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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

03/10/09 The Raw Greenwich News Feed: This Just In.....

The Latest Greenwich News Briefs:

KATES PROVES THAT RECORDS WERE MEANT TO BE BROOKEN.....

Greenwich High School's Kates breaks own record in 600 meters
Norwalk Advocate
Already the school record holder in the 600-meter run, Greenwich sophomore Kiki Kates broke her own mark this past weekend at the New England High School ...

Pierce Onthank Charged For Possession Of An Illegal Semang Ape
Post Chronicle
Needless to say Onthank owned a siamang at the Lionshare Zoologicsal Center in Greenwich. Authorities were shocked to find out he no kind of permits to own ...
BOND REPORT: Treasurys Turn Lower As Stocks Recover; GE Capital In ...
CNNMoney.com
"The story is becoming long in the tooth -- weakening economic data are balanced by massive supply," said strategists at RBS Greenwich Capital. ...
Here Is A Sign That Spring Is Officially Here In Greenwich......
Ramped up: Greenwich skaters hit the park in force
Stamford Advocate
By Meredith Blake Sebastian Oe, 11, said he couldn't wait for the Greenwich Skatepark to open on Sunday. "I was really happy because I haven't skateboarded ...

The Latest Greenwich Blog Post:

Jerks Like Henry Kravis Cause America And The World To Hate Greenwich.....

We Sure Hope Henry Kravis Likes Sitting Down
By John Carney
Forget what you've heard about the end of conspicuous consumption. The big hitters are still out there spending like mad. Last month, as you may have heard, Christies auctioned off items from the
Yves Saint-Laurent collection for a total of $431 million. Over at Gawker, Owen Thomas points out that the prize for decadence at this "orgy of consumption" goes to an arm-chair that sold for $28 million.


The Economist reveals, in a passing reference, that the man who spent that money on a chair was Henry Kravis

From Gawker:


Of course, the person holding the paddle in Paris was dealer Cheska Vallois, who has been suspected of secretly making purchases for Kravis before. In 2004, rumor had it that he'd purchased an entire suite of furniture by early 20th-century designer Armand-Albert Rateau.


"There are still a lot of extremely wealthy people out there," Christie's managing director Edward Dolman told Bloomberg of the auction which included the "Dragons" armchair, designed by Eileen Gray.


Just not ones who invested with Kravis. KKR Private Equity and KKR Financial, two publicly traded affiliates of Kravis's KKR & Co. buyout firm, have had heavy writedowns on their stakes in debt-laden firms and mortgage and corporate bonds. KPE, which raised $5 billion in 2006, is down 91 percent; KFN is down 95 percent since its 2005 IPO.
The Business Insider - http://www.businessinsider.com/

TC Commented:

I hate to quote Frank Rich here, but in this weekend's NYT, he hit it spot on: "The level of taste flaunted by America’s upper caste at the bubble’s height had less in common with the Medicis than, say, Uday and Qusay Hussein."

At least the Medicis left us Tuscany. Will tens of thousands of, say, Chinese or Mongolians, or whoever rules the world in 2610, come and tour the historic McChateaux, dog boutiques and organic coffee shops of Greenwich, CT in the 27th century?

Hari_Seldon Added:

Exactly TC. Exactly.

Also, the Hamptons will have washed out to sea.

Palladio Continued:

I hope his shareholders and investors are sitting down when they read this. I don't care how much cash Henry has stashed away, it takes a lot of cajones to spend $28M on a chair when your shareholders are out 91% on their money. Did he buy an YSL designer asshat to go with it?

Lifeisgood Says:

Solid stuff TC. I've hung out at Martha Stewart's Greenwich shack, and the "S & M" dungeon I can attest rivals anything the Hussein boys designed. The cuffs are 14k gold and a real Versace rack. Martha's own line of hot glue guns for everyone...

I also believe there will be guided tours of the Media Rooms/home theatres of fallen Masters of TU

Hugues da mousse said:

Upon reading your headline I thought it meant he was funding a chair at a university -- shows how naive I am

Historian Remarked:

" Will tens of thousands of, say, Chinese or Mongolians, or whoever rules the world in 2610, come and tour the historic McChateaux, dog boutiques and organic coffee shops of Greenwich, CT in the 27th century? "

No, they will fly around in their jet-packs to view how capitalism ended, look at the rubble of the cardboard mansions with fake brick fronts and pick up a few worthless treasury bonds on the way to wallpaper their mansions

Tim said:

"McChateaux" won't qualify for architectural greatness in 500 years, that's for sure. The comparison of usage of wealth between the Medicis and the McWealthy was spot on.

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03/09/09 Pastor urges everyone to stockpile a 30-day supply of food and other necessities to deal with the catastrophe he foresees


Connecticut’s Doomed, Pastor Predicts



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03/10/09 Greenwich Commercial Real Estate Report

Photo: Richard S. Granoff AIA

R.S. Granoff Architects has expanded its office and renewed its lease of 6,100 square feet on the second floor of 30 W. Putnam Ave. in Greenwich. The new space includes an updated conference center.

