been brought to New Rochelle? How much money will this bring to the city? We shouldn’t do anything until we have these figures.”
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Thursday, NOVEMBER 13, 2014
Arts/EnertainmentSection EYE ON THEATRE
Partly Perverse By John Simon
The Oldest Boy,
Sarah Rule is a playwright who likes to torment her audience. In her early play, “The Clean House,” there was quite a bit of un-translated Portuguese (I think), because Miss Ruhl had a Brazilian maid or nanny. Now, in “The Oldest Boy,” there is a deal of un-translated Tibetan, because of a Tibetan employee. Next could be Ukrainian. The story itself is accessible enough. Still, I have really liked only one of her several plays, “In the Next Room, or the vibrator play,” and disliked the others to varying degree, which did not prevent her winning
every conceivable prize, even the so-called Genius Award. We have here an unnamed American city, and in it an Anglo Mother, a Tibetan refugee Father, and their three-year-old son, Tensing, played by a bunraku puppet. Father now runs a restaurant, and Mother is a college professor and amateur scholar of Tibetan Buddhism. They are visited by an elderly Tibetan lama and his younger monk sidekick. The pair want to carry off Tensing to a lamasery in India, where numerous escapees from the Chinese conquest of Tibet have emigrated. Although the Lama has once eaten in Father’s restaurant, in itself rather improbable, it is unclear how he knows that
Celia Keenan-Bolger and James Sato in “The Oldest Boy”. Photo by T. Charles Erickson
Celia Keenan-Bolger and James Sato and the company of “The Oldest Boy”. Photo by T. Charles Erickson the child was born exactly when the lama, her future husband’s restaurant. whom he supposedly reincarnates, died and In Act Two, the boy is in the monwhy the quest for the avatar waited three astery, awaiting enthronement (does an years. Some sort of guiding “vision” is barely ordinary, non-Dalai lama rate all that?) and mentioned in the text. the watchful but melancholy parents are Act One is taken up with a debate staying temporarily nearby. There is an upper about the boy’s future. Mother is under- stage on which elaborate ritual events are standably upset about giving up her child; glimpsed; on the main stage, three Tibetan Father, though saddened, less opposed. dancers periodically weave into the proThere is also a long flashback to the parents’ ceedings. The play is described as being in first meeting, when Mother was returning “Three Ceremonies.” There is solid direction depressed from her beloved teacher’s funeral, from Rebecca Taichman, a Ruhl standby, and sought refuge from stormy weather in spare but vivid scenery from Mimi Lien,
sumptuous costuming by Anita Yavich, and dramatic lighting by Japhy Weideman. The stage directions are typically sibylline, e.g., “A gate or door appears. It might be an invisible gate.” Or: “If the gate is invisible, then the invisible gate disappears.” Ruhl’s dialogue is supremely arch. For example, in the flashback scene: “Mother: It’s like the food I ate before was cardboard and had no nourishment. I want to eat your food forever. Father: Did you actually say that to me? Mother: No, I thought it, I think.” Again: “Mother: I think you are good. And I loved your food. And your ankles. I’m being stupid. Sorry.” There’s humor, as from Mother on the phone with her mother: “Tenzin might be a reincarnated lama. No, not like the animal. One L. Lama. It means teacher.” There is plenty of such whimsy. e.g., “And that’s the end of the play. Or the beginning. They’re sometimes hard to tell apart.” The boy puppet has two blackclad handlers; the third, adult Ernest Abuba, stands close and delivers Tensing’s lines in ringing baritone. The acting is proficient. Notably by James Saito (Lama) and James Yaegashi (Father). The true protagonist, though, is Celia Keenan-Bolger, as Mother. A fine actress, albeit with something a trifle childlike about her: remember “Peter and the Starcatcher”
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A scene from Lincoln Center’s production of “The Oldest Boy” by Sarah Ruhl. Photo by T. Charles Erickson
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or not. In the end she somehow recovers, and is back in her grand house where her former colleagues can enjoy a pool that now, like the play itself, contains water. The five members of OYL (One Year Lease) company who enact this drivel are Estelle Bajou, Eric Berryman, Nick Flint, Richard Saudek and Maja Wampouszyc. It is hard to say how competent they would be in a real play, where the scenery does not consist of a few small white benches, suitable for shifting about, crawling under or jumping up on and declaiming, or upending and hiding behind, while indulging in meaningless movement or equally meaningless stasis. Natalie Lomonte’s choreography has little to do with dancing, even as Ianthe Demos’s direction is nothing more than horsing around and assuming strange postures. One performer, a mousy blonde, is credited with an “original score” which doesn’t even hint at music, but may have been given to her, in compensation for not
knowing how to—never mind act, not even speak. Even the four others can be muffled, but no matter, in a situation where missing some dialogue is more gain than loss. Judging by her name, director Demos must be Greek, or at any rate capable of producing a show that was all Greek to me. The Times critic has written a rave about its earlier incarnation, and the New York magazine critic has pronounced the event “theatrical witchcraft.” If there is real witchcraft involved, I would recommend making the thing disappear.
