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The WATERLOO WARRIORS FOOTBALL TEAM represents the University of Waterloo in the sport of Canadian football in U Sports. The Warriors U Sports football program has been in operation since 1957, winning two Yates Cup conference championships in 1997 and 1999. Currently, they are one of six teams to have never appeared in a Vanier Cup game and the longest tenured program in the OUA to have never qualified for the national championship game.

Recent history

In the 21st century, the program struggled to compete in the OUA, having not qualified for the playoffs from 2004 to 2017 and not having a winning record since 2001. The program then made national headlines in 2010 after it was discovered that a student athlete was in possession of steroids and human growth hormone in March 2010.[1] The school then conducted a steroid investigation that had led to all 65 members of its team tested for steroids on March 31, with three positive results. Consequently, on June 14, 2010, the school announced that the program would be suspended for the 2010 season.[2] While the football team returned for the 2011 season, it proved difficult as many players transferred to other schools after they learned they would not be able to play at Waterloo that year.[3] Consequently, the Warriors finished winless in eight games in their return to the OUA. The team was coached by Dennis McPhee, who was the former head coach of the St. Francis Xavier X-Men football team where he won Atlantic University Sport coach of the year in 2002.[4] In 2011, they experienced the growing pains associated with a year off of football, and losing most starters and veterans to transfers. At the end of the season, McPhee resigned as head coach on November 22, 2011.[5]

The team was then led by Joe Paopao for the 2012 and 2013 seasons.[6][7] In 2012, most expected the Warriors to be at the cold cellar of CIS, however, they surprised the football community with convincing wins against the York Lions and a huge upset victory over the Windsor Lancers. They won one game in 2013 against the expansion Carleton Ravens. Paopao resigned following the 2013 season and Marshall Bingeman's appointment as interim head coach for 2014.[8] The team won one game in 2014 against the Lions, which was an away game.

Chris Bertoia was hired as Head Coach and Manager of Football Operations for the 2015 season.[9] After finishing their 2015 and 2016 seasons winless, the Warriors won their first four games of the 2017 season, before losing their remaining four to finish in seventh place and just outside of the playoffs. It was the teams' best finish (seventh place) since 2007 and their best record (4-4) since 2001. In the 2018 season, the Warriors continued their strong play with another 4-4 record, but qualified for the playoffs based on their victory over the 4-4 Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks earlier in the season. In their first playoff appearance since 2003, the Warriors lost to the Guelph Gryphons by a score of 45-34. In 2019, the Warriors finished again with a 4-4 record, but this time earned their first post-season victory in 20 years with a resounding 44-21 win over the Ottawa Gee-Gees. The team lost a close OUA semi-final game to the Western Mustangs, ranked #1 in the country, by a score of 30-24.[10]

Season-by-season record

The following is the record of the Waterloo Warriors football team since 1995:

+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
| Seas | Game | Won  | Lost | Ties |      |      |      | Stan | Play |
| on   | s    |      |      |      |      |      |      | ding | offs |
+======+======+======+======+======+======+======+======+======+======+
| 1995 | 8    | 4    | 3    | 1    | 0.56 | 199  | 166  | 3rd  | Lost |
|      |      |      |      |      | 3    |      |      | in   | to   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | OUAA | West |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | ern  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Onta |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | rio  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Must |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | angs |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | in   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | semi |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | -fin |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | al   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | 23–2 |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | 2    |
+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
| 1996 | 8    | 7    | 1    | 0    | 0.87 | 157  | 80   | 1ST  | Defe |
|      |      |      |      |      | 5    |      |      | IN   | ated |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | OUAA | Wilf |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | rid  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Laur |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | ier  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Gold |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | en   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Hawk |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | s    |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | in   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | semi |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | -fin |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | al   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | 26–2 |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | 3    |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Lost |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | to   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Guel |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | ph   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Gryp |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | hons |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | in   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Yate |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | s    |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Cup  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | fina |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | l    |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | 23–1 |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | 3    |
+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
| 1997 | 8    | 6    | 2    | 0    | 0.75 | 231  | 91   | 2nd  | Defe |
|      |      |      |      |      | 0    |      |      | in   | ated |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | OUA  | York |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Yeom |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | en   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | in   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | semi |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | -fin |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | al   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | 17–0 |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Defe |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | ated |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | West |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | ern  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Onta |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | rio  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Must |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | angs |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | in   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Yate |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | s    |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Cup  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | fina |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | l    |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | 30–1 |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | 0    |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Lost |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | to   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Otta |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | wa   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Gee- |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Gees |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | in   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Chur |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | chil |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | l    |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Bowl |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | 44–3 |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | 7    |
+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
| 1998 | 8    | 7    | 1    | 0    | 0.87 | 297  | 150  | 2nd  | Defe |
|      |      |      |      |      | 5    |      |      | in   | ated |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | OUA  | Wilf |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | rid  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Laur |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | ier  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Gold |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | en   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Hawk |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | s    |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | in   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | semi |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | -fin |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | al   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | 32–1 |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | 0    |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Lost |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | to   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | West |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | ern  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Onta |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | rio  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Must |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | angs |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | in   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Yate |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | s    |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Cup  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | fina |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | l    |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | 21–1 |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | 4    |
+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
| 1999 | 8    | 4    | 4    | 0    | 0.50 | 232  | 149  | 4th  | Defe |
|      |      |      |      |      | 0    |      |      | in   | ated |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | OUA  | West |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | ern  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Onta |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | rio  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Must |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | angs |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | in   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | semi |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | -fin |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | al   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | 35–2 |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | 1    |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Defe |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | ated |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Wilf |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | rid  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Laur |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | ier  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Gold |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | en   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Hawk |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | s    |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | in   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Yate |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | s    |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Cup  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | fina |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | l    |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | 32–2 |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | 0    |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Lost |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | to   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Sain |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | t    |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Mary |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | 's   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Husk |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | ies  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | in   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Atla |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | ntic |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Bowl |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | 21–1 |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | 4    |
+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
| 2000 | 8    | 4    | 4    | 0    | 0.50 | 208  | 176  | 4th  | Lost |
|      |      |      |      |      | 0    |      |      | in   | to   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | OUA  | McMa |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | ster |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Mara |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | uder |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | s    |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | in   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | semi |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | -fin |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | al   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | 44–2 |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | 0    |
+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
| 2001 | 8    | 4    | 3    | 1    | 0.56 | 194  | 108  | 5th  | Lost |
|      |      |      |      |      | 3    |      |      | in   | to   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | OUA  | West |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | ern  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Onta |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | rio  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Must |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | angs |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | in   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | quar |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | ter- |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | fina |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | l    |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | 19–1 |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | 1    |
+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
| 2002 | 8    | 3    | 5    | 0    | 0.37 | 111  | 178  | 7th  | Lost |
|      |      |      |      |      | 5    |      |      | in   | to   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | OUA  | Quee |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | n's  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Gold |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | en   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Gael |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | s    |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | in   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | quar |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | ter- |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | fina |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | l    |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | 51–1 |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | 4    |
+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
| 2003 | 8    | 2    | 6    | 0    | 0.25 | 142  | 328  | 8th  | Lost |
|      |      |      |      |      | 0    |      |      | in   | to   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | OUA  | McMa |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | ster |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Mara |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | uder |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | s    |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | in   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | quar |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | ter- |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | fina |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | l    |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | 70–7 |
+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
| 2004 | 8    | 2    | 6    | 0    | 0.25 | 149  | 296  | 8th  | Did  |
|      |      |      |      |      | 0    |      |      | in   | not  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | OUA  | qual |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | ify  |
+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
| 2005 | 8    | 2    | 6    | 0    | 0.25 | 139  | 302  | 9th  | Did  |
|      |      |      |      |      | 0    |      |      | in   | not  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | OUA  | qual |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | ify  |
+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
| 2006 | 8    | 3    | 5    | –    | 0.37 | 117  | 264  | 7th  | Did  |
|      |      |      |      |      | 5    |      |      | in   | not  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | OUA  | qual |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | ify  |
+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
| 2007 | 8    | 3    | 5    | –    | 0.37 | 123  | 252  | 7th  | Did  |
|      |      |      |      |      | 5    |      |      | in   | not  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | OUA  | qual |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | ify  |
+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
| 2008 | 8    | 2    | 6    | –    | 0.25 | 147  | 285  | 9th  | Did  |
|      |      |      |      |      | 0    |      |      | in   | not  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | OUA  | qual |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | ify  |
+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
| 2009 | 8    | 3    | 5    | –    | 0.37 | 226  | 213  | 7th  | Did  |
|      |      |      |      |      | 5    |      |      | in   | not  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | OUA  | qual |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | ify  |
+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
| 2010 | _tea |
|      | m    |
|      | susp |
|      | ende |
|      | d_   |
+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
| 2011 | 8    | 0    | 8    | –    | 0.00 | 95   | 421  | 10th | Did  |
|      |      |      |      |      | 0    |      |      | in   | not  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | OUA  | qual |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | ify  |
+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
| 2012 | 8    | 2    | 6    | –    | 0.25 | 145  | 333  | 10th | Did  |
|      |      |      |      |      | 0    |      |      | in   | not  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | OUA  | qual |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | ify  |
+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
| 2013 | 8    | 1    | 7    | –    | 0.12 | 161  | 406  | 10th | Did  |
|      |      |      |      |      | 5    |      |      | in   | not  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | OUA  | qual |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | ify  |
+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
| 2014 | 8    | 1    | 7    | –    | 0.12 | 76   | 418  | 10th | Did  |
|      |      |      |      |      | 5    |      |      | in   | not  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | OUA  | qual |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | ify  |
+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
| 2015 | 8    | 0    | 8    | –    | 0.00 | 66   | 380  | 11th | Did  |
|      |      |      |      |      | 0    |      |      | in   | not  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | OUA  | qual |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | ify  |
+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
| 2016 | 8    | 0    | 8    | –    | 0.00 | 77   | 435  | 11th | Did  |
|      |      |      |      |      | 0    |      |      | in   | not  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | OUA  | qual |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | ify  |
+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
| 2017 | 8    | 4    | 4    | –    | 0.50 | 299  | 339  | 7th  | Did  |
|      |      |      |      |      | 0    |      |      | in   | not  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | OUA  | qual |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | ify  |
+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
| 2018 | 8    | 4    | 4    | –    | 0.50 | 263  | 272  | 6th  | Lost |
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|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | ter- |
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|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | l    |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | 45–3 |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | 4    |
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| 2019 | 8    | 4    | 4    | –    | 0.50 | 288  | 283  | 5th  | Defe |
|      |      |      |      |      | 0    |      |      | in   | ated |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | OUA  | Otta |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | wa   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Gee- |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Gees |
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|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | quar |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | ter- |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | fina |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | l    |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | 44–2 |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | 1    |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Lost |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | to   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | West |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | ern  |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | Must |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | angs |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | in   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | semi |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | -fin |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | al   |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | 30–2 |
|      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      |      | 4    |
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National award winners

