Meet Rameet Chawla, the most stylish man in high tech

Crouching in a flowing, saffron robe — a blood-red desert sunset behind him; a leggy, Las Vegas showgirl hovering beside him — he could be a mystical shaman.

Instead, Rameet Chawla is a tech entrepreneur, one whose company is worth many millions.

Mark Zuckerberg can use style pointers.Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Unlike the fleece-hoodied nerd herd led by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Chawla channels his inner peacock: high tech meets the high life.

"The way I dress gets me noticed and attracts clients," says the man whose mobile-app design and development company Fueled is worth an estimated $30 million. "I'm on a personal crusade to try and make people in this industry dress a little sharper.

"A lot of people in the tech world have embraced this culture of sweatpants and casual wear, but I like to shake it up."

And so he has. The shaggily handsome 6-footer is making his own way with his flamboyant fashion sense, good looks, larger-than-life personality and outsize enthusiasm for code that turns the stereotype of the dorky tech worker on its (pointy) head.

Last year, he was listed in the Next Web's "50 People to Watch" and hailed as an app whiz for his work with companies both startup and huge, like GoDaddy and Gilt Groupe.

At the same time, the single Tribeca resident is a fixture on the downtown and Brooklyn party scene, and was one of online fashion magazine Style-Caster's picks for "Most Stylish New Yorker." He has an impressive collection of ascot neckties, 30 suits plus a collection of bespoke hats (cowboy and otherwise) made by artisanal milleners.

Though he bikes to work at his Soho office, he happens to own a mountain — or at least co-owns one, the expansive Powder Mountain ski resort in Utah, which he shares with 30 other leading tech entrepreneurs who use it as a base for schmoozing.

His associates are a roll call of Silicon Valley A-listers who include ZocDoc co-founder Cyrus Massoumi and Garrett Camp, the driving force behind the mobile car service Uber.

"We built a camp together in the desert this year for Burning Man," Chawla says of the site where that desert photo was taken. "It was a lot of fun, but, as with everything I do, a great opportunity to meet people and talk business."

Rameet Chawla's wardrobe and sense of office decor challenge tech-millionaire stereotypes.Photo: Brian Zak/NY Post

A workaholic who puts in at least 14 hours a day, often clocking out at 3:30 a.m., he has rapidly accelerated Fueled since its launch in January 2011. He now employs 85 people in offices in New York, Chicago, London and England's Newcastle upon Tyne, and plans to open another hub in Russia. The company also owns stock in more than 30 startups, but its key source of revenue is app development.

It's been quite the ride for the former financial analyst who quit investment banking in 2007 because he "didn't fit into the corporate world" — and couldn't get up in time for 9 a.m. meetings.

At the time, his strict, Indian-born parents despaired. Traditionalists both — theirs is an arranged marriage — they brought up Chawla and his older sister to join the corporate rat race. (His sister, Shabani, 33, is now a photographer and mother of two in Boca Raton, Fla.) Then again, Chawla's used to not fitting in: Born in tony Dix Hills, LI, he grew up in Boca, where he says his was only one of only nine non-Jewish families among the 1,600 in his neighborhood.

He went to NYU, where he graduated with a degree in finance, international business and computer systems. From there, he leapt right into Merrill Lynch and then Oppenheimer, where he was on the management path with a six-figure salary.
But he wasn't happy.

"I wanted to get a job working for myself, but my father, who'd obviously paid for my education, said, 'You put the time in. You climb the ladder.' " Instead, Chawla jumped off, traveled through Thailand, India and France — and started working on his apps.
"I've always had a problem with authority figures," he says.

These days he follows a daily schedule he designed himself, one that divides each day into three seven-hour sections plus three hours for leisure. That translates to 14-hour working days, plus seven hours for sleep, one hour for both unwinding and waking — and two hours socializing or eating. A foodie, he eats out every night of the week, rarely at the same restaurant twice.

"You can't help but smile whenever you run into Rameet," says ZocDoc's Massoumi. "His passion and energy are infectious, and his diverse talents never cease to surprise me."

One of those talents is Chawla's propensity for breaking the rules. In February, he designed a software program to automatically "like" every photo that passed through his Instagram feed.

"I was intrigued because people get such a high when their posts get likes," Chawla says. "It's an addiction of the social-media age, like crack cocaine. If all my Instagram friends feel great when they're getting likes, why not make them happy in an automated way that's easier for me, too?"

