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Sport Report – March 2018
26 February 2018 Aquinas SchoolSports
School sport is under way with Aquinas College teams entered in the local Cricket, Volleyball, Futsal and Water Polo competitions. Gymsports trainings have also started at school.
Swimming Championships for Yr. 7 and 8 will be held at the Greerton Aquatic Centre on Tuesday 13 March. Year 9 – 13 will compete at the Baywave Aquatic Centre on Thursday 29 March. We expect all students to be involved in these events.
Congratulations to Antony (Yr. 9) and Kieran Death (Yr. 7) on selection for the New Zealand Youth Climbing Team that will compete at the Australian Youth Climbing Championships being held in Sydney in May 2018. Antony will represent NZ at U14 Level (Youth C) and Kieran at U'12 Level (Youth D). Both boys will compete in Lead, Bouldering and Speed events.
A number of our senior teams are preparing to compete at various tournaments during Summer Tournament Week (18 – 23 March):
Water polo – Senior Boys and Girls competing at the North Island Secondary Schools Champs being held in Auckland.
Volleyball – Senior Girls competing at the NZ Secondary School Volleyball Nationals in Palmerston North.
Cricket – 1st XI Boys competing in the Northern Districts Regional Tournament in Hamilton.
Sailing – 1 or 2 teams competing in the Central North Island Sailing Regatta in Taupo.
Winter Sporting codes are beginning preparations for Terms 2 and 3 so all students need to be alert for notifications on the school website regarding registrations, trials, training and pre-season musters.
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Summer Sports Registrations OPEN!
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The first few verses give us the context. It refers to the Talmudic ritual hand-washing that the Pharisees had made into a binding customary law. It appears to be one of the oldest and most revered customs in Jesus' time. Hand-washing was not in the Covenant Law. We've previously noted how the underlying drift of the Talmud and rabbinical traditions was to hedge about the Law of Moses, as if the Covenant needed protection from the nation, instead of the Covenant protecting the nation. The emphasis was on the Law, making it a deity. This is completely backwards from the ancient Hebrew tradition of understanding Law on a deeper level than the words and ritual provisions. This is another case of legalism, extending mystical rituals into binding nit-picking regulation of mere human behavior.
By Jesus' time it seems that there had been some resistance to the hand-washing ritual from working peasants, for whom it was quite burdensome to keep the necessary equipment and provisions at hand. It's no big deal for those whose only work was running their mouths inside nice buildings. This was very much a social status symbol. It was part of the rabbinical standards that one could not be taken seriously without keeping the ritual and teaching it. But Jesus was the rabbi who lived among the rabble and kept most of their habits, to include eating without this prissy ritual washing.
When asked about this, Jesus answered with His own question. It was very pointed: Why do Pharisees use the ancient korban law as an excuse to defy the very heart of the Covenant? Originally korban was a way of designating and setting aside a sacrificial animal or portion of crops for special treatment in preparation for making it an offering in the Temple. It served notice to one's extended family household take extra precautions and not treat it as just the ordinary product of the family's agricultural enterprise.
Pharisees found in this a loophole so they didn't have to share their material wealth with their aging parents. The priests in the Temple began encouraging a special kind of pledged donation trust. Someone would gain all sorts of social religious merit by designating their entire estate for korban, but could still use it while they lived. Thus, the individual Pharisee could then act as if it was a holy duty to protect the value of this "estate in trust" and not give any support to their indigent household elders. This defies one of the Ten Commandments about honoring your parents.
Jesus castigates them using Isaiah's warning about just this kind of Talmudic nonsense (Isaiah 29:13). Don't claim to obey the Lord when you've piled up customs that pervert the whole purpose of the Covenant. This is a direct attack on the moral character of God, an insult to all of Creation. This is exactly how the Talmud works.
This private conversation took place during a break in Jesus' routine of teaching the crowds. So Jesus turned to the crowd and said something that pertained to this very issue. It wasn't the issue of kosher, but specifically the stupid matter of ritual hand-washing. He told them it wasn't necessary to listen to the Pharisees about that. The Pharisees conflated "dirty" with "ritually impure" — two different concepts in Greek and Hebrew. It's not what goes in your mouth, but what comes out of it that defiles you.
This infuriated the Pharisees who had come out to investigate Jesus' ministry. When the disciples mentioned it to Jesus privately, He pointed out that this was a sign that these Pharisees were damned already. This echoes His previous teaching about wheat and tares, but in this case their downfall would come in good time. Evil hearts cannot produce success except in the most artificial contexts. The Pharisees had constructed a society that guaranteed their safety, but sooner or later reality would devour them in their sin.
As they absorbed this, they asked about the meaning of Jesus' parabolic reference to input and output of mouths. His question back at them was a bit of rebuke, as if they were still too worried over literal meanings instead of testing things with their hearts. So He reminded them of blunt biological facts they already understood. What goes in your mouth is processed and dropped in the chamber pot. What comes out of your life reflects what is in your heart. If your heart is darkened and committed to anything but God, you'll defile your existence by how you live. He implies that the Pharisees were committed to their own personal comfort, and willing to justify almost any sin through legalism.
If sanitary facilities are convenient, sure, wash your hands before handling food. But don't let someone load you up with false guilt that misses the whole point of revelation.
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I've tried using Registax, just playing around with it. Like I don't have 2 photos that are slightly out of alignment, or any duplicates that I could stack together. So I thought I could fool the program and submit 2 of the same thing (even photos that aren't astro.) But that was on an older computer and before I even got that far, it locked up. So my experience with it hasn't been great, yet.
Also I've tried the Iris program that is a complete astrophoto editing program available free on the Internet. If you want it, just do a search for "Iris". However, even though the instruction manual for it is in English, this wasn't the language it was first written in (I think). That's because there are some grammatical errors in it. In some areas it's almost hard to understand what the writers meant.
They have copies for sale of Maxim DL. Also, does anyone here recommend that program?
The idea with Registax is that by taking multiple images you can combine them to have something that ends up quite a bit sharper.
In layman's terms what it can do is take different pictures and combine those bits of information about the subject they each have that the others don't, and by gathering those it can generate a picture with the information from all of them.
Giving the same image multiple times will have no effect as the program already have all the information in the picture the first time it got it and won't learn anything new by a repeat.
It works best when the differences between each picture are fairly small and reasonably consistent, such as a series of images taken through a telescope tracking the same part of the sky and breaks down rather fast if it's something like a few pictures taken close up with a handheld camera because the latter will have non-linear scaling and rotational differences while the former series is likely to only have shifts and rotations which are far easier to compensate for.
You don't say if you are talking planetary or deep sky imaging. Registax is best suited for planetary work. There are far better choices for deep sky imaging.
There are Registax tutorials on the net. Google the term. It is best for planetary imaging from AVI files starting with hundreds of images.
For basic CCD work IRIS is free but has a nasty learning curve even if your read French.
Free PixInsight Lite is probably far easier to learn though not as powerful. For most beginners it is powerful enough however.
Inexpensive is Nebulosity that many beginners like.
I do everything after dark and flat reduction and stacking (Deep Sky Stacker does this for free, though I don't use it, many do and recommend it) I do everything else in Photoshop.
Maxim, also expensive, is good for taking images and some processing but most serious imagers also finish the image in Photoshop. I don't consider it for beginners however. It is used by most serious imagers for image acquisition and data reduction. It can easily interface with auto imaging software like CCD Commander and others for unattended or remote imaging with robotic telescopes. Nebulosity would be the poor man's version of the program when coupled with the free Ph.D guiding software for many hundreds of dollars less cost. This combination is a good starting place for deep sky imaging as long as you don't plan on remote or unattended imaging.
As Rick wrote, Registax is for hundreds, even thousands, of short-exposure planetery images where you are looking to combine the best 10-20%.
Pixinsight is a pretty powerful tool, but the learning curve is high and it is not free.
The current version PixInsight is certainly not free and has a steep learning curve, even steeper than the price. Some skilled users prefer it to Photoshop for everything in fact. Again, only for experienced imagers. But PixInsight Lite is free. It was the original version of the software. It has the basic tools needed and a far easier learning curve. It has some tools even some experienced imagers find useful such as its gradient removal tool. I prefer GradientXTerminator, a low cost plug in for Photoshop but if you don't have Photoshop then the tool in the free version is quite useful. I used it in my early days quite a bit before I moved to Photoshop.
GradientXTerminator is like magic. The gradient just goes away. When I was imaging from the city, it was the best purchase I made.


