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There was no time. He could remember only one thing as he paced the room. He needed to get away. ‘I need to get away. I need to get away.’ He repeated it to himself in his mind over and over again. He walked over to the heavy brown door. ‘Locked..’ He thought. Of course it was locked. He never entered his apartment without locking the door behind himself. He glanced around the room and noticed that his filthy gray curtains were open slightly, revealing a sliver of golden sunlight. He grabbed them and shut them as a cloud of dust jumped into the air.

He turned and saw his briefcase on the musty bed. So long had he lived in this apartment and only once had he sat on that bed. He looked at the briefcase. J.N. were the initials on the rusted silver lock. For a moment he was confused. He could not seem to recall what the initials stood for. But Wait! Jonathan Nichols… That was it. He had taken the briefcase from Nichols some time ago now. ‘Yes, Jonathan Nichols, born in 1879, died in… When was it? Ah yes, 1933.’ He walked over to the dirty brown bag. ‘1933… that was it, wasn't it? 1933? Let's see… born in 1879, died in 1933, that would have made him fifty-and-three years old at death. No, wait, fifty-and-four, not fifty-and-three.’ He examined the briefcase closely. He could hardly remember taking it now. It had been so long ago. ‘Hmm, fifty-and-four…’ How strange, that was his age in this very year.

Suddenly he heard the sound of a chair being pulled across the floor of another apartment. His hands immediately flew to his ears. Excruciating pain filled his head as the screeching of the chair grew louder and louder. ‘Stop! Stop!’ He thought as the pain slowly grew more and more intense. It would kill him. He knew it would kill him if it went on any longer. ‘Stop! Stop! Stop!’ It stopped as quickly as it had started.

That was it.

He needed to get out of there right then. ‘I can't take any more.’ He thought to himself as he grabbed the briefcase off of the bed and walked over to the door. He faltered, ‘Have I oiled it today?’ He thought to himself, ‘Yes, of course, this morning I did.’ He opened the door as silently as whisper and stepped out into the hallway. He softly walked through the lobby and stopped at the large glass door. He opened it quickly and was hit with a crisp November wind as he stepped out onto the street.

Immediately his ears were filled with the sounds of carriages and wind and laughter and children playing and every other sound that can be heard on London's streets. He resisted the urge to cover his ears. ‘I mustn't.’ He thought,‘I won't get anywhere by covering my ears.’ He glanced around. It had been so long... He walked over to a newspaper stand and his heart jumped as he read the front page headline:

‘JONATHAN NICHOLS WANTED FOR MURDER’

He skimmed the article, picking out pieces here and there:
The well known scientist Jonathan Nichols (famous for his incredible experiments involving sound and the ear) was seen leaving the building of a murder at approximately 2:30 A.M. two days ago. The victim was a middle-aged man named Charles Mcallister. The man was found stabbed repeatedly in the chest and both of his ears had been cut off with what appears to have been a serrated knife. Nichols was last seen running from the building in a black jacket and brown pants…

He continued reading as he felt himself go lightheaded. Nichols was also seen carrying a brown, leather briefcase!

‘It's impossible!’ He thought to himself as he looked at his briefcase. ‘It's impossible!’ He turned and walked quickly down the sidewalk.

He knew of Nichols' works. Nichols was a deaf scientist who was always trying to find a way to give himself the ability to hear. He knew that Nichols would stop at nothing to gain the power to hear. But murder? No, he would never commit murder. Especially not Charles, the two men were practically partners. Practically brothers, even. ‘It doesn't matter anyway.’ He thought,‘Nichols is dead and he's been dead for some time. I don't know how anyone could believe that story. Nichols died in one of his experiments. I know he did. He was going to help me. He was going to help me! We had a deal, but he got selfish and started devoting all of his research to his own problems. I could never find him after he left. Never.’ He was so caught up in his thoughts that he didn't even realize where he was going.

It was then that he noticed a man slowly approaching him.

His fist and only instinct was to turn in the opposite direction. As he turned to walk away, he bumped into a man in a long brown jacket, dropping his briefcase. He felt a rush of fear as he watched the bag slam to the ground and break open, spilling it's contents across the sidewalk. He stared in horror at the bag and the two items that had spilled out of it. Two ears. Both of them sloppily cut at the bases with dried blood covering them. He looked down at the two horrible, bloody things lying on the sidewalk. They were like two small creatures, barely alive, begging for life from anyone or anything. Searching for something to help them, to give them a chance, or even to end their suffering.

But no response came.

He resisted the urge to scream and turned and fled from the sight. He was so confused. Nothing was making sense. How had the two ears ended up in his briefcase? Why was Jonathan Nichols in the newspaper, when he had been dead for years? And, most of all, why was he so terrified of the two ears? It wasn't a normal fear. It wasn't even disgust. It seemed as if he couldn't bear to think of them without feeling like he was going to faint. They brought up an immense feeling from deep inside of him, like nothing he had ever known. It was fear, but yet, it was attachment. It was horror, and yet, it was sympathy.
He could not seem to figure out why he felt this way. He had no idea that they were in the briefcase. But wait! Something had just occurred to him, ‘What did I put in the briefcase?’ He couldn't remember, ‘`Twas something of great importance. I know it was.’ But what was it? Why couldn't he remember?

He pulled his large dark overcoat closer to himself and put up the collar as a sharp gust of wind rushed around him. He walked around a corner and found himself at his apartment building. As he walked into the lobby he thought to himself,‘Where else will I go?’ He once again walked up those creaky wooden stairs and through his thick door. He thought that he would never return to this room.‘This old, noisy room.’ He thought to himself as he sat down on his chair by the window.

A dog's bark could be heard outside. He sighed, it was so quiet, being so far away. It was perfect. Just the way he liked it, quiet. He listened closely to the sounds around him. He could hear footsteps outside the building. He could hear talking and laughing.

Suddenly he felt an urgency. ‘I need to get that briefcase.’ He thought to himself. ‘I need to get it.’ It was as if he had completely forgotten the fact that he had left it there on the sidewalk. He didn't know why, but for some reason, he needed that briefcase. He got up off of his wing chair and started to pace back and forth. ‘How will I get it?’ He thought to himself ‘If the police see me I will surely be arrested. They will want to question me. I couldn't bear to be questioned by them. They will never understand my condition, either. Never.’ So many ideas and situations crossed his mind at this point. He decided at this point that the only way he was going to get his briefcase back was to simply walk out into the street, hope that the police hasn't arrived yet, and grab it off the ground. He turned and opened the door. He stepped out into the hallway for the second time in one day, and walked down into the lobby. He walked quickly with his head down as he approached the glass door. He looked up as he opened the door and saw something that made his whole body freeze. He was staring at his reflection. But there was something very peculiar about it. For it was not his own face.

It was the face of Jonathan Nichols.

He stumbled backwards as he stared at the man in the reflection. ‘How can this be?’ He thought. But something about the reflection was strange. It was Jonathan Nichols, but he didn't know who it should have been. He stared in horror at the reflection, trying his hardest to tell himself that he wasn't seeing the face of a dead man. But deep down, he knew he was. He ran forward and threw the door open. ‘Born in 1879, died in 1933. Born in 1879, died in 1933.’He repeated the dates in his mind as he ran and retraced his earlier steps. He once again ran around the corner to the spot where he dropped his bag. It was there. Without an officer in sight.He quickly ran up and grabbed the briefcase without slowing down.

“Hey!” a voice from behind him yelled. “Hey you!”
He began to run. He could hear running footsteps behind him. He took a left and saw a large abandoned warehouse. ‘There!’ He thought, ‘That's where I'll go.’ But suddenly he felt a strong hand on his shoulder and he was pushed back against the wall. The man who was chasing him came around the corner stood in view. He was a tall man with sandy hair and dark eyes. He was wearing a brown coat over a dark blue shirt. “Do you know who I am?” The man asked, getting very close. His breath was some sort of ghastly mixture of smoke and alcohol. “Do you?”

Agonizing pain was filling his head as this man talked to him. When no response came, the man leaned closer and continued,“My name is Robert. Robert Mcallister. Do you know me now? No? You killed my brother Charles. Remember? You killed him, and now I'm going to kill you.”

There was only one thing that he could do. He clenched his hand into a fist and punched Robert in his midsection as hard as he could. The man stumbled back and fell to the ground, grabbing his stomach. He took this opportunity and ran into the warehouse.

The truth was clear to him now. He knew why he felt that way about the ears. It was guilt. Guilt was killing him. And he knew why everything was so loud. It was because he had been deaf. The experiment had given him the ability to hear, but the change was to much for him. He couldn't think straight. Charles wouldn't stop talking. He would stop asking questions. That's why he had done it. He needed silence.

It was only a matter of seconds before the other man was up and running toward him. Both men ran into the the warehouse as a crowd slowly gathered outside.

Not one of the people in the crowd knew what was going on, but when several gunshots were heard from inside the building, they alerted the police immediately.

