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[Rowan Kavner]

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The Dodgers will hold their first ever Digital Bobblehead Night on Sept. 21 against the Padres.

Fans will have the opportunity to download a Clayton Kershaw, Justin Turner or Kenley Jansen Crypto token. The promotion is the first of its kind in Major League Baseball, and believed to be the first Crypto giveaway in sports.

While supplies last at guest’s point of entry, the first 40,000 ticketed fans in attendance will receive a card with a unique code and directions to a website where a digital bobblehead can be unlocked and added to their Ethereum wallet. The player Crypto token received will be randomly selected, with approximately an equal number of Kershaw, Turner and Jansen codes distributed at the stadium gates.

“We’re excited for our first-ever Crypto giveaway, and to explore an entirely new marketplace with our fanbase,” said Lon Rosen, Dodger Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. “We hope this piques the interest of Dodger fans, and will help launch a new age of digital collectibles and promotions.”

question: What is the Digital Bobblehead Night?

answer: Dodgers fans in attendance at Digital Bobblehead Night will have the opportunity to download a Clayton Kershaw, Justin Turner, or Kenley Jansen crypto token.

question: What will fans be able to do?

answer: Fans will be able to download a Clayton Kershaw, Justin Turner, or Kenley Jansen crypto token.

question: How do fans receive the token?

answer: The fans will receive a card with a unique code and directions to a website where a digital bobblehead can be unlocked and added to their Ethereum wallet.

question: How many fans will be able to receive the token?

answer: The first 40,000 ticketed fans will be able to receive the token.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: The Dodgers are doing the first crypto giveaway in professional sports, with their Digital Bobblehead Night on September 21. The first 40,000 ticketed fans will receive a unique code that allows them to add a digital bobblehead to their Ethereum wallets.


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I own a binder filled with over 100 documentary, propaganda, and theatrical films about Nazi Germany and the holocaust. Most are very depressing. I’ve sat through the marathon film _Shoah_ twice, not the most pleasant way to spend nine consecutive hours. I’ve seen almost every American and European-made Holocaust and Nazi-related movie from start to finish that I can find (except _The Grey Zone_, which was too depressing even for me). I’m morbidly obsessed with this horrid period where the malignancy of Hitlerism ravaged a continent and, as Marina Willer noted during a recent screening of her brilliant new documentary _Red Trees_, “interrupted” peoples’ lives simply for the crime of being born Jewish.

I admit that I am somewhat seduced by Nazi visual effects—the regalia, public spectaculars, and militaristic hypnotics. This yin and yang of evil deed and powerful design wreaks havoc with my emotions. I watch the films in my binder as a way to be close to yet separated from this wretchedness. But Willer’s _Red Trees_ is nothing like other holocaust material I’ve ever seen. It will be interesting to see, at this moment in history with ultra-right nationalism on the rise, whether her film will alter the way the holocaust is perceived by a new generation.

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Alfred Willer, Prague 2015

A graphic designer and partner at Pentagram in London, Willer, who was born in Brazil where her father took haven after surviving Nazi occupied Prague, has written and directed an intensely personal document—and a gorgeously moving and tenderly filmed cinematic work based on her father Alfred’s vivid remembrances about his family’s survival when most Jewish families in Prague perished.

At a recent screening introduced by Michael Bierut in the QUAD Cinema (newly designed by Paula Scher), Willers noted that for a long time she wanted to tell her father’s story without resorting to the familiar documentary clichés of the Holocaust. Apologizing for what she called the contemplative nature of the film, it was clear she wanted her film to examine her father’s soul as well as his experience. This was accomplished through a compassionate narration by the late British actor Tim Pigot-Smith speaking her father’s words, interspersed with actual clips of her father’s own voice, and additional dialog by her brother, young children, and herself, who appear in frequent cameos. The exquisite cinematography of contemporary landscapes and seascapes, streets, and buildings further removed any resemblance to the common holocaust genre.

A sprinkling throughout the film of vintage snapshots of Alfred as a child and young man, as well as those of his handsome father, a chemist who invented the formula for citric acid that we use today in food as a preservative, anchors the story in its time. There are striking shots of abandoned ruins of Czech factories made of concrete with curiously human features, like a Golem, where Alfred Willer’s father worked. There was one in particular of an abandoned “cloak room” in a factory where rubber boots, helmets, and overalls hung like cadavers from the ceiling that added a touch of the surreal. Yet with the exception of a scene showing the empty cell blocks of the infamous “model” KZ or Concentration Camp Terezin, there are none of the usual evidentiary images of KZ horrors, or portraits of Reinhard Heydrich (“the Butcher of Prague”) or of Hitler.

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Koksovny Factory, Outskirts of Prague
Willer claimed in her opening remarks that people are not interested in seeing these clichés (which I call Nazi porn) any longer. To do justice to her father, and the other survivors of Nazi oppression, savage depictions of German atrocities are no longer as impactful as they once were. In its subtle genius, Willer’s _Red Trees_ (an allusion to the fact that her father is color blind) changes the tenor of the holocaust narrative from an unimaginable, and therefore dismissible, act of evil into a singularly human, redemptive experience. Rather than focus on the obvious tragedy, Willer traces her father’s Prague and post-Prague life as an architect in Sao Paolo, Brazil, where he raised and inspired his children to become creative people, and immeasurably contributed wisdom and love to his grandchildren.

_Red Trees_ is not what you’d call a happy film, but it is uplifting. And through its direction, writing, cinematography, and music it sheds light on how survival is not just about escaping misfortune, but realizing how important it is to appreciate the joy of living.

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Mayrau Factory, Outskirts of Prague

question: Summarize how the author feels about Nazi and Holocaust related things.

answer: The author has described themself as being obsessed with the horrid Holocaust period. All of the Nazi and Holocaust related media they've consumed is to be close yet separated from its wretchedness. They note that they are somewhat seduced by Nazi visual effects, but that the yin and evil deed and powerful design wreaks havoc on their emotions. They find most Holocaust films to be depressing and indulged in "Nazi porn".

question: Summarize how the author feels about Red Trees.

answer: The author says that Red trees is not what one would call a happy filming, but that it's still uplifting. They note that through all of the film's components, it sheds light on how survival is not just about escaping misfortune, but realizing how important it is to appreciate the joy of living. Red Trees is unlike any other holocaust material they've seen. They call the film "brilliant" and note its "subtle genius" in the way it changes the tenor of the holocaust narrative from an unimaginable act of evil into a singularly human experience.

question: Summarize everything relating to Willer's intent in making her film.

answer: Willer wanted to tell her father's story without resorting to the familiar documentary clichés of the Holocaust. She sees this as a way to do justice both her father and the other victims of the Holocaust. She does this by tracing her father's Prague and post-Prague life as an architect in Brazil instead of focusing on the obvious tragedy. She sees the film as contemplative in nature, as she wanted her film to examine her father's soul on top of his experience.

question: What does the text say about Marina Willer's childhood?


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[Was Serena Williams treated differently than a man would have been treated for doing exactly what she did and saying exactly what she said?]
Serena Williams' loss to Naomi Osaka in the US Open final on Saturday is still causing consternation and controversy across the tennis world.

The latest bit of fuel to the fire: A cartoon depicting a tantrum-throwing Williams that appeared Monday in the Melbourne, Australia, newspaper The Herald Sun. Social media erupted with charges of racism.

Among the outraged: _Harry Potter_ author J.K. Rowling, a noted Serena fan.

"Well done on reducing one of the greatest sportswomen alive to racist and sexist tropes and turning a second great sportswoman into a faceless prop," she tweeted.

Her response drew more than 10,000 retweets and 47,000 likes ... and counting.

Williams was fined $17,000 for three violations in Saturday's final. Debates have raged about whether chair umpire Carlos Ramos unfairly penalized Williams.

Was Ramos simply following the rules? Would he have punished a man the same way, or was sexism part of the story?

The particulars: Already down a set after losing 6-2 in the first to Osaka, the 23-time Grand Slam champion was in tears during an argument with Ramos after being given two warnings, one for coaching and one for smashing her racket, after Osaka broke her serve.

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Williams went on to call Ramos a thief and demanded an apology from the 47-year-old umpire.

After the match, the Flushing Meadows crowd booed Ramos, who was escorted off the court. Chair umpires are usually given a gift during the trophy ceremony, but that wasn't the case on Saturday.