-   J. P. Metras Trophy: Chris Best (2006)
-   Presidents' Trophy: Cory Delaney (1994), Jason Van Geel (1997)
-   Peter Gorman Trophy: Jordan Verdone (2008)
-   Frank Tindall Trophy: David “Tuffy” Knight (1989)

Waterloo Warriors in the CFL

As of the end of the 2019 CFL season, former Warriors players on CFL rosters include:

-   Jesse Gibbon, Hamilton Tiger-Cats
-   Jordan Hoover, Edmonton Eskimos

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title: Waterloo Warriors football

question: In what years did the Waterloo Warriors football team not qualify for the playoffs?

answer: They did not qualify from 2004 to 2017.

question: Why was the team suspended for the 2010 season?

answer: The team was suspended because an investigation reveals that some athletes were using steroids.

question: Explain the steroid investigation in 2010.

answer: The school conducted a steroid investigation after one student athlete was discovered to be in possession of steroids and human growth hormone. Out of all the 65 members tested for steroids, three came out positive.

question: What does OUA stand for?

answer: Perhaps Ontario University Athletics.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: The Waterloo Warriors football team, which represents the University of Waterloo, has been around since 1957. They did not qualify for the playoffs for 14 years, from 2004 to 2017. In 2010 the program was suspended due to some student athletes using steroids.


split: train

text:
 October 12, 1989:

	She wore a red dress of exquisite formidability. The fabric, elegant in its simplicity, tightly enveloped her body in a manor that distinguished the alluring curves of her veneer. The top was cut just above the breasts, exposing her shoulders; from the waist down, the dress loosened and draped to where it was cut just below the knee: revealing a red ribbon, equal in shade to that of the dress, tied securely around her right ankle. The dress acted as a bright contrast to the seemingly monochrome topography of the Lexington Avenue subway station on 59th Street. The white-tiled walls were now withered and coated in miscellaneous filth and graffiti art. The station's accepted commoners and vagrants, alike, all flooded it's floors and weaved through parallel columns spanning the length of the platform. Public benches were offered for the weary; mutters of impatience among the waiting could be heard under the flicker of fluorescent light. This was indeed, she thought, a beautifully tragic representation of social conformity.
	She was 36 years of age as of June, though she appeared to be in her mid 20's. Her hight was average: slender body. Her skin was smooth and pallid, almost white in color, with light blush accents. She had always possessed a pale complexion ever since she could remember. As a result, she had often been mistakenly labeled with ailments and profiled by her former peers. Her skin also offered an ideal canvas for the red of her dress and the dark indentations of the bruises she bore.Though most were concealed, one could barley be seen emerging from the seam of her dress on her upper back; she was used to bruises. Her lips were red: again, similar to the red of the dress. Her eyes were bright blue, emphasized by a minimal application of eye liner. Very little cosmetics were used. She possessed a naturally youthful face: one which did not accurately reflect her age. Cosmetics were rarely applicable. Her long, dark hair was pinned in an upsweeping French twist with the graceful decent of frayed strands that intertwined on each side. This was a suitable frame for her aesthetic facial features and a fitting style for the formality of her appearance.
	She descended the stairs of the subway station and stepped onto the lowest level of the underground platform. The station was moderately populated: comprised of a cluster of age groups ranging from elders in suits to small children, who's restless stirrings pronounced the stationary positions of their guardians. With each step she took, the click of her high heels resonated up the length of her legs to the seductive sway of her hips. Immediately, the diverted attention of those around her brought about sporadic glances: not only of her beauty. She carried in her right arm, with her, an infant child wrapped in a blanket and suspended in a woven cradle. The child was abnormally silent, given its age and the current setting. The child was dormant and not a sound was uttered.
	She walked, with a confident poise, to a wooden bench near the center and sat down to the left of a man with a leather suitcase resting at his feet. The man appeared to be in his late 20's. He was relatively tall, medium built, with a freshly shaven face and black hair that was gelled back like some bad 50's nock-off. He wore a tattered, leather jacket over a black crew neck shirt, blue jeans, and some worn sneakers. He was well groomed and sanitary, though his attire reflected some financial difficulty. Upon the bench, she placed the cradle with the child on her lap and folded her hands against her lower abdomen. Her legs were stationed tightly together, and her posture was straight and unrelenting. She remained motionless, faced forward, for a moment staring at the train tracks. She was lost in abysmal thought in an almost transcending foreshadowing of her future actions. This was not so much out of hesitation or doubt but of reflection and confirmation. She knew what she had to do and how it had to be done; there was no avoiding it. This in no way, though, diminished the difficulty of its nature. Without parting her lips, she inhaled deeply and turned to face the man sitting aside of her. Her gaze was unyielding and expressed a measure of both innocence and confidence. She bore a slight smile as though she was content with the man and her circumstances. It almost seemed fake, like a sarcastic mask to comfort any onlookers. For her, this was often the case; however, this was the first time she had smiled in years. It took the man a considerable time before he became aware of her, for she spoke not a word. He turned to his left only to be entranced by her profound beauty. He could not remember a time when such a tantalizing sight had graced his eyes. Though he silently inquired as to the cause of this wanton attention, it was of no great concern at the time. For a moment that depicted an eternity, they remained suspended in an uncomfortable silence before a sound was uttered.
	"What is your name?" she asked. Her voice was seamless and youthful. The man hesitated for a brief moment before clearing his throat.
	"Jake Crow," he replied.
	"And what is your profession?" she asked. Her diction was formal with no noticeable accents  and a relatively fast rate of speech. Jake once again hesitated. He found it queer to be abruptly confronted with a series of disjointed personal inquiries. He felt as though he was being interviewed for a job or something. She had a detached, clinical way about her, the way she conducted herself, that gave him a sense of uneasiness: never breaking composure.
	"I'm in the service," he retorted.
	"Are you married?"
	"I'm sorry... who are you?" he finally asked. Her smile widened, as if he had met her expectations, as she closed her eyes and faced forward. She paused for a moment.
	"I was a dancer once," she said with nostalgia. "I studied dance at Juilliard and performed for the American Ballet Theatre in New York... I was exceptional.... and that was a long time ago." She paused again and turned back to face him. "Do you know why men find the color red alluring Mr. Crow?" she asked as she subtly directed his attention to the fabric of her dress. He shook his head. "Though some argue it's purely the cause of societal conditioning or popular culture, there's reason to believe that men's attraction to the color red is a result of primal, biological effects, their nature, for this anomaly often occurs naturally. Valentines day hearts, carnations, the red illumination of a brothel, red sports cars and the ties that drive them, the attire of nobility and the red cross of authority... Red not only symbolizes passion and romance but power and anger... hate....death." Her voice was now sullen and repressive. "Sometimes, Mr Crow, we have to bleed red to prevent those who draw it." The man was struck speechless. He was almost overwhelmed by this peculiar meeting and what she had said and was unsure on how to retort. He could see pain in her eyes, though she was attempting to hide it; these words had meaning. He decided to change the subject.
	"The child is beautiful," the man said nervously. "Is it yours?" Her face brightened in a bestowal of mirth at his question as her smile returned.
	"Yes," she replied as she gazed down upon her. "Her name is Alice." She stated her name as though there was nothing else.
	"I'm actually engaged," he said. "We've been trying to conceive, but with no luck."
	"Everything I am....everything I do is for her," she said. "Remember that." The distant sound of an approaching train resonated throughout the station. She seemed flustered at the noise. She leaned down and untied the red ribbon from her ankle, folding it and gently placing in the cradle beside her infant daughter. She stood up and placed the cradle on the bench where she previously sat. She bent over and kissed the child affectionately before handing the man a small leather-bound diary. "Please give this to her when she becomes of age....Please take care of her."
	"What?...I....I don't understand," he stuttered with confusion. She smiled once again at him and her daughter before turning to face the tracks. Her pace was constant as the locomotive neared. She crossed the thresh hold marked with caution and balanced upon the ledge before closing her eyes and falling forward. Her morbid greeting with death, elegant in its simplicity, was as a lily on a grave painted in red.

