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👨⚕ CIOReview: "Dentacoin’s Trusted Reviews Platform has already created ripples of excitement among dentists. Gar… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1032249420581154816

2 years ago
🔁 WastedAdvantageMag: "One disrupting solution is Dentacoin Trusted Reviews, a groundbreaking blockchain-based feed… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1032220993526394880

2 years ago
🚑 SensorsMag: "Several projects are already trying to turn Blockchain’s advantages into beneficial solutions in the… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1031856740491517954

2 years ago
🚑 BlockchainAdvisorMag: "Dentacoin is shifting the paradigm from expensive “sick care” to affordable patient-centri… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1031485466225401857

2 years ago
Due to the overwhelming surge in popularity, new registrations on DentaVox are currently disabled to allow for infr… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1030085011695955968

2 years ago
🔌 BlockchainAdvisorMag: "Dentacoin, uses blockchain-based solutions to ensure seamless and secure transactions betw… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1030064056516915201

2 years ago
Our biggest fans this week: @RobMcNealy, @stevekrohn, @TopAmbassador. Thank you! via https://sumall.com/thankyou?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=publishing&utm_campaign=thank_you_tweet&utm_content=text_and_media&utm_term=d29101af4fb7a90afaf34f28 https://t.co/7BdLOTyZQW

2 years ago
😷 Following last week’s announcements of Perio Q & ETMC joining our partner network, it's time to kickstart this we… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1029337251287891969

2 years ago
📰 Bloomberg: "We have talked a few times about Dentacoin, which is one of my favorite cryptocurrencies because (1)… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1029328320809324544

2 years ago
💻 “This partnership takes the list of Dentacoin adopters to forty-two, with dozens of dental practices around the w… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1028046477522886656

2 years ago
📝 Another eventful week has passed, let's see the latest highlights! 1073 new users registered on our tools; new US… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1027912766097707008

2 years ago
📝 Global Orthodontics Market Report by BIS Research: “Furthermore, the advent of cryptocurrency, i.e., #DentaCoin i… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1027531573279764481

2 years ago
Our biggest fans this week: @Tech_Sharer, @nuonrg, @rayymat. Thank you! via https://sumall.com/thankyou?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=publishing&utm_campaign=thank_you_tweet&utm_content=text_and_media&utm_term=d29101af4fb7a90afaf34f28 https://t.co/yhfggV1JWL

2 years ago
😷 CoinPulse: "Dentacoin is the first crypto that uses a decentralized review platform and transparently rewards pat… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1026437899942875141

2 years ago
📝 Let's see the latest highlights! 2432 new users registered on our tools; 9.5 million questions answered on DentaV… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1026367539612401664

2 years ago
🔗 ManagedOutsource: "Dentacoin aims at providing good dental care at affordable rates. With this technology, all ma… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1025336192445890561

2 years ago
😷 HealthRelations: "Our experience shows that many young German dentists are very interested in Dentacoin. Manufact… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1025003488886104069

2 years ago
Our biggest fans this week: @rayymat, @nuonrg, @ShopTrendNL. Thank you! via https://sumall.com/thankyou?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=publishing&utm_campaign=thank_you_tweet&utm_content=text_and_media&utm_term=d29101af4fb7a90afaf34f28 https://t.co/RQFwvmRNbt

2 years ago
⛓ TextToCrypto: "With blockchain the quality of health care is predicted to rise, and the risks and costs are likel… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1024293464303910913

2 years ago
📊 CryptoStreet: "The healthcare blockchain industry is developing, and the emergence of numerous projects that are… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1022798918403457024

2 years ago
Our biggest fans this week: @bilinkis, @TopAmbassador, @EthereumKing. Thank you! via https://sumall.com/thankyou?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=publishing&utm_campaign=thank_you_tweet&utm_content=text_and_media&utm_term=d29101af4fb7a90afaf34f28 https://t.co/Y6NeTeecEI

2 years ago
🤕 FinAm: "The healthcare-blockchain industry is developing, and the emergence of many projects that find their crow… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1022098935488438274

2 years ago
📰 DentalAsia: "There is definitely a reason as to why blockchain and cryptocurrency are making headlines, day after… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1021711337922150402

2 years ago
📅 Quick recap: Server-side bug fixing; 1833 new users registered on our tools; Dentacoin listed on EasyRabbit and K… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1020321188659322882

2 years ago
💸 Time for some more good news Dentacoin community! We are happy to announce that KoinOK - an India-based exchange… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1019939522069614592

2 years ago
Our biggest fans this week: @sergsen, @EthereumKing, @rayymat. Thank you! via https://sumall.com/thankyou?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=publishing&utm_campaign=thank_you_tweet&utm_content=text_and_media&utm_term=d29101af4fb7a90afaf34f28 https://t.co/UzMHMGjvC8

2 years ago
😷 Bitcoinge: "Although it exists for a much shorter period than other products, Dentacoin has already been establis… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1019198037334339586

2 years ago
🐇 Let’s start this week with some great news! We are happy to announce that the EasyRabbit exchange platform has li… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1018818044758458368

2 years ago
✍ Let’s catch up with the latest updates: Server-side bug fixing; 1141 new users registered on our tools; Dentacar… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1017776013982535680

2 years ago
Our biggest fans this week: @EthereumKing, @nuonrg, @ShopTrendNL. Thank you! via https://sumall.com/thankyou?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=publishing&utm_campaign=thank_you_tweet&utm_content=text_and_media&utm_term=d29101af4fb7a90afaf34f28 https://t.co/6yBRhpwcpF

2 years ago
👛 Dentacoin Now Supported on Lumi Wallet! Lumi apps combine account security with a very friendly user interface -… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1017027405188403200

2 years ago
📲 Dentacare, the app that rewards people for establishing healthy #dentalcare habits, is now available in the Apple… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1016564260049162240

2 years ago
If Dentacare Health Training* was available for iOS, would you use it? * Dentacare Health Training is a mobile app… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1016302440512212992

2 years ago
⚕ ErikStofferegen on Medium shares insight on the application of blockchain in healthcare: "Even though the healthc… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1016286888993402881

2 years ago
✍ Time for some quick updates! Let’s catch up with the highlights of this week: Server-side bug fixing; 1472 new u… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1016219648671604736

2 years ago
👨💻 Jeremias Grenzebach: "In this process, blockchain provides a larger pool of data for the medical researches. At… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1014859138332004359

2 years ago
Our biggest fans this week: @cryptofaucet, @TopAmbassador, @PassiveIncoming. Thank you! via https://sumall.com/thankyou?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=publishing&utm_campaign=thank_you_tweet&utm_content=text_and_media&utm_term=d29101af4fb7a90afaf34f28 https://t.co/UtEGdFek4n

2 years ago
👨🔬 #Dentacoin partners up with Ecodent #Dental Lab, Brooklyn, NY: “Every denture, bridge, crown and implant that y… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1014113617401217024

2 years ago
Our biggest fans this week: @cryptofaucet, @EthereumKing, @PassiveIncoming. Thank you! via https://sumall.com/thankyou?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=publishing&utm_campaign=thank_you_tweet&utm_content=text_and_media&utm_term=d29101af4fb7a90afaf34f28 https://t.co/NQj0Wa4dVh

2 years ago
👨⚕ eeDesignIt on the impact of technology on Healthcare: "Behind Dentacoin is a community of young dentists who c… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1011925526204895232

2 years ago
Dentacoin (DCN) partners up with MobiDent's Caddy Clinic, the World's lightest mobile dental clinic with digital te… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1011216394770317312

2 years ago
✍ Time for updates! Here is a short recap: 3399 new users of our tools, strategic partnership with MobiDent (India)… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1010269614654312453

2 years ago
Our biggest fans this week: @EthereumKing, @nuonrg, @CryptoCCityCEO. Thank you! via https://sumall.com/thankyou?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=publishing&utm_campaign=thank_you_tweet&utm_content=text_and_media&utm_term=d29101af4fb7a90afaf34f28 https://t.co/ACwP85jWTI

2 years ago
💪Dentacoin partners up with @mobident_in to shift the paradigm from expensive “sick care” towards affordable, preve… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1009442419493015552

2 years ago
💱 Dentacoin is now available to trade on the Token Jar decentralized exchange. The transactions happen directly fro… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1007580146948300800

2 years ago
My week on Twitter 🎉: 129 Mentions, 236K Mention Reach, 1.17K Likes, 487 Retweets, 224 New Followers. See yours wit… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1007322314378268672

2 years ago
👨💼 Arkansas Online: "Dentacoin streamlines dental care by establishing insurance-like contracts between patients a… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1007239733515309057

2 years ago
Our biggest fans this week: @RobMcNealy, @cryptofaucet, @TopAmbassador. Thank you! via https://sumall.com/thankyou?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=publishing&utm_campaign=thank_you_tweet&utm_content=text_and_media&utm_term=d29101af4fb7a90afaf34f28 https://t.co/zU5NaxJ9Lz

2 years ago
👨🔬 Invest in #Blockchain places Dentacoin among the most relevant #crypto projects in their Periodic Table of… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1006818381427814401

2 years ago
🌎 KoinPlatform: "Instead of implementing preventive measures, peopel spend more on correcting tooth problems. A sin… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1006499102664921089

2 years ago
🗳 Dentacoin community, it is time to man your voting stations once again! Cryptaldash, an Estonian-based exchange,… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1006458115628429312

2 years ago
📅 Time to wrap-up another productive week: 8 new partner clinics in Austria, Malaysia and the USA; SimpleSwap atomi… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1005081415212560384

2 years ago
📂 150sec on the real-world application of blockchain: "It is certainly safe to say that blockchain technology is fi… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1004999045121826816

