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Thursday, OCTOBER 30, 2014

Community/GovernmentSection ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Fidelis Care Celebrates Grand Opening of Yonkers Community Office YONKERS, NY (October 22, 2014) - Fidelis Care, a Statewide health plan with more than 1.1 million members, today celebrated the grand opening of its Yonkers Community Office with a ribbon cutting ceremony and community celebration.

Conveniently located at 419B South Broadway, Yonkers, NY 10705, the Community Office was established to make free or low-cost health insurance coverage easily accessible to neighbors in Yonkers.

“As a mission-based organization, we are committed to reaching the uninsured.

We hope this office is a great resource for the people of all ages in the community, where they can sit down with a representative, ask questions about their health insurance options, and enroll or recertify their coverage,” said Chief Marketing Officer Pamela Hassen.

Fidelis Care offers a variety of coverage options including Medicaid, Child Health Plus, Medicare Advantage, Managed Long Term Care, and products available through NY State of Health: The Official Health Plan Marketplace.

This is an important time of year for people to have access to information about

health insurance options, Hassen explained.

Medicare open enrollment for coverage in 2015 is underway, running until December 7. Open enrollment for products available through NY State of Health: The Official Health Plan Marketplace begins November 15 and runs through February 15 for coverage in 2015.

Fidelis Care’s Yonkers Community Office is open Monday through Saturday, from 10 AM to 6:30 PM. No appointment is necessary.

About Fidelis Care:

As the New York State Catholic Health Plan, Fidelis Care offers quality, affordable coverage for children and adults of all ages and at all stages of life, including products available through NY State of Health: The Official Health Plan Marketplace. With more than 1.1 million members Statewide, Fidelis Care was founded on the belief that all New Yorkers should have access to affordable, quality health insurance.

For more information, call Fidelis Care at 1-888-FIDELIS (1-888-343-3547) or visit fideliscare.org.

Follow us on Twitter at @fideliscare and on Facebook at facebook.com/fideliscare.

Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer David Thomas and President and CEO Rev. Patrick J. Frawley cut the ribbon to officially open Fidelis Care’s Yonkers Community Office. Pictured from left to right: Vice President, Marketing Mark Sclafani, Chief Marketing Officer Pamela Hassen, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer David Thomas, President and CEO Rev. Patrick J. Frawley, Manager, Marketing Joenny De Los Santos, and Director, Marketing George Rodriguez.

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reliable than promised. We are often tricked into thinking that we have a political candidate of quality and substance when in reality campaigns are all advertising and nice packaging. Most of us understand that it is essential to do our research before we make a big financial investment in something. I am amazed and dismayed to see how little research most people put into choosing their political investments.

Since we invest in politics when we cast our vote for particular candidates, I ask you to take a moment to honestly

reflect on how you’ve spent your political capital and take the time to make your next investment wisely. New Yorkers are only a few bad ‘political decisions’ away from turning our great Empire State into the next Detroit, a fallen metropolis whose most recognizable residents are despair, decay and misery.

POLITICS

Life, Liberty and the Illusion of Choice

By Kurt Colucci In times of uncertainty and confusion we look to leaders to help us figure things out. But all evidence points to the fact that they are the ones who are disorienting us. It may not be intentional, but nonetheless the effects are the same.

The debate for New York governor took place this past Wednesday, October 22. As I watched the debate I couldn’t help but feel abused by the organizers behind the event and embarrassed for all those who actually took it seriously.

In a state with nearly 20 million residents, the four candidates were given very specific rules to follow. Each candidate had only one minute to answer questions and a thirty-second rebuttal. One hour was allocated for the televised debate, which looked more like four side-by-side press conferences than an actual debate of ideas. The event was a staged and managed affair; a bread and circus show if you will. It was nothing more than organized propaganda, similar to what you would find in a low-budget infomercial where you know the product that is being sold might have no value but only good marketing behind it. The difference is these “political products” running for governor do not come with a refund guarantee.

The forum was a complete dog and pony show. The one thing lacking was the positive energy of a leader who is a true visionary. The debate lacked the zest and passion of a Jimmy “the rent is too damn high” McMillan or someone else that actually seemed to care about the message itself and not how people interpret the message, and whether or not that interpretation will lead to a favorable vote.

One of the rules was ‘no personal attacks’. Why no personal attacks?

There’s obviously no civility left in politics so why not let them go at each other in a public forum - on display for all to see. I think we would learn more about the true nature of the candidates by allowing them to openly challenge each other. It would be nice if we had a chance to see their ability to argue their ideas and allow voters to gauge their temperament. This would give us a chance to see how the candidates respond to stress and how quickly they can think on their feet. A one-hour debate where the candidates have one

minute to answer questions and 30 seconds for rebuttals does not cut it. I would much rather have an open freefor-all instead of only an hour, which does not even allow enough time to scratch the surface of many of the important issues that are challenging New York State as a whole. In the debate for the highest office in the state, we got nothing more than sound bites and talking points. If the typical New Yorker goes to work for eight hours a day, five days a week, is it too much to ask these candidates to give us more than one hour of debate time?

Unfortunately this is not only a symptom of New York’s political sickness, it is a nationwide problem.

Political debates are now simply staged press conferences that don’t allow for true access to the men themselves.

Instead, we get carefully crafted images projected onto us based on ‘poll harvesting’ and ‘professional campaign advisers’ who make a living by dividing and polarizing people who would otherwise be loyal countrymen to one another.

The candidates stuck to their carefully crafted talking points, which can easily be found on their respective websites or social media pages. These candidates spend millions of other people’s dollars called ‘donations’ on misleading campaign commercials, but when it comes to putting in their time to actually debate one another to show us real differences, sadly, we get carefully crafted and managed events like this.

Is one hour all we, the voting public are worth? I would much rather have watched these four individuals sit down and have a beer or a coffee in some informal location without the rules and the pressure of such a staged event.

The debate, if held in a more informal and open forum would’ve helped voters learn about the candidates and measure their temperament. The voters deserve the chance to make a rational assessment of each candidate’s ability to think quickly and argue their ideas. But instead we were granted the “privilege” of an hour to watch them promote their talking points.

Would it be provocative to watch these candidates sit down together to talk, argue and passionately defend their ideas in a more intimate setting?

