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***Fuel for Writers***

The walls of my den seem closer in tonight. I swirl the amber liquid in my glass. How long have I been in here? All night it seems. I look down at the typewriter; a few sentences written, nothing substantial. The dim light shines off the bottle on the side table. *Wasn’t there was more left?* I think. These long nights really do me in. I hear steps behind me. “Writer’s block, honey?” my wife asks.

“How could you tell?” I ask, giving her a slight smile as I turn in my chair.

“Well, for one, the whiskey’s almost gone,” she replies, smiling back. “I thought that was fuel for you writers?” she questions.

“Maybe for Joyce and them,” I say, holding the bottle in my hand, the glass heavy and cool in my hands. “But for me, apparently whiskey is nothing more than an escape.”

“An escape?” she questions, her tone becoming more serious. “What are you escaping from, Walter?”

I give a heavy sigh.  “Myself mostly; my thoughts, my fears that my writing will never be what it was, that the well I drew from so many times has dried up.”

She walks over and puts her arms around me in an attempt to be comforting, but I find it agitating, and I shrug her off. Whiskey is my only comfort tonight, and so I pour another glass.

She shakes off my cold demeanor. “You’re a fantastic writer, Walter, ever since I've known you. Remember those nights where we would lie in bed, and you would read to me, read your stories and poems? I know how well you can write.”

I lean back in my chair and I remember back to those days she mentioned. Things were different back then. The writing was different, my outlook was different, and our relationship was different. “But what if I can’t get back to that? What if that’s gone forever?” I ask, superficially about my writing, but implying things much deeper.

She looks at me for a moment, looking as though she’s trying to read the thoughts behind my eyes. “It’s late; why don’t you come to bed?”

“I can’t, I can’t leave without writing something worth keeping on the page.”

She seems disheartened by my answer. “Well, write about something you know; you always said that helped you get through writer’s block.”

“Yeah, I’ll try that, thanks honey,” I reply, giving her a hollow smile.

She walks up to bed, and I position myself in my chair. I finish the remainder of my glass, and I unscrew the bottle. I take sizable swig of the writer’s fuel. Write about something I know, I think. I look at what’s prevalent, pressing in my life, and my fingers move to the typewriter and hammer out a sentence.

**He no longer loved her.**

I look at my sentence, and I sob. I grab the writer’s fuel, and I escape.

title: Taking a class on writing short short stories (500 words or less), here's one I wrote today: Fuel for Writers (would love any thoughts or advice on it!)

question: What is Walter trying to write?

answer: He's trying to write anything because he's having writer's block.

question: Who is Joyce?

answer: A writer

question: What is Walter trying to escape?

answer: It seems Walter is trying to escape the fact that he no longer loves his wife.

question: Does this story have a resolution?

answer: Walter rids himself of his writer's block when he takes his wife's advice of writing something that he knows. He writes that he no longer loves her.

question: Write a ~5 sentence summary.

answer: Walter is having writer's block, and is relying on whiskey to escape his thoughts. His wife tries to comfort him, but he only seems agitated by it. She gives him the advice to write what he knows. When she leaves, he writes "he no longer loved her". He drinks more to escape.


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The CAIRO INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FILM FESTIVAL () or CIWFF is an independent initiative dedicated to introducing films directed by women from around the world[1] — not necessarily addressing women's issues—to explore the perspectives of female filmmakers.[2]

The founder and directors of the festival emphasize its goal to be serving as a platform through which films created by women are introduced to the audience as well as 'a meeting point for the audience and filmmakers'.[3] To that end, films are screened at no fee[4] with both English and Arabic subtitles[5] and Q&A sessions, panels and master classes are held with guests of the festival.[6]

History

The festival first came to existence in 2008 in the form of ENTRE CINEASTAS () or the CARAVAN OF ARAB AND LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN'S FILMS ().[7] The caravan was held in various Arab, Latin American and Spanish cities.[8] Over the years, the initiative developed to, eventually, expand into the Cairo International Women's Film Festival, and include the Caravan as one of many sections of the festival.[9]

Sections, events and activities

Throughout the festival, master classes and panels are held to introduce filmmakers to the audience and open the floor for themes or film-based discussions.

One pillar of the festival is the One Minute Workshop (). This is a workshop instructed by filmmaker and founder of CIWFF, Amal Ramsis, where she teaches non-professional women the basics of making short films in order to write, act, shoot and direct one-minute long films addressing a selected concept. It is held several times around the year in various cities and towns around Egypt and the Arab World, Latin America and Europe in collaboration with the TRAMA network and Drac Màgic—the women's film festival that had launched the initiative in 1997.[10]

Sections of the festival change with every edition.[11] One integral section, however, is the Caravan.[12] Every edition also celebrates one prominent female filmmaker by screening a selection of her films in a section titled ′Tribute to a Cineaste′ and inviting her to conduct Q&A sessions and a panel.[13] Other recurring sections are the International Panorama, the Country in Focus and the Guest Festival—which is often a partner women's film festival.[14]

Award

CIWFF features one award: THE AUDIENCE AWARD. It was first introduced in the 6th edition (2013). All films qualify except films from the Caravan, the Tribute and the Workshop. Through public vote, one film is selected to receive the award. No committee has any say in the selection. Should the audience vote for a short film, the award is divided between the first- and the second-ranking films. It is, then, presented to the director of the winning film—if present—and the film is screened on closing night.

Some films that have won the Audience Award are:

  Year                            Film Title              Original Title                                                                                Director(s)
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  2017                            Aya Goes to the Beach   آية والبحر                                                                                Maryam Touzani
  2016                            Trip Along Exodus[15]   رحلة في الرحيل                                                                                Hend Choufani
  2014                            Wooden Hand             يد اللوح                                                                                Kouther Ben Henia
  Profession: Documentarist[16]   Herfeh: Mostanadsaz     Farahnaz Sharifi, Firouzeh Khosrovani, Mina Keshavarz, Nahid Rezaei, Sahar Salahshoor, Sepideh Abtahi, Shirin Barghnavard
  2013                            Silent City             Silent City                                                                                Threes Anna

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question: Summarize all the events of the Cairo International Women's Film Festival.

answer: Caravan; Master classes and panels; Tribute to a Cineaste with a prominent female filmmaker; Q&A sessions are included in the Tribute; International Panorama; Country in Focus; Guest Festival.

question: Which events are eligible for the audience award?

answer: All films qualify except films from the Caravan, the Tribute and the Workshop.

question: Where does the Caravan come from and why is it still included in the festival?

answer: The festival first came into existence in 2008 in the form of Entre Cineastas or the Caravan of Arab and Latin American women's films. The caravan was held in various Arab, Latin American and Spanish cities. Over the years, the initiative developed to, eventually into the Cairo International Women's Film Festival and include the Caravan as one of many sections of the festival.

question: Which event happens before the festival?

answer: The One Minute Workshop instructed by filmmaker and founder of CIWFF, Amal Ramsis. It is held several times around the year in various cities and towns around Egypt and the Arab World, Latin America and Europe.

question: Who directed the film that won the audience award in 2013?

answer: Threes Anna

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: The Cairo International Women's Film Festival is held annually to celebrate women in film. Its precursor was the Caravan of Arab and Latin American women's films. One award is presented at the festival, the audience award.


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Please forgive any grammatical errors, I just wrote it and wanted to see if you guys liked it.

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 Sometimes I can't get the things in my head to come out of my mouth. Most the time I shouldn't even try.

One day I walked over to a friends place and upon arrival I notice a short haired calico cat sitting on the front steps of the apartment building. It was pretty clean so I didn't think it was a stray, but he looked lost. Though he was just sitting there he appeared to me to have a very calm, almost human demeanor.

   Instead of wondering where it came from I began to imagine that the cat was also here to see someone in the building. Maybe he lives here. maybe he forgot his keys and he keeps trying to get his wife on the intercom to let him in but she wont pick up. He's pressed the button on the call box three or four times now with no response. In my mind, he's tapping his little cat foot and looking at his little cat watch saying, "Come on, dammit, I know she's in there."

   As I am pressing the button for my friend's apartment this image becomes incredibly funny to me. She picks up to be sure it's me and from her apartment unlocks the door with a loud buzzing sound. I laugh to myself as I enter the building, maybe stepping over a little kitty briefcase in front of the doorway.

   Inside the lobby I realize there is a woman standing there looking out at the cat through the glass door.

   "Do you know who's cat that is?"

   I think about the image I've created, the cat outside trying to get in, his little cat wife upstairs listening to NPR so loud she can't hear the buzzer.

 "He's.."

   I freeze. I realize there's no way for me to explain to someone in passing the hilarious scenario I've created in my head in the past thirty seconds.

   "He's um..."

   He's wearing a little kitty tie.

   "He's waiting for..um..to meet someone."

   She looks at me and one of her eyebrows seems to raise involuntarily.

   "What?"

   "What?" I say, because it doesn't make sense to me either.

   She continues staring at me. For a few awkward seconds I stare back at her with my mouth open, unsuccessfully trying to come up with words that make sense. Nothing. I put my head down and pull my hood on, receding into myself like a turtle, and scurry off down the nearest hallway; leaving this woman confused and still wondering about the cat on the porch, lost and alone in the cold.

title: Short story about a cat and an awkward encounter.

question: Describe the awkward encounter the narrator has.

answer: The narrator envisions a fantasy that the cat she spots by the apartment is waiting to meet with someone. They blurt this out to a woman that they encounter.

question: Who is the narrator?

answer: That information can't be found.

question: Describe the cat.

answer: The cat is a short-haired calico with a calm, almost human demeanor.

question: Who does the cat belong to?

answer: It isn't clear who the cat belongs to.

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: The narrator is on their way to visit a friend when they spot a calico cat sitting on the front steps of the apartment. They envision a fantasy in which the cat is waiting to meet with someone. A woman then asks them whose cat it is, and they respond by explaining that the cat is meeting someone. The narrator is then embarrassed by what they've said.


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Disclaimer -- I haven't done any real non-work related writing in many.. MANY years.. I have probably committed a thousand and one grammatical atrocities and don't even realize it.  I just finally decided I miss writing and threw together a short story off the top of my head in about 15 - 20 minutes.

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It wasn't quite yet midnight.  The day we had anticipated for months.  We had everything packed and I was desperately trying to sleep for the long trip ahead of us.