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question: Who is the main focus of this story?

answer: Serena Williams

question: What sport is the article talking about?

answer: Tennis

question: Why is Serena's loss to Osaka causing controversy?

answer: The question is whether Carlos Ramos, the chair umpire, unfairly punished Williams for her behavior in the US Open. He fined her $17,000 for the three violations. Many feel that he wouldn't have punished a man in the same way.

question: Who is quoted as saying, "Well done on reducing one the greatest sportswomen alive to racist and sexist tropes and turning a second great sportswoman into a faceless prop."

answer: author J.K. Rowling

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: The question is whether Carlos Ramos, the chair umpire, unfairly punished Williams for her behavior in the US Open. He fined her $17,000 for the three violations. Many feel that he wouldn't have punished a man in the same way.


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Producing ideas
Economists grapple with the future of the labour market

The battle between techno-optimists and productivity pessimists continues

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WHY is productivity growth low if information technology is advancing rapidly? Prominent in the 1980s and early 1990s, this question has in recent years again become one of the hottest in economics. Its salience has grown as techies have become convinced that machine learning and artificial intelligence will soon put hordes of workers out of work (among tech-moguls, Bill Gates has called for a robot tax to deter automation, and Elon Musk for a universal basic income). A lot of economists think that a surge in productivity that would leave millions on the scrapheap is unlikely soon, if at all. Yet this year’s meeting of the American Economic Association, which wound up in Philadelphia on January 7th, showed they are taking the tech believers seriously. A session on weak productivity growth was busy; the many covering the implications of automation were packed out.

Recent history seems to support productivity pessimism. From 1995 to 2004 output per hour worked grew at an annual average pace of 2.5%; from 2004 to 2016 the pace was just 1%. Elsewhere in the G7 group of rich countries, the pace has been slower still. An obvious explanation is that the financial crisis of 2007-08 led firms to defer productivity-boosting investment. Not so, say John Fernald, of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and co-authors, who estimate that in America, the slowdown began in 2006. Its cause was decelerating “total factor productivity”—the residual that determines GDP after labour and capital have been accounted for. Productivity has stagnated despite swelling research spending (see chart). This supports the popular idea that fewer transformative technologies are left to be discovered.

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Others take almost the diametrically opposed view. A presentation by Erik Brynjolfsson of MIT pointed to recent sharp gains in machines’ ability to recognise patterns. They can, for instance, outperform humans at recognising most images—crucial to the technology behind driverless cars—and match dermatologists’ accuracy in diagnosing skin cancer. Mr Brynjolfsson and his co-authors forecast that such advances will eventually lead to a widespread reorganisation of jobs, affecting high- and low-skilled workers alike.

Productivity pessimism remains the norm among official forecasters, but more academics are trying to understand how automation may affect the economy. In a series of papers, Daron Acemoglu of MIT and Pascual Restrepo of Boston University present new theoretical models of innovation. They propose that technological progress be divided into two categories: the sort that replaces labour with machines; and that which creates new, more complex tasks for humans. The first, automation, pushes down wages and employment. The second, the creation of new tasks, can restore workers’ fortunes. Historically, the authors argue, the two types of innovation seem to have been in balance, encouraged by market forces. If automation leads to a labour glut, wages fall, reducing the returns to further automation, so firms find new, more productive ways to put people to work instead. As a result, previous predictions of technology-induced joblessness have proved mostly wrong.

However, the two forces can, in theory, fall out of sync. For example, if capital is cheap relative to wages, the incentive to automate could prevail permanently, leading the economy to robotise completely. The authors speculate that, for now, biases towards capital in the tax code, or simply an “almost singular focus” on artificial intelligence, might be tilting firms towards automation, and away from thinking up new tasks for people. Another risk is that much of the workforce lacks the right skills to complete the new-economy tasks that innovators might dream up.

These ideas shed light on the productivity paradox. Mr Brynjolfsson and his co-authors argue that it can take years for the transformative effects of general-purpose technologies such as artificial intelligence to be fully felt. If firms are consumed by efforts to automate, and such investments take time to pay off, it makes sense that productivity growth would stall. Investment has not been unusually low relative to GDP in recent years, but it has shifted away from structures and equipment, towards research-and-development spending.

If research in automation does start yielding big pay-offs, the question is what will happen to the displaced workers. Recent trends suggest the economy can create unskilled jobs in sectors such as health care or food services where automation is relatively difficult. And if robots and algorithms become far cheaper than workers, their owners should become rich enough to consume much more of everything, creating more jobs for people.

The risk is that without sufficient investment in training, technology will relegate many more workers to the ranks of the low-skilled. To employ them all, pay or working conditions might have to deteriorate. If productivity optimists are right, the eventual problem may not be the quantity of available work, but its quality.

This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline "Producing ideas"

question: What does the text say about how to become an economist?

question: What does the text say about productivity pessimism?

answer: Productivity pessimism is low productivity growth despite the rapid advancement of information technology. There is fear among economists that due to low productivity and the steady rise of automation, hordes of workers would be out of work soon. History seems to support productivity pessimism. From 1995 to 2004 output per hour worked grew at an annual average pace of 2.5%, but from 2004 to 2016, the pace was just 1%. In the G7 group of rich countries, the pace has been slower. Bill Gates has called for a robot tax to deter automation, while Elon Musk has called for a universal basic income.

question: What does the text say about Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo?

answer: Daron Acemoglu of MIT and Pascual Restrepo of Boston University wrote a series of papers presenting new theoretical models of innovation. They propose that technological progress be divided into two categories. The first category replaces labor with machines (automation) and pushes down wages and employment. The second category creates new, more complex tasks for humans, which can restore workers' fortunes. The authors argue that historically, the two types of innovation seem to have been in balance, encouraged by market forces.

question: What does the text say about what could go wrong with Acemoglu and Restrepo's theoretical model?

answer: The two forces in the theoretical model (automation and the creation of new tasks for workers) can fall out of sync. For instance, if capital is cheap relative to wages, businesses could embrace automation permanently, leading the economy to robotize completely. Another risk is that much of the labor force doesn't have the right skills to complete the new-economy tasks that innovators might dream up.


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This is a list of all PERSONNEL CHANGES for the 2017 INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE.

Retained players

The eight teams could retain and release players from their squad during the retention window which ended on 15 December 2016. The salaries of the released players would be added to the salary purse of 66 crore, while the salaries of the retained players was deducted from this purse. The list of retained and released players was made public on 19 December 2016.[1][2]

Transfers

The first trading window was open in December 2016 while the second trading window was open from 13 to 20 January 2017.[3]

The following transfers were made during the trading windows:

  S.No      Player               From               To
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  1         Mayank Agarwal [4]   Delhi Daredevils   Rising Pune Supergiant
  2         Shardul Thakur       Kings XI Punjab    Rising Pune Supergiant

Auction

The players auction for the 2017 Indian Premier League was originally scheduled to be held in Bangalore on 4 February 2017,[5][6] but was pushed forward by at least two weeks due to the BCCI–Lodha committee stand-off.[7] On 3 February, the BCCI announced that the auction would be held on 20 February in Bangalore and that a total of 799 players have signed up for it.[8][9] On 14 February, the IPL Desk released a list of 351 players.[10]

Sold players

Out of the 351 players shortlisted, the following 66 players were sold at the 2017 IPL Auction:[11][12][13]