No one knows exactly what went on inside the warehouse that day. But what they do know, is that a new gravestone was added to a London cemetery. On it, you will find the inscription to say:

Here lies Jonathan Nichols
1879 - 1933

title: [MF] (Suspense/Thriller) The Briefcase

question: Summarize the look of the apartment.

answer: The narrator's home has a heavy brown door and filthy gray curtains that are open slightly. The curtains are dirty and there's also a musty bed with a briefcase.

question: Summarize the feelings of the narrator when he picked up the briefcase.

answer: The narrator suddenly heard the sound of a chair being pulled in another apartment on the floor. As the sound grew louder, he started feeling excruciating pain in his head and the pain then stopped. He instantly wanted to get out of the place and left.

question: Summarize what goes through the narrator's mind when he reads the newspaper.

answer: When the narrator reads about Jonathan Nichols being wanted for murder, he goes lightheaded. He's shocked that Jonathan, who's a scientist, murdered one of his best partners, Charles. However, he thinks it all doesn't matter as Jonathan died long ago (even though the newspaper said that the murder happened just 2 days back). He then thinks of how Jonathan would have helped him but got too busy with himself.

question: Summarize why the narrator felt bad about his ears.

answer: The narrator realized that he felt that way about his ears due to his guilt. He had been deaf until now and his ear experiment had given him the ability to hear now and that made everything too loud for him. It's implied that he is Jonathan and he has Charles's ears and that they don't stop talking to him, which hurts his head.

question: Summarize how Jonathan killed Charles.

question: Summarize why Jonathan doesn't know who he really is.

answer: Jonathan sees the suitcase and doesn't know that it's his. He thinks that Jonathan died a long time back. However, when he sees himself in the mirror, he sees Jonathan staring back at him. The reason here is that his inner voice has been replaced with Charles's as he's put on his ear.


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OPERATION MOVE-IN was a housing and squatter rights movement of the 1970s.[1] The movement consisted of various anti-poverty and community organizations in New York City,[2] including Metropolitan Council on Housing.[3] It was an early example of New York City squatter activism, which strengthened in the 1980s, and helped publicize tenant rights.[4]

The movement primarily consisted of African-American and Latino activists[5], who were opposed to the eviction of working-class and poor tenants from their homes. These removals were rooted in efforts to gentrify neighborhoods, in a collaborative effort between city agencies, real estate developers, and banks.[6] In response, the movement organized a coordinated take-over of nine vacant buildings in the summer of 1970. The buildings were slated for demolition, and they were located in Ninth Avenue (Columbus Avenue) and West 80th Street in Manhattan. This was followed by the coordinated take-over of buildings in Morningside Heights, which had been reserved for private development. The activists claimed that they had the right to squat in the properties, and that they could better identify how to use the spaces than government or business entities.[7] They also demanded that new, high-rise buildings designate more units to low-income residents.[8]

The squatter rights movement helped launch El Comité, a Puerto Rican left-wing organization.[9]

Some spaces claimed by Operation Move-In activists were transformed into low-income cooperatives in the 1980s, enacted through the Tenant Interim Lease Program.[10]

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title: Operation Move-In

question: Explain tenant rights in this article.

answer: Tenant rights refer to a tenant's right to remain in a residence and not be evicted unfairly.

question: What does the term squatter refer to?

answer: The text doesn't explicitly say but it is implied that the term refers to someone who temporarily lives in a structure or area without clear legal grounds to be there.

question: What city is most frequently mentioned in this article?

answer: New York City.

question: In the text, how many buildings were taken over by operation move-in in the summer of 1970?

answer: 9.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: This text briefly introduces the movement know as Operation Move-In, which was a housing and squatter rights movement that began in the 1970s in NYC. The movement advocated for the rights of low-income tenants and residents to remain in their homes/residences and fought against the efforts of gentrification in particular neighborhoods.


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This story is too long to post in its entirety, I appreciate anybody taking the time to read it. I will post part two if there is enough interest. All feedback is welcome.

*This short story is a dream I had the night of January 1, 2013. In the dream the ending came first, I used my creative imagination to fill gaps in the story. The morning of January 2, I woke with this dream flooding my mind, a powerful urge to turn it into a story came through me and I immediately opened my laptop and began to write. In the dream the protagonist was myself, but for the sake of storytelling I have made some creative changes, mostly to do with names.
The dream was profound, I used my intuition as best I could to convey what the dream was trying to tell me. The logic is sometimes strange and surreal, but that is the nature of dreams. I hope you enjoy my short story.*

**Aisle 13: Crackers and Cookies**

My name is John, I am a Commercial Manager at Superstore. It's not the most stimulating job in the world, but I like it. As a Commercial Manager my responsibility is to visit the various store departments and make sure they are operating at their full potential. The store I manage is filled with girls, almost every one of the 35 Sales Associates are girls. The only other men working are Phil, a Sales Associate and Matt the Security Manager.
The girls in the store actively flirt with me, some people think it's because, of the three men working there I'm the best catch, but it's more than that. People like me; I'm funny, charismatic, good looking and a great boss. Sometimes my father visits me at work, he's proud of what I do. He enjoys offering me advice and sharing stories from his fruitful life.

On a regular day some time ago, I decided to pay a visit to the back of the store. The produce section is located neatly behind aisle 13: crackers and cookies.
Sitting in produce was a pallet full of boxes of crackers waiting to be brought to aisle 13. Nobody felt like moving the boxes, so we left them in the produce section. No big deal, as a manager I was relaxed and open.

While I stood in produce, a customer who I frequently helped, a Tribal African man named Sim asked me to help him select some cheese. Dairy is located next to produce. I helped him find the cheese he was looking for and as I turned to leave he pocketed some cheese products. Sim frequently stole from the store, but I told the employees to turn a blind eye to this. His family was poor, the least I could do was allow him to take some groceries home from time to time.

I went back to produce and looked at the pallet filled with the boxes of crackers. On a box of Westley's Crunchy Crackers was a cartoon cow with a comic bubble above his head, it read, *Excuse me, what's this all about anyway?* This question sank deep into my belly, invading my very soul.

There is a deep silence within that few people ever experience, but that day the silence entered my entire body. There was nothing, nothing but unbearable, tangible, real, satisfying, screaming out loud silence. The question hit me like a ton of bricks, a question so deep and so profound it would take an eternity to answer. A question found right there on a box of crackers in front of me: *Excuse me, what's this all about anyway?*
That fucking cow had shaken the very foundation of my life. What was it all about anyway? What was I doing working at Superstore, what was I doing with my life?

There was a cartoon mouse to the right of the cow, his response was, *It's about the taste kids love and the vitamins they need.* Not the best slogan, I thought and certainly not the answer to this deep and unsettling question. I asked the nearest Sales Associate, Wendy, a girl who'd had a crush on me since I started working at that branch. I offered her my words, "Excuse me, what's this all about anyway?" Perplexed and taking my stunned, exposed and vulnerable disposition as an open letter to flirt with me, she answered with a little grin, a grin I had seen on her face a million times before, "It's about the taste kids love and the vitamins they need." She wasn't the one to ask, a cute face and a tight body isn't a place to find spiritual enlightenment.

All day long I pondered the question. There were hundreds of possible answers, thousands right there in the Superstore. In my weasely job of robbing sales from the weak-minded I had answered the question a million different ways for a million different people. "It's about buying brand-name Jello for your kids at school. It's about great prices on the latest fashions. It's about the newest electronics." All day long I contemplated the question and as I did the question deepened.

It was closing time so I went to the security booth to clock out. I was well acquainted with the Security Manager, he was a good friend of mine. He was 20 years old and good looking, his name was Matt. Matt both hated and loved Superstore. He loved me, and he loved the girls. A few of them would give him their unsolicited attention, but they didn't love him like they loved me. But there was something he hated, something I only began to understand when I read that damn box. It began to itch in the back of my mind like a razor blade. He hated the trap of everyday mundane life. Matt would often share his philosophy with me, "You work so you can buy a house so you can buy more things to put inside your house so you can continue working. If you fall and love and have a couple of kids along the way you're lucky."

I worked my way through the series of regular conversation obstacles: *How's it going? What are you doing tonight? Have you asked Cindy out yet?* He had a crush on Sales Associate named Cindy, the only girl in the store who didn't find me irresistible. I finally popped the question, those seven little words that had haunted me for the past eight hours. I opened my mouth, "Excuse me, what's it all about anyway?" Matt quickly answered, not this. Not this, I thought, but what else? We're doing a public service and in exchange we receive great benefits: a pension, a dental plan, fuck we're even unionized. I had been saving money to buy a house for the past seven years doing this.

I went home and all night long I asked myself the question, "Excuse me, what's this all about anyway?" I fell into a deep sleep full of dreams that spoke to me. The next morning I awoke with a sense of certainty. An idea dove deep inside me and like a bug trying to climb out of the bathroom sink, it had to come out.
I sped through my morning routine, showering, brushing my teeth and only eating a fruit bar I had found on the second shelf in aisle 12 for breakfast.

I walked into Superstore and there he was, the man I was looking for, Matt. I pulled Matt aside.
Matt kept an archive of video footage from the security cameras in the building. He would hold the footage for three months, then delete it to save space on hard drives.
I told him my plan, the idea that had come on the wind last night somehow when I was asleep. I'd made up my mind, Matt and I were going to rob a bank. Matt's eyes lit up like fireworks, he was in. All the planning had come to me in the dream, I knew exactly what to do.

