#bernard l. schwartz

[tomorrowusa]

Right now is the time to get involved in the defeat of America's most dangerous enemy since the Cold War.

The traditional election season, starting on Labor Day, is a thing of the distant political past. And considering the magnitude of the threat to democracy, even waiting for the end of the primary season may be too late.

The worst president in our history is, arguably, stronger within the leadership ranks of the Republican Party than he has ever been. He is now the most dangerous presidential candidate in U.S. history. As a consequence, the great question before the rest of us is whether enough of us are ready to do whatever is necessary to defeat this threat as we have all those that have come before. Sadly, there is reason to believe that this time we may not meet the challenge. Right now, Donald Trump is one of two people who could be our next president. The race, at the moment, between him and President Joe Biden, is too close to call.

The people with their heads up their ass over Biden's age are either hypocrites or dissemblers. On Inauguration Day 2025, Donald Trump will be 95.66% of Joe Biden's age. And Trump will also be older in January of 2025 than Biden was upon assuming office in 2021. Biden may have a lifelong stutter but he is still grounded in reality in a way the narcissistic nepo baby Donald Trump never was.

Joe Biden by any objective metric has been one of the most successful presidents in modern U.S. history. He has led the creation of more major legislative initiatives benefiting the American people than any president in 60 years. He oversaw the creation of more than 14 million jobs during his first three years in office. He has brought down inflation and reduced the prices of vital medicines to affordable levels. He has restored American leadership worldwide, expanded our vital alliances like NATO, and stood up to our enemies. All presidents face challenges and make missteps. But it is hard to deny that in the wake of the U.S. economic recovery, the passage of the American Rescue Plan, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, the CHIPs and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act, the expansion of NATO, and the creation of new Indo-Pacific alliances, Biden’s record is formidable. That a president with this record is in a horse race with a candidate who is a menace to the country, who led an insurrection, who is a pathological liar whom courts have found to be a fraud and a rapist, and who has no real ideas, no credible policy proposals, no record of actually ever achieving anything for the American people is chilling.

In normal times, over 40% of US voters would NOT pick a notorious sex offender for president. But these are not normal times.

You would have thought that the sight of mobs carrying Trump flags and weapons and chanting for the death of Vice President Mike Pence on January 6, 2021, would have been alarm enough. You would have thought the same of Trump’s Access Hollywood tape, in which he confessed his impulse to abuse women. You would have thought the two dozen women who accused him of abuse would have had that effect. Even if none of those things were quite warning enough, you would have thought the findings in the E. Jean Carroll case would have been enough. After all, respected federal judge Lew Kaplan wrote, “The fact that Mr. Trump sexually abused—indeed, raped—Ms. Carroll has been conclusively established and is binding in this case.” It should have been enough. But so far, it has not been.

And who would have thought that the party of Ronald Reagan is now led by a stooge of the Evil Empire?

You would have thought that Trump reaching out on national television to our Russian adversaries for aid during the 2016 campaign would have been enough. You would have thought the conclusive findings of every major U.S. intelligence agency that Russia sought to aid Trump’s campaign would have been enough. You would have thought that Robert Mueller’s finding 10 instances of possible obstruction of justice by Trump would have been enough. You would have thought Trump kowtowing to Vladimir Putin and taking his word over that of our intelligence and law enforcement communities would have been enough. You would have thought his illegally withholding aid to Ukraine to seek dirt on Joe Biden would have been enough. You would have thought his impeachment for that would have been enough.

Are you willing to spend more time and money than in previous election cycles to end a major threat to Western democracy and to undermine homegrown fascism for at least the rest of this decade?

So, ask yourself, is that enough to make you do more than you have done? Is that enough to commit for the next 10 months to do more than you have ever done during an election year? To give more? To canvas more? To spread the word more? To help get voters to the polls? To ensure every member of your family, your friends, your co-workers do the same? The stakes are too high to do less than everything you can.

I rarely quote Margaret Thatcher and would probably disagree with at least 90% of her views. But she did know something about winning elections and combating the USSR. If she was good for just one thing, it's for this observation in a speech made in her retirement.

[N]o battles are ever finally won; you have to go on winning them by example and by being prepared to defend your way of life against those who would attack it.

If we learn just one thing from the Trump threat, it's that we can never rest on our past laurels. A slacker democracy is one which will not outlast a determined demagogue.

Civic involvement by pro-democracy citizens is absolutely necessary to maintain freedom.

#democracy #threat to democracy #donald trump #democracy vs. totalitarianism #trump is a tool of russia #trump is a sex offender #if you hate freedom vote for trump #register and vote #vote blue no matter who #support democratic candidates #the biden administration's economic growth programs #civic involvement #david rothkopf #bernard l. schwartz #election 2024

[incorporatedmmorg]

Grizzly bear rag player piano

Silks And Rags (Waltzes) THANE, LOGAN (NAT E. Trombone Johnsen (Ragtime Cakewalk) STONE, FRED S. Sponge SMITH, CHRIS AND EUROPE, JAMES REESE Ballin’ The Jack (Fox Trot) SMITH, LEE OREANĬampin’ On De Ole Suwanee (Characteristic March, Two Step, Polka or Cakewalk) SNYDER, TED Wild Cherries (Rag) STARK, E. Lumb’rin’ Luke (Cakewalk and Two Step) SILVERMAN AND WARD, That Hand Played Rag SIMON, W. PHILIP Jungle Time (A Genuine Rag) SEYMOUR, CY Holy Moses (Rag) The Whitewash Man (March and Two Step) SCOTT, JAMES A Summer Breeze (March and Two Step) Sleepy Sidney (Ragtime Two Step) SCHWARTZ, JEAN Dusky Dudes (Cakewalk) Too Much Raspberry (Fox Trot) SCHEU, ARCHIE W. The Eight O’Clock Rush (Rag) RUSSELL, SYDNEY K. M., Walkin’ On De Rainbow Road (March, Cakewalk and Two Step) ROBINSON, J. The Pride Of Bucktown (Ragtime March) ROBERTS S. The Junk Man Rag ROBERTS, JAY The Entertainer’s Rag ROBERTS, ROBERT S. Pork and Beans (One Step or Two Step Trot) Funny Folks (Ragtime March and Two Step) PRATT, PAUL Colonial Glide PUCK, HARRY The Foot-Warmer (One Step or Two Step) ROBERTS, C. Trouble (Rag) NIEBERGALL JULIA LEE, Horseshoe Rag NORTHUP, JOSEPH Cannon Ball (Characteristic Two Step) O’HARE, WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER Levee Revels (An Afro-American Cane Hop) POWELL, W. Whistling Rufus (Characteristic Two Step, March or Polka) MORRISON, WILL B. Rastus on Parade (Characteristic Two Step March) Rags To Burn MILLS, KERRY At A Georgia Campmeeting (Characteristic Two Step, March or Polka) The Pippin (A Sentimental Rag) MATTHEWS, ARTIE Pastime Rag No. I Got The Blues (Characteristic Ragtime Two Step) MARSHALL, ARTHUR Ham and Eggs (A Ragtime Two Step) On Easy Street (Ragtime Two Step) MAGGIO, A. That Madrid Rag LODGE, HENRY Temptation Rag LYONS, BOB AND YOSCO, GEORGE Spaghetti Rag MACEACHRON, J. BODEWALT Creole Belles (Ragtime March)ĭixie Girl (Characteristic March and Two Step) LENZBERG, JULIUS Haunting Rag Sensation (A Rag, arranged by Joplin) LAMPE, J. Tiger Rag (One Step) LAMB, JOSEPH American Beauty Rag Shake Yo’ Dusters (Piccaninny Rag, Two Step) LA ROCCA, D. That Teasin’ Rag (Rag and Two Step) KAUFMAN, MEL B. Swipesy (Cake Walk) JORDAN, JOE Nappy Lee (A Slow Drag) Something Doing (A Ragtime Two Step) JOPLIN, SCOTT AND LOUIS CHAUVIN Heliotrope Bouquet (A Slow Drag Two Step) JOPLIN, SCOTT AND MARSHALL, ARTHUR Lily Queen (A Rag and Two Step) Weeping Willow (A Ragtime Two Step) JOPLIN, SCOTT AND SCOTT HAYDEN Felicity Rag (Ragtime Two Step) The Chrysanthemum (An Afro-American Intermezzo) Dill Pickles (Rag and Two Step)ĭoc Brown’s Cakewalk (The Original Kansas City Rag) JOPLIN, SCOTT A Breeze From Alabama (March & Two Step) Why We Smile INGRAHAM, HERBERT Poison Ivy (Rag) JANZA, MARK Lion Tamer (A Syncopated Fantasia) JENTES, HARRY Bantam Step (Fox Trot or One Step) JOHNSON, CHARLES L. Ragtown Rags HUMFELD, CHARLES Who Let The Cows Out? (A Bully Rag) HUNTER, CHARLES Just Ask Me (A Ragtime Two Step) I’m Alabama Bound (Ragtime Two Step) HOFFMAN, MAX Rag Medley Queen Raglan (Cakewalk and Two Step) HOFFMAN, ROBERT A Dingy Slow Down "Cleanin’ Up” in Georgia (Cakewalk Patrol or Two Step) HAHN, TEDDY The Amazon Rag HENRICH, A. Jinx Rag (arranged by Matthews, Artie) GILES, IMOGENE Red Peppers (Two Step) GLOGAU, JACK The Aeroplane (Ragtime Two Step) GUY, HARRY P. BENNET) Sweet Pickles (Characteristic Two Step) FRANKLIN, BERNARD Blackville Society (Cakewalk Two Step) GIBLIN, IRENE Chicken Chowder (Characteristic Two Step) GIBSON, L. Oh! You Devil (Rag) DOBYNS, GERALDINE Possum Rag EUROPE, JAMES REESE The Castle (Doggy Fox Trot) FLORENCE, GEORGE (AKA/THERON C. The Shovel Fish (Rag) COZAD, IRENE Eatin’-Time Rag CRABB, DUANE Fluffy-Ruffles (Two Step) DABNEY, FORD C. You Tell ‘Em Ivories COOK, WILL MARION Cruel Papa! (Fox Trot) COOK, HARRY L. The Mazie King Midnight Trot CONFREY, ZEZ Coaxing the Piano Russian Rag (Interpolating the world famous Prelude by Rachmaninoff) Policy King (Two Step) BURGESS, MATTIE HARL Rag Alley Dream COBB, GEORGE L. The Chevy Chase (Fox Trot) BOLEN, GRACE Smoky Topaz (March and Two Step) BOTSFORD, GEORGE Chatterbox Rag A Cyclone In Darktown (Rags) BLAKE, EUBIE Fizz Water (Trot and One Step) Worlds Fair Rag BARGY, ROY Blue Streak (Rag Fox Trot) МультфильмĪDLER, BERNARD Dat Lovin’ Rag (Two Step) ANDERSON, WILLIE Keystone Rag (Rag) ARNDT, FELIX Nola (A Silhouette for the Piano) AUFDERHEIDE, MAY Dusty (Rag)

#Grizzly bear rag player piano

[votenet-blog]

Joe Biden Plans to Close Foundation When He Enters 2020 Race

Joe Biden Plans to Close Foundation When He Enters 2020 Race

Author: Alexander Burns / Source: New York Times

Michael Dwyer/Associated Press

Joseph R. Biden Jr. plans to wind down his personal charity, the Biden Foundation, when he enters the 2020 presidential race, people briefed on the preparations said on Monday.

