Stephen G. Knight, 61, of West Wareham, died Friday, March 8, 2019 at Tobey Hospital unexpectedly.
Born in Wareham, he was the son of Carol E. (Crampton) Knight and the late Henry H. Knight. A graduate of Wareham High School, Class of 1975, Stephen worked as a furniture refinisher.
He is survived by his mother, his children, Andrew R. Knight of Carver, Matthew T. Van Deusen of W. Wareham, and Andrea Knight Cannon of E. Wareham; his brothers, Henry Knight, Jr. and Daniel Knight both of Wareham and Kenneth Knight of W. Wareham; his sister Carol-Ann Silvia of Falmouth; his grandchildren Kloe and Kamden of W. Wareham, and Brayden and Tyler of E. Wareham, and many nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his brother, the late Timothy J. Knight.
A celebration of his life will be held on Saturday, April 13, 2019 at the Buzzards Bay Eagles Club, 39 Cohasset Ave., Buzzards Bay from 12 to 6 PM.


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namespace UnlimitedInf.LectureConvert.Utility
{
    internal static class Console
    {
        private static object _consoleLock = new object();

        /// <summary>
        /// Writes a string to the console and then returns the cursor to the beginning of the line.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="value"></param>
        public static void WriteAndReturn(string value)
        {
            lock (_consoleLock)
            {
                System.Console.Write(value);
                System.Console.SetCursorPosition(0, System.Console.CursorTop);
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Writes an array of strings to the console (one per line) and then returns the cursor
        /// to the place it was before calling this function.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="lines"></param>
        public static void WriteLinesAndReturn(string[] lines)
        {
            lock (_consoleLock)
            {
                int top = System.Console.CursorTop;
                int left = System.Console.CursorLeft;
                foreach (string line in lines)
                {
                    System.Console.WriteLine(line);
                }
                System.Console.SetCursorPosition(left, top);
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Passes the <paramref name="obj"/> to <see cref="System.Console.WriteLine(object)"/>
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="obj"></param>
        public static void WriteLine(object obj)
        {
            lock (_consoleLock)
            {
                System.Console.WriteLine(obj);
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Writes a log line to the console.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="msg"></param>
        /// <param name="args"></param>
        public static void Log(string msg, params object[] args)
        {
            WriteLine($"LC: {System.String.Format(msg, args)}");
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Writes an error line to the console.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="msg"></param>
        /// <param name="args"></param>
        public static void Error(string msg, params object[] args)
        {
            WriteLine($"LECTURECONVERT: {System.String.Format(msg, args)}");
        }
    }
}

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Every year around January 8th, long after holiday left overs are gone, my husband and I participate in a cleanse of some sort. Got to get off those unwanted holiday pounds. Most of our eating consists of clean eating. This meaning, no pasta for this Italian NY gal. It's heart breaking. I remembered once I met a fellow Army wife when we were stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado who would rave about the giant plate of spaghetti squash she would eat ( in place of pasta) which contained far less calories and carbohydrates. Ding ding ding. WINNER! I found a pasta substitute.
All is right in the world again. LOL! One of my favorite ways to prepare spaghetti squash is in a casserole form, topped with mozzarella cheese and pepperoni. It certainly takes away the pasta craving. Especially when covered in gooey cheese and greasy pepperoni. Before I write the recipe I'm going to give a few instructions on cooking your spaghetti squash. I've tried it several ways but baking it on a cookie sheet lined with foil seems to be the best for me. Now, cutting the squash in half can be quite tricky, but don't be intimidated! I like to poke some holes in the squash and pop it into the microwave for about 5 minutes to soften it up a bit for easier cutting. Slice in in half long ways. I use an 8″ knife. Oh, back up! I once read about how you could just microwave it, as I have stated previously I have tried the cooking process in many variations. Microwaving….well. It almost ended in a disaster when the squash exploded inside the microwave, letting off a sound of a gun shot and popping the door straight open. YUP, squash, all over the kitchen. I am so glad that my teenage daughter witnessed it and we have that hilarious kitchen fail to laugh at on occasion. OK, back to the cooking tips. Poke, Microwave, Slice in half , scrape all of the guts and seeds out with a spoon just like you do when carving a pumpkin, and place on a foil lined baking sheet. Brush with Olive oil, or spray with your favorite oil, generously season with sea salt and black pepper and bake it sliced side down on 350 degrees for about 45 minutes. When the squash is done you will be able to take a fork and just scrape out the squash forming spaghetti strands. Now its ready to add the fun stuff!
Mix your cooked ground beef, ( you could also use sausage or a blend of both), sauce, ricotta or cottage cheese and Parmesan cheese with your squash strands. Place in a 13×9 pan and top with bag of shredded cheese. Place pepperoni on just like you are topping a pizza and bake on 350 until cheese in melted. Sprinkle a bit of parsley, fresh or dried on top to garnish. Buon Appetito! In other words, Enjoy your meal!!!


