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was the 60th emperor of Japan,[1] according to the traditional order of succession.[2]

Daigo's reign spanned the years from 897 through 930.[3] He is named after his place of burial.

Genealogy

[ 150px|Calligraphy attributed to Emperor Daigo] Daigo was the eldest son of his predecessor, Emperor Uda. His mother was Fujiwara no Taneko (or Inshi), daughter of the minister of the center, Fujiwara no Takafuji.[4] He succeeded the throne at the young age after his father, the Emperor Uda, abdicated in 897. His mother died before his ascension, so he was raised by another Uda consort, Fujiwara no Onshi, daughter of the former _kampaku_ Fujiwara no Mototsune.

Daigo's grandfather, Emperor Kōkō, had demoted his sons from the rank of imperial royals to that of subjects in order to reduce the state expenses, as well as their political influence; in addition, they were given a family name Minamoto. As such, Daigo was not born as a royalty and was named MINAMOTO NO KOREZANE (源維城) until 887, when Daigo's father, Minamoto no Sadami (formerly Prince Sadami), was once again promoted to the Imperial Prince and the heir to the throne.[5] Afterwards, his personal name (_imina_) was changed to [6] or _Ono-tei_[7] before his ascension of the Chrysanthemum Throne.

Daigo had 21 empresses, imperial consorts, and concubines; he had 36 imperial sons and daughters.[8]

Events of Daigo's life

The era name was changed in 898 to mark the beginning of Emperor Daigo's reign.[9] The highlight of Daigo's 34-year reign was that he ruled by himself without the regency of the Fujiwara clan, though he himself was part Fujiwara.

-   AUGUST 4, 897 (''Kanpyō 9, 3rd day of the 7th month _) : In the 10th year of Uda_-tennō'' 's reign (宇多天皇十年), Emperor Uda abdicated; and his eldest son received the succession (“senso”).[10]
-   AUGUST 14, 897 (_Kanpyō 9, 13th day of the 7th month_) : Emperor Daigo formally acceded to the throne (_sokui_).[11]
-   DECEMBER 7, 899 (_Shōtai 2, 1st day of the 11th month_) : The sun entered into the winter solstice, and all the great officials of the empire presented themselves in Daigo's court.[12]
-   FEBRUARY 2, 900 (_Shōtai 3, 3rd day of the 1st month_) : Daigo went to visit his father in the place Uda had chosen to live after the abdication.[13]
-   900 (_Shōtai 3, 10th month_): The former Emperor Uda traveled to in what is now Wakayama prefecture to the south of Osaka. He visited the temples on the slopes of the mountain.[14]
-   JANUARY 23, 901 (_Engi 1, 1st day of the 1st month_) : There was an eclipse of the sun.[15]
-   901 (_Engi 1, 1st month_): The Sugawara Michizane “incident” developed, but more details cannot be known because Daigo ordered that diaries and records from this period be burned.[16]
-   906 (_Engi 5, 4th month_): Ki-no Tsurayuki presented the emperor with the compilation of the _Kokin Wakashū_, a collection of waka poetry.[17]
-   909 (''Engi 9, 4th month ''): The _sadaijin_ Fujiwara no Tokihira died at the age of 39. He was honored with the posthumous title of regent.[18]
-   929 (_Enchō 7, 8th month_): Floods devastated the country and many perished.[19]
-   JULY 21, 930 (_Enchō 8, 26th day of the 6th month_) : A huge black storm cloud traveled from the slopes of Mt. Atago to Heian-kyō accompanied by frightful thunder. Lightning struck the Imperial Palace. Both Senior Counselor Fuijwara-no Kiyotsura (also known as Miyoshi no Kiyoyuki) and Middle Controller of the Right Taira-no Mareyo and many other subaltern officers were killed and their bodies were consumed in the subsequent fires. The deaths were construed as an act of revenge by the unsettled spirit of the late Sugawara Michizane.[20]
-   OCTOBER 16, 930 (_Enchō 8, 22nd day of the 9th month_) : In the 34th year of Daigo_-tennō_ 's reign (醍醐天皇34年), the emperor fell ill and, fearing that he might not survive, Daigo abdicated. At this point, the succession (_senso_) was said to have been received by his son. Shortly thereafter, Emperor Suzaku is said to have acceded to the throne (_sokui_).[21]
-   OCTOBER 23, 930 (_Enchō 8, 29th day of the 9th month_) : Emperor Daigo entered the Buddhist priesthood in the very early morning hours. As a monk, he took the Buddhist name Hō-kongō and, shortly thereafter, he died at the age of 46.[22] This monk was buried in the precincts of Daigo-ji, which is why the former-emperor's posthumous name became Daigo_-tennō_.[23]

Daigo also ordered construction of several halls in the Daigo-ji, such as the Yakushi hall.

The actual site of Daigo's grave is known.[24] This emperor is traditionally venerated at a memorial Shinto shrine (_misasagi_) at Kyoto.

The Imperial Household Agency designates this location as Daigo's mausoleum. It is formally named _Nochi no Yamashina no misasagi_[25] in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto.

Kugyō

is a collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre-Meiji eras.[26]

In general, this elite group included only three to four men at a time. These were hereditary courtiers whose experience and background have brought them to the pinnacle of a life's career. During Daigo's reign, this apex of the _Daijō-kan_ included:

-   _Sesshō_, Fujiwara no Tokihira (藤原時平), 909.[27]
-   _Sadaijin_, Fujiwara no Tokihira 871–909.[28]
-   _Sadaijin_, Fujiwara no Tadahira (藤原忠平), 880–949.[29]
-   _Udaijin_, Sugawara no Michizane (菅原道真), 845–901.[30]
-   _Udaijin_, Minamoto no Hikaru (源光), 845–913.[31]
-   _Udaijin_, Fujiwara no Tadahira.[32]
-   _Udaijin_, Fujiwara no Sadakata (藤原定方), 873–932.[33]
-   _Naidaijin_, Fujiwara no Takafuji (藤原高藤), 838–900.[34]
-   _Dainagon_

Eras of Daigo's reign

The years of Diago's reign are more specifically identified by more than one era name or _nengō_.[35]

-   _Kanpyō_ (889–898)
-   _Shōtai_ (898–901)
-   _Engi_ (901–923)
-   _Enchō_ (923–931)

Consorts and children

Empress (Chūgū): Fujiwara no Onshi (藤原穏子), Kampaku Fujiwara no Mototsune’s daughter

-   Second son: Imperial Prince Yasuakira (保明親王; 903–923), Emperor Daigo's crown prince, called _Bunkengentaishi_ (文献彦太子)
-   Fourteenth daughter: Imperial Princess _Koushi_ (康子内親王; 919–957), married to Udaijin Fujiwara no Morosuke
-   Fourteenth son: Imperial Prince Hirokira (also known as Yutaakira 寛明親王) later Emperor Suzaku
-   Sixteenth son: Imperial Prince Nariakira (成明親王) later Emperor Murakami

Consort (_Hi_): Imperial Princess _Ishi_ (為子内親王) (d.899), Emperor Kōkō’s daughter

-   First Daughter: Imperial Princess _Kanshi_ (勧子内親王; 899–910)

Consort (_Nyōgo_): Minamoto no _Washi_ (源和子; d.947), Emperor Kōkō’s daughter

-   Fourth daughter: Imperial Princess _Keishi_ (慶子内親王; 903–923), married Imperial Prince Atsukata (Emperor Uda's son)
-   Fifth Son: Imperial Prince Tsuneakira (常明親王; 906–944)
-   Sixth son: Imperial Prince Noriakira (式明親王; 907–966)
-   Seventh son: Imperial Prince Ariakira (有明親王; 910–961)
-   Thirteenth daughter: Imperial Princess _Shōshi_ (韶子内親王; 918–980), 13th Saiin in Kamo Shrine 921–930; later, married Minamoto no Kiyokage
-   Seventeenth daughter: Imperial Princess _Seishi_/Tadako (斉子内親王; 921–936), 27th Saiō in Ise Shrine 936, but she didn't go to Ise because of her death.

