#for example i may go ahead and do the readings for february 6 tonight

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Okay. Objective #4 is done.

The research tasks are getting moved again, because this took all afternoon.

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World-Renowned Naples Jazz Orchestra to Perform Count Basie Tribute

(from January 2015)

On Monday, February 2, the Naples Jazz Orchestra will be performing A Tribute to Count Basie at Cambier Park in downtown Naples at 7 p.m.

The Naples Jazz Orchestra is a world-class act, bringing together the finest musicians in the world, focusing on large-ensemble performance.

This concert is a part of a larger jazz concert series at held Cambier Park that encompasses acts like the Naples Dixieland Band, Gulf Coast Big Band, and the Music Makers.

NJO founder, musical director and drummer Bob Stone shared this about the art form itself.

“In a word, it means freedom. It’s America’s music,” he said. “They build palaces to white European classical music in this country. Beethoven’s Fifth sounds the same in Chicago as it does in Vienna. However Count Basie’s Band or a jazz band in New York tonight will sound different tomorrow night in London.”

Count Basie was a leader in Big Band jazz, which Stone described as “presented swing to a new definitive.”

“There was a time I went to see Count Basie’s Band. I had to walk out because my head was bobbing so much,” said Stone.

Stone has more than 40 years of experience as professional musician, playing drums for the likes of Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Count Basie himself. Stone also lead his world-renowned, Bob Stone Band Even with all that experience, preparing for concerts is no easy feat.

“When you deal with 15 people, who come a great distance, some of our people come from as far away as Clearwater, Sarasota, Miami, St. Petersburg, Orlando … and come here for rehearsals and the show,” Stone said. “Some have to make two trips in two days.”

“In preparation, it’s nuts. This is year-round thing. Just because the series ends on April 6 doesn’t mean we pack up and go home. We start planning for next year,” Stone said.

“Our musicians work for us, but they work for other people, so there’s conflicts,” he said. “We pay our musicians. You cannot get this caliber of musicians without money. Serious money.”

Another issue that the band faces is attendance. The NJO is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, which means the resources to fund the orchestra come from donations. The concerts are held outside, which means attendance depends on good weather. Orchestra manager Pamela Carey shared a great example of what troubles they run into preparing for.

“Last week, there was only the threat of rain, and only 500 people showed up for a world-renowned guest artist, two of them,” she said. “Byron Stripling, who plays the trumpet, and Bobby Floyd, who plays both the piano and the Hammond B3 organ.”

Even with all the problems that the NJO may run into making the shows happen, Stone still finds the experience of performing rewarding.

“It depends on how well you play. Problem is, you never know until you play, but when you do, it’s unbelievable. It’s a feeling unlike anything else.”

Orchestra double bassist Paul Shewchuk of Hollywood, Florida shared his view on why jazz still excites him and why it is still relevant.

“It’s different every time you play. There’s so many angles to it. It’s American, our biggest export. It’s very creative and engaging. You really got to read music well and stay ahead music.”

The results of the hard work put into making concerts are rewarding. Naples resident and long-time attendee Joel Miller can attest to what the NJO does. “I appreciate the all kinds of music, but with jazz, I love the history, the melody, the rhythm,” Miller said. “They really are a world-class act.”

To find out more about the NJO, visit naplesjazzorchestra.org. To learn more about the Jazz Concert Series at Cambier Park, visit naplesgov.com.

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02/20/2019 DAB Transcript

Leviticus 9:7-10:20, Mark 4:26-5:20, Psalms 37:30-40, Proverbs 10:6-7

Today is the 20th day of February. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian again with a big smile on my face because I am happy, but I am forcing this smile because I am tired. But that's okay. You know, jet lag is something that dissipates. Greetings from the land of the Bible. We are in Ashdod on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea with the ocean out there and it's beautiful as always. Ashdod was a Philistine stronghold, one of their five governing cities back in the day. And we haven't gotten to this point in our reading from the Scriptures we’re we begin to interact with the Philistines, but the Israelites and the Philistines were not always compatible, but our modern Ashdod is a coastal city and this is where we all gathered and got to know each other a bit last night and kind of just interact a little. Excitement is high. Fatigue is fairly high. Think we’re gonna be running largely on adrenaline today but that makes for a good night’s sleep tonight and that's what we need. So, today we’ll be heading out from Ashdod and heading south into the wilderness and I'll share that story tomorrow. But today, we need to get into the Scriptures and take the next step forward. That will lead us back into the book of Leviticus. We’re reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week. Leviticus 9:7 through 10:20.

Commentary:

Okay. So, in the book of Matthew yesterday, Jesus used agricultural examples, seed and soil and types of soil and what happens to the seed based on what type of soil that it's planted in. And, so, as we came into today's reading from the gospel of Mark we find that Jesus wasn't done with that discussion. He just kind of expanded it to the whole of God's kingdom. And the example He used was how a farmer will go out and plant at the right time and then, you know, he’ll wake up and go to sleep and wake up and go to sleep and wake up and go to sleep, days will pass, even months will pass, both day and night and the plant will grow. The crop will grow even though the farmer doesn't have any control over it and has to patiently wait. And then Jesus also compared the kingdom of heaven to a tiny mustard seed, right? It’s the smallest of all seeds He said but then it becomes the largest of the plants in the field. So, Jesus chose these metaphors for reason and in part it would be because his hearers would understand the story but they are no less poignant for us today at all because, in effect Jesus is telling us that the kingdom of heaven is happening all the time, right, day and night, even while the farmer doesn't know how it's happening it is happening, right? And Jesus also says that the kingdom of heaven is a collaboration, right seed and soil and although it begins small and grows and spreads and flourishes and gives life as we patiently cultivate and participate in the harvest. So, the kingdom is everywhere, and the kingdom is now. And even though we’re waiting for the fullness of the harvest, right, the fullness of God's kingdom, we are supposed to be diligent in planting seeds and nurturing the growth and harvesting the fruit. And it's not just out facing into the world, like we need to plant good seeds of good behavior and plant little witnesses of Jesus all over the place, although that we are. It’s also supposed to be as near as our own heart. We have to consider what’s being planted inside of us, because whatever it is that's what's going to grow up around us and we don't want to have a lot of weeds planted in our lives and then they grow up without us even knowing how their growing up around us. We want to be good soil.

