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## The Mountain

He was tired. He had been tired for as long as he could remember, swaddled gently, almost protectively, in a deeper, more profound fatigue than the fatigue that comes of hard labor. He had been born tired, his mouth already yawning before he had even seen the world for the first time through heavy-lidded eyes, had taken in the dust and the leaves that settled heavily on the bed as though they had been planted and taken root and had grown wild. Even then, even when his experience with the world was nothing and he was not anything but could be everything and yet was incomplete he did not sleep. He rested. Never long enough he rested, but he lay alone and let the darkness rush in upon him. Darkness did not fear him and he did not fear darkness. Once he could walk his world expanded, in the same way the world expanded and shifted itself when he discovered how to make the noises that everyone else made, the wondrous noises that made him like everyone else but also made him aware of his difference from the others. They feared the darkness. They feared it because they could not see     , had never felt     , did not know     . But they saw it in his eyes, and they feared him.

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The mountain had existed long before him, and will continue to exist long after his time on this earth is over, but it did not exist and he did not exist until he saw it for the first time. He was walking in the forest and suddenly became aware of it. There it was, looming up out of the land, fighting against and up and out of the land. He saw it and it saw him. He started coming back to the clearing each day and night to watch the mountain. It stood, massive, unknowable and known, through sun and moon and dry and wet. He stood, watching. It was of itself, he was of himself, they were almost one.

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He was going to build a road. He was going to build a road up the mountain. His mountain. He worked first as a logger, venturing deep into the forests with the strong hard men that had walked this path every day of their lives since they were ten, that had become a part of the forest, moving within like a part of the whole, at ease among the towering giants, looking upon them as they would look upon an old friend. "I'm goin' to build a road" "Where" The question was asked during lunch. "Over the mountain" At that they stopped eating and stared at him. He sat, unaware that he had had said something out of place, so sure of himself, sure of his goal his purpose that nothing could stop him that the older men who had grown so used to the way that life worked that they could no longer remember a time when anything was possible. They recognized in him a vibrant solemnity and so they left him be, just as they left him be when they saw him pause and stare into the forest, face taut, his eyes searching for something only he could see, just as he left them when he had learned how to fell trees with a single mighty blow of his axe. He left, and he bought two horses to haul the wood. They had never seen him sleep.

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He left them there, and went to the mine. The first time he entered he felt that he could not breathe, the familiar darkness unfamiliar and enveloping him and the mountain bearing down on him. His mountain. But he was stronger than his fear and so he pushed on, learning how to listen for the whispers of the rock. "I'm goin' to build a road" The miners did not laugh at him for they had seen the way he looked at the mountain each morning as they descended. They had seen his eyes, eyes filled with     . He knew every tree that had ever grown on it, every stone that had torn loose or been removed, every crack in its face that had been there since before his birth. He surpassed the miners, learning the secrets of the mountain, his mountain, the twistings and turnings of the rock.

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He woke the next day, feeling rested for the first time in his life. *The road* He made his breakfast, moving quietly. His tools were heavy in his hands as he carried them carefully to the chest. The horses outside stamped their hooves. *I am ready ready am I ready My hands are my own and my hands know how to do what hands do, but how do I know how to do what hands do* He lifted the chest onto his shoulder, not even noticing the weight, not bothering to close the door after his passage. The horses' breath hung heavily, mixing with his own breath as he heaved the chest into the wagon, only after feeling the burn in his muscles. He turned. The mountain, his mountain, loomed above him. *I hear the horses I hear the trees I hear the land I hear it hear the mountain hear you* The horses moved forward steadily. Behind him the house retreated, fading from view and memory as if finally surrendering to something greater than those that built it, greater than the mountain, greater even than memory. As he reached the base of the mountain, the horses suddenly stopped and stamped their feet, mouths foaming and eyes rolling, and refused to travel any further. Once again he stepped down onto the dirt, placing one foot deliberately and then the second. Once again he walked to the back of the wagon and hoisted his precious chest on one large shoulder. Leaning slightly to compensate for the load, he continued toward his mountain. It was still several miles distant, but he could see the clearing where he would begin. He continued walking towards the mountain, into the land, into     , and vanished. *The road road the road the*

title: The Mountain - a short story in Faulknerian style

question: How would you describe the main character's feelings in this passage?

answer: The main character is full of fatigue, sadness, and trying to escape loneliness.

question: What did the main character want to build?

answer: He wanted to build a road up the mountain.

question: What did the road up the mountain signify for the main character?

answer: The road up the mountain signified a new start for the main character. It would be a symbol of his determination to achieve his goals.

question: What genre would this short story be classified under?

answer: This short story would be classified under fiction.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: This short story describes a man determined to build a road up the mountain. This road signified many facets of the man's life.


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BRYAN FOY (December 8, 1896 – April 20, 1977) was an American film producer and director. He produced 214 films between 1924 and 1963. He also directed 41 films between 1923 and 1934. He headed the B picture unit at Warner Bros. where he was known as “the keeper of the B's”.[1]

Biography

He was born in Chicago, Illinois, on December 8, 1896. He was the eldest son of the vaudeville star Eddie Foy and appeared with his father in the vaudeville act “Eddie Foy and The Seven Little Foys.” The act broke up when Bryan Foy left to join the U.S. Army in World War I in 1918,[2] after which his remaining siblings continued performing with their father under the title, “Eddie Foy and the Younger Foys”, through 1923, when their father retired.[3]

He was also a songwriter, and by 1916 had several published songs, including “My Honolulu Girl”.[4]

Foy led Warners B picture unit until 1942 when the studio ended their second features. He was recruited 20th Century Fox where he produced the acclaimed war movie _Guadalcanal Diary_ in 1943. Following the war Foy entered motion picture production with a series of short subjects for Universal Pictures including a series of _The Shadow_ with Foy writing and directing several of the two reelers. He remained with Fox until 1947 where he produced for Eagle-Lion Films with one of his assistant producers being famed mobster Johnny Rosselli. He was rehired by Warner Bros in 1950. From 1954 Foy produced films for Columbia Pictures. He returned again to Warners in 1962 for his final two films.

He died in Los Angeles from a heart attack on April 20, 1977. He was buried in Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles.[5]

Selected filmography

-   _The Swell Head_ (1928)
-   _Lights of New York_ (1928)
-   _The Home Towners_ (1928)
-   _Queen of the Night Clubs_ (1929)
-   _The Royal Box_ (1929)
-   _Stout Hearts and Willing Hands_ (1931)
-   _The Unwelcome Stranger_ (1935)
-   _Road Gang_ (1936)
-   _Love Is on the Air_ (1937)
-   _Marry the Girl_ (1937)
-   _Smart Blonde_ (1937) (Torchy Blaine film series}
-   _West of Shanghai_ (1937)
-   _The Invisible Menace_ (1938)
-   _Girls on Probation_ (1938)
-   _Nancy Drew... Detective_ (1938) (Nancy Drew film series)
-   _Comet Over Broadway_ (1938)
-   _Devil's Island_ (1939)
-   _Hell's Kitchen_ (1939)
-   _On Dress Parade_ (1939)
-   _South of Suez_ (1940)
-   _Law of the Tropics_ (1941)
-   _Wild Bill Hickok Rides_ (1942)
-   _The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe_ (1942)
-   _Little Tokyo, U.S.A._ (1942)
-   _Berlin Correspondent_ (1942)
-   _The Undying Monster_ (1942)
-   _Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas_ (1943)
-   _Guadalcanal Diary_ (1943)
-   _Doll Face_ (1945)
-   _Adventures of Casanova_ (1948)
-   _Trapped_ (1949)
-   _The Great Jewel Robber_ (1950)
-   _Breakthrough_ (1950)
-   _I Was a Communist for the FBI_ (1951)
-   _The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima_ (1952)
-   _House of Wax_ (1953)
-   _The Mad Magician_ (1954)
-   _House of Women_ (1962)
-   _PT-109_ (1963)

[1] p. 430 Senn, Bryan _Golden Horrors_ 1996 McFarland

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title: Bryan Foy

question: What does the text say about Bryan Foy's filmography?

answer: Bryan Foy produced an astonishing 214 films between 1924 and 1963. He also directed 41 films between 1923 and 1934. After serving in World War I, Foy produced for 20th Century Fox until 1947. He was later rehired by Warner Bros in 1950 but in 1954 he went to produce films for Columbia Pictures and eventually returned to Warner Bros in 1962 for his final two films.


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CHRIS HAUGHTON (born July 4, 1992) is a cadet olympic recurve archer and has qualified to be a member of the Canadian National Archery Team and he is also an archery coach for the Ontario School of Olympic Archery.

In addition to coaching archery, Haughton has qualified for the 2008 Junior World Archery Championships in Turkey and has also qualified for the 2008 Pan American Championships in Venezuela this July.

Career

Before becoming an internationally junior recurve archer, Chris Haughton participated in many other sports including competitive gymnastics and martial arts, which he says was his stepping stool for his strength in archery.

At first Chris Haughton started with Karate at the age of 4 and quickly became very competitive with the sport. Chris Haughton trained with the Dynamic Arts located in Cambridge, Ontario and started winning medals within the club. His biggest achievement in Canada is winning a bronze medal at Joslin's Canadian Open in 1999. Following his family's move to the United States of America, Chris continued karate winning two gold medals, a bronze medal and finished second in Jill Leiker's Midwest Open in sparring and forms.

After finishing karate, Haughton decided to keep his competitive buzz going by starting gymnastics and quickly got into competing in many states across the USA, winning various ribbons and medals before his family decided to move back to Canada.

