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A short story by Corbin Willmorth

I am writing this down now.

 I know this might sound bad out of context, but I think I have found a new look on how I view life. I mean that I am happy. Like, truly happy. It is all because of this tea that I drank. It is made up Chacruna Leaves and Syrian Rue.

Anyway, I drank this tea, which honestly tasted like shit and made me wanna throw up for the first 30 minutes, and after about 45 or so minutes I started to laugh. I started laughing about fucking everything! I laughed about how huge my pupils were, I laughed at how small my hand looked, I laughed at the movie I was watching (it was the onion movie for those who were wondering), and I laughed at myself. I realized in that moment that I was happy. I was completely shocked at how happy I was. I looked at myself in the mirror and realized I was smiling. SMILING! This was the first time in literally a whole year that I had seen myself genuinely smile.

I’m gonna get real here for a moment. I’ve had an incredibly shitty year. Literally since day one of 2018. On January 1st, I lost a very dear loved one. My grandma, to get into the spacifics. I lost my mother at a very young age, and most my contact with her family, and my grandmother became my new mother figure. I was always honest, sharing my feelings with her and telling her everything. There are so many things I wish I should have told her. When she died I went into this very deep depression. I pushed away my friends and I just stayed in bed and cried. I just wanted to die and make my feelings go away. It was fucking miserable. I can’t even describe it completely. It was the suckiest of suck I have felt in my life.

And then, I moved. I moved 200 miles away from my hometown of Snoqualmie, Washington, a town just 40 miles west of Seattle, to Chewelah, Washington, a small town 80 miles north of Spokane. I moved away from all my friends and family, and it made me even sadder. Just when I thought it couldn’t get any suckier, it did.

However, drinking that tea made me realize how much I worried too much. I worried too much about what other people thought of me. I worried too much about what was in my future. I just fucking hated that I worried about pointless shit. Sure, my life was shitty, but I’ve come to realize that it’s all okay. It’s okay that I felt awful, I understand how hard my life was up until this point.

It’s December 1st, fifteen days away from my 18th birthday. I think that it is finally time that I moved forward. I need to stop worrying about the past and about the future. I just need to focus on what is happening now. Stop thinking. Just do. Do it. Do what makes you happy. If you love music, start a band, fuck it! If you like writing, write! My point is, just take life at your own pace. Stop stressing over what ever it is that has you so worried. Take time out of your day to think about yourself.

Sure, you might want to call me names because I found happiness in drugs, but the point of my, you could call it an essay, was to make a point about that. Yes, DMT made me super fucking happy for like six hours. What I want to do from now on is find things in the real world that makes me happy. I need to stop relying on drugs. I might not quit drugs completely, seeing as how I wanna be a legal marijuana grower (because in the state of Washington you can make over $100k a year by growing weed for a cannabis company). I’ve done drugs, I’ve been there, I’ve seen things. Of all the things I’ve seen, I now know that one thing is clear. I’m happy. I’m happy because I stopped worrying.

If you managed to read this whole thing, I would like to thank you. Yes, I am speaking directly to you, the person reading this. Thank you for taking time out of your day. Thank you for listening to what I had to say. I know you must be busy. You have a life, I get it. But you actually took five minutes out of your busy life to listen to some 18 year old hippy talk about his shitty life. Thank you for caring. It’s nice that people care about things. Anyway, it’s 1:29AM right now, I should get some sleep.

title: [NF] The Key to Happiness

question: What does the article say about drugs?

answer: The author managed to find genuine happiness with a drug called DMT, which led them to realize how much they worry about any and everything. While the author is aware that some people might consider this problematic, they are also motivated to find activities that bring happiness outside of drugs.

question: What does the article say about LSD?


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Former Vice President Joe Biden[]Joe BidenBiden and Harris named Time's 2020 'Person of the Year' US to sanction Turkey over Russian defense system: report Federal government executes Brandon Bernard despite last-minute appeals MORE remains the top choice among Iowa Democrats, but his lead is slipping as two challengers build support in the crucial first-in-the-nation caucus state.

Biden is the first choice of nearly a quarter of Iowa Democratic caucus-goers, according to a gold-standard survey released Saturday night by the pollster Ann Selzer.

Selzer, who conducted the Iowa Poll for the Des Moines Register and CNN, found three contenders fighting for second place: Sen. Bernie Sanders[]Bernie SandersFederal government executes Brandon Bernard despite last-minute appeals Sanders, Hawley team up to demand vote on second round of stimulus checks On The Money: Millions of Americans in poverty as Black, Native American wages stagnate | Jobless claims jump to 853K | Economists warn against excluding state aid from COVID-19 relief MORE (I-Vt.) clocks in at 16 percent support; Sen. Elizabeth Warren[]Elizabeth WarrenBette Middler blasts McConnell: 'How did he win with an 18% approval rating?' Mnuchin faces heat over coronavirus rescue loan to trucking company AFL-CIO praises Biden trade pick Tai as 'worker-champion' MORE (D-Mass.) won support from 15 percent of Iowa voters; and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg[]Pete ButtigiegJuan Williams: Clyburn is my choice as politician of the year 'Biff is president': Michael J. Fox says Trump has played on 'every worst instinct in mankind' Buttigieg: Denying Biden intelligence briefings is about protecting Trump's 'ego' MORE took 14 percent.

Sen. Kamala Harris[]Kamala HarrisBiden and Harris named Time's 2020 'Person of the Year' Harris and husband Emhoff celebrate start of Hanukkah Here's proof that promises for health care are fraudulent MORE (D-Calif.) scored 7 percent of the likely caucus-goers. Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke[]Beto O'RourkeMexican president breaks with other world leaders, refusing to acknowledge Biden win until election is finalized Mexico emerging as foreign policy challenge for Biden Beyoncé sports pro-Biden mask on Instagram MORE (D-Texas) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar[]Amy KlobucharDemocrats urge Biden to address 'infodemic' of COVID-19 disinformation, misinformation Durbin's fate unclear after rule change vote sparks disarray 46 states and FTC file antitrust lawsuits against Facebook MORE (D-Minn.) each earned support from 2 percent of those surveyed. Every other candidate in the crowded field scored at one percentage point or below.

"There is clearly a top tier, with Biden leading, and Sanders, Warren, and Buttigieg wrestling for second place," Selzer told The Hill. "Kamala Harris is on the bubble."

A little less than eight months before Iowa Democrats hold their caucuses, the absolute levels of support each candidate wins is less important than the trajectory their numbers show. Those trajectories are positive for Warren and Buttigieg — and distinctly negative for Biden and Sanders.

The survey, conducted June 2-5 among 433 likely Iowa Democratic caucus-goers, is the third time Selzer has tested the field. In December, she showed Biden leading with 32 percent, ahead of Sanders's 19 percent. In March, Biden led the field at 27 percent, while Sanders took 25 percent.

Today, Biden's support has slipped by a third from that initial survey. Sanders, whose 2016 campaign makes him among the best-known contenders in the field, has seen his support drop by more than a third.

Biden's supporters are less enthusiastic about his candidacy than supporters of every other candidate, Selzer said, a worrying sign for a front-runner who has suddenly appeared vulnerable.

By contrast, Warren won 8 percent support in the first poll and 9 percent in the second poll. Buttigieg wasn't even tested in the December survey, and by March only 1 percent of Iowa Democrats picked him as their favorite.

"The Warren campaign operation seems to be helping her gain traction," said Jeff Link, a Democratic strategist in Iowa who is unaligned in the 2020 presidential race. "This is a very encouraging poll for Mayor Pete."

O'Rourke has also taken a precipitous slide in recent months. In Selzer's December survey, 11 percent of Iowa Democrats backed the former Texas congressman. That number fell to 5 percent by March, and to just 2 percent Saturday.

The poll measures the strength of the field at a moment when many Iowa Democrats are only beginning to tune in. Nineteen candidates will travel to Cedar Rapids on Sunday to stump before the Iowa Democratic Party's annual Hall of Fame dinner, the first real Iowa cattle call of the race for the 2020 nomination. Every significant candidate, except for Biden, will address party activists.

The Iowa Poll carried a margin of error of plus or minus 4.7 percentage points for those planning to attend in-person and 7.6 points for those who plan to attend virtually.

question: Who was Time's 2020 Person of the Year?

answer: Former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris

question: Why did the 2020 Time's Person of the Year receive that honor?

answer: That information can't be found.

question: Describe the results of the Iowa poll.

answer: Biden was the first choice for nearly a quarter of Iowa Democratic caucus-goers. There were three contenders for second place: Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Pete Buttigeig.

question: When was this article published?

answer: That information can't be found.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: Former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris were named Time's 2020 Person of the Year. According to Iowa poll results, Biden was in the lead for the Democratic nomination, with Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Pete Buttigeig contending for second place.


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KARL JIRGENS (born September 5, 1952) is a writer, editor and professor at the University of Windsor, Ontario. He was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, and attended University of Toronto for his BA, Ontario College of Art where he completed 3 years towards a BFA, and York University for his MA and PhD in 1990. He has taught at the University of Toronto, York University, Guelph University, Humber College, Laurentian University (Algoma), and was the former head of the English Department at the University of Windsor (2004-2009).

