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CASERTANA FOOTBALL CLUB is an Italian association football club based in Caserta, Campania. The club currently plays in Serie C, the third tier of Italian football.

History

The club was founded in 1908 as ROBUR CASERTA and became known as UNIONE SPORTIVA CASERTANA from 1928 until 2005, when the team was cancelled by the federation. The club also had two stints in Serie B in 1970–71 and 1991–92.

The club was refounded in 2005 as A.S. CASERTA CALCIO and was later renamed A.S. CASERTANA CALCIO. During the 2009–10 Serie D season, the side took back its traditional denomination.

Casertana made its return to professionalism at the end of the 2012–13 season, after finishing fourth in Serie D, thus reaching the promotion play-off only to be beaten by Virtus Verona in the final. However, the club was successively admitted into Lega Pro Seconda Divisione as a replacement for a number of teams that went bankrupt by the end of the season. The club ended the 2013–14 season in second place, thus qualifying to the 2014–15 Lega Pro division.

Colours and badge

The colours of the team are red and blue.

Players

Current squad

_As of 5 October 2020_.[1]

Out on loan

Club officials

Board of directors

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| Role                              | Name                              |
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| Owner                             | Giuseppe D'Agostino               |
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| President                         | Giuseppe D'Agostino               |
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| Executive President               | Lidia Lonardo                     |
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| Technical Director                | Aniello Martone                   |
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| Club Manager                      | Pietro Valori                     |
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| Marketing Director                | Nicola Pastore                    |
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| Communication Director            | Giuseppe Frondella                |
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| Team Manager                      | Eugenio Galasso                   |
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| Youth Teams Coordinator           | Andrea Zungri                     |
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| Secretaries                       | Gaetano Sellitti                  |
|                                   |  Marco Caporaso                   |
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| Responsible with Security         | Saverio Colurcio                  |
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-   Last updated: 2 November 2020
-   Source:[2]

Current technical staff

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| Role                              | Name                              |
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| Head Coach                        | Federico Guidi                    |
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| Assistant Coach                   | Andrea Cupi                       |
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| Goalkeeping Coach                 | Luciano Tarallo                   |
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| Fitness Coaches                   | Domenico Melino                   |
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| Video analysts                    | Federico Santi                    |
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| Club doctor                       | Camillo Agnano                    |
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| Physiotherapists                  | Luigi Ferrara                     |
|                                   |  Raffaele Vetrone                 |
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| Kit man                           | Benito Gazzillo                   |
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-   Last updated: 2 November 2020
-   Source:[3]

Local clubs

Eccellenza Molise clubs A.S.D. Alliphae based in Alife, Campania and A.S.D. Tre Pini Matese based in Piedimonte Matese, Campania respectively share a local rivalry with Casertana.

Notable former managers

-   Giuseppe Materazzi

-   Nedo Sonetti

-   Adriano Lombardi

Honours

_Source: Casertanafc.it_

-   SERIE C
    -   CHAMPIONS (1): 1969–70
    -   Runners-up (2) : 1967–68, 1968–69
-   SERIE C1
    -   CHAMPIONS (1): 1990–91
-   SERIE C2
    -   CHAMPIONS (1): 1980–81
-   SERIE D
    -   CHAMPIONS (3): 1949–50, 1962–63, 1995–96
    -   Runners-up (2) : 1960–61, 1977–78
-   ECCELLENZA CAMPANIA
    -   CHAMPIONS (1): 2006–07
-   PROMOZIONE CAMPANIA
    -   CHAMPIONS (1): 1953–54
-   COPPA ITALIA DILETTANTI
    -   Runners-up (1) : 2006–07

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title: Casertana F.C.

question: Explain briefly, the history of Casertana Football Club

answer: Casertana Football Club is an Italian soccer club, which was founded in 1908 as Robur Caserta, then Unione Sportiva Casertana until 2005, After it was cancelled it became A.S. Casterta Calcio, and finally goes by its current name. The club returned to professional play in 2013 and qualified for the Lega Pro Division for the 2014-15 season.

question: Summarize the best play Casertana F.C have made during their most recent season


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EDWARD MARTIN BURGESS FSA FBHI (born 21 November 1931), known as MARTIN BURGESS, is an English horologist and master clockmaker.

Early life

Burgess was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, between 1944 and 1949, where he was a member of Farfield. His exact contemporaries at Farfield included Robert Aagaard, later a furniture maker and conservator who founded the youth movement Cathedral Camps.[1][2]

Burgess's memories of Gresham's during the freezing months of January to March 1947, the coldest British winter on record, are quoted at length in _I Will Plant Me a Tree: an Illustrated History of Gresham's School_ (2002). Not only was the winter icy cold, but because of fuel-shortages the school was unheated. Burgess recalls that “Periods were held in full overcoats and scarves and gloves. If it happened now the School would be closed, but such a step was not even thought of then. In any case, the roads were blocked... One day the School was called out to dig out a farm, or was it a small village? Hurrah! No periods! In the afternoon everyone prayed there would be periods, it was so cold. A man had died.”[3]

Career

After a first career as a restorer of Egyptian antiquities, Burgess turned to horology and clock-making and has specialised in building innovative and gigantic clocks, often with a variety of unusual escapements.

He is also a leading expert on John Harrison, the 18th-century horologist who built the first ever successful marine timekeeper (the forerunner of the marine chronometer) leading to the possibility of an accurate measurement of longitude.

Burgess coined the term _sculptural horology_ in the 1960s.

Notable clocks

[Clock B at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.] Burgess's First Sculptural Clock with Bells, from 1963, has the dimensions high, wide, and deep. It is generally known as the Broxbourne Clock, after the house in Hertfordshire for which it was made.[4] It was exhibited in the Former Time Museum of Rockford, Illinois, but is now in a private collection.

His magnificent Second Sculptural Clock, made in 1965, is now owned by the American graphic artist Donald Saff. The clock (which appeared on the cover of the _Horological Journal_ for August 2001) has a massive compound pendulum which beats at 2.5 seconds and an escape wheel which turns in five minutes. A limited edition of thirty-five half-size replicas, known as ‘'Concord clocks'’, Harrison style with grasshopper escapement and compound pendulum, was made by E. Dent and has the dimensions high, wide, deep.

Burgess's Third Sculptural Clock, generally known as the Hares and Tortoises clock, was the most ambitious to date, and was his first speculative venture. It draws influences from Jost Bürgi, Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe and John Harrison. It is 35 inches (880 mm) tall and 37 in (950 mm) wide. The wheels are in Duralumin, while the frame is iron. It runs with minimal lubricants. Visually, the clock is dominated by three large wheels, which are pierced out to represent aspects of time, the left hand wheel (used for hour striking) having its crossing in the form of hares and tortoises, to echo Aesop's fable . The escapement embodies Burgess's improved version of a Grimthorpe gravity escapement. The clock has ting-tang quarter striking and hour striking. It is now in a private collection.[5]

The Schroder clock was commissioned by the merchant bank Schroder Wagg in 1969, for a new building at 120 Cheapside. It was designed to cover a large part of a wall in the entrance lobby. Its principal feature is a duralumin wheel of 10 feet (3 metres) in diameter, which rotates once in 24 hours, showing world time. The clock was recognised in the Guinness World Records for having the largest clock wheel in existence. The clock uses a gravity escapement similar to that employed by Frank Hope-Jones, providing an impulse each minute to an 80 kg pendulum. The clock was later moved and is now displayed at Citigroup Centre, London.[6]

His Gurney Clock was given to the people of Norwich by Barclays Bank to mark the 200th anniversary of the founding of what is now Barclays by the Gurney family in Norwich in 1775, which was also the anniversary (significant for Burgess) of the publication of John Harrison's 'A Description Concerning such Mechanism...'. The clock is in the shape of a golden lion automaton in a golden castle (the lion and castle are two of the heraldic symbols of Norwich) and has a weight-driven precision clock movement based closely on one designed in the 1740s by John Harrison. On the hour, bronze balls are taken by the lion and travel down a track to a set of scales (a symbol of Barclay's Bank) and on into the castle. The clock took eleven years to build and was housed in a public park, but by 1992 it had been badly vandalised. After a long campaign by the Norwich Society, it was then restored and installed in the Castle Mall, Norwich, inside a massive glass and metal case. It was removed from the Mall in 2015 and placed in storage.[7]

A second, nearly identical clock movement, _Clock B_, was built to test John Harrison's claim that his clock designs were capable of maintaining time to within 1 second over 100 days.[8] This was an improvement on the state of the art for land-based clocks almost as dramatic as his seagoing designs. Indeed, it was only reached at the beginning of the 20th century with evacuated pendulum clocks such as the Riefler and Shortt.

