This proceeding is brought under Election Law Sections 16-100 and 16-102 and other provisions of New York Law. Sam Sloan is a candidate for Mayor of the City of New York. Richard Bozulich is a candidate for Comptroller of the City of New York. Thomas R. Stevens is a candidate for Public Advocate of the City of New York. At the Hearing on the Order to Show Cause before Justice Paul Wooten on August 5, 2013, Defendant Board of Elections in the City of New York provided only one grounds for throwing the petitioners of the ballot. That ground was that under Section 132 (2) of New York Election law the subscribing witnesses to a Designating Petition must be registered to vote as a member of the Party whose nomination is being sought, and the subscribing witnesses were not Republicans with only two exceptions. Petitioners had submitted approximately 4500 signatures to run for election whereas only 3750 are required. (There are some differences in the count of the total number of signatures but all counts agree that more than 4200 were filed.) A few of the 4500 signatures collected were found invalid for various reasons including bad address or not registered to vote. However, a core of 3905 signatures were found to be good but invalid for one reason only which is that the Subscribing Witnesses to those petitions were not registered to vote as members of the Republican Party. In other words, had those 3905 signatures been witnessed by a Registered Republican Party Voter, then all three petitioners would be on the ballot. However, because they were witnessed by other voters, including Democrats, Libertarians and Blanks, those 3905 signatures were deemed invalid. Petitioner Sam Sloan is a long standing registered voter in the Republican Party and he also circulated and witnessed some of the petitions and signed one of the petitions himself. The petitions he witnessed were deemed valid but all or almost all of the others were deemed invalid on the ground that the subscribing witness was not registered as a Republican. Frankly, the petitioners are newcomers to this process and were not aware that there was any requirement that the signatures be witnessed by members of any political party. Had they known about this they might have tried to find witnesses who are Republicans but failing that they would likely have given up trying to run for election as finding any witnesses is a difficult task under any circumstances. Witnesses must sign a declaration equivalent to an affidavit under penalty of perjury and must be prepared to be subpoenaed to testify in court under oath. Obviously, not many people are going to be willing to do that. Now that the petitioners have found out the hard way that there is a rule as interpreted by the Board of Elections that says that petitions for Republican Party Candidates must be witnessed (as well as being signed) by REGISTERED voters in the Republican Party, petitioners contend that such a requirement is unconstitutional under the First Amendment right "To Petition the Government." It seems obvious that a requirement that the signatures to a petition of any type are deemed valid if and only if they are witnessed by Registered Republicans cannot be Constitutional. This is an infringement to the constitutional right "to Petition the Government.
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This proceeding is brought under Election Law Sections 16-100 and 16-102 and other provisions of New York Law. Sam Sloan is a candidate for Mayor of the City of New York. Richard Bozulich is a candidate for Comptroller of the City of New York. Thomas R. Stevens is a candidate for Public Advocate of the City of New York. At the Hearing on the Order to Show Cause before Justice Paul Wooten on August 5, 2013, Defendant Board of Elections in the City of New York provided only one grounds for throwing the petitioners of the ballot. That ground was that under Section 132 (2) of New York Election law the subscribing witnesses to a Designating Petition must be registered to vote as a member of the Party whose nomination is being sought, and the subscribing witnesses were not Republicans with only two exceptions. Petitioners had submitted approximately 4500 signatures to run for election whereas only 3750 are required. (There are some differences in the count of the total number of signatures but all counts agree that more than 4200 were filed.) A few of the 4500 signatures collected were found invalid for various reasons including bad address or not registered to vote. However, a core of 3905 signatures were found to be good but invalid for one reason only which is that the Subscribing Witnesses to those petitions were not registered to vote as members of the Republican Party. In other words, had those 3905 signatures been witnessed by a Registered Republican Party Voter, then all three petitioners would be on the ballot. However, because they were witnessed by other voters, including Democrats, Libertarians and Blanks, those 3905 signatures were deemed invalid. Petitioner Sam Sloan is a long standing registered voter in the Republican Party and he also circulated and witnessed some of the petitions and signed one of the petitions himself. The petitions he witnessed were deemed valid but all or almost all of the others were deemed invalid on the ground that the subscribing witness was not registered as a Republican. Frankly, the petitioners are newcomers to this process and were not aware that there was any requirement that the signatures be witnessed by members of any political party. Had they known about this they might have tried to find witnesses who are Republicans but failing that they would likely have given up trying to run for election as finding any witnesses is a difficult task under any circumstances. Witnesses must sign a declaration equivalent to an affidavit under penalty of perjury and must be prepared to be subpoenaed to testify in court under oath. Obviously, not many people are going to be willing to do that. Now that the petitioners have found out the hard way that there is a rule as interpreted by the Board of Elections that says that petitions for Republican Party Candidates must be witnessed (as well as being signed) by REGISTERED voters in the Republican Party, petitioners contend that such a requirement is unconstitutional under the First Amendment right "To Petition the Government." It seems obvious that a requirement that the signatures to a petition of any type are deemed valid if and only if they are witnessed by Registered Republicans cannot be Constitutional. This is an infringement to the constitutional right "to Petition the Government.