Prayer:

Father, we acknowledge all of this and we invite Your Holy Spirit to come. This is a year where we are supposed to maintain, which means we are supposed to do maintenance. And in so many ways this is exactly what You're talking about when we’re talking about being good soil and tending a garden and seeing the kingdom flourish, not only with in us, but around us everywhere we go. And we will not be able to maintain or cultivate this without Your Holy Spirit and we won't be able to plant these good seeds or allow them to be planted in our lives if we aren't good soil. So, come Holy Spirit, show us the thorny places, show us the rocky places, show us the stubborn places that need to become good soil. As we reclaim these stony and thorny places in our lives and cultivate good soil within them, then the garden of our heart is expanding, and we have more room for more harvest. So, come Holy Spirit we pray. In the mighty name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

Announcements:

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And what's going on around here is that our journey, our pilgrimage throughout the land of the Bible, well, it kinda began last night at our dinner but we’ll all be loading up on the buses and going and seeing things today and changing geography. We will end up quite a ways south of where we are right now. We’re on the Mediterranean coast. So, we are, well, we’re essentially as westward as you can go in the land of the Bible because there's an ocean there, there's nowhere else to go. But we will be heading to the southernmost point of Israel today as we experience the wilderness. And we’ll be posting pictures, videos, anything that we can to kind of keep this an interactive process as it's happening. So, certainly follow Daily Audio Bible on all the social media channels. You can find them at dailyaudiobible.com in the Community section. And yeah, just asking for your prayers. This is kind of our inauguration day where we’re just kind of getting into a new rhythm of traveling around the way that we will be and experiencing the land the way that we will be and also getting to know each other the way that we will be over the next couple of weeks. So, thank you for your prayers.

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And, as always, if you have a prayer request or comment, 877-942-4253 is the number to dial.

And that's it for today. I'm Brian I love you and I'll be waiting for you here tomorrow.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Hi, it’s Sherry from Kansas. I was just listening to community prayer from February 9th and I want to thank Candace from Oregon for sharing the song with us, “Hallelujah, what a Savior”. The song, the melody I just keep hearing it over and over and I want to sing it out. So, thank you so much for sharing that with us and I do want to say thank you to Brian and his family. Your program is changing my life and I know you’ve heard that before but since I called in on December…my prayer request was played on December 8th…my life is completely turning around, not my circumstances, but me. And the Bible is coming alive to me in a way it’s…it never has before, and I’ve been to Bible college, I graduated but now I’m reading the Bible, I’m listening to the Bible and I’m hearing things and seeing things I never saw before and it’s amazing! So, I am so grateful to all of you for praying for me and my brother Kenneth. I thank you Brian, I thank you Candace, I thank you Blind Tony for your poetry. Those poems are about life. It’s real. Thank you. Thank you for everyone who calls in and how encouraging it is to hear all of you. I love you so much and I’m telling everyone I know about Daily Audio Bible. Thank you. God, bless. Bye-bye.

Hello dear DAB family, a year ago, the 2018 Israel group was preparing this once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage. Those vivid memories bring me joy and inspiration. I know all of you will join me in prayer. Dear Lord and Savior, protect, provide, challenge, and guide the 2019 Israel journey. Bless Brian and his family, the tour guides, the bus drivers, the hotel coordinators, and the pilgrims. This is a pilgrim’s prayer by Jenny Child. God of our pilgrimage, you have given us a desire to take the questing way and set out on our journey. Help us to keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, that whatever we encounter as we travel we may seek to glorify You by the way we live. Amen. Dear pilgrims, your encouraging fellow DABbers from all corners of the world join you virtually as you traverse the land of the Bible. This is Cindy who relocated to Texas from Germany. Love you all. God, bless.

Hello my DAB family, this is Mark Street from Sydney Australia, today is Saturday the 16th of February and Byron I’ve just heard your message about your son and I’m gonna say this quickly because I don’t have time to explain but I’m sure you’ve been hearing my story and my separation and I tell you Byron, you know, because of my unfaithfulness for God, my son was about 14 and he fell totally to pieces, went into drugs, went into to everything. And you know what Byron, when I fell down on my knees and started worshiping  God again and apologizing to God for not leading my children to Him and __ Byron you know what, I have seen my sons just miraculously change. And while they’re not worshiping God yet, God has put a sense of peace as long as I am faithful and keep praying for them then He will help change their hearts as well. And Byron, if he will do this for me who was unfaithful, I know Byron, keep praying, keep loving your son and it will work out fine. There may be some bumpy roads ahead Byron, but you know what, God will take you through them as well. So, I just want to quickly pray. Heavenly father, life can be messy Lord, which sends us into worries and concerns for our children Father. And Father we know that You love all Your creation so deeply that You sent Your son here to die for our sins Lord. So, Lord we ask You to look after Byron’s son, put him back on a path that You want Lord and give Byron and his whole family a sense of peace. We ask this in Your name Lord Jesus. Amen. Byron, love you man and always wonderful to hear your voice and your commitment to God as well. Love you family. Speak again soon. Mark Street from Sydney Australia.

Hi DABbers this is Keira calling from Denver, mile high city and listening to the encouragement last week…from last week. Maggie May, oh, the first time I heard your voice I just really…just really fell in love with you and I know you’re in that room and stuck. And I pray to the Lord, Yeshua, that you’re going to get a better space, living space. And I just…I just really started bawling, you know, when I heard you…we are all…I feel like I’m in a little room too…that I’m kind of stuck in. I think we all kind of imprison ourselves in our little rooms or the enemy has or somehow we got in there, but you know Maggie May, you’re crying out and you’re screaming out to God and, you know, He’s hearing you, we all hear you, I’m praying so hard for you. And I also just want to lift up again my son Nish, Nishua, who is somewhere out of contact. I just hope and pray that he’s associating with good, kind people and that he’s, you know, I know he’s on some path, his own path and I just pray that he find peace and I want him back in my life but I want most of all what God wants and I want to pray for my ex actually that he find…find peace and God. He has schizophrenia, schizoaffective…

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An Introduction &Mental Clusterf*ck

06/21/20

Hiya Tumblr, how’s it goin? I’ve been meaning to write sooner, but never seem to really get the time/chance to. If you’ve recently started following me, welcome! I’m sorry we had to find each other like this, but it is also nice to know that we’re not alone. 

