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       A dollar bill can learn more about humans than you can. It is simple facts; the dollar bill travels, and shake hands with all sorts of different people. In a way, the dollar bill is just like one of us. It meets fellow currency it can relate to; it can tease the coins of lower value; it can envy the bills who are worth more; it may know little of foreign currency, and it’s always moving and changing its lifestyle. But unlike us, who might adapt to certain lifestyles, the dollar bill simply goes with the flow, but the oceans it sails on can have some strong currents.
	The Dollar bill makes a new home in the change pocket of an elderly woman’s purse. Its long and strenuous journey from the bank to the cash register to her warming and giving hand is finally over. The dollar bill was change given to the old lady for buying some candy to feed her grandchildren next time they come visit. If the dollar bill can feel emotion, perhaps it will feel safe and happy knowing its first real home is that of a kindhearted human. It will be sometime until the dollar bill will see the light of day again. But after a few weeks and a knock on the grandmother’s door, it is time to depart. The fading hand of youth fumbles around the darkness of its purse, but manages eventually. If the dollar bill has eyes, perhaps it will notice the empty candy bowl on the living room table and the uppity child, whose stomach is full from sweets, and whose hands are grabbing hurriedly at the air facing his grandmother. Those hands will soon be full, as the dollar bill makes its way into a new home. If the dollar bill can analyze, perhaps it will notice the halfhearted smile on the elderly woman’s face as she fakes a happy goodbye to the nuisance that screams and steals from her home.
	The move in is an uncomfortable one. If the dollar bill has any bones, perhaps all of them will be crushed as the child stuffs his change into a little pocket. The dollar bill is quickly forgotten for several days.
	At last, the dollar bill is greeted by a new hand. The boy’s mother takes the dollar bill out of the shorts that were raising anarchy on the floor with the other dirty clothes, and given to the boy once more. This time the boy never puts the dollar bill in his pocket; he doesn’t even get a chance to. The boy runs outside to go to the corner store, in order to fill his hunger for sweets. His run is put to an abrupt stop as his face meets the chubby stomach of an older, meaner, bigger boy. If the dollar bill can speak, it will probably scream for help. The dollar bill is kidnapped, as the boy lay crying on the sidewalk from the punch he took to the gut.
	The dollar bill is now suddenly given to a rather sleazy looking middle-aged woman, from a much older man who is not the dollar bill’s kidnapper. The place the dollar bill is in now is dark, like the old lady’s purse, but colder, and more far away. The dollar bill seems to be given to her haphazardly, among several, bigger, tougher looking dollar bills. If the dollar bill has a brain, perhaps it can remember what happened just before. It may remember how it was given to an even older, uglier looking boy for a pack of smokes from the bullying kidnapper. It may remember it was confiscated from that even older, even uglier boy by the cops waiting behind the bushes near the dark alley. Perhaps it will even remember how it was hidden from the cop’s wife. One day, that very wife appears before him suddenly. But the dollar bill, among the other fifties and hundreds is already with someone else now. If the dollar bill has ears, perhaps it will hear the screams of the feuding couple, and the snicker of his new owner, the fleeing hooker.
	The dollar bill’s new roommates are all very sketchy. There’s the veteran lighter, who’s remaining drop of fluid proves his long existence here. There’s the half used black lipstick, with the cap off, and small particles of dust sticking to its surface. There’s also a small wrapped up piece of candy, the same wrapper on the candy the elderly woman had bought for her grandson so long ago. If the dollar bill has a sense of belonging, perhaps it will wish to return to that elderly lady. Hopefully it will be freed from this wretched place. But these new roommates are ones the dollar bill will be with for a large portion of its life.
	If that little dollar bill can count, it will know it is just over a year since it was placed in that dark, abhorring place. The higher bills came and went, and rarely the dollar bill was introduced to the light, only because it was mistaken for something higher. But today was the dollar bill’s lucky day. Unlike the dollar bill, its owner has aged, and grown incapable of attracting customers like she once could. Down to her last couple of bucks, she uses what little of her change she has to get her last lipstick. If the dollar bill has the ability to think, perhaps it will think about how bittersweet its last moment with her is; it will be happy of course, for finally leaving that place, but it may even feel pity while it watches that woman hurriedly draw her lips back on without even getting her receipt yet.
	The dollar bill will rest happily in the register of that convenience store for a good few hours. Things are quiet for most of the night, as the dollar bill lay there, motionless. If that innocent little dollar bill has a heart, it will stop, once it hears the frantic screaming and gunshots, and the sounds of the rattling and banging of its current home as it shatters. The dollar bill is once again kidnapped.
	The dollar bill is dumped out of the duffel bag with hundreds of others, from all over the place. This is a mass kidnapping. The dollar bill is beset by rolled coins, stacked bills, and even cheques. It lay there on the dimly lit living room floor of the two robbers, snickering and not even counting their gain, just tossing it in the air in praise. If the dollar bill has any sense of justice, perhaps it will get sick from not only being tossed in the air from celebration, but being tossed in the air from the celebration of two successful convenience store robberies, a bank robbery, and a murder. The dollar bill does not land in the pile of the rest of the money though, and by chance, drifts like a feather, swaying left and right, sliding to a stop under a stained, musty couch. It is as if the dollar bill chose to hide under there by will…perhaps.
	Hiding was the worst thing the dollar bill could have done however, as it is abandoned by its kidnappers, with no hope of survival. Perhaps it has chosen not to be saved by such lowlifes, or, by humans for that matter. Perhaps it has had enough. If that dollar bill can smell, it will smell the corpse in the bedroom down the hall that began to rot there the whole night. It will smell the gas the thugs pour throughout the house, and it will smell the smoke from the match that will start the fire that makes this place its grave. If the dollar bill is fully aware of what hell is, perhaps it will realize that it is in hell all along.
	 The dollar bill is lucky in a way though. It does not have emotion; nor does it have eyes, or the power of analysis. It does not have bones, or a brain, or ears. It does not have a sense of belonging, memory, or a sense of justice. It is lucky it does not have any of these things, or else it would know what it is like to be human. Instead, that little dollar bill, carelessly travels to and fro, and has no good or bad feelings towards anything. It sees no good or evil; it sees not the good deeds and heinous crimes. It has no body to embrace or escape others. It cannot think good thoughts or do bad things. It hears no screams of pain or cheers of joy. It doesn’t feel the need to escape from or return to home, nor does it remember why it was so bad to leave or good to stay in the first place. It cannot tell what is right and what is wrong. If all things like that bill had a conscience, wouldn’t the world be different. Being human or lifeless…it’s a bittersweet thing, but in the end it’s two sides of the same coin…or perhaps, a dollar bill.

title: The Dollar Bill

question: Who owns the dollar bill at the start of the story?

answer: An elderly woman

question: Where does the dollar bill end up at the end of the story?

answer: It ends up in a house that is set on fire and is destroyed in the fire.

question: Where is the wretched place?

answer: Presumably the purse of a hooker.

question: Why does the narrator consider the dollar bill to be lucky?

answer: Because the dollar bill is lifeless, unable to feel or think.

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: The story details the journey of a dollar bill as it frequently changes hands. Along its journey, it is pilfered by a young boy, stolen by a bigger boy, and given to a hooker. It eventually winds up in a house that is set on fire, destroying it. The narrator reflects that the dollar bill is lucky, as it is lifeless and does not have any emotions or thoughts about what it experiences.


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Caroline Fleming's father, Niels Krabbe Iuel-Brockdorff, has passed away, the _Ladies of London_entrepreneur shared on Instagram Sunday.

She revealed the news in a post that also featured a poem she received from one of her sister's friends to help cope with his passing. "I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your very kind and loving condolences through what has been excruciatingly painful days. We were by my fathers side to the very end and his final journey was beautiful," Caroline wrote. "We take this time now to grieve our enormous loss, my father was a remarkable gentleman and will be missed every day, loved always and forever."

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Niels passed away on January 20. He was honored with a tribute at the end of Tuesday night's episode of _Ladies of London_.

