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[Manuscript of “I Rise and Grieve”, in Lawes's hand[1]] HENRY LAWES (1596 – 1662) was the leading English songwriter of the mid-17th century.[2] He was elder brother of fellow composer William Lawes.

Life

Henry Lawes (baptised 5 January 1596 – 21 October 1662),[3] the elder son of Thomas Lawes (died 1640) and Lucris Lawes (born Shephard)[4][5] was born at Dinton, near Wilton, Wiltshire, just before 5 January 1596. Around 1602 Thomas, a church musician, moved to Salisbury as lay vicar and the family took up residence in the Close. Henry's three brothers, born in Salisbury, were also able musicians: William, Thomas (1608 – 1666) and John (d 1655). It is presumed that Henry, and subsequently William, sang in the Cathedral choir but there is no direct evidence. Nor is there information about his upbringing or musical training before he appeared in London, probably about 1615.[6]

At an early stage in London he was employed by John Egerton, earl of Bridgewater to teach music to his daughters.[7] He was sworn 'epistoler' of the Chapel Royal in January 1625/6 and Gentleman in November following. On 6 January 1630/1 he was cited in the Lord Chamberlain's accounts as being appointed 'for the lutes and voice' as one of Charles I's musicians, replacing the recently deceased Robert Marsh.[8] By 28 February he was receiving an annual salary of £20, with a livery allowance of £16 2s 6d.[9] Lawes was one of six countertenors of the Capel Royal who attended the King at his coronation in Scotland in 1633).[10] That same year he served as the Clerk of the Cheque of the Chapel Royal and was a member of the royal band.[11]

During the mid-1630s he composed songs for Milton's _Arcades_ and arranged for John Milton to write the masque _Comus_; its first performance on 29 September 1634 at Ludlow Castle[12] marked the appointment of Bridgewater as President of the Council of Wales. Compositions for masques and other entertainments followed in the 1630s, sometimes with brother William and others such as Simon Ives.[13] Unlike his songs (see below), little of his music for the masques survives. The portrait now in the Faculty of Music, Oxford University, is dated around this time, approximately 1642.

The English Civil War altered this way of life and affected Henry especially when William was killed in 1645, joining what was believed to be a victorious rout in the fighting at the siege of Chester. In 1648 Henry published _Choice Psalms_ containing three-part psalms by himself and William as a memorial to William. It includes verse memorials by Townshend, Harington, Milton and Sambrooke,[14] with musical elegies by Henry Lawes, John Wilson, John Taylor, John Cobb, Edmond Foster, John Jenkins and John Hilton.

Whereas William had continued in the King's service, Henry developed his activities as teacher and performer. He taught the daughter of Sir Edward Dering, Lady Mary, to whom he later dedicated his 1655 collection of airs. He appears to have opened his house for music - the duchess of Newcastle attended “several times”. Playford listed Henry in 1651 as among the London teachers “for the Voyce or Viol”. In the later Commonwealth musical entertainments revived and Henry contributed to entertainments written by William Davenant such as his _First Day's Entertainment_ performed at Rutland House on 23 May 1656.[15]

With the publication of his second book of _Ayres and Dialogues_ from 1655, Lawes reflected on his life's changes wrought by the Civil War: “...although I have lost my fortunes with my Master (of ever blessed memory) [the reference is to Charles I], I am not so low to bow for a subsistence to the follies of this age.”[16]

At the Restoration Lawes was reinstated in both of his old positions in the King's Musick (16 June, as Composer in the Private Musick " in place of Thomas Ford) and the Chapel Royal.[17] On 23 April 1661 Henry Lawes's anthem _Zadok the priest_ was sung at the coronation of Charles II. However it had been noted by William Child and Samuel Pepys among others that _he lies very sick_: he died on 21 October 1662 and was buried in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey on 25 October.

Works

Henry Lawes wrote little instrumental music though some may have been lost: and though some of his 1638 psalm tunes are found in modern hymn-books, his devotional music does not now appeal. It is his output of more than 430 songs on which his reputation rests, linking the period of Dowland to that of Purcell.[18] The major quantity of songs remain in MS, most especially an autograph collection,[19][20] thought to be in chronological order between 1620 and 1650, containing 325 songs. Another substantial MS source is in New York.[21] The favoured poets were Carew, Waller, Herrick, Suckling and Lovelace.

Printed sources have some degree of overlap with the MSS but account for a further 239 songs: 1638: Psalms to paraphrase by George Sandys; 1648: Choice Psalms (see above); 1653: First Booke of Ayres and Dialogues; 1655: Second Booke of Ayres and Dialogues; 1658: Third Booke of Ayres and Dialogues;

In addition there are many songs and catches in publications by John Playford from 1652 (“Catch that Catch Can”) through to 1678.

[1] This page presumably via book by Willetts

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[3] Ian Spink, “Lawes, Henry,” _Grove Music Online / Oxford Music Online_ accessed 18 October 2019.

[4] Philip H. Highfill, Jr., Kalman A. Burnim, and Edward A. Langhans (eds), _A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660–1800_ (Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1984), vol. 9, p. 168.

[5] Highfill et al do not give authority for this

[6] Ashbee & Lasocki, 1998.

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[13] Murray Lefkowitz, _William Lawes_, London, 1960.

[14] Francis Sambrooke, a friend who was solicitor in Salisbury.

[15] Highfill, Burnim, and Langhans (eds), _A Biographical Dictionary_ (1984), vol. 9, p. 169.

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[18] Spink, Ian: “Lawes, Henry” in _The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography_.

[19] GB-Lbl Add.53723.

[20] See Willetts, Pamela J, _The Henry Lawes Manuscript_, 1969, .

[21] *Drexel 4257.

title: Henry Lawes

question: Did every abled man fight in the English civil war?

answer: Doesn't sound like Henry fought in the battles, while his brother did.


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answer: The narrator is in awe of Mr. Twiggs. After attending his workshop, the narrator was able to find a rental for one client and had to clients complete the loan application to start the process of purchasing a home. The narrator was so impressed with Mr. Twigg that he asked him to partner with him at his own workshop.

question: Summarize what most comments in the text have to say about Mr. Twiggs.

answer: Most comments that Mr. Twiggs book was a game changer for them. Each person who has commented and rated Mr. Twiggs books believes that the practical steps that have been laid out for them can really help overcome procrastination. Being able to learn that you can be so much better is very helpful to all those who commented after reading the book.

question: What would be the target audience to read Mr. Twigg's book?


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THE CHURCH OF ST. LOUIS GRIGNON DE MONTFORT is a church in Rome, in the Primavalle district, on Avenue of the Montfort.

History

It was designed by architect Francesco Romanelli, in the late sixties of the twentieth century and consecrated by the Cardinal Vicar Angelo Dell'Acqua on June 30, 1970.

The church is home parish, erected on September 24 in 1962 with the decree of the Cardinal Vicar Clemente Micara _Cum in suburban_, and entrusted to the priests of the Company of Mary (called Montfort). It is home to the cardinal's title of “St. Louis Grignon de Montfort”, instituted by Pope John Paul II.

