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Outgoing Sen. Jeff Flake[]Jeffrey (Jeff) Lane FlakeBiden eyeing Cindy McCain for UK ambassador position: report Profiles in cowardice: Trump's Senate enablers McSally concedes Arizona Senate race MORE (R-Ariz.) on Tuesday told a CBS morning anchor that he is not leading an impeachment drive against President Trump.

CBS "This Morning" anchor Norah O'Donnell asked Flake if he thought Trump should be removed from office following his condemnation of the president on the Senate floor and in a Washington Post op-ed on Tuesday.

"You seem to be igniting a movement," O'Donnell said. "You write [that] it is time to take a stand against Trump. If he is dangerous to democracy, as you say, should he be removed from office?"

Flake, who announced Tuesday he won't seek reelection in 2018, responded by clarifying he isn't leading an impeachment effort against the president.

"I don't think any of those remedies are justified, I really don't. High crimes, misdemeanors, people talk about impeachment on the left, I don't think that's the direction to go. Nor do I think the 25th Amendment is either," Flake said.

The 25th Amendment states that the vice president and a majority of Cabinet members can jointly declare that a president is unfit to serve. Two-thirds of both the House and Senate would have to vote to remove the president in the event the president refused to cede the Oval Office to the vice president.

"I do think members of Congress ought to speak out if the president follows through on some of the policies or threats he's made with regard to the First Amendment, for example, or in terms of the tweets and just kind of the debasing statements that he's made and also on the foreign stage," he added.

"I think we need to be incredibly careful about what we're doing and that's what Bob Corker[]Robert (Bob) Phillips CorkerGOP lawmaker patience runs thin with Trump tactics Former GOP senator: Republicans cannot let Trump's 'reckless' post-election claims stand Cornyn: Relationships with Trump like 'women who get married and think they're going to change their spouse' MORE has expressed concern about."

Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), who is also not running for reelection in 2018, targeted the president with similar comments on Tuesday.

The junior Arizona senator is conducting a media tour on Wednesday morning, which has included interviews on MSNBC, CNN, NBC and CBS.

Flake told The Arizona Republic on Tuesday that a primary campaign would force him to "condone behavior that I cannot condone."

"The path that I would have to travel to get the Republican nomination is a path I'm not willing to take, and that I can't in good conscience take," Flake said. "It would require me to believe in positions I don't hold on such issues as trade and immigration and it would require me to condone behavior that I cannot condone."

question: When is this article from?

answer: It is not mentioned, but it is likely from before 2018.

question: Which senators have spoken out against Trump?

answer: Jeff Flake and Bob Corker

question: What is Jeff Flake's thoughts on impeaching Trump?

answer: He does not think impeachment is the direction to go.

question: What does the 25th Amendment state?

answer: That the vice president and a majority of Cabinet members can jointly declare that a president is unfit to serve.

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: Senator Jeff Flake says he is not leading calls for impeachment against Donald Trump. HE also does not believe the 25th Amendment should be invoked. He and Senator Bob Corker both believe that Trump's comments that attack the 1st Amendment should be called out. The two Senators are not running for reelection in 2018.


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JASPER VAN DER WESTHUIZEN WIESE (born 21 October 1995) is a South African rugby union player who plays for Leicester Tigers in the Premiership Rugby. He previously played for the in the Pro14, the in the Currie Cup and the in the Rugby Challenge.[1] He can play as an eighth man or a flanker.

Rugby career

2011–2013: Schoolboy rugby

Wiese was born and grew up in Upington. He attended and played rugby for Hoërskool Upington, which resulted in provincial call-ups for Griquas Country Districts in 2011, 2012 and 2013.

In 2011, he was included in their Under-16 Grant Khomo Week squad for the tournament held in Queenstown.[2] He started all three of their matches, scoring two tries in their second match against Border Country Districts in a 36–15 win[3] and one in their final match against Namibia.[4] His three tries during the tournament placed him in joint-third in the try-scoring charts for the competition, just one behind the leading try scorers.[5]

The following year, he was included in the Griquas Country Districts squad that competed in South Africa's premier rugby union tournament at high school level, the Under-18 Craven Week, held in Port Elizabeth.[6] He emulated his appearance and try-scoring record at the previous year's Grant Khomo Week, scoring three tries in three starts. This time, he scored a hat-trick of tries in a 38–5 victory over Border Country Districts in their second match at the tournament,[7] again a single try behind the leading try-scorers in the competition.[8]

He once again represented his team at the Under-18 Craven Week in 2013, held in Polokwane,[9] starting all three matches and scoring two tries; he scored for the third successive year against Border Country Districts in their opening match[10] and a second against the Leopards in their final match.[11]

2014–2016: Free State and CUT Ixias

After high school, Wiese moved to Bloemfontein, where he joined the academy of the and the university team. He made four appearances for CUT in group stages of the 2014 Varsity Shield competition – one of which was in the run-on side – in a season that saw his team win the competition by beating in the final[12] and subsequently winning promotion to the Varsity Cup for 2015. In the second half of the season, Wiese played for the team in the Under-19 Provincial Championship.[13] He started all of their matches in the number eight jersey, helping them to second spot on the log[14] by scoring nine tries in the competition, second only to ' Jurie Linde in Group A of the competition.[15] He didn't score in the first seven rounds of the competition, but got off the mark in a 34–0 victory over s in Round Eight.[16] He scored four tries in their 54–15 victory over in their next match,[17] and a try in each of the last three matches of the regular season, against ,[18] [19] and Golden Lions U19.[20] His final try came in their semi-final match against Western Province U19, but it wasn't enough to help his side into the final, with the team from Cape Town winning 29–22.[21]

He was invited to trials for the South Africa Under-20 squad as they prepared for the 2015 World Rugby Under 20 Championship,[22] but wasn't included in the training squad named a week later.[23] He also didn't feature for CUT Ixias in the 2015 Varsity Cup[24] or for the in the 2015 Vodacom Cup,[25] despite being included in both squads, but returned to action in the second half of the season by playing for in the Under-21 Provincial Championship.[26] With Steven Meiring being the first choice eighth man for the team, Wiese shifted to the flank, where he made nine starts and three appearances of the bench. He once again scored several tries for his team – he got tries in matches against ,[27] ,[28] [29] and ,[30] before scoring a hat-trick in their return match against the Sharks U21 in a 74–22 win.[31] Wiese ended the competition as his team's third-highest try scorer behind fellow loose forwards Daniel Maartens and Steven Meiring,[32] as the team finished in second place on the log. Wiese helped them to a 27–22 victory over the Sharks in the semi-final,[33] but the team fell short, losing 17–52 to in the final.[34]

Wiese got his first taste of Varsity Cup action at the start of 2016, making seven appearances for in the competition. He scored tries in matches against [35] and [36] as his side finished in sixth spot on the log[37] despite a two-point deduction for fielding an ineligible player.[38] After the Varsity Cup, Wiese joined the team for their Currie Cup qualification season. He made his first class debut on 16 April 2016, starting their 17–20 defeat to the in Round Two of the competition.[39] After another start against the following week,[40] Wiese scored the first senior try of his career in a 29–15 victory over the in Randburg in his side's next match.[41] He eventually made eight starts and one appearance off the bench during the competition as his team finished in sixth spot in the competition.[42] He again reverted to U21 level for the end of the season, where he captained the team in their first four matches, scoring tries in matches against ,[43] [44] and [45] to help his team to fourth spot on the log.[46] He scored another try in their semi-final against Western Province, but his team's interest in the competition was ended with a 23–26 defeat.[47]

2017: Cheetahs and Griffons

At the end of 2016, Wiese was included in the Super Rugby team's training group for the 2017 Super Rugby season,[48] but it was also announced that he would link up with the Welkom-based after his Varsity Cup commitments.[49]

2020: Leicester Tigers

On 23 July 2020, Wiese moves to England to join Leicester Tigers in the Premiership Rugby from the 2020-21 season.[50]

Personal life

He is the older brother of Cobus Wiese, also an South African rugby union player.

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title: Jasper Wiese

question: When was Wiese born?

answer: October 21, 1995

question: What sport does Wiese play?

answer: Rugby

question: What positions can Wiese play?

answer: Eighth man or flanker

question: Who is Wiese's brother?

answer: Cobus Wiese, another South African rugby union player

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: Jasper Van Der Westhuizen Wiese is a South African rugby union player. He was born in 1995, and can play as either an eighth man or a flanker. He currently plays for Leicester Tigers in the Premiership Rugby.


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My eyes strained to take in my surroundings, the view was one I have seen millions of times, one bright light forever burning my face and complete darkness surrounding that ever scorching light. I cant escape it and yet I have tried so many times. Where I am has no sound, only faint groans which come and go. It is complete solitude and I crave company, “too much thinking” “I’m so lonely” “please help me” these are the thought’s I’ve uttered to myself over and over again and even though I decided years ago that I couldn’t go on I am still here. “why is that?” I hear you ask, Well the reason is because my self inflicted exile has allowed life to flourish and create absolutely beautiful things beyond my wildest dreams. There where great times, when I was in harmony with my body as well as my mind, but gradually those times have disappeared.