title: The Red Ribbon: Ch. 1

question: What is the woman doing at the station?

answer: She has come to find someone to take her child and then she will kill herself by falling in front of a train.

question: What would the woman have done if the man she chose to take her child had proven unsuitable?

answer: She would, no doubt have moved on to someone else on the station. She may have already interviewed others at the station.

question: Why has the woman chosen to wear red?

answer: She tells the man that red represents passion and romance, power and anger, hate and death. She has come here to die. This may be the reason. She may also have worn red because she looks so alluring in the color.

question: Why did the man allow her to leave the baby with him when it is fairly clear that she is on a self-destruct mission?

answer: He may be confused and in denial. Nobody really expects a mother to want to leave her baby to kill herself

question: Write a ~16 sentence summary.

answer:
October 1989
The woman wears a scarlet dress, simple and elegant hugging her curves. She is 36 but appears to be in her 20s. The beautiful woman descends into the subway station. She carries an infant wrapped in a blanket and suspended in a woven cradle.

She sits beside a man in his 20s. He is well groomed but his attire suggests some financial difficulty. She smiles at him and asks his name. He answers. She asks about his job and whether he is married. He feels as though he is being interviewed. She tells him she was a dancer. He tells her that he and his fiancée have been trying to have a child.

He mentions that her child is beautiful and asks her name. Her name is Alice. The woman hands him a diary and asks him to keep it for the child. Then she walks toward the tracks to step in front of the train.


text:
Legislation dealing with a refusal to pay water charges will be published shortly after Easter, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said.

Minister for the Environment Alan Kelly indicated earlier this week that attachment orders will be introduced on wages and social welfare payments for those refusing to pay.

Mr Kenny told the Dáil on Wednesday that Mr Kelly would bring his proposals to Cabinet in the next few weeks. “The Cabinet will consider these proposals and make decisions about them,’’ he added.

“The Bill will then be put through the Dáil and Seanad.’’

The Taoiseach was replying to Socialist Party TD Paul Murphy who said the Government was indicating it would introduce the legislation through “leaks in the media designed to strike fear into people right across the country’’.

Mr Murphy said water charges were not a revenue tax and, therefore, the powers of Revenue to deduct did not apply. Any move towards an attachment of earnings order would also have to apply to other utility companies.

“How many hundreds of new judges will the State be appointing ?’’ he added.

“How many scores of new courthouses will the State be building, or will the entire system simply be blocked up?’’

Mr Murphy accused the Government of engaging in a “high-handed, arrogant and bullying approach’’ on the issue.

He added Mr Kelly was “swaggering around the place like Nelson from the Simpsons, threatening to rob people’s lunch money’’.

Earlier, Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams repeated his opposition to the charges and said the Taoiseach should call a general election.

question: Who is Enda Kenny?

answer: He is the Taoiseach

question: Who is the Minister for the Environment?

answer: Alan Kelly

question: What did Socialist Party TD Paul Murphy say about the Government?

answer: Mr. Murphy said the Government was indicating it would introduce legislation through leaks in the media designed to strike fear into the people across the country. He is also accusing the Government of bullying.

question: Which country does this political incident take place in?

answer: That information can’t be found.

question: Write a ~5 sentence summary.

answer: Taoiseach Enda Kenny said that legislation dealing with a refusal to pay water charges will be published shortly after Easter. According to Environment Minister Alan Kelly, attachment orders will be introduced on wages and social welfare payments for those refusing to pay water charges. Mr. Kenny said that the new bill will be put through the Dáil and Seanad. Socialist Party TD Paul Murphy opposes the move, accusing the Government of bullying and saying they are leaking the new legislation through the media to scare people. Mr. Murphy added that water charges were not a revenue tax and, therefore, the powers of Revenue to deduct did not apply.


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JAMAL UD-DIN YAQUT (also YAKUT) was an African Siddi slave-turned-nobleman who was a close confidant of Razia Sultana, the first and only female monarch of the Delhi Sultanate in India. Yakub was the puppet of Razia Sultan's stepmother but after sometime he became a trustworthy soldier of Delhi Sultanate. Razia Sultana's patronage made him an influential member of the court, provoking racial antagonism amongst the nobles and clergy, who were both primarily Turkic and already resentful of the rule of a female monarchy.

Ethnic background

Jamal ud-Din Yaqut lived during the time of the Sultan Iltutmish and then Razia Sultana, sometime from 1200 to 1240 CE, when he was slain in a revolt against Razia Sultana.[1] Yaqut was a habshi - habshis were enslaved Africans of East African descent frequently employed by Muslim monarchs in India for their reputed physical prowess and loyalty and as such were an important part of the armies and administration of the Delhi Sultanate.[2]

Biography

Yaqut rose in the ranks of the Delhi court, and found favour with the first female monarch of the Mamluk dynasty, Razia Sultana. Yaqut soon became a close advisor and was widely rumoured in the court and amongst the nobles to be the queen's lover. Contemporary historians were also conflicted in their assessment — many including Ibn Battuta record that their relationship was illicit and too intimate in public, but others assert that Yaqut was just a close advisor and friend.[3] A particular incident that provoked the rumors was when Yaqut was observed sliding his arms under the queen's armpits to hoist her onto a horse, which was seen as a flagrant act of intimacy.[4] This charge too was proven to be false[5] later as historians argued that Razia always rode an elephant in public and not a horse. His power and influence grew through his close relationship with Razia Sultana, who appointed him to the important post of superintendent of the royal stables, giving a loyalist an important post and challenging the power of the Muslim nobles and orthodox leaders.[6] She awarded him the honorific title _Amir-al-Khayl_ (_Amir of Horses_) and later the much higher _Amir al-Umara_ (_Amir of Amirs_), much to the consternation and outrage of the Turkish nobility.[7] Already resented for being a woman ruler by the Muslim nobles and clerics, Razia's proximity to an Abyssinian slave (considered racially inferior to the Turkish nobles who ruled the Sultanate) alienated the nobility and clerics and soon provoked open rebellion and conspiracy.[8] It is argued that the rumors spread by the nobles about her affair with Yaqut were false and was done so to bring about her downfall .

