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The AMERICAN PACING CLASSIC is a defunct three-race series in harness racing for Standardbred pacers aged three and older. It was run annually between 1955 and 1981 at three different racetracks with the final hosted by Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California.[1] During the same period, these tracks also offered the corresponding American Trotting Classic.[2]

The American Pacing Classic replaced the Golden West Pace which had been run from 1946 through 1954 under the auspices of the Western Harness Racing Association with races at both Santa Anita Park and Hollywood Park.

Historical race events

In the inaugural American Pacing Classic series, Hillsota, Diamond Hal and Times Square each won a heat of the Pacing Classic in the identical time of 1:59 flat. As a result, Hillsota and Times Square were awarded a tie for the series based on their final standing in a summary of the three heats.[3]

Los Alamitos Race Course created a short-lived one mile race they called the American Pacing Classic which was run from 1990 to 1992.[4]

Records

Most wins by a driver:

-   4 – Joe O'Brien (1959, 1963, 1975, 1979)

Most wins by a trainer:

-   3 – Stanley Dancer (1965, 1971, 1972)

Stakes record:

-   2:07 3/5 – Niatross (1981) at 1 1/8 miles
-   1:55 3/5 – Adios Butler (1960) at 1 mile

Winners of the American Pacing Classic

+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| Year  | Winne | Age   | Drive | Train | Owner | Dista | Time  | Purse |
|       | r     |       | r     | er    |       | nce   |       |       |
+=======+=======+=======+=======+=======+=======+=======+=======+=======+
| 1981  | Gengh | 4     | Sheld | Eddie | Eddie | 1 1/8 | 2:09  | $288, |
|       | is    |       | on    | Cobb  | Cobb, | m     | 0/0   | 000   |
|       | Khan  |       | Goudr |       | Nevac |       |       |       |
|       |       |       | eau   |       | al    |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | Stabl |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | e,    |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | Jet   |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | Star  |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | Farms |       |       |       |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 1980  | Niatr | 3     | Clint | Clint | Niatr | 1 1/8 | 2:07  | $98,5 |
|       | oss   |       | Galbr | Galbr | oss   | m     | 3/5   | 00    |
|       |       |       | aith  | aith  | Syndi |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | cate  |       |       |       |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 1979  | Fligh | 4     | Joe   | Joe   | Thurm | 1 1/8 |       | $150, |
|       | t     |       | O'Bri | O'Bri | an    | m     |       | 000   |
|       | Direc |       | en    | en    | S.    |       |       |       |
|       | tor   |       |       |       | Downi |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | ng    |       |       |       |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 1978  | Rambl | 8     | Rober | Rober | Farri | 1 1/8 |       | $110, |
|       | ing   |       | t     | t     | ngton | m     |       | 750   |
|       | Willi |       | G.    | G.    | Stabl |       |       |       |
|       | e     |       | Farri | Farri | e     |       |       |       |
|       |       |       | ngton | ngton | Inc.  |       |       |       |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 1977  | Le    | 5     | Berna | Berna | Paul- | 1 1/8 | 2:10  | $110, |
|       | Baron |       | rd    | rd    | Henri | m     | 3/5   | 250   |
|       | Rouge |       | Gerva | Gerva | Lavoi |       |       |       |
|       |       |       | is    | is    | e     |       |       |       |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 1976  | Oil   | 3     | Ben   | Charl | Willi | 1 1/8 | 2:10  | $113, |
|       | Burne |       | Webst | ie    | am    | m     | 0/0   | 750   |
|       | r     |       | er    | Winga | Brook |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       | te    | s     |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | & Ben |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | Webst |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | er    |       |       |       |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 1975  | Young | 6     | Joe   |       | Bud & | 1 1/8 | 2:12  | $100, |
|       | Quinn |       | O'Bri | Charl | Des   | m     | 4/5   | 000   |
|       |       |       | en    | ie    | Bayne |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       | Hunte | s     |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       | r     |       |       |       |       |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 1974  | Keyst | 4     | Peter | Billy | D.D.M | 1 1/8 | 2:11  | $113, |
|       | one   |       | Haugh | Haugh | Stabl | m     | 1/5   | 350   |
|       | Smart |       | ton   | ton   | e     |       |       |       |
|       | ie    |       |       |       |       |       |       |       |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 1973  | Invin | 4     | Jim   | Jim   | John  | 1 1/8 | 2:11  | $114, |
|       | cible |       | Mille | Mille | F.    | m     | 3/5   | 100   |
|       | Shado |       | r     | r     | Graha |       |       |       |
|       | w     |       |       |       | m     |       |       |       |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 1972  | Albat | 4     | Stanl | Stanl | Amica | 1 1/8 | 2:11  | $100, |
|       | ross  |       | ey    | ey    | ble   | m     | 3/5   | 000   |
|       |       |       | Dance | Dance | Stabl |       |       |       |
|       |       |       | r     | r     | e     |       |       |       |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 1971  | Albat | 3     | Stanl | Stanl | Amica | 1 1/8 | 2:13  | $100, |
|       | ross  |       | ey    | ey    | ble   | m     | 4/5   | 000   |
|       |       |       | Dance | Dance | Stabl |       |       |       |
|       |       |       | r     | r     | e     |       |       |       |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 1970  | Laver | 4     | Georg | Billy | Thoma | 1 1/8 | 2:14  | $100, |
|       | ne    |       | e     | Haugh | s     | m     | 4/5   | 000   |
|       | Hanov |       | Sholt | ton   | W.    |       |       |       |
|       | er    |       | y     |       | Murph |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | y,    |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | Jr.   |       |       |       |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 1969  | Overc | 6     | Del   | Del   | Helen | 1 1/8 | 2:11  | $100, |
|       | all   |       | Insko | Insko | R.    | m     | 1/5   | 000   |
|       |       |       |       |       | Buck  |       |       |       |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 1968  | Overc | 5     | Del   | Del   | Helen | 1 1/8 | 2:15  | $75,0 |
|       | all   |       | Insko | Insko | R.    | m     | 3/5   | 00    |
|       |       |       |       |       | Buck  |       |       |       |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 1967  | Easy  | 5     | Rober | Rober | Farri | 1 1/8 | 2:13  | $60,0 |
|       | Prom  |       | t     | t     | ngton | m     | 3/5   | 00    |
|       |       |       | G.    | G.    | Stabl |       |       |       |
|       |       |       | Farri | Farri | es    |       |       |       |
|       |       |       | ngton | ngton | &     |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | Arnol |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | d     |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | Cattl |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | e     |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | Co.   |       |       |       |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 1966  | True  | 3     | Norma | Leon  | Richa | 1 1/8 | 2:09  | $50,0 |
|       | Duane |       | n     | Borin | rd    | m     | 1/5   | 00    |
|       |       |       | “Chri | g     | Oldfi |       |       |       |
|       |       |       | s”    |       | eld   |       |       |       |
|       |       |       | Borin |       |       |       |       |       |
|       |       |       | g     |       |       |       |       |       |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 1965  | Cardi | 9     | Edwar | Stanl | Irvin | 1 1/8 | 2:11  | $50,0 |
|       | gan   |       | d     | ey    | g     | m     | 3/5   | 00    |
|       | Bay   |       | T.    | Dance | W.    |       |       |       |
|       |       |       | Wheel | r     | Berke |       |       |       |
|       |       |       | er    |       | meyer |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | ,     |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | Lawre |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | nce   |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | Slobo |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | dy,   |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | et    |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | al.   |       |       |       |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 1964  | Meado | 4     | Earle | Earle | Norma | 1 1/8 | 2:11  | $50,0 |
|       | w     |       | Avery | Avery | n     | m     | 3/5   | 00    |
|       | Skipp |       |       |       | S.    |       |       |       |
|       | er    |       |       |       | Woolw |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | orth  |       |       |       |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 1963  | Gamec | 4     | Joe   | John  | Lawre | 1 1/8 | 2:13  | $50,0 |
|       | ock   |       | O'Bri | F.    | nce   | m     | 3/5   | 00    |
|       |       |       | en    | Simps | B.    |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       | on,   | Shepp |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       | Sr.   | ard   |       |       |       |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 1962  | Irvin | 5     | Charl | Charl | Charl | 1 1/8 | 2:11  | $50,0 |
|       | Paul  |       | es    | es    | es    | m     | 1/5   | 00    |
|       |       |       | King  | King  | King  |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | &     |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | Abrah |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | am    |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | Wilsk |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | er    |       |       |       |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 1961  | Adios | 5     | Paige | Paige | Paige | 1 1/8 | 2:11  | $80,0 |
|       | Butle |       | H.    | H.    | H.    | m     | 1/5   | 00    |
|       | r     |       | West  | West  | West  |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | &     |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | Angel |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | o     |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | Pelli |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | llo   |       |       |       |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 1960  | Adios | 4     | Clint | Paige | Paige | 1 m   | 1:55  | $75,0 |
|       | Butle |       | Hodgi | H.    | H.    |       | 3/5   | 00    |
|       | r     |       | ns    | West  | West  |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | &     |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | Angel |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | o     |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | Pelli |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | llo   |       |       |       |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 1959  | Sunbe | 4     | Joe   | Joe   | S. A. | 1 m   | 1:57  | $75,0 |
|       | lle   |       | O'Bri | O'Bri | Camp  |       | 2/5   | 00    |
|       |       |       | en    | en    | Farms |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | ,     |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | Inc.  |       |       |       |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 1958  | Gold  | 5     | Curly | Curly | Dr.   | 1 m   | 1:57  | $75,0 |
|       | Worth |       | Smart | Smart | A. B. |       | 1/5   | 00    |
|       | y     |       |       |       | Thomp |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | son   |       |       |       |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 1957  | Widow | 4     | Jimmy | Jimmy | Tom   | 1 m   | 1:58  | $75,0 |
|       | er    |       | Wingf | Wingf | Loss  |       | 3/5   | 00    |
|       | Creed |       | ield  | ield  |       |       |       |       |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 1956  | Dotti | 4     | Delvi | Delvi | J.    | 1 m   | 1:57  | $75,0 |
|       | es    |       | n     | n     | Elgin |       | 4/5   | 00    |
|       | Pick  |       | Mille | Mille | &     |       |       |       |
|       |       |       | r     | r     | Charl |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | es    |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | E.    |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | Armst |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | rong  |       |       |       |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 1955  | Times | 5     | McKin | McKin | Eddie | 1 m   | 1:59  | $75,0 |
|       | Squar |       | ley   | ley   | Kirk  |       | 0/0   | 00    |
|       | e     |       | Kirk  | Kirk  |       |       |       |       |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 1955  | Hills | 5     | Earle | Earle | Clear | 1 m   | 1:59  | $75,0 |
|       | ota   |       | Avery | Avery | view  |       | 0/0   | 00    |
|       |       |       |       |       | Stabl |       |       |       |
|       |       |       |       |       | es    |       |       |       |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
|  |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+