In 1979, he founded the international literary journal, _Rampike_, in Toronto while he was still a student at the Ontario College of Art and was the editor and publisher of the journal until its final issue in 2016.[1][2] The journal features contemporary art, writing, and theory from around the world with a focus on Canadian expression.[3] The emergence of _Rampike_ is a part of the larger flourishing small press scene in Toronto at the time.[4] The entire ''Rampike ''print run from 1979 to 2016 (over 4000 pages) is archived on a free public access basis through the University of Windsor's Leddy Library “Scholars' Portal” (all copyrights remain with contributors, not-for-profit), and can be found at: https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/rampike/about.html (or just search for “about Rampike” and click the “university” link). The ''Rampike '' printed materials archive is scheduled to be stored at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto.

His scholarly work on contemporary and postcolonial literature has been published in international journals such as _La Revista Canaria de Etudio Ingleses_ (Spain), _Q/W/E/R/T/Y_ (France), _Open Letter_ (Canada), and _World Literature Today_ (USA). His creative work has appeared in Canadian journals such as _The Tamarack Review_, _Only Paper Today_, _Impulse_, _Descant_, _The Journal of Canadian Fiction_, _Inter_, _Filling Station_, and internationally in _The Ontario Review_ (USA), _Tyuonyi_ (USA), _UNIverse_ (Germany), _Essex_ (USA), _the International Symposia of Concrete & Visual Poetry_ (Australia), and _Offerte Speciale_ (Italy). His theatre/performance works have been presented nationally and internationally including at the Ultimatum Fest in Montreal and at the INTER-Festival in Quebec City.[5] He also served as a member of many scholarly and literary organizations.[6] He participated in Dial-A-Poem Montreal 1985–1987.

Jirgens is an 8th degree black-belt Grand-master in the martial art of Tae Kwon Do, having studied under Grand-master Son, Myung Soo (9th degree black belt). Jirgens founded the Sault Ste. Marie northern school of the Royal Tae Kwon Do Federation (RTF-North) in 1994, and continues to oversee training activities there. The RTF North web-page can be found at: https://www.facebook.com/royaltaekwondo/?rf=127491710622573

Publications

Fiction

-   _A Measure of Time_. (short-stories) Toronto, ON: Mercury Press, 1995.
-   _Strappado_. (short-stories) Toronto, ON: Coach House Books, 1985.
-   _Four Words_. (short-stories) Toronto, ON: 1W1 Publications, 1979.

Scholarly Books

-   _Bill Bissett and His Works_. Toronto, ON: ECW Press, 1992.
-   _Christopher Dewdney and His Works_. Toronto, ON: ECQ Press, 1994.

Edited Books

-   _Jack Bush_. Toronto, ON: Coach House, 1997.
-   _Children of the Outer Dark: The Poetry of Christopher Dewdney_. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007.

[1] “HA&L Biographical Sketch: Karl Jirgens”. _Hamilton Arts & Letters_. https://samizdatpress.typepad.com/hal_magazine_issue_11-2/hal-biographical-sketch-karl-jirgens.html

[2] Rob McLennan. “Profile on Karl Jirgens? Rampike, With a Few Questions.” _Open Book Ontario_. March 26, 2013. http://www.openbookontario.com/news/profile_karl_jirgens__rampike_few_questions/

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title: Karl Jirgens

question: Who is Karl Jirgens?

answer: A writer, editor, and professor at the University of Windsor, Ontario.

question: What is his academic pedigree?

answer: He attended University of Toronto for his BA, Ontario College of Art, and York University for his MA and PhD

question: Where has his work been published?

question: What martial art does he practice?

answer: He is an 8th degree black belt Grand master in  Tae Kwon Do.

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: Karl Jirgens is a Canadian writer, editor, and professor at the University of Windsor, Ontario. He attended the University of Toronto, Ontario College of Art, and York University. His works have been published in innumerable Canadian publications, and internationally in journals such as "La Revista Canaria de Etudio Ingleses" (Spain), "Q/W/E/R/T/Y" (France), and "World Literature Today" (USA), "The Ontario Review" (USA), "Tyuonyi" (USA), "UNIverse" (Germany), "Essex" (USA), "the International Symposia of Concrete & Visual Poetry" (Australia), and "Offerte Speciale" (Italy). He is also an 8th degree black belt Grand master in  Tae Kwon Do.


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	“Why do they make this so goddamn hot? They must want to burn your tongue so you can’t taste how much they water it down. I can barely taste anything anymore. Maybe I should sue them; get my big pay out and open my own shop that sells coffee at the proper dilution and temperature. Ground breaking idea---coffee that doesn’t leave my customers writhing under the pain of a blistering tongue everyday of their miserable lives. I guess I should just stop coming here. But, then I’d have to find a new place to go and find new things to complain about there. Seems like a lot of hassle over a tongue with a few burned off taste buds....”
 	Kurt stared at his laptop screen, glowing blue in the ambient mood lighting of Brew-Ha-Ha, the non-alcoholic version of the local dive in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, tucked away down a little side street off the main drag. Few ever went looking for it unless they already knew where it was. He had just arrived, and already there was a bitter taste in his mouth. He had run through nearly the same monologue in his mind day in and day out, for the better part of the year since he had started going there.
	Today was the day, though. Today, he was going to make real progress on this story; this pulitzer-potential Great American Novel that he merely needed to coax from the ends of his neurons. He looked at the thousand or so words he’d managed to choke up: something about a guy in a coffee shop in front of a laptop trying to look like he was doing something important in order to avoid social discourse.
	“Fuck.” He mouthed the word as he thought it to himself.
	He set his coffee down to the side and popped the cheap plastic lid off so it could cool down. He watched for a moment as the steam rose gleefully from the surface. Glee had no business here. Moving his hand in a well practiced multi-touch technique, he was able to have his Facebook screen up in less than a second.
	The blue-motif world of Facebook was calming for him. Every second spent wasted checking up on the friends he once had was a second spent away from making any real progress. Progress was hard. It took concentration; motivation. It was far easier to scroll this infinite tome the internet had written for him. And it was an illustrated novel. There were pictures of his elementary school friends looking chiseled as they hung out by some undisclosed body of water with beers in hand and faceless tan girls in little pink bathing suits that always seemed one size to small.
	“Those stupid parties are never any fun anyway. I always end up drinking too much on my own and doing something stupid. Remember that time I thought it was funny to dump the contents of the punch bowl down the front of my pants like I was drinking it from my crotch? And then I thought it was also funny to moon the cops when they came because apparently I didn’t leave when I was asked. Actually that is still pretty funny. Anyway, look at those stupid assholes. They’re never going to amount to anything beyond their quaint little small town parties. I’m better off not being there. Even if they invited me, I still wouldn’t go.”
	He scrolled down some more to a picture of his high school best friend, Max, and his golden retriever. It was a sunny, and they were alone together in some field with tall grass.
	“Pfft. How silly. Why is he posting a picture of him and his dog as a profile picture? That’s a bit sad. Doesn’t he have any real friends to post pictures with? That stupid dog is probably all he has in the world. How pathetic.”
	In the midst of his spewing of thoughts, Kurt remembered his own golden retriever that he had when he was growing up. He remembered the day they had to take him to the vet and how he stayed with him as they poked him that long needle. He remembered watching his eyes close for the last time. And he remember crying in a heap on the floor harder than he ever had in his life. His expression was dazed, backlit by the monitor like a ghost wandering in the moonlight. He absentmindedly clicked ‘like.’
	Cute puppy! Reminds me of my own when I was growing up. He mouthed the words as he typed them in to the comments section. He read them over twice before holding down the backspace deleting his words from existence.
	He continued the scroll stopping at a picture posted by his long ex-girlfriend, Kate. She was with her new boyfriend. The caption indicated they were engaged.
	“Kate’s too young to get married. She shouldn’t give her life to some guy like that. Who knows what she’ll be missing out on. Look at that guy. Looks like a Friday night bar pick-up. I can smell the ink on the divorce papers drying from here. I guess I should be nicer. I’m sure they’re going to end up okay. I wonder if they’ll have kids. Shit, he’s a good looking guy. I bet they’re kids will be good looking and popular in school. I miss you, Kate. I wish I could tell you. ‘Kurt and Kate.’ Our names even sounded good together.... What am I doing? How is that any type of indication of two peoples’ compatibility? It means nothing. I’m actually stupid. I moved on from this many, many years ago---and yet here I am. I’ve never had another girl like her, though. She was so amazing. And now she’s boning this other fuck-stick, while here I am in this stupid coffee shop with this retarded name, burnt out from whacking off every other day. I can’t let her know this. Should I say ‘congratulations’? No, I’ll just like it. Would that be weird? Fuck, just get off Facebook, you asshole.”
	Kurt closed the window with a rapid fire keyboard shortcut and saw his measly thousand words staring back at him once more. He picked up his coffee and took a swig.
	“Goddammit! How is this still hot?” He spoke his mind out loud this time and the quiet little people on their own little laptops looked over his way with a combination of confusion and dismay. ‘Out loud’ is forbidden here.
	Kurt closed his laptop a bit more forcibly than he was accustomed, but it still made a soft little pat sound. He looked down at his closed computer in front of him, and then up at all the other people quietly drinking their coffee and going about their work. There was an Asian girl in the corner with chin length hair and square goggle-glasses. She stared intently at her computer while sipping on some drink through a straw.
	“I bet it’s a non-fat chai something something something. Asians are crazy about the chai. Great, now I’m a racist. Good going, Kurt. As if you didn’t have enough wrong with you. I wonder if she’s writing a book, too. Probably not. She’s probably studying for math or engineering or something... Goddammit, you racist fuck! I’m the worst. I should just go talk to her and ask her about herself. That’s not weird, right? Why is not talking to each other the new norm? Oh, shit...”
	The girl in the corner made eye contact with Kurt, realizing she was being stared at. Kurt quickly looked away and pretended he was minding his own business and the girl quickly returned to her own endeavors.
	Kurt turned his attention now to a man sitting a few places down at a table parallel to his own spot. He was drinking a coffee and reading a book.
	“Great---another guy in the world who’s better looking than me. Chalk another one up. Why isn’t his coffee dissolving the taste buds on his stupid tongue? He must be blessed by the caffeine gods. Who wears a blazer to a coffee shop like this, anyway? Who’s he trying to impress? What a phony. What’s he reading?”
	Kurt leaned forward and squinted to decrypt the title of the book.
	“Oh hang on everyone! You’d better fasten your seat belts. This guys’s reading The Catcher in the Rye. How original. We got a regular literary fucking genius over here. Everyone else put your shit books away, can’t you see we’re reading The Catcher in the Mother-Fucking Rye. I didn’t know you were even allowed to read that once you graduated high school. He’s probably in here trying to pick up freshmen girls or something. The little airheads who walk around with their heads up their asses because their shit don’t stink because they read the Themes Motifs & Symbols tab on SparkNotes for stupid, wipe-my-ass Catcher in the Rye. You know, whatever. Good for him. I bet he gets laid tonight while I’m naked and jackin’ it in San Diego.”
	Kurt chuckled to himself.
	“I wonder if he watches South Park. Dammit...”
	The man looked up from his book to see Kurt looking back. He was able to squeeze in a quick, but sincere smile before Kurt whipped his gaze away.
	“Oh, what a guy. Reads J. D. Salinger and offers sincere smiles to strangers. I should contact the pope and see about pushing his canonization papers through.”
	He looked down at his laptop again, remembering he had just closed it. Not enough time had passed from him to throw it back open again---there’s rules here. Impaired of other options, he plunged his hand in to his right front pocket and whipped out his iPhone.
	Nothing. No texts. No SnapChats. No Facebook updates. Kurt flipped back and forth from page to page of useless apps. One, for instance, was called Coffee Finder. With one click you can find coffee shops that are near to your current location and read their menus and reviews from other customers.
	“Solid download.”
	Kurt clicked on Coffee Finder. A map popped up with a blue dot emitting little waves to indicate his current locale. It hovered over a red dot that read Brew Ha-Ha. He clicked on it. An image of the facade of the building popped up. He clicked on the about tab. The location apparently used to be a furniture store in the 1950s, a grocery store through the 90s, abandoned for 10 years, and then repurposed as ‘Oshkosh’s favorite gourmet coffee establishment.’
	“Gourmet, my ass. Although, I am drinking shitty coffee on historical land. Or at least I would if it would ever not be scalding.”
	He looked over menacingly toward his still steaming cup of French Roast.
	“I hate you.”
	He looked back at his phone and clicked on the review tab. The average: two and a half stars.
	“Seems about right.”
	He clicked on the read more button. The first review was five star. Holly J. writes: Brew Ha-Ha is a great little whole-in-the-wall coffee shop. It offers a cozy atmosphere and really friendly service. If only the hoards of Starbucks drinkers would turn around the corner their eyes would be....(continue reading)
	The review was cut off and you had to click if you wanted to read the rest of it. Kurt did not oblige. The next review down was one star. Blueballs69 writes: This place sucks. The person behind the counter was picking his wedgy as he asked me what I wanted. When I got my coffee, it tasted like ash and burned off half my taste buds. Go to Starbucks. Brew Ha-Ha sucks....(continue reading)
	“This guy gets it! Let’s see what he has to say. Click-a-roo.” Kurt clicked the button.
	...balls.
	“Worth it I think.” Kurt smirked slyly to himself as he rested his arm on the table staring methodically into his phone.

