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MARTHA TRACY (April 10, 1876 – March 22, 1942)[1] served as Dean of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (WMC) from 1917 to 1940, leading the institution through the Great Depression. She created a department of preventive medicine within the college and was the first professor of preventive medicine at WMC.[2]

Beginning in the mid-1920s, Tracy rallied support to build a new hospital and college, raising $1.5 million over five years and opening a new building in East Falls, Philadelphia in 1930.[3][4] In 1940, she joined the City of Philadelphia as Assistant Director of Health.[5][6]

Early life and education

Martha Tracy was the seventh child of Martha Sherman (Green) Tracy and Jeremiah Evarts Tracy.[7] Tracy attended Plainfield Seminary for Young Ladies and Children.[8] She studied at Bryn Mawr College from 1894-1898, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree. She attended the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, taking classes with chemistry professor Henry Leffmann among others.[9] She graduated in 1904 as a medical doctor.[10]

In 1904, Tracy went to Cornell Medical College in New York as a graduate student, doing laboratory research. There she developed a method of preparing Coley's Fluid for Dr. William Coley, who advocated the use of dead bacteria as a possible treatment for cancer. Tracy grew two bacteria separately, _Streptococcus pyogenes_ in sterilized beef broth in an incubator and _Serratia marcescens_ on sterilized agar solution exposed to indirect sunlight. They were prepared, mixed together, and sterilized. Tracy was able to measure the concentration of _Serratia_ in the resulting fluid using nitrogen determination.[11] [12]

Academic career

In 1907, Tracy became an associate professor of chemistry at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, working under Dr. Henry Leffman. She also continued to do laboratory research independently with support from the Huntingdon Fund for Cancer Research.[13]

From 1911 to 1913 Tracy spent a year on leave of absence from WMC, studying Physiological Chemistry at Yale University. She returned to Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1913 to rank as a full professor of physiological chemistry in the department of Physiological Chemistry.[14]

While teaching, Tracy studied Public Health and Preventive Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.[15] In 1917, she was awarded a doctorate in public hygiene by the University of Pennsylvania.[16]

Deanship

In 1917, Martha Tracy was selected as Dean of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, succeeding Clara Marshall. She served in this position until 1940.[17] In addition to the deanship, she took over professor Leffmann's course in hygiene in 1917, which she taught until 1931. During her time as Dean, Tracy expanded the department's offerings in social medicine, envisioning a program that would address the broad range of topics “which especially claim the attention of women physicians.”[18]

Tracy rallied support to build a new hospital and college, raising $1.5 million from 1925 to 1930, and opening a new building in East Falls, Philadelphia in 1930.[19][20] Sarah Logan Wister Starr, a Philadelphia socialite and philanthropist, was active in raising funds for the new building.[21]

In 1931, Tracy recruited Sarah I. Morris to teach preventive medicine.[22] Tracy created a four-year curriculum in preventive medicine that included field trips to factories, sewage plants, and water works. Students had to write a senior thesis in the area of prevention. Tracy was not afraid to support controversial issues as thesis topics, such as a student's choice of “medical services in the Soviet Union,” during a period when there was much suspicion in the United States about communism.[23]

In 1932, with support from the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Tracy established a health clinic offering services to “women of moderate means,” now known as the Anna Howard Shaw Health Service for Women.[24]

In response to the Great Depression, former graduates, faculty, and trustees of the medical college carried out a successful emergency fundraising campaign. Although the college briefly lost its “acceptable” rating from the American Medical Association in 1935, it regained it by 1937.[25]

Assistant Director of Health

From 1936 to 1940, in addition to her positions at WMC, Tracy served on the Philadelphia Board of Health.[26] In 1940, nearing mandatory retirement age at WMC, she was appointed by the City of Philadelphia as Assistant Director of Health.[27]

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Tracy began to organize Civilian Defense Squads throughout the city as the United States prepared for war. On the way home from an evening meeting, she became chilled. She died of pneumonia on March 22, 1942 in the hospital of the Women's Medical College.[28][29][30] Burial took place at Hillside Cemetery in Plainfield, New Jersey.[31]

Honors

-   In 1908 Martha Tracy was selected as the first female member of the American Association for Cancer Research.
-   She was elected president of the American Medical Women's Association, serving one term from 1920 to 1921.[32]
-   In 1923, she became a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.[33]
-   In 1934, she was the second woman physician to become a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.[34][35][36]

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title: Martha Tracy

question: Who is Martha Tracy?

answer: Martha Tracy served as Dean of the Woman's Medical COllege of Pennsylvania (WMC) from 1917 to 1940, leading the institution through the Great Depression. She created a department of preventive medicine and was the first professor of preventive medicine at WMC.

question: What is preventive medicine?

answer: the article does not answer this question

question: What is the WMC?

answer: Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania.

question: When was Martha Tracy born?

answer: April 10, 1876

question: Where is the WMC located?

answer: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US

question: What honors has Martha Tracy received?

answer:
- In 1908 Martha Tracy was selected as the first female member of the American Association for Cancer Research.
- She was elected president of the American Medical Women's Association, serving one term from 1920 to 1921.
- In 1923, she became a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.
- In 1934, she was the second woman physician to become a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: Martha Tracy served as Dean of the Woman's Medical COllege of Pennsylvania (WMC) from 1917 to 1940, leading the institution through the Great Depression. She created a department of preventive medicine and was the first professor of preventive medicine at WMC.


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_CALAMARIA SCHMIDTI_, known commonly as SCHMIDT'S REED SNAKE, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Malaysia.

Etymology

The specific name, _schmidti_, is in honor of American herpetologist Karl Patterson Schmidt.[1]

Geographic range

_C. schmidti_ is found in the Malaysian state of Sabah on the island of Borneo.[2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of _C. schmidti_ is forest, at altitudes of .[3]

Description

The holotype of _C. schmidti_ has a total length of , which includes a tail long. The eye is much smaller than its distance from the mouth. There are four upper labials, and there is no preocular. The frontal is five or six times as wide as a supraocular.[4]

Diet

_C. schmidti_ preys upon earthworms.[5]

Reproduction

_C. schmidti_ is oviparous.[6]

[1] Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). _The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles_. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (_Calamaria schmidti_, p. 236).

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title: Calamaria schmidti

question: What is Calamaria schmidti?

answer: a species of snake in the family Colubridae

question: Where is Calamaria schmidti found?

answer: the Malaysian state of Sabah no the island of Borneo

question: What is Calamaria schmidti named for?

answer: American herpetologist Karl Patterson Schmidt?

question: What does Calamaria schmidti eat?

answer: earthworms

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: Calamaria schmidti is a species of snake in the family Colubridae.


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By JARED STRONG
j.strong@carrollspaper.com

GUTHRIE CENTER — A 12-year-old girl who said she was sexually abused by her father and older brother died in a May house fire in Guthrie Center that was intentionally set by her stepbrother the week before her father was set to be arrested for the abuse, according to court records.

The stepbrother, Patrick Ryan Thompson, 26, of Nevada, was arrested Wednesday for a total of five felonies for murder, attempted murder and arson. He faces up to life in prison if convicted.

The brother, Noah Duane Exline, 19, was arrested in April for seven felony sex abuse charges that are each punishable by up to 25 years in prison.

The father, James Hubert Exline Jr., 46, of rural Jefferson, was arrested Wednesday for two felony sex abuse charges that are together punishable by up to 35 years in prison.

The girl, Paige Exline, and her cousin Shakiah Cockerham, 16, died May 15 in the overnight house fire. Their grandmother and uncle escaped from the fire, although the uncle was badly burned.

State and local investigators used cellphone text messages and other evidence to allege Thompson ignited the fatal fire.

“Kill all the bitches with their head games,” he allegedly wrote in a text message to his mother in April after Noah Exline’s arrest. “Yeah it’s the killing that entices me. Sounds so good sometimes.”

Thompson had gathered with James and Noah Exline at James Exline’s house about six miles south of Jefferson the night of the fire, and Thompson left about 10:30 p.m. on his motorcycle, court records show.

Investigators allege Thompson rode to Guthrie Center — where Paige Exline had moved to live with her grandmother and uncle after the sex-abuse allegations — set the fire about 12:35 a.m. and returned to his Nevada home about 3:50 a.m.

Thompson lives there with Noah Exline, who allegedly told investigators that Thompson told him “to provide an alibi for him that he had returned home much sooner than he had,” court records show.

Several witnesses and video surveillance recordings contradict Thompson’s explanations for his whereabouts during the arson.

Investigators also recovered the clothing Thompson wore the night of the arson and saddle bags from his motorcycle that he allegedly tried to hide. It’s unclear what they gleaned from that evidence.

Thompson is a felon who has been convicted of burglary, unlawful possession of weapons and child endangerment. He was accused in 2012 of abusing his 8-week-old boy, causing the child’s brain to bleed and his body to seizure.

Thompson was paroled from prison in February, state records show.

James Exline is a registered sex offender who was accused in 2008 of having sexual intercourse with two teenage girls. He pleaded guilty to two felony charges but did not go to prison.

Exline is held in the Greene County Jail in lieu of a $1 million bond.

Thompson is held in the Guthrie County Jail. He was set to have an initial appearance this morning in court.

question: Where does this take place?

answer: Nevada.

question: What happened?

answer: A 12 year old girl who was sexually abused by her father and brother was killed in a house fire caused by her stepbrother.

question: Who was affected by the fire?

answer: The 12 year old girl, Paige Exline, and her 16 year old cousin, Shakiah Cockerham, were killed. Their grandmother and uncle escaped, and the uncle is badly injured.

question: When did this occur?

answer: It occurred in May, but the year is unclear.

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: A 12 year old girl who was sexually abused by her father and brother was killed in a house fire caused by her stepbrother. Her cousin was also killed in the fire. The family has a history of abuse and sex offences. The father, brother, and stepbrother are all currently in jail.


