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It feels so good. "Does it feel good for you... too?"

Noboby's there of course, just my pillow. I realize how uterly lonely I am and make a
few quick thrusts just to get it over with.

I hug the pillow in a desperate attempt to quench my lonliness as I roll over on my side.
As I lay thinking that I should really get a girlfriend it lights up a cigarette and takes
a few drags before it decides to leave. The fee already collected. The fee; a small piece of my dignity.

"Until next time" it says with no emotion. Until next time my brain needs to fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuck.

title: Hope you like (very) short story about a Fleshlight

question: What is the man doing in the story?

answer: He is masturbating with a fleshlight.

question: How does he feel after?

answer: Embarrassed. He feels he lost a piece of his dignity.

question: What does he think he should do?

answer: He should get a girlfriend.

question: Will he use the fleshlight again?

answer: He believes he will.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: The text is a short story about a man masturbating with a fleshlight and feeling embarrassed and lonely after.


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AEGIDIUS URSINUS DE VIVERE or AEGIDIUS URSINUS DE VIVARIIS (died 17 April 1647) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Titular Patriarch of Jerusalem (1641–1647).[1]

Biography

Aegidius Ursinus de Vivere was born in Liege, Belgium in 1577[2] or 1598. On 15 April 1641, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII as Titular Patriarch of Jerusalem.[3][4] On 23 April 1641, and ordained a priest and on 28 Apr 1641, he was consecrated bishop by Antonio Marcello Barberini, Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli, with Faustus Poli, Titular Archbishop of _Amasea_, and Celso Zani, Bishop Emeritus of Città della Pieve, serving as co-consecrators.[5] He served as Titular Patriarch of Jerusalem until his death on 17 April 1647.[6]

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title: Aegidius Ursinus de Vivere

question: Who was Aegidius Ursinus de Vivere?

answer: He was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Titual Patriarch of Jerusalem.

question: Where was Aegidius Ursinus de Vivere born?

answer: Liege, Belgium

question: Who was Antonio Marcello Barberini?

answer: The Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli who consecrated Aegidius as bishop.

question: How did Aegidius Ursinus de Vivere die?

answer: That information can't be found.

question: For how many years did Aegidius Ursinus de Vivere serve as Titular Patriarch of Jerusalem?

answer: Six years (1641-1647)

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: Aegidius Ursinus de Vivere was a Roman Catholic prelate. He was consecrated bishop by Antonio Marcello Barberini and served as the Titular Patriarch of Jerusalem from 1641 to 1647.


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NewsOK: Oklahoma City News, Sports, Weather & Entertainment

[Anthony Slater]

by Anthony Slater

Published: Wed, September 23, 2015 12:00 AM Updated: Wed, September 23, 2015 3:10 PM

[Oklahoma City Thunder small forward Kevin Durant (35) drives to the basket as Golden State Warriors small forward Draymond Green (23) defends during the third quarter of an NBA basketball game Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)]
Oklahoma City Thunder small forward Kevin Durant (35) drives to the basket as Golden State Warriors small forward Draymond Green (23) defends during the third quarter of an NBA basketball game Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)

Draymond Green’s team carries the NBA title belt and, individually, he carries a reputation as the league’s best current trash-talker.

But when asked his opinion for his biggest challenger for the crown, Green had an interesting answer. Appearing on ESPN radio’s Freddie Coleman Show, Green singled out Thunder superstar forward Kevin Durant.

“You know who I always thought (was a great trash-talker), but has been under the radar, I think Kevin Durant,” Green said. “Lotta people don’t know that. But if you play against him you know.”

What does Durant say?

“KD makes you feel bad about yourself, that you ever talked junk,” Green said. “It’s the funniest thing in the world.”

Durant’s material, of course, is strengthened by his talent. In Durant’s 10 games against the Warriors since Green was drafted, KD is averaging 28.5 points, including a career-high 54 point outburst during his MVP season.

“Me and KD have had our battles over the course of my three years in the league,” Green said. “But when he end up with 53 (points), it ain’t much you could say back at that point.”

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 Anthony Slater started on the Thunder beat in the summer of 2013, joining after two years as NewsOK.com's lead sports blogger and web editor. A native Californian, Slater attended Sonoma State for two years before transferring to Oklahoma State in... Read more ›

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question: Who has a reputation of the NBA's biggest trash talker?

answer: Draymond Green has a reputation of being the NBA's biggest trash talker.

question: Who does Green say is a good trash talker?

answer: Green says that Kevin Durant is a better trash talker.

question: What is Durant's average points against the Warriors?

answer: Durant scores 28.5 points on average against the Warriors.

question: How many games has Durant played against the Warriors?

answer: Durant has played 10 games against the Warriors.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: Draymond Green has a reputation of being a trash talker, but he claims that Kevin Durant is better than him at it. Durant's trash talk is strengthened by his talent, scoring large amounts of points per game.


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   "Shut the fuck up, lets roll!"

   "Wut!?"

   "Step away from the crack pipe I mean my drums or we'll be late, dipshit!"

   "Oh yeah..."

...

   Bael was the last bicycle allowed across the bridge.  The officer crossed the roadway after Bael passed and said to Rael,

   "Pedestrians aren't allowed on the bridge as the cruiser passes under."

   "But that's my brother there that you let cross ahead of me."  It was nearly a hundred yards before Bael realized Rael wasn't following.  He stopped and noticed the officer had crossed the roadway to talk with Rael, then eventually let her pass. As she rode closer she shouted, "We can't be on the bridge when the boat passes."  Bael didn't think that they would get such a surreal view of a Navy ship steaming up the Willamette.  He thought it was strange to see a military ship. This was new for him, Bael hadn't lived in a Port city before. For the rest of the ride he thought of what it would look like to see war at home. Then snapped out of it and gave thanks to his great friends for hauling his heavy instrument around.

   Rael usually stood in the center of the room whenever and where ever Bael's band played.  She stood in the center of the room at any show. In fact, she just liked being in the center of rooms. At first it was of an OCD nature, where she had to be in the center of the room for some geometrical reason that even she hardly understood.  As she grew out of her minor obsessive compulsive tendencies and listened to more live music she found that the center of the room usually sounded the best in her opinion.  Occasionally there was an incompetent sound engineer running the sound system.  Rael being somewhat obsessive compulsive, and controlling would have to ask if the engineer would lower or raise the sound of an instrument, or adjust the high or low frequency levels.  Rael was kind of weirded out by this particular peculiar sound engineer.  He had a strange way of staring at her, and when she first noticed, he looked away suddenly then back in her direction but not directly at her as if he hadn't been staring at all.  This had been going on since she arrived. He was always staring at her if she looked in his direction.

   "Bael, tell the sound guy to cut some of the lows when you guys play, it sounds like shit. I would but he's fucking weird." The music was loud and Rael had to lean close to her brothers ear.

   "Haa!" She just stared at him and Bael realized she was serious, he nodded once. "...ok." He said to himself.  Bael went straight to the engineer and without thinking twice leaned in and said.

   "You see my girl over there?" Rael was watching confused, angered and embarrassed as her brother pointed her out.  The engineer sat up straight and stared emotionless at Rael. "She asked me to ask you if you're down to fuck. :D  We like you, oh and when my band plays next could you turn down the low frequencies a little?" The engineer turned to Bael with his brow scrunched, confusion and excitement and skepticism wrinkled throughout his face.

   "Uh what? ...yeah, I mean, really? I can turn down the lows sure... uh are you fucking with me? what, a threesome?"

   "Thanks, man.  Yeah a threesome, dude.  You look fun, at least have a drink with us?" The engineer pondered the proposition for nearly a minute, laughing to himself while staring at Rael who was still watching.

   "Fuck you, I don't believe you. You're fucking with me." He turned towards Rael and laughed, then back towards the sound board. "Nice try."

   "Sorry, man just messing around, didn't mean to offend you or anything, thanks for running the sound." The engineer nodded and looked back at the stage as Bael turned and walked back to his curious sister.

   "What the fuck did you say to him, dipshit?"

   "Just told him I was your manager and you do private dances, wanna make some money tonight?"

   "I'll fucking stab you!" She lunged at him and started punching his chest and stomach.

   "Whoa, don't worry lil' sis he doesn't have the cash!" He said while deflecting fists.

   "You're band is like a bunch of amateurs compared to them."  She gestured towards the stage and  Bael laughed.  He didn't care if it was true, this band was killing it.

title: Fucking Rockstars.

question: Why didn't Rael talk to the sound engineer?

answer: Rael didn't talk to the sound engineer because he was creeping her out.

question: Why was Rael almost not allowed on the bridge?

answer: Rael was almost not allowed on the bridge because a military vessel was about to pass underneath.

question: Was Rael actually going to stab Bael?

answer: No, Rael was most likely not going to stab Bael.


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[Lale Müldür, 2018] LÂLE MÜLDÜR (born 1956, in Aydın, Turkey) is a Turkish poet and writer, considered one of the most influential Turkish poets of the last several decades.[1] Her eccentric style sets her apart from her peers.

After graduating from Robert College, Müldür went to Florence to study with a poetry scholarship. She returned to Turkey to study electronics and economics for one year each at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi in Ankara. After two years in Ankara, she went to the United Kingdom, where she received her Bachelor of Science in economics from the University of Manchester, and her Master of Science in the sociology of literature from Essex University.[2]

Müldür then married a Belgian painter named Patrick Claeys and lived in Brussels from 1983 to 1987.

Müldür worked as a columnist for the _Radikal_ newspaper for a time.

In 2002, Müldür suffered a brain hemorrhage, but soon recovered.[3]

Some of her poems have been set to music, the most famous being “Destina” by Yeni Türkü. Other; “La Luna”

Müldür's work has also received international recognition. Two selections of her poetry have been translated into English, one titled _Water Music_ (Dublin: Poetry Ireland/Éigse Éireann; Tyrone Guthrie Centre, 1998), the other titled _I Too Went to the Hunt of the Deer_ (Istanbul: Artshop Yayıncılık, 2008). A collection of her work inspired by the French painter Colette Deblé has been translated into French, _Ainsi parle la fille de pluie / Yağmur Kızı Böyle Diyor_ (Istanbul: Institut français, 2002).