Caroline opened up about her father's battle with cancer earlier this season of _Ladies of London_. She has mostly kept the details of her father's health issues private and hesitated to discuss it with Marissa Hermer on _Ladies of London_ before sharing the news that he had undergone a successful surgery.

Caroline has spent the days following her father's death with family, celebrating her grandfather's 95th birthday. "Even in deep grief, these two incredible people, who we are thankful for every day, manage to bring smiles to our faces," Caroline praised her grandparents on Instagram.

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question: What is Caroline Fleming father's name?

answer: Niels Krabbe Iuel-Brockdorff.

question: Fleming's post about her father's passing also features something else. What is it?

answer: It features a poem written by one of her sister's friends.

question: Which show honored Niel's passing in one of its episodes?

answer: The show called the Ladies of London.

question: What did Niels die of?

answer: He died of cancer.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

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Notice of Niels Krabbe Iuel-Brockdorff's passing was shared by his daughter, Caroline Fleming, on Instagram. She included a poem from one of her sister's friends, thanking everyone for their shared condolences.

Niels Krabbe Iuel-Brockdorff passed away on January 20, honored by the Ladies of London show on one of its episodes.


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After comedian Kathy Griffin used an incredibly obscene expression to slur Jesus [Warning to readers: we have reprinted it], she ran into a firestorm of controversy, thanks to the Catholic League. By the time it was over, her reputation had taken a quick nose dive.

The date was September 8, and the event was the 59th Annual Creative Arts Emmy Awards. Griffin won Outstanding Reality Program for her Bravo show, “My Life on the D-List,” and in her acceptance speech, she complained about how some actors and actresses give credit to Jesus for their success. That was okay. But then Griffin crossed the line when she exclaimed, as she held up her Emmy trophy over her head, “Suck it, Jesus, this award is my God now!”

Our first reaction was disgust and outrage. What immediately came to mind were the following names: Mel Gibson. Michael Richards. Isaiah Washington. Don Imus. Jerry Lewis. All of these famous people have offended one segment of the population or another in recent times, and all have paid a big price for their infractions. And unlike Griffin—who planned her insult—their remarks were wholly spontaneous. So what was going to happen to Griffin? That was up to us, at least in part.

On September 10, we called on Dick Askin, chairman and chief executive officer of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, to denounce Griffin’s obscene and blasphemous comment. In actual fact, we did a lot more than that: we posted his e-mail address on our website, knowing that our rabid followers would write to him and weigh in. After all, it was Askin’s organization that was responsible for the Creative Arts Emmy event.

What pushed us over the top was the receptive audience Griffin received in Hollywood. According to a story in the _Hollywood Reporter_, her vulgar in-your-face hate speech “drew laughs” from the audience. We told the media, “It is a sure bet that if Griffin had said, ‘Suck it, Muhammad,’ there would have been a very different reaction from the crowd and from the media who covered the event. To say nothing of the Muslim reaction.”

Those who read about our protest online were just as angry, and they let Askin know it. The result? Within 24 hours, the Academy branded Griffin’s comments “offensive” and announced that it would censor them from the taped telecast of the awards ceremony on E! on September 15. It was axiomatic that Fox would not air her offensive remark on its Primetime Emmy Awards on September 16.

We commended the Academy for acting swiftly and responsibly. The ball was then in Griffin’s court: We called on her to issue an immediate and unequivocal apology to Christians. “If she does, she will get this issue behind her,” we told the media on September 11. “If she does not, she will be remembered as a foul-mouthed bigot for the rest of her life.”

By the way, Griffin is not just another ex-Catholic—she hates Catholicism with a passion. In a June interview with _OutSmart_, Houston’s gay magazine, Griffin described herself as a “complete militant atheist” and said that the Catholic Church is “stupid.” No wonder she told the _Los Angeles Times_ she hoped people were offended by her obscene verbal assault; this was right after she said it.

It wasn’t just the Hollywood crowd who approved of Griffin’s bigotry—other elites gave her a thumbs-up as well. For example, _New York_ magazine gave Griffin “kudos” for her “joyfully blasphemous rant,” going so far as to gush, “thank God we can always count on Kathy Griffin to inject a little energy into a boring awards show.” But the same tabloid found nothing joyful at all about the remark that got the highly apologetic Imus fired in April, and even went so far as to label it one of the “Great Moments in Bigoted Slurs.” Different strokes for different folks?

Others also shared _New York’s_ brand of humor. The website of the _Arizona Daily Star_called Griffin’s words “interesting” and “refreshing,” and a reporter for the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale Fox affiliate said her “raunchy” quip was “kind of funny.” Even more revealing was a new website, SuckItJesus.com, that was created by Griffin’s fans: they wanted her “mild, and comedic” speech to be aired on E!

Perhaps the most defining response of all came from Ellen Johnson, president of American Atheists. In a September 12 news release, Johnson called for a boycott of the Emmy awards. Distraught that the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, a private organization, chose not to broadcast Griffin’s anti-Christian rant, Johnson wailed, “this is something I’d expect in a nation like Saudi Arabia or Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.” As we told the media, “Someone needs to give her a copy of the First Amendment—it protects our right to protest objectionable speech.”

Finally, while we were pleased to learn that Griffin’s celebrity stock plummeted as a result of her scripted speech, we also know that there are some very sick people out there who love it every time some bigot takes a shot at Christianity. To wit: the numerous nasty phone calls and messages we received are proof positive of how visceral the hatred is, much of it aimed directly at the Catholic League. No matter, at the end of the day, Griffin lost and we won.

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question: Who used obscene expression to slur Jesus?

answer: Comedian Kathy Griffin

question: Where did the offense that led to the controversy take place?

answer: At the 59th annual creative arts Emmy awards

question: What did Griffin win that led to her acceptance speech?

answer: She won outstanding Reality Program for her Bravo show "My Life on the D-List"

question: What did Griffin say when she crossed the line?

answer: “Suck it, Jesus, this award is my God now!”

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

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Comedian Kathy Griffin's reputation takes a nose dive amidst a controversy where she used incredibly obscene expression to slur Jesus.
Griffin won Outstanding Reality Program for her Bravo show "My Life on the D-List". During her acceptance speech at the 59th Annual Creative Arts Emmy Awards, Griffin raised the trophy and said, “Suck it, Jesus, this award is my God now!”.


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_CURSE OF THE STONE HAND_ is a 1965[1][2] horror film created by movie producer Jerry Warren by editing together two 1940s Chilean films, _La casa está vacía_ (_The House is Empty_), a 1945 film directed by Carlos Schlieper,[3] and _La dama de la muerte_[4] (_The Lady of Death_), a 1946 film directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen[5] (based on Robert Louis Stevenson's _The Suicide Club_).[6]

Warren combined sections of each film, and padded out the running time with newly filmed footage he shot with actors John Carradine[7] and Katherine Victor.

It was released theatrically in 1965 on a double-bill with Warren's similarly constructed _Face of the Screaming Werewolf_.[8]

Plot

The film is a two-story anthology sandwiched by a framing story that attempts to place the events of the two shorter stories as having all happened in the same house. An avid gambler moves into a cursed house in which he discovers a set of sculpted stone hands in a wall niche in the basement. The hands somehow put a curse on the occupant of the house, and the gambler comes to a bad end financially. The gambler joins what he thinks is a gambling club, only to learn it is actually a suicide club.

The house passes down to a different family in time, and the new owner's son becomes obsessed with the stone hands in the basement. He begins acting sadistically and develops hypnotic abilities, which he uses to control his brother's fiancee. She manages to free herself from the spell, and the hypnotist is killed.