A rebellion led by Malik Ikhtiar-ud-din Altunia, the governor of Bhatinda (Punjab) broke out against Razia and Yaqut; fearing a siege, Razia and Yaqut chose to go out of Delhi to engage the rebels. Forces loyal to Razia and Yaqut were routed by Altunia; Yaqut was killed and Razia was captured and imprisoned at Batinda by Altunia and later married . However, Razia and Altunia was subsequently killed in battle against her step brother Muiz ud din Bahram, who had usurped the throne of Delhi in Razia's absence.

In popular culture

Dharmendra played the lead role of Yaqut and Hema Malini as Razia Sultan in a Hindi movie of the same name, written and directed by Kamal Amrohi, in 1983 with soulful music composed by Khayyam. Saurabh Pandey played the role of Yaqut in & TV show Razia Sultan

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title: Jamal-ud-Din Yaqut

question: What does the article say about Yaqut's relationship with Razia Sultana?

answer: Yaqut was the puppet of Razia's stepmother. He found favour with Razia and became a close advisor. There were rumours that he was the queen's lover. He was once supposedly  observed sliding his arms under her armpits to hoist her onto her horse, although this was proven false, as she rode an elephant not a horse. His relationship with Razia granted him great power and influence; she awarded him the title Amir-al-Khayl and later Amir al-Umara.

question: What does the article say about Yaqut's early life?

question: What does the article say about bigotry?

answer: Yaqut's position as an influential member of the court provoked racial antagonism amongst the nobles and clergy. They were already resentful of the rule of a female monarchy. Razia was resented by Muslim nobles and clerics for being a woman ruler. Her proximity to an Abyssinian slave (considered racially inferior) further alienated the nobility and clerics, provoking an open rebellion.


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Gary was a southern bell. He was of average height, a bit slim and full
of dramatic flair. Gary lacked the grace and figure of a woman but
damned if he didn't nail the catty nature. He was always finding
something to be upset about, some bad news to spread to the world. The
sky was always falling, the apple always poisoned. If there was
something to be made of nothing, Gary found it, spun it and made an
intricate web of foreboding and doom. Being the harbinger of bad news
always grabs attention, people hag on your words and ask for more, it
makes you important.

Growing up in a religious, anti-effeminate-men atmosphere wasn't the
easiest childhood, but Gary found strength in the unlikeliest of places.
God was Gary's protector, the only one who loved him for who he really
was. God knew that Gary was more than a squirrelly boy with a southern
drawl. God knew, just as Gary did, that he was more than that, more than
everyone. It was this reason that each Sunday saw Gary sitting in the
front row of his small-town Baptist church. Gary wasn't interested in
making friends at the church, he was polite but he kept to himself,
no-one could know the real God the way Gary knew him, they were all
clueless.

 Flamboyant and fumbling, it was Gary's greatest wish that his outside
demeanor would reflect his inner self. That one day he could be someone
of power, someone who garnered respect from their peers and
subordinates. It wasn't until his early thirties that he achieved his
goal in the form of a promotion. He had made it, he was a manager. Gary
had always worn a suit to work but now the suit was a uniform, now it
meant something. Now when he went downtown, to the main office, he would
sit at the big table with all the other suits and he would belong with
the respected ones. Alas, somehow it still wasn't enough. There was
still someone sitting at the head of the table, someone who all the
suits looked at, whom everyone listened to.

Gary never made it to the head of the table, as a matter of fact, his
job was eliminated a few years down the line and he ended up back where
he started, unnecessarily donning a suit to work and telling the world
about how it was all going to end. Each word he spoke still came out
with the speed of molasses and the twang trademarked to his home state
but there was something hollow about them. There seemed to be something
missing from his words as if they lacked enthusiasm despite the fact
that he said every utterance with just as much drama as ever. Perhaps
his words had not changed but it was his audience that no longer found
him relevant. Whatever the reason, Gary never amounted to more than an
over-anxious, fairy with a God complex working in middle-management and
pissing his paychecks away on suits, and trendy furniture from IKEA.

title: Gary

question: How did Gary find strength?

answer: Gary found strength through God.

question: Where does Gary live?

answer: It's not clear where Gary lives, but he grew up in southern America.

question: Does Gary learn a lesson?

answer: That information can't be found.

question: What is Gary's relationship to God?

answer: Gary sees God as his protector and the one who loves him for he truly is.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: A man named Gary is described as a feminine man who likes to gossip about negative things. He grew up in the south with God as his protector. He always wished to be someone in power, but he only ever amounted to being a person with a God complex working in middle management.


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The OTTAWA VOYAGEURS, previously the OTTAWA RAPIDZ, were a professional baseball team based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada under the Canadian-American Association of Professional Baseball or Can-Am League.

As a Can-Am team, the team played one season as the Ottawa Rapidz at Ottawa Baseball Stadium, previously home to the Ottawa Lynx Triple-A minor league franchise. Originally, the team was to be spelled as the Ottawa Rapids until it was renamed prior to the start of their 2008 opening season. After the initial ownership declared bankruptcy, the Can-Am league assumed ownership of the franchise, but suspended the team's operations in March 2009 prior to what would have been a second season.[1]

History

The Rapids were established after the Lynx, an International League team, moved to Allentown, Pennsylvania after the 2007 season to become the Lehigh Valley IronPigs. The Ottawa City Council discussed different possibilities regarding the city-owned stadium and accepted the offer given by Can-Am League president Miles Wolff.

Following their sale to zip.ca, the team name spelling was modified to the Ottawa Rapidz.[2][3]

On 29 September 2008, amid reports of a $1.4 million team debt, Rapidz management notified the Can-Am league that the team would be dissolved and that bankruptcy proceedings were planned. Rapidz management blamed the City of Ottawa for the situation, citing failed negotiations for the future lease of the stadium.[4][5][6]

Despite the first-season bankruptcy, trading of Rapidz players continued in the Can-Am League offseason, with such activity reported as late as 13 October 2008.[7] The Can-Am League announced on 13 November 2008 that a team would operate in Ottawa for 2009, operated directly by the league while new ownership was sought. Can-Am league commissioner Miles Wolff confirmed this development in Ottawa, displaying the original bilingual logo, with the spelling changed back to Rapids (English)/Rapides (French), but cautioned that the name was not yet final and that the team might operate under a new name.[8] In February 2009, the team was rechristened as the Voyageurs after a name-the-team contest won by Michael Jacobsen.[9]

However, the Voyageurs would never take the field as the Can-Am league announced on 30 March 2009 that the team and the Atlantic City Surf would cease operations.[10] League commissioner Miles Wolff indicated the team lacked financial support and “solid ownership” in order for the franchise to continue.[11][12]

On 3 April 2009, Voyageurs players were made available to the six remaining teams in the league in a dispersal draft.

Logos and uniforms

File:Ottawa Rapids.PNG|FORMER RAPIDS LOGO, ''ENGLISH_, prior to 2008 season File:Rapides d'Ottawa.PNG|_'Rapides logo, _French'', PRIOR TO 2008 SEASON FILE:OTTAWA RAPIDZ.PNG|Rapidz former primary logo_', 2008

Standings and statistics

2008 season (Rapidz)

The Ottawa Rapidz finished last in the Can-Am League, with a 13-34 (.277) performance in the first half of the 2008 season, followed by an 18-29 (.383) record in the second half. The Rapidz tied the New Jersey Jackals for last place in the second half-season.

Total attendance of the 46 Rapidz home games was 101,073 for a per-game average of 2,197.[13]

2009 roster

Game broadcasts

In 2008, local radio broadcasts of 80 Rapidz season games were provided in French by CJRC-FM.[14]

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title: Ottawa Voyageurs

question: Describe some interesting facts about the Ottawa Voyageurs.

answer: Some interesting facts about the Ottawa Voyageurs are that they were originally named the Ottawa Rapids. The Rapids were established after the Lynx, an International League Team. The team had a $1.4 million debt and were to be dissolved.

question: How many sports teams are under the Canadian-American Association of Professional Baseball?