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| Nat         | Player      | Team        | Base price  | Winning bid |
|             |             |             | (in lakhs)  | (in lakhs)  |
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|             | Eoin Morgan | Kings XI    | 200         | 200         |
|             |             | Punjab      |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Pawan Negi  | Royal       | 30          | 100         |
|             |             | Challengers |             |             |
|             |             | Bangalore   |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Angelo      | Delhi       | 200         | 200         |
|             | Mathews     | Daredevils  |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Ben Stokes  | Rising Pune | 200         | 1450        |
|             |             | Supergiants |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Corey       | Delhi       | 100         | 100         |
|             | Anderson    | Daredevils  |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Nicholas    | Mumbai      | 30          | 30          |
|             | Pooran      | Indians     |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Kagiso      | Delhi       | 100         | 500         |
|             | Rabada      | Daredevils  |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Trent Boult | Kolkata     | 150         | 500         |
|             |             | Knight      |             |             |
|             |             | Riders      |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Tymal Mills | Royal       | 50          | 1200        |
|             |             | Challengers |             |             |
|             |             | Bangalore   |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Pat Cummins | Delhi       | 200         | 450         |
|             |             | Daredevils  |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Mitchell    | Mumbai      | 200         | 200         |
|             | Johnson     | Indians     |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Ankit Bawne | Delhi       | 10          | 10          |
|             |             | Daredevils  |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Tanmay      | Sunrisers   | 10          | 10          |
|             | Agarwal     | Hyderabad   |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Mohammad    | Sunrisers   | 30          | 30          |
|             | Nabi        | Hyderabad   |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | K Gowtham   | Mumbai      | 10          | 200         |
|             |             | Indians     |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Rahul       | Kings XI    | 10          | 25          |
|             | Tewatia     | Punjab      |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Aditya Tare | Delhi       | 20          | 25          |
|             |             | Daredevils  |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Eklavya     | Sunrisers   | 30          | 75          |
|             | Dwivedi     | Hyderabad   |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Aniket      | Royal       | 10          | 200         |
|             | Choudhary   | Challengers |             |             |
|             |             | Bangalore   |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | T Natarajan | Kings XI    | 10          | 300         |
|             |             | Punjab      |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Nathu Singh | Gujarat     | 30          | 50          |
|             |             | Lions       |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Basil       | Gujarat     | 10          | 85          |
|             | Thampi      | Lions       |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | M Ashwin    | Delhi       | 10          | 100         |
|             |             | Daredevils  |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Tejas       | Gujarat     | 10          | 10          |
|             | Baroka      | Lions       |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Rashid Khan | Sunrisers   | 50          | 400         |
|             |             | Hyderabad   |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Pravin      | Sunrisers   | 10          | 10          |
|             | Tambe       | Hyderabad   |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Chris       | Kolkata     | 200         | 420         |
|             | Woakes      | Knight      |             |             |
|             |             | Riders      |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Karn Sharma | Mumbai      | 30          | 320         |
|             |             | Indians     |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Rishi       | Kolkata     | 30          | 55          |
|             | Dhawan      | Knight      |             |             |
|             |             | Riders      |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Matt Henry  | Kings XI    | 50          | 50          |
|             |             | Punjab      |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Jaydev      | Rising Pune | 30          | 30          |
|             | Unadkat     | Supergiants |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Varun Aaron | Kings XI    | 30          | 280         |
|             |             | Punjab      |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Manpreet    | Gujarat     | 30          | 60          |
|             | Gony        | Lions       |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Martin      | Kings XI    | 50          | 50          |
|             | Guptill     | Punjab      |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Jason Roy   | Gujarat     | 100         | 100         |
|             |             | Lions       |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Saurabh     | Mumbai      | 30          | 30          |
|             | Tiwary      | Indians     |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Chris       | Sunrisers   | 50          | 50          |
|             | Jordan      | Hyderabad   |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Nathan      | Kolkata     | 100         | 350         |
|             | Coulter-Nil | Knight      |             |             |
|             | e           | Riders      |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Praveen     | Royal       | 10          | 10          |
|             | Dubey       | Challengers |             |             |
|             |             | Bangalore   |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Navdeep     | Delhi       | 10          | 10          |
|             | Saini       | Daredevils  |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Ben         | Sunrisers   | 30          | 30          |
|             | Laughlin    | Hyderabad   |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Billy       | Royal       | 30          | 30          |
|             | Stanlake    | Challengers |             |             |
|             |             | Bangalore   |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Mohammed    | Sunrisers   | 20          | 260         |
|             | Siraj       | Hyderabad   |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Rahul       | Rising Pune | 10          | 10          |
|             | Chahar      | Supergiants |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Saurabh     | Rising Pune | 10          | 10          |
|             | Kumar       | Supergiants |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Asela       | Mumbai      | 30          | 30          |
|             | Gunaratne   | Indians     |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Daniel      | Rising Pune | 100         | 100         |
|             | Christian   | Supergiants |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Rovman      | Kolkata     | 30          | 30          |
|             | Powell      | Knight      |             |             |
|             |             | Riders      |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Darren      | Kings XI    | 30          | 30          |
|             | Sammy       | Punjab      |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Munaf Patel | Gujarat     | 30          | 30          |
|             |             | Lions       |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Rinku Singh | Kings XI    | 10          | 10          |
|             |             | Punjab      |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Shashank    | Delhi       | 10          | 10          |
|             | Singh       | Daredevils  |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Milind      | Rising Pune | 10          | 10          |
|             | Tandon      | Supergiants |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Kulwant     | Mumbai      | 10          | 10          |
|             | Khejroliya  | Indians     |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Chirag Suri | Gujarat     | 10          | 10          |
|             |             | Lions       |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | R Sanjay    | Kolkata     | 10          | 10          |
|             | Yadav       | Knight      |             |             |
|             |             | Riders      |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Shelley     | Gujarat     | 10          | 10          |
|             | Shaurya     | Lions       |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Shubham     | Gujarat     | 10          | 10          |
|             | Agarwal     | Lions       |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Ishank      | Kolkata     | 10          | 10          |
|             | Jaggi       | Knight      |             |             |
|             |             | Riders      |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Rahul       | Rising Pune | 10          | 10          |
|             | Tripathi    | Supergiants |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Pratham     | Gujarat     | 10          | 10          |
|             | Singh       | Lions       |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Akshdeep    | Gujarat     | 10          | 10          |
|             | Nath        | Lions       |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Lockie      | Rising Pune | 50          | 50          |
|             | Ferguson    | Supergiants |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Manoj       | Rising Pune | 50          | 50          |
|             | Tiwary      | Supergiants |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Darren      | Kolkata     | 50          | 50          |
|             | Bravo       | Knight      |             |             |
|             |             | Riders      |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
|             | Sayan Ghosh | Kolkata     | 10          | 10          |
|             |             | Knight      |             |             |
|             |             | Riders      |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+

Unsold players

1.  Alex Hales
2.  Faiz Fazal
3.  Ross Taylor
4.  Irfan Pathan
5.  Sean Abbott
6.  Ben Dunk
7.  Jonny Bairstow
8.  Andre Fletcher
9.  Johnson Charles
10. Dinesh Chandimal
11. Kyle Abbott
12. Ishant Sharma
13. Lakshan Sandakan
14. Ish Sodhi
15. Brad Hogg
16. Pragyan Ojha
17. Imran Tahir
18. Umang Sharma
19. Prithvi Shaw
20. Unmukt Chand
21. Asghar Afghan
22. Mahipal Lomror
23. Praveen Dubey
24. Shivam Dube
25. Manan Sharma
26. Rush Kalaria
27. Priyank Panchal
28. Vishnu Vinod
29. Shreevats Goswami
30. Mohammad Shahzad
31. Mohit Ahlawat
32. Manvinder Bisla
33. Abu Nechim Ahmed
34. Umar Nazir
35. Pawan Suyal
36. Mayank Dagar
37. Sarabjit Ladda
38. Mitchell Swepson
39. Akshay Wakhare
40. Cheteshwar Pujara
41. Abhinav Mukund
42. Michael Klinger
43. Subramaniam Badrinath
44. Marlon Samuels
45. Evin Lewis
46. Nic Maddinson
47. Parveez Rasool
48. Jason Holder
49. David Wiese
50. Thisara Perera
51. Farhaan Behardien
52. Anamul Haque
53. Shane Dowrich
54. Kusal Perera
55. Niroshan Dickwella
56. Brad Haddin
57. Glenn Phillips
58. RP Singh
59. Pankaj Singh
60. Fawad Ahmed
61. Michael Beer
62. Akila Dananjaya
63. Nathan Lyon
64. Rahul Sharma
65. Jonny Bairstow
66. Himanshu Rana
67. Apoorv Wankhade
68. Akash Bhandari
69. Akhil Herwadkar
70. Pankaj Jaiswal
71. Dishant Yagnik
72. Rishi Arothe
73. Ronsford Beaton
74. Kanishk Seth
75. Joe Burns
76. Colin Munro
77. James Neesham
78. Wayne Parnell
79. Mitchell Santner
80. Harpreet Singh Bhatia
81. Colin de Grandhomme
82. Andile Phehlukwayo
83. Dwaine Pretorius
84. Ben Wheeler
85. Kesrick Williams
86. Tajendra Singh
87. Virat Singh
88. Manjeet Kumar Chaudhary
89. Mehedi Hasan Miraz
90. Sabbir Rahman
91. Mahmudullah
92. Baba Indrajith
93. Amit Verma
94. Himmat Singh
95. Ashton Turner
96. Chaitanya Bishnoi

Support staff changes

-   In November 2016, Mahela Jayawardene was appointed head coach of the Mumbai Indians, replacing Ricky Ponting.[14]
-   In December 2016, Wasim Akram stepped down as the bowling coach and mentor of the Kolkata Knight Riders for the 2017 season, citing “professional commitments and time constraints.”[15]
-   In December 2016, Sanjay Bangar stepped down as the head coach of Kings XI Punjab.[16]
-   In January 2017, Lakshmipathy Balaji was named bowling coach of the Kolkata Knight Riders.[17]
-   In January 2017, Virender Sehwag was named head of cricket operations and strategy of Kings XI Punjab.[18]
-   In February 2017, J. Arunkumar was named batting coach of Kings XI Punjab.[19]
-   In February 2017, Mohammad Kaif was named assistant coach of Gujarat Lions.[20]

Withdrawn players

The following players withdrew from the tournament either due to injuries or because of other reasons.