Mr. Biden, the former vice president, and his wife, Jill, formed the nonprofit group after he left office in 2017. The group had raised $6.6…

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#Bernard L. Schwartz #Biden Cancer Initiative #Bill and Hillary Clinton #Hillary Clinton #Joe Biden #Louisa Terrell #Melanie Fonder Kaye #Racing #Ted Kaufman #William Russo

[joanarmatradings]

2. Album Of The Year (General Field)

Award to Artist(s) and to Featured Artist(s), Songwriter(s) of new material, Producer(s), Recording Engineer(s), Mixer(s) and Mastering Engineer(s).

We Are

Jon Batiste

Full album here.

Craig Adams, David Gauthier, Braedon Gautier, Brennon Gautier, Gospel Soul Children Choir, Hot 8 Brass Band, PJ Morton, Autumn Rowe, Zadie Smith, St. Augustine High School Marching 100 & Trombone Shorty, featured artists; Jon Batiste, Mikey Freedom Hart, DJ Khalil, King Garbage, Kizzo, Sunny Levine, Nate Mercereau, David Pimentel, Ricky Reed, Autumn Rowe, Jahaan Sweet & Nick Waterhouse, producers; Jon Batiste, Russ Elevado, Mischa Kachkachishvili, Kizzo, Joseph Lorge, Manny Marroquin, Ken Oriole, David Pimentel, Ricky Reed, Jaclyn Sanchez, Matt Vertere, Marc Whitmore & Alex Williams, engineers/mixers; Andrae Alexander, Troy Andrews, Jon Batiste, Zach Cooper, Vic Dimotsis, Eric Frederic, Kizzo, Sunny Levine, Steve McEwan, PJ Morton, Autumn Rowe & Mavis Staples, songwriters; Michelle Mancini, mastering engineer

Love For Sale

Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga

Full album here.

Dae Bennett, producer; Dae Bennett, Josh Coleman & Billy Cumella, engineers/mixers; Greg Calbi & Steve Fallone, mastering engineers

Justice (Triple Chucks Deluxe)

Justin Bieber

Full album here.

BEAM, benny blanco, Burna Boy, Daniel Caesar, Chance The Rapper, DaBaby, Dominic Fike, Giveon, Jaden, Tori Kelly, Khalid, The Kid LAROI, Lil Uzi Vert & Quavo, featured artists; Amy Allen, Louis Bell, Jon Bellion, Justin Bieber, benny blanco, BMW Kenny, Capi, Dreamlab, Dvlp, Jason Evigan, FINNEAS, The Futuristics, German, Josh Gudwin, Jimmie Gutch, HARV, Marvin "Tony" Hemmings, Ilya, Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, Stefan Johnson, KCdaproducer, Denis Kosiak, The Monsters & Strangerz, Jorgen Odegard, Michael Pollack, Poo Bear, Shndo, Skrillex, Jake Torrey, Trackz, Andrew Watt & Ido Zmishlany, producers; Cory Bice, benny blanco, Kevin "Capi" Carbo, Edwin Diaz, DJ Durel, Dreamlab, FINNEAS, Josh Gudwin, Sam Holland, Daniel James, Antonio Kearney, Denis Kosiak, Paul LaMalfa, Jeremy Lertola, Devin Nakao, Chris "TEK" O'Ryan, Andres Osorio, Micah Pettit & Benjamin Thomas, engineers/mixers; Amy Allen, Delacey (Brittany Amaradio), Louis Bell, Jonathan Bellion, Chancelor Johnathon Bennett, Justin Bieber, David Bowden, Jason Boyd, Scott Braun, Tommy Lee Brown, Valentin Brunn, Kevin Carbo, Kenneth Coby, Kevin Coby, Raul Cubina, Jordan Douglas, Giveon Dezmann Evans, Jason Evigan, Dominic David Fike, Kameron Glasper, Jacob Greenspan, Josh Gudwin, James Gutch, Scott Harris, Bernard Harvey, Leah Haywood, Gregory Aldae Hein, Marvin Hemmings, Jeffrey Howard, Alexander Izquierdo, Daniel James, Jace Logan Jennings, Rodney Jerkins, Jordan K. Johnson, Stefan Johnson, Anthony M. Jones, Antonio Kearney, Charlton Kenneth, Joe Khajadourian, Felisha "Fury" King, Jonathan Lyndale Kirk, Matthew Sean Leon, Benjamin Levin, Marcus Lomax, Quavious Keyate Marshall, Luis Manuel Martinez Jr., Sonny Moore, Finneas O’Connell, Jorgen Odegard, Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, Tayla Parx, Oliver Peterhof, Whitney Phillips, Michael Pollack, Khalid Donnel Robinson, Ilya Salmanzadeh, Alex Schwartz, Tia Scola, Aaron Simmonds, Ashton Simmonds, Gian Stone, Ali Tamposi, Ryan Tedder, Tyshane Thompson, Jake Torrey, Billy Walsh, Freddy Wexler, Symere Woods, Andrew Wotman, Rami Yacoub, Keavan Yazdani, Bigram Zayas & Ido Zmishlany, songwriters; Colin Leonard, mastering engineer

Planet Her (Deluxe)

Doja Cat

Full album here.

Eve, Ariana Grande, Gunna, JID, SZA, The Weeknd & Young Thug, featured artists; Aaron Bow, Rogét Chahayed, Crate Classics, Digi, Dr. Luke, f a l l e n, Mayer Hawthorne, Mike Hector, Linden Jay, Aynzli Jones, Kurtis McKenzie, Jason Quenneville, Reef, Khaled Rohaim, Al Shux, Sully, tizhimself, Yeti Beats & Y2K, producers; Rob Bisel, Jesse Ray Ernster, Serban Ghenea, Clint Gibbs, Rian Lewis, NealHPogue, Tyler Sheppard, Kalani Thompson, Joe Visciano & Jeff Ellis Worldwide, engineers/mixers; Ilana Armida, Aaron Bow, Rogét Chahayed, Jamil Chammas, Sheldon Yu-Ting Cheung, Antwoine Collins, Amala Zandile Dlamini, Lukasz Gottwald, Ariana Grande, Mayer Hawthorne, Mike Hector, Aaron Horn, Taneisha Damielle Jackson, Linden Jay, Eve Jihan Jeffers, Aynzli Jones, Sergio Kitchens, Carter Lang, Siddharth Mallick, Maciej Margol-Gromada, Kurtis McKenzie, Jidenna Mobisson, Gerard A. Powell II, Geordan Reid-Campbell, Khaled Rohaim, Destin Route, Solána Rowe, Laura Roy, Al Shuckburgh, David Sprecher, Ari Starace, Lee Stashenko, Abel Tesfaye, Rob Tewlow & Jeffery Lamar Williams, songwriters; Dale Becker & Mike Bozzi, mastering engineers

Happier Than Ever

Billie Eilish

Full album here.

FINNEAS, producer; Billie Eilish, FINNEAS & Rob Kinelski, engineers/mixers; Billie Eilish O'Connell & Finneas O'Connell, songwriters; John Greenham & Dave Kutch, mastering engineers

Back Of My Mind

H.E.R.

Full album here.

Chris Brown, Cordae, DJ Khaled, Lil Baby, Thundercat, Bryson Tiller, Ty Dolla $ign, YG & Yung Bleu, featured artists; Tarik Azzouz, Bordeaux, Nelson Bridges, DJ Camper, Cardiak, Cardo, Chi Chi, Steven J. Collins, Flip, Jeff "Gitty" Gitelman, GRADES, H.E.R., Hit-Boy, Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, Walter Jones, KAYTRANADA, DJ Khaled, Mario Luciano, Mike Will Made-It, NonNative, NOVA WAV, Scribz Riley, Jeff Robinson, STREETRUNNER, Hue Strother, Asa Taccone, Thundercat, Thurdi & Wu10, producers; Rafael Fai Bautista, Luis Bordeaux, Dee Brown, Anthony Cruz, Ayanna Depas, Morning Estrada, Chris Galland, H.E.R., Jaycen Joshua, KAYTRANADA, Derek Keota, Omar Loya, Manny Marroquin, Tim McClain, Juan "AyoJuan" Peña, Micah Pettit, Patrizio Pigliapoco, Alex Pyle, Jaclyn Sanchez, Miki Tsutsumi & Tito "Earcandy" Vasquez, engineers/mixers; Denisia “Blu June” Andrews, Nasri Atweh, Tarik Azzouz, Stacy Barthe, Jeremy Biddle, Nelson “Keyz” Bridges, Chris Brown, Stephen Bruner, Darhyl Camper Jr., Luis Campozano, Louis Kevin Celestin, Anthony Clemons Jr., Steven J. Collins, Ronald “Flip” Colson, Brittany “Chi” Coney, Elijah Dias, Cordae Dunston, Jeff Gitelman, Tyrone Griffin Jr., Priscilla “Priscilla Renea” Hamilton, H.E.R., Charles A. Hinshaw, Chauncey Hollis, Latisha Twana Hyman, Keenon Daequan Ray Jackson, Rodney Jerkins, Dominique Jones, Khaled Khaled, Ron Latour, Gamal “Lunchmoney” Lewis, Mario Luciano, Carl McCormick, Leon McQuay III, Julia Michaels, Maxx Moore, Vurdell “V. Script” Muller, Chidi Osondu, Karriem Riggins, Mike “Scribz” Riley, Seandrea Sledge, Hue Strother, Asa Taccone, Tiara Thomas, Bryson Tiller, Daniel James Traynor, Brendan Walsh, Nicholas Warwar, Jabrile Hashim Willliams, Michael L. Williams II, Robert Williams & Kelvin Wooten, songwriters; Colin Leonard, mastering engineer

Montero

Lil Nas X

Full album here.

Miley Cyrus, Doja Cat, Jack Harlow, Elton John & Megan Thee Stallion, featured artists; Denzel Baptiste, David Biral, John Cunningham, Omer Fedi, Kuk Harrell, Jasper Harris, KBeaZy, Carter Lang, Nick Lee, Roy Lenzo, Tom Levesque, Jasper Sheff, Blake Slatkin, Drew Sliger, Take A Daytrip, Ryan Tedder & Kanye West, producers; Denzel Baptiste, David Biral, Jon Castelli, John Cunningham, Jelli Dorman, Tom Elmhirst, Serban Ghenea, John Hanes, Kuk Harrell, Roy Lenzo, Manny Marroquin, Nickie Jon Pabon, Patrizio 'Teezio' Pigliapoco, Blake Slatkin, Drew Sliger, Ryan Tedder & Joe Visciano, engineers/mixers; Keegan Bach, Denzel Baptiste, David Biral, John Cunningham, Miley Ray Cyrus, Amala Zandile Dlamini, Omer Fedi, Vincent Goodyer, Jack Harlow, Jasper Harris, Montero Hill, Ilsey Juber, Carter Lang, Nick Lee, Roy Lenzo, Thomas James Levesque, Andrew Luce, Michael Olmo, Jasper Sheff, Blake Slatkin, R.L. Stafford, Ryan Tedder, William K. Ward & Kanye West, songwriters; Chris Gehringer, Eric Lagg & Randy Merrill, mastering engineers

Sour

Olivia Rodrigo

Full album here.

Alexander 23, Daniel Nigro & Olivia Rodrigo, producers; Ryan Linvill, Mitch McCarthy & Daniel Nigro, engineers/mixers; Daniel Nigro, Olivia Rodrigo & Casey Smith, songwriters; Randy Merrill, mastering engineer

Evermore

Taylor Swift

Full album here.