Consort ( _Nyōgo_): Fujiwara no _Nōshi_ (藤原能子; d.964), Udaijin Fujiwara no Sadakata’s daughter; later married to Fujiwara no Saneyori

Consort (_Nyōgo_): Court Lady Fujiwara no Wakako (藤原和香子, d.935), Dainagon Fujiwara no Sadakuni's daughter

Court Attendant (_Koui_): Minamoto no _Fūshi_/Kaneko (源封子), Ukyōdaibu Minamoto no Motomi's daughter

-   Second Daughter: Imperial Princess Nobuko/Senshi (宣子内親王; 902–920), 12th Saiin in Kamo Shrine 915–920
-   First Son: Imperial Prince Yoshiakira (克明親王; 903–927), father of the musician Minamoto no Hiromasa
-   Twelfth Daughter: Imperial Princess _Seishi_ (靖子内親王; 915–950), removed from the Imperial Family by receiving the family name from Emperor (_Shisei Kōka_, 賜姓降下) in 921; later, Imperial Princess in 930. married to Fujiwara no Morouji

Court Attendant (_Koui_): Fujiwara no _Senshi_ (藤原鮮子; d.915), Iyonosuke (伊予介) Fujiwara no Tsuranaga's daughter

-   Third Daughter: Imperial Princess Takako/_Kyōshi_ (恭子内親王, 902–915), 11th Saiin in Kamo Shrine 903–915
-   Third son: Imperial Prince Yoakira (代明親王; 904–937)
-   Sixth Daughter: Imperial Princess Yoshiko/_Enshi_ (婉子内親王; 904–969), 14th Saiin in Kamo Shrine 932–967
-   Ninth Daughter: Imperial Princess Toshiko (敏子内親王; b.906)

Court Attendant (_Koui_): Minamoto no Noboru's daughter

-   Fourth Son: Imperial Prince Shigeakira (重明親王; 906–954), author of the Ribuōki (吏部王記)

Court Attendant (_Koui_): Minamoto no Chikako (源周子; d.935), Sadaiben Minamoto no Tonau's daughter

-   Fifth Daughter: Imperial Princess _Kinshi_ (勤子内親王; 904–938), married to Udaijin Fujiwara no Morosuke
-   Seventh Daughter: Imperial Princess Miyako (都子内親王; 905–981)
-   Tenth Daughter: Imperial Princess Masako/Gashi (雅子内親王; 909–954), 26th Saiō in Ise Shrine 932–936; later, married to Udaijin Fujiwara no Morosuke
-   Eighth Son: Imperial Prince Tokiakira (時明親王; 912–927)
-   Twelfth Son: Minamoto no Takaakira (源高明; 914–982), also called Nishinomiya (西宮) Sadaijin
-   Daughter: Minamoto no _Kenshi_ (源兼子; 915–949), removed from the Imperial Family by receiving the family name from Emperor (_Shisei Kōka_, 賜姓降下) in 921
-   Eighteenth son: : Imperial Prince Moriakira (盛明親王; 928–986), given the family name 'Minamoto' from Emperor (_Shisei Kōka_, 賜姓降下); later, Imperial Prince in 967.

Court Attendant (_Koui_): Princess _Manshi_ (満子女王; d.920), Prince Sukemi's daughter

-   Eighth daughter: Imperial Princess _Shūshi_ (修子内親王; d.933), married to Imperial Prince Motoyoshi
-   Eleventh daughter: Imperial Princess _Fushi_ (普子内親王; 910–947), married to Minamoto no Kiyohira, later to Fujiwara no Toshitsura

Court Attendant (_Koui_): Fujiwara no Yoshihime (藤原淑姫; d.948), Sangi Fujiwara no Sugane's daughter

-   Eleventh Son: Imperial Prince Kaneakira (兼明親王; 914–987), also called _saki no chūshoō_ (前中書王). Chūshoō means Nakatsukasa-kyō (中務卿).
-   Son: Minamoto no Yoriakira (源自明; 911–958)
-   Ninth Son: Imperial Prince Nagaakira (長明親王; 913–953)
-   Sixteenth Daughter: Imperial Princess Hideko/Eishi (英子内親王; 921–946), 29th Saiō in Ise Shrine 946, but she didn't go to Ise because of her death.

Court Attendant (_Koui_): Fujiwara no Kuwako (藤原桑子), Chūnagon Fujiwara no Kanesuke’s daughter

-   Thirteenth Son: Imperial Prince Akiakira (章明親王; 924–990)

Court Attendant (_Koui_): Chūjō-Koui (中将更衣), Fujiwara no Korehira's daughter

-   Minamoto no Tameakira (源為明; 927–961)

Court Attendant (_Koui_): Minamoto no Toshimi's daughter

-   Minamoto no Nobuakira (源允明; 919–942)

Court Attendant (_Koui_): Minamoto Kiyoko (源清子)

Court Attendant (_Koui_): Fujiwara Doshi (藤原同子)

Court Attendant (_Koui_): Minamoto Haruko (源暖子)

Unknown

-   Minamoto no _Genshi_ (源厳子; b.916)

Ancestry

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[1] Imperial Household Agency (_Kunaichō_): 醍醐天皇 (60)

[2] Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). _The Imperial House of Japan,_ pp. 68–69.

[3] Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). _Annales des empereurs du japon,_ pp. 129–134; Brown, Delmer _et al._ (1979). _Gokanshō,_ pp. 291–293; Varley, H. Paul. (1980). _Jinnō Shōtōki,_ pp. 179–181.

[4] Varley, p. 179.

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[6] Varley, p. 179; Brown, p. 264; prior to Emperor Jomei, the personal names of the emperors were very long and people did not generally use them; however, the number of characters in each name diminished after Jomei's reign.

[7] Ponsonby-Fane, p. 8.

[8] Brown, p. 293.

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[10] Tisingh, p. 129; Varley, p. 44; a distinct act of _senso_ is unrecognized before Emperor Tenji; and all sovereigns except Jitō, Yōzei, Go-Toba, and Fushimi have _senso_ and _sokui_ in the same year until the reign of Emperor Go-Murakami.

[11] Brown, p. 291; Varley, p. 44

[12] Titsingh, p. 130.

[13] Titsingh, pp. 130–131.

[14] Titsingh, p. 131.

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[17] Titsingh, p. 132.

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[19] Titsingh, p. 134.

[20] Titsingh, [https://books.google.com/books?id=&pg=PP9&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran#PRA1-PA134,M1 p. 134]; Brown, p. 293; Varley, p. 179-181.

[21] Brown, p. 293; Varley, p. 44.

[22] Titsingh, p. 134; Brown, p. 292; Varley, p. 181.

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[25] Ponsonby-Fane, p. 420.

[26] Furugosho: _Kugyō_ of Daigo_-tennō._

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[28] Brown, p. 291.

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title: Emperor Daigo

question: How long was Daigo's reign?

answer: His reign was 34 years.

question: Why did Emperor Daigo abdicate his throne?

answer: Emperor Daigo fell ill in the 34th year of his reign and fearing he won't survive, abdicated the throne so his son could succeed him.

question: How long did Emperor Daigo live?

answer: He lived up to 46 years.

question: What did Emperor Daigo do after he abdicated his throne?

answer: He entered the Buddhist priesthood and became a monk, but died shortly after.


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NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the United States and North Korea (all times local):

9:30 p.m.

North and South Korea are resuming senior-level peace talks that Seoul sees as an important step in building trust with Pyongyang amid a U.S.-led diplomatic push to persuade the North to give up its nuclear weapons.

The meeting at an inter-Korean border village Friday follows a meeting in New York between U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and senior North Korean envoy Kim Yong Chol. They discussed a potential summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

South Korea plans to use Friday’s meeting with the North to set up military talks on reducing tensions across their heavily armed border and Red Cross talks to resume reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War.

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2:40 p.m.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says that senior North Korean official Kim Yong Chol will travel to Washington on Friday to deliver a letter to President Donald Trump from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Pompeo spoke to reporters in New York after meeting Thursday with Kim Yong Chol, the former military intelligence chief. Pompeo says “real progress” has been made in the last three days toward setting the conditions needed for Trump and Kim Jong Un to have a successful summit in Singapore. Still, he says he doesn’t yet know whether the meeting will proceed on June 12.

Pompeo says he believes North Korea’s leaders are contemplating a different path forward that would allow their nation to more fully integrate into the international community.

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12:32 p.m.

A U.S. official says that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s meetings with a top North Korean official ended more than two hours earlier than expected because the talks “went well” and “made progress” in salvaging an on-again, off-again summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

The official says the high-stakes discussion lasted between 9:05 and 11:25 a.m., concluding well before the scheduled end of 1:30 p.m. The official was not authorized to speak publicly about the details of the meeting and spoke on condition of anonymity. Shortly after leaving the meeting venue at the residence of the deputy U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Pompeo tweeted that the talks had been “substantive.”

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12:05 p.m.

The State Department says Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and a top North Korean official have concluded their meetings in New York, wrapping up the high-stakes diplomatic negotiation nearly two hours earlier than expected.

Pompeo and former North Korean military intelligence chief Kim Yong Chol had been expected to hold two sessions, separated by a break, and finish their discussions around 1:30 p.m. But both men and their delegations left the residence of the deputy U.S. ambassador to the United Nations around 11:30 a.m. The talks began at 9:05 a.m.