  Player                Team                          Reason                      Announcement date   Replacement             Signing date    Ref
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  Andre Russell         Kolkata Knight Riders         Doping code violation ban   31 January 2017     Colin de Grandhomme     3 April 2017
  Mitchell Marsh        Rising Pune Supergiant        Shoulder injury             12 March 2017       Imran Tahir             23 March 2017
  JP Duminy             Delhi Daredevils              Personal reasons            20 March 2017       Ben Hilfenhaus          7 April 2017
  Quinton de Kock       Delhi Daredevils              Finger injury               24 March 2017       Marlon Samuels          27 April 2017
  KL Rahul              Royal Challengers Bangalore   Shoulder injury             31 March 2017       Vishnu Vinod            7 April 2017
  Ravichandran Ashwin   Rising Pune Supergiant        Sports hernia               31 March 2017       Washington Sundar       5 April 2017
  Murali Vijay          Kings XI Punjab               Wrist and shoulder injury   4 April 2017        Ishant Sharma           4 April 2017
  Sarfaraz Khan         Royal Challengers Bangalore   Leg injury                  20 April 2017       Harpreet Singh Bhatia   20 April 2017
  Dwayne Bravo          Gujarat Lions                 Hamstring injury rehab      23 April 2017       Irfan Pathan            24 April 2017
  Shivil Kaushik        Gujarat Lions                                             26 April 2017       Ankit Soni              26 April 2017
  Andrew Tye            Gujarat Lions                 Dislocated shoulder         30 April 2017
  Brendon McCullum      Gujarat Lions                 Hamstring strain            5 May 2017
  Nathu Singh           Gujarat Lions                 Back spasms                 5 May 2017
  Marcus Stoinis        Kings XI Punjab               Shoulder injury             6 May 2017

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title: List of 2017 Indian Premier League personnel changes

question: When could the eight teams retain and release players?

answer: The retention window ended on December 15, 2016.

question: When was the second trading window open?

answer: January 13-20 2017.

question: Where was the players auction for the 2017 Indian Premier League held?

answer: Bangalore.

question: How many players were sold at said auction?

answer: 66.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: There were many personnel changes during the 2017 Indian Premier League season. The first retention window-for both retaining as well as releasing players-was December  2016 until the 15th of that month, and the second window was from January 13-20 of 2017. The players auction was held in Bangalore on February 20th, with 66 players being sold.


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One day while wondering through the long cold corridors of his new Victorian-era manor, a young boy ascended the steps towards the dreary and dull floor above him.  He had been quite interested to see what there was to see, what it was he couldn't say. Something seemed so endlessly fascinating about the dull and dreary and desolate demeanor of this house.  He found beauty where others looked away, smells even the rats couldn't taste. Vibrant colors burst out of the ancient murals of his new ancestors.  He never imagined the up-stairs would be this interesting.

A ringing cry crept into the boy's brain:

"Excuse me, Lord Stephen, would you care for your dinner now?"

The words felt bitter in the young man's ears, he had expected to be alone. He imagined himself as an explorer, searching the vast confines of the manor for a Holy Grail.  He convinced himself that when he saw it, he would know exactly what it was. The boy's search had been going poorly up to this point.  He couldn't suspend his disbelief, his imagination had been very dull for the vast majority of the day.  Being an only child in a massive manor isn't surprisingly lonely.

He shuddered thinking about the place he was before; fortunately, he had gotten very good at pushing thoughts from his mind, so he did.

"Excuse me, Lord Step..."

"I'm coming good Sir, give me a moment to compose my self will you?"

"You really are quite a bore Bernard"

"Yes Sir, Quite a bore."

Bernard had come to like Stephen, he had expected the boy to be an infant, not in size, but demeanor.  It was a pleasant surprise to see that the young man had grown so much throughout the very few years  he spent at that juvenile correctional institute down the road.  The place always brought chills to the old man's spine. The image of the place had been particularly frightening. Bernard still remembered the day it was constructed.

The perimeter housed a few watchtowers, although, the security systems surrounding the place seemed insignificant, driving to pick up grocery's for the mistress under the blaring light of the moon hadn't been one of his particularly favorite activities.  Bernard always felt like he may be in the midst of Poe's poems around the place. He couldn't understand how such a well-mannered boy could pose a threat to the State, yet he was more fascinated that the young one never seemed frightened by his horrific image.

"I'm a brute, a bulging-bellied brute of a man"

Bernard thought, yet he thought it prudent to silence his words with a grunt in front of the child.

Bernard felt comfortable around Stephen, and grew to enjoy the boys company during the lonely Summer days that always seem to precede  timeless summer nights, night-time, like it wasn't even present.  He had noticed himself noticing the fact he'd lost track of time more and more as the days drag--? or was it hours?

Nevermore, the young boy's arrival was particularly frightening though.  Where in the world had he come from?

Bernard had walked into the night, the moonless night, past the lights hovering over the street...From there the scene seems fuzzy, unreal, but on his return, through the rain, he had found a boy. Stephen lay on the side of the road, in a ditch, a looming shadow engulfed his image.

The only way Bernard knew anyone was there was because of the beleagured cries of pain.

PROPERTY OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, read the boys jump-suit, but Bernard couldn't let him go.

He could never let him go.

"Bernard, may I have a cup of juice?"

A smile spread across the man's face,
"Of course young sir, of course."

title: Stephen and Bernard

question: Summarize Bernard's role in the story.

answer: Bernard calls Lord Stephen to have his dinner. He enjoys Stephen's company during the summer. He found Stephen lying in a ditch. At the end of the story, he agrees to get Stephen a cup of juice.

question: Summarize the details that show what type of person Bernard is.

answer: Bernard offers Lord Stephen dinner and at the end of the story agrees to get him some juice. He is fond of Stephen. He finds the manor frightening. He thinks of himself as a brute, yet he rescued Stephen when he found him lying in a ditch.

question: Summarize the supernatural elements in the story.

question: Summarize the negative emotions the characters feel during the story.

answer: Stephen finds Bernard's words to be bitter in his ears. He shudders when he recalls where he was before coming to the manor. Bernard finds the manor frightening. He also found Stephen's arrival to be frightening.


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It had been thought that nothing intangible could ever take the place of actually feeling and experiencing events in life. Video games were great for an escape, but couldn't beat experiencing something important to a person. Sure people had dreamed of the concept of a virtual reality for well over a century. The idea was first made popular to the masses by a movie 150 years ago called The Matrix, where all that one experienced was essentially a program made to appear real.

And so it went until 2130 when man finally made a respectable attempt at merging themselves with technology. The body we learned could truly be but a vessel delivering the mind to a place falling between reality and dreams. All thanks to one company - OmniLife - which made the first virtual reality chamber, called a Cocoon. When the amount of money at stake made evident by the consumers money couldn't be raised fast enough from entrepreneurs looking to cash in on the next craze. This huge financial backing led to the product developing faster then anyone anticipated. The research made another break-through seemingly every month and never really slowed down.

Huge companies, GE, IBM, and many others had their own version of the nuclear arms race of the 2100s, except it was much more harmless then that, companies today were racing with cocoon applications. Still the technology was as cutting edge as it could get.

There were black market apps made, though no one really knew exactly who made them. The more risque experiences of life were now available. They were relatively harmless at first, and as long as you knew someone to "jailbreak" - excuse the old 2010 phrase - your cocoon for you then these more morally ambiguous experiences could be had.

Churches shunned Cocoons as evil, and the faithful resisted for a while. But when cocoon apps began to bring the bible's lessons to the coon-world many churches used them as a tool for teaching. But even for the faithful the other apps were too tempting. Nearly everyone began to incorporate them into their weekends. It was pure pleasure.

Most people recognized the dangerous possibilities that arose from these new time consuming machines. Yet everything had been alright so far, so most people didn't bother creating any stir in regards to taking measures to avoid the downsides that co-inside with Cocoons. Society had their fun right in front of them, resisting was too hard, and the companies too large.

Next thing you know the majority of Americans spent 50% of their weekends in a cocoon. People stop showing up for jobs. There was software for just about everything - fucking, swimming, shopping, even for sleeping - a random, somewhat nonsensical software played like a dream.

The black market developed a much darker side - rape, murders, torture, riots - it could all be done in the virtual world, twisting already twisted minds further and allowing the depraved to get their first taste of blood. When those sick people had their crimes down in the virtual world they wanted to cause real people pain. Thousands began to go missing.