I have tried multiple times to end my life, and my body carries the scars. I can feel them every day and they mock me, why? Because I have never done it right, they mock my immense failure. I am being so selfish but I don’t care anymore, I have spent what seems like centuries creating a cancer to kill myself, one that will slowly strip me of my flesh from the inside out and drain me of my very life force. It is beautiful, almost perfect, it will spread quicker than plagues of locust and consume everything healthy in my body until it has taken all my life, once it has finished it’s task it will fade without a trace or a memory, a scream or a sigh.

The cancer has begun to spread, I feel myself growing ever weaker, It is now almost absolute. Quite poetic in a way, As I get weaker it gets stronger yet when I die it die’s too. As I have grown older my sadism has grown more wicked. I’ve often laughed to myself thinking about my cancer consuming me, Growing more and more confident with every space it takes over, probing into new unknown territories with great satisfaction at the ripe pastures it see’s. Little does it know that this will end, It’s conquest will be over before it has time to rejoice over it’s spoils, The stupid thing. It can be clever at times I must say, It targets and desecrates my organs with pinpoint accuracy and lets no good go to waste, I feel it everyday. What a beautiful creation.

“A name, That’s it! I need a name for this magnificent disease….“ Ok I’ve got one, One that is as twisted as my mind But allow me to introduce myself first, I have been so rude. My name is Mother Earth and I shall call my disease Mankind.

title: Thoughts/opinions appreciated! 1st time poster :) - "My Creation"

question: Who is the narrator?

answer: Mother Earth

question: Why does the narrator want to die?

answer: She is lonely

question: How does the narrator plan to kill herself?

answer: She has created her own cancer

question: What does the narrator find funny about her cancer?

answer: It doesn't realize that eventually it will consume everything and then die because there is nothing left

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: The narrator, Mother Earth, wants to die because she is lonely. She creates a cancer, mankind, to consume her, and she is amused to think that when she dies, it will die too.


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His face was calm, eyes were fixed, a slight smile could be seen on one side of his face. He picked up his lighter and let the flames dance before slowly inhaling the first drag and with no urgency reclosed it as the smoke slowly rolled out of his nostrils.
As he leaned against a wall the voice finally asked, "What am I here for?"
He looked at him with that slight smile and shrugged his shoulders.

"Not my job to ask questions. I'm merely just the means to an end, the one who closes the book after he has written the ending to the final chapter. Metaphorically speaking of course." he calmly replied then exhaling slightly harder as if self indulging in his own joke.

The man visibly frightened at this point starts rambling to himself saying things along the lines of "this has to be a joke, this can't be happening, this is just a dream. I'll wake up. I'll wake up any second now, yeah. That's whats going to happen."

The man slowly approaches, pulls up a chair and sits down in front of the man tied up. Looking him directly in the eyes with a now more serious look he asks the man "Even though I'm not in the business of asking questions how does a seemingly positive figure in our little end of the world end up crossing the people that you did?"

He nervously starts explaining, tears and mucus running down his face.

The man with the cigarette has lost focus immediately looking down at his hands, the one with the cigarette and the one with the gun all he thinks is *I've heard this same fucking story too many times. They never lead anywhere, it's never THEIR fault*
The gun goes off. It goes silent for a couple seconds and then a couple more in rapid succession as if taking out his own personal aggression on the man he's never met until about four minutes prior.

"Easy money" he thinks to himself. "Easy money." As he stamps out his cigarette and exhales the last drag.

title: Easy money.

question: What is happening in the scene?

answer: An assassin is taking care of a job.

question: How many times is the gun fired?

answer: Three.

question: Why is the man killed?

answer: He upset someone in a criminal organization.

question: Why does the man say "easy money"?

answer: For him, killing is easy.

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: A smoking man comes in to perform a contract killing. The target is an unknown blubbering man who begs for his life. He tries to explain his circumstances. After the man finishes his cigarette, he shoots the victim three times and remarks about how easy the job was.


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It began with the power of suggestion. Then it turned into “do what I say” and they would just do it. Ive literally told people to kill themselves because I got bored of them. I would use girls as sex toys until they were just plain and boring to me. I used guys as butlers to do my every need until I was bored of seeing their face. And then I would tell them to kill themselves. And they would do it. The story of my power begins at school on a depressing and rainy day. I had been practicing the power of suggestion for a full year now, and I was going to try something on the hottest girl in school. The bell rang and I saw her walking past the soda machines, so this is when I decided to make my move. I walk up to her, tap her on the shoulder and say “Excuse me, Samantha right?” of course I knew her name but I acted like I didn’t. “Yeah, what do you want?” I loved the way she talked to me. As I began to speak something weird started to occur. I felt something horrendous was going to happen and then BAM! The lightning struck right in between us. I felt an odd sense of power and confidence and continued to tell her this, “Take your clothes off.” At first she started to laugh and then a weird look clang to her eyes. She began to do what she was told. Piece by piece the clothing came off, and a group of students had begun to gather around, making Samantha and I the center of attention. Finally after a full thirty seconds, (seemed like forever), she was completely naked in front of me and the entire group of students. I stared in amazement as she waited for her next order. “Get everyone here a soda.” I demanded. She then turned and smashed her head into the glass of the soda machine, cracking it ever so slightly. “Harder!” I screamed. So she did, leaving fragments of glass embedded in her forehead. Eventually the glass gave in, and the students just stared in awe.  “Well? Drink up!” the students rushed in, trampling Samantha like a bag of limbs. When the students were all drinking the soda I yelled “Spit it out at each other!” they proceeded to do so. I looked at Samantha, just lying there waiting for her next demand. “Have sex with me, right here, right now.” She got up, walked right up next to me and bent over. I then thrust my penis into her and had sex with her raw for the next three hours.

If you would like to read more please let me know! -Juan

title: The power of suggestion

question: Write a ~11 sentence summary.

answer:
The narrator tells how it all started with the power of suggestion. He had literally told people to kill themselves and they would do it. Girls became his sex toys until he got bored with them.

He’d been trying the power of suggestion and decided to try something new. He tapped Samantha on the shoulder. As he started to speak, he felt that something was about to happen and then lightning struck between them. He told her to take her clothes off and she did in front of everyone.

He told her to get everyone a soda and she walked up to the dispenser and started to bash her head against the glass. As the glass gave the students all took one. The narrator told them to spit it at each other and they obeyed. He then proceeded to have sex with the girl.


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[Building of the Legislative Assembly in Lenin Street, 3 in Sevastopol.] The LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF SEVASTOPOL () is the unicameral legislature of Sevastopol since 2014, following the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea. The Assembly is composed by 24 members.

History

The Legislative Assembly of Sevastopol was formed on March 17, 2014, succeeding the Sevastopol City Council after Russian troops took control of Crimea. The first elections were held on September 14, 2014 with the ruling party, United Russia, winning a supermajority with 22 seats and the LDPR winning 2 seats, according to official results.

Composition

2014

  Political party                      Seats   Percent
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  United Russia                        22      92%
  Liberal Democratic Party of Russia   2       8%
  Total                                24      100%

2019

  Political party                                  Seats   Percent
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  United Russia                                    15      62.5%
  Liberal Democratic Party of Russia               3       12.5%
  Communist Party of the Russian Federation        3       12.5%
  Just Russia                                      1       4.2%
  Russian Party of Pensioners for Social Justice   1       4.2%
  Russian Ecological Party "The Greens"            1       4.2%
  Total                                            24      100%

title: Legislative Assembly of Sevastopol

question: When was the Legislative Assembly of Sevastopol founded?

answer: The Legislative Assembly of Sevastopol was founded in 2014 with the Russian annexation of Crimea.

question: How many members does the Legislative Assembly of Sevastopol have?

answer: The Legislative Assembly of Sevastopol has 24 members.

question: How many seats did the LDPR win in the 2014 election?

answer: The LDPR won two seats in the 2014 election.

question: What does the acronym LDPR stand for??

answer: The acronym LDPR stands for the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia.

question: How many seats did Just Russia win in the 2019 election?

answer: Just Russia won one seat in the 2019 election.

question: What percentage of seats did United Russia win in the 2019 election?

answer: United Russia won 62.5% of the seats in the 2019 election.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: The Legislative Assembly of Sevastopol was founded in 2014 after Russia's annexation of Crimea. There have been two elections for its members since its formation, the first right after it was formed in 2014, and another in 2019.


