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Left Brain, Right Brain Artist from Somers By RICH MONETTI
Most people pick a side of the brain and stick with it. As a high school science teacher, 87-year-old Nate Sloan, whose art was never far from his lesson plans, made a life that continually crossed between the artistic and mathematical hemispheres of his brain.
A sculptor of Alabaster stone today, his first experimentation with art began by reproducing comics from the newspaper. He was mentored by an art teacher in junior high school to the next level while growing up in New York City, but adulthood meant making a living would have to take precedence. After returning from the war in 1945, Sloan would major in biology and accumulate enough credits to become a science teacher. Turning educational theory into practice would also cause a shift in his priorities after he landed a teaching job in Yonkers. “I fell in love with kids,” he says. On the other hand, the heavy demand the teaching profession required didn’t mean he had to be monogamous when it came to his two passions. He used his classroom as a studio and partly canvassed the walls with two-dimensional realism, which didn’t particularly please the school’s janitors. But they weren’t the only ones ill at ease with his work. “I couldn’t do abstract, I enjoyed it, I appreciated it, but I couldn’t do it,” he says. So about 25 years ago, he stumbled upon his artistic emancipation by adding a dimension. “3D has freed me from realism and I don’t think I ever want to go back,” he emphasis. He credits an artist friend with whom he used to play tennis. Introducing him to the malleable clay and hard stone, Mr. Sloan says, “He said he made a monster of me because I was just
producing and producing and producing.” Sloan begins with the stone - and right angles are definitely square when it comes to inspiration. “I could never buy a squared off stone,” he says. “I look for fractured pieces of stone whose outline has some appeal and an invitation of something I can bring out.” He makes most of his purchases from a sculpture store north of Canal Street, but the mileage accumulated is definitely worth it when the actual journey is taken into account. “They have stones from all over the world,” he says. “It’s an adventure of its own.” Once home, the Heritage Hills resident follows the curves from all the angles and figures out how to enhance them. “I’m a chisel man,” he says, “and then its endless hours of sandpapering.” In between, influences such as Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore lets his admirers see right through his work - so to speak. “They were some of the first sculptors to put holes through stones and open up the inside,” he says. All which is accomplished to the sound of his favorite music and the inner dialogue he has with poetry and nature. “I think nature in its various forms somehow manages to influence what
I’m doing,”he acknowledges. “At the same time,” he adds, “I’m also fond of poetry and the kind of movement one sees in this allows my work to eventually set in place.” “I’m at it four or five days a week,” he says, “I can’t stop.” He also avoids immobility by competing in the Empire State Games as a runner and plays doubles tennis three times a week. But turning Continued on page 4
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his stone to profit is another matter. “I’m not interested in making money off it,” he asserts. He has auctioned many pieces off on behalf of charities like The Friends of Karen and the Boys and
Girls Clubs. Otherwise, his pieces are part of an exhibit at the Katonah Library every September and a few reside at Putnam Hospital. Still, he wouldn’t mind lightening his condo of a few of them with
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News & Notes from Northern Westchester By MARK JEFFERS
So, we planted our garden this week, some beans, onions and next week cucumbers and tomatoes, now I want to plant this idea… take a look at this week’s, “News and Notes…” A sure sign of spring… the Farmer’s Market in White Plains is now open for business every Wednesday 8am to 4pm. Another great event is happening in Pleasantville at the Jacob Burns Film Center, “An Evening with Frank Langella” will take place on May 15th at 7:30 pm. Academy and Tony Award winner, Frank Langella will join Janet Maslin to discuss “Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women as I Knew Them,” his utterly irresistible memoir about his life and encounters with some of the past century’s most famous people like; Rita Hayworth, Elizabeth Taylor, Gilbert & Sullivan and Jack Kennedy. The stories are funny, wicked and sometimes shocking.
Join Cub Scout Pack 170 for their Annual Cub Mobile, Rocket Derby and BBQ on Saturday afternoon May 5th at 3:30 pm at the Bedford Village Elementary School. It’s time to get in shape, swimsuit season is just around the corner, oh my! Join our friends at Northern Westchester Hospital’s “FitQuest,” on May 12th. It sure to be a day filled with friends, fun, fitness for families, all funds will support the programs at the hospital. Please support the Katonah Bedford Hills Volunteer Ambulance Corps by attending their Spaghetti Dinner on Saturday, May 5th. The dedicated members of the KBHVAC will be serving from 5 pm to 8 pm at the Katonah United Methodist Church on Bedford Road in Katonah. Remember the life they save might be yours! As my wife will tell you, it is never too early to start thinking about Mother’s Day. All she wants this year is plants for the garden so I will be running over to Somers for Saint Luke’s Annual Plant Sale. The sale on Route
a lend-lease program. I’d like to let people live with them for a few months at a minimum fee and then purchase if they want, he says. If not, he doesn’t consider all the pieces around as excess and has no problem being among all the alabaster. “I love living with them,” he says, but he also knows his work is going to be around a lot longer than he will.
“It’s my gift to future generations,” he concludes.
100 boasts a wide selection of quality annuals as well as beautifully designed baskets and hanging plants. Saint Luke’s sale begins May 5th and runs through Sunday, May 13th. The Hudson Stage Company in Briarcliff Manor is presenting a revival of the Pulitzer Prize-winning romantic comedy, “Talley’s Folly” and a tribute to its writer, the late Lanford Wilson though May 12th; call 914-271-2811 for tickets. So, if you are tired of spring cleaning and it’s just not your thing (who would blame you), and you would rather muse about the deeper questions of life…make plans to go to Teatown Lake Reservation’s Cliffdale Farm in Crotonon-Hudson where they will be pondering which came first, the chicken or the egg. Learn about the bird life cycle, visit the chicks and chickens, and discover what other types of animals also lay eggs, stop by Saturday morning May 5th from 10 to 11 am. Here’s a blast from my past… Southside Johnny will be playing at the Paramount Center for the Arts in Peekskill on May 4th, Johnny played some great gigs at Syracuse while I attended college, seems like yesterday…
Honestly, I will not be attending for reasons I do not want to discuss… (fear of snakes)… but Westmoreland Sanctuary will be hosting a Snake Hike and Turtle Monitoring walk on Sunday afternoon May 6th from 2 pm to 4 pm. Learn about the group of organisms known as reptiles and how they are different from other animals. See live examples of reptiles from their nature museum and learn how their wild cousins survive here in NY. You will also take a walk in search of snakes and turtles. Also, included is a visit to the pond to check out the live traps for turtles that may have been captured as part of our turtle monitoring program. A nice afternoon with nature… for someone else! We celebrated my wife’s and my best friend Kaz’s birthday this past week… it’s not the number, but the celebration and thankfulness for each year that really counts… see you next week.
Rich Monetti lives in Somers. He’s been a freelance writer in Westchester since 2003. Peruse his work at www. rmonetti.blogspot.com.
Mark Jeffers successfully spearheaded the launch of MAR$AR Sports & Entertainment LLC in 2008. As president he has seen rapid growth of the company with the signing of numerous clients. He resides in Bedford Hills, New York, with his wife Sarah, and three daughters, Kate, Amanda, and Claire.
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A Tale of Luck, Timing, Opportunity, Success, Failure, and Joy Spreadsheets Changed Our Lives, 2 By JOHN F. McMULLEN It All Comes Apart!
To recap from Part 1: For a while everything was wonderful – Software Arts
and VisiCorp were making money hand over fist; Bricklin, Frankston and Kapor were software heroes and were the toast of the Apple community; and Barbara and I had built a consulting firm with professional and office staff and were traveling all over the US and Latin America training customers and
developing systems! In 1980, cracks began to appear in monolithic spreadsheet world populated only by Software Arts, the firm that developed and now enhanced VisiCalc, and VisiCorp, the firm that marketed VisiCalc and related products
(VisiPlot; VisiTrend + VisiPlot; and VisiFile). In that year, Sorcim introduced a spreadsheet, “SuperCalc”, running under the CP/M operating system. SuperCalc was bundled on the first portable (really “luggable”) computer, the Osborne One when the computer was released in 1981. Coincidentally, I was standing with Dan Bricklin at a computer show in Chicago at the Osborne booth watching one of the first public demonstrations of SuperCalc (the demonstrator dis not know that one of the people standing in front of him was one of the developers of the first spreadsheet). It was obvious to both of us that the demo version of SuperCalc was not “ready for prime time” but it soon would be. 1981 was also the year that IBM introduced its personal computer, the IBM PC. Once IBM decided to enter into competition with Apple in this market, it pulled out all stops by entering into contracts with the leading Apple II developers to provide versions of their programs for the PC. It set up arrangements with Microsoft (for the BASIC programming language and the Adventure game and, later, for the operating system, PC-DOS); VisiCorp (for VisiCalc, VisiPlot, and VisiTrend + VisiPlot); Capt’n Software (“EasyWriter”, a word processor), and Peachtree Continued on page 5
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A Tale of Luck, Timing, Opportunity, Success, Failure, and Joy Continued from page 4
(its accounting system). Once the IBM-PC was available on the market, it rapidly displaced the Apple II as the personal computer of choice in the corporate workplace. Lost in the euphoria of the early IBM success, however, were two items that would have a huge impact in the spreadsheet world: VisiCalc actually ran faster and had a larger workspace (more columns and rows) on a 64k Apple II than on a 64k IBM-PC. On the Apple II, Software Arts had gone beyond the restrictions of the Apple DOS operating system to maximize the power of VisiCalc but, on the IBM-PC, it ran totally under the confines of MS-DOS. The original developer of VisiPlot and VisiTrend + VisiPlot for the Apple II chose, Mitch Kapor, decided not to develop a version for the IBM-PC but, rather, sold his rights to the products to VisiCorp and took the proceeds and his idea for a new product to the venture capital firm of Sevin Rosen Funds (the same Ben Rosen, previously of Morgan Stanley), which aided him in the formation of a new firm, Lotus Development Corporation. In 1982, not only was Lotus founded but Microsoft introduced its first spreadsheet, “MultiPlan” (which would later become the first spreadsheet available for the Macintosh). While
VisiCalc and later SuperCalc used “CnRn” as cell identification (n = Number; C = Column; R = Row; ex A5 = the cell in the intersection of Column A and Row 5); MultiPlan reversed the scheme to “RnCn”. This notation, while understandable, caused confusion and annoyance to any prior VisiCalc user and, other than on the Macintosh, MultiPlan never gained significant market share. In the meantime, both VisiCorp and Software Arts were expanding their product lines beyond VisiCalc and VisiCalc related products. VisiCorp was developing, on Digital VAX machines, “VisiOn,” a Graphic User Interface to unite products written for its standard and “VisiWord,” the first application to run under this standard. Once the applications were developed, they were transported to be run on an IBM-PC (although a very high end PC with a large hard disc). The products were demonstrated to much fanfare at Fall Comdex 1982 and announced for release for Fall 1983. Software Arts, at the same time, was working on “TK!Solver” (“TK” for “Toolkit”), a rulebased equation-solving program and also on problem kits for various industries or professions (ex. Manufacturing, Engineers, etc.) to work with the equation solving engine. Unlike with VisiCalc, Software Arts, whose relationship with VisiCorp was beginning to deteriorate, would market this product itself. Both the development
of VisiOn and TK!Solver were funded by sales of both companies’ “cash cow,” VisiCalc. On January 26th, 1983, Lotus Development Corp. introduced “1-2-3” and the entire spreadsheet market changed. “1-2-3” was fast (it, like VisiCalc on the Apple II, went outside the operating system to gain speed) and provided features that VisiCalc did not -- the “2” and the “3” in 1-2-3 referred to the inclusion of business graphics (pie, line, bar charts, etc.,) and data management (sort, lookup, statistics, etc.) functions. 1-2-3 was an overnight success (the original sales projection was for $1 million in the first year; the actual was $64 million), turning Lotus Development Corp. into the largest independent company in the world. 1-2-3’s success had two immediate impacts on the industry: Fledging computer manufacturers, such as Columbia and Eagle, had begun to copy or “clone” the IBM-PC. Their hope of blockbuster success soon crashed, however, when it became evident that the clones would not run the IBM-PC’s “killer app,” 1-2-3 -- Lotus’ non-adherence to the standards of MS-DOS caused problems and Columbia’s official stance that “We will be able to run 1-2-3 when Lotus adheres to the operating system standards” did not generate any sales. This “IBM-PC only” restriction changed with the introduction of the Compaq Portable in March 1983 by Compaq Comput-
er, another Sevin Rosen client. Compaq’s stated commitment to “run all business software that runs on the IBM-PC” and demonstration of 1-2-3 running was the beginning of the demise of IBM as the PC standard bearer. The VisiCalc “cash cow” almost immediately dried up and open hostilities broke out between VisiCorp and Software Arts with Software Arts accusing VisiCorp of not living up to its marketing responsibilities because of its focus on VisiOn and VisiCorp maintaining that Software Arts’ focus on TK!Solver had interfered with its responsibility of maintaining and improving VisiCalc to keep it competitive with 1-2-3. Software Arts rescinded its marketing agreement with VisiCorp and took over the marketing of VisiCalc. For both firms, however, the game was over. Lotus acquired Software Arts in 1985 and discontinued the VisiCalc product. The same year, VisiCorp, was sold to Paladin Software. Lotus’s dominance in the software industry was not without missteps: In 1984, Lotus introduced “Symphony” which it envisioned as a high-end successor to 1-2-3. Symphony added the functions of word processing and telecommunications to the spreadsheet, business graphics, and data management functions of 1-2-3 providing the user with a “totally integrated package.” Although Continued on page 6
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A Tale of Luck, Timing, Opportunity, Success, Failure, and Joy Continued from page 5 Symphony quickly spawned competition from other firms, most notably from AshtonTate, the developer of the dBase family whose offering “Framework,” I found more elegant and easier to use, it became obvious that the “integrated package was a flawed concept. The products tended to be resource hogs, were not intuitive to use, and were too expensive for many users. Moreover, market surveys (which should have been done earlier) showed while approximately 20% of 1-2-3 users used the business graphics functions occasionally, only a negligible amount used the data base functions – 1-2-3 was successful because it was the best available spreadsheet! Symphony was a failure. When Apple’s Macintosh was introduced in January 1984, the only spreadsheet available for it was Microsoft’s MultiPlan and the question immediately raised was “when would there be a version of 1-2-3 for the Mac?” Lotus’
