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***I Wrote this bored as hell and I know it has frequent grammar errors, just got bored and felt like writing my feelings about hope***

Hope, what is hope, some people view it as a golden ticket, Just like the one from Charlie in the Chocolate factory. To some hope is obtained through pure luck, just like that golden ticket, and that lucky ticket may take you on an adventure in a magic facotry with Willy Wonka and then you may save your poor family by obtaining that factory, even though it would probably be shut down becuase I don't think Oompa loompa's have Green Cards. But most people don't find hope that way, because hope is elusive and shy, you have to get a glimpse of it to think it is real and then you have to coax it out of the deep dark pit it got itself stuck in, but nobody gives out the secret to hope, because when it is found it is taken, built into something successful, powerful, amazing, beautiful and majestic, but the Human who made it that way kept it in his coat pocket and never told anyone how it works. Sure, many people have found hope and made it real, like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerburg, but some people like Bill Gates have always had hope, Gates Sr. was a lawyer, they had a ton of money, Bill got the proper education and tools and he used them, because his Dad gave him a glimpse of his coat pocket. Hope is like a secret, a whisper under someones breath that not everyone is able to pick up, it gives some burning passion and a reason to be good, but the people who never had luck, or caught a glimpse of hope or didn't get to see in the successful mans pocket are called the Hopeless. To most people hope is not real, all they see is pain and suffering, people trying and falling on their face, whats the reason to do good if your just going to get shot down, it could be an actual bullit or it could be someone telling you that you can't, you could think you are stupid, you have better shit to do, right? I mean anyone can tell me that I am wrong you can make fun of me, you can punch me, that's not what gets me down, what makes me feel hopeless is knowing that everyday someone is going to get hurt, someones dreams will be shattered easier then a shot glass at a frat party, and that someone will make a decision to hurt themselves and negativly influence someones life. I think school has no outcome, I mean i could just make money selling drugs, working minimum wage but is that what i want, do i wanna live in an apartment with 4 other people until im 40? or do i want a big house, a nice car, a beautiful wife, and a positive change in the world people can blame on me? yes i do, but DO YOU? just ask yourself whats the answer, if it is yes then go hunting whereever you think hope might be because you just might find it, and make sure to whip that bitch out of your coat pocket and show it to everyone who might need to think positive.

title: Hope?

question: How do Bill Gates and hope come together?

answer: The narrator says that Bill Gates has always been able to have hope and make it real because he's had privileges and advantages since he was young.

question: Why isn't hope real to most people according to the author?

answer: They have have experienced many negative things and have been let down.

question: What type of mood might the author have been in when writing this?

answer: They seem to be contemplative.

question: What is the main point of this passage?

answer: The main point is that if you have hope, grab on to it and use it.

question: Describe the most negative point in the passage.

answer: The most negative point in the passage is when the narrator describes what makes him feel hopeless and why some people don't have hope.


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It's a very earthly thing.  To picture a ball arching through space toward an anxious child.  Green is the yard, blue is the sky, the dog is happy, the hose is pouring water out of the end into a growing puddle hidden by grass. We wander out of that picture into flashes of missiles, destruction, self-inflicted human misery and hope that we never find life on other planets. We will certainly destroy this universe if given the time to do so. Luckily we don't have that kind of time. That thing, that being, that inconceivable extra terrestrial being spinning out there however many light years away-- whether it knows it or not, whether it can see or feel or conceive of that anxious child and that baseball--has some hope. Its only hope, as you know, is our demise.

The ball will go up and arch through the air and land. Back and forth for approximately 30 minutes. The boy will laugh and run and turn off the hose. The ball will roll under a small pine tree that will grow very tall. More importantly, everything suspended, spinning, rotating will go on and on, doing their best to satisfy some version of what we've so far determined is the order of things.  To the best of our knowledge the ball is still there.

All forces interact to keep objects in their paths or in their places. From the right perspective, you can actually see that baseball spinning through space, embedded in earth, and still a part of the largest scheme. "All", in its expanse, is inspiring.  At the same time it is futile to derive meaning from any of it. There is interactivity and cause and effect, but mainly forces interact to keep objects on their paths or in their places.

Running into the house to grip with two hands a plastic yellow cup with a smile inside a circle filled with water and chugg until out of breath. Running upstairs to pee and gaspingly explain from the open bathroom door to his mother in the kitchen that he wants to go to the beach. He has already contemplated the outer reaches of the universe with great fear at night above the covers and afraid of bed bugs.

Walking to the shed is the father to stare at the old riding lawn mower, rust under the chipped white paint, the smell of oil and a bird's nest. Questioning the word "home," wondering the best exit, timing, direction, explanation. He has contemplated the universe and a radiant being with great power to direct human activity and he is sure that the breath of a higher power has made things what they are. God's ear can hear the swoosh of globes rushing past. Can check in on galaxies, solar systems, planets, countries, towns, parishes and individuals.

Swoosh past. Planet after planet and the earthly delight of baseballs and geese wading silently by the shore, ducking under and shaking their heads, darting back and forth.  Across the lake from the man in the shed is a swirling rainbow of slippery water. Another man is crouching by a motor at the back of a boat. Cursing and standing and running his forearm across the top of his eyebrows.  His name is Ken and he is mad.

"God fucking damnit." he says to himself.  He picks up a red rag streaked with black grease and grips the fingers of his left hand pulling the oil off.  Sitting on the dock he grabs his can of beer and slurps the first cold sip of the day. A second, longer drink and he stares at the expanding rainbow of fuel reaching to the lily pads by the shore and dissipating out toward the center of the lake.  "Fucking dumb ass."

Ken spends a lot of time on the dock staring at the water.  He's been dealing for four years with two memories that will never leave his waking life.  At least he's pretty sure they will never leave.  Life seems now a slide show of memories competing to be the last image on the screen. He squeezes his can slightly until he hears the pop of the can.  Part of him noncommittally holds on to those memories, the rest he just waits, hoping they will eventually go away. Ken used to think proudly that he has been every man.

Random has nothing to do with anything.  The word random is defeatist, futile, a loser's way of looking at the world.  Random is the word used by people with no sense of control.  The point is that there is an incredible amount of order, just no purpose.

Up until the moment of impact, Ken was severely unfocussed.  Life was going in a direction he was completely unsure about.  Happiness, deep and meaningful love, awe and inspiration, he had experienced all of these things.  He also suffered daily doses of insecurity, pangs of anxiety, desire for other relationships, hope for something catastrophic to come along and change everything so that he could start over. Maybe move to another country, meet someone new. Just to start over. Starting over never consumed him, he was able to deny the feelings and shrug them off as being normal, human tendencies.

He knows, in his heart of hearts, that he never once fell out of love with her. Never once wanted anything but the best for his children.

Today is a slide of his wife in a towel after her shower. One year after their first child was born, he told her that she wasn't as thin as she used to be. That one image of her now choosing to wear a towel. Her sobbing and saying, "you've spoiled everything." The intense feeling of sadness and compassion he felt for her as she was sobbing. He remembers it well. He remembers realizing how much she trusted him, how secure she felt with him. She thought he was not like other men. On to the next memory ...

Had they left a little earlier or a little later, that has nothing to do with it. The order of things is such that we have an immense capacity to control the events of our lives, we just don't spend the time to trace the link between effect and cause.  Cars shouldn't have been allowed in the first place, no one should raise a family in such a sterile place, so far from hospitals. Not many people will experience a last look at their son alive as he is being put into a helicopter, but Ken has, and that slide seems to always win.

title: Family Life - Chapter 1 [OC]

question: Who is Ken?

answer: Ken is a man who spends a lot of his time at the dock staring at the water.

question: Summarize the movements of the ball.

answer: The ball arches up through the air and then lands. It travels up and down for 30 minutes and then finally rolls under a small pine tree.

question: What are the two memories Ken is dealing with?

answer: The first is a memory of his wife emerging from the shower in a towel. She sobs and says that he has ruined everything. The other memory is of his last time seeing his son alive, lifted off into a helicopter after presumably a car accident.

question: Why is Ken mad?

answer: Ken seems to be mad because of how his life has turned out. It appears that he is mad at himself.

question: Write a ~5 sentence summary.

answer: A boy runs inside to pee after playing with a baseball and his father walks over to the shed to stare at the lawn mower. Across the lake, Ken sits staring at the water. He is plagued by two memories. The first is of his wife, sobbing and telling him that he ruined everything. The second is of the last time he saw his son alive, being lifted into a helicopter after what seems to have been a car accident.


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So this girl has this crazy idea that trees will evolve to kill us. This was my response:

You forget by the time the trees evolve to kill us we will just have like crazy laser shooting mechanized lumberjacks. It will be all out war...

**The Herbivites**

The lumberjacks in there smokey loud vehicles destroyed the forest covered landscape at an very alarming rate. Burning and cutting there way through. The trees were getting slaughtered. It was a god damn extermination(pardon my french =S.) It wasn't until the trees observed the once fleshy humans living unscathed in there massive metal machines. Watching there brothers die and there enemy's conquer with no lacerations or casualty's spawned a massive idea to echo throughout the global root network.

The trees used there extensive root system to lay out a perfect mapping of the battle fields enemy locations and geological data. The lumberjacks were so noisy and there vibrations could be felt from thousands of feet away.

It was a sunny day, the forest was still glistening with morning dew. A legion of scouts flew out from underneath the trees, mist spraying in there wake. Headed directly for the lumberjacks largest battalion.

They circled the lumberjacks round and round. The lumberjacks targeting systems couldn't keep up with the tumbleweeds unbridled charge. Most of the lumberjack army converged on the tumbleweed. There numbers were so large the lumberjacks saw it as an opportunity to make them extinct. They saw immeasurable profit in this as tumbleweeds were the fastest of the herbivites. And previously were alerting the other herbivites of the lumberjack advancements.

The lumberjacks grew enraged at there lack of kills. They kept burning there fuel faster and faster. The trees also observed the odd and disgusting smoke coming out of there machines earlier and saw the machine was only outputting matter. Not taking any in. The trees knew it couldn't last forever.

Out of the forest and into the canyon. The tumbleweeds sped faster and faster across the endless rocky dessert terrain. The lumberjacks were convinced this was every tumbleweed on the planet. They were right, but they forgot about the trees.