Clock B lay incomplete in Burgess' workshop until 2009, when Donald Saff acquired the unfinished movement and arranged for it to be completed (with much input from Burgess) by Charles Frodsham and Company.[9][10]

In March 2014, the clock was moved to the Royal Observatory, Greenwich for testing and further adjustments were made during 2014.[11] Finally, in a 100-day test between 6 January and 16 April 2015, it lost 5/8 of a second to claim the title of the most accurate mechanical clock with a pendulum swinging in free air.[12][13]

Publications

-   _The Mail-maker's Technique_ in _The Antiquaries Journal_ Vol 33 (1953) 48–55
-   _Further Research into the Construction of Mail Garments_ in _The Antiquaries Journal_ Vol 33 (1953) 193–202
-   _The Mail Shirt From Sinigaglia_ in _The Antiquaries Journal_ Vol 37 (1957) 199–205
-   _A Mail Shirt From The Hearst Collection_ in _The Antiquaries Journal_
-   _A Habergeon of Westwale_ by William Reid and E. Martin Burgess in _The Antiquaries Journal_
-   _The Grasshopper Escapement, its Geometry and its Properties_ in _Antiquarian Horology_, Volume 7, part 5 (1970)
-   _Principles and Objectives_, in _Conservation of Clocks and Watches_ (ed. Peter B. Wills, British Horological Institute)
-   _How Greenwich Observatory Lost the Harrison Regulators_ (in _Horological Journal_, November 1974)
-   _The Harrison Regulator for the Gurney Clock_ (in _Horological Journal_, July 1987)
-   _Looking forward to the Harrison Seminar_ (in _Horological Journal_, July 1988)
-   _Reply to Mr Greene from Martin Burgess_ (in _Horological Journal_, April 1990)
-   _Questioning Airy_ (in _Horological Journal_, July 1990)
-   _Harrison & H4_ (in _Horological Journal_, November 1993)
-   _Quest for Longitude_ (in _Horological Journal_, April 1997)

Honours

-   Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
-   Fellow of the British Horological Institute

Documentary film

The documentary _Clock-maker_ (1971), directed and produced by Richard Gayer, is a profile of Burgess. It focuses on the building of one of his gigantic clocks, an open mechanism eighteen feet high, driven by weights and weighing some 350 kilograms, or 760 pounds avoirdupois.

[1] _Old Greshamian Club Book_ (Cromer, Cheverton & Son Ltd, 1998), p. 17

[2] 'AAGAARD, Robert', in _Who Was Who_, A. & C. Black, 1920–2007; online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2007: AAGAARD, Robert (subscription required). Retrieved 10 August 2008

[3] Benson, Steve, _I Will Plant Me a Tree: an Illustrated History of Gresham's School_ (2002) 85–86

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title: Martin Burgess

question: What does the article say about Burgess's life outside of clockmaking?

answer: He was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, where he was a member of Farfield. His first occupation was as a restorer of Egyptian antiquities.

question: What does the article say about Burgess's accomplishments during the 1930s?


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Good question! Because in order to beat them, we need to know our enemy. So in this post, first we'll look at the two different types of bike thief.

[A bike thief]

And then we'll examine the eight most popular tools they're using to steal our bikes. I've also added some videos of real thieves stealing bikes with these tools.

Who are these Bike Thieves?

So there are broadly two different types of bike thief. The first and most common, is the "OPPORTUNIST" thief, who is certainly carrying cable cutters, maybe some medium sized bolt cutters, maybe even a crowbar.

The opportunists are looking for any bikes secured with cables, weak u-locks and puny chains and padlocks. No bike is too cheap or tatty to escape their attention.

But the good news is: a decent u-lock or chain lock will usually be too much for their limited tool set, and they will pass over your bike for easier pickings.

The second type is the “PROFESSIONAL” bike thief, who will certainly use very powerful bolt cutters and may have access to a variety of power tools, such as portable angle grinders and bottle jacks.

The professionals target the more expensive bikes and may even steal to order. They can defeat any lock given enough time.

So if you have a bike that a “professional” may covet, you’ll need the best quality lock _and_ you’ll need to be very careful about where you leave your bike and how long you leave it for.

The 8 most common tools used by Bike Thieves

OK, let’s have a look at the eight most popular tools these thieves are using in more detail...

1. Their bare hands!

[Bare hands]

Yep, believe it or not, many cheap bike locks can be broken with your bare hands. And you don’t have to be built like the Incredible Hulk! We’re generally talking about cable locks here.

Don’t believe me? Check out this video…

2. Wire/cable cutters

[Wire cutters]

A pair of hand held cable cutters will snip through most cable locks in seconds. Cheap, inconspicuous and easy to carry around in a coat pocket, this is the tool that's most commonly used by bike thieves.

And it’s worth repeating again: they will cut through nearly all cable locks in seconds. Here’s a video of a thief cutting a cable lock with a tiny pair of wire cutters...

Embarrassing isn't it? There are plenty of great, lightweight bike locks that can't be cut so easily though!

3. Hacksaws

[Hacksaw]

Just like a pair of cable cutters, a hacksaw is cheap and pretty easy to carry around unnoticed. And just like the cable cutters, it will tear through a cable lock very easily.

With enough time, a hacksaw will also cut through low quality u-locks and chains which tend to be made from thin, soft metal.

This video shows a thief stealing a bike with a hacksaw. It takes him seconds...

4. Hammers

[Hammer]

Cheap, poor quality mechanisms can be smashed to bits with a hammer. For the thief, it’s much easier if they can hit the mechanism against a hard concrete ground. So using a good locking technique, that keeps your lock as far off the ground as possible is important.

However, they don’t always need the ground. So even more important is not buying a cheap lock that can be defeated with a hammer...

5. Crow bars / Scaffold poles

[Crowbar]

Crowbars, scaffold poles and other long pieces of metal are often used in leverage attacks on u-locks. Longer ones are obviously a bit more conspicuous! But they’re very effective, even on mid range u-locks.

A smaller u-lock and good locking technique can make this much more difficult for the thief.

This is a great video of a scaffold pole thief in action...

6. Bolt cutters

[Bolt cutters]

Bolt cutters come in a variety of sizes (usually 8″, 12″, 18″, 24″, 36″ and 42″). The smaller bolt cutters (8 and 12″) are easily concealed in a backpack and will make mince meat out of all cable locks.

What do you think this man’s got down his trousers?...

Medium sized bolt cutters (18 and 24″) are often carried beneath a long coat, hanging from a piece of rope around the thief’s neck. They’ll defeat weaker chains, u-locks and folding locks...

The biggest bolt cutters (36 and 42″) are usually only used by serious bike thieves. But they can crop mid range u-locks and chains and sometimes even the higher end locks. The strongest bike locks will be bolt cutter proof though...

To guarantee that a lock cannot be cropped by _any_ manual bolt croppers you need a lock made from good quality, properly hardened steel with a diameter of 16 mm.

But bear in mind not everyone with 36 or 42″ bolt cutters can crop a high security locks that’s less than 16 mm thick.

It takes a thief with considerable skill (and weight!) who can manoeuvre the lock into a favourable position where they can use the ground for leverage.

So, again, good locking technique can minimize this risk.

7. Hydraulic bottle jacks

[Hydraulic bottle jack]

Hydraulic bottle jacks are used by some of the more serious bike thieves. Inserted into the space inside a u-lock they can exert enough force to pop open even the most secure locks.

[Bottle jack in U-lock]

This is why smaller u-locks are generally safer: there's less space available to fit a bottle jack. It’s also why a good locking technique should always try to fill up as much of the space inside your u-lock!

8. Portable angle grinders

[Portable angle grinder]

Portable, battery powered angle grinders are only for the most audacious thief. They make a lot of noise and produce a lot of sparks. So they _should_ attract a lot of attention.

However, time and time again we see passers-by ignoring thieves stealing bikes. So maybe they don’t really need to be that audacious!

Angle grinders will cut through any lock given enough time. However, the thicker the lock, the longer it takes. And the greater the risk the thief will be disturbed.

With the very thickest locks like the New York Fahgettaboudit, they may even need to carry a spare battery to get through it. However, with battery technology improving all the time this is becoming less of an issue (unfortunately).

Forward thinking brands like Altor, (who sell the world's first "angle grinder proof bike lock"), and SkunkLock, (whose booby trapped u-lock will give any angle grinder wielding thief a very nasty surprise), are doing their best to fight back.

But at the end of the day, an angle grinder will get through any lock _eventually_. So make sure you leave your bike in the most public places you can find, for the shortest possible time.

Here’s some CCTV footage of a bike being stolen using an angle grinder in an underground car park. The sparks start to fly at 1:20 min…

Wrapping up

So there you have the most popular tools for stealing bikes. As used by both opportunist and “professional” bike thieves.

There are of course other ways to defeat bike locks. They can be picked. They can be frozen with aerosols and then smashed with a hammer. They can be blow torched. But these methods aren’t widely used by bike thieves. Probably because they are either more difficult, less effective or more costly.

And what can we learn form this? Well, the most important lesson is this: NEVER, EVER USE A CABLE LOCK.

If you use a decent u-lock, it won’t be beaten by wire or cable cutters. No-ones going to rip it off with their bare hands. It will take an impossibly long time to cut through with a hacksaw. It can’t be smashed open by a hammer. And small or even medium size bolt cutters will not be able to crop it.

And with a good locking technique that keeps your lock as far from the ground as possible and leaves little space to insert bottle jacks or lengths of metal that are used for leverage attacks, you can vastly reduce your exposure to these other methods.

An angle grinder will always be able to defeat your lock. But there’s not much you can do about that. If your bike is desirable enough to attract a thief with an angle grinder, you should take steps to ensure your bike is never left anywhere such a thief might have access to.