Tossing and turning we struggled to pass the time as minutes turned to hours leading up to now.  Eleven Fifty Five pm and All I want to do is hit the road now, not at 8am as we planned. Suddenly, a shatter from the garage.  "What is happening? What is going on!" I thought, as I nudged John next to me. "John, John.. did you hear that?!" "Wha-snarfle-snar-gull-uggg* is the response I got "I nudged him a second time, harder still "John! Somebody is in our garage!" This time John woke up and seemed as concerned as I was.

John went to the safe and got a 9mm pistol, loaded it up and started for the downstairs.  I made for the phone to call the police..  Dead.. the line was dead.  How could this be? This couldn't be happening, not to us, not now.. On this day of all days.

I check back at the clock.. 12:20.  Today, today is supposed to be the greatest day of our recently married lives. I realize soon that John has been gone for 20 minutes and I haven't heard another sound from the entire house.  Frozen in time for what amounted to 5 minutes, I wasn't sure what to do.  I finally mustered up the courage to step out of bed and throw on my Bathrobe.  I too grab the other gun from the safe and struggle to remind myself of the training that John and I took last summer at the Police shooting range.  I loaded up the clip and locked it into the gun.  Through the dark and quiet house I tip-toed silently as a mouse.  I made my way to the door leading to the garage and listened.  voices.. John.. and.. 2 voices I did not recognize.  I stood silently trying to listen.  A Standoff.  It sounds like John is in danger.  Without sight, I am left to my own imagination of what the situation looks like just beyond the door.  Guns in the air, pointed at one another.  Everybody making threats and nobody backing down.  Uncertain how to help, I tip-toed to the outside leading door furthest from the garage.  I made my way to the yard.  I have no idea at this point if I am making any correct decisions or just struggling to make the situation worse.  Around the outside of the house I snuck, gun in hand, safety still on as to not accidentally fire in my nervous state.

I made my way to the window just outside of the garage. The window is open, "This must be how they got in, I thought.  Shoot, the shades are closed though" It was obvious there was no way I was going to be able to see through this window without being heard.  I can now hear the conversation inside the garage much more clearly than from behind the interior door.   I don't know what to make of the things I am hearing.  John seems to know these 2 people.  They are referencing each other by name.  Some sort of argument ensues.  I can only make out some of the conversation.. "Money owed.  Gambling.. Here to collect"

Could it be? Could John have a secret life of gambling and crime?  5 years together and I've never known?  How could this be.  All those late nights at the office. I never imagined anything else.  All those "Business" phone calls.  I just couldn't believe it.  I hear John is trying to convince them to leave the car, and everything in tact.  They keep saying it is the only thing worth any value.

In my nervous state, shocked at the things I am learning I unknowingly dropped the gun to the ground as it made a loud "thud" and a "scraping" sound across the gravel.  I hear one of the men gasp and start heading towards the window.  I quickly pick the gun back up and point it at the shades.  The shades fly up and I am face to face with a man I've never seen before, gun drawn.  Now things are a 1 on 1 standoff.  Me with my gun and this man and John with his gun and the other man.  I refuse to come inside the garage and insist that they leave empty handed.  Things turn from bad to worse when the man shoots a bullet over my shoulder to scare me. I immediately pull the trigger to fire back... "Shit, I didn't release the safety" Now struggling in a panic at what to do the man starts to laugh and reaches out to grab the gun from me.  By now, the neighborhood is awake and surely police have been called.  I manage to release the safety just in time to shoot the stranger in the hand as he is reaching to grab the gun from me.  He backs up and the other man Shoots John.  John shoots the other man and the man I shot in the hand shoots me.  We are all down, I laid there in the cold gravel, still outside of the garage.  In the distance I can hear sirens looming as I lose consciousness.

2 days later I wake up in the hospital.  John is no where to be found bedside or otherwise. I have no idea what has happened.  As I come to and I adjust to my place in this hospital bed I am finally informed of the news.  "John didn't make it" The nurse said "We did everything we could but the wound was too damaging."

As I lay there contemplating my current situation, I replayed that night in my head every single second in repetition.  Could I have done anything more?  Should I have done something differently?  What happened to my dearest John?  What happened to the assailants who broke into our house?  As these questions raced I didn't notice the 2 assailants being wheeled down the hallway passed my room with police in tow.  They were on their way to county lock up pending trial.

I couldn't believe it, a dream of a life shattered in one single hour.. It just goes to show that you never really have ti all, or if you do, it's only on loan as long as someone agrees that it is okay for you to keep it. From that day fourth, I never could take that drive into the country.

title: The long road to loneliness

question: Did John really owe money?

answer: It does sound like it.


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_L FOR LOVE L FOR LIES_' (stylized _L for Love ♥ L for Lies_; () is a 2008 Hong Kong film written and directed by Patrick Kong and starring Alex Fong, Stephy Tang and Alice Tzeng.

Plot

Everything was going well for Kwong Mei-Bo (Stephy Tang) until recently. After graduating from college, Bo opened a sweets shop with her longtime boyfriend, Jun (Stephen Wong Ka Lok), thinking that she would eventually marry Jun when everything has been set up and running smoothly. One day, Bo met her old Taiwanese classmate Kei Kei (Alice Tzeng). Kei Kei liked Jun's hard working and nice personality, and decided to steal Jun for her own, not caring about Bo's feelings. Bo not only lost the long time love of her life, but she also lost the sweet shop that she has worked so hard on.

Ah-Man (Leila Tong) is Bo's good friend on the phone. The pretty and attractive Man would often time have some short relationships with other men while concealing all this from her introverted and slow boyfriend, Fung (Terry Wu). Although Man loves Fung, she takes him for granted and thinks he will never leave her despite her selfishness. In the meantime, Fung is two-timing Man with another woman.

After the break-up, Bo found a job as a make-up artist in the mall. Her boss Kuen broke the news of her engagement and invited everyone out to celebrate. At the party, Bo realized that her boss's really young fiancée looked very familiar. She recognized him as her old neighbor Keung (Alex Fong), who had a crush on her before being admitted to teenage prison, but Keung keeps pretending that he doesn't know Bo. A month later, Kuen's wedding was suddenly canceled and Bo found out that her boss's life savings were stolen from the fiancée, who disappeared. Bo unexpectedly met Keung on the streets, learning that he is a conman. Keung finds Bo following him and expects her to sue him, but Bo hires Keung to deceive Kei Kei and let her have a taste of her medicine.

One day, Keung met his ex-girlfriend, Yan (Linda Chung). Yan told Keung that her family will move to Singapore and that he should go visit them. Although Keung had deceived Yan's sister's money, they had forgiven him. In his drunk and self-loathing state, Keung kissed Bo for the second time as she tries to comfort him. As an experienced liar, Keung successfully courted Kei Kei. Being abandoned by Kei Kei, Jun decided to make up with Bo. But Bo has no longer has feelings for Jun because she unknowingly fell in love with Keung. Keung's old thug friends ask him to join in on a kidnapping act, but he rejects.

Meanwhile, Ah-Man finally felt tired and guilty, and decided to set up a stable relationship with Fung. But Fung tells Man that he wants to break up. In the past six months, Fung was secretly dating his co-worker's girlfriend Min (Miki Yeung). Fung finally decided to let go of Man and had chosen Min for a 'back up lover' relationship, which did not last because Min decided to get married with her real boyfriend. This gave Fung new insights and reminded him that he can never be her priority. Thus, he lets go of Man (who is sobbing at the breakup) because he feels she needs someone who can accept her as she is and who she can accept and feel safe with. They were incompatible and he had to put up with her, while she, on the other hand, did some horrible things to Fung, only to regret them immediately afterwards.

Soon, Keung's intentions on deceiving Kei Kei were exposed because her cousin was once deceived by him too. Keung pretends to form an alliance with Kei Kei to expose and humiliate Ah-Bo instead, making her devastated. A few months later, Jun's sweets shop went bankrupt when Kei Kei took all the money and fled. It turns out that it was part of Keung and his apprentice's plan to deceive her. While helping Jun recover from the loss of the sweets shop and employees, Jun and Bo got back together.

Keung, having successfully deceived Kei Kei and got all the money back, watches Bo and Jun from a distance. Bo notices him and walks out of dinner at their sweets shop. The old man that sells egg waffles confirms that her “boyfriend” Keung was there just a while ago. However, before Bo is able to meet up with Keung, his thug friends' failed kidnap attempts resulted in getting Keung involved, and he was beaten on the streets. Keung trudged his bloody body to Bo and Jun's restaurant, hoping to tell her that he loved her. Disappointed that she didn't find Keung, Bo walks back to her restaurant, not knowing that Keung had collapsed a block behind her restaurant and died from loss of blood. The movie ends with Bo and Man finally meeting up in real life, but Bo discovers that Man's new boyfriend was Jun.

'L for Love, L for Lies'' has a fascinating ending with a strange, maybe unthinkable twist, especially after what the story line evolved to. In summary, love can show its true form in the things we do that are not noticed — it is love when we do something good for a loved one, but it also takes the shape of lies (lies to make things better and maintain stability/protect loved ones, or lies for deception, e.g., cheating and dishonesty). There is a sharp contrast with the repenting Keung and Jun who gets a second chance (and the ending tells it all), as to who really loved Bo, despite the lies (the difference in the lies throughout the story and the way they followed these lies with actions).''

Cast

-   Alex Fong as Ah Keung
-   Stephy Tang as Ah Bo
-   Alice Tzeng as Kei Kei
-   Leila Tong as Ah Man
-   Miki Yeung as Ah Min
-   Terry Wu as Ah Fung
-   Stephen Wong as Ah Jun
-   Linda Chung as Ah Yun
-   Natalie Tong as May
-   Power Chan as Ah Wei
-   Suki Chui as Tiffany
-   Sammy Leung as Ah Fei
-   Wong Cho-lam as Nam Wei Bo
-   Chu Mi-mi as Mrs. Wong
-   Wu Jing as Michael
-   Kara Hui as Bo's mother
-   Cathy Kwan as Cousin
-   Chiang Chi-kwong as Bo 's father

Awards nominations

28TH HONG KONG FILM AWARDS

-   Best Original Film Song (Andrew Chu, Fang Jie, Kary Ng)

title: L for Love L for Lies

question: How many different love affairs are involved in the story?

answer: The story is a tangled web, with ridiculous twists designed to keep the reader interested. Bo and Jun are partners, but Jun leaves her for Kei Kei. Man and Fung are partners, but Fung cheats on her with Min, and Man has many boyfriends on the side. Keung and Kuen are engaged, but it turns out Keung is a con-man. Keung meets his ex-girlfriend Yan, and later falls in love with Bo. Then finally Bo and Jun get back together, only for Jun to start dating Man (the final twist in the story).

question: What is the theme of the movie?

answer: The movie is called "L for Love, L for Lies" and is about the insane things people do while they are in love. The plot is sensationalistic, and goes through many different kinds of relationships. In particular, the relationship between Fong and Min, while only tangentially connected to the other elements of the plot, meditates on infidelity in relationships, a theme reflected in the rest of the plot.