EYE ON THEATRE
Partley Perverse Continued from page 10
and “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee”? For all her sincere and soulful acting, there clings a bit too much daughter to this mother. But that doesn’t wholly Ruhl her out.
pool (no water)
I have little good to say about “pool (no water)” by the controversial British
playwright Mark Ravenhill, who began with a play called “Shopping and F______” in 1996. That title alone should tell you pause, but on he went to considerable national and international successes, including “Mother Clap’s Molly House,” among others. To call him perverse is doubtless what he is after, so I won’t indulge him. His “pool (no water) is really not even a play, only a protracted, hour-long monologue that could, as written, be delivered by a single speaker, but is specified to require at least four. Here it is played by five, who bear only the performers’
names, wear bohemian clothing, and speak the lines indiscriminately: singly or in various combinations, with no perspicuous rationale. The story, such as it is, is merely narrated, and concerns a gang of no-account Off Off playwrights, one of whom has, by marriage, struck it rich and lives in a grand house with a pool. Though not described as an idiot, she has jumped into this pool when empty, and incurred serious injuries, landing her in the hospital. When members of her group come visiting her there, they’re uncertain whether she is conscious enough to recognize them,
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CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES
AFRIFF in Nigeria By Sherif Awad When Nigeria is mentioned in Western media, usually the names of Ebola virus or the Boko Haram fundamentalist group are the first to surface on headlines. Hence, few of us know about the history of this West African country, its struggle towards independence, its suffering during the civil war that followed, until it found its safe passage toward democracy and was ranked this year, to have the strongest economy in the African continent. In the art scene, the Nigerian film industry is known as Nollywood (a portmanteau of Nigeria and Hollywood) and is now considered to be the 2ndlargest producer of movies in the world. Nigerian film studios are based in both Lagos and Enugu, forming a major portion of the local economy of these cities. It is Africa’s largest movie industry in terms of the number of movies produced per year. Although Nigerian films have been produced since the 1960s, the country’s film industry has been recently aided by the rise of affordable digital filming and editing technologies. The distribution and viewership of Nollywood production rely on rental of DVDs, Blu-Ray in addition to nationwide broadcast with channels like “Emmanuel TV”, that is considered to be one of the most viewed television stations across Africa.
With its inaugural edition in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria, The Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF) was founded in 2010 by Chioma Ude, an ardent film lover and entrepreneur. Her passion for
arm of the awards by conceiving the AMAA Charity Benefit. This novel initiative was designed to be an annual Corporate Social Responsibility platform for industry practitioners and stakeholders to give back to society. Later, in 2009, Chioma was the local producer of the ION International Film Festival (IONIFF), a global touring
Keith Shiri the industry grew more intense after her involvement in the setting of the Nigerian Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) in 2006. Ude then went on to produce the 2008 Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) during which she instituted the philanthropic
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festival originating from Hollywood, whose aim is to promote global awareness and peace through arts, culture and films. The event was held in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. In its 4th edition taking place 9-16 November, in Tinapa, Calabar, AFRIFF continues to
raise awareness about African Cinema and its tremendous socio-economic. While I was in Tanzania last September, I was contacted by film critic and curator Keith Shiri, the festival’s artistic director, and asked to join the jury of documentary films, an honor that I accepted with great pleasure. This
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Born in Cairo, Egpyt, 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 , 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:// amalmasryalyoum.com/ennode189132 and The Westchester Guardian: www. WestchesterGuardian.com
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known as the creator of the new musical movement known as Afrobeat which he used to express his revolutionary political opinions against the dictatorial Nigerian government of the 1970s and 1980s. His influence helped to bring a change towards democracy in Nigeria and promoted Pan African politics to the world. This documentary is directed by American director Alex Gibney whose Taxi to the Dark Side received an Oscar for Best Feature-Length Documentary in 2008.