If you’re thinking your current bike lock might not be up to the job, please check out my bike lock guide where I will show you the three simple steps to find the best lock for you and your bike.

question: Summarize the differences between the opportunist thief and the professional thief.

answer: The opportunist bike thief are more common than professional bike thieves. They're usually looking for any bike, whether cheap or expensive, that is secured with cables, weak u-locks, and small chains and padlocks. Professionals on the other hand are usually looking for bikes of value, and may have access to a variety of more powerful tools. They can usually defeat any lock given enough time, unlike the opportunists.

question: What does the text say about thieves and bolt cutters?

answer: Bolt cutters are one of the tools used by bike thieves. Opportunistic thieves usually just use medium sized bolt cutters to cut off weak locks, but professional thieves often go for the biggest and most powerful type of bolt cutters. Bolt cutters come in a variety of sizes, and even the smaller ones(8 and 12") will make mince meat out of all cable locks. Thieves usually conceal bolt cutters in backpacks or under long coats depending on the size. Not everyone with the biggest bolt cutters (36 and 42") can crop a high security lock that's less than 16mm thick. These thieves need to have considerable skill and weight to do this.

question: What does the text say about professional thieves defeating u-locks?

answer: Professional thieves have the ability to defeat any lock given enough time, which includes the u-lock. Crowbars, scaffold poles, and other long pieces of metal can be used to leverage attacks on u-locks. Medium bolt cutters can also be used on weaker u-locks, and the biggest bolt cutters can work on mid to high range u-locks. Hydraulic bottle jacks, which are inserted into the space inside a u-lock, are used by some of the more serious bike thieves.

question: What does the text say about getting the help of police?


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Nanny Caitlin drove silently in the passenger seat. It was a day like any other. Too bright for the task at hand. “Where are we going?” Nay Nay asked the driver. Nancy, was her name. but little Nancy thought her name was too somber and grown up of a name for a cute little girl like herself. As a solution she requested everyone call her Nay Nay. “I am now Nay Nay,” she announced one day during their breakfast. Everyone nodded and since then has been Nay Nay. “Jeeves?” little Nay Nay prodded. The somber man twitched his mustache. He was an older man, gray lightly snowed his brown hair. Despite his shave that morning he already had some stubble growing in – gray and dark brown. His hands curled and uncurled on the steering wheel, his knuckles lightly whitening. He avoided the little girl’s big brown eyes. “Nanny, where are we going?” she asked, seeing the man she called Jeeves as a game wasn’t going to answer.

“You will see soon enough Miss Nay Nay,” Nanny said. She looked back slightly to nod at her young mistress. Caitlin was a governess more than a nanny but little Nancy called her Nanny as long as Caitlin could remember.
Today little Nay Nay decided to look extra pretty for their very special trip. Caitlin had worn her hair back in a stern bun with dark sunglasses. She wore a navy skirt suit with black stockings and pumps. For being only 26, she looked much older today. So seeing as how Nanny Caitlin dressed up, Nay Nay saw it only fitting if she dressed up as well.

She wore a yellow sleeveless dress with light blue flowers with a white belt. Her long black burly hair was adorned by a yellow bow that tied back her bangs and she wore light blue little rubber boots on her feet to match her flowers. She twirled in front of the mirror, inspecting her outfit earlier that morning. “Does this look nice?” she had asked Nanny Caitlin.

“It looks beautiful Miss Nay Nay,” she had said. Caitlin stood behind her mistress facing the mirror and put her hand on the little girl’s head.

 Nay Nay’s cheeks reddened with joy and love for her Nanny. She turned to Caitlin and hugged her legs. “I love you Nanny Caitlin. So much,” she said lovingly. Her small hands gripped the hem of Caitlin’s skirt and her big brown eye twinkled.

“I love you too little mistress,” Caitlin had said.

Now as they were nearing their destination, Caitlin cleared her throat. Miss Nay Nay’s parents didn’t even say good bye, she thought.

As they neared the building it was as if the weather finally caught up with the solemnity of the situation at hand. Clouds formed overhead and a gray replaced the yellow. Very serious black gates opened, like a mouth awaiting its meal. There was no landscape to speak of; a patch of cement crudely and hastily laid improvised as a parking lot. Dry and motionless dirt with patches of dying grass and overrun with weeds surrounded the very lone and haunted building.

Nay Nay was not deterred, her chipper attitude still in place when Jeeves brought the car to a bouncy halt on the uneven cement. It’s time, Caitlin somberly thought. She fixed her dark sunglasses despite the cloudy weather and helped Miss Nay Nay out.

Nay Nay stood facing the enormous concrete building. At first glance, it appeared to be a two story building. Two windows on either side of the large centered door stared Nay Nay down. They were higher up – as if on the second floor – with bars on them in a tic-tac-toe pattern. Nay Nay felt a chill pass through her small frame and she rubbed her arms in slight anxiousness. She was determined to be a brave girl. You can do this Nay Nay, she told herself.

Caitlin put her hand reassuringly on the little girl’s head and gently lead her in, the building loomed over Nay Nay as she craned her neck back to see the very top. It was all one floor with ceilings so high Nay Nay could barely see the top. Upon entering the building the temperature suddenly dropped tremendously. Little Nay Nay shivered as her arms got goose bumps. She rubbed them more and she breathed out as she watched her breath form into a puff of white clouds before her. “It’s so cold Nanny,” she said huddling to her leg. Caitlin stepped away as a man and woman came forth.

They wore stained white coats with masks over their faces and gloves on their hands. The man’s glasses sat crooked on his face and the woman’s left eye glass leg was missing. The clothes under their coats were wrinkled and the man’s pants were too short. He wasn’t wearing any socks. Nay Nay felt scared but she was not going to allow herself to be afraid. You can do it Nay Nay.

Nay Nay smiled at the two doctors. “Hello,” she said in a shakey yet chipper voice. “My name is Nay Nay,” she smiled. Nay Nay extended her hand and that’s when it started.

Her soft little arm extended and landed on the floor before her. Her eyes went narrow and her mouth started to quiver. She reached and cradled her now stump of an arm. Most children would have screamed and cried but Little Nay Nay just looked up at her Nanny for help. “Uhmmm, Na-Nanny Caitlin,” she whispered quaveringly. “Is-is everything going to be ok?” she blinked quickly to hold back her tears that still stubbornly made their way down her cheeks. Blood began to soak her hand and the doctors grinned through their stained and missing teeth.

Nanny Caitlin said nothing in return but looked straight ahead. Nay Nay forced an unsteady laugh as she gently touched the raw meat on her stub. “It’s ok Nay Nay,” she whispered to herself smiling. “It’s all going to be okay.” She wiped her bloody hand on her yellow dress, small hand prints being left in the wake. She bent down and picked up her once attached arm. Dirt stuck to the moist, meaty bits. Nay Nay blew at the trash and brushed the flesh on her now stained dress to rid it of trash. She held the dislocated arm to her small body. “It’s okay Nay Nay,” she whispered to herself. Her nose began to get runny and she wiped it with her attached hand.

They adults just watched as Little Nay Nay caressed her arm and stump, trying to stay brave; trying not to cry.
Little Nay Nay stood there shivering when without warning she fell sideways. Her head hit the solid concrete floor, dirt and blood staining her face. A light trickle of blood slowly glided down the side of her face. “Ah! What ha-”she gasped in shock and horror to see her right leg lying on the ground, a few feet from where her arm had landed from her fall. She tried to sit up but had to regain her balance with her remaining right arm. “Oh! No! No! No, no, no, no, no,” she said softly. Nay Nay began to hyperventilate, her small chest heaving and small gasps escaping her bloody little body. “It’s okay Nay Nay,” she whimpered to herself.  “It’s all going to be ok,” her voice got higher pitched as she tried to choke back her sobs. “It’s ok,” she clawed at her detached leg, dragging it closer to her. She reached for her arm but couldn’t get to it. Nay Nay pleadingly looked up at Nanny Caitlin, who did not meet her eye.

Nay Nay was determined to be okay. Determined that everything was going to be ok, as she dragged herself to her arm forcing down gasps and tears. As she reach her arm, she used her torso to pull herself back – her right arm being extended to its fullest – when that arm too gave way. She landed on her face, her small teeth pushed back up into her gum – broken and jagged. A quick scream left her throat as she fell and blood came forth from her injured nose. Tears ran down her face, mixing with the blood and dirt puddling under her. “It’s-it’s all going to be okay. Okay, Nay Nay?!” she whimpered. With each gasp and breath she took, Little Nay Nay inhaled dirt and trash from the cold unfeeling floor. Nay Nay rolled onto her back, her beautiful black curly hair now matted with blood and filled with dirt.

The blood and clear mucus dripped down either side of her plump red face. She tried to force herself up with her leg until that fell as well, the only thing remaining a trunk of a once healthy and beautiful little girl. “It’s okay Nay Nay,” she cried softly, tears openly trailing down the sides of her face. “It’s all-all going to be ok,” she gasped.
All the while, the doctors and Caitlin did nothing but watch as the once yellow dress and light blue boots turned red with blood and stuck with dirt. Nay Nay still softly wiggled her stumps, hoping it was all a very bad dream. But to Little Nay Nay’s horror, it wasn’t. she whimpered a little louder and gasped a little harder, choking on the blood she swallowed. “Please Nanny,” Little Nay Nay pleaded. “Is everything going to be ok?” Caitlin still gave no response. “I’m trying to be brave,” she gasped.

