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This piece was originally written in Swedish. I Found this english translation somewhere online a few years ago. It is the most powerful story I have ever read, and it moves me so very deeply each and every time read it. And I hope you will take the time to read it today.

Something is always lost in translation, but not too much I hope.

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*Stig Dagerman - To kill a child*

It is a fine day and the sun rests over the plain. Soon the bells shall sound, for it is sunday. Between a pair of wheat fields two youths have found a path that they've never trod before and in the plain's three villages the windowpanes are shining. Men shave in front of the mirrors on the kitchen tables and women slice bread for the coffee and children sit on the floors buttoning their jackets. It is the happy morning of an evil day, for this day a child shall be killed in the third village by a happy man. As yet the child sits on the floor and buttons its jacket and the man who is shaving says that today they shall take a boat trip down the river and the woman softly sings and serves the freshly sliced bread on a blue plate.

There falls no shadow over the kitchen and yet the man who shall kill the child stands by a red gas pump in the first village. It is a happy man who looks into the camera and in the glass he sees a small blue car and beside the car a young girl who laughs. While the girl laughs and the man takes the beatiful picture the gas salesman tightens the lid on the gas tank and say they will have a fine day. The girl sits down in the car and the man who shall kill a child takes his wallet out of his pocket and say they shall go to the sea and by the sea they'll rent a boat and row far, far out. Through the open windows the girl in the front seat hears what the man is saying, she closes her eyes and when she does so she sees the sea and the man next to her in the boat. He's not an evil man, he's content and happy and before he gets into the car he stands for a moment in front of the radiator which shines in the sun and he enjoys the shine and the smell of gas and bird-cherries. There falls no shadow over the car and the shining fender has no dents and it is not red with blood.

But at the same time as the man in the car in the first village slams shut the door to his left and starts the car the woman in the kitchen in the third village opens her cupboard and finds no sugar. The child who has barely had time to button its jacket and tied its shoes stands on his knees on the couch and sees the river winding its way between the trees and the black little boat that lies pulled up on the grass. The man who shall lose his child is finished shaving and is folding his mirror. On the table stands the cups of coffee, the bread, the cream and the flies. It is only the sugar which is lacking and the mother tells her child to run to Larson's and borrow a few lumps. And while the child opens the door the man shouts after it to hurry, because the boat waits on the beach and they shall row further out than they ever have rowed. When the child then runs through the garden it thinks all the time about the river and the boat and the fish who are swimming and nobody whispers to it that it has eight minutes to live and that the boat shall remain where it rests all day and many days thereafter.

It's not far to Larson's, it's only across the road and while the child runs across the road the little blue car enters the second village. It's a small village with small red houses and newly awake people who sit in their kitchens with their coffee cups raised and watch the car drive by on the other side of the hedge with a large cloud of dust trailing behind it. It goes very fast and the man in the car sees the apple trees and the freshly tarred telephone poles glimpse by like grey shadows. Summer flows through the windows, they race out of the village, they lie in the middle of the road nice and secure and alone - as yet. It's good to drive all alone on a soft, broad road and out on the plain it goes even better. The man is happy and strong and with his right elbow he feels his woman's body. He is not an evil man. He's hurrying to the sea. He couldn't hurt a wasp, and yet he shall soon kill a child. While they rush towards the third village the girl again closes her eyes and plays that she won't open them until they can see the sea and she dreams in harmony with the the soft bumps of the car about how serene it will be.

For so uncaring is life constructed that a minute before a happy man kills a child he is still happy and a minute before a woman screams with fear she can close her eyes and dream of the sea and the last minute of a child's life this child's parents can sit in the kitchen and wait for sugar and speak of their child's white teeth and about a rowing boat and the child itself can close a gate and start walking across a road with a few lumps of sugar wrapped in white paper in its right hand and this entire last minute nothing see except a long, shiny river and a broad boat with silent oars.

Afterwards it is all too late. Afterwards a blue car stands on the road and a screaming woman removes her hand from her mouth and the hand is bleeding. Afterwards a man opens a car's door and tries to stand upright although he has a hole of horror inside himself. Afterwards a few lumps of sugar lie randomly scattered in blood and gravel and a child lies unmoving on its belly with its face tightly pressed against the ground. Afterwards two pale-faced people who have not yet had their coffee run out of a gate and see a sight on the road that they shall never forget. For it is not true that time heals all wounds. Time does not heal a dead child's wound and and it heals very poorly the pain of a mother who has forgot to buy sugar and sends her child across the road to borrow some and just as poorly does it heal the grief of the once happy man who has killed it.

For he who has killed a child does not go to the sea. He who has killed a child goes quietly home and beside him he has a silent woman with her hand bandaged and in all the villages they pass they see not one happy person. All the shadows are very dark and when they part it is still under silence and the man who has killed the child knows that this silence is his enemy and that he will need years of his life to defeat it by shouting that it wasn't his fault. But he knows that is a lie and in his nights' dreams he shall instead wish his life back so he could make this single minute different.

But so uncaring is life against the man who has killed a child that everyting after is too late.

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This was written in 1948. It was created for The Swedish National Society for Road Safety, to raise awareness about road safety and it was an attempt to lower the speed of traffic on Swedish roads.

title: Stig Dagerman - To kill a child

question: Where is the man heading?

answer: To the sea with a woman

question: Where does this story take place?

answer: It is unclear where this takes place

question: Explain what happened to the child.

answer: A man hit him with his car and killed him

question: How was the man feeling before he killed the child?

answer: He was happy

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: A happy man and a woman are preparing to go to the sea. A boy is sent by his mother to fetch some sugar from a neighbor. The man ends up hitting the child with his car and killing him. The man is haunted by nightmares of that moment afterward.


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UNION CITY, NJ—Recommending that he give himself the chance to pause and explore the other options out there, friends of local man Jonathan Gember expressed their concerns to reporters Wednesday that the 29-year-old is already committing to a new television show just hours after getting out of a seven-season-long series. “Jon just got through a long and emotionally involved show, so I don’t understand why he’s so eager to settle into something new right away,” said friend Meredith Wagner, adding that Gember should take some time to decompress and reflect on the 92 episodes he enjoyed with _Sons of Anarchy_ rather than immediately dive in with season one of _The Shield_. “He ended things with that old show earlier this week, but it sounds like he’s already caught up in this new one pretty bad. I keep telling him that he should slow things down, but he’s practically spending every waking minute with it.” Wagner added that she thought it would benefit Gember to hold off on becoming too invested in another serious television show and instead “play the field” for a while by enjoying a series of noncommittal, one-night movie viewings.

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question: What kind of passage is this?

answer: This appears to be a comedic faux-news article.


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BREWSTER CASTBERG DENNY (1924 - June 22, 2013) was an American academic from Seattle, Washington known for his long association with the University of Washington.

Early life and education

The great-great grandson of Seattle founder Arthur A. Denny, Brewster Denny graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1942 and the University of Washington in 1945, before joining the U.S. Navy. In the Navy, he was posted to Pearl Harbor, serving as an intelligence analyst in a unit preparing for the land invasion of Japan.[1]

Denny left naval service at the end of the war and went on to earn a master's degree from Harvard University, and Ph.D. from Tufts University.[2][3]

Career

From 1952 to 1960, Denny was an intelligence analyst in the United States Department of Defense, and, in 1960 worked as a national security adviser on the presidential transition team of John F. Kennedy. He then served a year as a staff member with the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on National Policy Machinery and, in 1962, became the first director of the Graduate School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington, a post he held until 1980. In 1992 Denny was named dean emeritus, but continued teaching courses in American foreign policy.[4][5][6]

Varsity Bell

From 1961 until his death in 2013, Brewster Denny was responsible for the annual ringing of the Varsity Bell, a , 1861 bell installed at Denny Hall on the University of Washington campus which is rang once per year, on Homecoming, to ceremonially summon the university's alumni to campus.[7][8]

Personal life

Denny married Patrica Virginia Sollitt in 1950 and, with her, had a daughter.[9][10]

Denny served as a trustee of The Century Foundation, a member of the board of directors of the Seattle Historical Society, and as a vice-president of the Seattle Opera Association.[11]

Bibliography

-   _Seeing American Foreign Policy Whole_ (1985)[12]

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title: Brewster Denny

question: When was Denny born?

answer: 1924

question: Where did Denny obtain his PhD?

answer: Tufts University

question: Where was Denny stationed while in the Navy?

answer: Pearl Harbor

question: For whom did Denny work as a national security advisor?

answer: John F. Kennedy

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: Brewster Castberg Denny was an academic from Seattle, Washington. He was born in 1924, was stationed at Pearl Harbor during WWII, obtained a PhD from Tufts University, served as a national security advisor for John F. Kennedy's presidential transition team, and was a dean emeritus for the University of Washington.


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_SHOTGUN STORIES_ is a 2007 drama film about a feud between two sets of half-brothers following the death of their father in rural Arkansas. The film was written and directed by Jeff Nichols, and stars Michael Shannon, Barlow Jacobs, Michael Abbott Jr. and Glenda Pannell.

Plot summary

Son Hayes (Michael Shannon) wakes up and gets dressed, revealing that he has scars from a shotgun blast on his back. He meets his younger brothers, Boy (Douglas Ligon) and Kid (Barlow Jacobs), who live in a van and a tent respectively, saying that his wife Annie has left him over his gambling habit and inviting them to live in his house. Son and Kid earn meager livings at a fish farm, where workers take bets on how Son received his scars; Boy is an unsuccessful basketball coach at the local middle school. One night, while Son is researching his gambling system, the boys' estranged mother arrives to announce that their estranged father (from whom she has long been divorced) has just died.