There was no indication of what the early finish might mean in terms of salvaging an on-again, off-again U.S.-North Korea summit.

President Donald Trump said Thursday the talks were going well and that North Korean officials may come to Washington on Friday.

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9:20 a.m.

President Donald Trump says talks about a potential summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un are going “very well.”

Trump told reporters Thursday that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is having “very good meetings.” He said he believes the North Koreans may come to Washington Friday and that a letter will be “delivered to me from Kim Jong Un (kim jawng oon).”

Trump says he “will see what happens.” But Trump added “hopefully we will have a meeting on the 12th.”

Trump also tweeted Thursday: “Very good meetings with North Korea.”

The Singapore summit has been in flux for days. Trump last week canceled the sit-down, but then quickly said it could get back on track.

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9:18 a.m.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and North Korea’s former military intelligence chief have opened talks in New York to try to salvage an on-again, off-again summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

After an informal dinner on Wednesday, Pompeo and Kim Yong Chol were meeting at the three-bedroom apartment residence of the US deputy ambassador to the United Nations. Kim Yong Chol, one of Kim Jong Un’s closest aides, is the highest-ranking North Korean official to visit the U.S. in 18 years.

Pompeo, who spoke with Trump on Wednesday night and with national security adviser John Bolton early Thursday, was accompanied by Andrew Kim, the head of a CIA unit assigned to work on North Korea, and Mark Lambert, the head of the State Department’s Korea desk.

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12:17 a.m.

Top American and North Korean officials plan a full day of meetings in New York aimed at deciding whether a summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un can be salvaged.

Ahead of the meetings Thursday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the North’s former military intelligence chief, Kim Yong Chol, had dinner Wednesday night. Kim had flown in from Beijing and Pompeo from Washington.

The talks come as preparations for a highly anticipated summit in Singapore barrel ahead amid lingering uncertainty about whether it will actually take place, and when. Trump cancelled the June 12 summit last week, then suggested it could still happen.

U.S. teams have been meeting with North Korean officials in Singapore and in the heavily fortified Korean Demilitarized Zone

question: What is the main point of this article?

answer: The point of the article is to provide a discussion and update of the meetings between North Korea and United States at the time of the article.

question: Summarize the 2:40 p.m. section.

answer: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discusses the upcoming meeting between him and Kim Yong Chol, the meeting with Trump and Kim Jong Un, and how North Korea may take a path that allows them to integrate into the international community.

question: How does South Korea plan to utilize Friday's meeting with North Korea?

answer: They were planning to set up military talks on reducing tensions across their heavily armed border and Red Cross talks to resume reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War.

question: What could the early finish for the meeting between Pompeo and Kim Yong Chol mean?

answer: They could have discussed everything they needed to in a shorter amount of time than expected.

question: What could happen if the meetings between Pompeo and Kim Yong Chol went poorly?

answer: If it didn't go well, then it could mean that there would be no meeting between Kim Jong Un and Trump.


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GEORGE LAWRENCE THOROGOOD (born February 24, 1950) is an American musician, singer and songwriter from Wilmington, Delaware.[1] His “high-energy boogie-blues” sound became a staple of 1980s rock radio, with hits like his original songs “Bad to the Bone” and “I Drink Alone”.[2] He has also helped to popularize older songs by American icons, such as “Move It on Over”, “Who Do You Love?”, and “House Rent Blues/One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer”.[3]

With his band, the Destroyers, Thorogood has released over 20 albums, of which two have been certified Platinum and six have been certified Gold. He has sold 15 million albums worldwide. Thorogood and band continue to tour extensively, and in 2014 the band celebrated their 40th anniversary of performing.

Music career

Thorogood began his career in the early 1970s as a solo acoustic performer in the style of Robert Johnson and Elmore James[4] after being inspired by a John P. Hammond concert.[5] However, he soon formed a band, the Delaware Destroyers, with high school friend and drummer Jeff Simon.[6] With additional players the Delaware Destroyers developed its sound, a mixture of Chicago blues and rock and roll.[7] The band’s first shows were in the Rathskeller at the University of Delaware and at the Deer Park Tavern.[8] Eventually, the band's name was shortened to the Destroyers. During this time, Thorogood supplemented his income by working as a roadie for Hound Dog Taylor.[9]

Thorogood's demo, _Better Than the Rest_, was recorded in 1974, but it wasn't released until 1979. His major recording debut came with the album _George Thorogood and the Destroyers,_ which was released in 1977. In 1978, Thorogood released his next album with the Destroyers titled _Move It on Over_, which included a remake of Hank Williams' “Move It on Over”. He followed those recordings in 1979 with “Please Set a Date” and a reworking of the Bo Diddley song “Who Do You Love” both released in 1979. The band's early success contributed to the rise of folk label Rounder Records.[10]

During the late 1970s, Thorogood and his band were based in Boston. He was friends with Jimmy Thackery of the Washington, D.C.-based blues band, The Nighthawks. While touring in the 1970s, the Destroyers and the Nighthawks were playing shows in Georgetown at venues across the street from each other. The Destroyers were engaged at The Cellar Door and the Nighthawks at Desperados. At midnight, while both bands played Elmore James' “Madison Blues” in the same key, Thorogood and Thackery left their clubs, met in the middle of M Street, exchanged guitar patch cords and went on to play with the opposite band in the other club.[11] The connection with the Nighthawks was extended further, when Nighthawks bass player Jan Zukowski supported Thorogood's set at the Live Aid concert in Philadelphia, PA on July 13, 1985.

Thorogood gained his first mainstream exposure as a support act for the Rolling Stones during their 1981 U.S. tour.[12] He also was the featured musical guest on _Saturday Night Live_ (Season 8, Episode 2) on the October 2, 1982 broadcast. During this time, Thorogood and the Destroyers also became known for their rigorous touring schedule, including the “50/50” tour of 1981,[13] on which the band toured all 50 US states in 50 days.[14] After two shows in Boulder, Colorado, Thorogood and his band flew to Hawaii for one show and then performed a show in Alaska on the following night. The next day Thorogood and his band met his roadies in Washington and continued a one-show-per-state tour for all 50 states in 50 nights. In addition, he played Washington, D.C. on the same day that he performed a show in Maryland, thereby playing 51 shows in 50 days.

With his contract with Rounder Records expiring, Thorogood signed with EMI America Records and in 1982 released the single “Bad to the Bone” and an album of the same name that went gold. The song became the band's most well-known song[15] through appearances on MTV and use in films, television and commercials. Thorogood and his band went on to have two more gold studio albums in the 1980s, _Maverick_ and _Born to Be Bad_. The former features concert staple “I Drink Alone” and Thorogood's only _Billboard_ Hot 100 hit, a remake of Johnny Otis's “Willie and the Hand Jive”.[16] In 1985, he appeared at Live Aid performing with Bo Diddley and Albert Collins.[17]

Thorogood's popularity waned in the 1990s, although he had a No. 2 hit on the _Billboard_ Album Rock Tracks chart in 1992 with “Get a Haircut”.[18]

In 2012, Thorogood was named one of the “50 Most Influential Delawareans of the Past 50 Years”.[19] He released his first proper solo album in 2017 titled _Party of One_.

Band members

[Thorogood and Jim Suhler performing in 2010.]

The Destroyers

-   George Thorogood – lead vocals and lead guitar
-   Jeff Simon – drums, percussion (1973–present)
-   Billy Blough – bass guitar (1976–present)
-   Jim Suhler – rhythm guitar (1999–present)
-   Buddy Leach – saxophone, piano (2003–present)

Former members

-   Michael Levine – bass (1973–1976)
-   Ron “Roadblock” Smith – rhythm guitar (1974–1980)
-   Hank “Hurricane” Carter – saxophone (1980–2003)
-   Ian Stewart – keyboards (1982)
-   Steve Chrismar – rhythm guitar (1985–1993)
-   Waddy Wachtel – guitar (1997)

Discography

Studio albums with the Destroyers

-   1977: _George Thorogood and the Destroyers_ (Gold)
-   1978: _Move It on Over_ (Gold)
-   1979: _Better Than the Rest_ (Recorded in 1974)
-   1980: _More George Thorogood and the Destroyers_
-   1982: _Bad to the Bone_ (Gold)
-   1985: _Maverick_ (Gold)
-   1986: _Nadine_ (CD Rerelease of _Better Than the Rest_)
-   1988: _Born to Be Bad_ (Gold)
-   1991: _Boogie People_
-   1993: _Haircut_
-   1997: _Rockin' My Life Away_
-   1999: _Half a Boy/Half a Man_
-   2003: _Ride 'Til I Die_
-   2006: _The Hard Stuff_
-   2009: _The Dirty Dozen_
-   2011: _2120 South Michigan Ave._

Solo studio album

-   2017: _Party of One_[20]

Personal life

Thorogood has been a baseball fan[21] for most of his life, playing semi-pro ball as a second baseman during the 1970s (drummer Jeff Simon played center field on the same team). He took his daughter to Chicago for her first major league game (Cubs vs. Rockies), during which he sang “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”. In a 2011 _Guitar World_ interview, he stated “I'm a Mets fan. There aren't many of us but you know, that's me.”[22]

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title: George Thorogood

question: What is George Thorogood known for?

answer: He is known for the hit song "Bad to the Bone" which was and is still used in movies, commercials, and television.

question: Other than Thorogood, who is the only remaining original member of the Destroyers?

answer: Jeff Simon.

question: How old is George Thorogood now?

answer: He is 71 years old.


