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_THE OLD RED HIPPOPOTAMUS_ is the second novel by Hussein Bassir, following _In Search For Khnum_, and was published in 2005 by the Egyptian General Organization of the Book of Cairo. Like the previous novel, this new story is inspired by the legacy of ancient Egypt, while using modern stylistic techniques to express poetic and legendary happenings. This new adventure describes a fiction whose allusions and implications could almost place the reader in contemporary Egypt.

Plot summary

The first chapter of the novel is called ‘Desher Wer,’ which means ‘old red’ in Ancient Egyptian. This term for the hippopotamus, of outstanding longevity milestone, gives the novel its title ‘The Old Red’.

Before the reader meets the Old Red, he begins to discover the village of 'Per Mora' or ‘the House of Mora’, who is the goddess of the village, the giant goddess of fertility and love, because most events take place on its area.

Then the reader meets the grandfather Anatem, the legendary founder of the village. From him is descended Onan, the main character and master of the places with which the second chapter of the novel is particularly concerned.

Then the reader discovers the eternal lake which the villagers and the other artisans depend on for their food by fishing.

Finally, the reader begins to learn about ‘the old red hippopotamus,’ the lord of the lake and exclusive controller of the village and its people. Readers will appreciate the human side of the ‘old red’ as he waits for the birth of his offspring, in a state of stress and anxiety that develops during foaling as he dreams of perhaps this time having a male baby to inherit his kingdom. The reader also learns about the villagers and their activities and also the goddess Mora, the beautiful brunette mistress of the village.

The real torment for the villagers is that as they sleep during the night, hippopotami eat the harvest they have struggled to grow. So they seek revenge on his herd of hippos and their leader the Old Red. After careful planning, Naram, the only son of the master of the village Onan, makes a trap with which he manages to catch the small hippopotamus, the only son of the Old Red, the master of the lake. The furious Old Red decides on reprisals against the entire village and it attacks and kills both Naram, the only son of the village master Onan, and his wife Myriam as they sail in a felucca in the middle of the lake. However, it pushes the cradle of their baby Asheel to the shore but despite this kindness, rivalry increases between the Old Red the master of the lake and Onan master of the village.

The second chapter of the novel, entitled ‘Onan,’ begins with his biography and the reason for his revenge on the Old Red for killing his son after the murder of his offspring, the little red. The chapter ends with the disappearance of Onan and his execution by the ‘old red’.

The third and final chapter of the novel, entitled ‘Oshtata’ concerns the most heroic of women, Oshtata, who is Onan’s wife and the mother of Naram. She decides to avenge her husband and her son. After an interminable and exhausting battle with ‘the old red’, she herself dies, thinking that she has succeeded in getting rid of him.

The novel ends in an enigmatic spiral that affirms the continuity of an eternal struggle between human and divine will. The idea of revenge can destroy human life, as is shown by most of the novel's characters who fail to realize their hopes.

Category:Egyptian novels Category:2005 novels Category:Novels set in ancient Egypt Category:Arabic-language novels Category:Fictional hippopotamuses Category:Novels about animals

title: The Old Red Hippopotamus

question: Summarize the themes throughout the plot summary section of the text.

answer: One theme is fertility and legacy, beginning with the names of the locations, houses, and characters-there is a sense or feeling of genesis. Another them is revenge, which unfolds from the point of making a trap to avenge the eaten harvest. Revenge in this allegory serves to show that doing something for the sake of feeling better does not actually right any wrongs-it is a chain of actions and behaviors that have superficial consequences.

question: What does the story in the plot summary say about women/female people and creatures?

answer: The text seems to say that woman create human life, as it comes from their bodies, but that their actions too are fallible in the context of revenge. It is implied that an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. The final chapter discusses how Oshtata is the "most heroic of women" but she too ends up erring due to her thirst for revenge.

question: Summarize the plot twist in the story.

answer: Naram, the only son of the village's master, entraps and catches the baby hippo son of Old Red. Old Red is said to have had a humane, warm side, but this infuriates him, and he seems to abandon those ways to commence a certain brutal type of vengeance on the entirety of the village, thus starting the cycle of revenge.

question: Explain the significance of the eternal lake within the context of these plot developments.


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Blackness greeted me when I woke. It took me a few more seconds to realize that the darkness was probably attributed to the fact that my eyes were closed. There was no improvement upon opening them, however, and I grew more and more concerned. I seemed to be in a box of some kind. I knew not where I was, or how I had gotten there. After a moment of panic I noticed a gentle soothing sound, almost similar to the sound of water rushing along rocks. I listened to it for a few more seconds, attempting to gain control of my mounting panic.

The control failed and my imagination took over. The sound began to seem more and more like the sound of dirt falling slowly onto a coffin. Was I being buried alive? My body stiffened at the thought. My hands ran over the inside of my box, searching for a way out. I would dig out if I had to. The air seemed to becoming thinner. How long would it be before I suffocated completely? I strained against the walls. I kicked the roof. I scratched the floor. Everything was smooth and metallic in texture except the soft memory-foam like material that I was resting on.

Then, my fingers caught on a depression in the metal, just above my chest. I brought both of my hands up to try and figure out what it was. A click and a soft hissing noise filled my small enclosure as I pushed the button. Light spilled in from the sides, as the lid of what I had thought was my casket began to open automatically. I sat up slowly, blinking away the spots that had showed up in response to the light.

The sight that greeted me was hardly the dark gloomy setting of a cemetery. I seemed to be in a long white hallway. What looked like windows on the walls were made from one-way glass, blocking my view of what was outside of my mysterious hallway. All around me were more of the coffin-shaped boxes, although I could see now that they were very modern in their design. They were made of the same white plastic material that made up the rest of the hallway and each had a gently glowing blue light on the end. Upon closer examination I realized that my light had turned to a harsh red.
I began to try and stand up when a screen suddenly came to life on the wall across from mine and a thin, almost fake-looking woman’s face appeared in the center.

Her voice rang through the halls with a short message: “Hello, and welcome to the future! It is very possible that you are experiencing momentary memory loss. We apologize for the inconvenience, but we assure you that it is only temporary. To help your memory recover, please watch the following film summarizing your own history and that of the others around you. Enjoy!”

The screen flickered and images began to run across the screen of what I assumed were important events in the past. I saw ruined cities, flooded plains, dried-out farms, and homes on fire. A new, gentler voice began to narrate the images.

“In the past, it became clear to us that history was repeating itself over and over again. The same problems were reccurring every few hundred years, sometimes with disastrous consequences. After going through the same types of issues many times, it became obvious that the outcomes of those events were based mainly on the leading people of the nations involved. Environmental problems were best addressed when someone with the correct motivation and personality was able to come out and lead others away from destructive tendencies. Social problems were an enigma to those who did not have an intuitive sense of how to deal with them. Wars were lost without leaders who truly understood the principles or war. That is why we developed a way to keep those types of people in reserve for a rainy day. You are aboard the product of that research right now. You are on the Starship Ares.”

Once the video stopped, all that remained was the strange watery sound that I had heard before. I figured now that it was the sound of some sort of machinery aboard the ship, but it still made me somewhat nervous. I had never been aboard a spaceship that I could remember, no matter what the lady in the television was telling me. Then again, I couldn’t remember much of anything.

I began to try and stand up, but just as I started to move, a door opened at the end of the corridor and an extremely pale man walked through. I tried to rise faster, but found that my legs were almost completely useless. I could barely move them.

“Just a moment, master. I’ll be right there,” said the pale man as he came towards me. “Your leg muscles have atrophied a bit, I imagine. It has been a long time since you were last woken.”