Cast

-   John Carradine as The Old Drunk
-   Chela Bon as Beth
-   Carlos Cores as Robert Braun
-   Katherine Victor as Connie's Sister
-   Bruno Ve Sota (narrator)
-   Ernesto Vilchesas as Uncle Huey
-   Judith Sulian as Mrs. Braun
-   Alejandro Flores as Charles
-   Horacio Peterson as Jamie[9]

Reception

Critical reception for the film has been mostly negative. Author and film critic Leonard Maltin awarded the film a BOMB, his lowest rating, calling it “incoherent”.[10] On his website _Fantastic Movie Musings and Ramblings_, Dave Sindelar panned the film, criticizing the film's direction, writing and cutting; the latter he criticized as making the film incomprehensible.[11] TV Guide noted that the film was worth seeing “if only to get a look at a Chilean horror film”.[12]

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[2] Smith, Don G. (1996). “Lon Chaney Jr.”. McFarland & Co., Inc. . Page 148

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title: Curse of the Stone Hand

question: Which book was The Lady of Death (1946) film based on?

answer: It was based on Robert Louis Stevenson's The Suicide Club.

question: Which year was Jerry Warren's Curse of the Stone Hand released?

answer: It was released in 1965.

question: What kind of power did the sculpted stones in the film (Curse of the Stone Hand) bestow to the house occupant's son?

answer: It gave him hypnotic abilities.

question: What was the general reaction from film critics to the Curse of the Stone Hand?

answer: It was negative, with most critics viewing the film as incomprehensible.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

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Jerry Warren's Curse of the Stone Hand (1965) is a horror film created by editing together two Chilean films - The House is Empty (1945) and The Lady of Death (1946). Jerry Warren padded the film with new footage of actors John Carradine and Katherine Victor.

The critical reception was cold as most critics lambasted the film as incoherent and incomprehensible.


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Everything was shutting down. The orange glow of the candles and torches flickered and faded. She noticed this. Eric, she called, as I descended into blackness. Eric, she warned, as footsteps approached. I could no longer heed her. I felt overwhelmingly intoxicated, unable to stand, unable to willfully coordinate useful movement.

Her final call was half my name and half violence. Our pursuers had reached us, hushing her with a blow to the windpipe and dragging her away. As I drew in dusty, labored breath and began weeping, pleading with them, they attacked me as well. My ribs, neck and head received a flurry of strikes and a sharp shock to the back told me I had been stabbed. A new taste graced my tongue and spilled to the floor. I sputtered and my breathing seized.

The candle's glow sharpened with a new scream. The last offering from the poor girl. It echoed off cold walls, in my head, my wound, and invaded my blood. Our assailants had left their dagger in me. I painfully stretched and writhed, grasping the blade and freeing it from between my ribs. It was ancient, inscribed with a language unknown to myself on a shining, yet darker than gunmetal blade.

I attempted to stand. Control was coming back, but rising without leaning into the walls would have been impossible. I held the blade tightly and resolved to follow her last cry down the corridor. I shuffled weakly forward, feeling the grit and blood combine with fearful sweat on the dagger's handle. I stumbled through darkness and wondered how far in the ground we - I - was. I couldn't even hear the subways rumble past anymore. The bustle of the thriving city above was mute, seemingly as terrified as I was in the dark. I descended more steps, expecting the flames of hell to greet my soles.

She was forcibly laid on an altar. They did not attempt to bind her. They simply held her, in the interest of time, and completed their sacrament. A pyre's flames began to consume what remained and unleashed an awful stench to go with the ghastly sight. The followers awaited my arrival and tended the flame.

I couldn't pay her any mind. They watched as I staggered into the light. They were not surprised. I was expected. The only words offered were, "It is done," barely audible over the roar of the flame. They offered no fight. It seemed as if they had offered themselves as sacrifices in return for the girl. There was no resistance as the blade I now held sunk deep into their hearts.

I worked quickly, invigorated by this new feeling, the pleasure of murderous revenge. Yet, as they lay writhing on the floor, choking on their final breaths, I felt unsatisfied. And then, panicked.
What had I done? I hadn't known these people, and I hadn't known why they had brought the girl and I down there. I hadn't even known the girl whom I took revenge for. But she had known me, somehow. Fearing repercussion, I felt the need to cover my tracks. The crackling fire, blazing high to the ceiling, offered me a solution. I slowly, laboriously dragged each corpse, and some, soon-to-be corpses, toward the fire, singeing myself as I pushed them into the heat.

In my excitement I forgot about my wound. Something, adrenaline, perhaps? Something covered the pain, despite the massive rush of blood seeping out. With my shirt I attempted to stop it and turned to face the stairs. I began the long journey skyward, accompanied by my footsteps and new memories only.

After what seemed to be hours, I arrived where we began our captive decent. I pushed hard on the metal grate overhead, noticing I had finally stopped leaking blood. Maybe I had run out, I weakly joked to myself. The grate swung open, crashing hard. The sound of the city greeted my ears again, and artificial light, fluorescent, neon, lit the alleyway like daylight. I struggled to lift and close the grate with another slam. I began walking quickly, paranoid for witnesses. I still bore the blade thoughtlessly.

"You look dead," commented a homeless man, crumpled against the wall, arms protecting his drink. I could hardly speak, and became more worried, looking for more viewers. I limped to my apartment as fast as my legs would allow.

I felt like I had conquered easier mountains. The last bit of stairs leading to my apartment tested me more than anything else that day. Several times I collapsed weakly, desiring nothing but rest. Luckily, the common areas of my building were vacant. I wondered how late it at night it had become, how long our ordeal lasted. I shuffled the last few steps to the door, unlocked it, entered and slammed it shut quickly, locking every available lock. I crawled through the kitchen, to the bathroom, leaning on the sink. I turned it on, drinking messily from a cupped hand, before searching for gauze. Too tired to care, I stuffed it in any wound I could muster, and burned the last of my energy crawling to the bed. I slammed face down on my pillow and closed my eyes, instantly asleep.

I found no relief from the terror of yesterday in my unconscious. Events played and replayed, reliving the attack, the pain of the stab, the fear as the girl was dragged away forever. I felt once again the warm fire, the cold stares of my victims. They seemed to stare at me even in death, and beyond the flames' consumption. I saw myself again, from a different point of view, as I stumbled wildly from the alley to my apartment, more ragged and animalistic than I remembered. Like a madman, I saw myself entering the apartment, drinking, bandaging myself, and crashing into my bed. I saw myself lay there for what seemed like hours, even recognizing the light of the sun begin to creep into the windows. I see myself become startled as the sunlight revealed a viewer, seated neatly on an old folding chair.
I "inspect" closely.

In disbelief, I conclude it is the girl.

title: "You look dead." [Go ahead, critique me without mercy! I'll thank you for it.]

question: Summarize the casualties over the course of the story.

answer: The girl is laid on an altar and burned to death. To avenge the girl, Eric goes on a murderous rampage, killing the men responsible for her death.

question: Summarize Eric's movements over the course of the story.

answer: Eric descends further into blackness. When the assailants carry away the girl Eric was traveling with, he follows after them down a corridor. He descends further and finds them gathered around an altar. After killing the assailants, he journeys back up the stairs and through a metal grate, into the city streets. He limps to his apartment. There, he crawls through the kitchen to the bathroom. With the last of his energy, he collapses onto the bed.

question: Summarize the twist ending.

answer: After the girl is burned to death and Eric avenges her by killing the assailants, he makes his way back to his home. He collapses onto his bed and falls asleep. In his dream, he sees himself stumble into his home and collapse onto the bed. He also sees someone seated on a chair, watching him. He realizes it is the girl.

question: Summarize everything relating to the narrator's family.


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_THE TEACHER_ () is a 2016 Slovak-Czech drama film. It premiered at the 2016 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival,[3] where Zuzana Mauréry received an award for best actress.[4]

Plot

The film is set in 1983, Czechoslovakia. Mária Drazdechová becomes a teacher at a suburban school near Bratislava. She uses her position to blackmail parents of her students to get benefits from them. Students whose parents disobey are bullied and given bad grades. The head teacher is afraid to intervene as Drazdechová is chairperson of the school Communist Party branch. One of Drazdechová's students attempts suicide as a result of the bullying. This induces the school principal to call the parents for a meeting about a petition to remove Drazdechová from the school. There are parents whose children were bullied by Drazdechová and others who support her. Most of the parents are afraid of the teacher's connections and do not want to sign. The meeting ends in failure as only three families sign. It seems that Drazdechová has won, but some families later change their minds and return to sign the petition. This results in Drazdechová being removed from the school.

