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To many people, there is no such thing as a “happily ever after”. These people never get to experience what many do in movies and in stories of love and happiness. There is never a prince charming or a wonderful princess with a kind heart to save them from the turmoil their hearts are bound to; someone to sweep them off there feet. This story is no different. I begin this story with my death. It’s an untimely death that could have been prevented had I listened or perhaps had more options available. Or maybe it was fate that brought me to this point. The last seconds of my life were dramatic and suspenseful. There was a glimmer of hope here and there of me surviving the final blows that ended my life. Unfortunately that is not the case now as I am gone from the living. I could hear the doctors yelling to the nurses for more ‘O negative’. I could feel there hands on my chest pushing down hard as I slipped further and further away. The sound of my sisters cries before the ambulance was called to take me away. I could see the hopelessness in her eyes as she stood over me trying desperately to put pressure on the wound he created in my neck. That’s when I knew that the hope was lost, when I saw her eyes. She was a good sister, always had a heart of gold, room for others. Before the lost hope, before the pressure on my neck there was an argument. He was drunk, I was tired. My two children slept as I was getting home from work. That’s how it began though. He was drunk…

	Men. My entire living life I found no real use for them, not one, except my children. My father abandoned me as a child and the men my mother tried to replace him with were harsh and abusive. Perhaps this is what attracted me to my children’s father. He was charming, at first, everything I had been looking for while looking for my prince charming. Tall, dark, handsome, kind, and funny, these were the most attractive to start. His name was Tanner Williams; I met him on a cold November night at a house party. My sister, Maggie, didn’t like him at all, even then she saw the real him. She warned me before I went to him, ‘He’s no good. I’ve heard of his family, none of them are any good.’ I, however didn’t heed this warning, no, I went to him anyways with my confidence boosted by the third rum and coke of the night I held in my hand.

	‘Tanner right?’ I said coolly, he nodded. ‘Janice Mitchell.’ I smiled and so did he. ‘Just wondering if you wanted to get a drink?’
	His voice was low but soft, he sounded innocent, sweet. ‘Yeah, sure. What are you drinking?’

	We continued on the rest of the night on the front porch. It was quieter outside then in the house.  He told me of his family. Two older brothers, both with records and doing time; their father was a single father since his mother died when Tanner was very young, he never re married, never wanted to. Tanner worked construction to help his father pay for bills and they seemed to be a fairly functioning family. A pretty typical life for a twenty six year old man, graduated high school and decided college wasn’t for him, besides, he said, ‘Some one’s gotta help dad.’ I believe this was the point when I knew I liked him.

	I told Tanner of my family. ‘I have one sister, and a mother who lives with a douche of a boyfriend. They kicked me out when I was seventeen for dabbling in some harmless teenage experimenting.’ Though we still had a relationship I was only really close with my sister. I pointed to her as I talked about her. She was in the living room of the house. There was a large window with no curtains so it was easy to see her. She was surrounded by people. She had a heart of gold, letting anyone have one chance at her friendship and only those who really deserved it a second. The kind of girl who was the life of the party, smart, funny, pretty, but she just didn’t know it, which made her humble. I think that’s what attracted most people to her, the sweetest bitch you could ever meet. Then I told Tanner of my life. How my father left when I was young, and how my mother chose terrible men to be around two young girls as well as the abusive nature in which they controlled her. I dropped out of high school, and was now just living off of the welfare system. I had no thoughts or desire to go back to school. I was content, at the time, with the way life was going.

	We ended that night with a goodnight kiss and exchange in phone numbers. I was sure. He was it.

title: New Story I'm working on. Let me know if you think it's worth pursuing.

question: Summarize the theme of this story.

answer: The theme is abuse, and how victims return to the abusers. This is not a case for victim-blaming; rather, it is a study on how there is no place for that in any world that seeks justice and peace. The author paints a picture of the relationship that starts out as any other.

question: Explain how the sweet courtship led to murder.

question: Summarize the biggest factor in the narrator's demise.

answer: It seems that the combination of men plus alcohol had led the narrator to an untimely demise, and that there were patterns of it-perpetuated by others, not by her-throughout her years. The narrator describes the men around her when she was growing up as brutes, and says perhaps on some level she was drawn to that sort of man. The man who she insinuates would go on to murder her hid that from her, but her sister was able to see through his facade. Their story began with drinking alcohol, another feature that seems to have been commonplace in the narrator's livelong relationships with men, if one-sided.


split: train

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As the standoff between the East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) and citizens heightens, 52 trucks laden with nearly 3,000 metric tons of garbage remain stranded in various parts of Delhi.

As the standoff between the East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) and citizens heightens, the situation is fast becoming a serious threat to the health of Delhi's citizens.

The EDMC was forced to stop collecting garbage after the Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal banned the Ghazipur landfill site from being used in the wake of a collapse that killed two people. Ghazipur had been used as a dumping ground since 1984. After the trifurcation of the MCDs, the ground was used to dump solid waste generated in East Delhi.

[Delhi garbage crisis devolves as municipal corporations squabble citizens cry not in our back yard]

Representational image. AFP

Worse, the corporation is facing protests from citizens and environmental groups in the two spots it plans to dump garbage: Rani Khera and the Yamuna floodplains.

“Our garbage trucks went to Rani Khera but locals wouldn't let us. Now we are at a loss," said EDMC mayor Neema Bhagat.

Dumping of solid waste has become a contentious issue between the EDMC and the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC): The new Rani Khera dumping ground falls under NDMC jurisdiction.

Jayendra Kumar Dabas, councillor, Rani Khera said the EDMC ought to be allotted a site within its own area. "If no such place is available, the new dumping ground should be at least four or five kilometres away from where people live," Dabas said.

Dabas, a BJP member in the NDMC general body, also met the Lieutenant Governor and NDMC mayor Preeti Agarwal. Dabas said he requested the governor to not allow the EDMC to use Rani Khera as a dumping ground.

“The Lieutenant Governor assured us that the ground will be used only for week as an interim arrangement. After that, it will be shifted to a new place,” he said.

But the people of Rani Khera village are adamant: They will not allow garbage to be dumped there even for a day.

"Lakhs of people live near Rani Khera," Dabas, who is front and centre of the protest, said. "Why would anyone expect them to sacrifice their health?"

Dabas said thousands of people have gathered in the Rani Khera area to stop the EDMC trucks from dumping garbage. "They are keeping vigil day and night," Dabas said.

Little wonder that a new site in the Yamuna floodplains was quickly suggested as a dumping spot to the EDMC. However, a source in the civic body said the EDMC never seriously considered that spot. "There would be protests against any use of Yamuna floodplains as dumping ground,” the source said.

Yamuna Jiye Abhiyaan, an NGO working for protection of the Yamuna River, immediately wrote to the Lieutenant Governor after the plan went public.

“We are gravely alarmed at the efforts of the EDMC to revive its plans to raise a landfill and solid waste management complex spread over 150 acres in the Yamuna river bed / floodplain in east Delhi, to push through a thoroughly illegal and ill-planned move which has already been assessed and been rejected in the past by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) Principal Committee as being not only in the teeth of the NGT judgment dated 13 January, 2015, but also against the provisions of the Solid Waste management Rules and the Ganga Authorities Notification,” the letter read.

In 2015, the NGT issued issued 28 directions for implementation of the project called, ‘Maily Se Nirmal Yamuna’ Revitalisation Project. Under these directions, the bench directed a fine of Rs 5,000 for anyone spotted littering and imposed a fine of Rs. 50,000 for throwing constructioin debris in the Yamuna.

The directions were issued to take stringent and effective steps, with a determined mind, to ensure that none fail in performing their respective functions, duties and obligations to achieve the ultimate goal of converting ‘Maily Yamuna’ into ‘Nirmal Yamuna’ under the project.

"The Delhi Development Authority allotted us another plot  in the Gonda-Gurjan area to use as dumping ground. We are still discussing the viability of the new site,” said Bhagat.

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question: What does the trifurcation of the MCD's mean?

answer: It is not explained in the article, although it can be seen that the East Delhi Municipal Corporation is one part of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. This should have been the trifurcation - splitting the Delhi Corporation into three.

question: Summarize all information relating to the EDMC.

answer:
 - The EDMC is at a stand-off with citizens because they want to dump solid waste at an unsafe place.
 - The EDMC is at a loss of what to do with the waste.
 - The other possible sites for dumping waste are not viable.
 - They are discussing the viability of a third site.

question: Summarize all information relating to the Yamuna river.

answer:
 - The Yamuna River was identified as a possible dumping site for solid waste.
 - The EDMC never seriously considered using it as a dumping spot.
 - There are severe fines being imposed for littering and dumping under the Yamuna Revitalization Project.
 - 'Maily Yamuna' is to be converted into 'Nirmal Yamuna' project.

question: What is Jayendra Kumar Dabas' relationship with EDMC?

answer: She is a councilor for Rani Khera. She is actively protesting and campaigning against solid waste being dumped at Rani Khera village. She feels that waste should not be dumped in the NDMC, that the new dumping ground should be in EDMC and be located at least four or five kilometers away from where people live.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: The EDMC has 52 trucks laden with solid waste that it is unable to dump due to its current dumping site being unsafe. The alternate sites are not viable due to its proximity to human settlements and its natural heritage, respectively. The newest proposed dumping site must still be investigated.


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OKRAJNIK ()[1] is a village in Gmina Bolków, Jawor County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Jawor and south-west of Wrocław (capital city of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship).

From 1975 to 1998 the village was in Jelenia Góra Voivodeship.

[1]

title: Okrajnik, Jawor County

question: What is Okrajnik?

answer: A village in Gmina Bolkow, Jawor County, Lower Silesian Volvodeship, in south-western Poland.

question: Where is the village situated?

answer: Approximately south-west of Jawor and Wroclaw.

question: What is Wroclaw?

answer: The capital city of the Lower Silesian Volvodeship.

question: When was the village in Jelenia Gora Volvodeship?

answer: 1975 to 1998.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: Okrajnik is a village in Gmina Bolkow, Jawor County, Lower Silesian Volvodeship, in south-western Poland. It is situated approximately south-west of Jawor and Wroclaw, the capital city of the Lower Silesian Volvodeship. The village was in Jelenia Gora Volvodeship from 1975 to 1998.


