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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A Baltimore high school teacher was checked out by a doctor and will not be back in class for the rest of the week after being hit by a student on Wednesday.

A video posted on social media shows a student hitting the teacher in the head after apparently getting into another fight with another student. It has been watched more than 100,000 times.

TEACHERS UNION CALLS ATTACK ON BALTIMORE HS TEACHER ‘ABSOLUTELY DEPLORABLE’

Baltimore Teachers Union President Marietta English released the following statement on the assault:

  “The footage of a student punching one of our members in the face is absolutely deplorable. Our teachers and paraprofessionals work too hard and sacrifice too much of their time, creativity and genuine love for teaching to be treated in such a manner by anyone, including their students.

  “As I stated in my testimony before the new school security policy was passed by the School Board last spring, the District must develop and implement policies that not only provide options for students who express this type of behavior, but also protection and other measures for the teachers, staff and students who bear the brunt of their rage.”

  An update: The union says the veteran Frederick Douglass High School science teacher was checked out by a doctor after she was attacked and will not be back in class this week @wjz https://t.co/dBZDHmwhz8

  — Mike Hellgren (@HellgrenWJZ) November 8, 2018

“School administrators at Frederick Douglass High School continue to investigate a physical altercation that took place today when a teacher was struck by a student following a verbal exchange. Ensuring a safe teaching and learning environment for our students and staff is paramount to City Schools. Upon reviewing the incident, school administrators will apply disciplinary action in accordance with Baltimore City Public Schools’ Code of Conduct.” Edie House Foster, with Baltimore City Public Schools said in a statement.

VIDEO: STUDENT SEEN HITTING TEACHER AT A BALTIMORE HIGH SCHOOL

Baltimore City Public Schools released a new statement Thursday night saying their focus is on ensuring a “safe teaching and learning environment for students and staff,”

  “Baltimore City Public Schools leaders are working closely with the Frederick Douglass High School leadership team to support students and staff following Wednesday’s altercation between a teacher and student. Our focus is on ensuring a safe teaching and learning environment for students and staff. We understand that an incident like this on can be difficult to process. School counselors and social workers will be available at the school for students and staff to address any questions and concerns they may have. District leaders have also reached out to the teacher to provide any additional support that may be needed,”

The union representing Baltimore City teachers is calling for the student who hit a teacher at Frederick Douglass High School to be immediately removed from the classroom.

“I’m very, very disturbed,” said union president Marietta English. “Not only is a traumatizing to the teacher, but also it’s traumatizing to the students who witnessed it.“

English said the student has “anger issues.”

“It’s a reflection of society that the children don’t have the respect for adults that they’ve had in years past,“ she said.

But English said teachers just keep doing their jobs.

“There’s fear in all of us, but because [teachers] are resilient, they go back to the school. They work hard.” English said.

School representatives declined to speak on camera to WJZ.

It’s unclear what if any punishment the student will face and whether any charges will be filed.

A school spokeswoman said in a statement that administrators would discipline the student according to the code of conduct following an investigation.

There have been several other attacks on Baltimore teachers over the past decade, including the videotaped beating of Jolita Berry, an art teacher at Reginald Lewis High School.

That case made national headlines. Berry told WJZ at the time that it was as if it was “open season” on teachers.

The student in her case was later cleared of assault charges.

The head of the school police union, Sgt. Clyde Boatwright, says the number of officers in Baltimore City schools has dropped 26 percent in the past two years, from 142 in 2016 to 105 today.

“One would question whether school police have enough resources,“ Sgt. Boatwright said.

“I don’t think anybody should come to work to be subject to assault. We just want the school system to take safety as its top priority.”

He said officers have recovered four guns from City schools since the start of the new school year. School police are not armed.

He also notes several fellow officers have been assaulted, including one who had bleach thrown in his eyes last year while trying to break up a fight.

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question: How many times was the video of a student hitting a teacher watched on social media?

answer: About 100,000 times.

question: What was the recommendation of the president of the Baltimore Teachers Union to the District?

answer: The recommendation was that the District must develop and implement policies that provide options for the student who exhibit this kind of behaviour as well as provide protection and other measures for teachers of staff.

question: What was the District response to this incident?

answer: The District released a statement saying that the matter is under investigation and that their focus is on maintaining a  “safe teaching and learning environment for students and staff".

question: What was the union representing the teacher who was hit saying?

answer: The Baltimore City Teachers is calling for immediate expulsion of the offending student.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer:
A video where a student was seen hitting a teacher in the head has been seen more than 100,000 times on social media. The teacher in question has been checked by a doctor and will not be returning to school for a little while.

Meanwhile, teachers unions and similar organizations have called on the Baltimore District council to develop and enforce rules that will make schools a safe place for their teachers.


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TOWE MARIANNE LUNDMAN[1] (born December 18, 1992 in Uppsala) is a Swedish curler.[2]

She is a 2013 Swedish mixed champion.

Teams

Women's

+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| Season | Skip   | Third  | Second | Lead   | Altern | Coach  | Events |
|        |        |        |        |        | ate    |        |        |
+========+========+========+========+========+========+========+========+
| 2010–1 | Karin  | Elina  | Amalia | Towe   |        |        |        |
| 1      | Rudstr | Backma | Rudstr | Lundma |        |        |        |
|        | öm     | n      | öm     | n      |        |        |        |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| 2011–1 | Paulin | Towe   | Elina  | Amalia |        |        |        |
| 2      | a      | Lundma | Backma | Rudstr |        |        |        |
|        | Stein  | n      | n      | öm     |        |        |        |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| 2012–1 | Towe   | Amalia | Anna   | Johann |        | Håkan  | SJCC   |
| 3      | Lundma | Rudstr | Gustaf | a      |        | Rudstr | 2013   |
|        | n      | öm     | sson   | Heldin |        | öm,    | SWCC   |
|        |        |        | (SJCC) |        |        | Mattia | 2013   |
|        |        |        | Elina  |        |        | s      | (5th)[ |
|        |        |        | Backma |        |        | Åkerbe | 3]     |
|        |        |        | n      |        |        | rg     |        |
|        |        |        | (SWCC) |        |        |        |        |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| 2013–1 | Towe   | Amalia | Anna   | Johann |        | Håkan  | SJCC   |
| 4      | Lundma | Rudstr | Gustaf | a      |        | Rudstr | 2014   |
|        | n      | öm     | sson   | Heldin |        | öm     |        |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| Towe   | Amalia | Anna   | Elina  | Johann | Håkan  | SWCC   |
| Lundma | Rudstr | Gustaf | Backma | a      | Rudstr | 2014   |
| n      | öm     | sson   | n      | Heldin | öm     |        |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| 2014–1 | Towe   | Anna   | Elina  | Johann |        | Mattia | SWCC   |
| 5      | Lundma | Gustaf | Backma | a      |        | s      | 2015   |
|        | n      | sson   | n      | Heldin |        | Åkerbe |        |
|        |        |        |        |        |        | rg,    |        |
|        |        |        |        |        |        | Nils-E |        |
|        |        |        |        |        |        | rik    |        |
|        |        |        |        |        |        | Heldin |        |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| 2015–1 | Towe   | Johann | Anna   | Elina  | Sofia  | Mattia | SWCC   |
| 6      | Lundma | a      | Gustaf | Backma | Gustaf | s      | 2016   |
|        | n      | Heldin | sson   | n      | sson   | Åkerbe | (5th)  |
|        |        |        |        |        |        | rg,    |        |
|        |        |        |        |        |        | Nils-E |        |
|        |        |        |        |        |        | rik    |        |
|        |        |        |        |        |        | Heldin |        |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| 2016–1 | Towe   | Sarah  | Johann | Eva    |        | Nils-E | SWCC   |
| 7      | Lundma | Pengel | a      | Heldin |        | rik    | 2017   |
|        | n      |        | Heldin |        |        | Heldin | (6th)  |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+

Mixed

  Season    Skip                    Third                     Second                 Lead               Coach           Events
  --------- ----------------------- ------------------------- ---------------------- ------------------ --------------- ------------------
  2011–12   Alexander Lindström     Towe Lundman              Christoffer Sundgren   Elin Näs                           SMxCC 2012 [4]
  2012–13   Towe Lundman (fourth)   Gustav Eskilsson (skip)   Anna Gustafsson        Jesper Johansson                   SMxCC 2013 [5]
  2013–14   Towe Lundman (fourth)   Gustav Eskilsson (skip)   Anna Gustafsson        Jesper Johansson   Björn Lundman   EMxCC 2013 (7th)

Mixed doubles

  Season   Male               Female         Events
  -------- ------------------ -------------- ---------------------
  2016     Gustav Eskilsson   Towe Lundman   SMDCC 2016 (5th)[6]

Personal life

Towe Lundman is married to Jakob Lundman. They have one child.

She graduated from Uppsala University.

[1] Towe Marianne Lundman (Uppsala, 27 år) - Merinfo.se

[2] Landslagsspelare genom tiderna – Damer – Svenska Curlingförbundet (Swedish female national curlers; look at “Lundman, Towe”)

[3] Resultat 2012-2013 - Svenska Curlingförbundet

[4] Resultat 2011-2012 - Svenska Curlingförbundet (look at “SM Mixed (Karlstad)”)

[5] SM Mixed 2013 – Svenska Curlingförbundet

[6] SM Mixed Dubbel 2016 — Cuponline

title: Towe Lundman

question: Summarie Lundman's personal life.

answer: Lundman is married to Jakob Lundman and they have one child.

question: What is Lundman's career earnings?


