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A Tough Road to the American Dream

By BOB WEIR Assuming that you pay any attention to politics, at any level, how would you characterize your philosophy of government? Most people would say they’re either Republicans or Democrats. Those two major political parties, with polar opposite viewpoints, have shaped the course of our history for more than a century. Yet, one might wonder, if they each have the best interests of our nation in mind, why do they disagree so vehemently on the issues?

After all, if we’re all loyal Americans we should all want the same things. Not hardly! Look at it this way; if both parties agreed, why would we need them?

Hence, the only way for them to have purpose is to always be at war with their adversary. We have blue states and red states; each indicating which party can count on the votes in those sovereign entities. When you glance at a national election campaign map you see what looks like a civil war strategy with “battleground states” and areas “targeted” for victory. In order to achieve those victories, huge sums of money are poured into a multitude of methods to win over the minds of the electorate.

The question is; how far will each party go to influence people to pull the lever for them? For as long as I can remember, Democrats have been wooing the poor with government largesse, while the GOP has been struggling to limit the power of the state to use the taxes of working people to pay for those who don’t. Sadly, non-workers have been increasing to a level in which they outnumber those who do. Moreover, the welfare state has created dependency that is self-sustaining, as each generation learns from the previous one that the government will take care of them.

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count on your vote. With about half the population on some sort of federal assistance, it seems almost impossible for the GOP to elect another Chief Executive. When President Obama won his second term with the country in the throes of economic calamity, it appeared to be a logic-defying phenomenon, confounding even the most skilled political gurus.

From time immemorial politicians have been making promises they couldn’t keep in order to entice the voters. Once in office, they became very adept at dodging those pledges if the consummation of same was detrimental to the country. In most cases, regardless of which party made them, those frivolous promises didn’t have devastating consequences. Not anymore! We now have a president who was voted into office twice after making it clear that he is a socialist who will continue to expand government and redistribute income. Consequently, with so many people on the dole, have we reached a time in our history in which Republicans may be forced to make similar promises in order to save them from extinction? How can they appeal to the aspirations and dreams that once drove the American spirit? The answer may be found in the way they connect with Hispanics going forward.

That’s why the immigration issue is front and center with the top echelons of the Grand Old Party. Given the fact that Democrats are receiving the lion’s share of Hispanic votes, it seems evident that Republicans dropped the ball on that issue, while Democrats have been scoring touchdowns. That’s what happens when you fail to recognize a cultural shift with colossal ramifications for the future. That doesn’t mean a blanket amnesty program should be supported; it means dealing more tactfully when referencing the fastest growing minority group in the country.

Whether they’re from Mexico, Puerto

Rico, Spain, or other Latin-American countries, Hispanics share common characteristics that include language, a fierce pride in their culture, family values and a strong religious heritage. That certainly makes them sound more like Republicans than Democrats.

Yet, whether you were born here, came here on a work visa, or crossed the border illegally for work and ended up staying here trying to build a life, you will resent having your ethnic legacy maligned by those who are always seeking negative stereotypes to look down upon. Keep in mind that in the overwhelming number of border crossings, people came here to work so they could feed their families. Every decent human being can relate to that. Those jobs, mainly involving laborious work at minimum wage or less, wouldn’t be available if north of the border employers didn’t dangle them in front of people whom they know are desperate enough to take them. When we start recognizing that most of us are American citizens merely due to a geographical circumstance of birth, perhaps we’ll ease off on the haughtiness and give others a chance at the American dream. When Hispanics feel welcome in either party their natural inclination will be toward the party that stands for a free market system, individual initiative, belief in a higher power and moral values that have defined Western civilization more than 2000 years.

Bob Weir is a veteran of 20 years with the New York Police Dept. (NYPD), ten of which were performed in plainclothes undercover assignments. Bob began a writing career about 12 years ago and had his first book published in 1999. Bob went on to write and publish a total of seven novels, “Murder in Black and White,” “City to Die For,” “Powers that Be,” “Ruthie’s Kids,” “Deadly to Love,” “Short Stories of Life and Death,” and “Out of Sight.” He also became a syndicated columnist under the title “Weir Only Human.”

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THURSDAY, JUNE 6 2013

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Never Again: Constant Reminder

By BOB MARRONE How it is that antiSemitism in Europe, Asia and Africa appears to have gotten worse during my short 63 years on the planet. Indeed, sometimes it is hard to believe that we are in the 21st Century, some 70 years after the Holocaust.

It seems not a week goes by that we do not read a story about some country where Jews are once again being mistreated or ostracized. The latest comes from the Swedish press, specifically the daily Dagens Nyheter. Reporter Niklas Orrenius writes that Jews are leaving Sweden, largely because of a new wave of Immigrants from Syria, Somalia and Afghanistan, and the resultant harassment that has manifested itself with Jewish citizens being spat on in the street, and others having trash and beer

cans hurled at them. In 2010 Malmo’s Stora Synagogan (grand synagogue) was attacked with explosives. Cries of, “Get out Jew,” are even directed at school children.

Over the past decade, writes Orrenius, more than half of Malmö’s Jews have left the city where, in 1906, Jewish immigrants built the now violated synagogue. This is the same city to which Polish Jews fled after the anti-Semitic sentiment that embroiled Poland in the 1960’s.

The story would not sting as much if the narrative was an anomaly. From no less a giant of Western civilization, France, arrives a similar sickening tale of exodus due to anti-Semitism.

Tablet www.Tabletmag.com reports that in 2012 alone, anti-Semitic attacks increased by 614, or 58%. These transgression included terrorist attacks, assaults and graffiti; to go along with

thousands of digital analogues. Here again, we hear that much of the resurgence is due to the immigration of North Africans practitioners of Islam, primarily Moroccans and Algerians, among other Middle Easterners.

The Tablet goes on to add that Jews need not move to the United Kingdom for relief. They cite the immigration of Pakistanis as cause for concern and… this is perhaps more important… a deeply ingrained anti-Semitism in England’s intellectual class. The second argument, while very much a debatable one, is cause for a closer look. Indeed, Haaretz (The Nation) www.Haaretz. com reports of one of its writers who while engaged in an interfaith dialogue, was reminded that Jews were a “tolerated minority” there.

If we take the cases of Sweden, France and the United Kingdom, we have to ask ourselves why the importa-

tion of peoples of Islamic faith are, first, inclined towards anti-Semitism; and second, to whatever degree that percentage might be, allowed to drive out and/or harass any productive, law abiding segment of society. And, I will add, that much of the Jewish segments of these societies are involved in medicine, the arts and sciences, as pillars of their respective communities. It seems to me that the host governments have much to answer with regard to their protection, or lack thereof, of the civil rights of their citizenry, particularly Jews. It seems to me, as well, that these societies continue to harbor an unhealthy dose of anti-Semitism that tacitly contributes to these troubling reports. In Germany of all places, today, a thinly veiled anti-Semitic attempt to demonize and outlaw circumcision has been put forward It is fair to say that German officials have done much to snuff out anti-Semitism when it is there, but they have more snuffing than they thought in 2013.

My space is limited here, but antiSemitism is thriving through much of Europe, including countries such as Hungary, Poland and Spain, who do not fare well when attitudes towards Jews are polled. We will save Asia and Africa for another day, but suffice it to say they are not the most receptive regions for Jews either. We have our share of it in the U.S., as well. But our open debate and largely inclusive institutions keep it at bay.

And so I wait, as I do every week, for my newspapers, magazines and websites to reveal the latest country to report a new wave of anti-Semitism.

And all I will think of is the oft-exclaimed code, “never again.” Imagine, in this day and age, that Jews must remain ever vigilant and ever questioning, as to why.

Bob Marrone is an author and freelance writer for The Westchester Guardian.

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Islam’s ‘Rule of Numbers’ Explains London Beheading

By RAYMOND IBRAHIM Last week in London, two Muslim men shouting jihad’s ancient war-cry, “Allahu Akbar” beheaded a British soldier with a cleaver—in a busy intersection and in broad daylight. They boasted in front of passersby and asked to be videotaped.

As surreal as this event may seem, Islamic beheadings are not uncommon in the West, including the U.S. In 2011, a Pakistani-American who helped develop “Bridges TV”—a station “designed to counter negative stereotypes of Muslims”—beheaded his wife. In Germany in 2012, another Muslim man beheaded his wife in front of their six children—again while hollering “Allahu Akbar.”

Beheading non-Muslim “infidels” in the Islamic world is especially commonplace: in Yemen a “sorceress” was beheaded by the “Supporters of Sharia”; in Indonesia, three Christian girls on their way to school were beheaded; in Syria last Christmas, U.S.-supported rebels beheaded a Christian man and fed his body to the dogs; in Africa— Somalia, Tanzania, Mali—Christians are regularly decapitated. (For a comprehensive picture of Christian suffering under Islam, see my new book,

Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians.)

Most recently, a disturbing video surfaced from “liberated” Libya of a machete-wielding masked man hacking at the head of a captive— again, to cries of “Allahu Akbar!”

But the greater lesson of the London beheading concerns its audacity—done in broad daylight with the attackers boasting in front of cameras, as often happens in the Islamic world.

It reflects what I call “Islam’s Rule of Numbers,” a rule that expresses itself with remarkable consistency: The more Muslims grow in numbers, the more Islamic phenomena intrinsic to the Muslim world— in this case, brazen violence against “infidels”—appear.

In the U.S., where Muslims are less than 1% of the population, London-style attacks are uncommon.

Islamic assertiveness is limited to political activism dedicated to portraying Islam as a “religion of peace,” and sporadic, but clandestine, acts of terror.

In Europe, where Muslims make for much larger minorities, open violence is common. But because they are still a vulnerable minority, Islamic violence is always placed in the context of “grievances,” a word that pacifies Westerners.

