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It was the middle of the night when I heard continuous tapping. Slightly, I opened my eyes to see a light in the hallway and noticed that there was a lack of warmth by the side of my bed. My wife, Annie must’ve have been tapping, so I went downstairs to figure the situation out. My eyes were still adjusting to the dim light, but I quickly noticed a grisly shadow. It was an unfamiliar figure, it was a bitter looking intruder, and next to him was my wife, cold on the floor. Then the intruder’s black eyes coldly shot mine, and with his rough hands, he shot me.

A gleam of light shines in my eyes and I quickly rise up. I panic, it seems as though I’ve been in deep slumber for a long time. As I rise up, I pulled on something which went into my skin; it was an IV needle which I detached. Unclear to this situation, I look at my surroundings. My IV bag is completely empty, the Hospital is filled with complete silence and the room is faint. My situation doesn’t seem to make sense, as it seems nothing is operating and no one is working. Quickly, the stood up on my feet but felt as though I would fall a second later, but with enough effort I reached the bathroom. In the view of the dark room, I can see myself through the filthy mirror. It reflected an image of a ghostly pale man with a beard. I could not conclude anything just yet, and needed more information about my situation. I barely manage to jog through the hospital’s mysterious hallway with the only sound being my footsteps and my breath. Why was no one here to care for me? Why was I alone? I quickly grew frustrated as my questions only developed.

I opened the door at the exit and felt an eerie gust of wind blow at my face. The polluted smell of dead bodies came rushing through my nose, yet I saw no dead bodies. In fact I didn’t see a body in sight, dead or alive. Everything was put at a complete stop. Traffic of cars was abandoned in the middle of streets and a row of stores went unmanaged. Yet I was more abandoned than any car or store as I was completely alone without another human. The cars were kept together by road and stores merged by shared walls. Suddenly, I felt a harsh pressure hit my chest and fell to the ground without much effort.

I opened my eyes to look at the empty world. Then, I saw someone. Someone was alive in this desolated place, and she was coming towards me. Once we met, she told me her name was Anne; she looked familiar but seemed to be in dangerous condition. The massive amount of lipstick on her mouth contrasted with paleness. After an aggressive set of dry coughs, I managed to agree to travel with her.

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title: Alone, Awake, Helpless

question: Where was the narrator's wife when they got shot?

answer: Next to the intruder.

question: Why does the narrator feel he has been in a deep sleep for a while?

answer: The text does not say.

question: Who does the narrator meet at the end?

answer: His wife.

question: Write a ~6 sentence summary.

answer: The narrator wakes to a noise in the middle of the night. They see their wife standing next to an intruder who abruptly shoots the narrator. They wake in a hospital, feeling like they've slumbered hard and for a long time. No one is in the hospital. Dazed, they wander outside, where they run into a woman who seems vaguely familiar. She says her name is Annie, and they agree to travel together.


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[(L-R) Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, Kristen Wiig and Leslie Jones in Ghostbusters. ]

(L-R) Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, Kristen Wiig and Leslie Jones in _Ghostbusters_. Columbia Pictures

_Pop Psych:Where we ask a real psychotherapist to delve into the mindsets of our favorite pop culture characters._

We all have dreams about what we want to be when we grow up, but so few of us ever end up pursuing them. Which sounds more sad than it is – in Hindu cosmology, the Human realm of existence is distinguished solely by the opportunity to continue to make choices and adapt. But it does make you wonder why it’s so hard to follow those dreams. The _Ghostbusters_ series of films has always focused on this conundrum, with the first two focusing on the issues of red tape and overregulation that get in the way of starting a business and this new one focusing on questions that are more personal, internalized, and historic. Which is all too appropriate for a film about busting ghosts.

The new _Ghostbusters_ starts off by dropping us viewers into the middle of a tour through a haunted house. Specifically, the house is being haunted by the ghost of the original owner’s eldest daughter, who we are taught was homicidally inclined. As a result of her murdering the servants of the household, her family locked her up in a DIY prison and basically tortured her with solitary confinement until she died. For a lighthearted movie, it’s a pretty grim tale! And though the implication seems to be that the filmmakers are simply introducing us to a world where ghosts exist, I think it says a lot about what ghosts are supposed to mean in this reality.

Contrast this ghost with the first ghost in the original movie, a long-dead librarian still shrieking at book lovers to keep it down. The ghost in the original movie has no history, no backstory, and no stated motivation for being so angry as to stick around after death. In the new film, however, the first ghost seems to be the personification of her own historical injustices. Not to say she didn’t have something coming to her for murdering so many people, but that’s not how we do justice in this country. As horrific as her crimes were, no one deserves what she apparently got. Death would have been better, and even that seems to have been denied her.

So how does this tie in with pursuing dreams? Let’s move ahead a bit in the movie, where we meet Dr. Erin Gilbert working as a physics professor at Columbia University. While this is certainly a dream job for some, the first things we learn about her all point to a certain dissatisfaction. The way she greets people around campus seems needy and phony, like she has something to prove. Which we learn she does: she has to hide her passion – researching ghosts – in order to prove her worthiness as a scientist. She is able to achieve on a level of success, but she can’t do so in the pursuit of her real passion.

When we later meet her ex-research partner and now antagonist, Dr. Abby Yates, we learn that she has taken the opposite route. She and her new research partner, Dr. Jillian Holtzmann, have sequestered themselves in a lab where they can do pretty much anything they want, because literally no one is paying attention. So while they can perform as much research and invention as they please, it all remains within the cocoon, protected inside and away from prying eyes. These two are able to achieve along the lines of their passion, but worldly success completely evades them.

Once these three meet, they’re able to get something going, although not really in earnest until they’re joined by Patty Tolan. Tolan is introduced working for the MTA, in a position that seems to utterly waste her natural outgoing inquisitiveness. We see her trying in earnest to engage with people who are simply trying to move through the subway as quickly as possible, and while it is a nice fantasy to imagine having an uplifting conversation with a station manager it’s also really sad to see someone so obviously in love with people spend her days stuck behind bulletproof glass. She brings a willing and energetic bravery to the group that propels them to their first big score, the ghost of a man slowly cooked to death in a sub-par electric chair.

Once they’ve all been brought together, the Ghostbusters quickly start to fire on all cylinders. Gilbert looks excited by her work and is able to fit in naturally to the group, Yates and Holtzmann are able to bring their incredible science to the world in a way that it’s actually received, and Tolan finds a job that values her desire for teamwork and bravery. It’s actually pretty magical to watch, and it’s one of the reasons why this reboot ends up being such a joy.

What’s going on is a kind of synergy, a greater capability and energy than any of them would have had on their own. And what’s interesting is that we don’t see each person specializing into their own role, but rather a blending of these roles. The Ghostbusters are able to do more than complement each other, they are able to help each other grow. Now this is really interesting; in each case, we see a person who’s been stifled into a particular role – the uptight researcher, the passionate and ignored inventor, the solitary worker – suddenly able to move out of this proscribed path.

The trick is to work together. Alone, we’re all prone to getting stuck. With no one to bounce the recurring voice in our heads off of, we are prone to believing we’re nothing more than what we’re already doing. We lack other any perspective besides the one already in our head, and that stifles inspiration, drive, and courage. When we work with friends, though, things operate differently. Not only do they offer their own perspective, but we can look at them and see that there are other viable ways to live our lives. Alone, we are trapped inside our own subjective reality; surrounded by the right people, we are able to test our reality against those of the people around us and make adjustments in how we operate within the shared delusion of our world.

This leads to fulfillment, a state beyond simple happiness. Whereas happiness is just having a good time, fulfillment is when you’re living for more than just a good time. Fulfillment happens when we fill a role that has previously only seemed possible in our dreams. And while dreams seem to exist in a reality separate from our own, when we meet people who live there themselves we create a bridge and can see our dreams realized in the other. Seeing what seemed like nothing more than a fantasy so clearly realized and graspable, well, there’s nothing like it – having pursued and fulfilled our dreams, we are able to look back on our life from our death bed and simply release ourselves at the end.