The film shifts to 1991, two years after the Velvet Revolution. Drazdechová becomes a teacher once again. The movie concludes with the same scene from the beginning — Drazdechová asks all her students about their parents' jobs. The only difference is that on the classroom wall hangs a portrait of Václav Havel instead of Gustáv Husák.[5]

Cast

-   Zuzana Mauréry as Mária Drazdechová
-   Zuzana Konečná as Kučerová
-   Csongor Kassai as Kučera
-   Tamara Fischer as Danka Kučerová
-   Martin Havelka as Binder
-   Éva Bandor as Hana Binderová
-   Oliver Oswald as Filip Binder
-   Peter Bebjak as Václav Littmann
-   Richard Labuda as Karol Littmann

Release

Box office

_The Teacher_ grossed $64,437 in the United States and Canada and $1.9 million in other countries for a worldwide total of $1.9 million.[6][7]

Critical response

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 91% based on 32 reviews, with an average rating of 7.25/10.[8] Metacritic reports a normalized score of 77 out of 100, based on 8 critics, indicating “generally favorable reviews”.[9]

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title: The Teacher (2016 film)

question: What year is the film set in?

answer: 1983.

question: Where does it take place?

answer: (The former) Czechoslovakia.

question: To which party does Maria Drazdechova belong?

answer: The Communist Party.

question: How much did the movie gross worldwide/

answer: $1.9 million.

question: Write a ~6 sentence summary.

answer: The Teacher is a 2016 Slovak-Czech drama set in 1983 about a woman named Maria Drazdechova, who becomes a teacher at a school outside Bratislava. She blackmails students' parents, bullying or giving bad grades to students who parents do not comply. The head teacher is afraid to step in as Maria is part of the Communist Party, but when a student attempts suicide, a petition circulates to get Maria removed. The parents are too fearful to sign, but eventually do, resulting in Maria's removal. In 1991, following the Velvet Revolution, Maria is a teacher in a similar classroom, only with a photo of Vaclav Havel instead of Gustav Husak. The film has gotten favorable reviews from both critics as well as audiences.


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The 2017 AFL DRAFT consisted of the various periods where the 18 clubs in the Australian Football League (AFL) traded and recruited players following the completion of the 2017 AFL season. Additions to each club's playing list are not allowed at any other time during the year.

The key dates for the trading and drafting periods:[1]

-   The free agency offer period, held between 6 October and 18 October. Three further free agency periods were held for delisted players, between 1 November and 8 November, 10 November to 17 November, and 25 November to 26 November,
-   The trade period, held between 9 October and 19 October,
-   The 2017 national draft, held on 24 November, at the Sydney Showground Exhibition Centre,[2] and included live bidding for academy and father-son selections.
-   The 2018 pre-season draft, held on 27 November, and
-   The 2018 rookie draft, also held on 27 November.

Player movements

The 2016 AFL draft included an initiative whereby clubs could trade future picks; through this scheme, twenty picks in the 2017 draft have already been traded.

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| 1           |             |             | via Carlton | [3]         |
|             |             |             | (Zach Tuohy |             |
|             |             |             | and Billie  |             |
|             |             |             | Smedts      |             |
|             |             |             | trade)      |             |
|             |             |             | on-traded   |             |
|             |             |             | to for      |             |
|             |             |             | Caleb       |             |
|             |             |             | Marchbank   |             |
|             |             |             | and Jarrod  |             |
|             |             |             | Pickett     |             |
|             |             |             | on-traded   |             |
|             |             |             | to for      |             |
|             |             |             | Brett       |             |
|             |             |             | Deledio     |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
| 1           |             |             | Pick swap   | [4]         |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
| 1           |             |             | Pearce      | [5]         |
|             |             |             | Hanley      |             |
|             |             |             | trade       |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
| 2           |             |             | Zach Tuohy  | [6]         |
|             |             |             | and Billie  |             |
|             |             |             | Smedts      |             |
|             |             |             | trade       |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
| 2           |             |             | Will        | [7]         |
|             |             |             | Hoskin-Elli |             |
|             |             |             | ott         |             |
|             |             |             | trade       |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
| 2           |             |             | Pick swap   | [8]         |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
| 2           |             |             | via Carlton | [9]         |
|             |             |             | (Caleb      |             |
|             |             |             | Marchbank   |             |
|             |             |             | and Jarrod  |             |
|             |             |             | Pickett     |             |
|             |             |             | trade)      |             |
|             |             |             | on-traded   |             |
|             |             |             | to (Pick    |             |
|             |             |             | swap)       |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
| 2           |             |             | Jaeger      | [10]        |
|             |             |             | O'Meara     |             |
|             |             |             | trade       |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
| 2           |             |             | Dion        | [11]        |
|             |             |             | Prestia     |             |
|             |             |             | trade       |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
| 2           |             |             | Jack Steele | [12]        |
|             |             |             | trade       |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
| 3           |             |             | Jack Frost  | [13]        |
|             |             |             | trade       |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
| 3           |             |             | Jack Frost  | [14]        |
|             |             |             | trade       |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
| 3           |             |             | Brett       | [15]        |
|             |             |             | Deledio     |             |
|             |             |             | trade       |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
| 3           |             |             | Nathan      | [16]        |
|             |             |             | Hrovat      |             |
|             |             |             | trade       |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
| 3           |             |             | Nathan      | [17]        |
|             |             |             | Hrovat      |             |
|             |             |             | trade       |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
| 4           |             |             | Jack Frost  | [18]        |
|             |             |             | trade       |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
| 4           |             |             | Pick swap   | [19]        |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
| 4           |             |             | via (Nathan | [20]        |
|             |             |             | Hrovat      |             |
|             |             |             | trade)      |             |
|             |             |             | on-traded   |             |
|             |             |             | to (Koby    |             |
|             |             |             | Stevens     |             |
|             |             |             | trade)      |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
| 4           |             |             | Nathan      | [21]        |
|             |             |             | Hrovat      |             |
|             |             |             | trade       |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
| 5           |             |             | Koby        | [22]        |
|             |             |             | Stevens     |             |
|             |             |             | trade       |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+

Trades

  No.                    Player(s)              Traded from   Traded to   Traded for             Ref
  ---------------------- ---------------------- ------------- ----------- ---------------------- ------
  1                                                                                [23]
                         first round pick ()
  third round pick ()    fourth round pick ()
  2                                                                                [24]
                         third round pick ()
  second round pick ()
  3                                                                                [25]

  fourth round pick ()
  4                                                                                [26]
  fourth round pick ()
  5                                                                       second round pick ()   [27]
  6                                                                                [28]
  7                                                                       third round pick ()    [29]
  fourth round pick ()
  8                                                                                [30]
  9                                                                                [31]
  fourth round pick ()
  10                                                                                [32]

  second round pick ()
  third round pick ()    second round pick ()
  11                                                                                [33]
                         first round pick ()
  second round pick ()
  12                                                                      fourth round pick ()   [34]
  13                                                                      third round pick ()    [35]
  fourth round pick ()
  14                                                                      second round pick ()   [36]
  third round pick ()
  15                                                                                [37]
  16                                                                                [38]
                         second round pick ()
  17                                                                                [39]
  18                                                                                [40]
  19                                                                                [41]

  second round pick ()
  20                     third round pick ()                                                     [42]
  21                                                                                [43]
  22                                                                                [44]

  23                                                                                [45]
  fourth round pick ()   fourth round pick ()
  24                                                                                [46]
  fourth round pick ()   second round pick ()
  25                                                                                [47]
  26                                                                      second round pick ()   [48]
  fourth round pick ()
  27                                                                                [49]
  28                                                                      third round pick ()    [50]
  29                                                                                [51]
  30                                                                                [52]

  31                     third round pick ()                                                     [53]
  third round pick ()    third round pick ()

  : 2017 AFL trade period

Note:

-   The numbering of the draft picks in this list may be different to the agreed draft picks at the time of the trade, due to adjustments from either the insertion of free agency compensation draft picks or clubs exiting the draft before later rounds.