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The emptiness crept up with no warning. Still can't put a name to what it is, the hole punched into the middle of my chest, leaving my vitals exposed for the world to play with, to fill with their fingers and poisons, to manipulate like puppet masters.

It's like coming down from a great high, that rushing feeling of overwhelming reality as the earth falls into pieces, crushing you with the weight of the sky. In the back of your mind, you know it's another damn day, but today is the end of the world. And for all you know, so is tomorrow, and the next day, being smothered under the weight of life over and over, struggling to breathe, to find fresh air, to free yourself, to break away from all that is dragging you down into the dark abyss. But the strain is too much, you collapse and give in to the pressure, looking for anything around you to help you forget what's happening, the bottle, the pills, the knife, the gun, and oh if only you could end it. End it now. Once and for all. Because you are sure that today is just another damn day, and tomorrow will be the same.

title: Another Damn Day

question: What does the narrator wants?

answer: The narrator wants to kill themselves.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: The narrator thinks about killing themselves.


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iPhone Screenshots

UTS is an Indian Railways official iOS mobile ticketing application which allows the daily train travellers to book unreserved tickets of Indian Railways using their Smartphone. The application is designed in such a way that it is easy to use and has user friendly interface with features like book ticket, cancel ticket, maintain their profile, manage frequent travel routes , etc.The passenger will use Railway wallet to book the ticket.
There are two modes for booking Tickets : (i) Paper (ii) Paperless. In case of paper ticket user has to take a printout from kiosk/counter at concerned station. Whereas in case of Paperless ticket user's Location will be captured to determine he/she is present in valid ticketing area. In this mode no printout is required and the user can directly show his ticket from his smartphone to the TTE. Moreover an alternative to location check has also been introduced in limited stations where a user can scan a unique barcode present at station premises to book his paperless ticket.

What’s New

* Newly designed user interface.
* Easy navigation for all types of bookings.
* Bug fixes

Ratings and Reviews

4.6 out of 5

72.8K Ratings

Most awaited app

  The developer should understand the urgency of the user and the impact on the current on going situation, here are few bugs I would like to list

  1) if the selected stations shows some error or ticket can’t be booked message, user can restart ans does the same and bang!! It works so the parameters aren’t right? Or its just a bug

  2) update would be needed that if the user wants to travel form multiple station to particular station , fastest route and the amount should be shown in order to give them convince and this would help the newbie in the city

Horrible App

  This app is nightmare to use. I want to know who developed this app. After entering all the details it will ask to login and register. After registration again you need to start from the beginning. After booking, if you select show ticket it will say no active ticket found. If you click on booking history it will ask to login. Login and try again it will display partial ticket, click on it for more details instead it will ask you whether you want to rebook the ticket. What the hell and top of that beside my ticket it will show next trains. What the hell I am supposed to with next train and why it’s getting displayed in booking history. Ticket id in Booking history and Cancel ticket are different. I can’t logout and login from different mobile it says my imei verification under progress. One more thing, how the common man should know whether the train is slow, express of super fast especially express and super fast in India train does not make any difference instead could have provided Option to select train which is much easier. Did the people get paid to rate so much for this under developed app? School kids will do a better job.

Very bad performance in location option and login

  What the hell developer doing, in my i phone i set my location, even your app shows you have to be far 25km or 5km away from station and rail track res. Another interesting thing i found in app when i tried to book my actual journey ticket which is of 80/- it shows message like you have to be far from station 25km ( even i am far as 15km from station) then forcefully i booked ticket which is before station from where actually my journey start. And you know what it booked successfully. For that i have to pay 100. No matter 20/- is not big amount but if we calculate #ghotala like this 20 or 10 *10,000=1,00,000. Omg 1 lack. And this is just my prediction amount might be you are doing ghotala with lots of people. So please government is already rich dont do this else we will become poor. Mehanat ka kamate hai bhai kursi par ya sarkari logo ki trah baithkar sirf pise nahi aate. 10-11 hrs kaam karte hai sharir tutane tak tab jakar kuch pise aate hai hath me. Aur tum baith jaate hume lootane ke liye

Information

Provider
    Centre for Railway Information Systems

Size
    75.7 MB

Category
    Travel

Compatibility

    Requires iOS 9.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

Age Rating
    4+

Copyright
    © 2018 Centre for Railway Information Systems

Price
    Free

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question: What does the article say about the Indian national railway system?

question: What kind of article is this?

answer: It's an application download page on an iPhone. The description of the UTS app is followed by ratings and reviews.

question: What is the general reception to the app?

answer: While the ratings show a well-liked app, the reviews on the page are all negative. The complaints are about ill-implemented features and the lacking ease of use. One user complains about the lack of a route planning feature.


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Wielding their torches, men traverse the galaxy shining light into the darkness, searching for a new hope for their people. For a century men searched, and a century later, humanity found the hope they were looking for. They found a new world, a habitat suitable for their own.

So they returned to Earth with the news; another world for the taking. More fruit, ripe for picking. Their people throw themselves to the scientists and engineers of their generation. The scientists and engineers build a vessel, to carry humans beyond the home they once knew, and into a land no Earthling had ever laid eyes upon.

A select few board the craft and begin their voyage. Their departure is played up to ridiculous extremes. These men and women become gods in the eyes of men. However, upon arrival to the new world, they encounter an issue.

Their newly claimed world has, in fact, already been claimed by a people unknown to humanity. This should have been a riveting discovery, a discovery that would change how humans view the universe.

However, the hero men and women purposely provoke the naturally peaceful and curious indigenous beings, and the beings instinctively retaliate. A report is sent back to their Earth-dwelling superiors: it is now known that the land they once thought was theirs for the taking is populated by savage, hostile beasts. The beasts attacked the brave men and women of Earth on sight, and proper measures were taken to rectify the situation.

Rage spreads like plague on Earth. How dare these beasts endanger our heroes, our saviors, our gods? The people once again throw themselves, but this time to the governments, and militaries of their generation. The answer is simple. War.

So the humans construct an armada of vessels to carry Earth’s finest to reclaim their rightfully conquered land out in the cosmos. For a decade, war rages on the new planet. Twice a year every year, the humans send troops to bolster the war effort. World superpowers pour cash into the war like a waterfall into a bottomless lake. The people of earth begin to face the consequences of their newly allocated funds; times are hard. Every family must ration each consumable item once held dear to their hearts. But not a single person complains, because surely their suffering directly affects the cause.

They teach their children about the savages fighting our soldiers. Lesser beings, devoid of morals empathy, and love. They teach their children to hate, and to fear the savages. One boy in particular is so invigorated, that he makes it a goal of his to ship off join the fight as soon as he can Three years later, at the ripe age of sixteen, the boy boards a vessel along with fifty thousand other soldiers and begins his trek to the battlefield.

When the boy arrives, he takes a look around and immediately realizes that things are not as advertised. There is no war. There are no savage beasts, and there is no raging battle they are waging. There is, however, an extermination of massive proportions underway.

The boy quickly realizes the native beings are not a fighting people. Bullets fly in one direction only, and that is away from the humans. The boy is appalled by his revelations, and is quick to share them.

So he tells his peers that the war they fight is no war at all, that they are not soldiers. They are pest control. The native lifeforms do not attempt to fight back in the slightest, and yet they carry on with their relentless slaughter.
The boy’s peers listen. They listen, and absorb every word the boy says. The boy is then mocked. He is ridiculed, and he is framed as a sympathizer. He seeks out a higher power, just to be shot back to the ground. He doesn’t give up his fight, and is disliked more and more amongst his peers.

One day, during an explosives test, the boy was tasked with placing the charges. Before he had a chance to get far enough away, the soldier in charge of the test hit the detonator prematurely. It was an accident, the squad says.

Innocence and conscience were incinerated, and morality was lost. And somehow, when the war was over, humanity further spun their web. In another hundred years, they moved on.

title: Manifest Destiny [SF/SP]

question: What does the story say about humanity?

answer: The outlook of the story is quite negative. Humans search for another planet to colonize and find one. They realize it's inhabited after sending the first wave of colonists. This doesn't deter them, and a fight ensues. Humans fight ferociously against an opponent who doesn't retaliate. Despite this, propaganda back home blames the aliens, calling them brutal savages. When a boy points these out, he's mocked and eventually, killed.

question: What does the story say about space-faring civilizations in general?


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[HMS Amethyst, in a gale in the Bay of Biscay, 27 September 1856]

_' HMS Amethyst_' was a gaff rigged three mast sailing boat. She was a Spartan-class 26-gun sixth rate launched in 1844 and sold in 1869 for use as a cable vessel.

She served in the China War 1856-60 (in the Canton River) and intervened in the Mexican Civil War in 1859 by blockading Mazatlán. This was during a voyage which took her around the world.[1]

Together with HMS _Iris_ she was loaned by the Admiralty to the Atlantic Telegraph Company in 1864, both ships being extensively modified in 1865 for ferrying the Atlantic cable from the manufacturer's works at Enderby's wharf, in East Greenwich, London, to the _Great Eastern_ at her Sheerness mooring.

The cable was coiled down into great cylindrical tanks at the Wharf before being fed into the 'Great Eastern'. The 'Amethyst' and 'Iris' transferred the 2500 miles (4022 km) of cable to the 'Great Eastern', beginning in February 1865,[2] an operation that took over three months.

