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-   You truly are an angel and others like you that reunite sentimental and valuable jewellery with their distraught owners.

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    I believe in angels and one knocked on my door on Saturday, August 3, 2013. For the 5 previous days, my family and I had frantically searched inside my house and in the garden for my cherished engagement ring.

    I received this beautiful ring from my husband on December 23, 1967 and have worn it for 45 and a half years.My beloved husband passed away 13 months ago and my wedding rings and 25th anniversary band became an enormous comfort to me. I started wearing the rings 24/7 and even had the diamonds checked for loose stones.

    My worst fear was that I would lose the solitaire diamond from the engagement ring. Imagine my horror when on Sunday evening, July 28th 2013, I discovered the engagement ring missing from my finger after watering my front and back garden. After searching and searching for my ring to no avail, I found Chris Turner and TheRingFinders on my computer. He came to my rescue on Saturday August 3, 2013 and located my precious ring in my back yard in less than 5 minutes.

    I was completely astounded as my son-in-law and I had searched the area where Chris found it. Apparently, I had stepped on the ring and it was embedded in the dirt under the grass. I would never have found it on my own. I was overwhelmed by Chris' professionalism, experience, kindness and caring. To me that ring was irreplaceable.

    Thank you so much, Chris. You truly are an angel and others like you that reunite sentimental and valuable jewellery with their distraught owners. I highly recommend Chris as I thought my beautiful ring was gone forever. It meant the world to me and am so thankful for Chris' help. I will never forget the sight of my ring in his hand as he presented it to me.

    With my grateful thanks and highest regards,

    Wendy Porter

-   a true act of kindness...

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    Steve,

    I just wanted to send you a quick email to thank you again for the amazing find this afternoon.

    I was fairly certain that all hope was lost and I was preparing for the worst, yet within minutes of meeting you, you had found my wedding ring! Simply amazing! Your willingness to take the time out of your day to drive down to the beach to help a total stranger is a true act of kindness. I am truly grateful.

    I appreciate your time and efforts and hope to see you again sometime down on the water.

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    Steve

-   thank you Chris Turner so grateful and thankful...

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    I was devastated after accidentally throwing my husbands custom wedding ring into the blackberries, we just celebrated our 30th anniversary and he added some diamonds to my custom ring. I was sick to my stomach thinking it was gone forever. After searching with no luck we called “Chris Turner” (Theringfinder) and gave us renewed hope. Unfortunately, it wasn’t as easy as we thought he too didn’t find it on his first trip out...but with his determination and skill on the fourth trip, he found it!!! Couldn’t have done it without him , and a joy to work with as well , thank you Chris Turner so grateful and thankful

    Patti Lawlor ( mission possible)

-   I can’t thank Chris and his wife enough...

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    I was spending a cozy romantic weekend with my beautiful significant other at a charming bistro hotel in Whistler mountain B.C. While there we did a few day trips including one to a lake side beach park.

    While at the park I initiated what I thought would be a harmless snowball fight with my lovely “Vicky” by gingerly lobbing a snowball in her direction. Unfortunately, a very special ring came off my throwing hand and along with the snowball went in the direction of my partner and landed somewhere in the snow-covered ground. I can’t fully describe the incredible value I had for that ring. As an artist not only had I invested many hours in the process of carving a custom mold out of wax but the gold that I used to cast the piece came from many personal sources. 2 family members who had both died of cancer had contributed some of their gold jewelry to make up the almost three ounces that I required to complete the piece.

    Vicky and I returned twice to the area spending a few hours each time to look for the ring but to no avail. Upon returning to Vancouver I shared my disappointment with my sister who had heard of and contacted Chris Turner from TheRingFinders. I subsequently spoke with Chris over the phone. His confidence in finding my ring even in a snow-covered park was incredible. I truly could sense his energy over the phone. He was so positive that it gave me a lot of hope that I could possibly hope to be reunited with my personal treasure.

    The following day when Chris and his wife drove a few hours on the highway and went directly to the park in the township of Whistler. Amazingly within a few hours, I got a phone call from them saying that after doing a technical grid search of the area while utilizing a metal detector they had found my gem! I was gobsmacked with the happy news that they had found my ring!

    I can’t thank Chris and his wife enough. They truly love the hunt and did not charge me anything specific for their services but suggested a donation of what I thought appropriate.

    I still can’t believe my good fortune because of their overwhelming tenacity.

    Francis Buys

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-   He’s Like a angle sent from god...

    Great Guy and Very professional… He came as quick as he could and actually found my phone. I will recommend calling Shawn for anything that’s you may have lost and need to be found. He’s Like a angle sent from god lol

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-   Lost Gold Ring in the Sand at Newport Beach, CA. .. Found at the Fire Pits in the Dark

                        Mobile Metal Detecting Service .. Call Stan the Metal Detector Man .. 949-500-2136 **** On our Southern California beaches it’s popular to spend the evenings sitting on the sand at the fire pits. This call was from Patrick’s friend, who had found me on TheRingFinder […]

-   Lost ring in the grass, Davenport, Fl….Found and Returned to Owner!

    Mike McInroe…Ring Recovery Specialist…Call, text or email ASAP…321-363-6029 Brian had decided to take his dog out for a short walk behind his house and as he walked around the small lake he noticed how loose his ring was on his finger. He and his fiancee had bought promise rings for each other and they each […]

-   Wedding Ring Found on Roadside Near Bangor, MI

    Got a call from Tracy saying she lost her wedding ring out the window of her car. She and Mike, her husband, were driving down the road when they spilled some ice in the center console cup holder. Tracy grabbed the cup holder insert and threw the ice out the window. Oops, she forgot she […]

-   Lost Ring Old Orchard Beach, Maine. A ring finding tale in reverse.

    Most of my Ring Finder post stories begin with someone contacting me to come search an area where they lost a ring. In this case however I found a ring while casually detecting at Old Orchard Beach and then had to try track down the owner. A plea on Craigslist and in the Friends of […]

-   Lost Hierloom Custom Gold Wedding Ring in Thick Shrubbery … Found with Pinpointer Metal Detector .. Laguna Niguel, CA.

                                          “I FIND JEWELRY”  call Stan the Metal Detector Man if you need  help ..  949-500-2136 *** Whiley was walking through a neighborhood park on a sidewalk. Both sides of the sidewalk had thick waist high landscapes […]

-   LOST DIAMOND EARRING TRINITY, FL …FOUND!!

    STEVE THOMAS   DUNEDIN RING FINDER  LOST A RING OR OTHER METAL VALUABLE?  CALL ME ASAP ANYTIME (843) 995-4719  THIS A FREE SERVICE, REWARD OPTIONAL BUT APPRECIATED!   I received a call from Russ who found my contact information on the Ring Finders website. Russ’s girlfriend had lost a diamond earring in the yard of […]

-   14k White Gold wedding band found after being lost for over a year – Tompkinsville, KY

      Owner Steve Harris lost this year over a year ago!   My hunting buddy Larry Stephens found it!   I received an email in my area from a man named Steve, and he said he had lost his 14k white gold wedding band about a year and a half ago and wanted to know if […]

-   University of Toronto Master of Laws Graduate loses Family Heirloom Gold ring

    I received a phone call from Jessica who was heartbroken as she lost a very sentimental Family heirloom pure gold ring that was made in Shanghai. Jessica graduated from the University of Toronto with a Master of Laws degree just two weeks ago! She wore her ring for her graduate photos. The wind caught Jessica’s graduation […]

-   Platinum Wedding Band Lost at a Local Beach in San Clemente, CA. .. Found and Returned

                                “I FIND JEWELRY”  call Stan the Metal Detector Man if you need  help ..  949-500-2136 ****Erick and his family live near San Clemente. They regularly come the this same small beach and everybody knows each other. The week before his friend […]

-   Lost Gold Cartier Love Ring at Hale Koa Waikiki…FOUND!!!

    This ring find began when I got a call from Daniel who lives in Honolulu. While enjoying the day and playing volleyball on the Hale Koa beach his girlfriend Kiana lost her Gold Cartier Love ring in the water while going after a stray ball. They searched for about an hour but never found the […]

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War Stories

Demolition Donald

It’s undeniable that the president is wrecking the U.S.-led international order. The only question left is whether he’s doing it on purpose.

[Donald Trump walks by a sign that says 2018 with a red maple leaf.]

President Donald Trump walks to the official G-7 welcoming ceremony in La Malbaie, Quebec, on Friday. Geoff Robins/AFP/Getty Images
After the events of the past week in Quebec and Singapore, the question must be asked: Is President Donald Trump _trying_ to wreck the rules-based world order and its network of U.S.-led alliances, or is he just indulging in self-aggrandizing theatrics that happen to have that effect?