Cocoons weren't all bad - quite the contrary most were relatively clean fun. Cave v3.2 was the best selling software of 2142 - the cave went on for years of playing time, it was extraordinary. Clean experiences which were too dangerous, or simply unobtainable, for any ordinary person were there for the taking. Climbing Mt. Everest could be "done" by a 400 pound man with asthma. Sure there wasn't the feeling of accomplishment, but the view was spectacular.

As the apps for cocooning became more sophisticated it began to dominate the life of the majority of Americans. The technology developed and while at one time only the basic parts of taste could be had - sweet and sour - now eating food in the virtual world was indistinguishable from real life. Touch became increasingly refined too, silk felt like real silk, and skin felt like real skin. Society spent more and more time in the coon-world.

It wasn't good for humanity. Why cut your grass when you can cocoon? Why work? The cocoons were quickly regulated, and no longer was it a private industry, but the government now made the cocoons. Time limits were installed and for a few years things began to return to normal. People were angry with the government though, they had their lives inside the cocoon to get back to. There was an uprising. Suddenly people were being taken from their homes by those sworn to protect us, forced into cocoons which gave the experience of civil unrest, such as riots, but the app ended by giving the user a truly horrific experience so that no one would think a riot would be a good idea. Still the civil uprising won and the regulations were gone.

Something had to be done, there were still the people who chose to live a real life. No one had any answers. Cocoon users began attaching feeding tubes to cocoons, as well as other medical tools so that people's bodies didn't degrade into just skin and bone from those who refused to exit their cocoons even for nourishment or medication. It was everything that we all feared, but only few spoke about a decade ago. No one knew what to do.

The government had a secret meeting and a decision was made "for the greater good."

91% of the population cocooned with an average of 92% of their time. But the few people who decided to live life in reality began to notice a difference in cocooners even when they weren't cocooning. They seemed to be much more mellow, with a low range of moods, it was like they were on auto-run. No one who cocooned noticed the difference, they were essentially hypnotized.

Hospital workers then began to notice a correlation between the disease of Uralomex (a horrific alzheimer's like disease) and cocoon users. Since any evidence of the correlation was stuck in the hospital's government produced software, there was only the word of doctors and nurses - the few who didn't cocoon at all - to explain the worrying new trend. People began to die by the millions.

*I wasn't sure where to go from here. Thanks for reading if you got this far. I would love to expand on any advice about on what direction to take. I'll write a more concrete ending tomorrow but for now that is the ending.*

title: Virtually Lifeless

question: Summarize the theme of this story.

answer: The central theme of this story is escapism. It is about how humans have been wanting to merge with technology to make copies of themselves that exist in other worlds for years, but that most of our lives have been primarily based in our flesh existence. The Cocoon is an invention for people to basically retire their physical selves in exchange for virtual pursuits, which can be evil-rape, theft, murder-or they can be gentle, kind, or adventurous-such as traveling.

question: Summarize how the Cocoons were received by different sectors of society.

answer: Initially, the churches shunned the Cocoon-as they could be and were used as tools of what the church considered to be evil-but then they embraced the technology as a means of providing a new medium for teaching the word of God. In the general public, most people embraced the Cocoon, with Americans reportedly spending at least half of their weekend in one. The black market thrived with heinous and depraved uses for the Cocoon. Many sectors utilized the Cocoon for immersive training purposes, and travel companies could use them to provide a shorthand experience for customers at a lower cost.

question: Summarize some of the foreseen consequences of a population's becoming reliant on the Cocoon for pleasure, experience, and entertainment.

answer: The Cocoon meant that people could live out their darkest desires without consequence, which could have some bearing on how daring people will become in real life. In hospitals, workers could notice an increasing emergence of signs of diseases related to considerable time spent in a Cocoon-such as Uralomex, a disease similar to Alzheimer's. People could also begin to neglect the duties and chores in life that are considered droll, such as mowing the lawn or tending to the garden.

question: Considering this information about the Cocoon, what are some actions societies could take to prevent abuse of the Cocoon, or to alleviate social and health issues resulting from excessive time spent in the Cocoon?


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SIR WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER LENG, known as W. C. LENG (25 January 1825 – 20 February 1902) was a newspaper publisher in Sheffield.

Life

Leng was born in Hull on 25 January 1825. He was oldest son of Adam Leng of Hull, and Mary, daughter of Christopher Luccock, of Malton, architect. Sir John Leng was a younger brother.

He was educated in Hull, before being apprenticed as a pharmacist and setting up his own business. During this period, he contributed anonymously to the _Hull Free Press_, calling for reforms such as slum clearance and ship safety. He is believed to have inspired Samuel Plimsoll to take up this second cause.

Leng's family was Methodist and aligned with the Liberal Party cause. His brother John Leng retained these beliefs, but William joined the Church of England and became a supporter of the Conservative Party. Despite this, after John became the proprietor of the _Dundee Advertiser_, William was a regular contributor, and in 1859, he moved to the city. He was a prominent supporter of the north in the American Civil War, when most Scottish journalists supported the South.

[Offices of the _Sheffield Telegraph_ in 1898.] In 1864, Leng became managing editor and joint proprietor of the _Sheffield Daily Telegraph_ with Frederick Clifford. He moved to the city and relocated the firm to new premises on Aldine Court. Under him, the newspaper became one of the first to adopt linotype printing.

Shortly after Leng arrived in Sheffield, the city was struck by the Great Sheffield Flood. Following this disaster, he campaigned for the municipalisation of the city's water supply. His reputation established by this activity, he was able to publicise and investigate the Sheffield Outrages in 1867.[1]

Leng never took political office, but became the leading figure in Sheffield Conservatism. During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the Conservatives became the dominant group on Sheffield Town Council,[2] while the _Daily Telegraph_ was supplemented by the _Weekly Telegraph_, the _Sunday Telegraph_ and the _Evening Telegraph and Star_.

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Leng as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, March 1890

]] Politically, he was a supporter of imperial preference and established Conservative Clubs and electoral organisations on a constituency basis throughout Sheffield.[3] He was the Vice-Chairman and later the Chairman of the Sheffield Conservative and Constitutional Association, the Vice President of the Sheffield Association for Promoting Sanitary Reform and the Better Housing of the Poor, and the President of the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce in 1895–96. He generally supported municipalisation, while Liberals in the city opposed, until the positions were reversed over the question of the tramways in 1895.[4]

Leng was knighted in 1887, on the recommendation of Lord Salisbury. He continued writing for the _Telegraph_ until his last days.

He died at Sheffield, on 20 February 1902. He was buried in Ecclesall churchyard.

Family

He married in 1860, Anne (died 1893), daughter of David Stark of Ruthven, Forfarshire, and widow of Harry Cook of Sandhurst, Australia. His two sons, C. D. Leng and W. St. Quentin Leng, were partners in the _Sheffield Telegraph._

Artistic recognition

A portrait by Hugh Ford Crighton was commissioned by public subscription in 1868.[5]

Notes

Attribution

[1] Ed. Clyde Binfield et al., _The History of the City of Sheffield 1843 - 1993: Volume I: Politics_

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title: W. C. Leng

question: What does the article say about Sir William C. Leng's personal life?

answer: His father was Adam Leng of Hull, an architect, and his mother's name was Mary. Sir William Leng had a younger brother Sir John Leng. He married Anne, daughter of David Stark of Ruthven, Forfarshire, and widow of Harry Cook of Sandhurst, Australia. They had two sons C. D. Leng and W. St. Quentin Leng.

question: What does the story say about Sir William C. Leng's career?

answer: Leng became managing editor and joint proprietor of the Sheffield Daily Telegraph in 1864 and moved to Sheffield. Long campaigned for the municipalization of Sheffield's water supply. He was the leading figure in Sheffield Conservatism. He was knighted in 1887. He continued writing for the Telegraph until he died.

question: What does the article say about Leng's political activities?

answer: Leng belonged to the Church of England and was a supporter of the Conservative Party. He was a supporter of the north in the American Civil War. Although Leng never took political office, he was the leading figure in Sheffield Conservatism. He supported the municipalization of the city's water supply.

question: What does the article say about the consequences of the Great Sheffield Flood?


