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Norfolk makes the most of its natural beauty and fascinating history and these are some of the best attractions to visit. History buffs should start with Norwich’s Castle Museum – you can’t miss it sitting atop the hill in our capital city. Not only is it a spectacular place to get a 360-degree view of the surrounding area, but you can also discover Norwich’s Anglo-Saxon and Norman heritage.

Dust off that National Trust membership and head to one of Norfolk’s most spectacular Jacobean buildings, Blickling Hall, for another dose of history. This is where Anne Boleyn lived – and supposedly still haunts – making it the perfect place to visit around Halloween.

Learn more about the rural way of life at Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse near Dereham. Whatever the weather, you can learn the ways of farmers in the local countryside with a historic workhouse, traditional farm and lots of indoor displays. Thrillseekers should head to Pleasure Beach, Great Yarmouth. The park first opened in 1909 and has been operating ever since. The largest and most popular ride at the park is the Roller Coaster which was built in 1932.

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Blickling Hall

[Blickling Hall]
Blickling, Norwich NR11 6NF

Nobody ever forgets their first sight of Blickling. The breath-taking Jacobean mansion and ancient yew hedges sit at the heart of a magnificent garden and historic park in the beautiful Bure meadows. Surrounding the house, the formal garden is the result of three centuries of inspired planting, and the gently undulating historic parkland is great for exploring. Grab a map of way-marked walks or the multi-use trail and head out into the park. Keep your eyes open for intriguing landmarks, stunning views and wildlife. Visit website

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Castle Rising Castle

[Castle Rising]
Lynn Rd, King’s Lynn PE31 6AH

Castle Rising Castle is one of the most famous 12th-century castles in England. The stone keep, built in 1140 AD, is amongst the finest surviving examples of its kind anywhere in the country and, together with the massive surrounding earthworks, makes Rising a castle of national importance. In its time Rising has served as a hunting lodge, royal residence, and for a brief time in the 18th century even housed a mental patient. The most famous period in its history was when it was lived in by the mother of Edward III, Queen Isabella, following her part in the murder of her husband Edward II. The Castle passed to the Howard family in 1544 and it remains in their hands today, the current owner being a descendant of William D’Albini II, the Norman baron who built the Castle. Visit website

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Stories of Lynn

[Museum]
Saturday Market Pl, King’s Lynn PE30 5DQ

King’s Lynn’s fascinating history is brought vividly to life in this stunning new exhibition ‘Stories of Lynn’. Set within the magnificent, newly-revealed vaulted undercroft of the 15th century Trinity Guildhall, Stories of Lynn invites you to come in, and discover stories of the seafarers, explorers, merchants, mayors, magistrates and miscreants who have shaped King’s Lynn, one of England’s most important medieval port towns, over more than 800 years of history. Visitors can tour the old gaol cells, try on mayor’s robes, see the magnificent King John Cup, and more! Visit website

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Mannington Estate

[Pigeons]
Mannington, Norwich NR11 7BB

The gardens around the medieval moated manor at Mannington feature a wide variety of plants, trees and shrubs in different settings. In the heritage and modern rose gardens are roses in designs reflecting their date and origin. On the south lawn you’l find a classic temple and the sensory garden with water feature and plants selected for touch, sound and taste, scent and colour. The hall itself was built in 15th century, and was purchased by the first Lord Walpole in the 18th century. It is still the Walpole family’s home today. The ground floor of the hall is often included in garden tours and on special event days, including the Vintage Fair. Mannington Hall boasts Gothic windows and stunning motif chimneys. The facade of the hall is made from snapped local flints and two turrets stand proud on the south side of the building. Visit website

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Broads Tours

[Norfolk Broads]
The Bridge, Wroxham, Norwich NR12 8RX

Everyone should see the Norfolk Broads! And the way to appreciate the Broads at their very best is from the water with the award-winning visitor attraction, Broads Tours of Wroxham. Choose a river trip, sit back and do it in style with entertaining live commentary, light refreshments and licensed bar. Or pack a picnic, hire one of the day boats and enjoy the freedom of doing your own thing. Either way, Broads Tours are sure it will leave you wanting to do it all over again! Wroxham is the perfect location for a boat trip, there’s plenty to see and do before and after your river trip, and it’s ideally-located to continue your travels around the beautiful county of Norfolk. Visit website

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question: What does the text say about Castle Rising Castle?

answer: Castle Rising Castle is one of the most famous 12th-century castles in England. Its stone keep was built in 1140 AD and is among the finest surviving examples of its kind anywhere in the country. At various points in its history, Rising has served as a hunting lodge, royal residence, and for a brief time, housed a mental patient. Most famously, it was home to Queen Isabella following her part in the murder of her husband Edward II. The Castle passed to the Howard family in 1544 and it remains in their hands today.


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Some people are meant for great things. Most people live and work and die. I guess I’m one of the latter. It depressed me for a long time. I did well in school, went to college, studied abroad in Tokyo one summer and it was great. Aside from the experiences I’ve gained, I realized I’m not going to leave a mark on this world. The world left one in me. It’s just that way sometimes.

I’m a watcher of those who burst like firecrackers, their colors dancing on our eyes. If there is one thing I am good at it is knowing the bright ones. My best friend in high school (we’re still in touch) went on to start his own charitable organization. My roommate in college transferred and graduated from an esteemed art academy and is now on display. My high school sweetheart is a practicing doctor and we have a sixteen year old who learned how to drive this April. It’s a feeling, a sense. When I look at someone and I see an enormous folded destiny behind them, I know. They smile at me and I can feel it. Then, I step back and watch their colors unfold.

When I was a boy and summers at the lake we lived near murmured with excitement, my father took me to the edge of the water where people had laid out blankets to watch the evening fill with lights and sounds. It was the Fourth of July. He and my uncle set up a place to sit and we lay on it. I watched from between my father and aunt, my uncle on her other side. Halfway through the fireworks, I turned to my father; as a glimmer of red dazzled over the sky I realized he was looking at me and crying. He said he was proud of me.

My daughter was two at his funeral. I didn’t get to be at his side: he died in his sleep during an afternoon nap like a mechanic deciding to retire his tools. I received the call upon returning home from a long day of touring some people through my town: the family was relocating from their old home. It was the caretaker on the other end of the line. She seemed sad but understanding. I remember thinking of my father and that night by the lake when she was born.

I have watched people who had the gifts but not the destiny, their lives like ships of cargo lacking sails. I suppose I had neither. My father was proud of me because my heart was always in the right place. It was a long time before I came to realize that it wasn’t about me. I wasn’t meant for great things. I wasn’t meant to leave a mark on this world, and it wasn’t easy to understand.

She was so little in my arms when I took her, yet so heavy like glass. So many folds weighed her. She smiled at me—the nurses said it was a wonderful sign and that newborns were mostly incapable of such gestures. I remembered my father then and that warm summer night and his tears sparking crimson in his eyes, and I found myself on the other side of those tears, watching colors dance.

I wasn’t meant for great things. She is.

title: Firecrackers

question: Why does the narrator feel they aren't meant for great things?

answer: He feels he hasn't left a mark on the world

question: Who is the narrator's significant other?

answer: A doctor, and his former high school sweetheart

question: Describe the narrator's memory of fireworks.

answer: He watched them with his dad one Fourth of July, and his dad told him he was proud of him

question: How did the narrator's dad die?

answer: He died in his sleep during an afternoon nap

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: The narrator feels that he is not meant for great things, comparing himself to his high school best friend, his former roommate, and his significant other, who is a doctor. He recalls one Fourth of July when his father told him he was proud of him during a fireworks show. He then thinks about his daughter and concludes that while he isn't meant for great things, she is.


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The inflation rate for October 2018 dropped to 9.5%, down by 0.3% from the 9.8% recorded in September 2018.

According to the Ghana Statistical Service(GSS), the figure is lowest rate that has been recorded in the past five years sine 2013.

However, this rate has been measured without the revised economic rebasing figures.

Inflation measures the rate of change in prices of goods and services over a period of time.

The rate of is the percentage change in the Consumer Price Index over the twelve-month period, from September 2017 to September 2018.

The monthly change rate for October 2018 was 0.7 per cent compared to 0.0 per cent recorded for September 2018.

The price drivers for October 2018 were mainly due to a fall in the rates of inflation for the non-food items.

The non food group recorded a year on year inflation rate of 9.8 percent in October 2018, compared to the 10.3 percent recorded for September 2018.

“The drop in the rate of inflation can be attributed to the drop in inflation rate of the non food items such as transportation as well as clothing and footwear”, Acting Government Statistician, Baah Wadieh stated.

he announced that transport recorded the highest inflation rate of 13.9 percent, followed by clothing and footwear with 13.4 percent, while Recreation and Culture recorded 12.7 percent and Furnishings, household equipment and routine maintenance had 11.9 percent.

REGIONAL BREAKDOWN

At the regional level, the year-on-year inflation rate ranged from 8.3 per cent in the Upper East region to 11.6 per cent in the Upper West region.

Five regions (Upper West, Brong Ahafo, Western, Northern and Ashanti) recorded inflation rates above the national average rate and Eastern region recorded the same inflation rate as the national average of 9.5 per cent.

Source:  citibusinessnews.com

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question: When was the article written?

answer: Late 2018

question: For what country has the inflation rate dropped?

answer: Ghana

question: Who published the article?

answer: citibusinessnews.com

question: By how much did the inflation rate fall between September and October of 2018?

answer: 0.3%

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: The Ghana Statistical Service reports that the inflation rate for October 2018 dropped to 9.5%, the lowest rate since 2013.