response was that the 128k of the Mac made it underpowered for spreadsheet processing and, when the Mac was expanded to 512k, there would be a spreadsheet from Lotus. In 1985, there was 512k available and Lotus introduced “Jazz,” its Macintosh spreadsheet. Jazz was, to put it kindly, a complete failure – Apple Software evangelist Guy Kawasaki, in his book “The Macintosh Way,” put it more bluntly, saying that it was so bad “even the people who pirated it returned it.” With little fanfare later in the year, Microsoft introduced “Excel,” a full-featured spreadsheet that rapidly became “The Macintosh Spreadsheet” and Jazz faded into oblivion. In 1987, Lotus sued a number of software companies, claiming that their spreadsheet offerings infringed on Lotus “look-and-feel” (which had been, in fact, based on VisiCalc’s as it used the “/” key as its ‘toggle’ when it went from data entry mode to command mode – to save or print, etc.). Lotus was successful against two small firms, Paperback Software and Mosaic,
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which both went out of business but was unsuccessful in its claims against Borland’s product “Quattro Pro.” Lotus’s actions enraged many in the software industry, particularly Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman who led picketing of Lotus’ Cambridge, MA offices and in 1989 founded the League for Programming Freedom to oppose such activities as the Lotus suits (Tools developed by Stallman’s Free Software Foundation were used by Linus Torvalds to write the Linux operating system). None of these missteps were enough to derail Lotus as the dominant applications software firm of the 1980’s and into the 1990’s. It would take a major error in the 1990’s to do that. As far as my business, the massive proliferation of PCs in the early 1980s had caused most corporations to purchase centrally and to build in-house support teams, leading my firm to move to database development, generally using “Paradox” from Ansa (another Sevin Rosen company, and into telecommunications consulting. Barbara McMullen and I wrote one of the first, if not the first, book on microcomputer communications, “Microcomputer Communications: A Window on the World” (John Wiley & Sons, 1983) and we expanded our writing to regular pieces in Computer Shopper, InfoWorld, & PC Magazine, among others. We also began college teaching, initially just “to give something back” and then as an avocation. Looking back at this period, a few things stand out: All Eggs In One Basket – both Software Arts and VisiCorp were totally dependent on
the one flagship product, VisiCalc, as they explored other directions. In retrospect, it seems that possible greater focus on the flagship product might have led to enhancements that would have staved off the success of 1-2-3. There Is Always New Competition – 1-2-3 came out of nowhere to dominate the industry and IBM arrived, pushing Apple aside. There will always be a new player, one who has the benefit of building on newer faster technology. If we do not keep looking over our shoulder while pushing ahead constantly, we may find ourselves on the sidelines with VisiCorp. The Leader Can Often Get Away With Some Missteps — We have seen Lotus make errors and survive – as long as it didn’t lose focus on improving its industry-leading product, 1-2-3, it could keep its preeminent position. In the concluding piece in this group, we will explore what finally ended its reign. Next week, OS/2 Brings Down The House! 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.
John F. McMullen has been involved in technology for over 40 years and has written about it for major publications. He may be found on Facebook and his current non-technical writing, a novel, “The Inwood Book” and “New & Collected Poems by johnmac the bard” are available on Amazon. He is a professor at Purchase College and has previously taught at Monroe College, Marist College and the New School For Social Research.
CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
Back to Tahrir Square By SHERIF AWAD
Since the blast of the January 25, 2011 revolution, many Egyptian and foreign filmmakers were interested to document the turn of events in Tahrir Square and across Egypt using their professional cameras or even by using their cellphones. Among the new documentaries that have started to pop up around the time of the first anniversary of the revolution is the new Norwegian Canadian endeavor, Back to the Square, by Czech born director Petr Lom, which premiered in the 41st edition of Rotterdam International Film Festival (January 25February 5, 2012) as part of a selection of many Egyptian and Arab films and videos shown in the Power Cut Middle East section.
Petr Lom. Until the year 2003, Petr Lom worked as an academic professor of philosophy until he decided to fulfill one of his early aims in life, that is, directing documentaries about sociopolitical and human rights issues. He would Continued on page 7
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Salwa El Hosseini speaks out about harassment and abuse in Lom’s documentary.
eventually direct several long docunmentaries that received international acclaim. Most notably, Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan (2003), where he depicted a still-ongoing habit in this former Soviet Republic of Central Asia where Kyrgyz men kidnap Kyrgyz women they want to marry and keep them under house-arrest until they accept the marriage proposal; On a Tightrope (2007), where Lom revealed the religious oppression of Uighur Muslims in northwestern
China; Letters to the President (2008) in which he depicted a non-descript building in Tehran, where Iranian people send their letters to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and where these letters are read, considered, and answered. Because of his persistence and his Harvard Ph.D., Lom was the only one among 350 filmmakers, including Oliver Stone, to be granted permission to closely document Ahmadinejad’s populist trips in the Iranian countryside. As soon as this documentary was successfully screened in the Forum Section of the 2009 Berlinale, one of the producers of German-French channel Arté commissioned Lom to make a documentary about Dr. Mohamed El Baradei who was garnering regional and international attention. In February 2010, Lom came to Cairo where he resided in one of the Nile houseboats of KitKat, Imbaba, and began the process of reaching out to Dr. El-Baradei. Slowly, over time, the Lom’s interest began to shift toward greater interest in the Egyptian people and the ongoing turn of events that led to the revolution in January 25, 2011. During the 82-minutes running time of the film, Lom rolled the camera toward five Egyptians who are meant to symbolize the many who still suffer from the injustice and cruelty even after the revolution, which is now recognized to remain incomplete. Rarely using music, the filmmaker moved from one story to the other with moments of silence reflective of the state of mind of his interviewees. We get
Mark Nabil with a sign: No Military Trials for Civilians. to know the story of the 15-year-oldboy, Wael Hosni, who works near the Pyramids giving horse rides to the tourists. Hosni was tricked by corrupt politicians to go to Tahrir Square in “The Day of the Camel” to attack the protesters and he was almost killed. He is symbolic of the illiterate and poor who are manipulated by the rich and powerful; Mohamed Sayed, a 47-yearold microbus driver and ex-convict who was released after the revolution only to be tortured in order to push him to go and beat the Tahrir
Square protesters; Lamis Ragab, a 21-year-old university student who was arrested and abused by plainclothes police along with her husband Mohamed. Salwa El-Hosseini, a 20-year-old young woman who was forced among many female protesters to undergo a virginity test. Lastly, Lom interviewed Mark Nabil, the 19-year-old brother of 26-year-old blogger, Maikel Nabil. who was arrested last March and given a three-year sentence of imprisonment. Continued on page 8
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Peter Lom and Mark Nabil presented the film to the festival’s audience. Afterwards, I sat down with both of them to discuss the film and Egypt. AWAD: How has your insight into the revolution shifted, if at all, from the interviewing process among famous activists into making a film about ordinary people? LOM: During the four months following the initial days of the revolution, like many Egyptian people, I was very confused, because I did not know how things were moving around me and on what elements I should focus in my storytelling. Nevertheless, I was filming endlessly, for hours and hours, until I had gathered around thirty stories, including those of Dr. El-Baradei and activist Bothaina Kamel. In the editing room, I had to filter all the material I had and settle down on the five stories I found more interesting, touching and powerful. They were the five interviewees affected by either the lack of education during the Mubarak era
Mohamed and Lamis recollect their horrific story of abuse that had taken place at a police station parking lot.
or the physical abuse in the aftermath of the revolution. I also had another reason, I felt very frustrated by the way the Western media, like CNN, and Arabic channels, like Aljazeera, created stars out of some Egyptians, like Wael Ghonim, as part of the celebrity culture they believe and to which they adhere in television reporting.
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On the opposite side of that, there were also the funny interviewees I decided to incorporate into a three-minute prologue to my film where I met some people from [the city of] Alexandria to ask them about the guy who called his daughter ‘Facebook’ because she was born after the revolution. I got many interesting answers and one of the interviewees said to me: “so he must call his newborn son ‘Twitter.’ I find Egyptians having similar humor to the people of my homeland, the Czech Republic – really! AWAD: Have you concluded that one-year after the revolution Egyptians are not as optimistic as before? LOM: I was heartbroken when I began to witness atrocities still happening in Egypt. Egypt had become a country I care for. I hope the international community can support the Egyptian people in the coming months by advising the military regime to get rid of the emergency laws, reform the police, prosecute the ones who killed the peaceful protesters, and stop abusing human rights. AWAD: How did you come to know blogger Maikel Nabil and his brother Mark? LOM: An Egyptian Coptic journalist introduced me to Mark Nabil, and another activist, Karim Nader, who briefly appears in the film. After Mark was arrested, I visited him once in jail. He is such a strong young man. The most intriguing thing about him is that he did not find enough support in Egypt; Egyptians though of him as some kind of Zionist.There is a possibility that I will interview him in the future, especially after his release, and because of his pronouncement that he is inclined to sue the authorities. AWAD: Mark [Nabil], when did you brother Maikel show an interest in politics? MARK NABIL: We were raised and continued to live in Asyut, where Maikel graduated to become a veterinarian; thereafter, he moved to Cairo to undertake a degree in law. Since his student years he was very politically active in Upper Egypt. Even before creating his blog in 2005, he was openly exposing the malpractices of the authorities which always considered him a marked target for Amn Al-Dawla. In 2009, he started campaigning against conscription, claiming that it does not create a real soldier who can fight, but
it only makes young men high-ranking officers. Because of such writings, the military tried to enlist Mikail by all means at their disposal; he was sent for medical tests despite their already knowing of his heart and blood pressure problems. In 2010, after he refused to comply for recruitment, he was arrested for the first time. But a few days later, he got a military exemption and was released. Maikel was arrested by military intelligence for a second time, last year, on February 4, while he was departing from the home of El-Baradei. The third time was in March 28, when he tried before a military court and jailed until last January [2012] for insulting the army. AWAD: Against all odds, your brother is still rebelling. MARK NABIL: During his imprisonment, he went on a hunger strike that lasted 130 days, which was his way of expressing his rebellion against his captivity. Many Human Rights entities like Amnesty International were pressuring the government to have him freed from jail. Upon his release, after 300 days in captivity, in the middle of the night of January 25, the first anniversary of the revolution, Maikel refused the pardon he was granted because he did commit any crimes in expressing his ideas. AWAD: As a Coptic Egyptian, what’s your opinion about the outcome of the election for the parliament? MARK NABIL: I wouldn’t have worried if the Salafi and Muslim Brotherhood had reached parliament through fair elections. A glimpse of many videos and bits of news that covered the elections shows that we did not move one step fahead and that all the elections were cooked in favor of Muslim parties. Nevertheless, I still think the revolution is ongoing because none of its targets have been achieved. Born in Cairo, Egypt, Sherif Awad is a film/video critic and curator. He is the film editor of Egypt Today Magazine, 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 Variety Arabia, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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Banning Plastic Bags in Mamaroneck
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Briarcliff Lodge, the Fabulous “Hotel Beautiful” By ROBERT SCOTT
Walter W. Law truly had the Midas touch. Despite his lack of experience as a hotelkeeper, around the turn of the previous century the retired rug company executive decided to construct a mammoth hotel at the highest point on his vast Westchester properties. Designed by architect Guy King with sweeping views of the Hudson and the Highlands, the 225-room Briarcliff Lodge opened in 1902 and quickly became America’s premier summer resort destination. Westchester’s network of scenic parkways was still a planner’s dream. The new-fangled horseless carriages were a toy of the rich, and most lodge guests arrived by train, many to stay all summer. The nearest railroad station was Whitson’s, named for Charles Whitson, a longtime station agent. Walter Law considered the tiny station unsuitable for guests of his luxurious hotel. Placed on a flat car, it was moved to Millwood, where it can still be seen, painted in garish colors now faded and peeling--a forlorn relic of a forgotten era. Its hipped gable roof, deeply bracketed canopies and projecting bay windows are typical of stations along the line of the original New York & Northern Railroad that had served the community since 1881. He replaced it with a station building he considered more appropriate to the Tudor style of his new hotel and changed its name to Briarcliff Manor. Larger than most of the original stations on the Putnam line, it was constructed of concrete with a stucco finish and applied wood half-timbering. Its wood-paneled interior was furnished with amenities such as a round center table, chairs and an oriental rug complementing the traditional passenger benches along the walls. Following the abandonment of the Putnam railroad line in 1958, Briarcliff Manor bought Law’s station to house its public library. Eventually, the collection became hopelessly cramped in its too-small space. Only after New York threatened to revoke the library’s charter did the village expand the former station with an architecturally compatible addition that opened to the public in 2009. Briarcliff Lodge’s own vehicles—first horsedrawn and then motor cars--met trains at the new Briarcliff Manor station of the New York Central’s Putnam Division and at the Scarborough station of the Hudson Division. On arrival at the lodge, guests found a resort the equal of any at the famous watering holes of Europe. The Briarcliff Lodge was to bring many changes to the sleepy hamlet that became the village of Briarcliff Manor.