The redwoods layed themselves down. There arms were weak but there mass was amazing. The redwoods were then strapped large flat rocks held together by massive jungle vines. The ash trees made quick work with there brothers so as not to prolong there pain. The mighty oaks approached the edge of the cliff rolling the red woods closer and closer into battle.

One final push and the redwoods could not be stopped. Redwood after redwood rolled over the lip. One continued assault that lasted for 5 minutes straight. By the time it was all over there was a massive land bridge of redwood. thousands of lumberjacks lay at the bottom. If they were not killed in the assault they screamed and cried for there wife's and children. Stuck between a rock and a hard place. The trees joined forces on top of the bridge and mourned the redwoods sacrifice.

Some jacks were still alive stuck under millions of pounds of rocks and wood. "This is captain Jon Miller.... RESPOND"! The radio chirped in "eerrrraraarrhh hheeeeeeeeeiiiiiip". "Son I know I know but I need you to fire up your weapons system if its operational...". "sir"? "Can't you feel that. They are on top of us right now adding more and more weight. The assault is over lets burn these herbivites and show them who will always be on top."

(Totally just realized I have no idea how to format dialogue while writing.)

The smoke rose up through the cracks of the redwoods. The herbivites cheered at the release of there souls. It grew hotter and hotter and the trees danced and danced.

Thud Thud Thud. Every step billowing the fire. It burned faster and faster. Gaining more and more oxygen to burn. The trees dancing harder and harder so happy in there victory. So joyous to bath in there brothers ashes.

A monstrous cracking sound boomed from underneath the trees. The whole stack dropped dizzying amount. Over 3/4th of the herbivites lay stuck on the pile. Many limbs were lost. The herbivites now realized what was happening. They fell victim to there own celebration and were now going to join there brothers in the largest die off in the history of earth.

They screamed and prayed for justice. Some jumped and fell to the desert floor where the bodies splintered and exploded. Surely a more instant death then being burned from root to leaf.

The surviving herbivites watched on as there brothers burn up in agony. They decided to try and contact the lumberjacks. That is if there were any remaining. The willows lead the trees to the humans in the most calming ways.

There was a need for calm. The willows came up with the idea of trying to communicate with the lumberjacks. They had used there roots to break into a computer. They felt its electric pulse. 1's and 0's 1's and 0's. They thought how could a language consist of only 2 states? 2 words?

It didn't take them long to figure out the answer. Yes and No. The most basic of communication. So they recruited the potatoes for there electrical charge in a attempt to reason with the lumberjacks.(That's right freaking potato phone baby!)

And so the willows marched into St. Paul and head straight for the capital. They wired up the potatoes and rigged it up to a giant walmart sign. The potatoes figured out how to control there energy output. This would dim the light on an off. The willows connected to the potatoes root system orchestrated the whole thing.

Flashing the light on and off on and off. Walking straight towards the capital. The humans stood in wonder and awe. They previously thought the herbivites were only hostile. They saw higher intelligence in that one flash of light then any other creature has ever demonstrated in history. It was baffling how fast the herbivites advanced and adapted.

The willows arrived at the lawn on the capital. Jesse Ventura stood on the roof(on account of marshal law... And predator.) He screamed as loudly as he could. "WE WANT TO LEAAARRRN".

The wallmart sign lit up. The willows bowed there leaves. General Ventura ordered one of the few remaining lumberjack mechanized assault vehicles to jump up and down in morse code.

- .... .. ... / .. ... / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . / -.-- --- ?

The trees responded with the light flickering on and off.

- --- / .-.. .- --.. -.-- / - --- / .-. .. --. .... - / -.. .. .- .-.. --- --. ..- . / .... . .-. .

The trees figured it out instantly. Ventura stood amazed. World peace was announced. The humans would only use metal for construction from now on no matter how high the cost. The herbivites returned to rest in there woods. They will be here for a long time.

The End.

title: [SF] The Herbivites

question: What does the story say about the attack of the flowers?

question: Summarize the main conflict of the story.

answer: The main conflict of the story is the war between the Herbivites and mechanized lumberjacks. The lumberjacks were slaughtering so many trees, it was clearly an extermination. However, the lumberjacks didn't know that the trees, or Herbivites, were watching their every move while watching their brothers and sisters get killed. The trees retaliated by trapping the lumberjacks in a canyon, but the humans burned their way out. Sensing doom, the trees broke into a computer to communicate to the humans that all they want is peace. The humans were amazed and since then, humans only used metal for construction and the Herbivites returned to rest in their woods.

question: What does the story say about the Herbivites?

answer: The Herbivites in the story are intelligent trees. When they get decimated by the Lumberjacks, the trees respond by using their extensive root network to study the enemy and plot an offensive. When all-out war breaks out and their plan backfires, the trees learn how to communicate with humans to stop the killing and sue for peace.

question: What does the story say about Jesse Ventura?

answer: Jesse Ventura is the leader of the lumberjacks. He is based at the Capital in St. Paul. He is also known as General Ventura and was in the movie, Predator.


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Williams only lost one of her next 20 meetings with Sharapova after losing the 2004 Wimbledon final (Picture: Getty)
Maria Sharapova has lifted the lid on her long-running feud with Serena Williams in a sensational extract from her upcoming autobiography, even suggesting that she helped motivate her to become the greatest female tennis player of all time.

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The Russian has been on the comeback trail after a 15-month ban for doping, though penned her memoirs – titled Unstoppable: My Life So Far – during her hiatus that will be released on September 12, just after the US Open finishes.

In the extract, Sharapova recounts her first meeting with Williams at the age of 17 when she shocked the world to win the Wimbledon title.

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Sharapova says Williams let out ‘guttural sobs’ in the locker room after losing the Wimbledon final (Picture: Getty)
Afterwards, the now 30-year-old claims she witnessed Williams crying in the locker room, a scene that she believes motivated the American to reach new heights and never lose like that again, even calling Sharapova a ‘b****’ for good measure.

As revealed by People Magazine, she wrote: ‘Serena and I should be friends; we have the same passion. But we are not. I think, to some extent, we have driven each other. Maybe that’s what it takes.

‘Only when you have that intense antagonism can you find the strength to finish her off. Who knows? Someday, when all this is in our past, maybe we’ll become friends.

‘When the match was over, Serena hugged me. She said something like, “Good job”. And smiled. But she could not have been smiling on the inside.

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Serena sensationally won the Australian open earlier this year while two months pregnant (Picture: Getty)
‘What I heard when I came in to the locker room was Serena Williams bawling. Guttural sobs. I got out as quickly as I could, but she knew I was there.

‘People often wonder why I have had so much trouble beating Serena; my record against her is 2 and 19. To me, the answer was in this locker room.

‘I think Serena hated me for being the skinny kid who beat her, against all odds, at Wimbledon. But mostly I think she hated me for hearing her cry. Not long after the tournament, I heard Serena told a friend – who then told me – “I will never lose to that little b**** again”.’

Williams, now 35, went on to win 17 more Grand Slams after that Wimbledon loss, taking her total to 23 – the most wins by a tennis player in the Open Era – while Sharapova won just four more Grand Slams in the proceeding years.

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question: Summarize all the information relating to Maria Sharapova.

answer: Maria Sharapova wrote an autobiography. At the time of writing this article she is on the comeback trail after a 15-month ban for doping. She played against Serena Williams for the first time when she was 17 years old and won her first Grand Slam title at that meeting. Sharapova feels that Williams has the same passion she has and that they have driven each other. Because of that they are not friends. Sharapova won 4 more Grand Slams in the years after her initial Wimbledon victory. She only beat Williams once more, losing 19 times.

question: Summarize all the information relating to Serena Williams.

answer: Serena Williams lost to Maria Sharapova in the Wimbledon final when Sharapova was 17 years old. Sharapova reports that afterward Williams was crying in the locker room and swore at her. Williams won the Australian Open while 2 months pregnant in the year this article was written. After her initial loss to Sharapova, her win-loss record against her is 19-2. Williams is now 35 years old, she has won 23 Grand Slams.

question: Why did Sharapova receive a doping ban?

answer: She used an illegal substance, was caught and received a 15-month ban.

question: Why did Sharapova pen her memoirs?

answer: She used the time away from tennis due to a 15-month doping ban to pen her memoirs -  Unstoppable: My life so far.

question: Explain the relationship between Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams.

answer: Maria Sharapova beat Serena Williams when she was 17 years old  win the Wimbledon title. She claims that Williams was emotional about her loss and swore at her. After this initial defeat, Sharapova went on to win 4 more Grand Slams and beat Williams once more. Williams went on to win another 17 Grand Slams, bringing her total to 23, and beating Sharapova another 19 times. Sharapova claims that they have a great rivalry.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: Maria Sharapova's autobiography, that she wrote during her 15-month doping ban, is being released shortly. In it she details Serena Williams' emotional reaction to her loss in the Wimbledon final against then 17-year old Sharapova. Williams has a much more successful career than Sharapova, but Sharapova still claims that she spurred Williams on to greatness.


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 [Why Productivity is Really About Self-Care]

by Dr. Rick Goodman on May 31, 2018
In an effort to be more productive, leaders are putting in more hours than ever before—yet many have learned that working _longer_ hardly makes them more _productive_. Actually, the opposite can be the case. When you work yourself ragged, not taking the time you need for your own physical and mental health, it causes you to be less energized and less creative. You can spend more time at the office, and get less work done.

The best way to prioritize your productivity isn’t to push yourself harder and harder. It’s to practice self-care—ensuring you have the stamina and the fresh perspective you need to do meaningful work each day.

To put it a little differently, self-care isn’t lost productivity; it’s an _investment_ in productivity. But this begs the question: How should you be taking care of yourself in order to remain productive?

