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She lived inside the fever dream that played in Kurt’s mind when he zoned out in the backseat of his mom’s SUV on rides across town. His eyes would always fix solely on the streets that scrolled past, but to him there were no street names; they were just the blurs between places. He couldn’t tell a visitor directions to the Wal-Mart in the town where he had lived all of his 14 years. It was nearing the end of the first post-middle school summer, and it stretched outwards like a single, repetitive day. He lived in a run-on sentence, punctuated only by the commas of sleep, and the uneasy anticipation for a period provided an anxiety that incubated in Kurt’s gut.

Any time that summer when Kurt sat down with nothing to occupy him she would materialize, first as a repeating snippet of film; she smiled and tussled Kurt’s hair like she had done once in George’s kid sister’s treehouse, and she and the backdrop that stemmed off of her were foggy and soft and bright. He made it through a week on that image alone, until he craved more. He rebuilt her inflections, her pitch, lower and gruffer than the carbon copy schoolgirls, lacking the exaggerated Arkansan drawl that his classmates often hid behind. He conjured a story of both them in their 20s, until they were all tattoos and piercings. They smoked cigarettes next to a graffitied underpass by a faraway 7/11. They laughed about those suckers who shopped at supermarkets for family supper. She kissed him on a stained couch on the corner of some grimy Northern street, and because he didn’t know what a kiss felt like he imagined it, cushiony and moist and sweet-smelling.

The SUV pulled up to his friend Zack’s house. Kurt got out and rang the doorbell. His mom waited outside until Zack opened the door. She yelled “Make good decisions!” to them and waved before driving away.

“f------ b-----,” Zack said. “She’s still doing that?”

“Apparently she thinks everyone she doesn’t know is a rapist.”

Zack’s kitchen was littered with half-finished crossword puzzles and gunky dishes and flea market knick knacks. Zack’s dad Ed chain smoked by the window in his old rocking chair that was wrapped in a faded leather jacket with a stitched-on rebel flag. He looked 60 but seemed older when he started hacking. When he coughed it sounded like his lungs were filled with semi-liquified rusty nails, and the daily battle to expel bits of them from his chest was violent enough to wake up Kurt when he spent the night.

“That Kurt?” Ed said.

“Yes sir,” Zack said.

“Tell’m he ought to grow a pair,” Ed laughed.

Kurt watched him smoke the filterless Marlboro. It was more of a suck than a smoke; he economically snatched as much nicotine as he could hold in a shallow breath. It took him seven inhales before the cigarette was gone. He jabbed it into one of the several ashtrays on the counter, each filled with identically crinkled butts.

Kurt and Zack walked down to the basement. In the room next to him there were two computers and a television set up on plastic buffet tables that seemed close to buckling from the weight. Automatically they both got on a computer. Zack commandeered the newer one because it was his house.

Zack’s older brother Rick lived in other basement room. He busted through the door. “What’s up boys?” he said.

“Not s-----,” Zack said.

“That little girlfriend of yours coming over today?”

“In a little bit.”

“You finger her yet? I remember when I was your age and that was the f------’ threshold,” Rick said.

“Not yet, but I’ll try today,” Zack said.

Zack and Kurt idolized Rick. He was 22, and sometimes Zack and Kurt could hear him having sex with his girlfriend in the next room. Sometimes he would let them see his box of condoms, and they would be in awe. Kurt was unsure of why Rick still lived there. ‘Some unsuccessful business venture,’ or something. When Kurt came over Rick would hang out with them regularly, mimicking George’s salivating problem or joking about how fat Phil was.

Before either of them started typing Kurt was already dreaming. Her name was Alex, but to him she was just the one who lived with him in his head, smoking cigarettes by the river and talking about movies that Kurt pretended to understand. Zack slapped him on the shoulder.

“Did you hear me? Alex is coming over. We’re going to the River Rapids.”

“All right,” Kurt said.

Kurt sighed and slumped down into the scoliosis-induced hunchback posture he constantly tried to hide. He had become a part of a begrudging three-person dynamic that started a month earlier at River Rapids, a rundown water park that became the City of Tweens in the summer when kids too young to drive got dropped off there. The water slides lost their appeal early on; the big draw of the park was its escape from adult supervision, its temporary illusion of autonomy. When Kurt pictured it, he saw hoards of bikini-clad preteens standing on wet concrete, cackling at a girl in a one-piece.

Kurt kept replaying the day. It was the first day after school let out, and he met Zack at the food court surrounded by the Lazy River. Zack was with Alex and two other girls, but he didn’t introduce them. He said “Ready to f------ with some lifeguards?” and they started walking. Alex’s black bikini had skulls on it. She walked next to Kurt for a minute silently. They measured their steps consciously so that they would line up. Kurt tried to recall what they said to each other, but couldn’t: she was just smiling and tussling his hair like she did in the treehouse. She was a rebel, she had small ears, she understood the things that Kurt felt cooking in his head but couldn’t explain, she lived outside of the world.

Usually he stopped his head from replaying here, but he decided to let it keep going. Some time later he and Zack were in their floral board shorts in the back of Kurt’s mom’s SUV on the way to River Rapids. Kurt felt like his fever dreams of Alex were overflowing, and he needed to release them. He started to feel sweat bead on his forehead.

“You know that girl?” Kurt said.

“What girl?” Zack said.

“Alex, I think was her name.”

“Yeah, Alex, what about her?”

“I was thinking about asking her...”

Zack perked up. “Asking her what?

“Out, on a date, or whatever.”

“You’re going to ask her out?” Zack was smirking. “You do that, tell me how it goes.”

“You think she’ll say yes?”

“Not sure, buddy, but you should definitely give it a shot.”

Kurt felt himself get closer to the picture in his head, and it made his heart palpitate. Kurt and Zack met up with several of their friends, and they all sat on a curb by the lockers.

“There’s your woman now, Kurt,” Zack said. He pointed across the sidewalk to Alex, who was sitting at a table with two other girls. “Are you going to ask her or puss out?”

Kurt stood up triumphant from the curb, walked towards her. He felt his heart beating in his eyes. He sat down at the only open chair at the table without saying anything. Ten seconds passed. Alex looked at her friends quizzically and laughed.

“Ummm. What’s up?”

“Hey, what’s up,” Kurt said. He looked over at Zack and his friends. Zack was hyperventilating, red from laughter. The rest were staring intently at Kurt.

“You’re the one that sat down,” Alex said.

“Oh, yeah. I was wondering... I was wondering if you wanted to go out or something.”

Alex’s eyebrows went up and she looked glanced at her friends. “Awww. You’re asking me out? You just asked me out. That’s so sweet of you. That’s really sweet. I’m sorry, but I have a boyfriend now. Your friend Zack actually asked me out yesterday and I said yes.”

Zack was rolling on the ground.

“Oh, g-gotcha, OK,” Kurt said.

Kurt wandered out of the entrance into the parking lot in a daze, waited there for hours until his mom picked he and Zack up. “Dude,” Zack said, getting into the car. “It was a joke.”

“It’s cool,” Kurt said. And that was it.

Kurt knew that his fever dream had grown unhealthy. He had spent dozens of hours with Zack and Alex. He had almost completely separated himself from her, but he still grew closer to the her that lived in his head. He nearly ignored her when she talked. Her voice was just a template for his story, where they smoked cigarettes and stole beer from convenience stores and protested oppressive leaders.

Kurt snapped out of it. Rick was clipping his toenails.

“How are you, bud?” Rick said.

“I’m all right. You?” Kurt said.

“Well, I’m trying, you know? I’m trying.”

There was a long silence.

“Trying to do what?” Kurt said.

“That’s why I like you, bud. You ask questions. I’m...trying to get better.”

“Is it working?”

“It’s real hard, but you just gotta do it. First time in how long you’ve seen me in a shirt with sleeves?”

“That’s true.”

Zack’s phone vibrated. “Alex is here. I’ll get this out of the way.”

Zack cracked his knuckles and walked up the stairs. Rick sat down at the computer. He and Kurt sat silent for a few minutes; it was a comfortable silence, and Kurt felt no need to add to the clicks of the keyboards with unnecessary conversation. It was the first time in as long as he could remember in which he felt that occupying space with someone else was enough.

“So how do you like Zack’s girl?” Rick finally said.

“I like her.”

“Yeah? Green haired little freak, right?”

“I guess.” Kurt took a deep breath. He needed to get the story out of his head again. “I asked her to go out with me. Zack didn’t tell me they were already were.”

“And he knew you were going to ask her?” Rick sighed. “Zack’s a f------—you know that, right? How you haven’t kicked his a-- once or twice yet is a constant amazement to me.”

“Yeah, I guess I know. That he’s a f------.”

“You just need to stop being a little fruit. You know?”

“Not really.”

Zack opened the stairway door and snickered into the room. He was holding two fingers up. “I did it. I fingered her.”

Rick sighed. Kurt could feel his heart beat in his eyes again.

“Kurt, you hear me? I fingered her.” Zack slapped Kurt across the face with the hand he was holding up. Kurt put his hand to his face and could feel it, slimy and pungent.

Rick kicked back his chair so that its corner punctured the thin drywall. He yanked Zack into the air by his collar, jerked him back and forth until Zack's shirt ripped and he crumbled to the ground. Rick picked back Zack onto his feet, grabbed him by the back of the head, and threw him headfirst into the plastic buffet table. The table collapsed when Zack's skull bashed against it, and the old, bulky computer crunched Zack’s ribs. He started to wheeze.

“f------ you,” Zack kept saying.

Rick was beat red, yelling four inches from Zack’s face, spitting worse than George does.

“Listen you f------ punk,” he screamed. “This is your friend? You’re going to treat your friends like this? You’re a f------ piece of s----- you know that? I don’t know how you turned out to be so f------ stupid, to do something like that to your friend. I don't care if he might be a little bit queer, no one deserves that. You're sure as hell not my brother, because my brother would never do something as sick as what you just did. I can't even look at you.”

