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Thursday, NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Community/GovernmentSection NEW ROCHELLE

Fleur-de-Lis and New Rochelle’s French Heritage

By Peggy Godfrey Anyone driving or walking through New Rochelle’s downtown is bound to pass a decorated Fleur-de-Lis at a major intersection.

There are two near the Post Office, at Huguenot and North Avenues.The city of New Rochelle paid $300 each, to have selected artists paint the five foot fiberglass Fleur-de-Lis sculptures; reminders of the city’s French heritage.

The New Rochelle Downtown Business Improvement District (BID) and Ralph DiBart worked with the city and the New Rochelle Council of the Arts to bring this project to fruition.

These Fleur-de-Lis sculptures are another highlight of the city’s increased art presence in art galleries, public arts and artist studies.Looking back into New Rochelle’s history, many artists

found New Rochelle to be a great place to live and to work. Norman Rockwell lived and worked here and Paul Terry’s Terrytoons, creators of Mighty Mouse, had an office in downtown New Rochelle.

Grasso Brothers General Contracting, Inc. donated the bases of these fiberglass Fleur-de-Lis forms.

The fifteen artists selected were: Juliana Delgado, Melissa Calderon, Janet Rutkowski, Team Think Fabricate, Alvin Clayton, Jesse Sanchez, David Bush, Aston LeMelle-Thomas, Susan Doban, Nico “Malo” Amortegui, Michael Cuomo, Jason Gorsline, Dezi and Nicholas Sienty, Patrick Bancel and Rebecca Mills. The BID has printed a flier with pictures and locations of the 15 Fleur-de-Lis in the downtown New Rochelle area and this can be viewed on their website: www.

newrochelledowntown.com The City of New Rochelle recently celebrated the 325th anniversary of the French Huguenots arrival in the area.

Sailing from La Rochelle, France, in 1688, these Huguenots sought religious freedom in a new land. Because the French were not common in this area, New Rochelle’s French roots are unique.

These settlers brought their customs and tolerant ways to the area; many were artisans and craftsmen from La Rochelle.

The French heritage of New Rochelle is unmistakable when the Fleur-de-Lis symbol is displayed.The highly visible sculptures reinforce the continuous and consistent use of this symbol by the city. They also adorn the city’s flag, seal and front doors of New Rochelle’s City Hall. The New Rochelle Board of Education has placed a Fleurde-Lis design on the top of agenda notices.

The name Fleur-de-Lis can be translated as “flower of the lily.” It has no single meaning, but according to some sources it was a symbol of perfection, especially with reference to French royalty. Either King Louis VI or VII had decorated his shield with

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the Fleur-de-Lis, but English Kings also used this symbol on their armor to demonstrate their claims to the French throne. Eventually, by the fourteenth century, the Fleur-de-Lis was embedded into the Kings’ coat, which was worn over his armor.

Among the noteworthy past uses of the Fleur-de-Lis include being on Joan of Arc’s banner: God is blessing this Fleur-de-Lis, which was the French royal emblem. This symbol has been used, even in the United States, by some units of the Army, to show power and strength.

The displays of these Fleur-de-Lis’ in downtown New Rochelle should convey to every resident the unique and proud history of our city.

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Bipartisan-ism, False Flag Leadership and a Policy of Contempt.

work. If we tested this idea out on a stateby-state level, the best, most efficient and prosperous ideas will naturally rise to the top and spread out to the other states and the nation as a whole. This will help us learn what works and what does not work.

We can learn from our bad ideas and we can benefit from our good ideas however, halfway fixes get us nowhere.

There is an underlying reason why I wanted to discuss the concept of bipartisan-ism in this week’s article. As you all know it is election season, and by the time this is published the November 4th election will be over. I noticed something peculiar happening this election season. I noticed that the Republicans are starting to sound more like Democrats in an attempt to evade the radical right wing associations that were cast upon them by Democrats.

I also noticed that the Democrats starting to sound more like centrists (I bet you thought I was going to say Republicans)…

And they did this for the sake of dodging the “left wing liberal” mud that the Republicans were throwing at them.

Regardless of who wins on Election Day, if we don’t end up with more freedom and less government then we all lose.

POLITICS

By KURT COLUCCI Those involved in our ‘political class’ are constantly looking to rebrand old ideas. The newest political trend is the use of the word ‘Bipartisan’ which simply means “compromise”. It’s like reaching into an old bag of tricks, shining them up and pawning them off as new. Bipartisan-ism is a strategy that is used by politicians to achieve a populist consensus, where the Republicans and Democrats of our current two-party duopoly attempt to wrangle control of the public zeitgeist and pretend that they are socially politically and economically moderate. But history paints a different picture. The tragic flaw of bipartisanship is not the stated intention of finding common ground, but rather the deceptive use of it by politicians who take part in ‘vote-harvesting’. Any mix between a good idea and a bad idea brings moderate results. This might work for short-term but will never work for the positive benefit of the country in the long-term.

In her book Capitalism: The

If men compromise between a good idea and a bad idea they get mediocrity.

Unknown Ideal, the philosopher and author Ayn Rand stated “There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.” If men compromise between a good idea and a bad idea they get mediocrity.

Back in 2007 while on the campaign trail, Barrack Obama led a revival of ‘populism’. He was compared to social reformers like FDR, Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Populism became the new wave to ride into political office.

However, shortly after the double shot of bailouts, an angry and fed up public exploded in a wave of ideological resistance called the TEA Party. The rise of the tea party showed that populism was not good if it was in opposition to the current administration’s policies. Political pandemonium erupted. Republicans were branded “right-wing radicals” and Democrats were called “liberal socialists.”

As a result, the Republicans won congress in 2010 and derailed some of

the Democratic momentum from two years earlier. A new strategy was needed, so the Democrats who wanted to keep the momentum of their 2008 victories, decided to become “centrists” and reach across the aisle in bipartisan “matter, to find “common ground” and introduce common sense legislation Not to be outdone, the Republicans liked the sound of that and hopped on the political bandwagon. It didn’t work out too well for them, so in 2014 Obama and the Democrats won the Senate and presidency once again. Republicans instantly began whistling a new tune. Two short years later Republicans are now touting their “bipartisan” activities and claim that they are leaders who “reached across the aisle” to support “common-sense” legislation.

Bipartisan-ism doesn’t really work if both parties hardly vary on how they see the purpose and function of government.

Typically two warring ideologies are very different and yield very different results

when the men holding the seats of power have a chance to test their sea legs.

Theoretically, if you take two ideas of opposing extremes, blend them together and it will bring you to a natural middle, kind of like water finding its natural level.

This is the centrist’s perspective. However, when you mix a good idea with a bad idea the well is poisoned.

I believe ideas should live or die based on their own merit. I prefer partisan-ism in both extremes in the short term for the purpose of shedding light on both the good ideas and the bad ideas.

I have a guilty pleasure and let me explain it briefly. America began as an experiment – an experiment in liberty.

I would love to see the people of this country “up the ante” and explore a new future that helps us break out of our current political hypocrisy. I want to to see each state become a laboratory, where the merit of ideas, are weighed in an attempt to learn what works and what doesn’t

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EDUCATION

The Mysterious Sale of Good Counsel Academy

By NANCY KING For over 100 years the Sisters of the Divine Compassion have been the stewards of the Good Counsel Academy located on North Broadway, in White Plains. Fifty of those years saw not only an elementary and high school on the campus but it was also home to Good Counsel College, a private Catholic girl’s college as well. Back in the late 1970’s the college was closed and the property was leased to Pace University first as an undergraduate satellite campus and for the last 20 or so years, the Pace Law School has shared the campus with this private school.The past few years however, have seen the Sisters of the Divine Compassion, struggling to maintain the campus and to actually turn a profit.

In the past few years, residents have seen the once exclusive campus rented out for fitness boot camps and catered events

with little success. The school has added a co-ed Pre-K and Kindergarten to appeal to a broader segment of the population but it has failed to make a financial difference.