[1] _Los Angeles Times_ - June 14, 1990 Retrieved September 19, 2016

[2] _Sports Illustrated_ December 5, 1955 article titled “A Roundup of the Week's News”, subtitle “Harness Racing” Retrieved September 19, 2016

[3] _New York Times_ November 26, 1955 article titled “Times Square First In Final Leg Of Pace” Retrieved September 17, 2016

[4] _Los Angeles Times_ June 14, 1990 article titled “Los Alamitos Takes a Page From Past With the American Pacing Classic” Retrieved September 19, 2016

title: American Pacing Classic

question: What is the American Pacing Classic?

answer: The American Pacing Classic is a defunct three-race series in harness racing for Standardbred pacers aged three and older.

question: What did the American Pacing Classic replace?

answer: It replaced the Golden West Pace.

question: Where was the final raced hosted in the American Pacing Classic?

answer: It was hosted at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California.

question: What was the time that Hillsota, Diamond Hal, and Times Square each won heat of the Pacing Classic?

answer: The time was 1:59 flat.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: This article discusses the American Pacing Classic and its historical race events.


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from the _you-now-have-two-shots-to-de-escalate-the-situation_ dept

Two months ago, five San Francisco police officers surrounded a man armed with a knife and shot him 21 times. In response, the police department has introduced reforms meant to keep this sort of "interaction" to a minimum in the future. On the positive side, the reform efforts include training that will hopefully lead to fewer tense situations being resolved by officers emptying their weapons in the direction of their target.

  _Recruits must attend two-hour classes on de-escalation tactics, which teach how to deal with people in crisis, consider proportional force options, respect the sanctity of life and slow down incidents when possible._

This is undercut, however, by a new policy so completely asinine even _I'm_ against it, despite my theoretical ownership of timcushinghatescops.com.

  _New pistol training guidelines require police recruits to hear the command "threat" before they fire at targets, to shoot only two rounds at a time, and to stop and reassess threats after every two shots._

In what is likely to be referred to as the "Barney Fife Rule," officers will only be allowed to shoot two bullets at a time, no matter what the situation is.

In some cases, this won't be enough bullets. In far too many cases, this will still be too _many_ bullets. The push towards de-escalation is undermined by a permission slip that says two (2) bullets may be fired per officer (at minimum) even if the situation would be better served by the methods discussed in the mandatory training session officers slept through/mocked/interrupted with logical questions like "the hell is this two-bullet limit?"

In the case of Mario Woods -- who was shot 21 times by five officers -- he'd have only been killed by _ten_ bullets. I suppose this is how the SFPD has chosen to interpret "less-lethal force." On the plus side, surrounding homes/citizens are far less likely to be the recipients of wayward bullets. And it will definitely make it very difficult for any officers pulling a "Brelo" to explain why they unloaded 49 bullets in 30 seconds at a suspect from point-blank range.

What the rule does, unfortunately, is make it more dangerous to be a police officer. In exchange, it does nearly nothing to lessen the danger of being a citizen. Lose-lose. The correct response would be to throw the entire weight of the PD's upper echelon behind de-escalation training.

A two-hour class officers are forced to attend won't make the message stick. What will make it stick are rules that make it explicitly clear that lethal force is a last resort -- something that should be used only very rarely. Any shooting should be accompanied by a raft of paperwork and a full investigation, overseen by an independent review team. The "shoot first and shoot often" mentality is only partly addressed by the two-bullet limit, which itself is illogical, unworkable and -- at worst -- a guaranteed way to avoid additional scrutiny for questionable shootings. After all, if only two bullets were used (and it only takes one to kill/maim someone), then it's a by-the-book shooting that warrants no further examination.

If nothing else, the fact that the policy can so readily be linked to an incompetent law enforcement officer depicted in a Golden Era TV show should have been enough to deter the SFPD from moving forward with the initiative. It should have limited itself to altering the mindset of its officers, rather than giving them a two-bullet "out" that undercuts the department's "will this do?" approach to de-escalation.

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Filed Under: de-escalation, police brutality, police violence, san francisco, sfpd, training, two bullets

question: Where does the incident take place?

answer: San Francisco

question: What happened?

answer: Five San Francisco police officers surround Mario Woods, a man armed with a knife, and shot him 21 times.

question: How did the SFPD react to the excessive use of force (shooting) incident?

answer: Recruits must attend two-hour classes on de-escalation and pistol training guidelines that require police officers to fire at targets only when they hear the word "threat" and only shoot two rounds at a time no matter the situation.

question: What effect does the rule have?

answer: The rule makes it more dangerous to be a police officer and does nothing to lessen the danger of being a citizen.

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: According to the report, five San Francisco police officers surround Mario Woods, a man armed with a knife, and shot him 21 times, which is clearly excessive use of lethal force. Public outcry led the SFPD to implement mandatory two-hour classes on de-escalation for recruits. Police officers also must follow new training guidelines where they can only fire at targets after hearing the word "threat" and they can only fire two rounds at a time, before stopping to reassess the situation, regardless of the circumstances. However, the new two-shot rule makes it more dangerous for police officers because they won't be able to respond to heavily armed threats with an equal amount of force.


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AHTYBA RUBIN ( ;[1] born July 25, 1986) is a former American football defensive tackle. He was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the sixth round of the 2008 NFL Draft. He played college football at Iowa State.

Early years

Born in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, Rubin graduated from Escambia High School in Pensacola, Florida in 2004, the same high school as former Cleveland Browns teammate Trent Richardson, and NFL Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith. He then went on to attend Trinity Valley Community College in Athens, Texas. In his freshman year, he played defensive line, but was converted into an offense lineman for his sophomore year. Rubin made the adjustment with significant success and earned all-conference and honorable mention All-America honors in 2006.

College career

Regarded as a three-star recruit out of junior college,[2] Rubin was recruited by a number of schools, and eventually picked Iowa State over TCU. He was switched back to defensive line in his junior year, and started the last nine games of the 2006 season. He finished the year with 34 tackles, four tackles for loss, and a sack.

As a senior, Rubin played in all of the Cyclones' games, registering 42 tackles (with four for loss) and recording 1.5 sacks.

Professional career

2008 NFL Draft

Following his impressive senior season at Iowa State, Rubin was regarded as a “productive NFL starter” at nose tackle, and projected a mid-third round pick by _Sports Illustrated_.[3]

Cleveland Browns

Rubin was selected in the sixth round (190th overall) by the Cleveland Browns, and was signed on July 22, 2008.[4]

He filled out a backup role for Browns nose tackle Shaun Rogers in 2008 and 2009, until Rogers went down with a lower leg injury in week 12 against the Cincinnati Bengals.[5] Rubin has since become the Browns starting nose tackle. In the 2010 offseason the Browns traded defensive end Corey Williams to the Detroit Lions, moved former starting nose Tackle Shaun Rogers to defensive end and promoted Rubin to starter due to his performance in 2009. 2010 was the best season of Rubin's young career, highlighted by his 87 tackles and an interception against Kansas City's Matt Cassel. In his five years with the Browns, Rubin has played in 72 games, starting 50 of them. His career totals are 9.0 sacks, 227 total tackles, 4 passes defended, 1 interception, 3 forced fumbles, and 1 fumble recovery.

