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HAKKA RICE WINE () is a type of rice wine in Hakka cuisine. It is also known as NIANG WINE, or MOTHER WINE (), due to being produced domestically by Hakka women. It is mainly found in the Hakka city of Meizhou, Guangdong.

Hakka wine is often served as a treat for guests during festivals. New mothers are also encouraged to consume it to aid recovery in the postpartum period.[1]

Folklore

According to custom, Hakka wine was made by a god. During the period of Barbarians' Invasion of China from 304 AD to 439 AD, the Hakka people immigrated to the South of China. However, they were exhausted due to the long distances. The god in his mercy taught them the methods of brewing the wine as refreshment. Hakka ancestors regarded the mother liquor with special medical effects as treasure and passed on it from generation to generation.[2]

Method of production

In the Hakka areas, the methods of traditional Hakka rice wine not only still spreads in the hands of some housewives, but also forms a standard production process in industry:

1.  Selection of main raw materials: glutinous rice, Hongqu(red yeast rice) and water.
2.  Macerating rice. Water should be poured into a big round urn before rice and then stirred to make them mix evenly.
3.  Steamed rice. In general, an appropriate requirement of steamed rice features softness, transparency, and no agglomeration.
4.  Cooling. To cool the steamed rice until the temperature drops to the degrees from 30 to 35.
5.  Fermentation. Put Hongqu into the cooling steamed rice, add water, stir evenly, and seal for fermentation. The fermentation temperature is controlled between 20 and 30 degrees and the time lasts about 7 days.[3]

Mother wine chicken

Mother wine chicken (), also known as ginger wine chicken or wine fried chicken, is a traditional Hakka relishing dish eaten in winter, made with ginger, chicken and rice wine. To start with, minced ginger and chopped chicken are fried together, and then with a moderate amount of glutinous rice wine boiled.[4]

The dish usually appears at important occasions, such as in a Hakka family reunion, and the Spring Festival, where it is consumed by people of all ages and genders. According to traditional Chinese medicine, it is believed to promote blood circulation and dispel the wind [It is warm in nature and dispels cold and dampness. ], and is used as a nutritional supplement for women who have just given birth.[5]

[1] 广东客家娘酒的研究进展 酿酒科技 2010 年第 3 期（总第 189 期）·LIQUOR－MAKING SCIENCE ＆ TECHNOLOGY 2010 No．3(Tol．189).

[2] [http://www.cnki.net/KCMS/detail/detail.aspx?QueryID=0&CurRec=7&recid=&filename=JCGS201506010&dbname=CJFDLAST2016&dbcode=CJFQ&pr=&urlid=&yx=&uid=WEEvREcwSlJHSldRa1FhdkJkdjAzb1I0UUlRazVCeklxTUxTRjVxcFZoOD0=$9A4hF_YAuvQ5obgVAqNKPCYcEjKensW4ggI8Fm4gTkoUKaID8j8gFw!!&v=MDA2OThNMUZyQ1VSTHllWnVabkZDbmdWN3JKTHk3TWZiRzRIOVRNcVk5RVpJUjhlWDFMdXhZUzdEaDFUM3FUclc= 客家文化在客家娘酒包装设计中的应用研究 Applicati on of Hakka Culture in the Hakka Niang Wine Packaging Design] 方儒浠 FANG Ruxi 罗力夫 LUO Lifu 王娟 WANG Juan 广东工业大学，广州 510090（Guangdong University of Technology，510090 Guangzhou） Vol.5 No.6 2015 DESIGN RESEARCH 设计艺术研究.

[3] 窑藏中国: 中国酒和中国酒文化 Kiln in China: Chinese Wine and Chinese Wine Culture 单铭磊 Shan MingLei 中国财富出版社，北京 (Beijing, China Fortune Publishing House) 2014.4

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[5] 客家研究文集 The Study of Hakka 赖雨桐 Lai YuTong 广东人民出版社 People's Publishing House in Guangdong 1995.07

title: Hakka rice wine

question: What are the other names for Hakka rice wine?

answer: Niang Wine and Mother Wine.

question: What popular uses does it have?

answer: It is served during festivals as a treat for guests and encouraged to be drank by mothers to aid with postpartum recovery.

question: What is the folklore around Hakka wine?

answer: According to legend it was made by a god during the period of Barbarian invasion of China. The Hakka people immigrated to the South of China but became exhausted, and the god out of mercy taught them the method of brewing wine as refreshment.

question: What is a popular dish made with Mother wine?

answer: Mother wine chicken is a traditional wintertime dish made with ginger, chicken, and rice wine.

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: Hakka rice wine, otherwise known as Niang wine or Mother wine is a rice wine created by the Hakka people of southern China. It is traditionally served as a treat for quests or given as a recovery drink to postpartum mothers. Legend has it that the recipe for the special wine was given to the Hakka people after they were driven into southern China by barbarians, and a merciful god taught them how to brew it out of mercy. A popular Mother wine dish is called Mother wine chicken, made from ginger, chicken, and Mother wine.


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EMMANUEL VON SEVERUS OSB (24 August 1908, Vienna - 24 July 1997, Andernach) was an Austrian Benedictine.

Life

Born as Rudolf von Severus, the son of a lieutenant field marshal in the Austro-Hungarian Army, he entered Maria Laach Abbey in 1928, the year of his abitur. He was ordained a priest on 5 August 1934 and after studying Latin and history he gained his philosophy doctorate at Pater Emmanuel in 1939. From 1948 to 1990 (apart from brief interruptions) he was novice master at Maria Laach under three abbots. From 1958 to 1978 he managed the Liturgical Archive (Archiv für Liturgiewissenschaft). He also lectured on spiritual issues and wrote on scientific and spiritual topics.

title: Emmanuel von Severus

question: Who is Emmanuel Von Severus?

answer: A philosopher qand priest who managed the Liturgical Archive in Austria.

question: What is a Benedictine?

answer: The article does not specify, though it is implied it is a religious sect.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: A summary of Emmanuel Von Severus OSB, an Austrian Benedictine philosopher.


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When he awoke, he came to a sudden realization.

This isn't my bed. I'm not in my home. I don't know this person laying beside me. This hand doesn't belong to me, although it seems that I control it.

He awoke terrified.

The air crept out of his lungs, and try as he might, it wouldn't draw back in. He started shuffling back up the bed, back against the headboard. Where was his breath? Why did the air taste so... unfamiliar?

He had woken up like this every day for the last year.

His wife woke up beside him, her eyes bleary, dark circles under them. She hardly slept, because he hardly slept. She knew better than to try to reach out to him. He hadn't let her for a year.

At first she tried to calm him. "I'm Juilie," she would say "your wife. I love you."

"You're not Julie," he would say "Julie is blonde... well I know you're blonde, but you're not her blonde. Her voice is like yours, but its not yours. I mean, you're like Julie, but you're not Julie. I know Julie. I love her, and you're not her."

And through the day, she would walk him through their home, where they had lived for almost a decade. It was their first home, their daughter Anna's room was upstairs. The tiles were the same. She would show him mail with his name, and her name, and show him how it arrived in the mailbox each day fresh, and with their names on it. He would concede that all of the facts were the same. The address, the names, the colors, the ages. But he wouldn't believe it. Not for a second. This life wasn't his, but he couldn't remember where he'd placed his own.

His anxiety over the matter kept him (and her) awake, day after day, until he collapsed from the exhaustion of trying to figure out where everything had gone. Somehow though, he never came to believe that it was a conspiracy, that his life had been replaced. He always seemed to have an awareness that somehow he was mistaken. As though, perhaps, he'd come through some curious means that remained shrouded in a confused memory, to be in this place. Where the people claimed to know him, even if he didn't know them. He knew that he couldn't remember a huge portion of his life. The present, for him, lacked a history. He knew the answer was in that history, but without it, without the story, all he had was the certainty that this wasn't his life. And how could it be? It didn't feel at all like it. It didn't feel warm. It didn't feel familiar.

But then, nothing did. Warm sun on the skin felt kind, and soothing. But it felt like moonlight. Something about it made it not the sun of memory. It didn't feel like his sun. The air didn't feel like his air. His hands didn't feel like his hands. Nothing felt right. And he worried. Even the worries felt as though they came from outside. As certain as he was about them, they didn't seem like his concern. There is worry, therefore I am, I worry.

