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Much of a shop’s success sits squarely on the service manager’s shoulders. With duties that include scheduling work, assigning the right tech for each job, and communicating with customers before, during, and after repairs, the service manager’s job is arguably the toughest one in the shop. He’s like the quarterback of the shop. That’s where fleet repair software comes in. The right program helps with all aspects of the heavy duty service manager job, making it much easier.

Scheduling Work With Fleet Repair Software

Maybe you have a large customer base constantly calling and needing work. Or maybe your shop is still in the growing process. That means having to juggle the increasing work coming in as the business’s reputation builds. Either way, scheduling repairs is a time-consuming balancing act. It requires the heavy duty service manager knowing what customers need and where those jobs fit with openings in the techs’ schedules.

Fleet repair software puts everyone’s schedule in front of the heavy duty service manager at a glance. This helps increase the throughput of the shop, a high priority for all managers. Customers can drop off their trucks and know when they’ll be worked on, and plan accordingly. That alleviates downtime for them and keeps techs busy throughout the day. Everyone would rather have consistent workflow instead of hours of idle time followed by a stress-filled afternoon of trying to cram too many jobs in before closing time.

Assigning the Right Tech for the Job

Heavy duty service repair managers know that picking the wrong tech for the job costs money. Some techs do certain jobs more efficiently, so they take less time to perform specific repairs. That opens the door for the tech to bill more hours in a day and the customer gets their truck back sooner. In other cases, picking the right tech eliminates a possible comeback.

Handling both scenarios properly pushes your profit margin higher and improves customer satisfaction, and it’s all possible with fleet repair software. Just as software keeps the shop schedule at the ready, it also shows which techs are available and when. That way, managers assign the right tech for each job, ensuring quick turnaround, optimal repairs, and happy customers.

Helping the Heavy Duty Service Manager Keep Customers in the Loop

Let’s face it: managing fleet accounts and keeping customers happy directly affects whether you get all their heavy duty repair work or just part of it. Developing a great working relationship takes time. It takes trust, and the more your customers trust you, the more work your shop gets. There’s nothing more frustrating than finding out that work was sent to the dealer or the shop just down the road when your shop could have taken on the job. As a shop owner, you know that the more you work on a truck, the better you can service it in the future. Like a jealous girlfriend, you don’t want anyone else touching those trucks. And you won’t wonder what was previously done on the vehicle and whether it was done right.

Effective fleet repair software takes all of that into account. The program not only acts as a “medical record” for trucks, keeping the service history on electronic file for easy review. Plus, it also keeps the customer in the loop. With a portal available to customers on their mobile devices, they can submit service requests, see their fleet’s history, check on repair progress, approve work, and pay you. That keeps the customer in the loop and gives them access to information. It’s an element of transparency that builds trust and deepens loyalty.

The best part about heavy duty repair software isn’t that it makes the heavy duty service repair manager’s job easier. It’s that it does that on top of doing so much more. The right program optimizes scheduling, work assignments, and customer relations, but it also helps with invoicing, ordering parts, and bookkeeping. In short, heavy duty repair software takes your shop’s efficiency to levels you’ve only dreamed of.

question: What does the article say what are tips for making the service manager’s job easier?

answer: The article advises scheduling everyone's work using fleet repair software, assigning the right tech for the job to save money, and helping the heavy-duty service manager keep customers informed to keep customers and get more work using fleet repair software. The right program optimizes scheduling, work assignments, customer relations, and helps with invoicing, ordering parts, and bookkeeping.

question: What does the story say about the qualities that make a good tech?


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MARI may refer to:

Places

-   Mari, Syria, ancient Near Eastern city-state
-   Mari Autonomous Oblast (1920–1936), an administrative division of the Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
-   Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1936–1990), an administrative division of the Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
-   Mari, Cyprus, a village
-   Mari, Greece, a village, site of ancient town of Marius
-   Mari, Iran (disambiguation), places in Iran
-   Mari, Punjab, a village and a union council in Pakistan
-   Mari, Paraíba, a city in Brazil

Religion

-   Mari (goddess) of Basques
-   Māri or Mariamman, Indian goddess
-   Saint Mari, early Christian saint

People and fictional characters

-   Mari (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name
-   Saint Mari (fl. c. 100?), Mesopotamian religious leader
-   Annu Mari (真理, born 1948), Indo–Japanese actress
-   José Mari (born 1978), Spanish football player
-   Ayuki Mari (摩利), a supporting character in _Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl_
-   Mari (茉莉, 1903–1987), Japanese novelist a.k.a. Mori Mari
-   Mari (musician) (born 1985), Christian musician
-   Mari (Nestorian patriarch), Patriarch of the Church of the East 987–999
-   Mari (singer), American singer
-   Mari people, a Volga-Finnic people
-   Mari language

Other uses

-   Mari language (disambiguation), several languages
-   Mari, a 3D painting and texturing software by The Foundry Visionmongers
-   _Mari_, a 2019 album by classical violinist Mari Samuelsen

title: Mari

question: In which country is Mari, Punjab?

answer: Pakistan.

question: Where is Jose Mari from?

answer: Spain.

question: Mari might also refer to a 3D painting software by which company?

answer: The Foundry Visionmongers

question: Whose eponymous 2019 album has the same first name?

answer: Mari Samuelsen.


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DAISHŌYAMA NAOKI (born 7 July 1966 as NAOKI YAMAZAKI) is a former sumo wrestler from Anamizu, Ishikawa, Japan. A former amateur champion, he made his professional debut in January 1989 and reached a highest rank of _maegashira_ 2 before retiring in 1995. He is now the head coach of Oitekaze stable.

Career

Born in Anamizu, Hosu District, as an amateur he won eleven sumo titles, including collegiate and amateur _yokozuna_, while studying at Nihon University.[1] He also served as captain of the school sumo team. He was recruited by the former _sekiwake_ Annenyama of the Tatsunami stable. Yamazaki had stayed at the _heya_ while taking part in junior high school competitions (as did Daishōhō), and he had also met the former Tatsunami stable wrestler Wakanami as an infant, being held in his arms for a photograph (as top _rikishi_ are often requested to do for luck).[2] As an amateur champion he was given _makushita tsukedashi_ status and made his debut in the third highest _makushita_ division. His first tournament was in January 1989 and after two consecutive _yūshō_ with perfect 7-0 records in January and March 1990 he was promoted to the second highest _jūryō_ division, becoming the first _sekitori_ from Tatsunami stable since the abrupt departure of _yokozuna_ Futahaguro in 1987. He changed his _shikona_ or fighting name from his own surname to Daishōyama at this point.

Daishōyama made his debut in the top _makuuchi_ division in September 1990, and made a _kachi-koshi_ winning score along with three other _makuuchi_ debutants, Akebono, Wakahanada and Takatoriki. This marked the first time that four wrestlers making their top division debuts at the same time had all come through with winning records.[3] In January 1991 he reached what was to be his highest rank of _maegashira_ 2 and earned his first _kinboshi_ for defeating _yokozuna_ Hokutoumi. He was to repeat this upset in July 1991 and also defeated _yokozuna_ Ōnokuni in that tournament. In January 1993 he had slipped to _maegashira_ 14 in the _banzuke_ rankings but responded with his best ever top division score, winning twelve bouts, defeating Konishiki and Takahanada amongst others and finishing runner-up to Akebono, who was promoted to _yokozuna_ after the tournament. Daishōyama was rewarded with what was to be his only _sanshō_ award, for Fighting Spirit.

Daishōyama had had longstanding hip problems since his professional debut,[4] and after missing two tournaments in 1994 through injury he fell back to the _jūryō_ division. After being forced to sit out the September 1995 tournament as well he was demoted to the _makushita_ division and retired from sumo in November without competing in any more bouts.

Retirement from sumo

Having fought in 33 tournaments as a _sekitori_, Daishōyama was qualified to become a _toshiyori_, or elder of the Japan Sumo Association, and he purchased the Oitekaze name. In May 1998 he branched out from Tatsunami stable, where he had been working as a coach, and opened up his own Oitekaze stable. His first top division wrestler was Hayateumi in 2000 and he was followed by Hamanishiki in 2001. Both are former Nihon University competitors. He also recruited the Georgian wrestler Kokkai who reached _makuuchi_ in 2004. More recent Nihon University recruits include the popular Endō in 2013 and Daishōmaru in 2014, both of whom have reached the top division. He produced another top division wrestler Daieishō in 2015, who has a non-collegiate background.

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title: Daishōyama Naoki

question: Where was Daishōyama Naoki born?

answer: Anamizu, Hosu District

question: Why did Daishōyama Naoki retire?

answer: He had longstanding hip problems. Due to an injury, he missed two tournaments in 1944, and as a result slipped in standings. In 1995, after another demotion due to being forced to sit out of a tournament, he retired from sumo.

question: Describe Daishōyama Naoki's activities post-retirement.

answer: After retirement, he began working as a coach and opened his own Oitekaze stable. He worked with wrestlers including Hayateumi, Hamanishiki, and Kokkai.

question: When did Daishōyama Naoki make his professional debut?

answer: He made his professional debut in January 1989.

question: What was the highest ranking Daishōyama Naoki achieved?

answer: maegashira 2

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: Daishōyama Naoki is a former sumo wrestler. He made his debut in 1989. The highest rank he achieved was maegashira 2. After retiring in 1995, he became a coach at the Oitekaze stable.


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Prologue: In the year 1997 the United States started making plans to create a way to fight wars with less casualties and better results. The New Age Warfare Project’s goal was to give a single human the power to take down armies. In the year 2012 the US was successful in creating the first human weapon, named Aaron. He had powerful telekinetic abilities and could quickly regenerate from most injuries. The US showed their weapon to the world and caused an uproar. Other countries were terrified of this new weapon and soon started to make their own human weapons. This changed war forever. More and more countries had their own human weapons. All with unique powers. People loved this. The human weapons were cherished as big celebrities in their countries. Human weapons meant no more thousand man armies dying in vain. There had not been any conflict between countries since the invention of human weapons. Everything seemed right. But the human race did not know that they had caused their own demise. Soon the process of making human weapons became cheaper and easier. It was illegal to make yourself or anyone a human weapon but as with most laws people found ways around it. One wealthy man named Alex Trouse turned his son David into a human weapon to serve as his bodyguard. Alex soon lost control of his son as he grew older. He eventually founded a gang called the Super Humans. David and 4 other escaped human weapons terrorized cities and soon began a problem for the US. Other countries saw this and agreed that there should be a stricter hold on the materials needed to make a human weapon. However, not all countries agreed to this idea. Conflict soon arose between countries plunging the world into the third World War in 2017.