Both ships were used for the same purpose again in 1866 and again in 1869 by the Telegraph Construction & Maintenance Company (Telcon). As obsolete sailing vessels which had to be towed while ferrying cable, neither ship was capable of independent operation, and both were described as “hulks” in contemporary reports.[3]

_The Sail and Steam Navy List_ notes that according to Admiralty records, HMS _Amethyst_ and HMS _Iris_ were subsequently sold to Telcon when decommissioned on 16 October 1869.[4] [The cable passed from the works into the Amethyst's hulk lying in the Thames at Greenwich]

Citations

[1] Clowes, W. L. : History of the Royal Navy, vol. 7; 1903

[2] Russell, Sir William Howard (1865), _The Atlantic Telegraph_

[3] _The Mechanics's Magazine_, 30 October 1868 page 355.

[4]  p. 115

title: HMS Amethyst (1844)

question: What was the HMS Amethyst?

answer: A gaff rigged three mast sailing boat, a Spartan-class 26-gun sixth rate.

question: When was the HMS Amethyst launched?

answer: 1844.

question: When was the HMS Amethyst sold?

answer: 1869.

question: What wars did she serve in?

answer: The China War in the Canton River and the Mexican Civil War.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: This article is about the HMS Amethyst, a British vessel from the 19th century.


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A CABINET CRISIS or GOVERNMENT CRISIS is a situation when the government is challenged before the mandate period expires, because it threatens to resign over a proposal, or it is at risk at being dismissed after a motion of no confidence, a conflict between the parties in a coalition government or a coup d'état. It may also be the result of there being no clear majority willing to work together to form a government. During this period a caretaker government with a limited mandate may take care of the day-to-day affairs of the state, while waiting for a snap election.

Examples of cabinet crises

-   May 1940 War Cabinet Crisis
-   Cabinet of Björn Þórðarson (1942–44 caretaker government)[1]
-   Westland affair
-   2007–11 Belgian political crisis
-   2018 British cabinet reshuffle
-   2010–11 Belgian government formation
-   2015–16 Spanish government formation
-   2018–2019 Swedish government formation

[1] https://visindavefur.is/svar.php?id=73148

title: Cabinet crisis

question: What is a cabinet crisis?

answer: A cabinet crisis happens when the government is challenged before the mandate period expires.

question: Why the government can be challenged before the mandate period expires?

answer: The government can be challenged if it threatens to resign over a proposal, is at risk of being dismissed after a motion of no confidence, or there is no clear majority willing to work together to form a government.

question: List three recent cabinet crises.

answer: 2010–11 Belgian government formation, 2015–16 Spanish government formation, and 2018–2019 Swedish government formation.

question: When is cabinet crisis usualy resolved?

answer: After a snap election.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: A cabinet crisis is a situation when the government is challenged before the mandate period expires. The government can be challenged if it threatens to resign over a proposal, is at risk of being dismissed after a motion of no confidence, or there is no clear majority willing to work together to form a government. During this period, a caretaker government with a limited mandate may take care of the day-to-day affairs of the state, while waiting for a snap election.


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It isn’t just Maureen Lipman. This morning the actress and comedienne has announced she will not be voting Labour at the next election.

“Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse” she writes in Standpoint magazine, “just when the anti-Semitism in France, Denmark, Norway, Hungary is mounting savagely, just when our cemeteries and synagogues and shops are once again under threat. Just when the virulence against a country defending itself, against 4,000 rockets and 32 tunnels inside its borders, as it has every right to do under the Geneva Convention, had been swept aside by the real pestilence of IS, in steps Mr Miliband to demand that the government recognise the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel.”

It’s a powerful – and accurate – critique of Labour’s Mid East policy. And it’s a critique that should have Ed Miliband and his advisers very, very worried, because the Labour party’s support within the Jewish community is now on the brink of collapse.

“It’s serious” one influential Jewish Labour supporter told me this morning. “There are now genuine questions being asked about whether we will be able to vote Labour next May”.

There are multiple reasons for this schism. One is the belief that Labour’s Middle East policy is now being set by the party’s left, which has historically aligned itself with the Palestinian cause. This view was confirmed when Miliband initially announced he would be whipping his MPs to support Palestinian statehood, although in the face of a rebellion from a number of shadow ministers and backbenchers he eventually backed off.

There was also anger at Miliband’s outspoken condemnation of Israel during the recent incursion into Gaza, and a perceived failure to condemn sufficiently the actions of Hamas. But by far the biggest issue – as Lipman identifies in her piece – is the failure of the Labour leadership to speak out forcefully on the growth of anti-Semitism, both across Europe and in the UK.

“People have been waiting for the leadership to speak up” said one member of the community with close Labour links “and all they’ve got is silence”. In particular there is seen to be a contrast between the response of senior Labour politicians and the broader Labour movement to the spike of Islamophobia that followed the murder of Lee Rigby, and the response to the rising anti-Semitism that has emerged in the wake of Operation Protective Edge.

Some Jewish Labour supporters, (and indeed some Labour MPs), have also been asking why Ed Miliband has left it to backbencher John Mann to lead the condemnation of a campaign of anti-Semitism currently being directed at Labour MP Luciana Berger. On Wednesday Mann took to the floor of the House of Commons to demand action over what he described as a campaign of “abuse against a member of this House continuing on daily basis”.

Miliband has been consistently warned about the deterioration of Labour’s support within the Jewish community. In July the Jewish Chronicle produced a pointed editorial in which it stated “In recent months, Ed Miliband has made a concerted effort to embrace the Jewish community. He has visited Israel. He has spoken of rediscovering his Jewish roots. And he ended his speech to the Labour Friends of Israel with the declaration that he would enter Downing Street proud to be a “friend of Israel, a Jew and … part of the community”. But, with Israel now in need of support from its friends, he has shown that words are cheap”. It went on to contrast Miliband’s stance on Protective Edge with David Cameron, who it said had been “clear, principled and firm in his support for Israel’s right to defend itself”.

All the warnings have been ignored. Much in the same way David Cameron’s policy on Europe is dictated by his party, so is Miliband’s stance on Israel and Palestine. The “35 per cent strategy” now extends as far as the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Labour’s leader has calculated that his activists want to see him adopting a hard line towards Israel, and a hard line is what they will get. The fact that a calculation has also been made that a strong condemnation of anti-Semitism could been seen as undermining that stance is a reflection of the dangerous territory Labour and Miliband are now entering.

At the conclusion of her article, Maureen Lipman writes: “Come election day, I shall give my vote to another party. Almost any other party. Until my party is once more led by mensches.” The Jewish community is preparing to break with Labour’s first Jewish leader. Ed Miliband needs to ask himself why.

question: What is the focus of the article?

answer: The Labour Party in England announced its recognition of the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel.

question: What did the Labour Party's announcement cause for the Jewish community?

answer: The Jewish community is now on the brink of pulling their support for the Labour party.

question: What does Maureen Lipman feel is the biggest failure of the Labour party?

answer: She feels that the biggest failure of the Labour party is to speak out against the growth of anti-Semitism in Europe and the UK.

question: Who is quoted in the article as saying, "friend of Israel, a Jew and...part of the community."?

answer: Ed Miliband, Labour Party

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: The Labour Party, led by Ed Miliband (Jewish) in England announced its recognition of the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel. The Jewish community is now on the brink of pulling their support for the Labour party.


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Patrick was about a mile out to sea in one of those rugged, plastic, yellow kayaks.   He had already had more than a few drinks that afternoon thanks to the all-inclusive food and drink policy at the resort.  Looking back for a second, with the double edged paddle resting over his legs, the shore was distant, and maybe it was the alcohol, but it wasn't that scary to be that removed from the shore's safety.

At that distance, the waves had died down and were rather mild; they were more of a drift than anything else.  The water was a deep blue and the ocean floor was no longer visible.  The air smelled entirely like seawater and really the only sound he could hear was a faint breeze against his ears.  During that moment he realized how alone he was.  A mile away from anyone else, a totally remote maritime vastness, completely unoccupied, lay ahead of him, and he was totally occupying that space individually, and it just felt, well it felt free.

It was like a moment of Zen, or experiencing the Tao; it was a removal from society, at least mentally, and was the first thing he had ever experienced anywhere near those lines.  The sun above was burning his skin, he knew he would have a sunburn after this was all over, but it didn't matter.  Scooping up some of the ocean's water, he cupped it over his head.  The cooling effect was like a physical ecstasy.

It could have been a minute or it could have been thirty minutes but as soon as this bliss started it began to creep back like coming down from a high.  He knew it was an inherently fleeting experience. “What is another mile?” he thought “let's do one more and I'll turn back to shore.”  Some reasoning set in, far, far, back in his consciousnesses, but the experience was too fresh.

“Fuck it” he thought, and started to put his paddle back into the water.

title: A Trip to Jamaica

question: What are the themes of this story?

answer: Enjoying a sense of peace while away from society / being alone and away from nature, even if it is brief.

question: Where is this story set?

answer: By the title, Jamaica; the story is specifically set near a resort where the main character has gone a mile out to sea.

question: What is Patrick's thought process?

answer: He enjoys the peace from being alone at sea, but when the high starts to run out, he decides to paddle further out even as he subconsciously acknowledges that this might not be a good idea.

question: How is this story likely to continue?

answer: He experiences some sort of challenge (perhaps struggles to return to shore) after paddling out so far

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: Patrick kayaks a mile out to sea, and enjoys the emptiness and calm it offers; the cooling seawater brings him ecstasy. He recognises this is fleeting, and decides to paddle a further mile out.