Another politically driven documentary is Mugabe: Villain or Hero?, in which filmmaker Roy Agyemang questions whether the Zimbabwean leader and the title character is the demon that the western media portrays, or not. Robert Mugabe, now 88 years old and reportedly suffering from prostate cancer, is frequently topping ‘world’s worst ruler’ lists. The Interpreter (2005), Sydney Pollack’s last film starring Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn, featured a negative portrayal of a fictional African ruler with many parallels to Mugabe. Agyemang is the British-born son of Ghanaian parents who had been contemporaries of the highly-regarded
Kwame Nkrukmah, the Ghanaian politician who oversaw the nation’s independence from British rule in 1957. Next week, I will be sharing more details of the daily live events with Westchester Guardian’s readers from AFRIFF.
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News and Notes from Northern Westchester By Mark Jeffers We hope everyone had a peaceful and thoughtful Veteran’s Day. We would like to dedicate this week’s column to all our veterans, thank you for your service and for protecting our great country. It is three days that could help save kid’s lives! We hope you will join 100.7 WHUD and support their 10th Annual Children’s Miracle Network Hospital’s Radio-thon benefiting Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital at Westchester Medical Center, November 12th through November 14th. WHUD’s Mike & Kacey, Tom Furci and Andy Bale will broadcast live from the lobby of the hospital as families tell their story. 100% of the money raised stays local and helps Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital provide care no other hospital in the Hudson Valley can provide.
Over in Katonah, Harvey School’s community venture “Harvey Presents,” next program on Sunday, November 16th will feature Sports columnist and acclaimed author Mike Lupica along with Emmy Award-winning sports broadcaster Jimmy Roberts from NBC and the Golf Channel serving as moderator for an afternoon filled with great stories… Congratulations to Tracy Fitzpatrick for being named the Director at the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, way to go. It is not too late to purchase tickets for one of the eight performances of the Bedford Community Theater’s production of the musical “Oliver.” Weekend shows begin this Friday, November 14th through Sunday, November 23rd including Saturday and Sunday matinees. This is community theater at its best with locals filling spots
from producers to the ensemble with everything in between. Who knew your neighbors were so very talented? This sounds delightful…fresh, locally produced foods and unique handcrafted items can be bought at the new Main Street Market, to be held Sunday, November 16th, 10am to 3pm, and then monthly on select Sundays through March, at the Westchester County Center in White Plains. The market’s vendors and producers, all from the tri-state area, will present local foods, such as cheeses, pickles, meats, baked goods and wine along with hand-made jewelry, soaps and body butters. Many food vendors will offer samples to help shoppers make their selections. Each monthly market will feature live entertainment provided by local musicians from the Hudson Valley and surrounding area; on November 16th
market shoppers can enjoy the musical styles of Petey Hop. Join beading instructor Joan Lloyd as she instructs kids grades six and up (that would include me) on how to design and make earrings out of old and broken jewelry at the Mount Kisco Library on November 18th. The Harlem Wizards are sponsoring a basketball game versus Bedford Central District’s faculty and staff to benefit Bedford Central Schools at Fox Lane High School Gym on Sunday, December 7th, at 2:30pm, doors will open at 1pm. The referee will be Beth Staropoli (Fox Lane High School Athletic Director) and the tip-off will be by Susan Wollin (Board of Education President). Advanced tickets are $15 for students and $20 for general admission. This event could save a life…be prepared, get certified. The American Heart Association will be coming to Westchester MMA Fitness in Mount Kisco to teach a CPR certification seminar on Saturday,
November 15th, 1-4pm. In Bedford, the Foundation for Arts, Music & Education (F.A.M.E.) has raised over $150,000 for a beautiful new courtyard at Fox Lane High School. The space will officially be unveiled next month, but is already being enjoyed by students and will continue to do so for generations to come as a venue for performances, outdoor classes or just for taking a breath of fresh air. The Pleasantville Music Theatre presents “Smelly Feet, A Children’s Musical that Really Stinks,” on November 15th at the Ossining Public Library, gas masks are optional… We had our first fire in the fireplace last week, looks like we will need to clean the chimney soon, so Santa will have a safe entry into our house for the fast approaching Christmas holiday…see you next week. Mark Jeffers resides in Bedford Hills , NY with his wife, Sarah, and three daughters, Kate, Amanda and Claire.