Wake up. Train. Eat. Study. Sleep. This was Drake Anderson’s daily routine for 12 years. He hated his boring life. The scientists that watched over him kept telling him that it was all for the greater good but Drake wasn’t buying any of it. He didn’t care if he was meant to be a human weapon. All he wanted was to be free of all of this. He was given to the New Age Warfare Project before he could even crawl. He didn’t know anything else. But through the books he read and his limited internet access, he knew his life wasn’t normal. Mainly because he wasn’t normal. Drake had the power to manipulate electricity at will. He was also able to regenerate and was skilled in many forms of martial arts. The scientist told him that it was important that he could kill other human weapons when the time came. Drake didn’t want to kill anybody. He yearned for life outside of the facility he was trapped in. He knew that escape was the only route to happiness. Since Drake was pretty well behaved, he was not heavily monitored like the other subjects. He had even been told by one of his observers that one subject had guns pointed at him at all times. Drake often wondered if he could win a fight with one of the more dangerous subjects. He knew that if he tried to escape one of the senior subjects would be sent to bring him back. But he didn’t care. Drake knew his one chance to escape was during training.
“Nice kick Drake! You’re faster than i’ve ever seen you!” chimed Randy, his combat instructor.
“Thanks. It seems the more electricity I have the faster I can move.” Drake replied.
“As is expected.” Randy started jotting down some notes.
Drake knew it was the perfect moment to get away. He drained the security cameras on the walls and shot a blast of the purple lightning he had seen so many times before. The blast hit Randy, knocking him into a wall.
“What the hell are you doing?” gasped Randy reaching for his alarm trigger.
Drake had to make as little of a scene as he could. He quickly landed a roundhouse kick on Randy’s temple knocking him out. He then grabbed Randy’s keycard and ran out of the room.
Alarms blaired as Drake realized the men watching the security cameras would assume the worst. Drake cursed under his breath and shot a powerful blast of lightning through the ceiling. He knew it was best to escape through the roof. Suddenly all Drake felt was searing hot pain in traveling across his back. He howled in pain as adrenaline pumped through his veins.
“Just get in this cage and maybe I won't burn you to ashes.” said an older boy holding a dog crate in one hand and what seemed to be a ball of fire in the other.
Drake could feel electricity spread to his back as his burn began to heal.
“Thank god for regeneration.” Drake thought.
He then shot a quick bolt of lightning into the boys chest knocking him down.
“So it’s like that huh? The hard way?” said the boy as he struggled to get up.
“Just let me go. Why do you care if I escape?” Drake said.
“Cuz’ I’ll get one hell of a reward for bringing in a deserter. And that lightning stuff hurts!”
Drake ran with his amazing speed and hit the boy in the throat with an electrified kick. He had been trapped here too long to go easy on this strange boy. As the boy fell he sent a barrage of fireballs at Drake’s head spreading smoke everywhere. He rolled to the left and drained a nearby power outlet.
“Damn. My kick won't stun him for long. This guy’s not playing around.” Drake thought.
Then movement in the corner of Drake’s eye caught his attention. A different boy came out of nowhere and ran to his side.
“Please take me with you! I can fight too! I can help!” the panicked boy yelled.
“Calm down and help me get this guy. What can you do?” Drake asked as the smoke began to clear.
“Watch this.” The boy touched a metal leg of a chair and focused. Soon his arm was the same material.
“Woah.” Drake said amazed.
“That’s not all.” The boys arm morphed and became a blade. He jumped at the strange boy and slashed at his leg.
The boy screamed in pain as crimson blood stained the white tile floor.
“Run!” Drake screamed as they saw more people running their way.
The boys jumped through the hole Drake had made earlier and ran into the woods.
Thanks for reading my first short story. Planning to turn this into a series. Constructive criticism is appreciated.

title: [AA] Human Weapon

question: What does the story say about special abilities?

answer: The New Age Warfare Project's goal was to give a single human the power to take down armies. The first human weapon, named Aaron, had powerful telekinetic abilities and could regenerate from most injuries. Drake was a human weapon trained all his life to kill other human weapons. He had the power to manipulate electricity at will. He was also able to regenerate and was skilled in martial arts. The more electricity he had the faster he could move. He drained the security cameras and shot a blast of purple lightning at his observer to escape. He shot a powerful blast of lightning through the ceiling to escape through the roof. When he was attacked by another human weapon gearing to keep him from leaving, his electricity helped his burned back to heal. He used a quick shot of lightning at the boy to knock him down. He used his incredible speed to hit the boy in the throat with an electrified kick. Another boy appeared and asked to come along. He demonstrated his powers - he could morph his body into any material he touched, and could morph into any shape.


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[Martina Rüscher (2014)] MARTINA RÜSCHER (née VALENTINI; born 25 July 1972, Innsbruck, Austria) is an Austrian politician for the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and communications consultant. She has been, since 2014, a member of the parliament of Vorarlberg.

Rüscher is married, has three sons and lives in Andelsbuch in the Bregenz Forest.

Education and profession

Born Martina Valentini, she was born in 1972 in Innsbruck and grew up in Landeck in Tyrol. From 1986 to 1991, she attended the College for Economic Occupations in Innsbruck and graduated there. From 1991 to 1993, she also studied at the Economic and Foreign Language Academy of the University of Salzburg.

Starting in 1993, Rüscher worked at the Handl Tyrol company in Pians, where Rüscher was involved in export of office staff. From 1995 to 1996, she was subsequently head of the purchasing department at Art Verlag in Innsbruck. In 1996, she married physiotherapist Michael Rüscher in Innsbruck and moved to Andelsbuch in the Bregenzerwald. At the same time, she took a new job at the Zumtobel Staff GmbH in Dornbirn, where she was working as an assistant in marketing communication. In 1998, Rüscher finally formed her independent company, and subsequently founded the company VIA3 Communications in 2003.

In 2010, Rüscher obtained certifications to become a project manager, and in 2012 she completed her academic courses in business management. In 2014, she earned her Master of Business Administration degree in General Management Competences at the Danube University Krems. By 2015, she completed university courses in PR and Integrated Communication at the University of Krems.

Political Work

In 1998, Rüscher joined the Austrian Economic Alliance and thus the Austrian People's Party. She has been a member of the local council in her hometown of Andelsbuch since 2000. Only in the run-up state elections in Vorarlberg in 2014 was her candidacy for the Vorarlberg branch of the Austrian People's Party known. Rüscher eventually won a seat in Parliament in her constituency of Bregenz and was thus first sworn in on 15 October 2014 at the state parliament building. In her 30th legislative period, Rüscher was appointed the area spokeswoman for the ÖVP parliament for health, women and child care.

Since 4 March 2015, Rüscher has been the successor of Greti Schmid as Provincial Director of the Women's Movement in the Vorarlberg branch of the Austrian People's Party.[1] At the state convention of the Vorarlberg branch of the Austrian People's Party on 9 May 2015, Rüscher was voted as one of the deputies of the State Party.[2]

[1] _Martina Rüscher neue Leiterin des ÖVP-Frauenbunds in Vorarlberg_ Artikel auf Vorarlberg Online (vol.at) vom 5.

[2] _ÖVP-Chef Wallner mit 97,93 Prozent gewählt_.

title: Martina Rüscher

question: What roles did Martina Rüscher perform in her duties as a politician?

answer: She was appointed the area spokeswoman for the ÖVP parliament for health, women, and childcare. She's the Provincial Director of the Women's Movement in Vorarlberg since 2015. She was also voted as one of the deputies of the State Party.

question: What was Martina Rüscher's occupation before being sworn in?

answer: She was involved in the export of office staff and became the head of the purchasing department after that. After her marriage, she worked as an assistant in marketing communication until she founded her own company, VIA3 Communications.

question: What fields did she study?

answer: She attended the College for Economic Occupations and also studied at the Economic and Foreign Language Academy of the University of Salzburg. She was certified as a project manager in 2010. She completed her academic courses in business management in 2012 and earned her MBA in 2014. She finished her studies in PR and Integrated Communications in 2015.

question: How is her domestic life?

answer: She is married since 1996 and has three sons. She lives in Andelsbuch in the Bregenz Forest.

question: Write a ~7 sentence summary.

answer: Martina Rüscher (née Valentini; born 25 July 1972, Innsbruck, Austria) is a politician for the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and communications consultant. She's a member of the Vorarlberg parliament since 2014. She studied economics and communications at the MBA level and worked as an assistant in marketing communication until she formed her company VIA3 Communications. She has been part of the Austrian Economic Alliance since 1998, thus of the ÖVP. She won a seat in Bregenz and was sworn in on 15 October 2014. She's the area spokeswoman for health, women, and childcare as well as the Provincial Director of Women's Movement in Vorarlberg. She's also voted as one of the deputies of the party.


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In front of him, was a cave, not a cavern or a tunnel, it was a cave.
Inside this cave there wasn't much to see, some rocks, slimy walls and a little puddle in the middle.
He could make do with this...
He shouldered his tools and his assortment of wares and carried them inside, where he laid down a bear skin, to cover some of the ground before he got to work.
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Now I should explain who HE is, the fellow I am writing about is a dwarf, not very tall, heavily bearded and incredibly proficient with an axe and I don't mean a dainty little wood cutting axe either..
His name was Nort, Son of none, He was found left in the middle of an Orc stronghold where they took pity on the child and raised him as best they could.
Now you might think Orcs to be horrible creatures of death and violence, but that is only true to a certain extent, yes they love a good sword fight or bare knuckle brawl, but they are also musicians, great smiths and steadfast workers and the young Dwarven child grew up with all these influences.
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Nort had no father so to speak, the Orc Chief was as close as he got and that wasn't bad; but there were no shortage of maternal figures in the stronghold.
There was Grishna who taught the boy to cook and how to hold down his ale, and Bari who showed him how to smith great weapons or dainty trinkets and his "Mother" was the chief's wife, V'ara
she taught him how to conquer his fears, how to write, read and speak, and how to make his way in the world.