List of Cardinal Protectors

-   Robert Coffy (28 June 1991 - 15 July 1995)
-   Serafim Fernandes de Araujo (25 February 1998 – 8 October 2019)
-   Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel (28 November 2020 – present)

title: San Luigi Maria Grignion de Montfort

question: Where is the Church of St. Louis Grignon de Montfort located?

answer: It is located in Rome.

question: Who designed the church?

answer: The church was designed by architect Francesco Romanelli.

question: How many cardinal protectors have their been and what are their names?

answer: There have been three cardinal protectors: Robert Coffy, Serafim Fernandes de Araujo, and Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel.

question: When was the church consecrated and by whom?

answer: The church was consecrated on June 30, 1970 by Cardinal Vicar Angelo Dell' Acqua.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: This article describes the history of the Church of St. Louis Grignon de Montfort in Rome.


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First time reddit poster, not a writer but I wrote a short story a week ago, and I would love to get some feedback.

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	With a crash and a flash and a bash and a smash: Two young males struggled into the small apartment.  The door slammed open and with a screeching dragged gravel across  the tile floor, before coming to a halt.  The two boys stumbled over the threshold, streetlight streaming in from behind them lighting up the entry in a dulled yellow half light and throwing shadows into the hallway and kitchen.  The boys rolled after these shadows, chasing them inside.

	The sudden crash and flash were alarming and the sudden commotion paralyzed the third guest in the house.  And as the shadows thrown by the streetlight faded, accompanied once more with the screeching tiles, this unwelcome guest slunk as far into the dark as it could.  Attempting to envelope himself in the darkness, but his quivering body had not much room to creep.  Only the meagre shelter allowed beneath the lip of a soup plate, the only refuge offered in this stainless pit, which was quickly becoming a dungeon.

	Stainless steel imbues a feeling of clean and modernity, extravagant kitchens stamped with the big names of interior designers.  This first assumption must be corrected.  For the house the two boys stumbled inside had a different feeling.  It was the house of four-boys, four twenty year old college boys, in an aging brick and plaster building of little portugal.  Furnished comfortably with all the loving care mothers and fathers have when their children grow up and go off to college.  But this current state of disarray is not how those parents left it.  The furniture was haphazardly rearranged, and fallen couch cushions crudely assembled circles around the beer stained dining and coffee tables.  And the impressive collection of empty cans and bottles, lay littered upon every horizontal surface.  Like common nicknacks, making the boys feel right at home.  All that was curious was the out of place modern sink, sticking out like a sore thumb beneath a cupboard hanging limply by its only remaining hinge.

	And it is in this sink, huddled under a soup plate with a rim stained by chilli sauce and beans, backed up onto a cold, empty, dented, metal beer can the third guest was hid.  The brief calm submitted once again to the boys clatter, as the concentration required to balance while removing shoes abated.  Their decisive pounding gait rekindled, and it brought these young giants across the scratched pinewood flooring onto the brown ceramic kitchen tile.  With foresight one wouldn't expect from the boys in their state, one of them stomped purposely towards the sink in search of a large glass of water, to help stave off the worst of tomorrow morning's inevitable ailments.  The second closed in on the kitchen as well and with a click, flicked on the light switch.

	The growing proximity of the broad shouldered boys in their denim dress shirts and scraggly unkempt beard hair had the hidden sink prisoner already on edge.  His silent quest for a midnight morsel had led him down into this hell hole.  And more and more the half nibbled Romano bean an inch from his whisker seemed a meagre prize to take such risks.  Fretting, regretting, and still quivering; the mouse lay still, without a squeak or a peep, cowering ever more tightly to the dented blue can.  But his nerves got the best of him.  And as the sudden blinding incandescent bulbs evaporated the moonlit apartment into the clear resolve of the twentieth century, it drew forth a characteristic squeak from the kitchen's midnight guest.  The boys had heard it, he had no doubt.  And the bright lighting reflecting from all angles exposed him inn his hiding place.  But the mouse did not wimpier and cower, the mouse's resolve for life redoubled, as if his mean squeak was instead a battle cry reverberating off the reflective walls.  His clandestine methods were immediately abandoned and with a scuttle (caused from the poor grip of claws on stainless steel) stormed into the flooded light of the sink basin.

	The squeak and the scuttle coming from the sink procured an uncharacteristic yelp from the boys in the kitchen, as the small noises caused the young men to flinch backwards.  An unlikely response for moments before they had been unfazed by their own cacophonous stomping.  And this frightened call only further pervaded the mouse with a sense of determination and zeal.  The walls were too tall to jump and the smooth steel only scratched as the mouse tried in vain to climb free from this damp pit.  But the mouse was not disheartened, and with a beady eye spotted and plotted his escape.  With the lightning reflex that had so frightened those brave rugged boys, the mouse scrabbled back to his soup plate.  But not into its shadow, triumphantly he climbed, clambering onto the porcelain rim and basking in the full glow of the electric bulbs.  His fervent goal--a wooden stirring spatula leaning upright on the edge of a small metal pot .  Cast into the sink after serving up the chilli, the utensil was now serving as a tool in the mouse's escape.  Serving up justice, for death is too high a price to pay for a nibble of a discarded Romano bean!

	His paws moved deftly over the spoon, hand over hand as he had finally found a proper surface for which to grip his claws.  The edge mere inches away, and past that the cluttered countertop with a neglected hole in the corner baseboard.  Any specialist of mouse facial expressions (a field of study beginning and ending outside of the human species) would've recognized the excitement and elation between our hero's whiskers.  But this did not last long, for while those few inches of sink basin, plate rim, soup pot, and spatula handle were being navigated the boys were reacting.  At first with laughter over his friend's feminine squeal, but then with a new found home owners responsibility.  With malice in his eye the young man closed the gap to the sink, the metallic scratches had given way to subtler noises as the mouse had found his way onto the spatula.

	The mouse ran quickly, but was not fast enough, and with a look of dread watched as the boys bony knuckles barred his freedom, by grasping the end of the spatula.  The boy flicked and shook the it, and it was too much, the spatula was wrenched free from the mouse's desperate grasp, and he was thrown up into the air.

	The specialist in mouse facial expression would've definitively noted this new expression as a look of dread.  Utter terror spanned from his eyes to his whiskers to his tiny mouth, as he fell backwards, once more into his stainless steel prison.  Legs shot out in all directions, while his tail squirmed.  But there was nothing to grasp but thin air, and the sobering realization that he may not make it back to his hole tonight.

	With a soft thud he landed hard on his back on the cold damp steel.  The once prized Romano bean lay beside him, taunting him.  A sad reward to have forfeited so much for.  After the mouse came the spatula, coming down quickly as the boy swung the blade after his foe.  With a smash and a squelch the end of the spatula came down over the mouse, and the boys paused for a moment.  Curiosity got the best of them and as they both crowded around the sink they peeled back the spatula and peaked underneath.  The boys wrinkled their noses in disgust.  With nothing but contempt they threw the mouse into a plastic bag and then the trash.  With only feelings of disgust and disdain, they laid the mouse to rest.  Upset, because having to clean up the guts of a mouse is too high a price to pay for leaving a few dishes in the sink.

title: Mouse Hunt

question: What does the imagery of the house the boys live in add to the overall context of the text?

answer: It shows how dirty the house is and how possible it is to have mice in a house in such a state.

question: How can you describe the mouse's feeling when wanting to get food?

answer: The mouse was excited to get food, as it could see particles of food everywhere, nervous about getting caught by the boys, but also feeling bold enough to make a run for its food.

question: How does the boys fright affect the mouse?

answer: The mouse gets more excited as it senses the boys being frightened and nervous of it.

question: With what device did the boys hit the mouse with?

answer: A kitchen spatula

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: The story describes the filthy house that four college boys lived in and how a mouse was ready to get food from the kitchen covered with food particles and waste. The mouse's feeling and determination to get food intertwined with the boys fear of the mouse created a great face-off in the story. In the end, the boys squash the mouse with a spatula.