Bon Iver, Haim & The National, featured artists; Jack Antonoff, Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner & Taylor Swift, producers; Thomas Bartlett, JT Bates, Robin Baynton, Stuart Bogie, Gabriel Cabezas, CJ Camerieri, Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner, Scott Devendorf, Matt DiMona, Jon Gautier, Trevor Hagen, Mikey Freedom Hart, Sean Hutchinson, Josh Kaufman, Benjamin Lanz, Nick Lloyd, Jonathan Low, James McAlister, Dave Nelson, Sean O'Brien, Ryan Olson, Ariel Rechtshaid, Kyle Resnick, Michael Riddleberger, Laura Sisk, Evan Smith, Alex Sopp & Justin Vernon, engineers/mixers; Jack Antonoff, William Bowery, Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner, Taylor Swift & Justin Vernon, songwriters; Greg Calbi & Steve Fallone, mastering engineers

Donda

Kanye West

Full album here.

Baby Keem, Chris Brown, Conway The Machine, DaBaby, Jay Electronica, Fivio Foreign, Westside Gunn, JAY-Z, Syleena Johnson, Kid Cudi, Lil Baby, Lil Durk, Lil Yachty, The LOX, Marilyn Manson, Playboi Carti, Pop Smoke, Roddy Ricch, Rooga, Travis Scott, Shenseea, Swizz Beatz, Young Thug, Don Toliver, Ty Dolla $ign, Vory, The Weeknd, Westside Gunn & Lil Yachty, featured artists; Allday, Audi, AyoAA, Roark Bailey, Louis Bell, Jeff Bhasker, Boi-1Da, BoogzDaBeast, Warryn Campbell, Cubeatz, David & Eli, Mike Dean, Dem Jointz, Digital Nas, DJ Khalil, DRTWRK, 88-Keys, E.Vax, FNZ, Gesaffelstein, Nikki Grier, Cory Henry, Ronny J, DJ Khalil, Wallis Lane, Digital Nas, Nascent, Ojivolta, Shuko, Sloane, Sean Solymar, Sucuki, Arron “Arrow” Sunday, Swizz Beatz, Zen Tachi, 30 Roc, Bastian Völkel, Mia Wallis, Kanye West, Wheezy & Jason White, producers; Josh Berg, Todd Bergman, Rashade Benani Bevel Sr., Will Chason, Dem Jointz, IRKO, Jess Jackson, Nagaris Johnson, Shin Kamiyama, Gimel "Young Guru" Keaton, James Kelso, Scott McDowell, Kalam Ali Muttalib, Jonathan Pfarr, Drrique Rendeer, Alejandro Rodriguez-Dawson, Mikalai Skrobat, Devon Wilson & Lorenzo Wolff, engineers/mixers; Dwayne Abernathy Jr., Elpadaro F. Electronica Allah, Aswad Asif, Roark Bailey, Durk Banks, Sam Barsh, Christoph Bauss, Louis Bell, Jeff Bhasker, Isaac De Boni, Christopher Brown, Jahshua Brown, Tahrence Brown, Aaron Butts, Warryn Campbell, Hykeem Carter Jr., Jordan Terrell Carter, Shawn Carter, Denzel Charles, Raul Cubina, Isaac De Boni, Kasseem Dean, Michael Dean, Tim Friedrich, Wesley Glass, Samuel Gloade, Kevin Gomringer, Tim Gomringer, Tyrone Griffin Jr., Jahmal Gwin, Cory Henry, Tavoris Javon Hollins Jr., Larry Hoover Jr., Bashar Jackson, Sean Jacob, Nima Jahanbin, Paimon Jahanbin, Syleena Johnson, Dominique Armani Jones, Eli Klughammer, Chinsea Lee, Mike Lévy, Evan Mast, Mark Mbogo, Miles McCollum, Josh Mease, Scott Medcudi, Brian Miller, Rodrick Wayne Moore Jr., Michael Mulé, Mark Myrie, Charles M. Njapa, Nasir Pemberton, Carlos St. John Phillips, Jason Phillips, Khalil Abdul Rahman, Laraya Ashlee Robinson, Christopher Ruelas, David Ruoff, Maxie Lee Ryles III, Matthew Samuels, Daniel Seeff, Eric Sloan Jr., Sean Solymar, Ronald O’Neill Spence Jr., David Styles, Michael Suski, Aqeel Tate, Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, Caleb Zackery Toliver, Bastian Völkel, Brian Hugh Warner, Jacques Webster II, Kanye West, Orlando Wilder, Jeffery Williams & Mark Williams, songwriters; Irko, mastering engineer

#album of the year

[portbayrp]

most wanted male fcs both poc and white?

please for the love of God don’t take this as me being rude, cause I’m not, it’s just it personally affects me as a Black man and I can’t help but say it. When asking for men who are also people of color next time ask for men of color or MOC. Sorry, I know it’s a small grammar thing but it bugs me on levels for reasons. Again sorry, don’t be offended that I corrected you.

MW MEN OF COLOR & WHITE MEN:  ( it’s gonna be mostly moc ) 

Aldis Hodge. Daveed Diggs. Brian Michael Smith. Jeremy Pope. Lakeith Stanfield. Winston Duke. Trevante Rhodes. Brandon Mychal Smith. Sendhil Ramamurthy. Manish Dayal. Chuku Modu. Lewis Tan. Rahul Kohli. Dev Patel. Daniel Sharman. Don Cheadle. Ben Schwartz. Andy Samberg. Riz Amad. Sinqua Walls. Adam Scott. Paul Rudd. Tone Bell. Kofi Siriboe. Rafael Silva. Adam Brody. Logan Lerman. Harvey Guillén. Idris Elba. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. Dule Hill. James Roday-Rodriguez. Chris Lee. Cress Willams. Jesse L. Martin. Jesse Williams. Tyler James Williams. Nonso Anozie. Okieriete Onaodowan. Joel Mchale. Danny Pudi. Ben Levin. Jessie T. Usher. Daniel Henney. Saraj Sharma. Marwan Kenzari. Jovan Adepo.  Shamier Anderson. Ncuti Gatwa. Kedar Williams-Stirling. Fawad Khan. Siddiq Saunderson.  Raymond Ablack. Brandon P. Bell. William Jackson. Sterling K. Brown. Alex Landi. Keith Powers. Leo Daudin. Nathan Stewart-Jarrett. Zaqi Ismail. Paul James. Chella Man. Justin H. Min. Manny Jacinto. Jake Choi. John Cho. Steven Yeun. Jermaine Fowler. Daniel Ezra. Elliot Knight. Jay Hernandez. Matthew Gray Gubler. Adam Rodriguez. Aubrey Joseph. John Clarence Stewart. Kapil Talwalkar. Skylar Astin. Dayo Okeniyi. BJ Britt. D.B. Woodside. Wentworth Miller. Andrew Garfield. Taye Diggs. Lucien Laviscount. Shayan Sobhian. Franz Drameh. Echo Kellum. Mehcad Brooks. Brandon Routh. Nick Zano. Michael Ealy. Jake Johnson. Lamorne Morris.  Brandon Michael Hall. James Yaegashi. Jonathan Daviss. Joko Sims. Kendrick Sampson. Michael B. Jordan. Manny Montana. Hugh Laurie. Brenton Thwaites. Logan Lerman. Bernard David Jones. Marcel Spears. Sacha Dhawan. Julian Works. Steven R. McQueen. Harry Shum Jr. Isaiah Mustafa. Alberto Rosende. Praneet Akilla. Eli Goree. Luke James. Brian Tee. Malcom-Jamal Warner. Jake McDorman. Glenn Howerton. Tyler Posey. Charles Melton.

if any members have additions to this list feel free to let it rip and I will add them. 

#new rp #oc rp #town rp #original rp #appless rp #? #anon #wanted

[madforfashiondude]

New-York Historical Society Accepting Applications For 2020–2021 Fellowships

New-York Historical Society Accepting Applications For 2020–2021 Fellowships

New Fellows Welcomed for the 2019–2020 Academic Year

The New-York Historical Society is now accepting applications for its prestigious fellowship program for the 2020–2021 academic year. Leveraging its rich collections that detail American history through the lens of New York City, New-York Historical’s fellowships are open to scholars at various times during their academic careers and…

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#Andrew W. Mellon Foundation #Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Predoctoral Awards in Women’s History #Bernard L. Schwartz #Causeries du Lundi #Helen and Robert Appel #Helen and Robert Appel Fellowship in History and Technology #Helen Appel #Lehrman Institute #National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship #New-York Historical Society #New-York Historical’s fellowships #Pam and Scott Schafler #Patricia Klingenstein #Peck Stacpoole Foundation #Pine Tree Foundation of New York #Richard Brown and Mary Jo Otsea #Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation #Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship #Sid Lapidus #Society of Colonial Wars #Society of Daughters of Holland Dames

[don56]

53rd Academy Awards March 31, 1981 for movies released in 1980

Best Picture Winner

Ordinary People (Ronald L. Schwary, Producer)

Nominees

Coal Miner’s Daughter (Bernard Schwartz, Producer)

The Elephant Man (Jonathan Sanger, Producer)

Raging Bull (Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff, Producers)

Tess (Claude Berri, Producer;  Timothy Burrill, Co-Producer)

Other winners

Actor - Robert De Niro for Raging Bull

Supporting Actor -  Timothy Hutton for Ordinary People

Actress - Sissy Spacek for Coal Miners Daughter

Supporting Actress - Mary Steenburgn for Melvin and Howard

Director - Robert Redford for Ordinary People

My list of five films to nominate is different from Oscar’s as usual. I’m dropping two of the nominees in Tess and the eventual winner Ordinary People. They are replaced with The Shining and a foreign entry Kagemusha directed by Akira Kurosawa. My Best Picture of the year is The Elephant Man. David Lynch gets my vote as Best Director for The Elephant Man.

#academy awards

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Regulating autonomous vehicles and ridesharing: Lessons from California

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Regulating autonomous vehicles and ridesharing: Lessons from California

By Sanjay Patnaik, Genevieve Shiroma Sanjay Patnaik, director of the Center on Regulation and Markets and Bernard L. Schwartz Chair in Economic Policy Development in Economic Studies, recently sat down with Genevieve Shiroma, Commissioner of the California Public Utilities Commission. Some major areas they covered include the agency’s regulatory authority, regulations of autonomous vehicles, and what other initiatives the Commission is currently working on. Here are some highlights:

Where does the Commission derive its regulatory authority from?

CPUC has a one-hundred-year history of regulating utilities and transit across the state of California. Founded in 1911, the agency derives its regulatory authority directly from the state constitution. Originally intended to regulate railroads, CPUC now regulates energy, water, communications, and transportation, with safety as a core agency priority.

How does CPUC approach the regulation of autonomous vehicles?

CPUC has been highly involved in regulating pilot testing for autonomous vehicles (AVs) in California. At the time of the interview, the agency was preparing a new decision on regulating autonomous vehicles—which was released on November 19th—and emphasized the agency’s focus on safety and accessibility. The decision creates two new AV deployment programs that will allow participating companies to offer paid passenger rides in autonomous vehicles. CPUC will closely monitor the safety, accessibility, and environmental impacts of the new programs.

How does the CPUC regulate ridesharing companies?

Over the past few years, CPUC has regulated the rapid expansion of transportation network companies (TNCs or ride-sharing companies). CPUC requires TNCs to share anonymous, granular data with the agency and local governments, which has aided city planning efforts as California adapts to changes in car ownership rates due to the rise of ride-sharing. CPUC also recently began implementing a new program dedicated to regulating accessibility among TNCs in response to the passage of the 2018 TNC Access for All Act.