Cars, computers, IPod’s, and other “produced goods” are quality products

that are made relatively cheaply. They have short shelf lives and most are neither durable, reliable nor maintenance free. This same logic applies to politicians as well, since most candidates for public office do not always “mean what they say and say what they mean” - in other words, they are not reliable political products. Far too many of those that we have “invested our votes in” have turned out to be less

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GOVERNMENT/COMMUNITY AFFAIRS

Cuomo vs Astorino: The Debate

By NANCY KING

April’s Child Fundraiser Thursday, Nov. 20th at the Doubletree Hilton in Tarrytown

The Child Abuse Prevention Center has been re-named “April’s Child”, underscoring their Mission to enable troubled families to create spring-like new beginnings and growth.

The center reports a 90% success rate, over the past 32 years, which they attribute to their unique ongoing partnering program. In an effort to raise funds that will enable the center to serve the waiting list of families that need their services, and to make their new name better known to the public, April’s Child is hosting a fund-raiser. Long-time supporters of the center, Ed and Eva Beane with be honored during a Gala at the Tarrytown Doubletree Hotel on Thursday, Nov. 20th, from 6-9 PM. Wine and beer tasting tables donated by Corx and Yonkers Brewery will be available to complement the menu and guests will have the opportunity to participate in a silent auction. Call 914.997.2642 for reservations as well as for details on how to donate and volunteer.

Eastchester Library Tag Sale

Friends of the Eastchester Public Library are sponsoring a Tag Sale on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 7 & 8, from 9:30AM -4:30 PM; Sunday, Nov. 9 from 1:30-4:30 PM and on Monday, Nov. 10, from 9:30 AM- 2 PM. Drop off Tag Sale donations, in good condition, at the library: toys, games, puzzles, dishes, bric-a-brac, sports equipment, jewelry, clothing, small electric appliances, lamps, etc. All proceeds benefit the Eastchester Public Library: 11 Oakridge Place, Eastchester, NY 10709. Tickets for the Lord & Taylor Benefit Bash will be available at the sale. T. 914.793.5055 www. eastchesterlibrary.org

Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) and Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino(R) squared off this week in Buffalo for the only debate in their contentious race for Governor. The debate, which lasted for an hour and included Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins and Libertarian candidate Michael McDermott, was less of a debate and more of a verbal slug fest.

Cuomo defended his first term in Albany by highlighting his accomplishments since taking office. County Executive Rob Astorino countered the Governor’s statements by claiming that New York State was last in economic development and that since Cuomo has been in office 400,000

people have moved out of state. Citing high taxes, the ridiculously high cost of living and governmental corruption, Astorino painted a bleak picture of living conditions in New York State under Cuomo. The governor lobbied back at Astorino about the cost of living in Westchester and with that the verbal gloves were off.

Astorino jumped into the ring with his accusation that Cuomo disbanded the Moreland Commission because the anticorruption panel was investigating the governor himself. Astorino even went so far as to say that Cuomo “is swimming in the cesspool of corruption so much so we have a state that only in New York can the anti-corruption committee be corrupted”. Astorino also attacked Cuomo about his campaign contributions saying that Cuomo doled out tax breaks in exchange for 45 million dollars

in donations.

Cuomo struck back by reminding viewers that Astorino himself is being investigated by the Federal government over a housing desegregation settlement in Westchester. Cuomo supported that statement by saying “The Federal government is suing one county executive out of 3,000 in the country for discrimination and it’s Mr. Astorino”. With the HUD suit floating above their respective heads, the candidates turned to accusing one another of discrimination and racism. Cuomo told the audience that Astorino is an ultra-conservative who disrespects women and minorities and Astorino lobbied back that the Governor threw out the race card because he has no ideas for New York.

For an hour viewers were treated to the two candidates from Westchester trading insults. Neither candidate appeared to have a clear message or platform, they merely just traded insults. From the doomed Common

Core educational reform program in the state to arguing about who was responsible for the meager tax reduction in Westchester, this debate didn’t offer voters a single thing.

As a matter of fact, the only candidates who were prepared to debate were Mr. Hawkins and Mr. McDermott.

Mr. Hawkins at least promised to raise the minimum wage, ban fracking and legalize marijuana while Mr. McDermott said he was just happy to be there and thanked Cuomo for the invitation. As for we voters, we’ll be heading off to the polls without a plan from either candidate for alleviating poverty and crime in the state. There was no talk of job creation or economic development either. Voters were left shaking their heads and shrugging their shoulders after this non-debate. With no additional debates scheduled, it will be up to the voters to cast their ballots on Election Day and hope for the best.

LITERATURE

On His Own Terms

By Nancy King If you’re a baby boomer over 55 and a life- long New Yorker, you probably remember four-term Governor and former Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller. Much has been written about the Rockefeller family ranging from their founding of Standard Oil, to their endowment of the family estate in Pocantico Hills to Historic Hudson Valley and their philanthropy to the arts.

Little information however was ever written though about Nelson Rockefeller. This week, noted historian and author Professor Richard Norton Smith released the most comprehensive biography to date of the man whose vision and leadership has continued to influence New York today. This week I had the opportunity to participate in a roundtable interview with Professor Smith on WVOX radio. What I took away from Professor Smith, who spent 16 years writing this biography, was the realization that Nelson Rockefeller may have been New York State’s greatest leader ever.

A different kind of Republican than what we see today, Nelson Rockefeller described himself as a social liberal and a fiscal conservative. He drew his inspiration from Abraham Lincoln and openly criticized his own political party and insisted that the GOP move away from a position of being “preachers of racism or extremists of reaction”. It was this belief in reaching across the aisle to govern that gave birth to

the description of moderate Republicans as “Rockefeller Republicans”. It was this sort of bi-partisanship that helped New York live up to its Empire State status.

We can thank Nelson Rockefeller for the SUNY system of higher education.

He believed that the culture of poverty could only be broken by providing affordable public education for all.

He established the MTA to subsidize mass transportation and you can thank the late Governor for those hefty tolls we pay every time we cross the Triborough Bridge.

When NBC threatened to leave the city and take live TV with them, it was Nelson Rockefeller who commissioned engineers to design and implement the movable stages that we see on Saturday Night Live.

With a life- long passion for the arts, Rockefeller was a cultural pioneer as well.

He was the driving force in finding a permanent home for MoMA and introduced Americans to abstract art and invited all New Yorkers, to explore art through free museums. This passion resulted in New York being the first state to form an arts council that promoted arts throughout the state.

In 1965, the federal government followed Rockefeller’s lead and formed the National Endowment for the Arts.

Arts weren’t the only thing that has put New York on the map. The Rockefeller family supplied the money that kept the United Nations in New York when it originally planned on moving to Philadelphia.

With money and persuasiveness, Nelson Rockefeller supervised the design and construction of the UN’s complex on the river

front. We can also thank the late Governor for Battery Park City in lower Manhattan, Roosevelt Island and Albany’s Empire State Plaza.