As part of the deal, R.S. Granoff will vacate 1,000 square of retail space it had leased temporarily.

R.S. Granoff and the building owner, Pyramid Real Estate Group of Stamford, represented themselves in lease negotiations.


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Richard S. Granoff has led his firm, R. S. Granoff Architects, founded in 1989, on “a multitude of interesting projects.” He has designed more than 100 homes, renovated dozens of commercial buildings, and built more than 1 million square feet of office space. He particularly enjoyed designing the mini-buildings featured on page 66 because the projects called on his architectural creativity—he had fun with, and got to inject some whimsy into, these amazing accessory structures. His firm has offices in Greenwich, Connecticut, and Southampton, New York. Granoff has also established two other businesses: Charles Rich Design/Build (1991), in Southampton, New York, which designs, builds, and develops high-end vacation houses; and Fountainhead Homes (1997), a real estate development company that develops ultra-luxury homes in the Greenwich market.


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03/10/09 PRESS RELEASE: Looking your best for today’s job market

Becker Chicaiza of Becker Salon, left, with Phyllis Ayman, of How to Say it With STYLE

When it comes to landing a job, especially in today’s challenging times, personal appearance does count. To help job seekers look their best from head to toe, Becker Salon on Mason Street in Greenwich and How to Say it With STYLE are teaming up with a special package for new customers, “Highlighting with Style.”


Available March 16 through May 15, the package includes a full head of highlights (normally $150 to $200) for $100 and a complimentary one-hour image consultation with How to Say it with STYLE. Ten percent of the proceeds will go to Kids in Crisis. Existing customers at Becker Salon will receive a 30 percent discount on all color services.


“We want to help women in this difficult economy the best way we can,” said Becker Chicaiza, founder and owner of Becker Salon. “Highlights, which we are offering at a special price, add dimension to the hair, create a sophisticated look and can brighten one’s appearance,” he added. This year, Becker brings a new repertoire of color techniques to the salon after participating in the L’Oréal Professionnel World Education Tour and attending the Mondial Coiffure Beauté in Paris last fall. There, Becker received a second-place award at a competition among hairdressers from around the globe at the Alexandre School.

Whether entering or re-entering the work force, women will benefit from a fresh and updated look, according to Phyllis Ayman, founder and president of the Greenwich-based How to Say it With STYLE, a firm that advises customers on creating their best image through style and fashion. “Fashion choices can convey a lot about a person, so therefore job seekers need to present themselves in the best possible light,” said Ms. Ayman. The one-hour consultation, to be scheduled at the customer’s convenience, will cover how to build an appropriate wardrobe for the job market and will include a fashion profile, analysis of body type and appropriate shapes and contours, suggestions for the most flattering colors and wardrobe essentials.

Opened in 2007, Becker Salon has quickly developed a following in the region. The salon provides a boutique-like and intimate setting and prides itself on individual relationships with customers. Becker’s mission is to highlight the beauty of every person who enters the salon through the magic touch of his hands and to make this experience an unforgettable moment of great transformation. Becker and his staff have trained in Manhattan, London, Paris and Milan so they can offer the highest level of professionalism.

Phyllis Ayman is an image consultant and a certified fashion stylist from the New England Fashion Council. She also has her own jewelry line, Filay DESIGNS, now five years old, which is available through custom order and sold in local boutiques and shows. How to Say it With STYLE was a participating sponsor of the National Council of Women’s Organizations and Foreign Diplomats 2009 Presidential Inaugural Balls in Washington, D.C.

Becker Salon is also pleased to once again help Kids in Crisis. The salon has already donated nearly $6,000 to the organization during the past year from different programs.

Kids in Crisis, http://www.kidsincrisis.org/ , is Connecticut’s only free, round-the-clock agency providing emergency shelter, crisis counseling and community educational programs for children of all ages and families dealing with a wide range of crises—domestic violence, mental health and family problems, substance abuse, economic difficulties and more. Since its founding in 1978, Kids in Crisis, has helped more than 89,000 Connecticut children and families; in 2008, more than 9,280 children and families received assistance from the organization.

Becker Salon is located at 268 Mason Street in Greenwich. To make an appointment for “Highlighting with Style,” new customers can call 203-340-9550. For further information about Becker Salon, please visit http://www.beckersalon.com/ .

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03/10/08 PRESS RELEASE: Provident Bank has announces appointment in Westchester.

