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U.S. Marine Corporal Eric Jamal Johnson is accused of killing Texas college student Sara Mutschlechner. (Yuma County Sheriff)

An active-duty U.S. Marine has been arrested in the shooting death of a Texas college student who was driving her friends home from a New Year’s Eve party when a man in an SUV opened fire on their car.

Marine Corporal Eric Jamal Johnson, 20, who is also a rapper by the name of Santana Sage, was arrested Tuesday, Denton Police said in a press release.

Witnesses said Johnson, of Fort Worth, was driving the SUV and was seen holding a handgun, WFAA reports.

Sara Mutschlechner, also 20, was a student at the University of North Texas. She was the designated driver for her friends, who had been at a party just before the shooting.

The arrest warrant charges Johnson with first-degree murder. The investigation is still ongoing, police said.

Here’s what you need to know:

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1. The Men Told Mutschlechner & Her Friends They Wanted to ‘F**k Them’ & Were Turned Down, Police Say

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Sara Mutschlechner, a student at the University of North Texas, was fatally shot on New Year’s Eve during a road rage incident. (Facebook)

Mutschlechner was in her car with three of her friends, two men and a woman, after they had left a large party at a home on Cristoforo Drive in Denton, police said in the arrest warrant affidavit. Mutschlechner’s friends said there were “multiple musicians/rappers in attendance.”

Her friends said they stayed at the party for about 45 minutes and left at about 2 a.m.

As they were driving away from the party, an SUV pulled up next to them, the victim’s friends told police. The men inside the vehicle began to talk to Mutschlechner’s friend, Cori, asking where they were going and “making lewd comments about the two females in the vehicle, saying they wanted to ‘f**k them’,” police said.

According to the affidavit, Cori told them he “didn’t appreciate their comments” and one of the men in the back of the SUV said he would “beat his ass.” The driver then said, “I’ll shoot your ass” and showed a handgun, Cori said.

They continued driving and two shots were then fired at the car, police said.

Mutschlechner was shot in the head and crashed the car into another vehicle and an electrical pole. The SUV drove off, police said. Mutschlechner and one of her friends, who suffered minor injuries, were taken to the hospital.

She was found on the ground outside of her car when police arrived. She was rushed to the hospital, and was on life support until Friday night.

According to the arrest warrant affidavit, surveillance video showed the two vehicles driving next to each other at 2:06 a.m. A gas station clerk told police he was outside when the shooting happened and heard two shots before the SUV sped away and Mutschlechner’s car crashed.

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2. Johnson Was With the Rap Group Who Played at the Party, Police Say

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A flyer advertising the party where Mutschlechner and her friends were before the shooting. (Denton Police)

Mutschlechner’s friends say they recognized two of the men from the party they had left. They said one of the men looked “very young” and had braces. The other was wearing a Chicago Cubs baseball hat they recognized. Both were in the backseat of the SUV.

Police said they identified the musicians who performed at the party and other attendees through social media, some matching the description given by the witnesses. According to the arrest warrant affidavit, the men in the backseat was part of the music group that performed at the party, the Daytona Boyz.

Police said they found photos of the Daytona Boyz members, Tay-K and PimpyZ, with Santana Sage, later identified as Eric Jamal Johnson. The photos and videos showed them performing at the party and in the SUV. Johnson was wearing a red sweatshirt with the words “F**k Everybody” on it, police said.

Videos from the party show the Daytona Boyz performing, police said. This video appears to be a recap of the party:

Detectives showed Mutschlechner’s friends photos of the three men, and they identified them as being in the car. One of the friends said he remembered seeing the “F**k Everybody” shirt.

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3. He Joined the Marines in 2013 & Is Based in Arizona

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Murder suspect Eric Jamal Johnson in a 2013 photo while at Marine Corps training in San Diego. (Facebook/U.S. Marines)

Johnson was arrested by U.S. Marshals on Monday at the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Arizona, where he serves with the Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron-1, the Marine Corps said. He joined the Marines in 2013.

He has been held in Arizona and faces extradition to Texas.

In addition to serving as a U.S. Marine corporal, Johnson is a rapper, using his name Santana Sage.

  if I'm not making at least six figures, an established household name, and/or a proud father/husband by the time I'm 30, somebody shoot me.

  — la' saint. (@SantanaSage) September 14, 2015

He released a song called La’ Saint last month:

The identities of the other two rappers police say were in the car, Tay-K and PimpyZ, haven’t been made public. It’s not yet known if they will also be facing charges.

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4. Johnson’s Friend Told a North Texas Student the Victim ‘Was at the Wrong Place Wrong Time’

Denton Police confirmed that detectives are investigating a Twitter message sent to a University of North Texas student after Johnson was arrested.

  We are aware of a post that has been made, and that post has been sent onto the Detectives.

  — DENTON POLICE DEPT (@DENTONPD) January 5, 2016

The student posted a screenshot of the message, which says “Yo friend was at the wrong place wrong time ya boi that was driving was talking shit.” Johnson’s friend, who had earlier sent public messages to the student about the arrest, said Johnson was “already heated” and had a beat someone up earlier in the night.

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5. Mutschlechner Was a Movie Lover & Was Studying Film

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(Facebook)

Hundreds gathered for a candlelight vigil on the campus of the University of North Texas on New Year’s Day.

“There are so many people that knew her, that she touched their lives,” her father, Clay Mutschlechner told ABC News.

“She was friends with everyone,” her mother, Gloria Mutschlechner, said.

Mutschlechner, a junior, was a member of a sorority on campus.

“Each and every one of our lives at the Gamma Phi Chapter of ZTA has been touched by the spunky, selfless attitude of our beloved sister, Sara,” ZTA chapter president Jordan Roberts said in a Facebook post. “She is by far one of the most spirited, honest and fun-loving people I ever had the privilege to know. She will truly be missed.”

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(Facebook)

Mutschlechner was majoring in radio, television and film. On her LinkedIn page, she wrote about her love for movies:

  Growing up I was entranced by the beauty of cinema and as an avid movie-goer I one day decided that this – this beautiful thing I so enjoyed watching – was what I wanted to dedicate my life to. The more I dive into the film industry the more I realize just how much I enjoy the process of film production and how I love the way a film can affect not just a single person, but society as a whole. I want to inspire change just as much as I want to inspire future filmmakers, like myself, to continue creating beautiful and original works of art.

Mutschlechner grew up in Martindale, Texas, and graduated from San Marcos High School.

She was an organ donor, her family said.

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question: Who was in the car with Sara Mutschlechner?

answer: She was in the car with three friends.

question: Where was the party that Mutschlecher had left from?

answer: The party was at a home on Cristoforo Drive in Denton.

question: When did Eric Jamal Johnson join the Marines?

answer: Johnson joined the Marines in 2013.

question: Who are the Daytona Boyz?

answer: The Daytona Boyz are a rap group that performed at the party that Mutschlechner and her friends were at before the shooting.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: This article details the shooting death of Sara Murschlechner, a 20 year old student at the University of North Texas, after she turned down unwanted advances from Eric Jamal Johnson. Johnson is charged with first-degree murder, and the investigation is still ongoing.


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 J. Scott Applewhite (AP)
The September 11 attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya were back in the spotlight Wednesday with another House committee hearing on whether the Obama administration mishandled the tragic incident.

In the eight months since Benghazi, the debate about what happened in Benghazi has become deeply political, as Republicans continue to challenge the White House's actions during and after the attacks, which left four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, dead.

Neither side disputes that the Benghazi attacks were the tragic result of major failures at the State Department. An independent review released in December found that leadership and management deficiencies led to inadequate security at the U.S. Special Mission in Benghazi, despite repeated requests for additional security staffing from diplomatic personnel in Libya.

But that report has failed to mollify conservatives. Republicans insist that there are still unanswered questions about whether more could have been done to respond to the attacks, and whether the Obama administration actively tried to cover up its failures in the aftermath of the incident.

What follows is a breakdown of why conservatives are still hung up on Benghazi:

SECURITY FAILURES IN BENGHAZI: Republican critics continue to raise questions about why the State Department refused requests for more security personnel in Benghazi before the attacks, and whether the State Department and the Pentagon did everything possible to save American lives while the mission in Benghazi was under attack.

At Wednesday's hearing, State Department "whistleblower" Gregory Hicks, the deputy chief of mission in Libya during the attacks, said that he was frustrated when the U.S. military turned down a request to dispatch four Special Operations troops stationed in Tripoli to evacuate Americans in Benghazi.

Pentagon spokesman George Little said Wednesday that the military believes that there was nothing the four troops stationed in Tripoli could have done to assist in Benghazi, and that there were concerns about the security of American forces in Tripoli.

Hicks also told Congressional investigators that the Pentagon denied his request to fly fighter jets over the Benghazi attacks in the hopes of "scattering" the attackers.

The Pentagon has insisted that there was not enough time to deploy armed aircraft to Libya during the attacks in Benghazi.

THE ALLEGED COVER-UP: The main problem conservatives have with Benghazi is not so much that it happened, but that they believe the Obama administration willfully tried to mislead the American public about it in the aftermath.

The focus here has been on U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice's appearance on Sunday talk shows just days after the attacks. Rice, working off the administration's unclassified talking points, characterized the attacks as a spontaneous demonstration over a video that disparaged Islam.

Even at the time, Rice's statements seemed to contradict the publicly available information about the attacks. Now, it is pretty clear thatU.S. officials already knew at that point that the assault had been a terrorist attack.

Administration emails provided to House Republicans and further reported on by the Weekly Standard reveal that the initial unclassified talking points provided by the CIA did in fact include references to Al Qaeda, and noted that the agency had previously warned about the threat of Islamic extremists in Egypt and Libya.

But senior State Department officials expressed concerns about those talking points, arguing that they made it seem like the State Department had ignored CIA warnings. A senior White House official agreed that these concerns should be addressed, and the talking points that emerged from an interagency briefing were scrubbed of all references to terrorist attacks.