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SUSAN DOUGLAS RUBEŠ C.M. (13 March 1925 – 23 January 2013) was an Austrian-born Canadian actress and producer. She was sometimes credited as SUSAN DOUGLAS or SUSAN RUBES.[1]

Life and career

Rubeš was born ZUZKA ZENTA BURSTEINOVÁ in Vienna, Austria, the only child of Charlotte and Alfred Burstein. Her family was Jewish.[2] When Zuzka was a child, her parents moved to a farm in Czechoslovakia, where they bred race horses. Her family took her to the theater or opera in Brno, and, on occasion, would visit Zuzka's maternal grandmother in Vienna, the manager of the Burgtheater.[3] She began studying ballet at the age of eight. In 1939, Alfred and Charlotte moved to Paris to escape the German invasion, and a year later, Zuzka and her mother moved to the United States to escape the war in Europe, three months before the Germans invaded Paris. Emigration to the U.S. was allowed on the basis of annual quotas. Charlotte was allowed in the country on the basis of her birth in Italy, as Italy's quota had not been filled for that year. Alfred Burstein moved to London to work for the Czechoslovak government-in-exile.[4]

As Charlotte was not happy in her marriage, she arranged a divorce _in absentia_ in Las Vegas and married Edward Weinberger, an agriculturalist.[5] Zuzka learned English (her fourth language) by watching three movies a day. Under the name Suzi Burstein, she attended George Washington High School in New York City. After graduating in 1943, she changed her name to Susan Douglas. Her first name, Zuzka, is Czech for Susan, while she selected Douglas from a phone book.[6][7][8]

Beginning in 1945, she began a career spanning radio, television, theater and film; she was both an actress and producer. Her 1947 movie debut was in _The Private Affairs of Bel Ami_.[9] Following the film, she was offered a standard seven-year contract by Albert Lewin of MGM, but turned it down to live in New York.[10] Between 1946 and 1959, she appeared on hundreds of television shows,[11] including both the radio and TV versions of _The Guiding Light_. As her character was unmarried and she was pregnant three times during her appearance on _The Guiding Light_, the producer had her character sick and in an oxygen tent for the first child, and using a wheelchair for the second child, then finally had her character killed off for the third.[12]

In 1953, she co-starred with James Dean in the half-hour Campbell Summer Soundstage television special: “Something For an Empty Briefcase”.

In 1959, she moved to Toronto. In 1963, she began introducing plays to schools.[13] She founded the Young People's Theatre in Toronto in 1965, with the goal of introducing children to the live theater experience.[14] This was renamed the Susan Douglas Rubes Theatre Center in 1977. Today, the main venue is known as the Susan Rubes Mainstage.[15] In 1972 she served as associate editor of _A Collection of Canadian plays_, volume 4.[16] She remained artistic director of the center until 1979,[17] then moved to CBC Television.[18] From 1982-86, she was the head of CBC Radio Drama. From 1987–89, she was president of the Family Channel.[19]

Personal life

She married the Czech-Canadian opera singer Jan Rubeš on September 22, 1950 in New York City.[20] Later the same year the couple appeared together in _Forbidden Journey_.[21] The couple had three sons: Christopher (died 1996), Jonathan, and Anthony.[22] They remained married until his death in 2009.

Awards and honors

-   Tony award for best debut on Broadway
-   Drama Bench Award, 1974
-   Member of the Order of Canada, 1975[23]
-   Woman of the Year Award, B'nai Brith Women's Council of Toronto, 1979

Filmography

  Year        Title                                      Role                    Notes
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  1947        _The Private Affairs of Bel Ami_           Suzanne Walter
  1949        _Lost Boundaries_                          Shelly Carter
  1950        _Forbidden Journey_                        Mary Sherritt
  1951        _Five_                                     Roseanne
  1968        _Targets_                                  Other at the Drive-In
  1971        _Face-Off_                                 Mrs. Hunter
  1982        _Jen's Place_
  1987        _Haunted by Her Past_                      Karen's Mother          TV movie
  1988        _The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick_   Bryna Glick
  1988        _Something About Love_                     Doctor
  1990-1991   _Max Glick_                                Bryna Glick             26 episodes
  1994        _Boozecan_                                 Braston's Mum

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question: When was Susan Douglas Rubeš born?

answer: 13 March 1925.

question: What nationality was Susan Douglas Rubeš?

answer: Austrian-born Canadian.

question: What did Susan Douglas Rubeš do?

answer: She was an actress and a producer.

question: What were the names of Susan Douglas Rubeš' parents?

answer: Charlotte and Alfred Burstein.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: This article is aboutSusan Douglas Rubeš, an Austrian Canadian actor and producer from the 20th century.


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A unknown person, without name, lives in a cave. Far away from the urban. The person eats meat, and plants, drinks water, and that all from the cave. The person always got a smile ready, and got no prejudices. The person is dumped by there parents when the person was only 6 years old. He look to the birds every day, and feeling not very lonely because there was always some birds in the cave.

But, on a day, someone else was entering in the cave. A other person, what crying and crying.

The person was surprised, and says: Why you're here? Why you're cry?

The crying person: I'm feeling my sad, so sad that I can't even use a word for it.

The person give the crying person a stone scale with water, and asking: Why you're then here? Why you're feel sad?

The crying person was crying harder, and says: Nobody support my, the society not, my family not, and even my parents not. There never supported my with my wish to life just so normal as the rest of the society. I'm just a person who is in a luxury prison, and feeling hopeless and see no escape about it. My dream was also my last hope what making my positive, but because everybody blocking it, I not believe in hope anymore, its all nonsense.

The person seeing how the tears of the crying person drying out, and asking: Why you're here?

The crying person says: Because, I was look to a place to end it all. There is much pains in my life, and I can't restart living on a better, happy way.

The person was become emotional and says: Well, you can restart you life here, and you dream also can be true here. You soul is heavy ruined, and here you can repair it. Do what you will, say what you will say, you're free here to be yourself and make you dreams to a true.

The crying person begins to again cry, but the tears are tears of happiness, and was saying: Very very much thanks, finally a escape, and a good escape.

title: Happiness & Hopeless (First 'short' story, inspirited a bit by my past)

question: Where can you see the setting of this story taking place?

answer: The setting is confusing to place, but the story starts out in a cave-like area and then the setting descriptions fades away.

question: Why does the narrator say they are living in a luxury prison?

answer: The narrator says they are living in a luxury prison because they had no one for them, no family or support, but they just had the "cave" the were in and nothing but themselves. They are sad and their soul feels heavy.


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It's a 5.5"x8.5" paperback. If you open it to a random spot, here's what you'll see: on the left-hand page, some paragraphs from the 1901 version of John Veitch's translation of Descartes' _Meditations on First Philosophy_ into English. He's dead enough that it's cheap to print but not so dead his English sucks. On the right-hand page, you'll find the corresponding paragraphs of my version.

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When Rene Descartes wrote Meditations on First Philosophy, widely considered the founding text of modern philosophy, he was trying to answer fundamental questions about how we can have knowledge about the world around us. But Descartes wasn't writing for you, he was writing for a bunch of academics three hundred years ago.

Descartes' Meditations, Bro emphasizes readability. It IS written for you, but it's not just wildly entertaining. DMB follows Descartes' arguments step-by-step, weaving contemporary analogies and in-depth explanations of the background assumptions into a comic narrative that parallels the original text paragraph-by-paragraph.

question: Why does Descartes' being dead make the book cheap to print?

answer: Presumably he had been dead long enough that the book is in the public domain.

question: What is the purpose of this book?

answer: To make Descartes' Meditations more palatable to a modern audience.

question: What is the intended audience for this book?

answer: The modern layperson.


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                                          Me

	Before we get into the depths of this story, I assume you are going to want to know about me. Who am I? Where did I come from? All that basic shit. And the truth is, who I am isn’t all the different from who the girl next door to you is. My situations have made me unique and the fact that I observe has made me different.

	At this point in time, I am 19 years old. I am slightly overweight, but you wouldn’t notice from looking at me. I have hips that one day will make giving birth easy but for now just make black guys go dammmmmnnnn girrllll. I have shoulder length hair that is some weird boxed shade of red that I dyed it out of anger. The cut was out of anger too. I’m 5’3.5 and yes that half an inch does matter. I wear a dress almost every day, not because I’m particularly girly anymore, but because it’s really all I have from my last relationship which was particularly controlling. I have two tattoos. One of an owl rests on my left ankle and the kittens from the aristocats parade around my right ribcage. Appearances make a person. This is why I am going so in depth so you can know me. My eyes, well they aren’t important. I want you too see my situations through your eyes. So take your eyes, put them on me, and there we go.

	As someone told me, my personality is weird. I took compliments when I was called quirky. Eccentric even was nice. Now I have just gone off the deep end, into plain weird. But, as you will learn, I was not always this way. I once had it together and knew how to control the weirdness. Now it just kinda spews out like some verbal garbage. It’s gross. But if people can laugh at me and their day is brightened, then awesome. I am someone what a perfectionist. Okay, complete lie there. I am a total perfectionist. I have a little motto in my head that say I must be “prim and proper and polite” at all times. I am working on this. As we all know, this is impossible. I did not know this until recently. The fact that I thought I could be perfect has led me to many a mental illness which we will get into latter. That is not important when trying to learn about the essence of me. And I think the essence of me which you need to know is that I am quirky, caring, and I can see into your soul weather you want me too our not.