Patrick Doulin, Vice President, Regional Commercial Banking Team Leader: Doulin joins Provident Bank with more than 30 years of banking experience. Most recently, he served as Senior Vice President, Regional Commercial Executive, Commercial Banking for HSBC Bank USA, N.A. in Greenwich, Conn. In his new role with Provident Bank, Doulin will manage the commercial banking team members and develop complex commercial banking business for the bank in the greater Westchester County area

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03/10/09 I've never done anything with the pet trade, but I'm being put into the same category because of that chimp situation

PHOTO: Monkey Lovers - Susan and Pierce Onthank Were Wed In Africa


THE HEADLINES:

WIERD NEWS: American Energy Group, an oil and gas drilling company that has interests in Pakistan has a CEO that maybe a victim of selective ape enforcement

DEP spokesman Dennis Schain denied there was selective enforcement, saying there was a formal complaint about Koby the ape that triggered an investigation

Prosecution's case against Onthank comes down to two things: the apes weight and the date it came to Connecticut

Onthank's is one of 47 cases now being prosecuted in the state for possession of wildlife without a permit

THE QUOTES:

"I did all the right things. I followed all of the rules that I know of -- period," said Pierce Onthank, . "I took this monkey to the vet. I had him tested. He had all the proper health certificates from the vet, attesting to the fact that he is in excellent health. I took him to the preserve. I don't think I did anything wrong.

"All the kids in the neighborhood have grown up with that monkey -- that same monkey for years," said Charlotte O'Brien, a classmate of one of the Onthanks' sons at Roger Ludlowe High School, "That's why they call that "the monkey house.'"

THE STORY:

Primate's owner speaks out
Connecticut Post

FAIRFIELD -- The prosecution's case against Pierce Onthank for illegal possession of a primate comes down to two things -- the simian's weight and the date it acquired Connecticut residency.



On Monday he told the Connecticut Post to his knowledge he did nothing illegal and was keeping the animal to rehabilitate it, not as a pet.

Onthank, a longtime conservationist and corporate chief executive officer at a Westport-based energy firm, appeared in Superior Court in Stamford Monday on a single charge lobbed by wildlife enforcement officers with the state Department of Environmental Protection. The DEP has accused him of illegal possession of a primate. The matter stems from Onthank taking his siamang gibbon Koby to the Lionshare Zoological Center in Greenwich last summer, where he arranged for it to be cared for......

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By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN
Associated Press Writer

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Six weeks before a 200-pound chimpanzee nearly mauled a woman to death, state officials were cracking down on the owner of a 14-pound siamang that was still wearing diapers made for infants.

Pierce Onthank, the president of an oil and gas company, was charged in January with illegal possession of a primate for keeping a siamang, a type of gibbon that is native to rain forests in Malaysia and Indonesia and can weigh up to 30 pounds and stand 3 feet high.

The Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection says he never had the required permit.

The owner of Travis, the chimpanzee who mauled the woman, also did not have a permit. But Travis was allowed to go unmonitored, while the owner of Koby the siamang gibbon is facing a court hearing and possible fine.

"I'm very disturbed," said state Rep. Diana Urban, D-North Stonington. "It simply points out to me why we need to have definitive legislation on this issue.".....
.....The charge against Onthank, who could face a fine of less than $500, comes a month after a Stamford woman, Charla Nash, was mauled by Travis, a former television commercial star. Nash, 55, is hospitalized at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. Police shot and killed Travis but haven't decided if they will file charges against owner Sandra Herold.

DEP officials knew of Travis from a 2003 incident in which he escaped from a moving vehicle and led police on a two-hour chase through downtown Stamford. But they did not enforce the permitting requirement because they had no other complaints about him.....
......Officials in Fairfield, where Onthank lives, have registered 16 incidents involving his dogs, and neighbors had complained he had 12 monkeys, a tortoise, large iguanas and an otter.....
....Onthank's wife said Sunday that Koby, age 2, weighs about 14 pounds and wears diapers.

Experts say siamang gibbons are powerful and are potentially dangerous to humans.

"Primates are basically unpredictable," said Stephen Rene Tello, executive director of Primarily Primates, a sanctuary in Texas that has offered to take the siamang. "That animal will change into an aggressive wild animal very quickly."......

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03/10/08 PRESS RELEASE: Listen In On TICC Capital Corps Conference Call

TICC Capital Corp.
8 Sound Shore Drive - Suite 255
Greenwich, CT 06830
203-983-5275

GREENWICH, CT - TICC Capital Corp. (NASDAQ: TICC) announced today that it will report 2008 year end earnings on Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 10:00 AM ET. The toll free dial-in number will be 1-800-860-2442. There will be a recording available for 30 days. If you are interested in hearing the recording, please dial 877-344-7529. The replay pass-code number is 428726.

About TICC Capital Corp.

We are a publicly traded business development company principally engaged in providing capital to small to mid-size technology-related companies. While the structures of our financings vary, we look to invest primarily in the debt of established technology-related businesses. Companies interested in learning more about financing opportunities should contact Deep Maji at (203) 983-5285 or visit our website at http://www.ticc.com/.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements subject to the inherent uncertainties in predicting future results and conditions. Any statements that are not statements of historical fact (including statements containing the words "believes," "plans," "anticipates," "expects," "estimates" and similar expressions) should also be considered to be forward-looking statements. Certain factors could cause actual results and conditions to differ materially from those projected in these forward-looking statements. These factors are identified from time to time in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We undertake no obligation to update such statements to reflect subsequent events.