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GET INVOLVED

Play your part in making the charter principles a reality. Set up a local Charter Branch. Celebrate Tree Charter Day. Gather signatures from your colleagues and customers. Let’s root the Tree Charter into the fabric of society together.

JOIN THE MOVEMENT

The Tree Charter draws its strength from the grassroots – from people and communities across the UK who stand up for trees, and help others to realise the importance of living by the charter’s 10 Principles.

The Charter Branch network includes schools, parish councils, community woodland groups, artists and campaigners. By gathering the stories that shaped the 10 Principles, and collecting signatures in its support, Charter Branches have made the Tree Charter what it is, and given it the strength to make real impact in society. This grassroots movement for trees is needed more than ever to bring the charter’s 10 Principles to life. This means shaping local policies to support the role of trees, and helping people understand the value of trees and what they can do to help them.

Charter Branches are integral to embedding the Tree Charter’s ten principles and ensuring that the relationship between people and trees is recognised in decision making across homes, neighbourhoods, communities and government. For more information on what you can do to drive the Tree Charter’s vision forward, or to join the Charter Branch network please contact charter@woodlandtrust.org.uk

[People sitting and leaning against a tree decorated with bunting for National Tree Week]

question: What is the Tree Charter?

answer: Not explicitly answered, but it seems to be some sort of organization that plants trees.

question: What are the 10 Principles?

answer: Not answered.

question: What are Charter Branches?

answer: The Charter Branch network includes schools, parish councils, community woodland groups, artists, and campaigners.

question: How can one get involved with The Tree Charter?

answer: Not answered.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: This article briefly describes The Tree Charter, an organization in the UK that plants trees.


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LUSANDA BADIYANA (born 1 September 1996) is a South African rugby union player for the in the Pro14.[1] His regular position is eighth man, but he can also play as a flanker or a lock.

Rugby career

2014: Border

Badiyana was born and grew up in East London, where he also attended Cambridge High School. In 2014, he was selected to represent the East London-based at the Under-18 Academy Week in Worcester, where he made three starts to help his side to two victories at the tournament.[2]

2015–2016: Eastern Province Kings

After school, Badiyana moved to Port Elizabeth to join the academy. He was named the vice-captain of the squad that competed in the 2015 Under-19 Provincial Championship, leading the team on occasion when regular captain Jeremy Ward was unavailable.[3] Badiyana missed just one match all season, starting in eleven of their twelve matches during the regular season. He was mostly used as a lock during the campaign, and he scored tries in matches against ,[4] [5] and [6] to help his team finish top of the log, winning eleven of their twelve matches to qualify for the semi-finals.[7] Badiyana started their 31–15 victory over ,[8] as well as in the final, as they beat the s – the only team to beat them all season – 25–23 in Johannesburg[9] to win the Under-19 Provincial Championship for the first time in their history.[10]

In March 2016, Badiyana was included in a South Africa Under-20 training squad as they prepared for the 2016 World Rugby Under 20 Championship tournament to be held in Manchester, England.[11] However, he failed to make the cut for a reduced provisional squad named a week later,[12] instead linking up with the squad that participated in the 2016 Currie Cup qualification series.[13][14] He did not feature in any of their first five matches of the season, but made his first class debut by coming on as a replacement in their 10–50 defeat to on 14 May 2016.[15] He made his first start a week later in a 15–35 defeat to a [16] and remained in the squad for the remainder of the competition, making a total of seven starts and two appearances off the bench. Badiyana scored his first senior try in his sixth appearance for the Eastern Province Kings in their 12–29 defeat to ,[17] and scored a second in their final match of the season, a 26–59 defeat to the .[18] Badiyana's debut season in first class rugby ended in disappointing fashion, as the team finished second-bottom on the log, with just two victories in their fourteen matches.[19]

At the end of the 2016 season, Badiyana reverted to the team, where he started in victories over [20] and [21] in the 2016 Under-21 Provincial Championship. Eastern Province U21 won just one more match, however, and finished the season in fifth place, just missing out on the play-off semi-finals.[22] After the season, Badiyana had a trial with the Super Rugby team[23] and he was included in their squad for the 2017 Super Rugby season.

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title: Lusanda Badiyana

question: What is Badiyana's regular position?

answer: Eighth man

question: Where was Badiyana born?

answer: East London

question: What sport does Badiyana play?

answer: Rugby

question: When was Badiyana born?

answer: September 1, 1996

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: Lusanda Badiyana is a South African rugby union player. He was born in 1996 in East London, and his regular position is eighth man, but he can also play as a flanker or a lock.


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Caught completely by surprise, he stood motionless in the rain, his black umbrella shielding him from the downpour. He had been making his way from his apartment to a local pub when he saw her. His heart sank.

She came out of the coffee house across the street, accompanied by an old friend, both of them stopped short by the rain. She threw her purse above her head and with some squeals and laughter, the pair ran out onto the sidewalk toward the cars parked along the curb. She stopped abruptly and bent down to scoop up the keys she had just dropped, her thin dress clinging to her in the rain. With her keys in hand she hurried toward her car, unlocking the doors remotely as she ran.

It had been weeks since he'd last seen her. He had been lying next to her on his side, propped up on an elbow, telling her a story. It was some silly observation about nothing memorable, but they both erupted into laughter when he was finished. And now, standing there in the rain, the symbolism did not escape him; from that day to this, from peace to storm.

She's moving, he reminded himself. He always knew she was going. But, how could he have predicted the mark she would make on him. How could he have known that he would love her. And now, she's leaving as if none of it mattered. As if all of those days spent together were like any other day. As if all those talks lasting late into the night, each of them having just one more thing to say, were not extraordinarily different. As if she never told him that she loved him, too.

"I can't believe I considered not going," she told him that night, after expressing her confusion over their relationship and the move. The pain of her even considering curtailing her dream was evident on her face. So, he had left her, without looking back. And he was angry. She never once asked him about his dreams. She never once asked him where he was going.

From the beginning, he had accepted that she was leaving, he knew that she needed to find her place. But to act as if what they built together was for nothing. To act as if it could all easily happen again, somewhere else, with someone else..

Her car pulled away from the curb and sped down the street, away from him. He slowly dropped his umbrella and the rain began to wash over him. He stood there, staring into the distance long after her car had disappeared into the horizon.

He gave a heavy sigh and turned, closing his umbrella.  In the end, she had failed him.

Slowly he began making his short journey home, dragging his umbrella behind him.

title: [In the Rain]

question: Why is he surprised?

answer: He sees a girl he once dated.

question: Why did he leave his girlfriend?

answer: She decided to move without thinking of his dreams.

question: What does he drag behind him on the way home?

answer: An umbrella.

question: What does he walk through on the way home?

answer: The rain.

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: A man watches his ex girlfriend exit a coffee shop with a friend. He is surprised she has made such a mark on him. He reminds himself she is moving. He watches her drive away and walks home in the rain.


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The Legendary Danny Doom

Danny Doom was the nickname he had given himself. I found It kinda fitting for a young man with such an unsettling death wish.

Although, It was rather his over abundance of social media pages that would strangely and openly declare him as some sort of legendary god. With his greasy midnight black hair and exceptionally dark brown eyes he surely resembled something more of a demonic being, than any sort of god I knew. Even, when Danny tried to smile you knew there was just something off about him. His gaunt looking face and durably pale complexion was almost constructed to never smile, and many times he would leave you speculating if you had just received an evil snarl.

Danny McBride, was his real name, back when I vaguely knew him in elementary school. Grade seven and eight to be exact. He really just kept to himself through those years.