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I don’t see you a lot anymore.  Well, I see you, but you always have those sunglasses on that make you look like everyone else.  We only say a few words to each other now and then, all just friendly formalities.  You talk to everyone like that, like you’re some kind of cross-clique ambassador that has to be good with everyone.

You also always have your sleeves rolled up now.  It doesn’t look bad; it’s just something I noticed.

There are pictures of you all through the halls for student counsel, or future leaders today-whatever one of the thousand clubs you’re a part of.  It makes me so mad seeing your face up there because your smile isn’t your real smile.  Your real smile is slightly wider to where you can see the tooth you chipped in sixth grade at Nick’s.

And I’m the only one who can tell.

I can’t quite pinpoint what made us grow apart.  It was freshman year in the fall.  You started hanging out with the preppy kids.  Freshman year everyone grew a part.  Everyone left me.  I just didn’t think you’d be one of them.  I was the only one who didn’t change, and I was the one abandoned.

It’s not fair to anyone that you left…especially not me.

You used to ride your blue Huffy bike over to my house.  I’d be sitting in my room, and I’d see you pull up to my driveway.  I started seeing every bike rider as you.  It’s hard to tell, from so far away.  They pedal their bicycles the same as you.  When they get close enough I can see what color their bike is.  Not a lot of people ride blue bikes.  Not a lot of people are like you.

That’s why.

That’s why it hurts to see you try to blend in with everyone, try to be the one that everyone looks to as the cool guy.  The one they want to talk to.  The one who tip toes the borders of the school’s niches.  The one whom when they look at me give a passing smile and a “how’s it goin’?”

The nicer you try to be the more insincere you become.

I understand.  I really do.  If people found out that we were together it might make you a little less popular.  It might make for an explanation to your new friends.  But to me, that’s how you know you aren’t with the right people.  I can talk to David.  Brian doesn’t care.  Luke supports me.  Emma talks a lot but you don’t.  And I don’t think she cares about you.  And I don’t think she’d support you no matter what.

And if you abandoned her, I don’t think she’d hold onto it for so long.

But if she did, hold onto it for this long I mean, I don’t think you’d leave her.  You wouldn’t want to hurt her that much.  You would notice the small twitch in her eye every time you’d pass each other in the hall.

That’s the worst part.

Not that we don’t see each other anymore.  Not that we started on different paths.  It’s that you don’t see the pain in my face when I look at you, because I see the pain in yours.  I know what it looks like.  I memorized it.

But you didn’t.

title: [RF] Passing

question: Who is the narrator?

answer: The narrator is a college-going girl.

question: Is she talking about a boy she loves?

answer: Yes, she is talking about a boy she is in love with. But the two of them have now grown apart.

question: Do the boy and the narrator not talk anymore?

answer: Yes, the narrator and the boy she loves do not talk anymore because the boy soon became famous in college while the narrator wasn't. It made the narrator believe that if everyone found out that they were together, the boy would become less popular.

question: Why did everyone leave the narrator's side in freshman year?

answer: This information can't be found.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: The narrator is describing her feelings for a boy in her college whom she loves. She recalls the times they used to spend together until things changed for the worse. The boy soon became popular in college and the two grew apart.


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POP stars led by Bob Geldof including Ed Sheeran, Rita Ora and Sting have joined forces to warn against a no-deal Brexit and its effects on the music industry.

In a joint letter penned by the Boomtown Rats frontman, they claim the country would be placed in a “self-built cultural jail”.

[ Pop stars led by Bob Geldof have warned against a no-deal Brexit in a letter to Theresa May]

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Addressed to Theresa May, they say Britain’s departure from the EU threatens the “vast voice” of the £4.4 billion industry which “dominates” the market.

Jarvis Cocker and Damon Albarn, the frontmen of Britpop bands Pulp and Blur, are also among the signatories as well as former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason and musical director of the London Symphony Orchestra Sir Simon Rattle.

The letter said: “Imagine Britain without its music. If it’s hard for us, then it’s impossible for the rest of the world.

“In this one area, if nowhere else, Britain does still rule the waves. The airwaves.

[ Rita Ora is among numerous musicians to have signed the joint letter penned by Bob Geldof]

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 Rita Ora is among numerous musicians to have signed the joint letter penned by Bob GeldofCredit: Getty Images - Getty
[ Bob Geldof has warned the PM that a No Deal Brexit would mean the country would be placed in a 'self-built cultural jail']

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 Bob Geldof has warned the PM that a No Deal Brexit would mean the country would be placed in a 'self-built cultural jail'
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“But Brexit threatens, as it does so much else, this vast voice. This huge global cultural influencer.

“We are about to make a very serious mistake regarding our giant industry and the vast pool of yet undiscovered genius that lives on this little island.”

The Observer who published the letter said it was circulated by Sir Bob Geldof with the subject “towards a 2nd vote”, in which Mrs May is urged to note that Brexit will “impact every aspect of the music industry”.

THE SUN SAYS: BOOMTOWN FLAT

BOB Geldof warns Britain will be a “cultural jail” after Brexit.

Quite why the power to strike our own trade deals will affect our ability to play guitar isn’t yet clear.

In fact, when it comes to music, it’s Britain’s institutions that are more dangerous. The BBC has decided in its infinite wisdom to publish its entire archive of classical music to compete with streaming services and record labels. Why? Just because it can?

It’s a decision that sums up the big-state, God-complex thinking that seeps right through the BBC.

Lord Hall promised to change Auntie’s tune – but he’s still hitting the wrong notes.

Bob Geldof, Sharon Horgan and other Irish celebrities show their support for the abortion referendum

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question: Which pop stars have signed the letter and why?

answer: Ed Sheeran, Rita Ora, Stine and Bob Geldorf have signed the letter. The purpose of the letter is to warn Theresa May that Brexit will have a horrible impact on the music industry.

question: What is the bias of the article?

answer: This article has a pro-Brexit bias. This is clear because it states that it is not clear why the ability to play guitar will be effected by the "power to strike our own trade deals" when in fact Brexit would have very predictable catastrophic economic and cultural consequences for Britain. It also mentions the BBC as undercutting the music industry, which is mostly popular music, by posting classical music in the public domain. This bizarre statement is a blatant attack on the BBC and is in keeping with the article's agenda to undermine the public sector.

question: What are some of the phrases in the letter?

answer: The letter says after Brexit Britain will be a "cultural jail." It also says that in this one region Britain still rules the waves - the airwaves.


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_OUTLAW ROUNDUP_ is a 1944 American Western film directed by Harry L. Fraser and written by Elmer Clifton. The film stars Dave O'Brien, James Newill, Guy Wilkerson, Helen Chapman, Jack Ingram and I. Stanford Jolley. The film was released on February 10, 1944, by Producers Releasing Corporation.[1][2][3]

In the film, Newill sings “Someone Is Waiting”, “Forget Me Not” and “When the Western Sun Is Sinking” by Speed Hansen.[4]

Plot

Cast

-   Dave O'Brien as Tex Wyatt
-   James Newill as Jim Steele
-   Guy Wilkerson as Panhandle Perkins
-   Helen Chapman as Ruth Randall
-   Jack Ingram as Spade Norton
-   I. Stanford Jolley as Red Hayden
-   Charles King as Frank Harkins
-   Reed Howes as Rod Laidlow
-   Bud Osborne as Sheriff Jed Randall
-   Frank Ellis as Sam Panzer
-   Budd Buster as Dude Merrill

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[2]

[3]

[4]

title: Outlaw Roundup

question: What role did Reed Howes play?

answer: Rod Laidlow

question: Who directed Outlaw Roundup?

answer: Harry L. Fraser

question: What studio released Outlaw Roundup?

answer: Producers Releasing Corporation

question: What genre of film is Outlaw Roundup?

answer: Western

question: Name a song feature in the film.

answer: Someone Is Waiting

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: Outlaw Roundup is a Western film directed by Harry L. Fraser and written by Elmer Clifton. It was released on February 10, 1944 by Producers Releasing Corporation.


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A charity based in Sackville is buying a 350-acre old-growth that's been in environmentalist Robena Weatherly's family for generations, through carbon offset earnings.

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Robena Weatherly said she refuses to allow her forest to be cut, so she's selling it Community Forest International. (Tori Weldon/CBC)

A charity based in Sackville is buying an old-growth forest in Cambridge-Narrows that has been in environmentalist Robena Weatherly's family for generations.

Community Forest International bought the 350-acre property (about 141 hectares) through its carbon offset program.

Weatherly still has the original land grant given to her great-great-great-grandfather, neatly written on yellowed paper. It's dated 1812.

Since her family took ownership, she said, a small section has been cleared for pasture, but otherwise few trees have been cut and harvested over the years.

Over the years, she's been approached many times by people hoping to harvest the forest.

"I have never been tempted," she said.

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Megan de Graaf said of carbon offsetting: 'In real world terms, this means that we have to keep trees standing on that property.' (Zach Melanson/Submitted)

But when Community Forest International asked about purchasing the land, she put more thought into the proposal.

"The idea that they were interested in the property for something other than its commercial value to just cut it down, appealed to me, to my ethic."

CFI is a non-profit that works to protect forests. It developed a carbon offsetting program that essentially sees businesses pay the group to preserve old-growth forests.

Carbon offsetting

Mature forests like Weatherby's storing tons of carbon. Many, if not most, of the things humans do release carbon into the atmosphere.

CFI's program calculates how much carbon a business emits through things such as employee driving and air travel and heating buildings. The company can buy that amount of carbon stored in mature trees on CFI's preserved land.