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Home Corruption Gorbachev's About Face
Gorbachev's About Face
Posted By: Vicky Davison: January 01, 2019 In: Corruption2 Comments
From the end of World War II, the Soviet Union and the West were in a face-off with the line of demarcation in Berlin. In the 1980s, Mikhail Gorbachev changed the game. He did an about face turning his back on the west in Germany and began facing east towards the west on the Pacific side of the Soviet Union.
When he did that, he set aside the military playbook and he picked up the civilian playbook of war on economic and cultural terms – war in the context of everything else.
Strategic Policy Development Before the Fall of the Wall
The timeline of Gorbachev's policy development reveals that he had three things in mind:
Resolve the issues between the Soviet Union and China to repair the relationship
Increase influence in the Asean countries (map below)
Change world perception of the Soviet Union by adopting the missionary facade of the west on economic and social issues
Gorbachev's new strategy begins with a port city and trade. The following is a segment of the timeline as it pertains to transportation:
• The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ST/ESCAP/2303) published in 2003, includes the following information about the ALTID project:
In 1959, the Asian Highway project was conceived partially to resurrect those dreams, of trade and travel and to bring the world closer together. In doing so the Asian Highway promotes social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom as laid down in the preamble to the Charter of the United Nations.
• In the mid 1980's, Secretary of State George Schulz was working with Mikhail Gorbachev selling him on the idea that a totalitarian government would not be able to withstand the information age that was just on the horizon.
• On July 28, 1986, Mikhail Gorbachev gave speech at Vladivostok, Russia concerning his new thinking on opening up the Soviet Union to the world. Vladivostok had been a closed city since 1951 because it was a port city where Soviet military assets were located and operations were launched. In an article published in the LA Times in 1987, the author wrote that Soviet officials acknowledged that satellites provided better information than spies on the ground so there was no longer a purpose behind keeping Vladivostok a closed city. The following are significant excerpts:
Soviet officials acknowledge that U.S. spy satellites can gather more intelligence than walk-in agents of foreign governments, one reason why security concerns no longer require barring visitors.
At the same time, reopening the city would advance Kremlin plans for increasing Pacific trade and speedier economic development of the Soviet Far East.
Gorbachev, speaking in Vladivostok last July, said he would like to see the city become "our wide-open window to the East."
But he linked a decision on removing travel barriers to an improvement in the overall political situation in the Pacific region.
"International communications in the Pacific zone will be improved," he went on. "The market created by the Pacific states is very considerable. . . . In my view, the situation in the Pacific depends on Soviet-American relations, which have not reached the required level."
Gorbachev also called for new approaches to developing economic ties with foreign countries, adding that the Soviet Far East provinces had an "extremely low share" of Soviet exports in spite of their vast potential.
Location of Vladivostok
• more from (ST/ESCAP/2303)
…In 1992, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) endorsed the Asian Land Transport Infrastructure Development (ALTID) project comprising of the Asian Highway and the Trans-Asian Railway network as well as facilitation of land transport. The Asian Highway project is one of the cornerstones of ALTID. The formalization of the Asian Highway, through the Intergovernmental Agreement on Asian Highway Network adopted in November 2003, has brought the project to a new turning point in its history. Signatories on the Agreement (notice the title is Transportation and Communications).
… The ESCAP secretariat was tasked with the complex task of coordinating the development of the Asian Highway network by facilitating discussion among member countries. With the financial assistance from the Government of Japan, it conducted a series of studies, the first of which was published in 1995.
Pivot to Southeast Asia
In 1988, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa of Hokkaido University wrote a research paper titled Gorbachev's Asian Initiative and Asian Security. [Note: I was unable to find a copy of Gorbachev's Vladivostok speech online]. This paper documents the fact that Japan and the Soviet Union were working together and the focus was on a new non-military form of security for the region. Excerpts:
coordinating with Japan its policy toward the Soviet Union in arms control, solution of regional conflicts, and expansion of economic and technical cooperation; pg. ii
Gorbachev's Vladivostok speech manifested his intention to make a clean break with this past policy. It signalled his intention to lower the importance of the military factor in Soviet policy and to expand Soviet influence in the economic and political areas in this region. [This region being the ASEAN countries shown in the map on the right.]
Since the Vladivostok speech there have been changes in personnel and organizations in the Soviet foreign policy mechanism, and active efforts to cultivate relations with Japan and ASEAN countries as well as to join international organizations such as the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC).
The original proposal for this project, entitled "Soviet Military Buildup in the Far East," was designed to examine what role the Soviet military buildup in the Far East plays in overall Soviet military doctrine and what implications it has for security in Asia… The project's findings indicate that fundamental changes are taking place in the basic characteristics of international relations in Asia, and that those assumptions which were applicable to situations in the late 1970s and early 1980s are no longer appropriate to cope with the new reality.
On the Heritage Foundation website, there is a paper from 1988 about Gorbachev's Vladivostok initiative and the Soviet Union's pivot toward Southeast Asia. It gives a brief country by country analysis. The title of the paper is: After Vladivostok, Gorbachev's Asian Inroads.
On the Defense Technical Information Center website, there is a paper from 1988 titled, Japan's Role in Gorbachev's Agenda.
The significance of Japan in the strategic moves by the Soviet Union go beyond Japan's location in the Pacific and towards Japan's involvement in robotics for transportation systems. (Note: I don't have as much documentation on Japan as I do Germany's involvement but Germany and Japan were the two leading countries in terms of road informatics and automation going into the 1990s.)
The Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) mentioned above in connection with Gorbachev's Vladivostok speech is significant. It reveals Gorbachev's strategy and intention. The founding of the PECC was documented in an article titled The Grand Chessboard of the Trilateralists.
Pacific Rim Countries
Map Source: Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
In a 1990 article in the Christian Science Monitor titled, Vladivostok and the Soviet Far East about the progress of the opening of the Vladivostok port city, the author wrote (hyperlink added):
In a 1986 speech here, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev promised a massive five-year development program for the Soviet Far East and promoted relations with Asian neighbors to help accomplish this.
A wide array of businessmen have already come to scout out prospects in the city, from the giant United States Bechtel Corporation and Japanese trading firms to a host of South Korean companies, the latest and most enthusiastic visitors.
The citizens of the region are looking instead to Boris Yeltsin, the president of the Russian Republic's parliament, to heed their calls. "Mr. Yeltsin is a bolder man," says Kuznetsov. "He is ready to open the city, maybe from Jan. 1 or March 1 next year. On Sept. 19, at its first session of the fall, the city council voted unanimously to give free access and residence to citizens of any country, appealing to the Russian parliament to ratify their decision. The parliament has already made the Maritime area a free enterprise zone, offering special terms for foreign companies."
Sino-Soviet Rapprochement
Mikhail Gorbachev's next move in his shift of focus east towards the Pacific was to repair and restore relations with China. For decades, there were various disputes between the leaders of the Soviet Union and China so it was a big deal for Gorbachev to reach out. Towards that goal, a Sino-Soviet Summit was scheduled between Deng Xiaoping and Mikhail Gorbachev for mid-May in 1989. The Summit was the first official state visit between Chinese and Soviet leaders in 30 years.
Deng Xiaoping
A formal state welcome was planned for Gorbachev's visit to be held in Tiananmen Square where the Great Hall of the People is located but curiously enough, the government of Deng Xiaoping was tolerating pro-democracy demonstrations in the Square so the scaled down ceremony was held at the airport when Gorbachev arrived. The coverage of the demonstrations in the Square overshadowed the Summit between Xiaoping and Gorbachev. The BBC does have an article on the timeline of the demonstrations. The military crackdown on the demonstrators didn't happen until weeks after Gorbachev's visit.
According to the history on APEC's website, Australian Prime Minister Robert Hawke proposed the idea for APEC in a speech in South Korea in January of 1989.
"Ten months later, 12 Asia-Pacific economies met in Canberra, Australia, to establish APEC. The founding members were Australia; Brunei Darussalam; Canada; Indonesia; Japan; Korea; Malaysia; New Zealand; the Philippines; Singapore; Thailand; and the United States."
That's what you call treason by definition. They chose to call the territories from which they hailed economies rather than countries even though they list the names of countries. That was a big clue that this organization was operating outside of the world's established system of nation-states. Political leaders represent countries and that includes the breadth of interests within a country. Who represents economies? Nobody. The economy as a separate entity is an ungoverned space. From what I've been able to discern, the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) gives the patina of a government representative but in reality serves merely as a messenger boy (or girl) from the corporate syndicate (mafia) that is APEC. And who does the corporate syndicate represent with respect to economies? Themselves and nothing else. The ungoverned space of the global economy has allowed corporate syndicates like APEC to wage undeclared war on nation-states and the people within those nation-states.
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When Americans read this, they'll have it all figured out. The "public-private partnerships" or don't they call them "collaborations" now ? It's all the stuff that happens at the bottom, the stuff we see every day but can't figure out why everything kind of looks the same, but isn't. You know, when you had a concern about something suspicious or some possibly criminal activity, you told a police officer. You can't know- you have to report it to a corporate website "Crimestoppers.com". Cops buy groceries for shoplifters who got caught in the grocery store and they call it a good turn, and post about it on social media.
Schools deliberately hiding American history and "teachers" rather people hired to hand out packets- of carefully crafted Far Left propaganda, and Vicky were you aware that illegal immigrants can teach public school in California? They're not even citizens, how the hell can they know of our history, our culture? and teaching children 10 years away from puberty about trans-sex and how lesbians go all the way.
Now we are importing potential Red revolutionaries: Central American illiterate villagers and they all have entitlement culture and hate the "rich". Vicky we had immigrants here in my city demanding Salvation Army GIVE them free Christmas gifts. They didn't fill out the application forms required for the "Angel Tree" program, but they still came to the Salvation Army offices and demanded free stuff. They gave it to them. "Emmanuel Velgara was one of many parents who showed up, expecting to leave with a bag full of gifts for his children." https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/phoenix-salvation-army-provides-gifts-to-families-after-application-mishap
Vicky you don't have to post my comment, maybe it's not exactly apropo to your post- but to me, the stuff going up at the top – what some people think "doesn't affect me & I'm not interested in any politics all that stuff doesn't matter" it surely does affect us, all of us and it does TOO matter, and it will matter a lot worse, very soon and very much. Oh yeah- this is so spot on, the old famous : "45 Communist Goals " everything's come true, and they all laughed then. FYI, source for this list posted here is from http://unitedstates.fm/communismgoals.htm the editoralizing is a bit dated but the gist of it still stands.
"On Jan. 10, 1963, Congressman Albert S. Herlong Jr. of Florida read a list of 45 Communist goals into the Congressional Record. The list was derived from researcher Cleon Skousen's book "The Naked Communist." These principles are well worth revisiting today in order to gain insights into the thinking and strategies of much of our so-called liberal elite.
1. U.S. should accept coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. should be willing to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
These encapsulate the Kennan Doctrine, which advocated for the "containment" of communism. Establishment figures supporting the amoral containment policy at least implicitly worked with the communists in scaring the wits out of the American people concerning atomic war.
President Ronald Reagan undid the doctrine when he took an aggressive stand against the Evil Empire by backing freedom fighters from around the world that were struggling against the left-wing communist jackboot. As a result, the Soviet Union and its satellites imploded, a considerable and unexpected setback to the international communist edifice.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament by the U.S. would be a demonstration of "moral strength."
The nuclear freeze advocates supported a freeze on American nuclear development only. Rarely were Soviet nukes or those of other nations mentioned in their self-righteous tirades. The same advocates now call for reducing American military might, claiming that there is something immoral about America preserving its military pre-eminence in the world.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war. (Kristin here: <<< Hello why are we permitting major trade agreements with Communist China???)
Today, there are calls to end the embargo on the slave island of Cuba, there were complaints about the embargo against Iraq, and the U.S., not Saddam Hussein, was blamed for the suffering of the Iraqi people. Would they have advocated for free trade with Hitler and his National Socialist regime?
5. Extend long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
Such aid and trade over decades contributed greatly to the left-wing communist liquidation of over 100 million people worldwide, according to the well-documented "Black Book of Communism."
This aid and trade marks a shameful chapter in American history. Without the aid and trade, the left-wing international communist behemoth would have imploded on its own rot a lot sooner and umpteen millions would have been saved from poverty, misery, starvation and death.
7. Grant recognition of Red China and admission of Red China to the U.N.
Not only did President Jimmy Carter fulfill this goal but he also betrayed America's allies in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Iran, Afghanistan, Angola and elsewhere.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the Germany question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the U.S. has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces.
There are still American intellectuals, and elected members of Congress, who dream of an eventual one world government and who view the U.N., founded by communists such as Alger Hiss, the first secretary-general, as the instrument to bring this about.
World government was also the dream of Adolf Hitler and J.V. Stalin. World government was the dream of Osama bin Laden and the 9/11 hijackers.
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
While the idea of banning any political party runs contrary to notions of American freedom and liberty, notions that are the exact opposite of those held by the left-wing communists themselves, nevertheless these goals sought to undermine the constitutional obligation of Congress to investigate subversion. The weakening of our government's ability to conduct such investigations led to the attack of 9/11.
It is entirely proper and appropriate for our government to expect employees, paid by the American taxpayer, to take an oath of loyalty.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the U.S.
In his book "Reagan's War," Peter Schweizer demonstrates the astonishing degree to which communists and communist sympathizers have penetrated the Democratic Party. In his book, Schweizer writes about the presidential election of 1979.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions, by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
This strategy goes back to the founding of the American Civil Liberties Union by Fabian Socialists Roger Baldwin and John Dewey and Communists William Z. Foster and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn among others.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for Socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations that are under Communist attack.
The success of these goals, from a communist perspective, is obvious. Is there any doubt this is so?
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV & motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all form of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings," substituting shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. " Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24.Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural and healthy."
This is the Gramscian agenda of the "long march through the institutions" spelled out explicitly: gradual takeover of the "means of communication" and then using those vehicles to debauch the culture and weaken the will of the individual to resist.
Today those few who still have the courage to advocate public morality are denounced and viciously attacked. Most Americans are entirely unwitting regarding the motives behind this agenda.
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch."
This has been largely accomplished through the communist infiltration of the National Council of Churches, Conservative and Reform Judaism, and the Catholic seminaries.
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the grounds that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state"
Replacing belief in the creator with belief in the earthly man-controlled State.
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
And replace our nation of "laws, not men" with royal decree emanating from appointed judges and executive orders. Replace elected officials with bureaucrats.
30. Discredit the American founding fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of "the big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
Obliterating the American past, with its antecedents in principles of freedom, liberty and private ownership is a major goal of the communists then and now.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture – education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
Public ownership of the means of production, the core principle of totalitarianism.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
Turn America into a socialist police state.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand or treat.
The Soviets used to send "social misfits" and those deemed politically incorrect to massive mental institutions called gulags. The Red Chinese call them lao gai. Hitler called them concentration camps.
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose communist goals.
Psychiatry remains a bulwark of the communist agenda of fostering self-criticism and docility.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
Done! The sovereign family is the single most powerful obstacle to authoritarian control.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
Outcome-based education, values clarification or whatever they're calling it this year.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special interest groups should rise up and make a "united force" to solve economic, political or social problems.
This describes the dialectical fostering of group consciousness and conflict, which furthers the interests of authoritarianism.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
The results of this successful campaign are increasingly obvious in the world today.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally Reservation so the U.S. cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.
This would mark a complete subversion of our Constitution and an end to representative sovereign government as we know it, which is the whole idea."
Which of these goals have not been realized yet? GOAL 45 is really, really important Vicky you've written about this ad nauseam, in fact I was unaware of much of UN's "world court" especially the nonsense about "human trafficking" and of course, Child Support and chasing "deadbeat dads" across the globe, this is that world court in action is it not.
Vicky Davis
I thought about turning your rant 🙂 into a post. I still might because there is a lot of good stuff in there. Since I'm looking at the bottom of the comment as I write this, I'm looking at #45 – giving jurisdiction to the World Court. That's exactly what was done with the UIFSA of 2008 – the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act that integrated reference to a Hague Convention into state law. It requires state judges to honor foreign court orders for child support and family maintenance orders. This was a mandate from the Obama Administration. It also established a system for international child support collection and payment system – courtesy of the U.S. taxpayers – so that we pickup the costs for sending money back home for the foreigners who are here taking our jobs. Great isn't it?
I'm glad what I wrote got you all fired up. I appreciate the fact that you actually read what I write so that I'm not all fired up alone.