Zack was crying and wheezing. “You broke my ribs,” he said through the snot and blood that ran from his nose to his mouth and bubbled when he talked.

Rick put his head in his hands for a long take. He stared at Kurt for what seemed like a minute. Kurt stared back, unfazed, then nodded at Rick.

Rick nodded back, and Kurt heard Rick's boots calmly clack against the wood stairs as he left without a word before gingerly shutting the upstairs door.

“Please call someone,” Zack said.

Kurt looked at Zack. He was back in his fever dream again, but there was no girl in it. He was still pierced and covered in tattoos. He came back to the same 7/11 and shattered its window with a brick. The quick-stop caught fire. He stood in front of it, watching it burn, and it all meant something, it all meant something that was bigger than Kurt, something that he could write down and read to a coalition of freaks in a rundown warehouse.

Kurt got up from the computer and stood next to Zack, who was a pile of mucous and oversized clothes. Kurt grabbed the windowsill for leverage and looked out the window at the old man in the yard over drinking a 40 on a beach towel, holding foil up to tan his leathered face. Kurt raised his foot and let it drop into Zack's gut. Zack started hacking like his dad did, but more violent, and kept saying “f------ you,” over and over. Kurt kicked him again, harder, and began to like the difference between his hard sole and Zack's soft stomach. He stomped on it repeatedly. Kurt wanted to tell Zack that Zack shouldn't have done what he did, but he figured Zack knew that by what was happening. Kurt liked that he didn't have to say anything.

Kurt felt like he was crying but there were no tears. He walked up the stairs, ignored Zack’s yelping. The house was empty, except for Alex. She was sitting in Ed's rocking chair, staring vacantly at the old neighbor.

“You all right?” Kurt said.

“I'll be fine.”

They sat for a long take, bathed in the pink-orange hue of dusk that made the kitchen glow.

“So, you really like Zack?”

“Not that much, really. I haven't found anything here worth liking that much."

Kurt took two cigarettes out of Ed's mint pack of Reds. He handed one to Alex, and she took it without hesitation. He sparked a match on his shoe and lit both in one motion. Silent, they watched the last silvery sliver of sun descend past the neighboring cul-de-sac's edge. Kurt let his cigarette dangle from the corner of his mouth like Clint Eastwood and told Alex about some movies he'd seen that could take them somewhere new.

title: The Place Outside of Arkansas

question: Summarize the journey Kurt's character goes on in the story.

answer:
Kurt begins the story naive, with a crush on a girl who feels unattainable to him - dreaming of past romances. He is surrounded by people who seem to have more experience than he does: an old man (Ed), a friend (Zack) and his brother (Rick) each seem to underestimate Kurt throughout the story. When Zack tricks Kurt, he becomes cold, and holds in the pain, only allowing it to finally come out when he sees Rick punishing Zack for treating him so badly.
Kurt stands up for himself and then sits outside, appearing to have transformed into a much 'cooler' version of himself.

question: Why does Rick beat up Zack?

answer: Rick appears to disapprove of the way Zack treats Kurt - he even tells Kurt he doesn't understand why he hasn't beaten him up yet. The reason he finally takes action is because he sees Zack slap his friend around the face - on the one hand he is teaching his brother a lesson, on the other he is showing Kurt how pathetic Zack really is.

question: What does Ed think about Rick?


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ANTHONY PAUL MILLS (7 July 1962 – 18 September 2019)[1] was an English rock singer, best known for his work with Shy[2] and TNT.

Early life and career

Mills was born in Birmingham, England. In 1983 he joined the band Shy. He recorded eight albums with the AOR/glam metal band, including the _Excess All Areas_. He also toured with Shy, supporting Gary Moore, Meatloaf, Twisted Sister, Bon Jovi, Magnum, Manowar, Badlands, Enuff Z Nuff, Sleeze Beez, UFO, and the Ian Hunter/Mick Ronson outfit with whom he performed on stage in Brighton, just prior to Ronson's death. The tours spanned the whole of Europe and North America, it was here that Mills provided backup vocals to the Philadelphia-based band Cinderella on their debut album, _Night Songs_. Co-writing sessions came about with Don Dokken (Dokken), Michael Bolton, Michael Des Barres (Power Station), John Parker (Chicago), Jeff Paris and Bob Kulick.

Solo career and reunion with Shy

Mills left Shy in 1991 when MCA picked him up as a solo artist to record his first album in Manchester with engineer Andy Macpherson and guitarist Bob Maxim along with various members of 10CC and Sad Cafe. Later, forming another band, Siam, he wrote and sang on two albums, _Prayer_ and _The Language of Menace_. After working as a session vocalist through the 1990s with Slade, Simon Harrison, Dave Saylor and Cozy Powell (unreleased) in conjunction with his recording and touring work with Siam, the band eventually folded in 1996 and Mills spent a year fronting a Rush tribute band, YYZ. In 2000 he reunited with Shy for two more albums, _Unfinished Business_ and _Sunset and Vine_. At the turn of the millennium, he also released two solo albums, _Cruiser_ and _Freeway to the Afterlife_. There followed a Danish tour with The Sweet, as bassist and lead vocalist, but this did not work out, and he returned to Shy.

TNT

In 2006 he was asked to join TNT in Oslo, Norway to replace their long-time vocalist Tony Harnell who had decided to leave the band for both personal and professional reasons. The following year Mills sang on TNT's new album, _The New Territory_, which despite high sales, was poorly received by several rock magazines, who it seems were somewhat taken aback by the new material. The band toured and gigged extensively throughout 2007 in Norway to support the record, including supports to Ozzy Osbourne, Skid Row and Motorhead. Lasse Dale was also a progressive metal guitarist from Tromso in Norway, that enlisted Mills to write and record his debut album, _Screaming For Silence_. Mills worked for many European artists between 2006 and 2010, namely Michael Voss and his 'Voices Of Rock' project, Liberty 'n' Justice in the U.S., Torben Enevoldsen in Denmark, Frederic Hugues and Blackstone and Tor Talle in Norway. Charity involvement for the Autistic Foundation for Children in North Trondelag, also saw the release of a single, “Keep The Dream Alive”, along with its associated video through NRK with vocalist, Siv-Anita Strickhert.

In 2007, Mills also performed backing vocals on the debut album by the British band, Crimes of Passion. He has numerous credits for, and is in regular demand for, provision of backing vocals, and other recent outputs include The Andersson-Mills Project, China Blue, and backing vocals for Dante Fox in the UK and Norwegian rock outfit Winterstrain, appearing on their debut album _Return to the Mirror_ as well as _Shifting Sands_. In 2008, Mills released a more metal oriented solo album _Vital Designs_, which featured bass by Morty Black, Oddvar Krogstad and Victor Borge (TNT), guitars by Neil Hibbs, keyboards by Shy's keyboard player Joe Basketts and drums by Shy's drummer Bob Richards. Also appearing on the album was TNT member Dag Stokke and Erik Ragno from China Blue. In the same year, he also began work with Ronni Le Tekrø on their second TNT collaboration, which resulted in the album _Atlantis_, featuring the songs “Tango Girl” and “Hello, Hello”, which became regular tracks in their setlist for the following tour.

In the winter of 2008, Mills joined the band Serpentine, replacing former singer Greg Flores. In March 2010, Serpentine released their CD _A Touch of Heaven_ on AOR/Metal Heaven in Europe and Marquee Avalon in Japan, gaining a glowing 92% review in rock magazine _Burrn!_ as well as hitting number 72 in the HMV Japan chart. Around the same period, Mills was commissioned to write and record an album for AOR Metal Heaven records in Germany, entitled, _State Of Rock_, with Robby Boebel from Nuremberg act, Frontline. Work was also completed on a more rock oriented TNT release for the end of the year, _A Farewell To Arms_, which returned to the classic sound of the band and was well received by fans and critics alike. Just after the summer, it was reported that Mills had suffered a heart attack at an airport in Norway, which prompted the singer to announce his departure from Serpentine before the completion of his second album with the band. The album has since been completed. Serpentine moved quickly to recruit 24-year-old British vocalist Matt Black as his replacement, to allow the band to commence touring to support the _A Touch Of Heaven_ album. The band's follow up, _Living and Dying in High Definition_ also received great support from the media during its late 2010 release.

After a full recovery from his heart condition, at the opening of 2011, Mills had relocated to Norway to embrace the release of the latest TNT album and began touring to promote _A Farewell To Arms_, which in Scandinavia, was titled _Engine_. The change of album title for different territories was inextricably linked to his heart failure and consequent recovery. He consequently set to writing tracks toward a rock opera with Trondheim writer Andreas Nergard whilst touring Europe with TNT. Mills was also be part of the Norwegian artist force supporting relief aid in Japan for their recent tragedies.

After increasing unrest in the Norway camp, Mills quit TNT in August 2013, after over seven years, to satisfy his own artistic integrity and produce more solo material.

Later career

The onset of 2013 saw Mills writing new solo material including a single, “Girls In Norway” and two new albums; an AOR album for existing fans in Europe and Japan and a final album for the SIAM project involving members from the band's history and his new connections in Norway. Attempts to fire up Siam again were futile, so Mills reverted to the solo plan intent on recreating the same atmosphere that existed in the Siam days. As the writing had clearly split into two different projects, he focussed on the heavier album and finally completed it at the beginning of 2015, over two years later. The album, _Over My Dead Body_ was released through Battlegod Productions on 23 February 2015. It was co-written by Robert Sall, Henning Ramseth, Paul Sabu and Douglas R. Docker. It was produced by Mills and mixed by his old colleague from the Shy era, Neil Kernon.

Ongoing projects at that time, included a new solo album, _Streets of Chance_, co written with Pete Newdeck, Tommy Denander, Robert Sall and Robby Boebel, and the co-writing of a new album by Italian metal stars, Crying Steel for 2017.