(continued...)

title: [RF] Coffee Shop

question: Summarize Kurt's thoughts as he browses his Facebook feed.

answer: Kurt always finds Facebook. blue motif calming. He finds the distraction from work a haven from constant worrying about his writing and how much progress he has made. He finds it easier to just scroll and gaze at pictures of his elementary school friends looking fit while surrounded by girls. Kurt decides he will not go to his elementary school parties anymore as he always ends up drinking too much whenever he parties with them. He scrolled down a bit more and found a picture of his high school best friend, Max, and his golden retriever. He muttered to himself about how silly Max looks sitting alone with his dog. He thinks it is sad. However, the picture reminds him of a retriever he used to have. He clicked "Like" on the picture. Kurt continued to scroll down, stopping at a picture posted by his ex-girlfriend, Kate. He scoffed at the sight of her boyfriend who was in the picture. He noticed that Kate is engaged and wondered if he should congratulate them. Kurt was sad and missed Kate. He decided to log off Facebook.

question: Why did Kurt and Kate break up?


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I have been having odd power button issues since updating to 2.3.4. It is almost like it is getting stuck or something.

Sometimes when I hit the power button to turn off the screen, the screen goes off for half a second then comes back on. This also happens when going from off to on (i.e. flicker on then back off), but it seems rarer.

Sometimes when I hit the home button (and just the home button), it takes a screenshot like I am hitting the button as well even though I am not.

All of this is fixed by just hitting the power button a few times.

Needless to say it is annoying. I thought it might be something mechanical, but I took the case off the back and the issue still occurred. It also seems like the button is clicking then unclicking (i.e. not getting stuck). I had no issues prior to updating to 2.3.4.

Anyone else had this happen or know a fix or workaround?

26th August 2011, 10:47 AM |#2

Yes! I have the same exact problem after the update!!
Glad to see I'm not the only one.

It's very annoying.

My backlight turns on by itself randomly and often if you press the power button to turn the screen off, it goes off then comes back on or flickers on and off. The power button doesnt always turn the screen back on either.

It also gets stuck where I press the home screen and it keeps taking pictures.

HTC better fix this!

26th August 2011, 11:28 AM |#3

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Originally Posted by MASTER&SLAVE™ __

I have been having odd power button issues since updating to 2.3.4. It is almost like it is getting stuck or something.

Sometimes when I hit the power button to turn off the screen, the screen goes off for half a second then comes back on. This also happens when going from off to on (i.e. flicker on then back off), but it seems rarer.

Sometimes when I hit the home button (and just the home button), it takes a screenshot like I am hitting the button as well even though I am not.

All of this is fixed by just hitting the power button a few times.

Needless to say it is annoying. I thought it might be something mechanical, but I took the case off the back and the issue still occurred. It also seems like the button is clicking then unclicking (i.e. not getting stuck). I had no issues prior to updating to 2.3.4.

Anyone else had this happen or know a fix or workaround?

I have the exact same problem too since upgrading! I have disabled the screenshot function in build.prop but that only stops the repeated screenshots part of the problem. The main problem with the power button still persists.

26th August 2011, 01:13 PM |#4

Junior Member

[Flag] Nottingham

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I'm having this too, its come and gone to different extents - pretty sure it was happening a bit before the update though.
I'm worried it is mechanical, I couldn't get it to happen with the back cover off but it could have just been coincidence. I can live with having to press the button again every so often but the screenshot thing annoys the hell out of me!

26th August 2011, 01:26 PM |#5

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[Flag] Hampton Roads

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Since the update I've experienced an issue with my power button as well. Sometimes when I hit the button to turn the screen on, nothing happens. At first I thought it was just me but it happens at least a couple of times a day and never happened before the update.
I don't normally turn my screen off by pressing the power button so I can't report on that. Guess I should count my blessing that the screen shot function is not acting up.

Thanks for posting cause was beginning to think it was just me.

26th August 2011, 02:49 PM |#6

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[Flag] Delran

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FIX!

I found a fix for this, in your build.prop remove the framework line for screen shots and then go in recovery and whipe cache partition twice as well as dalvic twice!

Cheers!

26th August 2011, 03:34 PM |#7

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Originally Posted by MASTER&SLAVE™ __

I found a fix for this, in your build.prop remove the framework line for screen shots and then go in recovery and whipe cache partition twice as well as dalvic twice!

Cheers!

I've just tried this twice but the problem still persists. Sure the screenshot issue is gone but the powering on and off the display is still intermittent.

Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using XDA App

26th August 2011, 03:46 PM |#8

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[Flag] New York

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I was having the same problem with the power button and was thinking it was hardware thanks for the heads up..