The ghosts, and main villain, in this film seem to be the other option. People who were alone, who were unable to work together with people to accomplish what was beyond their own grasp, end up lingering. Angry and vengeful, they stick around and harm anyone within their reach. In Hindu cosmology, this is known as the Hungry Ghost realm, and it’s characterized by being unable to find satisfaction. Eternally searching from within their own perspective, people without support end up trapped within their reality, working from the false premise that if what they are pursuing does not fulfill them then they simply must pursue more of the same. But as _Ghostbusters_ shows us, what ultimately fulfills is bringing together diverse elements, not homogeneity.

_James Cole Abrams, MA, is a psychotherapist living and working in Boulder and Denver, Colorado. His work can also be found at www.jamescoleabrams.com where he blogs every Sunday._

question: What is this post about?

answer: The author of the post writes about how the movie Ghostbusters exemplifies how achieving one's professional dreams is so difficult.

question: How does the author connect Ghostbusters with Hindu cosmology?

answer: The author writes that in Hindu cosmology, the Human realm of existence is distinguished solely by the opportunity to continue to make choices and adapt.

question: What does the author suggest is the key to achieving our dreams?

answer: The trick is to work together. Alone, we’re all prone to getting stuck.

question: What is the Hungry Ghost realm?

answer: In Hindu cosmology, it’s characterized by being unable to find satisfaction. Eternally searching from within their own perspective.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: The author of the post writes about how the movie Ghostbusters exemplifies how achieving one's professional dreams is so difficult. The author connects the movie with Hindu cosmology; the author writes that in Hindu cosmology, the Human realm of existence is distinguished solely by the opportunity to continue to make choices and adapt.


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So this is death?...huh, bit cold. So what's next? Where's my heavenly light, my pit of fire; So much for religion.
What exactly do I do? Wait a seco... Oh holy fuck what's that!

A bespectacled man appeared dressed in a coal gray suit.
His face was weathered and his eyes contained a quiet calming that pierced you.
"Hey there mister...hmmm your not on the list".
I felt dumbfounded "What..a.. list?, nevermind that who are you?".
He adjusted his glasses "I am death, well...sort of."
"Your death? Isn't death robed and scythey?
A laugh that would calm the fiercest of beasts erupted from the old man.
"Humans don't really change too much"
I could see it, or feel it? This man, or "death" was beyond me.
His words shook my being. How could this person exude such a presence.
"Death what is happening...exactly?"
"Please call me roger.Well son as you have guessed your dead.It's my job to send you off."
Roger cleared his throat."Alright lets begin!" He clapped and a book appeared at his side.
"Now tell me what religion did you believe in?"
"I didn't, I'm and atheist" I said quizzically.
He rolled his eyes "The kids these days...cant say I blame 'em. What with all the shady religious practices.Well kid since you didn't believe in anything where do you want go?"
"Go where?"
Ughh he groaned raising his hand to his brow."Not quick on the uptake eh?Well it explains why your here."
Dick.
"The way it works is you go wherever you chose to believe in. Christians go to heaven, Norse go to the "Plains", etc. etc."
"Wait so every religion is right? Fuuuck that!"
He glared "Where do you wanna go kid? I gotta send you pick a place"
The books pages turned and his bony finger pointed at strange pictures.
"Look, Those are your choices pick one and we'll be on our way."
Hmmm I could see so many places...and they all looked fucking boring.
"Nah i'm good" I said indifferently.
He looked surprised
"What the hell do you mean your good kid? Pick a place lets go, I don't have all day"
Roger was growing increasingly annoyed.
"I want to go where you go, seems fun."
For the first time I saw him smile. It chilled me to the bone.
"LOOK KID that's not the way things work.Pick a place, I'll send you there. Easy right?"
"I'm good I'll go with you"
His temper flared and ice erupted from thin air!
"I'm not a genie you flippant piece of shit. I don't just grant a wish!"
"Well you said I could pick a place and you'd send me there. So I choose to travel with you."
"Fuck your a hassle" He stood in silence against the cold black abyss.
I just realized, there's nothing here.
"You know what kid? I like you, you remind me of myself. Clean, arrogant, and sharp. So what's your name kid?"
"My names...Roger"

I've never tried to write a fiction story so I thought why not. I'm not a writer but it helped me relieve stress.

"Edit: spelling"

title: [SP] Mr.Roger

question: Describe the potential afterlives.

answer: Death claims that Christians for to Heaven, and Norse go to the plains. From this the main character infers that all religions are equally true, a fact he finds annoying. The one place Death will not allow him to go, as an atheist, is the place where Death comes from.

question: What is the structure of the story?

answer: The story is almost completely dialogue. There are occasional statements which establish a character's mood. There is no exposition and very little description.

question: What is the twist at the end of the story?

answer: Death claims he wants to be called Roger. At the end of the story the kid says his name is Roger. This implies the story is a time-loop and Roger as Death is Roger the kid in the future.


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KENTUCKY ROUTE 379 (KY 379) is a state highway in Kentucky with two disjoint sections. The southern segment runs from KY 1880 near Claywell to the Cumberland River in Cumberland County. The northern segment begins at KY 771 near Ribbon and extends north to U.S. Route 127| (US 127) in Russell Springs in Russell County.

Route description

The southern segment of KY 379 is a supplemental road in eastern Cumberland County.[1] The northern segment of KY 379, which extends in western Russell County, is a rural secondary highway from its southern terminus near Button north to KY 55 at Olga and a state secondary highway from Olga to its northern terminus in Russell Springs.[2] The Cumberland County section of KY 379 begins at KY 1880 (Smiths Grove Road) near Claywell. KY 379 heads north along Irish Bottom Road, which crosses Big Willis Creek and Little Willis Creek before curving east to its northern terminus at a dead end at the Cumberland River.[3][4]

The Russell County segment of KY 379 begins at the northern terminus of KY 771 within a bend of the Cumberland River south of the hamlet of Ribbon. Winfreys Ferry Road heads west from the junction to a dead end at the Cumberland River opposite the terminus of the Cumberland County portion of KY 379. KY 379 heads north along Lester Creek and gradually curves east, crossing Jim Creek and Sycamore Creek around a brief stretch where the route follows the right bank of the river. The highway crosses Potts Branch and Millers Creek on either side of Creelsboro, where the route meets the south end of KY 1058. KY 379 crosses Ramsey Creek on its way to Helms, where the route turns north and leaves the valley of the Cumberland River. The highway turns west at its second junction with KY 1058, from which the routes run concurrently west to Old Olga, where KY 379 splits north again. The highway crosses Crocus Creek and intersects KY 55 at Olga.[5][6]

KY 379 continues north, running concurrently with KY 619 between Moores Schoolhouse Road and Warriner Ridge Road; Warriner Ridge Road heads east as KY 3281. The highway meets the east end of KY 832 and intersects KY 92 west of Esto. KY 379 intersects KY 3280, which heads west along Blair Schoolhouse Road and east along French Valley Road, and crosses the Cumberland Parkway before entering the city of Russell Springs along Main Street. In the center of town, the highway intersects KY 430 (Jamestown Street) and the north end of KY 619 (Maple Street). North of downtown, KY 379 joins KY 80 in a concurrency along Steve Wariner Drive. The two highways meet the south end of KY 1540 (Bottoms Road) before the two routes diverge at a four-legged intersection whose south leg is KY 3017 (Lakeway Drive). KY 379 follows Lakeway Drive northeast to its terminus at US 127.[7][8]

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title: Kentucky Route 379

question: Where does Kentucky Route 379 start and end?

answer: The southern segment runs from KY 1880 near Claywell to the Cumberland River in Cumberland County, and the northern segment runs from KY 771 near Ribbon to U.S. Route 127 in Russell Springs in Russell County.

question: When was Kentucky Route 379 built?

answer: That information can't be found.

question: List three locations Kentucky Route 379 passes by.

answer: Big Willis Creek, Sycamore Creek, and the Cumberland Parkway.

question: How long is Kentucky Route 379 in total?

answer: That information can't be found.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: Kentucky Route 379 is a state highway in Kentucky. It has two segments: the southern segment, which runs from KY 1880 to the Cumberland River, and the northern segment, which runs from KY 771 to U.S. Route 127.