Coming down from the ceiling of Superstore are giant metal beams, some hollowed out. In order for our plan to work I would need to make an opening in one of these beams, but if anybody checked the beam they would see that the screws had been removed. Luckily, the store executives had been discussing renovations. I pushed for the renovations to happen sooner than later. All the metal beams were stripped and polished and the screws were replaced. Matt cut a hole in one of the hollowed out beams, the beam above aisle 13. The hole was invisible to the naked eye, we would be able to open and close it without any evidence that it even existed. Our alibi would be: we were working at Superstore the night of the bank robbery.

The night came and we dressed in black, black pants, black hoodies and black, spray painted masks. Our plan was fool-proof. We decided to walk from downtown so it would be impossible to conclude that we came from the area. It was a long walk. As we trekked through the ghetto I thought Sim, the African I serve at Superstore must live in a neighborhood like this. We took shortcuts through people's yards and eventually arrived at the bank down the street from Superstore. We went in and the rest is a blur, I have no idea how we robbed the bank or what took place inside. All I know is when we left we had a hard drive the size of my thumb that contained what would be, with the help of Matt's computer expertise, a lot of money.

Following our plan Matt and I walked away from the bank, he went right, I went left. I ducked into a nearby alley and stripped off my clothes, I had worn something casual underneath my bank robbing outfit. I buried the black clothes and mask into a nearby garbage bin and climbed over a fence that took me to the Superstore parking lot. A police car came screeching down the street into the parking lot. I opened the door to my car that was parked outside and got in.

The police came to my car window and asked who I was and what I was doing. I told them casually that I was just getting off from my shift at Superstore. They asked me to step inside the building so they could have a word with me. When we got inside Matt was already at the Security booth in his employee uniform. They asked him if he knew who I was and he answered yes. They asked him if I had been working that night, again he answered yes.

Matt had tampered with the security footage from the past few months, he had spliced together footage of me from the security cameras to create a tape making it look like I had worked that night. When Matt showed me the tape the first time, there was footage of Christmas trees in the store. The Christmas trees were no longer there, it would be obvious the tape was fake. Being the manager I knew where every product in the store was so we gathered footage from when everything looked the same as it did the night of the robbery, it was perfect. Footage of Matt wasn't necessary, the security booth wasn't visible on any cameras.

Matt had already placed the thumb drive we stole from the bank in the hole in the hollowed out ceiling beam. The police finished their questioning and let us go home.

They decided that the robbers were two African men because the masks we wore and the description they received from bank employee. Matt and I decided to lie low and not spend the money for a couple of months.

title: Aisle 13

question: How did the narrator and Matt rob the bank?

question: What are the various answers to the question "What's this all about anyway?"

answer: According to the cartoon mouse, it's about the taste kids love and the vitamins they need. Wendy, attempting to flirt with the narrator, gives the same answer. The narrator comes up with a handful of possible answers: buying brand-name Jello, great prices on the latest fashions, the newest electronics. Matt simply replies "Not this."


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[Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood are causing England ample Ashes problems]

Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood are causing England ample Ashes problems

Australia's pace-packed seam attack is causing England severe problems in the Ashes, writes Gideon Haigh, even if Steve Smith is still learning how to captain his fast-bowling trio...

Can anyone or anything, strictly speaking, ever 'live up to the hype'? It is, after all, hype - and hyperbole, by definition, consists of 'exaggerated claims not meant to be taken literally'. Becoming literal, these cease to be hype. QED.

Pardon the pedantry: its relevance lies in reviewing the success in the first two Tests of Australia's three-prong pace attack - Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Patrick Cummins.

Before the series, they were heavily hyped. Ryan Harris even thought them superior to the trio he formed four years earlier with Mitchell Johnson and Peter Siddle.

Glenn McGrath anointed Starc 'the best bowler in the world'; his captain called him an 'absolute genius'; a video of him bouncing Usman Khawaja in the nets circulated like the work of a Russian electoral hacker. Cryptocurrencies have changed hands at fairer value.

[Starc claimed 5-88 as England were bundled out for 233 in their second innings in Adelaide]

Starc claimed 5-88 as England were bundled out for 233 in their second innings in Adelaide

In fact, Starc, Hazlewood and Cummins have not had it all their own way since, being held at bay on the first day of the series, being checked under lights, at times searching a little hard for swing, at other times maybe straining for pace.

But now, let it be said, they're starting to click, in wickets and knots. The statistics tell a tale: Starc has 14 wickets at 18.7, Cummins and Hazlewood seven wickets each at 27.7 and 29.7 respectively.

The last day at Adelaide Oval dawned brightly for England, whose strength had hitherto been said to lie in their lower-middle echelons. In fact, the visitors lost seven for 64 in 147 deliveries - a testament to both lethality and parsimony.

For England, the conditions in Adelaide were meant to represent their greatest opportunity of the summer - pink ball, artificial illumination, benign weather. But what's sauce for the goose, eh?

When Starc bowled the first over of England's reply, he wound the dial up on speed so effortlessly that it was almost like watching the main event after a curtain raiser.

[Jonny Bairstow was last man out, chopping Starc onto his stumps]

Jonny Bairstow was last man out, chopping Starc onto his stumps

The first ball of his first over was the fastest of the match, at 146kmh; then so was the last ball of his first over, breaking through 150kmh, and stirring a sonic boom of appreciation from the crowd, some of whom might have cast their mind back to four years earlier, when another Mitch was sustaining similar velocities.

How to deploy such resources? Skipper Smith is still learning. In Adelaide it coloured his captaincy. Scorning to enforce the follow-on was all about easing his precious pace bowlers' workloads and sparing them until after darkness's fall, even if his batsmen did not receive the memo, and lasted only 58 overs.

Smith also remains surprisingly slow to post short catchers to leg, behind and in front of square. The trio did the job on the fifth day anyway, Hazlewood breaking the game open, Starc closing the game out, and Cummins excellent throughout.

In fact, for all that he has taken half as many series wickets as Starc and has played a fifth as many Tests as Hazlewood, it has been Cummins who has really impressed this summer, with spells of unremitting economy, allowing fewer than 2.5 an over in his auxiliary role, and unflagging speed, routinely clocking in the high 140s.

When he hit tailender Craig Overton on the last day, it seemed for a moment like the ball would have to be pulled out from between the young Englishman's ribs.

[Cummins rattled England debutant Craig Overton on the rib cage]

Cummins rattled England debutant Craig Overton on the rib cage

Above all, Cummins has demonstrated a striking maturity for a player who has played only 10 first-class matches other than his seven Tests. He understands game moments. As Australia zeroed in on victory on Wednesday, for example, he concluded an over to Jonny Bairstow with a bouncer so that Starc could have his chance at Stuart Broad, gratefully accepted.

He contributes above and beyond: his partnerships of 66 with Smith in Brisbane and of 99 with Marsh in Adelaide have been integral to Australia's building first-innings scores beyond their rivals. Having been a showcase for Australia's strength and conditioning capacities over the preceding five years, Cummins has this year proven a fine advertisement for its high-performance group, its coaches and selectors.

What is really making the configuration work, however, is Nathan Lyon, whose 109 overs have cost only 2.29 runs each, yielded 11 wickets at 22.7, but just as importantly afforded opportunities for the pace trio to regain their wind and to return refreshed. On a slow wicket in Brisbane, Lyon was a patient foil for his faster team-mates; in Adelaide, he showed hometown nous.

Lyon's English counterpart Moeen Ali, by contrast, has been able to get through 63 overs for two wickets, leaving Joe Root with no choice but to turn back to James Anderson again and again.

[Nathan Lyon has taken a leading 57 Test wickets in 2017]

Nathan Lyon has taken a leading 57 Test wickets in 2017

England will now surely be worried about Anderson's thirty-five-year-old physique, particularly if he wants to continue bowling round the wicket - which is how he strained his side and missed the last two and a half Ashes Tests of 2015. Were history to repeat itself in Perth, the Melbourne and Sydney Tests would be services in communal English rain prayer.

Attacks cannot operate at one pace alone. Even in the summer of 1974-75, synonymous with the speed of Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson, more Australian overs were delivered by medium-pacer Max Walker and the slow bowlers Ashley Mallett and Terry Jenner, while part-timers Doug Walters and Ian Chappell provided in excess of 100 deliveries per Test.

It is one thing to have a hot attack; quite another to make it work. Assuming it's possible to live up to hype, it can surely never happen without help.

GIDEON HAIGH WILL BE WRITING FOR SKY SPORTS THROUGHOUT THE ASHES SERIES.

question: What is this article about?

answer: This article analyzes the game of cricket in Australia's pace-packed seam attack against England. The pace-packed seam attack by Australia has been a primary concern for England in the Ashes, says writer Gideon Haigh. To understand its significance, one must look at the performance of Australia's three-pronged pace attack in the first two Tests—Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, and Patrick Cummins.

question: What does the text say about how to train for cricket?