And this is what kept him from fleeing, from being paranoid, or angry. His fears seemed unfounded, because he didn't recognize them as his own. All he feels is lost. Like he has fallen asleep on a bus, and at last shaken awake by the driver, found himself alone on a dark lit street. Around are the objects of his own landscape -light poles, parked cars, buildings, people. And he knows that home lies on that bus route. But for now the line is closed, and he will have to wait until morning. For now, he spends the night in the company of strangers, in a place that's not his home. Nothing to do but wait for the clarity of morning, when an opportunity will present itself, and offer to fill in the missing information that would make it all make sense.

And so he waits. He thinks this woman knows how lost he is, maybe she's claiming to be Julie to save him from some hurt. She seems kind. She tries very hard. But she's not Julie, because he knows Julie.

It's been this way for a year.

He's in the garden. It's springtime. He likes it in the garden. Out of the places to be lost in, it is certainly the best. It's warm, and the flowers are beautiful, vibrant, and smell wonderful. He doesn't recognize the species that are here. He thinks it looks the way his garden used to. He'd tend to it while Anna slept in her basket, shaded from the sun. Never out of ear shot.

There's a small bird on the ground. An infant. Fallen from a high tree branch. It struggles as he picks it up, but it doesn't resist, just goes through the motions. It's been here for a while. It's dehydrated. It struggles for air. But it's just going through the motions.

He strokes its tiny head. It stops struggling.

His head spins. Anna.

He falls to his knees as the air fills his lungs in a deep, desperate gasp. This breath feels familiar. He knows this breath. And it burns. Ohh god how it swells in his chest. How it hurts. But he knows this breath.

This breath of fresh air.

title: A breath of fresh air

question: Describe Julie's feelings in this passage.

answer: Julie is struggling and sleep-deprived but she loves her husband and seems determined to help him.

question: What is the overall tone of this story?

answer: Unresolved, serious, frustrated.

question: Summarize the protagonist's relationship with Julie.

answer: Julie is his wife, even though he feels like he doesn't know her. He continually questions everything about his life and she is there to answer him.

question: Estimate whether or not Anna is alive or dead based on this passage.

answer: No definitive answer is given but Anna is talked about in the past tense which may imply that she's dead since the couple has been in their first home less than a decade so Anna can't be old enough to move out.


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I would like some criticism here, be as harsh as you like.

The sun looked down with an oppressive glare, to which the boy met back with a gaze of his own. Nobody had told him he'd have to bike twenty minutes to get to the gym. What's worse, is nobody would have guessed that the 99 dollar bike he got from Walmart would already be on its last limbs only a few weeks after purchasing it. He cursed his bike and the smothering heat. These plagues would be the least of his worries as he encountered a new atrocity. The swarms of flies gathered savagely over the sidewalk forming a wall of insects. after smashing through two walls he decided to take the bicycle lane in the street. The buzzing of flies was replaced by the buzzing of speeding cars as they hurried on to finish life. He however soaked it all in, even though the flies swarming nearby distracted him. He was bothered by this speed, this incoherent ignorance to the simplest things around them, passing them by. Pondering this thought, which pestered him more than it should have, his bike jumped to the right, as if it wished to return to the multitude of flies. He steadied the bike and turned into the gym's parking lot. The anger from the speeding cars flowed through his thoughts. He detested the rush that had robbed him. Entering the gym he forgot his misguided rage, and enjoyed a workout. The boy was now heading back home. He saw the walls of flies waiting for him, and as he turned to the bike lane, the bike's squeal of rotating gears seemed to beckon him back to the hordes of flies. He kept on going. Going with no choice. Who was really chosen to be where they are he wondered. Who has actually chosen what they were given? Who chose when they were, and where? He daydreamed about these  ideas, until his bikes yelps woke him up. Thirty feet ahead of him was an incoming cyclist in the bicycle lane, and a truck in the adjacent lane. He motioned for the cyclist to move to his left towards the spectating flies. He moved slightly to the right. That's when it hit him. He could choose. He could just go a little bit more to the right, into the approaching truck, and finish. He'd finish before those cars and their speed. Those machines and their thievery! They'd lose the race! "I'll choose," he angrily whispered. He let the bike go a few inches to the right. Just before he crashed head on into the unsuspecting driver, his bike let out one final scream. It then lost its front tire and he was laying upright in the grass wondering if he had been successful with his decision. The bike lay next to him, silently content with its final choice...

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title: Of the choices we make

question: Why was the boy cursing at his bike?

answer: Because the 99 dollar bike he got at Walmart was already on its last limbs, weeks after purchasing it.

question: Why was the boy shifting in his bike lane?

answer: There was an oncoming cyclist.

question: What happened moments after the boy shifted to the right to allow the oncoming cyclist to pass?

answer: He crashed head on into the unsuspecting driver.

question: Explain why the narrator kept shifting lanes on his bicycle.

answer: He was riding through multiple walls of flies.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: The boy curses at his bike that was on its last limbs before crashing head on into an unsuspecting driver.


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_GIRLICIOUS_ is the self-titled debut studio album by American girl group Girlicious, released on 12 August 2008 through Geffen Records. It infuses hip hop and R&B with pop music. Its production began in 2007, after the filming of _Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious_. After debuting at #2 on the Canadian Hot 100, it sold 80,000 copies and was certified Platinum. A Deluxe Edition was released on December 16, 2008, including two new songs and three remixes of the original singles.

Release and reception

Released as a CD and music download in Canada on August 12, 2008,[1] the album generated positive reviews from critics upon its release. The album topped the charts debuting at number 2 on the Canadian Album Charts and has since been certified Platinum.[2]

To date the album sparked three singles. The first single, “Like Me” managed to debut at number 4 in Canada and at number two on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles in the United States and was listed for 19 weeks.[3] The second single, “Stupid Shit” managed to debut at number 20 in Canada, where it was listed for 10 weeks.[4] The third and final single, “Baby Doll” only managed to peak at 55 and was only listed for a total of three weeks making it the groups least successful single to date.[5]

The album itself received positive reviews from critics. Allmusic's Matthew Chisling gave it a positive review, stating: “On their debut release, the four girls involved, Natalie Mejia, Nichole Cordova, Chrystina Sayers, and Tiffanie Anderson, deliver a well-balanced set of sexually charged, urban-friendly pop and dance numbers which satisfy the listener.” [6]

Promotion

Main promotion for the group was their own show, Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious. Girlicious made their debut performance at the MuchMusic Video Awards on June 15, 2008 with their hit single “Like Me”. On August 6, 2008, Girlicious performed 6 songs from the album at their first _Live @ Much_: “Stupid Shit”, “Baby Doll”, “Still In Love”, “Here I Am”, “Liar, Liar” and “Like Me”.

Tour

Girlicious took part in a North American tour as the opening act of the “Unbreakable Tour” with the Backstreet Boys that began July 30, 2008 and ended September 6, 2008.

Girlicious returned to Canada to tour for the second time in 2008 with The Girlicious Tour, which featured special guest Danny Fernandes. The first set date was scheduled in the beginning of October and ended in November.

During the first week of February 2009 Girlicious made 3 appearances at night clubs throughout Canada. They performed at the Playboy Mansion Gameday Party, and returned to their tour (second leg) with Danny Fernandes in early March. The second leg of The Girlicious Tour finished in late March.

Singles

“Like Me” is the first and debut single from Girlicious. It was released on April 22, 2008 one day prior to The CW's airing of the finale of the show. Without a proper physical or radio release, the single managed to debut at number two on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles and number seventy on the Pop 100 solely based on digital sales. in addition, during the week of May 1, 2008, “Like Me” mada a “_Hot Shot Debut_” at number four on the Canadian Hot 100[7] becoming an instant hit in Canada. The music video was premiered the day of the finale.

“Stupid Shit” (or _Stupid S***_) was the second single from the album. It was released on iTunes on April 23, 2008, a day after the finale of the show aired. In the week of May 1, 2008, “Stupid Shit” debuted at #20 on the Canadian Hot 100.[8] The music video for “Stupid Shit” was directed by Robin Antin and Mikey Mind, premiered on Yahoo.com on April 23, 2008. The video debuted on the MuchMusic Countdown at #29 and peaked at #1 which it stayed for one week.

“Baby Doll” was the third and final single from the album. The whole song was performed for the first time by Girlicious on television, when they were on Live @ Much on August 6, 2008. It first entered the Canadian Hot 100 at #75 due to digital downloads during the week the album was released. It re-entered at its current peak of #55 after approximately 4 months due to its single release.[9] The music video premiered on the show _OnSet_ on popular Canadian music station, Much Music, which takes viewers behind the scenes on the set of “Baby Doll”. It was directed by Matt Mcdermitt.

