We understand that no two projects are exactly the same so we take the time to cover all the options with you before we begin. From color choices and color theory to which finish is right to which type of coating is right. And when you choose Your Painters you get advice from the experts - a color consultation is included with any multi-room or exterior project and will enhance the process and help ensure your satisfaction. It's our attention to detail that sets us apart.
Consider credentials. Before you hire someone, consider his credentials. Membership in a trade or local business group, for example, isn't a guarantee of quality work, but it shows a level of commitment and reliability on his part. Also verify whether the pro has the appropriate license(s). (You'll find the licensing information in your state at the Contractor's License Reference Site. Also check with the Better Business Bureau, the attorney general's office in your state, or a local consumer-affairs agency to learn whether the contractor has a history of unresolved complaints.
I used to work at Sherwin Williams. The best thing to do is specify that you will purchase your own paint. If the painter objects strenuously, he was plaanning on making money in the ways this article outlines. You might pay a few dollars more for paint, but you will have control of the quality of what goes on your walls. Never skimp on paint quality.
Why do some five-year-old paint jobs peel and flake while others done sometime during the Reagan era look as if they were laid on last week? The answer is deceptively simple: Quality exterior paint — when it's properly applied over a well-prepped surface — lasts longer than the cheap stuff. But trying to find the good stuff at the store can be an experience in sensory overload. Besides pondering the oil-vs.-water-based dilemma, homeowners have to choose from among several lines from each of the national brands as well as from locally produced products. And, while price usually indicates quality, with some exterior paints tagged at $40 per gallon, going by price alone can get expensive. Fortunately, there are some other indicators that will help you buy the right paint — if you know what they are. So whether your next exterior-painting project is imminent or a few years off, read on to find out what, according to independent researchers and industry experts, makes a quality product. You'll also pick up some helpful tips on both the all-important prepping process and the esthetic science of choosing colors.
Like most worthwhile undertakings, finding a good contractor is a step-by-step process. The first step is to ask around. Contacts like real-estate agents and general contractors may be able to give you quality referrals, but so might your local paint store, your Aunt Trudy, the guy in the cubicle next to yours, or a neighbor whose house was recently painted. If you come across a newly painted house and there's an ad for the contractor on the front lawn, it's a sign that the customer was satisfied.
The color wheel seems like a natural place for a how-to guide to start. This one reintroduces the concept of complementary colors, which "bring out the best in each other, making both colors look cleaner and brighter." Understanding primary, secondary, and tertiary colors wasn't just helpful for 5th grade art class; it can help you choose the right hues for your home.
The obvious trick here is for unaffiliated contractors to use the BBB, PDCA, Chamber or other organizations' logos without being a member. Other tricks include claiming membership when that membership has expired or even make up fake organizations that sound good.  The BBB continuously goes after unscrupulous companies that attempt to trick customers into thinking they are members.  Nearly every organization has a web page these days; if you suspect something, do a little searching to find out the truth.
As the peak industry body for the painting and decorating industry in NSW, MPA has been since its foundation over 100 years ago, an independent representative for firms and individuals conducting business in the painting, decorating and sign writing trades. We do this by our involvement with numerous government consultative forums both nationally and at a state level.


Just wanted to post a quick update to say I'm doing NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month, though it should be interNational) this November, so haven't really had any time to post on the blog. Hopefully I'll get more time in December.
Here you can see my progress -- green days show when I made the 1667 word target for that day; red days I think means zero words, and yellow and orange, well you get the drift.
I was doing really well until my grandmother sadly passed away and I had to travel to her funeral. Definitely one of those times when life comes first.
For me, NaNo has been absolutely awesome, as writing for me is a constant struggle against a perfectionism that often cripples me from getting any words on the page, or cunningly convinces me to procrastinate. Realizing that I absolutely cannot sit there and ruminate on things -- whether the prose itself, or what should happen next -- has allowed me to make and often surpass the daily goal quite regularly. I've had to give myself permission to just "write crap" to see where the story goes, and that's been very freeing.
One thing NaNo does is let you experience your story in a similar way to how you might read it (if reading fairly slow, 5-8 pages a day). The benefit is that you get to ride that wave of excitement and anticipation as you progress through your story, the same way a reader does. Except instead of needing to turn the pages, you're carried through in writing them.
Weirdly, I've actually found more balance in my life since November began. I think the sense of accomplishment that comes with making constant progress on the story is making it easier for me to enjoy my work, family time, and all my relationships. Even chores around the house seem more fun without the burden of "you aren't doing enough writing" weighing me down.
Not that NaNo isn't a struggle sometimes. Lack of sleep can be the worst thing, when you know what you want to write but are just so tired you can't form the words. At that point I've learned it's just best to quit and get some sleep, even if you don't make the target that day.
That said, I have been finding the storyform super helpful in all my scenes, as I can really feel it when a particular story point crops up. Especially things like the throughlines' Symptom and Response, and Issue, seem to be coming up all the time. And of course the OS Problem is driving everything.
I really like what NaNo has done for my experience of writing -- I'm enjoying it far more than before. It's hard to say what it's done for the writing itself; I know the prose is sometimes really clunky and will need a lot of editing, prettying up, or rewriting. But that's okay. And in some cases NaNo has probably improved the prose -- helped me let loose and write some passages fueled by a level of emotion or imagination that I might not otherwise have had.
Because of that, I want to try and keep up something similar to NaNo for the rest of my first draft. Maybe relax the daily goals a bit (1000 or 1200 words/day?), or make it weekly instead of daily targets? One of the keys though is keeping up the same writing pace -- aiming for around 300 words every fifteen minutes, giving me time to take a few breaks and still hit 1000 words/hour. I think that pace is what makes the writing more fun and inspiring, keeps me "in" the story instead of in my head.


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Captain Blood (1935)
27 Apr 2011 Leave a comment
by Kim in Movies, movies 6+, Old Movies Tags: action, adventure, boats, British history, history, pirates, romance, war
Rated: TV-G (TV rating)
Length: 119 min.
Age: 6 and up (more for complex plot and slow pace at start)
Scary factor/Violence: slaves are beaten, and one is branded as punishment (not graphic – offscreen); many battle scenes, but generally bloodless; one big swordfight on beach, but not graphic or disturbing
Sex: scene in which pirates party in a brothel/bar is pretty harmless
Other Bad Behaviour: fair amount of boozing, especially among the naughtier French pirates
Interests: pirates, sailing ships, history, old movies
Next: Treasure Island, The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Sea Hawk
After a failed rebellion in Britain, Doctor Peter Blood is falsely charged with treason and banished to Jamaica as a slave. There he catches the eye of the governor's daughter Arabella but also of the cruel Colonel Bishop, who runs his plantation on slave labour. When Spanish ships attack the city, Peter and his friends steal a ship and escape. After some success as pirates they rescue Arabella from competing French buccaneers and return her to Port Royal, now under the control of France. Discovering that England has a new king – one they like – Flynn and his men jubilantly re-enter the service of England and defeat the enemy.
I was looking for pirate fare for the very young when I dug up this old movie. The biggest drawback is how long it takes for them to become pirates! A lot of time is spent in showing that our heroes are good guys forced by extreme circumstances into becoming pirates – and even then they are a pirate band with a code of ethics. (In 1935 people were still rather uncomfortable with the idea of having lawless criminals as heroes – a qualm that modern audiences do not share.)
Be aware that the film is lacking in most of the classic, well-known pirate clichés: there are no one-legged pirates, no black hat with skull and crossbones, no eyepatches, no parrots, no "arrr". (For all of these go directly to Disney's "Treasure Island", 1950.)
If you can wait it out (or fast forward to it), when they finally do seize a ship and set out for parts unknown, it is rather thrilling. The sight of men dashing about an enormous ship, climbing the rigging, etc, is one of the reasons we love pirate movies! There is a little black humour involved here – the men get extra pay if they suffer the loss of a limb. Of course the resident buffoonish sidekick shoots off a toe to get a little extra silver, but the captain doesn't fall for that old trick.
There is a fair amount of drinking throughout. In their new life as pirates they are seen partying in a brothel – though it simply looks like a pub, all the women remain clothed and a mild kiss is about as provocative as it gets. Captain Blood himself refuses a prostitute he wins in a card game. All this is treated in high Hollywood style, in that it isn't graphic and only mildly suggestive, however if this kind of content is worrisome to you… then you're probably bothered by nearly every pirate movie out there too and should try steering your youngsters toward more wholesome British Navy adventures.
Biggest draw in this film is the dashing Errol Flynn. Flynn was an unknown Australian actor when cast for this film, but he displays megawatts of star power in his American movie debut. I mean, the guy defined "dashing" in Hollywood thereafter, scripts to this day describe a hero in the classic style as "an Errol Flynn type". Olivia de Havilland was also a young new star but fills her role of Arabella with energy and spunk. Flynn and de Havilland eventually made nine movies together. Basil Rathbone plays a foppish French pirate and he and Flynn duel to the death (Rathbone's), a swordfight that would be reprised in an even grander fashion in "The Adventures of Robin Hood" just three years later.
The violence is all in the style of the era: bloodless sword fights, people falling off ships into the water, the boom of cannon. A ship burns down. In the early scenes a slave is whipped and another is branded on the cheek (occurs offscreen, but scene may be skipped by the squeamish).
In conclusion: rated 6+ because of complicated plot and backstory, otherwise 4 or 5 for exciting bits. Old-fashioned bloodless violence and some necessary naughty pirate behaviour.
Flynn vs. Rathbone
Previous Finding Nemo (2003) Next Sleeping Beauty (1959)