Free agency

  Player   Date              Free agent type   Former club   New club   Compensation         Ref
  -------- ----------------- ----------------- ------------- ---------- -------------------- ------
           6 October 2017    Restricted                                 None                 [54]
           11 October 2017   Restricted                                 End of first round   [55]
           14 October 2017   Restricted                                 End of first round   [56]
           1 November 2017   Delisted                                                        [57]
           1 November 2017   Delisted                                                        [58]
           2 November 2017   Delisted                                                        [59]
           2 November 2017   Delisted                                                        [60]
           3 November 2017   Delisted                                                        [61]

  : 2017 AFL free agency period signings

Retirements and delistings

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  List of 2017 AFL player changes
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Name   Club   Date   Notes                                                        Ref.
    ------ ------ ------ ------------------------------------------------------------ -------
                         Retired due to mental health issues, effective immediately   [62]
                         Retired, effective immediately                               [63]
                         Retired due to ongoing concussion, effective immediately     [64]
                         Delisted                                                     [65]
                         Retired due to ongoing concussion, effective immediately     [66]
                         Retired, effective immediately                               [67]
                         Retired, effective immediately                               [68]
                         Retired due to mental health issues, effective immediately   [69]
                         Retired, effective at the end of the season                  [70]
                         Retired, effective at the end of the season                  [71]
                         Retired, effective at the end of the season                  [72]
                         Retired, effective at the end of the season                  [73]
                         Retired, effective at the end of the season                  [74]
                         Retired, effective at the end of the season                  [75]
                         Retired, effective at the end of the season                  [76]
                         Retired, effective at the end of the season                  [77]
                         Retired, effective at the end of the season                  [78]
                         Retired, effective at the end of the season                  [79]
                         Retired, effective at the end of the season                  [80]
                         Retired, effective at the end of the season                  [81]
                         Retired, effective at the end of the season                  [82]
                         Retired, effective at the end of the season                  [83]
                         Retired due to ongoing concussion, effective immediately     [84]
                         Retired, effective at the end of the season                  [85]
                         Retired, effective at the end of the season                  [86]
                         Retired, effective at the end of the season                  [87]
                         Retired, effective at the end of the season                  [88]
                         Retired, effective at the end of the season                  [89]
                         Retired, effective at the end of the season                  [90]
                         Delisted                                                     [91]
                         Retired                                                      [92]
                         Delisted                                                     [93]
                         Delisted                                                     [94]
                         Delisted                                                     [95]
                         Delisted                                                     [96]
                         Delisted                                                     [97]
                         Delisted                                                     [98]
                         Delisted                                                     [99]
                         Retired                                                      [100]
                         Retired                                                      [101]
                         Delisted                                                     [102]
                         Delisted                                                     [103]
                         Delisted                                                     [104]
                         Delisted                                                     [105]
                         Delisted                                                     [106]
                         Delisted                                                     [107]
                         Delisted                                                     [108]
                         Delisted                                                     [109]
                         Delisted                                                     [110]
                         Delisted                                                     [111]
                         Delisted                                                     [112]
                         Delisted                                                     [113]
                         Delisted                                                     [114]
                         Delisted                                                     [115]
                         Delisted, joined as a Free Agent                             [116]
                         Delisted                                                     [117]
                         Delisted                                                     [118]
                         Delisted                                                     [119]
                         Retired due to a knee injury                                 [120]
                         Delisted                                                     [121]
                         Delisted                                                     [122]
                         Delisted                                                     [123]
                         Retired                                                      [124]
                         Retired                                                      [125]
                         Delisted                                                     [126]
                         Delisted                                                     [127]
                         Retired                                                      [128]
                         Delisted                                                     [129]
                         Retired                                                      [130]
                         Delisted                                                     [131]
                         Delisted                                                     [132]
                         Delisted                                                     [133]
                         Delisted                                                     [134]
                         Delisted                                                     [135]
                         Delisted                                                     [136]
                         Delisted                                                     [137]
                         Delisted                                                     [138]
                         Delisted                                                     [139]
                         Delisted                                                     [140]
                         Delisted, joined as a Free Agent                             [141]
                         Delisted                                                     [142]
                         Retired                                                      [143]
                         Delisted, joined as a Free Agent                             [144]
                         Delisted                                                     [145]
                         Delisted                                                     [146]
                         Delisted                                                     [147]
                         Retired                                                      [148]
                         Retired                                                      [149]
                         Delisted                                                     [150]
                         Delisted                                                     [151]
                         Delisted                                                     [152]
                         Delisted                                                     [153]
                         Delisted                                                     [154]
                         Delisted                                                     [155]
                         Delisted                                                     [156]
                         Retired                                                      [157]
                         Delisted                                                     [158]
                         Delisted                                                     [159]
                         Delisted                                                     [160]
                         Delisted                                                     [161]
                         Delisted                                                     [162]
                         Delisted                                                     [163]
                         Delisted                                                     [164]
                         Delisted                                                     [165]
                         Delisted                                                     [166]
                         Delisted                                                     [167]
                         Delisted                                                     [168]
                         Delisted                                                     [169]
                         Delisted                                                     [170]
                         Delisted                                                     [171]
                         Delisted                                                     [172]
                         Delisted                                                     [173]
                         Delisted                                                     [174]
                         Delisted                                                     [175]
                         Delisted                                                     [176]
                         Delisted                                                     [177]
                         Delisted                                                     [178]
                         Retired                                                      [179]
                         Delisted                                                     [180]
                         Delisted                                                     [181]
                         Delisted                                                     [182]
                         Delisted                                                     [183]
                         Delisted                                                     [184]
                         Delisted                                                     [185]
                         Delisted                                                     [186]
                         Delisted, joined as a Free Agent                             [187]
                         Delisted                                                     [188]
                         Delisted                                                     [189]
                         Delisted                                                     [190]
                         Delisted                                                     [191]
                         Delisted                                                     [192]
                         Delisted, joined as a Free Agent                             [193]
                         Delisted                                                     [194]
                         Delisted                                                     [195]
                         Delisted                                                     [196]
                         Delisted                                                     [197]
                         Delisted                                                     [198]
                         Retired                                                      [199]

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2017 national draft

As the Greater Western Sydney Giants were penalised 1,000 draft points by the AFL for the club's handling of Lachie Whitfield's attempt to avoid a potential drug test, their first round pick (pick 15) was moved back to pick 65.[200]

    ''Indicative draft order as of 19 October 2017 ''[201]