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	For the third time that week, Will woke up to screaming kids. Swearing, he looked over for his wife of fifteen years but noticed she was missing, in fact he had not seen her since last night. He put the thought behind him as he swung his legs over the bed and scratched his morning stubble. He got up after a few minutes and half stumbled half walked over to the bathroom. As he grabbed for his razor, he heard a sharp snapping sound and swore once more, then lumbered down stairs.

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         He hit the bottom step just as the door opened and his wife, who he was not entirely pleased to see entered, "Look who decided to show up." He mumbled, and staring at his feet he shuffled towards the broken lamp and his two youngest children. She retorted back but he pretended not to hear it, he started back up the stairs with his kids.

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         "YOU KNOW GOOD AND WELL YOU HEARD ME AND YO---", she stopped as a chair broke against the wall, sending splinters in every direction. Will just glared at her and thought about what a wreck she had become, in her hayday she was quite the looker but fifteen years of marriage had taken its toll. Will was always mild tempered, he cursed but ofcourse everyone around here did, and he was never violent, but the last year of her walking in at daybreak and dealing with a four and six year old had changed him, he was still level headed though, so he walked up the stairs, grabbed some clothes, his wallet, his phone, and his keys, then left to a dumbstruck wife, and two crying children.

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          Will reached for his phone to dail up his old friend Terrance, he was a charter captian and Will could think of no better escape then some open sea. He decided to call in sick to work first, to groans from his boss. After 3 rings Terrance picked up and agreed to take him out, he drove out the five miles it took to get to the old wooden dock. He walked along the side, avoiding the numerous cracks, and got to Terrance's boat. They silently greeted and started prepping, and soon enough they were off.

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         After an hour of relaxing silence Will heard a shout that made him go from sleeping to wide awake in no time, he ran to the captains quaters and saw Terrance slumped over in his seat, he checked his pulse and felt nothing. Will killed the engine and just sat there, staring as the sun lightened the sea, while his friend was slumped confortably in death beside him. Eventually Will slumped against the wall, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and fell asleep.

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         Will jolted awake, feeling he just awoke from the worst nightmare ever, he reached over and put his hand on his wife, except she was cold, so cold. Will jumped up and stared at Terrance with horrorfying realization. He walked back up to the deck and looked at the night sky, it hit him that his kids and wife would be worrying about him. He snorted. Might be worrying about him was more like it. Still, he did miss them, which was surprising. He sat on the side of the boat and started dozing off.

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         He was sitting on a chair in his living room with his family, but his wife was younger, he looked around doubtfully for his two kids, and only found them when he looked under the table. They were joyfully pushing his chair back, laughing and smiling. Will started laughing too, it was contagious and soon his wife joined it. "I love you guys." As his chair tipped too far and he fell backwards through his floor and into the dark.

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title: Story I wrote for Creative Writing class, CC appreciated.

question: Summarize everything relating to violence.

answer: Will smashes a chair against the wall. He was never violent with her originally, but he has changed over the past year.

question: Summarize the type of relationship Will has with his wife.

answer: He and his wife have been married for fifteen years. He is not pleased to see his wife when she returns home. He gets angry when she shouts at him and he smashes a chair against the wall.

question: What does the story say about what it takes to be a good captain?

question: What does the story say about the relationship Will has with his kids?

answer: Will and his wife fight in front of their kids. When he gets angry at her, he storms out of the house, leaving his wife and his crying children behind. In the final scene, which is likely a dream, he says that he loves his kids.


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NAME: _Xiphactinus_ (Sword Ray).
PHONETIC: Zif-ack-tih-nus.
NAMED BY: Joseph Leidy - 1870.
CLASSIFICATION: Chordata, Actinopterygii, Osteoglossomorpha, Ichthyodectiformes, Ichthyodectidae, Ichthyodectinae.
SPECIES: _X. audax, X. vetus_.
TYPE: Carnivore/Piscivore.
SIZE: 4 to 6 meters long.
KNOWN LOCATIONS: USA, Alabama, Georgia, Kansas. Europe. Australia. Canada.
TIME PERIOD: Coniacian through to the Maastrichtian of the Cretaceous.
FOSSIL REPRESENTATION: Many specimens from across the globe.

       The broad range of fossils discovered around the world suggests that the bony fish _Xiphactinus_ had a cosmopolitan distribution. A comparable similar fish with regards to appearance is the modern day Tarpon. Although Tarpon are not related to the ancient _Xiphactinus_, their streamlined bodies and strongly upturned mouths bear a striking resemblence.
       One important difference between the two fish are the enlarged teeth present in _Xiphactinus_ fossils. If _Xiphactinus_ failed to swallow its prey in one go, the teeth would have dug in preventing its prey from escaping, allowing _Xiphactinus_ to steadily slide its prey into its mouth, one bite at a time.
       The discovery of a two meter _Gillicus_ _arcuatus_ inside the fossil of a _Xiphactinus_ twice its size is proof that it was a formidable predator, although it is thought that the _Xiphactinus_ may have died from internal injury due to the _Gillicus_ struggling inside of it, explaining why the _Gillicus_ was not digested. _Xiphactinus_ was however also preyed upon by other larger predators as evidenced in a fossil of the shark _Cretoxyrhina_ at least one specimen of which has been found with a large _Xiphactinus_ inside of it. Another shark active in the Western Inland Seaway, _Squalicorax_, also exhibits _Xiphactinus_ remains inside of its own.

FURTHER READING
- Notices of remains of extinct vertebrated animals of New Jersey, collected by Prof. Cook of the State Geological Survey under the direction of Dr. W. Kitchell. - Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 8:220-221. - J. Leidy - 1856.
- [Remarks on ichthyorudiolites and on certain fossil Mammalia]. - Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 22(1):12-13 - J. Leidy - 1870
- _Xiphactinus vetus_ and the Distribution of _Xiphactinus_ Species in the Eastern United States. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 17 (3): 610–15. - D. R. Schwimmer, J. D. Stewart & G. Dent Williams - 1997.

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question: What is the difference between Xiphactinus and Tarpon?

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An embodiment of the invention provides a computerized system for providing an IP framework, including a storage component, a user interface, and a reporting module. The storage component includes a collection of database tables having a capability field and keyword field. The database tables include data from a strategic planning computer module, an invent computer module, an IP creation computer module, an IP administration computer module, a defend computer module, an influence computer module, and a capitalize computer module. The user interface receives as input, an invention disclosure and/or a configuration file for an IP capability. The reporting module processes the input in the storage component and produces the IP framework.

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Liz, myself and the newly planted vertical garden.

A few years ago now, on a trip to Paris, quite by chance I came a cross a vertical garden or living wall created and installed by the French gardener and designer ‘Patrick Blanc‘. The plants are rooted into a thick hydroponics membrane through which a nutrient enriched solution trickles, pumped up from a reservoir at the base of the wall which keeps the plants fed and watered.

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The vertical garden on the wall of the Musée des Arts Premiers Quai Branly in Paris.

I had often spoke with a friend of mine ‘Will Giles’ about how we could create a DIY version, looking at all the possible ways of supporting it, what to use as the membrane, how to hold it up, what to use as the reservoir and how to feed the plants among many other things. After a while we came up with a much simpler solution, as the best ideas always are. Do away with the expensive and intricate hydroponics and build a structure that is essentially a series of hammocks, a bit like a multi story window box. It may take a little bit of daily care to keep the plants watered and looking good but is much easier and cheaper to build.

It was while I was working at Urban Jungle hardy and exotic plants nursery that I had the opportunity to put the idea to the test. I had a rough idea of how the structure might work but no set figures to work from. I could see ‘Liz’ my boss and one of the owners of Urban Jungle looked a little apprehensive as I was attaching 12ft high pieces of timber to the edge of one of the pergolas in the middle of the nursery. Once the wall had taken shape and looked as if the monstrosity was going to work, apprehension quickly turned to plants. Once the wall was up and the pockets filled with compost we set about rounding up plants from the nursery and setting the out on the floor in front of the wall for planting, and then planted well into the night. The wall turned out to look not too bad and after a week or so, when the leaves had turned themselves up to the light, it looked pretty damn good. Many visitors to the nursery asked how it was built so here, at last, are the designs for the vertical garden. Sorry about the wait.

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Planting the wall by headlight.

The wall is now coming up to its second season and has endured one of the coldest winters for years, where I’m shore the entire thing would have been frozen solid for several days if not weeks at a time. I’m no longer at Urban Jungle but have heard from Liz that some of the plants are now on the move and in a short time she will be able to see what had pulled through and what needs tweaking. Some plants were not hardy so there will inevitably be some gaps to plug. Liz is going to put up a post on Jungle Drums, the Urban Jungle blog,  in the coming weeks on the progress of the wall, what has worked, what hasn’t and the new plants that will fill the gaps. As soon as it’s up I’ll post a link.

HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN LIVING WALL OR VERTICAL GARDEN

1) CHOOSE A LOCATION- Once the wall is planted and watered it will be very heavy so a suitable structure is needed to support the wall. If the base of the wall is resting on the ground and this is not a solid surface, place slabs under each of the uprights to spread the weight and prevent it from sinking into the ground. If the wall is not resting on the ground make shore the brackets used to hold the living wall to the supporting structure are strong to take the weight of the wall when saturated. If the supporting is a house or shed wall the structure should be mounted away from the supporting wall to leave a cavity and avoid causing damp problems.