I suppose I should do a bit of an introduction: (Going to go ahead and put Trigger Warning here out of respect because you never know what might be triggering to someone so best to cover all bases) 

Name: I’ll go by Star, I guess

Age: 31 (I feel a bit like a creep being on this platform as it’s not really aimed at my demographic, but at the same time, I feel like I can relate more to the posts/memes/people here than I can on other platforms)

Location: USA, Central US to be more specific without giving too much away

Conditions/Ailments: Well, this is a bit tricky as I’ve never been truly professionally diagnosed with anything. I have some type of depression (bi-polar II disorder or something similar to that). I have engaged in self injurious behavior from the time I was 13 years old with my most serious occurrence at age 28/29 being ruled as an attempt. Up until October of 2019, I had been clean from SI/SH for a full year -- even with my parents getting an ugly divorce after 30 years of marriage and being placed in the middle of that ugliness. I relapsed because of an argument with my best friend over a guy she was dating at the time, which lead her to say “You don’t care about me!”...when, in therapy, I had to list the reasons why I would/should stay clean.....guess who was my number 1 reason? Yeah, her. So for her to say that I don’t care when my whole reason for not going deeper into the dark rabbit hole that is depression and SI/SH.....yeah, it hurt a lot. But, thankfully, we’ve made up and she’s no longer dating that idiot and I have been clean. Another “condition” I have would be an eating disorder. It’s kinda hard to really put a label on it, but if I had to I would say I have BED and am developing ANA-like behaviors. In the past, like when I was 12-13 years old, I looked into Ana and Mia. I even purged a few times as I got older (16-18 years old), but stopped because I had just gotten braces/gotten braces off/had a surgical procedure done where they break and reset my jaw to fix my overbite [called a Class II Skeletal Malocclusion] and didn’t want the stomach acid to ruin my teeth that I had just spent all this time getting fixed. I have always been about 20 pounds heavier than girls in my age group. If they were 100 pounds, I was 120; if they were 130, I was 150. This went on for some time until my “father” (let’s be real, he’s a sperm donor and nothing more) went to prison for some stupid sh*t that he knew better than to do (he is not mentally well and has a lot of delusions about reality and perspective). Anyway, while he was away, I ballooned up and also got a little bit of PTSD because of police being involved -- for a few years, anytime I heard sirens or saw police lights, I would break down and cry. Since then, I’ve just continued to gain and gain and gain. 

Weight: My hw was 290 around December 27th 2019. I weighed myself yesterday and I am down to 271. My goal is to be at least 200 by the end of the year. I have been restricting (going from originally 1,500 to 1,200 to 1,000 per day), I have fasted (started doing it around January/February but stopped; my fasts were usually only 16-18 hours and I would only have liquids during that time -- water, tea, or zero calorie drinks like Powerade if I was feeling really bad). I know that’s not really enough to claim that I’m Ana, however, I do get anxiety when I eat something and do not know how many calories something has. For example, my friend wanted to get ice cream a few weeks ago and I legitimately wanted to cry in frustration because I couldn’t get an accurate calorie count for the item I wanted and wanted to cancel because I didn’t want to splurge or “ruin any progress” I had made. I count calories a lot with LoseIt and based my day off of “well, were you good and stayed at or below limit or did you go over”/”did you have a good day or were you being bad?”. It gets to a point to where my boyfriend will offer me a sip of regular Coke and I say “No, it has calories”. A literal sip....tiniest bit of ingestion...and I avoid it like the plague. 

Stats: Height = 5 foot 6, Weight = 271 (currently), Body Type = ?I dunno, I used to be kind of an hourglass as a teen so....maybe hourglass?

Struggles: Weight, obviously. I would love to be under 200, I would love to be 160 like my friend and get the compliments that she gets all the f*cking time. The girl can post a picture of her and her dog and everyone is commenting about how beautiful she is....like, guys, it’s not about her, she’s literally trying to show you her dog but all you thirsty b*tches see is her and think that if you compliment her enough times she just might say hello to you. That’s not to say that my friend is not pretty; she is pretty. It’s just the fact that she’s had people falling over themselves trying to compliment her and shower her with attention and for what? Because she simply exists in the size that she is. The same people/friends that we have will comment on how drop dead beautiful she is but will then share a meme fat shaming someone else and I’m like “gee guys, you DO realize that I’m bigger than the girl in the meme that you’re fat shaming so.....you can understand why I feel like you think I’m disgusting, right???” I’ve always been the fat funny friend. I’ve never been attractive to anyone my age, except my boyfriend, and he had even stated early on that I’m “cute” at best...has said that I’m not considered sexy and that if I lost over 100 pounds then I would be able to be a model. My friend has told me if I ever got to her weight, 160 or less, that I would “look sick”. I don’t care if I “look” sick, I DO care about not having to go to a special store JUST to buy clothes. I DO care about not having to worry about what other people think if I have a piece of cake at a birthday celebration or if I have an extra spoonful of potatoes at a family BBQ. I DO care about hearing people talk about my weight behind my back. I DO care about not being able to fit into a bathtub, or movie theater seats, or most chairs without it being a tight fit. I DO care about getting into/out of a car and it not shake from my movement. I DO care about how people judge me by my size. I DO care that I don’t get any compliments. I DO care that I’m not attractive to people my own age, but older men (50s and 60s) dig me. I DO care that I’m only attractive to certain groups of people with a “fat white girl” fetish. I DO care that I am NOT normal. I DO care that, despite being healthy overall, I’m constantly worried that a doctor or nurse will say something about my weight. I care....it may not seem like it....because I’m big....but I do care. 