With an approximate 10% Muslim population, London’s butcherers acted brazenly, yes, but they still invoked grievances. Standing with bloodied hands, the murderer declared: “We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you until you leave us alone…. The only reason we have done this is because Muslims are dying

by British soldiers every day.”

Days later in Stockholm, which

also has a large Muslim minority, masked rioters destroyed 100 cars and property. The grievance for this particular outbreak was that police earlier shot a(nother) machetewielding “immigrant”in self-defense.

Grievances disappear when Muslims become at least 35-40% of a nation and feel capable of waging an all-out jihad, as in Nigeria, where the Muslim-majority north has been terrorizing Christians—bombing hundreds of churches and beheading hundreds of infidels.

Sudan was an earlier paradigm, when the Khartoum government slaughtered millions to cleanse Sudan of Christians and polytheists.

Historically Christian-majority Lebanon plunged into a deadly civil war as the Muslim population grew.

Once Muslims become the majority, the violence ironically wanes, but that’s because there are fewer infidels to persecute. And what infidels remain lead paranoid, low-key existences—as dhimmis—always careful to “know their place.”

With an 85% Muslim majority, Egypt is increasingly representative of this paradigm. Christian Copts are under attack, but not in an all-out jihad.

Rather, under the Muslim Brotherhood their oppression is becoming institutionalized, including through

new “blasphemy” laws which have seen many Christians attacked and imprisoned.

Attacks on infidels finally end when Muslims become 100% of the population, as in Saudi Arabia—where all its citizens are Muslim, and churches and other non-Islamic expressions are totally banned.

Such is Islam’s Rule of Numbers.

Thus as Muslim populations continue growing in Western nations, count on growing, and brazen, numbers of attacks on infidels—beheadings and such.

Most recently in France, which holds Europe’s largest Muslim population, another European soldier was stabbed in the neck by a pious Muslim.

The question is, how long will leftist media and politicians refuse to face reality, including by propagating the false “grievance” claim, which, once Muslims reach enough numbers—as is projected for Europe—will be discarded for the full-blown jihad?

First published by Fox News, on May 28, 2013. http://www.meforum.org/3519/ islam-london-beheading Raymond Ibrahim is author of the new book “Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians”. He is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and an associate fellow at the Middle East Forum.

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COMMUNITYSection CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES

SFX Colombia

By SHERIF AWAD Colombian-born visual effects supervisor Michael Peña has worked in dozens of films, television series, theater plays, and TV commercials despite his relatively young age. He overcame numerous financial and technical difficulties to come up with his own pyrotechnical, mechanical and makeup effects solutions on set.

Peña worked in several independent productions in his homeland including the TV series Open Heart, the feature film The Head, and also for Discovery Channel of Latin America. He additionally had the oppor-

tunity to study pyrotechnics, visual and makeup effects, and animatronics under SFX specialists Leonardo Laurenti and read books about SFX master Stan Winston. We discover his love of the craft of Special Effects (SFX) and his keen focus to master it.

Born 1981 in the Colombian capital city of Bogota, Michael Peña was raised by a single mother. His adoration of cinema and most of all Special Effects started at a very young age. “At school, I used to do some playwriting and scenography in addition to makeup for my classmates at school plays”, remembered Peña who realized his first latex mask when he was only six years-old”. Like many film buffs of his generation, Peña was cinematically educated through VHS rentals from the nearest video stores. At that time, he was intro-

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duced to Alfred Hitchcock’s classics and the rising horror filmmakers of the 1980s, including Wes Craven and Stephen King in addition to the films by the Coen Brothers and Francis Ford Coppola. “I tried to build what I saw in those movies in smaller scale sets with plasticized characters”, he said. “Halloween was the coolest time because I used to design masks and makeup for myself and my friends.

My friends and I would attend street shows and people attending these street events were so happy to see us wearing very novel masks, that they gave us money to encourage us. I used some of that money to buy the material I needed for my hobby. I was so in love with Special Makeup Effects that upon reflection today, I realized it influenced me to live my adolescence in a world of fantasy”.

In order to finish high school, Peña worked in a factory to support himself and his

Prosthetics effects by Michael Peña. studies. “I wanted to work in the speOpportunity knocked when cial effects field but it was a difficult Peña was introduced to an Argencareer in Colombia”, said Peña who tinean filmmaker who hired him to went to study medicine and eventu- work between Colombia and Mexico ally worked in various hospitals for in a Latin series that exhibited a simifive years. “I did not abandon my larity to Grey’s Anatomy. “I overcame dream to dedicate myself to movies. the limited budget and the lack of So I started to work for free with makeup material to do a more than makeup artists and costume design- average job to the point that some of ers engaged with theatrical festivals Continued on page 6 during my spare time”.

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the crew thought I studied with a bigtime American artist”, he laughed. “I tested with different materials and succeeded in using foam latex, silicone prostheses, and dummies using my self-taught techniques”.

Gaining the confidence of producers and directors, Peña signed on to join the crew of the feature film The Paramo, a Spanish co-production about soldiers in an abandoned military base. “Although it was a low budget thriller, it needed a lot

of work and effort from my side in production design, pyrotechnics and makeup. It was a difficult shooting in a snowy remote space in Colombia at a height of 5.3 Km above sea level”.

Peña notes that there is a big difference between working in SFX in Europe or the US, and working in that same field in Latin America. “It is not a well paid job, not to mention the difficulties in getting the necessary material which is often very expensive”, explained Peña, who is still optimistic about the future of filmmaking in his country. Last year, the Colombian Congress passed a new law to benefit both local and foreign

film companies shooting in the country. The contact with international technical and artistic teams will not only benefit companies but also Colombian technical and artistic crews, who would become better and more competitive internationally. Also, the Colombian president has assured tax deductions for investors and the State Film Development Fund. “There is also a new generation of students of film who will likely change the course of Colombian cinema from the stereotypical drug stories”, he advised with great enthusiasm.

Born in Cairo, Egypt, Sherif Awad is

a film / video critic and curator. He is the film editor of Egypt Today Magazine (www.EgyptToday.com), and the artistic director for both the Alexandria Film Festival, in Egypt, and the Arab Rotterdam Festival, in The Netherlands. He also contributes to Variety, in the United States, and is the film critic of Variety Arabia (http://varietyarabia. com/), in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Al-Masry Al-Youm Website (http://www.almasryalyoum.com/ en/node/198132) and The Westchester Guardian (www.WestchesterGuardian.com).

Makeup effects by Michael Peña.

EDUCATION

Education is Not Only a Human Need, It is a Human Right

By DAMON K. JONES “When you live in a poor neighborhood, you’re living in an area where you have poor schools.

When you have poor schools, you get a poor education. Poor Education, you can only work on poor paying jobs and that enables you to live in a poor neighborhood. So it’s a vicious cycle.

We’ve got to break it.”

Malcolm X Education has always been the cornerstone of freedom and democracy, and key to economic prosperity. But never before in our history has education been more crucial to the collective future of the city of Mt. Vernon and to the individual futures of our young people. Our public schools must strive to provide equality in educational opportunity unlike at any time in the nation’s history. The demand is urgent and growing to educate all students to meet rigorous academic standards, and to prepare them for post-secondary education and an increasingly specialized workforce in the global economy.

Mt. Vernon is a city that houses

23% of all families that receive social services in Westchester County. Mt. Vernon’s Poverty level is at 14.2%.

The median income in Mt. Vernon is $49,862, well below the states at $71,524 and the county’s median income at $77,006. In Mt. Vernon there are 3,682 single-parent households (513 men, 3,169 women). The median income for single male family is $36,518 and a single female family $32,335 according to areavibes.com.

Education is not only a human need, it is also a human right. Every child has a human right to receive a well- funded education. This makes our children assets to our community and to our nation. Low-income parents have been out of the loop of decision making of well-funded schools in Mt. Vernon to provide their children with the same level of education that other cities receive. Often the answer to their pleas is “no, “as politicians, policymakers - even many members of the general public - claim that “money doesn’t matter” for school quality.

But the facts say otherwise, as spelled out in the report released on Feb. 18 by the Equity and Excellence Commission, solicited by the U.S. De-

partment of Education, and those recently released by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Center for American Progress.

The Equity and Excellence Commission, a group of 27 educational experts, economists, and civil rights leaders, write that there is a dire need to address the current educational system’s unequal distribution of opportunity, including by funding inequities.

This achievement gap is not a coincidence. Money matters. Money translates into tangible resources that make a real difference. It means more qualified and experienced teachers, laboratory equipment, attractive school grounds, heat and air conditioning, buildings without asbestos, rats, and lead.

More money per pupil can also boost technological facilities, ensure more diverse and rigorous course offerings, and pay for after-school and extracurricular activities that enhance student attendance and attractiveness to college and university admissions officers. The reality is that without these resources, students in under-resourced schools rarely reach the same levels of academic achievement as their peers in resource-rich schools.

Resource availability also shapes messages children receive about their own worthiness and life prospects. Is it too much to ask to have a collage or career ready student upon graduation day?

If Mt. Vernon believes in equal educational opportunity, why do glaring gaps in school resources occur?

Why are people fighting and denied an increase that will lay the foundation of educational improvements for our chil-

dren and the future of the city of Mt. Vernon?

According to the report by Judith Johnson, Mt. Vernon Schools Interim Super Intendant, “We don’t spend as much as the other Westchester districts on enrichment, specialized assistance and more. Our students come to schools with limited literacy skills knowing 10,000 words while others in the more affluent areas know 100,000 words.” By grade four these students may have a two million word divide.

