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On a bike outing to the abandoned houses by the old cement mill, Delsie and her friend Todd discover one of the houses is not empty--and a ghost dog haunts the area.
Buyea, Rob, Because of Mr. Terupt
Seven fifth-graders at Snow Hill School in Connecticut relate how their lives are changed for the better by "rookie teacher" Mr. Terupt.
Dowell, Frances O'Roark, Falling In
Middle-schooler Isabelle Bean follows a mouse's squeak into a closet and falls into a parallel universe where the children believe she is the witch they have feared for years, finally come to devour them.
Erskine, Kathryn, Mockingbird: (Mok'ing-burd)
Ten-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father.
French, Vivian, The Robe of Skulls: The First Tale from the Five Kingdoms
The sorceress Lady Lamorna has her heart set on a very expensive new robe, and she will stop at nothing--including kidnapping and black magic--to get the money to pay for it.
Gifford, Peggy, Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Practicing the Piano
On the day of her recital, ten-year-old Moxy prepares in her usual flamboyant way, which creates chaos at home.
Grimes, Nikki, Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel
Spunky third-grader Dyamonde Daniel misses her old neighborhood, but when she befriends a boy named Free, another new student at school, she finally starts to feel at home.
Gutman, Dan, Roberto & Me
Stosh travels back to 1969 to try to prevent the untimely death of Roberto Clemente, a legendary baseball player and humanitarian, but upon his return to the present, he meets his own great-grandson who takes him into the future, and what he finds there is more shocking than anything he has encountered in his travels to the past.
Holm, Jennifer L., Turtle in Paradise
In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.
Jennings, Patrick, Guinea Dog
When his mother brings home a guinea pig instead of the dog he has always wanted, fifth-grader Rufus is not happy--until the rodent starts acting exactly like a dog.
Law, Ingrid, Scumble
Mibs's cousin Ledge is disappointed to discover that his "savvy"--the magical power unique to each member of their family--is to make things fall apart, which endangers his uncle Autry's ranch and reveals the family secret to future reporter Sarah.
Lord, Cynthia, Touch Blue
When the state of Maine threatens to shut down their island's one-room schoolhouse because of dwindling enrollment, eleven-year-old Tess, a strong believer in luck, and her family take in a trumpet-playing foster child, to increase the school's population.
Lupica, Mike, Shoot-Out
Twelve-year-old Jake must leave his championship soccer team to play on a team with a losing record when his family moves to a neighboring town.
Malone, Marianne, The Sixty-Eight Rooms
An adventure about the Thorne Rooms, sixty-eight miniature rooms made by Mrs. James Ward Thorne in the 1930s, and a magic key that allows a person to shrink down small enough to explore the rooms' secrets.
Martin, Ann M., Everything for a Dog
In parallel stories, Bone, an orphaned dog, finds and loses a series of homes, Molly, a family pet, helps Charlie through the grief and other after-effects of his brother's death, and lonely Henry pleads for a dog of his own.
Mass, Wendy, The Candymakers
Four gifted twelve-year-olds, including Logan, the candymaker's son, are set to be contestants in the Confectionary Association's national competition to determine the nation's tastiest sweet, but nobody anticipates that a friendship will form between them.
Preus, Margi, Heart of a Samurai
In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, fourteen-year-old Manjiro, who dreams of becoming a samurai, learns new laws and customs as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the United States.
Prineas, Sarah, The Magic Thief
Conn's life is forever changed when he tries to pick the pocket of the wizard Nevery and instead gets a strong jolt of magic, but, instead of punishing the boy, Nevery takes Conn under his wing, teaches him magic, and enlists his help in finding the person responsible for stealing the city's dwindling magic supply.
Scaletta, Kurtis, Mamba Point
After moving with his family to Liberia, twelve-year-old Linus discovers that he has a mystical connection with the black mamba, one of the deadliest snakes in Africa, which he is told will give him some of the snake's characteristics.
Schlitz, Laura Amy, The Night Fairy
When Flory the night fairy's wings are accidentally broken and she cannot fly, she has to learn to do everything differently.
Senzai, N.H., Shooting Kabul
Escaping from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in the summer of 2001, eleven-year-old Fadi and his family immigrate to the San Francisco Bay Area, where Fadi schemes to return to the Pakistani refugee camp where his little sister was accidentally left behind.
Stephens, John, The Emerald Atlas
Kate,Michael, and Emma have passed from one orphanage to another in the ten years since their parents disappeared to protect them, but now they learn that they have special powers--and a fearsome enemy--and embark on a prophesied quest to find a magical book.
Tashjian, Janet, My Life as a Book
Dubbed a "reluctant reader" by his teacher, twelve-year-old Derek spends summer vacation learning important lessons even though he does not complete his summer reading list.
Vanderpool, Care, Moon Over Manifest
Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.
Williams-Garcia, Rita, One Crazy Summer
In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California tospend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
MCBA Information:
The 2013 online deadline to vote is March 15, 2013.
The 2013 MCBA winners will be announced on the website on April 1, 2013.
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In essence can they take possession of the other party's interest in the property by foreclosure if they did not sign the mortgage? If the person liable for the mortgage default? In this scenario
When property was purchase 2 people were on the deed and only one was responsible for the mortgage, mortgage was refinanced with the same bank under the same scenario 2 people on deed only one signed the mortgage documents
Look carefully at the mortgage documents. When you have A&B on title, and only A is on the mortgage, B is required to sign a Deed of Trust. This is different from signing a Note (which is the actual debt). The Deed of Trust is an agreement by all who sign, that the Lender is allowed to foreclose on the property in the event of a default.
However, I have seen many cases where the Deed of Trust has not been executed properly - which would be your only practical lifeline in a case like this. The Deed of Trust is the only thing that allows foreclosure (because it uses the house as "collateral" in the event of default), so if this is not executed properly, the house is not collateralized properly, and no foreclosure rights exist.Ask a similar question
This is a very, very common situation. Everyone who is on the deed, as an owner, should have signed the lien instrument. If not, the lender may be only partially secured, or totally unsecured. For example, if a house is owned by a married couple, but only the husband signed the deed of trust, the the lender is not secured. And if two unmarried folks are on the deed, and only one signed the deed of trust, the bank may be partially secured, and could foreclose only on on person's interest. It will only take one or two hours of a lawyer's time to figure all this out for you.Ask a similar question
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The Air Intake System
 Last time we talked about how the fuel got to the cylinders. This time we'll talk about how the air the fuel needs to burn gets to the cylinders. Since all manufacturers do things in a different way, we'll look at these systems in general.