Either way, the effect is undeniable. Few could contend with a straight face or a sound mind that Trump’s actions at the recent G-7 meeting and his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have advanced U.S. security interests, as that term has been understood by presidents since the end of World War II.

Trump or his supporters might respond that he is rejecting the old concepts of national security. But if that’s so, let him spell out what new concepts would tout Kim Jong-un and the authoritarian leaders of Russia, Turkey, the Philippines, and Saudi Arabia as America’s most trustworthy friends, while downgrading the democratic leaders of Britain, France, Germany, and Canada as dishonest swindlers barely worthy of our mutual defense pacts.

It is appalling (there is no gentler word) for an American president to blast Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in those terms for simply (and mildly) speaking up in response to Trump’s threat of a trade war—and then, two days later, to laud Kim, the world’s most brutal and insular tyrant, as a man who loves his country and to say it’s an “honor” to be in his presence.

In the wake of this double battering, the Europeans—long nervous about Trump’s waverings—are loading their wagons for the road of self-reliance they detect ahead. In a speech on Wednesday, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas put “Donald Trump’s egotistical politics of America First” in the same category as “Russia’s attacks on international law” and “the expansion of gigantic China”—all contributing in equal measure to the demise of “the world order we were used to” and that “no longer exists.”

Trump also betrayed America’s Asian allies in Singapore, despite repeated entreaties from South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe not to give away the store. At a press conference after his summit with Kim, Trump announced that he was suspending joint U.S.–South Korean military exercises, saying that they’re “provocative” and that they cost “a fortune”—a statement that alarmed allies (and caught many back home by surprise) for three reasons.

First, Trump issued this new policy without consulting South Korea or any of his own officials, including in the Pentagon. Second, the description of exercises that the U.S.
military routinely conducts with its allies as “war games” and “provocative” endorsed North Korea’s own dark characterization of them. Third, his whistling over the cost of these drills revived anxieties that Trump might cut ties with those allies altogether. Training exercises, in the scheme of things, are fairly cheap. John Pike, head of the research firm GlobalSecurity.org, estimates that the exercises with South Korea cost “tens of millions of dollars”—barely a ripple in a U.S. military budget of $716 _billion__._

It is expensive, as Trump said, to fuel B-1 bombers for the six-hour flight to South Korea from their bases in Guam—about $720,000 for a round trip, Pike calculates. But, first, that’s _one one-millionth_ the cost of the annual defense budget. Second, why did Trump boost defense spending to such skyrocketing levels if he’s so reluctant to let the troops train with their weapons? It’s hard not to conclude that he views the armed forces in the same way that he views summits—as a platform for spectacles. Hence his penchant for big military parades.

The point is if Trump is weary of spending money for South Korean training exercises, it won’t be much longer before he tires of paying troop deployments (he has said he’d like to withdraw them at some point), and that realization sparks uncertainties about his commitments to other allies, including those in Europe.

It was strange, even by his standards, when, just before his flight to Quebec, Trump said that Russia should be let back in to the G-7, making it the G-8 again. He raised the issue again at the actual meeting, shortly after which he threatened his fellow members with a trade war for specious reasons. (For instance, according to U.S. government figures, the U.S. has a slight trade _surplus_ with Canada, the latest object of his attacks.) Russia was booted out of the club after President Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea and invaded Eastern Ukraine. Trump later said that he’s heard most people in those parts of Ukraine would rather live under Russian governance anyway—a dubious claim but one that isn’t his to make in any case.

In a more revealing statement, he explained why Putin should be let back in: “If Vladimir Putin were sitting next to me at a table … I could say, ‘Would you do me a favor and get out of Syria? Would you do me a favor, would you get out of Ukraine?’ ”

This may be the most alarming sign yet of Trump’s complete misunderstanding of the way diplomacy works: his tendency to mistake calculated pats on the back for friendship—and, more to the point, his belief that personal relationships outweigh national interests. The notion that Putin would consider retreating from Crimea or abandoning Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, his sole ally in the Middle East, out of some fondness for Donald Trump, is breathtaking.

This is the other big lesson from Trump’s travels this past week: He’s a lousy negotiator. It’s now old news that, in Singapore, he granted Kim several concessions in exchange for nothing—meeting with him as an equal in the first place, suspending military exercises with South Korea, and dropping all previous demands on what Kim needs to do before talks proceed. The more startling bit of news, revealed over the next few days, is that Trump genuinely seems to think he came away with a good deal—when, in fact, the joint statement that he and Kim signed isn’t a _deal_ of any sort.

At the post-summit press conference, Trump insisted that the two had signed a “very, very comprehensive document,” perhaps because it commits North Korea “to work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.” The phrase _work toward_ was unencumbered by any timetable; the word _denuclearization_ was undefined. Trump later said that North Korea is “no longer a nuclear threat,” as if saying so might make it true.

For a week before the summit, midlevel U.S. officials—led by Sung Kim, ambassador to the Philippines and an experienced hand on North Korea affairs—negotiated with their Pyongyang counterparts to hammer out a joint statement that might mean something. Sources familiar with the talks say that the U.S team sought support from the White House in pushing back against the North Koreans’ resistance but that the message from the White House was clear: _Just produce something. Don’t worry about the details._

Trump had given away his hand. He was desperate for a summit, and he was desperate to have it take place on June 12. So the North Koreans could bide their time. On May 24, Trump announced he was canceling the summit, and if he’d played that gambit shrewdly, he might have gained some leverage, as Kim wanted a summit too. But the next day Trump canceled the cancellation after Kim issued a politely worded statement. In other words, Trump put the summit back on tracks without demanding anything of substance in return. That reassured the North Korean team—the same officials who have been negotiating with foreign powers for the past 20 years—that they could get what they wanted with no penalty or sacrifice. Trump had said, ahead of time, that he would walk out of the summit if things didn’t go well. The North Koreans now knew this wasn’t so.

Similarly, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s recent statement to reporters that North Korea will probably dismantle all its nuclear weapons by the end of Trump’s first term tells Kim and his negotiators that they can twiddle their thumbs for the next 2½ years, waiting for the Americans to make the big concessions. The fact that Pompeo linked the timetable explicitly to Trump’s re-election bid heightens Kim’s leverage even more.

Meanwhile, Trump’s (and America’s) control over world events slips steadily out of his (and our) hands. Again, the question is whether he’s letting it go deliberately, whether he fully understands that his vision of America First leads inexorably to America Alone and, if so, whether he’s fine with that—whether his inattention to global supply chains and his indifference to geopolitical interests run so deep that he doesn’t mind the panic that he’s provoked among leaders who have long viewed their alliance with Washington as a source of calm.

Trump is hardly responsible for the fracturing of world order, which has been in process to some degree since the end of the Cold War. But Trump is unique among modern presidents in accelerating the unraveling as a matter of policy and absorbing the aftershocks with glee.

It’s not entirely clear why. Is he in severe debt to Russian banks with ties to Putin? (Robert Mueller may soon shed light on that theory.) In any event, he seems more comfortable in the company of brutal autocrats than with democratically elected leaders. He seems to admire, and possibly envy, their absolute control over their domains. His most astonishing, and perhaps telling, comment of recent days was his excuse for Kim’s rampant executions of critics. Kim, he said, is a “tough guy. Hey, when you take over a country, tough country, with tough people, and you take it over from your father, I don’t care who you are, what you are, how much of an advantage you have—if you can do that at 27 years old, that’s 1 in 10,000 could do that.”

When his Fox News interlocutor noted that Kim has “still done some really bad things,” Trump replied, “Yeah, but so have a lot of other people done some really bad things. I could go through a lot of nations where a lot of bad things were done.”

With that attitude, it’s not surprising that Trump puts so little stock in the _values_ that the United States has traditionally shared with its allies and that have undergirded even fairly Realpolitik notions of U.S. interests in world affairs.

This is the biggest worry that Trump has fomented—a worry that’s been stirring since he took office but that his behavior this past week has sharpened to full focus: the possibility that the greatest danger to everything worth valuing about America is Trump himself.

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question: How is Donald Trump perceived by this article?

answer: The author appears to question whether Trump has been making a conscious decision to wreck the status quo or is doing it by accident. It would appear through the article that Trump has done a number of things that might be construed as 'stupid'.

question: Is Trump taken seriously by other world leaders?

answer: At the time of the article, Trump appears to be under a magnifying glass. To the world leaders he celebrates, he is someone to take advantage of. To the ones he derides, he is a joke.

question: What are Trump's motivations when it comes to Russia?

answer: The article implies that it could be wilful ignorance related to debts Trump miht have with Russian banks tied to Putin.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: An article related to Trump's recent actions before the G-7 summit and how it is perceived by the rest of the world. The article goes on to question his motives and his actions.