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It was a bright night, a full moon was in the sky. Two friends of mine and I were staying with my dad's friends at this house out in this big flat grassy field. It had a single short wall to divide part of the yard with the gravel drive way that ran along the wall. At the end of the wall was a car port with a car parked under it. For some reason my two friends and I ran out of the house and started running toward the car port on the side of the wall with the drive way. There was a sort of urgancy to get there first, yet there was no reason to be scared. If anyone was watching us they would just assume it was three kids trying to race each other for no reason other than the fact that we were kids.

I wasn't the fastest, and the drive way was a good distance. I can remember seeing the stars shining bright in the sky aswell as the moon that hung just over the side of the car port. As I watch my two friends getting more and more distance in front of me, I saw something on the horizon releash a huge flash. I stopped dead in my tracks and gazed at this phenomenon. I could see my friends do the same thing. A few moments later an ear shattering boom swept across the field and my body was overtaken by an immense force that knocked me off my feet and onto my back. I sat up with my arms and dumbly gazed at this bright mass expanding in the distance. Enormous debris was flying far away in the distance.

My two friends were already running back down the drive way toward the house. As they passed me I could see utter fear in their faces. They didn't bother too look down at me, and kept running at full speed to the house. I knew I had to get up and run too, but my mind and body were so dazed at what just happened that I couldn't move at all. I was just sitting there staring at this ever expanding fiery mass, and all the debris that it conjured.

Back in the direction of the house I could hear a voice calling, I couldn't hear exactly what they were saying. It was enough to snap me out it. I got to my feet and took one last look at the explosion and the debris that was still hurdeling through the air. Running as fast as I could I made it to the house, I saw everyone sitting around and my two friends were already telling the adults what happened. I was still in shock and probably looked just as clueless as the fathers.
Some time passes, more people gather in the living room; mothers, daughters, a baby. I am sitting by myself. All I can hear are some murmors from the fathers trying to figure things out. I look around to see everyone else with someone, trying to reassure eachother, and I am alone.

We all decide to go outside. There is no more debris in the air, and all you can make of the explosion is a cloudy mass. The moon is still bright and visible, as are the stars. after sometime of hushed conversation that I can't make out, something happens. I look to the moon and lines of light start shining through what appear to be cracks in its surface. The light grows brighter, and as before an unimaginable sound cracks the silence of the night. My heart races and my body is unmovable. Shock overtakes me as a large chunk of the moon flies toward the Earth. It travels slightly beneath the horizon and then makes impact. Another quaking noise goes through the air, but this time at a deeper volume. A tidal wave of lava, smoke and fire rises and billows, covering the night sky. It is moving in every direction at an insane speed.

As everyone is in panic, running and grabbing children, trying to espace their certain doom, I find myself alone, again standing in this grassy field with no one. The most terrifying of all things engulfs my mind. I am going to die alone, with no one to care for, and no one to care for me. There is nothing I can do about it.

The last thing I can remember as the mass of lava approaches is not the fear running through my body, but the slow, calm breeze of the summer night. I accept my fate, and instead of dying in a state of chaos, I decide to come to peace with it, knowing I cannot change anything. I turn around, facing the other direction of the impact. Stars are still visible in the other half of the night sky. It is cloudless and bright. I lay down on the cool grass and gaze upon the universe. There is nothing specifically going through my mind, I am not worried about anything, but I am also not happy at the same time. I am just living in the moment.

As I feel the rumbling behind me, I knew it was getting closer. I take one last look at the night sky, and close my eyes, only hearing the world now. The rumbling grows louder, and my heart races. All of a sudden I hear a tone, my heart is beating slowly. I feel nothing and see darkness.

I wake up.

title: Short Story (can't think of a title)

question: Summarize the main conflict.

answer: The narrator and their friends are staying with their dad's friends. The narrator notices a huge flash in the horizon, and an ear shattering boom and enormous flying debris follows. Back at the house, the narrator notices the moon begins to fall apart onto the Earth, which causes a tidal wave of lava. The narrator and every one else realizes they are going to die as a result.

question: Summarize what happens to the moon.

answer: The moon was initially bright and full in the sky. Towards the end of the story, the narrator notices cracks begin to form in its surfaces, as its light grows brighter. A large chunk of the moon falls onto Earth and seemingly creates a deadly lava tidal wave.

question: What does the story say about accepting your fate?

answer: The narrator is at first terrified they are going to die alone from the encroaching lava wave, but accepts their fate. This reduces their fear and they are able to come to peace with what is happening. They are now calm and living in the moment as they watch the fate of their death unfold. Every one else is running around in a panic because they haven't yet accepted their fate.

question: What does the story say about what people do when they are afraid?

answer: When the narrator first notices what happens, they are so scared and shocked that they become immobile. Their friends on the other hand sprint back to their house. The people in the house begin to gather as their fear grows in an act to comfort and reassure each other. The fathers in the house are trying to make sense of things, which is another thing people do to ease their fears. When it's very clear that their lives will be ending, everyone but the narrator runs around in a panic.

question: Summarize the narrator's reaction to their dream.


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"He Was There..."

He laid there.  Time seemed to stop.  He looked into the sky, knowing it would be the last time he would.  He examined the thick, puffy clouds and their beauty.  They looked so soft.  So peaceful.  He saw the birds, flying in their formation.  They had no care in the world.  They were free.  He wished he was.  He wished that the beauty and peace of the clouds and the birds was his world.  Where there was evil and hatred.  He wanted to feel the love of his family one more time.  All he wanted was to be free.  Like the birds.  But he was there.

    He was there where men killed each other.  Where men fought.  But he did realize that is was not for nothing,  It was for what was right.  Those men were evil, and he was there to stop them.  He did all he could, but then he was put there.

    He was there, on the ground, covered in his own blood and tears, looking at the natural beauty of the heavens while time stopped.  But then he saw his reality.

    He knew that this was his end.  He knew it was time to go.  He was going to be with the birds and the clouds and his new world would be filled with peace and wonder.  He picked up the handgun and fired the last shot.  Not on himself, or another man, but into the sky, as if to say “here I come...”

Then, he was there.

title: FIRST STORY! "He Was There..."

question: Who is "he?"

answer: The identity of the character isn't described.

question: What is the nature of the character's injury, which causes him to be covered in his own blood on the ground?

answer: It can be implied that the character was shot with a handgun.

question: Why does the character feel like he is about to die?

answer: It can be implied that the nature of his wound is severe.

question: Does the character die?

answer: It is not known.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: The character is wounded, lying weak and bleeding out on the ground. It seems he was shot during a war against evil men. He wishes to feel the love of his family one more time and join the birds of the air, free of his condition and surrounded by peace.


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"I'm telling you, it was one of the most baffling weeks of my life"

"What was so bad about it?" she laughed infectiously.

"Well here I was, dating this beautiful, gorgeous girl, and the sex was absolutely awful. I couldn't figure it out. I questioned my sexuality once in case it was my fault. But don't worry, I'm not gay. I'm sure of that." Paul smiled, "and then she dumped me for 'not being adventurous enough for her'."

"Well maybe it was your fault?" Sarah smirked.

"Maybe, but I’ve never had any complaints before or after her, so im pretty sure its not."

"Oh really, so I’m sitting here with a bona fide ladies man am i? The scourge of fathers across the country?" she giggled

"I wouldn't say that." he laughed, "I’ve done okay. Same as everyone else."

"I have to say, I was expecting you to be a big proponent of the three day rule" she looked at him quizzically

"The three day rule?"

"Yeah, you know, how guys always leave it three days before they contact you?"

"Oh. Well its more of a guideline than a rule. But if it bothers you that in a day early i can come back tomorrow?"

"Yeah, would you?" she fixed her hair, pushing it back out of her face.

"I'd like to point out that I didn't make contact. You shouted at me on the street."

"How do I know you're not stalking me? Or that you didn't plan it that i would run into you?" she asked playfully

Paul smiled "think very highly of yourself don't you? Accusing me of dastardly scheming!"

"I think it’s what I’d do if I were a man."

"Bump into them accidentally on purpose?"

"Of course, I love me, I couldn't wait to see me again." she giggled

Paul laughed, "what about me?"

"What about you?" she asked, confused.

"Well, you couldn't wait to see me again either could you? That's why you organised to run into me, isn't it."

"You can go on believing that if it makes you feel better." her smile like a bird opening its wings.

"You have a nice smile."

Sarah looked down, suddenly shy. "Thank you" she pushed her hair behind her ear.

"You're welcome. But now my dear I'm afraid I must leave you. I’ve been talking to you now for two hours, when I should have been working." Paul stood up.

"You work?" she smiled mockingly

"Yes, I'm not as much of a bum as you think." he smiled

"What do you do?"

Paul had dreaded this question. He didn't know if he should lie and keep quiet about his real job, or just tell her. It all came down to one question: if he told her, would she figure out he was investigating her family. He chose not to answer. He smiled, took her hand and kissed it. Then he turned and walked away. Sarah was left once again, sitting alone, utterly bemused by what just happened. She watched him as he walked to the door. He looked back and smiled at her from the door before walking out. She sat staring after him for a minute. She bit her lip and smiled. She liked him.

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question: Judging by the conversation in the passage, summarize the kinds of emotions and intents going on with the characters.

answer: The man and woman seem to be on friendly terms. They like each other and are looking for reasons to progress the relationship further. There is a huge amount of effort to be witty and charming. They definitely will talk to each other again.


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PERTH LEISURE POOL is the main indoor public leisure and recreation centre in the city of Perth, Scotland,[1] one of the most popular visitor attractions in Scotland[2] and a major tourist attraction,[3][4] which in 2006 was noted for receiving more than 700,000 visitors a year.[5]

Development

It was designed in 1984 after an architectural contest run by the RIAS and Perth Council which was won by architects FaulknerBrowns.[6][7] Councillor John L. Wilson presided over the development of the Perth Leisure Pool[8] and it was opened by The Princess Royal on 29 July 1988.