Reflecting back… It was odd, how he eluded having any friends at all, even at such a young age. I mean, we all knew about his online persona and reputation even then. Sure, he did common stunts. Making videos of himself doing things like jumping over bonfires, or riding his bike off insanely high roof tops. Almost, every time he would end up injuring himself in some brutally and horrific way. That didn’t seem to bother the incredible Danny Doom though, he craved the attention, like a vampire craves blood. He always had a devilish snarl even in his hospitalized selfies.

Within the short stint of six years that I followed Danny Doom’s Twitter account, he had truly inflicted some pretty gnarly stuff on himself. Four broken legs, five cracked ribs, a broken arm and two shattered wrists pinned together with a slew of steel. By the age of nineteen Danny had collected enough steel in his body that a junkyard magnet would be an admirable adversary.

“The Terminator ain’t got shit on me!” he was always known for tweeting, at least once a week and about his,“Reenforced skeletal structure.”

It wasn’t until just after my graduation that Danny decided to announce his next, and by far the most deranged stunt of his life.

He tweeted his plans of leaping off the hundred and seventy, five foot Hamilton Skyway bridge and splashing down into the narrow shipping canal just below. Immediately I thought that It was absolutely out of control. Every, normal human being knows a drop from such a height and into water. Would be like slamming into a concrete pad.

Danny, had always been rather fond of the hype leading up to his stunts. Bragging often and online about being basically untouchable, his arrogance towards mortality was utterly detestable. Often times, as soon as he would barely recover from one death defying stunt, his ten thousand plus twitter followers would always persuade him for more doom and gloom. To those people he was a joke. Many of his followers were not overly concerned that many of Danny Doom’s ideas were even remotely well thought out, or at best properly engineered. They simply lusted for the pending catastrophe.

Although many saw his utter recklessness, as hilarious jokes. It would be far and few who really questioned if in fact Danny Doom, was just merely suicidal.

I attempted several times to get in contact with Danny days before the stunt, with no luck.

The day of the bridge jump and his final stunt, had taken place on a warm Saturday afternoon in June. I remember it vividly, because I was having one bender of a pool party, to formally kick off summer and our recent graduation.

Around two thirty, that day Danny Doom released a tweet that relocated the entire party.

“Just getting to the bridge, stoked for the grand finally,” he eerily wrote.

Jesus, I thought, to myself. He’s seriously going through with this.

Unexpectedly, and I’m not sure exactly who said it, but the suggestion was tossed around the party, and that we all go and watch him do his stunt. I didn’t quite like it. The thought made my stomach lurch high into my throat and I voiced such opinions, and with no avail to my party guests.

Afterward, I recall us driving there and thinking myself what the hell were we about to witness? I knew that whatever it was, was probably and likely driven by the savage urge for the almighty need for doom and gloom.

The bridge itself was basically a massive elevated six lane highway connecting Hamilton, to another small city called Burlington. The only way to reach Danny’s launch spot was via the northbound lanes headed into Burlington. On that side of the bridge stood a large grey structure, that resembled a skeleton of a rainbow and held together with massive steel girders.

As we drove underneath the bridge we parked beside one of the monstrous support pillars,  and about a stones throw away from the shipping canal. I prayed to myself that we wouldn’t find him perched up there, and that this was all just some sick joke to attract himself more followers. I sprang out of the car and instantly cranked my neck skywards, just to gauge the severity of the bridges height. It was utterly staggering to think anyone would survive such a decent into the murky canal below.

My phone violently vibrated in my pocket. It was another tweet, and this time it was accompanied by a picture of Danny, on the bridge and now over looking the canal. You could see a few of my pool party guests, all sprinkled to the Burlington side of the canal and starkly resembling tiny ants on a sidewalk.

His tweet along with the picture read. “But I always knew how to draw a crowd.” Evil Knievel

Jesus, I thought, swiftly making my way to the canals edge, and beating back the bright afternoon sun with my hand. I needed to gauge if he was actually up there. My heart sank when I could faintly see a shadowy figure, leaning dangerously over the railing.

Instantly, I felt a bubbling rage boiling over inside me. ”Why does he act so stupid?” I mumbled.

“DON’T DO IT,” I blasted up at him, through cupped hands, hopping my words would reach him in time. Somewhere In the back of my mind I assumed my voice could drive him away from the bridges rail.

What transpired next would seer itself deep into my brain and for as long as I shall live. People were honestly egging the man on. I had suddenly realized that this large crowd of about thirty had not gathered in any form of prevention, or in any such protest of the stunt, but rather as a savage collective. My first real experience with the doom and gloom generation. A generation so hell bent on seeing the destruction of life, that they will lure it out at any cost.

I was still lost in a haze of shock when the massive tanker ship caught my eye. My first instinct was to just scream and wave my arms wildly up at him, not to jump. Then I did the only thing that I felt I had left.

I tweeted him.

“@DannyDoom DO NOT JUMP!!!! THERE IS A TANKER SHIP COMING THROUGH THE CANAL!!!!!”

The last thing I truly remember, was dialling 911, then being overwhelmed by a dreadful blast of fear as it raced up my spine.

It was the dreadful, bone shattering slap that would keep haunting me and repeating over and over in my mind.

My brain struggled to fathom what had just happened and slowly I attempted to collect my thoughts. When abruptly I was startled by an ear blistering horn that roared and echoed off the under belly of the bridge.

We all just stood there in silence, watching the tanker ship as it slowly crept its way past and through the narrow canal, ever so gently absorbing every one of Danny Doom’s final ripples of life.

By
Roach Adams
www.animalsofprogress.blogspot.ca

title: [RF] The Legendary Danny Doom

question: Summarize Danny Doom's stunts.

answer: He continues to do insane things like jumping over bonfires and riding his bike off roof-tops. He winds up with four broken legs, five cracked libs, a broken arm and two shattered wrists, all of it pinned together with steel. He claims "Terminator has nothing on me" often.

question: What does the narrator try to do at the bridge?

answer: He attempts to stop Danny Doom. First he shouts at him across the river. But Danny does not listen, partially because many others egg him on. Finally he attempts to tweet at Danny Duke.

question: Where is the narrator when Danny goes out to the bridge?

answer: The narrator is at a pool party with some friends. However, when Danny tweets he is about to do his stunt, many suggest the party relocate to watch. The narrator is mortified, but winds up accompanying his guests to the bridge.


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Dear diary,

Today I looked at my walls. Just the four of them, all standing sturdily together like tall, flat soldiers. I stared at them, and they stared at me.

Dear diary,

My boss has called me five times this morning, but I have not answered. What he has to say will do nothing to improve my life. I have vowed to remove all negative energy from my day. Therefore, he will remain ignored.

Dear diary,

I can see from my window that the mail carrier has given me a sticker on my mailbox to tell me that it is too full, and that my mail will be waiting for me at the post office. I’ve heard her ringing the doorbell for a few days. I pretend no-one’s home.

Dear diary,

My boss called me once today and left a message, which I listened to while reheating some Chinese food that I had left for me on my doorstep last night. His voice was a mixture of anger and concern, telling me to get ahold of him immediately. I waited several hours, until I knew he wouldn’t be at his desk, and I left a simple voicemail informing him that I was very sorry, but an emergency had gotten in the way, and I was so terribly afraid and saddened that I had to terminate my employment, and he could let my last check be direct-deposited, thank you very much. I then disconnected my phone from the wall and turned off my cell .

Dear diary,

I have not looked in the mirror in several days. I must have bags under my eyes that would put the moon’s craters to shame, and my hair must be a tangled rat nest of a mess. I’m trying to not focus on physical appearance. It only ends with me upset.

Dear diary,

My medications have run out. The empty bottles rattle around in my medicine cabinet, mocking me. I can't leave to have them refilled.

Dear diary,

My walls are closer now. They no longer stare, they leer at me. I can feel them watching me hatefully. Their eyes, invisible, burn my skin.

Dear diary,

I am so hungry, but all of my food has been poisoned. The person in the mirror is sneaking out to lace it with formaldehyde while I sleep. I've seen her do it a few times, but I always pretend to sleep.

Dear diary,

I am weak. I have not eaten in days. The walls pulsate as they taunt my pain. They've seen her poison me, and they are conspiring with her.

Dear diary,

The sound of a phone ringing has not stopped for several hours. I watch the phone lay on the floor, off the hook, and wonder how this is so. Its cords crawl toward me like a snake, wrapping around my limbs, cutting off the circulation. The walls above me as I lie limp on the ground are now black. They cackle. They pulse. My arms and legs are asleep with the force of the cords around them. The phone, the walls, the mirror, this house has come alive and I am powerless to stop it.

Dear diary,

I am calm. I am free.

DEIRDRE WOOLF

CHATSWORTH POLICE DEP.