text: He woke. It was a breathless waking, the kind where you slam your own bed as if rushing to the ground. He had hardly blinked away the heaviness in his eyes when he noticed. Something was wrong, different, unsettling, his room seemed, brighter. It wasn’t a comforting light, it seemed to vibrate from everything, as if all objects had a new glean. He took the whole feeling as a shuddering, a resonating chill lasting only moments. Curling his fingers over the edge of his bed he swung himself across the lip of the sheets. His feet touched the ground and the tactile sensation of the carpet caused him to shift uncomfortably. For the first time he was conscious of the fibers, the rough spun cotton flowing underfoot. He thought he might be able to count them all, every strand, and find them all to his liking. He found this unnerving. Straining his eyes the room came into focus, his vision was acute and the details washed over him in waves. The colors were deeper and the patterns more noticeable. This made him realize everything about his immediate surroundings. The four corners, arched ceiling, tissue box, miss matched curtains, everything, all of it, appeared flawless. Nothing had moved, nothing had changed, it was simply right. It was in its place. It was at home. All except the door. It was the same. The familiar had a new temptation, a magnetism, a undeniable pull. The door was already cracked, shadows slipping in from around the frame. The dark ruff cut wood, bronzed hinges and dented knob stood in flushed contrast to the perfection surrounding it. He rose, pushed off the bed, stepped towards the doorway and reached out tentatively. He clutched the handle, it felt slightly chilled, as if it hadn't been turned in a generation. He stood there, preparing to breach, wondering why he would pause. Feet shoulder width apart, sideways to the door, he surveyed the room with a last calculating gaze. Suddenly, in a lapse of time without thought, he gave a sharp pull, strode into the darkness, and fell.

title: Never wrote before, thought i needed a new hobby, whipped this together today!

question: Who is the narrator talking about?

answer: The narrator is talking about a man.

question: Why did the room feel different?

answer: This information can't be found.

question: Did the man wake up from a nightmare?

answer: This information can't be found.

question: Was the man in an unfamiliar place?

answer: No. He was in his room.

question: Write a ~5 sentence summary.

answer: The man wakes up breathless. He looks around the room and finds it unsettling. Straining his eyes a little, he gazes carefully at every detail in the room. Everything was in place, except the door. He gets up and without a second thought tries to pull the door to open and falls.


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O’Keeffe’s Hand Cream

By Robert Robillard on Product News

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[]O’KEEFFE’S WORKING HANDS OFFERS GUARANTEED RELIEF FOR DRY, CRACKED AND SPLIT HANDS

The folks at Okeefes Company  recently send me a few samples of their “working Hands” to review and evaluate.  Let’s face it, a carpenter’s most important tool next to his brain is his hands.

Working construction outdoors in the winter results in your hands taking a huge beating!

Exposure to harsh weather, sun and wind, results in dry skin;  add to the mix working with cement, gypsum, chemical strippers, and building lime and my hands hurt just thinking about it.

Until now there was no effective enough option for dry skin: conventional lotions add artificial moisture to the skin, but do not provide any sufficient protection from irritants, coming off  when you ash your hands or touch something. [hand cream]

I’ve used hand cream before but nothing seems to be tough enough to handle the daily abuse my hands take.  It’s not unusual to have hands that are dry, cracked and split from hard work and extreme weather conditions.

O’Keeffe’s Working Hands is designed to keep hands healthy and hydrated to prevent raw and damaged hands.

What makes O’Keeffe’s Working Hands different?

Its a non-greasy, hypoallergenic, oil-free and concentrated formula.  Most products contain oils and chemicals that cause them to sit on top of the skin, but O’Keeffe’s products are designed to stimulate the body’s natural skin-repair process and draw moisture into the skin. As a result, O’Keeffe’s Working Hands provides long-term hydration for the skin and relief for even the most painfully dry, cracked and split-hands.

I’ve been using O’Keefe’s “working hands” for a month now and my hands are in great shape.  I keep one in my truck and one in my dresser.  It sells for $5.99.

O’Keeffe’s working Hands is made in the USA  and is distributed at  independent hardware retailers as well as national retail stores.  For more information on O’Keeffe’s products, visit   www.OkeeffesCompany.com, or call (800)275-2718.

_This review contains my opinion of a product. I take pride in providing my readers with an honest and objective information as well as a practical approach to using a product. I never accept payment in exchange for a positive review. Many of the tools and products are provided to for free by a manufacturer for review._

_Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question_.

question: Who is the author?

answer: A carpenter/tradesman with dry, cracked hands from all their hard work.

question: What is O'Keefe's Working Hands?

answer: A heavy duty moisturizing hand cream.

question: What sorts of conditions might cause severely dried working hands?

answer: Exposure to harsh weather, sun and wind, working with cement, gypsum, chemical strippers, and building lime.

question: What makes O'Keefe's Working Hands different?

answer: It's a non oil based cream that promotes moisture absorption.

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: The O'Keefe's lotion company sent the author a sample of Working Hands to review. They were impressed with how thoroughly the cream moisturized their exceptionally dry, cracked hands. Exposure to harsh weather, sun and wind, working with cement, gypsum, chemical strippers, and building lime leads to extremely dry, cracked hands. O'Keefe's Working Hands successfully rehabilitates these conditions.


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ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH is located at 113 Engle Street at the corner of Church Street in Englewood, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The congregation was organized in 1865, and their first church was erected in 1866.[1] It is a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark and the worldwide Anglican Communion.[2]

The current structure, which began construction in 1899 and opened to the congregation on Whitsunday in June 1900, was designed in the late English Gothic style by Thornton Floyd Turner,[3][4] who also designed the Sunday School building in 1895 which is now a chapel, in the late Victorian revival style. The church has stained glass windows by Louis Comfort Tiffany, John La Farge, Margaret Redmond and the J&R Lamb Studios, and the rose limestone of the original church is in its foundation.[5] The church also has a painting of the Last Supper by Clara Miller Burd, an artist associated with the Tiffany Studios. The church's parish house was designed by Aymar Embury II in the Tudor Revival style and was completed in 1916. An addition to the east side of the church was built in 1922 and was designed by Charles Wesson Hoadley of Hays & Hoadley.[6].

Many distinguished clergy have served St. Paul's, including one of the Episcopal Church's most distinguished hymn writers, Howard Chandler Robbins who served as Rector from 1904–1911.[7]. The first priest to serve the parish was Ozi Whittaker, later Bishop of Pennsylvania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozi_William_Whitaker. Other distinguished clergy include the Old Testament Scholar Fleming James (1912-1921) https://episcopalchurch.org/library/glossary/james-fleming, Joseph R. Lynes, 1922-1932, James A. Mitchell, 1932-1962 https://www.nytimes.com/1967/03/23/archives/dr-james-a-mitchell.html, David M. Gillespie (1962-1978) https://dioceseofnewark.org/content/death-our-diocesan-family-rev-david-marston-gillespie, Bishop Jack McKelvey (1978-1991) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Marston_McKelvey, Kenneth Near (1991-2008), Robert L. Shearer (2009-2014), and William H. Allport II (2014-).

Choral music has played an important role at St. Paul's throughout its history. Professional musicians (organists and singers) have been employed since the late 19th century, More recently John Harms, founder of what is now the Bergen Performing Arts Center, served as Organist and Choirmaster from 1947–1957. Other notable musicians include Herbert Henderson, who is buried beneath the main church's chancel and was a successor to Welsh-British composer Edward German. The historic nave houses a three manual and pedal Austin Organ opus 2626 from 1967. The organ includes pipe work from the original 1899 Hutchings-Votey organ as well as a tuba built in 1906 by Robert Hope-Jones, and installed by Hope-Jones and Ernest M. Skinner. A large men and boys choir was formed in 1930 and gave way to a mixed, graded choir program in the mid-1950s. The music program also includes an award-winning after school chorister program, the St Paul's Choir School, founded by Mark A. Trautman, who began as Director of Music in 2010. The choristers have sung at bergenPAC in Englewood, NJPAC in Newark, and recorded for HBO films. African American composer Ulysses Kay (1917-1995) and his wife Barbara Kay are interred in the church's memorial garden[8]. Other significant musicians have included James Corneille (1930-1942), Dr. Gerald Weale (1966-1973) who was awarded the Presiding Bishop's Certificate in Church Music by the Episcopal Church in 1964, the only such certificate ever granted, and Professor John F. Bullough (1973-1995).

In the early twenty-first century St. Paul's expanded its outreach by sponsoring regular in-gatherings for the Center for Food Action; providing dinner for the Hoboken Clergy Coalition Soup Kitchen; hosting at-risk and transitioning families with Family Promise of Bergen County; serving an annual Thanksgiving Community Supper; and helping young men of color through the establishment of the Timothy Project Mentoring Ministry.

The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.[9]

[1] Historic marker on site

[2] https://dioceseofnewark.org/churches/stpauls-englewood

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[4] Sterling, Adaline Wheelock. _The Book of Englewood_, pp. 196-197. Mayor and council of the city of Englewood, N. J., 1922. Accessed December 22, 2016. “On Whitsunday, June 3rd, the doors of the new St Paul's were opened to welcome the congregation to the first service in the beautiful and stately church the successor after thirty-five years of the modest building whose stones are built in to the encircling walls of the new edifice.... The church, of Tudor-Gothic architecture in the form of a modified Latin cross was designed by Thornton Floyd Turner.”

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title: St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Englewood, New Jersey)

question: Where is St. Paul's Episcopal Church located?

answer: 113 Engle Street in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States

question: When was St. Paul's Episcopal Church built?

answer: Their first church was erected in 1866.

question: What religion is practiced at St. Paul's Episcopal Church?

answer: Anglican

question: Describe the architecture of St. Paul's Episcopal Church.

answer: It was designed in the late English Gothic style. It has stained glass windows, and the rose limestone of the original church is in its foundation. Its parish house was designed in the Tudor Revival style.

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: St. Paul's Episcopal Church is an Anglican church located in New Jersey, United States. The current structure began construction in 1899 in the late English Gothic style. Distinguished clergy members include Howard Chandler Robbins and Fleming James. Choral music has played an important role at the church throughout its history.


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The DUNEDIN COLLEGE OF EDUCATION (_Te Kura Akau Taitoka_, also known as _Dunedin Teachers' College_) was a former teacher training college in Dunedin, New Zealand. Founded in 1876, the College was the oldest teacher training college in New Zealand. In 2004, it merged with the University of Otago's Faculty of Education to form the University of Otago College of Education.[1] The Dunedin College of Education's motto was _maxima debetur pueris reverentia_ (the child deserves the greatest respect).

