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Hashim Choudhary addresses the media in front of the apartment building where his uncle, Ejaz Choudry, was shot by Peel Police and died at the scene the previous night, in Mississauga, Ont., June 21, 2020.

Galit Rodan/The Canadian Press

Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating after a Peel Regional Police officer shot and killed a 62-year-old man with schizophrenia whose family had called a non-emergency line hoping he would be taken to hospital and helped through a mental-health crisis.

Ejaz Choudry, a father of four, died Saturday night after police burst through a door on his second-floor balcony and into the apartment where he was alone, armed with a knife and suffering a mental breakdown, according to his extended family.

“He wasn’t a danger to anyone else. He was by himself in his home where he felt safe,” said Hassan Choudhary, one of Mr. Choudry’s nephews. “He can’t think straight, he’s schizophrenic, and [police] are going and killing him because he’s going to kill himself? Where’s the logic in that?”

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Mr. Choudhary spoke at a news conference on Sunday outside his uncle’s apartment in Mississauga’s Malton neighbourhood, west of Toronto, where about 40 family and friends gathered to call for a public inquiry into the shooting. Some waved signs demanding “Justice for Ejaz” – an echo of the banners carried at recent protests against police brutality and anti-Black racism in the United States, Canada and Europe.

Mr. Choudry was shot amid a barrage of calls for police reform following the slaying of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and after the police-involved deaths of several Canadians during what were supposed to be checks on their mental well-being.

Rodney Levi, 48, and Chantel Moore, 26, both Indigenous people, were shot by police in New Brunswick in separate incidents this month. Regis Korchinski-Paquet, a 29-year-old Black woman, fell from a 24th-floor balcony in Toronto while in the company of police who had been called to help her with a mental-health crisis at the end of May.

Their stories have all contributed to calls in Toronto and across North America to defund police departments – or to at least cut their budgets and redirect the money to social workers and experts in defusing mental-health crises.

Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit, which steps in whenever a police officer is involved in a death or serious injury, said the incident that led to Mr. Choudry’s death began just after 5 p.m. on Saturday when Peel Regional Police officers visited an apartment at 3425 Morningstar Dr. to “check on the well-being of a man.”

“The man barricaded himself inside the unit, and for a period officers were able to communicate with the man,” the SIU said in a statement Sunday morning. “Shortly after communication stopped, officers breached the door and entered the unit. An interaction occurred which included officers deploying a conducted energy weapon at the man, as well as firing plastic projectiles from an [anti-riot weapon]. When these had no effect, an officer discharged a firearm and the man was struck.”

The SIU is investigating one subject officer and nine witness officers. It has obtained video footage related to the case, according to the Sunday statement.

Part of the incident that led to Mr. Choudry’s death was apparently captured in a 19-second clip posted to social media on the weekend. The Globe and Mail could not immediately confirm the veracity of the video, which showed three police officers on a second-floor balcony with weapons raised, yelling, “Police! Put down the knife! Put it down!” Five shots ring out before the officers enter the apartment through the open balcony door; two more shots can be heard afterward.

Khizar Shahzad, another of Mr. Choudry’s nephews, said he arrived at the apartment building around 7 p.m. Saturday, hoping to help calm his uncle, an immigrant from Pakistan who spoke no English and had struggled for years with schizophrenia.

Mr. Shahzad said that a few hours earlier the victim’s daughter had called a non-emergency crisis line, not the police, because Mr. Choudry was suffering a breakdown and needed to be taken to the hospital to be given medication.

Mr. Choudry’s wife and his children, who range from the ages of 7 to 18, were cleared out of the apartment, Mr. Shahzad said. When the team that responded first – Mr. Shahzad believed they were paramedics – realized Mr. Choudry had a knife, the initial responders called police.

Mr. Shahzad said he pleaded with officers on the scene to allow someone from the family to go upstairs and try to speak to Mr. Choudry. The officers rebuffed him, Mr. Shahzad said, after which he went upstairs to find four officers trying to break down the door to his uncle’s unit. “While they were doing that, me and my brother were yelling, ‘Don’t hurt him!’ Because he’s so frail that even a tackle, I was afraid, was going to kill him.”

Mr. Choudhary, the nephew, said he was stunned to learn later, on Twitter, that police had entered through the balcony door and shot his uncle to death.

“Where’s the assistance that would help him in this kind of situation? A cop doesn’t have that kind of training,” he said.

Peel police have been responding to a rising number of calls for assistance during mental-health crises. In 2019, officers responded to 6,360 such calls, compared with 5,090 in 2016, a 25-per-cent increase. As of May this year, the region has responded to 2,309 mental-health calls, according to data provided by police on June 15.

Peel police also responded to 2,279 attempt-suicide help requests between 2016 and May, 2020, with 326 people dying by suicide during a call.

_With reports from Vjosa Isai and Greg McArthur_

Editor’s note: (June 22, 2020): An earlier version of this article incorrectly said Chantel Moore was shot by RCMP officers. She was shot by Edmundston city police.

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question: What does the article say about what happened to Hashim Choudhary?

answer: Choudhary's daughter called a non-emergency crisis line because he was suffering a breakdown and needed to be taken to the hospital. A team of paramedics came and called the police when they realized Mr. Choudry had a knife. The police came and burst through the balcony door and killed him.

question: What does the article say about calls to defund police departments?

answer: The police were involved in the deaths of several Canadians that had mental health problems. Their stories have all contributed to calls in Toronto and across North America to defund police departments – or to at least cut their budgets and redirect the money to social workers and experts in defusing mental-health crises.

question: What does the article say about schizophrenia treatment?


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OGLALA LAKOTA COUNTY (known as SHANNON COUNTY until May 2015)[1] is a county in southwestern South Dakota, United States. The population was 13,586 at the 2010 census.[2] Oglala Lakota County does not have a functioning county seat; Hot Springs in neighboring Fall River County serves as its administrative center.[3] The county was created as a part of the Dakota Territory in 1875, although it remains unorganized.[4][5] Its largest community is Pine Ridge.

The county is entirely within the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and contains part of Badlands National Park. It is one of five South Dakota counties entirely on an Indian reservation.[6]

The county is named after the Oglala Lakota, a band of the Lakota people. Many of the county's inhabitants are members of this sub-tribe.

The county's per-capita income makes it the poorest county in the 50 states and District of Columbia. (28 county-equivalents in the U.S. territories are poorer). Oglala Lakota County is the only dry county in South Dakota.

The newspaper for Oglala Lakota County is _The Lakota Country Times_.[7][8]

History

The Wounded Knee Massacre occurred in Oglala Lakota County in 1890.

The county was originally named for Peter C. Shannon, Chief Justice of the Dakota Territory Supreme Court. Until 1982, Shannon County and Washabaugh County, South Dakota, were the last unorganized counties in the United States. Although it was organized and received a home rule charter that year, the county, as noted above, contracts with Fall River County for its Auditor, Treasurer, and Registrar of Deeds.[9]

On November 4, 2014, voters in the county voted by a margin of 2,161 to 526 to rename Shannon County to Oglala Lakota County.[10] The name change was ratified by the state legislature on March 5, 2015.[11] May 1, 2015 was proclaimed by the governor as the official day for renaming the county.[12]

Geography

Oglala Lakota County lies on the south side of South Dakota. Its south boundary line abuts the north boundary line of the state of Nebraska. The Cheyenne River flows northeastward along the northwest boundary of Oglala Lakota County. The White River flows northeastward through the central part of the county. The county terrain is composed of arid rolling hills spotted with small mountain crests, oriented NE-SW.[13] The terrain slopes to the northeast; its highest point is on the south boundary line, close to the SW corner, at 3,619' (1103m) ASL.[14] The county has a total area of , of which is land and (0.1%) is water.[15]

The county includes the headwaters of the Little White River.

Major highways

-   [] U.S. Highway 18
-   [] South Dakota Highway 40
-   [] South Dakota Highway 391
-   [] South Dakota Highway 407

Adjacent counties

-   Pennington County - north
-   Jackson County - northeast
-   Bennett County - east
-   Sheridan County, Nebraska - south
-   Dawes County, Nebraska - southwest
-   Fall River County - west
-   Custer County - northwest

National protected area

-   Badlands National Park (part)

Lakes[16]

-   Alkali Lake
-   Denby Lake
-   Lee Lake
-   Oglala Lake
-   Two Lance Lake
-   Wakpamani Lake
-   White Clay Lake

Demographics

As of the 2000 United States Census,[17] there were 12,466 people, 2,785 households, and 2,353 families residing in the county. The population density was 6 people per square mile (2/km²). There were 3,123 housing units at an average density of 2 per square mile (1/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 4.51% White, 0.08% Black or African American, 94.20% Native American, 0.02% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 0.22% from other races, and 0.91% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.42% of the population.

There were 2,785 households, out of which 51.70% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 35.40% were married couples living together, 36.40% had a female householder with no husband present, and 15.50% were non-families. 13.20% of all households were made up of individuals, and 3.00% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 4.36 and the average family size was 4.72.

The county population contained 45.30% under the age of 18, 10.60% from 18 to 24, 25.60% from 25 to 44, 13.80% from 45 to 64, and 4.80% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 21 years. For every 100 females there were 99.60 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.60 males.

The median income for a household in the county was $20,916, and the median income for a family was $20,897. Males had a median income of $25,170 versus $22,594 for females. The per capita income for the county was $6,286. About 45.10% of families and 52.30% of the population were below the poverty line, including 60.80% of those under age 18 and 36.00% of those age 65 or over.