_Washington Post _fact-checker Glenn Kessler notes that a lot of this debate appears to be interagency squabbling. The CIA's initial draft was apparently designed to downplay the agency's substantial presence in Benghazi, and the State Department was likely reluctant to take all the blame.

Still, the question remains whether the Obama administration scrubbed the talking points and used the video red herring in order to cover up the fact that they failed to prevent a planned terrorist attack that killed four Americans on the anniversary of September 11.

OBAMA: The initial target of the Republican Benghazi probe was Obama, who was in the middle of a heated re-election campaign at the time of the attacks.

Conservatives note, correctly, that the administration had a powerful incentive to cover up their failings in Libya, as it would have undercut the media narrative about Obama's record on diminishing the Al Qaeda threat.

Conservatives have also raised questions about what Obama was doing during the eight hours that the Benghazi compound was under siege. Republicans note that then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs Chairman Martin Dempsey have both said that they did not speak to Obama after an initial meeting when the attacks began.

As Ted Cruz put it in a National Review op-ed Wednesday, "neither the secretary nor the chairman knows if the president slept while our people were under attack."

HILLARY CLINTON: Now that the 2012 election is over, the GOP's focus has turned to Hillary Clinton, the leading Democratic contender in 2016 who played a starring role in the Benghazi controversy.

So far, Clinton has been relatively unblemished by Benghazi, even after clashing with Republican Senators at a Foreign Services Committee hearing in January.

But House Republicans believe that the independent review of Benghazi unfairly ignored her role in the State Department's failures leading up to the attack, and claim that Clinton needs to be held accountable for scaling back security in Benghazi.

At this point, it doesn't look like Benghazi will have much of an effect on Clinton's 2016 chances. But Republicans remain hopeful. In a Facebook post Tuesday, South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham predicted that "the dam is about to break on Benghazi," and that Clinton could be a political casualty.

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question: What major failures at the State Department contributed to the attacks at Benghazi?

answer: Leadership and management deficiencies led to inadequate security at the U.S. special mission in Benghazi, despite requests for additional staffing from diplomatic personnel in Libya.

question: Did the Obama administration actively try to cover up failures in the aftermath of the incident?

answer: From the information that is available it would seem that the talking points after the incidents was scrubbed to remove mention of Al Qaeda and a terrorist attack, but rather referred to a spontaneous incident in reaction to an Islam video.

question: Which two suggestions by the State Department did the U.S. military fail to implement at the time of the attack and why?

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State Department whistleblower Gregory Hicks requested four special Operations troops stationed in Tripoli to evacuate Americans in Benghazi. This request was denied because there is nothing the troops could have done to help the situation in Benghazi.
The second request was for fighter jets to fly over Benghazi to scatter the attackers. This request was also denied because there was not enough time to deploy armed aircraft to Libya.

question: Why was Obama the initial target of the Republican Benghazi probe?

answer: Obama was in the middle of a heated re-election campaign. His whereabouts at the time of the attack is not known. The failings in Libya would undercut his narrative that Obama is diminishing the Al Qaeda threat.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: Republicans assert that failures after the 9/11 terrorist attack in Benghazi that led to the deaths of Americans was covered up by the Obama administration.


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My Dearest Amanda Ann,

I grow weary from lack of sleep knowing that you are no longer with me. All I can think about was the way you used to hold me and keep me warm. The smell of your perfume used to bring me comfort, while the touch of your soft skin made me feel safe. It would remind me of the way my mother used to protect me when I felt frightened at night as a child.

The dark cold wintery nights have not helped me in anyway. As I lay on my bed I can only wonder what my future holds. As I look out the window every morning, I realize the birds are no longer singing to me. They used to remind me how great my life was. I feel as though this is a sign for things to come.

I had a dream about you last night. Not the kind of dreams I normally have.
The dreams where we frolic in daisy fields while your hair glistens in
the sunlight like a fairytale princess who has finally met her
prince...no...I no longer have dreams like that..I am dreaming dreams
no mortal has ever dared to dream.

Last night in my dream, as I peered into the darkness, I stood there
wondering, fearing, doubting...then silence. The silence was finally
broken by a blaring sound in the distance. The sound was
unrecognizable. A sound faintly similar to a million bees attacking a
small heard of elephants. The sound grew stronger and stronger. The
sound growing unbearable each and every second. I wanted to wake up
but I couldn't. As I looked further in the distance I could almost
make out a silhouette of a man...It was no ordinary man. His size closely resembled
that of a fully grown male caribou. He had six arms - three on each
side, and a head as big as a bear.  I began running for my life. It
felt as though I was running 100mph, however, it wasn't enough as I
could hear the beast getting closer and closer with each stride I took. As
I continued running, I could see you in the distance. It seemed as though
you had the slightest care in the world. You looked stunning wearing
the dress your mother made you for our wedding day. Your amber colored hair was majestically blowing through the wind, while your skinned glistened in
the moonlight. As I got closer, I could feel the heat coming from
your body, and became more and more comforted by your presence. I knew
that as soon as I reached you, I would be safe and that you would
protect me.

But then I fell.

While on the ground, trying relentlessly to get back up, I could see you
walking away from me. As I started crying tears of utter sadness and
defeat, I tried yelling out to you, screaming for you to help me,
however, I was unable to make any sound. Not even a whisper. I tried harder and harder to make some sort of noise but it was impossible. The only audible sound
was that of the beast.

Then I woke up.

After spending countless hours writing to you, I'm afraid all is lost as I have not received a single letter from you. I hope all your new memories, are your favorite memories. If our love is meant to be, I pray that our paths will someday meet again.

Finest Kind,

John Doe

title: I have always been interested in writing but I just never got around to it. Here's something I did while I was bored at work. Tell me what you think.

question: Where is Amanda Ann?

answer: She left John Doe, but it's not mentioned where she is.

question: What is the narrator's relationship with Amanda Ann?

answer: He's her husband or perhaps ex-husband since she left him.

question: Why is Amanda Ann not writing back to John Doe?

answer: It's not directly stated, but perhaps Amanda Ann doesn't love John Doe anymore.

question: What could be the interpretation of John Doe's dream?

answer: It could mean that Amanda Ann doesn't care for him anymore.

question: Why is John Doe away from Amanda Ann?

answer: She left him.

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: John Doe writes a letter to Amanda Ann, his wife who left him. He's hoping they'll meet again. He tells her about his dream where he's attacked by a beast. He runs and sees Amanda Ann in the distance, but she walks away from him.


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FREDERICK is a stop on the Region of Waterloo's Ion rapid transit system.[1] It is located in the median of Frederick Street, just east of King Street, in downtown Kitchener. It opened in 2019.

The station serves northbound trains only; the nearest southbound platform is at Queen station, about away down Benton and Charles streets.

The station's feature wall consists of solid green glass tiles; this mimics the coloration of the exterior of Market Square.

The primary access to the platform is from the crosswalk at King Street; a secondary access at the north end of the platform, crossing the southbound lanes of Frederick Street, is marked as an emergency exit only.

[GRT customer service centre] Destinations served include the Market Square shopping and office complex, the regional courthouse, and TheMuseum. To the north of the station is the proposed 'Duke Tower Kitchener' condominium development. Across King, at Benton, is a Grand River Transit customer service office.

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title: Frederick station (Kitchener)

question: Where is the station?

answer: In the median of Frederick Street, just east of King Street, in downtown Kitchener

question: When did it open?

answer: 2019

question: What is the nearest southbound platform?

answer: Queen station

question: What does the station's feature wall consist of?

answer: Solid green glass tiles, mimicking the coloration of the exterior of Market Square

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: Frederick station is a stop on the Region of Waterloo's Ion rapid transit system located in the median of Frederick Street in downtown Kitchener. It opened in 2019 and only serves northbound trains.


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Melbourne’s Boatrocker Brewery is set to open its new 300-barrel maturation facility and bar that was made possible by the investment of the founders of Little Creatures.

Through their investment vehicle Made By HAND, Howard Cearns, Adrian Fini, Nic Trimboli and David Martin purchased a 33 per cent shareholding in Boatrocker earlier this year.

The capital injection enabled Boatrocker to expand the capacity of its Braeside brewery and open the Boatrocker Barrel Room in a factory shed across the road.

Boatrocker already has 150 barrels at varying stages of maturation, comprising 500-litre puncheons, 225-litre barriques, 200-litre hogsheads and bourbon barrels, founder Matt Houghton told _Australian Brews News_.

“As we keep on brewing, we keep on buying more barrels. So we’ll be steadily acquiring over the next 12 months ago and should hopefully be close to 300 by then,” he said.

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Boatrocker Barrel Room in the final stages of preparation
Houghton said barrels have proven difficult to come by, particularly those of a certain standard.

“We’re quite fussy about where they come from winery-wise as well as the quality of the barrel,” he said.

“Also this year it’s been a bumper season for wine so most winemakers have been refilling the barrels they were planning on getting rid of, so that’s slimmed down the quantity of available barrels.”

TEMPERATURE, HUMIDITY CONTROL
Boatrocker has also gone to great lengths to ensure that the room is the right temperature and humidity to aid slow, steady maturation.

“The roof has top-of-the-range insulation and we’ve got air conditioning with humidifiers to make sure it’s all the right moisture content,” Houghton said.

“We’ve really tried everything to keep it the best environment for the barrels, which is good for the punter as well when they come and drink, because it means it will be really nice and cool inside.”

The current inventory of barrels includes Sour Blondes, Tripels, Scotch Ales, Flemish Reds, Oud Bruins, Saisons and Berliner Weisse.

Starting this week, the bar will be open on weekends with barrel beers to be served on tap alongside Boatrocker’s core beer range.

Boatrocker’s distribution is otherwise limited to Victoria and a smattering of MBH-backed venues in Perth, such as Petition Beer Corner, but Houghton ultimately hopes to change that.

“Long term, I hope we can provide our beers – particularly our barrel beers – to a much wider audience. It really is about developing the distribution network for that to happen,” he said.

“Hopefully we’ll just keep on buying lots more barrels and rent the factory next to us and put more barrels in there, and the next one and the next one,” he joked.