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["Utah Indian] The epidemic of Missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW) is not exclusive to any region of the United States, however some states have a higher number of cases. Utah ranked 8th in the United States for the number of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW).[1] Furthermore, the state's capital, Salt Lake City, ranked 9th on the list of cities with the highest number of cases of MMIW.[2] These statistics indicate that Utah is one of the areas that has a more prevalent problem in regards to MMIW.

Historical factors

Utah was one of the final territories claimed by the United States during the expansion era of the nation’s founding.[3] This positioned it at the forefront of the interactions of colonial settlement and the native populations. When settlers arrived there were 5 tribes established in the state, numbering to about 20,000 American Indians.[4] During the colonization of the state there were many violent encounters between tribes and settlers such as the Bear River Massacre and the Mountain Meadows Massacre.[5] Utah has historically been primarily dominated by a large population of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which adds another dimension to the experience of Native Americans in the state.[6] In the Mountain Meadows Massacre, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints dressed up as Indigenous people as a disguise before killing members of the Baker-Fancher party. Some of the general historical details of Native Americans in the United States are also relevant to understand in regards to MMIW.

Operation Relocation

Operation Relocation was in response to an emergency airlift to provide supplies to Native Americans on the Navajo and Hopi reservations in order to prevent starvation after a series of blizzards in the winter of 1947-1948.[7] The airlift was seen as embarrassing for the federal government and prompted an investigation, the findings of which indicated that the land base could only support “35,000 of the area's 55,000 inhabitants”.[8] This “surplus population” theory was used as a justification to pass the Navajo-Hopi Act, which utilized job placement services to relocate indigenous people to US cities, including Salt Lake City.[9][10] This shift to more urban centers exasperated the issue of MMIW, as research shows that there are more recorded cases in these areas.[11]

Complications in Compiling Data

There are many difficulties that make gathering data on the subject challenging. Native Americans are often mislabeled in race-specific statistics in censuses, surveys, and other types of data collection.[12] This creates a vast margin of error for research published on this issue, as Indigenous people are sometimes mislabeled as white, Latinx, or general classifiers such as “other”.[13] There are also difficulties that arise from cultural factors. There is a statistically significant lack of participation from Indigenous populations when studies are conducted by the federal government, which could be attributed to a sociocultural mistrust (see Native American reservation politics for more information).[14][15]

Urban Centers

Many research difficulties vary from Native American Reservations to the experience of indigenous women in urban centers.[16] In urban centers, if Indigenous women are not affiliated with federally recognized tribes, then there is no data collected from Indian Health Services.[17] There is also a severe problem of underreported cases in western cities, as well as a lack of publicity.[18] This lack of publicity is currently being tackled by activist efforts in Utah. There is often a lack of transparency between police departments and researchers. Utah Police Departments are known for such obscurity, this is usually a result of a lack of coherent record being kept of MMIW cases.[19] Several meetings have been held by government officials to discuss how to combat the lack of accurate reporting on Native American issues.[20]

Reservations

The complex classification of Tribal sovereignty in the United States makes research particularly difficult. Tribal sovereignty has also complicated the acquiring of health care for native American populations, this creates an obstacle for reporting violent crime.[21][22] In recent years, there have been efforts to increase the amount of sovereignty for tribal governments over fields such as healthcare research and the prosecution of violent crime.[23][24] Utah, alongside the federal government has had a long and complicated relationship with tribal sovereignty and the proper determining of jurisdiction. This is evidenced by controversies over extradition, as well as rights to the use of tribal lands for corporate use and for monument preservation.[25][26][27] Complications in state and tribal relations surrounding sovereignty makes the reporting of missing persons and homicides cases far less reliable.[28]

Perpetrators

The majority of perpetrators of rape against Native American women are non-native individuals with 57% being specifically White.[29] This statistic is echoed by the perpetrators of assault against Native women, with 63% being non-natives and again the majority being White.[30] Commonly these perpetrators are not strangers to their victims, with 71% being reported as known to the victim.[31] Among those known to their victim, 38% being intimate partners.[32] Unfortunately, this high correlation between those that know their perpetrators is considered a reason that the majority of violent crimes among Native people are more likely to be declined by the U.S. Attorney’s office, as those that are familiar with their abuser can be more afraid of social repercussions that may come with giving testimony against someone within their social group.[33] Another reason that these crimes are less likely to be prosecuted is that depending on the Native or non-Native status of the perpetrator, the state in which the crime happened, or whether the crime happened on a reservation or not the group responsible for prosecuting varies.[34] Furthermore, there is added difficulty in prosecuting perpetrators that live off the reservation, adding significance to the majority non-native perpetrators.[35]

Activism

There has been an active effort in Utah within the legislature and community to bring awareness to this issue and to work towards change. On a federal and state level, legislation, initiatives, and programs have been introduced to seek to address this issue.[36][37] There has also been an active effort to raise community awareness through marches as well as published work.[38] This effort seeks to reduce the number of MMIW in Utah and to bring justice to already MMIW. There is a lack of knowledge about this issue and in particular efforts to educate have been effective in reducing that.

Legislative Efforts

[Utah State Legislature] In recent years, there have been several initiatives and programs presented on both the federal and state levels to attempt and mitigate this issue. In 2019, the Department of Justice under Attorney General William P. Barr established a “National Strategy to Address Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons”.[39] The Attorney General stated, “American Indian and Alaska Native people suffer from unacceptable and disproportionately high levels of violence...women face particularly high rates…”. The initiative allocated resources from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help aid in improving in immediate response, collecting data more accurately, and providing more competent analysis.[40] Utah was among the first 11 states to kickstart this program, working closely with the Office of Tribal Justice and the Office on Violence Against Women.[41] In 2013 the “Violence Against Women Act” was reauthorized. This reauthorization secured greater sovereignty on behalf of tribal governments, enabling them to prosecute cases committed against Indigenous women.[42]

Utah also established a branch within the Utah Department of Health specifically dedicated to American Indian populations within the state.[43] This branch went on to publish reports highlighting the “unmet needs” of native populations regarding healthcare within the state of Utah, many of which directly impact the circumstances surrounding violent crimes against Native American women.[44]

The Utah State Legislature in March 2020 passed a bill requiring a task force specifically dedicated to addressing the crisis of murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls. The task force consists of members of the state legislature as well as representatives of Utah Native American tribes and victim advocate organizations. This task force will work to create “model protocols and procedures” to help address current and previously unsolved cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women within the state jurisdiction.[45] This is the second legislative motion passed specifically regarding the MMIW crisis in Utah, the first being the designation of an awareness day for victims as well as Native members of the LGBT+ community.[46]

Civil Activism

[A protester at the Greater Than Fear Rally and March |alt=|left] In 2020 both Provo and Salt Lake City had marches and demonstrations bringing awareness to MMIW in Utah.[47][48][49] The Provo Women’s march focused on three issues that are prevalent in Utah valley: sexual assault, access to healthcare, and MMIW.[50] The section focused on MMIW included a speech giving statistics on the severity of the issue in Utah, music, and a performance by the Jingle Dress Dancers in honor of Native women who are missing and murdered.[51][52] The Women’s March in Salt Lake City heavily featured segments bringing awareness to MMIW as well.[53] These demonstrations sought to bring more awareness to these issues, especially their severity in Utah. These marches mirror the efforts of those held across the country, such as the “Greater Than Fear” Rally held in Rochester where protesters sought to bring awareness and support for diversity and victims of sexual violence.[54]

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question: Summarize the factors mitigating against accurate data gathering on the subject of missing and murdered indigenous women.

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Firstly, there is a history of violent encounters between native populations and colonial settlers in certain U.S. territories. For example, in Utah, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints dressed up as indigenous people so as to infiltrate and kill members of the Baker-Fancher party. This history, because it happens more recently than others, still affects how Native Americans and the offspring of colonial settlers see each other.
Also, censuses and surveys fail to accurately categorize Native Americans who are often mislabeled as White or Latinx. There is also the issue of urbanization where Native Americans who migrated to urban areas and do not maintain close links with federally recognized tribes are not recognized. Another issue is that when Native American women go missing, there is often a lack of publicity, though there are groups presently trying to remedy this.

question: According to the passage, what was the third legislation passed regarding the MMIW crisis in Utah?


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I stood in the doorway and wondered if the door would close. It didn’t, the hinges had come off. I guess I didn’t know my own strength. The staircase was right in front of me now so I descended into the living room. No one was there, not even the dogs. This house is empty. My family left me, took off to someplace distant. I suppose they had gotten tired of me.

I hadn’t had a job for months and my brain wasn’t working quite right. They noticed the lack of work but had no clue what was inside my head.