"We are on the hook for maintaining a certain amount of carbon," Megan de Graaf, forest ecologist at CFI, explained. "What that translates into in real world terms, this means that we have to keep trees standing on that property."

'It's the right thing to do'

De Graaf said the group has used the program to preserve more than 1,000 acres (about 405 hectares) in New Brunswick.

Greg Hemmings, CEO at Hemmings House Pictures, along with Dialog, an architecture firm in Toronto and Acre Architects in Saint John, is buying carbon offsets from the Weatherly family's land.

Hemmings said he did it because, "it's the right thing to do."

He said it was about five years ago when he started to look around for ways to reduce the company's carbon footprint.

"We want to make sure that we are enjoying the successes of our business but not at the cost of our environment."

CFI asked detailed questions about the company's operations, and Hemmings said it was established that the business emits 300 tonnes of carbon a year.

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"I think it was less than $4,000, so we're talking relatively minor amount of money considering how much we actually have in creating carbon."

"It's not cost-prohibitive."

Margins can be tight for a small business, but it's all about making decisions, he said.

"How much money do I really need to support my family? How much money do I want to pocket, and how much money do I want to reinvest into the world I live in? The community that I live in?"

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Members of Community Forest International walk in Robinson forest with Robena Weatherly. (Zach Melanson/Submitted)

De Graaf said the province could easily capitalize on a similar model.

"In fact, kind of scale up to more than just New Brunswick and be engaged in even bigger contracts outside of New Brunswick to take on big emissions reductions and offsets using the Acadian forest here at home."

Robinson Conservation Forest

De Graaf said the land, named the Robinson Conservation Forest, is on two parcels, both of which will be owned by CFI by January. She wouldn't reveal how much it was purchased for but said the land was appraised and the group paid fair market value.

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Weatherly said she discussed the sale with her family before the deal was signed, and everyone agreed it was the right thing to do. Even if it was a difficult decision.

"Well, maybe my age has something to do with it. It seemed a good idea to have some kind of a plan."

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Greg Hemmings, a client of CFI, said he wanted to offset his company's carbon footprint. (Submitted)

Weatherly estimates some of the older trees could be from 250 to 300 years old. She would know. She was one of the country's first female pathologists, contributing to research on the mountain pine beetle in the 1950s, before the pest was considered an epidemic.

Weatherly understands its value to a healthy ecosystem, but she also has close ties to the land. She recognizes many of the older trees from her childhood and remembers the year one particular tree was struck by lightning.

Selling her property is a leap of faith, but she said she trusts the people at CFI.

De Graaf said the group plans to put a "working land conservation easement" on the property.

She said it's a legal tool that dictates what can be done on a property, no matter whose name is on the deed.

question: Why is the 350-acre old-growth being purchased?

answer: To be preserved as part of Community Forest International's carbon offsetting program.

question: Who is Robena Weatherly?

answer: An environmentalist whose family has owned the 350-acre forest for generations.

question: Explain carbon offsetting.

answer: A company like CFI calculates how much carbon a business emits and then buys that same amount of carbon stored in mature trees.

question: Who purchased the property?

answer: Community Forest International, a charity based in Sackville

question: What do the new owners plan to do with the property?

answer: They plan to use it as part of its carbon offset program, through which businesses pay them to preserve old-growth forests.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: Community Forest International purchased a 350-acre old-growth forest from Robena Weatherly. Robena's family has owned the land for generations, dating back to 1812. CFI plans to preserve the forest, using it as part of its carbon offsetting program.


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BY REALITY CHECK TEAM
BBC News

media captionThe San José is known as the "holy grail" of shipwrecks

NEW DETAILS HAVE EMERGED ABOUT THE SAN JOSE, A SPANISH GALLEON SUNK BY BRITISH SHIPS 300 YEARS AGO.

The vessel was said to be transporting gold, silver and precious gems collected in the South American colonies to be shipped to Spain's King Philip V to help finance the war of Spanish succession.

Colombia said it first discovered the wreck, located somewhere off the coast of Cartagena, in 2015.

Last year, the president Juan Manuel Santos said the salvage operation "begins a new chapter in the cultural and scientific history, not only of Colombia but of the entire world".

Meanwhile, a team of marine archaeologists, with the help of an underwater robot, started an investigation and have published new information about what has been uncovered so far. Some people have already speculated it could be the most valuable shipwreck of all time and worth billions.

The San Jose is one of thousands of shipwrecks around the world and excavating historic cargo is an enticing prospect for archaeologists and treasure hunters.

So, who has the rights to a shipwreck?

image copyrightAFP

image captionA view out to sea from a beach in Cartagena, Colombia.

There are international agreements that have rules for some parts of the treasure-hunting process.

However, the decision of who is entitled to keep the contents of a valuable vessel tends to end up being made between countries under international law, says Robert Mackintosh, a lawyer and archaeologist at Southampton University.

"It's a very complex picture, as a lot of states and people can have a lot of different and often competing interests in wrecks, interests which have their origins in various different bodies of law," he said.

For example, the ship's original owner has a viable right to ownership. But that right can be superseded by the country which owns the national waters in which the ship was discovered.

'Plucked out of the air'

"The ocean is the world's greatest museum," says marine archaeologist Peter Campbell.

And hunting for treasure on sunken ships is big business.

Speculation about the value of the contents of a wreck can skyrocket even before items have been removed.

But often the operational costs of the archaeological investigation can be higher than the value of the wreck itself, says Mr Campbell.

News reports suggest the contents of the San Jose might be worth up to $17bn (£12.7bn). Although when the Colombian government went public with the discovery in 2015, the estimated value of the treasure reported was between $1bn and $10bn.

That $17bn figure "seems to have been plucked out of the air", says Mr Campbell.

Even so, experts agree that the San Jose has immense financial and cultural value.

image copyrightEPA

image captionThe San Jose was sunk by the British Navy

What does the law say?

The 2001 Unesco convention on underwater cultural heritage includes rules to help guide best practice for underwater excavations and guidelines regarding the qualifications required for people involved in conservation and site management.

The part of Unesco that oversees underwater heritage sites told the BBC it would be delighted to play a role settling claims over shipwrecks. However, it says it has not been approached to act in that capacity.

A country may claim ownership of a wreck if it owned the ship in the first place. Even if a vessel was sunk and abandoned for hundreds of years the original owner can still claim ownership rights.

There have also been cases of a country transferring ownership of the ship to another country for the vessel to be displayed in a museum.

image copyrightAFP

image captionCoins retrieved from the Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes

However, ownership can be complicated by the location of the wreck if it lies in the territorial waters of another state.

Under international law, a country has complete sovereignty over these waters and so essentially can do what it wants in terms of taking ownership, says Mr Mackintosh. There are further legal ramifications if the wreck lies in international waters.

When a ship has been discovered, the country where the ship was registered can point to something called sovereign immunity (in addition to claims of ownership). This refers to a specific category of ships that are immune from legal proceedings by another state. Warships and other government ships operated for non-commercial purposes enjoy sovereign immunity, says Mr Mackintosh.

Under the sovereign immunity principle in 2009, a judge in the US ruled the court lacked jurisdiction over a case involving a treasure hunting company called Odyssey Marine Exploration and the wreck of the Spanish ship the Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes.

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image captionSome of the items found in the shipwreck of the Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes

The US company found 17 tonnes of coins off the coast of Gibraltar and transported them to the US.

But the company was ordered to give back the haul - an estimated half a million coins and other artefacts - to the government of Spain.

Odyssey said they found the wreck in international waters and claimed salvage rights. Spain said it had never relinquished ownership of the ship's cargo and the coins were part of the country's national heritage.

The origins of contents of a ship may also be disputed. For example, in the case involving Odyssey and the Mercedes shipwreck, Peru submitted claims to US courts that stated that the origin of the precious cargo was Peru where the coins were mined and minted while it was part of the Spanish empire.

question: Why is the San José known as the "holy grail" of shipwrecks?

answer: It had between $1bn and $10bn worth of gold, silver, and gems when it sank.

question: Summarize everything about the San José.

answer: The San Jose is a Spanish galleon transporting gold, silver, and gems to Spain to help King Philip V finance the war. British ships sunk it 300 years ago, and the wreck was discovered in 2015 off the coast of Cartagena.

question: What is the reported estimated value of the treasure on the sunken ship?

answer: Between $1bn and $10bn.

question: What types of vessels have sovereign immunity?

answer: Warships and other non-commercial government ships.

question: Who has the rights to a shipwreck?

answer: The original owner of the ship has a viable right to ownership, but that right can be superseded by the country which owns the national waters in which the ship was discovered.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: The wreck of the San Jose, a Spanish galleon transporting gold, silver, and gems 300 years ago, was discovered in 2015 off the coast of Cartagena. The value of the treasure is reportedly between $1bn and $10bn. It was still being settled who had the rights to the San Jose shipwreck.


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“So, do you want it?” the salesman asked her. Rosa already knew that she did, but she was trying to get a better price. It wasn’t there yet, so she shrugged and turned her head away nonchalantly.

The salesman looked at her. Rosa Berger was attractive, and meeting her at the beach was her idea. He now knew why. She dressed in a bikini that had to be pushing the limits of any decency laws in the area. She was lying on a towel, sunning herself, looking like a model in a magazine. He was having trouble concentrating. His usual clientele were quite a bit older and more prudish. But she knew what she was looking for. He had a feeling she knew how to buy it, too.

“What do you want from me? This is not an easy find. I can’t go lower.” He tried, but he knew she was breaking him.