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Since Oliver's Nest will live in a very cold climate, the air barrier should be to the inside and latex-painted barn board attached to thin plywood will serve that function.
In Oliver's Nest, substitute ceder siding and metal roof panels for the painted stucco with paper bond break. They act similarly. Then the thin rigid foam panels, which were going to serve as the drain field. But the author recommends building paper (ah-ha!) as the drain field. Then, plywood sheathing and the wool inside the wood stud cavity. On the interior of the wall will be a very thin layer of plywood and latex-painted wood boards (fastened to the thin plywood), which act like the "Kraft facing on a fiberglass batt or a "smart vapor barrier membrane" combined with the latex-painted gypsum board. I researched and it's a very fine substitute. The big change is that my drain field *was* going to be the water-impermeable rigid foam panels, instead of the more water-permeable building felt. This change allows a much easier exit for water vapor inside the wall assembly. It's important. I'm glad I caught it.
If I were able to use much thicker foam insulation, I would go with the above design, but I'm limited by house width and (mostly) financial constraints. If I had the funds, I'd go wide. After all, the roof is almost 10 feet across. In fact, now I'm wondering whether to use the foam panels at all, as they won't provide a thermal break as much as the drain field does, rendering them pretty much unhelpful. They are a process I think I can safely skip. Very nice. I have a future project on my property that they were originally intended for anyway.
Yeah, there are wide gaps…I know.
Ugly but functional. Now just the upper part of the North side and I can go forward with the building felt. I had a couple rolls from the Restore that got wet in a sideways rain storm, so went back and got a couple more for $5 each. Not happy that the originals got ruined, but so it goes when you don't have an indoor space to build and store supplies. I'd recommend one.
Based on my past performance, it'll take a couple to three days to finish getting up the plywood. I have no idea how long hanging the building felt will take. Hopefully not more than a couple days. We'll see!
Oh! And the wool? It's drying so fast that I'm fluffing a couple times a day instead of every couple days, so the whole process is going super quick. It's looking like I won't need the dehumidifier. Unless it starts raining again before I get this baby weather-tight. My poor knee.
My knee kneeds (hee) some time to heal, so now that the roof is mostly on, I'm going to stop working for a little while. My doctor had told me to stay off of it for a couple months and knit or something, but I just couldn't til now. Weather and building a house trumps comfort sometimes. It's apparent in the photos how the edges are still loose ~ I have a fascia idea I want to try still before it all gets affixed.
EPDM sealed down except at the edges.
A LOT of my rabbits got free from a hidden burrow of their pen. They like to come down and hang out with me. Please ignore the drying laundry, LOL. Seriously, this is long-term camping these days, complete with wee beasties at my door.
I got the underlayment cut out on half the interior and made some interesting observations. First off, it definitely looks like a more recent water incursion (thank goodness). I'm sure that it got wet this past spring after I took off the tarp ~ I should have waited for drier weather. It's hard to know in these parts when that'll happen, though. The tarp I had over the floor didn't cut it, and leaked around the edges (I'm guessing).
The underlayment underside, showing how the water got in at the edges.
The house appears to have settle slightly to one end and more slightly to one side. The great part about that is the water settled there, too. Well, mostly. The puddle was there, but higher parts were damp to quite wet. I cut down through the layers to the insulation, and removed some sections of it to dry and to allow the structure to dry. I just stir the wool up every couple days to help it. The wood is all ok, even the parts that were somewhat underwater. It's drying out well.
Because of an oddity to my joist design, most of them weren't even wet. I used a sort of box idea to hold the wool and built it 6 inches deep. To allow a thermal break, I only hung 2x4s for the joists, leaving a space between the bottom of them and the floor of the box. This worked well except in the middle of the house, where I didn't get them fastened in tightly and securely enough (springy floor!). I haven't decided whether to wait until everything is dry to fix that or if I should just go ahead and pull that part out now and redo it. It will hasten the drying if I do it now, perhaps.
The rigid insulation is holding up well, even wet. It's drying too.
Rigid foam board under the wool revealed to allow it to dry.
Plywood underlayment cut and pulled off to expose the wet wool.
Wool is wet and still fluffy! The space below the floor joist is visible in this picture, too.
The brown is just sawdust from cutting the plywood. On the left is a joist and rigid foam boards underneath.
The wool is the most interesting part. One of the many reasons I choose to use it was due to it's high insulating value even when wet. It is still fluffy and thick and has no mold or weird smell. It's wet as a sponge in parts though, and I might need rent a commercial size dehumidifier to completely get it all dry, after the house is closed up. I think I'll do that even if it all "looks dry"….just to be safe.
While that all is drying, I'll finish hanging the wall sheathing, and then hang the rigid foam insulation on the outside of that. It's super light, so that part should go quickly. I have some rigid foam glue that I'll use at the corners of the building, and I'll nail it up all over with these special nails with plastic washer-things I got at the ReStore. I do not intend to use building paper as originally planned, as I want the entire wall assembly to be able to breathe to the outside. Instead, I'll just have the plywood sheathing, then the rigid foam boards, then some blocking for a rain screen effect, then the siding. To allow wetness out at the bottom of the wall assembly there will be a small gap around the entire house, which I'm thinking to cover with a wire mesh. The last thing I want is mice or other critters to get up in there! I found a big roll of wire mesh at the ReStore the other day, enough for the whole house and only $10. I'll have to figure out a way to securely attach it to both the inner, foam and plywood section and the outer, sheathing section without it showing.
After all that, I guess the next part is weather-sealing the door and window openings, then installing them. After that the house will be officially "dried in" and that's when I'll rent the dehumidifier to finish the floor. The weather should hold reasonably well through the end of September (fingers crossed), which gives me a little time….I just want to get my knee to a less pained state and hopefully get it healed enough. Living alone on a mountain will be challenging enough without being lame, LOL.
OK, off to play some Civ 5 or something!
After working on this roof, I've come to the conclusion that it's really not that hard to work with EPDM. You have to use the proper materials and pay attention to detail, and preferably work with another person (I'll say why in a minute) to get to a good result. If you want a low-slope roof and fear water intrusion, it's a good choice. It is very tolerant of temperature extremes. It's flexible and of course that's a great quality in a moving home. It should last for years – up to 50 in some installations! That's one of the reasons why you'll find it in commercial buildings – they don't want to be replacing the roof every few years. It's easy to repair if it gets a tear for some reason (generally due to improper installation, from what I've read). It works for green roofs, walkable decks, ballast (gravel) applications and fully adhered – like mine is, and on any slope, even super steep ones.
So why do you want a helper? It worried me to see that in every installation instruction I found, two people were shown working together, and I hoped I'd be able to do it well by myself. Now that I've got it half done, I know why! First off, the stuff is heavy at 2 pounds per square foot. Due to it being floppy, it feels heavier. Of course, I have the strength of a baby bird these days…. It's easier to keep all wrinkles, creases and bubbles out with two people working at either edge, and those are the bane of rubber. Well, those and inadequate sealing at the edges. Adhering goes MUCH faster with two people, as you can do half the roof at a time, keeping the total time spent under 3 hours. Alone, it took me 6 hours to get half the roof done yesterday. You have to put glue on both the roof decking and on the EPDM, then wait for it to "flash off" (get to a nearly dry state), before carefully stretching the rubber and laying it down perfectly smooth and then smooshing it down very firmly with a push broom. Flashing off takes up to an hour. Since I can only handle a small section at a time, you see how it takes lots more time doing it alone.
It's fun though! I'm having a blast messing with the glue – for some reason it's like playing to me :). I get to work and stop (and read) to wait for the glue to be ready, work and stop, work and stop – and I don't feel lazy because taking periodic breaks are a required part of the process!
The glue goes on like thick paint. Please ignore the photo-bombing hair…!


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London, Jan.26 (ANI): The Al-Qaeda has issued a chilling video threat to UK on YouTube.
According to The Sun, Osama bin Laden's henchmen are seen ranting in the video that has footage of a black-clad gunman riddling the Union Flag with bullets.
The Stars and Stripes is also peppered - along with Israel's flag. anatic Abu Hareth Muhammad al-Oufi - a former Guantanamo Bay inmate - vents his fury at the West while fondling an automatic rifle and brandishing a grenade.
The recording was posted on YouTube, which attracts up to 100 million visits a day. t was also downloaded to a number of extremist websites with hundreds of thousands of members.
Analysts said last night the message meant Britain is a revenge target for Israel's war in Gaza.
"Al-Qaeda is clearly taking aim at Britain. This makes it obvious, if there was any doubt, we rank alongside the US and Israel at the top of their hate list," the tabloid quoted terror expert Chris Dobson, as warning.
Online terror investigator Neil Doyle added: "There has been a noticeable increase in chatter about attacks at the UK."(ANI)