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Hello.

This tale starts at the end of the “dark” period of my youth.  My name isn’t important, but for the purpose of narrative, you can call me T.  I grew up in an area that was known by the local population as a barrio.  For the uninitiated, it could also be called the ghetto.  In a lot of ways, I can say that I had it better than a lot of other people.  Prior to the dark period, I had a fairly normal childhood.  A mom, a dad, 2.5 kids, rusted chain link fence.  But, when my mom died, it set off a series of events that lead to the dissolving of my family circle, and wound up with me living more and more with friends on the streets.  Anywhere was preferable to being at home for any length.

The end of the dark period signaled the dawn of the sunny time which involved the many animated, insane, and at times, frightening people that made up the tapestry of my teenage year friends.  The dynamic of the realities of daily life shaped a great deal of things that most other people took for granted during that time frame.  No one in my circle of friends relied on parents for anything more than a bed and an occasional meal.  Often times, even that was in question.  Police were more widely feared than the gangs that squabbled over the various streets and blocks of the city.  Murder, violence, teen pregnancy were all the norm.  It may sound trite, but the old gangsta rap songs proclaiming how hard it was to “get up out da ghetto” were not just a piece of creative writing.

It began in the fall of my 7th grade year of school.  I was still trying to rebuild after the world had crashed down around me.  I had begun a new year of school, in a brand new school, with a brand new group of people who hated me just for being me.  You see, in an area which had a majority population which were mexican or latin american, I was the token minority: white.  The reverse racism of my youth, in hindsight, helped to build me into a much stronger person as an adult.  It built character, if you will.  But at the time, getting thrown into trash cans, dunked into toilets, and the occasional jumping left me feeling like no amount of character was worth this bullshit.

The house next door to me had been occupied by 4 families in the span of my childhood.  First was a blue collar gentleman and his family who moved out when the gangs moved in. I was 3 or 4 at that time.  Next was a group of guys who I realized when I was older were in fact drug pushers.  They didn’t last long, although I don’t actually recall when they left.  The third was a family which came with three kids.  They wound up being close friends of mine throughout much of my youth, but left at the time the dark period began.  The parents wound up divorcing.  I never figured out the exact circumstances behind what happened next, but my previous friends Uncle wound up buying the home next.  He came with 4 children.

Rigo was the oldest of the group.  We were in the same grade, and due to a lot of similar interests, he and I became like brothers.  He was only half related to the other 3 siblings, being the bastard son of his father.  He was a wirey fellow, but extremely athletic.  His dad and uncle both played AAA ball, and he always felt like he had huge shoes to fill due to those expectations.  But, being a bastard, his step mom treated him disdain and hatred, and as a result, so did his dad.

Chunky was the second oldest, and at the time, the only girl of the bunch.  As her name implies, she was….rotund.  She was a sweet girl for the most part, and more often than not could be find working with her mom in the kitchen or cleaning house.  She was slow, however.  She had some facial features of someone who suffers from down syndrome, but never took special education classes.  In fact, she was a straight A student though most of school.  Her grades did not mask the fact that she had the social skills of a stump however.  They also did not mask the fact that she had absolutely no street savvy, and often lacked common sense.  As a bonus, she also had a near constant odor of cheese.

Conejo was the third oldest.  For those who don’t speak spanish, his nick name translates to rabbit.   As this name implies, he shared a lot of features with said lagomorph.  He had pronounced buck teeth, large black eyes, and ears that were two sizes too large for his head.  But he was smart.  Not just in school, but also on the streets.  For the purpose of these tales, I will use the name Rabbit for him.

Last in the train was Daniel.  Dumb Daniel.  Oh….Dumb Daniel.  He was a year younger than Rabbit, and shared some similarities in appearance.  But where Rabbit had a good head on his shoulders, Daniel was sporting a brain that was sort of rotten and insane.  Like his sister, he never was in any special education classes, but unlike her, he was not academically inclined.  More than a few times growing up, I wondered how natural selection had not picked his weak antelope off yet.

These misfits were the saviors who arrived just in time to prevent me from killing myself.  They were my friends.  They were my family.  They were the hood rats that, prior, I never knew I needed.

title: [UR][NF] Hood Rats - 1 - Introductions are in order

question: What event set off the rest of the narrator's life?

answer: The event that set off the rest of the narrator's life is when their mother died. Having their mother died resulted in the dissolvement of their family circle and the narrator living more and more on the streets. This dark period gave the narrator a hint of the realities of daily life were.

question: Describe Chunky.

answer: Chunky was a sweet girl who helped her mother around the house. Her nickname was given as she was rotund. She was a little slow and had no social skills, yet she was a straight A student and never took special education classes. She lacked common sense and had no street savy, and unfortunately always smelled like cheese.

question: Would the narrator be loyal to this chosen family than to her actual bloodline family?

question: How does the narrator feel about Chunky, Conejo, Daniel, and Rigo?

answer: The narrator considers Chunky, Conejo, Daniel, and Rigo their family. The narrator states that this family saved them from killing themselves. These people were the hood rats the narrator never knew they needed.


text:
"My best friend was telling me last night about his amazing new discovery: some guy on the Internet was telling everyone how to easily make lucid dreams. The trick was to lay still on your bed, for up to half an hour, concentrating on staying awake. Your body would then fall asleep, but not your mind. Interested, he'd tried and told me how great it was, being half in reality and half in a dream.

The same night, I tried to find a comfortable enough position on my bed, but ended up on my back. I closed my eyes and focused my thoughts in resisting sleep. Soon I started aching, wasn't comfortable anymore. Still, it'd been probably over ten minutes and I lacked the motivation to start all over again. Five minutes passed, then ten.

It was at least fifteen later that I realised my body couldn't move anymore. It felt weird, like being paralysed. My imagination started running, and the panic became overwhelming: what if someone broke into my apartment and I just couldn't move? What if I was just dead? My friend hadn't told me anything about paralysis. Did he hide that, or was there a problem?

I was still panicking when I heard steps. My mind was running wild, in contrast to my body that only let me move or close my eyes. Two men in white entered my room and my heart nearly stopped; as one flicked the light switch, I realised I was lying on a hospital bed. All sorts of machines were wired to my arms, and I pictured myself from the point of view of my visitors: a seemingly lifeless body, miserable on its bed.

**No**. I wasn't lifeless, my eyes were moving! But then, they started talking to each other.

"- For how long has he been there?, said the first one.
- More than a week. His brain stopped functioning on the impact. His family wants us to let him go, they believe we're preventing him from finding peace."

"I am going to **die**", I thought. Killed in my dream. My friends would find me days later, and forget about me in a minute. I never achieved the social life I had hoped for. I was going to die before I even truly lived.

"- What about his eyes? He seems to react to our conversation."

**Yes**.

"- Just the remains of his nervous system. That's what kept him alive until he got here, actually."

I wanted to shout at them! "You can't just do this to me, treat me like a corpse! I want to live, this is a mistake!" Not a single word came out of my mouth. So I gave up and kept listening, my eyes shaky from the adrenaline rush.

"- Let me just check him for a minute before I give you the permission to do it.", said the first one.

