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WILHELM HEINZ SCHRÖDER (born 24 May 1946) is a German historian working at Cologne University. The focus of his research and teaching is on contemporary history. He has led, coordinated and contributed to several major on-line biography projects covering German parliamentarians.[1][2]

Life

Wilhelm Heinz Schröder was born in Mellrichstadt, a small town in north-west Bavaria (Lower Franconia) and, for much of his life, close to the western side of the Inner German border separating East and West Germany. On his father's side he came from a line of successful farmers who had been driven out of West Prussia by the ethnic cleansing of 1944/45. His mother's family had been based in the Franconia-Thuringia region and been closely involved, since 1870, with the growing labour movement. When he was ten the family moved to Cologne.[3]

He studied History and Germanistics at Cologne University where he received his first degree in 1971 and his doctorate (in history, supervised by Theodor Schieder) in 1976.[4] His doctoral dissertation was later published under the title “Comrades, we should not overdo the patience. From the early history of Social Democracy 1862-1878” (_"“Genossen, wir dürfen uns nicht von der Geduld hinreißen lassen. Aus der Urgeschichte der Sozialdemokratie 1862-1878”_).[5] His Habilitation and Umhabilitation (higher academic qualifications) followed respectively in 1986 (Technical University of Berlin) and 1993 (Cologne).[6] Between 1976 and 1987 he held a succession of research and project leadership posts at Bielefeld, Bremen, Cologne and the Technical University of Berlin. He was appointed to his professorship at Cologne in 1996, and in 2011 this appointment, which is concerned, in particular, with social historical research, became “indefinite”.[7] There have been, in parallel, various shorter teaching contracts at other high-profile German and Austrian universities.[8]

In 1987 Schröder became department head at the Centre for Historical Research in the Social Sciences Archive with the GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. Since 1986 he has served as leading producer of the Historical Social Research journal. Between 1980 and 2010 he also headed up the inter-regional Graduate Summer School for the associated “ZHSF Method Seminars”.[9]

He sits on a number of academic committees. He is president of the international working group and a spokesman for the Centre for Contemporary History at Potsdam. One of Schröder's most important projects involved researching Social Democrat parliamentarians between 1867 and 1933. In connection with this he developed the concept of “collective biography” as a research tool.[10]

His focus on summary biographies of parliamentarians became an obvious theme with his Habilitation work which was originally published in truncated form in 1986 under the title “Biographical Handbook of Social Democratic Reichstag members and candidates ...” (_“Biographisches Handbuch der Sozialdemokratische Reichstagsabgeordnete und Reichstagskandidaten 1898-1918. ...”_).[11] Schröder has subsequently brought together biographical databanks from various biographical projects that he has headed up into a single online “Parliamentary Portal” identified by the acronym “BIOPARL”.[12] It includes:

-   Social Democratic members of the German Reichstag and of regional parliaments (_“Landtagen”_) (1867-1933 (BIOSOP)
-   Social Democratic candidates for Reichstag membership including Reichstag members (1898-1918) (BIOKAND)
-   Members of the German Reichstag (1867-1918) (BIORAB part 2: German empire)
-   Members of the German Reichstag (1919-1933) (BIORAB part 3: Weimar republic)
-   Members of the West German and German Bundestag (1949-2006) (BUMAST)
-   Members of the East German Volkskammer (1990) (VOLKPARL)

Wilhelm Heinz Schröder lives in Frechen, a suburb of Cologne on the western side of the city. He is involved in the community and in local politics, having for many years served on the local council.[13]

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question: Who is Wilhelm Heinz Schröder?

answer: Wilhelm Heinz Schröder is a German historian.

question: Where is Wilhelm Heinz Schröder working?

answer: Wilhelm Heinz Schröder is working at Cologne University.

question: What is the title of Wilhelm Heinz Schröder's doctoral dissertation?

answer: The title of Wilhelm Heinz Schröder's doctoral dissertation is 'Comrades, we should not overdo the patience. From the early history of Social Democracy 1862-1878'.

question: What is Schröder's research focus?

answer: Schröder's research focus is summary biographies of parliamentarians.

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Wilhelm Heinz Schröder is a German historian from Cologne University.
He was appointed to his professorship in 1996. He became department head at the Centre for Historical Research in the Social Sciences Archive with the GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in 1987. Since 1986 he has served as a leading producer of the Historical Social Research journal. He is president of the international working group and a spokesman for the Centre for Contemporary History at Potsdam. Schröder researches Social Democrat parliamentarians between 1867 and 1933. He developed the concept of “collective biography”.


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Panthers owner-for-a-few-more-hours Jerry Richardson is expected to make an appearance today.

Disgraced by recent allegations of workplace misconduct, Richardson hasn’t been spotted during the sale of his team to David Tepper, but he’s kept a low profile in recent years anyway.

Accoording to Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network, he’s scheduled to address the owners one final time before they vote to approve the sale at their meeting in Atlanta.

The 81-year-old Richardson was once one of the most powerful owners in the league, a close confidante (if not patron) of commissioner Roger Goodell. But he was on the wrong side of the league’s efforts to get back to Los Angeles.

He was pushing for a joint stadium in Carson for the Chargers and Raiders, a very old-NFL move which fell by the wayside for bigger new-money deals in Inglewood by Rams owner Stan Kroenke, and eventually the Raiders’ move to Las Vegas.

Losing that power struggle to a new guard of owners was part of the reason, along with his health, that he backed away from most league business in recent years. He stepped aside from all his committee assignments, and only showed up at the May meeting in 2016 because it was in Charlotte, as he had skipped league business for most of the last five years.

Richardson had a heart transplant in February 2009. He’s about to pocket $2.2 billion in cash as part of Tepper’s bid. At some point after that, the league will likely wrap up its investigation into the activity that triggered the sale, which included allegations of sexual and racial harassment.

question: What are Richardson's allegations?

answer: Workplace misconduct, sexual and racial harassment.

question: Who did Jerry sell his team to?

answer: He sold Panthers to David Tepper.

question: How old is Jerry?

answer: 81 years old.

question: What surgery did Jerry have in February 2009?

answer: He had a heart transplant.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: The text is facts about Jerry Richardson.


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BELL M. SHIMADA (January 17, 1922 - June 2, 1958) was an American fisheries scientist. He is noted for his study during the 1950s of tuna stocks in the tropical Pacific Ocean and its important effect on the development of the post-World War II tuna fishery on the United States West Coast.[1][2]

Biography

Early life

BELL MASAYUKI SHIMADA was born in Seattle, Washington, on January 17, 1922, to Japanese immigrant parents.[3][4] As a boy, he demonstrated an aptitude for mathematics and science. After graduating from Franklin High School, he attended the University of Washington, where he studied at the School of Fisheries.[5][6]

The United States entered World War II with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Early in the war, concerns arose in the United States that Japanese-Americans might sympathize with Japan, leading to a program of internment of Japanese-Americans which involved “evacuating” them involuntarily from the United States West Coast and incarcerating them in inland concentration camps. This interrupted Shimada′s studies when he was “evacuated” on April 27, 1942.[7] He was incarcerated at Minidoka in Idaho on April 29, 1942.[8][9]

Military service

In May 1943, Shimada was permitted to leave the camp and enlist in the United States Army as an infantryman[10][11] in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.[12] After basic training at Camp Shelby in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, he was selected for Japanese language and military intelligence collection training at Camp Savage in Savage, Minnesota. In April 1944, he was transferred to the United States Army Air Forces and received three months of air intelligence training in Orlando, Florida. He then was transferred to Honolulu, Hawaii, where he served as a translator and interpreter until May 1945, when he was transferred to Guam, where he served as a radio traffic monitor until the surrender of Japan on August 15, 1945.[13][14]

In August 1945, Shimada moved to U.S. Army Air Forces headquarters in Tokyo to take part in the occupation of Japan. He collected and synthesized economic and infrastructure data on the effects of the strategic bombing of Japan until he was discharged from the military in February 1946.[15][16]

Fisheries science career

[Bell Shimada]

Research for Supreme Commander for the Allied Forces

Remaining in Japan, Shimada accepted a civilian position as a fisheries biologist in the Natural Resources Section on the staff of the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP). His duties involved researching and analyzing Japanese fisheries activities and compiling and collating data on them. He played a major role in drafting SCAP directives to the Japanese government, particularly on whaling, and his first professional publication, _Japanese Whaling in the Bonin Islands Area_ (United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Fishery Leaflet No. 248), published in 1947, was based on his studies and reports on whaling while he was in Japan.[17][18]

Leaving Japan in December 1946, Shimada returned to the University of Washington to resume his studies at the College of Fisheries. He also worked as a laboratory technician for the School of Fisheries and maintained the School's ichthyology collection. After graduating _cum laude_ on December 20, 1947, and receiving his bachelor's degree, he remained at the School of Fisheries to pursue postgraduate studies, during which he worked as a laboratory assistant maintaining aquaculture facilities for the Atomic Energy Commission. In September 1948, he began his career with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, accepting a position in its Bureau of Fisheries.[19][20]

Pacific Ocean Fisheries Investigations

Shimada graduated from the University of Washington School of Fisheries postgraduate program with a Master of Science in Fisheries in December 1948, and the same month moved to Honolulu to work for the Fish and Wildlife Service′s new Pacific Ocean Fishery Investigations (POFI) office.[21][22] Tuna stocks in the Pacific Ocean had come under increasing pressure since the end of World War II, and the Fish and Wildlife Service had created POFI to study the tuna fishery in the equatorial Pacific. POFI′s first director, the influential fisheries scientist Oscar Elton Sette, arrived in Honolulu to take charge of POFI in 1949. Sette has been credited with pioneering modern fisheries science by integrating the biological study of fish and their life cycles and populations with oceanography and meteorology to develop an overall understanding not only of the biology of the fish themselves but also of the influence of the physical environment on fisheries and fluctuations in their abundance from year to year.[23][24] Sette organized and directed POFI according to this vision.[25][26]

Under Sette′s guidance, Shimada worked with many accomplished fisheries scientists and oceanographers while at POFI, including Wilbert McLeod “Wib” Chapman, Roger Revelle, Milner Baily “Benny” Schaefer, and Sette himself, as well as young scientists who would become notable in their fields as their careers progressed, such as Townsend Cromwell, Fred Cleaver, Warren Wooster, Alan Tubbs, William Aron, Gerald Howard, Richard Hennemuth, Howard Yoshida, and Tom Hida.[27] The Fish and Wildlife Service assigned two research ships to support POFI, and Shimada served as a seagoing biologist, in charge of shipboard science watches and research.[28]