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The Ellsworth Eagles and Bangor Rams met in a dual meet on Thursday December 10th and the the Ellsworth Boys defeated Bangor 116-54 while the Ellsworth Girls narrowly lost, 90-80. The Ellsworth Girl's and Boy's 400 Yard Freestyle Relay set new school records, with the girls swimming a time of 4:08.41 and the boys swimming in a blazing time of 3:23.67!
It was a very exciting meet with great swims. We had many State qualifying times for both boys and girls with a total of 15 of 34 swimmers already qualified to participate at the Class B State Championship.


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The 1947 Tasmanian Australian National Football League (TANFL) premiership season was an Australian Rules football competition staged in Hobart, Tasmania over fifteen (15) roster rounds and four (4) finals series matches between 19 April and 27 September 1947.

The TANFL introduced two new teams into the district-based competition, New Norfolk (founded in 1878) and Clarence (founded in 1884) were both introduced from the Southern District Football Association for a two-year trial period.

There was also a two-week break in mid-season to allow for the 1947 Australian National Football Championships to be played, all Carnival matches were staged at North Hobart Oval.

Participating clubs
Clarence District Football Club
New Town District Football Club
Hobart Football Club
New Norfolk District Football Club
North Hobart Football Club
Sandy Bay Football Club

1947 TANFL Club Coaches
Bert McTaggart (Clarence)
Brian Kelly (New Town)
Jack Sullivan (Hobart)
Albert "Tich" Edwards (New Norfolk)
Jack Metherell (North Hobart)
Lance Collins (Sandy Bay)

TANFL Reserves Grand Final
Nth Hobart 9.6 (60) v Sandy Bay 6.13 (49) – North Hobart Oval

TANFL Under-19's Grand Final
State Schools Old Boys Football Association (SSOBFA)
 Buckingham 8.10 (58) v South East 6.7 (43) – New Town Oval
Note: Buckingham were affiliated to New Town, South East were affiliated to Sandy Bay.

State Grand Final
(Saturday, 4 October 1947)
Nth Launceston: 7.7 (49) | 9.8 (62) | 14.11 (95) | 19.16 (130)
Nth Hobart: 0.1 (1) | 6.3 (39) | 7.4 (46) | 10.9 (69)
Attendance: 7,500 at York Park

Intrastate Matches
Jubilee Shield (Saturday, 10 May 1947)
TANFL 18.14 (122) v NWFU 16.15 (111) – Att: 10,000 at North Hobart Oval

Jubilee Shield (Saturday, 7 June 1947)
TANFL 13.14 (92) v NWFU 9.13 (67) – Att: 7,000 at Devonport Oval

Jubilee Shield (Saturday, 21 June 1947)
TANFL 17.13 (115) v NTFA 14.19 (103) – Att: 10,000 at North Hobart Oval

Jubilee Shield (Saturday, 12 July 1947)
TANFL 15.9 (99) v NTFA 14.10 (94) – Att: 10,000 at York Park

Interstate Matches
 See: 1947 Australian National Football Carnival

Leading Goalkickers: TANFL
Lance Collins (Sandy Bay) – 50

Medal Winners
Jack Sullivan (Hobart) – William Leitch Medal
Neil Clarke (Sandy Bay) – George Watt Medal (Reserves)
Alan Hughes (Macalburn) – V.A Geard Medal (Under-19's)

1947 TANFL Ladder

Round 1
(Saturday, 19 April 1947)
New Town 12.18 (90) v Nth Hobart 7.13 (55) – Att: 4,574 at North Hobart Oval
Sandy Bay 14.14 (98) v Hobart 8.17 (65) – Att: 3,142 at Queenborough Oval
Clarence 16.15 (111) v New Norfolk 9.13 (67) – Att: 834 at Bellerive Oval *
Note: Clarence Football Club's maiden TANFL victory, also first TANFL match at Bellerive Oval.