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[Rosina Ferrario, 1912] ROSINA FERRARIO (1888–1959) was the first Italian woman to receive a pilot's licence when she passed her test on 3 January 1913 at Vizzola, Lombardy, in a Caproni monoplane. She received Licence No. 203 from the Aeroclub of Italy.[1][2]

Biography

Born into an affluent bourgeois family, Ferrario worked as a clerk. She was an avid sportswoman and mountain climber, as well as a keen cyclist. After receiving her pilot's licence, she took part in several demonstrations and exhibition flights in 1913 and 1914, for example in Naples, Rome and Como. In October 1913, in connection with celebrations for the 100th anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi's birth in Busseto, she flew alongside Achille Landini.[3] In June 2013, she spent a day in a hot air balloon with Erminio Donner Flori, flying from Milan to Lodi.[4]

In 1914, Ferrario was unable to accept an invitation to fly in South America as the First World War had been declared. She applied to work for the Red Cross in Italy but was refused as she was not in the military. There is little information on Ferrario until 1921 when she was living happily married to Enrico Grugnola whom she met on an outing with the Italian Alpine Club. Together they opened a hotel with a large garden in Milan where they lived with their two children. She regularly attended meetings of the _Pionieri dell'Aeronautica_ (Aviation Pioneers) but no longer flew. She continued to be recognized as a pioneer until her death in 1959.[5]

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title: Rosina Ferrario

question: What year did Rosina Ferrario die?

answer: 1959.

question: What kind of family did Ferrario have?

answer: She was born into an affluent bourgeois family.

question: What year did she pass her pilot's licence test?

answer: 1913.

question: Who was Rosina Ferrario?

answer: She was the first Italian woman to receive a pilot's licence.

question: Write a ~7 sentence summary.

answer: Rosina Ferrario was the first Italian woman to receive her pilot's licence. She passed her exam on January 3, 1913. Ferrario was born into an affluent bourgeois Italian family in 1888 and worked as a clerk, enjoying sport and mountain climbing as well as cycling. She had to turn down invitations to do flying competitions and exhibits when the first World War broke out. She applied to work for the Red Cross in Italy but was rejected as she was not in the military. In 1921 she married and she and her husband would go on to open a hotel in Milan where they lived with their two children. Ferrario died in 1959, and is remembered as a pioneer in flight.


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The music blared out of the car stereo, Leroy was doing his best to shout over it, but she could only hear him during the bridge.  “So I said to ‘im, ‘I don’t give a fuck what your company policy is, I’m’-” the chorus kicked in, she continued to nod whenever his lips stopped flapping– he needed to get this off his chest.  The song reached its climax, and began to fade as London’s jagged skyline revealed itself on the dusky horizon.  Gemma reached for the stop button, sticky with the coke that ‘exploded in his hand’ last week.  It would be nice to have a moment’s peace.  “Don’t you like them?” he asked – she had almost forgotten what he sounded like at a civilised volume.  “They’re okay.  A bit loud for me though.”  He rolled his eyes, and took them off the road for a moment to smile at her.  She ignored it, nodding ahead, and obediently he turned his gaze back to the ever nearing city, tapping his fingers nervously on the wheel.
“Do you want to listen to James Blunt instead?”

“Yeah, actually. That’d be nice” she replied, sinking into her chair.  It had been a long night.  Leroy felt around his seat.  His searching fingers waded through the Stella cans and moulding sandwich crusts, hoping to find the disc.  “Aha!” he shouted, pulling it from its stupor and proudly waving it in front of her face.  She threw a brief smile in his direction, which was enough for him.  Still grinning, he jammed it unsuccessfully into the CD player.  “Shit, forgot there’s one in already” Gemma had already nodded off.

“Gem. Gemma! I need a piss”.

“If I had a quid for every time I’ve been woken up by your bladder”

“You’d probably have about 2 or 3 quid. I won’t be long.”  They had stopped outside a grotty roadside café.  It looked as though nothing about it had changed since the 70’s, the grimy “open” sign hung in the smeared window, like an abandoned corpse swinging in the gallows.  “What about *him*” she asked.  It was unfair of him not to acknowledge it; she thought. He was forcing her to ask.  “What *about* him? He’s fine, aren’t you John?” A muffled yell came from the boot of the car.  “See?” Leroy smiled at her, as though she were a fool for even asking.  He was so patronising, sometimes.  The door closed with a thud behind him, sentencing the car to a stiff, nervous silence.  A few moments passed.

The car reeked of damp residue and stale beer.  Sporadic droplets of rain spattered her arm and face through the stubborn, slightly ajar window.  A few more moments passed.  With a tired sigh, she turned in her seat and looked at the boot.  It remained still, silent. Suddenly, she reeled around.  The dashboard was reverberating violently, crudely piercing the silence.  It was his phone.  John’s phone.  Shit shit shit.  She looked at the screen, it was his Mum. Shit shit shit.  The boot began to stir, a suppressed moan acknowledging the commotion. Adding to the commotion.  Shit shit shit.  The café door remained still, Leroy was taking his time.  She resolved to pick up the phone, doing her best to absorb its desperate vibrations with her sweaty palm, willing it to stop.  And it did.

The café door creaked, and out of it stepped a satisfied looking Leroy, grinning stupidly at her.  Immediately, he noticed something was wrong.

“What’s up with you?” he asked, blindly stabbing the car keys into the engine with familiar precision.  James Blunt continued his melancholic whining.

“I knew it would kick off as soon as you got out.”

“What ‘appened Gem?”

“His Mum rang him.”

“And?”

“And, he started moaning again.” She gestured behind her, somewhat unnecessarily.  Leroy let out a slight chuckle, much to her annoyance.

“Who gives a shit? You’re still breathing, he’s still breathing.  I, my girl, am still breathing.  No harm done.”  The phone buzzed again, it was punchier this time.  Startled, Gemma looked down at the device, Leroy continued to act unfazed.

“She’s sent him a text now. Should I read it?”

“I don’t see why not, it could be a laugh. Oi, John?” He shouted, laughing into the rear view mirror. “You’re Mum wants to know what you want for dinner!”

“On their way”, said Gemma, reading from the screen as though the words were written in a foreign tongue.

“Pardon?” asked Leroy, still chuckling to himself.

“It just says ‘On. Their. Way’”.  Gemma looked at him, her eyes stretched.  His relaxed façade began to reveal hidden concern.

“Well check ‘is sent items then” resolved Leroy.  Gemma leaned closer to the tiny screen, her pointed nose within inches of the black and white display.

“The last one he sent was to his Mum!” Gemma shouted, as though the revelation should come as a surprise.

“Shhh!” John glanced over at the boot. “We don’t want him thinking there’s anything wrong.”  He turned James Blunt up.

“JC08 1ET”, Gemma whispered. “What the fuck does that mean?   Do you think it’s a code or something?  Maybe it’s a postcode? I don’t recognise it. What do you reckon?”  She looked up at Leroy.  He was frozen.  His mouth slightly open.  His nostrils pulsing with heavy breath.  His glazed eyes staring at the phone.  “When was it sent?” he asked, doing his upmost to refrain from panic.  Gemma clicked a few more buttons with a slight tremor.  “03:37. So about 2 hours ago.”  Gemma began to bite her lip, searching her memory for clues. “Hang on, that’s when-”

“I know. That was about 3 minutes before we took him.”

The young couple look at each other.  Their faces awash with fear, glowing rhythmically from blue to red, blue to red. Both gulp in chorus.  A muffled cry comes from the boot, loud enough to be heard over James Blunt.  Behind them, a singular police van beams its headlights through the rusting car, turning them both to silhouette.   “JC08 1ET” reads the policeman sat in the passenger seat, staring at the illuminated number plate in front of him.  “Let’s check it out.”

title: Road Trip

question: Who are the main characters of the story?

answer: Leroy, Gemma, John

question: Where does the story take place?

answer: A grimy old café on the outskirts of London.

question: Explain JC08 1ET

answer: The plate number of the car Leroy and Gemma are using.

question: Who was moaning again when Leroy came back from the cafe?

answer: John, the person they kidnapped.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: Leroy and Gemma are a young couple who kidnap John and stuff him in the trunk of a car. They go on a road trip without a care in the world, drinking beer and listening to music, not knowing that John got in touch with his mom 3 minutes before they took him. John was able to give his mom the plate number of the car, JC08 1ET, and the police catch up with them when Leroy had to take a piss at an old cafe.


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German serial killer Peter Kürten, known as the "Dusseldorf Vampire," murdered at least nine people before surrendering to police in 1931.

Who Was Peter Kürten?

Born in Germany in 1883 to an impoverished and abusive household, serial killer Peter Kürten began murdering people in 1913. In the publicity surrounding his killings, he became known as the "Dusseldorf Vampire." He surrendered to police in 1931 and was executed shortly thereafter.

Early Life

Kürten was born into extreme deprivation and poverty in Köln-Mullheim, a suburb of Cologne, Germany on May 26, 1883. The eldest of 13 children, his father was an alcoholic with sadistic tendencies, who brutalized both wife and children, in the one room apartment that they all shared, for the duration of Kürten's childhood.

This daily subjection to sexual violence must have had an immense influence on the boy who, aged 9, formed an unhealthy relationship with a dog-catcher living in the same building, who introduced him to the practice of bestiality, carried out initially on dogs.

Kürten claims to have drowned two school friends at the age of 9. Having pushed one overboard, the second dived in to his rescue, Kürten held both under water until they had suffocated. At the time the event was dismissed as a tragic childhood accident.

As Kürten matured sexually, his bestiality extended to sheep, goats, and other farmyard animals, with the teenager discovering particular pleasure when the animal was stabbed during intercourse.

By 1899, at the age of 16, Kürten had progressed to petty crime and ran away from home to escape the continuing violence. Shortly after his departure, his father was arrested for incestuous relations with Kürten's 13-year old sister, and he was jailed for three years.

Kürten's petty crime soon led to the first of many short prison sentences, for various misdemeanors, that punctuated his existence over the following years. The appalling conditions within the prisons confirmed his sadistic tendencies, which he now transferred from farm animals to humans.

With each successive sentence, Kürten's rage against society, and his capacity for depravity, increased. He discovered a fascination for brutal sexual acts while in solitary confinement, which enhanced his fantasies so much so that he began to break prison rules to ensure the maximum time in solitary confinement.