At the age of 12, Chris decided to pick up a bow with the Toronto School of Archery and has never looked back. Chris has trained in Guadalajara, Mexico, Tecoman, Mexico in December and January 2006 – 2007 and numerous places across Ontario.

Personal life

As well as doing archery, Chris also has a love for music and snowboarding (or any board sport you can think of). Chris plays many different instruments including his favourite, guitar, and piano. While Chris isn't shooting his bow or playing his guitar in the cold months, he can be found snowboarding anywhere in Ontario as his love for snowboarding is matching to that of archery. Chris lives with his parents and two sisters in Oshawa, Ontario and enjoys a busy lifestyle taking him to Toronto three times a week. Perhaps most unusual about his situation derives from Haughton's learning habits, and the fact that he can pick up a bow and shoot almost anytime he wishes. There is no waiting to get the rink, or the field or for the school day to end.[1]

“We were moving around a lot then, so my parents figured it was best to have me home schooled,” he says. “I love it. The biggest thing for me is that it allows me, with my practice targets set up at home, to practice archery anytime.”[2]

When asked who Chris is inspired by the most, he said “It's definitely my family... and Bruce Lee. (Laughs) I can't say how much I enjoy studying Bruce Lee. I think his work and his life is one that can be greatly admired and I apply much of his thoughts to myself, through his knowledge of the human body and mind. If there's one person (dead or alive) I would really like to meet... that would definitely have to be Bruce Lee. (Laughs)”

Archery Achievements

-   1st Place = FITA 18 meters. Feb, 4 2007. Caledon, Ontario
-   1st Place = FITA 1440. May 12, 2007. Caledon, Ontario
-   2nd Place = FITA 1440. May 13, 2007. Caledon, Ontario
-   2nd Place = FITA 1440. May 27, 2007. Caledon, Ontario
-   Gold Medal = Ontario Indoor Provincial Championships. March 2007. Caledon, Ontario
-   5th Place = Canadian Indoor National Championshiops. March 2007. Caledon, Ontario
-   Bronze Medal = Canadian Outdoor National Championships. August 13–17. Caledon, Ontario
-   Gold Medal = Ontario Outdoor Provincial Championships. September 2007. Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
-   7th Place = USA Outdoor National Target Championships. August 2007. Colorado Springs, Colorado
-   Bronze Medal = FITA 18 meters. Feb, 2008. Caledon, Ontario
-   Gold Medal = Ontario Indoor Provincial Championships. Feb, 17 2008. Caledon, Ontario
-   Gold Medalist = Canadian Indoor National Championships. March 2, 2008.[3] Caledon, Ontario
-   Qualified for the 2008 Archery Junior World Championships held in Turkey
-   Qualified for the 2008 Pan American Championships held in Valencia, Venezuela

Equipment

-   Hoyt Helix riser
-   Win & Win INNO Power Limbs
-   Easton V-bars
-   Easton ACE Carbon/Aluminum Arrows
-   Shibuya Ultima Sight
-   Doinker Stabilizer
-   Soma Tab
-   Neet Quiver

[1] http://newsdurhamregion.com/news/Sporting%20People/article/86705 Retrieved April 24, 2007

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[3] http://fca.ca/Resultsfolder/2008/08Regionalindoor/08Regindoorprelim714-04-08.htm Retrieved April 24, 2007

title: Chris Haughton

question: Summarise what the text says about Chris's homeschooling, how it helped his skill in archery, and other activities he engaged in.

answer: Chris Haughton picked up an interest in sports activities such as gymnastics and martial arts, which ultimately piqued his interest in archery, and he became very competitive at each game. Over time, his family moved around a lot, and this encouraged them to home-school him. Homeschooling helped Chris's archery skills because it gave him more room to practice his archery skills. He also enjoyed participating in other extracurricular activities in Ontario, such as snowboarding and learning to play the guitar and piano, another of his favorite pastime.


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Yesterday a supreme court justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, made shockwaves around the US and especially the political arena when she made the highly unorthodox commentsfor someone in her position about her reaction to a Trump presidency, telling the NYT that should Trump become president it would be time to move to New Zealand. “I CAN’T IMAGINE WHAT THE COUNTRY WOULD BE WITH DONALD TRUMP AS OUR PRESIDENT,” she said. “For the country, it could be four years. For the court, it could be — I don’t even want to contemplate that.”

Even the traditionally liberal Washington Postwas amazed by her comments: "This appears to be a joke, but Ginsburg's sentiment here is crystal clear: She thinks Donald Trump would be a dangerous president. And in saying it, she goes to a place justices almost never do — and perhaps never have — for some very good reasons."

  Ginsburg is known for pushing the bounds of a justice's public comments and has earned something of a cult following on the left. But some say she just went too far.

  "I find it baffling actually that she says these things," said Arthur Hellman, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh. "She must know that she shouldn’t be. However tempted she might be, she shouldn’t be doing it."

The WaPo noted that some "wondered what impact this might have on Ginsburg's decision to hear cases involving Trump. - If there's a redo of Bush v. Gore, how does Ginsburg not recuse herself, given her Trump comments?"

  Ginsburg's comments could muddy the waters when it comes to decisions not just involving Trump but also his policies — something that could come up regularly should he win the presidency. "It would cast doubt on her impartiality in those decisions," Hellman said. "If she has expressed herself as opposing the election of Donald Trump, her vote to strike down a Trump policy would be under a cloud."

Ginsburg's fascinating lack of judgment was promptly used by Trump to fire back: as the Hill reports, the presidential candidate dismissed Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's criticism of his presidential campaign, calling her remarks "beneath the court."

“I THINK IT’S HIGHLY INAPPROPRIATE THAT A UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT JUDGE GETS INVOLVED IN A POLITICAL CAMPAIGN, FRANKLY,” Trump said in an interview with The New York Times, and he was right judging by the media response to RBG's comments. “I think it’s a disgrace to the court and I think she should apologize to the court. I couldn’t believe it when I saw it,” he added.

And yet, despite the broad criticism of her comments from both the right and the left, instead of backing out of the stunning verbal duel with Trump, the 83 year old supreme court justice doubled down, and as CNN reports, she declined to retreat from her earlier criticism of Donald Trump and even elaborated on it.

"HE IS A FAKER," she said of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, going point by point, as if presenting a legal brief. "HE HAS NO CONSISTENCY ABOUT HIM. HE SAYS WHATEVER COMES INTO HIS HEAD AT THE MOMENT. HE REALLY HAS AN EGO. ... HOW HAS HE GOTTEN AWAY WITH NOT TURNING OVER HIS TAX RETURNS? THE PRESS SEEMS TO BE VERY GENTLE WITH HIM ON THAT."

"At first I thought it was funny," she said of Trump's early candidacy. "To think that there's a possibility that he could be president... " Her voice trailed off gloomily, seemingly shocked that there is a chance the majority of Americans may be revolting at the status quo.

"I think he has gotten so much free publicity," she added, drawing a contrast between what she believes is tougher media treatment of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and returning to an overriding complaint: "Every other presidential candidate has turned over tax returns."

As CNN's Joan Biskupic who interviewed Ginsburg redundantly added, "it was evident in our interview on Monday that when Ginsburg imagines who would succeed President Obama, she does not expect Trump to prevail over Clinton."

Meanwhile, one wonders if the clear antipathy and bias by a person who represents America's highest legal institution, one which even people on her own "team" say has gone too far, won't end up simply boosting Trump's odds of winning.  Recall what Gundlach said over the weekend:

  One of the reasons I believe Trump might win is that Brexit won. The parallels are far too great to be coincidental. They are identical in time. They are identical in mood, in the attitude of “I’m not doing what you say anymore.” People don’t want to admit that they support Trump. They hide it. A lot of people in Britain didn’t want to admit that they were voting to leave. My suspicion is that if Trump is even within the margin of error come November, he’ll win by a few percentage points.

If Gundlach is right, we wonder if the most vocal member on the Supreme Court will do as she has promised and board the first airplane out fo New Zealand, or end up just like the target of her scorn: all words.

question: What does the article report?

answer: The article reports on the Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg's position and beliefs regarding the presidential candidate, Donald Trump.

question: Is the article written in biased manner?

answer: The article is one sided, with some opinion.

question: Are any sources cited?

answer: No sources are cited; some newspaper articles are referenced, but not cited.

question: When was the article written/published?

answer: 2016

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: The article reports on the Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg's position and beliefs regarding the presidential candidate, Donald Trump. She thinks Donald Trump would be a dangerous president. Questions regarding Bader Ginsburg's comments cast doubt on her impartiality as a judge. The article, while based on facts, has a conservative lean.


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_GOOFUS AND GALLANT_ is an American children's comic strip appearing monthly in _Highlights for Children_. The comic contrasts the actions of the eponymous characters, presenting Gallant's actions as right and good and Goofus's as wrong and bad. Created by Garry Cleveland Myers and first published in _Children's Activities_ in 1940, _Goofus and Gallant_ moved to _Highlights for Children_ when the magazine was founded in 1946.

Throughout its history _Goofus and Gallant_ has been interpreted as an effective didactic comic. It has been used in several studies as a stimulus to prompt children to identify kind and unkind actions, and the characters of Goofus and Gallant, as archetypes of badness and goodness, have been referenced in several works by philosophers.

