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The lady’s nightly ritual of  filling the tub with Dove’s Double Power Calming bubble bath (the ladies at the mall swear that stuff will make you feel like you just went to the spa), taking a Valium, and washing it down with a smooth Bud from the fridge do little to stop the nightmares. Night terrors that come like gut wrenching earthquakes, born from the depths of the closet.

“Oh Lord, the closet,” the lady says as she is shaken from her thoughts. She keeps a kiddy night light that she bought from Walmart, a Little Mermaid themed nighty to keep the room more innocent, in the plug across from the bed. This way, when she wakes from a nightmare she can be sure that she is alone in the room, except for Ariella the Nighty of course.

Tonight was no exception to her ritual. She went to the kitchen and grabbed a cold beer, opened her immense medicine cabinet and fiddled with the cap of Valium until she got it open, turned on the hot water in the bathtub, and then poured in the Dove’s bubble bath. As she waited, she looked into the full-length mirror across from the tub.

Over the past year, her hair has seen grey strands accompany her otherwise brown hair, and dark purple bags have appeared under her eyes. Her skin, which she used to pride her 56 year-old self on being so smooth, has turned white and wrinkled. Her belly is plump from the nightly beers and her face has become slightly gaunt. She looks as if she has aged ten years in the past one, no doubt due to the stress of her nightmares, the alcohol, and drugs.

Staring at herself is a reminder of her fear and fills her with dread. Quickly, she pops open the Bud and washes down her pill. If anything can stop the self-shaming and fear, it’s her Happy Pills. She turned off the hot water, kept a little too hot so getting in would take her mind off of the real issue (although she would never admit this to herself) and slowly stepped into the tub.

After her bath, she got into her robe and went to her bed. She dropped the robe, exposing her breasts to Ariella the Nighty, and climbed into bed with her back to the closet. At this point, she tried to think of everything besides what’s in the closet.

“I wonder if Betsy got those pain meds for her husband?”

“I need to cut the grass tomorrow and get the weed out of the garden...”

“The new neighbors across the street really need to get a hold of their rowdy kids, always throwing their football into my yard...”

On and on the superficial thoughts go, but always, like some inevitable storm creeping in, the thought of the closet comes back. The closet’s glare feels piercing to the lady’s back.

“I can’t sleep with you here,” she whispers. “I can’t sleep with you in there.” Her voice is barely audible.

Her feet begin to tingle as the fear creeps in. She’s momentarily frozen to her bed. Knowing what she has to do, she makes herself sit up. She pulls the blanket down off of her hot, baking legs, and swings them down onto the floor. She takes a deep breath, exhales slowly, musters her courage and stands.

She doesn’t move, bute stares deeply and coldly at the closet door.

“You got me again, you bastard.”

She takes a small step toward the closet, unable to to resist its unending call. A car drives by blaring music, hip-hop, but she is numb to the world. Nothing else exists. Just the old, deteriorating woman and her closet that won’t let her sleep, won’t let her have peace, and haunts her mind and imprisons her thoughts.

She takes another small step to the door and kicks an empty beer can. She doesn’t notice. Another step. Another. The steps seem endless until she finally reaches the closet door.

“This is what you’ve been wanting,” she mumbles.

Her fear gives way to anger. Blinding rage. Anger at the sleepless nights. Anger because her life has been taken from her and given to this monster that feeds on her.

“Fuck you! Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you!” she screams as she swings the closet door open as hard as she can. The door hits the big toe on her right foot, breaking her toenail and making it bleed, but she doesn’t notice. Her eyes are wide open, ready to face the beast that holds her hostage. Her brow is furrowed, mouth a small slit, she is ready to fight, ready to rid herself of the monster. She makes contact with the beast’s eyes, and he stares right back into hers.

On the bottom of the otherwise empty closet sits an old, dusty photo. A photo whose color has begun to fade and edges have wrinkled from use. In the photo, a man with large green eyes stares up at the lady. The eyes of the beast.

Just as quickly, her anger turns into despair. She falls to her knees and grabs the old photo, holding it to her breast. She weeps. She weeps for the days when he was here. Then, the house was brighter, the window curtains pushed aside to allow sunlight in. Now, the sunlight doesn’t even come into the house. The window is like some force field keeping the daylight out.

The woman wept for a long time. Finally, she was able to brush away enough tears to look back into the closet. An old newspaper article lie on the floor. She grabbed it and read for the thousandth-time “Car Crash on I-20 Kills Family, Only Wife Survives”. She closed her eyes for a second, taking in the weight of the heading about the poor family. Her family.

She began to get the shakes. On the floor was one last photo, lying face down. She knew what is in the photo, but couldn’t bare to look. Her trembles got worse, so she leaned against the wall for support. Unable to stop herself, she grabbed the photo from the floor, flipped it around, and stared into the eyes of her children. She fell over clutching the photo. With not more tears to shed, she just lay there wrapped in the arms of the beast.

She awakes the next morning with sunlight hitting her face. She puts the photos and newspaper clippings back into the closet, making sure to put her children facedown and everything back in the same order. She makes coffee, then goes out front for some fresh air. She feels hungover, but she knows it’s not from the beer.

Outside, the Sun is shining, but she doesn’t see it. The wind is blowing, but she can’t feel it. The kids are playing across the street and she watches them. As she turns to walk back inside, she hears a noise from around the corner of the house. She walks around and sees a dog going through her trash.

The dog’s ribs are showing and it steps back in fright. The lady walks into the house to get a cold weiner from the fridge. She comes back out with the food and the dog nervously approaches her. The dog takes the food, eats it, and is transformed by the generosity. The dog wags its tail.

“Oh, you like that? You look a bit broken, pooch. Do you mind if I call you that? I bet not. Pooch it is. Well, Pooch, I’m a bit broken too. I think everyone is a bit broken inside. How about we be broken together? What do you say?”

Pooch licked her hand, and she smiled.

title: [RF] Realistic Fiction The Closet

question: Summarize how the woman feels at the end.

answer: The woman initially shown to be in a constant cycle of grief over losing her family in an accident. There is no indication for how long she has been in that state, but it appears that the accident is not recent. When she meets the dog at the end of narrative, she becomes a person who appears to have found a new sense of purpose. While she is not over her grief, being responsible for the well being of a dog that she emphasizes with signals a new beginning for her. So it is likely that she is feeling somewhat hopeful despite her sadness.


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MICHAEL PARIENTE is a Las Vegas-based criminal defense attorney and the founder of Pariente Law Firm, P.C.[1] He has served as lead counsel in several high-profile cases, including _Andersen v. Eighth Judicial District Court_, which entitled every defendant charged with misdemeanor domestic battery to a jury trial in the State of Nevada. The case has been called “the most significant Nevada Supreme Court case of the 21st century.”[2]

Background

Pariente graduated with a degree in Business Administration at the University of New Mexico in 1990 and received a master's degree in Public Affairs from the University of Texas at Austin in 1995.[3] He received his J.D. degree from Baylor Law School in 1998.[4] Pariente is admitted to practice law in the State of Nevada and the State of Texas. He previously served as an Assistant District Attorney for DUI prosecutions and as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in El Paso, Texas.[5]

Pariente is the son of Esther Pariente-Ahmed and electrical engineer and computer scientist Nasir Ahmed.

Noteworthy cases

_Andersen v. Eighth Judicial District Court_

In 2019, Pariente successfully litigated what has been called “the most significant Nevada Supreme Court case of the 21st century.”[6]

In _Andersen v. Eighth Judicial District Court_, the defendant was charged with battery which constitutes domestic violence, a first offense, and was set to stand trial in the Las Vegas Municipal Court. He asked for a jury trial, but in accordance with longstanding Nevada law, was told he was not entitled to a jury for a misdemeanor charge. He pled no contest and was found guilty, and appealed his conviction based on the fact that he was denied his right to a jury.[7]

The case eventually made it to the Nevada Supreme Court. Pariente argued that a defendant charged with battery constituting domestic violence has a Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial because a defendant loses his or her Second Amendment right upon conviction of the offense by letting a judge, and not a jury, decide guilt or innocence.[8] The Court reversed the defendant's conviction, and declared that henceforth, for the first time since Nevada became a state in 1864, every defendant charged with misdemeanor domestic battery is entitled to a jury trial.

“The Nevada Supreme Court’s Sept. 12 decision held that misdemeanor domestic violence defendants are entitled to a jury trial because of a 2017 law banning those convicted of the crime from owning guns. The ban on gun ownership elevated the crime from a petty offense that doesn’t entitle a defendant to a jury to a more serious offense with jury rights, the court said.”[9]

Aftermath of _Andersen_

Following the Nevada Supreme Court's decision in _Andersen v. Eighth Judicial District Court_, many cities, including the city of Las Vegas, have fought to undermine the verdict.[10] Pariente has been critical of Las Vegas City Council and its efforts to bypass the verdict by enacting its own ordinance which circumvents the law created by the Nevada Supreme Court in _Andersen._ Pariente has publicly called the ordinance “absurd, pathetic and desperate” and has vowed to take the matter to the Nevada Supreme Court or the Supreme Court of the United States, if necessary.”[11]

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title: Michael Pariente

question: What does the text say is a notable achievement of Michael Pariente?

answer: Michael Pariente is a brilliant criminal defense attorney in Las Vegas who successfully overturned the Nevada state law regarding a jury trial related to a domestic battery case. This outstanding case he tried in the Judicial District Court had him defending a client charged with domestic battery. Marked as a first offense, the case was denied a jury trial upon request by Pariente because of the longstanding law in the state of Nevada that said that a misdemeanor charge is not entitled to a jury. He, however, went on to the Supreme Court with the case pleading the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial for the defendant instead of losing their Second Amendment right by having a judge and not a jury decide their guilt or innocence. Eventually, the Supreme Court reversed the judge's conviction on the defendant and declared that henceforth, in Nevada, every defendant charged with misdemeanor domestic violence is entitled to a jury trial.