Rosa sat up and placed a hand in between her breasts, drawing the salesman’s eyes to them. She smiled when she noticed his face become far redder than what it should be for as little as he’s been in the sun. “I just can’t work that. It’s really important for my family to have this piece, but there’s only so much we can do ourselves. Are you sure you can’t drop the price? Even a little?”

The salesman barely heard what she was saying. “N-name your price. We, uh, we can go from there.” He struggled to take his eyes off her chest.

The dark haired beauty took off her sunglasses and looked her “victim” in the eyes. Her gorgeous brown eyes looked full of innocent joy at the news, and she knew right then and there that she had him hook, line, and sinker. She damn near could have asked him to just give her the artifact for free and he would have done it.

Sometimes, Rosa felt bad for the sellers of her trinkets, but they almost always tried to oversell them. Probably usually got away with it with the older codgers who were trying to keep busy in their old age. She, on the other hand, knew what investing in those beauties was worth. Those objects told the story of the past. This is where we, as the human race, came from. This wasn’t some text in a history book from high school. This was the real deal. This was magic to Rosa, a way to view the past.

There was nothing more important.

“Really?” Rosa reached into her beach bag and grabbed a pad of Post-Its and a pen, wrote down her price, and handed it too him, surreptitiously getting into the sexiest pose she knew. The salesman was now clearly and uncomfortably aroused and at this point, Rosa knew by experience, he would say yes to the deal just to get out of the awkward situation.

The salesman briefly looked at the note, sighed, knowing full well that in normal situations he would never dare accept the offer, and handed it back. “Fine.”

“Yay!” Rosa exclaimed, keeping up the appearance that she was innocent. She again reached into her beach bag and grabbed her checkbook, filled it out for the amount she asked about, and handed it to the man. He grabbed it, opened up his briefcase, grabbed the object, handed it to Rosa, and quickly said his goodbyes, practically running to get away from her.

Rosa giggled to herself. She put the object into her beach bag and continued to sun herself, eventually falling asleep.

When she heard rustling, she awoke to find someone digging through her bag. She was short, blonde and wearing a jogging outfit of short shorts and a sports bra. As soon as Rosa sat up, the blond woman stood up with the object in hand and ran away. Rosa realized the thief knew exactly what she was after; she wasn’t just some trash stealing some other woman’s junk.

Rosa jumped up and followed the woman. She was good at running on the sand and had trained herself to run barefoot on nearly any surface. So when the jogger ran onto the pavement, the fact that all Rosa was wearing was a very skimpy bikini didn’t bother her. She was going to get that object back.

It seemed, however, that thief was just as athletic as Rosa. She ran through cars and buildings. Rosa was just a little faster and was catching up with her, until the jogger displayed a skill that Rosa did not have: free running. She ran into an alley full of junk that would slow down normal people, but she just jumped and flipped over whatever she needed to and sped far ahead of Rosa.

But Rosa was resourceful. There was an idling motorcycle nearby that the beautiful artifact collector had no qualms about “borrowing.” She jumped on it and took off around the block in hopes of catching the thief off guard.

When she rounded the corner, there was a little traffic and the blonde was just coming out of the alley. Rosa wove in and out to catch up. The jogger ran down another alley, this one clear. Rosa followed on the bike. The thief ran down another side alley, this one ended in a dead end with a overfilled dumpster.

Rosa sped up and, being so focused on her enemy, missed the brick laying on the ground in front of her. She flew off the bike as it flipped. Luckily she landed on the blond runner. Unfortunately, they both fell on the pile of garbage bags.

Still, Rosa wasn’t about to let her get away. She pulled her up and punched her square in the jaw. Something else she trained herself in: mixed martial arts. The thief wasn’t too bad either. She got up and took a stance that proved she knew how to fight. She gave a high kick to Rosa, who easily blocked and countered it with a punch in the upper thigh, which would definitely bruise. The runner managed to hit with an uppercut. Rosa kicked the other woman in the shin, followed by an elbow in the gut, then one in the face, landing square on the nose. This left the thief dazed enough for Rosa to one more punch in the exact same spot.

The blond jogger fell straight back, not even trying to break her fall. When Rosa checked, she had no pulse and her eyes were rolled back in her head. She was dead.

Rosa checked her for her prize and, finding it, moved the corpse to the dumpster burying her in bags. She found a mostly clean rag and wiped the bike clean of any evidence of her from it. She casually walked back out the alley, taking another path. Then back to the beach. Luckily, no one bothered her stuff. She put the artifact in her bag, then put the bag in her car. She then went back and finished sunning herself, as if she were perfectly fine with killing someone, as if she had done it before.

Because she had. There was nothing more important to her than the artifacts and the stories they told.

title: [AA] The Bikini Chase

question: Describe Rosa's feelings as she went about manipulating her "victim", the salesperson?

answer: Rose sometimes felt bad for the sellers, but knew that they always tried to oversell her trinkets. She also knew she had complete power over her "victims" and that was like magic for her. The power Rosa had with her looks was how she survived in the world and this was her super-power.

question: Describe Rosa's reactions to when the thief took an item from her.

answer: Rosa was startled when she woke up to the sound of someone digging through her bag. She knew exactly what the thief was looking for and Rosa was ready to follow the woman. Rosa knew she was good at running at any surface, as she had trained herself. Rosa was also resourceful and athletic and was determined to not let the thief get away.

question: What mattered the most to Rosa?

answer: Beyond anything, what mattered to Rosa were her artifacts and the stories they told. Rosa had no qualms about killing someone, as long as she had her artifacts. She knew the real price of the beauties she collected and nothing was more important to her.

question: How would Rosa react if someone stole the artifacts she collected, and she was unable to retrieve them?


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[West Virginia House approves articles of impeachment for entire Supreme Court bench]

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WEST VIRGINIA HOUSE APPROVES ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT FOR ENTIRE SUPREME COURT BENCH
The West Virginia House Judiciary Committee adopted articles of impeachment [draft, PDF] on Tuesday against all four justices remaining on the state’s Supreme Court of Appeals.

A West Virginia legislature statement [press release] outlines the 14 articles that were approved, including accusing all four justices of failing to “properly carry out the administrative duties of the court” and wasteful spending. Two were denied.

The articles state that each one of the justices “failed to discharge the duties of their offices, and were and are guilty of maladministration, 12 corruption, incompetency, neglect of duty, and certain high crimes and misdemeanors.”

West Virginia has five Supreme Court justices by law, elected to 12-year terms. The fifth, Justice Menis Ketchum, resigned in July. The articles of impeachment recommend that the entire remaining four—Chief Justice Margaret Workman, Justice Allen Loughry, Justice Robin Davis and Justice Elizabeth Walker–be impeached.

The articles now go before the full House of Delegates for approval before the justices may face trial in the state Senate.

question: What are the allegations against the judges of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals?

answer: That they "failed to discharge the duties of their offices, and were and are guilty of maladministration, corruption, incompetency, neglect of duty, and certain high crimes and misdemeanors."

question: Why did the fifth member of West Virginia's Supreme Court of Appeals resign?

answer: The article doesn't mention a reason.

question: What were the denied articles?

answer: It's not stated.

question: What other articles were approved?

answer: It's not stated.

question: What is the chain of official decision-makers about the impeachment?

answer: The legislature passed the articles to the House of Delegates for approval. If they approve, the justices will face trial in the state Senate.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: A West Virginia legislature statement outlines the 14 articles that were approved, including one accusing the state's remaining four Supreme Court justices of failing to discharge the duties of their offices, maladministration, corruption, incompetency, neglect of duty, and certain high crimes and misdemeanors. The articles will be considered by the House of Delegates for approval before the justices may face trial in the state Senate.


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In defending its “zero tolerance” border policy that has caused the separation of families, the Trump administration has argued that the Obama and Bush administrations did this too. That’s misleading. Experts say there were some separations under previous administrations, but no blanket policy to prosecute parents and, therefore, separate them from their children.

“Bush and Obama did not have policies that resulted in the mass separation of parents and children like we’re seeing under the current administration,” Sarah Pierce, a policy analyst with the Migration Policy Institute, told us.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said at a June 18 press briefing: “The Obama administration, the Bush administration all separated families. … They did — their rate was less than ours, but they absolutely did do this. This is not new.”

Nielsen went on to explain that there is indeed something new, as we wrote in another article on this topic. Under a “zero tolerance policy” on illegal immigration announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions in early April, the administration is now referring all illegal border crossings for criminal prosecution. By doing that, parents have been separated from their children, because children can’t be held in detention facilities for adults.

DHS told us that 2,342 children were separated from their parents between May 5 and June 9.

But DHS couldn’t provide any statistics on how many children may have been separated from their parents under the Obama administration.

Instead, when we asked, it pointed to numbers that show 21 percent of apprehended adults were referred for prosecution under President Barack Obama. From fiscal year 2010 to fiscal 2016, there were 2,362,966 adults apprehended illegally crossing the Southern border, and 492,970 were referred for prosecution, those figures show. But that doesn’t tell us anything about how many children may have been separated from their parents under Obama.

And we don’t have such statistics to compare the past to the present.

“We have not seen any data out of the current or prior administration on how many cases that were prosecuted were individuals who arrived with minors,” Theresa Cardinal Brown, director of immigration and cross-border policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center, told us in an email. “So we cannot make any guesses or assumptions about how many separations based on prosecution there were or are.”

Brown said that even though DHS says 2,342 children have been separated from their parents in about one month, we don’t know what percentage of those cases are due to prosecutions for illegal crossings, and how many are due to other policies that would require separations — such as suspicion of trafficking, another outstanding warrant or insufficient proof of a family relationship.