Other notable songs

-   “Liar Liar” became a fan-favourite song from the album. Featuring rapper Flo Rida, It charted on the Canadian Hot 100 a peak at position 43, higher than “Baby Doll”, even though it hasn't been officially released as a single, on the week of the album's release.
-   “Still in Love” charted on the Canadian Hot 100 after the album's release, and peaked at position 99. It features Sean Kingston.

Track listing

Charts

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| Chart (2008)                      | Peak                              |
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| Canadian Albums Chart             | 2                                 |
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title: Girlicious (album)

question: Summarize the genre to which the album "Girlicious" belongs.

answer: It belongs first and foremost to contemporary American pop. However, it also belongs to the genre of reality-tv generated music, produced by major studios featuring the talent of people who "win" contests on live or unscripted national television. The music tends to be palatable for younger crowds.

question: Summarize how the album has supported the careers of the group members since it came out.


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question: Summarize the natural scenery in Switzerland.

answer: Switzerland offers large and glistening lakes with crystal clear water, meadows that border majestic mountains and rolling hills and meadows. The Alps occupy the greater part of the country and its weather varies greatly with altitude. Popular lakes are Lake Brienz, Lake Como, Lucerne Lake and Lake Zug. The highest peak of the mountains is called Dufourspitze which is 4634 m above sea level. Other natural attractions include Lake Maggiore, Rhine Falls and Interlaken.

question: Summarize the activities that can be undertaken in Switzerland.

answer: There are countless things to do when visiting Switzerland. Their grand cathedrals, art museums, architecture and landmarks, along with zoos and historic towns and village are all popular attractions. You can also experience exciting nightlife and cuisine from multiple places, taste wine, eat varieties of chocolate and do shopping. The accommodation is world class and can help you to go rafting, skiing, cycling, bird watching and camping.

question: Summarize the drawbacks of Switzerland as holiday destination.

answer: Switzerland is one of the smallest countries in Central Europe, it is landlocked between Italy, Germany, Austria and France. The Alps occupy the greater part of the country with the Jura and the Swiss Plateau making up the remaining surface area of the country. Switzerland is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, it could also make for an expensive holiday destination. Its weather varies with altitude with occasional showers in the summer and cloudy, snowy and cold winters.

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Allen Larson lay sleeping, the ambient sound of rain as it struck the roof proving insufficient to rouse him. His rest was abruptly interrupted by a clamorous crash. Upon lethargically pushing the thick sheets off of him and listing out of bed, he made his way out of his bedroom with curiosity impelling him onwards. Other than the open front doorway, there was nothing to suggest that something had occurred; everything appeared as it was before he had dozed off. Having regained most of his adroitness he shut the front door and began heading back to his room, when out of the corner of his eye he noticed his parents’ bedroom door ajar and vacant. With that, the sound of screaming wheels filled his ears and his heart sunk as he became terribly aware that his parents had been abducted.

Just moments prior a lonely van, headlights piercing the rain, approached.

“Where are we headed this time, Zen?”

“1835 Madison Av” replied Driver.

“Reason for internment?” asked a member of the extraction team.

“Political subversion, undermining the Labor Party’s policies,” responded the driver, “I’m sure you all understand.”

As the van rounded the corner, Zen conferred with the driver; “Is this the house?”

“Chip readings confirm that a Mr. and Mrs. Larson are present here, heart rates 35 and 39 beats per minute respectively; given the time they are certainly sleeping.”

“Then it is a go” Zen confided within the team.

In the midst of the night it was pure darkness as the van pulled to a stop. The streetlights were off (to conserve energy for the Glorious War effort), the rain was pouring, and neither the moon nor the stars were discernible amid the overcast. The back doors flew open, and the taillights, appearing ethereal as the red glow waned and revived, illuminated the conspicuous and unmistakable words “Peace Detectives” along the back. The strike team composed of six men, with Zen at point, purposefully yet delicately crept towards the door, their leather boots turning from grey to black as they absorbed rain. Once under the relative dryness of the porch they dried the soles of their boots so as to remain obscured. Their intel had told them that the couple were heavily armed and as dangerous to the strike team as they were to the Western Confederation, for which they served proudly and unequivocally.

With great force, the group of detectives rammed the door off of its hinges and charged directly towards their living quarters, as indicated by the chip reader. Zen hastily opened the bedroom door and was passed by two detectives who, like clockwork, injected both the man and woman with a viscous serum before forcing bags over their heads and binding their hands to their legs, forcing them to contort awkwardly.
Wasting no time, the two were dragged out, held by their bindings by two men on each side. Their faces scraped along the floor, and even through the bags over their heads blood made its way onto the wooden floor and asphalt street. The detectives flung the couple head first into the van and began to make their way towards the euphemistically named Reassignment Center.

According to the records they had no living relatives, no close associates, no children. Thus, it didn’t bother them that they had left the front door open and driven off in a cloud of burning rubber. All citizens of the Western Confederation were required, under penalty of death, to be implanted with chips at birth to relay their whereabouts and statuses to the Peace Detectives, for their own welfare of course. They had only detected two chips in the house, and it was safely conjectured that the Larson’s would fade into obscurity, like the untold thousands of heretics before them and yet to come.
	Driving in the upper 80s the van progressed through the streets of Falton unnoticed. The
11 PM curfew, which was harshly enforced and monitored by the chips, ensured there would be no inquiring eyes.

Few words were spoken between the detectives, and only after an extended interlude did Driver call higher up, confirming the acquisition and their current destination. Arriving at the gates to Reassignment, it took Driver the better part of thirty seconds to punch in the entry code, during which time a plethora of obscenities were muttered. A combination of intrinsically poor eyesight and fatigue compounded the problems that are normally associated with seeing in the dark. As the imposing gates opened and the barely visible Western Confederation banner barely flew, weighed down by rain, the group was overpowered by a sense of pride, the end result of lifetimes worth of Labor Party propaganda.
After making the switch from pavement to gravel and bouncing on rough terrain all the way, the van ultimately arrived at Reassignment. Hidden amongst trees and a sheltered by a 200-foot cliff it was as unnoticeable as it was portending of agony.

After parking the van and exiting with the couple, both of whom were still sedated, a man with penetrating eyes, gray hair, ashy skin, and wrinkles carved into his face that made all too evident his guilt, approached his fellow detectives and asked “are these the Larsons?”

“Yes” replied the group, almost in unison. The man in turn glared at them, for it was Zen and only Zen to whom he had spoken.

“Very well then” the gray haired man responded. Gesturing towards a metal door, he said “take them there, where they will be processed and dealt with accordingly.”

As the sedative began to wear off, the two looked towards to ground, disparagingly and without hope. They had known the consequences of insubordination in any form, regardless of the cause, which was part of the reason they had joined the Reformation in the first place. To them, the chips were a sinister ploy to gain control over the people without their arbitration, which was why they had risked everything to hide the conception and birth of their child so that he would at least be absolved in his home. Of course, the despotic rule of the Western Confederation (which in reality was more of an oligarchy run by the Peace Detectives) had committed far more repulsive acts than the simple invasion of privacy. In attempting to divulge the tyrannous acts of their leadership (including the obliteration of the town of New Trent and each of its inhabitants) they had doomed themselves.

Just beyond the doors their chips were taken out and incinerated, their records deleted, and their possessions seized. Officially, they had never existed.

Following processing, the Larsons inched towards a glowing entrance, heat emanating and growing in intensity until it soon became a sweltering sauna. Now fully alert, they almost didn’t believe their eyes – gaunt men and women, now more skeleton than human, methodically forging weapons of war, burning incriminating papers, and some the targets upon which new technologies were tested. They knew they were finished, though knowing their son would live on kept their iconoclast souls intact.

Allen did not appear distraught– he knew that one day his parents might disappear, for they were not ones to keep secrets. Remembering what his parents had told him just days earlier, he took a piece of paper out from behind a government-issued picture of a smiling Peace Detective and read it aloud; “In the case of our demise or untimely absence, pick up where we left off.  However you can, make your way towards a Reform asylum, a trapdoor in between 1430 and 1432 Olany Road. There, you will find people who share in our hope for another future, free of this Confederacy.”

Allen proceeded to cry, and then laugh irrationally. He  sluggishly sauntered over to the old phone laying on his parents’ desk and called the Peace Detectives.

“I have another tip for you, which I would prefer to provide anonymously. There is a band of saboteurs, Reformers, those who wish to lay waste to the Western Confederacy in between 1430 and 1432 Olany Road. Provide me with a month, that is all I will need, and I will quite possibly distinguish yet another source of subversion. May our pursuit be unwavering and without mercy.”