Facilities

The complex includes 5 swimming pools with flumes, bubble beds and other water features;[9] a gym,[10] health spa, cafe, creche and outdoor children's play area. The combination of leisure and swimming facilities has proved outstandingly successful[11] and, in twenty years, it has had over ten million visitors.[12] The separate children's lagoon varies in depth between . The small slide for this pool provides suitably scaled-down thrills for children and is very popular.[13]

Maintenance

It has been well maintained since opening, with refurbishments taking place every few years. However, in August 2002,[14] there was an outbreak of cryptosporidiosis which caused gastrointestinal illness for 74 people.[15] This resulted in the closure of the pool while the matter was investigated.[16] Numerous improvements to the cleaning and water treatment processes were recommended by the Outbreak Control Team and these were made prior to the reopening of the centre.[17][18]

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title: Perth Leisure Pool

question: What country is Perth Leisure Pool in?

answer: Scotland.

question: When was it designed?

answer: 1984.

question: When did it open?

answer: July 29, 1988.

question: How many swimming pools does it contain?

answer: Five.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: The Perth Leisure Pool is an indoor public leisure and recreation center in Perth, Scotland, that is also a major tourist attraction. It was designed in 1984, and opened in 1988.


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“CROSSOVER” is the twenty-third episode of the seventh season of the American animated television series _Adventure Time_. The episode was written and storyboarded by Sam Alden and Jesse Moynihan, from an outline by showrunner Adam Muto, Jack Pendarvis, and head writer Kent Osborne. The episode, which debuted on January 28, 2016 on Cartoon Network, guest stars Kumail Nanjiani as Prismo, Lou Ferrigno as Bobby, and James Kyson as Big Destiny.

The series follows the adventures of Finn (voiced by Jeremy Shada), a human boy, and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake (voiced by John DiMaggio), a dog with magical powers to change shape and grow and shrink at will. In this episode, Finn and Jake crossover into Farmworld (an alternate dimension first created in the episode “Finn the Human”) to stop Farmworld-Finn and the Jake-Lich from using an alternate version of the _Enchiridion_ to open up doorways into all dimensions. After a long and drawn-out battle, Finn, Jake, and Farmworld-Finn team up to stop the Jake-Lich. Finn and Jake are able to use a magical device given to them by Prismo to remove the essence of the Lich from Farmworld Jake, returning Farmworld to normal.

“Crossover” was the first of several seventh-season episodes that Moynihan and Alden would work on; the two had previously collaborated on the sixth-season episode “The Mountain”. Moynihan focused part of his attention on making sure that this episode would line up with the logic established in the fifth-season episode “Finn the Human” regarding alternate realities. Upon its airing, the episode was seen by 1.13 million viewers. It received largely positive reviews from critics, with several praising Nanjiani's voice work, as well as the aesthetic and design of the episode itself.

Plot

Background

In the fourth-season finale, “The Lich”, the series' main villain, the Lich (voiced by Ron Perlman), manages to open a portal to access the time room of Prismo (voiced by Kumail Nanjiani).[1] In the fifth-season premiere, “Finn the Human”, it is revealed that Prismo is a being that can grant wishes, and the Lich wishes for all life in the multiverse to be extinguished. Finn and Jake also enter Prismo's time room, and to undo the Lich's cataclysmic request, Finn wishes that “the Lich never even ever existed”. Consequently, Finn is transported into a new “wish-altered reality”, dubbed “Farmworld”. In this version of Ooo, magic has been lost and the essence of the Lich was never released into the world via the detonation of a “mutagenic bomb”. Furthermore, in this reality, Finn lives with his family and a non-magical dog named Jake. During the course of “Finn the Human”, Finn finds the ice crown, a magical artifact. When he puts it on, he releases the essence of the Lich (who then possesses Farmworld-Jake's body), and re-introduces magic into the world. In “Jake the Dog”, Jake, who has been still stuck in Prismo's time room after Finn is teleported to Farmworld, eventually wishes that the Lich's original request had merely been for “Finn and Jake to go home”. With Jake's wish to seemingly undo what both the Lich and Finn wished for, Prismo believes that everything has been reset.[2][3]

Events

Prismo summons Finn and Jake to his time room and reveals that Farmworld is still in existence; Farmworld-Finn has teamed up with the Jake-Lich, which could lead to destruction of all life in the multiverse. Prismo is powerless to stop this from occurring, and so he sends Finn and Jake to Farmworld with a device called “The Maid”, which will clean up “all class-A inter-dimensional bung-ups.” Once in the Farmworld universe, Finn and Jake discover that Farmworld-Finn has frozen all of that reality's humans in order to “save them”. It is also revealed that the Jake-Lich has been possessing Big Destiny (voiced by James Kyson), gathering up the jewels needed to activate the Farmworld-version of the _Enchiridion_, so as to open up a portal to the multiverse.

Eventually, Finn and Jake are discovered, and the portal is opened. Just as the Jake-Lich is about to kill Jake, Finn's grass-arm activates, severing Jake-Lich's hand. Farmworld-Finn realizes he has been used by Jake-Lich, and he teams up with Finn and Jake. The portal is closed, and Finn manages to use The Maid to remove the Lich's essence from Farmworld-Jake's body. With their work complete, Finn and Jake are taken back to Prismo's time room. Out of pity for his alternate reality self, Finn convinces Prismo to destroy Farmworld's ice crown, allowing Farmworld-Finn to reunite with his family. Finn despondently watches this transpire, while Jake tries to comfort him as they watch.

Production

[The episode was co-storyboarded by Jesse Moynihan.] The story for “Crossover” was developed by showrunner Adam Muto, Jack Pendarvis, and lead writer Kent Osborne.[4] Sam Alden and Jesse Moynihan collaborated on the storyboard, which was submitted for network approval May 18, 2015, and eventually animated by Rough Draft Studios in South Korea.[5][6] Supervising direction for the episode was carried out by Andres Salaff, whereas Sandra Lee handled the episode's art direction.[7] This was Alden and Moynihan's first episode together since the sixth season episode “The Mountain”.[8] The episode sees the return of guest stars Ron Perlman, Kumail Nanjiani, and James Kyson; they reprise their characters Jake-Lich, Prismo, and Big Destiny, respectively. The episode also features Lou Ferrigno as Bobby, the Farmworld-version of the hero Billy.[9]

Some scenes in this episode reference other media works. According to Pendarvis, the visual appearance of the Jake-Lich was based on a scene from _Invasion of the Body Snatchers_ (1978), which featured a mutant dog with a man's face.[10] During the episode's final scene, Farmworld Finn's father is seen emerging out of a block of ice. Alden revealed on Twitter that he had specifically storyboarded this sequence to mirror a similar scene in “Escape from the Citadel” that had been storyboarded by Steve Wolfhard, which featured Finn's father Martin emerging from a crystal prison cell. It was Alden's intention for these two scenes to mirror each other, given their similar content.[11]

With the episode assigned to Alden and Moynihan, fellow storyboard artist Tom Herpich began to worry that the show would not be able to adequately explain why Farmworld continued to exist after the result of Jake's wish in “Jake the Dog”. Herpich's concern caused Moynihan to also worry, and several discussions with Muto did little to quell his unease. In order to overcome this issue, Moynihan storyboarded several scenes featuring Prismo explaining why Farmworld continued to exist. Moynihan claimed that these additions were to ensure that “this shit made sense.”[12] In the end, however, these scenes were deemed unnecessary, and as such were excised from the episode. The sequences that depict the multiverse were designed by Moynihan, and to get the details right, he asked storyboard revisionist Julia Srednicki's father, who was a former quantum physicist, for assistance. Julia Srednicki's father provided several “articles and diagrams”, which Moynihan then used when storyboarding the episode.[13]

Reception

“Crossover” aired on January 28, 2016. It was seen by 1.13 million viewers and scored a 0.29 Nielsen rating in the 18- to 49-year-old demographic (Nielsen ratings are audience measurement systems that determine the audience size and composition of television programming in the United States), which means that the episode was seen by 0.29 percent of all individuals aged 18 to 49 years old who were watching television at the time of the episode's airing.[14]

The episode received positive reviews from critics. Oliver Sava of _The A.V. Club_ awarded it an “A”, calling it “a thrilling episode with some very impressive visuals”.[15] He also wrote that it “ends with a significant, unexpected emotional gut punch that takes advantage of the undercurrent of tragedy that runs through this post-post-apocalyptic series.”[16] Sava was complimentary towards Moynihan and Alden's storyboarding sensibilities, specifically highlighting their ability to balance the darker and more humorous aspects of the episode. Finally, the review also applauded Ninjiani's voice work, as well as the episode's “bold color choices and dramatic compositions that intesify the impact of the story”.[17]

Andrew Tran of _Overmental_ wrote that the episode's plot deviceparallel universes“call[s] attention to the most basic function of fiction: to imaginatively, counterfactually ponder what never happened so we can understand what did happen, and perhaps more importantly, so we can edit our perspectives on reality.”[18] In regards to the latter point, Tran highlighted similarities between the episode, and news stories of the day, writing:

  It looks as though every wish granted in this way causes an entirely new dimension to be born and exist independently and irrevocably, which is an intriguing idea for the current moment. Today’s headlines are littered with activists and would-be revisionists attempting to either confront or whitewash this atrocity, or that new perspective, to either insert or obliterate narratives from history books, and effectively from the public consciousness. Hence, parallel dimension episodes are very much about historical authority and the fluidity of prevailing worldviews, and the threat that even a backwater dimension like Farmworld poses to Adventure Time‘s multiverse suggests that even the unlikeliest narrative, the most insane conspiracy theory, the most fringe historical revision, has a shot at existence, a chance to influence.[19]

K-K Bracken of _The Geekiary_ applauded the return of the Lich as well as Prismo, and she complimented the episode's creative dialogue and neologism, writing, “This kind of dialogue is not only giggle-worthy, it’s also sneaking in vocabulary lessons for its target audience.”[20] Bracken also noted that Moynihan and Alden had good chemistry and that, in regards to Alden alone, “if this episode is any indication his future with the program looks bright indeed.”[21]

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title: Crossover (Adventure Time)

question: When did the episode debut?

answer: January 28, 2016

question: Who were the guest stars?

answer: Kumail Nanjiani, Lou Ferrigno, and James Kyson

question: What number episode of what season was it?

answer: The 23rd episode of season 7

question: How many viewers watched the debut?

answer: 1.13 million

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: "Crossover" was the 23rd episode of season 7 of Adventure Time, an animated television series. In the episode, the series protagonists, Finn and Jake, travel to an alternate dimension to stop an enemy called the Jake-Lich.