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She calls him over, “Its been a long time, why don’t you come over for a chat?”
An offer he cannot refuse, already into her, he accepts the invitation.
As soon as he arrives she is already opening the door, he is shocked and impressed by her, is it eagerness?
She got straight to it.
“Oh my god I have found the greatest of all secrets to life. Have you met Jesus Christ?”
He thought to himself, she has become a nut job, time to get out, but he likes her so he lets her continue.
“While meeting Jesus I used the internet as one of the tools for my study, and after all my research I have found his meaning.”
He was confused and wanted to leave. He gets up and starts walking toward the door, and she stops him mid way.
“The internet told me that his coming required sacrifice, on this day, myself, and many others on the internet will take a mate in mass expiation. I will complete my task”
She goes for him with a quick stab, right in the stomach, she then goes for herself. It’s the fear that killed them.

title: Accepting the Invitation

question: Who is the antagonist of the story and why?

answer: It's a girl whom the protagonist likes. She tricks him into visiting her and stabs both him and herself for religious atonement.

question: Explain why the protagonist didn't leave after learning the girl was aiming for some sort of religious act?

answer: He likes the girl and decides to listen a bit more.

question: Why does the girl kill herself and the protagonist?

answer: She read something on the internet about the second coming of Jesus that said it requires sacrifice.

question: What time period does the story happen?

answer: It's not said in the story, but the internet exists. So it should be relatively modern times.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: A girl the protagonist likes invites him over. After explaining that she found Jesus, she talks about the second coming of Jesus requiring sacrifice and kills both him and herself.


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Welcome to Potential Church!

You’re invited to join us at one of our five church locations across the world from Florida to Lima, Peru. Choose the campus nearest you for more information – we can’t wait to see you at church this week!

Times & Locations

Florida

Cooper City

SUNDAYS 9am, 10:45am, 12:30pm & 5pm

Florida

Hallandale Beach

Florida

Pensacola

Lima, Peru

Miraflores

Join us online on SUNDAYS 9am, 10:45am, 12:30am, 5pm, 7pm est.

Join Us Online

Tune in on any of the Potential Church LIVE streaming platforms.

WEDNESDAYS  7pm

SUNDAYS  9am, 10:45am, 12:30pm, 5pm (EST)

Frequently Asked Questions

HOW DO I PLAN FOR MY VISIT TO A POTENTIAL CHURCH CAMPUS?

In accordance with CDC guidelines, we ask that you and your family wear a cloth face covering or mask.

WHAT WILL HAPPEN ONCE I ARRIVE?

Our team will direct each of your steps seamlessly from your car  directly to our auditorium. At all times we will assist you in maintaining a 6-foot safe distance as you enjoy a worship service.

WHAT WILL CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMING LOOK LIKE AT A CAMPUS?

We are excited to welcome you and your kiddos back to PKids! As a team, we have planned and prepared to ensure the safety of your children while teaching them the good news of Jesus! Considering all COVID-19 protocols, we have made changes to our ministry to best serve all our families. To ensure the safety of your child and our PKids Team, here are some of our changes:

-   We have trained and prepared all our volunteers with CDC COVID safety guidelines.
-   Check-in/ Pick-up lines will be outside our East wing for 3 yrs – Pre-K and West wing for 1yrs – 2 yrs.
-   We will check-in two families at a time and exit into the main lobby, (We ask that only one parent or guardian will check-in and pick up your children.)
-   Temperature checks for all kids and volunteers entering our ministry
-   We will be rotating classrooms and sanitizing in between each service
-   Implementing mask for children 3 years and up
-   1:1 child to adult ratio for our newborn to crawlers and 1:4 child to adult ratio for all other age groups
-   No personal items will be allowed in our 1 yrs – Pr-K classrooms
-   And so much more to keep all our kids and volunteers safe

For the health and safety of your kiddos, spots are limited for each service. RSVP through our Eventbrite for the service you will be attending to reserve your child’s spot. To ensure we are able to serve all our families, RSVP spots will no longer be available after 15 minutes into service.

WHAT PRECAUTIONS IS POTENTIAL CHURCH TAKING?

We are taking every step of precaution as prescribed by the CDC to ensure that Potential Church is safe and secure for your family.

1. We encourage all attendees over the age of 65 or those with a compromised immune system to worship with us online.

2. If you have had any of the following symptoms this week, please worship with us online:

Fever Over 100, Cough or Sore Throat, Shortness of Breath, Contact with anyone confirmed to have COVID-19 (in the past 14 days)

question: When was the article written?

answer: Sometime in 2020 or 2021, given the Covid-19 precautions

question: What denomination is the church?

answer: An unstated denomination of Christianity

question: Where does the church have locations?

answer: It has three locations in Florida and one in Lima, Peru

question: When are the Cooper City services?

answer: 9am, 10:45am, 12:30pm, and 5pm on Sundays

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: The article is an advertisement for church services at Potential Church, which has locations in Florida and Lima, Peru.


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ANTHONY APPLEMORE MORNINGTON BRYER FSA FRHistS was a British historian of the Byzantine Empire and founder of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham.[1][2]

Education and career

Dip. (Sorbonne), MA, MA, DPhil (Oxford), FSA, FRHistS[3]

Bryer was educated at Canford School, and after completing his National Service he studied history at Balliol College, Oxford. He initially remained at Balliol for his doctorate on the Empire of Trebizond, which he completed in 1967, but in 1964 he moved to the University of Birmingham where he created a programme in Byzantine studies. In 1975 he founded the journal _Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies_. From 1976, he was the founding Director of the Centre for Byzantine Studies, and in 1980 he was appointed Professor of Byzantine Studies, a post which he held until 1999.[4] [Anthony Bryer on a mule in Turkey]

He was awarded an OBE in the 2009 New Year Honours for services to scholarship.[5]

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title: Anthony Bryer

question: Who was Anthony Bryer?

answer: Anthony Bryer was a British historian of the Byzantine Empire and founder of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham.

question: Where did Bryer earn his PhD?

answer: Bryer earned his PhD at Balliol College, Oxford.

question: How long did Bryer work at the University of Birmingham?

answer: Bryer worked at the University of Birmingham for 35 years.

question: Which award did Bryer receive?

answer: Bryer received an OBE in the 2009 New Year Honours for services to scholarship.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: Anthony Bryer was a British historian of the Byzantine Empire and founder of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman, and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham. He created founded the journal Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. He was awarded an OBE in the 2009 New Year Honours for services to scholarship.


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Eleven months after he underwent a face transplant surgery in New York, Cameron Underwood is smiling again.

The 26-year-old man from Yuba, Calif. lost the majority of his lower jaw, his nose, and all but one tooth after he suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the face in June 2016.

After several unsuccessful attempts at conventional facial reconstruction, Underwood and his family reached out to renowned plastic surgeon Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez, a professor of reconstructive plastic surgery and the chair of plastic surgery department at NYU Langone Health.

Soon after, Dr. Rodriguez met with Underwood and determined he was a good candidate for a face transplant.

“When we first met Cameron, we were confident we could improve his appearance and, more importantly, his function and quality of life,” Dr. Rodriguez said in a press release on Thursday.

Underwood only had to wait six months after being placed on the organ donor list in July 2017 before a perfect match was found for him. William Fisher, a 23-year-old writer and aspiring filmmaker from New York, had registered as an organ donor before his death and was selected as a compatible donor for Underwood.

After receiving permission from Fisher’s family and securing the appropriate approvals, Dr. Rodriguez prepared to lead a surgical team from NYU Langone Health in the third face transplant of his career, the second of which is widely considered to be the most extensive face transplant on record, according to the health centre.

The plastic surgeon said he was optimistic about Underwood’s chances for success because of the relatively short period of time – only 18 months – from when he was injured to the surgery.

“Cameron has not lived with his injury for a decade or longer like most other face transplant recipients have,” he said. “As a result, he has not had to deal with many of the long-term psychosocial issues which often lead to issues like severe depression, substance abuse, and other potentially harmful behaviors.”

In January, a team of more than 100 medical professionals from NYU Langone Health transplanted and reconstructed Underwood’s upper and lower jaws, his mouth, and all 32 teeth and gums. His nose, lower eyelids, and cheeks were also replaced during the 25-hour surgery.

The surgical team used state-of-the-art technology, including 3D imaging and intraoperative CAT scans to ensure the facial bones were perfectly aligned and the plates and screws to graft the donor face onto Underwood were in the correct position.

Following the successful surgery, Underwood spent several weeks in hospital before he was discharged ahead of schedule in February. He returned home to California and has been travelling to New York for monthly follow-up appointments ever since.

On Thursday, Underwood stood on stage before an audience – which included his beaming family – to show off the results from his surgery nearly a year ago. He took the opportunity to thank Dr. Rodriguez and his medical team as well as his donor’s family.

“I want Sally [Fisher’s mother] and her family to know how much my family and I appreciate their gift and I will always honour Will’s legacy,” he told the press conference on New York.

Although she was saddened by her son’s death, Sally said she was thankful that his decision to become a donor could give Underwood a second chance.

“Being a part of this experience has been a source of strength for me during a very difficult time. I don’t think I would have survived Will’s death if not for Cameron,” she said in a statement. “Cameron has his whole life ahead of him – and I love the idea that Willie is helping him have a better life.”

Despite Underwood’s impressive results, Dr. Rodriguez said his patient still has a lot of work to do in his healing process, such as improving his chewing, swallowing, and speaking. He will also have to continue taking anti-rejection medications for the rest of his life so his body doesn’t reject his new face.

Even though his road to recovery isn’t over, Underwood said he’s remaining positive and looking forward to the future. He also took a moment to praise Dr. Rodriguez for his efforts.

“He did such a good job, I can use my old ID,” he joked to local news station WCBS after the press conference.

question: What happened to Cameron Underwood?

answer: Cameron Underwood lost the majority of his lower jaw, his nose, and all but one tooth after he suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the face. Underwood went through several unsuccessful attempts at conventional facial reconstruction as well. Underwood only had to wait six months, after being placed on the organ donor list, before a perfect match was found for him.

question: Describe Underwood's life after his successful surgery.

answer: Underwood's life after his successful surgery was much better than it had been for a long time. He was able to stand on stage before an audience to show off the results from his surgery. Underwood still had a lot to do with his healing process, which included improving his chewing, swallowing, and speaking. Underwood will also have to take anti-rejection medications for the rest of his life, but this is all doable and Underwood can look forward to a positive future.

question: Who is Dr. Rodriguez's biggest competitor?