 For an engine equipped with a carburetor, this is pretty straightforward. Air comes in the air filter housing, passes through the air filter, into the carburetor where the fuel is mixed with it. Then it passes through the intake manifold and is drawn into the cylinders. The most advanced part of the system was an Air Temperature Sensor in the air intake. It was used to measure the air temperature and, by opening and closing a flap, allow cool air in through the air horn or heated air piped in from around an exhaust manifold. This was to prevent carburetor icing that would cause the car to stall and die out. It also facilitated vaporization of the fuel into the air stream.

 Very simple and straight forward. There was only one draw back; there was no way to accurately measure the incoming air for the proper fuel mixture. You could use an emission analyzer and adjust the fuel mixture, but that was only at idle and not under a load. At higher speeds the mixture would be incorrect. Some automobile manufacturers recommend adjusting the carburetor on a dynamometer with the engine under load.

 In a fuel-injected car it's a whole different ball game. Air is drawn in through the air intake. This is usually a long plastic tube going into the air filter housing. The reason the intake tube is long is to get the air moving in a fairly steady, coherent stream. It then passes through the air filter and then through an Air Flow Meter.

 There are two types of AFM's, a vane type and a hot wire type. The vane type has a flap that is pushed by the income air. The more air coming in, the more the flap is pushed backed. There is a potentiometer attached to the flap that sends a voltage signal to the Powertrain Control Module (PCM). There is also a second vane behind the main vane that fits into a closed camber that dampens the movement of the vane giving a more accurate measurement. There is also an Air Temperature Sensor built into the AFM and works exactly as it did in the carbureted engine.

 The hot wire AFM uses a series of wires strung in the air stream. The resistance of the wire at normal operating temperature is a known constant and will allow a set voltage through it. As the air passes the hot wire, it cools. As it cools, the resistance of the wire decreases allowing more voltage to pass through it. This voltage signal then goes to the main EFI computer and allows the adjustment of the fuel mixture. From the AFM it goes to the throttle chamber.

 The throttle chamber controls the airflow into the engine. When it's closed, the car idles. There is a small bypass chamber that allows a small amount of air to bypass the throttle plate and go into the engine. By adjusting the amount of air through the bypass, we can adjust the idle speed of the engine. There is also a Throttle Position Sensor (TPS) mounted on the throttle plate that sends a signal to the main EFI computer telling it weather it is at idle, midrange cruising or wide open throttle. From the throttle chamber it goes through the intake manifold and into the cylinders.

