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The Staff & leadership at West Chester Baptist Church is comprised of men & women who love, care & pray for every single person
in the church. If you have any questions for our team, feel free to reach out by email  or by phone at 513.777.9227.
Brian claprood
God graciously brought Brian to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ when Brian was 20 years old. Since then, he and his beautiful wife Janelle enjoy parenting Brianna, Tori, and Brian Jr. while working side-by-side in ministry.
God led Brian back to West Chester Baptist Church where he began following Christ to become the new Lead Pastor in April, 2015. Prior to this, Brian worked on staff as a Student Ministry Pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in Covington, Kentucky, and at Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia. Brian was also incredibly blessed to study under, and work alongside distinguished scholars and friends during his time at Liberty University (Biblical Studies, Youth Ministry) and the Liberty University Theological Seminary (Biblical Studies).
For more information or to connect with Brian directly, please use the links below.
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sheri thompson
Director of children's ministry
Sheri grew up with a father who was a Baptist minister, so she had the privilege of being raised in a godly home where she learned of God's mercy and grace. It was in that context that she received Jesus as the Lord of her life at the tender age of nine. God's grace became even more evident in her life when she met her husband, Mark at the age of 16 before they were married in 1980. The Lord has blessed them with three daughters, Jennifer, Ashley, and Sandra.
Sheri dedicated her early adulthood to raising her girls before entering the workforce as an administrator at a Christian childcare. After 10 years in the childcare business Sheri felt led to serve in her home church, West Chester Baptist Church, where she now serves as the Director of Children's Ministry.
She resides with her family in West Chester and enjoys spending time with her three grandchildren Dylan, Kylie, and Carson.
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student minister
Joe became a believer when he was 12 years old in Deer Park, Ohio under the ministry of Deer Park Baptist Church.
He has worked as an employee of RJR radiator in Sharonville, Ohio for the past thirteen years as a welder and fabricator.
Joe is a valued member of the team at WCBC. He is a long-time member of the church and has been serving in its children's and student ministries since 1999.
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Andy was saved by grace when he was twelve years old before later marrying his beautiful wife, Tina in 1976.
Vocationally, Andy worked at General Electric in Evendale, Ohio for 19 years running machinery before leaving on permanent disability in 1999.
Andy and Tina have two great sons that have served America so proudly in the military and have been blessed by them with five beautiful grandchildren.
Andy and Tina faithfully serve side by side in multiple aspects of ministry at WCBC.
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Anthony BERTRAND first came in Edmonton in 2005 as a wildlife biologist! (Ressearch assistant and administrative assistant at the University of Alberta). Passionate with linguistics and always keen to promote intercultural exchanges between Francophones and anglophones, he became executive director at Alliance française of Edmonton in May 2010. Managing the French language school or running the cultural center, you'll meet him at the Café-croissant, game nights, conferences – or in his office to answer any of your questions!
Julie started working at the Alliance Française in February 2017, she comes from Nice, France. She travelled and worked in New Zealand and Australia before settling down in Edmonton. She has a passion for outdoors -especially climbing and hiking- and for performing arts like theatre and contemporary dance. She studied Education and Communication. At the Alliance Française, she is in charge of managing registrations, keeping the website up-to-date and giving out information. She is your first contact when you call us and will happily help you.
Holding a bachelor's degree in Education and Science, Charu started teaching in India as a primary school teacher in Dehli and New Dehli, then in 2004 she turns towards teaching French and English. Afterwards, she joined the French Alliance in Delhi in 2008 and validated a university degree in French as a Foreign Language at the University of Rouen in France. Teacher at the French Alliance of Edmonton since 2009, Charu will attract you with her remarkable energy and will teach you French in a friendly and effective manner.
Nelly started to teach French as a Foreign Language in Lebanon in the Arts and Culture School, and the Universal College of Aley Lebanon for various levels. She then received a certificate of language development at the cultural center of Beirut in 2001. Teacher at the French Alliance in Edmonton since 2009, Nelly knows how to motivate and captivate students and above all she will adapt to your specific language needs, whatever your level.
Renée started at the Alliance Française as a DELF examiner. She worked a lot with federal employee's French training. Renée now teaches both children and adults of all levels as well as private classes! She comes from Québec and she is also an actress, a real one, not only to make her classes more lively!
Born and raised near Paris, Damema has a degree to teach French as a foreign language. She taught in Peru, France and Barbados before arriving in Canada in January 2018. At the Alliance Française, she teaches kids, teenagers and adults, general French and specialized courses such as conversation or pronunciation. She loves to know other people's opinions on all sorts of topics from movies to literature, fashion or the news. She also enjoys yoga, indian food or traveling around the world.


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This dish, dakgalbi, has always been something I wanted to make but my recent memories of this dish is a sweet potato, cabbage stew that my mother makes. This chicken dish is marinated then cooked with plenty of vegetables and was once a favourite of mine.
It was time to face my fears and see if it was a good dish to keep in my cooking repertoire. Traditionally the dish is made with sweet potato but I replaced this with white radish as it soaks up the delicious sauce. As I didn't have any cabbage in the fridge, I opted with moon buk, a dwarfed variety of buk choy instead. I can happily say that this is one fiery dish that tastes even better the next day. With the cold winter upon us, this dish will hit the spot.
1. Place all the marinade ingredients together.
2. Place chicken into the marinade mix for 1 hour.
4. Place the marinated chicken mix into a heavy cast iron pot and bring to boil. Bring to simmer for an hour.
5. With a half hour to go on the cooking, throw in the cut up vegetables.
6. Serve with steamed greens and rice.


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Q: indexing groupby object with multiple keys in pandas I have a pd.DataFrame that I want to convert to a dictionary. The keys of the dictionary are the values of the first column, and the values of the dictionary are the values from the second and third column put in a tuple or list. I tried to achieve this like so:
    df
    form  name  state
    CCH   bla1  act
    BGH   bla2  act
    BGH   bla3  nad
    KMJ   bla4  nad
    FRT   bla5  nad

I want the dict to look like this:
    {CCH:[(bla1, act)], BGH:[(bla2,act),(bla3,nad)],KMJ:[(bla4,nad)],FRT:[(bla5,nad)]}

My current code to achieve this is this:
    df.groupby('form')[['name','state']].apply(tuple).to_dict()

But I get this output :
    {CCH:('name','state'),BGH:('name','state'),KMJ:('name','state'),FRT:('name','state')}

Please let me know where I'm going wrong? Thanks in advance!

A: You're really close, try apply tuple along axis 1. Here is one solution using a dict comprehension:
d = {k: v[['name', 'state']].apply(tuple, axis=1).tolist()
     for k, v in df.groupby('form')}

[out]
{'BGH': [('bla2', 'act'), ('bla3', 'nad')],
 'CCH': [('bla1', 'act')],
 'FRT': [('bla5', 'nad')],
 'KMJ': [('bla4', 'nad')]}

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Q: Multiple if statements, then, or else? I'm having some problems getting a query to run based off another query. Here's the database diagram to give a little background. The primary keys for all the tables are automatically generated by identites. The first 2 insert statements (Donation and Food_Donation) work but I can't get the last insert into Donation_Details to work. Here's the code so far:
Dim con As New OleDbConnection(DBcon)

Try
    Dim dr As OleDbDataReader
    Dim command As New OleDbCommand("Insert into Donation (Donor_ID) VALUES ( " & txtDonNum.Text & "); Select @@Identity;")

    con.Open()
    command.Connection = con
    dr = command.ExecuteReader
    Dim Donation_ID As String = ""
    If dr.Read() Then
        Donation_ID = dr(0).ToString
        Dim food As New OleDbCommand("Insert into Food_Donation (Date_Received, Donation_ID) Values ( '" & maskedreceived.Text & "', " & Donation_ID & "); Select @@Identity")
        food.Connection = con
        food.ExecuteNonQuery()
    End If

    Dim Food_ID As String = ""
    If dr.Read() Then

        Food_ID = dr(0).ToString
        Dim food2 As New OleDbCommand("Insert into Donation_Details (Quantity, Unit, Expiration_Date, Food_ID, Storage_ID, Type_ID) Values ( " & txtQuantity.Text & ", '" & boxUnit.Text & "', '" & maskedexpire.Text & "', " & Food_ID & ", " & txtStorageID.Text & ", " & txtTypeID.Text & ")")
        food2.Connection = con
        food2.ExecuteNonQuery()

    End If

Catch ex As Exception

    MessageBox.Show(ex.Message)
Finally
    con.Close()
End Try

End sub
I'm fairly correct my SQL statements are correct and it's just whether or not the last statements need to be an If or something else.