A Monumental Undertaking
Experienced chefs prepared haute cuisine meals from fruits and vegetables grown in Briar-
cliff Farms’ own gardens. Briarcliff Table Water was on every table. Perhaps the most famous of lodge chefs was European-trained Maurice LaCroix. Before coming to the lodge, he had worked at the Astor, Belmont, Knickerbocker and Biltmore hotels in New York City. Indoor amenities included a music room with a pipe organ, a swimming pool, a small theater, a casino with billiard and pool tables, a library, and a ballroom. Playgrounds, swings and croquet lawns kept children busy. Among outdoor diversions, guests could play tennis on one of the lodge’s 15 tournament-level clay courts or tee off on the lodge’s nine-hole golf course, later enlarged to an 18-hole professional course laid out by noted designer Devereux Emmet. The horsey set could choose a mount from a stable of saddle horses and ride over bucolic backcountry roads, while those who preferred shank’s mare could hike over woodland trails. For guests who arrived by their own automobiles, the lodge offered a special dining hall, dressing rooms, smoking rooms and facilities for patrons’ uniformed chauffeurs.The lodge also featured a large parking garage (originally the lodge stables) a fully equipped automobile repair shop. For guests without automobiles, Fiat touring cars and chauffeur-driven limousines were available for hire. The list of guests who stayed at the Briarcliff Lodge reads like a “Who’s Who” of the early 20th century: From the world of politics, Franklin D. Roosevelt (and Eleanor, of course) and Alfred E. Smith, when each was governor of New York, and Senator Chauncey M. Depew, of Peekskill. From the realm of entertainment, guests included Mary Pickford, Warner Baxter and Tallulah Bankhead, stage actress Sarah Bernhardt, and Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heink, operatic contralto. The Law family ran the hotel until 1923, when Chauncey Depew Steele, former assistant manager of New York’s Algonquin Hotel, signed a 20-year lease for the property. After he added year-round operation, including winter sports, Briarcliff Lodge was advertised as “America’s St. Moritz.” In a snowless January in 1924, gondola cars full of snow were transported from the Adirondacks for a skiing exhibition by the U.S. Olympic team. Walter Law did nothing by halves. Converting the lake near the lodge into a tiled “Roman pool” holding six million gallons of water, he created the world’s largest outdoor swimming pool. Johnny Weissmuller tried out for the 1924 Olympics and demonstrated his freestyle prowess in the Briarcliff Lodge pool. At the summer games in Paris that year, the 20-year-old Weissmuller, who would later make a career out of playing Tarzan roles in films, won three gold medals and a bronze (as a member of the American water polo team). In 1928, at the summer Olympics in Amsterdam, he went on to win two more gold medals.
Briarcliff Lodge.
The lobby of the Briarcliff Lodge. Gertrude Ederle, daughter of a Bronx butcher, also tried out for the 1924 Olympics in the lodge’s pool. Not yet 18, she would win one gold and two bronze medals in Paris. The following year, she turned professional. In 1926 she became the first woman to swim the English Channel, in the process breaking the existing record held by a male swimmer.
A Hotel No More
Wounded by the Great Depression, in 1936 the lodge was leased to Dr. Matthew H. Reaser to operate the Edgewood Park School, a college prep school for girls.The following year, the school bought the lodge and grounds. Failing to meet a mortgage payment in 1954, the Edgewood Park School closed its doors. After an abortive attempt by investors to open the lodge again as a hotel, in 1955 the King’s College, a Christian liberal arts college, bought the Briarcliff Lodge for use as the main building of its campus. Several other area buildings were also purchased. Severe financial problems caused the King’s College to close in 1994. It traded the
school property in Briarcliff Manor for a lot twice its size in Orange County, but never occupied it. Today, the King’s College unusual campus consists of three floors rented in the Empire State building at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 34th Street in New York City. With a total student body numbering about 300, its students occupy residential dorms in nearby buildings on Sixth Avenue. Plans to develop the lodge as a senior citizen facility fell through, and it and other associated campus buildings built by the King’s College remained shuttered, attractive targets for vandalism. Sad to say, nothing remains of the Briarcliff Lodge today. On Saturday morning, Sept. 20, 2003, a fire broke out in the wood-timbered portion of the massive, sprawling building under suspicious circumstances. The conflagration spread rapidly, causing a major portion of the 101-yearold structure to be destroyed. The remaining portion of the lodge and other campus buildings were later demolished. With the exception of its foundation, all traces of Continued on page 11
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the once-proud Briarcliff Lodge are gone. Walter Law’s stone mansion, which had served as a 30room men’s dormitory, was restored and sold as a private residence.
A Mystery Solved
According to a notice in The New York Times of Jan. 19, 1924, “Walter W. Law died on Thursday, Jan. 17, in Somerville, North Carolina. At the time of his death, Mr. Law was attended by only his nurse and doctors as he had gone south for a rest cure and was expected home shortly.� Funeral services were to be held on Sunday, Jan. 20 at the Briarcliff Congregational Church. Mr. Law was survived by two sons, Walter W. Law, Jr., former chairman of the State Tax Commission in the early 1920s, and Henry H. Law, and three married daughters. The only mention of Walter Law’s burial place to be found anywhere was in A History of Briarcliff Manor, by the Rev. Robert B. Pattison, reprinted in 1939 from The Briarcliff Weekly. In it, Pattison wrote that Law and his wife who predeceased him in 1910 were buried in Woodland Cemetery. Unfortunately, there is no community named Somerville in North Carolina and no Woodland Cemetery locally. Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, however, holds the ornate mausoleums of many American retail tycoons, such as F.W. Woolworth, J.C. Penney, S.H. Kress
and Franklin Simon. Wouldn’t Woodlawn be a logical burial place for a kingpin in the Sloane retail empire? Moreover, changing only one letter transforms Woodland into Woodlawn. A phone call to Woodlawn Cemetery elicited a positive response. “Yes, Walter W. Law, deceased in 1924, is buried here. We show his last address as Summerville, South Carolina. He’s buried in the Prospect Plot.� The Prospect Plot turned out to be as big as two football fields. Walter W. Law’s last resting place is no elaborately impressive mausoleum. Instead, in the shade of a large tree stands a modestly sized rectangular gravestone on which is chiseled the single word “LAW.� Embedded in the ground in front of it are four small, flat stones. These mark the graves of Walter Law, his wife Georgiana Ransom Law, his daughter Caroline, and a son, Arthur, born in 1876 and died the following year. The infant’s brief existence is not mentioned in any source. On his grave marker are inscribed the name “Arthur� and the dates 1876-1877, followed by the New Testament verse, “Suffer little children to come unto me.� At long last, the forgotten last resting place of Walter W. Law and members of his family had been found, another piece in a tantalizing historical puzzle. But his definitive biography and an in-depth history of his many enterprises still remain to be written.
West Point’s Jazz Knights By ABBY LUBY
From the opening chords of Alone Together – a cut from the West Point Band’s Jazz Knights’ album At First Light – I knew they had me. This highly acclaimed jazz band is about to celebrate its 40- year anniversary, and for decades jazz aficionados have appreciated this
group’s growing popularity. The unique sound of the Jazz Knights has come from years of tweaking and honing the talents of the specially selected musicians. The strong, sonorous brass, tasty saxophone riffs, melodious flutes, and the crisp, catchy drum rhythms make your ears smile when you hear them play the music of greats like Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller. Continued on page 12
Robert Scott is a semi-retired book publisher and now a local historian. He lives in Croton-on-Hudson, New York.
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MUSIC original sound — it’s something that continually evolves.” The Jazz Knights are also fortunate to house a number of music arrangers within their ensemble. For example, the most recent concert featured arrangements from saxophonists Sergeant 1st Class Mike Reifenberg and Staff Sergeant Derrick James, as well as Staff Sergeant Tonelli. It’s their special touch that shapes and develops the group’s distinct sound. When Arcangel works with Jazz Knights vocalist Staff Sergeant Alexis Cole, they work on arrangements together. In the cut Joy Spring from their CD “Turning Points,” Cole belts out her scat singing with incredible punch, redolent of Ella Fitzgerald. Arcangel’s snappy arrangement shows off the depth and range of Cole’s rich and versatile voice. Sergeant 1st Class Scott Drewes, the band’s drummer, doubles as the tour manager. “I do the business side and arrange one to two tours a year to jazz festivals or at universities where we give music clinics. We’re good- will ambassadors.” The Jazz Knights is part of the West Point Band, the U.S. Army’s oldest active band and the oldest unit at West Point. They were just a few fifers and a drummer in the Revolutionary War stationed with the minutemen on Constitution Island and who in 1778 crossed the Hudson River with General Samuel Holden Parsons to establish West Point. After the war one drummer and one fifer were left at West Point with, the meager beginnings of what is today a top military band.
The United States Military Academy was formally established in 1802. By 1817 the “West Point Band” had bassoons, bugles, clarinets, French horns, cymbals, a bass drum, flutes and trumpets. In 1866 the group was officially named “The United States Military Academy Band.” Today there is the Concert Band, Hellcats (drum and bugle unit), the Jazz Knights, and Support Staff. Altogether they form the Marching Band for ceremonies, parades, and sporting events. The Jazz Knights played with Benny Goodman at Lincoln Center in 1982 and have performed with the Duke Ellington Orchestra.They form smaller ensembles to perform at military cocktail parties and special occasions such as United Nations receptions or ambassador parties. “We played at the Waldorf Astoria and rubbed elbows with high dignitaries,” says Drewes. “It’s a great honor to represent the U.S. Army and West Point at these types of events.” Each musician in the Jazz Knights is required to go through a competitive audition process just like for any other professional ensemble. Many are graduates from prestigious music schools as the Eastman School of Music, Indiana University, Berklee School of Music, the Manhattan School of Music. Band members have played with such icons as Count Basie, Buddy Rich, Woody Herman, Maynard Ferguson, Ahmad Jamal, the Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller Orchestras. Musicians auditioning for the West Point
band also need to meet certain physical requirements to get through basic training. Once they are accepted the have a four year contract that can be renewed. For many, being part of a military- based music group offers a wide range of incentives and for some, a sense of job security. Staff Sergeant Josh Economy was a freelance trumpet player in Los Angeles six years ago when he auditioned for the Jazz Knights. “This job allows me to play the trumpet in a meaningful way.” Economy frequently sounds Taps at military funerals at West Point. “It’s the most musical thing I’ve ever done. It really means so much more to play things like Reveille.” The sentiment that the music they play has a special significance is shared among all the band’s musicians. “We mark passages in the cadet’s lives,” says Cole. “We also focus on building audiences and how can we expand and grow. At the end of the day, the draw is the music.” The Jazz Knights give free concerts year round at West Point and in the surrounding area. Check their performance schedule at: http:// www .westpoint .edu/ b and You can also find them on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and iTunes.