The doctors approached the little girl lying on the floor and picked her up gently. “Yes, Miss Nay Nay,” Caitlin finally responded. “It’s all going to be okay.”

Little Nay Nay smiled, gasping slightly. She looked up at the doctors in fear. “Will you hold me,” she begged her Nanny. “I’m scared,” she whimpered, tears spilling from her big brown eyes.
“No,” Caitlin responded. Nay Nay nodded.

The doctors carried her to a door that opened upon their proximity. Within the brightly lit room were two large tables and an even brighter overhead lamp. One table was bare, its silver top reflecting the glaring light. The other had extra gloves, sponges, a shabby, stained towel and utensils. “Do not worry Miss Nay Nay,” Caitlin said. “Everything is going to be ok.”

title: Little Nay Nay - Scene - INC

question: Explain why Nay Nay was getting scared throughout the story, despite her attempt to stay brave.

answer: Nay Nay was taken to see two doctors inside a haunted looking building. As she introduced herself, her limbs began to sever. First, it was her arm, then her leg, and then her other arm. She tried to stay brave and told herself everything was going to be okay. She began to get frightened when the adults just watched her lay in shock and horror. Nay Nay was bloody but determined that she would be alright. As she kept falling, her teeth were also broken and jagged. Finally, the doctors lifted her and carried her to a room with a table which had a bright overhead lamp and utensils.


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posted on 2016-03-11 13:00 EST by Rafael Antonio Pineda

Same singers will perform new songs

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[]This year's 15th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine is revealing the new opening and ending theme songs for the Assassination Classroom (Ansatsu Kyōshitsu) television anime on Monday. The new theme songs will debut in the anime starting in April.

The characters Nagisa (Mai Fuchigami), Kayano (Aya Suzaki), Karma (Nobuhiko Okamoto), Isogai (Ryota Ohsaka), and Maehara (Shintarō Asanuma) will perform the new opening theme song "Bye Bye Yesterday." The Japanese rock band Frederic wrote the song's lyrics. The same voice actors sang the first opening theme song, "QUESTION."

Shion Miyawaki will perform the new ending theme song "Mata Kimi ni Aeru Hi" (The Day When I Can Meet You Again). She also composed the lyrics. Miyawaki previously performed the first ending theme song, "Kaketa Tsuki."

An interview with the anime's director Seiji Kishi in Weekly Shonen Jump revealed last month that the anime will cover the manga's final chapter. The manga will end in the magazine's 16th issue, which will ship on March 19.

The anime's second season premiered on January 7, and Funimation is streaming the series as it airs in Japan. A second live-action film will open in Japan on March 25, and it will also portray the manga's ending.

Four unaired "Extracurricular Lesson" episodes premiered on Docomo's dTV streaming service on Friday.

Yusei Matsui launched the manga in July 2012. Shueisha shipped the manga's 18th compiled book volume on March 4, and will ship the 19th volume on April 4.

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question: Summarize the content of the article regarding Assassination Classroom

answer: The article states that new theme songs have been announced for the opening of Assassination Classroom, a Japanese Manga. The article also mentions that the director of the anime stated the show will cover the mangas final chapter, with a second live action film opening in March. There will also be four unaired episodes shown on Docomo's dTV channel. The manga was launched July 2012.

question: What is the significance of Anime to Japanese culture?


text:
PADDY SUMMERFIELD is a chigiri-e and graphic artist who is known for the application of the Japanese chigiri-e technique to abstract and figurative art using strong and vivid colours.[1][2]Traditionally the technique was widely used for decorative subjects. Her graphic art includes etchings[3] and book covers[4] and she designed the logo for an international women’s advocacy group now Issis-wicce.

Biography and education

Summerfield is of Irish-English background and was born in Hastings, England. She began her creative life by being commissioned by Liberty of London to design and make soft toys during World War II. She won a scholarship to the Hastings School of Art and later studied at the Vrije Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten, The Hague, The Netherlands. Summerfield started exhibiting as a graphic artist in 1976 with a solo exhibition in Chamonix, France which enabled her to become a professional artist under French law.[5]

Work

Summerfield was part of the European development of interest in the Japanese chigiri-e technique and she participated in the first chigiri-e page in Wikipedia in 2008. In Japan the traditional chigiri-e technique was used for images of flowers and landscapes with hand-made coloured paper, torn and arranged to create the image. Summerfield broadened the technique and applied it to abstract and figurative art. She used an etching press, oil-based paint and super-thin (10g) paper to achieve a transparency allowing the construction of layers for the final work.

Many of Summerfield’s themes for her chigiri-e work have been based on body language. In 1990-1993 she had her own gallery/atelier within the Mazie Galerie, The Hague exclusively for her etching and chigiri-e.1 She has had over 40 solo and group exhibitions in various countries of Europe and since 1988 her chigiri-e work has been shown in exhibitions in galleries in The Netherlands, Grafiekwinkel INKT, Galerie Wind, Kunsthuis 18, De Hofboerderij  as well as Galerie Orangerie Willemstad, Curacoe.

Paddy Summerfield’s early work used etching, drawing and monoprint techniques with exhibitions in Switzerland and France before starting in The Netherlands at Galerie Jan van Munster[6] (now Smelik and Stokking) The Hague. Her themes focused on nature the relationship between nature and technology and human and animal body language.[7][8][9]

File:'Entre Nous' by Paddy Summerfield.jpg|Entre Nous File:Chigiri-e 'Friends 7' by Paddy Summerfield.jpg|Friends 7 File:Chigiri-e 'Tulip' by Paddy Summerfield.jpg|Tulip File:Chigiri-e 'Zonder Titel 3' by Paddy Summerfield.jpg|Zonder Titel

File:'Mooch' etching by Paddy Summerfield.jpg|Mooch File:'Femme et Enfant' etching by Paddy Summerfield.jpg|Femme et Enfant File:Etching Communication. Paddy Summerfield.jpg|Communication File:'Salute to the Sun' etching by Paddy Summerfield.jpg|Salute to the Sun

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title: Paddy Summerfield (artist)

question: Summarize Paddy Summerfield's formal education.

answer: Paddy Summerfield studied at Hastings School of Art under a scholarship grant. Then she studied at the Vrije Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten, The Hague, The Netherlands.

question: Summarize Paddy Summerfield's profession.

answer: Paddy Summerfield is a professional graphic artist whose field of interest is the Japanese chigiri-e technique. Her first solo art exhibit was in Chamonix, France, in 1976, and since 1988, she has had 40 solo and group exhibitions in various European countries. She does etchings and book covers, and she designed the logo for Issis-wicce.


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He sat there again, Saturday night.  Not at a bar, not out with friends at his desk.  The monitors he normally gamed on were black and on sleep mode, waiting to be jolted back to life by the movement of his mouse or a click on his keyboard, but gaming wasn’t what he planned to do.  Instead, he sat on his phone, playing 2048.  Occasionally, a bead of sweat would roll down his head, from the intense thinking going on inside his brain.  Sometimes, he wasn’t even thinking about the game, that was just something to keep his fingers moving.  He was curled up in a ball, knees up to his chest and hands resting on top of his kneecaps.  Both hands cupped around the iPhone, right thumb sliding left and right, up and down across the touchscreen, moving tiny squares with numbers on them.  Why was he doing this to himself? It was because it reminded him of her.

Nick had just gotten out of a year long relationship with his girlfriend, he was only 18, well, 19 now, but he had always thought about the long term, he wanted to be with her for the rest of his life if he could.  He loved her but he had trouble showing it sometimes, maybe that’s where he went wrong.  One thing was for sure though, Mary was the only girl he ever loved.  He had crushes, occasional swings with other girls, but he and Mary always clicked, she was so easy to talk to, her smile so vibrant, he couldn’t imagine her sad.  She insisted she would sometimes get depressed, like she claimed she was when she broke up with him.
** **
He was on the phone with her, telling her about a dream he had, it was really all unimportant now what the dream was about, but she listened and she began to speak, the words Nick had feared were coming for a while, but he had always been hopeful.

“I.. I just.. don’t want a relationship right now.”  The words cut deep.  He knew that she had grown distant, but he didn’t realize how bad it was.  He had always been hopefully he could pull her back and make their life work together.  His brain was on autopilot, listening to what she had to say, not entirely believing it was completely over yet.  “I still love you.. I’m just going through some personal issues right now and I need to be alone.” Alone.  Right.. alone.  I don’t want to be alone.  He thought to himself.  He loved her though, more than anything, he could feel himself breaking down on the outside, already broken on the inside as she told him how she felt.  He told her that he was here for her, wanting to be as supportive as possible.  Even if this breakup wasn’t what he wanted, he loved her enough to let her go if that’s what she needed.  Nick said goodnight after a drawn out conversation with her and turned out the light by his bed, but he couldn’t sleep.  He went over every word he said, trying to find a deeper meaning.