3:45 PM

I hadn't heard from Bridget for about a week and a half. It was strange because usually she gets ahold of me once a week or so, but I figured she was doing her and I was doing me. I called her last Friday when I was pretty sure she'd be home from work and it went straight to voicemail. I called the home phone next, and got a busy signal. Maybe she was just out, ya know? So I decided to pop in this morning to check on her. I knocked, and the door swung right open. I wasn't prepared at all for what I saw. There's blood on the floors, the walls, the doors, and it's all just splattered like some crazy person was in there flinging it everywhere. And you know what, every single mirror in that house was broken with what looked like a fist mark in the center. Bridge was nowhere in sight. So I'm calling her name softly, feeling like I'm in a horror movie. I walk into the kitchen, and her fridge is roped shut with this big padlock on the handle and the rope. There's an open gallon of milk on the counter that's just horribly sour, and I can smell it from across the kitchen. I have to leave. And this place is just deadly silent. I walked past the bathroom in the hall and there's blood and vomit everywhere in there. I'm about to faint here. There's about a dozen of those little orange prescription bottles on the floor. Still no sign of Bridge. So her bedroom door is at the end of the hall, right, and the door is shut and the knob is covered in blood. I nudge it open with my foot, and my heart just drops to my stomach. My Bridget's just laying there on the floor, telephone cord wrapped around her neck, and her face is purple, but...she's smiling. Big as ever. Like she just saw the best thing she ever has. And I'm panicking and I put my hand down to check her pulse, and it's gone, and she's waxy, but she's....she's still just a little warm. I was just a little too late. Oh my god.....

title: Bridget (x-post r/nosleep)

question: Who finds Bridget?

answer: Deirdre Woolf, an officer with the Chatsworth Police Department and a friend of hers

question: Why does Bridget stop eating?

answer: She believes her food is being poisoned

question: What are the records of Bridget's declining condition?

answer: Her diary entries

question: How does Bridget die?

answer: She strangled herself with a telephone cable

question: Write a ~6 sentence summary.

answer: A woman named Bridget stops going to work and refuses to leave her house. She leaves a message for her boss that she is quitting and disconnects her phone. She believes the walls are watching her, and that her reflection is conspiring against her and poisoning her food. Her medications run out, and she won't leave to refill them. Deirdre Woolf, an officer with the Chatsworth Police Department and a friend of Bridget's, decides to check on her and finds her house in disarray. She goes to Bridget's room and finds that she has killed herself with a telephone cable, but her body is still warm.


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The LIGHTHOUSE OF VALE FORMOSO () is a beacon/lighthouse located along the southwestern cliffs of the civil parish of Capelo, in the municipality of Horta, on the Portuguese island of Faial, in the archipelago of the Azores.

History

The lighthouse was constructed to substitute the destroyed lighthouse on the promontory of Capelinhos, following the eruption of the volcano in 1957-1958.[1][2][3]

Architecture

The lighthouse is located along the Capelo peninsula, along the southern coast of the island, approximately southeast of the lighthouse of Capelinhos.[4][5][6]

It consists of a truncated white circular tower constructed of reinforced contract with gallery and small red beacon on its top.[7][8][9] Approximately three storeys tall, each registry is marked by a slitted window, culminating in the top platform with guardrail.

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title: Lighthouse of Vale Formoso

question: What is the Lighthouse of Vale Formoso?

answer: It is a beacon/lighthouse along the southwestern cliffs of the civil parish of Capelo, Horta municipality, Faial island, Azores archipelago, Portugal.

question: Explain the history of the Lighthouse of Vale Formoso.

answer: The lighthouse was constructed to substitute the destroyed lighthouse on the promontory of Capelinhos after the volcano erupted in 1957-1958.

question: Describe the Lighthouse of Vale Formoso.

answer: It is approximately three stories tall, consisting of a truncated white circular tower constructed of a reinforced contract with a gallery and a small red beacon on its top. Each registry is marked by a slitted window, culminating in the top platform with a guardrail.

question: Where in the Azores is the Lighthouse of Vale Formoso located?

answer: It is located along the Capelo Peninsula, along the southern coast of the island, approximately southeast of the lighthouse of Capelinhos.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: The Lighthouse of Vale Formoso is a beacon/lighthouse along the southwestern cliffs of the civil parish of Capelo, Horta municipality, Faial island, Azores archipelago, Portugal. The lighthouse is three stories tall, consisting of a truncated white circular tower constructed of a reinforced contract with a gallery and a small red beacon on its top.


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_ONCE UPON A TIME IN QUEENS_ is a 2013 American post-mob film written and directed by David Rodriguez,[1] starring Paul Sorvino,[2] Michael Rapaport[3] and Chazz Palminteri.[4][5]

Plot

Joseph “Mr. Joe” Scoleri (Paul Sorvino) was a major Mafia mob boss back in the 1980s, somewhat like John Gotti. He is let out of a prison in Pennsylvania after serving 20 years, but is released conditionally, on probation, because of ill health. He moves back into his row house in his old neighborhood in Queens, where he was much loved and respected years ago. His daughter Rita Scholeri (Renee Props) is working but she shares the house with him.

He is immediately warned by his lawyer (Chazz Palminteri) that the terms of his release stipulate that he must have no contact of any kind with any Mafia members, or he goes back to jail. And his doctor explains to him that he is in very bad shape—he has severe cardiomyopathy, which will inevitably lead to heart failure at some point in the near future.

Mr. Joe discovers, mostly from hearsay, that the Mafia has changed a lot (it sounds to him as if it's deteriorated) since he went into jail, and so has the world in general, even in his old neighborhood. He is struck in particular how the young people show no respect any more.

However, Mr. Joe has a much younger next-door neighbor, Bobby DiBianco (Michael Rapaport), who is a hard-working family man who owns a deli. Bobby is kind enough to try to take care of what he sees as a nice elderly man; Bobby was too young in the 1980s to understand the crimes Mr. Joe was guilty of.

On the home front, Mr. Joe's 42-year-old daughter, Rita, explains to him that she is a lesbian—something that at first he finds completely repugnant.

A thuggish younger Italian man (Lev Gorn) starts a confrontation in Bobby DiBianco's deli. During the scuffle, the thug punches Rita Scholeri in the face, sending her flying. And, the shocking confrontation causes an older neighbor, who is sitting in the deli, to die from a heart attack.

At the funeral Mr. Joe speaks in Italian to an active mobster. It is not clear what is being planned, but they agree to something.

Mr. Joe has dinner with Rita and her girlfriend. They all get on really well, and he surprises them by asking when they will present him with a grandchild.

It turns out that Mr. Joe has set something up so that he himself can attack the young thug. He kills him with a claw hammer, and immediately suffers heart failure, dying on the sidewalk.

Years pass, and we see Rita and her girlfriend at home with a baby, listening to a recording that Mr. Joe made back when he was still in prison.

Cast

-   Paul Sorvino as Mr. Joe
-   Michael Rapaport as Bobby DiBianco
-   Chazz Palminteri as Ben Rose
-   Renee Props as Rita Scoleri
-   Andrea Nittoli[6] as Michelle DiBianco
-   Lev Gorn[7] as Dominic Salerno, Jr.
-   Steven Bauer as PO Ramirez
-   Paul Ben-Victor as Vinnie Nero
-   Hassan Johnson as Agent Butler
-   Kevin Kelly as Agent O'Bannon
-   Johnny “Roastbeef” Williams[8] as Carmine LaRocca
-   Olivia Panepinto as Olivia DiBianco
-   Andrea Navedo as Anna Vasco
-   Roberta Wallach as Angela LaRocca
-   William DePaolo as Anthony Quick
-   Michael Sorvino as Dr. Shapiro

Awards

The film was an Official Selection of the 2013 Seattle International Film Festival, an Official Selection of the 2013 Austin Film Festival, and an Official Selection of the 2014 Florida Film Festival.

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title: Once Upon a Time in Queens

question: Who directed "Once Upon a Time in Queens"?

answer: David Rodriguez directed "Once Upon a Time in Queens".

question: What was the budget for "Once Upon a Time in Queens"?

answer: Not answered.

question: What awards has the film won?

answer: The film was selected at the 2013 Seattle International Film Festival, the 2013 Austin Film Festival, and the 2014 Florida Film Festival.

question: How much money did the film make?

answer: Not answered.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: This article gives a synopsis the film "Once Upon a Time in Queens", a post-mob film which was released in 2013 and directed by David Rodriquez.


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I felt the heat from the sand cooling down the closer I walked towards the water. The sand became more and more dense and dark. It looked like softened cement. I let the salty water tickle my toes and then the rest of my feet as I walked closer into the darkening water.