Round 2
(Saturday, 26 April 1947)
Nth Hobart 17.14 (116) v Sandy Bay 14.11 (95) – Att: 5,446 at North Hobart Oval
Hobart 13.18 (96) v Clarence 14.8 (92) – Att: 2,006 at TCA Ground
New Town 16.19 (115) v New Norfolk 7.14 (56) – Att: 1,456 at Boyer Oval *
Note: First TANFL match staged at Boyer Oval (built by ANM Limited in 1945).

Round 3
(Saturday, 3 May 1947)
New Town 12.19 (91) v Sandy Bay 12.12 (84) – Att: 6,160 at North Hobart Oval
Hobart 9.13 (67) v New Norfolk 9.7 (61) – Att: 1,085 at TCA Ground
Nth Hobart 9.18 (72) v Clarence 1.7 (13) – Att: 1,592 at Bellerive Oval

Round 4
(Saturday, 17 May 1947)
Hobart 6.21 (57) v New Town 6.9 (45)  – Att: 3,165 at North Hobart Oval
Sandy Bay 7.9 (51) v Clarence 5.18 (48)  – Att: 1,609 at Queenborough Oval
Nth Hobart 6.18 (54) v New Norfolk 4.11 (35)  – Att: 1,100 at Boyer Oval

Round 5
(Saturday, 24 May 1947)
Nth Hobart 12.13 (85) v Hobart 11.8 (74) – Att: 5,705 at North Hobart Oval
New Town 14.14 (98) v Clarence 11.17 (83) – Att: 1,490 at Bellerive Oval
Sandy Bay 15.20 (110) v New Norfolk 10.15 (75) – Att: 1,555 at Queenborough Oval

Round 6
(Saturday, 31 May 1947)
New Town 14.15 (99) v Nth Hobart 14.14 (98) – Att: 5,755 at North Hobart Oval
Hobart 17.14 (116) v Sandy Bay 14.10 (94) – Att: 2,727 at TCA Ground
Clarence 13.7 (85) v New Norfolk 8.7 (55) – Att: 2,400 at Boyer Oval

Round 7
(Saturday, 14 June 1947)
New Town 13.19 (97) v New Norfolk 10.10 (70) – Att: 2,462 at North Hobart Oval
Nth Hobart 14.11 (95) v Sandy Bay 12.16 (88) – Att: 3,179 at Queenborough Oval
Hobart 18.15 (123) v Clarence 10.16 (76) – Att: 1,847 at Bellerive Oval

Round 8
(Monday, 16 June 1947)
Nth Hobart 6.9 (45) v Clarence 3.13 (31) – Att: 1,644 at North Hobart Oval
Sandy Bay 10.11 (71) v New Town 8.15 (63) – Att: 1,330 at Queenborough Oval
Hobart 7.6 (48) v New Norfolk 2.8 (20) – Att: 500 at Boyer Oval

Round 9
(Saturday, 28 June 1947)
Hobart 11.12 (78) v New Town 8.11 (59) – Att: 3,575 at TCA Ground
Nth Hobart 10.12 (72) v New Norfolk 7.6 (48) – Att: 817 at Queenborough Oval
Sandy Bay 21.23 (149) v Clarence 12.14 (86) – Att: 1,652 at Bellerive Oval

Round 10
(Saturday, 5 July 1947)
Nth Hobart 10.10 (70) v Hobart 7.9 (51) – Att: 5,675 at TCA Ground
New Town 10.17 (77) v Clarence 11.6 (72) – Att: 1,076 at Queenborough Oval
Sandy Bay 14.7 (91) v New Norfolk 7.14 (56) – Att: 1,039 at Boyer Oval

Round 11
(Saturday, 19 July 1947)
New Town 10.11 (71) v Nth Hobart 7.13 (55) – Att: 3,400 at TCA Ground
Hobart 9.16 (70) v Sandy Bay 5.16 (46) – Att: 3,283 at Queenborough Oval
New Norfolk 15.10 (100) v Clarence 9.13 (67) – Att: 851 at Bellerive Oval *
Note: New Norfolk District Football Club's maiden TANFL victory.

Round 12
(Saturday, 26 July 1947)
Hobart 15.24 (114) v Clarence 8.7 (55) – Att: 1,596 at TCA Ground
Sandy Bay 15.18 (108) v Nth Hobart 8.13 (61) – Att: 4,224 at Queenborough Oval
New Town 10.12 (72) v New Norfolk 5.9 (39) – Att: 1,550 at Boyer Oval

Round 13
(Saturday, 16 August 1947)
Sandy Bay 10.14 (74) v New Town 7.9 (51) – Att: 3,731 at TCA Ground
Hobart 14.20 (104) v New Norfolk 8.4 (52) – Att: 884 at Queenborough Oval
Nth Hobart 14.13 (97) v Clarence 10.15 (75) – Att: 800 at Bellerive Oval

Round 14
(Saturday, 23 August 1947)
Hobart 10.9 (69) v New Town 7.9 (51) – Att: 4,339 at North Hobart Oval
Sandy Bay 15.20 (110) v Clarence 9.13 (67) – Att: 1,570 at Queenborough Oval
Nth Hobart 17.22 (124) v New Norfolk 5.3 (33) – Att: 1,030 at Boyer Oval

Round 15
(Saturday, 30 August 1947)
Nth Hobart 10.21 (81) v Hobart 7.13 (55) – Att: 4,186 at North Hobart Oval
Sandy Bay 23.14 (152) v New Norfolk 9.17 (71) – Att: 700 at Queenborough Oval
Clarence 8.19 (67) v New Town 7.11 (53) – Att: 890 at Bellerive Oval

First Semi Final
(Saturday, 6 September 1947)
New Town: 5.6 (36) | 9.10 (64) | 9.12 (66) | 13.16 (94)
Sandy Bay: 1.1 (7) | 2.3 (15) | 5.5 (35) | 8.8 (56)
Attendance: 6,630 at North Hobart Oval

Second Semi Final
(Saturday, 13 September 1947)
Hobart: 2.2 (14) | 4.6 (30) | 6.10 (46) | 7.16 (58)
Nth Hobart: 3.6 (24) | 3.6 (24) | 5.7 (37) | 7.8 (50)
Attendance: 7,846 at North Hobart Oval

Preliminary Final
(Saturday, 20 September 1947)
Nth Hobart: 1.1 (7) | 5.4 (34) | 11.10 (76) | 12.11 (83)
New Town: 2.6 (18) | 4.7 (31) | 5.8 (38) | 9.10 (64)
Attendance: 8,789 at North Hobart Oval

Grand Final
(Saturday, 27 September 1947)
Nth Hobart: 2.0 (12) | 3.3 (21) | 8.5 (53) | 13.7 (85)
Hobart: 2.4 (16) | 4.5 (29) | 8.8 (56) | 10.9 (69)
Attendance: 11,396 at North Hobart Oval

Source: All scores and statistics courtesy of the Hobart Mercury publications.