I didn’t respond, but stared warily at the stranger. He seemed to know me, and yet his face was not familiar. He came up to the side of my box and knelt beside it. He was very tall, and even on his knees he towered over me. He wore a flowing robe of white, with four separate pockets sewed in to the sides. Out of one he pulled what looked like a gun. I strained my legs in trying to rise and defend myself, but he pushed me gently back down onto the foam beneath me.

“Relax, master. It will help you to move your legs and the rest of your body. It is a drug that will stimulate growth in your muscles. You have been in one position for a very long time, and though the ship has done its best to care for you, there are some side-effects. This will counter them.”
Realizing that I didn’t have much of a choice, I relaxed my body back down and allowed him to inject me with whatever it was. He applied it to each separate major muscle in my legs, and I could feel a cool soothing feeling travelling up my legs. I found I could move my toes and eventually I was able to shift my legs. He continued with the same process around the rest of my body. I had been very sore initially, and this brought great relief.

“Who are you?” I asked. “What am I doing here?”

He looked at me with an almost bemused look. His face was long and his eyes were an almost luminous blue. He had no hair or eyebrows, and when he opened his mouth, I could see that it was almost black. Even with this somewhat alarming combination of facial features, he had a kind face.

“I am hurt, master. You do not remember me? I have served by your side for many years, and in many battles. I am Frederick, but you usually call me Fred unless you are angry at me,” he said, smiling. “As for what you are doing here, the video explained that. You are here to save the world,” he continued, before saying finally, “again.”

title: A friend of mine wrote this in two parts for a weekly class writing assignment. Help me convince him to continue it.

question: What does Fred mean by save the world again?

answer: Unclear. It must mean the narrator has already done it at some point.

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: The narrator wakes up in an unfamiliar place with no memory of who he is or how he got there. He listens to a video explaining that he is there to save the world but he is still confused. Fred, the narrator's servant, appears and starts to help him up. The narrator doesn't remember him and Fred tries to remind him that he needs to save the world again.


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The 2016–17 winter transfer window for English football transfers opened on 1 January and closes on 1 February. Additionally, players without a club may join at any time, non-League clubs may sign players on loan at any time, and clubs may sign a goalkeeper on an emergency loan if they have no registered goalkeeper available. This list includes transfers featuring at least one Premier League or Football League Championship club which were completed after the end of the summer 2016 transfer window and before the end of the 2016–17 winter window. The transfer window is open for all clubs, whereas when the transfer window closes, no transfers can take place. 1 February 2017 is the transfer deadline day.

Transfers

All clubs without a flag are English. Note that while Cardiff City, Swansea City, Newport County and Wrexham are affiliated with the Football Association of Wales and thus take the Welsh flag, they play in the English football league system, and so their transfers are included here. Guernsey, who also play in the English league system, are affiliated with the Guernsey Football Association but, as this is treated as a County Football Association, the club does not require a flag.