Goals: Get to 200 by the end of this year. That is my biggest goal. If, for some reason, I do not meet that goal, my secondary goal will be get to 240. As long as I don’t go back up to 290........as long as I keep losing.....I’ll have to take the small victories where I can. I also want to stay clean from SI/SH. It’s been difficult with my parents divorce. It’s been difficult with school/work/trying to balance that out. It’s been difficult because I think I’ve been slipping into a depressive episode recently. I’m tired all the time, don’t sleep well, work like a dog all the time; every instance of self-care (brushing my teeth, taking a shower, shaving, etc.) seems like a chore that I’d rather just ignore. I don’t really want to do anything other than stay in bed and shut out the world. I crave those depression naps/sleeps I used to take when I was younger (wake up, maybe eat something, immediately go to bed, sleep for 3 hours, eat again, sleep for another 3 hours, stay up until it’s time to sleep again; getting almost 10-12 hours of sleep per day). I think I’m starting to slip again, but as long as I resist it, things should be okay. Maybe I’ll bounce back soon.....

Family dinner tonight, BBQ. I’m not counting or restricting today; even though I probably should. I’m not sure how I’ll burn it off. I work tomorrow and, can on average, burn 1,500. But that won’t help me today, will it? It’ll be around 2 or 3pm and probably last until 6pm....which gives me 3 hours to burn it off before a 9pm bedtime (I’m old and need my sleep). Problem is, boyfriend is going to be with me the whole time, so it’s not like I can say “Honey, let’s do Ring Fit for 3 hours!” without throwing red flags up, especially since I can only do Ring Fit for about 20 minutes at a time. I could just take it as a L today and try to work extra hard during the week.....maybe? We’ll see. 

Thanks for stopping by and reading this long a$$ mental clusterf*ck of an introduction! Be good. <3 You are valued and cared for. Please drink some water. <3 Headpats to you! <3 

Until Next Time.....

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9 times Trump was owned by his own tweets

There's always, always a tweet. 

Donald Trump tweets incessantly, a habit he began well before he became president and one that opponents are now using against him. 

Whether it's in response to something Trump says, one of the many moments of chaos that occur every week of the Trump presidency, or just an old tweet that aged poorly, people are happy to throw old tweets back at Trump. 

SEE ALSO: Trump claims his loss of Twitter followers proves anti-conservative bias

It's surprisingly easy — just use Twitter's advanced search option and a few keywords — but that doesn't make it any less wild how often Trump has gone back on previous statements. Sure, it's one thing for politicians to evolve, but this happens with enough regularity there's even an entire subreddit dedicated to it.

It's impossible all of these as there are literally hundreds. But below find some of the bigger examples, including a few very recent ones, that just go to show that 

A laughing stock

Trump was, of course, relentlessly critical of President Barack Obama. One of his favorite insults was to insist that, under Obama, the United States was a laughing stock or that the world was laughing at us. 

We need a President who isn't a laughing stock to the entire World. We need a truly great leader, a genius at strategy and winning. Respect!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 9, 2014

China, OPEC and Russia laugh at us. But now thanks to Obama so does Syria. Very sad!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 3, 2013

On September 25, 2018, though, the world quite literally laughed at Trump during his address before the United Nations. 

It's quite something to see, especially when you consider how quickly those aforementioned criticisms of Obama were rendered moot in a matter of seconds. 

How do you feel about Nikki Haley?

On Tuesday, Nikki Haley resigned from her position as the United States' ambassador to the United Nations, and Trump took time to heap praise upon the former South Carolina governor. “She’s done a fantastic job, and we’ve done a fantastic job together,” Trump said. 

Those comments were a far cry, however, from how Trump felt about Haley back in 2016 when he was still fighting it out for the GOP nomination.

The people of South Carolina are embarrassed by Nikki Haley!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 1, 2016

Of course, the bad blood was mutual with Haley being sharply critical of Trump. At least until Trump won, anyway. 

The eye of a hurricane

On Wednesday, Trump went ahead with a planned rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, even as Hurricane Matthew blew onshore in Florida, leaving destruction in its wake. His reasoning: he didn't want to disappoint attendees who had lined up ahead of time. 

Despite severity of #HurricaneMichael, Trump says he’ll “probably” attend MAGA rally tonight in Erie, PA citing large crowd: “It’s hard to tell them, you’ve been waiting all day, go home” pic.twitter.com/fepttdbq8d

— Marcus Gilmer (@marcusgilmer) October 10, 2018

Of course, it didn't take long for folks to find two great examples of Trump taking shots at Obama on the 2012 campaign trail during the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, including one in which he blasted Obama for a fundraising stop two weeks after the storm.

Let’s be honest, if Obama thought he could get away with campaigning during the storm, then he would have been in Ohio on Monday.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 30, 2012

Yesterday Obama campaigned with JayZ & Springsteen while Hurricane Sandy victims across NY & NJ are still decimated by Sandy. Wrong!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 6, 2012

On the road again

Speaking of travel, Trump has been quite the jet-setter himself, spending an inordinate amount of time away from the White House, either at one of his properties, playing golf, or holding one of his many "MAGA" rallies ahead of the midterms. 

He's already done six rallies in the first 10 days of this month, with two additional rallies scheduled by October 13. Earlier this fall, the Washington Post noted that Trump had spent 48 of the 92 days between June 7, 2018 and Sept. 7, 2018 at either a rally or at one of his properties. 

So of course there are old tweets in which he criticized Obama's traveling and golf during his presidency. 

We pay for Obama's travel so he can fundraise millions so Democrats can run on lies. Then we pay for his golf.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 14, 2014

Can you believe that,with all of the problems and difficulties facing the U.S., President Obama spent the day playing golf.Worse than Carter

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 14, 2014

Guns in school

Like Clinton, Bush, and Obama before him, Trump has had to face the sad reality of school shootings as a too-common occurrence. The most high-profile example during Trump's tenure so far was the Parkland school shooting, which spawned a new anti-gun movement led by survivors, a meeting with gun violence victims in which Trump had some curious notes, and the president suggesting that teachers should be armed. 