“Hopefully everyone gets into lovely sour beers – that’s my dream anyway.”

CREATURES FOUNDERS ‘HANDS OFF’
Boatrocker is MBH’s first investment in a drinks producer outside of its own Hippocampus distillery, but Howard Cearns hinted there may be similar investments on the horizon.

“We don’t want to go and start our own brewery up again, but we’re happy to be passive investors if you like, where we see people we like making good products and we like what they’re doing,” he said.

Cearns said he sits on the board of Boatrocker alongside Houghton, but otherwise MBH’s involvement is ‘hands off’ in nature.

“We’re there to help if needed. But other than that, day-to-day they look after it themselves,” he said.

Houghton said Boatrocker had benefited from its new investors’ expertise on the drinks industry.

“They’re very well regarded and connected as well. When we need advice or want to discuss certain things, they’re always available to chat with, which is fantastic,” he said.

BOATROCKER BARREL ROOM WILL BE OPEN ON FRIDAY FROM 4-9PM AND SATURDAY FROM 12-6PM. FOOD TRUCKS WILL BE IN THE VICINITY.

question: How big is Melbourne's Boatrocker Brewery?

answer: It is a 300 barrel maturation facility.

question: Who all have purchased a 33 per cent shareholding in Boatrocker?

answer: Howard Cearns, Adrian Fini, Nic Trimboli, and David Martin

question: What has Boatrocker gone to great lengths to ensure?

answer: Boatrocker has gone into great lengths to ensure that the room is the right temperature and humidity to aid slow, steady maturation.

question: What is included in the current inventory of barrels?

answer: Sour Blondes, Tripels, Scotch Ales, Flemish Reds, Oud Bruins, Saisons, and Berliner Weisse are all in the current inventory of barrels.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: This article discusses the opening of Boatrocker and how it is a new 300 barrel facility. What is included here, along with the mechanics such as temperature and humidity of the rooms is discussed.


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XINHUA NEWS AGENCY MACAO BRANCH () referred to as the Xinhua Macao Branch (新華社澳門分社) or Macao Branch (澳門分社), refers to the Xinhua News Agency in Macau branch, was established in September 21, 1987.

History

Xinhua News Agency Macao Branch in the past was an informal office and mouthpiece, the main business for the political work for the Government of the People's Republic of China and the Communist Party of China in Macau, followed by the responsibility of being a news agency which was established in September, 1987.[1]

The original “Macao Branch of Xinhua News Agency” was reorganized on January 18, 2000. After the reorganization, the former Macao Branch of the Xinhua News Agency disappeared and replaced the newly registered Xinhua News Agency Macao Special Administrative Region Branch, and the nature of its news organization was restored as the decision made on December 23, 1999 according to the 24th executive meeting of the State Council of the People's Republic of China. For the Macao Working Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央澳門工作委員會), commonly known as the “Great China”, has been split up into the “Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Macao Special Administrative Region” (中央人民政府駐澳門特別行政區聯絡辦公室).[2]

President

1.  Zhou Ding (周鼎)
2.  Guo Dongpo (郭東坡)
3.  Wang Qiren (王啟人)

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title: Xinhua News Agency Macao Branch

question: When was the Xinhua News Agency Macao Branch established?

answer: The Xinhua News Agency Macao Branch was established in September of 1987.

question: What meeting of the State Council of the People's Republic of China reorganized the Macao Branch of Xinhua News Agency?

answer: The 24th executive meeting of the State Council of the People's Republic of China reorganized the Macao Branch of Xinhua News Agency.

question: When was the Macao Branch of Xinhua News Agency reorganized?

answer: The Macao Branch of Xinhua News Agency was reorganized on January 18, 2000.

question: What three presidents of the Xinhua News Agency Macao Branch are listed?

answer: Zhou Ding, Guo Dongpo, and Wang Qiren are the three presidents of the Xinhua News Agency Macao Branch that are listed.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: The Xinhua News Agency Macao Branch is the main news agency of the People's Republic of China in Macau. It was established in 1987, and was reorganized in 2000.


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The _NINTENDO CHANNEL_, known as the _EVERYBODY'S NINTENDO CHANNEL_ (みんなのニンテンドーチャンネル _Minna no Nintendō Channeru_) in Japan, is a defunct online service, which was accessed through the use of WiiConnect24 on Nintendo's Wii game console. The channel offered viewing of videos from Nintendo, support for reading through game articles and also an online-based DS Download Station for the Nintendo DS to play demo versions of various Nintendo DS games. Users could send recommendations to Nintendo about a Wii or Nintendo DS game that they played, although Nintendo DS game cards had to be in the system's Slot-1 and locally connected to the Wii via Download Play in order to be eligible in the survey.

The Nintendo Channel debuted in November 27, 2007 in Japan, May 7, 2008 in America, and May 30, 2008 in Europe and Australia, and an update was released at a later point which changed the user interface and various other things.

A North American-exclusive show called _Nintendo Week_ was also distributed via Nintendo Channel.

Nintendo ended support for the Nintendo Channel on June 28, 2013 along with 4 more Wii channels as WiiConnect24, which the channel required, was permanently disconnected. Most of Nintendo Channel's functions were succeeded by the Nintendo eShop.

Features

The Nintendo Channel offers and videos about Wii or Nintendo DS games, with the option to see further details or purchase the software from the Wii Shop Channel. DS demos can be transmitted to the user's Nintendo DS.

The Nintendo Channel also allows the user to recommend games that they have played.

DS Download Service

The DS Download Service was a place for users to download demos or additional data to the Nintendo DS, DSi, DSi XL, or 3DS systems. Downloadable DS demo titles included:

-   Fossil Fighters: Champions
-   Kirby Mass Attack
-   Okamiden
-   Ghost Trick Phantom Detective
-   Sonic Colors
-   Crafting Mama
-   Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs Demo
-   Ivy the Kiwi? Demo
-   Dragon Ball: Origins 2
-   Picross 3D
-   America's Test Kitchen Pots de Creme Demo
-   America's Test Kitchen Roasted Red Potatoes Demo
-   Rooms DS
-   Battle of Giants: Dragons
-   Battle of Giants: Mutant Insects
-   Ace Attorney INVESTIGATIONS: Miles Edgeworth
-   James Patterson Woman's Murder Club: Games of Passion
-   Fossil Fighters Gift Fossil (Neutral)
-   Fossil Fighters Gift Fossil (Water)
-   Fossil Fighters Gift Fossil (Fire)
-   Fossil Fighters Gift Fossil (Earth)
-   Fossil Fighters Cleaning Demo
-   Mega Man Star Force 3 (until 9/20/2009)
-   Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (until 9/20/2009)
-   Rhythm Heaven
-   Personal Trainer: Math
-   Personal Trainer: Cooking Mac & Cheese Demo (until 12/21/2008)
-   Personal Trainer: Cooking Lasagna Demo (until 3/22/2009)
-   Mystery Case Files: MillionHeir
-   Crosswords DS-Crosswords Demo
-   Crosswords DS-Wordsearch Demo
-   Crosswords DS-Anagrams Demo (until 7/27/2008)
-   Brain Age 2 Demo
-   Brain Age Demo
-   Flash Focus Demo
-   Jam Sessions
-   Rayman Raving Rabbids 2
-   Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends
-   Disney Friends
-   Ninja Gaiden® Dragon Sword
-   Elebits: The Adventures of Kai and Zero (until 12/21/2008)
-   Soul Bubbles Demo (until 12/21/2008)
-   PICTOIMAGE (until 1/18/2009)
-   Carnival Games (until 7/6/2008)
-   The Incredible Hulk
-   Kung Fu Panda DS Demo
-   Walt Disney Pictures Bolt Demo (until 1/18/2009)

Availability

The Nintendo Channel was available on the Wii Shop Channel for 0 Wii Points, which is free. The Nintendo Channel was available until services of the channel had been discontinued on June 28, 2013.

Category:Wii

title: Nintendo Channel

question: What does the text say about downloading full versions of games via the Nintendo Channel?

question: What does the text say about the limitations of the Nintendo Channel service?

answer: The Nintendo Channel only offers demo versions of Nintendo DS games, not the full game. Users can send recommendations to Nintendo about Wii or DS games that they played, but the Nintendo DS cards must be in the system's Slot-1 and locally connected to the Wii via Download Play in order to be eligible for the survey. Users can't purchase games directly from the channel and had to go to the Wii Shop Channel, an unnecessary extra step.


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EMILY HELENA OGLE (born August 5, 1996) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Portland Thorns FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). She played for Penn State women's soccer team in college.[1][2]

Ogle is a former United States youth international,[3][4] and she was nominated for the 2016 U.S. Soccer Young Female Player of the Year award.[5]

College career

As a freshman at Penn State, Ogle started all 24 games of the 2014 season for the Nittany Lions.[6] During a match against West Virginia, she scored a goal and provided an assist to lift the team to a 3–1 win.[7] She finished the season having played 1,922 minutes, scored three goals and served four assists. Ogle scored the game-winning goal against Wisconsin the same year.[8]

During her sophomore year, she helped Penn State advance and win the NCAA College Cup. She scored a goal and provided an assist during the team's 4–0 victory over Ohio State in the third round of the tournament. She scored her second game-winning goal of the season in the 12th minute of a 2–0 win over West Virginia in the quarterfinals. As a midfielder, Ogle played all 90 minutes in Penn State’s 1–0 victory over Duke University in the College Cup Final. She ranked fourth on the team in minutes played (2,098) and finished the year with seven goals and five assists (19 points).[9]

Honors

PENN STATE

-   NCAA College Cup: 2015[10]

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-   Big Ten Conference Freshman of the Year: 2014[11]
-   Big Ten Conference All-Freshman team: 2014[12]
-   All-Big Ten Second Team: 2015[13]
-   NSCAA All-Great Lakes region first team: 2015[14]
-   Women's College Cup All-Tournament Team: 2015[15]
-   U.S. Soccer Young Female Player of the Year nominee: 2016[16]

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title: Emily Ogle

question: When was Emily Helena Ogle born?

answer: August 5th 1996.

question: What soccer team did she play for in college?

answer: The Penn State women's soccer team.

question: How many games did Ogle start in the 2014 season?

answer: All 24 of them.

question: What is the name of the team Ogle played for?

answer: The Nittany Lions.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: This article is about Emily Ogle, a soccer player who played for the women's soccer team at Penn State during her undergraduate years.