History

_Goofus and Gallant_ was created by Garry Cleveland Myers and was first featured in the magazine _Children's Activities_ in 1940. According to family legend, the grandchildren of Myers and his wife Caroline, Kent Brown and Garry Cleveland Myers III, inspired the characters Goofus and Gallant respectively.[1] At first, the comic's characters were depicted as elves. In 1946, when the Myerses founded _Highlights for Children_, they brought _Goofus and Gallant_ with them to the new magazine. By the 1950s, the strip's art style changed and Goofus and Gallant turned from elves to human boys.[2]

Throughout _Goofus and Gallant_{{'}}s history, numerous artists have drawn for the strip. The first was Maurieta Wellman who drew the strip until 1952.[3] She was succeeded by Marion Hull Hammel who had the strip's longest tenure as illustrator, working for 32 years until 1984.[4][5][6] Sidney Quinn, who since 1977 had already been illustrating _The Timbertoes_, another _Highlights_ feature, took over the art on _Goofus and Gallant_ from Hammel and drew the strip for a decade until her death in 1994.[7] Kit Wray illustrated the comic for a year in 1995 until Anni Matsick took over from 1996 through 2005.[8][9] Since 2006, _Goofus and Gallant_ has been illustrated by Leslie Harrington.[10]

Format

The comic, published monthly in _Highlights for Children_, consists of two panels depicting the actions of two children, Goofus and Gallant. Gallant's actions are always virtuous and respectful, in contrast to Goofus's, which are always rude and selfish. They are presented side by side with a brief caption (e.g. “Goofus turns on the television when there are guests; whenever guests arrive, Gallant turns off the television at once.”) though the direct results of their actions, good or bad, are never depicted.[11] For many years, a short line of text reading “Gallant shows correct behavior” was included at the bottom of the comic.[12]

The strip's protagonists have varied in age and appearance over time, variously shown with long or short, or dark or light hair and aged twelve or eight or five years old. Goofus and Gallant have never appeared in the same panel of the comic.[13]

According to Brown, who was editor of _Highlights for Children_, “Without Goofus, Gallant would be bland and no one would pay attention. But kids see parts of themselves in both characters. No one is as good as Gallant, and no one is as bad as Goofus. But being more like Gallant is something to strive for.”[14]

Reception

The children's author and philosophy professor Claudia Mills wrote that _Goofus and Gallant_ is heavily didactic and engages in “simple moralizing” without children philosophically" but is nonetheless effective at imparting its lessons to children.[15][16] According to author and professor of literature and pop culture Harold Schechter, “though Goofus is clearly meant to be obnoxious, even destructive–a bundle of unbridled aggression–he generally seems more appealing than the do-gooder Gallant”, which Schechter believed necessitated the explanatory caption below each strip to confirm which character children should be emulating.[17] Donald Kaul writing in _The Des Moines Register_ described Gallant as “an awful prig” and wrote that while the children he observed reading _Goofus and Gallant_ “continue to exhibit an average amount of Goofus behavior, [they] always identify completely with Gallant, the goody-goody. They jeer at Goofus's shortcomings and pat themselves on the back whenever Gallant turns himself in to do an onerous chore like taking music lessons.”[18] Alan A. Block wrote that _Goofus and Gallant_ presents uncritical assumptions about what constitutes right and wrong, and rarely or never interfaces with situations of real-world prejudice.[19]

Other uses

_Goofus and Gallant_ strips have been used for research purposes. A 2006 study gauging the development of ideas of respect and disrespect among American children used strips from the comic as stimuli to which the subjects could provide qualitative responses regarding why they believed Goofus's or Gallant's actions were respectful or disrespectful.[20] A 2012 study used the strips to prompt autistic and allistic children to identify whether the depicted child (either Goofus or Gallant) was behaving badly while researchers used an fMRI to measure the neural networks used in reaching their conclusions.[21]

The concepts of Goofus and Gallant have also appeared in contexts divorced from the comic. Philosopher Theodore Sider used the characters in an argument against the notion of a binary Heaven or Hell conception of the afterlife.[22] Sider conceived of Goofus and Gallant as near-equals, with Gallant only marginally better than Goofus, in arguing that sending the former to Heaven and the latter to Hell is antithetical to God's justice.[23] Other philosophers such as Matthew Konieczka and Casey Swank have also called upon Goofus and Gallant as archetypes of bad and good when formulating arguments.[24][25]

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title: Goofus and Gallant

question: When was the first comic strip in the series published?

answer: 1940

question: What text used to appear at the bottom of each comic?

answer: "Gallant shows correct behavior"

question: Who was the first artist to draw the strip?

answer: Maurieta Wellman

question: What publication is the comic printed in?

answer: It was initially published in Children's Activities, but moved to Highlights for Children in 1946

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: Goofus and Gallant is an American children's comic strip published monthly in Highlights for Children. It has been in print since 1940, and features the eponymous characters Gallant, whose actions are always presented as right, and Goofus, whose actions are always presented as wrong.


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(Reuters) - Republican Donald Trump may have gotten it wrong when he said the moderator of the first U.S. presidential debate next week between him and his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, is a Democrat.

NBC’s Lester Holt, who will moderate the debate on Monday, is registered as a Republican, according to voter information on the New York State Board of Elections website. NBC did not respond to requests for comment on Tuesday about Holt’s party affiliation.

Trump has said repeatedly the presidential debates will be stacked against him. He said on Fox News on Monday that Holt was a “professional” but that he was a Democrat, adding that the NBC News anchor may be under pressure after critics accused fellow NBC journalist Matt Lauer of giving Clinton tougher treatment than Trump during a recent forum on defense issues.

“Look, it’s a phony system. Lester is a Democrat. I mean, they are all Democrats. OK? It’s a very unfair system,” Trump said on the show.

Bill O’Reilly, the Fox News host conducting the interview, said two other debate moderators, ABC’s Martha Raddatz and CNN’s Anderson Cooper, were also Democrats.

Cooper is registered in New York with no party affiliation, according to the state elections site, which CNN confirmed. ABC did not respond to a request for comment about Raddatz’s registration.

The fourth presidential debate moderator, Chris Wallace of Fox News, is a registered Democrat in Washington, D.C., according to the District’s elections website. Wallace has said in interviews that he registered with the party so he could vote in primaries in the heavily Democratic District of Columbia.

Reporting by Emily Stephenson in Washington; Editing by Richard Valdmanis and Peter Cooney

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question: What does Trump call a "phony system"?

answer: Trump is calling the presidential debates a phony system as he feels they will be stacked against him with Democratic Moderators.

question: What is Bill O'Reilly's relationship with Anderson Cooper?

answer: That information can't be found in the document, but O'Reilly labels Cooper as a Democrat.

question: What Democrats are mentioned in this document?

answer: The document labels Hillary Clinton and Chris Wallace as registered Democrats.

question: What states are mentioned in this document?

answer: Washington D.C. and New York

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: The document discusses when Republican Donald Trump wrongly accused a moderator of the presidential debates of being a Democrat. He expressed that the debates were stacked against him with Democrats.


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The waiting room is full now. 360 degrees, squalid smoke-colored walls. Fat rivulets of grease dripping down the walls, from the crusty ceiling to the floor. People cramped in a tiny room like slippery sardines. Scaly creatures breathing each other's air, greedily gulping it down; I want it all for me no you beast you can't have any get back in line!

A mass of heads, shoulders, knees and toes, but this isn't a little boy's birthday party. This isn't your daughter's stupid-song-of-the-day-time in kindergarten. This room is a single organism, a frenzy of limbs, an *orgy* of body parts. It's hard to distinguish an "individual" within the mass of flesh. Some faces stand out every now and then, only to be englobed by the collective. The hive-mind. The sheepish mass of sheep, docile and obedient sheep sheepishly following orders. Fingers wrapped around the rusty chain of command. The chain of blind obedience.

Some of them sheared their fluff, donated it to charity, sent it to some remote country in OuagaBongo, or maybe they made cozy bonfires with it, sat around it, playing an acoustic guitar while screaming beautiful songs. That made everything absolutely fine. They were against the system, they had cleansed their soul, and were ready for the prize. The final big prize sitting somewhere above this waiting room, on the higher floors, where the ever-so-close beams of light, blinding pillars descending from the heavens, were nowhere to be found. Oh, on the higher floors, rooms are *not* cramped.
The walls breathe.
The *rooms* breathe.
They inhale fresh clean air which only gold can buy, holding it in, passionately savoring it, like a sacred elixir that grants eternal life.
Then... they calmly exhale.
Breathing radioactive clouds into the scraper's skeleton, into the core of the steel frame supporting this decaying structure. This decadent world.

Stratospheres below, in the squalid, greasy room, the mass of flesh keeps on moving and morphing. The faces that stood out, they popped out like mushrooms in autumn, devouring the stagnant air, stealing it from other starving mouths. All of them, waiting. (Relatively) eternally waiting. Waiting for what? Waiting for something magical to happen. Waiting for Nora Helmer's "miracle" to happen. Waiting for a great plateau. The peak of their meagre existence. Once they reached the summit, their personal Mount Everest, with all the unholy crosses and sacred duties weighted on their shoulders, then they plummeted down the other side. With the blink of an eye, they simply plunged into a black abyss. *The* black abyss. The one and only! The one we *aaaaall* stumble into eventually. Maybe tomorrow, maybe in a month, or maybe in 10 years. In the end, we all turn grey, like old family pictures in an old family book. In the end, we all fade away. But not *them*.