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Ruth 2:5
5 Then Boaz said to his young man who was in charge of the reapers, "Whose young woman is this?"
Ruth 2:5 — The New International Version (NIV)
5 Boaz asked the overseer of his harvesters, "Who does that young woman belong to?"
Ruth 2:5 — King James Version (KJV 1900)
5 Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this?
Ruth 2:5 — New Living Translation (NLT)
5 Then Boaz asked his foreman, "Who is that young woman over there? Who does she belong to?"
Ruth 2:5 — The New King James Version (NKJV)
5 Then Boaz said to his servant who was in charge of the reapers, "Whose young woman is this?"
Ruth 2:5 — New Century Version (NCV)
5 Then Boaz asked his servant in charge of the workers, "Whose girl is that?"
Ruth 2:5 — American Standard Version (ASV 1901)
Ruth 2:5 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)
5 And Boaz said to his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose maiden is this?
Ruth 2:5 — GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
5 Boaz asked the young man in charge of his reapers, "Who is this young woman?"
Ruth 2:5 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
5 Boaz asked his servant who was in charge of the harvesters, "Whose young woman is this?"
Ruth 2:5 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
5 Then Boaz said to his servant who was in charge of the reapers, "To whom does this young woman belong?"
Ruth 2:5 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)
5 And Boaz said to his servant in charge of the reapers, "To whom does this young woman belong?"
Ruth 2:5 — New International Reader's Version (NIrV)
5 Boaz spoke to the man who was in charge of his workers. He asked, "Who is that young woman?"
Ruth 2:5 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)


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Q: Get current location with fused Location Provider I have this Activity want to get current location but didn't now how to complete it in right way..also what is REQUEST_CODE_ASK_PERMISSIONS??
do I have to generate one?
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity implements GoogleApiClient.ConnectionCallbacks,
        GoogleApiClient.OnConnectionFailedListener {

    private double longitude;
    private double latitude;
    private TextView latitudeText, longitudeText;
    private FusedLocationProviderClient fusedLocationProviderClient;
    private GoogleApiClient googleApiClient;
    private LocationManager locationManager;
    private LocationListener locationListener;
    private LocationRequest locationRequest;
    private LocationCallback locationCallback;
    final private int REQUEST_CODE_ASK_PERMISSIONS = 123;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        latitudeText = findViewById(R.id.latitudeText);
        longitudeText = findViewById(R.id.longitudeText);

        getLocation();

    }

    private void getLocation() {

        locationRequest = new LocationRequest()
                .setInterval(2000).setFastestInterval(2000).setPriority(1000);

        LocationSettingsRequest.Builder builder = new LocationSettingsRequest.Builder()
                .addLocationRequest(locationRequest);

        SettingsClient client = LocationServices.getSettingsClient(this);
        Task<LocationSettingsResponse> task = client.checkLocationSettings(builder.build());

        locationCallback = new LocationCallback() {

            @Override
            public void onLocationResult(LocationResult locationResult) {

                for (Location location : locationResult.getLocations()) {

                    latitude = location.getLatitude();
                    longitude = location.getLongitude();

                    latitudeText.setText(String.valueOf(latitude));
                    longitudeText.setText(String.valueOf(longitude));

                }
            }
        };

        task.addOnSuccessListener(this, new OnSuccessListener<LocationSettingsResponse>() {
            @Override
            public void onSuccess(LocationSettingsResponse locationSettingsResponse) {

            }
        });

    }

    @Override
    protected void onResume() {
        super.onResume();

        if (ContextCompat.checkSelfPermission(this,Manifest.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION)
                != PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED){

            ActivityCompat.requestPermissions(MainActivity.this,new String[]{Manifest
                    .permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION},REQUEST_CODE_ASK_PERMISSIONS);

        } else if(){

        }

        }

    @Override
    public void onConnected(@Nullable Bundle bundle) {

    }

    @Override
    public void onConnectionSuspended(int i) {

    }

    @Override
    public void onConnectionFailed(@NonNull ConnectionResult connectionResult) {

    }

}

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A: Add dependency in build.gradle (Module:app)
implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:16.0.0'

Declare Necessary Permission in Manifest
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION"/>

EasyLocationProvider.java
import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
import android.arch.lifecycle.Lifecycle;
import android.arch.lifecycle.LifecycleObserver;
import android.arch.lifecycle.OnLifecycleEvent;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.IntentSender;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.Looper;
import android.support.annotation.NonNull;
import android.support.annotation.Nullable;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.util.Log;
import android.widget.Toast;

import com.google.android.gms.common.ConnectionResult;
import com.google.android.gms.common.GoogleApiAvailability;
import com.google.android.gms.common.api.ApiException;
import com.google.android.gms.common.api.GoogleApiClient;
import com.google.android.gms.common.api.ResolvableApiException;
import com.google.android.gms.location.FusedLocationProviderClient;
import com.google.android.gms.location.LocationCallback;
import com.google.android.gms.location.LocationRequest;
import com.google.android.gms.location.LocationResult;
import com.google.android.gms.location.LocationServices;
import com.google.android.gms.location.LocationSettingsRequest;
import com.google.android.gms.location.LocationSettingsResponse;
import com.google.android.gms.location.LocationSettingsStatusCodes;
import com.google.android.gms.location.SettingsClient;
import com.google.android.gms.tasks.OnCanceledListener;
import com.google.android.gms.tasks.OnFailureListener;
import com.google.android.gms.tasks.OnSuccessListener;

public class EasyLocationProvider implements LifecycleObserver {

    private EasyLocationCallback callback;
    private Context context;
    private FusedLocationProviderClient mFusedLocationClient;
    private SettingsClient mSettingsClient;
    private LocationCallback mLocationCallback;
    private LocationRequest mLocationRequest;
    private GoogleApiClient mGoogleApiClient;
    private LocationSettingsRequest mLocationSettingsRequest;
    private long interval;
    private long fastestInterval;
    private int priority;
    private double Latitude = 0.0, Longitude = 0.0;

    private EasyLocationProvider(final Builder builder) {
        context = builder.context;
        callback = builder.callback;
        interval = builder.interval;
        fastestInterval = builder.fastestInterval;
        priority = builder.priority;
    }

    @SuppressLint("MissingPermission")
    public void requestLocationUpdate() {
        mFusedLocationClient.requestLocationUpdates(mLocationRequest, mLocationCallback, Looper.myLooper());
    }

    private void connectGoogleClient() {
        GoogleApiAvailability googleAPI = GoogleApiAvailability.getInstance();
        int resultCode = googleAPI.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable(context);
        if (resultCode == ConnectionResult.SUCCESS) {
            mGoogleApiClient.connect();
        } else {
            int REQUEST_GOOGLE_PLAY_SERVICE = 988;
            googleAPI.getErrorDialog((AppCompatActivity) context, resultCode, REQUEST_GOOGLE_PLAY_SERVICE);
        }
    }

    @OnLifecycleEvent(Lifecycle.Event.ON_CREATE)
    private void onCreateLocationProvider() {

    }

    @OnLifecycleEvent(Lifecycle.Event.ON_RESUME)
    private void onLocationResume() {
        buildGoogleApiClient();
    }

    @SuppressLint("MissingPermission")
    private synchronized void buildGoogleApiClient() {
        mFusedLocationClient = LocationServices.getFusedLocationProviderClient(context);
        mSettingsClient = LocationServices.getSettingsClient(context);

        mGoogleApiClient = new GoogleApiClient.Builder(context)
                .addConnectionCallbacks(new GoogleApiClient.ConnectionCallbacks() {
                    @Override
                    public void onConnected(@Nullable Bundle bundle) {
                        callback.onGoogleAPIClient(mGoogleApiClient, "Connected");