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_DONALD TRUMP'S DECISION TO WITHDRAW THE US FROM FROM PARIS AGREEMENT ON CLIMATE CHANGE WILL MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT TO IMPLEMENT THE INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS. MEPS DEBATE THE IMPACT OF THE DECISION IN PLENARY ON WEDNESDAY 14 JUNE. TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE BACKGROUND AND THE CONSEQUENCES, WE DISCUSSED THE ISSUE WITH ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE CHAIR ADINA-IOANA VALEAN, A ROMANIAN MEMBER OF THE EPP GROUP._

HOW FRAGILE IS THE PARIS AGREEMENT AFTER US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S DECISION ABOUT TO WITHDRAW?

The weakness of the Paris agreement lies in its voluntary nature, so its implementation will depend very much on how the global economy will do in the future.

The message to put the economy above our commitments to the planet is dangerous. This is a very conservative approach, but easy to explain to people and also attractive to many politicians around the world.

For now I would like to see more money put on the table. The US has been contributing to the Green Climate Fund (GCF), while the other signatories have only expressed an intention to contribute after the initial implementation period of the Paris agreement. We need to make those financial contributions as well: that will show that we are serious about our commitments.

We have to put our money where our mouth is. If we do, then there will be a future. If not, the Paris Agreement will be only a moment in our history when we decided to act on climate change, but  failed.

HOW DO YOU THINK THE US WITHDRAWAL WILL AFFECT NON-EU COUNTRIES AND THEIR COMMITMENT TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE?

It very much depends on the interdependence of their economies with that of the United States. If you have very close economic relationships, if companies from your country are under heavy regulation due to climate action legislation and US companies do not have to face the same regulatory framework, the industrial competitiveness becomes important. That is why I believe the European Commission should respond to this genuine concern about the potential economic imbalance in the transatlantic relationship.

Beyond EU-US relations, it also remains to be seen how committed [non-EU] countries will be.  We all know there is a difference between political declarations and actual implementation.

WHAT SHOULD BE THE NEXT STEPS BY THE EU IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE?

We need to have a very active climate diplomacy, in order to keep the other signatories in line with their commitments. The natural partner for us has always been the United States, but now we find ourselves alone in our leadership on climate. It will be challenging, for sure, but the European Union has a lot of experience in working with other countries to tackle climate change. This is nothing new for us.

However, we need to give a quick response, not from a climate change point of view, but from an economic point of view. Our economies - both in Europe and US - are so interdependent that this rift between us is going to heavily affect the competitiveness of our businesses.

In my opinion, we have to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy. A transition is always hard and it affects competitiveness, but the sooner we get there, the better opportunities our economy will have.

question: What is the main focus of the article?

answer: An interview with Environment Committee Chair Adina-Ioana Valean following Donal Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

question: Describe the repercussions of Donald Trump's decision.

answer: According to Valean, it will send a dangerous message that the economy is more important than our commitments to the planet. It will result in industrial competitiveness, since US companies won't be subjected to the same regulatory framework as companies in other contries.

question: Who is being interviewed in the article?

answer: Environment Committee Chair Adina-Ioana Valean

question: What are the interview subject's thoughts on the Paris agreement?

answer: They believe its weakness is that participation is voluntary.

question: What country is the person being interviewed from?

answer: Romania

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: An interview with Environment Committee Chair Adina-Iona Valean, a Romanian member of the EPP group, in which they share their thoughts on the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the agreement. Valean believes the weakness of the agreement lies in its voluntary nature. The United States' withdrawal will affect other participating countries whose economies are interdependent with that of the United States. Valean believes it is necessary to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy.


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PHOENIX – MMAjunkie was on scene and reporting live from today’s early and official UFC on FOX 29 fighter weigh-ins, where all 28 fighters made weight – eventually.

The early weigh-ins took place at the UFC host hotel in Phoenix, and precede the ceremonial weigh-ins for the fans, which take place at 8 p.m. ET at Gila River Arena in nearby Glendale, Ariz. The same venue hosts Saturday’s event, which airs on FOX following early prelims on UFC Fight Pass.

Among those weighing in are Dustin Poirier (22-5 MMA, 14-4 UFC) and Justin Gaethje (18-1 MMA, 1-1 UFC), who meet in the lightweight main event.

While today’s weigh-ins were largely a smooth affair, lightweight Gilbert Burns (12-2 MMA, 5-2 UFC) did need an additional 48 minutes to make weight for his contest with Dan Moret (13-3 MMA, 0-0 UFC). “Durinho” initially weighed 156.5 pounds but was given two more hours to hit the mark per Arizona Boxing & MMA Commission regulations. He then weighed 155 when hit the scales a second time 48 minutes after the initial window.

The full UFC on FOX 29 weigh-in results include:

MAIN CARD (FOX, 8 p.m. ET)

-   Dustin Poirier (156) vs. Justin Gaethje (156)
-   Israel Adesanya (184) vs. Marvin Vettori (186)
-   Carlos Condit (171) vs. Alex Oliveira (171)
-   Cortney Casey (115) vs. Michelle Waterson (115)

PRELIMINARY CARD (FOX, 6 p.m. ET)

-   Tim Boetsch (185) vs. Antonio Carlos Junior (185)
-   Ricky Rainey (170) vs. Muslim Salikhov (171)
-   John Moraga (126) vs. Wilson Reis (125)
-   Krzysztof Jotko (185.5) vs. Brad Tavares (186)

PRELIMINARY CARD (UFC Fight Pass, 3:30 p.m. ET)

-   Gilbert Burns (156) vs. Dan Moret (156)
-   Shana Dobson (126) vs. Lauren Mueller (126)
-   Dhiego Lima (171) vs. Yushin Okami (170)
-   Arjan Bhullar (241) vs. Adam Wieczorek (232)
-   Matthew Lopez (136) vs. Alejandro Perez (136)
-   Patrick Williams (136) vs. Luke Sanders (135)

_* – Burns initially weighed 156.5 but was given an additional two hours and made weight on his second attempt_

For more on UFC on FOX 29, check out the UFC Rumors section of the site.

question: Who is Gilbert Burns?

answer: Lightweight MMA fighter with a record of 12-2 MMA, 5-2 UFC

question: Did everyone make weight?

answer: Yes, but Burns needed an additional two hours to hit the mark per Arizona Boxing and MMA Commission regulations

question: How many times do fighters have to weigh in?

answer: Twice, one early weigh-in that's the official weight and one ceremonial weigh-in for the fans

question: What fight show will host Burns' fight?

answer: Preliminary Card for UFC Fight Pass, 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: Early weigh-ins took place at the UFC host hotel in Phoenix, AZ where 28 fighters made weight, eventually. One fighter, Gilbert Burns, required an additional 48 minutes to make weight dropping from 156.5 pounds to 155. The fighters are divided amongst Main and preliminary cards for Fox and UFC Fight pass fights.


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50 shades of wrong.

It was autumn again, the hallways of The Tallinn Polytechnic School filled up
with the most annoying students known to any man. Screams of immature students
with underdeveloped brains filled the classrooms once again. In the large gray mass that made up the students, there was him. He didn’t fit it with the others, he was different, yet not an outcast. Just different. „Hey, Michael.“ I said in an overly excited voice. He replied with a slight nod, he never cared much for me. He slowly walked over to his desk, and slouched into position and continued to fiddle with his sudoku puzzle. It was like summer break never existed to him. He just went on doing the same thing as he did last year. He just sat there, totally unaware of his surroundings. „He’s soooo cute“ I thought to myself. I really missed him all summer. After class I got it together and finally got the courage to act upon my feelings. „You know, Mikey, I think you’re like super hot!“ I explained.
Michael just let out a slow and quiet „Okay“. This was it,  I couldn’t hold it in anymore, I went for it and kissed him right on the lips while touching his abs. „What the hell are you doing?“ yelled Michael and ran off.
Later that day I was arrested for sexually assaulting a 14 year old student.

title: 50 shades of wrong

question: What does the narrator find cute about the boy?

answer: He's different from all the other students, just doing his own thing.

question: Explain why Michael wouldn't care much for the narrator.

answer: The narrator is probably quite a bit older than him, and he's aware of this.

question: Why doesn't the narrator like most of the other students?

answer: She finds them immature and annoying.

question: Explain what was wrong with the narrator's actions.

answer: She didn't know Michael was 14 years old. So her kiss and physical flirting constituted assault.

question: Write a ~5 sentence summary.

answer: The narrator finds the students of the Tallinn Polytechnic School to be annoying and immature, except for Michael. She says hi to him, but he doesn't care much for her, continuing to fiddle with his sudoku puzzle. She manages to muster up her courage after the class and tells him she thinks he's hot and kisses him while touching his abs. He gets upset and runs off. Later that day, the narrator gets arrested for assaulting a 14-year-old student.


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I was at the bowling alley bar making my rounds as a grown ass man does and was walking out the door when in the reflection I saw a girl walking out behind me. She was cute. I didn’t just hold the door waiting for her to receive the transfer, I straight opened the door, stood post and waited for her to pass. She didn’t thank or even acknowledge me, to which I said, "OK, welcome to life." I began to walk past her because I walk fast as hell when she asked “Excuse me, do you have any change for the bus, I’m just tryi—-“, I interjected: “You know, you didn’t even say thank you when I held the door open for you, let alone mind me at all, maybe next time.”

Beyond that, she seemed like a keeper.

title: Bowling alley bar. (I'm not a writer)

question: Where were the narrator and the girl?

answer: At the bowling alley bar.

question: What did the girl do to annoy the narrator?

answer: He didn't acknowledge or thank him when he held the door open for her.

question: What did the girl ask from him?

answer: Some change for the bus.

question: Did he give her the change for the bus?

answer: No

question: Where was the girl going with the bus?

answer: Information not found.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: The narrator held a door for a girl at the bowling alley. She didn't thank him and this annoyed him. When she asked for some change from him, he declined, pointing out to her ignoring him.