With that, he nonchalantly hung up, gathered what few belongings he could carry, and stood at his front door, statue-like as an ear-to-ear grin broke out like a fissure across his face.

It ends pretty crappy, skips around a lot and could be expanded on but I had to keep it under a few pages.

title: Typed this up in an hour the other day for homework, unedited. What do you think?

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is a 2018 stop-motion science-fiction comedy-drama adult animated film written, produced, and directed by Wes Anderson. Set in a dystopian near-future Japan, the story follows a pack of banished dogs, led by street dog Chief (Bryan Cranston), who helps a young boy named Atari (Koyu Rankin) search for his own dog after the species is banished to an island following the outbreak of a canine flu. The film's ensemble voice cast also includes Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, Bill Murray, Bob Balaban, Jeff Goldblum, Scarlett Johansson, Kunichi Nomura, Tilda Swinton, Ken Watanabe, Akira Ito, Greta Gerwig, Akira Takayama, Frances McDormand, F. Murray Abraham, Courtney B. Vance, Yojiro Noda, Fisher Stevens, Mari Natsuki, Nijiro Murakami, Yoko Ono, Harvey Keitel, and Frank Wood.

A US–German co-production, _Isle of Dogs_ was produced by Indian Paintbrush and Anderson's own production company, American Empirical Pictures, in association with Studio Babelsberg; it was filmed in the United Kingdom. The film opened the 68th Berlin International Film Festival, where Anderson was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Director. It was given a limited release in the United States on March 23, 2018, by Fox Searchlight Pictures, and went on wide release on April 13. It has grossed over $64 million worldwide, and received acclaim from critics, who praised its animation, story, and deadpan humor. A _manga_ adaptation of the film by Minetarō Mochizuki was published in 2018, beginning with the May 24 issue of _Weekly Morning_.[1][2] The film received nominations at the 76th Golden Globe Awards, 72nd British Academy Film Awards, and two nominations at the 91st Academy Awards, for Best Animated Feature Film (but lost to _Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse_, which also starred Schreiber) and Best Original Score.

Plot

In a futuristic dystopian Japan, an outbreak of canine influenza spreads throughout the (fictitious) city of Megasaki with the risk of becoming contagious to humans. The city's authoritarian mayor, Kenji Kobayashi, ratifies an official decree banishing all dogs to Trash Island, which is immediately approved despite the insistence of Professor Watanabe, the mayor's political opponent, who states he is close to creating a cure. The first deported canine is a white and black-spotted dog named Spots Kobayashi, who served as the bodyguard dog of 12-year-old orphan Atari Kobayashi, the mayor's distant nephew and ward.

Six months later, Atari hijacks a plane and flies it to Trash Island (now nicknamed “Isle of Dogs”) to search for Spots. After crash-landing, Atari is rescued by a dog pack led by an all-black canine named Chief, a lifelong stray. With their help, Atari first finds a locked cage that presumably contains Spots' skeleton, but learns that it is not him. They then fend off a rescue team sent by Kobayashi to retrieve Atari. Atari decides to continue his search for Spots, and the pack decides to help him. Chief initially declines, but is then convinced by Nutmeg, a female ex-show dog, to help the boy out of obligation. The pack seeks advice from sage-like dogs Jupiter and Oracle, who surmise that Spots might be held captive by an isolated tribe of dogs rumored to be cannibals.

Meanwhile, Watanabe finally develops a successful serum and shows the results to Kobayashi, who only dismisses him. The professor objects, only to be put under house arrest and killed by a piece of poisoned sushi by order of the mayor's hatchet man, Major Domo. Tracy Walker, an American exchange student and member of a pro-dog activist group, suspects a conspiracy and begins to investigate. Kobayashi and his political party are revealed to be actually responsible for the dog flu outbreak, seeking to eliminate the dogs as Kobayashi's cat-loving ancestors tried to do 1,000 years ago, who were foiled by a samurai boy resembling Atari.

During their journey, Chief and Atari are separated from the others. Atari gives Chief a bath, revealing his white and black-spotted coat and thus his striking resemblance to Spots. The two bond and rejoin the rest of the pack, and are saved by Spots and the dog tribe from another rescue team. Spots confirms that he is Chief's older brother and that he was rescued by the tribe, who were test subjects from a secret lab that was abandoned after a tsunami. Spots became their leader and mated with a female tribe member named Peppermint, who is pregnant with their first litter. Because of these circumstances, Spots requests for Atari to transfer his protection duties to Chief; both Atari and Chief accept. An owl later brings word that Kobayashi has rounded up all the exiled dogs and plans to exterminate them with poison gas.

Tracy confronts Watanabe's closest colleague Yoko Ono, who confirms Tracy's conspiracy theories and gives her the last vial of serum. At his re-election ceremony, Kobayashi prepares to give the extermination order when Tracy presents her evidence of his corruption. Atari and the dogs soon arrive, and confirm the serum works by testing it on Chief and curing him. Atari addresses the crowd and recites a _haiku_ he wrote and dedicated to Kobayashi, rekindling the sympathy that once existed between dogs and humans. Touched by Atari's words, Kobayashi officially rescinds the dog ban. Enraged, Major Domo yells at Mayor Kobayashi for breaking the Mayor's campaign promise and tries to kill Kobaysahi and initiate the extermination himself, but thanks to Spots and the activists, Domo's plans are thwarted. Atari and Spots become gravely injured during the struggle and are taken to a hospital, where Kobayashi donates one of his kidneys to save his nephew.

One month later, Atari becomes the new mayor of Megasaki, and has all dogs reintegrated into society and cured of the dog flu, while Kobayashi and his propagandists and co-conspirators are sent to jail for political corruption, also doing community service, paying fines of no less than ¥250,000 and possibly facing a death sentence. Tracy and Atari become a couple, while Chief and Nutmeg become their bodyguard dogs and begin a relationship. Meanwhile, Spots (recovering from his injuries) has had a statue erected in his honor, and resumes raising his litter with Peppermint under the care of a monk at a Shinto temple.

Cast

Production

Development

[_Isle of Dogs_ press conference at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival, February 2018] In October 2015, Anderson, who had previously directed the animated film _Fantastic Mr. Fox_, announced he would be returning to the art form with “a film about dogs”[3] starring Edward Norton, Bryan Cranston and Bob Balaban.[4][5] Anderson has said that he was inspired by seeing a road sign for the Isle of Dogs in England while _Fantastic Mr. Fox_ was in development.[6] Anderson said that the film was strongly influenced by the films of Akira Kurosawa, as well as the stop-motion animated holiday specials made by Rankin/Bass Productions.[7]

Filming

Production began in October 2016 at the 3 Mills Studios in East London.[8][9][10]

The animation department included a number of people who had worked on _Fantastic Mr. Fox_.[11]

About 20,000 faces and 1,105 animatable puppets were crafted by “12 sculptors working six days a week” for the film; 2,000 more puppets were made for background characters. The detailed puppets of the main characters typically took 2–3 months to create.[12]

Virtual reality

Concurrently with the film, Félix and Paul Studios and FoxNext VR Studio collaborated on _Isle of Dogs: Behind the Scenes (in Virtual Reality)_, an immersive video film that places the viewer directly inside the animated world.[13] The virtual reality film was released on the Google Pixel platform.[14]

Soundtrack

The film's score was composed by Alexandre Desplat, who had previously worked with Wes Anderson on _Fantastic Mr. Fox_, _Moonrise Kingdom,_ and _The Grand Budapest Hotel_. The soundtrack also features various original and selected songs from a variety of musicians, mainly from Japan. Some songs had origins in classic Japanese cinema such as the Akira Kurosawa films _Drunken Angel_ (1948) and _Seven Samurai_ (1954). The soundtrack comprises 22 tracks in total, 15 of which were composed by Desplat.[15]

Track listing

All tracks written and performed by Alexandre Desplat, except where noted.