Contact:

Bruce Rubin
203-983-5280

Patrick Conroy
203-983-5282

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03/10/09 Hearst Newspaper's Rookie Reporter Debra Friedman Is Late Once Again: Greenwich Post Ace Reporter Ken Borsuk Told Us This 11 Hours Ago

BEHIND THE TIMES:


By Debra Friedman
Posted: 03/09/2009 11:10:09 PM EDT

STAMFORD -- A 75-year-old grandfather can now stand trial in the September slaying of his ex-daughter-in-law after a judge ruled him competent Monday.

Gerardo Lombardi of Pemberwick is accused of stabbing and shooting to death Alison McKnight-Lombardi in the backyard of 36 Nicholas Ave., the property next to his home. He is charged with first-degree murder.

In state Superior Court Monday, Julie Jacobs, a social worker with Connecticut Valley Hospital, testified that Lombardi's competency has been restored following 60 days of treatment at Whiting Forensic Institute in Middletown

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Breaking news Posted 1:04 p.m., Monday, March 9, 2009

After completing an evaluation program, accused murderer Gerardo Lombardi has been deemed fit to stand trial.

Superior Court Judge Richard Comerford made his ruling Monday morning after a report from licensed social worker Julie Jacobs, who evaluated Mr. Lombardi during a 60-day period. In December, Judge Comerford had ruled that Mr. Lombardi, 75, was unfit but the hope had been that after a combination of instruction and medication at the Whitney Forensic Institute in Hamden he would be able to understand the nature of the charges against him and assist in his own defense.

On Monday, Ms. Jacobs, who works for the Connecticut Valley Hospital Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, testified that had happened and Judge Comerford will now move the case back to the court’s pre-trial docket.

Mr. Lombardi is accused of murdering his ex-daughter-in-law, Alison McKnight, on Sept. 4. Police say Ms. McKnight, who had reportedly been embroiled in a property dispute with Mr. Lombardi, was shot and stabbed multiple times. Police said Mr. Lombardi was found at the scene of the crime holding a gun and knife, and the prosecution has alleged he confessed while in police custody. Ms. McKnight and Mr. Lombardi’s son were married for 30 years before divorcing last year.

Mr. Lombardi has been charged with first degree murder in Ms. McKnight’s death.

On the stand during the brief hearing on Monday, Ms. Jacobs said Mr. Lombardi was now able to understand the charges against him and assist his defense through education. She described one-on-one education sessions as well as group sessions two to three times a week where he was told about court procedures and rules. Ms. Jacobs said the charges were fully explained to Mr. Lombardi, who was assisted throughout the hearing by an Italian interpreter, as well as what potential punishment he could face if convicted.

Ms. Jacobs testified that Mr. Lombardi is not taking any medication for mental disorders and that the only medicine he is taking is for Parkinson’s disease and some Ambien for sleeping problems. Ms. Jacobs said that Mr. Lombardi’s Parkinson’s was not causing mental problems and that the 60-day evaluation confirmed the initial assessment when he was admitted that he did not suffer from any “thought disorder process.”

“There weren’t any signs that Mr. Lombardi is suffering from any thought disorder or showing any signs of psychosis,” Ms. Jacobs testified.

Mr. Lombardi is next due in court on March 30, at which time it will be determined if a probable cause hearing is required. Mr. Lombardi’s attorney, public defender Howard Ehring, told Judge Comerford that he had spoken previously to his client about whether they would ask for the hearing, but had not since the evaluation program had been completed. He is expected to have an answer for the judge at the March 30 appearance.

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Monday, March 9, 2009

03/09/09 Before the Public Simply Goes Apesh-t and Starts Burning down Greenwich Via Motley Fool's Beta Blog CAPS

It's Getting Ugly Out There


We Must Raise The Town Hall Threat Terror Level From Yellow To Red As In Red Alert


There Is A Lot Of Internet Chatter About Harming Our Fair Town

MAYBE IT IS TIME TO START A SPECIAL INTELEGENCE UNIT IN THE GREENWICH POLICE DEPARTMENT TO MONITOR THE ANGER THAT IS BEING DIRECTED AT THE TOWN'S HEDGE FUND LOSERS AND FRAUDSTERS

Maybe We Should Force The Investment Scamsters And Hedge Fund Losers To Move To Port Chester So That Maurading Hoards Will Stop Short Of The Greenwich Border !!!!

Has Greenwich Police Chief David Prepared His Men For The Possibility Of Murdering Hoards Coming Into The Backcountry.

Has Police Commisioner Peter Tesei Got The Conneticut National Guard On Speed Dial .....

Forget About "Recovery"

At the risk of confirming my critics' dumbest charge -- that I am a "doomer" -- the mandate of clarity requires me to ask: to what state of affairs do we expect to recover? If the answer is a return to an economy based on building ever more suburban sprawl, on credit card over-spending, on routine securitized debt shenanigans in banking, and on consistently lying to ourselves about what reality demands of us, then we are a mortally deluded nation. We're done with that, we're beyond that now, we've crossed the frontier and left that all behind, and we'd better get our heads straight about it.