He sat up and walked over to his computer, a couple of friends were on Skype, he didn’t want to talk to them though.  He got on his favorite game, and launched into a deathmatch.  He wandered around the map, shooting at pixels mindlessly, thinking about Mary.  He wished to hold her again, tell her he’d help her through all her tough times and depression that she felt.  But he couldn’t.  He wanted to cry, but he couldn’t bring himself to do that.  Not until the realization hit him that he had been dumped and she probably didn’t actually love him.  He turned off the game, went back to his bed and cried.  For the first time in what felt like forever, he cried.  He thought about all the scenarios and good times they had together, all the smiles.  The last month of their relationship had been especially torturous, with her acting on stage and preparing for a show, she couldn’t see him as much as normal, she had started growing away from him.  After a fight about whether he would be going to opening night or seeing friends, he decided to go to her show.  He did it for her.  He didn’t realize how much it meant during the fight, but once he realized just how much it meant, he did it.  He felt like shit for even starting that argument.  After all, he had always thought that they could make a life together and the last thing he wanted to do was hurt her.  The memory of the last time he saw her came to his mind and he thought about what he would’ve done differently as he lay in bed.
** **
His 19th Birthday party.  It was a small family gathering, she barely spoke.  She sat next to him, but she barely spoke.  I should have tried to talk to her more.  After all the family members left and it was just her and his immediate family, he sat down on the couch next to her, awkwardly sliding his arm around her, trying to see if it would spark a reaction or get her talking, she just pulled out her phone.  He tried to talk to her, but it felt so artificial, she was an actress, and he couldn’t tell whether she was acting right now or not.  She asked if Nick had heard about this new game, 2048.  I shouldn’t have given her my phone, I should have forced a conversation.  He admitted he had not and she installed it onto his phone, a math game, you added tiles with the same number up, over and over, starting at 2 until you reached 2048, you could slide the tiles up right left or down in a 4x4 space.  It was a challenging yet fun game.  She played it once, then passed it to Nick.  They swapped back every once in a while, awkwardly playing a game and not talking all that much to each other.  When they did it just felt like small talk, like a couple on a first date.  They’d grown so apart.  It hurt him to think back to that night.  It was the worst Birthday of his life.  He walked her out to the porch, he didn’t have shoes on and it was raining, so he couldn’t walk her to her car.  She kissed him, a small one, just a goodbye kiss but as she turned he grabbed her, drug her in close and kissed her passionately.  If I had known it was the last time I’d kiss her, I would have held it longer.  Right before they made contact he heard a small “Oh” come out, as if she was taken by surprise.  Did she not realize how he felt?

“Goodnight, I love you.” He tells her.

“I love you too, goodnight.”  Flat.  She turned and walked away from him.

“Drive safe.”  He watched her pull away and walked back into his house, mellowed.

Nothing after that.  Thinking back on it, he wished he’d walked her to her car, even if his socks got soaked, just to try and steal another kiss or two, or a small moment of contact that he just wished he could get now.  Another memory to hold of her.  He went back inside and played 2048 until he went to bed.  He was hardly getting a text from her now, it wasn’t until two days later that she broke up with him.
** **
He doesn’t know how to approach her anymore, after trying to figure out if there was any real reason besides her wanting to be alone for the breakup, he wasn’t going to get it.  He was just hurt and alone.  If it was her depression, he wondered why she wouldn’t use him, her boyfriend, as someone to confide in, someone to share her feelings with and someone to tell her it would all be okay.  Did she not trust him?  He couldn’t change how she felt, that was something he had to come to terms with.

So here he is, still sitting there alone on this Saturday night.  Trying desperately to beat 2048.  In some desperate way, he hopes that when he beats it he will be over her, find a way to move on.  But he can’t beat it.  He looks online, strategy guides on how to win, but they don’t help him.  He’s stuck playing, sliding, up.. left.. right.. but he can’t win.  She sends him texts, small, casual talk.  She calls him her “Best friend” and lingers the opportunity that one day they may be together again, but he doesn’t think that she loves him anymore.  He swears that he won’t check her Twitter, she tells him she’s depressed and wants to be alone, but she’s telling all her friends on Twitter, “Yes, I am single”.  It breaks his heart.  He turns off his monitors, let’s them fall asleep as he slides the number tiles, a text comes in from her, he will read it in a moment and continue to live in a fantasy world where they still have a chance together.  Then he’ll go back to playing 2048.  One day he’ll beat it, he’ll get over her.  But not tonight, tonight, he plays.

title: [Feedback/Critique Appreciated, Still Rough] 2048

question: Why is the narrator playing 2048?

answer: The narrator's ex-girlfriend downloaded the game onto his phone on the day she broke up with him. He plays it every day in the hope that when he finally wins the game he will be over her.

question: Why did the narrator's girlfriend break up with him?

answer: His girlfriend said that she didn't want a relationship any more. She said that though she still loved him she was going through some personal issues and wanted to be alone. She claimed to be suffering from depression.

question: How does the narrator feel about his girlfriend?

answer: He has just come out of a year-long relationship with the girl. he had wanted to be with her for the rest of his life. Though he loved her he had trouble showing it. She was easy to talk to and had a vibrant smile.

question: What regrets does the narrator have?

answer: He regretted fighting with her because she wanted him to see her show and he didn't want to go. He regretted not speaking to her more at his 19th birthday celebration. He was sorry that he didn't walk her to her car on their last night together.


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_FRIENDLY PERSUASION_ is a 1956 American Civil War drama film starring Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins, Richard Eyer, Robert Middleton and Phyllis Love. The screenplay was adapted by Michael Wilson from the 1945 novel _The Friendly Persuasion_ by Jessamyn West, and was directed by William Wyler. The film tells the story of a Quaker family in southern Indiana during the American Civil War and the way the war tests their pacifist beliefs.

The film was originally released with no screenwriting credit[1] because Wilson was on the Hollywood blacklist. His credit was restored in 1996.

Plot

The film is set in Jennings County, Indiana, in 1862. Jess Birdwell (Gary Cooper) is a farmer and patriarch of the Birdwell family whose Quaker religion conflicts with his love for the worldly enjoyments of music and horse racing. Jess's wife Eliza, (Dorothy McGuire) a Quaker minister, is deeply religious and steadfast in her refusal to engage in violence. Jess's daughter Mattie (Phyllis Love) wants to remain a Quaker but has fallen in love with dashing cavalry officer Gard Jordan (Peter Mark Richman), a love that is against her mother's wishes. Jess's youngest child “Little” Jess (Richard Eyer) is a feisty child whose comical feud with his mother's pet goose causes her heartache. Jess's elder son Josh (Anthony Perkins) is torn between his hatred of violence and a conviction that to protect his family he must join the home guard and fight the invaders. Enoch (Joel Fluellen), a runaway slave, is a laborer on their farm; his children are still enslaved in the South.

We are introduced to the family via its youngest member, “Little” Jess, who is forever at war with his mother's pet goose. The story begins as an easygoing and humorous tale of Quakers trying to maintain their faith as they go to meeting on First Day (Sunday); contrasted with the Birdwells' neighbor Sam Jordan (Robert Middleton) and other members of the nearby Methodist Church. The mood shifts dramatically when the meeting is interrupted by a Union officer who asks how the Quaker men can stand by when their houses will be looted and their families terrorized by approaching Confederate troops. When confronted with the question of his being afraid to fight, Josh Birdwell responds that it might be the case. His honesty provokes the wrath of Purdy, a Quaker elder who condemns people who don't believe as he does.

The film returns to its lighter tone as the Quakers try to maintain their ways, despite the temptations of amusements at a county fair, and a new organ (which Jess buys over Eliza's opposition), but one is always reminded that the Confederate Army is drawing closer. On a business trip, Jess acquires a new horse from the widow Hudspeth (Marjorie Main), and is finally able to defeat Sam in their weekly horse race. One day, Jess is cultivating his fields and notices an immense cloud of smoke on the horizon produced by the burning of buildings. Josh soon arrives and tells them the neighboring community has been reduced to ash and corpses. Josh believes that he must fight, a conviction that threatens to destroy the family. Eliza tells him that by turning his back to their religion he's turning his back on her, but Jess sees things a different way. Josh finds himself on the front line of the battle to stop the advance of the raiders, and only fires his gun when the man next to him is shot dead. Meanwhile, Jess is reluctant to fight, only picking up a rifle and riding off towards the fighting when the family horse gallops back to the farm riderless.

When Confederates arrive at the farm, with only Eliza and the younger children present, the family and the farm are saved when Eliza greets them on the porch and welcomes them to take all the food and animals they want and feeds them in their kitchen. As Jess finds Sam Jordan dying he is bushwhacked by a “Reb”. He plays possum and when the Confederate soldier approaches he struggles with him and takes away his gun, but ultimately lets him go free and unhurt. He then finds Josh injured and brings him home. Each member of the family faces the question of whether it is ever right to engage in violence.