They're here to stay. They're so far away, their fingers can touch the sky; they can grab the stars with their bare hands and extinguish them with their toxic breath.
They don't occupy the rooms, they *are* the rooms.
They're omniscient beings, their eyes open, blood-red cracks in the smoked walls. The devilish eyes pulse in the darkness.
If you listen, you can hear a soft whisper.
Many whispers.
Coming from every side.
Every corner.
Gentle murmurs fill up the room like little bugs, *tick ticking* across the room with their vast assortment of tiny prickly legs.
If you close your eyes, their secret buzzing starts crawling along your spine, lifting every little hair along the way.
If you're lucky, you can feel the whispers writhing under your skin.
Little bumps filled with unutterable secrets appear and disappear on your body.
The bugs cannot be deciphered, their whispers just linger in the room, floating in the damp air. With every pulse, the cracks in the wall seem to charge with energy. With every pulse, low tones make the walls vibrate. Dust particles are shaken off. A thick bass lets blood seep through the cracks in the wall, through the all-seeing eyes of this room. This *entity*.

The Big Big Brothers and Big Sisters of the monolithic structure. They're always watching. Through kilometers and kilometers of invisible cobwebs, they can see all. They can *feel* all.
They crawl around like sneaky tarantulas or mighty goliath bird-eaters. They find a nice spot, and then they simply wait.
And wait.
Waiting for the best moment to strike. To sink their poison-filled fangs into their prey. To devour. To consume. To feed on the sorrow of the weak, of the lesser beings. Of those who are (relatively) patiently waiting below. Faaaaar far below. In the catacombs of this *depravingly* gigantic structure.

title: The Waiting Room [Feedback Please, Thanks][Copyrighted Inc.]

question: Why are they blindly obedient?

answer: Because they are being watched

question: Who is watching them?

answer: Big brothers and big sisters

question: What are they waiting for?

answer: For something magical to happen

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: A mass of people are all cramped together as they blindly follow orders with blind obedience. They must obey since they are being watched and monitored by the big brothers and big sisters of the monolithic structure.


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How had I never noticed how fresh the air here was? I took another deep breath, filling my lungs with crisp autumn. The voices of the tavern mixed pleasantly, a harmonious cacophony. Any other day so many people in my quiet seaside bar would greatly upset me, but this was a good day. I looked down at the stool next to me, where I’d sat my important package. Yes, today was the day I could feel it.

Other, more regular drinkers drained their lagers in flagons, but I was content with a simple pint. A nice frosty pint for me, thank you. The blonde serving the drinks had the most marvelous eyes, here blue or there green depending on which way they caught the light. Her hips were meant for children. She was an angel, even if she didn’t remember my name after a week straight of coming here. I saw her pleasant presence as a blessing, a sign that today was the day the seeds of my labors came to fruition.

I moved my hand to the next table and felt the brown paper wrapped around the package, the sculpted brass underneath, careful only to touch the edges, never disturbing the world I’d created within.

When my glass was near empty the lovely barmaid brought me another. A second time. A third time. A fourth. My head was swimming now, a pleasant buzz surrounded everything. Today was the day. One of the regular drinkers looked over to me and we locked eyes. I smiled. He raised his flagon. I raised my pint and we toasted silently. I’d like to think he wished me all the best in my endeavors. It made two of us.

I heard the door open and close and I looked up to see the most beautiful creature. She was from southern France, maybe Spain, judging by the dark tones of her skin. Her raven hair tumbled just to her shoulder blades and danced around her neck and back as she walked towards the bar. I wasn’t the only man in the room checking the placement of my jaw, I assure you.

But it was I, with the dumb smile on my face, who she came and sat down with. I won’t deny giving a smug look to the regular drinkers with their large flagons. Face to face she was almost too wonderful for words. She was brisk, plump, and jolly, and ever so slightly past her nineteenth birthday. She was open and honest to a complete stranger, a man she’d never even met. It was as if fate directed her to me, she said.

I was caught between wondering why such a beautiful girl would sit with me and amazement that she was speaking my language so fluently. She was a Spaniard, I noted from her accent.

Before I was even able to open my mouth to tell her my name (and I had to tell her more than once because she kept forgetting it), she was telling me of her grand plans. She had traveled this far alone after running away from her father. An alcoholic, prone to fits of anger, but he hadn’t always been that way. The death of her mother took a horrible toll on a previously gentle and loving family man, she’d said. She was going to continue north, keep seeing the world until she decided she was ready to settle down.

She didn’t know where or when or with whom, but she figured when the time was right, she’d be ready for anything.

“And how do you know the time is not now?” I asked her.

“Because I know.” She said, and she held my gaze for a long time.

“Then why are you here?”

“Because of all the men in this room, you are the only one with destiny about you.”

She could feel it too. The day itself was smiling on me, what could possibly go wrong?

“I’m glad to hear you say that,” I admitted to her. “Today I am delivering this important package.” I motioned to the seat next to me. “Once I have delivered this, my whole life will change. I will have fame and fortune and everything my heart desires.”

She smiled. I smiled. We smiled and laughed and drank. We toasted to destiny. And then she put her hand on my arm.

She sucked in air. Her eyes went white and wide and wild. When her pupils came back, she was breathing in ragged gasps, and her eyes darted around. She wouldn’t make eye contact with me.

“Are you okay?” I asked her, grabbing her lightly by the shoulders.

She shook me off violently and stood up. “You…what are you? What
darkness? What evil?” Tears were running down her cheeks. Her breaths came as sobs

“What in Hell are you talking about?” I demanded.

“Murderer!” She cried.

“I’ve never harmed anyone! Anything!”

“You will.” Her sobbing increased. The regular drinkers had first assumed I was harassing the poor girl, but they began to see the truth of her fit of insanity. “Oh God be good, you will.” And with that she ran out the door.

The room burst in to laughter. Everyone but me. I took a moment to collect my thoughts as I paid my tab and finished my last pint. I shook off the haunting feeling the young Spaniard had left me with. An anxiety. A pox on my perfect day. By sheer force of will I managed to convince myself to forget the whole thing. She was nothing more than a crazy girl. It might even have been her idea of a funny joke. Best not to dwell on such things.

Especially not on such an important day. I retrieved the package from the seat next to me. This thing was going to change my life. This was the one. No more failures. No more rejections. This was the best painting I’d ever done in my life.

It was mid-autumn in Vienna, eight years since the turn of the twentieth century, almost six months to the day ‘til my birthday. This was my day. Destiny awaited. And though I had spent my life thus far in obscurity, I knew that after today nothing would ever be the same.

No one would ever forget my name again.

title: The Important Package

question: Which place is the narrator at?

answer: The narrator is at a tavern.

question: Was the narrator attracted to the woman serving the drinks?

answer: It may be assumed that he found her attractive.

question: What was in the package?

answer: The package had the most beautiful painting the narrator had ever painted.

question: Why was the young lady sitting next to the narrator?

answer: This information can't be found.

question: Write a ~6 sentence summary.

answer:
The narrator was sitting in a tavern, thinking this was going to be a life-changing day. A brown package lay next to him while he finished his pints.

The door to the bar opens and a beautiful lady comes and sits beside the narrator. After a casual conversation, the lady all of a sudden calls him a murderer and walks away, leaving the narrator confused.

The room burst into laughter and the narrator goes back to thinking how this would be the best day of his life. The package beside him had the best painting he had ever painted.


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Taylon Hope is a singer, songwriter, musician from West Jefferson, NC, located in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains and now makes her home in Music City, Nashville, TN. She began singing at the young age of four years old and music has been her passion ever since. She loves singing and performing and making a difference to others through her music. Her musical influences include Dolly Parton, Vince Gill, Carrie Underwood, Martina McBride, among others. Taylon has a love for both traditional and modern Country Music and has a great appreciation for all kinds of music. Taylon Hope values her roots and believes in being who you are and country is who she is!

In 2014, Taylon Hope released her first EP titled, "What This World Needs", which was produced by Multi-Awarding Winning Inspirational Country Artist, Tommy Brandt. The title track broke the Top 30 on The Power Source Inspirational Country Chart.

In 2016, she began working with Grammy Nominated Producer, Kent Wells, who is also Dolly Parton's producer and band leader. In December of 2016, Taylon released her second CD, "Showin' My Roots" to much success. Taylon co-wrote all of the songs on the project and the title track broke the Top 100 on Music Row. She was featured in both Billboard Magazine and Music Row Magazine.

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In October of 2017, Taylon Hope was blessed to perform on the legendary stage of The Grand Ole Opry House at the tribute show for the great Ralph Stanley. Playing on this stage was a dream come true for Taylon as she is a great fan and supporter of The Grand Ole Opry and the history of this legendary show.

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question: What kind of music does Taylon Hope create?

answer: Taylon hope makes country music. In fact, she even began working with Kent Wells in 2016, who is the same producer Dolly Parton has. Her musical influences include Dolly Parton, Vince Gill, Carrie Underwood, Martina McBride, and others. She has an appreciation for both traditional and modern Country Music.


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William Dampier (1651-1715), seaman and author, was baptized on 5 September 1651, the son of a tenant farmer of East Coker, Somerset, England. After participating in various trading and privateering ventures on both sides of Central America he joined, in 1683, a group of buccaneers bound for the Pacific by way of Cape Horn. Three years later he set out upon his first crossing of the Pacific as one of the crew of the _Cygnet_.