Seattle Seahawks

On March 19, 2015 Rubin signed a one-year deal with the Seattle Seahawks.[6] The Seahawks released incumbent starting defensive tackle Tony McDaniel during training camp, giving Rubin a great opportunity at a starting job. In Week 4 against the Cincinnati Bengals, Rubin got his first sack as a Seahawk. In Week 11 vs the Pittsburgh Steelers, Rubin got an interception in a 39-30 victory.

On March 7, 2016, he signed a three-year contract.[7]

On September 2, 2017, Rubin was released by the Seahawks.[8]

Denver Broncos

On September 15, 2017, Rubin signed with the Denver Broncos.[9] He was released on October 17, 2017.[10]

Atlanta Falcons

On October 19, 2017, Rubin signed with the Atlanta Falcons.[11]

Oakland Raiders

On June 12, 2018, Rubin signed with the Oakland Raiders.[12] He was placed on injured reserve on August 15, 2018 after suffering a tear in his biceps.[13]

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title: Ahtyba Rubin

question: Summarize the most interesting thing about Rubin's life.

answer: Rubin was recruited by many colleges before he had even completed junior college. He chose Iowa State where he would return to playing on the defensive line his junior year. He played in an astounding number of games during his collegiate career.

question: Summarize Rubin's reasons for retiring.


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question: What does the text say about the qualities of a good Bi-fold door installer?

question: What does the text say about Pinnacle Glass?

answer: Pinnacle Glass has been delivering superior home improvements, outstanding value, and extremely high service standards for over 30 years. The company services Wirral, Chester, Liverpool, and the surrounding areas. They are passionate about exceeding customer expectations.

question: What does the text say about Pinnacle Glass' products and services?

answer: Pinnacle Glass offers a wide range of quality products for home improvement. These include Bi-fold doors, windows, doors, and conservatories. The company can also design custom Orangeries. A free home survey is available.

question: What does the text say about the benefits of A-rated windows?

answer: Replacing single glazed windows with energy-efficient A-rated windows can save homeowners £260 per year on their energy bills. It also has the added benefit of noise insulation, fewer draughts, reduced condensation, and a smaller carbon footprint.


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IT’S THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF CHICKAM!

Chickam is a live web broadcast, with sound, of baby chickens hatching, and then the next 8 weeks of them growing up! The camera is always on, so you can watch them 24/7!

It's 2018 and the time for Chickam is fast approaching! THIS YEAR WE SET EGGS IN THE INCUBATOR ON MARCH 10TH & 11TH, WITH PLANNED HATCH DATES OF MARCH 31-APRIL 1. The idea is to stagger the hatch a bit so that more people get to see chicks hatch! This year the breeds we hope to hatch are: Dark India Cornish Bantams, Polish and Brahma/Heavy mix (with possible Frizzles) and Bantam Cochins (with more possible Frizzles), along with some of our own eggs. I will candle the eggs after 10 days of incubation to see how many embryos we have! When there are bantam eggs in there, they typically hatch up to 2 days early--so check here beginning March 29th--if you see eggs, the hatch has begun! WE'LL UPDATE HERE, ON TWITTER, ON MY BLOG AND AT JACKSHENHOUSE.COM WITH DETAILS.

VIEWERS CAN SUGGEST NAMES FOR THE CHICKS, we’ll draw a name out of a hat for each chick as it hatches—so please dream up some wierd and fun chicken names to suggest, your name might get chosen! Since we’ve been doing this for 10 years, as you can imagine typical names such as ‘Dinner’ and other droll suggestions have been used long ago—so be silly and get creative!

During the rest of the year, we will also occasionally put the cam out in the yard with the adult chickens throughout the year (weather permitting) on Saturdays or Sundays, sometimes aimed at the nest boxes...or stuck inside of a hollowed-out pumpkin for a hilarious 'foods-eye view' of the chickens eating!

Chickam is very educational and fascinating for children, especially those studying the life cycle of animals. In the past I have given several educational live chats with question & answer segments for school children, and am happy to do so at no cost.

We live in a suburban-ranch community of Gardnerville, Nevada where we keep a small flock for pets and eggs. We've been broadcasting the hatch of baby chickens on Chickam annually, in the Spring, since 2008. A couple of years ago someone suggested that we also run the cam on the weekends weather permitting, so we do!

Our chickens are of various breeds, including Giant Cochins, Australorp, Americanas, Barred Rock, New Hampshire, Red Star, Easter Egger, Brahmas, Belgian d'Uccle, Krainkoppe, Frizzle and bantam Cochin varieties. We usually have at least one hatching each spring and raise the chicks to adolescence before taking our pick of the litter and rehoming the extra roosters and hens.

question: What is Chickam?

answer: It is a live web broadcast of baby chicks hatching, and then shows them grow for 8 weeks.

question: Why is Chickam educational for children?

answer: It shows the life cycle of animals, and the person who runs Chickam gives live educational chats with question and answer segments.

question: Where is Chickam located?

answer: It is located in a suburban-ranch community of Gardnerville, Nevada.

question: When is Chickam open?

answer: The Chickam event starts on March 29th, 2018.

question: Is Chickam's event popular?

answer: That's not clear, but the event has been going on for 10 years.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: This document announces the 2018 Chickam event, which is a live web broadcast of chicken eggs hatching and growing for 8 weeks. Chickam and its history is described.


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FIREHOLE COMPOSITES (formerly FIREHOLE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.) is a supplier of computer-aided engineering (CAE) software and consulting services specializing in analysis of composite materials. Founded in 2000, the company's mission is to provide enabling technologies to further the widespread use of composite materials. Their products include Helius:MCT (a multiscale simulation tool for composite progressive failure analysis), Helius:CompositePro (a classical laminate theory and simple structural analysis tool), Helius:MatSim (an online micromechanics lamina simulator), and Prospector:Composites (an online composite material properties database hosted by IDES Inc.).

Firehole’s principal product, Helius:MCT, is a simulation tool built to improve the accuracy of composite structure analysis and is available as an advanced capability add-on to commercial finite element analysis (FEA) packages (such as Abaqus and ANSYS). It is based on Multicontinuum Technology (MCT), an analysis methodology developed specifically for composites which, rather than treating the composite as a homogeneous material, extracts the separate stress and strain fields for the constituents (fiber and matrix) of a composite material. In doing so, distinct failure criteria and material nonlinearity can be applied separately. This permits Helius:MCT to identify failure of individual material constituents and degrade a composite material accordingly, providing a robust progressive failure simulation that captures failure initiation all the way up to and beyond ultimate structural failure.

Company background

Firehole Composites began in the academic research of composite material analysis during the mid-1990s. The core technology was part of an academic research project underway in the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Wyoming. In 2000, a number of graduate students and faculty at UW saw the commercial potential of the technology and founded Firehole Composites. Firehole Composites continues a collaborative relationship with the University of Wyoming and sponsors ongoing research into composite analysis technology.

During its first years of existence the company focused on the research and development of composite technologies utilizing the US Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Programs. Recent technology demonstration efforts have included participation in the World Wide Failure Exercise and a large structures failure analysis and test program with the US AFRL Space Vehicle’s Directorate.

In January 2009, Firehole launched their first commercial product – Helius:MCT. The name Helius, a general branding for Firehole products, refers to the Greek god of sun and vision and represents the idea of added vision or insight into composite material analysis.

Associations

-   ASME – American Society of Mechanical Engineers
-   NAFEMS – National Agency for Finite Element Methods and Standards
-   AIAA – American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Firehole name

Firehole Composites name sake is the Firehole River, a Wyoming river that originates in Yellowstone National Park. The Firehole is unique because it flows through several geyser basins which empty hot water into it, often causing steam to rise. It was named by early trappers because the steam makes it appear as if it is on fire. The Firehole is also known for exceptional fly fishing.

title: Firehole Composites

question: When was Firehole Composites founded?

answer: In 2000

question: Where is Firehole Composites headquartered?

answer: Presumably somewhere in Wyoming, but that is not explicitly stated.

question: Summarize everything relating to their Helius line of products.

answer: Helius:MCT, a simulation tool meant to improve the accuracy of composite structure analysis, is their principal product. It is based on Multicontinuum Technology. The line also inclused Helius:CompositePro (a classical laminate theory and simple structural analysis tool) and Helius(MatSim (an online micromechanica lamina simulator). The name Helius refers to the Greek sun god, representing the concept of added insight into composite material analysis.

question: Where does Firehole Composites get its name?

answer: It is named after the Firehole River, a river in Wyoming.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: Firehole Composites is a company that supplies computer-aided engineering software and consulting services specializing in analysis of composite materials. Their principal product is Helius:MCT, a simulation tool built to improve the accuracy of composite structure analysis.


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The management of Russian band t.A.T.u are “saddened” by the reaction to a homophobic rant from former singer Julia Volkova.

Volkova, who has previously identified as bisexual herself,said earlier this week that she “would condemn” her son if he came out as gay, but that women should have the “freedom” to be lesbians.