This is fixable. But it takes funds to build researched based enrichment programs that can close the gap. Fund and mandate full day pre-kindergarten for all four year old children, especially those in high poverty schools.”

To right this ship, Mt. Vernon’s schools need more resources, which then must be spent wisely. Available research finds that improved infrastructure, programmatic offerings, and teacher quality boosts student engagement and leads to higher levels of academic achievement, high school graduation, and college attendance.

More resources could also reduce deeply entrenched racial inequalities, which persist in Mt. Vernon almost six decades after the Supreme Court’s landmark Brown vs. Board of Education ruling intended to begin equalizing education for all children.

But politicians and reformers have only given lip service that every child receive the resources they need to succeed academically, regardless of where they attend school. For many years Mt. Vernon has been rearranging the deck chairs on a sinking ship that lacks sufficient resources to stay afloat. With

all these challenges, Voters still turned down the $225,885,332 spending plan and two percent increase in the tax levy.

1,169 residents decided the fate of approximately 16,000 children under 18 in need of a well-funded educational system.

A city and/or neighborhood that is not farsighted enough to invest in quality education for all lacks knowledge of how crime becomes intergenerational as a lifestyle in their city. Children who can’t read and receive social promotions allow them to graduate without basic academic skills; they often have no way out of poverty other than crime. Poverty is not a family value.

An examination of state budgets has revealed that most states, despite spending more money overall on education, are spending three to four times more per capita incarcerating prisoners than they are educating students.

New York State spends about $59,000 per inmate a year and approximately $16,000 for every student in the school system.

As a Correction Officer for 23 years and a representative of a national Law Enforcement organization, we do recognize that pockets of communities that have high dropout rates also have a low literate population that results in a decrease in wages, and increase in crime that is directly correlated to an increase in the rates of incarceration. In essence, if you don’t pay in the front end with inadequate educational funding, you will pay in the back end with housing a rising inmate population in the Westchester County Jail.

Damon K. Jones is the New York Representative of Blacks In Law Enforcement of America.

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ENVIRONMENT

Disparity in Green Policy Over Leaf Blower Ban

By JOE TINELLI Its that time of year again.

The gasoline powered leaf blower is once again banned from use, from June 1st through September 30th.

The green industry has suffered enormous handicaps, setbacks, and loss of revenue over the past years, which continues at an alarming rate to this day.

New York City has just recently imposed huge cost increases to home improvement contractors, include landscape contractors, where thousands of dollars are incurred to do any work in the five boroughs. The New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) have put in place regulations over bus stops and increased regulations overall. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) incorporate “off the wall” restrictions and mandatory compliance over local home improvement licenses for county, cities, and local municipali-

ties, dumping increases; and so, the list goes on. All of this, coupled along with monumental increases in fuel repairs, insurances, etc. etc. Add to this the enormous amount of illegal and legal competition restricting our ability to increase our fees in line with the costs of doing business.

Some of the fees permitted to be charged for regular maintenance to-

day are equal to that permitted to be charged 15 years ago, sometimes even further back. How is the small businessman to survive? What is the incentive to continue?

And now onto one of our biggest problems with regard to the summer blower ban. While I have agreed that some contractors abuse the banning of leaf blower equipment, an essential piece of equipment, banning it entirely for the entire summer creates great hardships, as well as further diminishing an opportunity for a reasonable profit margin.

Most people in the business fear

raising their clients’ fees to compensate for the dramatic cost increases required to properly maintain their grounds.

Most clients have sought out competitors who somehow “Fly under the Radar” despite using leaf blowers anyway.

Nights, weekends etc. to The City of Yonkers adds further insult and injury for the use of leaf blowers at night and on weekends by issuing fines of $250.00 for every occurrence, whereas the City of Yonkers are exempt from this ban for all of their departments permitting all city departments to use as many leaf blowers as they want, at anytime of the day or night with no reprisals. Is this fair?

I have begged and continue to strive for a reasonable compromise to this issue.

Allow one backpack blower per property during this ban period.

Allow us to clean our commercial accounts’ parking lots, basketball courts, driveways, etc. as needed.

If the City of Yonkers (CoY) can do it why can’t we? It is appalling that code enforcement does not even bother to hand a summons to an accused; mail it to them, thereby not giving the accused an opportunity to respond to the allegation.

Small businesses are having a difficult enough time trying to survive in today’s economic times, we need and aspire to reasonable solutions and compromise to mitigate ever mounting challenges during the restrictions imposed during the June 1st through

September 30th timeframe.

A very fair compromise to this serious and continuing problem would be to allow at least one backpack on a property during the time period.

Lets help keep the small businessman in business.

Joseph Tinelli Sr., is a certified landscape technician and current president of the New York Landscape Association. Tinelli Lawn & Gardens is a 2nd generation operated business serving The Bronx and Westchester communities for over 50 years.

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CURRENT COMMENTARY

How Far Can A Taxpayer Go?

By LARRY M. ELKIN If you wonder why Apple CEO Tim Cook had to appear before a Senate panel last week to justify his company’s tax strategies, I can crystallize the issue for you with two quotations.

The first: “Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low

as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase one’s taxes.”

The second: “Apple is a great company, but they don’t have a right to decide in my book how much in taxes they are going to pay and to whom they are going to pay them.”

The first observation comes from the esteemed Judge Learned Hand in

his 1934 opinion in Helvering v. Gregory. (The case is better known as Gregory v. Helvering, which was its name when the Supreme Court affirmed Hand’s decision for the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.) It is one of the most important tax cases in American history, and it established the principle – which every tax professional is taught early in his or her career – that a taxpayer may freely do anything the law allows to avoid triggering a tax liability.

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How Far Can A Taxpayer Go? Continued from page 7 Levin, D-Mich., who chairs the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Levin made it clear he views Apple as a corporate tax chiseler that is weaseling out of sending billions of dollars to Washington.

Levin drew at least a veneer of bipartisan support from Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., but the debate falls along familiar ideological battle lines for the most part. Congressional Democrats generally argue that successful multinationals – and Apple is about as successful a multinational as they come – use what Levin called “tax gimmickry” to avoid their fair share of the U.S. tax burden. Most Republicans more or less agree with Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, who defended Apple’s managers at last week’s hearing for doing what they are paid to do, which is to generate the most value they can legally produce for their shareholders.

That’s pretty much where the discussion has stopped, except for the related question of whether corporate tax rates are too high to begin with. But the issues Levin raised about Apple’s activities are actually more nuanced than this party-line confrontation.

A fact about Helvering v. Gregory that is sometimes forgotten is that, de-

spite Hand’s time-honored comments about a taxpayer’s right to arrange business affairs favorably, the taxpayer lost the case.

In 1928, Evelyn Gregory owned all the shares of the United Mortgage Company, which in turn owned all the stock in Monitor Securities Corp. Mrs. Gregory wanted to sell Monitor Securities and keep the proceeds for herself.

She could have had United Mortgage distribute the Monitor shares to her, but that would have been treated as a taxable dividend from United Mortgage. She would have been obligated to pay tax on the entire value of the Monitor shares.

Instead, Gregory organized a new company, the Averill Corp. She had United Mortgage transfer the Monitor shares to Averill, in exchange for which Averill issued all of its new shares to Gregory. Three days later, Gregory dissolved Averill. That same day, she sold the Monitor shares she now owned for $133,333, but because the shares had a cost basis of around $57,000, she reported a taxable capital gain of only $76,000. United Mortgage’s distribution of Monitor shares to Averill appeared to qualify as a tax-free reorganization of United Mortgage’s business, which is the position Gregory took.

The tax authorities challenged Gregory. She won her case in the Board of Tax Appeals, but Internal Revenue Commissioner Guy T. Helvering took the case to the Second Circuit.

That is how Judge Hand came to write his famous words about tax planning. But Hand also looked at the substance of what Gregory had done. She claimed to have reorganized United Mortgage’s business by placing part of its holdings in the new company, Averill. However, Averill never conducted any business; it simply received the Monitor Securities shares and then promptly liquidated itself, distributing the Monitor shares to its sole stockholder, Gregory. “To dodge the shareholders’ taxes is not one of the transactions contemplated as corporate ‘reorganizations,’” Hand observed.

The Supreme Court agreed.

Its opinion was authored by Justice George Sutherland, a former Republican senator who emerged as one of the New Deal’s strongest judicial opponents in the 1930s. But he showed little appreciation for the creativity of Mrs. Gregory and her tax advisers.

“The whole undertaking, though conducted according to the terms of [the tax law], was in fact an elaborate and devious form of conveyance masquerading as a corporate reorganization, and nothing else,” Sutherland wrote. “The rule which excludes from consideration the motive of tax avoid-

ance is not pertinent to the situation, because the transaction, upon its face, lies outside the plain intent of the statute. To hold otherwise would be to exalt artifice above reality and to deprive the statutory provision in question of all serious purpose.”

Sutherland wrote those words nearly 80 years ago, but we can plainly hear them echo in Levin’s complaint last week that Apple’s accountants and lawyers “created corporations that don’t exist anywhere for tax purposes. That is right at the epitome of creative tax gimmickry.”

This explains why Cook felt he had to appear before the panel and its TV cameras and endure the inevitable hectoring, though he proved masterful at charming the senators and deflecting many of their complaints. Cook argued that Apple’s international arrangements are legitimate business structures that serve corporate purposes besides merely avoiding taxes, an argument that strikes many observers as implausible. Yet it is an argument he must make, because the courts have left unclear, for the past 80 years, exactly how much credence they will give to taxpayer arrangements whose sole purpose is saving taxes.

Gregory followed the letter of the law and still lost her case, because judges concluded that her activities were not what the statute’s writers intended.

Yet in many other cases, courts have accepted unanticipated outcomes that

favor taxpayers.