A: You should be using dr = food.ExecuteReader() rather than food.ExecuteNonQuery() if you want to reuse dr to acquire Food_ID?

A: I suspect your problem is that you're using If dr.Read() twice.
The dr.Read() method will move the reader forward to the next row but you are only selecting a single value in your initial query.
So, for example, your reader (being made from the insert) will return a single row value for the successful insert. Calling Read() on it will succeed but then move the row cursor to EOF causing subsequent Read() calls to return FALSE


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Blue Streak
Blue Streak 1999
Blue Streak 1999 He's a cop that's not. Believe that!
Title: Blue Streak
Country: Germany, United States of America
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Cast: Martin Lawrence, Luke Wilson, Dave Chappelle, Peter Greene, Nicole Ari Parker, William Forsythe
Crew: Michael Tronick (Editor), Ed Shearmur (Original Music Composer), David R. Ellis (Second Unit Director), Michael Fottrell (Unit Production Manager), Neal H. Moritz (Producer), Daniel Melnick (Executive Producer)
Keyword: robbery, diamond, police operation, police everyday life, thief, police officer, police station
Overview: Miles Logan is a jewel thief who just hit the big time by stealing a huge diamond. However, after two years in jail, he comes to find out that he hid the diamond in a police building that was being built at the time of the robbery. In an attempt to regain his diamond, he poses as an LAPD detective.
Release: Sep 17, 1999 Runtime: 93 minutes Quality: HD IMDb: 4.551 / 10 by 1250 users Popularity: 22.072 Budget: $65000000 Revenue: $117758500 Language: English
Speed 2: Cruise Control
Taxi 2
Big Momma's House
Gabriel Iglesias: Hot and Fluffy
Big Momma's House 2
Beverly Hills Cop III
What's the Worst That Could Happen?
Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
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A great modern office building just steps to all the city has to offer, I can't wait to finish off the build out and get our new furniture assembled in the next few weeks. Current floor plan has room for about 20 new hires, with an adjacent space right next door that I can see us expanding into as we continue to grow. Here are a few pics to give a sense of the building and recent progress.
Entrance to the new SmartBear Ireland office at night.
The Dockgate bldg is the glass windows in the background. Currently working to befriend the local boating community for future team building activities.
Future home of the SB IRE sales floor, during construction last month.
Now ready for a fresh batch of sales rockstars to take over.
New break out room, during it's break out phase.
Breakout room completed. Currently fielding ideas for naming our 2 new conference rooms. Maybe Springsteen and Tweedy? – feel free to add your own suggestions below.
Conference room / kitchenette during construction.
View from across the floor. Next up, furniture, computers and people to keep me company!
2) and last, but certainly not least, dig this clip of Paul Rudd on Letterman recently talking about a stag party he went to in Donegal. God bless the Irish.
Until next time – Boston I am heading your way this weekend with a fresh batch of SmartBear recruits, hope to see as many beautiful people as I can while we are in town!
Thanks Andrea! Looking forward to seeing you guys across the pond!


Here I continue what I started in Make a Java Video Game. If you haven't seen it, watch it before this video.
I'll now create the GameBoard class that will animate all of my asteroids. I redraw the board using threads. If you are rusty on them, check out my Java Thread Video Tutorial.
The code follows the video and should be used to help you better learn this material.