26th August 2011, 04:43 PM |#9

am I like the only one without this problem >.< lol. lucky me

26th August 2011, 06:28 PM |#10

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I have this same problem too, I believe its connected to the screenshots but i don't know how to turn it off easily (how do I get into build prop?)

This is definitely after the update, I had absolutely no problems with the power button prior to the update.

26th August 2011, 09:01 PM |#11

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[Flag] Hamburg

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I don't have any power button isues at all on my European Sensation (2.3.4 still S-On yet). Playing around it just for a week. But the Screenshot thing is a feature not a bug!

Just press <power button> + <Home> to take a screenshot. I like it.

question: How many people had the problem with the power button and the screenshot?

answer: Originally, user Master&Slave(TM) started the thread. At most eleven other people respond either with similar problems, or with fixes. They come from many regions, ranging from San Jose California, to Hamburg, Germany.

question: Summarize the problem users have been having with the update.

answer: Sometimes when they hit the home button it takes a screenshot like they are hitting the power button as well. They have checked and determined the problem is not mechanical by taking apart the button. One user suggests in build.prop remove the framework line for screen shots and then to go into recovery and whipe cache partition twice as well as dalvic twice. This fix does not work for everyone however.


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OBADIAH MOYO is a Zimbabwean politician and former hospital administrator. In 2018, he was appointed the country's Minister of Health and Child Care. On the 19th of June 2020, he was arrested and charged with three counts of criminal abuse of duty as a public officer, for his alleged participation in a scam that involves tens of millions of dollars[1]. After spending the night in police cells, he posted $50 000.00 bail, and is currently awaiting the start of his criminal trial[2]. On the 7th of July 2020, the President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa dismissed Moyo from the office of Cabinet Minister, removing him for “conduct inappropriate for a Government Minister”[3].

Previous career

Moyo served as the Executive Director of The Zimbabwe Kidney Fund Association's Renal Services and worked to bring more dialysis machines to hospitals.[4] Moyo was involved in providing dialysis care for Sally Mugabe, Robert Mugabe's first wife, when she battled renal disease.[5]

In 2005, he was appointed as the chief executive officer of Chitungwiza Central Hospital near Harare.[6] He held the position until 2018.[7]

Political career

Moyo is a member of Zanu-PF. He ran for parliament in 2018 in the Zengeza East constituency but lost the election to Goodrich Chimbaira.[8]

He had previously run for election in 2005 as the representative for Nkayi but was not successful.[9]

Moyo was appointed as the Minister of Health and Child Care in September 2018 in Emmerson Mnangagwa's government.[10] He replaced David Parirenyatwa.[11] During his first year in the ministerial role, the country faced a cholera outbreak[12] and doctor strikes over hospital conditions, a shortage of drugs and wages.[13] In March 2020, Moyo was appointed to lead the country's Coronavirus Task Force.[14] Moyo's tenure as Zimbabwe's Minister of Health was marred by frequent and persistent complaints that he is an academic imposter; that he faked his medical qualifications; and that he is not, as he claims to be, a medical doctor[15].

In June 2020, Moyo was arrested for corruption and abuse of office.[16] He was charged with illegally awarding $60 million in contracts, through the Health Ministry, without a competitive tender process to purchase COVID-19 testing materials and equipment.[17] Moyo was removed from office on 7 July 2020.[18]

Personal life

Moyo was born in Gutu. He married Lucy Memory. They have four children together.[19]

[1] https://www.herald.co.zw/zacc-arrests-health-minister/

[2] https://www.sundaynews.co.zw/minister-obadiah-moyo-gets-50-000-bail/

[3] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/07/zimbabwe-health-minister-obediah-moyo-sacked-graft-scandal-200708070434612.html

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title: Obadiah Moyo

question: What does the article say about why Moyo was dismissed from the office of Cabinet Minister?

answer: The President of Zimbabwe, Mnangagwa, dismissed Moyo for “conduct inappropriate for a Government Minister" because he was arrested and charged with three counts of criminal abuse of duty as a public officer for his alleged participation in a scam that involves tens of millions of dollars.

question: What does the article say about Zimbabwean presidents?

answer: The article mentions Mnangagwa who dismissed Moyo from the office of Cabinet Minister and Mugabe whose first wife battled the renal disease.

question: What does the article say about Moyo's political career?

answer: Moyo was appointed as the Minister of Health and Child Care in September 2018. In March 2020, Moyo was appointed to lead the country's Coronavirus Task Force. Moyo was is said he faked his medical qualifications. In June 2020, he was arrested for corruption and abuse of office. He was removed from office on 7 July 2020.

question: What does the article say about Moyo's relationship with current Zimbabwe's prime minister?


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A Florida middle school teacher will keep his job after an investigation found he used a racial slur in front of students more than once and told them not to date black boys.

[More than 20 students said David Swinyar used a racial slur in front of them during class.]
David Swinyar, a 48-year-old math teacher at Kernan Middle School in Duval County, has also been accused by students of belittling them, confronting them in a “physically aggressive manner” and yelling at them, according to an investigation conducted by the Duval County School District.

He will face a 10-day unpaid suspension after the investigation found merit to all the complaints.

[A summary of the investigation conducted by the district's Office of Equity and Inclusion/Professional Standards.]
In October of last year, while teaching his math class, Swinyar had a conversation with students about the word “fuck” after he overheard it in his classroom.

“If my daughter was dating someone who used the ‘f’ word, I wouldn’t have any respect for that n****r,” Swinyar said, according to the report.

In the same conversation about dating, Swinyar used the slur again.

“If your boyfriend says bad things to you and/or treats you wrong, that means that he’s acting like a n****r,” he said, per the report. “You all should not be dating all these different African Americans [_sic_] boys because they are not worth it.”

Two dozen students in his class acted as witnesses for the report, and most agreed they clearly heard Swinyar say the word. Students said they were shocked, with one saying he wanted to “go on a rampage” after hearing the epithet. Black students called out Swinyar’s behavior.

“I never said that, but if I did, I am sorry,” he allegedly told students.

Swinyar defended himself further by saying he attends a black church, but then laughed and began mocking black preachers, students said.

[A student describes her experience with teacher David Swinyar.]
“He loves to talk about politics and Donald Trump,” one student told the investigator.

Students said Swinyar regularly berated them, yelling and calling them “idiots.”

“You are only enrolled in my class because you performed poorly on the standardized testing (FSA),” he allegedly told his class at one time.

One female student said she felt uncomfortable because the teacher allegedly “makes female students uncomfortable by staring at their breasts and other parts,” the report says.

After Swinyar used the racial slur during the October incident, a student in his class went to the school’s office to call his mother and tell her about what happened.

“Mr. Swinyar yelled at the student and called the student a liar,” the school’s office assistant told investigators. “He also snatched the phone away from the student.”

On Tuesday night, the Duval County School Board agreed to Swinyar’s 10-day suspension. Because of the “severity” of the incident, customary steps of issuing the teacher verbal and written reprimands were “skipped” in favor of the suspension, a spokesperson for Duval County Schools told HuffPost.

Swinyar’s suspension comes less than a week after another Florida teacher lost her job following a HuffPost investigation found she had a white nationalist podcast.

Swinyar did not return a call for comment from HuffPost.

In the report, one parent said there needed to be a “heightened awareness surrounding racial issues in the country as a whole” and that she “believes our school system should seek to provide a safe haven for our students.”

“Moreover, this is not the first racial incident between a teacher and a student at Kernan Middle School,” that the mother has experienced, she told investigators.

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question: What does the article say about Swinyar?

answer: David Swinyar is a 48-year-old middle school teacher at Kernan Middle School in Duval County, Florida. He was suspended for ten days without pay for inappropriate behavior. His transgressions include using the N-word, general racist comments, berating and insulting the students, and making female students uncomfortable by staring at their breasts and other places.

question: What does the article say about the black lives matter movement?


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A panel discussion on diversity in the White House erupted after Gina Loudon, a member of President Donald Trump's 2020 Advisory Council, suggested that presidents do not need a diverse White House to achieve "amazing" things such as civil rights laws.

Asked by CNN anchor Erin Burnett as to why White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders refused on Wednesday to say how many black people are employed at the White House, Loudon responded by claiming that U.S. presidents have achieved "pretty amazing things" without "any minorities at all in their White Houses.

"You look back at our history, we have a pretty amazing history of overcoming slavery, of expanding civil rights, of women's rights, and a lot of those things happened under American presidents who didn't have any minorities at all in their White Houses," Loudon said.

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Political commentator Angela Rye (left) blasted Gina Loudon (right) a member of President Trump's 2020 Advisory Council, over her "nonsense" talking points about diversity in the White House during a panel discussion led by CNN anchor Erin Burnett. CNN
Liberal political commentator and attorney Angela Rye, who was also part of the panel, could be seen mouthing the word, "what?" as her eyes widened in apparent shock at Loudon's comments.

The comment came after Loudon said that what really disappoints her is the "division and the fact that we're having to count people based on their skin color."