The brothers crash the funeral, where their father's second family is mourning. Son delivers a scathing commentary on their father, especially for callously abandoning them to be raised by their hateful mother, while going off to lovingly raise a second set of sons meanwhile forgetting, for the most part, his first set of sons. In the process, Son nearly starts a brawl with his four half-brothers. The eldest half-brother, Mark (Travis Smith), vows revenge and starts a chain of violent confrontations. Meanwhile, Annie returns and tries to salvage her relationship with Son, but Son is unwilling to give up gambling. Kid plans on marrying his girlfriend, Cheryl, should he get an expected raise, but worries about providing for her and staying faithful. After Mark kills Boy's dog by leaving a poisonous snake in its water bowl, Kid attacks and kills Mark, but is himself severely injured in the fight and dies in the hospital. Son and Boy are unaware that Mark's brothers Stephen and John were involved in the fight until after Kid's funeral, when an acquaintance named Shampoo tells them. Son then goes to their mother, who is coldly indifferent to everything that is happening, to inform her that Kid has just died, while condemning her for raising her sons to be full of hate toward their half-brothers, before leaving her for the last time.

The confrontations between the remaining brothers escalate, with Son on one side and John and Stephen Hayes on the other side unwilling to let the matter rest, despite their brother Cleaman's attempts to stop the feud. Son and Boy invade their half-brothers' farm and attack Stephen, but are interrupted and hospitalized by the remaining family and other farm workers. Annie and Cheryl are left grieving and bewildered by the continued fighting. Boy purchases a shotgun and holds Cleaman at gunpoint, but hesitates after seeing the man's sons, and leaves. Boy expresses worry that Son will kill himself trying to protect him from the half-brothers. He recalls how Son received his scars while protecting him and Kid.

The second family arms themselves with shotguns on their farm, bracing for a shootout. Boy arrives at the farm unarmed and states that he is done fighting, offering a truce. The less combative half-brothers force Stephen to accept the truce, but he worries that Son will not hold to the agreement. Afterwards, Son awakens from his coma. Boy returns to Son, who recuperates from his injuries. The movie ends with the beginning of fall, with Cleaman seeing his youngest brother John off to college, Boy coaching again, and Son living at home with Annie and their son, Carter. The final scene of the movie shows Son and Boy enjoying a peaceful afternoon on the porch with Carter.

Cast

-   Son Hayes – Michael Shannon
-   Boy Hayes – Douglas Ligon
-   Kid Hayes – Barlow Jacobs
-   Nicole – Natalie Canerday
-   Annie Hayes – Glenda Pannell
-   Stephen Hayes – Lynnsee Provence
-   Cleaman Hayes – Michael Abbott Jr.
-   Mark Hayes – Travis Smith
-   Shampoo Douglas – G. Alan Wilkins

Critical reception

_Shotgun Stories_ has positive reviews, earning an 90% “Certified Fresh” rating at Rotten Tomatoes from 48 reviews, with an average rating of 7.29/10.[1]

It appeared on several critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2008. Bill White of the _Seattle Post-Intelligencer_ named it the best film of 2008, Philip Martin of the _Arkansas Democrat-Gazette_ named it the 3rd best film of 2008, David Edelstein of _New York_ magazine named it the 8th best film of 2008, and Roger Ebert of _Chicago Sun-Times_ named it one of the best films of the year.[2]

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title: Shotgun Stories

question: Summarize the critical reception that Shotgun Stories has received.

answer: The critical reception that Shotgun Stories has received start with positive reviews. The film received an earning of 90% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and had an average rating of 7.29/10. Additionally, this film appeared on several critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2008.

question: Summarize the boy's (Son, Douglas, and Kid) relationship with their father, as according to the film's plot.

answer: In Shotgun Stories, the brothers crash their estranged father's funeral. Their father's second family is mourning yet the brothers deliver a scathing commentary on their father. They mention how he abandoned them to be raised by a hateful mother and going off to raise another set of sons. At the funeral, a brawl between all the brothers is started as well.  The boys clearly have a lot of unresolved anger towards their father.

question: How would the movie have turned out if Son and Boy did not resolve their issues?


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[Metrolink Schedule FINAL 07012013]

Welcome news — always good to see new connections to regional transit. Here is the news release from Metrolink:

  LOS ANGELES – Metrolink has partnered with the City of Thousand Oaks and Thousand Oaks Transit to provide convenient weekday round-trip shuttle service between the Metrolink Moorpark Station from the Thousand Oaks Transportation Center, The Oaks Shopping Center and California Lutheran University. The service, which began today, July 15, makes it easier for commuters in the Conejo Valley and Thousand Oaks to take advantage of Metrolink service.

  Metrolink riders can transfer to the shuttle at no additional cost as long they present a valid Metrolink ticket upon boarding. Non-Metrolink riders can ride the shuttle for free through August 16.

  The weekday shuttle operates a total of six round-trips during peak morning and evening commute times and is scheduled to connect with most Metrolink trains providing service between Moorpark and Los Angeles Union Station. Metrolink has worked closely with Thousand Oaks Transit to ensure minimal wait times for riders.

  The shuttles are powered by clean-burning compressed natural gas (CNG) engines. Each shuttle can hold up to 14 passengers and are ADA-compliant. They are also equipped with bicycle racks that can hold up to two bikes and will have free Wi-Fi installed by August 1. The service is funded in part by a $20,000 Federal Transit Administration grant received by the Ventura County Transportation Commission.

  Click here for more information about the service.

  Metrolink is Southern California’s regional commuter rail service in its 20th year of operation. The Southern California Regional Rail Authority (SCRRA), a joint powers authority made up of an 11-member board representing the transportation commissions of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties, governs the service. Metrolink operates over seven routes through a six-county, 512 route-mile network. Metrolink is the third largest commuter rail agency in the United States based on directional route miles and the seventh largest based on annual ridership.

question: Who has Metrolink partnered with?

answer: City of Thousand Oaks and Thousand Oaks Transit.

question: When did the service begin?

answer: July 15th.

question: How many roundtrips does the weekday shuttle operate?

answer: Six during peak morning and evening commute times.

question: What are the shuttles powered by?

answer: Clean-burning compressed natural gas.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: The article is about new shuttles being installed in Los Angeles to deal with traffic flow, discussing their schedule and what they were powered by.


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# The Run -- By MagicalDaveGuy

They had long escaped the far reaching echos of shouting guards through the streets and outpaced the speeder teams through the derelict and cratered slums at the edges of San Francisco, but they still ran, armour thudding on the cracked and abandoned tarmac with every long stride. It began to rain, mud began to fill the cracks in the road and every step was accompanied by a splash until at long last the pair had reached their destination. It was once a grand hotel, dozens of stories tall, but the war had seen an end to it, with most of the windows blown out and boarded up, the place was abandoned, a dying steel and stone skyscraper. The two entered the wounded behemoth with a careful tread. They clomped up the stairwell, boots grinding against the concrete until they reached a large door labeled, "Floor Twenty Nine". The taller of the two raised a gauntleted fist to the door and it clicked open. They stepped through the doorway and the door clicked behind them. The room was black from the overcast sky, and the shadows of the building, and the black marble of the ceiling and the floor. Faint lights flickered from a bank of computers in the corner, and their boots clinked on the ground as they turned to face each other. Their armour was matte black, both illuminated by sets of colored streaks. One red, one blue.

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   The armoured figure illuminated in blue dropped to their knee, head bowed before their partner. The taller shadowrunner in red gently grasped the helmet of their partner and disengaged the EV seals with a faint pop-hiss. They tugged the helm off and placed it on the ground, letting their partner breathe unfiltered air once more. She looked up at him, impassive face lit blue in the darkness, eyes smiling up at the faceless visor. She didn't look like an assassin, a mercenary or a wanted criminal, but more like an artist, or a singer. That didn't change the facts. Blonde hair skittering over her armour, she grabbed her partners hand and lifted herself up as the other knelt down. Gauntlets enclosed the helmet and the seals cracked open, and she slid the helmet off carefully. He looked up at her with dark eyes and a look of calm on his face before lifting himself off the ground to meet her. He had the look of a man saddened by tragedy, harrowed and heavy, looking like a surgeon instead of a murderer, a spy and a shadowrunner. He turned around, arms out from his sides and she slipped his and her gauntlets off, revealing the pale skin underneath. She worked on his armour, working past clips and velcro straps, fingers dancing over his muscles through his skinsuit before finally loosening the plating on his arms enough to slide off. She tapped his shoulder and turned around, letting him reciprocate her efforts. He went about the task almost reverently, leaving no room for force or frustration, like it was a practised art.

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   As he set the plates on the ground she turned around, beginning to drop to her knees. She unstrapped his boots and pulled them off, turning her attention to the black plates covering his legs. Each lace was tied in a delicate but strong knot, and her hands traced over the familiar ground undoing each string with a rapid precision, tearing off velcro and gingerly setting each piece on the marble floor. She finished her work on the other leg and stood up.

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   "Take off my chestplate." He said, voice quiet but strong, reverberating through the wide open chamber.
She looked at him, but said nothing as her fingers clicked over the studs securing the armour together. It popped and the rigid plates went slack, slipping off over the shadowrunner's head. His companion looked at him confused for a moment, then realized why he had done it. As he went to work on finishing removing her plating she stood in honour and wonder. He had made himself vulnerable, made himself lesser than another, and willingly. He trusted her with his life.

*****

As the last plate clinked on the ground, he walked off to the computer to finish their work. She stood at the edge of the building, thinking about him and what they had accomplished that day, thinking about the dozens they had killed and the dozens they were to kill.
She looked out at the ocean, towards the storm that was coming in.

title: The Run

question: What was the relationship between the two killers?

answer: It appears they were colleagues.

question: Why were the characters on the run?

answer: It appears they had just killed dozens of people and were being chased by guards.

question: Was the hotel their regular hideout?

answer: It appears so.

question: Why were they called 'shadowrunner?'

answer: It seems the name was likened to the nature of their job.

question: Why did they kill people and still plan to kill more people?

answer: It is not stated.

question: Why did the male shadowrunner trust the female with his life?

answer: That information is not known.

question: What is the setting of the story?

answer: That information is not known.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: On a rainy day, two shadowrunners were on the run from guards after killing a dozen people. They reached their destination, which was an abandoned ancient hotel and a room full of computers. As they stripped each other of their armours, they began to reflect on their actions and what was to come ahead.