Bibliography

Poetry

-   _Uzak Fırtına_ (1988)
-   _Voyıcır 2_ (1990, written with Ahmet Güntan)
-   _Seriler Kitabı_ (1991)
-   _Kuzey Defterleri_ (1992)
-   _Buhurumeryem_ (1993)
-   _Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk_ (1998)
-   _Saatler / Geyikler_ (2001)
-   _Ultra-zone'da Ultrason_ (2006; Altın Portakal (Golden Orange) Poetry Award, 2007[4])
-   _Güneş Tutulması 1999_ (2008)
-   _Medine ve Kavun Likörü_ (2009, written with Seyhan Özdamar)
-   _Siyah Sistanbul_ (2011)
-   _Anne'ye Ayetler ve O'nun Postmortem Alâmetleri_ (2012)
-   _Yağmur Kızı Böyle Diyor_ (2012)

Fiction

-   _Bizansiyya_, Yapı Kredi Publishing, 2007.

Collected newspaper columns

-   _Anne Ben Barbar Mıyım?_ (1998)
-   _Haller Leyla_ (2006)

[1]  PEN America page for Lale Müldür

[2]  Müldür's page at a database of contemporary Turkish literature

[3]  Alumni news, RC Quarterly

[4]  Golden Orange (Altın Portakal) Poetry Award, 2007

title: Lale Müldür

question: What does the text say about Lale Müldür's career?

answer: Lale Müldür became one of the most influential Turkish poets of her time. Her eccentric style has always set her apart from her peers. She studied with a poetry scholarship in Florence and electronics when she returned to Turkey. She also received her Bachelor of Science in economics from the University of Manchester. Lale's Master of Science was in sociology of literature from Essex university. She worked as a newspaper columnist for some time and also received international recognition for some of her work.


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The LIGIER JS P217 is a Le Mans Prototype built by Onroak Automotive and named in a partnership with former French racing driver Guy Ligier. The Ligier JS P217 was built to meet the 2017 FIA and ACO regulations for 2017 for the LMP2 category in the FIA World Endurance Championship. The car also meets the regulations for the International Motor Sports Association’s (IMSA) WeatherTech SportsCar Championship for the Prototype class. It is active in both these championship series as well as the European Le Mans Series[1] and Asian Le Mans Series in 2017. The prototype made its racing debut at the 2017 24 Hours of Daytona and its FIA World Endurance Championship debut at the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps.

Development

The Liger JS P217 was conceived in 2016 in preparation for the FIA and ACO's new regulation changes in 2017. Onroak Automotive built a brand new chassis from scratch and focused on improving the mechanics of the car from the Ligier JS P2. Onroak and technical partners focused on the air cooling of the engine radiators and brakes and cockpit air conditioning. The mechanical features of the car that were concentrated on was the implementation of a new axle, nut, and rim to lessen the time of tire changes, the efficiency of the axles, weight distribution, accessibility of mechanics at the front of the cockpit, aerodynamic efficiency, LMP1 style power steering, and a limited number of chassis pieces. The driver's comfort, space, controls accessibility, and visibility also was paid attention to as well.[2]

The car was unveiled at Spa-Francorchamps publicly in September 2016. It also performed tests at Magny-Cours in September 2016 and Daytona International Speedway in November 2016 for preparation for the 24 Hours of Daytona.[3]

Nissan Onroak DPi

[Nissan Onroak DPi in 2017 Petit Le Mans.]

A variation of the prototype, the Nissan Onroak DPi, also known as the Ligier Nissan DPi, was created for the IMSA's WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Prototype class under the DPi regulations. The car was developed in partnership with Nissan and Nismo. The powerplant of the vehicle is a 3.8 litre V6 twin-turbo engine from the Nissan GT-R GT3. Other alterations from the P217 include a large front panel and revised side panels.[4] Onroak Automotive supplied Tequila Patrón ESM with two prototypes for the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.[5] ESM ran the DPi until closing due to a lack of sponsorship in late 2018.[6] CORE Autosport would purchase the ESM DPis and run them for the 2019 season. The program would not continue due to the retirement of team owner Jon Bennett.[7]

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title: Ligier JS P217

question: What is the Ligier JS P217?

answer: A Le Mans Prototype.

question: Who builds the Ligier JS P217?

answer: Onroak Automotive.

question: Who is it named in partnership with?

answer: Guy Ligier.

question: What is Guy Ligier?

answer: A former French racing driver.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: This article is about the Ligier JS P217, a Le Mans racing prototype created for the 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship.


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KITIRIK was a children's television character portrayed by Bunny Orsak. The eponymous show was broadcast on Houston ABC affiliate KTRK-TV from 1954 to 1971.[1]

In 1954 KTRK/channel 13/Houston, Texas hired Wanda Louise Orsak to be its on-air mascot in costume as a black cat. Mrs. Orsak was a graduate speech major with a degree from Louisiana State University. Starting out doing short on-air promotions and personal appearances for the company she soon began hosting a 30-minute broadcast and introducing cartoons for children. Next she added her friend Squeaky the mouse (a marionette) and her sidekick Nod the Silent clown to the fun. Then her little fans were invited to visit with her at the television studio. During the next decade the show had many names including Kitirik's Carnival, Carousal, Tree House and grew greatly in popularity.

In 1969, Bunny, as she was called by many close friends, started another career, establishing a successful advertising agency for years and Later opening a designer clothing resale store in the Woodlands, Texas. Finally, Bun went into semi-retirement and now lives in New Mexico with her cat (Kit) and husband.

Further reading

-   _Hi There, Boys and Girls!: America's Local Children's TV Programs_ by Tim Hollis, University Press of Mississippi (2001)

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title: Kitirik

question: Who played Kitirik?

answer: Bunny Orsak

question: When did Kitirik's show run?

answer: From 1954 to 1971

question: Where did Orsak earn her degree?

answer: Louisiana State University

question: When did Orsak start her advertising agency?

answer: 1969

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: Kitirik was a children's television character portrayed by Bunny Orsak. The character had an eponymous show from 1954 to 1971 on KTRK-TV, a Houston-based ABC affiliate. In 1969, Orsak started a successful advertising agency and later opened a clothing resale store.


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I became an anthropologist-voyeur of displays of #selfcare last November, after I saw a picture on Instagram of a redheaded woman rubbing a piece of papaya on her face. “I am obsessed with this natural beauty product,” she wrote in the caption. “I rub the skins on my face every morning and I have noticed a HUGE improvement in my complexion. #selfcare.” There are 1.6 million images tagged in this way on Instagram and a few million more on Twitter and Tumblr, most of them posted in the past year. Another typical image, posted in early January, shows a woman in an Aqua-Netted chignon, pageant makeup, and a black lacy bra, posing with a bowl of sweet-potato noodles and a plastic mini-jug of ReaLemon lemon juice. (The self-care part of the scene, we’re given to understand from the caption, is the spirallized potato.)

“Self-care” rose as collective social practice in 2016 alongside national stress levels. Articles about the art of self-care proliferated to the extent that_ __The Atlantic_ ran a guide to online self-care guides. The _Times_ Style section published a think piece on the popularity of the term, which peaked in Google searches the week after the election. Suddenly, one could buy not only a 2017 Self-Care Planner but “self-care temporary tattoos” in the shape of Band-Aids bearing reassurances like “This too shall pass” and “I am enough.” In late November, a group of gamers and programmers participated in an online “Self-Care Jam,” in which they made affirming ephemera for the Web, including a video game intended to teach people to take care of themselves in the morning and a @selfcare_bot that tweets hourly affirmations (“No matter what, you need to do what’s best for you”).

“Self-care” is newer in the American lexicon than “self-reliance,” but both stem from the puritanical values of self-improvement and self-examination. In 1984, Michel Foucault wrote in “The History of Sexuality, Vol. 3”_ _that the notion dates back to the Greeks, noting that in the Alcibiades dialogues, Socrates advises a young man not to attempt political leadership until he has attended to himself. In Plato’s Apology_,_ Foucault also noted, Socrates claims to have been sent by the gods to remind men to “concern themselves not with their riches, not with their honor, but with themselves and with their souls.” This theme was taken up by Seneca, Epictetus, and a host of early Christian thinkers, and provides the foundation of the modern religious and philosophical imperative to “cultivate the self” or “care for the soul.” More recently, the philosopher Stanley Cavell has argued that the “grand narrative of American individualism,” as it can be traced from William James to Ralph Waldo Emerson to Walt Whitman, echoes this ancient ethos wherein society is organized around the self-cultivating individual.

Historically, in America, full citizenship has rested on an idea of the capacity for self-care. Samuel A. Cartwright, in his “Report on the Diseases and Physical Peculiarities of the Negro Race,” from 1851, justified slavery by noting a “debasement of mind, which has rendered the people of Africa unable to take care of themselves.” The scholar Matthew Frye Jacobson points out in his book “Barbarian Virtues”_ _that immigrants arriving to the United States from Southern and Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth century were deemed “unfit citizens” because they lacked the “ideas and attitudes which befit men to take up . . . the problem of self-care and self-government.” The same arguments were made to deny women the vote. Consequently, self-care in America has always required a certain amount of performance: a person has to be able not only to care for herself but to prove to society that she’s doing it.

The #selfcare clickholes that have emerged in the last eighteen months are an extreme manifestation of this tendency. Never before have people like @instastefyb been able to provide such immediate photo evidence of their face-mask rituals. (“We wake up, flawless,” the caption reads, followed by hashtags like #beauty, #selfcare, and #sorrynotsorry.”) The tone of this endlessly renewing digital archive reflects an essential change in the performance of self-care that has taken place in the past fifty years or so. After decades of disuse, the term was repopularized in the seventies and eighties by people of color and queer communities—this time as a gesture of defiance. In 1988, the words of the African-American lesbian writer Audre Lorde became a rallying cry: “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” In this formulation, self-care was no longer a litmus test for social equality; it was a way to insist to a violent and oppressive culture that you mattered, that you were worthy of care. Lorde’s quote remains the mantra of contemporary #selfcare practitioners. “Many of us are poor, many of us are working ourselves into early graves,” the writer Evette Dionne, referring to black women, said in an interview with _Bitch_ magazine last year. “And so saying that I matter, that I come first, that what I need and what I want matters I think is a radical act because it goes against everything that we’ve been conditioned to believe.”