  Date   Name   Moving from               Moving to                 Fee
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                West Bromwich Albion      Sunderland                Free
                _Unattached_                                        Free
                Manchester City                                     Loan[1]
                Rotherham United          Mickleover Sports         Loan[2]
                _Unattached_              Rotherham United          Free
                _Unattached_              Bristol City              Free
                _Unattached_              Sheffield Wednesday       Free
                Sunderland                                          Free[3]
                _Unattached_              Nottingham Forest         Free
                                          Sunderland                Undisclosed
                Arsenal                   Crystal Palace            Free
                Barnsley                  Braintree Town            Loan[4]
                _Unattached_              Blackburn Rovers          Free
                Leeds United              Guiseley                  Loan[5]
                _Unattached_              Barnsley                  Free
                Leeds United              Southport                 Loan[6]
                                          Manchester City           Undisclosed[7]
                                          Stoke City                Undisclosed[8]
                _Unattached_              Leicester City            Free[9]
                                          Gloucester City           Loan[10]
                Reading                   Cirencester Town          Loan[11]
                _Unattached_                                        Free
                Rotherham United          Grantham Town             Loan[12]
                _Unattached_                                        Free
                _Unattached_                                        Free
                _Unattached_                                        Free
                Bristol City              Weston-super-Mare         Loan[13]
                Rotherham United          Grantham Town             Loan[14]
                Rotherham United          Sheffield                 Loan[15]
                Rotherham United          Sheffield                 Loan[16]
                Burton Albion             Spalding United           Loan[17]
                                          Weston-super-Mare         Loan[18]
                                          Weston-super-Mare         Loan[19]
                Brighton & Hove Albion    Burgess Hill Town         Loan[20]
                _Unattached_              Rotherham United          Free
                Ipswich Town              Braintree Town            Loan[21]
                Birmingham City           York City                 Loan[22]
                Rotherham United          Frickley Athletic         Loan[23]
                Morecambe                 Preston North End         Compensation
                Bristol City              Torquay United            Loan[24]
                _Unattached_              Queens Park Rangers       Free[25]
                Nottingham Forest         Barrow                    Loan[26]
                Barnsley                  York City                 Loan[27]
                Brighton & Hove Albion    Concord Rangers           Loan[28]
                Reading                   Bath City                 Loan[29]
                Reading                   Braintree Town            Loan[30]
                Bristol City              Guernsey                  Loan[31]
                Bristol City              Guernsey                  Loan[32]
                Chelsea                   Arsenal                   Free[33]
                Birmingham City           Forest Green Rovers       Loan[34]
                                          Preston North End         Free
                                          Preston North End         Free
                                          Weston-super-Mare         Free[35]
                Tottenham Hotspur         Peterborough United       Loan extension[36]
                Rotherham United          Matlock Town              Loan[37]
                Rotherham United          Sheffield                 Loan extension[38]
                Burnley                   Birmingham City           £1m
                Chelsea                   Aldershot Town            Loan extension[39]
                Chelsea                                             £60m
                Reading                   Bath City                 Loan extension[40]
                Manchester City                                     Loan
                West Bromwich Albion      Sheffield Wednesday       Loan
                Manchester City                                     Loan[41]
                Aston Villa               Doncaster Rovers          Loan extension[42]
                Chelsea                   Charlton Athletic         Loan
                Crystal Palace            Northampton Town          Loan
                Preston North End                                   Free
                Sheffield Wednesday       Mansfield Town            Loan
                Brighton & Hove Albion                              Loan
                Birmingham City           Yeovil Town               Loan
                                          Barnet                    Free
                Chelsea                                             Loan
                Manchester United         Grimsby Town              Loan extension[43]
                Burton Albion             Coventry City             Free
                Bristol City              Cheltenham Town           Loan
                Hull City                 Accrington Stanley        Loan
                West Ham United                                     Loan
                Brentford                 Cheltenham Town           Loan
                Burton Albion             Coventry City             Loan
                Hull City                 Accrington Stanley        Loan
                West Ham United           Peterborough United       Loan
                Coventry City             Burton Albion             Free
                Chelsea                   Doncaster Rovers          Loan extension[44]
                Chelsea                   Wycombe Wanderers         Loan extension[45]
                Everton                   Southport                 Loan[46]
                Hull City                 Cambridge United          Loan extension[47]
                Southampton               Walsall                   Loan extension[48]
                Leeds United                                        Loan[49]
                                          Burnley                   Free
                Preston North End         Fleetwood Town            Loan
                Everton                   Doncaster Rovers          Loan
                Rotherham United          Peterborough United       Loan
                West Ham United           Bradford City             Loan extension[50]
                Aston Villa               Middlesbrough             Undisclosed
                Derby County              Stoke City                £1.3m
                                          Bristol City              Undisclosed
                                          Bristol City              Undisclosed
                Ipswich Town              Burton Albion             Free
                Watford                                             Loan
                Wolverhampton Wanderers   Barrow                    Loan[51]
                Charlton Athletic         Everton                   £11m
                                          Leicester City            £15m
                Middlesbrough             Derby County              Loan
                Brighton & Hove Albion    Charlton Athletic         Undisclosed
                Manchester United         Aston Villa               Loan
                Birmingham City           Bradford City             Undisclosed
                Fulham                    Hartlepool United         Loan
                Crystal Palace            Shrewsbury Town           Loan
                Middlesbrough                                       Loan
                _Unattached_              Chelsea                   Free[52]
                                          Middlesbrough             Undisclosed[53]
                Tottenham Hotspur         Burton Albion             Loan extension[54]
                Newcastle United          Barnsley                  Loan extension[55]
                Bristol City              Bath City                 Loan[56]
                Bristol City              Guernsey                  Loan[57]
                Bristol City              Bath City                 Loan extension[58]
                Bristol City              Weston-super-Mare         Loan extension[59]
                Bristol City              Guernsey                  Loan extension[60]
                Reading                   Lincoln City              Loan[61]
                                          Hull City                 Undisclosed
                Chelsea                   Huddersfield Town         Loan
                Fulham                    Bury                      Loan
                Charlton Athletic         Sheffield Wednesday       Undisclosed
                Rotherham United                                    Undisclosed
                Harrow Borough                                      Undisclosed
                Bristol City              Bury                      Loan
                Leeds United              Burton Albion             Loan
                West Ham United           Charlton Athletic         Undisclosed
                Preston North End         Bristol City              Undisclosed
                Liverpool                                           Loan
                Chelsea                                             Undisclosed
                Sheffield Wednesday       Hartlepool United         Free[62]
                Chelsea                                             Loan[63]
                                                                    Free[64]
                Wigan Athletic            Scunthorpe United         Undisclosed
                Southampton               Wycombe Wanderers         Free
                Stoke City                Wigan Athletic            Loan
                Tottenham Hotspur         Stevenage                 Loan
                Norwich City              Scunthorpe United         Loan extension
                Huddersfield Town         Cheltenham Town           Free
                Wigan Athletic            Charlton Athletic         Loan
                                          Leeds United              Undisclosed
                Middlesbrough             Derby County              Undisclosed
                Bournemouth                                         Loan
                Newcastle United                                    Loan
                Newcastle United                                    Loan
                Newcastle United                                    Loan
                Birmingham City           Forest Green Rovers       Loan extension[65]
                Hednesford Town           Arsenal                   £40,000
                Huddersfield Town                                   Loan
                Queens Park Rangers       Swindon Town              Loan
                Brighton & Hove Albion    Queens Park Rangers       Loan
                Arsenal                                             Loan[66]
                                          Brentford                 Undisclosed[67]
                Newcastle United                                    Loan[68]
                Chelsea                   Swindon Town              Loan
                Chelsea                   Swindon Town              Loan
                Chelsea                   Swindon Town              Loan
                West Bromwich Albion      Birmingham City           Loan
                Derby County              Port Vale                 Loan
                Queens Park Rangers                                 Undisclosed
                Manchester City                                     Loan[69]
                Everton                   Watford                   Loan
                Manchester United         Everton                   £20m
                Newcastle United          Bradford City             Loan
                Manchester City           Fleetwood Town            Undisclosed
                                                                    Undisclosed
                West Ham United           Cheltenham Town           Loan
                Newcastle United          Scunthorpe United         Loan
                Arsenal                                             Loan
                Sheffield Wednesday                                 Free
                Queens Park Rangers                                 Undisclosed
                Burnley                                             Loan[70]
                Reading                   Colchester United         Loan extension[71]
                                          Hull City                 Undisclosed
                Everton                   Hull City                 Loan
                Leicester City            Crystal Palace            £12m
                Queens Park Rangers       Grimsby Town              Loan extension
                Bournemouth               Yeovil Town               Free
                                          Yeovil Town               Free
                Burnley                   Sheffield United          Undisclosed
                Manchester City           Doncaster Rovers          Undisclosed
                Bournemouth               Torquay United            Loan
                Liverpool                 Fleetwood Town            Undisclosed
                Fulham                    Accrington Stanley        Loan
                Barnsley                  Sheffield Wednesday       Undisclosed
                Aston Villa                                         Loan
                Fulham                                              Loan
                                                                    Loan[72]
                Wigan Athletic                                      Loan[73]
                _Unattached_              Wolverhampton Wanderers   Free[74]
                Wolverhampton Wanderers                             Sub-Loan Agreement
                Everton                   Wigan Athletic            Loan
                Aston Villa                                         Loan
                Forest Green Rovers       Ipswich Town              Undisclosed
                _Unattached_              Ipswich Town              Free
                Wolverhampton Wanderers                             Loan
                Bristol City              Plymouth Argyle           Loan extension[75]
                Reading                   Plymouth Argyle           Loan extension[76]
                Chelsea                   Solihull Moors            Loan[77]
                Chelsea                   Fulham                    Loan extension[78]
                Barnsley                  North Ferriby United      Loan[79]
                Norwich City                                        £4m
                Tottenham Hotspur                                   £4.5m
                Crystal Palace            Northampton Town          Loan
                Derby County              Coventry City             Loan
                Manchester United         Sheffield United          Loan
                West Bromwich Albion      Shrewsbury Town           Loan
                Nottingham Forest         Port Vale                 Loan
                West Bromwich Albion      Yeovil Town               Loan
                Sheffield Wednesday                                 Loan[80]
                Chelsea                   Middlesbrough             £5.5m
                Everton                   Barnsley                  Loan
                Queens Park Rangers       Bristol Rovers            Loan
                Middlesbrough             Birmingham City           Undisclosed
                                          Colchester United         Undisclosed
                Hull City                                           Loan[81]
                Liverpool                 Reading                   Undisclosed[82]
                Bristol City              Fleetwood Town            Undisclosed
                Reading                   Millwall                  Loan
                Everton                   Morecambe                 Loan
                                          Bristol City              Loan
                                          Birmingham City           Undisclosed
                Bristol City              Rotherham United          Undisclosed
                Wolverhampton Wanderers   Millwall                  Loan
                Derby County              Wolverhampton Wanderers   Loan
                Manchester City                                     Loan[83]
                                          Hull City                 Loan
                West Bromwich Albion      Stoke City                £12m
                Hull City                 West Bromwich Albion      £10m
                Southampton               West Ham United           £8m
                Manchester United                                   £16m
                Leicester City            Milton Keynes Dons        Loan
                West Ham United           Wigan Athletic            Loan
                Sheffield Wednesday       Accrington Stanley        Loan
                                          Birmingham City           £2.2m
                Tottenham Hotspur         Yeovil Town               Loan
                Nottingham Forest         Aston Villa               £2.75m
                Middlesbrough             Shrewsbury Town           Free
                Wigan Athletic            Blackpool                 Loan
                                          Colchester United         Undisclosed
                                          Huddersfield Town         Undisclosed
                Brentford                 Wycombe Wanderers         Free
                Stoke City                Bristol Rovers            Loan
                Fulham                    Wigan Athletic            Loan
                Blackburn Rovers          Cambridge United          Loan
                Reading                   Dagenham & Redbridge      Loan[84]
                Rotherham United          Harrogate Town            Loan[85]
                Wolverhampton Wanderers   Nuneaton Town             Loan[86]
                Reading                   Margate                   Loan[87]
                Wolverhampton Wanderers   Bromley                   Loan[88]
                Stoke City                                          Loan[89]
                Bournemouth               Eastbourne Borough        Loan[90]
                Nottingham Forest         Cambridge United          Loan
                Queens Park Rangers                                 Loan
                Everton                   West Ham United           Undisclosed
                Everton                                             Loan
                Leeds United              Ipswich Town              Loan
                Liverpool                 Hull City                 Loan
                West Ham United           Oxford United             Loan
                Stourbridge               Birmingham City           Undisclosed
                Chelsea                   Brighton & Hove Albion    Loan
                Derby County              Coventry City             Loan
                Queens Park Rangers                                 Undisclosed
                Birmingham City                                     Loan
                Leicester City                                      Undisclosed
                Tottenham Hotspur         Stevenage                 Loan
                                          Aston Villa               Undisclosed
                Barnsley                  Aston Villa               Undisclosed
                Derby County              Wigan Athletic            Loan
                Leicester City            Barnsley                  Loan
                                          Watford                   Undisclosed
                Queens Park Rangers                                 Loan
                Middlesbrough             Bristol Rovers            Undisclosed
                Middlesbrough             Hartlepool United         Loan
                Barnsley                  Aston Villa               Undisclosed
                Fulham                    Shrewsbury Town           Loan
                Brighton & Hove Albion    Oldham Athletic           Loan
                                          Watford                   Loan
                                          Fulham                    Loan
                _Unattached_              Ipswich Town              Free
                Tottenham Hotspur         Southend United           Loan
                Liverpool                 Fleetwood Town            Loan
                                          Rotherham United          Loan
                Fulham                    Burton Albion             Loan
                Chelsea                   Swindon Town              Undisclosed
                Everton                                             Loan
                                          Brentford                 Undisclosed
                Middlesbrough             Rochdale                  Loan
                                          Derby County              Undisclosed
                Birmingham City           Grimsby Town              Loan
                Leeds United              Barnsley                  Undisclosed
                Macclesfield Town         Ipswich Town              Undisclosed
                Hull City                 West Ham United           £10.2m
                                          Nottingham Forest         Loan
                Fulham                    Burton Albion             Loan
                Manchester United         Queens Park Rangers       £500,000
                Stoke City                                          Loan
                                          Rotherham United          Loan
                Arsenal                   Brighton & Hove Albion    Loan
                Everton                   Preston North End         Loan
                                          Wolverhampton Wanderers   £13m
                Wigan Athletic            Blackpool                 Loan
                Bristol City              Queens Park Rangers       Undisclosed
                Everton                   Sunderland                Undisclosed
                Watford                   Wycombe Wanderers         Loan
                Sheffield Wednesday       Blackburn Rovers          Loan
                Burnley                   Bolton Wanderers          Loan
                Bristol City                                        Loan
                Huddersfield Town         Bury                      Loan
                Everton                   Sunderland                Undisclosed
                West Ham United                                     £25m
                Barnsley                  Shrewsbury Town           Loan
                                          Reading                   Undisclosed[91]
                Plymouth Argyle           Rotherham United          Undisclosed
                Huddersfield Town         Colchester United         Loan
                Queens Park Rangers       Port Vale                 Loan
                Aston Villa               Nottingham Forest         Loan
                                          Rochdale                  Loan
                Aston Villa                                         Loan
                                          Leeds United              Loan
                Sunderland                Bury                      Loan
                Bury                      Aston Villa               Undisclosed
                Arsenal                                             Loan
                Arsenal                   Birmingham City           Loan
                Grimsby Town              Wigan Athletic            Undisclosed
                Arsenal                   Notts County              Loan
                Norwich City              Burnley                   Undisclosed
                Birmingham City           Chesterfield              Loan
                Hull City                 Wigan Athletic            Loan
                West Bromwich Albion      Notts County              Loan
                Norwich City              Brentford                 Undisclosed
                Hull City                 Notts County              Loan
                Bolton Wanderers          Nottingham Forest         £2.5m
                Bournemouth               Gillingham                Loan
                Birmingham City           Bristol City              Loan
                                          Fulham                    Loan
                Wolverhampton Wanderers   Bury                      Loan
                                          Norwich City              Loan
                Preston North End         Portsmouth                Loan
                Everton                   Grimsby Town              Loan
                Leicester City            Barnsley                  Loan
                                          Blackburn Rovers          Loan
                Manchester City           Chesterfield              Loan
                Watford                   Coventry City             Loan
                                          Southampton               £14m
                                          Wigan Athletic            Undisclosed
                Wigan Athletic                                      Undisclosed
                Bournemouth               Reading                   Loan
                Nottingham Forest         Notts County              Loan
                Bournemouth               Leyton Orient             Loan
                Preston North End         Chesterfield              Loan
                Watford                   Middlesbrough             Undisclosed
                Huddersfield Town         Bradford City             Loan
                                          Southampton               Loan
                                          Barnsley                  Undisclosed
                Arsenal                   Stevenage                 Loan
                Brentford                 Aston Villa               £12m
                                          Ipswich Town              Loan
                Watford                                             £20m
                Brighton & Hove Albion    Swindon Town              Loan
                Middlesbrough                                       Undisclosed
                                          Yeovil Town               Loan
                Queens Park Rangers       Chesterfield              Loan
                                          Plymouth Argyle           Loan
                Burnley                   Burton Albion             Loan
                Middlesbrough             Rochdale                  Undisclosed
                Newcastle United                                    Loan
                Hartlepool United         Wigan Athletic            Undisclosed
                                          Bolton Wanderers          Loan
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title: List of English football transfers winter 2016–17