In 2012, Mills was featured on Douglas R. Docker's progressive rock space opera, _Docker's Guild_. He sang on three songs for the debut album _The Mystic Technocracy - Season 1: The Age of Ignorance_: “Legion of Aliens”, “The Gem of Love,” and “The Secret of DNA”.[3][4]

He further contributed to projects such as Nergard, Guild, China Blue and Serpentine.[5]

Personal life

Mills married Linda Kristine in 2016, and lived in Tjøme off the south coast of Norway.

Death

In April 2019, Mills announced that he was diagnosed with terminal cancer.[6] _Beyond the Law_ became his last album. He died on 18 September 2019 at the age of 57.[7][8][9]

Discography

SHY

-   _Once Bitten...Twice..._ (1983)
-   _Brave the Storm_ (1985)
-   _Excess All Areas_ (1987)
-   _Misspent Youth_ (1989)
-   _Breakaway_ (EP) (2001)
-   _Unfinished Business_ (2002)
-   _Sunset and Vine_ (2005)
-   _Reflections: The Anthology 1983-2005_ (2006)

SIAM

-   _The Language Of Menace_ (1994)
-   _Prayer_ (1995)

SOLO

-   _Cruiser_ (2002)
-   _Freeway To The Afterlife_ (2005)
-   _Vital Designs_ (2008)
-   _Over My Dead Body_ (2015)
-   _Streets of Chance_ (2017)
-   _Beyond the Law_ (2019)

LASSE DALE

-   “Screaming For Silence” (2006/2007)

THE ANDERSSON MILLS PROJECT

-   _Crank It Up_ (2007)

TNT

-   _The New Territory_ (2007)
-   _Atlantis_ (2008)
-   _A Farewell to Arms_ (2010)
-   _TNT 30th Anniversary_ (2013)

TONY MILLS / SIV ANITA STRICKHERT

-   _Keep The Dream Alive_ (2008)

CHINA BLUE

-   _Twilight of Destiny_ (2008)

SERPENTINE

-   _A Touch Of Heaven_ (2010)
-   _Living and Dying in High Definition_ (2011)

STATE OF ROCK

-   _A Point Of Destiny_ (2010)

KAISAS

-   “Unify” (2011)

NERGARD

-   _The Beginning (EP) (2011)_
-   ''Memorial For A Wish (2013) ''

TRINE REIN

-   'The Earth Is Trembling' (2011 - Japanese Relief Aid Track)

TOMMY HEART

-   'Help' 2011 - Japanese Relief Aid Track

DOCKER'S GUILD

-   _The Mystic Technocracy - Season 1: The Age of Ignorance_ (2012)

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title: Tony Mills (musician)

question: What does the article say about Tony Mills' solo career?

answer: His first solo period was after leaving Shy in 1991. MCA picked him up to record his first solo album in Manchester with the aid of a few other musicians. After this, he was involved with many bands in various capacities until August 2013. He released three solo albums in that period; "Cruiser" in 2002, "Freeway To The Afterlife" in 2005, and "Vital Designs" in 2008. He quit TNT in 2013 to focus on his solo projects. He produced the single "Girls in Norway" and two albums, "Over My Dead Body", which was released in 2015, and "Streets of Chance", which was released in 2017. His latest solo album was "Beyond the Law" in 2019.

question: What does the article say about Mills' support roles?

answer: Mills operated often in supporting roles, especially as background vocals. He performed backup vocals for the Philadelphia-based band Cinderella. He worked as a session vocalist in the 1990s, working with Slade, Simon Harrison, Dave Saylor, and Cozy Powell. He worked for many European artists between 2006 and 2010, in Micael Voss' Voices of Rock project, Liberty 'n' Justice in the US, Denmark's Torben Enevoldsen, and Norway's Frederic Hugues, Blackstone, and Tor Talle. He performed the backing vocals for Crimes of Passion's debut album, in addition to many more credits as backing vocals including The Andersson-Mills Project, China Blue, Dante Fox, and Winterstrain. He was also present in Douglas Docker's "Docker's Guild" and The Mystic Technocracy's debut album. He also contributed to Nergard, Guild, China Blue, and Serpentine.

question: What does the article say about Tony Mills' obituary?


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Late one Friday evening in the remote South Pacific, a private passenger jet encountered turbulence and crash-landed on a small atoll. All three occupants survived the wreck. The following events, in no particular order, happened:
***
I am fearing that Mister Jeff is not well. We are deserted one week, and he no longer speak sense to me. I say I will sit long time at the radio and call for rescue. He say no Tato, we must save battery. But we use battery for nothing else, I say. I say we have a big signal fire today. He say no Tato, we might burn all the coconuts. But we have very much food on the plane, I say. I say I have wife and babies at home. I say they cannot survive on Papa’s savings forever. He say no Tato. No.
***
Desertion, day one. I’m stranded on an uncharted island with a tiny ethnic man, a manicured poodle, and one bitch of a hangover. We went down approximately fifteen hours ago. It’s me and the pilot, Tato, the boss’s closest disposable. He’s one of the younger guys in the business. I think he’s half Bolivian, half Filipino, something like that. I can never tell with these little fuckers anymore. I’ve been in this business too long.

Oh, and the dog. I was half-hoping that yippy shit would eat it in the crash, but no such luck. I suppose I should be glad for the thing, though. It’s no life for a dog to live on a Learjet. I once heard it hadn’t stepped beyond the tarmac in years. That’s unnatural. I guess the boss’s wife insisted on the built-in doghouse and professional toilet training. I’m surprised the world’s preeminent drug cartel would endure such a headache. Maybe it’s a power thing. I mean, if the dog pissed him off enough, he could always just kill it. He could kill his wife, too, if he wanted. I’ve been this guy’s number one rep for fifteen years: far too long. I wonder how far he’ll search for me and the brown guy. Not this far, I figure. We didn’t go down with a full shipment, and we were a nice long way off course.

I’ve estimated the island to have an area of approximately two square miles. It’s a thick crescent of earth with a white sand beach along the inner edge. The rest is mostly forest, but there’s one nice long field where I was able to put the plane down. Coconuts fall like acorns and the crabs walk right up to the cooking fire. Could have done much worse, for sure.

The Lear is still in one piece, more or less. The landing took enough of a toll; the gear sunk a good two feet into the sandy soil and the wings are pretty much fucked. We have what we need, though. The cabin is undamaged. Boss left me with a full suitcase, a king-size bed, and a few cases of nine-millimeter ammunition. Tato’s got the reclining couch. The standard food stock for a trans-Pacific meet-and-greet is a week’s worth of dehydrated breakfast sandwiches and vacuum-sealed steak and lobster dinners. That plus a half-dozen bottles of shitty Merlot, a third of which I had to empty last night.
***
 “Nono, Mister McMister–hic!… I mean Mister Mc–"

“Have I not repeatedly asked you to call me Jeff?”

“Yes, Mister Jeff. Okay, Mister Jeff. Nono, Mister Jeff. I have my rer-responsibilities. I must not–“

“Tato, your only responsibility is keeping this thing in the air, and the autopilot seems to have that well taken care of.”

“But Mister Jeff… Monsoons… Corlolis effect. Maybe we far off course.”

“Relax, Tato. I know exactly where we are.”

“But how–”

“Tato, how could you refuse such a fine Merlot?”

“But Mister Jeff, four glasses I have already. And two only it seems for you.”

“Tato, are you suggesting that–”

[Turbulence]

“Whoa, Nelly!”

“Oh no, Mister Jeff. This bad, Mister Jeff. I got to go up!”

“Wait, Tato!”

“Damn. Oh damn damn, Mister Jeff! We in the storm now!”

“Tato? Can you handle this?”

“Too much shaky. I think we got to pull over.”

“Evidently you can’t… Move over.”

“Mister Jeff? Mister Jeff! Please do not!”

“I’m taking us down. Strap in and shut up… Tato!”

“Mister Jeff!”

“Copilot’s seat, now! And strap in! I’ve done something like this before.”

“Mister Jeff… Pull up, Mister Jeff! O horror! Great horror and disgrace!”
***
It is been one month, and Mister Jeff is now wild. I pray always for rescue. He do not shave or clean the body, even with the lavatory. I will work in the sun to build a big boat. He will go more to the forest, shooting like mad. I will make a big help word with rocks. He will hurl my rocks into the sea. He will not sleep. I cannot find the dog. These things frighten me.
***
Lucky for me, this was no standard trans-Pacific meet-and greet. I had suspicions when the boss told us to leave the Lear and fly commercial on the return, so I checked after takeoff. I was not disappointed. Behind the bed’s dummy headboard is a door that opens to a padded, temperature-controlled locker filled with several dozen bottles of Cristal. As I suspected, the plane was meant to be a gift for a Bangkok massage tycoon, the boss’s number one buyer. And knowing this individual, I had a strong hunch that surprises didn’t end with the bubbly. It didn’t take me long to find the breakaway floor panel in the bedroom luggage compartment. Somehow the boss had the bird retrofitted with a full-length sub-cabin pressurized conveyor track, presently loaded to its limit with neatly wrapped kilos of one hundred percent Bolivian powder cocaine. Yes, the plane is giant fucking coke Pez Dispenser. And that’s a whole retirement’s worth of sweet little tablets, I said to myself. I thanked the good Lord for my old pilot’s license and my thick Irish liver. Tato doesn’t need to know about this. Tato doesn’t need to know any of this.
***
“Good afternoon, Mister Jeff.”

“…”

“I am not see you in the sunlight since the Thursday last. You are well, Mister Jeff?”

“…”

“What do you carry with you? It is a bottle? It is a bottle of Cristal! From where– O horror! Why must you always? I ask you again please point your gun not at me.”

“Bang!”

“Ah!”

“Just… fucking with you! I lost my bullets… but I don’t need them!”

“Mister Jeff, I ask you stay back. Stay back, Mister Jeff! I beg you, do not swing the bottle at my–”

[Fifteen minutes]

“Tay… tow…”

“…”

“Tato!”

“Huh… What? What! I am bound? Disgrace of me, there is no worse!”

“Tato!”

“Mister Jeff! I demand you unbind me!”

“I found my bullets.”