2 years ago
My week on Twitter 🎉: 98 Mentions, 92.2K Mention Reach, 1.27K Likes, 495 Retweets, 89 New Followers. See yours with… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1004785491177328640

2 years ago
😷 MenaFN on Dentacoin and blockchain healthcare: "Blockchain products aiming at leveraging the healthcare sector ha… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1004698006720057345

2 years ago
Our biggest fans this week: @RobMcNealy, @turnkeyfans, @cryptofaucet. Thank you! via https://sumall.com/thankyou?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=publishing&utm_campaign=thank_you_tweet&utm_content=text_and_media&utm_term=d29101af4fb7a90afaf34f28 https://t.co/n7Ne7Q11Ec

2 years ago
👨⚕The good news keep on coming: A new dental practice joins our partner network - Dentalpro Dental Specialist Cen… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1004352857875927040

2 years ago
💱 SimpleSwap makes exchanging Dentacoin to 100+ altcoins simple as a daily shopping trip! “The SimpleSwap system is… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1003980262559055872

2 years ago
⛓ AtoZMarkets places Dentacoin among the best healthcare altcoins & ICOs of 2018: "The medical sectors will greatly… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1003922883041726464

2 years ago
👨⚕ Let's kick-off this week with some more positive news: we have a new addition to our partner network - Dr. Pet… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1003642030793388032

2 years ago
📆 Another exciting week is behind us: two new partner clinics in the US and UK; Dentacoin was listed on Godex decen… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1002541627079057409

2 years ago
👨⚕ 24h Emergency Dentist London joins the DCN partner network: “As a leading practice in London we have to keep u… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1002533288643383297

2 years ago
🏆 LeBigData places #Dentacoin among the top #blockchain start-ups for 2018: "The goal is to reduce dental costs by… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1002145434897387520

2 years ago
Our biggest fans this week: @RobMcNealy, @cryptofaucet, @EthereumKing. Thank you! via https://sumall.com/thankyou?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=publishing&utm_campaign=thank_you_tweet&utm_content=text_and_media&utm_term=d29101af4fb7a90afaf34f28 https://t.co/QPZWrLg85N

2 years ago
👩⚕Our influence grows: Silicon Valley’s top dental practice – Shine Dental of Dr. Swapna Raveendranath in Fremon… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1001810576102821889

2 years ago
💱 Exciting announcements: #Dentacoin now on Godex exchange and Atomic Wallet! “We don't believe in tooth fairy, but… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1001108886043185152

2 years ago
Update time! Here's the highlights: 684 new users for #Dentacare, #DentaVox, Trusted Reviews; the "fastest growing… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1000025865034653698

2 years ago
👨💼 RuCrypto on the #Dentacoin stakeholders: "The project allows to effectively interact with all participants of t… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/999995155217203200

2 years ago
📌 Authority Dental: “If you’ve ever heard the term blockchain or the digital currency #Bitcoin, you should also kno… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/999577351859171328

2 years ago
Our biggest fans this week: @turnkeyfans, @Tech_Sharer, @rayymat. Thank you! via https://sumall.com/thankyou?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=publishing&utm_campaign=thank_you_tweet&utm_content=text_and_media&utm_term=d29101af4fb7a90afaf34f28 https://t.co/n0cddlm94H

2 years ago
🎥 Time for video updates! "I'm thrilled to share that Dentacare was awarded "App of the Day". [...] Also, we receiv… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/998547383867895810

2 years ago
Vote for #Dentacoin #DCN $DCN to be listed on http://dx.exchange - a NASDAQ-powered crypto exchange that launc… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/998458966140178432

2 years ago
📈 Time for updates! 1558 new users of our tools, DentaCare awarded "App of the Day", impressive number of media pub… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/997482853247184896

2 years ago
Our biggest fans this week: @turnkeyfans, @cryptofaucet, @TopAmbassador. Thank you! via https://sumall.com/thankyou?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=publishing&utm_campaign=thank_you_tweet&utm_content=text_and_media&utm_term=d29101af4fb7a90afaf34f28 https://t.co/z53dlPuyGr

2 years ago
🏆 Dentacare awarded as #App of The Day by Downloadastro! "It is focused on establishing habits: not on encouraging… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/996976169575690240

2 years ago
🏆 Dentacare awarded as #App of The Day by Downloadastro! "It is focused on establishing habits: not on encouraging… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/996664585091452929

2 years ago
🙌 Join our community on Telegram: https://t.me/dentacoin! Learn the news firsthand, communicate openly with the co… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/996468570551996416

2 years ago
📌 Global Coin Report: “The main objective of #Dentacoin is to provide quality dental care at a much lower rate. The… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/996458783961468928

2 years ago
🎥 Time for video updates: "Last week I was working on a new structure and design of the #Dentacoin website which wi… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/996105587816615938

2 years ago
🙋Support $DCN by voting for it to be listed on the new decentralized @QuantaDex exchange. Simply click here to sign… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/995993904758575104

2 years ago
📈 Weekly updates: very important voting for DCN to be listed on @OKEx_ (waiting for official results); a record-bre… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/994990276153364480

2 years ago
🗣 Dentacoin Community Speaking: "I am a supporter of #Dentacoin because it has real-world applications and makes th… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/994828406742245377

2 years ago
📈 LAST HOURS: Vote for Dentacoin to be listed on @OKEx_ and you can win 88888 DCN (we’ll pick one winner in case of… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/994675517805809664

2 years ago
📈 CryptoComes: “Dentacoin continues to make impressive gains as it pushes for a listing on @OKEx_ during a time whe… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/994623694411616256

2 years ago
⚠LAST HOURS⚠Vote for Dentacoin to be listed on OKEx and you can win 88 888 DCN (we'll pick one winner in case of su… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/994474941897637888

2 years ago
Our biggest fans this week: @turnkeyfans, @cryptofaucet, @PassiveIncoming. Thank you! via https://sumall.com/thankyou?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=publishing&utm_campaign=thank_you_tweet&utm_content=text_and_media&utm_term=d29101af4fb7a90afaf34f28 https://t.co/8QMHyXVvZq

2 years ago
🗣 Dentacoin Community speaking: "I support #Dentacoin because Dentacoin is the first revolutionary #Blockchain tech… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/994469636187009024

2 years ago
One step away from seeing up to 300% increase in the value of DCN* and receiving 88 888 free DCN? ➡Vote for Dentaco… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/994306674973388801

2 years ago
📈 Dentacoin among today's biggest #cryptocurrency gainers: https://www.thecryptocoincenter.com/single-post/2018/05/09/pundi-x-augur-dentacoin-nexo-and-ethos-todays-biggest-cryptocurrency-gainers

2 years ago
⚠ 2 days left: Don't forget to vote for @dentacoin to be listed on @OKEx_ ! Show your support and you can also earn… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/994194149489422337

2 years ago
🗳 Did you vote for Dentacoin to be listed on OKEx exchange?

2 years ago
🗳 Did you vote for @dentacoin to be listed on @OKEx_? ➡ You can do that here: https://twitter.com/okex_/status/993440169435906048! Follow… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/993861500233240576

2 years ago
🙋You want to see Dentacoin listed on a top exchange? It's all in your hands now! Vote for Dentacoin to be listed on… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/993859799182954496

2 years ago
🗣 Dentacoin Community speaking: "Love the progress the coin is making! [...] DCN, I love you!" https://youtu.be/_cvgdz0wniq

2 years ago
🙋 Show your support by voting for Dentacoin to be listed on OKEx exchange until 18:00 May 11, 2018 (Hong Kong time)… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/993815027273617408

2 years ago
📌 Time for video updates! "For Saturday and Sunday only on #DentaVox we have 600 new registrations, which is remark… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/993547338173083648

2 years ago
🗳 Vote for #Dentacoin (DCN) to be listed on @OKEx_ exchange! Follow @OKEx_, retweet their tweet and comment with a… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/993507787555704832

2 years ago
⏰ LAST DAY ⏰ Vote for Dentacoin to be listed on @BitibuOfficial ! https://twitter.com/bitibuofficial/status/990307413369683969

2 years ago
📢 Last week's highlights: ongoing community initiative for videos rewarded in DCN; leading position in the voting r… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/992409900042084353

2 years ago
🎥 CAMERA ON! Let’s show the world how great Dentacoin community is! ➡ Now you can earn FREE DCN tokens just by shar… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/992019609678172161

2 years ago
☑ TWO DAYS LEFT: Vote for Dentacoin to be listed on @BitibuOfficial exchange! https://twitter.com/bitibuofficial/status/990307413369683969

2 years ago
☑ Vote for Dentacoin to be listed on @BitibuOfficial exchange! https://twitter.com/bitibuofficial/status/990307413369683969

2 years ago
💡 @aBitGreedy_: “While any decentralized ledger can streamline dental services, Dentacoin beats them all as it’s cu… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/990480384096948224

2 years ago
📹 Say Welcome to our new video updates! “For 2018 we have decided not to offer another token sale. We rather want t… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/988459741071532034

2 years ago
We also have exciting news for you: from next week on we will start publishing VIDEO UPDATES and host Q&A SESSIONS… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/987323733810581504

2 years ago
📝It's Friday: time for #Dentacoin updates! The last week's highlights include: transition to @telegram, 215 new too… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/987323017750568960

2 years ago
LET THE FACTS DO THE TALKING: ✅100K community members ✅3 apps (35K+ active users) ✅20K+ token holders, easy purchas… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/986961348792856576

2 years ago
💱 @Changelly_team: "We are always looking for new promising coins to be listed on Changelly. One of the latest addi… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/986936398799343621

2 years ago
📢 @engpravda (over 10 million readers/ month) evaluates #Dentacoin's potential to 9 out of 10 points: "Despite the… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/986243030171684865