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CHAPTER ONE:
TWO FEET OF SNOW

	Things have changed. I guess you know that. But not just in the obvious way.
Some people  accept the way things are now and I guess that's the easiest way to survive. I wish I was like them, but I'm not. Things are different in us, the survivors.
A shitty day used to mean a lot of things, none of which mattered in the least. And awful day- that's what you said if someone died before their time, or even after. Grandma died, that was 'an awful day' that was the what used to be normal. But today death is commonplace, and if your best friend is bit by a walker and you have to put a bullet in him, that's just another shitty day.
Before it happened, before awful became shitty and shitty was standard, I was on my way to being a writer. I guess that's why I'm doing this now. So if you're reading this it's because I'm dead and I thought someone should know what happened to us. Maybe it will make a difference. Maybe you'll appreciate your companions more than I did mine.
I've been snowed in for the past month, supplies are low. Everything's low. There's no use trying to trek outside, not unless you want to freeze to death. Though that may be a good way to go. The truth is I won't survive the week. Every ounce of energy I have is going into writing this. Some of us will do what we have to to survive. That's not me. It was once, but now I want us all to survive. And the only way to do that is to tell a story and hope people learn from it. This place won't be secret for long- a big house in the middle of nowhere, in the spring this will probably be a territory worth killing for, my words will be found eventually, but for now it's a tomb. And this is my last will and testament.

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I guess I can skip the first few months, the only people who don't know what happened that day are those who are still too young to remember it, and this is not a story for children. By the third month I had lost everyone I had known before it started. That's not to say they all died exactly, some I really did just lose. My sister, for example, she was a financial adviser for a fortune five hundred company in London, but she traveled almost daily. I think she was in the  Netherlands when it started here. I don't know where it began really, it seemed to be everywhere all at once. But phones went down pretty soon and I'm ashamed to say I called an ex before I called my sister, and one call is all you got.
I used to call her Bambi so I'll use that name here, Bambi and I were what was left of our family after the divorce, our mom left us when she left our dad. We never forgave her, but then again she never gave us reason to. We were left with a drunk who among other things liked to take his failures out on his children. My sister learned quick that to live outside his rule she'd have to be successful in something. We never had money, so she chose that. Community college and a few math scholarships later she was on her way to a well paying job as an assistant a year after graduation. She moved up the ladder pretty quick, all she had to do was show her bosses that what they were doing was wrong how they could make more money if they followed her advice and it was off to the races for Bambi.
She felt bad about leaving me, like she had inherited some abandoning gene from our mom but I told her to go and live her life, I would graduate soon and by the time I did she would have a place big enough for both of us to share. She'd be traveling most of the time but that just meant I'd pay half the rent on a place I basically had for myself. But when graduation came she was too hot to stop, she had a place in Paris she couldn't give up- living in France was her dream since she was young, and even then she was never there long enough to enjoy it. I told her it was okay, that we would meet up when she came stateside but that turned out to be once or twice a year at the most. She sent me money whenever I was too broke to decline, and she called at least once a month. I can't blame her for succeeding, and I wouldn't want to even if I could. The honest to goodness truth is I was so proud of her for doing what she did, for keeping her head down and just doing the work- for enduring our father until she didn't have to anymore, that I was just happy that she was living the life she'd set for herself. And in a way I was too. I had a studio apartment in downtown Manhattan. I felt like Holden Caufield on his mini vacation after being thrown out of school, or one of Bukowski's barflies. I was living on my own above a bar that never closed, I was smoking cigarettes in my room and staying up all night writing pages and tossing them as soon as I wrote 'The End.'
These are the things that make a writer happy. Not that I was a real writer. More like a professional imitator of styles. If I was in the mood for poetry I'd look at some E.E Cummings and do my best to steal everything he’d written, someone thought I had some potential and paid me an advance to write some generic pieces about being young in the city. I gave him three thousand words on the importance of writing a grocery list before going shopping. I was five hundred dollars in the hole but I didn't care. Debt was just a part of what being a young writer in the city's all about. And that's how it was for a while, just me and my thoughts.
Then, one day, I got a call from a friend I'd known in school. She lived upstate and had asked me to come to her wedding. I didn't even know she was engaged but I told her I'd love to come. I wrote three ten pages essays in an many days for some friends who were going to N.Y.U for the tuxedo money and a graduation speech for the car rental. It had been a long time since I had driven a car- I relished it.
I couldn't get a convertible but I'd been making do with what I had my whole life. What's a convertible compared to a thoughtfully over compensated sound system? I swear just one hour on the road and my throat was fire-red and scratchy from singing full volume by myself.  I spent a quiet night at a roadside motel, I guess that could have been when it all started. I was so tired from the road that I didn't even turn the TV on. The next day I knew I'd probably just barely make the ceremony if I left as soon as soon as I got up so I got fully dressed before leaving. I was dreading the conversation with the hotel manager- “Why're you in a tuxedo? Are you queer 'er some'in?”
But when I went to check out there was no one there. I looked around but I couldn't wait much longer so I wrote down my name and credit card number on a notepad and left. I accidentally took the pen with me- when I got to the car I stopped and almost went back to return it. I decided they probably had plenty of pens, plus I was pretty pissed about not getting any service and feeling justified for having paid at all when I could have just left, the idiot never asked me for an ID or card or anything when I came in, he was almost too drunk to hand me my key. As it turned out, the decision about not returning the pen was what saved my life. And if you think too much on things like that- well if I just did that, or, if I didn't remember to do this- you'll drive yourself mad. Alive is alive is alive. And that's all there is to it. I said I wouldn't go into those first few months but, I guess if I'm to tell you the whole story I should start at the beginning. It was still summer, the hottest I remember. In certain situations, the same questions comes up time and time again, in prison it's what are you in for? Now, when you meet someone new and it looks like you're going to be in the same group for a while you ask “Who was your first kill?” but I always lied. I told anyone who asked that my first kill was the motel manager- the one I never saw after I checked in. I only told the truth once, to a girl named Emily. My first kill was a woman, a mother. And she had her children with her.

title: The Walking Dead: Winter Chronicles

question: How did the narrator start writing?

answer: That information can't be found.

question: How did the narrator wind up in debt?

answer: That information can't be found.

question: What does the narrator most want to write?

answer: That information can't be found.

question: Why is the piece titled "The Walking Dead: Winter Chronicles"?

answer: The story is set during a zombie apocalypse, and chapter one takes place in the winter.

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: The narrator muses on the new normal of their struggle to survive during a zombie apocalypse. They reflect on their upbringing with an abusive father and how they and their sister eventually went their own separate ways. They detail their struggling career as a writer and how they were on a trip for a friend's wedding when the outbreak occurred. They mention that the first person they had to kill was a woman who had her children with her.


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-   March 25, 2016
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Credit...Ben Wiseman

IT was clear to me weeks ago, even before Marco Rubio threw in the towel, that the G.O.P. was getting ready to cuddle with Ted Cruz.

But I never expected a love quite like this to bloom.

It’s a singularly tortured love, one that grits its teeth, girds its loins and pines for a contested convention.

It’s hate worn down into resignation, disgust repurposed as calculation. Stopping a ludicrous billionaire means submitting to a loathsome senator. And so they submit, one chastened and aghast Republican leader after another, murmuring sweet nothings about Cruz that are really sour somethings about Donald Trump.

Will they still respect themselves in the morning?

I’m not sure we’ve ever witnessed a capitulation this grudging, a cynicism this grotesque, a reversal of regard this fraudulent and flat-out hilarious. While politics is an impure arena in which yesterday’s enemies routinely become tomorrow’s allies, the transmogrification of Cruz goes beyond that, proving that in the right circumstances, with the right motivation, you can see just about anyone in a newly flattering light.

Attila the Hun? True, he was truculent, but what a can-do spirit! Torquemada? A tad rigid, yes, but that’s what righteousness sometimes looks like.

Cruz has gone from the insufferable nemesis of Republican traditionalists to their last, best hope, and the likes of Mitt Romney, Lindsey Graham and Jeb Bush have now given him endorsements — or approximations thereof — that will go down in political history as some of the most constipated hosannas ever rendered.

They hardly mention Cruz’s name. They barely manage to assign him a single virtue.