“Oh nono.”

[Gunshot]

“Horror!”

[Gunshot]

“Mercy!”

[Gunshot]

[Gunshot]

“Disgrace! Mister Jeff, why you must include me in your sick games?”

“What? You think this is a fucking game! Okay then, lets make it a game: a game of stakes, as it were. Two reasonable options, one free choice. Option one…. Ready? Yeah? Option one: I shoot you in the head. Want to hear option two?”

“…”

“Option two: I leave you in the sun ‘til you’re a fucking raisin. So… what’ll it be?”

“Option two! Option two! I am a raisin!”
***
I am disgraced to utter limits. I am bound to a tree. I am two days without moving and my body fills with pain everywhere. My skin is cooked red in the hot sun. Mister Jeff is beyond madness now. I choose to be a raisin but still he shoots. He say it is fair with eyes closed. I pray mostly. I pray for my family. I pray for justice. He feed me only old Cristal, and one time he urinates in the bottle. He is amused but I am not. I pray sometimes for option one. Oh disgrace.
***
Desertion, day forty-two. I’ve got that ethnic little shit now. Now nobody can fuck with my paradise. I am Sultan of Jeff Island and my rule is– No, I am Jeff, Island God, and I require tribute.
***
“What… the… fuck?”

[Helicopter blades]

“…”

[Footsteps]

“Oh, Boss… How good of you to rescue me.”

“Cállate. You think I’m stupid, Jeff? You steal my fucking jet and you think I’m stupid?”

“What? Don’t stick your piece in my face. Get that out of here!”

“Shut the fuck up!”

[Pistol-whip]

“Ow! Fuck!”

“I did not come here for you.”

“What?”

“Where’s that fucking dog?”

“Oh…”

“What does that mean? Answer me! What happened to the dog?”

“Barbecue.”

“What!”

[Pistol-whip]

“¡Hijo de puta!”

[Pistol-whip]

[Pistol-whip]

“Ow. Ow. Ow.”

“What is on that tree? What have you… Tato?”

“…”

“Jeff! Hijo de puta, cut him down!”

“Okay! I’m doing it. Don’t have a fucking conniption.”

[Fifteen minutes]

“I am not a raisin. Disgrace, Mister Jeff. Disgrace… Gracias, Capo. Muchos muchos gracias–”

“Ir al helicóptero, Tato.”

“And me? Number one rep? Fifteen years?”

“¡Hijo de mil putas! Aqui, take this.”

“Boss? This is just a stack of blank paper.”

“No shit. ¡Enrique! Get out here and take care of that scrap heap in the field!”

“What? Who? Wait, what is that guy doing? Is that a bazooka? What is he… No!”

[Explosion]

“No! Asshole! My retirement!”

“Cállate tu boca, Jeff. Shut it or I shoot you in the fucking head, okay?”

“…”

“This is mercy.”

“What? You’re leaving me here?”

“Si. I’ll be back. Write me a fucking book. If I like it, I won’t make you eat your huevos. Okay?”

“…”

“Adios, Jeff. Get to work.”

title: [HM] "Mister Jeff" - An offensive, drug-addled writing exercise from my first fiction workshop back in Uni.

question: What does the story say about Jeff's boss?

answer: Jeff works for a drug cartel's leader as a "rep man" for fifteen years. His wife has a professionally trained dog (a poodle) that's a nuisance to Jeff, who wonders why the boss tolerates the dog's presence on flights (the dog seems to live either on the plane or the airport). Jeff assumes the boss won't look for him hard enough to find his stranded ass on the tiny island they made an emergency landing on. However,  the boss arrives, not for Jeff but for the dog. Boss saves the airplane's pilot, telling Jeff that he'll be back and save Jeff if he likes the book Jeff writes while waiting. The boss initially meant the airplane as a gift for his largest buyer, filling it with expensive wine and the purest cocaine. He assumes Jeff stole the plane for those things and is angry at Jeff for killing the dog while on the island. One of his men shoots the plane with a rocket-propelled grenade.

question: What does the story say about Tato?

answer: Tato is a pilot working for Jeff's boss, leader of a drug cartel. He's probably half-Bolivian and half-Filipino. He's a smallish man who has a wife and kids back at home, and he wants to get rescued from the island he's stranded on with Jeff. When they get caught in a storm while he's piloting the plane, he doesn't want to drink too much, but Jeff insists. Then, Jeff takes the pilot's seat from him to land the plane. On the island, he's threatened by Jeff and eventually made to choose between getting shot and being tied to a tree - he chooses the tree. He's humiliated and tortured until the boss arrives and saves him.

question: What does the story say about the Filipino culture?


text:
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FILE PHOTO: Headphones are seen in front of a logo of online music streaming service Spotify in this illustration picture
 Thomson Reuters
Music streaming company Spotify was sued by Wixen Music Publishing Inc last week for allegedly using thousands of songs, including those of Tom Petty, Neil Young and the Doors, without a license and compensation to the music publisher.

Wixen, an exclusive licensee of songs such as “Free Fallin” by Tom Petty, “Light My Fire” by the Doors, (Girl We Got a) Good Thing by Weezer and works of singers such as Stevie Nicks, is seeking damages worth at least $1.6 billion along with injunctive relief.

Spotify failed to get a direct or a compulsory license from Wixen that would allow it to reproduce and distribute the songs, Wixen said in the lawsuit, filed in a California federal court.

Wixen also alleged that Spotify outsourced its work to a third party, licensing and royalty services provider the Harry Fox Agency, which was “ill-equipped to obtain all the necessary mechanical licenses”.

Spotify declined to comment.

In May, the Stockholm, Sweden-based company agreed to pay more than $43 million to settle a proposed class action alleging it failed to pay royalties for some of the songs it makes available to users.

Spotify, which is planning a stock market listing this year, has grown around 20 percent in value to at least $19 billion in the past few months.

question: What is the date of this article?

answer: The text doesn't explicitly say.

question: Who sued Spotify in this article?

answer: Wixen Music Publishing Inc.

question: How much money did Spotify pay to settle the case referenced in this article?

answer: More than $43 million.

question: At the time of this article, what was the monetary value of Spotify?

answer: At least $19 billion.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: This article reports that Spotify was sued by Wixen Music Publishing Inc for allegedly not having the proper license or offering correct compensation for playing certain songs on its streaming service. Spotify paid more the $43 to settle the case.


text:
The grey sky wept heavy tears as an old man creeps along a smooth marble path, clutching his coat tightly with white knuckles to keep the frosted wind from stealing it. His head hung low against the rain, joints aching and lungs burning from the cold air, he walks on under the gaze of the silent marble guardians that stand all around.  They are placed in concentric ranks, evenly spaced and facing inwards, ever vigilant. There are thousands of them; tens of thousands even, covering an area miles wide. They are spaced evenly throughout their rings with a gap just wide enough for two people to slip in between with twice that distance between each layer. Small engraved platinum plaques rest at the base of each, meticulously produced and maintained.

At the center is an open space dominated by a large sphere which floats reverently above the ground. The Earth in all its glory, with its greens, blues, and browns – meticulously detailed. White clouds swirl and dance in real time in a never ending show that matches reality. If an observer looks closely, they see small ripples throughout the vast blue oceans as the moon engages in its eternal struggle with the tides. Yellow points of civilization dot the night side, ever struggling against the darkness which creeps steadily west. Giant black scars and craters run along its surface, an eternal reminder of events not long passed.

Once in awhile the old man sees another like himself, walking solemnly through this holiest of places. He places a hand onto the cold stone of a statue to steady himself as a strong gust smashes into his fragile frame. He pulls back his hand as if bitten, a numbness spreading throughout his soul. As he continues forward he looks into the faces around him even as the rain soaks his face. He doesn’t notice as it slips down his coat, and doesn’t care as the cold steals the feeling from his skin. He is beyond knowing discomfort. It has been many months since he felt.

Each face is alive with hand crafted detail down to the very pores of the shining stone skin. Their expressions are serious yet hopeful, sad but inspiring. They stand life sized and uniformed, medals and ribbons adorning their chests. Over each stone heart is a small pin with the shape and detail of the Earth. Had they not been made of lifeless stone, each likeness could be mistaken for a living being. They are the holiest relics of the human race, in a place that has become a religious site that has no priests and belongs to no church. They stand at attention in eternal watch over the planet in their midst and the pilgrims who walk through their home.

As the old man draws nearer to his destination he slows his all ready careful pace to the barest of movements. He has entered the space of his nightmares, the place he visits each night in sleep and each day in life. It is a familiar place, one he has navigated through hundreds of times in the few short months since its completion. It has become routine in a sense. His path is always the same; the same stones, the same steps, the same faces, the same emptiness.

He stops at each monument and memorizes every face before reading the plaque under it. Each one is long since engraved in his mind. They are his link to the past, to better times before.  Some of the names he knows from the old letters. They are his most cherished possessions and the only thing of value he has. He falls asleep each night with a stack of them in his bed, only escaping into the embrace of sleep when he is too tired to remain awake any longer.

After a time that may have been as long as hours or as short as minutes, the old man arrives at what has become both his hell and his salvation. It is a statue of a young woman, so perfectly detailed that the sight of it tears through his soul. He stares at her face and struggles to look away. The plaque at her feet tells only the barest of stories; that she was an officer; that she served all of humanity; that she died protecting her home. That she will be forever remembered. She has a face the old man is intimately familiar with. Her name is the same as his.

He remembers how it all started. How smart and happy and full of life she was. How she glowed and seemed to brighten a room just by being present. How he always pushed her to strive for more, to live up to her full potential. How he had wanted a better life for her than he had ever had for himself. How she had applied on an off chance and been accepted into the program, and how she had gone with his blessing and his encouragement. How she had written every day after she left, and how utterly proud he was. How she was his only child.

He remembers too how it all ended. How the Earth had been decimated. How she had been called up. He watched the live video as it all unfolded, remembers how three billion voices screamed as one when they were victorious. He remembers how none of those thousands of Earth’s children who had left ever came back. He remembers the guilt and the pain so heavy it crushed the air from his lungs.