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Story highlights

-   The nuclear-capable B-52 Stratofortress will take part in a series of joint exercises
-   The 185,000-pound B-52 is one of the oldest active aircraft in the US Air Force

Washington (CNN)The US Air Force is deploying long-range B-52 bombers and 800 airmen to the United Kingdom in support of joint exercises with NATO allies and partners taking place across Europe in June.

The nuclear-capable B-52 Stratofortress will take part in a series of joint exercises that primarily take place on Russia's doorstep -- specifically in the Baltic Sea, the Arctic and along Russia's border with several NATO partners.

While next month's drills are part of a scheduled training rotation, the deployment comes at a time where the US military may be seeking to reassure its European allies amid questions surrounding President Donald Trump's vision for America's global role and foreign policy aspirations.

"Training with allies and joint partners improves coordination between allies and enables the US Air Force to build enduring relationships necessary to confront a broad range of global challenges," the Air Force said in a press release.

Despite Trump proclaiming his trip to Europe last month a "great success for America," several allied leaders have questioned the future of US leadership on the world stage following a NATO meeting in Brussels this month where the President failed to endorse core security commitments.

While Trump seems to be delivering on his campaign promise of "America First," there are limits to how much the US and Europe could disengage from each other -- particularly due to the American military's crucial role in European security.

[US F-35 fighters to train near Russia]

The US carries the lion's share of the military load around the world, but Europe has been increasingly important. In West Africa, Europe has a far more active presence than the US military, with countries like France leading the fight against terrorist groups there.

The 185,000-pound B-52 is one of the oldest active aircraft in the US Air Force, having first entered service in the 1950s during the height of the Cold War. They were originally designed to serve as long-range, high-altitude intercontinental nuclear bombers that could strike deep into the Soviet Union.

The newest B-52 entered service in 1962 and the 159-foot plane became a Cold War icon, featuring prominently in the 1964 film "Dr. Strangelove."

The planes have been modified heavily since the end of the Cold War and have been upgraded with precision-guided missiles, electronics and high-tech sensors. Each aircraft can carry up to 70,000 pounds of bombs, mines and missiles, according to the Air Force's official fact sheet.

CNN's Ryan Browne contributed to this report.

question: When was the article written?

answer: Sometime between 2017 and 2020

question: How many B-52's is the US Air Force deploying?

answer: That information can't be found

question: Why is the US Air Force sending B-52's to the UK?

answer: To take part in joint exercises with NATO allies and partners across Europe

question: What film were B-52's featured in?

answer: Dr. Strangelove

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: The US is sending B-52 bombers and 800 airmen to the UK to participate in joint NATO exercises across Europe. While the exercises are part of a scheduled training rotation, they come at a time when the US military may be seeking to reassure European allies, as the Trump administration has called into question the US's commitment to NATO.


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When I was a boy, I slept in the room where my great-grandfather hung himself.  Not the actual room, but he had to pass through my room to get to the room with exposed rafters.   To me, there was little difference.  I would lie awake, seeing the old man, who I was named for, slouch through my temporary bedroom, head low, shoulders slumped in despair.  I imagined him throwing the rope over a rafter and then pulling it tight, like a sailor unfurling a sail.  I witnessed as he mounted the stool (though sometimes it was one of the mismatched kitchen chairs my grandmother had accumulated, and likely the one I’d sat in for dinner), slipped his head through the noose, and kicked the stool away.  I imagined him choking, and then lazily yawing back and forth until the body was discovered some hours later.

I slept fitfully during those nights.  The air was sticky and miserable; the crickets and spring peepers were a far cry from the street noise at night back home.  Mostly, I was terrified that the old man’s bones would find their way back to the place of his final moments, and if that happened, wouldn’t he be angry that I had taken his name?  I thought he might.

June would inevitably make way for July; the days marched inexorably to August, the month my banishment ended.  Safe in my own bed, with the air conditioning, the street noises, and some six hundred miles between the hanging room and me, next summer was an eternity away.  I knew that when I endured my annual exile again, I would be braver, and I would be secure in the knowledge that my great-grandfather’s spirit would not disturb my sleep.

I was always wrong.

title: Untitled Flash Fiction (295 Words).  Criticism/critique welcomed.

question: Why does the narrator have trouble sleeping?

answer: He thinks about his great-grandfather, who he is named after and who walked through his room before he killed himself

question: Whose house does the narrator stay in during the summer?

answer: His grandmother's

question: What are the differences between where the narrator stays during the summer and his home?

answer: His home has air conditioning and street-noises, while where he stays during the summer is hot and humid and the only noise is crickets

question: Where is the narrator's home?

answer: Somewhere in a city, about 600 miles from where he stays during the summer

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: The narrator stays with his grandmother during the summer and has trouble sleeping because his great-grandfather, who he was named after, walked through his room before he killed himself. The room is also hot and humid, while back home he has air conditioning. He looks forward to going home and promises himself that next year he will be braver.


text: It was a cold winters night, I was sitting quietly downstairs looking out into the dark of the night as the stars flickered in and out like a train in the distance. My pin vice was my only friend that night, he saw me through the necessary drilling I needed to do, and he never said a word... Just faithfully drilling. Then it happened. A snap like a whip on Jesus' back erupted throughout the room and I felt my soul shatter as the drills soul followed my own. It was like watching him walk onto a landmine. Body parts flung across my hand and table... My eye's watered from the emotional and physical pain... It was over... Blood splashed across my hands and face with the cold dead eyes of Drill staring at me in the black of night. I needed to send word that Drill wouldn't be coming home but right now the emotional pain held me in place like Medusa's stare...

title: My brother likes to exaggerate things so I wrote a bit of a parody of him breaking his pin vice

question: Why is the protagonist in pain?

answer: He is in pain because he snapped his pin vice.

question: Who is the protagonist referring to?

answer: He is referring to his pin vice, Drill.

question: What is the setting?

answer: The setting is the downstairs of the protagonist's house.

question: Describe the situation.

answer: The protagonist has just snapped his pin vice and is in despair.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: The protagonist is downstairs with his only friend, his pin vice. Suddenly, it snaps. The protagonist is left in deep emotional and physical pain.


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_IV_ is the fourth studio album from reggae band The Aggrolites. It is the band's third album for Hellcat Records.

Prior to the album's release, the band posted “The Sufferer” on their Myspace page. “It's Gonna Be OK” was also included on the _ANTI- Sampler 2009_ which was posted on Amazon.com for free download.[1]

Track listing

All tracks are credited to Jesse Wagner, Jeff Roffredo, Brian Dixon and Roger Rivas.

1.  “Firecracker” - 4:31
2.  “What A Complex” - 3:59
3.  “Wild Time” - 3:02
4.  “Feelin' Alright” - 4:00
5.  “The Sufferer” - 3:09
6.  “It's Time To Go” - 3:58
7.  “By Her Side” - 3:32
8.  “Brother Jacob” - 3:55
9.  “Musically On Top” - 3:14
10. “Reggae Summertime” - 4:11
11. “Ever Want To Try” - 3:09
12. “Keep Moving On” - 4:00
13. “Tear That Falls” - 3:09
14. “Gotta Find Someone Better” - 4:00
15. “Lick It Up” - 4:12
16. “The Least I Could Do” - 2:52
17. “Runnin' Strong” - 2:41
18. “Precious and Few” - 3:46
19. “Tonight” - 3:04
20. “Soul Gathering” - 2:35
21. “It's Gonna Be OK” - 4:06

Credits

-   Jesse Wagner: Lead Vocals / Guitar / Backup Vocals
-   Roger Rivas: Piano / Organ / Group Vocals
-   Brian Dixon: Guitar / Group Vocals
-   Jeff Rofredo: Bass / Backup Vocals

Additional Musicians

-   Scott Abels: Drums, Percussion
-   Korey “Kingston” Horn: Drums on “Feelin' Alright”, “By Her Side”, “The Least I Could Do”, “Runnin' Strong”
-   Efren Santana: Saxophone
-   Tom Cook: Trombone
-   Todd Simon: Trumpet

Other Credits

-   Recorded at Kingsize Soundlabs in Eagle Rock, CA
-   All songs Written, Recorded, Mixed, Produced by: Dixon/Rivas/Rofredo/Wagner (BMI)
-   Mastered by: Gene Grimaldi at Oasis in Burbank, CA
-   2nd Engineer: Richard P. Robinson
-   Artwork by: Roger Rivas and Tom D. Kline
-   Photography by: Jiro Schneider

[1] Link to sampler download. Retrieved April 9, 2009.

title: IV (The Aggrolites album)

question: What is The Aggrolites' fourth studio album?

answer: The Aggrolites' fourth studio album is called IV.

question: What genre of music do The Aggrolites play?

answer: The Aggrolites play reggae music.

question: How many songs are on the album IV?

answer: The album IV has 21 songs on it.

question: How long is Keep Moving On?

answer: Keep Moving On is 4 minutes long.

question: Who played the trombone for IV?

answer: Tom Cook played the trombone for IV.

question: What instrument did Jesse Wagner play?

answer: Jesse Wagner played guitar and was on lead vocals.

question: Where was IV recorded?

answer: IV was recorded at Kingsize Soundlabs in Eagle Rock, CA.

question: What is the first song on the album IV?

answer: Firecracker is the first song on the album IV.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: IV is an album recorded by reggae band The Aggrolites. The album includes 21 songs on it and includes numerous additional musicians.


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Let’s be honest: The Coach of the Year Award should really be called the “Exceeded Expectations Award.” If that were not the primary criteria for identifying the top coach then Bill Belichick would win every year. But since the formula for the prize essentially boils down to actual wins minus expected wins, there are three top candidates in 2017: Sean McVay, Doug Pederson and Mike Zimmer.