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Biden for China? "Beijing-picked, Beijing-endorsed candidate"
By Tom Harris|2020-10-21T09:49:25-04:00October 15th, 2020|
As a Canadian watching the U.S. election from afar, I am starting to wonder who Joe Biden works for—the United States of America or the People's Republic of China? Earlier in the current campaign, Biden asked, "China is going to eat our lunch? Come-on, man!…They're not bad folks, folks."
Not only is China planning to eat our lunch—indeed, as President Donald Trump makes clear, they have been doing so for years—but, if you look more closely, it is apparent that Joe is packing a very nice meal for them indeed. So, it is not surprising that The Global Times, a Chinese state-owned news organisation, wrote that Biden's "world view runs parallel to Beijing's." It's hard to argue with Australia's Sky News host James Morrow who said that the Democratic Presidential nominee is the "Beijing-picked, Beijing-endorsed candidate."
While media have focussed on the huge contracts from Communist Party of China-controlled enterprises that Biden's son Hunter's firm was able to secure when Joe was vice-president, contracts so lucrative that no one else in the world was able to secure them, few in the press have noticed that Joe is pushing a climate change agenda that strongly benefits Red China to the detriment of America.
At first glance, all looks well. The former vice president reassures Americans in "The Biden Plan for a Clean Energy Revolution and Environmental Justice" that he:
"will not allow other nations, including China, to game the system by becoming destination economies for polluters, undermining our climate efforts and exploiting American workers and businesses. As the U.S. takes steps to make domestic polluters bear the full cost of their carbon pollution [sic], the Biden Administration will impose carbon adjustment fees or quotas on carbon-intensive goods from countries that are failing to meet their climate and environmental obligations. This will ensure that American workers and their employers are not at a competitive disadvantage…"
If you believe that, then have I got a bridge to sell you.
You see, China has skilfully gamed the system until, now, most of the world, except the U.S., has agreed to the Paris Agreement on climate change, a treaty that gives huge benefits to China and other 'developing countries' that do not apply to us. That is precisely why Trump announced the U.S. withdrawal from the treaty, to take effect the day after the election. Yet, despite these inequities, Joe says in his plan:
"A Biden Administration will … re-enter the Paris Agreement on day one of the Biden Administration… The Paris Agreement was a historic breakthrough for the world, and reflected the power of patient, strategic diplomacy in service of America's long-term national interests."
No, Paris was an historic demonstration of how well China uses useful idiots in the West to game the system while making it seem like we are the ones getting a good deal. When it comes to Paris, its all in the fine print.
Under the 2015 agreement, China committed to stop increasing its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2030, while the United States agreed to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (~81 percent of which is CO2) by between 26 percent and 28 percent below its 2005 levels by 2025.
Aside from the fact that scientific evidence does not support the need to reduce CO2 emissions in the first place *, this asymmetry made no sense. Letting China, the world's largest emitter, increase CO2 emissions over this period, while restricting the United States, would result in even more industries moving to China. Total global CO2 emissions would then likely rise even faster.
The situation is actually more unbalanced than it appears because, in contrast to the burdens imposed on developed countries, China and other developing nations apparently need not ever curtail emissions.
The Paris Agreement specifies:
"The Parties to this Agreement,
• Being Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [UNFCCC] …
• In pursuit of the objective of the [UNFCCC] Convention, and being guided by its principles…"
This reaffirms the fact that UNFCCC, approved by President George H. W. Bush and other world leaders at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, is the cornerstone upon which UN climate agreements, including the Paris Agreement, are based.
Yet UNFCCC Article 4 states,
"The extent to which developing country Parties will effectively implement their commitments under the Convention will depend on the effective implementation by developed country Parties of their commitments under the Convention related to financial resources and transfer of technology and will take fully into account that economic and social development and poverty eradication are the first and overriding priorities of the developing country Parties. [my bold]"
This means, under Paris and the other treaties based on the UNFCCC, any commitments developing countries make to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions are conditioned on developed countries giving them enough money and technology to cover the costs. Former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt confirmed this in a Fox News interview on October 17, 2017, telling Neil Cavuto, "India conditioned all of the responsibilities on receiving $2.5 trillion of aid."
But even if developed countries give developing countries everything promised, under the UNFCCC developing countries may apparently still ignore any commitments they make to cap or reduce emissions if such commitments interfere with their "first and overriding priorities" [of] "economic and social development and poverty eradication."
By contrast, developed nations are expected to keep their emission reduction commitments no matter how it impacts their economies.
UN climate change bureaucrats have not hidden this inequity. They have repeatedly explained "development and poverty eradication" is the most important issue for developing countries. Addressing climate change clearly takes a back seat.
Significantly reducing CO2 emissions in developing countries would almost certainly involve dramatically reducing the use of coal, the source of well over half of the electricity generated in China and India. As coal is the cheapest source of power in most of the world, reducing or capping CO2 emissions by reducing coal use would obviously interfere with development priorities. So, no matter what they promise with respect to emissions cuts or caps, developing countries are unlikely to follow their commitments, citing UNFCCC Article 4 in support of their actions.
It has been suggested the Paris climate agreement's statement that countries' responsibilities will be decided "in light of different national circumstances" will impose more stringent requirements on poor nations as they further develop. That is improbable.
The UNFCCC treaty, especially Article 4 establishing the favored treatment given developing nations, has been the foundation of all UN climate negotiations. Developing nations are unlikely to let this change. Chinese negotiator Su Wei stated at the Peru UN climate conference in 2014 that the purpose of the Paris Agreement is to "reinforce and enhance" the UNFCCC, not rewrite it.
Rather that rejoining the Paris Agreement, it is clearly time for the United States to withdraw from the corrupt UNFCCC completely, which is now allowed with merely one year's notice. Once out of the UNFCCC, the U.S. will be free of all agreements based on the treaty. This includes the Paris climate agreement, the Green Climate Fund, and the 2013 "Warsaw international mechanism for loss and damage associated with climate change impacts," under which developed nations could be held responsible for potentially trillions of dollars in liability for damages from extreme weather events in developing countries, damages that are supposedly the fault of developed countries for their past and continuing sin of using fossil fuels.
In support of America finally exiting the UNFCCC, Joe Bast, director and senior fellow at The Heartland Institute said, "This really is a case where cutting the tail off the dog all at once, rather than an inch at a time, is the right move. It would be the shot heard around the world and bring the whole manmade global warming house of cards tumbling down."
Let's hope Trump gets the chance to do this.
* See www.climatechangereconsidered.org
About the Author: Tom Harris
Tom Harris is Executive Director of the Ottawa, Canada-based International Climate Science Coalition, and a policy advisor to The Heartland Institute. He has 40 years experience as a mechanical engineer/project manager, science and technology communications professional, technical trainer and S&T advisor to a former Opposition Senior Environment Critic in Canada's Parliament.
Paul Delaney October 18, 2020 at 2:25 pm - Reply
Need a Trump re-election big time. With no further elections to worry about he can be more forceful and do the sensible thing and dump basically anything the UN has made up, starting with the climate farce. Unlike sheep like Obama, the MSM and way too many people, Trump correctly sees the imbalance in these agreements. No real use trying to tinker. Just get out. Hopefully Canada will follow, but not until we elect a leader with common sense and the concerns of the electorate forefront, as opposed to the rest of the world being more of a concern.
Bryan Leyland October 15, 2020 at 10:42 pm - Reply
Tom, excellent!
Tom Harris October 16, 2020 at 12:47 am - Reply
Thanks Bryan! Hope spring is great down there in NZ. We are well into fall here.
Tom Harris October 15, 2020 at 5:03 pm - Reply
I had a TV interview on the same subject, broadcast yesterday at https://www.rebelnews.com/gunn_show_october_14_2020 . You need a subscription to watch the video, but you can listen to the podcast version for free at https://rebelnews.fireside.fm/tgs-october-14-2020 .
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Q: Android transparent color in custom view class I'm drawing a rect in the onDraw() of a custom view class. I want the color of the rect to be transparent (eg 50%) so that the background shines through.
Here's my layout.xml:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
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The background is set in the LinearLayout as you see.
colors.xml:
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somewhere in MyCustomView's onDraw() method:
Paint p = new Paint();
p.setColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.my_tranparent_color));
canvas.drawRect(new Rect(x, y, x + 20, y + 20), p);

The result isn't transparent, it's only kind of gray.
I get simular results if I set the alpha value inside the onDraw() method:
p.setAlpha(51);

and
<color name="my_tranparent_color">#FFF</color>

A: Stupid me! The problem was that I was drawing black rect behind the white one. I didn't remember that it was filled with black, because I used it to get a border for the white rect. So the background for the white rect was a black rect, which explains the gray result. Thanks for your help :/