 One last component is the Cold Start Valve. It is electrically heated and performs the same function as the choke on a carburetor. The Cold Start Valve is a valve with a bi-metallic element that expands as it's heated. When it's cold, it allows a large quantity of air to bypass the throttle plate thus causing an increase in idle speed. As the element heats up, it closes the bypass passage and lowers the idle speed as the engine obtains normal operating temperature.

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Theofel v. Farey-Jones, 359 F.3d 1066 (9th Cir. 2003) (full-text), cert. denied, 543 U.S. 813 (2004).
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The defendant Farey-Jones subpoenaed the plaintiffs' ISP provider NetGate for access to "[a]ll copies of e-mails sent or received by anyone" within the plaintiff's company. NetGate provided some, but not all of the e-mails.
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The plaintiffs sued Farey-Jones under, among other statutes, §2701 of the Stored Communications Act (SCA), for unlawful access to their e-mail communications. The crux of this issue was whether the e-mails were in "electronic storage" under the SCA.
If they were in electronic storage, the subpoena used would be insufficient to access the e-mails. The court held that these e-mails were for backup purposes under subsection (B), and observed:
|An obvious purpose for storing a message on an ISP's server after delivery is to provide a second copy of the message in the event that the user needs to download it again — if, for example, the message is accidentally erased from the user's own computer. The ISP copy of the message functions as a "backup" for the user. Notably, nothing in the Act requires that the backup protection be for the benefit of the ISP rather than the user. Storage under these circumstances thus literally falls within the statutory definition.[1]
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Three paralyzed veterans from the Keystone Chapter of the Paralyzed Veterans of America (Keystone PVA) will visit the nation's capital in early March to speak with Congressional members and staff about the issues that most affect their health and mobility.
Christopher Fidler of Jonestown, Pa., Bill Lightner of Hollidaysburg, Pa., and Mark Rosensteel of Apollo, Pa., will visit each office of the members of Congress from Pennsylvania to discuss benefits for catastrophically-disabled vets, access to Social Security benefits, application of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and maintaining the Veterans Health Administration.
"The Veterans Health Administration is what VA medical facilities and personnel are parts of," explained Keystone PVA Executive Director Joe Dornbrock. "It is not a parallel, redundant operation but a program of specialized care for veterans that cannot be magically or inexpensively supplanted by a 'choice card.' Large-scale privatization would be very costly and would disrupt needed health care to many men and women who defended the nation." He said that Fidler, Lightner and Rosensteel would be reminding federal legislators of these facts, and will provide suggestions to improve the existing system.
Despite their paralysis, Fidler, an Army veteran, and Lightner and Rosensteel, who both served in the Air Force, will visit both Senate and House offices on either side of the Capitol. Their visits will follow two days of meetings focusing on the details of these issues. The meetings will be conducted by specialists in health care, government affairs, and advocacy from the national office of the Paralyzed Veterans, which is based in Washington, D.C. Paralyzed vets from other chapters of the Paralyzed Veterans will also travel to Washington for the meetings and visits to be held 06 through 09 March.
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Union Pacific turns 150 - All aboard: Getting to know the railroad in our backyard
When a 90-car, 9,500-ton freight train rumbles into town, it's hard to imagine each wheel only meeting the rail the width of the edge of a dime.
But that type of precise balance and engineering has propelled the rail industry through decades.
This year, the Union Pacific Railroad is marking its 150th anniversary -- and for much of that time it has linked Le Mars to other parts of the world.
National rail, local impact
In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln approved the Pacific Railroad Act, authorizing land grants and the issuance of government bonds for the construction of railroads from the Missouri River to the Pacific.
Today, 150 years later, Union Pacific's rail covers two-thirds of the U.S., with more than 32,00 miles of track in 23 states. Its 8,000 locomotives help ship everything from coal to flat-screened TVs across the nation.
Le Mars sees about four Union Pacific trains daily.
Three of them are regular routes: Worthington to Le Mars and back, Sioux City to Le Mars, and Council Bluffs to St. James, Minn.
A fourth UP train coming through may be carrying coal on its way from Wyoming to Minnesota or grain, according to UP spokesman Mark Davis.
A history of carrying America
Across the nation, UP trains serve diverse markets, Davis said.
They carry agricultural products, automotive parts and finished vehicles, chemicals such as ethanol or anhydrous ammonia, industrial products such as wind turbine tower sections and blades, building products such as lumber and sand, clothing, electronics such as computers and mp3 players, and energy products -- mainly coal.
These weren't UP's original fare.
After the last spike was driven into the transcontinental railroad at Promontory Summit, Utah, on May 10, 1869, rail cars began transporting heavy machinery and building products from the East Coast to the West.
In return, goods from the West came eastward.
"When the transcontinental railroad was finished, it literally changed the diet of the country," Davis said. "You had fruits and vegetables that were native or grown in California now being able to be shipped cross-country."
Transporting people by train was a secondary result of that shift, Davis said.
"We saw a huge influx of passengers during the 1930s, '40s and '50s," he said. "Railroads started seeing a decline in passenger service in the '50s because by then your highway systems started to be completed."
Iowa became a corridor for trains -- both east/west traffic and north/south traffic.
The Le Mars rail line was originally laid in 1872 by the St. Paul and Sioux City Railroad, Davis said.
Four-thousand horsepower