"I don't like that," she said, later adding that she "looked over the list of people" that she knows at the White House and saw that "about one third of them are a minority or a woman. Those are great strides," she said. "Could they be better? Absolutely."

Loudon then appeared to suggest that the problem was that when people, "for example, Kanye West," show support for the president, they get "annihilated in the press."

'NOBODY WANTS TO GO WORK FOR A RACIST'

Asked to respond to Loudon's comments, Rye said she "got stuck at Gina saying that American presidents have done a great deal for people of color, like ending slavery. Like, I think I'm stuck in 1865 now."

As Loudon repeatedly tried to speak over her, Rye cut her short, saying: "You're going to keep talking over me. My black life matters and so does my voice.

"Listen to what I'm saying to you. What you said was deeply offensive. What I am telling you is you can't say—at least you shouldn't feel comfortable saying it in 2018, that this White House not having diversity can be akin to presidents who didn't have any black people on their staff, but for slavery, freeing slaves. Like, that's not okay in 2018."

READ MORE: SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS IS SORRY (NOT SORRY) FOR SAYING TRUMP CREATED MORE JOBS FOR BLACK PEOPLE THAN OBAMA

Rye asserted Loudon would not be able to "successfully name one black person who works in the West Wing, because, you know what, Omarosa didn't even work in the West Wing.

"So, regardless of your points about slavery which are nonsense, I hope you R.I.P. those talking points tonight, they should never be resurrected," she advised.

Rye said the lack of diversity is a "problem in this White House," adding the "reason why it is" is because "nobody wants to go work for a racist.

"There's not a single senior black person in the White House, and don't you dare say to me Ben Carson because he doesn't work there, and how dare his gifted hands—who's a brain surgeon and who has never done anything on a construction project—this whole administration is nonsense, just like your talking points," Rye concluded.

Loudon then tried to say that she understood where Rye was coming from because she has an adopted, disabled minority child who has experienced "bigotry."

Rye appeared visibly disturbed by Loudon's statement and said "America has never been great. It is not great because people like you come on and lie for the president of the United States and then tout, bring out your son as an example? You should be completely ashamed of yourself."

The debate came after both Sanders and White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway struggled to name any black people working in the White House and specifically within the West Wing which houses the offices of the president.

question: What does the text say about the qualities that make a good White House correspondent?

question: Summarize the main news event.

answer: The main news event is the lack of diversity in President Trump's White House. There are no minorities or black people working in the West Wing, especially in senior positions. Not even White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders can name one black person on the staff because there are none. The debate about the lack of diversity is a hot topic as senior White House representatives such as Gina Loudon, a member of President Trump's 2020 Advisory Council, keep on defending the seemingly racist stance of hiring only white people. Loudon even claimed that many other U.S. presidents have achieved amazing things without any minorities at all in their White Houses (such as civil rights laws), which didn't sit well with political analyst Angela Rye.

question: Summarize the views of the opposing sides.

answer: Gina Loudon, a member of President Trump's 2020 Advisory Council, says that diversity isn't needed in the White House. She claims that former U.S. presidents have achieved amazing things without any minorities at all in their White Houses, including overcoming slavery, expanding civil rights, and women's rights. CNN Liberal political commentator and attorney, Angela Rye, blasted Loudon's nonsensical comments, especially about freeing slaves, which she said was offensive. Rye added that the lack of diversity is a problem in Trump's White House because nobody wants to work for a racist.

question: Summarize the role of President Trump in the news.

answer: President Trump's role is that he apparently does not want minorities in the White House directly working for him. As such, there is not a single senior black person in the White House, specifically in the West Wing which houses the offices of the president. One-third of the White House staff are minorities or women,  but none work for Trump. He is also labeled as a racist that nobody wants to work for, which could explain the absence of minorities in his staff.


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“Abolish the Electoral College,” Bernie Sanders recently tweeted. The Senator’s statement was in response to an op-ed authored by _The Cook Political Report_’s Dave Wasserman, who posited that though President Donald Trump suffers from a low national approval rating, the Electoral College could still hand him a victory. Earlier in the day, _The_ _New York Times_’ Nate Cohn penned a similar analysis, estimating that the president “could win while losing the national vote by as much as five percentage points.”

No matter the question—be it “Should we reelect the racist?” or “Is health care a right or a privilege?”—we can’t receive an answer if the election is not an accurate representation of the national will.

Earlier in the year, the topic of how we elect the president briefly garnered widespread news coverage after Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, at a CNN town hall, called for the elimination of the archaic executive branch electoral system. The news cycle moved on and the national conversation soon dampened to a whisper, but we cannot let the discussion die. The likelihood a president will be elected with a minority of the popular vote could increase moving forward, and that would further undermine the legitimacy of the Oval Office—perhaps irreparably.

As both Wasserman and Cohn note, demographics are a driving force behind a potential electoral vote–popular vote split in 2020. But less reported is the effect of the war over voting rights.

Across the country, states under Democratic control are passing pro-voter reforms, such as automatic voter registration, same-day voter registration, or preregistration for 16-year-olds. At the same time, GOP-controlled states—including some swing states—have passed regressive, anti-voter legislation. These measures, such as voter ID laws and burdensome registration requirements, when paired with aggressive voter-roll purges, decrease turnout.

This voting-rights divide threatens to become more extreme with additional democracy advances in blue states and repression in red states. When this disparity encounters the Electoral College, it could translate to staggeringly unrepresentative election results. Democrats will continue to expand their popular vote margin while the GOP will hold power disproportionate to their dwindling share of the vote.

Opponents of change argue that the Electoral College was meant to protect smaller, rural states from the tyranny of urban population centers, so there is no cause for alarm. But, because almost all states award electoral votes in a winner-take-all fashion, our presidential elections actually render small and rural states irrelevant.

Rather, presidential elections are currently decided by swing states, ones that are less racially diverse than the country as a whole and, in 2016, represented only 35 percent of eligible voters. Last presidential election, 95 percent of candidate appearances and 99 percent of campaign spending went to fourteen states. None of them are particularly rural nor, with the exception of New Hampshire, remotely small.

The swing states, due to their electoral significance, also have a stranglehold on national policies. The coal industry, for example, has outsize influence because of its prominence in Pennsylvania. So, too, does the ethanol industry because of Iowa. Moreover, U.S. tariffs have disproportionately benefited industries located in swing states, and the battleground states have historically received more in federal grants than the rest of the country.

You can’t have a “more perfect union” if you have an imperfect election. Republican and Democratic voters should both be able to agree that this anti-democratic system—one that promotes minority rule determined by a random set of swing states—has no place in the twenty-first century. No party should expect to benefit forever from a system that perpetuates inequality and inaccuracy.

The obvious solution is an amendment to the Constitution to abolish the Electoral College. In 1969, there was actually a noteworthy effort to do exactly this, but, after success in the House, it failed in the Senate. Apart from another attempt in 1979, an amendment has been, and continues to be, a pipe dream.

Fortunately, there are statutory solutions afoot to get closer to a fair count.

The National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV), for example, is a coordinated campaign to get states to pledge their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. The agreement would only go into effect once enough states, comprising a majority of electoral votes (270), join.

Currently, 15 states and Washington D.C., representing 196 electoral votes, have entered the compact. Four states—Colorado, Delaware, New Mexico, and Oregon—joined this year, a sign of accelerating progress. Two more states, Nevada and Maine, should have been on this list—but, after NPV advanced through the legislature, Nevada’s Democratic governor Steve Sisolak unexpectedly vetoed it, and, although it passed the state Senate, Maine House Democrats voted down NPV after bizarrely voting to advance it days prior.

There is no pathway for the compact to go into effect before the 2020 election—but 2024 remains a possibility. First, Maine and Nevada will have to come back into the fold. Then, if the Democrats (or reform-minded Republicans) win enough state legislative races in a combination of Virginia, Minnesota, Arizona, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and New Hampshire—all states in which this is potentially feasible—NPV could be pushed over the finish line.

But each state need not wait for the others to realize concrete changes in advance of 2020. All states can better ensure that every vote counts in presidential elections by implementing what is known as ranked choice voting (RCV).

Under this voting system, voters are allowed to rank candidates in order of preference. If no candidate receives majority support, the last-place vote-getter is eliminated, and their votes are reallocated according to subsequent preference. This process is repeated until one candidate receives at least 50 percent.

In 2018, Maine became the first state to implement ranked choice voting for primaries and federal (non-presidential) elections. This year, a group of Maine legislators, led by State Senate President Troy Jackson, pushed to expand the program to include the presidential primary and general election. If Jackson’s expansion were to become law, the awarding of Electoral College votes could no longer be skewed or disrupted by third-party candidates.

Pine Tree State reformers are close to victory. Both the state House and Senate approved the bill, but the legislative session came to a close before the bill could be sent to the governor’s desk for approval. Advocates are not giving up and are working on a game plan to get RCV enacted by the 2020 general election.

While ranked choice voting would not eliminate the basic inequalities built into the Electoral College, it would ensure that, if states continue to allocate electoral votes via winner-take-all, the candidate that wins a state is actually the candidate that has majority support.