In Memoriam: Mary Elizabeth Pollis
the Harbor Head Tennis Club. Mary especially loved sailing and the family maintained several sailboats on Cape Cod and the Caribbean. During the winters she and John taught their four children to ski at Bromley Mountain in Vermont. Mary enjoyed many things in life and shared her love and humor with everyone she knew. She was an avid reader and traveler. Mary is survived by her husband, John P. Pollis, whom she married in 1986 at the Good Shepherd Church in Rhinebeck. She is also survived by her four cherished children, Carolina, Andrew, Jack and Daniel; her parents Robert and Joan (Fitzpatrick) Marvin; ten siblings, Jody Ceglarski, Ann Marie Swann, Eileen Hosbein,
Maureen Carroll, Barbara Nozaki, Bob, Paul, Billy, Jimmy and John Marvin; aunt and uncle Dr. Robert and Marilyn Fitzpatrick, and many cousins, nieces and nephews. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at the Good Shepherd Church, 92 East Market St., Rhinebeck, NY. Calling hours began immediately following the Mass and continued at the Dapson-Chestney Funeral Home, 51 W. Market St., Rhinebeck. Following calling hours family and friends were invited to return to Mary’s Home, 122 Morton Rd., Rhinebeck for continued fellowship and refreshment into the evening. The family requests that memorial donations be made in Mary’s memory to the The Kildonan School for Dyslexia, 425 Morse Hill Road, Amenia, New York 12501.
West Point’s Jazz Knights Continued from page 11
When we see this 18- piece premier jazz ensemble, it’s a very different experience: not only are they a slick performance group, they also represent our military who are dedicated to serving their country but at the same time, in full military regalia, they serve up a jaunty jazz tune. This cohesive team of musicians is also involved with managing performance schedules, teaching, and playing special military functions. It means everyone has to pitch in; everyone wears a few different caps. “Everyone in this band does everything,” says band guitarist Staff Sergeant Mark Tonelli, who is also a publicist for the band. “Everyone takes on extra duties to make it work. That way the band is self- sustaining.” Some members write original work and arrange different versions of traditional jazz songs. The fact that Sergeant Major Scott Arcangel is the group’s pianist, musical director, and program director is a prime example of how the musicians multi- task. Arcangel is regularly referred to by his colleagues as the “vision” of the Jazz Knights because he prepares the band for performances, develops concert themes, and programs individual concerts. “We’re developing our sound,” Arcangel explains. “I’ll tailor a song to the group to highlight their strengths. The band has a unique and
Abby Luby is a Westchester based, freelance journalist who writes local news, about environmental issues, art, entertainment and food. Her debut novel, “Nuclear Romance” was recently published. Visit the book’s website, http://nuclearromance.word- press.com/.
IN MEMORIAM Mary Elizabeth Pollis, 49, passed away Friday, April 20, 2012, at her home in Rhinebeck, New York. Mary was born September 6, 1962, in Rhinebeck. Mary chose to live her entire life in Rhinebeck, raising her family in the community she loved. She attended Rhinebeck High School where she was a field hockey player and cheerleader. Mary attended St. Lawrence University where she earned her degree in English and psychology and was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. Mary was a proud alumni and very happy that her children, Carolina and Andrew, also attend St. Lawrence University. Mary is extremely proud of her children and
dedicated her life to their activities. She served on parent committees at St. Lawrence and Trinity Pawling School, and was very involved at the Kildonan School for Dyslexia. Mary recently returned from a trip to Ireland with her youngest son Daniel; they visited her oldest son Jack, a student at Champlain College studying abroad in Dublin for a semester. Dan and Mary extended the trip to London where they went to the theatre and toured the city on foot. In addition to her home in Rhinebeck, Mary and her family have lived every summer since 1986 at their home in West Falmouth, MA. Mary was very involved in the community and served on the Tournament Committee at
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The Suffering of the Innocents
Lincoln Center Concert to Honor Victims of the Holocaust Aims to Promote Love and Reconciliation between Jews and Catholics By GIUSEPPE GENNARINI
NEW YORK, NY -- The “Suffering of the Innocents,” a symphonic homage and prayer composed by Kiko Argüello in memory of innocent victims, especially those of the
Holocaust, is a musical gift to the Jewish people and residents of New York City. Organized by the “Neocatechumenal Way,” one of the most significant ecclesial realities of renewal in the Catholic Church, the performance will take place Tuesday, May 8th at Avery Fisher HallLincoln Center at 8:00 p.m. Admission to the
performance is free but requires a ticketed reservation, available by calling 201-998-9469 or emailing infony@sufferingoftheinnocents.com. A vehicle for expressing the Neocatechumenal Way’s mission to strengthen the relationship between the Christian and Jewish worlds, the concert will be performed by the
orchestra and choir of the Neocatechumenal Way and conducted by Pau Jorquera. The symphony of harmonies features 100 musicians and 80 chorus singers from Spain and Italy. Performed for the first time in January 2011 in the Vatican before Benedict XVI, the group has Continued on page 13
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traveled throughout the year to Galilee, before a group of 200 Bishops, and then Paris, Madrid, Düsseldorf and finally in Jerusalem in December in the Gerard Bechar Theater, where the group held a special concert for Hanukkah. The concert arrives in the United States May 6th for a performance at Boston Symphony Hall, followed by the May 8th performance at Lincoln Center, and concludes May 14th at Chicago’s Orchestra Hall. “This concert represents a revolution in the relationship between those of the Christian Faith and the people of Israel; an acknowledgement that there are essential differences which separate us in faith – and yet all considered, there are very important elements which unite us,” Rabbi David Rosen remarked after hearing the
symphony in Jerusalem. “Kiko Argüello and the Way are committed to preserving the identity of the people of Israel, and I’m grateful to have taken part in this historical movement to foster the relationship between Christians and Jews.” The composer of the symphony, Kiko Argüello, is a painter and multi-disciplinary artist and the initiator of the “Neocatechumenal Way” which he founded together with the Spanish chemist and theologian Carmen Hernandez. Members of the Neocatechumenal Way go through a Christian initiation to rediscover the Jewish roots of their faith so that they are equipped to strengthen the relationship between Christians and Jews – a practice they have shared in thousands of communities throughout the world. In Kiko’s words, “We act according to the last wishes for Pope John Paul II. We remember that the roots of Christianity are in Judaism and that since the beginning,
God made Israel the chosen people”. The theme of the symphony reflects Argüello’s experience in the shanty town of Madrid, Spain, in the 1960’s where he lived for several years after a religious conversion experience from atheism. In the midst of all these shattered people living in shacks, Argüello contemplated the suffering of many due to the sins of others, “I have seen homeless people lying in the streets. I have seen abandoned children in orphanages where they are abused. I have met sick people abandoned because of their illness. In approaching these people, I have seen Christ crucified in them, carrying the sin of many and I have realized the magnitude of the tragedy that the Jewish people experienced in the Holocaust”. In creating this musical work, Argüello aims to convey the message that “in spite of the horrors that we have witnessed throughout history, I want to remind everyone that inside the
human heart, hope is always preserved”. Rabbi David Rosen, AJC International Director of Interreligious Relations and Chief Rabbinate of Israel Honorary Advisor on Interfaith Relations will preside at the event and will lead a memorial prayer for the victims of the Shoah. The tour is endorsed by prominent leaders of the Catholic and Jewish communities. Among the many endorsements, Arch. Vigano’, Nuncio to the U.S. and Arch. Chullikatt, Holy See Observer to the U.N.; Cardinal Dolan, New York; Cardinal O’Malley, Boston; Cardinal George, Chicago; Cardinal Schönborn, Wien; Cardinal. McCarrick, Emeritus of Washington; Rabbi Arthur Schneier, Rabbi Irvin (Yitz) Greenberg, Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum and Rabbi Marc Schneier. Also the ADL, the WJC and the AJC, prominent Jewish entities, are endorsing this event.
Presidential Medal of Freedom for Jan Karski Who Tried to Stop The Holocaust NEW YORK, NY -- The Polish American Congress had good reason to congratulate Poland’s Consul General in New York, Eva Junczyk-Ziomecka (center left) and Wanda Urbanska (center right), Director of the Jan Karski U.S. Centennial Campaign. Chet Szarejko (left), vice president of the Downstate New York Division of the Congress and Frank Milewski, its president, extended these congratulations at a special reception hosted by the Consul General at Poland’s diplomatic offices in New York City. Good news for a celebration came just a day earlier when President Obama announced he will posthumously bestow the Presidential Medal of Freedom --- America’s highest civilian honor --- on Jan Karski, a Polish Catholic. Popularly acknowledged as “the man who tried to stop the Holocaust,” Jan Karski died in 2000. He eventually became an American citizen and served as a distinguished professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University for forty years. Memorializing the courage and remarkable accomplishments of Prof. Karski with the Presidential Medal was one of the primary objectives of Ms. Urbanska’s Centennial Campaign. “This honor will represent the climax of this campaign but by no means its completion,” she said. The campaign plans to continue and preserve Karski’s legacy with international educational activities, public events and artistic performances leading up to the centennial year of his birth in 2014. After World War II began in 1939, Karski
corner of that intersection. The U.S. Centennial Campaign was launched a year ago at the initiative of the Polish History Museum in Warsaw. Consul General Junczyk-Ziomecka continues to play a prominent role in New York.
joined the Polish Underground, the first and most significant resistance movement in occupied Europe. Chosen by the Underground to witness German Nazi war crimes first-hand, Karski was twice smuggled into the Warsaw Ghetto and later entered the Nazi Izbica transit camp disguised as a guard. Sent as a courier by the Underground, Karski was dispatched to inform Western Allies about what he had seen --- the horrific situation in Poland and the systematic slaughter of its Jewish citizens by the Germans. In addition to providing detailed written reports, Karski delivered his eyewitness account to British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden in London. He later briefed President Franklin Roosevelt in the White House. Karski pleaded with both leaders to stop the Holocaust and the bloodbath in his land. Tragically, Allied intervention was not forthcoming. In 2009, the Downstate N.Y. Division of the Polish American Congress helped the Polish Consulate persuade the City of New York to designate the corner where the Consulate is located (Madison Avenue at E. 37th St.) as “Jan Karski Corner.” Visitors to the City will find the Karski sign posted on the southeast
“The message and the power of Karski’s legacy should be listened to in a world filled with conflict. Karski’s wartime courage is a permanent legacy for humanity,” she said. Photo by and courtesy of Polish American Congress.