In a similar spirit, after the mass shooting at a gay night club in Orlando, L.G.B.T.Q. people across the world started posting selfies under the hashtag #queerselflove. One of the most popular recent self-care memes is the graphic quiz “You Feel Like Shit: An Interactive Self-Care Guide,” which was created by Jace Harr, a trans man. Framed as a questionnaire, the survey ranges from simple questions (“Have you eaten recently?”) to those especially relevant for people facing oppression and trauma: “Do you feel triggered? Are you feeling dissociated, depersonalized, or derealized?” The week that Philando Castile and Alton Sterling were killed, a young black trans man named Devin-Norelle (@steroidbeyonce) posted a mostly naked self-portrait with the comment “Healing is self-care is self-love, self-indulgence, and self-preservation, because sometimes we need to be reminded that #BlackIsBeautiful.” When I asked about the photo, Devin-Norelle told me that making self-care public is “informed by resistance toward the forces that tell me that people like me shouldn’t be.”

A friend who is a religious ethicist recently pointed me to the philosopher Harry Frankfurt, who, she wrote, suggests that “in order to care about the things and people we love, we have to care and love ourselves, because we have to endorse the cares and loves that we have.” “This isn’t selfishness,” she added. “It’s self-endorsement, toward wholehearted loving.” This argument sounds similar to the now popular online slogan “Self-care isn’t selfish,” but it has a different orientation and focus. When you endorse yourself as both vulnerable and worthy, especially when that endorsement feels hard, you can grant that same complex subjectivity to others, even to people whose needs and desires are different from your own. At its best, the #selfcare movement offers opportunities to see and care about vulnerability that’s unlike yours.

The irony of the grand online #selfcare-as-politics movement of 2016 is that it was powered by straight, affluent white women, who, although apparently feeling a new vulnerability in the wake of the election, are not traditionally the segment of American society in the greatest need of affirmation. Naturally, the movement has become a market. Further investigations of Papaya Girl showed that her picture was #spon, or sponsored—in this case by a beauty company. In fact, #selfcare is often #spon. When I looked closely at another post, of a blogger having coffee and enjoying a “smooth and balanced” moment, I saw that it was paid for by McDonald’s to promote its new “smooth and balanced” coffee blend. A survey of one recent morning’s Instagram and Pinterest posts turned up an image by West Elm showing a kitten napping on one of the company’s quilts, an ad for Schick Hydro Silk razors, and a link to an article on five-minute “self-care moves” sponsored by eBay, with hyperlinks to essential oils and books of Mary Oliver poetry available for purchase.

All of this might serve a rather different notion of American individualism than what Audre Lorde had in mind. As Laurie Penny recently wrote, for _The _Baffler__, the risk of promoting individual self-care as a solution to existential anxiety or oppression is that victims will become isolated in a futile struggle to solve their own problems rather than to collectively change the systems causing them harm. Perhaps it is not surprising, then, that beneath the face masks and yoga asanas, many of the #selfcare posts sound strangely Trump-like. “Completely unconcerned with what’s not mine” is a common caption. So is “But first, YOU,” and the counterfactual “I can’t give you a cup to drink from if mine is empty.” I recently spotted another hashtag right next to #selfcare: #lookoutfornumberone. The image was an illustration of a pale, thin girl with a tangle of wildflowers growing from the crown of her head, reaching up with a watering can in one hand to water her own flowers.

question: When was the article written?

answer: Probably sometime in 2017

question: Who is the author/narrator?

answer: That information can't be found

question: How does the author feel about the self-care movement?

answer: They compare it to the older concept of self-reliance, but they point out that a lot of self-care posts are sponsored by various brands, and they compare some self-care posts to Trump-rhetoric, in that they focus on putting yourself above everyone else

question: Who published the article?

answer: That information can't be found

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: The author discusses the self-care movement, comparing it to the idea of self-reliance, which has been around longer. The author discusses the origin of the idea of self-care, but points out that many self-care posts are sponsored, and compares some of them to Trump-rhetoric in that they emphasize putting yourself before everyone else.


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AFC Bournemouth Under-21s and Academy are the youth teams of Bournemouth. The reserve team is made up of under-21 players and is effectively Bournemouth's second-string side. They play in The Central League's Southeast Division and contest the Central League Cup. The under-18 players, among other younger age groups, make up the Academy team. They play in the Youth Alliance League's Southwest Division and contest the Youth Alliance Cup.
Home fixtures for both sides are contested at the Canford Park Arena in Wimborne, Bournemouth.
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title: AFC Bournemouth Under-21s and Academy

question: How many youth teams does AFC Bournemouth have?

answer: Two - Under-21s and the Academy.

question: What is unique about the reserve team?

answer: The reserve team comprise of mostly under-21 players and they are AFC Bournemouth's second-string side.

question: What division does the reserve team play in?

answer: They play in The Central League's Southeast Division.

question: On which pitch do AFC Bournemouth reserve and youth teams play?

answer: At the Canford Park Arena in Wimborne, Bournemouth.

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer:
AFC Bournemouth has two youth sides - Under-21s and the Academy. The reserve team is mostly made up of under-21 players. The reserve team currently contest in The Central League's Southeast Division.

Both the Academy and the reserve use the Canford Park Arena in Wimborne for their home games.


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Not all the water in the rough rude sea
can wash the balm off an anointed king.

-William Shakespeare, Richard II

When I sit on this chair, I think of the others who sat before me.  The Great King who started it all. The Apostate King who betrayed us. The Savior King who rescued us from the depths of Hell. The Kings of Old, the Kings of New. Kings who achieved much, Kings who achieved little.

And Kings who were murdered.

When I sit on this chair, I think of the others who sat before me, and why they were here. Some war heroes, some because they carried the Royal Bloodline.

And some because they knew how to kill.

When I sit on this chair, I think of the others who sat before me, and how they looked down at the subjects below him. Some saw power for himself, some saw nothing but poverty and hunger.

And one saw himself.

When the doors to my chamber opened, I was startled awake. I was in a heavy sleep.

The first thing I saw when I woke was the bright colors on your cap. My eyes focused some more, and I saw you being dragged to me. It was then when I realized who you were- you were my Jester.

But why were you being dragged? You were perfectly able to walk yourself.

A voice foreign to me echoed across the room. “Your Majesty. This scoundrel has been caught plotting against the King. He planned to stab you in the chest while entertaining you, and claim the throne for himself.”

I looked at your low hanging head, your droopy eyelids. “Is this true?”

Miserably, you looked up at me. “Yes.”

When I sit on this chair, I think of others who will sit here. Kings with potential. Kings with hatred. Kings who have Royal Blood, Kings who don’t.

And Kings who failed.

You see, I do not deserve to be King. I was a blacksmith, no Royal Blood, no power at all. One day, the Queen was caught consorting with one of the townsfolk. They were both publicly impaled.

After a few months, the King got lonely. He went searching for a new Queen. He chose my beloved wife.

They came to our house, with their swords and shields. They beat me, and took her.

She lasted only 6 days. On the 6th night, she stuck a sword through her chest.

I started making tools. Not swords, as they are challenging, and take long, but heavy blunt objects and primitive shields. I started to gather a little militia. It was all individual. Anyone who was in the militia was asked specifically by me. If they found me, I would be hung.

Then, the day came. The anniversary of her death. The Kingdom had forgotten, but we had not.

We stormed the castle, leaving but 10 guards to recount the story. It was a brutal, viscous battle, with over 30 of our own dead. But we won. I killed the King.

And I took his place.

I ask, “Tell me, Jester, what did I do to you?”

You rise. “Every day, every night, I am summoned here. You make me dance, sing, rhyme. And what do you do? Sit on that throne, not entertained.

“Being a Jester has caused me nothing but pain and humiliation. My friends and wife all left me. I cannot get real work. So I stay here, juggling and balancing, all for your delight. And you sit there, bored.

“Every breath, every action, every moment in my life has lead to this. You crush me under your foot. And you don’t even get any satisfaction from it.”

I think of my wife.

“Guards!” I bellow. “Leave!”

They march out of the chamber.

I unlock your shackles and handcuffs. You look surprised and confused, but nothing is said.

I pull out my sword. You look frightened. You think I am going to harm you.

I hand it to you. “Do what you want.”

A dark look shadows across your face.

title: Unnamed (Story #2)

question: What can we infer about the king's state of mind?

answer: The king reminisces on the kings that came before him, especially the ones that were killed and the ones that killed, the dichotomy between those that had royal blood and those that did not. He reveals that he did not assume the position of king with eagerness, but rather because he had to. He did it with a heavy heart. After the old queen was murdered as punishment the old king took the new king's wife by force. She committed suicide on the 6th night. In the spirit of vengeance, the new king raised a militia and killed the old king. He then assumed the position of king. When the jester claims to want to kill him, he reflects on his dead wife and removes his shackles and give him a sword saying "Do what you want." The king misses his wife and is clearly depressed about her committing suicide. He doesn't care about being king, he would rather join her in the after life.


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_LIFE PLAN A AND B_ () is a 2016 Taiwanese melodrama created and produced by TTV. It stars Rainie Yang, Yan Yulin and Johnny Lu. It is the second instalment in Q Series. First original broadcast began on October 7, 2016 on TTV airing every Friday night from 10:00-11:50 pm.[1][2]

Synopsis

Ru Wei and You Yan have a simple relationship. But in every simple relationship there are many difficulties. They are not rich, but they try very hard to enjoy life; even if it means for their three meals a day they only eat instant noodles, they can still make hundreds of flavours. They are very serious about their relationship and trying their best to achieve something in life – hoping one day they can become who they want to become. One day, Ru Wei has a 'lucky chance' in life. Her company wants to send her to Shanghai, with a promotion and higher pay. These two who are deeply in love cannot bear to have a long distance relationship. With all the uncertainties in their future, can they still stand by each other? If your life “schedule” suddenly changes and forces you to choose between love and career, how can you choose one? Will you also be swaying between the two, unable to decide what to do? If only we can know the outcomes of both options before we choose one, how much better and easier would that be...