Congress is free to change any statute that it thinks is being abused. It often does. For example, we used to reduce gift and estate taxes using certain kinds of “freeze” techniques that are no longer available because lawmakers responded with new rules.

Even if you agree with Rand Paul that last week’s hearing was a “show trial,” staged for political purposes, and even if you think – as I do – that it is counterproductive to try to make global corporations (and their many foreign shareholders) pay American taxes on profits generated elsewhere, it is not intellectually honest to just dismiss Levin’s complaints. He is only the latest in a long line of people who have wondered how far a taxpayer is, or ought to be, allowed to go.

Larry M. Elkin, CPA, CFP®, has provided personal financial and tax counseling to a sophisticated client base since 1986. After six years with Arthur Andersen, where he was a senior manager for personal financial planning and family wealth planning, he founded his own firm in Hastings on Hudson, N.Y., in 1992.

That firm grew steadily and became the Palisades Hudson organization, which moved to Scarsdale, N.Y., in 2002. The firm expanded to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in 2005 and to Atlanta in 2008.

FROM THE PARKING LOT

A Special Hell for Those Who Park in Disabled Zones

By JOHN F. McMULLEN I live in the hamlet of Jefferson Valley (“JV”), the entity in the Town of Yorktown. When I first moved here, JV was the only hamlet in Westchester that did not have mail delivery.

Years later, when the delivery service was finally offered, I was so used to

going to my Post Office Box, that I just continued my “pick up the mail routine.”

My current post office is located at the end of a strip mall that also contains a very active bagel and coffee shop, a cleaners, an optometrist, and other stores. In front of the post office is one space clearly marked “Disabled” with blue painted markings. These markings are usually ob-

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served but, occasionally, inconsiderate %$^&s ignore them and it galls me.

No matter where I park, I have to walk in front of the “Disabled Space” when I enter the Post Office. Seeing people without “Disabled Stickers” hanging from the windshield or NYS Disabled license plates was always a bit of an irritant to me but I kept it to myself, believing that some could have just forgotten to put up the sticker -- but it was an irritant.

My irritation escalated about six months ago when I saw a man on crutches hobbling across the parking lot -- he had a disabled tag on his car but he couldn’t use the space because someone without a tag was using the space. I found that outrageous -- so I began to say something to people who parked there without a sticker or plate and, in some cases, leave notes on cars.

Some people have said: “I have a sticker and just forgot to hang it up” and did hang it up.

“I didn’t see the marking” and moved the car.

“I’ll just be a minute” -- as though that would make a difference if a disabled person arrived during that “minute” and couldn’t find a space!

“There were no spaces” - So? There are two alternatives: Wait! or park across the street in the very large Deciccio parking lot and walk -- better you than the guy on the crutches!

Others were a little more aggressive -- or just said stupid things: One gave me the finger -- I’m not sure if that was an indication of his concern for disabled or for me -- or was just an indication of his articulateness.

“It’s ok -- my mother’s disabled and she’s in the back seat” -- the car had no

stickers or plates and the supposedly disabled mother wasn’t getting out of the car!

“It’s alright; my father’s a cop” -too stupid to answer.

The point, people, is that you shouldn’t be in the space for any time or any reason if the car doesn’t have disabled plates or a sticker -- a disabled person might drive up at that very instant and not be able to use the space.

So, now, I put any of those inconsiderate %$^&s, who (assuming they can read) happen to read this piece that my campaign will now escalate a little more. Whenever I see someone parked in that space without a valid sticker or license plate, I will take a picture of the car and plate and forward it forthwith to the Yorktown Police as well as, perhaps, publishing it on various online community boards.

Comments and questions are welcome – johnmac13@gmail.com.

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CHRONICLES OF CROTON’S BOHEMIA

Jane Burr, 5: The Rest of the Story

By ROBERT SCOTT After her trip around the world during which she wrote articles for the United Press on women’s role in various cultures, Jane Burr returned to the United States.

In the early 1940s, she decided that she needed a pied-à-terre.

Instead of returning to Croton, Jane Burr bought an ancient farmhouse in Woodstock, N.Y., an Ulster County community long a mecca for musicians, artists and writers. Here she opened an inn much like the one she had operated in Croton. She also sold antiques from her barn.

As she grew older, the rigors of Catskill winters made it difficult for her to continue living in Woodstock the year around. After the Second World War ended, she retreated to New York City in the late autumn of each year and took up residence until the spring at the Hotel Manhattan Towers on the east side of Broadway at West 76th Street.

The hotel had a curious history

The Jane Burr House in Woodstock, N.Y. well worth recounting here. In 1927, the scraper hotel designed by architects Rev. Edward H. Emmet, pastor of the Tillion & Tillion. Two cornerstones Manhattan Congregational Church were laid in 1929, one for the new announced plans for a new church to building and the other salvaged from replace the 1901 edifice designed by ar- the original church.

A month after the hotel opened chitects Stoughton & Stoughton, who had created the imposing Soldiers and in March of 1930 a U.S. census taker Sailors Monument at 69th St. and Riv- recorded that it had only 27 residents paying $50 to $60 a month. The folerside Drive.

Above the new church building lowing year the hotel went out of busiwould be a 23-story, 600-room sky- ness. In 1933 the church was closed.

The city took over the empty building in 1943for back taxes of $420,000. The following year 200 uniformed WAVES moved into rooms on five floors. The rest of the building was used for Navy housing until 1946.

Jane Burr moved into the Manhattan Towers Hotel in the autumn of that year. The building at 2166 Broadway is now a condominium called the Opera Apartments.

At the suggestion of birth control activist Margaret Sanger, Jane Burr entered into negotiations in 1949 with Smith College in Northampton, Mass., to donate her personal papers to the college’s Sophia Smith Collection, an internationally recognized repository of original materials in women’s history. Her papers included extensive correspondence from luminaries such as psychologist Havelock Ellis, writer H.G. Wells, journalist Agnes Smedley, novelist Fannie Hurst, Chinese novelist Emily Hahn, the ACLU’s Roger Baldwin, and Crotonites Floyd Dell, Max Eastman and Joseph Freeman.

Fast-forward now to 1999.

In August of that year, a small package arrived at the Woodstock public library.

It contained a letter from the Oklahoma Historical Society that read, “Some

time ago several books were donated to the Research Library here at the Oklahoma Historical Society. Within one of the books we found a series of letters written by Jane Burr and pictures showing her former home in your community. The letters were addressed to Mrs. Grace Sills. The society was unable to contact Mrs. Sills and so they decided to send the Jane Burr letters to the Woodstock library.”

The letters were written between 1947 and 1950. Because Jane Burr was not in the habit of making copies of her outgoing correspondence, these letters are especially valuable to historians since they give insights into Jane Burr’s life and working habits during that period.

A typewritten letter written in March of 1947 from New York City describes extensive painful dental work and goes on to say, “You got me wrong, darlin’ if you think I have done any writing. I have not touched a line in 14 months. Can’t even think straight. ‘The Arnelo Affair’ is something that was sold long ago and is my story ’I’ll Tell My Husband.’ I had nothing whatever to do with the screen version except to sign a rotten contract and be cheated.”

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Jane Burr, 5: The Rest of the Story Continued from page 9 She added in a bold scrawl, “A full page in Variety about my story ‘The Arnelo Affair.’ Critics all praise it. Hope you will see it when it arrives. It runs 86 minutes.” [The reference is to a 1947 MGM film directed by Arch Oboler and starring John Hodiak, George Murphy and Frances Gifford, with Eve Arden in her usual acidulous supporting role.]

She concluded her letter with, “My terrible fear is that I won’t be able to live in my lovely house because of the two saw mills that drove me away last summer right across the way from me and splitting the ozone eight hours a day.

I’ve written to the Board of Health at Woodstock to ask if we could force the owner to enclose it in some way to lessen the noise. No answer as yet.”

A letter written in June of 1949 from Woodstock described how she encouraged her washwoman Aunt Kate Schoonmaker (“Woodstock’s Grandma Moses”) to exhibit and sell her charming primitive paintings.

She added, “I’ve had a nice honor come to me lately that I’m sure you will enjoy hearing about. Smith College has a section of American women, their books, their writings and everything connected with them. I have been chosen along with Eleanor Roosevelt, Margaret Sanger and many others to be in that section. My life has quieted down to such a simple affair that when I was gathering material for them out

of my clipping books, etc. I just could not believe that I had done all the things that I have done. I had to believe it though as there were the printed proofs of travels for newspapers, interviews, etc. It seems that I have been a daring example of the forward marching creature who has shown the way to freedom to millions of others.”

A March 1950 letter from New York City announced, “At long last I have leased for three years (optimistic me) a beautiful apartment at 11 Riverside Drive. It is a huge development stretching from 73rd to 74th and from West End to Riverside. It is on the site of the old Schwab mansion that of course has been torn down. It is still a hole in the ground but they vow it will be finished by November. I shall however, ask again for this rotten place that I am in as it is quiet, light, high, dirty, shabby and run down.

“The new apartment is the last word in everything. It is a bedroom, living room, kitchen, dining alcove and foyer, bath and five closets. I’ve been looking as you know, for five years but with no success.”

Jane Burr died in Benedictine Hospital in Kingston, N.Y., on February 6, 1958 at the age of 75. Her body was cremated at the Earl Memorial Chapel at Greenwood Cemetery in Troy, N.Y. The disposition of her ashes is unknown.

The Jane Burr house and grounds were left in trust to the Town of Wood-

stock and the Woodstock Artists Association. An additional trust fund of $10,000 was to be held and invested, with the income to be used solely for maintenance and repair of the property.