  Round   Pick   Player   Drafted to   Recruited from                    League       Notes
  ------- ------ -------- ------------ --------------------------------- ------------ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  1       1                            Western Jets                      TAC Cup
  1       2                            Sandringham Dragons               TAC Cup      Traded from
  1       3                            Bendigo Pioneers                  TAC Cup
  1       4                            Dandenong Stingrays               TAC Cup
  1       5                            Eastern Ranges                    TAC Cup
  1       6                            Eastern Ranges                    TAC Cup
  1       7                            Dandenong Stingrays               TAC Cup      Traded from
  1       8                            Northern Knights                  TAC Cup
  1       9                                                              WAFL
  1       10                           Bendigo Pioneers                  TAC Cup      Traded from ; received from
  1       11                           Dandenong Stingrays               TAC Cup      Traded from
  1       12                                                             SANFL        Traded from ; received from
  1       13                           Bendigo Pioneers                  TAC Cup
  1       14                           Geelong Falcons                   TAC Cup
  1       15                                                             SANFL        Traded from ; received from ; received from ; received from
  1       16                           Oakleigh Chargers                 TAC Cup      Traded from ; received from
  1       17                           Oakleigh Chargers                 TAC Cup
  1       18                                                             WAFL         Free agency compensation pick (Rockliff)
  1       19                                                             WAFL         Traded from ; free agency compensation pick (Motlop)
  2       20                                                             SANFL        Traded from
  2       21                                                             WAFL         Traded from
  2       22                           Western Jets                      TAC Cup      Traded from
  2       23                           Sandringham Dragons               TAC Cup
  2       24                                                             WAFL         Traded from ; received from
  2       25                           Calder Cannons                    TAC Cup      Traded from ; received from ; received from ; received from ; received from
  2       26                                                             WAFL         Traded from ; received from
  2       27                           Bendigo Pioneers                  TAC Cup      Traded from
  2       28                                                             WAFL         Traded from ; received from
  2       29                           Murray Bushrangers                TAC Cup
  2       30                           Dandenong Stingrays               TAC Cup      Traded from ; received from
  2       31                                                             VFL          Traded from
  2       32                                                             WAFL
  2       33                           Geelong Falcons                   TAC Cup
  2       34                           Northern Knights                  TAC Cup      Father–son selection (son of Chris Naish)
  2       35                           Dandenong Stingrays               TAC Cup      Traded from ; received from ; received from ; received from
  2       36                           Sandringham Dragons               TAC Cup
  2       37                                                             SANFL        Traded from
  3       38                           Northern Knights                  TAC Cup      Traded from ; received from
  3       39                           Sandringham Dragons               TAC Cup      Traded from
  3       40                                                             SANFL        Traded from
  3       41                           Oakleigh Chargers                 TAC Cup      Traded from ; received from
  3       42                                                             SANFL        Traded from ; received from ; received from
  3       43                                                             NEAFL        Academy selection
  3       44                           Tigers                            TSL
  3       45                           Geelong Falcons                   TAC Cup      Traded from ; received from
  3       46                           Murray Bushrangers                TAC Cup
  3       47                           Eastern Ranges                    TAC Cup      Traded from ; received from
  3       48                                                             NEAFL
  3       49                                                             SANFL
  3       50                           Eastern Ranges                    TAC Cup      Father–son selection (son of Gavin Brown)
  3       51                           Bendigo Pioneers                  TAC Cup
  3       52                           Palm Beach Currumbin              QAFL         Academy selection, Traded from
  3       53                           Eastern Ranges                    TAC Cup
  3       54                           Noosa                             QAFL         Traded from ; received from ; academy selection
  3       55                                                             QAFL         Academy selection
  4       56                                                             WAFL         Traded by ; received from
  4       57                           Geelong Falcons                   TAC Cup      Traded from
  4       58                                                             WAFL         Traded from ; received from ; received from
  4       59                                                             SANFL
  4       60                           Eastern Ranges                    TAC Cup      Traded from
  4       61                                                             SANFL        Traded from
  4       62                                                             WAFL         Traded from
  4       63                                                             WAFL
  4       64                           St George                         Sydney AFL   Originally pick No.15, but slid down due to 1,000 point penalty following the Lachie Whitfield saga;[202] academy selection
  4       65                           Eastern Ranges                    TAC Cup      Traded from
  4       66                                                             SANFL
  4       67                           Eastern Ranges                    TAC Cup      Traded from
  4       68                           Sandringham Dragons               TAC Cup
  4       69                           Greater Western Victoria Rebels   TAC Cup      Traded from
  4       70                           Bendigo Pioneers                  TAC Cup      Traded from
  5       71                           Eastern Ranges                    TAC Cup      Traded from
  5       72                           Western Jets                      TAC Cup
  5       73                                                             VFL
  5       74                           Gippsland Power                   TAC Cup      Traded from
  5       75                                                             WAFL         Traded from
  5       76                                                             WAFL
  5       77                                                             AFL          Traded from
  6       78                                                             WAFL

Rookie elevations

Clubs were able to promote any player who was listed on their rookie list in 2017 to their 2018 primary playing list prior to the draft.

  Player   Club   Ref.
  -------- ------ --------
                  |[203]
                  [204]
                  |[205]
                  |[206]
                  |[207]
                  |[208]
                  |[209]
                  |[210]
                  [211]
                  |[212]
                  |[213]

2018 pre-season draft

The 2018 pre-season draft was the first to be held since 2014[214]

  Round   Pick   Player       Drafted to   Recruited from   League   Notes
  ------- ------ ------------ ------------ ---------------- -------- -------
  1       1      Cam O'Shea                                 VFL

2018 rookie draft

  Round   Pick   Player     Drafted to   Recruited from                    League    Notes
  ------- ------ ---------- ------------ --------------------------------- --------- ---------------------------------------------
  1       1                                                                AFL
  1       2                              Geelong Falcons                   TAC Cup
  1       3                                                                AFL
  1       4                              Dandenong Stingrays               TAC Cup
  1       5                                                                WAFL
  1       6                              Greater Western Victoria Rebels   TAC Cup
  1       7                              Murray Bushrangers                TAC Cup
  1       8                              Murray Bushrangers                TAC Cup
  1       9                                                                VFL
  1       10     _Passed_                —                                 —
  1       11                             Eastern Ranges                    TAC Cup
  1       12                                                               AFL
  1       13                                                               WAFL
  1       14                             Sandringham Dragons               TAC Cup
  1       15                                                               AFL
  1       16                                                               AFL
  1       17                                                               SANFL
  1       18                                                               WAFL
  2       19                                                               SANFL
  2       20                                                               WAFL
  2       21                                                               SANFL
  2       22                                                               VFL
  2       23                                                               VFL
  2       24                                                               AFL
  2       25                                                               AFL
  2       26     _Passed_                —                                 —
  2       27                                                               NEAFL
  2       28                             Sandringham Dragons               TAC Cup
  2       29                                                               AFL
  2       30                                                               AFL
  2       31                                                               AFL
  3       32                                                               AFL
  3       33                                                               AFL
  3       34                                                               AFL
  3       35                                                               WAFL
  3       36                                                               AFL
  3       37     _Passed_                —                                 —
  3       38                             Adelaide                          SANFL
  4       39     _Passed_                —                                 —
  4       40     _Passed_                —                                 —
  4       41                                                               SANFL     Father–son selection (son of Tyson Edwards)
  5       42     _Passed_                —                                 —

Category B rookie selections

During the trade period, clubs could nominate category B rookies to join their club.

  Player   Club   Origin                   Note                                                        Ref.
  -------- ------ ------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------- -------
                  Mayo GAA,                International selection (Ireland)                           [215]
                  Galway GAA               International selection (Ireland)                           [216]
                  Delta State University   3-year non-registered player (basketball)                   [217]
                  Southern Redbacks        3-year non-registered player (cricket)                      [218]
                  Palm Beach Currumbin     Queensland zone selection                                   [219]
                  Cairns Saints            Queensland zone selection                                   [220]
                  UWS Giants               NSW zone selection                                          [221]
                  Gippsland Power          Next Generation Academy zone selection (born in Ethiopia)   [222]
                  Werribee                 3-year non-registered player (rugby)                        [223]
                  Richmond VFL             Next Generation Academy zone selection (Indigenous)         [224]
                  UNSW-Eastern Suburbs     NSW zone selection                                          [225]
                  St George                NSW zone selection                                          [226]

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title: 2017 AFL draft

question: How many clubs are there in the Australian Football League?

answer: 18 clubs.

question: When is the free agency offer period?

answer: The offer period is between 6 October and 18 October.

question: When is the trade period?

answer: 9 October and 19 October.

question: What did the 2016 AFL draft include?

answer: The draft included an initiative where clubs could trade future picks.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: A Wikipedia page discussing player trades in the Australian Football League.


text:
When I was kid, I loved to ask my minister questions about things that, to my young mind, made no sense when I read them in the Bible or more likely heard them in Sunday school. His answers were always rather bland and not a little aloof since, after all, he was the pastor and I was just a kid.

I remember asking about how humans and dinosaurs could coexist. After all, they had to be a part of the creation story, even though not mentioned specifically. Or why would dinosaurs be taken on the ark, only to go extinct such a short time after? And how do you cage a T-Rex or fit a Brontosaurus on such a boat, much less a pair of all sorts?