Cast

-   Rainie Yang as Zheng Ru-Wei
-   Yan Yulin as Tang You-Yan
-   Johnny Lu as Rong Yi-Chao, Eason
    -   Ru-Wei's supervisor in Shanghai
-   Chang Fu-chien as Tang De-Gang
    -   You Yan's father
-   Chen Chi-hsia as Zhou Ya-Qing
    -   You Yan's mother
-   Ricie Fun as Gao Mei-Yu
-   Hsieh Ying-hsuan as Ms. Zhang
-   Andy Wu as Zhao Hui
-   Diane Lin as Tang You-Shan
    -   You-Yan's younger sister

Soundtrack

-   Opening theme: “Traces of Time in Love 年輪說” by Rainie Yang
-   Ending theme: “The Lessons of Love 相愛的方法” by Rainie Yang
-   “Being Single 單” by Rainie Yang
-   “How Sad 多難得” by Yvonne Hsieh

Episode ratings

  Air date            Episode   Average ratings   Rank
  ------------------- --------- ----------------- ------
  October 7, 2016     1         0.57              4
  October 14, 2016    2                           4
  October 21, 2016    3         0.67              4
  October 28, 2016    4         0.64              4
  November 4, 2016    5         4
  November 11, 2016   6                           3
  AVERAGE RATINGS     0.66      -

Awards and nominations

  Year                                           Ceremony                                      Category                   Nominee   Result
  ---------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------- -------------------------- --------- --------
  2017                                           22nd Asian Television Awards[3]               Best Original Screenplay   Mag Hsu
  52nd Golden Bell Awards                        Best Leading Actress in a Television Series   Rainie Yang
  Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series   Johnny Lu
  Best Writing for a Television Series           Mag Hsu
  12th Seoul International Drama Awards[4]       Best Mini-series                              _Life Plan A and B_

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[3]  蘋果日報|url=https://tw.entertainment.appledaily.com/realtime/20171201/1251826/|website=蘋果日報|accessdate=December 1, 2017|language=zh-TW}}

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title: Life Plan A and B

question: What is Life Plan A and B?

answer: It is a Taiwan-made TV drama that started airing in 2016.

question: What does the title mean?

answer: The title of the show refers to its main plot point: the main character, Ru Wei, who has a simple life with financial difficulties, has been offered a promotion that would require a move to Shanghai. This would separate her from You Yan. So Ru-Wei has to make a choice between her relationship and a career.

question: Why would the choice be hard for Ru-Wei?

answer: According to the synopsis, Ru-Wei is serious about her relationship with You Yan and the two seem to be happy together. Alternatively, the promotion  comes with better pay, which will help her with her financial concerns as they can only afford instant noodles. Being apart will put a  strain on their relationship.

question: Why can't You Yan just move with Ru-Wei?

answer: No specific reasons have been given, though it is unlikely that You Yan has a career to sacrifice since both characters have financial issues. It is likely that there are other narrative elements preventing You Yan from travelling. While this information is unclear, the reason must be compelling or believable enough as the show has several award nominations in Taiwan and in Korea.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: Life Plan A and B is a TV series about a couple whose simple and happy relationship is put to the test when one of them is offered a good job and pay -which would separate the two by a great distance. The series stars Raine Yang and Yan Yulin as the main characters.


text: She showed up abrupt and unexpected in the early afternoon.  She was distraught and I was groggy and it was awkward.  She told me things I didn't want to know and when I told her I didn't want to know them she cried.  I made a drink for each of us and she refused hers but I was happy to have mine.  Some of the things she told me were my fault but not all of them.  I felt guilty and annoyed and guilty that I felt annoyed.  She noticed and I noticed but we both pretended that we hadn't.  After a while I ran out of things to say so I stopped talking and she started crying again.  I wanted to console her but I couldn't so I stared at the floor and waited for her to leave.  This made her angry and she left and I was left with myself.

title: A Story About a Girl part 2

question: Why was the meeting between the two awkward?

answer: She arrived unexpectedly and was distraught. She also shared information that the narrator didn't want to know. She opened up too much.

question: Why was the narrator groggy?

answer: He may already have had an alcoholic beverage or two.

question: Why couldn't the narrator console the woman?

answer: He could have consoled her. He preferred not to or perhaps the only way to console her would have been to take a step back into their ruined relationship.


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The KING FAISAL AIRBASE SHOOTING occurred on 4 November 2016 at King Faisal Air Base, a Jordanian air force installation near Al-Jafr, when three U.S. Army Special Forces trainers stationed at the base were deliberately killed by a Jordanian soldier who was guarding the base's entrance. The American soldiers had been returning from a training exercise in a convoy when they were fired upon by First Sergeant Marik al-Tuwayha at a vehicle checkpoint resulting in a shootout.

The incident marked the second time in less than a year that American trainers had been killed in Jordan and caused a dispute between the governments of the United States and Jordan while also raising questions of what role U.S. soldiers were playing in Jordan.[1][2] The Jordanian government formally charged al-Tuwayha with murder and intent to kill provoking anger from certain elements of Jordan's population including the influential Howeitat tribe. After a month-long trial, al-Tuwayha was sentenced to life in prison with hard labor in July 2017.[3]

Background

The United States and Jordan have maintained a strong military relationship since 1957 when the U.S. first began sending military aid to Jordan. In fiscal year 2013 the United States sent nearly $1.4 billion of aid to Jordan. In 1996, the United States bestowed Jordan with Major non-NATO Ally (MNNA) status, a designation that, among other things, makes Jordan eligible to receive excess U.S. defense articles, training, and loans of equipment for cooperative research and development.[4] Beginning in 2013, Jordan has also become a popular locale for U.S. training of groups such as Iraqi government troops and moderate Syrian rebels as part of the Syrian Train and Equip Program.[5][6]

The Syrian Train and Equip Program's roots in Jordan begin in 2013 when the first U.S. U.S. special forces trainers arrived in the country to train the program's first recruits. STEP was a CIA ran program and as such U.S. troops participating in it were “detailed” to the CIA in accordance with international law.[7] Jordanian military bases are most often used in the training of selected fighters.[8] One of these bases included King Faisal Air Base, located on the outskirts of Al-Jafr, Jordan, among other covert locations around Jordan.[9]

Action of November 4, 2016

[The three victims of the King Faisal Air Base shooting] Shortly after 12:00pm (ADT) on November 4, 2016 a convoy of four unarmored vehicles arrived at King Faisal air base. The convoy contained five American soldiers who were returning from a day of range training elsewhere. The first vehicle of the convoy passed through the base's sole access control point unimpeded. As the second vehicle approached to enter a Jordanian army guard, Corporal Marik al-Tuwayha, opened fire with his M16 rifle, striking through the windshield of the vehicle and killing Staff Sergeant Kevin McEnroe and Staff Sergeant Matthew Lewellen. The other Americans in the following vehicles shouted in both English and Arabic to Corporal al-Tuwayha to cease fire to no avail. Corporal al-Tuwayha then advanced on the other Americans in the convoy, firing on them as he did so. The two remaining Americans sought cover and returned fire. Staff Sergeant James Moriarty was killed and the remaining American shot Corporal al-Tuwayha with his pistol, critically wounding him and ending the gunbattle.[10]

The Americans in the convoy were not wearing body armor since it was not required to outside of some specified training which contributed to the devastating losses suffered in the shooting. Corporal al-Tuwayha was wearing body armor and was using a rifle while the Americans only had pistols for personal protection. Two of the Americans in the attack were medically evacuated but later died of their wounds. Corporal al-Tuwayha was severely injured and placed in an induced coma, he was taken to the same hospital and allowed in close proximity of them due to the lack of clarity surrounding the shooting.[11]

Investigation

Because of the lack of perceived threat and Jordan's status as an American ally, the US service members were traveling in unarmored vehicles, not wearing body armor and only carrying sidearms. The intelligence report on the incident recommends US forces in the future use armored vehicles and carry at least one rifle with them.[12]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) opened an investigation into the cause of the shooting.[13] Initially, the Jordanian military attributed the cause of the shooting to a case of friendly fire and insisted the US convoy did not heed orders from the Jordanian guard to stop. The American investigation stated that the shooting appeared to be deliberate. The FBI has investigated the Jordanian guard for links to religious extremism and/or ISIS, though no links have been found.[14] After reviewing video footage, the Jordanian military and King Abdullah II agreed that the US convoy complied with “established procedures at the base” and that the soldiers “did nothing to instigate the attack”.[15]

1st Sgt. Marik al-Tuwayha was charged with murder for the attack, and pleaded “not guilty”.[16]

Trial and conviction

Al-Tuwayha was convicted of murder in a Jordanian military tribunal and sentenced to life in prison with hard labor. In Jordan, “life sentences” last for 20–30 years.[17][18][19]

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[5] “US developing plans to train Iraqis in Jordan,” Associated Press, January 23, 2014

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[8] Americans are training Syria rebels in Jordan: Spiegel https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-crisis-rebels-usa/americans-are-training-syria-rebels-in-jordan-spiegel-idUSBRE9290FI20130310

[9] U.S. training Syrian rebels at secret bases June 21, 2013, 8:33 PM https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-training-syrian-rebels-at-secret-bases/

[10] New York Times: U.S. Soldier Who Survived Shootout in Jordan Tells His Story By DAVE PHILIPPS and BEN HUBBARD JULY 25, 2017 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/25/world/middleeast/special-forces-jordan-shootout-survivor.html

[11] SUBJECT: 4 Nov. 2016 King Faisal Air Base Shooting AR 15-6 Investigation Summary March 7, 2017 UNITED STATES SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND

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title: King Faisal Air Base shooting

question: What was the motive behind the King Faisal Airbase shooting?

answer: There was no clear motive according to the article.

question: Was anyone arrested for the shooting?

answer: Yes, Corporal al-Tuwayha was sentenced to life in prison with hard labor.

question: Where is the King Faisal Air Base?

answer: It is located near Al Jafr, Jordan.

question: Summarize the relationship between the United States and Jordan after the shooting.

answer: For years Jordan and the United States had maintained a strong military relationship , but the shooting caused a dispute between the two governments while also raising questions of what role U.S. soldiers were playing in Jordan.

question: Why were the Americans in the convoy not wearing body armor?

answer: It wasn't required to outside of some specified training.

question: Who investigated the shooting?

answer: The FBI investigated the shooting.

question: Did Corporal al-Tuwayha survive the shooting?

answer: Yes, and then he was sentenced to life in prison.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: This article details the King Faisal Air Base shooting in Jordan in 2016. Three U.S. Army Special Forces trainers stationed at the base were deliberately killed by a Jordanian soldier, Corporal al-Tuwayha who was guarding the base's entrance. Al-Tuwayha was sentenced to life in prison with hard labor by the Jordanian government.


text:
The bus rode along through the worst part of town, and we sat there pretending like nothing had happened. Arnie looked detached. Sometimes he would get in a mood like that, and just shut off. This time it made a lot of sense, other times it seemed out of place. Again, other times it would seem like he couldn't contain the thoughts in his head, and he'd tap his foot wildly as he talked.