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CATHÉRINE HUG (born 1976) is an art historian and curator.

Life and work

Hug was born 1976 in Basel, Switzerland. With her parents and siblings she grew up in Saint-Ursanne and Delémont, Switzerland.

Hug studied Computer Science, Media Science and Art History at the Chairs of Rolf Pfeiffer, Heinz Bonfadelli and Stanislaus von Moos at the University of Zurich.

From 2000 until 2007 she was curatorial assistant at the Kunsthaus Zurich, where she worked closely with Bice Curiger and Tobia Bezzola.

From 2005 until 2008 she was assistant of the Art Unlimited Curator Simon Lamunière at the Art Basel. As freelance curator she organized among others _Unloaded_ (Oberschan 2002–03) with Giovanni Carmine; _In The Alps_ with Tobia Bezzola (Kunsthaus Zurich, 2006); and _Carola Giedion-Welcker and Modernism_ (Kunsthaus Zurich, 2007).

From 2008 until 2013 she was curator at the Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna, where she curated among others _Thomas Ruff_ (2009), _1989. End of History or Beginning of the Future?_ (2009–10) with Gerald Matt, _Street And Studio. From Basquiat to Séripop_ (2010) with Thomas Mießgang, _Space. About A Dream_ (2011) with Walter Famler, _Lucy Skaer – Force Justify_ (2012), _WWTBD – What Would Thomas Bernhard Do_ and _Salon der Angst_ with Nicolaus Schafhausen (both 2013). From 2011 until 2013 she was in the workers’ committee and supervisory board (Betriebsrat and Aufsichtsrat) of Kunsthalle Wien.

Since 2013 she is curator at the Kunsthaus Zurich, where she curated among others _Von Matisse zum Blauen Reiter_ (2014) with Timothy Benson (LACMA, Los Angeles); _Europa. The Future of History_ (2015) with Robert Menasse; _Tomi Ungerer. Incognito_ (2015) in collaboration with Folkwang Essen; _Dadaglobe Reconstructed_ (2016) with Adrien Sudhalter in collaboration with MoMA New York; and _Francis Picabia. A retrospective_ (2016) with Anne Umland in collaboration with MoMA New York.

As guest curator she curated _Feiert das Leben!_ with Robert Menasse and Manuela Laubenberger at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien in Vienna (2015–16). Hug is further project leader of the digitalization of the _Kunsthaus Dada Collection_ (2013–16).

Details list of exhibitions and projects

_(*) labels exhibitions with an accompanying publication or catalogue_

1999

-   Co-conductor with Charlotte Tschumi of the tutorial course The Actuality of Walter Benjamin & the Critical Theory, Institute of Art History, University of Zurich (Winter term 1999/2000).

2000

-   Editorial collaboration to the exhibition catalogue Mixing Memory and Desire, Museum of Art Lucerne.
-   Assistant to the artists’ books publishing house Memory/Cage Editions, Zurich.
-   Editorial assistance to the exhibition catalogue Hypermental*, curated by Bice Curiger and Christoph Heinrich at the Kunsthaus Zurich and Hamburger Kunsthalle.

2001

-   Program with Giovanni Carmine of the _Nam June Paik-retrospective_ at Videoex*, organiser Patrik Huber.
-   Curatorial assistance to Daniel Kurjakovic's group exhibition _A World Within A Space_*, Kunsthalle Zurich 2001.
-   Initiation, organization and assistance to Gianni Jetzer's guest lecture Art & Everyday Life, Institute of Art History, University of Zurich (Summer term 2001).
-   Initiation, organization and assistance to Yvonne Volkart's guest lecture Artistic Practice in the Area of Information and Biotechnology (Künstlerische Praktiken im Zeitalter von Informations- und Biotechnologien), Institute of Art History, University of Zurich (Winter term 2000/01).

2002

-   Co-curator with Giovanni Carmine of the exhibition _UNLOADED – Coming Up For Air_*, Oberschan. With the participation of Monica Bonvicini (D), Annelise Coste (F), Christoph Büchel, Olivier Mosset and Gianni Motti among others.
-   Reader/voice of Rirkrit Tiravanija's 280min video work (ghost reader C.H.), video animation.
-   Assistant to Bice Curiger's group exhibition _Public Affairs_*, Kunsthaus Zurich.
-   Initiation, organization and assistance to Jan Linders’ guest lecture In The Light of Experience. James Turrell's Extensions of Horizon (Im Lichte der Erfahrung. James Turrells Horizonterweiter-ungen), Institute of Art History, University of Zurich (Winter term 2001/2002).

2003

-   University exams with the degree of lic. phil. (equivalent to M.A.) in Art History, Computer Science and Media Science, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
-   Initiation, organization of and assistance to Cornel Windlin's guest lecture Sexy Terror (The Stuff That Surrounds You), Institute of Art History, University of Zurich (Winter term 03/04).

2004

-   Scientific research associate and catalogue author of _Monet: the Garden_*, Kunsthaus from October 29, 2004 – March 13, 2005.

2005

-   Co-curator with Alexandra Blättler of _Friends Electric!_* with the participating artists Jen Liu (New York) and Andrea Thal (Zurich) at Binz39, Zurich.
-   Assistant _Art Unlimited_ *, Art 36 Basel. Project Manager Ursula Diehr, Curator Simon Lamunière.
-   Research collaborator at the Kunsthaus Zurich in relation with the exhibition catalogue Sigmar Polke: Werke & Tage* curated by Bice Curiger.

2006

-   Assistant _Art Unlimited_*, Art 37 Basel. Curator Simon Lamunière.
-   Co-curator with Tobia Bezzola of _In the Alps_* (Fall/Winter 2006), Kunsthaus Zurich.
-   Swiss delegate of the Fine Arts Showcase in Liverpool organized by the British Council on the occasion of the Liverpool Biennial, 2006, in October 2006.

2007

-   Ph.D. researches at the National Library of Canada, Ottawa (Nov. 06 – Jan. 07)
-   _AZPAA (A-Z public art projects)_ in collaboration with Annie Wu [1] and Manuela Schlumpf,[2] a non-profit art agency looking for unconventional exhibition locations and helping to produce site-specific artworks.
-   Assistant _Art Unlimited_*, Art 38 Basel. Curator Simon Lamunière.[3]
-   Guest-curator of the exhibition _Carola Giedion-Welcker und die Moderne_, Kunsthaus Zurich, August 31 – November 18, 2007,[4]
-   Assistant to _Simon Lamunière, Art Director of Utopics_*, 11e Exposition Suisse de Sculpture, 11. Schweizerische Plastikausstellung, Bienne (Summer/Fall 09).

2008

-   Assistant _Art Unlimited_*, Art 39 Basel. Curator Simon Lamunière.
-   Co-curator together with Christoph Doswald of the exh. _KONKRET MEGAMOPP. Sammlung Moderne Kunst – Neuerwerbungen_*, with among others Katia Bassanini, Anton Bruhin, Stéphane Dafflon, Philippe Decrauzat, Martin Disler, Mark Divo, Germann/Lorenzi, Info Giezendanner, Hanspeter Hofmann, Zilla Leutenegger, Elodie Pong, and David Renggli, Foundation Stiftung Charles und Agnes Vögele, Pfäffikon/SZ, Sept. 21 – Nov. 2, 2008.

2009

-   Co-curator with Gerald Matt of _1989. End of History or Beginning of the Future? Comments on a Paradigm Shift_*, with among others Marina Abramovic, Chantal Akerman, Christoph Büchel and Giovanni Carmine, Erik Bulatov, Chen Danqing, Harun Farocki, Johan Grimonprez, Hans Haacke, Anna Jermolaewa, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Alexander Kosolapov, Barbara Kruger, Lars Laumann, Boris Mikhailov, Marcel Odenbach, Susan Philipsz, Neo Rauch, Nedko Solakov, Song Dong, Jane & Louise Wilson, KUNSTHALLE wien, October 9 – February 7, 2010,[5]
-   Curator of _Thomas Ruff. Surfaces, Depth_*, KUNSTHALLE wien, May 21 – September 13,[6]

2010

-   Co-curator with Rita Vitorelli of _ZINE*FAIR_, 1st international Fanzine & Small Publishers’ Fair in Austria, September 18.
-   Co-curator with Thomas Mießgang of _Street and Studio From Basquiat to Séripop_*, with among others Rita Ackermann, Charlie Ahearn, Kader Attia, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Dara Birnbaum, Blek le Rat, Sophie Calle, Sol LeWitt, KUNSTHALLE wien, June 25 – Oct. 10, 2010,[7]
-   Co-curator with Gerald Matt of _Marilyn Manson – David Lynch: Genealogies of Pain_*, KUNSTHALLE wien, June 28 – July 11,[8]
-   Co-curator with Isabel Reiß and Dimitrina Sevova of the exh. _ich tier! (du mensch) – du tier! (ich mensch) i animal! (you human) – you animal! (i human)_, with among others Christian Eisenberger, Klara Hobza, Lin May, Silke Nowak, and two guest lectures by Judith “Jack” Halberstam (UCLA), “Creative Anthropomorphism” and “Unbecoming,” a collab. between Perla-Mode, Dienstgebäude, Corner College, English Institute and History Institute of the University of Zurich (Bronfen), Zurich, April 9 – 25, 2010,[9]

2011

-   Co-curator with Rita Vitorelli of _ZINE*FAIR_, 2nd international Fanzine & Small Publishers’ Fair in Austria, KUNSTHALLE wien, September 17, 2011.
-   Curator of Franz Huemer: Seher und Genie, Seer and Genius, KUNSTHALLE wien project wall, Sept. 17 – March 1, 2012,[10]
-   Co-curator with Karolina Dankow of the _BA diploma class of Erik Steinbrecher_, Zurich School of Arts (abbr. ZHdK), April–June 2011.
-   Curator of _Loris Gréaud_*, KUNSTHALLE wien project space, April 15 – May 25, 2011,[11]
-   Curator of _WELTRAUM, die Kunst und ein Traum. SPACE. Art and a Dream_*, KUNSTHALLE wien, March 31 – August 15, 2011, with among others Paweł Althamer, Vladimir Dubossarsky & Alexander Vinogradov, William Kentridge, Jen Liu, Mariko Mori, Deimantas Narkevičius, Amalia Pica, Robert Rauschenberg, Pipilotti Rist, Thomas Ruff, Wilhelm Sasnal, Keith Tyson, Jane & Louise Wilson, Carey Young,[12]