I know what you are thinking. Yes you, the Vikings fan who Twitter yells “How did the Vikings have low expectations? We REAL fans knew they were skol to the bowl all along.” But this team was .500 last year and, aside from a revamped offensive line, they brought virtually the same roster this season. The prevailing prediction in August was in the range of seven wins to 10 if everything went according to plan.

And that was before they lost their stud running back and had to turn to their third quarterback option. The fact that this team now holds the top spot in the NFC is nothing short of astounding.

That being said, it seems the public has named Pederson and McVay the front-runners. It is tough to argue; the Eagles won seven games a year ago and the Rams won just four and they are currently second and third respectively in the NFC. McVay’s case is especially strong given that there was not a person on God’s green Earth who had the Rams competing for the division, let alone a legitimate Super Bowl contender.

What has really opened up eyes on those two coaches is their work with their second-year quarterbacks. Jared Goff was a bust as the top pick a year ago. There was nothing to point to and say “this Goff kid is going to be a stud.” Now, with McVay coaching him on pre-snap reads and play-calling to his strengths (West Coast schemes and downfield throws), Goff is likely headed to the Pro Bowl. Pederson’s work with Wentz is perhaps even more impressive, given Wentz is an MVP candidate after struggling down the stretch in year one.

The “quarterback whiperer” head coach is a sexy commodity these days. People see development of a young gunslinger and say “That is good coaching right there.” And it is; McVay and Pederson deserve a lot of credit for turning their teams into offensive powerhouses. But we need to make an apples-to-apples comparison when identifying Zimmer’s candidacy.

Zimmer is a defensive coach and a darn good one. In fact, you could make the argument that he is the league’s best defensive schemer. His use of linebackers, safeties and nickel corners with A-Gap blitzes and exotic coverage schemes keeps offensive coordinators up at night. He has elite players at each level that play aggressively, yet disciplined. They are savvy, yet they fly from sideline to sideline. This is a direct result of the defensive culture that Zimmer has set.

For defensive-minded head coaches, the talk is most often about the culture they set as opposed to the play-calling. Do not kid yourself, the culture Zimmer has established is impeccable. But as far as being a schemer, Zimmer is every bit the coach that McVay is, just on the other side of the ball.

And speaking of culture, chew on this idea: Most teams that lose their starting quarterback and star running back for the season get down, lose faith, show the effects of those losses. The Vikings have not lost a step with Case Keenum under center and Latavius Murray taking over carries. They are one of only two teams in the league in the top-five on both offense and defense. Granted, offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur deserves much of the praise for playing to Keenum’s strengths and developing an effective, balanced attack. But everything falls under Zimmer’s regime.

McVay and Pederson may have the quarterback development trump card. They both can tout their record a year ago against their record this year. Pederson’s Eagles squad is top-five on offense and defense themselves. But neither of them have the full resume of overcoming obstacles and expert scheming that Zimmer has. He is the 2017 Coach of the Year.

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_–Sam Smith is the Managing Editor for Full Press Coverage Vikings and Full Press Coverage NFC North. Like and Follow @samc_smith Follow @fpc_vikingsFollow @fpc_nfcn_

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question: What does the author think the coach of the year award should be renamed?

answer: The "Exceeded Expectations" award.

question: Who were the three top candidates for this award in 2017?

answer: Sean McVay, Doug Pederson and Mike Zimmer.

question: What does the author see as a sexy commodity with regards to a coach?

answer: The "quarterback whisperer" quality/aspect.

question: Who seem to be the frontrunners?

answer: The public seem to think Pederson and McVay are.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: In 2017, the top three candidates for [NFL] Coach of the Year were Sean McVay, Doug Pederson and Mike Zimmer. According to the author, all three extoll values NFL fans extoll in the sport, and boast backgrounds both playing and coaching for years.


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There’s something distinctly Herculean about Renault’s revival of the Alpine brand.

Here’s a French sports car manufacturer that hasn’t actually manufactured a sports car – or any car, for that matter – in around two decades. And yet the target that this Lazarus of the automotive world now has its sights set on with its first production car since 1995 is a true sporting giant: the Porsche 718 Cayman.

Welcome, then, to the new Alpine A110.

We first caught wind of a revived Alpine back in 2012 but it wasn’t until four years later – with the launch of the Alpine Vision concept in Monaco – that we were presented with an idea of what such a car might look like. And credit where credit’s due, the resemblance between that concept and the Première Edition car you see here is almost entire and complete.

The more important resemblance by which this new A110 will be judged, of course, is to one of the prettiest and most distinctive sports cars of all time: the A110 Berlinette of 1969, designed by the great Giovanni Michelotti.

The original A110 was the truer realisation of founder Jean Rédélé’s vision of a lightweight, compact, highly agile sports car given to excel on mountain passes than anything that came after it and it was the car that enabled the Alpine-Renault team to claim the World Rally Championship manufacturers’ title in 1973.

It is through these same virtuous instruments of lightness and agility that, a resurrected Alpine will hope, the new A110 can become the champion of its segment.

The car was born out of a joint venture with Caterham Cars in 2012 that was subsequently axed in 2014, so Alpine’s parent company, Renault, now shoulders the burden of investment and risk of effectively launching a sports car brand from scratch all on its own.

But if the venture proves successful, it could be expanded to bring us a family of Alpine models – particularly if all the talk of ‘ambitious plans for the future’ among Alpine executives is to be believed.

The A110 certainly has its work cut out to force its way in among cars like the Cayman, Lotus Elise, Alfa Romeo 4C, BMW M2 and Audi TT RS. But, as you may remember reading, the early signs have been very promising indeed.

question: What does "Lazarus of the automotive world" mean?

answer: As in back from the dead like the biblical Lazarus.

question: What does it mean to be "subsequently axed?"

answer: To be discontinued

question: Who manufactures the Alpine A110?

answer: Renault

question: Who are Renault's primary competitors for the A110?

answer: The Cayman, Lotus Elise, Alfa Romeo 4C, BMW M2 and Audi TT RS

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: After decades not producing a vehicle, Renault has stepped back into the fore with the new Alpine A110. Inspired by the original A110 Berlinette of 1969, the A110 resembles it's concept car beautifully. Facing stiff competition, it's hopeful that the A110 can become the champion of it's segment.


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[Mighty No, 9]

 Spiritual successor to "Megaman," "Mighty No.9." (via https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mightyno9/mighty-no-9?ref=card)

The “Mighty No. 9” backer exclusive demo has been officially released recently. The much awaited spiritual sequel to the “Megaman” series, “Mighty No. 9,” has been on the receiving end of negative criticisms lately as its demo has been delayed numerous times by the developer. However, new reports claim that the final game will get another release date.

The new release date for “Mighty No. 9” is confirmed to be on Feb. 9 in North America. The game will come to other regions exactly three days after the North American release. The update was revealed on the Kickstarter page of the game developer, Comcept. The delay was caused by a few kinks in the game’s multiplayer mode, which Comcept and its partners needed to fix first.

“Comcept and our partners at Inti Creates and Deep Silver have been hard at work clearing up any remaining issues with the online modes included in Mighty No. 9. As a result of their progress, we are now able to officially announce our release date,” the developer said.

The announcement of the game’s delay was first seen at a NeoGaf post by one of Comcept’s developers. It said that the game will be pushed through the first quarter of 2016, and the developer looks to deliver the promise with the new release date.

Although the complete game was delayed, the exclusive demo for Kickstarter backers has gone live over the weekend. Comcept was apologetic for the delay in the release of the demo, but they reiterated that the delay was necessary for it to run smoothly.

The game will be out in February with physical copies for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Wii U. It will also have a digital version for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC. A digital version is in the works for the PlayStation Vita and Nintendo 3DS as well.

_Contact the writer at feedback@ibtimes.com.au, or let us know what you think below._

question: What is the "Mighty No. 9?"

answer: Might No. 9 is a game.

question: Why has it been receiving negative criticisms?

answer: The game has been receiving negative criticisms after its demo has been delayed numerous times by the developers.

question: When is the game going to release?

answer: The game is now going to release on February 9th.

question: Who are the game's developers?

answer: The game is developed by Comcept.

question: Write a ~6 sentence summary.

answer:
Mighty No. 9 is the spiritual sequel of the "Megaman" series. The game has come across many negative criticisms after its demo had been delayed numerous times by the developers. The game is now all set to release on February 9th in North America.

Comcept, the developers, state that the delay was due to a few kinks caused in the game's multiplayer mode.

The game will be out in February with physical copies for the PS4, Xbox one and Wii U.


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Ryan awoke to a sharp odor. He felt as if it was biting the inside of his septum. Other than the smell he was unable to sense anything. All he could see was darkness. He tried to touch his fingers to his palms but felt nothing.

For several minutes Ryan pondered his situation. Could he still be dreaming? He didn’t feel as if he was in a dream, rather he felt as if he had been sleeping for days but was finally awake. He had heard of a condition called “sleep paralysis”. Perhaps this was causing his lack of sensation, but why then could he not see the faint glow of his alarm clock or the whizzing of the cars going past his downtown studio apartment.

After what felt like hours, Ryan’s anxiety began to build. “Could I have had a stroke in my sleep? Is that why I can’t feel anything?” Ryan asked himself further elevating his already high blood pressure. Just as Ryan was coming to grips with his own impending demise he started smelling something else, almost like a frying hamburger.

“FUCK!” Ryan cried. All of the sudden he could feel intense pain coursing throughout his entire body. It felt as if all of his muscles had just been pounded by a meat tenderizer. His feeling had certainly returned, however any attempt at moving was met with even sharper pain.

Ryan could sense a fine mist spraying his body. This is when he realized he was naked. His sense of sight and hearing were returning. He could hear a faint hum, like that of a microwave. He saw shadows in front him of what looked like people, stumbling around. The realization that he was not in his apartment, lying in his own bed had sunk in.