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This is an appeal of an order withdrawing Sam Ware counsel for the Estate of K. Michael Goodall from appearing in this case. Counsel for the Goodall Estate sought to withdraw after counsel for Bank of America filed three successive motions for monetary sanctions. These motions were filed by Bank of America against Counsel for the Goodall Estate and personally against the administrator of the Goodall Estate with Will annexed. These successive motions for sanctions demanded that Counsel for the Goodall Estate and the Administrator of the Goodall Estate personally both pay between $13,000 and $16,000 to Counsel for Bank of America. These three motions for sanctions were utterly frivolous and without basis. Their obvious propose was to frighten and intimidate counsel for the Goodall Estate and to scare him into not zealously presenting the best arguments and to frighten him so that he would not properly present the case and would not appeal if necessary. In view of this plus the obvious hostility of the judge presiding over the case to the rightful claims of the Goodall Estate, which made it likely that these motions for sanctions which threatened the professional career of Counsel for the Goodall Estate would be granted, he filed the motion to withdraw so as to get himself off the hook on these motions for sanctions. Even after filing the motion to withdraw, the comments by Judge Busch at the final hearing on sanctions show that Judge Busch was on the verge of ordering sanctions anyway.
This is the Record on Appeal of an order withdrawing Sam Ware counsel for the Estate of K. Michael Goodall from appearing in this case. Counsel for the Goodall Estate sought to withdraw after counsel for Bank of America filed three successive motions for monetary sanctions. These motions were filed by Bank of America against Counsel for the Goodall Estate and personally against the administrator of the Goodall Estate with Will annexed. These successive motions for sanctions demanded that Counsel for the Goodall Estate and the Administrator of the Goodall Estate personally both pay between $13,000 and $16,000 to Counsel for Bank of America. These three motions for sanctions were utterly frivolous and without basis. Their obvious propose was to frighten and intimidate counsel for the Goodall Estate and to scare him into not zealously presenting the best arguments and to frighten him so that he would not properly present the case and would not appeal if necessary. In view of this plus the obvious hostility of the judge presiding over the case to the rightful claims of the Goodall Estate, which made it likely that these motions for sanctions which threatened the professional career of Counsel for the Goodall Estate would be granted, he filed the motion to withdraw so as to get himself off the hook on these motions for sanctions. Even after filing the motion to withdraw, the comments by Judge Busch at the final hearing on sanctions show that Judge Busch was on the verge of ordering sanctions anyway.
A case was initiated in the New York Supreme Court Albany County seeking to invalidate the New York State Board of Elections. It also sought to place candidates on the ballot after they had been deemed to have insufficient signatures by the New York State Board of Elections. This action was appealed to the New York State Appellate Division Third Department. Then an appeal was made to the New York Court of Appeals which did not hear the case. Thereafter, this case was brought to the United States District Court in Albany by voters whose constitutional election rights were denied to have their candidates on the ballot and by aggrieved candidates who were petitioners, as they are here. Questions Presented Does the New York State Board of Elections violate the United States Constitution and thus should be found unconstitutional and abolished and disbanded as it is presently constituted and a new election held with all candidates restored to the ballot? Statement of the Case The plaintiff-appellants are candidates for office or else are voters who support these candidates, who signed their petitions and want to vote for them for election. The candidates were on the ballot since July 8, 2014 but were thrown off at a meeting by the New York State Board of Elections on August 1, 2014.