Release

On December 23, 2016, Fox Searchlight Pictures acquired worldwide distribution rights to the film, with plans for a 2018 release.[16][17]

The film premiered as the opening film of the 68th Berlin International Film Festival on February 15, 2018, and had its North American premiere as the closing film of the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas, on March 17, 2018.[18] _Isle of Dogs_ began a limited release in the U.S. on March 23, 2018.[19] It was released nationwide in the United States on April 13, 2018.[20][21][22]

Box office

In its first weekend of limited release, the film made $1.57 million from 27 theaters (an average of $58,148 per venue). It was the best per-theater average of 2018 until it was overtaken by _Eighth Grade_ in July.[23][24] Sixty percent of its audience was under the age of 30.[25] In its second weekend, the film made $2.8 million from 165 theaters (an increase of 74%), finishing 11th.[26] The film entered the top 10 in its third weekend, making $4.6 million from 554 theaters.[27] The film expanded to 1,939 theaters the following week and made $5.4 million, finishing seventh at the box office.[28]

Home media

_Isle of Dogs_ was released on digital on June 26, 2018, and on DVD and Blu-ray on July 17, 2018.[29]

Reception

Critical response

On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 90% based on 358 reviews, and an average rating of 8.02/10. The website's critical consensus reads, “The beautifully stop-motion animated _Isle of Dogs_ finds Wes Anderson at his detail-oriented best while telling one of the director's most winsomely charming stories.”[30] On Metacritic, which assigns normalized ratings to reviews, the film has a weighted average score of 82 out of 100, based on 55 critics, indicating “universal acclaim.”[31] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of “A” on an A+ to F scale,[32] while PostTrak reported filmgoers gave it an overall positive score of 88%.[33]

Richard Roeper of the _Chicago Sun-Times_ gave the film 3.5 out of 4 stars, praising it for taking risks, and saying: “It's smart and different and sometimes deliberately odd and really funny—rarely in a laugh-out-loud way, more in a smile-and-nod-I-get-the-joke kind of way.”[34]

Portrayal of Japanese culture

Some Western critics have argued that the film is an example of racial stereotyping and cultural appropriation, and that one of its characters aligns with the trope of the “white savior”.[35] The Japanese characters speak unsubtitled Japanese, with their dialogue instead being translated by an interpreter or a machine. Justin Chang of the _Los Angeles Times_ wrote, “It's in the director's handling of the story's human factor that his sensitivity falters, and the weakness for racial stereotyping that has sometimes marred his work comes to the fore ... Much of the Japanese dialogue has been pared down to simple statements that non-speakers can figure out based on context and facial expressions”. Angie Han, writing in _Mashable_, calls the American exchange student character Tracy a “classic example of the 'white savior' archetype—the well-meaning white hero who arrives in a foreign land and saves its people from themselves”.[36]

While this critique has created some furor on the film's release, Chang has said that his review had been taken out of context and turned into a “battle cry” on Twitter, adding, “I wasn't offended; nor was I looking to be offended”.[37] Another Japanese-American perspective was provided by Emily Yoshida, writing in _New York_ magazine, that these concerns had been “seen before in debates about Asian culture as reflected by Western culture—perspectives can vary wildly between Asian-Americans and immigrated Asians, and what feels like tribute to some feels like opportunism to others”.[38]

Writing for BuzzFeed, Alison Willmore found “no overt malicious intent to _Isle of Dogs_{{'}} cultural tourism, but it's marked by a hodgepodge of references that an American like Anderson might cough up if pressed to free associate about Japan—taiko drummers, anime, Hokusai, sumo, kabuki, haiku, cherry blossoms, and a mushroom cloud (!). ... This all has more to do with the ... insides of Anderson's brain than it does any actual place. It's Japan purely as an aesthetic—and another piece of art that treats the East not as a living, breathing half of the planet but as a mirror for the Western imagination”.[39] She continued, “in the wake of _Isle of Dogs_{{'}} opening weekend, there were multiple headlines wondering whether the film was an act of appropriation or homage. But the question is rhetorical—the two aren't mutually exclusive, and the former is not automatically off the table just because the creator's intent was the latter”.[40]

Conversely, Moeko Fujii wrote a favorable review for _The New Yorker_, complimenting the film's depiction of the Japanese and their culture, as well as pointing out that language is the key theme of the movie. Fujii wrote,

  Anderson's decision not to subtitle the Japanese speakers struck me as a carefully considered artistic choice. _Isle of Dogs_ is profoundly interested in the humor and fallibility of translation ... This is the beating heart of the film: there is no such thing as “true” translation. Everything is interpreted. Translation is malleable and implicated, always, by systems of power ... [the film] shows the seams of translation, and demarcates a space that is accessible—and funny—only to Japanese viewers.[41]

Fujii also deconstructed the criticisms of the character of Tracy Walker being a “white savior”, and how this relates to the film's language theme, writing,

  At a climactic moment, the movie rejects the notion of universal legibility, placing the onus of interpretation solely upon the American audience ... This is a sly subversion, in which the Japanese evince an agency independent of foreign validation. Indeed, to say that the scene dehumanizes the Japanese is to assume the primacy of an English-speaking audience. Such logic replicates the very tyranny of language that _Isle of Dogs_ attempts to erode.[42]

Accolades

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| Award     | Date of   | Category  | Recipient | Result    |           |
|           | ceremony  |           | (s)       |           |           |
+===========+===========+===========+===========+===========+===========+
| Academy   | February  | Best      | Wes       |           | [43]      |
| Awards    | 24, 2019  | Animated  | Anderson, |           |           |
|           |           | Feature   | Scott     |           |           |
|           |           |           | Rudin,    |           |           |
|           |           |           | Steven    |           |           |
|           |           |           | Rales and |           |           |
|           |           |           | Jeremy    |           |           |
|           |           |           | Dawson    |           |           |
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| Best      | Alexandre |           |
| Original  | Desplat   |           |
| Score     |           |           |
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| Alliance  | January   | Best      | Wes       |           | [44]      |
| of Women  | 10, 2019  | Animated  | Anderson  |           |           |
| Film      |           | Feature   |           |           |           |
| Journalis |           | Film      |           |           |           |
| ts        |           |           |           |           |           |
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| Best      | Greta     |           |
| Animated  | Gerwig as |           |
| Female    | Tracy     |           |
|           | Walker    |           |
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| Annie     | February  | Best      | Wes       |           | [45]      |
| Awards    | 2, 2019   | Animated  | Anderson, |           |           |
|           |           | Feature   | Scott     |           |           |
|           |           |           | Rudin,    |           |           |
|           |           |           | Steven M. |           |           |
|           |           |           | Rales and |           |           |
|           |           |           | Jeremy    |           |           |
|           |           |           | Dawson    |           |           |
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| Outstandi | Jason     |           |
| ng        | Stalman   |           |
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| Outstandi | Bryan     |           |
| ng        | Cranston  |           |
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| Feature   |           |           |
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| Art       | February  | Excellenc | Adam      |           | [46]      |
| Directors | 2, 2019   | e         | Stockhaus |           |           |
| Guild     |           | in        | en        |           |           |
| Awards    |           | Productio | and Paul  |           |           |
|           |           | n         | Harrod    |           |           |
|           |           | Design    |           |           |           |
|           |           | for an    |           |           |           |
|           |           | Animated  |           |           |           |
|           |           | Film      |           |           |           |
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| Berlin    | February  | Silver    | Wes       |           | [47]      |
| Internati | 25, 2018  | Bear for  | Anderson  |           | [48]      |
| onal      |           | Best      |           |           |           |
| Film      |           | Director  |           |           |           |
| Festival  |           |           |           |           |           |
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| Golden    | _Isle of  |           |
| Bear      | Dogs_     |           |
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| British   | February  | Best      | Wes       |           | [49]      |
| Academy   | 10, 2019  | Animated  | Anderson  |           |           |
| Film      |           | Film      |           |           |           |
| Awards    |           |           |           |           |           |
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| Best      | Alexandre |           |
| Original  | Desplat   |           |
| Score     |           |           |
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| Chicago   | December  | Best      | Wes       |           | [50]      |
| Film      | 7, 2018   | Animated  | Anderson  |           |           |
| Critics   |           | Feature   |           |           |           |
| Associati |           |           |           |           |           |
| on        |           |           |           |           |           |
| Awards    |           |           |           |           |           |
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| Cinema    | February  | Outstandi | Darrin    |           | [51]      |
| Audio     | 16, 2019  | ng        | Moore,    |           |           |
| Society   |           | Achieveme | Christoph |           |           |
| Awards    |           | nt        | er        |           |           |
|           |           | in Sound  | Scarabosi |           |           |
|           |           | Mixing    | o,        |           |           |
|           |           | for a     | Wayne     |           |           |
|           |           | Motion    | Lemmer,   |           |           |
|           |           | Picture – | Xavier    |           |           |
|           |           | Animated  | Forcioli, |           |           |
|           |           |           | Simon     |           |           |
|           |           |           | Rhodes    |           |           |
|           |           |           | and Peter |           |           |
|           |           |           | Persaud   |           |           |
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| Critics'  | January   | Best      | Wes       |           | [52]      |
| Choice    | 11, 2019  | Animated  | Anderson  |           |           |
| Movie     |           | Feature   |           |           |           |
| Awards    |           |           |           |           |           |
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| Best      | Alexandre |           |
| Score     | Desplat   |           |
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| Dallas–Fo | December  | Best      | _Isle of  |           | [53]      |
| rt        | 17, 2018  | Animated  | Dogs_     |           |           |
| Worth     |           | Feature   |           |           |           |
| Film      |           |           |           |           |           |
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| Florida   | December  | Best      | _Isle of  |           | [54]      |
| Film      | 21, 2018  | Animated  | Dogs_     |           |           |
| Critics   |           | Feature   |           |           |           |
| Circle    |           |           |           |           |           |
| Awards    |           |           |           |           |           |
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| Golden    | January   | Best      | Wes       |           | [55]      |
| Globe     | 6, 2019   | Animated  | Anderson  |           |           |
| Awards    |           | Feature   |           |           |           |
|           |           | Film      |           |           |           |
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| Best      | Alexandre |           |
| Original  | Desplat   |           |
| Score     |           |           |
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| Golden    | May 31,   | Best      | _Isle of  |           | [56]      |
| Trailer   | 2018      | Animation | Dogs_:    |           | [57]      |
| Awards    |           | /Family   | “:30TV    |           |           |
|           |           | TV Spot   | 'Sic Em”  |           |           |
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| Best      | _Isle of  |           |
| Motion    | Dogs_:    |           |
| Poster    | “Sneezing |           |
|           | ”         |           |
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| _Isle of  |           |
| Dogs_:    |           |
| “Wild     |           |
| Post”     |           |
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| Best      | _Isle of  |           |
| Animation | Dogs_:    |           |
| /Family   | “Domestic |           |
|           | Trailer   |           |
|           | #1”       |           |
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| Hollywood | November  | Original  | Alexandre |           | [58]      |
| Music in  | 14, 2018  | Score –   | Desplat   |           |           |
| Media     |           | Animated  |           |           |           |
| Awards    |           | Film      |           |           |           |
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| Humanitas | February  | Family    | Wes       |           | [59]      |
| Prize     | 8, 2019   | Feature   | Anderson, |           |           |
|           |           | Film      | Roman     |           |           |
|           |           |           | Coppola,  |           |           |
|           |           |           | Jason     |           |           |
|           |           |           | Schwartzm |           |           |
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|           |           |           | Kunichi   |           |           |
|           |           |           | Nomura    |           |           |
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| Online    | January   | Best      | _Isle of  |           | [60]      |
| Film      | 2, 2019   | Animated  | Dogs_     |           |           |
| Critics   |           | Feature   |           |           |           |
| Society   |           |           |           |           |           |
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| Best      | Alexandre |           |
| Score     | Desplat   |           |
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| Producers | January   | The Award | _Isle of  |           | [61]      |
| Guild     | 19, 2019  | for       | Dogs_     |           |           |
| Awards    |           | Outstandi |           |           |           |
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|           |           | Producer  |           |           |           |
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|           |           | Motion    |           |           |           |
|           |           | Pictures  |           |           |           |
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| Satellite | February  | Best      | Wes       |           | [62]      |
| Awards    | 17, 2019  | Animated  | Anderson  |           |           |
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[14] “Wes Anderson's 'Isle of Dogs' VR mock-doc is live on Pixel phones”. _Engadget_, February 16, 2018.