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SUMMONS SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER ------------------------------------------------------------------------x CHAMPION MORTGAGE COMPANY, Plaintiff, Index No.: 54802/2013 D/O/F: April 4, 2013 Premises Address: 37 South 8th Avenue MOUNT VERNON, NY 10550 -againstGEORGE WASHINGTON TURNER AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF JEAN TURNER ; HERSCHEL RIVERS AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF JEAN TURNER; OLAMAE TURNER AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF JEAN TURNER; JOHN DOE 1 THROUGH 10; JANE DOE 1 THROUGH 10, INTENDING TO BE THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF THE ESTATE OF JEAN TURNER WHO WAS BORN ON SEPTEMBER 6, 1934 AND DIED ON MAY 27, 2012, AND WHO DIED IN THE COUNTY OF BRONX, DECEASED AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF ANY OF THE AFORESAID DEFENDANTS WHO MAY BE DECEASED, AND THE RESPECTIVE HEIRS AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN, DISTRIBUTES, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, TRUSTEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, ASSIGNEES AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF THE AFORESAID CLASSES OF PERSON, IF THEY OR ANY OF THEM BE DEAD, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE HUSBANDS, WIVES OR WIDOWS, IF ANY, ALL OF WHOM AND WHOSE NAMES AND PLACES OF RESIDENCE ARE UNKNOWN TO THE PLAINTIFF; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA-INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA O/B/O SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK;; JOHN DOES’’ AND ‘‘JANE DOES’’, SAID NAMES BEING FICTITIOUS, PARTIES INTENDED BEING POSSIBLE TENANTS OR OCCUPANTS OF PREMISES, AND CORPORATIONS, OTHER ENTITIES OR PERSONS WHO CLAIM, OR MAY CLAIM, A LIEN AGAINST THE PREMISES, Defendant(s), ------------------------------------------------------------------------x TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your Answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorneys within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, where service is made by delivery upon you personally within the State, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner, and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. The following notice is intended only for those defendants who are owners of the premises sought to be foreclosed or who are liable upon the debt for which the mortgage stands as security. YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. The present amount of the debt as of the date of this summons: $296,254.56 consisting of principal balance of $289,773.94 plus Broker`s Price Opinion, inspection and miscellaneous charges of $635.00; Corporate Advances of $4,307.93; Attorney fees of $1,000.00 and title search costs of $537.69. Because of interest and other charges that may vary from day to day, the amount due on the day you pay may be greater. Hence, if you pay the amount shown above, an adjustment may be necessary after we receive the check, in which event we will inform you. The name of the creditor to whom the debt is owed: Champion Mortgage Company. Unless you dispute the validity of the debt, or any portion thereof, within thirty (30) days after receipt hereof, the debt will be assumed to be valid by the herein debt collector. If you notify the herein debt collector in writing within thirty (30) days after your receipt hereof that the debt, or any portion thereof, is disputed, we will obtain verification of the debt or a copy of any judgment against you representing the debt and a copy of such verification or judgment will be mailed to you by the herein debt collector. Upon your written request within 30 days after receipt of this notice, the herein debt collector will provide you with the name and address of the original creditor if different from the current creditor. Note: Your time to respond to the summons and complaint differs from your time to dispute the validity of the debt or to request the name and address of the original creditor. Although you have as few as 20 days to respond to the summons and complaint, depending on the manner of service, you still have 30 days from receipt of this summons to dispute the validity of the debt and to request the name and address of the original creditor. TO THE DEFENDANTS: The Plaintiff makes no personal claim against you in this action. TO THE DEFENDANTS: If you have obtained an order of discharge from the Bankruptcy court, which includes this debt, and you have not reaffirmed your liability for this debt, this law firm is not alleging that you have any personal liability for this debt and does not seek a money judgment against you. Even if a discharge has been obtained, this lawsuit to foreclose the mortgage will continue and we will seek a judgment authorizing the sale of the mortgaged premises. Dated: March 31, 2013 ____________________________________ Tyne Modica, Esq. ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff Main Office 51 E Bethpage Road Plainview, NY 11803 516-741-2585 Help For Homeowners In Foreclosure New York State Law requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully. Mortgage foreclosure is a complex process. Some people may approach you about “saving” your home. You should be extremely careful about any such promises. The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. There are government agencies, legal aid entities and other non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about foreclosure while you are working with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Banking Department at 1-877-BANKNYS (1-877-226-5697) or visit the Department’s website at www.banking.state.ny.us. The State does not guarantee the advice of these agencies.
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MOVIE REVIEW
The Judge
Starring Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall By Mary Keon Robert Downey Jr. plays Hank Palmer, the errant son come home to bury his mother and, no surprise, nothing has changed in the small town where he grew up, since the day he left. As the movie progresses, we learn that Hank went to a
finds he suddenly must mount a defense for the client from hell. Most of the action in the film revolves around the characters played by Downey and Duvall, well cast as a father and son who find they must do the hard work of uncovering the truth of their relationship, as they defend a felony indictment.
painting;” with apologies to Picasso fans, this is not a compliment. There are the expected plot devices: the girl he left behind and their last memorable date; the 2 brothers who never left town: one a former high school sports star; the other, a simple guy whom the family needs to look out for. However, the scriptwriter has re-tooled these characters in a refreshing way. The ex-girlfriend still looks great and has a successful business. The former sports star seems to have made a happy life for himself and the simple brother who
Robert Downey Jr., Robert Duvall, and Dax Sheppard in “The Judge” Metallica concert 22 years ago and never returned. Robert Duvall plays Downey’s father, Judge Joseph Palmer- the tough, respected small town Judge from whom he is estranged. En route home from the funeral, Downey learns that the Judge is suddenly in need of an attorney and Downey, now a high priced city lawyer,
Their character flaws and strengths are real and will resonate with many. As the family tension mounts, a tornado blows through town; a visual metaphor for the stormy relationships of this family, whose mailing address is Dysfunction Junction. As Glenn, (Vincent D’Onofrio) Downey’s brother puts it: “ This family is like a Picasso
Billy Bob Thornton in “The Judge”
has chronicled family events on an antique movie camera since childhood, gives us flashbacks of the family’s early years, before their relationships went so tragically astray. There are some really funny scenes of sibling one-upmanship involving close encounters with the garage door as the brothers try to see how close they can get while backing in to the driveway. Billy Bob Thornton is the steely-eyed Prosecutor Dwight Dickham. The script offers two extremely talented actors the ability to play complex characters, with all of their flaws, as they butt heads and try to duke out a loving relationship in the twilight years of the father’s life. Though at times not easy to watch, the family drama is riveting, with tourde-force performances from Downey and Duvall. This is a worthwhile film, which will have you thinking about the characters long after you leave the theatre. Script written by Nick Scheck and Bill Dubuqe. Directed by David Dobkin. Produced by Susan Downey, David Gambino & David Dobkin and Village Roadshow Pictures. Distributed by Warner Brothers Films. MPAA Rating R for language, including some sexual references.
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