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The Royal Discipline of TIG Welding: Part 1 of 2
Optimization of welding results through the correct selection of high-quality tungsten electrodes
Orbital welding is frequently used in the manufacturing trade, for applications ranging from installing cooling and heating pipes in dairies to welding fuel pipes in the aerospace sector.
By Xavier Jauregui, Arc Machines Inc., and Matthias Schaffitz, Wolfram Industrie GmbH
Quality pays off: For example, nobody would equip a Formula 1 racing car with inexpensive all-weather tires. In order to achieve a competitive speed, the vehicle should lie optimally on the track and be perfectly matched to the respective track conditions. Even with TIG arc welding, the tool used for high-quality welds must be adapted to the respective application—and yet many welders use second-class tungsten electrodes that are not matched to the respective process. This choice leads to a deterioration in the welding results due to low electrode quality. However, efficient orbital welding requires a tungsten electrode with an individually adapted tip geometry and surface roughness to match the correct shielding gas. For optimal weld seams, other factors must also be taken into account that influence the arc start properties, arc stability, total heat input, and correspond to the characteristics of the weld seam.
The adaptation of all parameters to the respective TIG application enables a service life that is up to six times longer and thus resource savings of more than 350 percent compared to the use of non-specific no-name electrodes. However, this can only be achieved with the appropriate know-how, the correct selection, and the use of high-quality tungsten. Three central elements can be optimized in this way: the welding process itself, the chemical properties of the tungsten alloy used, and the grinding process for the electrode tip.
INCREASING DEMANDS ON THE WELDING PROCESS
In today's industrial environment, many manufacturers and processors of metal tubes and pipes are faced with stricter requirements for weld seam properties than was the case in the past. The semiconductor industry, for example, needs narrower weld seams with fine surfaces on the inside of stainless steel pure gas pipes. These tubes transport high-purity gases that are toxic, flammable, or corrosive, which is why the weld seams produced using the fusion welding process must be corrosion-resistant and cleanly processed in order to enable trouble-free flow. In addition, designers from all technical disciplines are increasingly pushing the limits of technical feasibility, for example by reducing pipe wall thicknesses to the necessary minimum. The clean processing of the weld seams is, therefore, becoming increasingly important with regard to the safety and service life of the products.
As the industry continues to evolve and adapt its processes, welders are also finding that their entire work environment is subject to high competitive pressure. Using FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) and data analysis of the process variables, the previously underestimated hidden costs when using orbital systems were identified—for example, the production of scrap, reduction in system availability and frequent replacement of the electrodes. This drives the total cost of ownership up, although at the same time it would save as much money as possible. This includes avoiding premature wear of the tungsten electrode and irregularities in the machining process that can result from the use of different tungsten alloys when using electrodes from different manufacturers.
Since the melting points of the materials can differ considerably – tungsten melts at 6,191 degrees Fahrenheit (3,422 degrees Celsius), cerium oxide at 4,352 degrees Fahrenheit (2,400 degrees Celsius)—the electrode manufacturers trust the powder metallurgy process. Specific, extremely fine tungsten grain sizes are mixed in order to achieve a homogeneous oxide distribution in the matrix.
PROPER CHEMISTRY THROUGH POWDER METALLURGY
Another important element for the quality of an electrode is its chemical composition. To improve electrode performance, dopants in the form of cerium, lanthanum, zirconium, thorium, terbium, and yttrium oxides are often incorporated into tungsten electrodes. Such oxides lower the electron work function—measured in electron volts (eV). For example, pure tungsten has rating of 4.5 eV, whereas a 2 percent seriated tungsten has an eV of 2.8. By lowering the eV value or increasing the ionization potential, the oxides improve arc starting performance and arc stability.
However, the influence of this variable on the welding result is often underestimated and most companies consider the tungsten electrode as a static component. In fact, as soon as the welding current flows, the electrode becomes a dynamic subsystem, the parameters of which influence the properties of the arc significantly. Specifically, the heat of the welding arc causes oxides to migrate from the relatively cooler core of the electrode to the hotter tip. There, the oxides separate (evaporate) from the base element and leave a film on the electrode tip. Small tolerances in the grain size, the purity of the elements, and the composition ratio are essential to ensure a consistent oxide movement and evaporation rate, which in turn leads to a consistently high ignitability.
Because the melting points of the materials used for the electrodes can vary substantially—tungsten melts at 6,191 degrees Fahrenheit (3,422 degrees Celsius), cerium oxide at 4,352 degrees Fahrenheit (2,400 degrees Celsius)—the electrode manufacturers rely on the powder metallurgy process. Specific, extremely fine tungsten grain sizes are mixed in order to achieve a homogeneous oxide distribution in the matrix. After this process, the tungsten and the oxide powder are pressed together by isostatic pressure, so that a uniform density and microstructure are created. As a result, the brittle and unconsolidated electrodes are sintered for several hours in a high-purity hydrogen environment and at controlled temperatures. After sintering, the electrodes can be forged to their final shape, which further optimizes the grain structure. The complexity of the tungsten electrode manufacturing process offers many opportunities for error, which explains the performance and cost differences between brands. Therefore, extensive know-how about the electrode is required on the one hand, but also extensive knowledge of the area of application itself, on the other hand, in order to be able to optimally adapt the tool for the respective process.
A LOOK AHEAD
In next month's conclusion, we'll examine the critical role geometry plays in tungsten electrode performance as well as results from newer research that has been conducted under actual orbital welding conditions.
Xavier Jauregui is vice president of the technical area of Arc Machines Inc. and Matthias Schaffitz is managing director of Wolfram Industrie GmbH. Founded in 1976, Arc Machines, Inc. is an American company that designs, manufactures and distributes advanced automated orbital welding equipment, systems and services. Wolfram Industrie develops, tests, and produces innovative tungsten and molybdenum products to meet industrial requirements. For more information, visit www.arcmachines.com and www.wolfram-industrie.de.
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The situation I find myself in is, I think, one that all researchers have found themselves in… I have reached the point where my OneNote is overflowing with notes and quotes from the I'm-scared-to-count-how-many books/articles/web sites/journals I have researched, read through, commented on, etc. I have used over 60 tags to organize my notes and have been meticulous about tagging each note I write with as many tags as necessary. I can filter my notes via these tags… BUT, I have reached the point where there are simply too many notes… I find myself having to prepare a conference abstract, a presentation or paper and being overwhelmed by the amount of data I have collected. It seems too daunting to have to reorganize everything… The only solution I see is to go through ALL of my notes, add even more tags to make them even more specific and thus have less notes under each tag. But this seems like an endless task and something that could easily turn into a vicious loop. Any thoughts?
I have so many thoughts Dora! Thanks for writing in. The problem you describe is extremely common, but it's only actually been a problem in the last ten years or so. It's one of the 'good problems' created by the awesome technologies that allow us to capture, file and index endless reams of digital data. Unfortunately, these technologies enable us to become digital hoarders as well as productive researchers.
To be clear, I'm as bad as anyone when it comes to digital mess. In fact, I feel a bit unworthy to give advice on this problem, but I'll give it a shot since it's aan excellent way to start putting our collective heads to a solution. I have four ideas for Dora, drawn from my own habits, which I put forward in the hope that other readers will write in with more solutions to the digital hoarding problem.
OneNote is a great tool – but I wonder if it is too great? The problem with OneNote, Evernote, and other conventional database systems is that you can capture just about anything: text, audio, links, URLs and so on. While I'm still an Evernote fan, I use it advisedly. It's too easy to stuff anything interesting in there — and promptly forget about it.
It's a bit like the problem of my spice cupboard. I have so many packets of random stuff that everything falls out when I open it. The solution to the spice cupboard problem is… don't buy as many spices! Ideally, you only buy spices if you need them or use them frequently. Similarly, most of the time I want to store information for a specific, future task, not just for the sake of it.
For this reason, I store URLs, links to documents, notes to myself and other project focussed information in my task manager, Omnifocus2 instead of in Evernote (if you're on a PC, I recommend Asana or Trello). If I attach the information and notes to the task, I am less likely to create an unfiltered mess. You could, for example, set up a task for each chapter or conference paper and attach relevant information to the task as a file, or as a link back to your Onenote database.
I tend to take project related notes in a Literature Review Matrix, which forces me to put ideas into conversations with other ideas, rather than as isolated fragments.
I always tag information with at least two categories: one general and one specific. Say I have a piece of information about a presentation for my upcoming trip to South Australia (I'm coming for you on June 22nd UniSA students!). In my Omnifocus2 task manager, I have a category called 'writing and presenting' which shows all the things I have coming up and when they are due. I have matched my task categories with my top level tags in Evernote. Now the searches become task bound. For example, a URL about how to do better info-graphics will be tagged 'writing and presenting' and 'infographics' (sometimes I throw in the tag 'cool!' if it's particularly good information). When I am putting together a presentation and need information about infographics, I can look through everything related to writing and presenting and narrow my search accordingly.
Howard Becker, one of my academic writing gurus said something like 'How do I know what I think until I write it?'. His approach to writing literature reviews is to write what you think first, then search the literature you have on file. Your searching task is simple: you are only looking for specific information to back up what you think – or challenge it, often a narrower search than a search for general information on a topic.
The first time I read Becker's advice, I was shocked. It seemed to fly in the face of what a 'good researcher' does, but I tried it… and never looked back. The challenging your thinking part is important. The process is iterative: I write what I think first (sometimes as freewriting or as a list), then I look for information related to what I have written. On subsequent passes, I refine what I think, add more ideas, look for more information, and repeat the process until I am satisfied (or until I have run out of time).
With every sentence, I ask myself 'Do I believe myself? Would other people believe me? What challenges or counter-arguments are possible?'. These questions open up multiple avenues for new information searches on your own notes or files.
Your problem is not so how to store things, but how to find it again. As long as information is findable, I'm a fan of regular pruning. I clean out my papers database every couple of years and have deleted my entire Endnote database more than once. My iterative process, outlined in the previous step, means if I need information again, I'm confident I will find it. It takes a certain amount of faith in yourself and your abilities, to let information go. It's perhaps an aspirational state right now, rather than a practical suggestion, but try to focus your attention on getting the process right and less on the content.
That's all I have to offer on this problem – now I wonder what you all think? Do you have any suggestions to help Dora with her note taking problems?
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Thanks so much for the "Howard Becker, one of my academic writing gurus said something like 'How do I know what I think until I write it?'. His approach to writing literature reviews is to write what you think first, then search the literature you have on file. Your searching task is simple: you are only looking for specific information to back up what you think – or challenge it, often a narrower search than a search for general information on a topic" quote. Howard Becker, you god, you!
I would first drop the list of the 60 tags into a mapping application (such as http://condensr.de) and then see how they are related — in a networked fashion, not yet hierarchically. This will provide a good suggestion for revisiting some notes. Later, some OneNote tag summary pages may be similarly processed.
Speaking of notes; I know you love Evernote, but have you seen Notion.so? I like it a lot better than Evernote because of hierarchial and collapsible notes and manual sorting – no more numbering notes to keep them in a specific order!
It's also a lot more flexible and customizable. I like the layout better. Oh, and it also works both online and on Mac and Windows machines! (With syncing, of course).
P.S.: I am not in any way affiliated – I was just so, so happy when I heard of it because I was slightly frustrated with Evernote.