2 years ago
📈 Over USD 1 million 24h trading volume and more than 20K token holders... Thank you all for your trust and support! https://t.co/A4hfGW1rwC

2 years ago
⛔ Please be cautious and NEVER trust anything which is not announced on our official website, Facebook page (over… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/984797903683190785

2 years ago
⚠ATTENTION: A lot of attempts to impersonate Dentacoin have been made lately (scam airdrops, fake twitter profiles,… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/984795043969097729

2 years ago
📈 The last week was marked by one essentially important event: #Dentacoin was listed on @Changelly_team, allowing f… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/984783737194983424

2 years ago
🚩 A huge step forward: We are utterly excited to announce that #Dentacoin (DCN) is listed on @Changelly_team ! Now… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/983365101490200576

2 years ago
📅 Friday - time for #Dentacoin updates! During the last week our tools attracted 553 new users; DCN was officially… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/982284653993357312

2 years ago
🚩 Dentacoin (DCN) is now officially listed on the new promising exchange @UPcoin! Available markets are: Dentacoin… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/981601933965320193

2 years ago
🚩 Dentacoin (DCN) is now officially listed on the new promising exchange @UPcoin! Available markets are: Dentacoin… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/981601933965320193

2 years ago
📢 OFweek (Chinese): "13 Innovative #Blockchain Applications: From a global perspective, #Dentacoin guarantees effic… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/981099732733964289

2 years ago
⚠ ONCE AGAIN: There is no Dentacoin Airdrop on Telegram, organized by us, nor do we suddenly need funds for develop… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/980172732921974784

2 years ago
⚠ ONCE AGAIN: There is no Dentacoin Airdrop on Telegram which is organized by us, nor do we suddenly need funds for… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/980169236860559361

2 years ago
📓 Time for weekly updates! Short summary: 600 new users on #DentaCare, #DentaVox, Trusted Reviews; updated web page… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/979729782098325505

2 years ago
⚠ WARNING: Please be aware of potential scammers! There is no airdrop organized by Dentacoin Foundation on Telegra… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/979676301857624065

2 years ago
⚠ WARNING: Be aware of potential scammers! There is no airdrop, organized by Dentacoin Foundation on Telegram. ➡ SP… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/978960482513182720

2 years ago
⚖ Quick question to all Dentacoin supporters: Do you use Huobi exchange?

2 years ago
⚖ Quick question to all Dentacoin supporters: Do you use Huobi exchange?

2 years ago
📆 FRIDAY: Time for weekly updates! BTC/DCN market on @hitbtc is back, we integrated @civickey (a Blockchain-based i… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/977208627923701760

2 years ago
📆 FRIDAY: Time for weekly updates! BTC/DCN market on @hitbtc is back, we integrated @civickey (a Blockchain-based i… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/977208627923701760

2 years ago
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POPULAR UNITY (, UP), or POPULAR UNITY FOR SOCIALISM (, UPS), is a Brazilian politician party founded on 16 June 2016, which had its right to launch candidacies recognized by the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) on 10 December 2019.[1]

The party is connected to movement that act in defense of popular housing and defends the nationalization of the bank system, the social control of all monopolies and capitalist consortiums and of the means of production in strategic sector of the economy and the Popular Agrarian Reform.[2]

In 2018 general election, Popular Unity supported the Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL) presidential bid of Guilherme Boulos (PSOL) and Sônia Guajajara (PSOL).[3]

Its first National Congress was held in Belo Horizonte, on 23 and 24 March 2019, and had as theme: “Party of the poor, with the poor and for the poor”.[4]

On 10 December 2019, TSE approved the party registration and conceded the number 80 for pollings.[5]

Ideology

The party defends socialists ideas and the overcoming of the capitalism, fighting against the international financial capital and the richest ones.[6]

Electoral Registration Process

Other movements, such as the _União da Juventude Rebelião_, the _Movimento de Luta nos Bairros, Vilas e Favelas_, the _Movimento Luta de Classes_ e o _Movimento de Mulheres Olga Benário_ heve integrated the efforts of the registry.[7]

The collection of support signatures for the party's registration with the TSE began in 2014.[8] According to paragraph 2 of article 7 of Resolution 23.465 of the TSE, the minimum support must correspond to at least 0.5% of the votes given in the last general election for the Chamber of Deputies (approximately 500 thousand), not counting blank and null votes, distributed among a third or more of the states, with a minimum of 0.1% of the electorate that voted in each of them.[9] By October 27, 2018, the Popular Unity for Socialism had over 418,000 validated signatures of support.[10] According to the organization, more than one million support forms were filled out.[11][12]

2018 Elections

At the time without the registration before the TSE, in 2018 the Popular Unity did not participate in the elections. Despite this, it was able to support and compose the campaign of left-wing candidates. Most of the support went to candidates from the Socialism and Liberty Party and the Workers' Party.

Presidential Election

In the presidential election, UP declared its support for Guilherme Boulos and Sônia Guajajara as candidates for the PSOL. According to the organization, the support to the plate is due to the fact that it is “the only one willing to adopt the taxation of the great fortunes and revoke the measures of home-injury of Michel Temer's government, among them the Labor Reform and the PEC of freezing social investments”.[13]

Municipal elections of 2020

In the 2020 elections, the party has launched the following pre-candidatures:

1.  student João Coelho in São Bernardo do Campo[14], but did not appear on the final list of candidates[15];
2.  Pedro Laurentino in Teresina[16];
3.  Rafael Freire in João Pessoa,[17];
4.  Paula Colares in Fortaleza[18];
5.  Lenilda Luna in Maceió[19];
6.  Vivian Mendes in São Paulo[20]; and
7.  Amanda Bispo in Mauá[21].

For the elections, the party will receive R$1.2 million (US$ ) from the electoral fund.[22]

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title: Popular Unity (Brazil)

question: What does the text say about the 2018 elections?

answer: The Popular Unity did not participate in the 2018 elections, but they supported Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL) and the Workers' Party. In the presidential election, the Popular Unity supported Guilherme Boulos and Sônia Guajajara of PSOL.


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Aldington was the stronghold of THE ALDINGTON GANG, a band of smugglers roaming the Romney Marshes and shores of Kent. The gang's leaders, made the local inn, _The Walnut Tree Inn_,[1] their headquarters and drop for their contraband. The Inn was often used when they waited for others of their group to bring in goods from across the Marshes. High up on the southern side of the inn is a small window through which the gang would shine a signal light to their partners up on _Aldington Knoll_ when the way was clear for them.

They were probably the last 'major' gang that existed in Kent and it is believed that they were known as _The Blues_ from the colour of the clothing that they wore or from blue flares used for signalling.[2]

The Gang's activities

The gang was probably founded in or around 1817, as gang-based smuggling returned, but the first mention of the Aldington Gang was in November 1820, after the men had returned home from the Napoleonic Wars and found little to do to make any money. It is believed that they were active well before this date and were responsible for incidents in Deal, St. Margaret's Bay, north of Dover.[3] The gang carried out a landing near Sandgate with 250 men taking part, unloading a galley laden with spirits, tobacco and salt that had been rowed across the Channel from Boulogne and pulled up onto the shingle beach. Three groups of smugglers had gathered: one to unload and transport the cargo and two groups of “Batmen”, to protect the first. They were spotted by a few local blockade men, as the main blockade force had been lured away by the smugglers.[4] “Batmen” stood guard when a run was taking place to fight off anyone who tried to interfere; they gained their name from the long clubs, or ‘bats’ they carried. Some smugglers used guns, although the shooting of the Revenue officer often roused the authorities to step up their efforts against smuggling.[5]

In February 1821 the _Battle of Brookland_ took place between the Customs and Excise men and the Aldington Gang. The smugglers had sent 250 men down to the coast between Camber and Dungeness but the party was seen by the Watch House at Camber and a fight took place over Walland Marsh. Although the Gang successfully completed the unloading of the goods, they were harried right across the Marshes until they reached Brookland, where the Gang turned on the blockade force. Five men were killed in the fighting and there were more than twenty wounded.[6] Their leader at that time was Cephas Quested who, in the confusion of the Battle, turned to a man close by him, handed him a musket and instructed him to “blow an Officer's brains out.” Unfortunately for Quested, in the confusion of the fight and being somewhat intoxicated, the man that he had turned to was a Midshipman of the blockade force, who immediately turned the gun on Quested and arrested him. After being sentenced, Quested was taken to Newgate and hanged for his activities on 4 July 1821.[7]

In 1792 George Ransley was born at Ruckinge, and started work as a ploughman then a carter. The story goes that he found a stash of spirits hidden by the smugglers and with the proceeds of the sale bought his house _The Bourne Tap_, from where he frequently sold spirits that he had landed. Another location frequented by the Gang at this time was an Augustine Priory, at Bilsington which was used as a farm house and they would use as a store house.[8]

Ransley took over the gang of smugglers after the Battle of Brookland, and employed a doctor, with an allowance paid to a man's family if he was ill, a policy that avoided the capture of injured men by the revenue forces and helped to ensure loyalty.[9] The gang became stronger and landed goods along the coast from Rye to Deal . In July 1826 they were caught on the beach at Dover and a Midshipman, Richard Morgan, was killed. In October 1826 Ransley was arrested at Aldington by the Bow Street Runners on suspicion of murder, but as it took place in the dark, the death sentence was converted to deportation[10] along with his brother-in-law Samuel Bailey as was fellow gang members Thomas Gillham and James Hogben.[11]

Ransley was sent to work on a farm in Tasmania where his knowledge of farming was a great benefit to him. Two years later his wife Elizabeth followed with their ten children - only nine survived the journey. He was assigned to his wife in 1833. He was finally granted a pardon in 1838 and farmed at River Plenty, Hobart. He died in 1856 and is buried in River Plenty, New Norfolk, along with his wife.[12]

Downfall

The success of smuggling gangs is dependent upon the goodwill of the local people. The gang began to lose this special relationship as they extended their ruthless behaviour beyond that of the publicly acceptable crime of smuggling and turned on the rural communities. Some of the members of the Gang started resorting to breaking into local residences.

