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Creepypastas are horror-related legends or images that have been copied and pasted around the Internet.[1][2][3] These Internet entries are often brief, user-generated, paranormal stories intended to scare readers.[4][5] Below is a partial list of creepypastas.

Creepypastas

[Slenderman, one of the most popular creepypastas]

Slender Man

Slender Man is a thin, tall humanoid with no distinguishable facial features, who wears a trademark black suit. The character originated in a 2009 SomethingAwful Photoshop competition, before later being featured as a main antagonist in the _Marble Hornets_ alternate reality game. According to most stories, he targets children. The legend also caused a controversy with the Slender Man stabbing in 2014.

Abandoned by Disney

_Abandoned by Disney_ is a creepypasta about a man exploring an abandoned Disney resort, named _Mowgli's Palace_.[6] The man finds a room marked “CHARACTER PREP 1” in which the mascots seem to be alive.[7]

Jeff the Killer

[An image of Jeff the Killer] _Jeff the Killer_ is a story accompanied by an image of the title character. In the story, a teenager named Jeff is attacked by a group of bullies. The fight ends with Jeff being doused with alcohol and set on fire. After being discharged and having his bandages removed, Jeff becomes insane; carving his own face in order to leave a smile-shaped scar, burning off his eyelids, and killing his family.[8] He becomes a serial killer who sneaks into houses at night and whispers “go to sleep” to his victims before killing them.[9][10] The story quickly became one of the most popular creepypastas and would inspire many other stories, including _Jane the Killer_.[11]

The character of Jeff was originally created by DeviantArt user Sesseur. The story above wasn't made by Sesseur himself, but rather “a fan of his earlier work.” A 2013 article asserted that the original image of Jeff the Killer was an extensively edited picture of a girl who committed suicide in the fall of 2008.[12] However, in 2018, after extensive research on 4chan's /x/ board, this rumor was debunked; the original image came from Japanese website pya.cc from September and November 2005. The image of “Katy Robinson” was also found to be a hoax; it was taken from a girl on the Christian website _TrueChristian.com_.

Ted the Caver

“Ted the Caver” began as an Angelfire website in early 2001 that documented the adventures of a man and his friends as they explored a local cave. The story is in the format of a series of blog posts. As the explorers move further into the cave, strange hieroglyphs and winds are encountered. In a final blog post, Ted writes that he and his companions will be bringing a gun into the cave after experiencing a series of nightmares and hallucinations. The blog has not been updated since the final post.[13] In 2013, an independent film adaptation of the story was released, called _Living Dark: the Story of Ted the Caver_.[14]

_Penpal_

_Penpal_ is a six-part creepypasta novel by Dathan Auerbach. The original stories were published on reddit, and were collected as a self-published paperback in 2012.[15]

Smile Dog

_Main article: Smile.jpg_
“Smile Dog” (also known as “Smile.jpg”) is a story about a cursed image file. The image is a Polaroid photograph of a dog-like creature (ostensibly a Siberian Husky) that appears to be smiling, showing human-like teeth. Also present in the photo is an ominously gesturing hand described as “beckoning” by most viewers. The story goes that if anyone receives the photo (either by email or by regular post), they experience visions of the subject - Smile.dog - in the image any time they sleep, which orders them to send copies of the image to their friends and family members (akin to a chain letter). If it senses that its victim is showing defiance, Smile.dog will morph into increasingly horrific forms, and the victim will usually be driven to madness and eventually suicide.[16]

The Russian Sleep Experiment

“The Russian Sleep Experiment” tells of Soviet Union agents and scientists experimenting on both political prisoners and prisoners of war during World War II, in which the prisoners are kept in a sealed-off room which was filled with an experimental gas to prevent sleep. This mysterious gas turns the prisoners into violent zombie-like monsters. In the end, the commander demands a researcher to enter the room and start killing the prisoners.[17] With one of them uttering “So nearly free” before they die.

1999

1999 was a creepypasta that started as a blog by Camden Lamont which was updated in real time.[18] It tells the story of a Canadian man named Elliot, who is investigating a mysterious public access channel called Caledon Local 21. The mascot of the channel is “Mr. Bear”, star of the series “Mr. Bear's Cellar”. Elliot remembers writing to Mr. Bear when he was younger, and during the investigation, he finds a police station with several Mr. Bear tapes, including an episode where Mr. Bear murders several children. In one of the last updates, Camden says he was contacted by an email address that supposedly belongs to Mr. Bear. The blog ends on a cliffhanger after Camden mentions the email address.[19][20]

A few years after the story started spreading around the internet, plagiarism accusations were thrown in Camden Lamont's way after a version of the story was published to Fandom's _Creepypasta Wiki_. In this version, several accounts of a series on Caledon Local 21 named _Paint With the Soul_ closely resemble several videos uploaded to YouTube as part of the web series _AlanTutorial_. This version was later removed from FANDOM sites by a DMCA from Camden Lamont himself, who released a statement that he was unaware the story had been posted and continuously updated for several years, all without his consent.

The Ayuwoki

“The Ayuwoki” began as a YouTube video created in 2009 by fiction writer Thomas Rengstorff, to promote an animatronic robot with a mask resembling a distorted likeness of the late Michael Jackson. In early 2019 it morphed into a meme, a challenge and an urban legend which also spawned a video game; it caused several authorities to calm any fears regarding the meme's influence.[21] The Ayuwoki gets its name from a Spanish misspelling of the lyrics “Annie, are you okay?” from the song “Smooth Criminal”.

The Backrooms

The Backrooms is a short passage originally posted to 4chan's /x/ board in 2019 as a caption to a photograph of a hallway with yellow carpets and wallpaper. The story purports that by “noclipping out of bounds in real life,” one may enter a realm known as the Backrooms, an empty wasteland of corridors and rooms with nothing but “the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in,”[22] as well as malevolent entities that hunt the traveller across three separate areas of the Backrooms, “Levels 0 through 2.” The location in the original photograph which spawned the Backrooms story is unidentified as of 2020.[23]

Local 58

[Local 58] Local 58 is a YouTube web series created by Kris Straub revolving around a news channel which is being constantly hijacked.[24] The web series is notable for its effects to make it look like an actual television. Each episode revolves around a different scenario in which the news channel is being hijacked. For example, “Contingency”[25] shows a hijacking where a foreign country had captured America and the broadcast tells the viewers to commit suicide via gunshot. The broadcast then concludes that “the 51st state is not a place”, before the broadcast abruptly changes to a message apologising for the 'hoax' that had been played on-air. Another entry in the series, “Weather Service”, details through Emergency Alert System messages a seemingly-apocalyptic alien event involving the Moon or a force based on it 'infecting' those who gaze at the satellite. The video culminates in a person attempting to implore the audience not to look at the Moon, only to become 'infected' themselves after fighting with an entity instructing the audience to do the opposite, the final shot being that of the 'infected' human turning the camera feed to the full Moon while a large number of people can be heard screaming in terror in the background.

SCP-173

Originating from the /x/ board of 4chan, SCP-173 is a character from a Wikidot site called the SCP Foundation.[26]

According to the current article of the anomaly on the website, SCP-173 is a statue constructed from concrete, rebar, and Krylon spray paint. When a direct line of sight is broken with SCP-173, the object comes to life and will attack by snapping the neck or strangling the victim.

Siren Head

[Siren Head] Siren Head is a fictional cryptid created by Canadian artist Trevor Henderson.[27][28] It is an enormous, emaciated being with a pair of sirens where a head would normally go, which are capable of emitting various noises both natural and man-made, including sirens, radio broadcasts, white noise, and human voices. An ambush predator, it always hides in plain sight and sometimes mimics the voices of its past victims to lure any potential prey closer. The creature is one of many monsters in Henderson's found-footage[29] style drawings, and has been the subject of multiple video games, the most popular being a short horror game independently developed by Modus Interactive with the permission of Henderson.[30] The game was originally created in 2018 for a PlayStation-themed Game Jam, and gained an increase in popularity in 2020 after being showcased by various big gaming YouTubers and streamers, including PewDiePie, Markiplier, and Jacksepticeye.[31][32][33] Siren Head was also included in a popular _Fallout 4_ mod, called _Whispering Hills_.[34]

Many YouTubers have explored Siren Head in videos (to varying effect), leading several people to be confused as to whether Siren Head exists or not.