They had left everything inside the house, all the furniture, the tv, the food, almost all of their belongings except what was necessary. It was torture. It was like they could walk in at any moment and say they had gone to the grocery store. But this was not the case, they were gone and weren’t coming back. It had been awhile since I’d seen them, no warning was issued. They had finally surprised me.

I picked up the telephone and heard the empty space. When I tried to dial out it made animal noises instead of beeps. I got sick of it and plunked it back down. The electricity was still working but none of the objects that used it functioned correctly. The fridge was hot, the clock was lying, the lights made sounds; I flicked a switch and heard a man yell “get away!” The television only had one channel, and we had cable.

Something was terribly wrong so I walked outside. The small car my family owned was still there but it did not have any wheels. I took a walk down the street and looked around the town I had always lived. My neighbor was shoveling the sidewalk, but as far as I could tell there was no snow.

“What a storm, eh?” She huffed out as she scooped.

I gave her a puzzled look and moved on. As I walked away I heard her say under her breath “What a friggin storm”

As I moved along I walked past a small pizza place that had been on the corner forever. Only now it was not a pizza place, it was a clothing store titled ‘heaven’s little closet.” I looked in the window and all of the old employees were still there except now they had on fancy suits and were selling vintage clothing, not pizza.

WEIRD, strange…this is just not right.

A dog approached me and sniffed my boots. I scratched its ears and moved along once again. I got sick to my stomach and my eyes started to blur so I turned around and headed back towards my home. I  noticed a strong stench from outside of the house and as I walked inside it got worse. The hot fridge was melting all of the food inside into a boiling swamp of stink. I could hardly handle it. I looked inside and almost vomited, but I held my composure.

Nothing in this town was right anymore, I don’t know if I had changed or if it was the whole place itself but I had always hated living here so maybe it was a sign to get to someplace new. I packed a small bag of clothing and some food that wasn’t in the rotting fridge and walked outside.

I passed a small field of grass on my way and took the time to lie down. Grass hadn’t changed, it felt the very same. I must have fallen asleep because when I opened my eyes it had gotten somewhat darker. I grabbed my bag, which was now a different bag, blue instead of black, and headed toward the bus station. It was on the other side of the street from where I remembered it being. I got on and didn’t even look where it was going to. Goodbye.

title: Left Empty

question: What does the story say about why the narrator's family abandoned him or why he thought his family abandoned him?

answer: The narrator realized one day that he was left alone in his house. He noticed this because everywhere was quiet, and there seemed to be no evidence of anyone around. The house furniture and properties were unmoved- it looked like they had gone out to run errands. However, the narrator realized this wasn't the case because he concluded that his family got fed up with him and his joblessness.

question: What does the story say about why the narrator was not familiar with his surroundings anymore?

answer: Not only did the narrator suddenly notice that his family had abandoned him, he realized that his surroundings didn't seem familiar anymore. He didn't notice that the old pizza store that used to be in the corner was now a clothing store. He also noticed that his next-door neighbor behaved oddly because she was shoveling her sidewalk when there wasn't any evidence of snow and claimed there was a storm. The narrator decided the neighborhood seemed different because he never liked residing there and felt it was time for a change.

question: What does the story say about how the food in the fridge got so rotten, and why the narrator didn't notice this?

answer: The narrator seemed to have been in over his head for quite some time, starting with his joblessness. Following this, he had just realized his family had abandoned him and left him all alone in the house. He also realized his neighborhood didn't appear the same as before. Therefore, this could be the possible reason he may not have noticed that the food in the fridge got rotten while he was at home. It was not until he left the house and got back in that he realized how foul the stench was.

question: What does the story say about how long the narrator's family had been away?

question: What does the story say about where the narrator planned to go when he took off from his house, and how he intended to survive?


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answer: The main news article is that Ant-Man 3 and Thor 4 have been confirmed for MCU phase four.


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[James at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con] ELGIN JAMES is a filmmaker, musician and a former member of Friends Stand United (FSU), a Boston, Massachusetts area group in the early 1990s which has been classified by several law enforcement agencies as a gang.

James left FSU in 2007, and the following year was announced as a fellow for the Sundance Screenwriters lab. He directed the film _Little Birds_ in 2009, which was released shortly before James was arrested on historical charges relating to his activities with FSU, for which he was sentenced to one year in prison. Since his release from prison, James has co-written the 2016 film _Lowriders_, and co-created the TV series _Mayans M.C._.

Early life

After a short time in orphanages and foster homes, James (who is of mixed race) was raised by civil rights activists on a rural farm in the Northeast.[1] With a crop of marijuana in the backyard and alcohol and drug abuse in the house, James formed strong anti-drinking and anti-drug beliefs, which later led him to be a pivotal figure in the 1990s militant straight edge movement within the punk subculture. He also became a vegetarian at age 11 after watching the animals he raised on the farm slaughtered.[2]

James discovered punk rock through an older foster brother and attended concerts by seminal hardcore punk bands Black Flag, Agnostic Front and Millions of Dead Cops. He was arrested for the first time at 12, and by 14 he ended up in juvenile hall. There he rejected the pacifist beliefs of his parents (who had marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Freedom Riders movement), and began studying the writings of Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael and Huey P. Newton, fusing them with aggressive punk ideals.[3]

James left juvenile hall, and inspired by civil rights attorneys William Kunstler and Morris Dees, left for Antioch College at age 17 to study pre-law. During a break in his first semester, he was involved in a gang fight and beaten in the back of the head with a baseball bat, which left him with left hemispheric brain damage.[4] He was not able to speak or move the right side of his body. After intensive physical and speech therapy, he eventually recovered his speech and motor skills, but he ended up homeless, living on the streets and in squats across the country. He eventually settled in Boston, Massachusetts.

FSU

In Boston, James began singing for hardcore punk band Wrecking Crew and befriended a multi-racial group of kids from the tough areas of Boston and Brockton, Massachusetts. They formed FSU, which originally stood for 'Fuck Shit Up' however came to be known as 'Friends Stand United' or 'Forever Stand United', for the purpose of purging violent white power skinheads from the Boston hardcore scene.[5] Having successfully eliminated several of the dominating neo-Nazi groups, James turned his attention to drug dealers,[6] going, in his words, “right after the heart of the enemy, money”.[7] He would rob drug dealers and then give half of that money to local charities.[8]

While part of FSU,[9] James and other FSU members set up an “arms for hostages” scenario in which they traded handguns with inner city gang members for pit bulls used in dog fighting rings. The dogs would then be nursed back to health and fostered until safe homes were found for them.

The founding core of FSU eventually splintered, with a large section moving on to motorcycle gangs including the Outlaws.[10] The split was amicable, but James and other founding members decided to leave a more positive legacy and steer FSU away from the criminal world. They established the Foundation Fund, which set up scholarships at Berklee College of Music and Suffolk University Law School in the names of FSU members who had died. The fund also holds yearly benefit concerts to raise money for charities that reflect “hardcore punk culture” (teen homelessness, anti-handgun violence, suicide prevention and local orphanages).[11]

James left FSU in 2007, stating he'd “been thinking a lot about violence and responsibility” since being interviewed regarding his involvement with the group by _Rolling Stone_ earlier that year.[12] At the time he was the last original founding member.[13] James and FSU were featured on _National Geographic_ TV, the History Channel's _Gangland_ series and in _Rolling Stone_ magazine.[14]

Music and film career

James began his music career playing in straight edge hardcore bands such as Wrecking Crew, 454 Big Block and Righteous Jams. Later, James would experiment with country-influenced solo work that has been critically acclaimed and described as “hooligan folk” by the _Boston Phoenix_, and “folk-punk” by _Wonkavision_ magazine.

In December 2008, James was announced as a fellow for the Sundance Screenwriters lab,[15] and around 2009 he began working on _Little Birds_, loosely basing the film on his own life experiences.[16] James was originally working on an autobiographical project about he and his best friend who left their small towns and joined a gang in Boston.[17] That film had Justin Timberlake attached to portray James and Nick Cassavetes attached to direct. But James was worried the film would ultimately “glamorize the violent lifestyle” he'd recently left behind, so he wrote Little Birds instead, substituting two fifteen-year-old girls for he and his best friend.[18] He chose to focus on the characters of “Lily” and “Alison” after seeing a teenage girl riding on the back of a bike in the Salton Sea, with James saying “You could just tell that she was on fire and she was never going to get out of there”, referencing how he felt about being trapped in his own small town as a kid.[19]

James finished the film shortly before its screening in 2011 at the Sundance Film Festival in an effort to complete _Little Birds_ before having to attend a trial for his actions while part of Friends Stand United.[20] _Little Birds_ received a positive reception at Sundance in 2011,[21] though has received more mixed reviews following its release. It holds a 59% approval rating on film review website Rotten Tomatoes.[22]

Arrest and prison

James was arrested by the FBI in Los Angeles, California on July 14, 2009, stemming from an incident four years earlier. He was charged with a criminal complaint of federal attempted extortion filed in Chicago.[23][24][25] It is alleged that in 2005 James sanctioned an attack on an individual who had past ties to white power politics.[26] James is then reported as to have said that the man could avoid further trouble if he made a $5,000 “donation” to FSU. After that incident, the FBI became involved, and after another attack, the victim scheduled a meeting with James to give the $5,000 while the FBI had surveillance on the encounter.[27] The individual has been revealed to be a member of the band Mest. Speculation has been raised that lead singer Tony Lovato's previous ties to white power groups[28][29] were the reason why the band was targeted,[30] given FSU's anti-racist stance. However the specific Mest member who was targeted has not been revealed.