We asked DHS if it would provide such a breakdown, but we haven’t received a response.

MPI’s Pierce said that the likely reason data aren’t available on child separations under previous administrations is because it was done in “really limited circumstances” such as suspicion of trafficking or other fraud.

“Previous administrations used family detention facilities, allowing the whole family to stay together while awaiting their deportation case in immigration court, or alternatives to detention, which required families to be tracked but released from custody to await their court date,” Brown and her co-author, Tim O’Shea, wrote in an explainer piece for the Bipartisan Policy Center’s website. “Some children may have been separated from the adults they entered with, in cases where the family relationship could not be established, child trafficking was suspected, or there were not sufficient family detention facilities available. … However, the zero-tolerance policy is the first time that a policy resulting in separation is being applied across the board.”

Jeh Johnson, DHS secretary under the Obama administration, told NPR earlier this month that he couldn’t say that family separations “never happened” during his tenure. “There may have been some exigent situation, some emergency. There may have been some doubt about whether the adult accompanying the child was in fact the parent of the child. I can’t say it never happened but not as a matter of policy or practice. It’s not something that I could ask our Border Patrol or our immigration enforcement personnel to do,” Johnson said.

The Obama administration faced a surge of unaccompanied children from Central America trying to cross the border in 2014. Cecilia Muñoz, director of the Obama administration’s Domestic Policy Council, told the _New York Times_ this month that a multi-agency team was considering “every possible idea” at the time, including separating families. “I do remember looking at each other like, ‘We’re not going to do this, are we?’ We spent five minutes thinking it through and concluded that it was a bad idea,” the _Times_ quoted Muñoz saying. “The morality of it was clear — that’s not who we are.”

Brown told us that while the Obama administration “did separate some families,” it also tried to detain families together. In 2016, a court ruling limited how long children with their parents could be in family detention centers. That ruling confirmed that a 1997 settlement applied to both unaccompanied and accompanied minors, as we’ve explained before.

“At that point,” Brown said, “family detention dwindled and most families were released into the US, either on their own with a notice to appear or under Alternatives to Detention, which could be an ankle bracelet or a supervised monitoring provision where they had to check in with ICE regularly until their immigration court hearing.”

On June 20, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing Nielsen to keep families in custody together “during the pendency of any criminal improper entry or immigration proceedings involving their members” at least “to the extent permitted by law and subject to the availability of appropriations.”

question: What is being discussed in this article?

answer: The zero tolerance border policy that has caused separation of families is being discussed.

question: How many children were separate from their friends between May 5 and June 9?

answer: According to DHS, 2,342 children were separated from their parents between that time.

question: How many adults were apprehended illegally crossing the Southern border from fiscal year 2010-2016?

answer: There were 2, 362, 966 adults that were apprehended.

question: What administrations are guilty of separating families?

answer: The Obama, Bush, and Trump administrations are guilty of separating families.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: This article highlights the zero tolerance policy that many administrations (Bush, Obama, and Trump) have perpetuated and kept families apart. The statistics are discussed to show how many families are broke apart at the border and how many families have been suffering due to this zero tolerance policy.


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The federal Clean Air Act and associated environmental regulations have driven steep declines in air pollution emissions over the past several decades, even as U.S. manufacturers increased production, a study by two UC Berkeley economists has shown.

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Pollution laws have been very effective in lowering air pollution even as manufacturing production rose. (iStock image)

The study, forthcoming in the _American Economic Review_, found that polluting emissions from U.S. manufacturing fell by 60 percent between 1990 and 2008—a period in which manufacturing output grew significantly—primarily because manufacturers adopted cleaner production methods in tandem with increasingly strict environmental regulation.

“In the 1960s and 1970s, people worried that Los Angeles, New York and other U.S. cities would have unbearable air pollution levels by the end of the 20th century,” said Joseph Shapiro, an associate professor of agricultural and resource economics who co-authored the study with Reed Walker, an associate professor in the Haas School of Business and Department of Economics. “Instead, air pollution levels have plummeted, and the evidence shows that environmental regulation and the associated cleanup of production processes have played important roles in those steep declines.”

Shapiro and Walker analyzed newly available data on over 1,400 different products produced by U.S. plants between 1990 and 2008. They combined this with plant-level pollution emissions data over the same period. The authors then categorized reductions in overall emissions into those that can be explained by changes in manufacturing output, changes in the types of goods produced or changes in production technologies.

Manufacturers cleaned up production processes

The researchers found that most of the decreases in emissions of important pollutants from manufacturing—such as nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide—came from changes in production technologies.

“People often assume that manufacturing production pollutes less today because manufacturing output has declined, when in fact output was 30 percent greater in 2008 than in 1990,” said Walker. “Others argue that manufacturing has shifted towards cleaner, high-tech products or that the manufacturing of ‘dirty’ products like steel has moved to China, Mexico or other foreign countries. Our analysis showed that changes in the product-mix of U.S. manufacturing do not explain much of the reduction in emissions. Instead, manufacturers are producing the same types of goods, but they’ve taken significant steps to clean up their production processes.”

The researchers sought to identify the key driver of the change in production technology. They quantified the importance of reductions in tariffs and other trade costs, improved productivity and environmental regulation in explaining decreases in air pollution emissions. Then they showed that the stringency of environmental regulation for manufacturing firms nearly doubled between 1990 and 2008. The researchers demonstrate that this increase in regulatory stringency, rather than improvements in manufacturing productivity or trade exposure, accounted for most of the decreases in pollution emissions.

The study was funded in part by grants from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy. Shapiro conducted much of the research in his former position at Yale University.

RELATED INFORMATION

-   Why is Pollution from U.S. Manufacturing Declining? The Roles of Environmental Regulation, Productivity, and Trade (_AER_ abstract); PDF
-   Joseph Shapiro’s website
-   Reed Walker’s website

question: In the '60s-'70s, what did people think about the air quality in the 20th century?

answer: They thought that the air will be unbreathable.

question: What were the 2 most important drivers in air pollution levels plummeting?

answer: Environmental regulation and the cleanup of production processes in manufacturing.

question: What was the data that Shapiro and Walker analyzed?

answer: It was new data on over 1,400 different products produced by U.S. plants between 1990 and 2008.

question: Where did the most decreases in emissions of important pollutants come from?

answer: They came from changes in production technologies.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: The text describes how the federal Clean Air Act and associated environmental regulations have driven steep declines in air pollution emissions. This was influenced in most parts by manufacturers cleaning up production processes.


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I wrote this for my English GCSE a week ago. It's a 1700 word short story based on some basic psychology and religious beliefs. I thought the 'shock ending' was a little Shyamalan so I was hoping any better ideas could be submitted in the comments.