The Expressionless

According to this legend, in June 1972 an expressionless woman appeared at Cedars Sinai hospital, while she had a cat in her jaws. After a while, she threw the cat and fell to the ground. The doctors tried to sedate her, but she rebelled and killed the doctors with her teeth which were actually sharp thorns. The only doctor who survived the accident nicknamed her “The Expressionless”.

Despite this, the story is fake, as no such event has ever happened and the image accompanying the story is actually a wax dummy once used by doctor students for tests in hospitals.[35]

The Rake

The Rake is a strange humanoid creature whose sightings have been reported on four different continents, with the earliest known account being a mariner's log in 1691. Named for its massive, incredibly sharp claws, the Rake lacerates its victims in their sleep, and sometimes whispers to them in a frightening voice. Those fortunate enough to survive a sighting of the Rake suffer from the traumatizing thoughts of its appearance and behavior.[36]

The Rake has been list as one of the most famous Creepypasta monsters.[37] In 2018, a film based on the Rake was released on TubiTV and Amazon Prime.[38] The film was poorly received by critics.[39]

Lost Episodes

Lost episode creepypastas describe supposed television episodes, typically kids’ shows, that were either never aired or removed from syndication due to their violent and grotesque content.[40] These supposedly lost episodes often focus on suicide or imply the viewer will suffer great harm.[41] Some lost episode creepypastas focus on local public access shows rather than nationally syndicated shows.[42]

Candle Cove

“Candle Cove” is a story by Kris Straub written in the format of an online forum thread in which people reminisce about a half-remembered children's television series from the 1970s involving a young girl - the series' protagonist - going on adventures with a cast of pirates, represented through puberty. The posters share memories of the creepy puppets from the series, and discuss nightmares that resulted from watching certain episodes (such as those involving a villain called the Skin-Taker, and one that had no dialogue other than screaming). One poster then asks their mother about the series, and is told that the mother just used to tune the television to static, which the child would watch for thirty minutes.

Syfy announced a television drama based on the story in 2015, adapted by Max Landis.[43] The story makes up the first season of _Channel Zero_, which premiered on October 11, 2016.[44]

SpongeBob Bootleg

The SpongeBob Bootleg Episode was a story originally written by user Snobbery on Geoshea's Lost Episode Wiki. The only surviving evidence of this bootleg tape, found by five teenagers (two have committed suicide and one is reported missing) dumpster-diving near an abandoned mental facility, is an edited image from the SpongeBob SquarePants episode, “Dumped.” The image consists of a dimly-lit background of SpongeBob's living room and a mouthless SpongeBob with bloodshot eyes. Many images of this are GIFs of SpongeBob blinking.[45]

Suicidemouse.avi

“Suicidemouse.avi” is a nine-minute Mickey Mouse cartoon uploaded to YouTube in 2009, with the cartoon posing as being made during the 1930's a banned 1930s cartoon.[46] depicts Mickey walking down a street with a dull, almost depressed look on his face. All the while, the sound of a piano being played poorly can be heard in the background. As the video progresses, screams and cries are heard in the background, the buildings become more dilapidated, and Mickey turns his face to the audience and begins sneering, before reverting to an image of Mickey's head, similarly to the ending of classical Mickey Mouse cartoons around the time for approximately 30 seconds, while what sounds like a broken music box plays in the background. The remaining 30 seconds is supposedly unknown to the public, though it is suggested that whatever took place during those last 30 seconds was so mentally traumatic, that it resulted in the employee who first screened the episode committing Nightmarish suicide sequencemoments after watching it and uttering the phrase “Real suffering is not known”.[47]

Dead Bart (7g06)

“Dead Bart” is a story by writer K.I. Simpson. It features the Simpson family going on a plane trip together, but while being his usual, mischievous self, Bart ends up breaking a window on the plane and getting sucked out, falling to his death. After an apparently very realistic view of his corpse, the show's second act features a surreal take on the Simpson family's grief. Act three opens with a title card saying one year has passed. Homer, Marge, and Lisa are skeletally thin, and still sitting at the table. There is no sign of Maggie or the pets. They decide to visit Bart's grave. Springfield is completely deserted, and as they walk to the cemetery the houses become more and more decrepit. Emotionally abandoned, they arrive at Bart's grave where Bart's body is simply lying in front of his tombstone, appearing similarly to the corpse in act one. The family starts crying again, but eventually they stop and blankly stare at Bart's body. Near the end, the camera starts to zoom into Homer's face and according to summaries, Homer also tells a joke during this part. The episode ends with a zoom-out of the cemetery, featuring the names of every single Simpsons guest star on the tombstones, with the ones that have not died yet all having the same death date.[48]

Squidward's Suicide (Red Mist)

The full story is told from the perspective of a person who interned at Nickelodeon Studios during 2005 as an animation student. The student and some other coworkers received a tape to edit titled “Squidward’s Suicide” for the series _SpongeBob SquarePants_. The staff initially assumed it was just an office prank. In the firsthand account, the video consists of Squidward preparing for a concert. After Squidward finishes playing at the concert, the crowd jeers at Squidward. The next shows Squidward forlornly sitting on a bed, while strange and upsetting noises play and become louder in the background. The scene is spliced with quick flashes of murdered children, each time the noises getting louder when cutting back to Squidward — now bearing red 'hyper realistic' eyes. Eventually, Squidward shoots himself after a detached, deep voice commands it, and the video ends.[49]

The circulated image of red-eyed Squidward associated with this creepypasta was referenced in the series and included in the original airing of the season 12 episode “SpongeBob in RandomLand”. According to Vincent Waller, the purpose of the reference was to make fun of “try hard edgy fanfiction”, and he has referred to “Squidward's Suicide” as a “ridiculous fanfiction”. He further clarified that it was only intended as a reference and that the “Red Mist Squidward” character is “FAR from canon”.[50] The scene was later replaced with baby Squidward filling his diaper, due to a Standards and Practices issue.

Fanfictions

While the following stories do not fit the typical definition of creepypastas - often being written from an in-universe perspective, they are sometimes associated with the genre:

Cupcakes

Originally posted to the /co/ board of 4chan by Drecker Jones, under the pen name “Sergeant Sprinkles”,[51] CUPCAKES is a fanfiction based on _My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic_. In this story, Rainbow Dash visits Pinkie Pie after getting invited by her to the bakery. Rainbow Dash was told she'd be making cupcakes with Pinkie Pie, however, Pinkie Pie knocks her out with a drink. Rainbow Dash is taken to a dark room full of severed pony heads. Pinkie Pie states that she will be making cupcakes out of Rainbow Dash. The story describes the ways Pinkie Pie mutilates Rainbow Dash to death. The story ends with Apple Bloom joining Pinkie Pie, who is now making cupcakes out of Diamond Tiara.[52]

Rainbow Factory

Created by internet user Aurora Dawn, “Rainbow Factory” is a fanfiction of _My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic_ that tells the story of two Pegasai, Scootaloo, and Orion, two residents of Cloudsdale, who fail a flight test due to trying to help another Pegasus who broke their wing while flying, being transferred to a large factory that is owned by Rainbow Dash. After being locked in a large room with several others, Rainbow Dash reveals how rainbows, and therefore weather is made in Equestria, through the use of mutilated, live Pegasai being put through a machine that converts their corpses into individual colors (known as Strata), which are then mixed together to make rainbows. After attempting to retaliate against Rainbow Dash and the cruelty in the factory, Orion is chained up to the machine and has his limbs dislocated and his ribs shattered, before being tossed in. Scootaloo attempts to escape from a now-maniacal and insane Rainbow Dash, but it is proven fruitless, as she is captured by guards and attached to the machine, where she utters her last words to Rainbow Dash “You have beautiful eyes,” before it is implied that she is also murdered by the machine. There is a sequel to this centered around a worker at the factory who eventually has had enough and tries to start a rebellion, but is defeated and gets fed to the machine.