The pain began to subside, replaced with a dull numbness that Ryan prefered. He took a step forward, pushing the tinted glass door in front of him. He could now hear screaming.
As he walked out into the large circular chamber he could see fifty or sixty men and women, naked like him, stumbling around, shouting and crying;

“Help!”

“Where the hell am I?”

“What is this?”

“Let me out of here!”

Ryan tried to form the words “I’m cold” but was unable to get enough breath behind his speech. He saw hundreds of capsules surrounding him. The chamber was lined with them, stacked over several stories. Most had their glass openings ajar, although a few people still seemed to be emerging from the walls.
On the other side of the chamber was a large arched opening. Ryan could see groups of people heading in that direction, so he followed. As he got closer he noticed he felt warmer and warmer. As he neared his destination he began to feel almost comfortable with the temperature despite not wearing any clothing. He entered the opening and saw people streaming into an even larger chamber from various doors in all directions. At the center of the room were two ramps going to a second and third floor. A older man stood between the ramps. Giving orders.

“Girls head up the left ramp, guys up the right”.

Ryan headed towards the man. Now able to speak he asked him.

“Who are you? Where am I?”

“I know less than you do, please just head up the ramp, I’m just trying to create some order.”

Hearing him speak, Ryan realized he knew who this man was. He was his journalism professor, sans his usual twenty-five year old grey suit making him almost unrecognizable.

“Professor Harper?”

“Hello Mr. Stein. Please go up the ramp”.

title: Wake Up

question: Summarize Ryan's movements over the course of the story.

answer: Ryan awakens in darkness. He takes a step through a tinted glass door. He walks out into a large, circular chamber. He follows groups of people through a large arched opening into an even larger chamber with two ramps.

question: Summarize the physical sensations Ryan feels over the course of the story.

answer: Ryan is initially unable to feel anything. His anxiety eventually starts to build. He then feels intense pain throughout his entire body. A fine msit sprays his naked body. The pain then subsides and numbness returns. When he enters the large chamber, he feels cold. As he nears the arched opening, he gets warmer and warmer.

question: Summarize the story's references to medical conditions.

answer: At first, Ryan wonders if he maybe has sleep paralysis. He develops anxiety as the hours go by. He also fears he possibly had a stroke in his sleep. The story also mentions that he has high blood pressure.

question: What does the story say about the field of journalism?


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FREE SHOWERS & WIFI

Free Showers and WIFI at one of the most talked about campgrounds in Cape Breton!

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CHOWDER HUT RESTAURANT

Drop in for a bowl of seafood chowder, mussels, lobster roll enjoyed on our fully licensed deck!

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THINGS TO DO

Check out the many hiking trails nearby, swim at the popular beach, strike up an evening bonfire, or go kayaking and whale watching anytime during the camping season!

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Welcome To Meat Cove Campground!

MEAT COVE CAMPGROUND IS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR CAMPING EXPERIENCES IN ATLANTIC CANADA!

If you are looking for a bit of rugged outdoor camping at the Northern tip of Cape Breton, then come to Meat Cove Campground, located about a half hour or so just north from Ingonish, Cape Breton.

Each campsite comes supplied with a fire pit with firewood available on site. Each cabin comes with table and chairs and a 6 foot deck on the outside. Free Showers, free WIFI, and  access to flush toilets and fresh drinking water right in the campground.

Prices – Cabins & Campsites

CAMPSITES: $40+ tax/Night (First come first serve)
CABINS: $80+ tax/Night (Reservations available June 1st)

NOW OPEN TO FULL CAPACITY (30 tent sites) !!

The campsites are first come / first serve. If you would like to call ahead before hand, please call 902-383-2379 to make sure we have a campsite available for you.

We start taking bookings for cabins May 1st and the campground doesn’t officially open until June 1st each camping season. Please call 902-383-2379 if you have any questions.

CHOWDER HUT RESTAURANT

Drop in for a bowl of seafood chowder, mussels, lobster, or one of the many other tasty dishes served up hot at our very own Meat Cove “Chowder Hut” Restaurant. Then wash is down with a cold craft beer on our licensed deck!

The Chowder Hut Restaurant keeps campers fed each day during the camping season serving up burgers and fries, mussels, lobster sandwiches and mouth watering clams.

THINGS TO DO

Check out the many hiking trails nearby, swim at the popular Meat Cove Beach, strike up an evening bonfire, or go ocean kayaking or  whale watching anytime during the camping season!

FREE SHOWERS & WIFI

Take advantage of the free showers and WiFi when you bring your friends and family to the Meat Cove Campground, Cape Breton’s most enjoyable rough ocean-side campground experience in Atlantic Canada!

CAMPGROUND AMENITIES

If you are looking for the rough outdoors rugged camping experience in Cape Breton, set your coordinates for Meat Cove! There are over 30 un-serviced campsites and a few new wilderness cabins that you can stay in overlooking the ocean.

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_✓ SHOWER HOUSE – HOT RUNNING WATER_

_✓ FLUSH TOILETS_

_✓ FULL MENU_

_✓ LICENSED DECK_

_✓ SIT IN/OUT WHILE EATING_

_✓ FIRE WOOD_

_✓ FREE WI-FI_

_✓ KAYAK RENTALS_

_✓ SWIMMING_

_✓ WALKING TRAILS NEARBY_

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question: Describe some interesting components of Cape Breton.

answer: Some interesting components of Cape Breton are that it has a Chowder Hut Restaurant where one can find a bowl of seafood chowder, mussels, and lobster roll. Additionally, there are many things to do there like swim at the popular beach, strike up an evening bonfire, or go kayaking and whale watching. Cabins and campsites are priced fairly and there are many campground amenities.

question: What is the Chowder Hut Restaurant rated?


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Last Tuesday morning, an angry student shouted at Prof Rosa Freedman outside the students’ union at Reading University. She was a “transphobic Nazi who should get raped”, he yelled.

Freedman packed up and went home. She felt shaken and, “for the first time on campus, afraid of physical violence”.

The abuse didn’t come out of the blue. Freedman, professor of law, conflict and global development at the university, is one of a number of feminist academics expressing concerns about proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act that would make it easier for trans people to have their preferred gender legally recognised. Freedman says she has been treated like a “pariah” by some academics, students and trans activists as a result.

Fortunately, she says, her university is taking the student’s verbal assault “very seriously” and has been “faultless” in supporting her right to debate these difficult issues. But she says many other institutions, terrified of appearing illiberal, are failing to follow suit.

A fortnight ago, Freedman and 53 other academics wrote a letter to the Guardian questioning the proposed introduction of self-identification for gender reassignment. They said that critical academic analysis of transgenderism is being suppressed.

Trans activists and academics supporting trans rights, including some feminists, disagree, saying it is trans people who are in the minority, under attack and fighting to be heard. They say they would welcome a properly evidenced discussion but that feminists such as Freedman are unfairly trying to position them as extremists, which “will have the effect of shutting down the debate”.

Freedman entered this highly charged debate in August, when she disagreed with other feminists in a Facebook group called the Women in Academia Support Network. “I was watching them attacking another woman academic for voicing some difficult questions,” she says. “They were saying, let’s get her fired. When I tried to defend her I was told I was committing structural violence against the group and I was transphobic and I wasn’t welcome.”

Transgender issues cut across many academic disciplines including law, gender studies, philosophy and history, and so the issues are natural ones for academics to discuss. Freedman is focusing on the Gender Recognition Act as part of her job as a law professor with expertise in human rights. “I am deeply concerned by how the conflation of sex and gender is leading to subjugation of women and is undermining the specific protections guaranteed to women under international and national human rights law,” she says.

As well as many abusive comments on Twitter, she has been shown a written request from an academic at another university asking for her to be blacklisted from giving any papers or attending events in their law school. Colleagues have also told her that Reading University has received written and verbal complaints about her views from its staff and students, and from people outside the university.

Earlier this month Freedman gave a talk on the United Nations Human Rights Council at Essex University. Prior to it, students there called for her to be barred from campus and her talk cancelled.

Kathleen Stock, professor of philosophy at Sussex University, who has been critical of trans self-identification as part of her work on feminist philosophy, has been publicly labelled “transphobic” by Sussex students’ union. The union put out a statement about her saying: “We will not tolerate hate on campus, and we will do everything in our power to protect our students.” She says the union and some students have sent emails asking her head of school and other senior managers to condemn or publicly disassociate themselves with her views, and students have protested against her on campus.

She says: “It is a failure of our education system that it produces young people who think superficially about these issues; who think it is all about emotion, and who can’t tolerate different points of view from theirs.”

Despite calls from students and trans rights activists for her to be fired from Sussex, Stock feels confident she will keep her job. In July, Sussex’s vice-chancellor, Adam Tickell, issued a public statement about her case saying: “I hold a deep-rooted concern about the future of our democratic society if we silence the views of people we don’t agree with.”

[Placard reading: 'Transphobia now in stock at Sussex']

A placard against Professor Kathleen Stock at Sussex
But Stock says she knows academics at other universities who are “terrified of being fired” for their views on this subject. She wants UK universities to follow those in the US that have adopted the “Chicago [University] principles” on free speech. This is a commitment to allowing free debate on campus, even if other people at the university think someone’s views are “offensive, unwise or immoral”.

Stock says: “I can deal with strangers behind pseudonyms saying horrible things on Twitter, and, up to a point, with young, inexperienced students condemning me. But what I can’t understand is academics going out of their way to shame me.”

Debbie Epstein, professor of cultural studies in education at Roehampton University, says many feminists are afraid to voice any view about the gender recognition proposals. “I grew up in South Africa under apartheid and was involved in politics from my teens, and not since I left there in the 1960s have I been as scared of speaking out as I am on this issue now. I have seen the toxicity of this debate and how other academics have been treated and that is frightening.”

Mary Leng, a senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of York, says many philosophers are strongly supportive of self-identification of gender. “That is, of course, fine. What is disappointing is that when they attack you they generally don’t respond to your arguments or address them, they simply say that it is dog-whistling that is indicative of an underlying bigotry.”