History

The Dunedin College of Education's roots can be traced back to the DUNEDIN TRAINING COLLEGE, which was established in 1876 to provide training for primary school teachers. The Presbyterian scholar, educator, historian, and social worker Dr John Hislop is regarded as the “godfather” of the Dunedin Training College. The first rector of the Training College was W.S. Fitzgerald. Over the next decades, the Dunedin Training College continued supplying teachers to primary schools. During the First World War, it functioned as a secondary school to meet the shortfall in the new students' knowledge base.

During the Great Depression, the Dunedin Training College was closed down in January 1933 due to austerity measures. The College remained closed until 1936 when it was reopened by the newly elected First Labour Government, which adopted Keynesian social security policies. During the post-World War II baby boom, the Dunedin Training College supplied both primary and secondary teachers to meet the growing population demand. In 1953, the Dunedin Training College was renamed the DUNEDIN TEACHER'S COLLEGE to reflect a nationwide naming trend for similar teacher training facilities throughout New Zealand.

During the post-war period, the College expanded its teacher education programmes to include undergraduate and postgraduate degrees and graduate diplomas in early childhood, primary and primary bilingual and secondary teacher education. In 1980, the College established a satellite campus in Invercargill. In addition, teacher support services were established at its Dunedin and its Invercargill campus. In 1976, the College cooperated with the University of Otago's Faculty of Education to provide a four-year joint Bachelor of Education degree.[2] In 1989, the College was renamed the DUNEDIN COLLEGE OF EDUCATION.

In 2002, the Dunedin College of Education and University of Otago entered into merger talks to address the duplication of courses and programs.[3] In August 2006, the Tertiary Education Minister Michael Cullen formally approved the merger of the two educational institutions, which came into effect in January 2007.[4] Following the merger, the newly-created University of Otago College of Education acquired the Dunedin College's former campuses and the Robertson Library, which is shared with Otago Polytechnic.[5][6] The former Dunedin College's archives are stored at the Hocken Collections.[7]

Notes and references

Further reading

-   Keen, D. (2001) _In a class of its own: The story of a century and a quarter of teacher education at the Dunedin Training College, Dunedin Teachers' College and the Dunedin College of Education._ Dunedin: Dunedin College of Education.
-   Morton J. C. and Morton, H. (1976) _Dunedin Teachers College: The First Hundred Years._ Dunedin: Dunedin Teachers College Publications Committee.

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title: Dunedin College of Education

question: Summarize what happened to the Dunedin College of Education.

answer: In 2002, the Dunedin College of Education and the University of Otago started to discuss a merger between them. In 2006 the merger was officially approved, and implemented in 2007. The University of Otago College of Education acquired the Dunedin College of Education's campuses and the Robertson Library. The the Dunedin College of Education's archives are now stored at the Hocken Collections.

question: Summarize the founding of the Dunedin College of Education.

answer: The Dunedin College of Education was founded in 1876 as the Dunedin Training College. It provided training for primary school teachers for several decades. Dr. John Hislop was the "godfather" of the school, and the first rector was W.S. Fitzgerald.

question: Summarize what the Dunedin College of Education did during World War I and II.

answer: During the first World War, the Dunedin College of Education functioned as a secondary school. The school was closed during the Great Depression from 1933 to 1936. After World War Two, the school taught both primary and secondary school teachers to meet demand.

question: Summarize the Dunedin College of Education's history since World War Two.

answer: After World War Two, the school taught both primary and secondary school teachers to meet demand. The College also expanded its degrees offered, and in 1980 established a satellite campus. In 1989 the Dunedin Training College officially changed its name to the Dunedin College of Education. In 2002, the Dunedin College of Education began merging with the University of Otago. The merger was approved in 2006, and came into effect in 2007.


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To Hatch From a Broken Egg

I was sitting in the living room with my arms crossed when Grandpa gathered the family around the dining room table. Grandpa was a giant of a man, with thighs like redwoods and hands like plains. I was the last to stand up when I began to walk over to the circle that had formed around the table. “I would like to see,” Grandpa began, with big pauses between each phrase, “someone attempt to balance this egg upright, without using any tools to hold it up.”

The whiteness of the egg stood out in Grandpa’s wrinkled and purple spotted hands. It seemed so small. I studied the egg while my family began to buzz. My older cousin smirked and whispered something in my Dad’s ears that made him laugh. Uncle Joe was doing one of his James Cagney impressions to my brother and cousin. Aunt Anna had walked in the room from cooking and chuckled when she saw my grandpa holding the egg.

I was the only one paying attention, focusing on how you could possibly make a small oval stand. No one else was going to complete this challenge but me. When my Mom put her arms around my chest, and gave me a kiss on the cheek I pushed her away and said, “I can do it!”

My grandpa’s heavy eyes shifted to me and his lips peeled into a grin, revealing yellow stained crooked teeth. His hands, like a giant compared to mine, handed me the egg. I began working right away.

I made quick glances to Grandpa as I tried to balance it, hoping his gray eyes would light up at a correct attempt or that his white eyebrows would raise at a sign of progress, but he remained unemotional and still. I tried to ignore the commentary of my family at first.  Dad said, “oh so close,” several times with a laugh while Uncle David commentated like a sports announcer, “Jake Lacey. Balancing the egg. Can he do it? Ah, keeps missing.”

After several minutes my older cousin said, “Come on, Jake. Give it back to Grandpa.” I ignored him but when my Mom stepped in saying, “Hun, you can try later, it’s fine,” the doubt became harder to ignore.

“Let me just try!” I said, trying not to sound upset.

Eventually my Uncle Joe stopped impersonating James Cagney. My father raised his eye brows and stood up from the table and my brother began to attack me. “Jake you can’t do it.”

“Don’t worry, Jakey. It’s impossible,” someone else said.

I wanted to shut my family up and make them see that I could do it. I wanted them to know that just I could complete a task that was impossible for most. And I did.

I finally stood the egg up right. It wasn’t balancing against anything; it was just standing up on its own. All because of me. I looked up in amazement, hoping to see my family enthusiastic with my accomplishment, but instead, half of them were gone and the other half had already moved on to new conversations. Only my cousin Rachel said, “Wow! Look guys! Jake did it!”

As Rachel began to get my family’s attention I looked to Grandpa who was not grinning but seemed thrown by the egg standing up. As I waited for a response from Grandpa, the whole family began to circle back around the table.

Before they could all see what I had done, Grandpa snagged the egg off the table, smashed it lightly against a plate, leaving the egg’s bottom flat surfaced with a crack, placed the it on the table, and forced a chuckle as everyone watched the egg stand up on its own. He said, “That is how you make an egg stand.”

I quickly looked at my Grandpa, who avoided eye contact with me and laughed deliberately with the older cousins. My head spun to my parents, who had acknowledged Grandpa’s quaint gag but not my success and then it spun back to my Grandpa who was still ignoring me.

I darted out of living room and up to my room. I dove into my bed, grabbed my Teddy and belted a long hard cry into my pillow. No one came up to check on me until after they had lit the candles.

title: Flash Fiction Piece, notes please?

question: What does Grandpa ask the grandkids to do?

answer: Balance an egg.

question: What's the narrator's name?

answer: Jake Lacey.

question: Does Jake have a magical ability?

answer: It seems he does, as he managed to make the egg stand.

question: What does Grandpa do once Jake gets the egg to stand?

answer: He smashes the egg and explains his way is to disfigure it.

question: Write a ~7 sentence summary.

answer: Jason's grandfather challenges their family to make a perfectly oval egg stand on its own. Jason is determined to make it happen. The family crowds and encourages him initially, but as he doesn't seem to be succeeding, they start to get ready for dinner. Jason,however, does manage to get the egg to stand. Everyone gawks, but then Grandpa grabs it and smashes it suddenly, announcing this is how you make the egg stand. Jason runs to his room and sobs. No one goes after him.


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"Wake up, Timothy.....Timothy, dear, wake up!"

“Ugh...what?”

“Wake up! We're leaving soon!”

Timothy rose from his bead, still groggy. Beside him was his wife, already dressed. He glanced at his clock; 3:20 AM, it read.

“Margaret, what are you doing awake and dressed at three in the morning? Why are you waking me up?”, said Timothy, yawning.

“We're leaving soon!”

“Leaving where?”

“Oh...well, its a surprise, you'll just have to wait until Jeffery comes. Then we will leave!”, said Margaret. She seemed quite excited for this place they were going to.

“Who's Jeffery? Why do we have to wait for him?”

“Because he's the one taking us!”

“Margaret, I don't want to go anywhere. I want to sleep. I have work in the morning, how am I supposed to be on time if I don't get any sleep?”

“You don't need to worry about work, dear. Now get dressed! I'm going to go fix us some breakfast.”

Margaret left the bedroom, and headed towards the kitchen. Timothy could hear her humming to herself happily as she prepared their food. As reluctant as he was, he got out of bed and dressed himself. He didn't want to go anywhere; but Margaret had been quite distant lately; not herself. This was the first time in weeks he had seen her happy. He decided he'd go along with it, for her sake. As he walked into the kitchen, Margaret stood at the stove smiling, frying some eggs.

“How would you like your eggs, dear?”

“Runny.”

Timothy walked to the coffee maker, and began to make some coffee. He soon realized that Margaret had stopped humming; so he turned around. She was standing completely still, staring at him blankly.

“What are you looking at me like that for?”, he asked.

No response.

“Margaret, what's wrong?”

“Oh, what?”, she said, as she snapped back into reality.

“You were staring at me.”

“Oh, sorry. Silly me, I guess I'm still a bit tired!” She resumed cooking the eggs and humming.

Timothy finished brewing his coffee just as Margaret finished cooking the eggs. She prepared them plates, and they sat down to eat.

“So, where are we going?”, Timothy asked.

“I can't tell you, dear. Its a surprise.”

“What kind of surprise?”

“A special surprise, just for you.”

“A surprise? For me? It better be damn good if its at 3 AM in the morning. When are we leaving?”