Arrangements were made to house a dozen students in the house and the barn for two months each summer. By 1972 it was apparent that the funds available were insufficient to continue to operate the property at a deficit, and it was eventually sold by the Woodstock Artists Association to whose control it had reverted.

The recent history of the Burr property is revealing and reflects the wild gyrations of the real estate bubble.

In 1998 the six-acre property, including the main house with five bedrooms and two baths, separate kitchen building and barn, sold for $240,000. Eight years later it changed hands again for $820,000. In June of 2012 it went on the market with an asking price of $595,900. This was quickly reduced in August to $529,000, and reduced again in September to $475,000. It finally found a buyer on June 1, 2013, at $475,000.

Still referred to by real estate agents as “the Jane Burr House,” nothing remains of her extensive furnishings—rugs, books, paintings, a grand piano, furniture and her glass collection.

Nothing, that is, except memories of this proud and indomitably independent woman who called herself Jane Burr.

Robert Scott is a semi-retired book publisher and local historian. He lives in Crotonon-Hudson, N.Y.

A Jane Burr Bibliography Book collectors desirous of assembling a collection of Jane Burr’s books have a comparatively easy task. She wrote eleven titles. All are reasonably priced at antiquarian book dealers.

Poems City Dust. New York: Frank Shay, 1916 City Dust. New York: The Baker & Taylor Co., 1917 I Build My House. New York: James T. White and Co., 1918 Fiction/Novels Letters of a Dakota Divorcée. Boston: The Roxburgh Publishing Co., Inc., 1909 The Glorious Hope: A Novel. Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Jane Burr, Publisher, 1918 (Printed by the Civil Service Publishing Company) The Glorious Hope: A Novel. London, England: Duckworth & Co., 1920 The Passionate Spectator (novel). London, England: Duckworth & Co., 1920 The Passionate Spectator (novel). New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1921 That Woman (novel). London, England: Duckworth & Co., 1922 Kittens Tale. London, England: Cecil Palmer, 1924 Married Men (novel). New York: Frank-Maurice, Inc., 1925 Marble and Mud: A Novel. Westport, Conn.: Compo Press, 1935 Miscellaneous The Queen Is Dead: A Book of Impertinent Stories and Unabashed Verse. New York: Elliott Publishing Co., 1938 Fourteen Radio Plays. Hollywood, Cal.: The Highland Press, 1945

MUSIC

THE SOUNDS 2013 Chesapeake Blues Fest OFBLUE May 18th & 19th www.BayBlues.org

By Bob Putignano It was another stellar lineup for the Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival. Saturday’s performances included well known music artists like Lucky Peterson, Trombone Shorty, Eric Burdon and his so called Animals on day one.

Day two featured Deanna Bogart, Quinn Sullivan, Indigenous, the Slide Brothers, the great Mavis Staples, and closed with the always popular Bonnie Raitt.

Some history: Festival CEO and President Don Hooker is a sincere lover of Blues music, he first organized the fest in 1998, and it was an

immediate hit bringing in more than 13,000 people into the park in two days. Since their maiden voyage this picturesque festival has become one of the biggest music festivals in the midAtlantic region. In case you were wondering: Hooker doesn’t trying to make money from the festival. Hundreds of people volunteer (no one is paid) while Hooker books and runs the event with his daughter Sarah. Each year they donate all of the net profits to various charities. Whether he makes or loses money, he promises a baseline contribution to one or two charities. Pro-

Victor Wainright

ceeds from this year’s event will benefit End Hunger in Calvert County www.

EndHungerCalvert.org We Care in Friends www.WeCareandFriends.org The John Hopkins Left & Craniofacial Center www.HopkinsCleft.com and Special Love www.SpecialLove. org Over the years Hooker has raised approximately one million dollars, an amazing accomplishment.

Now for the not so good news, major construction on Route 95 made for a late arrival, complicating matters the Annapolis Holiday Inn Express wasted an hour of my time trying to check me into (not one but two rooms) that were occupied by others!

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Continued from page 10 and boiled crabs at Mike’s Oyster House. By the time we got back to our room it was nearly 6:00pm, we decided to call it day and watched that other Maryland historic event the Preakness Stakes on TV.

Damon Fowler On day two the weather was dreary and predictions called for better weather during the early part of the day so after a lackluster Holiday Inn breakfast (but it was free) we made our way to the festival grounds. Deanna Bogart was up first and she and her band put on a solid set, and even covered a Jeff Beck tune, her band was tight, and I’d recommend seeing Bogart anytime she’s in your area. Next up was the fourteen year old Quinn Sullivan. A few weeks prior I’d seen Quinn at Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Fest at Madison Square Garden and wasn’t impressed, but he was part of a band that included Clapton, Rob-

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ert Randolph, and Buddy Guy (who continued to tell the audience how young Quinn was-annoying.) That being said Sullivan looked nervous at MSG, and remember that he was standing in front of a very large audience. At Chesapeake Quinn played with his band (no superstars and in front of a smaller audience.) Sullivan

Deanna Bogart seemed relaxed and in-control. I’m not sure if Clapton recently or previously influenced Sullivan as he opened with Derek & the Dominos “Got to Get Better In a Little While,” he stretched out and sparkled with his guitar and vocals. A little later he covered Jimi Hendrix’ classic “Little Wing” and made it a point saying that he was performing it like Derek & the Dominos did, and he covered it well without the pyrotechnics of Jimi and more like Clapton’s Dominos, nice. Sullivan closed with (yet another) Derek & the Dominos tune “Why Does Love Have to Be So Sad,” which concluded his show on a very tasty and high

note. By the way the youthful Sullivan also wrote and performed a song for Buddy Guy, as (from time to time) Buddy’s been taking Sullivan on the road with him. Unfortunately I wasn’t knocked put by the Florida based Southern Hospitality. I’d previously seen this band in Florida, and on the Blues Cruise and wasn’t ecstatic, this

hours. At least I slept well in my own bed, and didn’t have to keep one eye open to worry about other people entering my room!

In summary, if you are looking to attend a great festival with a top-shelf lineup that is held at one of the most scenic venues around, and if you dig the outstanding local shellfish, con-

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Quinn Sullivan

performance did little to change my opinion. Even though I have to say that I’ve seen each of the three main players (JP Soars, Victor Wainwright, and Damon Fowler,) in their own bands and liked them better individually. Additionally: Earlier this year Southern Hospitality released their first recording titled “Easy Livin’” that album also didn’t leave a memorable impression.

As the day went on the weather looked more treacherous, the later day forecast wasn’t looking good either, so we drove home- mistake. More huge delays on I-95, and what should have been a four hour ride took nearly seven

tinue to check: www.BayBlues.org for 2014 updates. It really is a first-rate

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event that also makes contributions that assist humanitarian causes.

Bob Putignano www.SoundsofBlue.com.

Now celebrating 13 + years on the air at WFDU - http://wfdu.fm. 24x7 On Demand Radio: http://wfdu.streamrewind. com/show/profile/11 , WFDU’s Sounds of Blue is the most pledged to program for 5 consecutive years. Senior Contributing

JP Soars Editor to: http://www.Bluesrevue.com , http://WestchesterGuardian.com, and http://YonkersTribune.com.

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Bedford Hills Historical Museum Marks Flag Day with Bedford Hills at War Exhibit

By RICH MONETTI Museum Flyer.Once Memorial Day comes and goes, the two wars America is engaged in largely occur as background noise in our daily lives. But when Americans volunteered en masse for two World Wars, their absence, commitment and dedication to cause remained in the forefront of everyone’s mind in communities across the country like Bedford Hills. Thus, Stanley Telega is marking this lost past and unbreakable bond that existed between citizens and soldiers in an exhibit called Bedford Hills at War. Kicking off with a reception on Flag Day (June 14th) at the Bedford Hills Historical Museum, the hope is that the community can do their part by looking high and low and add to what’s been accumulated already.

“Open up your attic and basement,” says Telega, “you never know what you might find.”

In terms of the home front, a search may reveal ration cards, black out regulations, air raid instructions and all kinds of documentation linking the

Bedford Hills resident Everett Rogers killed in action. community to the war effort. “Bedford erations and was part of the effort to Hills was a farm community start- build and maintain these vehicles,” says ing when then the railroad first came Telega.

That said, Telega hopes the Adams through in 1847. So whatever food the area could produce added to the overall Street Repair Company is able to contribute something that actually makes effort,” advised Telega.

Long forgotten in that regard can the tie, but the nuts and bolts of the be found in a picture of a federal truck time was also very personal. “When that recently came into his possession. news came back of any one soldier’s “Burquip has been here for several gen- death, everyone in the community

Post Card from POW to Bedford Hills Town Clerk Harold Rogers.

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felt it,” noted Bedford Hills Historical Museum Board Member Richard Satenberg.

One such case involved the son of Bedford Hills Town Clerk Harold Rogers. “Flying in a C-47 cargo plane, he crashed into a hillside in New Guinea,” said Satenberg.

Sharing in more than just tragedy, the very popular clerk also served as a focal point between the Bedford Hills home front and the fighting front. “A town official recently donated a box of letters written to the clerk that were sent from soldiers stationed overseas,” advised Telega.

Among them is a piece of mail from a highly unlikely zip code. “We have a postcard sent from an American soldier in a German POW camp,” say Telega. (See picture.)

This makes it obvious that there are so many stories that have been left untold and unearthing them puts us all in a better position to honor and remember. In turn, an accompanying medal or letter makes it all the more real. “It creates a connection between us and the artifacts,” noted Satenberg.