A 2017 study ranked the county's average life expectancy (66 years) as the lowest of any county in the United States.[18]

Politics

The counties surrounding Oglala Lakota County are predominantly Republican, but, like most Native American counties, Oglala Lakota is heavily Democratic, giving over 75 percent of the vote to every Democratic presidential nominee in every election back to 1984, making it one of the most Democratic counties in the United States. No Republican has carried the county in a presidential election since 1952. In 2012, Oglala Lakota County (then known as Shannon) was the county with the highest percentage of vote for Barack Obama in the United States.[19] However, the local politics are a bit more divided: Oglala Lakota County lies within the 27th District of the South Dakota Legislature, represented by three Lakotas, two Democrats and one Republican. Democrat Red Dawn Foster represents the county in the Senate, while Democrat Peri Pourier and Republican Steve Livermont represent the county in the House.

  Year                               Republican                                  Democratic                                  Third parties
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  style=“text-align:center;” |2016   style=“text-align:center;” |8.3% _241_      style=“text-align:center;” |86.4% _2,510_   5.3% _154_
  style=“text-align:center;” |2012   style=“text-align:center;” |6.0% _188_      style=“text-align:center;” |93.4% _2,937_   0.6% _20_
  style=“text-align:center;” |2008   style=“text-align:center;” |9.9% _331_      style=“text-align:center;” |88.7% _2,971_   1.4% _48_
  style=“text-align:center;” |2004   style=“text-align:center;” |12.5% _526_     style=“text-align:center;” |84.6% _3,566_   2.9% _122_
  style=“text-align:center;” |2000   style=“text-align:center;” |12.9% _252_     style=“text-align:center;” |85.4% _1,667_   1.7% _34_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1996   style=“text-align:center;” |11.1% _253_     style=“text-align:center;” |84.3% _1,926_   4.6% _105_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1992   style=“text-align:center;” |13.6% _225_     style=“text-align:center;” |76.7% _1,267_   9.6% _159_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1988   style=“text-align:center;” |17.3% _256_     style=“text-align:center;” |81.5% _1,206_   1.2% _17_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1984   style=“text-align:center;” |17.7% _324_     style=“text-align:center;” |81.4% _1,489_   0.9% _16_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1980   style=“text-align:center;” |26.0% _438_     style=“text-align:center;” |67.1% _1,132_   6.9% _117_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1976   style=“text-align:center;” |27.8% _301_     style=“text-align:center;” |69.9% _756_     2.2% _24_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1972   style=“text-align:center;” |22.1% _356_     style=“text-align:center;” |77.3% _1,246_   0.6% _9_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1968   style=“text-align:center;” |29.7% _533_     style=“text-align:center;” |66.9% _1,202_   3.4% _61_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1964   style=“text-align:center;” |24.2% _557_     style=“text-align:center;” |75.8% _1,748_   style="text-align:center;|
  style=“text-align:center;” |1960   style=“text-align:center;” |36.6% _655_     style=“text-align:center;” |63.4% _1,135_   style="text-align:center;|
  style=“text-align:center;” |1956   style=“text-align:center;” |45.2% _782_     style=“text-align:center;” |54.8% _949_     style="text-align:center;|
  style=“text-align:center;” |1952   style=“text-align:center;” |55.3% _957_     style=“text-align:center;” |44.7% _774_     style="text-align:center;|
  style=“text-align:center;” |1948   style=“text-align:center;” |44.1% _641_     style=“text-align:center;” |55.2% _803_     0.7% _10_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1944   style=“text-align:center;” |53.9% _562_     style=“text-align:center;” |46.1% _480_     style="text-align:center;|
  style=“text-align:center;” |1940   style=“text-align:center;” |58.0% _1,094_   style=“text-align:center;” |42.0% _791_     style="text-align:center;|
  style=“text-align:center;” |1936   style=“text-align:center;” |49.9% _667_     style=“text-align:center;” |47.5% _634_     2.6% _35_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1932   style=“text-align:center;” |36.7% _463_     style=“text-align:center;” |63.2% _798_     0.1% _1_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1928   style=“text-align:center;” |43.6% _469_     style=“text-align:center;” |55.9% _601_     0.5% _5_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1924   style=“text-align:center;” |88.9% _992_     style=“text-align:center;” |6.8% _76_       4.3% _48_

  : PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS RESULTS[20]

Communities

Town

-   Batesland

Census-designated places

-   Kyle
-   Manderson-White Horse Creek
-   Oglala
-   Pine Ridge
-   Porcupine
-   Wounded Knee

Unincorporated communities[21]

-   Denby
-   Red Shirt
-   Rockyford
-   Sharps Corner

Townships

There are no townships. The county is divided into two areas of unorganized territory: East Oglala Lakota and West Oglala Lakota (formerly East Shannon and West Shannon, respectively).

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[10] David Montgomery, “Shannon County no more: Voters approve name change”, _Argus Leader_, November 5, 2014.

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[13] [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Shannon+County,+SD/@43.3445908,-102.7276012,84145m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x877c3c5a68c4b17f:0x6adbaf313e9d9227!8m2!3d43.2437442!4d-102.6216211 _Shannon County SD_ Google Maps (accessed 7 February 2019)]

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title: Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota

question: What does the text say about the people of Oglala Lakota County?

answer: As of 2010, Oglala Lakota County has 13,586 people. Most of its population consists of Native Americans. In 2017, the county's average life expectancy is 66 years, which is relatively low compared to other counties in the United States.

question: What does the text say about the location of Oglala Lakota County?

answer: Oglala Lakota County is on the south side of South Dakota, and it is entirely within the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. In its northwest boundary flows the Cheyenne River, and county terrain is composed of arid rolling hills.

question: What does the text say about the name of the county?

answer: Until 2015, the county was called Shannon County, after the chief justice of the Dakota Territory Supreme Court Peter C. Shannon. The name was officially changed to Oglala Lakota County on May 1, 2015.

question: What does the text say about the story of the Wounded Knee Massacre?


text:
Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.
The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days."
The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment f or future generations."
She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were truely recycled.
But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.
But too bad we didn't do the green thing back then.
We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.
But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.
Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.
But that young lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.
But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.
But we didn't have the green thing back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.
But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?

*I didn't write this story, and I don't know who did. I like it and want to share.

title: Being Green

question: What does the narrator feel about the campaign to go green?

answer: The narrator feels that the younger generation is in fact less green than the older generation. They cite several examples, such as reusable milk bottles, brown paper bags, stairs instead of escalators, clotheslines, washable diapers, having only a single tv, non-reusable razors, and public transport.


text:
We walked through a vale holding each other's hand. I felt perfectly comfortable remaining silent and marching along as long as I knew she was with me. We had reached past the point of us needing speech to get our emotions across. We continued strolling for a while and then finally sat on a bench which was perched under an arched outgrowth of a stony structure. She put Her head on my lap and closed Her eyes. My love grew for Her every second I watched Her beautiful face in deep sleep. I wondered whether she felt the same way, or whether she felt at all. Suddenly, I sensed the earth moving. The whole world around me was shaking. I realised I didn't have much time left. I was about to depart. Slowly, the waterfall, flowers, the lake, butterflies, and the mountains faded away into darkness and then a bright light met my eye. The brightness diminished and I was back in my room. My servant was standing in front of me. "Sir, why are you so hard to wake up these days? If you carry on going late to work, you will eventually be fired. You don't want that do you?" he said. If only he knew.

I was both happy and sad. I felt sad leaving Her, but I was happy that it had now worked three times in a row. How lucky was I, that having slept a sad sleep the day before yesterday, I would meet Her the second time. This ignited in me the thought of the possibility that I could meet Her whenever I wanted to. So I tried to meet Her the third time today. I was doubtful and skeptical. I am a middle aged man who has never experienced love. Forget the act of loving, I couldn't even think of the prospect of finding love in my lifetime. I turned off all the lights, locked the door, threw myself on the bed and closed my eyes.
I was failing. I was sweating uncontrollably with nervousness. This was my last chance to find what I never had. Then, I thought of Her, with Her soft and beautiful face, Her enigmatic eyes, Her endless > locks of hair, Her slender yet graceful body, the vulnerability in Her glances, Her voice that confirmed the presence of angelic minstrels. God himself had sent down this perfect entity for me to spend time with, albeit in a second reality. I had to calm down and sleep. I was no longer panting, and was able to slowly drift away into slumber.

I was in a vast empty ball room. It was beautiful, but right now, I had no concern for the beauty of inanimate objects. I had to find Her as quickly as I could, so I could maximise the amount of time I was to spend with Her. I looked for Her everywhere. Where was she? Was it really possible that I failed, even in bringing a being that lived inside my thoughts, to appear in front of me? I was suddenly struck by the memory of yesterday. I had stood in front of the mirror for an hour. I gazed at my disfigured body, my hunched back, my crooked teeth, my uneven face and my uninteresting eyes. I had decided to break every mirror in my house that day, for they were only a source of pain to me. Now, as I looked around for Her in the ballroom, I slowly became demoralised. I could not even find Her in a second reality. I wept and I wept, and for sure, I did know I was physically weeping too, for I felt the dampness seep through my body. 'Come here,' said an enchanting voice. 'Did you really think I was going to leave you alone?'

A white figure seemed to be approaching me. Her shape became more apparent as she moved towards me. She was dressed in the most elegant of elegant dresses. She came up to me, and without uttering a word, kissed me. All my doubts, inferiorities and insecurities vanished in a matter of seconds. 'You have me right now and you will have me forever,' she said. 'My appearance may change but I will always be Her.' We sat together on the velveted floor. I told Her everything I knew and everything I wanted to do. She listened patiently without any patronising judgement. She seemed as if she had been lost in my discourse. She comforted me when I told Her my doubts and answered me when I had queries. Seconds, minutes, hours and then days seemed to have passed by. We were still sat on the same spot talking and being lost in wonder of one another. 'I have to go fly,' she said with a hint of sycophancy, 'Try not to think about me.' She faded away gradually, and slowly, the whole room turned dim and finally, my whole vision was obscured. I woke up.