question: When did the 2016-2017 winter window for English football transfers open?

answer: January 1.

question: When does it close?

answer: February 1.

question: For which clubs is the transfer window open?

answer: All clubs.

question: Which countries or places have teams in the English league so they are included even though they are not English?

answer: Wales and Guernsey.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: This is a list of the English football (soccer, in America) teams that transferred during the 2016-2017 transfer season, which began January 1st of 2017 and ended February 1st of 2017.


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(JOHNSTON) DOUGLAS HALDANE MBE, FRCPsych (born 13 March 1926 in Annan, died 19 July 2012 in St. Andrews) was a pioneering Scottish child psychiatrist, who established Great Britain's first department of Child and Family Psychiatry in 1960 in Cupar in Fife. He opened the first family in-patient treatment unit in Scotland and introduced a range of innovative therapeutic art interventions. He sat on numerous policy working parties and led a variety of professional committees. He became a founding member of the Association for Family Therapy. He was a co-founder of the Scottish Institute of Human Relations. During his time as an academic, he devoted much time to influence the development of a government policy on Marriage.[1] In the 1960s, he was also an elder of the Church of Scotland and a member of an early Iona Community group.

Early life

Douglas Haldane was born Johnston Douglas Leitch, in Annan, Dumfriesshire. Johnston was the family name of one of his grandmothers. His single mother married when he was around 5 years old, and he then took his stepfather's surname. He was a good scholar and attended academies in Dumbarton (where he was evacuated during the early war years) and Dumfries. He entered Edinburgh University to study medicine in 1943, graduating MB ChB in 1948. He was very happy to be one of the first doctors qualifying into the newly formed National Health Service. After a tour as an obstetric house surgeon at Cresswell Maternity Hospital, Dumfries and in Edinburgh, he spent his National Service as a surgeon lieutenant in the RNVR in Great Yarmouth. On completing his service, he married his wife, Kathleen. They had three sons.