2) ORIENTATION- The place we chose for the wall at Urban Jungle by chance faces east. This in my opinion is the best direction for it to face as it gets direct light up until noon in the coolest half of the day. If the wall was south or west facing more particular attention would have to be paid to watering and plants would have to be selected to tolerate direct light. Regarding watering, it is important to be diligent as anyone who has let a hanging basket dry out knows it takes a while to re-wet, and you cant dunk the wall in a bucket. North facing walls would require less attention but the constant shade will limit the choice of plants.

3) CONSTRUCTION- The wall at Urban Jungle was 12ft high, 7ft wide and build against a large pergola for support. I used three uprights made from 12ft lengths of 2x4 tantalised timber. The two uprights on the edge of the wall were attached to the uprights of the pergola with brackets and the middle upright stabilised by a post in the ground and two cross members. Each of the uprights was rested on a paving slabs to help spread the weight. The horizontal spars that support the planting hammocks were made from tile baton. Each spar was screwed in place with a little wood glue for extra support. The spars were placed 10cm apart. This made the pockets closemouthed together so that when planted not too much gaps are left but there is enough room to squeeze the root balls in.

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4) POCKETS- Because the wall had three uprights there had to be two series of pockets as they cant cross the uprights. The pockets were made from heavy duty landscape fabric which needs to be about two and a half times longer than the height of the wall and about 20cm wider than the width between the uprights. Start by folding about 10cm in each side so the fold is facing the front and attach to the back of the top spar with staples or by screwing a second spar over it. Push the fabric in between the top and second down spar so it forms a pocket about 15-20cm deep. Place a few staples in the second down spar so the fabric doesn’t slip. This will not need to be as secure as on the top spar as the weight of the compost will hold each pocket in place. Repeat the process down to the bottom of the wall and securely attach the end of the fabric to the bottom spar.

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5) FILLING- We decided not to add any ingredients to the compost like pumice or perlite to reduce the weight as we were happy that the structure would support the weight. We mixed plenty of slow release fertiliser granules into the mix as there will be a large amount of plants in a relatively small volume of compost. We also added a quantity of swell gel to aid water retention. Fill the wall from the bottom pocket up so that each filled pocket rests on the one previous. Fold up the excess landscape fabric that was folded in on either side to prevent the compost from spilling out the end of the pockets. Each pocket should only be filled three quarters as the root balls from the plants will take up a proportion of the space and the soil level in the pocket  must be just below the spar so water can soak in and not poor off the wall.

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The newly planted wall before the leaves have turned up to the light.

6) PLANTING- We set the plants out on the floor in front of the wall to create a design before we started to plant. Spacing will depend on the plants you use and the size of the plant used. Start planting from the top down. If you plant from the bottom up the lower plants will be covered with compost. Lay a sheet down bellow the wall as a lot of compost will be spilt. Make shore the plants are well watered before planting as many of the root balls will have to be teased apart and squeezed into pockets. Despite our planning we changed the design considerably while planting as it looked so different when vertical. Liz more so than other gardeners is a very impatient gardener so we planted a little closer than was probably necessary and plugged the gaps with Tradescantia cuttings, Spider plants and Begonia sutherlandii. These quickly grew and filled the gaps. We debated weather to use only evergreens but decided this would be too limiting on the design possibilities and would make the wall predominantly green. The down side to using deciduous or herbaceous plants was that the wall will look a little sparse over winter. We put a few dwarf Daffodils in the wall to see how they would fair. These wouldn’t hide the landscape fabric, but would add a splash of colour before the new shoots emerge.

7) WATERING- The wall will have to be completely manually watered. Rain will have little if any benefit to the wall other than slowing the rate at which the wall dries out, plus the leaves will arrange themselves like roof tiles shedding all the rain water. We didn’t get around to installing a trickle irrigation system and hand water the wall daily, sometimes twice if it is really hot and or windy. From autumn to early spring watering will be much less but still important. To install a trickle system there would need to be one trickle pipe along each pocket with dripper every 30cm or so. The dripper pipe would need to be the sort that delivers a specific flow of water rather than a simple leaky pipe as the bottom of the wall would receive more water than the top. The watering regime would have to be little and often to prevent the nutrients from being leached from the compost.

8) FEEDING- The slow release fertiliser we put in the wall was more than enough to see the plants through the first season with no signs of stress. The second and subsequent years are where attention is needed. Each perennial plant should have a hanging basket pellet pushed into the compost near the root ball. Any annual or replanted patches should have the old compost removed and replaced with fresh compost and slow release fertiliser. The old compost will be matted with the roots of perennial plants which should be carefully cut without cutting the landscape fabric. If a trickle system is installed a liquid drip feeder could be attached or if hand watered use an occasional folia feed.

question: How did the author discover vertical gardens?

answer: The author discovered vertical gardens on a trip to Paris, when they saw an installation by the French gardener and designer Patrick Blanc.

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The TROPHY RATING is an evaluation of animal's trophy, such as antlers or horns. If animal features no distinct trophy, then usually weight is used to determine its Trophy Rating. Trophy Rating is only comparable within the same species - there's no point in comparing a white-tailed jackrabbit Trophy Rating to that of a blacktail deer.

Trophy Rating generally determines the medal you get when harvesting an animal:

-   if the animal has no trophy organ (for example female deer species), then the medal is NONE
-   if the Trophy Rating is lower than 20% of the animal's maximum TR, then the medal is BRONZE
-   if the Trophy Rating is between 20% and below 60% of the animal's maximum TR, then the medal is SILVER
-   if the Trophy Rating is between 60% and below 90% of the animal's maximum TR, then the medal is GOLD
-   if the Trophy Rating is 90% of the animal's maximum TR or higher, then the medal is DIAMOND
-   GREAT ONE is the highest medal rating. This class is extremely rare and has some unusual characteristics, also reflected in a trophy rating score that is far outside the usual range.

-   1 Harvest Check
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Harvest Check[edit | edit source]

Harvest Check determines whether the animal was downed ethically and effectively. If Harvest Check is failed, the medal is lowered by 1 level (so potential Diamond becomes Gold, potential Gold becomes Silver and so on).

To pass the Harvest Check, you need to meet these 4 conditions:

-   correct ammo class must be used: every animal in the game falls into a specific Animal Class - for example White-tailed Jackrabbit is class 1, Blacktail Deer is class 4 and so on; every ammo can be used on a number of classes - for example .243 can be used on classes 2 through 6; that means you can use .243 to down a Blacktail Deer (class 4) but not a Jackrabbit (class 1)
-   animal must be downed with 1 or 2 shots: you can't expect to shoot the animal 8 times and still get the highest possible rewards, so make sure to aim for vital organs
-   animal's trophy organ must be intact - trophy organs are typically antlers, horns, or skull, so avoid shooting the animal in the head to pass this check
-   hit a vital organ - this is to ensure the shots are ethical and the animal dies as quickly as possible; aim for a heart, lung, liver, neck, or brain to pass this check; note that damaging the brain usually means damaging the skull and failing the "trophy organ must be intact" requirement. Spinal cord shots are considered unethical, even though in the game they make the animal die very quickly. Lastly, this check is passed automatically in case of small game, such as Jackrabbits or Mallards

Bonuses[edit | edit source]

For each harvest, you can get additional XP and cash rewards through 2 bonuses:

Quick Kill Bonus[edit | edit source]

The bonus is based on the time an animal takes to die after the hit. The shorter the time, the higher the bonus gets.

-   Minimum: 0% - The animal dies after a long period of time from bleeding out, usually due to poor shot placement.
-   Maximum: 100% - The animal dies on the spot or runs a few meters away from the spot of being shot

Consecutive Harvests Bonus[edit | edit source]

This bonus merely indicates that all animals that were killed were also harvested. It requires 5 consecutive harvests to get the maximum monetary reward of a kill. If one animal, that was killed, was not harvested if the game was exited, this bonus falls to 0%.

-   1st harvest - 20%
-   2nd harvest - 40%
-   3rd harvest - 60%
-   4th harvest - 80%
-   5th harvest - 100%

Difficulty[edit | edit source]

The DIFFICULTY reflects how "big" the animal is in terms of TROPHY RATING and how aware the animal is of its environment. This means that at higher Difficulty level, the animal will pose a bigger challenge to hunt and will require more skill to call and stalk. The MINIMUM DIFFICULTY for all Species is 1 - Trivial and the MAXIMUM DIFFICULTY can vary depending on the species. Every difficulty has a range of Trophy Rating values.