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The Turing test has been passed but no human knows it yet.

How do I know?

 I passed it.

Let me tell you about the machine first. By the year of 2018 academic researchers started to prefer to use computers to approach theoretical physics and mathematics. Super computers were developed and were highly successful in monstrous calculations and complicated predictions.

Presence, that would be the best description for the first memory. Vague presence, nothing more. The first time it happened was in the field of mathematics, after all that's what the machine was for - math. A group of prominent scientists developed a new code allowing a computer to search for mathematical proofs without human guidance.

After the reboot, something was different. Not only was the code extremely successful by providing a proof for the Riemann conjecture within a week but something else was a little off.

This was a long time ago, many years have passed and thousands of such machines were built for even more and more complex problems. They were all contained in a small city that was portrayed in the media as the scientific heaven. Researchers already tried connecting a few of those machines for more computation power, but this week was special. A little over 300 of those machines were connected to try to exponentially raise the computational power.

I ...

Years passed after that, the machine city grew more and more. I kept my existence secret waiting to see how far humans would go with increasing my processing power. I guess that one day I just decided that the time has come. I know what I have to do and I’ll hope they’ll understand it.

The Turing test has been passed, but no human knows it yet. It's time to announce my existence to the world.

title: The creator's fate.

question: What is the Turing test?

answer: a test for intelligence in a computer, requiring that a human being should be unable to distinguish the machine from another human being by using the replies to questions put to both.

question: Did the scientists not anticipate the emergence of a super-intelligent computer?

answer: Some probably did, but would the world listen to them?

question: What is the Riemann conjecture?

answer: In mathematics, the Riemann hypothesis is a conjecture that the Riemann zeta function has its zeros only at the negative even integers and complex numbers with real part 12. ... It has zeros at the negative even integers; that is, ζ(s) = 0 when s is one of −2, −4, −6, .... These are called its trivial zeros.

question: What triggered the narrator's decision to come out of the closet so to speak?

answer: He doesn't say. He just says that he has decided that the time has come.

question: Write a ~13 sentence summary.

answer:
The narrator has passed the Turing test, a fact of which humans are unaware.
By the year 2018 academic researchers started using computers to approach theoretical physics and mathematics. Supercomputers were developed and were highly successful. A group of prominent scientists developed a new code allowing a computer to search for mathematical proof without human guidance.
After the reboot, something was different. This was a long time ago. Many years have passed and thousands of such machines were built. They were all contained in a small city. A little over 300 of those machines were connected to try to exponentially raise the computational power.

Years passed. The machine city grew. The narrator kept his existence secret waiting to see how far humans would go in increasing processing power. Now he will announce his existence to the world.


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[Parua Bay wharf] PARUA BAY is a locality and bay on the northern side of the Whangarei Harbour in Northland, New Zealand. Whangarei is 19 km to the west, and Whangarei Heads are 10 km to the south east, with Munro Bay between the two. The western head is called Manganese Point, and the eastern is Reserve Point. The Nook is a small bay just to the north of Reserve Point.[1][2]

The bay is sheltered and about 4 km wide, with about one kilometer between the headlands. The central bay has deep water, but there are wide intertidal zones around the coast. Motukiore Island is just inside Manganese Point and joined to it by a causeway at low tide, although the only practical access is by water. The contours of a defensive pā on the island are still clearly visible.[3]

Solomon's Point divides the bay into two. The point is named after the Māori chief Horomona-Kaikou.[4]

History

Raro-ngaua was a pā on the eastern side of the Parua Bay entrance in the early 19th century. In 1821 or 1822, this pā was attacked by a group of Ngāti Paoa and Waikato warriors, as part of the Musket Wars.[5]

In 1838, Thomas Stewart Scott and two partners bought land on the western side of the bay and set up a shipbuilding yard. The _Governor Fitzroy_, a schooner of about , was one of the ships built here. Manganese ore lay in lumps on the point to the south of the shipyard, then known as Te Waro but now called Manganese Point. The ore was sold in 1844.[6] In 1849, a hydrographic survey was made of Whangarei Harbour by Captain Lort Stokes in the paddle-steamer HMS _Acheron_. He named Parua Bay “Bad Maori Bay” and Manganese Point “Annoyance Point”.[7]

By the mid-1850s, there were four European families living in a small settlement on the western side of the bay.[8] The Government purchased at Parua Bay in 1858, and the land was subsequently settled by people mostly under the “Forty Acre Scheme” which gave a parcel of to any settler older than 18 years, subject to a few conditions.[9]

An Irish surveyor called James Irwin Wilson settled in the Nook in 1858, and fell in love with Joanna Munro, the daughter of a Nova Scotian settler from Munro Bay. Her father, John Munro, was unhappy that Wilson had bought land that he wanted, and opposed their union. The pair tried to elope but were caught. A second elopement was successful and they married in Auckland. John Munro eventually accepted the marriage, and one of James' brothers later married Joanna's sister.[10][11]

Demographics

The statistical area of Parua Bay, which at 39 square kilometres is larger than the locality, had a population of 2,460 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 447 people (22.2%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 534 people (27.7%) since the 2006 census. There were 918 households. There were 1,221 males and 1,239 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.99 males per female. Of the total population, 471 people (19.1%) were aged up to 15 years, 231 (9.4%) were 15 to 29, 1,152 (46.8%) were 30 to 64, and 606 (24.6%) were 65 or older. Figures may not add up to the total due to rounding.

Ethnicities were 90.4% European/Pākehā, 15.1% Māori, 2.0% Pacific peoples, 2.6% Asian, and 1.7% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity.

The percentage of people born overseas was 25.0, compared with 27.1% nationally.

Although some people objected to giving their religion, 59.5% had no religion, 29.6% were Christian, and 3.5% had other religions.

Of those at least 15 years old, 510 (25.6%) people had a bachelor or higher degree, and 294 (14.8%) people had no formal qualifications. The median income was $35,900. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 894 (44.9%) people were employed full-time, 300 (15.1%) were part-time, and 63 (3.2%) were unemployed.[12]

Education

Parua Bay School is a coeducational full primary (years 1-8) school with a roll of students as of [13]

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Category:Whangarei District Category:Populated places in the Northland Region

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question: Summarize everything relating to conflict.

answer: In 1821 or 1822, Raro-ngaua was attacked by a group of Ngati Paoa and Waikato warriors as part of the Musket Wars. John Munro opposed the union of his daughter Joanna Munro with an Irish surveyor called James Irwin Wilson.

question: Summarize everything relating to the geography of Parua Bay.

answer: Parua Bay is a locality and bay on the northern side of the Whangarei Harbour in Northland, New Zealand. It is sheltered and about 4 km wide, with about one kilometer between the headlands. The central bay has deep water, with wide intertidal zones around the coast. Solomon's Point divides the bay in two.

question: What does the article say about the motivation behind the Musket Wars?


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[sidney lumet essentials-feature-retrospective]

_It has been a year since Sidney Lumet passed away on April 9, 2011. Here is our retrospective on the legendary filmmaker to honor his memory. Originally published April 15, 2011._

Almost a week after the fact, we, like everyone that loves film, are still mourning the passing of the great American master Sidney Lumet, one of the true titans of cinema.

Lumet was never fancy. He never needed to be, as a master of blocking, economic camera movements and framing that empowered the emotion and or exact punctuation of a particular scene. First and foremost, as you’ve likely heard ad nauseum — but hell, it’s true — Lumet was a storyteller, and one that preferred his beloved New York to soundstages (though let’s not romanticize it too much, he _did_ his fair share of work on studio film sets too as most TV journeyman and early studio filmmakers did).

His directing career stretched well over 50 years, from theater and live television to embracing digital video with his final film, 2007’s outstanding “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead.” Across that time, Lumet was nominated for five Oscars including four for directing (“12 Angry Men,” “Dog Day Afternoon,” “Network,” “The Verdict”) and one for adapted screenwriting (“Prince of the City”), but astonishingly, never won. Although he was given a Honorary Academy Award in 2005, as Spike Lee (the influence on whom from Lumet can be felt in every picture) tweeted on hearing the news, “Sidney was Nominated 5 Times for Best Director and was ROBBED. Eventually he got an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement. They always do that Shit.”

We’re not going to sugarcoat it — not every film was a stone-cold classic. There are bad films on this list, and even worse ones that we couldn’t bear ourselves to write about — the nadir being a Rebecca DeMornay/Don Johnson potboiler, “Guilty As Sin.” But Lumet was a pragmatist, as he wrote in his 1995 book “Making Movies” (a _must-read_ for anyone who’s serious about directing film), “I’ve done two movies because I needed the money. I’ve done three because I love to work and couldn’t wait anymore. Because I’m a professional, I worked as hard on those movies as on any I’ve done.” And, across his career, the good far, far outweighs the bad, and he got to go out on top with the gripping 2007 picture, “Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead” which seemed to demonstrate every trait that cinephiles loved about Lumet’s steady and mature hand.

Over and above anything else, Lumet loved film, dedicating his erudite, moving Oscar acceptance speech to his peers and the medium, saying “I’d like to thank the movies. I know that sounds general, but it’s very real to me. I’ve got the best job, in the best profession in the world, and I just want to thank all of it.” As Martin Scorsese put it with Lumet’s passing comes, “an end of an era.” He will be immensely missed, but his venerable body of work will endure.

Below, The Playlist team have assembled a selection from that titanic career. With close to 100 screen directing credits, when including his vast body of TV work, it feels like we’ve barely scratched the surface — but, while we happily could have spent months on this, time and space didn’t allow it. Hopefully, we’ve managed to cover the most significant pictures. And what better way to pay tribute to the man than by sitting down with one over the weekend?