I wait in silence at the table, my eyes unfocused and heavy. The room is bare, the empty walls reflecting my mind. A grey drabness lurks behind me, filling the corners where the single lamp refuses to extend its tiny yellow tendrils. I ache, and my legs are starting to go numb, from where I've been sitting (One of the two wooden chairs each side of the table). In front of me is a single metal door that seems to suck all the heat from the air and replace it with a dead chill.
	Dead, cold and empty. The room, but myself also. I feel disconnected from it all. Like I'm floating. Floating in an abyss. A sea, calm and silent in the chill and shadow of the walls surrounding me. I'm hardly focusing. Just... Floating. Distant. Empty. Empty in the empty room. Relaxed and calm. Calm but not sleepy. Alert but not noticing. Focused, but without objective. Just... Floating. Floating on empty. Like I'm dead. Untethered from the hindrance of a body. A lost soul in the abyss.
	But in the room. The empty room. With the metal door. The door that opens and sucks me towards it. Sucks me away from the abyss and into the unsettling cold of the small, dark, windowless room. Down onto the hard, wooden seat. Into my body where my legs are aching from the jabs of pins and needles. I jolt like I've dozed off and have started falling.
	My head feels woozy as I start paying attention to my surroundings. The set up is very similar to a -
	“Good morning, my name is Inspector Lawson,” a tall, slender man dressed in freshly a pressed suit and tie enters the room, flooding it with a brilliant white light that escapes from the door, causing me to squint as my eyes attempt to adjust to it in the short time before it closes, “I believe you have knowledge on the murder of Ross Kubler.”
	“Where am I..?” I ask.
	“Halfork Police Station,” The Inspector replies. I try to get a look at his face but he turns the lamp into my eyes, making me turn around grimacing. “What do you know about Ross Kubler?”
	“Who?” I ask.
	“You know who!” The Inspector is shouting, either getting agitated or trying to intimidate me, “I've had reports claiming you were close to him; you were a friend!”
	“I don't know what you're talking about! I've never even heard of him!” I start to raise my voice.
	“You know exactly where you are! Now tell me what you know!”
	“I don't know anything!”
	“Your denial just makes me more suspicious of your involvement. It sounds like you're trying to cover your tracks.”
	“My tracks? What, you're accusing me of murdering this guy!? I don't even know him!”
	“That's what you claim, but we know otherwise. You're just digging a hole, deeper and deeper to your own demise.”
	“I don't know anything.” I stand my ground. I honestly have no clue what he's talking about. Who even is this jerk to come in here and accuse me of murder? Me!? Although... There is something. A feeling. It's nothing though. Just concern. It's just the Inspector though. It has to be some trick. Planting the seed of doubt. He's just playing mind games with me. How do I even know he's an Inspector?
	The door opens and the light floods the room again. A hand reaches through, holding and envelope. The Inspector takes it and opens it. He glances up at me a few times and hardens his expression.
	“We've found evidence you were there, at the scene of the crime.” The Inspector looks down at me from where he's standing, staring right into my eye. I didn't do anything and he knows it. It makes my blood boil.
	As I jump up from my seat it feels like the temperature rises with me. Sweat dribbles down my head as confusion and tiredness turn into an anger that bursts out me thumping head. Time feels like it's slowed as I reach for the glass of water that I'd just noticed on the table. My hands are covered in droplets of cool water as I smash the end of the glass. The Inspectors eyes are like those of an animal caught in the headlights of a speeding vehicle as I bring the glass to his face. Screaming in anger, I push the smashed glass deep into the Inspectors neck. His eyes bulge from his face as gurgled screams begin to erupt from his throat. Red, hot blood shoots from the deep gash in his oesophagus and collides with the droplets of water, morphing around my hand. I twist and, after what feels like a lifetime, the Inspector crumples to the ground.
	I look at him. His eyes meet mine.
	“You're a murder.” He says, leaning forward in his chair.  He gets up and leaves the room. The cold room. I glance at my hands in surprise. Clean. I look around for the glass but it's no where to be seen. It was a daydream, I realise. But the anger... The anger was real. What have I done? I was so angry I killed him. But I didn't. I just thought I did. But the anger made it real. My anger... The anger of a murderer. Could I kill someone..? Maybe I could...
	No! I jump off my chair and spin around. I look for something to lash out on. I hit the lamp and instantly regret it. Apart from it hurting, it felt really stupid. Angry at myself, I smash my head into the wall. The sharp pain and aching aftermath is agony but I deserve it. I hate myself. I hate myself for thinking I could kill someone. The only person I could kill is myself!
	Or maybe not... I can' t remember anything about this guy. I can't really remember anything. The Inspector said he found evidence at the crime scene. Maybe I did kill him. Oh God. What have I done? Oh God, oh God. I fall against the wall, the floor seeming to squirm beneath my feet while the walls ripple and confuse my eyes. Too shocked, too tired, I stumble to the other side of the room before collapsing and hitting my head on the way down, knocking myself out. Blackness absorbs my vision.
	And then I see something in the distance. A light. Sensation seems to return to me. It feels weird though, like it's a dream. I walk to the doorway and gasp. Silhouetted against in the light is a body, hanging by the neck from a rope. Stunned, I trip and fall backwards, landing on a note. I try to read it but the words are all scrambled. I spin around and run back to where I came from, but I just end up in the room. Things go hazy, my vision turning to black. Then I wake up.
	I'm lying in the cold, empty room. I blink away my sleep and attempt to stand. Getting to my feet, I walk over to the door.
	“Hey!? I think I might know something...” I shout. I wait a few minutes before sitting down. The door opens and the Inspector walks in, sitting down opposite me. He looks at me for a while before I realise he's waiting for me to speak.
	“I- I had a dream... I think I may have remembered something,” He nods, signalling for me to go on, “I was in a room next to a man. He looked like he'd killed himself. Hanged by the neck. I was shocked by it and fell onto the floor... I landed on a note.”
	The Inspector is emotionless, “What did the note say?”
	“I don't know. The text was there, but it was like I couldn't read; my mind was just blank.” I reply. The Inspector thinks for a moment before pulling a small, clear plastic wallet out of his jacket pocket. My mouth drops as I see it's contents.
	“This is a note found at the scene of the crime,” The Inspector take the note out of the wallet and begins to read, “My name is Ross Kubler. I am a retired accountant working for Gillihalm Bank. Recently, my wife and child were killed in a car crash. Today I will be murdered too, but this time by a different being to fate. My murderer comes in the form of-”
	“Just stop. Please.” I say. For some reason tears are forming in my eyes. I don't really know why.
	“We have evidence to believe you were the murderer. Although it could take time, we are confident we can put you behind bars.”
	“Oh God. No. Please, I can't go to jail... Please! There has to be something I can do! Something to convince you it wasn't me!”
	“I'm sorry but the evidence points to you. It's the law I'm afraid.”
	“No please! I must have been framed! Give me a chance, I can prove it!”
	“I'm sorry.” The Inspector leaves the room but the blinding light doesn't bother me. I just give up. I'm done. There is no more to say. No more to do. It's all over. Everything.
	The room seems to shrink, like it's trying to squeeze the life from me. And the cold... The freezing cold. It's like a million daggers jamming right into my very soul. I'm shaking uncontrollably, the thoughts of murder and prison and who I really am spinning through my mind. I can't remember anything! I'm just trapped, confused and there is nothing to do about it.
	Nothing but carry on.

				Just carry on and learn.

								Just figure it out...

	I decide I want to know what the note says. I will face it. I will work around it. This is my fate now. I should just accept it.
	I knock on the door.
	“What did the end of the note say..?” I ask the Inspector. I'm left there for a few minutes, not expecting to get a reply. But then he says, “Today I will be murdered too, but this time by a different being to fate. My murderer comes in the form of

						Myself”
	The Inspector says it, and it all makes sense. I'd grieved my death long enough. Now it's time to move on...
	The door opens.

				I move

						into the light...

title: [MS] Kubler

question: Summarize the plot twist at the end of the story.

answer: The narrator finally agrees to hear the end of the note left behind by the murder victim. The note reveals that the victim knew they would be murdered by themselves. The narrator therefore realizes that they are dead and that they killed themselves, and they move on into the light.

question: What does the story say about why the narrator killed themselves?

question: Summarize everything relating to negative emotions.

answer: When the Inspector shouts, the narrator thinks he might be agitated. The Inspector's accusations plant the seed of doubt within the narrator. They also make his blood boil, his confusion turning to anger. The narrator has a vision of killing the Inspector in anger. He then becomes angry at himself and hates himself. When the Inspector reads the note from the murder victim, tears form in the narrator's eyes.


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In an effort to stop an atheist from mocking religion, Kentucky officials may be angering the most devout people in the state.

To make sense of this, you have to go back to 2016, when the head of Kentucky’s Division of Motor Vehicles rejected atheist BEN HART‘s request to get a license plate reading “IM GOD,” even though he had it (without incident) in Ohio, where he had lived for the previous twelve years.

[IMGodPlate]
At first, the DMV told Hart his plate was “obscene or vulgar.” (It wasn’t.) Later, they changed the complaint and said it was “not in good taste.” (It’s fine.)

Hart responded with a lawsuit saying the DMV’s actions were a violation of his free speech. What Kentucky wanted was silly, he argued, because they allow you to buy an “In God We Trust” license plate template. How is that okay while taking a position on God _on the plate itself_ is illegal?

The lawsuit is still working its way through the courts. Earlier this year, the judge rejected the state’s request to toss out the lawsuit. This case will be decided on its merits. We await the judge’s decision.

But in the meantime, something interesting has happened.

It appears that the DMV is now going through its list of _all license plates_ and telling everyone with a _previously_ approved _religious_ message that they can’t have it anymore. While they haven’t said this out loud, it could be a way to block Hart’s license plate while letting the court know he’s not being singled out for his atheism.

SUSI BURTON, whose plate has read “PRAY4” for the past eight years, is particularly furious that she’s being told to turn it back in.

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  … she was stunned the other day — no make that “horrified” — to get a LETTER FROM THE STATE TRANSPORTATION CABINET TELLING HER THAT SHE HAD 20 DAYS TO RETURN HER LICENSE PLATE TO THE FAYETTE COUNTY CLERK’S OFFICE OR THE STATE WOULD CANCEL HER 2016 LEXUS’ REGISTRATION.

  “I want to say, ‘HOW DARE YOU? You have people out there driving without licenses and without insurance and you’re hassling me?” Burton said.

While state law prohibits plates disparaging or promoting any _particular_ faith, “praying for” someone is hardly specific to any one religion. Just like saying “I’m God” isn’t for or against any one group.

Even Burton understands the double standard at work here:

  Burton said she’s offended by the thought of a plate that says “IM GOD,” but THAT DOESN’T MEAN THE NORTHERN KENTUCKY MAN SHOULDN’T HAVE IT.

That lady gets it.

What’s really ironic in all this is that Burton is demanding Kentucky be more accommodating of her religious views.

_Kentucky_.

A state whose governor praises Ark Encounter, called bigot KIM DAVIS an “inspiration,” urged children to bring bibles to school, and argued that prayer would help stop crime. _That_ guy is apparently not pro-God enough for Burton’s tastes.

For now, Burton’s pushing back. She’s filed an appeal to keep her plate — and she has support from the ACLU.

  Heather Gatnarek, an American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky lawyer representing Hart, said SHE THINKS BURTON COULD ARGUE THAT THE STATE IS VIOLATING HER FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS.

  “I THINK THIS FALLS INTO THE SAME BUCKET OF PROBLEMS WITH OUR [“IM GOD”] CASE,” SHE SAID.

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  Burton said she has appealed the state’s order and HAS REACHED OUT TO THE AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE AND THE ACLU TO SEE IF THEY WOULD BE INTERESTED IN HER CASE.

  “I don’t want to be a doormat. I’LL FIGHT IT,” she said.

Believe it or not, both groups — usually on opposite sites of religious legal matters — could very well take up her case. Maybe they should just partner up on this one.

Side note: In a local news segment about this story, there’s an image of a license plate that says “PREY4″… I don’t know if they realized what they did.