For everything he accomplished in New York State however, Rockefeller never fulfilled his dream of becoming President of the United States. Nelson Rockefeller ran for that office three times and lost all three times. Historians have blamed those losses on being affiliated with the wrong party, his known womanizing and above all, his handling of the Attica prison uprising where 43 guards and inmates died during a prison insurrection. Rockefeller never visited the prison during the uprising and many people still feel that his on site presence may have changed the fate of that intense hostage situation.

Professor Smith’s biography is a rich and colorful read. New Yorkers, and readers from around the globe are treated to an in depth and fascinating accounting of a complex man that current and future politicians and elected officials could learn from. But what any reader or New Yorker will take from this biography comes directly from Nelson Rockefeller himself; “Do what you think is right in this world, others will follow”.

Nancty King is a freelance writer in Westchester.

On His Own Terms

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JUSTICE

Leaning On The Scales of Justice On Thursday, Oct. 23, our publisher, Sam Zherka, and his attorneys returned to Judge Seibel’s, courtroom to present arguments for bail, for the second time. At deadline, our publisher has been held without bail for 5 weeks, effectively punishing him before he has had the opportunity to answer his accusers in a jury trial. Fred Hafetz, Mr. Zherka’s lead attorney, cited extensive case law in support of bail, noting that Mafia Dons and known Drug Lords make bail and that the U. S. Attorneys, despite a nearly 3 year investigation, presented not a single case to justify lack of bail for our publisher. Apparently, that was not necessary. Perhaps there is some other agenda at hand.

Editors Corrections

With apologies to John Simon for my oversights last week, in his review of On The Town, he in the first sentence should have been the. In the list of songs, a song is mentioned to console Gabey for being love-lorn and we wish to note that there is no hyphen in lovelorn. Also, Ms. Fairchild is a principal dancer rather than a prima ballerina. We apologize for these oversights and will strive to do better, going forward. MK

COMMUNITY RELATIONS

What We Can Learn From A Eulogy For Peace By Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ended, something deeper remains – their true essence – their souls.

So much more could have been said. So much anger could have spewed from that pulpit. A justified anger from decades, generations of mistreatment, that today seems so alien to many, but not all. The Reverend could have easily launched our fragile nation

By Glenn Slaby Addie Mae Collins (14), Carol Denise McNair (11), Cynthia Diane Wesley (14) and Carole Robertson (14) – forgotten names of four young girls killed by blinding, disgusting hatred - victims of the Birmingham, Alabama, Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing. On September 15, 1953, bigotry in all its ugliness struck a dagger into the American soul, barely a month after his I Have a Dream speech. Three days later, Reverend King delivered the eulogy in the midst of confusion, shock, sadness and more riots.

Birmingham where bombings were so frequent that the city was called ‘Bombingham’. The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, was the center of civil rights activities and the bombing was the third, in the eleven days after a court order mandated school integration A week before the murders, Governor George Wallace was quoted in the NY Times saying that Alabama needed a “few first class funerals” to stop integration. Over eight thousand people and eight hundred clergy – of all races-attended the funeral, uniting against hatred and showing the dark side of this nation what America can really stand for.

“This afternoon we gather …. to pay our last tribute of respect to these beautiful children of God.” This man of God invokes these four,

into a racial war whose scars would never heal, but he went beyond this physical plane to the deeper, unseen world. We were fortunate for such demeanor. He knew hate causes/creates more hate.

“They are martyred heroines of a holy crusade….” reinforces that their struggles and sacrifices have Biblical roots and

connotes that our struggles, fights and sacrifices will continue.

A challenge is laid bare to those seemingly ambivalent, to the American racial tragedy, by declaring their deaths meaningful. The bombing has sent a message to every facet of society, every politician, Dixiecrats,

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And these children, from God, have entered eternity from which they came – like every single human being ever conceived. The first paragraph unites our dysfunctional society.

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What We Can Learn From A Eulogy For Peace By Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Continued from page 5

right-wing northern Republicans, every passive Negro. “They say to each of us, black and white alike, that we must substitute courage for caution. They say to each of us that we must be concerned…about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers.” Where is our Christian faith? We are all accountable. Our system must be challenged not just in 1963 but today, tomorrow, by every generation – a democracy can never rest on past laurels of success.

I have heard it said that God can create good out of evil. History and faith can point to such in our times. “The death of these little children may lead our whole Southland from the low road of man’s inhumanity to man to the high road of peace and brotherhood.

These tragic deaths may lead our nation to substitute an aristocracy of character for an aristocracy of color. Indeed this tragic event may cause the white South to come to terms with its conscience.” Today, there is a more

sublime discrimination. Overtness has been replaced by subtle acts of the conscience and sub-conscience by both the individual and society.

Faith and hope for both the individual and society, on all levels of the psyche must be sought and obtained. Violence is the result when methods of communication fails, hope fails and faith in reason no longer exists. “….in spite of the darkness of this hour, we must not despair. We must not become bitter, nor must we harbor …the desire to retaliate with violence. No, we must not lose faith in our white brothers. Somehow we must believe that the most misguided…. can learn to respect the dignity and the worth of all human personality.” The Reverend is virtually pleading against the voices of retaliation in his own quarter, knowing that such actions are never a means to an end. Hate begets hate. Violence begets violence. But protest occurred later that Sunday.

The second half of the eulogy focuses on the greatest horror a parent can experience

– the loss of a child. Unnecessary, useless platitudes are wasted words and Reverend King confirms, “It is almost impossible to say anything that can console you at this difficult hour and remove the deep clouds of disappointment which are floating in your mental skies.” Maybe Christianity’s affirmation that death is not the end is of some comfort. It is not a period that ends the great sentence of life, but a comma that punctuates it to more lofty significance. “Death is…an open door which leads man into life eternal.” Death is the great equalizer, one cannot hide from it and one cannot escape judgment.

Loneliness, the desolation of these losses should not be the way of your mourning and quantity of years has nothing to do with quality. He speaks of the harshness life offers amid its beauty and how this beauty and pain are, “Like the ever-changing cycle of the seasons.”

The final paragraph continues for as parents they must be proud, “No greater tribute can be paid to you as parents, and

no greater epitaph can come to them as children, than where they died and what they were doing when they died.” – “between the sacred walls of the church of God….discussing the meaning of love.”