The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 was one of the notorious events of American History. They are hardly forgotten because nowadays our chief executive reminds us of them constantly, because he is always talking about "Witch Hunts". But who is to believe that witches were hung or burned alive at the stake long ago in 1692 or that these events could happen again in this modern era?
The Campus Sexual Rights Forum was an on-campus student organization at the University of California at Berkeley in the years 1966 and 1967. Being on-campus meant that it was officially registered in Sproul Hall as a student organization with me as the president. We were authorized to hold events on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley. We did hold several such events. For example, famous attorney Melvin Belli gave a speech on the steps of Sproul Hall because of our sponsorship. Planned Parenthood made a presentation in one of the rooms on campus reserved for our use. The Campus Sexual Rights Forum was sponsor and I had organized the event. We also held a student dance in the Pauley Ballroom. All of these events were advertised in the Daily Californian, the student newspaper, because of our sponsorship. We also had a campus table where we distributed our literature advocating Sexual Freedom including legalized abortion and where we sold buttons and received donations to raise funds for our events. The picture on the cover here of this book shows one of our most dedicated members Joyce Kaskey sitting at our table at the entrance to the campus on Bancroft Avenue near the corner of Telegraph Avenue. This picture and others like it appeared in Time Magazine, Sexology Magazine and other publications. There were articles about us in Playboy Magazine, Life Magazine, Time Magazine and other magazines around the world. We were student revolutionaries. In the backdrop of all this was the great student revolutions of those years where we were at the cutting edge and on the forefront. We also held 42 Nude parties and events off the campus. We had a bank account at the Bank of America branch on the corner of Telegraph Avenue and Durant. We had a PO box at the Berkeley Post Office. We regularly conducted mailings inviting our members and their guests to our parties.
Sam Sloan was Appointed Administrator of the Estate of K. Michael Goodall with Will Annexed by the Marin County Probate Court in California. Upon receiving his appointment, Sloan discovered that the entire Goodall Estate had been stolen by Bank of America, who wanted to "donate" the Goodall millions to Guide Dogs for the Blind, leaving the legitimate Goodall heirs with nothing. This appeal is part of a so far two year court battle to save the Goodall Estate from going to the Dogs. Guide Dogs for the Blind has shown itself to be the Epitome of Evil in the charities rackets, preying on wealthy elderly people, getting them to sign away their estates on their death beds on the pretext that their money is going to a noble cause, but instead it is going to an avaricious gang who pay themselves millions of dollars in salaries, and have compiled and accumulated more than $300 million in net assets. If the death bed signatures are not forthcoming, no problem. By expedient means, the signatures are forged. After all: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Adelle Davis is an incredibly famous and popular author whose name and whose books have reached the household word status. Her recommendations are followed by millions today. She is the leading spokesperson for the organic foods movement. She is known for popularizing the phrase "You Are What You Eat." When you see organic food stores all over and special organic foods shelves in supermarkets, think of Adelle Davis as the person who popularized all of this. She was born in Lizton, Indiana on February 25, 1904. Her first book was Optimum Health published in 1935. This book did not have a publisher. The first book to make her famous was a cook book published in 1947: Let's Cook it Right. This was followed by Let's Have Healthy Children (1951) and Let's Eat Right to Keep Fit (1954). Her movement became popular because of the increased use of pesticides, chemicals, additives and fertilizers to increase food production. Davis wrote a series of four books, starting with a cookbook in 1947, that ultimately sold over 10 million copies in total. Although her ideas were considered somewhat eccentric in the 1940s and 1950s, the change in culture with the 1960s brought her ideas, especially her anti-food processing and food industry charges, into the mainstream in a time when anti-authority sentiment was growing. She also contributed to, as well as benefited from, the rise of a nutritional and health food movement that began in the 1950s, which focused on subjects such as pesticide residues and food additive. During the 1960s and 1970s, her popularity continued to grow, as she was featured in multiple media report. Her celebrity was demonstrated by her repeated guest appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, as she became the most popular and influential nutritionist in the country.