(Thanks to BRIAN for the link)

question: What happened in 2016?

answer: In 2016, the head of Kentucky's Division of Motor Vehicles rejected Ben Hart's request to get a license plate reading "IM GOD."

question: What happened with Susi Burton?

answer: Susi Burton had a license plate that read "PRAY4" for 8 years. She was told that she had to return the license plate to the DMV or else the state of Kentucky would cancel her 2016 Lexus' registration.


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First survey shows Syrians are fleeing from Assad, not Isis. Nearly all want to go home.

THE RESULTS ARE CRYSTAL CLEAR.

Syrian refugees don’t want to stay in Europe. But unless politicians start listening to why they’re fleeing and what needs to happen for them to go home, many more will come.

Here are six key results from THE FIRST EVER SURVEY OF SYRIAN REFUGEES IN EUROPE (full results below):

1. Most Syrians are fleeing from Assad, not Isis

[Most Syrian refugees are fleeing Assad]

Contrary to what you might read in the papers, it’s not the media-grabbing brutality of Isis that most people are fleeing from. It’s the much larger scale, state organised violence of the Assad regime that is driving most people from their homes.

_70% are fleeing the violence of the Assad regime and its allies (32% Isis, 18% Free Syrian Army, 17% Al Nusra, 8% Kurdish forces)._

2. Most fear arrest or kidnap by the Assad regime

[Fear of kidnap or arrest]

All armed groups have been involved in detention and disappearances in Syria, but none to the extent of Bashar al-Assad’s government, as thousands of leaked images of torture in state prisons prove.

_86% say kidnapping or arrest was a threat to their personal safety. 77% of them fear it from the Assad regime, 42% Isis, 18% Al Nusra, 13% Free Syrian Army and 8% Kurdish forces._

3. Nearly all Syrians want to go home

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It might seem that the people struggling in boats across perilous waters or jumping over barbed wire fences really want to be in Europe. But they don’t. Syrians want to go home to the country they know and love. The problem is with the violence raging they can’t.

_Only 8% said they’d want to stay in Europe indefinitely_

4. Assad needs to go for Syrians to return home

[Assad Putin]

While Russia and others are asking countries to unite with Assad to fight Isis, it’s important to note that the majority of Syrian refugees will not go back while he remains in power. Syria needs peace and an end to dictatorship.

_52% said that Bashar al-Assad would need to leave power before they would return home_

5. Stopping the barrel bombs would help more stay in Syria. Much more  than increased aid

[Stop the barrel bombs with a no-fly zone]

The vast majority of refugees said they feared Assad’s barrel bombs – the improvised metal barrels packed with explosive and scrap metal that government helicopters drop from miles up in the sky onto civilian neighbourhoods.

These barrel bombs and other aerial attacks are the number one killer of civilians in Syria – the barrels alone have killed more than 2,000 children since the UN banned them in 2014. They routinely destroy hospitals, schools and homes. Syrians living under the barrel bombs find it difficult to forget the terror, even once they have fled to safety.

To stop the refugees pouring over Syria’s borders we have to stop the bombs. More aid isn’t the answer.

_73% said barrel bombs were a threat to their personal safety. 58% said a no-fly zone would help more stay in Syria, only 24% said the same for increased aid._

6. The cause of today’s situation is Assad’s military response to peaceful demonstrations

[Assad crushing peaceful protest]

So much has changed in the last four and a half years in Syria yet still an overwhelming majority of Syrian refugees hold Bashar al-Assad responsible for today’s events. According to most of those surveyed, Assad’s decision to use military force against peaceful protesters demanding freedom and dignity in 2011 is the cause of today’s violence.

_79% said it was the Bashar al-Assad’s military response to the demonstrations that led most to the situation today._

What should Europe do?

To reduce the number of Syrian refugees to Europe and to help create the conditions for their return, European politicians should:

1. ENFORCE A STOP TO THE BOMBS. There are various initiatives from no-fly zones, no-bombing zones and safe zones which while all different in their implementation, would prevent the biggest killer of civilians in Syria today: Bashar al-Assad’s aerial attacks and barrel bombs. Europe needs to get serious about stopping the bombs.

2. PUSH FOR A PEACEFUL TRANSITION OF POWER AWAY FROM ASSAD. There is no military solution to the conflict and there is international agreement that a transition to a new government is the only way to end the violence. The longer that takes, the more people will be driven from their homes.

It goes without saying that Europe should open its borders to those fleeing war – that’s a human imperative.

European leaders need to realise that unless they do more to constrain the violence of the Assad regime and make more effort to stop the war, the waves of refugees will not stop. The UN has predicted another million will be displaced in Syria befo

question: Summarize the six points listed in the article.

answer: The article is an attempt to clarify the Syrian refugee crisis for a Western audience. It states that most refugees do not wish to remain in Europe, and that the principle cause of their flight is the Assad regime. It recommends a peaceful transition of power away from Assad.

question: What does the article recommend that Europe do?

answer: The article recommends that Europe enforce a stop to the bombs, using either no-fly zones or no-bombing zones. It also recommends to push for a peaceful transition of power away from Assad. Finally, it says it goes without saying that Europe should open its borders to those fleeing war.


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GREENBANK FARM is a tourist attraction and community farm in the area of Greenbank on Whidbey Island. Founded in 1904 the farm developed until 1940 when it was sold to a loganberry farmer. By 1970 the farm was the largest Loganberry farm in the United States. In 1977, the farm was sold to community governments to save it from being developed for residential use. Today, the farm acts as a tourist attraction, Island meeting place hosting events such as the Tour de Whidbey, and hosts a restaurant and two fine art galleries. Its location is on one of the thinnest parts of Whidbey, giving a unique vantage point from its walking trails. To Whidbey residents, it is the divider between the North and South Whidbey.

History

Greenbank Farm was founded in 1904 by Calvin Philips and his family as a model dairy farm with to goal of bringing commerce to Whidbey Island. The now iconic barn was built the same year.[1] In 1906, 125 acres of land was cleared along what is currently Highway 20 to make room for the expanding cattle herd. In the early 1930s the farm suffered a tragic loss when the cattle herd was struck by tuberculosis.[2] The entire herd was destroyed. The farm limped along until it was sold in the 1940s. At this point it consisted of several buildings and 522 acres of land.

The new owner John Molz decided to grow loganberries, a hybrid between blackberries and raspberries. Greenbank farm became the largest loganberry producer in the United States with 125 acres if berry bushes. Molz started to produce Loganberry wine. Molz was a founder of a winery in Seattle named Pommerelle.[3] He sold his Logan berry wine under this label. Molz ran the farm until 1984. The parent company Pommerelle was sold, which included the farm. Pommerelle’s name was changed to Ste. Michelle Vintners. In 1987, the farm underwent a revitalization under the new management. They added a new visitor center and increased the rate of production. This effort fell short and the farm was in trouble by 1995. The company planned to sell the entire lot for development. The local community rallied against this proposal.

In 1997, the farm was bought in a joint effort between Island County, the Port of Coupeville, and The Nature Conservancy. The port acquired the 151 acres of farmland while the County and Conservancy acquired the woodlands.

Today

According to the 2009 Master plan by the Port of Coupeville, Greenbank farm “is a special place that should be preserved for generations to come.” The farm represents the residents of Whidbey Island and their values “such as conservation and historic presentation”. The plan calls for the plan to move into the future as a model for community supported agriculture, and a gathering place to find a connection with the community.[4]

Tourism

Greenbank farm host several activities for visitors. The farm has several trails running through and around the old fields and its large historic, “Whidbey 1904 Barn” is a venue for weddings, social gatherings and events.[5] The most notable events are the Tour de Whidbey, the Harvest Faire, and the Holiday Market. The farm also hosts several weddings and smaller events each year.[6] The Shops at Greenbank Farm, independent tenants of the Port of Coupeville, feature Whidbey Pies Cafe, Greenbank Farm Wine Shop, Greenbank Cheese, Seaside & Sylvan Home, Artworks Gallery, and Raven Rocks Gallery & Gifts, and Whidbey Camano Land Trust.[7]

Geography

Greenbank Farm sits prominently in Greenbank, 13 minutes south of Coupeville and 10 minutes north of Freeland on one of the thinnest parts of Whidbey Island. This gives the farm the unique view of Puget Sound on both sides of the Island. While only a third of the way up the island, it is considered by many residents to be the dividing landmark between North and South Whidbey.

Solar Farm

In 2011, with the help of Puget Sound Energy (with their green power grant) and local citizens and investors, the farm installed the infrastructure for a large solar array. At the time, they could not afford to fill the entire array with solar panels but built the infrastructure with expansion in mind. They produced a max of 25.1 kilowatt hours.[8] As of 2019, the solar farm is owned by 36 investors from 4 different groups and generates a max of 152 kilowatt hours.[9]

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question: What does the text say about the 1970s?

answer: In 1970, the farm was considered the largest loganberry farm in the United States when it was run by John Molz. The farm also was a loganberry winery at this time. In 1977, the farm was sold to community governments to save it from being developed for residential use. Despite this, Molz was still running the farm until 1984.

question: Summarize what is made on Greenbank Farm.

answer: Initially, when the farm was run by its founders, it was started as a dairy farm and home to cattle. After the entire herd was destroyed by tuberculosis and the farm was sold. The new owner decided to grow loganberries, and even started producing loganberry wine. The farm became the largest loganberry producer. He sold his wine under the name Pommerelle. As of 2011, Greenbank Farm is now a solar farm.

question: What does the text say about hardships the farm has faced?

answer: When Greenbank Farm was founded in 1904, it had intent of being a model dairy farm. It cleared 125 acres of land to make room for the expanding cattle herd. However, in 1930 the cattle herd contracted tuberculosis and the whole herd was destroyed. By 1940, the farm had to be sold. In 1987, its third owner tried to add a new visitor center and increase the rate of production for the loganberry farm in 1987. This effort fell short and the farm was in trouble by 1995. It was sold by 1997.

question: What does the text say about tourism?

answer: Greenbank Farm is now a tourist attraction on Whidbey Island. The tourism came after 1997, when the was bought in a joint effort between Island County, the Port of Coupeville, and The Nature Conservancy. It now hosts several activities for its visitors. The farm has several trails running through and around the old fields. Its historic barn is used as a venue for various gatherings. The most notable events are the Tour de Whidbey, the Harvest Faire, and the Holiday Market. There are also shops at Greenbank Farm which are run by independent tenants of the Port of Coupeville.

question: What does the text say about egg production?