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THE STONE is a Serbian black metal band from Belgrade, Serbia, formed in 1996.[1][2] They were originally known as STONE TO FLESH and changed their name to The Stone in 2001.[3]

Biography

The Stone was born in 1996. At first they were known under a different band name, Stone to Flesh. In February '97, the first demo called “Serbian Woods” was recorded followed by first live appearances. “Killed by the Sun” demo was taped a year after and the band was reached by Greek label _Demonion Productions_ which asked if they were willing to release both demo materials on tape version, and soon after the first official release, titled “Unveiled Evil” was celebrated. In winter 1999/2000, the band recorded “Some Wounds Bleed Forever”, first full-length manifest which was later released by CCP Records.

After changing its name to The Stone in 2001, the band signed to _Wolfcult Productions_ (_Solistitium Productions_); and in spring of 2002 released “Slovenska krv” (“Slavic Blood”), the second full-length and first one under The Stone banner. Meanwhile, the “Tragom hromoga vuka” CD was out in March '03, presenting two brand new songs and both demo materials included.

In winter 2003/'04, “Zakon Velesa” (“The Law of Veles”), the third full-length album was recorded and released a few months after. This marks the end of cooperation with _Solistitium Records_.

In December 2004, the “Čujete li, smeju nam se mrtvi...” EP was released through Czech label _Eclipse Productions_, consisting of two completely new tracks.

In August 2005, The Stone signed a deal with German label _Miner Records_ and by the end of June 2006, the fourth full-length album “Magla” (“The Fog”) was released. Few months later, a live 7" split EP with Czech Inferno was out on _Undercover Records_, as well as split DVD with May Result on _Pagan Flames Productions_ (US). During the next couple of years band was very active with live performances, but having one more release ahead - re-pressing of the debut record on Serbian label _Grom Records_, this time with different artwork, different album name, two bonus songs and video.

In winter of 2008 The Stone entered “Draft” studio to record four songs for its first 10" MLP entitled “Old Wounds Bleed Misanthropy”. Two old songs are re-recorded, as well as some cover versions of Slayer and Master's Hammer, to be released on _Diabolist Services Cult_ (US) during 2009. Czech label _Zero Budget Production_ has released The Stone's first demo, “Serbian Woods”, on limited 7" picture vinyl and also _Folter Records_ released a limited vinyl version of now The Stone's classic second album “Slovenska krv” (“Slavic Blood”).

The band was very active with live gigs during 2008 and on October 4 entered the studio in order to record their fifth full-length album titled “Umro” (“Deceased”) which will be released in April 2009 through Folter Records. This was considered to be by far the most mature release by the band. At the same time, two more songs were recorded and used for a release of split 7" EP titled “The Ancestral Alliance” with Italian band Kult. Also German mini tour with Lugubre was settled for the end of April as well as more live appearances, including extensive touring through Europe with Romanian band Negura Bunget in 2010.

2011 saw the release of band's sixth full-length album “Golet” (“The Barrenness”) and again through Berlin-based Folter Records. 15 September was chosen as a date of release, the same day The Stone was to embark on a European tour in support of cult Seattle black metal group Inquisition, here also followed by Portuguese band Corpus Christii and Canada's Revenge.

Band members

Current

-   Glad – vocals (2006-2011, 2018–present)
-   Kozeljnik – guitars (1996–present)
-   Demonetras – guitars (2004–present)
-   Vrag - bass (2015–present)
-   Honza Kapák - drums (2016–present)
-   Usud – live drums (2017–present)

Former

-   Nefas – vocals (1996–2006, 2011–2018), vocals (only studio) (2006–2011)
-   Ilija Vasiljević – drums (2001–2003)
-   Blizzard – guitars (1996–1998)
-   God Of Perversion – bass (1996–2001)
-   Adimiron – drums (1996–2001)
-   Aksinomantijan – drums (2003–2006)
-   Ved – drums (2006–2007)
-   Urok - keyboards (2001-2011)
-   Usud - bass (2011-2015)
-   L.G. - drums (2007-2016)

Session

-   Odious – bass (2011)

Timeline

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Discography

Studio albums

-   _Some Wounds Bleed Forever_ (2000) as _Stone to Flesh_
-   _Slovenska Krv_ (“Slavic Blood”) (2002)
-   _Zakon Velesa_ (“The Law of Veles”) (2004)
-   _Magla_ (“The Fog”) (2006)
-   _Umro_ (“Deceased”) (2009)
-   _Golet_ (“The Barrenness”) (2011)
-   _Crna Hronika_ (“Black Chronicle”) (2013)
-   _Nekroza_ (“Necrosis”) (2014)
-   _Teatar Apsurda_ (“Theatre of the Absurd”) (2018)

EPs

-   _Čujete Li, Smeju Nam Se Mrtvi..._ (2004)
-   _Triumph Dark Brotherhood_ (2007)
-   _The Ancestral Alliance_ (2009)
-   _Old Wounds Bleed Misanthropy_ (2010)
-   _Kruna praha_ (2019)

Compilation albums

-   _Unveiled Evil_ (1999) as _Stone to Flesh_
-   _Tragom Hromog Vuka_ (“Tracking the Limping Wolf”) (2003)
-   _Neke Rane Krvare Večno_ (“Some Wounds Bleed Forever”) (2007)

Demos

-   _Serbian Woods_ (1997) as _Stone to Flesh_
-   _Killed by the Sun_ (1998) as _Stone to Flesh_

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title: The Stone (band)

question: What does the article say about how long The Stone waits between albums?

answer: The Stone usually takes two years between each album. The exceptions are their fifth album, Umro, which came after three years, eighth album Nekroza, which came after one year, and their last album, which came after four years from Nekroza.

question: What does the text say about the art style of black metal album covers?


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Washington (CNN)The FBI investigation into allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is narrowly focused, top officials said in interviews on Sunday, with sources telling CNN that the White House is controlling the scope of the probe.

The investigation is the result of a dramatic day in Washington on Friday that began with quick movement toward Kavanaugh's confirmation and ended with a pause in the process while the FBI steps in. Following the agreement for the FBI to investigate Kavanaugh, the focus has moved to how the probe will be handled, its ultimate findings, and whether it will put to rest fears about a lack of due diligence over the nominee for the nation's highest court.

A source with knowledge of the investigation told CNN that the FBI would take its direction from the White House, not the Senate, and that the agency would interview a handful of people.

One of those people interviewed included Deborah Ramirez, whom the FBI interviewed Sunday, a source told CNN on Sunday afternoon. Ramirez came forward last week with allegations Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a party while both were students at Yale, a claim which Kavanaugh immediately denied.

What's being investigated -- or not?

Kavanaugh's drinking history, which has come up in the allegations, is not part of the probe, which is being managed by the FBI's security division at the agency's headquarters in Washington, the source said.

While President Donald Trump declared Saturday that the FBI would have "free rein" in its investigation, people close to the matter say the scope is far more limited. White House counsel Don McGahn, who is the administration's leading advocate for Kavanaugh's confirmation, is overseeing the probe for the President and working closely with Senate Republican leaders.

The source reiterated that the agents would make no conclusion about what witnesses tell them and would hand their results over to the White House, which is standard protocol in similar background investigations. The source would not say if the direction the FBI received listed specific people or if it was to investigate specific allegations.

Kavanaugh has denied all the allegations made against him.

In a tweet Sunday afternoon, Trump pushed back on criticism of the FBI investigation.

"Wow! Just starting to hear the Democrats, who are only thinking Obstruct and Delay, are starting to put out the word that the 'time' and 'scope' of FBI looking into Judge Kavanaugh and witnesses is not enough. Hello! For them, it will never be enough - stay tuned and watch!" he wrote.

A source briefed on the matter said the White House gave the limited scope of the investigation to the FBI based on what the Senate asked.

Trump ordered the investigation on Friday after Arizona GOP Sen. Jeff Flake pushed for the Senate to request the FBI review.

Two sources with knowledge of the situation told CNN, however, that Senate Republicans were working with McGahn, who was "trying to make it as narrow as possible."

On Sunday, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote McGahn and FBI Director Christopher Wray to request a copy of the directive the White House send the FBI initiating the investigation.