Gamepastas

These creepypasta focus on video games containing grotesque or violent content; this content may spill over into the real world and cause the player to harm themselves or others.[53] Many video game creepypastas involve malevolent entities such as ghosts or artificial intelligence.[54]

BEN Drowned

Created by Internet user Alex Hall (a.k.a. “Jadusable”), _Ben Drowned_ tells a story of a college student only identified as Jadusable who buys a used copy of the video game _The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask_ from an elderly man at a yard sale. Jadusable finds that the cartridge is haunted by the ghost of a boy named Ben, who drowned, as well as an entity that seems to have taken his name only identified as BEN, and an enigmatic force known as the Father. After performing the Fourth Day Glitch, Jadusable encounters disturbing glitches and ominous messages such as “You shouldn't have done that ...” and “You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?”, and begins to encounter Ben in the game, who takes the form of the Elegy of Emptiness statue. The story would later spiral into an Alternate Reality Game with the introduction of an in-universe website belonging to the Moon Children, a mysterious cult. After an 8 year long hiatus, the story returned in 2020, once again in the Alternate Reality Game format, for it's final arc, dubbed “Awakening”, which featured adjacent plotlines about a man calling himself Jadus recounting his experiences during a societal collapse due to a virus known as H.E.R.O.E.S, people waking up in a mysterious hotel run by a man named Abel, and a return to the haunted Majora's Mask cartridge.[55]

Lavender Town Syndrome

This legend purports that, shortly after the original Japanese release of the video games _Pokémon Red_ and _Green_ in 1996, there was an increase in the death rate amongst children aged 10–15. Children who had played the games reportedly screamed in terror at the sight of either of the games inserted into the Game Boy handheld console, and exhibited other erratic behavior, before committing suicide through methods such as hanging, jumping from heights, and creatively severe self-mutilation.[56] Supposedly, the suicides were connected to the eerie background music played in the fictional location of Lavender Town in the games. In the game's canon, Lavender Town is the site of the haunted Pokémon Tower, where numerous graves of Pokémon can be found.[57]

The legend alleges that children, besides being the primary players of the games, are more susceptible to the effects of the Lavender Town music, because it supposedly incorporates binaural beats and a high-pitched tone that adults cannot hear.[58] It has been speculated that the legend was inspired by an actual event in Japan in 1997 in which hundreds of television viewers experienced seizures due to a scene with flickering images in an episode of the _Pokémon_ anime, titled “Dennō Senshi Porygon”.[59][60]

NES Godzilla Creepypasta

“NES Godzilla Creepypasta” is a story written by Internet user Cosbydaf. It relates the tale of a character named Zach who plays an unusual copy of the Nintendo Entertainment System game _Godzilla: Monster of Monsters!_. As Zach progresses through the game, simple glitches begin to turn into entirely new content and new monsters, and eventually a malevolent, supernatural being by the name of Red reveals himself. As the mystery behind the nature of Red unravels, it is revealed that the demon has closer ties to Zach than he ever could have expected. The story concludes with Zach - having defeated Red during the final battle - selling the game on eBay, unable to bring himself to keep or destroy the mysterious cartridge.[61]

A sequel to the story, dubbed _Godzilla: Replay_, is being written by the same author as the first, and five chapters have been completed so far. This story features a largely different cast of monsters, with Red's role as an antagonist replaced by a demon named Warlock and his subordinates who represent the seven cardinal sins.

The story is often praised for its new approach to the traditional video game creepypasta formula, and for its extensive use of custom-made screenshots, depicting thousands of sprites created by the story's author. A fangame based on the story is being developed;[62] a demo was released in 2017.[63]

_Toonstruck 2_

_Toonstruck 2_ is a story revolving around the sequel to the video game _Toonstruck_, which was developed but not released due to the commercial flop of the first game.[64][65] The protagonist of the story, an adventure game geek named Dave, buys a rare copy of the game from a creepy man in a black raincoat; as he plays _Toonstruck 2_, its atmosphere becomes increasingly sinister, and the game begins to change the real world around him (the original _Toonstruck_ was about a cartoon animator transported to the toon world through TV). The story alleges that _Toonstruck 2_ was based on art from the sketchbook of a mentally ill cartoon animator who murdered his boss, bought by one of Virgin Interactive's executives at a murderabilia auction, and the real reason for its cancellation was that its contents were too shocking.[66]

SVG's Christopher Gates wrote: “The incomplete storyline has proved to be fertile ground for fans, who seem more than happy to fill in the blanks… If _Toonstruck_ had been finished, maybe it would've faded away. But it wasn't, and the mystery has kept _Toonstruck_ fans engaged for over 20 years — and counting.”[67]

Sonic.exe

“Sonic.exe” is a creepypasta created by user JC-the-Hyena. The original story follows a teenager named Tom, who receives a CD from his friend Kyle and a note telling him to destroy it. Finding Kyle's warning to be a joke, Tom decides to play it, finding it to be a truly Satanic version of “Sonic the Hedgehog” (1991). [68] [69] A variation of the story states that Tom received a download link to a ROM hack of the game from an unknown user instead of a CD from his friend.[70]

When Tom presses start, he saw Sonic with black sclera with 2 red dots (one in each eye). Then, the Sonic 3 savefile select appears with spine chilling music playing. Tom chooses Tails, he is sent to a level called “Hill Act 1”. The level was just flat ground with dead animals killed in grotesque ways. At the end, Sonic is there with his eyes closed. Tails was happy to see him, little did he know that this is a demon imposter of Sonic. Tom gets taken to a level called “Hide And Seek”. Shortly after, Tom notices that Tails is breaking the fourth wall and looks very unnerved. A few moments later, Sonic.exe (the demon imposter) catches Tails and kills him. Tom is very scared and confused. Next, Tom picks Knuckles, it takes him to a level called “You Can't Run”. Knuckles is in the scrap brain zone. The sky is red and dark, just like on the charater select. The music is the music that plays after you beat Pokey in Earthbound. Later, there is a “boss battle” against Sonic.exe. The music is the Silent Hill 1 final boss theme. Knuckles tries to punch Sonic.exe, but each time, he fails. Tom keeps making Knuckles punch Sonic.exe until he kills Knuckles. Tom decides to have a nap, he regrets it. He has a nightmare were he is in Sonic.exe's world. At the end Sonic.exe catches him. After that, Tom chooses Dr. Eggman next. His level is called “...”. The level music is the piano song that played in “Hill Act 1”, only it wasn't played backwards. There were 2 staircases that Tom made Eggman desend down. When he desended down the last staircase, Sonic.exe appeared right infront of him. Rather than Eggman dying, it went to a hyper realistic image of Sonic.exe. It deeply disturbed Tom. Moments later, the image appeared again with a text saying “I AM GOD”. Shortly after, Sonic.exe lunged at the screen making Tom scream. After that, the screen cut to black and a text that read “Ready for round 2 Tom?” Suddenly, Tom heard someone speak. Tom turned around to find a blood stained Sonic plushie and the story ends here.

The original story was posted for the first time on the Creepypasta Wiki in August 2011 and was removed in January 2014 due to criticisms of its poor writing when compared to other gaming creepypastas, despite it being somewhat influential.[71]

_Petscop_

[The title screen of the fictional game _Petscop_.] _Petscop_ is a web series released on YouTube which purports to be a Let's Play of a “lost and unfinished” 1997 PlayStation video game of the same name. In the game, the player character must capture strange creatures known as “pets” by solving puzzles. However, after the narrator of the series enters a code on a note attached to the copy of the game he received, he is able to enter a strange, dark, and hidden section of the game: the Newmaker Plane and the depths below it.[72] Although the puzzles continue, the game's tone shifts dramatically, and numerous references to child abuse appear; _Newmaker_ appears to refer to Candace Newmaker, who was murdered during rebirthing therapy.[73]

_Polybius_

An urban legend claims that in 1981, an arcade cabinet called Polybius caused nightmares and hallucinations in players, leading at least one person to suicide. Several people supposedly became anti-gaming activists, after playing Polybius.[74][75] One of the oldest urban legends regarding video games, Polybius has entered popular culture, and numerous fangames exist as attempts to recreate the game from numerous accounts of its nature.

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title: List of creepypastas

question: When did the character of Slender Man originate?

answer: 2009

question: Who created Siren Head?

answer: Trevor Henderson, a Canadian artist

question: What network produced a TV drama adaptation of the story of Candle Cove?

answer: Syfy

question: Where was the story of Ted the Caver first told?

answer: An Angelfire website in early 2001

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: The article lists several popular creepypastas, horror-related legends which are copied and pasted around the Internet.


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_ACACIA LINARIOIDES_ is a shrub belonging to the genus _Acacia_ and the subgenus _Juliflorae_ that is native to north Australia.