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I sat down on the bench, wiped the sweat off my brow, and set down my shovel and pail. July heat is merciless. I considered calling it a day; I wanted to go inside for some lemonade and a *Salade Nicoise* but the garden is never finished until Oiga has been watered.

I got Oiga many years ago at a flea market, a little field maple sapling I thought would add some charm to the corner of our garden. At that time I had just removed the cracked concrete in that corner, stained by bleach and paint, and had finally put in a new planter with fresh soil. I don't typically...name my plants, but Oiga grew to be somewhat of an anomaly. After two years of growth, a knot in Oiga's trunk left me with an uneasy feeling of pareidolia. The face that had twisted into place grew soft and flexible, until Oiga whimpered his first word, "fall". I was watering the morning glories along the fence when I heard it; the deep, dark, creaking voice caught me completely off guard. I went to go investigate the noise, and I shrieked when in the trunk there stood a face, yawning as if waking up from a long cat nap. I fainted.

My husband saw me collapse and brought me inside. Thankfully the soil in that corner softened the blow, and I was only out for a few minutes.

"Did you see it?"

"Yes."

"The face? The face in the tree I bought for the garden, *you saw it?*"

"Yes, I saw it."

"So I'm not crazy?"

"No, just a little lightheaded. Have some tea."

I gently pulled the mug toward my lips.

"I heard him. He said 'fall' just before I collapsed."

He looked away before gathering his thoughts.

"Do you know when my birthday is?"

"What? What are you talking about?"

"The tree, it said something else while you were out. Do you know when my birthday is?"

"Of course, it's..."

His birthday was in two days. He was turning thirty and...I had completely forgot.

"What did the tree say?"

"It said, 'don't expect anything.'"

We stared at each other for a minute in utter confusion.

That was years ago. Eventually we got used to Oiga's presence. We had company over a few times, and each time Oiga would predict something...bad. Something unfortunate. First we stopped having barbeques. Then people just stopped coming over for dinner altogether. No one wanted to hear it. Thankfully, Oiga's gruesome mug faced the corner of the garden. He had to yell to be heard. Even still, never once did Oiga predict good news. Scientists came to our home a few times to observe the tree, but they never found anything biologically unusual. And now I'm looking over to Oiga contemplatively, thinking just what to do with this particularly unusual field maple. I looked over at the axe by the screen door.

I noiselessly got up, grabbed the axe, and slowly walked toward this cursed tree.

"Inside."

I stopped.

"You should go inside."

"What if I don't want to go inside Oiga?"

"It wouldn't make any difference to me."

"Really?"

I tossed the axe from hand to hand.

"I know you have an axe. You should know that I know that by now."

"You want to tell me why I shouldn't use it?"

"Depending on when you get inside, either you'll feel grateful or regretful."

"Tell me why I shouldn't swing this axe, Oiga."

"Because it'll hurt. But also because you'll be out here for a while doing it, and I'm telling you, *go inside.*"

"Why don't you tell me why you would never predict anything positive."

Oiga was silent for a moment.

"Good things take time. Happy marriages, getting an education, rebuilding a nation, it all takes time. And there are so many variables the longer things take. They're wonderful things, but they aren't like tragedy. The bad, it happens all at once. Swiftly, abruptly, bombs drop. People die, bridges fall. They're awful, but they happen."

"What are you saying?"

"Start looking ahead. Forget about the past, and stop worrying about the future. Good things take time. If anything good is going to happen, it won't happen all at once. Conversely, there isn't much time left; you need to go inside."

For reasons I still can't explain to you, I set down the axe. Oiga was smart enough to know that this was just delaying the inevitable. He knew I was ready to chop him down. And yet, I trusted him enough to know that if I needed to go inside, I should probably do it. I turned around, opened the screen door, closed the sliding glass door and looked out at the garden.

It started...raining. The July heat turned to a muggy overcast almost immediately. It was drizzling. I was confused, but then in minutes, the rain picked up. Winds whipped Oiga's branches violently. I called my husband. He said he was only five minutes from home, and that the radio turned to an emergency broadcast...a flash flood warning.

He came in the door soaking wet; I was still standing by the screen door. Two feet of water rushing through the garden. The flowers were dead. The herb garden was uprooted and devastated. The planters split open and destroyed. And Oiga, still facing the corner of the garden, was waiting for the water to rise.

title: Oiga.

question: What is Oiga?

answer: Oiga is a field maple tree.

question: What is strange about Oiga?

answer: Oiga is a tree that speaks and predicts things.

question: Why did people stop coming to the narrator's house?

answer: People stopped coming to the narrator's house because they did not want to listen to Oiga.

question: What is the last thing Oiga predicted?

answer: Oiga predicted that it would flash flood.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: The narrator planted a strange field maple tree who seems to predict the future, but always bad things, never good. People get tired of the tree and stop visiting the narrator. The narrator is going to chop down the tree, but the tree warns the narrator about a flood and the narrator goes inside.


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THE ALASKA BUILDING, which now houses the Courtyard by Marriott Seattle Downtown/Pioneer Square, is a 15-floor building in Seattle, Washington completed in 1904 to designs by St. Louis architects Eames and Young. At the time of its completion, it was the tallest building in the state of Washington—and remained so until the 1910 completion of Spokane's Old National Bank Building.

The building was purchased by American Life, Inc. on December 6, 2007 for $38.7 million and renovated to begin a new life as a Courtyard by Marriott in June 2010. The original exterior of the structure was maintained, as were the marble lobby, original crown molding, window framing and wood pillars.[1]

History

The fourteen-story Alaska Building was completed in 1904, following eleven months of construction. It was designed by Eames and Young, a St. Louis architectural firm, under the supervision of local architects Saunders and Lawton. The contractor was James Black Masonry Construction.

The building was the first steel frame building of any height in the Northwest and Seattle's first skyscraper. It remained Seattle's tallest building for ten years after it was built. It was designed using terra cotta and in a style inspired by the Beaux Arts, which is somewhat rare for Seattle (although the Frye Hotel is another major Beaux Arts example in the Pioneer Square-Skid Road National Historic District). The building dates from a period of economic and industrial growth, 1900-1910, in the heart of Seattle and in the city as a whole.[2]

In 1897, when Alaskan prospectors came ashore at a Seattle wharf with a “ton of gold”, the city marketed itself as the “Gateway to the Klondike.” The successful promotional campaign sparked a period of explosive economic and population growth that spurred development of the city's infrastructure, transforming it from a town into a metropolis. In 1903, Seattle's Scandinavian-American Bank, directed by Jafet Lindeberg, John Edward Chilberg[3] and others, purchased the southeast corner of Second Avenue and Cherry Street from the Amos Brown estate with the intention of erecting a new bank building. Shortly after the land purchase, J.C. Marmaduke of St. Louis proposed a partnership to construct the more ambitious Alaska Building. Caught up in the boomtown spirit of the Gold Rush years, the bank's shareholders readily endorsed the project, which was intended to promote business ventures between Alaska and the Pacific Northwest and as a social club. About four years later, a similar club, the Arctic Club, formed as a result of the merger of the Arctic Brotherhood and of the Alaska Club, would erect a building for itself at Third Avenue and Jefferson Street, now the Morrison Hotel.[4]

As the first steel-frame structure of any height in the Northwest, the Alaska Building was Seattle's first “skyscraper” and its tallest building – a distinction that it held until 1911. In addition to its height, it is notable for its Beaux Arts ornamentation, which is a rarity in Seattle. When the building opened, the Alaska Club, a prominent commercial organization of residents and entrepreneurs, convened in the penthouse, and maintained a reading room that featured Alaska newspapers and mineral exhibits; the Scandinavian-American banking hall occupied the main floor. The Alaska Building heralded the development of other imposing structures on what soon became the city's major commercial strip, popularly known as the Second Avenue canyon.