Now this stronghold wasn't exactly reachable by many traders, so the boy had little knowledge of the outside, sometimes a traveler would come and seek lodging for a night
and the boy would be treated to stories of excitement and danger, these are Nort's favorite stories..
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Nort knew he wasn't an Orc, he was many things but he wasn't an idiot, And he didn't care about who he was; it was all about who he was going to be.
He was going to become a master smith in a great city, creating weapons and masterpieces everyday, and Bari knew he could do so...
On his 18th finding day, that's what they called his birthday considering they didn't know when it actually was, He asked the Chief if he could leave the stronghold to set out on his own, many other orcs had done the same and he didn't expect to stay there forever and the chief knew it too, "My son" boomed the Chief. "You have proven skilled in your craft and I am proud of you, I know that your wish is to leave, and I shall grant that wish, just know that you are always welcome here and you will forever be kin to the Orcs".
To which the Chief pulled out a box from his table and passed it to him, "Inside is two things, First a bag of gold and silver for your travels and second is an amulet smithed by my Grandfather many moons ago, He gave it to my father when he fell in love with a Human girl, my mother, so that she would be accepted by the Orcs wherever she went and would always have protection from them.
Now I give it to you, so that you may always find family with Orc kind". And with those words spoken, the great gates were hauled open and Nort was on his way into the world, with a small pony and a pack full of supplies.
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Nort heaved his pack and pulled his pony into the cave; out of the snow and wind outside before settling down to make a fire inside a circle of stones he had collected.
He got his tinder and he found a good piece of flint which he struck with his knife to make a spark and suddenly there was flame, good, warm flame!
He'd had enough of travelling through that piercing wind and freezing snow, he needed his feet warmed and his belly full.
The only thing now was the belly filling, what did he have left? Some nuts and berries, vegetation he'd scrounged from the wilderness and a small piece of beaver meat that he'd caught by the water's edge
"Stew it is" Mumbled Nort as he hung a pot above the fire and filled it with snow to make water, before throwing in the greens and the nuts, he decided the pony could have the berries so he held his hand put towards the mare, "here you go girl, eat up".
Next he chopped the beaver into chunks and tossed it into the pot, before adding a little salt from a pouch around his neck, and it was done, he had a meal for tonight, but he'd need more tomorrow...
The wind was picking up, but the vines he'd pulled down across the entrance were doing a good job of keeping the snow out so he scraped the fire to the back of the cave and gave it more fuel before curling up in his cloak and going to sleep.

What do you think? I got bored and decided to write a little...

title: A story I've started writing, any thoughts?

question: What is the significance of the cave?

answer: It seems the narrator is looking for a place to stay.

question: Who is the narrator?

answer: Nort, son of none; he is a dwarf. He was raised by Orcs.

question: What does the chief do or say to the narrator?

answer: The chief and his wife, V'ara, raised him.

question: How does the narrator feel about the chief?

answer: Nort loves the chief; he's the only father he's known.

question: Write a ~6 sentence summary.

answer: Nort is a dwarf who was found and raised by Orcs. The chief and his wife raised him as their own. Nort is a smith of great weapons. At around 18, he tells the chief he wants to venture on his own to a city to create weapons. The chief gives him two gifts for his journey: a bag of gold and silver, and an amulet providing him with acceptance by all Orcs wherever he goes. Nort begins his journey and finds shelter in a cave for a night.


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TARGETED ALPHA-PARTICLE THERAPY (or TAT) is an in-development method of targeted radionuclide therapy of various cancers. It employs radioactive substances which undergo alpha decay to treat diseased tissue at close proximity.[1] It has the potential to provide highly targeted treatment, especially to microscopic tumour cells. Targets include leukemias, lymphomas, gliomas, melanoma, and peritoneal carcinomatosis.[2] As in diagnostic nuclear medicine, appropriate radionuclides can be chemically bound to a targeting biomolecule which carries the combined radiopharmaceutical to a specific treatment point.[3]

It has been said that “α-emitters are indispensable with regard to optimisation of strategies for tumour therapy”.[4]

Advantages of alpha emitters

[Comparison of range of α (red) and β− (white) particles] The primary advantage of alpha particle (α) emitters over other types of radioactive sources is their very high linear energy transfer (LET) and relative biological effectiveness (RBE).[5] Beta particle (β) emitters such as yttrium-90 can travel considerable distances beyond the immediate tissue before depositing their energy, while alpha particles deposit their energy in 70–100 μm long tracks.[6]

Alpha particles are more likely than other types of radiation to cause double-strand breaks to DNA molecules, which is one of several effective causes of cell death.[7][8]

Production

Some α emitting isotopes such as ²²⁵Ac and ²¹³Bi are only available in limited quantities from ²²⁹Th decay, although cyclotron production is feasible.[9][10][11]

The ARRONAX cyclotron can produce ²¹¹At by irradiation of ²⁰⁹Bi.[12][13]

Applications

Though many α-emitters exist, useful isotopes would have a sufficient energy to cause damage to cancer cells, and a half-life that is long enough to provide a therapeutic dose without remaining long enough to damage healthy tissue.

Immunotherapy

Several radionuclides have been studied for use in immunotherapy. Though β-emitters are more popular, in part due to their availability, trials have taken place involving ²²⁵Ac, ²¹¹At, ²¹²Pb and ²¹³Bi.[14]

Peritoneal carcinomas

Treatment of peritoneal carcinomas has promising early results limited by availability of α-emitters compared to β-emitters.[15]

Bone metastases

²²³Ra was the first α-emitter approved by the FDA in the United States for treatment of bone metastases from prostate cancer, and is a recommended treatment in the UK by NICE.[16][17] In a phase III trial comparing ²²³Ra to a placebo, survival was significantly improved.[18]

Leukaemia

Early trials of ²²⁵Ac and ²¹³Bi have shown evidence of anti-tumour activity in Leukaemia patients.[19]

Melanomas

Phase I trials on melanomas have shown ²¹³Bi is effective in causing tumour regression.[20][21]

Solid tumours

The short path length of alpha particles in tissue, which makes them well suited to treatment of the above types of disease, is a negative when it comes to treatment of larger bodies of solid tumour by intravenous injection.[22][23] However, potential methods to solve this problem of delivery exist, such as direct intratumoral injection[24] and anti-angiogenic drugs.[25][26] Limited treatment experience of low grade malignant gliomas has shown possible efficacy.[27]

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title: Targeted alpha-particle therapy

question: What is targeted alpha-particle therapy (TAT) used for?

answer: Targeted alpha-particle therapy is used for the therapy of various cancers.

question: How does targeted alpha-particle therapy work?

answer: It employs radioactive substances which undergo alpha decay.

question: What are the advantages of targeted alpha-particle therapy?

answer: Alpha particles are more likely than other types of radiation to cause double-strand breaks to DNA molecules, which is one of several effective causes of cell death.

question: What are the disadvantages of targeted alpha-particle therapy?

answer: It is not well suited to the treatment of larger bodies of solid tumors.

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: Targeted alpha-particle therapy, an in-development method of targeted radionuclide therapy,  is used to treat various cancers. It has very high linear energy transfer and relative biological effectiveness. Alpha particles deposit their energy in 70–100 μm long tracks. It is well suited to the treatment of peritoneal carcinomas, bone metastases from prostate cancer, leukemia, and melanomas.


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STEPHANIE MCKAY is an American soul singer and songwriter from the Bronx in New York, whose music includes elements of soul, funk, rock and hip hop. McKay's career has spanned over 20 years, during which time she has collaborated with artists including Anthony Hamilton, DJ Spinna Toshi Reagon and Big lovely, Roy Hargrove, Jacques Schwarz-Bart, Katalyst, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Tricky, Carl Hancock Rux and Amp Fiddler and numerous others.[1][2] She has released two solo albums, McKay (2003) and Tell it Like it Is (2008), a self-titled EP Stephanie McKay (2006) and has toured internationally as a solo artist. She formerly played guitar in Kelis' band and recorded with the Brooklyn Funk Essentials.[3]

Early life

Stephanie McKay was born in NYC. Raised in the Bronx, an ethnically diverse district in New York City. During her early years she was a member of school choirs and music groups at Truman High School, before joining the Alvin Ailey School. McKay then moved onto the University of the Arts in Philadelphia where she graduated with a BFA in modern dance in 1993. The depth of her music influences when growing up in New York are rooted in the classic soul singers of the sixties and inventiveness of popular soul bands from the seventies. She spoke of this in a recent interview she gave;

  “_I have a brother who is eight years older than me, who was always playing 70's soul and funk music like Earth, Wind And Fire and the Ohio Players, while my mom was in the other room listening to Al Green and Barry White. On my own though, I was a fan of the classic pop station WABC, where I first discovered artists like Michael Jackson and Jim Croce_”.

In many ways, McKay's music is the continuation of the great legacy of these artists for a new generation.

Early music career

After a knee injury detoured her dance aspirations, McKay started to audition for singing jobs. One of those auditions was for producer Kashif who hired her on the spot for a new girl group called “The Promise”. The group went on to be signed by Clive Davis at Arista Records. Although never released, it was during this period that McKay began writing songs. She began to study voice privately with Don Lawrence and drums with Kenwood Dennard.

Solo career

While pursuing her professional music aspirations in New York, McKay continued to dance with several modern dance companies, Jane Comfort, Amy Pivar, Urban Bush woman, and sing her original music in New York City clubs. From her subsequent experience she began to gain more work as a session vocalist. She was hired to sing in the studio and onstage by various artists to complement their sound and live show. One of these artists was Carl Hancock Rux an Obie Award winning playwright, poet, novelist and recording artist. It was while working for Carl Hancock Rux, she sang a demo of one of his songs. The demo was passed by Rux to Geoff Barrow of Portishead who was starting work on a new project. While on tour with Kelis in England, Stephanie met Geoff at the recommendation of Rux and they decided to complete an album.