I opened my eyes and looked around. I wasn't in my room. There were people around me, maybe four or five. 'Sir, you have been in a coma for six years. My whole team and I would like to congratulate you on being born again. Also try to sleep less,' a doctor said, letting out a faint chuckle. I wasn't able to speak as I lay there helpless. I didn't care about anyone else other than Her. I wanted to go back and never come back. A memory came to my mind about when I met my childhood friend after not seeing him for a while.

'What brought you into acting then, James?' I asked.

'My wife... the third one, she pushed me towards getting a job as an actor. She had faith in my ability. And so right she was, I had never even dreamed of achieving such fame.' James answered.
'Good for you, my friend, if only I were a part of your gene pool.'

'My gene pool? You think I've only gotten this far because of my looks?'

'You never were intelligent were you? Only if you were, you could have acknowledged the luck that had been bestowed upon you. Nobody falls in love with character at first sight. Set on this earth is a bliss for the rich and beautiful.'

'You always were a jealous man. Stop envying other people's abilities and go back to your cave and hang out with your rodents, you incompatible oddity!'

He stormed out of the restaurant leaving me alone with my food and strangers' stares. He was right. I was an oddity.

I had regained consciousness and was out of my coma. I had been awake thinking about this incident while tears ran down my face. It was soon dark outside and I started feeling drowsy. I was about to sleep and it was the most joyous part of the day. I soon fell asleep but there were no dreams this day and I woke up without any recollection of Her. 'This wouldn't happen again,' I thought to myself. I slept the next day and again; no luck. The day after that, I entered a dream but she was nowhere to be seen. Did she lie when she said she would be with me forever? I was discharged from the hospital and returned to my room. Surely, this was where it all started so I will get to meet her when I sleep in my own dwelling. I slept. She had abandoned me. The only companion I had, had abandoned me. She was a part of me so I guess I had abandoned myself.

'There is more than one way a person can sleep.' I thought to myself. I started panting. I walked in circles for an hour in my room as my heartbeat became faster and faster. I had no family or acquaintances I could talk to. I started climbing the stairs sluggishly, that led to the highest storey of the high-rise. My pulse increasing with every step I took. I finally arrived at the top of the skyscraper. I stood at its edge, with my heart pounding the loudest and fastest it had ever pounded. I thought of Her one last time. 'I will surely meet you, and I would never know even if I don't. My real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.'  With these thoughts, I took the step to death. The only feeling I felt after that was the feeling of Nothing.

title: Love Slumber

question: What relationship does the narrator share with the lady?

answer: It may be implied that she was his wife.

question: Do the two of them end up together?

answer: No.

question: Is the narrator dreaming at any point?

answer: Yes.

question: Do any of the characters die?

answer: Yes, the woman the narrator loves is already dead and the narrator himself commits suicide towards the end.

question: Write a ~8 sentence summary.

answer:
The narrator is dreaming about strolling with his lady love when suddenly everything around him starts shaking. He is woken up by his servant. He tries to go back to sleep in the hopes of meeting Her again.

He finds himself in a vast ballroom looking for her. She comforts him until she gradually begins to fade away. The narrator wakes up and is told by doctors that he was in a coma for six years. Soon he tries to sleep again wondering if she would come back, but no luck.

The narrator climbs to the top of a high-rise skyscraper and takes the step of death.


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A lot of people have problems working with and understanding what asynchronous code means. This article is an intro into the basic asynchronous Python, where I'll try answering the question why or how the async makes your code to go fast.

Let's start with the simplest definition. ASYNC is a style of concurrent programming. It's the most generic term that means doing many things at once.

How Does Python Do Multiple Things At Once?

1. Multiple Processes

The most obvious way is to use MULTIPLE PROCESSES. From the terminal you can start your script two, three, four…ten times and then all the scripts are going to run independently or at the same time. The operating system that's underneath will take care of sharing your CPU resources among all those instances.

Using CPython that's actually the only way you can get to use more than one CPU at the same time.

2. Multiple Threads

The next way to run multiple things at once is to use threads.

A THREAD is a line of execution, pretty much like a process, but you can have multiple threads in the context of one process and they all share access to common resources. But because of this it's difficult to write a threading code. And again, the operating system is doing all the heavy lifting on sharing the CPU, but the global interpreter lock (GIL) allows only one thread to run Python code at a given time even when you have multiple threads running code. So, In CPython, the GIL prevents multi core concurrency. Basically, you’re running in a single core even though you may have two or four or more.

3. Asynchronous Programming

The third way is an ASYNCHRONOUS PROGRAMMING, where the OS is not participating. As far as OS is concerned you're going to have ONE PROCESS and there's going to be a SINGLE THREAD within that process, but you'll be able to do multiple things at once. So, what's the trick?

As an example we can take a chess exhibition where one of the best chess players competes against a lot of people. And if there are 24 games with 24 people to play with and the chess master plays with all of them synchronically, it'll take at least 12 hours (taking into account that the average game takes 30 moves, the chess master thinks for 5 seconds to come up with a move and the opponent - for approximately 55 seconds). But using the asynchronous mode gives chess master the opportunity to make a move and leave the opponent thinking while going to the next one and making a move there. This way a move on all 24 games can be done in 2 minutes and all of them can be won in just one hour.

So, this is what's meant when people talk about asynchronous being really fast. It's this kind of fast. Chess master doesn't play chess faster, the time is just more optimized and it's not get wasted on waiting around. This is how it works.

In this analogy the chess master will be our CPU and the idea is that we wanna make sure that the CPU doesn't wait or waits the least amount of time possible. It's about always finding something to do.

A practical definition of ASYNC is that it's a style of concurrent programming in which tasks release the CPU during waiting periods, so that other tasks can use it.

How is Async Implemented?

You probably want to know a little bit more. How can you do that with one process and one thread? You need two things, basically.

The FIRST THING that you need is to have a function that can SUSPEND AND RESUME. A function that enters a waiting period is suspended, and only resumed when the wait is over. There are four ways in which you can do this in Python without OS help. Those ways are:

- the callback functions, but they are pretty gross, so no examples will be provided,

- the generator functions - a Python feature that have been there for a long time,

- async/await - the keywords that you can use in Python 3.5+,

- and the third-party package called greenlet - that actually implement this as a C extension Python which you can install with pip. But in this article we aren't gonna get into them.

The NEXT THING that we need is a piece of code that can decide how the CPU is shared, which function gets the CPU next. So, we need a scheduler of sorts. And in asynchronous programming this is called an EVENT LOOP.

Scheduling Asynchronous Tasks

An event loop will know all the tasks that are running or want to run, it'll select one and give control to it. That task is going to suspend when it needs to wait for something. The control will go back to the loop and the last will find another task and it'll keep going that way. This is called COOPERATIVE MULTI-TASKING.

This is a super simple test. Let's say that we wanna write a little script that prints 'hello' waits 3 seconds and then prints 'world'.

Example: Standard (synchronous) Python
     from time import sleep

    def hello():
        print('Hello')
        sleep(3)
        print('World!')

    if _name_ == '_main_':
        hello()

If we were to put a loop on that 'hello' on the bottom to run 'hello' 10 times, for example, this is gonna run not for 3 seconds but for 30 seconds.

Examples: Asyncio

    import asyncio
    loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()

    @asyncio.coroutine
    def hello():
        print('Hello')
        yield from asyncio.sleep(3)
        print('World!')

    if _name_ == '_main_':
        loop.run_until_complete(hello())

In the first example we're using a GENERATOR FUNCTION. Generators are these special functions that typically you use in Python to generate sequences of items. The nice thing about them is that you don't have to pre-generate all the entire sequence you can generate elements of that sequence as the person calling the generator asks. You can repurpose that using yield or yield from keywords and also use it for an asynchronous function. Basically, when we reach the yield from in the example above, we are saying: "OK, loop, I'm done for now, so I give you back control. Please, run this function for me [the one that follows the yield from], so asyncio sleep for 3 seconds. And when that's done I'm ready to continue". The loop will take note of that and then manage everything. Because it’s a scheduler and that's what it does. So, if you were to call this 'hello' function 10 times instead of running for 30 seconds you're gonna see 10 hellos then a pause for 3 seconds and then you’re gonna see 10 'worlds'.

    import asyncio
    loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()

    async def hello():
        print('Hello')
        await asyncio.sleep(3)
        print('World!')

    if _name_ == '_main_':
        loop.run_until_complete(hello())

In the second example you can see an improvement that you get in recent Pythons - a much nicer syntax. Functionally these two are equivalent. You have an  async def declaration, that's what you use to define an ASYNCHRONOUS FUNCTION. And if you use that syntax to declare the function then you get to use await for the suspension and resuming.

The one of the things that asyncio is great for is that it makes very explicit the points where the code suspends and resumes.

Async Pitfalls

1. What happens if you have an asynchronous program with one or more tasks that need to do some heavy CPU calculation?

So, the problem is if you use the CPU in your function for, say, one minute then during that minute nothing else will happen, because this's a single thread. All tasks need to be nice to the remaining tasks and release the CPU often. You have to call 'sleep' every once in a while in a function as often as you can. But if you're really greedy and you don’t want to give up the time that you've got the best you can do is you can sleep for zero seconds. This is basically saying the loop that you need control back as soon as possible. If your calculation has a loop, which is pretty common, then you stick a 'sleep 0' inside that loop. This way once per iteration you allow other tasks to continue running.

Example: await asyncio.sleep(0)

2. The second problem is that the blocking library functions are incompatible with async frameworks.

So, there's a bunch of things in Python Standard library that are assigned as blocking functions: socket.*, select.*, subprocess.*, os.waitpid, threading.*, multiprocessing.*, time.sleep. Everything that has to do with networking, processes, threads, you cannot use them. This is true for every async framework. If you use these functions the thing is gonna hang. So, don't use them. It's very unfortunate.