“Oh, I don't know. As soon as Jeffery gets here.”

About a half hour had passed, and they had both finished eating. Timothy was in the living room, fiddling with the T.V.. Margaret sat next to him, reading a book.

“Margaret, did you mess with the T.V.? Its just fuzzy white noise.”

“No dear, I didn't touch it.”

“Whatever. There's probably nothing good on, anyway. Can we leave yet?”

“No, not yet. We need to wait 'till Jeffery comes.”

“I think this Jeffery guy is a bit late.”, said Timothy, mildly annoyed.

Another half hour passed, and at this point Timothy was laying on the floor, half asleep. His eyes became heavy, and soon the image of Margaret underneath the lamp had dimmed to blackness.

“Wake up, Timothy! Wake up! Timothy!”

Timothy opened his eyes. He was back in his bed, with Margaret sitting on the bed next to him, with a worried look on her face.

“Timothy, you were talking in your sleep, and you're sweating.”

“What? How did I get in my bed? Is Jeffery here yet? He glanced at the clock; 5:48 AM.

“Who's Jeffery, Timothy?”

“Jeffery, Margaret. You know, he was going to take us to the surprise, remember? You woke me up at 3 AM!”

“What? I don't know a Jeffery, and I didn't wake you up. You must have been dreaming, that's probably why you were talking in your sleep.”

“Maybe...Margaret, I had a very strange dream. You woke me up, and we were going to go to my surprise, but you said we had to wait for Jeffery, and-”

“Oh, honey! You're cold!”

“I'm what?”, said Timothy, confused.

“You're cold! But you're sweating! I'm calling the doctor.”

Margaret left the bedroom, and he could soon hear her talking on the phone with the doctor. He touched his forehead; it was cold. Stone cold. So was his arm, and his leg, and the rest of his body. Ice cold. He shivered. The doorbell rang.

“Wow, that was fast!”, exclaimed Margaret.

Timothy could hear her answer the door.

“Who are you? You're not the doctor.”

“No, I'm not,” said a man with a raspy voice. “I'm here for Timothy.”

“He's in the bedroom...but who are you? What do you want?”

“I'm Jeffery,” he said, “The undertaker.”

title: Wait 'till Jeffery Comes

question: Who's Margaret?

answer: Timothy's wife.

question: What time does Timothy wake?

answer: 3:20 am

question: Who does Margaret say is coming to pick them up?

answer: Jefferey

question: Who is Jefferey?

answer: An undertaker.

question: Write a ~14 sentence summary.

answer: Timothy wakes in the middle of the night. His wife is next to him, fully dressed. She insists they must get up as someone named Jefferey is coming to pick them up. Timothy follows her around the house. They make breakfast and Margaret says their destination is a surprise. As time passes, remarks this Jefferey sure is late. Eventually Timothy falls asleep. He is awakened again, this time by a concerned Margaret, who tells him he was talking in his sleep. He's broken out in a cold sweat. Margaret leaves the room to call the doctor. A few moments later there's a knock on the door. Thinking it must be a particularly speedy doctor, Margaret answers. A man stands there. He announces he is Jefferey, the undertaker.


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FOLEY BEACH EXPRESS (FBE) is a limited-access[1] four-lane partial toll road near the beaches of Baldwin County near the Gulf of Mexico in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Alabama. It serves as an alternate route for the heavily traveled State Route 59 (SR 59) in nearby Gulf Shores.[2] The southern terminus of the highway is at an intersection with SR 180 in the northwestern part of Orange Beach. The northern terminus of the highway is at an intersection with SR 59 in the far north part of Foley. The extreme southern portion of the highway is part of Alabama's Coastal Connection, a National Scenic Byway.[3]

The toll bridge on the FBE is a comparably quicker connection with the Alabama mainland. It shaves off miles and minutes from crossing the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway at SR 59 in Gulf Shores.[4] The bridge was owned by American Roads and was in danger of bankruptcy in 2013, due to American Roads' $830 million debt from the FBE and other toll roads it owned. Syncora Guarantee eventually became the new owner.[5]

Route description

The FBE begins at an intersection with SR 180 (Canal Road) in the northwestern part of Orange Beach. It travels to the north-northwest and curves to the northwest. It crosses over Portage Creek and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway on an unnamed toll bridge. This bridge also crosses over County Route 4 (CR 4; Brown Lane). Just after the bridge ends, the highway has a tollbooth. Immediately after the tollbooth is an intersection with the eastern terminus of CR 4. The highway curves to a nearly due north direction and crosses over an unnamed branch of Portage Creek. It then leaves the city limits of Orange Beach. The FBE then curves to the west before a crossing of Cotton Creek. Upon crossing the creek, it curves to the north-northwest. It has an intersection with CR 8, which is only accessible from the southbound lanes of the FBE. It passes the campus of Columbia Southern University. At an intersection with CR 12, the highway enters Foley. Approximately later is an intersection with CR 20 (Miflin Road). Here, the Alabama's Coastal Connection designation turns to the east, while the FBE continues to the north. It curves to the northeast and crosses over Wolf Creek before curving back to the north. It then intersects U.S. Route 98 (US 98). Then, the highway curves to the west and has an intersection with the northern terminus of CR 28 and the southern terminus of the Baldwin Beach Express (BBE). It has an intersection with CR 73 just before reaching its northern terminus, an intersection with SR 59.[6]

History

The FBE was built in two sections: the toll-free Foley Bypass and the toll bridge and its approach road. The cost of the highway was $44 million. It was funded by a $36 million private taxable toll revenue bond issue, with additional grants from the Federal Highway Administration and the City of Foley.[7]

It opened to traffic in June 2000.[8]

On July 8, 2015, two barges hit the safety fender of the toll bridge at about 2:15 am. Approximately of the fender was removed. The bridge was inspected at about 11:00 am, while police and fire boats helped to maintain the area while divers were underwater. The bridge was reopened to traffic at about 1:30 pm.[9]

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title: Foley Beach Express

question: How can you describe Foley Beach Express?

answer: Foley Beach Express is a limited-access four-lane partial toll road near the beaches of Baldwin County near the Gulf of Mexico in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Alabama.

question: What does the Foley Beach Express serve as an alternate route for?

answer: It serves as an alternate route for the heavily traveled State Route 59 in nearby Gulf Shores.

question: What is the history of how the Foley Beach Express was built?

answer: The Foley Beach Express was built in two sections: the toll-free Foley Bypass and the toll bridge and its approach road.

question: How was the Foley Beach Express funded?

answer: It was funded by a $36 million private taxable roll revenue bond issue, with additional grants from the Federal Highway Administration and the City of Foley.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: This article describes the history and route description of the Foley Beach Express, a toll road near the Gulf of Mexico.


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For 11 long years, Kay Griggs heard all the messy details from her military husband, usually while he was drinking before going into one of his drunken stupors. First going public in 1998 in an eight hour video interview with a truth-seeking Michigan pastor and FM radio broadcaster, she now is back after 9/11 to warn Americans to beware of the evil lurking within the highest levels of government, bound and determined to destroy America.

Katharine 'Kay' Griggs knows what it's like to have a gun pointed in her face. She knows what it's like to have her face slapped, her bones broken and her nose bloodied by her former bully of a husband, an active Marine Colonel and a man who she claims is "above the law and literally gets away with murder."

Virginia court documents and photos of her battered arms and legs tell the sad and brutal physical story of her failed marriage, a tumultuous 11 year roller coaster ride ending in 1999.

But the real story for public consumption isn't the private divorce court details. It is the secret military information about drug running, weapon sales, sexual perversion and assassination squads she learned firsthand from her husband, U.S. Marine Corps Col. George Raymond Griggs, now remarried and living in Mirror Lake, NH.

This isn't the first time Griggs is going public with her story about government mob-like hit squads and the sexually perverted secret "cap and gown and skull and bone society" her husband belonged to along with other high-ranking Marine officers and pubic officials.

She first went public in 1996 after receiving death threats, being rescued by Sarah McClendon, former senior member of the White House press corps, who believed her story and took Griggs under her wing, giving her a place to stay and important advice about how to stay alive when dealing with military operatives.

"I became a whistle blower and received death threats," said Griggs this week in an extended telephone conversation from her Tidewater, VA. home. "I finally wound up living for safety reasons with Sarah, the dean of the White House Press Corps, who had been with every president since FDR and was in Army intelligence and also an attorney's daughter from Texas."

Advised by McClendon to go public without being able to get the mainstream media to listen, she traveled to Adrian, MI on the advice of a friend to do a long extended taped interview with Pastor Rick Strawcutter, a preacher and owner of a 500 watt pirate FM station at 99.3 on the dial in Lenawee County.

Strawcutter, who believed in free speech radio and empowering the public with the truth, produced two extended interviews finally released in 2000, one being a two hour version called "Sleeping With The Enemy" and the other an unedited eight hour version available at http://www.kaygriggstalks.com

Since then Griggs said she went back to her Virginia home, tried to piece her life together and essentially talked to private groups or anybody who would take the time to listen.

Now this week Griggs decided to tell her story again, saying "I will keep repeating it to anyone" and adding after 9/11, the war in Iraq, the London bombings and the fear of terrorism, the "American people are at a point were they are ready and willing to hear the truth."

Although they may be shocked, Griggs said the "truth will set you free," even if it means facing up to the highest form of corruption, including sexual perversion and government sponsored mob-like hits orchestrated by high-ranking military and government officials.

"My former husband George, who is a trained assassin, calls the people he is involved with the members of The Firm or The Brotherhood. If you are in the click, you are above the law and literally can get away with murder. For years, mostly when he was drinking, he told me how he and others in this elite military group would kill people," said Griggs, as she mentioned name after high-powered name and story after-detailed story about sexual pervasion, murder, military hit squads, brainwashing and mind control, all activities sanctioned, participated in and condoned by a group of military and political elite.