The medal received by Jaap Ket-

WWII newspaper clippings.

ting – and to be on display – certainly qualifies. Founder of the museum, his wartime anonymity in Bedford Hills needs no introduction in his country of origin. “He flew B-25 Bombers for the Dutch East Indies Company, and if you mention his name in the Netherlands, everyone knows his name,” Telega advised of the recently deceased author, 60 year resident, and owner of a successful pharmacy in Katonah, NY. Not always hiding in plain sight, the search for more history might only be as simple as talking to your father, grandmother, uncle or aunt. “Ask them; see what they know. There’s always stuff ready to be rediscovered,” advised Satenberg.

After all, we not only owe it to them, but to ourselves.

The Bedford Hills Historical Museum is on the ground floor of the Town Hall, at 321 Bedford Road. For More info or to donate something to the exhibit call Mr. Telega at 914-3968488 Rich Monetti has been a freelance writer since 2003 and lives in Westchester.

WWII war hero and museum founder Jaap Ketting.

SCIENCE

Science at the Saloon

By HELEN WEISMAN Earth Science Westchester, the Science Scene, is more than just a professional development association of New York State science teachers. Situated in White Plains, New York, it is a place where anyone can go, free of charge, to hear cutting edge science talks by leading scientists in varying fields and see rare scientific specimens. Tucked away

in the back balcony of the Black Bear Saloon, you can enjoy tasty food and drink while listening to the speakers and handling the precious objects that they bring. Underlying this fun is the quest to increase and promote science literacy both inside and outside the classroom.

Still in its infancy, The Science Scene meets on the third Tuesday of every month. It held its second event on May 14, 2013. On that occasion, Rosemarie Sanders, head of Earth

Science Westchester, introduced genuine lunar samples that she was able to obtain from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Maryland where she trained in July of 2012. The specimens she brought were from the Apollo 17 mission, the last time an astronaut walked on the moon, dating back to December 14, 1972, over 40 years ago! Amongst the rocks that she brought were moonstones from the moon. These rocks are popular in jewelry making. People like them because of the beautiful rainbows they produce.

Ms. Sanders spoke about the Rosemarie Sanders.

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moon and its importance to us here on earth. She explained that the moon was formed from the earth. Thus, in learning about the moon, we learn about the earth. Four and a half billion years ago, there was an impact on a very young Earth from a meteor the size of Mars.

This celestial object, composed of debris form the Earth, traveled into space and cooled down and formed the moon.

This has been verified in computergenerated models. At that time, the moon revolved about the Earth in a closer orbit. Scientists believe that the moon is responsible for creating great tidal ranges, (the differences in height between low tides and high tides), which created greater tidal pools. These tidal pools gave rise to the great primordial soup that scientists believe was the catalyst to spurn life on earth.

After concluding her introduction, Ms. Sanders invited guest speaker Doug Baum, founder of the Westchester Amateur Astronomers Association to speak to those assembled. He talked about meteors, small bodies of matter from outer space that enter the earth’s atmosphere which appear as streaks of

Moonrock. light. His group meets once a month, Mr. Baum, “Sharing Venus is what it’s on the new moon, or more precisely all about.” He goes on to talk about the when there is “no” moon. The reason galaxies, star clusters, and nebula, (which for this is that if there is no moon, then are like hydrogen gas clouds). These can one is able to see all that there is in the be seen on a moonless night. Highlightnight sky. This is in contrast to when ing his talk, Mr. Baum brought out an the moon is visible. In such instances, actual rock from Mars which he disthe illuminated moon washes out all played to the group. The association’s the colors that exist in the night sky. So, equipment is so powerful that they see when the Amateur Astronomers meet, the rings around Saturn, the moons that they throw star parties where they break revolve around Jupiter, as well as comets, out the telescopes and share the equip- (celestial objects consisting primarily ment with all who attend. According to of ice and dust, with highly eccentric

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Your Future

By JOHN F. McMULLEN We all know that the future is coming -- and it’s coming fast! In fact, it’s already here -- and it is life changing -- and we have to deal with it. We can all agree on these platitudes -- but then the problems begin: Whose future is it -- Apple’s?

Google’s? Amazon’s? Facebook’s? China’s? Some Unknown Player’s? Some Combination of These?

How will it affect us? Loss of Job? New Opportunity? Financial Gain? Financial Ruin?

What can we do to prepare / survive?

How can we attempt to answer any of these questions while doing whatever we have to do in the present?

Heady questions! -- and not completely answerable; all we can do is look for the ways to prepare ourselves to find the answers.

For example, the jury is still out on whose future will prevail. There is a wonderful article by Brad Stone in the May 27th Bloomberg Businessweek, “Inside the Moonshot Factory: What’s

Really Going On Inside Google’s Secret Lab?� (http://www.businessweek. com/articles/2013-05-22/insidegoogles-secret-lab), detailing many of Google’s development projects beyond the already known “Google Glass� (intelligent computer monitor on single glass frame) and Driverless Cars. These projects are, in some cases, only rumors but are all exciting: “Wing 7� -- an airborne turbine prototype to generate power be sent back to earth High Altitude Balloon Broadband Transmitters To Network the Whole World -- Google Chairman Eric Schmidt was quoted in April, 2013 as saying that, by the end of the decade, “Everyone on earth will be connected to the Internet.�This is presently impossible in the areas of the world that have no cell connections and poor landline ones.

Inflatable Robots Stretchable Electronics Some of these (and other) rumors seem improbable and may well be but this does not mean that they and other “improbable technologies� are not actually in the process of development -- after all, the “driverless car� seemed improbable until we saw one.

Stone says “Google X (the name of the Lab) seeks to be an heir to the classic research labs, such as the Manhattan

Project, which created the first Atomic Bomb, and Bletchley Park, where code breakers cracked German ciphers and gave birth to modern cryptography.�

While Google X’s management, Lab Director Eric “Astro� Teller (famed nuclear physicist Edward Teller’s grandson) and Google co-founder Sergey Brin, want to duplicate the well known success of AT&T Bell Labs and Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (“PARC�), they look for their developments to bring Google the financial rewards that the UNIX operating system, the C programming language, the Graphical User Interface, Object-Oriented Programming, and Ethernet networking never brought to At&T or Xerox.

While Apple’s known projects sound rather mundane compared to Google’s (it is constantly said to be close to releasing a breathtaking computer driven watch or television), it must be remembered that Apple is paranoid secretive and generates its own ideas of what it thinks the public should want and builds it -- and, as yet, it has been right on as the public gobbles up its new products.

We don’t know about China’s new product development but we do know that its manufacturing giants are preparing completely automated robotmanned factories for competition this

decade. With the knowledge needed for this transformation, their potential for the use of robotics in any area is limitless.

Amazon and Facebook have not only become the world leaders in online retailing and social communications, they have also assumed the leadership (with Google) in information gathering and refinement (in short, they each know “more about you than your mother did�).

In the June issue of Wired Magazine, editor Bill Wasik, in his article, “Welcome To The Programmable World,� writes about a DC-based “SmartThings� which has developed a hub to link together intelligent objects in a home or factory for total task automation. Wasik describes the home of SmartThings owner Alex Hawkinson where more than 200 objects, including the garage door, the coffeemaker, and his daughter’s trampoline, are all linked to his SmartThings system.

Wasik writes “His office can automatically text his wife and tell his home A/C to start powering up. ‌ This is the language of the future: tiny, intelligent things all around us, coordinating their activities.

Coffeepots that talk to alarm clocks. Thermostats that talk to motion sensors. Factory machines that talk to the power grid and to boxes of raw material. A decade

after Wi-Fi put all our computers on a wireless network -- and half a decade after the smartphone revolution put a series of pocketsize devices on the network -- we are seeing the dawn of an era when the most mundane items in our lives can talk wirelessly among themselves, performing tasks on command, giving us data we’ve never had before.�

I had a home controller unit, “Waldo,� circa 1980. It was a circuit board for an Apple II that connected to a Radio Shack x-10 device that controlled lights, radios, etc. – anything plugged into the electrical system.

Waldo allowed the user to schedule “ons and offs.� Now with the SmartThings system we can integrate hundreds of things into one intelligent network; Wasik writes “What’s remarkable about the future isn’t the sensors, nor is it that all our sensors and objects and devices are linked together. It’s the fact that once we get enough of these objects onto our network, they’re no longer on-off novelties or data sources but instead become a coherent system, a vast ensemble that can be choreographed, a body that can dance.�

I haven’t even mentioned two of the most disruptive technologies on the horizon: the currently emerging

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Continued from page 14 3D Printing and the further-downthe-line Nanotechnology Revolution. These technologies are and will completely change the way things are produced, putting millions out of work and opening opportunities for others.

So, we always comeback to the questions “how to prepare” and “how to be happy” in such a changing atmosphere. There is, of course, no easy answer, particularly when we can’t be sure what is coming and when it is coming.

One thing that is certain is that we must be alert for changes, be constantly educating ourselves and, while we keep up with our present work, try to stay ahead of the curve in prepar-

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ing for the new. Just trying to keep up with changes will be a momentous task in reading, doing net research, and, if necessary, taking courses -- so it is important to focus on fields that we really like or think we will like. To enjoy life, we must enjoy what we do -- too many people do not.

One recent book which seems to me to be a very good starting point in preparing us for the great unknown before us is Mitch Joel’s “Ctrl Alt Delete: Reboot Your Business. Reboot Your Life. Your Future Depends On It” (Business Plus, 2013; ISBN: 978-1-45552330-6 (hbk.); 978-1-4555-2331-3 (ebk.)). Joel divides the book into two sections -- the first on “rebooting” businesses; the second on individuals “rebooting” themselves. While the entire book makes for good reading, it is

the second part that is germane to this piece. In the introduction to the second part, Joel quotes Avinash Kaushik, Google’s Digital Marketing Evangelist as saying “The Web has been around forever and yet it is not in the blood of the executives who staff the top echelons of companies. Make no mistake, they are smart, they are successful, and they want to do better, but the Web is such a paradigm shift that if it is not in your blood, it is very difficult to imagine its power and how to use it for good. How can you demand innovation, creativity, and radical rethink if you can’t even imagine it?”