However with all of this financial uncertainty, Good Counsel remains at capacity with nearly 400 students paying an annual tuition of $10,000.00 a year. So if enrollment is at capacity, and there is a waiting list, why was the school mysteriously listed for sale during the summer and why are the nuns so secretive about the deal?

CBRE, a commercial real estate company, headquartered in Stamford Connecticut has been contracted to handle the marketing of the property but has not been forthcoming in any details of the property listing. The nuns aren’t giving up much information either; they’re sticking with the statement that they now have an aging population and that the upkeep of the property is becoming just too hard.

That actually might be a little white lie; it’s

not that the elderly sisters are maintaining the property all by themselves, there is a facilities and a ground staff that takes care of that! This secrecy has not only the parents of those students at Good Counsel shaking their heads but it also has the residents of this toney North Broadway neighborhood wondering what is planned for the bucolic 16 acre property.

This reporter reached out to a couple of well- known White Plains realtors and they had no answers either. Gossip is swirling around the City of White Plains concerning the secret sale. One theory is that The French American School of White Plains (FASNY) is bidding on the property as a “plan B”in the event that the deal to take over the now defunct Ridgeway Country club falls through. Though the Good Counsel property is smaller, it already has the school and recreational buildings that FASNY is seeking. The North Broadway corridor is also able to handle the increased traffic that

FASNY will bring to the city. But, FASNY has continued to respond to the concerns of the residents of the southern portion of the city by releasing this week, a letter from their attorney Michael Zarin. The latest letter indicates that FASNY is scaling down the size and scope of the Ridgeway project and has even finally touched upon the environmentally sensitive wetlands that run beneath the Ridgeway property. The final sentence however indicates that FASNY is becoming weary with all the constraints from the conditions of the current sale.

Could this mean that FASNY and the Sisters of the Divine Compassion have struck their own backroom deal? Parents who have children who currently attend Good Counsel Academy are wondering about this as well. They have indicated that they themselves are interested in purchasing the property but nobody is talking to them either.

This scenario does however make sense if FASNY is looking for a graceful exit from the Ridgeway property. Rather than spend millions of dollars on the development of a large school, and a looming lawsuit from the south end residents should the project move

forward, there is always the option of sliding right into an existing state of the art campus just two miles away. All that FASNY has to do is to sell the Ridgeway property back to the city for the 8 million dollars they bought it for. The City of White Plains could be a winner as well, if this is the way the sale goes down. They can go back to the original plan of turning Ridgeway Country Club into the community recreation center that former Mayor Bradley had originally planned for the property. What a win for everybody; FASNY gets to come to White Plains, the residents get a community recreation center and the City of White Plains would get some needed revenue from private catered events in a newly renovated clubhouse.

The residents of the City of White Plains however is being kept in the dark by the Sisters of the Divine Compassion, CBRE Realty, FASNY and above all the White Plains Common Council. It’s likely that it will be an early Christmas surprise to everyone.

Nancy King is a free lance writer in Westchester County, NY

politics

The Algonquin Pipeline Gasses up the Race in the 40th Senate District

By NANCY KING What may be one of New York States most closely watched race is the one for the 40th District state senate seat. Democrat Justin Wagner and Republican Dr. Terrance Murphy are fighting for the seat currently held by Republican Senator Greg Ball who announced his retirement earlier this year.

Dr. Murphy, a chiropractor, small business owner and Yorktown Council member has been endorsed by outgoing Senator Ball. His challenger Justin Wagner is an attorney who had lost to Ball two years ago by only 2 percentage votes. Normally not a whole heck of a lot goes on in this

northern Westchester District however a planned project proposed by Spectra Energy has divided this area and has pitted both candidates against one another.

Currently there is a 26” diameter pipeline that snakes across two states, and crosses the Hudson River on its winding path, delivering natural gas to the eastern seaboard.

The current pipeline is approaching 60 years old and according to Spectra, needs to be replaced rather than just making spot repairs. Spectra has alluded to the public that there may be a catastrophic break of the aging pipe, putting thousands of people in jeopardy of a natural gas explosion.

Spectra is now proposing the replacement of this pipe with a new 42” diameter pipe. The project looks good on paper but

that’s about the only place it looks good.

The new pipe will wind its way through the villages of Cortlandt Manor, Yorktown, Peekskill and Buchanan. The Algonquin will travel under a playground, across the street from a school and wind its way under the Hudson on its way to the already environmentally fragile of Stony Point. The new high pressure pipeline will also come within 300 feet of the ancient nuclear power plant Indian Point. The replacement of this pipeline has also played a prominent role in this Senate race. Dr. Murphy (R) not only supports the project but has also proposed allowing Spectra Energy to use parkland in Yorktown as a staging and storage facility for the construction of the pipeline. Wagner (D) opposes the pipeline citing potential safety

issues with carrying fracked, high pressure gas just beneath the surface of multiple communities. Mr. Wagner states that we should be looking at safer more sustainable forms of energy.

With the pipeline as a back-drop, the race for the 40th Senate seat has become one of the nastiest and most carefully watched races in the state. Dr. Murphy was hand-picked by Senator Greg Ball who is retiring after this term. Two years ago, Mr. Wagner ran against Senator Ball and only lost by a few points. During the previous race, we never heard about the proposed pipeline project. Though we are energy starved in the Hudson Valley, the Algonquin pipeline replacement may have cons that far outweigh the pros. Sure the re-construction

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of the Algonquin will bring much-needed jobs to the Hudson Valley but the possibility of a catastrophic breakdown somewhere along the pipeline is a real possibility.

Candidates and elected officials who seek office in Northern Westchester are smart to address the need for state of the art energy delivery to the area, but what they really need to propose more sustainable and green energy solutions. Sending pressurized gas through communities just doesn’t make sense anymore when there is wind, sun and water available. Being responsible to constituents is what elected officials are supposed to do. Being indebted to big energy is just not being a responsible leader.

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Don’t get me wrong. The clash of ideas is important. In a dynamic system, with competing power centers and a panopoly of interests trying to use their power to achieve their objectives, better policy- a policy that more nearly reflects the will of the American people- can emerge from this debate.

Playing one side against the other, or merely stating the problem in order to rile up listeners – these are easy. Moving ahead to reach a solution: that’s the hard part.

Which is why our system works so slowly. It’s unwieldy, messy, and often very noisy, but most of the time, it gets there.

Yet there are no guarantees. Our system is not self-perpetuating. There is no automatic pilot. The question Abraham Lincoln asked at Gettysburgh 151 years ago is as fresh today as it was thenL Can a nation

so conceived and so dedicated long endure?

We’re still finding out, but we know one thing: It will take hard work.

GOVERNANCE

Some Thoughts on Governing

By Lee Hamilton The best politicians understand that not all the good ideas come from one source, and they reject the idea of constant conflict and permanent gridlock. They want to bring different groups of people together, not pull them apart.

I have been working in or around government for over 50 years, and if you asked me to boil down what I learned to one sentence, it is this: Governing is much harder work than most people imagine. This doesn’t excuse its lapses or sluggish rate of progress, but it does help explain them.

Why is it so hard” Partly it’s the country we live in. There were 130 million Americans when I was in high school. Now we number over 300 million, with a diversity and cultural complexity that were impossible to imagine when I started out. Finding common ground, meeting complex needs, answering to an overwhelming diversity of interests – this is not work for the faint of heart. The structure we do this with makes it even tougher. We have governments at the federal, state, and local levels, and they in turn have branches- executive, legislative and judicial – and a cornucopia of massive agencies. To solve a problem you have to navigate a slow, complex, untidy system whose transparency and accountability are

always less than they should be.

This is magnified by an American public that, these days especially, want mutually contradictory things. We want to rein in Wall Street excess, but we don’t support the regulatory structure to do it. We want affordable health care but don’t like Washington’s involvement in the health-care system. We want to shrink the deficit without any cuts in defense spending or entitlements.

Our diversity, complex structure, and difficulty settling on coherent policies make the hardest part of governing even harder.

Building a consensus is the most important and most difficult part of political leadership.