All async frameworks provide replacements for these functions. And sometimes it’s kind of sucks, because you have to learn a different way to do the things that you know how to do. All these common things that you do with processes, threads and networking. Unfortunate, but true. It's true for Asyncio, Eventlet, Gevent, Twisted, Curio, all of them. They all provide alternative ways to do these blocking things.

Conclusion

Let's summarise this with a little table that compares processes, threads and async on a number of categories.

Processes vs. Threads vs. Async

                                       Processes          Threads             Async
  ------------------------------------ ------------------ ------------------- -------------------
  Optimize waiting periods             Yes (preemptive)   Yes (preemptive)    Yes (cooperative)
  Use all CPU cores                    Yes                No                  No
  Scalability                          Low (ones/tens)    Medium (hundreds)   High (thousands+)
  Use blocking std library functions   Yes                Yes                 No
  GIL interference                     No                 Some                No

You might think that these are super cool non-blocking doing something while a task waits exclusive to async and that is not true. Processes and thread can do that pretty well too. And it's actually not Python doing it, in that case it's an operating system doing it. So, there's no winner here.

There is a slight difference there - in the processes and threads case it's the OS doing it, and in the async case you have your async framework (asyncio, gevent and so on) that doing it. That's cooperative for async and preemptive (which is called when the OS yanks the CPU out without you knowing it) for processes and threads.

If you want to maximize your multiple cores in your computer then the only way is processes. And many times people combine processes with one of the other two. They run a multi thread on an async program and then they run it as many times as cores they have.

Scalability is an interesting one, because if you're running multiple processes each process will have a copy of the Python interpreter and all the resources that it uses plus a copy of your code, your application, plus all the resources that you use, so all of that is gonna be duplicated. If you start going crazy and start new instances you’re gonna find that pretty soon you're probably gonna be out of memory. You cannot run a lot of Python processes on a normal computer. So, the scalability is pretty low with processes, in the ones or the tens but no more than that. If you go to threads, they are a little bit more lightweight than processes, so you can initiate much more threads than processes. This way you can scale a little bit better, say, in the hundreds. If you go with async, there everything is done in Python space, there are no resources at the OS level that are used, so these are extremely lightweight. This is a clear winner. Async can go into thousands or tens of thousands even. So, this can be a good reason to go async.

Now we have the bad news of using the blocking functions in the Python Standard library which processes and threads can do no problem because the OS knows how to deal with those. But when we lose the support of the OS in async we cannot use those functions and we need replacements. And the last is the Global Interpreter Lock. It causes some troubles with threads, but it’s not that bad when you have the types of applications that are good for also the async which are heavily io. Because if you have threads that are blocked on io then you don't hold the GIL. So, if a thread goes to wait then the OS will be able to give access to another thread without any problems.

So, really, it's not that great. There arenэt that many things that are better for async. Basically, the best argument to go async is when you really need massive scaling. These would be servers that are going to be very busy. Async can go into thousands or tens of thousands of connections and it's like nothing, not a problem. In any other category it's not really clear that you should go async unless you like it.

Appendix

The article was inspired by the Miguel Grinberg's talk on the PyCon 2017.

question: What does the text say about Asynchronous Programming?

answer: Asynchronous programming is one of the methods Python uses to run multiple tasks at once.

question: What does the text say about the pitfalls of Async?

answer: The problem with Async is that all tasks need to be nice to the remaining tasks and release the CPU often.  The second problem is that the blocking library functions are incompatible with async frameworks.

question: What does the text say about Python?

question: What does the text say about programming?


text:
“When you walk in a dream,
But you know you’re not dreaming,
That’s amore.”

November 15, Saturday, 2013. The darkness had enveloped the ciel and the last light of day had just quietly slipped from the curved horizon. Soon, even the faint glow of the sun from behind the skyline gave way to night. Strangely, it wasn’t dark, for the moon had shown its face at this moment, casting a dim shine upon the streets, illuminating them in a faded and gloomy hue of blue. It was through this faint light that a pale white van with two yellow eyes approached. Curiously, each time that the van crossed a speed bump, its two yellow eyes would cast their gaze to the night sky for a moment, just to return onto the house on the street again. Moments passed and the van finally pulled up to the curbside in an amateur manner. A boy had been driving, and as the young garçon of 16 got out of the car, negotiating plans for pickup with his father, it didn’t take but a glance to deduce the reason for the gloom of the night sky.

There wasn’t a single bone in the boy’s body that didn’t ring with joy. Walking with a brisk gaiety and clothed in his signature pressed dress shirt and jeans, the boy climbed the pebblestoned steps of her house. Her. He was not one to give out his heart easily, but oh, how he longed for her. He had known her well for three years but the week’s turn of events still threw doubt in his mind. She certainly had been a puzzling character. He had questions to sort out. He had answers to find. But despite the anxiety that clouded his mind, he was just glad to see her. She had unlocked his heart, and now, as he approached the entryway, she had unlocked the door.

Thinking furiously as to why she would be so excited for his arrival, the door and its frame began to separate slowly. As the light diffused from the crack in the door onto the ground beneath his feet, the boy stared into the most beautiful face he had ever seen in the world. She radiated innocence and purity and beauty and everything he had ever wanted. Her red lips curved slowly into a small crescent, and mesmerized, the boy smiled back. Before he could say his somewhat rehearsed lines, his daydream was quickly interrupted by the high pitched yipping of a dog. Startled for a second, the boy turned around; had no idea where the sound had come from. Confused, and caught in a moment of personal weakness, he turned back around to see a small white head with a pink bowtie on it squeeze through the crack of the door. Then the white furry body began to follow, but two smoothly skinned hands grabbed the dog’s abdomen, pulling it back inside despite furry protests.

“LILY!” Chided the girl, obviously accustomed to the behavioral patterns of this dog

“Oh ww-we-well that scared me a bit”, stuttered the boy, sheepishly.

He felt his ears go red. They had always been a bad habit of his, those ears. Every time he was embarrassed, his ears would go off like sirens of an ambulance, screaming “LOOK AT ME!”. He had always considered himself the “man with a plan”, but tonight, nothing seemed to be working out. In the past, he was never nervous or stressed out, but with her, he could not keep himself from being jittery.

Not wanting to be impolite, he waited outside as Lily, if he heard correctly, was the name of the dog, was disciplined. Seconds later, her beautiful face reappeared in the doorway, surprised he was still outside in the cold November air and the now much darkened sky.

“Hey, are you crazy? What are you doing? Come on in!”, said she.

With those words as his encouragement, he stepped cautiously into the non-familiar territory, ashamed again for his uncommonly blundering behavior. It wasn’t until he was fully immersed into the light of the foyer that he saw her, from head to toe, for the first time that day.
Her full beauty hit him like a truck. She had always been the sharpest and most fashionable dresser at school, but today, she was dressed in pyjamas – a grey v-neck t-shirt and comfortable pants, with her feet carefully shrouded in tight black socks. Her unbelievably smooth skin was generously showing, from her arms to her neck to her face. It was unbelievable- even effortlessly, she was more beautiful than he had ever seen her. Again, for the countless time that night, he felt embarrassed again. He had overdressed. His carefully tucked in dress shirt along with his clean boots juxtaposed with her garb made his ears flash red once more. But the look she gave him, the look of wonder and admiring she gave him made all of his worries disappear. Her big round eyes stared into his and for the first time in forever he felt a feeling he had never felt before. He felt loved tonight, and everything that he ever worried about melted away under her sweet gaze.

Without another word said, the girl and her (obviously very forgiving) dog led him into her brightly illuminated house into the living room, a room that perfectly matched her laid back personality. A vaulted ceiling and a large sofa graced the room, showing both her soaring creativity and her relaxed and easy going persona. The girl seamlessly glided onto the big couch, leaning on one of the large arms, effortlessly comfortable.

As destiny would dictate, the stubbornness and gawky nature of the boy returned with a vengeance. Awkwardly, he sat down on the couch close enough to the girl to show subtle affection but far enough to show obvious caution. All of this worry and ephemeral nonsense was once again swept away when she turned on the TV: the event of the night and the reason he had come over.

For weeks now she had been telling him about The Walking Dead, how its characters were so developed and how the storyline was so gripping. Initially turned away by the gore and violence, the boy had watched the pilot the week prior and fell in love with the series in the same way he had with the girl. The only thing was, she was already up to date on the seasons; in fact, she was well versed in every episode up until the latest episodes of season 4. But for some reason, she had graciously allowed him to come over and if the plan went as prescribed, they would watch every episode together.

“Hey, are you ready for season two?” She asked him, her voice eager.

“You’re a really speedy Gonzales, you know. I honestly have no idea how you watched all of season one on your own!”

“Hell yeah I am! Let’s finish the whole thing today!” He joked, trying to break the one sided awkwardness of the situation that he had created with his arrival.

She didn’t seem to mind his nervousness at all, and with no further ado, she began the episode.

Despite the usual mesmerizing effect that the show had on him, today he couldn’t focus. He had no idea what was wrong today. He was so happy, yet he was so scared of being judged. Would she mind if I got closer? What about if I did this? What about that? He thought.

This dilemma would haunt him the entire night. After each episode, the television would play a fifteen second break before the next episode to most likely allow the couch potato stricken watchers to have an emotionally stable period of time between each episode topped to the brim with drama.

Halfway through one of the episodes, he thought to himself, “You know what?”

“It’s Saturday. I’m with the girl of my dreams. We’re alone together. What else is there to want?”