2012

-   _Zine*Fair_, 3rd international Fanzine & Small Publishers’ Fair in Austria co-curated by Rita Vitorelli (Spike Art Quarterly), KUNSTHALLE wien, September 22–23, 2012.
-   _20th Parabolic Flight Campaign_, special project “Kunst schwebt” on invitation of Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR) (Initiator Peter Zarth, DLR Cologne) to make participate the three artists Julieta Aranda, Thomas Ruff as well as the writer Clemens Berger to the campaign, Novespace in Merignac-Bordeaux and ILA in Berlin, September 13–16, 2012.
-   Lecture entitled Artzine Renaissance in the Age of Internet and Social Web at the annual international AICA conference, July 12, 2012 in Zurich
-   Curator of _Lucy Skaer – Force Justify (part 3)_, KUNSTHALLE wien, project space Karlsplatz, July 4 until August 26, 2012,[13]
-   Talks series _Kleinodien – Anomalous Talks_, people talking about their extraordinary but rather unknown or invisible activity, job or passion, organized together with visual artist Andreas Duscha and writer Clemens Berger, Salzburg and Vienna, launched on Nov. 14, 2011.
-   _Unheimliche Reise, Uncanny Journey_, exhibition and screenings with Annette Amberg, Kader Attia, Ursula Biemann, Neil Beloufa, Luis Buñuel, Djibril Diop Mambety, Harun Farocki, Robert Jelinek, Katia Kameli, Bouchra Khalili, Philip Mayrhofer & Christian Kobald, Uriel Orlow, Jean Rouch, Clemens von Wedemeyer, initiated by and co-curated with Nadja Baldini & Beat Huber, Dienstgebaeude, Zurich, March 23 – April 22, 2012,[14]
-   Curator of _Daniel Knorr, Explosion_, KUNSTHALLE wien project space karlsplatz, sculpture place, March 29, 2012 – February 28, 2013,[15]
-   Curator of _Ulrike Lienbacher, Kartenhaus_, KUNSTHALLE wien project space karlsplatz, sculpture place, March 29, 2012 – February 28, 2013,[16]

2013

-   Co-Curator with Nicolaus Schafhausen of _Salon der Angst_*, thematic group exhibition reflecting on the phenomena of fears through the past three decades, September 13, 2013 – January 2014,[17]
-   Editor in charge and author of the cat. accompanying the competition to the permanent installation Vienna Art Passage Karlsplatz, with the participation of the 9 artists Lee Bul, Ernst Caramelle (competition winner), Barbara Kruger, Sarah Morris, Jorge Pardo, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Markus Schinwald, Cerith Wyn Evans and Sam Taylor-Wood, organized by KÖR and funded by Wiener Linien, Kunsthalle Wien project Space, June 2013,[18]
-   _Zine*Fair_, 4th international Fanzine & Small Publishers’ Fair in Austria co-curated by Rita Vitorelli (Spike Art Quarterly), Kunsthalle Wien, 28–30 June,[19]
-   Co-Curator with Nicolaus Schafhausen and Lucas Gehrmann of _WWTBD – What Would Thomas Bernhard Do_, a rather rhetorical more than literal question, alluding to a tradition of critical thinking in Vienna. The event is meant to stand in the realm of this way of critical thinking and acting, but against an international, interdisciplinary and process-oriented background, Festival taking place from May 16 until May 26, 2013,[20]

2014

-   Co-curator with Timothy Benson of the exhibition _Von Matisse zum Blauen Reiter. Expressionismus in Deutschland und Frankreich_*, an exhibition touring from Kunsthaus Zurich to Los Angeles County Museum and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal. Accompanied by a large event programme,[21]

2015

-   Curator of _Tomi Ungerer. Incognito_*, Kunsthaus Zurich from October 30 – February 7, Folkwang Museum Essen from March 18 – May 16, 2016,[22]
-   Co-curator with Manuela Laubenberger and Robert Menasse of _Feiert das Leben! Zehn Lebensmasken werden zu Kunst_*, an exhibition in collaboration with Caritas at Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien September 29 – April 3, 2016, accompanied by a large event programme,[23]
-   Curator of _Sinnliche Ungewissheit_. Eine Privatsammlung, Kunsthaus Zurich from June 19 – October 4,[24]
-   Co-curator with Robert _Menasse of Europa. Die Zukunft der Geschichte_*, Kunsthaus Zürich June 12 – September 6, accompanied by a large event programme,[25]

2016

-   Co-curator with Anne Umland of _Francis Picabia. A Retrospective_*, Kunsthaus Zurich June 3 – September 25, at MoMA New York from November 20, 2016 – March 19, 2017, accompanied by a large event programme [26]
-   Co-curator with Adrian Sudhalter of _Dadaglobe Reconstructed_*, Kunsthaus Zurich February 5 – May 1, at MoMA New York from June 12 – September 18,[27]
-   Project leader of the digitalization of the _Kunsthaus Dada Collection_ (2013–2016),[28]

2017

-   _Art in Case_, conversation at the Tel Aviv Art Museum with Tim Voss, Rene Morales and Roslyn Bernstein with an introduction by Chen Tamir [29]
-   _Europe. The Future of History. Visual artists’ critical look at nationalism_, lecture in the focus _Artistic visions of Europe_ in the framework of Erasmus Mundus Summer School Strasbourg, hosted by the University of Cracow and organized by Alexandre Kostka [30]
-   _Stefan Zweig and the visual arts_, lecture at the annual assembly of the Internationale Stefan Zweig Gesellschaft (ISZG), Fondation Martin Bodmer, Geneva [31]
-   Panelist at Transeuropa 2017, transnational artistic, cultural and political festival organised by European Alternatives since 2007 [32]

2018

-   Co-curator with Christoph Becker of _Fashion. Extreme Clothes in the Arts*_ (Kunsthaus Zürich, April 4 – July 17, 2018).[33] As stated in the official press release, the curators “have secured the loan of some truly eye-catching exhibits, including a set of Austrian folded skirt armour from around 1526 that has never before been seen in Switzerland. Works by the English School are also leaving their homeland for the first time”.[34] Art critic Katharina Rudolph wrote about this exhibition in the German newspaper FAZ that this explorative show takes the system of Fashion and its implication serious by having a look at its extremes.[35]
-   Curator of the retrospective _Oskar Kokoschka: Expressionist, Migrant, European*_ (Kunsthaus Zürich, December 14, 2018 – March 10, 2019). It was the first retrospective of his work in Switzerland for 30 years. The highlights among the more than 200 exhibits included the monumental Prometheus Triptych (1950, The Courtauld Art Gallery, London) and the Mural for Alma Mahler (1914, Private Collection on loan at Museum Leopold Vienna), which have since their creation been exhibited outside their respective countries UK and Austria only once.[36] The exhibition was widely celebrated as “brilliant” by the press,[37][38] and toured to the Museum Leopold in Vienna (April 6 – July 8, 2019) afterwards where it was co-curated by Heike Eipeldauer.[39] In the Wall Street Journal from January 2, 2019, art critic Adam J. Goldmann says about the retrospective that “the show, elegantly curated by Cathérine Hug, takes us through eight decades of art in as many chronological and thematic chapters (…) the effect of having journeyed so far through time is staggering. Nearly four decades after Kokoschka’s death, the Kunsthaus Zurich has given us new hope that his singular artistic universe will endure.”[40]

2019

-   Curator of _Fly me to the Moon. 50 years on*_ (April 5 – June 30 2019).[41] This exhibition supported by the German Space Agency DLR had loans from over 60 international lenders such as the ETHZ who also featured the show in its own news channel Explora.[42] In her article for the international newspaper NZZ, art historian Angelika Affentranger-Kirchrath, who praises the explorative and humorous approach of the show, reminds us that the most important insight about the Moon landing was the Earth’s encounter with itself.[43] This show travelled to the Museum of Modern Art in Salzburg after Zurich (July 20 – November 3, 2019), where it was co-curated by Christina Penetsdorfer, Thorsten Sadowsky and Tina Teufel.[44] The daily newspaper Kurier appreciates the self-critical tone of the exhibition.[45] The pan-European cultural and humanities magazine Versopolis published an excerpt of Cathérine Hug’s curatorial catalogue essay.[46]

Jury member, nominator

-   Member of the executive committee of the Erna & Curt Burgauer Foundation, since 2008
-   Summer Academy Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland, since 2011 (nominator),[47]
-   Prize of the NCCA, Moscow 2011 (nominator),[48]
-   IX Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, Biennale Prize, 2011 (jury)
-   Werkbeiträge Digitale Kultur, migros Kulturprozent, 2013–2015 (jury),[49]
-   Videoex, Swiss competition, Zurich 2014 (jury),[50]
-   Prix du CCJE, Delémont 2014 (jury),[51]
-   Prix de la Société des Arts de Genève, Geneva 2015 (jury),[52]
-   Boston Consulting & Belvedere Contemporary Art Award, Vienna 2015 (nominator),[53]
-   Member of the art commission of the University of St. Gallen (HSG), since 2017 [54]
-   Member of the experts’ commission in Visual Arts of Pro Helvetia, since 2017 [55]

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title: Cathérine Hug

question: When was Hug born?

answer: 1976

question: Where did Hug study?

answer: The University of Zurich

question: Where did Hug work from 2008 to 2013?

answer: Kunsthalle Wien

question: Where has Hug worked since 2013?

answer: Kunsthaus Zurich

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: Catherine Hug is an art historian and curator who was born in 1976, studied at the University of Zurich, and currently works as a curator at the Kunsthaus Zurich.


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YEMISI ARIBISALA (born 27 April 1973) is a Nigerian essayist, writer, painter, and food memoirist. She has been described as having a “fearless, witty, and unapologetic voice”, and was named by Sarah Ladipo Manyika as one of seven bold and new international voices.[1]

Aribisala is renowned for her work in documenting Nigerian food as an entry point to thinking and understanding the culture and society. Her first book, _Longthroat Memoirs: Soups, Sex, and the Nigerian Taste Buds_, won the John Avery Prize at the André Simon Book Awards 2016.[2][3]

She currently lives in Cape Town, South Africa, with her children.[4][5]

Life and career

Aribisala attended the University of Wolverhampton, England, where she obtained a law degree in 1995. She subsequently earned a master's degree in Legal Aspects of Maritime Affairs and International Transport from the University of Wales, Cardiff, in 1997.