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The CHURCH OF NOSSA SENHORA DO ROSÁRIO () is an 18th-century church located in the civil parish of Lajes in the municipality of Lajes das Flores, in the Portuguese island of Flores, in the archipelago of the Azores.

History

[The imposing three-storey facade of the church, with its double bell towers] In 1515, Lajes was elevated to the status of town.[1]

Sometime in the 16th century, the Hermitage of Espírito Santo (_Divine Holy Spirit_) which was located near the port was moved to the town, owing to a similar temple in the port.[2]

On 25 July 1587, the primitive parochial church of Lajes, situated in the location occupied by the municipal cemetery was burned-down by English privateers, that landed five ships whose troops sacked the town and surrounding countryside.[3]

By 1717, the parish included only 300 homes.[4] Between 1763 and 1783, the actual church was raised on the site occupied by the Hermitage of Espírito Santo.[5]

By 1800, there were 486 inhabitants comprising 75 homes and the parochial church within the town limits.[6] Its vicar received a stipend of 7 bushels of wheat, 4 alqueires of wheat and 8$000 réis to support his services to the community.[7]

In the middle of the 19th century, the church was renovated, followed by embellishments in the 1880s.[8] At the beginning of the 20th century, the lateral retables were installed (1908), executed by the Florentinos António de Maurício de Fraga and Francisco José Pimentel.[9] It would be another few decades before these retables were guided by the Micaelense artisan António Jacinto Carreiro (in the 1960s).[10]

Architecture

The church is located in the centre of the town, situated within a group of builds of the historic town, that include the Municipal Palace/Hall, the old Naval Radio-Telegraphic Station of Flores, as well as a short distance from the lighthouse of Lajes.[11] It occupies a level courtyard and garden limited by minor wall.[12]

The rectangular building has a principal facade that integrates two large, rectangular bell towers, long single-nave and auxiliary annexes that correspond to the sacristy.[13][14]

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title: Church of Nossa Senhora do Rosário (Lajes)

question: When was the church built?

answer: Sometime in the 16th century, the Hermitage of Esperito Santo moved to the town, but the primitive church was burned down by English privateers in 1587; a new church was raised on the site between 1763 and 1783

question: Where is the church, relative to the town?

answer: It is located at the center of the town

question: How many homes were in the parish in 1717?

answer: 300

question: Where is Lajes?

answer: In the municipality of Lajes das Flores, in the Portuguese island of Flores, in the archipelago of the Azores.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: The Church of Nossa Senhora do Rosario is an 18th century church located on the Portuguese island of Flores in the archipelago of the Azores.


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My dad and I used to play catch a lot.  We’d go out to the backyard and just toss the ball for a little bit.   I loved watching baseball, so I went out to play any chance I could get.  I think my dad did it to blow off some steam.  He hated his job, so he blew off steam a lot.  Sometimes he would just sit looking out the window in the middle of the night.

On Thursdays my dad would get out of the factory early.  He would go to the bars at around four, and be back before eight.  My mom and I would be watching the 7 o’clock news.  He would get back and stand to the side of us without saying a word.  He would look at me and ask me to go to the front yard and break a twig off of the small tree by the mailbox.  I’d look at him, and I’d look at my mom, then back at him, and say “ok.”  So I did what I was asked and brought him the switch.  He’d then calmly ask me to take off my shirt, and so I did.  For the twenty minutes after I’d be whipped with the switch.  It never hurt too bad.  When he was finished, he’d tassel my hair and say he’d love me, and I would respond, “I love you too.”  I’d go to hug my mom, and with tears in her eyes she’d hug me too, and then I’d go to bed.

Every now and then, my dad would bring me to go bowling with him and his friends.  They would always cheer me on, and every time I had a good shot, my dad would yell, “that’s my boy!” and give me a high five.

Sometimes at night I’d sneak into my parents bedroom when they were sleeping.  I would grab my dad’s snub-nose out of his nightstand drawer, and aim it at his head from about an inch away.  I’d cock it as quietly as possible, and just stand there with my finger on the trigger.

As a joke, my dad would occasionally kick me down the stairs if he was right behind me.  It would just be a light kick, and I’d stumble down a step or two.  I would always look back at him and smile, and he would be laughing too.  One day he did it again, but for some reason I couldn’t catch myself.  I just kept on tumbling and tumbling down the steps.  I landed on the wood floor at the bottom, not in any pain at all really.  I looked up at him expecting to see a smile, but he just had this horrified look on his face.  I saw my hand, and I just had a couple broken fingers.  Not a big deal, we’d just tell them that I shut my hand in the door like we always did.  But, then I looked at my right leg.  Instead of the knee bending the normal way, it bent the same way, but forward.  The bone was sticking out, and blood was pouring on the floor pretty fast.  I looked at him, and he looked at me, and for the first time I could see remorse and fear in his eyes.

A couple months earlier, my dad brought me to the drive-in.  Instead of leaving after the first film, we just stayed until the third movie was over.  We were making up life stories about everyone we could see.  My dad was really good at making up stories.  We left at about midnight, and both of us could not stop smiling until we got home.  It was a good day.

Three days earlier, and twenty years later, my dad died in prison.

I visited him every Tuesday for the most part.  Some days I just didn’t have time, but I always warned him ahead of time.  The day he died I had to stay at work late.  I didn’t call him, because I didn’t have time to even think about it.  That day he stayed in his cell alone, and then went to the visiting center to window #3, the same window as always.  He would then wait at the window to be visited by a non-existent visitor.  He just looked at the window.  The memory of not having the memory of looking back at him I will never forget, and always regret.  An hour and a half after our usual visit time, my dad died on his cot.

During the summer sometime, we played catch in the backyard.  It was a little later in the day than usual, but I didn’t care.  It was about midway through, and he stopped and looked towards the sunset.  Seeing him, I put the ball in my mitt and looked too.  It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen.

title: [RF] Catch With My Dad

question: What does the story say about the narrator's dad's coping mechanisms for hating his job?

answer: The narrator's father hates his job and seems to have a variety of ways he blows off steam. Sometimes he would play catch with the narrator in their backyard. On days he gets out early, he goes to the bar for several hours. On those same days he would also blow off steam by hitting the narrator with a switch.

question: What does the text say about abuse?

answer: After work, the narrator's father would blow off steam by hitting the narrator with a switch for 20 minutes. The father and son would say "I love you" after. Sometimes at night, the narrator would take his father's gun and aim it as his head while he sleeps. The father would also get enjoyment from kicking the narrator down the stairs, but the narrator believed this to be a joke. When the narrator gruesomely broke his leg from this, the father felt remorse over what he does for the first time.

question: Summarize how the narrator feels about their father when he grows up.

answer: The narrator's father ends up in jail, and the narrator seems to care enough about him to visit him every Tuesday. Sometimes the narrator didn't have time, which ended up being the case the day their father died. The narrator feels regret over their father having waited for them to visit that day. They still believe that their father as they played catch was the most beautiful thing they'd ever seen.

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LUCA GARAVOGLIA (born 27 February 1969) is an Italian billionaire businessman, and the chairman of the Campari Group.

Luca Garavoglia was born in Milan on 27 February 1969.[1][2] He was educated at Milan's Istituto Leone XIII,[3] and received a bachelor's degree in Economics from Bocconi University, Milan in 1994.[4]

Garavoglia has been the chairman of Campari Group since September 1994.[5]

Following the death of his mother, Rosa Anna Magno Garavoglia on 22 November 2016, it was announced that her son Luca Garavoglia, chairman of Campari “would now assume control of Alicros, which owns 51 percent of Campari's equity, and an even greater share of voting rights”.[6]

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title: Luca Garavoglia

question: WHo was Luca Garavoglia?

answer: an Italian billionaire businessman and the chairman of the Campari Group

question: Where was Luca Garavoglia educated?

answer: Milan's Istituto Leone XIII and Bocconi University, Milan

question: When did Luca Garavoglia become chairman of Campari Group?

answer: September 1994

question: When did Rosa Anna Magno Garavoglia die?

answer: 22 November 2016

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: Luca Garavoglia is an Italian billionaire businessman and the chairman of the Campari Group.


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Imagine growing up, no mother, no father, no community. There is only one language and it's universal. On earth it's just you, the sun, moon & stars. You're now in your 20's and know how to till the land and reap the benefits of your work. You enjoy your work and adore your pet dog.

You travel the land out of freedom and spontaneity. You admire the starry sky and there's no greater feeling than waking up in nature. You are always at ease and find joy in everything you do. At a moments time you see something and it frightens you. In awe but yet frightened, you were looking at something you never thought imaginable. An altered form of your clay self, for behold... woman.

title: Imagine.

question: Who is with the narrator?

answer: The narrator grows up alone.

question: What does the narrator do with their time?

answer: They travel the world exploring.

question: What does the narrator find at the end of the story?

answer: A woman.

question: How does the narrator feel?

answer: The narrator is always at ease and joy in everything they do.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: The narrator is born alone, without a father or mother. They travel the entire world in ease and joy, until they discover a woman who appears to be their opposite. They are shocked.