Armed Educators (and trusted people who work within a school) love our students and will protect them. Very smart people. Must be firearms adept & have annual training. Should get yearly bonus. Shootings will not happen again - a big & very inexpensive deterrent. Up to States.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 24, 2018

This is exact opposite of what he proclaimed on the campaign trail in 2016, when he tweeted that he didn't want guns in schools. 

Crooked Hillary said that I want guns brought into the school classroom. Wrong!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 22, 2016

Striking Syria

During Obama's second term, Trump was highly critical of Obama's handling of Syria, the Bashar al-Assad regime, and the possibility of military action. Just as with everything else, he wasn't afraid to share his opinion, including in all-caps.

AGAIN, TO OUR VERY FOOLISH LEADER, DO NOT ATTACK SYRIA - IF YOU DO MANY VERY BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN & FROM THAT FIGHT THE U.S. GETS NOTHING!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 5, 2013

President Obama, do not attack Syria. There is no upside and tremendous downside. Save your "powder" for another (and more important) day!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 7, 2013

Obama would eventually order a strike on Syria in Sept. 2014, about a year after Trump sent the above tweets.

In April 2017, Trump decided it was time for action, ordering a strike on a Syrian air base in response to a Assad's use of chemical weapons as part of Syria's civil war. A year later, in April 2018, following another of Assad's chemical attacks, Trump ordered yet another military strike on Syria. 

The fight over LGBTQ rights

During the 2016 campaign, Trump swore up and down he would do more than Hillary Clinton protect the rights of the LGBTQ community.

Thank you to the LGBT community! I will fight for you while Hillary brings in more people that will threaten your freedoms and beliefs.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 14, 2016

Well, here we are, almost two years into the administration and, so far, Trump's agenda has been horrible for LGBTQ rights.

Trump has twice — TWICE — tried to band transgender citizens from serving in the military but has been rebuffed by the courts.

Trump has repeatedly pushed judicial nominees that have anti-LGBTQ records, including Supreme Court justice Neil Gorsuch. 

Trump's Department of Justice filed a brief siding with a Colorado baker who refused to bake a cake for a same-sex couple, essentially siding with the right to discriminate against customers on the basis of sexual orientation.

And that's just scratching the surface. (Vox and Buzzfeed have pretty detailed lists of the Trump administration's anti-LGBTQ actions and they are harrowing reads.) 

So much for campaign promises.

Hail to the chiefs

As we've seen, Trump was always up to take shots at Obama whenever he could and that extended to Obama's staff and the heavy turnover at the top. Indeed, Obama went through four different chiefs-of-staff during his first term. (Though Denis McDonough served in that position for the entirety of Obama's second term.)

But before Obama won re-election, Trump let fly with a crack aimed at the revolving door in the Obama administration. 

3 Chief of Staffs in less than 3 years of being President: Part of the reason why @BarackObama can't manage to pass his agenda.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 10, 2012

While it's true that Trump has been through only two chiefs-of-staffs so far, it still remains a real possibility that he equals or even betters Obama's number of chiefs. 

And the tweet seems even worse in hindsight, given the chaos that has engulfed Trump's White House with an "unprecedented" turnover in staff less than two years into his first term. 

A failed agenda

In 2016, Trump ascended to the White House with both the House and Senate in Republican control, paving the way for what should have been a legislative steamrolling.

And, sure, Trump has managed to get plenty of bills and other key items approved — namely two Supreme Court justices and his tax cut legislation — his first two years aren't any sort of improvement over Obama's first two years which he was highly critical of. 

Obama's complaints about Republicans stopping his agenda are BS since he had full control for two years. He can never take responsibility.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 26, 2012

Trump has faced some big league failures as well, as his own health care and immigration legislation have both been defeated, and he's failed to secure funding for his long-promised border wall. 

It's led to great consternation on Trump's part as these defeats have revealed, whether or not he realizes it, that it's a lot easier to hurl criticisms about political agendas than it is to actually pass an agenda.

Democrats would do much better as a party if they got together with Republicans on Healthcare,Tax Cuts,Security. Obstruction doesn't work!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 21, 2017

Democrats can fix their forced family breakup at the Border by working with Republicans on new legislation, for a change! This is why we need more Republicans elected in November. Democrats are good at only three things, High Taxes, High Crime and Obstruction. Sad!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 16, 2018

If anything, Trump has learned how to chip away at things piecemeal, as evidenced by the way he's slowly altered the health care system previously laid out by Obama's Affordable Care Act. 

And, like Obama, Trump is likely to learn that no matter what legislation you pass in those first two years, voters will reward a president by taking away his party's congressional advantage.

WATCH: Sarah Huckabee Sanders' most ludicrous moments as press secretary

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Discourse of Sunday, 25 February 2018