Shimada also took postgraduate courses while in Honolulu and began work on his Ph.D.[29] He left POFI in January 1951 and spent the rest of the year in Seattle taking doctoral courses at the School of Fisheries at the University of Washington.[30][31]

Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission

In February 1952, Shimada was assigned to the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC),[32][33] which was collocated with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Fish and Wildlife Service Bureau of Fisheries laboratory in La Jolla, California, and he cooperated professionally with those institutions on matters of mutual interest, sharing scientific ideas and manpower and cooperating in research. Working with Milner “Benny” Schaefer and Gerald Howard, Shimada conducted the tuna fishery research for which he is best known during his time with the IATTC and achieved national and international recognition when he began to publish his research on tuna spawning, distribution, and feeding patterns.[34][35] He received his doctorate from the University of Washington School of Fisheries in 1956,[36][37] and rose rapidly within the IATTC, serving as the IATTC′s Senior Scientist from 1956 to 1958. Both at POFI and at IATTC, Shimada worked frequently with Townsend Cromwell, a physical oceanographer interested in ocean currents, on research into the distribution of tuna in the Pacific Ocean. Their cooperative work, following the principles of fisheries oceanography Sette, Shimada, Cromwell, and other members of Sette′s team had pioneered at POFI, combined Cromwell's insights into the forces such as temperature gradients that drive currents with Shimada′s findings regarding the availability of forage for the tunas, leading to useful research results for both men.[38]

In 1957, Shimada and Cromwell worked together on the distribution of tuna throughout the Pacific Ocean,[39] including a research ship cruise off Mexico′s Clarion Island as part of a project for the IATTC known as the Island Current Study.[40] Plans called for Shimada and Cromwell to make one more cruise to Clarion Island in 1958 aboard the Scripps Institution research ship _Horizon_ to continue their research there before Shimada left the IATTC to take up a position as the first director of the Fish and Wildlife Service Bureau of Commercial Fisheries′ new Eastern Pacific Tuna Investigations office in July 1958.[41]

Death

Making their way to Acapulco, Mexico, to join their research team for the 1958 Clarion Island cruise, Shimada and Cromwell boarded Aeronaves de México Flight 111, a Lockheed L-749A Constellation, in Guadalajara, Mexico, on June 2, 1958, for a flight to Mexico City. Shortly after takeoff, the airliner crashed into La Latilla Mountain, only 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Guadalajara Airport, killing all 45 people on board in what at the time was Mexico′s deadliest aviation accident.[42][43][44]

Shimada is buried at Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park in Seattle, Washington.[45]

Personal life

[Allen and Julie Shimada, at the commissioning ceremony for the ship named for their father, NOAAS _Bell M. Shimada_ (R 227), in 2010.]

While working with POFI in Hawaii between 1948 and 1952, Shimada met and married the former Rae M. Shimojima (March 5, 1919 – May 20, 1996),[46][47] who was working as Sette′s secretary at the time.[48] They had a son, Allen, born in 1954, and a daughter, Julie, born in 1957.[49] Allen Shimada later became a fisheries scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration′s National Marine Fisheries Service.[50]

Commemoration

[NOAAS _Bell M. Shimada_ (R 227)] Although Shimada died at the age of 36 and his fisheries science career lasted only 12 years, at the time of his death the fisheries science community already viewed his contributions as so significant to both the scientific understanding of the Pacific tuna fishery and to the post-World War II development of that fishery on the U.S. West Coast that the Proceedings from the Symposium on “The Changing Pacific Ocean in 1957 and 1958” were dedicated to him,[51][52] as well as to Townsend Cromwell.[53] The dedication read:

  This Symposium is dedicated to Townsend Cromwell and Bell M. Shimada, associates in research of many of the participants in this Symposium, who lost their lives, June 2, 1958, in an airplane crash near Guadalajara, Mexico, while en route to join the research vessel _Horizon_ to make further observations on the changing conditions in 1958."[54]

The Shimada Seamount in the Pacific Ocean southwest of Baja California at is named for Shimada.[55][56]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research ship NOAAS _Bell M. Shimada_ (R 227) is named in honor of Shimada.[57][58] A team of students from Marina High School in Marina, California, that suggested the name won a regional NOAA contest to name the vessel.[59][60] In a speech at the ship′s launching ceremony on September 26, 2008, Shimada′s daughter Julie said, “I hope the _Bell M. Shimada_ is a lasting testament that no life is too short, no career too brief, no contribution too small, to make a difference.”[61] The ship was commissioned into the NOAA fleet on August 25, 2010.[62]

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title: Bell M. Shimada

question: Was Shimada an American or a Japanese?

answer: Shimada was an American. He was born in the U.S. to Japanese immigrant parents.

question: Why did Shimada move to Honolulu in 1948?

answer: Shimada moved to Honolulu to work for the Fish and Wildlife Service′s new Pacific Ocean Fishery Investigations office.

question: Where did Shimada work in Japan?

answer: In Japan, Shimada worked in U.S. Army Air Forces headquarters in Tokyo, then in the Natural Resources Section on the staff of the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP) as a fisheries biologist.

question: What did Shimada do in SCAP?

answer: Shimada's duties in SCAP involved researching and analyzing Japanese fisheries activities and compiling and collating data on them.

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: Bell M. Shimada (1922-1958) was an American fisheries scientist. He graduated from the University of Washington School of Fisheries postgraduate program with a Master of Science in Fisheries. Shimada achieved national and international recognition when he began to publish his research on tuna spawning, distribution, and feeding patterns. He died at the age of 36 in an aircraft accident.


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GILBERT LASCAULT (born 25 October 1934 in Strasbourg) is a French novelist, essayist, and art critic.

Biography

Agrégé of philosophy in 1960, Gilbert Lascault began writing his thesis,[1] « Le monstre dans l’art occidental » (“The monster in Western art”), an essay of aesthetics inaugurating his writings to come.[2] He discovered contemporary art by meeting Henri Michaux and Jean Dubuffet.

An engraver and calligrapher, Gilbert Lascault taught aesthetics and the philosophy of art the Paris West University Nanterre La Défense (from 1988) then at the Sorbonne (since the second half of the 1990s), “proposing” seminars of uncertainty “to students and researchers in philosophy, art history and plastic arts”.[3]

A specialist in surrealism, he has published several books on this subject.

He writes and has written in numerous magazines:[4] _Traverses_, __, _L’Art Vivant_, _Artstudio_, _XXe_, Beaux Arts Magazine'', _La Revue d’esthétique_

For many years, he is one of the “pillars”, of the program on France Culture, and has long participated in _Panorama_ and . In 1995, he was the guest of honor of the Oulipo.

Gilbert Lascault participated, as author, in the realization of a large number of artist's books with, in particular, Pierre Alechinsky, Marcel Alocco, , Eliz Barbosa, Cantié, Henri Cueco, , Ghislaine Escande, Nathalie Grall, Françoise Gründ, Philippe Hélénon, Joël Leick, Stanislav Marijanović, Marianne Montchougny, , Gaëlle Pelachaud, Denis Pouppeville, Antonio Seguí, Brigitte Tartière, ,[5] and

He has also written extensively on the works of artists such as Jean Dubuffet, Jean Tinguely, Pierre Alechinsky, , Vladimir Veličković, Coco Téxèdre, , , Anne and Patrick Poirier, , , Henri Cueco, Christian Boltanski, Leonardo Cremonini, Bang Hai Ja.[6]…

Since 4 May 2005, he is at the chair of Teratoscopy & Dinography.

In 2014, the [7] of Issoudun devoted a large retrospective exhibition « Les chambres hantées de Gilbert Lascault ».[8]

Publications

-   1963: _Le Monstre dans l'art occidental_,
-   1969: _Esthétique et psychanalyse_, in _La Psychanalyse_, collectif, éd.: S.G.P.P.; series “Le point de la question”
-   1975: _Un monde miné_,
-   1976: _Enfances choisies_, Christian Bourgois
-   1976: With , _Alphabet d'Éros_, Paris, Ed. Galilée
-   1977: _Figurées, défigurées : petit vocabulaire de la féminité représentée_, Union générale d’édition (UGE), series , Paris
-   1977: _Un îlot tempéré_, Christian Bourgois
-   1979: _Écrits timides sur le visible_, UGE, 10/18, Paris
-   1979: _Voyage d'automne et d'hiver_, Christian Bourgois
-   1981: _La destinée de Jean Simon Castor_, Christian Bourgois
-   1981: _Boucles et nœuds_,
-   1982: _Alexandre Bonnier - Autour d'images et d'écrits_, Editions Shakespeare International
-   1982: _Un herbier pour _
-   1983: _Encyclopédie abrégée de l'empire vert_, Maurice Nadeau
-   1983: _Marmottes à l'imparfait_ (illustrations by Jan Voss), Ryōan-ji
-   1983: _Arrondissements_ (illustrations by Pierre Alechinsky ), Repères
-   1984: _Coutume des Vents_, illustrations by , éd. Fata Morgana, Montpellier
-   1984: _Malaval_, Art Press/Flammarion
-   1985: _Faire et défaire_, éd. Fata Morgana, Montpellier
-   1985: _Éloges à Geneviève_, novel, Balland
-   1985: _Francis Limérat and Jean-Pierre Vielfaure - Les arpenteurs de l'utopie, parcours_, Éditions du C.A.C. Pablo-Neruda, Corbeil-Esonnes
-   1986: _La Grande Forêt Alquin_, illustrations by Nicolas Alquin, éd. Le Salon d’Art, Brussels
-   1986: _Les amours d'Arthur-toujours-là et de Monica-Belle-de-Givre_, illustrations by Petra Werlé, Baby Lone, Strasbourg
-   1986: _Consanguins d'Omènes,_ illustrations by Janko Stanovnik, éd. Tropismes
-   1987: _Jeux d’échecs – Jeu de guerres_, illustrations by Nicolas Alquin, éd. L’Échoppe, Caen
-   1987: _420 minutes dans la cité des ombres_, éd. Ramsay, Caen
-   1989: _Le petit chaperon rouge, partout_,
-   1992: _Jour de désert_, illustrations by Nicolas Alquin, éd. L’Échoppe

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-   2014: _Les Chambres hantées_, Tarabuste éditions

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question: What was Lascault's thesis titled?

answer: Le monstre dansl'art occidental ("The monster in Western art")

question: What did Lascault do?

answer: Lascault was a novelist, essayist, and art critic. He taught at the Paris West University Nanterre La Defense and then at the Sorbonne.

question: List a few magazines written by him.