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[HDMI cable]

Do you really need to spend more than £2 on an HDMI cable?

When you've ever been persuaded to buy a new HDMI cable using the "3D upgrade" or future-proofing arguments, the chances are that you were ripped-off, though by who, exactly, is a grey area.

Riddled with complex, largely meaningless technical specifications, expensive licensing arrangements and at its core a cable that's not versatile enough for a lot of mainstream situations, the world of HDMI is a confusing one indeed.

We asked around the AV industry for some answers so you can buy with confidence – and only spend what you should.

Does the price of a HDMI cable affect the picture quality?

"Will using a £5,000 USB cable make your printer better?" asks Chris Pinder, Managing Director at HDcable.co.uk, rhetorically. "I've been selling HDMI cables for years and I can say 100% that the technology, and specifically the price of an HDMI cable will not affect the picture quality by one pixel."

The innovations and price differences, says Chris, is to do with things like different sized connectors – slim designs for fitting better into wall-hung super-slim LED TVs, for instance – rather than materials used in the actual cables.

"Under five metre an HDMI cable made correctly cannot introduce any degradation to picture and sound quality," says Chris. "There are no subtle variants. If you have a digital photo that you email to 5,000 people, the quality will be the same on. It's the same principle with HDMI."

"There's a greater variation in how TVs are set-up in homes than differences in cable quality," says Tim O'Malley at Wavelength Distribution, which sells Supra HDMI cables. "You might find three people, each with different HDMI cables, but the quality of the picture will differ because one TV was simply unboxed and switched-on, another was adjusted by the user, and another was fully installed and calibrated by the person that sold the TV."

What makes a good HDMI cable?

One that works – there is no upgrade argument to be had. Conducting material used in the HDMI cable is all-important, though relatively standard.

All official HDMI cables use the best insulation possible, the same quality plugs, and usually solder-free cold-welding that prevents copper strands from being joined. HDMI cables carry gigahertz of very high frequency signals that travel on the surface of conductor material – usually copper, sometimes silver.

Many HDMI cables are actually hollow since the signal travels around the outside of the cable, which is why upgraded versions for long runs tend to be silver plated, rather than solid silver.

More important is that a HDMI cable is lain flat – something that's actually tricky to do even in a basic set-up – because every bend or kink reduces the bandwidth (speed) of the cable.

On that note, steer clear of 'flat' HDMI cables; there's simply not enough room for a twisted pair of copper wires to conduct without interference.

There's another problem here that actually increases with price; the heavier the cable, the better quality is probably is … and the greater likelihood that it will fall out of, say, a TV's HDMI input. It's more evidence for those that think that the HDMI standard is poorly thought-out, riddled with basic problems and just isn't up to the job.

Can you measure any difference in video quality between expensive and cheap HDMI cables?

"If people can see the difference between HDMI cables, good for them," says James Luce, Brand Manager at Acoustic Energy and responsible for calibrating screens for trade shows and demonstrations.

"On the measuring equipment I use I can't tell the difference between a top-of-the-range HDMI cable and a £5 one from ASDA." James explains that both cables measured exactly the same colour levels, and told TechRadar that the set-up he was showing the public – a Panasonic plasma connected to an Acoustic Energy sound system – employed two HDMI cables from … Tesco.

James' advice is to forget about HDMI cables and, if you want to get the picture on your TV to be as good as possible, to spend £100 on an i1LT meter (it's more sensitive than the human eye in measuring light and colour), download the free Colour HFCR calibration software from the web, and bone-up on how to professionally calibrate a TV.

[HDMI design]

For short runs under 5m, it's the design, rather than quality, that is worth paying for

Do I need to upgrade to a 'high-speed' version 1.4 HDMI cable for 3D?

No, these standards are virtually meaningless for consumers – they simply refer to electronics and not to the cables themselves. Think about it: when did you last experience an 'HDMI failure'?

A well-made HDMI 1.1 cable purchased five years ago is already 'high speed', will almost certainly carry 3D and almost everything that an HDMI 1.4 cable can. For short HDMI cables under five metres, 'high speed' is meaningless marketing jargon for 'over-specified for the task'.

You couldn't even argue a future-proofing standpoint for 4K resolutions; any HDMI cable with a decent amount of copper, good geometry and good shielding should be able to do 4k, though that can only be said for sure for five metres-or-under HDMI cables. Above that you really do need a very well put together cable for 4k transmission.

What about new HDMI cables with Ethernet Channel? Surely the chance to use fewer cables is worth paying for?

You would think so – and in the era of 'smart' TV this two-in-one HDMI cable appears awesome in theory – but since not a single manufacturer has made a product compatible with this brand new HDMI standard, it's (so far) completely meaningless.

Why are big-brand cables so expensive?

Although build quality does matter for HDMI cables over five metres, the reason why even cheap cables can cost £10+ is down to licensing fees.

Sources in the industry tell us that an HDMI cable manufacturer has to pay a fee of over £3,000 to the HDMI Organisation to have a new, or even a subtly re-designed or re-packaged incarnation of, an HDMI cable officially tested and sanctioned. It's only then that the HDMI logo can be used. Meanwhile, logo-less versions of HDMI cables are coming out of the same Chinese factories and appearing on eBay for a few quid.

Should I buy cheap HDMI cables on eBay?

We found HDMI cables selling on eBay for as little as £1.29, but they can't be as good as bone fide big brand cables, can they? Well, actually … for short-runs – i.e. taking video from a Sky box to a TV nearby – the chances are that these kind of cables are absolutely fine.

They come from exactly the same no-name factories as the expensive cables, but haven't been through pricey testing procedures, so they could be duds – and they're low price suggests they've probably without decent shielding – but these logo-less HDMI cables are from the same production line as cables that have passed the test.

Buying from eBay is in some ways risky, but at this kind of money, who cares? If it doesn't work, throw it away! We would, however, give cheap, long HDMI cables the swerve.

Could the quality of a HDMI cable affect sound quality?

For the answer we asked Alasdair Patrick, The Answer Man (nice job title!) at Audioquest, to put the case for carefully choosing an HDMI cable to maximise audio. "Though the improvements to video are only slight, the quality of an HDMI cable makes a difference to audio by reducing distortion and interference," says Alasdair, who underlines that HDMI is now a de facto audio cable.

"Most people with Blu-ray players and bigscreen TVs will have an AV receiver capable of 7.1-channels of uncompressed, lossless audio in the Dolby TrueHD or DTS Master Audio formats, and they have no choice but to use HDMI," he says.

"That's a lot of surround sound data as well as video, and though no HDMI cable can improve the signal, the best ones don't introduce distortion or degrade the original signal."

Is it ever worth splashing-out on good quality, expensive HDMI cables?

Yes. While a one metre HDMI cable is really not worth paying through the nose for, those needing long lengths should be a lot more careful.

For home cinemas this is particularly important; installations where a projector is mounted on a ceiling some way from the AV sources will have to use a fairly pricey 10-15m HDMI cable, but they're pricey because they're up to standard – there's not much choice in the market here anyway (read: buy the cheapest – don't be fooled into thinking that there's much difference between two 15m HDMI cables).

"It all boils down to the distance the signal needs to pass over," says Tim. "If the internal resistance is too high, the receiving equipment won't have anything to lock onto the it simply won't work – you won't see a picture."

That's a key point to remember; if a HDMI cable doesn't work, then it's probably a cheap one. If it does work, it's fine for what you're using it for. The only other situation where you'll see a blank screen is if your AV equipment isn't set to automatic mode, preventing it from auto-configuring.

The 'dark art' of HDMI cables is really just a misunderstanding – and a lot of misrepresentation – of how and when quality is important. If you want to attach a Blu-ray player, set-top box or games console to a TV from directly underneath it, a cheap, perhaps even in-the-box HDMI cable will do just fine.

There's no need to pay more than £10 – and don't be misled by information on different versions, speeds or features. Ebay's cheapies can't be ruled-out; it's not a compromise you're making, it's risk – a really badly made HDMI cable might not work at all – but it's a smaller risk than you might think.

Much more important for those after best quality pictures is a proper calibration of a TV, though if you need a HDMI cable over five metres, you will have to spend considerable cash; well-made cables capable of delivering signals over long runs are expensive to make and sell for proportionally more than short HDMI cables, which can be manufactured simply and with less expensive materials.

question: What does the article say about spending more than 2 pounds on a USB cable?

answer: That it's not worth it.

question: Is it worth it to buy an integrated HDMI and ethernet cable?

answer: According to the article no products have been made which use these yet.

question: What does the article say makes a good HDMI cable?

answer: One that works.

question: What does the article say about buying cheap cables on eBay?

answer: That it is probably fine.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: The article goes through a list of questions about HDMI cables and the expenses associated with them, assuring the reader the HDMI cables are not worth that much money and cautioning never to spend more than a few pounds on them.