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For now, Henry growled. “Too much money,” he him like this. Ever. “Why are you worried about , p olice but I wish I could run away. said. “I don’t need a cell phone with all that me?” I whisper, staring at my feet. m after “I created them to be like me. Man who crap.” Graham storms toward the water, but I’m a 3 Philip Catshill can turn into beast, be free, experience a careMartha shook her head and compassion not stupid enough to follow him into the open. free life, but they did not inherit the man in me. disappeared from her face. “Stop. Where are you going?” At 30, I had a massive stroke. Only the cat.” “And, how much money are we wasting “To figure out what I saw and to find a way 18 months later, I returned I shake my head, clutching the weapon in standing here while you look through that to get us out of this. I’ll be back.” p to work as a policeman. my hand tighter and tighter. “Don’t come any phrase book?” No he won’t. He won’t ever be back. No af My career ended after closer. I will kill you.” Anger chased confusion across Henry’s one has ever returned. But trying to stop him a 2nd stroke so I took up The maniac grins, revealing his brilliant eyes like storm clouds chasing away blue skies. would be suicide. painting. Now, after a 3rd stroke, I white teeth. “And not figure out where your “What money?” Those tears finally fall. I know I shouldn’t write! precious Graham went? He followed the same “We spent several thousand dollars to let them, but I’m tired of losing people I know all night and light as all the others. Don’t you want to know come to Germany just so you could destroy and love. I’m tired of staying up the secrets to this new world you live in?” your health cursing and screaming at a phrase sleeping all day. I’m tired of being in charge, of Not another word. I lift my spear then book?” Henry turned away muttering to himburying people I know—or what’ s left of them. Jack Durish thrust it into his heart, but my efforts were for self while Martha drifted away to a nearby shop. I stomp back to our hut, sobbing like a little nothing. “What are you doing?” he called as he caught baby, then cross my arms over Jack Durish was born in my chest to stand Transforming back into the cat, he laughs sight of her looking at some wares in the winwatch. Like usual. Baltimore, Maryland, in then lopes off toward the water. “Sooner or later, dow. “You shouldn’t cry, girl. Crying will get you J 1943. He is a soldier and a come for you. Maybe he’ll even eat you.” “Oh, I’m just going to spend a few of those killed,” someone with a smooth, deep, sadistic Jache’ll a n sailor, a decorated veteran k D rish whe’ll eat you first,”I scream, slumpdollars you saved,” was her reply. voice says. sailo u“Maybe V e of Vietnam, a husband, r, aagainst bo deco theashut. Martha exited the shop just in time to see What the . . . ? 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“I should,” Henry groused. “Maybe they’ll have the decency to learn English the next time we beat ‘em.” Martha tsk’d and shook her head in dismay. “Could you even pronounce it correctly if you found what you’re looking for?” Henry scanned the vocabulary in the pamphlet and shook his head. “It’s the damnedest language I ever saw,” he said. “It looks like they string whole sentences together in one word.” Martha looked at the paper in his hands. “Someone told me that they string adjectives together to form nouns,” she said. Henry looked at his wife without understanding. “You know,” she continued, “like… like an airplane is ‘athingthatflysthroughtheair’.” Henry mulled this over and grabbed the next pedestrian. “Wo ist der stinkinsnarlinrunninhoppin-
flyin place?” he asked. The pedestrian turned to the woman who accompanied him with an astonished look on his face. “Blimey!” he exclaimed. “Damned early t’be drinkin’ ain’ it?” and they hurried away. Henry watched them walk away, his mouth hanging open, then turned to glare at his wife when he heard her laughing. “Sorry, dear,” she apologized. “But you did say it with a very nice German accent.” The next pedestrian cocked his head to one side and stared at Henry with the compassion of one encountering a lunatic. However, when Henry had repeated his question, the man pulled an iPhone from his pocket and held it up for Henry to speak into. “Wo ist der stinkinsnarlinrunninhoppinflyin place?” he asked. The phone was silent, but Martha slapped her husband on the shoulder. “Speak English!” she commanded. “Oh,” Henry stammered and then asked his question as though speaking to a deaf man, mouthing each word carefully. “Where is the
zoo?” he asked. “Wo ist der Zoo,” the phone spoke, and Henry stared at it blankly. “Zoo?” Henry repeated. “That’s it. Zoo.” The man spoke into the phone. “Hast du eine Karte von der Stadt?” “Do you have a map of the city?” the phone translated. Henry fished through his pockets until he found it and thrust the map at the man.The man opened the map and turned it until the streets drawn on it lined up with those around them. “Sie sind hier,” the man said pointing. “You are here,” the phone translated. “Gehen Sie diesen Weg etwa einen Kilometer.” “Walk this way one kilometer,” the phone translated. “Dann hier rechts abbiegen,” the man continued pointing to another street. “Turn right here,” the phone translated. “Und gehen noch eine halbe Kilometer,” the man instructed. “And walk another half kilometer,” the phone translated. The man looked at Henry and waited. Henry nodded and said, “Thank you.” “Danke,” Martha
chimed in. “Bitte,” the man responded, smiled, and walked away. “There,” Martha said. “I told you that you should have bought an iPhone.” “Why?” Henry asked looking perplexed. “He already had one.” Martha shook her head in disgust and began walking in the direction of the zoo. “Men,” she muttered just loud enough for her husband to hear. “What?” he asked, following. “I asked for directions, didn’t I?”
plain about any competitor’s product—“. “I resent that,” answers the woman. “Also, I learned you and your husband are filming one of these new commercials, which have been in the news, that are pushing out younger announcers to use older spokespersons. The advertisers say your group convinced them about seniors being seen as especially honest. They’ll sell better. But we think you want to make your new announcers very popular. And after time, get them into politics—and then you’ll reveal your objectives.” “That’s absurd,” replies Joan. “There are only two new commercials being made like that—“ “So far,” the other woman answers. “I’m afraid we’re having a two-person debate,” interrupts the female host, “and we want our other guests to speak—“ “I worked in government my whole career,” answers Nancy. “City transportation department. Don’t tell me that I don’t know the importance of government that’s free to accept new ideas and develop them. It felt wonderful when that happened. But it’s rare today when everyone’s against everyone else.” Nancy pauses, fiddling with one long earring— The younger male opposition leader, who’s about forty, shakes his head and tells Nancy, “But we’ve heard you declare that seniors will be more popular government department heads, because they’ll tell the public they’re not career politicians. You can’t convince me you’re not trying to push out professionals for your own types who’ll then reveal their plans—“ “We’ll be back,” the female host interrupts.
Retired Person’s Dating Film, about how seniors living alone can meet. It’s gotten some positive attention, I realize. But they want the film to get them known as the people who understand relationships. So follow their advice and go to their talk centers. They’re building a power base, I’m telling you—“ “There are hundreds of dating services for seniors in newspapers and magazines and on the computer,” Roz challenges. “Our film is just a drop—“ “I’m speaking what I feel,” the man answers. “And I know you were a high school teacher who taught about novels and books. I am a great fan of teachers, my daughter’s one.. But people who read stories for all their years, I think they start listening to dreams and not what real people need. Ask yourself—“ “We’re running out of time,” says the male host. “Meanwhile, our viewers will have to wait to see what happens.” “Meanwhile?” Mimi asks the host. “I’m the business person, I’ve been trained to listen to and identify the important facts. And you just said one: ‘meanwhile.’ That means keep waiting around for something to happen. At our age, we don’t want meanwhile’s.” “We agree on that,” says the attractive community leader who spoke first.
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News stories regularly cover the senior women’s marches and their calls for people to form talk centers where they live—usually in small, local restaurants that set aside tables. The articles explain how in these discussions, strangers can find some agreement on different public issues; the media then reports this and embarrasses politicians who at present refuse to cooperate with each other and are preventing the passage of new programs at all government levels. After six months, the marches and talk centers now take place, with varying regularity and size, in almost all cities. A small number of politicians, both locally and in Congress, have invited talk center participants to address their city councils, state legislatures, and Congressional committees. “Senior women have lived a life of nurturing,” one U.S. senator says, “and now they cry out for us to cooperate for our children’s future, everyone’s future. It’s a cry that’s difficult not to hear and feel.” Before speaking to the police... call
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But community groups, in different geographic areas, have formed in opposition. When questioned by reporters, they say they were prompted by recognized elected and appointed officials, who’ve convinced them that the marches are meant to make good, experienced politicians look bad so they can be replaced by an unknown group of people. This evening a major news show has brought together the four women who organized the first march and invited four opposition leaders. The women sit behind one long table and facing them are four community representatives behind a similar table; in between, at either end and looking at each other, are the program’s male and female hosts. “I feel I’m at a defendant’s table,” says Joan, smiling, as the show begins. “Then start us off,” the male host says, watching the camera and then Joan. “Simply, I can’t believe the marches can have any legitimate opposition,” replies Joan. “Our goal isn’t to promote specific issues but to just get officials to compromise and stop being afraid of losing votes if they do. Or, yes, vote out these officials—“ “We don’t need marches to do that,” says one opposition leader, a tall, attractive, woman with gray hair. “Marchers make noise and prevent people from thinking clearly and you can lose control of what’s happening. .And I’m a senior woman too.” “I worked in advertising,” replies Joan, “and know how advertisers can hire people to com-
When the show resumes, the older male community representative—in his late seventies, wearing a stylish suit—says, “It’s the movie they made some four years ago. I know the title, The
Send me you experiences: This column tells the story of four retired couples, who want to show that seniors are vital and discover that they also can offer new leadership to society. Each column is based on conversations I’ve had with seniors and non-seniors. I’ve heard from many of you, and encourage other readers to contact me with their related experiences so I can include them in the remaining columns about the retired’s story as they (try to) strike back. Direct email to allan@allanluks.com.
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No Guarantees: One Man’s Road Through the Darkness of Depression Chapter 35 – Manhood and Melancholy By BOB MARRONE
Perhaps you are wondering how my most intense and best years in hockey as a player figure in a book about depression. How, you may wonder, do discussions about fighting, physical danger and athletic skill factor in? If you are a man, especially one who grew up in the working class streets of an inner city, the insight will hit you sooner. Woman may take a little longer to grasp it. But they may be quicker than their male counterparts to internalize it if they think of the notion of being ostracized and ridiculed. It is also important, at this juncture, for the reader to appreciate that this period represents ne of the issues in my adolescence and early adulthood that presented me with my first recognizable symptoms of depression, such as obsessive behavior and feelings of worthlessness. These were relatively short lived, about a year or so, but they added debilitating weight and unconscious conviction to what went before and what was to come. As Doctor John Casarino made clear early on, and I was to fully internalize later, the massive anxiety/depression that came crashing down in April of 1975 was the culmination of a lifetime. It was the effect of the sum total of what I experienced and how I handled it up until that time. Following the season in which my statistics dropped from 29 points to five, with only one goal, some of my teammates, led by my old close friend, Howie, began to petition the coach to accept that I was no longer a top player, and that my role on the team should be diminished.There was certainly truth to this. But John believed in my talent to the extent that he would hear none of it. He insisted that the skill were still there and that I just had a bad year. He also correctly noted that I was still the team’s best skater, penalty killer and a very smart player. Now if this were a book about hockey I would venture off
on how I became a successful coach;, but we will save that for a another day. At any rate, as the new season started I didn’t do much better in the point’s department and it took ten games for me to get my first goal. Soon the carping got louder and more, vicious and the team split into two camps, with me the eye if the storm. The more the Howie camp demanded my head the more intransigent John became. It became a point of honor for John and he would never back down no matter what they said, or what was true.. The rumors and epithets became more malevolent and personal. Even when I was leading the team in scoring and getting my brains beat other abuse, I was never a very tough player, at least not then. Like a lot of skilled players I was small and did not like to fight. This was generally overlooked within an unwritten rule that you did not ridicule a finesse player for this “mildness.” Everyone accepted that it took courage just to play the game in that league and it was left at that. In my case, however, it became the nuclear weapon launched by the Howie crowd in the war between team factions. To grow up in the streets there is no worse label or indictment for a guy than to be called a punk.The equivalent for a woman would have to be a hybrid of labels including fat, ugly, nerdy and ostracized. It is the worst thing you can be called, and for a hockey player it is toxic. I am sure that men reading this shudder at the thought. That is what they whispered about me. Worse still, I was ill equipped emotionally to handle this kind of attack and, deep down, I still lived with the belief that I was an inferior being and always expected, sooner or later, to be found out. Also, there were times during the violent episodes that I was afraid. A part of me knew that was not as tough as these other men, at least not yet, and believed I did not belong there. With the exception of my latent talent, I was still playing catch up in the street tough world in which I now lived. And, now, I no longer had the domination as a player to offset my fragile sense of belonging.
THE SPOOF
NASA Space Shuttle Discovery Secretly Plans Second Career By GAIL FARRELLY
Retired by NASA, he was dumped at the Smithsonian Institute in Wash., D. C., and he’s not at all happy about it. In a special “after-hours” (that’s when the space shuttles have a magical ability to talk, an ability limited to about eight hours a day) interview this week with a reporter,
Discovery expressed dismay, disgust, and disappointment at his treatment. “After all that intergalactic travel and work, 27 years of it, I was just shipped off to a museum,” Discovery said. “I’ve soared to the heavens and back many times, and now they think they can stick me in a museum for the rest of my days. Dullsville man, dullsville.” Discovery complained that he didn’t even Continued on page 18
My sense of self hate and feelings of rejection were scorching. My friends and teammates were lined up against me and questioning my manhood. It was the worst experience I ever had before I got sick a few years later. God bless John, he never abandoned me, kept playing me, and still used me as his assistant when it came to teaching certain drills. As the team evolved over the next couple of years, the rebels left the sport or moved to other teams, Others emerged as the teams big goal scorers and I steadied as a solid defensive player who got the odd goal, played well in the corners (a rough part of the rink), and won, once again, the respect of my teammates. But I was badly wounded deep down by what happened and it changed my enjoyment of the game. Whenever I played a bad game or made a bad mistake I was unable to shake it from my mind. I now equated all of myself worth to my hockey playing skills. I was no longer a star, but I was accomplished and had an important role.
So long as I played well and did not show fear I was a man. Parallel to my hockey life, I had been selected by Merrill Lynch, where I had a part time job while in college, to be the youngest supervisor they had ever promoted. I got a jump-start on a career that most people would kill for. I was good. But I was also more concerned about hockey than work. If I had a bad day at the rink, my work would suffer for days. I also was about to get married to my high school sweetheart. As we leave this part of my hockey life behind, it is important,, to save one bit of information before we go forward. Deep down in my soul, I was sure that my hockey enemies were right; confirming what I had held deep inside form my earliest days as a child, I was a cowardly fraud not worthy of esteem. Bob Marrone is the host of the Good Morning Westchester with Bob Marrone, heard from Monday to Friday, from 6 – 8:30 a.m., on WVOX-1460 AM.