Amidst the howling wind, he trembles violently and falls to his knees. The rain washes the tears from his face as he sobs uncontrollably. The old man curls up at the feet of his life and waits to die.

title: Pilgrim

question: What does the story say about the statues?w

answer: They are the statues of heroes who fought and died, protecting the Earth. They are placed in concentric circles with a depiction of the Earth in the middle. Everything is exceptionally well-made with lots of detail, and the statues are almost life-like. Thousands of people left the Earth for the fight; none came back. The Earth's population was reduced to just three billion. One of the figures is the narrator's daughter, who died a long time ago. He goes to the foot of his daughter's statue, lies down, and waits to die with tears streaking through his face.

question: What does the story say about who the enemy was?


text:
The VANCOUVER FILM CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR BEST SCREENPLAY FOR A CANADIAN FILM is an annual award given by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle. The Best Screenplay for a Canadian Film Award was first awarded in 2015 for films released in 2014.

Winners

2010s

  Year                                                              Winner                                        Film                                  Reference
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  2014                                                              XAVIER DOLAN                                  _MOMMY_                               [1]
  Andrew Huculiak, Josh Huculiak, Cayne McKenzie, Joseph Schweers   _Violent_                                     [2]
  Elan Mastai                                                       _The F Word_                                  [3]
  2015                                                              EMMA DONOGHUE                                 _ROOM_                                [4]
  Benjamin August                                                   _Remember_                                    [5]
  Andrew Cividino, Blain Watters, Aaron Yeger                       _Sleeping Giant_                              [6]
  2016                                                              ANN MARIE FLEMING                             _WINDOW HORSES_                       [7]
  Kevan Funk                                                        _Hello Destroyer_                             [8]
  Ashley McKenzie                                                   _Werewolf_                                    [9]
  2017                                                              PASCAL PLANTE                                 _FAKE TATTOOS (LES FAUX TATOUAGES)_   [10]
  Cody Brown                                                        _Gregoire_                                    [11]
  Kathleen Hepburn                                                  _Never Steady, Never Still_                   [12]
  2018                                                              KEITH BEHRMAN                                 _GIANT LITTLE ONES_                   [13]
  Katherine Jerkovic                                                _Roads in February (Les routes en février)_   [14]
  Zebulon Zang                                                      _N.O.N._                                      [15]
  2019                                                              YONAH LEWIS, CALVIN THOMAS                    _WHITE LIE_                           [16]
  Kazik Radwanski                                                   _Anne at 13,000 Ft._                          [17]
  Matthew Rankin                                                    _The Twentieth Century_                       [18]

[1] “Tu dors Nicole and Mommy top Canadian winners at Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards”. _The Georgia Straight_, January 6, 2015.

[2] “2015 Nominees Announced”. Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 22, 2014.

[3]

[4] “Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2015”. _IMDb_.

[5] “2016 Nominees Announced”. Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 14, 2015.

[6]

[7] Regan Reid, “Hello Destroyer wins big with VFCC”. _Playback_, January 11, 2017.

[8] “2017 Nominees Announced”. Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 16, 2016.

[9]

[10] “Never Steady, Never Still takes the big prizes at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle awards”. _The Georgia Straight_, January 9, 2018.

[11] “2018 Nominees Announced”. Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 15, 2017.

[12]

[13] “Vancouver Film Critics Circle names Edge of the Knife top Canadian feature film”. _Toronto Star_, January 8, 2019.

[14] Josh Cabrita, “2019 Nominees Announced”. _Vancouver Film Critics Circle_, December 14, 2018.

[15]

[16] “Vancouver film critics award 'The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open'”. _North Shore News_, January 7, 2020.

[17] Adrian Mack, “Marriage Story dominates Vancouver Film Critics Circle noms”. _The Georgia Straight_, December 13, 2019.

[18]

question: What does the text say about horror movies?

question: What does the text say about the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay for a Canadian Film?

answer: The Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay for a Canadian Film is an annual award given by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle. The Best Screenplay for a Canadian Film Award was first awarded in 2015 for films released in 2014. Xavier Dolan won the inaugural award in 2014 for his screenplay in Mommy. In 2019, the winners were Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas for their screenplay in White Lie.


text:
MARION COUNTY is a county in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the population was 19,820.[1] Its county seat is Lebanon.[2] The county was founded in 1834 and named for Francis Marion, the American Revolutionary War hero known as the “Swamp Fox”.[3][4][5]

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (1.1%) is water.[6]

Marion County includes the geographic center of the state of Kentucky, which is located 3 miles NNW of Lebanon, just off KY 429. Marion County was formed in 1834 from part of Washington County.[7] Marion County is Kentucky's most Catholic county. The first Catholic settlers in Kentucky came to Holy Cross in the western part of the county circa 1790.

Adjacent counties

-   Washington County (north)
-   Boyle County (northeast)
-   Casey County (southeast)
-   Taylor County (south)
-   LaRue County (southwest)
-   Nelson County (northwest)

Demographics

As of the census[8] of 2000, there were 18,212 people, 6,613 households, and 4,754 families residing in the county. The population density was . There were 7,277 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the county was 89.17% White, 9.12% Black or African American, 0.09% Native American, 0.43% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.35% from other races, and 0.82% from two or more races. 0.79% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There were 6,613 households, out of which 35.60% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.80% were married couples living together, 13.70% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.10% were non-families. 24.40% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.10% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.58 and the average family size was 3.06.

By age, 25.20% of the population was under 18, 9.90% from 18 to 24, 30.30% from 25 to 44, 21.70% from 45 to 64, and 12.80%were 65 years or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 102.30 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 101.60 males.

The median income for a household in the county was $30,387, and the median income for a family was $35,648. Males had a median income of $27,826 versus $20,699 for females. The per capita income for the county was $14,472. About 15.80% of families and 18.60% of the population were below the poverty line, including 21.80% of those under age 18 and 17.90% of those age 65 or over.

Communities

-   Bradfordsville
-   Gravel Switch
-   Lebanon (county seat)
-   Loretto
-   Nerinx
-   Raywick

Politics

  Year                               Republican                                  Democratic                                  Third parties
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  style=“text-align:center;” |2020   style=“text-align:center;” |68.5% _6,110_   style=“text-align:center;” |30.5% _2,719_   1.0% _93_
  style=“text-align:center;” |2016   style=“text-align:center;” |63.2% _5,122_   style=“text-align:center;” |33.0% _2,679_   3.8% _310_
  style=“text-align:center;” |2012   style=“text-align:center;” |51.9% _3,800_   style=“text-align:center;” |46.7% _3,418_   1.4% _100_
  style=“text-align:center;” |2008   style=“text-align:center;” |50.5% _3,842_   style=“text-align:center;” |47.2% _3,596_   2.3% _177_
  style=“text-align:center;” |2004   style=“text-align:center;” |53.1% _3,905_   style=“text-align:center;” |46.2% _3,399_   0.7% _50_
  style=“text-align:center;” |2000   style=“text-align:center;” |52.8% _3,259_   style=“text-align:center;” |45.0% _2,778_   2.3% _139_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1996   style=“text-align:center;” |35.3% _2,013_   style=“text-align:center;” |51.2% _2,922_   13.6% _775_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1992   style=“text-align:center;” |33.1% _2,091_   style=“text-align:center;” |53.8% _3,403_   13.1% _830_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1988   style=“text-align:center;” |44.1% _2,500_   style=“text-align:center;” |55.6% _3,152_   0.4% _21_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1984   style=“text-align:center;” |53.7% _3,305_   style=“text-align:center;” |46.0% _2,835_   0.3% _19_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1980   style=“text-align:center;” |36.6% _2,126_   style=“text-align:center;” |61.5% _3,577_   2.0% _113_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1976   style=“text-align:center;” |32.4% _1,723_   style=“text-align:center;” |66.1% _3,520_   1.5% _79_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1972   style=“text-align:center;” |49.7% _2,370_   style=“text-align:center;” |49.3% _2,351_   0.9% _44_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1968   style=“text-align:center;” |33.0% _1,620_   style=“text-align:center;” |49.7% _2,436_   17.3% _850_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1964   style=“text-align:center;” |20.1% _1,074_   style=“text-align:center;” |79.8% _4,265_   0.1% _5_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1960   style=“text-align:center;” |33.9% _2,203_   style=“text-align:center;” |66.1% _4,292_   0.0% _0_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1956   style=“text-align:center;” |50.0% _2,945_   style=“text-align:center;” |49.7% _2,927_   0.3% _20_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1952   style=“text-align:center;” |41.7% _2,262_   style=“text-align:center;” |58.2% _3,159_   0.2% _8_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1948   style=“text-align:center;” |27.4% _1,171_   style=“text-align:center;” |70.4% _3,008_   2.2% _92_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1944   style=“text-align:center;” |35.6% _1,673_   style=“text-align:center;” |63.8% _2,996_   0.5% _25_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1940   style=“text-align:center;” |33.5% _1,763_   style=“text-align:center;” |66.2% _3,482_   0.4% _19_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1936   style=“text-align:center;” |30.5% _1,567_   style=“text-align:center;” |68.5% _3,526_   1.0% _53_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1932   style=“text-align:center;” |26.1% _1,571_   style=“text-align:center;” |73.5% _4,427_   0.4% _23_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1928   style=“text-align:center;” |40.9% _2,395_   style=“text-align:center;” |59.0% _3,461_   0.1% _7_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1924   style=“text-align:center;” |38.5% _1,975_   style=“text-align:center;” |59.6% _3,055_   1.9% _96_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1920   style=“text-align:center;” |38.9% _2,431_   style=“text-align:center;” |60.8% _3,807_   0.3% _20_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1916   style=“text-align:center;” |40.2% _1,396_   style=“text-align:center;” |59.3% _2,063_   0.5% _18_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1912   style=“text-align:center;” |22.0% _735_     style=“text-align:center;” |55.3% _1,848_   22.7% _759_

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title: Marion County, Kentucky

question: What does the text say about Francis Marion?

answer: Francis Marion was an American Revolutionary War hero with the moniker "Swamp Fox". Marion County in Kentucky is named after him upon its founding in 1834.

question: What does the text say about Lebanon?

answer: Lebanon is listed as a community in Marion County, Kentucky. It is the county seat. Three miles North-Northwest of Lebanon is the geographic center of the state of Kentucky.

question: What does the text say about the American Civil War?


text:
Ally sat on her parent’s couch, snuggled warmly between two big, fluffy cushions. She pictured herself an over sized cat.