“Consistent,” Jeb Bush called him — in a Facebook post. He apparently couldn’t rouse or debase himself to a proper news conference.

He was following the lead of his younger brother Neil, who had signed up with Cruz a few weeks earlier and explained, “I commit this from my head, not my heart.” There’s a sentence you won’t find on a Valentine’s Day card.

Graham professed his devotion during an interview on “The Daily Show.”

“I’m on the Ted train, absolutely,” he told Trevor Noah, but when Noah pressed him about the charms of that particular mode of transportation, he confessed that he would have preferred another — possibly an Edsel, maybe even a tricycle with a wobbly front wheel. “He was my 15th choice. What can I say?”

Not much that’s laudatory, apparently. Cruz is the love that chokes on its own words.

It’s a surprise-every-second love. On Friday, Cruz made public reference to — and furiously denied — a National Enquirer story that accused him of affairs.

It’s also a love that makes no promises of its endurance. In fact, many of the Republicans in a faux swoon for the far-right loon don’t really want to see him fly all the way to the White House — or, for that matter, to the nomination.

There’s a tangle of mind-sets at work and strategies in play. They all involve thwarting Trump, but with different outcomes in the end. Bear with me. This requires a bit of explanation.

Few of the Cruz converts actually think he can amass a majority of delegates and win the nomination before the convention. For that to happen, their endorsements of Cruz would have to scare off John Kasich and turn the contest into a two-man race, and Kasich doesn’t seem to be scaring.

The real goal is to buck up Cruz to a point where he prevents Trump from getting that majority and either passes him in the delegate count or draws close. Abracadabra: a contested convention.

Some of the new Cruz devotees indeed hope that he would be the beneficiary of that and the ultimate victor. They expect Cruz to lose the presidency. But then they also expect Trump to lose it — and to lose it in an uglier, more divisive fashion that drags down Republicans running for the House and Senate too. This lose-with-Cruz faction figures that a reset of the party after a Cruz defeat would be possible, whereas Trump might not leave them with much of party to reset.

Others who have crawled into bed with Cruz are also after a contested convention, but would use it to crawl _out_ of that bed and into the arms of some Republican Romeo waiting in the wings. Maybe Paul Ryan, though he’s playing Hamlet: to be drafted or not to be drafted? Maybe Mitt Romney, who seems readier to commit.

Both Ryan and Romney have stepped forward with high-minded soliloquies about the G.O.P.’s values and future, and while that may well be a reflection of conscience, mightn’t it also be a fig leaf over ambition?

And at least a few of those canoodling with Cruz see him as a bridge to Kasich. In this convoluted scenario, endorsing Kasich now serves no purpose: He has too few delegates to compete with, and foil, Trump. But if the convention turns into a free-for-all, then Republicans will be free to realize what polling has repeatedly told them, and what is almost indisputably true: Kasich would be their best bet against Hillary Clinton, if only they could see his sex appeal.

Poor Kasich. He governs the crucial battleground of Ohio, has high approval ratings there, has made a stand for decency in an indecent age, and is out there on the campaign trail wrapping his arms around every last American who will stand still long enough to let him. Even so he’s spurned.

“Does Kasich have a following?” wrote the conservative columnist John Podhoretz just days ago. “Yes, he does, of people who still cry when they listen to ‘Eleanor Rigby’ and its invocation of ‘all the lonely people’ and who want a hug because their Aunt Minnie has the shingles.”

So the answer, at least for now, is Cruz? In this bitter season, yes. Sixty percent of Republicans are embarrassed by their party’s presidential race, according to a recent survey by The Times and CBS News, and a Gallup poll released on Friday revealed that only 30 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents think that the election process is working properly. Cruz is the pinup for pessimistic times.

Even John McCain, who once dismissed him and Rand Paul as “wacko birds,” said last week that Cruz has what it takes to manage the mess of the Middle East. He hastened to add that he would feel obliged to work with, and support, any Republican who is elected president, and “to put aside my anger.”

That’s the way Republican leaders fall for Cruz — with apologies, asterisks, angst. The terms of endearment are teary ones, because this isn’t the relationship they wanted. It’s the only relationship that’s left. He gets their love because someone must. Isn’t it romantic?

question: When was this article published?

answer: March 25, 2016

question: Who is Ted Cruz?

answer: a United States Senator from Texas's 21st district

question: Who is John McCain?

answer: John McCain was a United States Senator from Arizona and presidential candidate in 2008.

question: How does Jeb Bush feel about Ted Cruz?

answer: Jeb Bush has called Ted Cruz consistent.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: This article notes endorsements received by Ted Cruz in the 2016 election for President of the United States and highlights the reluctance of many of his proponents.


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The Broadway debut of Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland is long, long overdue — at least according to Gil and George, the 70-something Upper West Siders played by Nick Kroll and John Mulaney. After winning a following for the old guys in recurring skits on Comedy Central’s “The Kroll Show” and in a buzzy Off Broadway run last year, Gil and George’s Broadway bow, “Oh, Hello on Broadway,” opens tonight. They sat down with _Variety_ to talk Woody Allen, age makeup, and tuna.

THE PROGRAM SAYS GIL AND GEORGE’S UNDERSTUDIES ARE JON HAMM AND JOHN SLATTERY. WILL THEY BE THERE OPENING NIGHT?
JOHN MULANEY: Well, understudies don’t normally get invited to openings.
NICK KROLL: But Hamm, sure, if he can buy a ticket.
MULANEY: Also, George and Gil may bail on opening night because it’s too Hollywood.
KROLL: It’s a Monday, which they were told is when they’re supposed to be dark.
MULANEY: And also they play — well, they don’t play clarinet at Cafe Carlyle on Monday nights, Woody Allen does. But they wait outside and throw potatoes at him.

WHAT’S INVOLVED IN TURNING YOU BOTH INTO SENIOR CITIZENS?
KROLL: It’s about 40 minutes of makeup all-in. Each.
MULANEY: It’s facial hair, eyebrows, face, capillaries, liver spots.
KROLL: Annamarie Tendler Mulaney, our makeup guru, is outlining the veins and adding liver spots on our hands. With the amount of lights we have on Broadway, we get washed out. So there’s more makeup.
MULANEY: There’s more truth to these men. Nick and I get to stare into each other’s true old faces.
KROLL: When George gets angry, I can see the spreading of a lifetime of alcoholism bursting in the capillaries across his face.
MULANEY: A lifetime of gentile alcoholism.
KROLL: And he looks at me and see a lifetime of eczema face.
MULANEY: Eczema, too much sun and cured meats.

YOUR COSTUMES LOOK LIKE THEY CAME FROM A THRIFT SHOP.
MULANEY: They’re not new garments. And they’re not all men’s clothes.
KROLL: Gil wears a ladies’ shirt, and he’s really settled into a particular brand. He insists on that. People dress up as George and Gil, for Halloween and stuff, and there’s almost no character that’s easier to dress up as. You can just get the clothes where they shop, which is the Salvation Army.
MULANEY: Or, before the estate sale, you go to your dead grandpa’s house and grab a few George items.

GIL AND GEORGE’S RECURRING GAG, “TOO MUCH TUNA,” INVOLVES SERVING A GIANT TUNA SANDWICH TO YOUR SPECIAL GUEST STARS, WHO’VE INCLUDED SETH MEYER, WILL FORTE, NATASHA LYONNE AND BOBBY CANNAVALE. HOW MUCH TUNA IS IN THOSE THINGS?
KROLL: The actual sandwich right now is three pounds of tuna. We’ve had a few people wanting to eat it, but we’re concerned about lawsuits. Bill Hader [one the show’s previous special guests] ate a bunch of it in L.A., and then he kind of spit it into my mouth.
MULANEY: He bit into it, and you saw the look in his eye of, “Wait, how long has this tuna been here?” And he chased it with water.
KROLL: And then he kind of emptied it from his mouth into my mouth.

EW.
MULANEY: We used to drink tuna-tinis onstage, sir.
KROLL: Every week.
MULANEY: It was water and loose tuna fish, in martinis glasses that we would bring to Rififi [the East Village comedy club where the characters originated] from Nick’s apartment on 13th St. Barely wash them, then fill them with water and tuna meat. And we would go, “To your health, to my health” — tink — and then we would drink it and eat some of the tuna and go, “Mm, you can really taste the tuna.” That was the big climax of the show.
KROLL: Then we started doing Clamhattans and drinking clams. We did a Snausages cocktail one time.
MULANEY: That one was actually really gross.
KROLL: But I am now legitimately allergic to tuna.