What work does the CPUC do related to climate change?

The agency is currently gathering data on how the Green Mile Standard—a law passed through the California State Legislature in 2018–is impacting air pollution. Commissioner Shiroma shared that the statute required CPUC to work with the Air Resources Board to reduce greenhouse gases (GHG) and air pollution from TNCs. The agencies are still in the critical data collection phase.

How has COVID-19 affected CPUC’s work?

COVID-19 has forced CPUC to be more flexible. The agency works with many local jurisdictions across the state, and California has required local authorities to adhere to the most stringent safety requirements applicable to them. Whether it is TNCs, light rails, or subway systems, all entities are required to follow local Department of Health and CDC pandemic requirements. The state has also set moratoriums on any water disconnections until April 2021, giving residents more secure access to their utilities during the crisis. To hear Commissioner Shiroma’s complete comments, watch the fireside chat here:

Cayli Baker and Kelly Kennedy provided editorial assistance for this blog post.   The views expressed herein are those solely of the speakers and do not reflect the position of The Brookings Institution.

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 የአስተዳደር መንግስት እና የአስተዳደር ህግ ውልደት

በ19ኛው ክፍለ ዘመን ገኖ የነበረው የነፃ ገበያ (laisse faire) ንድፈ ሀሳብ በዋነኛነት ውስን የመንግስት ጣልቃ ገብነትና ሰፊ የግለሶቦች ነፃነትን ያቀነቅናል፡፡a በዚሁ ንድፈ ሀሳብ መሰረት የመንግስት ሚና ህግና ስርዓት ከማስጠበቅና አገርን ከጠላት ወረራ ከመከላከል የዘለለ መሆን የለበትም፡፡ ምርጥ መንግስት ማለት በስሱ (በትንሹ) የሚገዛ መንግስት ማለት ነው፡፡ ማህበራዊና ኢኮኖሚያዊ እንቅስቃሴዎችን መምራት፣ መቆጣጠርና መግራት እንደ መንግስት ኃላፊነት አይቆጠርም፡፡

ሆኖም ነፃ የሆነው የገበያና የመንግስት ስርዓት እግረ መንገዱን ይዞ የመጣቸው አሉታዊ ውጤቶች በዋነኛነት ያረፉት በደካማውና ደሀው የህብረተሰብ ���ፍል ጫንቃ ላይ ነበር፡፡ በሀብታምና ደሀ መካከል የተፈጠረው የሀብት ድልድል ልዩነት በእጅጉ እየሰፋ በመምጣቱ ሀብታም የበለጠ ሲበለፅግ ደሃው ግን ይባስ እየቆረቆዘ መሄድ ጀመረ፡፡ በአሠሪና ሠራተኛ መካከል የነበረው የመደራደር አቅም ልዩነት ታይቶ ለማይታወቅ የጉልበት ብዝበዛ ምክንያት ሆነ፡፡ እነዚህ ማህበራዊና ኢኮኖሚያዊ ጠንቆች ለነፃ ገበያ ስርዓትና አስተሳሰብ ፈታኝ ሁኔታዎች ነበሩ፡፡

ስለሆነም ለማህበራዊና ኢኮኖሚያዊ ጠንቆች መፍትሔ መስጠት የመንግስት ግዴታና ኃላፊነት የመ��ኑ እውነታ ቀስ በቀስ እየተገለጠ መጣ፡፡b በተለይም የሁለተኛው የአለም ጦርነትን ተከትሎ የተከሰቱት ማህበራዊና ኢኮኖሚያዊ ቀውሶች የመንግስት ጣልቃ ገብነት አስፈላጊነትን ከመቼውም ጊዜ በላይ በገሃድ አስረግጠዋል፡፡ መንግስት ኃላፊነቱን መወጣት የሚችለው ደግሞ አወቃቀሩና አደረጃጀቱ ሲገፉት የሚፍረከረክ ዓይነት ‘ልል’ ወይም ውስን መንግስት መሆኑ ቀርቶ ጡንቻው የዳበረና ስልጣኑ የሰፋ ጠንካራ መንግስት ሆኖ ሲገኝ እንደሆነ ሳይታለም የተፈታ ነው፡፡ ለማህበራዊና ኢኮኖሚያዊ ጠንቆች መፍትሔ መስጠት የመንግስት ግዴታ ነው ሲባል ሚናው ከተለመደው ስርዓትና ፀጥታ ማስከበር ባሻገር ሰፊና ውስብስብ አዎንታዊ ተግባራትን ወደ ማከናወን መሸጋገር እንደሆነ ልብ ይሏል፡፡

በዚሁ መሰረት የመንግስት ሚና ቀስ በቀስ ከፖሊስነት (Police State) ወደ ማህበራዊ አገልግሎት አቅራቢነት ሊሸጋገር ችሏል፡፡ መንግስት በአገልግሎት አቅራቢነት ሚናው ውሀ፣ ጤና፣ ትምህርት፣ መንገድ ወዘተ የመሳሰሉ መሰረታዊ ፍላጐቶችን የማሟላት ኃላፊነት ተጥሎበታል፡፡ በተጨማሪ የኢኮኖሚ አቅጣጫውን ፈር ለማስያዝና ፍትሐዊ የሀብት ድልድል እንዲኖር እንዲሁም ለደካማው የህብረተሰብ ክፍል ጥበቃና ከለላ ለማድረግ በአጠቃላይ የነፃ ገበያን አሉታዊ ውጤቶችን ለመቀነስ ሰፊና ተከታታይ ቁጥጥርና ክትትል (Regulation) ያደርጋል፡፡ አዲሱ የማህበራዊ መንግስት አዲሱን አዎንታዊ ሚናውን በብቃትና ውጤታማ በሆነ መንገድ ይወጣ ዘንድ በዓይነትና በይዘት የጠንካራ ስልጣን ባለቤት ሊሆን የግድ የሚል ሀቅ ነው፡፡c

የስልጣን አስፈላጊነቱ አጠያያቂ አይደለም፡፡ ስልጣን በየጊዜው ወሰኑ፣ መጠኑና ቅርጹ እያደገና እየሰፋ በመጣ ቁጥር ግን የግለሰቦችን መብትና ነፃነት መንካቱ አይቀርም፡፡ የመንግስት ስልጣን እየተለጠጠ መሄድ አቅመቢስ ለሆነው ዜጋ የስጋት ምንጭ ነው፡፡ ፍፁም የሆነና ወደ ፍፁምነት የተጠጋ ስልጣን ወደ ህገ ወጥነትና የበዘፈቀደ ድርጊት የማምራት አደገኛ አዝማሚያ አለው፡:

የአስተዳደር ህግ በየጊዜው እያደገ የመጣውን የመንግስት ‘ጡንቻ መፈርጠም’ በቅጡ ለመቆጣጠር በታሪክ ሂደት በተጓዳኝ የተፈጠረ የህግ መሳሪያ ነው፡፡ መንግስት ተግባራቱን ለማከናወን ፖሊሲ ቀርጾ፣ ህግ አውጥቶ በሚያስፈጽምበት ወቅት በስልጣን እና በፍትህ (የግለሰቦች ነፃነት) መካከል ቅራኔ መከሰቱ የማይቀር እውነታ ነው፡፡ ጥያቄው ቅራኔው እንዴት ይፈታል? ነው፡፡ የአስተዳደር ህግ የዚህ ቅራኔ የራሱ ውጤት ሲሆን ቅራኔውን በአንፃራዊ መልኩ ለማስማማትና ለማጣጣም በታሪክ ሂደት ብቅ ያለ ተግባራዊ መሳሪያ ነው፡፡d የአስተዳደር ህግ በዕቅድ ታስቦ የተወለደ ሳይሆን በሁኔታዎች አስገዳጅነት የተፈጠረ ክስተት ነው፡፡ ህጉ በሁለት በጉልበት የማይመጣጠኑ ጐራዎች ማለትም በመንግስትና በግለሰብ መካከል ሚዛናዊነትንና ፍትሐዊነትን ለማስፈን ይጥራል፡፡

የአስተዳደር ህግ መንግስት በተለይ ስራ አስፈፃሚውና የአስተዳደር አካላት በህግ ከተፈቀደላቸው የስልጣን ክልል አልፈው ህገ ወጥ ድርጊት እንዳይፈጽሙ ቁጥጥር የሚያደርግና ይህንንም የሚያረጋግጥ ህግ ነው፡፡e በዚህም የህግ የበላይነት እንዲሰፍንና የግለሰቦች ህገ መንግስታዊ መብቶች እንዳይሸራረፉና እንዳይጣሱ ከለላ በመስጠትf ቁልፍ ሚና ይጫወታል፡፡ በተጨማሪም በህግ ማዕቀፍ ውስጥ ያለው ስልጣን በአግባቡና ፍትሐዊ በሆነ መንገድ ለታለመለት ዓላማ ብቻ እንዲውል መሪ ደንቦችን በማስቀመጥና ስነ ስርዓታዊ ቅድመ ሁኔታዎችን በመዘርጋት የተለያዩ የስልጣን መቆጣጠሪያ ስልቶችን በመጠቀም የግለሰቦችና የዜጐች መብቶችና ነፃነቶች እንዳይገሰሱና እንዳይደፈሩ ከለላ በመስጠት የህገ መንግስት ማስፈፀሚያ ሆኖ ያገለግላል፡፡

 

የአስተዳደር ህግ ምንነት

 

ለአስተዳደር ህግ ብያኔ በማበጀት ረገድ የመስኩ ባለሙያዎች በከፊልም ቢሆን የተለያየ እይታ አላቸው፡፡ በእርግጥ የአስተዳደር ህግ የጥናት ወሰኑን አስመልክቶ የሚከሰት ልዩነት ካልሆነ በቀር በመሰረታዊ እሳቤው ላይ የተራራቀ አቋም የለም፡፡ እንደ ህንዳዊው የአስተዳደር ህግ ምሁር አይ.ፒ. ማሴይ አገላለጽ በአስተዳደር ህግ ትርጓሜ ላይ ያለው ልዩነት ምንጩ በየጊዜው እያደገና እየተወሳሰበ የመጣው አስተዳደራዊ ሂደት ሲሆን ይህም ሂደቱን በሙሉ አጠቃሎ የያዘ ወጥ ትርጉም ለመስጠት አስቸጋሪ አድርጐታል፡፡g

ያም ሆኖ የአስተዳደር ህግ ትርጓሜ ቢያንስ ሁለት መሰረታዊ አላባውያንን ማካተት ይጠበቅበታል፡፡ በመጀመሪያ ደረጃ የአስተዳደር ህግ ከይዘት ይልቅ ስነ ስርዓት ላይ የሚያተኩር ህግ ስለመሆኑ ግልጽ መሆን ይኖርበታል፡፡ ስለሆነም የአስተዳደር ውሳኔው እንዴት ተሰጠ? እንጂ ይዘቱ ትክክል ይሁን አይሁን ፍርድ ቤቶች ሆነ የአስተዳደር ህግ ጣልቃ የሚገባበት ጉዳይ አይደለም፡፡