James was sentenced to one year and one day of prison by U.S. District Judge Suzanne B. Conlon in Chicago on March 8, 2011.[31][32] Prosecutors had sought up to four years in prison, noting the extreme violence in which James had engaged in against Neo-Nazi skinheads.[33] Over 60 letters of support were submitted on James' behalf including letters from actor Ed Harris as well as Robert Redford,[34][35] who James has credited with helping him turn his life around. James told the _New York Times_ that through working with Redford "I truly realized that I needed to leave the violence of that life behind.” [36] In Robert Redford's letter to the judge he wrote “I believe that Elgin has the potential to make a difference. He has an important message for people of all ages and the possibility of change (and) the power of nonviolence.”[37]

The same day James was sentenced he was hired to write a screenplay for Brian Grazer and Universal Pictures.[38][39] After sentencing James said in a statement that “The last few months have been a juxtaposition of the best and worst of my life. Today I faced my day of reckoning. … I have accepted responsibility for my past.”[40] James served his sentence at Metropolitan Detention Center.[41][42] He was released on March 16, 2012.[43]

Discography

1992: Wrecking Crew, single, (vocals)
1995: 454 Big Block, “Your Jesus”, Century Media (vocals)
1996: 454 Big Block, “s/t”, single, Big Wheel Rec (vocals)
1997: 454 Big Block, “Save Me From Myself”, Big Wheel Rec (vocals)
1997: The World is My Fuse, “s/t”, single, Espo Records (vocals)
1998: The World Is My Fuse, “Drunk”, single, Espo Records (vocals, guitars)
1999: The World Is My Fuse, “Good Intentions”, Espo Records (vocals, guitars)
2002: The Jaded Salingers, “s/t”, Espo Records (vocals, guitars)
2003: Elgin James “For Carol..” Lonesome Recordings (vocals, guitars)
2004: Elgin James, “Long Way Home”, Lonesome Recordings comp (vocals, guitars)
2004: Righteous Jams “Rage Of Discipline”, Broken Sounds (guitars)
2005: Elgin James, “Tinted Soft Green”, Emusic Digital Singles Club (vocals, guitars)
2006: Righteous Jams “Business As Usual”, Abacus Recordings (guitars)

Filmography

-   _Release_ (1998)
-   _Live Thee Fourth_ (2000)
-   _Boston Beatdown Vol. 2_ (2004)
-   _Dark Planet: Visions of America_ (2005)
-   _Enemy_ (2007)
-   _Goodnight Moon_ by THINKFilms (2007, writer/director)
-   _Little Birds_ (2011)[44]
-   _Low Riders_ (2016, writer)
-   _Mayans M.C._ TV series (2018-present, writer/director)

Awards and nominations

  Year                     Award                                      Category             Nominated work   Result
  ------------------------ ------------------------------------------ -------------------- ---------------- --------
  2011                     Palm Springs International Film Festival   Directors to Watch   _Little Birds_
  Sundance Film Festival   Grand Jury Prize
  Zurich Film Festival     Golden Eye

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title: Elgin James

question: Summarize James' childhood.

answer: James was an orphan and spent a little bit of time in foster homes. He was then raised by civil rights activists living on a farm in the Northeast. Drug and alcohol abuse was rampant at home. He became a vegetarian at age 11 after watching the animals he raised get slaughtered. He discovered punk music through an older foster brother and started to attend hardcore punk concerts. He was arrested for the first time when he was 12 years old and sent to juvenile detention at 14. He started to study the violent beliefs of Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, and Huey P. Newton, rejecting his parents' pacifism. He was inspired by civil rights attorneys William Kunstler and Morris Dees and started to study pre-law at 17. He got involved in a fight during his first-semester break and was hit by a baseball bat on the back of his head. Recovery required intense physical and speech therapy and he was left homeless in the end.

question: What are the final beliefs of Elgin James and what are the influences that led him there?

answer: He's a non-violent punk activist against racism, teen homelessness, and handguns while supporting suicide prevention and local orphanages. He's also against alcohol and drug use and happens to be a vegetarian. His views against alcohol and drug use come from his foster home where civil rights activists who raised him smoked marijuana and drank alcohol often. They also slaughtered animals James raised on the farm, which resulted in his rejection of animal meat. He rejected his foster parents' pacifism as a teen and became a violent punk anarchist while in juvenile detention. James suffered homelessness during his late teenage years after having to recover from a baseball bat hit to the head left him unable to walk and speak. He became part of a violent group known as Friends Stand United (FSU) who went after neo-Nazis in the punk scene, freed pit bulls from fighting, and donated half of the money they robbed from drug dealers. After several years of involvement, he wanted to leave a more positive legacy and became a non-violent activist.

question: What does the text say about Robin Hood?


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There has never been a sharp distinction between the public and private faces of DONALD TRUMP, who described Atlanta as “crime-infested” online and called African countries “shitholes” behind closed doors. Both sides are about the same, when he is away from the teleprompter and going off script. There is only so much filter that can be removed when there’s hardly any filter to start with. Still, it was somewhat shocking to see Trump talking openly Thursday about something he has so far kept private: imposing the death penalty for people caught dealing drugs. “Some countries have a very, very tough penalty—the ultimate penalty,” Trump said wistfully at a White House summit on the opioid crisis. “And, by the way, they have much less of a problem.”

We’ve seen this one coming: In April, Trump called President RODRIGO DUTERTE to praise his bloody crackdown on drugs in the Philippines, which has reportedly killed as many as 12,000 people. “I just wanted to congratulate you because I am hearing of the unbelievable job on the drug problem,” he said, referring to Duterte’s extrajudicial, state-sanctioned murder program. “Many countries have the problem, we have a problem, but what a great job you are doing and I just wanted to call and tell you that.” The idea apparently stuck with Trump: Last week, Axios reported that Trump has continued privately raising the possibility of executing drug dealers, as Singapore does. “He says that a lot,” one source recalled. “He says, ‘When I ask the prime minister of Singapore do they have a drug problem [the prime minister replies,] ‘No. Death penalty.’”

Senior adviser KELLYANNE CONWAY essentially confirmed the report when she clarified that Trump was merely referring to bringing capital murder charges against high-volume dealers of drugs like fentanyl, which, she pointed out, “are so lethal in such small doses.” On Thursday, Trump brought the idea out into the open, suggesting that the United States adopt “the ultimate penalty” for drug dealers.

The president’s comments fit a pattern of authoritarian rhetoric, from calling Democrats “treasonous” for not applauding his State of the Union address to pressuring the Department of Justice to prosecute his political opponents. But they also suggest a looser, less controlled Trump as the president has grown increasingly frustrated with the shackles his chief of staff, JOHN KELLY, has imposed on him. The chains began to break last month, as Kelly’s authority was rocked by allegations of domestic abuse involving his second-in-command, ROB PORTER. The scandal created a domino effect in the White House that fueled tensions between Kelly and JARED KUSHNER over Kushner’s security clearance and was a factor in the resignation of HOPE HICKS, one of Trump’s closest confidants.

The silly season has, in turn, fed a bumper crop of crazy coming out of the Oval. Trump is reportedly considering firing National Security Adviser H.R. MCMASTER, whom he also resents, and on Thursday bucked the advice of his National Economic Adviser GARY COHN and announced tariffs on steel and aluminum, causing the stock markets to plunge. For months, Trump’s senior staff had slow-walked his enthusiasm for a trade war. This week, he decided he would act unilaterally. “Trade wars are good, and easy to win,” Trump tweeted Friday morning, as the Dow Jones dropped another 350 points. This is what it looks like when the president stops being nice and starts getting real.

question: Summarize everything relating to the author's opinion of Donald Trump.

answer: There is not a big distinction between Trump's public and private faces. His comments fit a pattern of authoritarian rhetoric. They also suggest that the president is less controlled as he's grown increasingly frustrated with his chief of staff.

question: Summarize the role of Donald Trump's staff in the article.

answer: Trump's Senior advisor Kellyanne Conway confirmed the report of Trump raising the possibility of executing drug details. She clarified that he was merely referring to bringing capital murder charges against high-volume dealers of lethal drugs. Trump has grown frustrated with the shackles his chief of staff, John Kelly, has imposed on him. Kelly was accused of domestic abuse allegations involving his second-in-command, Rob Porter. This created tensions between Kelly and Hared Kushner and led to the resignation of Hope Hicks, one of Trump's closest confdants. Trump is reportedly considering firing National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and ignored the advice of Gary Cohn, his National Economic Adviser.

question: What does the article say about the presidential election?