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Hello beautiful people! I'm writing this the day after I did something I don't normally do. I'm also slightly hung over and very tired! But what I did last night is what I want to talk about. There's some back story, but essentially I stepped out of my comfort zone, and I had a lot of fun doing it.
Anyone who has read my blog for a little while knows I have two jobs. I just passed my one year anniversary at my full time job on the 19th. That job does an annual work party, usually considered a gala but this year it was a little more low key and we just called it a soiree.
Last year, because I had just started, I wasn't able to go. We aren't allowed a plus one, it's just for employees of the company. Amanda went last year and said she had fun, but she wasn't excited to go this year. I was originally not going to go at all, especially considering I had work the next day.
Until our boss told Amanda that because she's a team lead she "should really go." Amanda is my ride. Our job is about halfway between our house and where the party was. It would have made no sense for Amanda to drop me off at home then go all the way back past our office to the party. So I was suckered into going.
To say I wasn't happy would be an understatement. I have severe social anxiety. I'm not good in crowds, especially a crowd of people I know and work with. Add to that the fact that the few people at work I consider a "friend" weren't going, and I was dreading that night.
But I had no real choice, so I went. We brought our outfits to work with us to change into. It's a good thing, too, because Amanda spilled her lunch on her shirt, lol. We all came in at 830 so we could leave at 5 and have time to get ready. The party started at 7 in Hartford.
We changed, most of us did or touched up our makeup, and we drove up to the state capital. We had the other team lead and one of the supervisors following us up, even though we'd never been there and it was a pretty straight shot on the highway until you go to Hartford. We also got there about a half hour early.
But when we got there we were given two drink tickets. I used one for a vodka sprite, and the call center manager bought us (our table, not everyone there) a drink so I had another vodka sprite. I limited myself to two drinks because I was working the next day. We were also planning on leaving at about 9pm. That didn't happen. I didn't get home until after midnight. I even took pictures in the photo booth! One of the photos looks different because I took a picture of it with my phone and the other Amanda had texted to her. I wish both had been texted, but oh well.
The greatest part is that I had fun. Like a lot of fun. We had a live band, and even though I don't dance, I sang along to the songs I knew (which was most of them) and spent time with the people I did know from work. That included watching my manager act a fool (I say this lovingly, lol) on the dance floor. Amanda danced, I watched my friends dance. It was a great night.
I'm really glad I went, and I'm bummed that I won't be there next year. (Long story). I can't believe I almost didn't go! Like even up til Thursday I was trying to get a work friend to switch with me. I'm glad she refused, because I would have just been home doing nothing otherwise.
This is something I've been working on for a while. I need to continuously step outside my comfort zone because when I do, I usually don't regret it. Parties are definitely not something I'll be doing every week, but occasionally they're fun.
Do you have social anxiety? Are parties not your thing? Any tips for me to get better at parties? Let's chat!
I am glad you went and had fun. I have horrible social anxiety, it takes me hours to work up the courage to go grocery shopping most times. I just dont like crowds, hah.