That's something King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, who ruled the country for almost two decades until he died last week, was unable to do. His brother, Crown Prince and Defense Minister Salman, has now taken over the throne and the reins of the Gulf's largest economy.
Now King Salman has the opportunity to accelerate the economic reforms promised by his brother but typically pursued at a snail's pace, leaving the kingdom still almost entirely reliant on oil.
Will he take it? Unfortunately, the chances are slim, and political reform will be necessary first.
Saudi Arabia's economic history mirrors that of the oil market, charting the rise and fall of a barrel of crude. It was robust from 1975 to 1980 and has performed well since 1999, but languished in between.
While most social indicators – such as literacy, access to good education and high-quality healthcare and higher life expectancy – have improved markedly, others have worsened, such as access to housing and employment.
The overriding economic challenge has been, and continues to be, expanding the private sector and diversifying away from oil. That's a hard thing to do in a country with the world's largest proven oil reserves and typically its biggest producer. In 2013, barrels produced around the world came from Saudi Arabia.
But implementing labor market reforms and institution building are necessary to fuel sustained economic growth and provide good jobs for the ever growing number of youths seeking employment and to protect future generations as the country's oil reserves, however abundant, deplete.
Although the private sector has been growing robustly, it hasn't expanded anywhere near fast enough to meet demand. And few of those jobs go to nationals. According to a 2013 IMF report, three-quarters of the 2 million jobs created in the previous four years went to foreigners.
Meanwhile, large swath of Saudis don't have jobs, estimated at more than 30% for youths and women. And as for those who do work, 75% of them work for the government.
Unemployment may be the biggest danger for the regime.
The kingdom has made very limited progress on reforms under the administrations of the five kings that followed the rule of Abdulaziz Al-Saud, the founder and first monarch of Saudi Arabia, who presided over the discovery of petroleum in 1938. Reforms and progress have been more a mirage than real.
The government has implemented some domestic reforms such as cutting red tape, a jobseekers' allowance and strengthened a quota system to increase the employment of nationals, according to the IMF. But they thus far have done little to get Saudis into the private sector workforce.
The recent slump in the price of oil highlights the need for the kingdom hurry up as the drop in revenue puts pressure on its sizable foreign exchange reserves, currently estimated at about $750 billion.
This is particularly urgent: the Al-Sauds have become accustomed to throwing money at all internal and external problems and avoiding necessary reforms. The government annually spends upwards of $60 billion on fuel subsidies, $67 billion on military expenditures(fourth in the world) and many billions more in foreign aid to friendly rulers in Egypt and elsewhere. This approach is unsustainable.
To take just one historical example, foreign financial reserves were high back in 1980 but during the fallow years from 1981 to 1999, Saudi Arabia depleted much of them, forcing the country to resort to borrowing. It's a stark reminder that reserves come and go, and the money will be best used to protect the interests of future generations by building up the private sector or establishing an external fund for future generations, a fund that is governed by transparent rules and policies.
Oil prices are expected to stay in the $40 to $60 a barrel range for at least the next five years due to weak global growth and an unwillingness by producers, including OPEC, to curb output. That will lead to widening budget and current account deficits, which will in turn erode the stockpile of reserves. This means the new king needs to act soon to turn things around.
King Salman is taking over Saudi Arabia at a time of turmoil in the region and social challenges at home. Is he up to the task?
The Middle East is in the midst of unprecedented upheaval with conditions that are arguably more turbulent than at the onset of the Iranian Revolution. Saudi Arabia's friends in the region, mostly the monarchies and dictatorships, are under siege. The Muslim extremists that the house of Saud encouraged with its vast wealth to counteract the Iranian revolutionaries beginning in the mid-1970s are ascendant. And they are not content to operate in the shadows but want to control the levers of power.
Iran also is resurgent at the same time as Saudi Arabia's most important ally and supporter, the United States, is war weary after wasting too much blood and treasure in the region and appears willing to compromise with the kingdom's adversaries. Saudi Arabia's only potent international policy instruments – oil and the cash it brings – may be in perpetual decline.
Unfortunately, King Salman cannot do what Abdullah could not. Abdullah had widespread support in the Kingdom but moved very gingerly. Salman does not enjoy the same level of support, is in poor health and reportedly suffers from dementia. Moreover, Saudi Arabia is in the middle of an Arab world demanding a say in governance and crying out for social and economic justice. How long it can withstand political reform itself is a big question.
Making matters worse, Salman has already sown the seeds of family turmoil that will likely further limit his ability to pursue any meaningful reform.
Before Abdullah was even buried, he chose Mohammed bin Nayef, the interior minister and son of another brother, to be his deputy crown prince. That made bin Nayef the first family member from the next generation to be tapped to be a future king, a choice that was supposed to be made by a new 35-man council appointed by Abdullah.
These monarchical machinations only make the kingdom's political and economic future grimmer.
Continuing autocratic rule in Saudi Arabia will fuel more extremism, instability, turmoil and revolution. The best defense against future turmoil and a path to sustained prosperity is a timetable for meaningful political reforms towards a constitutional monarchy.
If a true friend, the United States should use tough love and guide Salman to such an end.