"Given the seriousness of the allegations before the Senate, I am writing to request that you provide the Senate Judiciary Committee with a copy of the written directive sent by the White House to the FBI," the California senator wrote. "In addition, if the FBI requests any expansion beyond the initial directive, please provide the names of any additional witnesses or evidence."

Potential interviewees

The FBI has started investigating Christine Blasey Ford's allegation that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were high schoolers, which the judge has repeatedly denied.

Two sources told CNN that Ford and Kavanaugh's names were not on the initial list of witnesses given by Senate Republicans to the White House for the FBI to interview. Sources familiar with Ford's legal team have told CNN that Ford and her lawyers have not heard from the FBI.

"We have not heard from the FBI, despite repeated efforts to speak with them," Ford's lawyer, Debra Katz, told The New York Times.

Both Ford and Kavanaugh testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee last Thursday.

FBI agents are expected to interview several people who Ford said were present at the party where the alleged assault took place, including Mark Judge, Patrick J. Smyth and Leland Keyser, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

Ford has alleged Judge was present in the room with her and Kavanaugh when the nominee allegedly assaulted her. Judge has said he has no memory of the assault Ford described and does not recall the party, and Smyth and Keyser have also said they don't remember the party.

Ramirez has been contacted by the FBI, according to one of her attorneys. A source familiar with the matter told CNN that the FBI spoke with Ramirez on Sunday and that she supplied the agency with the names of witnesses for her accusation.

What the White House says

Kellyanne Conway, a counselor to Trump, said on CNN's "State of the Union" that the White House was respecting the independence of the FBI in the matter but stressed her belief that it should not grow into a "fishing expedition."

"It will be limited in scope," Conway said. "It's meant to last one week, I believe beginning last Friday. And it will -- it's not meant to be a fishing expedition."

Asked if McGahn had told the FBI who it could interview, Conway said, "I don't think Don McGahn would do that, but I've not talked to him about it."

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders made similar points in an appearance on "Fox News Sunday," where she said the White House was "not micromanaging" the FBI probe and that she was not aware of McGahn telling the FBI who it could interview.

"The White House counsel has allowed the Senate to dictate what these terms look like and what the scope of the investigation is," Sanders said.

A person familiar with the matter told CNN that Senate Republicans drafted the initial list of people it wanted the FBI to interview in the investigation and gave the list to the White House. The source noted that it was not a final list and that they were leaving open the possibility of additional witnesses.

South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Kavanaugh supporter who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said on ABC's "This Week" that Flake, Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins and Alaska GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski "wanted a limited review."

"They wanted to talk -- the FBI to talk with the witnesses that Dr. Ford named," Graham said. "They want to talk to Ms. Ramirez, because she refused to talk to the committee. They're going to Mark Judge, did you ever see Brett Kavanaugh drug women or engage in gang rape. I think that's going to be the focus of it."

Graham was referring to an allegation from another woman, Julie Swetnick, who has come forward with accusations against Kavanaugh and Judge, saying they were present at the party in the early 1980s where she says she was gang-raped.

Swetnick did not identify Kavanaugh or Judge as one of her attackers. Swetnick said further that over a series of parties, she saw Kavanaugh "consistently engage in excessive drinking and inappropriate contact of a sexual nature with women during the early 1980s."

Kavanaugh has also denied Swetnick's allegations, characterizing them as "from the Twilight Zone."

Judge said in a statement that he categorically denies Swetnick's allegations.

As of Sunday morning, there was no indication that the FBI was going to talk to Swetnick.

Two Republican sources familiar with the matter have told CNN that the hope is that when investigators sit down with Judge, they will ask him not only about Ford's allegations, but also about those made by Swetnick.

_This story is developing and being updated._

CNN's Ariane de Vogue, Dana Bash, Evan Perez and Kevin Liptak contributed to this report.

question: What does the text say about CBS News?

question: Summarize the main news event.

answer: The FBI is investigating sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh as part of the due diligence background probe for nominees to the highest court. Sources say that the White House is controlling the scope of the probe, despite President Trump's assertion that the FBI would have free rein in its investigation. A number of women have come forward accusing Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. Deborah Ramirez, one of the women the FBI interviewed, told investigators that Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a party while both were students at Yale. Christine Blasey Ford has accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were in high school. Another woman, Julie Swetnick, has accused Kavanaugh of being at a party in the 1980s where she was gang-raped but didn't name him as one of her attackers. She adds that she saw Kavanaugh over a series of other parties, excessively drinking and engaging in inappropriate sexual contact with women. Kavanaugh has denied all accusations. The FBI has yet to talk to Ford or Swetnick.


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“Look, doctor. I swear it’s gotten bigger.”

Juliana stared at the large spot the size of a dime on the little girl’s back. It was a brownish-black color and seemed to pulse angrily. “I’ll need to take a sample and send it to the lab to be checked.”

“Do you think it’s-” The mother stopped and looked at her pleadingly.

“We can’t be sure if it’s benign or malignant until they’ve tested it,” Juliana informed her, hating that she could not ease this young mother’s fear.

“Oh, okay, doctor.” The woman averted her eyes from Juliana and helped her daughter get dressed. “Say thank you, dear.”

The girl turned her innocent gaze to Juliana. “Thank you.” And she felt her insides twist.

“I’ll see you later.” Juliana waved until she couldn’t see the pair before collapsing onto the nearest stool. Even though she hadn’t sent the sample, she already had a feeling what the results would be.
***
“I can’t go in there,” she gasped, clutching Jun’s arm. “Don’t make me. Please don’t.”

“Hey. Hey, it’s going to be all right.” He rubbed her shoulders soothingly and cupped her cheek in his warm hand. She was ice cold. “You can do this. You’ve trained for this. You must help them.”

“I don’t want to do this. I don’t want to see their faces when I tell them…”

“Then who will?” Jun’s eyes were hard. “Who is capable enough to give them the correct information? This is your job, Juliana.”

Unable to meet his eyes, she nodded once and stepped into the room where the mother and her young daughter waited. She held the clipboard like a shield. Right when she passed the doorway and saw the girl sitting quietly on the padded examination table, something in her switched off, leaving her cold and hollow. Juliana pasted a fake smile on her face and after the initial greetings and pleasantries, she drew the mom outside and showed her the words on the clipboard.

“Oh my God,” the woman gasped, tears coming to her eyes. She covered her mouth to muffle her sobs. “Oh my God, please no. Not my baby. Please, doctor.”

Juliana only stood quietly, watching the woman sink to the floor.

“Can I get someone-” she didn’t even have to finish before several nurses led the devastated woman away, their soothing murmurs growing fainter as they left. Juliana roughly pushed her hair back and dragged herself back to her office where Jun waited.

He didn’t say anything as she collapsed into his arms, body shaking with dry sobs because she had no tears left, and just stroked her hair softly.

“It doesn’t get easier,” she whispered hoarsely. “It never gets easier.”

title: [RF] On being an oncologist (cancer doctor)

question: Who is Juliana?

answer: She is an oncologist, or she works under one.

question: Where doesn't Juliana want to go?

answer: She doesn't want to  tell the family about their cancer diagnosis

question: What's wrong with Juliana's baby?

answer: Juliana doesn't have a baby. She's seeing a client's child who may have cancer.

question: What doesn't a person want to say?

answer: Juliana doesn't want to give a family a diagnosis

question: What doesn't get easier?

answer: Telling families someone has cancer

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: Juliana works at an oncology clinic and a family comes to see her. A child may have cancer and Juliana is afraid to tell the family.


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ATTRIBUTE-BASED ACCESS CONTROL (ABAC), also known as POLICY-BASED ACCESS CONTROL for IAM, defines an access control paradigm whereby access rights are granted to users through the use of policies which combine attributes together.[1] The policies can use any type of attributes (user attributes, resource attributes, object, environment attributes etc.). This model supports Boolean logic, in which rules contain “IF, THEN” statements about who is making the request, the resource, and the action. For example: IF the requester is a manager, THEN allow read/write access to sensitive data. The NIST framework introduces the main concepts of ABAC as its entities, i.e. PAP (Policy Administration Point), PEP (Policy Enforcement Point), PDP (Policy Decision Point) and PIP (Policy Information Point).[2][3]

Unlike role-based access control (RBAC), which employs pre-defined roles that carry a specific set of privileges associated with them and to which subjects are assigned, the key difference with ABAC is the concept of policies that express a complex Boolean rule set that can evaluate many different attributes. Attribute values can be set-valued or atomic-valued. Set-valued attributes contain more than one atomic value. Examples are _role_ and _project_. Atomic-valued attributes contain only one atomic value. Examples are clearance and sensitivity. Attributes can be compared to static values or to one another, thus enabling relation-based access control.

Although the concept itself existed for many years, ABAC is considered a “next generation” authorization model because it provides dynamic, context-aware and risk-intelligent access control to resources allowing access control policies that include specific attributes from many different information systems to be defined to resolve an authorization and achieve an efficient regulatory compliance, allowing enterprises flexibility in their implementations based on their existing infrastructures.