Career

In the early 1950s he was promoted to registrar at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital and became lecturer at the Royal College of Nursing. At the end of the decade he was appointed at a relatively young age, consultant psychiatrist and depute physician superintendent at Stratheden Hospital, Cupar in Fife. The hospital had been an old-style asylum, but he pursued his vision of creating a department of Child and Family Psychiatry which he succeeded in doing in 1960 in a designated unit called, 'Playfield House' in the hospital grounds. This became a base for out-reach child and family services in Glenrothes and Kirkcaldy and other areas in the Kingdom of Fife. He believed in involving children's domestic and educational settings and persuaded colleagues from other disciplines to explore new avenues of treatment. One of his notable recruits was the artist, Joyce Laing, who was instrumental in the rehabilitation of a convicted 'lifer' at Barlinnie prison, Jimmy Boyle. Haldane managed to persuade Fife Health Board to build two family residential units in the grounds of Stratheden which he achieved by 1975.[2] In that period, Haldane had been appointed honorary lecturer in psychiatry at the University Edinburgh. In 1976 Haldane took up an academic appointment as senior lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, which afforded more time for writing and committee work.[3] He became honorary consultant to Grampian Health Board. Douglas Haldane formally retired from his university post in 1982 (when the university was making cutbacks), but continued for a further decade with his many other engagements from his home in St. Andrews, which included acting as consultant to the Camphill Movement in Scotland.[4] He was briefly a director of the Garnethill Centre in Glasgow.[5] His sculptor wife pre-deceased him in 2011, having succumbed to dementia. Haldane died shortly and unexpectedly after moving into a residential home, at the age of 86.

Activist and 'organisational genius'

Haldane understood early on that in the welfare state and under the new National Health Service, child health, youth justice and clinical services were designed away from the clinic or hospital. Accordingly, he devoted much energy and time to a range of committee roles. These included: the Scottish Education Department's working party on 'maladjusted children', and the Secretary State's advisory Council on Childcare. Later on he chaired the Scottish Marriage Council (1984–86) and in the 1990s was engaged with Marriage Counselling Scotland and was invited to sit on the Tavistock Institute of Marital Studies' advisory panel.[6] His far-sightedness prompted the creation of the Malcolm Millar Lectures at Aberdeen.[7] Did his promotion of Scottish 'thinking space' contribute to the nation's longing for autonomy?[8] His obituary in The Scotsman described him as an _organisational genius_ and generous to his patients and colleagues.[9]

Legacy of an instigator

His grasp of group dynamics and the application of different professional modalities in the public sector, saw Haldane seek out like-minded social entrepreneurs. In that context he is regarded as having been instrumental in persuading J. D. Sutherland to return to his native Scotland, on retiring as medical director of London's Tavistock Clinic in 1968. Together, with several other leading figures, they succeeded in laying the foundations of the Scottish Institute of Human Relations, which was intended as an early form of Think tank and provider of awareness and training for professionals involved in the public and corporate sectors.[10] Meanwhile, Haldane served as honorary president of the Association of Psychiatric Social Workers' Scottish branch, was chairman of Fife's Children's Panel Advisory Council, of the child psychiatry section of the Royal Medico Psychological Association's Scottish executive, vice-president of the Scottish Pre-School Playgroups Association and helped to introduce the idea of play in the hospital setting, which today is commonplace on paediatric wards. With his clinical and policy experience, Haldane was active in the formation of the (British) Association of Family Therapy.

Publications

In-line with his many professional commitments, Haldane was a prolific author who wrote and co-authored numerous papers and books. These include:

-   'New psychiatric inpatient unit for adolescents' _British Medical Journal_ (1968) iii: 243–5, with McInnes, D.
-   _Models for Psychotherapy: A Primer_. with Alexander, D. A. and Walker, L. G. Publisher: Aberdeen University Press. 1982
-   _Wedlocked?: Intervention and Research in Marriage_. David Clark; Douglas Haldane. Polity Press, 1990.
-   _Marriage Now: Asking Questions_. Douglas Haldane, (editor with Frances Love). Published by: Marriage Counselling Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1996,
-   _A celebration of Marriage? : Scotland, 1931–1981 : implications for marital counselling and therapy_ Aberdeen University Press 1982.
-   Also see Synopsis of all publications since 1980 by Tavistock Relationships.[11]

Honours and awards

In 1994 Douglas Haldane was elected an honorary member of the Society of Psychoanalytical Marital Psychotherapists. In 1995 he was invested as a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to marriage counselling and for family services in Fife.

[1] The Herald, 25 August 2012, http://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/obituaries/13070469.Douglas_Haldane/ Retrieved 23 December 2016.

[2] Clulow, C. and McCluskey, U. Obituaries Douglas Haldane BMJ 2012; 345 doi: (Published 05 October 2012) Retrieved 26 December 2016

[3] Haldane, Douglas and McCluskey, Una. (1981) 'Working with couples: psychiatrists, clinical psychologists and social workers compared'. _Journal of Family Therapy_, 3. 363–388. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1046/j..1981.00571.x/asset/j..1981.00571.x.pdf;jsessionid=4750024FF339D060A10B81F7356D5A3F.f03t04?v=1&t=ix65xs7o&s=8750d06773900d401e9d1569c67535affdb7c4c6] retrieved 26 December 2016.

[4] Haldane's laconic death notice on p. 15 in the Camphill newsletter, 'Camphill Correspondence', https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/articles-and-essays/CC-Archive/SepOct-2012.pdf

[5] Company check for Dr. J.D. Haldane (retired)

[6] Ludlam, Molly dedicates chapter 13 to the memory of Douglas Haldane in Clarke, Graham S. and Scharff, David E. Editors. _Fairbairn and the Object Relations Tradition_ illustrated, reprint, London: Karnac Books, 2014

[7] Birtchnell, J. and Haldane, D. Obituary of Professor William Malcolm Millar (1997): http://pb.rcpsych.org/content/pbrcpsych/21/11/733.full.pdf

[8] Bondi, E. Cullen, Kate. Fewell, Judith. Francis, Eileen. and Ludlam, Molly. Eds. _Making Spaces: Putting Psychoanalytic Thinking to Work_. Karnac Books, 2014. . p. 11

[9] Shaw, A. Obituary in the Scotsman, 24 August 2012 1 retrieved 26 December 2016.

[10] Harrow, Alan. (2013) 'The Scottish Connection—Suttie-Fairbairn-Sutherland: A quiet Revolution' in Skolnick, Neil, J. and Scharff, David. Eds. _Fairbairn, Then and Now_. London/New York: Routledge.

[11] 2 Tavistock Relationships publication list since 1980.

title: Douglas Haldane

question: When was Douglas Haldane born?

answer: Haldane was born on March 13, 1926.

question: Where did Haldane go to university?

answer: Haldane went to Edinburgh University to study medicine.

question: What awards has Haldane received?

answer: Haldane was elected as an honorary member of the Society of Psychoanalytical Marital Psychotherapists. In 1995 he was invested as a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to marriage counselling and for family services in Fife.

question: What organization did Haldane lay the foundation for?

answer: Along with other leading figures, Haldane laid the foundation for the Scottish Institute of Human Relations.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: This article details the life and career of Douglas Haldane, a Scottish child psychiatrist who established Great Britain's first department of Child and Family Psychiatry.


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**One**

His name was Steve, and he couldn’t take it anymore. He pictured himself growing old with her, while she grew old with him too. But he couldn’t grow old. Being immortal had its downsides. Now was his seven hundred years birthday and he was staring at her picture. He begged her to come back.

He thought he heard her voice when he shed a single tear and a slight breeze called him from the sea.

**Two**

He thought he heard her voice when he shed a single tear and a slight breeze called him from the sea. The windows of the room were open, and it would be a beautiful sight if he weren’t dying.
But he was dying. He was alone in the room, with wires spread all along his arms, and needles through his skin. He had that heart surgery, but apparently that new heart wasn’t working either and no doctor was able to tell the reason. The heart was beating irregularly, like a disabled man trying to walk. The heart was broken, so they tossed it out.