በሁለተኛ ደረጃ ማንኛውም የአስተዳደር ህግ ትርጓሜ የህጉን ዓላማ ግምት ውስጥ ያስገባ ተግባራዊ አቀራረብ እንዲያቅፍ ይጠበቅበታል፡፡ የአስተዳደር ህግ ዋነኛ ዓላማ ወይም ተግባር ስልጣንን መቆጣጠር ነው፡፡h ያ ሲባል ግን የአስተዳደር አካላት ስራቸውን በአግባቡ እንዳይሰሩና እንዳይላወሱ ማነቆ ሆኖ ያግዳቸዋል ማለት አይደለም፡፡ የስልጣን ቁጥጥር ሲባል ማንኛውም ባለስልጣን ሆነ መስሪያ ቤት በህግ ተለይቶ ከተቀመጠለት የስልጣን ገደብ እንዳያልፍና ስልጣን ቢኖረውም እንኳን ስልጣኑን ፍትሐዊና አግባብ በሆነ መንገድ እንዲወጣ ያደርጋል ለማለት ነው፡፡ የአስተዳደር ህግ ዋነኛ ዓላማና ተግባር ስልጣንን በተግባር መቆጣጠር እንደመሆኑ ይህን ባህርዩን ግምት ውስጥ ያላስገባ ብያኔ የተሟላ ተብሎ ሊወሰድ ሆነ ሊወደስ አይችልም፡፡

ለንጽጽር እንዲረዳን በመስኩ ባለሙያዎች ለአስተዳደር ህግ የተሰጡ ትርጓሜዎችን እንደሚከተለው እንጠቅሳለን፡፡

ቤርናርድ ሺዋሬዝ (Bernard Schwartz) የአስተዳደር ህግን ‘በውክልና ህግ የማውጣትና አስተዳደራዊ ዳኝነት የመስጠት ስልጣን ባላቸው የአስተዳደር መስሪያ ቤቶች ላይ ተፈፃሚ የሚሆን ህግ’ በማለት ይገልፀዋል፡፡i ይህ ብያኔ ጠባብ ከመሆኑ በቀር ስለ ህጉ ይዘት ገላጭ ነው፡፡ የአስተዳደር ህግ በውክልና ስልጣን ህግ ከማውጣትና ከአስተዳራዊ የዳኝነት ስልጣን በተጨማሪ ይህ ስልጣን በፍርድ የሚታረምበትን የአጣሪ ዳኝነት (judicial review) ስነ-ስርዓት እንዲሁም በፖርላማና በተለያዩ ተቋማት የሚደረግ ቁጥጥርንም ያካትታል፡፡

ጄኒንግስ በበኩሉ የአስተዳደር ህግ ማለት ‘አስተዳደርን የሚመለከት ህግ ነው፡፡ ይህ ህግ የአስተዳደር መስሪያ ቤቶችን አደረጃጀት፣ ስልጣንና ግዴታ ይወስናል፡፡’ በማለት ይገልጸዋል፡፡j እንደ አይ.ፒ ማሴይ አስተያየት ይህ ትርጓሜ የአስተዳደር ህግን ከህገ መንግስት በግልጽ አይለይም፡፡ አስተዳደር ወይም ማስተዳደር ማለት ፖለቲካዊና ኢኮኖሚያዊ ስልጣንን በመጠቀም የህብረተሰቡን ጉዳይ መምራት ማለት ነው፡፡k ለዚህም በዋነኛነት አደራ የተጣለባቸው አካላት የአስተዳደር መስሪያ ቤቶች ናቸው፡፡ ምንም እንኳን የእነዚህ ተቋማት ስልጣንና ግዴታ በዝርዝር ህግ ተለይቶ ቢወሰንም የስራ አስፈፃሚው አካል ስልጣን በጠቅላላው የሚቀመጠው በህገ መንግስት ላይ ነው፡፡ የአስተዳደር ህግ ሆነ ህገ መንግስት ሁለቱም የመንግስት አስተዳደርን ወይም የግለሰብና የመንግስትን ግንኙነት የሚመሩ ህጐች እንደመሆናቸው በመካከላቸው ያለው መለያ ክር በጄኒንግ ትርጓሜ ላይ በግልጽ ነጥሮ አልወጣም፡፡

ታዋቂው የህገ መንግስት ሊቅ ኤ. ቪ. ዲሴይ የአስተዳደር ህግን በሶስት ደረጃዎች ከፋፍሎ እንዲህ ይገልጸዋል፡፡l

የአስተዳደር ህግ የመንግስት ባለስልጣናትን የህግ ስልጣንና ተጠያቂነት የሚወስኑትን የአንድ አገር የህግ ስርዓት የሚመለከት የህግ ክፍል ነው፡፡

ግለሰቦች ከመንግስት አካላት ጋር በሚኖራቸው ግንኙነት ያላቸውን መብትና ግዴታ ለይቶ ይወስናል፡፡

እነዚህ መብቶችና ግዴታዎች ተፈጻሚ የሚሆኑበትን ስርዓት ይዘረጋል፡፡

እንደ ማሴይ ትችት ይህ ትርጓሜ የአስተዳደር ህግ አንድ አካል የሆነውን አጣሪ ዳኝነት (judicial review) ብቻ የሚመለከት እንደመሆኑ በይዘቱ ጠባብ ነው፡፡ የአስተዳደር ህግ ከአጣሪ ዳኝነት በተጨማሪ በህግ አውጭውና በተቋማት (ለምሳሌ በእንባ ጠባቂ ተቋምና ሰብዓዊ መብት ኮሚሽን) አማካይነት የሚደረግ የስልጣን መቆጣጠሪያ ስልቶችንም ያካትታል፡፡ ህጉ ከመንግስት ባለስልጣናትና ከአስተዳደር መስሪያ ቤቶች በተጨማሪ ከፊል የአስተዳደር አካላት ተብለው የሚፈረጁትን መንግስታዊ ኮርፖሬሽኖች፤ ዩኒቨርሲቲዎች እና በከፊል መንግስታዊ ነክ ስልጣን ያላቸውን ማህበራትm በተመለከተም ተፈጻሚነት አለው፡፡

በመጨረሻም ታዋቂው የህንድ ምሁር አይ.ፒ. ማሴይ ከላይ ከተሰጡት ሰፋ ያለና የህጉን ባህሪያትና ተግባራት ጠቅልሎ የያዘ ብያኔ እንደሚከተው ያስቀምጣል፡፡

የአስተዳደር ህግ የህዝብ አስተዳደር ህግ አካል ሲሆን የአስተዳደርና ከፊል አስተዳደር መስሪያ ቤቶችን አደረጃጀትና ስልጣን የሚደነግግ፣ አስተዳደራዊ ውሳኔ የሚሰጥበትን ደንብና መርህ የሚያስቀምጥ፣ እንዲሁም ከግለሰቦች መብትና ነፃነት ውሳኔው የሚታረምበትን ስርዓት የሚወስን የህግ ክፍል ነው፡፡n

ይህ ትርጓሜ ከሞላ ጐደል ሁሉንም የአስተዳደር ህግ ባህርያት አጠቃሎ የያዘ በመሆኑ ተመራጭነት አለው፡፡ ከላይ ከቀረቡት የተለያዩ ትርጓሜዎች የሚከተሉት የጋራ ነጥቦች ይመዘዛሉ::

አንደኛ፤ የአስተዳደር ህግ የአስተዳደር እና ከፊል የአስተዳደር አካላት ያላቸውን ስልጣን፣ ተግባርና ኃላፊነት ያጠናል፡፡o የማንኛውም የአስተዳደር አካል የስልጣን ምንጭ የሚገኘው ከማቋቋሚያ አዋጁ (Enabling Act) ሲሆን አልፎ አልፎ በሌላ ዝርዝር ህግ ይወሰናል፡፡ በአስተዳደር ህግ የመጀመሪያው ጥያቄ ውሳኔ ወይም እርምጃ የወሰደው አካል በህግ የተሰጠው ስልጣን አለው? የሚል ነው፡፡ ከሌለ ድርጊቱ ከስልጣን በላይ ስለሆነ ዋጋ አልባ ተደርጎ ይቆጠራል፡፡ ከድርጊቱ በስተጀርባ የህግ ስልጣን ካለ ውሳኔ ሰጪው ስልጣኑን በአግባቡና ፍትሐዊ በሆነ መንገድ እንደተገለገለ ይጣራል፡፡ ካልሆነ ስልጣኑን ያለ አግባብ በሚገለገለው አካል ላይ ህጉ ቁጥጥር ያደርግበታል፡፡

ሁለተኛ፤ ህጉ ስልጣንን በመገልገል ሂደት ተፈጻሚ የሚሆኑ መሪ ደንቦችን፤ ስነ ስርዓቶችንና መርሆዎችን ያስቀምጣል፡፡ ህግ አውጭው ለአስተዳደር አካላት ስልጣን ሲሰጥ ስልጣኑ ተግባር ላይ በሚውልበት ጊዜ ህጋዊነቱንና ፍትሐዊነቱን 

[rcmilitaryhistorytoday-blog]

On this day, 27th August 1776, The Battle of Brooklyn/Long Island: British defeat the Americans.

On August 27, 1776, on the marshy fields of Gowanus and Red Hook, George Washington and his rag-tag army of untrained soldiers fought the British Army, one of the most powerful military forces in the world. The rebels were ingloriously defeated. The first major armed campaign for the colonies after declaring independence from Great Britain, the Battle of Brooklyn (also referred to as the Battle of Long Island) stands as the largest single battle of the Revolutionary War, and one that would loom large in George Washington’s consciousness. Yet because it is a story of defeat and retreat, it does not occupy the same place in American history as the narratives of the more famous battles of Bunker Hill, Saratoga, or Yorktown. Through 90 objects and documents, including Hugh Gaine’s printing of the Declaration of Independence, a camp bed used by George Washington during the war, Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, and a rare hunting shirt that became the first ‘uniform’ of the Continental Army, The Battle of Brooklyn presents the dramatic story of the near-disaster that both threatened and abetted the outcome of the war for American independence.

Generous support for The Battle of Brooklyn is provided by Bernard L. Schwartz, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Con Edison, and the William T. Morris Foundation. Exhibitions at the New-York Historical Society are made possible by Dr. Agnes Hsu-Tang and Oscar Tang, the Saunders Trust for American History, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Source website, the New-York Historical Society.

#ameican war of independence #battle of brooklin #military history

[mcmansionhell]

The McMansion Hell Big List of Books, Websites, and Films about Architecture

SURPRISE!!!! 

Edit: I had to take out the “Read More” tab because it killed all of my links, so Sorry for the long post!

Hello Friends! I feel as if I haven’t really been giving back to the community as much I should be in these last few weeks, and that while my latest Sunday posts have been mildly amusing, nobody is really learning anything from them. 

I shared some recommended reading on my Facebook page a week or so ago, and want to expand on that list here. Architecture is a wonderfully rich field with a plethora of resources. This post is a master-list of the architecture books, blogs, websites and films I have accumulated since my early teens. 

While extensive, this is in no way a definitive list, and I’m sure many others will have quite a bit to add on in the comments. I hope you enjoy!

Books

Links are to Amazon. A ** next to the title indicates the link is to an open-source copy of the book, or that it is easily available online. 

General Architecture (non-academic, general interest)

Paul Goldberger, Why Architecture Matters

Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness

Witold Rybczynski: 

Looking Around

How Architecture Works

Home

Matthys Levy/Mario Salvadori, Why Buildings Fall Down**

Mario Salvadori, Why Buildings Stand Up**

Stewart Brand, How Buildings Learn 

Tom Wolfe, From Bauhaus to Our House** 

Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language** 

Bill Bryson, At Home

Matthew Frederick - 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School

Architectural Style (Field Guides)

Virginia McAlester, A Field Guide to American Houses

If you want to buy one book on this list, I highly recommend this one. It’s the best book out there about American residential architecture. If you’re curious about houses, it’ll sate your curiosity. 