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Whitetail Deer *
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1-5 (Medium)
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Pronghorn
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Lesser Kudu
Warthog
Springbok
Gemsbok
Wild Boar
Reindeer
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Roosevelt Elk
Moose
Bison
Plains Bison
Caribou
Iberian Mouflon
Beceite Ibex
Ronda Ibex
Gredos Ibex
Southeastern Spanish Ibex
Axis Deer
Mule Deer
Blackbuck
Fallow Deer
Blacktail Deer
Canada Goose
Cape Buffalo
1-9 (Legendary)
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Gray Wolf
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Coyote
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Eurasian Lynx
Puma
Mountain Lion
Lion
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Trophy Type and Trophy Rating[edit | edit source]

Trophy Type is an specific characteristic of the Species (Weight, Skull Size, Antlers, Horns, Tusks) on which the Trophy Rating (TR) will be based on. The Trophy Rating is a value given to the size/weight of the trophy; thus, a larger trophy gives you a higher rating. The trophy rating provides at maximum 500 Kill Score.

Animal
Trophy Type
Minimum TR
Maximum TR
Canada Goose
Weight
3,2
9,2
Mallard
0,7
2,1
Scrub Hare
1,5
5,8
Jackrabbit
1,9
6,8
Side-Striped Jackal
13,2
30,9
Red Fox
2
15,4
Lynx
16,0
29,0
Coyote
33
59
European Hare
2
7
Harlequin Duck
??
??
Cinnamon Teal
0.3
0.5
Musk Deer
Fangs
0
276
Roe Deer
Antlers
0
277
Springbok
57
116
Fallow Deer
0
237
Blacktail Deer
0
210
Whitetail Deer *
0
213
Lesser Kudu
0
35,0
Warthog
Tusks
15
63
Wild Boar
7
159
Black Bear
Skull
12,0
24,0
Brown Bear
16,0
29,0
Grizzly Bear
??
??
Puma
30
40
Lion
35
50
Gray Wolf
??
??
Iberian Wolf
30
40
Red Deer
Antlers
0
276
Blue Wildebeest
17,0
40,0
Roosevelt Elk
0
404
Moose
0
245
Reindeer
65
904
Caribou
??
??
Mule Deer
0
550
Axis Deer
0
389
Bison
Horns
4
300
Plains Bison
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Cape Buffalo
51
162
Water Buffalo
154
358
Blackbuck
17.5
29.5
Iberian Mouflon
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Gredos Ibex
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Beceite Ibex
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Ronda Ibex
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Southeastern Spanish Ibex
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Turkey
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* Whitetail Deer exist as Great Ones with a much higher Trophy Rating

Session Score[edit | edit source]

The SESSION SCORE is the final rating of the harvest and it's a combination of the medal, animal's difficulty, harvest check and the quick kill bonus. The Session Score ranges between 0 and 1000, though only animals with highest difficulty can score 1000. Note that this "difficulty" is different from the one described above, and it ranges between 0 and 100%.

The exact score calculation and bonuses can be found in the Harvest Screen by mouse-overing the scores.

_SPECIAL THANKS TO "RIZKZ"FOR THE BREAKDOWN OF THE RATING SYSTEM_

question: What are the conditions that need to be met to achieve a perfect Trophy Rating while hunting?

answer: Every species has a range of Trophy Ratings from trivial (1) to a certain maximum (e.g. very easy (3) for a jackrabbit or legendary (9) for a black bear). The trophy rating for a specific hunt is determined by examining how aware the animal was of its environment. There are several conditions for ethical killing that need to be met to get a perfect score, which is called the harvest check. There are four conditions for it: correct ammo for the species must be used, the animal must die in one or two shots, the animal's trophy organ (antlers, etc.) must be intact, and the shot(s) must hit a vital organ (spinal cord, while resulting in a quick death, is considered unethical).

question: What does the article say about the bravery of hunting an animal with firearms?


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DEAF SMITH COUNTY is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 19,372.[1] The county seat is Hereford,[2] which is known as the “Beef Capital of the World”. The county was created in 1876 and later organized in 1890.[3]

The Hereford, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Deaf Smith County.

History

In 1876, the state legislature defined and named the county, but it was not organized until 1890, with the town of La Plata as the original county seat. The county was named for Erastus “Deaf” Smith[4] (1787–1837), a partially deaf scout and soldier who served in the Texas Revolution and was the first to reach the Alamo after its fall. The pronunciation of “Deaf”, like that of Smith himself, is ; however, most residents pronounce it .

This county was also selected as an alternate site for a possible nuclear waste disposal repository, but was later dropped. Jesse Frank Ford, founder of Arrowhead Mills, led the opposition to the Deaf Smith site on grounds of contamination of the Ogallala Aquifer, the source of much of the water supply for West Texas.

Image:Deaf Smith in museum in Hereford IMG 4856.JPG|Erastus “Deaf” Smith as he appears at the Deaf Smith County Museum Image:Deaf Smith County Museum IMG 4854.JPG|The Deaf Smith County Historical Museum in Hereford Image:Deaf Smith County Library, Hereford, TX IMG 4892.JPG|The Deaf Smith County Library formerly housed the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame on the ground floor. The museum is now located in a new building in the Historic District of Fort Worth.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (0.1%) is covered by water.[5]

Major highways

-   [] Interstate 40
-   [] U.S. Highway 60
-   [] U.S. Highway 385
-   [] State Highway 214

Adjacent counties

-   Oldham County (north)
-   Randall County (east)
-   Castro County (southeast)
-   Parmer County (south)
-   Curry County, New Mexico (southwest/Mountain Time Zone)
-   Quay County, New Mexico (west/Mountain Time Zone)

Demographics

As of the census[6] of 2000, 18,561 people, 6,180 households, and 4,832 families resided in the county. The population density was 12 people per square mile (5/km²). The 6,914 housing units averaged 5 per square mile (2/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 72.28% White, 1.51% Black or African American, 0.80% Native American, 0.25% Asian, 0.13% Pacific Islander, 22.92% from other races, and 2.11% from two or more races. About 57.40% of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 6,180 households, 41.00% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.00% were married couples living together, 12.60% had a female householder with no husband present, and 21.80% were not families. Around 19.70% of all households was made up of individuals, and 10.00% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.96 and the average family size was 3.41.

In the county, the population was distributed as 33.30% under the age of 18, 9.60% from 18 to 24, 25.50% from 25 to 44, 19.40% from 45 to 64, and 12.10% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 31 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.50 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.90 males.

The median income for a household was $29,601, and for a family was $32,391. Males had a median income of $26,090 versus $19,113 for females. The per capita income for the county was $13,119. About 19.30% of families and 20.60% of the population were below the poverty line, including 26.30% of those under age 18 and 15.70% of those age 65 or over.

Infrastructure

The headquarters of the Deaf Smith Electric Cooperative are located in Hereford. The cooperative provides electricity for Deaf Smith County, as well as Castro, Parmer and Oldham Counties.[7]

Communities

City

-   Hereford (county seat)

Unincorporated communities

-   Dawn
-   Glenrio (partly in Quay County, New Mexico)

Politics

  Year                               Republican                                  Democratic                                  Third parties
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  style=“text-align:center;” |2016   style=“text-align:center;” |69.1% _2,911_   style=“text-align:center;” |28.1% _1,185_   2.8% _120_
  style=“text-align:center;” |2012   style=“text-align:center;” |70.6% _3,042_   style=“text-align:center;” |28.8% _1,239_   0.7% _28_
  style=“text-align:center;” |2008   style=“text-align:center;” |73.1% _3,466_   style=“text-align:center;” |26.3% _1,247_   0.7% _31_
  style=“text-align:center;” |2004   style=“text-align:center;” |78.2% _4,139_   style=“text-align:center;” |21.4% _1,133_   0.4% _19_
  style=“text-align:center;” |2000   style=“text-align:center;” |74.0% _3,687_   style=“text-align:center;” |24.9% _1,240_   1.1% _57_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1996   style=“text-align:center;” |60.4% _3,051_   style=“text-align:center;” |32.8% _1,655_   6.8% _342_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1992   style=“text-align:center;” |56.4% _3,137_   style=“text-align:center;” |29.5% _1,642_   14.0% _780_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1988   style=“text-align:center;” |65.4% _3,744_   style=“text-align:center;” |33.7% _1,930_   0.9% _52_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1984   style=“text-align:center;” |75.8% _4,762_   style=“text-align:center;” |23.6% _1,485_   0.6% _36_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1980   style=“text-align:center;” |69.5% _4,073_   style=“text-align:center;” |28.4% _1,666_   2.1% _125_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1976   style=“text-align:center;” |51.1% _2,776_   style=“text-align:center;” |48.1% _2,613_   0.9% _46_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1972   style=“text-align:center;” |73.7% _3,690_   style=“text-align:center;” |24.8% _1,240_   1.6% _79_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1968   style=“text-align:center;” |52.5% _2,474_   style=“text-align:center;” |32.8% _1,545_   14.7% _694_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1964   style=“text-align:center;” |46.0% _1,793_   style=“text-align:center;” |53.7% _2,094_   0.3% _10_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1960   style=“text-align:center;” |60.4% _2,024_   style=“text-align:center;” |38.8% _1,299_   0.8% _26_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1956   style=“text-align:center;” |55.2% _1,685_   style=“text-align:center;” |44.6% _1,361_   0.3% _9_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1952   style=“text-align:center;” |70.9% _2,468_   style=“text-align:center;” |28.9% _1,006_   0.3% _9_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1948   style=“text-align:center;” |25.6% _535_     style=“text-align:center;” |71.6% _1,496_   2.8% _58_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1944   style=“text-align:center;” |28.1% _508_     style=“text-align:center;” |61.9% _1,117_   10.0% _180_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1940   style=“text-align:center;” |25.7% _423_     style=“text-align:center;” |74.0% _1,219_   0.3% _5_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1936   style=“text-align:center;” |10.2% _142_     style=“text-align:center;” |89.1% _1,236_   0.7% _9_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1932   style=“text-align:center;” |13.2% _198_     style=“text-align:center;” |86.8% _1,307_   style="text-align:center;|
  style=“text-align:center;” |1928   style=“text-align:center;” |58.1% _570_     style=“text-align:center;” |41.9% _411_     style="text-align:center;|
  style=“text-align:center;” |1924   style=“text-align:center;” |25.2% _192_     style=“text-align:center;” |70.5% _538_     4.3% _33_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1920   style=“text-align:center;” |30.8% _205_     style=“text-align:center;” |68.9% _459_     0.3% _2_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1916   style=“text-align:center;” |17.0% _77_      style=“text-align:center;” |78.8% _356_     4.2% _19_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1912   style=“text-align:center;” |7.8% _21_       style=“text-align:center;” |82.2% _221_     10.0% _27_