                        mLocationRequest = new LocationRequest();
                        mLocationRequest.setInterval(interval);
                        mLocationRequest.setFastestInterval(fastestInterval);
                        mLocationRequest.setPriority(priority);
                        mLocationRequest.setSmallestDisplacement(0);

                        LocationSettingsRequest.Builder builder = new LocationSettingsRequest.Builder();
                        builder.addLocationRequest(mLocationRequest);
                        builder.setAlwaysShow(true);
                        mLocationSettingsRequest = builder.build();

                        mSettingsClient
                                .checkLocationSettings(mLocationSettingsRequest)
                                .addOnSuccessListener(new OnSuccessListener<LocationSettingsResponse>() {
                                    @Override
                                    public void onSuccess(LocationSettingsResponse locationSettingsResponse) {
                                        showLog("GPS is Enabled Requested Location Update");
                                        requestLocationUpdate();
                                    }
                                }).addOnFailureListener(new OnFailureListener() {
                            @Override
                            public void onFailure(@NonNull Exception e) {
                                int statusCode = ((ApiException) e).getStatusCode();
                                switch (statusCode) {
                                    case LocationSettingsStatusCodes.RESOLUTION_REQUIRED:
                                        try {
                                            int REQUEST_CHECK_SETTINGS = 214;
                                            ResolvableApiException rae = (ResolvableApiException) e;
                                            rae.startResolutionForResult((AppCompatActivity) context, REQUEST_CHECK_SETTINGS);
                                        } catch (IntentSender.SendIntentException sie) {
                                            showLog("Unable to Execute Request");
                                        }
                                        break;
                                    case LocationSettingsStatusCodes.SETTINGS_CHANGE_UNAVAILABLE:
                                        showLog("Location Settings are Inadequate, and Cannot be fixed here. Fix in Settings");
                                }
                            }
                        }).addOnCanceledListener(new OnCanceledListener() {
                            @Override
                            public void onCanceled() {
                                showLog("onCanceled");
                            }
                        });
                    }

                    @Override
                    public void onConnectionSuspended(int i) {
                        connectGoogleClient();
                        callback.onGoogleAPIClient(mGoogleApiClient, "Connection Suspended");
                    }
                })
                .addOnConnectionFailedListener(new GoogleApiClient.OnConnectionFailedListener() {
                    @Override
                    public void onConnectionFailed(@NonNull ConnectionResult connectionResult) {
                        callback.onGoogleAPIClient(mGoogleApiClient, "" + connectionResult.getErrorCode() + " " + connectionResult.getErrorMessage());
                    }
                })
                .addApi(LocationServices.API)
                .build();

        connectGoogleClient();

        mLocationCallback = new LocationCallback() {
            @Override
            public void onLocationResult(final LocationResult locationResult) {
                super.onLocationResult(locationResult);

                Latitude = locationResult.getLastLocation().getLatitude();
                Longitude = locationResult.getLastLocation().getLongitude();

                if (Latitude == 0.0 && Longitude == 0.0) {
                    showLog("New Location Requested");
                    requestLocationUpdate();
                } else {
                    callback.onLocationUpdated(Latitude, Longitude);
                }
            }
        };
    }

    @SuppressLint("MissingPermission")
    public void removeUpdates() {
        try {
            callback.onLocationUpdateRemoved();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    private void showLog(String message) {
        Log.e("EasyLocationProvider", "" + message);
    }

    public interface EasyLocationCallback {
        void onGoogleAPIClient(GoogleApiClient googleApiClient, String message);

        void onLocationUpdated(double latitude, double longitude);

        void onLocationUpdateRemoved();
    }

    public static class Builder {
        private Context context;
        private EasyLocationCallback callback;
        private long interval = 10 * 1000;
        private long fastestInterval = 5 * 1000;
        private int priority = LocationRequest.PRIORITY_HIGH_ACCURACY;

        public Builder(Context context) {
            this.context = context;
        }

        public EasyLocationProvider build() {
            if (callback == null) {
                Toast.makeText(context, "EasyLocationCallback listener can not be null", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }

            return new EasyLocationProvider(this);
        }

        public Builder setListener(EasyLocationCallback callback) {
            this.callback = callback;
            return this;
        }

        public Builder setInterval(long interval) {
            this.interval = interval;
            return this;
        }

        public Builder setFastestInterval(int fastestInterval) {
            this.fastestInterval = fastestInterval;
            return this;
        }

        public Builder setPriority(int priority) {
            this.priority = priority;
            return this;
        }
    }
}

Use:
EasyLocationProvider easyLocationProvider; //Declare Global Variable

easyLocationProvider = new EasyLocationProvider.Builder(BottomNavigationActivity.this)
                .setInterval(5000)
                .setFastestInterval(2000)
                //.setPriority(LocationRequest.PRIORITY_HIGH_ACCURACY)
                .setListener(new EasyLocationProvider.EasyLocationCallback() {
                    @Override
                    public void onGoogleAPIClient(GoogleApiClient googleApiClient, String message) {
                        Log.e("EasyLocationProvider","onGoogleAPIClient: "+message);
                    }

                    @Override
                    public void onLocationUpdated(double latitude, double longitude) {
                        Log.e("EasyLocationProvider","onLocationUpdated:: "+ "Latitude: "+latitude+" Longitude: "+longitude);
                    }

                    @Override
                    public void onLocationUpdateRemoved() {
                        Log.e("EasyLocationProvider","onLocationUpdateRemoved");
                    }
                }).build();

getLifecycle().addObserver(easyLocationProvider);

Remove Location Update Callback
@Override
protected void onDestroy() {
    easyLocationProvider.removeUpdates();
    getLifecycle().removeObserver(easyLocationProvider);
    super.onDestroy();
}

NOTE: Grant Permissions for Marshmallow and Above Version Devices

A: You should override onRequestPermissionsResult
  @Override
    public void onRequestPermissionsResult(int requestCode, @NonNull String[] permissions, @NonNull int[] grantResults) {
        switch (requestCode) {
            case REQUEST_CODE_ASK_PERMISSIONS: {
                // If request is cancelled, the result arrays are empty.
                if (grantResults.length > 0 && grantResults[0] == PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) {
                    getLocation();
                }
            }
        }
}

So it's up to you to define REQUEST_CODE_ASK_PERMISSIONS and it's role is to handle the callback, especially if you ask for more than on permission.
And I think your getLocation() uses a deprecated API. Have a look here on how to get the location.

A: Ketan Ramani's answer helped me and all credits to him. I made a little adjustment to be able to set the number of updates especially in the event one is only required.
public class LocationProvider implements LifecycleObserver {

private EasyLocationCallback callback;
private Context context;
private FusedLocationProviderClient mFusedLocationClient;
private SettingsClient mSettingsClient;
private LocationCallback mLocationCallback;
private LocationRequest mLocationRequest;
private GoogleApiClient mGoogleApiClient;
private LocationSettingsRequest mLocationSettingsRequest;
private long interval;
private long fastestInterval;
private int priority;
private int numberOfUpdates;
private double Latitude = 0.0, Longitude = 0.0;

private LocationProvider(final Builder builder) {
    context = builder.context;
    callback = builder.callback;
    interval = builder.interval;
    fastestInterval = builder.fastestInterval;
    priority = builder.priority;
    numberOfUpdates = builder.numberOfUpdates;
}

@SuppressLint("MissingPermission")
public void requestLocationUpdate() {
    mFusedLocationClient.requestLocationUpdates(mLocationRequest, mLocationCallback, Looper.myLooper());
}

private void connectGoogleClient() {
    GoogleApiAvailability googleAPI = GoogleApiAvailability.getInstance();
    int resultCode = googleAPI.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable(context);
    if (resultCode == ConnectionResult.SUCCESS) {
        mGoogleApiClient.connect();
    } else {
        int REQUEST_GOOGLE_PLAY_SERVICE = 988;
        googleAPI.getErrorDialog((AppCompatActivity) context, resultCode, REQUEST_GOOGLE_PLAY_SERVICE);
    }
}

@OnLifecycleEvent(Lifecycle.Event.ON_CREATE)
private void onCreateLocationProvider() {

}

@OnLifecycleEvent(Lifecycle.Event.ON_RESUME)
private void onLocationResume() {
    buildGoogleApiClient();
}