Before his return to England in 1691 Dampier had visited the Philippines and the islands of the eastern archipelago, had spent three months of 1688 on the Australian coast in the vicinity of King Sound and had taken part in a series of trading voyages in south-east Asia. His account of these experiences, when published in 1697 and 1699, immediately established him as an authority on the South Seas; in direct consequence of this reputation the Admiralty consulted him on the best method of exploring these waters. Given command of the expedition prepared for that purpose, Dampier, with the rank of captain, sailed from England in January 1699 in H.M.S. _Roebuck_ and on 6 August anchored at the entrance to the inlet he named Shark Bay. A week later he started on a coasting cruise to the north-east in search of water. Failing to find it he left the coast near Roebuck Bay on 5 September bound for Timor. From January to April 1700 the _Roebuck_ was on the north coast of New Guinea and it was in this period that New Britain, the only major discovery of the voyage, was sighted and named. The crazy condition of his ship, which caused her to founder on the homeward passage, prevented Dampier from pursuing his original plan of examining the seas east and south of New Guinea and deprived him of the honour of discovering the east coast of Australia.

Dampier appeared to have little ability in managing the crews placed under him, and in 1702 a court martial declared him unfit to command any of His Majesty's ships. This verdict might well have been noted by those who appointed him next year to lead a privateering expedition to the South Seas, since that enterprise ended in grievous failure. Nevertheless, he made another voyage round the world between 1708 and 1711, not as a commander but as pilot to the efficient and successful Captain Woodes Rogers. Whatever his virtues as a sailor, Dampier was immensely popular as an author, his works setting an entire fashion in travel literature and influencing such men as Swift and Defoe. _New Voyage Round the World_ ran to four editions within two years of its publication in London in 1697, and there were seven editions of his works by 1727. The second volume was published in 1699 and the third and fourth, dealing with the _Roebuck_, in 1703 and 1709. To these must be added his unfortunate account of the 1703 fiasco, _Capt. Dampier's Vindication of his Voyage to the South Seas in the Ship St George_ (London, 1707). His insatiable curiosity and his total freedom 'from affectation and the most distant appearance of invention' resulted in a wealth of description of all he saw so exact as to be of scientific as well as literary interest. His account of the winds and currents of the Pacific in the 1699 volume has earned the respect of navigators and meteorologists to the present day.

Dampier's direct contribution to Australian history was slight; indeed, his own impression of the west coast was unfavourable, since it seemed to him to be a long series of reefs and shoals behind which lay sandhills and barren country, apparently without water and inhabited by 'the miserablest People in the World'. There is nothing in this description of the topography to endanger his reputation for accurate observation. Nevertheless the great interest in the southern continent roused by his books was sustained throughout the century and the final exploration of the Pacific was carried out by his fellow-countrymen. The discovery and settlement of eastern Australia may be viewed as the indirect but none the less real conclusion of Dampier's work. He died in London in 1715.

Citation details

J. Bach, 'Dampier, William (1651–1715)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dampier-william-1951/text2345, published first in hardcopy 1966, accessed online 1 December 2020.

THIS ARTICLE WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDCOPY IN _AUSTRALIAN DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHY_, VOLUME 1, (MUP), 1966

View the front pages for Volume 1

question: Why is William Dampier featured in a biography?

answer: Because of his contribution to history: his published works are appreciated by navigators and meteorologists, as well as having helped in the discovery and settlement of eastern Australia.

question: As a sailor, what were Dampier's strengths and weaknesses?

answer: He was not good at managing personnel and as such, was considered unfit for the role of command. He was good at steering and navigation, and worked well under a good captain.

question: How old was Dampier?

answer: Born in 1651, Dampier was about 63 to 64 years old when he died in 1715.

question: What is the irony of his contribution to Australian history?

answer: Dampier thought Australia's west coast was barren and considered it unfavorable.

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: William Dampier, an English seaman and author, took part in many voyages across the seas. While unfit to be a captain, he has had success as a pilot. His published works about wind conditions and ocean currents have contributed to the fields of navigation and meteorology. He died in London in 1715.


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PHILIP HENRY WARD JR. (November 26, 1886 – August 23, 1963), of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was a stamp dealer who created and sold collections of rare postage stamps, and was noted for his stressing the importance of first day covers of United States stamps.

Collecting interests

Ward was noted for his specialized collection of United States revenue stamps which contained the only complete set of inverted centers, and which was retained by Hiram Edmund Deats in the 1950s.

Philip Ward created and sold important collections of philatelic material, such as large blocks of classic United States postage stamps, postage stamps of Japan, and worldwide postage stamps whose centers had been inverted, causing them to be expensive rarities. He also assembled and sold unusual and rare collections, such as Match and Medicine stamps and presidential letters and autographs.

Because he was located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Ward was able to create and sell a collection of postal history of Philadelphia.

Ward was one of the first philatelists to recognize the importance of the issuance and collection of first day covers of United States stamps. He created some of the earliest, and now rare, first day covers.

Honors and awards

Ward was recognized for his achievements by being named to the American Philatelic Society Hall of Fame in 1966.

Legacy

The _Ward Award for Excellence in First Day Cover Literature_ was established by the American First Day Cover Society in his honor.

title: Philip Henry Ward Jr.

question: Who is Philip Henry Ward Jr.?

answer: He was a stamp dealer who created and sold collections of rare postage stamps and was noted for his stressing the importance of first-day covers of United States stamps.

question: What was Ward noted for?

answer: He was noted for his specialized collection of United States revenue stamps which contained the only complete set of inverted centers, and which was retained by Hiram Edmund Deats in the 1950s.

question: Other than US postal stamps, what else did Ward collect, sell, or create?

answer: He created and sold important collections of philatelic material, such as large blocks of classic United States postage stamps, postage stamps of Japan, and worldwide postage stamps whose centers had been inverted, causing them to be expensive rarities. He also assembled and sold unusual and rare collections, such as Match and Medicine stamps and presidential letters and autographs.

question: What honors and awards has Ward won?

answer:
- He was named to the American Philatelic Society Hall of Fame in 1966 for his achievements.
- The "Ward Award for Excellence in First Day Cover Literature" was established by the American First Day Cover Society in his honor.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: Philip Henry Ward Jr. was a stamp dealer who created and sold collections of rare postage stamps and was noted for his stressing the importance of first-day covers of United States stamps.


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Imagine the rainiest, greyest, most miserable day you have ever witnessed. Now can you imagine if it was like that all of the day every day? Well that’s the way it was in Anthony’s home town. A small town on the east coast of Ireland called, and I shit you not; Ballyfliuch. Nobody was really sure what county Ballyfliuch was in but everybody was certain it wasn’t in Dublin. A town of 10,000 people it had four schools, three churches, a shopping centre and several new roundabouts. All centered by a just recently finished ‘millennium hanging basket area’. But by far the most notable thing about Ballyfliuch was the rain. It rained hard and heavy every second of every day. It was relentless and inescapable. You may think living every day with this rain that the people of Ballyfliuch would grow indifferent to it, you’d be wrong. The people of Ballyfliuch including Anthony hated the rain and constantly complained and cursed it. Every morning every single member of the Ballyfliuch community whilst opening their curtains would hope that today would be the day that the rain stopped, but it never did.  It was with this disappointment the daily routine of life began in Ballyfliuch.

Anthony Grimes was 14 years of age. He liked movies, fast cars and black haired girls that wore boys’ clothes. Although he had only really ever seen one girl fitting such a description he had decided there and then that that was his type. Anthony described himself to himself as relatively happy but troubled. He was a good kid and both young and old were fond of him. But Anthony had a secret, a secret that troubled him. Anthony felt a deep resentment and anger towards every single person he knew or had ever met including his own family. What scared him the most is that he didn’t know why. There was bitterness in him and he knew it was the people that surrounded him had put it there. He had felt like this for as long as he could remember.

One day in a rare moment of clarity Anthony realized something had to be done about these feelings and he knew where to start. So armed with a pen, a pencil, three pads of post-its, fizzy chewits and a ridiculous amount of Pepsi-Max he cleared the walls in his room, locked the door and swore not to leave until he had made some progress in understanding and eradicating this bitterness and contempt he carried. “It’s not normal” he said. “And it can’t go on”. Anthony started to picture himself in situations where he knew these feeling were strong. He imagined meeting Jim DeGib on the street and talking about the weather as often occurred. He imagined the images he would see in his head and what he would feel. He saw the rain thrashing into puddles then blood red dots expanding and he could see it “there is the anger” he said. As he focused on it he began to understand it. He was angry at Jim’s complete acceptance of the rain. Here he was an aged business man standing in the rain getting “fucking drenched” as he put it himself. Standing in the rain getting “fucking drenched” as he has done his whole life and will until the day they lay his “fucking drenched” coffin six feet under the soggy soil. He also felt that Jim as an adult should be showing better example to Anthony than contemptuous acceptance. Anthony was making progress, he could feel it. He wrote down these few bits of information and began to apply the same tactics to every encounter he could remember himself being in and even a few he imagined would happen someday. This was long and tedious work. As the post-its gathered and his thoughts frayed the only thing that kept Anthony going was his ever nearing goal of killing those ill feelings. That and copious amounts of Pepsi-Max of course. By the end the words and pictures that stuck to Anthony’s wall would look like some sort of lunatics collage to you or me but they were Anthony’s specific thoughts and having gone through them one by one over and over from every angle to the point of obsession he had figured out what was causing the problem and he had an idea how to fix it.