SO NO MORE DRINKING TUNA-TINIS FOR YOU.
KROLL: Well, we don’t have to anymore. We’ve actually written jokes this time.

DID YOU ALWAYS IMAGINE “OH, HELLO” ON BROADWAY?
KROLL: Neither of us ever thought we’d ever be on Broadway. But now that we’re here, we’re like, “Oh, now we’re in showbusiness.” This feels like _showbusiness_.
MULANEY: We were walking down Eighth Avenue the other night, and we looked at that strip of theaters on 45th Street, the Golden, the Schoenfeld, the Jacobs, and we were like, that’s the most glamorous thing. Way more glamorous than a trailer in Burbank at six in the morning.

AFTER A PERFORMANCE, HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE YOU TO GET OUT OF YOUR COSTUMES AND WASH OFF ALL THE MAKEUP?
MULANEY: That’s fast. But it’ll take years to get out of character.

WHERE DO GIL AND GEORGE GO NEXT?
MULANEY: We’re pretty sure we’re going to get asked to do the Macy’s Day parade. I think, right?
KROLL: They’re getting rid of the Dilbert floats and adding us in.
MULANEY: And our dialogue will be a track that we sing to.
KROLL: That’s the goal.
MULANEY: And the moon. A terrible movie where they go to the moon.
KROLL: They’re trying to convince Elon Musk to let them open up Space X. Of course they don’t even know who he is. They think Elon Musk is a new cologne.

question: What does the text say about the makeup process?

answer: The process takes about 40 minutes for each of the main actors. Annamarie Tendler Mulaney handles most of the makeup for them. The process involves altering their facial hair, eyebrows, and faces, outlining their veins and capillaries, and adding liver spots. Because of all the lights on Broadway, they need even more makeup than when they were performing Off Broadway.

question: What does the text say about characters in the show other than Gil and George?


text:
T(A)GG(E)RS; A LOVE STORY

Here we find Blossom, or at least that’s the name that takes credit for all those ideas you see spray painted on roofs and on overpasses. I always thought Blossom was cool, like the person chose that name cause the ideas they painted illegally on the wall were new and beautiful like when a flower blossoms.This spot must have been scouted for weeks. It was the top of an old warehouse. I think a company stores uniforms there, but who knows how old that sign is. Anyway this was the tallest building in that part of town, And that sign I mentioned was like an old billboard that was at the top, so the back of it faced the raised train tracks, Blank, nothing but plywood painted black, well people like Blossom see shit like that, and they just hafta’ make it less boring. So to get here one must run down the elevated tracks till they’re parallel with the roof, jump over the third rail, jump the gap between the tracks and the roof, and oh, yeah not get hit by a train in the processes. And so well that’s what gets us here. I can only imagine it went something like this, cause I think we all appreciate the adj. allegedly. Blossom crouches behind the sign, the next train rolling by here won’t be until 420am its 337am right now, and the last train just left the station at 335am, more than an ample amount of time to ‘get it up’ as it’s sometimes called. Blossom opens an old black jansport backpack, and you hear that unique sound of the spray paint cans clack together. Blossom throws up the trademarked flower, that adorns all the spray painted epigraphs that adorn the walls of public property on your morning commute. As the last line of the outline that shapes the flower is painted at four am, perfect timing,  a thud on the roof comes from behind. Blossom spins around,having and fearing, visions of handcuffs and batman unmasked, see’s the interloper.

The Interoper, is kinda short, maybe at most 5’8-5’9. They have a bowling bag in their right hand. Not much more can be made out in the darkness of the rooftop, cept that the bandanna round the interlopers face is red, and they are dressed in all black. It’s just then, that they both find themselves in a place ,that both thought they’d never see another person. And just then, from the left side of the sign a small spot light shined at an angle  slightly over their heads. And within seconds they hear a baby blue soldier say over some kinda’ P.A. “ATTENTION,WHOEVER IS UP THERE, COME DOWN WITH YOUR HANDS PLACED ON YOUR HEAD”. At that moment the interloper in a boy’s voice says ‘Cem’ on! follow me’. See when you live this life that this kinda thing is part of, you realize sometimes you just gotta act before you can ask questions. The interloper runs to the right back corner of the roof, Blossom goes to follow. It’s just then he, the interloper, jumps up on the edge of the roof, and for fucking real, just... just.. jumps off. Blossom hits the edge of the roof and looks over. He’s  standing there about four feet down, on the roof of an enclosed fire escape. He looks up “Fucking! COME THE FUCK ON”. Blossom jumps down, and before she hits the roof of the fire escape, He is already running down the roof over the stairs, The acute angle of the roof makes him look like an anime character making his escape. Blossom copies, As he sets the example and jumps off the end of the fire escape, 7ft drop, tucks and rolls, Blossom does the same, ‘Damn does the concrete sting as it hits your shoulder hits it’  Blossom midway through standing up after that hit, Sees him standing fully erect (LoL)
‘This way’ he says in almost a whisper.
Blossom follows, its down a dark alleyway
He stops next to a dumpster, He removes his mask, his bowling bag, and hoody.  Blossom reaches the dumpster, he has kept walking down the alley.
His hair is blonde, and short, he’s white, and the back of his white T shirt say’s misfits.
Blossom does the same, As he reaches the end of the alley he turns, he’s too far away to really make out his face, But in a kinda voice that carries, but still sounds soft like a whisper, says “yo, follow me”. Simple math will tell you your odds are better following him then going back. They ,with Blossom always about 5 steps behind, come to a door. Its the shady back door of a local bar.  The guy opens the door and he walks in, Blossom stops, and the guy looks at her and waves her in. Blossom walks up to the man at the door and he says ‘ There’s a beer at the bar for you, go drink it, and see if you can find him.”  Blossom walks up, grabs a miller light, and walks by all the tables. There at the end sits him, in a misfits shirt, that the background is white. Blossom sits, he looks at a secret identity, This is their first conversation, and all he can stupidly say is “ wow, your a girl”

title: [RF] T(A)GG(E)RS; A LOVE STORY pt 1

question: Summarize Blossom's hobby.

answer: Blossom enjoys doing graffiti on roofs and overpasses. On this occasion, she's graffitiing a billboard. She had been scouting this spot for weeks. However, her hobby has consequences that could lead to her getting hurt or arrested. She graffities with her flower signature.

question: Summarize the interaction between the interloper and Blossom.

answer: When Blossom is graffitiing the billboard, the interloper arrives seemingly to also do graffiti. However, a cop comes and the interloper urges Blossom to follow him to escape the officer. She realizes she can't afford to ask questions, so she follows. They end up at a bar, and he once again tells her to follow him. At the bar, she finds him and he expresses shock to her that she's a girl.

question: What does the story say about consequences?

answer: Blossom heads towards a billboard so that she can graffiti it, however there are possible consequences she'd have to face to do that. To get there she has to run down elevated train tracks that run her the risk of getting injured from jumping or dying from getting hit by a train. Once she's up on the billboard and spray painting, there is the consequence of getting arrested. This consequence is realized when an officer asks her to come down with her hands placed on her head. As a consequence of this, she has to run away with a man she's just met to avoid the repercussions.

question: Summarize the romance between Blossom and the interloper.


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All of their past, everything he once knew or thought he knew about the two of them begins to swirl into a fierce hurricane of red in his mind until suddenly, strangely, he reaches the calm of the storm’s eye. He interrupts her raised voice, pulling her close to bring her lips to his for the first time. In his head, he had pictured the cinematic scene of volatile tension turned passion, but instead it catches her by surprise and she instinctively shoves him away. He immediately turns toward the hall and before she can fully come to terms with the past few moments, she finds herself staring at the back of a slammed door and an empty room. Another slam down the hall interrupts the sickening mental loop of all the things that had just been said, the harshest of which reverberating the loudest in her head.

She wipes her eyes, walks out into the hall, and follows the sound of the door that knocked her back into the present; the realization of what had just happened finally settling in completely. She reaches the stairwell as another hotel guest comes out of their room and looks at her with sleepy eyes and a disgruntled expression. She mouths a quick "sorry" and enters the stairwell as the sound of a third door closing drifts down from the top floor.