Craftily and like his normal self, he carefully took advantage of each of these breaks. Slowly at first, he shifted his weight over closer to her each time the fifteen second margin of opportunity allowed, but nearing the end, he began speeding up the process as to not run out of time and by the time that one of the last episodes of season two were playing, they were close to the wee hours of morning but even better, he was close to her and she was close to him.

She had barely even noticed the change, and with the carefree nature she always showed, she rested her head on the boy’s shoulder, snuggling up to him. Surprised and definitely caught off guard by this display of affection, the boy recoiled enough to make her turn her head to him with her sad eyes. With what little emphatic skills he had, he reasoned that she thought she had gone too far.

It wasn’t until now that the boy realized that the girl was just as insecure as he was. She was simply looking for someone to love, and it was in this moment that he knew they needed each other.

Letting his old self go, they cuddled together for the finale of The Walking Dead’s season 2, sharing all of the emotional rises and falls that it brought. When the episode ended, the fifteen second margin didn’t appear. Startled, the boy’s ears threatened to turn red, but then he realized that the season was over. But that didn’t matter to him anymore. Nothing mattered anymore. She was his and he was hers.

Obviously very sore from hours spent on the couch, the boy stood up and stretched for the tall ceiling with his arms, relaxing his muscles. Surprisingly, upon turning around, he noticed that the girl had lay down on the couch with her eyes closed, taking up where his old seat had been. A bit surprised, the boy used his extensive adaptive skills to move a couple of plushy pillows aside and sat by her head, stroking her hair and taking her hand into his. He wondered if she fell asleep, but those thoughts were immediately eradicated when his hand felt a bit of moisture. She sat up immediately and explained that her hands always sweat up a little bit when she held hands, clearly embarrassed with herself. She blundered on, profusely apologizing, but to the boy, she had never been more attractive or adorable than now. After a bit more of her nervous explanation, the boy could tell she was winded. She breathed in short breaths, trying to restore the air in her lungs that she had spent in trying to convince the boy that her hands were strange objects that could not be controlled, and with that, she sank back down into the couch once more, exhausted.

Moments went by. Minutes ticked past. Hours almost passed with neither of them talking but both of them thoroughly enjoying each others’ presence. It was then, that the strangest thing happened. Smoothly, the girl’s hand glided over the boy’s chest and shoulder, reaching behind his neck and caressed and tugged at him down towards her. A little used to this girl’s puzzling nature by now, he knew exactly what she desired. Although their position on the couch meant that their faces were inverted, he leaned down to her face and they shared the most wonderful kiss in the world, and he finally knew he was in love because his reality had become one with his dream.

title: When You Walk In A Dream But You Know You're Not Dreaming A True Love Story

question: Summarize the tension of the story.

answer: The protagonist is insecure about how he is being perceived by the girl. He is very self-conscious about the minutia of his every action, hoping to do exactly enough, but not too much as to come on too strong.

question: Describe the positive events of the story.

answer: The protagonist is extremely excited when he arrives at the girl's house. Over the course of watching television, the protagonist moves closer and closer towards the girl. Eventually, they end up cuddling and share a kiss.

question: How old is the protagonist?


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Now that I’ve reached 35 weeks, it’s time to start getting prepared for Baby Number 2’s arrival. I’ve heard that second babies can sometimes come early, and although I know better than to blindly believe all the things I have ‘heard’, it is certainly worth being prepared! I have a feeling he’s going to come soon.

We will be leaving all of our bags in the corridor, ready to pick up as we dash out of the door. I packed the baby’s bag first as I think it’s probably the easiest one to get ready. I won’t need to grab things like phone chargers and remember to pack them on the way out, so once the baby’s bag is done, I don’t need to touch it again!

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BUYING A CHANGE BAG

So the change bag I’ve gone for this time is a million times better than the bag I had with Luke. In fact, I didn’t even buy a change bag for Luke, I used the one that comes free with a coupon when you buy a packet of Pampers nappies in Boots. To be fair, I haven’t seen that offer around this time, so maybe it has been discontinued. Or maybe it’s just because I haven’t joined the Boots Baby Club again?

THE CHANGE BAG OF DREAMS

So this time I decided to actually buy a change bag and not be stingy. After seeing some ads on Facebook, I decided to shop around and find one that was similar to what I liked, but most importantly, cheaper. I’m glad I did, because I came across this, THE CHANGE BAG OF DREAMS! Okay so that’s not it’s official name. It’s official name is: Large Capacity Nappy Changing Backpack, YIMOJI Multi-function Baby Diaper Bag Mom and Dad Travel Backpack with 3 Insulated Thermal Milk Bottle Pockets (Grey). You can see why I shortened it.

[What to pack in your baby's hospital bag during pregnancy for when you go into labour at https://lukeosaurusandme.co.uk]

So I could rave on and on about how amazing this bag is and why I have nicknamed it The Change Bag Of Dreams, but I’m not going to. If I did, you’d be sat here for ages reading this and that is not what this post is about. INSTEAD, HERE ARE SOME OF THE MAIN POINTS I LOVE ABOUT IT:

-   It’s a bit like the TARDIS – small on the outside and blooming huge on the inside. It’s very spacious.

-   Lots of pockets and zipped compartments (13 in total), great for keeping everything organised.

-   Multifunctional – can be attached to the terrain stroller, worn as a back pack or carried.

-   Neutral grey colour – which by the way is gorgeous – means that it’s great for mums and dads. I don’t think Mikey would feel too happy about walking around with a super colourful change bag.

-   The base is water resistant as well as being dirt resistant. The back of the back pack has an anti-theft secret zip, perfect for phones and purses.

In a few months, I’ll be doing a full review of the bag, once I have had the opportunity to thoroughly test it. But for now, I’m in love!

After having a look at some guides online and remembering my own experiences of being in hospital with Luke, I had a pretty good idea what I did and didn’t want to include in Baby Number 2’s bag.

If you’re thinking about packing your baby’s hospital bag soon, here’s a list I put together that you can pin, download and print out to make the job easier.

[What to pack in your baby's hospital bag during pregnancy for when you go into labour at https://lukeosaurusandme.co.uk]

CLOTHES AND HATS

We’re having a summer baby and we all know that hospitals are warm places. I’ve packed around 5 baby grows, they’re short sleeved, so I have also packed one to two ‘proper’ outfits for coming home. The baby grows are all from Primark and the hats we have packed are from F&F at Tesco. I must admit, this is completely over kill – normally you only need two or three, but I like to be prepared.

SOCKS AND BOOTIES

I haven’t packed any all-in-one grows, so the little man is going to need socks and booties. I’ve got two pairs of socks and one pair of booties packed. I’m pretty sure we picked up these little bits from Poundland. We’ve also got a pair of scratch mittens in there, just in case.

BLANKET

Once you’re outside the hospital, it’s not so warm, so I’ve packed this gorgeous fleece lined blanket that we picked up from the ALDI baby event. It’s the softest thing ever!

NAPPIES AND WIPES

I’m not bothering to take nappies out of the packet and count them up. I’ve just shoved one pack of newborn nappies in the bag as well as one pack of wipes. At some point you will get a free pack of nappies in either your Bounty or Emma’s Diary packs and these are perfect for the hospital. You don’t know how long you’re going to be in hospital for, so I think it’s best to just take a whole pack of each. Those packs also contain little tubes of nappy cream, so we’ve popped one of those in too.

[What to pack in your baby's hospital bag during pregnancy for when you go into labour at https://lukeosaurusandme.co.uk]

MUSLINS

I’ve packed two muslin squares, they’re both from ALDI. They’re not the thickets of muslins, but they’ll do for hospital as they’re light weight and thinner, meaning they pack well into the change bag.

BOTTLES AND BREAST PUMP

I’m not entirely sure how I’m going to be feeding Baby Number 2 just yet. I breastfed Luke for two months and then, sadly, had to give it up. It’s left me with some pretty negative connotations associated with breastfeeding, but every baby is different and my situation is now different, so who knows. Just in case though, I’m bringing the breast pump. Currently, it’s all set up to go in the baby’s bag, but I might transfer it to my hospital bag just to make things easier. I’ve bought some Tommee Tippee Closer To Nature bottles and they’re sat in the very handy insulated bottle holder pouch at the front of the change bag.

[What to pack in your baby's hospital bag during pregnancy for when you go into labour at https://lukeosaurusandme.co.uk]

GOING HOME OUTFIT

Long story short, you’ll most likely know that we are a bunny mad family and have two house bunnies. We really wanted to get Baby Number 2 the ‘That’s Not My Bunny…’ all-in-one grow from Mothercare as his going home outfit. However, it seems that online and in every shop we have gone to, newborn sizes are sold out. Instead, we’re bringing him home in an outfit Luke chose, which retrospectively, seems like a much nicer idea.

PRESENT FOR LUKE

Obviously, I’m so keen to make sure Luke is as involved as possible and isn’t left out. I know that juggling two kids will inevitably bring up some sour feelings from him, but we decided that it might be a really nice idea for Luke to have a present from his little brother when he comes to meet him for the first time! I wrote a post about why we felt this would be a great idea and what we eventually ended up choosing.

So that’s it…for now. Now that I’ve written it all down, I’m starting to second guess myself and make myself feel a bit paranoid that I’ve forgotten something really important! If you have any further suggestions on things specifically for the baby that we should take to hospital with us, please let me know in the comments!

[What to pack in your baby's hospital bag during pregnancy for when you go into labour at https://lukeosaurusandme.co.uk]

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question: What does the author of the article recommend packing in the change bag of a newborn?

answer: She recommends putting a few clothes, hats, socks, and booties if the clothes don't include all-in-one grows, and a blanket for keeping the baby warm. Additionally, she recommends nappies, wipes, muslins, and feeding bottles with a breast pump, just in case. Finally, she recommends packing a "going home" outfit. An optional recommendation is a present for the newborn's older sibling to make them feel involved.

question: What does the article say about c-section births?