In their book _Hard Drive to the Klondike_, Lisa Mighetto and Marcia Babcock Montgomery state: “This fourteen-story structure symbolized the significance of the gold rush in Seattle. The porthole windows along the top floor looked out over the waterfront, providing a view of the shipbuilding, shipping and rail industries that the gold rush encouraged. For many years a gold nugget embedded in the building's front door reminded visitors of the stampede and the city's connection to the Far North.”

The Alaska Building remains a dominant structure on the northern cusp of the Pioneer Square Historic District, which was created by a City of Seattle ordinance in 1970, and which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places the same year as the Pioneer Square Skid Road National Historic District. The Alaska Building was rehabilitated by the architects Stickney/Murphy in 1982.

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title: Alaska Building

question: What does the text say about the Alaska Building?

answer: The Alaska Building is a 15-floor building in Seattle, Washington completed in 1904, designed by St. Louis architects Eames and Young. It was purchased by American Life, Inc. in 2007. The original exterior of the structure was maintained.

question: What does the text say about Alaska Building's history?

answer: The building was completed in 1904. It was designed by Eames and Young, an architectural firm. The contractor was James Black Masonry Construction.

question: What does the text say about Alaska Building's foundation?

question: What does the text say about historic buildings?


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The 1941 IRISH GREYHOUND DERBY took place during September and October with the final being held at Shelbourne Park in Dublin on 4 October.[1]

Foot-and-mouth disease caused serious problems during 1941 with traveling almost ceased and Irish tracks coming to a standstill in many areas. The travel ban was finally lifted at the end of the summer and late plans were drawn up to at least save the Irish Derby before the year ended. This meant a much later final slot in October at Shelbourne Park because Cork had ruled themselves out from being able to stage the race. The winner Brave Damsel was owned by John Byrne who was known for owning the famous bitch Queen of the Suir before she left for the England.[2]

Final result

At Shelbourne Park, 4 October (over 525 yards):

  Position   Name of Greyhound    Breeding                          Trap   SP     Time    Trainer
  ---------- -------------------- --------------------------------- ------ ------ ------- -------------------------
  1st        Brave Damsel         Maidens Boy - Queen of the Suir   2      4-1    30.64   Paddy Kelly (Celbridge)
  2nd        Shes Tidy            All Together - Share Call         5      3-1    30.72   Sheehy
  3rd        Gaelic Inler         breeding unknown                  4      5-2    30.78
  4th        Pretty Forethought   Royal Tom - Pretty Bird           1      6-1            Larkin (Cork)
  5th        Heatherset Hero      With Luck - Moving Ripple         5      7-4f           Morris
  N/R        Brilliant Teddy      Brilliant Bob - Civil             6                     Billy Quinn

Distances

1, ¾ (lengths)

Competition Report

Surly became a leading fancy after round two when beating Heatherset Hero by three lengths in 30.08. The other three second round heats went to Roeside Ilene, Well Protected and Gaelic Inler. Gaelic Inler then provided a 10-1 shock semi-final win over Shes Tidy and Brave Damsel to remain unbeaten. Brilliant Teddy earned victory in the second semi-final from Heatherset Hero and Pretty Forethought. Both hot favourites Surly and Roeside Ilene were eliminated.[3][4]

In the final Brilliant Teddy trained by Billy Quinn was drawn well in trap six but was forced to pull out. The remaining five runners lined up and Brave Damsel was gambled from 7-1 to 4-1. he won the race leading all the way from the chasing Shes Tidy and Gaelic Inler. Pretty Forethought a finalist form two years previous finished fourth and the favourite Heatherset Hero trailed in last.[5]

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title: 1941 Irish Greyhound Derby

question: Why was the 1941 Greyhound derby delayed?

answer: Foot and mouth disease caused a travel ban that lasted until the end of summer.

question: Why did the original city of Cork decline to hold the race's finals?

answer: They ruled themselves out from being able to stage the race for reasons not mentioned in the article.

question: Who were the favorites before the finals?

answer: Pretty Forethought and Heatherset Hero.

question: How did Brave Damsel win the final?

answer: He won the race leading all the way from the chasing Shes Tidy and Gaelic Inler.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: The 1941 Irish Greyhound Derby took place during September and October. Foot and mouth disease caused problems in 1941, and almost all travel was banned until the end of the summer. Brave Damsel, owned by John Bryne, won the race in front of favorites such as Surly, Roeside Ilene, Pretty Forethought, and Heatherset Hero.


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All of their past, everything he once knew or thought he knew about the two of them begins to swirl into a fierce hurricane of red in his mind until suddenly, strangely, he reaches the calm of the storm’s eye. He interrupts her raised voice, pulling her close to bring her lips to his for the first time. In his head, he had pictured the cinematic scene of volatile tension turned passion, but instead it catches her by surprise and she instinctively shoves him away. He immediately turns toward the hall and before she can fully come to terms with the past few moments, she finds herself staring at the back of a slammed door and an empty room. Another slam down the hall interrupts the sickening mental loop of all the things that had just been said, the harshest of which reverberating the loudest in her head.

She wipes her eyes, walks out into the hall, and follows the sound of the door that knocked her back into the present; the realization of what had just happened finally settling in completely. She reaches the stairwell as another hotel guest comes out of their room and looks at her with sleepy eyes and a disgruntled expression. She mouths a quick "sorry" and enters the stairwell as the sound of a third door closing drifts down from the top floor.

Panic starts to well up inside her as she climbs each flight, her feet and heart picking up speed as she nears the rooftop level. She bursts through the door with adrenal abandon and scans the ledges for his figure, screaming his name into the night sky, but he's nowhere to be seen. What have I done, she thinks to herself. What have *you* done?

"I think we need to talk" says a relievingly familiar voice from above the stairwell door. "There’s enough room up here for both of us, come lie next to me. The stars are beautiful tonight." She climbs up with the help of his outstretched hand and lays her head on his chest. Her breathing slows and she can finally begin to relax. Her eyes look up toward the millions of shimmering specks in the night sky as they slowly turn to a teary blur; and indeed they were beautiful.

title: A pretty short story I simply call: Rooftop

question: What does the narrator fear has happened in the second-last paragraph?

answer: She seems to be afraid that her lover has jumped off the roof.

question: Why does the man leave angry at the beginning of the story?

answer: Because he was expecting to have sex but instead the narrator shoved him away.


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The Body are drummer Lee Buford and guitarist Chip King, two robust, bearded Arkansas boys living in Providence, R.I. In press photos, they brandish automatic weapons, some of which are triumphantly splayed on the table that stretches across the gatefold package of their second album, _All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood_. Buford and King cite Jim Jones, Shoko Asahara, and Charles Manson as influences, and, in 2005, they turned Body Count's "Copkiller" and M.D.C.'s "Dead Cops" into sludgy voids on a 7" single. They've appeared on stage wearing potato sacks and nooses, and the cover of _All the Waters_ showcases the pair dressed like ancient hooded Chinese soldiers.

This is probably where you roll your eyes and check out, figuring that these would-be metal/ hardcore/ noise/ whatever tough guys will never sound as bothered on tape as they might appear on paper. Well, you're wrong: Like the best of Eyehategod or Bastard Noise, _All the Waters_ is the rare album that feels truly dangerous. As it crushes and collides doom metal, harsh noise, industrial rock, and gospel singing into one mean mess, it seems to obey no rules but its own. The result is a singular, explosive masterpiece and one of the year's essential heavy exploits-- even if, at turns, it sends you cowering.

_All the Waters_ is an album of detours and surprises. You'll see the Body mostly referred to as a doom metal duo, but don't hang too many notions on that reductive nail. Rather, _All the Waters_ is played by 32 people, including the 13-member Assembly of Light Choir and a score of folks who earn credit not only for keyboards, drums, and viola for but also for noise, sousaphone, and drum programming. Two of these seven tracks begin with slow, controlled, Earth-like riffs-- that is, quintessential, doom metal. Both evolve quickly. "Even Saints Knew Their Hour of Failure and Loss" corrodes its repetitive riff with a piercing din; the choir's gorgeous chant tugs upward against the low-hanging load. Everything disappears except for Buford's drums, a circle of snares and cymbals wrapping the distant chime of a church bell. King's lacerating squeal cuts in, quoting Yeats: "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Bethlehem, waiting to be born?" It's music that has more to do with Current 93 than Earth, more with provocation than perfection.