I didn't allow myself to hope, and kept thinking about my short sad life. It really was a miserable way to leave, I had always hoped for better.
The doctor checked my pulse, breath, and did other things I didn't see. At some point I heard him whisper to my ear "I hope we're not making a mistake. If we are, I'm sorry."

My brain went hysterical after this one; hadn't it been for the paralysis, I would've burst out laughing. But I stood as still as I had been for the past few minutes, and permission to kill me was granted. This doctor had just sentenced me to death.

A button was pushed, and the last thing I heard was the place and time of my death.

I slowly regained control of my body, which was sweaty, thirsty, hungry and still under the effect of the huge adrenaline rush. First thing tomorrow, I'll punch my best friend in the face. "

Thanks for reading my first short story here and please report any mistakes because my first language is French and I want to learn. Thanks!

title: A Lucid Night

question: Who is the narrator of the story?

answer: The narrator is a man who learned about lucid dreams from a friend and tries it out.

question: Why are the doctors examining him?

answer: In his dream, he has been in the hospital for more than a week with life threatening injuries. Only his nervous system was alive according to the doctors. His family requested the doctors to give him peace.

question: Why was his body paralyzed?

answer: His body was in a sleep state while his mind was awake.

question: What is the doctors' conclusion after their examination?

answer: Their conclusion is to continue with switching off the machines. They hope that they are not making a mistake. They pronounce his time of death.

question: Does the man die?

answer: In his dream, he hears his time of death. He then wakes up from his dream.

question: Why does he want to punch his best friend in the face?

answer: He blames his friend for the harrowing experience.

question: Write a ~6 sentence summary.

answer: A man hears about lucid dreams from his best friend and decides to try it out that same night. He successfully reaches a lucid state while sleeping, his body feels paralyzed, he is scared. Men in white coats approach him and discuss his vegetative state. The doctors proceed with switching off the machines keeping him alive. He hears his own time of death announced. He wakes up from his dream and decides to punch his best friend.


text: The walls reflected the starkness of the house, and it's spirit; brightly cream coloured, yet somehow dark and rotten. Dust clung to every orifice of it’s  being, although if you asked me I'd tell you it was cleaner than ever. Their was something chaotically organised about it all, as if the place was catalogued  by some divine power just out of human grasp. In some patches, paint peeled off like dead skin. But the house was alive. The whistle of a kettle echoed  down the hall, dragging back memories of the thousand cups of tea that made up my mother's regular diet. A note of music intruded upon this sound-  piano, or perhaps violin. My parents were talking, my brother laughing at the television. I shivered, and, trying to ignore these sounds, drew my heavy  lidded mind back to my studies. The house stilled, but remained awake. Outside, the sun gave one final, presumptuous glow and disappeared. The greenery  faded to shadows, the winds stopped, but the house remained, and, having observed all of this, I remembered when I first saw this place. It was a day like  any other day, yet so unlike any other day it sent my mind reeling. It was the day I died. Looking around the room, I watched as the illusion faded and I  returned. Once again I found myself in the commune; the screams, the smell of charcoal still new to my senses, and I remembered that the house was alive  no more, and that I was once again alone.

title: The House

question: How is the house alive?

answer: No, the house is only alive in the narrator's mind.

question: Who is the narrator?

answer: He doesn't have a name, but he lived in the house with his parents and brother.

question: Is he dead? Why is he alone?

answer: Yes, he died. His being alone was not mentioned.

question: What happened to the house?

answer: Nothing, the house was just an illusion the narrator conjured up because he's alone in the commune.

question: Write a ~6 sentence summary.

answer: The narrator is alone in the commune amidst screams and the smell of charcoal, so he conjures up an illusion (or maybe just recalls a memory) of his old home. He thinks the home is alive and cleaner than ever. Memories flood back as he hears the kettle's whistle, music, his parents talking, and his brother laughing at the TV. In his vision, he sees himself studying as the sun goes down and the winds stop. He remembers seeing this place for the first time and it sends his mind reeling because it was the day he died. The illusion fades and he's back in the commune alone.


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GEORGES ANTOINE CHABOT (13 April 1758, Montluçon – 18 April 1819, Paris), known as CHABOT DE LALLIER, was a French jurist and statesman.

Biography

Chabot was president of the tribunal in Montluçon, he was elected as a deputy supplant to the National Convention during the French Revolution.

A member of the French Directory's Council of the Ancients, then of the Consulate's Tribunate, he was president of the latter when the Treaty of Amiens recognizing the French Republic was signed. He had a resolution adopted which tended to give Napoleon Bonaparte the consulship for life, and in 1804 supported the proposal to establish a hereditary monarchy (the First French Empire).

Napoleon named him inspector-general of the law schools, then judge of the court of cassation.

He published various legal works, e.g. _Tableau de la législation ancienne sur les successions et de la législation nouvelle établie par le code civil_ (Paris, 1804), and _Questions transitoires sur le Code Napoléon_ (Paris, 1809).

title: Georges Antoine Chabot

question: Why did Chabot propose a resolution to give Bonaparte consulship for life?

answer: He was a staunch Bonaparte supporter even suggesting creating a monarchy for him.


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The COMMUNITY OF PROTESTANT CHURCHES IN EUROPE (CPCE, also GEKE for _Gemeinschaft Evangelischer Kirchen in Europa_) is a fellowship of over 100 Protestant churches which have signed the Leuenberg Agreement. Together they strive for realizing church fellowship, especially by cooperation in witness and service to the world. Prior to 2003 the CPCE was known as the “Leuenberg Church Fellowship”.

In membership are most Lutheran and Reformed churches in Europe, the United churches that originated from mergers of those churches, and such pre-Reformation churches as the Waldensians. The European Methodist churches joined the CPCE by a common declaration of church fellowship in 1997.

The General Secretary of the CPCE is the Reverend Dr Mario Fischer. The Community's offices are located in Vienna, Austria, and are shared with those of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Austria.

History

In 1973, major European Lutheran and Reformed churches met at the Swiss conference centre Leuenberg (near Basel) and signed the LEUENBERG AGREEMENT or LEUENBERG CONCORD, an ecumenical document declaring unity through Jesus Christ.[1] Under this agreement the churches agree on a common understanding of the Gospel, including elementary agreement on important doctrines including christology,[2] predestination,[3] Eucharist[4] and justification.[5] They declare church fellowship, understood as pulpit and table fellowship as well as full communion in witness and service.

The churches involved were originally joined in an organization called the “Leuenberg Church Fellowship”. In 2003 this was renamed the “Community of Protestant Churches in Europe” as a sign of growing beyond the Lutheran and Reformed traditions,[6] and now includes several Methodist churches. Since then, the CPEC has started ecumenical dialogue with Anglican,[7] Baptist,[8] and Orthodox[9] churches.