Carol Davidson Cragoe, How to Read Buildings: A Crash Course in Architectural Styles  (this one is neat for traveling about because it’s small)

John J. G. Blumenson, Identifying American Architecture: A Pictorial Guide to Styles and Terms, 1600-1945 (an old but good small guide) 

Nikolaus Pevsner, An Outline of European Architecture**

Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions [Houses • Churches]

Richard Apperly, A Pictorial Guide to Identifying Australian Architecture: Styles and Terms from 1788 to the Present

Cities, Suburbs, and Housing (of course not a complete list)

Jane Jacobs: 

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

The Economy of Cities

Cities and the Wealth of Nations

Vital Little Plans: The Short Writings of Jane Jacobs

Kevin Lynch, The Image of the City **

Lewis Mumford: The City in History

Aldo Rossi: The Architecture of the City**

Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities of Tomorrow

Witold Rybczynski: 

Mysteries of the Mall

City Life

Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities

Kenneth T Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States

Joel Garreau, Edge City: Life on the New Frontier

James Howard Kunstler: 

The Geography of Nowhere

Home from Nowhere

Dolores Hayden, PhD:

Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work and Family Life

A Field Guide to Sprawl

Building Suburbia

Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck: Suburban Nation

It’s only fair to put the New Urbanists in here. 

John Archer, Architecture and Suburbia (a favorite reference of mine)

Tracy Kidder, House

Sarah Susanka, The Not So Big House

Peter Marcuse & David Madden, In Defense of Housing

Matthew Desmond, Evicted

Alex F. Schwartz: Housing Policy in the United States

Architectural History:

Spiro Kostof, A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals (personal favorite)

Francis Ching, et. al. A Global History of Architecture (a standard college textbook)

Carol Strickland, The Annotated Arch: A Crash Course in Architectural History (a lot of fun!)

Daniel Borden, et al. Architecture: A World History

Leland M. Roth & Amanda C. Clark, American Architecture: A History

William J. R. Curtis: Modern Architecture Since 1900 (a classic)

Edward R. Ford, The Details of Modern Architecture

Kenneth Frampton, Modern Architecture: A Critical History**

Heinrich Klotz, The History of Postmodern Architecture

Charles Jencks, The Story of Postmodernism

Architectural Theory & Criticism Essentials

General Architectural Theory:

Leland Roth, et al. Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, and Meaning

Francis Ching, Architecture: Form, Space, and Order** (AKA freshman year of architecture school)

Siegfried Gideon, Space, Time, & Architecture

Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space **

Roger H Clark & Michael Pause, Precedents in Architecture**

Mark Foster Gage, Aesthetic Theory: Essential Texts for Architecture & Design

Geoffrey Scott: The Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the History of Taste **

M. Fil Hearn, Ideas that Shaped Buildings** (a great handbook of architectural theory through history - always by my side.)

Lewis Tsurmaki Lewis, Manual of Section (not quite architectural theory, but a super cool book)

Alexandra Lange, Writing About Architecture - not quite theory but a v good and useful book. 

Kate’s Top 4 Very Old Dead Guys (all public domain)

Vitruvius, The Ten Books of Architecture

Andrea Palladio, The Four Books of Architecture

Leon Battista Alberti, The Ten Books of Architecture

John Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture

Modern Architecture

Adolf Loos, Ornament & Crime **(fake summary below):

Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture**

Henry Russell Hitchcock & Philip Johnson, The International Style **

Reyner Banham, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age**

Ulrich Conrads, Programs and Manifestos on 20th Century Architecture**

Kenneth Frampton, A Genealogy of Modern Architecture

Ada Louise Huxtable, On Architecture: Reflections on a Century of Change

Current Architectural Theory / Contemporary Classics

Vincent Scully

Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade

American Architecture and Urbanism

Modern Architecture

The Shingle Style Today (this book completely blew my mind in high school, and remains one of my favorite books about architecture to this day.)

Robert Venturi + Denise Scott Brown

Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture**

Learning from Las Vegas**

Rem Koolhaas:

S,M,L,XL

Delirious New York**

Peter Zumthor:

Atmospheres

Thinking Architecture

Bernard Tschumi, Architecture & Disjunction**

Junichiro Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows **

Films

Most of these films have the full version online for free. I won’t link directly to them because I don’t want to get yelled at.

Films About Architects:

My Architect [film about Louis Kahn]

Regular or Super: Views on Mies van der Rohe 

Rem Koolhaas: A Kind of Architect

Sketches of Frank Gehry

Frank Lloyd Wright (Ken Burns)

First Person Singular: I.M. Pei

Eames: The Architect & The Painter

Louis Sullivan: The Struggle for American Architecture

Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner

How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?

Loos Ornamental

Films about Architecture:

Kochuu [film about contemporary Japanese architecture]

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth [about the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex in St. Louis]

Unfinished Spaces [About Cuba’s National Art Schools Project]

Urbanized [about the design of cities]

Visual Acoustics [about the photographer Julius Shulman]

Great Expectations [general architecture]

I’d like to make a shoutout to my colleague Thomas Bena, whose film about McMansions, One Big Home, is making the film circuit now. I’ve seen the movie and will be writing a review on this blog in the coming weeks. In short: go see it if you can!!! 

Websites

Architecture News / Popular Websites:

Curbed

Dwell

Dezeen

ArchDaily

Architizer

Wallpaper*

FastCo Design

CityLab

Architonic

Domus

Archinect

Inhabitat

Blogs:

Life of an Architect

Life of an Architecture Student

Build Blog

Soapbox Architect

My Favorite Websites:

99 Percent Invisible (disclaimer: I write for them)

Archinform - an online encyclopedia of architecture

Monoskop - a huge database of amazing archival resources for architecture and design.

Arts & Architecture database 

US Modernist Magazine Library - incredible collection of primary sources from modernism

Docomomo (preservation of modernist architecture)

Failed Architecture (analyzing failure in architecture)

Places Journal (my favorite online journal)

Emporis (it has every tall building!)

On Tumblr

Tumblr seems to have killed my links. This is devastating.

Like McMansion Hell:

@uglybelgianhouses - the best, really the best. @terriblerealestateagentphotos

General Architecture: @architecture-drawings @archidrawings @archatlas @archidose @archimaps @archiclassic @architecturalmodels @an-architectural-statement @conceptarchitect @rationalistarchitecture @wherearchitectureisfun @archivemodernarchitecture @luciotuzza @drawingarchitecture @dailybungalow @victorianhouses @ofhouses @architorturedsouls

Modern Architecture: @20cmodern @fuckyeahbrutalism @architectureofdoom @modernism-in-metroland @theimportanceofbeingmodernist @modernistestates @germanpostwarmodern @decoarchitecture @englishmodernism @midcenturymodernhomes @bauhaus-movement @artfuckingdeco @iheartnouveau @sosbrutalism @americanmodern

Postmodernism: @aqqindex​ @palmandlaser​ (these two blogs were why I got a tumblr) @memphis-milano​ @80sdeco​ @blockygraphics​ @thetriumphofpostmodernism​

Vintage Stuff: @midcenturymoderndesign​ - mid century modernism @scanzen​  - an assortment of cool stuff @midcenturyblog​ - mid century stuff @superseventies​ - 70s @cardboardamerica​ -vintage postcards @theswinginsixties​ - 60s @70sscifiart​ - 70s Sci Fi Art @driveintheaterofthemind​ - great vintage blog @80stechnology​ - 80s tech @imperialgoogie​ - the 50s @ephemera-phile​ - old print stuff from various eras @heck-yeah-old-tech​ - old technology @quadrafonica​ - vintage hifi @homophoni​ - also vintage hifi @holespoles​ - all kinds of stuff @system32dreams​ - 80s/90s tech @monochrome-monitor​ - 80s/90s tech @beautifulcentury​ - 1890s-1910s @oldadvertising​ - vintage ads @back-then​ - amazing photographs from history @fifties-sixties-everyday-life​ - 50s/60s @y2kaestheticinstitute​ - turn of the 21st century @lpcoverlover​ - record covers @classical-vinyl​ - my first tumblr (I comment as classical-vinyl, fyi)

Favorite Architecture Photographers:

@phdonohue​ @archivemodernarchitecture​ @archivemoderninteriors​ @veronicadelica​ @new-brutalism​ @wmud​

Design/Art/People Who Consistently Post Awesome Things: @archiveofaffinities @zeroing @design-is-fine (one of my favs ever) @c86 @norequeststaken @scavengedluxury (another fav) @99percentinvisible @magictransistor @transistoradio @klappersacks​ @designstroy​ @ffactory​ @instereo007​ @contac​ @publicdomainreview​ @detailsofpaintings​ @modernizor​ @nemfrog​ @bluecote​ @graphicgraphic​

Visual Artists I Like: @sunday-thought @jimharrisart @jacobvanloon @michaelwardartist

Also shoutout to @maverick-ornithography who is not only hilarious, but who was also my first ever follower, so now I’m returning the favor. 

I hope you all enjoyed this post! Next up is Florida on Wednesday, so stay tuned! I’ll finish up Great Britain after that; I’m currently reading books on British vernacular architecture and its history so I’m more informed. I barely dodged some bullets in that last post and had to go back and correct a lot…

Have a great week! 

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#architecture #design #films #websites #books #further reading #tumblr blogs #art #list

[hermanwatts]

Sensor Sweep: Conan Companion, Star Trek, Necromancers, Stanley Mullen

New Release (Amazon): By Crom! At long last the definitive history of Conan the Barbarian paperbacks that fans have clamoured for. 107 pages with detailed chapters devoted to each of the mighty Cimmerian’s publishers. Heavily illustrated with many rare images. Plus complete cover galleries of every US and UK Conan title ever issued. In full colour. An indispensable aid to Conan collectors and completists everywhere. Featuring a specially written foreword by Conan comics legend Roy Thomas!

    Star Trek (Huffington Post): The LA Times recently ran a story about the Child Exploitation Section of the Toronto Sex Crimes Unit, which contained a mind-boggling statistic: of the more than 100 offenders the unit has arrested over the last four years, “all but one” has been “a hard-core Trekkie.” Blogger Ernest Miller thought this claim was improbable. “I could go to a science fiction convention,” he explained “and be less likely to find that 99+ percent of the attendees were hard-core Trekkies.” While there may be quibbling about the exact numbers, the Toronto detectives claim that the connection is undeniable.

    Review (Brain Leakage): That said, if you are looking for a great post-apocalyptic read, I want to draw your attention to the work of Jon Mollison. I read his A Moon Full of Stars recently, with the intent of dedicating a full-length ‘Pocky-clypse Now review to it soon. I do still plan on doing that. But I’m probably going to wait until after our daily news cycle looks a little less like the opening credits to the 2004 Dawn of the Dead remake.

Awards (Kairos): … And enjoy a hearty laugh at the incestuous wasteland the once-prestigious Hugo Awards have become.

Predictions that the Hugo field would degenerate into a circle jerk of olpdub purse puppies beloved by editors in New York–and pretty much no one else–have been realized ahead of schedule.

Here’s a partial list of this year’s finalists.