"You know, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would have looked."

"Yeah, I know."

"I wish we could have helped her though. I mean before. I wish to hell we could have helped her."

"I know. Me too."

The bus driver called out the stop, and several people exited out the back door. Drops of rain water had begun collecting on the bus window, and I leaned in, squeezed one eye shut, and squinted through one of the drops. Through it, I saw an upside-down gas station, and I don't know why, but it depressed the hell out of me.

"Hand me the flask."

"Sure thing." Arnie said.

It seemed like the right thing to do, and I swigged hard, and the drink burned in my throat and chest. I didn't feel much of anything for her anymore, but I couldn't stop seeing the girl, lying there, broken on the rain covered concrete. Everyone, especially the medics, moved slowly around her, as if the whole thing had been rehearsed. A few people were taking pictures on their cell phones, and fewer people were crying. The girl couldn't have been older than twenty-five.

The bus made a hard right, hitting the curb as it turned, and Arnie looked over at me. He didn't look so detached anymore, and I was glad he was there with me.

title: A Rainy Afternoon

question: Who are the main characters in this story?

answer: Arnie and the narrator

question: Who says "I know. Me too."?

answer: It seems the narrator said this.

question: Where is this story set?

answer: It takes place on a bus riding through the worst part of the characters' town.

question: Why didn't Arnie look detached anymore?

answer: It's not exactly clear in the story. It could be assumed it's from the alcohol in the flask, or maybe the narrator's company.

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: Arnie and the narrator are on the bus in the worst part of their town. They seem to be shaken up after witnessing a woman in the streets after she had been involved a presumed violent incident. The narrator notes that Arnie seems detached, but he shares his thoughts about the incident with the narrator. The narrator notes that Arnie now seems less detached, and feels glad that he's there with him.


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ERICQ PIERRE (born 1945?) is a Haitian economist working for the Inter-American Development Bank. He was unsuccessfully nominated as Prime Minister by President René Préval in 1997 and 2008.[1]

Pierre lives in Washington, DC, where the Inter-American Development Bank is based, and is an advisor for the Bank regarding Haiti.[2] In the midst of a political crisis[3] following the resignation of Prime Minister Rosny Smarth, Pierre was nominated as Prime Minister by President Préval in 1997,[4] but the Chamber of Deputies rejected the nomination on August 26, 1997, with 43 votes against him, nine in favor, and eight abstaining.[5] Pierre's inability to demonstrate that his grandparents were of Haitian nationality by presenting their birth certificates[6] and his support for an economic plan that involved privatization and large-scale lay-offs of state employees contributed to his defeat.[7]

After Prime Minister Jacques-Édouard Alexis was defeated in a vote of no confidence on April 12, 2008, Préval nominated Pierre as Prime Minister for a second time on April 27, 2008.[8] In Les Cayes on May 5, leaders of the riots against high food prices that had occurred in April demanded that a new Prime Minister and government be installed within a week, threatening renewed violence if this did not happen.[9]

The Senate approved Pierre's nomination on May 7, with 17 votes in favor, two abstentions and none opposed. The nomination still had to be approved by the Chamber of Deputies.[10] In an Associated Press interview, Pierre emphasized the need for long-term strategies to deal with the deepening poverty caused by rising food prices.[11]

The Chamber of Deputies rejected Pierre's nomination on May 12;[12] there were 51 votes against him and 35 in favor,[13][14] with nine deputies abstaining.[15] As a result, Préval had to nominate someone else. Opposition deputy Levaillant Louis Jeune said that the deputies “didn't really believe in the plan that he had for the people of this country”.[16][17] Additionally, as in 1997, questions arose about Pierre's nationality documents.[18]

Speaking at the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince on May 15, Pierre alleged that corrupt deputies had prevented his nomination from succeeding because he had been unwilling to negotiate with them and satisfy their demands for money, projects, and positions in the government. He was dismissive regarding the nationality issue.[19]

Since March 2016 Pierre is Foreign Minister in the cabinet of Fritz Jean.

[1] “Haitian lawmakers reject president's pick for prime minister”, Associated Press (_International Herald Tribune_), May 13, 2008.

[2] “Haiti names new PM amid food crisis” , AFP, April 27, 2008.

[3] “Haitians nix president's P.M. pick”, _The Star-Ledger_ (nl.newsbank.com), August 27, 1997.

[4] “Haitian Senate ratifies Eric Pierre's PM nomination”, Xinhua, May 9, 2008.

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title: Ericq Pierre

question: Why was there a larger resistance to Eriq Pierre's second nomination in 2008?

answer:
Eriq Pierre is a Haitian economist living in Washington DC. He was nominated by President Rene Preval in 1997 for the Prime Minister post. Pierre's appointment was rejected by the Chamber of Deputies with 43 votes against him. Part of the reasons cited was a lack of support for Pierre's economic place as well as doubts about his Haitian heritage.

After the 2008 riots, Preval nominated Pierre as prime Minister for the second time. Though the Senate approved of his appointment, the Chambers of Deputies rejected it with 51 votes against him. Reasons for the rejection were similar to the first. Pierre, however, accused the deputies of corruption and unprofessionalism. It seems times have done nothing to alter the deputies' view of Pierre, his policies, and his claim to Haitian heritage.


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Just a short story i wrote, any feedback/comments would be awesome!

I lie suspended here, in my world, alone with my thoughts. I hear muffled noises coming out of the Nothing. They are the Voices, quiet, murmuring, constant.  I know not what they are, nor what their purpose is. This sometimes frustrates me, not knowing, but it is a mere inconvenience, as they have no effect upon me. The Melody however, does. Here it comes now. It makes me tremble; it makes me quiver with anticipation at the thought of what is to come. The worst thing I can ever recall, the only thing I have ever been able to recall. It is like something takes all of my nerves, every last one, and stabs them individually with a red-hot spike. Yet even this description only comes close to what it is actually like. I call it the Paroxysm. An agonizingly violent eruption of pain, that makes my ears feel like they are bleeding, and my eyeballs want to explode out of my body. Then, as quickly as it starts, the Melody fades to silence and I return to my motionless state, slowly losing consciousness, and my sanity.
When I awake, I feel something different. This is not like all the other times the Paroxysm has come. I am unable to determine what has changed, and my imagination runs wild, pouncing at possibilities, roaring at potentials, snarling at probabilities. I curl into a ball, the Change making me want to hide from the Nothing. In a blinding flash of understanding, it dawns on me. The Voices, the constant, indeterminable murmuring which had been present throughout every occurrence of the Paroxysm, are no longer reaching my ears from across the infinite expanse of the Nothing. I feel like a part of me has been removed, a part that was irreplaceable has now been replaced with silence. As I now comprehend the Change, I begin to uncurl from my foetal ball. To my relief, nothing of my surroundings appears to have changed. The absence of the Voices appears to not have had any effect apart from shaking my world to its core, and thereby disproving all my theories, as I am still suspended in the inky-black of the Nothing.
I am startled by a sudden noise, coming out of the Nothing, but terrifyingly close. My addled mind cannot make sense of it at first, but it slowly begins to form recognizable words.
“mmheo….mehllo….Hello? Hello? Hey! Welcome back. We thought we’d lost you there. I’m afraid you’ve been in a very serious accident. Can you flex your fingers for me please?”
I flex my fingers. I somehow sense the new Voice is not pleased with the result of this flexing.
“Ah.” I hear the Voice murmur something which I couldn’t quite catch. It seemed to disappear off into the Nothing.
Now I hear rattling, whirring, beeping, clicking, squeaking. Then silence. Except this silence is different from the silence in the Nothing, there the silence is so deep it screams, while here it is punctuated by a steady drum. Babum-babum.
Here is the Voice again, “I’m terribly sorry sir.”
Somehow, these words bring a flood of images. They pour at me out of the darkness. An old man and woman. A young woman in a white dress. Three small children. A party. A fire. A car. A crash. A burn. Then I collapse once again into the safety of the Nothing. The gentle sound of the Melody washes over me once more, yet somehow I know that the Paroxysm will not come again.

title: The Melody (600-ish words)

question: What was the accident?

answer: Unknown

question: What happened to the narrator?

answer: Unknown

question: Who is the Voice?

answer: Unknown

question: Why is the Voice sorry?

answer: Unknown

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: The narrator has been in Nothing for as long as they can remember, hearing Voices and the Melody. Today however, something changes, and the narrator can hear a new Voice which informs the narrator they have been in a serious accident, and says that they are terribly sorry. The narrator remembers a party with a woman and children, and then a fire and a car crash.


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HENCHIR-BELLI also known as BELED BELLI is a location and archaeological site in Tunisia.

History

[ Africa Proconsularis (125 AD)]Known as Belali it was a Roman-era civitas in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis.[1] Column ruins of an ancient temple/church are still found in situ.[2]

The ancient city was also the seat of an ancient bishopric,[3][4] in the ecclesiastical province of Carthage.[5] The only known bishop from antiquity is Adeodato (fl.411). The bishopric survives today as a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church,[6][7] Carlos Alberto de Pinho Moreira Azevedo being bishop since 2004.[8]

[1] Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 32 E4.

[2] Michael Greenhalgh, _The Military and Colonial Destruction of the Roman Landscape of North Africa_. (BRILL, 8 May 2014 ) p90.

[3] Titular Episcopal See of Belali.