Protest followed and two more African-American males were killed that day. One was shot by a policeman; the other was shot while riding a bicycle in a residential neighborhood. (Names are remembered only by their families). The National Guard

was called in to restore order and it was reported that the FBI under the direction of J. Edgar Hoover withheld evidence from the prosecution. Two months later, President Kennedy was assassinated.The history books for the young African-American of today can represent nothing but a series of struggles, lies and disappointments.

He never condemns the destroyers of life to eternal damnation, but raises up the victims and paraphrases Shakespeare, “Good night, sweet princesses. Good night, those who symbolize a new day. And may the flight of angels take thee to thy eternal rest.

God Bless.”

Notes: The funeral was for three of the four children. The family of the fourth victim of hate, Carole Robinson, held a small, separate, private service.

The written version is different from the audio version. Three paragraphs were omitted/edited from the audio broadcast or possibly Dr. King for some reason did not include the entirety of what he had written.

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Mayor Bramson Discusses New Rochelle’s Downtown

by Peggy Godfrey New Rochelle City Council on October 7 approved allowing RDRXR to be a master developer for the largest project ever for the city’s downtown. The railroad station and downtown areas will be transformed.

This company is being viewed as a master developer, which will take a comprehensive view of downtown. RD or Renaissance Downtown, and RXR Realty.LLC are combining their services to focus on real estate investment.

The next night, October 8, at the Residence Park Neighborhood Association meeting, Mayor Noam Bramson addressed

the members about this proposed RDRXR development proposal. He claimed “hard choices” were necessary to attract development. In order for the city government to make the city “better,” a “controversial decision” may be necessary. He urged the group to stand up and say something supportive, so the city can get to a better place.

“Tough steps” in his view were necessary.

After speaking of the better days of New Rochelle, Bramson emphasized, he did not want to make the city what it was.

He faulted previous city leaderships for not having a sense the city was changing.

If residents want better stores the prospective owners need to feel confident they can make money. Instead of lamenting about downtown New Rochelle, Bramson wants

to do something about it.

Questions by members followed.

Bramson said the Main and Huguenot Street area plus especially near the train station would be involved as a nucleus.

Later private property might be acquired for development. An overlay zone would help “kindle the fire” for reinvestment in private property. One member of Residence Park was particularly adamant that the agreement with this new proposal should not allow any developers to go to the Industrial Development Corporation (IDA). However, Bramson while respectful of his viewpoint, answered, “We will never have any development without tax abatements.” He continued, businesses need to make money, and the city is competing with New York

City, Stamford and White Plains. Tax breaks are given to companies so they will relocate here. Otherwise, Bramson said, we can “resign ourselves to a downtown that is the same as it is today.”

In answer to a question by another member, Bramson said to make a better city, “controversial decisions were necessary.”

When asked about downtown development, Bramson reinforced he did not want to make it what it was, alluding to previous city leadership, he said they did not realize the city was changing. He then added, “If you want better stores” here, prospective owners have to feel they are in an environment “where they can make money.” Another member said he had an important question: would the city insist a developer could not go to

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the IDA (Industrial Development Agency) to lower their taxes from tax abatements.

The answer by Bramson was, “We will never have development without tax abatements.”

He added, businesses come to make money.

In closing, Bramson said New Rochelle had come a long way, but still had a long way to go.

Two councilmen who attended this meeting commented briefly on this proposed downtown plan. Councilman Ivar Hyden wanted to ensure a bipartisan sense for this project. Councilman Al Tarantino added that he did not want to “take control of private property.” Hyden brought up the increasing amount of panhandling in downtown. Tarantino alluded to previous developments in the downtown that had brought no benefits to the city.

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GOVERNMENT/COMMUNITY

Multiculturalism: The Social Equivalent to a Participation Trophy

By LUKE HAMILTON Liberals have given us some silly ideas over the years. Gun-free zones.

Public-sector unions.

Socialized medicine. On and on. The list is extensive, but one of the dumbest ideas to emerge from the intellectual vacuum known as modern liberalism has to be the concept of Multiculturalism.

Multiculturalism is the silly idea that all cultures are equally worthwhile.

It posits that cultural worth isn’t something that can be objectively measured or assessed, but is instead a matter of subjective perspective. Multiculturalism dovetails very nicely with moral relativism, the idea that morality is just a matter of opinion. So if an action or cultural practice isn’t inherently Good, or Bad, then it follows that the global contributions of that culture cannot be deemed worthwhile or worthless, but must be viewed through the context of that culture itself. Or so the argument goes.

This is why you will never hear a true blue bleeding-heart speak dismissively of Islamic culture. Rational beings would look at the paucity of civil rights held by women in Islamic communities, coupled with the forcible denial of religious freedoms to any non-Islamic minorities, and find Islamic culture to be less worthy of emulation or adoption than more liberal options. Not liberals. They can’t articulate a judgment between two cultures, because that would force them to admit that there is an objective means to measure actions and practices; and that would open up a can of worms which squirm more than relativists trapped by their own illogic.

Of course, this unwillingness to form an objective judgment at a cultural level will never prevent liberals from castigating Israel from sun-up to sundown for being a blood-thirsty people who prey on innocent victims. (Don’t think too long on that contradiction. They certainly haven’t...)

Nope, all cultures are equally valid and no aspects of any one culture should be favored over another!! Since all cultures are equally valid, it’s wrong (no contradiction there) to break down the boundaries of cultural adherence. In fact, the perception among multiculturalists is that encouraging cultural assimilation is rapacious and dictatorial. No longer should we seek to be a “melting pot” which creates a bouquet of cultural flavors in one united American

fondue. Instead we’ve become that OCD kid who won’t eat his dinner if a french fry grazes his mac-and-cheese, demanding a separate plate to keep each segment of his meal completely segregated.

The result is social balkanization, increased tribalism, and a deteriorating cultural fabric.

By giving each culture a participation trophy, Multiculturalism isn’t strengthening society.

It’s weakening us by inhibiting cohesion, cooperation, and communal development.

Imagine running a company with this mentality. What if each department of General Motors was celebrated for the unique way they designed and produced their portion of the automobile? If the parts are produced in a manner incompatible with each other, we’d blame the disparate departments who are operating independently of each other. And when the cars get recalled by the million, due to faulty design and incompatible workmanship, the blame could be placed squarely on the policy which suggested that incompatible diversity would make better cars.

Mind-numbingly stupid, isn’t it? The celebration of something simply because it is different, irrespective of worth or validity, is idiocy.