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- Traverses
- L'Art Vivant
- Artstudio

question: Where was Lascault born?

answer: In Strasbourg.

question: Write a ~5 sentence summary.

answer:
Gilbert Lascault was a novelist, essayist, and art critic. He taught at the Paris West University Nanterre La Defense and later at the Sorbonne. He wrote a thesis on "The monster in western art".

He has also written several magazines and was one of the pillars of the program on France Culture. Gilbert has written extensively on the works of artists like Jean Dubuffet, Pierre Alenchinsky, and Henri Cueco.


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RUTH MACKENZIE, CBE, (born July 1957) was artistic director of the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris,[1] and a former director of Holland Festival[2]. Before, she has served as the general director of Scottish Opera. She is a former drama officer for the Arts Council, and was executive director of Nottingham Playhouse from 1990 until 1997, when she joined Scottish Opera. She was Artistic Director of the Chichester Festival Theatre from 2003 to 2005 alongside Steven Pimlott and Martin Duncan. Mackenzie was appointed a member of the Order of the British Empire in 1995.[3] She was director of the London 2012 Festival, the official cultural programme of the London 2012 Olympics[4] for which she was appointed a CBE.[5]

[1] Ruth Mackenzie hits out at 'brutal' dismissal from Paris’s Châtelet theatre on The Guardian

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question: Where did Ruth Mackenzie go to school?

answer: Not answered.

question: When was Mackenzie the executive director of Nottingham Playhouse?

answer: Mackenzie was the executive director of the Nottingham Playhouse from 1990 until 1997.

question: Has Mackenzie won any awards?

answer: Not answered.

question: Where was Mackenzie born?

answer: Not answered.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: This article is about Ruth Mackenzie, an artistic director for theaters and operas.


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AROUND US ENTERTAINMENT is a South Korean independent entertainment company established by Yoon Doo-joon, Yang Yo-seob, Yong Jun-hyung, Lee Gi-kwang, Son Dong-woon from boy group Highlight, formerly known as BEAST, after leaving their former label Cube Entertainment.[1][2]

History

After the BEAST members' contracts with Cube Entertainment expired, they decided to set up their own independent company for their future promotions. The name _AROUND US_ was coined “_with the desire to be closer with and engage more people frequently_”. The label aims “_to create music and content that everyone can easily enjoy anywhere around us_”.[3][4] In February 2017, the former BEAST members rebranded themselves as Highlight, after deciding to cease their legal disputes over the copyright of the name BEAST with their former agency Cube Entertainment.

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Soloists

-   Yang Yo-seob
-   Lee Gi-kwang
-   Son Dong-woon
-   Yoon Doo-joon
-   Yong Jun-hyung

Songwriters

-   Yoon Doo-joon
-   Yong Jun-hyung
-   Yang Yo-seob
-   Lee Gi-kwang
-   Son Dong-woon

Actors

-   Lee Gi-kwang
-   Yoon Doo-joon
-   Yong Jun-hyung

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question: What is Around Us Entertainment?

answer: It is an independent entertainment company that was created by the boy group Highlight after they left the label Cube Entertainment.

question: Why did the boy group leave Cube Entertainment?

answer: The article mentions a legal dispute that would resolve with the boy group changing their name from BEAST to highlight after they have left Cube. It is likely that they left Cube on less than amicable terms, though the reason for this is not known.

question: What kinds of talents are signed up with Around Us?

answer: There are solo and group performers, songwriters, and actors who are under the company.

question: Who are the members of Highlight?

answer: Highlight is composed of former BEAST members Yoon Doo-joon, Yang Yo-seob, Yong Jun-hyung, Lee Gi-kwang, and Son Dong-woon.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: Highlight, composed of former BEAST members Yoon Doo-joon, Yang Yo-seob, Yong Jun-hyung, Lee Gi-kwang, and Son Dong-woon, established Around Us Entertainment. The label aims to be closer and engage with people more frequently. The establishment of Around Us follows BEAST's departure from Cube Entertainment.


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Billy, Danny, and Michael, all students in Mr. Yeard’s third grade class, sat outside for lunch on the far picnic table in the courtyard, where they were approached by an out-of-solar-system guest, Yarou, who asked to join them. The kids kindly accepted his request and offered to share their lunches. Yarou graciously took half of the sandwich that Billy was straining to hold up above his head.

“Thank you very much. You are very kind,” he said. His voice was light in delivery and high in pitch but easily understandable. Yarou took a bite and a single chew. He suddenly froze and immediately spit the food out of his mouth and onto the table.
“What is in that food you gave me!?” Yarou yelled, raising his voice.
Billy, having brought his sandwich up to his open mouth, slowly lowered it and placed it on the table. He looked up at Yarou’s glaring eyes, which had begun to glow.
“That is a turkey sandwich,” Billy replied, starting to shake.
“What is turkey?” Yarou yelled again. Billy stared back, not knowing how to answer the question. Steam began to emerge from the pores on Yarou’s face. “Is it a plant? A tree? A species? A seed?” Yarou’s voice became louder and more threatening. The three boys were staring at the table, trying not to make eye contact.
“It’s a bird,” Billy said, almost crying.
Yarou walked over behind Billy, who still refused to look up. Yarou’s eyes were now bright red and steam flew from his face at a staggering rate. He raised his right arm and violently came down on Billy’s head with a thundering crack. In an instant, Billy’s body went limp and fell to the ground, after which Yarou proceeded to step on him. After several powerful kicks and stomps, Yarou looked up at Danny and Michael. His eyes dimmed in color, and the steam lessened. Then he spoke.
“Killing is wrong, especially for food. Let this be a lesson to you.”
Danny and Michael began to cry.

title: Lunch with Yarou (340 words)

question: Where does Yarou belong?

answer: It may be implied that he is from another universe.

question: Is the guest evil?

answer: Yes, he is.

question: Do the little boys survive?

answer: Yaruo kills Billy.

question: Why is Yarou here?

answer: This information can't be found.

question: Write a ~6 sentence summary.

answer:
Yaruo, an out-of-solar-system guest visits Billy, Danny and Micheal during their recess. Billy offers him a turkey sandwich, the guest takes a bite and steams in anger.

He questions Billy what food that is, he responds. Yaruo with his bright red eyes violently hits Billy's head and steps on him.
He then goes on to tutor the kids saying- "Killing is wrong, especially for food."

The two little boys begin to cry.


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**One**

His name was Steve, and he couldn’t take it anymore. He pictured himself growing old with her, while she grew old with him too. But he couldn’t grow old. Being immortal had its downsides. Now was his seven hundred years birthday and he was staring at her picture. He begged her to come back.

He thought he heard her voice when he shed a single tear and a slight breeze called him from the sea.

**Two**

He thought he heard her voice when he shed a single tear and a slight breeze called him from the sea. The windows of the room were open, and it would be a beautiful sight if he weren’t dying.
But he was dying. He was alone in the room, with wires spread all along his arms, and needles through his skin. He had that heart surgery, but apparently that new heart wasn’t working either and no doctor was able to tell the reason. The heart was beating irregularly, like a disabled man trying to walk. The heart was broken, so they tossed it out.

The man watched the sun go down as he breathed his last breath.

**Three**

The man watched the sun go down as he breathed his last breath.
He woke up and the room was full of light. There was something unrecognizably fluffy under his feet, like he was walking on cotton. A woman dressed in white was staring at him.
“Is she here?” he asked. “No, she’s not”. “Where is she?” “She’s never been around.” “I’m coming back.” “You can’t go back.” “I can’t stay here either. I have to go back to her. I have to go home.”
She smiled.

“Don’t be silly” she said. “Home is where your heart is.”

**Four**

“Don’t be silly” she said. “Home is where your heart is.”
He smiled to her, remembering an old song from U2 that had a verse somewhat like that one. He was holding his sweatshirt – which he didn’t even recall having. It had been with her for months.
-You sure you can’t stay with this? – He asked, shaking the sweatshirt stupidly – I won’t ever be able to use it again.
-I haven’t stretched it that much. – She said, pretending to be offended and repressing a smile, which he noticed.
-It’s not about that. There’s your perfume all over it.
She blushed and her eyes filled with tears.
-Nah, you’re gonna work it out. – Now she pretended to smile, repressing a tear.
Which he noticed.
-Yeah, you’re right. See you later. – He said unleashing a smirk.

Once she turned her back, he started crying.

**Five**

Once she turned her back, he started crying. He couldn’t let her leave like that. He wouldn’t let her leave like that.
-Please, please. – He yelled, running after her and grabbing her suitcases. – Stay. Please.
-Not anymore, Henry. I can’t do this anymore.
-I’ll change.
-You can’t – She turned to him, picking up her baggage. – Neither can I. I’m sorry. – Her voice was hurt, and that was what truly hurt him. It cut his heart and soul and left him stranded by the door while she got in the cab and left.

He would never see her again.

**Six**

He would never see her again, and that was why he was holding her so tight.
-Do you swear you’ll come back? – She wouldn’t.
-I do, honey. It’s only for six months. – It wasn’t.
-Do you promise to remember me every day? – She wouldn’t.
-Of course I do. There’s nothing or anyone who can get you outta my head. – There was.
-No French guy? – No.
-No, you silly, no French guy, or American guy or any other kind of guy. – Yes.
-I’ll miss you. – True.
-I’ll miss you too. – True.

She had a nice life in Paris.

**Seven**

She had a nice life in Paris. She had a boyfriend and a dog; she was living with her parents and hanging around with good friends. Nothing could go wrong and she would never get hurt because she couldn’t feel anything.
Till a night a guy came along, and he had a broken heart. She realized she also had a heart, and her heart didn’t fit in Paris. Then her heart didn’t fit in the world. But her heart fit on his.
But he was broken, then so got she. Then he left her back in Paris, and she hoped Paris would be enough again someday.