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The miflora sensor platform allows one to monitor plant soil and air conditions. The Mi Flora plant sensor is a small Bluetooth Low Energy device that monitors the moisture and conductivity of the soil as well as ambient light and temperature. Since only one BLE device can be polled at a time, the library implements locking to prevent polling more than one device at a time.

There are “Chinese” and “International” versions available and there is a report that only the “International” works.

 Install a Bluetooth Backend

Before configuring Home Assistant you need a Bluetooth backend and the MAC address of your sensor. Depending on your operating system, you may have to configure the proper Bluetooth backend for your system:

-   On Home Assistant: Miflora will work out of the box.
-   On Home Assistant Container: Works out of the box with --net=host and properly configured Bluetooth on the host.
-   On other Linux systems:
    -   Preferred solution: Install the bluepy library (via pip). When using a virtual environment, make sure to install the library in the right one.  - Fallback solution: Install gatttool via your package manager. Depending on the distribution, the package name might be: bluez, bluetooth, bluez-deprecated

 Scan for devices

Start a scan to determine the MAC addresses of the sensor (you can identify your sensor by looking for Flower care or Flower mate entries) using this command:

    $ sudo hcitool lescan
    LE Scan ...
    F8:04:33:AF:AB:A2 [TV] UE48JU6580
    C4:D3:8C:12:4C:57 Flower mate
    [...]

Or, if your distribution is using bluetoothctl use the following commands:

    $ bluetoothctl
    [bluetooth]# scan on
    [NEW] Controller <your Bluetooth adapter> [default]
    [NEW] F8:04:33:AF:AB:A2 [TV] UE48JU6580
    [NEW] C4:D3:8C:12:4C:57 Flower mate

If you can’t use hcitool or bluetoothctl but have access to an Android phone you can try BLE Scanner or similar scanner applications from the Play Store to easily find your sensor MAC address. If you are using Windows 10, try the Microsoft Bluetooth LE Explorer app from the Windows Store.

 Configuration

To use your Mi Flora plant sensor in your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

    # Example configuration.yaml entry
    sensor:
      - platform: miflora
        mac: 'xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx'
        monitored_conditions:
          - moisture

 Configuration Variables

 mac string Required

The MAC address of your sensor.

 monitored_conditions list (Optional)

The parameters that should be monitored.

Default:

[“moisture”, “light”, “temperature”, “conductivity”, “battery”]

 moisture

Moisture in the soil.

 light

Brightness at the sensor’s location.

 temperature

Temperature at the sensor’s location.

 conductivity

Conductivity in the soil.

 battery

Battery details. Cached and only updated once a day.

 name string (Optional)

The name displayed in the frontend.

 force_update boolean (Optional, default: false)

Sends update events even if the value hasn’t changed.

 median integer (Optional)

Sometimes the sensor measurements show spikes. Using this parameter, the poller will report the median of the last 3 (you can also use larger values) measurements. This filters out single spikes. Median: 5 will also filter double spikes. If you never have problems with spikes, median: 1 will work fine.

 adapter string (Optional, default: hci0)

Define the Bluetooth adapter to use. Run hciconfig to get a list of available adapters.

 go_unavailable_timeout integer (Optional, default: 7200)

Timeout to report this device as unavailable. This option hides a bad link quality

By default the sensor is only polled once every 20 minutes (scan_interval is 1200 seconds by default). On a Home Assistant restart sensor will report initial value. If you set median: 3, it will take _at least_ 40 minutes before the sensor will report an average value. Keep in mind though that reducing polling intervals will have a negative effect on the battery life.

 Full example

A full configuration example could look like the one below:

    # Example configuration.yaml entry
    sensor:
      - platform: miflora
        mac: 'xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx'
        name: Flower 1
        force_update: true
        median: 3
        go_unavailable_timeout: 43200
        monitored_conditions:
          - moisture
          - light
          - temperature
          - conductivity
          - battery

An automation example to report a battery failure:

    - id: flower1_moisture_unavailable_check
      alias: Flower 1 sensors available
      trigger:
      - entity_id: sensor.flower1_moisture
        for: 24:00:00
        platform: state
        to: unavailable
      action:
      - data:
          message: "Flower 1 moisture is unavailable for more than 24 hours"
        service: notify.notifier_telegram_someone

question: What does the text say about polling time.

answer: Only one BLE device can be polled at a time. The sensor is only polled once every 20 minutes by default. If someone sets median:3, it will take at least 40 minutes before the sensor will report an average value. The author points out that reducing polling intervals will have a negative effect on the sensor's battery life.

question: Summarize the purpose of the miflora sensor.

answer: The miflora sensor platform allows one to monitor plant soil and air conditions. It monitors the moisture and conductivity of the soil, as well as ambient light and temperature. The ambient light and temperature are monitored at the sensor's location.

question: Summarize how and why you may have to configure the proper Bluetooth backend for your system.

answer: You may have to configure the proper Bluetooth backend depending on your operating system. On Home Assistant, miflora will work out of the box. On Home Assistant Container, miflora will work out of the box with net host and properly configured Bluetooth on the host. On other Linux systems, the preferred solution is for bluepy library (via pip) to be installed. In a virtual environment, the library should be stored in the right one. A fallback solution when the miflora is being used on other Linux systems is to install gattool via your package manager. Depending on the distribution, the package name may be bluez, bluetooth, or bluez deprecated.

question: What does the text say about the popularity of this device.


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[]_Stacey Abrams_

STACEY ABRAMS, THE DELUSIONAL LOSER OF THE GEORGIA GUBERNATORIAL RACE, WHO STILL REFUSES TO CONCEDE BECAUSE SHE BELIEVES SHE ACTUALLY WON THE ELECTION, WARNED OF A RUSSIAN TAKEOVER BY THE YEAR 2030.

Over 100,000 illegal aliens from Central America and Mexico are flooding over the border into the US every month, but Stacey Abrams believes if we don’t stop the (phony) voter suppression of black and brown people, we will all be speaking Russian in 10 years. Makes sense.

And the Democrats believe her incoherent ramblings pass for keen logic.

Stacey Abrams has repeatedly blamed voter suppression for the reason why she lost to Republican challenger Brian Kemp in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial. She lost by over 55,000 votes but she really won, just ask her.

TRENDING: BREAKING: Now the Democrat Attorneys General Align with Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia - Nearly Every State Has Picked Sides

She didn’t lose because she was a horrible candidate and a tax delinquent, she lost because of evil whitey.

“There’s no more fundamental and national security crisis than the theft of our elections, not simply through Russian hacking, which is incredibly important and we have to pay attention to it, but by the suppression of the very voters whose voices could change the direction of our country,” Abrams said speaking at a national security forum on Friday.

“If we do not secure our democracy and ensure that every vote counts in 2020, we will be having a very different conversation, possibly in Russian, in 2030,” Abrams said to cheers.

WATCH:

  Stacey Abrams warns of a Russian takeover by 2030 if voter suppression isn't addressed https://t.co/wBMhLvFt0r pic.twitter.com/xzOG8iB3tT

  — David Rutz (@DavidRutz) May 10, 2019

question: What bias does the author hold?

answer: He's clearly a right wing conservative with bias against Democrats and the perspective of people of Color.


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20TH ANNIVERSARY V-PETS WAVE 2 PRE-ORDERS! D-1 RETURNS! & SPOILERY MEICOOMON EVO INFO

We have a stack of new info that'll be of interest to quite a few people...

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Pre-Order details, a ton of information and images on the 20th Wave 2 V-Pets... There is also info on the new version of the D-1, and some Meicoomon information that might be considered a spoiler. We won't be spoiler tagging it because it's part of upcoming products, so consider this a polite warning (it's not 'really' a spoiler, but heads up.)

First up are some general details on the 20th V-Pets as a whole.

I won't be going into detail about 'everything' as most of the details are the same as the original 20th Anniversary V-Pets which came out recently.

But a handful of refreshers isn't a bad thing.

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First up, just like before, these include the full lineup of the original 5 versions of the V-Pet.

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The three anniversary Digimon will also be appearing.

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And if you connect both versions of 20th Anniversary V-Pets together (one of the original colors and one of the new colors), both get an egg for Dorumon which will evolve into Alphamon!

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You can also copy a Digimon between two 20th V-Pets to allow it to battle itself.

Then they've also shown fusion again, but they aren't showing off Examon this time...

If you have the two compatible Digimon battle each other enough times it will cause a fusion!

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The example they give of this is BlitzGreymon and CresGarurumon fusing into...

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Omegamon Alter-S!

Now, we have images and info specific to each version of the new V-Pets, including confirmation on "exclusive" Digimon!

First up...

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The Alphamon Color Version!

This version features as it's exclusive Digimon...

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Lunamon who evolves into Dianamon!

Then we have...

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The Zubamon Color Version!

This version features as it's exclusive Digimon...

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Meicoomon who evolves into Razielmon! This of course, is also very likely a bit of early tri. Part 5 (or Part 6?) information.

And last but not least...

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The Omegamon Color Version!

This version features as it's exclusive Digimon...

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Coronamon who evolves into Apollomon!

The Meicoomon exclusive is exciting for tri. fans, and I know many people are super happy anytime Lunamon and Coronamon show up.

Also, since a few people are likely wondering this... Lunamon, Coronamon, and Meicoomon appear in the original 20th V-Pets, but much like the 'anime' Agumon and Gabumon from those original two 20th V-pets, these three are listed as exclusive and appear to be special versions of them.

Each of the 20th Anniversary Wave 2 V-Pets also comes with a shikishi board...

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The board that you get is based on which V-Pet you order, but as you can see... all three go together to make a panorama style image.