The band – widely known for their ‘faux-lesbian’ image, officially split in 2011, and had previously spoken out in favour of LGBT rights.

The band’s official account on Russian social network VKontakte posted a statement in response to the rant.

It reads: “In the last few days we have been saddened by the internet reaction to rash statements from Julia Volkova.

“It’s especially sad to see the reaction from foreign fans, who jumped to conclusions, reading translated sound-bytes of Julia’s words taken out of context.

“We won’t say anything for Julia, but we would like to apologize to everyone who took her words personally and close to heart.

“As a part of t.A.T.u, Julia showed her support of the LGBT community more than once: during the early 2000s, girls and boys alike were kissing on stage next to them.

“Like any public person, Julia will find thousands of people who will judge her. If you are disappointed in her and in t.A.T.u – well, everyone has a right to hold a grudge.

“Everyone has an opinion and for every one of us there is a judge. Julia will have to answer for her words, whether she likes it or not.

“We hope you stay with us.”

The band’s former singer Lena Katina condemned Volkova last week, saying: “I can say one thing: God is teaching us to live in love, to be tolerant and not to judge other people! And I do so!

“Love is love and it is a wonderful feeling! I think everybody should be free to love who they love and be with who they want to spend their life with! Xoxo”

If made today, the duo’s 2002 music video for ‘All The Things She Said’, which showed the two singers dressed as schoolgirls kissing in the rain, might see them facing arrest under the country’s ‘gay propaganda’ law.

Watch the famous music video for ‘All The Things She Said’ below:

question: Who is Julia Volkova?

answer: A former singer in band t.A.T.u.

question: What is the source of this article?

answer: The text doesn't say.

question: How does Lena Katina define love?

answer: Love is "...a wonderful feeling."

question: What country is the band t.A.T.u from?

answer: Russia.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: This article reports on homophobic comments made by former t.A.T.u vocalist, Julia Volkova. It goes on to quote others who condemn the statements she made, including a former t.A.T.u bandmate Lena Katina. Volkova's comments were particularly surprising to friends and fans since she previously identified as bisexual.


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Listen.

I don't want you to freak out because they might try to kill you now, but they were already trying to kill you so this should be old hat.

You're basically looking in his window yelling, "HELLO! Who are you!? Would you please stop!" Take a second, and look into that window. See if there's anything you recognize. It might surprise you, how insecure a thing feels what used to feel indomitable.

From here on out, everything is going to change for you because you can get to them, and if they don't know it yet, he does. This one man you just addressed. Remember that feeling shift from indomitable to small and insecure? Remember that. That's going to come in handy. Don't let it make you feel insecure, your just standing really, really close to insecurity and like a fire it's burning against you. Know you're standing next to another fire and this insecure heat is not your own.

We're now going to trace a call.

All around his circle are going to be lights, or sounds, or whatever you have found to work in your mind space, your imagination. Some of these lights will be his friends and family. Some of these lights will be his superiors and bosses.

You're catching on now, yes?

Those latter lights are the ones we want. Follow their connections till you get to a definitive top, till you get to the person directly responsible for deciding your case, or fate at the case may be. Shouldn't have to go far but sometimes they like to hide behind others and letters and communications. But you see, they have exposed you to your bare core. They have looked at your nakedness from afar. They have made decisions about you and your life without your consent. You have been violated and this violation is a stain you can't hide with smokescreens and relayed communiques. They have taken something from you and until they give it back will be forever tied to you in some way. That tie is how you will find them. It is how you will separate the machine operators young son and ignorant wife from his supervisor or project leader. You're simply tracing your scent through their minds.

You don't have to let them know your there by the way. You can watch them as silently as they have watched you. I might even suggest you do this, it will help you to gather information. It may help to save your life.

But that's all a special case usually.

Once you make that first contact, you're going to rattle them, specifically the operator at the time you made contact. Because, most likely, he's never done this before and if he has, no one has ever talked back. If he says anything they may restrict him or remove him from his position altogether, possibly worse. It will be scary for him because the only time he'll be able to address you is with the machine. You will be able to address him whenever you should so choose.

You are allowed to grin smugly to yourself now.

Most likely he will file a report about how you stopped being responsive, or request a transfer (it's ok, just say hi to the new guy, wash, rinse, repeat.), and perhaps they'll pull your name out of the hat and move on. Enjoy your life my friend! You have broken your shackles!

But say they don't.

Say for whatever reason someone has a hard on for you.

How are we going to deal with that? Well... depends on what their agenda is.

Seriously, try not to freak out and yell at me like,"Why would you have me do all this if they're just going to find some way to murder me the old fashioned way?!?"

Well. To that I say I'm sorry. But ask yourself: Would I rather be murdered tomorrow, or spend the next three years loosing all of my friends, my house, my job, and my family only to kill myself alone on some street corner somewhere or in my parents basement or worse yet, hurt someone else out of desperation for food, shelter or the like?

Just keep living your life. If they come for you, they do. Their last tactic before the actual murder is to make you think you're going to be murdered. Their silence is refreshing but the last thing they suggested to you was "We're coming for you." That's going to mess with your head. But, you've been afraid before and still left the house, so, keep leaving the house. Most likely they won't, but the suggestion they might is enough to ruin some people.

Don't be those people, Ok? You're stronger than that.

Here's another thing you need to know. To remember. To keep in mind: You are not the only person this is happening to.

They might approach you. They might acknowledge your talents, which will be refreshing because no one else believes you. They might even offer you a job. Maybe they're approach to you wasn't one of malice and murder. Maybe through some design they where looking for people like you. Maybe they discovered your capacity early on somehow and have plans for you. They will offer you things. You may well become that man, in that chair, behind that machine or without that machine because you don't need it, and that makes you scary and valuable. Scary because you can do something they can't, valuable because their manipulations have led you to believe in the purity of their cause perhaps. If that is the case then perhaps you'll meet me one day, not in person of course because they don't operate like that and your one of them now. That being the case let me say this:

This is not a guide for beginners.

I am no beginner.

I will do my best to show you the truth of their agenda. How we treat each other after that will depend solely on you. I hope for you the best.

But say, neither of these happen, or they threaten murder and instead of falling silent grow louder.

Well, then. You have done all you could. You reasoned, pleaded, begged for a respite to be left alone, to be allowed to live and yet they persist. Perhaps your personality profile isn't compatible with their agenda, perhaps your not devout enough in any religious sense to be manipulated by "Voices from god", maybe they just think you're ugly, any and all of these reasons for not approaching you directly.

They've cost you jobs and friendships and all you've done so far is plead and attempt to negotiate.

And work out on their treadmill.

Time to hit them where it hurts: Right in the pocket book.

You think the machines they use for this are cheap? You think maintaining a surveillance network connected by satellites all over the world is inexpensive? What if we where to break one of these machines? Maybe they'd look at the books and see that the cost of fucking with you is to high and they'll leave you alone. It's the only way I've ever gotten through to a bully. If you know a better way, I am open to suggestions.

Always, you have to stand up for yourself.

Once you've broken one of the machines you can break them whenever and wherever you feel their influence. You might even be saving someone else's life. I wouldn't worry about them sending you a bill for this activity as they would have to explain how you broke the machine and more importantly, what the machine does.

Damnit man! I can hear you. Right now. Enough with the what for the love of god, get on with the how! I want my life back!

Here me out.

Assuming you have been through this, and anything I've suggested parallels anything you've experienced you're about to figure it out on your own.

Even if I tell you how to do it, your still going to have to trial and error until you get it, but..

You are not a bear. Your dominance is not generated with teeth and claws and strength. You are a human being (most likely) and your dominance is through your mind. Unbeknownst to you, their attacks have been working your mind out like an olympic athlete works out his body. If you where to take a guy off the street and have him run a race next to an olympic gold medalist the contrast would be humbling. Your mind is fortified like that olympic athletes body.

This does not mean you are smarter, or wiser, or more intelligent. It just means your mind is built up stronger then the average joes because you have been training it like an olympic athlete, but an olympic athlete at gunpoint. Doing anything at gunpoint is going to cause some kind of emotional stress. You're probably damaged somewhat psychologically because this experience is very isolating.

All I'm trying to say here, and with all my heart, is don't let yourself become the bully.

That being said, time to get serious.

title: This is not a guide for beginners (Part 5)

question: Who is potentially doing the killing and making an attack?

answer: The machine operators.

question: Who are the main characters of the story?

answer: This information is not found

question: What is the threat?

answer: The threat is murder for anyone who leaves their house.

question: What does the author of the guide instruct?

answer: Keeping living your life.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: The author writes a guide, specifically not for beginners, on how to survive an attack by machine operators.


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Stock Description

CVE.TO is the stock symbol for Cenovus Energy Incorporated on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX).