Description

The shrub typically grows to a maximum height of and has a spreading and resinous habit. It has dark grey coloured bark that has a smooth texture and glabrous angular branchlets. Like most species of _Acacia_ it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. It blooms between January and July producing golden flowers. The cylindrical flower-spikes are found singly in the axils and have a length of and are packed with golden coloured flowers. The curved and twisted seed pods that form after flowering are constricted between and raised over the seeds. The pods have a length of and a width of with longitudinally arranged seeds inside. The brown-black coloured seeds have a narrowly oblong-elliptic shape with a length of and have a closed areole.[1]

Distribution

It is endemic to the top end of the Northern Territory and on a few of the islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria where it is found in crevices and on plateaux, alongside creeks and among rocks in thin sandy sandstone based soils.[2]

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title: Acacia linarioides

question: How does the Acacia Linarioides look?

answer: Acacia Linarioides has a dark grey colored, smooth bark with glabrous angular branches. Like most Acacias, it has phyllodes rather than true leaves.

question: Where in the world does the Acacia Linarioides grow?

answer: The species is endemic to the top end of the Northern Territory and a few islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria.

question: What kind of soil or ground does the shrub prefer?

answer: It grows in crevices and on plateaux, alongside creeks, and among rocks in thin sandy sandstone-based soils.

question: How long is the blooming season for Acacia Linarioides?

answer: It's from January to July, so about six months.

question: What is the common defining feature of Acacias?

answer: Most of them don't have true leaves. They have phyllodes instead.

question: How do the flowers of the Acacia Linarioides look?

answer: Its cylindrical flower spikes are found singly in the axils packed with golden-colored flowers. The seed pods that form after flowering are constricted between and raised over the seeds.

question: Write a ~6 sentence summary.

answer: Acacia Linarioides has a dark grey colored, smooth bark with glabrous angular branches. Like most Acacias, it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. Its cylindrical flower spikes are found singly in the axils packed with golden-colored flowers. The seed pods that form after flowering are constricted between and raised over the seeds. The species is endemic to the top end of the Northern Territory and a few islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria. It grows in crevices and on plateaux, alongside creeks, and among rocks in thin sandy sandstone-based soils.


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Asian girls are the hidden victims of child grooming gangs, dipping under the radar of police or social services, according to a report released on Tuesday. Vulnerable girls and some boys are being sexually exploited by gangs of men but are being missed by the authorities because agencies are too focused on a model of grooming involving white victims, according to research from the Muslim Women's Network UK.

The report, Unheard Voices: the sexual exploitation of Asian girls and young women, suggests that Asian girls, including Muslims, are under-reporting abuse to police and authorities because they fear not being believed, or because they are threatened with bringing shame and dishonour on their families.

"I knew we would uncover cases, but I was shocked at the numbers coming forward and the horrific nature of the crimes," said Shaista Gohir, chair of the network, based in Birmingham. "What we discovered is that these sexual predators will target any girls who are vulnerable and accessible, regardless of their background, ethnicity or faith."

Over a five-month period researchers gathered evidence mainly from professionals working in in charitable organisations but also spoke to social services, police, youth work, health care, education, justice and voluntary organisations. They uncovered 35 cases where young Asians said they had been victims of abuse. The majority said they had been abused by men of the same background. For example, Afghan girls were more likely to be abused by Afghan men. "It's a worrying figure," said Gohir. "This was a small-scale, unfunded study. If we managed to collect so many case studies in a short space of time, what is the reality? It is likely to be far worse."

The majority of the girls were unwilling to speak to the authorities, and none would bring charges against their abusers, said Gohir. "Blackmail was a key factor in these girls complying and not speaking out, and the shame and honour card was used time and time again," she said.

Girls were also worried about the consequences of speaking out or being forced into a marriage. In one case, a girl named in the report as Parveen said she was groomed by her stepfather's brother and his friend from the age of 12. When she developed sexual health problems at 14, her parents forced her to undergo hymen repair surgery and forced her into a marriage. She ran away and now lives separately from them.

The majority of child-sex offenders in Britain are white men, but recent cases in Rotherham, Derby and Oxford featured groups of Asian men grooming vulnerable white girls. According to the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, in 2012 97% of identified victims were white, but the centre recognised victims were likely to be reluctant to report abuse. A spokesman said: "Stereotyping victims or offenders is inaccurate and creates unnecessary risks – this report illustrates this point clearly."

Recent reports have suggested that Sikh girls have also been targeted by mainly Muslim gangs, but Saidah Sultana, a Muslim convert who works with vulnerable girls in Birmingham, said common misconceptions about Asian girls put them more at risk. "Muslim girls aren't untouchable: people have a perception that all young Muslim girls are locked up at home," she said. "Young Muslim girls are like anyone else: if they want to go out, they can find a way out."

Sue Berelowitz, the deputy children's commissioner, said the report echoed the commissions fears that victims who did not fit the most recognised model were being missed. "One of these myths was that only white girls are victims of sexual exploitation by Asian or Muslim males as these men only abuse outside of their own community, driven by hatred and contempt for white females. This belief flies in the face of evidence that shows those who violate children are most likely to target those who are closest to them and most easily accessible," she said. She added that the children's commissioner inquiry into gangs "uncovered many ethnic minority victims and we became extremely concerned by the failure of agencies to seek out and identify these children".

The cases detailed in the 126-page report included females aged from nine to 30. They came from London, the West Midlands, Yorkshire and Lancashire. They followed patterns seen in other high-profile cases, where vulnerable girls are groomed by younger boys or older "boyfriends" who then introduced them to other men. One third of victims had suffered child sexual abuse, often familial abuse.

A close family member of one 12-year-old girl featured in the report told the Guardian that the child was groomed by boys her own age in school, before being introduced to men in flashy cars. At the age of 14, she was found in a the locked attic room of one of her abusers. Older family members in the house said her abuser was "looking after her" because she had problems at home. "She was filthy, with burns and scars all over her body – it was horrific," said the woman, who did not want to be named. She reported the abuse to police but was told they could not help because the girl would not report her abusers. She was seen not as a victim but as a "temptress" by some family members and others in the community. "She was seen as a dirty girl who had been sleeping with men - but she was just 14, she was a victim," she said.

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, the minister for faith and communities, said authorities had to be aware that child abuse came in many forms. "Certain types of abuse – under-reported, misunderstood – may be overlooked by the authorities," she said. "The case studies collected together in this report are finally shining much needed spotlight on a problem that has largely, and tragically, gone unnoticed in the past."

Nazir Afzal, head of the Crown Prosecution Service for the north-west, said group-grooming cases suggested most victims of child groomers were white, but added that "women and victims from minorities are even more reluctant to report these crimes, in part because of honour and shame issues".

The network's report was important because it highlighted that "it is the availability of victims, coupled with their vulnerability, that leads to them being targeted by these predators. Vulnerability is universal and not confined to particular races," he said.

The report also suggests that some abusers pressure their victims to tell the authorities they are at risk of forced marriage, to remove them from the family home. Salma, a young woman of Pakistani heritage in her 20s from a Northern town, told the Guardian that her sister has been targeted from the age of 20. When her family went to the police, they were dismissed When her sister wanted to leave the family home, she was helped by police. "They said we were going to put her into a forced marriage, but we were modern girls," she said.

Her sister started a relationship with a Pakistani young man at university, before her behaviour became erratic and she began to be picked up regularly by his other family members. "She would come back with bruises on her collar bone and say she couldn't remember where she had been or she didn't want to talk about it – in the toilet there would be blood discharge. When I heard about the Rochdale cases, it fell into place," she said.

The family, which was without a father figure, was unable to prevent her leaving. "She was at their beck and call. If you tried to stop her, she would fight with you."

Salma has not seen her sister for nearly two years. "I don't know what has happened to her, I don't even know if she is alive. I have lost my sister," she said. "People have to know that anyone can do this, and anyone can be a victim. [The abusers] find a weakness and they exploit it," she said. The network's researchers found that the promise of marriages, or false "Islamic marriages", was sometimes used as a controlling tool.

"In other cases, girls might be wanting to escape strict or controlling families, and when an older boy has said he wants to marry a girl, it is seen as a form of escape," said Gohir. During interviews for the report – the researchers did not speak to victims directly, but accessed their stories through third parties, and interviewed 73 people close to the victims – Gohir spoke directly to a number of young men who said secret _nikahs_ [wedding ceremonies] were used to trap girls to ensure the "link" was not broken. So-called wives were then shared between a group, said one man.

Gohir said as a member of the Muslim community, it had not been an easy decision to release the report. "We took a decision that the safety and wellbeing of these victims and potential future victims was far more important than the so-called honour of the community," she said. "There are a minority of deviant people who are commit such abhorrent crimes in every community. This research in no way suggests that all Muslim men are rapists or paedophiles. Indeed, the overwhelming majority condemn such behaviour, and Muslim men have helped and supported this research."