Attribute-based access control is sometimes referred to as POLICY-BASED ACCESS CONTROL (PBAC) or CLAIMS-BASED ACCESS CONTROL (CBAC), which is a Microsoft-specific term. The key standards that implement ABAC are XACML and ALFA (XACML).[4]

Dimensions of attribute-based access control

ABAC can be seen as:

-   Externalized authorization management[5]
-   Dynamic authorization management[6]
-   Policy-based access control
-   Fine-grained authorization

Components

Architecture

ABAC comes with a recommended architecture which is as follows:

1.  The PEP or Policy Enforcement Point: it is responsible for protecting the apps & data you want to apply ABAC to. The PEP inspects the request and generates an authorization request from it which it sends to the PDP.
2.  The PDP or Policy Decision Point is the brain of the architecture. This is the piece which evaluates incoming requests against policies it has been configured with. The PDP returns a Permit / Deny decision. The PDP may also use PIPs to retrieve missing metadata
3.  The PIP or Policy Information Point bridges the PDP to external sources of attributes e.g. LDAP or databases.

Attributes

Attributes can be about anything and anyone. They tend to fall into 4 different categories:

1.  Subject attributes: attributes that describe the user attempting the access e.g. age, clearance, department, role, job title...
2.  Action attributes: attributes that describe the action being attempted e.g. read, delete, view, approve...
3.  Object attributes: attributes that describe the object (or resource) being accessed e.g. the object type (medical record, bank account...), the department, the classification or sensitivity, the location...
4.  Contextual (environment) attributes: attributes that deal with time, location or dynamic aspects of the access control scenario[7]

Policies

Policies are statements that bring together attributes to express what can happen and is not allowed. Policies in ABAC can be granting or denying policies. Policies can also be local or global and can be written in a way that they override other policies. Examples include:

1.  A user can view a document if the document is in the same department as the user
2.  A user can edit a document if they are the owner and if the document is in draft mode
3.  Deny access before 9am

With ABAC you can have as many policies as you like that cater to many different scenarios and technologies.[8]

Other models

Historically, access control models have included mandatory access control (MAC), discretionary access control (DAC), and more recently role-based access control (RBAC). These access control models are user-centric and do not take into account additional parameters such as resource information, the relationship between the user (the requesting entity) and the resource, and dynamic information e.g. time of the day or user IP. ABAC tries to address this by defining access control based on attributes which describe the requesting entity (the user), the targeted object or resource, the desired action (view, edit, delete...), and environmental or contextual information. This is why access control is said to be attribute-based.

Implementations

One standard that implements attribute- and policy-based access control is XACML, the eXtensible Access Control Markup Language. XACML defines an architecture, a policy language, and a request / response scheme. It does not handle attribute management (user attribute assignment, object attribute assignment, environment attribute assignment) which is left to traditional IAM tools, databases, and directories.

Companies, including every branch in the United States military, have started using ABAC. At a basic level, ABAC protects data with ‘IF/THEN/AND’ rules rather than assign data to users. The US Department of Commerce has made this a mandatory practice and the adoption is spreading throughout several governmental and military agencies.1[9]

Applications

The concept of ABAC can be applied at any level of the technology stack and an enterprise infrastructure. For example, ABAC can be used at the firewall, server, application, database, and data layer. The use of attributes bring additional context to evaluate the legitimacy of any request for access and inform the decision to grant or deny access.

An important consideration when evaluating ABAC solutions is to understand its potential overhead on performance and its impact on the user experience. It is expected that the more granular the controls, the higher the overhead.

API and micro services security

ABAC can be used to apply attribute-based, fine-grained authorization to the API methods or functions. For instance, a banking API may expose an approveTransaction(transId) method. ABAC can be used to secure the call. With ABAC, a policy author can write the following:

-   POLICY: managers can approve transactions up to their approval limit
-   ATTRIBUTES USED: role, action ID, object type, amount, approval limit.

The flow would be as follows:

1.  The user, Alice, calls the API method approveTransaction(123)
2.  The API receives the call and authenticates the user.
3.  An interceptor in the API calls out to the authorization engine (typically called a Policy Decision Point or PDP) and asks: _Can Alice approve transaction 123?_
4.  The PDP retrieves the ABAC policy and necessary attributes.
5.  The PDP reaches a decision e.g. Permit or Deny and returns it to the API interceptor
6.  If the decision is Permit, the underlying API business logic is called. Otherwise the API returns an error or access denied.

Application security

One of the key benefits to ABAC is that the authorization policies and attributes can be defined in a technology neutral way. This means policies defined for APIs or databases can be reused in the application space. Common applications that can benefit from ABAC are:

1.  content management systems
2.  ERPs
3.  home-grown applications
4.  web applications

The same process and flow as the one described in the API section applies here too.

Database security

Security for databases has long been specific to the database vendors: Oracle VPD, IBM FGAC, and Microsoft RLS are all means to achieve fine-grained ABAC-like security.

An example would be:

-   Policy: managers can view transactions in their region
-   Reworked policy in a data-centric way: users with can do the action

Data security

Data security typically goes one step further than database security and applies control directly to the data element. This is often referred to as data-centric security. On traditional relational databases, ABAC policies can control access to data at the table, column, field, cell and sub-cell using logical controls with filtering conditions and masking based on attributes. Attributes can be data, user, session or tools based to deliver the greatest level of flexibility in dynamically granting/denying access to a specific data element. On big data, and distributed file systems such as Hadoop, ABAC applied at the data layer control access to folder, sub-folder, file, sub-file and other granular.

Big data security

Attribute-based access control can also be applied to Big Data systems like Hadoop. Policies similar to those used previously can be applied when retrieving data from data lakes.[10][11]

File server security

As of Windows Server 2012, Microsoft has implemented an ABAC approach to controlling access to files and folders. This achieved through dynamic access control lists (DACL) and Security Descriptor Definition Language (SDDL). SDDL can be seen as an ABAC language as it uses metadata of the user (claims) and of the file / folder to control access.

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title: Attribute-based access control

question: What does the article say about where Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) can be used?

answer: It's suitable for any scenario where permissions for access are required in any sort of complexity. These can be microservices security, application security, database security, data security, and file server security.

question: What are the differences between Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) and other types of Access Control?

answer: ABAC facilitates access in cases other ACs can't. For example, role-based AC can give access to users with pre-defined roles (all users, managers, IT department workers, etc.) but not with a combination for a certain project, during certain times of day, from a specific IP. Each of these conditions is a single attribute, and ABAC can use any combination of them. The attribute types are those defining subjects (age, department, etc.), actions (read, delete, etc.), objects (medical record, bank account, etc.), and context (time, location, etc.).

question: What does the article say about encryption as a part of overall security?


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nothing could be done” while Trump remains in office, Consovoy stated, “That is correct.”

To be clear, Consovoy is not correct about the law. As the Supreme Court explained in _Clinton v. Jones_ (1997), “it is settled law that the separation-of-powers doctrine does not bar every exercise of jurisdiction over the President of the United States. Moreover, the Court added that “we have never suggested that the President, or any other official, has an immunity that extends beyond the scope of any action taken in an official capacity.”

Thus, because murdering people on Fifth Avenue is not part of the president’s official duties, Trump’s immunity argument would likely fail. Similarly, because the financial information sought by prosecutors also does not relate to Trump’s official duties, Trump’s claim of immunity in _Vance_ is weak.

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question: What Supreme Court case is referenced in this excerpt?

answer: Clinton v. Jones (1997)

question: What is stated as not being a part of the president's official duties?

answer: Murdering people on Fifth Avenue

question: Who is said to not be about the law?

answer: Consovoy

question: Trump's claim of immunity in Vance is considered what?

answer: Weak

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: This excerpt briefly describes how Trumps immunity argument would fail and why it would fail.


text:
Why did I wake up dazed? This morning was different to the rest of them. My thoughts were jumbled, i was slack, my mind weak. I had no fever, my health appeared perfect, and yet something was different about me. The stagnant life of mine that never changed was doing so before my eyes.

Coffee? I was taught to drink tea, as I had done all my life, why was I making a illogical decision. Changing my diet without professional medical advice is something no sane person would do, right? But their I was, sane as any other man, which is a redundancy as everyone I meet acts with only illogical insanity.

The crowd passes, the train full as is the road. The efficiency of motor vehicle transportation is far lower than that of public transport, yet the plebeians choose that mode of transportation. Illogical. Even at work they pass by, one chooses product A and another product B even though C contains less saturated fat and higher levels of vitamin E. I see a child smile, such is the effect of Serotonin and Dopamine release into the brain. My co-works invite me out but i naturally refuse, they they recall me as dull when I appear preoccupied bewilders me, I am simply living like the rest of them.

The neighbour is waiting outside my apartment, no doubt to entail me with words which have no meaning and emotions caused by chemicals. As I engaged in proper etiquette and invite her inside something clicks inside. My hand becomes unsteady. I start to sweat hearing her talk. Her voice is similar to low fiber cereal, something which no logical and sane person would want. It fills my ears, nothing is getting through, my thoughts are stopping. I want this voice to stop, she keeps talking. STOP STOP STOP STOP WHY ARE YOU HERE STOP STOP STOP TURN IT OFF GET OUT I DON’T WANT YOU HERE LEAVE GO NEVER COME BACK! She lowers her voice in engst, obviously sensing my discomfort. I approach her to usher her out and she screams. Why did she scream? Why are my hands wet?