So he developed the free app called Lovematically, which did just that. Not surprisingly, Instagram shut it down within five hours. "It breached their terms and conditions," Chawla says, laughing. But the resulting publicity gave him an average of 30 new Instagram followers per day.

He's now dipping his toes into the world of selfies, posting spectacular, staged Instagrams in outlandish guises, like the one at Burning Man. (Often beside him is model and fellow startup entrepreneur Zuzanna Buchwald, 25, whom he calls his "traveling companion.")

He's also been shot in Japan wearing a kimono and a beaded headdress.

And then there's the one of him last May, dancing in the mosh pit at a concert in Brooklyn. In a long white robe, he looks like Jesus Christ.

"Everyone started saying that I looked like Jesus when I put my hair down," says Chawla, whose flowing locks stretch past his shoulders. "So I figured that, if I just went ahead and fully embraced it, everyone would get a huge kick out of it."

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Queens councilman smashes ‘affordable’ $2,700 rent

An angry City Council member Monday blasted a de Blasio administration-backed "affordable housing" project in Queens for allowing rent on a "discounted" one-bedroom to top out at $2,700 per month.

That's simply not affordable, Queens Councilman Costa Costantinides said.

The push-back came one week after the City Planning Commission gave approval to the Astoria Cove project, which calls for 345 of the planned 1,723 apartments — 20 percent — to be set aside as affordable.

But of those lower-cost units, only 10 percent are guaranteed to be priced for "low income" New Yorkers — leaving the developer with significant flexibility to target moderate- and middle-income residents.

"It's something that's deeply concerning to me," said Costantinides, whose district includes the proposed project overlooking the East River in Hallets Point.

"It's out of reach for a large part of my constituency when we have a median income of $56,000," he added. "We're going to make sure that when they're building affordable, they're actually affordable to residents of our community."

City officials stood by the deal as a first-of-its kind arrangement that secured permanent affordable housing through zoning changes rather than with hefty taxpayer subsidies.

They said the developer has the option of making the entire 20 percent block of affordable units priced for "low income" families of four that earn less than $67,000 annually. A one-bedroom under that option would cost about $1,250 per month.

It's only if the developer agrees to add more affordable units that some of the rents would be hiked to $2,000 for moderate-income households, and $2,700 for middle-income residents.

"This is a game-changing moment for the city," said City Hall spokesman Wiley Norvell. "For the first time, affordable housing will be delivered not to satisfy some tax credit or financial windfall, but just for the right to build on the land."

The group behind the proposal, 2030 Astoria Developers, declined to comment.

While the project includes construction of a waterfront esplanade, a public elementary school and a supermarket, it failed to win the support of the local community board and of Queens Borough President Melinda Katz.

Both groups cited the need for more affordable housing — as well as concerns over traffic, lack of public transportation, and other issues.

But even Katz applauded the city's effort to introduce what's known as mandatory inclusionary zoning.

"It is a critical first step towards the goal of creating and preserving 200,000 of affordable housing," she wrote in comments submitted to City Planning.

The City Council, which has final say, has scheduled a hearing for Oct. 20.

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Judge orders psych exam for ‘delusional’ accused killer

A Brooklyn judge ordered a psychiatric evaluation Monday for the unhinged Staten Island man accused of murdering three shopkeepers in separate slayings, calling the alleged serial killer's bizarre ravings, "Like something out of a movie."

Sal Perrone, 65 — who was found fit for trial last year, but insisted on acting as his own lawyer — was spouting nonsensical accusations when Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Alan Marrus cut him off.

"You're either lying to me or delusional, so I'm going to order a [psych] exam to see what the doctors say about it," Marrus said. "I'm afraid you may have a mental illness."

When the mustachioed Perrone kept talking about what he claims was a wrongful search of his house and said, "What do you say to that?" Marrus shot back, "I say I'm going to order a [psych] exam."

Perrone will be back in court Dec. 12.

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Brooklyn chef convicted in wine-glass slashing of wife’s lover

A Brooklyn chef who slashed his next-door neighbor after he came home to find the younger man in bed with his wife was convicted of assault Monday and now faces up to 15 years behind bars.