Indeed, after a few dozen listens, the Body's risks and adventures still shock me. Almost uniformly, they deliver songs into chaos. The album begins, after all, with four minutes of beautiful choral singing. The Assembly of Light Choir offers a wordless hymn, harmonies rising and falling, melodies wrapping around one another like the cotton strands of some imagined heaven. Eventually, a voice slips from the flock, her line dropping into a mournful gospel quaver. The rest of the choir follows, their voices dragging and slinking, as if covered with the shadow of an unnamed malice on the horizon. When that beast arrives-- noise swells, shattering drums, monolithic slabs of guitar-- it's the sound of something beautiful being obliterated. Similarly, "A Curse" starts as a ruptured dance number that, a few minutes later, is an arrhythmic, atonal wasteland. "Empty Hearth" begins with a sample of a church group (taken from the strange _Sounds of American Doomsday Cults_ album) offering a prayer; by track's end, their recitation has been chopped and screwed until it sounds like strangles and gasps.

On paper, _All the Waters_ is a grim record, as lyrics outline the failure of science, nature, man, gods, and prophets in pithy bursts. But unless you're reading along, you'll never know any of this. King's strained, unintelligible voice seems constantly at the brink of being swallowed by the sounds around him. Those sounds are troubling enough, recorded and mixed so that the guitars and drums always feel like they're too loud for the equipment and room meant to contain them. The record itself is a smartly designed simulacrum for the lyrics, recreating the sense of impending darkness by creating a sound that swallows itself. The young indie rock bands now using cheap microphones and analog hiss to shape their songs are often criticized for obscuring shabby songs with shabby sounds. The best of those bands, however, use production to reinforce their ideas and give them an extra bit of depth. The Body does just that here, letting rough-and-tumble production add even more anxiety and trouble to seven songs that were bothered as is. Smart choice: _All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood_ is the seldom collapse-of-the-world record that's actually as disturbing as it wants to be.

question: Which people did Buford and King cite as influences for their album?

answer: Charles Manson, Jim Jones, and Shoko Asahara.

question: Where are Buford and king from?

answer: Arkansas.

question: What is the name of their group?

answer: The Body.

question: What album by the duo is considered a masterpiece by the author?

answer: All the Waters of the Earth Turned to Blood.

question: What does the author feel about the body?

answer: It might be implied the author feels impressed and amazed by their edginess.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: The article talks about the author's feelings about a duo called The Body consisting of two Arkansas bearded boys, Lee Buford, the drummer, and Chip King, the guitarist. The author describes the musical composition and artistic harmony of the band's second album, "All the Waters of the Earth Turned to Blood."


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TOMATOMETER: 50% AUDIENCE SCORE: 54% IMDB: 5.5

Coming from the director who gave us Will Ferrell’s _Step Brothers_, we immediately get a sense of what’s coming in _The Package_. A big, warm, emotional core surrounded by a sea of juvenile crassness. But this is why it succeeds. Unlike other entries such as American Pie, _The Package_ balances out its ludicrously immature story with sincerely kindhearted characters and a directing-style suited for more big-budget film fare. This isn’t a B-movie meant to be relegated to a worst-case viewing scenario when your Netflix queue just isn’t loading. It’ll deliver plenty of laughs, unusually well-choreographed action sequences and genuinely heartfelt moments, a strange set of outcomes for a movie whose premise is a guy accidentally cutting his penis.

The Plot

Sean (Daniel Doheny), Donnie (Luke Spencer Roberts), and Jeremy (Eduardo Franco) are about to head off camping into the woods, celebrating Sean’s brief return from a German school for the summer break. But the bro-cation is cut short when Sean and Donnie find out they won’t be alone. Jeremy has invited his sister Becky (Geraldine Viswanathan) and her friend Sarah (Sadie Calvano), quite a problematic scenario since Sean has a crush on Becky and Donnie just broke up with Sarah.

With the invitation too late to rescind, they head off into the woods and have a drunken caper at night when Jeremy leads away from the group for a little piss, with a switchblade in hand. Sean and Donnie, thinking it’s a good idea to surprise him, do just that. Unwittingly in his drunken stupor, Jeremy loses his most prized possession. What follows next is an hour and a half adventure where four friends reconcile and reconnect in the hopes of saving Jeremy’s penis.

The Package (2018) Trailer
Cinematography and Score

The only other work of director Jake Szymanski that I’ve seen is _Step Brothers_, where Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly play the titular characters who can’t stand each other. While that film didn’t boast a strong visual direction, Szymanski’s more recent entries, high-stakes parodies like _7 Days in Hell_ and _Tour de Pharmacy_, do.

He brings the same over-the-top intensity to The Package, treating the movie like a high-stakes action film under the care of an auteur. Slow motion sequences, ultra-close closeups, and music to match. There are some wildly vivid and visually hyperfocused scenes in this movie, unnerving given the premise, but its balanced out with spells that play out as a routine comedy.

The Characters

Add to this some genuinely decent characters, and we have a winning combination. The four leads aren’t the kinds of people you’d find in a typical adolescent movie. These aren’t football players or your usual bros talking about dicks. These are your dorky teenagers, both in appearance and mind, and it’s a mix of people that you don’t come across often.

For one, Geraldine Viswanathan isn’t your white blonde co-lead. Daniel Doheny is your uber-friendly highschooler, the one you go for help with homework or other academically-inclined support. Luke Spencer Roberts and Eduardo Franco, though channeling their best version of crass sex talk, are hopeless romantics at heart, both striving for meaningful relationships with the women in their lives. Sadie Calvano’s IT girl exterior is counterbalanced with a more measured and sensitive heart. These characters care about things, the things most teenagers would care about at their age, but it’s approached from the point of naive sincerity, making them more agreeable than the teenagers you might find in an American Pie if you will.

Appealing to Our Inner Teenager

There’s an inherent laugh factor built into _The Package_ appealing to our inner teenager, making us giggle or laugh everytime we hear the word “dick” or “penis.” There’s no way around it. The characters aren’t saying it because they can, or because they want to be crass. They’re saying the word because they’re dealing with a dick. There’s no avoiding it.

On top of this, the fact that they’re talking about a friend’s dick, a friend whose sister is also present, amplifies this childish gag. And they aren’t dealing with just a friend’s dick. They’re dealing with his cut dick. Having these multiple layers of context, turn the words “dick” and “penis” to a more heightened sense of humor. Penis enlightenment if you will.

Using this indispensable laugh factor, writers Kevin Burrows and Matt Mider concoct some outlandish scenarios to draw out even stronger comedy material, using the word and coupling it with typically troubling situations. It all comes to a head when the group must convince an eleven-year-old to hand the keys to his father’s boat while the old man is fly-fishing. A good cop-bad cop routine follows, and it’s not easy on the eyes.

Conclusion

I was highly skeptical going into The Package, expecting the story to reach a low ceiling for its laughs and character development. I was wrong to come in with this assumption and can say wholeheartedly, that you can suck on this thing for an hour and a half.

question: What does the text say about re-attaching Jeremy's severed penis?

question: What does the text say about the movie "The Package" in general?

answer: The Package is directed by Jake Szymanski, the guy who directed Will Ferrel's "Step Brothers". The movie succeeds because it has a ludicrously immature story, relatable characters, and a directing style suited for more big-budget films. The Package also appeals to the inner teenager in everyone due to the inherent laugh factor every time the word "dick" or "penis" is said out loud.

question: Summarize the main plot of "The Package".

answer: Three friends Sean, Donnie, and Jeremy celebrate Sean's summer break from a German school with a camping trip. Things get complicated when Jeremy invites his sister Becky and her friend Sarah. Sean has a crush on Becky, while Donnie just broke up with Sarah. They all get drunk, Jeremy takes a piss holding a switchblade, and accidentally cuts off his penis when Sean and Donnie surprise him. They race to save Jeremy's penis.

question: What does the text say about the characters in the movie?

answer: The Package has genuinely decent characters. The leads aren't the usual jocks who play sports or the blonde cheerleader types. These are dorky teenagers both in appearance and mind. They care about regular teenage stuff, but from a point of naive sincerity. In the context of the main plot (Jeremy's severed penis), the characters say the word "dick" or "penis" out loud, not because they want to be crass, but because they dealing with an actual dick and there's no avoiding it. Due to this sort of humor, the characters appeal to the inner teenager in older adults.