Cenovus Energy Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops, produces, and markets crude oil, natural gas liquids, and natural gas in Canada and the United States. The company’s Oil Sands segment develops and produces bitumen in northeast Alberta. This segment’s bitumen assets include Foster Creek, Christina Lake, and Narrows Lake, as well as other projects in the early stages of development, such as Telephone Lake. This segment also holds the Athabasca natural gas assets. Its Deep Basin segment holds assets primarily located in Elmworth-Wapiti, Kaybob-Edson, and Clearwater operating areas of British Columbia and Alberta, and include interests in natural gas processing facilities. The company’s Refining and Marketing segment transports, sells, and refines crude oil into petroleum and chemical products. This segment owns a 50% interest ownership in two refineries in the United States; owns and operates a crude-by-rail terminal in Alberta; and markets third-party purchases and sales of product. Cenovus Energy Inc. is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

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question: What is the stock symbol for Cenovus Energy Incorporated on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX)?

answer: CVE.TO

question: What does Cenovus Energy Inc. do?

answer: They develop, produce, and market crude oil, natural gas liquids, and natural gas in Canada and the United States.

question: Name the company's two segments.

answer: The Oil Sands segment and the Refining and Marketing segment

question: Where is Cenovus Energy Inc. headquarters?

answer: Calgary, Canada

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: Cenovus Energy Inc. is a company that produces, develops, and markets crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas in Canada and the United States. The company is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.


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[Opera Releases New Web Browser for Mac and Windows Based on Chromium]

Posted May 28, 2013 at 5:11pm by · 12585 views · Translate

Opera has released a major revamp of its web browser for Mac and Windows that is now based on the Chromium engine. Originally, the new version on Opera was to be based on WebKit; however, the company has decided to follow Google and use its recently announced fork of WebKit which creates a new open source rendering engine called 'Blink'.

[Opera Releases New Web Browser for Mac and Windows Based on Chromium][Opera Releases New Web Browser for Mac and Windows Based on Chromium][Opera Releases New Web Browser for Mac and Windows Based on Chromium]

_The all-new Opera for desktop is now out as an Opera Next version, Opera's channel for what used to be called beta. Made from scratch, this version is available for Windows and Mac and brings a new, elegant design and a bunch of new features that will make your browsing experience sleeker and easier than ever._

SPEED DIAL
Opera’s popular shortcuts start page has been refreshed to make exploring web content easier and smarter. Speed Dial shortcuts can now be gathered in folders and easily filtered. Drag and drop one Speed Dial entry on top of another to create a folder, or use the new Speed Dial search field to experience the power of visual Speed Dial entries combined with the flexibility and organization of a classic bookmark folder.

DISCOVER
Get hot, new content, with no browsing necessary. The new Discover feature allows you to lean back and get fed with new articles from your country, or whatever region you want to get inspiration from, right in your browser - all in one place. Pick and choose your category: news, food, technology or something else you are more interested in. Opera brings you a selection of relevant global and regional sources to discover web content more easily.

STASH
Imagine that, after hours of shopping at your mall for new shoes, you find a single shelf with all the pairs you have tried on so far, so you can sit down, compare, and pick the winner. That’s what Opera's new Stash feature does for you with websites. Simply hit the heart icon in the address bar to collect the websites you want to compare easily while shopping, or to keep your travel research on hotels, sights and flights at your fingertips. Scan your Stash by resizable page preview, or search what you've saved, with keywords.

SEARCH
Now, you can search directly from the new combined address and search bar. Simply start typing a webpage address to go directly to your favorite site, or enter a search term and choose one of several search engines to look for suggested websites.

NEW LOOK
Rest your eyes on the new, refined user interface. It is modern, sleek, deeply integrated with the platform and built from the ground up. Browse more easily with new elegant icons, tab bar and more.

ENGINE SWAP
Opera for desktop has not only been redesigned; it's also completely re-engineered under the hood. With the Chromium engine, users get a standards-compliant and high-performance browser. Opera’s Off-Road mode, previously called Opera Turbo, now supports SPDY protocol and enables loading webpages faster, even in the toughest of network conditions.

The newest version of Opera for desktop has been named 15. The company's mail client is now a standalone application called Opera Mail. A release candidate of Opera Mail with new labeling, filtering, threads and multiple tabs can be downloaded here.

Download Opera Next for desktop at http://www.opera.com/next.

[Opera Releases New Web Browser for Mac and Windows Based on Chromium]

[Opera Releases New Web Browser for Mac and Windows Based on Chromium]

[Opera Releases New Web Browser for Mac and Windows Based on Chromium]

question: On what engine is Opera based now?

answer: On chromium.

question: Can it be used on both Mac and Windows?

answer: Yes

question: What are some of the new features?

answer: Speed dial, discover, stash.

question: What is the "Discover" tool?

answer: The "Discover" tool brings a selection of new content catered to your likings with no search involved.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: The article is about the launch of the new Opera web browser. It has been re-designed and re-engineered and is now based on Chromium.


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The light rain drizzles down on your Kevlar vest, padded pants, and solid metal shoes. As you walk down the street, the 9 foot wall on both sides flash pictures of the recent violence, and forecasts an 85% chance of violence occurring in the nearby area within the day. As you pick up your pace, the aforementioned violence occurs. Another isolated incident of “gang violence.” The thought of the gun fire barely crosses your mind as you step up to the School House, a giant, looming, drab grey fortress, covered in barbed wire, with armed guards and vicious dogs barking on short leashes. When you step in, several guards surround you.
“Name?” grunts one
“19267” you reply
“ID?”
You pass him the card that contains all your vital information, from address to your blood type, and he barely looks it over.
“Remove the armor and you can enter.”
There is a split second of fear as you remove the bulletproof armor and leggings, but you remember your training, “Don’t think about it, and you will be fine.”
You step into the next room, and there is dead silence. You know no one, and no one knows you.
The intercom buzzes “Please report to first hour. Do not run, and remain calm.”
Your first class is defense.
Okay class, what are the three rules of safety that you always need to follow?” asks the overweight and ever stoic professor.
“Don’t think, and everything will be fine, the violence doesn’t affect us, and we are safe.”
Defense class is repeating this phrase over and over again for an hour and a half. The intercom buzzes again. “Please remain calm, there is an intruder in the build…”
The intercom cuts off mid sentence. Suddenly all of the lights go out. In the darkness, you can make out the shape of your classmates, and the guards that stand in every classroom.
“Remain calm, remember your training,” whispers the professor “everything will be okay.”
But you know better. You know why there is an intruder in the building, you know who she is, and you know how far she will go to accomplish her goals.
Later that day, the School House is ablaze, with only the students standing outside. All of the students are terrified, and are unable to move, paralyzed by fear, with the blatant lie of their training revealed to them. You are the only student who stands alone, staring into the wreckage of the past world. As an ash falls onto your arm, you overhear an intercom spraying the message “Don’t think, and everything will be fine, the violence doesn’t affect us, and we are safe.”
The only thing that you can think of is how wrong that message is.

title: The School House

question: What is known about the second-person perspective character?

answer: They have defense class at the School House and they seem to have more of an independent mind than their peers.

question: Where is the main character trying to enter?

answer: The School House.

question: What is the main character wearing?

answer: They start in a Kevlar vest, padded pants, and solid metal shoes. To enter the School House, they remove the bulletproof armor and leggings.

question: What are the three rules of safety?

answer: Don't think about it and everything will be fine, the violence doesn't effect us, and we are safe.

question: What does the main character think of the three rules of safety?

answer: They don't believe what the rules state to be true and they know the rules don't keep anyone safe.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: In second-person perspective, the main character ("you") removes their armor to enter the School House, where they go to a defense class, which consists of repeating the three rules of safety: don't think about it and everything will be fine, the violence doesn't effect us, and we are safe. The School House being burned down proves this to be a lie, though this was already known to the main character ("you").


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The band of riders moved in line between the towering walls of the red-rock valley. Their ponies paced onwards, heads bent in exhaustion. They were following a hard packed trail to somewhere, for now only deeper into the cliffs. The water was gone, the food was gone, but not the gold.

“Ey’ Billy, see that crag some way up?” The grizzled man called Desmond was gesturing ahead. A dozen feet from the valley floor was a shadowed crack in the rock face. It was perhaps large enough for a boy to squeeze into, and out of sight.

“I do Sir,” said Billy. He wiped his forehead with his sleeve; this heat was something from a nightmare. Thinking how close they had come to going home, he could cry. A month of panning in the Rio del Oro had yielded them a nugget of gold worth thousands. Billy could have bought his Mama a ranch, and for all his brothers and sisters. He remembered smiling at the thought of being a hero.

That all changed when they were ambushed during the night at their river-camp. The group fought for their lives and fired wildly into the dark. Five of the original eight escaped into the desert, carrying with them whatever had been strapped to their ponies. After two days of pursuit across hell they came to a valley. “No man’s fortune is his own in the West,” Desmond had said, before leading them onwards.

Now the group moved towards the crag, and stopped. Desmond helped Billy upwards and into the shadow. He handed him one of their two remaining rifles. “Stay quiet, wait till you see em’ coming round the bend. Then start pickin em’ off! We’ll be a bit ahead ready to ambush.” Desmond gave the boy a rickety-smile and a half-filled canteen he had hidden away.

Billy watched the rest of the men ride around a bend and disappear. Then he gulped the canteen, curled into the shade to wait, and sobbed.