@SuppressLint("MissingPermission")
private synchronized void buildGoogleApiClient() {
    mFusedLocationClient = LocationServices.getFusedLocationProviderClient(context);
    mSettingsClient = LocationServices.getSettingsClient(context);

    mGoogleApiClient = new GoogleApiClient.Builder(context)
            .addConnectionCallbacks(new GoogleApiClient.ConnectionCallbacks() {
                @Override
                public void onConnected(@Nullable Bundle bundle) {
                    callback.onGoogleAPIClient(mGoogleApiClient, "Connected");

                    mLocationRequest = new LocationRequest();
                    mLocationRequest.setInterval(interval);
                    mLocationRequest.setFastestInterval(fastestInterval);
                    mLocationRequest.setPriority(priority);
                    mLocationRequest.setSmallestDisplacement(0);
                    if (numberOfUpdates > 0) mLocationRequest.setNumUpdates(numberOfUpdates);

                    LocationSettingsRequest.Builder builder = new LocationSettingsRequest.Builder();
                    builder.addLocationRequest(mLocationRequest);
                    builder.setAlwaysShow(true);
                    mLocationSettingsRequest = builder.build();

                    mSettingsClient
                            .checkLocationSettings(mLocationSettingsRequest)
                            .addOnSuccessListener(locationSettingsResponse -> {
                                showLog("GPS is Enabled Requested Location Update");
                                requestLocationUpdate();
                            }).addOnFailureListener(e -> {
                                int statusCode = ((ApiException) e).getStatusCode();
                                switch (statusCode) {
                                    case LocationSettingsStatusCodes.RESOLUTION_REQUIRED:
                                        try {
                                            int REQUEST_CHECK_SETTINGS = 214;
                                            ResolvableApiException rae = (ResolvableApiException) e;
                                            rae.startResolutionForResult((AppCompatActivity) context, REQUEST_CHECK_SETTINGS);
                                        } catch (IntentSender.SendIntentException sie) {
                                            showLog("Unable to Execute Request");
                                        }
                                        break;
                                    case LocationSettingsStatusCodes.SETTINGS_CHANGE_UNAVAILABLE:
                                        showLog("Location Settings are Inadequate, and Cannot be fixed here. Fix in Settings");
                                }
                            }).addOnCanceledListener(new OnCanceledListener() {
                        @Override
                        public void onCanceled() {
                            showLog("onCanceled");
                        }
                    });
                }

                @Override
                public void onConnectionSuspended(int i) {
                    connectGoogleClient();
                    callback.onGoogleAPIClient(mGoogleApiClient, "Connection Suspended");
                }
            })
            .addOnConnectionFailedListener(new GoogleApiClient.OnConnectionFailedListener() {
                @Override
                public void onConnectionFailed(@NonNull ConnectionResult connectionResult) {
                    callback.onGoogleAPIClient(mGoogleApiClient, "" + connectionResult.getErrorCode() + " " + connectionResult.getErrorMessage());
                }
            })
            .addApi(LocationServices.API)
            .build();

    connectGoogleClient();

    mLocationCallback = new LocationCallback() {
        @Override
        public void onLocationResult(final LocationResult locationResult) {
            super.onLocationResult(locationResult);

            Latitude = locationResult.getLastLocation().getLatitude();
            Longitude = locationResult.getLastLocation().getLongitude();

            if (Latitude == 0.0 && Longitude == 0.0) {
                showLog("New Location Requested");
                requestLocationUpdate();
            } else {
                callback.onLocationUpdated(Latitude, Longitude);
            }
        }
    };
}

public LatLng getLastLocation() {
    if ( ContextCompat.checkSelfPermission( context, android.Manifest.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION ) == PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED ) {
        Location location = mFusedLocationClient.getLastLocation().getResult();
        return new LatLng(location.getLatitude(), location.getLongitude());
    }
    return null;
}

@SuppressLint("MissingPermission")
public void removeUpdates() {
    try {
        mFusedLocationClient.removeLocationUpdates(mLocationCallback);
        callback.onLocationUpdateRemoved();
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

private void showLog(String message) {
    Log.e("LocationProvider", "" + message);
}

public interface EasyLocationCallback {
    void onGoogleAPIClient(GoogleApiClient googleApiClient, String message);

    void onLocationUpdated(double latitude, double longitude);

    void onLocationUpdateRemoved();
}

public static class Builder {
    private Context context;
    private EasyLocationCallback callback;
    private long interval = 10 * 1000;
    private long fastestInterval = 5 * 1000;
    private int priority = LocationRequest.PRIORITY_HIGH_ACCURACY;
    private int numberOfUpdates = 0;

    public Builder(Context context) {
        this.context = context;
    }

    public LocationProvider build() {
        if (callback == null) {
            Toast.makeText(context, "EasyLocationCallback listener can not be null", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }

        return new LocationProvider(this);
    }

    public Builder setListener(EasyLocationCallback callback) {
        this.callback = callback;
        return this;
    }

    public Builder setInterval(long interval) {
        this.interval = interval;
        return this;
    }

    public Builder setFastestInterval(int fastestInterval) {
        this.fastestInterval = fastestInterval;
        return this;
    }

    public Builder setPriority(int priority) {
        this.priority = priority;
        return this;
    }

    public Builder setNumberOfUpdates(int numberOfUpdates) {
        this.numberOfUpdates = numberOfUpdates;
        return this;
       }
   }
 }

Setting the locationProvider
  locationProvider = new LocationProvider.Builder(MainActivity.this)
            .setInterval(10000)
            .setFastestInterval(5000)
            .setNumberOfUpdates(1) // If you want infinite updates, remove this line entirely
            .setPriority(LocationRequest.PRIORITY_BALANCED_POWER_ACCURACY)
            .setListener(new LocationProvider.EasyLocationCallback() {
                @Override
                public void onGoogleAPIClient(GoogleApiClient googleApiClient, String message) {
                    Log.e("LocationProvider", "onGoogleAPIClient: " + message);
                }

                @Override
                public void onLocationUpdated(double updateLatitude, double updateLongitude) {
                    // You could also add some intelligence to remove the location listener once counter == numberOfUpdates

                }

                @Override
                public void onLocationUpdateRemoved() {
                    Log.e("LocationProvider", "onLocationUpdateRemoved");
                }
            }).build();

    getLifecycle().addObserver(locationProvider);

A: Just in case if someone is finding the solution for this. You can now use FusedLocationClient.getCurrentLocation in play-services-location library version 17.1.0

A: Please try the below way to get the location using the FusedLocationProviderClient
public class LocationTrackerClient{
    public static String TAG = LocationTrackerClient.class.getName();
    private Location mLastLocation;
    LocationRequest mLocationRequest;
    private FusedLocationProviderClient mFusedLocationClient;
    static Context mcontext;
    private static int UPDATE_INTERVAL = 1000;
    private static int FATEST_INTERVAL = 1000;
    private static int DISPLACEMENT = 5;

    private static LocationTrackerClient instance;
    private boolean isConnected = false;

    public static synchronized LocationTrackerClient getInstance(Context ctx) {

        mcontext = ctx;
        if (instance == null) {
            instance = new LocationTrackerClient();
        }
        return instance;
    }

    public void getLocationclient() {
        try {
            mFusedLocationClient = null;
            mFusedLocationClient = LocationServices.getFusedLocationProviderClient(mcontext);

            mLocationRequest = LocationRequest.create();
            mLocationRequest.setPriority(LocationRequest.PRIORITY_HIGH_ACCURACY);
            mLocationRequest.setPriority(LocationRequest.PRIORITY_BALANCED_POWER_ACCURACY);
            mLocationRequest.setInterval(UPDATE_INTERVAL);
            mLocationRequest.setFastestInterval(FATEST_INTERVAL);
            mLocationRequest.setSmallestDisplacement(DISPLACEMENT);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            ExceptionHandler.printStackTrace(e);
        }
    }

    public void connectToLocation() {
        stopLocationUpdates();
        getLocationclient();
        displayLocation();
    }

    public void stopLocationUpdates() {
        removeFusedLocationUpdate();
    }

    public void removeFusedLocationUpdate() {
        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 23) {
            if (ContextCompat.checkSelfPermission(mcontext,Manifest.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION) == PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED && ContextCompat.checkSelfPermission(mcontext, Manifest.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION) == PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) {

            }else{
                return;
            }
        }

        try {
            if (mFusedLocationClient != null) {
                mFusedLocationClient
                        .removeLocationUpdates(mLocationCallback)
                        .addOnCompleteListener(new OnCompleteListener<Void>() {
                            @Override
                            public void onComplete(@NonNull Task<Void> task) {
                                Logger.d(TAG, "Location updates stopped at removeFusedLocationUpdate! == ");
//                                Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Location updates stopped!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                            }
                        });
            }