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Always for You
Matt Dempsey

3 A.M. on a Saturday Morning
She finishes babysitting an adorable six month old baby. She knew she was in for a long night, but this is a little later than she expected. She's not worried though. She's not worried about a thing at this moment. She's feeling relaxed, carefree, and most importantly, ignorant of every aspect of life around her. She plans on staying the night at her friend's apartment that isn't too far away. It's at least closer than her folks' house, where she moved back last summer. She needs to make one stop before settling in at her friend's.

3:30 A.M.
Jesus Christ! Did she forget what she was doing? She's behind the wheel of her parents' SUV, cruising at 40 MPH down the city streets. How has she not been paying attention to where she's going? Next thing she knows, her tires are scraping the curb and POP! There goes the front tire. POP! There goes the back one as well. She slams on the brakes before running into the street lamp post mere feet in front of her car. Holy shit, she thinks. She is beginning to freak out. What the fuck did I just do? Make a call. I don't know what to do now.

3:45 A.M.
Her friend doesn't answer her frantic phone calls. She must have fallen asleep waiting for her to come. Shit, what the hell do I do now? She thinks. Relax; don't make a big deal out of this. It'll be okay, I'll figure this out. Oh no, what is that now? Is that a police car pulling up? Fuck.

4:00 A.M.
She's in the backseat of a city patrol cruiser. The officer who came to check her situation has not been fooled. He knows there is something more going on here than a sleepy girl who just got done with some late night babysitting. For one, this girl is slurring her words. Not too much, she doesn't sound drunk. And the breathalyzer came back as zero. For another, she doesn't seem all too upset by this. He'd have expected her to be in tears, begging to be let go by now. But she's surprisingly calm in the cruiser, with her hands cuffed behind her back. He'll take her to the closest station a mile or so away and go from there.

5:00 A.M.
Her mother's phone rings. This certainly is not a sales call. No one is going to try selling her insurance at this time of hour. She has that motherly instinct snap into her head, the kind that develops after raising two children, one to the age of having her own husband and son. Something isn't right. Hello? She sounds worried. Mom, I'm in trouble, she hears in the phone earpiece. What's going on? She asks. Oh my god, are you okay? She hears an officer in the background say she's not supposed to be on the phone right now. Put him on the phone! Let me talk to him. What's going on, officer? DUI? What? Oh my god. Where is she? When will I hear from her again?

7:00 A.M.
He wakes up to his cell phone ringing next to him in his bed. His phone plays that one song he really liked a few years ago, but is tired of now that he hears it every time someone calls. He's only gone to bed a few hours ago and has his own thought that something must be wrong. For some reason he turned his phone's ringer volume on high before going to bed. Just had a feeling he should. Hello? The first thing said to him is Has she been doing drugs? Her sister's voice is scared, worried, angry, sad. All these things mixed together, shaken, not stirred. What happened? He asks. She wrecked the car and got arrested for a DUI. Holy shit. Gimme a minute here, I'm just waking up.

1:00 P.M.
He sits across from her mother in a cafe nearby. Neither has ordered food and really doesn't intend to. Their hungers are nonexistent, harder to find than a hot new gadget at Christmas time. Feels like they will never eat again. Her mother asks him question after question. He feels he can't lie to this woman. He has come to love and respect her, and sees how much she is hurting. If he can't help her, maybe her mother can. But she must know at least as much as he does at this point, which isn't a whole lot. But much more than she or any other family member knows. She was on her way to buy more, her mother explains, so the police did not find anything in the car. A possession charge would make this far worse, he responds. They stay at the cafe for two hours. He has ordered her a coffee and gotten a Mountain Dew for himself. The caffeine will be helpful to them both. It has been a long day so far, and neither has gotten decent rest in the last twelve hours or so. Finally, they get into his car and he drives her home. It won't be another hour until her daughter arrives home with her husband, who has bailed her out of jail and paid a hefty fine to recover their busted up SUV.

8:00 P.M
She has been sleeping most of the day. Her morning in the clink combined with the reason she was there has worn her out. Sleep is the only thing she needs right now, so everyone lets her rest. He sits at her sister's house. He has driven an hour to get here but it's better than sitting at home alone, with his thoughts racing around his head like racers in the INDY 500. Over and over, around and around. He couldn't stand it so he made the drive. They have been talking for a couple hours now. He tells her more than maybe he should, but he has carried this burden of knowing such things for so long. And he needs help with holding the weight.

8:30 P.M.
She finally wakes up and starts talking to her mother. She says she was just sleepy, doesn't know why she would be charged with a DUI. That's just silly, the breathalyzer read zero. Her mother knows why, and she knows a great deal more at this point. But she's slowly working her way into explaining how she's come by such information. She calls her sister. She asks if there is a visitor at her sister's house. Yes, there is. She says. He did what he thought was the right thing to do. He cares about you. He was trying to help. No, of course not. Yes, I think it was the right thing to do. We needed to know so we can try to help you. Okay, I'll tell him. Her sister hangs up the phone. She tells him she would like for him to go home now. She has promised her sister she would ask him to leave and right now, it doesn't seem like a good idea to fuck with her. Okay, well thank you for coming over and for everything you've done. Gimme a hug. Goodnight.

6:00 P.M. Sunday Evening
He sends a text message to her sister. How is she doing today? He doesn't receive an answer for two hours. It's she who answers, not her sister. You know I'm alive and fine. Please don't contact my sister anymore. She is absolutely livid at him for what he's told her family. She feels he has snitched on her. That he had some kind of ulterior motives, bad intentions. Just wanted to make her look bad and turn her family against her friends. She doesn't want to speak to him ever again. If he cares about her, please, never speak to her again. Just last week they were not speaking, they were going their separate ways. But he was brought back into her life by that phone call early yesterday morning. Just like that. If he couldn't do anything to help her, he thought her family should know so they could. He was the only one who knew any of the things he told them. She would have gone on lying to them if he hadn't done what he thought was right. Next time she will wind up dead, or in jail, possibly for hurting or killing someone else. These are things that she has not yet thought about; she has much bigger things to worry about at the moment. Defending herself in court, for instance. He does not push the subject and the conversation ends.

title: Always for You

question: Why did the main character crash her parent's car?

answer: The main character crashed her parent's car because she was on drugs.

question: Who is the main "he" in the story?

answer: The main "he" in the story is the main character's friend, possibly boyfriend or ex, who she confided in with knowledge of at least her drug doing, possibly more.


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Darkness fell much earlier than usual that day, as if the sun had been extinguished. There was no moon; the only light came from the pinprick stars that twinkled silently against the black canvas of the sky. Even those seemed duller than usual, Bill thought, as he swept along the narrow highway that cut through the desert like a zip through a jacket, a grey ribbon in a sea of relentless sand.

He had been driving for several hours now and he didn't know why. There was no real purpose to his journey that he could remember; it was little more than aimless meandering along empty roads. A jackrabbit darted across the highway and Bill winced at the soft bump as it disappeared under his front left tire; he felt like a murderer. He stopped the car a couple of miles up the road - far enough away from the jackrabbit that it would be invisible to him even in the light. As he pulled to a halt the engine of his ancient car spluttered, disturbing a rattlesnake that was curled up by the side of the road. It gave a disapproving hiss and slithered off into the night. He clicked the engine off, got out and looked at the sky.

There was no moon, and the stars seemed duller than usual.

Bill looked up at the sky for a long time. Trying to remember. Remember where he had come from, and where he was going, and why. But the stars had no answers for him. They simply twinkled silently, not saying a word, just pale unhelpful dots of burning hydrogen billions of miles away.

He tore his eyes away from the stars and looked back at his car. In the pitch black night it was difficult to discern its color; Bill thought it was red but he couldn't be sure. He sighed and climbed back inside, sat down in the driver's seat, and rested his muddled head against the steering wheel.

The human mind, he thought, was a funny thing. It could remember obscure and useless facts and the names of people you've only met once and birthday parties you went to thirty years ago. But it could forget what you walked into a room for. Or why you drove into the middle of the desert, on a night where there was no moon and the stars seemed duller than usual.

Bill restarted the car and checked the rear-view mirror, and suddenly he remembered where he was going. And why.

He stepped back outside, smiling faintly at his own forgetfulness. The keys stayed in the ignition; he needed the lights to stay on because it was darker than usual tonight.

He opened the door to the backseat and dragged the corpse out into the desert, to about half a mile from the road. He left it there for the coyotes to find in the morning.

As he walked back to his car Bill looked up at the sky and noticed that there was no moon, and the stars seemed duller than usual.

He climbed back into the front seat and drove away.

title: The Stars Seemed Duller Than Usual

question: What is Bill trying to figure out in the desert?

answer: Why he drove in there.

question: What motif begins and ends the story?

answer: The darkness of the sky and the dullness of the stars.

question: Why did Bill drive into the desert?

answer: To dispose of a body.

question: What does the rabbit Bill runs over with his car foreshadow?

answer: The narrative says Bill "felt like a murderer." This is supposed to foreshadow the fact that later on Bill remembers he has a dead body in the car, and he drove into the desert to dispose of it.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: A man drives out into the desert on a dark night with no moon. He has forgotten why he is doing this. Then, he remembers he has a body to dispose of.