The sun was setting, the group made it about a mile since they had left Billy. Desmond suddenly exclaimed in anger as he looked ahead. The walls of the valley rose upwards, and then joined together, it was a dead-end. The other three men murmured, frightened. Desmond took off his old sombrero and trailed a hand through his grey hair, ripe with sweat.

What was his plan now? They were outgunned, and he had left Billy behind as a distraction, hoping the boy would be trigger-happy. Thoughtfully, he reached into his satchel he rubbed a dense rawhide bundle. Then turning his pony to the remaining men, a troop of dusty Spaniards, he withdrew the bundle and opened it. They all managed a smile as the fat lump of gold gleamed in the shadowed valley.

“Como el sole,” said one of the Spaniards.

“El sole,” the rest agreed.

A breeze crept forth from where they had come, cooling them all for a moment. Just then came a crack, like a rock dropped from above, and then another, and then a whole succession. Gunfire, it danced among the rock walls.

Desmond dropped from his mount, and walked to the end of the valley. Two of the Spaniards drew revolvers and the last had a rusted pistola. They crowded behind a red-rock boulder, preparing their weapons. In the shadows of the towering rocks, Desmond was busy digging a hole, laughing the whole time.

title: ~Los Desperados~ (Critiques appreciated)

question: How did Desmond and Billy get into the situation where they need to hide and ambush someone?

answer: They were part of a group that survived an ambush on their gold-panning camp.

question: Who are they waiting to ambush?

answer: The men who had originally ambushed the camp.

question: What is Desmond and Billy's relationship?

answer: I'm not exactly sure. It seems that they are just partners in panning for gold. Desmond leaves Billy on the trail as a distraction to the men who are after them.

question: Is there a conflict? Does it get resolved?

answer: The conflict is that the trail Desmond and the other take, after leaving Billy behind, is a dead end. It seems the resolution is to bury the gold that they have.

question: Write a ~6 sentence summary.

answer: Desmond and Bill were part of a group that had been panning for gold. They found a large gold nugget, but before they could leave to go home, their camp was ambushed. Three men were killed, and five of them escaped, although the men continued to hunt them down. Desmond and Billy plan to ambush the men. Billy hides out as a distraction, while Desmond and the other men continue up the trail. They discover the trail is a dead end, so they bury the gold.


text: The BAVARIAN STATE OFFICE FOR MONUMENT PROTECTION (, BLFD) is the Bavarian central state authority for the protection of historical monuments. It is responsible for the conservation of both historic buildings as well as heritage sites and their archaeology.

title: Bavarian State Office for Monument Protection

question: Which organization protects historical monuments in Bavaria?

answer: The Bavarian State Office for Monument Protection.

question: What is the organization's abbreviation (in German)?

answer: BLFD.

question: Does it protect historical buildings?

answer: Yes.

question: Does it protect heritage sites and their archeology?

answer: Yes.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: The texts is about the Bavarian State Office for Monument Protection, the authority that protects historical monuments in Bavaria.


text:
From Oregon tide pools to oceangoing voyages, UO marine biology students get their hands dirty and their feet wet

_This giant Pacific octopus and other marine animals enjoy the natural seawater that flows through the teaching and research labs at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology.
_

AT LOW TIDE NEAR CAPE ARAGO ON THE SOUTHERN OREGON COAST, THE OCEAN RECEDES AND A LIVING LABORATORY IS REVEALED.

On kelp-covered rocks dotted with tide pools, students from the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology spend hours searching out, measuring and cataloging the myriad forms of sea life exposed in coves along the rocky shoreline. Often they learn about a particular organism in a lecture class in the morning, then spend the afternoon observing it in the tide pools.

[Christy Stumbo]

“One of the coolest things about being here at OIMB is you don’t just read about science, you get to do it,” says Christy Stumbo. “You get your hands dirty and your feet wet.”

But they might just as easily be onboard the _Pluteus_, a 42-foot research ship equipped with its own remotely operated submersible. Every student who takes the subtidal and deep-sea ecology course learns how to drive the minisub, which is equipped with video cameras and a robotic arm that let students study the huge diversity of sea life just off the Oregon coast.

At the institute’s picturesque campus at the mouth of Coos Bay, a half-dozen research labs probe the frontiers of marine knowledge as part of the only marine biology degree program in Oregon. A substantial amount of the research expanding those frontiers, in labs both indoors and outdoors, is done by undergraduates.

“One of the coolest things about being here at OIMB is you don’t just read about science, you get to do it,” said Christy Stumbo (above), who wrapped up both her degree in marine biology and her part in a research project this summer. “You get your hands dirty and your feet wet.”

[Alvin submersible]

The famed submersible Alvin is a three-person vehicle that takes scientists—and even UO undergraduates—thousands of feet down into the ocean to observe creatures of the deep.

Opportunities for undergraduate research are many. Students regularly take part in ongoing, long-term studies being conducted by members of the OIMB faculty, including one that helps estimate the annual Dungeness crab harvest on the entire Pacific Northwest coast. They often are recruited for other projects in the labs of individual professors. And undergraduates also are encouraged to take on their own research, whether for honors programs, to earn additional academic credit, prepare for graduate school or postgraduation employment or simply to satisfy their own curiosity about the marine world.

TALENTED HANDS, GOOD ENERGY

Craig Young, OIMB’s director for the past 12 years, said bringing undergraduates into the institute’s research projects isn’t an afterthought—it’s a vital tool that helps professors take on funded research that otherwise would be difficult to complete.

“Undergraduates are critical to some of our research programs,” Young said. “When a faculty member gets a National Science Foundation grant that needs the help of a lot of talented hands, some good energy and some patience, it’s often undergraduates that make the work possible.”

Located in the fishing village of Charleston, OIMB sits on forested land wedged between the town’s harbor and the mouth of Coos Bay. The scenic, 130-acre campus is mostly forest and headlands that haven’t changed much since it was home to bands of Coos and Coquille Indians long before the arrival of Europeans.

The main buildings have a distinctly maritime look: gray-shingled siding with white trim around the windows, many with second-story dormers that look out onto the harbor. Students stay in dorms on the top floor of three of the larger buildings, while a row of cottages provide housing for the many visiting researchers drawn to the institute by both its reputation and location.

Fresh seawater pumped from the bay flows to all of the labs, which also house high-tech microscopes, machines for analyzing DNA and other instruments needed in marine research. The seawater bubbles through rows of laboratory tanks that can hold anything from microscopic plankton to a giant octopus.

(Learn more about the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology.)

All UO students seeking a degree in marine biology are required to spend three terms at OIMB, typically in their junior or senior year. Although the terms don’t have to be taken sequentially, usually they are. The academic year runs through spring, summer and fall, with faculty members typically reserving winter term for research.

“THEY CAN’T KEEP ME AWAY”

But even with no classes to take, a fair number of undergraduates stick around campus in winter, enlisted by professors to take part in research or to pursue projects on their own. At times it seems as if students cling to the institute with all the tenacity of the barnacles that cover the wave-splashed rocks of Cape Arago.

[Anders Hansen]

Marine biology student Anders Hansen won a coin toss for a seat on Alvin. On the sea floor in the Gulf of Mexico, he saw strange-looking eels, lobsters, shrimp and snails as they appeared in the sub’s powerful spotlights.

“They can’t keep me away,” said Anders Hansen, an undergraduate who’s starting his second year at OIMB this fall.

While pursuing his degree, Hansen has been working with professor Alan Shanks on long-term research tracking the movement of certain species of plankton. Shanks studies the life cycle of marine invertebrates such as sea urchins, which depend on ocean currents to spread their larvae, known as plankton, to new habitat.

Shanks believes, and his research so far confirms, that these invertebrates actually spawn and produce plankton during winter’s heavy storms, when prevailing currents keep the tiny larvae in favored shallow-water habitat. If they spawned in spring or summer, as is more typical for other animals, the upwelling currents would carry the plankton seaward into deeper water, reducing the chance they would survive and grow into adults.

Hansen and several other undergraduates have signed on to the project. They spent last winter working a grueling sampling regimen that had them out on the water every day, seven days a week, taking samples from plankton traps on the ocean and in the bay.

Once they got back to the lab, students then spent hours at microscopes inventorying the tiny plankton to separate out those that Shanks is studying. For a seasoned researcher, it’s tedious work. But for an undergraduate just learning the research ropes, it can be a revelation.

“It’s truly spectacular,” Hansen said. “I would say it’s one of the greatest learning experiences I’ve had [at the university].”

Shanks and fellow marine biology professor Richard Emlethad six undergraduates working for them last winter on the plankton project. It was essential to collect samples daily to accurately track the beginning and end of spawning season and collect the full range of larvae, but that meant having students out collecting samples every single day, in all kinds of weather.

“It was intense,” Shanks said. “But these are enthusiastic people. This is what they want to do.”

AN OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD

[Kara Robbins]

Kara Robbins, a Wyoming native, said that the excitement of the work made her forget she was on a relatively small boat pitching up and down on a very large ocean.