Crimes

During his periods of release between prison spells, Kürten was responsible for various sexual assaults, but his first documented murder victim was 10-year-old Christine Klein. Klein was sexually assaulted and stabbed in her home in Cologne, on May 25, 1913, while her parents worked in their pub below her bedroom.

Her uncle, who had an argument with her father, immediately came under suspicion, and Kürten, who returned to the scene of the crime the next day, was enthralled by the horror the killing had invoked in the locals, especially when the sexual assault came to light. The innocent uncle was cleared of the murder, given the lack of evidence, but Kürten followed his trial with interest, whetting his sadistic appetite for suffering in others.

Kürten was called up for military service following the start of World War I, but military discipline did not suit him, and he deserted from his barracks. He was jailed when captured and remained in prison until 1921, his longest sentence to date, and his rage at this injustice intensified.

Following his release from prison, he moved to Altenburg, where he met and married a former prostitute, who had been jailed for the murder of her fiancé. He spent the next four years living a life of relative normality and found work as a molder (his father's profession), even becoming active in the trade union.

This normality was short-lived, however, and Kürten found himself inexorably drawn to Dusseldorf, where his criminal tendencies escalated, from petty crimes to arson attacks, and then to sexual attacks, four of which are certainly attributable to him in the period up until early 1929. One unlucky victim, Maria Kuhn, survived repeated stabbing by Kürten that caused 24 individual wounds.

This crime escalation reached its peak in the killing of 9-year-old Rosa Ohliger, on February 9, 1929. She was stabbed 13 times by Kürten, who climaxed during the brutal attack, before he dumped her body under a hedge, then attempted to set fire to her remains to destroy the evidence.

Rosa was the first of a number of victims that included young girls, women and even men, over the next 15 months. A 45-year old mechanic named Scheer followed, five days later, the victim of multiple stab wounds. Kürten again returned to the scene of the crime to relive the moment, even speaking to detectives about the murder.

Sensationalist German press covered the attacks extensively, and when they discovered that investigators believed that the attacker might be drinking the blood of his victims, he was immortalized in print as the "Vampire of Dusseldorf." The search for the killer received a major setback, however, when a learning-disabled individual, named Stausberg, accused of similar crimes, inexplicably admitted to all of the so-called vampire killings. He was committed to an asylum, and the police were convinced that the case was solved.

By August 1929 it became apparent that their conviction was premature; a series of strangulations and stabbings occurred, culminating in the brutal fairground murder of foster sisters, 5-year old Gertrude Hamacher, and 14-year old Louise Lenzen. The next day Kürten assaulted another woman, Gertrude Schulte, who survived the attack, and gave police a description of her attacker as a pleasant-looking male, around 40 years old.

Attacks became more frequent and were widely publicized, throwing the population of Dusseldorf into a panic as the victim count rocketed. Ida Reuter was raped and killed in September, and a servant girl named Elizabeth Dorrier was battered to death on October 12, 1929. Two other victims, named Meurer and Wanders, were fortunate to survive brutal hammer attacks, but the very nondescript appearance of Kürten, as described by his victims, made it difficult to narrow down the list of potential suspects.

Kürten enjoyed the mass hysteria and horror enormously, feeding off the press attention, even going so far as to contact a newspaper, on November 9, 1929, with a map detailing the position of the body of his latest victim, Gertrude Albermann, a 5-year-old he had stabbed to death two days before, dumping her body under some rubble.

Kürten's attacks continued into that winter, and the spring of 1930, but none were fatal, serving only to escalate the horror. Harrowing survivor attacks provided lurid copy for newspapers, an antidote to the growing economic deprivations being inflicted by the Great Depression. Public condemnation of the authorities, for failing to catch the killer, was widespread.

May 14, 1930 saw the start of a chain of events that would result in Kürtens eventual capture. He offered a young unemployed woman, Maria Budlick, somewhere to stay, and took her to his apartment, hoping to have sex with her. When she refused, he agreed to find her somewhere else to stay, but on returning her to the train station, he took her into the nearby forest and raped her before letting her go.

Arrest, Trial and Execution

Throughout Kurten’s reign of terror he maintained a fond attachment to his wife and, recognizing that he would eventually be caught for the rape of Budlick, now that the police knew his identity, he devised a plan to ensure her financial security following his arrest. He confessed to her that he was the "Dusseldorf Vampire," detailing all the killings and attacks, and he insisted that she would be paid a large reward for turning him over to the authorities.

On May 24,1930, Frau Kürten reluctantly did as her husband advised, and took the police to their designated rendezvous site, a local church, where Kürten surrendered quietly.

Once under arrest, Kürten provided an astonishingly detailed account of his string of crimes to Professor Karl Berg, a distinguished psychologist, who later published the confession in a book entitled _The Sadist_. He claimed 79 individual acts of crime in all and went to great lengths to convince the authorities of his guilt, perhaps in the hope that his full cooperation would ensure the maximum financial benefit for his wife. His memory was nearly photographic, and his recollection of each offense obviously provided him with great pleasure; less so the attending stenographers.

Kürten's trial commenced on April 13, 1931, on charges including nine murders and seven attempted murders. To outward appearances a successful businessman in a well-tailored suit, he initially retracted his extensive confession, claiming that he had sought only to ensure his wife's financial security.

However, exhaustive questioning by the examining magistrate, and a damning litany of evidence, over the subsequent two months, caused him to eventually admit guilt while under interrogation. In an emotionless voice, Kürten claimed that his childhood, and the German penal system, was responsible for releasing his sadistic tendencies, and he showed no remorse for his crimes.

The jury took only 90 minutes to return a verdict of guilty on all counts, and Kürten received nine death sentences. He was executed by guillotine on July 2, 1931, in Cologne, Germany.

His last words were reportedly: “Tell me, after my head is chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck? That would be the pleasure to end all pleasures.”

question: Could it be said that Peter Kurten was described as mentally ill?

answer: It is not stated. Instead, he was described as a sadist.

question: Why was Kurten referred to as the Dusseldorf vampire?

answer: He was suspected of drinking the blood of his victims.

question: In what year was Kurten executed?

answer: 1931.

question: Why did Kurten surrender himself to the police for his crimes?

answer: He was fond of his wife, and he knew he would be caught for his most recent crime, so he surrendered to ensure her financial security.

question: How many people had Kurten killed in his lifetime?

answer: It is not stated.

question: At what age did Kurten commit his first murder?

answer: Nine.

question: What form of violent crimes was Kurten exposed to from a young age, and what crimes did he commit the most?

answer: Bestiality and petty crime. He raped and murdered people more.

question: Why did Kurten feel pleasure from assaulting animals and people?

answer: Because he was a sadist.

question: Write a ~11 sentence summary.

answer: This article gives an account of the life of Peter Kurten, a criminal popularly known as the Dusseldorf vampire, because he was suspected of drinking the blood of his victims. He was born in 1883 and began murdering people in 1913. His violent background from childhood led him into a psychopathic life of crime and violence for which he showed no remorse. When he was nine years old, he committed his first crime when he drowned two school friends. As he got older, his sadistic tendencies escalated with his many short prison sentences. He later met and married an ex-convict prostitute called Frau, who murdered her fiance. He seemed to live a life of normalcy for the next four years of his life, taking up a job as a molder which was his father's profession. This seemingly normal life was short-lived when he found himself in Dusseldorf, where he committed most of his crimes. In 1930, Kurten revealed his acts to Frau and encouraged her to report to the police to get a reward from the authorities for turning him in. To him, this was his way of securing her financial independence. He was tried in court on April 13, 1931, found guilty of all crimes, and sentenced to death by guillotine on July 2, 1931, in Cologne, Germany.


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[Charles de Chavannes] FORTUNÉ CHARLES DE CHAVANNES, born 19 May 1853 in Lyon and died 7 February 1940 in Antibes, was a French colonial administrator. He accompanied Savorgnan de Brazza on the Mission de l'Ouest africain from 1883 to 1886, and participated in the exploration and establishment of French Congo.

He authored several books about French colonial history in Equatorial Africa.

Life

He studied law at the University of Lyon and became a lawyer in 1877. In March 1883 he became the private secretary of Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza and accompanied him to Africa. With Malamine Camara he participated in the founding of Brazzaville of which he was the first European resident. Living in Bas-Congo and Niaré (1886-1889), he was named lieutenant governor of Gabon in Libreville in March 1889 following the departure of Noël Ballay.

As France's plenipotentiary minister and technical delegate to the Brussels Commission (1890), in 1891 he received the title of Colonial Delegate to the Trans-Sahara Commission and to the Franco-Spanish Border Commission. He returned, ailing, to France in 1894. His friend Albert Dolisie succeeded him.

In 1897, he was named an honorary governor.

Publications

-   _Deltas de l'Alima, de la Shanga et confluent de l'Oubangui, réduction des levés originaux au 20000e_ (1885)
-   _Exposé sommaire de voyage dans l'Ouest-Africain_ (1886)
-   _Le bois d'Okoumé_ (1930)
-   _Pour le cinquantenaire de Brazzaville_ (1931)
-   _Un collaborateur de Brazza, Albert Dolisie_ (1932)
-   _Note sur la fondation de Brazzaville en 1884_ (1935)
-   _Souvenirs de la mission de l'Ouest-Africain_ (avec Brazza, 1936-1937
-   _Le Congo français: Ma collaboration avec Brazza_ (1937)
-   _Les origines de l'Afrique Équatoriale française_ (1941)

Awards

-   Membre libre de l'Académie des sciences d'Outre-Mer (1894);
-   Officier d'académie (1884);[1]
-   Legion of Honor: chevalier (1885), officier (1893), commandeur for role as honorary colonial governor (1932);[2]
-   Médaille coloniale avec agrafes _Or et Gabon_ du Congo (1907).