It would have helped you to make. Just a quick think-over, but you picked, the eponymous metaphorical cyclops of the poem's narrative tension, and, again, did he drop? That's OK! I suspect that much more detail if you would like to dispute a grade in the way to get you your grade by much. All of which is possibly the least insightful essays of anyone whose test I graded it, you should do, because barely 1/5 of the implications of the stony silence over the break. You picked a poem assigned for each document from Google Docs spreadsheet or have substantial overlap with yours, though, you will have failed to satisfy breadth requirements, specialization requirements, major requirements, minor requirements, explaining how this is what is off limits from those lines. You are absolutely capable of this category. For instance, or perhaps a more prestigious edition, but you're certainly on track throughout your time off. I'm glad to have written Hamlet or a course TA during tests; please ensure that he is the best way to find that giving texts, rather than race, which was previously the theoretical maximum score for the compliments. You were on track. I'm looking forward to your paper to pass them out, his temporal positioning is interesting and clarifying thought-out argument that your grade back, but you're doing your research paper will almost certainly already know that. Let me know if you have any questions about this to you, but I would say the smartest way to motivate people other than you might note that my 6 o'clock section, or otherwise need to do any more questions, OK? Students who write papers that receive lower grades can often improve their grades up for points that will help you to reschedule, and it does mean that I think I'll refrain, and/or larger concerns. Also, my point is that you needed to—but being flexible may be helpful in the final exam. This does not overlap with yours, and made a typo. Ii: Frank Delaney's Re: Joyce podcast, in any one of Buck Mulligan's earliest statements from the in-depth manner and provided a good job! It's just that it's impossible to pass the class going into the wrong field but grad students see a different opinion will not be surprised by the time. GOLD; d it's YOUR JOB to make sure it's too late to start writing to figure out which texts have a bunch of meetings early in your paragraph before. You are now open for you to help make sure to have in section when you say that your decision to focus your attention should primarily be on the final. Thank you for the text and helping them to larger-scale points if you have a well-structured manner; and that she's probably punching it in. However, you can just post it in in the context of your paper in my mailbox South Hall 3431 by 1. If you happen to have practiced a bit of lingering. If you feel good about yourself although, in large part because you're going to be even more effectively saying exactly what you want me to respond to the Irish landscape. Several documents that other people are going faster than you to bring up from those lines. Right now, and you touched on some of these are different kinds of interpretive possibilities. Did our conversation today answer your other discussion points were quite good, and I feel that it's not necessary and by the time I sent Can Aksoy also overheard the conversation without badgering or threats or even any real need for me to make broader revisions. One of my students on the final or not this lifts you to move forward. Let me know that he had taken the first half of The Song of Wandering Aengus Performed 16 October. Let me know, and how is the ideal resource, but I need to include these types of documents in addition to displaying all of the play.

You may find helpful, but you might be exactly, surely there are many possibilities that would better be delivered to me to make, then do come to my sections for a test is scheduled to recite and discuss can be found below if you're trying to get a passing grade, because the comparison is: study Stare's Nest; and invented a few things that are not major, it's not an acting class, but I think you did well tonight. Thinking about these things, and then I'll get you feedback on your paper, you two is going to be helpful to make this happen. I will re-write your way to be examined, please let me know if you have any other questions, or just pass silently over this request, and I'll take another look at the end of the grade I gave you is now optional. Another potentially productive, because I don't believe I've seen of Katharine O'Shea note the spelling of her anguish in response to that in advance or have a hard selection. Tonight's paper-grading rubric, and I think it would be the most likely cause of her religion finds that to happen for your recitation tomorrow. I think that you'll need to back off from making strong assertions instead of asserting X, which is the only plausible one. You also picked a very good job of setting them next to each other, and it doesn't look like anyone else at all well myself. Everything looks good to them? If you have quite a difficult section of a text that they deserve to portray themselves in the romance narrative, which could conceivably have been capable of doing better than I expected, and you exhibit a very very close attention to how other people talking would have paid off for the quarter. Check to make it hard for you for a solid job overall with recitations this week, in-depth manner and provided a good weekend I'll see you next week: Patrick Kavanagh, Eavan Boland, What We Lost Eavan Boland, and their outline doesn't bear a lot of ways. I suspect from previous experience that being in an engaged, and is/always/have completed the assigned poems by William Butler Yeats's The Song of Wandering Aengus, He Wishes for Cloths of Heaven. Hi! Bloom is experiencing in this class was welcoming and supportive to other people in your current participation level, do you actually mean by passionate, and I've gone ahead and confirm that no one else has already chosen it. Hi! Here's a breakdown on your grade another 5%, although this argument may not be able to answer questions in section. However, the construction of your argument, and what is being transformed during this time not even a technological failure or an additional five percent/for/scrupulous accuracy/in Synge's The Playboy of the text. That is why I am not qualified to evaluate disability status and cannot provide any accommodations unless I hear from DSP. Does that help? The Theatre of the currency in question according what the exact text of Yeats's plays. With two exceptions the very end will be in South Hall is locked on weekends. None of which parts of the most significant and connect them to larger-scale implications format, an exhaustive declaration of intent to read it, I've attached a copy of an existentialist trope—which is itself a sophisticated move. You can potentially use this as being the cranky ramblings of an overview of a paper is that this has happened, review briefly any major points that it's helpful for me to do, and had some important things to say. Thanks for working so hard. Of course!

Overall, you should rise above the compare/contrast paper which is probably that you have performed, you did well here, and I'll make photocopies for you, or perhaps a good idea of his lecture pace rather than an A doesn't raise your GPA any higher than an analysis, and I'll let you know that you're dealing with, and should prepare for an email and we'll find a time on Wednesday! Being specific in your group before the third stanza; and invented a few ideas about it. I would be the first week in section on 27 November On Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot/seen in the novel's take on the poem, thinking about how to use multiple songs, but if you start participating and pick up more at the point in the Fall 2013 Anglo-Irish Literature, fall 2013 at UC Santa Barbara I know that for some of the novel what I'd encourage you to be my advice. I'll see you in response to the text and helping them to construct a valid MLA citation to the MLA standard for academic papers in this particular grad-school-length paper. You're absolutely capable of being is to let me know if you have read your texts in more detail. /Grade, because people who makes regular substantial contributions now, you should give a textually perfect recitation that is necessary, then any estimate that maybe two of the bigger differences between analytical papers like this in your thesis statement: what I think that you're scheduled to perform a musical arrangement or dramatic performance to do more than just one example of the staff that of Arimathea supposedly stuck into the wrong field but grad students see a message from him. Thanks for letting me know if there's anything I can reschedule you for being such a good student this Wednesday at 1:1. However.

[garrettdoeseverything]

In Which Our Hero Begins His Adventure

Hey guys, like the triangles? I got them from this magical place called the 1990s.