_Some names have been changed._

Imrana's story: 'I have no idea how many times was raped'

Imrana has been quiet for a long time. Now in her 50s and a mother of three, she says she has tried to put the childhood abuse she suffered behind her and carry on with life. But now, decades after being abused for years , including being raped by a gang, she has decided to speak anonymously to the Guardian so that other victims might come forward.

Her abuse started when she was five. Her mother's cousin, who was living in the family house, would bribe her with sweets before raping her. "How many times it happened I have no idea, but it was frequent. The memories are all there," she says.

"I have memories of going to nursery school with no underpants on after he attacked me."The man's brother also started to abuse her, Imrana says. Around the age of seven, she remembers being taken to a wood were she was repeatedly raped by a group of around six to eight men, younger than her previous abusers.

"I just took their hand and went with them," she says. "The sexual abuse was part of my life. I have the memories still. If I go into the woods or the park, they come back. Sometimes it's uncomfortable, if I'm with my children – I sometimes don't understand why I'm feeling a particular way and then I will remember."

The abuse finally stopped when Imrana's mother caught her cousin abusing her daughter. "One day he'd finished having sex with me in a store room. Mum was calling for me. He put me in a sack and was doing his belt up and mum opened the door. She basically caught him in the act," she says. She remembers him walking to the bus stop to leave. "My relationship with my mother, for the next 23 years, was very strained. The belief in the family was that I had as a child had done something to lead him on."Imrana told anyno one about the abuse she suffered, but after recent cases came to light she decided it was time to speak out, although she wants to conceal her identity to protect herself and her family.

"These two men abused me and then introduced me to another group. That's child abuse, but there is also a link to gangs," she says. "I felt it was important [to speak out] because I've come across other cases of women sexually abused in the family and then abused by total strangers. For me, this happened more than 45 years ago and I know that it is still happening in our communities, but no one is talking about it and services are not picking it up. I just felt it was important to highlight it."

Imrana also wanted to highlight that abuse does not happen to only one type of girl or only in cities.

_Imrana's name has been changed._

question: Summarize the main news event.

answer: According to research from the Muslim Women's Network UK, Asian girls are under-reporting sexual abuse to police and authorities because they fear repercussions from their communities and because they fear that they won't be believed. Over a five-month period, researchers gathered evidence from charitable organizations, social services, police, youth work, health care, education, justice and voluntary organizations. They found 35 cases where young Asian said they had been victims of abuse by men of the same background as them. The majority of the girls were unwilling to speak to authorities and none would bring charges against their abusers.


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_THE AMERICAN PROSPECT_ is a daily online and quarterly print American political and public policy magazine dedicated to American liberalism and progressivism. Based in Washington, D.C., _The American Prospect_ says it aims “to advance liberal and progressive goals through reporting, analysis, and debate about today's realities and tomorrow's possibilities.”[1]

History

The magazine was founded in 1990 (and initially called _The Liberal Prospect_) by Robert Kuttner, Robert Reich, and Paul Starr as a response to the perceived ascendancy of conservatism in the 1980s. Kuttner and Starr currently serve as Co-Editors. David Dayen serves as Executive Editor. Ellen J. Meany serves as Publisher.[2]

_The American Prospect_ runs a writing fellows program that offers young journalists the opportunity to spend two years at the magazine, contributing online and print content. Past fellows have included Matt Yglesias,[3] Ezra Klein,[4] Chris Mooney, Joshua Micah Marshall, Dana Goldstein, Nicholas Confessore, and Kate Sheppard. Staff writers and contributors include Gabriel Arana, Steve Erickson, Adele Stan, Paul Waldman, EJ Dionne, and Harold Meyerson.

In March 2010, _The American Prospect_ entered into an affiliation with Demos, a public policy research and advocacy center based in New York City. The official affiliation ended in 2012. That year, the magazine nearly folded due to financial struggles, but it was able to raise enough money to stay afloat.[5] In 2014, the magazine re-purposed itself as a “quarterly journal of ideas.” Kit Rachlis announced he was leaving the editorship of the magazine, senior writer Monica Potts and editor Bob Moser were laid off, while several other editorial staffers left the publication.[6] New staff were hired and the organization built back up. In its early years, the Prospect also undertook a cutting-edge project to connect progressive organizations through its Moving Ideas Network (www.movingideas.org), originally called the Electronic Policy Network, where staff wrote policy statements, advocacy actions, and reports from the late 1990s through 2006 when the project was “adopted” by Care2.[7] The network was absorbed into Care2's Frogloop and general operations.[8]

In 2010, _The American Prospect_ was the recipient of _Utne Reader_ magazine's Utne Independent Press Award for Political Coverage.[9]

Format

Originally _The American Prospect_ published quarterly, then bimonthly. In 2000, thanks to a grant from the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy, it became biweekly.[10] Financial and logistical difficulties ensued, and the magazine moved to a 10-issue-per-year format in spring 2003 and a bimonthly format in summer 2012. The online version of the magazine includes an active blog called TAPPED (derived from TAP, the acronym of _The American Prospect_), as well as a blog by Adam Serwer. Facing financial issues, the magazine reduced its bi-monthly publication schedule to a quarterly publication schedule in 2014.[11]

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-   Harold Meyerson
-   Jonathan Chait
-   Jonathan Cohn
-   Nicholas Confessore
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-   Arlie Hochschild
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-   Chris Mooney
-   Jedediah Purdy
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question: Summarize the history of the paper.

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This story is from a recent car crash I was a part of and the events leading up to it.

**Car crash from last night, as I remember it.**

Two thirty-two ounce Jeremiah Reds and we still looked sharper than a butcher's knife. It takes a real man to order a bottle of red, and even more so to take them as effortlessly as we did. It was quite a sight for the regular crowd. Three manly men enjoying their drink and catching up on some sports down at the, always welcoming, BJ's brew house.

As it turns out, and although it may seem like it, not everything always goes our way. The home team lost a crucial playoff game, beers were running low, and I hadn't been offered sex all night. This combination of unfortunate mishaps started giving me an odd feeling. I needed to shake off this funk, but I was out of smokes. My good friend Mauri sensed my discomfort, that or my childish fidgeting from craving a smoke. Whatever the case, it worked. He spotted a friendly, slanted eyed, sports fan that headed out for an opium break. Lucky for us he happened to smoke regular stuff as well. Our type of stuff. Some quick witted banter later and we were three cigarettes richer. We took care of the first two immediately.

Mauri put away our third friend for a later puff. Normally he'll do it with such elegance, I swoon. This time though, it strangely grazed his slightly large, but still handsome, earlobe. What normally wouldn't affect a frail or even a wet cigarette, this time destroyed our last piece of lung candy. Things were happening. Bad vibes were definitely out tonight. I decided at this point, it was up to me to keep bad shit from happening. I didn't mention any of these strange occurrences to Mauri or Mikey, I had to keep my composure. Lead by example and example the lead. It works.

It was getting late and it began to feel as if we had overstayed our welcome, that or this one fat headed bartender felt threatened. He offered free beer in exchange for our absence. I'm no cheap man whore, but no man in their right mind would turn down free beer. As a matter of fact no man in any state of mind would. No man.

We left to resume our night. The feelings that manifested at the bar had followed to the parking lot. Maybe it just wasn't my night, maybe I was being a pussy, maybe fuck you reader, but I didn't even put up a fight for the front seat.

"Shotgun!" Mauri called enthusiastically.

I let out a quiet sigh, he rushed to the front. I'd usually sneak my way to passenger, tonight shotgun didn't appeal to me. I figured I should stop worrying and just enjoy my night. Mikey decided to play the classic sounds of our favorite trio, the Beastie Boys. With our last set of Reds in our hand and our heads boppin' he began to lay out the plan for the night.

"We're gonna head over to jack in the box to try that new jalapeno burger..." He said with such anticipation, and reassurance I had never heard from him. He was leading by example.

Just when I was starting to feel right for the night, my gut instinct struck again. I was nice and buzzed but these goddamn spidey senses were tingling. Before I knew it, everything slowed down. My senses were amplified. I had a moment of clarity in my drunken stupor. I looked around to see if the guys felt this moment of divine lucidity, but all I could make out was Mikey going on with the plans and Mauri trying to rap to the B-boys. I closed my eyes. This was it. Whatever bad energy that was following us, it was here and it was about to blow. It was up to me to try to decipher where it was going to come from. I presses my eyelids shut. And I knew.

"Holy shit!" Mauri yelled in the front.