Cast

-   Gary Cooper as Jess Birdwell
-   Dorothy McGuire as Eliza Birdwell
-   Anthony Perkins as Joshua “Josh” Birdwell
-   Richard Eyer as Little Jess Birdwell
-   Robert Middleton as Sam Jordan
-   Phyllis Love as Martha True “Mattie” Birdwell
-   Peter Mark Richman as Gardner “Gard” Jordan (credited as Mark Richman)
-   Walter Catlett as Professor Quigley
-   Richard Hale as Purdy
-   Joel Fluellen as Enoch
-   Theodore Newton as Major Harvey
-   John Smith as Caleb Cope
-   Marjorie Main as the widow Hudspeth
-   Edna Skinner as Opal Hudspeth
-   Marjorie Durant as Pearl Hudspeth
-   Frances Farwell as Ruby Hudspeth

Production

The film was in development for eight years; producer-director Wyler brought the project to Allied Artists Pictures Corporation (formerly known as Monogram Pictures Corporation) from Paramount; Allied agreed to a $1.5 million budget for what was Wyler's first film in color for a commercial studio. Wyler had previously shot two documentaries in color in 1944, _The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress_ and the uncredited _The Fighting Lady_.[2][3] In 1947, he shot the documentary, _Thunderbolt_, in color.[4]

The film's shooting location was moved from southern Indiana to a combination of a Republic studio and a San Fernando Valley estate,[5] The film ended up costing over $3 million.[6] The film went over budget to the point that Allied sold the foreign distribution rights to MGM to raise more funds.[7]

Jessamyn West spent a year with the production as both story writer and as technical adviser (credited). Her novel covered a forty-year span of the Birdwell family history and was essentially plotless, so to make the movie effective, she arranged the sequences selected for filming around the Civil War vignette from the novel (altering it significantly for dramatic action) and compressed the whole into a single year, 1862, using the war as the central plot conflict. She created new characters (primarily the Jordans) to fill in for others that had to be deleted, and entirely wrote out Laban, the second eldest son of the novel, substituting a new character, Josh's friend Caleb Cope (John Smith), as a two-scene surrogate. The character Mattie was a composite of the two surviving Birdwell daughters in the novel.

Cooper expressed initial reservations to West about his character, noting that since in his previous roles “'action seems to come natural to me,' the father should be shown joining the fight. 'There comes a time in a picture of mine when the people watching expect me to do something,' he said. West responded he would do something: 'Refrain. You will furnish your public with the refreshing picture of a strong man refraining.'”[8] Cooper followed West's advice. He researched his role by attending West's Quaker meeting, East Whittier Friends Church. Cooper had not wanted to play the father of grown-up children, although he was 55 in real life. He supposedly disliked the finished film and his own performance.

Dorothy McGuire was cast as Cooper's wife after Wyler's choice, Katharine Hepburn, declined.[9] It was Perkins' second film, after his debut in the 1953 film _The Actress_; his Broadway success with _Tea and Sympathy_ in the meantime tempted him to remain on the stage, though ultimately he decided to do the film.[10]

Reception

According to Bosley Crowther, “thee should be pleasured by this film”, noting it is “loaded with sweetness and warmth and as much cracker-barrel Americana as has been spread on the screen in some time.” Crowther called Cooper and McGuire “wonderfully spirited and compassionate in their finely complementary roles” and said a “great deal of admiration must go to Anthony Perkins” for making “the older son of the Birdwells a handsome, intense, and chivalrous lad.”[11] _Variety_ magazine called it “the simple story of a Quaker family in Indiana back in the 1860s” with “just about everything in the way of comedy and drama, suspense and action”; they also said “figuring importantly in the way the picture plays is Dimitri Tiomkin's conducting of his own score.”[12]

The film earned $4 million at the North American box office in 1956.[13]

MGM distributed outside the US and Canada. According to their records the film made $732,000, earning the studio a profit of $582,000.[14]

The film also received mild criticism for certain inaccurate portrayals of Quaker views, such as a misunderstanding that although Quakers disliked programmed music they did value individual original expressions of it; and in meetings, Bible passages are not read verbatim but speakers recite scripture from memory and express its meaning in their own words.[15] Also, the original screenplay by Michael Wilson was changed significantly in the wake of McCarthyism (and he had taken some liberties himself with the book by Jessamyn West) (see discussion below).

Connection with House Un-American Activities Committee testimony

The movie script was discussed in 1951 by Michael Wilson in his testimony as an “unfriendly witness” at the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), and by director Frank Capra, who was seeking to dissociate himself from Wilson, who was ultimately placed on the Hollywood blacklist.

Capra, who had originally contracted Wilson to write the screenplay just after the war but then dropped the project, said that although he thought Wilson did “a swell job” adapting West's book, the movie was not produced because he felt “it would be a bad time to produce a picture that might be construed as being antiwar. But we let Wilson work on it until he had finished with it.”[16]

Wilson told HUAC in 1951, “I feel that this committee might take the credit, or part of it at least, for the fact that _The Friendly Persuasion_ was not produced, in view of the fact that it dealt warmly, in my opinion, with a peace-loving people.”[17]

“What happened to Wilson's pacifist script after Capra dropped it,” notes film historian Joseph McBride, “reflected the political climate of the Cold War. When William Wyler directed the film for Allied Artists in 1956 as _Friendly Persuasion_, he had the story changed to make the Quaker youth (played by Anthony Perkins) become a killer. The Quakers in Wyler's version, as Pauline Kael observed, 'are there only to violate their convictions.' But some of the strength of Wilson's conception remains, as in a scene of a crippled Union Army officer respectfully challenging the steadfast Quakers about pacifism in their meeting house.”[18]

Reagan Gift of Movie to Gorbachev

_Friendly Persuasion_ also became a footnote to world history in the 1980s when United States President Ronald Reagan made a gift of the film to Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev at one of their five summit meetings, suggesting that he view the film as symbolic of the need to find an alternative to war as a means of resolving differences between peoples. One Quaker commentator stated: “_Friendly Persuasion_ seems to me to come about as close to truth and fairness as I expect to see Hollywood get in a treatment of Quakerism; I recommend it to every Quaker parent, as projecting images their children ought to see and imitate...I believe (critics have) woefully misjudged the film, on several counts: its place in American cinema, the characters and their roles, its historicity, and, not least, its value as an expression of the Peace Testimony. Here, for perhaps the only time, I think Ronald Reagan was closer to the truth when he commended the film to Gorbachev because it 'shows not the tragedy of war, but the problems of pacifism, the nobility of patriotism as well as the love of peace.'”[19]

Awards and honors

Only a week before the year's Oscar nominations were announced, the AMPAS Board of Governors introduced a rule denying an Oscar to anyone who refused to talk to a United States congressional committee; after the Writers Guild of America protested the new rule to no avail, they gave Wilson a Writers Guild of America Award for “Best Written American Drama.”[20]

At the 29th Academy Awards, _Friendly Persuasion_ was nominated for Best Picture, Best Director (William Wyler), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Anthony Perkins), Best Music – Song (Dimitri Tiomkin and Paul Francis Webster for “Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)”), Best Writing – Screenplay (Adapted) (unnamed),[21] and Best Sound Recording (Gordon R. Glennan and Gordon E. Sawyer).[22] Wilson's name could not appear on the Oscar ballot because he was blacklisted.[23] Wyler also had wanted his brother Robert and West to receive credit for rewriting the script, also including Wilson, but the WGA ruled Michael Wilson deserved sole credit for his screenplay.

It was among the “Top Ten Films” at that year's National Board of Review Awards, where Dorothy McGuire was also awarded “Best Actress.” The film won the _Palme d'Or_ (Golden Palm) at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival.[24]

The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:

-   2004: AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs:
    -   “Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)” – Nominated[25]
-   2005: AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores – Nominated[26]

Other adaptations

Another adaptation of the novel was made for television in 1975, starring Richard Kiley, Shirley Knight, Clifton James and Michael O'Keefe. It was adapted by William P. Wood and directed by Joseph Sargent. This version also included material from Jessamyn West's sequel novel, _Except For Thee and Me_.

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question: What is the setting of Friendly Persuasion?

answer: The film is set in a rural Quaker community in Jennings County, Indiana, during the American Civil War. In this setting members of the Quaker community battle the conflicting need to protect their property with the Quaker belief that violence of any kind is wrong. The conflict threatens to tear families apart.

question: How was the novel changed to make the movie?

answer: The novel covers a 40 year span. The author rewrote the story to take place in one year 1862. The war was the central plot of the film. She created new characters (primarily the Jordans) to fill in for others that had to be deleted, and entirely wrote out Laban, the second eldest son of the novel, substituting a new character, Josh's friend Caleb Cope. The character Mattie was a composite of the two surviving Birdwell daughters in the novel.

question: What was Gary Cooper's main objection to the film?

answer: Gary Cooper felt that his fans expected him to be a man of action. Yet, the movie required him to refrain from action. He played the role of the Quaker father who had to watch soldiers destroying their property and yet take no action.

question: How did the Quakers view the book?

answer: At least one Quaker felt that Hollywood had shown the Quaker religion true to form. He felt that critics had woefully misjudged the film, on several counts: its place in American cinema, the characters and their roles, its historicity, and, not least, its value as an expression of the Peace Testimony. He recommended it to every Quaker parent.


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Politics|Jury Suggests It Is Divided on One of 18 Counts in Manafort Trial

[Kevin Downing, one of Paul Manafort’s defense attorneys, enters the federal courthouse as the jury deliberates in Mr. Manafort’s trial on Tuesday.]

Credit...Tom Brenner for The New York Times

-   Aug. 21, 2018

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — _Update: Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, was convicted on Tuesday in his financial fraud trial, bringing a dramatic end to a politically charged case that riveted the capital._ _Read the latest, here._

The jury in the financial fraud trial of Paul Manafort asked the judge on Tuesday for instructions on how to fill out the verdict sheet if jurors are having trouble reaching consensus on a single one of the 18 counts.

Judge T.S. Ellis III called the jurors into the courtroom after receiving a note with their question, and asked them to keep deliberating to reach a verdict on all counts.

Out of the jury’s hearing, Judge Ellis told prosecutors and Mr. Manafort’s defense lawyers that if the jury could not come to unanimous agreement on all counts, he would consider accepting a partial verdict.