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title: Isle of Dogs (film)

question: What is the Isle of Dogs movie all about?

answer: It is a stop-motion animated film directed by Wes Anderson and released in 2018. The movie is set in a dystopian near-future city of Megasaki, Japan where the mayor banished all dogs to Trash Island (now known as the Isle of Dogs) due to an outbreak of canine flu that may affect humans. The story follows a young boy, Atari Kobayashi, who goes to the island in search of his dog Spot, the first dog banished to the island. Another dog, named Chief, helps the boy. Atari is the nephew of the authoritarian mayor, Kenji Kobayashi.

question: Who voiced the street dog, Chief, in the movie Isle of Dogs?

answer: Actor Bryan Cranston

question: Who are the main characters of the movie?

answer: Atari Kobayashi, Chief, Spot, Mayor Kenji Kobayashi, Major Domo, Professor Watanabe, Peppermint, Nutmeg, Tracy Walker, Jupiter, Oracle

question: How did Professor Watanabe die and why was he killed?

answer: He ate a piece of poisoned sushi by order of the mayor's hatchet man, Major Domo. Tracy Walker discovers that Watanabe's death was a conspiracy. Kobayashi and his political party are actually responsible for the dog flu outbreak because they wanted to eliminate all dogs as Kobayahsi's cat-loving ancestors tried to do 1,000 years ago.

question: Write a ~5 sentence summary.

answer: The Isle of Dogs is a stop-motion animated film directed by Wes Anderson. Released in 2018, the movie features an all-star cast, including Bryan Cranston, Frances McDormand, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Ken Watanabe, Scarlett Johansson, and Tilda Swinton, among many others. The story is set in a near-future dystopian city of Megasaki, Japan, where the authoritarian mayor, Kenji Kobayashi, banished all dogs to Trash Island, which became the Isle of Dogs, due to an outbreak of canine flu that may become contagious to humans. It is revealed that the mayor and his political party were the ones responsible for the outbreak because they wanted to eliminate all dogs as Kobayashi's ancestors tried to do 1,000 years ago. The main protagonist is a boy named Atari Kobayashi, the mayor's nephew, and Chief, a dog who helped the boy find his dog Spot.


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THE BULK OF NHS STAFF IN SCOTLAND HAVE BEEN OFFERED A 9% PAY RISE, SPREAD ACROSS THREE YEARS.

The offer, to staff like nurses and midwives who earn under £80,000 a year, is being considered by NHS unions.

Scottish Health Secretary Shona Robison said she was "proud" to be offering a pay rise which "not only matches the NHS England deal, but exceeds it".

The offer would not affect doctors, dentists or senior managers. Staff consultations will run until 15 August.

Major trade unions including Unison and the bodies representing nurses and midwives welcomed the offer as "the best that could be expected in the current climate".

However, the GMB union said it would not recommend members accept the offer as it is "not a credible prescription for tackling a decade of austerity on staff".

'Significant rise'

The pay rise would be linked to changes to terms and conditions, including sickness leave policy and career progression, which will have to be agreed by December 2018.

Many staff have already been given a 3% pay rise for the current year, which was recently announced by Nicola Sturgeon at the SNP conference.

This could now be extended across three years, with 147,000 staff earning up to £80,000 receiving a minimum uplift of 9%. Workers who are not at the top of their wage band could see bigger increases, depending on where they sit in the pay scale.

Those earning above £80,000 will be given a flat-rate increase of £1,600 a year.

image captionHealth Secretary Shona Robison said the pay offer would help make the NHS an attractive employer

More than a million NHS workers in England are receiving a three-year pay deal worth 6.5% after staff voted in favour of that offer in June.

Ms Robison said she was "delighted" to be making the offer in the 70th anniversary year of the health service.

She said: "Our NHS is built on the dedication and hard work of healthcare staff up and down the country. They are our health service's beating heart, and I'm proud to be offering them this significant pay rise in recognition of the work they do caring for the people of Scotland.

"We're doing all we can to recruit new talent and retain existing staff, ensuring NHS Scotland has the right skills and experience to meet future demand and rising expectations. Today's announcement will help make our NHS an attractive employment option for many."

'A good deal'

The pay proposal will now be put to staff in a consultation running from 2 July to 15 August.

Unison Scotland, which represents 60,000 NHS workers, said the deal was "not perfect", but would "put money in our members' pockets now".

They said the offer on the table was "the best that can be achieved through negotiation", and recommended staff accept it.

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This was echoed by Royal College of Nursing Scotland director Theresa Fyffe, who said: "This is the largest pay rise offered to nurses in 10 years, and we believe it is the best deal that can be achieved through negotiation at this time.

"It is now time for members to make up their own minds on whether to accept or reject it."

Royal College of Midwives Scotland negotiator Emma Currer said the offer would see staff get "a real increase in their pay after years of pay freezes and stagnation".

She added: "This is something the RCM and other unions have been fighting for. This is a good deal and one that we believe is the best that can be achieved in the current economic climate. However, we also see this as the starting point for better pay for NHS staff, not the end point."