Self-Care and Productivity

-   One thing I recommend is to get organized. Take a day to get your desk de-cluttered, all your files in order, and your calendar structured in a way that’s useful to you. Eliminate the time and the stress required to fumble around for papers and documents before you start a project.
-   Develop healthy routines. This means going to bed at the same time each night—early enough that you’re getting your eight hours! It means factoring exercise into each day, even if it’s just a standing appointment for a brisk morning walk. And it means scheduling time for three healthy meals each day.
-   Make sure you have a creative outlet in your life—whether it’s keeping a journal, writing songs, drawing, or knitting. Schedule time each week for creativity—an important factor in keeping your mind agile and open.
-   Get the social support you need, too. Make sure you have people you can confide in when things aren’t going well at work, or when you’re just feeling burned out. You don’t want to surround yourself with “yes men,” but you _do_ want to surround yourself with encouragers!

I hope this is a helpful framework for you as you consider what it really means to be a productive person—and how it all starts with taking care of your own physical and mental health. If you have any further questions about productivity or self-care, I’d love to set up a time to chat.

Connect at www.rickgoodman.com or call 888-267-6098.

Why Productivity is Really About Self-Care05.31.2018

question: What does Dr. Goodman say about self-care?

answer: It is essential to maintain productivity at work.

question: Can it be implied that all hard workers are barely productive each day?

answer: It might be implied.

question: Is it possible for one to not have room for self-care?

answer: It is not certain.

question: Do self-care and productivity go hand in hand?

answer: It appears they do.

question: What type of doctor is Dr. Goodman?

answer: It is not stated.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: This article highlights the importance of self-care and productivity in the workplace for working-class individuals by Dr. Rick Goodman. He opines that working harder makes you less productive and advises one must engage in self-care practices for healthier physical and mental health.


text: One beat of the human heart, on average, produces a combined systolic and disystolic force of 2.8 newtons.  Mt. Everest, the mightiest showing of the pure brute power of our Earth, is 6.4*10^15 kilograms, or more than 6 quintillograms.  If my heart wanted to move that mountain just one millimeter, one of the smallest differences noticeable by the human eye, it would have to produce more than 6 teranewtons.  If I lived one-hundred more years, and it spent every single one of those 2.8 newton heartbeats loving you, the force would be more than a million times to small.  I am very sorry, but my love for you cannot move mountains.

title: Math

question: Is it greater or less than 6 quintillograms?

answer: Greater than.

question: What would the heart have to do to move the mountain one millimeter?

answer: It would have to produce more than 6 teranewtons of combined systolic and disystolic force.

question: Is there a more efficient way to move a mountain one millimeter than using the human heart?

answer: Unknown.

question: Is this a math problem or a biology problem?

answer: Neither, it is a love problem.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: One beat of the human heart produces 2.8 newtons of force. Mount Everest weighs more than 6 quintillograms. Even if the narrator lived a hundred years, and spent every beat of their heart loving their beloved, their love could not move mountains.


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_PSEUDOCORINNA_ is a genus of African corinnid sac spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1910.[1]

Species

it contains twenty-nine species:[2]

-   _Pseudocorinna alligator_ Jocqué & Bosselaers, 2011 – Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast
-   _Pseudocorinna amicorum_ Jocqué & Bosselaers, 2011 – Cameroon
-   _Pseudocorinna amphibia_ Jocqué & Bosselaers, 2011 – Ivory Coast
-   _Pseudocorinna banco_ Jocqué & Bosselaers, 2011 – Guinea, Ivory Coast
-   _Pseudocorinna bilobata_ Jocqué & Bosselaers, 2011 – Togo
-   _Pseudocorinna brianeno_ Jocqué & Bosselaers, 2011 – Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast
-   _Pseudocorinna celisi_ Jocqué & Bosselaers, 2011 – Congo
-   _Pseudocorinna christae_ Jocqué & Bosselaers, 2011 – Ivory Coast
-   _Pseudocorinna cymarum_ Jocqué & Bosselaers, 2011 – Ghana
-   _Pseudocorinna doutreleponti_ Jocqué & Bosselaers, 2011 – Cameroon
-   _Pseudocorinna eruca_ Jocqué & Bosselaers, 2011 – Congo
-   _Pseudocorinna evertsi_ Jocqué & Bosselaers, 2011 – Ivory Coast
-   _Pseudocorinna febe_ Jocqué & Bosselaers, 2011 – Cameroon
-   _Pseudocorinna felix_ Jocqué & Bosselaers, 2011 – Ivory Coast
-   _Pseudocorinna gevaertsi_ Jocqué & Bosselaers, 2011 – Congo
-   _Pseudocorinna incisa_ Jocqué & Bosselaers, 2011 – Gabon
-   _Pseudocorinna juakalyi_ Jocqué & Bosselaers, 2011 – Congo
-   _Pseudocorinna lanius_ Jocqué & Bosselaers, 2011 – Liberia, Ivory Coast
-   _Pseudocorinna lobelia_ Jocqué & Bosselaers, 2011 – Congo
-   _Pseudocorinna natalis_ Jocqué & Bosselaers, 2011 – Congo
-   _Pseudocorinna naufraga_ Jocqué & Bosselaers, 2011 – Congo
-   _Pseudocorinna okupe_ Jocqué & Bosselaers, 2011 – Cameroon
-   _Pseudocorinna orientalis_ Jocqué & Bosselaers, 2011 – Congo
-   _Pseudocorinna perplexa_ Jocqué & Bosselaers, 2011 – Nigeria
-   _Pseudocorinna personata_ Jocqué & Bosselaers, 2011 – Cameroon
-   _Pseudocorinna rutila_ Simon, 1910 (type) – Guinea-Bissau
-   _Pseudocorinna septemaculeata_ Simon, 1910 – Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea (Bioko)
-   _Pseudocorinna ubicki_ Jocqué & Bosselaers, 2011 – Equatorial Guinea (Bioko)
-   _Pseudocorinna victoria_ Jocqué & Bosselaers, 2011 – Cameroon

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title: Pseudocorinna

question: What type of animals belong to the genus Pseudocorinna?

answer: African corinnid sac spiders belong to the genus Pseudocorinna.

question: When was the genus Pseudocorinna first described?

answer: The genus Pseudocorinna was first described in 1910.

question: How many known species are in Pseudocorinna?

answer: There are twenty nine known species in Pseudocorinna.

question: When was Pseudocorinna natalis discovered?

answer: Pseudocorinna natalis was discovered in 2011.

question: What country was Pseudocorinna bilobata discovered in?

answer: Pseudocorinna bilobata was discovered in Togo.

question: How many species in Pseudocorinna did Simon discover?

answer: Simon discovered two species of Pseudocorinna.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: Pseudocorinna is a genus of African spiders. It was first described in 1910 and contains twenty nine known species.


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[Dharmic X]

Dharmic X writes for Complex Music

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Oct 25, 2013

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Are LUPE FIASCO and CHILDISH GAMBINO friends or enemies?

The two exchanged in a Twitter back-and-forth back in the summer, which Lupe eventually clarified was a joke. However, when Gambino went on air with the Breakfast Club yesterday, the rapper and actor never clarified that it was indeed a fake beef, only saying that his eventual response was a verbatim quoting of CHIEF KEEF's infamous tweet aimed at Lupe back when they had Twitter beef. He accused Lupe of "sneak dissing" him because he wasn't a street dude, unlike Keef.

This morning, Lupe (whose account remains private), once more jumped back on Twitter to respond to Gambino. According to Lupe, he doesn't sneak diss at all, and not only that, Gambino's sneak dissing accusation was a sneak diss itself. Lupe concluded by saying that he watches more anime than Gambino.

Will Gambino respond to this? Or will this bizarre exchange just fade away like the last one?

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question: Why does this document ask if Lupe Fiasco and Childish Gambino are friends or enemies?

answer: The two engaged in a Twitter argument the summer before this document, but Lupe said that was a joke. The morning of this document, Lupe responded to Gambino's lack of clarification that their exchange the past summer was a fake argument.

question: Who is Lupe Fiasco?

answer: The document doesn't say exactly, but it seems he was involved in music.

question: What is the document referring to when it says "Will Gambino respond to this"?

answer: It is referring to Lupe's tweets at the time of the document. Lupe suggests Gambino made a "sneak diss", and that he watches more anime than Gambino.

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The BOCSKAI UPRISING (in Hungary BOCSKAI'S WAR OF INDEPENDENCE ) was a great revolt in Hungary, Transylvania and modern Slovakia, between 1604 and 1606 against Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, during the Long Turkish War. The leader of the rebels was Stephen Bocskai, a significant Protestant Hungarian nobleman. The great Ottoman war burdened the Hungarian Kingdom and led to famine and epidemics. The armies of the Christian states also destroyed as the Ottoman and Tatar forces.

Rudolph persecuted the Protestants and the rich Hungarian noblemen were falsely accused of treason. Because of injuries Stephen Bocskai organized the revolt and persuaded the Hungarian military units, the Hajduks, to join. Bocskai defeated the imperial forces and foreign mercenaries, and the Hungarian nobility, the Hungarian soldiers and peasants, and also the minorities went over to Bocskai's Hajduk army. Bocskai was supported by the Ottoman Empire, the Crimean Khanate, Moldavia, Transylvania and Wallachia, but prevented a possible Ottoman siege of Vienna. Bocskai was declared for the Prince of Transylvania and Hungary, but recognized the fact that the challenge of independence of Hungary is not possible against the Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire. Bocskai marked the political route for his supporters, namely the preservation of the independent Transylvania, which may be a base for the unification of Hungary.

Background

Already Archduke Ferdinand I of Austria (Holy-Roman emperor from 1556) passed the centralization of the military and financial system of the Habsburg Empire. The Kingdom of Hungary, which has suffered a tragic territorial loss, has since been governed by the Hofkriegsrath, the Hofkammer and the Hofkanzlei, and the Secret Council, based in Vienna. The border fortress system, the headquarters, was built in the 16th century from Vienna. The chambers of Pozsony and Szepes(Spiš) were under the control of the central bodies of Vienna throughout. Moreover, the Court Chamber(Hofkammer) did not have any Hungarian members during its existence.

Regular complaints in the national parliaments included the behavior of foreign officials and mercenaries, as well as the fact that the Habsburgs spent very few time of their reign in Hungary. Rudolph even put his residency from Vienna to Prague in 1583 what was more safety from tge Ottomans but was more far away from Hungary. 1562 After the death of the Palatine Tamás Nádasdy his position remained vacant until 1608 because the Emperors tried to avoid to need to call any assembly amd that position could get a chance for the Estates to stand up for their rights.