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What have we learned from President Trump's first 100 days?
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Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report and Tamara Keith of NPR join Judy Woodruff to discuss President Trump's learning curve in his first 100 days, as well as former President Obama's first public appearance.
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JUDY WOODRUFF:
Now we turn back to the political fight brewing over government funding, health care and tax reform, as President Trump nears his 100th day in office.
For all that, it's time for Politics Monday with Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report and Tamara Keith of NPR, who joins us tonight from Chicago.
And welcome to you both.
So, 100 days, we're coming up on it this Saturday.
Amy, during the campaign, the president said he was going to get a lot done during those first 100 days. But then, just a few days ago, he was saying it's a ridiculous standard.
AMY WALTER, The Cook Political Report:
Right, an arbitrary standard.
But what is it? How important is it? How much attention should we give it?
AMY WALTER:
Yes, it's a very good question.
You know, normally, president, especially — first-term presidents start off in their first few months in office with this reservoir of goodwill. Think of it like having a bank account that you're flush with cash. And so you spend that money down and that goodwill down over the course of your presidency to get things done.
President Trump is starting in a very different place. He has got to find a way to fill that reservoir because, right now, it's empty. He's sitting at anywhere between 40 percent and 42 percent approval, the lowest for any president at this point in his tenure, for a first-term president in his tenure.
And so the question which, Judy, I feel like we have been asking since the day he that won this election is how does he fill that reservoir because, right now, he hasn't done a particularly good job of it.
And, Tam, you not only cover Washington. You cover the American people. You hit the road. How do you sense the importance of this measurement, this 100 days?
TAMARA KEITH, NPR:
It is an arbitrary measure.
It is based on, you know, the Roosevelt administration had — FDR's administration had incredible accomplishments. But that was done with Congress, and a lot of it didn't originate from the White House.
One historian I talked to last week said that even Roosevelt wouldn't have meet the standard. And yet every president is held to this standard. The problem with President Trump is that he made big all of these very promises, and specifically labeled it as his 100-days plan that he was campaigning on.
That said, as the talk of 100 days heated up last week, I was chatting with a Trump voter who said to me, you know, in my machine shop, when we get somebody new, we don't expect them to be able to do everything on the first day.
And I think that there are a lot of Trump voters out there I have heard from who say, you know, give him a chance. There's a very steep learning curve when it comes to running the United States.
And, Amy, it is like everything else. So much of this is in the eye of the beholder.
Well, that's exactly right.
And I think the learning curve thing is very important. Remember, this is the first president we have elected in our time who has never held political office and who's never had military office. Right? This is a big learning curve. And the people around him has a learning curve and Congress has a learning curve.
Most of the Republicans in Congress have never worked with a Republican president before. So, structurally, though, that's first this president I think has time to sort of right the ship.
The first 100 days to me not as important as the next 100 or 200 or 400 as we get closer to the midterm elections. Structurally, his advantage is that this as a president who has all levers of power in Washington. They have the House. They have the Senate.
So, while I agree that there is a learning curve and people are going to cut them some slack, saying you're few, get some notches, take some time before you can put some notches on your belt, at some point, if you have all the levers of power and you're still not able to get anything done, I think that's going to be a problem.
Part of what you have been both have referring to, Tam, is he's raised expectations himself.
And I have been hearing analysts in the last few days, and reading them, saying he needs to lower expectations. But we do have a sense, don't we, coming out of these first three months of what kind of presidency this is going to be? Don't we? Haven't we learned something from this?
TAMARA KEITH:
We have certainly learned how President Trump operates. He operates on sort of an ad hoc basis, that the White House, that Oval Office is very open, that he brings people in, that he is very available, that he does — for all of his talk of the lying media and the fake news, he does a huge number of interviews, where he's more available than past presidents.
But what we don't know is if that is how he will govern for the rest of his term. He talks about being a very flexible person. And we with simply don't know if that flexibility means that he will change again.
You know, like President Clinton started off with a very rough first 100 days. People widely described it as disastrous. Ultimately, he changed chiefs of staff and changed the way he ran his White House, and then, having lost the Congress, cooperated with Republicans in Congress and got some things done.
And, Amy, presidents do learn from their mistakes, don't they?
That's the goal.
And to Tamara's point about President Clinton, he did — that was a rough 1993. And in 1994, it's not just that he had a bad midterm election. His party lost control of the House, for the first time in 40 years.
And so, to me, what I'm looking at in terms of the number is not just where he is, President Trump is in comparison to where other presidents were in their first 100 days. But when I look at the number where he is now, at 40 or 42 percent, and look at where other presidents were close to their midterm elections who were at 40 percent or 42 percent, they lost lots of seats in Congress.
In many cases, they low control of Congress. So it is imperative for him to start getting some wins. Structurally, he has the ability to do it, but now he has got to start delivering.
And he has got to make up some ground.
Tam, we did note that you're in Chicago. President Obama was there today to make his first sort of public presentation since leaving office. So, what did you see?
Well, what I saw is a post-president who is trying his best to not talk about his successor.
He was on stage with six young people who are active in — sort of civically active. And he said that he believes that a big part of his post-presidency will be to try to figure out how to get the next generation involved in public life and giving back and in politics.
He talked about concerns about people simply not voting or becoming cynical. But what he didn't talk about was President Trump. So, for those people who were hoping that President Obama would come back into public life and join the resistance, that doesn't appear to be how he plans to spend his post-presidency.
Sounds like he is holding off.
Well, there's a great irony, of course, in President Obama as a face of the resistance. We talked throughout the Obama era about the so-called Obama coalition voters. But guess what? Those voters, who included a lot of young people, only turned out for one Democrat, and that was Barack Obama.
They didn't turn out in midterm elections. They didn't turn in the way that Democrats had hoped for Hillary Clinton. Will they then turn out for another Democrat is the big question.
A lot of Democrats are holding their breath, crossing their fingers, or whatever people do when they're hoping.
Amy Walter, Tamara Keith, thank you both. See you next Monday.
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Warren, waiting for his parents to respond to his barrage of worried text messages.
After emerging from the Bursley Dining Hall alone, freshman Dale Warren reportedly looked longingly at his phone, wishing his parents would contact him more. According to Warren, his parents had not been in contact with him for nearly three weeks, and usually wouldn't call him at all, unless he set up a specific time several days in advance.
"I worry about them, you know?" Warren said. "I know they've got a lot going on and they're busy off on their own, but sometimes I wish they'd call, just to let me know they're okay."
In an effort to connect with his increasingly distant parents, Warren texted his mother, "Hey, I heard you started a new spin class, how's that going?" Warren claims that though the text was quickly labeled with a read receipt, he never received a reply.
Warren has reportedly left several voicemails on his parents' inbox "just to check in."
"Hey guys, it's me, Dale," one voicemail said. "I was just wondering how it's going there. I know there's a storm coming in so I just want to make sure you're safe and prepared. Make sure you wear a jacket to work tomorrow! Could you wish Ally a happy birthday for me? She hasn't been picking up either. Well, call me back when you get a chance, just want to make sure everything's alright with you guys."
While no vocal responses were made to any of Warren's messages, he recently received a text message from his mother saying, "We've been doing fine, honey. Could you send us those basketball tickets before Thursday?"
At press time, Warren was on his phone, patiently wondering if his grandmother, who he had tried to reach three times already, would pick up.
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The Point Reyes area offers so many ways for you to explore, discover and enjoy. Whether you're here to take in the astonishing natural beauty of our National Park, walk on miles of protected trails or beaches, sample our famous food and wine culture or spend the day on the bay in a kayak, you'll find plenty to inspire you.
The best times to see California gray whales during their annual migration are late December through the end of January and late March through April. In the winter months, female whales head south to calve in warmer waters. In the spring, you can see them migrating back up north with their calves.
Tule Elk Preserve
Point Reyes National Seashore is the only National Park where tule elk can be found. The Point Reyes herd is one of the largest in California. Rutting season in August – October, and calves can be spotted in the spring.
With so many diverse habitats and more than 70,000 acres, it's no surprise that the Point Reyes National Seashore is home to an astonishing variety of bird species, as well as playing host to a number of migrating birds.
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Take a ride along a ridge top, on the beach or in the woods. Local stables offer lessons for less experienced riders, guided trail tours, horse rentals and boarding.
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Whether you're in the mood for a stroll along the beach, a short walk to a spectacular view spot, an hour-long walk through the woods, or an all day trek in the wilderness, the Point Reyes area has what you're looking for. There are over 150 miles of hiking trails, plus monuments like the historic Point Reyes Lighthouse.
West Marin isn't just about amazing activities. We are bookended by two venerable spiritual centers, for those who are here for deep contemplation and insight.
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Whether it's served hot or over ice, with cream and sugar or mixed with gourmet flavors and topped with whipped cream, coffee is the beverage that wakes us up in the morning, keeps us going during the day, and provides added stimulation to stay awake for those late night study sessions or long drives. Americans consume nearly 1/3rd of the coffee produced in the world, but few know where it comes from, how it's made, or what makes coffee k-cups taste so darn good!
Coffee actually starts as an evergreen plant which grows best in tropical regions between 3600 feet and 8000 feet above sea level. The plant produces white flowers and red berries, also known as cherries due to their red coloring. Inside the cherries is the coveted bean. Each cherry holds two beans which must be hand-picked. A mature plant can produce up to 1 ½ pounds of coffee beans per year, and it takes approximately 6 to 8 years for a plant to yield its first crop. The main producers of coffee in the world include Brazil, Vietnam, Columbia and Indonesia. The only place in the United States where coffee is grown is Hawaii, which produces Kona coffee, grown in the volcanic soil of Mauna Loa. Although there are over 60 varieties of coffee that grow in the world, the only two species that are commercially cultivated are the Robusta and the Arabica. Often we see flavors like this in coffee k-cups and other favorite flavors.
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[tps_footer]Ranbir Kapoor along with Bollywood celebrities like Sadhana, Poonam Dhillon, Aditi Rao Hydari, Gauahar Khan, Vivek Oberoi and many more walked the ramp for a fashion show by designers Shaina NC and Vikram Phadnis to support the cause of cancer and AIDS patients.
Yesteryear actress Sadhana was grace personified when she walked the ramp for Shaina NC at a show in aid of cancer patients last night. Sadhana, who was accompanied by Ranbir Kapoor and Aditi Rao Hydari, to the tune of her hit song Lag Ja Gale.
Sadhana who is rarely seen anywhere except the exclusive club of Bollywood, where she drops in for a game of cards with her friends began retreating from public attention in the late seventies when her looks began to change.
Bollywood actress Poonam Dhillon, who too walked the ramo tripped on her sari while walking the ramp but was quick to regain poise. Poonam Dhillon proved to be a sport as she got up, waved at her fans, and left the stage with a smile on her face.
Poonam Dhillon walked the down the runway for designer Vikram Phadnis. While walking the ramp, she tripped and came crashing down when her sari was caught under her feet. She quickly got up and continued the walk without any trace of awkwardness.
All said and done, Poonam Dhillon made a stunning entry in a red sari and one has to give full marks to her for handling the situation with lots of grace and poise. Poonam Dhillon sprung up, gathered her wits and continued her stride unfazed, waving, smiling sweetly at the guests and posing for shutterbugs and media.
Other Bollywood and television celebrities who joined the cause were Sakshi Tanwar, Divya Khosla Kumar, Bhagyashree and Rashami Desai Sandhu.