The man watched the sun go down as he breathed his last breath.

**Three**

The man watched the sun go down as he breathed his last breath.
He woke up and the room was full of light. There was something unrecognizably fluffy under his feet, like he was walking on cotton. A woman dressed in white was staring at him.
“Is she here?” he asked. “No, she’s not”. “Where is she?” “She’s never been around.” “I’m coming back.” “You can’t go back.” “I can’t stay here either. I have to go back to her. I have to go home.”
She smiled.

“Don’t be silly” she said. “Home is where your heart is.”

**Four**

“Don’t be silly” she said. “Home is where your heart is.”
He smiled to her, remembering an old song from U2 that had a verse somewhat like that one. He was holding his sweatshirt – which he didn’t even recall having. It had been with her for months.
-You sure you can’t stay with this? – He asked, shaking the sweatshirt stupidly – I won’t ever be able to use it again.
-I haven’t stretched it that much. – She said, pretending to be offended and repressing a smile, which he noticed.
-It’s not about that. There’s your perfume all over it.
She blushed and her eyes filled with tears.
-Nah, you’re gonna work it out. – Now she pretended to smile, repressing a tear.
Which he noticed.
-Yeah, you’re right. See you later. – He said unleashing a smirk.

Once she turned her back, he started crying.

**Five**

Once she turned her back, he started crying. He couldn’t let her leave like that. He wouldn’t let her leave like that.
-Please, please. – He yelled, running after her and grabbing her suitcases. – Stay. Please.
-Not anymore, Henry. I can’t do this anymore.
-I’ll change.
-You can’t – She turned to him, picking up her baggage. – Neither can I. I’m sorry. – Her voice was hurt, and that was what truly hurt him. It cut his heart and soul and left him stranded by the door while she got in the cab and left.

He would never see her again.

**Six**

He would never see her again, and that was why he was holding her so tight.
-Do you swear you’ll come back? – She wouldn’t.
-I do, honey. It’s only for six months. – It wasn’t.
-Do you promise to remember me every day? – She wouldn’t.
-Of course I do. There’s nothing or anyone who can get you outta my head. – There was.
-No French guy? – No.
-No, you silly, no French guy, or American guy or any other kind of guy. – Yes.
-I’ll miss you. – True.
-I’ll miss you too. – True.

She had a nice life in Paris.

**Seven**

She had a nice life in Paris. She had a boyfriend and a dog; she was living with her parents and hanging around with good friends. Nothing could go wrong and she would never get hurt because she couldn’t feel anything.
Till a night a guy came along, and he had a broken heart. She realized she also had a heart, and her heart didn’t fit in Paris. Then her heart didn’t fit in the world. But her heart fit on his.
But he was broken, then so got she. Then he left her back in Paris, and she hoped Paris would be enough again someday.

He left back to the world, wandering brokenly ever after.

title: Seven Random Stories About Broken-Hearted Men

question: What happened to Steve's lover?

answer: She presumably died of old age.

question: How are these stories linked together?

answer: Each story begins with the last line of the previous story.

question: Which stories contain broken-hearted women in addition to broken-hearted men?

answer: Story 7, and possibly story 4.

question: Summarize story 4.

answer: A man asks his lover if she can stay with her sweatshirt, which has her perfume all over it. She turns her back on him, and he cries.


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A key question in evolutionary biology is how new functions arise. New research at Uppsala University shows that bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) can contribute to new functions by revealing hidden potential in their bacterial hosts.

Bacteriophages are the most numerous organisms on Earth (about1031). Every day, they infect and kill 15–30% of all bacteria in the world’s oceans. In a new study, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, researchers have investigated how bacteriophages, instead of killing bacteria, transmit genes that help the bacterium Escherichia coli (E. coli) survive.

“We found a new, unexpected mechanism whereby genes from bacteriophages enable bacteria to use their hidden potential and establish a new function,” says researcher and lead author Jon Jerlström-Hultqvist.

First, the scientists removed an essential gene (ilvA) from the bacterium. They then investigated whether bacteriophage genes (isolated from Svandammen, “Swan Pond”, in central Uppsala) could rescue the bacteria. The researchers identified a new group of genes that code for enzymes: S-adenosyl methionine (SAM) hydrolases. These enzymes break down SAM and, as a result, boost biosynthesis of the amino acid methionine, a precursor to SAM. One of the enzymes required for methionine biosynthesis has a side reaction that enables the E. coli bacterium to compensate for the absence of the essential ilvA gene.

The study in question shows that, to understand how a bacterium works, the functions normally found in bacteria are not the only ones that need investigating. The hidden potential of the bacterial cell can be manifested when its metabolic state changes, for example in a bacteriophage infection. According to Professor Dan I. Andersson, who heads the study in question,

“The new function in this study is that these bacteriophage enzymes have the ability to break down an important cell component (SAM) of the bacterium. When this component breaks down, the bacterial cell resets its metabolism and a new function becomes available. Moreover, it is very important to understand the hidden potential of bacteria and whether it can affect the development of antibiotic resistance and its pathogenicity,” says Professor Andersson, who heads the study.

The research was funded by the Swedish Research Council and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW).

FULL ARTICLE: Jon Jerlström Hultqvist, Omar Warsi, Annika Söderholm, Michael Knopp, Ulrich Eckhard, Egor Vorontsov, Maria Selmer, and Dan I. Andersson. A bacteriophage enzyme induces bacterial metabolic perturbation that confers a novel promiscuous function. Nature Ecology & Evolution. Advance Online Publication May 28, 2018. DOI 10.1038/s41559-018-0568-5

question: What are bacteriophages?

answer: They are viruses that infect bacteria, and they are the most numerous organisms on earth.

question: What is the finding of the research on bacteriophages?

answer: The researchers found that genes from bacteriophages enable bacteria to use their hidden potential and establish a new function.

question: What does bacteriophages do to E. coli?

answer: Instead of killing them, bacteriophages transmit genes that help E. coli survive.

question: Who funded the research?

answer: The Swedish Research Council and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW).

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: A study at Uppsala University shows that bacteriophages (viruses that kill bacteria) transmit genes that help E. coli survive.