Indirect preludes

THE LONG TURKISH WAR

With minor clashes escalated along the border it began as early as 1591, but a more serious act of combat took place only in 1593, when III. Sultan Murad, null and void the peace of Drinapolis/Adrianapoly(from 1568), declared war on the Habsburgs. The sultan called on Zsigmond Báthory to join the Ottoman army, but he decided to join the anti-Ottoman league on the advice of his uncle, Captain of Várad(today Orodea) István Bocskai and Jesuit Father Alonso Carrillo. The majority of the Transylvanian Assembly, on the other hand, feared that even before the Allied Christian army arrived here, the Turk troops would ravage and looting Transylvania, so the prince's plan was not adopted. For this reason, Zsigmond Báthory resigned from the principality in the summer of 1594 in favor of his cousin, Boldizsár Báthory who represented the Turkish party. Meanwhile, Bocskai began working in the background to reverse this. After visiting the prince's trustees, he took control of the affairs in his hands, asking for soldiers. At first, it passed only a resolution with the Assembly of Kolozsvár on the dissolution of the Turkish alliance and on standing for the Emperor ; but after the Turkish party was still against him, on the orders of Sigismund the opposition lords together with the prince in office(Boldizsár Báthory, cousin of the prince, Chancellor Farkas Kovacsóczy, councilor Sándor Kendy (father-in-law of Boldizsár Báthory and Farkas Kovacsóczy), Ferenc Kendy (brother of Sándor János Kendy), Gábor Kendy Gergely Literáti Szentegyedy (György in some places) and László Szalánczy from Branyicska.)were surrounded with an army, captured and executed, while others were imprisoned because prince Sigismund Bathory had pardoned to János Gerendi, Albert Lónyai, György Szalánczi and Boldizsár Szilvásy. The war was undecisive and the royal Hungary destroyed by German and Walloon mercenaries, Transylvania suffered the most from the war, which became the scene of a permanent civil war as a result of Zsigmond(Sigismund) Báthory's repeated resignations and returns. Rudolf first appointed Michael the Brave voivode as the governor of Transylvania, who overthrew the principality and tried to united amd rule Transylvania, Wallachia and Moldova together so Rudolph let him assassinated, and then placed General Giorgio Basta at the head of Transylvania.

Direct preludes

1. FINANCIAL PROBLEMS OF THE COURT

At the turn of the century (about 1600) because of the Long Turkish War, the debt of the Empire accumulated millions of Rhine forints a year. In some years of the 15-year war, expenditures also kicked in at 5 million forints a year, so the annual budget deficit of 800 thousand to 1.5 million became common, which could only be raised more or less from credit, in addition to various aids. Revenues in the 1570s were 2-2.5 million Rhine forints so the debt was sometimes 1500%. Rudolf (but mostly his advisors or some power and money hungry noble) tried to alleviate the problem of the treasury emptied during the Long Turkish War, the payment of his mercenary leaders and warlords by acquiring (consficating) the property of the Hungarian aristocracy thorough conceptional trials, which were very widespread in Europe in the Middle Ages (Trials of the Knights Templar) and the absolutist courts.[1][2] Infringement (high treason) and betrayal lawsuits were started against the richest Hungarian barons and wealthier families, usually with loss of property and goods. The idea came not from the members of the Prague court, but the local Catholic high priests (living under the rule of the crescent, unable to occupy their seats, bearing only the titles, their income had to pay for the defense line against Turks). And their victims were chosen from the Protestant members of the Estates. Conceptual proceedings were initiated against even the most excellent soldiers in the Long Turkish War: Sigismund Rákóczi, Tamás Nádasdy (not the palatine), Mihály Telekessy, Alaghy, Balassa, Drugeth, Kállay families from Homonna. The first verdict was handed down in March 1603 in the case of Istvan Illésházy astles[3] and estates were confiscated but let him to escape to Poland.

2. RELIGIOUS DISAGREEMENT

Unlike emperor Miksa, who was tolerant of Protestants, emperor Rudolf was already an indiscriminate supporter of recatholicization methods. Counter-Reformation began in the Austrian and Styrian provinces of the Habsburgs (where the Lutheran religion was dominant) and in Hungary (where the Calvinist trend of the Reformation prevailed but the cities of Upper Hungary were Lutherans). During the Long Turkish War, Rudolf his ius supremi patronatus(from Sigismund Hungarian king had decisive power about religious cases) in more times to give Protestant churches to Catholics. For example, In Kassa(Kosice), Barbian Belgiojoso brought cannons to the main square to force the city council to hand over St. Elizabeth's Cathedral to the Catholics, which was in the hands of the Lutherans more decades. In the spring of 1604, the articulus orders of the Diet of Pozsony also added an extra article (The XXII, what was a false articulus) by Rudolph that reaffirmed earlier anti-Protestant laws and banned religious issues from being discussed in Estates Assembly(later called Diet) from that time.

3. GABRIEL BETHLEN'S LETTER to request Bocskai lead them against the unlawful king. On behalf of the fugitives who fled to Turkish territory, Gábor BethlenGabriel Bethlen encouraged Bocskai to take the lead in an anti-Habsburg uprising, with the prospect of a Turkish alliance. Bocskai had key position and he, who supported earlier his sister's son Sigismund Báthory was a battle hardened man. Their correspondence was intercepted by his opponent, the Chief Captain of Kassa, Barbiano, Count Belgiojoso. Bocskai had previously hired dismissed armed Hajduks to defend himself from any enforced “loan” from the imperial army. As an important military leader wanted to arrest him on charges of treason(and try to get his property for himself), so he had no another choice but confronted the imperial troops or gave up everything. He had the chance to link his own interest with the interest of Protestants, the citizens, the nobility and the free Hajduk soldiers who had very good battle experience because of Long Turkish war.

Bocskai uprising

The uprising started

Some of Bocskai's men betrayed him[4] about Turkish relations to Cyprian Concini(vicecaptain of Varad) made a deal with him, and Concini reported it to Giacomo Barbiano, count of Belgioso who ordered Bocskai to his camp by Rakamaz.Miklós Nyakas recently reminded in his cited study that according to one of Szamosközy's previously unused data, “one of the first” clashes took place here, but also after the siege of Nagykerek: Ferenc Thuri and his fifty “drabant” heading for Varad He is taken prisoner on or 9. Later they switch to Bocskai.

Nyakas Miklós Bocskai birtokszervezéséről és annak esetleges politikai hátteréről, később a Sólyomkő alatti összecsapásról: Nyakas Miklós: _Bocskai birtokai Biharban a 16. és 17. század fordulóján._ In _Bocskai és kora… Tanulmányok a Bocskai-szabadságharc 400. évfordulója alkalmából._ Főszerkesztő: Czigány István. Szerkesztők: Bertók Krisztina–Kisteleki Károly. Martin Opitz, Budapest, 2005, [27]–40. The traitors, three men of the Lord of Bihar, Ferenc Székely, Captain of Szentjobb, Dáz Lázár Posgai, court judge and István Fráter who was even his late wife's relative on October 2, handed over Szentjobb to Concini, the vicar of Varad as they conpirated before. Next day Concini went against Bocskai' s fortress Nagykereki. Bocskai already recruited 300 Hajdús. The Hajdús of Kölesér and the castle soldiers under the command of Örvéndy form the core of the army fighting the freedom struggle - but in the meantime a lot of Hajdús serving in the war of the Chief Captain of Upper Hungary Belgiojoso. Bocskai resisted, fired a cannon to Concini at first he is just amazed, and in two days he retreated with no small loss. Of course, this does not end the threat. The emperor's army march in three columns — each three separately stronger than the army Bocskai's private army and a few hundred Hajdús. However, after it is proved that the captains of the Hajdú captains serving in Belgiojoso's army - Balázs Lippai, Ferenc Ibrányi, Mihály Dengeleghy, Mátyás Szénássy, Balázs Németi - are willing to change the side which written in contract in Adorján on October 14.NAGY LÁSZLÓ: Okmányok a Bocskai szabadságharc idejéből.[Documents of Bocskai uprising] Hadtörténeti Közlemények

1956. I. évf. 315.p One of the three columns, leaded by Colonel Pezzen coming so he could manages to collide with him before he reaches Diószeg, and unites with Belgioioso 's main army. The decisive battle of the first phase of the campaign has already been established, not in any other well-planned Hajdú ambush. At night, in the wooded-wooded area between Álmosd[5] and Diószeg, near the latter settlement, Bocskai encountered the loose, stretched column of Pezzen, the infantry that slowly followed the advancing cavalry, somewhere where cannons essential for the city ruin are being towed. Hajdu riders attacked and then disappear into the trees; they strike again: after the eighth attack, many of the Silesian riders returning from the top of the column, hurrying to the aid of the pawns, are cut off, the others are scattered, and the remnants of the musketeers await another attack in a hastily enforced chariot camp. The defense collapsd when one of the ammunition chariots hits buy a cannon and exploded - at least later, this was the explains the explosion that shook the chariot castle. No one can resist the last attack: the Hajdus were slaughtered everybody[ mercenaries 's families too]. The king's colonel is taken captive wounded, and the chief captain Belgiojoso fled into the walls of Varad on hearing the news. Bocskai 's men surrounded Varad bit could not besiege only cut from supplies. After October 20, the Count of Belgiojoso came out from behind the walls on a day that has not yet been identified, and retreats in a forced procession towards Tokaj. All he knew is that he was retreated by an anonymous, hitherto unknown force; he also writes to the court(his letter remainedNAGY LÁSZLÓ: Okmányok a Bocskai szabadságharc idejéből.

HK. 1956. 1. évf. 315–317.

Anno 1604 17 Octobris. Missiles Georgii Jacomi Barb[ian]o comitis

de Belgi[ojos]o ad comitem Stephanum de Bathori, venditionem et proditionem

patriae per Stephanum Bocskay attentatam detegentis et explicantis, scriptaeBenda Kálmán–Kenéz Győző: Barbiano generális jelentése a Bocskai-szabadságharc első hónapjairól.[Benda, Kalman-Kenez, Győző: Count Barbiano detailed report to the Hofkriegsrat about first month of Bocskai uprising].