Her voice lowens, no more than a whisper now. She seems unwell, I shall let her rest. My anxiousness is gone. I feel calm, concise and …. Alive? Do I feel happy? Is this what this is. I wash my hands, head to bed early and place the knife on the table next to me. When did I have a knife?

I wake up in a dazed state.

title: [TH] Monologue of the sane

question: Why do you think the narrator was taught only to drink tea?

answer: The narrator could have been raised in an English household where drinking tea is the norm.

question: What can you infer about the narrator's dazed state?

answer: It can be inferred that the narrator's dazed state has to do with some sort of mental illness the narrator may be facing or a drugged state of mind.

question: What can you infer about how the narrator feels about themselves?

answer: The narrator seems to be cautious of her neighbor which shows that the narrator is generally an anxious person.

question: Is the narrator an introvert or an extrovert?

answer: The narrator seems to be an introvert as they refuse the invitation to go out with their friends.


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-   WEIGHT of the patient. Do not guess if you do not know. If you have a scale nearby, you may be asked to weigh the patient. If you do not have a scale and the patient is a child, tell the poison specialist if the child is smaller or larger than average for his age.
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-   The EXACT NAME of the product, as read from the label (if available). Many medications and household products have similar names with only slight variations.
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-   WHEN the exposure occurred and how long the exposure lasted.
-   The AMOUNT involved in the exposure, if known, Do not estimate or guess or assume.
-   The NAME, PHONE NUMBER, ZIP CODE, and your relationship to the patient (parent, babysitter, etc). The poison specialist will also ask you to confirm your address.

Why does Poison Control need my phone number?

A return phone number is very important in case you are disconnected while speaking with the poison specialist. Also, since Poison Control is providing treatment information by phone (rather than in person) it is very important that we follow up with you to provide more information or guidance if needed.

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The Poison Center has multiple incoming emergency lines and 1 to 4 poison specialists handling calls at a time. The poison specialist determines which caller's situation is most critical and handles that one first. Each call is handled as quickly as possible while ensuring thorough and safe care. Poison Control considers all calls to be important but since we provide an emergency phone service, life threatening calls are handled first. You may be put on hold if your question needs research or while we seek an opinion from a medical toxicologist.

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Once all of the “pre steaks” were tagged and bagged what would our kids do? What would Mongo do; chase down the local feline and canine population, just to skin them and hawk them to the local Chinese restaurants in filthy, seedy alleyways? What would Zoey do? Would she begin reenacting her own street theatre version of The Most Dangerous Game? You may laugh, but these were quarrelsome disquiets. These questions were more concerning to me than Mr. Bobby Decker, a person who may or may not exist. If we didn’t find resolutions to these queries soon we would have bloody anarchy on our hands. After all we did have mouths to feed. It was not business as usual, as they tend to say.
When Decker finally did poise us with his existence, Mongo was processing a 1200 pound steer in the kitchen. The floor was extinguished in bull plasma, and Mongo himself was swathed from cowlick to hang nail. Zoey was at the kitchen table performing her ritual spring cleaning on her rifle when I heard the first knock. Chucky and Davey were placing their boots in the closet when we all heard the second knock. Everyone in the house perked up like a pack of wild dogs, when they hear another howling pack off in the distance. Lani looked up from his Mole sauce that he had been perched over for the past 15 minutes.
	“Are you expecting anyone?” I asked.
	“No,” he said wrinkling, his eye-brows, pausing for a moment to process what he was being asked. “Well, no, no, I’m not.” Then we all heard the third knock clear as day. That’s when everyone begins to scramble about the house, like mice when they discover that the cat is back, and he brought friends. Lani turns off the stove, and pulls Mongo off of his step ladder. He jets down the hall a bloody Mongo in his arms into the bathroom to get Mongo cleaned up. Chucky and Davey yanked the steer off the chopping block shoving it into the freezer. Davey grabs the mop to clean up the bloody floor. I bolt to the kitchen table to snatch up Zoey’s Rifle, and toss it underneath my bed. We hear the fourth knock, I make my way to the front door, just down the hallway and around the corner from my bedroom.
	“Now everyone be cool!” A command that was immediately greeted with looks of bewilderment, “Seriously, everyone act normal,” I reiterate.  As I scan over their confused faces, it finally sets into my cranium, just as Decker knocks for the fifth time, that my “family” didn’t see anything wrong with our little “operation”. To them it was just business as usual.
	“Hello,” I said as I opened the door, greeting, the Cowboy from Dallas. He was a thin haggard man with sunken cheeks, his dark eyes resting just below his salt and pepper eye brows. His bald scalp was hidden underneath his pale white Stetson cowboy hat. Although he was a thin man he was quite large, standing at 6 foot 6 with wide broad shoulders.
	“Good morning sir, “he greeted.
	“Hello,” I said once again.
	“Sorry to bother you, I’m Bobby Decker, I’m a private investigator, hired by a few local gentlemen, whom possess special interest in the area.” He said looking over the cornfield behind him.
	“What kind of interest?” I inquired as I wiped my sweaty palms dry on the back of my pants.
	“Cattle, they own the surrounding cattle farms.”
	“Why would farmers need to hire a private investigator?” I asked with a laugh, as I feel a single droplet of perspiration running down the back of my neck.
	“It’s funny you should ask, there seems to be an epidemic of missing cattle, which has oddly enough hit all of the local farms. Now if it was only 1 or 2 farms I’d be convinced that it was just a fluke, but all eight have been hit, and hit hard.”
	“Funny in deed.”
	“Well you can’t spell Slaughter, without laughter.”
	“What’s that?”
	“Nevermind.”
	“Eight?” I ask.
	“What’s that?” he asked, looking up from the front door step that he had been inspecting.
	“There are eight farms?”
	“Yes sir, there’s Kendall, Barnhill, Grover, Bond, Spencer, Arcangeli, Rodabaugh and the Smith Farm,” he said as he opened up his note pad. There were eight farms, not seven, how could we have missed one? We had scouted the area months in advance. We still had another farm to go through. However if we weren’t aware of the Smith farm what was happening to their cattle?
“Huh, I wasn’t aware of the Smith farm, is it new?”
 	“Nope, it’s been there for 27 years.”
	“Wow.”
	“Anyway, it seems that all of the eight farms have been hit hard by this freak occurrence if you will, but I was more curious if you have seen anything unusual or peculiar like maybe wandering cattle?” I wrinkled up by mouth to the left side of my face, and raised my eye brows. I looked to my left and then to my right,
	“No, I can’t say I have,”
	“How about wrangling?”
	“Excuse me?” Oh my god, he knows, he knows, I know he knows, I keep on repeating in my head. Wait did I say that or did I just think that, pull it together.
	“Wrangling… it’s when people steal cattle.”
	“Oh.” I say nervously.
	“So are you aware of any wrangling practices being performed in the area.”
	“No, I cannot say that I am.” I say, I can feel my voice on the verge of cracking.
	“Okay then,” he said closing up his note pad, “Thank you for your time sir.” As he placed his notepad in his jacket pocket, he tipped his hat and began to walk back to his white pick-up truck. I almost had the door closed when he turned around and asked,
	“Pardon me, but would you mind if I used your head?”
	“Uh – yeah—sure,” I said hesitantly, letting him in, if he was the cowboy that I have harkened him to be, he could smell the Bull blood from the road. I closed the door behind him, as I swallow the lump in my throat.
	“It’s right there,” I said pointing to the bathroom door. Zoey was in the living room with her arms crossed, still pouting about having her M-16 confiscated. Mongo was in the kitchen with Lani, sitting on the counter adjacent to the range. I heard the toilet flush, Decker appeared in the hallway, awkwardly looking for the light switch on his way out. He waltzed into the living room, looked around halting at the facade of the fire place.
	“That’s nice,” he said pausing to look at me, “I’d love to have one, but that’s the one thing about Texas it never gets quite cold enough to really use a fireplace. But hey, a boy can dream can’t he?”
	“So you’re from Texas?”
	“Yup, born and raised,” he said as he made his way through the dining room, into the kitchen. Mongo glared at Decker from the counter top with his arms crossed.
	“What’ca cookin?” Decker asks looking to Lani.
	“Just some Mole.”
	“Mmmm, mole, sounds good.” He says as he takes a good look around the kitchen, twitching his nose just ever so slightly as he sniffs the air. “Go easy on the Ancho Chilies,’ he says to Lani “they can really over power the cocoa.” He pauses, “Well that’s what I’ve learned anyway, “he says throwing up his hands.
	“Thanks.”
	“Well sirs I must bid you adieu,” He said with a tip of his hat, “again thank you for your time, and your hospitality. You really do have a lovely home, especially that fireplace.” He added as he made his way back through the house to the front door. “I almost forgot,” he said stopping “here’s my card, just in case you think of anything or see anything. I can’t imagine it’s just wandering cattle, but hell it’s not like someone is hunting them, you know?” he says chuckling, “but then again weirder things have happened.” He smiled, shrugged his shoulders and left out the way he came in. He made it back to his pale white pick-up truck and he was gone. Decker wasn’t absent for more than 10 seconds before the entire house erupted.
	“I want my gun!” Zoey demanded.
	“What does he know about Mole?” Lani inquired.
	“I need to finish tagging and bagging!” Mongo Screamed.
	“Who was that?” Chuckey and Davey simultaneously asked. I didn’t answer any of them.
“Family meeting five minutes,” I announced.