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Picking Up the Pieces
By runningwild,
January 12, 2007 in Round Robin Stories
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Luke couldn't believe what he was hearing, "He what?" The older Duke cousin didn't even raise his voice, by now he was so devastated by everything and it didn't matter. No matter how loud he got nothing was going to change. "So that's really it.. that's why I'm getting people turning against me left and right because of Cassie. Bo left because Cassie came back to town."
He had gotten quiet for a long minute and wanted to choose his words carefully. Then, he shook his head, "I'm really torn Uncle Jesse. She don't deserve what's happened to her.. and my family doesn't deserve what's happening to them. I love you both, but I don't think I can give up on Cassie."
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Jessie nodded, saddened by the lack of any emotion in Luke about what was happening.
"Luke....you know i've never not backed ya up on anything son...but this time I think yer makin' a big mistake...look at how much trouble that girl caused in the first place...the biggest piece of this whole mess being how your relationship with Bo was affected. He didn't leave because of Cassie....he left through fear of what could happen with her around...he saved her life Luke...Enos told me Bo went in a made her throw up until most of the overdose was out her system before he took off as soon as Enos got there...he's scared of what she'll have done to him, but most importantly of what she's gonna do to you...and now I can see that he has a right to be worried...you don't think clear when yer around her...but in his view, the further away and more busy he is, the less it is of his problem because he isn't thinking about it...outta sight outta mind."
Jesse sighed and scrubbed a hand down his face, he didn't know what to tell Luke about Cassie and his opinions that he hadn't already heard.
"Now if ya ask me, that Cassie Morgan is trouble and if anything she's proved it with all this...you can say all ya like that it ain't her fault but are ya sure ya ain't just makin' excuses...to kid yerself....from my point of view, she's already helped me nearly lose my youngest boy last year and now actually has...and now i'm gonna lose my oldest because he's goin' to jail probably for the rest of his life...I couldn't accept her inta the family Luke...i'll help ya try an' clear her name if ya say it should be cleared...but I can't give ya the acceptance ya want from me...it's be goin' against everythin' I was raised with...."
So, Bo had saved Cassie from a slow but somewhat instant death. Good thing he hadn't let his hatred for the girl get in the way of his humanity. Unfortunately, she was still clinging onto life at the hospital. In the time she had been there, one of her kidney's had began to shut down and the doctor's weren't sure what they could do for her. Ultimately, they would have to perform surgery.
Luke was helpless to how everyone felt about the situation. Maybe at one time he had felt the same way, but he knew what happened that day. The day when everybody's lives changed. Nothing he could say to his uncle would change his mind. The events were forever imprinted in his mind just the way he wanted to remember them.
"How noble of Bo to rescue her. Remind me to thank him, if he ever comes to visit me in jail." Luke didn't sound bitter; he didn't really even carry any emotion in his tone. It was as if he was coming to peaceful acceptance for everything that was happening.
"Cassie and Bo were trying to find a way to get me out of jail that afternoon. They'd been with each other for almost two days and had gotten no sleep. Sawyer's boss had told him to capture Cassie, so he could pick up the reward for returning her to her boyfriend. Except this fella didn't care if she was dead or alive, when he got threw with her. There was a struggle..after the fella got Cassie.. Bo tried to save her and he got shot. Cassie had nothing and I mean absolutely nothing to do with that."
He paused and took in a long breath. "You can't accept her.. I accept that. There's nothing I can say to change your mind. I never thought I'd see the day when Jesse Duke would be blind to the truth. Now, the family's broken.. and it's uncertain that'll we'll ever see another day together at the supper table." Luke looked his uncle straight in the eye, "I respect you Uncle Jesse, but I'll be damned if you or anybody's going to give up on her.. you might as well give up on me to."
"Luke I ain't the one that's blinded ta the truth...I ain't even sure what the truth is no more its been told from so many different horses mouths. But fact o'the matter is Luke, if Bo has a reason ta be scared o'Cassie an' what she can do then somethin' you's heard about that incident ain't right. If things went as ya say they did, Bo wouldn't be runnin' out o'Hazzard never to return at just the sound of her name..."
Jessie sighed.
"I didn't say I was givin' up on her boy, i'll help ya clear her name if ya say an' can find proof that she should be cleared...but ya gotta do a lot better than hearin' it from her mouth an' Bo won't talk about it. Bo's fears arn't born from nothin' an' there used ta be a time you's notice that an' see somethin' is wrong...but she's got ya so blinded that ya can't or won't see that no more..."
Luke just nodded.
"Bo's gone Uncle Jesse.. I'm in jail. There's no hope for anybody getting the truth. You believe what you want. I'm done trying to convince you. Now, go on and take of Daisy I'm sure she's worried sick. I'll be leaving soon to head to the hospital."
The cold of a man's heart is scary and is enough to send a chill through anyone. Luke knew the truth and what he had been saying the whole time was what had happened. (Yeah, it is.)
"Thanks for stopping by."
He was officially done with hearing everything his uncle had to say. There was nothing left to say. No one believed him and here he'd rot for the rest of his life.
Jesse sighed and shook his head, wishing as he had done ever since this whole thing had started nearly a year ago that his family would get back to the way it had been before. But it seemed that everything had been ripped at the seams and there wasn't a single person who had the power to sew it all back up again...not even himself.
Slowly he stood up and headed for the stairs, pausing before turning round and saying to Luke's back which was now turned to him.
"I want ya to know....that I love ya...an' that i'll do everythin' I can ta help ya, like I have done ever since ya were just a little tyke...since that night ya arrived on my doorstep without a friend in the world...an' i'll always do that Luke...I ain't the bad guy here...no matter how much ya think I am..."
Swallowing gently with tears in the old mans eyes, Jesse walked dejectedly out the courthouse, his old heart heavy.
Dusty Rose Duke
Dusty came down the stair and saw Uncle Jesse talkin to Luke. When she heard that Bo really left she knew it was over. The family was really breaking apart. Dusty came in with a small sad smile.
"Hey Uncle Jesse." Duty said as she walked over and gave him a hug. She looked at Luke.
"How you doin cuz?" Dusty asked.
Luke sighed hard and his back was to his cousin. (Uncle Jesse had left the courthouse) "How am I doing? As well as can be expected.. I'm worried about Cassie.. I'm going to be doing some hard time in the state prison.. and I guess all those lucky breaks I got in the past are over."
In truth, that's how it seemed. Nothing was going as planned and Luke couldn't be informed of what was going on. Cassie was potentially dying in the hospital and Luke was pushing his family away so that he could harden his heart.
"You should go too Uncle Jesse's going to need all the help he can get.. him and Daisy can't handle all this by themselves. And, they shouldn't have to."
Meanwhille, Bo was already on the track and working hard with his new team, too busy to think about anything going on either back at home or anywhere else for that matter outside of the track. He was happy, carefree and doing what he loved most in life.
News had spread all over the state of the fugitive that had been caught and was currently receiving medical treatment. People were breathing easier, but most hadn't worried about this girl. She was but a girl; however, most, like those in Hazzard, refused to believe there was any innocence to her. The ones in Hazzard that felt this way thought that they had some kind of insight to what was going on, but in reality, they had the wrong person.