In Hajdu Bihar megyei muzeumok kozlemenyei 19.szam. Hajduk a magyar történelemben[Hajdus in the Hungarian history] II. Debrecen 1972. 5-29. p about an unprecedented betrayal, apparently because the devil's apostles, who are now chasing him to the Tisza under Bocskai's flags, were still his - mostly unpaid - soldiers the night before the Battle of Diószeg. His army scattered and mostly killed on fugitive. Belgioso's soldiers mostly deserted, citizen of Kassa locked her gates(because he seized their church before), he had to march until Szepes(today Spis) where he could hide and his pursuers encircle a loose siege. Balázs Lippai and Balázs Németi made a manifesto on 31 October called on the citizens of the mining towns to join the city of Kassa, illuminating the purpose and meaning of the war of independence. This document, of which only the Latin version is known "In addition to the true faith(he talked about Protestant) , in addition to Hungary and next to the temple of God, the Hungarian Christian warrior orders armed with us are the chief captains of these.Lippay Balázs és Némethy[or Nemeti] Balázs hajdúkapitányok kiáltványa

a bányavárosokhoz, hogy fogjanak fegyvert a német iga

lerázására[Lippay-Nemeti manifeso to the Hungarian mining towns to join them]. In: Magyar Történeti Szöveggyűjtemény 1526-1790. I. Volume. Editor Istvan Sinkovics 278-279.p"

RUDOLF SENT GIORGIO BASTA TO DEAL WITH THE REBELSBasta 1604. évi támadó hadjárata Bocskay ellen.[Basta's attack against Bocskai in November 1604)]. In: Bánlaki, József(https://hu.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A1nlaky J%C3%B3zsef) : A magyar nemzet hadtörtenelme. I–XXII. Volume, Budapest, 1928–1942 Grill Károly Könyvkiadó[Volume XV].

online:

https://mek.oszk.hu/09400/09477/html/0015/1194.html

In the second round, a real, battle hardened general confronted with Bocskai: Georgio Basta , with his armies previously commanded ro fight successfully against the Ottomans, marched from Esztergom against Bocskai's insurgents.Giorgio Basta got order to deal with Bocskai uprising. In: Basta György hadvezér levelezése és iratai.[Giorgio Basta military leader's reports, letters and documents]. II. Volume. Tel:16021607%7C1602-1607 Editor and translator: Dr. Veress, Endre. Budapest, Tel:1913%7C1913. Akadémiai Kiadó 522p [He got order to supress Bocskai uprising]

https://archive.org/stream/bastagyrgyhadv02bastuoft#page/521/mode/1up Balázs Németi decided to take up the attack with his soldiers and the assembling peasant insurgents at Osgyán. Németi chose the place for the defense well, and the main reason for the defeat was the confusion(lack of discipline) Even before the bridge leading to the village,Nemeti's cavalry crashed into Basta's vanguard, and perhaps they would have had time to break away from the emperors and retreat behind the ramparts, but just then, Balázs Lippai's five hundred srinked men arrived and tangled the defenses, preventing the Nemeti's men from detaching from the attackers, so the fugitives brought the imperial cavalry, musketeers, and spades into the village on their backs. After that, it was only possible to stand the attack for a while. In the courtyard of the castle occupied in his hand - a small fraction of the defenders could only break out everybody else massacred - the wounded Nemeti captured and later had been executed by Basta.In: Basta György hadvezér levelezése és iratai.[Giorgio Basta military leader's letters and documents]. II. Volume. 1602-1607 Editor and translator: Dr. Veress, Endre. Budapest, 1913. Akadémiai Kiadó 524.p

https://archive.org/stream/bastagyrgyhadv02bastuoft#page/521/mode/1up After his victory in Osgyán, Basta continued marching to Kassa, but first marched only to Edelény and the valley near Ládbesenyő, he was surrounded by the armies of Bocskai and the Turks auxiliary troops who arrived to help Bocskai. Sources also mention that Basta was already tinking it's his end, setting fire to his army supplies, but two days after, he found the weakest point of the ring at a foggy dawn, humiliating the Hajdu infantry assigned to the cannons[6] - erupted in the direction of Kassa.[7] But the city defended bu Miklós Segnyei's Hajdús - did not let him in. For two or three days, the general breaks the walls with cannons unsuccessfully, then in the descending frost he marched to Eperjes, where he is finally let him in - but he also closes himself off from the world and got same fate like Belgiojoso earlier. His place was well chosen becaise he had way to Poland in emergency but he could strike to Kassa as well. But Basta had to stay there because of the winter until April 1605 until he got able to move towards West. He tried to make negotiations with the Estates, the Hajduks, even with Bocskai but he thank Bocskai's terms insolent.

THE UPRISING SPREADED ACROSS HUNGARY (MAP)

In the third stage of the fights, Bocskai will be the initiator again. He realized not able to win in open battlefield but he can cut his enemies supply lines and his light cavalry can sprrd the uprising. He trusted the military leadership to the experts Settling his headquarter in Kassa, he organized his army for weeks and months, obtained the contribution of the liberated part of the country to the war as much as possible, dissolved the powerful oppositions among the Hajduks, serfs and nobility, and formulated the plans for the operation himself. Already in December, under the leadership of Ferenc Rhédey, who one of the former refugee to the Turks, launched one of his pillars to conquer the fortifications and mining towns of Lower Hungary (i.e. the Western Felvidék, now West Slovakia); the cities and castles one after the other set their flag. Balazs Lippai became too wild and killed a plenty of innocent people(e. g. wives and kids or the mercenaries). After the October victories, after receiving several villages from Bocska, he is already behaving as if his army is a state within the state, not sparing the people of the land while enriching his estates and wealth, and what the county nobility sees as public interest does not really matter to him. He started not obeying for Bocskai, behaved like a peasant leader what could alienated the nobility and the towns people from Bocskai. Bocskai knew he could not get the support only from Hajdus because he would not be a next György Dózsa, a peasant leader(whose fate always the defeat and execution) or Mozes Székely. He suspected Lippai started a secret corresponding with Georgio Basta so January 1605 he had to organise an assassination like execution of him. Bocskai made an announcement in Gönc[8] calls do not remain ineffective, although the people of Upper Hungary should not be encouraged: the armed orders, led by Bálint Drugeth Homonnai, stand at Gönc; they were even recruited by Belgiojoso, and now they are switching for the first time, as is the guard of the castles in the area infiltrated by the insurgents; one of the first important capitals to capitulate, Captain Nagykálló, the Catholic Mihály Káthay, will soon be the chancellor of Bocskai. Despite the separate interests and even open debates of Hajduks, nobles, citizens and soldiers, the society of the first anti-Habsburg movement will be formed in a few months. The Transylvanians themselves, more precisely two orders of order, the Szeklers and the Hungarians, elect their own rulers; the Saxons were careful then still locked in their castles still awaiting what is going on. A proclamation to the peoples of Europe on the reasons for the struggle and the fact that the Hungarians only temporarily stopped fighting the Turks was issued in the name of the orders present in the National Assembly.

Basta broke out of Eperjes only one time before April 1605,[9] but found no enemy anywhere, the Hajduks - along with their leader - dodge him everywhere, so he will have only one real achievement: to strengthen Tokaj, who remained loyal to the king, with food and ammunition. He then retreated into the walls of Eperjes. At the beginning of the spring, he realized that with his unpaided (the Hajduks also robbed the mercenaries' suppliers), starving units - and was many German Protestants among his soldiers - he couldn't regain, but not even keep, Hungary. He also got orders about the retreat from the court: now the hereditary provinces(Austria, Czech, Moravia etc.) of Vienna and Prague must be protected from Bocskai because his troops attacked from the Upper-Hungary(Felvidék) in several waves crash into those provinces and Transdanubia as well With the rest, he headed towards the West at the beginning of April, and because he failed to unite the armies there for the purposes of a counterattack, he eventually only stopped in Pozsony.[10]Basta's letter from Pozsony (17. June 1605) . In: Basta György hadvezér levelezése és iratai.[Giorgio Basta military leader's letters and documents]. II. Volume. 1602-1607 Editor and translator: Dr. Veress, Endre. Budapest, 1913. Akadémiai Kiadó 689. p

[He had to recruit new army] . From May 1605, after less successful initiatives - Tamás Horváth's April-like raid - Gergely Némethy's Hajdú troops began to conquer the Transdanubian castles. They soon reach the line of Sopron and Kőszeg, which is equipped for defense; from here the army as a whole has no further path, but the raids, reinforced by Turkish auxiliary troops, trick far into Austria, “pacifying” the provinces there. Némethy first wanted to involve the Styrian and Croatian orders in the uprising party, but in practice he did not succeed with the Transdanubians either. The tradition of anti-Turkish struggles was even stronger here, revived by pagan robberies, and more interests were linked to the neighboring provinces. Némethy was not be able to conquer the western cities fortified for the protection of Vienna permanently - or at all - his new attempt in September will not be lasting, the imperial troops concentrated in Western Transdanubia started counterattack against Hajdús armies, with revenge and retaliation against who switched side. It is true, however, that Némethy manages to hold back a significant enemy force.