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TIERRA DORADA is a census-designated place (CDP) in Starr County, Texas, United States. It is a new CDP formed from part of the La Rosita CDP prior to the 2010 census with a population of 28.[1]

Geography

Tierra Dorada is located at (26.400653, -98.921262).[2]

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question: Where is Tierra Dorada?

answer: Starr County, Texas, United States

question: When was Tierra Dorada formed?

answer: prior to the 2010 US census

question: How many people live in Tierra Dorada?

answer: 23

question: What are the coordinates of Tierra Dorada?

answer: 26.400653, -98.921262

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: Tierra Dorada is a census-designated place (CDP) in Starr County, Texas, United States with a population of 23.


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[story.lead_photo.caption] FILE — Yarnell's Chairman Albert Yarnell helps Georgia Vest cut a container of ice cream for a quality and taste test at Yarnell's Factory in this 2007 file photo.

SEARCY — With a name long associated with “Arkansas’s ice cream,” Albert Rogers Yarnell worked in and later oversaw his family’s business of manufacturing Yarnell’s Ice Cream in Searcy, while also becoming a community leader in both his hometown and the state.

Yarnell, who died Sunday at 94, spent more than 75 years with his family’s business, then, after the Searcy plant closed in 2011, served as a consultant during the brand’s rebirth the following year.

Yarnell’s father, Ray Yarnell, began the Yarnell’s Ice Cream Company in 1932. When Albert returned home after serving in World War II decoding top-secret messages, he joined the family business in 1948 as vice president and sales manager.

Yarnell helped to guide a major plant expansion that increased the company’s production ability and broadened its sales territory through central and south Arkansas, according to a company history in the online Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Yarnell’s became one of the most successful regional ice cream companies in the country. Yarnell became general manager in 1964 then company president upon his father’s death in 1974.

Yarnell, though, may be best remembered by those who knew him as being a “strong civic leader” both in his community and the state, and for his willingness to quietly help anyone in need, said his son, Rogers Yarnell.

Albert Yarnell had served as a president of the Searcy Chamber of Commerce and the Lions Club and even as mayor of Searcy. He was a member of the statewide Baptist Medical System Board of Directors for more than 40 years and the board’s chairman in 2000, and also was a past president of the Arkansas Dairy Products Association. He was a member of the Arkansas Business Hall of Fame, “one of his nicest honors,” Rogers Yarnell said.

As a “very private man,” Albert Yarnell was always available to hear others’ problems and help however he could, his son said.

“Many times I would find out after the fact that someone who worked with him or someone in his church had a problem, that might have been a financial problem or a marital problem,” he said. “He was always willing to take the time to understand and would do what he could to help them. He always thought of others before he thought of himself.”

Yarnell’s plant closed in June 2011 because of declining ice cream sales and rising prices, according to the company at the time. A Chicago group, Schulze & Burch Biscuit Co. acquired the Searcy plant in November 2011 and the Yarnell’s brand was reborn the next year. Albert Yarnell served as a consultant to the new owners, saying in an interview that offering advice “just seemed like the right thing to do,” according to a Jan. 27, 2014, Associated Press article.

Yarnell and Kevin Boyle, Schulze & Burch’s president, became “really close,” Rogers Yarnell recalled.

“Questions about things that just weren’t on any drawings and where you had to rely on someone’s personal knowledge to figure out,” Yarnell said. “Dad was always there to help Kevin, and Kevin relied on my father.”

During a celebration of his life, Yarnell’s ice cream will be hand dipped during a visitation Thursday at First Baptist Church in Searcy, according to his obituary. Albert Yarnell’s own favorite flavor was “probably French Vanilla,” his son said.

“He worked very hard to develop that flavor and its characteristics that some of our other vanillas did not have,” he said. “He liked it a lot.”

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question: What does the text say about the other flavors of Yarnell ice cream?

question: What does the text say about Yarnell's Ice Cream?

answer: Yarnell's Ice Cream Company was founded in 1932 by Ray Yarnell. The company is based in Searcy, Arkansas, and has long been known as Arkansas's ice cream. Yarnell's became one of the most successful regional ice cream companies in the country. The company closed in June 2011 due to declining ice cream sales and rising prices. Yarnell's was soon acquired by Schulze & Burch Biscuit Co., a group based out of Chicago and the brand was reborn the next year.

question: What does the text say about Albert Yarnell's history with Yarnell's Ice Cream Company?

answer: Albert Yarnell spent more than 75 years with the family business, Yarnell's Ice Cream Company. He first joined the business in 1948 after returning from World War II and became vice president and sales manager. He helped guide the company to a major plant expansion and Yarnell's became one of the most successful regional ice cream companies in the country. He became general manager in 1964 and company president after his father, Ray, died in 1974. When Yarnell was acquired by Schulze & Burch Biscuit Co. in 2011, Yarnell served as a consultant to the new owners.

question: What does the text say about Albert Yarnell's service to the community?

answer: Albert Yarnell became a community leader in his state and hometown. He is best remembered by those who knew him as being a "strong civic leader" quietly helping those in need. Yarnell served as mayor of Searcy, as president of the Searcy Chamber of Commerce and the Lions Club. He was a member of the statewide Baptist Medical System Board of Directors for more than 40 years and the board's chairman in 2000. He was also a past president of the Arkansas Dairy Products Association. According to his son, Rogers, Albert Yarnell's nicest honor was being a member of the Arkansas Business Hall of Fame.


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The ARABIAN DESERT () is a vast desert wilderness in Western Asia. It stretches from Yemen to the Persian Gulf and Oman to Jordan and Iraq. It occupies most of the Arabian Peninsula, with an area of . It is the fifth largest desert in the world, and the largest in Asia. At its center is _Ar-Rub'al-Khali_ (The Empty Quarter), one of the largest continuous bodies of sand in the world.

Gazelles, oryx, sand cats, and spiny-tailed lizards are just some of the desert-adapted species that survive in this extreme environment, which features everything from red dunes to deadly quicksand. The climate is mostly dry (the major part receives around of rain per year but some very rare places receive as little as 50 mm), and temperatures oscillate between very high heat and seasonal night time freezes. It is part of the deserts and xeric shrublands biome and the Palearctic realm.

The Arabian desert ecoregion holds little biodiversity, although a few endemic plants grow here. Many species, such as the striped hyena, jackal and honey badger have become extirpated due to hunting, human encroachment and habitat destruction. Other species have been successfully re-introduced, such as the Arabian sand gazelle, and are protected at a number of reserves. Overgrazing by livestock, off-road driving, and human destruction of habitat are the main threats to this desert ecoregion.

Geography

[A satellite image of the Arabian Desert by NASA World Wind] The desert lies mostly in Saudi Arabia, and covers most of the country. It extends into neighboring portions of southern Iraq, southern Jordan, central Qatar, most of the Abu Dhabi emirate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), western Oman, and northeastern Yemen. The ecoregion also includes most of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt and the adjacent Negev desert in southern Israel.[1]

Features

-   The Rub' al-Khali desert is a sedimentary basin elongated on a south-west to north-east axis across the Arabian Shelf.[2] At an altitude of , the rock landscapes yield the place to the Rub' al-Khali, vast wide of sand of the Arabian desert, whose extreme southern point crosses the centre of Yemen. The sand overlies gravel or gypsum plains and the dunes reach maximum heights of up to . The sands are predominantly silicates, composed of 80 to 90% of quartz and the remainder feldspar, whose iron oxide-coated grains color the sands in orange, purple, and red.
-   A corridor of sandy terrain known as the Ad-Dahna desert connects the large An-Nafud desert (65,000 km² or 40,389 square miles) in the north of Saudi Arabia to the Rub' al-Khali in the south-east.
-   The Tuwaiq escarpment is a region of arc of limestone cliffs, plateaux, and canyons.
-   Brackish salt flats, including the quicksands of Umm al Samim.[3]
-   The Wahiba Sands of Oman are an isolated sand sea bordering the east coast.[4][5]

Climate

The Arabian Desert has a subtropical, hot desert climate, similar to the climate of the Sahara Desert; the world's largest hot desert. The Arabian Desert is actually an extension of the Sahara Desert over the Arabian peninsula. The climate is mainly hot and dry with plenty of sunshine throughout the year. The rainfall amount is generally around , and the driest areas can receive between 30 and of annual rain. Such dryness remains rare throughout the desert, however. There are few hyperarid areas in the Arabian Desert, in contrast with the Sahara Desert, where more than half of the area is hyperarid (annual rainfall below ). The sunshine duration in the Arabian Desert is very high by global standards, between 2,900 hours (66.2% of daylight hours) and 3,600 hours (82.1% of daylight hours), but it is typically around 3,400 hours (77.6% of daylight hours), thus clear-sky conditions prevail over the region and cloudy periods are intermittent. Even though the sun and moon are bright, dust and humidity cause lower visibility at ground level. The temperatures remain high all year round. Average high temperatures in summer are generally over at low elevations, and can even soar to at extremely low elevations, especially along the Persian Gulf near sea level. Average low temperatures in summer remain high, over and sometimes over in the southernmost regions. Record high temperatures are above in much of the desert, due in part to very low elevation.

Flora

The Arabian Desert ecoregion has about 900 species of plants.[6]

The Rub'al-Khali has very limited floristic diversity. There are only 37 plant species, 20 recorded in the main body of the sands and 17 around the outer margins. Of these 37 species, one or two are endemic. Vegetation is very diffuse but fairly evenly distributed, with some interruptions of near sterile dunes.[7] Some typical plants are _Calligonum crinitum_ on dune slopes, _Cornulaca arabica_ (saltbush), _Salsola stocksii_ (saltbush), and _Cyperus conglomeratus_. Other widespread species are _Dipterygium glaucum, Limeum arabicum_, and _Zygophyllum mandavillei_. Very few trees are found except at the outer margin (typically _Acacia ehrenbergiana_ and _Prosopis cineraria_). Other species are a woody perennial _Calligonum comosum_, and annual herbs such as _Danthonia forskallii_.[8]

Fauna

The Arabian Desert has 102 native species of mammals.[9] Native mammals include the Arabian oryx (_Oryx leucoryx_), sand gazelle (_Gazella marica_), mountain gazelle (_G. gazella_), Nubian ibex (_Capra nubiana_), Arabian wolf (_Canis lupus arabs_), striped hyaena (_Hyaena hyaena_), caracal (_Caracal caracal_), sand cat (_Felis margarita_), red fox (_Vulpes vulpes_), and Cape hare (_Lepus capensis_).[10]

The Asiatic cheetah[11] and lion[12] used to be here.