He left back to the world, wandering brokenly ever after.

title: Seven Random Stories About Broken-Hearted Men

question: Summarize the main theme of the stories.

answer: As the title indicates, the main theme is broken-hearted men. This is meant both physically and emotionally. The men have their hearts broken due to varying circumstances, showing that it can happen to anyone and is part of life.

question: Summarize the causes for the characters' broken hearts.

answer: Steve, an immortal, outlived the woman he loved. Another man had physical heart problems. The third man's story is unclear. The fourth and fifth men are broken up with by different women, and the sixth man says goodbye to a woman who promises to return from Paris but never does. The seventh man leaves a woman in Paris, thinking his broken heart had broken her too.

question: Summarize what the passage says about coming back to life.

question: What does the story say about same-sex relationships?


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SEASON
TEAM
G
ATT
YARD
AVG
TD
TARGET
REC
YARD
AVG
TD
FPTS
FPTS/G
2014
ATL
16
65
248
3.8
1
38
30
225
7.5
1
59.3
3.7
2015
ATL
15
264
1,061
4.0
11
97
73
578
7.9
3
247.9
16.5
2016
ATL
16
227
1,079
4.8
11
65
54
462
8.6
2
232.1
14.5
2017
ATL
14
196
865
4.4
7
47
36
317
8.8
1
166.2
11.9
2018
ATL
2
14
68
4.9
0
7
5
23
4.6
0
9.1
4.6
2019
ATL
14
184
656
3.6
2
70
59
410
6.9
4
142.6
10.2
2020
NYG
5
54
172
3.2
1
10
7
58
8.3
0
29.0
5.8

News From The Past 90 Days
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Depth Chart
[Injury] Devonta Freeman aggravates ankle injury
RB still hopeful he'll play in Week 10 after "minor aggravation"
By: Doug Orth | Thu Nov 12, 11:50 pm
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[New York Giants]
Giants RB Devonta Freeman suffered what was described as a minor aggravation of his ankle injury today, source said. That cut short his practice. His hope is still to play Sunday. (NFL Network - Ian Rapoport)
FFToday's Take: _Freeman was handling roughly 20 touches in each of the last two full games he played before getting hurt in Week 7. Wayne Gallman has filled in about as well as anyone could have expected in a bad offense, but it is unclear if he's done enough to force a committee. With the Giants going on a bye next week and having little to play for, they may decide to exercise caution and hold out Freeman for one more game._
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[Injury] Dion Lewis could be "best bet" in Giants backfield this week
DeVonta Freeman not ready, Wayne Gallman not as explosive
By: Antonio D'Arcangelis | Wed Sep 23, 10:35 am
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[New York Giants]
Jordan Raanan is reporting that even with the signing of Devonta Freeman, Dion Lewis will play a substantial role in replacing Saquon Barkley, comparing him to "a plus version of James White in New England with a slightly bigger workload." (ESPN)
FFToday's Take: _I'm in agreement. The Giants apparently trust Lewis in pass protection and he catches the ball well out of the backfield, so he's the obvious best bet this week. And he'll flourish beyond Week 3 even after Freeman gets acclimated, since the many negative game scripts could favor Lewis over Freeman and Wayne Gallman._
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Giants are adding Devonta Freeman
Gaints looking to replace Saquon Barkely
By: Mike Krueger | Tue Sep 22, 2:09 pm
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[New York Giants]
There you go. #Giants are landing FA RB Devonta Freeman, pending tests. And he’ll have more than enough opportunities to re-establish himself. (Ian Rapoport on Twitter)
FFToday's Take: _With Saquon Barkley (ACL) out for the season it was predictable that the Giants would be bring in a free agent. Freeman should establish himself as the lead back with Dion Lewis mixing in on passing downs. Lewis could have more fantasy value in the short-term but expect Freeman to be the back to own for the rest of the season._
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AVG
TD
TARGET
REC
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AVG
TD
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3
SF
L 9-36
5
10
2.0
0
0
0
0
-
0
1.0
4
at LAR
L 9-17
11
33
3.0
0
4
4
35
8.8
0
6.8
5
at DAL
L 34-37
17
60
3.5
1
3
2
27
13.5
0
14.7
6
WAS
W 20-19
18
61
3.4
0
2
1
-4
-4.0
0
5.7
7
at PHI
L 21-22
3
8
2.7
0
1
0
0
-
0
0.8

Rushing
Receiving
Fantasy
WEEK
OPP
RESULT
ATT
YARD
AVG
TD
TARGET
REC
YARD
AVG
TD
FPTS
1
at MIN
L 12-28
8
19
2.4
0
4
3
12
4.0
0
3.1
2
PHI
W 24-20
11
22
2.0
0
4
3
42
14.0
0
6.4
3
at IND
L 24-27
16
88
5.5
0
4
3
7
2.3
0
9.5
4
TEN
L 10-24
12
28
2.3
0
9
8
72
9.0
0
10.0
5
at HOU
L 32-53
11
30
2.7
0
5
5
40
8.0
1
13.0
6
at ARI
L 33-34
19
88
4.6
0
3
3
30
10.0
2
23.8
7
LAR
L 10-37
7
19
2.7
0
3
2
6
3.0
0
2.5
8
SEA
L 20-27
13
39
3.0
0
8
8
63
7.9
0
10.2
10
at NO
W 26-9
10
38
3.8
0
4
3
10
3.3
0
4.8
13
NO
L 18-26
17
51
3.0
0
5
4
13
3.3
0
6.4
14
CAR
W 40-20
17
84
4.9
1
4
4
10
2.5
0
15.4
15
at SF
W 29-22
12
39
3.3
0
3
2
16
8.0
0
5.5
16
JAC
W 24-12
13
53
4.1
1
10
9
74
8.2
1
24.7
17
at TB
W 28-22
18
58
3.2
0
4
2
15
7.5
0
7.3

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at PHI
L 12-18
6
36
6.0
0
5
3
14
4.7
0
5.0
5
at PIT
L 17-41
8
32
4.0
0
2
2
9
4.5
0
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question: Who is Devonta Freeman?

answer: Devonta Freeman is a New York Giants RB.

question: What happened to Devonta Freeman?

answer: Freeman aggravated an ankle injury.

question: Who is Dion Lewis?

answer: unclear. He is the replacement for Saquon Barkley

question: Who is Saquon Barkley?

answer: not answered.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: This article gives an injury report for a few New York Giants players.


text:
Well this is a story I wrote a few weeks ago, I was feeling sad so I tried to write something sad, tell me how I did :)

     Everyone needs a safe place. A quiet place to sit and ponder the many unanswered questions of life, a place to cry when you want to be alone, a place to practice talents you are too embarrassed to show to the world. You are feeling sad one day, you want to cry, but you are too self-conscious to cry in public, think of all the stares you would get! Yours is different, unlike any other, or so you tell yourself so you can feel special even though you’re normal, just like everyone else. It’s a small platform jutting off the side of the Golden Gate Bridge. You’ve never seen anyone else go there so you have officially claimed it as your own. Stop thinking about the journey just remember the destination, you tell yourself, because the big day has finally come! Your chest is hurting, but no matter just the thought of her makes the pain subside. The walk to the bridge is longer than you remember and your legs are getting tired, but you must preserver. You look across the street at a building, a building with a story to tell.

     Rusty, cracked, forgotten, this building slouches, knowing that the old couple that once kept it new and running are long gone now, never to return, because though it had been a dream of that poor old couple to eventually start up and run a business together, it never worked out. The wife Mariam was always trying to raise her husband's spirits by making jokes and showing him that they could still have fun together even if they weren't rich. And this always managed to get a little smile out of Earl, but these smiles were short lived. Because soon after starting the shop, Mariam contracted a bad cold that kept her at home, leaving Earl to work the shop alone. Every day Earl would open up, wait all day long without seeing any customers, and then go home to his sick wife with the cold that never seemed to leave, until one day something changed.

     During a warm summer evening at the shop, Earl was reading the paper when he heard the bell ring, signaling that someone had entered. Earl sat up in his chair, adjusted his posture, and waited to ask if he could be of any assistance, just as he had imagined he would for so many years, he just wished Mariam could be here to see him do it. 5 Minutes later, a little girl looking to be around 5 or 6 walked up to the counter with a chocolate bar and a crisp one dollar bill that she looked proud to be carrying. After giving her change back, Earl was so happy that he could have cried, and he immediately closed up shop to go tell his wife about the events that had occurred. He shuffled up the stairs to her room to find Mariam frozen as if in a trance like state. Her eyes wide, mouth gaping, as if screaming at an invisible assailant. Earl collapsed, clutching his chest, desperately trying to squeeze the shock and pain out of his frail heart. He called 9-1-1 and they told him the news he had been trying so hard to deny as they took his wife away.

     Earl lay in bed that night, tossing and turning, slowly making himself crazy with the thought that she was still alive, that it had all been a hoax and his dear Mariam was still out there, until he couldn't take it anymore. He jumped out of bed and ran as fast as his wrinkled old legs could carry him to his car, and he drove to the Hospital. He waited until the front desk lady has left for a moment to check her computer for information on his wife's location, and he was on his way. He snuck the body out of a window in the room, and drove off with it. He parked in a secluded grassy patch close to a river, and continued to yell at his wife, begging her to please wake up, wake up wake up WAKE UP!!!! But it was no use he had to face the facts. He took his wife to the river and rolled her into the water, her favorite place in the world.