I find this statement to be very profound -- not only as it applies to the executives of whom he speaks but to each of us. We cannot see how to use the newest technologies to benefit ourselves and prolong our productive

careers without immersing ourselves in them. Just as we cannot really understand the power of Facebook without making it a part of our lives, we will not be able to understand the potentials of 3D printers, home control systems, location based marketing apps, and whatever else comes along without becoming knowledgeable in their use. Obviously we can’t buy everything new that comes down the pike but we can read enough to know (or guess) what to buy and then go and do it.

Joel recognizes the importance of this immersion and spends the rest of the book exploring what must be done and the ways to do it. All of the book revolves around what Joel realizes was always his professional desire -- “I want a business career with

longevity.” His path (like mine) may not have seemed straight along the road but his history shows that he did not let industry changes nor technological paradigm shifts end his career.

He adapted and was usually ahead of the curve. I think that his book, as he goes in depth into these points, is well worth reading.

He ends the book by telling the readers “I wish you longevity;” I wish my readers the same.

Creative Disruption is a continuing series examining the impact of constantly accelerating technology on the world around us. These changers normally happen under our personal radar until we find that the world as we knew it is no more.

Comments, experiences and questions can be directed to johnmac13@gmail.com

are numerous acting areas, many exits (one huge), runways, and straight or winding paths through the tables.

None of this allows for the proper scenery, set changes, even easy visibility, given that the action, such as it is, takes place simultaneously in wildly scattered spaces surrounding us, and that musicians lurk, besides a principal location, in various nooks and crannies, challenging us to figure out where some of the instrumentalists and singers are coming at us from.

The program contains a rather elliptical yet not quite fulfilled synopsis, as well as a “Family Tree” as it calls a somewhat too flattering graphic rendering of the various characters and their relationship. Still, those

who don’t know Tolstoy’s novel may at times feel puzzled, while those who do are likely to feel cheated by what is left out or grossly oversimplified.

The music, for conductor-pianist and seven musicians, is a bit of a hodgepodge, straining to reconcile an occasionally Russian-flavored, vague traditionalism with a variety of anachronistic vogues, but seldom achieving a happier marriage than that of Pierre and Helene. Indeed, there are sections of monotonous drumbeats that overpower a tenuous melody trying to overcome them.

Only very intermittently does a passage for singers (pretentiously labeled aria), with or without chorus, approach memorability rather than

keep an all too safe distance.

More distressing yet are the lyrics. They involve such things as old Prince Bolkonsky’s “The old-fashioned house/With its gigantic mirrors and powdered footmen/And this stern, shrewd old man/A relic of that past century/With his gentle daughter/Is a majestic and agreeable spectacle.” Apparent from this is Mallory’s chief stumbling-stone. Since there is no omniscient narrator, stuff that the novel relegates to authorial evocation has to be incorporated in the lyrics.

Thus descriptions of their actions and surroundings, and what ought to be private thoughts, are voiced, also

THEATRE

From Russia With Hubris

By JOHN SIMON How does an American musical comedy based on a world-famous Russian classic novel of enormous length and breadth bode? Poorly, you may be sure, even if a number of my colleagues blissfully fell for it.

“Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1912” is, in my view, an exercise in idle self-indulgence, meant to amaze the solid burghers, as the French phrase has it.

Dave Malloy, the sole author,

has reduced “War and Peace” to the love story of Andrey, Natasha, Pierre and Anatole, and not even all of that, with barely a reference to the Napoleonic invasion, or a sense of what a grand ball in Imperial times was like.

It is, admittedly, through-composed, which, at any rate, bespeaks ambition, but, alas, carried here to the heights of arrogance, which is the show’s stockin-trade.

Be it said that I didn’t catch it in its original venue, but only now, transferred to the Kazino, an immense box of a nightclub or dinner theater. There

Phillipa Soo stars as Natasha.

Lucas Steele as Anatole.

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making their imparters refer to themselves in the third person, and seem either stupidly redundant or absurdly narcissistic. Two more examples: The seducer Anatole singing “And my handsome lips/ Mutter something tender to myself,” or Pierre singing about “my big, big hands.”

The entire action unfolding among generally inappropriate tables, with the band, though scattered, visible—one member sporting a crimson Mohawk—and the action overleaping vast disorienting distances (a duet may involve friends addressing each other across yards and yards) all add to our befuddlement, although, apparently, without discomfiting the worshipful.

Disappointing too is the performing. It does not feel comforting to watch the author prominent among the instrumentalists, or taking on one of the leads as Pierre, especially since he is no more gifted than most of the rest. The way the show is structured, Andrey (Blake Delong) is a very minor character, and also doubles, in a fright wig, as his own father.

Conversely, there is more about the seducer Anatole than about anyone else other than Natasha, and though Lucas Steele tries hard, he comes across too much like a self-important schoolboy, including even an upstart hairdo.

Both Natasha and her cousin Sonya are supposed to be beautiful, although neither Phillipa Soo as the former, nor Brittain Ashford as the latter, achieves either aesthetic

or thespian heights. Ms. Soo in fact looks troublingly like Amanda Knox, though less attractive than the American student tried for murder in Italy.

Lesser parts are well enough taken, though no one is especially outstanding.

Nor does it help that some flatfooted lines are endlessly reiterated (some repetition is of course allowed) or that the author is not wholly literate. Such expressions as ‘cuz for because and ‘bout for about do not belong here. Glasses, on the other hand, are on, not upon, someone’s head. “Wail a mournful tune” is very peculiar; “can’t help but” simply won’t do. You are taken with, not by a love object, and “long-carried” is an unfortunate epithet for a long-felt affection. And what about “How can you live in Moscow and not go nowhere?”

a double negative yet?

Rachel Chavkin has directed as well as the unaccommodating nightclub allows, and there is very little scenery that the sightlines permitted Mimi Lien to deploy. Paloma Young’s costumes are suitably but modestly period and Bradley King’s lighting does well enough. There is not much room for choreography, and Sam Pinkleton has not come up with much to fill what there is. There is certainly no grandeur, no epic sweep.

The final letdown is the eponymous great comet, meant to provide Pierre, as the program has it, with a moment of enlightenment. It is no more than one of the several chandeliers, lighting but hardly enlightening throughout—a concluding fizzle for a not very bright show.

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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.

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GOVERNMENTSection MAYOR Marvin’s COLUMN

GOVERNMENT

Mayor Marvin’s 93rd Annual Bronxville Memorial Day Parade and Commemoration Speech

By Mayor MARY C. MARVIN A good morning to our clergy, our Grand Marshall and his family, grandchildren Annie and Lucy, distinguished colleagues and honored guests, firefighters, police officers, community organizations, residents and our children AND welcome to the 93rd Annual Bronxville Memorial Day Parade and commemoration.

Memorial Day holds a unique place in the history of our Village and its traditions are many. In the last few years, we have renewed our efforts to insure that honoring our service men and women takes its rightful place on center stage so we do not ever take for granted those most deserving of our gratitude – and our Grand Marshall, this year, Dr. Martin Fritz Stein, is precisely one of those so deserving of our thanks. Fritz, thank you for letting us honor you here today.

Fritz and Sheila have been Village residents for 40 years and active in the community does not even begin to describe their contribution.

Focusing on our Grand Mar-

shall, Fritz has been on the Counseling Center board, an elder and Vice President of the Consistory of the Reformed Church and even chaired this very parade during the Village’s Centennial year.

Fritz not only served our Village with distinction, but our country as well.

A specialist in internal medicine, Dr. Fritz Stein retired as Medical Director of St. Joseph’s Hospital in Yonkers in 2005. In 2006, he reupped in the Army Medical Corp to which he had given 20 years of service and passed the army physical at age 69. Knowing there was a shortage of medical doctors to take care of our severely young wounded, Fritz asked to be assigned to the Landstuhl Army Hospital in Germany, the largest American military hospital outside of the United States.

Fritz also served at this hospital four times prior in 1985, 1987, 1989 and 1996 to 1997 during the Bosnian Conflict. The injured, most of whom would not have survived their injuries in past wars, were flown in by critical care transport teams and then Fritz used his forty years of experience as a doctor to share his skills with

those most in need. His compassion for these young warriors knew no bounds.

As Fritz said, “When I look into the eyes of the wounded soldiers’, I always feel like I am looking into my son’s eyes.”

Thanks to Fritz many gravely injured young people returned home.

However, throughout our history, other young men and women have not been so fortunate and they never returned to their loved ones.

And, it is overwhelmingly the young who do the fighting and dying when peace fails and a war begins.

They cast aside a lifetime of hopes and dreams for that of a nation – and in my view that makes them the ultimate hero. They are often 19 and 20 years old and not warriors by nature just modest boys who loved freedom and their country. These young men are someone’s son, a child’s best friend in school, the boy you coached in football.

Throughout our country’s history, our young soldiers always thought themselves ordinary – they had the wild courage of youth and that gem called innocence that saw life in right and wrong. They stood for something.

Though the nature of the enemy changes, we are blessed that the character of the men and women who fight for America never does.

And, thanks to their example, the rest of us are quite aware that to be born free is an accident, to live free is a privilege and to die free is a responsibility.

Let us be mindful that most of the decisions we make as mature adults – be it in government or in life – affect the next generation so profoundly. The success of the next generation of Americans will depend on our good judgment, our moral compass and wise choices.

However, I believe today not need be a sad day, rather an inspirational one as we honor our young heroes by imitating their courage, their sacrifice and the legacy of freedom they preserved for us.