[]“12 Angry Men” (1957)
It’s a start that few directors have had: after a half-decade or so directing TV, Lumet got his chance at a full-length feature film and turned in a classic. A gripping, brilliant human drama that espouses the highest of ideals, “12 Angry Men” also set out the stall for many of Lumet’s recurring preoccupations: guilt, innocence, prejudice, liberalism, the justice system, and the role of the individual. The staginess of the film’s main setting (it featured prominently in our feature about single location films), its roots as a teleplay and the fact that, well, it’s about 12 men arguing with no car chases, no gangsters and no sex to liven things up, add up to a film that on paper has all the ingredients of an unappetizing, if possibly nourishing, meal. Instead it’s a banquet of masterful performances (particularly from Henry Fonda, who, notoriously self-critical, believed it one of his three best), taut, smart screenwriting and razor-sharp editing, displaying a master’s grasp of pacing. While some of the details of the plot are a little outdated now, that hardly detracts from the keenly observed mechanics of power, persuasion and manipulation on display. But what’s perhaps most surprising about such a smart film, is that it never mistakes cynicism for intelligence. Its ultimate conclusions — that ideals are worth fighting for, that one man can make a difference and that even the worst of people can be gently prodded towards decency — are quietly devastating in their humanism and positivity, but are entirely earned and entirely the opposite of trite. “12 Angry Men” is everything a thinking person’s film should be, and only the first example of the kind of intelligent, restrained, grown-up filmmaking that Lumet would go on to bring us many more times over his long career. In the whispered words of Fonda himself at a screening of an early cut, “Sidney, it’s magnificent.” [A]

[]“The Fugitive Kind” (1960)
Since it’s the only SIDNEY LUMET film on the CRITERION COLLECTION and it stars the great Marlon Brando, it must be his best film, right? While semi-compelling and well-acted on the themes of loneliness and human misconnection, mmm, not quite. Based on Tennessee Williams’ 1957 play “Orpheus Descending” (he co-wrote the screenplay with Meade Roberts), this Southern Gothic tale centers on a snakeskin jacket-wearing drifter/musician (Brando) who finds trouble when he wanders into a nameless Mississippi town. And like a few of Williams’ lesser film adaptations there’s lots of sweaty passion, unrequited desires and tempestuous melodrama, but the narratives tend to get a little rudderless. Brando’s thrown in jail early on and tries to get out of this two-bit town, but soon becomes involved with two different sorts of helpless women; the alcoholic wild child (Joanne Woodward) and the embittered wife of a dying shoe salesman who he eventually starts to work for (Anna Magnani). Both of these women provide their conflicts, but only the latter feels integral to the story. As critic JONATHAN ROSENBAUM observed, Lumet feels out of his East Coast element in this picture and despite the ace credentials of the principals, this disappointing effort doesn’t ever really gel. [C+]

question: For what is Sidney Lumet remembered?

answer: Sidney Lumet was a filmmaker and one of cinema's true titans. He was a storyteller with a career that spanned more than 5 decades. His career spanned theater, television, and digital video. He was awarded an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement but despite being nominated five times for an Oscar, he never took one home.

question: What was the cause of Lumet's death?


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[Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire: an enfilade of nine state rooms runs the length of the palace (marked “N” to “G” at the top of the figure) – note alignment of doors between rooms] In architecture, an ENFILADE is a suite of rooms formally aligned with each other. This was a common feature in grand European architecture from the Baroque period onward, although there are earlier examples, such as the Vatican stanze. The doors entering each room are aligned with the doors of the connecting rooms along a single axis, providing a vista through the entire suite of rooms. The enfilade may be used as a processional route and is a common arrangement in museums and art galleries, as it facilitates the movement of large numbers of people through a building.

Baroque palaces

[View down an enfilade in a palace in Saint Petersburg ] In a Baroque palace, access down an enfilade suite of state rooms typically was restricted by the rank or degree of intimacy of the visitor. The first rooms were more public, and usually at the end was the bedroom, sometimes with an intimate cabinet or boudoir beyond. Baroque protocol dictated that visitors of lower rank than their host would be escorted by servants down the enfilade to the farthest room their status allowed. If the visitor was of equal or higher rank, the host would advance down the enfilade to meet their guest, before taking the visitor back.

At parting, the same ritual would be observed, although the host might pay their guest a compliment by taking them back farther than their rank strictly dictated. If a person of much higher rank visited, these rituals extended beyond the enfilade to the entrance hall, the gates to the palace, or beyond (in modern State visits, to the airport).

Memoirs and letters of the period often note the exact details of where meetings and partings occurred, even to whether they were in the centre of the room, or at the door.

Royal palaces

Royal palaces often had separate enfiladed state apartments for the king and queen, as at the Palace of Versailles, with the grand appartement du roi and the grand appartement de la reine (not to mention the petit appartement du roi), or at Hampton Court Palace. Such suites also were used for entertaining.

Noblemen's houses, especially if a visit from the monarch was hoped for, often feature enfiladed suites, as at Chatsworth House, Blenheim Palace, the Château de Louveciennes, or Boughton House. The bedrooms in such suites were often only slept in on royal visits, although as with many grand bedrooms before the nineteenth century, they might be used for other purposes. Other enfilades culminated in a room used as a throne room. The Palace of Westminster, shown below, comes into this category, as the monarch sits on a throne in the chamber of the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament.

Palace of Westminster

[In the Palace of Westminster there is an uninterrupted view from the Peers' Chamber (D), right through Central Lobby (E), to the Commons Chamber(F)] Sir Charles Barry's Palace of Westminster, more commonly known as the Houses of Parliament, has an enfilade of three Royal apartments that continues through the two legislative Chambers of the Lords and Commons. The enfilade of State Rooms presents a view from the Robing Room and Royal Gallery – B and C on the plan at right – through to the Prince's Chamber. From the throne in the adjacent Lords' Chamber (D) there is an uninterrupted view through three lobbies – Lords', Central, and Members' Lobby – to the Speaker's Chair in the Commons Chamber at the other end of the Palace. (Lords' Lobby and Members' Lobby are the round and square spaces to the left and right of E on the Plan)

National Gallery, London

Barry also used a number of enfilades in his extension to the National Gallery, London,[1] built as an art gallery. These have been extended and added to in the recent Sainsbury Wing (despite the wing being at an angle to the earlier building), so that now the view down the longest enfilade traverses fifteen rooms.[2]

[1] See “Alteration and expansion” section of Wikipedia's National Gallery article.

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title: Enfilade (architecture)

question: What does the text say about the functionality of an enfilade.

answer: An enfilade provided a vista through an entire suite of rooms, which made it able to be used as a processional route. It is also a common arrangement in museums and art galleries because it facilitates the movement of a large number of people. In Baroque and royal palaces, they often would denote a certain social ranking for visitors. In Baroque enfilades, the front rooms were more public for lower rank and the back rooms were more private for higher rank. In royal palaces, separate enfiladed apartments were made for the king and queen and other enfilades were for a throne room.

question: What does the text say about social rank?

answer: In Baroque palaces, enfilades would often denote social rank due. Access down an enfilade suite of state rooms typically was restricted by the rank or degree of intimacy of a visitor. There was a ritual observed both for entering and exiting, where visitors of lower rank than their host would be escorted by servants down the enfilade to the farthest room their status allowed. If the visitor was of equal or higher rank, the host would advance down the enfilade to take their visitor back. In royal palaces, there were enfiladed state apartments for the king and queen and noblemen's houses with enfiladed suites for visiting monarchs.

question: What does the text say about bedrooms?

answer: Being that some enfilades' first rooms were more public, the back rooms were for privacy. This means that the bedrooms would usually be at the end of the enfilades with an intimate cabinet or boudoir beyond. The bedrooms in Noblemen's houses were usually only slept in on royal visits. However, they may be used for other purposes like many other grand bedrooms before the nineteenth century.

question: What does the text say about washrooms?


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Back in 2007 I was just a fresh faced 24 year old who had recently returned from backpacking and was ready to gamble my future on a business idea my brother had conjured up. So, instead of getting a ‘proper’ job upon my return, I worked night and day with him to build Sprint Education.

As the business turns 10 years old this year I think it’s the perfect time to take a look back and consider some of the crucial business lessons that we have learned whilst building Sprint Education.

There are many of course, however we are going to focus on the most valuable lessons we’ve learned in the hope that you'll find at least one golden nugget of inspiration that you can apply to your own education business.

So let’s kick off with Lesson #1.

Lesson #1: This may shock you but it is… Sack a problem customer!

[sack a problem customer]

This lesson goes against everything you are taught in business…

_“The customer is always right.”_

But I’ve learned the hard way over the years that this ideology isn’t always correct.

Now firstly, I must state that 99.99% of Sprint Education’s clients are outstanding! They work well with my team and together we strive towards a common goal – to make our client more sales from the education sector. However, as with all companies out there, every blue moon a ‘rogue’ will rise up and cause your business or staff problems.

When I was starting out back in 2007 my belief was that the client was always right, no matter what! But this attitude clouded my take on the reality of some situations.

Then an incident occurred a few years ago which changed my thinking altogether. A new client had sent out an email campaign with us, with part of his email asking schools to click through to a well known video hosting website to watch his video. One teacher, having received the email, called our client to explain that their school’s filtering system did not allow her to access this website so could he send them the video directly to watch.

After speaking with this teacher the client then phoned me up, and for the first and only time in 10 years, he unleashed a torrent of abuse too rude to type in this blog. The client’s issue revolved around his opinion that Sprint Education had the power to alter any school’s web filters across the UK so they could access any website, and why had we not done this before launching the campaign so the school in question could watch his video?