Each is drawn by longtime Digimon designer Kenji Watanabe.

They've in the past said these would be for the first 9,000 buyers, but the only clarification they've given at this point is saying they are 'limited.'

The 20th Anniversary Wave 2 V-Pets are currently available to order at the Premium Bandai store.

Update- Regarding ordering the V-Pets. Premium Bandai is not sold out. They set extreme limits on early purchasing due to the presence of the bonus shikishi boards.

Those are now gone and they have re-opened pre-orders with significantly increased order limits. Re-contact your chosen intermediary and have them DOUBLE CHECK the new Premium Bandai product page. This new product page has a different url and has a very high order limit per person. You should be able to get one easily. This information is also copy pasted at the bottom under the intermediary information.

Update- The initial allotment of the V-Pets have sold out. They have opened up an additional allotment of 20th Wave 2 V-Pets. These are identical but ship in December.

Pre-Orders STILL close on August 17th. The original allotments are still scheduled to ship in November. The URL above has been changed to the url for the December allotment pre-orders.

Update- Another update for those wanting to import... So Premium Bandai won't be selling these thru their USA store still (they are from other countries' Bandai stores) but...

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They've done an English promo image along with making a slightly bigger deal about getting stock to their official intermediaries. All 4 have opened (or in a few cases reopened) pre-orders with apparently new batches of stock for them that should make it extra easy for people to nab them.

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Also, we will have a small coupon from one of the retailers shortly (in a few days.) This isn't an affiliate link, simply a discount code for the Wave 2 20th Anniverary V-Pets (a bit under $5.)

I think these 3 V-Pets will be among the more popular among importers due to the heads up on them existing and people wafting on the original 20th V-Pets wanting to get them. And honestly, now that we have high quality images of the new shells, they look AMAZING. I also gotta say, I love the packaging and how it's a fusion of the classic V-Pet packaging, with modern design elements.

But that isn't all...

Next up we have information on the return of the D-1.

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The original D-1 was the series of Digimon tournaments when the brand was younger. The new D-1 will be online.

You will register your Digimon from a 20th Anniversary V-Pet online using name and serial number information from the V-Pet.

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You'll choose two of your Digimon to battle and represent you as your team.

You can also battle the CPU up to 5 times a day (this is separate from the actual Grand Prix.)

Registration for the Grand Prix begins on July 21st and will only be open to people living in Japan.

Last up is information on one of the Digimon from the 2nd wave of V-Pets that we only learned about just up above....

Meicoomon's Ultimate/Mega form... Razielmon!

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Razielmon's existence in and of itself isn't a spoiler, but some of her information from the reference book people might want to avoid, so very last warning... (And hey look... the Reference Book updated after a break!) Especially since this information will likely get people talking about a few other bits of tri...

Razielmon is an Ultimate (Mega) Digimon. It's a Vaccine and it's an Ophanim Digimon.

An angel Digimon who was once appointed to the same rank as Ophanimon. It has a mystery power allowing it to foresee everything in the world from Kernel (the Gods’ domain). It is said that with that power it has full knowledge of events within the Digital World equal to the amount of knowledge stored by the Gods.

It’s special move, Knowledge Stream, it uses both arms to summon a magic square where it can freely combine any of the Five Elements releasing an enormous amount of energy.

For the extermination of the opponents of every occurring miracle, Sefer Raziel, Razielmon itself does not know what will happen or not.

A few things here will be touched up shortly, but wanted to get up this exciting info...

And for those who want to order those V-Pets...

You'll want to contact an intermediary to get these items sent to you. WtW is not affiliated with any, but here are a selection of intermediaries that have worked well for various WtWers and their friends in the past:
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Nippon-Yasan
Japan Hero

The Bandai Premium store has also chosen to affiliate themselves/recommend a few potential shops to be used as intermediaries for non-Japanese buyers:
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You'll want to provide your chosen intermediary with the link to the item. Just copy paste the link to the product pages for what you want and send them a message about it and they'll take care of it after they discuss pricing and their policies with you. The links embedded in the news article for the products are exactly what you'll need to send them.

Some of the intermediaries have a full storefront and may have the item listed, so you may want to check that first.

Update- Regarding ordering the V-Pets. Premium Bandai is not sold out. They set extreme limits on early purchasing due to the presence of the bonus shikishi boards.

Those are now gone and they have re-opened pre-orders with significantly increased order limits. Re-contact your chosen intermediary and have them DOUBLE CHECK the new Premium Bandai product page. This new product page has a different url and has a very high order limit per person. You should be able to get one easily.

Thanks to shin and garm for translations.

The post above has been updated and cleaned up a few times.

question: What are the spoilers mentioned in the article?

answer: There is information about the new version of D-1 and some Meicoomon information. D-1 was the initial Digimon tournament, and the new one will be online. Meicoomon appears alongside Lunamon and Coronamon, and it evolves into Razielmon. Finally, Razielmon has new information about it in the reference book. Razielmon is an Ultimate (Mega) Digimon with a mystery power allowing it to foresee everything in the world from God's Domain, Kernel. Its special move is Knowledge Stream, where it can summon a magic square and freely combine any of the Five Elements.

question: What does the article say about pokemon?


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[Sharp in _A Clockwork Orange_ (1971)] DENNIS ANTHONY JOHN SHARP (16 June 1915, in Highgate, London, England – 23 July 1984, in London, England) was an English actor, writer and director.

Stage career

Anthony Sharp was a graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and made his stage debut in February 1938 with HV Neilson's Shakespearean touring company, playing the Sergeant in _Macbeth_ at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea. Repertory engagements in Wigan, Hastings, Peterborough and Liverpool were followed by war service, after which he resumed his stage career at the Mercury Theatre, Notting Hill Gate in September 1946, playing Hansell in _Tangent_.

He first appeared in the West End in _Family Portrait_ at the Strand Theatre in February 1948. Among his many subsequent appearances were _Cry Liberty_ (Vaudeville Theatre 1950), _Who Goes There!_ (Vaudeville Theatre 1951), _For Better, For Worse_ (Comedy Theatre 1952), _Small Hotel_ (St Martin's Theatre 1955), _No Time for Sergeants_ (Her Majesty's Theatre 1956), _The Edwardians_ (Saville Theatre 1959), _She's Done It Again_ (Garrick Theatre 1969), _The Avengers_ (Prince of Wales Theatre 1971) and _Number One_ (Queen's Theatre 1984).

Other London credits included _The Rivals_ (Sadler's Wells 1972), _She Stoops to Conquer_ (Lyric Hammersmith 1982) and several appearances at the Open Air Theatre Regent's Park. There he played Benedick in _Much Ado About Nothing_ in 1958 and Malvolio in _Twelfth Night_ the following year, rejoining the company in 1978 for such plays as _The Man of Destiny_.[1]

Writer and director

Sharp was also a playwright. His stage version of the Thomas Love Peacock novel _Nightmare Abbey_ was a big hit at the Westminster Theatre in 1952, opening there on 27 February. “Anthony Sharp's altogether delightful adaptation provided one of the most unusual as well as most amusing offerings of the season,” commented _Theatre World_ editor Frances Stephens.[2] After a try-out in Sheffield, the historical drama _The Conscience of the King_ was remounted at the Theatre Royal Windsor, starting on 14 March 1955; Sharp himself played 17th century parliamentarian John Hampden.[3] A third play, _Tale of a Summer's Day_, was written in 1959.[4]

In addition Sharp was a prolific director, particularly of comedy-thrillers and 'boardroom' dramas. His credits included _Any Other Business_ (Westminster Theatre 1958), _Caught Napping_ (Piccadilly Theatre 1959), _Wolf's Clothing_ (Strand Theatre 1959), _Billy Bunter Flies East_ (Victoria Palace 1959), _The Gazebo_ (Savoy Theatre 1960), _Guilty Party_ (St Martin's Theatre 1961), _Critic's Choice_ (Vaudeville Theatre 1961), _Act of Violence_ (1962 UK tour), _Devil May Care_ (Strand Theatre 1963), _Difference of Opinion_ (Garrick Theatre 1963), _Hostile Witness_ (Haymarket Theatre 1964), _Wait Until Dark_ (Strand Theatre 1966), _Justice is a Woman_ (Vaudeville Theatre 1966) and _Harvey_ (1970 UK tour). He also directed several productions in Hong Kong and Australia.[5]

Cinema, television and radio

Cinema

Sharp was frequently cast as supercilious professional or aristocratic types, notably in the Stanley Kubrick films _A Clockwork Orange_ (as Minister of the Interior) and _Barry Lyndon_ (as Lord Hallam). Other film credits include Cornel Wilde's _No Blade of Grass_, two for Michael Winner (_The Jokers_ and _I'll Never Forget What's'isname_), Russ Meyer's _Black Snake_ and the Disney film _One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing_. His only starring role in a feature film was the homicidal priest Father Xavier Meldrum in Pete Walker's 1975 horror picture _House of Mortal Sin_.[6]

His final feature film, in which he played foreign secretary Lord Ambrose, was the James Bond picture _Never Say Never Again_, released in 1983.[7]

Television

In 1977 he had a leading role in the children's television series _The Flockton Flyer_. Other TV dramas in which he appeared included _Angel Pavement_, _The Plane Makers_, _Doomwatch_, _The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes_, _Crown Court_, _Upstairs, Downstairs_, _Schalcken the Painter_ and _The Life and Times of David Lloyd George_. He also played numerous cameo parts in sitcoms, notably _Dad's Army_ (1969, 1977), _Steptoe and Son_ (three episodes, 1970–74), _Nearest and Dearest_ (1973), _Man About the House_ (1975), _Rising Damp_ (1975), _George & Mildred_ (1976, 1978) and _To the Manor Born_ (eight episodes, 1979–81). He worked frequently with such TV comedians as Benny Hill, Morecambe and Wise, Frankie Howerd and Bernie Winters, and towards the end of his life appeared in the early-1980s alternative comedy programmes _The Young Ones_ and _The Comic Strip_.