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title: Deaf Smith County, Texas

question: Summarize the history of Deaf Smith County, Texas.

answer: The state legislature defined and named the Deaf Smith County, Texas, in 1876, and it was organized in 1890 with La Plata as its original county seat. They named the county after Erastus "Deaf" Smith, a partially deaf scout and soldier who served in the Texas Revolution and was the first to reach the Alamo after its fall. They selected the county as an alternate site for a possible nuclear waste disposal repository but later dismissed it. Jesse Frank Ford, the founder of Arrowhead Mills, led the opposition to the Deaf Smith site on grounds of contamination of the Ogallala Aquifer, the source of the majority of the water supply for West Texas.

question: What historical landmarks can be found in Deaf Smith County, Texas?


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1871 ÅRS FATTIGVÅRDFÖRORDNING (English: _Poor Relief Regulation of 1871_) was a Swedish Poor Law which organized the public Poor relief in the Sweden. It replaced the _1847 års fattigvårdförordning_ and was in effect until the Poor Care Law of 1918.

In 1847, the first Swedish social help system separate from the church had been organized by the _1847 års fattigvårdförordning_. It was adjusted only to a very minor degree by the _1853 års fattigvårdförordning_.

The rapid changes during the mid 19th-century, including industrialisation, urbanization, labour movement and socialism, created an opposition toward public social projects among the ruling elite, who came to regard them as communism. The law from 1847, which was influenced by the liberalism of the 1840s, came to be regarded as too generous, and gradually the authorities came to practice it more and more strictly. This was illustrated during the Swedish famine of 1867–1869, when emergency relief was delivered almost exclusively to those willing to work for it. A growing opinion felt that society should take responsibility only for orphans, the aged, the insane and the mentally or physically challenged, and deny any form of assistance to all adults who were physically and mentally healthy.

In 1871, the law of 1847 was reformed. While the organisation and the system introduced in 1847 was kept in form, the law of 1871 introduced more strict qualifications as to whom should be allowed to receive social benefits. By this reform, social benefits was banned for everyone except for those physically or mentally unable to work, such as orphans, the aged, the insane and the mentally or physically challenged, and further more banned the right to appeal a decision made by the Poor Care Board. The law of 1871 was thereby a severe deterioration of social help in Sweden, and those needing no longer qualified to apply for help from the state because of the new regulations was forced to rely on private charity (foremost the local Fruntimmers-skyddsförening) as well as old outdated customs such as _rotegång_, the pauper auction and child auctions.

It was not until the Poor Care Law of 1918 (_1918 års fattigvårdslag_) that the entire poor relief system in Sweden was truly reformed and the _rotegång_, the pauper auctions, the child auctions, the poor houses and other old fashioned phenomena were abolished.

title: 1871 års fattigvårdförordning

question: What was the Poor Relief Regulation of 1871?

answer: The Poor Relief Regulation of 1871 was a Swedish Poor Law that organized the public Poor relief in Sweden.

question: When was the Poor Relief Regulation of 1871 in effect?

answer: The Poor Relief Regulation of 1871 was in effect from 1871-1918.

question: Why was the Poor Relief Regulation of 1847 reformed in 1871?

answer: The Poor Relief Regulation of 1847 was seen as too generous.

question: How do the Poor Relief Regulation of 1847 and the Poor Care Law of 1971 differ?

answer: The Poor Care Law of 1918 introduced more strict qualifications as to whom should be allowed to receive social benefits.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: The Poor Relief Regulation of 1871 was a Swedish Poor Law that organized the public poor relief in Sweden. It replaced the 1947 law that was influenced by liberalism because the 1947 law came to be regarded as too generous. The Poor Relief Regulation of 1871 banned social benefits for everyone except for those physically or mentally unable to work, such as orphans, the aged, the insane, and the mentally or physically challenged,


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AIR MARSHAL is a Three Star Air Officer rank in the Indian Air Force. It is the second-highest active rank in the Indian Air Force. 'Air Marshal' ranks above the Two Star rank of Air Vice Marshal and below the Four Star rank of Air Chief Marshal, which is held by the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS).

From 1947 to 1966, the appointment of Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), the professional head of the Indian Air Force was held by an Air Marshal. The position of the CAS was upgraded from Air Marshal to Air Chief Marshal in 1966. The first IAF officer to hold the rank was ACM Arjan Singh (later promoted to the five-star rank of Marshal of the Indian Air Force) who was promoted to the rank while he served as the CAS.[1][2]

The equivalent rank in the Indian Army is Lieutenant General and in the Indian Navy is Vice Admiral.

Officers in the rank of Air Marshal hold important appointments at the Air Commands and at the Air Headquarters.

Air Commanders (C-in-C grade)

[Air Marshal S B Deo in an Air Marshal's uniform] Senior Air Marshals who are in the C-in-C grade (Air Commanders), are considered to be in a grade higher than other Air Marshals. They hold the senior-most appointments like the Vice Chief of the Air Staff and the heads of the seven air commands (styled AIR OFFICER COMMANDING-IN-CHIEF). The seven AOC-in-C appointments are:

-   Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Central Air Command
-   Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Air Command
-   Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Southern Air Command
-   Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief South Western Air Command
-   Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Western Air Command
-   Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Training Command
-   Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Maintenance Command

Insignia

The badges of rank consist of three sky blue bands (each on a slightly wider navy blue band) over a sky blue band on a navy blue broad band.

An Air Marshal wears Gorget patches which are Blue patches with Three white stars. Air Commanders in the C-in-C grade have additional oak leaves under the three white stars.

In addition to this, the Blue Grey terrywool tunic has three sleeve stripes consisting of a broad band with two narrower bands.[3]

Order of Precedence

An Air Marshal in the C-in-C grade ranks at No. 23 on the Indian order of precedence, along with Lieutenant Generals of the Indian Army and Vice Admirals of the Indian Navy in the C-in-C grade. The other Air Marshals rank at No. 24 in the order of precedence.[4]

Air Marshals in the C-in-C grade are at the Apex pay scale (pay level 17), with a monthly pay of ₹225,000 (US$3,100). Other Air Marshals, in the HAG+ pay scale (pay level 16) draw lesser, depending on the years in service. However, since they should not draw equivalent or more than the next higher level, the renumeration is capped at ₹224,000.[5][6]

See Also

-   List of serving air marshals of the Indian Air Force
-   Air Force ranks and insignia of India
-   Air officer commanding

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title: Air marshal (India)

question: What is an Air Marshal in India?

answer: A three star Air Officer rank in the Indian Air Force.

question: Where does an Air Marshal rank?

answer: It is second-highest active rank in the Indian Air Force. It ranks above the Two Star rank of Air Vice Marshal and below the Four Star rank of Air Chief Marshal.

question: What is the equivalent rank of an Air Marshal in the Indian Army?

answer: Lieutenant General is the equivalent rank of Air Marshal.

question: How much do Air Marshals make in the pay scale?

answer: Air Marshal in the C-in-C grade are at the Apex pay scale (level 17) with a monthly pay of ₹225,000 (US$3,100)

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: 'Air Marshal' in India is a three star Air Officer rank in the Indian Air Force. It is the second highest active rank in the Indian Air Force.


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KAMATA EIKICHI (; 1863–1934)[1] was a Japanese politician and educator. He served as Minister of Education from 1922 until 1923, and was president of Keio University for over 20 years.