For most major companies, exhibiting at a Trade Show is a no-brainer. With large marketing budgets, they can afford to set up booths.
But when you are a small to mid-size company, exhibiting at a trade show can be a major expense. In fact, just attending one trade show could eat up half of your marketing budget for the entire year.
Hotel room reservations and food.
Shipping fees of your booth and related supplies.
Marketing material to display and hand out during the show.
Scanner rental fee (for badges worn by attendees).
Ground transportation to and from your hotel and the convention center.
Labor Fees for unpacking and setting up your exhibit booth, and then tearing it down and packing.
According to Smart Trade Shows, the rental fee alone for floor space is about $20.00 per square foot, but the pricing will vary depending on the event, organizer, location, and attendance. So for a 100 square foot booth area, you may be paying about $2,000.
(To help you budget your trade shows, please download the free "Trade Show Budgeting" booklet from Red Cedar PR and Marketing).
So, what should you consider before exhibiting at a trade show?
1). What are your goals?
Most companies attend trade shows to gather new leads, meet with existing customers or launch a new product or service. Others may attend to expand their brand awareness.
There is nothing wrong with those goals, but you need to ask yourself if you can achieve the same objectives without going to a trade show? With so many sophisticated social media and communication tools now at your disposal, attending a trade show at the early stages of your business may not be a good idea. For example, if your website is attracting and converting a lot of prospects into customers, or if you have a good outbound and referral sales campaign, is it really necessary to exhibit at a show? In addition, more companies than ever are conducting webinars and offering free trials.
My suggestion – take a hard look at your budget and your goals before exhibiting.
Rather than exhibiting at a trade show, consider going as a regular attendee. Odd? Not really. As a regular attendee, you can spend time networking by walking up and down the aisles, and be attending social events and workshops. If you know of key clients that will be at the event, you may want to schedule a lunch or dinner appointment. Plus, by going to the show as a regular attendee, it will give you a firsthand look at whether it may be a good event to exhibit next year.
Rather than pay for an entire booth space yourself, why not partner up with another company that is related to your industry but is not a direct competitor. In other words, share the booth space by having two display table and signs. Sometimes, you may join a collective a several companies and share a larger space. However, be careful with this approach – some trade show sponsors may frown upon this, or have very strict rules about who should occupy the space. So read the exhibit contract carefully before partnering up or joining a collective.
4). What are the best trade shows to attend in your industry?
If you have been in your industry for a while, you probably already know this answer, but it doesn't hurt to dig deeper. In almost every industry that I've been in, there is always one or two "must go" trade shows – the ones that are so large and well attended that your phones don't ring for nearly a week, or if you call your clients or prospects, they are not in the office because they are attending the "big" show.
However, exhibiting at large trade shows can be expensive. So maybe you should consider going to some local or regional events.
5). Does size really matter?
Large attendance at a trade show does not guarantee that you are going to get a lot or the best sales leads. You need to determine the type of prospects who will be attending the show to see if they match your client profile. Sure, the event may attract 10,000 attendees, but if only one percent of that number matches your client profile, is it worth the time and expense of exhibiting at the event? And even if one percent sounds good to you, there is no guarantee that all 100 attendees will even stop by your booth. To help you, some organizations will provide statistics on who normally attend the events, e.g., industry types, geographic locations, business size, etc. Read that information carefully. Ask good questions. Make sure that the attendees are in fact your best prospects.
Most organizations will publish a list of previous or current exhibitors on their website. Obviously, this is done to encourage new exhibitors and make them aware, indirectly, that some of their competitors will be attending the event.
My suggestion – call some of the non-competing exhibitors and solicit their advice. Maybe they can offer you some tips on how to be successful or if it's a good idea to even attend.
7). How will the event organizer increase traffic at the exhibit hall?
It's in the mutual interest of both the event organizers and exhibitors to have good walk through traffic during the trade show. As a result, many organizers will seek out sponsors to provide free lunches and happy hour snacks and drinks throughout the event. However, it doesn't hurt to ask specifically what the organizers plan to do to encourage high traffic.
If you know that some of your clients have attended a trade show, contact them and find out if they think it's worthwhile for you to attend the event. It doesn't hurt to get the client's perspective. And while you're at it, why not obtain pointers from your clients on what they consider to be the best practices of exhibitors, and what they look for when they attend trade shows.
9). Does the event organizer have any advice?
If the event organizer has been sponsoring the trade show for several years, they may provide tips or a Q&A sheet on how to get the most bang for your buck while exhibiting. Of course, their advice is going to be biased because they want you to exhibit at the show; however, it doesn't hurt to ask.
Will you have an opportunity to network to find clients? While most trade shows have after hour social events, sometimes just going to lunch or attending a workshop related to your product or service could be a great way to network. Review the agenda carefully to seek out the best networking opportunities. Also, keep your eyes and ears open for the exclusive social events with high attendance.
To learn more about how to be effective at trade shows, I recommend that you read How to Get the Most Out of Trade Shows, by Steve Miller.
The Content Marketing World Conference will be held in Cleveland from September 8th -11th.
Speakers will include John Cleese, actor, Kathy Button Bell, Vice President, CMO of Emerson, Judd Bagley, Director of Communications, Overstock and Sydni Craig-Hart, co-founder of Smart Simple Marketing.
The Inbound Conference will be held in Boston from September 8-11.
Speakers will include Seth Godin, a bestselling author and marketing expert, Daniel Pink, bestselling author, Dr. Brené Brown, author and CEO and Chief Learning Officer for the Daring WayTM, and Aziz Ansari, Comedian and Author.
The Social Media Strategies Summit will be held in Atlanta from August 19-20 at the Westin Buckhead Hotel.
Speakers will include Toby Bloomberg from Bloomberg Marketing, Douglas Busk from the Coca-Cola Company, Allen Gannett from TrackMaven, and Ashley Sasnett from the MSL Group.
I recently discovered a series of videos on YouTube presented by Chet Holmes, who passed away about three years ago. Mr. Holmes is one of those rare breeds who was an expert in both sales and marketing. I'm surprised I never heard of him before until now.
Working with Business Breakthroughs International (BBI), he conducted a series of workshops over the years that have been recorded and made available on YouTube. I also found out that he wrote a book called The Ultimate Sales Machine: Turbocharge Your Business with Relentless Focus on 12 Key Strategies, which I just completed reading.
1). Cold Calling – your tonality has 5 times more impact than the words you use. If you really want to get through the gatekeeper and make an impression on your prospect, you must sound like someone important, i.e., like someone the prospect already knows and is expecting a phone call from. I'm sure we have all received those weak and wimpy phone calls from salespeople who sound almost apologetic in their tone. That's the wrong approach to take. You must sound confident. If you act like a professional, you will be treated like a professional. If you act like a salesperson, you will get the brush off.
2). Marketing Material – no one wants to receive the same old tired email each time from a salesperson. Spice it up a little. Send some interesting and relevant material that the client would like, e.g., white paper, case study or an interesting article. Maybe send a humorous note. Or maybe send some testimonials. Or perhaps a short video link about how you can help your client.
3). Try a Fax Machine – remember those? Hey, they still exist. Rather than just sending emails (which can be quickly deleted), why not send out a fax or two. Sometimes having a document in hand sends a more powerful message to a prospect, and in most cases, he will be forced to read your document (yes, it could still end up in the trash can, but at least he read it and didn't delete it).
4). Persistence matters – the one with the most passion wins. We all know this, but some salespeople still give up after only one or two attempts. That's not enough. According to the videos, at least 5 percent of all salespeople will try 4 times to get a sale. In reality, it actually takes 8 rejections before you get the respect of the prospect. And don't worry about bothering or pestering a prospect – they are in business too – they understand sales. A smart prospect will begin to respect a persistent salesperson. How much respect do you think he would have for a salesperson who makes only one attempt and then gives up?
If you truly believe in your product or service, and you feel what you are offering them will help your prospect, you owe not just to yourself, but to your clients to keep contacting them. Sure, you don't want to call everyday (a common mistake with amateurs). Space out your contacts – maybe once every 4 days or so.
5). No doesn't always mean No – if a client says No, should you give up? Of course not, you are just getting started. Maybe the prospect is having a bad day, or doesn't quite understand what you are offering. OK. Take a deep breath. Think this through. Come at him in a different angle. Maybe circle back in a couple of weeks.
6). Whittle down your Prospect List – one of the biggest mistakes many companies make is that they send out marketing material or make sales calls to every company under the sun. Wrong. Take a hard look at your existing clients. Develop a client profile. Who are your best clients? Why are your higher end clients buying more than your lower end clients? Rather than use the shotgun approach to prospecting, narrow down your list to the top 100 clients and start targeting them.
7). No Marketing Plan is an island – there are at least 7 marketing weapons at your disposal – direct mail, the internet, company brochures, advertising, public relations and trade shows. At some companies, these marketing tools are handled by different departments that don't always interact with one another. Big mistake. Mr. Holmes recommends that you use a stacked marketing approach and develop a consistent theme. Also, don't forget to provide your salespeople with marketing pieces that they can use in their sales presentations.
8). One hour a week – most companies, especially small ones, are so busy trying to generate revenue that they may be losing money by using ineffective or duplicate efforts. Mr. Holmes recommends that you take at least one hour a week and review your business procedures. What's working and what's not working? Can you improve your ordering process? Can you improve your upsell or cross-sell offerings? Can you help your salespeople make more productive sales calls? Taking one hour a week could save you a lot of money and time down the road.
If you are interested in learning more about his book or would like to purchase it, please click here – The Ultimate Sales Machine: Turbocharge Your Business with Relentless Focus on 12 Key Strategies.
Please let me know if you have any comments about his publication or videos.


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Sanne Keizer (6 de fevereiro de 1985) é uma jogadora de vôlei de praia neerlandesa.

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Em 2002 atuando com Arjanne Stevens obteve o vice-campeonato na edição do Campeonato Europeu Sub-18  Illichivsk, e também conquistaram a medalha de ouro no Campeonato Mundial Sub-19 realizado em Xylokastro, nos anos seguintes esteve ao lado de Merel Mooren, depois de 2005 a 2007 competia com Marrit Leenstra e de 2007-2008 atuou com Mered de Vries.

No ano de 2010 foi semifinalista no Campeonato Europeu em Berlim ao lado de  Marleen van Iersel e sagraram-se campeãs na edição do ano de 2012 em Haia.

Nos Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2012 ela representou  seu país ao lado de Marleen van Iersel, caindo nas oitavas-de-finais.com quem jogou até o ano de 2013.Em 2014 formou dupla com Sophie van Gestel, ficou inativa e retornou em 2017 ao lado de Madelein Meppelink.

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