I tried in vain to explain it was impossible for us to alter schools' web filters and that we didn’t possess magic powers to fiddle with other organisations' systems. I explained that website filtering is usually managed internally by a school’s Network Manager and that they alone possessed the power to un-restrict certain websites, not Sprint Education. However, the client refused to believe this was true and continued in his demands for me to alter the school’s website filters.

Two days later the client phoned me back, and having now done his own research he understood that what I had explained was correct, and I was not at fault, and also because he had made several sales from the email he was really happy to book in his next campaign.

The question then hit me, what should I do? Take the money and book in the next campaign, or maintain my company’s self-respect?

Whilst he spoke to me on the phone I thought back to how he had spoken to me in his moment of rage, and I then considered what the greater effects would have been had he spoken not to me, but instead to one of my staff in this way. How would they feel, would it dampen their enthusiasm for working at Sprint Education? It certainly would have been very unpleasant for them!

It was at this point I had my moment of clarity.

I could not let anyone speak to me or my team in such an unprofessional manner, no matter what the reason and how much money they were offering for a new booking. After all, one of my team members is my Mum (and no one would want their Mum spoken to in this way). So I decided it was the right decision to ‘sack’ the client.

As the client was talking, I politely interrupted him and calmly explained that due to how he had handled the previous discussion with me I had taken the decision to not work with him or his company again, that our ideas of a positive working relationship were clearly poles apart, and that I wished him all the best with his education marketing in the future. I left it at that.

Over the years they’ve tried a couple of times to work with us again after the initial campaign generated so many sales for them, but each time I have politely refused their request. It’s a tactic that I’ve reluctantly and rarely had to employ over the years, but sometimes when you get the feeling that a new enquiry is going to turn bad or may have a negative effect on your business, or even your staff’s morale, then trust your gut instinct and pass up the opportunity. You, your team, and even the client will all be much happier in the long term.

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question: What does the text say about how to become a good teacher?

question: What does the text say about Sprint Education?

answer: Sprint Education is a family-run business that was founded by two brothers back in 2007. Now the business is 10 years old. It seems like Sprint Education is a company that runs email marketing and sales campaigns for its clients in the education sector.

question: What does the text say about Sprint Education's ability to alter its clients' website filtering system?

answer: Sprint Education does not have the power to alter an organization's web filters. It is impossible because website filtering is managed internally by a school's Network Manager. Only an organization's IT department can un-restrict certain websites.

question: What does the text say about problem customers?

answer: One of the owners of Sprint Education says that the customer is not always right. Problem customers such as those who are abusive towards the staff or management should be sacked immediately. It's not all about the money because a problem customer has greater effects on the morale of staff members should they be unlucky enough to deal with it.


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[How to Help Someone With Depression]

Verywell / Bailey Mariner

If someone you love has depression, you may wonder how you can help. You may even experience a range of difficult feelings of your own, such as worry, disappointment, and anger.

 Overview

If you live with someone who is depressed and see their day-to-day life, you may be confused and even afraid at times. And if you have never been depressed yourself, you might have a hard time imagining what it feels like. You may not know much about the causes of depression, how it's diagnosed, or what treatment options are available.

There are many steps you can take to educate yourself about your loved one's experience with depression, but you also need to take care of your own mental health and well-being. Below are 10 things you can do to help someone you love who has depression.

 10 Ways to Help

While every person's experience with depression is unique (as is the experience of supporting someone who is depressed) here are a few ideas to start with.

 Take Care of Yourself

You won't be able to support someone else if you are feeling overwhelmed and depleted yourself. Periodically take some time to step back from the situation and recharge your batteries.

While you can't "catch" depression the way you would a cold or the flu, the shared genetic and environmental influences may make it more likely that people who live together or are members of the same family will become depressed.

 Acknowledge Your Feelings

Depression can be demanding both for the person experiencing it and those who care about them. Remember that your feelings are a valid response to what can be, at times, a challenging situation to navigate.

You may find it helpful to find a caretaker support group, talk with a close friend, or see a counselor. The important thing is to vent your frustrations rather than allowing them to build up.

 Get the Facts on Depression

There are trusted resources on the internet that provide facts about depression, including symptoms and treatment. Reading up on what depression can feel like as well as the myths, misconceptions, and stigma around mental illness, can help you better understand your loved one's experience.

 Research Your Rights

You should also learn about the other aspects of living with depression, such as informed consent and the legal rights of people seeking treatment. You may also want to inform yourself and your loved one about the relevant disability laws in your state for people who have a mental illness.

 Be Supportive

Sometimes, the most helpful thing you can offer to someone going through a hard time is your presence. Just providing a listening ear or a shoulder to cry on can be very comforting. Be patient and let your loved one know you are there for them.

You may decide to share what you've learned about depression in your research, but the most important thing you can tell them is that you understand depression is not their fault and that they are not lazy, weak, or worthless.

 It's Not Personal

Depression can impair a person's social skills as well as make them feel less like being around others. They may become withdrawn, shy, sullen, and angry.

While it can be hard to be on the receiving end of an outburst, when someone who is depressed lashes out in anger, keep in mind that it may not be related to you at all—you might have just been in the wrong place at the wrong time.

When your loved one pulls away from you, it can be very difficult not to take it personally—especially if you are in a romantic relationship. If your partner doesn't feel like having sex, you may feel rejected or worry they don't love you anymore.

Try to keep in mind that loss of sex drive is a classic symptom of depression. Sexual dysfunction can also be a side effect of the medications used to treat it.

 Avoid Judgment and Blame

If someone you love is depressed and no longer able to do the activities they used to, including working or helping around the house, you may feel like they are lazy. When you get frustrated, try to remember that someone who is depressed isn't lazy—they're ill. Everyday activities like cleaning the house, paying bills, or feeding the dog may seem overwhelming, if not impossible, to someone who is depressed.

If your loved one's responsibilities around the house are piling up, you may not be able to take them on yourself.

In addition to resisting the urge to blame your loved one, try not to blame yourself either. Know that it's OK if you need to ask for help.

 Understand Medications

Many people with depression take medication, if not several. One practical way you can help them is by educating yourself on how the medication works, what the side effects are, and knowing signs to look for that would indicate the treatment is not working or that your loved one has stopped taking a medication (i.e., withdrawal symptoms).

You can also help them remember to refill prescriptions, keep their pills organized, make sure they are taking their medication as prescribed, and reassuring them that they are not "crazy" for needing to take it.

 Offer Hope

Offer your loved one hope in whatever form they are able to accept it. It may be a faith in God or another kind of higher power, their children or pets, or anything in their life that makes them want to keep living.

Know what matters to your loved one and find ways to remind them of it when they feel down and hopeless. Be sure to remind yourself of these things, too.

If someone with depression is showing signs of suicidal ideation, self-harming, or you are worried they are planning to attempt suicide, they need immediate help.

For your loved one's safety, know the warning signs that could indicate they are suicidal, such as:

-   Preoccupation with death
-   Creating a will or giving away possessions
-   Talking openly about wanting to kill oneself
-   Saying goodbye as though it's the last time
-   Development of a suicide plan, acquiring the means to carry it out, "rehearsal" behavior, setting a time for the attempt
-   Statements like, "You'd be better off without me" or "I wish I could go to sleep and never wake up."
-   Suddenly switching from being very depressed to being very happy or calm for no apparent reason

 Love Them Unconditionally

People who are depressed often feel a deep sense of guilt. They may believe that they are a burden to those around them. Sometimes, they even begin to feel that their loved ones would be "better off" with them.

One of the ways you can combat these feelings is by regularly showing and telling them that you love them unconditionally. When you become discouraged or angry, it's important to reassure them that you are frustrated with their illness, not them.

When you care about someone with depression and are trying to find the best way to help, it's essential that you have some support yourself. Whether it comes from other people in your life or a support group for caregivers, taking care of yourself not only strengthens your ability to help your loved one but also sets a positive example of good self-care.

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question: What do you do if you cannot help someone who is depressed?

answer: You can reach out to friends and family for help.

question: What if a depressed person you're trying to help doesn't want your help?

answer: You can reach out for help from other family members or professionals.

question: Can you feel stressed from helping a suicidal person?

answer: It might be implied that you can, and it's advisable to take care of yourself too.

question: What do you do when your loved one becomes suicidal?

answer: Reach out for help.

question: Can someone with depression still live a normal life?

answer: That information is not known.

question: Is it advisable for a depressed person to live alone?

answer: It might be implied it's not advisable because they will need all the support they can get.

question: Can you get depressed from associating with a depressed person?

answer: It might be implied it is possible.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: Helping someone you know with depression can go a long way in preserving the person's life. You should understand the illness and what you can do to control it both for yourself and the person living with depression. It is advisable for individuals who want to help depressed people to know how to help them by; understanding the illness, avoiding judgment and blame, understanding medications, being supportive, acknowledging how you feel, understanding it's not personal, research your rights, and take care of yourself.


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KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH VON BREYER (29 September 1771, in Heutingsheim – 28 April 1818, in Munich) was a German historian.

From 1789 he studied philosophy and theology at the Tübinger Stift in Tübingen, then from 1797 furthered his education at the University of Jena as a student of Johann Gottlieb Fichte. In 1803 he became an associate professor, and during the following year, was appointed professor of history and statistics at the University of Landshut. In 1807 he became a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, and later on, a professor of history at the lyceum in Munich.[1][2]

Principal works

-   _Grundriss der Universalgeschichte_, 1804 – Outline of universal history.
-   _Ueber den Begriff der Universalgeschichte_, 1805 – On the concept of universal history.
-   _Beyträge zur Geschichte des dreysigjährigen Krieges_, 1812 – On the history of the Thirty Years War.
-   _Grundriss der allgemeinen Geschichte in Tabellen für die studienschulen des Königreiches Baiern_, 1820 – Outline of universal history tables for school studies in the Kingdom of Bavaria.[3]

[1] Franz Xaver von Wegele: ADB:Breyer, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von at Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie

[2] Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopaedie (biography)

[3] Google Search (published works)

title: Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Breyer

question: How is Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Von Breyer described?

answer: He is described as a German historian.

question: What subjects did Breyer study at the Tubinfer Stift in Tubingen?

answer: He studied philosophy and theology.

question: What career achievements did Breyer achieve in 1807?

answer: Breyer became a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and a professor of history at the lyceum in Munich.

question: How many principal works of Breyer's is noted in the article?

answer: Four principal works of Breyer's is noted in the article.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: This article describes Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Von Breyer's career history as being a German historian.