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Hello all, my sister is super timid about her writing, but she always seems to impress me. Criticism is welcome, but please be kind. She e-mailed me this, so it's a rough draft.

“Alright, man, it’s been a long day. Time for me to make my exit!” Wyatt downed the last of his beer and decidedly plopped the pint glass down on the bar. He gestured for a bro-handshake toward the bartender.
“See ya, man,” said Greg, the bartender, and reciprocated the bro-man-shake.
Jason waved casually and called out a brief salutation to a couple at the end of the bar who were engaged in a giggle-rich conversation.

Jason knew the bartender from back in his community college days, before he was even a bartender there. He knew most of the regulars too. The cozy neighborhood bar: a perfect place to chill with a drink after a long day. It was a good night. A trip was in the works with Greg to visit the guy’s brother in Texas. And he got the number of a pretty sweet piece of ass, good personality too. Jason stepped out into the cool, damp night and began the three-block strut home. Some quick movement caught his peripheral, but he paid no serious mind. It was probably some animal raiding the garages from the restaurants. The ones where people wasted half of their food because they were too rich to care about economics and wastefulness, and their appearances took precedence. Hmph, “high society,” to Wyatt, was simply a lack of common sense where narcissism took the place of thought processes.

He passed a good-looking couple that looked healthy, clean, well off. Not a care in the world they had for a passerby. A counter point to the young couple was the man who passed by him next – a man that wasn’t quite yet middle aged, a little scruffy, a gate that adjusted to the clear burdens he carried throughout life, a gaze that seemed to look right through you, to see your true nature.

Another brief movement caught his eye, a swift shadow that disappeared around the corner. Wyatt took a little more notice this time, but remained unconcerned. He swung right into his apartment building and gated up the stairs. It didn’t take him long to eject the shoes, shirt, and pants from his body. Surrendering the day to the night, he tumbled into bed and hastily threw his blanket over himself, already on the brink of snores. Right before his consciousness left him, he heard a barely audible voice… “Are you ready, Wyatt?”

He yawned and slapped both hands over his face and stretched his way out of bed. Time to get up and weld some shit. He didn’t like showering before work, since he was always getting sweaty. So he slathered on some deo, brushed his teeth, and put on some shitty, worn out clothes. He took notice of the nice sunny clear sky and retorted with a grin. Today seemed like a breakfast burrito and coffee day. He moseyed his way out the door. Wyatt then stopped short. Even his breath stopped. Everything around him was the same – same shops, same clear blue sky, same cars and streets. But the people… The peoples’ faces were all glowing. They all glowed in different colors and different intensities. But they ALL glowed. He just then realized in his half-asleep construction of the day, he never looked in the mirror. Wyatt whipped around and inspected his own reflection in the glass. Sure enough, his own face was glowing an intense yellow. His first thought went to the possibility of a hallucinogen. He felt fine before he went to sleep. And this theory wasn’t really viable, because everything else was completely normal, unlike the total world-altering effects of a hallucinogen. Was he going crazy? No family history of schizophrenia that he knew of. He stood panicking, staring around at all the colored, glowing faces that stared back in confusion, wondering why this man was in the middle of a crisis on such a normal day. This ws something he needed to figure out. Wyatt ran back upstairs to phone into work. He made up a lie about some stomach flu then sat on the edge of the bed – just sat for a moment, questioning the validity of his reality. He stood up slowly as if laboring to move through a pit of tar. That’s what this was, a tar pit of confusion and doubt. Taking leave of the heavy pit, his feet traveled hungrily and curiously toward the window for further investigation and confirmation.

“Yep, still certifiably amok,” said his brain to his senses as he gazed out the glass. Was there some meaning to this? Had he somehow crossed over into another dimension? Wyatt decided that hell, if it was going to be this way, he needed to get IN it, see what this is all about. If this WAS some sort of other dimension, maybe he would have a really amazing job, and maybe the beer was better and the women were looser. Probably not, but there was no harm in hope. He descended the stairs to step back into the day to face the faces. They all glowed, as expected, and all in a wide variety of colors – some putrid in hue with a heavy glow, and others vivid and lively.

He saw groups lunching outside and took note that many of the groups shared similar styles of light and intensity of color. Not all of them however, as there were groups of people that made up the colors of the rainbow. These people seemed to smile more often; their intensities took turns flickering brightest from one color or the next. That was another peculiar thing, the groups that WERE all the same color didn’t share intensities, just one person seemed to drain the others of their light, and all of them smiling less, the jovial nature decreasing as the glowing distributed itself to the one or two in the group. It was as if they didn’t want to give the light, and the person didn’t wish to receive it. Like being sapped for energy, then the energy becomes poison for the receiver.

Jason decided that if this was going to happen, he wanted to explore as much as he could, discovering patterns and possibly uncovering a reason for why this was happening now. But first, he wanted to visit his father. His father drove truck, and 14 months prior had been in a bad semi accident, rendering him comatose. Jason liked to go visit his dad and imagined he could hear what Jason was saying, and tried to imagine him responding in some sort of telekinesis style of communication. It felt like it kept his heart strong to imagine his father, even while lying comatose, participating in some sort of active communication. He hopped onto the downtown bus that circled around downtown and ended at the second largest hospital in the city.

He entered the rotating doors and immediately noted that the patients in their rooms, and the ones carted around on wheelchairs emanated a different type of light. Instead of beaming in sharp clouds of color, the seemed to drip slowly like waves of different, less brightly colored jellies. The elderly and the more apparently sick peoples’ glows were comparably slower than the children’s and the less severely injured patients’. It felt slightly comforting for him to find a pattern among the madness of the situation.
Jason took notice of all the lights and flows and colors, on the way back up to his father’s room, a path he had come to know very well, from every nick in the wall to stain on the carpet and even some of the faces of the orderlies and staff that would frequent this particular path. On this particular day, however, he could see everyone in a little bit of a different light. The lights that emanated from the staff seemed to have a consistent glow, but it wasn’t exactly bright. It was duller, and faint. The visitors all varied in color and intensity, while in each of the rooms the lights from their faces took on varying colors but were all immensely faded, the most sickly patients seemed to barely glow at all.

He stood outside of his father’s room a moment, almost frightened to see what condition of faded his father’s light could be. No matter what it was, it couldn’t be changed now. There was nothing he could do but observe. He took a deep breath and stood in the doorway staring at the floor. His eyes slowly reached his father’s bed. His tensed shoulders dropped. His father’s light seemed to be not quite perfect, but not as faded as he had feared. It was deep and purple, but bright enough not give Jason concern. He pulled his usual chair up to the side of the bed.

“Hi dad, it’s your son. I know I’m a little early, but I just really needed to talk to you.” His father’s light seemed to brighten a little at his words. ‘I woke up today, and everything was a little different. I don’t know if I’m going mad, or there’s something seriously wrong with me, or if it’s just something wrong with the rest of the world. Hell, it might even not be anything wrong with me or the world, maybe it’s just… changed… But dad, I can see everyone. Like, really SEE them. It’s not that I can see their insides, it’s more like, their insides are reaching out to me. Like their souls or whatever that even means. They’re all different colors, intensities, it seems like I can really see how they are, if they’re ok or not, if they’re good, or bad, predatory, good. I have to admit I was scared to come in here, dad, I was scared to see you. I was scared you’d be… faded. I know it, though, in my heart that you’re still here.” His father’s lights grew even brighter. ‘I love you, dad. I don’t know what this all means, but I feel like I’ve been shown something really valuable today. I’m not sure what I’m gonna have to do, or why it’s me, if I’m the only one. But I feel like I need to use this. I’m just glad you’re here to talk to.”

Jason sat for a moment of reflection and relief that his father really was still there, and that he could see, with evidence, that he could also hear. Then began to go on about sports, his trip with Greg, and a few women – the normal things he would go in with. Then he leaned over and kissed his father’s head and gave his goodbyes before he ventured back out into the new world.

