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Architecture, Political Power & Money

Architecture, Political Power & Money

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The complete Nocturns of Chopin

The complete Nocturns of Chopin

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Frank Sinatra’s “My [Our] Way”

Frank Sinatra’s “My [Our] Way”

https://youtu.be/gUUOKqKsfeMq

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Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments

Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand’ring bark, Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken. Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and…

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Tortured by the Williamsport PA Police

Tortured by the Williamsport PA Police

Yesterday I was arrested and tortured by CPL Jordan Stoltfus of the Williamsport Bureau of Police ( Police agency ORI Number PAO410500) In CPL Stoltfus’ Affadavit of Probable Cause, he states incorrectly that he entered my apartment “regarding a landlord tenant issue.” The issue here was not landlord tenant. The issue was discrimination by Firetree Tree Limited, a for profit drug counseling…

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Daily Torture of the Disabled & Elderly

Daily Torture of the Disabled & Elderly

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The racist obscene that drove President Ford to remove his Secretary of Agriculture

The racist obscene that drove President Ford to remove his Secretary of Agriculture

“On October 3, 1976, President Ford accepted Earl Butz’s forced resignation after a racist, obscene remark became public knowledge. On the airplane coming back from the Republican convention in Kansas City, Pat Boone had asked Butz why the Republican Party, the party of Abraham Lincoln, could not attract black voters. (Pat Boone is a singer most famous for ‘Love Letters in the Sand’; for wearing…

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Black Power, a poem by Joel Solkoff (1964)

Black Power, a poem by Joel Solkoff (1964)

There is something new that comes repeating itself — reminding of the old

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Rethinking Jabotinsky who helped create he State of Israel

Rethinking Jabotinsky who helped create he State of Israel

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=jabotinsky&docid=608015799845848522&mid=BD964392E555CE300012BD964392E555CE300012&view=detail&FORM=VIRE

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The case for drafting architects into the military

The case for drafting architects into the military

It might be absurd to suggest the architects at SOM in CHICAGO and New York be drafted into the military, attend an architect-specific boot camp, and be ordered at the risk of being put into a situation they are required to limit their design of the built environment to government

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Exclusive: US legislator Glenn Thompson prepares to build a city of 100,000 in rural Central Pennsylvania

Exclusive: US legislator Glenn Thompson prepares to build a city of 100,000 in rural Central Pennsylvania

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Architects must read “Preventable” by Biden’s Chief Covid Advisor

Architects must read “Preventable” by Biden’s Chief Covid Advisor

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If you are a grandparent, you have to read Andy Slavitt’s book PREVENTABLE

If you are a grandparent, you have to read Andy Slavitt’s book PREVENTABLE

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Yair Lapid, architect of the new Israeli government

Yair Lapid, architect of the new Israeli government

On Sunday June 11th the new government of Israel which Yair Lapid crafted will dispose of Benjamin Nitanyahu, Israel’s longest serving prime minister known as the magician for his ability to form working majorities in the Kenesset. Now Lapid has become Israel’s magician. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vf1cqAPTl3Y

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Five Hours a Day in the Saddle: The Pacific Coast School of Horsemanship ( written for the San Francisco Chronicle; Never published)

Five Hours a Day in the Saddle: The Pacific Coast School of Horsemanship ( written for the San Francisco Chronicle; Never published)

Suddenly, I became interested in horses.

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Remembering Jean and Marvin Staiman and their love of Israel

Remembering Jean and Marvin Staiman and their love of Israel

Williamsport, Pennsylvania, US, June 2, 2011,22 Sivan For years, congregation Ohev Shalom has benefitted from the services of Rabbi Herbert Horowitz. Rabbi Horowitz  was a friend of my good friend Marvin Staiman. Marvin died on January 17th (my mother’s birthday) at age 93. Marvin died not long after the death at age 92 of his wife Jean. Marvin died four months after Jean’s death.  Marvin and…

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Invitation to Ohev Shalom Emergency Meeting on War in Israel

Invitation to Ohev Shalom Emergency Meeting on War in Israel

To the membership Congregation Ohev Shalom, 1501 Cherry St, Williamsport, PA 17701(570) 322-4209 https://ohevsholom.net/

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