I am happy that we can meet today and recall the lives of our fallen young and at the same time commit ourselves to helping those they left behind – widows, parents, orphans – for these are sacred charges of the nation’s gratitude.

As General George Patton said, “We should not mourn those men

who died while serving, rather we should thank God that such men lived.”

In the death of our young heroes, we are sent a message, I believe, young and old, to answer the call – whatever it is, then follow your conscience, step up when needed and volunteer even when not called. Imitate their sacrifice, their courage and their excellence.

Let their example be as lasting as the land they honored because they taught us how to be a citizen of the last best hope of earth.

As Archibald MacLeish said in a beautiful poem written in the voice of one of the fallen entitled, The Young Dead Soldiers, “Our deaths are not ours. They are yours. They will mean what you make them mean.”

So on this Memorial Day, may God bless our men and women protecting us today and in days past, may he comfort those who still endure the pain of loss and may he never ease to shed his grace on the United States of America.

Mary C. Marvin is the mayor of the Village of Bronxville, New York. Direct email to mayor@vobny.com.

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R.I.P, Boy Scouts of America

By MATT BARBER “What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?”

(Mark 8:36) It’s a sad day for both Scouting and for freedom. Indeed, it’s a sad day for America. The century-old Boy Scouts of America (BSA) – created in 1910 to “prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes” – has betrayed its own constituency, mission, oath and law.

Last Thursday, approximately 1,400 adult BSA delegates from around the country gathered in Texas and decided, in a disgracefully lopsided vote, to welcome into its ranks, “open and avowed” homosexuality (boy-on-boy sexual attraction and behavior), thereby disavowing the “morally straight” Scout Oath its members are sworn to uphold.

T h e y voted unwisely.

History will reflect that on this day the BSA turned from morally straight to immorally bent – that this once great organization – founded on “honor,” “reverence” and biblical morality – was crushed beneath the worldly weight of pagan idolatry.

Whereas, for over a century, millions of boys have raised their right hands, swearing “on my honor” to “do my duty to God and my country” – on this day, hundreds of adult delegates likewise raised their right hands, shook their fists at God and flipped their middle fingers at both the boys they serve and the parents who trusted them.

While endeavoring to “gain the world,” this once honorable institution has forfeited its soul.

Scripture admonishes: “The wages of sin is death.” (Rom. 6:23). This was a catastrophic miscalculation. It was sin, and, tragically, through this sin, the BSA has now effectively sealed its own fate. It has set into motion its own demise.

Even by its own estimates, BSA leadership ad-

mits that the decision will likely result in a mass exodus from Scouting. They anticipate that as many as 400,000 Scouts and Scouters will leave the organization (acceptable casualties in the war on morality, I guess). Still, as devastating as this number is, it too represents a gross miscalculation.

Consider, for instance, that when Canada’s version of the Boy Scouts voted in 1998 to welcome open homosexuality, its membership rolls plummeted by over half in just five years, forcing camp closures, staff layoffs and huge budget cuts. Looking north of the border for clues, then, we can expect that, with current membership at around 2.6 million, it’s more likely that roughly 1.5 million Boy Scouts and troop masters will walk.

Then again, we’re talking about “progressive” Canada.

This is the good ol’ USA. With over 61 percent of Scouts, Scouters and parents opposing the homosexualization of Boy Scouts, and over 70 percent of U.S. Scout groups sponsored by churches and religious organizations, it’s not unreasonable to expect that defections will even exceed this estimate.

In short, BSA’s betrayal may well result in near-total ruin. The wages of sin is death.

Here’s the reality: Reality has not changed.

Objective truth did not suddenly and miraculously reverse itself on May 23, 2013. As BSA has always acknowledged (until Thursday), homosexual behavior remains empirically disordered and immoral. The only thing that has changed is politics.

Ultimately, this decision had nothing to do with “tolerance” or “inclusivity.” Neither did it concern the best interests of the boys who make up Boy Scouting.

Instead, this decision was rooted in pure evil. It had everything to do with money. “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs” (1 Timothy 6:10).

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Now come the many griefs.

Really, three things drove this decision: Fear, greed and politics. A number of high-dollar corporate donors threatened to pull funding from BSA if they maintained the existing policy on sexual morality. Additionally, a number of extremist pressure groups, aided by a sympathetic leftwing media, brought tremendous pressure to bear.

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Within moments of the “gay” announcement, Nancy Pelosi called the move “an important first step.”

The Human Rights Campaign demanded “the new policy doesn’t go far enough,” and Mother Jones, a liberal online publication, posted an article titled, “Boy Scouts: You Can Be Gay Until You’re 18.”

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scout masters) be allowed to take your sons camping overnight. Soon they’ll be insisting that “transgender boys” (girls who wish they were boys) be allowed to join as well.

What a camping trip. Imagine the pup tent. Your son and Jimmy – who’s got a crush on him – along with Billy and Billy’s boyfriend Bobby, all snuggly warm in the middle of nowhere. But make room for Sammy (formerly Suzie) and Sammy’s boyfriend Gary (formerly Gertrude).

Don’t forget to hang the disco ball.

And “always be prepared.”

You think there won’t be new membership stagnation? Who wants to sign their boy up for the “Gay Scouts”? What’s a kid gotta to do to earn his “tolerance badge”? Parents, you might want to get out while the gettin’s good. As one Eagle Scout told me, “I’m not leaving the Boy Scouts, the Boy Scouts left me.”

It’s only a matter of time until BSA caves on these demands as well. They’ll admit “gay” men and girls soon. They have no choice. Now that they’ve opened the door, they’ve waived the only legal defense they once had: religious and moral conviction.

But here’s the good news. I and dozens more will be convening for a coalition meeting of pro-family leaders next month in Louisville, Ky., to discuss the creation of a moral alternative to the Boy Scouts. Nature abhors a vacuum. We intend to fill it.

Still, until then, please join me as we mourn the loss of this once honorable organization. The Boy Scouts of America: Born Feb. 8, 1910 – Died May 23, 2013.

May it rest in peace.

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Yonkers Tree of Political Life

By HEZI ARIS

Conflicts of Interest that Serve the Conflicted The Yonkers Municipal Housing Authority (MHA), a body separate and independent from the City of Yonkers over which mayoral insinuation is limited to designating members to the MHA Board of Directors is presently engaged in searching for legal counsel by way of a Request for Proposal (RFP) process. At present, Nicholas Leo, Jr., Esq., approaching the end of his contractual responsibility with MHA is hoping to maintain his contract. Despite his interest to maintain being employed by MHA, he may be replaced by those who harbor conflicts of interest to which they should like no one to be aware. It does seem as though Mr Leo will soon unceremoniously depart the MHA Board of Directors Conference Room to find the door hit him on his way out.

Yonkers MHA is known as one of the burial grounds for the well connected. Champing at the bit (sometimes referred to as, “chomping at the bit), is James Dibbini, Esq., of James Dibbini & Associates, husband to Hon. Judge Susan Cacace-Dibbini. James Dibbini, a Democrat, worked with Yonkers City Democratic Chairman Charles Macellaro; in fact, they shared office space.

And Charles Macellaro used to be the MHA attorney before Leo Dibbini replaced him. On top of that, Charlie Macellaro is Al DelBello’s cousin through marriage.

From another perspective, Yonkers Municipal Housing Board of Directors Chairman Arthur “Mike” Doran, Jr., onetime Yonkers mayoral candidate who was forced to bow out of the race almost as quickly as he got in, is the noted protégé of two of Yonkers illustrious public servants, Angelo Martinelli and felon Ralph Arred, former Yonkers City Democratic Chairman, who kept fellow Democrat “Mike” Doran on a short leash. The longest part of former Yonkers City Court

Chief Judge Arthur “Mike” Doran’s career has been spent as the willing lackey of the above referenced politicians.

After tricking the Hon. Judge “Mike” Doran to become a mayoral candidate against then Republican hopeful Phil Amicone, with financial backing (hush, hush) from Angelo Martinello, and after Doran steps down from the position of Chief Judge of the Yonkers City Court, Angelo Martinelli yanks his financial backing, stabbing “Mike” Doran’s mayoral hopes. Enter Judge Michael Martinelli to acceed to Chief Judge of the Yonkers City Court. Now former Judge “Mike” Doran is given the position of a Yonkers MHA Boardmember and within minutes of being accepted to the Yonkers MHA Board,

he is made Chair of the Yonkers MHA Board of Directors. Despite never being known to be either hard working or of much depth, the ex-Judge is known for his political-like glad handling, frequent golf forays {government time allows for plenty of day time freedom}, and “pub” carousing. The deal is sweetened with an award: 8. Arthur J. Doran, Jr Funding: 020-010-1350-0413 Award Amount: $25,000 The twelve-month professional service contract, with option to renew for 12-months, to provide PVB (Parking Violations Bureau) Hearing Examiner services initiated in 2009 survives to this day - services include presiding at hearings ***SOURCE: Source: Yonkers Foil Conclusion: Expect Nicholas Leo’s departure; anticipate James Dibini’s welcome as legal counsel to Yonkers MHA. This is how it works in the City of Hills.

Angelo Martinelli’s hand is still in the political mix: Yonkers City Court Judge Arthur J. Doran, III, son of former Judge “Mike” Doran is seeking on the Yon-

kers City Court, whose brother Peter M. Doran, Esq., is a Yonkers Firefighter and legal eagle.

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Kevin is the brother of Robert Cacace, recently hired, though previously out of work, as a consultant to Yonkers Management Information Systems (M.I.S.). Robert Cacace divulged that in the few months on the job, he has been able to integrate the software used at M.I.S., saving the city $140,000 in expenditures every month with more greater cost savings to be realized over time.

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