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By Gene Healy
We keep hearing that this is a rushed impeachment, but the House leadership seems to think there's plenty of time for a frolic and detour before getting to the main event. Before considering an article of impeachment based on President Trump's January 6 pre‐riot rally speech, they're going to vote on a toothless, hortatory resolution urging Vice President Mike Pence to do their jobs for them. Specifically, the resolution calls on Pence and a majority of Trump's cabinet to trigger Section 4 of the 25th Amendment, making Pence "acting president" for the remainder of Trump's term.
In her letter announcing the move, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) proclaims that "In protecting our Constitution and our Democracy, we will act with urgency, because this President represents an imminent threat to both." The House plans to vote on that resolution sometime today, probably, "Tuesday evening at the earliest," anyway—hey: get off our backs, man!
It's hard to fathom the logic here, either legally or politically. The Constitution gives the House gives the House the "sole Power of Impeachment." But the 25th Amendment gives it no direct role in the initial decision to remove. Congress comes in after that decision has been made: receiving notice that the VP and a majority of the cabinet have deemed the president "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office," and, some three weeks later, deciding, by supermajority vote in both houses, whether that was the right call (in this case, the clock would run out before that vote).
Nor do I see how the resolution is supposed to make the vice president more likely to trigger Section 4. Does the House leadership know something about Mike Pence's psychological motivations that's not apparent to the rest of us? Are they engaged in some sort of advanced game theory or extradimensional chess?
From my limited vantage point, Pelosi's gambit looks like a waste of time or worse. The vice president's "servant leadership" approach to his office has often bordered on servility. Pence has long been so reluctant to risk Trump's ire that it was a genuine and welcome surprise when he refused the president's anti‐constitutional demand to toss out electoral votes for Joe Biden. Becoming the first vice president in history to trigger Section 4 and defenestrate a president is a much bigger deal. If Trump riling up a lynch mob against him hasn't motivated Pence to whip the cabinet and make that move, what would? I'm pretty sure of what wouldn't: an unenforceable "ultimatum" from the House. Whatever inclination Pence had to trigger section 4, he's less likely to do it if it's going to look like Nancy Pelosi forced his hand.
This late in the game, removing Trump via a Senate trial is no longer possible. The best argument for impeachment by the House is its constitutional‐censure function: making him the only president in history to wear "a second Scarlet I." Only the "25th Amendment Solution" could bring his presidency to an early end. As it happens, the two remedies aren't mutually exclusive.
If last Wednesday wasn't "Peak Trump," and the president is bent on further abuses, perhaps Pence can muster the, er, "extreme courage" it would take to trigger Section 4. Meanwhile, the House should stay in its lane and stick to the job the Constitution assigns it.
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The Right to Present Evidence Is Fundamental
By Thomas A. Berry
The City of Bainbridge Island, Washington, enacted several burdensome zoning ordinances regulating property on its shoreline. A group of landowners on the island challenged those regulations as unlawful for several reasons, making claims under both state law and the U.S. Constitution. But Washington State's procedural rules wouldn't allow those landowners to bring their challenge directly in state trial court. Instead, they first had to bring their challenge before a state administrative board, even though that board didn't have jurisdiction to rule on any of their federal constitutional claims.
After their state‐law claims were rejected by the administrative board, the landowners were finally allowed to bring suit in a Washington State trial court. But that trial court held that they were limited to presenting the evidence that was already in the administrative record—a record compiled and finalized before they were allowed to actually present their constitutional claims. Even though the landowners had additional evidence going specifically to their constitutional challenges, and even though that evidence would have been admissible if they had been allowed to bring their challenge directly in state court, that evidence was excluded.
A Washington State appellate court affirmed this exclusion and the Washington State Supreme Court declined to review their case. Now the landowners are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to grant review. The Cato Institute has joined the Goldwater Institute to file an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to take their case and reverse the exclusion of their evidence.
The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees every litigant the right "to present his case and have its merits fairly judged." Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co. (1982). As the brief explains, this right must include the right to present evidence necessary to establish a constitutional claim. Even for facial constitutional claims, facts and expert testimony are often necessary to demonstrate standing, to determine whether a constitutional provision is implicated, and to establish the proper scope of review. Yet state rules of administrative procedure frequently trap litigants and deny this due process right by placing them in a Catch‐22: constitutional claims can only be raised in court if the administrative process has been exhausted, but suits appealed from an administrative process can only rely on the administrative record.
Our brief urges the Court to end this trap and establish baseline standards for when a state must allow evidentiary supplementation of an administrative record. When a citizen's rights are violated by the decisions of an agency, that person must have a genuine opportunity to present facts to a neutral decision‐maker to show that the agency acted unconstitutionally. The Court should grant review and reaffirm that bedrock principle of due process.
Constitution, the Law, and the Courts, Constitutional Studies, Supreme Court
The Blanket Ban on Felons Possessing Firearms Is Unconstitutional
By Trevor Burrus and Spencer Davenport
In 2005, Raymond Holloway, Jr. pled guilty to driving under the influence, a misdemeanor under Pennsylvania law. Because Holloway had an earlier misdemeanor DUI, the 2005 offense was punishable by up to five years' imprisonment. U.S. law prohibits anyone convicted of a misdemeanor crime punishable by more than two years' imprisonment from possessing any firearm or ammunition.
Since his 2005 DUI conviction, Holloway has been an upstanding, law‐abiding citizen with no other criminal convictions. He would like to own a firearm for self‐defense, so he sued in federal court, arguing that the categorical prohibition of firearms possession was unconstitutional as applied to him, a non‐violent offender. The district court sided with him, finding that he presented no special danger to the public and that his 15 years of lawful, virtuous behavior demonstrate that he is a responsible citizen.
The Third Circuit reversed, over a dissent. The panel majority applied a multi‐factor test based on virtue, which favored Holloway. Despite this, the majority found that Holloway was in the class of persons excluded from the Second Amendment. They justified the ban as applied to him because the maximum level of punishment Pennsylvania imposed reflected the "seriousness of the offense." Holloway has petitioned for certiorari to the Supreme Court.
Because fundamental rights cannot be so summarily disregarded, Cato, joined by the Reason Foundation, the Individual Rights Foundation, the Independence Institute, and the Center to Keep and Bear Arms, filed an amicus brief supporting Holloway. Though the Supreme Court announced that the Second Amendment is an individual and not a civil or collective right, lower courts continue to use civil right tests to determine the scope of the Second Amendment. Civil rights, in this context, mean rights like voting and serving on a jury. Those rights are different than the individual right to self‐defense, and the same test shouldn't apply.
By letting state legislatures essentially disarm people by defining crimes, the Second Amendment has been relegated as a second‐class right compared to other individual rights. States couldn't broadly deny felons Fourth Amendment protections—even though searching and seizing felons without a warrant or probable cause might benefit public safety—and they shouldn't be able to do so for the Second Amendment.
Moreover, looking at the maximum punishment of a crime is problematic as it treats all offenders the same without engaging in meaningful review. As more and more minor offenses carry criminal penalties, legislatures possess the power to define the scope of the Second Amendment by raising the maximum possible punishment for an offense. Pennsylvania, where Holloway committed his offense, is one of only eight jurisdictions that punishes a second misdemeanor DUI severely enough to implicate the firearms ban. A person's ability to possess a firearm should not depend on how the state decides to punish an offense.
Where the government wants to strip an individual of his rights, it must demonstrate that the deprivation survives an exacting level of scrutiny. Looking at the maximum punishment of an offense is the sort of "broadly prohibitory" approach that the Supreme Court said is impermissible. While driving under the influence is not admirable conduct, it is not usually the type of offense that means a person should be permanently unable to possess a gun.
January 8, 2021 8:54AM
Reflections on the President's Conduct
By Robert A. Levy
Because the election was close, fair‐minded persons acknowledge that President Trump had every legal right to investigate possible irregularities. If he uncovered significant fraud, he would and should have taken appropriate steps to challenge the outcome. But the President and his surrogates opted instead to fabricate claims that he had already won the election, the process was totally corrupt, and Americans could not trust the results. Therefore, the Trumpists insisted, millions of voters should be disenfranchised by replacing their chosen electors with alternative slates to be designated by state legislatures or Congress.
Numerous elections have been contested, and final tallies are sometimes delayed pending investigations of misconduct. Accordingly, there would have been no defensible outcry if the President had said: "We have received a number of reports concerning questionable voting practices. We plan to scrutinize those reports and seek appropriate redress if justified. But if the reports are not verifiable, we will accept the outcome, congratulate our new president‐elect, facilitate a smooth transition, and continue governing the nation to the best of our ability until January 20."
Sadly, Trump preferred inflammatory disinformation and outright lies – undermining what might otherwise have been a legitimate inquiry. In the process, he dangerously eroded voters' confidence in our electoral system and its republican foundations. In desperation, he put his personal interests above those of the nation – ironically but predictably lubricating a Democratic takeover of the Senate.
It's a shame that Trump couldn't bring himself to deliver a healing concession speech. He had much for which he could take credit – fewer regulations, lower taxes, a booming pre‐Covid economy, good judges, and selective progress abroad. Indeed, he deserves kudos for out‐performing the pundits' 2020 expectations – holding some Senate seats, gaining representation in the House, and capturing statehouses and state legislatures. But rather than conciliation, President Trump decided to incite his more radical supporters, some of whom committed contemptible, pernicious, and violent acts.
Even prior to the appalling episode at the Capitol, Trump's recorded phone call to Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger arguably violated both federal and state laws. The Georgia statute implicates any person who "solicits, requests, commands, importunes, or otherwise attempts to cause" another person to commit election fraud. The federal law applies to anyone who "knowingly and willfully" facilitates the "procurement, casting, or tabulation of ballots that are known by the person to be materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent."
During their hour‐long call, Trump threatened Raffensperger and instructed him to "find" votes. The President's defense would likely be that his solicitation to commit fraud wasn't knowing and willful; he intended only to rectify election returns that were fatally defective. That defense is without merit. Even if the votes in Georgia were inherently flawed, the remedy for fraud is not an inducement to more fraud. Such an inducement cannot be excused by alleging voting infractions.
In short, President Trump's conduct has been unacceptable. To be sure, the nation needs time to heal. So, the decision – urged by some observers – to impeach the President a second time, or remove him from office by invoking the 25th Amendment, may well hinge on prudential rather than legal assessments. Still, at a minimum, a congressional censure – joined in particular by Trump's Republican enablers – would be both welcome and warranted.
Elections and Election Law, Congress, Politics and Parties
Impeachment, the 25th Amendment and Trump's Final Days
We started the week with an impeachment debate that looked like a rewarmed version of the one we had last year. "Read the transcript!": when President Donald Trump got on the phone Saturday to lean on Georgia election officials, was it another "perfect call" or a second, sordid shakedown attempt?
By yesterday afternoon we were in entirely new territory: a violent mob storming and trashing the Capitol, four dead, guns and explosives seized, Congress evacuated, Vice President Mike Pence fleeing a mob inspired by the president's tweets. "We will never concede," Trump fumed at the pre‐riot rally, "you don't concede when there's theft involved. Our country has had enough. We're not going to take it any more.… if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country any more." Howard Beale only asked people to yell out of their windows, and he didn't have nuclear weapons.
As of Wednesday night there were at least 32 House Democrats publicly calling for a second impeachment. Though both houses are supposedly done working until after inauguration, an article of impeachment has already been drafted for circulation. And today, the incoming Senate Majority Leader called on Pence and the Cabinet to trigger the 25th Amendment and remove Trump from power.
Can either of those things be done? Both? How might the Constitution's presidential defenestration provisions work here? Let's take a look.
First, impeachment: the article of impeachment being circulated now charges Trump with making "statements that encouraged—and foreseeably resulted in—imminent lawless action at the Capitol." Is incitement to riot an impeachable offense? Yes: it's not even a hard question.
"High Crimes and Misdemeanors" is a broad term designed to reach serious misconduct that demonstrates unfitness for high office: not just criminality or abuse of official power but, as the Nixon‐era House Judiciary Committee report on "Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment" put it, conduct "grossly incompatible with the proper function and purpose of the office."
In fact, the first impeachment case to result in conviction and removal from office, Judge John Pickering (1803) involved a federal judge whose main offense was showing up to work drunk and behaving in a "profane and indecent manner … degrading to the honor of the United States." The 10th article of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson, approved by the House in 1868, charged the president with "a high misdemeanor in office" based on a series of "intemperate, inflammatory, and scandalous harangues" he'd delivered in an 1866 speaking tour. And Johnson didn't incite a riot.
Cato Publications, Constitution, the Law, and the Courts, Government and Politics
January 7, 2021 11:44AM
Mob Rule Is No Path to Liberty
By Peter Goettler
Yesterday, Congress was violently disrupted as it performed its constitutional duty. This was a direct attack on the Constitution of the United States, the rule of law, and our constitutional republic.
For more than two months President Trump has claimed, without plausible evidence and through multiple recounts and court cases, that he won the presidential election. As Cato scholars and many others have explained, the president's attempts to overturn the election are factually and legally baseless. His allegations of fraud have been consistently rejected by courts, state legislatures, governors and secretaries of state, and members of both parties in Congress.
Despite this, the president has persisted, and too many members of Congress have echoed his claims. By doing so, they have helped stoke the flames of distrust and division in ways that present a profound threat to liberty, and they must bear some responsibility for the actions that have followed.
Our colleague Walter Olson wrote in June, during protests against police violence, "It should not be that hard to distinguish between peaceful, lawful assembly in pursuit of political causes, on the one hand, and property destruction, assault, intimidation, looting, and riot, on the other." This remains true.
The violent disruption of constitutional processes is unacceptable and must be rejected unequivocally. Mob rule is no path to liberty. Attempting to forcibly keep a defeated president in power strikes at the core of the Constitution's provisions for protecting the rights and liberties of the American people.
The Cato Institute has long worked to encourage people everywhere to better understand and appreciate the principles of government that are set forth in America's Founding documents. Among these principles is the peaceful transfer of power after free and fair elections. The assault on the Capitol is a tragic violation of these principles. We condemn these actions in the strongest terms, support the rule of law and the Constitution, and reject the attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Having had his day in court, the president must stop disputing the election results and prepare immediately for the transition. We urge all elected officials to condemn lawlessness and violence and to commit to the truth, the Constitution, and the peaceful transfer of power.
Constitutional Studies, Congress, Politics and Parties
It's Time to Stop Protecting Unconstitutional Judges
Willie Carr and John Davis are both social security claimants whose applications for disability payments were denied by administrative law judges (ALJs) of the Social Security Administration (SSA). Those ALJs, like all social security ALJs at the time, were hired by agency staff members with no involvement from the social security commissioner. A short while after Carr and Davis had their claims denied, the Supreme Court decided Lucia v. SEC (2018), holding that ALJs of the Securities and Exchange Commission are "officers of the United States" and must be appointed in the manner that the Constitution's Appointments Clause requires—by the president, the head of their department, or a court.
In light of Lucia, there's no dispute that Social Security ALJs are also "officers of the United States" and that their hiring by agency staff violated the Constitution. The SSA admitted as much when the commissioner attempted to rehire all the ALJs herself. The ALJs who decided Davis and Carr's claims were thus appointed improperly, and the remedy for that defect is normally a new hearing before a properly appointed ALJ.
But when Davis and Carr asked for a new hearing before a new ALJ, both of their requests were denied. The Eighth and Tenth Circuits, respectively, both held that they had waived any right to raise an Appointments Clause objection in federal court because they had not raised it during their hearings before the improperly appointed ALJs themselves. In administrative law parlance, the courts held that Davis and Carr were barred by the doctrine of "issue exhaustion," a theory that an issue must be raised at every stage of an administrative process to receive judicial review.
Both Davis and Carr appealed to the Supreme Court, which granted and consolidated their cases. The Cato Institute has joined the New Civil Liberties Alliance to file an amicus brief supporting them. As explained in our brief, there is no federal statute or regulation preventing courts from considering issues not raised in a social security hearing. Creating a judge‐made bar to such claims is particularly inappropriate here because the SSA specifically told its ALJs not to address any Appointments Clause arguments if they were raised. It thus wouldn't have made any difference if Carr and Davis had raised the issue in their ALJ hearings.
Further, issue exhaustion rules are only appropriate for issues where, at a minimum, an administrative agency possesses the expertise and fact‐finding ability to act in the role of a court of first review. That's not the case here; non‐adversarial social security hearings are not designed to review questions of constitutional law, and social security ALJs profess no expertise on the subject.
Davis and Carr raised their Appointments Clause issue as soon as they reached federal court, and that should have been enough for their claim to be addressed on the merits. The Supreme Court should reverse the Eighth and Tenth Circuits and hold that judge‐made issue exhaustion is inappropriate for the type of structural constitutional claims that Carr and Davis have raised.
The case Carr v. Saul will be argued at the Supreme Court in early March.