You see the rain bothered Anthony and the fact that it was never going to stop made him sad. His self proclaimed “relative happiness” was relative to the people he was surrounded by who he now realized were all hopelessly unhappy. The same hopelessness he felt now at 14 they had carried their whole life and it was this that caused their lack of ambition or imagination to rid Ballyfliuch of the rain. Everybody was waiting for god to stop the rain all the while believing it to be part of god’s plan. But on this day Anthony now knew that if there is a god he doesn’t have a plan for us. The amount of happiness in our lives depends on how much of it we make or take. How had no one told him this before? Garnered with and elated by his new wisdom Anthony was not long in realizing how to make the rain stop. He took his thoughts off the wall packed a few important belongings and wrote a short note to his family which read;

Family,
I love you but I don’t like you very much. I have a plan on how to change this and I’m confident it will work. Don’t worry about me; I’ll be in touch soon.
Anthony

Then Anthony walked and walked for 25 miles feeling more and more vindicated in his decision with each step until eventually he walked into Bettystown, Co.Meath.  Anthony was under no illusions that Bettystown was the happiest or best place in the world but it was better, and on this day it wasn’t raining. Best of all if ever it wasn’t good enough Anthony knew exactly what to do. The bitterness was gone, the hopelessness was gone. As he sat in the sun on a statue of some fallen hero he exhaled and grinned.

END

title: Rain in the East (my first ever short story)

question: Where does the story take place?

answer: the coast of Ireland on a grey and rainy day.

question: Who is the main character of the story?

answer: Anthony Grimes.

question: What bothered Anthony and made him sad?

answer: The rain and gloomy weather.

question: Where did Anthony go?

answer: He walked for miles until reaching Bettystown, where he exhaled and grinned sitting in the sun.

question: Write a ~5 sentence summary.

answer: Anthony Grimes is 14 years old living in Ballyfliuch, Ireland. He hates the rainy, grey weather. He knew he needed to do something about these feelings. Anthony wrote a short note to his family, packed a few belongings and walked to the next town. When he reached Bettystown, he sat in the sun, exhaled and grinned.


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UNKNOWN HACKERS BREACHED THE UK RAILWAY NETWORK FOUR TIMES IN THE LAST TWELVE MONTHS, ACCORDING TO DARKTRACE, A BRITISH CYBER-SECURITY FIRM, QUOTED BY THE TELEGRAPH AND SKY NEWS.

According to Darktrace, the attacks were only basic reconnaissance operations, intrusions to detect a network's internal structure and to gather information for future attacks. The company also doesn't exclude that these intrusions were only accidental.

Previous to the UK, attacks on a country's railway network were DETECTED IN UKRAINE this past winter, as part of the infamous BlacEnergy attacks that also targeted the country's energy grid and airports.

Railway networks are part of a country's transportation system and are considered "critical infrastructure."

In the case of a real cyber-war, railway networks, along with smart roads and airports, are most certainly going to face cyber-attacks, along with the other critical infrastructure sectors such as energy, water supply, oil & gas, communications, the chemical sector, food & agriculture, healthcare, and emergency services.

Attacks on a railway network's infrastructure are technically possible

This past December, at the 32nd Chaos Communication Congress (32C3) in Germany, Russian security researchers from SCADA StrangeLove presented a series of attacks that could cripple a railway network.

These attacks rely on targeting a network's rail automation and route planning components situated on the network itself, but also train control components and tracking systems installed on the train carts and locomotives.

A successful attack on the first would allow an intruder to successfully alter a railway network's routes and train track switches.

An attack on the second would allow the intruder to feed trains bad location data, or disrupt communications with the central railway command center.

Based on the attack type an intruder wants to execute and their knowledge of a network's internal components, successful attacks can vary from simple delays to train crashes that can lead to loss of human life.

question: What is Darktrace?

answer: Darktrace is a british cyber-security firm that discovered a cyber-attack on the UK railway network.

question: What cyber-attacks does the article cover?

answer: The article covers an attack on the UK railway system, and the BlacEnergy attack that targets the UK's energy grid and airports.

question: What do experts believe the purpose of these first attacks was?

answer: The first attacks were basic reconnaissance operations to gather information for future attacks.

question: Why are cyber terrorists interested in railways?

answer: Railway networks are part of a country's critical infrastructure. Their attacks can vary from simple disruption of transportation to crashes that can lead to deaths.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: The article covers cyber-attacks on UK railway system, energy grid and airports. Railway networks are part of a country's critical infrastructure. Their attacks can vary from simple disruption of transportation to crashes that can lead to deaths.


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MICHEL SHEHADEH born in 1956, in Amman, Jordan), to a Palestinian Christians family, is the Palestinian-American executive director of the Arab Film Festival and the former Western Regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (1996-2003).

The Palestinian raised Shehadeh relocated to the United States for college in 1975. In 1987, he was the subject of investigation by the US Government as a suspected abettor of terrorists, one of the media-dubbed “Los Angeles Eight”, but Shehadeh and the other seven individuals were cleared of charges in 2007. Michel Shehadeh holds a BA in Journalism and a Masters in Public Policy Administration from California State University, Long Beach. [1]

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title: Michel Shehadeh

question: Who is Michel Shehadeh?

answer: He is the Palestinian-American executive director of the Arab Film Festival and the former Western Regional Director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.

question: What happened to Shehadeh in 1987?

answer: He was the subject of an investigation by the US Government as a suspected abettor of terrorists, one of the media-dubbed “Los Angeles Eight”, but Shehadeh and the other seven individuals were cleared of charges in 2007.

question: Summarize everything relating to Shehadeh's education.

answer: Shehadeh relocated to the United States for college in 1975. He holds a BA in Journalism and a Masters in Public Administration from California State University, Long Beach.

question: When and where was Shehadeh born?

answer: He was born in 1956, in Amman, Jordan.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: Michel Shehadeh is the Palestinian-American executive director of the Arab Film Festival and the former Western Regional Director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. He relocated to the U.S. for college in 1975 and graduated from California State University, Long Beach. In 1987, he was investigated by the US Government as a suspected abettor of terrorists, one of the media-dubbed “Los Angeles Eight”, but Shehadeh and the other seven individuals were cleared of charges in 2007.


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Maybe they don’t want to hear anything more about his idea to rebuild Detroit with Syrian refugees.

[bill-clinton-frown]Bill Clinton will be seen — but not heard — at Detroit’s Labor Day parade this morning.

The former president will be appearing on behalf of his wife, but remarkably, organizers did not give Clinton a speaking slot.

The Detroit Free Press reports:

_Clinton will march with organized labor down Michigan Avenue in Detroit this morning and greet union members along the way. He’s not scheduled to speak at the end of the parade._

Has Bill Clinton ever appeared *anywhere* that he wasn’t allowed to speak?

Is this punishment for his idea to populate Detroit the Syrian refugees?

Fox News reported:

_At the 2016 Clinton Global Initiative in February, Clinton suggested that Syrian refugees could be brought to Detroit to help rebuild the city, calling it an “enormous opportunity for Americans.”_

_“Detroit has 10,000 empty, structurally sound houses — 10,000,” Clinton said. “And lot of jobs are to be had repairing those houses. Detroit just came out of bankruptcy and the mayor’s trying to do an innovative sort of urban homesteading program there. But it just gives you an example of what could be done. And I think any of us who have ever had any personal experience with either Syrian Americans or Syrian refugees think it’s a pretty good deal.”_

_Developing…_

question: Explain the article's take on Bill Clinton's appearance at Detroit's Labor Day Parade.

answer: The article expressed surprise that Bill Clinton made an appearance but was not allowed to speak at the Parade, speculating that the reason may be because he thinks it would be a good idea to repopulate Detroit with Syrian refugees.

question: What two news sources are mentioned in this article?

answer: The Detroit Free Press and Fox News

question: What is the date this article was published?

answer: The text doesn't explicitly say but sometime in or after 2016.

question: Where did Bill Clinton show up but not speak?

answer: The Labor Day Parade in Detroit, MI.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: This article expresses surprise that Bill Clinton is making an appearance at the Labor Day parade in Detroit but is not going to speak - something which rarely occurs. The article then postulates that the reason may be his recently (at the time of the article) stated opinion that repopulating Detroit with Syrian refurgees would be a good solution for the city's rebuilding efforts as well as to meet the needs of the refugees by providing housing and employment for them.


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It's not finished, but I thought I should share it!  :

11/2/2013

	For a socially awkward kid, I’ve always felt as if, compared to other members of my generation, I have had a much higher sense of clarity and realism. For example, I, unlike what seems to be the majority of depressed teens, understand that the problems I am going through are almost strictly hormonal. I understand that this is just a part of life and the best way to get through it is to just wait for the day when it all goes away. I’ve also always been the type to “tell it like it is” and just endure. But recently, I’ve started to question the choices of society. Why is it that we have to make choices based on general acceptance? A recent event provoked these thoughts as I started to despise society. I was in class today. It was late in the day on a Friday. I had less than the preferred amount of sleep the night before with no thanks to a bad case of diarrhea, and was drifting off in class. My Global History teacher, a giant of a man with not much knowledge on the rights and wrongs of society (basically, he’s a goofball) caught me during a drawn-out lesson on Confucianism and thought that it would be a great idea to yell my name at the top of his lungs in order to wake me up. Naturally, I jerked up, but not without the ridicule of the class trailing behind. All I heard for the rest of class were things like, “Were you asleep?” and “Wow I can’t believe he was asleep during class.” This infuriated me because, as a socially awkward person, not only was this mortifying, but it was also false. I have not been much of a talker throughout my life (once again, awkward kid), and I have learned to listen well and talk only when necessary. So by nature, I heard every word the teacher said, but he didn’t believe me one bit, and it led to embarrassment.
	After this horrific event, I pondered the rules of society while in my geometry class. I wondered: why is it that schools act as if they care for our stress levels? Most of the stress in teenage life comes from school, but they never try to fix it. They just tell us to endure. They say that the work “prepares you for the future” and that you should do it under any circumstances. They don’t care how or when you do it. They don’t care if you have to sacrifice much needed mental relaxation time to complete it. They just want it done. It just shatters me.
	When I got off of the bus that day, the sun was shining brighter than ever and it was an oddly warm day for autumn. I decided to take my time walking up my long, steep driveway and just focus on the world itself. Not as a whole, not as a society, just as a random creation in the unpredictable and unending universe. I looked into the shimmering assortment of colored trees and took the time to think about Mother Earth and the gifts she brings us rather than the metaphorical fleas living in her fur. I went into the house, put my stuff away, and went to the bottom of the driveway to sit on a rock and take in the first truly beautiful thing I had seen in a seemingly long while. I just sat there for half an hour staring into the light foliage as the rays of sun struggled to the ground and thought. I thought and thought. I thought about how always I spend so much time doing work and preparing for life and all of that bullshit, and I never just sit down to think. Neither does the rest of the world. Maybe that’s why they’re all so bitter.