Selina Todd, professor of modern history at Oxford University, agrees. Recently one delegate cancelled their place at a humanities conference she was due to speak at when they saw her name on the agenda. “It was because the person was concerned that ‘transphobic’ views would be expressed. I assume that this referred to my gender-critical stance.” The conference had nothing on the agenda that was connected to the subject.

But Stephen Whittle, professor of equalities law at Manchester Metropolitan University and the founder of trans rights group Press For Change says: “Trans academics have mostly tried really hard not to accuse, and certainly not to ‘no platform’ anybody. Yet these voices are making trans people look like the extremists. Sadly, it will have the effect of shutting down the debate.”

Whittle, who was born female and has campaigned for transgender rights since the 70s, says: “For years, trans people worked really hard to get a seat at the table. I feel like we are being pushed away again by this supposedly feminist backlash.”

He adds: “As trans people, we understand how mad an idea gender reassignment seems. I can’t explain to you why when I was 10 I knew I should have been a boy. But people are forming judgments without the faintest idea how we actually feel.”

A spokesperson for Stonewall, the lesbian, gay, bi and trans campaign group, said their research showed universities needed to do more to ensure trans students felt safe and included. The research, published in April, showed more than a third of trans students faced negative comments from university staff in the past year, they said.

question: What made Prof. Rosa Freedman feel unsafe?

answer: A student shouted at her that she was a "transphobic Nazi who should get raped".

question: Where did the abuse come from?

answer: It was not random. Freedman is an feminist academic who expressed concern about the proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act, which was set to help trans people have their preferred gender legally recognized. She has said that since raising these concerns she has been treated harshly by academics, students, and trans activists.

question: Why did Freedman raise these concerns?

answer: She was part of a letter which included 53 other academics that the proposed introduction of self-identification for gender reassignment was suppressing critical academic analysis of transgenderism. She believes the conflation of sex and gender is leading to subjugation of women and undermining specific protections guaranteed to women under international and national human rights law.

question: What are Freedman's supporters saying?

answer: Kathleen Stock, another professor, believes it a failure of the education system that it produces young people, the ones calling professors Nazis and demanding their blacklisting or resignations, think too superficially about these issues. That they think it is all about emotion, and that they can't tolerate different points of view from their own.

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: Prof Rosa Freedman is a professor and feminist academic at Reading University, was called a transphobic Nazi "who needed to get raped" after she and 53 other academics wrote a letter raising concerns about the proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act. Students at many universities are outspoken about their vehement disapproval of such professors, and are demanding their being blacklisted from future events and academic recognition, to even their resignations. Professors like Freedman and Kathleen Stock believe this kind of reactive emotion serves to undermine much of the work that has been done to protect women from subjugation and other protections guaranteed to woman by human rights laws. Stock believes it is a failure of the education system that students are this reactive and superficial when it comes to these issues.


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“Just a few questions sir, and we’ll be out of your hair” said the neatly kept woman behind the desk.

“No problem”, Pete replied, wondering how she fell into this job.

“Okay then, so. Age?”

“25”, he said, after a brief pause that someone lying might have needed.  She nodded, punching the keyboard twice.

“Weight?”

“Ooo, God knows. Sorry. I mean, I have no idea.  The last time I weighed myself I was about 210, 220? But that was at least a month ago.” He turned to his side. “What do you reckon?”  She smiled, embarrassed at his gesture.

“We’ll say 210 then.” Pete congratulated himself, then thanked her for the accidental compliment.

“Time of death?” asked the woman, slightly more sternly then the last questions.  Pete was taken aback.  He was having fun before that one.

“Don’t you already know that?” he asked.  She shrugged sympathetically. “It’s for our records.”

“Fine. Suicide.” A subtle wince brushed over her face at his brisk retort.  “Will that be a problem?” he asked, noticing her expression.

“No, no absolutely not”.  The woman made a conscious effort to force a smile.  Peter smiled back, her smile was convincing enough.  She had lovely teeth, too.  “If you’d like to go through, Jon will show you around.”

As the words came out of her mouth, a polished, white door opened to the right of her desk.  Jon, who looked like he had stepped out of a shaving advert, was waiting on the other side, doing his best to make him feel as welcome as possible with a beaming smile.  “Come through my friend!” he shouted enthusiastically.  Peter didn’t like him already.

He stepped through the door, not pausing to consider the fact that one of life’s biggest questions was soon going to be answered for him. Of course, he had preconceptions of what heaven might look like – clouds, cherubs, wispy structures with thrones and columns - but he decided he would leave those in the waiting room.   They were mostly taken from Disney’s Hercules anyway; a dubious source at best.

With his jaw hung open, he pivoted on the spot, like a netball player desperately searching for a pass.  The door behind him had disappeared, and surrounding him, in every direction, were rows, and rows, and rows, of cubicles.  They seemed to go on infinitely into the distance, punctuated by a medium sized houseplant by the doorway of each one, and a water cooler every 50 yards in the corridors dissecting them.  He looked at Jon, who was looking around in gleeful awe, as though he too was seeing it for the first time.  “Isn’t it amazing” he said, breaking from his trance to gage Peter’s reaction.

“It’s…an office?”, though it was more of an observation then a question.

“This is what we call The Mothership” explained Jon, still baring those suspiciously white teeth.  “It’s the central hub. The engine room, if you like. This is where you’ll be working.”

title: Heaven is a place on Earth - Part 1

question: What does the story say about the best way to make sure one ends up in heaven and not hell?

question: What does the story say about where Pete is in the context of heaven and hell?

answer: Since Pete's death was by way of suicide, it is safe to conclude that he is in Hell. Suicide victims can't go to heaven and are forever damned, according to the Bible. Also, Hell is said to be endless repetition, as evidenced in the seemingly never-ending rows of cubicles Pete saw on the other side. One can assume that Pete will be doing the same boring task over and over again for eternity. Lastly, the two other characters Pete encountered had suspiciously white teeth.

question: What does the story say about Pete?

answer: Pete or Peter, is 25 years old, although he might have been lying about his age. He weighs around 210 - 220 pounds and is either of the right height for his weight, or grossly overweight. Pete died from suicide. He is in the waiting room of, presumably, Hell (because he died of suicide) and is being interviewed by a woman "or records purposes" before he steps over to the other side.

question: What does the story say about the other characters in the story not named Pete?

answer: The woman who interviewed Pete in the waiting room had a neatly kept appearance. She seems nice and sympathetic, but stern when she needs to. Jon was the guy that showed Pete around. He looks like a model, complete with a beaming smile. Jon is enthusiastic about welcoming Pete and about his job. Both Jon and the woman have lovely teeth, though Jon's teeth are suspiciously white.


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There is a “lesson” sent out each week for 6 weeks (on Sunday mornings):

-   Week 1: Mindfulness of Breath
-   Week 2: Mindfulness of Body
-   Week 3: Mindfulness of Emotions
-   Week 4: Mindfulness of Thinking
-   Week 5: Mindfulness of Mind
-   Week 6: Mindfulness in Daily Life

TIME COMMITMENT: the course is not live, so may be done at any time during the week.

-   approximately 2 1/2 hours weekly to: listen to the talk, read the material and consider the questions
-   20-30 minutes weekly for your Teacher Support session: if support is by Phone/Skype/IM, this is scheduled with your support teacher.
-   20-30 minutes for daily meditation

THE LESSON INCLUDES:

-   AUDIO TALK – one mp3 download which includes a guided meditation: ~ 1 hr and 20 min.
-   READING MATERIAL: 30-60 min.
-   QUESTIONS/REFLECTIONS TO CONSIDER. This is flexible, depending on your personal interest and how much time you have available. 30 to 45 min
-   TEACHER SUPPORT IS EITHER:
    -   5 weekly 20 minute appointment by phone/skype/IM. These appointments are used in whatever way is helpful to you. We often use the questions and reflections as a starting point.
    -   The teacher support may also be done by email at your own time.
    -   The course may be “audited”, taken without teacher support.
-   SUGGESTED EXERCISES to experiment with during daily life. These are times we practice with mindfulness during our daily activities, so they generally don’t take extra time.
-   DAILY REFLECTIONS are sent daily by email. These are meant to clarify certain points, and to support your daily practice.

question: When are the lessons sent out?

answer: On Sunday mornings each week

question: What is the time commitment of the course?

answer: The course can be done at any time during the week and will take around 2 and 1/2 hours a week

question: What components does the lesson include?

answer: It includes audio talk, reading material, questions/reflections to consider, teacher support, suggested exercises, and daily reflections.

question: How many minutes for daily meditation is recommended?

answer: 20-30 minutes

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: The lesson plan for a 6 week mindfulness course is listed with what the time commitments for the course will be as well as what the lessons include.


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[White House Medical Unit door placard inside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.] The WHITE HOUSE MEDICAL UNIT (WHMU) is a unit of the White House Military Office and is responsible for the medical needs of White House staff and visitors. The unit also provides medical care to the President, the Vice President, their families, and international dignitaries visiting the White House.