If politics is ultimately about the search for a remedy – I know, for many politicians it’s about ego or power or money, but I’m interested in the ideal-then you have to be able to get a consensus around that remedy. You need a majority in the U. S. House, 60 votes in the Senate, and the President’s approval.

This country cannot be governed without compromise, dialogue and accommodation, and it comes apart at the seams when we go too long without them.

We often have disagreements in politis, but good politicians know that we have no choice but to work through them.

This best want to bring different groups of people together, not pull them apart. They understand that not all the good ideas come from one source, and they reject

EDITORIAL

Editorial On Tuesday, November 11 we mark Veteran’s Day, a solemn tribute to those who have served in our armed forces, instituted to mark the end of World War I. Nationally, we are losing an estimated 555 veterans of World War II per day, according to statistics kept by the National WW II Museum.

Rightly named The Greatest Generation, by news reporter Tom Brokaw, our World War II Vets, brought their courage and American ingenuity to battle, accomplishing extraordinary things in foreign countries – far removed from the Main Streets and Broadways of America. Joining forces with our allies, their collective effort turned the tide of war in our favor.

Many did not return. A French man who fought with the Resistance once told me, “You will never know how close it was.”

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the idea of constant conflict and permanent gridlock. In a divided country with a government specifically set up to divide powers, we need to follow this process – not because we want to but because we have to.

They know too, that you have to treat every person with dignity and respect, even though the clashes may be hard. I used to watch Ronald Reagan and Tip O/Neill engage in tough, hard-hitting dialogue over the issues of the day, but for both of them, the underlying premise was that they had to reach an agreement and move ahead. They knew civility had to be the rule-and always ended by trying to top each other with a good Irish story, doing their best to leave everyone in the room in an upbeat frame of mind.

Lee Hamilton is Director of the Center on Congress at Indiana University. He was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives for 24 years. For information about educational resources and programs, explore the website at: www.centeroncongress.org. Facebook: “Like us on Facebook at Center on Congress at Indiana University.” Reprinted with permission from The Center on Congress, a research center of the Office of the Vice Provost for Research at Indiana, Bloomington. The Center on Congress, 1315 E. Tenth St., Suite 320, Bloomington, IN 47405-1701. Tel.: 812.856.4706. congress@ indiana.edu Copyright c 2011 The Trustees of Indiana University

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HEALTH

My Annual Look at Seasonal Affective Disorder

By Glenn Salaby Even though the change is slow and gradual, it seems as if someone has suddenly turned off nature’s light and this is occurring before we even turn the clocks back one hour. How difficult is this time of year, with these months of darkness wreaking havoc on my mind as I experience more anxiety, cravings and restlessness. And the temperature has not even dropped, substantially. I have noticed these subtle changes and the sun setting a few minutes earlier, each day, since late August. By early September, I felt the end of summer coming, with the onset of Labor Day – the annual notice to savor the last remnants of summer daylight. It is all part of life’s cycle but that doesn’t make the seasonal changes any easier.

The Mayo Clinic defines Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) as “a type of depression that’s related to changes in seasons. SAD begins and ends at about the same time every year. If you’re like most people with SAD, your symptoms start in the fall and continue into the winter months, sapping your energy and making you feel moody. Symptoms caused by the lack of sunlight, which affects the chemical balances in the brain, dissipate in spring or early summer as the days become longer and the weather, warmer. Less often, SAD

causes depression in the spring or early summer.” (See my article on April 25th, 2013.) My situation is not that extreme, but too many suffer with this issue; one that they did not bring upon themselves.

Some may feel as severe as Augusten Burroughs in Dry. “I’m lonely. And I’m lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs.

And it scares the s___ out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic.”

Mental Health America states that “SAD is a mood disorder associated with depression and related to seasonal variations of light. The “Winter Blues,” a milder form of SAD, may affect even more people.” Also, various organizations state that women are more likely to be affected in the age range of 20 to 50. These symptoms include depression, (from mild to severe), irritability, agitation, anxiety, fatigue, cravings especially for carbohydrates and oversleeping. Signs arising from depression may include, but not limited to loss of interest in certain once enjoyable tasks, lethargy, hopelessness, sleeplessness, weight gain, a decrease in socializing and suicidal thoughts. Don’t hesitate to see your doctor if you have any of these symptoms and don’t be reluctant into inquiring about the mental health of other family members and friends.

Other risk factors include your geographic location, family history and other mental

health diagnosis within your family. One site states that four to six per cent of the population suffers from SAD. In contrast, to debunk all prior research, an August 2013 article published by Oregon State University, News & Research Communications citing an online study reported in the Journal of Affective Disorders stated “The public may have overestimated the power of the winter blues, for a few reasons: an awareness of SAD, the high prevalence of depression in general, and a legitimate dislike of winter weather” Researchers, including lead author David Kerr of Oregon State University studied data from “566 persons in Iowa and 206 persons in Western Oregon”, asking them to complete self assessments of depressive symptoms often, throughout the year, over many years, which were then correlated to weather. An analysis of the data found “a very small effect during the winter months, but it was much more modest than would be expected if seasonal depression were as common as many people think it is,” said Columbia University Researcher Jeff Shaman, a study co-author and a former OSU faculty member. Researchers were surprised and expected to see a much larger effect, given the size of the study and “precise measures of the weather”.

“We may not have as much fun, we can feel cooped up and we may be less active in the winter, but that’s not the same

as long-lasting sadness, hopelessness, and problems with appetite and sleep – real signs of a clinical depression,” noted Kerr.* Treatments of course vary and include light therapy, psychotherapy and medication. Light therapy uses exposure to a “light-box” that imitates sunlight and to be used for 30 minutes each morning.

Per the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI): “Antidepressant medications have been found to be useful in treating people with SAD. Of the antidepressants, fluoxetine (Prozac) and bupropion (Wellbutrin) have been studied in the treatment of SAD and been shown to be effective. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved these medications for treatment of major depressive disorder but any person considering treatment with an antidepressant medication should discuss the benefits and risks of treatment with their doctors.”

Personally, the most pro-active and difficult treatment – psychotherapy - uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Cognitive Behavior Therapy. Changing the brain, improving the mind, involves restructuring the way one accomplishes, or tries to accomplish certain goals and activities. I am trying, with difficulty, to adjust my activities, especially physical undertakings that used to occur in summer evenings and find new routines to replace the outside behaviors I so enjoyed.

Last year I focused on jigsaw puzzles and writing, which had some positive effects in reducing my cravings and irritability.

Any method chosen especially, walking or

exercising in the morning, will not provide instant relief, but a gradual turnaround into some normalcy.

Other remedies I have used with variable success include leaving some lights on in unoccupied rooms (which really goes against my nature), making it a point to get outside whenever I have the chance, background noise from music, to talk radio; and exercising – taking the stairs instead of the elevator, walking the long way home, using the car less, climbing the home stairs more frequently in lieu of regular exercise or maybe reviewing that gym plan as a viable option.

There are alternative treatments involving supplements, but these scare me: I have no idea how they may react with my diet and other medications and they are not monitored by the Food and Drug Administration. Other therapies, which I do not currently have the discipline for, include mindfulness, yoga and meditation, but may work for others. Resilience, common sense, friendships and a healthy diet, aid in the battle for normalcy in these cold winter months.

I hope this advice from a consumer and sufferer will lead one to a more comfortable winter.

“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.”—Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room* visit http://hdl,handle. net/1957/41955 to read the complete study which was published online in the Journal of Affective Disorders.

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forms to be used in “Predictive Analysis,” an attempt to plan for required care (and reduce costs). It was then supplementing this information with the Acxiom data, which might, in some cases contradict the data furnished by the client.

So to wrap up – we have companies collecting all the information they can possibly find about us, consolidating and analyzing it, selling to whomever they wish (including the government), while withholding much, if not most, of it from those on whom it was collected – the same people who receive all the ads in the mail based on its collection. We also have firms that we are paying for service (such as the insurance company above) who are secretly collecting information on us, their clients, and, perhaps, making judgments based on such information.

Welcome to the world of Big Data! – readers of this column might wish to read both

of the books above to determine how to cope with this world – both are available in e-book format as well as print.