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CATHAYS METHODIST CHURCH is a Methodist church (originally a chapel), located in Cathays, Cardiff. It is a Grade II listed building. It is part of the East Cluster in the Methodist Church in Cardiff and Caerphilly.

History

A chapel was originally set up in 1862, being located on Cathays Terrace, near the present site. At the outset, it had a congregation of only six people. This building was sold in 1883, and was replaced by a school chapel. The adjoining church followed in 1890. Its services were well-attended, with evening congregations of over 900 worshipers. The church originally had elaborate, bulbous turrets on its towers, though these are no longer present. The organ dates from before 1914. A modern glass porch was added in the early 1990s.[1] In 2006, the building was re-ordered horizontally, with the sanctuary at the top, a large hall on the upper ground floor and three meeting rooms below this.

Owing to its proximity to Cardiff University, the church (like the nearby Church of St Andrew & St Teilo, Cathays and the Woodville Baptist Church, now the Woodville Christian Centre), is often attended by students. The 1883 chapel now houses a furniture store.[2]

The minister is Alexis Mahoney.[3]

In 2000, the church became grade II listed.

Notes

Category:Churches completed in 1890 Category:Grade II listed churches in Cardiff Category:Methodist churches in Wales

[1] Rose, J. “Cardiff Churches Through Time”. Amberley, 2013, p.60

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title: Cathays Methodist Church

question: Where is the church?

answer: Cathays, Cardiff

question: When was the church built?

answer: A chapel was set up in 1862, but the adjoining church wasn't built until 1890

question: Why is the church often attended by students?

answer: It is close to Cardiff University

question: Who is the minister at the time of writing?

answer: Alexis Mahoney

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: Cathays Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Cathays, Cardiff. It is frequently attended by students of nearby Cardiff University, and its current minister is Alexis Mahoney.


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HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN: Do you write book reviews? As an author, I will admit, I tiptoe toward the review section of every website, knowing I might be poking a landmine, but unable to resist. And every author will tell you how important it is to have a good review, how the dashed off and spoiler-filled and mean-spirited reviews are not only knives to the heart, but ratings wrecking.

But I have been writing a different kind of review. The fabulous Criminal Elementis doing a wonderful experiment, are asking authors to review the past Edgar winners for best novel. There was a mad dash among the authors they asked to pick which books to review, and I must say that I was not among the first, so I did not get Day of the Jackal or Eye of the Needle, two faves.   And turns out,  two of the three I was assigned were books I had never read.  (I might say that I had never heard of them, actually. They won the Edgar, and they were not even in my bandwidth! Whoa. )

However! That was the beginning of a wonderful adventure.

[]

The first book I reviewed is A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine – the pseudonym for Ruth Rendell.  It was the winner in 1987, and  difficult to judge it from the standpoint of someone reading it then, as well as someone reading it now.

As I wrote:

"I  will admit, I fear, if I had read this book in 1986—when, after all, the best sellers of the year were Danielle Steele, Judith Krantz, Robert Ludlum, Tom Clancy, and Stephen King—I might have given up on this book after a couple of chapters, asking out loud, _is anything going to happen soon_?

And had I done that, I would not have been treated to the glorious, masterful, innovative structure that Vine uses to devise this disturbing puzzle. Gradually, in her own brilliantly created order, Vine lets us in on the whole story, puzzle piece by puzzle piece, without letting us know _where_ the puzzle pieces fit."

In the review, I said:

"But if a new writer pitched this book today, the agent would toss it on the reject pile after the first several pages. Backstory backstory backstory. Family tree family tree family tree, family tree--to the point of excruciating frustration. _Get to the story!_ The agent would cry.

Too bad for the agent. Turns out, the family_ is_ the story."

 It was fun to imagine the discussion of the Edgar committee, you know? Why didn’t they choose P.D. James for _A Taste of Death? Or _ Joe Gores for _Come Morning_, Brian Freemantle for _The Blind Run_, and Roger L. Simon for _The Straight Man?  _What was it about this particular book that made it the most special of the special books? When I wrote near the end was:
"I wish I had been there for the final Edgar vote. “It’s fine, I guess,” someone would have said.

“I think it’s risky,” someone else might have warned.

“This one will become a classic,” said the sage one in the back. And that person was correct. "

 And now I'm working on another review which will come out in a month or so. The book--The Red Scream-- is by Mary Willis Walker,  and it won in 1995. It was a perfect book for me to read, because it's about a reporter, Molly Cates, whose true crime book is about to be published. (Lots of parallels to my TRUST ME and to my own real life.)

[]

Again-- reading it in 1995 would be a lot different from reading it in 2019, right? What was fresh and innovative back then isn’t, frankly, now. And though chronologically that it wasn’t so long ago, in some senses, it was. We didn’t know about #MeToo,  or cell phones, and the Internet was newish.  By the time Mary Willis Walker wrote this book, Sue Grafton was already on L.
But then, reading, I saw what made it more than a savvy-tough-intrepid-working-woman story. I’m still drafting, but I can share an early bit:

"Here’s the clincher: only Molly herself has the opportunity to tell the truth about this crime, the crime that made her career.

But if her  true crime book is based on her own misunderstanding of the crime--if it's _not_ true--how good a reporter is she?

If Molly diligently follows the clues that may lead to the convicted killer’s innocence, doesn’t that make her guilty?

That’s what makes the story so special--Walker’s focus on the choice devoted reporter Molly must make. Can she be true to her "stand up for the little guy" philosophy? If she does, the discovering the pivotal clues might lead to her own personal humiliation and defeat."

And, parenthetically, my researching to write this review revealed another mystery: Where is Mary Willis Walker?

She only wrote four books, that I can find, all of which were incredibly well reviewed, and awarded, and lauded, and then, she vanished!  I found an essay she had written in the New York Times about dropping the Walker from her name after getting divorced. I queried the Facebook hive mind, and no one seems to be able to come up with any more than that. How can a successful writer just vanish? Maybe just… Stop writing. But I would love to know.

(The review won’t be published for a month or so, so make sure you find it on the fab Criminal Element!)

One more thing I’m writing, (actually have written, even better), is the introduction to another book you may not know about: The Bellamy Trial.

[]

American Mystery Classics asked me to write the introduction for their brand new edition of this 1927 classic, and I leapt at the chance with delight. Turns out, it is such a terrific book, (lookit that cover!) and again, right up my legal thriller alley. In fact, some say, with The Bellamy Trial, Frances Noyes Hart wrote the first legal thriller.

There is a tiny part of that introduction.

"Hart is such a clever writer, and this charming novel –which was serialized in the Saturday Evening Post --is hardly just a legal transcript. With Whartonesque overtones and trenchant social commentary, the world of the scandalous crime emerges:  silver dancing shoes, silver flasks, country clubs, cocktail parties, maids, nannies, and families with day and night nurseries. The reader understands the milieu Hart is allowing us to grasp: the attendant wealth and lack of it, the undercurrent (usually under) of class struggles, and the battle for acceptance in tightly-contained social circles. Passionate love and broken promises, parental manipulation, deceit and gaslighting—results that can only come from the lust for money and greed and control."

This book was absolutely a joy to read, and I cannot wait to share it with you. These new editions will be out in a month or so, but I have one here to give away!

TELL ME HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT WRITING REVIEWS, REDS AND READERS, AND ONE LUCKY COMMENTER WILL GET AN EARLY COPY.