“When Europeans first discovered paper and printing from China, they did not ‘celebrate diversity’, they stopped giving themselves writers’ cramp from copying scrolls and started letting the printing presses do the work. When American Indians saw horses for the first time after Europeans brought them here, they did not ‘celebrate diversity’, they started riding off to hunt instead of walking.” - Thomas Sowell Multiculturalism is cultural socialism. Those in power pick winners and losers, with the losers usually being the most productive or the most successful, historically. Just like political socialism, in multiculturalism, the population is strong-armed into ideological adherence instead of allowed to choose the best of the options available to them. And just like political socialism, in a multiculturalist society, free-market principles are not

allowed to exert their purifying influence as they are in the “melting pot” model. If we think back to when America’s culture was its most vibrant and influential, we can readily recognize the distinct and powerful themes which different cultures brought to the American table; not because every culture in America had something worthwhile to offer, but because (for the most part) we incorporated what worked and ditched what didn’t. This is how any entity gets stronger and builds greater cohesion among its parts.

The ideal that the ancient Greeks sought in their time was “university”. The original meaning behind this phrase was not an institution of higher learning, but the presence of unity within diversity. This paradox taps into the strengths of both phenomena and promotes stability. When we are at our strongest and healthiest is when we channel our natural diversity into our national unity. Multiculturalism, as is the case with most leftist ideas, stands this on its head by demanding diversity at the cost of unity.

Luke Hamilton is 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.

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Creative Disruption

How Internet Technology Changes Us

by John F. McMullen In the early days of telecommunications before the Internet connected us all, people joined services such as “The Source,” “CompuServe,” and “America OnLine” (AOL) to learn, band together in service groups (Alcoholics Anonymous, Cancer Support, etc.) and to just talk to others in chat rooms and private conversations.

AOL executives, for one, knew that many of these private conversations had to do with sexual material and on-line assignations and this was an important aspect of its marketing success but, for obvious reasons, never mentioned it in its actual marketing.

When the Internet connected everything “text-based virtual reality worlds” sprung up all over the place – first there were MUDs (“Multiple User Dimensions” – or “Dungeons”), used for role playing games a la “Dungeons and Dragons;” the MUSHes (“Multiple User Shells”); and finally MOOs (“Multiple User Dimensions – Object Oriented”), developed at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (“PARC”).

MOOs became centers for scientific meetings and research (“BioMOO,” hosted at Technion University in Israel), educational experimentation (“Diversity University”), media and communications (“Media MOO” at MIT), the first MOO,

“Lambda MOO,” hosted at Xerox Park and a virtual world where the “citizens” set up their own rules and governance – as well as many others.

Lambda’s attempt to set up its own governance was severely tested when one male character through typed words and programming caused a female character to “feel sexually violated” and she called upon the governors to remove that person from the MOO -- The story was documented in a front page Village Voice article by Julian Dibbell, “Rape in Cyberspace” in December 1993. The article, somewhat modified, served as the introductory chapter to his 1998 book, “My Tiny Life” -- http://www.juliandibbell.com/ The articles/a-rape-in-cyberspace/. thrust of the article was not really the sexual aspect of the scenario (although it was described) but rather the discussion about what to do about the action – the perpetrator had not committed a physical act; he was, after all, typing. Did he then have the protection of free speech? – or did the group have the right to punish him for his virtual sexual assault? --- he was, in fact, after discussions “toaded” (his character was eliminated). The action caused much discussion and, at a conference at New York University Law School on the subject, Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder (and ex-Grateful Dead lyrist) John Perry Barlow opined “We have

to learn to live in a world where the flesh becomes word.”

The draw of these MOOs were extremely strong among academics, researchers, college students, and many others and many really left the physical world for the virtual one (some referred to the physical world as the “real world;” I never did because both worlds were real to those planted in both). The draw was so strong that many college students were allowing their schoolwork to deteriorate to the point that they were in danger of dismissal (I knew of one student who, after expulsion, was much more concerned that he “had lost his access” than what ramifications his failing out of college would have on his life). In 2000, Barbara McMullen, at that time director of e-commerce initiatives at Poughkeepsie’s Marist College, was quoted in the Christian Science Monitor (http://www.csmonitor.com/2000/0711/ p11s1.html) as describing the students she called “Internet vampires”, students who straggle out of the computing center at 5 a.m. after a night of chatting online or playing multi-user dimension games, as “These kids sleep all day, are up all night using the computer to communicate with anybody or everybody. In the morning they go home when sun comes out, go to sleep, and miss their classes.”

College students were not the only ones -- married and committed folks

plunged into on-line relationships impacting their physical world commitments; and workers spent MOOtime in their offices, often losing their jobs as a result.

It soon became obvious to researchers and psychologists that such online behavior could be classified as “addictive”.

One of the first to recognize this was Dr. Kimberly S. Young, whose 1998 book “Caught in the Net: How to Recognize the Signs of Internet Addiction--and a Winning Strategy for Recovery,” opened the eyes of many about the pitfalls of immersion in the Internet. Dr. Young, who has written ten other books on the general subject (Amazon author page -- http://www.amazon.com/Kimberly-S.Young/e/B001IQXCBE/), including the 2014 “Sexting, Snapchat, and other forms of Online Porn Addiction and Internet Infidelity”, also founded the “Center for Internet Addiction Recovery” in 1995 and has received numerous honors for her work in the field.

In the beginning, it was difficult for some to accept the fact that one could be addicted to the Internet – after all, you weren’t putting some foreign substance like tobacco, alcohol, or hard drugs into your body – so how could it be an addiction (they conveniently overlooked gambling which had already been accepted as an addiction)? Additionally, many people, workers and students alike, had to spend much of their time online as part of their dayto-day responsibilities. Finally, many of the self-help groups that spouted up to

aid those addicted met on-line (we don’t have AA meetings in bars!). One could only fall back on the question asked in AA meetings -- “Is it interfering in your life?”

– not how much do your drink (or how many hours online)? -- “Is it interfering in your life?”

One might think that in the twenty years since the hay days of MOOs and development of the World Wide Web that we would have left the specter of Internet addiction behind us. Not so – all we have to do is see a group of students all wedded to their smartphones instead of interacting verbally and physical with each other. One of my college students recently gave a presentation on it and said that she really didn’t understand the depth of her addiction until her parents arranged for an “Intervention” – now she does realize it but has to fight it constantly as much of her classwork (including for my course) requires heavy online work.

We know much more about our brains now than when the debate on Internet addiction began. We now speak of the “plasticity of the brain” – how the brain adapts to new challenges, generating new tools and discarding those no longer used. In a previous Westchester Guardian column, “Do you have a Bi-Literate brain?” (www.westchesterguardian.com/10_2_14/wg_10_2_fin. pdf), I quote Tufts University professor Maryanne Wolf, explaining this plasticity in terms of the transition to reading after the invention of the printing press,

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powerful that has come along since the book.”