The sun only lit the horizon with its golden light and the shoreline was welcoming the grey moon and its dark skies. I walked deeper into the sea, feeling the sharp rocks jab my feet. My face wrinkles as I react to the pain but continue walking deeper until I'm swimming and my feet no longer feel the rocks on the sea floor.

I stop moving my legs and arms and lie on my back and let the water drift me further away from the shore. My body lifelessly floats with the current, letting the water wash over my face. As the waves become bigger and stronger, I let the waves toss me like a lifeless doll. My body twisted and tumbled. I felt my lungs burning for air and I opened and water rushed in. Water filled my ears, nose and mouth. I couldn't open my eyes because the salt stung so much my eyeballs had turned red.

Finally, the waves settled and my bloated, white body washed ashore. There was no more heat in the sand nor in my body.

title: Walking on the beach at sunset [warning: could be a trigger for some people]

question: Why is the narrator giving up on life?

answer: Life has become too much to bear.

question: Why has the narrator chosen to swim out to sea, as the moon rises?

answer: Perhaps the narrator wants to ensure that no one sees the suicide and attempts to stop it.

question: Is it possible to kill yourself like this?

answer: The survival instinct is strong and I doubt that a drowning person would deliberately open their mouths to swallow water.

question: Write a ~8 sentence summary.

answer:
The narrator walks into the sea at sunset, walking deeper and deeper until she’s swimming. Then she stops moving her arms and legs, lies on her back and allows the water to drift her further away from the shore. Her body lifelessly floats with the current as she allows the water to wash over her face.

As the waves become bigger, she allows them to toss her body like a lifeless doll. Her lungs burn for air. Water fills her ears, nose and mouth. She can’t open her eyes.

Finally, the waves wash her cold white body ashore.


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[] NANGEENAN is a small townsite west of Merredin on State Route 94, in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia (WA).

It has a local hall which has been in use since around the time of World War I.[1][2] During the same era, Nangeenan was the site of a “state farm”,[3] a term used at the time for a research station of the WA Department of Agriculture.

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title: Nangeenan, Western Australia

question: Where is Nangeenan located?

answer: It is located in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.

question: How can Nagneenan be described?

answer: It can be described as a small townsite.

question: What does the term "state farm" mean?

answer: This term meant a research station of the Western Australia Department of Agriculture.

question: What is significant about the hall that is in Nangeenan?

answer: The hall has been around for use since World War 1.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: This article describes a small townsite, Nangeenan, in Western Australia.


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by Scott Jameson

An EARLIER POST established that OMEGA 3 FATTY ACIDS are an important nutrient of which hardly anybody is getting enough, and that this deficiency is making us Westerners a bit dumber and a bit crazier on the whole. Description sometimes obligates prescription, so this post is where I spitball about possible solutions, and welcome you to join me in the comments.

I’m reminded of the gubbermint mandating the lacing of our salt with sorely needed iodine, or the enrichment of white flour with nutrients lost in the removal of the bran and germ as well as the bleaching of the endosperm.

For yourself and your family, fish oil pills are fine- kelp oil if you’re one of _those people._ But we need solutions that work for nearly everybody, and the brilliance of the examples I listed above is that everybody eats that stuff (bread and salt) and now it’s laced with nutrients they’ve been needing. So we could produce N3s at low cost and legally mandate that certain foods contain them. Chia is a promising source: IT’S CHEAP, IT’S LOADED WITH N3S, and it doesn’t taste fishy. Flax also works, but it’s loaded with phytoestrogens. Tons of seeds have those, I think Chia as well, but I’ve been told (incorrectly?) that flax is a particularly bad offender. Anyway, how do we load Chia or a similar seed into people’s diets?

Omega 3 eggs are one way to go. Chickens metabolize plant ALA (such as from chia or flax) into DHA and STORE BOTH IN THEIR EGGS. Just as we made use of the auroch and tarpan’s efforts to have a brain, we can hijack the chicken’s futile attempts to provide brain-material for her nonexistent offspring, using her eggs as a vehicle to get N3s into ourselves. It’s as simple as a mandate that a certain percentage of all chicken feed must be N3 rich seeds and/or insects.

Another obvious place to look is the plant oils that go into our food. Check out the table on the Wikipedia page for ALA: soybean and rapeseed oils have A PATHETIC SHOWING for ALA content, and they’re put in absolutely everything. The State MANDATES that all gas will be a bit ethanol: why not all soybean and canola be 10, 20% Chia or some comparably high ALA crop?

It’s worth pointing out that you can genetically modify ALA rich vegetable oil to be on A QUALITY CLOSER TO PAR WITH FISH OIL, having some of the ALA converted into the more useful EPA. Forget any concerns about GMOs you may have because the oils I’m talking about lacing with GMOs are already themselves GMOs.

We also must mandate that all infant formula be laced with N3s: EPA and DHA in particular, and tested for stuff like mercury if it comes from fish. You probably know at least one person who is AUTISTIC BECAUSE THEY WERE BOTTLEFED.

Comment your potential solutions below. I want to hear them. Double points for anyone playing the game on hard mode: free market solutions (libertarians) or animal-free solutions (vegans). If you try both, you’re a masochist and you need help.

question: What is the important nutrient Westerners aren't getting enough of?

answer: Omega 3 Fatty Acids (n3)

question: Who is the author of this post?

answer: Scott Jameson

question: What is the post all about?

answer: Scott highlights the fact that if the government can mandate enhancing salt with iodine and flour with lost nutrients to help with nutritional deficiencies, it can also mandate adding n3s to daily food staples.

question: Other than fish oil supplements, what solutions has Scott come up with to make n3s accessible to everybody?

answer: Scott suggests legally mandating certain foods to contain n3s such as eggs, ALA plant oils, and infant formula. He says that Chia seeds are a good start because they are loaded with n3s without tasting fishy.

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: In a post by Scott Jameson, he says Westerners are not getting enough Omega 3 Fatty Acids (n3) in their diet, and n3 supplements like fish oil are needed for proper brain function. He says that like the government mandates adding iodine in salt and lost nutrients in white flour to ensure everyone is getting them in their diets, n3s should also be added to food. Scott's solutions are to infuse eggs, plant oils, and infant formula with Omega 3s. He also says that Chia seeds are a good place to start because they are loaded with n3s but don't have the fishy aftertaste of fish oil.


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MARCUS HENRY (born February 21, 1986) is a former Canadian football wide receiver. After playing college football for Kansas, he was drafted by the New York Jets in the sixth round of the 2008 NFL Draft. He also played for the Edmonton Eskimos, Ottawa Redblacks, and Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL).

Professional career

New York Jets

The New York Jets drafted Henry in the sixth round (171st overall) of the 2008 NFL Draft.[1] Henry was considered a “developing” prospect; however, his height advantage attracted the Jets' attention.[2] The Jets signed Henry to a rookie contract on June 6, 2008.[3] Henry made the active roster however he was inactive for the first two games of the season until he was waived by the team on September 22, 2008.[4] Henry was subsequently signed to the team's practice squad on September 24, 2008 where he remained for the remainder of the season.[5]

Following the season, Henry was signed to a reserve/future contract on January 24, 2009.[6] During training camp practices, backup quarterback Erik Ainge praised Henry, who taught his fellow receivers how to use their strengths to their advantage.[7] In spite of the positive praise, Henry was again released from the team on September 5, 2009 during the final roster cuts.[8] Henry was signed to the team's practice squad, two days later, where he remained for the season.[9]

The team signed the wideout to a future/reserve contract in February.[10] The Jets waived Henry on August 29.[11]

Carolina Panthers

Henry was signed to the Carolina Panthers practice squad on September 23, 2010.[12]

Edmonton Eskimos

Henry signed a contract with the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League on April 5, 2011.[13] He sustained an injury and only played in 11 games in the 2011 CFL season. In his first year in the CFL he recorded 384 yards and 1 touchdown. Henry sat out the first half of 2012 with a knee injury sustained in training camp. This time playing in the second half of the season Henry played in 9 games for the Eskimos. Marcus Henry had a similar season with regards to production amassing 382 yards and 1 receiving touchdown. Following the 2012 CFL season he was not re-signed and became a free-agent in mid February 2013. However, on May 1, 2013 Henry re-signed with the Eskimos. The 2013 season will be Henry's third with the Eskimos.[14] Henry appeared in 12 games for the Eskimos in the 2013 season. By the end of the season he compiled 535 receiving yards on 34 receptions, with 1 touchdown.