[4] Pius Bonifacius Gams, _Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae_, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 464.

[5] Belali at catholic-hierarchy.org.

[6] Stefano Antonio Morcelli, _Africa Christiana_, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p98-99.

[7] David M. Cheney Belali at catholic-hierarchy.org.

[8] _Le Petit Episcopologe_, Issue 179, Number 14,844.

title: Henchir-Belli

question: Where is Henchir Belli?

answer: The place and archeological site can both be found in Tunisia.

question: What makes the site an archeological hotspot?

answer: It was the seat of an ancient bishopric in Carthage and continues to be to this day.

question: Who is the current bishop of the region?

answer: Carlos Alberto de Pinho Moreira Azevedo (since 2004)

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: A summary of Henchir-Belli a location and archaeological site in Tunisia.


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Midwives, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and other non-doctors do as good a job as MDs in the care they deliver — and patients often like them better, a World Health Organization team reported on Thursday.

These non-physicians are especially effective in delivering babies, taking care of people infected with the AIDS virus, and helping people care for chronic diseases such as diabetes and high blood pressure, the team reported in a WHO bulletin.

The findings extend from the poorest nations to the United States and Europe, they said. While some physician groups have resisted wider use of such professionals, they should embrace them because they are often less expensive to deploy and are far more willing to work in rural areas, the WHO experts said.

“There are some obvious advantages in terms of relying on mid-level health workers,” WHO’s Giorgio Cometto told NBC news in a telephone interview.

“They take less time to be trained. Typically, they cost less to remunerate. In some countries they are more likely to be retained in rural areas.”

David Auerbach, a researcher at the Rand Corp., says other studies have shown the same thing. “There’s really not much difference you can find in the quality,” he said.

Doctors are scarce in the United States. The Association of American Medical Colleges projects a shortfall of 90,000 physicians by 2020. Family practitioners and other generalists are especially scarce, and experts predict it will only get worse as millions of Americans get health insurance under the 2010 Affordable Care Act.

Doctors are also scarce in the developing world, and many countries are looking for ways to fill gaps.

Cometto and colleagues around the world looked at all the studies they could find on the quality of care delivered by non-physicians. They settled on 53 that looked specifically at the quality of care delivered — and at how happy patients were with the care they got.

“The evidence shows there aren’t statistically significant differences,” Cometto said. “The quality of care they provide is comparable to physicians. In some cases, for specific services, they actually outperform physicians.”

For instance, nurse-midwives or midwives who deliver babies end up using fewer drugs and they are less likely than doctors to make a type of cut called an episiotomy. Groups such as the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommend against episiotomies because they don’t heal as well as the natural tears that occur during childbirth.

Midwives were no more or less likely than doctors to induce labor, perform cesarean sections or use instruments to deliver a baby, Cometto’s team found, and the rates of death of either mother or child were the same among doctors as among midwives.

There were similar findings for treating patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS. “One study compared the effects of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in patients managed by nurses and those managed by doctors. There was no significant difference in the likelihood of ART failure between groups of patients managed by nurses and those managed by doctors,” the researchers wrote. “Nor was there any difference in mortality, failure of viral suppression or immune recovery between the groups.”

When it came to caring for heart disease and diabetes, patients actually seemed to like nurses and other non-doctors better, the report found. This jibes with what nurse-practitioners and physician assistants working in the United States report. “We look at patients in a more holistic manner,” Judy Honig, associate dean at the Columbia University School of Nursing, said in a recent interview.

The Institute of Medicine, which advises the federal government on health matters, says nurses can do more than they already do and can help meet ballooning demands as the population ages and as more people get health insurance and start seeking care.

The United States has more than three million nurses. They already deliver much of the front line health care that Americans need, from giving vaccinations to delivering babies.

Nurse-practitionersare registered nurses who hold graduate degrees and can perform virtually all of the functions of front-line family doctors — depending on the laws of the state they’re in.

Between 1998 and 2010, the number of Medicare patients treated by NPs increased 15-fold to more than 450,000 people, University of Texas Medical Branch researchers found recently. Groups such as the American Association of Nurse Practitioners are calling for even more to be trained.

Physician assistants are also seen asoffering a big plugin the health care hole “Currently, there are more than 93,000 PAs throughout the U.S. whose education in general medicine prepares them to be extremely nimble, positioning them very well to address an influx of 20 million new patients entering the health care system,” says Lawrence Herman, president of the American Academy of Physician Assistants.

Rand’s Auerbach says integrated clinics, using electronic health records and other technology, can really help fill the gaps. But he notes that not all medical groups are on board with the idea.

“It’s getting over a cultural barrier and learning how to work in teams of providers with different expertise,” Auerbach said. “That is not trivial.”

The American Society of Anesthesiologists recently spoke out against what it sees as the overuse of nurse-anesthetists. “Somehow there has become the notion that you can take physician extenders and replace physicians,” said Dr. Jane Fitch, a former nurse anesthetist who is now a physician anesthesiologist. “We are really concerned about patient safety.”

question: What does the text say about nurse practitioners?

answer: Nurse practitioners are registered nurses who hold graduate degrees and can perform almost all of the functions of front-line family doctors, depending on the laws of the state they are in. Between 1998 and 2010, the number of Medicare patients treated by nurse practitioners increases 15-fold to more than 450,000 people. A recent report by the WHO found that nurse practitioners do as good a job as doctors and patients often like them better.

question: What does the text say about midwives?

answer: A recent report by the WHO found that midwives do as good a job as doctors in the care they deliver and patients often like them better. Midwives who deliver babies often use fewer drugs and are less likely than doctors to perform an episiotomy, a procedure which the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends against. Midwives are also no more or less likely than doctors to induce labor, perform cesarean sections, or use instruments to deliver a baby, and the rates of death of either the mother or child are the same among doctors and midwives.


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Part of the Council for International Schools (CIS) accreditation process asks schools to “demonstrate a commitment to internationalism/interculturalism in education” and that this should be “reflected throughout the life of the institution.” In this article, I will be presenting the case that schools of a religious tradition are best placed to fulfil this aspect of education given their deeply rooted sense of history, tradition and culture.

In her book “International Mindedness” Lesley Stagg concludes by paraphrasing Dan Young “Internationalism advocates the quality of ‘being’ international within the overall climate and character evident when you enter the school. It includes the one for all organizational principles that reflect a global community concern (known to its community to exist inside and outside its walls), as well as an overall positive attitude between diverse cultures (and countries). It is evidenced where students and faculty celebrate this quality as they come together for learning and teaching… when common global interests and collaboration are recognized as imperative.”

To my mind, in order to successfully meet this goal, it is essential that the school have at least one unifying feature. There must be something tangible that unites all in the midst of diversity. CIS exhorts the guiding statements of a school as this focal point and these guiding statements must be embedded in the curriculum and in the culture of learning. This is not particularly controversial and is something commonly accepted in the domain of international schools. However, I would like to suggest that in reality, many international schools across the world do not have this one unifying feature and that, in fact in many cases, their guiding statements are contrived, jargonistic and essentially meaningless. The exception to this fact being those schools, which have a deep-rooted sense of history, enshrined in tradition and have a culture that is known and embraced by the wider community. I would argue that this is the case in schools underpinned by a religious tradition.

Moreover, in order to create an “overall positive attitude between diverse cultures (and countries)” it is necessary to celebrate what unites families from diverse cultures and countries and in many cases, this is their religious experience. Children from a multitude of countries, different races, speaking different languages and having a range of cultural norms, inevitably populate an International School. Finding something to unite such a diverse community is a challenge CIS recognizes, but within a school embracing a religious tradition, there is no challenge because, despite the obvious diversity, children and their families are united by their religious beliefs. This is more obviously the case when they all hark from the same religious tradition, but I contend that it can also be the case when children of different religions, or denominations within a particular religion, are educated together as their belief in God (or in some cases a Supreme Being) transcends any of their apparent differences. Many dismiss too often religion as a cause of conflict but I would argue the contrary and suggest that in reality religion unites people due to the fact that they have a common sense of purpose and of human dignity. Nothing is more unifying than a common set of beliefs. This permeates deeper than any contrived ideology.

Central to religious identity is a call to community, to social justice, to a respect for human dignity, to peace and reconciliation and to celebrating unity in diversity. These are the features of international mindedness that CIS wants schools to embrace. Whilst many schools barely touch the tip of the iceberg with respect to international mindedness, schools with a religious identity and faith commitment are deeply rooted in their sense of mission, of their ethos, of their values. International Schools of a non-religious nature could learn a lot by looking at schools of a religious nature. They would observe that in the vast majority of cases (some schools with a religious identity are clearly better than others) that the guiding statements of the school are embedded throughout the institution. In the best schools, the mission and ethos of the school are deeply embedded in the curriculum. Such schools do not have a narrow view of curriculum as merely the teaching of a syllabus or academic program but moreover that it is inclusive of all aspects of a child’s learning experience and development as a human person. Subsequently, children will learn explicitly about issues of prejudice and discrimination, different belief systems (other than that of the denomination of the institution), ethical systems, cultural norms, the dignity of the human person, social enterprise and the like. Furthermore, schools with a religious tradition have always valued prayer and meditation as an essential part of human development. Recognizing this the secular world now promotes “mindfulness” as a non-religious alternative to meditation. Separating meditation from faith, where Buddhist, Christian or another, is somewhat morally bankrupt and a very dubious business in itself.

Many international schools have adopted mission statements but sometimes these are a uniformity of bland clichés with no deep sense of an underlying philosophy. Perhaps even more worrying is the trend for schools to adopt the language of “No child left behind” and focus on college and workplace preparedness as the raison d’etre of education rather than focusing on the development of the whole child with the human dignity. It is immoral to see a child as no more than economic fodder for the future workplace. Schools should reject any policy or system that diminishes the dignity of the human person and refutes the idea that anyone can be reduced to the status of an economic unit or passive-dependent.