Very heady stuff – but this is far from all the changes that the Internet has brought upon us (or, rather, that we have brought upon ourselves). There are many more changes that have developed in the way humans react to and with technology in the last twenty years than in generations before – and these will be explored in next week’s column.

Next week: The “Outboard Brain” – and more!

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.

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as she wrote in the first paragraph of the first chapter of her 2007 book, “Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain,” “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.”

Nicholas Carr, writing in his 2011 “The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains,” explains the impact of the Internet upon us, writing “One thing is very clear: if, knowing what we know today about the brain’s plasticity, you were to set out

to invent a medium that would rewire our mental circuits as quickly and thoroughly as possible, you would probably end up designing something that looks and works a lot like the Internet. It’s not just that we tend to use the Net regularly, even obsessively. It’s that the Net delivers precisely the kind of sensory and cognitive stimuli – repetitive, intensive, interactive, addictive – that have been shown to result in strong and rapid alterations in brain circuits and functions. With the exception of alphabets and number systems, the Net may well be the single most powerful mind-altering technology that has ever come into general use. At the very least, it’s the most

Creative Disruption is a continuing series examining the impact of constantly

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. © 2014 John F. McMullen

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Arts & EntertainmentSection EYE ON THEATRE

A Pair of Peaches

By John Simon Disgraced

Even though short, barely 90 minutes, “Disgraced,” by Ayad Akhtar, is hard for a reviewer to do justice to it. An exceptionally intelligent and complex play, it depends so much on finely observed details and dizzying plot twists that anything communicable in a not way overlong notice simplifies it down to a level it is actually far above.

Author Akhtar seems to know a lot of things—from the shady goings-on in a leading law firm, to the paintings of Velazquez; from white Jewish to black feminist sensibilities—this is as riveting to watch as it is difficult to write about. Most reviews have focused on a disturbing dinner party that is indeed the show’s centerpiece, but that, as the saying goes, isn’t the half of it.

What we have here essentially, though greatly fictionalized, is the quasiautobiographical story of Amir Kapoor, a Pakistan-born but thoroughly Americanized

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Amir is married to Emily, a WASP painter fascinated by Islamic art, even though he himself has repudiated any Muslim connections. He has helped the career at his firm of Jory, a black woman, but not, he assumes, to the point of her being preferred over him for promotion to partner status. And not only bypassed, but also ultimately fired, when a Times article mistakenly mentions him as defender of an imam accused of promoting terrorism.

At his wife’s insistence, he did reluctantly interview the imam, but strictly

avoided joining his defense team. Only at the urging of his Islamizing wife and a nephew, Hussein, who comes to regret his Americanization as Abe, did he do something contrary to his atheistic, anti-Muslim beliefs.

Emily’s success as a painter owes much to the friendship with Isaac, a Jewish Whitney Museum curator and Jory’s husband. He has done much to promote Emily’s work, but his Jewishness will become the flash point of sudden hostility toward Amir, who sympathizes with Palestinian efforts toward statehood, perhaps even to Israelis being driven into the sea.

Complicating matters is that at a London art conference, Isaac and Emily,

lonely there, lapsed into a sexual one-night stand. This briefest of infidelities inadvertently surfaces at the dinner party given by Amir and Emily for Isaac and Jory, with serious consequences for the latter marriage and dire ones for the former. A brutal, harrowingly staged beating (by Kimberly Senior, who ably directed the show) will lead to the end of a marriage and Amir’s heartbreak. To the latter, Jory’s promotion added further hemlock.

This is how much I can tell you, though there is a great deal more within the play’s short span. Staunchly contributing is the surefire casting, based partly on last year’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Off Broadway

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extending that precociousjuvenile quality into many more successes.

It was said of Dickinson that she remained childlike through her fifty-odd years, and so an ideal subject for Harris. Joely Richardson, who embodies her now, is a very different sort of actress, but no less admirable.

Hers is an elder-child quality at the utmost, with quicksilver moods, temperamental or dreamy, romantically inclined but corseted and mischievously sardonic. All of this Ms. Richardson variously conveys.

With the aid of the director, Steve Cosson, she gives a performance that is thoroughly moving, in both senses of that word. There is enough locomotion, gesturing, tempo-changing, pausing and pulsating, to convey a lifetime of

Well, Luce’s Dickinson is more forthcoming, welcoming the audience that she perkily addresses in a way the real Dickinson wouldn’t have dreamt of, but what is presumably necessary in a show. Helpful, too, are Antje Ellerman’s chaste period set, William Ivey Long’s understatedly attractive white gown, and David Weiner’s agile lighting.

And, to be sure, Luce’s writing, which seamlessly weds biography with invention. Even if, like me, you are not keen on one-person shows, you’ll find this monodrama far from monotonous.

John Simon has written for over 50 years on theatre, film, literature, music and fine arts for the Hudson Review, New Leader, New Criterion, National Review, New York Magazine, Opera News, Weekly Standard, Broadway.com and Bloomberg News. He reviews books for the New York Times Book Review and Washington Post. To learn more, visit the www.JohnSimon-Uncensored.com website.

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production of the play, and partly on a recent London mounting.

Extremely handsome Hari Dhilon is superb as Amir, first wonderfully selfsatisfied, later tragically humbled. Gretchen

of Amherst,” I read again a number of her poems. What an extraordinary poet she was!

She could write as ease fully formal as free verse, much of it challenging interpretation, placing her, along with Whitman, among the first modernist poets in English. And one who wrote nearly 1800 poems at that.

For this reclusive woman who spurned

Hari Dhillon and Karen Pittman in Disgraced Mol is totally convincing as Emily, who exemplarily undergoes a huge change from warm to icy; and Danny Ashok (Abe), Josh Radnor (Isaac) and Karen Pittman (Jory) form a powerful supporting cast. Expert décor by John Lee Beatty, costuming by Jennifer von Mayrhauser, and lighting by Kenneth Posner, round out a play and production you would be unwise to miss.

The Belle of Amherst

In preparation for reviewing (or re-reviewing—I saw the 1976 premier production) of William Luce’s one-woman show about Emily Dickinson, “The Belle

publication (only seven, anonymous poems), writing was a kind of stylized diary, a record of intimate or transcendent thoughts and emotions, as a substitute for, or sublimation of, the events or non-events of her uneventful life. It is like turning what could have been prosaic snapshots into a rich tapestry—or, if you prefer, exquisite miniatures, suggesting vertiginous depths under the serene-seeming surface.