Writing

She was the founding editor of the trailblazing Nigerian literary and culture publication _Farafina Magazine_.

From 2009 to 2011, she was the food columnist at the now-defunct, groundbreaking _234Next_ newspaper, where she first gained public attention, writing under the name “Yẹ́misí Ogbe”. She regularly contributes to literary publications, including the _Chimurenga Chronicle_, the avant-garde culture newspaper.

Works

_Longthroat Memoirs_

On 31 October 2016, Aribisala's debut book of essays was published by Cassava Republic Press in Nigeria. It was titled _Longthroat Memoirs: Soups, Sex, and the Nigerian Taste Buds_, a collection of essays exploring “the cultural politics and erotics of Nigerian cuisine”.[6] It has been well received.

Of her work the following has been said: “It is difficult to translate senses through words, but Aribisala manages to communicate the tastes, tickles and aromas of various African spices and ingredients wonderfully.”[7] The book has been described as “part straight cookbook, part cultural history, part travelogue, part intimate confessional, it's as complex and mysterious as one of the Nigerian soups Aribisala describes so evocatively in its pages”[8] and a work “that carries the weight of so much cultural and literary burden, and manages to discharge it with grace and style.”[9] “[S]he joins thinkers like Chinua Achebe in rejecting the stereotype of the African writer as a mere storyteller, not a thinker.”[10]

She has been compared to writers such as Aminatta Forna and Binyavanga Wainaina who “play with the ontology of the 21st century African memoir, and oscillate between the deeply personal and the distinctly political”; a book that is a “mouth-watering appraisal of the cultural politics and erotics of Nigerian cuisine”.[11] The pages [of her book] sing with her clever, beautiful prose and sharp eye.[12] It is a work “redolent with spice, rippling with humour and sexual innuendo, her memoirs conjure up fantasies that can only be satisfied by reading another chapter.” [13]

The cover image was designed by UK-based artist Lynn Hatzius, who said that her intention with the cover artwork was “to show how food culture is an ingrained part of us... I wanted the cover image to convey the joy of this and to invite the reader into Yemisi Aribisala's own celebration of food.”[14]

Prizes and honours

[“The pestle and mortar, tools of subjugation? Not by any stretch of the cultural imagination.” [15]|468x468px]In January 2017, Aribisala's debut book _Longthroat Memoirs_ won the John Avery Prize at the André Simon Book Awards 2016.[16][17]

In March 2017, Aribisala was listed as one of the 100 inspiring women in Nigeria in 2017.[18]

On 13 February 2018, _Longthroat Memoirs: Soups Sex & Nigerian Taste Buds_ was shortlisted for the 2018 Art of Eating Prize. https://artofeating.com/prize/short-list/

In the May 2018 Gourmands World Cookbook Awards, _Longthroat Memoirs: Soups Sex & Nigerian Taste Buds_ won second place in the category of Best in the World in African Cuisine.

Selected writings

-   “The Girls Who Fainted at the Sight of an Egg” (January 2018)[19] in _The New Yorker_
-   “Sister Outsider” (April 2016)[20] at The Chimurenga Chronic
-   “Nigeria's New Feminism – Say-You-Are-One-Of-Us-Or-Else” (October 2016)[21] at KTravula
-   “Mother Hunger” (November 2015)[22] on Medium
-   “Fish Soup as Love Potions”[23] at The Chimurenga Chronic
-   “Nollywood Kiss”[24] (2011) at The Chimurenga Chronic
-   “Giving It All Away in English” (March 2015)[25] at The Chimurenga Chronic
-   “High Heeled Fork” (December 2015)[26] on Medium
-   “Birthing The American” (December 2013)[27] at The Chimurenga Chronic
-   “Americanah And Other Definitions of Supple Citizenships”'
-   “Nigeria's Superstar Men of God” (April 2013) [28] at The Chimurenga Chronic
-   “Why I Write So Slowly” (September 2013)[29] at Cassava Republic Press
-   “Nigeria and a Culture of Disrespect” (August 2012)[30] at Ikhide Ikheloa's blog
-   “That Guy No Be Ordinary” (April 2016)[31] at Chimurenga Chronic

Notable interviews/excerpts/reviews

-   “My repression is as legitimate as your freedom”: A Conversation with Yẹ́misí Aríbisálà on AfricanWriter.com[32]
-   'People try to squeeze Nigerian food into an all-encompassing African label' | Book Excerpt in _The Guardian_, UK[33]
-   Q&A with TheGannet[34]
-   “Words Move More Deliberately Than Visual Images.” | Interview in Short Story Day Africa.[35]
-   _Calabar Witch_ by Akin Adesokan, in Chimurenga Chronic[36]
-   _A Book for the Tasting_ by Kola Tubosun, on Village Factor[37]
-   “On Not Fitting In”: An Interview with Yemisi Aribisala by Sanya Noel. http://enkare.org/yemisi-aribisala-interview/
-   Books: Yemisi Aribisala's Longthroat Memoirs. New Again by Edward Behr. https://artofeating.com/books-yemisi-aribisalas-longthroat-memoirs/

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title: Yemisi Aribisala

question: How would you describe who Yemisi Aribisala is?

answer: Yemisi Aribisala is a Nigerian essayist, writer, painter, and food memoirist.

question: What prize did Aribisala's first book win?

answer: Her first book won the John Avery Prize at the Andre Simon Book Awards in 2016.

question: Where does Yemisi Aribisala live?

answer: She lives in Cape Town, South Africa, with her children.

question: What degrees did Aribisala receive in her lifetime?

answer: She received her law degree in 1995 and her master's degree in Legal Aspects of Maritime Affairs and International Transport.

question: How can you describe Aribisala's debut book of essays-Longthroat Memoirs: Soups, Sex, and the Nigerian Taste

answer: It can be described as a collection of essays that explore the " cultural politics and erotics of Nigerian cuisine".

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: This article describes the life works of author Yemisi Aribisala. Her works, prizes and honors, as well as notable interviews are all described.


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The GREENBANKS HOLLOW COVERED BRIDGE is a historic covered bridge, carrying Greenbanks Hollow Road across Joes Brook in southern Danville, Vermont. It is the only surviving 19th-century covered bridge in the town. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]

Description and history

The Greenbanks Hollow Covered Bridge is located in a rural area of southern Danville, spanning Joes Brook, an east-flowing tributary of the Connecticut River. Greenbanks Hollow Road is a minor through road between Danville and Peacham. It is a single-span queen post truss structure, with flanking trusses of unequal length. The western truss is long, while the eastern one is longer, the skew visible at the southern portal. The bridge is wide, with a roadway width of , carrying one lane of traffic. It is covered by a metal gabled roof with broad eaves. The side walls are covered to about half their height with vertical board siding, which is extended around the full height of the portals. The bridge rests on abutments of stone and concrete; the northern one has been rebuilt after its original stone abutment collapsed.[2]

The bridge's construction date and builder are not known. Vermont historian Herbert Congdon claims that the bridge was originally uncovered, and that its roof is a later addition. It is stylistically similar to the bridges located in nearby Lyndon, which also feature queen post trusses, half-height siding, and broad roofs. It is the only surviving 19th-century covered bridge in the town of Danville.[3]

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title: Greenbanks Hollow Covered Bridge

question: When was the bridge built?

answer: It is unknown.

question: Were the roof and the rest of the bridge built at the same time?

answer: It is believed the roof was a later addition

question: What part of the bridge has been rebuilt?

answer: The northern abutment

question: what body of water does the bridge cross?

answer: Joes Brook

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: This article discusses the Greenbanks Hollow Covered Bridge in Vermont. It provides the history of the bridge and details about its construction.


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I just found this brilliant piece of fan fiction that I wrote when I was 12. It was intended to take place immediately after the second TMNT movie.

EDIT: Fixed formatting. Also worth noting that any and all spelling and grammar mistakes are unchanged from the original.

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On September 3, 1994, the Turtles sat in their lair wondering what to do.  Except for Michealangelo.  He was playing Super Nintendo.

Leonardo said,”Let’s order ten pizzas!”

“Great idea,”yelled Mikey, and paused his game.  Mikey ran to the telephone.  He picked up the receiver and dialed the number.  “Uh, I would like ten pizzas. And no anchovies” said Mikey.

Splinter, the master, told Mikey to be quiet.

Mikey said,”Shucks.  I like annoying the pizza boy.”  He went back to his game.

They got their pizza 40 seconds late, so they didn’t pay full price.

The pizza boy said, “I gotta get a new route.”

All of a sudden, the lights in the lair went out.

Mikey said, “Duhhhh, who put the lights out?”

Leo said, “Alert!  Alert!  Total light failure!”

Raph said, “Idiodic light bulb!”

Splinter said,”Calm down, buttheads!”

Mikey said,”Never fear!  Michealangelo is here!”

“Dummy,”said Leo.

Raph said,”Cut it out you guys.  Get serious.”

“OK!”said Don.

“Dumbos!”said Mikey.

“Enough already,”said Raph.

“Fine!  I was just tryin’ to have some fun.  Do you mind?”

“No.  Not really,”said Raph.

“Then why are you telling me to be quiet?”asked Mikey.

“Beats the heck out of me,”said Raph.                           “Smart aleck,”said Mikey.

Don was listening the whole time.  “Be quiet!  All three of you,”he said.

Then they ate their pizza.  They all liked it.  When they were slicing it, one piece landed on Splinter’s head.  He was not too happy about that.

Leo said,”Ooops!”

Mikey thought that was funny.

Splinter said, “Mich-eal-an-ga-lo!”

“Oh, brother,” said Mikey.

“I am not your brother! I am your master!” yelled Splinter.     “Oh, no. Just great. Every time I say that, he starts screeching!”

“I am not screeching!  I am screaming!” hollered Splinter.

“You guys make me sick,” muttered Don.

Then Don got a brilliant idea.

“I think I’ll build a time machine!  Doesn’t that sound like a great idea?”

“Yeah,” said the rest of the turtles.  “Sure.”

“You don’t believe me?  Well I’ll show you!”  And with that he stomped off to build his wacky creation.

He worked on the machine for about a week, then declared it finished.

“How would you like to see the one, the only, Albert Einstien?” asked Don triumphantly.

“If you can get this pile of junk to work, sure,” said Raph.