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The following short story is from a fight my friends and I had, where one of my friends took over the fight and kicked some serious ass. Some things were added for entertainment purposes but the story is pretty much all there.

**Fight at the taco truck, as I remember it.**

It was the beginning of winter. Testosterone ran high, beards were long. Common folk refer to this phenomenon as 'no shave November' I call it a regular Wednesday. It was a large group of us this particular night. Mauri, Mikey, Eric, 'Other' Mikey, voluptuous Rosie, and of course yours truly. We started the night on the slums of Sunset. A dirty one block radius crawling with the worst type of people besides hipsters, more hipsters. If it wasn't for the Wednesday's specials and surplus of sluts, this place would be nothing less than an arcade fire concert screening Wes Anderson films. We loaded up on the cheap booze, and stuck around for the slutty ambiance.

As our uneventful night came to an end we decided to meet at Gus' infamous taco truck. We rode in two separate cars, or as the urban kids say 'we was rolling deep' Mauri, Eric and Mikey took the quick route and stopped at our local liquor for a twelve pack of our favorite brand. I ended up driving 'other Mike's' car because to be honest the kid couldn't handle his liquor. This also gave me a chance to gauge the possibility of sex with Rosie. Sex seemed pretty probable, but then again it always does. I would catch her staring at me while I drove. I couldn't tell if she was admiring my ability to drink out of my flask while keeping an eye on the road or my disregard for danger, all I knew is that she was amazed and probably aroused. I decided to take the scenic route.

Call it a hunch, or perhaps supernatural abilities, but as soon as I pulled into the parking lot I could sense trouble. I quickly and skillfuly parked the small jalopy and leaped out. "Where are you going!" Rosie yelled. I didn't have time to answer, shit was going down and I was going to help it. I ran towards the kerfuffle around Mikey's car and made it there just in time to see a tall, skinny, awkward looking man taking a swing at my good friend Mauri. I didn't need an explanation or reason to start handing out cans, that was plenty. I dove into the group of people fist first until I reached that tall awkward face. His acne infested skin felt soft against my rugged knuckles. It was a little too late to realize 'Awkward Skinny' had friends. Things went dark for a bit after this.

As I came to my senses, I glimpsed around to assess the situation. Things weren't looking good, but they weren't looking bad either. Eric landed some quick jabs that sounded like double bass pedals from a metal band, he had chosen his guy and he was going to take him out. Phony Mike was being gay in the car comforting Rosie. Mauri stood quietly studying the scene and Mikey was walking over to assist me when some random Joe appeared out of nowhere with a handful of fists for both of us. Now this 'Random Joe' did not know Mauri. He did not know that Mauri had been pretty peaceful this whole time, watching these events unfold. He did not know the rage that hid behind him. He did not know that Mauri is a cool guy, a regular mother fucking Teresa but if you fuck with his friends... well then he will fuck you up.

Mauri's shirt came off and his drunken stance became firm. With his fist up in the air he went around taking names and handing out prizes. 'Random Joe' and 'Awkward Skinny' turned their attention to the one taking out their friends and surrounded him. Rosie and 'Imposter Mike' came out to try to instill some peaceful sense into us. I watched helplessly as Mauri was surrounded by seven guys and a midget. (You know gangs mean bussiness when the 'gang midget' is called out for a fight.) To my surprise, Mauri's confidence looked to be intact, he looked over at me and gave me his 'ok' wink. I nodded back. I understood.

'Random Joe' jumped on top of 'Gang Midget' and began swinging his arms. Gang midget struggled to keep his balance but managed to charge towards Mauri. As Mauri mouthed out "What the fuck?!' he took a quick dive to dodge this 'one and a half man turbine'. The midget couldn't control his direction and ran right into a wall. 'Awkward skinny' bursted out in a maniacal laugh and pointed at Mauri, his five remaning henchmen rushed Mauri on the floor. They covered him entirely with punches and grunts, if I didn't know any better, it looked like a japanese gangbang without pixels. I looked at Eric and Mikey and we all nodded in agreement, we had to get in. But just as we decided to join the fun, Mauri burst from within sending all five of them to the floor. Shirtless Mauri stood up and pointed at 'Awkward skinny'

"You!" He began,

"You wanted a fucking beer, we gave you a fucking beer!"

The fab five quickly recovered and tried their luck again. Awkward skinny kept laughing. Something was clearly wrong with him.

The five fucks took their swings and kicks, but these were no match for Mauri's quick turns and ducks. He was salsa dancing around the punches, it was a beautiful sight. Eventually, they stopped their futile attempts to touch Mauri.

"Is that all you got?!" Mauri teased.

The winded five farts had nothing. It was Mauri's turn. To say he knocked them out fast is an understatement. He walked through them making them taste his friendship fury. He made his way towards that tall awkward skinny fuckhead that had started it all.

It was pretty clear this was Mauri's fight, but before he started unloading, Awkward skinny crumbled down to his knees and begged for mercy. Not even Ghandi would have listened to that prick, but Mauri swallowed what was left of his pride and turned away. The crowd that had gathered cheered and chanted his name. He walked taller than before and began making his way back to the car. Just then, 'Awkward skinny' pulled out a full bottle of newcastle and pitched it towards an unaware Mauri. We all looked in shock,and questioned "How the fuck does someone hide a full bottle through an entire fight?!" but we quickly realized he hadn't participated for most of it. We tried to yell out to mauri but our expressions warned him faster and he majestically turned around to quickly catch the bottle. He promptly opened it up and chugged it like a legend in the making. Alex, who had not been part of this whole night, just happened to be getting himself some tacos, he witnessed this last unjustice and ran towards awkward skinny to launch his frail ass towards a car. "No one throws out a full Newcastle" Alex sighed.

Mauri and Alex joined us back by the car to finish our brew. I could tell Rosie had lost all interest in me and was going to spend the night with Mauri but I wasn't even mad, because after that fight, he deserved a good fucking.

question: Why did the narrator jump from the vehicle when he stopped at Gus's Taco truck?

answer: He had a hunch that something was amiss. So he parked the car and ran toward his friend's car. He had been right there was a fight underway. The narrator leapt in and started to hand out punches.

question: What does the narrator tell us about Mauri?

answer: According to the narrator, Mauri is quite a peaceful fellow unless you mess with his friends. Then he gets really angry. Mauri is clearly also a very gifted fighter if the description of the fight is anything to go by.

question: What was the cause of the fight?


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CASSANDRA KIRKLAND (13 October 1984 – 30 April 2017) was a French professional golfer. She played on the Ladies European Tour and won the Sanya Ladies Open in 2012.

Biography

Born in Paris to an American father and French mother,[1] Kirkland studied at the University of Arizona from 2002–2006.[2] She was related to American racing car driver Eddie Cheever.[3]

Amateur career

Kirkland played golf from the age of seven and was semi-finalist in the Girls Amateur Championship in 2001. As a member of the Arizona Wildcats women's golfers at University of Arizona, she won the UNLV Invitational and was a member of the NGCA All American Team in 2005. She was All-PAC 10 Team and won the Golfstat award for par-five scoring leader in 2004 and 2005.[4]

Professional career

Kirkland turned professional in 2006 and won twice: the 2012 Sanya Ladies Open in China on the Ladies European Tour and the 2013 Fourqueux Ladies Open near Paris on the LET Access Series.[5]

Death

Kirkland died in 2017 at the age of 32, following a two-year fight against cancer. She was diagnosed with lung cancer in April 2015, despite never having smoked and having led the lifestyle of a healthy, professional athlete.[6][7]

Professional wins (2)

Ladies European Tour (1)

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title: Cassandra Kirkland

question: What does the text say about the qualities that make a good golfer?

question: What does the text say about Cassandra Kirkland?

answer: Cassandra Kirkland was a French professional golfer. She was born in Paris to an American father and French mother. Kirkland studied at the University of Arizona from 2002-2006. She was diagnosed with lung cancer in April 2015 despite having never smoked and having led the lifestyle of a healthy, professional athlete. Kirkland died in 2017 at the age of 32, following a two-year fight against cancer.

question: What does the text say about Kirkland's amateur career?

answer: Kirkland started playing golf at the age of seven and was a semi-finalist in the Girls Amateur Championship in 2001. She was a member of the University of Arizona Wildcats women's golfers and won the UNLV Invitational. Kirkland was a member of the NGCA All American Team in 2005. She was All-PAC 10 Team and won the Golfstat award as the par-five scoring leader in 2004 and 2005.

question: What does the text say about Kirkland's professional career?

answer: Kirkland turned pro in 2006 and won twice. She won the 2012 Ladies Open in China on the Ladies European Tour. Kirkland also won the 2013 Fourqueux Ladies Open near Paris on the LET Access Series.