It was not immediately clear if the jurors’ question suggested that they had reached a verdict on 17 of the 18 counts of bank and tax fraud brought against Mr. Manafort, a former campaign chairman for President Trump.

The jury’s note to Judge Ellis asked: “If we cannot come to a consensus on a single count, how should we fill out the jury verdict sheet for that count, and what does that mean for the final verdict?”

The jury said it would “need another form, please.”

The question from the jury came on the fourth day of deliberations following a two-week trial. During the trial, prosecutors built a case that Mr. Manafort hid millions of dollars in foreign accounts to evade taxes and lied to banks repeatedly to obtain $20 million in loans.

The trial is the first stemming from the inquiry led by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

It did not touch on Russia’s efforts to influence the election or on whether Mr. Trump had sought to obstruct the investigation. But it is the first test of the special counsel’s ability to prosecute a case in a federal courtroom amid intense criticism from the president and his allies that the inquiry is a biased and unjustified witch hunt.

The case centered on how Mr. Manafort handled the tens of millions of dollars he earned in Ukraine as an adviser to politicians aligned with Russia.

Mr. Manafort also faces another trial next month in federal court in Washington, D.C., on separate charges related to the same case.

question: Who is Paul Manafort?

answer: He is President Trump's former campaign chairman.

question: What was Manafort convicted of?

answer: Financial fraud. Mr. Manafort hid millions of dollars in foreign accounts to evade taxes and lied to banks repeatedly to obtain $20 million in loans.

question: What does the trial and conviction of Paul Manafort say about special counsel Robert S. Mueller's inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 elections?

answer: Manafort's trial is the first stemming from Mueller's inquiry, testing the special counsel's ability to actually prosecute a case in a federal courtroom.

question: What do President Trump and his allies think of special counsel Robert S. Mueller's investigation into Russia's efforts to influence the 2016 election?

answer: They think the inquiry is a biased and unjustified witch hunt.

question: Write a ~5 sentence summary.

answer: President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was finally convicted of financial fraud on Tuesday, ending a case that riveted the capital and the nation. Manafort was found guilty of tax evasion and lying to banks to obtain $20 million in loans. The trial is the first stemming from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 elections. It is also the first test of Mueller's ability to prosecute a case in a federal courtroom. The president and his allies think the inquiry is a biased witch hunt.


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POCKET PALMA (sometimes stylized in all lowercase or sentence case) is a Croatian synthwave duo formed in Zagreb in 2012 by Anja Papa and Luka Vidović.[1][2][3] Until 2019, they were known under the name SIDE PROJECT. As Side Project, they have released two albums, _Things Which No One Else Should Know About_ in 2015 and _Lonely Boys_ in 2017.[4][5]

In 2018, Papa and Vidović decided to rebrand, replacing dark pop sound with nostalgic synthwave sound of the '80s and starting to make music in their native Croatian.[6] Under the new name Pocket Palma, they released an EP _Godišnji_ in summer 2019.[7] During the same year, they signed a contract with Croatian label Aquarius Records and released their self-titled debut album in Croatian.[8][9]

Early beginnings

Papa and Vidović met in high school in 2012 and, started making covers of songs by Arctic Monkeys and Guns N' Roses “for fun”.[10][11] They both attended elementary music school, where Papa played the flute and Vidović played the piano. Following their graduation from high school, they enrolled in Faculty of Philosophy on University of Zagreb.[12]

In 2013, they released their debut single “Things Which No One Else Should Know About” under the name Side Project, after which they began working on their debut album. In March 2015, they released a music video for their new single “Glitter”, directed by Filip “Philatz” Filković.[13] On 4 September the same year, they released their debut studio album _Things Which No One Else Should Know About_.[14] They promoted the album by holding a concert in Tvornica Kulture, Zagreb on 5 December.[15]

In 2016, they released singles “Guns” and “Giving Souls Away”. In June 2017, they released their new single “Second Skin”, inspired by Zagreb Pride 2017. In September the same year, they released the lead single off their sophomore album of the same name, “Lonely Boys”.[16] During the same year, they recorded official soundtrack for Filip Filković's short dystopian film _The Last Well_, which was released in November.[17][18][19] In December, _Lonely Boys_ was released.[20][21]

In 2018, Papa revealed they had dropped out of university.[22][23]

Career

Papa and Vidović stated that they had spent most of 2018 separated, consequently not knowing how to make music for Side Project together as they both had headed in different directions. They simply “were not inspired to make new Side Project material”. During one of their sessions, they decided to translate one of the songs they had written to Croatian and thought it “sounded cool”.[24] In spring 2018, they composed new music and wrote lyrics about going to the seaside, going out of the city, and summer love in English to it. They said they had decided to try themselves out in synth pop “after Vidović had wandered to Yugoslav synth pop playlists on YouTube”.[25] In the beginning of 2019, they decided to write about the same topics, but in Croatian instead. They released their debut single in Croatian, titled “Godišnji”, under the new name Pocket Palma. In May 2019, they released a mini-album of the same name.[26] Until the autumn, they scored a radio hit “Ono što nam inače nedostaje”.[27]

After Pocket Palma's music had been taken down from online platforms, Papa and Vidović announced in October they had signed a contract with Croatian label Aquarius Records.[28][29] In December, they released their debut self-titled album in Croatian for Aquarius. It consisted of all songs from _Godišnji_, as well as four new songs. The album was met with universal acclaim by the critics, who compared it with Croatian bands Nipplepeople and Denis & Denis.[30][31][32]

On 31 January 2020, Aquarius Records rereleased the duo's Side Project works. On 29 February, they held a concert in Tvornica Kulture, Zagreb.[33][34][35] In March, they released two collaborations, “Voli me” with ManGroove and “Minuta (PP Version)” with Ida Prester.[36]

Discography

Albums

As Side Project

-   _Things Which No One Else Should Know About_ (2015)
-   _Lonely Boys_ (2017)

As Pocket Palma

-   _Pocket Palma_ (2019)

EPs

-   _Godišnji_ (2019)

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question: Summarize what happened from 2010 to 2015.

answer: Anja Papa and Luka Vidovic started making covers while they were in high school, they also learnt to the flute and piano respectively. After high school they enrolled in the Philosophy program at the Unversity of Zagreb. They released their first single 'Things No One Else Should Know' in 2013 under their dark pop 'Side Project' brand. This became their debut album 2 years later and was promoted with a concert at the Tvornica Kulture in Zagreb. They released a music video for their 'Glitter' single in 2015 as well.

question: What does the text say about the music industry in Croatia?

question: What does the text say about Pocket Palma's movement toward synth pop?

answer: Anja Papa and Luka Vidovic rebranded their dark pop 'Side Project' to synth pop 'Pocket Palma' in 2019 after losing interest. Vidovic wandered to Yugoslav synth pop playlists on Youtube and they decided to incorporate the nostalgic synthwave sound of the '80's. This move led to them signing with Aquarius Records and to universal acclaim for their debut self-titled album.

question: Summarize Pocket Palma's relationship with Aquarius Records.

answer: Aquarius Records signed Pocket Palma in 2019 after they moved from dark pop to synth pop and from English to Croatian as their language of choice. Pocket Palma released their debut single in Croatian early in 2019, then all their music was taken down from online platforms later in the year and they announced that they signed with Aquarius Records. In December they released their debut self-titled album in Croatian for Aquarius. It consisted of all songs from their earlier album as well as four new songs and was met with universal acclaim by the critics. Aquarius Records rereleased the duo's 'Side Project' works.


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ALEXANDER MATHYS is a German scientist specializing in sustainable food systems and food technology. He is a tenure-track professor in Sustainable Food Processing at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. His work primarily focuses on finding sustainable and nutritional food and animal feed alternatives that would improve the sustainability performance.

Research career

Mathys earned his Doctor of Engineering from the Technical University of Berlin in 2008. While there, he studied food technology and food preservation processes.[1] He wrote his thesis on the effects high pressure thermal sterilization on _Geobacillus_ and _Bacillus_ spores. His work on this topic earned him several awards, including the George F. Stewart IFT International Research Paper Competition Finalist in 2007[2] and the ICEF “Young Food Engineer” award in 2008.[3] He went on to work at the Nestlé Research Center in Lausanne, Switzerland from 2009 to 2012. After that, he developed the Bioeconomy department at the German Institute of Food Technology. He was designated a “Young Researcher” at the 60th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in 2010. That year, he was also given the “Einstein Scholarship Award” at the Falling Walls conference. For each of the following two years at the conference, Mathys was designated an A.T. Kearney Scholar, as well. In 2015, he became a tenure-track professor in the Sustainable Food Processing program at ETH Zurich.[4]

In general, much of Mathys' research deals with the study of global food systems and the environmentally unsustainable production of meat.[5] By 2050, meat production is expected to reach 470 million tons annually, double the amount produced in 2018.[6] Mathys' research has focused on the idea that a largely meat-based diet contributes to environmental degradation through the depletion of resources and an increase in the pollution of air, water, and soil. He also notes that a transition to a largely plant-based diet would improve those conditions while also optimizing health and nutrient indicators.[7]