The ecoregion is home to 310 bird species.[13]

People, language and cultures

The area is home to several different cultures, languages, and peoples, with Islam as the predominant faith. The major ethnic group in the region is the Arabs, whose primary language is Arabic.

Settlements

In the center of the desert lies Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, with more than 7 million inhabitants.[14] Other large cities, such as Dubai, Abu Dhabi, or Kuwait City, lie on the coast of the Persian Gulf.

Natural resources

Natural resources available in the Arabian Desert include oil, natural gas, phosphates, and sulfur.

Conservation and threats

Threats to the ecoregion include overgrazing by livestock and feral camels and goats, wildlife poaching, and damage to vegetation by off-road driving.[15]

The conservation status of the desert is critical/endangered. In the UAE, the sand gazelle and Arabian oryx are threatened, and honey badgers, jackals, and striped hyaenas already extirpated.[16]

Protected areas

4.23% of the ecoregion is in protected areas.[17]

Saudi Arabia has established a system of reserves overseen by the National Commission for Wildlife Conservation and Development (NCWCD).[18]

-   Harrat al-Harrah Reserve (12,150 km²), established in 1987, is on the border Jordan and Iraq, and protects a portion of the stony basaltic Harrat al-Sham desert. The reserve includes rough terrain of black basaltic boulders and extinct volcanic cones from the middle Miocene. It provides habitat to over 250 species of plants, 50 species of birds, and 22 mammal species.[19]
-   'Uruq Bani Ma'arid Reserve (12,000 km²) is on the western edge of the Rub’ al-Khali. Arabian oryx and sand gazelle were reintroduced to the reserve in 1995.
-   Ibex Reserve (200 km²) is south of Riyadh. It protects Nubian ibex and a reintroduced population of mountain gazelle.[20]
-   Al-Tabayq Special Nature Reserve is in northern Saudi Arabia, and protects a population of Nubian ibex.[21]

Protected areas in the United Arab Emirates include Al Houbara Protected Area (2492.0 km²), Al Ghadha Protected Area (1087.51 km²), Arabian Oryx Protected Area (5974.47 km²), Ramlah Protected Area (544.44 km²), and Al Beda'a Protected Area (417.0 km²).[22]

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title: Arabian Desert

question: What is the main motive of this article?

answer: The main motive of this article is to educate the reader about the Arabian desert.

question: Why is the desert also known as The Empty Quarter?

answer: It may be implied that since the area is dry for miles and there is not enough life thriving in this area, hence it is known as The Empty Quarter.

question: How do the people residing in this area make a living?

answer: The countries in this area are all oil-rich countries, they make a living by exporting the oil. They also have huge reserves of natural gas which can be used as a source of income for the nation.

question: What is the purpose of protecting parts of this area?

answer: Parts of this area are protected in order to protect the wildlife.


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If you play by the rules, it will only keep you out of trouble. I am in trouble. Tonight is my last night working for Multiple Services. I have not been fired yet, but when my supervisor reads the email I sent her in the morning, I will be fired for sure – I am sure of it.

I used to do security at the Pearl district but I was recently transferred to American Plaza Towers. My new manager has a different set of standards. My dark brown boots being one of them – security 'officers' are supposed to wear black boots. But that's not the problem.

Tonight I am on shift with Emily, the graveyard guard. I am working the D shift, which intersects with her shift. I am not with her right now. Her shift has a lot more responsibilities than mine. I am in the lounge room, lounging. I don't need to worry about doing any checks because she has the 'snitch stick' – it's a little stick we poke into little tags that prove that we are working.  I am at low risk of being caught in here, the lounge room is closed during this time of night. It doesn't matter what I do. I will be fired in the morning anyway.

Currently Emily is doing some tower checks. She is only required to do one tower check a night, but she does multiple for 'brownie points'. No one ever gets promoted. Well, unless someone gets fired or dies or quits. A lot of people recently got fired because... 'they are not with us anymore' says Gerry, the supervisor at APC. Emily was not at liberty to tell me why, but it has something to do with 'vices'.

I needed to take a shit. I was already in the lounge room so the bathroom was so close I basically just took my pants down. My ass wouldn’t cooperate with me —the last little bit hung in between my butt cheeks like a hand trying to catch a dollar bill falling to the ground. I hate this, being forced into vulgarity; I want to let go of the turd. My butt thinks the turd is valuable, I guess.

 The women's bathroom next to me started making noise. Emily must be relieving herself as well. I finished long after she did. I left the bathroom unclean because the toilet finally clogged.  Maintenance can handle it in the morning, fuck it. When I left, I saw Emily at the exit of the room, holding the door open waiting for me to leave. I walked out, uncomfortably — I didn't wipe enough. She locked the door behind us.

I entered the elevator. She joined me. I pressed the button to the basement with plans to hang out in a storage room and read. She pressed the button to the 26th floor and I got caught into doing a tower check with her. She invited me to smoke some cigarettes on the roof and talk. I don't smoke, but it sounded like a good offer.

“So how do you like it so far?” She asked.

“The elevator ride?”

“The job.”

“oh... uh, well...” I stalled, “APC lives up to it's reputation.”

“Ah, yes. You need not say more.”

There was a long silence that was only broken with a 'ding' each time we passed a floor.

“So,” I finally said, “What do the people in these condominiums do for a living?”

“Most of them are retired. That's why there are so many care givers here. But one of them I know sells stuff on Ebay. The guy never went to college and he quit his job to start up a business."

Some nerve, I thought.

"These people are all rich," she said, "somehow or another. Each time you hear that ding, the price of a room goes up."

There was a small stair case past the breezeway on the top floor that led to a freshly painted door that was bent out of shape. This door led to the roof.  She told me the correct key was the square key. I fumbled with my set for a while and found it. I attempted to open the door and she told me the key to opening the door is to shout the correct sequence of curse words. After a few moments, I understood what she meant. I was not saying the right words. She got her key out and did it in a snap.

“I've been here a while,” she said, “you get used to it.”

I wasn't used to smoking but  I really like the motions it conduces with my hand. I told her that's the only thing I like about smoking. She said that's what got her into it.

I stared out at the skyline of the city, at the skyscrapers that reach so high into society – to heights I admit I will never achieve. The view was almost worth it. I won't be able to pay for college after tonight.

“Gerry is probably going to fire me tomorrow.”

“Why?”

“She wants my DPSST card number, but I don't have it... I... lost it....”

“Well, you can just call in to get the number, right? It's in the system."

“I don't have my card.”

“Huh... I'll just go ahead and say I didn't hear you say that when she brings it up.” We took some drags. “I don't want to be here forever, you know," she said finally.

“You don't say.”

“Yeah, some people stay here for years. This job is perfect for people like you... who want to get through college. But after two or three years, it's like, what are you doing with your life?”

“What do you want to do with your life?”

“I used to go to college, but I stopped taking courses because I didn't feel like they were taking me anywhere. The guy down at Plaid Pantry has a masters degree in engineering. Right now I try to come up with something new every night and research if it's been done before. It usually has.  Basically, the way I look at it, entrepreneurism is the only way to make it in this world now. My dad has this business, it's pretty successful. Basically, he helps other people be successful.”

“Nice. Why don't you get him to help you?”

“We're not on good terms... he just wants me to successful... I'm just a security guard..." We took some drags. "The choice here is you can do a side project and hope it turns into something... or, what else are you going to do?”

“We should probably finish this tower check.”

“Right.”

We started down the tower, checking every floor. I shifted my underwear around, but it was no use. I walked uncomfortably the whole way down. Just gotta pull through.

Half way down the tower, there was a place to tag the snitch stick. Emily brought up some statistic that the vast majority of Americans all believe that some day they will all be rich, that's why they all don't support the dynasty tax. I said that was nice and waited for the chance to lounge in the lounge room again.

It was the end of my shift — the last few minutes of my having a job. As I left, I said, “see ya”. I didn't look back and would probably never see her again, but I heard Emily say “have fun”.

title: What Else Are You Going To Do?

question: Why does the narrator think they will be fired?

answer: They don't have a DPSST number.

question: What does the main character do during the day?

answer: They are a student.

question: Why is the narrator uncomfortable?

answer: They have poop in their pants.

question: What does Emily want to do?

answer: Start a side hustle to try to make it.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: The story is about a college student on their first night of being a security guard, who is certain they will be fired because they do not have accreditation.


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[American Football Near The 20 Yard Line]As you sit down to watch the Dallas Cowboys play the Detroit Lions on “Monday Night Football” this evening, what you may not know is that a change may just be coming to NFL’s characteristically rigid stance when it comes to medical marijuana.  Read on to find out the exciting news that could be the first step towards acceptance by the NFL of cannabis as a safe option for pain and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE).

NFL CHANGE OF HEART ABOUT CANNABIS?

On November 9th, the National Football League Players’ Association (NFLPA) announced that it will be “actively studying” the benefits of medical cannabis for players as a tool for managing pain. The announcement came just days after the election, although apparently the NFLPA had been considering launching their investigation long before results (in which eight states changed their laws concerning cannabis) had come in.