(Oh, PS, the third book I am reviewing for Criminal Element is Citizen Vince! Love that book!)

question: What does the text say about the importance of book reviews?

answer: According to the author of the article, before deciding on buying a book, they go to the book review section first to know what other people think about it. It's one of the deciding factors of readers, so book authors want good reviews. Bad reviews hurt their feelings and the book's ratings.

question: What does the text say about the author joining Criminal Element's experiment?

answer: The author had written many reviews before, so they were delighted to join Criminal Element's experiment wherein authors were asked to review Edgar winners for best novels. Two of the three novels assigned to the author were books they hadn't read before. The first book they reviewed was Barbara Vine's A Dark-Adapted Eye, the winner in 1987. The book got a great review overall.

question: What does the text say about what the author does besides reviewing books?


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AGNES OF KUENRING (ca. 1236 - fl. 1261), was an Austrian noble, courtier of Queen Margaret of Austria and mistress of her spouse, King Ottokar II of Bohemia. She was the first historically documented mistress of a Bohemian sovereign.

Life

Nothing is known about Agnes' early years. It is supposed that when Duchess Margaret of Austria married with Prince Přemysl Ottokar of Bohemia in 1252, she was part of her retinue as a lady-in-waiting.

Described by the chroniclers as one of the most beautiful women in court, with short cut red hair (she was nicknamed _Palcéřík_ for that), Agnes soon captivated the young Prince and, with around only 16 years old, she became his official mistress. One year later, in 1253, Prince Přemysl Otakar succeeded his father as the King of Bohemia.

Queen Margaret was much older than her husband and already barren. It is believed that she offered young Agnes to King Ottokar II as his mistress. This story was described by the chronicler Přibík Pulkava of Radenín:

        _At first the (Margaret's) shame of infertility was attributed to her husband. When Prince Přemysl learned about that, he said: Give me one of your ladies and prove my potency or impotence. She agreed and gave him one of the girls she loved more than others, the daughter of the House of Kuenring from Austria. In the first year she bore him a son, Nicholas, who was later made Duke of Opava... In addition, she made him father of three daughters ... So the infertility, earlier attributed to the husband, was credited to his wife_.

The relationship between King Ottokar II and Agnes was well known by contemporary sources, and perhaps she even accompanied the King on festive occasions, instead of the aging Queen Margaret.

Around the first year of the affair (ca. 1254–55), Agnes gave birth her first child, a son, named Nicholas, later Duke of Opava. It is known that she bore the King more children, but the exact number is contradictory in sources; it is believed that they had three daughters: Agnes (married Bavor III, Lord of Strakonicz), Elisabeth (married Vikard, Lord of Polna and Burgrave of Brünn) and one unknown daughter (wife of Vok, Lord of Kravař), and another son, Jesek (d. 26 August 1296) (later Priest at Wysehrad).

After the birth of his eldest son, King Ottokar II's main objective was the recognition of this child as his heir. In 1260 he unsuccessfully asked Pope Alexander IV for the legitimation of Nicholas and his siblings. The King divorced Margaret in 1261 and married Kunigunda of Halych. It is not known what happened with Agnes after that, but supposedly she returned to Austria with the former Queen.

Footnotes

title: Agnes of Kuenring

question: When was Agnes of Kuenring born?

answer: Ca. 1236.

question: What nationality was Agnes of Kuenring?

answer: Austrian.

question: Whose mistress was Agnes of Kuenring?

answer: King Ottokar II of Bohemia's.

question: What color was Agnes of Kuenring's hair?

answer: Red.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: This article is about Agnes of Kuenring, a courtier in the court of Queen Margaret of Austria and a mistress to her husband King Ottokar II of Bohemia.


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JOSEPH or JOSEPHUS SCOTTUS[1] (died between 791 and 804), called THE DEACON, was an Irish scholar, diplomat, poet, and ecclesiastic, a figure in the Carolingian Renaissance. He has been cited as an early example of “the scholar in public life”.[2]

Life

His early life is obscure, but he studied first under Colcu, probably at Clonmacnoise, and then under Alcuin at York, probably in the 770s. At York he met and befriended Liudger, a Frisian and future Bishop of Münster, whom he mentions in a poem requesting a “polished staff”. Joseph eventually wound up at the court of the Frankish king Charlemagne, probably after accompanying Alcuin to the continent in the 780s.

Joseph was at the Frankish court during a period (790s) of rising anti-Irish sentiment (often expressed in verse), but he seems nonetheless to have established a bond of trust with both Alcuin and Charlemagne. In 787 or 788 Charlemagne sent Joseph and several others on a diplomatic mission to Rome to deal with the Papacy and to Spoleto and Benevento, the capitals of two Lombard duchies opposed to Frankish overlordship. While in southern Italy Joseph and his companions were separated by agents of the Lombard dukes and almost killed.

In 790 Joseph took over Alcuin's position at court while the Northumbrian master was on unexpectedly extended business in his homeland. Thereafter his career is obscure. He eventually rose to become an abbot, but when and where are unknown. It has been suggested, on the basis of his experience in south Italian politics, that he was briefly abbot of Montecassino, but the evidence for this is slim.

Writings

Joseph participated in a revival of acrostic poetry fostered by Alcuin at Charlemagne's court. Four such poems of his are preserved in a collection of religious acrostics, including some by Alcuin and others by Theodulf of Orléans, in a manuscript (MS 212) now in the Burgerbibliothek in Bern. Addressed to Charlemagne, the acrostic _carmina figurata_—on the similarity of Eve and the Virgin Mary, princely virtues, the Cross, and the names of Christ—imitate the late antique panegyrics Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius addressed to Constantine the Great. The poems, though never popular as literature, still demonstrate “technical virtuosity”.

The only other work which certainly belongs to Joseph is an abridgement of a commentary on Isaiah by Jerome (_Abbreuiatio_ or _Epitome commentarii (Sancti) Hieronymi in Isaiam_), which was apparently ordered by Alcuin. Two other works have been attributed to him, including a lost suite of riddles mentioned in a Passau manuscript before 903. These are more probably the work of Joseph, Bishop of Freising. He may also have written a _voces animantium_ (“voices of animals”) listing the sounds of animals in alphabetical order with glosses, now in the Biblioteca Nacional de España (MS 19, folio 189v). This genre was common, but the alphabetisation is unusual. If it is indeed to be ascribed to Joseph, it was probably lifted from his personal notebook.

Sources

-   Garrison, Mary (2004). “Joseph Scottus (d. 791x804).” _Oxford Dictionary of National Biography_, vol. 30. Oxford: Oxford University Press. .
-   -   Silvers, Margaret. (2016) _Josephus Scottus's Abbreviation of Jerome's Commentariorum in Esaiam: A Partial Edition with Apparatus_. University of York: Doctoral dissertation.

Notes

Category:Latinists Category:Medieval Irish poets Category:8th-century Irish people Category:8th-century Frankish writers Category:Hiberno-Latin poets Category:Italian abbots Category:Irish scholars and academics Category:Irish diplomats Category:8th-century Irish writers Category:9th-century Irish writers Category:Irish expatriates in Germany Category:Irish expatriates in England Category:Irish expatriates in France Category:Irish expatriates in Italy Category:Irish male poets Category:8th-century Latin writers Category:Gaels

[1] The alternate spelling _Scotus_ is known, as is the Anglicisation “the Scot”, though the eighth-century Latin _Scottus_ meant “Irish”.

[2] Garrison, citing D. A. Bullough, “Aula renovata: the Carolingian court before the Aachen palace,” _Carolingian Renewal: Sources and Heritage_ (1991), 141.

title: Joseph Scottus

question: Summarize what happened during the Carolingian Renaissance.

answer: It was a period of mounting anti-Irish sentiments in the 790s in which men who were often scholars went on long excursions, or pilgrimages, to cement diplomatic relations. Joseph was one of these men, and as he was part of the Frankish court, he journeyed to York. He was also connected to famous important figures such as Charlemagne-which was interesting given Joseph's Irish ethnicity and background. During this time it might be said some of the scripture that had been known only to private more elite and learned circles was publicized through these prosaic ventures.

question: Explain the reason for the religious and political tension during the Carolingian Renaissance.

question: Summarize the risks that Joseph took throughout his life as a scholar.

answer: Joseph took to the Frankish court after befriending Charlemagne, despite his being Irish and the rising anti-Irish sentiment. He then went on several diplomatic missions on the orders of Charlemagne to Rome to deal with the Papacy. The Lombard dukes there did not appreciate this intrusion, and they were nearly killed by said dukes after getting separated. Then, after Joseph had taken over Alcuin's position at court, it is said that he became an abbot, and it's been suggested that he was involved in Southern Italian politics, which-as evidenced by his near-assassination-were not the safest place for a scholar to continue to publicize the beliefs and agendas of the court of which they were part.