Recognizing the distinct nature that schools underpinned by a religious tradition have, and by learning from their best practice, International Schools across the world can learn to emulate the “one for all” educational principles that underpin faith schools. The shared “worldview” that unites people of faiths underpins the values and mission of such schools and enables them to be truly international.

question: What does the article have to say about the unifying power of religion?

answer: The author argues that schools underpinned by a religious tradition have a unifying feature in their deep-rooted sense of history, enshrined in tradition. There is no challenge in uniting people in a school that embraces a religious tradition because children and their families are united by their religious beliefs. The students are educated together as their belief in God transcends any of their apparent differences, even if they belong to different religions. Religion unites people with a common sense of purpose and human dignitiy; the author clames nothing is more unifying than a common set of beliefs. A call to celebrate unity in diversity is central to religious identity. The shared worldview that unites people of faiths underpins the values and missions of religious schools.

question: What does the article say about Catholic schools?


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Be afraid, famous people. Be very, very afraid. When Aaron Ramsey scores for Arsenal, celebrity lives are in danger.

After the Welsh midfielder scored the opener in the Gunners' 2-2 draw at Tottenham, the only people who were initially worried about the consequences were Spurs fans.

But after the death of Nancy Reagan - the wife of former American president Ronald Reagan - the following day, the internet has been quick to once again seize on the (supposed) "Curse of Aaron Ramsey".

As daft as it might sound, there is a bizarrely long list of famous people who have died just after a Ramsey goal. There are now NINE examples of a Ramsey strike (apparently) leading to the death of a high-profile figure.

1 May 2011: Ramsey scores in 1-0 win against Man United.

2 May 2011: Osama Bin Laden dies.

[Osama bin Laden sits in a tent next to an assault rifle as he speaks to a reporter]

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2 October 2011: Ramsey scores in 2-1 defeat against Tottenham.

5 October 2011: Steve Jobs dies.

[Nokia 6610]

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19 October 2011: Ramsey scores in 1-0 win against Marseille.

20 October 2011: Colonel Gaddafi dies.

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11 February 2012: Ramsey scores in 2-1 win against Sunderland.

11 February 2012: Whitney Houston dies.

[Whitney Houston]

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30 November 2013: Ramsey scores twice in 3-0 win against Cardiff.

30 November 2013: Paul Walker dies.

[Actor Paul Walker arrives at the premiere Universal's "Fast & Furious" held at Universal CityWalk Theaters on March 12, 2009 in Universal City, California]

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10 August 2014: Ramsey scores in 3-0 win against Man City.

11 August 2014: Robin Williams dies.

[Autopsy: The Last Hours of Robin Williams]

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9 January 2016: Ramsey scores in 3-1 win against Sunderland.

10 January 2016: David Bowie dies.

[David Bowie]

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13 January 2016: Ramsey scores in 3-3 draw against Liverpool.

14 January 2016: Alan Rickman dies.

[Alan Rickman arrives for the "A Little Chaos" gala during the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in Toronto]

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5 March 2016: Ramsey scores in 2-2 draw against Tottenham.

6 March 2016: Nancy Reagan dies.

[President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan wave]

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SPOOKY.

Needless to say, this latest example of the "curse" has got (what feels like) most of the online world joking about the Arsenal man's Grim Reaper-like qualities.

Ramsey, however, is not about to join in with the gag.

Despite the lighthearted nature of this nonsense, when "the curse of Ramsey" was brought up to the Welshman during an interview in June last year, he made it clear he doesn't find it amusing...

INTERVIEWER: I was wondering if you were aware - I guess you were - that a couple of years ago whenever you seemed to score someone famous seemed to die, and a big thing was made of it for a while. Were you aware of that at the time?

RAMSEY: (unamused) A few people did make me aware, but I didn’t score as many goals then. I’ve scored quite a few goals now where no-one had died, thank God...

INTERVIEWER: So you’ve been able to put that one to bed.

RAMSEY : Yeah... it was a silly rumour that I didn’t take any notice of.

INTERVIEWER: (laughing) You didn’t find it amusing, in a bizarre sort of way?

RAMSEY: No I didn’t really find it funny.

Alex Dimond, the journalist who asked Ramsey the question, took to Twitter to reveal the awkward exchange.

He wrote: "And here's a deleted scene from that Aaron Ramsey interview, when my ham-fisted attempt at 'banter' went wrong..."

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question: What is the supposed Curse of Aaron Ramsey?

answer: Every time Aaron Ramsey scores a goal, someone famous dies shortly after.

question: Who are some people that have died after Aaron Ramsey has scored a goal?

answer: Osama Bin Laden, Steve Jobs, Whitney Houston, and Paul Walker have all died after Aaron Ramsey scores a goal.

question: Does Aaron Ramsey find this "curse" amusing?

answer: No, he does not.

question: How many examples of the Ramsey curse are there?

answer: There have been nine instances of a Ramsey goal leading to the death of a high-profile figure.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: This article details the supposed "Ramsey Curse," in which every time Aaron Ramsey has scored a goal, a high-profile person dies shortly after.


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BY FR. BARNABAS POWELL

_[]In this, the fourth of a series of articles on Pentecostalism and his journey to the Orthodox faith, Fr. Barnabas sets the stage for his own spiritual odyssey._

As I have said previously, I am convinced the modern Pentecostal movement offers the Christian Church a wonderful opportunity to reconnect with the timeless faith of the Apostles and the balance of mystery and rationalism that has all but been lost in the Christian West.

However, I also believe that Pentecostalism is a system of theology that cannot and will not bring anyone to the fullness of the faith

  “once for all delivered to the saints.”

This is not because Pentecostal people are “bad.” It isn’t because Pentecostal or Charismatic theology is “wrong” or “evil.” It is because the underlying theological foundation for Pentecostal and Charismatic theology is poverty stricken. It is simply too weak to bear the weight of the fullness of the Apostolic faith.

Coming as I do from a Pentecostal background, that word “Apostolic” holds a particularly pregnant meaning. Unfortunately, my understanding of “apostolic” was quite deficient during my days as a Pentecostal.

In fact, the very tendency in the West to break off into “factions” and “denominations” is particularly strong among Pentecostals. This revealed itself early on in the movement over the issue of water baptism. Being cut off from the wisdom of the Church these sincere believers embodied all that was wrong about the Protestant innovation of “Sola Scriptura.” They did not have access to the wise understanding of the Trinity preserved in the Church so they mistook the trinitarian teaching for tri-theism and reacted against what they perceived as a heresy.

But this so-called “new issue” demonstrates the first theological poverty of Pentecostalism: A poverty of communion with the saints.

Since Protestantism tends to reduce the Christian faith to certain theological propositions, the Pentecostals allowed this reduction full flower in their attempts to “recapture” the power of the first century Church. Feeling no sense of connection with their fellow Christians throughout the ages, the Pentecostals only care for those first century believers that they see as their true heritage. They are also willing to adopt other heretical groups through the centuries that seemed to bolster their notions of ecstatic experiences as THE theological stamp of approval.

This lack of connection with the Church through the centuries meant that the Pentecostals were left to their own devices and fell into many, if not most, of the heresies of the past.

The second poverty of Pentecostalism is the rank individualism that permeates the entire movement. this again is a flowering in the Pentecostal movement of the general poverty of Western Christianity. Individualism reduces faith to “me and Jesus got our own thing going” and reduces Church to either a religious pep rally or, worse yet, a Christian self-help group. Worship is measured by how it made me “feel” rather than what it reveals about the Uncreated God. Hence Pentecostals and Charismatics tend to measure their spiritual growth by their experience of “victory” in their personal lives. But the narcissistic weakness of this religious poverty guarantees a perpetual spiritual “kindergarten” for these believers.

One of the unintended consequences” of this gross individualism is the “cult of personality” that naturally arises when a dependence on individual abilities is emphasized. Pentecostal groups are usually founded on some strong personality who has the gift of gab and a flare for the theatrical.

Unfortunately, “the arm of flesh will fail you” and the cultural landscape is littered with the sad lives of men (and some women) who simply could not maintain the fevered pitch expected of them from their loyal following. The stories of emotional, psychological, and event physical manipulation, all for “God’s glory,” are simply too numerous to mention.

Another poverty that I see in Pentecostalism is the weak theological dependence on ecstatic religious experiences. This true hunger in the soul of a person for an authentic and intimate experience of the presence of God cannot be truly satisfied with self-centered religious phenomena. In fact, much like sweets ruins your appetite, so the spiritual “cotton candy” of shallow ecstatic religious experiences, brought on as much by psychological peer pressure as by anything divine, deaden this good hunger and eventually creates an almost narcotic dependence on these less than satisfying religious events.

Interestingly enough this emphasis of emotional experiences not only leads to a kind of religious addiction, but also feeds other physical desires as well. Most Pentecostals do not like to talk about the strong minority of sexual weaknesses that tend to dominate many Pentecostal and Charismatic sub cultures. This emphasis on keeping the emotions heightened at all times, or reducing worship to experiencing a religious “high” tends to reinforce a lack of physical discipline. Recent events are the exceptions that many times prove the rule.

Finally, the greatest poverty I see in Pentecostalism is theological. While this is changing, Pentecostalism has traditionally been suspicious of theological training. Seminary instruction was considered suspect, and a reliance on the education of the “Spirit” was more valued. But beyond that there is a real and debilitating “historical amnesia” among Pentecostals that impoverishes their religious education.

There is so much wisdom preserved in the Church that is simply unknown to most Christians nowadays and that ignorance is dangerous. It means there are generations of believers who will have to learn all over again lessons already learned by their brothers and sisters of the past.

What you don’t know CAN hurt you.

There are hopeful signs. A recent Pew Poll found that speaking in tongues, a strong distinctive of Pentecostalism, is waning. Post-graduate work is becoming not only acceptable among Pentecostals but expected. And whole new denominations have formed by Pentecostals and Charismatics wanting to overcome the inherent weaknesses of their own shallow religious traditions by discovering the wisdom of ages past.

For me, however, the natural home for Pentecostals and Charismatic Christians is the Orthodox Christian Church. Here there is a trustworthy “fireplace” for the Pentecostal “fire.” Many are surprised to hear me say that it was my Pentecostalism that prepared me for my journey to Orthodoxy.

In Eastern Orthodoxy there is a comfort level theologically for paradox and mystery. As opposed to the West where rationalism has been allowed free reign, Orthodoxy’s emphasis on the present work of the Holy Spirit provides a theological balance for a sterile theological rationalism that may excite the mind but leaves the soul cold. Pentecostals and Charismatics will discover in Orthodoxy the wisdom necessary to avoid all the pitfalls so often present in the world of Pentecostalism.