The problems were compounded when Richard Morgan, a member of the blockade forces at Dover, was shot and killed. Morgan, who was a quartermaster with the blockade, was well liked in Dover and spotted the Gang trying to run a cargo ashore on Dover Beach. After firing a warning shot the Gang turned on him, resulting in his death and the wounding of a seaman who was with him. A reward was offered for information after this incident which was claimed by several people and as a consequence, in October, 1826 the blockade forces together with two Bow Street Runners raided _The Bourne Tap_ and captured George Ransley and seven other members of the Gang. Eventually a total of nineteen men were captured and stood trial at Maidstone Assizes in January 1827. They were all found guilty of charges that carried the death penalty but their lawyer, a local gentleman from Maidstone, managed to get their sentences commuted to transportation.[13]

Stories

-   There is a story that as a result of a fight between the Gang members one night, one of the smugglers' number was murdered and the body disposed of down a well at the side of the Inn. It is said that on some nights the sounds of scuffling and a body being dragged outside can still be heard.[14]
-   Although the Gang had a brutal reputation, they were not without a sense of humour. One officer who was blindfolded and had his legs bound was told he was to be thrown over a cliff. He managed to cling on to tufts of grass as he fell and hung with his legs dangling for some time. It was not until his blindfold slipped that he realised his feet were a matter of inches above the ground. The 'cliff' was only seven feet (2 m) high.[15]
-   Ransley lived at a _The Bourne Tap_ and stories were circulated about there being a ghost which manifested itself as a floating severed head in the old building which served well to keep the curious away.[16]
-   Ransley was known for his organisational abilities but stories differ about the man. Some said he was a giant of over six feet, others said he was hardly more than five feet tall, some said he was a likeable rogue, others lived in absolute fear of him. Whatever was the truth, there was no doubt that he could be as ruthless as the situation demanded.[17]

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title: The Aldington Gang

question: What does the article say about the Aldington gang's activities?

answer: The gang was probably founded in or around 1817, as gang-based smuggling returned, but the first mention of the Aldington Gang was in November 1820, after the men had returned home from the Napoleonic Wars and found little to do to make any money. The gang carried out a landing near Sandgate with 250 men taking part, unloading a galley laden with spirits, tobacco, and salt that had been rowed across the Channel from Boulogne and pulled up onto the shingle beach. Ransley took over the gang of smugglers. The gang became stronger and landed goods along the coast from Rye to Deal.

question: What does the article say about the gang's income?


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ongressional Republicans, led by California Rep. Devin Nunes, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. After he accused the FBI of stonewalling in turning over records, the bureau relented, at least partially.

The result was clear evidence of bias against Trump by officials charged with investigating him and Clinton. Those same agents appear to have acted on that bias to tilt the election to Clinton.

In one text message, an agent suggests that Attorney General Loretta Lynch knew while the investigation was still going on that the FBI would not recommend charges against Clinton.

How could she know unless the fix was in?

All roads in the explosive developments lead to James Comey, whose Boy Scout image belied a sinister belief that he, like his infamous predecessor J. Edgar Hoover, was above the law.

It is why I named him J. Edgar Comey last year and wrote that he was “adept at using innuendo and leaks” to let everybody in Washington know they could be the next to be investigated.

It was in the office of Comey’s top deputy, Andrew McCabe, where agents discussed an “insurance policy” in the event that Trump won. Reports indicated that the Russia collusion probe was that insurance policy.

The text was from Peter Strzok, the top investigator on the Trump case, and was sent to Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer and also his mistress.

“I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office — that there’s no way he gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40 . . .,” Strzok wrote.

It is frightening that Strzok, who called Trump “an idiot,” was the lead investigator on both the Clinton and Trump cases.

After these messages surfaced, special counsel Robert Mueller removed Strzok and Page from his probe, though both still work at the FBI.

Strzok, despite his talk of an “insurance policy” in 2016, wrote in May 2017 that he was skeptical that Mueller’s probe would find anything on Trump because “there’s no big there there.”

Talk about irony. While Dems and the left-wing media already found Trump guilty of collusion before Mueller was appointed, the real scandal might be the conduct of the probers themselves.

Suspicions are hardly allayed by the fact that the FBI says it can’t find five months of messages between Strzok and Page, who exchanged an estimated 50,000 messages overall. The missing period — Dec. 14, 2016, through May 17, 2017 — was a crucial time in Washington.

There were numerous leaks of classified material just before and after Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20.

And the president fired Comey last May 9, provoking an intense lobbying effort for a special counsel, which led to Mueller’s appointment on May 19.

Jeff Sessions, the attorney general, has emerged from his hidey hole to notice that the FBI has run amok, and said Monday he would “leave no stone unturned” to find the five months of missing texts.

Fine, but the House is racing ahead of him. Nunes has prepared a four-page memo, based on classified material that purportedly lays out what the FBI and others did to corrupt the election.

A movement to release the memo is gaining steam, but Congress says it might take weeks. Why wait? Americans can handle the truth, no matter how big it is.

Pence, star of David

Vice President Mike Pence’s speech in the Israeli Knesset was a masterpiece that deserves a wide audience.

Pence draws on the biblical Abraham to help explain America’s resolve to stand with Israel.

Naturally, Arab members of the legislative body protested and were ejected.

Count that, along with the refusal of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to meet Pence, as another missed opportunity for peace.

It’s become a sad ‘reality’

Headline: “Parents in California torture house had reality-TV aspirations.”

Of course they did. Doesn’t everybody?

Mayor’s ‘poor’ service

Mayor Putz has the touch. Every city agency that deals with the poor is so badly managed that they suffer even more.

The latest example is the Housing Authority, where Bill de Blasio keeps firing top deputies to shelter the boss, Shola Olatoye, from accountability.

After Olatoye signed a document saying the city did lead paint inspections when it hadn’t, de Blasio fired two of her aides and demoted a third.

Another top deputy got canned Monday in a shake-up over shoddy maintenance.

The mayor talks about inequality but pays no attention to the needy until disaster grabs the headlines.

Then he fires people and waits for it to happen again. The buck never stops on his desk.

Filed under bill de blasio ,  donald trump ,  dossier ,  fbi ,  hillary clinton ,  israel ,  james comey ,  mike pence ,  Peter Strzok ,  robert mueller ,  scandals ,  1/23/18

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question: What does the text say about Mitt Romney?

question: Summarize the main news event.

answer: There was clear evidence of bias against Trump by officials charged with investigating him and Clinton. Those same agents appear to have acted on that bias to tilt the election to Clinton. It appears Attorney General Loretta Lynch knew that the FBI would not recommend charges against Clinton, based on a text message from one of the agents. The article's author blames FBI Director James Comey and his top deputy, Andrew McCabe, whose office was where the agents discussed an "insurance policy" if Trump won. Reports indicate that the Russia collusion probe was that insurance policy. The text was from the top investigator on the Trump case, Peter Strozk, and was sent to Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer (also his alleged mistress). Strozk, who once called Trump "an idiot", and Page were removed from the probe but still work at the FBI. The FBI can't find five months of messages between Strzok and Page, an estimated 50,000 messages from Dec. 14, 2016, through May 17, 2017 - a crucial time in Washington.

question: What does the text say about Vice President Mike Pence?

answer: Vice President Mike Pence's speech in the Israeli Knesset was a masterpiece that deserves a wider audience. He drew on the biblical Abraham to help explain America's resolve to stand with Israel. Arab members of the legislative body protested and were ejected. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas refused to meet Pence. The author views this as another missed opportunity for peace.


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(Here's a little something I thought of. This is my first time sharing a story so some constructive advice is welcome. I plan on making this a bit of a series. I hope you enjoy A New Story!)

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It's dark out tonight. Well as dark as it can be in a city during a full moon. It's Sunday and the weekend is over which means I have to go back to me shit job for shit pay. I barely get paid enough to afford any kind of rent or food. This country sucks so do the people in charge. My entire generation has been disenfranchised by the previous and they keep telling us that it's our fault. It's as if the the previous two to three generations are hellbent on taking as much money to grave as they possibly can. They've ruined the economy, job market, and housing market and keep blaming all of us that weren't even born before all of this was set in motion.

I lay down in bed and shut my eyes in my garage turned apartment. The darkness envelops my senses as I release my minds hold on my buzzing thoughts. Silence. Everything is quiet as I finally relax and slip off into sleep. That night I dreamed for the first time in months. I'm sitting at a small wooden table that looks hand carved. The chair I'm sitting in feels like it's wicker. I can only see what;s immediately in front of me, the rest is utter blackness like some kind of void. The only source of light is what I assume is an oil lamp. There's an actual flame inside the small metal cage so it makes sense. I think I've had this dream before. Hard to tell. It's been months since my last dream and dreams are hard to remember in the first place. What tipped me off to this being a repeat was...

“Welcome back Kai. It's been a while”

The woman sitting across from me was here again. She was fit and only slight shorter than me. Her skin was a beautiful dark brown, so dark she was almost actually black. Her face told me she was African along with her short curly afro. Her accent was also a clear indication of her being African. From the sound of it her accent wasn't East African which is the only African accent I can readily recognize. She is absolutely stunning, especially when looking at her outfit. She wore a striking blue sundress with bright yellow patterns outlined with a golden orange color. This women was what I considered to be the pinnacle of beauty. When I looked at her face a wave of memories began to flood my mind as I remembered all our previous encounters.