There are some questions about what would happen to the use of ranked choice voting if the national popular vote actually went into effect. But FairVote CEO Rob Richie tells _The New Republic_ that reformers are working on both congressional and state-based solutions to deal with this potential scenario.

Had approximately 60,000 votes in Ohio flipped from George W. Bush to John Kerry in 2004, it’s possible that the Electoral College would have already been changed or abolished. If Ohio had been awarded to Kerry, Bush would have won the popular vote while being deprived of an electoral vote majority. This would have marked consecutive elections in which the system failed to produce the small-d democratic winner and may very well have spurred a bipartisan demand for reform. Instead, Bush won reelection and now one party is clearly benefiting from this anachronistic institution.

To both parties, the words of Thomas Jefferson now serve as a reminder and a warning. “Institutions,” he wrote, “must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.”

The Electoral College has been an ill-fitting layer for a long time. For the sake of our democracy, it’s time to throw away the coat.

question: Summarize the voting rights divide between Democrats and the GOP.

answer: The divide for voting rights threatened to become more extreme with additional democracy advances in blue states and repression of rights in red states. Across the country Democrats are passing pro-voter reforms. GOP controlled states have passed regressive anti-voter legislation, like voter ID laws. This divide could cause unrepresentative election results if it encounters the Electoral College.

question: What does the text say about Maine?

answer: In the author's argument to abolish the Electoral College, they mention how Maine hinders the National Popular Vote compact from going into effect. Mane should have been on the NPV's list, but the Maine House Democrats voted down NPV after bizarrely voting to advance it days prior. It's possible the compact could go into effect if Maine and Nevada decide to come back into the NPV's fold. The author mentions how Maine became the first state to implement ranked choice voting for primaries and federal (non-presidential) elections in 2018. At the time of the article, a group of Maine legislators pushed to expand this program to include the presidential primary and general election.

question: Summarize some arguments against the Electoral College.

answer: The overall article argues for the abolishment of the archaic Electoral College. One reason is a president like Donald Trump can still get elected president even though he suffers from a low national approval rating due to the Electoral College. He could win while losing the national vote by as much as 5% of votes. Due to almost all states awarding electoral votes in a winner-take-all fashion, the presidential elections actually render small and rural states irrelevant. Since elections are decided by swing states, which are usually less racially diverse than compared to the country, only represent about 35% of eligible voters. This also means these swing states have a stranglehold on national policies, due to their electoral significance.

question: What does the text say about President Obama?


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ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL is an independent and non-denominational Christian day and boarding school for girls, located in Toorak, an inner south-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Established in 1896 as Castlemaine Ladies' College, the school has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 730 students from pre-school to Year 12, including 80 boarders, on a 2.9 hectare campus.[1] Boarding students come to St Catherine's from country Victoria, interstate and overseas.[2]

St Catherine's is a member of the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA),[3] the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia,[4] the Association of Independent Schools of Victoria (AISV),[5] the Australian Boarding Schools Association,[6] and a founding member of Girls Sport Victoria (GSV).[7]

In October 2007, Sylvia Walton AO was appointed as the twelfth principal of St Catherine's School.[8]

History

St Catherine's School was founded as CASTLEMAINE LADIES' COLLEGE in 1896, by Jeanie Hood in Templeton Street, Castlemaine.[9]

At the instigation of Henry Langley, the first Anglican Bishop of Bendigo, his daughters, Ruth, Aphra and Nona took over the school in 1903. The Langley sisters later changed the school's name to CASTLEMAINE GIRLS' COLLEGE, and in 1911 to ST CATHERINE'S GIRLS COLLEGE, CASTLEMAINE, after the Anglican school St Catherine's School at Waverley in Sydney, where Ruth and Nona Langley had been educated. St Catherine's was a nominally Anglican school at this time in its history.[10]

In 1920, St Catherine's School moved to Williams Road in Melbourne, where 48 pupils were enrolled. Ruth Langley had been joined in 1919 by Flora Templeton, who came as co-principal from Blair School, at St Georges Road, Toorak, with her students.[11]

In 1922, ST CATHERINE'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL had 80 students, and in need of more accommodation, Langley and Templeton purchased “Kilbride House”, formerly known as “Beaulieu”, at 17 Heyington Place, Toorak. The building was ultimately renamed “Sherren House” in recognition of Ruby Lawrence (née Sherren), who was the schools matron from 1923 to 1946. Flora Templeton died in 1931, but Ruth Langley continued the administration of the school, appointing Edna Holmes as headmistress. After Langley's death, at St Catherine's, on 17 December 1933,[12] her sister, Hilda Langley, became principal.[13][14]

In 1942, World War II saw the school buildings requisitioned as a residence for the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF). St Catherine's found a temporary home at Mountain Grand, Warburton, and returned to Heyington Place in 1943. In 1944, Sophie Borland was appointed headmistress and worked with Hilda Langley as principal until the end of 1947, when the trustee of the late Ruth Langley decided to hand control of the school to a council. The first chairman of the council was the Right Reverend John McKie, Bishop in Geelong.[15]

In 1948, Barbreck, at 33 Heyington Place, was acquired for use as a junior school, making possible further extensions to the secondary school, and pupil numbers increased to about 400.[16]

In 1950, Mary Davis was appointed as principal and headmistress. In 1957, Hilda Langley died, ending the Langley family's long association with the school.[17] R. Ann Baylis served as principal from 1971–77 and her two daughters attended the school. In 1977, Dorothy Pizzey was appointed to this post.[18]

Beginning in 2006, the school offered the IB Primary Years Programme[19]

Campus

St Catherine's School is located on a single 2.9 hectare campus, in suburban Toorak, 6 km south-east of the Melbourne city centre.[20] The school comprises the Early Learning Centre, the Junior School and the Senior School.[21]

Music

St Catherine's offers a music program with an extensive classroom curriculum and instrumental program, a range of opportunities for both individual and ensemble performance are available.

Classroom music

Classroom music forms a part of the core curriculum from the Early Learning Centre through to Year 8. Girls of all ages are encouraged to learn an instrument and to join the choirs, ensembles, orchestras and bands which rehearse and perform regularly.

In Years 7 and 8, students develop music appreciation, performance skills and explore a wide variety of music technology programs available through our keyboard laboratory.

From Year 9 onwards, music becomes an elective and VCE subject with emphases on developing performance, composition and analysis skills.

Instrumental program

All students have the opportunity to learn a stringed instrument in Year 2, recorder in Year 3 and 4, and a brass or woodwind instrument in Year 5. These small group lessons allow students a “hands-on” experience including opportunities to perform throughout the year.

The school also offers a comprehensive Instrumental Program in all instrument families (including string, woodwind, brass, voice, percussion and keyboard instruments) where students learn with specialist teachers in classical and contemporary styles. Individual tuition from specialist staff is available for violin, viola, cello, double bass, flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba, piano, harpsichord, recorder, classical singing, jazz singing, guitar, harp, percussion, music theory.

Choirs and ensembles

The ensemble program provides ensemble opportunities from classical to contemporary. The list of ensembles includes choirs, orchestras, concert bands, string, woodwind, brass and percussion ensembles, chamber groups and contemporary groups.

The Epstein Singers, àBeckett Strings, Junior Concert Band, Suzuki ‘Cellos, Suzuki Violins, Flute group, Percussion and recorderensemble, Chamber ensembles, The Langley Singers – Prep to Year 2, Heyington Choir – Years 3 and 4 Choir, Barbreck Choir – Years 5 and 6 Choir,

Jorgensen Orchestra, Senior School Concert Band, Soul Power, Sherren Singers, Chamber flutes, Years 7–12 choir, Viva Voci, Stage band, Brass ensemble, Percussion ensemble, Years 7 and 8 concert band, Years 7 and 8 flute ensemble, and small chamber ensembles

An extensive performance program enables all students to participate in a wide variety of concerts and recitals including the annual gala concert, twilight concert, instrumental recitals, Barbreck Concert, Barbreck recitals, masterclasses, jazz cabaret evenings and music theatre performances. Students also perform at the school's church services, speech nights, assemblies and many other school events both at school and in the community.