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Roméo Elvis (* 13. prosince 1992), vlastním jménem Roméo Johnny Elvis Kiki Van Laeken, je belgický rapper. Rapuje ve své rodné francouzštině. Je bratrem belgické zpěvačky Angéle a synem belgického hudebníka Marky.

Jeho kariéra začala v letech 2013–2014 vydáním dvou EP s názvem Bruxelles c'est devenu la jungle a Famille nombreuse. Poté v roce 2016 vydal EP Morale. V letech 2017 a 2018 byla vydána další dvě alba: Morale 2 a reedice Morale 2 luxe (vydaná ze spolupráce s producentem Le Motel). Často spolupracuje s belgickou kapelou L'Or du Commun, duem Caballero & JeanJass a francouzským rapperem Lomepalem.

Životopis
Roméo Elvis se narodil 13. prosince 1992 v Uccle v Belgii do umělecké rodiny. Od mládí se zajímal o hudbu, vyvinul si ale svébytný styl, odlišný od stylu svého otce, zpěváka Marky, i od svojí mladší sestry, zpěvačky a klavíristky Angèle. Jeho matka je komička Laurence Bibota. Roméo Elvis vyrůstal v Linkebeeku, jižním předměstí Bruselu a později se přestěhoval do Forestu.

Po vyloučení z vysoké školy pokračoval ve studiu na Institut Saint-Luc Tournai, kde se věnoval malbě a ilustraci. Ve stejné době začal také rapovat se svými přáteli. Jeho umělecká průprava pokračovala na škole ESA 75 v Bruselu, kde studoval fotožurnalismus. Nadále se věnoval i rapu a sblížil se se členy skupiny L'Or du Commun.

V době vydání jeho prvního EP pracoval Roméo Elvis jako pokladní v řetězci supermarketů Carrefour. I přes svůj úspěch stále nebyl schopen vydělat dostatek peněz pouze rapováním. Krátce před vydáním alba Bruxelles ale opustil svoje zaměstnání, aby se věnoval výhradně hudbě.

Elvis trpí tinnitem, mezi hudebníky poměrně běžným onemocněním. Tento problém zmiňuje v mnoha svých skladbách, jako je L'oreille sifflante a Ma tête. V rozhovoru pro Radio Nova vysvětlil, že pokud by rapováním výrazně zbohatnul, věnoval by část svého jmění na boj s touto nemocí.

V roce 2019 Elvis začal spolupracovat s francouzskou značkou sportovního oblečení Lacoste na vytvoření limitované kolekce. Nicméně, poté, co byl na sociálních sítích obviněn ze sexuálního obtěžování, ukončila tato značka spolupráci. Roméo vždy nosí kus oblečení zobrazující krokodýla - jeho duchovní zvíře. Krokodýla zmiňuje v mnoha svých textech a má ho dokonce i vytetovaného.

Od roku 2015 je ve vztahu s modelkou Lenou Simonne. Napsal pro ni písně Lénita a Soleil. Vzali se 23. srpna 2021 v Périgordu.

Diskografie

Alba
 2017 : Morale 2 (album commun avec Le Motel)
 2019 : Chocolat
 2022 : Tout Peut Arriver

EP
 2013 : Bruxelles c'est devenu la jungle
 2014 : Famille nombreuse
 2016 : Morale
 2020 : Maison

Singly
 2016 : Bruxelles arrives (feat. Caballero)
 2019 : Malade
 2021 : TPA
 2021 : AC