	That last part is a little creepy, but that is besides the point. I will know when you want help or need help, regardless if you think you do. And that freaks most people out. I’ve had this super lame “gift” since I can remember. It’s more of a hassle than anything and leaves me stressed out. At any given moment I am flipping through my phone seeing if  I have someone’s number to see if they are ok. I can usually tell you exactly what’s wrong with them, and that’s kinda sucky too. People think this is total BS until I call them at 10pm at night and tell them that no, they should not go spend their last $20 on a little bit of weed. That they should take some advil and a bath and go to sleep and they will be just fine. Just wait till I do it to you. You will be scared. The knowing what’s up with everyone has gotten my head into a tizzy more often than once. I don’t stop to smell the roses or you know think about myself and eat sometimes, because I get so worked up about everyone else. Maybe that shows a great thing about my character. Maybe not.

	I think the most important thing that you know about me is, I did lose me for awhile. For a good chunk of 2 year I would say. I think I was brain washed. I really don’t know. But when you fall under the spell of a sociopath’s love, you do what they want. Not to say I never loved him, because I did, and still do, and probably always will, but he screwed me up. When you are 16 and 17 and 18 you should be finding who you are. Not being pushed into some mold. And if you get anything out of what I write it is that. Because here I am at 19, trying to make up for lost time and it sucks. But like everything else, we will get back to that lost time, we will get back to the sociopath I love(d). Because, while love is insignificant, it is important. Expecially when you can say it helped create the monster the in your head.

	There are other little things about me that aren’t important. Hobbies, jobs held, heck even friends. These will fall into place when they need to. Setting of my life is a small town in California. Just think of where you live, it’s much like that. A suburban town with nothing to do, no where to go. Tons of time to get trapped in your head. I want you to step into my shoes, but don’t lose who you are. We are one on this journey. And you are in for a ride.

title: The beginning of my short life story

question: Who is speaking?

answer: A 19 year old girl.

question: How does their gift work?

answer: Unknown.

question: What gender identity does this person have?

answer: This person identifies as a girl.

question: Where does this person come from?

answer: A small town in California.

question: Write a ~5 sentence summary.

answer: The narrator is a 19 year old girl with a peculiar gift of reading the souls of others. She is a perfectionist and very eccentric. She had a relationship when she was younger which was controlling, because she was dating a sociopath. She is now trying to make up for lost time. She lives in a small town in California.


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DOUG BERGERON is the co-managing partner of Hudson Executive Capital (HEC), an event-driven hedge fund focused on improving value and performance in small and mid-cap public and private companies. HEC was founded in 2015 by Douglas Braunstein, former CFO and Vice Chairman of JP Morgan Chase. HEC manages over $1 billion of assets.

Bergeron is also the founder and sole shareholder of DGB Investments, a diversified holding company of technology investments. As of June 2020, DGB had four active growth technology investments.

Bergeron serves as Chairman of the Board of United Language Group. He serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Pipeworks Studios, Jupiter Pro Parts and Renters Warehouse. He is also an investor and advisor to Blend, Inc.[1][2]

In 2001, Bergeron led the acquisition of VeriFone from Hewlett-Packardin a transaction valued at $50M, and became its chairman and CEO. In 2002, Bergeron partnered with GTCR, a Chicago-based private equity firm, and embarked upon a strategy to aggressively grow VeriFone into a multinational company. As of May 2012, VeriFone’s enterprise value was approximately $5 billion, a 100 times increase.[3][4]

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Education

Bergeron attended York University, in Toronto, Canada, graduating in 1983 with a Bachelor of Arts with Special Honors in Computer Science.

Upon graduation, Bergeron was employed by Northern Telecom (later called Nortel Networks) in Ottawa, Ontario. In 1985, he was awarded the Northern Telecom Post Graduate Scholarship and enrolled at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, graduating in 1987 with a Master of Science degree.

Bergeron was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws (LLD) by York University’s Lassonde School of Engineering in June, 2013. The award marked the 30th anniversary of Bergeron’s graduation from York. At this occasion, Bergeron delivered the commencement address to the York University, Lassonde School of Engineering graduating class of 2013.[8]

VeriFone

In 2001, in partnership with Gores Technology Group (now, The Gores Group), Bergeron led the acquisition of VeriFone from Hewlett-Packard in a transaction valued at $50 million. Hewlett-Packard had acquired the business in 1998 for $1.3 billion. Upon completion of the VeriFone acquisition, Bergeron was named Chairman and CEO.[9]

In 2002, Gores sold VeriFone to Bergeron and GTCR, a Chicago-based private equity firm in a transaction valued at $160 million. Bergeron and GTCR embarked upon a strategy to aggressively grow VeriFone into a multinational company.[10] Bergeron resigned as CEO of VeriFone in March, 2013, following 12 years at the helm. VeriFone’s enterprise value as of May, 2012 was approximately $5 billion. The Bergeron/GTCR acquisition of VeriFone is widely considered to be one of the most successful private equity investments of the decade.[11][12]

In 2007, Bergeron was an award recipient and national finalist for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award.[13]

SunGard

From 1990 through 1999, Bergeron served in a number of executive management positions at SunGard Data Systems, including Managing Director of SunGard Capital Markets N.A., President of SunGard Futures Systems, and Group CEO of SunGard Brokerage Systems Group.[14]

Philanthropy

Bergeron is an active philanthropist.[15]

In 2006, Bergeron announced a $1 million gift towards the Bergeron Women in Technology Scholarship Program at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. Each year, five undergraduate female students are selected for their high academic and leadership potential. Each woman is awarded a full year of tuition and is paired with a C-level female technology leader for mentorship.[16]

In 2011, the Bergeron Women in Technology Program was expanded to the University of California at Berkeley as a result of a further $1 million gift to the university. Each year, five female undergraduate students are selected and each woman is awarded a two-year scholarship and is matched with a C-level female technology leader in Silicon Valley.

In 2011, Sacred Heart Schools in Atherton, California announced that Bergeron had made a $2 million gift in order to open the new Bergeron Lower School at the SHS campus.[17]

In 2011, Bergeron committed $2 million to Multiple Sclerosis Canada, in a gift dedicated to advanced research and towards community service for MS patients in the Windsor/Essex Canada chapter. Bergeron’s father, George Bergeron (1936-1999) suffered from MS and is the former chairman of the Windsor/Essex Canada chapter. In 2005, the City of Windsor opened the George Bergeron Healing Garden on the riverfront of the Detroit river, featuring a bronze statue of George Bergeron in honor of his contribution to the City.[18]

In 2012, Georgetown University announced that Bergeron had made a $1.25 million gift in order to endow the George Bergeron Professorship of Neuroscience at Georgetown University Medical.[19]

In 2012, York University announced a $2 million gift to fund the Bergeron Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology (BEST) Program. This new inter-disciplinary program unites courses around business plan formation and venture capital finance into the science and engineering programs.

In 2014, Bergeron announced a $10 million gift to York University in Toronto, Canada. It was the largest contribution that the university has ever received from an alumnus in its history. In honor of this, York named the new $100 million center of the engineering school The Bergeron Centre for Engineering Excellence.[20]

In 2015, Bergeron announced the Bergeron Scholarship Program had been expanded to Cristo Rey High School, an inner-city school in San Jose, California, through a $500,000 gift.

Personal life

Bergeron was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, in 1960, and is the oldest of George and Eleanor Bergeron's four children.