The image made her giggle.

The TV was loud, something she could only do when her parents had gone out. They didn’t like the noise, and they didn’t like TV. They had told her once that it, “ruined the minds of children”.

She wasn’t yet old enough to be on her own, so she had to listen to them.

On TV, a documentary on the Civil War played, narrated by a monotone man with a deep voice. She loved history. She enjoyed knowing where people came from. It helped her imagine where people could go. It was a happy thought. She liked happy thoughts.

“Hey Ally” a male voice said, entering the room.

“Is mom and dad gone?”

“Yea, they said they’d be back in an hour or so” Ally replied with a warm smile.
He nodded thoughtfully and took a seat next to her.

“How was soccer practice?” Ally said.

“It was really good. I scored a goal in scrimmage”

 “Good job Jack!” Ally said, high fiving her brother.

“What are you watching?” He said, relaxing into the sofa.

 “Civil war Doc. It’s really good” Ally said without turning from the screen. A black and white picture of a group of smiling soldiers stared back at her. In the center, a pale man as white as chalk beamed with a dumb smile. It made her happy.

“Very cool” he said. There were a few seconds of silence while the TV played a battle scene.

“So, do you want to play a game?” he said from beside her.
She loved games, and was always eager to play them. She especially loved monopoly.
“Sure! Can we play monopoly?” she said, excited for a chance to beat him.

She had always wanted to beat him, and though they had played dozens of times, she had yet to secure even a single victory.

There was a brief, heavy silence.

“Hmm, well, I was thinking the game me and you play sometimes. High school?” he said.
													Her heart twitched.

“I don’t like playing ‘High school’, can’t we just play monopoly?”

“You love that game, don’t you?” he said with a bright smile.

“Yea, I want to beat you at”

She laughed tentatively.

He laughed happily.

“Ok, ok. How about this: We play my game first, then we play Monopoly. I’ll even let you start with an extra five hundred dollars this time. Sound good?”

She thought about it for a long minute.

Her heart twitched again.

She desperately wanted to win. He had always on his game. She just wanted one game where she could win.

“Ok”
He clasped his hands together in accomplishment.

Ally looked at his big grin. Saliva dripped from the corners of his mouth. It reminded her of a sick dog.
												She really hated that game.

She noticed some untouched homework from her day at school sprawled out on the floor.

“Wait, I have to do this homework” she said, picking up the sheet from the carpet.

Jack took it from her hands and quickly examined it.

“This is easy stuff. I know I’m no wizard at math but I think I can handle third grade stuff. How about I just do it for you later on?”

She fidgeted in her seat. 									She didn’t want to upset him.

“Okay”

“Great” Jack said, putting it back on the floor.

“Now, who do you want to be?” Jack said.

“I guess I’ll be the cheerleader again” Ally said.

Her voice was feeble.

“Cool, I guess that makes me the football captain”

“Meet me upstairs in the ‘locker room’” Jack said, smiling. He stood up, removing his shirt as he did so. He then disappeared quickly behind the wall and up the stairs.

Ally began walking slowly towards the stairs. She took a last look at the TV, which still played loudly behind her.

On the screen, a dead man lay in a grassy ditch, clutching his chest in pain. His face was as pale as chalk.

Ally saw the sparkle in his eyes. She really didn’t like playing his games.

She took a step up the stairs.

She took another.

She took a few more, and then a few more.

She stepped up onto the top of the stairs, the ‘locker room’ ahead of her.

She was afraid.

She just wanted to play Monopoly.

She thought to herself, don’t worry Ally, siblings don’t hurt each other.

She agreed with herself. They didn’t.

She opened the door to his room. She removed her tank top. It had a giant smiling bunny on it.

His teeth were white like snow.

She closed the door behind her.

She unbuttoned her jeans. When they fell, the button made a loud ping against the hardwood.

Her brother was fully naked, lying sprawled out on the bed.

He was the color of chalk.

“Hey”, he began playfully, “Girls aren’t allowed in the boy’s locker room”.

End

title: [RF] The games we play are not the same

question: What is the irony of the story?

answer: Ally's parents are concerned about her watching Television. She watches history and the danger to her comes not from the television but from her brother.

question: Why does Ally not realize that her brother means no good when he asks her to play a game?

answer: She loves monopoly and wants to play with him. Perhaps she chooses to forget that he sometimes has other ideas in mind when it comes to games

question: How old is Ally?

answer: She is only about 8 years old as she is in third grade

question: Write a ~16 sentence summary.

answer:
Ally is home alone. She’s watching TV. Her parents don’t like her to watch. Her brother comes in enquires about her parent. He asks if she would like to play a game. She loves games, especially monopoly but he wants to play high school, a game they sometimes play. She says she doesn’t like that game. His grin reminds her of a sick dog.

She resigns herself and says she’ll be a cheerleader again. He’ll be the football captain. He removes his shirt and tells her to meet him in the locker room. She makes her way upstairs. She is afraid. She removes her top as she enters his room. She unbuttons her jeans. Her brother is naked on the bed.


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DEPORTIVA PILOÑESA is a Spanish football club based in Infiesto, Piloña, in the autonomous community of Asturias.

History

Founded in 1917, the club was consolidating in the village before promoting for the first time to Tercera División in 1980, playing 18 of the 22 next seasons in the league before declining and thus, being relegating to the lowest divisions due to bad performances. Piloñesa also participated in one edition of the Copa del Rey, being eliminated by Naval in the first round of the 1981–82 edition.[1]

The last achievement of the club was the promotion to the sixth tier in 2018 against its rivals Europa Nava.[2]

Season to season

  ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------
    Season    Tier       Division     Place   Copa del Rey       Season    Tier   Division     Place   Copa del Rey
    --------- ---------- ------------ ------- --------------     --------- ------ ------------ ------- --------------
              Regional                                           1994/95   4      3ª           15th
    1975/76   6          2ª Reg.      5th                        1995/96   4      3ª           18th
    1976/77   6          2ª Reg.      3rd                        1996/97   5      Reg. Pref.   1st
    1977/78   7          2ª Reg.      2nd                        1997/98   4      3ª           13th
    1978/79   6          1ª Reg.      1st                        1998/99   4      3ª           15th
    1979/80   5          Reg. Pref.   3rd                        1999/00   4      3ª           10th
    1980/81   4          3ª           4th                        2000/01   4      3ª           16th
    1981/82   4          3ª           13th    First round        2001/02   4      3ª           18th
    1982/83   4          3ª           18th                       2002/03   5      Reg. Pref.   15th
    1983/84   4          3ª           18th                       2003/04   6      1ª Reg.      1st
    1984/85   5          Reg. Pref.   5th                        2004/05   5      Reg. Pref.   16th
    1985/86   5          Reg. Pref.   6th                        2005/06   5      Reg. Pref.   19th
    1986/87   4          3ª           15th                       2006/07   6      1ª Reg.      6th
    1987/88   4          3ª           11th                       2007/08   6      1ª Reg.      2nd
    1988/89   4          3ª           11th                       2008/09   6      1ª Reg.      1st
    1989/90   4          3ª           12th                       2009/10   5      Reg. Pref.   7th
    1990/91   4          3ª           17th                       2010/11   5      Reg. Pref.   17th
    1991/92   5          Reg. Pref.   1st                        2011/12   5      Reg. Pref.   19th
    1992/93   4          3ª           7th                        2012/13   6      1ª Reg.      10th
    1993/94   4          3ª           7th                        2013/14   6      1ª Reg.      4th

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    Season    Tier   Division   Place   Copa del Rey
    --------- ------ ---------- ------- --------------
    2014/15   6      1ª Reg.    4th
    2015/16   6      1ª Reg.    16th
    2016/17   7      2ª Reg.    3rd
    2017/18   7      2ª Reg.    2nd
    2018/19   6      1ª Reg.    6th
    2019/20   6      1ª Reg.    9th

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-   18 seasons in _Tercera División_

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title: Deportiva Piloñesa

question: Where is Deportiva Pilonesa located?

answer: It is located in Inesto, Pilona in Spain.

question: When was the club founded?

answer: It was founded in 1917.

question: What happened in 2018?

answer: The club was promoted to the sixth tier against its rivals Europa Nava.

question: What happened in 1980?

answer: It was promoted for the first time to Tercera Division after consolidating in the village for years.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: This article is about Deportiva Piloñesa, a Spanish football club in Infiesto, Piloña. It was founded in 1917.


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The weathered man exits the trail and sits on a rock, peering off into the distance. He's waiting for something. Green. Trees laid out as far as the eye can see, dripping with the beautiful amber of an Oregon sunset. Between the trees there was a road, weaving like a snake through tall grass. A faint sound. Getting louder. 8 cylinders exploding in harmony into the air, echoing across the forest. It was fast, and getting closer.

QUICK CUT

The tall man behind the wheel of his Cobra, gripping the wheel with white knuckles and a bloody collar. His eyes scream with rage, his tears stream with sadness and despair. His anger was hot. It used him.