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Narození v roce 1992
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Dallas Treatment Center Launches Smoking Cessation Program - Preston Hollow People
Stopping smoking cigarettes is one of the toughest habits to stop, as it takes an average of five to seven tries before a person achieves success quitting. Enterhealth, a Dallas based drug and alcohol treatment center, recently established a smoking cessation program for companies to help employees quit smoking. The program is also available for the public.
Children Suffer When Parents Abuse Alcohol and Drugs - Park Cities People
In her May Webinar for Enterhealth, Dr. Elizabeth Weidmer-Mikhail discussed the parents' use of alcohol and drugs and how it affects their children. Read all of the details in Park Cities People.
Texas Addiction Doctor Warns Oklahomans About Dangers Of Marijuana - KWTV News 9 Oklahoma
A Texas doctor has crossed state lines to speak out about the dangers of marijuana. Harold C. Urschel III, MD, MMA, addiction psychiatrist and Enterhealth chief medical strategist, visits Oklahoma ahead of this summer's vote to legalize medical marijuana. He was invited to speak to the Oklahoma Medical Board regarding the dangers of marijuana use.
Texas addiction doctor speaks to Oklahoma officials about dangers of marijuana - KOCO, News 5, Oklahoma City
Enterhealth's chief medical strategist, Dr. Harold C. Urschel III, addiction psychiatrist, was invited to speak to the Oklahoma Medical Board regarding the upcoming vote on the legalization of marijuana in Oklahoma. He shared with them that marijuana hurts people's brains along with the many other dangers of the drug.
VAPING CAN BE ADDICTIVE: Morning Dose - CW
Dr. Harold C. Urschel III, addiction psychiatrist and Enterhealth chief medical strategist, provides some startling facts about today's hot trend of vaping, how it actually affects your body and confirmation that it can lead to addiction.
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Artist on Location
Maui Nō Ka 'Oi Magazine 25th Anniversary
Beginner's Mind
At Eighty, Douglas Chun is reinventing his art by pursuing his passion.
Story by Rita Goldman
Beyond the windows of the studio in Douglas Chun's Kula home, Nature is reveling in silent fecundity. Coffee, citrus and pepper trees, jacarandas and a Chinese magnolia preside over clumps of night-blooming jasmine, agapanthus, tree ferns and roses. Out there, gardener Chun maintains a civilized order over all that floral exuberance. In here, artist Chun celebrates it with canvas and color.
He nods toward a pair of paintings exploding with turquoise, green and red, and says Germination I and II pay homage to nature's creative force. "I wanted to capture the miracle of life," he says, "the seed — so simple — germinating into something so complex that no human being can create it."
As he recounts the arc of his life and artistic career, it becomes clear that, for Douglas Chun, nature is at once inspiration, refuge and metaphor.
A native of Guangzhou whose family fled China's Maoist revolution, Douglas pursued fine art at the San Francisco Art Institute, but when his first child came along, his career path took an abrupt detour.
"I needed a job, and there weren't any want ads for fine artists," he says with a slight smile. "By chance, I saw an opening for an architectural illustrator."
He got the position, and for nearly four decades, fine art took a back seat, though he continued to pursue it in his free time. Finally, at the stage of life when most people consider retiring, Douglas gave up his day job and devoted himself to painting.
By the time he and wife Janet arrived on Maui, some twenty years ago, Douglas had become an accomplished watercolorist. His work hung in galleries along the West Coast, was in public and private collections throughout the U.S. and abroad, and quickly won fans and collectors on Maui.
Despite that success, Douglas was restless. "I had always wanted to do abstraction; I explored it early in life. It's much easier to market representational work," he adds candidly, "but I find it difficult to express my emotions through representational art. When you paint a landscape, what you see is what you get: sunrise or high noon, windy or rainy day."
For Douglas, abstraction not only offers more avenues for expressing emotion, it invites greater involvement from viewers, encouraging them to bring their own interpretations to the act of seeing.
In the late 1990s, Douglas began to experiment with abstracts, moving between that style and representational painting.
Then, in 2005, he stopped painting altogether.
"I got sidetracked into Buddhism and calligraphy," he says.
"I grew up during a turbulent time in China. I was brought up to believe you have to produce something. That old pattern was hard to break away from.
"The path is not always straight. Sometimes you go in and out; sometimes you fall off the cliff."
"Practicing calligraphy, and studying the sutras [Buddhist scripture] taught me that it's okay not to do anything, that you don't have to take things so seriously. That's when I began to spend my days in the garden. I would do my calligraphy in the morning, and garden the rest of the time. I did calligraphy every day for five years; it was very meditative.
"Chinese calligraphy is a very abstract form of expression, like hieroglyphics or pictographs," Douglas adds. "The origin of the word 'bird' was a picture of a bird; over four- or five-thousand years of evolution, it got simplified."
Eventually, calligraphy drew Douglas back to painting. At the age of seventy-nine, he began to paint the way he had always wanted. He switched to acrylic, a medium that allows him to work on a larger scale, and is more forgiving than watercolor.
"I begin with a basic concept," he says, "but the painting may not end up the way I visualized it. It's a process of search and discovery, sometimes search and destroy. With watercolor, I might go through five or six paintings to arrive at my concept. With acrylic, I can paint over. The path is not always straight. Sometimes you go in and out; sometimes you fall off the cliff."
That willingness to start over, to remain enthusiastic and open to discovery long after you have mastered the technical skill, is an attribute Zen Buddhists call shoshin, "beginner's mind." To paraphrase Zen monk Shunryu Suzuki: the expert's mind holds few possibilities; the beginner's mind holds many.
"It's interesting to watch someone with Doug's skill with a brush," says Richard Nelson, a Maui artist and educator who has used one of Chun's paintings to teach other artists concepts of volume, space and atmosphere. "He knows perspective, how to render a form in 3D space — a skill that seems lacking today. Doug had for so many years been in architectural rendering. That fenced him in. It's not an easy transition from there to fine art; it's almost easier for someone with an empty plate to do."
Douglas views this accomplishment with quiet aplomb, crediting a long life for helping him become more confident in expressing his emotions. "I'm more mature," he says, "not technically, but as a person.
"Age brings greater patience," he adds with a grin. "I don't tear up paintings anymore.
"I'm painting what I always wanted to paint."
Find more of Douglas Chun's oeuvre at www.douglaschun.com, and meet the artist in person at his Kula studio during Maui Open Studios.
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Aspen defense attorney loses traffic case
Aspen Times staff report
Aspen, CO Colorado
ASPEN – Over the years Aspen attorney Richard Cummins has successfully defended a number of alleged criminals, including Charlie Sheen, but he couldn't get himself out of a traffic ticket Wednesday.
Cummins appeared in Municipal Court to fight a citation that he ran a stop sign at the intersection of Durant Avenue and Aspen Street on Jan. 11. He pleaded not guilty, contending that the roads were icy and he was driving on a downward slope. Instead of running the risk of his brakes locking by stopping, he ran the stop sign instead, he said.
But Judge Ted Gardenswartz, sitting in for Brooke Peterson, said he had no choice but to find Cummins guilty, after reviewing video evidence providing by citing officer David Thompson.
"You could have made that stop," Gardenswartz said. "I'm going to find you guilty."
Gardenswartz, however, cut the fine for Cummins from $100 to $75.


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The product and services that we offer to our Customers, as well as all our processes, are oriented to quality and innovation thanks to the experience gained in forty years of activity and to the long lasting partnerships with our stakeholders that share our same work philosophy.
Our Value is the Value that our Customers recognize in us: finding solutions, customizing and industrializing them, for a few pieces or for large lots, is our mission, which we carry forward with listening, dedication and flexibility.
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I have a friend with a fear of publicly shared food. She does not "do" pot lucks. She does not partake in that coffee cake in the lunch room. And, chocolate fountains? Forget it. Just mention the word and she shudders uncontrollably.
I always thought it was just her hang up. I mean, hello?! It's chocolate! Then, I got to thinking. Not everyone out there is, um, conscious of the consequences of their actions. They are not thinking about germs and calories, but about indulging and having fun. They may not even be aware that double-dipping is not just dipping the actual strawberry a second time, but also includes using the same skewer more than once. If it was in your mouth and you put it back into the chocolate flow, you just added your saliva to the mix. Nice!
Which brings me to another point, people drink at weddings. A lot. Alcohol lets people forget their manners and general hygiene. If the caterer doesn't staff the fountain with a watch dog, there will be a guaranteed drunk sticking their finger directly in that chocolate. Gross, yes. Even worse, think about their hand-washing technique (or lack thereof) after those three whiskey sours. Eewwww! You spent hundreds of dollars on a chocolate fountain for your top-of-the-line wedding and now there is you-know-what in it. Kinda makes you re-think that decision.
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HARDI Fills Gaps in Market Intelligence and Membership Teams
Heating, Air-conditioning & Refrigeration Distributors International (HARDI) is pleased to announce the addition of two new employees, Joe Hartge, data analyst, and Warren Patrick, account manager.
Under the Market Intelligence pillar, Hartge plays a key role in helping HARDI achieve its vision to provide economic analysis and forecasts that allow HARDI members to realize a competitive advantage. Hartge will join Tim Fisher, team leader of Market Intelligence, and Brian Loftus, market research and benchmarking analyst, and will play an integral part in supporting HARDI's Market Intelligence services, including the research and econometric analysis essential to delivering insightful industry forecasts.
"Joe is incredibly bright as has the necessary pedigree to help Market Intelligence support the needs of HARDI members. He also shares our team's vision for how to grow Market Intelligence, and will be integral to our efforts moving forward," said Fisher.
Hartge is currently pursuing his Master of Arts in economics at The Ohio State University and is an Eagle Scout.
Patrick joins HARDI's membership team as an account manager, assisting HARDI members in capitalizing on the products and services HARDI offers. With previous experience in managing and supporting accounts in different industries, Patrick brings added knowledge and passion to support current and prospective HARDI members. Patrick's role will have a focus on HARDI's wholesaler membership categories.
"Warren is an excellent addition to the team. He not only brings previous experience establishing and cultivating valuable relationships, but also is a great team player and collaborator," said Director of Marketing and Sales Chris DeBoer. "I look forward to Warren meeting and connecting with our members very soon."
Patrick is an avid Columbus Blue Jackets fan and co-runs The CBJ Artillery fan group and podcast. He takes on the account manager role following Sarah Jilbert.
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Buzz Words: Shiver Me Timbers!
This is the tale told in a rhyming text of a fearsome pirate crew , including a chorus of 'rolling waves and the words 'ho ho ho' repeated on each double spread.
In a book for young children who will love to listen to the story told aloud, Captain Black and his pirate crew go looking for treasure in a swashbuckling, sea shanty adventure on the high seas. The story highlights aspects of the life of pirates from obedience to Captain Black, chores, doing a poo overboard, giant octopus and the demise of Captain Black. Details such as these are followed at the end of the book by facts about pirates of the seventeenth and eighteenth century.
The placement of the text is sometimes used to emphasise an action, for example, the words, 'He likes to use his whip,' is curved and swirls across the page. The vibrant illustrations are full of movement, with an interesting use of different pictorial formats and emotional communication often shown through the pirates' body language.