        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    private void displayLocation() {
        try {
            mFusedLocationClient.requestLocationUpdates(mLocationRequest,
                    mLocationCallback, Looper.myLooper());
        } catch (SecurityException e) {

            ExceptionHandler.printStackTrace(e);

        } catch (Exception e) {

            ExceptionHandler.printStackTrace(e);

        }
    }

    private LocationCallback mLocationCallback = new LocationCallback() {
        @Override
        public void onLocationResult(LocationResult locationResult) {
            super.onLocationResult(locationResult);
            Logger.e(TAG, "locationResult ==== " + locationResult);
            if (locationResult != null) {
                mLastLocation = locationResult.getLastLocation();
                if (mLastLocation != null) {
                    double latitude = mLastLocation.getLatitude();
                    double longitude = mLastLocation.getLongitude();
                    updateLattitudeLongitude(latitude, longitude);
                }
            }
        }
    };

    public void updateLattitudeLongitude(double latitude, double longitude) {
        Logger.i(TAG, "updated Lat == " + latitude + "  updated long == " + longitude);
        SharedPreferenceManager sharedPreferenceManager = SharedPreferenceManager.getInstance();
        sharedPreferenceManager.updateUserDeviceLatLong(latitude, longitude);
    }
}

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Local Leaders Have Been Meeting In Discussions Intended To Bring Political Allies And Rivals Together To Tackle Racism.
Until last year, their relationship was little more than icy greetings and curt exchanges over the telephone.
Charles Ridley, a black activist in the city's rough-and-tumble southwest section, and Chris Brown, the white director of the city's redevelopment agency, thought they had little in common. And when it came to the one issue that often required them to talk -- the controversial multimillion-dollar plans to redevelop West Atlantic Avenue -- they had even less to discuss.
Ridley accused Brown of ignoring the area's predominantly black residents who feared the project would alter streets and uproot local businesses. Brown fired back that Ridley woefully misunderstood the basics of reviving the long-neglected business district.
They were just two men, leaders in their respective communities, but the gulf between them seemed all too similar to the racial divide that has run through Delray Beach for decades. So it became highly unusual when they started talking, frankly and frequently, about what stands between them and improving the city.
Over the past year, Ridley, Brown and other local leaders on both sides of the color line have been meeting in closed-door sessions intended to bring political allies and rivals into the same room, sit them across the table and force them to tackle racism.
These gatherings, broken into two groups, have widely been viewed as a catalyst for bridging the racial barriers -- real and perceived -- in this city.
One group, which included Ridley and Brown, was organized by local clergy and met monthly at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. The other group, also attended by Ridley, was organized by and met at the Delray Beach Chamber of Commerce.
Blacks and whites in both groups said they were put at ease by meeting on neutral terms and talking in cordial tones. The sessions, they said, also provided a place where grievances were aired without consequences.
"This is a challenging topic. It confronts the demons in us, and that's always hard and painful," said the Rev. William Stokes, who moderates the discussions at St. Paul's church.
At the church, Ridley and Brown would sit alongside former Delray Beach Mayor Jay Alperin, Palm Beach County Commissioner Mary McCarty and about 15 other business owners and civic leaders in honest discussions of their doubts, prejudices and attitudes. Many made agonizing admissions about themselves.
"This has helped tremendously," Ridley said. "Chris and I talked, and we bonded. He became a human being. I saw that he has a lot of humanity."
At the chamber, the 10 participants, including City Commissioner Jeff Perlman and Police Chief Richard Overman, delved into allegations that city commissioners have neglected to put many minorities on city boards.
The members also heard contentions that in black neighborhoods, the city has been slow to repair crumbling streets, install lights and build sidewalks. The group worked behind the scenes to keep on track an effort to seek a private grant that, among other things, would pay for workshops on improving race relations.
What made these meetings unprecedented was that city officials willingly participated. Candid discussion on racial bias is a political minefield in Delray Beach. Until now, the race question has been too painful to broach.
But it has always been there.
Black residents have long expressed frustration that city managers failed to pay as much attention to their neighborhoods as they did to the mostly white downtown and beachfront areas. Homeowner groups contended that the city kept them out of the loop when making decisions that affect them. The Haitian community, estimated at about a quarter of the city's population, has decried its lack of representation in city government.
The most scathing charges have come from black activist Josh Smith Jr., who for years has tried to prove to state and federal officials that Delray Beach discriminates against black residents.
He alleged, for one, that the city ignored the deteriorating conditions in black neighborhoods when it spent a major chunk of the $21.5 million bond issues in the early 1990s on upgrading downtown streets. City managers have denied his accusations, saying they spent that money to bolster property values for all residents.
The appearance of unfair treatment has concerned people in Delray Beach for decades. And few people dispute that racial tensions are real. Despite that, many participants in the church and chamber groups said the apprehensions aren't as acute as in the past. The suspicions have lessened. The mood has shifted.
"These are different times," said Commissioner Perlman. "There's a mutual desire for people to talk instead of just talk past each other."
Smith, who has participated in the chamber group, himself admits that the time is ripe for residents to discuss their differences. Even though he remains optimistic that the dialogues, at best, can lead to moderate changes in attitudes, Smith thinks the path to true reconciliation comes from altering the way you look, talk and behave toward others.
"Deep down you can't change the way people feel, but you can change the way they act," Smith said.
But the two groups, particularly the church participants, have tried to take a stand.
The members at St. Paul's church on South Swinton Avenue, which sits on a street considered the racial fault line between the city's white and black neighborhoods, met in the church's meeting room numerous times between February 1999 and May.There, sitting on folding chairs in an air-conditioned room with hardwood floors, they described who they were and where they came from. They talked about stereotyping and perceptions. They brought in dinner and relaxed over lighthearted chats on movies and travel plans.
Over time, they all became friends, even old-time adversaries such as Ridley and Brown.
Before the church sessions, the two occasionally saw each other at meetings on plans to beautify and line West Atlantic Avenue with new building. They hardly talked, and they figured they had nothing in common.
After all, Ridley, the executive director of MAD DADS of Delray Beach, is a former crack addict who spent most of his life in Delray Beach and helped rally the community against drugs. Brown, the executive director of the city's Community Redevelopment Agency, is an Ivy League graduate who worked for years as a developer, building suburban homes in Texas and earning a six-figure salary.
What eventually brought them together was the discovery at one of the church meetings that they shared a mentor: a gangster-turned-developer in Philadelphia who rebuilt crumbling neighborhoods. The two rivals realized they had a similar passion. The color lines suddenly faded.
"We never really understood what either of us were doing," Brown said. "We talked and found we had a lot in common."
Many of the participants grew up in communities unexposed to other ethnic groups. Many white members, who said they never felt the sting of racism, heard black members tell stories about being pulled over by police for traffic stops and followed in stores by managers simply because they were black.
Alperin, the former mayor who is white and Jewish, learned that he wasn't as open-minded toward black residents as he thought.
At times, when blacks brought their concerns to the dais, he dismissed their issues because he disagreed with them and thought he knew what was best for their community. He now realizes that he was probably wrong, that he was viewing their problems from the perspective of a white man.
"I was oblivious to what was going on around me," Alperin said. "I thought I knew what was going on but I didn't."
For Rosalind Murray, a black woman who is expected to be the city's next West Atlantic Avenue coordinator, the dialogue has made her less skeptical of what she calls the white political establishment. Her change of heart came after hearing Alperin, McCarty and other white leaders describe their own struggles to understand other racial groups.
"I saw and heard these people talk about their pain and rejection and their struggles to balance the public self and what's in their heart," Murray said.
Stokes said he wasn't sure what to expect when he organized the group, but he's pleased that participants such as Murray have started to see past their differences.
The sessions developed from the Episcopal Church's nationwide effort to spur dialogue on race relations. Stokes plans to attract a new group of participants for another round of talks to begin this fall.
"My hope is that consciousness was raised, that sensitivity was increased, and that there was a higher awareness of individual personhood, instead of labeling people of all types," Stokes said.
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READ IT AND BE BRAVE
Posted on July 3, 2021 by accordingtohoyt
On this occluded independence day, I beg you to read the declaration of independence.
I think it's a mandatory religious observance for my fictional (mostly) USAians on their high holy holiday, but hey, it won't hurt you either.
Most of all, remember you're Americans. Remember the words that make men free and make tyrants quake.