Notable alumnae

Alumnae of St Catherine's School are known as “Old Girls” and may elect to join the schools' alumni association, the St Catherine's Old Girls' Association Inc.[22] Some notable St Catherine's Old Girls' include:

Academic

-   Margaret Loch Kiddle – historian (also attended Melbourne Girls Grammar School)[23]
-   Alison Patrick (née Hamer) – historian and first female Head of History at Melbourne University
-   Susan Richardson – Professor of Labour Economics and Director of the National Institute of Labour Studies at Flinders University; Commissioner, Essential Services Commission of South Australia; Author (also attended Preshil)[24]

Business

-   Natalie Bloom – Owner and Founder of Bloom (Cosmetics); Victorian Young Australian of the Year 1997[25]
-   Margaret Florence Darling AM (née Anderson) – Company Director; Grazier; Former Patron of the Australian Garden Historical Society; Former Vice-President of the National Trust of Australia (Vic.); Attained rank of Third Officer in the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service[26]
-   Sandra Forbes – Arts and Publishing Consultant; Editor of the 'TAASA Review'; Former Executive Officer of the Literature Program Australia Council; Former Member of the Australian National Commission for UNESCO[27]
-   Sophie Holt – Granddaughter of former Prime Minister Harold Holt and Country Road fashion designer[28]
-   Merran Kelsall – Chairman, Auditing and Assurance Standards Board, Public Transport Industry Ombudsman (Victoria) and Professional Indemnity Insurance Company Australia Pty Limited; Director, Melbourne Water Corporation and Cuscal Ltd; Trustee of the National Gallery of Victoria[29]
-   Felicity Jane Singleton AM – Managing Director of Jane Singleton Public Affairs Pty Ltd; CEO of the Australian Reproductive Health Alliance[30]

Community and philanthropy

-   Lady Anna Cowen – Former President of the World Education Fellowship (Queensland); Wife of former Governor-General, Sir Zelman Cowen (also attended Shelford Girls' Grammar)[31]
-   Dame Elisabeth Murdoch AC DBE – Philanthropist, widow of Australian newspaper publisher Sir Keith Murdoch and mother of international media proprietor Rupert Murdoch[32]
-   Jill Reichstein – Chair of the Reichstein Foundation; Helped establish the first women's refuge in Victoria; Developed community childcare for the City of Brunswick; Co-ordinated Victorian Cooperative of Children's Services for Ethnic Groups; Past President and a Board Member of Philanthropy Australia[33]
-   Lady Marigold Merlyn Baillieu Southey AC – Lieutenant Governor of Victoria; President of the St Catherine's School Foundation; Director of the Myer Foundation; Former Director of the Myer Family Company; Recipient of the Centenary Medal 2003; Daughter of Sidney Baevski Myer and Dame Margery Merlyn Baillieu Myer[34]
-   Pamela Myer Warrender – Author; Honorary Life Member, Committee for Melbourne; Founder and former Director of the Committee for Melbourne; Former Chairman of the Museum of Modern Art and Design Australia; Daughter of Sir Norman Myer[35]

Entertainment, media and the arts

-   Celia Ann Burrell AM – Author, Illustrator, Photographer; Director of El Questro Publishing[36]
-   Ann Rachel Church – Set and costume designer[37]
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title: St Catherine's School, Toorak

question: Summarize the instrumental program at St. Catherine's School.

answer: All students at St. Catherine's have the opportunity to learn a stringed instrument in Year 2, recorder in Year 3 and 4, and a brass or woodwind instrument in Year 5. The school also offers a comprehensive Instrumental Program in all instrument families where students learn with specialist teachers win classical and contemporary styles.

question: Who are some notable alumnae from the school?

answer: A few notable alumnae include Alison Patrick, first female Head of History at Melbourne University, Sophie Holt, granddaughter of former Prime Minister Harold Holt, and Lady Anna Cowen, Former President of the World Education Fellowship.

question: What are the costs associated with attending the school?


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I wrote this on the fly last night, may need some editing for grammar and such, but let me know what you think.
It is entitled       **WHOLE**

Not until living about twenty years of life did I realize that I was not alone in this world. I grew up in a Christian home and truly believed in God, I still do, but I never felt like there were people around me. I went to a private high school and was taught by fantastic teachers about all sorts of fascinating topics. I went to gym class and excelled at walking laps while the popular kids played basketball. Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t an outcast, nor did I believe that I was better than everyone else and thus didn’t participate, it’s just, I once played a game of knockout and when I won against the star basketball player (who later went to play for the best college team in the country), I decided that I didn’t like basketball anymore. That’s in the past though; I am now in college and have nothing to do with the gym.
I guess before continuing with my story I should tell you who I am, but that is no simple task either. My name is, for all intents and purposes of this story, Daniel West. Not only is my name Daniel West, but my father’s name was also Daniel West. You see, my father died well before I was born and my mother named me after him. He didn’t know he was having a son before he died. Having a son was his dream.
Everyone always tells me that I look just like my father, but I have my mother’s smile. It’s the dimples. Sadly, I also inherited my eyesight from my father. My favorite thing in the world is waking up every morning and poking myself in the eyes several times after stubbing my toe on the dresser and nearly falling down the stairs, and all this happens before breakfast. My jet black hair and slim face are some of my favorite features that make me happy to be the descendant of my father.

Jess, my older sister by six years, adds another interesting dynamic to the house. She still lives at home and has two kids, she was raped three years ago; the man was never caught.  She hasn’t been the same since that day, but the twins are just learning to walk so she doesn’t have much time to think about it anymore. I wish she could find a nice guy to marry; she could use a man in her life. I offer to watch my nephews for her so she can go to a bar and meet someone, but she always says I am sweet, but she doesn’t have time to drink and she is too tired because of the kids and work to date. I don’t see why not, once the kids are asleep she sits in the Lazy Boy and drinks a cup of hot tea staring into space. She could stand to be staring into a man’s eyes for once.

My mother is the happiest, most hardworking, woman I know. She works two jobs during the week and another job on weekends, when she isn’t watching the twins. Beautiful as ever, she is. Her grey green eyes and bright smile, dimples as big as the craters on the moon always brightens anyone’s day. I am just glad that I didn’t inherit that hotrod red hair of hers; I like having a soul. Don’t tell her I said that, she always gives me sass when I pull out the ginger jokes. “Daniel that is not a way to treat you mother, or any other women! Red hair does not mean that I do not have a soul. What are they teaching you at that expensive college that you’re going to?” She scolds me, holding back a smile; it’s a little scary, even if she isn’t serious. I sometimes call her just to say something about her hair, because I never get to see her. Except during breakfast.

Breakfast is my favorite ten minutes on weekdays. The family all sits down together, except Tuesdays and Thursdays when my mom has to go into work early and Fridays when my sister takes the kids to daycare early so she can get some shopping done before work. I make us pancakes and eggs and we talk about the weather and what so and so did down the street. The simple conversations are my favorite, because it reminds me that, though we never see each other for more than ten minutes on any given day, we are still alive.

It does make me sad though. If my dad had been allowed to buy the hand gun he had tried to buy the week before he, along with five others, was shot, he would be with us and I would have a father. He had gone with a friend of his, a police officer, to the gun range weekly for months to learn how to handle and shoot a firearm. When he went to the store they informed him that he had to go through several levels of background checks and tests before he could purchase his first handgun. It angers me that the man who shot him had gone through the same process and was still a criminal. You would think that the governments’ strict control over the weapons would ensure that guns were not put into crazy people’s hands.

Growing up without a father and with a mother who works three jobs was tough and still is. I had to teach myself how to cook, shave, and tie a tie for prom. Not that I had a date to prom, I am too quiet and people think that I lack confidence because of that. “No one likes a man who doesn’t have enough confidence.” One girl said to me when I asked her out. The truth is, I am very confident in who I am, it’s just I can’t be loud or attract attention to myself; I never have been able to.  It’s strange, I try to yell and the loudest I can get can be heard no more than across the room, and that is when I am angry. I’m never angry so really, I can only be as loud as a normal conversation tone. That doesn’t explain the lack of appeared confidence. What does explain it is, I am humble, humble to the point that I can’t be mean and I feel prideful if I draw attention to myself in anyway. When I try to I usually get weird looks anyways, so it doesn’t matter to me. Much.
The point I am trying to get at, the one that started this whole rant is. It has been twenty years and I have always felt mostly alone. Despite my mother, sister, and nephews, a few good friends who all go to schools hours away, and a being in a great college, I couldn’t seem to shake my loneliness. That is until now. They thing that makes me feel like I am not alone, the thing that makes me most happy, is the simplest thing of all. It is something that I was born by and born with. It is something that most people spend their whole lives trying to find, but no amount of wealth or power or knowledge can take its place or bring it to a person. It is a four letter word. Love.

When you throw out everything else in my life, three things remain: Faith, Hope, and Love. The greatest of these is Love and it is Love that makes me whole. For I know that when all else fails me, my love for my family, my friends, my god, and all of those around me will never cease. It is my gift of love that holds back the worst this world can give me. And it is Love that makes me whole.

title: Whole

question: What does the story say about the narrator's beliefs?

answer: The narrator, Daniel West, was raised Christian and continues to practice Christianity.

question: What does the story say about the narrator's college experience?

answer: The narrator does not participate in sports or anything active during his college years.

question: What does the text say about Jess?

answer: Jess is the narrator's older sister by six years. She was raped three years ago and got pregnant with twins.

question: What does the text say about the narrator's mother?

answer: The narrator believes their mother is the happiest, most hardworking woman they know. She works two jobs during the week and another job on the weekends. She does not like being made fun of for being ginger by the narrator.


text:
[People helped clean up the CVS at West North and Pennsylvania Avenues in Baltimore on Tuesday. The store, whose development the city's mayor had cited as an achievement, was set ablaze by rioters.]

Credit...Ruth Fremson/The New York Times

-   April 28, 2015
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BALTIMORE — The Rev. Donte L. Hickman Sr. heard about the trouble brewing on this city’s west side on Monday afternoon and instantly took to Twitter to rally his East Baltimore troops.