I got a lot of looks but very few answers. As the years went by, I concluded that none of it was either possible or even addressed in the Bible. I realized humans and dinosaurs had nothing in common (unless you live in the SE USA) and the pastor was either ignorant, deliberately deceptive or hung up somewhere in between himself, not knowing what to say to a kid. I honestly think I would have appreciated knowing what I suspect he knew, that being the story of Noah was fiction and I didn't have to worry about dinosaurs or polar bears for tha matter on the ark. It never happened.

I remember asking why the Bible, a book which had to know better since it was written by God himself, said Joshua raised his hands and the "sun stopped for the space of about a day," when clearly it would be the earth that stopped rotating? I asked him how oceans would not slop out of their basins in such a scenario and drown the whole world? I asked him if humans would not be cast into space by such a sudden stop of the entire planet? I even asked if this really happened, why did no one else on the whole planet notice it, or write about it? I got that dumb look again.

I even asked him what would happen to my handicapped brother, who could neither hear, speak or see and thus had no way to become a Jesus accepting Christian. He told me he was saved automatically. Wow! How cool. I, on the other hand, would have to risk getting my beliefs correct or go to hell. Bummer.

I asked what about all those in history and even now who have never heard of Jesus. He said they all are saved in their ignorance, though another minister I asked said they all go to hell of some sort. So depending on who you ask, the ignorant either get an automatic free pass for their trouble or go to hell, having no awareness of what they did to deserve that! Hmmmm. Something ain't right here!

I did respond by asking him why then we should send missionaries and put the ignorant at risk, when if we just leave them alone, they can make it in their ignorance of never having heard the only name under heaven by which a man can be saved. I got the look again.

Our denomination believed in predestination, a very strange belief if you asked me as a kid. So God already knows who is in and who is out, and even if you are one of the outwardly good guys, you could be on the outs with God. The minister said yes. Hmmm, so a killer might actually have it made, while the minister was predestined to be lost? Big look there! He said that one could tell by their fruits who God probably had already predestined to be saved. This was getting confusing to me so I dropped it. I later read that John Calvin, the founding father of our particular denomination, chased a former heretic friend all over Europe for disagreeing with him theologically, and had him burned at the stake. Wow, these theologians are seriously serious people! Sounds like as long as you are a Church Father, you can do this kind of thing and get away with it. I began to think that up to this point, most of the answers I had been given were just someone's educated guesses or ideas, but had no basis in fact.

I went to a Christian college to study these things. Boy if you think I had questions as a kid!

"Why did God not like Cain's vegetable sacrifice but loved Abel's cooked meat?" Answer...Vegetarians are weak Christians.

"Who was Cain afraid would kill him when God put him out of the Garden for killing Abel? There were mom, dad, bro and himself on the whole planet at the time."
Answer...He must have known his sisters were going to have kids with dad, no not that. He was speculating. Cain wasn't thinking very clearly that day.

"Why would God stop the whole earth for a day so Israelites could finish a genocide against the enemy?" I mean, I can see stopping it so there is more time to hug, or feed the hungry, or plant the crops, but more time to kill? Dumb story.
Answer...God hates sin and had to kill the bastards, he just needed more time than he planned on."

"How come the horses in the Exodus die twice in the Ten Plagues and still survive for Pharaoh to mount a final attack against the Israelites, and then die again."
Answer...Where do you get this stuff?

"Why, no matter what, is it always the human's fault and God never gets any blame for not making good on his promises?"
Answer...It's a mystery. Have faith. God's ways are not your ways.

"Why does the Apostle Paul, who writes most of the New Testament, NEVER quote Jesus, tell a story of his life or death, discuss a miracle or teaching?"
Answer...Where do you get this stuff?

"Why does neither Mark nor John know anything about Jesus birth, while Matthew and Luke do but tell contradictory stories?"
Answer...Because the Gospels are like four people who see a car wreck...

"Why does Paul only say Jesus was born of a woman like everyone else?"
Answer...Paul was concerned about the risen Jesus, not the earthly one. He was too busy to check up on the details.

"Did Paul ever spend five minutes with the real human Jesus?"
Answer..well no, but Paul's Jesus is the risen Jesus, it doesn't matter.

"Isn't it strange the man who writes most of the New Testament and tells us all how to live, think and believe about Jesus, never met him, while the Twelve who did, vanish into thin air and write nothing/"
Answer...You ain't from around these parts are you boy.

"How come Jesus never wrote anything himself while alive, but then writes perfect Greek after he is dead in the form of the Book of Revelation?"
Answer....He finished his PHD in Heaven.

"If Herod killed all the little children under two to get at Jesus, who escaped, can we not say the little children had to die for Jesus before he died for them?"
Answer...No we can't, sheesh.

"How come Herod couldn't follow the Star of Bethlehem himself to find Jesus, but sent others to report back when they found him?"
Answer...He was busy.

"How could Mary leave town after being warned of Herod's intentions and never tell the women in the town, their kids were about to be butchered?"
Answer...she was under oath not to tell the Angel story.

"Do you think Mary thought, 'I know something you don't know,' as she left town?"
Answer...you're sick.

"How could Jesus family flee to Egypt sometime during the first two years in one story but go home to Narareth quietly after 40 days in the other?"
Answer...It's a miracle.

"How come in Mark 3 Mary and his brothers came to get Jesus and take him home because they thought he was "mad" which I assume means insane. Did Mary forget who he was and how he got here?"
Answer...shut up.

"How come Matthew uses the Old Testament to weave a story of Jesus, where every quote he uses has absolutely nothing to do with the point he is making about Jesus birth?"
Answer...While we might flunk you for such methods, we give Matthew an A, because, well, he's Matthew. Bible guys get to do and say things you're not allowed to.

"If Jesus was asked 'who sinned, this man or his parents that he was born blind?', would that not imply the man had sinned before his birth, perhaps in a previous life, if his blindness at birth was some kind of punishment? I mean, the blindness was from birth, so the sin had to be before that."
Answer...Ummm.., no. Whatever the answer, it's definitely not that one.

"So is it just me, or are these good questions to ask about the text and theology of the Bible?"
Answer...It's just you. While we might be marginally informed ourselves, we are very piously convicted of our answers. The wisdom of man, and this would be you in this case, is foolishness with God. You're fired and have a nice day.

And so it goes. If you want to make a pastor, elder or deacon turn white with fear or red with anger, just ask a Bible question based on the actual text or what today we would simple know as common sense. Depending on his denomination, education, candor and personal spiritual confidence, he will react accordingly. Most pastors I know are sincere, but ill informed or duplistic and well informed, not willing to risk all for what they clearly also see is a problem with the "inerrant" text of the Bible. Kinda sad actually, but when it comes to matters of the spirit, it is important to keep asking those questions about a book that proports to have the key to everything and the only right way for a human to think. It's important to ask questions of all such books and ideas. Let's face it, take away the zealots and fundamentalists from Judaism, Islam and Christianity, and the planet might actually find some peace. Killing the messenger for bringing the message some don't want to hear, is however, still the preferred way to handle such things all too often.

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question: Who is the author/narrator?

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question: What religion did the author practice?

answer: A denomination of Christianity which was founded by John Calvin

question: How does the author feel about the Bible?

answer: They believe it is all false

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: The author presents various questions they had about the Bible when they were younger and the unsatisfactory answers they were given in response.