D&D (DMR Books): The Complete Book of Necromancers by Steve Kurtz was released in the spring of 1995, and came and went fairly quickly. Luckily a friend of mine snagged one shortly after it came out. Ostensibly the book was intended for the eyes of Dungeon Masters only, but of course we were hungry to add the new spells and powers to our player characters’ repertoires. Clark Ashton Smith is mentioned by name in the majority of the chapters of Necromancers. While Smith’s absence from Appendix N is conspicuous, Kurtz more than made up for the oversight.

Fiction (Digital Bibliophilia): Any book that opens Page One with a man being skewered by the broken mast of a sailing ship in the middle of a storm has to be good right? Well, I’m happy to say Oath of Blood by Arthur Frazier lives up to its gory opening scene and delivers a fantastic little novel about the clash of the Saxons, Normans and Vikings during the 11th century (1066 to be precise). Arthur Frazier was one of many pen names used by the prolific Kenneth Bulmer.

Gaming (Jeffro’s Space Gaming Blog): Charisma. It’s not just a dump stat, they say. But look, if you don’t have a lot of it, you’re going to be stuck in a career as an assassin. Which is kind of funny, actually. Of course if you were going to actually use that stat in an AD&D game, you’re going to have to flip to the middle of the combat section to find the reaction table. Why is it there right in the middle of sections detailing initiative and missile discharge? Evidently this something pretty important to consider when the players have initiative in a random encounter, right?

Fiction (Dark Worlds Quarterly): Another writer who has left a huge legacy with little recognition is Gardner Francis Cooper Fox (1911-1986). Fox began his career writing for Batman as early as 1939. (It was Fox who gave Bruce Wayne his “utility belt”.) During his decades long career with DC, he would work on such characters as The Flash, Hawkman and The Justice Society of America. He was there when Julius Schwartz revamped DC comics to meet the new “Comics Code”. He was there when DC invented its Multiverse.  Outside of DC, he would pen the first Sword & Sorcery comic called “Crom the Barbarian”.

Fiction (DMR Books): The book being advertised was Kinsmen of the Dragon by Stanley Mullen. I was completely unfamiliar with both the title and the author. A bit of research revealed that this book had never been reprinted since its publication in 1951, which explains why it’s so little-known today. In spite of (or perhaps because of) its obscurity, good condition copies are pricey, usually going for over $50, and signed copies are much more.

Fiction/Gaming Tie-in (Karavansara): Two nights in Arkham: Lovecraft purists often frown at Lovecraft-inspired fiction. The main charge raised by these people is, other writers are either too much like Lovecraft or not at all like him, often at the same time. The second most common accusation is that certain stories are too action-centered and adventure-oriented, filled with guns blazing and chanting cultists. They usually blame Lovecraft’s popularity with the gaming crowd as the main reason for these degenerate pastiches, in which Indiana Jones or Doc Savage seem to exert an influence stronger than Nyarlathotep’s.

Fiction (Mostly Old Books): he Fargo series tell the tales of early 20th Century adventurer and solider of fortune Neal Fargo. They aren’t Westerns as the covers suggest. In this installment Fargo is hired by a rich old blowhard to rescue some Mayan treasures and the excavation team, which includes his son, from the jungles of Central America.

Cinema (The Silver Key): 1917 had been in my “to watch” queue for a long time (aka, floating around in the back of my mind), and last night I watched it with my older daughter, a self-described “film buff” who wanted to see what the hype was all about. Two word review: Excellent film. It’s an intensely personal/soldier’s journey type of story, and also manages to convey the larger tragedy of the Great War.

Fiction (Sacnoth’s Scriptorium): The Inklings and the Mythos (Dale Nelson). So, I’ve now recovered the missing issue of MALLORN* containing Dale Nelson’s wide-ranging inquiry into possible connections between the Inklings and Lovecraft’s circle, “The Lovecraft Circle and the Inklings: The ‘Mythopoeic Gift’ of H. P. Lovecraft” (MALLORN 59, Winter 2018, pages 18-32). It’s a substantial piece, and in it Nelson raises such topics as the following: Did the two groups read or were they influenced by each other?

Fiction (Scott Oden): In the past few weeks, my sophomore novel, MEMNON (Medallion Press, 2006; Crossroad Press, 2018), has received a raft of four-and-five star ratings on Goodreads and a pair of excellent reviews — which, for a fourteen-year old novel is no mean feat.  Author Matt Larkin, in his review at Amazon, writes: “Evocative prose paints a living picture of the Classical world while the sudden, brutal violence serves to remind us never to look at history through rose-colored glasses.” While Scott Marlowe of Out of this World Reviews praises many things, including the battles: “I can only describe [them] as spectacular and right up there with some of the best battles I’ve had the pleasure to read in historical fiction (think Bernard Cornwell, surely one of the best of them all). Memnon gives Alexander such grief I imagine Alexander remembered their contests right up until his dying days.”

Fiction (Tentaculii): Lovecraft’s famous survey of supernatural literature was published in The Recluse in August 1927. Later in the same year Eino Railo published the history of the literary gothic in The Haunted Castle: A Study of the Elements of English Romanticism. A December 1927 review in the New York Evening Post suggests Railo’s book was published in time for the Christmas market and the January book-token crowd, and thus it appeared several months after Lovecraft’s circle had finished digesting his Supernatural Literature. Lovecraft refers to The Haunted Castle, a translation from the Finnish, in admiring terms in a later letter to Barlow and terms it a study of “the weird”.

History (Men of the West): Suddenly the war became fun. It became exciting, carnivalesque, tremendous. It became victorious and even safe. We awoke on the morning of Sunday, the 30th of July, with the feeling that the war was won — in spirit, if not in fact. Patton and the Third Army were away. At the 8th Corps, which held the western sector of the Normandy front, the G2 colonel said: “We’ve lost contact with the enemy.”

Fiction (Tentaculii): The second half of a forthcoming book, No Ghosts Need Apply: Gothic influences in criminal science, the detective and Doyle’s Holmesian Canon (October 2020), attempts to make the case that there are gothic traces in what are often assumed to be the ‘rationalist’ Sherlock Holmes stories. Sifting the extensive blurb for the book, one can eventually determine that the author suggests the following specific points… * intrigue and secret societies. . .

Fiction (M Porcius Blog): Let’s check out four stories by Mickey Spillane’s all-time favorite author, Fredric Brown, that first appeared in beautiful pulp magazines in 1942 and 1943, magazines that you can read at the universally beloved internet archive for free. “Etaoin Shrdlu” made its debut in Unknown Worlds in 1942.  The cover of Unknown may be boring, but the interior illustrations are quite fine, those by Frank Kramer for L. Sprague de Camp’s “The Undesired Princess” in particular.

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André Bishop, head of Lincoln Center Theater: $1 million Todd Haimes, Roundabout: $922,000. Oskar Eustis the Public Theater: $659,000 Lynne Meadows, MTC: $565,000 Carole Rothman, Second Stage $191,000 James Nicola, New York Theatre Workshop: $178,000

These are the latest known annual compensation for the artistic heads of NYC non-profit theaters, compiled by Philip Boroff in Broadway Journal, who judiciously explains the artistic and financial accomplishments of each, and points out their sacrifices: Rothman’s salary represents a 50 percent paycut from her previous annual compensation while fundraising for the Hayes.

“Not-for-profit leaders forego the potential windfall that commercial producers earn from a blockbuster, in favor of a job with steady income. Yet some company trustees and foundation leaders privately call the biggest nonprofit packages excessive, the appearance of which can deter donors.”

  November Theater Openings

Alia Shawkat in “The Second Woman”

October Quiz

  The Week in New York Theater Reviews

Aran Murphyas Hamnet, in person and projected onto the screen, along with Bush Moukarzel as his father Shakespeare

Hamnet and the absent (projected) Shakespeare, his father

Hamnet

William Shakespeare’s only son, named Hamnet, died when he was 11 years old; a few years later, the playwright wrote “Hamlet.”  The Irish theater troupe Dead Centre conjures up the Bard’s boy in the hour-long “Hamnet,” a whimsical, tender, technically innovative avant-garde play that features an extraordinary performance by a 12-year-old named Aran Murphy.

He Did What?

a ten-minute animated opera that was projected for free onto the wall of BAM’s Peter Jay Sharp building nightly from 7 to 10 p.m

Raul Esparza as a temperamental chef in “Seared”

W. Tre Davis

Raul Esparza and Krysta Rodriguez

Seared

Theresa Rebeck’s slight but savory comedy  about  running a restaurant stars Raúl Esparza as Harry, a hilariously mercurial chef-owner of a hole-in-the-wall eatery  that’s become the latest foodie destination. A blurb in New York Magazine has praised Harry’s ginger lemongrass scallops dish, so now the customers are flocking to the place and clamoring for the dish.

But Harry refuses to make it anymore.

“I’m not feeling the scallops,” he says.

Freestyle Love Supreme

Freestyle Love Supreme, the hip-hop improv group,is not so much Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway follow-up to “Hamilton” as it is a subsidiary of Lin-Manuel Inc. …It is designed to feel good-natured and informal, like friends sitting around a dorm room at Wesleyan, even though there are 766 of us and we’re at the Booth Theater…That goodwill goes a long way.

Fear

Two adults are standing over a teenager named Jamie who is tied to a chair. Phil, a plumber, has kidnapped Jamie, and dragged him into this abandoned tool shed in the woods outside Princeton, New Jersey. Ethan, a professor, is trying to rescue Jamie…An eight-year-old girl from the neighborhood is missing, and Phil (Enrico Colantoni, who plays the genial father in Veronica Mars), has reason to suspect that Jamie (Alexander Garfin) has something to do with it.  Or does he?…A play that requires a vigorous suspension of disbelief. Yet, if you can get over that hurdle, it offers three good actors constantly playing with our perspective – not only about who did what but such issues as moral relativism, class tensions, and…fear

  The Sound Inside

“The Sound Inside” is a dark drama by Adam Rapp that keeps us in the dark, literally and figuratively, which works better while watching it on stage than thinking about it afterwards. Mary-Louise Parker portrays a middle-aged Yale professor named Bella Lee Baird, who prefers literature to life, and expects to die soon; she tells us she’s been diagnosed with cancer. Bella slowly develops a friendship with 18-year-old Christopher Dunn (Will Hochman), one of the students in her course…They turn out to share a taste in books, especially dark tales like Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment,” which is one of so many book titles name-dropped during the course of the play that the script could serve as a reading list (which I include in the review.)

Monsoon Season

Lizzie Vieh’s black comedy about a divorced couple permanently underwater in Phoenix Arizona, is clever and merciless, but it is also oddly compassionate….Danny and his ex-wife Julia may be losers who constantly make laughably wrong choices, but they are trying to do right, to be better.

The Week in New York Theater News

“The Minutes,” Tracy Letts’ most political play to date, will have its first preview on February 25, as this cryptic e-mail revealed. No theater or cast have been announced. The play, which premiered at the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago in 2017, is about a City Council meeting in the fictional town called Big Cherry that turns ominous. Letts began work on it before the 2016 election,

“The play is not about Trump or Trumpism — I don’t find him a particularly complicated figure — but it is about this contentious moment we’re having in American politics in the last few years,”

Andrew Garfield will star in the Netflix adaptation of Rent playwright Jonathan Larson’s autobiographical musical tick…tick…BOOM, directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda.

    Lear deBessonet will lead Encores!  starting officially in the 2021 season, succeeding Jack Viertel

Samira Wiley and Dominic Fumusa will star In Molière in the Park‘s “The School for Wives” in Prospect Park, November 13 and 14 FREE.