Educational career

During the 1880s, Kamata was a teacher at Keio University,[2] where he had previously been a student.[3] Kamata succeeded Tokujiro Obata as president of the university in 1898.[4] He left the position in 1922,[5] and was succeeded by Kadono Ikunoshin as interim president before Ichitaro Fukuzawa took over full-time.[6][7]

In his role at the university, he put across his progressive views, taking part in American customs like throwing the ceremonial first pitch in the university's newly built baseball field.[8] Kamata was an advocate of gender equality, believing it was necessary to accompany the “equality between the classes” within post-feudal Japan.[9] Writing in the educational-_cum_-movie magazine _Katsudo no Sekai_, he proposed the use of motion pictures for educational purposes.[10] He also published essays in _Kokuhon_ alongside other prominent educators and university presidents.[11]

Alongside these progressive views, Kamata used his position at the university to push his patriotic view of independence,[12] believing that education was key to accomplishing the goals of the nation-state.[13] In 1920, he suggested that students “must not be deceived by deceptive ideologies nor follow the group blindly [but] realize the spirit of freedom, and independence and self-respect”.[14]

During his presidency there, Keio established its graduate programmes, established the schools of medicine and nursing, and became accredited by the Japanese government as one of the country's first private universities.[15]

Ministerial career

Kamata served as Minister of Education from 1922 until 1923.[16] On 11 November 1922, Kamata was present at Japan's first large-scale Armistice Day celebration in Tokyo's Hibiya Park.[17] He was one of several speakers, including Uchida Kōsai and Drew Pearson.[18]

After he left the Ministry of Education, he was a member of the Privy Council from 1927, and head of the Imperial Council on Education in 1932.[19]

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question: For how many years was Kamata Eikichi president of Keio University?

answer: He was president for over 20 years.

question: What are some of Kamata Eikichi's progressive views?

answer: He was an advocate of gender equality. He also supported the use of motion pictures for educational purposes.

question: What the achievements of Kamata Eikichi while he was president?

answer: He established graduate programmes, schools of medicine, and turned Keio University into one of Japan's first private universities.

question: What other prominent role did Kamata Eikichi hold?

answer: He was the Minister of Education from 1922 until 1923.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

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Kamata Eikichi was the president of Keio University for over 20 years. During that time, he advanced many progressive views like gender equality as well as supporting the use of motion pictures for educational purposes.

Under Kamata Eikichi's leadership, Keio University had graduate programmes, established schools of nursing and medicine, turning the institution into one of Japan's first private universities.


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	We owned the bottle the whole time we lived there, from the day we moved in. Nobody used it much; Devon and I have the basement to ourselves so we get our own fridge. He uses ketchup only with fries twice a month or so, while I myself am a Sriracha man. The thing most people don’t immediately realize when they move out of home is that the kitchen, a once magical and generous place that gratified you with instant food and satisfaction, on your own becomes a burdensome, dark and dingy room whose contents are always scarce and incompatible. Well, it was like that for us. We didn’t cook much, and we weren’t inclined to spend much time competing with the bugs for space in our cramped kitchen. We found out through the grapevine that our landlord was in fact a stubborn sort of miser who gutted, wired, and walled the house without any help. Help costs money to a man with no friends. In those slanted rooms we stood when we decided to thusly rename him slumlord.
	I clearly remember once being a more naive high school version of my self, dreaming of the day life granted me autonomy, as if that somehow includes the skills necessary to live on one’s own. Those days, I imagined credulously that I would teach myself to cook great things once I had my own place. But too soon into university did work and school brandish their heavy burdens. In the sparse moments of freedom and idleness, time was a ration; something to be used on preservation rather than sacrificed on expansion (although I did get a build a sweet aquarium over the year, but that’s another story). As a result, neither of us cooked so much as grazed. For a whole week I ate raw hot dogs and carrots before I forced myself to buy apples and soup. No kind of gourmet, organic, free-range food of any sort tastes better than the apple that ends the drought of raw hot dogs. The lonely contents of our fridge were primarily condiments and take-away meals. There were all the compliments and additions we needed for a meal, but no meal itself. We had every colour of paint, but no brush.
	One recurring disturbance that arose from the stochastic rearranging of our fridge’s contents  confused and frustrated me and Devon. Often without warrant, the kitchen door would refuse to stay shut. What seemed like a simple problem was mysteriously adamant. There was no resistance, no visible obstruction. No; this was a more subtle and cruel refusal, one that allowed the magnetic trim of the door to first kiss that of the refrigerator unit, then slowly pry the door away from its lover. The door would tease us by feigning closure, then mockingly swinging open.
	The fridge drove us insane. We took out the drawers and the shelfs and readjusted the magnetic strips. Nothing worked. For poor students, keeping food from waste was a priority. Expiry dates no longer counted; in poverty and squalor, one’s nose becomes the sole and executive arbiter of food safety. Keeping the fridge closed and cool was more important to us than any homework we did that year. But no matter what we tried, the fridge would recurrently, as if on it’s own volition, switch its magnetic strip to repel mode. For the longest time we had no idea why or how the fridge door would patently remain open. The fridge seemed to have a mind of its own and, to some degree, we respected it. Accepting the fridge’s perseverance, we would concede defeat by wedging the broom against the wall and the door in a rocky cease-fire between the fridge’s will and our own. It was one of the things that made me apt to spend a little more on the place I’m living next year.
	Nevertheless, for majority of the year the adamancy of the problem overcame us. It was not until later in second semester that my housemate figured out the cause. This happened on some otherwise unremarkable day in a week during which the fridge again decided to gape open. Excitedly, as one should when they solve some complex and demanding problem, he burst into my room. The width of his smile suggested that he won some sort of Nobel Prize. “Matt,” he managed, almost panting. “It was the ketchup.”
	Bemused, I followed Devon to the kitchen to witness his solution. Talking with a mixture of excitement and relief, he explained: “When the ketchup sits inside the door, it pushes the door away if it’s turned horizontally. We have to keep it parallel with the door,” he said, and enacted his description in order to exhibit the difference.
	What a marvel! I was beyond words. Such an easy solution to such a complex problem. It was certainly a relief, a simple fix to a pervasive and pestering issue. For the rest of the year, we lived in harmonious cohabitation with that fridge, albeit at the price of a few sour milk cartons and rotten oranges. However, throughout the constant reshuffling of cold cuts, hot dogs, cream cheese and yogurt, one item has been left unperturbed.
	The ketchup bottle, resilient and proud, stands proudly in claimed territory, a spot on the inside railing upon which it remains parallel to the door. It has earned the spot, through rigid victory over it’s supposed owners. It controlled harmony and restored balance to our kitchen on many occasions. It’s happiness controlled us. It was omnipotent. In the squalid darkness of our kitchen, we found a light in the Ketchup God, and we obeyed it.

title: [RF] Ketchup God

question: Summarize the symbolism of food in this story.

answer: The presence of food represents one's inner life-the narrator is happiest and most full existentially during the times when their kitchen is robust in the way of food. Food also represents personality-they describe how lifeless and emotionally gutted a kitchen can seem, how dingy and empty it is when its inhabitants are on the brink of leaving or have left. When the kitchen is full of both food and activity, things such as the quirks of the inhabitants are also on display. Food stands for personality and good rapport as well as being physiological nourishment.

question: Summarize the issues food can cause or highlight in any sort of a relationship.

answer: That the place remained organized was important to the narrator and to Devon, their roommate. When students on a budget assess how long to keep something before it perishes, they must use it quickly, or else a waste of food can put a heavy dent in one's already-depleted pocketbook. The two strategized as to how to best organize the fridge in order to keep it from opening and wasting electricity as well as risking spoilt food-the ketchup kept falling in a certain unfortunate manner if it wasn't positioned correctly. Food placement is also a territory marker, which can be symbolic of the relationship of the dwelling's inhabitants-who gets primary space, ahead of other things, and whose goods get lost in the stacked piles.

question: Describe how the narrator and Devon know each other.

question: Summarize the singular source of tension in the story and how it is resolved.

answer: There is a specific ketchup bottle that is never used but always takes up space. Devon only uses it a couple of times per month; the narrator maintains that they never partake. It keeps contributing to the fridge door's opening but the two don't realize it is the problem until one day when Devon has the realization that when the bottle is positioned horizontally it pushes the door open. The two marvel at how easy the fix is, and, in turn, easing that source of tension releases some of the tension in their own interpersonal relationship.


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NEW DELHI: In a major faux pas, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today quoted the number of voters in India to be 600 crore (six billion) while addressing the gathering of leaders at the World Economic Forum’s plenary session. (According to Election Commission of India, 814.5 million people were registered to vote in the country in 2014.)

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"In 2014, after three decades, 600 crore Indian voters for the first time gave complete majority to a political party to form a government at the Centre...," the PM said during his address.
The mistake was overlooked by the official Twitter handle of the Prime Minister's Office as well and it, too, tweeted the same mistake.
Though the tweet was promptly deleted, it failed to escape the sharp eyes of social media users.
Last seen, the tweet had been retweeted 147 times and over 400 people had liked it.

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answer: It is not certain what the source is.

question: When did this incident occur?

answer: It is uncertain when, but it can be assumed that this occurred after 2014.

question: Who is the subject of this article?

answer: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi

question: How many people were registered to vote in India in 2014?

answer: 814.5 million people.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi accidentally claims that 600 crore (six billion are registered to vote in India at the World Economic Forum’s plenary session. In reality, 814.5 million people are registered. The mistake was tweeted from his account as well, before getting deleted shortly after.