I quickly fastened my seat belt and braced myself for impact. Some dumb bitch had made the roughest turn any of us had seen. Although alert Mikey reacted as fast as he cums, it wasn't fast enough for a clean escape. Mauri's glasses flew, Mikey's pride stung, and I had let them down. I should've said something. But men don't think in 'should'ves', we think for the moment and at that moment Mauri and I knew we had to dispose of any incriminating substance. We played the part.

"What the fuck?!" Mauri exclaimed as he stepped out.

"Ahh mah shoulder!" I played along.

"Are you guys ok?" A worried voice shouted from the other car. We had them.

I quickly grabbed my bottle of Red and made my way to some stairway away from the crash. Mauri followed, Mikey worked on damage control. Mauri and I did what we do best and chugged those big Reds until their last drop. No man wastes a free beer and we example by lead. I was clearly drunk after this. We found our way back to the mess. Scolded the girl on her driving skills, but there's only so much you can do for a woman driver, and I was glad the bad vibes ended with something so trivial as a car crash. We waited, smoked, took tourist pictures of the sight and decided it was as good moment as any to call it a night.

question: What does the story say about the car crash?

answer: The narrator and his friends Mauri and Mikey were drunk. They left the bar and enter the car. Mike was driving. Suddenly, a woman in another car made a rough turn, and they hit her car as Mike could not avoid her. It seems that no one was hurt.

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Marcus Hetfield, August 18th, 2123
About thirteen and a half miles out of Kepler 62-F’s atmosphere, there we are; the tiny dot that is our reasonably-sized AGF, or Atmosphere Guard Flier for short. We usually  do routine checks and ask standard questions before we let cargo transporters and passenger ships enter 62-F's air space. We’re out here only armed with a basic cannon or two on the ship (based on the ship’s model)  along with simple firearms in the armory. There's only one other AGF guarding 62-F since this planet is not the highest of priorities, so we're practically alone out here save for a few other men. To be honest, we’re the crappy first line of defense; we’re screwed out here if we get attacked since we’re just a guard ship. Yeah, we’re in the Kepler Defense Squadron, but we’re kind of like Military Police and not true soldiers, since all we do is sit on our butts out in space waiting for a civillian craft to show up. You know, the measly guards at the front gate? Yeah, that’s us; cannon fodder, but it pays well.

. . .

Shep, the crew's technician and radar man, noticed a strange occurrence within their vicinity. “Hey Marcus, come check this out; I’m picking up a civilian-model Flier about twenty clicks from our current location, and it’s just drifting out there. I’ll try to establish contact with the pilot to see if they need any assistance. In the meantime, get the others ready for possible boarding if need be.”
Ten minutes passed.

“What the hell?!” exclaimed Shep. Marcus was in earshot. “What’s wrong?” Pointing at his headset with a flabbergasted look on his face, Shep responded with a plain “Nothing.” Smiling, Marcus responded, “Then why are you pissed at nothing? Just kidding, seriously, what’s wrong?”

“I’m getting jack on the line. Zip, zero, nada, bupcus. They’re either not home, or they’re all dead.”

“Jesus. Well, we're prepped and ready for boarding... protocol says that if we don't hear contact within the first ten, and we don't have any immediate backup, then we wait fifty more and establish contact with the other Flier in the meantime. Go ahead and call 'em up to tell them about our situation... but man, I don't feel good about this at all... could the passengers on board that ship truly be dead?”

Fifty minutes passed.

Shep had a positive look on his face. “Well, looks like you guys gotta board it. Hey, look at it this way; you all have great scores after repeated use of the simulators, there's no need to worry... right?” Drake, the crew's intimidating weapons specialist, saw right through Shep. “You're just happy that you don't have risk your life investigating a possibly hostile Flier. You're a valuable member to our team Shep, but you can be a true scumbag sometimes, and it's just shameful to be in the same Flier with a disgrace like yourself.” Shep muttered something under his breath as he piloted the team’s AGF to the civilian craft.
The AI guide over the speaker system stated that the connection between the two ships was complete and ready for transition boarding. “Proceed with caution. Ensure all safety procedures are followed when moving between ships. The Kepler Defense Squadron is not responsible for any deaths during the boarding process. All employees must-“ Shep deactivated the blaring program. “The bloody thing’s useless and annoying, you guys know what to do. Get in, assess the situation, shoot some things if you need to, and get out. According to scans, the craft has a full supply of oxygen, air pressure completely stable. We are go.”
Marcus then put on his gas mask. “It’s just a normal Flier, you’re not gonna need that,” said Roger, the team’s medic and doctor. “It’s highly unlikely that we’ll encounter a biohazard of some sort.”
“Roger, you know me by now, I’m paranoid when it comes to disease no matter what the situation. Anyway, I’ll lead the boarding line with Drake behind me, followed by yourself.”

Civilian Model Flier, ten minutes later.

Drake had a frustrated look on his face. “You’ve gotta be kidding me; after searching every single room in this ship, no one turns up? Not a single body, piece of identification, or anything. I was looking forward to some action, but really? What a waste of time.” Roger’s face looked as if he had seen a ghost; a blank thousand yard stare.  His eyes: bloodshot, twitching. Tears mixed together with beads of sweat streamed down his face like a raging flood. “Roger... you alright?” asked Marcus through the gas mask. He could not comprehend the rapidly degrading situation, seeing that nothing could have spurred the team's medic to fall to such a condition.

Trembling, Roger raised his G-29 pulse rifle. “WHY?! WHY DID YOU HAVE TO MURDER HIM IN COLD BLOOD?!! YOU'RE GONNA PAY FOR MY FATHER'S DEATH! BURN IN HELL!!” Drake was frozen solid, seeing how his former comrade-turned-monster was now pointing a death sentence at him. He fired in Drake's direction, the three shot burst hitting him in the chest, blood splattering on the walls of the ship. Drake's now lifeless body fell to the floor with a metallic thud. “Oh... oh God... Sam... who did this to you, the rebels?” Roger began to stroke his dead friend's hair, speaking softly to him.

“Hush little baby, don't say a word, mama's gonna buy you a mockingbird.” He turned towards Marcus. “Honey, don't you think he's so adorable when he's asleep?... aww, would you look at that!” Roger ran his fingers through the thick pool of blood. “He wet himself. We're gonna have to change the baby together for the first time! I gotta find the camera... now Joseph, would you be a dear and get the powder for me? Thanks babe.” Marcus was terrified, shaken to the core. Never had he seen such an atrocity unfold before his eyes. While the monster in front of him was taking off Drake's gear, he raised the G-29 and fired a burst into Roger's head, killing him insantly.

. . .

Marcus walked back into the crew's AGF, closed the boarding connection, and removed his gas mask. “Shep, send the footage from my helmet cam to Tac-Com immediately and call for High Exec; we lost Roger and Drake...”

“Who's Shep?”

title: [SF/HR] High school assignment: a gothic short story set in space

question: Why is the civilian ship empty?

answer: It appears that there is something on the civilian ship that is causing humans to hallucinate and commit homicidal actions. It is possible that since there are no corpses, nor signs of struggle or combat, the previous crew became aware of the issue and the ship was abandoned. Alternatively, the ship has never had a crew to begin with and is meant to serve as a carrier for what causes the hallucinations.


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A treasure hunter has made an astonishing 'unexplained' discovery deep beneath the Bermuda Triangle that he believes could provide the first evidence of an extra-terrestrial visit to earth hundreds of years ago.

Explorer Darrell Miklos has been using secret maps created by his close friend and famed NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper to find shipwrecks in the Caribbean.

His amazing discoveries have featured over two seasons of hit Discovery Channel docuseries Cooper's Treasure.

But in recent months his team stumbled on something that he believes will shock the world.

Using maps put together in the 1960s by Cooper to identify more than 100 magnetic 'anomalies' in the Caribbean, Miklos dived at an undisclosed location near the Bahamas to investigate what he thought could be an ancient shipwreck.

Darrell Miklos and his team discovered the USO (unidentified submerged object) in the Bermuda Triangle close to the Bahamas. He spotted the large obtrusions while exploring the area in a submersible looking for shipwrecks. 'I was trying to identify shipwreck material based on one of the anomaly readings on Gordon's charts when I noticed something that stuck out, that shocked me,' said Miklos in an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com

Horizontal cylinder structures jut out from this large dome feature at the center of the site. Geophysicists on the team report that the coral covering these structures appears to be more than 5000 years old.