Don mumbled an answer, but no one heard him, because he had flipped the switch on the machine.  It made a LOT of noise.

There was a puff of smoke and a voice said,”E=MC2!”

” I T ’ S   E I N S T I E N ! ! HHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLP!  HE SCARES ME!” screamed Splinter.

“Why?” asked Leo calmly.

“HE HAS A BIG NOSE!!”

“So?”

“When he sneezes, which is a lot, all the snot that’s in that big nose of his goes all over the place!”

“That’s it!  I will not take insults from a four foot, smelly, flea-infested rat!  I’m outta here!” exclaimed Einstien.  He flipped the switch on the machine and in another puff of smoke, he was gone.

“Thanks, Splinter,” muttered Raph. “Now I can happily go on with my life knowing my ninja master is scared of Einstien.”

“Shut your yap.  I am not scared of Einstien.  He is not scared of me either, which is bad, because I know that I can beat him up, but he does not know that I can, but he does know that I know that he knows that I’m a ninja.”

“You lost me,” said Leo.

“Then I will repeat myself,” said Splinter. “Shut your yap.  I am not scared of Ein…..”

“Okay, okay! We get the point!” said Don.

Meanwhile, Michelangelo was inspecting the wall socket.  There was a bright flash, and Mike disappeared.

“Hey!  Where’d Mikey go?” asked Leo.

“Uh-oh,” said Don.  I left the time machine on!  Mikey just time traveled!”

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“OW!”

Michealangelo landed in the pit with a thud.  He had just been walking around when the ground gave away under him.  Now he was lying in a snake-infested pit somewhere in a forest.

He climbed out of the pit and lokked around.  He started walking.  He didn’t know or care where he was going.  Pretty soon, he came to a road.  He knew where he was now.  He recognized the sewer hole leading to the lair.

He clambered down and headed toward the lair.  As he stepped inside, everyone turned to look at him: Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, Albert Einstien, and most frightingly of all, Michealangelo.  He was looking at himself.

Albert Einstien left by way of the time machine.  Then there was a bright flash, and a few minutes later, Michealangelo walked in.  There were two Michealangelos again.  But after that, every five minutes another Mikey would walk in.

Before long, the lair couldn’t hold anymore, but Michealangelo just kept coming.

“I know what we have to do: we have to find the first Michealangelo to time travel, send him back, and then every five minutes, another Michealangelo will go back to his proper time!” Don yelled over the confusion.

“Go for it!” hollered Leo.  “I can’t take much more of this!”

So Don went around asking all the Michealangelos, “How many Michealangelos were in the lair when you got here?”

Finally, one said that there was only one.  Don sent him back, and just as he had predicted, every five minutes, another Mikey disappeared.  Except for one.  He stayed.

“Cowabunga!!!!!” screamed Splinter.

“Cowabunga!!!!!” echoed the turtles as they raised thier hands in a group high five.  “Cowabunga!!!!!”

title: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (written when I was 12)

question: What is wrong with the time machine Don created?

answer: It keeps bring in copies of the same person from different dimensions.


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Butler just moved into the Big East, and the university released a video montage featuring its adorable bulldog mascot to celebrate the occasion. Yes, this is a silly public relations stunt, but who cares? Lookit that doggie!

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question: Who is Butler?

answer: The bulldog mascot for a university.

question: Why is it a public relations stunt?

answer: Tey released a montage of the bulldog mascot.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: A small description of a publicity stunt featuring Butler the bulldog mascot.


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“SLIME” or “MIRE” () is an 1886 story by Anton Chekhov.

Plot

The plot concerns the visit of a lieutenant, Sokolsky, to the house of Susanna Rothstein, the Jewish owner of a vodka distillery, to collect a debt owed to Sokolsky's married cousin Kryukov, but in fact which Sokolsky hopes that Kryukov will lend on to himself so he can marry his fiancee. Susanna entices the lieutenant to supper, then relieves him of the IOUs, but after spending the night with Sokolsky sends him back empty handed. Furious Kryukov resolves to visit Susanna and recover the debt himself, but he likewise is seduced and returns unpaid. A week later Sokolsky departs to return to his fiancee, having borrowed money from his cousin for his own marriage. Left alone Kryukov waits for another week then cannot resist visiting Susanna again, only to find several men being entertained by her, including Sokolsky who has seemingly forgotten about his fiancée. Krykov cannot judge Sokolsky since he is no better.

Analysis

It has been suggested that the portrayal of the Jewish temptress, Susanna Rothstein, may have been influenced by Chekhov's stormy relationship with his former fiancée Dunia Efros, herself Jewish, and who remained on good terms with Chekhov after marrying his friend the Jewish lawyer and publisher Efim Konovitser.[1][2]

The picture of free-spirited and seductive distillery owner Susanna, and her power over men, was controversial both in Chekhov's time and since, producing varying responses in Chekhov's circle, among critics and also from translators.[3][4]

[1] James N. Loehlin The Cambridge Introduction to Chekhov 2010-1139493523 Page 52 “An even more aggressively allegorical version of the tempter Eve is provided by Chekhov's story “Mire.” Its seductive Jewish protagonist, Susanna Rothstein, may have been influenced by Chekhov's sometime-fianceé Dunia Efros, with whom he seems to have had a stormy relationship”

[2] Michael C. Finke '' Metapoesis: The Russian Tradition from Pushkin to Chekhov'' 1995 -- Page 200 " Sometime during the year or two after writing “The Steppe,” Chekhov actually began a dramatic work whose hero was Solomon (see editors' commentary in Soch. 17:438). The fragment left to us, a monologue by Solomon, is just the sort of... Chekhov's story “Slime” (“Tina”) (1886) and his play Ivanov (1886) precede “The Steppe” in their treatment of Jewish themes (and according to Karlinsky are a working through of his anxieties regarding Efros ..."

[3] Anna Makolkin _Semiotics of misogyny through the humor of Chekhov and Maugham_ 1992 "Chekhov was obviously very hurt by the reaction to his story which was waiting until critics had acquired courage to deal with the unpleasant matters of Slime. The analysis of the story cannot be complete without focussing upon its title. The Russian word tina (slime) is close to the English “mire,” Koteliansky chooses this more precise version while Y. L. Smith prefers “slime.” The latter is much more metaphorical and even bears the strong negative attitude to the central character which the critic happens to have. Her choice of the translation has its roots in the general dislike of Susanna whom she naively perceives as a merely “superior prostitute,” failing to discover"

[4] Carolina De Maegd Soep ''Chekhov and Women: Women in the Life and Work of Chekhov '' 1987 "In her memoirs she also recalled her sister's opinion about Chekhov: "He is an amazingly talented man and has a subtle ... Thus, for instance, concentrating on the story Slime (1886) she raised the question of principles and morals in connection with the kind of literature which handles erotic themes. "

title: Mire (short story)

question: What is "Slime/Mire"?

answer: It is an 1886 story by Anton Chekhov.

question: Who is Susanna Rothstein?

answer: She is the Jewish temptress in Slime.

question: Summarize the plot of Slime?

answer: A lieutenant, Sokolsky, goes to collect a debt owed to his married cousin Kryukov from Susanna Rothstein. However, he is seduced by her and leaves empty handed. The same thing happens when Kryukov visits Susanna. The next time Kryukov goes to see her, several men are being entertained by Susanna, including Sokolsky (who has forgotten about his own fiance). Krykov doesn't see  himself as any better than Sokolsky.

question: What is Loehlin's analysis?

answer: He sees the story as being an aggressively allegorical version of the tempter Eve.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: This article discusses the plot and analyses of the 1886 story "Slime" by Anton Chekhov.


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My grandfather was born in England in 1926. In 1939, World War II broke out. Like many English children of his generation, he was sent by his parents to live in Canada to escape the Blitz. When he returned to his home country he barely recognized it. England had been ravaged by the war and he felt as though there was nothing for him there, so he left. He went back across the Atlantic, but this time to Philadelphia. It was there that he met my grandmother.

Before she met my grandfather, my grandmother had been previously married to a US Air Force bomber pilot who was stationed in England during the war. While in England, he began an affair with another woman that caused the disintegration of his marriage to my grandmother. She eventually met my grandfather, they got married, and they gave birth to my mother who eventually met my father and gave birth to me.

I use to joke to people that if it weren’t for Hitler starting the war then I would never have been born. The other day, I told this to a friend who told me that if it weren’t for every single event in the history of the universe, from the Big Bang till the precise moment when a single sperm from my father entered a single egg from my mother, then I would never have been born.

It’s comforting to know that I no longer have to exclusively thank Hitler for my existence.

title: Hitler and the Big Bang

question: How old was the narrator's grandfather when World War II broke out?

answer: 13

question: What would have happened if the narrator's grandfather never went to Philadelphia?

answer: He would never have met the narrator's grandmother.

question: Why does the narrator thank Hitler for his birth?

answer: Because World War II was indirectly responsible for his grandfather meeting his grandmother, and the narrator therefore wouldn't exist had it not been for Hitler.

question: Explain the significance of the title.

answer: Hitler and the Big Bang are two separate historical events that the narrator credits for their existence.


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[What's revenge porn?] __

Jordan Belamire has been sexually assaulted three times. Twice in real life, and once in virtual reality.

Belamire who goes by a pseudonym to protect her privacy, was playing a game called QuiVr on her brother-in-law's HTC Vive VR system. She was shooting zombies with strangers in QuiVr's multiplayer mode when another player began to virtually rub her chest.

"I've been groped in real life, once in a Starbucks in broad daylight. I know what it's like to happen in person," Belamire, 30, told CNNMoney. "The shock and disgust I felt [in QuiVr] was not too far off from that."

Another user, BigBro442 had apparently caught on that she was a woman because her mic was on and her voice was streaming through to the virtual world.

Belamire yelled "Stop!" as BigBro442 grabbed her. That made things worse.

"He chased me around, making grabbing and pinching motions near my chest. Emboldened, he even shoved his hand toward my virtual crotch and began rubbing," she wrote in a Medium post about the incident last week.

Belamire's post caught a lot of attention online, the most disturbing being strangers who told her she was making a lot of fuss about nothing.

"Please explain how someone can be assaulted in any form using VR. This seems to be someone whining just to whine" was a common refrain on Twitter. Belamire temporarily suspended her Twitter account as a result.

Belamire said she's "more disturbed by the backlash than the VR incident itself."

Related: 4chan, a popular hub for offensive posts, shows signs of distress

"It's not real, therefore it's OK; this is the amoral substructure of gaming culture. This, far more than anonymity, is the source of much gender and racial harassment on the internet," wrote sociologist and gaming critic Katherine Cross in a paper titled "Ethics for Cyborgs."