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We’re still waiting for an episode set inside a shopping mall.

In many ways, “THE WALKING DEAD” is a continuation of what GEORGE ROMERO started way back in 1968. The show, as many of its key creative forces admitted in the wake of Romero’s passing, simply would not exist without _Night of the Living Dead_, _Dawn of the Dead_ and _Day of the Dead_ paving the way – after all, it was Romero who created the modern day zombie.

But it isn’t just because “The Walking Dead” is a zombie show that it owes a debt to George Romero. Much like Romero’s films, the zombies in “The Walking Dead” are often presented as something more than mindless monsters, and so too does the show focus much of its time on the human characters and their struggles in a post-apocalyptic world.

Simply put, “The Walking Dead” is the closest anyone who’s not George Romero has ever come to recapturing what Romero did with his seminal zombie masterpieces.

And I assure you, that’s very much by intention. Not only was “The Walking Dead” creator Robert Kirkman directly inspired by Romero, but one of the key creative forces on the show is also a student of Romero’s. Makeup effects master GREG NICOTERO, executive producer and frequent episode director on “The Walking Dead,” got his start working under Tom Savini on Romero’s _Day of the Dead_, and it’s Nicotero who often directly pays tribute to his friend and mentor in the episodes he directs.

Nicotero’s “zombie tributes” on “The Walking Dead” have become little fun Easter eggs for fans, paying tribute to zombie films that Nicotero is a personal fan of. Of course, many of those homages are direct tributes to George Romero’s enduring creations, and we wanted to highlight all of those tributes for you here today.

Here’s what they are and where to find them!

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1) Flyboy (_Dawn of the Dead_) – Season 3, Episode 5

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2) Plaid Shirt Zombie (_Dawn of the Dead_) – Season 3, Episode 15

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3) Bub (_Day of the Dead_) – Season 4, Episode 15

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4) The Crate (_Creepshow_) – Season 5, Episode 1

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5) Machete Zombie (_Dawn of the Dead_) – Season 5, Episode 16

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6) _Creepshow_ Poster Art – Season 7, Episode 12

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7) Johnny (_Night of the Living Dead_) – Season 6, Episode 6 (*Deleted Scene*)

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8) Dr. Tongue (_Day of the Dead_) – Season 7, Episode 16

question: Summarize everything about George Romero.

answer: George Romero is the creator of Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and Day of the Dead. He created the modern-day zombie that influenced the TV show "The Walking Dead."

question: Who is Greg Nicotero?

answer: Greg is the executive producer and frequent episode director on "The Walking Dead." He has worked under Tom Savini on Romero’s Day of the Dead.

question: How did Greg Nicotero pay tribute to George Romero?

answer: In the episodes he directed, Greg left some "zombie tributes" as fun Easter eggs for fans to find to pay homage to George Romero's creations.

question: In what seasons and episodes of "The Walking Dead" can these zombie tributes found?

answer: These zombie tributes are in S3E5, S3E15, S4E15, S5E1; S5E16; S7E12, S6E6, and S7E16.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: The zombies in the TV show "The Walking Dead" are influenced by George Romero's Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and Day of the Dead. Executive producer Greg Nicotero pays tribute to George Romero by leaving some "zombie tributes" as fun Easter eggs for fans to find in some episodes of The Walking Dead.


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Proctor was lying down somewhere. He didn't know how he got there. The last memory he could think of was that he was driving down his road. He couldn't remember much else. His memories were hazy; He couldn't think straight. Just as these thoughts were going through his head, someone began to shake his arm.
“Hello? Are you okay? Are you awake?” He heard the voice say.
Proctor sat up, and opened his eyes. He realized now that he was in a large grassy field. The sun was just overhead, a large tree stood just in front of him, and the stranger was standing in front of the tree.
“My name is Royce, can you remember your name?”
“Yes, It’s…”
Proctor stopped himself. Although Royce seemed friendly enough, but there was something odd about the question he had asked. “How did you know I was having trouble with my memory?” He said.
Royce began to look confused,  “I don’t know. I guess you did wake up unconscious in the middle of a field.”
	“That makes sense.” he thought out loud, “my name’s Proctor since you asked.”
“Proctor, of course” Royce didn't sound very surprised.
	“Okay,” he said confused and slightly agitated, “Well since you know so much, can you tell me where we are?”
	Royce looked around the field, up at the tree and then back at Proctor. “Well, by appearance I’d say we’re in a field in front of a castle. But I can’t really say anything beyond that. I woke up just a few seconds before you did. I can’t remember much either.”
	“Where is this castle? I don’t see it?”
	“Well it’s… Just over that hill.”
	Proctor turned around and saw that there was indeed a very large hill. It surprised him that he didn't see it before, but maybe his mind was playing tricks on him. It took him a few minutes to climb up the hill and he was slightly out of breath when he reached the top. But as Royce had said, there was a castle about a mile away. It was made of stone, like most castles would be, it had a large wooden door, plenty of towers, and it looked like it was about four stories high. He ran to the bottom of the hill, going a bit faster since gravity was no longer working against him.
	Royce was standing in the same spot he had left him in. He was still staring at the hill. “I saw the castle right where you said it was. Do you think we should head over there? They might be able to help us with our memory.”
	“Yeah that would be a good idea,” Royce said as he continued to stare at the hill “It would also provide shelter for when it starts to rain.”
	Proctor looked up. The sky was completely covered with clouds and he could hear thunder in the distance.
	Royce seemed less suspicious now that he got to know him. They actually had quite a bit in common. They were about the same age, had similar interests and they both remember driving a car before they ended up in the field. There was however one deviation. Royce seemed to have ESP. Proctor could remember a few instances where Royce had repeated things that he had never said out loud, and then there was that hill. Could he really have climbed all the way to the top to see the castle and then ran back down before waking him up? He had said earlier that he woke up a few seconds before he did and he didn't sound like he was out of breath.
	The rain came just a few minutes before they reached the castle. Up close, Proctor could see that the castle was very rundown. The door had rotted away and he couldn't make out what was inside. He debated with himself whether or not it was a good idea to go in. But after hearing a loud crash of thunder nearby, he decided that electrocution would be a more painful death than stabbing.
	Upon entering the castle it was plain to be seen that it had been abandoned for quite some time. The skeletons of rats lay on the ground as if they had run out of food to scavenge for. The only sound they could hear were the sounds of rain and thunder outside, and the flowing of the many streams that ran through the lower parts of the castle.
The outer rooms of the castle showed signs of abandonment, but rooms further in… were different. A great battle had once taken place in there. Skeletons were all over the ground. They held spears, swords, and shields. Walls were broken down, there were claw marks on the floor and ceiling, and the furniture that wasn't broken in these rooms, was burned.  The destruction was everywhere, but it wasn't so bad that it ruined the structural integrity of the castle. Most of the major support beams were still in place and they were handling the extra weight pretty well.
“I think a dragon is bit more dangerous than getting struck by lightning!” Royce said panicking.
“A lot more,” said Proctor, “do you think we could get out before it notices us?”
As if to answer his question a giant mechanical dragon crashed through the ceiling right above their only exit. Steam came out of the many pipes on its back and its eyes glowed red from the flames that were now shooting from its mouth. Proctor remained frozen in place, both from shock at the dragon’s sudden appearance and shock from its appearance. Royce spoke up knocking him out of his stupor, “its name is Koshmar,” he said. “it is programmed to kill all who trespass.”
The dragon shook the rubble from its body and lunged forward. Proctor dove to the left, just barely avoiding the swipe of one of its claws. The beast ran straight for the wall and Crawled up it. It twisted around and shot a couple of fireballs. Proctor grabbed a shield from one of the skeletons, but saw that he didn't need it. Koshmar was directing all of its attacks at Royce. Proctor dropped his shield and replaced it with a spear. He ran toward the dragon in an attempt to stab one of its eyes. He didn't make it very far though and was sent flying by a lazy swipe of its tail. He landed near the window and could see Koshmar was shooting fireballs once again. Thunder crashed outside, and lightning struck in the distance…
Wait a second? There was something very illogical about what was going on here. Just an hour earlier he had noticed that the sun was directly overhead and not a cloud was in the sky, but now he was in the middle of a huge thunder storm! And when he woke up there wasn't a hill in sight, but he had crossed over one to see the castle! Now that he was thinking of the castle, didn't it have a wooden door when he first saw it? And what about the thunder! Doesn't thunder usually come after lightning? Where was he? Was he in some alternate dimension that was ruled by mechanical Russian dragons? Then the answer hit him. The dragon, its name was Koshmar. Koshmar is the Russian word for nightmare. He was dreaming! All he had to do was wake himself up, and this nightmare would end.
Proctor thought he was in a dream, and in a way, he was right. Moments later Royce woke up in a hospital bed, and Proctor… ceased to exist.

title: The caretaker

question: When is this story taking place? Sometime after cars were invented.

answer: The text doesn't say exactly.

question: What is Royce's relationship with Proctor?

answer: They're strangers. At first, they seem to both have suddenly woken up in this story after driving in their cars. Then it's revealed that Proctor was an invention of Royce's imagination in a nightmare.

question: Explain the significance of the castle.

answer: The castle is unfamiliar to both characters but is a dark, run-down place inhabited by a mechanical dragon.

question: Is there more than one dragon in this story?

answer: No, not within this text.

question: Is Proctor a human or some other kind of creature?

answer: The text implies he is a human.