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-   3-liter bottles

-   Razor/Scissors

-   Perlite/Peat moss/Grain

-   Spray bottle

-   Mushroom culture

[...]

Mushrooms grow in a wide range of home setups.

Mushrooms grow in a range of different natural environments, from caves to logs and even suburban lawns. Unlike green plants, these unique fungi grow without light or extensive nutrition, and need only moisture and protection from the elements to grow and thrive. This ease of growth makes mushrooms popular home crops for people of all ages. Although retailers sell expensive ready-to-use mushroom boxes for growing home mushroom harvests, it's less expensive to use some standard household products to build your own mushroom-growing terrarium.

Step 1

Empty and wash a 3-liter soda or water bottle. One 3-liter bottle will produce one terrarium for mushroom growing. If you want to grow a larger mushroom crop, collect more bottles. Use the razor or scissors to cut a hole halfway down the side of the bottle, then insert the razor or scissors into the hole and cut around the bottle to cut it in half. The best place for this cut is directly above the label. Keep the top of the bottle for later use.

Step 2

Put two to three inches of peat moss, perlite or grain in the bottom of your bottle, as a growing foundation for the mushrooms. Growing foundations must offer good support, while holding moisture for the mushroom rooting colony. Inject mushroom culture--liquid that holds mushroom spores, available at home and garden shops--into this growing foundation by inserting the tip into the foundation and depressing the plunger. Spray the growing foundation with enough water to moisten the material, but not get it muddy or soupy.

Step 3

Set the top of the bottle on the bottom to close the terrarium, unscrew the top and remove it to encourage air circulation. Put the bottle in a cool, protected place. Ideal growing situations for mushrooms include cupboards, closets and drawers, as they offer both protection and humidity for the terrarium. Don't expose the mushrooms to direct sunlight, as this will dry the foundation and keep the mushrooms from sprouting. Expect mushroom sprouting in six to eight weeks.

Tip

Once established, a mushroom colony will resprout for years. Maintain your terrarium for a repeat mushroom harvest.

question: Where do mushrooms grow?

answer: Mushrooms grow almost anywhere in the natural environment, from caves and logs to suburban lawns.

question: Do mushrooms need sunlight to grow?

answer: No.

question: Which are some ideal mushroom-growing places at home?

answer: You may grow mushrooms in cupboards, closets, and drawers.

question: How long do mushrooms take to grow?

answer: Mushrooms sprouts in six to eight weeks.

question: Write a ~8 sentence summary.

answer:
Growing mushrooms at home is not a tedious task. You may grow them in a soda bottle.

First, cut the bottle into half and then put two inches of peat moss at the bottom of the bottle. Now inject the mushroom culture liquid and spray enough water to moisten. Close the terrarium by placing the upper half of the bottle and unscrew the top to encourage air circulation. Do not keep them in direct sunlight.

Expect the mushroom sprouting in six to eight weeks. Maintain your terrarium to repeat the mushroom harvest.


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INGRID STÖLZEL (born 14 January[1] 1971) is a German composer of contemporary classical music who has lived and worked in the United States since 1991.[2]

Biography

Ingrid Stölzel was born in Karlsruhe, Germany in 1971. She holds degrees in music from the University of Missouri, Kansas City, Conservatory of Music and Dance (Doctorate of Musical Arts in Composition; Bachelor of Music) and the University of Hartford - Hartt School of Music (Master of Music in Composition). Her principal composition teachers include Robert Carl, James Mobberley, James Sellars, Chen Yi and Zhou Long. Stölzel currently teaches composition at University of Kansas School of Music in Lawrence, Kansas.

Music

Composer Ingrid Stölzel has been described as having “a gift for melody”(San Francisco Classical Voice)[3] and “evoking a sense of longing” that creates “a reflective and serene soundscape that makes you want to curl up on your windowsill to re-listen on a rainy day.”[4] Her music has been described as “_tender and beautiful_” _(American Record Guide)_ and as creating a “_haunting feeling of lyrical reflection and suspension in time and memory_” _(Classical-Modern Review)_.[5] At the heart of her compositions is a belief that music can create profound emotional connections with the listener.

Awards include the Suzanne and Lee Ettelson Composer's Award, [6] the RED NOTE Composition Competition,[7] Robert Avalon International Competition for Composers,[8] Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra Competition, [9] Ortus International New Music Competition,[10] Cayuga Chamber Orchestra Composers Competition,[11] Arizona Pro Arte Competition[12] and NewMusic@ECU Composition Competition,[13] among others.

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[3] https://www.sfcv.org/reviews/kaleidoscope-chamber-orchestra/kaleidoscope-chamber-orchestra-showcases-women-composers

[4] https://www.icareifyoulisten.com/2018/10/ingrid-stolzel-the-gorgeous-nothings-vocal-style-longing/

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[6] https://composersinc.org/?page_id=106

[7]  College of Fine Arts - Illinois State|website=finearts.illinoisstate.edu|access-date=2016-12-20}}

[8] http://modernmusic.org/history/

[9] https://www.kco.la/composer-info

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[13]  NewMusic Initiative {{!}} School of Music|website=www.ecu.edu|access-date=2016-12-20}}

title: Ingrid Stölzel

question: Describe Ingrid Stölzel's personal life.

answer: That information can't be found.

question: Who is Ingrid Stölzel?

answer: A German composer of contemporary classical music.

question: Name one of Ingrid Stölzel's famous pieces.

answer: That information can't be found.

question: Summarize Ingrid Stölzel's education.

answer: She hold degrees in music from the University of Missouri, Kansas City, Conservatory of Music and Dance, and the University of Hartford-Hartt School of Music.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: Ingrid Stölzel is a German composer of contemporary classical music. She lives and works in the United States.


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So my friend once told me "Write me a letter as if I were far away." So I did.

My dearest Elaine,

Recently, the rooms of our house have begun to bemoan your absence. I read them your letters. Tell them your stories of gypsies and temples and the mountain. Yet everyday the dust lays heavier, the lights yellow, and the chairs stand stalwart against the hollows left in your wake. Its been... I forget how long since they called for you. I only saw so much of the letter...

'Urgent.'
'National Security.'
'Nepal.'

I knew what I was getting into. Told you that if it were 'parts of you or none of you', the choice was simple. Its amazing the things you say for 5 more minutes with such a creature. But now its been three years. Of which we've had nearly two. And I find myself asking where you go.

Sure, I get the postcards. Peru. Antwerp. Mumbai. Paris. But lets not kid ourselves... They wouldn't let you give so much information so simply. So for now, I sit. Digging for patterns in your penmanship. Simple misspellings. Postmarks. A sign. That you're there... and you're trying.

I'm sorry. We promised. I can do my part. I just miss you; Your contrails in the carpet, your relentless fussing with your hair. Most of all your words...

So tell me again about the mountain...

title: Letters

question: What is the implied hidden story in the narrator's letters?

answer: Elaine is on a clandestine activity in a distant and undisclosed location, and in her letters are clues about where she is and/or what she is doing. The writer of the letter is trying to solve the clues ---the underlying story here is why the writer is trying to solve the clues in the first place. It is likely that the writer also has some skills and knowhow that is in line with Elaine's work. This would also explain why the writer seems patient enough for their arrangement -that Elaine has been gone for a significant amount of time- because the letter writer is familiar with how clandestine missions are and may even be experienced in the matter.