Here is the new, up-to-the-minute, expanded and modernized edition of the world famous card player's guide known and used by millions of players for over twenty-fife years. Containing new material and more card games than ever before published in a single volume - answering every question for beginner as well as expert - this has become the prime authority on card games. All the official rules are brought up to date to reflect the changes that have occurred over the years. Scarne includes new variations as well as new and mathematical values of the games and the probabilities reflected by his latest researches. Acknowledged as the world's authority on the methods of detecting cheating, Scarne shows how it's done with text and illustrations. And he shows his intimate knowledge of the strategy and fine points of winning play that have made him famous. All the original hundreds of games are here, and for Bridge buffs there is a new series on Contract and Auction Bridge, including detecting cheating such as Skarney, which may be the greatest Gin game ever; Monte; and Chinese Fan Tan; and new, expanded chapters on Poker, Gin, Canasta, Baccarat, banking card games, and others. Scarne on Cards is not only a fundamental reference and rule, it is a dependable guide for anyone who wants to avoid being victimized by cheating and sharp practice, and for anyone who wants to play a better game and thereby improve his his chances of winning.
Maimonides's Mishneh Torah is considered by traditionalist Jews even today as one of the chief authoritative codifications of Jewish law and ethics. It is exceptional for its logical construction, concise and clear expression and extraordinary learning, so that it became a standard against which other later codifications were often measured. It is still closely studied in rabbinic yeshivot (academies). A popular medieval saying that also served as his epitaph states, From Mosheh (of the Torah) to Mosheh (Maimonides) there was none like Mosheh. It chiefly referred to his rabbinic writings. But Maimonides was also one of the most influential figures in medieval Jewish philosophy. His brilliant adaptation of Aristotelian thought to Biblical faith deeply impressed later Jewish thinkers, and had an unexpected immediate historical impact. Some more acculturated Jews in the century that followed his death, particularly in Spain, sought to apply Maimonides's Aristotelianism in ways that undercut traditionalist belief and observance, giving rise to an intellectual controversy in Spanish and southern French Jewish circles. The intensity of debate spurred Catholic Church interventions against "heresy" and even a general confiscation of rabbinic texts. In reaction, the more radical interpretations of Maimonides were defeated, and at least amongst Ashkenazi Jews, there was a tendency to ignore his specifically philosophical writings and to stress instead the rabbinic and halakhic writings. These writings often included considerable philosophical chapters or discussions in support of halakhic observance; David Hartman observes that Maimonides clearly expressed "the traditional support for a philosophical understanding of God both in the Aggadah of Talmud and in the behavior of the hasid [the pious Jew]." Maimonidean thought continues to influence traditionally observant Jews.
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Slaughterhouse-Five is part autobiographical, part science-fiction, part sarcastic master work by Kurt Vonnegut. It is often assigned by college and high school reading and writing classes, especially when our President wants us to go out and kill somebody. Slaughterhouse-Five came out in 1969 near the height of the War in Vietnam. At that time, our President told us the Vietnam War was a war we had to fight to protect the freedom loving people of South Vietnam from being overwhelmed by the Communist North. We lost that war. Kurt Vonnegut's long awaited war novel proved to be a miracle of compression. It is a contemporary Pilgram's Progress with a hero named curiously enough Billy Pilgrim. He is the son of an American barber. He serves as a chaplain's assistant in the Second World War, is captured by the Germans, survives the largest massacre in European history, the fire bombing of Dresden. (Vonnegut, too, was a prisoner of war and saw that fire storm.) Billy Pilgrim becomes an optometrist after the war, makes a great deal of money, is kidnapped by a flying saucer from the planet Tralfamadore on his daughter's wedding night. He is mated in a public zoo on that planet - to a star of many Earthling blue movies, the gorgeous Montana Wildhack. And so on. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. speaks to the younger generation. Once mistakenly typed as a science-fiction writer, he is now recognized as a main-stream story teller often fascinated by the magic and comic possibilities of the magazines. His books are widely used in college courses and the groundswell of his present popularity began on college campuses where he was in great demand as a speaker.