The entire family sat in a circle on the hardwood floors of the living room, our legs crossed Indian style. I explained to everyone that this was the beginning of the end. I told them that it was time that we moved on to the next town. I told them that the kitchen was getting too hot, and in the best interest of our little pack, we must move and start all over again. We must tap into a new uncharted market.  I explained that it was a long road of building new relationships with new butchers in new towns. I told them that this was okay. I told them that this was the vehicle that we have chosen to orbit in. This wasn’t the end but just a new beginning, because we would rather move than change our way of life.
The next day I took the last of the cuts down to Frankie. As I handed him the last package, I knew that he knew. He knew that this was the end of our era. He knew the same thing that I had known all along. We had devoured our town’s entire cattle supply. We both knew that our resources had dried up. We had known this from the beginning, but we did it anyway. As Frankie wrote that last check, we both knew that we had done this to ourselves. It wasn’t anyone’s fault, however no one was innocent.

title: [crtique] [literary fiction] short story for publication - 1700 words Part II of II

question: What does the story say about food?

answer: The family is tagging and bagging "pre steaks". Lani is cooking Mole sauce. When Decker smells the Mole sauce, he advises Lani to go easy on the Ancho Chilies, as they overpower the cocoa.

question: What are the responses to each knock?

answer: Everyone in the house perks up when they hear the second knock. They all scramble about the house at the third knock to start covering up their operations. The narrator makes their way to the front door at the fourth knock and tells everyone to be cool. He opens the door after the fifth knock.

question: What does the story say about why the cattle at the Smith farm went missing?


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U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-El Paso, has invited U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, to participate in six debates with O'Rourke across Texas, two of them in Spanish, during their U.S. Senate race.

O'Rourke campaign manager Jody Casey made the proposal in a letter last week to Cruz's senior staff, adding that the debates should have "media reach to all twenty markets in the state."

"I would like to begin direct coordination of the debates with your campaign team between now and May 10th," Casey wrote to Cruz advisers Bryan English and Eric Hollander in the April 24 letter. “Please advise my best point of contact on the Cruz campaign team."

Cruz previously suggested he is open to debating O'Rourke. Cruz's campaign said in response to the letter that it was exploring its options.

"Sen. Cruz has said he's looking forward to debates," Cruz spokeswoman Catherine Frazier said in a statement. "We are considering all possibilities in front of us and will be working with potential hosts and the O'Rourke campaign to determine the best platforms available so that Texans from all corners of the state can hear from the candidates directly about their views for Texas' future."

Regardless of what the campaigns ultimately agree to, debates in Spanish between the candidates seem unlikely. While O'Rourke is fluent in the language, Cruz is not known as a proficient speaker.

After a campaign event Tuesday afternoon in San Antonio, Cruz admitted to reporters that his Spanish "remains lousy" before offering a sentence in the language: "I understand almost everything, but I can't speak like I want to." Cruz, whose father came to America from Cuba, chalked up his shoddy Spanish skills to "the curse of the second-generation immigrant," adding that he suspects many in the Hispanic community can relate.

"A debate in Spanish would not be very good because my Spanish isn’t good enough, but I look forward to debating Congressman O’Rourke," Cruz said.

Cruz has professed little resistance to sparring with O'Rourke so far. Asked in March if he would debate O'Rourke, Cruz told reporters he is "sure we'll see a debate in this race." Cruz noted that he debated U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., multiple times on national TV last year before adding, "I am not remotely afraid to debate left-wing liberal socialists."

During a conference call with supporters Thursday, O'Rourke alluded to the letter while fielding a question about whether there will be a debate between him and Cruz.

"We certainly want a debate," O'Rourke said, adding that his campaign is working to "make sure that we give every voter in Texas the opportunity to know the difference between the two candidates, their track record of service, what they hope to achieve for the state of Texas and the way in which they are campaigning."

O'Rourke suggested he was undeterred by Cruz's past as a college debate champion and a lawyer who has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court nine times.

"While I know that Cruz is a master debater, a very skilled politician, a very shrewd person ... I would love the opportunity to talk about what all of us have been doing together over the course of the campaign and what we want to achieve for Texas," O'Rourke told supporters. "I’m very much looking forward to it."

question: Do you think Cruz's strategy to having open debates with O'Rourke was a smart move?

answer: Yes, Cruz wanting to have open debates with O'Rourke was a smart move because it allowed everyone to hear both of their sides and know what each of their platforms stood for.

question: How can you describe Cruz's debating skills?

answer: Cruz's debating skills can be described as very well mastered, skilled, and shrewd.


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-   English
-   News

 LIVING FILM HERITAGE. A total donation of 30 million kroner from three foundations is making it possible to digitise, study and disseminate more than 400 silent films from the golden age of Danish cinema.

11. December 2018

One of the most important chapters in Danish film history will now become available thanks to a donation of DKK 30 million from the A.P. Møller Foundation, the Aage and Johanne Louis-Hansen Foundation and the Augustinus Foundation.

From around 1910, the Danish film industry was a world leader, both commercially and artistically, with Nordisk Films Kompagni (now Nordisk Film) at the forefront. Stars like Asta Nielsen, Valdemar Psilander and Fy & Bi were famous way beyond their home country, and Denmark’s greatest film director, Carl Th. Dreyer, was prolific during this period as well. When sound films gained ground in the early 1930s, production companies scrapped their inventories of silent films. Only an estimated 20% of the Danish silent film production exists today.

The archives contain at least 50 titles that have not been shown since they were first released more than a century ago. Among them, we might find forgotten masterpieces that could change our understanding of Danish silent film history.

In the coming years, the Danish Film Institute will digitise, study and disseminate Denmark’s entire silent film heritage, consisting of some 415 titles with a combined running time of around 350 hours. The films range wide and far, from prestige productions with international appeal to run-of-the-mill farces and test films, illustrating the technical evolution from silent to sound, colour to black and white, and so on.

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The biggest stars die young. The world famous silent film actor Valdemar Psilander died only 32 years old.

Studying and disseminating the film heritage

The project is the biggest film-dissemination effort ever in Denmark and follows four years of work mapping the collections. The many films and supplementary materials will now be made freely available to curious viewers and institutions of learning around the world, where Danish silents are already part of the curriculum for students of film history.

The masterpieces in the collections are being restored and scanned for theatrical screening, and an online universe is being created featuring all the films, accompanied by dissemination and research articles. Along the way, the Film Institute will share knowledge about the restoration and digitisation efforts.

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Asta Nielsen and Urban Gad were both a married couple and colleagues who worked in Germany.

A three-year Danish-German research project affiliated with the digitisation effort will map the cross-border traffic of ideas and people between two leading nations of the silent film era, Denmark and Germany. The project is carried out in partnership with the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cologne. The research team comprises five senior researchers, a Ph.D. fellow and a research assistant.

Jakob Buhl Vestergaard, Deputy Managing Director of the Danish Film Institute, says

CONTACT

LARS-MARTIN SØRENSEN
Forskningsleder
Tlf. +45 3374 3574
larss@dfi.dk

JAKOB BUHL VESTERGAARD
Vicedirektør
Tlf. +45 2020 1838
jakobv@dfi.dk

"It is with great gratitude to the contributing foundations, and tremendous anticipation, that we are launching this comprehensive project. The archives contain at least 50 titles that have not been shown since they were first released more than a century ago. Among them, we might find forgotten masterpieces that could change our understanding of Danish silent film history. In any event, we have now been given a unique opportunity to learn about our shared past, as told in motion pictures. This is what film can do."

FACTS

In the coming years, the Danish Film Institute will digitise, study and disseminate the entire Danish silent film heritage: 415 titles, with a total running time of around 350 hours. Apart from the films themselves, documentation materials, such as film programmes, stills and posters, will be digitised and made available, including in an online universe and at a silent film festival organised by the Cinematheque.

The project is made possible by a donation of DKK 30 million from the A.P. Møller Foundation, the Aage and Johanne Louis-Hansen Foundation and the Augustinus Foundation.

_Physical and digital dissemination of the film heritage_
The Danish Film Institute aims to bring the film heritage to life for everyone. This is done through events at Copenhagen’s Cinematheque and in partnerships with cinemas nationwide. It is also done digitally via the streaming site "Danmark på film" (Denmark on Film), featuring documentaries from the 1899-1995 period.

question: What are the major reasons why some of the old, silent Danish films are being digitalized and made available for free?

answer: Three charity foundations have made around 30 million kroner available to digitize and make available 400 silent films from the beginning of the 1900s to the 1930s. Around 1910, Danish films were at the cutting edge of the industry and the digitalization of these creative works is to showcase Danish silent film masterpieces for curious viewers and educational institutions to learn from.