Luce, also the author of the effective monodrama “Barrymore,” studied the Dickinson poems, letters and biographies for years—everything available about this ironically self-styled Belle of Amherst, a

woman cloistered in her family home within a strongly confining town in a Puritan New England, but managing to transcend restraint in poems soaring sky-high and delving soul-deep.

Julie Harris, for whom the 1976 show was written, was, besides a Dickinson lover, the most childlike actress in the American theater, one who never seemed much older than the teen-aged heroine, Frankie, of Carson McCullers’s “The Member of the Wedding,” whom she so perfectly portrayed,

Joely Richardson in The Belle of Amherst inwardness and poetic outreach in a play of roughly two hours and intermission.

She is, of course, further aided by the script’s comprising quite a few of Dickinson’s poems, which the actress delivers with commendable poise, neither too much nor too little difference from the surrounding prose.

She is able even, partly through a convincingly severe auburn wig, to be less pretty than she really is, though still, I suspect, more so than the real Emily. If that is a flaw, it is an easily forgivable one.

Disgraced

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CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES

A Single Word

By Sherif Awad Mariama Sylla Faye is a typical product of the Senegalese cinema. She has been attending the cinema circle thanks to her mother, who worked at the national film

office and her elder sister Khady Sylla, who was a filmmaker, since she was seventeen. Mariama also discovered cinema of the 1970s, through films projected onto a white sheet, by her mother, at the family home. After finishing her studies, she worked as a director and producer creating film through her production company, GuissGuissCom, including “Dakar Deuk Raw” (2008); “Skirmisher Marc Gueye: My Pen, My Fight” (2010) and her newest

documentary “A Single Word” (2014); codirected with the Khady, who passed away last year during the editing of this film.

“A Simple Word” premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) last September, a tribute to their ancestors, by the Sylla Sisters. It is a documentary that draws a picture of their traditional oral culture, transmitted through their grandmother griot

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(meaning a storyteller), whose name was Penda Diogo Sarr. The old woman was one of the last repositories of their culture’s oral tradition; one of the last remaining guarantors of genealogical memory.

Mariama is presenting the seventh collaboration with her elder sister, who considers this, the most accomplished of their work. “I started working with my sister at the age of seventeen”, remembered Mariama. “She was the one who trained me and introduced me to cinema and scriptwriting. The person I am today is the result of this long journey with Khady, the first-born of our family. I am the youngest and she and I often laughed about being at these two ends, despite the difference in age and education, we were able to come together”.

But how was this film conceived?

“The idea for the film came one day when, while sitting on a mat next to our great grandmother, her voice broke the silence of the evening sunset and the purple twilight”, said Mariam. “She sang of her ancestors. Her slightly husky voice, the emotion that it carried, moved us deeply. Though we were not able to record these words, that came from the depths of time, we were satisfied with listening to the voice of this centenarian, with whom we had woven so many ties. It is from this moment that we had a desire to make a film about the oral tradition but seen from the perspective of our family, because we had realized

that being of a generation of the written word, that this manner of relaying the word had escaped us”.

The two sisters-filmmakers went on to film several takes as Penda taught them the words. They asked her to teach them the foundations of oral culture. She was very happy to do so, patiently repeating the words of a verse about three of their ancestors.

Our grandmother is experiencing simultaneous losses: that of her own life, due to her advanced age, and that of the world that witnessed her birth into the world of the Wolof peasantry. And that is why every time she meets her grandchildren, this meeting is highly emotional.

All of the imperceptible emotion that is shown in the

Sylla sisters and their grandmother

Kahady Sylla

film comes from this sense of loss. “A Single Word” is not an ethnographic film about speaking, but it is rather a portrait questioning the whole world.

The film also raises many questions about the future of mankind and the disappearance of what binds us. “Our African society has been built communally, so the family was built as a community: we could go from yard to yard, for example between several houses”, explained Mariama “We believe that the destruction of this nucleus is also the destruction of some form of society. We also believe that losing these values is not positive, if it is true that what we take from the other is still a contribution, we must take what comes from abroad,

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By Mary Keon

What do you do when your ho-hum life of quiet desperation with Fred the finance guy and father of your children suddenly collides with your first and only true love 21 years later?

Warning, Chick Flick Alert! The Best of Me, based upon the novel by Nicholas Sparks is the story of Dawson and Amanda: high school sweet hearts who just can’t catch a break.

If you had a second chance to work things out with your one and only true love, would you take it, moving heaven and earth to make everything right?

Or, would you continue to rationalize the life of aching loneliness you have created, consoling yourself with the thought that there a larger plan for you both; one that you just cannot see right now?

The characters are well drawn and well enacted; you will root for them to the very end. Yet the storyline feels formulaic and predictable.

The script, written by Nicholas Sparks, Michael Hoffman, J. Mills Goodloe and Will Fetters flows between the present, when Nick and Amanda are thrown together to bury a dear friend, and 1993, their high school

senior year. Nick and Amanda live in Louisiana- not far from Baton Rouge and the verdant landscape takes on its own personae as a lush backdrop for love. Amanda comes from an affluent family, but is intrigued by the cute, nerdy guy from the way wrong side of town. Nick, we learn, has run away from his family of abusive, evil hillbillies, taken in by the random stranger, whose shed he broke into for shelter.

The movie stars James Marsden as the smoking hot 39 year old Dawson who is way cuter than ex-boyfriends have a right to be; Luke Bracey plays young Dawson, a handsome, straight A student with a with a talent for mechanics and a take-charge attitude. Michelle Monaghan plays the adult Amanda

Collier with great insight; Liana Liberato is excellent as the passionate, teenager. Gerald McRaney is rock solid as Tuck, the lonely widower who offers Dawson refuge from his psycho family and whose death is the occasion for Amanda and Dawson’s reunion.

Jon Tenney (the Closer) plays Harvey Collier, Amanda’s loving, but practical father, who sizes up her future as part of Dawson’s family, pretty accurately.

This is a three-hanky movie and Nick Spark’s fans will no doubt love the show. Guys, if you lost the quarter flip and this is your girl’s date night pick, remember, there is always Football to look forward to on Sunday and Monday! Directed by Michael Hoffman. Rated: PG 13.

only what makes us move forward; it must be adjusted to our needs. We also need to keep well, what is good in our society, because if you do not keep it well, you are only copying, you might also take what is negative.

We believe that oral tradition plays a major role in family relationships. We see in major capitals, such as Dakar, how family ties are in the process of breaking up because nobody talks to his neighbor.