This is The Kinsey Report, the famous work that almost everybody has heard of, but almost nobody has read. There are actually two Kinsey reports, one for the human male and human female. The Report on the human female addresses the hot topic of what percentage of all married women commit adultery. (The surprising answer is: About the same percentage of married men who commit adultery.) Another weighty question is: What percentage of East Coast Farm Boys have ever had sex with a cow. I will not tell you the answer to that one except to say that it is a lot higher than West Coast Farm Boys because out there they have girls for that. (You know how those California girls are!) Because the Kinsey reports are lengthy they have each been divided into two volumes. Volume one of this book, "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male," is about the history and method of this study and the Factors of Sexual Outlet, such as age, marital stratus and religion. Volume two is about sources of Sexual Outlet, including masturbation, pre-marital intercourse, marital intercourse, extra-marital intercourse, sex with animals and homosexuality. It includes the most famous and much disputed finding of this book, which is that 10% of all men are homosexual. This study was first published in 1948 and was based on interviews of only 8,000 men. In spite of the small number of participants, subsequent studies by many others have verified these results. Perhaps the most surprising of these subsequent studies is that studiers of vastly different human groups, such as Chinese, Africans and Native American Indians have produced similar results. This proves that all humans regardless of cultural grouping have about the same sexual habits. Kinsey, a Professor of Zoology, goes even further than that. He finds that not only are all humans similar but we are similar to other primates including gorillas and chimpanzees, who have about the same sexual habits.
THIS BRIDGE BOOK is unique in several ways. It is specifically designed for persons who do not know one playing card from another. It gives the beginner a solid foundation and approach to the game by means of clear and simple text accompanied by a pictorial presentation of procedure and. play. The hundreds of illustrations and diagrams instruct the novice simply and forcefully, doing away with much of the labored and involved explanation which makes other Bridge books for beginners seem so technical. INVITATION TO BRIDGE does not pretend that it can turn beginners into experts. Rather, it is designed to bring the student to a point where he can sit down with friends, play a game of Bridge with enjoyment, and understand what he is doing and how much he still has to learn. There is an early, brief section devoted to playing cards and their values, particularly as they apply to Bridge. Then follows a graphic, illustrated description of procedure. The middle sections go on to explain how the game is played; how games are begun and ended and scored. A feature of this section is a detailed description in which the reader is invited to "sit in" on a rubber, where the play of every card is illustrated and explained. The later sections of the book discuss basic principles of the game - the theory of bidding, the strategy and tactics of play. In short, INVITATION TO BRIDGE is an invaluable primer for those tens of thousands who have "always wanted to play the game but never found time to learn," and a valuable refresher for the countless thousands who now play Bridge "by ear.
This book is a genealogical database and family history of 6,897 members of the Graham Family, consisting of David Graham and his three children who arrived in Charleston South Carolina on the ship Pennsylvania Farmer in 1772, and their descendants. Also explained is the history of the Graham Family Name. This book includes the History of Scot-Irish Immigration, the factors that caused them to move from Scotland to Northern Ireland and then the factors that caused five boatloads of 1,100 settlers, which included the Graham Family, to arrive in the Port of Charleston South Carolina in 1772. Upon arrival, the Grahams and other new arrivals almost immediately joined in the fighting on the American side in the American Revolutionary War. This Graham genealogy is the result of almost fifteen years of research and was begun tentatively by each of the authors before they begun corresponding in 1983. Since then, the genealogical facts have acquired mainly by plodding persistence, though sometimes by luck. Always the acquisition has been accompanied by a feeling of pleasure in learning something new about the Grahams. Many miles have been driven in pursuit of the facts, many letters exchanged, but also many new friends have been made for which the authors are grateful.
Clemson: Where the Tigers Play is the most comprehensive book ever written on Clemson University athletics. This book chronicles over 100 years of Tiger athletics, listing yearly accounts of statistics, records, bowl and tournament appearances, and historical moments. Read about the legends that put the Clemson Tigers on the map, including Banks McFadden, John Heisman, Rupert Fike, Frank Howard, Fred Cone, Bruce Murray, Bill Wilhelm, and I. M. Ibrahim. Also included are vignettes on some of Clemson’s greatest moments—the 1981 national football championship and the 2015 national championship game appearance, the 1984 and 1987 national championship soccer seasons, College World Series appearances, the Frank Howard era, and the inaugural running down the hill in Death Valley. Other vignettes include career sports records; players in the NFL, the major leagues, and the NBA; and Tiger Olympic medalists. This newly revised edition offers the ground breaking accomplishments and victories that countless teams have had at this university. Clemson: Where the Tigers Play is a must-have for any library of every loyal Clemson fan. This book examines the rich history and tradition of the Clemson Tigers, and the coaches and players who made it happen!
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