The album was entitled _McKay_ and included original compositions by Stephanie, along with producers Tim Saul and Geoff Barrow—the latter of the two is credited in the album's sleeve notes as “Fuzzface”. The album also features two songs co-penned by Geoff Barrow and Carl Hancock Rux and additional instrumentation by other notable, Bristol-based musicians in Adrian Utley and John Baggott. The LP also contains the closing track “Echo”, a Sweet Honey in the Rock cover version, penned by the acclaimed social activist, Bernice Johnson Reagon.

The album received critical acclaim. UK national newspaper _The Guardian_ commented that McKay's debut was “resurrecting the passion and pride of politically conscious and eternally lovelorn ladies of late-1960s, early 1970s soul, McKay shines bright,” while dance bible MOJO described McKay as “extraordinarily eclectic” and her album was “a coherent artistic statement and worth investigating.”

McKay went on to play the WOMAD, Bristol and the Jazz Cafe in England and her music received international acclaim and rotation on MTV. The album “McKay” was released in Europe on (Go Beat/Polydor/Universal). Word crossed the pond to America, and Stephanie was soon signed by American company Astralwerks/EMI . In an attempt to reintroduce McKay to the American market, US label Astralwerks released a five song EP in September 2006 with two new songs from forthcoming album and two older songs from “McKay” album and a remix by DJ Spinna of “Tell It Like It Is”, as well as being featured on US funk musician Amp Fiddler's album release _Afro Strut_.

Her second album 'Tell it like it is" was later released independently on Pias/Muthas of Invention. McKay went on to play Glastonbury in 2009, North Sea Jazz Festival, and Spoleto in France. The single “Jackson Avenue” received wide airplay throughout Europe. After the death of her mom in 2008 and the birth of her son in 2009, Mckay took a hiatus and concentrated on motherhood instead of touring. She continued to release singles with longtime collaborator DJ Katalyst from Australia with the single “Day into Night” and “You can't save me”.

She is married to jazz tenor saxophonist Jacques Schwarz-Bart. Jacques and Stephanie have collaborated musically with the album _Rise above_ (Dreyfus) an album released by her husband which contained the single “Feel so free”. Other songs from the album such as " Forget regret" have been recorded by Roy Hargrove. “Friend and lover” a composition McKay and Schwarz-bart wrote together for jazz guitarist Yosuke Onuma (Sony) Japan was also recorded by EMILY (jazz pianist and singer) and TOKU (trumpeter and singer) for Sony, and will be released in September 2013 in Japan.

Stephanie McKay is currently working with famed engineer Bob Power on a new collaborative project entitled [2sharp9]. In January 2013, she sang with Jimmy Cliff on The Super Bowl 2013 Volkswagen commercial “Get Happy”. Whether being hired live performer, studio session singer, or writer. Her work resonates with audiences and critics alike.

Music style

McKay's musical style has been described as “Motown meets midnight Marauder”. Her songs fuse powerful urban poetics with sonic sound waves that includes elements of hip-hop, rock, pop, soul.

Albums

-   McKay (2003)
-   Stephanie Mckay EP (2006)
-   Tell It Like It Is (2008)

Singles/EPs

-   Tell him
-   Take me Over
-   Tell it like it is
-   Stephanie McKay EP (2006)
-   Jackson Avenue (2008)

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[2] 2

[3] Stephanie McKay Interview by Tom Paul. Soul Tracks March 21, 2008. Retrieved August 5, 2011.

title: Stephanie McKay

question: What does the article say about McKay's collaborative works?

answer: McKay collaborated with a lot of artists and producers in her career. After her dance career ground to a halt, she began getting hired as a session vocalist. She met Geoff Barrow during that time, and they released an album together alongside Tim Saul, Carl Hancock Rux, Adrian Utley, and John Baggott. Later, she released collaborative works with his husband Jacques Schwarz-Bart, Roy Hargrove, and Yosuke Onuma. Other notable artists McKay collaborated with include Anthony Hamilton, DJ Spinna Toshi Reagon and Big lovely, Katalyst, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Tricky, and Amp Fiddler. She's currently working with Bob Power on a collaborative project.

question: What does the article say about jazz music?


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AUGUSTUS JESSE BOWIE JR. (December 10, 1872 – June 22, 1955, birth name AUGUSTUS JESSE BOWIE III) was a pioneering American technology engineer, inventor and entrepreneur. His early innovations in large-capacity electrical switches, including the 1000lb. 287Kv disconnecting switch, were important in the spread of electrification on the West Coast of the United States during the 1910s-1920s, and became essential to the New Deal's mass-scale rural electrification efforts in the 1930s. Bowie was an 1896 graduate of the engineering program at MIT in Boston, the region of the United States was the center of innovation in and promulgation of electrification, which was primarily oriented towards centralized urban office/industrial use. Bowie, however, was born and bred in the San Francisco bay area of California, and his mass electrification innovations were put into use in that geographically spread out region first, allowing for the building of an electrical grid that would spawn a decentralized regional culture of technological innovation; a region eventually recognized as Silicon Valley.[1]

Bowie leveraged his many patents in business as the founder of San Francisco's Bowie Switch Company, located in the waterfront Dogpatch district. The Bowie Switch Company would directly supply and implement his large-capacity switches for the San Francisco metro area, Hoover Dam, and Grand Coulee Dam, among many others; and during World War II the company expanded in order to produce switches for the U.S. war effort. More a businessman and inventor than an academic, Bowie's relative paucity of published writing outside electrical engineering journals (and his extensive legacy of patents) kept him largely unheralded outside electrical engineering circles following his death in 1955, despite his pivotal role in mass-scale electrification of the western United States and the bay area/Silicon Valley in particular.

Early life and Family

[Hydraulic engineer Augustus Jesse Bowie II, photo from late 1800s (exact date unknown), University of San Francisco Archives] Augustus Jesse Bowie III was born in San Francisco, California, and generally referred to himself as Augustus Jesse Bowie Jr. He was the grandson of Dr. Augustus Jesse Bowie (Oct. 23, 1815 – July 6, 1887), a descendant of the revolutionary period Scottish loyalist and Maryland plantation owner John Bowie.[2] Dr. Bowie came to San Francisco in April 1849, lured by the booming economy of the California Gold Rush. An experienced orthopedic surgeon with the U.S. Navy as early as 1837, he set up a private practice in downtown San Francisco in 1851 and soon occupied a prominent place among San Francisco's arriviste elite.[3] Named first surgeon at St. Mary's hospital in 1861 then Chair of Surgery in the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific in 1863, he was named to the then-new board of UC Regents in 1876.[4] However, like his grandson AJ Bowie III, Dr. Bowie's lack of an academic publishing record kept him relatively under-recognized in historic terms.[5]

Augustus Jesse Bowie III's father, Augustus Jesse Bowie II (1845–1917) was Dr. Bowie's son, and was known as Augustus Jesse Bowie Jr. (as his own son would be later). In 1863, Augustus Jesse Bowie II received the first Bachelor of Arts degree to be awarded by San Francisco's St. Ignatius College, then went to Europe, receovog received a doctorate in engineering at Heidelberg University[6] He returned to San Francisco with his German fiancée, Eliza Friedlander, and married her there in 1870.[7] An experienced and widely published geologist, hydrologist, and mining engineer, Bowie II wrote treatises on mining in the Sierra and irrigation in the Central Valley that are still found in print, including the seminal ''A Practical Treatise on Hydraulic Mining in California'' (pub. 1885, i online at internet archive). Bowie II and Eliza Friedlander's's eldest son was Augustus Jesse Bowie III (born in San Francisco in 1872),.

Education

Like his father, Augustus Jesse Bowie III studied at Saint Ignatius College (now the University of San Francisco), following which he went east and entered Harvard College, graduating with honors and an A.B. in Mathematics in 1893.[8][9] Bowie's coming of age and intellectual interests coincided with the biggest technological shift of the early 20th century - electrification. The locus of innovation in and promulgation of electrification in the United States was in the northeast, where the major players of this tech revolution were Joseph Swan, Thomas A. Edison, Nikola Tesla, and numerous others.[10] After Harvard, Bowie III developed a strong interest in electrification and stayed in the Northeast, to pursue an S.B. in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering MIT. in 1896 he got.[11] In his ensuing engineering and business career, Bowie III would generally identify himself by the same title as his father, Augustus Jesse Bowie Jr. This was the name under which he would also patent his inventions and eventually establish his business.

Early Career and Patents

At some point following his graduation from MIT in 1896, A.J. Bowie III returned to California and took up residence in Sacramento, where he found work as an engineer with the Sacramento Electric, Gas and Railroad Company.[12] Bowie was back in San Francisco by early 1906, where he filed his first patent application: a sophisticated electrical switch that would cleanly create a break in an electrical circuit, dramatically reducing the risk of damage to the electrical apparatus and/or the potential electrocution of the user. Only rudimentary means for such technology had existed up until this time.[13]

[Electrical Switch diagram from US Patent 1110374 by Augustus Jesse Bowie III, 1906]

Between this start in 1906 and the 1920s, Bowie was busy inventing and patenting products that helped lay the groundwork for this wider-scale electrification, the majority of which were new designs that vastly improved the safety, efficiency, and capacity of electrical current transmission. Among the most important of these patents are:

US 1110374 A: Filed 23 Jan. 1906, pub. 15 Sept. 1914, Electrical Switch.

US 982789 A: Filed 18 Apr. 1907, pub. 31 Jan. 1911, Electromagnetic Power Transmitting Mechanism. _Power transmission mechanism comprising a positively driven primary element mounted on a rotatable main shaft, and a sec ondary element mounted on a rotatable counter-shaft, out of alignment with the main shaft and driven therefrom, said primary and secondary elements forming an electromagnetic inductive system involving a magnet having an air gap, and an energizing coil for said magnet, and an electric conductor interposed in said air gap. --Journal of Electricity, Power, and Gas, Jan-June 1911_[14]

US 1230372 A: Filed 9 Dec. 1909, pub. 19 Jun. 1917, Electric Switch.