     The next day Earl got a call from the hospital, his wife had been in a temporary coma, and she was going to be okay, but they believed she had been moved to a different hospital and they would notify him when hey figured out where she was. Earl hung up the phone. He calmly got dressed and went outside to go on a walk. Images start rapidly firing in front of your eyes; children, unfinished paintings, an unexplored forest. It's already too late, your realization has caused you nothing but more pain during the brief time you spend reminiscing on things unfinished, on your way down to the water, to your wife, and countless others that have taken the same walk. “LORD FORGIVE ME! SAVE ME!” But the words are silently whipped out of your mouth by the constant barrage of wind in your face. This is not how it’s supposed to end, this is all wrong. You’re normal, just like everyone else, and everyone always regrets the walk to the bridge.

title: [RF] The Walk to the Bridge

question: Summarize the theme of this story.

answer: The theme is "look before you leap". This is a literal as well as metaphorical interpretation. Once you jump off a bridge-or, in this case,throw someone off a bridge-it is too late to undo. In the story, Earl, an old man, thinks his wife has died, so he steals her from the hospital and returns her to the water that she loves. Then he gets a call from the hospital stating she had just been in a temporary coma. Earl had killed his wife.

question: Summarize the plot twist.

answer: Earl thinks his wife has died suddenly after she is unresponsive. She is in the hospital. During the evening, Earl is restless, so he furtively recovers her body from the hospital and takes her to the water, rolling her body into it. Then the next day he discovers-thanks to a call from the hospital-that she was not in fact dead.

question: Describe why Earl had acted so hastily.

question: Summarize what the author means by "this is not how it's supposed to look in the end".

answer: The author seems to mean that we cannot control the circumstances preceding or surrounding our own demise, even if it is a planned suicide. This is because when we reach our final moments there are so many factors that could alter the exact outcome. Also, sometimes we decide we would like to turn back, but it is too late after we have jumped, or pulled the trigger, or taken the pills.


text:
Jack jerked awake. It was dark, the window was open, a warm breeze blowing through the curtains. Outside the din of city life had quieted to its nocturnal stupor. He could hear a cat scrounging down in the alleyway.

Jack reached his arm to the empty space in his bed next to him, forgetting for a moment that Martha was gone. Had it really been 18 months already? Jack reached to his other side under the mattress to feel for his cold steel revolver. That, at least, was in it's place.

He rubbed the sleep from his eyes and stood up. Groggily wandering around the apartment in his underwear, trying to forget the scent of Martha. She had been his everything, and he had given her everything, including a child. But God was not kind and that night, 18 months ago God took her, and the child, in one fell swoop. One bloody swoop that was no accident.

The instrument of this crime was a 6 inch blade, left at the scene. No fingerprints, no suspects, no motive. Jack had been drinking and came home late, only to discover his pregnant wife bloodied and lifeless.

The horror had not sunken in immediately. Jack was not particularly cold, but he was calculating. He would unravel the mystery and take his vengeance. His first thoughts were violent ones, but then despair sunk in, and sadness and he wept until the police arrived.

The investigation lasted for months. But there were no leads, Martha had no enemies, nor did Jack. He was just a schoolteacher, 11th grade english. Who could have been so brutal and why?

That was the question that haunted Jack's mind tonight. He opened the fridge. Condiments. And a half cup of milk. He drank the milk from the carton and tossed it at the trashcan. Jack's mind went to the days before the city, when he and martha would take long walks in the woods and make picnics by the ocean. But Jack didn't have the income to support a child and had to move to this very damn apartment.

Since then Jack couldn't stand to look at children. He became obsessed with solving the crime even after the police had given up. Picture's of the scene were etched into his mind. He had to clear his head.

Jack dressed and put on a coat and left the apartment. He went trudging down the sidewalk next to brick buildings with only the light of a few sparse lampposts.

As Jack walked he came upon a bum, sleeping covered under a blanket. He kicked the bum as he walked, the anger inside of him swelling from frustration. The man did not wake but rolled over like a rag doll. Jack leaned down and shook the man trying to wake him. The blanket fell away from his face and the figure of an old rotting corpse stared back at Jack. Jack dropped the man immediately and took a step back startled.

Then a dead hand reached up from under the blanked and grabbed Jack's hand. Jack could feel the icy touch of death as the creature turned to look at him once more. "IT WAS YOU!" the creature moaned, pointing into Jack's heart with his dead fingers. "IT WAS YOUUU!"

Jack woke up suddenly and reached to his side. The warm skin of Martha rest on the bed beside him, her swelling belly rising and falling with every breath. Jack reached to his other side under the mattress where he found a 6 inch blade, cold and steel, right in its place.

title: First attempt at a short story since high school (Noir)

question: Who are the main characters of the story?

answer: Jack and Martha

question: What is Jack's relationship with Martha?

answer: They're married.

question: What happened to Martha?

answer: She was brutally murdered with a 6" blade left at the crime scene.

question: Why couldn't Jack stand to look at children?

answer: Because Martha was pregnant with their child when she was murdered.

question: Write a ~7 sentence summary.

answer: When Jack's wife, Martha, gets pregnant, they move to an apartment in the city because he didn't have the income to support a child. Martha gets brutally murdered with a 6" knife when Jack was out drinking. They both have no enemies and the cops have no leads. Jack becomes obsessed with finding the killer. He was walking one night and kicks a bum, who is actually a corpse who grabs his hand and tells him "IT WAS YOU", over and over again. Jack wakes up from his nightmare and checks on Martha, who is sleeping by his side. He then checks for the 6" blade under the mattress, and it was where it should be.


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The Republic is one of the best places in the world to retire, according to a new study that ranks it in seventh place globally.

The State’s rating has significantly improved in recent years, as it recorded the largest jump in both rankings and score of all 43 countries covered in Natixis’s latest global retirement index.

The Republic has entered the top 10 states to retire in for the first time in the rankings, after climbing from 14th spot last year, having moved up from 16th place in 2016 and 19th in 2015.

“Ireland’s ability to cut its unemployment rate to 6.2 per cent as of 2017, and subsequently reduce income inequality, contributed to its rise in the index. It also boasts a significant improvement in tax pressure, and thus an increase in the level of disposable income of retirees,” the study authors said.

Now in its sixth year, the global retirement index provides a snapshot across 43 countries in terms of retirement security based on 18 factors across four broad categories: finances in retirement, material well-being, quality of life and health.

Material well-being

With an overall increase in score from 74 per cent to 77 per cent, Ireland saw steep improvements in the material well-being sub-index, where it climbed to 12 place globally. It scraped into the top 10 in the finances sub-index and was in 19th place in the health sub-index. The State recorded a slight decline in quality of life compared with the prior year but managed to stay in the top 10.

Western Europe continues to dominate the top 10 countries in the 2018 index with Switzerland ranked the best country to retire in, followed by Iceland, Norway and Sweden. New Zealand comes in fifth place with Australia, Ireland, Denmark, Canada and the Netherlands rounding out the leading countries.

“An aging global population may seem to be the greatest challenge. After all, we live in a world of seven billion people where the average life expectancy is 72 years today and may be as much as 100 for those born in the year 2000. But it is critical to recognise that aging demographics are not the only challenge,” said Natixis’s chief executive Jean Raby.

“Retirement security also depends on how we as a society address critical questions about income and wealth inequality, affordable and accessible healthcare, environmental quality and safety, and the long-term stability of financial systems around the world,” he added.

_Is it time to make
your next career move?_

question: Why might someone like to retire in Ireland?

answer: They won't pay as much in taxes.

question: Name one thing all of the countries in which retirement is favorable have in common.

answer: They all have affordable, national healthcare.

question: What does "quality of life" consist of?

answer: It consists of being able to live a financially sound life without much labor output, with access to healthcare.

question: What's the only country in North America to make the list?

answer: Canada.


text:
Rudy Eugene, 31, the so-called "cannibal" Miami man who was fatally shot as he chewed on another man's face in a gruesome attack over the weekend, is suspected to have been high on a drug known as "bath salts."

Armando Aguilar, president of the Miami Fraternal Order of Police announced his theory, adding that the drug “causes them to go completely insane and become very violent."

The dangerous drug, which is banned in many states, but so far has no specific federal ban (though there _is_ a ban on the three main chemicals used to make the drug), is available on the street and also at many tobacco and drug paraphernalia shops under names like White China, Lady Bubbles, Dynamite, Vanilla Sky, Ivory Wave and Cloud 9.

Bath salts, the drug's benign name, belies its actual makeup -- a toxic cocktail of the stimulants Methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV), mephedrone, and pyrovalerone. The Drug Enforcement Agency groups bath salts with mescaline and ephedrine, while dealers market the drug as a replacement for cocaine or a synthetic form of the hallucinogen LSD, according to CNN.

The drug can cause severe agitation, rapid heart rate, high blood pressure, paranoia and symptoms of psychosis, including hallucinations and delusions. The drug can also lead to overheating of the body, which is why so many users remove their clothing.

Users of the drug experience hallucinations, lose touch with reality and can exhibit psychotic behavior. To call Eugene's behavior erratic is an understatement: a biker discovered him on a highway ramp, totally naked and reportedly attacking Ronald Poppo, a 65-year-old homeless man from the area. When police arrived at the scene, Eugene allegedly refused to stop his attack and even growled at the officers. It is possible that bath salts could cause a person to behave in this manner.

HuffPost's mental health editor Dr. Lloyd I. Sederer, the medical director of the New York State Office of Mental Health, explained in a recent article how the drug gets into the hands of abusers:

  While stimulants are controlled drugs, the labs often produce variations of existing drugs to avoid regulation.

  Bags of "bath salt" sometimes have written on them "Not Intended for Human Consumption." New York State's Health Commissioner, Dr. Nirav Shah, banned their distribution. Several states have proposed legislation, as has happened federally, to prohibit these substances, but the law is a slow tool in a rapidly moving market.

Sederer added that the drugs are also often mislabeled to avoid detection. Despite efforts to control the sale of bath salts, use is skyrocketing. In 2009, there were only two recorded cases, but by 2010, that number had jumped to 338. In 2011, the last year for which we have data, there were 911 reported instances of bath salt abuse.

According to a CDC report of bath salt abusers in Michigan, users not only experience psychological side effects -- there were physical ones too. In fact, 91 percent of users had neurological damage, while 77 percent experienced cardiovascular damage and 49 percent had psychological difficulties associated with the drug. Those difficulties could be severe: 37 percent of the people who suffered mental health problems reported attempting suicide or having suicidal thoughts, related to bath salts.

According to the CDC report, bath salts usually aren't the only drug a person will use -- most bath salts users also abuse other substances, like methamphetamines, cocaine and opiates, such as heroin.

“Addictive substances, whether they are bath salts, alcohol or other drugs, can have horrific and costly consequences. Sometimes these consequences can result from only one use; other times they are a result of the complex brain disease of addiction," Susan E. Foster, vice president and director of policy research and analysis at The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University told CNN. "Together, risky use of addictive substances and addiction constitute our nation’s largest and most costly health problem."