While UP started with steam locomotives powered by coal, today's locomotives are actually hybrids of a sort.
"They're basically like your toy train around the Christmas tree -- they're electric," Davis said.
He explained the UP locomotives use a diesel engine to power an electric generator, which produces electricity. The throttle, which is similar to a dimmer switch on a light at home, is used to give the wheels more or less electricity.
Each pair of wheels on the locomotive has its own electric motor to turn it.
This combination of diesel and electric eliminates the need for a mechanical transmission on train engines, which would have to be extremely complex to handle the weight and power of a train.
The engines that come through Le Mars are about 4,000 horsepower, Davis said.
Sometimes trains have a locomotive on the rear as well, helping push the load -- which are sometimes the equivalent of 300 truckloads.
"We were able to do that technology with computer and radio enhancements," Davis said. "Whatever the engineer does is what happens on that back one -- there's no one back there."
The switch from the original steam engines to the diesel and electric engines was complete by the early 1960s, Davis said.
Today's challenge, he said, is to strive for efficiency and reduce emissions.
"Diesel fuel cost for us is our most cost in operating the railroad," Davis said. "We go through over 1 million gallons in diesel every day systemwide."
A crew of two
While trains can stretch about a mile long and weigh thousands of tons, train crews are usually made up of two people: the engineer and the conductor.
"The engineer is much like he was back in the 1800s," Davis said.
The engineer operates the train, carefully assessing the coming path to determine his use of the throttle and air brakes.
This is a delicate balance, Davis said.
"We're able to move so many cars with so few locomotives because there's very little friction going down the rail," he explained. "You have very, very little resistance."
The area of contact between railcar wheels and the rail is the thickness of a dime, less than 2 millimeters, Davis said.
"It's like ice; you just slide," he said. "A 100-car train traveling 60 mph could take 1 1/2 miles to stop."
That's why the engineer's understanding of the train's physics and the rail is so essential, Davis said.
"It's a skill as an engineer to know how the railroad is laid out -- is it hills, is it flat, as I come around this curve, do I have to slow down," he said, adding that an engineer may plan for a slow down 10 miles in advance.
The second crewman, the conductor, handles the paperwork for all the cars the locomotives are pulling -- keeping track of where they are to be dropped off or picked up.
The conductor also helps change the rail switches if the train needs to pull onto a side track or change directions.
Track talk
Transporting by rail is different than by road.
For one thing, there is usually just one rail line between two points -- meaning getting one train past another takes some maneuvering.
On a single rail track, there will be side tracks at various points to allow a train to stop and allow another train to pass. These side tracks can be 1 1/2 to 2 miles long, Davis said.
A dispatcher will notify a train crew that the train is required to get into the side track to allow a higher-priority train to go by.
"Once that train goes by, they can get back on the main line and keep going," Davis said.
Light signals along the railway help communicate this with train crews, he said.
Some rail switches, portions of rail that shift to move trains from one track to another, are electronic, and the dispatcher can move them from afar.
Other switches have to be manually changed. To do so, the train will stop and allow the conductor to get off and move the switches. The train will then pull ahead onto the new rail and stop again, waiting for the conductor to change the switch back for the next train.
Turning around is another challenge.
Locomotives can't just flip a U-turn.
There are several methods to turn them around. One is a turntable -- a large rotating circle surface with tracks on it that the engine could pull onto and be turned either back onto the track it came from or onto another track.
Another method of turning is a Y-track, which basically allows a locomotive to make a two-point turn and head back in the direction the train came from.
Thirdly, locomotives may be paired, linked back to back, so that when the train gets to the end of its route heading one direction, the second locomotive will be pointed the right direction to take the next load in the direction from which they came.
On the rail, speed limits are suggested by the Federal Railroad Administration and put in place by the railroad companies themselves, Davis explained.
In the country around Le Mars, trains travel up to 49 mph, he said.
In parts of Le Mars, UP has a speed limit of 10 mph because of the intersection of two rail lines, he noted.
Down the tracks
While marking the railroad company's 150th anniversary, UP leaders are also looking to the future.
UP is constantly seeking new markets to offer rail shipment, Davis said.
For example, the company has begun venturing into carrying wind turbine tower pieces and blades by train, including many to Manley, Iowa.
"It's our challenge to find those niche markets," Davis said.
A year to celebrate
Headquartered in Omaha, Neb., UP is now part of 7,300 communities across the U.S.
The company is asking people across the nation to help mark its 150th anniversary.
UP is collecting people's personal stories that tie into UP's history. People can submit written, video or photo stories at www.up150.com.
Also, people can re-make an old "Great Big Rolling Railroad" UP commercial for a chance to win thousands of dollars.
Thirdly, city leaders can apply to appear on UP's Train Town USA registry. The registry, open to all incorporated communities located along Union Pacific tracks or terminals, will feature the communities at www.UP150.com, and they will also be recognized with a resolution from Union Pacific Chairman Jim Young that can be presented to the mayor or city council.
For more history, people can also visit the Union Pacific Railroad Museum, which opened in 2003, in Council Bluffs.
Also this year, one of UP's restored steam locomotives will be traveling the rail, including a stop at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines.
Or, for local residents stopped at a railroad crossing, waiting for a train to pass, they can see how UP will really mark its 150th anniversary -- by keeping on rolling across America.