US 1168595 A: Filed 26 Feb. 1910, pub. 18 Jan 1916, Lightning-Arrester.

US 1287851 A: Filed 12 Mar. 1914, pub. 17 Dec 1918, Electric-energy converter and meter.

Bowie Switch Company and Electrification

While George Roe's California Electric Light Company had commenced electrification operations in San Francisco in 1879, with a capacity to light 21 lights, San Francisco did not realize a significant, widely available electrical capacity until over four decades later; partially as a result of the infrastructural devastation wrought by the earthquake of 1906.[15] Demand for electricity, however, continued to grow exponentially. In 1920, the California Electric Light Company hosted hundreds of people (who were lined up around the block) in a showcase of the first all-electric model home, replete with dozens of new appliances that required electricity to function - electricity that was still not available in many parts of California, particularly rural areas and outlying suburbs.[16]

With the patents he created in the first two decades of the twentieth century, AJ Bowie III was poised to leverage the market potential of demand for electricity as electrification took full force. His eponymously named Bowie Switch Company had been successfully marketing his inventions since at least 1913 and operated a facility at 18th and Folsom Streets in San Francisco,[17][18] and in 1926 the company moved to a newly built factory at 815 Tennessee Street in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco. The Bowie Switch Company building, a brick-faced classic revival style structure in the utilitarian tradition, was designed by noted Swedish architect August J. Nordin, designer of the historic landmark Swedish American Hall on upper Market Street.[19][20] Built to integrate production with the newly emergent long-haul trucking industry, the Bowie Switch Company building was well-positioned to distribute its products to locales both local and national, including in rural areas that were not serviced by existing rail transport networks.[21] This broad distributive capacity, combined with rapidly increasing demand for electrification, would prove to be instrumental in positioning the Bowie Switch Company squarely in the center of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration's efforts in the Rural Electrification Act and related major public works in the American West during the 1930s, including designing switches for the unprecedented amount of hydropower being generated by the newly built Boulder and Grand Coulee Dams[22]

WPA Hydropower Projects (Boulder and Grand Coulee dams)

Electrification in the United States' urban centers became standard during the 1920s and early 1930s, while rural and suburban electrification remained largely unrealized. This was in part due to U.S. political dynamics that discouraged the use of public funds for major infrastructure projects in favor of private development, and as rural electrification was yet to be proven a profitable endeavor private enterprise ventures were unconvinced of its viability.[23] However, while the Great Depression was in full swing, the early 1930s saw the initiation of new, publicly funded programs under President Franklin D. Roosevelt to support electrification in rural America where there was both great need and great poverty. This activity culminated in a new WPA program, the Rural Electrification Act of 1935, which extended the electrification wave beyond urban centers and across the continental United States.

The major infrastructural expansion of electrical capacity from these programs increased demand for Bowie III's products, and placed his company into an important position as a government contractor. As the 1930s began, low-voltage (2300 volt) electrical distribution systems were the standard, and they could only carry electricity about four miles before voltage drop rendered the remaining current useless for standard domestic applications.[24] To increase the viability of high-voltage current carriage to rural and suburban areas (including outlying regions of Bowie's Bay Area home such as San Jose, Gilroy, Mountain View, Martinez, etc.), innovative (and often expensive) higher-voltage systems were needed to handle capacity for lines that would carry power over 40 miles from a station.[25] For these new high-voltage systems, as well as centralized hydropower projects that generated unprecedented amounts of electrical current, the potential for injuries, explosions, and destruction of equipment was very high, so new high-capacity switches were required to be able to manage the power effectively and safely - the Bowie Switch Company was a locus for innovation and implementation of these switches, and the company kept very busy during the 1930s.[26] One of Bowie's greatest achievements during this period were the innovative 287,000 volt (287kv) disconnecting switches, which at the time and for many years thereafter were by far the world's largest (in mass and capacity) and weighed over 1000 pounds each. These switches were designed for the enormous quantity of power generated by Hoover Dam and Grand Coulee Dam, and were the only way to safely regulate the flow of electricity from the harsh environmental surroundings of their generation sites through power lines that had the capacity to carry electricity over 250 miles to urban, rural, and newly developing suburban areas.[27][28]

World War Two and Post-War

When the U.S. entered into World War II in 1941, the war effort further increased the demand for Bowie's products in both military and civilian capacities, particularly for the high voltage and safety controls (disconnecting switches) needed in the industrial-scale production of military goods, vehicles, weapons, and ships. In 1942 the Bowie Switch Co. added an assembly facility to the east, increasing the company's ability to manufacture goods at the scale and speed required by the military.[29] On August 19, 1944, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9466, which directed the Secretary of the Navy “_to take possession of and operate the plants and facilities of certain machine shop companies_” in San Francisco, one of the 99 temporarily nationalized industries was the Bowie Switch Company of San Francisco.[30][31] While the managerial structure and employees of the Bowie Switch Company remained intact during this time, the company exclusively produced products to aid the war effort[32]

Soon after the war's conclusion in 1945, the Bowie Switch Company (along with other temporarily nationalized industries) was brought back to full private control[33] under A.J. Bowie Jr (A.J. Bowie III). However, by the end of the year Bowie sold Bowie Switch Company to the A.B. Chance Company of Moberly, Missouri; a sale which had been pending since 1941. At the time of sale in December, 1945, the Bowie Switch Company employed approximately 70-100 people, and after the sale Bowie was kept on as a consulting engineer.[34] World War II turned out to have been the apogee of the Bowie Switch Company, but under the ownership of A.B. Chance, it continued to produce electrical products until 1960 before ceasing operations.[35]

Legacy

Augustus Jesse Bowie Jr. (AKA Augustus Jesse Bowie III) was one of the San Francisco Bay Area's earliest technology pioneers, and his invention, marketing, and production of groundbreaking disconnecting switch technology was a key component in the spread of electrification outside city centers on the American west coast. The early development of this capacity would prove to have a lasting impact in the rural areas of the state and the sprawling, decentralized DIY technology laboratory of the bay area suburbs that would eventually become known as Silicon Valley - a metaphorically appropriate outcome, given that the binary code underlying all digital technology is based on a series of switches. As noted earlier, Bowie was highly regarded and very influential in electrical engineering circles and was sought-after by planners as a top-flight engineer, but he was much more a businessman than an academic and was little-known outside his profession due to a relative lack of published materials (besides several articles in electrical engineering journals and his numerous patents).

In 1913, Bowie married his close friend Esther Donnelly (who already had a six-year-old child);[36] however, the couple had no children of their own and divorced in 1918.[37] AJ Bowie Jr. (III) never remarried, and died on June 22, 1955, in Children's Hospital San Francisco at the age of 82. He is buried in Colma, California[38][39][40]

[1] _The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War_ by Robert J. Gordon, 2003, Princeton University Press

[2] _The Reverend John Bowie, Tory_ by Lucy Lee Bowie, Maryland Historical Magazine, June 1943 Vol. 38 no. 2, pages 145-160

[3]

[4] _History of the Public School System of California_ Swett, John. San Francisco: AJ Bancroft and Company, 1895 p.184

[5] _Augustus Jesse Bowie (1815 - 1887)_. Stanford University School of Medicine and the Predecessor Schools: An Historical Perspective, Part II, Chapter 9. Early Local Medical Societies in California. Retrieved online, 3/5/2017

[6] _St. Ignatius Comes of Age (1861–1880)_ , St Ignatius College Preparatory. Retrieved from web, 03/05/2017

[7] _WEDDINGS_ in _Rich Life_ Section. San Francisco Chronicle, January 8, 1869

[8] _Harvard University Catalogue_, 1893-94, published by Harvard. p.521

[9] _Record of the Class of 1893_ by Harvard College (1780- ), p.28. Retrieved from web, 3/5/2017

[10] _Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology_. Nye, David E. Cambridge, MA, USA and London, England:The MIT Press, 1990

[11] _The Reverend John Bowie, Tory_ by Lucy Lee Bowie, Maryland Historical Magazine, June 1943 Vol. 38 no. 2, p.160

[12] _Electrical West, Volume 14_. McGraw-Hill Company of California, 1904. pp. 168, 182, 215, 243, 246-48

[13] _Signal and Switch: A Cultural History of the Push-Button Interface_. Plotnick, Rachel. Northwestern University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2013. 3563823

[14] _Journal of Electricity, Power, and Gas: Patents_ Vol:26, Number:6, Jan-June 1911, p.144

[15] _Pacific Gas and Electric: History Page_, retrieved 2/12/2017

[16] ibid.

[17] _Journal of Electricity, Power, and Gas_, Volume 30 no.17, April 26, 1912, p.396

[18] _Industrial Activities Aided by Pacific Service_, Pacific Service Magazine, Volume:9 Number:1, June 1917 p.207

[19] _Swedish Architect in the USA - August Nordin_, Excerpt from the book _Swedish Architects in the Americas, 1846–1930_. The Nordstjernan, May 19, 2015

[20] _Landmark Designation Application for 815-825 Tennessee Street_, prepared by John Loomis, on behalf of the Dogpatch Neighborhood, dated July 20, 2015

[21] ibid., p.4

[22] _HISTORIC AMERICAN ENGINEERING RECORD - COLUMBIA BASIN PROJECT, GRAND COULEE DAM & FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT LAKE_, pub. 1941, p.195

[23] Rural Electrification Administration 1934–1941, _Historic Events for Students: The Great Depression_, Encyclopedia.com. retrieved 4 Mar. 2017

[24] _Electricity Distribution Network Design_ by Lakervi and Holmes, 2nd edition, 1995. Peregrinius Limited Press

[25] ibid. pp.31, 201-202

[26] _287 Kv Boulder Dam Disconnecting Switches_. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Volume: 55, Issue: 6, June 1936. pp.582-589

[27] ibid.