Sitting in a bar, he had his elbows propped up on the counter top, when the whole place was interrupted by a special bulletin on the television. The newscaster was reporting that Cassidy Morgan had been taken into police custody after eight months of legal issues and finally they decided to issue an official warrant for her arrest. The man because interested in what the television had to tell him, but his facial expression didn't change. It was a solemn one and he refused to give way to an emotions he felt.
Still he couldn't believe what he was hearing. Did this finally mean that he was off the hook? He had in fact committed those crimes that Cassie was taking all the blame for. But, she wasn't intentionally taking the blame because of the situation she was put in that's just where the blame fell.
Tossing a few dollar bills on the counter, he nodded to the bartender and walked out to his car. Sawyer had planned to head back into Hazzard, figuring that no one remembered him enough to pen him to the murder of Jimmy. Revving the engine, he sped off down an old country road. His trip back to Georgia just got a whole lot more interesting.
In the Hazzard hospital, doctors had been keeping a close eye on Cassie since she'd been brought in. Because her kidney had begun to fail, they had prepped her for surgery. Her mind was so scrambled that she couldn't tell them what was going on or why she was there. That's what a couple good years of drugs can do to a person. But still she was little Cassie Morgan on the inside. A real southern belle that had enough charm to bring a man to his knees with a ring. If anyone really got to know her, they'd know that she was fiesty and could scrap with the best of them. That's what brought her up with the Dukes. She's threatened to beat the mess out of Bo when they were toddlers and ever since she had been friends with them.
Poor Bo. Now, he can't even stand the site of Cassie, but if his memory serves him right it wasn't Cassie that pulled the trigger that shot him. He'd been shot by Sawyer, in order to cause a distraction. Two lackeys grabbed Cassie and high tailed it to an old abandoned warehouse. There she was injected with a chemical that slowed her heart and put her in a comatose state. To anyone that didn't take the time to really notice, she was dead. But, it was Luke that noticed her body temperature was still right. But, before he could do anything both he and Sawyer were carted off to jail, leaving an injured Bo and Cassie to figure out how to get him out. But, as soon as Sawyer's boss told her that Harvey, her ex-boyfriend, knew where she was, Cassie panicked.
Now, she was battled for her life in the hospital and undergoing surgery to remove one of her kidneys. The procedure would be painful and the recovering even more so, but that's only if she makes it. With the rate her body is declining from all the medicine there was a good chance she could bleed out. May God have mercy on her.
But, Bo's memory wasn't serving him right, in fact he hardly remembered anything at all about what had happened that day. All he could remember was having arguments with someone, a man, and Cassie was there. The next several hours were all a blur to him. At the time he had been battaling the pain because his older cousin depended on him to get him out, but that didn't mean the pain wasn't there. He remembered the gun shot going of, and then snatches of things happening that made no sense...then the next thing he knew he was in the hospital with his family around him....all except Luke of course who was with Cassie.
And that was when Bo had begun the year of fear and a little hate of Cassie. He was scared not because she pulled the trigger, he knew it was the guy who had done that and he would have no qualms about punching his teeth down his throat if he ever saw him again, no siree. No, it was the fact that she seemed to have had something to do with it and that's what he had told the police when they had questioned him from his hospital bed. Also what scared him most was the power that she held over Luke...yes, that was what scared him the most. Normally there was nothing Luke wouldn't put before his family, but Cassie was usually an exception. Unless the situation got serious, it was always Cassie and Bo hated it. Cassie could make Luke do anything she wanted and there would be nothing that anyone could do to stop him where she was involved which was where the hate had derived from too. He hated her apparent manipulative ways, turning Luke into the person that Bo didn't know anymore. He wanted his big brother back, and as far as he was concerned Cassie had taken that from him and that was something he would never be able to get back.
It wasn't long before word of what happened reached the circuit, and Bo felt a deep sense of satisfaction at it...but also the little doubt that always nagged at his mind. Cassie had never been a really great friend to him as Cooter had done, no, but she had been there...they had even gotten serious at one point as everyone so liked to remind him. But the feelings he had felt over so many years were just too hard to ignore and the doubt was quashed again.
A strange car pulled into Hazzard and looked only slightly out of place. Usually people from Hazzard only thought that anyone driving a fancy car must be there to see Boss Hogg. Sawyer hadn't even bothered to check his rearview mirror. He wasn't so much afraid because he figured that time would tell whether his memory lingered in Hazzard. For now, he looked like a classy businessman. His hair was cut shorter, but still dirty blonde. His beard was trimmed a little neater and he didn't walk with such a hickish sway. There was more class in this man than anybody in Hazzard. The sad thing was that he was a murderer.
Pulling into town, his eyes scanned the sidewalks, as he scoped out people. They were just tending to their everyday business. He shrugged his shoulders and parked his car. Taking a deep breath, he opened the door and got out. Never had the sun shined so brightly, causing him to squint. Closing the door behind him, he headed down the sidewalk. Once again, he wanted to give this town the once over. However, before he had taken a handful of steps, he froze at the sight of the jail. That was no place for him to loiter. He needed to stay out, but he needed to find out what was going on with Cassie.
As Daisy sat at the farm, her fingernails drummed on the dinner table. This wasn't like her to just sit around, but with everything that was happening she needed a minute to herself. She mostly spent this minute thinking and considering the situation. Suddenly, she rose to her feet and picked up the CB. "Bo Peep to Lost Sheep.. Bo Peep to Lost Sheep." In her attempt to contact Bo, she hoped that somehow he could hear her and would respond.
Bo, who was standing by his car on the racing circuit, jumped as the CB crackled to life and Daisy's voice came over loud and clear. Sighing, he reached slid into the car.
"You got Lost Sheep 2 Bo Peep....come back."
Daisy's eyes came to life for a brief second because Bo's voice held some kind of hope for her. "Hey Cousin," she smiled to herself. "How's the racing circuit? You bringing fame to the Duke name?"
Bo smiled a little, hearing how happy Daisy sounded.
"Hey yourself cousin, everythin's great down on the track...just gearin' up for my next race....gonna be sendin' some money down to you soon as well to help pay for the farm an' get yerself somethin' nice from Atlanta or somethin'...."
Daisy's face held a softness that became apparent in her smile. "Bo, I don't need to get me anything nice. That's sweet, but the farm needs all the money that can be spared."
She paused, "When do you think you'll come home for a visit? Everyone misses you. It's just not the same around here." In truth, it really wasn't the same. Luke was still in jail and Uncle Jesse was trying his best to run the farm along with Daisy's help. That's all they could do.
Bo sighed, not holding the mic button down so Daisy couldn't hear him do it. Slowly he ran a hand down his face and said softly into the mic.
"Daisy I can't come down for a while...I got a lotta races lined up which earns me money...and I can't just up an' leave the team for a holiday in the middle of the season....if I could, I would you know that sweetheart but...I just can't..."
With a closed fist she let it tap the table in defeat. "I know Bo. It was worth a try though wasn't it?" Daisy paused and let her finger slide off of the CB's two way button. This was her opportunity to think; to say something profound.