Ottawa RedBlacks

Henry signed as a free-agent with the expansion Ottawa RedBlacks prior to the 2014 season. Henry went on to lead the RedBlacks receiving corps in receptions and yardage amassing career best of 824 yards on 67 receptions. Following the 2014 season the Redblacks made a series of high-profile signings to bolster their wide receiving corps, leaving Henry's roster status in more doubt than had been anticipated.[15] Henry only appeared in one game during the 2015 season: He missed the majority of the season due to injury. He was not re-signed by the Redblacks following the season, and thus became a free-agent on February 9, 2016.[16] Henry attended the Edmonton Eskimos mini-camp in Florida in late April in an attempt to qualify for the team's main training camp.[17]

Montreal Alouettes

Henry was signed to the Montreal Alouettes' practice roster. He made his first start in the October 22, 2016 game against the Saskatchewan Roughriders, where he scored a touchdown.

CFL stats

  Year   Team       Receptions   Yards   Average   TD's
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  2011   Edmonton   33           384     11.6      1
  2012   Edmonton   28           382     13.6      1
  2013   Edmonton   34           535     15.7      1
  2014   Ottawa     67           824     12.3      2
  2015   Ottawa     0            0       0         0
  2016   Montreal   3            39      13.0      1

Personal life

He has a fraternal twin brother Maurice, who played with him in high school and college.[18]

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question: Summarize everything related to injuries.

answer: Henry sustained an injury and only played in 11 games in the 2011 CFL season. He sat out the first half of 2012 with a knee injury he got during training camp. He missed the majority of the 2015 season due to injury, appearing only in one game.

question: Summarize the first year of Henry's NFL career.

answer: Henry was drafted by the New York Jets in the sixth round of the 2008 NHFL Draft. They signed him to a rookie contract on June 6, 2008. He was inactive until he was waived on September 22. On September 24, he was signed to the team's practice squad.

question: What does the article say about Henry's career outside of football?

question: Summarize everything relating to Henry being dropped from teams.

answer: Henry was waived by the New York Jets on September 22, 2008 and again on August 29, 2009. He was not re-signed by the Edmonton Eskimos following the 2012 CFL season. He was not re-signed by the redbacks following the 2015 season.


text: I walked down the street again. I had walked this street so many times, and yet I still called it a street. It was an avenue by trade, but street sounds better. Looking onward I saw a group of people that I thought could have been friends of mine, or at least some of them. I didn’t have that many friends, and even fewer that would stand to talk in a circle like that. So I lowered my expectations accordingly. It turned out to be another of many groups of people that I didn’t mind, but didn’t befriend. I figured that I would stop as I got to the circle, say hi maybe, and then see where the conversation went. It didn’t go so well, after saying hi and then them saying hi back the conversation continued on it seems to be about a group of people I didn’t know, saying things I didn’t hear about. So I left.

title: I decided I was going to write, so I just sorta typed and this is what I came up with. Think I should continue the story? Do you like the style? Should the main character get a pet goat?

question: What is the narrator's name?

answer: Doesn't say?

question: Where does the story take place?

answer: Doesn't say beyond on a street, an avenue.

question: Why can't the narrator make friends?

answer: The conversation leads toward specifics about people they don't know, they don't know how to strike up a conversation they can participate in.

question: What are the narrator's expectations about making friends?

answer: That it should be easy, and when it doesn't unfold as expected, they give up.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: The narrator is walking down a familiar avenue and encounters a group of friends standing in a circle talking. They engage everyone by saying "hi," but when the conversation continues as if they aren't there they give up trying to make friends and leave.


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-   The Pulse: Politics live with Judith Ireland

I have many flaws, at least according to my children. But the biggest is my obsession with musicals. I can sing my way through _South Pacific_, take a detour past Rydell High and arrive, shrieking with pleasure, at _Next to Normal_. These songs are not actually recognisable when I sing them - or that's the view of the ingrates.

So my enthusiasm that Tim Minchin's (and Roald Dahl's) _Matilda the Musical_ will soon arrive in Australia is unbridled.

[Like Australians, Matilda is not protected by the person who should be her foremost defender.]

Like Australians, Matilda is not protected by the person who should be her foremost defender.Credit:AP

Based on the Dahl book, it's the story of Matilda Wormwood, whose father bullies and hectors her on a regular basis. She is made to feel hopeless and helpless. One evening (or did I just imagine the time of day? I developed a personal relationship with the book after reading it endlessly to my ingrate children), well, one day, Matilda is speaking to her father. He turns on her.

In the movie, the words go:

['You need governments to stand between innocent citizens and greed machines ... but Tony Abbott's is removing protections of all kinds.']

'You need governments to stand between innocent citizens and greed machines ... but Tony Abbott's is removing protections of all kinds.'Credit:Andrew Meares

_''Listen, you little wiseacre: I'm smart, you're dumb; I'm big, you're little; I'm right, you're wrong; and there's nothing you can do about it.''_

Absolutely heartbreaking. Here is this person who is meant to be protecting little Matilda, and all he does is demean her, belittle her.

She is the underdog, despite her many talents, yet she is not protected by the person who should be her foremost defender.

Which is how we should all be feeling right now.

We have a government which isn't standing up for us. It's standing with the overdog. It's using the excuse of red tape and overlegislation. It's removing protections of all kinds. And it's not as if we can individually stand up for ourselves. You can't fight big by yourself - you need governments to stand between innocent citizens and greed machines.

Case 1: Race Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane, on Monday in a speech at ANU, said the federal Attorney-General wanted to make amendments to section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. In other words, if you hate being called a boong or a yid or a spic on the streets, you better stop caring. Any changes to 18C will unleash a barrage of race hate.

This is mainly to appease the Coalition's biggest fan, Andrew Bolt. I can imagine he did not enjoy one bit being told in 2011 to pay money to the lawyers for the people he described as ''professional'' Aborigines. The changes to 18C would allow people to say whatever the hell they please.

Tim squeezed in a couple of minutes to speak to me before he gave his lecture. He said: ''If you remove 18C, you are removing one practical way ordinary Australians can speak up against racial harassment.

  We have a government which isn't standing up for us.

''Imagine if you worked for a big multinational and your boss was racially abusing you - or maybe you are a customer who has been abused, this way you have the means to get your abusers into a room to make them hear the harm they've caused you. It gives ordinary Australians the power to hold others accountable.''

The rest of us understand exactly how devastating it can be to be belittled in that way. Not Andrew Bolt, though. His response on the day the court found against him was: ''This is a terrible day for freedom of speech in this country.''

As opposed to a great day for getting people to think before they open their mouths and insult others based on race.

Case 2: Every time you get paid, some of that money gets put into an account you can't touch until you are decrepit. Someone takes care of that money on your behalf. When the time comes for you to get your hands on that money, you'll probably go to a financial adviser to get help with making it last. Apparently, for those of us freed from the shackles of work, it can be a pretty orgasmic moment.

Except some of those financial advisers have thought more about their own retirements than ours. Yes, they were promoting investments that they knew were dogs because some of those dogs came with doggy bags.

Now we have new legislation to protect us from the kennel, but that's being watered down by Arthur Sinodinos. His idea is that people who make financial products should be able to bribe - the words they use are ''pay a commission to'' - financial advisers to get us to invest in particular products. Because that worked so well with Storm Financial.

Case 3: We struggle to get gender equality into Australian workplaces (or anywhere, really). And one of the ways to make equality happen is to have the data that proves it doesn't exist.

Now the federal government is considering relaxing gender reporting to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.

The proposal is that companies with fewer than 1000 employees would be exempt from reporting on gender balance. Which would mean most of us would work for companies that would not have to report. The very companies that don't have the pressure to be publicly accountable would again slip into the pattern of hiring what's easy, what's traditional.

And all that's just in the last little while. If you are interested in more ways the federal government wants to crush Matilda, read Sally McManus' blog on what she calls Tracking Abbott's Wreckage.

We are all Matilda now. Our only hope is that we can have the same happy ending.

TWITTER @JENNAPRICE OR EMAIL JENNA_P@BIGPOND.NET.AU

CORRECTION: This article initially incorrectly said Andrew Bolt was told in 2011 to pay money to people he described as "professional" Aborigines. No order was made to Mr Bolt to pay compensation. He was, however, required to pay the plaintiffs' court costs.

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question: What fictional character are Australians most like?

answer: Roald Dahl's Matilda.

question: Whose government is the author criticising?

answer: The government of Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott.

question: What is necessary for gender equality, according to the article?

answer: Data about gender inequality.

question: What happens if the government removes section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act?

answer: Australians have less of a way to speak up against racial discrimination because it will allow people to say whatever they want.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: The article discusses policies of the conservative Australian government as being similar to the way the child Matilda is treated in Roald Dahl's famous book. Among the issues discussed are changes to racial discrimination laws, financial issues, and gender equality.