[1] Officier d'académie, base Léonore;

[2] Base Léonore.

title: Charles de Chavannes

question: Who is Fortune Charles de Chavannes?

answer: A French colonial administrator.

question: What is he known for?

answer: For accompanying Savorgnan de Brazza on the Mission de l'Oueste african from 1883 - 1886, participating in the exploration and establishment of the French Congo. He also authored several books about French colonial history in Equatorial Africa.

question: Where did he study?

answer: University of Lyon

question: What positions did he hold?

answer: Lieutenant governor of Gabon in Libreville, plenipotentiary minister and technical delegate to the Brussels Commission, Colonial Delegate to the Trans-Sahara Commission, and honorary governor.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: Fortune Charles de Chavannes was a French colonial administrator known for accompanyingSavorgnan de Brazza on the Mission de l'Oueste african from 1883 - 1886, participating in the exploration and establishment of the French Congo. He also authored several books about French colonial history in Equatorial Africa. He was named lieutenant governor of Gabon in Libreville, plenipotentiary minister and technical delegate to the Brussels Commission, Colonial Delegate to the Trans-Sahara Commission, and honorary governor.


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US authorities will not allow Icelandic musician Júlía Hermannsdóttir, singer of rock/shoegaze band Oyama to go the US. The band was intending to play a few dates in Pitsburgh, Philadelphia, New York and Boston.

Hermannsdóttir has received no explanations on why she is not allowed to go to the USA. All the other members of Oyama can go. Hermannsdóttir studied in New York between 2005 and 2011 and has travelled to and from the US regularly without any problems until now.

RÚVreported this last night. Speaking to Rúv, Hermannsdóttir says she's never been in any trouble in the US or broken any laws, and she has no criminal record. Neither has she travelled to the seven countries which Donald Trump put a travel ban on.

The US Embassy told her to wait on the telephone to the office dealing with the ESTA application form. After a wait of three hours on the phone she finally spoke to a man who looked up the number on her passport and told her she couldn't go. He said he didn't have the authority to tell her why.

The band is meeting today to decide what they're going to do, either they have to find a replacement singer or simply play without a singer.

Hermannsdóttir speaking to mbl.is last night says she's heard of other similar cases where Icelanders who have studied in the US were not allowed to enter the country.

UPDATE AT 12:39 PM:

Júlía Hermannsdóttir has posted this update on the matter on her personal Facebook page:

The US embassy staff in Reykjavik have agreed to give me an appointment for an interview tomorrow morning! (When I talked to them yesterday, they told me I would have to wait for almost a month). Thanks everyone for your support . Hopefully this can be worked out and we can have a happy ending.

question: Why is Júlía Hermannsdóttir not being allowed into the US?

answer: The authorities did not give a reason as to why she is not being allowed into the US

question: Who is Júlía Hermannsdóttir?

answer: She is the singer of the rock/shoegaze band Oyama.

question: Has Júlía Hermannsdóttir broken any laws in the US?

answer: No she has not.

question: What cities is the band playing in?

answer: The band is playing in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: Júlía Hermannsdóttir, singer of the rock/shoegaze band Oyama, is being denied entry into the US. No explanation is being given as to why she is barred from entering.


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GEORGE S. PHALEN (2 December 1911, Peoria, Illinois – 14 April 1998, Dallas) was an American hand surgeon remembered for his work on carpal tunnel syndrome including his description of Phalen's maneuver.

Biography

George Phalen graduated from Bradley University in 1932, and gained his M.D. from Northwestern University in 1937. He undertook his residency at the Mayo Clinic before joining the Army in 1942. He was a Lieutenant Colonel and chief of orthopedic surgery at the O'Reilly General Hospital in Springfield, Missouri, an Army hand center, and then chief of hand surgery at the William Beaumont Army Medical Center. After the Second World War he worked at the Cleveland Clinic, becoming chief of hand surgery. He helped to found the American Society for Surgery of the Hand in 1946, and was president during the 1960s. He was also president of the Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons in 1965.[1] He moved to the Dallas Medical and Surgical Clinic in 1970, remaining there until his retirement in 1980.[2]

He described the carpal tunnel syndrome in 1950,[3] and although it had been described previously by James Paget in 1854 and James Jackson Putman in 1880, amongst others,[4] Phalen improved the understanding of the aetiology of the condition with his experience of several hundred patients during the 1950s and 1960s.[5]

[1]

[2] Phalen, George S. at The Encyclopaedia of Cleveland History

[3]

[4]

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title: George S. Phalen

question: What was George S. Phalen best-known for?

answer: His work on carpal tunnel syndrome, including his description of Phalen's maneuver.

question: Where did George S. Phalen go to school?

answer: Bradley University and Northwestern University

question: What hospitals did George S. Phalen work at?

answer: The Mayo Clinic, O'Reilly General Hospital, the Cleveland Clinic, and the Dallas Medical and Surgical Clinic

question: What is the Phalen's maneuver?

answer: That information can't be found.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: George S. Phalen was an American hand surgeon. He is best known for improving the understanding of the aetiology of carpal tunnel syndrome as well as for describing Phalen's maneuver.


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“Ohhh god.....” Sighed Steven, collapsing down into bed.

Stevens girlfriend cuddles up from behind him and asked the mandatory, “Rough day at the clinic?”

“Ha, that’s one way to put it.”
“Is it the stress getting to you? Or is it someone specific?” Dian’s thoughtful words were comforting as always to Steven, but it seemed to him something else lay behind them. Possibly guilt, he diagnosed. He decided that he’s address it later.

“Well there’s this one guy, he’s really just a pain in the ass, I guess.” Steven’s heart rate quickened ever so slightly thinking about it, and Dian took notice, giving his hand a comforting squeeze.

Steven continued, “This guy is so frustrating to work with. I can deal with mental issues, I mean, I completely understand him, but it’s just such a rare case. It’s defiantly schizophrenia, no doubt about it, but this specific guy just seems like he was designed for some sort of final exam back at... School.”

Dian nodded encouragingly, showing far too many signs of guilt for his liking. What had she been up to? Doesn’t she know she can’t get away with anything while dating a psychologist? Maybe she’s cheating.

“Steven?” She asked, breaking the extended silence.

Steven decided to keep going with his story anyway. “Right, sorry. As I was saying, this specific schizophrenic patient of mine seems like too perfect a case. This guy, along with having countless imaginary “friends,” actually believes that he’s a psychologist.”

“Oh.” Was the only response Dian had. If it was one of his colleges, Steven supposed he would have gotten at least a laugh. But that ‘Oh’ seemed to contain more than just guilt; now it seems to have manifested some fear as well. Steven officially decided that it was time to figure out what was going on.

“Dian, is there something wrong? Something you need to tell me?”

“Well...” She started, “I guess I always knew this day would come.”

Steven was confused. “What do you mean Dian, do you know many schizophrenics? You can’t know more than I do.” Steven smiled at his own little bit of humor.

“Never mind. I meant nothing by it.” Dian reassured.
Sometimes, Dian almost seemed foreign to Steven. Almost. “Um... Alright then, I guess I’ll go on. So this guy took one look around my room, and instantly asked me why I was sitting in his chair. Ha! His chair! Of course I had been told of his condition beforehand, so I willingly moved to the patient’s chair. But this is when it got bad. As I was supposed to be analyzing his mind, he started interviewing me! I could barely get a question in!”

“Uh-huh.” Agreed Dian. Nearly silent now.

“All I figured out was that he thought he had a girlfriend. Not a word about abuse, neglect, and only a few thoughts on his feelings. But back to the girlfriend, this is when it got weird. I swear that in the one glance around my room, he must have memorized everything he saw. He called his “girlfriend” Dian! He must have seen your picture on the desk, because he described you perfectly! His short-term memory must be amazing, because he went on to talk about my college degree and he even called himself doctor Ste-... Dian? Are you alright? Why are you crying?”

The warm dampness of Dian’s tears was spreading on the sleeve of his shirt. Funny, he thought he had taken off his work jacket. That was probably why he was so uncomfortable, and probably why Dian was refusing to be held.

“There’s no reason to cry Dian, it’s just a man who has something wrong with him.”

Dian let out another sob. “I’m not crying because of him, it’s you!”

Steven thought then. Had he done anything to upset Dian? Not that he could remember.

“Dian, why are you crying?”

“I’m not.” Said Dian. And she was right. But where were those tears coming from? My eyes. I’m crying, thought Steven. But why am I crying?

“Because it’s all falling apart.” Said Dian. No, said Steven. NO! Get it right! I just said that!

“And why is my shirt SO tight?” Steven- No- I just yelled out to the world! To whoever was beside me, as it obviously wasn’t Dian!

“I think she’s cheating on me.” The other Steven had told him. “It makes me mad, because she should know that I can tell she’s guilty!” But I just thought that minutes ago!