In 2006, the CPCE published a statute of church constitution,[10] and in 2011 published new guidelines for churches wishing to join.[11] This declaration made clear that “churches wishing to join recognize the ordination and ministry of women ministers in other CPCE churches”.[12]

Member churches

-   Evangelical Church of Augustan Confession in Romania
-   Evangelical Lutheran Church of Romania
-   Evangelical Church of Bremen
-   Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein
-   -   Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren
-   Lutheran Evangelical Church in Italy
-   Waldensian Evangelical Church
-   Methodist Church in Italy
-   Church of Scotland
-   Church of the Brethren in the Czech Republic
-   Czechoslovak Hussite Church
-   Church of Norway
-   Reformed Synod of Denmark
-   Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church
-   Protestant Church of Augsburg Confession of Alsace and Lorraine
-   United Protestant Church in Belgium
-   Protestant Reformed Church of Alsace and Lorraine
-   United Protestant Church of France
-   Presbyterian Church of Wales
-   -   Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovakia
-   Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovenia
-   Evangelical Church in the Republic of Croatia
-   Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria
-   Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg
-   Evangelical Lutheran Church in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Central Asia
-   Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover
-   Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brunswick
-   Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Saxony
-   Evangelical Lutheran Church of Schaumburg-Lippe
-   Germany Central Conference, United Methodist Church
-   Evangelical Reformed Church in Bavaria and Northwestern Germany
-   Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Austria
-   Evangelical Church of Anhalt
-   Protestant Church in Baden
-   Evangelical Church in Berlin, Brandenburg and Silesian Upper Lusatia
-   Reformed Church in Austria
-   Evangelical Church in Liechtenstein
-   Evangelical Church of the Palatinate
-   Evangelical Church in the Rhineland
-   Evangelical Church in Germany
-   Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau
-   Evangelical Church of Hesse Electorate-Waldeck
-   Evangelical Church in Central Germany
-   Evangelical Church of Westphalia
-   Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg
-   German-Speaking Evangelical-Lutheran Synod in Great Britain
-   Moravian Church
-   Church of Denmark
-   Greek Evangelical Church
-   Waldensian Church of the River Plate
-   Evangelical Church of the River Plate
-   Spanish Evangelical Church
-   United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Argentina
-   Evangelical Methodist Church in Argentina
-   Reformed Church of Argentina
-   -   Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Portugal
-   Reformed Church in Transcarpathia
-   Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland
-   Polish Reformed Church
-   Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia
-   Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church Abroad
-   Lithuanian Evangelical Reformed Church
-   Church of Lippe
-   Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lithuania
-   Lutheran Church in Ireland
-   Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Hungary
-   Reformed Church in Hungary
-   Methodist Church of Great Britain
-   Methodist Church in Ireland
-   Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany
-   Presbyterian Church in Ireland
-   Protestant Church of Luxembourg
-   Protestant Reformed Church of Luxembourg
-   Protestant Church in the Netherlands
-   Reformed Christian Church in Croatia
-   Reformed Christian Church in Slovakia
-   Remonstrant Brotherhood
-   Reformed Church in Romania
    -   Reformed Diocese of Királyhágómellék
    -   Reformed Diocese of Transylvania
-   Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches
-   Silesian Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession
-   Slovak Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Serbia
-   Reformed Christian Church in Serbia
-   Union of Evangelical Churches
-   United Free Church of Scotland
-   United Methodist Church
-   Central and Southern Europe Central Conference, United Methodist Church
-   Northern Europe Central Conference, United Methodist Church
-   United Reformed Church
-   Conference of Churches on the Rhine
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[2] “Agreement” (1973), §2, 4, 9, 21-23

[3] “Agreement” (1973), §24-25

[4] “Agreement” (1973), §13, 15, 18-20

[5] “Agreement” (1973), §6, 8, 10, 12, 13

[6] , p. 314

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[12] “Guidelines” (2011), §6

question: What does the story say about the history of the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe?

answer: Major European Lutheran and Reformed churches declared church fellowship in 1973 and joined in The Leuenberg Church Fellowship that was later renamed The Community of Protestant Churches in Europe (CPCE). The CPCE published a statute of church constitution n 2006 and wrote a declaration that says that churches wishing to join the CPCE have to recognize the ordination and ministry of women ministers in other CPCE churches. Today, it consists of over 100 Protestant churches.

question: What does the text say about the Protestant churches are not members of the CPCU?


text:
I can’t keep living like this. And it’s not your fault—it’s mine. I’m living for you when I should be living for myself, for evenings with friends and holidays with family. Because there isn’t a we. I have to live my own life.

And it isn’t you. I’ve been living in a fantasy, that’s the problem, a fantasy of you and me. I keep thinking that one day you’ll wake up and see me waiting here for you and everything will be like it’s supposed to. You’ll say hi and I’ll say hi and you’ll run your hand through your hair and the spikes will flip back up and I’ll laugh cause it’s cute and you’ll tell me I have a nice smile cause you like the way I squint and my freckles squish around my eyes. We’ll go to the docks, like we always do, and I’ll say the sea smells nice and you’ll say it looks a bit green like its sick and I’ll say that’s the way it’s supposed to look cause this isn’t Hawaii and you’ll say well it doesn’t look good for swimming and I’ll tell you of course it’s good for swimming and we should go sometime and you’ll promise we will someday. Someday isn’t going to come though. You’ll never get to read the notes or see the orange roses with the peeling petals I bought you. I wrote them every day, you know, little haikus and couplets. I thought you’d like that. They’re all stacked on the nightstand under the roses with wilting petals.

I guess we’re just not meant to be. I was so sure we were, yet here we are. Here I am, spilling my guts. Honestly, I can’t stand that we aren’t meant to be. It’s like losing faith. But I guess I have to let go of that the way I have to let go of you. You know, every day I dream about you and me. And you and me don’t exist. At least, not like that. I have to shake that out of my head. So it’s me. It’s my problem.

I can’t forget that time we stayed on the phone till two in the morning, just talking, and the way you laughed at my crappy jokes. That was wonderful. I won’t forget that. I was the most in love with you in those moments. Those were the moments you could have asked me to do anything for you and I would have said yes without hesitation. I was too afraid to tell you this before, but you left me breathless. I should have told you sooner. I guess I’m telling you now, though, and that must count for something. But I can’t help but feel like it’s too late. It’s so hard to find that place between too soon and too late. I’m not sure it exists, really, if there’s a right time to say I love you. I haven’t found it anyway. I know this is terrible timing but I have to tell you that I love you.

But I have to stop thinking about it, because it won’t bring you to me. So I’m going to try to forget how it felt when you smiled at me and how it felt when we spoke in unison. I have to move on, even if it’s without you, even if it hurts. I have to move on.

I’m sorry I’m telling you all this, but I feel like I should explain myself. I need to tell you why I can’t see you anymore. We’ll meet again someday, I’m sure, but at least for now I need to let you go. I don’t know if I can forgive myself for letting you go, but I have to try to live my own life. I hope you can forgive me.

I love you, but it’s not enough. Sometimes love doesn’t conquer. Sometimes it dies. And I’m going to let it, because we can’t save it. I can’t save it. So I’m going to let them unplug you now. They said you’ll stop breathing and your heart will stop beating and it will be slow, but you won’t feel a thing. I’m glad. I wonder if you can even feel this right now. If you can feel me leaving you. Well, in case you can, here’s the ring. I can’t keep it. Not if I’m going to keep going. Not if I’m going to live.

I’ve stayed with you through everything—rich and poor, sickness and health—but I can’t watch you die. I’m not going to stay, so this is goodbye. See you later, love.

title: Halcyon [flash fiction]

question: Why is the narrator leaving their beloved?

answer: Their beloved is on life support and they are about to pull the plug.

question: What does the narrator do at the end of their speech?

answer: They return their ring.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: The narrator tells their beloved that they must leave them even though they love them. This is because their beloved is on life support. They return their wedding ring to the one they love and pull the plug.


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UPDATED OCT. 31:

Some residents of a North Texas community are fighting to renew their library cat's stay after she was shown the door in October.

The city of Mabank recently took over management of the Tri-County Library after 25 years in private hands and directed it to re-home Whisper, the four-legged librarian, by Oct.1, the _Mabank Monitor_ reported.