"Do you want to know how Luke is?"
Luke was fine. He spent the last few days sitting in his cell, talking to Uncle Jesse once a day and Daisy, when she could find the time to stop in. His only good company was Enos and that was even getting a little old to him. Things hadn't been straightened out, but the wheels were turning and something was going to happen soon.
On the other hand, Sawyer had made himself a quiet little place in town staying in the Hazzard Hotel. He used his free time to float unnoticed around the city, picking up useless pieces of information. Still he always managed to pick up a good word or two about Luke Duke at the Boarsnest. Everybody was asking Daisy how he was and what they were going to make of him.
It wasn't until his ears perked at the mention of Cassie Morgan's name that Sawyer was put back into focus. Having overheard Boss Hogg telling Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane a bit of information about the girl, he sighed to himself. Apparently, Cassie had successfully went through her surgery. She had lived. Someone that had abused drugs for so long was lucky to live through an overdose and such a complicated surgery. The odds weren't always likely. Cassie was recovering in the hospital, before the state police arrive to move her to their medical facility in the state prison.
Sawyer had to see her as soon as possible.
Bo sighed and shook his head, leaning back against the seat as he watched the pit crew and other drivers mill around. Eventually he was able to reply as Daisy repeatedly called his name to get his attention again over the CB.
"Sorry Daisy...was speakin' with a pit crew member...I don't know to be honest...me an' Luke didn't exactly leave on best terms...I don't think he even knows I'm gone to be honest, not that he'd care anyway...he's too preoccupied with Cassie..."
Daisy held her breath for a moment. It would be wise for her to choose her words carefully.
"I understand that Bo. I really do. But, Honey Cassie hasn't been able to make it out of the hospital. She's had a few complications. Luke's been trying to give up the thought of her because he knows that she's gone. Nobody's had the heart to tell him her condition. If she's guilty she'll get what's coming to her soon enough and if she's not well then I guess it's out of our hands."
Pausing, Daisy refused to let her finger off of the button. She wanted Bo to get the full effect of the tone of her voice. She was being as calm and serious as possible.
"He knows your gone Bo. I visited him the other day and the most he could say was how he'd lost the two people in his life that meant the most to him. He paused and then asked me how it happened. Sugar, that's not a question I'm fit to answer, but I can tell he's beating himself up about it. He regrets a lot, but I know he wants you to keep racing because you're finally able to do something you love."
It was at that moment that she finally released the button for Bo to have the chance to speak. She wanted him to take everything in.
Bo closed his eyes and leaned back in the car, watching the activity outside as he let the words mill round in his head. He kept his finger on the button so Daisy knew he was still there and not ingnoring her.
Eventually, he sighed and said.
"Daisy I gotta go to a race, i'll talk to you later."
Nodding to herself, Daisy answered him, "Fair enough. Do the Duke name good." She paused, "I know you'll win. I'll send Uncle Jesse your love. Oh and Bo, don't be a stranger."
With that Daisy let go of the CB and hung it up. For now, that was all she could say to Bo.
Bo nodded with a small smile
"Thanks for your confidence Daisy...means a lot...and I won't be a stranger...I promise..love ya cousin..."
He then said nothing more and turned off the CB before sliding out the car to go make some arrangements.
A few weeks sitting in the same jail cell did a lot for a man. Luke looked older and more worn with his beard thick and dark hair shagged. He was always grateful to see Daisy and Uncle Jesse, when they stopped by. That was about his only means of conversation except for when Rosco or Enos brought him his meals. Sometimes Enos would stay an extra few minutes and strike up a conversation, but Rosco hadn't done much to try to make the stay easier for Luke. Uncle Jesse had mentioned once that it had been hard for the first few days, but he thought that Daisy and him could take care of the farm. With two less mouths to feed, they could get things paid.
Bo had written to Uncle Jesse telling him that he'd send money just as soon as he got enough that seemed fit to send. But, he hadn't mentioned anything about Luke. He wasn't exactly bitter, but more apathetic to his cousin. Yet, still in the back of his mind he always wondered what jail was like for him.
Most days, Luke spent a few hours sitting on his bunk with his back against the wall. Sometimes he'd hum to himself, but mostly he let himself drift into deep thought. A lot had happened in just a few short weeks with Bo leaving and Cassie showing up and then having her stay in the hospital. By now, Luke figured that if she'd made it, he hadn't heard if she had lived through her surgery, then she must've been spending time in the state prison. On occasion, Luke would scratch a few words on the tablet Uncle Jesse had dropped off for him. Mostly, he wrote letters to people with no intention of delivering them. A lot of his letters were titled "To My Dearest Cassie" which meant that his heart was still with her. To this day no one could understand that and he knew deep down that they never would.
Cassie had survived her bout with death in the hospital. Up until now she had been pretty bad off, but she was strong which meant that she could survive. Nothing could happen to Luke until Cassie was set for a court date which is why he had been in jail for so long. Luke was innocent and the only thing that Cassie was guilty of was aiding a criminal in his escape. She would do anything to see Luke. Now, she was clean and had the right head on her shoulders.
The door to the jail opened and in walked a well-dressed man with a smirk on his face. "Hello there." His voice was directed towards Enos.
Enos looked up from his desk, "Can I help you with something?"
"I'm here to see a Mr. Luke Duke," he stood patiently.
"May I ask your name, Sir?"
Sawyer smirked, "Sawyer Holloway. I'm here on legal matters with Mr. Duke." He lied through his teeth well.
Contemplating the information for a second, Enos nodded and directed Sawyer downstairs to Luke's cell. "You can talk to him through the bars."
Sawyer nodded and proceeded down the steps. The sound of footsteps alerted Luke and he was curious as to who they belonged to since no one ever visited him this time of day. As soon as the man came into view, Luke looked suspicious. "Who're you?"
A cracked grin let a chuckle escape through Sawyer's lips, "I come bearing news." He stepped into the light so that Luke could see him.
Luke recognized him after a hard look, "Sawyer. What're you doing here? You're the reason I'm here to begin with!"
"Calm down. Calm down. Like I said I bring news."
"What that you're planning on killing me right here? That's what you are isn't it? A killer?" Luke stepped forward.
"No, not at all. I thought that you would like to know that I heard wind of Cassie's mishap and I don't want her to take the heat for what I done." Sawyer seemed genuine in what he was saying.
Luke narrowed his eyes, "That seems to nice of you."
"The girl's a life changer what can I say?" Sawyer nodded slowly. "I figure that I can get her out and you can rot forever."
This angered Luke, but he considered what Sawyer was saying. "How do you suppose you're going to get her out?" Right now, that was all that was important to Luke that Cassie could live her life right.
Sawyer sighed, "Anonymous tip that I saw solely you involved in the whole thing and she was no where in site. Fair enough?"
Luke thought about this for a second. This conversation seemed strange to him, but promising all the same. "Get her out."
Sawyer nodded and turned to go up the stairs. Before he made it to the top he stopped, "That girl can make any man do crazy things." With that he headed through the door.
Luke sighed and let his fingers grasp the bars. Maybe what Sawyer said was true, but there was no way of him knowing that just yet. All he wanted was for Cassie to be safe. He didn't care what happened to him.