We believe that the disappearance of this ancient word of our grandmother is linked to the disappearance of our family ties: we will lose this speech and family at the same time. We have been forced for a long time since colonization, to be a generation of writing and validating the thesis that what is not written does not exist. Hence the thesis that African history is not written and therefore does not exist that is not true; it existed, because there were old men and women who held the whole history with specific dates and specific facts”.

Born in Cairo, Egypt, Sherif Awad is a film / video critic and curator. He is the film editor of Egypt Today Magazine (www.EgyptToday. com), and the artistic director for both the Alexandria Film Festival, in Egypt, and the Arab Rotterdam Festival, in The Netherlands.

He also contributes to Variety, in the United States, and is the film critic of Variety Arabia (http://varietyarabia.com/), in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Al-Masry Al-Youm Website (http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/ node/198132) and The Westchester Guardian (www.WestchesterGuardian.com).

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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.

MAGEN INTERNATIONAL, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 9/8/14. Office in Westchester Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to C/O Stern Keiser & Panken, LLP 1025 Westchester Ave White Plains, NY 10604.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of formation of MORILLO PROPERTY, LLC . Art. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/11/2014. Office in Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: P.O. Box 485, Fleetwood, New York 10552. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC). NAME: Unicorp International, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/19/14.

Office location: Westchester County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: Unicorp International, 128 Fuller Road, Briarcliff Manor, New York 10510, principal business location of the LLC. Purpose: any lawful business activity.

MOUNT AIRE CAPITAL LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 6/20/2014 Office in Westchester Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 16 Tioga Lane Pleasantville, NY 10570. Purpose: Any lawful activity

CJ FAMILY ENTERPRISES, L.P. Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 9/19/14. Office in Westchester Co. SSNY design. Agent of LP upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LP 300 Mamaroneck Ave #805 White Plains, NY 10605. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

SHANNON SIDE MECHANICAL LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 10/14/14. Office in Westchester Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 9-11 North West St Mount Vernon, NY 10550. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

SIRI DIAGNOSTICS, PLLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/22/10. Office in Westchester Co. SSNY design. Agent of PLLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The PLLC 1 Oakway Scarsdale, NY 10583. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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New and Notes from Norther Westchester

By MARK JEFFERS Happy Halloween to all our readers and friends…

My costume was all set, I was going to go as Playboy icon Hugh Hefner, but my wife hasn’t stopped laughing since I mentioned it, so a change is being made, not to worry no changes were made to this week’s “Trick or Treat” edition of “News & Notes.”

We love to eat for a good cause and that is just what you can do as Mamma Rosa Ristorante in Somers will present a threecourse dinner on November 3rd to raise funds for Friends of Karen, the North Salem based children’s charity.

Speaking of eating…Hudson Valley Restaurant Week returns November 3-16, and this fall’s lineup of nearly 200 participating restaurants is as exciting and diverse as ever. Restaurants offer prix fixe, three-course dinners for $29.95 and lunches for $20.95.

Many chefs focus on our local products on their prix fixe menus.

A writing workshop on “Healing through Writing,” for people touched by illness; patients, survivors, friends, and family will be held at the Ruth Keeler M​emorial library in North Salem on October 30th. No writing experience is necessary and all are welcome.

The Trailside Nature Museum at Ward Pound Ridge Reservation in Cross River will be holding a “Wild Edibles Walk” on

Saturday November 1st at 10am, where you will find sustenance in the forest learning how to gather and eat what you can.

Our friends at Hilltop Hanover Farm in Yorktown Heights are holding a food drive on Tuesday, November 4th. They have donated produce to the local soup kitchens and food pantries throughout the year; help them continue to give back to those in our community in need by dropping off nonperishable canned and dried goods at the farm.

I can’t believe I am mentioning golf, but here goes…current E-Z reserve golfers can pre-register for the 2015 Golf Westchester E-Z Reserve program between Monday, November 3rd and Sunday, November 30th, at the six county golf courses. The courses are Dunwoodie and Sprain Lake in Yonkers, Hudson Hills in Ossining, Maple Moor in White Plains, Mohansic in Yorktown Heights and Saxon Woods in Scarsdale.

The pre-registration program is designed as a convenience for golfers who have participated in this past season’s program as well as for new golfers who may want to join. The E-Z Reserve program enables golfers with a valid Westchester County Park Pass to book a starting tee time for a series of weeks.

The Taconic Christian Church in Shrub Oak is having its first annual “Trunk or Treat” outreach, event. It consists of providing the community an alternative and safe place for trick or treaters to get their treats.

They will provide treats as well as fun…

Check out the “History of Croton Point,” on Saturday, November 8th at Croton Point Park in Croton-on-Hudson and enjoy a hike to the historic parts of the park for adults ages 12 and up.

With three daughters, here’s a topic I should be familiar with…Friends of the Bedford Free Library is sponsoring a discussion on November 5th with author Pamela Moses about her debut novel, “The Appetites of Girls.”

The evening discussion begins at 7pm and costs $10 per person. Additionally, copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing.

The Pound Ridge Recreation Department and Neighbor-to-Neighbor invite Pound Ridge senior citizens to the annual Halloween luncheon on Thursday October 30th at Conant Hall for fun, food and friends.

“Who!!,” you can learn about owls and dissect a pellet at the “All About Owls” presentation at the Cranberry Lake Preserve in North White Plains at 11am on Saturday, November 1st.

Finally, here’s some good news out of Albany, high school students will now be trained in CPR and learn how to use automated defibrillators in new legislation that was just signed into law…see you next week Mark Jeffers resides in Bedford Hills, New York, with his wife Sarah, and three daughters, Kate, Amanda, and Claire.

Community Calendar Sunday, November 2: 3-5PM

Music on a Sunday Afternoon: Hudson Valley Chamber Singers Yonkers Public Library Riverfront Branch Community Room A & B 1 Larkin Center, Yonkers, NY 10701 ypl.org

Sunday, November 2: 2-4 PM

Pianist Jun Hwi Cho, Nadia Reissenber Young Artist Series, sponsored by the Stecher & Horowitz Foundation; introduction by Bob Sherman from WQXR radio.

Budarz Theater, Ossining Public Library, 53 Croton Ave., Ossining, NY 10562 Ossininglibrary.org

Sunday, November 2: 12:304:30 PM

Movie Double Feature; Presenter Arnaldo Torres 12:30: Captain America: The First Avenger (PG-13) - .2:30: Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG-13) - YONKERS PUBLIC LIBRARY RIVERFRONT BRANCH 1 Larkin Center, Yonkers, NY 10701 ypl.org

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