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[High level fan assisted heaters]
[Ecovector® High]

The Ecovector High level fan assisted heaters (hydronic) provide effective and dependable heating for both small and large commercial areas, fitted unobtrusively above head height

-   They work particularly well in shops and libraries, where lower wall space is limited
-   Compatible with most types of wet central heating systems, functioning equally efficiently with conventional boilers, biomass technology or ground or air source heat pumps
-   Supplied as standard in white but casing can be supplied in any colour
-   Ecovector® Low fan convectors provide warmth from the floor upwards and are more energy efficient and effective than radiators
-   Ecovector® Vertical is ideal for those hard to heat places, such as reception areas and alcoves

MOTOR
AC only

FINISH
Front casing: zinc-coated steel.
Polyester powder-coated RAL 9010
Side panels: polymer eggshell white

INSTALLATION
Maximum installation height 2.1m (6’11”) to underside
No top or side clearance required
Unit must be earthed (except model 1000-12V)
Suitable for two-pipe central heating systems
Patress box not supplied for transformer (model 1000-12V)

COMMISSIONING
Check water is hot enough to activate the low temperature cut-outthermostat. The inclusion of an automatic air vent at the highest point is recommended to avoid possible air locks

CONTROLS
Two rocker switches – normal/off/boost, heating/fan-only
Low temperature cut out thermostat, set to energise fan at approximately 35°C

FOR TECHNICAL DATA AND ORDERING GUIDES CLICK HERE

The Smith’s technical sales team is available to offer free, no-obligation advice on the best heating solution for an almost exhaustive range of applications. Contact us

question: What is the purpose of the post?

answer: The post is information about the Ecovector High level fan assisted heaters.

question: Where does the author of the post suggest is a good place to use the Ecovector High?

answer: The are good for both small and large commercial areas.

question: Are the Ecovector High used alone or along with other heating systems?

answer: They are compatible with most types of wet central heating systems.

question: What other details does the post include?

answer: The post includes the motor type, installation guidelines, commissioning, and controls.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: The post is information about the Ecovector High level fan assisted heaters. The post includes facts about the Ecovector High, motor type, installation guidelines, commissioning, and controls.


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HUGO PAUL (28 October 1905 - 12 October 1962) was a German politician (KPD).[1][2] In 1932 he was briefly a member of the country's national parliament (_“Reichstag”_).[3]

Life

Early years

Hugo Paul was born into a working-class family in Hagen, an industrial city a short distance to the south of Dortmund. On leaving school he embarked on an apprenticeship as a toolmaker. He joined the Young Communists when he was 15,[4] and became a member of the Communist Party itself in 1923. He held a leadership position with the Young Communists in Remscheid.[5] In 1928 he joined the party leadership team (_Bezirksleitung_) for the Lower Rhine region and in 1929 he became a volunteer contributor to _“Freiheit”_, a party newspaper published in Düsseldorf.[6] In May 1931 Hugo Paul was in the Soviet Union: his stay there proved a defining and lasting experience.[7]

National politics

In July 1932 he was elected to the national parliament (_“Reichstag”_) where, representing the Düsseldorf-East electoral district, he sat as one of 89 Communist Party members of the chamber. [8] 1932 was a year of mounting political crisis, and a second general election took place in November 1932, in which the Nazi Party lost 34 seats and the Communist Party actually gained 11. This time Hugo Paul was not elected, however.[9]

Nazi years and wartime

In January 1933 the successful Nazi power seizure heralded a rapid switch to single-party dictatorship. The Reichstag fire at the end of February 1933 was immediately blamed on “communists”. Directly after the régime change Huge Paul became a “party instructor” for the (now illegal) Communist Party in the Düsseldorf and Mönchengladbach sub-regions. While visiting a printing shop where a new (illegal) party publication was to be produced, he was arrested in Düsseldorf by the Gestapo on 22 June 1934.[10] He was taken to the city centre torture cellar at a Königsallee address where he was very seriously mistreated.[11] In November 1934 the special “People's Court” at Hamm sentenced him to a 30-month jail term. The charge was the usual one of “preparing to commit high treason” (_“Vorbereitung zum Hochverrat”_).[12] He was held in the penitentiary at Lüttringhausen till April 1936. He was then, till April 1939 held in “protective custody” at the Esterwegen and Sachsenhausen concentration camps.[13][14][15]

Paul's partner, Luise Klesper, was also imprisoned in 1933, but she was at liberty by 1935, and after his transfer to Sachsenhausen she was able to visit him at least twice. On the first occasion she took advantage of a special offer of reduced price train tickets in connection with an exhibition held in Berlin in February 1939. Paul and Klesper decided that when he was released the two of them should marry. On the occasion of her second visit to Berlin, Klesper visited both the concentration camp and Theodor Eicke at his Berlin apartment.[16] Eicke was at this time the senior SS-Obergruppenführer responsible for inspection of all the country's concentration camps.[17] Klesper took the opportunity personally to request that he arrange her fiancé's release. It was apparently as a result of this intervention that Paul was indeed released from the concentration camp on 20 April 1939.[18] (The date was significant, having been declared a public holiday to celebrate Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday.) Hugo Paul's marriage to Luise Klesper took place at Wermelskirchen where, by that time, Paul was working, at the start of July.[19]

Between 1939 and 1943 he was at liberty, but kept under police surveillance. During this time he was employed as a toolmaker at the firm “Albert Schulte und Söhne”.[20] In order to secure his release Paul had been required to provide an undertaking that he would relinquish all his political contacts, but as time went by he nevertheless began to be at the centre of one or two small discrete groups of communists in and around the Ruhr region, periodically embarking on lengthy hikes in order to sustain contacts. He was in touch with Maria Eckertz in Cologne. This meant that the risk of his further imprisonment was a constant part of his and Luise's life.[21]

In January 1943 Hugo and Luise Paul were re-arrested by the Gestapo, suspected of “preparing to commit high treason”. This was part of a large wave of arrests in the Ruhr-Rhine region, and some of those caught up in it, including Luise, were soon released.[22] However, between August 1943 and August 1944 Hugo Paul was held in prison in Wuppertal.[23] On 16 August 1944 he was back before the special “People's Court”. The public prosecution service demanded the death sentence, but this was rejected by the court because of a shortage of firm evidence of illegality and Paul's record as a “good worker”, so instead he was sentenced to a six-year jail term.[24] Between September 1944 and April 1945 he was held at the penitentiary at Butzbach.[25] War ended, formally, in May 1945 which coincided with the collapse of the Nazi régime. When Paul was released, it was into what was in the process of becoming the British occupation zone of post war Germany.

British occupation zone

In 1945 Hugo Paul re-assumed his Communist Party responsibilities, becoming the party's regional chairman as the basic institutional party frameworks were rapidly restored.[26] Additionally, on 26 October 1946 he was a founder member of the Düsseldorf region Union of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime (_"Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes "_/ VVN).[27] There was a widespread belief that the Nazis had been able to come to power in 1933 only because of disunity on the political left. In his actions, and also in what he proclaimed in public, Hugo Paul the communist stressed his willingness to work with Social Democrats on reconstruction.[28] He was conscious that the Potsdam agreement between the winning powers placed emphasis on the need to avoid concentrating power in the hands of big business and finance in any future German state.[29] During the later 1940s, as the political tensions inherent in the separate military occupation zones agreed between the allies became ever more apparent, Paul's commitment to solidarity on the political left would leave him increasingly isolated from the political mainstream in what became, in May 1949, West Germany.

Between 29 August 1946 and 5 April 1948 Hugo Paul was the Reconstruction Minister for North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW),[30] a newly defined “federal state” that combined the old Prussian Province of Westphalia with the northern part of the former Rhine Province.[31] Between 2 October 1946 and 17 June 1950 he sat as a member of the NRW parliament (_Landtag_). Membership of the parliament in October 1946 resulted from nomination by the British military administration, allocated to representatives of the political parties in proportions that reflected the election results of 1932, which was determined to have been the last time free and fair elections had been held in Germany. This gave the Communists 34 of the 200 seats in the assembly. Paul was also a member of the second nominated NRW parliament in December 1946. Within the NRW Landtag he served as deputy leader of the Communist Party group till April 1947. In April 1947 regional elections were held, and Hugo Paul, now representing the Remscheid electoral district, held his seat, retaining it till the 1950 election[32] when the Remscheid seat passed to Walter Scheel of the Free Democratic Party.

Between 1947 and 1948 he was a member of the Zone advisory council in the British occupation zone.[33] Until 6 October 1948 he was a member of the Parliamentary Council which paved the way for a return to democratic processes and structures in Germany, although by this time it had become impossible to ignore the extent to which further east, in the Soviet occupation zone, political developments did not point to a democratic future.[34]

By 1948 Paul had become regional chairman of the Communist Party for North Rhine-Westphalia. However, on 7 and 8 December 1949, in a joint meeting of the party executive and the regional secretariat, he was sent on leave from this position because, it was recorded, he had failed to pass on what he knew about the Titoist contacts of the editor in chief of the Communist Newspaper, “Freies Volk” (_“Free People”_). This was followed by his permanent removal from the regional chairmanship in February 1950.[35] His successor in the post was Josef Ledwohn.[36]

German Federal Republic

On the national stage, the British occupation zone (which included NRW) was merged with the US and French occupation zones and relaunched, in the wake of the 1948/49 Berlin Blockade, as the US-sponsored German Federal Republic. Conspicuously excluded was the region still administered as the Soviet occupation zone, which would itself be relaunched as the Soviet sponsored German Democratic Republic (East Germany) in October 1949. The German Federal Republic held its first General Election in August 1949 and the Communist Party received more than 5% of the national vote which entitled it to 15 seats. Hugo Paul's name had been on the candidate list, positioned high enough up for him to be one of those who now entered the national parliament (_“Bundestag”_) as a Communist Party member of it.[37]

Nevertheless, reports coming out of East Germany were leading to heightened cold war tensions, as part of which, in West Germany, the Communist Party was becoming increasingly marginalised. In November 1951 a criminal investigation was launched by the West German government against Paul because of his “anti-constitutional politics” (_“verfassungsfeindliche Politik”_).[38] The West German chancellor signed the authorisation for the process on 20 November 1951 because Paul had “described the West German government as a puppet government and discussed illegal and warlike measures”.[39] It was also reported that Paul had been distributing Communist Party leaflets urging supporters that the " ... hour has come for the German People to take responsibility" (_“Die Stunde der Verantwortung des deutschen Volkes ist gekommen”_).[40] His political agitation had already triggered an application from a regional court to lift his parliamentary immunity two months earlier, in August 1951.[41] At the end of 1951 he reacted by temporarily removing himself across the (still relatively porous) inner German frontier into East Germany.[42] He nevertheless remained a member of the Bundestag till the end of the parliamentary term, in July 1953, vociferous in opposition to cutting of bread subsidies, and hostile to the Adenauer government's attempt to push through “Anglo-American colonial policies” in West Germany, accusing the government of applying a “divide and rule” strategy.[43] In 1953 he was briefly imprisoned by the West German High Court, citing “high treason” and “endangering the state” apparently in connection with the government process launched two and a half years earlier.[44]