[28] _Technology Review of MIT, Volume 38_. Association of Alumni and Alumnae of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1935. p.216

[29] Loomis, p.21

[30] Executive Order 9466, Federal Register page and date: 9 FR 10139, August 22, 1944.

[31] _Executive Order 9466_, The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1957. p.327-328

[32] ibid.

[33] Executive Order 9603, Termination of Possession of Certain Property Taken by the Government Signed: August 25, 1945

[34] _F.G. Chance Buys Bowie Switch Co. of San Francisco_, Moberly Monitor-Index (Moberly, Missouri) December 22, 1945, p.1

[35] Loomis, p.21

[36] _Weddings In Society_, San Francisco Call, Volume 114, Number 98, 6 September 1913. p.13

[37] _Augustus J Bowie Jr Accused of Contempt_, San Francisco Chronicle, May 9, 1919. p.7

[38] _Funeral Held for AJ Bowie_, San Francisco Examiner, June 25, 1955'

[39] _California Death Index_, State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics, 2000, http://www.ancestry.com, 1/9/2009

[40] [https://forums.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Bowie&GSiman=1&GScty=16680&GSob=c&GRid=87381484& Find-A-Grave], retrieved online 3/5/2017

title: Augustus Jesse Bowie Jr.

question: What was Augustus Jesse Bowie Jr.'s occupation?

answer: He worked as a technology engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur.

question: Where was Augustus Jesse Bowie Jr. born?

answer: San Francisco, California.

question: Describe Augustus Jesse Bowie Jr.'s personal life.

answer: He married Esther Donnelly, though they divorced in 1918. He never remarried.

question: Summarize everything related to the Bowie Switch Company.

answer: Bowie was the founder of San Francisco's Bowie Switch Company, which directly supplied and implemented his large-capacity switches for the San Francisco metro area, Hoover Dam, and Grand Coulee Dam. The company marketed his inventions since at least 1913 and moved to a newly built factory in 1926. The company was involved in the Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration's efforts in the Rural Electrification Act and related major public works in the American West during the 1930s.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: Augustus Jesse Bowie Jr. was an American technology engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur. His was an innovator of large-capacity electrical switches. He wnet on to found San Francisco's Bowie Switch Company, which directly supplied switches to the Hoover Dam, San Francisco metro area, and Grand Coulee Dam.


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"Huh. Fine greeting you have there baldy." The lanky redhead stood a full two inches above the commander. No... redhead didn't quite describe it. It looked as if Satan himself had set fire to her skull leaving her skin scar white on her muscular frame. Looking at some of the other wave lengths I noticed she was carrying an omni rifle on her back and an old 1911 .45acp pistol under her shirt. She wasn't wired though - so that rifle was running on stand alone mode only. She looked like she could fight  and judging by the scars on her face and body she had survived a few of them.

Suddenly that pistol was in her hand. Barrel under Erwin's jaw. I saw it - although it did surprise me - not enough to stop me from bringing to bear my side arm before she could finish the fluid, much practiced, movement.

Her eyes glanced to mine and she chuckled deep in her throat. "Faster than me on a reaction. Good soldier." I could hear the sarcasm in her voice, taste the acridity of her words in my ears. So I smiled at her nonchalantly, "Thank you 'mam. The U.S. of A. aims to please in these desolate times." Her eyes met mine. An emotionless sizing up passed between us and she let the weapon glide back to it's holster smoothly and elegantly.

"It's been long time since I've heard of that country." She walked and talked back around the couch, "You dick heads are still meddling in everyone else's business even in a time like this."

Erwin, still as cheerful as ever, gave a small laugh and looking at this redheaded bitch conspiratorially talked at her. "Well us Americans planned this whole thing as an excuse to come over and take hikes around your cities with no people to bother us. We thought some German air would do us good." He let that smile go off again.

It worked. She cracked a grin back at him and following his lead joined him in banter. As they ranted back and forth about the weather here versus the states and the state of politics, a moot point nowadays - they went with the scientist and engineers, she walked back around from the couch she had been rummaging behind.Still chatting with Erwin, that stocky, bald silver-tongued louse, she handed him a duffle bag. He peeked inside and his face lit up even more. "How bout that!" then turning back to her, "Say mam, what's your name?"
She let a smile a flit about her lips looking at Erwin. "Brynhildr Hindar"

"Nice to meet you Bryn. Name's Erwin."

"What. No surname?'

"No mam. We dropped those when we came together. No family's to identify to anymore. We're just walking dead men anyhow." The smile never left his face but it lost all sincerity.

"Now if you don't mind - I'm going to hand out this food. Then you and I need to have a long talk."

~I think that this is quickly becoming a little more than a short story. I had no idea this would take off like this - but it's cruising now and all I can do is be drug along with the plot. Captivated by the story as I write it - Who knew writing could be fun?

I only write short bits due to schedule but I have so much more waiting to be put down and I'm just sharing them as I do. However, if this is going to be as long as I think it will be, I don't want to continue to spam /r/short stories so I'll start consolidating my bits into chunks.

title: [Sci-Fi] Rebirth of a Race [Part 4]

question: Who is the main character in this story?

answer: The main character in this story is Erwin.

question: What genre would this story be classified under?

answer: The genre that this story would be classified under would be science fiction.

question: What was interesting about Erwin not having a surname?

answer: It was interesting that Erwin didn't have a surname because surnames had been dropped and no family's were to be identified anymore.

question: What are the two nationalities that Erin and Bryn represent?

answer: They represent Americans and Germans.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: This short story is a science fiction story that discusses the experiences of two soldiers.


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I recently had a conversation with a client who was confused by Drupal terminology and didn’t know the difference between content types, taxonomies, and custom entities. This is a fairly common question we get asked by clients that are new to the content management system.

Drupal allows you to create, organize, and present data using a few different mechanisms - content types, taxonomy terms, and entities. There is a lot overlap between these - each is fieldable, each can have associated metadata and URLs, and can be presented in pretty custom ways to end users. So, you see where a new user’s confusion stems from.

Here is how we define these mechanisms to our clients and our own beliefs around when you should use each.

Content Types:

A content type, simply put, is a way to represent different types of content that will be published using your CMS. Content types typically have an author(s), publishing date, may be linked to within a menu, and have some associated workflow. Content types can represent anything from a static page, to a blog post, to an event - each having different fields associated with them.

We typically derive what content types to use on a client site by working with them through some  engagement mapping exercises. The first questions to answer are:

1.  What are your users’ goals?

2.  How can you meet those goals?

3.  What interaction/transaction needs to take place in order for a user’s goal to be met?

Once you have the interactions and transactions defined, it is fairly easy to then define content types. As an example, if you users need to register for trainings, and you can meet that need by providing an online registration system, the content type you need for that transaction is a “Training”.

Here are some questions that can help you determine whether the data you have available should be represented in Drupal using a content type:

1.  Do multiple people need to be involved in creating, reviewing, or managing this content?

2.  Does your content need to have any workflow around the creation, editing or management of it?

3.  Will you need to control who has access to your content in its entirety or certain elements of it?

4.  Will your content need to have an associated metadata (for SEO or content portability)?

Taxonomies

Taxonomies are data objects within Drupal used to categorize content using a shared vocabulary. The most common example of this is tagging a blog post. Most blogging software allows you to associate some terms with the post in order to allow people who are consuming your content to find posts that is similar in subject matter. Drupal taxonomies are often associated with a content type through various field types, so that you can control how people are allowed to associate a term(s) with a piece of content (i.e. restricting a content creator to only associating only one term from a vocabulary with a piece of content).

Like content types, you can add any number of custom fields to a taxonomy vocabulary. If you want to associate an icon with terms in a vocabulary to make the display of terms more visual, then you can easily add an image field. We typically we recommend only adding fields to vocabularies if we need to store related metadata. If you need to do things like display icons related to a taxonomy term, do it at the theme layer.

Another common use case for taxonomies is creating a hierarchy of content. Since taxonomy has built-in support for parent-child relationships, you can easily extend that to content types by adding a vocabulary with some hierarchy to it.

Custom Entities

Entities are somewhat of an abstract concept for people new to Drupal.  An entity is a form of data that you want to represent in the system. Some of the data objects within Drupal core - content types, users, and taxonomies - are entities. These entities can meet the majority of the data needs of most clients, but there are some cases where you need a custom entity to represent data you want to display to end users.

You probably need to create a custom entity if:

1.  You data is representative of something that is not content

2.  You don’t need any workflow or any of Drupal’s core editorial tools to manage data

3.  You don’t want your data to appear within search results

4.  Your data will not be listed in a Drupal menu

5.  People will be able to interact with this data in a very customized interface, such as a game

Here are some use cases for creating a custom entity:

-   You need to create and manage ads that are displayed on your website

-   You need to manage product inventory in an online store

-   Your Drupal website is powering a project management system

-   You need to manage contact information for people who are not users of your website

Custom entities require programming knowledge, so this is something you will need to work with a developer to do. While this may sound complicated, it may just save you from the pains of trying to wedge your data needs into a content type, which may not be the most appropriate solution for your needs.