“Come, sit. What game shall we play today? I was thinking chess again.” She bade me with a wave and a smile.
“Sure Nancy. Sounds good but go easy on me this time. My brain still hurts from your last trouncing!” I laughed walking over.

She loves games of all types like I do. We both also love a good story of which she had plenty. Whenever she told me a story during one of our games it was almost like I could see it unfolding right in front of me. Nansi also had a a habit of weaving her stories into the game we were playing. Sometimes it was just the theme or she would pretend that pieces were places and people. Just about every time we played she won and no amount of mental gymnastics on my part could win the day. The only wins I manage to make is making her laugh despite always going first as a handicap. I liked how our relationship worked. She gave me stories, I made her laugh and we both got a play a game. Too bad this was only a dream. After our game I would wake up and remember almost nothing about it. Just a vague feeling of...something.

As I sat down at the table I saw that the chess board was already set. Her pieces were jet black seemingly made out of obsidian whereas mine were gray marble. I looked up from the board to look at Nancy and felt something off about her. Not anything bad but...certainly different. She looked to be deep in thought with her eyes focused on the the board with her hands weaved together beneath her chin as if to support her head. I was about to ask her what she was thinking when-

“Hmm. I think we should try something different.” She pondered without shifting her gaze.
“What do you mean?” I asked.
“We always do the same thing. You come here, we play, tell stories, laugh, and then leave. It may be time to do something different.” She lifted her eyes to look at me.
“You mean doing something other than playing a game? Like maybe watching a movie?” I thought aloud.

At this point I'm pretty confused. First she catches off-guard with not being her normally bubbly self, then she starts saying that she wants to do something different out of nowhere. It was always difficult getting a read on her head-space but now I really had no clue what was going through her mind. I wanted to say more but not many ideas came to mind looking out at the darkness surrounding us.

“Something like that and this. Something with a good story too?” She almost asked herself.
“A game and a movie combined...You mean like a videogame? We've done that. How is that any different?” I asked. I couldn't figure out what she was trying to get at.
“Like that but more. And not just any story, but a new story. What I mean is we make up a story and a new game to tell it!” Her eyes widened as she came to her conclusion. “Yes! That is exactly what we'll do! This will be so much fun!”
“Wait what?” I exclaimed before-
“It will be great!” She started rapidly moving her hands under the table. “It will be have action, adventure, drama! It can't be too easy but not impossible. First we need a map and cities. People and civilizations. Creatures! But not just any creatures! Magical ones that can do incredible things! We'll have to base them off of some already made up ones but we can make it work.” She continued to ramble on about this new world she was creating and all it's different facets.

“Hold on! I have no idea what you're talking about. Nancy, slow down and tell me what exactly you're doing.” I started getting a little frustrated with her at this point
“Oh! Sorry I became really excited. Ok so you know RPGs?” She asked.
“Yah of course. Those are my favorites.”
“Well” She continued “It's something like that. Basically it's an open world with an overall story arch but it could end any kind of way! And even I will not know what exactly will happen! I think you will like it very much!” She explained with a huge smile on her face.
“Ok. So we're going to make an open-ended RPG with multiple endings? None of which neither of us will know?” I asked
“Yes!” She replied.
“That's kind of a stretch don't you think?” I questioned indirectly.
“What do you mean?” She was still looking down at her hands.
“Well. I know this is a dream and all but, this is waaay too complicated.” I made a wide gesture with my hands.

Nancy's hands that were moving this entire time had just stopped. “Dream? This is no dream Kai.” Nancy shook her head smiling.

“I know I'm dreaming Nancy. Why else would I be playing games with a beautiful woman like you? In a void no less.”
She chuckled a bit and simply said “Because I like you.”
“You're not making any sense again.” I sighed
“Well. I may not...have been completely honest with you when we first met.” She said with a sheepish grin.
I cocked my left eyebrow. “What do you mean Nancy?”
“I mean my name isn't Nancy. It's Anansi. And I am very real Kai.”

title: [MF] A New Story

question: Who does the woman turn out to be?

answer: A female incarnation of the West African folk hero Anansi.

question: What does Nancy propose the main character do?

answer: Invent an infinite game with her.

question: What does the main character reflect on at the start of the story?

answer: The suffering of his generation.

question: What does the narrator think he is experiencing in the story?

answer: The narrator thinks he is dreaming.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: The narrator has a dream that an African woman named Nancy comes to play games with him every night. She challenges to invent an infinite game with her. Then she reveals that she is none other than Anansi.


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No More Always Wanted

It wasn’t raining, though all the people walking with big coats in the grey street felt it would be soon. The afternoon’s clouds seemed to be circling like a tired dog in search of the right place drop.

Dustin’s numb hands were holding a bucket. The bucket, which had a sign on it that said *College Money*, was holding exactly nineteen dollars and sixteen cents. Foggy breath was left behind as talking people walked past. Dustin watched it float upwards and disappear, changing from red to green to gold with the Christmas lights in the shop windows. He knew it wouldn’t be enough money. He had been standing on the cold corner of Market Street since 10 o’clock in the morning, and only four people had made donations. The first had been his English teacher, Ms MacColl, who had been on her way to do some seasonal shopping when she’d seen him and said “I believe in you, Dustin.” The wrinkles on her face had transformed into an encouraging smile as she presented a five dollar note. The second person had been Isabelle Crosland, who was the same age as Dustin, and had caused him to daydream extensively after she’d let yet another five dollar note fall into his bucket with a wink. The third person Dustin hadn’t known at all; a young man in a long black coat swinging a carrier bag of rattles and clinks had stopped to ask:

“What do you want to study?”

“Literature.”

“Why?”

“I love telling stories.”

“Then you must never stop,” the young man had instructed, handing a folded ten dollar bill to the boy.

The fourth and final person had been playing guitar just across the street since roughly 11 a.m. Dustin was quite sure that he was homeless, but didn’t say anything except *thank you* when the musician gave him sixteen cents before moving along to another spot.

At one point, Dustin bought a fresh-cream chocolate éclair and a coke from a nearby bakery. This had cost a total of one dollar. Thus, he was left with nearly twenty.

As the roads became less busy, the twelve year old boy began to walk home. He wasn’t sure how to feel about his venture. The night was creeping across the sky and yellow street lamps flickered on as Dustin turned left onto Luck Lane. He felt touched that some people he knew and some who he didn’t had helped him, but he was sure that twenty dollars wouldn’t be enough to change the situation with his parents. In fact, he thought that he would probably have to spend all the weekends until he left school holding that bucket on various streets to raise enough money to make any kind of difference.

But Dustin was a fighter. Even though, when he had asked if he would be able go to university and become a writer one day, his mother and father had explained to him all sorts of things about money and taxes and insurance and medical costs, he still remembered that when he was younger, they had always told him that he could be whatever he wanted to be. Dustin still wanted to believe it, so as he reached the end of Luck Lane he reassured himself:

“I can be whatever I want to be.”

However, he said it quite loudly, and that may have been a big mistake, because just then he heard heavy footsteps running towards him.

“What’s in your bucket, boy?” said one of the three men who had just appeared behind him. Dustin knew he shouldn’t stop walking. He knew he should run, but for some reason he couldn’t.

“Give us the bucket!” said another man, looking around to make sure there was nobody else on the shadowy road.

“No!” shouted Dustin, as he turned and started running as fast as he could. In school he would often win races - but the men were faster than his classmates, and within seconds they were in front of him. There was a very loud slapping sound and Dustin fell backwards onto the floor, one hand still holding onto the bucket, one hand pressed against his burning left cheek. Someone ripped the plastic container out of his fingers. By the time he’d gotten to his feet again, all three of them (and his nineteen dollars and sixteen cents) were gone. He didn’t even get a chance to memorize their faces.

Dustin sat down on the cold cobble-stones. He wanted to say a lot of rude words, but he just stared at the wall. His shoulders were shivering and his fists were squeezing at the air. All he could think was *what just happened? Why would they do that?* He hoped his Dad would come running round the corner, or the nice homeless musician would suddenly put a hand on his shoulder and say something like *here, I got it back for you.* But the street was empty.

After a long time, Dustin stood up. He stared at his feet, hoping that soon they would start walking for him. But they were too cold and too stunned. His shoes were tied up with the standard two bows hanging on either side of each foot. His laces were mainly white, with a few grey smudges, and the material below them was a navy blue. He started to think about all the things people he knew had in common - like hair and eyes and ears and noses and brains and clothes and shoes. He even knew two boys in his class who had the same shoes as him.

Dustin started to think that maybe his parents had been mistaken: maybe he was just like everyone else, and his dream to become a great writer was just something silly that he’d convinced himself could happen. Maybe his shoes would best be used for kicking balls and learning to run faster and walking to and from school and, in the future, to and from work.

The young boy looked up from his feet. He noticed a line of graffiti all alone in pretty, curvy red writing stretching along the top of the wall. He’d never seen it before, and he often walked down Luck Lane. He read it. It said:

*I could have been someone.*

He recognised it from a Christmas song his parents would sometimes listen to. He remembered the next line in the song: ‘*well so could anyone.’* For a few more moments, Dustin was still. He was thinking deeply.

“I can be whatever I want to be,” he whispered to himself, a tear cooling the place where one of the men had hit him. His right foot lunged forwards.