Personal

On 1 July 1939 Hugo Paul married Luise Klesper (1912–1998) who was, like him, a Communist Party member.[45] They first met in Remscheid after 1926, when he had become the local head of the Young Communist League of Germany.[46]

By the time of his death of 12 October 1962 Hugo Paul had relocated to the German Democratic Republic.[47] He died suddenly from a pulmonary embolism while undergoing back surgery. There are indications that the back surgery had become necessary to avert rapidly developing spinal paralysis which was an after effect of the torture he had undergone during the Nazi period.[48]

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title: Hugo Paul (politician)

question: Where was Hugo Paul born?

answer: Hagen, an industrial city south of Dortmund.

question: What was Hugo Paul's early political career like?

answer: He joined the Young Communists when he was 15 and officially joined the Communist Party in 1923. He was elected to national parliament in 1932. In 1933, the Nazi power seizure started blaming different things on communists. Hugo Paul was arrested in 1934 as his party was made illegal, and he was tortured at the city centre torture cellar.

question: When did Paul gain liberty?

answer: Between 1939 and 1943 he was at liberty but under police surveillance, and he was employed as a toolmaker.

question: Was Paul arrested again?

answer: Paul and his wife Luise were arrested by the gestapo in 1943 on suspicion they would commit high treason. While the public court demanded the death sentence, lack of evidence and Paul's reputation as a good worker earned him a 6 year jail term instead. He was held at a penitentiary in Butzbach from September 1944 to April 1945. When the war formally ended that May, the Nazi regime had collapsed, and he was freed into a post war Germany which was becoming a British occupation zone.

question: Write a ~5 sentence summary.

answer: Hugo Paul was born in 1905 in an industrial city called Hagen. He joined the Young Communists at 15, and became an official communist by 1923. The Nazi power seizure in 1932 eventually resulted in communism becoming illegal, and he was arrested and tortured for several years. He was re-arrested with his wife in 1943 and earned a 6 year jail term. When the Nazi regime collapsed 2 years later, he found himself released into a post war Germany, which was becoming a British occupation zone.


text:
As the clock struck twelve, cheers from the ports of New Providence carried over the sea to the nearby islands just off British Honduras. 1662 had just begun and the Western sailors and immigrants of the Bahamas, were merry for the first time since they’d left England. Each of the islands that were now not just home to the indigenous peoples of the Bahamas, were now also lightly populated with immigrants from Shanghai, resulting in this being the first time many of the Englishmen had ever seen fireworks. Bursts of light erupted from each island, whether it be occupied by the British Navy or pirates, almost signalling a 24 hour truce to each other. After the last of the fireworks had exploded, everyone slowly started to retire. Silence and peace fell over the port in New Providence, and life was for the living. Or so it would have seemed to any spectator at the scene.

A few miles due West of the port just outside Nassau, a tall-ship broke through the horizon. The sails had been torn and weathered in a storm, the hull was teaming with crabs and sea creatures that had got washed in through the growing leaks and holes in the side of the ship. The craft was in terrible shape, though it was obvious it had once been a proud asset to the Spanish fleet. As the ship rocked back and forth, the loose cannon balls did the same as the ship approached the harbour. A column of seagulls neared the port at the same rate of the vessel, clearly picking at something on the top deck. As dawn broke and the sun illuminated the waters, one watchman was able to spot with his telescope, saw the Spanish flag and immediately went to ring the alarm bell. However before he did, he thought he noticed something odd about this particular craft. None of the cannons were primed to shoot, despite the port being well within range. As the vessel got closer and closer he was able to make out what was attracting the seagulls; they seemed to be swarming around the remainder of the crew, who despite standing up and stumbling about, looked less than alive.

Through the narrow circle with which he inspected the ship, he could see the crew members almost crawling along the floor, unable to balance themselves. Drunk probably. As the ship approached the port, the watchman finally rang the alarm bell, and his commanding officers ordered a few rescue boats to be sent to the ship and recover any survivors. As the rowing boats approached the ship, the water damage to the craft became very apparent. They climbed up the side of the ship to inspect the crew. Once up, none of the rescue team could see or find any of the crew; only some pained groaning coming from the shadows made them think there was anyone still on board. A young crewman named George was amongst the rescue party that was sent out that morning. He had made several friends in New Providence, and was planning a family with his fiancé who until six hours ago had been his girlfriend. He only reached the second deck before one of the Risen took a chunk out of his upper arm. The impact of mouth to flesh made the lower jaw of the Risen man separate from the rest of his skull and fall onto the sodden wood, where George now lay; shivering, alone and in agonising pain. There he lay until he finally rose. Nobody who went to investigate that ship ever returned to port. Human at least.

title: To the Red Shores Beyond -- Part 1

question: At what time in history is this happening?

answer: In 1662

question: Where was the ship coming from?

answer: Information not found.

question: How many crew members were supposed to be on the ship?

answer: Information not found.

question: Why was the ship teeming with crabs and sea creatures?

answer: Because the hull had a lot of leaks and holes in it.

question: Where the crew members zombies?

answer: Yes.

question: What happened once they sent rescue boats to the ship?

answer: One of the men on the rescue boats was bitten by a zombie crewmember and it seems like no one from the rescue boats returned back to the port.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: In 1662, in a port in New Providence, a tall ship is approaching. It looks damaged and there is no sign of the crewmembers. The port authorities send rescue boats to the ship but no one returns as the ship's crewmembers are all zombies and start bitting the rescue team.


text:
PANHORST FEED STORE is a historic commercial building located at St. Clair, Franklin County, Missouri. It was built in 1917–1918, and is a one-story, vernacular wood frame building. The building measures approximately 20 feet wide by 40 feet deep and has a gable roof with false front.[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.[2]

[1]  (includes 9 photographs from 1989)

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title: Panhorst Feed Store

question: Where is the Panhorst Feed Store?

answer: It is located in St. Clair, Franklin County, Missouri.

question: When was the store built?

answer: The store was built in 1917-1918.

question: When was the store included in the National Register of Historic Places?

answer: The store was added to the register in 1990.

question: Why is the store included in the National Register of Historic Places?

answer: Not answered.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: This article is about the Panhorst Feed Store, a historic commercial building located in St. CLair, Missouri. It was built in 1917-1918 and is a one-story, vernacular wood frame building.


text:
Giant Frog

	The cottage was our favorite place as kids. When my grandpa was building it, he actually blew holes in the rock and surrounding area to be able to make a new cottage. That was his thing; he was always making things around the cottage better, cooler, more ridiculous. He did always say it was his true passion, in fact our family cottage was always more grand and better built and more expensive than any of our houses. He just wanted the cottage to be a paradise, and it really was to us kids.
	The actually cottage was at the very end of the very last road. It was on a five-acre square property in the corner of the lake. Inside is just a massive living room and a high ceiling with a moonlight cluttered with comfy couches, games, TVs, candles, games and instruments.  The kitchen is too small and bright for such a big family, and the rest of the rooms are simple bedrooms and bathrooms. The patio with the giant barbeque overlooks the entire lake and is in front of the orange and purple sunset in the summer. The boat is raised on the dock and the dock goes 30 feet into the water, with a diving board on the end. To the right is a white-sanded beach with a trampoline and a homemade jungle gym with its own slide, monkey bars and jump platform, and a whole section of beach is roped off for volleyball. Where we parked doubled, as a field for bacci, soccer and Frisbee, and everywhere you look are old trees, staring back.
The swamp part of the lake is in front of the beach and it was shallow for 200 feet out, with trails of rock which leave you knee high in water  shaded by flimsy plans to walk through the swamp and catch the critters, endlessly detailed with nooks of rock and natural crevices of raised dirt and fallen trees, it’s weird how that’s the warmest part of the lake.

title: Does this start catch your attention?

question: Summarize everything relating to the giant frog.

answer: Nothing is mentioned beyond the title.

question: Who built the cottage?

answer: The narrator's grandpa.

question: List the objects named in the living room.

answer: Comfy couches, games, TVs, candles, and instruments.

question: What games/sports do the family play?

answer: Volleyball, bacci, soccer, and Frisbee.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: This is a description of a cottage built by the narrator's grandpa.


text:
The Atmegatron is a revolutionary synthesizer that takes classic 80s Chiptune sounds and adds powerful new features.
Musicians will love it because it is quick and easy to create and manipulate amazing sounds. The Atmegatron can do everything from bright square wave leads, to dirty basses, to wild sci-fi effects.
Programmers will love it because it is built on the Arduino platform and the software is open source. This allows programmers to change or add new features and upload them to the Atmegatron.