It is our duty, our obligation and our very great privilege to make sure that in the next decade, in the next century, in the next millennium, on Earth or in the far flung stars the words carry on, liberty carries on, and tyrants are powerless against them.
Yes, the danger is great. And we must grow to meet it.
Go and light up the skies with fireworks, so we can see our flag by the rockets bursting in air.
Be not afraid.
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
hen in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
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Agree. Hillsdale college recommended such. I've posted: 'Read on the net: "Hillsdale College, is asking people to read the entire Declaration of Independence aloud as part of whatever they do on the 4th. "
Great idea!', Suggest others do the same.
Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?
Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died.
Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured.
Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War.
They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
https://crotonwatch.wordpress.com/2015/07/05/the-consequences-of-signing-the-declaration-of-independence/
There is a book called Signing Their Lives Away.
Great Treasures have great costs.
And yet, be brave.
Be brave, Samuel Whittemore is watching.
As far as I know, none of these signers ever recanted. None of them went to the British to beg pardon for their treason against the Crown.
In these days of "cancel culture", I admire those who have have the courage of their convictions and and are willing to stand their ground come what may. I may not always agree with those convictions, but I have little respect for those who abjectly surrender to Twitter mobs.
caitlinirenewalsh says:
Thank you for the link! I read it and enjoy it.
Rush Limbaugh's father did one on the same subject: Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor. I figure to offer that link in return:
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/my-fathers-speech/
The costs are the same today as they were about 250 years ago.
It's not how much the price is.
It's how much you can get with it.
Never sell your life cheaply, or for little gain.
56 men bought the greatest nation in the history of the world with their lives.
I think this is the first time I've read the whole thing.
The detailed offenses against rights sound eerily familiar.
Some of them go back to King John. (Gee, guess what, petty tyrants are going to repeat themselves! How . . . human.)
Magna Carta was one of the documents that Jefferson drew upon in the Deceleration.
Roger Ritter says:
That is an unfortunate but appropriate typo. The Deceleration of Independence? Entirely too close to what we have today.
John gets a bad rap.
Lackland was hated by the nobility, so much so that they were willing to swallow a huge number of poison pills and be bound in turn.
But from the comfortable distance of centuries, he looks better than most.
Who is Donald John Trump? 😉
Yes, I've often skipped over the list of grievances as irrelevant, but, unfortunately, they no longer are. Forbidding his governors from passing laws of immediate and pressing importance–that's now called nationwide injunctions by the lowest and most petty federal judges. Garrisoning troops in the nation's capital in time of peace–check. And it goes on. I grew up in a country where these grievances seemed obscure and archaic. It's so sad to see them relevant again.
E, ROBOT says:
Yes and when I was a kid, we had to memorize the Preamble and study the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
I can still sing the Preamble to the Constitution. I think my kids can, too.
"For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.-happened during the lockdown and continues in some states with Democratic Party governors;
"For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:"-every single fee and cost imposed by unelected bureaucrats at both the Federal and State level;
"He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws;" -every time they try to impose things like the "Paris Climate Agreement" and UN speech prohibitions on us, among many others;
""For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:"-every single administrative agency proceeding for violating rules the same administrative agencies wrote;
There are of course, plenty more examples.
And they've been going on far longer than the 10 years "from the Stamp Act to 1776".
This one in particular is right on the money:
The clause about the 'neighbouring Province' has always bothered me. That Province was Canada, you see.
No, George III did not 'abolish' English common law in Quebec. It never was in force there in the first place. He allowed the conquered French to keep their own civil law (whilst imposing British criminal law); just as, in later times, the U.S. wisely and commendably allowed Louisiana to keep its civil law when that state was admitted to the Union.
It is a paragraph of pure spite and folly in the middle of a brilliant document. Let us be reminded that the Founders were human after all, and only God is perfect.
Things proper when consensual can still be improper when imposed by the force of a tyrant.
This is maybe on par 'we are at peace with indians now, therefore war against them was never proper'.
In Quebec, the 'tyrant' imposed nothing. He left the people with the laws they had always lived under. How is this an imposition or a tyranny? It isn't.
Your parallel therefore does not apply at all.
Danny C Hamilton says:
They were French Laws, therefore tyranny. He left them in their ignorance and injustice.
neilthelesser says:
In context, it's not so much the "abolition" of English common law, it was the use of local law to establish Arbitrary rule and the expansion of that jurisdiction so as to extinguish the Common Law in other jurisdictions.
Just as nobody would be concerned if Portland and Seattle want to live in an environmentalist dystopia, but they expanded their effective jurisdictions through foul means and forced their own beliefs on other populations.
But George III never made any attempt to impose French civil law on the English colonies.
And as for the 'expansion' of that jurisdiction, the Province of Quebec was a very small part of New France. French civil law used to apply everywhere from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico. The Quebec Act of 1774 reduced the area subject to that law. The colonists' complaint, in this case, was the exact reverse of the facts.
That is incorrect. The Quebec Act did increase the jurisdiction of the Province of Quebec, to include large parts of North America that were claimed by the 13 colonies (by right of conquest, more or less, as a result of their efforts in the French and Indian War, for which the colonials were still paying taxes). The Colonials saw this (correctly) as replacing their suzerainty with a regime more amenable to direct rule by the Crown. It was speculative to say that the Crown intended to use this method to gain direct rule over the 13 colonies, but it was not speculative to say that the Crown intended to rule directly.
Every inch of territory constituting the Province oc Quebec under the Quebec Act was conquered by the British Crown in the Seven Years' War, of which your so-called 'French and Indian War' was merely a minor theatre of operations. The existing colonies had no valid claim to that territory and no 'right of conquest', as they were neither sovereign nor conquerors.
You're not an American, are you Tom? From our point of view, and our starting assumptions, we are correct. We, the colonies, won. The French lost. Britain tried to use the sovereignty of the nation fighting the French as an excuse to lay claim to those territories claimed by the colonies. This is a typical means of chopping off access to resources of your opponent. We didn't buy the argument.
So claimed the Crown. The United States of America proved otherwise, by right of conquest.
I'll agree that it's one of the weaker arguments, because it is speculative. But the Crown did take the actions of which they were directly accused in that clause, and did have the intent to abolish self-rule for the North American colonies.
Whenever BigGov does stuff by fiat, without explaining or allowing votes by the people, of course some people are going to be suspicious. Canada to the Thirteen Colonies was always kinda mysterious, because they never got to do much talk with them as fellow colonies, and Canadian-stationed troops were always coming down to Colonial areas and Doing Things with the Indians, without telling the Colonies or asking them for input. Even the Church of England was held separate, so it was a very weird situation.
I suspect the meat of the matter boils down to:
Do they have the rights of Englishmen, or not?
Because if they do, then here are the rules; if they do not, but still have the duties, then they broke their own rules.
No "unless they're OK with it" clause.
Yeah, well part of the complaint was that Catholics were not excluded from the franchise.
Charles Carroll signed anyway. And before he died, Catholics held the franchise in every state and could hold office in several. History can be funny like that.
If that was the rules they were supposed to be living under, then — well, either fix the rules, or they are going to turn around and bite you.
"We're just breaking the rules for a Good Thing, but we're not going to change the rules" is not a good idea.
The rule they wanted was to have localized rules. To complain that Canada also got localized rules is hypocrisy.
Feel free to support that argument, but I'm not going to go do it for you.
I don't see that the argument requires support. The colonies wanted to be self-governing under their own laws, but one of their specific grievances was that Canada also was permitted to live under its own laws. And as I have said elsewhere, the Province of Quebec as defined by the Quebec Act of 1774 was a small fraction of the size of New France prior to 1763.
That doesn't actually have much to do with the specific grievances offered.
So you have to go from specific complaint, to specific example of why it's wrong, WITHOUT the many levels of arguable interpretation that isn't actually argued.
So here's a question I really don't know the answer to.
Could Quebec Catholics inherit property under English law,.or was it confiscated, like in most of the UK and almost all the colonies? Did Quebec Catholics have the right to own horses worth more than five pounds, weapons of war, bagpipes, etc.?
When one can quote both Darth Vader and screen-St. Thomas Moore, it's probably a good point.
"I have altered the deal, pray I do not alter it further" and "when you have cut down every law in England, and the devil turns around on you…."
Third quote, "saying nice dog until you can find a big stick."