Radio

In 1978, he appeared as both Garkbit, the waiter at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and The Great Prophet Zarquon, in Fit the Fifth of the original radio series of _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_.[8] In 1981, he appeared as the town clerk of the fictional Frambourne Town Council in the pilot episode of _It Sticks Out Half a Mile_, the radio sequel to _Dad's Army_; it was in that episode that Arthur Lowe reprised his role of Captain Mainwaring for the very last time several months before his death. In 1982–84 Sharp was a regular as Major Dyrenforth on the Radio 2 series _The Random Jottings of Hinge and Bracket_, his last few episodes being broadcast posthumously.

Personal life

He was born Dennis Anthony John Sharp in Highgate in 1915 and was an insurance policy draughtsman before training as an actor. From 1940 to 1946 he served with the Royal Corps of Signals and the Royal Artillery in North Africa, Italy and Austria. “Once the war was over,” he recalled, “I wangled a transfer to the Army Broadcasting Service and helped run radio stations at Naples and Rome. These were very full and very pleasant days—announcing, script-writing, disc-jockeying, organising programmes, producing, acting.”[9] He married the actress Margaret Wedlake in July 1953 and a son, Jonathan, was born in 1954. In _Who's Who in the Theatre_ he listed his favourite part as Malvolio and his recreations as church architecture and watching cricket.[10] He died of natural causes aged 69 in his native London; at the time of his death he was playing the Doctor in the West End production of Jean Anouilh's _Number One_ at the Queen's Theatre.[11]

Selected filmography

-   _Conspiracy in Tehran_ (1946)
-   _The Sword and the Rose_ (1953) – French Diplomat
-   _You Know What Sailors Are_ (1954) – Humphrey – Naval Attache (uncredited)
-   _Wicked as They Come_ (1956)
-   _The Man Who Wouldn't Talk_ (1958) – Baker
-   _Left Right and Centre_ (1959) – Peteron
-   _Clue of the Silver Key_ (1961) – Mike Hennessey
-   _Invasion_ (1965) – Lawrence Blackburn
-   _Doctor in Clover_ (1966) – Dr. Dean Loftus
-   _Martin Soldat_ (1966) – Le major
-   _The Jokers_ (1967) – Prosecuting Lawyer (uncredited)
-   _I'll Never Forget What's'isname_ (1967) – Mr. Hamper Down (uncredited)
-   _Hot Millions_ (1968) – Hollis (uncredited)
-   _Crossplot_ (1969) – Vicar
-   _Doctor in Trouble_ (1970) – Chief Surgeon
-   _No Blade of Grass_ (1970) – Sir Charles Brenner
-   _Die Screaming, Marianne_ (1971) – Registrar
-   _A Clockwork Orange_ (1971) – Minister Frederick
-   _I Want What I Want_ (1972) – Mr. Parkhurst
-   _Some Kind of Hero_ (1972) – Barrister
-   _Black Snake_ (1973) – Lord Clive
-   _Gawain and the Green Knight_ (1973) – King
-   _Mistress Pamela_ (1974) – Longman
-   _Percy's Progress_ (1974) – Judge
-   _The Amorous Milkman_ (1975) – Counsel
-   _One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing_ (1975) – Home Secretary
-   _Barry Lyndon_ (1975) – Lord Hallam
-   _House of Mortal Sin_ (1976) – Father Xavier Meldrum
-   _Crossed Swords_ (1977) – Dr. Buttes
-   _Abortar en Londres_ (1977) – Dr. Brown
-   _Schalcken the Painter_ (1979, TV Movie) – Gentleman
-   _Never Say Never Again_ (1983) – Lord Ambrose

[1] John Parker (ed), _Who's Who in the Theatre_ (15th edition), Pitman Publishing 1972

[2] Frances Stephens, _Theatre World Annual (London)_ vol 3, Rockliff Publishing Corporation 1952

[3] 'Dates for Your Diary', _Curtain Up: The Only Repertory Theatre Magazine_ vol 12 no 8, 28 February 1955

[4]

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[6] Jonathan Rigby, _English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema_, Reynolds & Hearn 2000

[7] Brian MacFarlane (ed), _The Encyclopedia of British Film_, BFI/Methuen 2003

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[9] Anthony Sharp, 'About the Author', _Curtain Up: The Only Repertory Theatre Magazine_ vol 12 no 8, 28 February 1955''

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[11] Jean Anouilh (trans Michael Frayn), _Number One_, Samuel French 1984

title: Anthony Sharp

question: Summarize Sharp's on-screen career.

answer: Sharp was often cast as professional and aristocratic type, with his most notable roles being in the Stanley Kubrick films "A Clockwork Orange" and "Barry Lyndon." His only starring role in a feature film was the homicidal priest Father Xavier Meldrum in Pete Walker's 1975 film "House of Mortal Sin." His final appearance in a feature film was in the 1983 James Bond Film "Never Say Never Again", where he played foreign secretary Lord Ambrose.

question: Summarize Sharp's personal life.

answer: Sharp was born in 1915 in Highgate, London, and had a career as an insurance policy draughtsman before training as an actor. He married actress Margaret Wedlake in 1953 and had a son named Jonathan the following year. He died of natural causes at the age of 69 in London.


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Walk the length of two football pitches and you will know why it took a ground crew of hundreds to haul in an airship.

The R34 was 643 feet long – and 100 years ago it arrived at the Pulham St Mary airship station at the end of an epic double Atlantic crossing.

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The R34: Image: Pennoyer Centre
Giant land art, a tank, augmented reality, talks, exhibitions, pipers, a blimp and a musical are just some of the treats lined up, as this moment in time is celebrated in Pulham St Mary and Diss.

IN PULHAM ST MARY

There will be two days of celebrations to mark the R34's place in aviation history. A centre piece includes an example of land art – a full-sized outline of the R34 marked out on the South Green playing field, showing just how huge it was.

People will be able to walk around, find out information about what went on, where, and marvel at the sheer size of the airship.

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People will be able to walk around an outline of the airship in Pulham St Mary. Picture: Aerial Shoots
Sheila Moss King, who will be one of the weekend’s speakers, said: “On July 13, 1919, Pulham became known around the globe – as famous perhaps as Cape Canaveral is today.

“In contrast to Alcock and Brown [aviators who made the first non-stop Atlantic crossing], the R34 airship and her crew of 30 had proved that mass transatlantic travel was not only possible, but imminent.

“As a village, we are incredibly proud of our moment in history and are looking forward to celebrating it this weekend.”

The R34 Airship Centenary Celebrations begin in Pulham St Mary village and The Pennoyer Centre on Saturday.

A new exhibition including previously unseen material from private collections on the R34, and new artefacts linked to RNAS Pulham, will be on view.

[R34 going into her shed July 13 1919 at RNAS Pulham. Image: The Pennoyer Centre]
R34 going into her shed July 13 1919 at RNAS Pulham. Image: The Pennoyer Centre
Norfolk Tank Museum are bringing along their replica WWI Mark IV tank, identical to that used to tow airships around the air station. The recently discovered WWI linen table cloth, signed by patients, staff and visitors at two military hospitals inwill also be on display.

There will be vintage fete games, vintage and craft stalls, tombola/children's tombola, beer and prosecco, food from Natural Born Grillers, and music. Pennoyer's cafe will be open all day selling cakes, drinks and ice cream.

The refurbished village sign, featuring the R34 and R33 airships, will be unveiled in the afternoon.

Exhibitions and expert talks continue on Sunday for R34 enthusiasts.

IN DISS

An R34 blimp will be seen over the town. In the market place from 11.00am, a piper will acknowledge the Scots origins of the voyage.

Period dancers will appear at 11.30, 12.30, 2.00 and 3.00 and give workshops.

There will be memorabilia stalls outside the museum and a children’s treasure hunt. Inside there is an exhibition featuring model, art and tapestry work by local groups.

University of Suffolk students will be there to help visitors view selected events from the R34’s voyage in augmented reality.

[Basil Abbott will be in costume. Picture: Mark Bullimore Photography]
Basil Abbott will be in costume. Picture: Mark Bullimore Photography
In the church a further display will feature meteorological material on the voyage supplied by weatherman Jim Bacon. There will also be previously unseen photos, newly colourised images, artwork and books.

Museum manager Basil Abbott said: “The voyage of the R34 was a great aviation feat but is now an almost forgotten piece of local history. Diss Museum is proud to have helped bring the story back to public attention.”

In the evening, at 7.30pm, Peter Creswell’s specially composed musical show All Aboard the R34!will be seen at the Corn Hall.

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Peter Creswell (13736156)
On Sunday, at 10.30am there is a special R34 service in St. Mary’s Church will feature slides, film, period hymns and readings in character from the airship log.

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question: How long was the R34?

answer: 643 feet.

question: What was it?

answer: An airship-a blimp.

question: Where do the R34 Airship Centenary Celebrations begin?

answer: Pulham St Mary Village and the Pennoyer Center.

question: What will guests be able to do at the celebration?

answer: Walk around, enjoy live entertainment, find out information about the famed airship, and marvel at its size.

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: In the village of Pulham St Mary, there will be a two-day celebration to fete the R34 Airship, a blimp that became known around the globe in May of 1919-the first World War. There will be a scaled replica of the ship, live entertainment, and information about the airship at the festival. One exciting exhibit is a virtual reality one in which University of Suffolk students will help guests view selected events from the R34's cross-Atlantic voyage in augmented reality. Diss Museum manager Basil Abbott says they are proud to bring this piece of history back to public attention.