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Theatre, dance and opera highlights in Scotland for autumn & winter 2012
Miles Fielder
Scottish Opera's Clemency
2012 and 2013 programmes from Scottish Ballet, Scottish Opera and National Theatre of Scotland
With three national companies doing extraordinary things, there's culture on every corner, finds Miles Fielder
The National Theatre of Scotland is nowhere and everywhere. Envisioned as an institution with no bricks and mortar headquarters, the NTS has used its resources to support playwrights and performers and to work with a wide range of collaborators to bring theatre to audiences all across Scotland. This autumn's season includes: My Shrinking Life, which dramatises Scottish theatre maker Alison Peebles' personal struggle with MS; The Guid Sisters, the Scots classic in a new translation by Bill Findlay; Lifeguard, Adrian Howells' site-specific show set in a derelict swimming baths; Glasgow Girls, a new Scottish musical; and Dragon, a magical show for families.
Based at the Theatre Royal in Glasgow (Scotland's first national opera house), Scottish Opera is the largest performing arts organisation in Scotland. This summer, the SO celebrated its 50th anniversary with an ongoing season that runs until June 2013 and which mixes popular favourites with less known gems. Along with the new operas In the Locked Room & Ghost Patrol, Clemency and The Lady From the Sea, the SO is staging new productions of the classics: La Traviata, The Magic Flute, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Werther, The Flying Dutchman and The Pirates of Penzance.
Scottish Ballet is the longest-running of the nation's three live performance institutions, dating back to 1957, when the company was formed in Bristol, and 1969, when it relocated to Glasgow and took its current name. Three years ago, the SB moved to purpose-built national headquarters at The Tramway. Its autumn season features a triple bill of new work that includes Martina Lawrance's Run For It, William Forsythe's Workwithinwork and Hans van Manen's 5 Tangos as well as a blockbuster production of ballet classic The Nutcracker, for which show the Scottish Ballet Orchestra will perform Tchaikovsky's famous score.
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22 Inspiring Quotes About What It Means to Be an American
Author: Chelsea Scism
At the time we are celebrating our nation's independence, many Americans reflect on the distinctive values that contribute to our unique national character. What do the stars and stripes truly stand for?
This Fourth of July, in between family barbecues and watching fireworks, take a moment to consider these inspiring patriotic quotes about what it means to be an American.
1. "We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty."
Author Mark Twain
2. "America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."
President Harry S. Truman
3. "There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag."
Wrestler, Actor and former Governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura
4. "This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave."
World War II Director of the United States Office of War Information Elmer Davis
5. "America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race."
Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. "There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America."
7. "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
8. "Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory."
United States Army General George S. Patton
9. "A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
Author Edward Abbey
10. "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
Founding Father Patrick Henry
11. "The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice."
President John Adams
12. "Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it."
13. "I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit."
President Theodore Roosevelt
14. "If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin."
Founding Father Samuel Adams
15. "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Founding Father Benjamin Franklin
16. "This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
President Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
17. "We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America."
18. "We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots."
Writer Charles F. Browne
19. "What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from'."
Writer Marilyn vos Savant
20. "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it."
President John Quincy Adams
21. "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
22. "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
American Revolutionary Soldier Nathan Hale