According to the Washington Post, the NFLPA will form a committee to take a serious look at the “use of marijuana as a pain-management mechanism, among other things.” Based on[bigstock-133560779] these findings, the union may decide to promote lifting the ban on cannabis for players in the league. Doing so may be difficult as long as cannabis remains on the “Schedule 1” list at the federal level, however. And what makes it more tricky is that in order for any policy changes to occur regarding marijuana both the NFL and NFLPA have to be in agreement.

“Marijuana is still governed by our collective bargaining agreement,” NFLPA’s George Atallah told the Washington Post on November 9th. “And while some states have moved in a more progressive direction, that fact still remains.”

PLAYERS CONTINUE TO SUFFER UNDER CANNABIS BAN

There is no denying that professional football players, perhaps more than any other athlete, put a lot on the line in terms of their health in order to play in the major leagues.

The feature film Concussion, starring Will Smith as Dr. Bennet Omalu, put both the devastating side effects and the prevalence of head injuries within the NFL in the forefront of the American consciousness when it hit theatres in 2015, although retired players have been displaying neurological side effects for years. Thanks to Dr. Omalu, however, these once [A football helmet and doctors hand holding a stethoscope on the]mysterious side effects now have a name: CHRONIC TRAUMATIC ENCEPHALOPATH, or CTE. An in-depth report about CTE and how cannabis may help with this condition can be found in a previous UPG article HERE.

Another huge issue for players is, sadly, pain. A 2011 Washington University study found that retired NFL players are “four times more likely to abuse prescription painkillers than the general population. It also found that more than half of the players who used pain meds while playing football went on to abuse them after retirement. Some of the dozens of the sometimes highly-addictive, toxic prescription pain medications that are routinely prescribed to players include Hydrocodone, Vicodin, Percocet, Toradol, and Celebrex, just to name a few.

NFL PLAYERS PRESSURE FOR REFORM

One outspoken former player who shared his story as part of a panel discussion at the 2016 United Patients Group Conference and in a live interview in August was Brandon Haw.

“After football, I had a lot of different problems with brain trauma,” admits Haw, who described himself as “happy go lucky” and fairly even-keel prior to the onset of CTE. “…I considered [then] what was happening to me as getting ‘tougher’ but maybe I was angrier inside, more inconsistent, more violent, very depressed at times, and more uncontrollable.”

Haw began using a moderate amount of medical cannabis and gradually noticed big improvements in his behavior. Eventually he went on to attend Oaksterdam University in Oakland, California, an institution dedicated to all aspects of medical marijuana education, from growing to extracting to specific medicinal uses.

“A lot of people smoke to get high,” says Haw. “I smoke to be myself.”

Players, both retired and active, are pushing harder than ever these days for cannabis reform within the National Football League. In fact, just three weeks after the NFLPA made their[Football Player running out of the Stadium Tunnel] announcement, there was word that Buffalo Bills offensive lineman Seantrel Henderson, who uses medical cannabis for severe Crohn’s Disease, may appeal a 10-game suspension for “substance abuse.” If the NFL denies his appeal, he may take them to court. Henderson underwent surgery in January to remove two and a half feet of his colon and another in April to reattach his intestines.

“Merciful or not, there is no medical exception that the NFL will accept,” Henderson’s agent Brian Fettner said in an interview with ESPN. “ It doesn’t matter that Seantrel is battling Crohn’s disease, and has had his intestines outside his body…if you digest the cannabis, that’s it.”

Still, the NFLPA’s decision could be a sign of the times. Last month, Arkansas, North Dakota and Florida voted to allow medical marijuana while three more (California, Nevada and Massachusetts) passed laws making it legal for recreational use as well.  It could be that pressure from both football fans and NFL players alike is finally paying off.

[Medical Marijuana Treatments and Cannabis Information]

question: What does the text say about Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy?

answer: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, or CTE, is a condition that is caused by head injuries. It was first described by Dr. Omalu. An in-depth report about CTE and how cannabis may help with the condition was published in a previous UPG article.

question: What does the text say about the National Football League Players' Association?

answer: The National Football League Players' Association (NFLPA) recently announced that it will be "actively studying" the benefits of medical cannabis for players as a tool for managing pain. They play to look at the "use of marijuana as a pain-management mechanism, among other things." Before any policy changes can occur regarding marijuana, both the NFL and the NFLPA must be in agreement.


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NEIL SWARBRICK (born 20 December 1965) is an English retired football referee who officiated primarily in the Premier League having been promoted to the Select Group of Referees in 2011.

He is based in Preston, Lancashire, and is a member of the Lancashire County Football Association.

Career

Swarbrick took up refereeing relatively late, at the age of 29. Within six years he was promoted to the National List of assistant referees. He fulfilled this role for four years before being added to the Referees' List.[1]

He refereed in the Football Conference until moving up into the Football League. He has also officiated FA Cup and Football League Cup matches. Swarbrick's first Premier League appointment came in December 2010 when he took charge of a goalless draw between Fulham and Sunderland.[2][3] During his second Premier League appointment in February 2011 Swarbrick issued his first red card in England's top division, to DJ Campbell of Blackpool as they lost 4-0 away to Wolverhampton Wanderers.[4]

It was announced on 20 June 2011 that Swarbrick had been promoted to the Select Group of Referees who officiate all Premier League fixtures. He joined the Select Group for the 2011/12 season alongside fellow newly promoted official Jonathan Moss.

After a match between Sheffield Wednesday and Aston Villa on 24 February 2018, Swarbrick attracted criticism for his performance. In the game, he awarded 16 fouls to the away side, and only one to home side, which was seen as an unfair imbalance between the two sides. Swarbrick also turned down a penalty appeal for Wednesday, Villa defender John Terry appeared to get away with what looked like a red card offence for a foul on striker Atdhe Nuhiu, and he awarded a questionable late penalty to Villa. His performance was defended former Premier League referee Roger Dilkes.[5][6][7]

Swarbrick retired from refereeing at the end of the 2017/18 season however will continue to work and lead the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) in the Premier League. He is Head of Implementation of VAR in the Premier League and is involved in the training of Select Group 1 and Select Group 2 referees to use VAR when it is introduced in the 2019/20 season.[8]

Statistics

  Season    Games   Total   per game   Total   per game
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  2005/06   29      57      _1.97_     2       _0.07_
  2006/07   34      96      _2.82_     9       _0.26_
  2007/08   38      76      _2.00_     8       _0.21_
  2008/09   36      82      _2.28_     4       _0.11_
  2009/10   35      104     _2.97_     8       _0.23_
  2010/11   40      108     _2.70_     8       _0.20_
  2011/12   30      107     _3.57_     7       _0.23_
  2012/13   31      111     _3.58_     1       _0.03_

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title: Neil Swarbrick

question: Describe Swarbrick's early refereeing career.

answer: He began refereeing at the age of 29. Within six years he was promoted to the National List of assistant referees. He fulfilled this role for four years before being added to the Referees' List.


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PALMERAH STATION (PLM) is a train station located in Jalan Tentara Pelajar, Gelora, Central Jakarta, near the Palmerah market. The station is located in the altitude of 13 meters above sea level. This station serves both Commuterline and local train to Rangkasbitung.

Palmerah station was rebuilt in 2015 and features a new two-storey station building. The old building was preserved and the new building straddles above it.

The Palmerah market and Parliament building is located adjacent to the station. The station services the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium and the surrounding sports complex.

Train services

-   Green Line: from Tanahabang to Rangkasbitung

title: Palmerah railway station

question: Summarize all the information relating to the construction of the Palmerah station.

answer: Palmerah station is a train station located in Jalan Tentara Pelajar, Gelora, Central Jakarta. The station is built 13 metres above sea level. It was rebuilt in 2015 and features a new two-storey building. The old building was preserved, the new building straddles it.

question: What is the abbreviation used for Palmerah station?

answer: PLM

question: Which locations are close to station?

answer: The Palmerah market, Parliament building, Gelora Bung Karno Stadium and the surrounding sports complex.

question: What train services does Palmerah station provide?

answer: Palmerah station serves both commuter and local trains. The local trains run to Rangkasbitung.

question: In which country is Palmerah station located?

answer: Palmerah station is located in Jalan Tentara Pelajar, Gelora, Central Jakarta. Jakarta is a city in Indonesia.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: Palmerah station is a train station located in central Jakarta.


text: DUBAI EXPORT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (EDC; ) is an organization in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, created to advocate and assist exporting to foster economic development of the region. The EDC began operations in 2007, having been established in 2006 under Law No. 10/2006 by the Government of Dubai. Although autonomous, the EDC operates under governmental directive.

title: Dubai Export Development Corporation

question: Where is the Dubai Export Development Corporation headquartered?

answer: United Arab Emirates.

question: What do they do?

answer: They advocate and assist exporting to foster economic development of the region.

question: WHen did they begin operations?

answer: 2007.

question: Under whose directive do they operate?

answer: The government.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: The Dubai Export Development Corporation was created in 2007 to advocate and assist exporting to foster economic development of the region. They are government-directed.


text:
is an indoor sporting arena located in Okayama, Japan. The arena is also known as the . The capacity of the arena is 11,000 spectators. It host the home matches of the Okayama Seagulls of the V.League.

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title: Zip Arena Okayama

question: What is the capacity of the Zip Arena?

answer: It has a capacity of 11 000 spectators.

question: Does the Zip Arena Okayama host outdoor events?

answer: Usually not, it is an indoor sporting arena.

question: What sport does the Okayama Seagulls play?

answer: They play in the V.League. It might be a volleyball league.

question: Is Okayama located close to the sea?

answer: Their sports team name is the seagulls, it is probably located close to the sea.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: Zip Arena Okayama is an indoor sporting arena for the Okayama Seagulls of Japan.