Creative Disruption

Who Owns Your Information

by John F. McMullen (Note – This column interrupts the series on “How the Internet Affects Us Personally.” That series will continue next week.)

My guest on the Sunday October 26th episode (the 59th) of the “Weekly johnmac Radio Show” was the editor of the “Fierce Big Data” blog / newsletter (http://www.fiercebigdata.com/) and author of “Data Divination: Big Data Strategies,” Pam Baker (http://www.blogtalkradio.com/johmac13/2014/10/26/ the-weekly-johnmac-radio-show).

In the course of a wide ranging discussion on the use and possible misuse of “Big Data” (a subject that Ms. Baker – from here on “Pam” – is extremely well-versed; her book is comprehensive and a real treasure), I raised the question “If I buy gas at my neighborhood Shell Station, using my Visa Card, who ‘owns’ the transaction – the Shell Station, Visa, me, or all of us?” The question of ownership is important as, presumably, the owner can sell the information.

We agreed that each “player” in this transaction has a vested interest in the information. The independent Shell Station has to keep track of its sales in order to remit its proper payment to the Shell Oil Company; Visa has to validate that there is a great enough balance in my account to let the sale go through and, once assured, update my balance; while I have both the gas and now owe the money.

If the gas station has an automated system, it now permanently has my credit card number in its records; likewise, Visa knows that I spent the money on gas; and I will have a record of the transaction in my banking records. It is (or should be) obvious that neither Shell nor Visa can reveal my name and credit card number to third parties – but can it sell the name and address from the credit card to a mailing list service which will, in turn, do additional processing and cross referencing with my information.

It was a very interesting discussion with Pam Baker, but it might have remained simply an academic interest, until the very next day when I received an advertisement in the mail from the Danbury Mint suggesting I buy a nice looking letter pendant for my wife Barbara.

The advertisement, a single page double-sided glossy that folded into three panels for mailing was both interesting and quite troubling for a number of reasons: It was addressed to “John McMullen”

with no middle initial. I always use a middle initial!

It was addressed to the physical address of my house. I have no mail box at my house and have used a Post Office Box for all mail for the last 35 years (When we moved into our home, the hamlet in which we live had no mail delivery; all residents either had a PO Box or had “General Delivery” where their mail stayed behind the counter in the Post Office until asked for. When Mail Delivery was instituted about 10 years later and required putting in a mail box in cement, it was easier to keep going to the Post Office.)

My wife’s name, Barbara, on the mailing address portion of the advertisement– “John, here’s a dazzling pendant Barbara will love”with a picture of a very nice pendant in the shape of a “B.” Additionally, both our names are laced through the text on the inside of the foldout, which describes the pendant, a combination of diamonds and 14kt gold which “is affordably priced at $99 plus $7.50 shipping and service.”

So, how did the Danbury Mint collect all this information? I contacted Pam Baker on Facebook and began to brainstorm the possibilities with her: Barbara’s name and mine appear together on two joint checking accounts but those accounts have my complete name (with middle initial) and have the PO Box as my mailing address.

Pam suggested that the information linking our names could have come from real estate public records but my wife’s maiden name is on those records.

I then remembered that I had recently been in a local bank, the only one on which my name does not contain a middle initial, to have a document notarized. In the course of conversation, the bank officer checked my account and asked to have my physical address to update the records – it’s a Homeland Security regulation – and I gave it to him. Barbara is not a joint holder of the account – but she is an “emergency person” to call if I were, I guess, to drop dead in the bank.

Could the bank have sold this information? This was hard to believe so, before asking people at the bank, I called the Danbury Mint and complimented the polite woman who answered on the quality of the advertisement before inquiring as to how she would have come up with my information. She answered, “Oh we buy mailing lists. I’m not sure where this particular one came from.”

To better understand the mechanics of mailing lists, I called Jack May, an old friend, former guest on the radio show, and

ex-Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Americomm, LLC, one of the most successful mailing list firms in the business. The way I now understand the process (a bit overwhelming) is that a customer of Americomm, a firm like the Danbury Mint, would request a mailing list of people based on some criteria. The criteria could be geographic (State, City, Zip Code, or even a particular neighborhood or street) or demographic (estimated income, value of home if owned, buying habits, etc.) or a combination of both, Americomm would then purchase a list of persons fitting the required criteria from firms that collects data, consolidates it as best it can to individual persons, analyzes it and classifies the individual where necessary. Of the firms from which Americomm might buy the data, the largest and most well known is Acxiom (http://www.acxiom. com/) and its data collection activities are well described in Washington Post investigative reporter Robert O’Harrow’s 2005 book “No Place To Hide.” Americomm may purchase or “rent” this data on a “singleuse” basis or, if it thinks the information is marketable to others, on a multi-use basis.

Americomm will then process this data into the form desired by the customer, massaging it if necessary and provide it to the customer.

Jack suggested hat there were many ways that Acxiom or another firm could have pieced together the information about which I was inquiring, from many sources.

He typed in my physical address and found information about my house – some of it wrong. There is much information released by the United States Census that is usable, there are tax records, there are records of my purchases, there are my status updates on social networks, etc.

So, in a nutshell, some firm, perhaps Acxion, has collected (and continues to collect), scads of data on me and consolidated it into a profile of me. This profile, unfortunately, is not available for me to examine and correct any errors. I just spoke to the aforementioned Bob O’Harrow to verify that fact. Acxiom will not furnish me all the information that it has on me – but this hard and fast position was fairly recently modified – it will now SELL me a PORTION of the information about me.

Note that I did not refer to it as “my information;” even though it is about me, it now seemingly belongs to Acxiom and it can do with it what it wants.

Acxiom was in the news fairly recently when a New York Times article reported that the University of Pittsburgh Hospital’s Insurance Service has been purchasing Acxiom information on its clients – without telling them. The insurance company had the clients fill out lengthy

Next week: Back to the Series -- The “Outboard Brain” – and more!

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.

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 New Rochelle Fleur de Lis Artist Biographies

It is always intriguing to offer individual artists the same project and then compare the results, which are as different as the artists themselves. Our Fleur de Lis sculptures dot the downtown streetscape like giant markers on a playing board; a whimsical and charming addition to the city. The New Rochelle Council on the Arts supplied some background information on the artists along with a statement on their Fleur:

Nico “Malo” Amortegui

Nico Amortegui is a native of Bogotá, Colombia who has lived and worked under the name “Malo” in the Southeast United States since 1996. Nico grew up in a large, close-knit family of artists who taught him carpentry, photography, interior design and painting. Throughout his 20s, he focused on photography and traveled throughout the United States working for modeling agencies. Today, he lives in Charlotte, N.C., with his wife and two daughters and focuses on painting, sculpting and woodworking with found objects.

“The name of the piece is ‘Vive la musique’ [‘Long live the music’]. I wanted to create a piece about music and how music brings us together no matter the background or ethnicity. I painted Ellabelle Davis and Theresa Brewer, singers of different races who lived in New Rochelle. They were both extremely accomplished women in their fields and an inspiration to other women.” Nico “Malo” Amortegui, Charlotte NC Nicoarte.com

Patrick Bancel

Patrick Bancel, a French artist living in New York, is a painter, photographer and videographer. Internationally known for his large body of work featuring the sky, he has had numerous exhibitions in galleries and museums, including at the New York National Arts Club and Chelsea Art Museum in New York City and the Musée national de la Marine and Le Salon des Artistes Francais in Paris. His work has been highly praised by The New York Times and other leading publications and is owned by private collectors, corporations and administrations in more than 25 countries, including The Francis J. Greenburger Collection, the New York National Arts Club permanent collection and the OMI Arts International Collection. He is working on “The Billboards Hacker Public Art Project” in New York City, addressing climate change.