He decided to go about his day as normal, and that entailed visiting his friend Greg. Everyone seemed to be getting off work. These people all remained a slight glow that was reminiscent of the sick. They all seemed tired and overworked, in their facial expression as well as their glow. It was clearly unhealthy, as unhealthy for the soul as sickness must have been for the body. He walked down to the bar, and was happy to see that his friend was indeed working. Something concerned him, however. His friend also had a glow, and the glow was a sickly, dull, yellow color, much the same as patients on the oncology floor at the hotel. He wondered if his friend felt this. Even if he did, he wouldn’t say anything. He wasn’t the type of man to worry about it. Still, Jason felt a deep pain in his heart. It may not be cancer, but his friend was still sick. He sat and drank a beer and chatted with his friend. He just wanted to laugh and bond with him as much as he could. He started feeling a small bit of acceptance underneath the pain, and decided it was time to find his own solace and reflection.

He headed to the park for some serenity. He noticed some couples picnicking in the grass, some people with binoculars watching for birds and other animals, some people playing with their dogs, and some children simply playing in nature. They all had something in common, their glowing auras were all very strong and colorful. Their smiles at one another even intensified their glory. When the people first came into the park, they had similar differences as the folks that meandered around the streets. However, as they allowed themselves to bond more and more with nature, they began to change into stronger, brighter souls – that couldn’t help but to shine in the way they were intended.

He decided that maybe this was the way it was going to be forever, or maybe this would pass, but that it was happening, and there was really nothing he could do about it. He did know, however, that he felt exhaustion. He began his route home, taking notice of all the different glows of the people, and what that meant for their inner state. Some were at peace, some were drained, sick, overworked, joyful, and everything in between. It gave him a fine insight, and an opportunity to help people become their true light, if he decided to use it in that way, which was really only right, as his father would tell him. The father that he now knew could feel him there even in his deep sleep.

He turned the corner and passed down an alley, taking a small notice of something moving in the distance. It was similar to the movements he previously ignored the night before this oddity happened to him. This time he faced it. He walked down into the alleyway and approached the area behind a dumpster that concealed the movement. As he approached, however, there grew a great and white glow. It was a glow with such intensity that actually produced a sound. He felt it warning him to stay away from it. It didn’t seem to want to be approached, but instead wanted to be the one to come to him. The source was so unknown, and if it didn’t want to be bothered, there was no telling what would occur. So he turned back away from the alley and went home. It was unnatural to disturb whatever lurked behind that dumpster.

He walked along his way home and went back to bed. As he slowly fell asleep he thought he heard a voice in the distance. “You see, son, it’s always been this way, you’ve just been so blind. Now you can see, and now you must do.” And he fell asleep until the morrow.

title: The Glowing

question: What does the story say about Greg?

answer: Greg is the bartender. He is planning a trip to visit his brother in Texas with Jason. He has known Jason since their community college days. Greg has a similar dull glow about him as cancer sufferers.

question: What does the story say about the protagonist's mother?


text:
The Trump administration’s handling of the coronavirus and last week’s send-in-the-military response to peaceful protests over the police killing of another black man are the latest manifestations of the societal sinkholes and rot that have undermined our democracy. We’ve seen ideological carnage over the last three years, deep societal fissures ripped open by a president committed to deepening American divisions while simultaneously distancing us ever further from our allies.

Even when they knew we were embroiled in our own problems, other nations have come to us for help and guidance. Until now.

In the past, even in our weakest moments, America has largely remained true to our founding principles. Even when they knew we were embroiled in our own problems, other nations have come to us for help and guidance. Even when policy disagreements strained relations with one country or another, other nations have relied on us in a broader sense to bring the world together. And most American presidents, no matter their policies, have been respected for leading with dignity.

Until now.

This is new. This is different. For over three years, world leaders have mocked Donald Trump for his childish antics, temper tantrums, willful ignorance and lack of foreign policy prowess. They have watched us walk away from the Paris Climate Accords, and nuclear agreements both long-standing – with Russia– and fresh – with Iraq, and, most recently, threaten the World Health Organization. That leadership vacuum, and those broken promises, have translated into alarm and fear, a new unknown of what America stands for and a growing unwillingness to trust and engage with us.

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Diplomats have long walked these fine lines, explaining our values, our Constitution and the idea of America — at the very same time that our nation is burning. It comes with the territory. But working in government when I did – through wildly unpopular wars in the Middle East and Asia, through eras of violence in America – I never had to contend with the sort of fire currently burning down American credibility.

I know. I’ve worked for both Republican and Democratic administrations on the global stage. I’ve had to explain America around the world under incredibly difficult circumstances.

Example? I was working for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Afghanistan during the George W. Bush administration when images and stories of soldiers torturing and abusingprisoners in Abu Ghraib, Iraq became front-page news around the world. It was 2004, and I had to explain to Muslim civil society in Kabul, and other cities, how this abomination could happen --- while simultaneously insisting that Americans really do respect all religions. It was one of the hardest things I have ever had to do while serving in government. But I believed in America, I believed the leadership because my experience as an Indian-born Muslim woman demonstrated the power of our Constitution and promise of democracy.

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Later, as the State Department’s Special Representative to Muslim Communities under the Obama administration, I traveled through 80 countries at a time when, domestically, my country was experiencing frequent anti-Semitic violence and anti-Muslim attacks. Repeated school shootings and huge online hate networks were a scourge at home. And still, my constant refrain to all whom I encountered was that in America you are free to practice your religion in any church, temple, mosque or synagogue etc … of your choosing. It was often a hard sell. But I could say it, because I knew in my heart of hearts my leaders believed it too.

That’s not possible now.

The widespread images of American police brutality alongside presidential tweets and photo ops showing no empathy, humility, grace or understanding are unexplainable. Unlike Abu Ghraibor Newtown,when the president immediate went out with a statement and action, this time global audiences don’t see compassion, they see chaos. Instead of support for Black Lives Matter, the president only confirms Trump Matters.

Last week, CNN reported that the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, went so far as to censure the U.S. from the floor of the Spanish Parliament. "I stand in solidarity with the demonstrations that are happening in the United States," Sanchez said. "Because obviously we are all very concerned about the authoritarian debate and those authoritarian ways that we are seeing as a response to some demonstrations." Demonstrations protesting George Floyd's death, took place around the world, from Australia to Tel Aviv.

The widespread images of American police brutality alongside presidential tweets and photo ops showing no empathy, humility, grace or understanding are unexplainable.

World confidence in America’s leadership has been steadily eroding. Back in 2017 the Pew Research Center conducted a survey of 37 countries. The findings showed just 22 percent of those polled had “confidence in Trump to do the right thing when it comes to international affairs.” In the final years of Barack Obama’s presidency, that confidence number was 64 percent.

Those 2017 poll numbers might have seemed dramatic at the time, but worse was to come. In January 2020 Pewpublished a new report which found "on balance, foreign publics lack confidence in Trump to do the right thing when it comes to world affairs."

This spring, Trump’s simultaneous bungling of the COVID-19 crisis, and penchant for both praising himself and blaming others, brought worldwide horror and condemnation. Irish-Times columnist Fintan O'Toole noted it was the first time America was the subject of world pity. A study published in May by the British Foreign Policy Group conducted by Sophia Gaston found only “28 percent of Britons now say they trust our strongest historical ally to act responsibly in the world, a fall of 13 percentage points since January. Conservative voters, who previously expressed outsize levels of trust in the United States, are responsible for the largest loss of confidence.” A German poll conducted by Körber-Stiftung found 73 percent of the Germans surveyed had a worse view of the United States due to pandemic response.

In a practical sense, the loss of trust in the U.S. to steer the right course, and in U.S. credibility, have meant that we are unlikely to be heard by those at the table in power around the world even if we still have a seat. We can no longer influence global issues that affect America’s bottom line and security or take part in the vital work of strategic policies from climate change to viruses to arms control. Trump may claim he has brought jobs back to America, but his disregard for how entrenched globalization has become has left us unprepared for a post-COVID reality.

The time has come to acknowledge that these consequences are real and there are urgent steps needed to restore America’s credibility and the respect that goes along with it.

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It’s unlikely to happen before Election Day. We need a new administration, with new strategies to show the world the Trump years were an aberration. Here are some ideas:

-   Go big on soft power. Increase the State Department budget dramatically, giving embassies the tools they need to rebuild partnerships and alliances where they were broken or invisible with strategies to entice, not expel. Reinvest in the foreign service by incentivizing those that left in disgust to return with their same rank and position and increasing opportunities for millennials to enter. Scale the asset of longterm functional and regional knowledge and diplomatic prowess from retired diplomats.

-   Re-engage with policies and organizations we have abandoned, like the Paris Climate Accord and the World Health Organization.