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WhatsApp adds video and voice calls support to its desktop app
The instant messaging app, WhatsApp has rolled out video and voice call supports for its desktop app and it is now available for everyone – Mac and Windows users.
WhatsApp rolled out this feature around December last year, but it was only for few people but launching the features makes it available for all desktop users.
WhatsApp announced this brightening news, and the company went on to confirm that this new video and voice calls are similar to the messages, offering end-to-end encrypted calls to other WhatsApp users on both computers and mobile devices.
With end-to-end encryptions, WhatsApp and Facebook can't see or hear your calls. However, for a period of time, this feature will not support group calls but only support one-to-one calling.
As expected, WhatsApp promised that as time goes on, it'll be expanding to include support for group voice and video calls down the line with no specific time mentioned, but if there is an improvement on this feature, then it will come faster than expected.
In order to start enjoying this video and voice calling feature, just have to link your WhatsApp account on mobile to either Mac or PC, this allows you to set up the WhatsApp desktop app.
After completing the setup, installation on your computer, then users will then scan a QR code to log in on the desktop app, after which they'll be able to use the desktop version of WhatsApp with their usual account.
The video and voice call featuring is coming to desktop doesn't mean this is entirely new to WhatsApp. The company had already added support for its Android and iOS versions.
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(NaturalNews) An activist organization that says the mainstream media has "failed" the country has launched its own "media university" to train journalists who are not beholden to the ideology of legacy publications or corporate interests.
"The mainstream media has failed us time and time again," says the non-partisan, nonprofit group, "We Are Change," on its website. "Their appalling lack of integrity, tenacity, and spine continues on a daily basis, insulting anyone paying attention.
"We Are Change is creating a platform where aspiring journalists can achieve success and develop their careers without jumping through degrading corporate hoops," the group says.
In a video outlining the goals of the new school, Change Media University, guerrilla journalist Luke Rudkowski says decentralization of media control is essential to change the culture of institutionalized ideology and singularity of thought.
"If we take that power away from them [the corporate media], and shame them, and make them obsolete by doing their job better — what if we become the mainstream media?" he asks.
'Creating a new generation of journalists'
In the announcement for the university, Rudkowski wrote:
11 years ago with a cheap camera borrowed from a friend, I dedicated my life to confronting those who repeatedly escaped justice. No longer would the perpetrators of hate and violence continue to walk amongst us without repercussions.
We have successfully exposed the hypocrisies of Henry Kissinger, Ben Bernanke, Joe Biden, Mitt Romney, Jacob Rothschild, Mayor Bloomberg, Larry Silverstein, and the Rockefeller family. We have reached millions of people, operating on a shoestring budget while effecting laws, vindicating people who were falsely charged, creating national debates, and awareness on issues that would have never seen the light of day.
The organization's mission "is to create a new generation of journalists, unafraid of institutionalized authority, unafraid to challenge the status quo and preconceived notions." Rudkowski stated, "Let's promote honesty, open discussion, transparency, compassion, and critical thinking."
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/045395_We_Are_Change_media_training_activist_journalism.html#ixzz35hv58bk3
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Right-wing politics in a "left" wrapper: Elizabeth Warren's plan for education
By Nancy Hanover
On October 21, Democratic Party presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren released her plan for public education titled "A Great Public School Education for Every Student." The next day she appeared at a picket line of striking Chicago teachers where she was hailed by American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten. The AFT president said, "If she is in the White House, we wouldn't need to be in the streets. We will be in the schools making America what it ought to be."
Getting teachers "out of the streets" is a mutual aim of the Democratic candidate and the millionaire union executive, who carried out their joint photo-op as part of the effort by the AFT and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) to shut down the strike on terms dictated by Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
Vying for the endorsement of the teachers unions, Warren is promoting herself as the "education candidate." The plan was drawn up in reaction to the upsurge of teachers over the past two years and the overwhelming popular support for the fight to defend and improve public education. The latest offering by Warren seemingly models itself on Bernie Sanders' "Thurgood Marshall" plan, released earlier in the year.
The Warren plan acknowledges the crisis gripping schools across the nation while claiming that everything can be fixed under capitalism. An open defender of the system, she disavows the "democratic socialist" label adopted by Sanders. She hopes thereby to serve as a political lightning rod, diverting the growing resistance of radicalized workers and youth into harmless channels while garnering sufficient support within the ruling class to win the nomination of the Democratic Party.
Tacking "left," her education policy strings together promises, pledges to "push for change" and band-aid remedies, all of which are inadequate to deal with the fundamental crisis of public education in America.
Warren calls for a quadrupling of federal funding for low-income Title I schools, at an estimated cost of $450 billion over a decade. She suggests a $100 billion competitive grant program for which districts could apply to fund after-school art programs, mentoring, or the upgrading of science facilities. This would mean, as with Obama's Race To The Top, schools would be pitted against each other in the hopes of receiving nominal funding for essential programs.
Additionally, she advocates addressing the collapse of school infrastructure with $50 billion, with another $20 billion annually for Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) funding.
It should be noted that the State of Our Schools report, released earlier this year, says $145 billion is needed every year to modernize and maintain U.S. public school facilities—nearly three times what Warren is proposing. As for IDEA funding, Warren's $20 billion would only partially cover the legal mandate of 40 percent federal support.
The wealth tax
Both Warren and Sanders say their education plans will be paid for by a "wealth tax," which they know full well that neither the Democratic Party nor Congress would support. Warren's plan would levy a 2 percent tax on wealth above $50 million and a 3 percent tax on wealth above $1 billion. Sanders increases the tax brackets and the total tax with the further call for a "national wealth registry" to track down the money.
As these seasoned capitalist politicians know, a few European countries attempted such taxes and abandoned them when the rich simply relocated themselves and/or their wealth. The wealthy park their vast fortunes in tax shelters around the world. They will not submit to even the slightest incursion into their wealth.
This is most clearly shown by the response of ruling classes all over the world to the eruption of working class struggles in opposition to social inequality. Far from enacting progressive reforms as concessions to the demands of workers, governments are stepping up police repression and encouraging the growth of far-right and fascist forces. This is the case in Britain under Boris Johnson, France under the pro-Petain president Emmanuel Macron, Germany, whose government is promoting the neo-fascist Alternative for Germany, and the U.S. under Trump.
Strengthening the unions
In her education program, as well as the intervention in Chicago, Warren seeks to strengthen not the teachers or school workers, but the unions. Speaking to the crowd of striking Chicago teachers last Monday, Warren claimed, "The unions are how we have a voice. The unions are how we have power. The unions are how we make sure that the needs of every one of our children are heard loud and clear."
She promotes the fiction that one of the best ways to raise teacher pay permanently is to "make it easier for teachers to join a union." She pledges to support the collection of agency fees and oppose right-to-work laws, citing her support of the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act.
Decades of experience, including the 2012 betrayal of Chicago teachers, which opened the floodgates for the closures of dozens of schools, have demonstrated the opposite. Throughout the struggles of 2018-19, the AFT and National Education Association deliberately isolated teacher strikes and forced through settlements that failed to meet teachers' cost of living or defend decent healthcare and benefits. In the aftermath of recent settlements in Oakland, Denver and Los Angeles, hundreds of staff have been eliminated and more schools have been closed, with the collusion of the unions.
In her effusive praise for the unions, Warren is working consciously as a representative of the ruling class seeking to suppress a brewing rebellion of the rank and file against these anti-working class organizations.
It is highly significant that both Warren and Sanders make segregation and racial discrimination a central focus of their plans, in line with the Democratic Party's promotion of identity politics. As usual, this is a diversion and has nothing to do with actually improving conditions for the most impoverished.
Elizabeth Warren en 2011, haciendo campaña para el Senado en la sede del sindicato IBEW l [crédito: Edward Kimmel]
In every serious struggle, as the struggle of the Chicago teachers shows once again, workers of all races and ethnicities stand shoulder-to-shoulder. The intransigent opponents of the Chicago teachers take the form of a multiracial city administration and first black female mayor, who also happens to be gay. Democrat Lightfoot has insisted, there is "no money" for schools and teachers' demands.
It is the Democratic politicians and their upper-middle class pseudo-left acolytes who inject race and gender, in a deliberate effort to sabotage the solidarity of teachers, school employees, parents, and students.
Moreover, while racial segregation in schools has increased, this segregation is overwhelmingly driven by the growth of poverty. The disproportionate effects of poorly-funded and segregated schools upon minorities reflect the fact that blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans continue to suffer disproportional poverty. "African Americans and Latinos are in schools that are overwhelmingly poor," stated UCLA professor Gary Orfield in a recent study. Rather than redlining or racism, as Warren claims, it is the 40-year-long social counterrevolution overseen by Democrats and Republicans that has dramatically increased extreme poverty, crowding working class minorities into poor housing and increasing segregation.
Warren is using the race card to divert attention from the inherently anti-capitalist demands of educators for full funding of public education, including the additional hiring of tens of thousands of well-paid teachers, librarians, counselors, paraprofessionals, and the construction of high-quality facilities with full wrap-around services.
As for her answer, Warren calls for "renewing the fight against segregation and discrimination" through another competitive grant, her Housing Plan for America. The competition would be open to states and cities to apply for "money to build parks, roads and schools" if they make zoning law changes. She also calls for more "teachers of color," "culturally relevant curricula," and "a more diverse school leadership pipeline." She adds a feminist twist, calling for nominating "judges who look like America" not "overwhelmingly white and overwhelmingly male," adding that "educators, particularly women, have carried the Red4Ed movement."
Warren does not oppose the Wall Street drive to privatize public education, measures that were vastly accelerated under her Democratic Party colleague Barack Obama. In 2003 she supported vouchers and in 2015 she insisted on the use of standardized tests to measure schools, a key vehicle designed both to enrich testing companies and to attack public education.
She now supports the NAACP's call for a moratorium on charter school expansion until further studies are completed (as if the effect of charter schools cannibalizing their public school counterparts were not known). Warren has no problem with charters, as she has no problem with the capitalist "free market" but decries their "lack of accountability" and de facto segregation.
Warren's real concern
Warren has called herself a "capitalist to the bone." That is accurate. She has made no secret of her worries, on behalf of the capitalist class, that the terrible growth of social inequality has fueled not just a growing upsurge of educators, but portends a wholesale political break by the working class with the two parties of big business and the system itself.
Elizabeth Warren respalda a Hillary Clinton en 2016 (crédito: Tim Pierce [CC BY-SA 4.0])
In a speech at the National Press Club last August, she emphasized the growing hostility of the population to the US government. She referenced a poll showing that at the height of the Vietnam War, 1968, which was also the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, 62 percent of Americans said they trusted the government. She noted that the number dropped to 36 percent after Watergate and the resignation of President Nixon, but is now at only 18 percent. She termed this phenomenon "a turn away from democracy." What she really is talking about is a turn away from capitalism and toward socialism, especially among the younger generation.
Elizabeth Warren's rebranding follows a long history of right-wing politics. Growing up in a Democratic household, she was described in the 1980s by friends as an "ice-cold Republican." A Reagan supporter, she remained a Republican in the midst of a social counterrevolution against the economic safety net targeting virtually every federal program from food stamps to education to funding for the arts. Warren associated herself with wealthy conservatives such as John Olin, and became a devotee of the "Law and Economics" school of right-winger Henry Manne.
As a corporate lawyer in 1995, Warren represented LTV Steel, a conglomerate formerly involved in aerospace, airlines, pharmaceuticals and steel, seeking to avoid compliance with a federal law that required funding the healthcare of retirees after bankruptcy. Warren petitioned the Supreme Court, arguing that the payments, as per the 1992 act, would undermine the sanctity of the bankruptcy code. Nearly 100,000 retirees faced losing their company-paid healthcare.
In other such lucrative bankruptcy work, she represented Dow Corning in 1995 as it sought to limit payments to its breast-implant victims. The company was later found to have deliberately deceived women over the dangers of the silicone implants. Another corporate client, Union Pacific Railroad, engaged her services to avoid paying for the cleanup of an oil and industrial waste disaster at the Tacoma, Washington rail yards.
Having established herself as a trusted force for the financial elite, she was tapped by Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid in 2008 to head the congressional oversight panel on the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). She became its chairperson.
Warren gained a name for herself during the TARP hearings by falsely claiming to represent consumers. Her protestations and exhibitions of indignation served as a lightning rod to divert mass anger against the multi-trillion-dollar infusion into the stock market. They served to provide political cover while Congress rubber-stamped the project.
In sum, Warren played an essential role. She served as a phony "left" cover while the greatest transfer of wealth from the working class to the rich in world history took place. This process set in motion, at the other pole of society, an unprecedented assault on the living standards of the working class and the record growth of social inequality. Funds for public education, like every other social program, were eviscerated and have never recovered.
Capitalism today faces a far more pronounced crisis, and the working class around the world has entered a new stage of the class struggle. Warren and Sanders and the Democratic Party as a whole are mounting a doomed effort to prevent the widespread turn to socialism and revolutionary struggle.
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