'Not good enough'

However, the GMB union said it would not be recommending members accept the offer, saying it offered no guarantees that it would match the cost of living and would "commit staff to a programme of as yet undefined reforms to terms and conditions".

Senior organiser Drew Duffy said: "This is not a credible prescription for tackling a decade of austerity on staff working harder than ever to keep our NHS running day in day out.

"Neither should the Scottish government play diversionary politics by trying to justify this offer off the back of the real-terms pay cut for the NHS in England. That's just not good enough."

The Scottish Conservatives welcomed the offer, saying it was needed to offset tax rises in Scotland, while Labour said it was "essential" a longer-term settlement was reached.

-   NHS Scotland

question: Who qualifies for this pay raise?

answer: Staff such a nurses and midwives who earn under £80,000 a year.

question: What is the GMB union's recommendation to members?

answer: That they do not accept the offer.

question: Which union recommends that workers accept the offer?

answer: Unison Scotland.

question: Which political party approves of the offer?

answer: The Scottish Conservatives.

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: Workers for the Scottish NHS who make less than £80,000 a year are being offered a 9% pay raise across three years. The GMB union does not recommend its members accept the offer, meanwhile Unison Scotland believes it is a good offer. The GMB union wants to continue to renegotiate the terms to ensure that they match the cost of living. The Labour party believes a better, long-term settlement can be reached, while the Scottish Conservatives believe workers should accept it.


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TALLEY BEATTY (22 December 1918 – 29 April 1995) was born in Cedar Grove, Louisiana, a section of Shreveport, but grew up in Chicago, Illinois. He is considered one of the greatest of African American choreographers, and also bears the titles dancer, doctor, and dance company director. After studying under Katherine Dunham and Martha Graham, Beatty went on do solo work and choreograph his own works which center on the social issues, experiences, and everyday life of African Americans.[1] Beatty and his technique and style of dancing were both praised and criticized by critics and dancers of his day.

Dance background

Beatty began studying dance at the age of fourteen with Katherine Dunham. He learned her style of dancing, which was heavily based on her African and Caribbean studies of dance in the West Indies. He was a part of Dunham’s company and performed in several shows with them. He also trained under Martha Graham in the 1940s.[2] He left the Dunham troupe in 1946 to continue his studies in New York City. He took ballet lessons in New York, but because he was African American he was forced to attend dance classes in the early mornings or late nights in a dressing room while classes were going on in an adjacent studio.[3]

Beatty continued his work as a solo artist and choreographer. He explored a variety of different dance roles and styles.[4] He appeared in films such as Maya Deren's _A Study in Choreography for Camera_ (1945) and stage shows such as Helen Tamiris’s revue _Inside U.S.A._ (1948). He danced in Broadway musicals such as _Cabin in the Sky_. He was nominated for a Tony Award in 1977 for choreography for the Broadway show _Your Arms Too Short to Box with God_ (1976).

He also danced in nightclubs, for musical theater, and on the concert stage.[5] He even did a minstrel ballet titled _Blackface_.[6] Beatty also choreographed for a variety of choreographers including Ruth Page, Lew Christiansen, George Balanchine, and Syvilla Fort.[7] He choreographed over fifty ballets[8] and did work in America and Europe.

Dance technique

Many dancers and critics described Beatty’s dance style as a mix between jazz and ballet. “His self-described style is a mixture of Graham connective steps, Dunham technique, and a little ballet with Louisiana hot sauce on it”.[9] His choreography is also described as “fast, exuberant, [and] explosive,”[10] Beatty explored movement that extended outward from the extremities such as leg extensions and back arches.[11] Dancers in the documentary film _Talley Beatty: Conversations with Contemporary Masters of American Modern Dance_ state that his choreography is very physically demanding and technically challenging and that in order to dance in one of his works a strong knowledge in at least four different disciplines, including ballet and modern dance, is needed.

Criticisms

John Martin, a famous white dance critic during the early to mid-1900s, criticized Beatty’s dance style as too much ballet during this particular time period, in which there was much racism and stereotyping, ballet was thought of as a “high art” that was reserved for white dancers. Other critics such as Margaret Lloyd praised Beatty's technique in her work _The Borzoi Book of Modern Dance_. Lloyd wrote that she found his leaps “phenomenal, a sort of universal wish fulfillment to navigate the air”.[12]

Themes in choreography

Beatty’s work explored themes around the struggles and everyday life of African Americans. Many of his pieces focused on his own “personal statements about alienation, racial discrimination, and the hardships of urban life”.[13] In the film _Conversations with Contemporary Masters of American Modern Dance_[14] Beatty talks about some of his more well-known choreographic works. According to Beatty _Southern Landscape_, a five-part dance, is a description of the time right after the Reconstruction period in the South. The dance explores an event in history described in Howard Fast's novel _Freedom Road_.[15] The plot centers around a group of black and white farmers who had happily formed a community together before being literally destroyed by the Ku Klux Klan. After the slaughter, people went into the fields at night to retrieve the bodies of their loved ones. The most well-known and famous solo section of the dance, titled _Mourner’s Bench_ is about a man returning from recovering a body, and reflecting on the ideas of hope and strength.

[1] Maleaney P. White-Dixon, “Beatty, Talley”, in _International Encyclopedia of Danc_ Vol. 1, ed. Selma Jeanine Cohen (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998),396.

[2] Teren Damato Ellison, “Beatty, Talley,” in _International Dictionary of Modern Dance,_ ed. Dan McDonagh (Detroit: St. James Press, 1998),47.

[3] Douglas Rosenberg, dir., _Talley Beatty: Conversations with Contemporary Masters of American Modern Dance_ (American Dance Festival,1993).

[4] "Talley Beatty,” Biography, American Dance Festival and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 1[v],(accessed 22 March, 2008).

[5] Teren Damato Ellison, “Beatty, Talley,” 48.

[6] “Talley Beatty,” Biography, American Dance Festival and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts https://www.pbs.org/wnet/freetodance/biographies/beatty.html],(accessed 22 March, 2008).

[7] Teren Damato Ellison, “Beatty, Talley,” 48.

[8] Maleaney P. White-Dixon, “Beatty, Talley,” 395.

[9] Teren Damato Ellison, “Beatty, Talley,” 48

[10] Maleaney P. White-Dixon, “Beatty, Talley,” 396.

[11] Maleaney P. White-Dixon, ‘’Beatty, Talley,’’ 396

[12] Teren Damato Ellison, “Beatty, Talley,” 47

[13] Maleaney P. White-Dixon, “Beatty, Talley,” 396

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question: What does the text say about break dancing?

question: What does the text say about Talley Beatty?

answer: Talley Beatty was born in Cedar Grove, Louisiana, but grew up in Chicago, Illinois. He is considered one of the greatest African American choreographers and holds the titles of Doctor, Dance Company Director, and dancer. Beatty studied under Katherine Dunham and Martha Graham. He went on to do solo work ad choreograph his own works which center on the social issues, experiences, and everyday life of African Americans. Beatty's technique and style were both praised and criticized by critics and dancers of his day.

question: What challenges did Beatty face while he was studying dance?

answer: Beatty had trouble studying dance because he was a black man in a time when there was a lot of racial prejudice and stereotyping. When he took ballet lessons in New York, Beatty had to attend dance classes in the early mornings or late nights. He was also forced to stay in a dressing room while classes were going on in an adjacent studio.

question: What were the main themes in Beatty's work?

answer: Beatty's work explored themes on the experiences, social issues, struggles, and everyday life of African Americans. Many of his pieces focused on his own personal statements about alienation, racial discrimination, and the hardships of urban life. One of his more well-known choreographic works, Southern Landscape, explores the destructive effects of the Ku Klux Klan on peaceful black and white communities while reflecting on the ideas of hope and strength.


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The missing machine gun that triggered the firing of a security forces chief at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, in May turned up in what’s probably the last place the Air Force wanted it to: stashed in an airman’s home off-base.

-   Minot officials announced on Wednesday that the machine gun had been recovered by Air Force Office of Special Investigation agents after obtaining a federal search warrant for the unnamed airman’s residence on June 19.
-   The machine gun was discovered missing during a standard weapons inventory by the 91st Missile Wing security forces on May 16, just about two weeks after airmen with the same unit reportedly lost a box of MK 19 grenades out of the back of a moving vehicle.
-   Security forces chief Col. Jason Beers was fired on May 23 “due to a loss of trust and confidence after a series of events under the scope of his leadership, including a recent loss of ammunition and weapons,” a 5th Bomb Wing news release said at the time. Beers landed new job at Air Force Special Operations Command just a few weeks later.