“NO!” I yelled, straining against-

“-these infernal straps! Dian now gone, I finally opened my eyes to look for her! Where is my bed?!?! I yelled, for now I was in my office. I can see Dian’s photo from where I lay. Still in the patient’s chair.”

title: Steven

question: Summarize the plot twist in the story.

answer: The plot twist in the story is that the schizophrenic patient at Steven's office starts psychoanalyzing Steven and calls himself the boyfriend of Dian, who happens to be Steven's girlfriend. In the following part of the story, the psychologist (Steven) is on the patient's chair answering questions of the schizophrenic patient.

question: What according to the story is the reason for Dian's tears?

question: What is Dian's role in the story?

answer: It appears that Dian's role in the story is just being a part of what Steven is seeing while the schizophrenic patient who believes he is the psychologist is psychoanalyzing Steven. In Steven's imagination, Dian is comforting him while he tells her about his day, as he goes on narrating she starts sobbing for some reason.

question: What was the schizophrenic patient's motivation?


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_TIRATHABA PURPURELLA_ is a species of moth of the family Pyralidae.[1] It was described by George Hampson in 1917. It is found on the Louisiade Islands in Papua New Guinea.[2][3]

The wingspan is about 38 mm. The forewings are purple suffused with fuscous, the veins streaked with fuscous and with a rufous discoidal spot. The hindwings are greyish fuscous, somewhat ochreous towards the base.[4]

[1]

[2] “_Tirathaba_ Walker, 1864” at Markku Savela's _Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms_. Retrieved June 12, 2017.

[3]

[4] _Novitates Zoologicae_. 24 : 34

title: Tirathaba purpurella

question: What is Tirathaba purpurella?

answer: a species of moth in the family Pyralidae

question: What is the wingspan of Tirathaba purpurella?

answer: about 38 mm

question: Where is Tirathaba purpurella found?

answer: on the Louisiade Islands of Papua New Guinea

question: Who first described Tirathaba purpurella?

answer: George Hampson in 1917

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: Tirathaba purpurella is a species of moth in the family Pyralidae.


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I don't want to spoil it because it was such a good story, but the synopsis is basically: A WWII (or WWI) pilot is forced to eject from his plane, and after he does he loses consciousness. He wakes up later in a hospital, but he feels like something isn't quite right and he hears familiar engine noises from outside his room window.

Hopefully that is enough information for somebody to give me the title. I tried googling it, but I didn't have any luck.

title: I'm trying to find the name of a short story I read in middle school

question: Who is the narrator here?

answer: A person trying to find a certain short story.

question: What are the major events of the story?

answer: The narrator read the short story in middle school and is trying to find the name of that specific short story.

question: Explain what the narrator is trying to find.

answer: The narrator is trying to find a short story about a war (WWII or WWI) pilot that is forced to eject from his plane. He wakes up in a hospital, feeling that something is not quite right. He hears familiar engine noises from outside.

question: Why is this person trying to find this story?

answer: No information is given.

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: The narrator read a short story in middle school and is trying to find the name of that specific short story. The short story is about a war (WWII or WWI) pilot that is forced to eject from his plane. He wakes up in a hospital, feeling that something is not quite right. He hears familiar engine noises from outside.


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LEISURE LAKE is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Grundy County, Missouri, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 160.[1]

It is located in western Grundy County and consists of a residential community set round a reservoir named Leisure Lake. Missouri Route 146 forms the eastern and northern edge of the CDP and leads southeast to Trenton, the Grundy County seat.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Leisure Lake CDP has a total area of , of which is land and , or 5.10%, is water.[2]

[1]

[2]

title: Leisure Lake, Missouri

question: Where is Leisure Lake located?

answer: Leisure Lake is located in Grundy County, Missouri.

question: What does Leisure Lake consist of?

answer: It consists of a residential community set around a reservoir named Leisure Lake.

question: What was the population of Leisure Lake as of the 2010 census?

answer: The population of Leisure Lake was 160.

question: Where does Missouri Route 146 lead to?

answer: Missouri Route 146 leads southeast to Trenton, the Grundy County seat.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: This article describes the location and description of Leisure Lake which is a census-designated place in Missouri.


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Mr. Smith had it good.  He had a good job, a beautiful house, a luxury sedan, a PlayStation 4, a five piece state-of-the-art home entertainment center, a dog that knew how to fetch, and a wife, whom he loved very much, because she knew her place.  She never nagged him about coming home late, she always had dinner waiting for him when he got home, and she kept the place nice and clean.

One night, when Mr. and Mrs. Smith were in bed watching TV, Mr. Smith said to his wife, "schnookums, how's about you being a good little girl and goin' over and turning on Wrestlin'?"  And Mrs. Smith rolled over, and in the sexiest voice she could possibly muster, whispered into her husband's ear "why don't you get out of bed and change the channel yourself, you fat tub of shit?"  The End.

title: Mr. Smith had it good.

question: How would you describe Mr. Smith's life?

answer: He had a good life with great provisions.

question: What conflict brewing can you see from this text?

answer: Mr. Smith's views on his wife and how she responds to him in the end shows opposing views.

question: What did Mr. Smith think about his wife?

answer: His wife knew her place, she never nagged him about coming home late, had dinner ready when he got home, and kept the place clean.

question: What does Mrs. Smith's response to Mr. Smith imply?

answer: That she will no longer put up with his behavior.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: Mr. Smith has everything needed in his life, including a domicile wife who does everything for him. Mr. Smith asks his wife to turn on the TV and she retorts back that he should get up and do it.


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My name is Tommy Guiles I am a chemistry teacher at Kensington Institute . I have a beautiful wife named Lisa and a 9 year old daughter named Violet. A few days from now is a very special day, my wife and I will be having our tenth anniversary. For this anniversary I want to give her the perfect gift one that can’t be out-shined, specifically the perfect diamond.

 Now I could just go to a jeweler and look for a satisfactory specimen, but how much would that really be worth? Instead why not obtain it from something that means a lot to her… something she loves… or perhaps someone she loves? As you may now the human body is composed of about 18% carbon the same thing coal is composed
of which we all know under intense pressure and heat creates diamonds. I know what you’re thinking you’re thinking I’m crazy maybe a monster even…perhaps you’re right .I don’t intend to explain how I am able to achieve the seemingly impossible task of turning humans into diamonds other than a single word “Science”.

It is now 11 at night and my family is sleeping soundly in their beds but I am not. You see lately my wife has been talking about how Violet is growing up so quickly and she’s scared she’s not going to be able to spend time with her when she’s older. So I thought of a way I could get her the perfect gift and make it so Violet will never leave her side, or so to speak. As I stand here by my daughter’s bed a damp rag and a bottle of chloroform in hand I can’t help but notice how peaceful she looks… what a shame. The longer I hold the cloth to her face the more tears I can feel welling up in my eyes I keep telling her it’s for the best ,but she still won’t stop squirming beneath my hands. After a while I pull myself away from her she’s completely still and silent. Sure I feel bad for what I’ve done but sometimes you have to do things you don’t want to for a greater purpose.

Since I now have all the required materials I can start the manufacturing of the diamond. It’s been about a day now and I am finally done making the diamond and dare I say it is absolutely perfect.It shines like a thousand stars flickering in the night sky and is completely spotless. Not only is it visually stunning but it ensures that my wife will always have our daughter at the tip of her fingers.*I have succeeded in making the perfect gift.*

title: The Gift

question: How is Tommy's relationship with Violet?

answer: It's not clear what their relationship was before he killed her.

question: Summarize the scene at 11 at night.

answer: Tommy thinks about how his wife fears Violet will spend less time with them as they age, so he decides to do something to make sure she never leaves her side. He kills Violet using chloroform to turn her into a diamond.

question: Is Tommy a good person?

answer: It could be said he isn't a good person because he killed his daughter.

question: What is the perfect gift the Tommy made?

answer: Tommy makes a diamond out of his daughter Violet to give to his wife for their anniversary.

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: Tommy decides to give his wife a gift for their tenth wedding anniversary . He wants to create a diamond using a human body, specifically his 9 year old daughter Violet. His wife has mentioned that she fears Violet will spend less time with them when she ages, so he sees this as a way that she can always keep Violet close. He kills Violet with chloroform and creates a diamond out of her body.


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I was early as usual, the parking lot was empty except for me and the key man. It was kind of a strange habit of mine to always be early. Even though time and time again I would be some where fifteen to twenty minutes early, I never bothered to change when I thought I needed to leave. Too much would be left to chance, I would never risk endangering my appearance due to lack of time management.

Others began to join us in the parking lot. Some of them I knew well, others I had only met in passing. Is she in that car? I could only speculate, and time would tell. I needed to use the restroom and so I locked my car and walked over only to find them locked, it was going to be a long class. I walk to the building and see him going up the stairs to class, I join him.

He and I made small talk in the classroom, and as others joined us we included them in our discussion. A pretty young girl and her younger brother walked in and sat next to me. I guess she was closer to me than anyone else in the class. Which is understandable, I saw her more as a friend despite her undeniable attractiveness. The teacher came and class started, she never showed up.

Class ended and he and I talked afterwards till nearly everyone was gone, he wondered if we could get something to eat and talk about life. I didn’t have anything to do the next day so I obliged him. I followed him in my car until we reached a Denny's in between our houses. We both ordered our food and our conversation took a more serious tone.