QUICK CUT

The weathered man unrolls a cloth on the ground revealing a silenced Glock 17, accompanying ammunition, and a long slender knife. The engine's noise is echoing in his ears now, and he peers off into the distance, his eyes sharpening. His anger was cold. He used it. *A challenge.*

QUICK CUT

The tall man pulls his car into the gravel at the base of the mountain, slamming on the brakes and sliding the last few feet. He kicks the door open, and plods back to the trunk, opening it. He reaches inside, hesitating for a moment, but then pulling out a Marlin 1984 rifle with a blood-caked stock. Peering over his shoulder at the base of the trail, his focuses his gaze and takes a deep breath. *Try and run.*

title: The Climax

question: What are the two characters in the story?

answer: The weathered man and the tall man.

question: Why are they in conflict?

answer: It is not stated.

question: What weapons does the weathered man have?

answer: A silenced Glock 17 and a long slender knife.

question: What weapon does the tall man have?

answer: A Marlin 1984 rifle.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: The text is a short story or a part of a short story about two armed man chasing each other in a mountain area.


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GABRIELA GOLDSMITH (born RUTH GABRIELA GOLDSCHMIED GUASCH on September 11, 1963 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican actress, former beauty queen, teacher and doctor in innovation and social responsibility and president of two civil society organizations.

Goldsmith was born September 11, 1963 in Mexico City, Mexico, in into a Jewish family, with German ancestry. Her mother was Cuban descent and her father was Mexican descent.

She began her artistic career by winning a modeling contest in the year of 1982, was able to make her way into the competitive world of entertainment. Within the theatrical stages, Goldsmith, participated in _Mujeres frente al espejo_, work with which she won the Dramatic Theater Revelation Prize awarded by the Group of Theater Critics and Journalists, in addition to acting in _Engáñame si quieres_.

While in the field of cinematography the actress has to his credit more than 50 films, among which are _La mujer del tahúr_ (1985), _El hijo de Pedro Navaja_ (1985), _Gavilán o paloma_ (1985), _Federal de Narcóticos_ (1991) and _Reclusorio_ (1997).

In 1996, Gabriela Goldsmith graduated as a dental surgeon from the Autonomous University of Mexico and years later she became a teacher in social responsibility by the Universidad Anáhuac. She is currently a doctor candidate for innovation and social responsibility since she is in the research process.

Filmography

Films

-   (1985) _Terror y encajes negros_ - Neighbor
-   (1985) _Narco terror_
-   (1985) _La mujer del tahúr_
-   (1985) _Gavilán o paloma_*(1986) _El hijo de Pedro Navaja_ - Snadra
-   (1986) _Yako, cazador de malditos_
-   (1986) _Un macho en la cárcel de mujeres_
-   (1986) ''Lavadores de dinero ''
-   (1987) ''Policía salvaje ''
-   (1988) ''Su destino era matar ''
-   (1988) ''Pandilla de cadeneros ''
-   (1988) ''Los hermanos machorros ''
-   (1988) _El virus del poder_
-   (1988) _Ladrón_
-   (1988) _Taquito de ojo_
-   (1988) _Muertes anunciadas_ - Maru
-   (1989) _Si mi cama hablará_
-   (1989) _Las calenturas de Juan Camaney II_
-   (1989) _El vampiro teporocho_ - Roxana
-   (1989) _Si mi cama hablara_
-   (1990) _Lo inesperado_
-   (1990) _Jack el vigilante_
-   (1990) _Dios se lo pague_
-   (1990) _La mujer del tahúr_
-   (1990) _Las travesuras de Super Chido_ - Luisa Lana
-   (1990) _La vengadora implacable_ - Sofía
-   (1990) _Los Pelotones y Juan Camaney_
-   (1990) _Inesperada venganza_
-   (1991) _Federal de narcóticos (División Cobra)_
-   (1992) _Más allá del deseo_
-   (1992) _Ramiro Sierra_
-   (1992) _El gato con gatas_ - Ángela
-   (1993) _Al filo de la muerte_ - López
-   (1994) _Una luz en la escalera_ - Georgina
-   (1995) _Sobredosis de violencia_
-   (1996) _Metiche y encajoso III_
-   (1996) _Del robo al paraíso_
-   (1996) _Trebol negro_
-   (1996) _Lluvia de diamantes_ - Leonor
-   (1997) _No le bailes de caballito_ - Silvia
-   (1997) _Metiche y encajoso IV_
-   (1997) _La camioneta azul de la mafia_
-   (1997) _El poder del narco_
-   (1997) _El ejecutor_ - Adriana Farres
-   (1997) _Capos de almoloya_
-   (1997) _Ataque contra las pandillas_
-   (1997) _Reclusorio_ - Olga
-   (1997) _Cacería de judiciales_
-   (1999) _Fiesta privada_
-   (2003) _Venganza de un terrorista_
-   (2004) _Animales en peligro_
-   (2005) _Matador_

Television

+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| Year            | Title           | Role            | Notes           |
+=================+=================+=================+=================+
| 1986            | _El engaño_     | Rocío Peña      | Supporting role |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 1987            | _Quinceañera_   |                 | Special         |
|                 |                 |                 | appearance      |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 1987            | _El precio de   | Cecilia         | Supporting role |
|                 | la fama_        |                 |                 |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 1988            | _Encadenados_   | Iris            | Supporting role |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 1988            | _Papá soltero_  | Joanna          | Series          |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 1989            | _Trying Times_  |                 | Series          |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 1989/90         | _Simplemente    | Lorena del      | Main antagonist |
|                 | María_          | Villar de       |                 |
|                 |                 | Rivera          |                 |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 1990            | _Mi pequeña     | Ana Silvia de   | Antagonist      |
|                 | Soledad_        | Arizmendi       |                 |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 1991            | _Alcanzar una   | Cristina        | Antagonist      |
|                 | estrella II_    | Carrillo        |                 |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 1991            | _La pícara      | Gladys de       | Supporting role |
|                 | soñadora_       | Rochild         |                 |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 1992            | _María          | María Magnolia  | Supporting role |
|                 | Mercedes_       | González de     |                 |
|                 |                 | Mancilla        |                 |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 1994            | _Prisionera de  | Isaura Durán    | Antagonist      |
|                 | amor_           |                 |                 |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 1996            | _Confidente de  | Sonia           | Recurring role  |
|                 | secundaria_     |                 |                 |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 1997            | _El alma no     | Zafiro Anabelle | Recurring role  |
|                 | tiene color_    | Fabré Dzul      |                 |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 1997            | _Hotel Paraíso_ |                 | Series          |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 1997/98         | _Sin ti_        | Prudencia       | Supporting role |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 1998            | _¿Qué nos       | Giovanna        | Series          |
|                 | pasa?_          |                 |                 |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 1998            | _Camila_        | Ana María de    | Co-protagonist  |
|                 |                 | Iturralde       |                 |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 1999            | _Por tu amor_   | Sonia Narváez   | Supporting role |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 1999/00         | _Cuento de      | Katia           | Mini-TV series  |
|                 | navidad_        |                 |                 |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 2000            | _Siempre te     | Ariana Vda. de  | Supporting role |
|                 | amaré_          | Granados        |                 |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 2001            | _El derecho de  | Adriana Drigani | Main antagonist |
|                 | nacer_          | de Rivera       |                 |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 2001            | _Güereja de mi  | Miss Alberta    | Series          |
|                 | vida_           | Caña            |                 |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 2002            | _Así son ellas_ | Narda Mareca    | Protagonist     |
|                 |                 | Amaya           |                 |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 2004            | _Amarte es mi   | Kathy de        | Recurring role  |
|                 | Pecado_         | Quiroga         |                 |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 2004            | _Big Brother    | Herself         | Reality show    |
|                 | México_         |                 | Contestant      |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 2004            | _Mujer, casos   |                 | Series          |
|                 | de la vida      |                 |                 |
|                 | real_           |                 |                 |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 2004/05         | _Misión S.O.S_  | Vivian Johnson  | Main antagonist |
|                 |                 | de Martínez     |                 |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 2005            | _Bajo el mismo  | Elisa           | Series          |
|                 | techo_          |                 |                 |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 2006/07         | _Código Postal_ | Minerva         | Co-protagonist  |
|                 |                 | Carvajal        |                 |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 2007            | _Destilando     | Cassandra       | Special         |
|                 | Amor_           | Santoveña       | appearance      |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 2007            | _Amor sin       | Elena           | Main antagonist |
|                 | maquillaje_     |                 |                 |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 2008            | _Mañana es para |                 | Special         |
|                 | siempre_        |                 | appearance      |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 2008/16         | _La rosa de     | Ninfa/Antonia/I | Series          |
|                 | Guadalupe_      | solda/Juliette  |                 |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 2009            | _Tiempo final_  | Pamela          | Series          |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 2010            | _Llena de amor_ | Fedra de Curiel | Special         |
|                 |                 |                 | appearance      |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 2011            | _Dos hogares_   | Verónica        | Supporting role |
|                 |                 | Larrazábal de   |                 |
|                 |                 | Garza           |                 |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 2012/13         | _Amores         | Doris Orol de   | Recurring       |
|                 | verdaderos_     | Pavia           | role[1][2][3]   |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 2012/16         | _Como dice el   | Elena/Ines      | Series          |
|                 | dicho_          |                 |                 |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 2013/14         | _Quiero Amarte_ | Emma            | Recurring role  |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 2015            | _Lo             | Montserrat      | Supporting      |
|                 | imperdonable_   | Vivanco Vda. de | role[4][5]      |
|                 |                 | de la Corcuera  |                 |
+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+

Awards & nominations

  Year   Award                     Category                  Telenovela          Result
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  1990   TVyNovelas Awards         Best Antagonist Actress   Simplemente María   rowspan=2
  1993   Best Supporting Actress   María Mercedes

[1] Univision Delivers Newest Blockbuster Novela About True Love and Betrayal – “Amores Verdaderos”

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

title: Gabriela Goldsmith

question: Summarize Gabriela Goldsmith's career.

answer: She won a modeling contest in 1982 before beginning her career in theatre acting. She moved into acting in TV after that, appearing in more than 50 films during her career from 1985 to 2005. She won the Dramatic Theater Revelation Prize, the TV Novelas Best Antagonist Actress award in 1990, and the Best Supporting Actress award in 1993.

question: What is Goldsmith's education?

answer: She's a dental surgeon by training.

question: How did Goldsmith's artistic career begin?

answer: She won a modeling contest in 1982 and worked her way in.

question: What awards did Goldsmith win?

answer: She won the Dramatic Theater Revelation Prize, the TV Novelas Best Antagonist Actress award in 1990, and the Best Supporting Actress award in 1993.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: Gabriela Goldsmith (born Ruth Gabriela Goldschmied Guasch on September 11, 1963) is a Mexican actress, former beauty queen, teacher, and doctor in innovation and social responsibility, and president of two civil society organizations. She won the Dramatic Theater Revelation Prize, the TV Novelas Best Antagonist Actress award in 1990, and the Best Supporting Actress award in 1993. She appeared in more than 50 films during her career from 1985 to 2005.