"There were many other things and people he told me about which were startling, things I'll tell you later. But George is like a robot, glazed eyes and all. While he drinks, he sort of comes alive. It is hard to explain unless you actually see him. He told me he was the No. 1 shooter for a long time for a group of powerful people at the top. If a guy is too honest, for example, they get rid of him."

When asked how large an inside group it was and how she survived after going public with such damning information about so many high powered names, she added:

"I just keep myself and my story in the public eye. I am a descent, honest person who believes in telling the truth. I have a deep, abiding faith and trust in God. I also come from a strong-minded, strong-willed family and I am not afraid of generals and admirals.

"As far as the sheer numbers of people involved in this cap and gown, skull and bones secret society, it's hard to say. But it is based on old friendships, college and prep school relationships, covering up secrets and sexual perversion.

"My husband told me about all the sexually perverted rituals, like anal and oral sex in coffins at drunken parties and running naked in the woods at Bohemian Grove. Then there was the last time I saw George was in 2001 and he was telling me to keep quiet, but I think he knows I will never stop telling the truth."

During numerous drinking binges over many years, one of the main things that sticks out in Griggs' mind was how easily her husband rationalized killing small number of innocent people and how he was able to somehow justify the killings if it accomplished a strategic goal for the elite group involved.

"Who are these people?" Griggs repeated after being asked the same direct question. "In general, they are first generation German sons, mostly who run things in the military through tight friendships made in Europe and at war colleges. Psyops is a controlling group and Paul Wolfowitz is a major player, as are the many Zionists on this side of the Atlantic.

"Truth is light. And these guys are anxious to collect the global power now in the few hands of their Freemasonic ( French Macons ) brotherhood's elite hands. It is a very, very small group and a rather homogenized group of global top down existentialist Zionists and socialists. In short, Nazi's who came to the U.S. when Hitler, their boy, turned on them in 1933.

Griggs said other recognizable names and major players she learned from her husband's arrogant ramblings besides Wolfowitz and other nondescript military and civilian names, involved in what she called a Zionist global takeover, included Donald Rumsfeld, George H. Bush, Dick Cheney, Henry Kissinger and Andy Fine, to name a few.

"After what I learned from George about "Rummy," as he called him and idolized him and the others, is that they all operate from this secret little, sick society and are all basically cowards and bullies. And I don't believe I should ever keep quiet about who they are because the only way we are going to change there behavior is to shed light on what they are doing and show how ludicrous , sick and inept their behavior really is.

"My husband George just idolized "Rummy" and thinks he is just wonderful when basically he is nothing more than an in-the-closet-Nazi. Also, George liked to brag how he and Wolfowitz were down in Indonesia in the 1970s, down there training young assassins.

"After what I heard all those years and now putting it into prospective after 9/11, I think they aretrying to destroy America. Their whole game is all about war, selling weapons and creating a militaristic society. I know first hand from listening to my husband, they will do anything - I mean anything including murder - to get what they want."

Although Griggs said her husband never mentioned anything specific about 9/11 during their marriage, she claims he hinted several times that "war-gaming and airplane crashes" were necessary elements to control and manipulate the American population.

Putting many of her husband's comments together with other acquaintances made through him, she had this to say about 9/11:

"Before 9/11, there were some things which let me know that it was involved with war gaming going on at ACT Commands center in Suffolk. War games and diversions and manipulations of American public opinion he said are "necessary." George explained some examples such as airplane "crashes" and the bombing by the Israeli Lebanese Bekka valley recruits who blew up the Marine Corps barracks. I believe my husband knew ahead of time 9/11 was going to occur.

"I know that there was a war game going on via Tampa, I think it was called Bright Star, which was being run on 9/11 by a weird and insecure USMC General who was in charge while the Army head was conveniently away in the Near East.

"I am sure 9-11 was a joint and combined military operation, using boys who were recruited via A.Q. Khan's Israeli network in Pakistan and South Africa through Zionists in Hamburg. I believe that certain MI6 British Zionistswith the Ian Goodwin-Peter Goodwin-Basil Cardinal Hume Yorkshire network were also involved in funding and recruiting these guys. It was a large and ongoing operation to set up and involved lots of CIA Zionists and lots of funny money."

The Early Years

Griggs grew up in the elite Virginia Southern class, the child of a Reserve Military family of Scottish and French Huguenot descent. Raised with strict Christian ideals, moral character, deep faith and impeccable ethics, she carried with her the headstrong outspoken nature of her father and the truth-seeking characteristics of her mother.

However, a victim of old Southern male chauvinism and backward traditions, she was married young in an arranged fashion to John Garland Pollard III, the wealthy grandson of a Virginia Governor, who lived off his inheritance in a typical aristocratic Southern-style plantation.

"Looking back it was just horrible and suffocating," said Griggs, who after getting a divorce in 1983 went on to teach after getting a degree in history with a specialty in Virginia history and the Scottish Reformation.

After resettling in a Virginia Beach home and working as an Asst. Director of the Chamber of Commerce, she was about to meet a dashing Marine Colonel who would forever change the course and direction of her life.

Second Marriage To Col. Griggs

After renting the main portion of her house to Col. Griggs, the couple dated for two months and were quickly married, a speedy decision the young bride would quickly learn to regret.

The story of the couple's courtship is of little importance, but what happened afterwards regarding the colonel's drunken ramblings takes center stage.

"He started drinking, did a lot of heavy drinking and at first I thought I could change him," said Griggs, who listened closely over the years about her husband's role as a military assassin and his role as a military trainer who brought new, young assassins into the fold. "He started talking openly about murder, corruption, assassinations and lies. It was just incredible the names that were involved and the people who were being killed.

"He gave me very detailed and graphic descriptions about how Waco was carried out, as well as how many other hits went down, including Malcolm Kerr, the head of the American University in Beirut and Ron Brown, who was trying to take away the State Department's monopoly on drug money and arms deals.

"My husband would get into these crazed stupors where he would be running around the house naked and there were times I would find him lying in the grass that way.

"I learned about how he was sexually molested by homosexual teachers at the elite Hun School, where a lot of the others in this small elite group also attended, including the members the Saudi Royal family. He told me how sex is used to control, intimidate and groom boys into this type of military service from a young age.

"He mentioned how many of The Brotherhood, as he liked to call them, are members of the "Cap and Gown" Princeton group or the "Skull and Bones" Yale crowd and how they performed sexually perverted induction ceremonies with anal and oral sex performed inside coffins."

During the final two years of the marriage, Griggs said her husband basically disappeared. When she finally decided to blow the whistle on her husband's activities and others surrounding him, she met privately with attorney and former CIA Director William Colby, seeking advice.

'I really thought I would get some help, but Colby was later found dead," said Griggs about Colby whose body was found eight weeks after he disappeared on April, 27, 1996, while canoeing near his Rock Point, Maryland, vacation home.

"Then I started getting death threats, had my house burglarized, my car messed with and every time I would try to get the FBI or police to act, strangely nothing would be done. They would do things like steal my underwear, leave black dots on all my blouses and leave twelve screw drivers on my kitchen counter. They would do strange things like this, which if you think about it, is really hard to explain to the police without them thinking your are crazy.

"I later found out I was flagged by Marine General Al Gray, my husband's boss who put the wheels in motion on much of the criminal activity. He flagged me as a trouble maker knowing I was a free thinker who was not about to keep quiet like all the other military wives who knew too much. Finally, I sought help from Sarah McClendon, who basically saved my life."

After weathering the storm of harassment in Washington D.C., she was encouraged by friends to publicize her story nationally through the alternative media since major publications wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. In 1998, she then met Pastor Strawcutter who believed in her and who basically told the same story Griggs is telling today but in much more detail.

Pastor Strawcutter's 1998 Taped Interview
Besides running a ministry in Adrian, MI., Strawcutter's main passion is truth-telling, his philosophy turning out to be a perfect match for Griggs when she finally contacted him one morning in 1998 as he broadcasted live during drive-time on his pirate FM radio station.

"I remember one morning getting this call during a commercial break and then we put Kay on live for about 45 minutes. I couldn't believe what I was hearing," said Strawcutter this week by telephone from his Michigan church. "After the show, I arranged for Kay to come to Michigan with her documentation and photos of the story."

When Griggs arrived with her husband's diary and photos providing credible documentation for some of what she claimed, Strawcutter taped her story for over eight hours.

After the taping session, he recalls out of all the controversial stories he worked on, the Griggs story was one of the most troubling and difficult to deal due to the sensitive nature of the allegations and the number of high-ranking names involved.

Finally, after sitting on the story for a year, Strawcutter decided to release it in two forms, the first being a 2 hour edited video version of the interview which he distributed under the title of "Sleeping With The Enemy" and the other being simply the longer unedited eight hour version.

And like Griggs recounted this week from her Virginia home, the Strawcutter tapes are even more detailed about how members of The Brotherhood operate in a world of treachery, deceit, lies, murder, drug running, sex slavery and illegal weapon sales, all in the name of forming a new world order.

"People need to know the truth about 9/11, Waco, the Oklahoma City bombing and, of course, what Kay Griggs is saying," said Strawcutter, who for a long time on his FM station had been testing the waters of truth by broadcasting controversial stories, many coming from the likes of Michael Collins Piper and other American Free Press writers, an alternative paper that also delves into subjects taboo in the mainstream media.

"I basically believed she was telling the truth and decided to go with the story as she told it."

Asked if he was ever harassed for bringing the Griggs tapes public, he added:

"No, not really. I never worry about things like that. But I do know after winning a landmark federal case to stay on the air in the 1990s, the feds came down real hard one me about three months after 9/11 with another legal challenge to my station which had become wildly successful, becoming the second top rated show in the county."

Shortly, thereafter, Strawcutter was forced to take his brand of truth-telling radio of the air waves in the wake of legal roadblocks and challenges designed by the government to bankrupt his efforts.

Katharine 'Kay' Griggs Today

The head strong, truth telling woman who first provided America with her shocking story in 1996, is really no different today although she readily admits the government is still trying to ruin her financially and still monitors her closely.