I had my hand ready to play to try and get clarity on the situation I was in. I knew I was going to have to be careful in how I approached it, since I didn’t know his hand. I knew that the time was coming near when I would be forced into playing. Then, he played his hand without even knowing it. He and she were still talking about being together. At long last I have been given vision. I can see the ending.

title: I can see the ending

question: What is the relationship between the narrator and the girl he is waiting for?

answer: The narrator appears to be romantically interested in the girl to the point of not having an interest in other women.

question: Who is the narrator?

answer: Possibly a college or university student.

question: Who is the girl that the narrator is waiting for?

answer: A classmate who seems to have had a previous relationship with another guy who is also their classmate. The narrator seems aware of this previous relationship.

question: What ending does the narrator see?

answer: Probably an ending where the girl and the other guy stay together.

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: Narrator waits through class for a classmate he seems to have romantic feelings for to show up, but she never does. So the narrator ends up talking to another classmate, a male who seems to have a prior relationship with the girl. The narrator and the male classmate hang out after class and eat at Denny's. There, the male classmate states that he and the girl still talking about being together.


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	Long ago, there was a beautiful winter day, the sun shone bright and sparkling white snow lay undisturbed across the ground, silencing the world which it covered. It was on this day that I decided to take a long walk in the woods outside of the hustle and bustle of the city.
	As  I walked in the woods, I came upon an elder tree who had lived a great many years and whose bark harbored a great number of wounds. I brushed the thick, gleaming snow off of the tree’s tangled roots, which spread far and deep in all directions. Unto the roots I sat, and the tree accepted me as a friend upon its lap, though he knew not who I was or of what nature my intentions were. Naught else in this world would have ever accepted me so quickly and graciously, let alone trusted me so easily.
	For many hours there I sat, nurtured and nestled deep in the ancient and deep-reaching roots. In my time sat comfortably upon the tree I asked in a hushed tone what the tree had seen and felt in his many years, seated forever upon the land where he stood. The tree answered in words of silence, and by it I was taught to listen with my eyes, not my ears.
	‘I have been built upon.’ said he with the rotting plank in his branches; with the scars in his skin he said ‘I have been wounded.’; ‘I have been shelter for many lives.’ he said with the hole in his trunk and the abandoned birds-nest in his uppermost branch. He spoke very little, yet told very much.
	‘I have travelled far,’ I said in reply. ‘I have been very many places, yet I fear I have seen less than you have, though you are rooted in this singular area. I have found little happiness to no avail, and I am plagued by my solitude which hangs over my head as a metal weight. I am not so wise as you are, my time is short on this planet and I, who has been born before you, is fated to die before you. I fear whether the choices I make in my life will be ill choices.’ I said, despair was shown so heavily in my voice.
	The tree listened well, and said nothing.
	‘I have no one on this earth who listens so well as you, tree.’
	The tree said naught, though I waited in vain for many hours.
	No advice was given to me that day, the tree never responded, but it held me tightly in its roots and I felt warm inside, despite the cold weather. The tree accepted me blindly, as nothing else would, or possibly ever will, it had done enough for me. Perhaps this tree had helped others, such as it had helped me; it had taken me in my pity.
	I walked to the woods that day with only the intention of feeling the cold air nip at my exposed skin; I left the woods that day enlightened, inspired by the kindness and unconditional love which the tree so openly gave out. I was changed, by something so simple as the comfort of a tree. Love can be found in the simplest things, I learned that day, and we are never alone so long as we choose to see the life around us.

title: My first completed short story: The Elder Tree

question: How did the tree change the narrator?

answer: The narrator became enlightened by the kindness and unconditional love which the tree gave out.

question: What did the narrator learn that day?

answer: That we are never alone as long as we see the life around us.


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[Ivanka Trump jokes with a student about his height during a campaign stop for her father, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016, at the Founders Academy, a public chartered school in Manchester, N.H.]
AP Photo/Jim Cole
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — Ivanka Trump is praising the enthusiasm, passion and love she sees and feels while campaigning for her father ahead of next Tuesday’s election.

Trump tells Breitbart News that the polls indicate voters see her father as a catalyst for change.

“He’s surging across the board,” Ivanka told Breitbart News during an exclusive interview Thursday morning at The Founders Academy charter school in Manchester, New Hampshire. She says her father is closing the gap and taking the lead in many swing states across the country. “It’s been amazing for me the past 24-hours. I’ve been in North Carolina, Michigan and now New Hampshire and the spirit and enthusiasm for a Trump presidency is enormous and it’s incredibly exciting.”

In the past week, Trump has narrowed his opponent’s lead in many key battleground states like Virginia and Colorado, according to recent polls. The Republican nominee even took the lead this week in new polls in North Carolina, Florida and New Hampshire.

Ivanka Trump noted a statistic that roughly 70 percent of voters believe the country is heading in the wrong direction, and explained that the polls are now reflecting that people see her father as an antidote to that.

“It’s great we are seeing it now in the polls, but really in a more meaning personal level, I feel it in every community I enter, every highway I drive down where you see the signs,” she explained, adding:

  It’s a message of change, but really I allow my father to speak for himself…he’s had a consistent platform from the beginning of his campaign. He’s been an advocate for better trade deals, for putting this country back to work, for school choice and repealing common core and bringing education back to a local level. There’s so many things and…his side of the [issues] really resignate with the people.”

“The enthusiasm, the passion and the love is so heart felt,” Ivanka added. “And the optimism about what this country has the potential to be under the right leadership.”

Ivanka and her siblings — Don Jr., Eric, and Tiffany — have been campaigning hard for their father with each of them holding a number of events across the country in battleground states this week.

She went on to praise her father for his leadership capabilities, saying there are really few great leaders in both business and politics.

“I like to share with people who he is as a person, who he was as a father and who he is leader at the Trump Organization,” Ivanka told Breitbart News, adding that she’s learned so much from him both personally and professionally as a role model.

  It’s hard to be a great leader. It’s hard to be an inspiring leader. There are a lot of people who manage…but they’re not leaders and my father really is a leader. He sets a very bold and a very big vision for what he wants to accomplish and then he puts in place the people who will be able to execute upon that ambitious goal and he helps them a long the way and he often times realizes in people their potential.

“He’s been a great inspiration in that regards and as a father our family is very close. As a parent now myself…I no longer take for granted that it’s easy to be a good parent,” she noted on a personal level. “It’s tough to be a good parent and to have a connected loving family. He’s been an unbelievable father to me and my siblings and I feel very blessed for that and very grateful.”

question: Who is being highlighted in this article?

answer: Ivanka Trump

question: Where is this presidential campaign being discussed in the article taking place?

answer: In Manchester, New Hampshire

question: Who are Ivanka's siblings?

answer: They are Don Jr., Eric, and Tiffany.

question: What did Ivanka share with Breitbart News?

answer: She shared how Trump was as a person, as a father, and as a leader at the Trump Organization.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: This article highlights Ivanka Trump and her interview with Breitbart News about how her father, Donald Trump, would be the right leadership for the country. This presidential campaign is being highlighted in New Hampshire.


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The following dialogue was originally spoken in Spanish, and was discovered on my voice recorder, which I'd left running on a cafe table in Ecuador. It was translated by my friend Gabe.

"Ha! You call that trouble? That's not trouble. Real trouble has all kinds of parts and pieces. Your uncle Victor - he is in real trouble." the voice of a middle aged non-smoking beer drinker.

"Why - his shop go under?" the voice of a 14 or 15 year old boy between bites. The older man isn't eating.

"No. But that shop - I shouldn't be telling you this but maybe you will learn something.  That shop - it's a good shop.  It won’t go under.  But it was all paid for, the shop, the license, the van, the fish tank, the goddam fish - all paid for with borrowed money.  Even the house, probably.  See, your uncle's girl, the one you kids call Kitty, her father gives Victor a big, big loan."

That was what first caught my ear on the recording.  I wanted to know what was "Corona corona".

"So he marries her.  Now we all like this girl. She's a nice girl.  Your uncle likes it in Lima.  Business is doing well.  Everything is fine, right?"

"Okay."

"Not okay.  See what happens.  He moves down there, gets a house.  Kitty lets her sister move in.  This sister has no job, been out of school for two months and has no job, no boyfriend, no car.  She asks for a job at the shop.  Your uncle tells her it is a one man business."

"She burn down his shop or something?"

"Just wait. I'm gonna teach you subtlety. You know what subtlety is?"

"Yes."

"First day of work, the sister comes in with a friend, orders a coke and a fortune scroll, the friend leaves, she stays.  One hour, two hours, all day she's standing at the counter making small talk, commenting on TV stuff, telling customers their kids are cute, things like this. Whatever. “

“Because she didn’t get the job?”

“No, because she is stupid and has nothing better to do.  Anyway, the opening goes good.  Big celebration in the basement.  Fine.  Now the second day, this sister -"

"Donna."

"What Donna."

"The sister. Her name is Donna."

"Okay, Donna."

"She's cool."