Kara Robbins, a Wyoming native, was a regular on those sampling trips and said they were everything she hoped marine biology would be—with the possible exception of seasickness.

But Robbins brushed that off as an occupational hazard. There were times, she said, when the excitement of the work made her forget she was on a relatively small boat pitching up and down on a very large ocean. For a moment, at least.

“You can forget about it in the excitement of the work, but then you’ll look up and suddenly start thinking, ‘Not good, not good, not good,’” she said. “But if it’s what you love doing, then you kind of take the bad with the good.”

That’s an attitude that makes undergraduates such an important part of OIMB’s research, Young said. Because research, frankly, can be boring. Or at least certain parts of it are, especially if you’ve been doing it for years or decades.

But for undergraduates getting their first taste of the intellectual smorgasbord research offers, it’s all good. The experience gives some of them a leg up on the next stage of their careers, while others decide that it’s time to change course and choose another destination.

“I think there’s a perception that marine biology is all swimming with porpoises and diving on coral reefs in tropical oceans, but most of it involves really careful work that is time-consuming,” Young said. “Here, students learn what research is really like and whether a career in research or academia is what they want to do. Unfortunately, a lot of undergraduates don’t get that kind of experience until late in their education, or not at all.”

Senior Ashley Hueckstaedt, another Wyoming native, has found research anything but boring. She’s working with graduate student Kirstin Meyer on a project to better understand the extent and diversity of subtidal marine life in the Cape Arago area, which has been suggested as the site of a future marine sanctuary.

Part of the work involves towing a camera sled behind the _Pluteus_ and photographing the kelp, sea urchins, crabs and other plants and creatures that make their home there. Later, Hueckstaedt and other students help analyze the pictures to better understand how much and what kind of sea life the area supports.

At times the work is like pulling back the curtain on a view human eyes have never before witnessed.

“It’s amazing because I didn’t realize how much was down there,” Hueckstaedt said. “There’s some things down there that have never been seen before. It’s incredible.”

That’s the kind of experience that creates such a strong connection at OIMB. Young said students not only learn more but also remember more because of the way classroom lectures are combined with field experience, something Hansen found to be true.

VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA

“The cool thing is, we would be in class learning about something, and then we’d go out and we’d actually see it,” he said. “In a lecture, it’s just words the teacher is saying. But when you go out there, that’s when all the connections are made. That’s when learning happens.”

And learning sometimes happens in more exotic places as well. Faculty members often have room for undergraduates on research expeditions that can take them to oceans all over the world, and even on voyages to the bottom of the sea.

That’s exactly where several undergraduates found themselves this past summer, after Young offered them a chance to take part in a research trip to the Gulf of Mexico. Some even participated in deep-sea dives in the famed submersible _Alvin_, operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. In fact, the trip was the first science mission for Alvin following an extensive rebuild and upgrade and helped mark the sub’s 50th anniversary.

Up until that voyage, Hueckstaedt had known _Alvin_ only from the cable television show _Animal Planet_. Although she grew up far inland in Wyoming, Hueckstaedt fell in love with the sea after seeing it for the first time as an eight-year-old on a family trip to California.

After that, she rarely missed a television show or documentary about the ocean. But the idea she might one day be one of those people she had watched climbing into a submarine? Forget it.

“I never in a million years thought I would go down in _Alvin_,” she said.

Hueckstaedt was a plankton sorter on the trip. Young studies the reproduction and early life stages of marine invertebrates, and he’s particularly interested in animals that live around—and are sustained by—naturally occurring methane seeps found in the Gulf, Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean.

One of the questions Young is trying to answer is how mussels and other invertebrates travel among widely separated seeps and pass their genes to successive generations. The answer may well be found in plankton, the larval stage of the creatures, and that’s what brought him and his undergraduates to the Gulf.

UNTOLD TONS OF WATER

_Alvin_ has space for one pilot and just two scientists, so going on a dive can be a rare honor for undergraduate students. Hueckstaedt was in such a state of wonder on her dive that she doesn’t remember how long it lasted and didn’t care that untold tons of water were pressing hard around her.

“You don’t really notice time, because you spend all of it with your face right up against the porthole,” she said. “You don’t even think that if you went outside you’d be crushed in an instant.”

Hansen also got a berth on that voyage and, after a coin toss went his way, a seat on an _Alvin_ dive. His dive took him thousands of feet down to one of the strange underwater brine pockets that form around methane seeps, which also are known as “cold seeps.”

As the sub sank into the darkness of the Gulf, Hansen was awestruck by the sheer variety of life in the depths. Strange-looking eels came to investigate the sub, and weird lobsters, shrimp and snails appeared in the sub’s powerful spotlights.

At times it felt like a fantasy. But paradoxically, Hansen also felt more connected to the living world than ever before.

“It didn’t even really sink in at first that it’s reality,” he said. “It’s difficult to actually describe it. It gave it a different depth of reality.”

But if deep in the Gulf of Mexico isn’t enough, OIMB undergraduates also have a chance to take part in a research class on tropical biology taught by Richard Emlet and senior lecturer Janet Hodder in Panama, or help Cynthia Trowbridge, a senior research associate, on an annual trip to Ireland.

The Trowbridge project brings a team of undergraduate and graduate students to the Lough Hyne Marine Reserve on the shores of West Cork, Ireland, to investigate a sudden decline in sea urchins and the possible role of an invasive algae species in the drop-off. Students spend about a month living in a cottage on the shore of the marine lake while they help with ongoing research.

But students don’t have to go halfway around the world to experience the wonder and diversity of marine life or to find strange or even entirely new species.

Scientists and students from across the country and all over the world come to OIMB because it is surrounded by an almost unrivaled ecosystem of marine plants and animals. The region’s headlands, ocean shelves, tide pools, kelp forests and shorelines provide a world-class laboratory for both study and exploration.

“Some of the most spectacular rocky shores in America—actually, in the world—are located right here,” Young said. “OIMB is one of the best places in the world to find a high diversity of marine organisms within reach of a marine research center.”

NEVER A DULL MOMENT

Yet for all its research advantages, the institute is still a relatively small field station. Students enjoy classes that rarely have more than 20 students and that sometimes have two instructors, so there’s plenty of face time with faculty members. It’s an immersive learning experience that’s rare on larger campuses.

This environment sparks both awe and inspiration. It creates a pull students feel every day, something that draws them to the water’s edge even without the excuse of a class assignment or research project.

In large part, that’s probably why students here seem to spend far less time staring into smartphones or laptops or televisions than their peers on the UO’s main campus. You might think that, even with its small-town charms, Charleston would send young people running for the nearest high-speed cable connection.

But you would be wrong.

“I don’t really have any dull moments,” Hueckstaedt (below) said. “If I’m not studying or[Ashley Hueckstaedt] sleeping or eating, I’m probably in the tide pools.”

It’s the same with most other students at the institute. People here have a shared love of the sea and the shore and the things that live there, but there’s a bonding among OIMB students that goes deeper than that.

When you’ve spent time with the same group of people leaning over the rail on the _Pluteus_ on days when the sea isn’t the only thing that’s heaving, when you’ve shared long days in the same lab sorting tiny plankton, when you’ve sat in the same daylong classes and watched out for each other around kelp-slickened tide pools, you come to be more than just classmates.

“It’s a great community,” said Stumbo, the recent OIMB graduate. “It’s a very unique experience, especially at a big research university.”

__—Greg _Bolt
_Photo credits: Stumbo, Hansen and Robbins (Greg Bolt);_ Alvin (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution); Hueckstaedt (Craig Young)
_

question: What is the main topic of this document?

answer: The main topic is the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology of the University of Oregon and the interactive research students get to be a part of.

question: Describe the laboratory.

answer: The laboratory is just the tide pools along the Southern Oregon Coast. When the tide recedes, a myriad of sea life is exposed, and students are able to observe them.

question: What is the Pluteus?

answer: It is OIMB's 42-foot research ship equipped with its own remotely operated submersible.

question: Who says "they can't keep me away" and why?

answer: Anders Hansen, an undergraduate at OIMB. He says this in reference to the school and the research he is doing.

question: Summarize everything related to Craig Young's career.

answer: Craig Young is OIMB's director for the past 12 years at the time of this document and studies the reproduction and early life stages of marine invertebrates. He has a particular interest in animals that are sustained by naturally occurring methane seeps. He is trying to answer invertebrates travel among widely separated seeps and pass on their genes. He was travelling with his students to find the answer.

question: What is OIMB?

answer: It is the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: This document describes the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology at the University of Oregon and the interactive research students get to be a part of. The tools of the university, including the Pacific Ocean and a research ship, and its discoveries are discussed. Several comments from professors and students complimented the university's programs.


text:
"You need to stop following me around like this." She seemed angry when she said it.

"What do you mean?"

I honestly didn't feel like I had done anything wrong, but I was starting to feel dumb, like a young boy being shamed by a parent. It could have been the fact that I was starting to realize that I had been naive, or it could have been the crowd. Most likely it was a mixture of the two.

"You've been following me around like a puppy dog all night!" There was anger in her voice and I could hear it now. Clearly. This definitely was not good, but it wasn't over yet, and she continued. "It's been 2 years! It's over, ok? I'm done with it."