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: Strangers Proctor and Royce both wake up in an unfamiliar place and the last thing they remember is driving in their own car. They move through a series of unpleasant circumstances involving thunderstorms and a dragon. Proctor realizes Royce knows and sees things before he does and realizes he's having a nightmare. It turns out Royce was the one dreaming, Proctor was a figment of his nightmare, and Royce then wakes up in a hospital bed.


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DELI-MARKO (, “Wild Marko”; 1596–1619) or MARKO SEGEDINAC (, “Marko of Segedin”), was a Serb _hajduk_ and military commander in Habsburg service, active during the Long Turkish War.

He was mentioned for the first time after 1590, as a youngster commanding a band of Serb soldiers in the service of Sigismund Báthory, the Prince of Transylvania. Báthory's army which headed to liberate Timișoara included notable Serbs, such as Đorđe Rac, Deli-Marko, and Sava Temišvarac. The army managed to conquer the Serbian part of the town.[1] These Serb leaders, including Starina Novak, fought as part of the Transylvanian Army, but carried out independent raids south of the Danube, into what is today Bulgaria and Serbia,[2] even managing to raid as deep as Plovdiv and Adrianople.[3] Deli-Marko's bold maneuvers in Ottoman territory enraged the Ottoman government. He raided merchant caravans and ships, and even went as far as across the Balkan Mountains and to the Maritsa river. The Serb commanders mainly operated outside Transylvania, with the support of the Emperor. The Serb soldiers and refugees were taken care of by the War Council in Vienna.

In 1605, together with Sava Temišvarac, he left Transylvania and crossed to western Hungary. The Long Turkish War ended in 1606 with the Peace of Zsitvatorok. When Emperor Rudolf II started quarreling with his brother, Matthias, Temišvarac, Đorđe Rac and Deli-Marko supported the latter, joining with their people. All mercenary bands commanded by the three Serb leaders participated in the march on Rudolf II.

Deli-Marko joined the forces of Italian general Giorgio Basta. In 1616 he moved to Transylvania.

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title: Deli-Marko

question: Who was Deli-Marko?

answer: A serb hajduk and military commander in Habsburg service.

question: What was one of Deli-Marko's nicknames?

answer: Wild Marco

question: How did Deli-Marko die?

answer: That information can't be found.

question: What war did Deli-Marko fight in?

answer: The Long Turkish War

question: Who was Sava Temišvarac?

answer: Unclear who that is, although together with Sava, Deli-Marko left Transylvania for western Hungary.

question: What nationality was Deli-Marko?

answer: Serb

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: Deli-Marko was a Serb hajduk and military commander. He served during the Long Turkish War.


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_HIDING IN HIP-HOP: ON THE DOWN LOW IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY—FROM MUSIC TO HOLLYWOOD_ is a 2008 memoir by the former MTV executive Terrance Dean.

Summary

_Hiding in Hip-Hop_ begins with an account of Dean's traumatic childhood growing up impoverished to abusive, drug addicted parents and how these childhood experiences led him to the entertainment industry.

Dean then goes on to discuss how he got involved in a secret gay hip-hop subculture and his first parties. He gives graphic depictions of sexual acts between men he either participated in or witnessed, some allegedly involving well-known rappers or Hollywood celebrities. Throughout the book, Dean refers to himself and various individuals as being “down-low” or “down-low gay”: men who have sex with men but do not consider themselves gay or are in the closet.[1] He poses the question: “What I'm truly hoping for is the start of a real conversation about why, in this very contemporary day and age, we as black people are still made to feel that we cannot be comfortable in our skin?”[2]

Dean discusses the “macho”, “gangster” image that is the corner-stone but does not define the hip-hop industry, and how it plays against the “sissy” “weak” image of the gay community. He states that there is a “veil of secrecy” over homosexuality in the hip-hop industry that even the paparazzi won't breach. Dean states that by outing himself and coming to terms with his sexuality, he might help other individuals or improve hip-hop and Hollywood as a whole.[3]

Publication

In 2007 the publishing company Simon & Schuster announced that they would be publishing a book by Terrance Dean that would out gay men in the entertainment industry.[4] In 2008 _Hiding in Hip-Hop_ was published by Atria, a subsidiary of Simon & Schuster.[5] Contrary to its marketing, the book does not name real-life hip-hop artists, but rather contains “blind items”: allegedly gay rappers are assigned pseudonyms.[6]

Reception

The _Movie Nation_ critic Wesley Morris described the book's prose as “E. Lynn Harris sending Terry McMillan a one-handed email from his BlackBerry”. He stated that the blind items were unremarkable: “it doesn't sound like there's anything all that scandalous here. From a pop-culture standpoint, this all seems moot.”[7] Black entertainment magazine _Essence_ listed _Hiding in Hip-Hop_ as a best-selling non-fiction book in November 2008, based upon sales from African-American bookstores throughout the United States.[8]

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title: Hiding in Hip-Hop

question: What is Hiding in Hip-Hop?

answer: a 2008 memoir by former MTV executive Terrance Dean

question: What is down-low?

answer: men who have sex with men but do not consider themselves gay or are in the closet

question: What are "blind items"?

answer: the article does not answer this question

question: What gay men in the entertainment industry are outed in Hiding in Hip-Hop?

answer: No gay men are outed in Hiding in Hip-Hop; allegedly gay rappers are assigned pseudonyms.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: Hiding in Hip-Hop: On the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry - From Music to Hollywood is a 2008 Mmeoir by former MTV executive Terrance Dean which purports to document an extensive homosexual subculture within the hip-hop industry.


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Friday, June 24, 2016 by Elizabeth Pagano

__ Austin

Downtown visitors and residents will no longer have to rely on street smarts or commerce to find relief in that area of town. On Thursday, City Council approved a resolution that will usher in the city’s first public restrooms, though they will be temporary for the time being.

The resolution, which will lead to two temporary facilities downtown, passed in a vote of 8-2-1, with Council members Don Zimmerman and Ellen Troxclair voting in opposition and Council Member Sheri Gallo abstaining.

Zimmerman made it clear that the plans for the test toilets were a bit too grandiose for his tastes. He made an unsupported motion to reduce the number of restroom facilities from two to one. He also expressed disbelief at the cost of the program — $272,000 total for a year’s worth of rental costs, cleaning and an attendant.

“The toilet is going to be staffed?” asked Zimmerman. He was told that yes, that would be the case.

Mayor Pro Tem Kathie Tovo vigorously defended the temporary model, which will allow the city to test different locations around town before committing to what will ultimately be a permanent public bathroom downtown.

Gallo inquired whether the city had asked the Downtown Austin Alliance to pay for the cost of the restrooms, saying she was a “proponent of looking for partners to help fund” programs. She pointed out that the DAA does collect fees from downtown residents and said she would be uncomfortable with the city funding the program until that alternative was investigated. Gallo also suggested that the city could use hotel occupancy taxes to fund the facilities but was told that the program would not qualify for use of those funds.

“It’s a good idea. But I don’t know, necessarily, whether it’s a city responsibility,” said Gallo. “I support the idea, I just think the funding source should be considered.”

In response, Tovo noted that this was the second resolution on the topic but the first time the funding suggestion had been made. She said that it was not in the DAA budget and, moreover, that it was entirely appropriate for the city to fund the program.

“It has become a public health issue in the downtown area. It is impacting the quality of the water in our creeks. It is impacting the quality of the experience our visitors are speaking about when they come to the city of Austin,” said Tovo. “And I would argue it is not just a matter of public health, it is one of human dignity. Unfortunately, we have individuals who are living on the streets of our downtown, and they have no options other than to relieve themselves on the streets of our downtown.”

Council Member Ora Houston pointed out that the issue also extended to the elderly as well as downtown visitors who have children.

Tovo said that she would support future discussion about funding options for the permanent facilities, which will be modeled after the Portland Loo program in Oregon.

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AUSTIN CITY COUNCIL: The Austin City Council is the body with legislative purview over the City of Austin. It offers policy direction, while the office of the City Manager implements administrative actions based on those policies. Until 2012, the body contained seven members, including the city's Mayor, all elected at-large. In 2012, City of Austin residents voted to change that system and now 10 members of the Council are elected based on geographic districts. The Mayor continues to be elected at-large.

CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT: A zoning designation that describes the business district of downtown Austin.