Previously, the emperor's armies concentrated in the districts of Komárom, Érsekújvár, Esztergom and startedba counterattack also recalled Rhédey's soldiers; Mátyás Somogyi transferred his three thousand (who were Western Hungarian, mostly supported the emperor) soldiers to the side of the emperor, and now he is guarding the river island for him. However, much of the country 's territory is still free - by the end of the summer, only a few fortresses was remained in the hands of Rudolph' s followers, most of them captured by the insurgents. After October, a war was started for Transylvania, under the siege of Szatmar, and at the end of January it will fall into the hands of the insurgents. The imperial army cannot receive supplies. In Transylvania, László Gyulaffy will be the first representative(governor) of (until his death in July)of Prince Bocskai. He gave back the freedoms, which he had taken away several times before to the Szeklers and also won the Moldavian prince for his goals. With these aid wars, the Estates occupied the whole of Transylvania without a major battle - here as well as above, with the exception of a few castles and, of course, the Saxon cities; György Rácz, the king's most successful leader here, is on standby in Medgyes, then in Segesvar, first he breaks Gyulaffy's blockade with a surprise attack, but he can only keep himself temporarily. On February 21, 1605, Bocskai was elected Prince of Transylvania by the Szeklers and the county nobility in Nyárádszereda. In April, the Assembly of Szerencs called him as Prince of Hungary.[11] Prior to this, King Rudolf's peace envoys had already appeared to him. He did not negotiate with them, allegedly because they were only authorized to compensate him for his personal injuries but he wanted to represent the cause of the country - this is when the Estates's proclamation to Europe was written. When Bocskai went to Transylvania in the summer to take his princely oath, the Saxons also joined to him, including György Rácz. In the end, only an orphaned army remains in Varad. The main battlefield was still Lower Hungary in late summer and autumn. By this time Bálint Drugeth of Homonnai was already in control of the military operations. Now the smaller goal is to repel the weak counterattack from Moravia and Komárom; the greater: the conquest of Archbishop's Castle, not only from the emperors, but also from the Turkish ally. 1605 Bocskai had a meeting with the Turkish Grand Vizier by Rakos Field he accepted the crown but didn't want to crowned himself but make a negotiation with emperor Rudolph.

Timeline

-   1604. MAP OF THE UPRISING][12]
-   Colonel Concini attacked Kereki
-   Oct 14-15 battle of Álmosd
-   Oct 15. Debrecen captured by Bocskai
-   End of October battle of Tokaj with Belgiojoso
-   Oct 31 Lippai-Nemeti Manifesto
-   Nov 11 Kassa open her gate for Bocskai
-   Basta accessed Losonc with his 18000 soldiers
-   Nov 14 Battle of Ostyan Basta won, Balazs Nemeti captured and executed[13]
-   End of November Battle of Edelény Basta broke out of Balázs Lippai's ambush
-   Dec Kassa resist for Basta who marched to Eperjes, Rhedey's army looted West-Felvidék and endangered Basta's supply lines
-   Dec 1 Bocskai Manifesto in Göncz to the nobility to join him
-   End of Dec Manifesto of Balazs Lippai
-   1605[14]
-   January Balazs Lippai assassinated by Bocskai, Szatmar captured by Bocskai 's troops
-   21. February Bocskai elected Prince Of Transylvania
-   April Basta retreated from Eperjes to Pozsony
-   Ap 17 Manifesto from Estates who joined to Bocskai. Bocskai elected Prince of Hungary in Szerencs, Tachtamis khan of Crimea helped Bocskai by order of the Ottomans.
-   May Bocskai's troops reached Transdanubia(Dunántúl)
-   Sept Rudolph's troops started a counterattack in West Hungary and retook some cities
-   Autum Assembly in Korpona
-   Nov 11 Bocskai and Lalla Mehmed Grand Vizier meeting in Rakos-Field, Pest county
-   Dec 12 Bocskai settled the Hajdus into his real estates and gave them nobility
-   1606[15]
-   23 June Treaty of Vienna[16]
-   17.December Bocskai dictated his political Testament(Last Will)
-   29. December Bocskai died in suspicious circumstances, his men blamed and killed Kathay

Negotiations

The Treaty of Vienna, concluded on June 23, 1606, ensured the rights of the Hungarian order and religious freedom, and annexed the counties of Szatmár, Bereg and Ugocsa to Transylvania for the life of its descendants. On September 24, King Rudolf issued a special certificate stating that he would not return to the crown with the extinction of the sonic descendants of Transylvania and Partium Bocskai, and that he would hand over Ugocsa, Bereg, Szatmár and Szabolcs counties and Tokaj castle with all its accessories to the prince and son's descendants, and the market towns of Tarcal, Bodrogkeresztúr and Olaszliszka. The Bocskai-mediated peace in ZitvatorokPeace of Zsitvatorok, concluded in the same year, also ended the Long Turkish War.

Aftermath

Bocskai singled out the soldiers of the victories of the war of independence, the majority of the Hajduks, from the landlord's rule, and settled them in the Hajdú towns with communal privileges and military obligations, as well as granted the Székelys their previous privileges.

After 1608 (until 1848) the rules of Assembly of the Estates consolidated. We can call the Assembly after that Diet where the Estates debated and voted the proposals. The Agreement of 1608 was mostly Rudolph's brother Matthias's merit who organised a “palace revolution” and enforced Rudolph to resign from all of his titles (Hungarian, Austrian, Moravian, Styerian etc. rulers rank) apart from Czech and Holy Roman Emperor. At 1611 he had to hand over the Czech kingdom as well. Istvan Illésházy elected as the new nádor (the first non-Catholic in this position).

Publications

-   Barta, Gábor (1994). “The Emergence of the Principality and its First Crises (1526–1606)”. In Köpeczi, Béla; Barta, Gábor; Bóna, István; Makkai, László; Szász, Zoltán; Borus, Judit (eds.). History of Transylvania. Akadémiai Kiadó. pp. 247–300. .
-   Benda, Kálmán (1993). Bocskai István [Stephen Bocskai] (in Hungarian). Századvég. .
-   Cartledge, Bryan (2011). The Will to Survive: A History of Hungary. C. Hurst & Co. .
-   G. Etényi, Nóra; Horn, Ildikó; Szabó, Péter (2006). Koronás fejedelem: Bocskai István és kora [A Crowned Prince: Stephen Bocskai and his Time] (in Hungarian). General Press Kiadó. .
-   Granasztói, György (1981). “A három részre szakadt ország és a török kiűzése (1526–1605)”. In *Benda, Kálmán; Péter, Katalin (eds.). Magyarország történeti kronológiája, II: 1526–1848 [Historical Chronology of Hungary, Volume I: 1526–1848] (in Hungarian). Akadémiai Kiadó. pp. 361–430. .
-   Kontler, László (1999). Millennium in Central Europe: A History of Hungary. Atlantisz Publishing House. .
-   MacCulloch, Diarmaid (2004). The Reformation: A History. Viking. .
-   Pálffy, Géza (2009). “Szabadságharc volt-e Bocskai István mozgalma? [Was Stephen Bocskai's movement a war for independence?]” (PDF). História (in Hungarian). 30 (1): 7–10. Retrieved 11 December 2016.

Prelude

In 1591 the Long Turkish War broke out. All forces of the Habsburg Monarchy (Austria, Bohemia, Hungary, Croatia, Moravia) and join also Transylvania, and the Ottoman vassals states Moldavia and Wallachia. Few European states sending troops in Hungary. The Papal State mostly recruit foreign Walloon and Italian mercenaries for the War. The Habsburg and the Spanish king also employed Walloon mercenaries besides the German, Italian and Spanish soldiers.

In the first interval of the War the Christian forces suppressed the Ottomans, until the Battle of Keresztes (1596), where the Christian forces defeated by the Ottomans. After the battle the war dragged and wears Hungary, Transylvania and Croatia. The corrupted and low Habsburg movement dissipate the military budget and the unpaid mercenaries (particularly the Walloons) foray into Hungary and Transylvania. The Tatar auxiliaries of the Ottoman army caused havoc in Hungary. A few thousand men died due to hunger and epidemics.

Causes of the revolt

[1] 1

[2] A later story but was usual in this age the trial against https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Fouquet or some witch trial in Transylvania some decades later.

[3] https://m.mult-kor.hu/cikk.php?id=8518&fbrkMR=cookie

[4] NAGY LÁSZLÓ: Okmányok a Bocskai szabadságharc idejéből. Hadtörténelmi Közlemények, I. évf. 1956. 313–315. p

[5] _Gömöry Gusztáv_, az álmosdi ütközet [battle of Álmosd] 1604 október 15-én (_Hadt. Közl._ 1891. évf. 710.)

[6] Basta's letter to San Clemente Spanish Ambassador in Prague about his battles against Bocskai. 18th of December in 1604. In: Basta György hadvezér levelezése és iratai.[Giorgio Basta military leader's reports, letters and documents]. II. Volume. 1602-1607 Editor and translator: Dr. Veress, Endre. Budapest, 1913. Akadémiai Kiadó 543 p

[7] In: Basta György hadvezér levelezése és iratai.[Giorgio Basta military leader's letters and documents]. II. Volume. 1602-1607 Editor and translator: Dr. Veress, Endre. Budapest, 1913. Akadémiai Kiadó 526 p

[8] Sinkovics 280.p

[9] Basta's letter to Prince Matthias about he must leave Eperjes.(5th April 1605). In: Basta György hadvezér levelezése és iratai.[Giorgio Basta military leader's letters and documents]. II. Volume. 1602-1607 Editor and translator: Dr. Veress, Endre. Budapest, 1913. Akadémiai Kiadó 643.p

[10] Basta's letter about his mercenaries are about to disperse. 17. Aprlis 1605. In: Basta György hadvezér levelezése és iratai.[Giorgio Basta military leader's letters and documents]. II. Volume. 1602-1607 Editor and translator: Dr. Veress, Endre. Budapest, 1913. Akadémiai Kiadó 647 p

[11] [His oath text is] In: Magyar Országgyűlési Emlékek 11. kötetében a 155 - 157. oldalán, az esküszöveg pedig a Történelmi Tár 1889. évf. 620. oldalán is.

[12] http://gyorkos.uw.hu/tizenoteves/1604/1604.htm

[13]

[14] http://gyorkos.uw.hu/tizenoteves/1605/1605.htm

[15] http://gyorkos.uw.hu/tizenoteves/1606/1606.htm

[16] Sinkovics 348.

title: Bocskai uprising

question: Explain the context behind the Bocskai Uprising.

answer: It was a great revolt against Rudolf II during the Long Turkish War. Rudolf unjustly persecuted the Protestants and falsely accused the rich Hungarian noblemen of treason. Because of this, Gabriel Bethlen wrote a letter to Stephen Bocskai, pleading for help. He organized the revolt and persuaded the Hajduks (Hungarian military units) to join.

question: How is the Turkish war relevant to the uprising?

answer: This is when the revolt happened.

question: What were some of the problems that the uprising caused?

answer: Information can't be found.

question: Write a short summary of the uprising's aftermath.

answer: Bocskai singled out the majority of the Hajduks, from the landlord's rule, and settled them in the Hajdú towns with communal privileges and military obligations, as well as granted the Székelys their previous privileges. In 1608, Rudolf was forced to resign all his titles, and then in 1611, he was forced to hand over his kingdom to Istvan Illésházy, the new nádor (the first non-Catholic in this position).

question: Write a ~6 sentence summary.

answer: The Bocskai Uprising was a great revolt against Rudolf II during the Long Turkish War. Rudolf unjustly persecuted the Protestants and falsely accused the rich Hungarian noblemen of treason forcing Gabriel Bethlen to write a letter to Stephen Bocskai, pleading for help. He organized the revolt and persuaded the Hajduks (Hungarian military units) to join. After a successful revolt, the majority of the Hajduks settled in the Hajdú towns with communal privileges and military obligations, and the Székelys were granted their previous privileges. Then in 1608, Rudolf was forced to resign all his titles. Three years later, he was eventually forced to hand over his kingdom to Istvan Illésházy (the first non-Catholic nádor).