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   Rain was falling hard against his bare back. It was dark and the disfigured shapes of naked trees danced around him. Their branches brought to life by the wind seemed to reach for him with gruesomely long and slender fingers. The rain collecting in puddles and streaming along the fallen branches, rocks and tentacle-like roots made them look like crawling creatures from the underworld that were always hiding under the cover of darkness. There were no stars and the moon was blocked by thick clouds that were pouring over the sky like a river of melting tar. The only light present was the one glistening in his blue eyes. It was truely an unsettling and spooky place to be this time of night, but he couldn’t enjoy anything more than going hunting in a night like this.
   Steam rose from his wet skin as he was standing in the mucky water and listening for a prey. The constant shower of rain filled the air with a damp smell of mud and the sound of whispers from far away. Then he heard it. Something was out there… and it was his to play with. He closed his eyes and inhaled a deep breath opening his claw-like hands eager to drive them through his victim.
   He crouched and leaned forward targeting the prey. He didn’t have that much problem seeing at night so he knew exactly where to go. He moved swiftly and without a sound like a shadow blending with the darkness. As he was getting closer he jumped over a large tree that had fallen long time ago and landed on his hands making a silent roll in the wet mud. Soon after he rose, the rain had already washed away the dirt and he continued the chase. Finally he was close enough to hear a heartbeat. It was raging fast as the owner of it fled through the woods, jumping over fallen trees, running around bushes and occasionally tripping over various objects including her own feet.
   He paused to take a better look at what he was chasing and as he did his eyes brightened. If anybody had been looking his way, they would have seen a pair of dark blue eyes burning in the night and nothing more.
   Once he knew what he was up against he chose to sneak past the girl and attack from the front – face on. No grabbing by the leg or any other cowardly moves. It shouldn’t be too difficult, he thought. After all, he was much faster, didn’t make a lot of noise and had a great night vision. The hunt was on.
   He picked up his pace maneuvering through the woods, sometimes jumping so high over things it seemed as gravity had no effect on him. The sound of rainfall overcame the sound of his steps and he started to enclose on the girl. She was now on his left, so close he could smell the adrenaline rushing through her veins and the smell was sweet. He couldn’t help but to look at her as they were running just a few pitch black feet aside from each other. And then she threw a look at him. Two bright blue eyes were glaring at her from the darkness so close she could have touched them. She turned away and lost all sense of reality while screaming until out of breath.
   He should have closed his eyes before the girl saw them, but he didn’t and it made him regret he had moved so close to her before time. Now she had turned away from him and ran even faster. Still, this was no problem for an experienced hunter like himself. He leaped forward and smashed his claw in a tree to make a quick turn. He jumped up and swung from one tree to another with such power the bark fell to the ground like burned ash. He made his way over the girl and jumped forward extending his arms like a prowling hawk. He landed and rolled in a ball of black mist in front of her. Once he stopped he was facing her and leaped forward before she even came to what was happening.
   He flew past her so close he wiped off some rain drops from her cheek. As he went by he started to rotate and behind him formed a black cloud that covered his feet. And finally he had the chance to rip his pray to pieces. His claws grew longer right before they slashed the demonic flesh of the slithering beast that had been tormenting the girl and chasing her through the forest. The beast was stunned, wounded and obviously angry. It let out a horrific howl that turned into chilling screams of every soul it had eaten and made a screeching sound by chomping and grinding its sharp teeth together.
   The girl was frozen with fear but she wanted to run. It was a fearsome feeling but she was amazed by the two creatures. The dark creature with flaming blue eyes floating around followed by a cloud of darkness blocking her from the growling beast whose breath turned into white smoke.
   The beast roared once more sending chills down her spine and attacked the dark creature trying to pulverize him with its horns. As soon as they got close, the blue-eyed creature span into a spiral around the demon creating a dark blue tornado lifting it up. He drilled his claw right through the demons chest and drove him to the ground. As he did, the dark spiral ended and blue light shone from his eyes and the hand penetrating the demon. Blue-eyed creature lifted his other hand to the sky and it too shone blue. Then suddenly waves of white lights traveled through his hands and went shooting for the sky. When the last soul had left the demons flesh Blue-eyed levitated above him and raised his hands that were radiating with blue light and then slammed them into the demon once more pushing him into the ground and out of this world. Then the light faded.
   Blue-eyed turned to the girl and smiled. That was the creepiest smile she had ever seen for it was given by a skeleton rabbit with long slender ears and burning blue eyes. But she smiled back and the creature disappeared in the dark.

title: Nothing to fear in the dark.

question: Summarize how Blue-Eyed defeats the demon.

answer: Blue-Eyed is able to defeat the demon by using his night vision, remaining quiet, and using a variety of techniques. He at first makes a black cloud, and then uses his claws to rip the demon to pieces. That doesn't defeat the demon, so he forms a dark blue tornado and gathers light from his hand. Using these forces, he was able to push the demon to the ground and out of this world.

question: Summarize how the girl processes what happened after Blue-Eyed leaves.

question: Summarize the girl's feelings.

answer: The girl had initially been afraid because she had been running away from the demon in the forest. Blue-Eyed is able to smell the adrenaline off of her. By the time Blue-Eyed and the demon face off, the girl loses all sense of reality and is unable to move due to her fear. Despite this, she is amazed by the two creatures. When Blue-Eyed defeats the demon, she seems to feel gratitude because she smiles at him.

question: What does the story say about how Blue-Eyed uses his claws?

answer: Blue-Eyed uses his claws in a variety of ways. He uses it to propel himself off of a tree to make a quick turn. He is also able to use them to rip, penetrate, and kill a demon. He also seems to be able to use them to create blue and white light forces from them to gain further power.


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Introduction: PC Display Stand

Having invested in a new PC case with glass sides, I wanted to be able to see into it when sat at my desk. Additionally, having no available room to place it on the desk itself, I decided to make a display stand. Something fairly simple but stable was required with somewhere to place cables out of sight.

This could obviously have been designed to include some additional functionality but I promised my wife this would be a quick project this time.

Skill level - intermediate.

_MATERIALS:_

-   MDF
-   Hardwood
-   Blackboard vinyl
-   Screws
-   Wood glue
-   Paint and varnish
-   Self Levelling feet
-   Threaded inserts
-   Metal ROG sticker

_TOOLS:_

-   Jigsaw
-   Router
-   Workbench
-   Clamps
-   Drill

Step 1: Basic Construction - Part 1

It's a box! Nothing too complex required here - it just needs to be stable and functional.

The basic pieces were cut and wooden battons screwed into place.

Once complete, four of the sides were screwed together.

The rear panel was cut further to provide an access port to store the powerstrip, cables and a router.

A chamfer bit was used to create bevelling on the 4 vertical edges of the box - something to add a little interest to the overall shape and also to soften the angles.

Step 2: Basic Construction - Part 2

The top and bottom panels were then cut (oversized), screwed into place and a flush trim router bit used to line everything up.

The basic box section was now complete.

Hardwood was used for the legs. These were shaped and were to be sanded and rouned at the edges later.

Holes were drilled into the bottom of the legs and threaded inserts screwed into place which were to hold the self levelling feet.

Step 3: Preparation and Finishing

The rough MDF edges were filled with car body filler and sanded down until smooth.

After a few passes to make sure there were no lumps and bumps, blackboard vinyl was applied around the 4 vertical surfaces.

Ribbed rubber sheeting was used on the top face and glued into position before being trimmed back. Only a section of this is shown for the texture to be seen. It was used to add some contrast / interest to the overall look but mere importantlyh to provde a non slip surface for the PC to rest on.

A Metal ROG sticker was then applied to the front of the unit.

Step 4: Complete Project

Once the legs were filled, sanded and painted, They were bolted onto the underside of the stand.

Finally, the unit was placed next to my desk and the PC moved into position.

I'm happy with the outcome; it's fairly understated and serves the purpose for which it was built.

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The 2017 SEASON is Home United's 22nd consecutive season in the top flight of Singapore football and in the S.League. Along with the S.League, the club will also compete in the Prime League, the Singapore Cup, Singapore League Cup and the 2017 AFC Cup.