According to Sederer, the solution may be a word of mouth campaign: "Speak to your friends. Talk to your children. Doctors, mental health and addiction counselors warn your patients," he advises. "Let them know: The bath you take with 'bath salts' is dangerous and at the deep end of the toxic pool."

question: Why was Rudy Eugene alleged to be a cannibal?

answer: A biker found him attacking a local homeless man while completely naked, trying to bite the man's face.

question: What are the dangers associated with bath salts?

answer: They can cause severe agitation, rapid heart rate, high blood pressure, paranoia, and symptoms of psychosis, including hallucinations and delusions. It often leaves permanent damage as well.

question: How do the bath salts get circulated?

answer: The labs produce variations of existing drugs to avoid regulations. Some packages have "Not Intended for Human Consumption" written on them.

question: How are bath salts made?

answer: It's not mentioned in the article. All we know is that it requires a toxic cocktail of the stimulants Methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV), mephedrone, and pyrovalerone.

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: Rody Eugene, suspected of being a cannibal, was potentially under the influence of bath salts. While known under a benign name, the substance can cause psychosis, hallucinations, and delusions. The drug often leaves permanent damage. HuffPost's mental health editor Sederer advises a word-of-mouth campaign to let people know how dangerous and toxic the drug is.


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It is the summer of 1999 and I am young and I am alive. My sister and I are racing outside now, our bare and naked feet fly across the hardwood floor and onto our tired deck. My prescient mother, resting in a green plastic chair, is already waiting for the two of us to dart into the nightly confines of our very Philadelphian backyard. She’s looking at the pair of us, her smile the starting pistol to an evening of adventure.

I’m grabbing a glass jar and tossing one to my younger sister now. Her and I now dash down the few steps of our porch and step onto our playing field. I can see them all, now. The lightning bugs. They dot our lawn like incandescent snowflakes, occasionally lifting off to find a new temporary resting place. I can almost hear the beat of a thousand tiny wings right now. There must be hundreds here. They paint our yard now, never satisfied with their place on the canvas.

But this wonder is nothing new to my sister and I. We have done this as far as my memory will stretch. We’re dashing off in different directions now, as to cover the most ground. There isn’t a second to waste, not a moment to spare—I’m not sure how much longer the fireflies will glow for us. Now that I’m over by the big tree at the edge of the lawn, I can begin my work.

A particularly gleaming bug is drifting past my eyes right now. I’m going to turn my jar to the side, very carefully now, and… *got him*. Quickly I’m screwing the lid back on my jar. I eye my twinkling prize. It’s crawling on the side of my jar now, exploring his new home, I’m sure. I can’t think of a name for him quite yet, but there will be time for formalities later. Right now I need to continue the hunt.

Bending down now I scoop up a bug at my feet. I’m feeling the minuscule legs of the thing tickle my palm now. I’m assessing my catch. This one is too small. It simply will not do. It needs to grow and mature before I could even consider capturing this luminous soul. I’m going to let it go. I open my palm and it flits away from me, surely rejoining his glowing brethren but this time with a story to tell.

My baby sister and I are darting across our lawn, back and forth now, for what has seemed like only a few moments. We’re laughing, enthralled in the beauty and wonderment of the scene.

“Hey, Dea, I found a really big one right here!” I’m exclaiming to my sister now.

“Fabio, Fabio, I see a really bright one! Come here!” She’s yelling back.

It hasn’t been long but our game is over now. We’re saying good night to the fireflies now and sprinting back up to our wood deck, exhausted from the chase but running on an adrenaline high. I briefly and proudly show my mom the night’s catch and before she can say ‘Oh, wow,’ I’ve already begun staring at my jar, full of little lightning bugs. It’s glowing bright, my suburban lantern.

My usual request to bring the jar inside has been denied again, per usual. Now it’s time for me to make this glass jar for my lightning bugs a home. I’m poking tiny holes in the top of the jar using a pen now so they can breath. I’m going to place some grass in too so they have food. What a nice home I’ve made for Steven, Ross, Fireman, Lightdude, Ember, Doug, Nick, and Eric. *I’m going to say good night to you now, little guys. I’ll see you in the morning!*

Morning is here now and I’m running outside to check on my prized jar. Only one of my fireflies is alive now. He’s slowly crawling across the bottom of the glass, navigating through the bodies of his mothers, brothers, sisters, aunts. His belly is smoldering ever so dimly now, barely casting a light in this hot morning sun. I don’t think they liked the grass I gave them, either.

“Mom, why do my bugs always die in the morning? I even gave them grass this time.” I’m asking my poor mother now.

“Because…” She begins. “Because their light only burns for a night. They burn bright and hot, some more bright than others. Their bellies are big and glow at night but it will only last for so long. In the morning their lightbulb burns out and they die. Their lightbulb burns out, that’s all.”

Shaking my now lifeless and lightless jar out into the yard now, I’m wondering how bright my lightbulb will burn.

title: Bottling up lightning

question: What does the narrator do with the glass jar?

answer: He catches lighting bugs.

question: Describe the relationship between the narrator and their sister?

answer: Fabio is older than Dea, and they seem to enjoy their time together as they are catching lightning bugs.

question: What is the most positive moment in the story for the narrator?

answer: The most positive moment seems to come during Fabio and Dea's lightning bug chase.

question: Does the narrator learn any lessons?

answer: Fabio learns from their mom that the lightning bugs' light burns out after a night, and that some of them burn brighter than others.

question: How old is the narrator?

answer: It's not stated specifically, but it can be assumed he's a child since he's catching fireflies.

question: How does the story end?

answer: The story ends with all but one of Fabio's lighting bugs dying. He learns from his mother that the lightning bugs' light burns out after a night, and that some burn brighter than others. This causes him to wonder how bright his lightbulb will burn.

question: Write a ~5 sentence summary.

answer: Fabio and his sister Dea spend a summer evening in 1999 catching lightning bugs in glass jars in their backyard. Fabio names all of his lightning bugs and creates a terrarium for them within the jar. However, the next morning he wakes to find all but one of the lightning bugs dead. When he asks his mom why they always die in the morning, she tells him that lightning bugs' light burns out after a night, and that some of them burn brighter than others. This causes him to wonder how bright his lightbulb will burn.


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I wrote this when I was 14 and I'm looking to rewrite it. Suggestions for change are encouraged.

**Rats**

The man had come to town in a large, beat up, eighteen-wheeler. The side of the truck advertised the clear effectiveness of his chosen career path, shown by a rat with its eyes X'd out and a skull-and-crossbones over its head. Its limp body was encased in sharp light from the lightning bolt hitting its fragile frame. One glance at the side of the beat up van told you exactly what this man did and what a fine job he did of it. He arrived at the town's lowest point like an ill timed superhero. There was no phone communication; the rats had sliced through them with obvious malicious intention. There was next to no food, it had been stolen and hoarded by the vicious beasts. They kept it and ate it slowly in front of us. A few would run up from the sewers and nibble on a ham in the gutter and before you could get to them they would rush down the storm drain, cackling as they went. They terrified the children, who wouldn't go out and play in the streets, and if they did they went in packs, finding some comfort in numbers.

They had come about two weeks before the man and it almost seemed planned the way they dismantled the town. They mainly stayed out of the way of the public. One would be spotted in the produce at the local store or in the corner of a house harassing the dog. They grew from there till they were in the beds and behind the curtains waiting to leap at whoever was unfortunate enough to uncover them. They were in gardens and sheds, swarming over any weapons that could be used to stop them. They chewed off the stocks of rifles, gnashed their way through the handles of shovels and hoes, and dragged off cutlery to the sewers, hoarding it with the food.

We're not sure who spotted the monstrous vehicle first but whoever it was ran to the mayor's office, past the streets heavily laden with filth and black spirited brown rats. Mayor Hamlin himself, the most famous person known to all who lived in the area, knocked on the back of the truck and the doors immediately flew open and out stumbled a gray bearded, greasy haired, rank man who fell face first into the muck on the street.

The man got to his feet in the most dignified manner possible for a man who just fell out of a poorly decorated, rusting insult to all respectable eighteen-wheelers. The crowd gathered round had moved back with an over exaggerated gasp, in a sad attempt to create drama and maintain suspense.

"Welcome to our town!" said Hamlin cheerfully, with a hint of nervousness shown by the sweat beading on his balding head.

The man stared at him, bewildered. A rat crawled on top of the van.

"Our, um, able-bodied townspeople couldn't help but notice that you seem to make a, um, living off of, erm, pest control?"

The man nodded and grunted a confirmation. A rat crawled up the wheel of the van and started gnawing nonchalantly on the rubber, vaguely interested in what was going on around it.

"Our town is in desperate need of someone with your, um, expertise. What are your wages?"

Silence embraced the crowd. The man spoke with a voice that sounded like gravel being slowly moved by a shovel, raspy and dry. He named a figure, the only word anyone in the town ever heard him spoke. The words hung in the air, the lofty price floating high above their heads and wallets, taunting the town with a number just out of their reach.

Mayor Hamlin's eyes bulged out of his head like a pumpkin being slowly squashed by a steam roller. "I will, uh, certainly have to discuss this with my constituents."

The constituents wholeheartedly agreed and retreated with the mayor to the building next to his office which was a school during day and town hall the rest of the time. One man ran through the streets and called the meeting to the public's notice and so the constituents ran from their holes and homes to enter the school like they used to when they were children, and their parents before them. They sat down in chairs two sizes too small for all of them. Most had bought their children who glared indignantly in the corner at their artwork hung up on the wall, now in tatters from the rats. They celebrated in hushed joy, however, at the textbooks in the same state as the artwork.

Hamlin settled the crowd with a short rap on the blackboard with a yardstick. He tried his hardest to be professional and maintain control. The board was cluttered with equations and sentences and cursive handwriting, an odd backdrop for the small, sweating man who chose the school as the place for town hall meetings in a desperate hope to strike a chord of authority when making the townspeople sit in their old desks and think of him reminiscent of their own teachers. Hamlin erased the board and stretched his arm up as far as he could reach (about the middle of the board) and wrote the man's figure in chalk. Below that he wrote what the town could afford. There was a large gap between the two numbers which the town recognized even with their minimal math training.

"Well? Any suggestions?" asked Hamlin, who checked corners for rats as he anxiously tapped the yardstick in his hand just waiting for one to drop from the ceiling. (The rats chittered amongst themselves beneath the floorboards, waiting on the decision.)