A Brooklyn Supreme Court jury deliberated less than two hours before finding Diego Ramos, 27, guilty of slashing Omar Campos, 22, in the face and shoulder with a broken wine glass.

Ramos had returned to his Bushwick home to find his wife, Sandra, in bed with Campos.

"We drank wine and we had sex," Campos testified at trial, describing what happened before he awoke to find Ramos attacking him with a wine glass. "I felt like I was going to die."

Other testimony showed that Ramos was barred from the house because his wife had an order of protection against him and that he fled to Ecuador after the attack.

Ramos faces 3¹/₂ to 15 years behind bars when he's sentenced Oct. 27.

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Bullying and harassment end high school’s football season

One New Jersey high school is taking a stand against bullying and its powerhouse football team's season is over as a result.

New Jersey's Sayreville War Memorial high school's season is over after evidence emerged of incidents of harassment, intimidation and hazing, NJ.com reported. Superintendent Rich Labbe announced Monday night during a meeting with parents.

"There was enough evidence to substantiate there were incidents of harassment, intimidation and bullying that took place on a pervasive level, on a wide-scale level and at a level in which the players knew, tolerated and in general accepted," Labbe, who also said the junior varsity and freshman seasons are over as well, told NJ.com.

Labbe announced Friday the Middlesex Country Prosecutor's Office and borough people were investigating allegations of a "significant and serious nature" within the football program. There is an ongoing criminal investigation, according to the report, and Labbe declined to discuss the future of the coaching staff.

NJ.com reported freshman players would "stampede" to the locker room after practices to get dressed before senior players would push them around. It was also reported Charles Garcia, an assistant coach on the varsity team, was arrested Sept. 26 and charged with steroids possession and a disorderly persons offense following a traffic stop in Somerset County.

Garcia's attorney told the website the coach had resigned his position, while saying the arrest was not related to supplying steroids to the football program.

Labbe postponed Sayreville's game against South Brunswick last Thursday based on information obtained from local law enforcement indicating they were "not random" criminal acts "generally known by the players." It was later ruled a forfeit, along with the team's previous four games.

One of the state's top public school football programs, Sayreville has won three NJSIAA sectional titles over the last four years, and had reached the playoffs the last 20 years — until now.

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Inside the NFL’s investigation of Brett Favre

The former manager of Jenn Sterger, the ex-New York Jets hostess who allegedly received nude pictures and racy voice mails from Brett Favre, has penned a damning account of how the NFL conducts its investigations.

In light of the recent Ray Rice scandal, Phil Reese wrote an opinion piece on the 2010 Favre allegations and the NFL'S investigation, saying, "Just like Brett Favre's penis (allegedly), it wasn't pretty. But unlike Brett Favre's penis (allegedly), it was extremely long." Married Favre admitted leaving voice mails, but denied sending naked pictures.

Reese said he was hounded by NFL investigators who wanted to speak to Sterger.

They met at his apartment, where "grown men in suits sat around my kitchen table and stared at pictures of Brett Favre's penis (allegedly). The heads of NFL security sat through hours of testimony and sifted through countless documents that were compiled in a three-ring binder with the help from our FBI forensics expert."

But he claims the NFL then dragged its heels:

If the league had so much evidence at their disposal, why did the 'investigation' take so long and drag on for the duration of the entire season? . . . Maybe the answer has something to do with the statute of limitations for filing a lawsuit in New Jersey. This would have expired at the end of Dec. 28th, 2010 . . . Two years from the last day of the 2008 season, when Favre and Sterger were both employed by the Jets . . . And when did the league announce their ruling? . . . On Dec. 29th, 2010." Favre was fined $50,000 for "not cooperating." The NFL said at the time the delay was "due to difficulties in arranging to speak with certain key individuals.

Reese added:

All of the 'investigating' that took place wasn't because they wanted to properly enforce the personal conduct policy, but to gather as much information as possible so that the league could avoid liability and minimize the impact of any negative p.r. that could tarnish the shield," and, "The league's personal conduct policy has nothing to do with a player's actual conduct and everything to do with protecting the league's business interests.

NFL rep Brian McCarthy didn't respond to multiple requests for comment.

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A Bell-ringer in New Jersey

PRINCETON — Every 36 years, it seems Jeff Bell disturbs New Jersey's political order. In 1978, as a 34-year-old apostle of supply-side economics and a harbinger of the Reagan Revolution, he stunned the keepers of the conventional wisdom by defeating a four-term senator, Clifford Case, in the Republican primary.