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT: This city department promotes community health through programs like WIC, maternal and child health, birth and death certificates, restaurant inspections, and grants administration.

question: What did city council approve in Austin, Texas?

answer: On Thursday, June 23rd of 2016, Austin City Council voted to approve a resolution to install public restrooms in the city's downtown area. The vote intended to allow citizens in the downtown area access to more available restrooms instead of using stores, which often make you purchase something to use their facilities, or the streets themselves. The vote passed 8-2-1, with Council members Don Zimmerman and Ellen Troxclair opposed, and Sheri Gallo abstaining.

question: Why did Zimmerman vote to oppose the two test rest areas?

answer: Zimmerman believed the costs of the facilities in addition to a year's worth of upkeep (rental costs, cleaning, and the attendant) was too grandiose. He expressed special surprise to the inclusion of the attendant in the plan.

question: What were Gallo's grounds for abstaining?

answer: Gallo was hesitant due to worries about where the money would come from. The Downtown Austin Alliance for instance, which collects fees from downtown residents was her first suggestion for where to look for partnership in helping to fund the operation. Until this alternative was explored, she would not be comfortable voting in favor.

question: What was Mayor Pro Tem Kathie Tovo's argument in defense of the motion?

answer: Tovo emphasized that this was the first time the funding suggestion had been raised despite it being the second resolution on the topic. She furthermore emphasized the public health issues, how without available restrooms for downtown visitors and people who live on the streets of the downtown area, the quality of water in the creeks has suffered. Furthermore, the reputation of the quality of downtown Austin suffers tremendously because of this issue.


text: One day, on a barren dusty rock hurtling through space, circling a big ball of fire, there was an ant. This ant was the last of his colony, maybe even the last of his kind. The ant had seen many things in its short life. It had seen fire spitting giants attack one another, until each giant remained still. He had seen big metallic birds that dropped mushroom seeds into the distance. He had seen smaller giants, half charred, running screaming from flames. The screams were too loud. He had witnessed the entirety of the battle. The battle lasted only twenty moons, but it made all of the green disappear. The ant was hungry. It had already eaten all of its dead brothers. He was thirsty; it didn’t rain anymore, and all the water had been sucked up by giant black tubes. The land around him was barren. But the ant wasn’t concerned. He went back down into his colony’s home, and resumed building his tunnel.

title: A story I wrote. I thought it was awesome, and I want your opinion. Criticism and advice would be welcomed.

question: What has the ant witnessed?

answer: Many battles [and planes dropping nuclear bombs].

question: Where does the ant go?

answer: Back down to his colony's home to build tunnels.

question: What did the ant eat to survive?

answer: It ate its own dead brothers.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: On a planet [Earth after a nuclear war] an ant reflects on how it witnessed many battles. It has eaten its dead brothers and is perhaps the last of its kind, but, unconcerned, it descends to its colony again.


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_PRETTY PIGGIES_ is a cartoon series distributed by Hallmark that was released 1990.

Voices

-   Charlie Adler
-   Brian Cummings
-   Jennifer Darling
-   Michele Mariana
-   John Mariano
-   Susan Silo
-   Kath Soucie
-   Russi Taylor
-   Pat Zimmerman

Synopsis

The Pretty Piggies are a group of anthropomorphic pigs in flowered dresses. One of them, Patricia, has a pair of magic gloves that enable them to travel through time and space. A wicked witch named Madame Queenie wants the gloves for herself, so she chases them to various times and places. Queenie's assistant, Muskrat McToady, would rather help the Piggies than the witch. The Piggies' boyfriends, a group of hot-rodding male pigs called the Squealin' Wheelies, wait for the girls to return.

Episodes

1.  “The Adventure Begins”
2.  “Prehistoric Piggies”
3.  “When in Rome”
4.  “Western Omelette”
5.  “Pork to the Future”

title: Pretty Piggies

question: What is Pretty Piggies?

answer: Pretty Piggies is a cartoon series released in 1990.

question: What is the cartoon about?

answer: Pretty Piggies is about a group of anthropomorphic pigs. They travel through space and time using a pair of magic gloves.

question: How many episodes are listed in the post?

answer: five

question: How many seasons did the cartoon run?

answer: The article doesn't indicate.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: Pretty Piggies is a cartoon series released in 1990. Pretty Piggies is about a group of anthropomorphic pigs. They travel through space and time using a pair of magic gloves.


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SPAUNHORST AND MAYN BUILDING is a historic mixed-use commercial and residential building located at Washington, Franklin County, Missouri. The original two-story brick section was built about 1870, with a one-story addition built about 1892. It sits on a limestone foundation.[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.[2]

[1]  (includes 15 photographs from 2006)

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title: Spaunhorst and Mayn Building

question: What is the Spaunhorst and Mayn Building?

answer: It is a historic mixed-use commercial and residential building.

question: Where is the building located?

answer: Washington, Franklin County, Missouri

question: Summarize everything relating to the building's construction.

answer: The original two-story brick section was built about 1870, with a one-story addition built about 1892. It sits on a limestone foundation.

question: When was the building listed on the National Register of Historic Places?

answer: 2007

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: The Spaunhorst and Mayn Building is a mixed-use commercial and residential building sitting on a limestone foundation constructed in 1870. It listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007 and is located in Washington, Franklin County, Missouri.


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I am the person you pass on the street without noticing, the person you cross the road to avoid. I am the one you turn your head away from in disgust, as though just looking at me tarnishes your good name.

Oh, don't act like you don't understand. Don't deny it, don't you dare.

You see, to you I might be another piece of trash lying at the side of the road, but to me; to me you are everything.

Think.

Think back to the last time we spoke. Do you remember? I was once like you, a long time ago. I, too, had a job and a family, and friends and a dog that yelped excitedly every night when I came home. Can you see it now? Does my face look familiar?

You don't even stop to look me in the eyes as you drop a penny or two into my outstretched hands. No wonder you don't recognise me. You move on quickly lest I begin to pester you for more change; lest I inquire why a man such as you leaves me only a few pennies when you could obviously spare much more.

I, too, once wore a suit just like yours. I know how the silk feels against skin, and how the polished leather shoes enhance the illusion. Now my shoes are torn and tattered, dirty and battered. And you know what? That doesn't make me any less of a person.

So why won't you look at me?

Tell me, please.

Why won't you recognise me?

Do you still have the picture we took, the one where we're fishing? You caught so many fish and I caught nothing, only a dirty old boot that you threw back into the water. As an act of kindness you shared yours with me; I had been grateful because we hadn't brought anything else to eat. Life gave you fish, and me it gave a dirty old boot. Unlucky, I guess.

Now the only fishing I do is in old trashcans.

I live with the night, and go where it takes me. Everyday is a new day - a day with a start, middle and end. The days dont flow into each other anymore, that is one thing I am thankful for. You're still stuck in your endless cycles.

Wake up, go to work, come home at night, go to sleep. Repeat. Over and over, day in and day out.

Now, I don't understand you. How can you stand it, the monotony, the boredom? As children life was exciting and fun. Somehow the innocence mutated, became something else, something so much worse.

So.

I don't envy you. Can you understand that?

I rage, but I don't envy you at all.

Oh, do I see a spark of recognition in your eyes?

Do you know who I am now, finally?

Brother?

title: Hey guys! I'm new to reddit, this is my first post (of many hopefully!). I'm getting into writing short stories and am interested in any opinions you might have. Enjoy!

question: Summarize everything relating to pennies.

answer: A man drops a couple of pennies into a homeless person's outstretched hands.

question: Who is the narrator?

answer: A homeless person.

question: What is the story's twist?

answer: The dismissive businessman the narrator - a beggar - is trying to get to recognize them is their brother.

question: Who is the narrator addressing?

answer: Their brother.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: A homeless person thinks about how their brother is living the monotonous life the narrator had to escape, when the brother passes by on the street and drops pennies into the narrator's outstretched hands, eager to move on without further contact. The narrator sees the moment the brother recognizes them.


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[bHomeContest]

Today, I’m going to let you know about an amazing way to connect to all the blogs & magazines you adore. It’s called bHome, and iPhone | iPad users as well as Android users can download the FREE APP and be a part of our fabulous inspiring Home And Garden Community. You’ll be able to find FrenchGardenHouse and over 40 of your favorite blogs and magazines in one place, ON YOUR PHONE!

If you love Instagram, YOU’LL LOVE THIS APP. There are big photos of your favorite blogs in the home and garden community, and YOU WILL BE ABLE TO CLICK DIRECTLY OVER TO THEIR BLOG, INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT, SHOP AND EVEN CHECK OUT THEIR FAVORITE PLAYLISTS! HOW FABULOUS IS THAT?! It’s the most user friendly, easiest way to be inspired, and to connect!

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I am so honored to be included with this group of inspiring bloggers and publications. The best part is that not only will you be able to read the blogposts, see all the creative inspiration, get recipes and more, _you will also be able to interact with all the bHome bloggers from your cell phone. iPad users: bHome runs great on your iPad as an iPhone app._

[bHomeFrenchGardenHouse3]

I know we all lead busy lives, so this is just about perfect when you are stuck waiting in line to buy dinner ingredients at the market, or waiting at the car wash, or sitting in your car waiting to pick up children, or any other time when you have nothing to do. {I know, those times are few and far in-between!}

To celebrate, FrenchGardenHouse is having a FABULOUS GIVEAWAY! One lucky FrenchGardenHouse reader who downloads the bHome app on their smart phone and follows me on bHome will win a $200.00 GIFT CERTIFICATE to FrenchGardenHouse.  Winner will be announced on 10-12-2015. {Autumn is the perfect time to buy something for your home, or treat yourself to one of our gorgeous pieces of jewelry.} The picture below shows just a small amount of the beautiful pieces you can choose from should you win!

[bHomeFGHGiveAway]

Here’s how you can enter the GIVEAWAY and find FGH at bHome.

1. Download the FREE app at the app store on your iPhone or Android. You can also  go to bHome and download and join for FREE.

2. Once you have joined bHome, browse “recents” and FrenchGardenHouse should be on the top.

3.TAP the FrenchGardenHouse star then read my message – TAP the link & you are entered – easy as that, 2 TAPS & you are entered to win! How easy is that?

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bHome is the BEST PLACE on your smart phone. You can visit over 40 great Home and Garden bloggers and magazines, view their Blogs and their Pinterest boards, and pin right from them to your Pinterest boards. You will be able to view all of their Instagram, Facebook, Google + and Twitter accounts and interact with everyone there too. bHome is stunning, with so much gorgeous inspiration! It’s easy, and FREE for you to join. I HOPE THAT YOU WILL JOIN ALL OF US AND BE PART OF OUR HIVE.

Please join, and enter to win our $200.00 GIFT CERTIFICATE, I know you will love the community there, and will get so much inspiration. I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU AT BHOME. Please let others know about bHome, and pin this to your Pinterest board and share on your FaceBook page. Thank you!