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Luck lane was quite a busy street during the daytime. It had a number of banks on it, some shoe shops, some clothes shops and a sweet shop. The sweet shop, whose window was just opposite the line of graffiti Dustin had noticed, was owned by a very nice old lady with white hair called Ms Sow. Ms Sow had seen the graffiti on Saturday, just like Dustin. There was a lot of crime in the area, so Ms Sow didn’t give too much thought to it - but on Monday morning, when she noticed another line just underneath the words *I could have been someone*, she rubbed down her sugary rainbow apron the way she always did and complained to a customer:

“There seem to be more and more troublemakers around these days – Look! They’re spraying everywhere!”

Dustin happened to be waiting in the queue to buy some lemon bonbons just as Ms Sow had said it. When he left the shop, he spent a few moments looking at the new sentence. It made him smile:

**“I’d bet you’re wonderful,”** someone had written in a heavy but neat, black paint. As Dustin gazed at it, he noticed a few people around him slowed to read it before continuing on their way.

By Tuesday, Ms MacColl was one of the people who had stopped briefly to read the graffiti conversation that was slowly taking place on the wall opposite Ms Sow’s Sweet Shop on Luck Lane. The curvy red style of writing had replied:

“What makes you say that?”

By Thursday, many people, including Isabelle Crosland, were talking about the graffiti conversation. The black ink had replied:

**“From what you wrote, you must have dreams. And I like your handwriting.”**

And below that the red ink said: “I’ve always wanted to be a singer.”

On Saturday too, Dustin found himself standing and smiling amongst a crowd of people marvelling at the dialogue.

**“I’ve always wanted to be a songwriter,”** the black ink remarked.

“For some reason, I think you could make it,” the red offered.

**“Well, so could anyone,”** said the black.

By the following Wednesday all the people of the town knew about the graffiti conversation. Even Dustin’s parents walked in their big coats through the grey streets to see it.

On Wednesday night, Dustin asked his parents again about becoming a writer.

“Of course you can write in your spare time,” Dustin’s father had said, “but I just don’t think that it would be a very stable job.”

“Your Dad’s right, Dustin,” his mother had added. “These are hard times, and we don’t want to get your hopes up. You can be whatever you want to be – you can write whatever you want to write – but for now you mustn’t forget to concentrate in all of your subjects because they’ll be important for getting a good job.”

“But I want to change the world and tell wonderful stories that everyone will hear and I want to spend all of my time doing that!” Dustin explained. “I know I can do it. What if I can prove it to you?”

“We’d love to read anything you’ve written,” his Mother smiled, warmly.

“We’re not saying you shouldn’t follow your dreams, Dustin. But it’s like the graffiti on Luck Lane – the people writing it have probably tried working as musicians – they probably still try, but it’s very difficult to get into.” His father spoke kindly. “And a college course for writing is very expensive.”

Dustin understood. He knew that he was only twelve years old, and that probably meant he was too young for his parents to think he was being very serious. He had often wondered how old he would have to be for people to consider him seriously as a writer. Fourteen? Sixteen? Eighteen? Twenty? Probably older.

But Dustin was a fighter.

On Thursday morning, the afternoon’s clouds seemed to be circling like a tired dog.

“Would you like to meet up?” The red writing asked.

By Friday, the black had replied:

**“The bench on the hill in Windmill Park? 4 p.m.? Tomorrow?”**

Dustin spent Friday evening by the graffiti wall with his bucket asking for donations to help him become a writer. Lots of people gave him a few coins and by the time he went home, he’d made twenty seven dollars and thirty six cents.

That night he finished writing a short story on his mother’s computer.

“Yes.” Read the red ink on Saturday morning.

The whole town was excited. They all wanted to see who was having the graffiti conversation.

On Saturday afternoon, Dustin went to a photocopying shop and printed out a few copies of his short story using some of the money from his bucket.

At 2 p.m., Dustin showed his short story to his parents. They said it was brilliant.

At 3.30 p.m., the clouds had finally made up their minds. It had begun to rain. Despite this, it seemed that the entire town had decided it would be a good time to go to the park.

Hundreds of people were gathered in a ring of whispers and umbrellas around the empty bench on the hill at Windmill Park.

At 3.45 p.m., Dustin managed to push to the front row, only a few feet away from the empty bench. He waited.

At 3.55 p.m., the crowd was very loud.

At 3.58., the crowd hushed.

At 3.59., the crowd was nearly silent.

At 3.59 and thirty seconds, the rain could be clearly heard hitting against the leaves of trees.

At 3.59 and fourty five seconds, nobody moved a muscle.

At 4 p.m exactly., everyone watched as Dustin walked towards the bench.

Everyone held their breath.

Dustin climbed up and stood on the bench. He could see Ms MacColl – and Isabelle Crossland – and a young man in a long black coat wearing a joyful smile – and the homeless musician - and a group of three guilty looking men – and another hundred faces with open mouths.

Dustin turned in circles on top of the bench looking at the silent people. He blinked the rain out of his eyes. He couldn’t help but smile.

Nobody could look away.

Slowly and dramatically, Dustin put his arms out to either side of him as if he were reaching out to the surrounding people. He kept his legs straight and began bending forwards – further and further until he was looking at the ground. He straightened, turned slightly to the side, and repeated the action. He was bowing to his audience.

“The truth is –“ he shouted at the top of his voice “I was walking home and I saw a line of graffiti that said *I could have been someone.* And that single, beautiful line of graffiti gave me the idea to write the rest!” The people were quiet. “You see, the truth is –“ he repeated as loud as he could. “I want to be a writer! And I believe you can be whatever you want to be! And to prove it to myself and to my parents, I invented a story and characters and wrote that story on that wall opposite Ms Sow’s Sweet Shop on Luck Lane! And now I know – and my parents must know as well – that it was a good story – because you are all here to hear the ending!”

At 4.02 p.m., as Dustin finished his sentence, his parents approached the bench. They were each carrying cardboard boxes containing copies of the short story that Dustin had written on his mother’s computer and printed out at the photocopying shop.

“Collecting money to become a writer!” Dustin shouted over the sound of the rain. “Collecting money to become a writer! Pay however much you would like for a short story!”

The crowd of silent faces tore open with surprise and applause and cheers. People turned to whomever they were with and smiled. Some even hugged each other.

However, even as many nice people approached to buy a copy of his short story, (which was entitled *No More Always Wanted*), Dustin suspected it wouldn’t make enough money to send him to college.

Still, at the very least he did feel that he had made a lot of people happy that day – he was sure that they would remember what had happened and that they might even pass it on to their friends.

Maybe his parents and other people would start to take the fact that he’d *always wanted* to become a writer more seriously.

And if his plan didn’t work out and people didn’t start to recognize that he was meant to be a writer – he’d make another plan - because Dustin was a fighter - and he knew he could be whoever he wanted to be.

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A short story by Dustin Locke

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title: [RF] No More Always Wanted

question: What does the story say about weather?

answer: At the start of the story, it isn't raining but the clouds look as if they are about to start. On Thursday morning, the afternoon clouds circle like a tired dog. On Friday, it begins to rain.

question: What does the story say about food?

answer: Dustin buys a chocolate eclair and a coke from a nearby bakery. Later in the story, Dustin is waiting in line to buy lemon bonbons.

question: What does the story say about Dustin's father's job?


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RILEY is a surname of English or Irish origin.

The English version has the meaning “rye clearing”, or is from a place name of which there is more than one occurrence; locations include Lancashire (specifically High Riley in Accrington) and Devon.[1][2] In the United Kingdom Census 1881, more than a third of Rileys were in Lancashire; it was most prevalent in the east of the county and over the boundary into the Calder Valley in Yorkshire, and the name could be found in these areas from the 13th century.[3]

The Irish version is a form of the surname O'Reilly.[4] This is derived from the first name Raghallach; the Gaelic version of the surname, Ó Raghallaigh, is Irish for 'grandson (or descendant) of Raghallach'.