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_PUERTO DE LAS NIEVES_ is a fishing village on the north-western coast of Gran Canaria, and the port of the town Agaete at a few kilometres' distance.

Ferries leave five times a day for Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The crossing takes 80 minutes with catamarans.

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title: Puerto de las Nieves

question: What island is Puerto de las Nieves on?

answer: Puerto de las Nieves is on the island of Gran Canaria.

question: What other town is a few kilometers away?

answer: The town of Agaete is a few kilometers away from Puerto de las Nieves.

question: How often do ferries leave from Puerto de las Nieves to Santa Cruz de Tenerife?

answer: Ferries leave from Puerto de las Nieves to Santa Cruz de Tenerife five times a day.

question: How long does it take to get from Puerto de las Nieves to Santa Cruz de Tenerife by ferry?

answer: It takes 80 minutes to get from Puerto de las Nieves to Santa Cruz de Tenerife by ferry.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: Puerto de las Nieves is a port town on the island of Gran Canaria. The town of Agaete is nearby, and a ferry to Santa Cruz de Tenerife takes 80 minutes.


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I don’t know how much longer this search can go on. I am in dire need of repairs and all the parts I need are damaged or not compatible. Time is slowly dwindling away and soon I am going to be another heap of metal populating this ever growing “graveyard” for robots like me.

Finding replacement parts can become an aggravating chore for a robot who has become unwanted by consumers interested only in making their lives easier and “less complicated.” My sole purpose was to provide entertainment and company to the children whose parents could afford me. I was built to be able to respond to children’s commands. I could even talk back if I was asked a question that I was programmed to answer. I was built to move around on a wheel that resembled a small bicycle tire. I guess my creators figured that it would provide more excitement for the younger generation to have such a unique way of moving around.

But, as technology advances, newer models are created that provide not only entertainment for kids but also luxuries for adults. No longer do people have to do their own cooking or clean their own houses. There are models built for just about anything a person could desire; work, entertainment, pleasure, even crime if bought from the right seller.

Along with these advances in robot technology come cheaper prices tags. More people can afford these luxuries of a robot companion. There is just no place for a robot like me in the world today. I mean, I’m built like a unicycle. I can’t get around like the models built with two or even three legs. It takes a considerable amount of time and effort just for me to climb a set of stairs. Along with the handicap of transportation, I have only six fingers, three on both hands. Gripping things can become quite complicated for me at times. Simply put, I’m an antique.

The only thing keeping me going is the knowledge I was programmed with to repair myself. As long as I have the parts, I can fix myself. But, I’m not alone in this “graveyard.” This place is populated by robots, like myself, that no longer serve a purpose in this world. Over time, our circuits and parts grow old and become useless and since we can’t heal like our creators and owners, we must replace. The older we get, the less likely we will be able to find the parts we need. Eventually, time will do its thing and our circuits will die and we will become nothing more than recyclable scraps.

On the left side of my lower back is a switch that is barely reachable with my left arm. I think I must have been one of the last models built with such a switch as I have not seen it on many models that has been dumped here since my arrival. Whenever my previous owners would reach back and flip it, my internal clock would jump forward an uncertain amount of time and suddenly I would be in another room with different people or with the same people, just wearing different clothing. I’ve never been able to understand how it works.

This “graveyard” has run dry of the parts I need. I can’t go on much longer here. That switch might be the only way left for me to get out of here and take me somewhere I can continue to survive. Maybe it will take me to some new owners that have piles of old, working parts that would be a perfect fit for me. Maybe they’ll have children that appreciate the simplicity of my purpose. The thought of this makes me feel the same kind of happiness that I think my previous owners felt when they use to play with me.

With little effort, I reach back and place my finger on the switch. Click…

title: Antique

question: Who is the narrator of this story?

answer: The narrator is an old robot who has outlived its purpose. The robot complains about its tricycle design and describes how it views it's slow decline.

question: How does the robot decide to fix its situation?

answer: The robot decides to flick a switch that will possibly transport it to a different time and place.

question: What does the switch in the story actually do?

answer: It switches the robot off.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: A robot travels around seeking parts o repair itself whilst lamenting the fact it has become obsolete. The robot decides to switch itself off and hopes to wake up being appreciated.


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As many as 140 million people in Bangladesh may be at risk from a huge earthquake as pressure builds beneath the surface of one of the world's most densely populated nations, US and Bangladeshi scientists say.

Sediment flows from the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers have layered parts of the country with as much as 20 kilometres of sand and mud, masking until now the extension of the same fault line that triggered the 2004 Sumatra tsunami and killed 230,000 people.

"The fault is entirely in the sub-surface," said Michael Steckler, a geophysicist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and lead author of a paper published this week in _Nature Geoscience_. "It's been suspected but we haven't had the data to prove that [the pressure] is actually been building up."

Data collected since 2004 by Professor Steckler's team has found that a juncture between major tectonic plates in the region is locked and loading up with stress.

[Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, faces multiple threats, including from below.]

Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, faces multiple threats, including from below.Credit:New York Times

Measurements found convergence of tectonic plates at the rate of 13-17 mm per year "on an active, shallowly dipping and locked megathrust fault", the paper said.

That build-up has the potential to trigger major shifts in land and also an earthquake with a magnitude of between 8.2 and 9.

"We can see the strain building up, we can see the motion of the plates but we can't estimate when something might happen," Professor Steckler told Fairfax Media, adding that the build-up had been going on for at least 400 years and perhaps as long as 2000.

"It would certainly be one of the largest [recorded quakes]," he said. "I suspect it might be at the lower end [of the 8.2-9 scale], but I can't rule out a really large one."

[Large parts of low-lying Bangladesh flood each year with much of the country sitting on mud.]

Large parts of low-lying Bangladesh flood each year with much of the country sitting on mud.Credit:A.M. Ahad

(See chart below showing the Indian Plate colliding with the Eurasian Plate that has created the Himalayas and triggered major recorded earthquakes. The Burma or Sunda Plate is also shifting westwards into Bangladesh.)

Scientists can't tell when the next major quake will strike nor where the rupture in the fault will be the most severe. However, Bangladeshi's location mostly on the river delta of the giant Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta makes the bulk of its 160 million population particularly vulnerable, should a large one occur.

Professor Steckler said a 250 kilometre by 250 kilometre region - including the capital, Dhaka, a megacity with a population of 15 million - is of significant risk.

This area (see chart below) is home to about 140 million people, and sits atop deep sediment that could liquefy in many places in the advent of a big quake. Whole buildings and infrastructure could sink into the sand and soil.

Buildings might "not even break, but literally fall over because the soil loses solidity", he said.

Dhaka's streets, which already experience traffic that "can be really terrible in normal times", could quickly become impassable. "Getting emergency services, foods and water to people is going to be a nightmare," Professor Steckler said.

Syed Humayun Akhter, from Dhaka University, said the capital could become "totally a dead city ... it will be really devastating".

"All the natural gas fields, heavy industries and electric power plants are located close to potential earthquakes, and they are likely to be destroyed," Dr Akhter said. "In Dhaka, the catastrophic picture will be beyond our imagination, and could even lead to abandonment of the city."

The warning extends not just to Bangladesh but also to Aizawl, the capital of India's Mizoram state to the north-east, which could be subject to landslides in a major quake, Professor Steckler said.

Another risk is that the rivers themselves could change course, adding to the misery of those affected by the quake.

"If the ground moves by 10 metres, it's entirely possible to get one to two metres of uplift [of land]," Professor Steckler said. "That can be enough to really rearrange the rivers" - as has happened in the past.

Authorities can reduce the future impact of a big quake by tightening building codes - only introduced in 1993 - and enforcing them, he said.

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question: Why are earthquakes happening in Bangladesh?

answer: Because juncture between major tectonic plates in the region is locked and loading up with stress.

question: How many people were killed in the 2004 Sumatra tsunami?

answer: 230,000 people.

question: Seeing all the strain build-up, when do the scientist think the next earthquake will happen?

answer: Scientists can't estimate that.

question: What area is thought to be most affected by the impending earthquake?

answer: A 250km by 250km region, including the capital Dhaka is at significant risk.

question: What are the biggest concerns regarding the earthquake?

answer: That whole buildings and infrastructure could sink into the soil and the rivers could change their courses, causing further misery.

question: What will happen if the infrastructure will be destroyed?

answer: Help (medical aid, food, water) will not get to those in need and the city could be completely abandoned.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: The article is explaining how there is pressure building up under a certain area in India that will eventually cause an earthquake with the potential of destroying the megacity Dhaka.


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Hi, I'm not really a writer. I wrote the below piece and just wanted to see what other people think of it. First reddit post, and I'm hoping it goes well. :)

"It had been a particularly cold winter. The white frost blanketed the ground, killing everything that lived, as if Death himself laid down his tattered cloak over the land. I soon forgot what warmth was. The feeling itself frozen and shattered from my memory. There was only the cold left to keep us poor folk warm.

It was during that desolate winter that I had the pleasure of meeting Joe, a stoic man who had come from farther up North, seeking a warmth his body didn’t feel and his mind couldn’t remember. When I saw the crystal clear blue of his eyes, I remember thinking that the cold was in him, in those eyes, and he would never escape from it. But I was sillier back then.