Panic starts to well up inside her as she climbs each flight, her feet and heart picking up speed as she nears the rooftop level. She bursts through the door with adrenal abandon and scans the ledges for his figure, screaming his name into the night sky, but he's nowhere to be seen. What have I done, she thinks to herself. What have *you* done?

"I think we need to talk" says a relievingly familiar voice from above the stairwell door. "There’s enough room up here for both of us, come lie next to me. The stars are beautiful tonight." She climbs up with the help of his outstretched hand and lays her head on his chest. Her breathing slows and she can finally begin to relax. Her eyes look up toward the millions of shimmering specks in the night sky as they slowly turn to a teary blur; and indeed they were beautiful.

title: A pretty short story I simply call: Rooftop

question: Who is the main character?

answer: It's not specific. She's a girlfriend.

question: What is the main plot?

answer: A couple is arguing. The male interrupts her and pulls her close for a kiss. It surprises her and she shoves him away, upsetting him. He leaves the room. She follows him.

question: Why does the main character apologize to the hotel guest?

answer: Because the boyfriend is slamming doors.

question: Are there any other significant characters in the story?

answer: Just the main character and the boyfriend.

question: Write a ~6 sentence summary.

answer: A couple is arguing. The male interrupts her and pulls her close for a kiss. It surprises her and she shoves him away, upsetting him. He says some unkind things and then leaves the room, slamming the door behind him. She follows him up to the rooftop. He kindly says that they need to talk reaching for her.


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Washington says it is Syrian President Assad’s regime that has undermined US efforts to cut off Islamic State’s funding. The terrorists remain well-heeled due to crude oil trade the sources of which the West studied in detail over a year ago.

_“We got all coalition members all taking efforts to strangle ISIS access to foreign markets, banking system, looking into what they need to produce and sell oil and cut all that off; it’s essential,”_ US State Department spokesman Mark Toner has said when asked by RT reporter Gayane Chichakyan for _“updates”_ on what the US is doing to curb ISIS financing.

However, Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) remains well-funded despite all these steps. The US blames its lack of progress in stemming IS funding on President Assad, claiming he “is a factor here.”

“The black market, and Assad relies on ISIL oil and is a factor here. It’s hard to eliminate that completely, but we’re working on it,” Toner has said.

Last year, the US Treasury estimated that IS earns as much as $1 million a day by selling oil to some of its biggest enemies, allegedly including Turkey, Iraq’s Kurdish community, and the regime of Bashar Assad. All three sides have denied the allegations, which were voiced in October 2014 by David Cohen, a US terrorism and financial intelligence chief.

The US considers taking out Islamic State’s sources of funding – primarily oil and gas – as well as its infrastructure as key _“in waging a successful campaign against ISIL,”_ Toner told journalists last week.

_“It’s a particular line of effort – one of those is about bombing its infrastructure. I don’t have airstrike stats on that, but it’s been a line of effort since day one – how do we cut off ISIL financing?”_ the State Department spokesman stressed again on Monday.

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[Energy makes strange bedfellows in Syria]

However, though over a year has passed since the Treasury evaluated IS assets, the US is still working on curbing Syria’s oil transit routes to Turkey.

_“There’s an area in the border that we want to seal up – and trying to cut off major supply routes to Turkey. It’s a bit of an ongoing challenge,”_ Toner said on Monday.

The New York Times on Monday said a US airstrike had destroyed at least 116 trucks used by Islamic State to smuggle crude oil.

When asked to confirm that by RT’s Chichakyan, the State Department refused to comment, saying such a question was at _“a level of details to ask the DOD [Department of Defense].”_

_“Talked about it on Friday – how do we cut off ISIS financing is a big question, and we know they gain a chunk of financing that way. That’s always been a matter of targeting of these strikes, but I don’t know about the specific one you’re mentioning,”_ Toner said.

According to Chichakyan, the spokesman could not offer any explanation as to why strikes targeting IS’ oil convoys have only just begun. Incidentally, news of the first such strike broke the same day as Russian President Vladimir Putin showed his G20 counterparts satellite images that he said _“clearly demonstrate the scale of the illegal trade in oil and petroleum products”_ between ISIS and some 40 unspecified countries.

According to Putin, “the motorcade of refueling vehicles stretched for dozens of kilometers, so that from a height of 4,000 to 5,000 meters they stretch beyond the horizon.”

Back in October, the Financial Times speculated that _“the importance of Isis oil to those living in rebel-held areas of Syria is one reason why the US-led coalition has been reluctant to target the group’s trade routes.”_

The US-led coalition has reportedly said that it is _“wary of alienating local populations by bombing fuel now critical for their daily lives.”_ It is not clear what developments prompted Washington to launch the long-overdue strike on Islamic State’s oil route, but The New York Times reported that the decision had been made _“well before the terrorist attacks in and around Paris on Friday.”_

question: On what does the article report?

answer: Syrian President Assad's regime has undermined the efforts of the US to cut off the Islamic State's funding. ISIS  (Islamic State) remains well-funded despite the coalition's efforts to strangle their access to foreign markets.

question: Who is quoted in the article?

answer: US State Department spokesperson Mark Toner is the main source of information.

question: When was the article written/published?

answer: Possibly in or after 2014.

question: Is the article fact or opinion?

answer: Fact

question: Write a ~5 sentence summary.

answer: The article covers efforts to strangle ISIS funding. Syrian President Assad's regime has undermined the efforts of the US to cut off the Islamic State's funding. ISIS  (Islamic State) remains well-funded despite the coalition's efforts to strangle their access to foreign markets. The US State Department spokesperson, Mark Toner suggests that the US has considered taking out the Islamic State's source of funding, which is primarily oil and gas. Further investigation reveals speculation that the US-led coalition has been reluctant to target the oil and gas trade routes because doing so would alienate the local populations reliant on the gas.


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_ORTOCHILE_ is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.[1] It is distributed in the Western Palaearctic realm, including Europe, Turkey, Israel and North Africa. Adults of _Ortochile_ are associated with flowers, and have been reported to feed on nectar and pollen. Flower-feeding is also known in some species of _Hercostomus_.[2]

Species

-   _Ortochile barbicoxa_ Strobl, 1909
-   _Ortochile nigrocoerulea_ Latreille, 1809
-   _Ortochile soccata_ Loew, 1850

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title: Ortochile

question: Where is Ortochile distributed?

answer: It is distributed in the Western Paleaeartctic realm, which includes Europe, Turkey, Israel and North Africa.

question: What do members of Ortochile feed on?

answer: They are associated with flowers and have been reported to feed on nectar and pollen.

question: How many species of Ortochile are there?

answer: There are 3 named species of Ortochile.

question: What do Ortochile look like?

answer: Not answered.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: Ortochile is a genus of flies that can be found in the Western Palearctic realm, which includes Europe, Turkey, Israel, and North Africa.


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M31-RV is a possible red cataclysmic variable star located in the Andromeda Galaxy that experienced an outburst in 1988, which is similar to the outburst V838 Monocerotis experienced in 2002. Such objects have been called Luminous Red Novae or intermediate-luminosity red transients. During the outburst, both V838 Mon and M31-RV reached a maximum absolute visual magnitude of -9.8.[1]

In 2006, the area around M31-RV was observed using the Hubble Space Telescope, but only red giants were seen. It is thought that the star either became too dim for Hubble to see, or the star is a companion of one of the red giants, or the star is one of the red giants themselves.[2]

M31-RV reached a peak visual magnitude of 17 before fading rapidly and showing dust formation. The most likely explanation states that these outbursts occur during stellar merger events.[3]

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title: M31-RV

question: What, to put it succinctly, is M31-RV?

answer: A star.

question: What kind of star is it?

answer: A cataclysmic variable star.

question: In which galaxy is it located?

answer: The Andromeda Galaxy.

question: When did it experience its first outburst?

answer: 1988.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: M31-RV is a possible red cataclysmic variable star located in the Andromeda Galaxy that experienced an outburst in 1988. Since 2006, it has no longer been visible. Scientists speculate that either became too dim for Hubble to see, or the star is a companion of one of the red giants, or the star is one of the red giants themselves.