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THE SPOOF no respect.” When he mentioned Rodney Dangerfield, though, Discovery’s mood changed and his eyes lit up. He told the reporter that, since his new home was in Wash, DC, and he wasn’t ready for
retirement, he had decided to pursue politics as a second career. “I got the idea,” Discovery confided, “when I remembered what Rodney Dangerfield once said: I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.” A politician who is honest and can’t talk that much? Eureka!
point. In another tight battle, it was Scarsdale a winner over Bronxville 15 to 11, Liz Felix tallied 8 goals for the Raiders. On the boys side, it was Byram Hills getting by Horace Greeley 9-5, Charlie Murphy and Jake Kaiser each had two goals for the Bobcats. Kennedy clobbered Peekskill 19 to 4, Andrew Rodriguez fired in six goals for the Gaels. In baseball action, looks like a football score, but was in reality a slugfest with Fox Lane pounding Pleasantville 22 to 11. Richard Slenker and TJ Hallock each had 4 hits for the Foxes. John Jay defeated North Salem 6-3; Kyle Ogren hit a homerun for the Indians. On the softball diamond, it was Harrison slamming Port Chester by the final score of 14 to 1, speaking of slams; Jenna Webb hit two grand slams for the winners. Tuckahoe beat Edgemont 15 to 1, Casey Stevko and Alexis Kargbo each hit for the cycle, (no it’s not hitting a bike), but having a single, double, triple and homerun. Turning to golf, Irvington “drove” past Tuckahoe 251 to 280, Rye Neck defeated Ossining 222-243 and Briarcliff beat Pleasantville 190 to 257. Over on the tennis courts, Fox Lane defeated Keio 5-0 and White Plains beat Mount Vernon by the same score of 5-0.
In track and field action, the Hen Hud boys’ team defeated Haldane by the score of 119 to 6 and the Hen Hud girls also came up winners over Haldane 123 to 1. Iona Prep’s Greg Gallagher won the invitational pole vault with a meet record of 15 feet 7 inches at the New York Relays. In Westchester college sports action, Westchester Community College swept Rockland CC in baseball 15-2 and 14-4. The Pace men’s lax team lost to Merrimack 16 to 9, Matt Mirabito had the hat trick for Pace. Congratulations to Concordia’s junior Argelix Gil as he was named to the 2012 All-Met Division II men’s basketball second team. It is sign-up time for Future Stars Lacrosse Camp to be held at SUNY Purchase College June 25th – August 17th girls camp is July 2nd – August 3rd, call 914-341-2713 for more information. Our sports radio show “The Clubhouse presented by Golf Trip Genius” has returned to the airwaves on AM1490 WGCH. The gang is back broadcasting “live” from Grand Prix New York in Mount Kisco on Wednesday evening 7 to 8 pm. Join host Brian Crowell, a PGA pro, and me for good food, good fun and great local sports action. “The Clubhouse” is an informative,
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receive a gold watch. “Just my shipping out orders,” he said with a sob. “Y’know, comedian Rodney Dangerfield wasn’t the only one to get
Here’s a prediction you can take to the bank: as soon as he blasts off in his new career, Discovery will once again soar.
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SPORTSSCENE
Sports Scene By MARK JEFFERS
Welcome to this edition of “Sports Scene,” where we take a look at the sports action here in Westchester County… We want to wish good luck to coach Joe Amuso, the Fox Lane wrestling coach who announced his retirement after 41 years as head coach…you will be missed, Joe! Bronxville’s Mary Cain wins again in the mile at the Penn Relays, setting the national sophomore New York state mark with a time of 4 minutes, 39.28 seconds. Gee, I don’t even drive that fast. Congratulations goes out to Fox Lane graduate Steven Rodriguez; the University of Illinois freshman recently won the 138.75 pound title at the FILA Junior National Freestyle Wrestling Championships. In Girls lacrosse results, White Plains edged out a victory 16 to 14 lead by sophomore Kate Leone who had 5 goals including her 100th
interactive bi-weekly radio talk show that features local golf pros and touring sports celebrities. It also covers golf trends, local and national sports action and will take on all aspects in sports. A fun Interactive show with a great live audience each week. Wow, what a nice promo…maybe I’ll tune in… Three cheers to both our local NHL squads, the NY Rangers and NJ Devils as they both won game 7 games to head into the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The “heat” is on the NY Knicks as they battle the Miami Heat in the first round of the NBA playoffs, good luck to all… see you next week. Mark Jeffers successfully spearheaded the launch of MAR$AR Sports & Entertainment LLC in 2008. As president he has seen rapid growth of the company with the signing of numerous clients. He resides in Bedford Hills, New York, with his wife Sarah, and three daughters, Kate, Amanda, and Claire.
EYE ON THEATRE
Two Out of Three, Not Bad By JOHN SIMON
“One Man, Two Guvnors” is one of the funniest plays I’ve seen in a lifetime of theatergoing. It is an anglicized updating of Carlo Goldoni’s 1740s comedy, “A Servant of Two Masters,” in which comic types from the commedia dell’arte were first raised from improvisation into a written text. Though it still works with the original Venitian setting, it gains something from this transposition to 1963 Brighton. That seaside resort, the summer destination for middle-class vacationers, is also a good, sleepy refuge for escapees from the law. In this version by Richard Bean, the Truffaldino character is Francis Henshall, who, unbeknown to either, serves both Stanley Stubbers, killer of Roscoe Crabbe in a duel, and Roscoe’s twin sister, Rachel, Stanley’s lover, disguised as her dead brother, amorously pursuing Stanley to
Brighton. Here all kinds of mistaken identities and other confusions prevail, with Francis a gourmand of enormous hunger and only slightly lesser craving for a girl. He gets involved with Charlie “the Duck” Clench, and the latter’s employee the curvaceous and provocative Dolly, while Clench’s daughter, the pretty but dim Pauline, is engaged to Roscoe but in love with Alan Dangle, the most outrageously actorish actor, who wants her fully as much as a theatrical career. Alan’s father, Harry Dangle, a lawyer as sesquipedalian as cynical, and the ex-jailbird innkeeper Lloyd Boateng, master of the establishment where most of this takes place, are also involved. So, too, are a couple of comic waiters, the sniffy Gareth and the ancient Alfie, his eyes totally uncoordinated, his hands outtrembling a windblown feather, and his body as pratfall-prone as that of one dead drunk. Francis is a scheming fellow whose frame, features, and mind are in perpetual motion
James Corden as Francis Henshall when not in befuddled stasis, and who is given to speech as comically absurd as the lovers’ is romantically ridiculous. James Carden’s performance is a glittering anthology of every species of humor, including the sublimely preposterous or wildly alliterative as in ”He was diagnosed with diarrhea but died of diabetes in Dagenham.” Corden is quite simply a comic prodigy who could reduce a gorgon to helpless giggles. But the others are scarcely behind: Oliver Continued on page 19
James Corden as Francis Henshall in One Man, Two Guvnors.
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Two Out of Three, Not Bad Continued from page 18
Chris as the ludicrously snooty aristocrat Stanley, Jemima Rooper as the frantic false Roscoe (each believing the other dead and attempting suicide), Martyn Ellis as the verbose lawyer, Suzie Toase as the pneumatic Dolly, Claire Lams as the sweetly benighted Pauline, Daniel Rigby as the hilariously hammy Alan, Ben Livingston and Tom Edden as the uprpariously farcical waiters, and all the rest. Also a putative member of the audience, whose scene with Francis is enough to split the most corseted sides. What here isn’t a riot? I can’t remember when an audience was last caught up in such nearly nonstop laughter, and where even the songs by Grant Olding, delivered by a quartet between scenes, manage to be charmingly droll. Farce such as this usually ranks below more sophisticated comedy; when, however, it reaches these heights, let no one call it less than genius.
Trevor Laird as Lloyd Boateng, Oliver Chris as Stanley Stubbers and Jemima Rooper as Rachel Crabbe in One Man, Two Guvnors.
The musical “Ghost” is a technological triumph and a dramatic disaster. Based on the Patrick Swayze–Demi Moore movie, but with leads nowhere near their equals, it has book and lyrics by the film’s scenarist Bruce Joel Rubin, and music and further lyrics by Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard, that do not increment but considerably diminish what even as a movie was dubious stuff. I shan’t bother you with the risible story, but will concede that the lighting by Hugh Vanstone (dazzling in both the good and bad sense), the video and projections by Jon Driscoll, and illusions by Paul Kieve are stunning (again in both senses). Seldom have there been such vertiginously unscrolling cityscapes, dizzying acrobatics, instant vanishings, and walkings through closed doors. But all that is ultimately fool’s gold, no substitute for a compelling story and captivating music as we can expect from a show directed by Matthew Warchus. The acting by Richard Fleesham, Caissie Levy, and Bryce Pinkham is not good enough to rescue their characters (could anyone?), and Da’vine Joy Randolph, as a black fortune teller, camps grandly but cannot escape cliché. Too bad that those spectacular disappearances did not include the show itself into that thin air which it so closely resembles.
Oliver Chris as Stanley Stubbers and Tom Edden as Alfie in One Man, Two Guvnors.
Suzie Toase as Dolly and James Corden as Francis Henshall in One Man, Two Guvnors. “Nice Work if You Can Get It” is a new musical with book by Joe DiPietro, “inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse,” and music and lyrics by George and Ira Geshwin culled from their various shows, plus instrumental music by George. And, by George, it works. The Prohibition-era story, reminiscent of “Oh Kay!” (1926), has he seldom-used Long Island mansion of Jimmy Winter, a muchmarried, millionaire mama’s boy, invaded by a trio of bootleggers: the resourceful Cookie McGee, the humongous Duke Mahoney, and the tough but sexy Billie Bendix, to hide a large cache of liquor in and operate from. But Jimmy unexpectedly arrives with his annoying fiancée Eileen, a phony modern dancer, her pompous senator and judge father Max Evergreen, and ardent temperance advocate aunt, Duchess Estonia Dulworth. A bunch of chorines and chorus boys also pop up everywhere. All for the next day’s wedding. Cookie disguises himself as a sarcastic butler, Duke as a chef (although he can’t cook), and Billie as a sassy chambermaid (don’t ask by what means); a fumbling police chief periodically interferes, and eventually Jimmy’s formidable matriarch mother also turns up. After much fracas, it all leads to a predictably happy ending, but there is enough disarming tomfool-
Charlie Rosen, Austin Moorhead, Jacob Colin Cohen and Jason Rabinowitz as The Craze in One Man, Two Guvnors. ery and a plethora of first-rate songs to make it perfectly palatable. Under Kathleen Marshall’s lively direction and inventive choreography, the cast, headed by a pleasantly dopy Matthew Broderick and spunky Kelli O’Hara, is aptly supported by Michael McGrath, Jennifer Laura Thompson, Chris Sullivan, Robyn Hurder, Stanley Wayne Mathis, and the dependable Judy Kaye and Estelle Parsons as Aunt and Mother respectively. Derek McLane’s saucy sets, Martin Pakledinaz’s witty costumes, and Peter Kaczorowski’s versatile lighting add their assured touches to the nice work we get. Photos by and courtesy of Bruce Glikas.