A close up of one of the horizontal structures which has scientists baffled. Because of the extreme currents at the location it's almost impossible for coral to grow at all, let alone into a anything this large

Here, what he describes as the right jutting section of the USO.  According to scientists on Darrell's team, no coral anywhere in the world could grow in this formation naturally, there would have to be an underlying structure to support that type of growth

Miklos, 55, described what he found while filming episode seven of Cooper's Treasure and tells how he and his team want to bring the 'alien spaceship' to the surface 'It was a formation unlike anything I've ever seen related to shipwreck material, it was too big for that. 'It was also something that was completely different from anything that I've seen that was made by nature'

These horizontal structures are massive, each measures as much as 300 feet straight out, the length of a US football field. The explorer also found other bizarre and unexplained formations around the main object, all of which are covered in thick coral which he believes are hundreds if not thousands of years old

These mystery shapes score the top of the massive central mound. Each of these lines is the width of a family home

Here you can see the gigantic mound rising above the ring of structures that stick out from the center. The entire site's diameter is some 600 feet - the length of two football fields

But instead the veteran treasure hunter found a bizarre structure like nothing he's ever seen.

The huge unidentified submerged object (USO) has 15, 300ft long obtrusions jutting from its side.

In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com Miklos, 55, described what he found while filming episode seven of Cooper's Treasure and tells how he and his team want to bring the 'alien spaceship' to the surface.

He recalls: 'We were doing a scene where I was sitting in a two man submersible.

'We were out in the Bahamas and we were on an English shipwreck trail, somehow related to Sir Francis Drake.

'I was trying to identify shipwreck material based on one of the anomaly readings on Gordon's charts when I noticed something that stuck out, that shocked me.

In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com Miklos, 55, described what he found while filming episode seven of Cooper's Treasure and tells how he and his team want to bring the 'alien spaceship' to the surface

'It was a formation unlike anything I've ever seen related to shipwreck material, it was too big for that.

'It was also something that was completely different from anything that I've seen that was made by nature.

'It's almost like there are five arms coming out of a steep wall cliff and each one of these is the size of a gun on a battleship. They're enormous and then there's five over here and five over there, 15 in total.

'There's identical formations in three different areas and they don't look nature made, they don't look man made, certainly nothing I've ever seen based on my experience and I have years of experience at doing this, we've identified multiple different types of shipwreck material, this doesn't match or look anything like that.'

The deepest part of the site is 300 feet below the surface, divers had to use special breathing apparatus and a state of the art submarine to access it.

The explorer also found other bizarre and unexplained formations around the main object, all of which are covered in thick coral which he believes are hundreds if not thousands of years old.

Blown away by the discovery, when back on board his ship, Miklos decided to dig further into Cooper's files to find further clues.

Significantly, the astronaut had written 'unidentified object' on the chart of the area rather than mentioning any historical shipwreck.

'I investigated some of Gordon's charts, I realized that there was something else on there that Gordon was referring to,' he said.

'Then it made sense to me why it wasn't identified as a shipwreck... he had to mean it might be something from another world.

'Gordon believed in aliens. He believed that we had visitors from other planets and he also believed that a lot of these things landed in this particular part of the world.'

The treasure hunter has made the astonishing 'unexplained' discovery deep beneath the Bermuda Triangle.  Miklos believes  it could provide the first evidence of an extra-terrestrial visit to earth hundreds of years ago.

The deepest part of the site is 300 feet below the surface, divers had to use special breathing apparatus and a state of the art submarine to access it

Gordon Cooper successfully piloted the Mercury-Atlas 9 Faith 7 Spacecraft around the Earth 22 times in 1963 paving the way for men to reach the Moon.

He was a pioneer who became the first American to sleep in space and the first to fly twice.

He was also the first American televised from space.

But as well as researching the limits of human endurance he was also charged with a secret spy mission while in orbit.

Using special 'long range detection equipment' Cooper was asked by the US government to look for 'nuclear threats' - which likely meant Russian submarines or nuclear missile sites.

But Miklos says Cooper - an avid treasure hunter - also noted the positions of Caribbean shipwrecks while he conducted this spy mission, and created a map on his return to Earth.

The shipwreck hunter claims long time friend Cooper gave him the maps - which included detailed charts and exact coordinates - after he was diagnosed with Parkinson's and then died in 2004 aged 77.

In the first season of the show Miklos and his team used Cooper's map to make a remarkable discovery in the Caribbean - a centuries-old anchor believed to be from one of Christopher Columbus’ ships.

Cooper's maps led Miklos to dozens of other significant ship wrecks across the Caribbean worth millions of dollars.

But with this latest discovery the Californian is conscious of being labeled 'crazy' by coming out with wild claims that Cooper's map might now have led him to an alien spaceship submerged under the ocean.

That's why he says he wants to remain 'neutral' until he can investigate the mysterious site further.

Miklos and TV production company AMPLE Entertainment are now hoping the Discovery Channel will commission a third season of Cooper's Treasure so they can do just that.

United States astronaut Gordon Cooper (1927-2004) pictured wearing his Mercury space suit used in early phases of the Project Gemini training program in the United States circa 1961. (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images)

Miklos said: 'I want to investigate it. I want to see what it is, because it may be nature made, just a freak of nature, but given its placement in this particular part of the Caribbean and given what Gordon has told me about visitors from another planet and the things that I've seen, I think it's definitely worthwhile investigating.'

AMPLE Entertainment founders Ari Mark and Phil Lott, who are behind Cooper's Treasure, are equally as excited.

Mark told DailyMail.com: 'In the first two seasons we didn't enter too far into Cooper's UFO interests and what he had told Darrell about what he had seen.

'I don't feel like we've even scratched the surface of what's in Cooper's files, but that's what we hope to do in a third season.

'The bottom line is that Cooper spotted anomalies and it is his maps that led Darrell to this discovery.

'Cooper was a reliable source for treasure, then based on his findings Darrell found something that does not appear to be a shipwreck or anything that anybody has ever seen.

'We want to find out exactly what it is and establish whether it ties in with Cooper's belief that we're not alone.'

During his post-NASA career, former US Air Force Cooper became well known as an outspoken believer in UFOs and claimed the government was covering up its knowledge of extra-terrestrial activity.

'I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets, which obviously are a little more technically advanced than we are here on Earth,' he told a United Nations panel in 1985.

'I feel that we need to have a top-level, coordinated program to scientifically collect and analyze data from all over the Earth concerning any type of encounter, and to determine how best to interface with these visitors in a friendly fashion.'

He added: 'For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists and astronauts. I can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us.'

Miklos said Cooper often told him stories of UFO sightings and believed a lot of the world's technological advances had been passed on to governments by messengers from alien planets.

Cooper even designed his own miniature 'UFO' based on an alien design he claimed to have seen.

Using special 'long range detection equipment' Cooper was asked by the US government to look for 'nuclear threats' - which likely meant Russian submarines or nuclear missile sites. But Miklos says Cooper - an avid treasure hunter - also noted the positions of Caribbean shipwrecks while he conducted this spy mission, and created a map on his return to Earth. The shipwreck hunter claims long time friend Cooper gave him the maps - which included detailed charts and exact coordinates

Miklos said Cooper often told him stories of UFO sightings and believed a lot of the world's technological advances had been passed on to governments by messengers from alien planets

Producers Ari Mark (top left) and Phil Lott (top right) with treasure hunter Miklos, host of Discovery Channel's 'Cooper's Treasure

But as for Cooper being a UFO 'nut job', Miklos couldn't disagree more.

He described him as a 'close friend' and 'father figure' who was of 'sane mind'.

'I can tell you one thing for sure, there was a lot of conspiracy theorists and UFO nut jobs that he wanted nothing to do with,' said Miklos.

'Just because he had actual encounters with something that he couldn't explain and other encounters to which he did have an explanation for, but he wasn't going to go and befriend all of these crazy different types of groups.

'In the early days he wasn't going to overstep the bounds of what he could reveal out of fear of getting killed (by the government) and what good would that do. So he kept a lid on it, he kept a lot of it quiet until later in his life.

'So the man I knew wasn't a whack job, he wasn't hallucinating and he wasn't making things up to gain attention, that wasn't him.

'He truly believed in what he saw and he tried to tell it in such a way to make people believe it and he knew because of his background in NASA as a rocket scientist that he was more credible than most.'

Nevertheless, Cooper was often discredited for expressing his beliefs on extra-terrestrial activity, but Miklos added: 'As serious as I'm talking here right now with a clear mind to you, that's who he was.

'He was an honest, straight forward individual who only wanted to investigate and explore the possibilities of the unknown, even if it meant risking his professional career.'