“An obnoxious French Huguenot immigrant [really?], proud of his wood carved fleur de lis, boarded a ship to go to America. To brag about his destination, he wrapped it with the American flag. The painting technique used for this piece, titled ‘The Immigrant,’ is trompe l’oeil or ‘trick the eyes.’ The technique uses light and shadow to fool the eyes of the viewer and make, in this case, the cords and

flag’s fabric folds look realistic.” — Patrick Bancel Patrick Bancel, New Rochelle NY PatrickBancel.com • BillboardsHacker.com Atrompeloeil.com

David Bush

David Lee Bush is a designer and painter living and working in New Rochelle.

His 25-plus year art career includes branding and licensing design for media powerhouses Disney, Warner Bros. and Viacom. David has created kids’ products around the hottesttrending licenses, including Disney’s “Frozen,” Hello Kitty, Adventure Time, Ironman, Barbie, Hot Wheels, Batman and countless others. He has spent the past eight years developing sunglasses and accessories for kids and young adults. David has exhibited and sold paintings throughout the United States and internationally, including Japan and Brazil.

“New Rochelle has an upbeat feeling due to its diversity that is palpable. My design for the fleur de lis, called ‘Fun City,’ embraces the youthful energy in New Rochelle and symbolizes the trajectory of the city at the center of the fleur with the city’s official colors, purple and gold, spiraling upward. The activity around the center spiral represents the energy of the city: bright, colorful, bubbling and youthful!” — David Bush David Bush Design, New Rochelle, NY davidbushdesign.com

Melissa Calderon

Melissa A. Calderon was born and raised in The Bronx. She has exhibited at El Museo del Barrio, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Queens Museum, Socrates Sculpture Park, The Portland Museum of Art, Arsenal de la Puntilla in Puerto Rico, Pioneer Works and Longwood Arts Project, among other venues. Her upcoming fall projects include works at The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art in Odd Places Festival in New York City and a book, Strange Material | Storytelling through Textiles, to be released in October.

“Being an artist living in New Rochelle, I wanted to honor those who came before me and made this city an amazing place to live and create their life’s artwork. I dedicate my fleur de lis, ‘Mighty Woody,’ to Walter Lantz, creator of Woody Woodpecker; Paul Terry creator of Mighty Mouse; and the history of Terrytoons Studios in New Rochelle.

‘Mighty Woody’ is a whimsical dedication to the history and future of New Rochelle as a creative community.” — Melissa Calderon Melissa Calderon, Bronx, NY melissacalderon.com

Alvin Clayton

Alvin Clayton is a painter, model and restaurateur, but he came to the United States as an athlete. Recruited by Mount St. Mary’s

University in Maryland, Alvin attended on a full academic and athletic scholarship, but his plans to play professionally folded along with the North American Soccer League. At the suggestion of a friend in the business, Clayton began modeling with the Wilhelmina agency in New York, landing jobs with major fashion magazines like GQ, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Glamour and Self. His work took him all over the world, and it was while living in Paris that he taught himself to paint. His biggest influence was Henri Matisse, whose paintings he studied intently —and whose bright color palette reminded him of home.

Today his vivid paintings are featured on the walls of his own restaurant, Alvin & Friends in New Rochelle, as well as the homes of celebrity collectors like Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Robert De Niro and Don Cheadle.

Alvin continues to create new canvases, with his latest works moving in a more abstract style. His paintings were recently featured in the film, “The Best Man Holiday” directed by Malcolm Lee. He will have a one-man show at Iona College in January 2015: “Impressions: Works by Alvin Clayton” will be on exhibit at the Brother Kenneth Chapman Gallery.

“I was honored to be chosen as one of the artists to paint the proud symbol of New Rochelle. I wanted to express my love of culture and my appreciation for the diversity of this city that is now my home. I love jazz, so my expression celebrates jazz, which is appreciated by all. This city has been home to many music greats so I find it an appropriate subject matter to share with the public.” — Alvin Clayton Alvin Clayton • www.alvinclayton.com

Michael Cuomo

Michael Cuomo is an interdisciplinary artist with a concentration in painting, assemblage and abstract illustration. He is based at YOHO studios in Yonkers, N.Y. Inspired at age 27 by a creative impulse, he decided to perform and pursue his new-found passion.

He is the 2010 recipient of the BRIO Award for painting from the Bronx Council on the Arts. Michael has been active in teaching senior drawing classes and with children workshops at the Henry Hudson Museum.

“My fleur di lis design ‘Cosmic Lotus’’is a neo-primitive work that represents the indigenous roots and magnetism of New Rochelle today. ‘Cosmic Lotus’’ stands as a totem of the people’s spirit and the diverse language of its culture.” — Michael Cuomo Michael Cuomo, Michael Cuomo Art, Yonkers, NY • www.michaelcuomoart.com

Juliana Delgado

Juliana Delgado is a senior at New Rochelle High School and the only non-professional artist whose design was selected for The Fleur de Lis Parade. Her family has lived in New Rochelle for more than 100 years.

Julie is a participant in the PAVE program

at the High School. She is an honor student who is involved in the Junior Statesmen of America and has served a vice president of the National Art Honor Society. Her pieces have been shown at the New Rochelle Public Library and the Museum of Arts and Culture.

“I am honored that my fleur de lis design was chosen. New Rochelle High School is and always has been a gem in the crown of The Queen City. Our students are diverse, talented, unique and extraordinary. My design incorporates the words these students use to describe how they perceive living and learning in our city. My sculpture represents the core values of our learning environment, which are the essential qualities of initiative, independence and the full support and respect of a learning community. I’d like to give a special thanks to my family and to Mrs. Alexandra Brock and Mr. Scott Seaboldt for their continual support and encouragement throughout the project.”

Juliana Delgado, New Rochelle, NY

Susan Doban

As founding principal of Doban Architecture, Susan has 30 years of experience in the design and management of architectural and planning projects, including numerous educational, commercial, residential and economic development projects in the region. She established her Brooklynbased firm in 1996, and in 2009 co-founded the affiliated multidisciplinary design studio, Think Fabricate, which provides design research, prototyping and fabrication capability. Susan’s work includes numerous projects for Monroe College’s New Rochelle campus and the downtown Business Improvement District.

“My regular visits to New Rochelle to work on more than 20 projects along the Main Street corridor have made the downtown feel like a home away from home for me. Helping to make downtown New Rochelle a welcoming home for college students at Monroe College by working on the design of two new dormitories over the past 10 years has been an important and rewarding aspect of my professional life. It has been rewarding to work on design standards and façade improvement projects for many buildings downtown and to see the urban landscape evolve into a home for businesses as well. This design, named ‘Home Away From Home,’ is based on the colors of our business logo, orange and teal, and New Rochelle’s color, purple. It reflects the importance of the city in the growth and opportunity for our business and many others.” — Susan Doban Susan Doban, Think Fabricate, Brooklyn, NY • thinkfabricate.com donbanarchitecture.com

Jason Gorsline

Jason Gorsline, design director and co-founder with Susan Doban of Think Fabricate, is an accomplished furniture designer. A student of architecture from his days at the University of Virginia, Jason has

experience in many areas of construction and an appreciation of the fabricator’s art to all of his work. “‘Morphing Fleur De Lis’ was inspired by my fascination with the decorative motif of the fleur de lis. Maybe it is my own Huguenot ancestry or maybe it is my enjoyment of working on so many projects in New Rochelle, but there was a certain inevitability in having the chance to go public with my fleur de lis fascination, with this pattern at different scales, exploring the affinity between the fleur and its close cousin, the bird. This pattern evolved in my work as a furniture designer and on wall panel systems and I am happy to see it resurface here.” — Jason Gorsline Jason Gorsline, Think Fabricate, Brooklyn, NY • thinkfabricate.com • donbanarchitecture.com

Rebecca Mills

Rebecca Mills is studying painting and creative writing with a focus on poetry and short stories at CUNY Lehman. Her artwork revolves around themes of femininity, feminism and the female gender identity.

Rebecca was raised in New Rochelle and her work has been featured in exhibits throughout lower Westchester County. She has also read her poetry to audiences by invitation and during open mic events. Now a resident of North Salem, N.Y., she is a long-time employee of Pelham Art Center.