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. Mr. Simon holds a PhD from Harvard University in Comparative Literature and has taught at MIT, Harvard University, Bard College and Marymount Manhattan College. To learn more, visit the JohnSimon-Uncensored. com
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SHIFTING GEARS
The Ups and Downs of the Used Car Market By ROGER WITHERSPOON
When it comes to year-old cars, iconic, fuel efficient vehicles like the Toyota FJ Cruiser and the hot rod, Chevy Camaro are in high demand. Large luxury sedans like the
Lincoln MKS fared poorly in terms of value retention after a year on the road. The STS, with a 2011 MSRP of $48,105, dropped to $25,325 in auction sales after a year, for a value retention rate of 52.6%; while the 2011 Lincoln MKS, dropped in value from $42,095 new to $24,650, just 58.6% of its original value. At the top of the list, whose release coincides with the opening of the New York International
Alec Gutierrez mand for the Camaro Convertible, but demand now is not at the same level that it was then. “If you want a 2011 Camaro you will have to pay within $2,000 of the original sticker price, which is still very good. But last year you would have had to pay $22,000 to $3,000 over the original sticker price for a year old Camaro.” The loss in retention value was less than that
for the big luxury cars, but still significant for family sedans high up on the popularity chart, like the 2011 Toyota Camry, the nation’s bestselling sedan, and the 2011 Honda Accord LX. Both lost 30% of their original value, with the Camry dropping from $22,860 to $16,125, and the Accord dropping from $22,730 to $16,100. “The Camry was just redesigned for 2012,” said Gutierrez, “which would detract from interest in the 2011 and 2010 models. They sold a boatload of Camry’s, selling 40,000 last month alone and in terms of used vehicle value, there are so many Camry’s out there that there is more than enough supply to meet the demand.. At the luxury end of the auto market, he continued, there is ego to contend with. “The STS has always been a poor performer,” said Gutierrez. “They aren’t that popular and are relatively expensive brand new, so we just don’t see a lot of interest in the STS or the Cadillac DTS. That’s why GM discontinued those models. “The Cadillac CTS (http://bit.ly/
Honda Accord EX-L Lincoln MKS are not – even if it is “smarter” as its ubiquitous ads claim. Aside from transportation, cars are one of the largest investments a family or individual makes. From that perspective, the ability of a car to hold onto its value over time is often an important consideration. But there are a number of factors which influence the depreciation rate of a car, including the economy, style changes, poor performance, or just ego. In a list compiled by Kelly Blue Book ( www.kbb.com ) The Cadillac STS and the
Auto Show, currently at the Jacob Javits Center in Manhattan, are Toyota’s FJ Cruiser and Prius, and Chevrolet’s Equinox and Camaro. The FJ Cruiser, a relatively inexpensive, offroad SUV and one of the few vehicles capable of following a Hummer through the woods, dropped just 4.7% of its value, from $27,690 new to $26,400 used. The Prius, which is perennially in demand, dropped 5.9% from $22,150 to $20,835. In Detroit the Equinox, an eye-catching, fuel efficient SUV, lost 7.2% from $24,655 down to $22,870 while its sporty Camaro Coupe lost just 7.3%, dropping from an MSRP of $24,730 to $22,935. Rounding out the top five in retention value was the Mini Cooper Hatchback, which dropped 8.9% from $20,100 to $18,535. Last year, both the 2010 Chevy Camaro (http://bit.ly/mdRgHg ) and Toyota Prius ( http://bit.ly/jj7N0Z ) were worth more after a year on the road than the new, 2011 versions (http://bit.ly/lvPFYR ) . But that was because auto production and sales had dropped considerably during the economic recession. Nationwide car sales were 16.1 million in 2007, and that dropped to just 9 million in 2009. As a result, there were fewer cars available and heightened demand for the low mileage cars on the secondary market. Last year, however, car sales bounced back significantly, reaching 12.8 million vehicles, thus giving used car buyers more vehicles to choose from and driving down prices. “The market for the Camaro has softened a bit,” said Alec Gutierrez, senior market analyst for KBB. “Last year there was really strong de-
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Water, Water, Everywhere By MARY C. MARVIN
The Village has been working very hard to seek flood mitigation grant monies and participate in initiatives at every level of government. The funding applications are cumbersome and time consuming and I commend Village department heads for taking the extra time it takes to file the myriad of forms for funding opportunities. Hopefully, their efforts will bear fruit. Just this past week, the Village participated in a conference call with representatives of FEMA and the New York State Office of Emergency Management regarding the status of our pending application for flood mitigation in the Midland Avenue corridor / Bronxville School area. The project would involve a water retention system on school grounds combined with a pumping system to move the water to the Bronx River more quickly than the current flow rate to the river. The project would provide additional on-site water storage volume and the pumps would get the water to the river before the river crested, thereby decreasing the amount of water that ponds at the school. This proj-
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ect does not, nor could any project, completely eliminate flooding on school property because of the topography, but it will provide significant mitigation. We were informed that the decision making bodies were likely to approve Phase I funding for this project which would allow us to begin preparing detailed design documents and commence the permitting and approval process. The potential grant monies, which in our case amount to $7 million, are extremely sought after because the match for communities is only 25%, in contrast to most grants, which have a 50 – 50 split at best. Though the merits of the project have received the go ahead nod from FEMA, no time frame for approvals was proffered. We are hopeful that the approvals will come in the usual 60 – 90 day window. The Village and the School are working hand-in-hand on every stage of the grant process. We have also applied for funding from the State of New York to repave the Garden Avenue parking lot with a permeable surface. The permeable material would retain the runoff that heads directly to our school property, which is the second lowest spot in the Village, save for the Bronx River itself. Since the Garden Avenue lot needs re-
surfacing, the grant funds would allow us to not only “repave” the area in a way that stores water and be a prototype for other parking facilities, but we would also use the opportunity to remove the parking meters and experiment with a more modern, efficient kiosk system of parking payment and hopefully upgrade the stair area near Citibank. We understand that we are definitely in the running for these grant monies. In other good news, the County of Westchester, thanks to the dogged efforts of our County Legislator Gordon Burrows, is about to begin a Phase II water purification project along the Bronx River near Scout Field. Though the focus of this project is the mitigation of polluted water, a by-product of the work will be some flood mitigation and as we know, every bit helps. Legislator Burrows has been incredibly responsive to our pleas for flood mitigation help and has made it a priority for our district and this legislative term. We also have smaller applications in the pipeline for funding for improvements in discrete areas of the Village including Garden Avenue and Parkway Road, which would address issues particular to those neighborhoods. We are still awaiting the status of our chances for these grant monies. In an effort to keep the Village in the forefront of flood mitigation along the Bronx River, I joined the recently formed Bronx Riv-
er Basin-Wide Watershed Advisory Board whose formation was the result of a local law recently enacted by the Westchester County Board of Legislators. The mission of the committee is to bring all the river communities together to share information about initiatives/ problems along the Bronx River and work cooperatively to initiate projects eligible for County funding. Since Bronxville is at the 23rd mile of the Bronx River, every project upstream has a potential effect on our Village, so it is imperative that we are engaged and aware of what every other community is doing vis-à-vis the river. For example, if other communities are undertaking major river clean-up efforts, Bronxville could be adversely affected if the speed of the water is changed as it flows downstream. Given the interdependence of any mitigation efforts along the river, it only makes sense that the County of Westchester coordinate the efforts. Also, by being in sync with other Westchester communities we can learn from their local efforts and copy successful projects. The Trustees and I continue to make flood mitigation a high priority as we go forward into the next budget year.
provide adequate resources to the most likely threats, especially in the Pacific region. The promise was not kept. President Obama favors a 1.7% reduction from the Navy’s 2012 baseline appropriation, at the same time that its chief adversary has issued it a challenge unprecedented since World War II. Even worse, accounting gimmicks have been employed to provide “long term delays” rather than cancellation of new construction, allowing the Administration to respond to critics who say that the force has become too small by saying that replacement programs remain alive, even though they are extensively delayed. Despite assurances, the fleet size, under the current budget, could actually shrink to about 280 by 2017. Considering China’s astonishing increase in Naval power, this is a serious development.
What’s left of the American fleet since its peak during the Reagan Administration has, with some exceptions, become old and in need of extensive maintenance. Recently, the military newspaper “Stars & Stripes” recently reported that the seventy-year old vessel, The Blue Ridge, was undergoing extensive maintenance to keep it in service. Naval aircraft share a similar dilemma. Recently, an aged F/A-18 Hornet crashed into an apartment building in Virginia. Early reports indicate that the age of the aircraft may have been a factor. The Hornets were to be replaced, but that plan has been set back by sharp cuts to the defense budget. Procurement of F-35 Fighter aircraft will be reduced by half, in addition to the elimination of six Marine TACair squadrons. By 2015, China will have more ships than the U.S. Navy. Its submarine force is already
twice as large as ours. But numbers alone are not the whole story. Beijing has outpaced Washington in high technology, as well. It has developed powerful and effective antiship ballistic missiles (ASBMs), submarines, and surface ships and has devices than can disable seaborne electronics from a significant distance, combined with satellites that provide excellent targeting data, giving China tools capable of defeating the U.S. Americans should understand that there is no time for delay or endless debate. Our naval forces must be modernized in quality and increased in number to face the threat already in existence.
Mary C. Marvin is the mayor of the Village of Bronxville, New York. If you have a suggestion or comment, consider directing your perspective by email to: mayor@vobny.com.
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As China, with annual increases amounting to a doubling of their defense budget every five years brings new and unprecedentedly powerful weapons online, the U.S. continues to stand by as its once supreme military might crumbles. There is no more explicit example of this crisis facing the U.S. armed forces than what is happening to the Navy. After unveiling its’ 2013 budget, which cuts the military far more than any other federal program, the White House responded to critics by promising that they would
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GreeNR Plan Creates Serious Issues for New Rochelle Residents By PEGGY GODFREY
Will the 43 initiatives of the GreeNR plan ever be implemented? According to Debra Newborn, New Rochelle’s Sustainability Coordinator, the City of New Rochelle has received several awards for their plans for environmental sustainability. The present Sustainability Plan includes job creation and addresses the quality of life concerns asserted Newborn at the New Rochelle League of Women Voters Coffee and Conversation meeting held on April 20, 2012, conducted under the auspices of Susan Fleming. A projection has been made that suggests New Rochelle’s population growth is to increase by 5,000 people in the near future. The “challenge” is where these new residents would find residence. The Smart Growth answer was to
place these people in new buildings within onehalf mile of the train station and stores (in the southern part of the City). “New Rochelle is an ‘urban-suburban’ city” shared Newborn. One present concerned mentioned was regarding the storm drains that overflow. Newborn advised the City is attracting artists to lofts that are available. A complete street policy in her view needs to consider pedestrians, cyclists, and cars. Questions from the audience included concerns about whether the sustainability plan was working or whether a lack of funding allocation in the City budget was a constraining factor. Anna Giordano reminded the group about her successful efforts to get the schools to recycle “commingles.” There were additional concerns that stores and businesses were not doing as much as was needed with regard to recycling, and Newborn responded by saying, “they were ‘working on it.’” Steve Mayo wanted to learn how to induce businesses to
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A Letter to the Editor of the Daily News By EDWARD I. KOCH
On Monday, April 16, 2012, I read the newspapers of New York City, as I do every day. In the Daily News was an op ed article by Douglas Schoen, someone I have known since I ran for Mayor back in 1977. Overall, the article was his telling the world and Mayor Bloomberg how much Schoen admired him. I concur in that admiration and supported Michael Bloomberg in his three successful elections for Mayor. Schoen, in the course of expressing his admiration decided it was necessary at the same time to denigrate three earlier three-term Mayors of New York City which included Fiorello La Guardia, Robert Wagner and me. I have a rule, which I’ve lived by since first running for office back in 1962 for Assemblyman, which, by the way, I lost. I’ve actually run in 23 elections, counting 1962 and including primaries, runoffs and general elections. Of those 23, I won 20 and lost 3. My rule is that, if I am attacked and I believe unfairly, I will respond in writing. I thought Schoen was outra-
geous in his attacks on LaGuardia and Wagner, two of New York City’s greatest Mayors, and candidly, I thought outrageous in his attack on me. So I sent a letter to the Daily News giving my reasons for my upset, which was not published. I thought you might like to see and read the letter which follows. April 17, 2012 Letters to the Editor Daily News 4 New York Plaza New York, NY 10004 To The Editor: I read with distress the reference to three three-term mayors in an op ed written by Douglas Schoen and published in the Daily News of April 16, 2012. Mr. Schoen sought to buttress his admiration for Mayor Mike Bloomberg by extolling his virtues and accomplishments as mayor, while at the same time disparaging the other three-term mayors. I am a supporter and admirer of Mayor Bloomberg and campaigned for him in all three of his elections. I have said many times that the people of New York City have been lucky to have him as mayor and that his vision and accomplishments have made it Continued on page 24
cooperate fully. The proposal for an additional 5,000 housing units for downtown was criticized for their lacking air pollution studies and the sewer capacity shortfall. Mayo reminded those gathered that new apartments in the downtown are presently not paying for themselves because of “tax breaks.” As she did during her opening remarks, Newborn responded by saying, “The City is winning awards.” In the New Rochelle City Council meeting of April 10, 2012, Mayor Noam Bramso states, “The City has no relationship with the UN.” However, he will be attending the United Nation’s conference (Rio + 20), from June 20-23, 2012, representing the City ofNew Rochelle. New Rochelle is a member of ICLEI and joined the organization without holding a public hearing or taking a City Council vote on it. According to City Manager Chuck Strome, the City’s membership was based on a representative from the organization speaking at a City Council
meeting. The Rio + 20 Conference will focus on translating national standards to international standards considered “essential” under United Nations’ guidelines. For example, to better assist people of lower socio-economic wherewithal, “subsidies” to poorer countries would be leveraged by obtaining “full cost pricing” in more affluent countries. While New Rochelle is a member of ICLEI, Westchester County has dropped its membership. Local blogger Robert Cox said, “I was dismayed that Miss Newborn kept pushing the issue back into recycling when GreeNR is about many things, of which recycling is a small part. I am far more concerned about land-use issues, the massive increases in taxes needed to fund the GreeNR initiatives, and the negative impact on home values which would result from implementing GreeNR.” Peggy Godfrey is a freelance writer and a former educator.