About a dozen people showed up to the City Council meeting a few days later and tried to persuade the town to keep the cat, which was adopted by the library board eight years ago. One library volunteer who isn't partial to cats but has seen Whisper's effect on visitors suggested keeping Whisper as a marketing tool.

After pushback, Mayor Jeff Norman decided to put Whisper's fate to a vote at Tuesday's City Council meeting. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. Supporters are hoping for a huge turnout in favor of Whisper.

Norman said keeping the cat would set a precedent for other employees who might want to bring a pet to work, the _Monitor_ reported.

City Manager Bryant Morris said he received letters from the city's attorney and insurance agency recommending that Whisper be removed from the library, in part because of health concerns relating to the cat's proximity to the library's kitchen.

The cat is covered under the city insurance, the _Monitor_ reported.

Council member Larry Teague told the _Monitor_ that when the library was privately held, "we've said nothing against" Whisper.

"But things are different now," he said. "There's liability."

Residents and fans of the cat have started a grassroots campaign to save Whisper's job. They've gone door to door and circulated a petition for residents of the town of about 3,200.

Mabank is 54 miles southeast of Dallas.

[Whisper at the Tri-County Library.]

1/8Whisper at the Tri-County Library.(Facebook / Tri-County Library)

"Mabank residents aren't the only ones who regularly use that library," Sydney Busch told the _Monitor_. "Some of the most regular visitors come primarily to visit Whisper."

Busch, who is with the organization Friends of the Animals, said the cat is currently staying with her primary caregiver while her future at the library is sorted out.

Kay McAdams, a volunteer with the organization and the library, brings Whisper to her home every weekend and back to work at the library on Mondays.

Busch recommended the library board adopt the mild-mannered kitten about eight years ago from the Humane Society of Cedar Creek Lake in Tool. Friends of the Animals spayed and vaccinated Whisper and still provides all her food, toys and other needs.

"She has never been an expense to the library," Busch told the _Monitor_.

An elementary school student came up with the winning name for the furry librarian in a contest years ago. Every October the library holds a birthday party for her.

Whisper isn't the first library cat to be given the boot this year.

The White Settlement Public Library was given a month to find Browser a new place to live after the City Council voted in June to oust the feline from the stacks.

Two weeks later, after much public outcry, city leaders reversed their decision and allowed Browser to stay.

question: Where does the report take place?

answer: Mabank City, North Texas

question: Who is being evicted from the Tri-County Library and why?

answer: Whisper the cat is being evicted from the library after the City of Mabank took over management, citing health and insurance concerns of having an animal near the library's kitchen.

question: What did Mayor Jeff Norman do after people pushed back?

answer: He decided to put Whisper's fate to a vote at Tuesday's City Council meeting.

question: How long has Whisper lived in the Tri-County Library and who adopted her?

answer: Whisper has called the library home for eight years after being adopted by the library's board when they were still privately held.

question: Write a ~6 sentence summary.

answer: According to the news report, the City of Mabank takes over management of the Tri-County library and decided to evict its tenant and mascot, Whisper, the four-legged librarian cat due to health and insurance liability concerns. Town officials also fear the cat's presence in the library will become a precedent for other employees to bring their pets to work. The city directed the library's board, who adopted Whisper eight years ago, to find a new home for the cat by October 31st. About a dozen people went to the City Council a few days later to persuade the town to keep the cat. After pushback, Mayor Jeff Norman decided to put Whisper's fate to a vote on Tuesday's City Council meeting. Whisper's supporters believe she is a good marketing tool and is hoping for a favorable turnout in favor of the cat.


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NEW WESTMINSTER — Think back to last December and the dramatic way in which the New Westminster Hyacks closed out the 2017 B.C. high school football season.

Consider as well everything in the weeks which preceded their breath-taking, last-second comeback title-clinching 15-14 win over the Terry Fox Ravens for the school’s first-ever Subway Bowl B.C. Triple A senior varsity championship.

“We were uncanny in our ability to make the big play in the big moment,” said head coach Farhan Lalji in retrospect. “Whether we were falling behind against Vancouver College, in the fourth quarter against Seaquam, or coming back in our semifinal (against South Delta) and then in the final, we needed to make big plays at big moments in all of them, and we were equipped to do that.”

And that’s not even including the 19-14 nail-biter over Mt. Douglas in the opening round of the playoffs.

It was the kind of journey best mapped out by a series of figurative electrocardiogram spikes, which when taken on the whole represented one heart-stopping moment after another.

Of course, it’s not the kind of schematic you would ever hold up in front of the team tasked with providing an encore.

Instead, you thank the football gods for some good fortune, knowing full well that any chance of replicating such elusive end results won’t come without first putting in the work to have as many players as possible ready to perform at their best.

New Westminster prescribed to that theory throughout the 15 seasons which included last year’s championship campaign, a climb from a Double A start-up program in 2003 to that of perennial Triple A title contenders.

And now, even if its overall depth seems just a notch more shallow than 2017, the team ranked No. 3 by a preseason vote of coaches from the province’s top tier, is simply going about its business the way it always has.

“We want to build depth,” says Lalji of the team’s primary focus as spring camp now gives way to a summer of anticipation for a team which still returns a solid number of key players from last season’s Subway Bowl winners.

“I would say that our depth is not what it was a year ago,” he continues. “Last year, we could withstand injury and still get through the grind of a Triple A season. Yet we had so few injuries. We were really healthy, but we could have handled it. So it will be important to build depth and to stay healthy.”

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NEW WESTMINSTER’S RISING SENIOR STARTING QUARTERBACK KINSALE PHILIP HEADS TO THE SIDELINES FOR SOME WORDS WITH HEAD COACH FARHAN LALJI DURING THE HYACKS’ SUBWAY BOWL QUARTERFINAL WIN LAST SEASON OVER MT. DOUGLAS AT MERCER STADIUM. (PHOTO BY HOWARD TSUMURA PROPERTY OF VASRSITYLETTERS.CA)
AMIDST BIG LOSSES, KEY RISING TALENT

Think of what Yanni Angelopoulos and Isaiah James brought up front as linemen, and what Sammy Sidhu, Sebastien Reid, Lucas Sabau and Finn Stark represented as dynamic playmakers on either side of the ball.

Further consider that all six are next-level bound, set to join university programs from Burnaby to Halifax this fall.

As far as blue-chip losses go, that is more than a swift kick to the solar-plexus.

Yet here the Hyacks are, taking their rightful place in any pre-season talk of titles.

New Westminster had 11 players graduate from their 2017 roster, four of whom were two-way starters, four of whom started one way, and three of whom manned back-up spots.

Nonetheless, they represented 12 of the team’s 22 total combined starting positions on offence and defence.

“We still return a healthy amount,” says Lalji. “Championship teams are typically all seniors. But we’ve got some guys coming back.”

And when one of those players is your starting quarterback, everyone on the offensive depth chart seemingly gains an extra step or two on the collective process.

Kinsale Philip (6-foot, 190 pounds) is big, tough and rocket-armed, and to those physical qualities you can add the fact that he is not only already a B.C. Subway Bowl JV winner, but he engineered the 80-yard drive the Hyacks used to beat Terry Fox in last season’s senior varsity finale.

“He has always had a feel for the game physically and now he’s catching up with his maturity and we saw signs this spring that he’s found it,” says Lalji of Philip’s new level of in-game composure. “I am looking forward to seeing what he can do when all of those personal traits line up.”