The next episode of Cooper's Treasure airs this Friday on the Discovery Channel at 9pm (PST)

question: What is the focus of the article?

answer: A treasure hunter, Darrell Miklos, has made an "unexplained" discovery beneath the Bermuda Triangle. The discovery is an unidentified submerged object that has 15, 300 foot horizontal structures jutting from it.

question: Who is Gordon Cooper?

answer: Gordon Cooper is a former NASA astronaut. He piloted the Mercury-Atlas 9 Faith 7 Spacecraft around the Earth 22 times in 1963. Cooper put together maps in the 1960s that Miklos used to find the unidentified object.


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The decision to oust Banerjee from the state committee was taken during the last day of the two-day state committee meeting of the party which concluded on Tuesday.

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Ritabrata had been under suspension for the past three months and was removed from the state committee on Tuesday.

KOLKATA: Bengal CPIM on Tuesday removed it's Rajya Sabha MP and party's youth leader Ritabrata Banerjee from the state committee following a report of the party commission which found him guilty of leaking secret information to the media and enemy camp as well as for having a lavish lifestyle.

The decision to oust Banerjee from the state committee was taken during the last day of the two-day state committee meeting of the party which concluded on Tuesday. Party's general secretary Sitaram Yechuri also attended the meeting. Ritabrata had been under suspension for the past three months and was removed from the state committee on Tuesday.

There had been complaints against the young MP for living lavishly. CPIM insiders also said that the party had received complaints against Ritabrata who had reportedly leaked party secret to the media and to the enemy camp. Following such complaints, the party had suspended him for three months and formed an inquiry commission headed by party MP Md Salim, to find out truths behind such allegations.

The three-member commission comprising Salim, party's central committee member Mridul Dey and state secretariat member Madan Ghosh had gone through the allegations against Ritabrata and submitted report to the state committee.

CPIM state secretary Surjya Kanta Mishra told reporters after the state unit meeting that the party MP was removed from the state committee following report of the party's inquiry commission. Mishra said that the MP would have to rectify himself.

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|                                   | Abdullakutty,unlike Cong.So it is |
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question: Who was removed from the state committee and why?

answer: Ritabrata Banerjee, Rajya Sabha MP and party youth leader was removed, on account of the fact that the MP leaked information to the media and opposing party, and also lived a lavish lifestyle.

question: Who made the decision to oust Banerjee?

answer: A state committee meeting made the decision, upon receiving advice from a commission comprising Party MP Salim, the party's central committee member Mridul Dey, and state secretariat member Madan Ghosh.


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[Caroline Matilda Dodson, “A Woman of the Century”] CAROLINE MATILDA DODSON (December 17, 1845 – January 9, 1898) was an American physician.

Early life and education

Caroline Matilda Dodson was born near Keosauqua, Iowa, December 17, 1845. Her father, Stiles Richard Dodson, was the son of Richard Dodson and Hannah Watson, being a descendant of Thomas and Mary Dodson, of whom the doctor's mother was also a descendant. Her mother, Mrs. Caroline Matilda (née Harrison) Dodson, was the daughter of Stephen Harrison, and Mary Dodson. Miss Dodson's father and mother were natives of Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania and married in 1836. Her mother was Mrs. C. Matilda Dodson About six weeks after marriage, they left Pennsylvania for the West and settled in Van Buren County, Iowa. Stiles R. Dodson died in 1847, leaving his widow with four daughters, the youngest less than two years of age. Her sisters were named Melvina (d. 1862), Mary, and Susan. That winter, the mother taught school in her own house. In the spring of 1848, she returned with her family to her father's house in Pennsylvania. Caroline was baptized in November, 1857, and thereafter, she was a member of the Baptist church.

Study at home under private teachers and at the district school supplemented the early lessons from the mother. At about twelve, she was sent to an academy and normal institute. She began to teach in the winter of 1861. Returning at intervals to school, she followed the profession of teaching until the fall of 1871 when she matriculated at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, and entered upon the three-year course just inaugurated. Dr. Ann Preston was then Dean. The summer of 1872, she spent in the Nurses' Training School of the Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia. The course required was completed and Dodson received a certificate of the Training School for Nurses. The summer of 1873, she spent in the same hospital as student in the wards and out practice. She received her diploma in March, 1874, and went to Ypsilanti, Michigan, for further study with Dr. Ruth A. Gerry, one of the first women to practice medicine.

Career

After a year spent in hospital and private practice with Gerry, Dodson went to Rochester, New York, and there, in connection with a practice, opened a drug store. In 1877, her mother having gone West again, Dodson started for Iowa, going by the Hudson and Great Lakes. She lost a car load of valuables in the riot at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

After her trip West, she returned to Philadelphia and worked at whatever appeared to be profitable. For a time, she depended upon per week to meet the living expenses of three in her family, but offers came, and among them, unsolicited, one from the Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity to act as superintendent of one of its districts. Dodson accepted the position, and for eight years, filled it in connection with her private practice of medicine.

National Woman's Health Association of America

As a teacher, she wrote and spoke boldly for better methods of education, and advocated broadening the opportunities for study. She saw that a general movement might help to educate the masses and to spread a knowledge of self-care. To this end, after much deliberation, a call was issued for a public meeting to be held in Association Hall, Philadelphia, July 23, 1890, and an organization was effected under the name of the National Woman's Health Association of America. The association was chartered November 1, 1890. and Dodson was elected first president. The plan of the association was broad and provided for extensive work. Its objective was to bring the medical profession into closer relation with the general public by the discussion of health topics.

Personal life

Dodson read widely on subjects concerning the movements of women, speaking and writing in their interest. In 1888, at the 19th annual convention of the Pennsylvania Woman's Suffrage Association, Dodson's missionary work was noted in laudatory terms.[1]

Dodson founded the Baptist Sisterhood in Philadelphia.[2] She died at her home in Philadelphia, January 9, 1898, of sarcoma.[3]

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title: Caroline Matilda Dodson

question: Summarize Caroline's life during the 1910s.

question: Summarize everything relating to Caroline's mother.

answer: Her mother was Mrs. Caroline Matilda Dodson, the daughter of Stephen Harrison and Mary Dodson. Her mother supplemented her lessons from private teachers with her own lessons. In 1877, her mother travelled West.

question: Summarize the various places Caroline lived.

answer: She was born near Keosauqua, Iowa. In 1848, she returned with her family to her father's house in Pennsylvania. After receiving her diploma, she went to study in Ypsilanti, Michigan. She then worked in Rochester New York before returning to Philadelphia, where she died in 1898.


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[Download 265 ringtones, alarms, and notifications from Google's Sounds 2.3]

This story was originally published 2019/10/26
5:00am PDTon Oct 26, 2019 and last updated 2020/06/20
1:55am PDTon Jun 20, 2020.

The Sounds application, which comes pre-installed on Google's Pixel devices, is stock-full of ringtones, alarms, and notification sounds for you to choose from. The app works on non-Pixel phones too, like the Galaxy S10, but not all. That's why we've decided to share with you all the sound files included in it, so you can use them on any device (including your desktops if you like that).

Without further ado, here are the zipped files you need, with the sounds divided by type and organized by collection. We're only missing some alarms and ringtones from the _Pixel Sounds_ collection, but those appear to be saved somewhere cryptic I couldn't get to.

-   Google Sounds - Notifications
-   Google Sounds - Alarms
-   Google Sounds - Ringtones (part 1)
-   Google Sounds - Ringtones (part 2)

Download these zip files on your phone, extract them, and head into _Settings -> Sounds_ to choose the ones you want. If your OEM software skin doesn't allow you to pick locally stored sounds, you may need to move the files to the Notifications folder on your phone's storage.

And if you'd like to save some time and check whether the Sounds app works on your non-Pixel, you can grab the latest version 2.3 from APK Mirror.

MORE SOUNDS

This post and the download links have been updated to include the new Pride ringtones and notifications from Sounds v2.3.

-   THANKS:
-   Nick Cipriani - the MVP who renamed and organized all these files for you

question: What is the Sounds application?

answer: The Sounds application is an application that comes pre-installed on Google Pixel devices and is stocked with ringtones, alarms, and notification sounds.

question: Does the application work on on non-Pixel phones?

answer: The application works on phones like the Galaxy S10, but not all.

question: Can you use the sounds on a desktop?

answer: Yes, you can.

question: What sounds does this app have?

answer: unclear

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: This article details how to add certain sounds to a Google Pixel device.