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   []    October 2, 2020      Cincinnati Reds activated RHP Tony Santillan.
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   []    September 28, 2020   Cincinnati Reds recalled RHP Tony Santillan from Reds Alternate Training Site.
   []    July 19, 2020        RHP Tony Santillan assigned to Reds Alternate Training Site from Chattanooga Lookouts.
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   []    November 20, 2019    Cincinnati Reds selected the contract of Tony Santillan from Chattanooga Lookouts.
   []    September 14, 2019   Chattanooga Lookouts activated RHP Tony Santillan from the 7-day injured list.
   []    August 2, 2019       Chattanooga Lookouts placed RHP Tony Santillan on the 7-day injured list retroactive to July 31, 2019.
   []    July 19, 2019        Chattanooga Lookouts activated RHP Tony Santillan from the 7-day injured list.
   []    July 14, 2019        Chattanooga Lookouts placed RHP Tony Santillan on the 7-day injured list retroactive to July 12, 2019.
   []    July 5, 2019         Chattanooga Lookouts activated RHP Tony Santillan from the 7-day injured list.
   []    June 28, 2019        Chattanooga Lookouts placed RHP Tony Santillan on the 7-day injured list. Right shoulder injury.
   []    January 9, 2019      Cincinnati Reds invited non-roster RHP Tony Santillan to spring training.
   []    July 5, 2018         Tony Santillan assigned to Pensacola Blue Wahoos from Daytona Tortugas.
   []    April 4, 2018        RHP Tony Santillan assigned to Daytona Tortugas from Dayton Dragons.
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   []    May 31, 2017         Dayton Dragons placed RHP Tony Santillan on the 7-day disabled list retroactive to May 30, 2017.
   []    July 27, 2016        RHP Tony Santillan assigned to Dayton Dragons from Billings Mustangs.
   []    June 16, 2016        RHP Antonio Santillan assigned to Billings Mustangs from AZL Reds.
   []    June 24, 2015        Cincinnati Reds signed RHP Antonio Santillan.
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question: As what position was Tony Santillan recruited?

answer: RHP - Right handed pitcher.

question: Why was Tony Santillan placed o the 7-day injury list in June 2019?

answer: He had a right shoulder injury.

question: Who is the latest franchise that activated Tony Santillan?

answer: Cincinnati Reds on 2 October 2020.

question: For which team did Tony Santillan play in 2017?

answer: The Dayton Dragons.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: This post details the player statistics of Tony Santillan in Major League Baseball.


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I had this dream.

I was sitting, nervously waiting in some sort of office room with too many chairs.
I knew that I was outside of a conference room, though.
The room had a fairly simple setup. There was a secretary scribbling something on a notepad, a fake plastic fern in the corner, and a plain black-and-white clock up on the wall.

I was nervously rehearsing my answers for the interview that I knew that I was about to go to. I don’t remember what my answers were. I was just ready to tell the interviewers what they wanted to hear.

I became aware that the clock’s ticking was quite loud.

A pepper-haired man stuck his head out of the conference room door and said
“We’re ready for you now. Come on in.”
He went back into the room but left the door open.

I followed the man into the room and looked around.
Outside the window, off in the distance, I could see the sparkling ocean.
It looked so peaceful.

Someone’s bike reflector flashed in the sun and caused me to blink.

I looked in front of me and saw the pepper-haired man sitting across the table with two men that were sitting to his right and to his left.
To his right, there was a slim, tall man with nice blonde hair and blue eyes. He wore a suit and had a welcoming smile.
To his left, there was a tall, fat man with long greasy hair. He wore glasses, a wrinkled polo shirt, and had a sense of arrogance about him.

I donned a fake smile, shook their hands, and took my seat across from the three men.
My heart was no longer pounding.
I was relaxed and confident.

“So, tell me, why do you want to come to our school?” the blonde man asked.
“Yea, what makes us so special?” the fat man followed up.

This was a typical interview question, but for some reason it made me pause.
This was the point of no-return. My response would change my life forever.

 ...

I thought about my entire life up until this moment:

One time when I was only six years old, I remembered stubbing my toe while opening a door. I looked down at my foot, saw blood, and immediately panicked. I sat down and cried until my mother came to clean it up for me. She told me that there was no reason cry, because I had to be strong. I remembered the sense of duty I had to show no weakness.

No more than a year later, when I was seven, my mother first told me about college. She told me that I could be anything that I wanted to be in life. I was a winner, better than the rest.
However, she told me that I must always be happy.
Live your life for you, and nobody else. Only you have to deal with the decisions you make.

When I was nine, I was first told that I needed glasses. I remember trying on those black plastic frames at the optometrist’s office and wondering if I would look like this for the rest of my life. Later that day, I was inspecting my appearance in the bathroom mirror at home when my mother came in to talk to me. She told me that I could never be a pilot, because of my new glasses.
Maybe this meant that I couldn’t be whatever I wanted to be in life.

I remembered playing “Truth or Dare” when I was twelve at Brittany Winter’s birthday party. I was dared to kiss the most popular girl in school, and I did it. I spent that night lying next to her, being careful not to touch, and worrying the entire night what would happen if my mother found out what I had done.

When I was thirteen, I first stole beer from my friend’s father. As I was throwing up, I remembered wondering what would happen if she saw me then. This was not a part of the path to success.

When I was fifteen, I made my first drug deal. As I sat there waiting with my Ziploc bag in my pocket, constantly looking over my shoulder for the police, I realized that I was more afraid of my mother driving by and asking me what I was doing standing on the street corner by myself.

I remembered deciding at sixteen that there was more money in becoming a doctor. From there, I told myself what I wanted to hear and said that my chief motivation was to “help people.”
From then on, there was nothing stopping me from going to medical school.
After all, I was the best.
I was the smartest, most clever, and physically fit person around.
I was the one for the job.

 ...

It was then that I realized I had been staring at my feet for some while.
I looked up at the men to see all three of their faces unpatiently waiting for a reply.
The pepper-haired man re-iterated their questions:
“So, son, why do you want to come here?”

I thought about this question for a while and wondered how I managed to find myself sitting in that chair.
I realized that I wasn’t happy.
I didn’t know who I was anymore, or what I was doing with my life.
I have never felt so lost.

I finally lifted my head and looked the pepper-haired man right in the eyes.
I slowly stood up and said

“I don’t.”

title: The Interview of a Lifetime

question: How do the events of the narrator's life impact their decision to not attend medical school?

answer: At first, as a small child, the narrator's mother informs them that they can be whatever they want to be. However, when he gets glasses, his mother tells him he cannot be a pilot. As he goes through adolescence and tries drinking and drugs, he wonders if this is the way he was meant to be. At 16 he decides to study medicine to make a lot of money. Suddenly, at the interview, he realizes that he was only motivated by pleasing his mother, and not by what he wants to do.


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	Black.

	The walls, so round and smooth, glistened with nothingness. The lack of light had become a color within this seething vortex of questions. Where was I? When was I? Who was I, and IF I was. No time for these simple grade school questions. Time to get out. I have a life, I have a who, and what and why. But where are they? Or are they. I can't remember. All I know is this black blanket which covers me like a insect in lucite. This is not my home. Or is it? NO its not. It wants me to think it is, but it is a trap, a singular consciousness bent on turning me mad. Has it worked? Or is this treatment to drive me sane. It all seems like the same trip on the same bus with mild destination changes. Gotta think. I was born. Check. I haven't died. Maybe. I have feelings this isn't how it always has been. So according to DeCarte, thats something. If there was a DeCarte. Damn I'm tired. But why? Have I lived? Have I been struggling? Did a previous version of me know this isn't the way it should be? I don't know. But I have to act. Act on instinct if nothing else. Like a roach, driven towards survival. I have to act.

	So smooth the walls. No difference above, below, the left or right. But this isn't normal. People live their whole lives, and are never in a formless, bright black pit. I know this. People watch tv. People bitch about their bills, fight about their rights, piss on the sidewalk. But they do not live in lightless, pits of darkness that are too bright to focus on. So I know that. This is wrong. As far as my experience in the experience of people goes, this is not right. I have to hold on to that. Tightly, like a stick of light, sold in packs of 20. Light, damn, what is light? Oh yeah, focus, light is what is NOT around me right now. It is very difficult to hold on to the ideal of a negative. So I must picture it. Light. Well in my head I know its what is not dark. But now I question what is dark? If everything is dark, then there is no absolute dark, only shades of dark with a hypothetical absolute. LA Allal ala ala lalala alala think brain think, think tank think stink. Tulips are used as chimes on the ship of the phantom pink.

	What is the last thing I remember that wasn’t dark. It was an invasion of the dark. An unwelcome intruder into the comfort provided by the warm, smothering, all encompassing stillness of light. That is of little help. Help of that is little be. Sheep flee on top of electric bees and find the going price way to steep. I need to sleep. Or am I sleeping? Have I been asleep, and just now awoke. Tie a fork in your telephone spoke. Mash potato, potatoes on a rope. I'm sure this isn't the way thoughts are arranged. I have blind visions, of diviners paths. I know where the water is. It's not in this direction. Where is west? That's where to head. Go west, thats the answer. No just an old song. Organize. Re-evaluate. Define what you can trust.