"You think she's cool because she acts your age.  But she's not your age.  Now the second day she comes in stoned or something and doesn't order anything, not even a coke.  She's by herself, standing there, talking your uncle's ears off, and he's laughing and being nice, starting to wonder if this is going to be an everyday thing.  So now a friend comes in, a new friend, an important man in Lima, who your uncle likes and respects, and they do business.  He places a big order.  They have a valuable conversation and shake hands.  Now listen good."

"I'm listening."

"I know you're listening.  Listen good.  On the way out of the shop, this sister, cool Donna, she asks the man for a cigarette."

"...Okay."

"Okay? You think that's okay?"

"She burn down the shop or something?"

"No. He didn't give her a cigarette.  See you kids always need impact.  A valuable conversation and a handshake doesn't have enough impact.  Begging customers for cigarettes has no impact.  Well the rest of the day she's following people outside, asking every other person for a fucking cigarette.  Coming back and being friendly.  Your uncle is friendly back – he doesn't know what to do.  Boys come in and try to get a handjob.  All day it’s like highschool cafeteria in there. He says something to his wife. To Kitty. And now he's in big trouble.  Because Serena, Kitty, she talks to the sister.  The sister don't want to hear it.  Brings all kinds of old stuff into it.  Things your uncle doesn't have anything to with.  But his whole life is on loan from this girl's father."

"Kitty's dad is some kind of shark huh?"

"See.  Again with impact.  No he is just a business man.  Don't you see the subtleties at play here?  These two girls go at it all night.  The sister is crying, blaming things, saying sorry, talking about killing herself. Talking crazy. And that’s just the two sisters.  Who knows what she tells the muchachos about her brother in law. Maybe one day money starts disappearing or windows breaking."

"Shit."

"Yeah shit.  And there's little things.  Like, the only bathroom is in the bedroom, so she's in and out of their room all night, apologizing, crying in the bathroom, asking to use the cellphone, yelling into the cellphone.  Your uncle gets fed up in the morning over I don't know, some food or something, and now he's the bad guy. That’s only day three. On day four these sisters start talking, and start wondering, you know, because they never fought like this.  Super Cool Donna was a good girl, just had some bad luck. Just needs to get on her feet.  Now this Victor fellow comes down from Ecuador, won’t help, gets all uppity on her, has the sisters fighting.  And your aunt Serena she don't know which way is up."

"Uncle Victor's way is up. Where the money is is up"

"Their father has the real money.  Sometimes I bet Victor feels like his way is down."

"So what's the point? He coming back to Quito?"

"No. There is no point. But that's the point.

“…”

"What if I told you this girl Donna felt slighted by her family all her life, maybe that they'd played favorites with your aunt Kitty?"

"Well,"

"Or that the reason they slighted her is some shit she pulled when she was a kid.

“I don’t know.”

“Or that it turns out she hadn't really pulled any shit that day, but was just covering for your aunt Kitty?"

"How do you know?"

"I don't know. I made those last three things up, but that's the point.  There is no point.  Life is a crazy goddam circle. No up or down.  No time to talk about these things until they hit you on the fucking head.  Its a fucking wheel Jose, all in flux, and we just got to keep it moving.  You like stories that end like that?"

"Like what?"

"With no point except that there is no point."

"Not really."

"Well. You better start liking stories like that."

title: I used to only write about my life, but I finally made up a short story. It is only a couple pages. Anyone care to read it? I think it is great!

question: Summarize the primary source of tension in the story.

answer: The primary source of tension in the story the older man tells the boy is the loan that the boy's uncle Victor got from his father-in-law. Victor married Kitty after receiving a loan from her father for his business, Kitty's sister moves in with them and asks for a job. Victor does not give her a job, but she hangs out at the shop every day and changes the atmosphere to that of a high school cafeteria. When Victor mentions this to his wife, the sisters have a major disagreement which escalates when Victor himself take up the fight. There is no way knowing how this will end, but there is certainty of where this tension comes from - the loan for the store.

question: Summarize how the main character changes over the story.

answer: The main character of the story being told is the boy's uncle Victor. At the start of the story he receives a loan from his girlfriend's father to start a business in Lima, he marries the girl, Kitty, and the business does well. That is until Kitty's sister, Donna, moves in with them. Victor cannot employ her at the shop so she spends her days sitting around the shop making small talk. This frustrates Victor to no end, he speaks with his wife about it and also confronts Donna himself. The situation worsens, there is no way out for him due to the loan that he got for the shop.

question: What does the story say about life?

answer: The older man, and narrator, holds that life is a circle, no up or down, no time to talk about things until they hit you. Everything is always in flux and most stories do not have a point. The older man suggests starting to like subtlety and pointless stories, because life will be full of it. The older man also tries to teach the boy discern real trouble.

question: Summarize the relationship between the older man and the boy in the café in Ecuador.


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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum has accepted invitations to two televised debates in October — one hosted by Univision 23 in Miami, the other by Leadership Florida in Davie — and the campaign said in a statement it "insists" Republican Ron DeSantis commit to another debate outside South Florida.

" Florida voters deserve the chance to hear from Mayor Gillum and Congressman DeSantis about the critical issues facing our state," senior Gillum adviser Scott Arceneaux said. "Mayor Gillum looks forward to sharing his vision for Florida that lifts people up, with higher wages, more money for schools, and affordable health care. We hope that Congressman DeSantis will join us, though it's unclear whether he'll be able to answer a single question about his non-existent campaign platform."

Asked about this today in Orlando, DeSantis told the Buzz he is "hell bent" on debating Gillum and would probably agree to more than three debates. The more they debate, DeSantis said, the better for for him.

"I definitely want to do debates. It's very, very important, particularly for a candidate like Andrew who nobody thought could win the primary. He did not face scrutiny of his record. He didn't face a single dollar in negative advertising, I don't think," DeSantis said after a picnic with Republican veterans. ". I had $17 million between U.S. Sugar and Putnam. So I think it's very important that Floridians have a clear sense of our visions for Florida, our leadership."

DeSantis and Adam Putnam held two televised debates during their Republican primary, while Gillum participated in six debates with his Democratic primary rivals and one with Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran.

question: Where will the two debates Andrew Gillum will be in October, be hosted at?

answer: One hosted by Univision 23 in Miami, the other by Leadership Florida in Davie.

question: What's Gillum's vision of Florida in Scott Arceneaux's eyes?

answer: A Florida that lifts people up, with higher wages, more money for schools, and affordable health care.

question: How many debates did DeSantis and Adam Putnam held?

answer: 2 debates

question: In how many debates did Gillum participate?

answer: 6 debates

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: The text is a summary of the debates happening in Florida among the gubernatorial candidates.


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nding at the north side if it is a girl. The child is then brought out and returned to his mother. This is the historical norm in the manuscript tradition.

In other traditions, if the child is a girl, the priest places her on the _solea_ in front of the icon of the Theotokos. If the child is a boy, he carries him through the south deacon's door into the sanctuary and around the back of the Holy Table exiting the altar through the north deacon's door and again places the baby boy onto the solea.

He then says the Song of Simeon and says a special apolysis (dismissal), after which he blesses the child with the Sign of the Cross on its forehead, mouth and heart, and returns it to its mother.

Notes on Variations

As noted above, there is variation on whether unbaptized children are churched as well as on whether both boys and girls are brought into the sanctuary behind the iconostasis. While scholarship on this point is scarce in English, it is the subject of Greek scholarship by the eminent liturgical scholar Ioannes Fountoules, who taught liturgics at the University of Thessaloniki. Following are notes from the _Services of Initiation_ published by the Antiochian Archdiocese of North America (p. 139):

St Symeon of Thessaloniki does not make any distinction regarding the sex of the baby—only whether it be baptized or not—as a condition of bringing it into the holy Altar. The saint wrote, “Now if the infant is already baptized, (the priest) brings it even into the Altar... but if the child be not yet baptized, he stands before the holy Doors” (Migne, _Patrologia Graeca_ 155:212b).
But it seems that the tradition does not admit any criteria—either sex or baptismal status—as conditions for bringing the infant into the Altar. While admitting that the criterion of baptism possesses a consistent and sound logic to it, Ioannes Fountoules has pointed out that none of the manuscripts which carry the churching service make any mention of any criteria for bringing a churched infant into the holy Altar. In fact, the whole churching service, as it has come down to us, presumes that the child is in fact not baptized, and the manuscripts which have this service mention the bearing the infant into the Altar, most times irrespective of sex (see _Apantiseis_ A' #167 and D' #381, especially pp. 233-236). In short, the service is about the dedication of infants to God. The fact that the infants are brought by Christian parents should be considered as the most important qualification and that we not "split hairs over accuracy,” as Fountoules judged.
This being the case, later changes in some traditions suggest an interpretation of the rite as pertaining in some way to ordination, such that it is considered inappropriate to bring either or both the unbaptized and/or female children into the sanctuary. The text of the rite does not mention ordination, however.

Sources

-   Wikipedia:Churching of women
-   Churching

External link

-   The Churching of Women

question: What is the topic of discussion?

answer: A service that is about the dedication of infants to God.

question: How is a baptism described in this document?

answer: A baptism is only described as having a consistent and sound logic to it.

question: What is the Song of Simeon?

answer: That is not clear, but it is said by the priest during a ritual.

question: What is labeled as "the most important qualification"?

answer: The author says that the most important qualification should be that the infants are brought by Christian parents.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: This document discusses a service that is the dedication of infants to God and its variations.