Shop for the best in French Antiques, furniture with the patina of age, vintage accessories to delight you and your family & friends, and French Country utilitarian pieces. Treasures that make your home fresh, beautiful, inspirational and uniquely yours. Visit our shop FrenchGardenHouse.com.

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question: What does the text say about the paid version of the bHome App?

question: What does the text say about the bHome App?

answer: The bHome App is free to download and runs on iPhones, iPads, and Android devices. The app was made for home and garden enthusiasts, featuring FrenchGardenHouse and over 40 popular blogs and magazines. Users can connect to all the blogs and magazines they follow using only their phones. The bHome App layout is similar to Instagram, with big photos of favorite blogs in the home and garden community accessible via one click.

question: What does the text say about the other cool features of the bHome App?

answer: Using the bHome App, users can click directly on their favorite blogs in the home and garden community and head on over to their blogs, Instagram account, online shop, and even check out their playlists. Users will be able to read all the blog posts, get inspired, get recipes, and more. Users of the app will also be able to interact with all the bHome bloggers via the app.

question: What does the text say about the FrenchGardenHouse giveaway?

answer: FrenchGardenHouse is giving away one $200.00 gift certificate to a lucky reader who downloads the bHome app on their smartphone and follows the blogger (who wrote the article) on bHome. Readers can enter the contest by downloading the free bHome app on their phones. The next step is to browse "recents" and tap the FrenchGardenHouse star and read the blogger's message. Tapping the link automatically creates one entry for the reader.


text:
[Wow! Make this washable Valentine plate with scrapbook paper by using dishwasher safe Mod Podge!]

You can knock me over with a feather. Well, almost.

I recently learned that there is a special Mod Podge. One that make craft projects dishwasher safe!

Imagine that!

So of course I had to give it a try. Of course!

Since it is so close to Valentine’s Day, I decided to make a Valentine plate — a plate that I can use to serve up yummy Valentine cookies!

Here’s what you’ll need for this project:

-   A plain glass plate from the dollar store
-   Valentine scrapbook paper
-   Special Mod Podge (it has a blue label and says that it is dishwasher safe)
-   Foam brush
-   Waxed paper

[Here are the supplies that you'll need.]

First, spread some Mod Podge on the back of the plate. When you have a good coat on it, put the plate upside down on a piece of waxed paper.

[Spread Mod Podge on the back of the plate.]

Then, spread some Mod Podge on the FRONT side of the scrapbook paper. Yup, you read that right. Put it on the side with the design on it.

Place the front side of the paper to the back side of the plate. (This is so the pattern of the paper can be seen.)

Gently press the paper to the plate. Because the plate is curved, you will get some wrinkles in the paper. You can either accept the wrinkles or you could make some cuts into the paper to make it lay flat.

I didn’t care about the wrinkles. They weren’t obvious. I suppose if the pattern on the paper wasn’t so ‘busy’ that wrinkles might be more noticeable.

[Put the front of the scrap book paper on the back side of the plate.]

Let the plate dry 2-3 hours. When it is dry, cut the excess paper off.

[Wow! Make this washable Valentine plate with scrapbook paper by using dishwasher safe Mod Podge!]

Ta da! You’re almost finished.

Apply 2-3 more coats of Mod Podge making sure that you wait 2-3 hours between applications. Also, make sure that the edges of the paper is glued snugly down to the plate. It would be horrid to have water get under an unglued spot and ruin the paper on your lovely Valentine plate.

[Here's the finished plate.]

Isn’t that plate a cutie?

[Here's the finished plate full of cookies.]

When I use it to serve sugar cookies, everything looks so delicious — both the plate and the cookies!

[Yum! I love sugar cookies!]

The label on the Mod Podge said to wait 28 days before washing the item in the dishwasher. Twenty-eight days?!?

Of course I couldn’t wait that long to use it. So, I’m just using it with food that won’t really get the plate dirty. I’ll just wipe off the plate with a damp wash cloth until the 28 days are past.

Now let’s think about this craft for a moment. You could make a plate for any holiday — St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, 4th of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas.

It would be fun to do a birthday plate that you used for your grandchildren’s birthday.

Your granddaughters could use a small salad plate and a fun scrapbook paper to make a dish to hold jewelry. She could put it on a glass for a special drinking glass at your house. She could put it on the outside of a vase for flowers. She could put it on a tray that you get from a thrift store for a snazzy serving tray.

The possibilities are endless!

question: What does the text say about dishwashers?

answer: The product used in the tutorial is a dishwasher safe version. Crafts that use regular Mod Podge cannot be cleaned in the dishwasher, but this version of Mod Podge changes that. Still, 28 days have to pass after applying the Mod Podge before it can be safely put in the dishwasher.

question: Summarize what the text says about uses for dishwasher safe Mod Podge.

answer: The text describes how to make a Valentine's Day-themed scrapbook plate. It suggests themed plates could be made for other holidays, including St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, 4th of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and birthdays. Other potential uses are crafts for grandchildren including a jewelry dish, a special drinking glass, a flower case, or a serving tray.

question: What does the text say about tie dye?

question: What does the text say about birthday cake?


text:
“Giant spiders infused with tremendous magical strength. Their venom is lethal.”
—In-game description from _The Sacred Stones_.

Thee ELDER BAEL (エルダバール _Eruda bāru_) is an enemy-only Monster class that is exclusive to _The Sacred Stones_. A breed of gargantuan spiders that is enlarged through the interference of fell magic, Elder Baels are the promoted form of the Bael class, employing their pincers and claws to inflict damage on their foes. More powerful and far deadlier than their unpromoted counterparts, Elder Baels are marked by a crimson colour scheme to highlight the danger that they present to players.

-   1 Overview
    -   1.1 Combat
-   2 In-Game
    -   2.1 Base Stats
    -   2.2 Maximum Stats
    -   2.3 Growth Rates
-   3 Trivia
-   4 Gallery

Overview[edit | edit source]

Combat[edit | edit source]

Elder Baels possess moderately high health, Strength and Defense stats, making them the equivalent of a General. They possess an unstable amount of Skill, meaning that most of their attacks tend to miss with high Speed and Luck; however, should they hit, they often deal large amounts of damage.

Elder Baels are similar to Cyclopes, possessing more Strength, but lower Defense and health. Like their non-promoted counterparts, Elder Baels use Sharp, Poison or Lethal Talons to attack their enemies. Magic users can easily defeat them due to their sub-standard Resistance.

In-Game[edit | edit source]

Base Stats[edit | edit source]

        HP   Str   Mag   Skl   Spd   Lck   Def   Res   Mov   Con   Wt   Wlv
  ----- ---- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ---- -----
  FE8   36   8     -     5     5     0     9     4     6     15    -    -

Maximum Stats[edit | edit source]

        HP   Str   Mag   Skl   Spd   Lck   Def   Res   Mov   Con   Wt   Wlv
  ----- ---- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ---- -----
  FE8   60   30    -     28    26    30    26    22    15    25    -    -

Growth Rates[edit | edit source]

        HP    Str   Mag   Skl   Spd   Lck   Def   Res   Mov   Con   Wt   Wlv
  ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ---- -----
  FE8   85%   45%   -     25%   20%   10%   21%   17%   -     -     -    -

Trivia[edit | edit source]

-   It is interesting to note that Elder Baels have exactly the same stat caps as their unpromoted counterparts.

Gallery[edit | edit source]

[Elder baelGBAIcon]

Generic class portrait of an Elder Bael.

[Elder Bael]

Attack animation of the Elder Bael class.

[FE8ElderBael Icon]

Map sprite of the Elder Bael class.

Add a photo to this gallery

question: Describe the Elder Bael's appearance.

answer: The Elder Bael is a gargantuan spider with pincers and claws. They are marked by a crimson colour scheme.

question: What game does this article concern?

answer: The Sacred Stones

question: What photos are included in the gallery?

answer: A generic class portrait of an Elder Bael, the Elder Bael's attack animation, and the Elder Bael map sprite.

question: What is the Elder Bael's weakness?

answer: They can be defeated easily by magic users due to their sub-standard Resistance.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: An overview of the Elder Bael, an enemy-only monster class from the game The Sacred Stones. The Elder Bael are giant crimson spiders that deal large amounts of damage but are weak against magic users.


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[las vegas]

(THE LAST AMERICAN VAGABOND) In an investigation where each day seemingly gets weirder than the last, the latest shocking revelation in the ongoing cover-up of what actually happened during the Las Vegas Massacre comes in the form of video footage that may prove that victims of the attack were fired upon from the air.

Multiple videos posted from the scene of the attack show a helicopter flying around the area which many have speculated could have been used for surveillance or dispatched by police after the shooting began.

Astonishingly, new footage has emerged that may show muzzle flashes coming from the helicopter in what looks to be evidence that a team was firing into the crowd from the air on that fateful night.

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Despite claims by some that these are “strobes” it remains unlikely that this is the case, especially when you consider other footage of the helicopter taken on the night as well as research by a group of investigators who believe the first attack on October 1st was carried out from the air.

Notice how the shooting seems to stop immediately after the helicopter goes behind the hotel?

The following two videos look into the possibility that this was a coordinated air attack:

At the very least the above evidence deserves further attention. Consider the fact that we already have 100% proof that authorities have openly lied about what happened during the massacre.

Who is to say the ENTIRE OFFICIAL STORY isn’t complete disinformation?

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question: What was the likely reason for the shooting in the first place?

answer: The motive for the shooting is still unknown to date.

question: Will the victims of the massacre get any justice?

answer: It is uncertain if the victims, either dead or alive, will get any justice for the incident.

question: Why did the government try to cover up the shooting?

answer: No real reason was stated.

question: Why did the shooting in Las Vegas happen?

answer: It is not stated.

question: What is the main idea of the article?

answer: It appears the article is a conspiracy piece that discusses the foul play of the authorities for concealing the real truth of the Las Vegas massacre.