	I can trust that I am thinking. I can trust that these thoughts are of my own origin, or of an origin outside myself, are being thought by what I have to call me. I am me. Thats what I know. DeCarte would be proud. Who the hell is DeCarte? Why do I say that name? There is more to me than I know. OR, more to me that I am allowed access. So if this is a plan, I have to trick it, assuming it can't hear what I am thinking, at least I think I am thinking, I could be speaking, I'm not sure of the difference anymore. So there Is more to me than the instinctual reaction to this darkness. There is that, there is some gnawing feeling of being at a compromised state, and the name, and philosophy, well I only took Phil 101, of DeCarte. Phil 101? WHAT? Where did that come from? I have a knowledge of some "me" taking something in college called "Philosophy 101". College? College? Oh, College. Higher Education. So thats two more things I know. I know darkness, a not right state of mind ( or being), Decarte, Philosophy 101, and college. I seem to know a lot.

	This is no comfort. These are unconnected points of interest in a blank expanse, that doesn’t help me know what is and what is not. Smooth. The walls are smooth. What is smooth? Is smooth something? Or just the absence of rough, the absence of chaos, the absence of information. The one thing I can be sure of, I think, is that I don't know anything, and can't accept what I know at face value. For some reason, I feel like this should propel me to self-righteousness, like I am different and better than other, but it doesn't. All it does is make me wonder, WHO are the others? If I feel like I am now better than the rest, who are the rest? That whole concept assumes that more exists than me, this smooth darkness, and the vibrating strings of temporary possible thoughts that me considers. This is madness.

	Madness, that sounds familiar. Sounds comforting, like the dark. Like something that explains or better yet, extinguishes the need for further explanation. Madness. Why does the summoning of that word warm me like an old familiar shoe. A shoe that I know fits and feels fine. Madness. A dream? A wish? A $3.50 all you can eat plate of fish? I don't know. It's gone. Can't nail it down. That word filled me at least halfway for a second, and now its gone. But filled what? With what? And if it was halfway full, what was in the other half? And the OTHER half of what? This is not fashionable. This is not keen. This is not what tortured hearts feel within the bile of drunken fear that drives the impossible seals of what is and what is not. That is not. Is not What? I remember hearing all this before. I remember thinking that this, the stuff that is passing through that what I call self, isn't the truth. Or any proof. I have a mild acidic flavor in my ear telling me that this is all just some script that those who don't know that they are still children think others want to hear. No progress.

	Progress. Movement. Not just movement, but movement that moves in the direction of some sort of destination. But I have no destination. I can't even leave. To arrive somewhere, means that you left somewhere to go somewhere. But I exist where there is. Leave from, pass through, and arrive, all the same place. Here. Can I move? Walk? Run? Jump, trip, fall? I haven't tried. If I walk that mean leaving here. If I leave here, that means there is somewhere else, other than here. I'm not sure I'm ready to make that kind of decision, based on the theory of somewhere else. Or is is faith. I vaguely see a knotted ball of chaos which I know is tied to this. This. This implies that, and those, and them, and the wrinkled skin of the runaway Glenn. Stream of mind is a two way road. Whats a road? Movement. I know. From here and to fro. But from where and to where does it go?

	Still not normal. One thing I can "feel" is that there are other things than me, the darkness, DeCarte, Philosophy 101, college, and the other things that have covered me, other things that have more order, more cause and effect, sequences of events that are common to other "me"s. But not common to me. How can this be? I am me. I am THE me. THE only me that I am SURE of there to be. But beyond my me, there seem to be other "me"s, me's that are not my own that seem to be pulling apart this me that I have figured out, and isolating themselves from the me. ME This ME. The only me I am sure, is to be. They become so far from me that it's almost like some other me. A me that isn't apart of me. A me that isn’t me. If that me isn’t me, what is it? Another me? No, if it were another me, it would still be part of me, and if it were part of me, it would be nothing of notice. Nothing to bring about this uneasiness, this uncertainty, and this question of what is inside that me which is not me.

	Wait. This still isn't it. Whatever it is, this sense of normal and not normal, right and wrong, real and not real, that burning little bump on the end of myself, It still feel like something that doesn’t belong. What belongs? Me. What doesn't belong? Doesn't belong? If Me is what belongs, and there is something that doesn’t belong, that means that there is something that is not me!

	Smooth, dark. Slippery. This is what exists beyond my senses. Touch. Touch means one of two things, one part touches another, or smooth and slippery. What am I? I am something. I am more than just thought. So more than thought is something else. So me. But am I the first me? The only me? That idea feels bumpy to me. Not smooth. Something other than smooth. Maybe other than smooth is good. It doesn't feel bad. It feels scratchy. Like it wont go away. This might be something. Something? What is anything? Everything is smooth and dark. But this isn't. Scratchy isn't smooth. Scratchy isn't dark. Scratchy. Scratchy is the one interruption in the smooth, dark world that demands to be recognized as something that is apart from the smooth dark world.

	Now I can begin. So more than me feels different than everything else I know. It makes me want to know it. Because If it isn't part of what I know, it is something that I don't know. Never before have I considered what I don't know. Are there other things? Other non-smooth things?
Other things, so distinctive from this me, that they can be officially called something else. Other? That? This line of thought, as stimulating as it maybe, causes great disharmony across everything that I know to be me. Blind! Where is the smooth darkness that I know? Where are the socks that fit just so? Oh pain oh desperate woe, leave me, leave me now, it's not the same. Not the same causes pain. Pain, oh the pain, this is what it means to be separated from the smooth and dark. I cannot think, everything is so not dark, so lacking of smoothness. As I know, I am, and what I know is not me. Everything is becoming others. Parts of other things. Things that are not me. Things that are not dark. Things that are not smooth.

	There is more. Painfully more. A pain that expands way beyond me. That is the other. I don't know pain. There is so much I don't know. It must all be pain. Pain in all its not dark and unsmooth glory. That is pain. The absence of pain is dark, smooth, comforting. But its gone now. All gone. Everything seem to be not dark in a different way. Every smooth thing has been replaced with something that doesn’t resemble smooth in the slightest. Is this my new me? Is me now complicated with not dark and unsmooth? No. Its not me. Its other. Other than me.

	There are thoughts in the air. Moving about, from somewhere not me but finding a home in my me. These thoughts are not something I can think. They are like the unsmooth, or the undark. They are something that interrupts the me. Is this proof? Proof of the other? If these thoughts are in the air, the space between me and the smooth, why are they invading me? Why are they, making non-smooth pictures and undark textures form inside that which I know to be?

	"Well that's it."

	".. huh?"

	"We're done, I doubt you even noticed."

	There are other parts of me. Snapping in, turning on, defining this space.

	"By allowing us to stimulate your brains "self" center, you have provided us with invaluable data. Data showing that when the "self" is stimulated, It creates a small area of extreme activity, this area, then attempts to connect with the rest of your consciousness. When the rest of your consciousness begins to integrate, you do a kind of "re-boot", a recreation of the self from the self. It must seem awfully dry to you, but it actually means a great deal to us, in our field of study. Your clothes are on the counter, please dress and wait for my associate in the reception area. He will have a questioner for you to complete. Thank you."

title: [SF] Smooth like black, Bumpy like light.

question: What does the text say about the narrator?

answer: The narrator is experiencing some sort of darkness. Everything is pitch black and all they feel is progress and movement. He does not seem to have any memories at the beginning of the text. By the end of the story, the narrator is revealed to be participating in some sort of study that involves a form of stimulation of the brain that somewhat "re-boots" humans.

question: Explain the story's setting.

answer: The beginning of the story is set in the abyss. The narrator is experiencing some sort of emptiness. By the end of the story, it is revealed that the narrator is in a clinic undergoing a brain stimulation experiment.

question: Summarize the narrator's feelings.

answer: The narrator is feeling lost at first attempting to connect with the rest of his consciousness. By the end of the experiment, he snaps back into consciousness and is reminded that his brain was being stimulated for research purposes.


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SONA ARA GHAZARYAN (; born 30 March 1993) is an Armenian politician who has served as a member of the National Assembly since 2018. She is a member of the My Step Alliance.[1]

Early life

Ghazaryan was born on 30 March 1993 in Yerevan. In 2013, she graduated from the Yerevan Brusov State University of Languages and Social Sciences.[2]

Politics

From September 2018 to January 2019, Ghazaryan was a member of the Yerevan Council of Elders.[3]

On 9 December 2018, she was elected to the National Assembly as part of the My Step Alliance.[4]

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title: Sona Ghazaryan

question: Who is Sona Ara Ghazaryan?

answer: An Armenian politicial who is a member of the My Step Alliance.

question: Where was she born?

answer: She was born in Yerevan in 1993.

question: What has she achieved?

answer: Not much is stated on the page, though ti is noted she was a member of the Yerevan Council of Elders from September 2018 to January 2019.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: A page for Armenian politician Sona Ara Ghazaryan, briefly explaining her early life and her politics.