Algae as a food source

As the head of the Sustainable Food Processing Laboratory at ETH Zurich, Mathys has researched a variety of sustainable food alternatives, including algae. In 2016, he collaborated with the Bühler Group on a project to design algae-based biorefineries to cultivate and process algae as a human food source.[8] His research on the topic has suggested that microalgae can be integrated into food sources as a bulk protein while also providing other nutritional and health benefits including antioxidative, anticoagulant, immunomodulatory, and antihypertensive activities (among others).[9] The high protein content in certain algae may also make it an appropriate replacement for meat, which could reduce the impact that traditional meat sources place on the environment.[10]

Mathys' research has also pointed out that wide-scale cultivation and processing of microalgae is not yet competitive with current biorefinery concepts and technology. Mathys is currently researching nanosecond pulsed electric field treatment as a method of effectively producing algae for human consumption.[11][12] His work aims to optimize the effectiveness of algae cultivation and processing in the future.[13] Mathys' research is also looking at broader applications of microalgae cultivation, including as a food source and life support system for astronauts traveling long distances and/or creating colonies on other planets.[14]

Insects as food and animal feed

In addition to algae, Mathys has also researched the efficacy of cultivating and processing insects for both human and animal consumption.[15][16][17] He has noted that insects provide a high-protein content and can be cultivated more efficiently than traditional meat sources. He has also stressed that more research is required to study the efficacy of insects for wide-scale human consumption.[18]

His research has also looked at insects as a more environmentally-sustainable source for animal feed. In a 2017 collaboration with the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology,[19] Mathys and other researchers from ETH Zurich studied the consumption of biowaste by black soldier fly larvae. The larvae were able to effectively utilize the waste (which included discarded household food and restaurant scraps), allowing for a more sustainable method of eliminating that waste. The larvae could then be used as animal feed with less harmful environmental effects than traditional feed sources, such as fish meal.[20][21]

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question: What is Alexander Mathys' area of specialization?

answer: Alexander Mathys is a German scientist who is a specialist in sustainable systems and food technology.

question: Which award did Mathys win after he wrote his thesis on the effects high-pressure thermal sterilization on Geobacillus and Bacillus spores?

answer: He won the George F. Stewart IFT International Research Paper Competition Finalist in 2007[2] and the ICEF “Young Food Engineer” award in 2008.

question: What is the main point of Marty's research findings?

answer: The main point is that the global reliance on a meat-based diet is unsustainable and will lead to environmental degradation.

question: What is the solution proposed by Mathy to the gradual environmental degradation caused by the world's reliance on meat?

answer: He suggests that a transition to a largely plant-based diet will go a long in improving environmental conditions and optimizing our health.

question: Write a ~5 sentence summary.

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Alexander Mathys is a German scientist who is a specialist in sustainable systems and food technology. He studied food technology and preservation processes at the Technical University of Berlin in 2008. There he wrote a thesis which won him a couple of wards.

Alexander Mathys' research is focused on the damage a meat-based diet is causing the earth's environmental health as well as the condition of the human body. He suggests that a plant-based diet will eventually reverse environmental degradation and improve human health in general.


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March 9, 2019, 5:02 PM EST

AUSTIN, Texas — Beto's back, but is he running?

After a period of self-imposed exile, the former Democratic congressman returned to center stage Saturday as he ramps up for a potential 2020 presidential bid, appearing at South by Southwest for the premiere of a new documentary about his failed Senate campaign against Ted Cruz.

It's been 10 days since O'Rourke said publicly that he's made a decision about his political future, but he told reporters on Saturday that he wanted to reveal "it the right way and tell everyone at the same time."

"I’ve got to be on the timeline that works for my family and for the country and so that's the timeline we're on," he said.

As O'Rourke slipped into the Paramount Theater for the screening of the documentary, "Running for Beto," an email teasing "Beto's big announcement" landed in supporters' inboxes.

"If you're on the edge of your seat about Beto's decision around a potential 2020 run for president, you're not alone," wrote Cynthia Cano, who was the deputy campaign manager of his Senate bid. "Many of us are crossing our fingers and hoping that Beto has decided to run."

It's the clearest public indication yet that O'Rourke may be preparing for a possible run, as his senior aides have begun the behind-the-scenes work of finding staff for a potential campaign.

But preparing for a run is not the same as running — just ask Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who both announced last week that they will not be getting into the race for president after extensive explorations.

But following months of dormancy, O'Rourke's political machine has whirred back to life.

"Everything has skyrocketed. People are sensing that something is coming," said Nate Lerner, the co-founder of Draft Beto, which is trying to push O'Rourke into the 2020 race. "We're in the eye of the storm now."

Senior figures in O'Rourke's orbit have begun holding meetings and phone calls to discuss potential jobs with Democratic operatives, who come away with the impression that O'Rourke has made up his mind in favor of running.

And O'Rourke's massive email fundraising list, which helped him raise $79 million for his Senate race, suddenly sprang back to life after months of inaction. That's an important step, digital political strategists say, since email providers like Gmail downgrade inactive senders by sending more of their messages to spam.

Meanwhile, O'Rourke has begun popping up in public — everything from a Metallica concert to a rally to protest President Donald Trump's recent visit to O’Rourke’s hometown of El Paso.

But with a dozen other Democrats already in the race, many in Washington are bewildered about why O’Rourke waited so long to capitalize on the enthusiasm generated by his Senate campaign.

"His momentum was unmatched, and he was able to manifest that excitement into record-breaking fundraising numbers," said Democratic strategist Adrienne Elrod. "That is why it remains a mystery why, after narrowly losing the Senate race, he didn't seize on that momentum and jump into the presidential campaign early in for first quarter."

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"From fundraising to staffing to earned media, he would have had an advantage across the board," Elrod continued. "Should he seek the Democratic nomination, I think he will still be a top contender but time will soon tell if his moment in the long term has passed."

Meanwhile, O'Rourke has lost some shine after taking fire from allies of Bernie Sanders on his left and writing dispatches from the soul-searchingpost-election road trip that many found to be self-indulgent oversharing. Others took note of his struggles to answer specific policy questions in an interview with the Washington Post.

The new documentary, directed by David Modigliani and produced financially and editorially independent from O'Rourke, could serve as a valuable introduction for Americans who didn't follow his Texas campaign.

O’Rourke granted Modigliani near-total access to both his campaign and his family, and it shows what earned him a fawning national following — his charisma, his accessibility, his oratory.

But it also captures the candidate dropping f-bombs, clenched with stress, complaining about having to "dance" for the press, and snapping at his staff.

"The only feedback I gave was, 'Can you take out some of the expletives from Beto,'" his wife, Amy, said after the premiere.

"I know I was a giant asshole to be around sometimes," O'Rourke acknowledges at one point in the documentary to his top aides, who do not dispute him on the point.

And the films dwells on toll the campaign took on his family.

"It was incredibly emotional to watch that," O'Rourke said Saturday during a Q&A session after the premiere, with Amy and daughter, Molly, by his side.

"David asked if we could do this at breakfast one day in Austin. And I was like yeah, what the fu--?" he recalled. "I just didn't think it would be this. And I don’t think we fully appreciated how involved they would be."

In the film, Amy recalls how she was pregnant with their son when O'Rourke first told her he wanted to run for Congress years ago.

"I was just crying and crying because I couldn't understand why he would almost, like, sacrifice our family to run for that level of office? Because everything I knew about life on the Hill was that was like dirty and slim," she says, before explaining she came around to the idea.

O’Rourke allies say he's taken his time to make a decision about 2020 because he worried about putting his family through another campaign.

"I appreciate the fact that he's being really thoughtful about it and taking his time," Jody Casey, his friend who managed his Senate campaign, said in a podcast interview last month with liberal Twitter personalities Ed and Brian Krassenstein. "He also is a dad to three kids who are 8, 10 and 12, and I think that's a serious factor for he and Amy when they make this decision together."

The only thing about his future that O’Rourke and his team have made clear is that he won't run for Senate again against Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas.

Amy, who has publicly expressed hesitation about her husband's political ambition, smiled when the friendly audience at the movie premiere cheered for O'Rourke to run again.

Alex Seitz-Wald

Alex Seitz-Wald is senior digital politics reporter for NBC News.

question: What clues pointed to the fact that Beto O'Rourke's political career had begun?

answer: Aspiring 2020 presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke began laying out preparations to run for the Presidency. His senior aides began recruiting staff for a possible presidential campaign. People began to suspect something was about to happen due to this planning. Senior members of O'Rourke's inner circle have begun scheduling meetings and phone calls with Democratic operatives to discuss possible jobs, and the perception is that O'Rourke has decided to run. As a result, after months of inactivity, O'Rourke's vast email fundraising list, which helped him raise $79 million for his Senate campaign, unexpectedly sprung to life.

question: What does the text say about O'Rourke's documentary?

answer: A David Modigliani-directed documentary about Beto O'Rourke called "Running for Beto" was made independently of O'Rourke, financially and editorially. It was a good introduction for those who weren't familiar with him from his time in Texas. Modigliani documented O'Rourke's campaign and family in this film, highlighting the charisma, accessibility, and oratory that garnered him a fawning national following. However, it also captured his sarcasm, frustration, and hostility toward the media, as well as his rage toward his staff. The campaign's impact on his family was also explored in the film. In the film, his wife, Amy, recounted how she was overcome with emotion when she learned that her husband had decided to run for Congress. At some point, she warmed up to the notion.