Features

Specification

  Synthesizer
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  32 waveforms                   LFO with 16 waveforms                              MIDI clock sync
  15 digital filter algorithms   Filter and pitch envelope modulation               Analogue bass boost circuit
  2 ADSR Envelopes               Pitch and phase LFO modulation                     Wave crusher
  16 memory patches              Filter, amplitude and pulse width LFO modulation   Phaser
  Portamento                     Arpeggiator with 15 sequences                      Distortion

  Inputs/Outputs                      Extras
  ----------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------
  1/4″ mono jack                      12V power supply
  3.5mm stereo headphones             32 page colour instruction manual
  MIDI input and output               Quick reference card
  12V DC power supply                 Free Atmegatron Librarian software available
  6 pin header for programmer cable

Synthesis Engine

The Atmegatron uses the Atmel 328P processor, which is also at the heart of most Arduino development boards. Audio is generated by modulating a PWM output of the processor and then filtering off the modulation frequency. The Atmegatron uses analogue circuitry in the form of a steep 3rd order Chebyshev filter to maintain the high end, while still filtering off the modulation frequency.
The Atmegtron’s software uses 2 loops to create it’s unique sound. One loop uses an interrupt to update the PWM output at audio frequencies. The other loop is slower and is used for everything else (MIDI input, process the wavetable, update LFOs, envelopes, arpeggiators etc). This unique synthesis method means that while the Atmegatron is clearly at home among classic Chiptune synthesizers, it also sounds highly individual.
The diagram below shows the wavetable processing chain. This is the structure of the Arduino code that is shipped in the Atmegatron, but this can be tweaked as much as the user desires and reuploaded using the Arduino development environment.
[Atmegatron-system-diag]

Product Comparison

question: What is the Atmegatron?

answer: It's a revolutionary synthesizer that takes classic 80s Chiptune sounds and adds powerful new features.

question: Why will musicians love the Atmegatron?

answer: It's quick and easy to create and manipulate amazing sounds and can do everything from square wave leads to dirty basses, to wild sci-fi effects.

question: Why will programmers love the Atmegatron?

answer: It is built on the Adruino platform and the software is open-source, allowing programmers to change or add new features and upload them to the Atmegatron.

question: How does the Atmegatron generate audio?

answer: It modulates a PWM output of the processor and then filters off the modulation frequency.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: The ad is for the Atmegatron, a revolutionary synthesizer that takes classic 80s Chiptune sounds and adds powerful new features. Both musicians and programmers will love the Atmegatron because it can produce amazing sounds and is built on the Arduino platform, which is open-source.


text:
He rose to the feeling of movement.

He knew not where the movement came from, but Chris was completely sure that movement was near. His eyes opened and adjusted to the almost impenetrable gloom of his bedroom at midnight. The shelves reached out from his walls, seeming ghostlike in nature at this hour, in the dark. The television at the opposite side of his room peered at him through the dark, reflecting his pale, panicked expression as he sat in his bed, staring around his room. But it didn’t move. Neither did the jeans he wore yesterday, slung across his char, or his shoes, sat haphazardly not too far away.

The movement persisted and Chris knew he would have to investigate. His eyes moved from corner to corner in his room, scoping every inch for tell-tale signs of entry, or even one of his two dogs running around the house, but neither showed; only the lonely emptiness of darkness and silence in the house, and a tap dripping ever so quietly from the bathroom were present at this hour. He checked the time on his mobile phone (he had no clock in his room, he saw no need for such a thing since he already had at least 3 items with clocks built into the software), and the time read 01:32, 08/02/2010.

But still the movement…

He couldn’t hear anything, or see anything, but he knew the movement was near. He could almost sense it, wriggling, crawling around, as if it was under his skin. A sharp pang of panic rang through his body, and he sat still, upright in his bed. The movement *was* under his skin. And it was growing with intensity with every passing second. And then the pain started.

Oh, the pain. His flesh burned at first with only slight discomfort; he could have initially mistaken the sensation for an itch or even a tickle. But it grew. It grew with an alarming pace, the speed matched (possibly even bested) by the growing of his panic at the sudden voluminous pain racking his left arm. He threw off his bed covers and gasped, his mouth agape, at the sight he saw before him on his arm.

His entire forearm was alive - barely - with blisters, open sores, weeping with dull black blood and oozing yellow, sickly pus in equal measure. But that was only intensified by the rate at which this affliction was spreading – the sores were erupting up past his elbow and onto his arm. But worse still, his forearm was only getting deader. The flesh on his forearm was beginning to necrotise, skin peeling back, revealing rotten muscle tissue and tendons ready to snap from pressure.

As his skin began to peel – and his initial shock began to subside – Chris began to scream. Not the classic Hollywood scream, not a voluminous howl you hear in the movies. That sort of scream doesn’t happen in these situations. What came from Chris’ mouth was a low whimper, the sound you would normally hear from someone as they had just received a blow to the stomach that ejected the air sharply from the lungs, but extended over a period of a few seconds. He screamed (although you could call it a sigh and still not be quite wrong) and flopped out of bed and on to all fours, the fingers on his left hand practically disintegrating in the process. They fell off like ash from burned paper – and looked none too different. His entire arm now looked like the result of severe burn damage, and skin

*Or was it muscle? It was becoming increasingly hard to tell. It was all coming off, what was the use in discerning which it was?*

Was flaking off at an alarming rate.

The bones of his arm were becoming visible. Not just visible, but prominent. You’d be forgiven, from looking at a snapshot of this moment, for assuming he was born without flesh on his arm, and at this precise moment was beginning to miraculously generate flesh. His flesh was disappearing before his eyes, flaking away like ash, and all Chris could think was “why isn’t there any blood?”

And as quickly as it began, it was over. He had closed his eyes only for a moment, breathing in with choking sobs, and opened them – to see that his skin was back. But all wasn’t well. He began to scream again; only this time with some real volume.

For his skin had become greasy green scales, and was writhing with a mind of its own, the pain replaced by horrid, grating nausea. Chris rose, stumbling against his bookshelf in the process, knocking a couple of books to the floor, and stumbled out of his room. As he stepped into the hallway, he noticed a new sound, complemented by a strange feeling under his feet.

*Crunch*

Bugs. Cockroaches, spiders, and beetles lay over every surface. Floors, walls, windowsills and doors were coated in bugs, and, Chris noticed, were crawling on a thick coat of viscous dark red liquid. Blood, he thought to himself, barely holding back a gag, heaving at the thought. He brought his right hand to his face to catch a cough, he noticed that his right arm had also become covered in scales, and that they were peeling off just like his skin previously had done, and the pain had returned in full force, and then some.

Yelling through his teeth, Chris pressed on to the bathroom, crushing bugs beneath his feet, noticing that the felt oddly soft against his skin –no, scales. He flicked the bathroom light on and walked to the sink, not yet looking in the mirror, but at his feet which he noticed had a fresh coat of scales on, and claws posing proudly as toenails. He gathered the courage to look into the mirror, and saw that his face was also covered in scales, and that he had webbing protruding from his back; not only that, but as he opened his mouth to scream, he noticed a snake’s tongue in his mouth, and slits for nostrils.

And when he did scream, all that came from his mouth was a long, reptilian hiss.

title: The Itch (draft). Just over 1000 words. Criticism needed!

question: Which month is it in the story?

answer: It's in August.

question: Who is the main character?

answer: Chris.

question: What is happening to Chris' arm?

answer: Flesh is coming off quickly.

question: What is Chris becoming?

answer: He's turning into a reptile.

question: Write a ~6 sentence summary.

answer: Chris is in his room at half past one in the morning, waiting. He doesn't feel well. His skin starts to flake off in the eerie glow. He watches in horror as it fully peels off, revealing bone. Chris screams-a strangled, horrified sound-and runs to the bathroom, pressed against the wall. By the time he gets there all that escapes his mouth is a reptilian hiss.


text:
The 1979 ASTRO-BLUEBONNET BOWL was a college football postseason game between the Purdue Boilermakers and the Tennessee Volunteers. [1][2]

Background

Tennessee won their first three games and entered the rankings at #19 before a game at Mississippi State. However, they fell out after losing to them 28–9 (the Bulldogs would go 3–8 that season). A win at Georgia Tech was followed by losses to #1 Alabama and Rutgers. A victory over #13 Notre Dame was their only win over a ranked opponent. They finished the season with a loss to Ole Miss and victories over Kentucky and Vanderbilt to place fifth in the Southeastern Conference. This was Tennessee's sixth bowl game in the decade. Purdue began the season ranked #6, and they won their opening game versus Wisconsin 41–20 at home. A loss to UCLA dropped them to #17, but they rose back to #12 after wins over #5 Notre Dame and Oregon. A loss to Minnesota was their last of the season, as they finished the season with six straight victories to finish 2nd in the Big Ten Conference. This was Purdue's second straight bowl appearance.

Scoring summary

-   Purdue - McCall 6-yard run (Seibel kick), 5:01
-   Purdue - Burrell 12-yard pass from Herrmann (Seibel kick), 2:27
-   Purdue - Young 12-yard pass from Herrmann (Seibel kick), 10:52
-   Tennessee - Ford 8-yard pass from Streater (2-point conversion failed), 2:55
-   Tennessee - Berry 15-yard pass from Ingram (Simpson run), 8:39
-   Tennessee - Simpson 1-yard run (Simpson run), 3:42
-   Purdue - Young 17-yard pass from Herrmann (pass failed), 1:30

Purdue: Mark Herrmann went 21-of-39 for three touchdowns and 303 yards. Purdue had 31 first downs to Tennessee's 19, while outrushing them 180 to 146, out passing them 303 to 234, and keeping the ball for 33 minutes. Tennessee turned the ball over five times; Purdue only turned it over once.

Aftermath

This remains Purdue's only 10 win season. They reached two more bowl games in the next five years before going without bowl games until 1997. In contrast, Tennessee reached seven bowl games in the next decade. Neither ever returned to the Bluebonnet Bowl again.

[1] http://www.purduesports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/m-footbl-bowl-history.html

[2]

title: 1979 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl

question: Where was the 1979 Astro-Bluebonnet game held?

answer: This information is not given in the text, although it can be deduced from the title that it the bluebonnet game was held at the Astrodome.

question: Summarize all the information relating to the Purdue Boilermakers.

answer: The Purdue Boilermakers played in the 1979 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl post-season game. This was their second straight bowl appearance. Purdue began the season ranked sixth and finished second in the Big Ten Conference.  It was their only 10 win season. They reached two more bowl games in the next five years before going without bowl game until 1997.

question: Summarize all the information relating to the Tennessee Volunteers.

answer: The Tennessee Volunteers played in the 1979 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl post-season game. This was Tennessee's sixth bowl game in the decade. They won their first three games that season and entered the rankings in the nineteenth position. They placed fifth in the Southeastern Conference by the end of the season. Tennessee reached seven bowl games in the next decade.

question: Who won the 1979 Astro-Bluebonnet game?

answer: Purdue Boilermakers won the match.

question: Why is it called the blue bonnet bowl?

answer: This information is not given in the text.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: The 1979 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl was played between the Purdue Boilermakers and the Tennessee Volunteers. The Boilermakers had their only 10 win season, They won the match. Neither team returned to the Bluebonnet Bowl again.