Bell, a Columbia grad who fought in Vietnam, lost to Bill Bradley in the 1978 general election, but in 1982 he went to Washington to help implement Reagan economic policies that produced five quarters of above 7 percent growth and six years averaging 4.6 percent.

Bell, now 70, is back. He won the GOP nomination to run against Sen. Cory Booker, 45, the Democratic former mayor of Newark who last October won a special election to serve the last year of the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg's term.

New Jersey last voted Republican for president in 1988; in 2012, Barack Obama carried it by 18 points; it hasn't elected a GOP senator since 1972. Booker, who has raised more than $16 million, is a prodigy at siphoning money from Wall Street.

Bell is running this year's most penurious Senate campaign, having raised and pretty much spent about $300,000. And this is an expensive state: To reach Jersey voters, statewide candidates must buy New York and Philadelphia radio and TV time, which Bell can't do.

Yet Booker's lead is only in the low double digits. In eight Senate races, Republicans are less competitive than Bell is. If GOP groups had given Bell the money they spent dragging Sen. Thad Cochran to re-nomination in Mississippi, Bell might be hot on Booker's heels.

He could still get there with a modest infusion of campaign contributions: Several polls have shown Booker's support below 50 percent.

Because Bell speaks incessantly about the dangers of fiat money and the wisdom of the gold standard, some people dismiss him as a one-issue candidate whose issue is an anachronism. He calls this "chronological snobbery": The gold standard is a bad idea because it is an old idea.

Besides, his supposed single issue (actually, he has many) is the declining value of money, which affects everything.

His audiences, he says, are not just disgusted by today's feeble economy, they are puzzled by it. So he explains that Wall Street "has been having a party" paid for by near-zero interest rates, which have had their intended effect of driving liquidity into stocks in search of higher yields, a bonanza for the 10 percent of Americans who own 80 percent of the directly owned stocks.

This "wealth effect" is supposed to prompt spending and investing that will trickle down to the 90 percent. Meanwhile, near-zero interest rates punish savers.

Bell wants to alert the nation before the government again has to pay 4 percent interest on its borrowing, thereby adding, he estimates, $400 billion to the deficit. He is running because "something substantive ought to be offered before the 2016 cycle."

Booker has a better resume (Stanford, Oxford, Yale Law) than reputation. His liberalism is as conventional as his eccentricity is disturbing.

He is a fabulist (he's been called "the Garden State's Mother Goose") given to asserting as facts various self-aggrandizing figments of his imagination (e.g., T-Bone, a nonexistent Newark drug dealer, with whom Booker has had, he says, instructive interactions).

Worst of all, Booker is perfectly suited to today's Senate. Flitting like a waterbug on the surface of things, he seizes fleeting headlines as excuses for wielding the federal government in opportunistic grandstanding.

His crusade du jour: increase taxes on pro sports leagues to spend $100 million on domestic violence prevention.
A senator is 1 percent of one-half of one of the three branches of one of America's governments, so senatorial elections rarely alter the nation's trajectory.

Here is why this one matters: Cory Bookers are many, predictable and fungible; Jeff Bells are few, idiosyncratic and invaluable because they look at familiar things in unfamiliar ways, and leaven politics with new agendas, such as restoring the Federal Reserve's single mandate to preserve the currency as a store of value.

New Jersey hasn't rejected an incumbent senator in a general election since 1942. Next month, it should begin doing so, at least every 72 years.

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Chocolate factory, upscale retail space coming to Sunset Park

This is a sweet development for a once down-on-its-luck neighborhood

A giant chocolate factory and retail space is coming to Sunset Park's Industry City, a sprawling 30 acres on the Brooklyn waterfront.

It's the latest sign that the formerly rundown 16 building, 6 million-square-foot complex, which is getting a $100 million makeover from owners including the Chelsea Market's Jamestown, is going upscale.

Under master chocolatier Anwar Khoder, Li-Lac will be both a factory and a destination as its chocolate production will be "completely visible" to the public. Li-Lac, which launched in 1923, has stores in Greenwich Village and Grand Central Market.