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Prologue
"Where am I, you pathetic fuck!?" "Sshh now pet." Daniel covered Elizabeth's mouth to keep her quiet. "Now pet I asked you nicely to surrender yourself to me. I always get what I want." Elizabeth's head was swimming with confusion and anger. Why is he doing this? Just two months ago she moved to this new place. Being in an unfamiliar place intimidated her but she told herself she would pull through. It was only for a few short years until her beloved father returned and freed her from this place.  "Now pet I want you to stay quiet, there are people outside these walls." Daniel proceeded to take the cloth out of her mouth. "See I always get what I want." He had a very smug look on his face but she couldn't deny the same feeling she would get every time she looks into those icy eyes of his. Daniel spoke, "Now I've been looking forward to this moment for a very long time. Tonight you are all mine. I don't care what happens tomorrow all that matters is tonight." "You're fucking insane!" Elizabeth yelled. "Now haven't we developed a little potty mouth have we? You've been spending too much time with these people pet. Now I want you to close your eyes." "I don't think so, prick." She was scared that being this bold would have punishment. Maybe she should just surrender herself and let him do what he's planning. He didn't say what exactly he's going to do but she had an idea. All of these men were the same. "Fine." He walked around behind her and opened a metal box. He pulled out a surgical drill. Elizabeth felt her heart skip. He didn't know, did he? Daniel spoke softly, "Now pet this may cause tremendous pain but I need to know for sure before I take you. If I'm gonna spend my life in prison or dead I need to know for sure." She started to panic, "I have no idea what you're talking about! Need to know what?" "I need to know you're one of the beautiful creatures." Her worst fears realized, he knew what she was. And she had an idea what he was about to do. He took a hold of her skull and held her in place. He was surprisingly strong. She could barely move. She spoke, "Wait please Daniel, I could die!" "I know pet but I need to at least see it." He tore of her shirt and her bra. Topless, he then turned on the drill and pierced her chest. It was the most painful thing she ever experienced. As she heard the drill tear through flesh, muscle, and bone she could hear him hum her favorite lullaby. The lullaby he hummed the night before when everything was perfect. All of her senses started to fade except her hearing. Strangely the lullaby made her calmer and feel like everything will be alright. She then heard the drill stop, he stopped humming as well. His voice was excited, "There it is pet! Your beautiful heart. As still as a rock, But so gorgeous." He put the drill down and caressed her face. "I've dreamt about this moment Elizabeth." "Please stop." Her voice was barely audible. He spoke assuringly "It's okay I won't touch it. Your wound is starting to heal anyway. Okay love you can sleep for now as you heal but when you wake you are all mine." He gently laid her on the bloody table and softly hummed her lullaby as she drifted to unconsciousness.

title: Lilith (prologue)

question: What is happening to Elizabeth?

answer: Elizabeth seems to be held hostage by Daniel, and he is trying to see if she is "one of the beautiful creatures" before he has his way with her.

question: Describe Daniel.

answer: Daniel is a sadistic person who has captured Elizabeth.

question: Where does this story take place?

answer: It's not totally clear, but it seems that it takes place in Daniel's house.

question: What is the ending of the story?

answer: Daniel drills a hole into Elizabeth's chest to see if she is "one of the beautiful creatures". When he sees her heart, he is satisfied and hums a lullaby until Elizabeth falls asleep.

question: What does Elizabeth mean by "He didn't know, did he"?

answer: It's not clear, but Daniel wants to see if she is "one of the beautiful creatures". This makes her believe that he knows what she is.

question: Write a ~5 sentence summary.

answer: Elizabeth seems to be held hostage by Daniel, who wants to see if she is "one of the beautiful creatures" before he has his way with her. This confirms her worst fears, that he knows what she is. He drills into her chest, and is satisfied when he finds her beautiful and still heart. Elizabeth feels oddly calm as he sings her a lullaby. She drifts into unconsciousness when he hums to her.


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It is often said that the name _turkey_ comes from a corruption of a Native American name for the bird; however, this is not true. The name of the bird comes from the name of the country Turkey, by way of a colonial mistake (early English settlers mistakenly thought turkeys were a kind of guineafowl, an African bird that English people used to import from Turkey.) However, the Spanish name for turkey, _guajolote_, does come from the Nahuatl (Aztec) name _huexolotl_.
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Turkeys play a variety of roles in the folklore of different Native American tribes. In some legends, Turkey is portrayed as a wily, overly-proud trickster character. In others, he is shy and elusive. In parts of Mexico and the American Southwest, turkeys were domesticated and kept as food animals by some tribes, and their role in stories from these tribes is similar to chicken stories from Europe, with the birds mimicking the concerns and activities of human farmers. The Akimel O'odham (Pima) people consider the turkey a rain spirit, and have folk beliefs about turkeys being able to predict the weather.

Turkeys are also used as clan animals in some Native American cultures. Tribes with Turkey Clans include the Creek tribe (whose Turkey Clan is named Pinwalgi or Penwvlke,) the Shawnee and Miami tribes, the Navajo, the Zuni (whose Turkey Clan name is Tona-kwe,) and other Pueblo tribes of New Mexico. The turkey was also the special tribal symbol of the Unalachtigo tribe (a division of the Delaware nation.) Turkey feathers have been used in the traditional regalia of many tribes, particularly the feathered cloaks of eastern Woodland Indians like the Wampanoag and the feather headdresses of southern tribes like the Tuscarora and Catawba. The Turkey Dance is one of the most important social dances of the Caddo tribe, associated with songs about war honors and tribal pride. Some other eastern tribes, such as the Lenape, Shawnee, and Seminoles, have turkey dances as well.

Native American Turkey Gods and Spirits

[]CHALCHIUHTOTOLIN (Aztec)
[]KOYONA KACHINA (Hopi)

Native American Legends About Turkeys

[]A TURKEY STORY:
    Cherokee turkey legend explaining the bird's unusual shape.
[]THE INDIAN TURKEY-GIRL:
    Zuni legend about a girl who neglects her promise to the turkeys.
[*]ACAWAI FLOOD MYTH:
    South American legend explaining why turkeys have red wattles.
[*]COYOTE THE HUNGRY:
    Caddo tales of the trickster Coyote and his humorous attempts to catch turkeys.
[*]RABBIT AND THE DANCING TURKEYS:
    Caddo legend about Rabbit helping Wildcat to catch some gullible turkeys.

Recommended Books of Turkey Stories from Native American Myth and Legend
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[]TURKEY AND GRAY GIANT:
    Bilingual picture book for children illustrating a Navajo myth about a turkey's escape from a menacing giant.
[]THE TURKEY GIRL: A ZUNI CINDERELLA STORY:
    Zuni folktale about magical turkeys that teach a girl a hard lesson about keeping her word.
[]BIRDS OF ALGONQUIN LEGEND:
    Interesting collection of legends about turkeys and other birds in Algonquian tribes.
[]SPIRITS OF THE EARTH: A GUIDE TO NATIVE AMERICAN NATURE SYMBOLS, STORIES, AND CEREMONIES:
    Book by a Karuk elder about the meanings of Indian animal spirits, including a chapter on turkeys.
[]NATIVE AMERICAN ANIMAL STORIES:
    Great collection of American Indian tales about animals, told by Abenaki storyteller Joseph Bruchac.
[]FLIGHTS OF FANCY: BIRDS IN MYTH, LEGEND, AND SUPERSTITION:
    A good book on the meaning of birds in world mythology, including North and South America.
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question: Where does the name 'turkey' come from?

answer: The name 'turkey' comes from the name of the country Turkey because early English settlers mistakenly thought turkeys were a kind of guineafowl, an African bird that English people used to import from Turkey.

question: What is often mistakenly said about the name 'turkey'?

answer: It is often mistakenly said that the name 'turkey' comes from a corruption of a Native American name for the bird.

question: What role do turkeys play in the folklore of different Native American tribes?

answer: In some Native American tribes, turkey is portrayed as a wily, overly-proud trickster character, in others, he is shy and elusive. Turkeys play a variety of roles in the folklore of Native American tribes;

question: What have Native Americans used turkey feathers for?

answer: Many tribes have used it in traditional regalia.

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: The author explains that the name 'turkey' does not come from a corruption of a Native American name for the bird, as it is often said. It comes from the name of the country Turkey. Early English settlers mistakenly thought turkeys were a kind of bird that English people used to import from Turkey. The author lists Native American legends about turkeys and recommends several books of turkey stories from Native Americans.


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question: What does the text say about what the boutique has to offer?

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