There are theological remedies for and spiritual medicine that provide authentic healing and spiritual health for those weary of the eternal search for the everlasting “goose bump.”

Pentecostalism reveals the primary spiritual poverty of the West. This is its greatest gift to the Christian world. But we cannot remain ignorant of the fatal weaknesses of Pentecostalism without condemning generations of sincere believers to a life of a perpetual “spiritual kindergarten.”

So, to all my precious Pentecostal and Charismatic friends, I say to you what Philip said to Nathanael:

  “Come and see!”

question: Who is Fr. Barnabas Powell?

answer: He is a priest who had a Pentecost background and converted to the Orthodox faith.

question: What does Fr. Powell think of Pentecostalism?

answer: He believes Pentecostalism is poverty-stricken and will not bring anyone to the fullness of the faith.

question: Why did Fr. Powell turn to the Orthodox faith?

answer: He believes the Orthodox faith has the necessary wisdom to avoid the pitfalls that are in Pentecostalism.

question: Why does Fr. Powell think that the greatest poverty he sees in Pentecostalism is theological?

answer: Because according to him, Pentecostalism is suspicious of theological training and lacks religious education, so they remain ignorant.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: Fr. Barnabas Powell invites Pentecost and charismatic Christians to convert to the Orthodox faith as he did. He believes the Orthodox faith has the necessary wisdom to avoid the pitfalls that are in Pentecostalism.


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	I’m sitting in a bar that’s way too far from home.  Smoking a cigarette  at the counter and looking down at the space between my hands, elbows resting on the table and I’m hunched over.  The bartender just walked by again.  Should I even ask for another drink?  It’s getting late anyways and this brandy can’t be that good for me.
	“Hit me again, Mickie.”

	The band’s playing some jazz with a tenor sax.  I can hear them.  Can I see them?  I look over my left shoulder.  There’s so much smoke in the room you can barely tell if they are black or white.  I know it’s a tenor though.  I know that sweet sound.

	So many bottles on a snazzy display in front of me.
	“Hey Mick, what do you think makes people come to a place like this on a Thursday?”
	“Well, I can’t say I haven’t thought about it.  I should know really, since half of the people sitting up here at the counter are looking for some conversational relief.  Venting, whatever the kids call it these days.  Hey, want another?”
	“I don’t know what I’d do if I didn’t, Mick.” He filled up my glass.  How many drinks have I had?  What’s the bill at?  Don’t know, don’t really care I guess.  I don’t even know what I’m doing or how this helps.  It doesn’t, to tell you the truth.

	It’s raining outside I think.  Though you wouldn’t know from inside this bar.  Brown walls, only a few windows, and through the smoke I can’t see if there is anything out there.  Real dim lighting in here, too.
	A fella just tripped and spilt a little of whatever he was drinking onto my lower pant leg and black wingtip shoes.  I don’t know why I bother to even dress for going out anymore.  Who am I even trying to impress?  There’s no pretty women here.  Not alone anyways.  I look over my left shoulder again.  There actually is a fine lady in a red dress sitting alone in a booth by the band, tapping ashes into a tray.  Never mind, her company was just taking a leak in the bathroom.  He’s got the same jacket and pants I have on.

	I look up at my hat on the counter.  I can’t go home yet.  Not now, anyways.  I light another cigarette and look back down at the counter.  Someone taps me on the right shoulder and takes  a seat to the left of me.  “Hey there” they say.

title: A Bar Too Far From Home

question: Explain what the narrator thinks drinking doesn't help.

answer: It's not clear, but it could be implied that drinking doesn't really make someone feel better emotionally.

question: Does the narrator have a romantic interest?

answer: That information can't be found, but he does admire a woman in a red dress.

question: Does the story take place in a city?

answer: That information can't be found.

question: What kind of mood is the narrator in?

answer: The narrator seems to be reflective and a bit melancholy.

question: Who is Mickie?

answer: The bartender

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: The narrator is at a bar far from home, and is indulging in several drinks. He observes the people there. After deciding he can't go home yet, someone sits next to him at the bar.


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DANIEL COHEN (born February 18, 1984) is an Israeli conductor and violinist.[1] He is the general music director (GMD) of Staatstheater Darmstadt in Germany, former Kapellmeister at the Deutsche Oper Berlin for the 2015–2017 seasons, and a Gustavo Dudamel Fellow of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for the 2012–13 season, former music director of the Jersey Chamber Orchestra and the founder and artistic director of the Gropius Ensemble.

Conducting career

Since his conducting debut at the age of 19, Cohen has conducted such orchestras as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Helsinki Philharmonic, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Orchestra del Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, the Dresdner Philharmonie, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra dell'Arena di Verona.

Cohen was a Kapellmeister at the Deutsche Oper Berlin from 2015 until 2017, where he conducted numerous performances of such operas as _Così fan tutte_, _Don Giovanni_, _Die Zauberflöte_, _Il barbiere di Siviglia_, _Dornröschen_, _Lucia di Lammermoor_, _La traviata_ and G. F. Haas' new opera _Morgen und Abend_.

His operatic highlights include an acclaimed debut with the Canadian Opera Company with Christopher Alden's production of _La clemenza di Tito_, a new production of _Die Zauberflöte_ with Graham Vick at the Macerata Opera Festival. This season Cohen will make his debut with the Norwegian Opera in Oslo conducting _Le nozze di Figaro_ in Thaddeus Strassberger's production.

At the Israeli Opera he conducted such operas as: Tchaikovsky's _Pique Dame_, Shostakovich's _Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk_, Verdi's _La traviata_, _Rigoletto_ and _Otello_ and Berg's _Wozzeck_. Cohen also conducted the Israeli Opera Studio productions of Rossini's _La Cenerentola_ and Mozart's _Le nozze di Figaro_.

Early life and musical education

Cohen was born in Natanya, Israel, in 1984. He studied music from an early age, beginning on the piano at the age of 6 and switching to the violin at the age of 7. At the age of 14 he became the youngest student at the Tel-Aviv Academy of Music, studying violin under Haim Taub and composition under Isaac Sadai. At age 16 he started his conducting studies with Yevgeny Zsirlin at the Jerusalem Academy of Music.

At the age of 19 Cohen received his bachelor's degree (_summa cum laude_) from the Tel Aviv Academy. During his years at the academy he was an active violinist and chamber musician, performing as a soloist with various orchestras including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Israel Chamber Orchestra and the Haifa Symphony Orchestra.

In 2004 Cohen completed his postgraduate degree in violin at the Royal Academy of Music in London. The following year Cohen joined the conducting class of the Royal Academy and in 2007, aged 23, he completed his conducting studies there. Among his teachers were George Hurst, Colin Metters and Sir Colin Davis.

Whilst at the Royal Academy, Cohen formed the Eden Sinfonia, a student orchestra with which he performed numerous concerts, including, in 2008, a performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.

West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

Cohen joined the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in the summer of 2003, aged 19. He was a member of the first violin section for the next eight years and played in more than twelve international tours. Among many other concerts, Cohen participated in the memorable Ramallah Concert of 2005.

Between 2008 and 2011 Cohen became assistant conductor to Daniel Barenboim in the preparation of a Beethoven symphonies cycle as well as major works by Schoenberg and Boulez with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. In the summers of 2010–11 Cohen assisted Barenboim in creating a young version of the Divan Orchestra called the Al Andalus Orchestra which he conducted for two summers.

Lucerne Festival Academy

Cohen served as an assistant conductor to Pierre Boulez and the musicians of the Ensemble InterContemporain at the Lucerne Festival Academy from 2009 to 2013. During his time at the Lucerne Festival Academy he also assisted such conductors as Péter Eötvös, Susanna Mälkki, Pablo Heras-Casado, and David Robertson.

From 2011 to 2013 Cohen also took part in the Lucerne Festival Academy Composer Project in which Pierre Boulez oversaw the commission, creation, composition, rehearsal and performance of new compositions. One of these: _Sawti'l zaman_ by Benjamin Attahir was dedicated to Boulez and to Cohen and conducted by Cohen at the Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre in Lucerne in September 2013.

Awards and prizes

Cohen won the America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship consecutively from 1995 to 2007. As a violinist Cohen received the 2004 DipRAM award for outstanding final recital (violin) from the Royal Academy of Music, London.

As a conductor Cohen won the first prize at the Admont International Conducting Competition, Austria (2007), the first prize at the Aviv Competition in Israel, the Yuri Aharonowich Prize (2008), and the third prize at the Evgeny Svetlanov Conducting Competition, Montpelier, France (2010).

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title: Daniel Cohen (conductor)

question: Summarize Cohen's career during the 2000s.

answer: In 2004, Cohen completed his postgraduate degree in violin. He joined the conducting class of the Royal Academy in 2005 and completed his studies in 2007. He performed numerous concerts with the Royal Academy's student orchestra, including a performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in 2008. He joined the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in 2003 and participated in the Ramallah Concert of 2005. In 2008, he became assistant conductor to Daniel Barenboim. He also served as assistant conductor to Pierre Boulez starting in 2009. He won several awards in the 2000s including first prize at the Admont International Conducting Competition as well as first prize at the Aviv Competition in Israel.

question: Summarize Cohen's personal life.


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OLIVIA LOPEZ DE GUTIERREZ is a census-designated place (CDP) in Starr County, Texas, United States. It is a new CDP formed from part of the former La Casita-Garciasville CDP prior to the 2010 census with a population of 93.[1]

Geography

Olivia Lopez de Gutierrez is located at (26.327625, -98.716685).[2]

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title: Olivia Lopez de Gutierrez, Texas

question: Where is Olivia Lopez de Gutierrez?

answer: Starr County, TX, United States

question: When was Olivia Lopez de Gutierrez formed?

answer: prior to the 2010 census

question: What is the population of Olivia Lopez de Gutierrez?

answer: 93

question: What are the coordinates of Olivia Lopez de Gutierrez?

answer: 26.327625, -98.716685

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: Olivia Lopez de Gutierrez is a census-designated place in Starr County, TX, United States with a population of 93.