Notable people

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-   Arthur Riley (1903–1984), South African footballer
-   Audrey Riley, English cellist
-   B. Daniel Riley (1946–2016), American politician
-   Bennett C. Riley (1790–1853), American military governor of California before it became a US state
-   Bernard Riley (born 1981), American football player
-   Bill Riley (disambiguation)
-   Billy Riley (1896–1977), English catch wrestling instructor
-   Billy Lee Riley (1933–2009), American musician
-   Ben Riley (1933–2017), American jazz drummer
-   Bob Riley (born 1944), American politician, Governor of Alabama
-   Bob Riley, founder of race car company Riley & Scott
-   Bob C. Riley (1924–1994), American politician, briefly Governor of Arkansas in 1975
-   Boots Riley (born 1971), American vocalist
-   Bridget Riley (born 1931), British op-art painter
-   Bridgett Riley (born 1973), American boxer
-   Burke Riley (1914–2006), American state legislator
-   Charles Owen Leaver Riley (1854–1929), the first Anglican Archbishop of Perth
-   Charles Valentine Riley (1843–1895), American entomologist
-   Charley Riley (1922–1994), American boxer
-   Charlotte Riley (born 1981), English actress
-   Chris Riley (born 1964), American USL Second Division soccer player
-   Chris Riley (golfer) (born 1973), professional American golfer
-   Chris Riley (priest) (born 1954), Australian Priest and prominent youth worker
-   Christopher Riley (born 1967), English writer and film maker
-   Daniel Aloysius Riley (1916–1984), Canadian politician
-   Dave Riley (1960–2019), American bass guitarist
-   Delbert Riley, Canadian First Nations leader
-   Denise Riley (born 1948), English professor of literature
-   Dennis Riley (1943–1999), American composer
-   Dennis L. Riley (born 1945), New Jersey assemblyman
-   Dorothy Comstock Riley (1924–2004), American lawyer and judge
-   Doug Riley (1945–2007), Canadian musician
-   Duke Riley (American football) (born 1994), American football player
-   Elijah Riley (born 1998), American football player
-   Eric Riley (born 1970), American basketball player
-   Erin M. Riley (born 1985), American artist
-   Frank Riley (disambiguation)
-   Freida J. Riley (1937–1969), American math and science teacher
-   Gary Riley (born 1963), American actor
-   Gillian Riley (born 1945), English writer and authority on Italian cuisine
-   Gina Riley (born 1961), Australian actor, writer, singer and comedian
-   Gwendoline Riley (born 1979), English writer
-   Harold Riley (artist) (born 1934), English artist
-   Harold William Hounsfield Riley (1877–1946), Canadian politician from Alberta
-   Hayden Riley (1921–1995), American college sports coach
-   Herbert D. Riley (1904–1973), United States Navy admiral
-   Herlin Riley (born 1957), American jazz drummer
-   Herman Riley (1933–2007), American saxophone player
-   Isaac Riley (1852–1926), Canadian politician
-   Isaac Riley (born 1994), American Computational Linguist
-   Ivan Riley (1900–1943), American Olympic athlete
-   Jack Riley (actor) (1935–2016), American comedian and actor
-   Jack Riley (ice hockey b. 1910) (1910–1994), Irish ice hockey player
-   Jack Riley (ice hockey b. 1919) (1919–2016), Canadian ice hockey player
-   James Riley (Captain) (1777–1840), Captain of the American merchant ship Commerce
-   James Riley (soccer player) (born 1982), American soccer winger for the New England Revolution
-   James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916), American writer and poet
-   Jason Riley (journalist) (born 1971), American journalist
-   Jeannie C. Riley (born 1945), American country and gospel music singer
-   Jim Riley (American football) (born 1945), American football player
-   Jo Riley or Josephine Riley (born 20th century), UK writer, translator, actor, specialised in Chinese theatre
-   Joe Riley (artist) (1964–2007), US artist, special effects artist, SubGenius
-   Joe Riley (hockey) (1923–1976), US ice hockey player
-   Joe Riley (rugby league), British rugby league footballer
-   John Riley (poet) (1937–1978), English poet associated with the British Poetry Revival
-   John H. Riley (1947–1994), American attorney and railroad transportation administrator
-   John J. Riley (1895–1962), American politician, US Representative from South Carolina
-   An American family of ice hockey players, all of whom became more prominent as coaches:
    -   John P. Riley, Jr. or Jack Riley (1920–2016), family patriarch
    -   Rob Riley (born 1955), older son of Jack
    -   Brian Riley (born 1959), younger son of Jack
    -   Brett Riley (born 1991), son of Rob
-   John Riley (soldier) (1805–1850), Irish-American US Army officer who deserted to fight for Mexico in the Mexican war
-   Jonathon Riley (athlete) (born 1978), American middle- and long-distance runner
-   Jonathon Riley (British Army officer) (born 1955), British Army officer
-   Joseph Albert Riley (1869–1940), South Australian sports administrator
-   Joseph Harvey Riley (1873–1941), US ornithologist, Smithsonian Institution
-   Joseph P. Riley, Jr. (born 1943), US politician, Charleston mayor
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-   Karon Riley (born 1978), American football player
-   Ken Riley (born 1947), American football player
-   Larry Riley (actor) (1952–1992), American actor
-   Lawrence Riley (1896–1974), American playwright
-   Lawrence Joseph Riley (1914–2001), American Roman Catholic bishop
-   Lisa Riley (born 1976), English actress and broadcaster
-   Malcolm Riley (born 1960), British musician and author
-   Marc Riley (born 1961), British musician, critic, and disc jockey
-   Mark Riley (disambiguation), several people
-   Martin Riley (basketball) (born 1954), former Canadian basketball player
-   Martin Riley (cricketer) (1851–1899), Yorkshire cricketer
-   Martin Riley (footballer) (born 1988), English professional football defender
-   Matt Riley (born 1979), American baseball player
-   Melanie Riley (born 1968), British businessperson
-   Michael Riley (born 1962), Canadian actor
-   Michael Riley (artist) (1960–2004), Australian artist
-   Mike Riley (born 1952), American college football coach
-   Nancy Riley (born 1958), American state senator
-   Pat Riley (born 1945), American professional basketball coach
-   Patrick T. Riley (1941–2015), American political theorist
-   Paul Riley (born 1962), Scottish actor and comedian
-   Peter Riley (born 1940), English poet
-   Quintin Riley (1905–1980), British Arctic explorer
-   Rachel Riley (born 1986), English television (Countdown) presenter
-   Raven Riley (born 1986), American adult-film actress
-   Richard Riley (born 1933), American politician, Governor of South Carolina 1979–1987
-   Robert Riley (disambiguation)
-   Ronald Riley (born 1947), Australian Olympic field hockey player
-   Ruth Riley (born 1979), American basketball player
-   Ryan Max Riley (born 1979), American humorist and skier
-   Sam Riley (born 1980), English actor
-   Samantha Riley (born 1972), Australian swimmer
-   Sean Riley (American football) (born 1974), American football player
-   Steve Riley, American accordionist, singer
-   Steve Riley (drummer) (born 1956), American drummer
-   Talulah Riley (born 1985), English actress
-   Teddy Riley (producer) (born 1967), American producer, singer, songwriter, and musician
-   Teddy Riley (trumpeter) (1924–1992), American jazz trumpeter
-   Terry Riley (born 1935), American composer
-   Thomas Riley (disambiguation)
-   Trevor Riley (born 1948), Australian judge
-   Victor Riley (born 1972), American football player
-   Wayne Riley (born 1962), Australian golfer
-   William Riley (disambiguation)
-   Yusef Riley (born 1993), Bermudian basketball player

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-   Riley family, fictional family in TV series _One Life to Live_
    -   Joe Riley, leading protagonist of the family on the show
-   Joe Riley (James Dunn), in the movie _The Golden Gloves Story_ (1951)
-   Joe Riley (Eddie Quillan), in the movie _Jungle Raiders_ (1945)
-   Kevin Riley, recurring junior officer character in _Star Trek: The Original Series_
-   Cpl. Scott Riley, character in Call of Duty: United Offensive
-   Mavis Riley (later Wilton), character from the British soap opera _Coronation Street_
-   Concepta Riley (later Hewitt and Regan), character from the British soap opera _Coronation Street_
-   Faye Riley, character in Batteries Not Included

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title: Riley (surname)

question: What does the text say about John C. Reilly?

question: What does the text say about the surname Riley?

answer: Riley is a surname of English or Irish origin. The English version has the meaning "rye clearing". It came from a place name of which there is more than one occurrence. The locations for the name include Lancashire (High Riley in Accrington) and Devon. In the United Kingdom Census 1881, more than a third of Rileys were in Lancashire. It was most prevalent in the east of the county and over the boundary into the Calder Valley in Yorkshire, and the same could be found in these areas from the 13th century. The Irish version of the surname is a form of O'Reilly, derived from the first name Raghallach. The Gaelic version of the surname, Ó Raghallaigh, is Irish for "grandson (or descendant) of Raghallach".


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'They were so alive in their world while I was rotting away in mine. I started having this fantasy in my head about getting up from my desk and joining them'

Apr 18, 2015  •   •  9 minute read

Jonathan Gottschall felt stuck. He was 38 and making about $16,000 a year teaching English on contract at Washington & Jefferson, a small liberal arts college in Washington, Pa., just outside of Pittsburgh.

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Harvard was never going to call. And his students didn’t care; they never showed up at his weekly office hours. To pass the time, he would stare out the windows of the faculty lounge, searching for a new path in life.

Then one day there it was, right across the street: Mark Shrader’s Mixed Martial Arts Academy, a cage fighting gym.

“I could actually look out the window and see the guys in the cage, young guys, dancing and hitting and grappling and fighting,” Gottschall says.

“They were so alive in their world while I was rotting away in mine. I started having this fantasy in my head about getting up from my desk and joining them.”

Eventually, he did. His body is now shot through with tendinitis, and his neck aches from an unfortunate encounter with a 120-plus-kilo adversary. But he now knows how to choke another man unconscious or twist off their arm, if need be.

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[Jonathan Gottschall]
Gilberto Tadday
It is a story he tells in _The Professor in the Cage_, a new book about one man’s journey from struggling academic to mixed martial arts badass, but also about some fundamental questions: why do men fight, and why do we like to watch them?

Little boys fight. Canada’s Public Health Agency reports about 20% of Canadian boys in Grade 6 get in a fight each year. But fighting behaviour decreases with age, as does our tolerance for it. Anti-bullying campaigns now abound in schools and in the workplace. Personal scores and business disputes end with lawsuits, instead of pistols at dawn or fists in an alleyway.

Much of the violence we commit is now done at arm’s length — by way of technology. Canadian soldiers charged up Vimy Ridge in 1917. Today, a drone might do the trick. The most dangerous behaviour most North American men engage in is driving a car. And there is a good chance it is a minivan, a boxy emblem of masculine decline.

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But if culture has changed, human evolution is slow. Men once fought over food, territory, status, stuff and mates — and they watched each other fight to figure out who the best fighters were. Thousands of years later, men can’t just bonk their neighbours over the head with a rock and take what is theirs. But that doesn’t mean some part of the male brain isn’t thinking about it.

“Fighting is hardwired into us, it is a part of who we are,” says David Carrier, a biology professor at the University of Utah. (Our evolutionary cousins, chimpanzees, are not that different, he adds: they have lifelong relationships with others, but are also maniacal killers.)

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Maybe the real question isn’t why we like watching men fight, but why wouldn’t we like watching men fight?

“We all say we hate violence,” says Gottschall. “But we are still shovelling it in our faces, consuming a huge diet of violent entertainment through movies and video games and sports, and so I think we should just admit it: something in us likes violence.”