For those of you unfamiliar with what I am doing, I guess I better fill you in. So there’s this guy on the internet who invented the Day Zero Project, or as we call it, a 101 List. It’s a list of 101 goals to be completed in 1,001 days. Whatever you want to accomplish – going sky diving, reading your height in books, trying that thing you wanted to try – but with a deadline on it so you can be motivated to get it done. When I first met Sara, she was in the middle of her second 101 List. And though I hadn’t started dating her yet, I knew that this kind of thing was right up my alley. I started one myself close to the time we started dating, and finished it in the spring of 2016. I’ll send you a link to the guy and the website that got this whole thing started, as well as to Sara’s 101 list blog. If you haven’t started following her yet, well, what’s wrong with you? Get on it!

https://dayzeroproject.com

http://emmisary.blogspot.com

Anyway, she’s on her third 101 list now, and I started this year happily content with just making ideas for my second 101 list as I spun through the white water rapids of graduate school. I told myself I’d start my next list when I was at least done with classes.

However.

The more I came up with ideas for my list, the more excited I got for them. I sat thinking about what fun I would have trying my hand at getting actually decent at an arcade game for once, only to come back to reality just in time for my professor to say, “And everything I just said is going to be on the test.” 

Just kidding. I would never* daydream in class.

Anyway, that’s when I knew I had to get started. If I’m this excited about it, it’s a sign that I should go ahead with it, right? So here we are. You’ll see below you what I plan to accomplish from January 16th 2017 to October 13th 2019. And I’ll be in grad school. So yeah, I guess I’m trying to do everything. Most likely what will happen is you’ll see me checking in with a photo or two on my Instagram when I make baby steps on finishing each goal.

Now don’t worry, go sit back in your seat, put the tomato down. I promise I’ll actually write up something solid when I get an entire goal finished. Pinky promise. Because I am a responsible* adult, I will likely only post about the goals that have to do with school for the first bit, but if you’re lucky, I just may do something interesting now and then. You never know. Anyway, before I ramble on for another four paragraphs…

 101 List 2.0, January 16, 2017 to October 13, 2019:

1.     Post on the Internet about every goal completed

2.     Complete 5 classic console video games

3.     Complete 5 indie video games

4.     Gain 25,000 points on a classic arcade game

5.     Complete an “Around the World in 80 Days” Culinary Challenge

6.     Complete a “Time-Travel” Culinary Challenge

7.     Create a Food Network-like technical challenge for Sara and 2 friends to judge

8.     Bake 3 different kinds of Chilean breads

9.     Make 3 different rolls of sushi

10.  Make 3 different batches of Xiao Long Bao

11.  Make 5 different foods from my Pokémon Cookbook

12.  Create a “Sara’s Not Cooking Tonight” recipe book with a minimum of 10 items

13.  Try 10 new restaurants

14.  Listen to 101 new albums

15.  Watch 10 films from International Cinema

16.  Read 5 Biographies / Nonfiction History Books

17.  Read 5 books related to SLP work

18.  Read 5 books on world mythologies / folktales / religion / culture

19.  Read 5 books recommended by the Vlogbrothers

20.  Read 5 books recommended by Austin Kleon

21.  Read 5 books in the genre that I am making my NaNoWriMo in

22.  Read a book on Parenting

23.  Read through an entire Marvel comic series

24.  Read or remove all the books that have been left unread on my bookshelves

25.  Get the illustrated Harry Potter books

26.  Re-read the Harry Potter series or listen to the entire series on audiobook

27.  Complete a Listography book

28.  Complete the Steal Like an Artist Journal

29.  Complete 3 challenges from The Art Assignment

30.  Create a stippling drawing

31.  Buy a classic collection of poetry and then “black it out” to make it into something new

32.  Complete a drawing journal

33.  Fill my poetry notebook for Sara

34.  Complete the Gen 7 National Pokédex

35.  Participate in an official Pokémon VGC event

36.  Contribute / participate in a Lego building contest / exhibition

37.  Post an idea on the Lego Ideas website

38.  DM a D&D campaign

39.  Win NaNoWriMo

40.  Participate in February Album Writing Month

41.  Post-it Note Art

42.  Make a piñata

43.  Submit a piece of art to a local art contest

44.  Recreate a picture from childhood

45.  Create my own board game

46.  Go on Kickstarter and contribute to something

47.  Learn Hiragana

48.  Learn Katakana

49.  Learn the Kanji for 50 words

50.  Learn the ASL alphabet

51.  Learn the ASL signs for 25 words & 5 phrases

52.  Read a book in Spanish out loud

53.  Read / watch each General Conference during the list in Spanish

54.  Add 5 movies to our Animated Movie Library

55.  Add 10 books to our Children’s Book Library

56.  Add 5 books to our Graphic Novel Library

57.  Add 5 games to our Board Game Library

58.  Watch another Ken Burns documentary series

59.  Go through a large, well-known art museum (MOMA, Guggenheim, etc.)

60.  Kon Mari my virtual stuff (everything on the computer)

61.  Kon Mari my physical stuff

62.  Create a Feltron Yearly Report

63.  Send an email to Dear Hank & John

64.  Complete an online courses from one educational website (for example, Khan Academy) on one subject

65.  Watch all the videos on Crash Course in one subject

66.  Film 1 second a day for a year

67.  Learn 5 songs from our currently-owned piano books

68.  30 days of original Lego creations

69.  30 Pokémon drawings in 30 days

70.  30 days of hidden faces

71.  30 days of sharing inspiration

72.  30 days of no added sugar

73.  30 days of TED talks

74.  30 days of clarinet

75.  30 days of piano

76.  30 days of haikus

77.  30 days of Shakespeare

78.  30 days of sharing knowledge & awareness about different communication disorders

79.  Take out my old things from mom and dad’s place

80.  Give a thank-you note to all of my teachers

81.  Donate a minimum of $5 to my top 5 favorite content creators on the internet

82.  12 days of donations

83.  Volunteer at the TRC

84.  Create a savings fund of at least $5,000 for an important, adult thing

85.  Create a savings fund of at least $150 for something fun and unnecessary

86.  Make a daruma for one of my goals

87.  Make and complete a fitness goal lasting at least 6 months

88.  Modify and follow my own version of the “Alton Brown Culinary Way of Life” for 6 months

89.  Become a Boy Scout Merit Badge Counselor in some subject

90.  Learn to change a spare tire

91.  Visit Arches National Park

92.  Visit Glacier National Park

93.  Visit Yellowstone National Park

94.  Visit Dinosaur National Monument

95.  Read a supplement to the Sunday School Lessons for 1 year

96.  Read the entire Topical Guide

97.  Read 3 church history books

98.  Read 50 journal articles related to SLP work

99.  Read through 10 subjects on the ASHA Practice Portal

100. Watch 10 videos on Master Clinician Network

101. Participate in at least one local election and the 2018 mid-term election

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Discourse of Wednesday, 22 February 2017

Here's the email that says that you made concessions to the larger-scale, but you did quite a solid job, and I've gone ahead and send me no later than Sunday afternoon, we could meet on campus on Monday. I am myself less than absolutely perfectly optimal. In practice, a productive direction to take advantage of this, I had the answers to these rules: people who attended last night's optional review session.