  Thomas Finkelpearl is leaving his job as cultural affairs commissioner after five years. “The timing of it is suspect,” councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, chair of the city council’s cultural affairs committee, told NY1. Some speculate he’s unfairly taking the fall for the various controversies and glitches over the city’s plan to build more statues honoring women and people of color. Finkelpearl helped spearhead the city’s efforts to tie its funding to the diversity of arts institutions’ employees and board members under the cultural plan, unveiled in 2017.

Billy Porter, performer, now playwright

Idina Menzel, Lea Michele and Billy Porter will be among those performing at the 93rd annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

Remember when Billy Porter performed at the parade in 2013, as Lola in Kinky Boots?  and conservatives were outraged? Have times changed?

  Times Square is presenting its first annual Show Globes, displaying giant snow globe-like sculptures of   Dear Evan Hansen, Wicked, Ain’t Too Proud, and The Lion King. On Broadway Plaza in Times Square between 44th and 45th streets through December 26.

2020 Seasons

  2020 Under the Radar Festival celebrates its 16th season with a line-up of groundbreaking artists across the U.S. and around the world, including Australia, Chile, China, Japan, Mexico, Palestine, Taiwan, and the UK.

92nd Street Y’s Lyrics and Lyricists

Yip Harburg Jan 25-27 Jerry Herman Feb 22-24 George Gershwin March 21-23 Stephen Schwartz and Broadway’s Next Generation (featuring Schwartz and Ns Marcy Heisler & Zina Goldrich, John Bucchino, Khiyon Hursey) April 18-20 George Abbott and the Making of the American Musical May 30-June 1

  Lincoln Center’s American Songbook Series

  Andre De Shields January 29 Joe Iconis Feb 1 Ali Stroker Feb 28

   Theatre Row, a six-theatre complex located on 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan, has announced the Off-Off-Broadway companies that will be making work at its spaces, as part of the complex’s new Kitchen Sink Residency. The two-year program will give the companies space to develop new work, culminating in a three-week production run. The companies are the Assembly, Broken Box Mime Theater, LubDub Theatre Company, Noor Theatre, and Superhero Clubhouse.

The Critic Unmellowed

From Wall Street Journal interview  with John Simon, 94:

“His penchant for criticizing actors’ and actresses’ physical traits —he once wrote unkindly about Liza Minnelli’s face, and another time about Barbra Streisand’s nose— has also helped to make him repugnant to the city’s cultural elite. He contended at the time, and again to me, that such criticism is entirely legitimate if a performer fails to transcend his or her defects of appearance by force of talent.” (How does one “transcend” one’s appearance?)

On how theater has not declined:

“Things were never very good,” he says.“I don’t really see a decline. Looking back into the past always makes the past look better than it actually was,and the present worse, perhaps, than it actually is. . . Out of, I don’t know how many plays open in a season —a lot of them anyway—there may be two or three even worth bothering with. It has always been so.”

  Rest in Peace

Bernard Slade, 89, creator of the TV series “The Flying Nun” and “The Partridge Family,” but we know him as the Broadway playwright of “Same Time, Next Year,” a long-running and widely-produced stage comedy.

Andile Gumbi , 36, former Simba of Broadway’s The Lion King. He died of cardiac arrest while in Israel , Gumbi was portraying the lead role of King Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel The Musical at the Jerusalem Theater.

A memorial for Eric LaJuan Summers will be held on Nov 4th, 2019 at 9:30pm at The Green Room 42 on W42nd Street & 10th Ave. Members of the Broadway community will be performing.

    Non-Profit Pays! Letts’ Turn to Politics. #Stageworthy News of the Week André Bishop, head of Lincoln Center Theater: $1 million Todd Haimes, Roundabout: $922,000. Oskar Eustis the Public Theater: $659,000…

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Subject:

Jewish Boycott

Iran's Supreme Leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei once urged the Muslim World to boycott anything and everything that originates with the Jewish people.

In response, Meyer M. Treinkman, a pharmacist, out of the kindness of his heart, offered to assist them in their boycott as follows:

"Any Muslim who has Syphilis must not be cured by Salvarsan discovered by a Jew, Dr. Ehrlich. He should not even try to find out whether he has Syphilis, because the Wasserman Test is the discovery of a Jew. If a Muslim suspects that he has Gonorrhea, he must not seek diagnosis, because he will be using the method of a Jew named Neissner.

"A Muslim who has heart disease must not use Digitalis, a discovery by a Jew, Ludwig Traube.

Should he suffer with a toothache, he must not use Novocaine, a discovery of the Jews, Widal and Weil.

If a Muslim has Diabetes, he must not use Insulin, the result of research by Minkowsky, a Jew. If one has a headache, he must shun Pyramidon and Antypyrin, due to the Jews, Spiro and Ellege.

Muslims with convulsions must put up with them because it was a Jew, Oscar Leibreich, who proposed the use of Chloral Hydrate.

Arabs must do likewise with their psychic ailments because Freud, father of psychoanalysis, was a Jew.

Should a Muslim child get Diphtheria, he must refrain from the Schick" reaction which was invented by the Jew, Bella Schick.

"Muslims should be ready to die in great numbers and must not permit treatment of ear and brain damage, work of Jewish Nobel Prize winner, Robert Baram.

They should continue to die or remain crippled by Infantile Paralysis because the discoverer of the anti-polio vaccine is a Jew, Jonas Salk.

"Muslims must refuse to use Streptomycin and continue to die of Tuberculosis because a Jew, Zalman Waxman, invented the wonder drug against this killing disease.

Muslim doctors must discard all discoveries and improvements by dermatologist Judas Sehn Benedict, or the lung specialist, Frawnkel, and of many other world renowned Jewish scientists and medical experts.

"In short, good and loyal Muslims properly and fittingly should remain afflicted with Syphilis, Gonorrhea, Heart Disease, Headaches, Typhus, Diabetes, Mental Disorders, Polio Convulsions and Tuberculosis and be proud to obey the Islamic boycott."

Oh, and by the way, don't call for a doctor on your cell phone because the cell phone was invented in Israel by a Jewish engineer.

Meanwhile I ask, what medical contributions to the world have the Muslims made?"

The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000; that is ONE BILLION TWO HUNDRED MILLION or 20% of the world's population.

They have received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature:

1988 - Najib Mahfooz

Peace:

1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat

1990 - Elias James Corey

1994 - Yaser Arafat:

1999 - Ahmed Zewai

Economics:

(zero)

Physics:

(zero)

Medicine:

1960 - Peter Brian Medawar

1998 - Ferid Mourad

TOTAL: 7 SEVEN

The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000; that is FOURTEEN MILLION or about 0.02% of the world's population.

They have received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature:

1910 - Paul Heyse

1927 - Henri Bergson

1958 - Boris Pasternak

1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon

1966 - Nelly Sachs

1976 - Saul Bellow

1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer

1981 - Elias Canetti

1987 - Joseph Brodsky

1991 - Nadine Gordimer World

Peace:

1911 - Alfred Fried

1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser

1968 - Rene Cassin

1973 - Henry Kissinger

1978 - Menachem Begin

1986 - Elie Wiesel

1994 - Shimon Peres

1994 - Yitzhak Rabin

Physics:

1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer

1906 - Henri Moissan

1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson

1908 - Gabriel Lippmann

1910 - Otto Wallach

1915 - Richard Willstaetter

1918 - Fritz Haber

1921 - Albert Einstein

1922 - Niels Bohr

1925 - James Franck

1925 - Gustav Hertz

1943 - Gustav Stern

1943 - George Charles de Hevesy

1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi

1952 - Felix Bloch

1954 - Max Born

1958 - Igor Tamm

1959 - Emilio Segre

1960 - Donald A. Glaser

1961 - Robert Hofstadter

1961 - Melvin Calvin

1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau

1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz

1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman

1965 - Julian Schwinger

1969 - Murray Gell-Mann

1971 - Dennis Gabor

1972 - William Howard Stein

1973 - Brian David Josephson

1975 - Benjamin Mottleson

1976 - Burton Richter

1977 - Ilya Prigogine

1978 - Arno Allan Penzias

1978 - Peter L Kapitza

1979 - Stephen Weinberg

1979 - Sheldon Glashow

1979 - Herbert Charles Brown

1980 - Paul Berg

1980 - Walter Gilbert

1981 - Roald Hoffmann

1982 - Aaron Klug

1985 - Albert A. Hauptman

1985 - Jerome Karle

1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach

1988 - Robert Huber

1988 - Leon Lederman

1988 - Melvin Schwartz

1988 - Jack Steinberger

1989 - Sidney Altman

1990 - Jerome Friedman

1992 - Rudolph Marcus

1995 - Martin Perl

2000 - Alan J. Heeger

Economics:

1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson

1971 - Simon Kuznets

1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow

1975 - Leonid Kantorovich

1976 - Milton Friedman

1978 - Herbert A. Simon

1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein

1985 - Franco Modigliani

1987 - Robert M. Solow

1990 - Harry Markowitz

1990 - Merton Miller

1992 - Gary Becker

1993 - Robert Fogel

Medicine:

1908 - Elie Metchnikoff

1908 - Paul Erlich

1914 - Robert Barany

1922 - Otto Meyerhof

1930 - Karl Landsteiner

1931 - Otto Warburg

1936 - Otto Loewi

1944 - Joseph Erlanger

1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser

1945 - Ernst Boris Chain

1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller

1950 - Tadeus Reichstein

1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman

1953 - Hans Krebs

1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann

1958 - Joshua Lederberg

1959 - Arthur Kornberg

1964 - Konrad Bloch

1965 - Francois Jacob

1965 - Andre Lwoff

1967 - George Wald

1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg

1969 - Salvador Luria

1970 - Julius Axelrod

1970 - Sir Bernard Katz

1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman

1975 - Howard Martin Temin

1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg

1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow

1978 - Daniel Nathans

1980 - Baruj Benacerraf

1984 - Cesar Milstein

1985 - Michael Stuart Brown

1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein

1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]

1988 - Gertrude Elion

1989 - Harold Varmus

1991 - Erwin Neher

1991 - Bert Sakmann

1993 - Richard J. Roberts

1993 - Phillip Sharp

1994 - Alfred Gilman

1995 - Edward B. Lewis

1996- Lu RoseIacovino

TOTAL: 129!

The Jews are NOT promoting brainwashing children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non-Muslims.

The Jews don't hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics, or blow themselves up in German restaurants.

There is NOT one single Jew who has destroyed a church.

There is NOT a single Jew who protests by killing people. The Jews don't traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels.

Perhaps the world's Muslims should consider investing more in standard education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems.

Muslims must ask 'what can they do for humankind' before they demand that humankind respects them.

Regardless of your feelings about the crisis between Israel and the Palestinians and Arab neighbors, even if you believe there is more culpability on Israel 's part, the following two sentences really say it all:

'If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel."

Benjamin Netanyahu: General Eisenhower warned us. It is a matter of history that when the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower, found the victims of the death camps he ordered all possible photographs to be taken, and for the German people from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and even made to bury the dead.

He did this because he said in words to this effect: 'Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened'

Recently, the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it 'offends' the Muslim population which claims it never occurred.

It is not removed as yet. However, this is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving into it.

It is now more than 65 years after the Second World War in Europe ended.

Now, more than ever, with Iran, among others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets.

This e-mail is intended to reach 400 million people. Be a link in the memorial chain and help distribute this around the world.

How many years will it be before the attack on the World Trade Center 'NEVER HAPPENED' because it offends some Muslim?