Squad

S.League squad

  Squad No.     Name                     Nationality   Date of Birth (Age)   Previous Club
  ------------- ------------------------ ------------- --------------------- -------------------------
  Goalkeepers
  18            Hassan Sunny                                                 | LionsXII
  22            Eko Pradana Putra                                            | Geylang International
  24            Rudy Khairullah                                              | Police FA (NFL Club)
  Defenders
  3             Afiq Yunos                                                   | Tampines Rovers
  4             Juma'at Jantan                                               | LionsXII
  5             Haziq Azman                                                  Youth Team
  6             Abdil Qaiyyim Mutalib                                        | Tampines Rovers
  11            Sirina Camara                                                | Étoile FC
  17            Irfan Fandi                                                  | Young Lions
  19            Sufianto Salleh                                              Youth team
  Midfielders
  2             Hariss Harun                                                 Johor Darul Ta'zim FC
  7             Aqhari Abdullah                                              | LionsXII
  8             Song Ui-young                                                Youth Team
  10            Faris Ramli                                                  | LionsXII
  13            Izzdin Shafiq                                                | Tampines Rovers
  14            Shamil Sharif                                                | Young Lions
  15            Luqman Ismail                                                Youth Team
  20            Christopher van Huizen                                       | Young Lions
  21            Anumanthan Kumar                                             | Hougang United
  23            Adam Swandi                                                  | Young Lions
  Strikers
  9             Stipe Plazibat                                               | Hougang United
  12            Khairul Nizam                          FW
  16            Amiruldin Asraf                                              Youth Team

Prime League squad

  Squad No.     Name                    Nationality   Date of Birth (Age)   Previous Club
  ------------- ----------------------- ------------- --------------------- ---------------------------------
  Goalkeepers
  40            Kenji Syed Rusydi                                           | Young Lions
  Defenders
  29            Sadik Said                                                  | Prime League
  35            Ridhuan Shamsuddin                                          Hougang United Prime League
  37            Ribiyanda Saswadimata                                       NFA U18
  38            Arshad Shamim                                               Prime League
  39            Khairul Shari                                               | Prime League
  Midfielders
  28            Khairuddin Omar                                             | Balestier Khalsa Prime League
  32            Khalili Khalif                                              | Hougang United Prime League
  44            Syed Firdaus                                                NFA U18
  45            Nikesh Singh Sindu
  46            Akbar Shah                                                  Balestier Khalsa Prime League
  47            Ifwat Akid
  Strikers
  26            Marijan Šuto                                                | Warriors FC Prime League
  27            Iqram Rifqi                                                 | Prime League
  31            Qayyum Hakim                                                | Prime League
  36            Izzat Zalani                                                | Prime League
  41            Shah Zulkarnean                                             | Balestier Khalsa Prime League

Coaching staff

  Position            Name                     Ref.
  ------------------- ------------------------ ------
  Head Coach          Aidil Sharin
  Assistant Coach     Saswadimata Dasuki
  Goalkeeping Coach   Adi Saleh
  Team Manager        Badri Ghent
  Physiotherapist     Daisy Sumampong Anarna
  Kitman

  : Source

Transfer

Pre-season transfer

Source[1]

In

  POSITION   PLAYER   TRANSFERRED FROM                 REF
  ---------- -------- -------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                      Army United                      [2]
                      Police FC (NFL Club)
                      Tampines Rovers                  [3]
                      Young Lions                      [4]
                      Tampines Rovers                  [5]
                      Johor Darul Ta'zim FC            [6] (Initially on 3months loan deal & subsequently extended to end of season.)
                      Young Lions                      [7]
                      Hougang United                   [8]
                      Prime League Squad
                      Warriors FC Prime League Squad

Out

  POSITION   PLAYER   TRANSFERRED TO                     REF
  ---------- -------- ---------------------------------- ------
                      Warriors FC
                      Hougang United                     [9]
                      Hougang United                     [10]
                      Young Lions
                      Balestier United Recreation Club
                      Young Lions
                      Young Lions                        loan
                      Warriors FC
                      Released
                      Hougang United                     [11]
                      Hougang United                     [12]
                      Hougang United                     [13]
                      Kedah                              [14]
                      Hougang United                     [15]
                      Released
                      Young Lions                        [16]

Mid-season transfers

In

  POSITION   PLAYER   TRANSFERRED FROM   REF
  ---------- -------- ------------------ ------------------
                      Hougang United     National Service

Out

  POSITION   PLAYER   TRANSFERRED TO     REF
  ---------- -------- ------------------ ----------------------------------------------
                      Balestier Khalsa   Return to Parent Club After National Service

Friendlies

Pre-season friendlies

In Season friendlies

Team statistics

Appearances and goals

Numbers in parentheses denote appearances as substitute.

                                                                                Player                   Sleague   Singapore Cup   League Cup   AFC Cup   Total
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------- ------------------------ --------- --------------- ------------ --------- --------- ------- --------- ---- ---- ----
  Apps.                                                                                []Goals   Apps.                    []Goals   Apps.           []Goals      Apps.     []Goals
  2                                                                                MF        Hariss Harun             |20       0               4            0         3
  3                                                                                DF        Afiq Yunos               |4(2)     0               0            0         2
  4                                                                                DF        Juma'at Jantan           |17(2)    0               5            2         1
  5                                                                                DF        Haziq Azman              |6(5)     0               1(1)         0         3
  6                                                                                DF         Abdil Qaiyyim           |16       1               3            0         1
  7                                                                                MF        Aqhari Abdullah          |9(4)     0               4            0         0(1)
  8                                                                                MF        Song Ui-young            |11(2)    2               5            0         0
  9                                                                                FW        Stipe Plazibat           |21(1)    25              4            0         3
  10                                                                                MF        Faris Ramli              |22(1)    11              4            5         2
  11                                                                                DF        Sirina Camara            |12       0               0(2)         0         2
  12                                                                                FW        Khairul Nizam            |8(4)     7               0            0         1(1)
  13                                                                                MF        Izzdin Shafiq            |16(1)    0               2(1)         0         3
  14                                                                                MF        Shamil Sharif            |13(4)    1               3            0         1(1)
  15                                                                                MF        Luqman Ismail            |0(1)     0               0            0         1
  16                                                                                FW        Amiruldin Asraf          |8(14)    2               1            1         0
  17                                                                                DF        Irfan Fandi              |17       4               2            0         0
  18                                                                                GK        Hassan Sunny (captain)   |19       0               4            0         2
  19                                                                                DF        Sufianto Salleh          |8(5)     0               3            0         3
  20                                                                                MF        Christopher van Huizen   |7(2)     0               3            0         0
  21                                                                                MF        Anumanthan Kumar         |6        1               1            0         0
  22                                                                                GK        Eko Pradana Putra        |0        0               0            0         0
  23                                                                                FW        Adam Swandi              |15(3)    4               3            0         0
  24                                                                                GK        Rudy Khairullah          |5        0               1            0         1
  26                                                                                FW        Marijan Šuto             |1(8)     0               1(2)         0         1(1)
  27                                                                                FW        Iqram Rifqi              |3(7)     0               1(4)         1         2(1)
  38                                                                                MF        Arshad Shamim            |0        0               0(2)         0         0
  39                                                                                DF        Khairul Shari            |0        0               0            0         0(1)
  44                                                                                MF        Syed Firdaus             |0        0               0(2)         0         0
  PLAYERS WHO HAVE PLAYED THIS SEASON BUT HAD LEFT THE CLUB OR ON LOAN TO OTHER CLUB
  21                                                                                MF        Mahathir Azeman          |0        0               0            0         0

Competitions

Overview

  Competition     Record
  --------------- -------- -- -- -- -- -- --

  S.League
  AFC Cup
  Singapore Cup
  League Cup
  Total

S.League

Singapore Cup

Quarter Final

_Home United won 6–2 on aggregate._

Semi Final

_Home United lost 2–5 on aggregate._

3rd/4th place

Singapore TNP League Cup

Group matches

AFC Cup

Qualifying play-off

Group stage

Knockout stage

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title: 2017 Home United FC season

question: What is Home United?

answer: Home United is a Singapore football team.

question: Who were the goalkeepers of Home United when the team competed in the S. League in 2017?

answer: The goalkeepers were Hassan Sunny, Eko Pradana Putra, and Rudy Khairullah.

question: Who were the goalkeepers of Home United when the team competed in the Prime League in 2017?

answer: The goalkeeper was Kenji Syed Rusydi.

question: Who is United Home's Head Coach?

answer: The team's Head Coach is Aidil Sharin.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: Home United is a Singapore football team that has competed in the S.League, the Prime League, the Singapore Cup, Singapore League Cup, and the 2017 AFC Cup.