I maintain that there are countless constructive tasks waiting to occupy us on a long national "to do" list for rebuilding a national economy, but they are way different than the ones currently preoccupying government and the mainstream media. The Obama White House, Congress, and The New York Times are hung up on exercises in futility -- "rescuing" banks and insurance companies that cannot be rescued (because they are hopelessly trapped in "black hole" credit default swaps contracts), and re-starting a "consumer" binge that was completely crazy in the first place, based, as it was, on a something-for-nothing standard-of-living.

Meanwhile, if the buzz on the blogosphere is a measure of anything -- and I think it is -- then a new consensus is forming out there about where to start doing things differently. Unfortunately after less than two months in office, President Obama finds himself awkwardly behind-the-curve on this. It begins with the understanding that a general bank rescue is hopeless and, going a step further, that the people who caused the train wreck of "innovative" securities have to be prosecuted. The public's collective voice on this is muted but growing. It has been muted by the general air of blackmail that the banks have used to enthrall policy and opinion -- the "too big to fail" idea -- in effect holding the nation's future for ransom.

Last week, New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo hauled Bank of America chief Ken Lewis into his office to explain who, exactly, received an aggregate several billion dollars in bonuses late in 2008 after the US Treasury forked over billions of dollars in TARP money to his bank. That was a good start. Mr. Lewis, being lawyered-up to the max, had the temerity to reply that answering the question would compromise his ability to keep talented people in his employ. For that impertinence alone, Mr. Lewis ought to be dragged over fifteen miles of broken chardonnay bottles behind a GMC Yukon -- but that is not how we do things in American jurisprudence. To be more realistic, a simple indictment would be in order, and then Mr. Lewis can answer this question, and a few others, in the comfort of an air-conditioned courtroom. Ultimately, that might lead to Mr. Lewis becoming the wife of a bodybuilder in one of New York State's houses of correction -- a just outcome that would go far in rejiggering the nation's expectations about how people in authority ought to behave. And such an outcome might lead to the conviction of many other brides-to-be from the Wall Street debutante pool.

Now it has come to light, just last week in the wake of AIG's latest bail-out, that previous AIG bail-out money to the tune of $50 billion was distributed to a set of banks including Goldman Sachs (former employer of then Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and then New York Federal Reserve Governor Tim Geithner), plus Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Mr. Lewis's Bank of America, and a long list of European banks with operations in the USA. Since the transactions took place in New York State, the investigation of these irregularities alone could solve the unemployment problem here if NY Attorney General Cuomo were given a free hand in hiring staff to depose everyone involved -- including the hiring of caterers to bring in coffee and meals for round-the-clock proceedings.

All of this raises another awkward question: where is United States Attorney General Eric Holder in this situation? Surely the federal statutes offer some grounds for inquiring about the misuse of Treasury funds -- and many other issues arising from Wall Street's stupendous orgy of misbehavior. What I'm hearing out in the blogosphere is a growing clamor to call people to account before we are really able to move on to the massive task-list that awaits us in rebuilding our economy.

The bigger question for now is whether any of these authorities will act effectively before the public simply goes apeshit and starts burning down Greenwich, Connecticut. The dangerous shift in public mood is liable to occur with shocking swiftness, in the manner of "phase change," where one moment you see a bewildered bunch of flabby clown-citizens vacuously enraptured by "American Idol," and the next moment they are transformed into a vicious mob hoisting flaming brands to the window treatments of a hedge funder's McMansion. The moment of opportunity for avoiding that outcome is looking sickeningly slim right now.

Another thing that President Obama can set into motion anytime -- and pull himself back to the head of the curve of leadership -- is to either by executive order or by proposal to congress, shut down the credit default swap system for a period of time while procedures are drawn up to place all these dubious contracts in a "clearing" market, where the holders of them will have to come clean about what they're sitting on. The lack of this procedure is allowing zombie banks to hold the United States hostage for never-ending bail-out ransoms. None of these banks are going to survive another six months anyway, so the basic blackmail motif that the whole money system will collapse if ransoms are not paid is a bluff that has to be called sooner or later in any case. So Mr. Obama might as well get on with it.

Once these two matters are dealt with -- an earnest start-up of prosecutions and disabling the credit default swap blackmail racket -- then perhaps a stressed-out and impoverished public might be induced to not go apeshit and instead get on with the mighty task of rebuilding our nation along lines that have a plausible future.

Forget About "Recovery" http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/

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Doomsday is coming and it’s going to destroy parts of Connecticut, David Wilkerson, the founding pastor of Times Square Church in New York City, is predicting.

David Wilkerson, author of "The Cross and the Switchblade," a book about his ministry to troubled New York street kids that was later made into a movie starring Pat Boone, ruined the weekend for people who follow his blog.......
...... His divine message is a little murky.For instance, it did not come with useful information including when and where damnation would strike. Are people in Greenwich safe?.....