The only thing I could think to say was, "Well what about last night?"

I could almost hear my own pathetic desperation. The reality of the situation was crashing down on me. I want to say that I started running through the entire experience of this relationship, but that wouldn't be quite right. It was more like something I imagine people who are dying experience, when their entire life flashes before their eyes. I didn't like what I was seeing.

In this exact moment it became just me and her. I've never quite felt anything like that moment. Life outside of it just ceased to exist.

"Last night was a mistake."

Those words just rang in my head. Here I am in this moment where everything outside just doesn't exist around me, and all that's filling the void are her words. I thought to myself, "how could I be a mistake? What the hell happened? When did everything change?"

I don't remember saying anything, but I guess she could tell from the look of disbelief on my face exactly what I was thinking, because she put out her hand in front of me. One act of complete and definitive proof.

It was perfectly still.

I couldn't even believe what was I was seeing. In front of me was the girl that I was crazy about, who gave me feelings of love that I've never felt before, holding out her hand that used to shake just from standing near me. It was a gesture that said everything. 10,000 words summed up with a single movement, like sign language that my soul could understand.

My mind was still while I was looking at her hand, and slowly the world started seeping back in. I realized where I was, I realized what she was saying. It was over.

I finally took my gaze off her hand and looked around. Everyone was looking at me. I realize now that the moment seemed so quiet because everyone was watching this unfold. An audience for the most painful moment of my life.

I didn't say a damn thing. What the hell could I say? Even if I tried to explain what I was feeling I don't think I could have. I was feeling heartbreak for the first time in my life. So I left. I just walked away. I walked back into the house, up the stairs, and out the front door.

I'm not sure when I started crying, but I did. The whole situation was overwhelming. I just wanted to get the hell out of there, so I got in my car. I quickly realized that I couldn't leave. I was drunk and knew I couldn't drive.

I was fucking stuck in the worst place I've ever been. The worst feelings I've ever had were everywhere, and I couldn't get away. I wasn't even in my own city. I was 500km from my own house.
I don't remember the details of what came after. I remember crying in the car with my best friend beside me, who was oddly emotionless. I have no idea if he was feeling for me and didn't know how to deal with it, or if he didn't feel much but was there because he felt like he should be.

After being in the car for a bit, I remember talking to her, and she was crying too. She was telling me how she didn't mean to make me cry.

I don't remember how I got back to Jack's house, where I was staying for the weekend. I remember he didn't come with me. It was me, my brother, and my best friend, John. They kept telling me we should just leave, and drive home right now. I kept telling them it was a bad idea, and I remember yelling at them when they just wouldn't listen to me. They even took my car and filled it up with gas so we could leave right then. I think they got how bad I was feeling, and understood that I really needed to leave, but we didn't. We stayed.
Huge mistake.
My brother and my friend went and blazed with her the next night. That hurt too. Aren't your friends supposed to hate people you hate? That still seems like bullshit to me.
Either way, we hugged and said good-bye at the end of the night. I told her I forgave her so that she wouldn't feel bad, and made some stupid joke. I hate that I did that. Why the hell should I care how she feels? She clearly didn't care how I felt when she broke my heart in middle of a fucking party.

As she and I are walking in opposite directions, to never see each other again, what the hell do I decide to do? I fucking looked back. I put the nail in my own god damn coffin, where I'd be buried in self-loathing.
She broke my heart. She got to have fun on the last night I was there. She blazed and hung out with my friends. She got the feel ok with it because I told her it was. And I fucking looked back.

I left my dignity, and that precious piece of my soul that carries the capacity for trust, behind that night.

title: Does this story make you understand the intensity of heartbreak? Do you feel for the narrator? (not a true story)

question: List the main characters.

answer: The narrator, the narrator's love interest, Jack (the narrator's brother?), and John, the narrator's best friend

question: Who says "last night was a mistake?"

answer: The narrator's love interest

question: Who is the narrator's love interest?

answer: She is not named

question: Where does the story take place?

answer: At a party at the woman's house, then in the narrator's car, and finally at Jack's house

question: Write a ~6 sentence summary.

answer: The narrator has been following a woman around a party all night. They broke up two years ago, but something happened between them the previous night which has led the narrator to believe they are getting back together. The woman says last night was a mistake. The narrator leaves the party and cries in his car. He goes to his brother Jack's house, but Jack and his friend John go to another party with the woman the next day. The narrator tells the woman he forgives her before he leaves, even though he doesn't.


text:
She knew the day would not go her way from the sounds stirring up out of the garage. A few dings, a couple of bangs, that was typical. Not like this. This sounded like something gone wrong. Kat pushed up off the couch, wandered her way to the door connecting the house to the garage, and leaned in the frame of it.

There was Vincis, standing in front of a car; its hood was up and he was staring into it’s guts as if it had verbally accosted him, as if it had offended him, personally.

Kat frowned just a bit. She didn’t know who the car belonged to, but she did know it was some high roller, someone who could possibly make Vincis’ day a little less pleasant, if he so felt like it. And why not, right? Why not heap more issues on a guy that was already so high strung, they could use him for the telegraph?

Quietly, she stepped into the garage - but not quietly enough. This was, after all, Vincis’ domain, and nothing happened in here without his knowledge. She got about halfway to him when he turned his head, looking at her out of the corner of his eye. Impossibly bright and blue, eyes he got from his father, much to his dismay.

“H-Hey,” he said, a hint of a smile trying to make it across his features. It didn’t quite make it, but she noticed the attempt. It was enough in her book. “I’m s-sorry. Was I m-making t-too much noise?”

She smiled at him, shaking her head. “Nah, not too much.” Soon she was right beside him, and neatly checked him with her hip. “What are you working on?” And instantly, she could see the way Vincis’ features, which had just started to relax, tighten up again. He turned back forward, gesturing with his hand to the car before them, lips dipping into a frown.

“I c-can’t figure out wh-what’s wrong with it. I’ve tried everyth-thing.” Here, he reached up, running his hand through his hair - something Kat knew he only did, especially with greasy hands, when he was truly upset. Vincis tended to view cars as puzzles - and if he couldn’t fix one….well.

This was his talent. If he were incapable of fixing a car, he generally thought it to mean that he was incapable of performing and from there, things just went downhill. It was the little things that always bothered Vincis, not the big things. Launch an idea at him that might terrify another man, and he handled it like a champ. Give him a car he couldn’t fix?

He tended to take that poorly. Add in the fact that the car happened to belong to some big-wig, and Kat was pretty sure that all was not well upstairs.

The slim, delicate line of her hand reached out, long fingers coiling around his bicep. “How long do you have?” she asked, the dark line of her brow arching.

“Until the end of the w-week.”

And with that, she smiled. “You’ve got plenty of time, baby. You’re the best mechanic in town - you’ll figure it out.”

“But w-what if I’m not the b-best mechanic in town?” he suddenly snapped - and if his flinch was any sign, a little harder than he meant to. Kat wasn’t so much as phased, though.  She just smiled at him, that same lazy, easy smile, the one that had charmed his socks off from the start.

“Well, he doesn’t know that, now does he?” she asked. “And he can damn well wait, just like any other person can.” Vincis’ features crumpled a bit, looking from her to the car.

“I…I j-just don’t w-want to be a s-screwup. N-not in my w-work and…and n-not w-with you,” he muttered, gaze shifting downwards - only to be pulled around when she took his chin, turning his face to her.

“Hey…Vincis, I don’t love you because of the parts of you that I like.”

Briefly, the red-head looked completely, utterly baffled, totally not understanding just what the hell that was supposed to mean.

The ex-prostitute clarified it for him: “I love you for the parts about you I don’t like.”

title: [Short Story][Fiction] Flawed - 707 words

question: To whom does the car belong?

answer: Kat isn't sure.

question: Who is standing in the garage?

answer: Vincis.

question: What is Vincis' profession?

answer: He's a mechanic.

question: What is Vincis' worry?

answer: That he won't be able to fix the car.

question: Write a ~6 sentence summary.

answer: Kat, a redheaded former sex worker, hears tinkering in the garage and goes to inspect the source. She finds Vincis, staring into the hood of a car with a concerned expression. She doesn't know whose car it is. Vincis seems to be unsure as to how to proceed. He confesses he is afraid he won't be able to fix it within the week he has been allotted. Kat reassures him, telling him he's the best mechanic in town.


text:
HARRY CROMWELL GREENLAW (August 22, 1895 – October 23, 1965) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Liberal party from 1944 to 1952.[1]

[1]

title: Harry C. Greenlaw

question: Who is Harry Cromwell Greenlaw?

answer: Harry Greenlaw was a Canadian politician.

question: Which party was he a member of?

answer: The Liberal party.

question: For long did Greenlaw serve the Legislative Assembly?

answer: 8 years.

question: Which province was he a part of?

answer: New Brunswick.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: Harry Cromwell Greenlaw was a Canadian politician. He belonged to the Liberal Party and served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick for eight years. He died on 23 October 1965.