title: A life experience I decided to write about.

question: What is the age of the narrator?

answer: He/she is a teenager.

question: In what era does this story take place?

answer: In 2013.

question: The narrator was sleeping in class. Explain.

answer: The narrator did not sleep well the night before, in part due to digestive issues. The narrator doesn't usually sleep in class.

question: What has prompted the telling of this story?

answer: The narrator had an embarrassing moment in class that prompted some deeper thinking and sharing. He/she feels like the teachers/adults at school only care that students get their work in on time without any concern for how or at what cost.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: A bad experience in class prompted this teenaged narrator to reflect on the bigger picture of life, including the means and method of high school education. The narrator turns to the beauty of nature for some solace.


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Ntema Ndungidi, a highly touted minor-league baseball player from Montreal, is in a psychiatric facility in Arizona after a series of incidents that included separate arrests within two days for possession of marijuana and criminal trespass.

"Ntema needs to get treatment just like anyone else who has had some type of emotional setback," Mark Pieper, an agent at SFX Sports who represents the Baltimore Orioles outfield prospect, said yesterday.

Ndungidi, 21, who was playing for the Mesa Solar Sox of the Arizona Fall League, was released on a $10,000 (U.S.) cash bond and is scheduled for a pretrial conference in Scottsdale City Court on Dec. 5 in connection with the criminal trespass charge. Pieper said that hearing might be pushed back to January.

Both charges are misdemeanours. Ndungidi, who was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) but moved to Montreal at the age of three, was the 36th player chosen in the 1997 draft after impressing scouts with a number of teams as a raw prospect with the Montreal-based ABC baseball academy.

According to reports obtained from the Scottsdale Police Dept., Ndungidi was arrested at the Fashion Square Mall at 7:38 a.m. on Nov. 9, more than two hours after a security guard first noticed Ndungidi attempting to deposit an empty envelope into an automated teller machine without using a credit card.

Ndungidi flooded his cell at the Scottsdale City Jail by stuffing a blanket into the toilet, and was then transferred to the Maricopa County Jail. What happened after that is unclear, but Ndungidi was in the county jail from Nov. 9 until Nov. 22. He was released to his father, Ne-Nsoko Ndungidi.

The arrest for criminal trespass came two days after Ndungidi was arrested for marijuana possession in an emergency room at the Scottsdale Health Care-Osborn Hospital. According to police reports, Ndungidi had been taken to the facility by Jim Bronner, a player agent, for what the police report described as "a psychiatric evaluation."

Security personnel at the hospital called the police after Ndungidi started rolling a marijuana cigarette in the emergency room. Ndungidi was arrested at 8:35 p.m. after signing a release for refusal of treatment against medical advice and was released, pending laboratory tests on the marijuana and the formal filing of a complaint from the prosecutor.

Earlier that day, Ndungidi was driven home from the ballpark by Tom Trebelhorn, the Orioles director of organizational instruction. The Orioles will not confirm published reports that Ndungidi had tried to take infield practice in his street clothes instead of his uniform, and that he talked to his locker and was yelling at his teammates.

"[Ndungidi]got into a fast crowd, got involved with some fast company and into some things he didn't need to get into," Trebelhorn said. "He needs to get back on track and he's doing that right now. He's getting treatment. This could happen to a 21-year-old kid whether he's at Harvard or playing baseball in the Arizona Fall League."

Ndungidi was placed on the disqualified list by the Orioles when major-league clubs released their 40-man winter rosters. Until his recent problems, he had boosted his stock within the organization by batting .284 at Single-A Frederick with 10 home runs and 59 runs batted in, then hitting .242 at Double-A Bowie, with three homers and 13 runs batted in.

Ndungidi, who played in the Futures All-Star Game held in Atlanta in conjunction with the major-league All-Star Game, batted .289 with three homers and 17 RBIs in 76 at bats with the Solar Sox, and had stolen seven bases.

Ndungidi signed for $500,000 (U.S.) after being chosen by the Orioles with a compensatory draft choice received for the New York Yankees signing of free agent David Wells. He was represented at the time by his father.

question: What does the article say about Ndungidi's mental health?

answer: Ndungidi suffers from a mental health problem. This is why he's in a psychiatric ward to be evaluated. Some of the things he did that reflected his mental health were depositing an empty envelope into an ATM, stuffing a blanket into his jail cell's toilet, and rolling marijuana in the emergency room. He needs treatment.

question: What does the article say about Ndungidi's treatment?

answer: After a series of misdemeanors that make people question his psychological wellbeing, Ndungidi had been advised to find treatment. Being part of the Baltimore Orioles, Ndungidi became a growing concern for his baseball team. The Orioles director, Tom Trebelhorn, stated that Ndungidi had been hanging with people who were a bad influence to him and he would be getting treatment to get back on track.

question: What does the article say about Ndungidi's marijuana use?

answer: Ndungidi was caught using marijuana in the emergency room of Scottsdale Health Care-Osborn Hospital. He was arrested by hospital security after being seen rolling a marijuana cigarette. Laboratory tests were done and a formal complaint was filed.

question: What does the article say about what Ndungidi's family says about his charges?


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[Markeshia Ricks / New Haven Independent]

HARTFORD, CT — While another active shooter drama unfolded on the West Coast Tuesday, Connecticut legislators debated whether to respond to the epidemic by restricting certain types of guns and accessories — or by allowing people to carry guns openly in state parks.

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Those debates took place over hours before the General Assembly’s Judiciary Committee.

In the end, committee members voted to send bills that would ban a device that enhances the firing capability of a gun and create stricter regulations for so-called “ghost guns” to the full House of Representatives. A Republican-backed open-carry bill made it out of the committee.

The bills regulating the possession of ghost guns and banning the possession of bump stocks were championed by State Reps. William Tong and Steven Stafstrom, Democrats from Stamford and Bridgeport, respectively. Though Connecticut has some of the strongest gun laws in the country, Tong and Stafstrom, with the support of New Haven lawmakers, introduced the bills in response to a mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The Judiciary Committee Tuesday ultimately voted overwhelmingly 36 to 5 for the bill to ban bump stocks. The vote in favor ofr regulating ghost guns was tighter, 25 to 16.

The Las Vegas shooting last October left 58 people dead and more than 700 injured. Since that time there have been several mass shootings, the largest of which was the Valentine’s Day shooting in a Parkland, Fla. high school where 17 people were killed. Bump stocks, a device used to modify how quickly a gun can fire, were allegedly used by the shooter in Las Vegas.

And, as if to underscore the prevalence of these events, Tuesday’s debate occurred as details trickled out about a woman entering the San Bruno, California, headquarters of YouTube and firing away at employees.

The bump-stock bill before Judiciary would require people who order partially completed guns for the purpose of building a gun at home must notify the state’s Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection within 30 days that they are in possession of such a kit and must obtain a serial number so that it is traceable. Failure to follow the law, should it pass the full legislature, would result in that person being guilty of a Class C felony, which carries at least two years in prison and at least a $5,000 fine.

Republican State Rep. Rob Sampson, who represents Wolcott and Southington, led the charge against the bump stock bill. A self-described avid defender of the Second Amendment, Sampson is a gun owner and card-carrying member of the National Rifle Association. He was the 2012 Connecticut Citizens Defense League Legislator of the Year and the 2014 NRA Defender of Freedom Awardee.

He told his Judiciary Committee colleagues Tuesday, speaking for nearly an hour before offering three amendments, that both gun bills were based on emotions, not facts. That the bills were, in fact, a political response particularly in the wake of the shooting in Parkland, which has sparked mass protests around the country. Sampson said though the state has some of the toughest laws on the books, they don’t stop shootings and they’re not the resources needed to stop the next school or mass shooting.

Sampson said most people can’t even tell you what a bump stock is. He suggested the state should invest instead in more school resource officers, funding the statewide firearm trafficking task force, and providing more mental health treatment. He offered amendments for funding those services. One would take the money from state’s public-financing program for elections. Another would rescind a state economic bailout package for the city of Hartford.

When those amendments failed, he offered an amendment that would make using a bump stock to commit a crime a Class D felony. That also failed.

“People have probably used knitting needles to commit more crimes than bump stocks,” Sampson said.

Stafstrom pointed out the irony of the committee being lectured for over an hour about Second Amendment rights and how gun ownership could prevent crime on the same day someone had walked into a private business (YouTube) and shot people and then killed herself with a gun.