That's similar to what chocolatier Jacques Torres did when he opened his first spot in DUMBO on Water Street in 2000. Back then, folks could watch chocolate being made.

Last year, Torres also moved his factory to Sunset Park. It's now a 40,000 square-foot space in the Brooklyn Army Terminal, and he has expanded from DUMBO to seven outlets in New York.

In Sunset Park, the developers of Industry City want to reinvent it as an up-and-coming neighborhood, where artisanal food makers and tech companies work and bond over $12 single-pour coffees.

Jamestown's Andrew Kimball, the former CEO of Brooklyn Navy Yards, has said tenants in the buildings will rise from 2,400 to 15,000 by 2023.

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Rossopomodoro, an international Neapolitan pizza chain with locations in Eataly New York and Eataly Chicago, will open its first standalone restaurant in the West Village next month at 188 Greenwich St.

The 100-seat restaurant will serve pizza from a wood-burning oven, fresh pasta made in-house and dry pasta from Gragnano, alongside other traditional southern Italian dishes.

The space will be designed by Richard Lewis, of Cherche Midi, Marea and il Buco Alimentari, and will have an eclectic and polished look similar to the Eataly locations.

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Jersey’s coming tunnel-repair nightmare

New Jerseyans could soon find out what a really bad commute is. If they do, they can blame Gov. Chris Christie.
In fact, other pols will deserve blame, too. And this mess will cause problems across the region and even the country.

Last week, Amtrak — which runs the tunnel that brings 81,181 people on New Jersey Transit into Penn Station each day — made a doomsday warning.

Two years ago, Superstorm Sandy inundated the tunnel with salt water. The residue is causing "significant damage to key tunnel components," including tracks, signals and electricity, Amtrak said. "A permanent fix is required."

To do repairs, Amtrak must shut down each of the tunnel's two tracks in turn. That means traffic can only run one way at a time — which means cutting Amtrak and NJ Transit service by 75 percent.

This would:

• Paralyze Manhattan with cars.
•  Cause traffic problems — car, truck and rail — from Washington through Fort Lee to Boston.
•  Bring nationwide airport delays, as Acela users switch to planes.

And for a long time.

It would be nice if we had another tunnel.

Redundancy in really important things is vital. Mayor Michael Bloomberg devoted billions to building the city's third water tunnel because someday something might happen to the older two.

We were supposed to have a second Hudson tunnel half built by now — the $8.7 billion ARC project, to bring New Jersey trains near Penn Station.

But one of Christie's first actions as governor was to kill the project. "It's a dollar and cents issue," he said in 2010. "I cannot place, upon the citizens of the state of New Jersey, an open-ended letter of credit."

Christie was referring to inevitable cost overruns, which the Garden State would've had to cover single-handedly.
And yes, ARC was a flawed project — digging deeper than it perhaps had to, for example, partly to appease environmentalists.

But complex projects need leadership — not abandonment. Rather than pretend ARC was worthless, Christie could've at the very least started looking for a way to get the tunnel built with less risk to his taxpayers.

Yes, Amtrak is planning its own tunnel now. But it's just starting the design work.

Even if the Obama administration speeds up the environmental process and finds a good $10 billion-plus for the new new tunnel, the tunneling work itself takes at least five years.

So we're unlikely to see this new tunnel for a decade — when ARC was due to be ready in 2018.

Amtrak wants to wait for the backup tunnel before it shuts down the existing one. But "we're in a race against the clock," Stephen Gardner, who heads up northeast infrastructure for the railroad, said Thursday.

Amtrak must spend more money on repairs and maintenance as it waits. "The longer we have to do that, the more those interim dollars represent wasted opportunity to invest in the ultimate fix," Gardner says.

And if damage accelerates, it will have to severely reduce service anyway, no matter what the inconvenience.

So instead of cost overruns, Jerseyans risk the possibility that they'll have no way to get to work.

As for savings from cancelling ARC? The Regional Plan Assocation said awhile back that ARC would have boosted Jersey property values by $18 billion.

Even if that's an overestimate, it's clear that commuter chaos would harm property values — and likely reduce jobs and income, too.

The tunnel fallout wouldn't just impact New Jersey. New York needs its Jersey workforce, from bankers to hotel workers.

Gov. Cuomo was indifferent to the potential Hudson catastrophe when a reporter asked him about it last week — and Mayor de Blasio is still worrying more about horse carriages than about trains.