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Gun Shop Promotes Semi-Automatics With Horror Movie Trailer
Idea Grove points us to an interesting little ad clip for Salt lake City, Utah gun shop Totally Awesome Guns & Range which has garnered 53,000 views on Flurl as of March 5. The video poses as a bad horror movie trailer and humorously closes with "A horror movie doesn't have to last two hours as long as you have a quality firearm." While humorous, this one's sure to get anti-gun folk up in arms...wait...not arms....they don't do arms. But they'll definitely be pissed. Watch it here.
by Steve Hall Mar- 5-06
Topic: Commercials, Online, Viral
Axe Helps Men Avoid Questionable Hook-Ups
With its usual wit, Axe has come out with yet another quirky promotion, this time, for its Axe Snake Gel, an exfoliating shower gel. A site called The Order of the Serpentine was developed to provide support for guys who have suffered from the "questionable hook-up." For any guy that's rolled over in the morning and wished he'd never hopped into bed in the first place, this site functions as a support group of sorts with an in-depth look at the history of questionable hook-ups and a look at the genesis of The Order of the Serpentine. As always, it's good stuff.
Mercedes Thinks AOL Is Icon of Pop Culture
Laughably describing AOL as some sort of "icon of pop culture," Mercedes Benz has signed a deal with AOL to "spotlight a new generation of artists through the premier online music destination AOL Music." Mercedes-Benz and AOL Music launched "On Our Radar," a feature that lets fans wallow in discovery of new music. It's part of the car manufacturer's yearlong collaboration with AOL Music on its Breakers program, which showcases a selection of developing artists. The partnership will promote the new Mercedes-Benz C-Class while bringing new artists to what Mercedes and AOL believe to be "the eyes and ears of trendsetting, young music fans."
Topic: Brands, Online, Promotions, Sponsorship, Strange
Chewing Gum Game Let's You Kiss the World, Win An iPod
Adverblog points to a little facial suckage contest called Kiss Off created by Dutch agency Qi for its client Stimorol Chewing Gum. It's a typical challenge game in which you choose your kissing character, your friend's character and the type of kiss. The challenge is then sent via email to the friend for viewing. The ubiquitous iPod is offered as a prize if your kiss is good enough. Britney won't be sending it to Kevin anytime soon.
Topic: Games, Good, Online, Promotions, Viral
New Celebrity-Powered Aids One Campaign Makes Online Debut
Today, the celebrity-fueled Aids One campaign launched a new :30 video online on the AOL properties AIM Today, AOL.com/Television and TMZ. Tomorrow, the campaign will spread to AOL.com and the AOL service. All ad space has been donated by AOL. Celebrities appearing in the campaign include Tom Hanks, George Clooney, Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz, Penelope Cruz, Brad Pitt, Gwen Stefani, Dave Matthews, Coldplay, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, 50 Cent and Bono.
Topic: Campaigns, Celebrity, Commercials, Online
P & G Launches $500 Watch And Win Soap Opera Promotion
Beginning March 13 and continuing for six and one half months during episodes of Procter & Gamble Productions' Guiding Light and As The World Turns on CBS, a multi-digit numerical code will appear on screen which viewers can match with the code they obtained off DaytimeDollars.com to win $500. It's a win-win straight forward strategy to increase viewership and ratings providing increased visibility of Procter & Gamble's and other advertisers' products as well as potentially increased ad revenue for CBS.
Topic: Brands, Good, Online, Promotions, Television
Marketing Tips Offered to Movie Studios
Chris Thilk who writes the Movie Marketing Madness weblog has compiled a list of five tips movie marketers should heed when launching a movie marketing campaign. Chief among the tips is the recognition that the studio is not nor should be the sole source of information and content about a given movie. Thilk suggests studios should acknowledge and link to other sources of information about a movie rather than pretend the studio's website is the only place for movie info. He also says studios should make use of RSS to push out updates and deliver added information rather than require a movie's fans to remember to return to the site. Thilk also says studios should take an active role in joining the ongoing online conversation about a movie by searching Technorati for mentions and responding to what's being said about the movie.
Topic: Good, Online, RSS, Word of Mouth
Pen Company Hopes For Viral Spread of Message
Staedtler writing implement company has launched a campaign in Australia to increase use of its products. The only domestic manufacturer of pens and pencils in the country, Staedtler faces competition from the all mighty keyboard, those pesky imports and the death of the handwritten letter. Acknowledging this, Staedtler, with help from Host, have created a campaign that leverages dependence on the keyboard for correspondence. The campaign consists of a site on which visitors can craft a handwritten message and have it mailed to a friend (in Australia) but the return address will be that of the website from which the note originated. Host hopes this spirals and causes recipients to visit the site, create their own notes and spread the campaign exponentially.
The site will also be promoted with print ads and handwritten notes placed in public places throughout Melbourne and Sydney. We're not quite sure how continually driving people to a website to create digital notes will increase sales of physical pens and pencils but, like, whatever. It'll be fun to watch the whole country pen-pal'ing itself.
by Steve Hall Feb-28-06
Topic: Online, Viral
Legitimized Software-Install Ad Channel Introduced
Hoping to stand up as a model against software-install spyware, Santa-Barbara-based onCommercials has introduced a formalize revenue share model with aims to "official-ize" software-install advertising. Software developers can use onCommercials code to display commercials during the loading process of their software. Each time the application is started a commercial will be shown, dynamically chosen by onCommercials serving technology.
Topic: Desktop, Good, Online, Tools
Nike Partners With Run London, Google Maps, Launches RunLondon
Nike, in conjunction with AKQA, has launched RouteFinder, a Google Maps-powered tool that helps runners plan a route around London. RouteFinder let's runners create, measure, save and share their running routes along with other runners in London. AKQA combined the Run London and Google Maps interfaces to provide a range of functions and features that have more in common with a standalone application than a web page.
Using Run London graphical elements, users can search the city by postcode, distance, or type of run for routes other runners have created. Or they can begin creating a run of their own simply by clicking points on the map. They can even save a list of favorite routes, send them on to friends and browse the top-five routes of the season. Ducky.