He’s right: the most watched television event in the United States each year is a stylized version of hand-to-hand combat known as the Super Bowl. The Olympics feature the javelin, hammer throw, shot put and other assorted feats of strength, speed and endurance. All skills that can win a modern competitor a gold medal, but were applied equally well in ancient Greece when it came time to strap on the swords and defend the frontier.

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Mixed martial arts (MMA) is perhaps the least disguised modern metaphor we have for hand-to-hand combat. It may not be a fight to the death, but a University of Toronto study published last year in the _American Journal of Sports Medicine_ concluded a mixed martial artist suffers a traumatic brain injury in almost a third of professional bouts. That is a higher rate of head trauma than in hockey, football — and even boxing.

MMA fighters strike with their fists, which are padded, and their feet and knees, which are not. The goal isn’t scoring goals, but beating your opponent into submission (or unconsciousness). The Canadian Medical Association urged the provinces to ban the sport five years ago, fearing the long-term health implications for competitors.

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But that didn’t happen. Ultimate Fighting Championship, the A-list fight league for those who like the rough stuff, has held 17 events in Canada since 2008, including several sellouts in Montreal, grossing about $60 million in gate receipts. (The privately owned company does not disclose its pay-per view television numbers). TSN attracts about 200,000 viewers to its UFC broadcasts, similar to the audience for Toronto Raptors games.

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For years, Dana White, president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship — the top professional rung of MMA — insisted he would never allow women to fight in his league. Fans wouldn’t be interested in watching two women beat each other up, he said. Then along came Ronda Rousey, an attractive, trash-talking former Olympic bronze medallist in judo. She signed with UFC in 2012 and has fought five times, often as the headliner at major events, earning $850,000 in prize money, excluding bonuses, endorsements and movie deals. “She’s a rock star,” White has said. “She has been killing it for us.”

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Nancy Cheever, a communications professor at California State University, Dominguez Hills, interviewed 3,000 MMA fans for a study published in the Journal of Sport. About three per cent of respondents were women, age 18-36. Their primary reason for watching the blood sport was the same as it was for men: they enjoyed it more for the skills the fighters’ displayed than the gore of seeing someone get their face mashed in. A 2012 poll by the Sports Business Journal found about 10 per cent of women describe themselves as fans of mixed martial arts.

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_The Ultimate Fighter_ is the UFC’s reality television brand, a recurring series where competitors, from near and far, audition — and fight — for a chance to land a job as a UFC regular. Last September, for its 20th season, the show featured women fighters for the first time. The series première on Fox Sports attracted 2.54 million viewers, a network record, and a 70 per cent increase over the previous season featuring men. That number is also about 400,000 more viewers than Hockey Night in Canada typically draws for a Saturday night broadcast.

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The UFC now features 56 female fighters competing in two weight classes, including Sarah Kaufman, a 29-year-old from Victoria. At one time, she aspired to be a surgeon and also trained as a dancer, but was drawn to MMA because of the multiplicity of combat disciplines fighters have to master to be effective. Kaufman is extremely well spoken, and nice. She says the first question people ask when they first heard what she did for a living was “Aren’t you afraid of getting hurt?” And the second question: “Aren’t you worried about your face?” Kaufman isn’t worried. She cheerfully describes knocking out an opponent “as literally the best moment on the planet.” [/np_storybar]

And the violence is clearly the draw: Nancy Cheever, a communications professor at California State University, Dominguez Hills, had seen MMA events on TV and wondered why anyone would watch such a brutal spectacle. So she interviewed 3,000 MMA fans for a study published in the Journal of Sport.

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“Men get a visceral experience from watching MMA. It is like watching the gladiators, and maybe it is because they are not fighters themselves,” she says.

Gottschall admits even during all his years as a tennis-playing wimp he was a closet MMA fan. He would rent fight videos and watch them in his basement, feeling ashamed, but unable to look away.

But there may be more to it than simple blood lust.

Mark Hominick, a nine-time Canadian MMA champion who ranks among the most popular Canadians ever to compete in the UFC, says that a cage fight is not a chaotic brawl but an art form.

He was introduced to the sport at age 13 during a high school field trip and loved it because of the grab bag of skills required to compete — boxing, kick-boxing, wrestling, judo, jiu-jitsu — and for the competition itself. Particularly those soul-searching, incredibly lonely moments, in otherwise evenly matched fights, where both men were being pushed to their breaking points.

“Being at that edge, and passing through that barrier, was my favourite part of fighting,” he says.

It wasn’t beating the other guy, so much as beating down his internal doubts. Hominick won fights by kicks, punches, arm-bars and chokes. And he lost by the same. But he never viewed an opponent as the enemy.

“I never wanted to hurt anybody,” he says.

Cheever found that many of the MMA fans she interviewed were also less interested in who got hurt than in the beauty, for example, of seeing a well-executed chokehold.

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I can relate. The last time I got in a fight was in Grade 4. I’m deathly afraid of horror movies and currently going soft in all the wrong places sitting at a desk writing. But I also love watching boxing. Not for the knockouts, but for the narratives. For the uncertainty of the outcome and the human virtues displayed.

Fighting takes courage. Toughness. Tenacity. It is an ancient, violent story. And in the end we get a triumph, and a human tragedy; only one fighter wins a fight.

Afterwards, the combatants invariably embrace, a tender gesture common to dozens of primate species after one male tries to bash in another’s head during ritual combat.

“You hug because you understand how hard your opponent has trained,” Hominick says. “And any fighter can say that they are not scared, but there is always fear, no matter how much experience you have.

“It takes a brave person to step in the cage and to go there.”

So what about the professor, did he go there?

Gottschall went to Shrader’s gym expecting to discover a bunch of sociopaths and found a collection of average guys instead. Accountants and miners and students and blue-collar types, mostly in their 20s, and mostly searching for a primeval test in a world without woolly mammoths. (But there are lots of MMA gyms, including about a dozen in the greater Pittsburgh area alone.)

“I came to see MMA, especially at the amateur level, as a fairly healthy way for men to explore their capacities,” he says. “To have a chance to struggle and to demonstrate, at least to themselves, that they have the right stuff.”

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Gottschall’s test came at an amateur MMA event at a hockey arena in Johnstown, Pa. He had spent 15 months getting hit and twisted and bent and battered in Shrader’s gym, preparing for the violence. He was in the best shape of his life. He had muscles you could actually see. His opponent was Justin McCloskey, a 24-year-old he knew nothing about.

The bell rang. The fight was on.

Gottschall drove his shoulder into the younger man’s belly, wrapping up his knees, a takedown he describes in the book as “maybe the coolest thing I have ever accomplished in my life.”

He had the kid pinned, and was readying for the kill, when McCloskey slithered free and flipped him like a pancake, grabbing his arm and yanking it to its snapping point.

Gottschall tapped his opponent’s leg, a gesture of surrender. The fight had lasted 47 seconds. The English professor had lost to an aspiring nurse.

_National Post_

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answer: In 2012, Ronda Rousey, a former Olympic bronze medalist in judo, signed with UFC and fought five times, often as the headliner at major events. She has earned over $850,000 in prize money, as well as a slew of endorsements and bonuses.

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_THE BOTTOM OF THE BLUES_ is an album by blues pianist/vocalist Otis Spann recorded in 1967 and originally released by the BluesWay label.[1][2][3]

Track listing

All compositions by Otis Spann except where noted

1.  “Heart Loaded with Trouble” (James Oden) − 2:58
2.  “Diving Duck” − 5:25
3.  “Shimmy Baby” (Muddy Waters) − 3:54
4.  “Looks Like Twins” (Muddy Waters) − 4:58
5.  “I'm a Fool” (Lucille Spann) − 3:09
6.  “My Man” (Lucille Spann) − 3:35
7.  “Down to Earth” − 4:32
8.  “Nobody Knows” (Walter Davis) − 4:43
9.  “Doctor Blues” − 2:50

Personnel

-   Otis Spann − piano, vocals
-   George Buford − harmonica
-   Luther Johnson, Muddy Waters, Sammy Lawhorn − guitar
-   Sonny Wimberley − bass
-   S. P. Leary – drums
-   Lucille Spann − vocals (tracks 3 & 5-7)

[1] Wirz' American Music: Bluesway Records discography accessed November 14, 2019

[2] Both Sides Now: Bluesway Album Discography accessed November 14, 2019

[3] Wirz' American Music:Otis Spann Discography accessed November 14, 2019

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The BARROW POETS or BARROW COLLECTIVE were a group of poets and folk musicians formed in England in the 1950s.[1] Their name came from their practice of selling, from a barrow, copies of works they had written or performed.[2] Members at different times included Gerard Benson, Jim Parker, William Bealby-Wright, Christine Shotton, Cicely Smith, Heather Black, John Naylor, Susan Baker, and William Gardener.[3] They released several folk and spoken word albums on Argo Records from 1963 to 1981, sold mostly at their own gigs.[4] The group “performed everything from Shakespeare and Milton to limericks and risqué ballads everywhere – from the back rooms of pubs to BBC's _Late Night Line-Up_, around the country and in Europe and the US”.[5] “The Pheasant Plucker's Song” was an Australian Top 10 single.[6]

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answer: A group of poets and folk musicians formed in England in the 1950s, including Gerard Benson, Jim Parker, William Bealby-Wright, Christine Shotton, Cicely Smith, Heather Black, John Naylor, Susan Baker, and William Gardener.

question: Where did the name 'Barrow Poets' originate?

answer: They sold copies of their work from a barrow.

question: What was produced/published by the group?

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answer: The Barrow Poets were a group formed in England in the 1950s who performed and recorded folk music and spoken word. They were named for their practice of selling copies of their work from a barrow.