Although still under the government microscope, her energy and curiosity remain strong as ever.

"With all that's happening in the world, the time is right now for truth," said Griggs. "I think America can handle the truth now and I basically want people to know that my husband and the people involved with him are really nothing but cowards and bullies. But they are, at the same time, dangerous, evil people that must be stopped. I am not a vindictive person and I also am not seeking publicity. I simply want people to know the truth about how these people are trying to destroy this country."

And still trying to "connect the dots" in an attempt to expose The Brotherhood, she added:

"I'm in the midst of research on the headmistress of my Episcopal girls' school, St. Margaret's, who spent years working with MI6 at Cheltenham!! This is Victor Rothschild's group with 6 representing the six-sided star and MI5 being more Masonic but still not sure about all of this yet."

Single and living in the same home she shared with her former military husband, Griggs still holds firm to her strong Christian beliefs, saying she will talk to anybody who is interested in listening since she firmly believes "truth is light and only the truth will set you free."

How To Listen To The Kay Griggs Tapes

There are three video versions of her story in distribution. The first is Pastor Strawcutter's original two hour version called "Sleeping With The Enemy" available at his web site at http://www.kaygriggsvideo.com

The second is the raw, unedited eight hour version, Strawcutter saying rights being obtained by a third party and available at www.kaygriggstalks.com. And the third is a two-part video, taken from Strawcutter's original interviews and edited by Eric Hufschmid located at http://www.hugequestions.com

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question: Who is Kay Griggs?

answer: Katherine Griggs is a military wife whose husband would get drunk and tell her all the messy details her husband knew about the government and military operations. She has been vocal in the past about the evils of the government, and now, after 9/11, she wants to warn Americans everywhere how high up the evil goes.

question: What happened when Griggs went public last time?

answer: She received death threats for exposing the hit squads and sexually perverted secret society her husband belonged to with other high-ranking Marine officers. She was rescued by Sarah McClendon, the former senior member of the White House press corps, who gave Griggs a place to stay and advice on how to deal with military operatives.

question: What was Griggs next move?

answer: McClendon advised her to go public, but she wasn't able to go through the mainstream media. She went to do an extended taped interview with Pastor Rick Strawcutter in Adrian, Michigan. Strawcutter was a preacher and owner of private FM station in Lenawee County. Strawcutter eventually produced two extended interviews in 2000, one being a two hour

question: What is Griggs position on her interviews?

answer: She believes they are bracing, but she has come forward again after going back to her Virginia home and telling anyone who would listen about her story. She believes it's her duty not to remain quiet and, while her story is shocking, she says "the truth will set [Americans] free".

question: Write a ~6 sentence summary.

answer: Katherine Griggs is the former wife of George Raymond Griggs, a special military operative who would get drunk and mistakenly tell her the truth about his military career. It turned out that he was part of a secret military society that operated as a mob like hit squad and sexually perverted crew. Their relationship was abusive and lasted 11 years, including instances of Kay Griggs getting death threats and guns pointed in her face when she initially came forward with her story, which implicated both her ex husband and several other high ranking military operatives. Sarah McClendon, a former senior member of the white house press corps, took her under her wing giving her a place to stay, and critical advice on how to deal with military operatives. In 2000, Griggs came out with a 2 hour interview on a private radio network in Michigan telling her full story. She still insists on telling her story today, and is coming forward again after 9/11, because while shocking, Griggs believe the truth about military corruption will set Americans free.


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BRENO GOMES GIACOMINI[1] (born September 27, 1985)[2] is an American football offensive tackle who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the fifth round in the 2008 NFL Draft.[3][4] He played college football at Louisville. Giacomini is of Brazilian descent.[5] Along with Gary Barnidge of the Cleveland Browns, Giacomini founded American Football Without Barriers in 2011, a football-related charity foundation.[6]

Early years

The son of two Brazilian expatriates from Governador Valadares,[7] Giacomini was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and raised in Malden. His interest in playing football begun as Giacomini was brought to meet New England Patriots quarterback Drew Bledsoe at the Boston Marriott, where his father worked.[8] Giacomini was a three-year starter as a defensive end and outside linebacker at Malden High School with Joe Morrisey. He started his freshman and sophomore years, but decided to not play football as a junior to concentrate on basketball, as he averaged 21.0 points per game as a senior and was second in the league in scoring. However, one of his high school football coaches convinced him to resume playing football for college.[9] Despite taking an almost two year long absence from football in high school, Giacomini was rated as a 2-star recruit by 247 Sports and a 3-star recruit by Rivals coming out of high school. Giacomini ultimately committed to play for Louisville, which was the lone Division I-A college program to offer him a scholarship.[10]

College career

Giacomini played college football at Louisville. While he had played on the defensive side of the ball in high school, the Louisville coaches were so impressed with his speed and catching ability they converted him to a tight end for his freshman and sophomore seasons.

When he reported to fall camp in 2006, he had grown from a 242-pound tight end to a 303-pound offensive tackle forcing the coaching staff to move him to the offensive line. He started two games his junior year when starter George Bussey was out with an injury.

During his senior season, Giacomini moved to starting right tackle. The team's ground game struggled, but he provided solid pass protection, allowing only four sacks and two pressures on 491 pass plays. He earned second-team All-Big East Conference honors.[11]

Professional career

Green Bay Packers

Giacomini was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the fifth round, 150th overall, in the 2008 NFL Draft. On July 23, he was signed to a four-year rookie contract with a signing bonus of $179,000.[12][13]

Seattle Seahawks

Giacomini was acquired by the Seattle Seahawks from the Packers practice squad on September 28, 2010, and released on October 23, 2010. He was re-signed for the 2011 season, during which he played in 15 games and started 8.[14] He started every game of the 2012 season, including both postseason games.[15]

Giacomini started in 9 games during the 2013 season, missing 7 games (week 4-10) while recovering from knee surgery.[16] Giacomini started all three post-season games for the Seahawks including their 43-8 Super Bowl win over the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII.[17]

New York Jets

Giacomini was signed by the New York Jets on March 12, 2014.[18] He started every game of the 2014 and 2015 seasons.

Giacomini started the 2016 on the Reserve/PUP list due a back injury and missed the first seven games.[19] He was activated to the active roster on October 29, 2016 prior to Week 8 of the 2016 season.[20] He was placed on injured reserve on December 13, 2016 after re-injuring his back in Week 13.[21]

On February 23, 2017, Giacomini was released by the Jets.[22]

Houston Texans

On May 16, 2017, Giacomini signed with the Houston Texans.[23]

Oakland Raiders

On March 22, 2018, Giacomini signed with the Oakland Raiders, reuniting with former Seahawks offensive line coach Tom Cable.[24] He was released on August 27, 2018.[25]

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question: Summarize everything relating to injuries.

answer: Giacomini missed 7 games during the 2013 season while recovering from knee surgery. He started the 2016 season on the Reserve/PUP list due to a back injury and missed the first seven games. He was placed on injured reserve in December of that year after re-injuring his back in Week 13.

question: What does the article say about the teams Giacomini has played on?

answer: Giacomini was a three-year starter as a defensive end and outside linebacker at Malden High School. He played college football at Louisville. He was drafted by the Green bay Packers in the 2008 NFL Draft. In 2010, he was acquired by the Seattle Seahawks and in 2014 by the New York Jets. In 2017, he signed with the Houston Texans, and in 2018 with the Oakland Raiders.

question: What does the article say about Giacomini's retirement?


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How Do I Know When A Pan Is Hot Enough to Add Oil?

Most people don’t heat up a pan before adding oil. Some don’t even get the oil hot before they start cooking. They might put the pan on a burner, turn the heat on, add some oil and immediately throw in a chicken breast or a fish filet.  – And then they wonder why the chicken or fish sticks to the pan?

Reasons for Not Heating Up a Pan Before Adding a Fat

There are some good reasons why a number of culinary experts prefer to start with a cold pan, add oil and then start the heat but in my opinion, just a few. But remember, whether you start with a cold or hot pan, you must heat up the oil before adding ingredients or they will stick and turn out poorly.

-    The oil is a reminder that the pan is heating up and should not be touched. If you have a pan on heat with nothing in it, there is a more likely chance you might grab the pan and burn yourself.
-    If you add oil to a hot pan, it’s going to get hot very fast so you better be ready with all your ingredients and ready to cook or the oil will burn require starting over. Adding oil to a cold pan gives you time to watch as the oil gets hot. The oil gives off visual clues telling you just when you need to start adding ingredients.
-    Probably the best reason of all, it’s not a great idea to heat up an empty non-stick frying pan. It can damage the pan and some of them may even emit fumes that are not so good for you.

Reason For Heating Up a Pan Before Adding Fat

-    It is the way most culinary students are taught. Not a great reason but interesting to know.
-    It saves time. In professional kitchens, you will often see fry pans sitting on the stove tops getting hot so when the chef is ready to start cooking, they add a little oil and they are ready to go.
-    There is some advanced science that talks about the pores on the surface of metal pans and how heat opens them up so the oil can get in to prevent sticking. Wayyyyy over my head.
-    Most Importantly – It Helps Prevent Food From Sticking to the Pan

These are all good reasons why professional chefs like to start with hot pans but does it matter to a home cook?

I’m not really sure we have the same time constraints as the pros to get a meal on the table but why not use the same techniques they use?  Again, none of this holds true if you are starting with non-stick pans.

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Reader Interactions

question: Why should you heat up the oil in a pan before adding ingredients?

answer: You should heat up the oil in a pan before adding ingredients so the ingredients don't stick to the pan.

question: Should you heat up an empty non-stick frying pan?

answer: No, because this can damage the pan and some may even emit fans that are not good for you.

question: Why do professional kitchens heat up pans before adding oil?

answer: Professional kitchens heat up pans before adding oil because it saves time.

question: Does any of this information hold true if you are using a non-stick pan?

answer: No, it does not.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: This article gives pros and cons for heating up a pan before adding oil to it.