“The concept of my fleur de lis originated from my experience with the New Rochelle public school system and the dominance of sports. I saw how much sports influenced people, allowing them entry into Division I schools, encouraging them to pursue a lifetime of sports and building character through team sports. Though I have always leaned toward creative activities, I appreciate the prominence of sports in our school system and decided to design a sculpture representative of my New Rochelle experience while growing up. I chose the festive colors gold, purple and green. The end result is an abstraction of different sports balls, including football and soccer, with an ombré of colors.” — Rebecca Mills Rebecca Mills, North Salem, NY bfmillz.wix.com/bmills

Janet Rutkowski

Native New Yorker Janet Rutkowski attended the High School of Art & Design, but found her calling — metalworking — a decade after graduating from The New School. She learned stone carving at the studio of Arturo DiModica, creator of the renowned Wall Street bull sculpture, and later studied at Art Life Studios with Sebastiano Mineo and his son Ron, who directed her to her “true path.” Her work has moved from abstract, to functional, to architectural and back.

“Great art, whether it be visual, sculptural, functional or audio, has a presence, a spirit which is truly felt. We seek to incorporate that presence, that spirit into every piece

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British Double

By JOHN SIMON The Real Thing

My problem with the English playwright Tom Stoppard, whose play, “The Real Thing” (1982) is being once again revived, is his relentless cleverness. Granted, cleverness is a good thing, but is it a great one? Would anyone call Shakespeare clever?

—In the right places, certainly, but not as a mainstay.

In almost every one of his many plays, Stoppard, does something extremely tricky—but so, with impunity, does Alan Ayckbourn; but only in Stoppard is this accompanied by dialogue that is virtually nonstop repartee. I concede that this is covered by the not unpleasant term drawingroom comedy, at which the Brits excel. But with Stoppard, there is always a feeling of showing off, of carefully calculated and often esoteric dazzle.

In this play about a witty, conservative playwright, a somewhat hapless actor, two smart actresses, and one rebellious soldier, two questions arise: What is love and what is reality? There is no easy preference among the angles from which each matter can be viewed: like a sculpture, it must be seen in the round. Things, moreover, are double-bottomed, and the lower one may snap at you.

Ambiguity reigns, even unto where what seems to be real turns out to be only a playwithin-a-play. And artifice and reality can be devilishly intertwined.

We have here the playwright Henry, married to Charlotte, an actress. Charlotte on stage enacts marriage to an actor, Max. Max is married to another actress, Annie.

She and Henry are having a clandestine, on both sides adulterous, affair. All four are good friends. There is also Henry and Charlotte’s sassy, seventeen-year-old daughter, Debbie, whose questionable affair with one of her teachers is at least not adulterous.

Complicating things is Brodie, a young Scottish soldier, jailed for a (mildly) subversive act. Sitting opposite her on a train,

he befriended Annie, who now leads a movement to free Brodie, whose offense was trivial. Brodie is taken with Annie, and, with her encouragement, writes in jail a clumsy and overlong autobiographical play that Henry, under pressure from Annie, is rewriting. (This is in the second act, two years after the first, by which time Annie and Henry are happily married.) He is, as he says, adapting unspeakable drivel into speakable drivel.

The speakable drivel does get produced, with Brodie being played by Bill, a young actor performing opposite Annie, and very much enamored of her. Henry suspects a one-night stand between the two.

The play-within-the-play includes a scene for Max and Charlotte, then married to him, in a play by Henry, called “House of Cards,” which takes on more than one meaning. But Annie and Billy also lapse into scenes from “Miss Julie” and “’Tis Pity She’s a Whore,” both of which have relevance to “real” things going on; all very intricate and unstoppably Stoppardian.

What is reality, the play asks—could a

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play that is art be more real than reality?

The only thing that may be indisputably real is real love, which does have its seeming triumph. Consider also some witty insights, aphorisms or epigrams, as potential carriers of reality. Take this bit, concerning Brodie’s play. “ANNIE: You say he can’t write like a head waiter, saying you can’t come in here without a tie. Because he can’t put words together. What’s so good about putting words together? HENRY: It’s traditionally considered advantageous for a writer.”

premiere, was daughter Debbie, with equal aptitude. Ronan Raffery, Alex Breaux, and Madeleine Weinstein round out a praiseworthy cast. Only that fine actor, Josh Hamilton, inexplicably hits every line loud and hard—could that be some weird idea of the director’s?

The currently trendy Sam Gold has directed, largely indulging his predilection for using a shallow stage, thus limiting David Zinn in his set design. Kaye Voyce does admirably by the costumes, giving them, as it were, a proper voice. An accomplished production this; even with three principals sounding a trifle too American.

great last ship for all good men to sail away on, it is not clear whereto, but meant as an assertion of their dignity. Of more than moral support is Father O’Brien, the town’s beloved, unconventional priest, lavish in wetting his throat and letting his tongue go smutty. He is behind the financing of the last ship, liberally dipping into church funds in

the good cause, before succumbing to cancer in the show’s most touching scene.

But the other main story is the love triangle Gideon-Meg-Arthur, what with the woman having strong feelings for both men, echoed by the shifting affections of young Tom, drawn to both potential fathers.

There is drama in all this, but it is

really Sting’s music and lyrics that keep the ball rolling. The lyrics are perfectly competent, and the music—well, if you like its kind—apt enough, comprising some preexistent numbers and a good many new ones. It starts out rather monotonously, more rhythm than melody, but improves as it goes

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(L-R) Ewan McGregor and Maggie Gyllenhaal Photo by Richard Phibbs Or take this, when Max rushes off not to keep a squash partner waiting. “HENRY: Squash partner? An interesting moral dilemma. I wonder what Saint Augustine would have done? MAX: I don’t think Saint Augustine had a squash partner. HENRY: I know that. Nobody would play with him.”

Or this, from Henry to his feisty daughter: “I wish you’d stop celebrating your emancipation by flicking it at me like a wet towel.” Or Henry to Annie, his woman, about an actor who onstage keeps sticking his tongue into her ear: “There he is, poor bugger, picking up the odd crumb of ear wax from the rich man’s table.”

You may note that Stoppard (the second syllable rhymes with “hard”) gives most of the best lines to Henry, with perhaps an underlying shade of autobiographical selfflattery. Or perhaps it is collegial bias from one dramatist to another. Otherwise, he tries to be fair to all the characters—the women at any rate.

Henry is played by a British import, the noted stage and screen actor, Ewan McGregor, with exquisite smoothness.

Annie is the delightful Maggie Gyllenhall, and Charlotte the by now venerable Cynthia Nixon, who, amusingly, back at the 1984

The Last Ship

Sting arrives on Broadway with— dare I say it? —a stinging musical, strongly pro-working class and antipathetic to capitalism. Remotely based on real-life events in Wallsend, the British seaside town where he was born, it is the story of the demise of its thriving, employment-giving shipyards what with cheaper competition from abroad.

The town could not hold young Gideon Fletcher, who bids farewell to his girlfriend, young Meg Dawson, to make his fortune elsewhere and then come back for her. But it is fifteen years before he returns, to find adult Meg quasi-engaged to Arthur Millburn, and the shipyards about to close forever. Meg now has a fifteen-year-old son, Tom, who may or may not be Gideon’s.

The workers have a leader, Jackie White—Gideon’s staunch father, Joe, has just died, and Jackie may become his father figure, as he certainly is to the workers. Jackie vainly tries to save the shipyard from Freddy Newlands, who has bought it for conversion into a salvage operation, which will turn into the sole employment in town and pay much less. Arthur, however, has gone over to Newlands, the realistic thing to do.

The romantic choice, then, is to build a

The Last Ship: Pictures (L-R) Rachel Tucker, Michael Esper Photo by Joan Marcus

The Last Ship: Fred Applegate, Jimmy Nail, Sally Ann Triplett and the cast of The Last Ship. Photo by Joan Marcus, 2014

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along, making use of simulated sea chanteys yielding staunch choric numbers. The Times critic also detected some Kurt Weill in the music; I didn’t, although I wish I could have.