Last season, after quickly developing chemistry with the game-breaking Reid, Philip may have been too quick to abandon the necessary read-progressions that not only keep the rest of his teammates more involved but help him gain a better understanding of his environment.

Yet from a physical standpoint, he has the kinds of gifts so many other do not.

“In terms of arm talent, he has a high-level collegiate arm,” adds Lalji. “But it has to be accurate and consistent. We’ve talked about five per cent less velocity for 25 per cent more accuracy. But the ball just explodes off his arm. He can put the ball anywhere on the field but it’s a question of ‘Can you do it consistently?’”

In the Hyacks’ traditional Wing-T offence, the run is still huge and Philip can execute that part of the game with power.

Through the air, however, his chief targets will likely be rising seniors Zachery Northgraves and A.J. Chol.

The latter made his return to the game last season as a back-up after a few seasons spent living abroad with his family.

“He’s a 6-2 kid with very good hands and good downfield speed,” says Lalji, “and Zach, who was primarily our kicker last year, has a bigger role this year and we’re excited.”

Sidhu and Sabau were a huge one-two punch along the ground last season. Sidhu will man a linebacker spot with the Calgary Dinos while Sabau heads to Simon Fraser as a running back.

In their stead are two rising seniors who have already done everything at the senior varsity level except own feature roles.

Broxx Comia will move into Sidhu’s feature running back role, while Michael Kingsley does likewise by taking over as the starter at Sabau’s fullback spot.

Along the offensive line, Vishaan Narayan, a rising Grade 10, will, despite his youth, be an anchor at the one of the guard spots.

While other guard spot is still up in the air, there is talent returning all around it via a trio of rising seniors. Evan Nolli and Pavan Kainth are a pair of talented tackles while Daniel Dodevic, skilled but caught in a numbers game last season, moves into the starter’s spot at centre.

The Hyacks’ defensive line should feature the likes of Nolli, Narayan. Dordevic and Kainth in some manner with the likes of rising seniors Dario Cade and Steven Sharma, among others, also figuring prominently in the mix.

The linebacking core will include Philip, rising senior Shaye Rathjen, and Titgol Jock, a newcomer to the sport who had come from a basketball background.

In the secondary, look for the likes of Comia, Chol, Arjun Bal and rising Grade 11 Grayson Planinsic to populate some of the spots.

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RUNNING BACK SAMMY SIDHU, PICTURED INCHES FROM THE GOAL LINE, CAPPED HIS HYACKS CAREER WITH A SUBWAY BOWL AAA TITLE AND NEW BAR FOR THE 2018 TEAM TO TRY AND REACH. (PHOTO BY HOWARD TSUMURA PROPERTY OF VASRSITYLETTERS.CA)
TOUGH ALL OVER

As we’ve unveiled the first two of our 2018 preseason Big 5 AAA teams here over the past three days, a theme of parity has clearly developed.

South Delta’s Ray Moon and Mark Townsend of Mt. Douglas both spoke to the glut of blue-chip teams currently populating the upper reaches of the province’s largest tier.

And Lalji takes it a step further by addressing the tight and uncertain nature which exists in the tier’s Western Conference, of which his team is a member.

“I am sure there is a target on our back and I am sure teams will be extra hungry when they play us,” begins Lalji. “But honestly, the conference is so tough as it is. When I look at Mt. Douglas, Notre Dame, Vancouver College, South Delta, all of those teams, you hold your breath a little. A lot of stuff went right for us last year.”

(TOMORROW — JUNE 21: WHO IS NO. 2 IN VARSITY LETTER’S PRESEASON BIG 5 AAA FOOTBALL RANKINGS?)

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question: Which high school football team is being discussed in this article?

answer: New Westminster Hyacks

question: Who is the head coach of the football team?

answer: Farhan Lalji

question: How many players graduated from the 2017 roster in West Minister?

answer: 11 players

question: What is the overall theme of the article?

answer: The article describes the New Westminster's high school football team and its history with its games. It also describes the players for the roster for the new season.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: The article describes the New Westminster's high school football team  (New Westminster Hyacks) and its history with its games. It also describes the players for the roster for the new season.


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_New Energizing Finance report series highlights opportunities to spur investment in centralized and decentralized energy access solutions._

NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 18, 2017: Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) and partners announced first-of-its-kind research today analyzing finance flows for electricity and clean cooking access in 20 countries across Africa and Asia with significant access gaps, and how finance strategies could be scaled and refined to reach more people, more affordably, with sustainable energy.

The new _ENERGIZING FINANCE_ series reveals the current flow of finance for energy access and clean cooking will not achieve global goals for delivering universal access by 2030. Estimates show an annual investment of $45 billion is needed to meet universal electrification, but the latest data shows that finance commitments for electricity in these 20 ‘high-impact’ countries that represent 80 percent of those without electricity access is less than half that number, averaging just $19.4 billion a year. The largest bilateral financier across high-impact countries was China, which was where 21% of finance originated from.

Finance tracked for clean cooking revealed a much greater challenge. Across the 20 countries with the largest clean cooking access gaps representing 84 percent of the global population without access, annual finance committed averaged just $32 million, compared to the estimated annual investment need of at least $4.4 billion.

The _Energizing Finance_ research, done in partnership with the World Bank Group, Climate Policy Initiative, the African Development Bank, Practical Action Consulting and E3 Analytics, delivers a strong wake-up call to the levels of finance flowing to close energy access gaps, but also creates a roadmap of opportunities which, if finance is more strategically directed, will allow us to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goal 7, and provide affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all by 2030.

Speaking on the announcement, RACHEL KYTE, CEO AND SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UN SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FOR ALL, said: “Overall investments are substantially lower than what’s needed to achieve our energy access goals. While it's good to see encouraging, early-stage progress in a handful of countries on electricity access, we urgently need targeted, refined strategies to increase investment in integrated electricity solutions. At the same time we need to open-up a frank new dialogue around bold market-based strategies that can deploy clean fuels and technologies for cooking at the speed and scale needed. The lack of financing for clean cooking solutions is shocking. Fixing financial flows to ensure everyone has access to clean, affordable reliable energy is essential in meeting our commitment to leave no one behind.”

AMADOU HOTT, VICE-PRESIDENT, POWER, ENERGY, CLIMATE AND GREEN GROWTH, AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (AFDB), that authored the report looking at gaps and lags in disbursements, said: “These reports are an important wake-up call that the world is not on track to achieve electricity for all. As part of its New Deal on Energy for Africa, the African Development Bank has set the ambitious goal of achieving universal access to electricity in Africa by 2025. This will not be done by AfDB alone. To achieve this, we need transformative partnerships between the public and private sector to improve energy access planning and increase investment in the preparation and implementation of energy access projects, including innovative access solutions such as off-grid.”

Other key findings from the _Energizing Finance_ series include;

-   Only a miniscule amount of financing commitments– 1 percent, or $200 million a year – went to more-affordable decentralized energy solutions, such as household solar systems, which hold great promise to deliver basic electricity more quickly and more affordably to vast, hard-to-reach rural populations.
-   Roughly 60% of tracked finance commitments for electricity– approximately $11.6 billion a year – went to three countries in Asia, India, the Philippines and Bangladesh. Nigeria and Ethiopia were the next largest recipients ($2.4 billion a year combined). Finance commitments in the other 15 high impact countries (11 of these in Africa) stood below $1 billion a year.
-   Just over a quarter of development finance commitments for electricity access, or 28 percent, reached the 20 high-impact countries over 2011-15, with delays and under-disbursements being very common, especially for large grid-based energy infrastructure projects.
-   There were scattered examples of progress on clean cooking, particularly in Indonesia which achieved promising gains by rolling out strategies using liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) as a clean cooking ‘transition’ fuel in place of high- polluting fuels like charcoal.

Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) and the World Bank Group tracked finance for electricity and clean cooking access in high-impact countries. DR. BARBARA BUCHNER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CLIMATE POLICY INITIATIVE, said: “This is the first time anyone has worked to assess how much finance is flowing to energy access, and the results surprised us. While we are clearly nowhere near what’s needed to meet universal energy access goals, a much clearer picture of what’s happening both globally and on the ground, will help nations, investors, and communities to better scale up the next wave of energy investment.”

Country level analysis was conducted in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Kenya of the financing landscape at the national level. Enterprise surveys were also conducted in these countries plus Myanmar and Nigeria to understand the challenges and opportunities facing businesses providing decentralized energy solutions. Bangladesh and Kenya showed gains in urban and rural areas with integrated strategies that include centralized electric grid infrastructure as well as mini-grid and off-grid energy systems such as solar home systems which are already powering millions of rural households, helped by supportive policies that spur diverse types of public and private finance for energy access projects and companies.

Practical Action Consulting, along with E3 Analytics, undertook the deep-dive country level analysis. PAUL SMITH LOMAS, CEO, PRACTICAL ACTION, “We have long argued that financial systems are skewed; the amount of finance directed towards decentralised energy technologies, like mini-grids and stand-alone systems, remains tiny in comparison to investments in national grids. This is despite decentralised energy technologies being the most economical solution to meet the needs of the majority of unconnected people by 2030. To make these technologies more available to communities, and to achieve universal access, national policies must also better understand and support local businesses, banking and markets”

The series of reports also looked at the amount and type of international and domestic finance flowing to these countries for energy access; specific kinds of projects being financed, whether large-scale grid projects or more-affordable decentralized energy services; how quickly development finance is being disbursed; and the financing needs and challenges of energy enterprises providing decentralized electricity and clean cooking services in five high-impact countries.

The reports have been timed to coincide with the UN General Assembly currently taking place in NYC, and will be launched during the opening day of General Debate. UN accredited media are welcome to join and should RSVP to media@SEforALL.org.

For more information or to read all the reports in full, please visit our website at SEforALL.org/EnergizingFinance

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CONTACT
For further details on the announcement or any interview requests, please contact; Beth Woodthorpe-Evans, Sustainable Energy for All: beth@SEforALL.org | +1 202 390 1042

question: Summarize the findings of Energizing Finance.

answer: According to Energizing Finance, an annual investment of $45 billion is needed to reach the goal of universal electricity access by 2030. This is more than double the current finance commitments of an average of $19.4 billion a year. Energizing Finance also found that only 1 percent of funds went to decentralized energy solutions, such as individual solar systems. Additionally, roughly 60% of funds went to India, the Philippines and Bangladesh. Energizing Finance also reports scattered success in clean cooking, and states that only 28% of finance commitments reached the 20 high-impact countries.

question: Summarize the investments in clean cooking.

answer: It is estimated that universal clean cooking needs an annual investment of at least $4.4 billion, but only $32 million has been committed. This lack of financing is "shocking" and needs to open up a new dialogue for deploying clean fuels. So far there have been scattered successes in clean cooking, including rolling out "transition" fuels such as liquified petroleum gas instead of high polluting charcoal.

question: Summarize what needs to be done to meet universal energy by 2030.

answer: According to the passage, money from both the public and private sector is needed to provide access to electricity for all by 2030. Estimates show $45 billion is needed annually, but only $19.4 billion has been committed. The money being provided should go towards the most economical systems, such as providing clean fuels for cooking and investing in decentralized or mini-grid systems, rather than national scale ones. These reports coincide with the UN General Assembly, where hopefully more funds can be committed.


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ISAIAH 37 is the thirty-seventh chapter of the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Isaiah, and is a part of the Book of the Prophets.

Text

The original text was written in Hebrew language. This chapter is divided into 38 verses.

Textual witnesses

[Lachish reliefs, British Museum.] Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis (895), the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets (916), Aleppo Codex (10th century), Codex Leningradensis (1008).

Fragments containing parts of this chapter were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls (3rd century BC or later):

-   1QIsaa: complete
-   1QIsab: extant verses 7‑13
-   4QIsab (4Q56): extant verses 29‑32

There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus (B; 𝔊B; 4th century), Codex Sinaiticus (S; BHK: 𝔊S; 4th century), Codex Alexandrinus (A; 𝔊A; 5th century) and Codex Marchalianus (Q; 𝔊Q; 6th century).

Parashot

The _parashah_ sections listed here are based on the Aleppo Codex.[1] Isaiah 37 is a part of the _Narrative (Isaiah 36–39)_. {P}: open _parashah_; {S}: closed _parashah_.

    {S} 37:1-14 {S} 37:15-32 {S} 37:33-35 {S} 37:36-38 {S}

Isaiah Assures Deliverance

Verse 2

    _Then he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz._[2]

Verse 3

    _This is the message which he told them to give to Isaiah:_

        "Today is a day of suffering; we are being punished and are in disgrace.''
        _We are like a woman who is ready to give birth, but is too weak to do it."_[3]

A proverbial expression reflecting powerlessness.

Verses 6–7

    _And Isaiah said to them, "Thus you shall say to your master, 'Thus says the Lord: “Do not be afraid of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me. Surely I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”'"_[4]

The promise in verse 7 about 'the king of Assyria' is taken up in verses 36–38 containing the account of its fulfillment.

Defeat of Sennacherib's Army

Verse 36

    _Then the angel of the Lord went out, and killed in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when people arose early in the morning, there were the corpses—all dead._[5]

Epilogue

Verse 38

    '' And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.''[6]

According to Assyrian records, Sennacherib was assassinated in 681 BC, twenty years after the 701 BC invasion of Judah.[7]

-   “Adrammelech”: Identified as the murderer of his father Sennacherib in an Assyrian letter to Esarhaddon (ABL 1091), where he is called _Arda-Mulissi_.[8][9]
-   “Armenia”: or Ararat.[10]

[1] As implemented in the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 edition of the Hebrew Bible in English.

[2]  NKJV

[3]  GNT

[4]  NKJV

[5]  NKJV

[6]  KJV

[7] J. D. Douglas, ed., _New Bible Dictionary_ (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1965) 1160.

[8] De Breucker, Geert, in _The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture_ 1, edited by Karen Radner, Eleanor Robson, Oxford University Press, 2011, p. 643

[9] ''Kalimi, Isaac; Richardson, Seth (ed), _Sennacherib at the Gates of Jerusalem_ 2, Brill, 2014, p. 45

[10] Note on in NKJV

title: Isaiah 37

question: How many verses does the chapter contain?

answer: 38

question: What verses are printed in the article?

answer: Verses 2, 3, 6, 7, 36, and 38

question: How many Assyrians die in verse 36?

answer: 185,000

question: What are the sections in the article based on?

answer: The Aleppo Codex

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: Isaiah 37 is the 37th chapter of the Book of Isaiah, which contains prophecies attributed to the prophet Isaiah.