What point precisely are you offering these quotations to support?
If the Guys With Power are breaking one of their established rules, don't trust it.
"These rules apply to everyone."
Not doing it is bad.
Your selectivity in application means that's not actually an argument.
No, your complete lack of support to establish "selective application" means no argument.
i.e. When Congress exempts themselves from the laws they impose on the rest of us; that's a violation of the rules apply to everyone.
neil carlson says:
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance. Boy, have they ever.
Happy Independence Day. This Holiday was brought to you by Men with Guns. If you're opposed to Men with Guns, then this holiday is not for you. You probably would have sided with the British.
And you are hereby invited to move to a different country, like England.
high holy day ! *hefts a drink that won't be imaginary in ~18 hours
Draven, pm me your address (again) this time on Discord? Snailmail, I mean.
wsbriggs says:
Happy Fourth of July to all! I would like to remind all to also celebrate Bill of Rights Day on each 15th of December. Without the Bill of Rights, that wonderful negative document, our country would not have lasted this long! Note that when one reads about the Bill of Rights on the Web today the text leads the unknowing into thinking it defines the rights of the individual, rather than walls off the Government. There is a huge difference, one that each of us needs to carefully explain to the unknowing.
Many US Government text books (AP, the four college books I've gone through) strongly imply and lean on the understanding that rights are given, not inherent. They don't flat out say it (at least not the ones I've read and used), but the sense is there.
There was debate about passing the Bill of Rights along those lines, that people would think that those rights were granted by government rather than endowed by their Creator. I think the Founders made the right call. Tradition is too easily lost. Much easier to remind people of what the text actually says, "Congress shall make no law…"
That's also why the 9th and 10th amendments are there – to try to make it clear that the government didn't grant these rights, and that its powers are limited to only the ones granted to it by the Constitution.
Don't forget the Bill Of No Rights while you're at it. Those are the 'rights' you DON'T have, because they would require other people to provide them. 'Free' health care, 'Free' education, 'Free' housing…
Why should I listen to what athletes say about political issues? If I wanted advice from somebody that chases a ball around, I'd ask my dog.
Wes Rhinier says:
Time for A New Declaration…
https://ncrenegade.com/a-new-declaration-of-independence/
Happy 4th! Freedom and happiness for all!
This is an extremist document. You wouldn't want to be known as extremists now would you?
I'm surprised Twitter and Facebook haven't censored it–not to give them any ideas.
Facebook did block the hashtag #revolution in search results
https://reclaimthenet.org/facebook-blocks-revolution-hashtag-on-july-4th-weekend/
thereadersittingindarkness says:
For this, YES!
I was just thinking about the ways my answers include both yes and no.
[goes out, hangs flag off front porch]
Known as? I'll friggin' =advertise= it.
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue."
I happen to be in full agreement with both Karl Hess and Barry Goldwater.
Happy Independence Day– and thank you for posting this.
Happy Independence Day all:
Michael Gilson says:
In the words of signer Stephen Hopkins, "My hand trembles, but my heart does not."
I'd like to, someday, rest relax and enjoy some sort of cookout and watching others (that's important) fireworks. However, it is my custom, it seems, to not only work, but work overtime on this day. That's alright, though. I do get paid a bit more for that sort of thing. And in 1776, who took the day off?
The (re)reading of the Declaration is worthwhile. I forget when I/we first read it in full, but it was before "high school." Then, I am…. "ancient" according to some (even some who are NOT me).
The time has come for us to all give up comfort and relaxation, for if we do not, then the chains await us all.
Holy Mother of Freedom did we have the Rockets' Red Glare and Bombs Bursting in Air (and a soft warm rain to tamp any stray sparks)… if World War Three had happened tonight, I don't know how you'd tell. No one would have *noticed*!!
Yep. Same here.
Likewise. I suspect the local police were pretty resigned to the fact it was going to be boisterous, fire department likewise. We got the usual "not in the city limits, don't burn houses down, we're taking this seriously" but without a burn ban, and everything being very wet? Freedom rang for at least an hour and a half, plus Saturday night's warm-up rounds.
Forget WWIII, even smaller events locally would have been unnoticeable. More than a few sounds that were "doubt that is a car backfiring, hope it isn't gun fire". Latter definitely can happen on the forth (hopefully into the ground or stump). While suburban neighborhood with varying yard sizes (depending on when neighborhood was built), a good portion of the neighborhoods are still COUNTY, where a firearm discharge isn't necessarily illegal. Ill advised (if identified could result in authority visit with a scolding). Can't legally hunt in area with firearms by hunting rules. We already see flocks of turkeys during turkey season, surprised the deer haven't moved in too.
via Insty, this from American Thinker on the Democrat's perfidy and desire to effectively eliminate the Constitution and its restraints on government power:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/07/democrats_versus_americas_founding_documents.html
Writing Observer says:
A happy "No more of this carp!" Day to all.
Remember that this day in 1776 was the beginning – not the end. A long, hard slog lay ahead; as it was, so it is, so it shall be.
THIS we declare.
HERE we stand.
We SHALL see this through.
Boom. Kaboom. Kaboomitty-boom. In red, white, and blue, way up in the sky. Because Eff you is why.
Happiest of Independence Days to all! Celebrate by being independent. Eat tasty food, wear silly clothes, enjoy sunshine for once (in moderation), all you that live like mushrooms the rest of the year. Wave flags, sing songs, put itty bitty holes in paper targets and make the steel *ring.*
Be extremely American. Speak the unspeakable truth, own guns and become proficient with them, decry slavery in all its forms, barter and trade with gusto (which is not, as we know, specifically a relative of pesto), accept the risk and responsibility the true freedom brings. Because this is our day.
Other countries may celebrate their day with military parades and tanks in a line at the capital. We celebrate ours with picnics and fireworks, flags and silly hats. I like our day better.
Canada celebrates with some of the blandest patriotic music ever written.
Canada does not celebrate at all. Canada Day is an orgy of non-celebration in which Canadians dislocate their shoulders patting themselves on the back for not having overt displays of patriotism like those awful Yankees. And there are now widespread calls to abolish it entirely.
TMavenger says:
"The flames kindled on July 4th, 1776, have spread over too much of the world ever to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism. On the contrary, they will consume those engines, and all who work them." – Thomas Jefferson, 1823.
Charles N. Steele says:
I reread it every American Independence Day, have done so for years, and lately have been recommending this to everyone I know. Simply remembering — or learning for the first time — about our unalienable rights and government as a servant, not a master, is the first step in saving and then advancing liberty.
Many thanks to you for promoting this!
Tom MacGyver says:
As in 1776, none of us can choose our place in history; only what we do with that position.The signers of the Declaration of Independence… and everyone who fought for that independence in whatever was their capacity, saw what needed to be done and did it. They knew the risk; to lose meant death to them all. Yet they did what they did, knowing they were a part of something much bigger than themselves, and that if they didn't do what they did, the future would suffer. WE, I dare say,… must now do the same…
Not sure I'm brave… except maybe in the manner of Courage the Cowardly Dog. 😮
Also, since I'm evil, have my latest earworm. Enjoy:
"the thirteen united States of America". May have been the first time that phrase was used.
Being brave is all well-and-good but, given a choice, I'd prefer to be brave a few hundred miles from the action. Fortitude is a virtue but so is Prudence.
Ashen Baron says:
I definitely get that and what Patrick's saying as well. I knew a long time ago I'm not cut out for that kind of action, which makes figuring out what kind of things I'm actually going to be good for should things go south tricky.
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism"
And that train gets longer all the time.
"a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism""-an apt description of the Democratic Party's intent.
Obsidian says:
Thank you Sarah once again for that lovely uplifting post. I repeat your words to myself when I fell afraid. I remind myself that these people are Louie and Marie Antoinette, the Romanovs, the Ceaușescus. And I almost feel sorry for them then. Almost.
Also, shameless self-promotion today is my birthday yay and I'm going to hopefully go out to a BBQ later and meet the newest memeber of my family.
Happy (very auspicious) birthday.
ObsidianKnife says:
Thankyou! Also apologies for the second post that says basically the same thing 🙂
It's not bad. However, I've been taking to singing it as if it really were a beer drinking song by a bunch of guys cheering the nation.
It feels RIGHT!
Since my previous comment seems to have been eaten I'll repost it. Thankyou Sarah for this lovely, inspirational.post.
Also today is my birthday!
yeah, I have pretty much given up commenting since my replies always disappear. So I just read, enjoy, nd move on.
and happy birthday
You know what I miss? The pure fun of the 4th. I remember Arthur Fiedler (later John WIlliams [yes, that John Williams] and the Boston Pops doing "Stars and Stripes Forever," and at least two batches of people on Boston Common or the park along the Charles River would form a kick-line after the piccolo solo. (And a certain family member would always, always start singing "Be kind to your web-footed friends/ For a duck may be some-body's mo-ther.") Stuff like that. I don't remember the obvious grandstanding and political clap-trap, although it had to have existed.