The book, by John Logan (of “Red”) and Brian Yorkey (of the vastly overpraised “Next to Normal”) is the weakest link, failing to improve on shopworn motifs. Tennyson’s “Enoch Arden” comes to mind, but so do enough other things in this flirtation with cliché. The plot also deals rather heavily in ghostly or illogical presences, like that of the dead father parlaying with his son, or adult Meg chatting time-trippingly with young Meg. Stephen Hoggett’s choreography repeats his previous efforts a bit too closely (think especially of his work in the also overpraised “Once”). It depends largely on enthusiastic foot stamping, which might be a serious threat to less sturdy boots.

The cast is similarly solid. Michael Esper

makes a likable Gideon, with only his hairdo seemingly anachronistic; Rachel Tucker’s Meg is a suitably full-bodied, mettlesome country lass. Outstanding, too, are Aaron Lazar’s virile Arthur, Fred Applegate’s earthy Father O’Brien, Collin Kelly-Sordelet, who does double duty as young Gideon and Tom Dawson, and Britain’s multitalented Jimmy Nail as a towering, hefty Jackie.

David Zinn’s unit set—all metallic platforms, bridges and staircases- looks richly authentic, especially as lighted by the ever-reliable Christopher Akerlind. Under Joe Mantello’s no-nonsense direction, it all smartly coheres into a respectable show, if not a great one.

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.

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The Last Ship: Rachel Tucker, Shawna M. Hamic, Sally Ann Triplett, Leah Hawking and the cast of The Last Ship. Photo by Matthew Murphy

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The 10 Annual Fall Westchester County Home Show th

November 8 & 9, 2014 at Westchester County Center If you are planning improvements to your home over the next few months, do not miss the Westchester County Home Show taking place this weekend at the Westchester County Center, 198 Central Ave., in White Plains.

The home show offers “one-stop” shopping with the opportunity to see more than 100 exhibits and meet with builders, remodelers, architects, contractors, basement water-proofers, solar energy consultants and shop for cookware, cutlery, Tupperware and candles. Vendors representing window companies, blinds and curtains, investments, insurance, banking, doors, gutters and siding

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Attendees, who register for drawings, will have multiple opportunities to win merchandise from several exhibitors, including: • A Duraguard Storm Door from Franzoso Contracting, $1,100 installed value.

• A full-size contour gel-memory foam mattress from American Sleep Solutions, a $3,495 value (box-spring not included).

• A Kitchen Island from MRS Kitchens.

• RevoluSun Will raffle away one iPad each day and Ferncliff Cemetary will give away a 40” LED 1080P HDTV

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CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES

Masikini by Laura Kutika

By Sherif Awad Up-and-coming African women working as filmmakers always distinguish themselves with their work on documentaries and docu-dramas. One well-known figure in African cinema is the thirtysomething Laura Kutika who is a mother of two children, a green belt champion of taekwondo, a screenwriter, a director and novelist from Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Kutika, who sometimes goes by the name of Laura Guliamo Luyeye, is the author of the novels “Alone Facing Our Fates” and “To Our Missteps, is now about to publish her third novel, “Before It’s Too Late”. Through her writing and blogging, Kutika denounces domestic violence against women and supports women’s rights to live on equal basis with men in our African societies. The everactive Kutika directed the stage play “The Diary of a Chambermaid,” written by Octave Mirbeau, who also denounced the modern forms of slavery: treating workers badly. Kutika began her film and TV career by co-writing the television series “Hotel Kinshasa”for Antenne A in 2001, becoming an assistant director on the feature film “Ndouleman” by Nolda di Massamba; and then directing short films like “Go For It” in 2011 and “Moumoune and Me” in 2013.

Kutika is based in France and has just finished shooting her one-hour documentary dedicated to the Congolese Diva, Abeti Masikini, entitled, “The Struggle of a Woman”. “The idea for this ​​ film about

the singer came to me after reading a book that was written about her, by her former publicist, Berthrand Nguyen Matoko “, said Kutika. “The book was entitled Abeti Masikini: The Golden Voice of Zaire and it depicted the rise to stardom of Abeti Masikini, whose real name was Elizabeth Finant. Masikini became one of the first African singers to perform at the Olympia of Paris in 1973” “Abeti Masikini was also inspiring in the emancipation of women to combine work and family life,” explained Kutika.

“When I chose to direct this film, I wanted

to portray Masikini as a role model. So I started to write the script until my producer and co-director Ne Kunda Nlaba, who resides in London, came on board.”

In addition to the advice of Berthrand Nguyen, Matoko, Kutika received support and collaboration from producer Gerard Akueson, the husband of Abeti Masikini, and her eldest daughter, Yolanda Masikini, who appear as interviewees in the film.

“The Struggle of a Woman” premiered last September in Kinshasa to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Abeti Masikini’s death in September 1994. The documentary is starting its tour across the world through film festivals and

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televisions; then DVDs and Blu-rays.

Abeti Masikini was a great lady of African music whose huge career took off in 1971, with her band “Les Rédoutables.” Her unforgettable performances of the songs “I Love You”, “Jalousie”, “Je Suis Fâchée” and “Cheri Badé” have elevated her to the status of James Brown and Miriam Makeba.

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

Laura Kutika

MOVIES

Movie Review: John Wick

by Mary Keon “Are you afraid of the Boogeyman?” taunts, Iosef, the mobster’s son, to his bodyguard. “No,” replies the bodyguard; “but you should be.”

Ex-hit man John Wick is the one his former associates would send to kill the Boogeyman- a death dispensing dervish who leaves destruction in his wake. Provoked by the ill-considered actions of a former business associate’s punk son, Wick is drawn out of an early retirement to exact revenge. I must confess that Keanu Reeves does not leap into my mind as a stone cold killer straight out of Central Casting, but he plays Wick with an intensity that will have you on the edge of your seat. Willem Dafoe plays Marcus, a friend hired to fulfill a hit on Wick and for once, he is not the scariest guy in the film. Michael Nyqvist is Vigo Tarasov, the Russian gangster cursed with a screw-up son Iosef (Alfie Allen), who understands the havoc that his son has unleashed. John Leguizamo plays Aurelio – a chop shop owner.

New York City serves as the backdrop for most of the action in the film, with memorable scenes taking place in the very exclusive Central Hotel – a full service “Five Star Hit Man’s Boutique Hotel” offering respite to the battle-weary. The discretely insightful concierge has the requisite British accent and amenities include

Willem Dafoe as Marcus in John Wick Keanu Reeves as John Wick a doctor on call to sew up slashes along with cleaners to handle, well, whatever needs handling. Ian McShane is the debonair Central Hotel’s owner who reminds all that “no business” is supposed to be handled at the hotel; rule-breakers do so at their peril. When a tightly choreographed shootout occurs in the Red Circle Night Club it is punctuated with strobe lights and disco music.

This is a taut, fast paced, action film.

Though the plotline is pretty straightforward, the script is well written by David Kolstad and all of the principal

actors are excellent. But this is not just another action thriller about gangsters run amuck. Directors David Leitch and Chad Stahelski have crafted a memorable film.

The cinematography and the editing are amazing, with one incredible shot cascading into another in several segments.

The sets are sleek and the dimly lit rooms underscore lives lived in the shadows: where everything is for sale - at a price and all transactions are on the gold standard.

Excellent pick if you enjoy action films, but the violence portrayed is extreme: this is not for the faint of heart. Produced by Thunder Road Pictures; U. S. distribution

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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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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.

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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.

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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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LITERATURE

The Rolling Hills of Eternity

By Najah Muhammad Ryan C. 2014

There he was, somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Surrounded by the brutal cold of the northern cap. He paced onward; each stride, a struggle.

As he raised his head, the passing wind bit his left cheek and the tip of scarlet nose. His fingers stung from the white dust that had risen by the breeze. He could barely feel them underneath his fur gloves. The traveler was alone. Just a dot compared to the heartless glacial faces. All he had to comfort him was the beauty of the coral kissed, virgin snow ahead. That and the promise of Aeternitas: a land that his ancestors spoke of, deep beneath the crust of the earth. It gave him great pleasure

to know that he was heading toward her rolling, ivy hills. They spoke of the land as being so green that it could give one eternal life. They said it is the land that sings of peace and certainty, just as the outer earth once did, long before the original gods had fallen. The air swings of joy’ guiding every winged creature that comes to pass; and every person who grew wings by escaping the detriments of their own societies throughout history. All the traveler had left in the world was a map and a hunch. So there he stood, a man with nothing left to lose. A soul with nothing left to give and the motive to truly live.