Role

The WHMU is led by a director, who typically also serves as the Physician to the President. The Physician to the President is chosen personally by the President, while the Director is formally chosen by the Director of the White House Military Office. Since March 2018, the Physician to the President has been Navy Commander Sean Conley.[1]

The medical unit includes active-duty military physicians as well as several physician assistants, registered nurses, and medics, and support staff including an administrator and a medical information technology manager.[2] Under implementing guidelines for the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, the WHMU Director is the primary official responsible for advising the President's Cabinet on the ability of the President of the United States to discharge the powers and duties of the office.[3][4][5] The final decision, however, rests with the Cabinet as a political, not a medical, decision. The WHMU provides free healthcare to the President, Vice President, and their immediate families, who are eligible for medical care at American military hospitals anywhere in the world.[6] Inpatient medical care at American military hospitals is usually covered by the President or Vice President's personal health insurance.[7]

In addition to direct care duties as outlined above, the WHMU is responsible for all medical contingency planning for the White House and its key personnel. This includes preparing for every presidential or vice presidential trip by developing medical contingency plans, including the identification of hospitals and other facilities at which medical care could be provided. The goal is to ensure that the President is never more than 20 minutes away from a hospital with Level 1 Trauma Center. If this is not possible, the WHMU ensures that a military helicopter is nearby, kept in instant readiness to evacuate the President to an appropriate hospital.[8]

Staff

The total number of staff on duty at the White House Medical Unit varies over time. In 2001, there were 22 total staff,[9] although by 2010 this had risen to 24 total staff.[10] Although the number of physician assistants is not clear, as of 2012 there were five physicians and three medics assigned to the unit.[11] As of 2001, there were six registered nurses assigned to the WHMU, each of whom served a two-year term and was trained and certified in providing emergency care, resuscitation, and trauma care.[12]

[President Barack Obama receives a vaccination from a registered nurse in the White House Medical Unit in 2009.|left] WHMU staff are board-certified in the fields of emergency medicine, family medicine, or internal medicine. All staff also have certification in trauma care and the provision of cardiac life support.[13] According to a 2009 news report, doctors accepted for assignment to the WHMU undergo a full year of trauma care training before joining the staff.[14]

At least one physician is on duty in the Executive Residence at all times.[15]

Staff almost always wear civilian street and medical clothing, since military uniforms would draw sniper fire and prevent the WHMU staff from performing their jobs in an emergency.[16]

Facilities

The White House Medical Unit includes emergency medical and trauma capability at both the White House and the residence of the Vice President of the United States at the United States Naval Observatory.[17] One former Physician to the President described the White House unit as an urgent care center with a crash cart.[18] A medical examination room is also maintained at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.[19]

Between 1993 and 2001, Rear Admiral Eleanor Mariano reoriented the WHMU more toward the provision of emergency medical services. The unit also began to provide 24-hour care at the White House, and added a medical suite to the vice presidential residence to provide the Vice President with the same level of care provided to the President. A physician now staffs the Vice Presidential medical suite at all times.[20] Because jet lag and extremely long hours are common among WHMU staff, a rule limiting staff to 24-hour duty periods was also implemented, and shift rotations created to allow advance medical team staff to take over from traveling staff to limit fatigue.[21]

Between 2002 and 2009, the WHMU implemented a program to provide medical training specific to the international locales which the President or Vice President might travel. This training helps prepare the medical staff for specific or unusual medical situations needed in each place the President or Vice President visits.[22]

The WHMU also oversees the mobile medical suite aboard Air Force One and Air Force Two. Air Force One contains a full surgical suite with operating table, two beds, resuscitation equipment, various medical monitors, and a full pharmacy.[23][24] Air Force Two contains a first aid unit as well as an automated external defibrillator, oxygen tanks, and limited pharmaceuticals. The WHMU also establishes temporary emergency medical facilities as needed to support presidential or vice presidential trips. These usually consist of an eight-member intensive care and surgical team, and a temporary operating room at each stop. WHMU staff may also carry operating room equipment in backpacks to provide emergency medical care as needed on-site when the temporary operating room is too distant.[25] When the President travels overseas, an advance medical team travel ahead of Air Force One to set up its medical facilities days in advance. This way, a fully rested medical team is available to assist the President upon arrival and take over from the team which traveled aboard the presidential aircraft.[26]

A physician and nurse also travel with presidential motorcades. They are strategically positioned so as to be close enough to respond to an emergency but far enough away to minimize the likelihood of being caught in the event.[27][28]

A WHMU physician and nurse also usually accompany the First Lady of the United States when she travels, but a full medical staff and mobile operating suite are not assigned to her.[29]

Coronavirus participation

The White House Medical Unit handled temperature checks for journalists and others as White House moved limited seating to all briefings.[30]

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title: White House Medical Unit

question: Summarize the types of positions that make up the WHMU.

answer: The White House Medical Unit is led by a director who is also the Physician to the President, and is typically chosen by the POTUS. There are military physicians along with physician assistants, various types of nurses, an administrator, and a medical technology manager. Security personnel exist on the premises but there is a special detail for the POTUS and visiting dignitaries.

question: Summaries the primary responsibilities of the WHMU.

answer: They provide free healthcare to the President, Vice President, and their immediate families, though inpatient care is usually handled by private insurance. They are responsible for all medical contingency plans for White House personnel as well. A military hospital is kept on hand in case of incidents that would require immediate trauma care-the President cannot be more than 20 minutes away from a triage center at any given time while in the continental United States. The WHMU staff are trained in any, a combination of, or all of the following: emergency medicine, family medicine, and internal medicine. Doctors accepted for assignment undergo a year of trauma training.

question: Summarize the medical care available on the Air Force One and Air Force Two.

answer: In Air Force One, there is a surgical operating table, two beds, equipment to resuscitate the President, many monitors for surgical purposes, and a pharmacy with most amenities on-hand for short-term care of ailments. The difference between the first and Air Force Two is the latter has an automated external defibrillator and a more limited pharmacy. On trips, there is usually an eight-person team to assist the President and Vice President on trips.

question: Summarize the potential for security breaches on the Air Force One and Two, and the preventative measures in place.


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BARBARA JATTA (born 6 October 1962) is an Italian art historian who has been the director of the Vatican Museums since June 2016.

Early life and education

Jatta has joked that she was born among the smell of solvents.[1] Her mother was a painter and restorer, and her sister a restorer.[2] She often visited her grandparents on Via Giulia in Rome, or at Fregene on the outskirts of the city, where her grandmother, Assia Busiri Vici, a portrait painter, would paint her. Her grandfather Andrea was an architect. Despite her family background, she only determined on a career in art history when she was living in an artists commune in Rome and went with one of the artists to an art history lesson.[3]

She studied Literature at the University of Rome (_Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”_), completing her thesis, _The History of Drawing, Engraving and Graphics_, in 1986.[4] She later went on to earn degrees in Archive Administration and Art History.[5] After her studies in Italy, she studied in England, Portugal, and the United States.[6] Since 1994 she has taught at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University in Naples.[7]

Vatican career

In 1996 she joined and led the prints section of the Vatican Library. She became the vice-director of the Vatican Museums under Antonio Paolucci in June 2016.[8] On 20 December 2016, Pope Francis appointed her the director of the Vatican Museums,[9] effective 1 January 2017. Jatta became the first female director of the Vatican Museums.[10] She is responsible for artworks that includes the iconic ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The Vatican museums earns more than $300m with profits of $40m from visitors to their museums.[11] Jatta has recognised the work done by her predecessors. She says that she will eliminate the unsightly queue of visitors who stand to await entry. She will encourage visitors to enjoy the lesser known sections of the museum which should reduce crowding of the Sistine Chapel. She planned to utilize the “new media” to both publicize and educate. All this must be done, she said, while “paying special attention to the ‘Vatican tradition’.”[12] In March 2017, Jatta presided over the opening of a show at the Vatican Museums for the first time: Dilectissimo fratri Caesario Symmachus». From Arles to Rome, the relics of St. Caesarius, treasure of Paleo-Christian Gaul.[13]

In March 2018, Jetta attended meetings in Rome that marked the UN's International Day of Women and she represented the Vatican at a conference sponsored by the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), the first time the Vatican had participated in a meeting sponsored by the CSW.[14]

Personal life

Since 1988 Jatta has been married to Fabio Midulla, a medical educator; they have three children.[15]

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title: Barbara Jatta

question: Who is Barbara Jatta?

answer: an Italian art historian who has been the director of the Vatican Museums since June 2016

question: When was Barbara Jatta born?

answer: 6 October 1962

question: How much money do the Vatican Museums earn?

answer: $300m in revenue, $40m in profits

question: Who is married to Barbara Jatta?

answer: Fabio Midulla

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: Barbara Jatta is an Italian art historian who has been direct of the Vatican Museums since June 2016. She is the first female direct of the Vatican Museums.


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Feeding the earth

The dull sky, in perfect agreement with the dead grass and muddy brown rocks on the mountain, hesitated between a morning drizzle and an afternoon light rain.  The narrow path to the mine was so heavily worn and slippery that it resembled one of those tracks of ice used by Europeans to race painted sleds in the winter.  El Inca couldn’t remember what it was called, but short scenes he had seen on his nephew’s TV played through his memory while he hauled his bent frame up the nearly impossible trail.  He knew men worked in teams pushing the sleds much like he and his fellow miners pushed their carts along the rails.

El Inca is not his given name.  His given name is something more forgettable, so common it has no meaning outside of normal, someone once asked him to write it on a document and he looked at them as if they had asked him to change the color of his eyes.  El Inca is his real name.  The young people in the village, even some of his own children, think it is a name of distinction because of his air of ancient wisdom and position in the community or at least a respectful reference to the profile of his eagle beak nose.  But, it has been his name since he was a child sitting and thinking in the corner of the house with his knees tucked under his chin and his skinny arms wrapped around his legs.  His father would laugh and say he looked like a mummy dried and weightless in a museum.  Soon everyone referred to him as The Inca whether he was thinking or not.  Not long after, he was working in the mines, had a home and a son of his own and he no longer had the luxury of sitting in the corner and thinking.  Now he does his thinking to the sound of creaking knees on the walk up and down the narrow slippery path.

Even more so than El Inca, the mine itself is nearly worn out.  The major vein of sliver was shipped to España in the sixteenth century to fight the Moors.  For the following four hundred years, the village men have kept their families just above absolute poverty by scratching for the leftovers.

At the top of the trail, El Inca no longer thought about the strange things he’d seen on TV.  He thought of entering the Mountain.  He thought of feeding the earth.  He looked at the heavy clouds and wished he could see the sun, hoped he would see the sun at least one more time.  Near the entrance he rummaged under his damp poncho and pulled a plump, round sweet bread from his pouch.  He stepped underground holding out his offering, his lips twitching in constant prayer while he made his way directly to El Diablo de la Montaña.