-   Show new activism on big issues of our time: environment, racial and economic inequalities and human rights and democracy.

-   Create new incentives for corporations to behave as good global citizens by infusing their missions with consideration for human rights, environmental impact, societal cohesion and living wages.

-   Partner with NGOs and allied nations to fight hate of all kinds including racism, bigotry and violent extremist ideology.

-   Engage younger Americans. Make Millennials and Gen Z part of the solution.

-   Use America’s brainpower to create new open systems of innovation with problem solvers from varied disciplines to help the government think differently about the issues of our time .

As we emerge from our current isolation, the collective actions of government, business, philanthropy, education and science will be critical in returning us back to a working — if imperfect — union.

This won’t be easy.

We are burning badly right now. We need a re-imagined leadership agenda for the post-COVID, post-peace protest world that’s just ahead, and it must be bold, big and brave. It is our only hope to show us and the world who we really are.

In time, I believe people will look back at the madness of the last four years as our turning point – but only if we can say it was a mistake, an aberration, an anomaly in the long history of the great American experiment and we’ve learned our lessons. We need a fresh start that presents not a new normal but a new focus that brings us closer to what we dreamed we could be. November offers us that chance to turn away from the fire and restore America’s place in the world. If we don’t take it, the fire will leave us in ashes.

question: What does the article state about how America has been in its weakest moments?

answer: The article states America has remained true to its founding principles even in its weakest moments.

question: How have world leaders treated Donald Trump?

answer: World leaders have mocked Donald Trump for his childish antics, temper tantrums, willful ignorance and lack of foreign policy prowess.

question: How is Trump administration's handling of coronavirus described?

answer: It is described as the latest manifestations of the societal sinkholes and rot that have undermined our democracy.

question: What actions did Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, take?

answer: The Spanish Prime Minister went to censure the U.S. from the floor of the Spanish Parliament.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: This article critizes Donald Trump and the Trump administration's handling on recent world breaking events such as coronavirus, Black Lives Matter Movement, anti-Muslin and anti-Semitic attacks. The article continues on to provide examples of what a new administration needs to do do bring America back into a place of control and safety.


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It was raining quite hard that day. Cael was sitting in the empty café. The lone worker there had gone to the back, probably to spend time on her phone in private. His mind was wandering, he glanced at his watch and realized he still had time until it hit 12. Cael stepped out of the boresome café, grabbed his umbrella and stepped onto the sidewalk. The town of Sherton was a quiet,small town also housed the only train station in the region. No one really came here for anything other than to catch said train or  to see family.  Cael was here for the former. His life as a contract killer for the mob was over. He had completed his final task and received both a fat check and blessings from his employer to leave forever. He sighed as he looked out over the buildings standing ominously above the narrow streets. “Nothing to do” he thought to himself. Cael had two hours to kill and for once he had no idea how to kill.

Walking down the street looking for something to catch his eye, he took notice of the lack of people there was. The rain was splashing on the concrete beneath him ever so slowly dampening his designer suit pants. Taking his eyes off of his shoes and looking ahead of himself he spotted a young woman head into an antique shop. Having nothing better to do Cael, went in search of a conversation and maybe a little more. As he entered, he immediately noticed a nostalgic smell hit him. It reminded him from when he used to help his father with his moving company. The smell of old furniture, paintings and various other decor were all present there in the store. The woman was faced away from him, inspecting some old lamps. She was dressed in a black overcoat, an equally black sun hat that neatly matched her black thigh socks and heels. Acting as if he was interested in the antique pipes near the lamps he casually made his way closer. “ Quite a town isn’t it?” he said without looking at her. “ Indeed it is, however all this rain really drains the life out of it. The people here are friendly though” “ are there any even around?” Cael curiously asked. “No clue, its as if the rain scared them all away” she said blankly. She turned to face him.  Something about her was familiar but then again all he found attractive looked the same.She had an intimidating look to her, sharp facial features coupled with her subtle makeup made her quite appealing to Cael. “ Or maybe you did Cael”. Taken aback with how she knew who he was he instinctively but his hand on his handgun. Stepping closer, she motioned him to look behind himself. Towering over Cael was a 7 foot man with a large pump action shotgun aimed at his back. It was Bowford.

Cael hadn’t seen her in years, The last time she graced his eyes was on a joint assignment he was given. Ms. Bowford or Selina as he knew her was another hitman employed by the mob. She was well versed in the art of killing and was known to finish her tasks brutally, without witnesses. “ the boss would like me to tie up loose ends, And when I heard it was Cael Ferrer I had to kill I practically jumped at the offer. They’re aren’t many that could claim they’ve bested you” Cael surveyed the shop. Behind him was a glass counter that went around the entire store. In the middle of the store was two large shelves that held various antiques. He didn’t know if Selina was armed or not but he wasn’t willing to take the chance that she wasn’t. Behind him the gunman pressed the barrel of the gun on his lower back forcing him to move closer to Selina. “ Why would they order a hit on me Selina? He knows I have no risk of telling anyone” Cael said desperately trying to buy time. One wrong move and he’d be getting buckshot all over his back. To his left were the antique pipes he was looking at. He thought of something. “ we aren’t killing you here, hate to ruin this beautiful little shop, Louis bring him to the back “. Just as the brute displaced his barrel to move, Cael acted. He grabbed a pipe and made a dash for Selina ducking down to increase his momentum. One mistake and he would miss her and be met with a swift death. Selina had little time to react as Cael threw the pipe at her head. Hitting his target he immediately dashed in between the shelves and to the side of one just as her goon took aim and fired. A hail of wood  and ceramic sculptures pieces rained over Cael as the shot ringed out. Selina was stunned but not for long as he heard her groan and shuffle up. Pulling out his handgun Cael immediately cocked it. A 5.7mm cartridge able to penetrate body armor. “ Louis! Circle around him “ Selina barked. Her sleek hair in a mess and her hat gone. Cael had to position himself according to their movements. To his left was a small gap leading to the glass counter, in front of him was door leading to the outside and to his right was another small gap that was next to the other shelf. That was where Louis was coming from. Selina pulled out her pistol and slowly crept up to Cael’s left side. Cael knew he had to take down the brute first as his shotgun had the most threat. Hearing another pump Cael braced himself for the oncoming fire. His plan was to start laying down fire in Selina’s direction. Once the brute fired his shot he knew he’d have to reload his weapon. Cael started to shoot at Selina, time was of the essence here, if he mistimed his attack on the brute this would be over. Bang! Another shot flew by his head and Cael started to move. He rolled in front of the brute and took aim. Firing two quick shots, one at his chest the other at his head he quickly backed up before his body tumbled down onto to him. Instantly backing unto the counter behind him and aimed his gun at Selina’s location. “ Selina!” he yelled. “ you don’t have to do this, just leave and tell them I’m dead!” “ They won’t be satisfied until I bring back your body Cael”. Cael slowed his breathing, “ You know you have no chance” Cael said hoping to dissuade her. Cael knew that he’d win in a one on one and she knew as well. Selina said nothing. Selina crept slowly along the middle of the shelf, *crack*. Cael heard it. She had stepped on a piece of ceramic. Pushing hard Cael shoved the shelf onto the second one. Which a deafening groan the wooden shelf toppled onto the next one. Cael heard Selina scream out in pain as the second shelf came down onto her. Cael moved cautiously to the far side of the second fallen down shelf. Selina’s body lay there motionless. Years of working together he never thought she’d die by his hand. Cael quickly checked his watch and realized he had 20 minutes to get to the train. Walking through the rain ridden streets Cael slowly quickened his pace. Arriving to the gloomy train station. Cael realized that the people he used to work with were persistent. Knowing that they’d never leave him alone Cael immediately stepped onto the train. At this rate he’d never get away from his past . As the train started moving he placed a hand on top of his pocket where he was housing his handgun. Straining his neck to look at the train platform. He noticed that it was raining a little harder.

title: [TH] runaway ( looking for helpful feedback)

question: Summarize Cael's experience at the Sherton's rail station.

answer:
Cael took refuge from the rain in an empty cafe as he observed the quiet town of Sherton. The town has few visitors who either come over to see families or to catch a train at the only station in the whole region.
Cael has just retired from his work as an assassin and has received his employer's blessings to leave forever. While he was waiting for the train to arrive, Cael saw a familiar figure and decided to follow her. He followed her into an antique shop where she revealed her identity. Cael recognized her as a former co-worker, a fellow assassin named Selina.
Selina was with Bowford and both have been assigned by the mob to kill Cael. Cael sprung into action and killed the two. He walked out of the antique store a bit warier than he came in, knowing that his former employer will never stop sending killers after him.

question: How much were Selina and Bowford paid for the contract to kill Cael?