Najah Muhammad Ryan is an English Literature major in her junior year at college

Divergent Gases, Lake Vanda by Diane Tuft, courtesy of the Bruce Museum. The exhibit runs now through Feb. 1, 2015.

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News & Notes from Northern Westchester

By Mark Jeffers Sure glad all those scary monsters stopped banging on our door looking for something, not talking about Trick or Treaters, but all those politicians looking to talk my ear off…after all that, I will say I did vote for this week’s “debate free” edition of “News & Notes.”

Here’s some exciting news…The NBA Development League is set for play right here in Westchester County! The newest entry, The Westchester Knicks, announced that fans can see their hometown team for the first time, as they host a preseason game at the Westchester County Center on Monday, November 10th, at 7:00pm against the Delaware 87ers, the NBA Development League affiliate of the Philadelphia 76ers.

The Westchester Knicks will play their regular season home opener on Wednesday, November 19th against the Canton Charge, the D-League affiliate of the Cleveland Cavaliers.

It’s “Story Time Tuesdays” at Muscoot Farm in Somers. On Tuesdays, November 11, 18 and 25 from 1-1:45pm, favorite stories for young and old will be read.

Let me “launch” this idea by you, the Lewisboro Library will present “Catapult Creations” on Tuesday, November 11th at 3pm (school holiday) for students in grades 4 – 8. This hands-on workshop shows you how to make mini-catapults out

of common household items. There will be some learning...followed by some launching; sounds like a blast to me…

The Westchester Land Trust (WLT), the region’s leading conservation organization, will hold a Fall Wine Tasting & Cocktail Party on Thursday, November 13th from 7pm to 9pm at the Wainwright House in Rye.The venue has been a Holistic Center since 1951 and is recognized as an official Certified Wildlife Habitat by the National Wildlife Federation. The picturesque setting and breathtaking waterside views will serve as the perfect backdrop for this event, which will welcome WLT’s friends and supporters.

Each year we try to get the perfect family photo and I just never get it right!

I need to head over to the Mount Kisco Library for a meeting of the Camera Club on Tuesday November 18th from 4:00 to 5:30pm. Professional photographers will be on hand to critique and offer tips. Bring a photo or two you love, your camera and the user manual. No experience needed and this program is free and open to all.

The Vietnam Veterans of America have scheduled a local Westchester pickup on Veterans Day, November 11; they are looking for clothing, shoes and bedding items, give them a call at 800-775-8387 for more information.

“Katonah inspired” is launching a new initiative for promoting health living with a Health Forum on November 10th at the Katonah Library. A dynamic panel of health care providers will explore how we can

cultivate, protect and preserve our health.

Our gossip reporter also known as my wife heard that actor Bruce Willis has purchased a new home here in northern Westchester on 340 Croton Lake Road in Mount Kisco, the question is when will my darling wife bring them a welcome basket…

We know it’s early, but the holiday feel is in the air…the Katonah Elementary School holiday boutique is set for Friday December 5th from 5:30 to 8:30pm at the elementary school, this is always a fun and festive event…

Don’t forget to swing by and see our friend Pete Costello at Hilltop Wines & Spirits in Chappaqua, he has tastings on Saturday afternoons, and trust me Pete knows his wines… If you are looking for great entertainment at a fabulous price, check out your local high school’s fall dramas that are premiering over the next few weekends.

These aspiring thespians and stage -hands have been hard at work for months preparing their shows. Northern Westchester has turned out some fine and famous actors over the years so if you take in a show you might be able to say “I saw her when she was just starting out…”

We often joke about my wife raking leaves, but on a serious note, do be careful when driving over the wet leaves, they can be more slippery than an ice patch…see you next week.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

New Rochelle Fleur de Lis Artist Biographies Continued from page 8

we create. Art is an unfounded religion whose inspiration comes from a divine source. That power is within each of us, and we should use it in everything we do, in all walks of life. It is the power of transformation. Transformation of the mundane into the divine.” — Janet Rutkowski Janet Rutkowski, B.F.D. Firehouse Studios, Brooklyn, NY bfdfirehousestudios.com

Jesse Sanchez

Designer and artist Jesse Sanchez is a graduate of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. He is the art director at M.E. Sharpe Publishers in Armonk, N.Y., and has maintained an art and design studio in New Rochelle since 2003.

He specializes in book cover design and has been a consultant for many book publishers,

Dezi and Nicolas Sienty

including Penguin Random House, Grand Central Publishing, Simon and Schuster and St. Martin’s Press. An accomplished artist, he often shows at venues in Chelsea in New York City and in Westchester County. He has been president of the New Rochelle Art Association since 2006.

“A race of benevolent artificial life forms from the future come to New Rochelle on its 325th anniversary to defend the city against a hostile alien attack. My ‘Huguebot’ sculpture combines a variety of mediums: painting, video, sound and a Halloween mask to creatively transform the fleur de lis into a fantastic, fun and lively experience that hopefully brings a smile to your face and engages your imagination.” — Jesse Sanchez Jesse Sanchez, New Rochelle, NY bluecanvas.com/jesses

Aston LeMelle-Thomas

Dezi Sienty is an artist specializing in comics, caricatures and sculpture. He is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts and continues to study. Dezi’s brother Nicolas Sienty, a recent graduate of SUNY Purchase, is a graphic designer/illustrator specializing in motion graphics, websites and logo design.

“I wanted to pay homage to what I consider the three pillars of the arts: literature, music and visual arts. The three portraits on the fleur de lis represent the muses in each of these disciplines. My brother Nicolas and I often work at night, when the outside world is a little more quiet and lonely. It is during these late hours we find the muses are at their best.

We hope we were able to capture a fraction of the feelings we have when we’re alone creating, and how special and important the arts are.” — Dezi Sienty Dezi Sienty caricaturesbydezi.com • dezicnt.blogspot.com Nicolas Sienty •nsienty.com

Aston LeMelle-Thomas is “a starving freelance illustrator/designer” from New Rochelle who specializes in all things surreal and robots. After graduating from The School of Visual Arts in 2013, he has transformed himself into a self-proclaimed “fine art ninja.”

“As a ninja of the finest of arts,” Aston attacks each project “with a sense of unbridled intensity and alarming precision.”

“I think the city of New Rochelle is the most creative/imaginative city on the planet.

Around every corner there’s so much inspiration and talent. The title of my sculpture is ‘325 Years of Imagination.’ For my piece, I wanted to illustrate the limits of our imaginations both literally and abstractly.” — Aston LeMelle-Thomas Aston LeMelle-Thomas, New Rochelle, NY astonltart.com

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Team

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Janet

Chase Bank

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Nico “Malo”

Amortegui

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Michael

Cuomo

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Jason

Gorsline

Jesse

Clayton

Think Fabricate 8

Melissa

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Monroe College Campus

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Metro North Train Station

New Rochelle Public Library

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function, detail and character in its work. The team is proud to bring the human element, genuineness, appreciation of material and the inclusive spirit that grows from the team’s Brooklyn roots to its collaborative design process. The team designs and creates at many scales, from furniture and products, to residential interiors, branded environments and public art installations. It is known for its love of color and material palettes, playful yet carefully resolved compositions, meaningful visual motifs and modern forms.

“New Rochelle takes the prize with this golden ‘Trophy,’ recalling the tones of the doors to City Hall. The ‘marble’ base is a collage made from an 1871 map depicting a balloon pictorial view of New York and its suburban railroad and water links, critical to making New Rochelle what it is today.” — The Think Fabricate Team Think Fabricate, Brooklyn, NY thinkfabricate.com

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Dezi & Nicolas

Patrick

Rebecca

Sienty

Bancel

Mills

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