Then, too, the tunnel travesty is another reminder of how much money the Port Authority has wasted under governors of both parties in both states. The MTA, too, has wasted billions on a vanity project to bring LIRR trains into Grand Central.

Both Cuomo and Christie should be pushing Congress to get the Amtrak tunnel done, and faster — and be offering to chip in money of their own to get it done.

They should also have a plan in case they're stuck with almost no tunnel.

"I feel really bad for New Jersey commuters," says Sam Schwartz, former city traffic commissioner. "There are so few alternatives. The [Lincoln Tunnel] bus lane is at capacity. The [car] tunnels already have delays that are extensive."

In an emergency closure, people would have to double — even triple — up to drive in, and Jersey would need more buses.

Both sides of the river should be ready. They can't claim to be surprised later.

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Mia Farrow’s dirty profits—a hidden payoff in corrupt Ecuador trial

The Broadway critics are raving over "Love Letters," starring Mia Farrow and Brian Dennehy — particularly over Farrow. The New York Times says her "remarkable performance . . . casts a heartbreaking spell."

Several thousand miles away, however, people in Ecuador are raving about another Mia Farrow performance this year — one they found "heartbreaking," but not in a good way.

And Farrow is trying desperately to ignore these reviews.

This Farrow role was billed as a trip to "show her support for indigenous people" in a massive lawsuit that accused the US oil company Chevron of polluting the jungle and poisoning locals.

The highlight of the dramatic visit featured Farrow reaching into the ground and, with world media present, holding up a dirty, oil-drenched hand.

The reviews were quick and gushing. "Isn't Mia lovely . . . what modesty and what solidarity. Thank you, Mia!" gushed Ecuador's president, Raphael Correa.

The country's top newspaper noted that Farrow, known for her "altruistic personality," is quite simply "one of the most influential people in the world."

The Farrow visit was part of a campaign centered on an Ecuadorian court ruling that found against Chevron and ordered it to pay more than $9 billion in compensation, the largest civil penalty in history.

But, as Farrow knows from her other performances, there is often a final twist that can turn the story on its head. And so it is with her Ecuadorian jaunt and the Chevron suit.

A few months ago, a New York court found the Chevron judgment was obtained by fraud and bribery — mostly masterminded by Manhattan-based attorney Steven Donziger. The fraud was so outrageous that the judge found the Ecuadorian lawsuit was the equivalent of organized crime extorting money from Chevron.

The RICO laws, normally used against organized crime, are now being applied to Donziger and his associates.
The case was so corrupt, it's impossible to list here all the outrages.

Basically the court found that the plaintiffs had bribed everyone in Ecuador from "independent" experts to the judges, and also corrupted or lied to US lawyers and scientific groups. (You can read all the inglorious details in Paul Barrett's recent book, "Law of the Jungle.")

But none of this sleaze had rubbed off on Mia Farrow. At worst, she seemed a naïve pawn — an artist who'd been altruistically trying to help peasants against the rich and powerful.

That is, until news broke that the Ecuadorian government had secretly paid her $188,000 to go there and hype the case against Chevron. Her "oily hand seen around the world" may have been the most lucrative gig of her acting career.

The truth leaked after the US company that acted as the conduit for the payment was forced (under fear of prosecution) to disclose that it had been secretly working for the Ecuadorian state.

The average salary in Ecuador is around $300 a month; Farrow's $188,000 payday is an absolute fortune there. So the response from journalists and citizens on social media has been excoriating.

Farrow's Ecudorian jaunt became front page news in the country, with cartoons mocking her and other celebrities for secretly pocketing astronomical sums for pretending to care.

One tweeter said he'd have taken a shower in oil for just $10; another said he'd take an oily bath for $1,000.

Here at home, Mia Farrow is very active on social media — but don't ask her a question about her Ecuadorian performance: She'll block you faster than you can say "rumble in the jungle."

She did tweet once, admitting she'd been paid but disputing the amount. But an avalanche of derision followed, and she deleted the tweet. Now she refuses to answer any questions about the scandal.

But her South American audience is restless. They didn't like the final twist in the plot — they have questions.

Does Mia Farrow have the courage to answer her critics and have another curtain call? The audience awaits.

Phelim McAleer is a journalist and filmmaker.

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