“The intent of this bill is fairly simple,” Stafstrom said. “It is to honor the intent of the gun laws this legislature passed exactly five years ago today which say that automatic rifles have no place in our state.  When you take a semi-automatic weapon and add a bump stock you’re skirting the laws and intent of this legislature.”

[Markeshia Ricks / New Haven Independent] New Haven State Rep. Robyn Porter challenged the notion that lawmakers were acting out of emotion and political motives. She said for her the bills are about protecting people’s lives.

“We talk about why we’ve been called here to this legislature and what we’ve been called here to do,” she said. “I think what we’ve been called here to do is to actually ensure the safety of every single citizen in this state. So it’s my constituents and everyone else’s constituents that work in this building.”

The illegal trafficking of guns plays a role in urban violence, which Porter pointed out wasn’t what was being talked about Tuesday. She also noted that the guns often used in mass shootings are purchased legally.

“The Parkland shooter bought his gun from Dick’s Sporting Goods,” Porter said. “It’s not a matter about what’s harmful to yourself ... but when it affects people in the community, in the public, public safety, when lives are at risk it should prompt us to want to do something more.”

And she challenged the idea that strong gun laws don’t work pointing out that research has shown the opposite.

“The U.S. has more guns than any other country in the world,” Porter said. “It also has more gun deaths than any country in the world. We do have other issues, it’s not just about gun control…school is supposed to be the safest place outside of the home. For me, I think we should take away the option of having a bump stock when it makes killing a lot easier.”

Permission to Carry

The bill that would have allowed for people to openly carry guns in state parks made it out of committee as well —passing in a 21-20 vote.

Republican lawmakers argued that because of the rural nature of many of the state’s parks a gun could be handy for fending off a mugger, rapist, or a very hungry bobcat or bear. Some of the lawmakers who live in the more rural areas of the state pointed out that it’s not unusual to see a bear in their backyard.

Rep. Doug Dubitsky of Chaplin said that those who would be eligible to carry in state parks are “good people” who have jumped through all the state’s hoops “to be certified good guys.”

“They’re our friend and neighbors — people we know,” he said. Allowing such people to have their guns in state parks, where police help might be 30 or 40 minutes away, and a cell phone signal is out of reach would be a good thing, he said.

New Haven State Sen. Gary Winfield said knowing that there are people openly carrying guns in a state park wouldn’t make him feel safer.

“I think there is nothing wrong with a gun per se,” Winfield said, “but I think when you put the gun in the hand of an individual, individuals make judgment calls. We’ve seen that people who are trained don’t always make the best judgment calls.”

“In this country right now we’re looking at issues of police making judgment calls for people like myself that don’t always turn out to be the best judgment call,” he said. “When we think about placing guns in the hands of people and more corners of our state, it doesn’t make me feel safe at all. In fact, it makes me feel less safe. I don’t disregard the right that people have to carry a gun. I don’t disregard that they have that right given to them by the constitution. But we also have the right to regulate guns. I would err against allowing guns in state parks.”

question: What did Connecticut legislators debate on Tuesday?

answer: Whether or not to respond to mass shootings and gun violence in the US by restricting certains types of guns and accessories.

question: What was the result of their vote?

answer: They voted to send it to the full House of Representatives for considerations.

question: Which representatives championed the push for legislation to slow gun violence?

answer: William Tong and Steven Stafstrom

question: What would the bump-stock bill require of people who want to order partially completed guns to build at home?a

answer: They must notify the state's Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection within 30 days that they are in possession of a kit and must get a serial number so the government can keep tabs on the parts.

question: Write a ~6 sentence summary.

answer: On Tuesday, Connecticut legislators voted on a set of bills regarding gun control in the United States. Such legislation has been drafted in direct response to specific events some are chalking up to a lack of regulation in the States on certain kinds of weaponry. Representatives William Tong and Steven Stafstrom have spearheaded judicial efforts to control possession and permit dispersion amongst gun-owners. In contrast some Republican legislators are arguing that this effort is rash and based on emotion instead of facts, fearing increased control will result in civilans' not being able to defend themselves and others in times of need. The bills are a political response most recently to the Parkland shooting in FLorida which resulted in the loss of lives of students and teachers alike. Some are arguing that instead of increased control, there should be more officers instated to protect vulnerable areas such as schools.


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THE BOOK OF DAVE

     In the beginning, Dave created a bunch of stuff like the earth, water, animals, and humans. He thought "Meh, it's cool I guess...", and then he pretty much sat back and watched everything unfold, chillin' like a villain and taking many forms. Mostly though he liked to be a plastic dove. He saw all his creations screw up the world he created, and it pissed him off pretty badly. He thought for centuries about how he could save the world he put so little effort into creating.

     One day, in the late 1990's he came up with a plan. It was about time too, because the world he created was in pretty pitiful condition by this time. He set out to create 5 strong men who would spread his holy name. One of them appearing to be a heretic, but obviously a believer. One of them a natural born leader to guide the prophets. One of them tall and strong willed and convert others. One of them with great musical talents with which to sing and play instruments in the name of Dave, and the last one. Dave's only son. He arranged so that these men would one day come together and use their own talents to spread the word of Dave.

     These young men grew and realized their talents (except for the son of Dave, who had a hard time because he had not yet recognized his true purpose in life). They misused their talents, however, because they did not know that their destiny was the destiny that Dave set for them. They would know in the future that Dave needed them to rid the world of ignorance and stupidity. It would take time, though, for them to be ready for the task at hand.

     By the time these 5 young men were ready for their destiny, the world was even worse than it was before. There had been terrorist attacks, wars, destruction in massive proportions. They were indeed ready at the last minute. The 5 boys had grown to be good friends, and were like family. One day, fate brought them all together, and set them on a journey that would open their eyes to the truth. Open their eyes to Dave.

    They found themselves in their leader's house, discussing the most important of current events, politics, economics, history, and other things of the like. Then, as fate may have it, they embarked on a journey. They started with a trip to a local general store to purchase liquid refreshment, and to win the heart of a fair maiden. They failed miserably at the winning the heart part, but succeeded in buying refreshments. They also caused the son of Dave to smudge a dipping sauce on his trousers. They then headed to a larger store to buy him a new pair of trousers.

     They failed in their quest to acquire new trousers, but had good hearty laughs and made the son wear clothes meant for girls. However, it was here that they discovered The Great Dave. They found him in his usual form, a plastic bird, perched upon a raised surface. They were drawn to him, and immediately knew that it was to be theirs. They did not know why, but they knew it must be.

     They purchased the plastic bird, took him home, and immediately idolized him. They knew that his name was to be Dave, and that he was of great importance. The boys did not truly understand that Dave was of much more importance until much later. The day after their trip to the store, their land was ice-ridden. The plants outside were enveloped in a solid sheet of ice, and the roads were only traversible by foot, because none of their automobiles were equipped to operate on the ice-covered roads.

     The young men grew hungry, and weary of being held inside their home, and by the will of Dave, which they still failed to recognize, decided to embark on a long journey to obtain cheap, delicious food. They left their home and started down the road, talking and laughing, unaware of the great events that awaited them. They would soon find out the true purpose of what was happening.

     They noticed a bird that looked exactly like their plastic bird that was perched upon a telephone wire. Then they realized that this, in fact, WAS their bird, but in the form of a living version of it's plastic form, guarding them, and guiding them. They then began to realize that they had a greater purpose in this journey, and that Dave was more than a mere plastic bird.

     They began to have revelations and realizations that Dave placed in their minds. They came to the conclusion that Dave was the true God, and that they were prophets, since they were the only ones who realized this truth. They then realized that the one with no apparent useful talent must have been the son of Dave, because of the hardships he faced and trials and tribulations. They realized that since he had no talent to offer Dave, he didn't require one, because him simply being among the other prophets was enough to please Dave.

     Then came their true sign that they were led by The Great and Powerful Dave. They noticed on the side of the path a beautiful sight. A useless, disappointing, fresh, beautiful sight. They knew in their hearts that Dave put this there for them, that he loved them, and that he wanted them to cleanse the world of the wrongness that had befallen it.

title: The Book of Dave

question: What does the story say about becoming a disciple of Dave?

question: What does the story say about Dave?

answer: Dave created the earth, water, animals, and humans. He thought it was cool and sat back watching everything unfold. Dave can take many forms, but he liked to be a plastic dove. When Dave saw that his creations were screwing up the world he put little effort into creating, it pissed him off. For centuries, he thought about how he could save the world. In the late 1990s, when the world was pretty pitiful, Dave set out to create 5 strong men who would spread his word and holy name.

question: What does the story say about the 5 strong men Dave created?

answer: Dave created 5 strong men in an effort to save the world he created. These men were supposed to spread the word of Dave and his holy name. The men were different and had unique talents: one was a heretic/believer, one was a natural-born leader, one had great musical talents, while the other one was strong-willed and tall. The last one was Dave's only son. They misused their talents at first because they didn't know the destiny Dave set for them. Dave needed them to rid the world of ignorance and stupidity.

question: What does the story say about Dave's only son?

answer: Dave's only son is part of the 5 strong men Dave created to rid the world of ignorance and stupidity by spreading the word of Dave. Dave's only son had a hard time realizing his talents because he didn't recognize his true purpose in life. When they embarked on a journey to purchase liquid refreshments and win the heart of a fair maiden, the son of Dave smudged dipping sauce on his trousers and they had to go to a larger store to buy him a new pair. However, there were no trousers available and the son of Dave had to wear clothes meant for girls.