Heck, the only anti-fun I can remember is the Yearly Retelling Of Toddler Foxfier Being Rude To A Related Jerk, and everyone else thought that was great fun. (Story at end, if anyone's interested.)
Other than that?
KABOOM and candy and silly games and get invited to water fights with strangers and parades of anything vaguely cool someone could come up with, the VFW guys belting out songs badly but nobody cared because we were singing badly, too, and the Eagles and/or Fire Department running the beer garden at the fair grounds before the show, and the parade was even bigger than St. Patrick's day and had been since most of the county was born in Ireland.
And lots of playing with fire! Failing to spell our names with sparklers! Uncles telling stories about how they got nasty burns being morons 30 years ago, in roman candle fights!
Spoiler space for boring story.
A jerk "uncle" made a habit of pestering everyone, and was very fond of addressing folks as 'jackass.' (this is relevant)
Decided that, at three, I was a good choice for hassling, and started being obnoxious about where my dad was, to hassle my mom. 4th of July in her home town was a really big deal.
Supposedly, I let him go on for a while, then turned, looked down what very little bit of nose I have at him like he was the largest idiot ever seen, and said "he had to work, you jackass."
To the best of my knowledge, he never spoke to me again, although his wife was very sure to make sure we got invites to everything, possibly BECAUSE that story ended up being told more often than not.
Out of the mouths of babes!!
I remember walking to the local football field in Redlands CA and seeing a heck of a fireworks display. I remember the first somewhat ironically named KGB Sky Show that set fireworks to rock & roll as well as standards (KGB is a local radio station, gave the Soviet Hockey team pause when they came to San Diego and were confronted by the KGB Chicken). Today I saw a dozen flag-festooned golf carts parading themselves down the main drag of our little part of town even if the official parade was cancelled this year. I remember a young Lieutenant who volunteered for Officer of the Watch duty on the 4th at Pt. Loma who invited those of us who wanted to come to watch the fireworks over San Diego Bay with a dozen others in privacy and comfort. It was a wonderful blessing to my wife who wasn't well enough to handle crowds anymore.
> gave the Soviet Hockey team pause when they came to San Diego and were confronted by the KGB Chicken
Well, probably better than the WKRP carp!
The last thing that those who hate the USA and want to divide it into identity groups that are perpetually at war with each other want is for people to celebrate a holiday whose them is that we are all Americans united in liberty and freedom.
Democrats are using Independence day to denounce the tens of millions of people who voted for Trump as unpatriotic insurrectionists who are anti-American. This isn't just from the usual openly radical leftists that we all know and loathe, but the alleged "moderates" as well.
You know what upsets them? Ignore them. Or point and laugh.
The "alleged" has been obvious for a long while. They're communist. That's all.
…"denounce the tens of millions of people who voted for Trump as unpatriotic insurrectionists who are anti-American."
Probably the saddest thing about leftists is that they think they're the plucky little rebels fighting against the evil tyrants. When they go the way of the Bourbons, Romanovs and Ceausescus they'll be genuinely shocked.
Very appropriate for today on a lot of levels… It's eerie to see how similar the grievances are as well as what the crown's responses were to peaceful redress of them. Still haven't worked my way out of this slump yet but seeing this does help!
Happy "Annoy the King and Parliament" day to us all.
Celebrate by enjoying things that the Karens would hate.
I've used this clip before but need to use it again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-r-5kB1Sz0. Watched West Side Story last night, and just finished 1776.
We're watching 1776 now.
My husband sang "We're gonna live in America–" to me when proposing. We're not normal people….
Go Dan!! No one ever accused Sharon and me of being normal :).
With or without dance? Either way, I admire the man…
Come to think of it, I didn't really let myself sing at full volume until I had $SPOUSE$ firmly nailed down. Probably would be an old, bitter bachelor right now if I had.
"America" is my favorite song from WSS. Well, lots of others vying for second place. Between Bernstein and Sondheim, they could put out a rather good musical. (Removes tongue from cheek.)
OTOH, right now, my mind is playing "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue".
We had a right decent party next door. Good food, good company. Had to skip the beer, but two out of three ain't bad.
hollychism says:
We've got 1776 playing, right now. We watch it every year. And the kids get more of the quips every year, and understand more of the background and situations every year.
What they DON'T understand is how others can *not* know this. Or how anyone who lives here can possibly hate this nation.
That's what the public schools we have to pay for taught them.
I suppose I wouldn't know. I've been out of school since '97, and I've got my kids in private school because I used to teach college, and saw the end result of the post-Bush-No-Child-Left-Behind "education."
So, I thought it would honor the occasion by posting the entire text of the Declaration on my personal FB page. Got one response from someone I thought to be a friend:
Pedantic much? 😆
And this is my response:
This is the 245th anniversary of the formal adoption of our Declaration. I posted the text to honor that. Out of curiosity I looked up the Merriam Webster definition of pedantic:
Pedantic is an insulting word used to describe someone who annoys others by correcting small errors, caring too much about minor details, or emphasizing their own expertise especially in some narrow or boring subject matter.
I am so very sorry that I have given offense to anyone by celebrating the Fourth of July this way.
O say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watch'd were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bomb bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream,
'Tis the star-spangled banner – O long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a Country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footstep's pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their lov'd home and the war's desolation!
Blest with vict'ry and peace may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the power that hath made and preserv'd us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto – "In God is our trust,"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
Day is done, gone the sun
From the lakes, from the hills, from the sky
All is well, safely rest
God is nigh
Fading light dims the sight
And a star gems the sky, gleaming bright
From afar, drawing near
Falls the night
Thanks and praise for our days
Neath the sun, neath the stars, neath the sky
As we go, this we know
Good night everyone. I pray you made it through an enjoyable day safe and sound. God Bless you all.
May God bless us all.
G-d Bless the USA.
Amen. Once I sang an arrangement of the National Anthem that included all four verses. It was good, very hard, and the audience was a little discomfited by the third and fourth verses.
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Happy Birthday to the U.S.A., happy birthday to me. (The cake was not a lie, and delicious)
My neighborhood was lit up with an unprecedented number of fireworks. Our county has instituted a ban on fireworks to go into effect 7/4/2022. [Multiple bad words redacted] The sky was on fire: a giant middle finger to the clueless pinko aristos.
We're going to fight it.
Don't just read the Declaration of Independence: Live it.
Ca ira!
go into effect 7/4/2022.
Totally not an intentional spitting in people's faces. Nope, nothing to see here.
Belated wishes for a happy birthday. I'm sending it back in time.
And yes, ma'am. We are fighting. We have had enough. Whether it ends in blood or not? (shrugs) THEIR choice, not ours.
But to quote independence day ( I still like it. Cheesy as hell, but I still like it.)
"We're fighting for our right to live, to exist…. "We will not go quietly into the night!
We will not vanish without a fight!
We're going to live on!
We're going to survive!" "
So say we all. So it will be. Some of us will fall in the fight granted. But that is not important. The important thing is that civilization, humanity and the free and sovereign US will go on.
So help me G-d.
God gave us freedom. Evil men and women continually strive to take away our liberty.
Resist the right way. Don't become the evil we detest.
We can't. Our cause is just for it is the cause of mankind. And the cause of free will, which he HIMSELF gave us.
May it ever be so!!! Galatians 5:1 even states "For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery." (English Standard Version)
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Today I saw a woman at the grocery store with a nasty rash right where the mask was. She confirmed that, yes, the mask caused it.
Still more than 50% masks after two weeks. Cashiers are no longer required to wear masks, the one I talked to said she felt insecure without one. I told her, "That's the whole point!"
Masks are pretty much gone in Plano; however, Amazon is taking advantage of owning Whole Foods to let you drop off Amazon returns there. Their clientele is still 50% masked at least.
Of course they are! GRRRRR.
I was down in Costco by Princeton NJ on Friday. All masks. It's interesting since the masks seem to be regional rather than class based, though all the Indians/Chinese I saw in Princeton were masked and few of the Caucasians. Like most areas that have lots of BLM signs, there are very few, if any, working class black people in Princeton and not many Hispanics, so it's hard to gauge how that might work out since up here,all 40 miles north, it's lefty whites and working class blacks that tend to be masked.
Still, even given the high a—hole quotient In NJ generally, Princeton may well be the a—holiest part of the state, which would tend to put it toward the top a—hole quotient in the world, It's a combination of academics and Wall Street along with entire developments filled with Chinese Communist Part leader's bolt holes. The town of Princeton itself is so twee it hurts.
One way you can tell just how bad it was is that the wife didn't stop me doing my Basil Fawlty Don't talk about the war routine. I'm tall enough to pull it off, but not as flexible"e as I used to be so my goose step isn't what it once was.
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