El Diablo is a carved effigy, half buried in cigarettes and cigars, its horned head dripping with wax and rum.  Tradition says the mountain takes a collection or it will take a life for every pound of silver it gives.  Most men give tobacco or pour out bottles of cheap rum or Coca-Cola.  Some miners keep candles burning constantly, but El Inca, he feeds the devil.  He believes that the mountain is hungry and the only way to keep it from eating you is to feed it something you cherish.  For this reason, every day he sacrifices the small round sweet cake his wife bakes for his lunch.

When he first started working in the mine he was only eleven and it was his mother who baked his sweet cakes but he did not give them up.  Like the others he lit a candle or left a cigar.  The sweet cake he ate himself, smiling, first thing in the morning before he climbed down into the mine with the thought of never coming out.  So good were the sweet cakes that even more unpleasant than the possibility of an early stone tomb was the thought of someone else eating his cake.

One day, the crumbs of his cake still riding on his tongue, he was caught in a cave in.  The exit shaft collapsed trapping him and three other men.  They spent three hungry days waiting while the way was cleared.  In the darkness he had promised the mountain that never again would a sweet cake touch his lips within the mine.  He promised that he would never tell his mother where her cakes went so he could be sure they were always made of the best ingredients.

Years later, El Inca knows it is the devils love of sweet breads that keep him safe.  The devil’s sweet tooth has made him the oldest miner in the mountain.  He has seen many a man give his last cigarette or bottle of soda to the statue and wondered why no one else knows what El Diablo truly desires.

After he set down the days offering he wondered how many more days he would climb the path, how many more days he would scratch at the rock in search of silver but most of all he wondered how many days until he could quit feeding the earth and eat his own sweet bread instead.

title: [RF] Feeding the Earth

question: What does the story say about the type of person El Inca is?

answer: Some people in the village thing El Inca's name is one of distinction because of his air of ancient wisdom and position in the community. He does his thinking to the sound of his creaking knees as he walks up and down a narrow slippery path. He believes the mountain is angry and the only way to keep it from eating him is to feed it somethin he cherishes. He sacrifices sweet cake his wife bakes for lunch.

question: What does the story say about appeasing El Diablo?

answer: El Inca believes the mountain is hungry and the only way to keep it from eating you is to feed it something you cherish. Every day, he sacrifices the small round of sweet cake his wife bakes for lunch. He has sacrificed sweet cake to the mountain ever since he was caught in a cave in.

question: What does the story say about why El Inca became a miner?

question: Summarize everything relating to El Inca's physical appearance.

answer: He hauls his bent frame up the nearly impossible trail of El Diablo. The young people of his village think his name might have something to do with the profile of his eagle beak nose. When he was a child, he would sit with his skinny arms wrapped around his legs, and his father would say he looked like a mummy.


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TUDN RADIO (formerly UNIVISION DEPORTES RADIO) is a U.S. Spanish-language sports radio network operated by Uforia Audio Network, a division of Univision Communications. It launched on March 15, 2017 on ten AM and FM radio stations, most of which previously affiliated with the ill-fated Univision America until its 2015 closure. The network features stations in the states of Arizona, California, Texas, Illinois, Nevada, New York and Florida, covering half of the country's Hispanic population.

While its main focus is on soccer, Univision Deportes Radio competed against ESPN Deportes Radio, owned by ESPN Inc., until 2019 which had 40 stations in 14 states.[1]

On July 20, 2019, the network was renamed TUDN Radio, as part of a wider multi-platform relaunch of the Univision Deportes division as TUDN, in partnership with Televisa.[2][3] With the September 2019 discontinuation of ESPN Deportes Radio, the network picked up some of its former stations (including Los Angeles' KWKW).[4]

Programming

At the launch of the network, its programming lineup consisted of mainly radio versions of select Univision Deportes Network shows, such as _Locura Deportiva_ (which was originally broadcast on Univision América), _Contacto Deportivo_, and _Fútbol Club_, as well as original programming including _Buenos Días América_, _El Tiradero_, and _Tribuna Interactiva_.

The network also broadcasts select Liga MX, La Liga, Ligue 1, Primeira Liga and Serie A soccer matches.

Local sports

Stations air games from local professional teams, including the Los Angeles Angels, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees, Arizona Diamondbacks and the Texas Rangers of the Major League Baseball; the FC Dallas, Houston Dynamo, LA Galaxy, Chicago Fire of the Major League Soccer; the Chicago Bulls, Phoenix Suns and Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association; the Chicago Bears, Los Angeles Rams and Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League, and the Chicago Blackhawks and the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League.[5]

On-air talent

-   Juan Carlos Ávalos
-   María Fernanda Alonso
-   Leslie Soltero
-   Gabriel Sainz
-   Diego Peña
-   Luis Manuel Gómez Luna
-   Gustavo Rivadeneira
-   Julio César Quintanilla
-   Antonio Murillo
-   Miguel Ángel Mendez
-   Luis Quiñones
-   Reinaldo Navia
-   Javier Ledesma
-   Ramón Morales
-   Pedro Antonio Flores
-   Marcelo Salazar
-   Katya Mercader
-   Ernesto Tadeo Quijas

Affiliates

All affiliates are owned and operated by Univision unless otherwise noted.

Arizona

-   KHOV-FM 105.1 MHz (Phoenix)

Baja California

-   XEXX-AM 1420 kHz (Tijuana)

California

-   KTMZ 1220 kHz (Pomona)
-   KWAC 1490 kHz (Bakersfield)
-   KWKW 1330 kHz (Los Angeles)

Florida

-   WQBA 1140 kHz (Miami)
-   WEFL 760 kHz (West Palm Beach)
-   WWFL 96.1 MHz (Orlando )

Illinois

-   WKRS 1220 kHz (Waukegan)
-   WRTO 1200 kHz (Chicago)

Maryland

-   WJFK 1580 kHz (Morningside)

Nevada

-   KLSQ 870 kHz (Las Vegas) (LONG TERM SILENT)

New Jersey

-   WTTM 1680 kHz (Lindenwold)

New York

-   WADO 1280 kHz (New York City)

Texas

-   KFLC 1270 kHz (Dallas)
-   KGBT 1530 kHz (Harlingen, Rio Grande Valley)
-   KLAT 1010 kHz (Houston)
-   KROM-HD2 92.9 MHz (San Antonio)

Former Affiliates

-   KCOR 1350 kHz (San Antonio)
-   KTNQ 1020 kHz (Los Angeles) [Returns to its previous News/Talk format]
-   WWBG 1470 kHz (Greensboro, North Carolina)

[1] Univision To Launch Univision Deportes Radio - _Radio Insight_ (published December 20, 2016)

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title: TUDN Radio

question: What is TUDN Radio?

answer: a US Spanish-language sports radio network operated by Uforia Audio Network.

question: Why did it change it's name from Univision Deportes?

answer: As part of a wider multi-platform relaunch in partnership with Televisa

question: What is it's main focus?

answer: Soccer

question: Of other sports, what news does it cover?

answer: Baseball, basketball, American football, and hockey on a local sports basis.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: Formerly Univision Deportes Radio, TUDN Radio is a US Spanish-language sports radio network operated by Univision Communications. It changed it's name as part of a wider multi-platform relaunch in partnership with Televisa. While it's main focus is soccer, it competes with ESPN mainly because of it's local sports coverage which includes baseball, basketball, American football, and hockey.


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If one can concieve of things so terrible, in an unconsiounce state of mind, say sleep. Does that have any bearing on one's actul mental state?
My dreams are constantly full of terrible terrible things. Things that most people would find not only disturbing but very troubling to think about
without getting in to specifics let's say death and evil evil things are constant themes as I dream. I often wake up disturbed and troubled by
not only my thoughts but my state of mind during the dream. Sometimes I feel afraid as if actions against me may be iminent. But the way I seem to feel
the way I accept the evil of my nightmares seems to be troubling. The way I look at death, is extremely unattached you can say. But when I wake up
I can't believe the things I've thought or the way I had felt.

Do you understand why we're at this point? Why I'm here right now?

Because I feel I'm dreaming I feel like you and me at this point is just another nightmare I'm having. Something isn't right here.

Please give me some sort of sign that you're real.

A faceless genderless person is all I can see, all I saw. No sign nothing. Just a feeling like it was afraid of me. Like I was acting against it
in the worst possible fashion.

Tied to a chair of some sort in a sitting position,

Why am I speaking to it. Do I justify my actions before hand? Before I act against this creature this almost human thing. This it that I feel
empathy I feel for it. Almost.

I must speak to it.

Do you understand what I'm doing right now? I feel crazy.

Why am I here can I not stop what I'm about to do.

The rest is something so awful and so terrible I can't explain. There is no blood no..... specifics. Just an ..... of torture.

Of this person being acted against in the worst possible manner, terrified almost tortured.... But nothing.....

I sit here wondering what could have happened to make a person feel that way. The way I feel for the person being acted against. I feel I touched it.

Like I felt sorry for it and disgusted by it. Like I made it feel everything I felt and thought about it and I felt what it felt, it was afraid of me
it was terror, no physical pain just the darkest type of fear, like a fate worse than death. Acted against in the worst possible way.

Fear beyond terror, something that death is preferable to.

title: A very disturbing nightmare

question: Does the narrator think it is horrible as they are dreaming or only when they wake up?

answer: It seems to imply that it is when they wake up that they realize how awful their dream thoughts were but here they also seem to be talking to the person they are about to torture in the dream state and they feel horrified but what is about to be done.

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: The narrator has dreams filled with them committing unspeakable horror. They do not know why they dream these awful actions and wonder if their dream state are representative of something imminent that will happen in real life. As the narrator talks they move closer to a figure tied to a chair and knows that they are about to torture it. The narrator feels they should be horrified by their actions but they feel nothing.