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The pain's the same
I read with astonishment Keith A. Owens' column trumpeting the promise of the Kilpatrick administration ("Kilpatrick's promises: smoke & character," Metro Times, Jan. 9-15). Weeks before, the same columnist vehemently opposed discrimination and bigotry in all forms, going to the extreme of using the word "nigger" to drive his point home. Presumably he is aware of the comments Kilpatrick made about homosexuals on a religious talk show. By his endorsement of and alignment with Kilpatrick, it is presumed that he adopts those attitudes or does not realize the weight that those comments carried. Owens also appears to reflect the mindset of the majority of the voters in Detroit, that those comments didn't matter. It appears that the black voters in Detroit never considered that the pain Kilpatrick caused to gays and lesbians is the same pain that has been inflicted on them through prejudice and bigotry. I have recently read that Kilpatrick has disputed this and has said that the struggle for gay people is different than the struggle for African-Americans. I can't comment as I do not know how it is to be a black man. But on a recent episode of "In The Life" a gay black male activist was quoted as saying "I have been called a nigger and I have been called a faggot; it's the same thing." —Christopher Jackson, Detroit
Unreal estate
Sometimes I forget where your market truly is. Then I happened upon the lovely new feature "Abandoned House of the Week" (News Hits, Metro Times, Jan. 9-15), and was quickly reminded where the majority of your advertising dollars must come from: outside the City of Detroit. Isn't this sort of feature so "Devil's Night?" Do people still really get off on the "failure of Detroit?" How sad, when there are so many individual solutions to the problems of our city. Rather than mocking these problems from afar, it would behoove all of us, even suburbanites, to work toward a solution. Volunteer for Greening of Detroit, Habitat for Humanity, the DIA. Buy one of these diamonds in the rough and fix it up.
Let's get beyond the smug feeling of security from those west of Telegraph and north of Eight Mile addresses, where Detroit's demise can be watched in safety. Like it or not, we are all in this together, and I would hope the Metro Times would promote solutions to our current situation rather than pointing out the results of our mistakes without placing them into the appropriate context. I know you guys can do better than that.
Plus, won't you run out of cute little tongue-in-cheek euphemisms like "airy" fairly soon? —Kelli B. Kavanaugh, Detroit
Awake and dreaming
Kudos to Melissa Giannini for her entertaining article on Slumber Party ("Up all night," Metro Times, Dec. 26, 2001-Jan 1., 2002), who played a set I greatly enjoyed on New Year's Eve. I enjoyed the Slumber Party article and am moved by their music. I was glad to see a long-overdue feature on this fine band. —Frank Bartlo, fralb@hotmail.com, Detroit
If you question the "America as a family" line of thought ("Stars, stripes & doubts," Metro Times, Dec. 26, 2001-Jan 1., 2002), just remember our age of psychotherapy and remind yourself that families can be dysfunctional, but we manage to survive them, and love them anyway. —Erin Rasmussen, Portland, Ore.
The News Hits item "Kudos for Conyers" (Metro Times, Jan. 9-16) should have referred to Elizabeth Hacker as a judge for the Executive Office for Immigration Review. The office is independent of the Immigration and Naturalization Service which represents the government in cases before immigration judges.
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Global Matters: Are the US still qualified as host of United Nations??
The White House has refused to issue a visa to Iran´s pick for UN ambassador. See what our experts say about this.
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This week on Global Matters: As the host country for the United Nations (and its headquarter in New York), the U.S. has obliged themselves to act impartially. Now the White House has denied visa to Iran´s chosen ambassador to the UN because he had an (apparently minor) role in the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran in 1979. Before that, US Congress and the Senate had passed a law barring Mr. Aboutalebi from the US. That´s why we asked the question: Are the US still qualified as a host country for theUN.
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Charles Wesley Stidham of Jenks, Oklahoma went to be with The Lord on February 8, 2020. He was born in Mound City, Kansas on July 23,1937 to Myrtle and Ernest Stidham. Charles was loved by many and is remembered for his generosity and kindness as well as his dedication and service to others. Charles graduated from Blackwell High School in 1955 and went on to receive his Accounting degree from Oklahoma State University. He began his career in Finance and Accounting as CPA at Peat Marwick Mitchell and later moved into the banking business where he served as Chief Financial Officer at Sooner Federal Savings & Loan. Before retiring in 2009 he worked as the Treasurer at Tulsa Public Schools. Charles is survived by his sister Betty Smyth (Max) of Blackwell, Oklahoma, his sons Rick Stidham (Suzanne) of Phoenix, Arizona and James Stidham (Asako) of Kamakura, Japan, his daughters Lisa Saldana (Daniel) of Frisco, Texas and Sheryl Fritts (Mike) of Tulsa, Oklahoma, step-daughter Angela Evans (Ed) of Eufaula, Oklahoma, and step-son Matt Montgomery (Tisha) of Siloam Springs, Arkansas, his grandchildren Ava and Tara Fritts, Ryan, Tyler and Kyle Saldana, Dylon MacEachran, Brooke Pemberton, Matthew Evans, Brittany Shaddox, and Madison Montgomery along with 8 great-grandchildren and numerous aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews, extended family members and a host of friends. Charles is preceded in death by his wife Donna Stidham, his parents Myrtle and Ernest Stidham and his brother Robert Stidham. A visitation is scheduled at Floral Haven Funeral Home on Thursday, February 13, 2020 from 5-8 pm. Funeral Services will be held at Floral Haven on Saturday, February 15, 2020 at 12:30 pm with a reception following at their family center. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to John 3:16 or the Tulsa Food Bank.
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LA Galaxy Sign Midfielder Efrain Alvarez
LA Galaxy, 03/05/18
Galaxy sign 15-year-old LA Galaxy Academy product to MLS contract. Alvarez, at 15 years and 258 days, becomes the seventh youngest MLS signing in league history, two days behind Vancouver Whitecaps FC's Alphonso Davies.
FRANCE, IRELAND AND PARAGUAY LINED UP AS PART OF AGGRESSIVE 2018 SCHEDULE FOR U.S. MEN'S NATIONAL TEAM
US Soccer, 02/12/18
Tickets for USA-Paraguay go on sale to the general public Friday, Feb. 23, at 10 a.m. ET through ussoccer.com and by phone at 1-800-745-3000.
CARLOS CORDEIRO ELECTED AS 32ND U.S. SOCCER PRESIDENT
Cordeiro was victorious in the first contested U.S. Soccer presidential election since 1998, winning the majority vote in an eight-candidate field which also featured Paul Caligiuri, Kathy Carter, Steve Gans, Kyle Martino, Hope Solo, Michael Winograd and Eric Wynalda.
MIDFIELDER MORGAN BRIAN AND DEFENDER BECKY SAUERBRUNN RULED OUT OF U.S. WNT JANUARY CAMP
USsoccer, 01/16/18
Brian Will Stay in France with Her Club as She Continues Return to Fitness; Sauerbrunn Departs Camp to Rest Due to Stress Reaction in Left Foot
Dom Dwyer – US national team – celebration ISI Photos Dom Dwyer pulls out of US men's national team camp due to hamstring injury
MLSsoccer, 01/10/18
Players are reporting on Wednesday to the StubHub Center in Carson, Calif. for the start of camp
LA Galaxy forward Gyasi Zardes called in for annual U.S. Men's National Team January Camp
With 37 caps, Gyasi Zardes is the most seasoned player at the international level, followed by Juan Agudelo (27), Jordan Morris (24) and Paul Arriola (15), Zardes, a graduate of the LA Galaxy Academy, is one of 19 players on the roster with ties to a U.S. Soccer Development Academy club.
Check out which LA Galaxy matches will be on national TV in 2018
ESPN will have two games in the new LAFC-LA Galaxy rivalry, on Jul 26 and Aug. 24. Among ESPN's prime time telecasts of MLS are a pair of matchups between rivals Atlanta United and Orlando City SC on Sat, Jun 30 at 7 p.m. and Fri, Aug. 24 at 8 p.m.
LA Galaxy re-sign midfielder Baggio Husidic
Husidic and the LA Galaxy will open the 2018 MLS Regular Season at StubHub Center on Sunday, March 4, at 7 p.m. PT against Portland Timbers.
LA Galaxy re-sign defender Ashley Cole
Cole and the LA Galaxy will open the 2018 MLS Regular Season at StubHub Center on Sunday, March 4, at 7 p.m. PT against Portland Timbers.
Timbers acquire central defender Julio Cascante
Portland Timbers, 01/04/18
A native of Puerto Limón, Costa Rica, Cascante, 24, joins Portland with 107 professional appearances (93 starts) since making his debut in the Costa Rica Primera Division with Orión FC in 2011.
LAFC Announces First Matches In Club History
LAFC, 01/04/18
LAFC also announced the club will open Banc of California Stadium, its new home in the heart of Los Angeles, on Sunday, April 29 in a 6 p.m. match-up vs. the Sounders.
New LA Galaxy Director of Player Personnel and Scouting Kurt Schmid determined to improve roster immediately
Schmid and the rest of the Galaxy technical staff will seek to rebuild a team that finished with the worst record in club history.
SARACHAN CALLS 21 PLAYERS FOR FRIENDLY VS. EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS PORTUGAL
Kickoff at Estádio Dr.Magalhães Pessoa is set for 3:45 p.m. ET, and the match will be broadcast live on FS1, UniMas and UDN.
MNT FORGES AHEAD WITH PORTUGAL MATCH ON TUESDAY
The match against Portugal represents the first steps forward for the MNT after last month's disappointment. MNT's upcoming friendly against Portugal – Tuesday, Nov. 14 (3:45 p.m. ET; FS1, UniMás, UDN)
FIVE THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT WESTON MCKENNIE
His play has also drawn the notice of the MNT, leading to his first call-up this month. McKennie will look to earn his first cap on Tuesday, Nov. 14 against Portugal (3:45 p.m. ET; FS1, Univision, Unimas).
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De lijst van Bretonse eilanden geeft een (onvolledig) overzicht van eilanden voor de kust van Bretagne

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 Île Aganton
 Île d'Arun
 Île d'Arz

B
 Île de Batz
 Belle-Île-en-Mer
 Île de Berder
 Île à Bois
 Île Brannec
 Archipel de Bréhat, met Île de Bréhat, Île Ar-Morbic, Île Béniguet, Île Lavrec, Île Logodec, Île Maudez, Île Raguenès

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 Île Callot
 Île Carn
La Cormorandière

D
 Île Dumet

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Archipel des Ebihens
 Île d'Er
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Gavrinis
Georges Briot
Glénan-archipel
Le Grand-Pourier
Île-Grande
Groix

H
 Hoëdic
 Île d'Houat

K
Île de Keller

L
Léndénéz Vraz
Île Longue (Finistère)
Île Longue (Morbihan)
Île Louët (Finistère)

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Île Melon
Mez de Goëlo
Île Milliau
 Île aux Moines
 Molène
Île des Morts (Finistère)

O
 Ouessant

P
Île Perdue

R
Île du Renard
Rimains
Île Ronde (Rade de Brest)

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Eilandjes bij Saint-Malo: Grand Bé, Petit Bé, La Conchée, Cézembre, Fort National, Fort du Guesclin, Île Harbour
 Îlot Saint-Michel
 Île de Sein
 Les Sept Îles: Île Bono, Île Plate, Jentilez, Malban, Rouzic, Le Cerf, Les Costans, Île aux Rats, ar Moudennoù

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Île Tascon
Île de Térénez
Île de Tibidy
Île Trébéron
Île Tristan

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