A man in the back looked around, and after seeing that no one else was going to talk stood up and said "Why don't we offer to 'elp him out? Then he'll charge less!" He smiled a very self satisfactory smile and everyone sitting close to him congratulated him on his idea.

Mayor Hamlin looked disappointed. "No no that won't do" he said "There's not enough equipment probably and he seems too professional to want help." Everyone sitting close to the man who spoke from the back row glared at him and rolled their eyes at his poor thinking skills.

After a moment of silence, a girl about 9 or 10 years old in the second row raised her hand. Everyone chuckled and Hamlin pointed at her, ushering her to speak.

"Well" She said loudly "I say we give 'im what we 'ave so he finks we got more right? Then he does his job and we say we can't pay the rest! Wots he gonna do? Bring the rats back? He's already kill'd 'em hasn't he?"

The town agreed with this plan and thought this was a good deal for everyone because he was charging an outrageous price and must learn to be reasonable. Plus, the rat problem had to go.

Hamlin was shocked that he hadn't thought of this himself. He thanked the girl and ushered everyone out of the school/town hall. The mayor bustled into his office next door and pulled a wad of money from the wall safe, bustling back out again to a crowd waiting expectantly to see what happened next.

title: Rats: A Retelling of the Pied Piper of Hamelin

question: How did the rats take over the town?

answer: It appears the rats used subterfuge, keeping out of the public's way but secretly destroying all the weapons that can stop them, cutting off communications, stealing the town's food, while also multiplying exponentially until they were everywhere and the town got overwhelmed.

question: How did the Mayor and the town plan to pay the exterminator's fee?

answer: They weren't planning to pay the exterminator's fee in full because the town had no money. They planned to short-change the exterminator by paying him a down payment before the extermination process and declaring the town has no money to pay him after the rats are gone.


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KENTVILLE, N.S. -- A prominent Toronto pastor has pleaded not guilty to decades-old sex-crime allegations in Nova Scotia.

Reverend Brent Hawkes is accused of indecent assault and gross indecency related to allegations of a sexual assault in the 1970s.

As expected, Hawkes did not appear in provincial court today in Kentville. Halifax lawyer Joel Pink appeared on behalf of Hawkes' lawyer, Clayton Ruby.

Not guilty pleas were entered on the charges and trial dates set for seven days starting Nov. 14.

Hawkes -- a gay rights advocate who officiated at former NDP leader Jack Layton's state funeral in 2014 -- has maintained his innocence and says he will fight the accusations.

question: Describe Brent Hawkes.

answer: Brent Hawkes is a prominent Toronto pastor and gay rights advocate.

question: What was Brent Hawkes accused of?

answer: Indecent assault and gross indecency

question: Where did the crime take place?

answer: Nova Scotia

question: What was the ruling of the court case?

answer: At the time of the article, the trail had not yet commenced.

question: Who was the victim of the crime?

answer: That information can't be found.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: Brent Hawkes, a Toronto pastor, has been accused of indecent assault and gross indecency in relation to sex crimes in Nova Scotia from the 1970s. He had plead not guilty, and the trial is set to being on November 14.


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This story is unfinished and certainly unpolished. I'm just looking for feedback of any kind. Or, feedback on whether or not it's even worth pursuing.

Depot Town

Last night I went to a party in Depot Town with Steve. The whole event was promoted as a house show by the tenants, although clearly devoted to the their guests' thirst for Pabst Blue Ribbon and vigorous ego stroking. I changed my outfit about seven times before deciding on a pale pink dress and black cardigan. Within minutes of arriving, it was obvious that my little pink number didn't stand a chance. I was simply not punk enough to be here. Not even my tactfully applied black eyeshadow could fool this crowd into thinking I had an ounce of underground grit to me. But for the sake of this recount, let me set aside my own ego and admit that I was probably just invisible. This notion of not belonging was only exaggerated by the volume of forehead tattoos, ironic leather booty-shorts, and 40-something skinheads with gray chest hair popping out of Black Flag v-necks. It was at the very least entertaining to watch.

And so, I did as I always do when subjected to totally normal social functions. I drank three beers in quick succession and relished in my anonymity.

The first person I spoke to aside from Steve was a guy named Kristov. I had met Kristov a few weeks earlier at a bar called Sidetracks. I remembered only his name and our mutual recognition of each others' self-deprecating humor. Kristov wears a wool trench coat and a gaudy septum ring. His saving grace might be the lack of fedora. Kristov gave a breathy confession that he'd recently subscribed to a life of sobriety, and that parties like this were becoming a burden. I nodded my head and smiled, said nothing. I guess it just seemed like the type of topic that ought to be sustained by the initiator. But he must have sensed I was interested in his explanation. That, or he sensed I would engage him if he felt like explaining, regardless of my interest.

"I get angry. I get really fucking angry when I drink. I get angry because I'm sad, I'm so sad, all of the time. But the last time I got drunk, I threw a metal folding chair at someone's head. And then I punched him. I punched him until I watched two teeth pop out of his jaw. I didn't even know his name. I can't remember if he even did anything to upset me. When I woke up the next morning, I looked down at my knuckles and cried. I cried for hours. I felt like dying."

He had broken eye contact with me halfway through his monologue but my eyes were locked on his face. My heart was pounding like a junkie. These kinds of interactions with people had always been my raison d'etre. I wanted so badly to relate with this person. I wanted so badly to share with him the last time I felt like dying, and that I thought his exposition was beautiful in the same way I find abandoned buildings to be beautiful, and that I felt privileged to be the one who was listening to him in that moment.

But as I always do when subjected to totally normal social functions, I miraculously rematerialized into a fucking stone. I offered this person a sentiment so mundane I swear to god it died as it slid past my teeth.

"You made a mistake and then you made a change, based on how you felt about your mistake. That's good, that's growth".

I could feel us both wince at my reply. My fingers pinched the base of my wrist as yet another opportunity to authentically interact with another human being left as quickly as it came. We exchanged "Yeah"'s and returned to our posts. Mine being at Steve's side, his in the kitchen.

title: Depot Town

question: What does the story say about the narrator's childhood?

question: What does the story say about the party at Depot Town?

answer: The event at Depot Town was promoted as a house show by the tenants. It seems the guests like to drink Pabst Blue Ribbon and most belong to the underground punk social class. The people in attendance were an eclectic bunch that either had forehead tattoos or were wearing leather booty-shorts. There was even a group of 40-something skinheads with gray chest hair popping out of Black Flag v-necks.

question: What did the story say about the narrator?

answer: The narrator went to the party in Depot Town with Steve (relationship unknown). She wore a pale pink dress and black cardigan but felt she wasn't "punk enough" to belong and felt invisible. When subjected to totally normal social functions, the narrator drinks alcohol in quick succession and relishes her anonymity. When interacting with other people (another normal social function) whom she finds interesting and wants to relate to, she turns into a stone and offers up mundane sentiments that are wince-worthy.

question: What does the story say about Kristov?

answer: Kristov was the first person the narrator spoke to aside from Steve. He met the narrator a few weeks earlier at a bar called Sidetracks. Kristov wore a wool trench coat and a gaudy septum ring. He said that he recently subscribed to a life of sobriety and parties were becoming a burden. Kristov gets really angry when he drinks because he is so sad all the time. He tells the narrator about the last time he got drunk and beat someone he wasn't even sure did anything to upset him. Kristov says that he woke up the next day, saw his knuckles, and cried for hours, it felt like dying.


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_TRUE TO MYSELF_ is the debut album of R&B singer Eric Benét, originally released on September 24, 1996 on Warner Bros. Records.[1] It was his first outing as a solo artist after the dissolution of his former group Benét, which he formed with his sister Lisa Jordan and cousin George Nash, Jr.[2] Benét received his deal with Warner Bros. Records from former EMI Records executive Alison Ball-Gabriel after corporate shakeups caused his former group to be dropped by the record label.[3]

Benet produced most of his debut with Demonté Posey and George Nash, Jr.- who would work with him on his later recordings. In 1995, he released the song “Let's Stay Together”, which originally appeared on the soundtrack of the 1996 Martin Lawrence film _A Thin Line Between Love and Hate_.[4] The music video to the song was directed by Charles Stone III.[5] The second single released from _True to Myself_ was the McG directed “Spiritual Thang”.[6] The album's biggest hit was the third single “Femininity”, which was directed by a then-unknown Francis Lawrence.[7] “Femininity” also featured an appearance from then-unknown rapper Tiye Phoenix, who played a pregnant woman in the music video.[8]

The title track was the fourth and final single released from the album with a video directed by Joseph Kahn.[9] The song was featured on the soundtrack to _Batman & Robin_, released on June 10, 1997.

Track listing

-   All songs are written by Eric Benét, Demonte Posey and George Nash, Jr., except as noted.[10]

1.  “True To Myself” (Eric Benét, George Nash, Jr.)
2.  “I'll Be There” (Eric Benét, George Nash, Jr.)
3.  “If You Want Me to Stay” (Sylvester Stewart)
4.  “Let's Stay Together (Midnight Mix)”
5.  “Just Friends”
6.  “Femininity” (Eric Benét, Christian Warren)
7.  “While You Where Here”
8.  “Spiritual Thang”
9.  “Chains”
10. “All in the Game”
11. “More Than Just a Girlfriend” (Eric Benét, George Nash, Jr.)
12. “What If We Was Cool” (Eric Benét, George Nash, Jr., Roger Troutman, Dale DeGroat)
13. “Let's Stay Together”

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.[11]

-   George Nash, Jr. – Guitar, Drums, Clavinet
-   Demonte Posey – Keyboards, Drums, Melodica
-   Mark Lomax – Drums
-   Warren Crawford – Bass
-   Rio – Bass
-   Skeeta – Bass, Guitar
-   Gumby – Guitar
-   Eric “Kenya” Baker – Guitar
-   Christian Warren – Keyboards, Drums, Fender Rhodes, Piano
-   Curtis “Sauce” Wilson – Drums
-   Roger Troutman – Keyboards, Bass, Guitar, Vocoder
-   Tyrone W. Griffin – Trumpet
-   Fernando Harkless – Saxophone
-   Steve Baxter – Trombone
-   Barbara “Bobbi” Schneider – Violin
-   Paul Gminder – Cello
-   Eric Benét, Lisa Jordan-Weathers – Background vocals
-   Alison Ball-Gabriel – Executive Producer
-   Recording engineer – Eric Benét, Demonte Posey and George Nash, Jr., Roger Troutman, Hilary Bercovici, Skeeta
-   Mixing: Eric Benét, Demonte Posey and George Nash, Jr., Kevin “K.D.” Davis, Roger Troutman, Hilary Bercovici, Skeeta
-   Mastering: Brian Gardner
-   Brad Hitz – Photography
-   Terry Robertson, Stephen Walker – Art Direction
-   Stephen Walker – Design

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[10] Eric Benet - True To Myself (CD liner notes). Warner Bros. Records. 46270-2

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title: True to Myself

question: What does the article say about the most influential people on the album?

answer: The most influential person is the singer Eric Benét, of course. Most of the songs in the album were developed with the help of Demonté Posey and George Nash, Jr. Various other people helped as well.

question: What does the article say about the development process of the album?