Other women have described similar experiences while immersed in foreign virtual lands. One woman wrote about her experience being groped virtuallylast March: "I still tensed up and felt uncomfortable, and removing the headset didn't take that feeling away."

No, sexual assault in the virtual world isn't the same as in real life -- but that doesn't mean it doesn't have an effect. Video games are largely developed by men, which makes it less likely that they're designed with a woman in mind.

Entrepreneur and activist Cindy Gallop likened it to Twitter's trolling problem. "Men in tech #vr, don't make the mistake Twitter did. DESIGN THIS SHIT OUT RIGHT NOW," she tweeted.

"The men that make these games genuinely don't seem to understand that it's sexual assault," game developer Brianna Wu told CNNMoney. "Women barely work on these teams, so there's no voice of conscience."

Wu cited Playstation VR's Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 as an example; the game lets users grope a bikini-clad virtual woman who is protesting, glorifying sexual assault.

The Entertainment Software Rating Board assigns age and content ratings for video games, apps and games sold at retail, but it's voluntary and isn't required through virtual reality portals.

"No one wants to see the government regulate the game industry. But the truth is, VR is such a powerful experience, your brain feels like it's real," added Wu.

Related: Trump supporters counter assault claims with #NextFakeTrumpVictim

"Subjects sometimes feel as if the body that they see in front of them is their own," write researchers Michael Madary and Thomas Metzinger from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

Madary and Metzinger suggest that there needs to be a code of conduct in VR since its psychological effects are still unknown.

Indeed, Belamire told CNNMoney that the hand that stroked her felt "very lifelike. You can make the fingers move in really realistic ways."

AltspaceVR, a VR chatroom, introduced a personal bubble feature as a means of combat harassment in the virtual world. If users enable it, others in the virtual world have to stay at least one foot away. Blueteak,the developer of QuiVr, said it was also rolling out this feature.

"It's a gameplay solution to one problem. But we need industry standards," said Wu.

Oculus, HTC and Microsoft did not immediately respond to request for comment.

 CNNMoney (New York) First published October 24, 2016: 6:39 PM ET

question: When was Belamire sexually assaulted?

answer: Belamire was sexually assaulted three times. Twice in real life and once in virtual reality.

question: How did Twitter respond to her claims?

answer: People responded to her claims saying she was making a fuss out of nothing.

question: Have any steps been taken in reducing physical harassment in VR gaming world?

answer: Very few. AltspaceVR introduced a personal bubble feature, which when enabled would mean others in the virtual world would have to maintain at least one-foot distance from you.

question: What does Belamire have to say about the whole incident?

answer: Belamire was more disturbed by the backlash than the VR incident itself.

question: Write a ~7 sentence summary.

answer:
Belamire was playing a game called QuiVr on VR when another user tried to virtually grab her chest. She said the disgust she felt was not too far from reality.

On narrating the incident to Twitter, people backlashed her saying she was making a fuss out of nothing. Most of the developers of these games are men, which makes it less likely for the game to be developed with a woman user in mind.

AltspaceVR, a VR chatroom, has introduced a personal bubble feature to stop the harassment. When enabled, others in the VR world have to maintain at least one-foot distance from you.

The industry has no set standards currently but definitely needs some.


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I work as a junior executive at a large investment firm. It started off as an internship while still in university. That was all I needed. It was a foot in the door. I was goal oriented. I was motivated. I wouldn't allow myself to fail. I wasted little time moving up in the company. Before long I was promoted. Then promoted again and again. It didn't matter who or what I sacrificed to do so. It was the cost of doing business.

The value of my bank account and stock portfolio quickly approached the millions. I owned a large house in a gated community and a vacation villa in the Caribbean. I had a beautiful wife, whom I met in university and married soon after. We had a seven year old son that attended one of the most prestigious private schools on the eastern seaboard. Though my involvement with his education was limited. I paid the tuition. That's where it stopped. I knew to succeed in the corporate environment I needed to maintain a strict focus. There was little time for such events as school plays or movie nights at home. Not at this point in my career. My son understood. My wife understood. It was to provide a better future. For them. For us. It was all for a reason. It would pay off in the end.

I was at the airport when my wife called to tell me the school had admitted Jeremy to the hospital with flu symptoms. It was precautionary. It was to ensure the other students wouldn't be exposed. That it was routine. Don’t worry, it was normal at this time of year, she said.

I was waiting to board a flight to Chicago to meet a client when she called. They were one of our biggest accounts and had raised some concerns about reports that were recently published. The numbers weren't where they expected. Or where we projected them to be. They had questions and expected answers. The firm didn't have the answers. I didn't have the answers. There were more important things to worry about than the status of my sons flu symptoms.

This was a meeting that could help advance my career. There were rumours that the Senior Vice President of my department was moving on to pursue other opportunities. I coveted that position. At age thirty four I would be the youngest senior executive within the company. To achieve this would be a dream come true. If I could appease the client in such a way that they were not only satisfied with the response, but to potentially increase their investment the job would be mine for the taking.

The meeting was scheduled to take place in three days. This afforded me the opportunity to formulate an appropriate response to the questions that were raised. During this time my wife informed me that the doctors wanted to keep our son for a couple days to run some tests. It was to rule out worst case scenarios. I shouldn't worry she said.

There was little time to worry. The client expected answers. I was focused on the meeting and how to keep them from losing faith. They were important to us. They were important to me. It was critical to have this go well. If one client loses faith others are sure to follow. That wasn't an option. We needed this to be a success. I wouldn't allow it to be a failure. Not for me. Not for the company.

The day before the meeting my wife called to update me that Jeremy's doctor was concerned about the results of one of the tests. He was being referred to a specialist to be further evaluated. She asked me to come home quickly. He was scared. He missed his father. He wanted me there with him. I told her to tell Jeremy I was thinking of him and that I loved him. That he would be fine. He takes after me.

The meeting was a resounding success. The client was not only satisfied with the answers I provided, but were excited about my vision for the future. The firm was ecstatic. I was ecstatic. I was told that when I returned we would discuss my future. They said there was a huge potential for growth and saw me as a big part of it.

By the time I returned I was met with several messages from my wife. The specialist was troubled by the results of the tests. There was an abnormality on one of the scans and they wanted to explore it further. Jeremy was scheduled to have an exploratory surgery later that day to help decide what the next step should be. I called to tell her I would be there as soon as possible, but I had to stop by the office first.

I was in the board room when the call came in from my wife. I ignored it. I was sitting across the table from the top executives of the firm. These were men I respected. Men I wished to emulate. Men I sought to become. We were discussing my future goals and plans. Where I saw myself in five years. A decade. Several more. Despite her repeated calls, it wasn't the time or place to answer the phone. This was important.

When the meeting concluded my wife had left one message.

“Tim….” She was crying, “........Pl...Please call me...”

I think about the moments I missed. The moments I sacrificed. The birthdays. The first days at school and the recitals I wouldn't make time for. I think of the moments where he was happiest. Where he was smiling. Laughing. Carefree. I think about how scared he must have been. The complications that arose. That there was nothing the surgeon could do.

I think about the fact I wasn't there when he needed me most. I was in a meeting. A meeting I deemed too important to postpone. A meeting that informed me I wasn't to be considered for the senior VP position. They were looking to hire a person with more experience. They told me they appreciated all the hard work I put in because without that they wouldn't be where they are today. Keep doing what I’m doing, they said, and my future is limitless.

I think about the moments I missed with the delusion it was all for him. That was, after all, why I did all this. To give him everything. To provide for him. To give him a better future. I'm left to think I had more important things to worry about than the status of my sons flu symptoms.

title: [RF] My sons flu symptoms

question: What does the story say about the narrator's mistakes in life?

answer: He consistently chooses to work on his career over caring for his family. When his son's health gets desperate, he refuses to engage with the situation because of a meeting. He seems to regret his choices, and the lies he told himself that all his work was to provide for his family.

question: What does the story say about C-level executives with families?

question: Summarize the progression of the narrator's son's health through the story.

answer: He's hospitalized with flu symptoms as a precaution. One of the tests comes back in a manner that worries his doctor. He's taken to a specialist, which gets a similar result. This prompts a necessity for exploratory surgery. The surgery goes wrong, and the narrator's son ends up dead.


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The District’s Democratic primary is two weeks from now, which means we’re in the thick of elections hijinks season. Now Ward 8 incumbent LARUBY MAY has fired a campaign worker shown on video trying to make an illicit voter registration—all while May stands just a few feet away.

Much of the action in the video takes place off-camera, where the campaign worker tries to convince a resident of Northeast D.C. to instead register at an address in the ward so he can vote for May. The prospective voter, though, refuses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr_aihSJ8HM

“I’m not in the ward no more,” the prospective voter says.

“You’re not?” replies the campaign worker. “Put your address you be at right here.”

With May standing just few feet away, the campaign worker continues to tell the man to file an illicit voter registration.

“What’s the address you use right here?” he says, adding later. “I’m saying, there’s no address you can use? That you can use? Nobody.”

After LL asked May’s campaign about the video, the unnamed campaign worker was fired.

“The moment the video was brought to the campaign’s attention and we were able to confirm the identity, the person involved was fired,” May said in a statement. “The individual violated our canvasing policy which was reviewed with all campaign staff.”

The video doesn’t surprise TRAYON WHITE, who is running again for the Ward 8 seat after losing to May by less than 100 votes in last year’s special election.

“It doesn’t shock me,” White says. “I’ve been hearing about that stuff going on since last year.”

question: Why does Laruby May fire a campaign worker?

answer: Because the video showing the campaign worker tells the man to file an illicit voter registration is brought to the campaign’s attention.

question: Does May know that the campaign worker tells the man to file an illicit voter registration?

answer: It is not explicitly said that she does, but she might know because she stands just a few feet away.

question: How is Trayon White related to May?

answer: White is May's political opponent who is also running for the Ward 8.

question: Did the video surprise White?

answer: No, White says that he has been hearing about illicit voter registration going on since last year.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: Ward 8 incumbent Laruby May fire a campaign worker because the video showing a campaign worker telling the man to file an illicit voter registration is brought to the campaign’s attention. In the video, the campaign worker tries to convince a resident of Northeast D.C. to instead register at an address in the ward so he can vote for May, and the man refuses. Trayon White, May's political opponent who is also running for Ward 8, says that he has been hearing about illicit voter registration going on since last year.