In our next blog post, we will list some the common pitfalls to avoid when modelling your content within Drupal. Stay tuned!

question: What is Drupal?

answer: Drupal is a content management system.

question: Who is the target audience of this blog post?

answer: Users of the Drupal software.

question: What information is included in a content type?

answer: Author(s), publishing date, and some associated workflow

question: Who wrote this blog post?

answer: Presumably someone working for Drupal.

question: What is the purpose of this blog post?

answer: To explain the differences between content types, taxonomy terms, and entities in the context of Drupal.

question: What is Drupal used for?

answer: Drupal can be used to create, organize, and present data.

question: What is the difference between content types, taxonomies, and custom entities?

answer: Content types are ways of representing different types of content (static pages, blog posts, events). Taxonomies are used to categorize content using a shared vocabulary (for example, adding tags on a blog post). Custom entities are forms of data represented in the system. Content types and taxonomies are a form of entity; custom entities allow users to create their own type of entity.

question: Write a ~5 sentence summary.

answer: This blog post is meant to clear up confusion users have about some of the terminology used in Drupal (a content management system). Specifically, the post explains the difference between content types, taxonomies, and custom entities. Content types are ways of representing different types of content, such as static pages and blog posts. Taxonomies categorize content using a shared vocabulary. Custom entities can be made to represent data the client wants to display to end users.


text:
Warm ginger ale and a cold body. Good times.
            The day started out relatively normal. Alarm went off at five am. Punched the snooze button. Broke the fourth alarm clock this week. Slept in until eight. Woke up for real, looked at the bashed clock, looked at my watch, let loose a string of choice words. Tried to shave and put on pants at the same time. Got caught and nicked my ear. Opened my fridge, no food; only a sock. What the hell?
            Normally, I woulda got in my car, broken three speed limits on my way to the local deli, and gotten a sandwich. Instead, I got in my car, looked over to my passenger seat, threw up, and stumbled out of my car, now rancid with the smell of upchucked Pad Thai from last night, and a dead body.
            My first call to 911 ever happened that day as well. I had to call in a fire.
            I went to work like normal that day, except my commute involved a bike and a pissed off crossing guard. I was looking forward to spending an entire day of lying through my teeth to make sure some sorry bastard got twenty-five years instead of forty in the state penitentiary. Of course, it’s a little hard to make witnesses sweat when you keep thinking about the clean up job you’ll have to do on your car.
            I guess I won that day. Of course, society lost fifteen years of not having deal with some sociopath arsonist. I think his name was Noah. Heh.
            I wasn’t looking forward to going to my house that day. Can’t imagine why. Regardless, I stopped by the local grocery store to pick up some melons. She slapped me and stormed off, but at least I killed some time.
            The distinct smell of freshly cut grass hit my nose as I biked down a residential street. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a shirtless man on his rider lawnmower. And this is supposed to be a residential area. I suppose his glistening d-cups were the ultimate sign of laziness. Sickening.
            After mentally flipping off Mr. Landscaper-Gone-Wild, I decided to stop by an old friend’s house. Jack and I go way back. Mr. Daniels has always been halfway decent to me, always cheering me up and getting me some great stories to tell his other patrons. I’d have had a great conversation with him too, but his doorman insisted I pay my tab. So much for boozing up.
            As I lit the torch, I sipped on the only drink I managed to get off the guy. I set my ginger ale aside, and watched as the first glimmers of the fire began to pop. I stood back, and savored the yells and smoke. Bellua would be pleased.
            I smirked as my fingers flew to pocket, pulled out my crap phone, and dialed 911. I breathed in, and reported the fire in the most civilian way I could.
            After getting to my house, I downed the rest of the drink. I’m sure the bartender wasn’t worried about the glass.
            I donned my latex gloves and surgical mask, and slowly pulled on the body’s arm. It came off. Dammit Bellua. I thought better of my initial plan, threw the arm back into the car, and shoved the body’s head down. I got into the driver’s seat. Bad idea. I got back out, got reacquainted with my lunch from that afternoon, and covered my nose with a section of fabric.
            The drive to the bog was one of the most refreshing drives I’d ever had. I began conversing with the body. It’s nice to have someone to listen, even if that someone was turning a nasty shade of green. I’m sure it wasn’t because of my story though.
            As I dumped the body, I noticed a perfectly square piece of skin missing from the back of the body’s head. Bellua’s rituals always creep me out. I stopped myself from befouling the interior of my car any further, and drove back to my house.
            After a long day’s work, I was ready to turn in. But I have work to do.
            I popped open the secret compartment of my car’s trunk, I reminisced about the first time I met Bellua. I used to be a mess, but Bellua gave me a purpose. Clean up his dirty work, and in return he would do the same for me. In exchange for getting stacks of green for reducing felons’ sentences, Bellua required that I dispose of his victims. What Bellua didn’t know at the time was that I’m more fucked up than he is.
            Bellua has a warped sense of justice. He thinks that by killing off the corrupt government officials, he can fix the system. I don’t give a shit about the system. I just wanna see it burn. That’s why I’ll play along with Bellua, until I have the resources to pull off my master plan.
            I was running low on accelerant. I took comfort in the fact that Bellua still hadn’t discovered my tools, but it was curious how I blew through a month’s worth is a week. No, I realized, it’s me. My fires are getting bigger.

title: Bellua (Original Short Story By Me) p.1 Fire

question: Is the narrator an arsonist?

answer: Unclear

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: The narrator recalls making his first 911 call for a fire that he started. He has a master plan to burn the corrupt government system.


text:
JOVAN ZUCOVIĆ (; born 17 April 1990) is a Serbian footballer, who plays as a defender for Ulaanbaatar City.[1]

Career

In January 2020, Zucović joined Ulaanbaatar City in Mongolia under newly hired Serbian coach Vojislav Bralušić.[2]

[1]

[2] Ulaanbaatar City Names Vojislav Bralušić New Head Coach, mongolianfootball.com, 20 January 2020

title: Jovan Zucović

question: Who is Jovan Zucović?

answer: Jovan Zucović is a Serbian footballer who plays as a defender for Ulaanbaatar City in Mongolia.

question: When was Jovan Zucović born?

answer: Jovan Zucović was born 17 April 1990.

question: When did Jovan Zucović join Ulaanbaatar City in Mongolia?

answer: Zucović joined Ulaanbaatar City in 2020.

question: Who is Ulaanbaatar City's head coach?

answer: Ulaanbaatar City's head coach is Vojislav Bralušić.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: Jovan Zucović is a Serbian footballer who plays as a defender for Ulaanbaatar City in Mongolia. He joined Ulaanbaatar City in 2020 under head coach Vojislav Bralušić.


text:
 Rare dilemma
Chapter 1
Hi, my name is Eleanor lance I’m 16 years old and one night my brother Drake and I decided to go for a late night munch at  buggy’s burger barn when things went awry. We walked in to buggy’s burger barn my brother got a booth as I went to order at the counter but nobody was there. I thought maybe they were in the back so I rang the bell a few times.” Hey drake nobody’s here.” ”The sign said open” said Drake. So Drake went in the back to see if anyone was there.

“Hello is anyone here” said Drake. But no answer. Drake said we should probably just go somewhere else but when we went to leave the doors were locked. I started to panic but Drake went in to the back of the counter once again but this time he let out a shrieking scream. “Drake are you all right’’. I said screaming but then I realised when I went in the back we just made the worst decision of our lives and maybe our last.

Chapter 2
‘’Drake…..Drake where are you’’ I said screaming .Then I saw a dark gloomy shadow and the next thing I knew I was tied onto what felt like a cold pole. All of the sudden I felt something warm going down the pole. ’’Hello’’ said a somewhat deep voice. The only thing I knew is that he was a man. I felt his warm breath behind me on my neck.
Chapter 3
I was so pierced with fear I couldn’t speak. I heard the door cling from the restaurant. ’’Until tonight’’ he said with rasspiness in his voice, I swallowed hard from the fear. I noticed that the warmness from the pole had faded. I heard a light moaning from the other side of the room. I was almost certain it was my brother. ‘’Who’s there ‘’I said quietly. ‘’It’s Drake’’ he said. Drake was also attached to a pole. ’’We weren’t the first’’ Drake said. ‘’What do you mean’’ I said confused. ‘’He’s taken others’’ he looked like he was in pain.’’ I figured out why were attached to poles’’ Drake said still sounding like he was I pain. ‘’the man will stick tubes all over your body and drain your blood in to these poles’’ and at that time I knew my brother and I were in big trouble. Where did the blood go?  What did he do with the drained out bodies? And most of all…………… were my brother and I going to survive.

Chapter 4
The horrid day had passed and the worst part of the day was that I didn’t have enough energy to cry for help. I noticed the room get lighter during the day; the room was quite plain it had one black leather suitcase sitting about two feet away from me. All of the sudden I heard footsteps coming towards me. It was the man that attached us to the poles. The man forced a cloth over my face. The next thing I knew I felt a pinch, and then another pinch until the pinching was all over my body. I also noticed that the suitcase was gone. Also he was carrying a medium sized bag of something red. Oh no I realised at that moment that it wasn’t just red stuff, no it was blood.

Chapter 5
I was paralyzed with fear. The man closed our room door but I could still see out of the dark room. Even though I could barely open my eyes I knew it counted on the life of my brother and I. I saw some sunshine out of a tiny window in our room. I saw the man put the blood in to a coffee cup. Than the most horrid, terrifying and creepiest thing ever. The man raised the cup to his mouth than starts to drink. I knew I had to get out but how? The thought of it made me sick to my stomach. Then possibly the scariest thing happened. something started to  moan. ‘’Drake is that you?’’ ’’What? No he replied.’’ Then I noticed we weren’t alone there was a girl about my age and she was strapped to the pole behind me.  One thing is for sure, is the man drained our blood than drank it. Obviously he’s a cannibal.

Chapter 6

The creepy night had passed. The day had come and I watched the man be friendly to customers. He would occasionally come to check on us and put a   few spoonfuls of brown mushy stuff into our mouths. Again the night had come and I almost forgot about the girl tied behind me. I tried asking her questions but no answer. I just about fell asleep when the girl behind me started to say ‘’my name is Coralline.’’

Chapter 7

‘’hello’’ I replied. Before I could ask her how long she has been here I felt the pinching all over my body. This time I could tell everyone felt the pinching too. ‘’how long have you been here’’ I said in pain. ‘’I……I…. don’t remember.’’ she replied confused. My heart beaded a million times per second. Coralline looked quite weak. I was worried for all three of our lives. I decided I was going to get out of here. We were all going to get out of here.

Chapter 8
Dawn cracked and it was time for my plan. We all started to pick the tubes out of our bodies. We were attached to the poles by our waists. It was surprisingly really difficult to get off the poles. We all were now free. We made our way out the door. But I had a strange feeling that the creepy man knew we were going to try to get out, but I let the thought pass. The Man was nowhere to be seen. We were almost at the exit when bang bang bang and the next thing we knew we were once again attached to the poles. I realised are chances of surviving where fague.