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[nippon new]

Keeps rooms free from mice and crawling insects

An electronic pest control, Nippon Ultrasonic Pest Repeller uses high frequency ultrasonic sound waves to deter rodents and other common household pests.

Designed to provide ultrasonic coverage within a single room, it provides a non-messy solution to any rodent or pest problem.

Nippon Ultrasonic Pest Repeller:

-   No chemicals or fumes
-   Uses high frequency waves
-   Simply plugs in.

Although Nippon Ultrasonic Pest Repeller uses high-frequency sound waves, the sound is inaudible to humans, cats, dogs and most other household pests.

To rodents, the ultrasonic frequency sounds like an extremely loud siren, driving them from the protected area.

To use, plug into a power socket.  A flashing green light means the repeller is emitting high frequency, ultrasonic waves which will cover an area up to 55m².

To reach maximum effectiveness, the Nippon Ultrasonic Pest Repeller needs to be in use for two-four weeks.

To check if the product you require is in stock, please contact the retailer prior to visiting.

Your login details have been used by another user or machine. Login details can only be used once at any one time so you have therefore automatically been logged out. Please contact your sites administrator if you believe this other user or machine has unauthorised access.

question: Point out the fatal typo in this product description.

answer: The description states that "the sound is inaudible to humans, cats, dogs and most other household pests". Surely, the meant to say "pets", as the sound being inaudible to household pests would render it useless.


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President Cyril Ramaphosa has officially proclaimed May 8 the date for the national and provincial elections, which means the voters’ roll closes at midnight, the Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) said on Tuesday.”The proclamation places the preparation of the elections into a different trajectory. It gives a greater impetus to the currently unfolding election preparations.
“The commission will now have to escalate its preparations so that all electoral activities are accomplished in time for election day,” the IEC said in the statement.

“Proclamation of the election date also triggers the opening of candidate nomination for the elections. The closing date for candidate nomination will be regulated in terms of the election timetable,” the IEC further explained.

More than 200 political parties are expected to contest the elections.

Voters abroad were urged to notify the chief electoral officer of registrations/re-registrations and of the mission where they intend to vote.

Source: news24.com

question: What will be the date for the national elections?

answer: May 8.

question: How many political parties are expected to contest the election?

answer: More than 200.

question: What is the news source?

answer: News24.com

question: Who is the president?

answer: Cyril Ramaphosa.

question: Write a ~5 sentence summary.

answer: President Cyrial Ramaphosa has proclaimed the election will take place on the eighth of May. More than 200 political parties are expected to oppose this. The IEC have stated that preparations are being escalated to ensure a smooth election. Proclamation of the election date, they explained, triggers the opening of candidate nominations for elections. Voters abroad are encouraged to notify the chief electoral officer of registration/re-registrations and of the mission where they intend to vote.


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SHARON GREEN (born 1962[1]), considered the “first female rapper” or emcee,[2] known by the rap moniker MC SHA-ROCK. Born in Wilmington, North Carolina, she grew up in the South Bronx, New York City during the earliest years of hip hop culture.[3] Within the hip-hop community she has been referred to as the “Mother of the Mic” signifying her role as a prominent female figure among the early rappers.[4] As a member of the first hip-hop crew to appear on television, known as the Funky 4 + 1, her style of delivering raps on early mixtapes influenced notable rappers like MC Lyte and DMC (born Darryl McDaniels) of Run-DMC. McDaniels cited Green as a significant influence on the style of rapping associated with the pioneering group.[5][6]

In her lyrics, Green repeatedly referred to herself as the “Plus One More” of the Funky 4 + 1.[7][8]

Women's roles in hip-hop are often downplayed due to the prevalence of male rappers throughout the genre's history.[9]

Career

Sha-Rock is the first female emcee-rapper of hip hop culture “on wax” or record on vinyl from its inception in the 1970s. She began as a local b-girl, or breakdancer, in the earliest days of South Bronx hip hop scene and culture in the late 1970s.[10] The Funky 4 + 1, Sha-Rock being the plus one, had their first significant hit with the 12-inch single “Rapping and Rocking the House” on Sugarhill Records (1979) as well as “That's the Joint” (1980) which both appeared on national television.[11] As an early pioneer affiliated with the Zulu Nation, MC Sha-Rock inspired a style of rapping emulated and made notable by Run DMC called the “echo chamber”.[12][13]

In 2010, Green published a book about her experiences titled “_The Story of the Beginning and End of the First Hip Hop Female MC: Luminary Icon Sha-Rock_.”[14] She wrote this book about her life, and her impact that was felt in many aspects.[15] Writing this autobiography was her way to break down all of her experiences, so that others are able to understand what she went through to get to where she is today.[16] Her book contains recollections of experiences and challenges she endured throughout her journey in becoming an emcee. She addresses her time spent as a member of The Funky 4 + 1. During an interview, she stated that her goal is to make sure that she solidifies her group in history.[17] Not only did she decide it was the right time in her life to sharing her story, but she also decided to write her memoirs because she felt wholehearted that it's not just her children's history, but that it's also the world's history.[18] Her hope was that by telling the truth and sharing her story, that she could encourage aspiring young artists who may be at a crossroad at the moment.

On August 4, 2009, Sha-Rock was presented an award for “Women in Hip Hop All Female Rapathon and All Pioneer Luminary MC Award” presented by the Hip Hop cultural center of Harlem. Sha-rock went on to say that “for all of the young kids and parents that really embrace the culture and if they do not, the information is out there, get on the Internet and try to find out the history and the culture of Hip Hop”. She urged those who do not know the true history to go out and research it and to not believe everything about it said by the mainstream. Sha-Rock stated that “throughout the years people change things, in order to make you believe what they want you to believe”. As Sha-Rock says her closing words of the ceremony she states “that everyone please embrace the culture and make sure that you really understand that Hip Hop is really not just about rap and profit, it's about peace, unity and having fun. Listening to music, enjoying one another and being safe”.[19]

Her contribution to the hip hop culture has helped pave the way for today's female hip hop artists. She helped set the tone for female emcees to become well known and established in the hip hop music industry. She wanted female emcees to be taken just as serious as male artists. She also accredited DJ Kool Herc for helping her on her journey to become the emcee she is today.[20] She even announced on Twitter that she'll be making a movie titled _Luminary Icon_.

Legacy

Sharon Green Jackson aka MC Sha-Rock was a member of the first notable hip hop group that included a female MC and, according to popular music scholar, Kembrew McLeod, “the first group of their kind that released records commercially.”[21] Sha-Rock became the first prominent female MC in hip-hop, and the Funky 4 + 1 was the first rap group to appear on national television.[22][23][24] Her contributions were groundbreaking in the early era of hip hop culture in the mid - to late 1970s. Sha-Rock was a founding member of the Funky 4 MC's, which later evolved into the Funky 4 + 1.[25]

Of all members of the Funky 4 + 1, pop critic Robert Christgau reserved special praise for Green in his review of “That's the Joint”, “Quick tradeoffs and clamorous breaks vary the steady-flow rhyming of the individual MCs, and when it comes to Sha-Rock, Miss Plus One herself, who needs variation?”[26]

Later, McLeod framed her performance her presence in the early Bronx crews of emcees as defying the norms associated with women in hip hop:

  A unique aspect of the group was that Sha Rock wasn't portrayed as a sex object but was more or less considered equal among the male members of the group. Aside from the minor success of the all-female Sugarhill Records rap crew Sequence, Funky 4 + 1 signified the last moderate success of a woman in the rap industry until Roxanne Shanté and Salt-n-Pepa came along in the mid-'80s.[27]

On February 14, 1981, The Funky 4 + 1 were introduced as New York City “street rappers” from the Bronx along with headlining musical guests Blondie with its lead singer Debbie Harry on _Saturday Night Live_.[28][29] The Funky 4 + 1's appearance reflected a local connection that introduced the uptown musical youth of the Bronx and Harlem to the downtown Lower East Side scenes of graffiti art and music that was represented with the original hip-hop artists playing themselves in the 1983 film _Wild Style_ by Charlie Ahearn.

This creative link between various youthful artists was forged by the influencers like Fab Five Freddy and Ruza Blue, nicknamed “Kool Lady Blue”, who curated acts at the Roxy NYC nightclub, which featured early hip-hop DJs and breakdancers.[30][31][32] Blue appeared in classic hip-hop films like Stan Latham's _Beat Street_ (1984) and has been honored in recent decades by various organizations for her pioneering contributions to hip hop emceeing.[33] Sha-Rock has received many awards in her lifetime, including the honorary award from the Council of the City of New York.[34]

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title: Sha-Rock

question: How can Sharon Green be described?

answer: She can be described as the first female rapper or emcee. She is known my the moniker of MC SHA-ROCK.

question: What was the tile of the hip-hop crew that Sha-rock was a part of?

answer: The hip-hop crew was known as the Funky 4+1.

question: What did Sha-Rock's book encompass?

answer: Her first book encompasses the recollections of experiences and challenges she endured throughout her journey in becoming an emcee.

question: What award was Sha-Rock presented on August 4, 2009?

answer: She was presented with the "Women in Hip Hop All Female Rapathon and All Pioneer Luminary MC Award."

question: Where did Sha-Rock grow up and start her emcee career?

answer: In South, Bronx, New York City.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: This article describes the life, career, and legacy of the first female rapper and emcee, Sha-Rock. Sha-Rock paved a way for female hip hoppers to join hip hop culture and become well established in the industry.