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 | birth_place =Yellapur[1] | occupation = Politician | children = VIVEK HEBBAR AND SHRUTI HEBBAR | party = Bharatiya Janata party
 | otherparty = Indian National Congress
 | education = | nationality = Indian | relatives = | website = https://shivaramhebbar.com/ }}

ARBAIL SHIVARAM HEBBAR is an Indian politician. He was elected to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from Yellapura in the 2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election as a member of the Indian National Congress but switched to Bharatiya Janata Party in 2019 and won the by-elections in December 2019.[2][3][4][5][6]

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title: Arbail Shivaram Hebbar

question: Who is Arbail Shivaram Hebbar?

answer: An Indian politician.

question: Who are his children?

answer: Vivek Hebbar and Shruti Hebbar.

question: What party does he belong to?

answer: The Bharatiya Janata party, formerly the Indian National Congress.

question: How did he come to prominence?

answer: He was elected to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from Yellapura in the 2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election as a member of the Indian National Congress.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: Arbail Shivaram Hebbar is an Indian Politician elected to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from Yellapura in the 2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election as a member of the Indian National Congress. He switched to the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2019 and won the by-elections in 2019.


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MOSES IBN TIBBON (born in Marseille; flourished between 1240 and 1283) was a Jewish physician, author and translator in Provence. The number of works written by Moses ibn Tibbon suggest that he reached a great age.

He was the son of Samuel ibn Tibbon, a Jewish scholar and doctor who translated Maimonides into Hebrew.

Moses married and was the father of Judah ibn Tibbon, who was prominent in the Maimonidean controversy which took place at Montpellier, southern France. With other Jewish physicians of Provence, Moses was restricted by the order of the Council of Béziers (May 1246), which prohibited Jewish physicians from treating Gentiles.

Works (original)

He wrote the following works:

-   Commentary on Shir HaShirim (Lyck, 1874). Written under the influence of Maimonides, it is of a philosophical and allegorical character, and is similar to that by his brother-in-law Abba Mari ben Simson ben Anatoli, whom he quotes repeatedly.
-   Commentary to the Pentateuch. Judah Mosconi (c. 1370), in his supercommentary on the writings of Abraham ibn Ezra, expresses some doubt as to the authenticity of this commentary because of its often very unsatisfactory explanations. According to Steinschneider, it was a supercommentary on Abraham ibn Ezra.
-   _Sefer Pe'ah_, an allegorical explanation of haggadic passages in the Talmud and the Midrash (Neubauer, “Cat. Bodl. Hebr. MSS.” No. 939, 9).
-   Commentary on the weights and measures of the Bible and the Talmud (Vatican MSS., No. 298, 4; see Assemani, “Catal.” p. 283; Steinschneider, “Joseph ibn Aḳnin”, in Ersch and Gruber, “Encyc.” section ii., part 31, p. 50; “Ginze Nistarot”, iii. 185 et seq.).
-   _Sefer ha-Tanninim_, mentioned by Isaac de Lattes (l.c.), but without indication of its contents.
-   Letter on questions raised by his father, Samuel ibn Tibbon, in regard to Maimonides' _Moreh Nebukim_ (_Guide for the Perplexed_) (Neubauer, “Cat. Bodl. Hebr. MSS.” No. 2218, 2).

Translations

Moses ibn Tibbon's translations are considered more important than and outnumber his original works. They include versions of works written in Arabic by Arabs and Jews on philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, and medicine. In the following list, the name of the author of the original work precedes the title by which the translation is known.

Moses' most important translations are as follows:

-   Averroes: Commentaries, etc., on Aristotle: _Physica Auscultatio_ (about 1250; Steinschneider, “Hebr. Uebers.” p. 109); _Kelale ha-Shamayim weha-'Olam_ (_De Cœlo et Mundo_; l.c. p. 126); _Sefer ha-Hawayah weha-Hefsed_ (1250: _De Generatione et Corruptione_; l.c. p. 130); _Sefer Otot 'Elyonot_ (_Meteora_; l.c. p. 135); _Kelale Sefer ha-Nefesh_ (1244: _De Anima_; l.c. p. 147); _Bi'ur Sefer ha-Nefesh_ (1261: _The Middle Commentary_; l.c. p. 148); _Ha-Hush we-ha-Muḥash_ (1254: _Parva Naturalia_; l.c. p. 154); ''Mah she-Aḥar ha-Ṭeba' '', (1258: _Metaphysica_; l.c. p. 159); _Bi'ur Arguza_ (commentary on Avicenna's “Arjuzah”; Renan, “Averroes,” p. 189; Steinschneider, l.c. p. 699).
-   Avicenna: _Ha-Seder ha-Ḳaṭon_ (1272: “The Small Canon”; l.c. p. 693, comp. p. 285).
-   Batalyusi: _Ha-'Agullot ha-Ra'yoniyyot_ (_Al-Ḥada'iḳ_, on the “similarity of the world to an imaginary sphere”; l.c. p. 287), edited by D. Kaufmann ('Die Spuren al-Bataljusi's in der Jüdischen Religionsphilosophie," Leipsic, 1880).
-   Al-Hassar: _Sefer ha-Ḥeshbon_ (1271: Treatise on Arithmetic; Steinschneider, l.c. p. 558; “Isr. Letterbode,” iii. 8).
-   Euclid: _Shorashim_, or _Yesodot_ (1270: _Elements_; Steinschneider, l.c. p. 506, comp. p. 510).
-   Alfarabi: _Hatḥalot ha-Nimẓa'ot ha-Tib'iyyim_ (1248: _Book of the Principles_; l.c. p. 291. comp. p. 47), edited by H. Fillpowski, in a Hebrew almanac of 5610 (Leipsic, 1849).
-   Geminus: _Ḥokmat ha-Kokabim_, or _Ḥokmat Tekunah_ (1246, Naples: Introduction to the _Almagest_ of Ptolemy; l.c. p. 539).
-   Ibn Al-Jazzar: _Ẓedat ha-Derakim_ (1259. _Viaticum_)
-   Hunain: _Mabo el Meleket ha-Refu'ah_ (_Introduction to Medical Science_; l.c. p. 711).
-   Razi: _Ha-Ḥilluḳ weha-Ḥilluf_ (_Book of the Classifications [of Diseaes]_; l.c. p. 730); _Al Iḳrabadhin_ (_Antidotarium_; l.c. p. 730).

For his other translations see Steinschneider, l.c. pp. 177, 231, 362, 363, 416, 542, 544, 553; idem, “Cat. Bodl.” cols. 1998 et seq.

Translations from Maimonides

True to the traditions of his family, Moses ibn Tibbon translated Arabic writings by Maimonides which his father had not addressed:

-   “Miktab” or “Ma'amar be-Hanhagat ha-Beri'ut,” a treatise on hygiene in the form of a letter to the sultan, printed in _Kerem Ḥemed_ (iii. 9 et seq.), in Jacob ben Moses Zebi's “Dibre Mosheh” (Warsaw, 1886), and by Jacob Saphir ha-Levi (Jerusalem, 1885, from his own manuscript, under the title “Sefer Hanhagat ha-Beri'ut”). This translation (1244) was one of his first, if not the first (Steinschneider, “Hebr. Uebers.” pp. 770 et seq.).
-   Commentary on the Mishnah. A fragment of his translation of Pe'ah, which was published by A. Geiger 1847, suggests that he may have translated the whole Seder Mo'ed (l.c. p. 925).
-   _Sefer ha-Mitzvot_ another of his earliest translations (Constantinople, c. 1516-18, also printed in various editions of Maimonides' “Yad,” but without Moses ibn Tibbon's preface). In his preface he justifies continuing his own translation, though having known of that of Abraham Ḥasdai, on the grounds that the latter had obviously used the first edition of the Arabic original, while he used a later revision (l.c. p. 927).
-   _Millot ha-Higgayon_, a treatise on logic (Venice, 1552, with two anonymous commentaries). No complete manuscript of the Arabic original is known. The terminology used by Moses ibn Tibbon has been adopted throughout Hebrew philosophical literature (l.c. p. 434). This is among collected works of Maimonides held by the National Library of Israel, and images of the manuscript are online.[1]
-   _Ha-Ma'amar ha-Nikbad_, a treatise on poisons, also called _Ha-Ma'amar be-Teri'aḳ_ (extant in several manuscripts; see Steinschneider, “Cat. Bodl.” col. 1919, iv.; idem, “Hebr. Uebers.” p. 764).
-   Commentary on Hippocrates' “Aphorisms” (1257 or 1267: l.c. p. 769, comp. p. 659).

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I wanted to make this set as accurate as possible, so every little detail was important to me. The overall dimensions of this layout measure just a little over 17”x19”. In other words, this is no small-scale set, which gave me much more freedom to add the small details and make it as authentic as I could, within reasonable measures. The total piece count comes in at just under 2,500 pieces (the exact number will come in a later update). Another great feature of this set is found within the structure itself. I designed it with the ability to split apart into 3 sections (see photos above). This makes transporting the set much easier, as well as getting those clean, close-up shots with a larger camera. Although the set is geared more towards adults/young adults, playability was definitely kept in mind as well. The bottom of this set is reinforced to ensure great structure, and the modular aspect of it makes playability much more inviting.

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