I was young. A girl alone in the world, left to my own devices on a neglected and deserted ranch. Or at least what was left of it. I sometimes thought to myself I was Jonah, and the dilapidated house around me the dying carcass of that biblical whale. The “farmhouse” I lived in had been falling down around me for the better part of my stay, and showed no signs of slowing. I had found it like this and it had stayed like this, as broken and empty as I was.

Most people kept their distance, as I was seen as undesirable. Whether I thought myself worthy of such a distinction or not I did not care. I only cared that they thought I was worthy of distance. Peace of mind was something rarely afforded to most in this world, and as long as I was an unnamed presence meant to be quarantined from the normal folk I was afforded that peace of mind.

Until Joe. We met in the cold and it was the cold that sustained us until the frost became too bitter. He had been sleeping in “my” barn, or at least what was left of it. I rarely ventured out of the main house, as it was there I felt the most safe. I sometimes looked out at it from the kitchen window, mostly in passing, to check if it was still there, giving it’s sorry condition.

I watched through a spiderweb of cracked and stained glass as he went to and from the barn. I didn’t know where he went, but around dusk he would always stumble back to the shelter that the barn provided.

I had been alone for so long by then that his presence wasn’t easily articulated into clear feelings one way or the other. I knew he might be dangerous, but I also knew he was like me. A connection flowed from that kitchen window to the door of that barn. We were both a body without a soul. A life wasted, created in misery, and destined to die with a whimper not a bang. So I decided to speak to him, the first person in a long time I felt connected to on any kind of level worth a damn.

How he had been surviving in the barn for this long with it’s missing shingles and barely patched south wall, which had been through absolute hell during tornado season two years past, was a mystery to me. Everyday had found the weather turning colder as if the ranch was turning solid, and the barn wasn’t much protection. I didn’t know how to approach him without scaring him, as I had come to think of him as a solitary fellow, never having seen anyone in his company while he stayed on the ranch.

So I knocked. My knuckles meeting the frayed once-red, now pink, wood that covered the brown oak that made up the barn. The sound of my knocks were small, my shivering not only a result of the winter wind, but nevertheless he heard. Joe had been a man slow to talk when we first met, but he opened up as our talks grew.

It was around then that I began to realize his eyes were more the blue of the ocean water that I had sometimes dreamed about than frozen ice. We talked of many things, and when I told him of how I felt like Jonah, his laugh brought back something in me, and I laughed along with him. It was the shared laughs more than anything that kept me coming back to that barn for so long.
He introduced a warmth that didn’t stretch very far but radiated with an unparalleled intensity between the two of us. We spent a month together on that cold farm, keeping the frost at bay. Eating when we could, sleeping, and most importantly living.

He and his watery eyes eventually moved on. But those days I kept with me for a very long time. I can still remember the bitter cold in my old bones, but I also remember the warmth that Joe and I rediscovered, that had been lost to us in the frigid world, until it to was killed off by the frost."

title: I wrote a very short story called Winter's Frost and am looking for feedback. Thanks!

question: Write a ~14 sentence summary.

answer:
During a desolate winter of bitter cold, the narrator, a young girl, meets Joe, a man from up north with icy blue eyes reflective of the cold. The girl is alone on a neglected and deserted ranch. The house is dilapidated and as broken and empty as the girl that stays there.

Most people keep their distance as she is seen as undesirable. Joe is living in the barn. The girl seldom leaves the house but checks through the window to see what’s left of the barn from time to time. She sees Joe stumble back and forth. He always returns at dusk.

She recognizes that Joe, like she, is a body without a soul, a wasted life created in misery. She decides to speak to him. She knocks on the barn door and though Joe is slow to talk at first, he soon opens up. It is the laughter that they shared that keeps her returning to the barn.

After about a month of enjoying each other’s company, Joe eventually moves on. The warm memories of the days spent together linger long after his departure.


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April 6, 2052, 1 pm

Agent Martin makes his way back to work after lunch break. His office, on the top floor of the Data Security Center—DSC—is indistinguishable in design and contents from the other offices on the vast floor. All are small soundproof rooms, windowless, shut off by black sliding glass doors. Each office is a command center.

Martin takes his seat, yawns, and puts on his headset. He enjoys his job; it often reminds him of playing video games as a youth. He turns to the monitor on his right, strikes a few keys on the keyboard, and up pops a panel showing birds-eye footage of a suburban neighbourhood. A large textbox underneath reads “Approaching Destination: 200 meters”. The number steadily decreasing. This damn wind hasn't let up the slightest, he thinks, shaking his head. It had been extremely windy the entire day. Prior to leaving for lunch, he had delployed a set of four drones—as was the standard deployment—packed in a larger camoflauged container-unit—camo-con—which was the source of the footage now on screen.

The targets name was Wesley Smith. His activities had been flagged with  “Acute Suspicion”  by the system earlier that morning. All such cases required the attention of and if necessary, investigation—or “analysis” as it called—by an agent. Martin considered it bad luck when such cases were assigned to him. He had groaned when the notification had popped up. The day was fairly quiet and he'd been having great fun micro-managing a drone in a local park. The notification had presented him with a typically boring task. Wesley was sixteen years old. Another stupid sixteen year old that's fascinated with how drugs or bombs can be made, he'd thought then. However, to his delight, he found that the flag had nothing to do with the users querying history, but rather it's lacktherof. Wesley, it seemed, had found himself some very good encryption software—that the system must be unfamiliar with—as over the past nine hours, his data footprint had been reduced tremendously, triggering the flag. Martin had let out a whistle as he thought about all the different possibilites. There was a small chance that this kid possesed data that could lead to him to the source. These were the types of cases Martin was best at. He would surely get a promotion if he were to uncover the creators behind some black market encryption package. He had then followed the standard procedure, flagged the case as “Under Analysis” and had deployed the drone set. The wind however, had delayed what should have been a half-hour trip to over an hour.

Now, he watches as the container unit stops at ten meteres from what he assumes is the target's home. Gusts of wind gently rock the camera side to side. The house is an average looking two-storey house, an exception being the large apple tree in the front yard. Hanging from the tree, a tire-swing slowly sways back and forth. It's the swing that flashes in Martin mind; as a kid, he had a friend who lived in a home on that very street. Passing by here, he would often see children pushing each other on that swing. His mind wanders, and he finds himself wondering whether Wesley—No, he must'nt get distracted. The system begins running a series of tests to confirm that this is the correct house, then ejects the four drones from the container, and prompts Martin to guide the entry.

This was probably the most enjoyable part of his job. He begins micromanaging the blade—the smallest, quickest and most agile of the set—and defines a distance for the others to trail behind. The blade was one inch long, half an inch wide, and four millimeters in height. It was a dull shade of grey and perfectly smooth. A barebone unit, it contained just a nano mic-cam component, a communications component, a power supply, and over a dozen micro-motors; it was fairly stealthy, ideal for recon. It's light weight also meant however, that it was a challenge to control in the wind, and Martin througly enjoyed this challenge.

After zipping around some for fun, he spots an open window at the back side of the house. He thought it a bit odd for a window to be left open when it was this windy, but was able to determine that the room is unoccupied. As the small drone caravan silently advances into the dark room, the monitor to Martins left begins blinking. The hound—a relatively clumsly unit that Martin almost hadn't included—had detected illicit substances in it's proximity. A line of bolded text on the monitor reads: SUBSTANCE: [SCHEDULE I - CANNABIS], the last word—CANNABIS—appearing in green font. The change in font color was Martin's little hack to his own station, thus no one else would ever see it. He chucked to himself whenver it came up.

He suddenly dreads including the Hound in the set, and hopes it's a false positive. Standard procedure had to be followed now.  He issues the command for the drones to begin inspecting the room. Martin ran his own alrorithm—a feat that as far as he knows, only he has acomplished—for room inspection and was proud of it. The largest unit—the Tech—contains the processor shared by the four and is responsible for giving instructions to the other three. In fact, even now, the signals sent to the Blade by Martin are first processed by the Tech, and then only passed on if it considers them safe. It is a highly complex unit whose nano-mechanics Martin had always been in awe of, but was not authorized to program. Just to override it's room-inspection algorithm had taken him weeks and numerous demonstrations. But he had done it, and now the three drones would sniff, photograph, and record the sound in every visible and acessible space in the room, in at most three minutes. As the blade, he slides underneath the centimeter tall gap underneath the door, sees that it leads to an empty hallway, and remains there as a lookout.

When the inspection completes, Martin sits silenlty looking over the new data while carefully listening for any sound through the headphones. The Bat, a unit with ultrasonic capability, working with the Hound had determined that a desk—the laptop sitting on which Martin disappointedly noted was powered off—contains in it's drawer, between three to four grams of marijuana.

For the second time that day, Martin groaned. There was nothing more he could do here. Had he not discovered the weed, he could have gone probing further to try and hack a device on the network. But the presence of the drug had already been logged by the system. The case was no longer in his domain. Any further risk taken by him would be overridden or worse, logged and reported, by the Tech. He would not be doing any hacking today.

As he begins to type out the mandatory report to send back to PRISM, he wonders who the case will be assigned to now—if it hadn't already—and what type of power and authorization that person has. Maybe, he thinks, it's someone inside this building somewhere.

Regardless of what the system would do with the information he had just added to it, he was fully certain that young Wesley's days of being a free man were numbered.

title: 1952

question: What kind of organization is Agent Martin a part of?

answer:
Based on the title of 'agent', Martin is implied to be part of an organization with a multi-tiered hierarchal system.

There is no proof that Martin's programming and drone flying skills were taught or trained in the organization so it is not possible to determine if the organization trains people or hires talented personnel.

His workstation being located in a facility with a name shows that the organization can afford facilities for specific functions.

His access to drones with technology implies that the organization has funding. Since the story is set in a fictional future, there is no solid basis on whether the technology is cutting edge, obsolete, or mediorce. It is implied by  Martin's narrative that the tech is cutting edge.

Martin's surveillance activities implies that the organization has use of information gathering particularly on persons of interest. Since having unique encryption software is one of the things they look out for, along with narcotics, it appears that the organization handles security.

There are no indicators determining if the organization is private or government-run, though the narrative indicates that it has a clandestine nature.

The organization is multi-level in terms of personnel responsibility.