Chapter 9
I realised the man shot us with tranquilizers. Once again I heard the door cling from the restaurant. The man that entered the restaurant had a suit on with black sun glasses. The man with the suit said to the creepy man……”hello sir. We’ve been on a search for 3 days for Drake and Eleanor Lance. The crazy man said” I’m sorry that doesn’t ring a bell.” “Marie and Jesse lance said there children came here at about midnight 3 days ago and that’s when they were last seen. My team and I are going to search your restaurant. The crazy man had a quizzy look on his face. Serves the creep right.

Chapter 10
The investigator came through the back door and saw us lying there. Meanwhile the creepy man was held in handcuffs by another investigator. The investigator that saw us removed the tubes from all three of us. I had a feeling Drake, Coralline and I all were thinking we were actually going to survive.

Chapter 11
As I lay in my hospital bed I think of the horrid few days we had with that man. I awoke in the middle of the night; I thought I heard a sound. The room had plain walls and was quite vibrant with one yellow stripe along the walls. However I did notice a slight shadow. I thought nothing of it. I realised I should’ve maybe called someone about the shadow. How did he escape……..

title: rare dilemma

question: What happens to Drake?

answer: He is taken by a creepy man.

question: How is the narrator feeling about Drake?

answer: She is feeling afraid; she knows they are in danger.

question: Are there other characters involved in the story?

answer: The creepy man who imprisons Drake and Eleanor.

question: What is the setting of the story?

answer: Most of the story takes place in the backroom of a restaurant.

question: Write a ~5 sentence summary.

answer: Eleanor and her brother Drake go to a restaurant for a late-night snack. They are taken prisoners by a creepy man who ties them to poles and slowly takes their blood to drink. They are trapped there, and realize another girl, Coralline, is there also. Luckily one day the police come to investigate, knowing the restaurant was the last place Eleanor and Drake were going. They find the kids and arrest the creepy man.


text:
You’d be lucky if you knew how to write with the thin air like magicians do with a smile. I know how that felt to be king for one day in the eyes of the ignorant and it was glorious and it was sad. I felt so lonely like a typewriter on ashes made from burning pages it had created all on its own. Do you think about that when you’re alone? I like to think that people see the world like I do, but I know there are none, at least that’s what I tell myself just to feel alright, because hope is the worst form of torture there is.

	I would always walk along the highways late at night with the sun still blazing in the back of my head. The neural synapses have been cut from my pathway since I met tongue to tongue with the beast of my own sanity. It ripped apart on the day I became that own monster inside myself, it ceased to exist as I became more corporal in my own head. Do you see me in the hallways and think, “he’s so sad, that little man of a boy?” Do you see the reasons my pupils turn to coal when I place the paper to miniscule little bursts of wet skin placed centimeters from teeth that could rip that same skin? I’m happy to be free of noise but the sound was a constant lullaby to the darkness in my fingers. They drew little lines all brazen and bolded in a pattern of chaos. I loved myself then, when I could feel the intelligence like a friend knocking on my senses. The feeling of deep connection to the earth was heavy in my ears. That’s who I am when no one is watching. I am that ghost on the side of a close to empty highway. Life’s ironies are most potent when no one’s around to witness.

	I loved myself then, and I loved myself when I was younger too, like a fresh winter sprout on the tip of a tornado. I saw the humble beginnings of a failing thing and unhinged it from its desperate purchase on the parched ground. I sometimes wonder if plants are silently screaming in the cells of their water veins. Did you become so full just to wilt? Your swollen vacuoles become the dirt you were born from. I am lost, I am lost, I am lost, I am lost. I am dead and gone and not coming back, dead and gone, dead and gone, dead and gone. How can you love yourself if you don’t recognize yourself inside your head? Are we dead, are we dead. Is life merely a suspended reality where we hate each other just to get rid of insecurities?

	 I am so guilty; I hated you all so much. I took that hate deep within me and I turned it into oil. It spurted from my mouth and got into all my muscles tensing them up. It made my face ugly with anger and pity. It made my eyes shine with the light of a false ideology. I am the author of cow sewn jacket full of fleas and chemicals. I am the beef within the external heart ripped by the hand of a brother who craved the feeling of organs and tissue in his head. It’s a chemical imbalance and it’s a way of living without guilt. I took the time to hug you when I was too tired to understand I needed comfort until it was too late. I laid within your warmth and I felt the lining of your smile on my skin where it touched my body. It was strange how I loved you in that moment and then grew steadily wearier the longer I let myself crave my own head over the world. I killed myself in the eve of that waking solitude.

	That’s what we are all wanting, we want to be known and recognized. That’s why we shy away from those who are different, that’s why we go so far as to hate those people to. To shun those people and tell them they are so very wrong. They must change and they are evil and freaks and ugly, ugly shame. Have you ever looked at a picture so long that it blurred inside itself and became so meaningless that nothing seemed real anymore? Have you ever seen something ugly and thought it was the most precious thing in the world? It represented the hurt and yourself and your mind and our life so well, that it became beautiful? Is that what this is? Have you ever looked at something that others found ugly and thought it was beautiful?
	I wound up lifting my hand to the sun when I walked outside for the first time in a week. I holed myself up just to fix my panic. My panic inside, was raging against the walls of my skin and I was shaking and stuttering. Please let me go home, please let me be alone. Please, please, please don’t stand with your skin on me. I fled, I fled, I fled away from you.

title: Synecdoche

question: Who did the narrator flee from?

answer: Unclear.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: The narrator thinks about life and their existence. They think about the fact that people want to be known and recognized which is why it is so easy to hate those who are different.


text:
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|                       |                       | __Anything__ is       |
|                       |                       | better then e-mail    |
|                       |                       | based systems.        |
|                       |                       |                       |
|                       |                       | The discoverability,  |
|                       |                       | browsability, and     |
|                       |                       | useability of         |
|                       |                       | something with actual |
|                       |                       | markup and design is  |
|                       |                       | infinitely better     |
|                       |                       | then e-mail.          |
|                       |                       |                       |
|                       |                       | I've tried several    |
|                       |                       | times to make         |
|                       |                       | submissions to        |
|                       |                       | several e-mail based  |
|                       |                       | projects, never with  |
|                       |                       | any success. At the   |
|                       |                       | same time, I've had   |
|                       |                       | zero issues           |
|                       |                       | contributing to a     |
|                       |                       | dozen or so github    |
|                       |                       | hosted projects.      |
|                       |                       |                       |
|                       |                       | E-mail systems are a  |
|                       |                       | shitshow. First, you  |
|                       |                       | generally have to     |
|                       |                       | join a mailing list,  |
|                       |                       | which is regularly    |
|                       |                       | broken, or requires   |
|                       |                       | someone somewhere to  |
|                       |                       | _manually_            |
|                       |                       | acknowledge your      |
|                       |                       | membership. Then, you |
|                       |                       | have to figure out    |
|                       |                       | how they want shit    |
|                       |                       | formatted, figure out |
|                       |                       | how to generate a     |
|                       |                       | diff (I've been using |
|                       |                       | SVN for 8+ years, git |
|                       |                       | for ~3 years, and     |
|                       |                       | have __never__ had to |
|                       |                       | deal with diff        |
|                       |                       | files!), send an      |
|                       |                       | e-mail, find the      |
|                       |                       | mailing list shat     |
|                       |                       | itself and            |
|                       |                       | troubleshoot, try     |
|                       |                       | again, etc....        |
|                       |                       |                       |
|                       |                       | Basically, e-mail is  |
|                       |                       | the death of any sort |
|                       |                       | of low-effort         |
|                       |                       | contribution. If      |
|                       |                       | you're starting a new |
|                       |                       | project, and chose a  |
|                       |                       | mailing list, you're  |
|                       |                       | probably excluding a  |
|                       |                       | huge quantity of      |
|                       |                       | potential             |
|                       |                       | contributors.         |
|                       |                       |                       |
|                       |                       | If there's a project  |
|                       |                       | where I want to make  |
|                       |                       | a few-line change or  |
|                       |                       | minor enhancement,    |
|                       |                       | and it's on github,   |
|                       |                       | I'll generally PR it  |
|                       |                       | back into the         |
|                       |                       | original. If it's     |
|                       |                       | somewhere else, or    |
|                       |                       | requires _another_    |
|                       |                       | account, there's no   |
|                       |                       | way I'm going to      |
|                       |                       | spend the effort.     |
|                       |                       |                       |
|                       |                       | Plus, just _reading_  |
|                       |                       | mailing lists is a    |
|                       |                       | fucking disaster.     |
|                       |                       | Literally no mailing  |
|                       |                       | list host I know of   |
|                       |                       | lets you just view a  |
|                       |                       | _complete_ topic      |
|                       |                       | thread in simple      |
|                       |                       | chronological order   |
|                       |                       | on __ONE PAGE__. They |
|                       |                       | all operate on a      |
|                       |                       | per-message           |
|                       |                       | response-tree         |
|                       |                       | structure, so just    |
|                       |                       | _reading_ the         |
|                       |                       | discussion is a huge  |
|                       |                       | pain in the ass.      |
|                       |                       |                       |
|                       |                       | E-mail is basically   |
|                       |                       | dying among younger   |
|                       |                       | people, _including    |
|                       |                       | the ones that code_,  |
|                       |                       | and with good reason. |
|                       |                       | For actual forum-type |
|                       |                       | discussions, it's a   |
|                       |                       | completely shit       |
|                       |                       | solution.             |
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question: What is e-mail the death of?

answer: E-mail is the death of any sort of low-effort contribution

question: Why does the writer think of e-mails as a shitshow?

answer: The writer thinks of emails as shitshow because someone somewhere has to manually acknowledge your membership to a mailing list.

question: What is a github?

answer: This information can't be found.

question: Is e-mailing becoming outdated?

answer: It is implied that e-mails are becoming an outdated method of forum-based communication

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: The writer believes that anything is better than e-mail. E-mail systems require you to join a mailing list that is regularly broken. If you start a new project and chose a mailing list, you might end up excluding a huge quantity of potential contributors. Emails are dying amongst the younger generation.