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Explores the secret life of the America's greatest president, Abraham Lincoln, and the untold story that shaped their nation. The president discovers blood-thirsty vampires are planning to take over the United States. Lincoln makes it his mission to eliminate them, becoming history's greatest hunter of the undead.
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I am I sinner please forgive me because I have sinned against you Lord I ask it in Jesus Name.Dear God please surrender me from all these debts I have I come to your thrown to ask for your mercy. I don't know anymore what to do Lord. I am having sleepers nights thinking of where will I get money to pay up my debts I need you Lord. I want to start all over again in Jesus Name. Please help me dear lord because I really don't know what more to do.
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Over at Air New Zealand, it's just another day in Middle Earth. The Hobbit films have become such a part of every day life there that it's all around. Last year, Air New Zealand proved that with a funny flight safety video, and this year they're pushing a "Middle Earth is closer than you think" tag line. Dean O'Gorman (Fili) appears in the video and so does the voice of Sylvester McCoy. You'll see spontaneously appearing dwarf beards and noses, Smaug in the cargo section, and more in the funny promotion.
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Im trying to figure out a solution where I either want to set up a server straight with windows so I can use it as a file/backup server - using the scsi port for a tape drive, or load Citrix XenServer on it and try to find something else to use as a backup server.
Once XenServer is on a machine, the usb and scsi ports are useless, correct? You cant bring those over in any way to a windows VM, can you?
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Aug 31, 2011 at 8:50 UTC
I dont think it sheres scsi such as tape drives but it can share USB attached storage to a VM as removable storage. Xenserver itself of course can use both.
Aug 31, 2011 at 9:19 UTC
Hmmm.. Is usb support some option in XenServer itself?
I've never seen any settings to use or activate USB support...
Aug 31, 2011 at 9:32 UTC
insert a USB drive (disk, thumb drive whatever) then in Xencentre go to the server and open removable storage. You will see the drive where you can then set it to be mounted in whatever VM is on that server.
Aug 31, 2011 at 9:46 UTC
As Mark stated,USB drives are added to Removeable storage,you can go to the VM in question -> click attach -> select the USB drive and it's mounted in the VM
Aug 31, 2011 at 1:55 UTC
SCSI is the main issue, for backups, right?
(iSCSI workaround)
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Author has written 2 stories for Avatar: Last Airbender, and Legend of Korra.
I love Avatar: The Last Airbender and the Legend of Korra. I'm an avid Avatard and will probably stay that way until I'm dead.
I also enjoy shows on Disney Channel and Nickelodeon that are aimed towards a demographic that's at least 5-10 years younger than me. I don't know, I think they're funny? STOP, I CAN FEEL YOUR JUDGING EYES.
I may not update very often but every once in a blue moon I will read or write fanfiction. Comments and feedback are always appreciated.
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Actor Mark Ruffalo reads union leader Eugene Debs' famous "Canton, Ohio" speech. Part of a reading of Voices of a People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove) at All Saints Church in Pasadena, CA on Feb 1, 2007.
"Every solitary one of these aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war is being waged to make the world safe for democracy. What humbug! What rot! What false pretense! These autocrats, these tyrants, these red-handed robbers and murderers, the "patriots," while the men who have the courage to stand face to face with them, speak the truth, and fight for their exploited victims—they are the disloyalists and traitors. If this be true, I want to take my place side by side with the traitors in this fight."


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