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THEY ARE EVEN TEACHING THE KIDS TO GO AFTER THE CORPORATE CRIMINALS THAT GOT BAIL OUT MONEY

03/09/09 READERSUBMITTED COMMENTS: Brant Foundation Art Study Center

PHOTO: Peter Brants Headquarters At 80 Field Point In Greenwich

Dear Greenwich Roundup,

I am trying to make an appointment for the Foundation Study Center in
June.

How do I do this. brant foundation @gmail.com doesnt allow me
to do this.
Thank you so much for your help.

Sharon Abrams




COMMENT:

Dear Sharon,


First of all of I was surprised that the Brant Foundation Used A Free Gmail address instead of an email address linked to a domain like "BrantFoundation.com" or "BrantFoundation.org"


You Can Write to the Brant Foundation at this address:


BRANT FOUNDATION INC
80 FIELD POINT RD STE 3
GREENWICH, CT
06830-6416


This is the same address as Mr. Brant's Business Interests
Or You Can Call This Phone Number Listed For The Brant Foundation


203- 340-2203


However This Number Is Out Of 941 North Street In Greenwich.
This Is Probably Out Of Mr. Brant's Home


Here Is A Link To The Original New York Times Article About The Brant Foundation.
It Was Published On March 5th Article.




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03/09/09 READER SUBMITTED COMMENTS: An Open Letter To Governor Wanna Be Dan Malloy

To the Editor: Please post this letter to Mayor Dan Malloy:

Dear Mr. Mayor,
Since you have your eyes on becoming a STATE official, what's it gonna be like when you have to provide "real" answers to the voters of CT.? For example, how will you explain using Stamford's city funds to throw elaborate parties for you and your partners in covering up your shady dealings? Do you really think the Police Commissioner is gonna cover for his Police Chief and officers? Do you think Ben was gonna be the new boy scout poster boy? Do you think your family is entitled to special treatment with regard to the laws? Mr. Mayor, do you plan on using Mr. Joe Pisani as your Pinnochio puppet? Joe Pissani could pass for Pinnochio, you know. The nose, the bow tie, the little mannerisms, etc. The "I cannot tell a lie" line is what Stamford and Greenwich have been listening to for decades. It is now "I never told the truth because I wasn't working in that office" blurb. Mr. Pisani selected what's news, and what part of the news we readers should know. In addition, he repeatedly praised you, leaving out anything hinting of negativity. Mr. Mayor, all politicians don't have the police and the press in check. In fact, almost none do.

So, I have to ask: what did you give Mr. Pisani, in exchange for his "omissions"? Money? A love shack for him to bang the "MY TOWN IS GREENWICH" staff? Or did Mr. Pisani do it out of the kindness of his heart? What heart?

-Just wondering


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03/09/09 The Raw Greenwich Blog And RSS Feed - Bloggers Who Are From, Work In Or Used To Live In Greenwich (Updated)

GREENWICH GOSSIP PHOTO: A parade of police cars on Putnam Avenue make sure a malefactor doesn't escape Greenwich justice.

Greenwich Gossip By "The Scribe Of Greenwich" Bill Clark
The Local Scene - Herewith a few pictures of various events in our fair Town : This is the Homecoming game at Greenwich High School on a perfect fall day. .....A young girl enjoys the annual open house at the Round Hill Volunteer Fire Department.........A dog trainer exhibits three of his students on Greenwich Avenue...... A harvest cornucopia at The First Presbyterian Church......Randy Acheson plays Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" from memory at Stanwich Congregational Church. (He later played the Widor Toccata from memory as well.) (Oh, and in between he conducted AND accompanied the Christmas portion of Handel's "Messiah".).......A snow-bound yak at the Greenwich Library. "Just like Tibet," he told your scribe.......

For What It's Worth By Riverside Blogger Chris Fountain
Splitsville - Ruth Madoff lawyers up - Ruthie’s getting her own lawyer. That’s usually a sign that a defendant’s interests just diverged from those of the other defendant. With Bernie set to ple...

Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
Have Work - Lost [some] friends - I'm in the right place, at least in writing. While most other writers - think journalists, freelance magazine scribes - are home alone without a job or assig...

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03/09/09 Greenwich Post Breaking News: Shrinks And Judge Say Greenwich Killer Can Stand Trial





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After completing an evaluation program, today accused murderer Gerardo Lombardi was been deemed fit to stand trial.
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Behiond The Times:

Greenwich Time Managing Editor Bruce Hunter Is Once Again A Sleep At The Switch

This is an exclusive at the Greenwich Post.

There is nothing at the two Hearst Newspapers - The Greenwich Time And The Greenwich Citizen

UPDATE:

11 Hours Later....

Greenwich murder suspect ruled competent for trial
By Debra Friedman

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Why Can't A Billion Dollar Corporation Like Hearst Newspapers Beat The The Litle Ole Greenwich Post?