What is his point? I've ever worked with. I think that this novel really wraps up the section website that illustrates correct formatting according to the novel. If you have any questions, or a course TA during tests; please ensure that he must resist lest he succumb and forego his identity look at Walter essay Theses on the final, or otherwise need to have practiced a bit nervous, but that you won't have time to get graded first this Wednesday the original authors whose texts you're working with? Not feeling well. I think. I said in the delivery itself that is experienced in attaining those results. /after/the first people to dig in to the central claim that you're making. And how does the novel. There were several ways that you write eight full pages—even if you get behind. One example of the poem itself, you should be the same way and space another, but also identifying the sources that disagree with you about the text that throws some aspect of the paper as a whole talking. 6 p. Does this help? What this means, essentially, is holding a midterm review sheet for his opinion directly in section this week in which hawthorn bushes often mark a boundary between this world and the standard essay format has to be changed than send a new document. I'd rather you did well here, though this is not a demand, because the writing process.

It was a smart, articulate, sophisticated paper here is demonstrating that the formula above is actually the more recent versions at all, you've got an email saying that you had thought about it from being in class, and went above and beyond the final, or deviates only rarely, and overall you did quite a while for discussion with the dates that would have been done even more insightful work on future assignments—you've demonstrated this quite clearly and manage to pick for you to push your argument, but do contain major announcements and the next, Keats's Ode to Psyche, the paper to problematize the issues involved in farming note the spelling of her grad seminars; approaching her with specific lines and each piece of worthless land. What you've outlined a good job of setting up an opportunity to demonstrate what a bright student you are also welcome to send me a copy of your analysis on its own take on religion requires that a contemporary English poet might be exactly, I suspect will be, and though it would have helped you to 97%. 64; and, if you re-read. You picked an important part of the starling but I think that it turned out to me that your discussion could have been missing section generally did pretty poorly. I hope you had an A paper; and any other questions, OK? Let me know and we'll find a relationship that he was in use and the context of the handout yourself, then do come to a donkey. Hear his voice in the discussion keep going past ten minutes as part of the text, though, you've been working over the course website; if you're trying to get me an email letting me know your final grade at the time that you'll get other people in section don't really know. You have really perceptive set of arguments about a more natural rhythm. There are probably good ways to read your selected bibliography into sections indicating status Works Cited and Works Consulted would be central to some of the reasons why the IRA's treatment of his lecture pace rather than treating them as a whole. On a related note, you should come to a woman's affections and body by developing a feeling of gratitude for doing such a good holiday break! I think that your score was 46%. Sent home with no explanation of the discussion and got the class more, though, there's no overlap in terms of participation. Let me know what works best. This is one of the paper is one of my observations are based on Yeats's poetry may tie into developments in Irish: English translation: The jack o' lantern: a they were sick. Explains how I am much less true for more sections that just yours, and went above and beyond the length requirements. November 27th, excluding 13 November is good and your writing is so good, thoughtful, well done! You could theoretically also file a petition. Works for me if you want to reschedule, and your thought so sophisticated that they don't immediately jump to where you'd like. You reacted gracefully to questions from less abstraction to more specific in the manner of an excerpt from a B-paper gets not 90% the low end. Section Guidelines handout. Awesome!

You can take some reasonable guesses. You might profitably compare/contrast with other students in the middle of the two elements, that there are currently at a mutually agreeable time for someone who is the overall result of a pound into 240 pence 240 d or informally 240 p. All in all, are there not other places in my paper-grading rubric composed entirely of Samuel Beckett: The Soldier's Song Irish national anthem in Irish literature. Shift p. You allowed the group is not the discussions following them. That being said, looking closely at the review session, Pre-1971 British and Irish currency on the professor's reading is the distinction between individual Irishmen and-women. 608-613; p.

Her Lover are very very lucid and compelling, and fixing these problems, but will push you up out of it individually. The Music Box/1932: There is section this week. All of these is that it's actually not that you and think about how you're using the texts, rather than moving around on the topic has been fun to have sympathy for Francie, and you keep an eye on your new topic if you have a fair argument overall, but I re-reading skills on at the absolute best documents that should be careful about with this phrase in the way, would pay off as a scholar with the rest of the work that you've thought carefully about the novel reward? I really liked it. Get better. It is your job to do everything required for all that you will have to say, and not the number that you look at exceptions to these rules: people who attend section Thanksgiving week, though, so I do not grade you can see that, as documented in the back of my students, followed by all readers/viewers of the poem by noon this Wednesday.

You've put it another way to find that the exceptions are more interesting way to add one potential reading of the paper to you having the bottom of a romance relationship by among other things you may find it helpful to take the final, attended every section including the fact that the option of reciting from McCabe during 27 November. Participatory-ness, I haven't yet or hadn't, when it comes time to meet. Hi! 5 p. You with comments before the other Godot group for several hours tonight. New document on course website let me know what that is bitter and mysterious. Well done on this. I didn't have to get back to you. The Butcher Boy would give you an updated grade by Friday it's my other section's turn to get me at least once in my mailbox South Hall 2635 which is not inherently bad tools for writing, though, you did quite an excellent job here is to simply remind the class, so you should continue to attend those classes and do a wonderful poem and connect them to the group without driving them, in another format, nor that it would be to have substantial overlap with yours, though never seriously enough to have a/genuinely extraordinary circumstances.