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A Letter to the Editor of the Daily News Continued from page 23 possible for the city to achieve new heights and to come through the Great Recession far better than any other metropolis in the country. He is not adequately appreciated and will be very much missed when he leaves office at the end of his third term on December 31, 2013. Having said that, I am appalled by Schoen’s references to two great mayors, Fiorello LaGuardia and Robert F. Wagner, as well as to me. He described LaGuardia as having, “left the city in 1945 with a massive debt and a bloated bureaucracy.” He described Wagner and his third term as “portrayed as a ‘city in crisis’ by the New York Herald Tribune in 1965.” Schoen described me as “Ed Koch faced a seemingly endless series of corruption scandals during his third term; those reduced his approval ratings to as low as 33% by June 1989.” I believe we – the city’s pre-Bloomberg three-term mayors in the city’s modern era— deserved better. Schoen’s tactic of putting the three of us down in a cavalier manner in order to heighten his admiration for Mike Bloomberg would be described by the political cognoscenti as “tuches lecker,” a Yiddish expression loosely translated as “fawning butt kisser.” I have known Mr. Schoen for many years and, in fact, have used his services on occasion. Long ago, I lost confidence in his integrity and accuracy. I write this response because of a principle I adopted when I entered politics and ran for the first time for public office in 1962, and that is, if I believe I am unfairly attacked, I respond in writing. Understandably, I much prefer the description of me by the historian
Jonathan Soffer in his biography, Ed Koch And The Rebuilding of New York. On page 399 Soffer wrote, “Koch’s tireless and personal lobbying campaign for federal loan guarantees, along with other management reforms, led to a balanced budget by 1981 – quite simply the greatest turnaround accomplished by any New York mayor in the twentieth century, including Fiorello La Guardia. When Koch promised Congress in 1978 that he would balance New York’s budget, few believed he would accomplish what the Emergency Financial Control Board had been unable to do, much less do it one year early. When he left office, debt service costs were reduced to about 11 percent of the city budget, down from 25 percent at the height of the fiscal crisis. Despite many missteps and limitations, Koch laid the foundations of municipal government and political economy for the next twenty years, rebuilt areas of the city destroyed by fire and abandonment, and exceeded expectations when he took office. If he had not succeeded, the cancerous erosions of neighborhoods would have continued, and today New York might resemble other deindustrialized, segregated, Rust Belt hulks like St. Louis or Detroit, where attempts at ‘renaissance’ have failed.” All the best. Sincerely, Edward I. Koch The Honorable Edward Irving Koch served as a member of member of Congress from New York State from 1969 through 1977, and New York City as its 105th Mayor from 1978 to 1989.
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On April 14th The New York Times published an editorial discussing the efforts and direction of a newly-formed committee, “New York Leadership for Accountable Government”. The New York Times praises the committee’s efforts to bring public financing to New York State elections for the Assembly and Senate. The editorial also praises the public financing legislation in effect in New York City. The editorial states, “There is no mystery about what New York State needs [referring to public financing of political campaigns]: do it like New York City.” The legislation referred to was enacted by
the City Council at my request, and has been in effect since 1988. I thought I would provide interesting background on how it came about. I served in the U.S. Congress for nine years – 1969 through 1977. On January 1, 1978, I left to become Mayor of New York City. During my service in Congress in 1974, I was a member of the House Administration Committee, chaired by Wayne Hayes. Also on the committee was John Brademas, then Congressman from Indiana, now President Emeritus of New York University, who proposed that the committee consider legislation to provide public financing for the election of President and Vice President and also for those running for Congress. The committee adopted a bill that provided public financing for President and Vice President, but Continued on page 26
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declined to do so for Congressional races. Brademas and several other members of the committee, including me, supported public financing for candidates for Congress, but we were heavily outvoted. In 1987, I urged the New York state legislature to allow the City of New York to adopt public financing. The Democratic Assembly adopted the bill; the Republican Senate refused to vote for it, ending at the time efforts to obtain public financing for New York City. I believed the issue was dead because New York City in the opinion of many not having “home rule,” could not on it s own enact such legislation. The commonly-held belief was that all important issues that the city wanted to address by legislation required the state legislature to enact the legislation or pass a law allowing the city to adopt legislation in the City Council. However, the then Corporation Counsel, Peter Zimroth, concluded that if the legislation was not mandatory, but voluntary, meaning only those who agreed to be bound by the limits on contributions to candidates and the limits on campaign spending would be affected, the City Council could adopt the legislation without prior approval of the state legislature. A bill providing for public financing was introduced into the City Council “at the request of the Mayor.” It still would have all come to naught but for the fact that I asked Peter Vallone, then Speaker of the Council, to join me in supporting the legislation. He readily agreed to, and with his enormous leadership ability, persuaded the Council to enact the legislation.
The fourth person responsible for making this legislation “the best in the country” was Father Joe O’Hare, appointed as the director of the new agency the New York City Campaign Finance Board that has administered the law since 1988. I have been asked to serve on the justformed committee, New York Leadership for Accountable Government, created by members of the business community, themselves contributors to campaigns for public office who have participated in national and state elections. They, like so many other Americans, have become distressed that our political system in states like New York have allowed wealth – contributions to candidates which vary in different states—to become an overwhelming factor in national and state campaigns. As a result of two U.S. Supreme Court decisions, Valeo v. Buckley and Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, we have a situation where there is now no limit on how much candidates can spend using their own money; and how much unions, corporations and individuals can spend operating campaign committees, now referred to as “super committees,” supporting candidates but maintaining an independent role by not conferring with a candidate on commercials supporting that candidate or attacking the opponent. In New York State as former Senator Russ Feingold, Democrat from Wisconsin, wrote in an op ed on April 19th, “Currently, New York has contribution limits to statewide candidates of $41,100 for general elections and $19,700 for primary contests. On top of that, donors are allowed to make unlimited contributions to po-
litical parties’ so-called housekeeping funds. The system, awash in the influence of big donors, is crying out for reform.” I agree with him in that analysis. When the New York Leadership for Accountable Government committee meets, I will provide it with all my energy and experience to help bring to the state of New York what New York City has already adopted. My advice is that the committee ask Peter Vallone and Peter Zimroth with their experience and knowledge to join the committee, the members having already enlisted Father O’Hare to serve. The committee should know that while it would be very helpful to have limits on campaign contributions and expenditures in New York State and elsewhere, as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court decisions in this area of election spending limitations, a program of limitations cannot be imposed on anyone. Those covered and bound by any such laws must voluntarily agree to be bound. Indeed, in the national elections scheduled for November 2012, President Obama has declared he will not be participating in the federal public financing program and intends to raise and spend at least a billion dollars in the 2012 presidential election. The Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, likewise will not participate; so spending for them and their successors will in all likelihood grow with each passing election and billions will be spent in the upcoming presidential election. There is a way to deal with this situation. Senator Tom Udall of Arizona has introduced a constitutional amendment that, if passed by the Congress by a two-thirds majority in both Houses and then ratified by three-quarters of
the states, would permit the federal government, states and municipalities to limit contributions to candidates and also limit campaign expenditures. Most important, it would not require acceptance of the limitations by candidates, but if adopted by the federal government or a state or municipality, could be mandatory and binding on all candidates participating in the election. So, my advice to the members of the New York Leadership for Accountable Government committee is that we raise our sights and while moving as originally planned to get the New York state legislature to adopt a plan for public financing, that we also use our efforts to support nationally the adoption of the Udall amendment. Hopefully, others will do the same in the 49 other states. Now a very personal note. All of this concerning the adoption of the campaign finance law took place in 1987 and 1988. That’s a long time ago and memories do fade. In preparing the commentary, I relied on my memory, checked old news reports published at the time and asked Peter Zimroth and others to read it for accuracy. Zimroth answered, “Your recollection is correct,” and then added, “Finally, a personal note. In the fight over the passage of the campaign finance law, I saw firsthand, and will never forget, the dedication and commitment of two great public servants – you and Peter Vallone. I was honored to be part of it.” Forgive me for quoting him, but I did feel very proud when I read the comment.
accommodate all its citizens, including the frail, the elderly, children, pregnant women, and people with disabilities etc. Making large entertainment and shopping venues more accessible is a key to these principals. The ADA is a starting point and sets the minimum legal requirements. Achieving full equality sometimes means going further. Simon Properties has a history of insensitivity towards people with disabilities. A statewide study of shopping mall entrance accessibility, conducted by the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office cited 6 shopping malls, out of the 28 studied, for their lack of automated doors (2 were owned by Simon Properties)[1]. In El Paso, a lawsuit was filed against Simon Properties over
the lack of accessible sidewalks between the mall and bus terminals and surrounding streets, thereby forcing people with disabilities to go into the street with traffic.[2] Simon Properties recently tried to prohibit Milwaukee County busses (key means of transport for seniors and people with disabilities) from stopping in front of their Southbridge Mall. A Simon representative was caught on tape saying “We want to reduce the negative, um, aspects of the Center — one of them is the young, black customer.”[3] Thank you, Harriet Lowell White Plains, NY
The Honorable Edward Irving Koch served as a member of member of Congress from New York State from 1969 through 1977, and New York City as its 105th Mayor from 1978 to 1989.
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Mobility Aids
Dear Editor: As an individual who uses a scooter to navigate my neighborhood in downtown White Plains, I had the frightening experience of having to exit the Westchester Mall by ramming my scooter through their inaccessible glass doors. I first brought this issue to the attention of the Mall owners, Simon Properties, over two years ago and since then, have been put off with failed promises for a remedy, and eventually ignored. To enter the Westchester Mall at South Broadway and Mitchell Place, I use a ramp at and then hit two sets of manual double glass doors. After opening the door with my good hand, I must then let go of it to drive forward. The door then closes on me, trapping me
in the entrance. If nobody is around, I must force the scooter through the doors to exit, causing the potentially breakable glass doors to fly open, as I go shooting through. Studies show that it is difficult or impossible for people with mobility aids to access non-automated doors. I often see people with strollers going out of their way to use the automated doors in the other malls. The City Center, the Galleria, the “old” Westchester Mall, Duane Reade and CVS all have automated doors. I have appealed on numerous occasions, during my two years of communications with Simon Properties, to install automated doors at the Westchester Mall, especially at the entrance on South Broadway where there is significant pedestrian traffic. Unfortunately, Simon Properties refuses to act on this concern. Automatic doors, though not mandated by the Americans with Disabilities Act, are consistent with the concept of Universal Design and the growing livable communities movement. It should be noted that White Plains, along with several other Westchester County municipalities, has endorsed the concept of livable communities as a model for inclusionary design to
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PARKAY SPREAD
4
ROMA PLUM
TOMATOES LB.
REGULAR OR LIGHT
SNAPPLE
EA.
69¢
LIMIT 1 OFFER WITH $20.00 PURCHASE
2
99 45 OZ.
SUNNY D
3
YELLOW OR WHITE
HOTEL AMERICAN CHEESE
FRESH BAKED 4 PACK MOTHER’S DAY DECORATED
CUPCAKES
11
99
399
SALE DATES
2012
FRI. MAY 4
2/$ 12 OZ.
LB.
LIMIT 1 PKG. WITH ADD’L. $10.00 PURCHASE
SAT. MAY 5
SUN. MAY 6
MON. MAY 7
LB.
10-12 LB. CRYO
FRESH TENDER USDA CHOICE SHOULDER
LONDON BROIL
2
99 LB.
DRUMSTICKS 7 TO 10 LB. BAG
LIMIT 1 BAG PER SHOPPING FAMILY
69
¢ LB.
REGULAR OR GOLD
CAROLINA RICE 20 LB. OR CORN OR VEGETABLE CRISCO OIL 128 OZ.
HORMEL HAM OR
BOUNTY BIG ROLL PAPER TOWELS
1
FRESH CHICKEN
2/$ 64 OZ.
CUSTOM CUT INTO: SHORT RIBS & FLANKEN
88
ASSORTED
97% FAT FREE PREMIUM
12 PACK
12-20 LB. AVG.
SPARE RIBS
CALIFORNIA FARM FRESH
10/$
LB.
FRESH PORK
48 OZ.
ECUADOR
GREEN JUICY
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FRESH USDA CHOICE BEEF
ASSORTED
PANAMEI TILAPIA FILLETS
ASSORTED
CHIPS AHOY
THURSDAY MAY 3, 2012
TUES. MAY 8
5
12 PACK
CORONA OR MODELO
1299
NOT AVAILABLE IN NEW JERSEY
WED. THURS. MAY 9 MAY 10
ICY POINT PINK SALMON
2/$ 14.75 OZ.
5
5
99
LIMIT 1 OF EACH WITH ADD’L. $50.00 PURCHASE
PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE: WWW.WESTERNBEEF.COM WE ACCEPT • EBT • WIC CHECKS • ATM MACHINES AVAILABLE
QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS: CALL TOLL FREE 1-888-554-2333 WB & THE CACTUS LOGO ARE REGISTERED TRADEMARKS OF W.B.I. INTERNATIONAL, INC.
Not responsible for typographical errors. Prices effective in these stores only. No beer in NJ. We reserve the right to limit quantities. Items designated MFR require sales tax on gross retail before savings. Pictures in this circular are for design purposes only and do not necessarily represent item for sale. 5/4/12 P1 VERS. 2 - MT. VERNON
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THURSDAY MAY 3, 2012
WWW.WESTCHESTERGUARDIAN.COM