The Greenwich Post Has Ace Reporter Ken Borsuk, While The Greenwich Time Has A Stable Of Wet Behind The Ear Rookies



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03/09/09 Last Fall Greenwich Roundup Warned Stamford Taxpayers That Dan Malloy And Libray Administrators Were Wasting Library Funds

Ernest Di Mattia, Jr. Cut Children's Resources And Hours At The Ferguson Library Wasted Precious Library Resourses For Greenwich Hyatt Party For Joe Pisani And Mayor Dan Malloy

"What really struck me that night was the selflessness and sacrifice of the people who labored for months to put this affair on, starting with the major domo, Ernie DiMattia, head of the Ferguson Library in Stamford" - Joe Pisani

Here Is The Complacent Media Report That Tells You Who And What, But Fails To Tell You Why.....

By Sarah Lipman
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

STAMFORD -- The Ferguson Library is asking taxpayers to fund a 7.6 percent increase in their budget for the fiscal year 2009-10 to cover increased expenses.

The library has asked for about $100,000 to make up for decreased revenue and $400,000 to cover the cost of expenses, including increased material purchases, salary increases and pension plans for its staff. If Mayor Dannel Malloy does not grant the library the requested amount when he releases his proposed budget, it could face cuts in programming, staffing and hours, Library President Ernest DiMattia said.

If Malloy rejects the funding, DiMattia said, the library's board of trustees will have to deteremine where the money is most needed.....

MAYBE DIMATTA SHOULD HAVE "LABORED FOR MONTHS" WORKING ON BUCKS FOR BOOK INSTEAD OF PISANI'S FANCY NANCY HYATT REGENCY PARTY:

....This year, fundraising from Bucks for Books was down nearly $20,000, but Friends of Ferguson funds remained in line with the previous year, DiMattia said.

"The prospect for fundraising is not great," he said. "It's already tax-supported, so it's there for everyone."

Taxpayers pay more than 90 percent of the library's costs .....

The Ferguson Library Administrators
Started Cutting Library Hours Last July
But They Had Funds And Resources
For A Fancy Nancy Party For
Ex-Greenwich Time / Stamford Advocate Editor
Joe Pisani


Where The Hell Was
Library President Ernest DiMattia
When Mayor Dannel Malloy Was Using
Library Money, Personell And Resources To
Wine, Dine And Pocketline

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How many times have public funds and resources been misused?

Greenwich Roundup Exclusive

Ex-Greenwich Time Editor Creates Controversy Where Ever He Goes.

More On The Ferguson's Library Funded Dan Malloy Political Event

Fergouson Libray Director And Employees Working For Malloy

Taxpayer Fergouson Computer Server Used For Political Event

Ferguson Library Tax Dollars Used To Pay For Pisani And Malloy's Private Party

"What really struck me that night was the selflessness and sacrifice of the people who labored for months to put this affair on, starting with the major domo, Ernie DiMattia, head of the Ferguson Library in Stamford" - Joe Pisani
(Our Greenwich - Oct 21st, 2008 )

"For tickets or more information, call Melanie at 351-8206 or email mailto:emailmkeiffer@fergusonlibrary.org." - Susie Costaregni
(Greenwich Post - DarienTimes - New Canaan Advertiser - Thursday, October 16, 2008)

Ernie DiMattia, head of the Ferguson Library in Stamford and Melanie Keiffer Have Not Responded To Greenwich Roundup messages left seeking comments about the Furuson's ticket sales for Pisani's private party.

Maybe Ct Attorney General Blumenthal
should investigatethe improper use of public funds
and resourcesused at the very event he was giving a presentation.

Fun with Dick and Dan
by joyhaenlein

There were high points aplenty during last weekend’s toast-and-roast testimonial at the Hyatt in Old Greenwich for Joe Pisani, my friend and colleague. The turnout was strong, with guests from various parts of Joe’s life over the last 25 years, and many of those through his work with The Advocate and Greenwich Time.

(I’m always shocked to see Joe’s four daughters. They are so gorgeous — each could be a super-model tomorrow. They also look like Joe. How is this possible, I always wonder? Then comes the aha! moment: Sandy Pisani, Joe’s gorgeous wife.) .......

Comment:

No self respecting mainstream newspaper or blogger covered Joe "the Censor" Pisani's tribute. Only Joe "The Censor" Pisani covered his party at his own little website called "Our Greenwich". Plus Joe was able to get his former subordinate Ex-Greenwich Time writer Joy Haenlein to tell us how "shocked" to see Joe’s four "gorgeous" daughters.

Joy further writes,"Then comes the aha! moment: Sandy Pisani, Joe’s gorgeous wife."

Could someone please tell me what's up with that.

Why is there this great need to publicly reassure Sandy and her four girls that they are sooooooo gorgeous !!!!!!

This kind of gives one a little wierd and creepy feeling that says something is just not Kosher here.

No wonder Hearst Newspapers fired Greenwich Time Staffers Joe Pisani, Joy Haenlein and Susie Costaregni All At The Same Time.