“I need all my men to meet me at New Shiloh Baptist Church now,” he wrote, referring to the community hub that had hosted the funeral for Freddie Gray. Days of demonstrations over Mr. Gray’s death after he sustained a severe spinal cord injury in police custody were giving way to violence and looting.

“We have to get these streets under control,” he said in the post, referring to riots in West Baltimore.

About 8:30 p.m., after an emotional meeting and march in West Baltimore that included other pastors, gang leaders and local politicians, Dr. Hickman’s cellphone rang. Back across town, next to his own Southern Baptist Church, a $16 million, half-built senior housing project and community center were ablaze. He had worked for years on the project, an extraordinary investment in a neighborhood that has suffered for years from poverty, drugs and neglect.

On Tuesday, Dr. Hickman, 43, dressed immaculately in a dark pinstriped suit, stood in front of an acre of scorched girders and charred wood. A breeze carried the acrid smell of destruction. He had stayed at the fire most of the night before grabbing three hours of sleep.

Image[The remains of a $16 million, half-built senior housing project that was set ablaze during riots in Baltimore on Monday smoldered at dawn the next day.]

Credit...Mark Makela/Getty Images

“I can’t make sense out of nonsense,” he said of the unknown arsonists. “Whoever did this was someone who didn’t understand what we were trying to do.”

The devastation, in blighted neighborhoods on both sides of town, was part of a heavy blow for Baltimore, a long-suffering city that has in recent years shown encouraging signs of a comeback. The lawlessness included the burning of a CVS and the frenzied looting of a mall, commercial institutions that mean more in poor parts of Baltimore than they might elsewhere.

Whether the disorder will be a major setback, like the far bigger riots of 1968, or a call to action — “We will rebuild,” Dr. Hickman said confidently — depends on what happens next.

Some of the city’s boosters — and the president of the United States — expressed anguish over what they portrayed as an illogical and opportunistic reaction to legitimate fury about police violence.

Interrupting a news conference with the Japanese prime minister on Tuesday, President Obama spoke passionately about Baltimore, denouncing the rioters.

“They’re destroying and undermining businesses and opportunities in their own communities that rob jobs and opportunity from people in that area,” he said.

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Cleaning Up Baltimore

After a night of violent clashes with the police, protests, vandalism and arson, Baltimore residents aim to put their city back together.

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After a night of violent clashes with the police, protests, vandalism and arson, Baltimore residents aim to put their city back together.
Anirban Basu, a local economist who served on the city’s school board for six years, sounded despondent.

“Obviously, over the last 24 hours, our city has been diminished both in the world’s eyes and in our own,” he said. “There was a lot of economic damage. But the greater damage is to the future. How many retailers will want to come to Baltimore? How many conventions will stay away? How many hotel rooms will stay empty?”

Baltimore takes pride in its underdog status, Mr. Basu said, and locals get a thrill when out-of-towners visit for an Orioles or Ravens game, stroll around the harbor, and “are surprised to find out how wonderful our city is.” He said their surprise in part reflects the television portrait of the city’s woes from “Homicide: Life on the Street” and “The Wire.” The rioting will only harden that image, he said, making it more challenging to draw residents and tourists.

At the Mondawmin Mall — closed and guarded on Tuesday after looters ransacked stores and kiosks Monday — Baltimore’s mayor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, surveyed the damage and spoke of how hard officials had worked to bring Target to the mall and CVS to the corner of West North and Pennsylvania Avenues. The CVS was set ablaze by rioters.

“To see all of that work go up in smoke, it’s painful. It’s very painful,” she said.

But for some residents, the developments the mayor cited as achievements only emphasized the paltry prospects for poor neighborhoods.

“This is the land that time forgot,” said Aisha Snead, who grew up in West Baltimore. “They want to act like the CVS is the Taj Mahal. They have dilapidated buildings everywhere. They have never invested in the people. In fact, it’s divested. They take every red cent they can from poor black people and put it into the Inner Harbor.”

Economic indicators are watched closely in Baltimore, which has seen its base of solid, industrial jobs eroded drastically over the decades, only partly compensated by the growth of health care and higher education. Bethlehem Steel, whose plant is now an abandoned wasteland east of the city, was once the largest employer. Today it is Johns Hopkins University, which has a thriving campus on the leafy north side and a famous hospital and sprawling medical complex just a few blocks south of where Dr. Hickman’s housing project burned down.

In the years that economic transformation has occurred, the city’s population — which peaked at nearly one million in the early 1950s — has sunk to about 622,000, a result of both white and black flight to the suburbs. The drop slowed in recent years and now may be turning around, as several gentrifying neighborhoods draw young professionals. Artists graduating from the Maryland Institute College of Art are colonizing vacant buildings for studios and apartments. Churches like Southern Baptist and other nonprofit organizations are building new housing in some of the city’s toughest areas.

But heroin and cocaine addiction, and the violence that accompanies the street drug trade, remain a scourge. The homicide rate, while down since the 1990s, has stayed stubbornly high — at 34 per 100,000 people last year, it was about eight times New York City’s. Along Chester Street north of Southern Baptist and the site of Monday’s fire, teddy bears and balloons are tied to a lamppost in a tribute to a murder victim. Scores of rowhouses are boarded up.

Callers to local radio stations on Tuesday lamented not just the destruction, but the city’s distress long before Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland declared a state of emergency.

“I’m 45 years old,” said a caller to WOLB, “and my whole life has been a state of emergency.”

In his comments on Tuesday, President Obama, who recently invited David Simon, a Baltimorean and creator of “The Wire,” to the White House to talk about the war on drugs, summed up the conditions that have proved resistant to change for decades in Baltimore.

“Without making any excuses for criminal activities,” the president said, “what we also know is that if you have impoverished communities that have been stripped away of opportunity, where children are born into abject poverty, they’ve got parents — often because of substance-abuse problems or incarceration or lack of education themselves — who can’t do right by their kids.”

He described places with “no fathers who can provide guidance to young men; communities where there’s no investment, and manufacturing has been stripped away; and drugs have flooded the community, and the drug industry ends up being the primary employer for a whole lot of folks.”

That is certainly the case in Sandtown-Winchester, the West Baltimore neighborhood where Freddie Gray grew up and was chased by the police. Life expectancy is 69.7 years, on par with Iraq and Kazakhstan. According to the 2010 census, the area was 97 percent black; more than half the households had incomes less than $25,000; and just 6 percent of adults had a bachelor’s degree or more, far below the 25 percent for the city as a whole. Unemployment was double the city average. A more recent study found Sandtown-Winchester had the highest rate in the state of residents who were incarcerated.

But the neighborhood around Southern Baptist Church is hardly better off. Dr. Hickman, the pastor, said he took the post 12 years ago and found “deterioration, dilapidation and disinvestment.” It did not surprise him; he had grown up in similar conditions in West Baltimore.

In fact, if he seemed less bitter than might be expected about the arsonists who destroyed his project, it might be explained by his own life story. Dr. Hickman said he had been raised by a single mother and expelled from three high schools before turning his life around and eventually earning two graduate degrees. He said he understood only too well the youths who decided to loot and burn.

“I was just like them,” he said. “They can’t see beyond their own materialism.”

But by midday Tuesday, Dr. Hickman was already working the phones, talking to the developers about plans to rebuild the Mary Harvin Transformation Center, as the new development is to be called, honoring a church member. He spoke about creating a work force development program, health services, life coaching, mortgage lending. He pointed to a broad field across the street that the church has acquired to build a youth center, and an abandoned laundry that he hopes to convert to more housing.

“We have a mantra,” he said. “We restore people as we restore buildings.”

question: What sparked the riots in West Baltimore?

answer: Freddie Gray had died following a severe spinal injury when e was in police custody. This sparked demonstrations that flared into violence and looting. The lawlessness included the burning of a CVS and the frenzied looting of a mall, commercial institutions that mean more in poor parts of Baltimore than they might elsewhere.

question: How has industry changed over the years in Baltimore?

answer: Baltimore once had a base of solid, industrial jobs. these have been eroded over the decades. Bethlehem Steel, whose plant is now an abandoned wasteland east of the city, was once the largest employer. Today it is Johns Hopkins University, which has a thriving campus on the leafy north side and a famous hospital and sprawling medical complex. The loss of industrial jobs is only partly compensated for by the growth of health care and higher education.

question: What is the biggest reason for the high crime in the area?

answer: But heroin and cocaine addiction, and the violence that accompanies the street drug trade, remain a scourge. The homicide rate, while down since the 1990s, has stayed stubbornly high — at 34 per 100,000 people last year, it was about eight times New York City’s. There are areas where jobs are scarce and the primary employer is the drug industry.

question: Why is Dr. Hickman so understanding of the people who destroyed his development?

answer: Dr. Hickman had been raised by a single mother and expelled from three high schools before turning his life around and eventually earning two graduate degrees. He said he understood only too well the youths who decided to loot and burn. “I was just like them,” he said. “They can’t see beyond their own materialism.”

question: Why did Bethlehem Steel close down?