The question remains: Why did this unnamed airman steal an M240 in the first place? Was he just some dumb kid, bored as hell with his posting at Minot and in search of some recreational fun? Or a budding arms trafficker or killer? It’s not clear, but either way, it’s not a great look for anyone involved.

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question: Where did the incident occur?

answer: Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota.

question: What was the incident?

answer: A machine gun went missing, and turned up at an airman's home off-base.

question: When did the incident occur?

answer: The machine gun was discovered missing on May 16, 2018.

question: Why was Col. Jason Beers fired?

answer: He was fired due to a "lack of trust and confidence". Previous incidents   under his leadership that lead to his dismissal included loss of ammunition and weapons.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: A machine gun went missing from Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota. Later it turned up at an airman's home off-base. The incident led to the Security forces chief, Col Jason Beers to be fired.


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JOHN BURNS is a British recording engineer best known for his credits with noted bands of the 1970s including Jethro Tull, Clouds, Genesis, John Martyn and reggae acts Burning Spear, Jimmy Cliff and Toots & The Maytals.

Life and career

Burns (who is also a guitarist) played in a teenage band with Andy Johns,[1] the engineer and younger brother of Glyn Johns, and Andy Johns got Burns his first job in the industry, as tea-boy and tape operator at Morgan Studios in 1965, at the time when Morgan were doing all of the recordings for Chris Blackwell's Island Records.

Burns graduated to assistant engineer with the Jethro Tull albums _Stand Up_ (1969) and _Benefit_ (1970); his credits in this period include the self-titled album by Blind Faith (1969), Humble Pie, Jethro Tull, Spooky Tooth, Blodwyn Pig, Ten Years After, Quintessence, David Bowie, King Crimson and Donovan.[2] During 1970 he worked as a live engineer for acts including Jimi Hendrix, The Who and Johnny Winter. He was a live sound engineer at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1969.[3] and toured extensively with Jethro Tull.

He returned to studio work after touring with Tull and Clouds over a period of eighteen months,[4] and engineered Tull's breakthrough _Aqualung_ (1970) album. During a period as freelance engineer with Island Records, when he often stood in for other engineers on sessions, he worked with major acts including Traffic, Mott the Hoople,[5] Fairport Convention, Free,[6] Curved Air, Deep Purple, Marc Bolan and T. Rex, Jeff Beck, Alexis Corner, Jimmy Cliff, Toots & the Maytals and John Martyn, on the sessions that became Martyn's classic _Solid Air_ (1973) album.[7] His first producer credit came when he produced and engineered the now much-heralded _Watercolour Days_ by Clouds in 1971.

In 1972 he began a successful collaboration with progressive rock band Genesis on their _Foxtrot_ album replacing two previous engineers who had been brought in and then quit.[8] Genesis were impressed with his work and he went on to co-produce (with the band) their next three albums -- _Selling England by the Pound_ (1973), which included their first charting single, “I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)”, _Genesis Live_ (1973) and their ambitious 2LP concept album _The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway_ (1974), the last Genesis studio album with original lead singer Peter Gabriel.[9]

Later in 1974 he worked at Ginger Baker's studio in Lagos, Nigeria with the late Fela Ransome-Kuti. In 1975 Burns mixed a dub version of Burning Spear's “Garvey's Ghost”. During a brief period as owner of Escape Studios in Kent in the late 1970s, he recorded artists including Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker and engineered Motörhead's 1977 self-titled album with producer John “Speedy” Keen (ex Thunderclap Newman).[10] He also produced Straight Eight a band signed to Pete Townshends Eel Pie Label, their first album _No Noise from Here_. Burns had few major credits after the end of the '70s but has recently begun recording again, working with US singer Lisa Doby and the band JEBO.[11][12] He is credited as remastering engineer for the reissue of the 1998 Gary Numan album _Exile_.[13]

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title: John Burns (audio engineer)

question: What is John Burns?

answer: A British recording engineer.

question: What bands did John Burns work with?

answer: Jethro Tull, Clouds, Genesis, John Martyn and reggae acts Burning Spear, Jimmy Cliff and Toots & The Maytals.

question: What is another skill John Burns had?

answer: He was also a guitarist.

question: Where did he work in Lagos, Nigeria?

answer: At Ginger Baker's studio.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: This article is about John Burns, a British recording engineer active in the 1970s.


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CYPRESS PARK HIGH SCHOOL (nicknamed CY PARK) is a high school located in Cypress, an unincorporated area of Harris County, Texas, in Greater Houston. It is a part of the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District (CFISD) and is in its southwestern part.[1]

History

CFISD purchased the site that now contains Cypress Park High in 2006. The district considered building a new high school there shortly after the purchase occurred, but it delayed its plans due to the Texas state government removing funding to the district and the Great Recession. The district resumed its plans due to an increase of students in the district.[2]

Cy-Park is the district's 11th traditional high school to open; it was tentatively known as “HS No. 11” until the CFISD board approved the school's permanent name in August 2015.[3] The opening relieved Cypress Lakes High School and Cypress Springs High School.[4][5] It was funded by a 2007 school bond.[6]

The school opened on August 22, 2016. In its first year it will have 9th grade students (freshmen) and add one more grade level each subsequent year until all four years are present.[7] The district anticipates that the school will hold 3,000 students.[8]

The school's first principal is Chris Hecker; he was hired in that role by the CFISD board in 2015, and he previously was the principal of CFISD's Dean Middle School in Houston.[9] In its first school year it had 48 teachers.[10]

Campus

The campus, designed by PBK Architects and built by Satterfield & Pontikes, has a three-story classroom wing, a cafeteria building, a utility plant building, and an athletic and art building. The campus has a total of of space.[11] The school uses a layout not used in previously-built CFISD high schools.[12]

Cypress Park is located within a complex of CFISD schools, referred to as an “Educational Village”,[13] which will also have an elementary and middle school and cover a total of of land; it will have a central food service area.[14]

Academics

For the 2018–2019 school year, the school received a B grade from the Texas Education Agency, with an overall score of 86 out of 100. The school received a B grade in each of the three performance domains, with a score of 82 for Student Achievement, 88 for School Progress, and 81 for Closing the Gaps. The school received four of the seven possible distinction designations for Academic Achievement in Science, Academic Achievement in Social Studies, Post-Secondary Readiness, and Top 25%: Comparative Closing the Gaps.[15]

Athletics

The school, upon its opening, hired Greg Rogers, previously the Cypress Falls High School American football team assistant coach and girls' track team head track coach, as its head coach and the coach of the school's football.[16] The remainder of the athletic staff had been hired by July 2016. Cypress Park will begin 6A varsity play in 2018 UIL Season.[17]

Demographics

The projected 2016-2017 student body had 638 students, with 57% being Hispanic or Latino, 26% being Black, 10% being Anglo White, and 4% being Asian. The projected percentage of low income students was 74%.[18]

The demographic breakdown of the 1,216 students enrolled for 2017-18 was:

-   AFRICAN AMERICAN: 27.7%
-   HISPANIC: 57.4%
-   WHITE: 8.4%
-   NATIVE AMERICAN: 0.9%
-   ASIAN: 3.8%
-   PACIFIC ISLANDER: 0.0%
-   TWO OR MORE RACES: 1.8%

65.1% of the students were eligible for free or reduced-cost lunch. For 2017–18, Cypress Falls was a Title I school.[19]

Feeder patterns

Schools that feed into Cypress Park include:[20]

-   Elementary schools: Hemmenway, M. Robinson, Walker, Emery (partial), Hoover/Jowell (partial)
-   Middle schools: Hopper (partial), Kahla (partial), Thornton (partial), Rowe

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title: Cypress Park High School

question: What is Cypress Park High School?

answer: A high school located in Cypress, an unincorporated area of Harris County, Texas in greater Houston. It is part of Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District.

question: How big is the school?

answer: Doesn't say, missing information.

question: How will the school district populate the school?

answer: One grade at a time.

question: What percentage of the population is low income?

answer: 74%

question: Write a ~7 sentence summary.

answer: Cypress Park High School is a high school located in Cypress, an unincorporated area of Harris County, Texas in greater Houston. It is part of Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District. With construction initially stopped due to funding being pulled and the Great Recession, the district resumed its plans due to an increase of students and opened in 2016. Its first year had 9th grade students, and added a grade each subsequent year. The campus was designed by PBK Architects and built by Satterfield & Pontikes. It earned a B grade from the Texas Education Agency. 57.4% of the student population is Latino and 74% is low income.