Who Is Going To Take Sarah Littman and "Our Greenwich" Seriously If Is Associated With The Juvinile High School Girl Style Writtings Of Joy Haenlein and Susie Costaregni.

READ HOW A COMPLIANT MEDIA IS MAINTAINED IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT - MEDIA COMPLEX......



Written For, By And About Ex-Greenwich Time Editor Joe Pisani

...I learned a great lesson while friends and pretend foes gathered to toast me for my deeds and roast me for my misdeeds over the years at The Advocate and Greenwich Time.

The great lesson I learned, if you can believe this, is humility. How, you might wonder, do we learn humility when people praise you? Because I knew beyond a doubt I’m not the wonderful person they think I am.

We’re all a mixture of weak and strong, good and bad, paisley and plaid, true and false. I won’t continue. You get the idea. It’s called the human condition.

But what really struck me that night was the selflessness and sacrifice of the people who labored for months to put this affair on, starting with the major domo, Ernie DiMattia, head of the Ferguson Library in Stamford, inspired, he said, by Father Richard Futie, Greenwich native and pastor of Sacred Heart Church in Stamford.

Joined by my former colleagues, Durrie Monsma, Joy Haenlein, John Breunig, Barbara Bind, Bruce Hunter and Susie Costaregni, not to mention the people who put on the show, former publisher Durrie Monsma, who came back from California for this affair, the eminent Bernie Yudain, his sidekick, guitar-strumming thespian and attorney wannabe Ted Yudain....

I’ve seen so many proclamations given out over the years that I was delighted to receive one from First Selectman Peter Tesei and a citation from Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and a superb standup routine by Mayor Dan Malloy.

And let me never forget my tireless personal paparazzi John Ferris Robben....

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03/09/09 Pastor urges everyone to stockpile a 30-day supply of food and other necessities to deal with the catastrophe he foresees

Connecticut’s Doomed, Pastor Predicts

Doomsday is coming and it’s going to destroy parts of Connecticut, David Wilkerson, the founding pastor of Times Square Church in New York City, is predicting.

David Wilkerson, author of "The Cross and the Switchblade," a book about his ministry to troubled New York street kids that was later made into a movie starring Pat Boone, ruined the weekend for people who follow his blog.

Saturday, he wrote an “urgent message” predicting an "earth-shattering calamity" is about to happen.

“For ten years I have been warning about a thousand fires coming to New York City. It will engulf the whole megaplex, including areas of New Jersey and Connecticut. Major cities all across America will experience riots and blazing fires—such as we saw in Watts, Los Angeles, years ago,” he wrote.

His divine message is a little murky.For instance, it did not come with useful information including when and where damnation would strike. Are people in Greenwich safe? How about Mystic or East Hartford?.....
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03/09/09 READER SUBMITTED COMMENTS: Hearst Newwspaper Employee Reports That Morale Is At An All Time Low At The Greenwich Time And Stamford Advocate


The Advocate/Greenwich Time has begun another round of consolidations.


The talented employees here will be terminated to make room for the Connecticut Post virus.



Hearst has decided to eventually transform these two iconic newspapers into an extension of the Post. Read the editorial content and see for yourself.



What a monumental screw up of business management.

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03/09/09 READER SUBMITTED COMMENTS: Where's Joe?

Dear Editor,

Someone wants to play WHERE'S Joe "WALDO" Pisani so here it.

JOE'S MISSING!!!! Let's find him, boys and girls!!!!!!!

HERE ARE YOUR CLUES....


Joe lives in Orange CT, but works in NYC, and writes for his town of Greenwich (?????)

Joe wears bow ties b/c regular neckties hang to his knees.
Joe's friend Susie Costaregi wears Victoria Secret because she knows Harry Connick's wife does too.

Joe likes to hang with the Mayor,the Bishop, and the candlestick maker.

Joe can be spotted in and among large groups of large women who say he's "cute"

Joe can always be spotted near a Catholic Church to help boost his self-righteous image.

Joe and Dan Malloy are BFsF. Look for 2 men holding hands, or one handing the other $$$$$

Joe travels to New York by Metro North, but GETS OFF in Greenwich as often as possible.

Have you spotted Joe Yet? Keep trying...

Look for a man surrounded by GORGEOUS WOMEN (his wife/kids)
Look for the guy who pretends he is only searching for truth :)
Look for the man with the biggest mouth and bigger ego.
Look for Susie Costaregi, and you might find Joe, with a red pen, correcting her work

Do you see him? Look harder, boys and girls....

Maybe he is quoting Cicero.
Maybe he is holding group therapy with the staff at 'MY GREENWICH"
Maybe he is following the limelight
Maybe he is having a HAIRY CANARY
Maybe he is hiding behind Mayor Dan Malloy's son Ben
Maybe he is at the Stamford Marriot planning a fundraiser using Greenwich Library funds.

Oh, THERE HE IS!!!
He's standing in the middle of Greenwich Ave, dressed up like a clown.

Next week, we'll play WHERE'S DAN?

Grinning in Byram

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