Bergeron is a permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a five-time invited delegate to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and has been a frequent guest on CNBC and Fox Business.[21]

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title: Douglas G. Bergeron

question: What does the text say about Bergeron's wife and kids?

question: Summarize what the text says about Douglas G. Bergeron's career.

answer: Douglas G. Bergeron is the co-managing partner of Hudson Executive Capital (HEC), an event-driven hedge fund founded in 2015 that manages over $1 billion of assets. He is also the founder and sole shareholder of DGB Investments, a diversified holding company of technology investments. Bergeron serves as Chairman of the Board of United Language Group, is a member of the Board of Directors of Pipeworks Studios, Jupiter Pro Parts, and Renters Warehouse, while also being an investor and advisor to Blend, Inc. In 2001, he led the acquisition of Verifone from Hewlett-Packard in a transaction valued at $50M, becoming its chairman and CEO, aggressively turning Verifone into a multinational company worth $5 billion in 2012. He also held several executive management positions at SunGard Data Systems.

question: What does the text say about Bergeron's education?

answer: In 1983, Bergeron graduated from York University in Toronto, Canada with a Bachelor of Arts with Special Honors in Computer Science degree. Upon graduation, he joined Northern Telecom (Nortel Networks) in Ottawa, Ontario. In 1985, Bergeron was awarded the Northern Telecom Post Graduate Scholarship which he used to enroll at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, graduating in 1987 with a Master of Science degree. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws (LLD) by York University's Lassonde School of Engineering in June 2013.

question: What does the text say about Bergeron's philanthropy?

answer: Bergeron donated $1 million to the Bergeron Women in Technology Scholarship Program at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia, and expanded it to the University of California at Berkley with another $1 million in 2011. He made a $2 million gift in 2011 to open the new Bergeron Lower School at the Sacred Heart Schools campus in Atherton, California. Bergeron committed $2 million to Multiple Sclerosis Canada to advance research and help the community of MS patients in the Windsor/Essex/ Canada chapter. He donated $1.25 million to Georgetown University for the George Bergeron Professorship of Neuroscience at Georgetown University Medical. Bergeron has also donated $2 million to fund the Bergeron Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology at York University in 2012, and also made a $10 million donation to the school in 2014. the largest contribution the university has ever received from an alumnus in history.


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So what we have to do is write a short story about what we do when we get home. We also have to add a lot of "voice" to it. Can you help me out? I'm in the eigth grade by the way, (I wouldn't want to be marked like a 12th grader!) Here it is and please give some constructive criticism!

When I walk through the door I finally feel relaxed. I know I have homework that night but I’ll most likely end up doing it right before bed or early the next morning. Somedays I’m just too tired to do more work so sleep always helps. I know this is a bad habit but if I have enough time to get it done the next day, why not?
	I go to sit down on my couch where my cat sleeps. He’s really fat. I don’t know why he eats so much... Apparently diets don’t work on him.
	I look up and turn on the TV with the remote in my hand. I search through random channels looking for a show to watch. There are many on right now, but finding one isn’t very hard. Hoarders, Degrassi, Supernatural. I guess they all seem good. I click to Supernatural instead though. I heard Jensen Ackles is a really hot actor in the show!

Time passes and 4 pm soon turn into 6 pm. I can’t really keep track of time. It’s one of the things I’m not very good with. Two minutes can feel like two hours to me.
	 I look to the right from where I was sitting and see my fat cat sleeping in the same spot. “When will you lose weight Loki?” I say under my breath while slowly getting up from my seat. By this time around, I feel hungry. I could have a nutri-grain bar and a salad... Or I could have a slice of pizza. So diet or no diet?
	I think we all know what I choose.
	As I grab the slice of pizza from the microwave, I head upstairs to the computer room. I know I have homework but, eh, I’m sure I have enough time to do it later. I sit down in front of the computer and as always, I either go on Facebook, Reddit or Twitter. I never get bored of social media. I always want to keep up to date with the most recent makeup advice. (I swear, I really need that Urban Decay makeup pallete!)

So there I sit for another 3 hours until 9 pm where I finally realise that I have homework (yay). I don’t really want to do it. Wait yes I do because hi Mr. L****** you’re probably going to be reading this.
	I think about my homework for a second. Is it possible I could do it the next morning? “Probably not” I think. Short stories take a while to perfect. I crack my knuckles and turn back around and face the computer... What should I start with?
	“When I get back from school...” No. That’s too plain. Everyone would be doing it. I’m a unique person (at least I hope) and writing the same sentence would be too boring for everyone. I think again for another moment when- AHA! I know exactly what I can write.

	“When I walk through the door I finally feel relaxed.”

title: Have to do a short story for school, can you guys help me out?

question: Over how much time does the story take place?

answer: It takes place over a span of a few hours.

question: What is the story's main conflict?

answer: The narrator is putting off homework.

question: Where is the narrator sitting until 9pm?

answer: They're sitting in their computer room on social media.

question: Why does the narrator say "that's too plain"?

answer: They are trying to figure out how to start a short story. They found "when I get back from school" to be too plain.

question: What TV show does the narrator choose to watch?

answer: They chose Supernatural.

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: The narrator comes home from school and finally feels relaxed. They know they have homework to do, but watch TV, eat food, and go on social media first. They put off the main assignment, writing a short story for class, until 9 p.m.. They start the story by saying that they walk through the door and finally feel relaxed.


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A Million Miles Away}}

_A MILLION MILES AWAY_ is the second installment in _The Emo Diaries_ series of compilation albums, released April 14, 1998, by Deep Elm Records. As with all installments in the series, the label had an open submissions policy for bands to submit material for the compilation, and as a result the music does not all fit within the emo style.[1][2] As with the rest of the series, _A Million Miles Away_ features mostly unsigned bands contributing songs that were previously unreleased.[3][4]

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title: A Million Miles Away (album)

question: What installment is A Million Miles Away in The Emo Diaries series?

answer: A Million Miles Away is the second installment of The Emo Diaries series.

question: What record company released A Million Miles Away?

answer: Deep Elm Records released A Million Miles Away.

question: How did Deep Elm Records get songs for A Million Miles Away?

answer: Deep Elm Records had an open submissions policy for bands for A Million Miles Away.

question: Do all the songs in A Million Miles Away fit the emo style?

answer: No, not all the songs in A Million Miles Away fit the emo style.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: A Million Miles Away is an album released by Deem Elm Records in 1998. Numerous bands sent in their songs to be included in the album, so the album contains music of all sorts, not just emo.


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I think it was after I entered the door that I realized I wasn’t in a reality I could cope with. For some odd reason I felt as if I hadn’t gone through the door, yet I clearly remember going through it. The door which was of a matter I couldn’t quite piece together. It seemed to be a dark-ish kind of colouring. Yet, somehow, it seemed to eat up all the light around it. As if it was darkness incarnate. The moment I opened the door I knew it had been a mistake and that I shouldn’t have fed my curiosity. Something goaded me to go through it, though.

After I went through the door, my perception was altered. I knew nothing would be what it had been previously. The reality I had once known had forever shifted. I wasn’t sure if I would be able to cope with this new reality once I left the door. The door seemed to exist on another plane, not quite the same plane of existence I had been in my entire life. I knew once I returned no one would believe the things I saw, the horrors that lived in the door.

When I first started traveling the infinite expanses of my mind I had stumbled upon a great many of things, none quite like this door. When I first saw it I thought that it had led nowhere and much to my horror this door did in fact lead nowhere. I think the door led me into itself, which in turn created a portal that would never close. It seemed that whenever I dosed off, that same portal starts to suck me back in. Tilting the very fabric of my physical world, the equilibrium I had once known was now ever shifting.

I began to regret my decision to travel through the door. I began to wonder if the saying that curiosity killed the cat was meant for people like me and that cat was a code word for sanity. The line in which people call the line of time began overlapping itself in my world. I began to wonder if time still existed in my reality. Things began to become a blur, it wasn’t the kind of blur you can fix with glasses. This kind of blur was a blur that wasn’t really there, yet somehow I saw it and it made everything fuzzy.

I began to wonder how many times I could enter the door and return. How long would it be before I lost my way back? The sanity I had once held so dear to me was now just a figment of my own imagination, much like the door. The door, by all technicalities didn’t exist, but who says something needs to exist for it to be made a reality.

title: The Door

question: Summarize the text in one singular sentence.

answer: The narrator sees a metaphorical door and once they feel compelled to go through it, they realize it leads to "nothing" in a very real sense.

question: For what is this piece a metaphor?

answer: Time travel.

question: Why does the narrator worry about how many times they will be able to come back through the door?

answer: They know they will continue to feel compelled to go through the door over and over.

question: What do you think will happen to the narrator?

answer: They might lose their mind if they keep obsessing over this door.


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SIDNEY PELHAM (16 May 1849 – 14 July 1926) was an English first-class cricketer active in 1871 and 1872 who played for Oxford University.[1] He became Archdeacon of Norfolk from 1901 until 1916.[2][3] Pelham was born in Brighton and died in Norwich.[4]

Playing cricket at Oxford, Pelham appeared in seven first-class matches as a slow roundarm bowler who took 21 wickets with a best return of six for 51. He was a lower order right-handed batsman, scoring only 24 runs and he held six catches. In 1868, he had captained the team at Harrow.[5]

The son of John Pelham, Bishop of Norwich from 1857 to 1893,[6] he was educated at Harrow and Magdalen College, Oxford.[7] He was ordained Deacon in 1873; and Priest in 1874.[8] He served curacies at Stalbridge and Redenhall. He was Vicar of St Peter Mancroft from 1879 to 1881; then Chaplain to successive Bishops of Norwich from 1891 until his appointment as Archdeacon.[9]

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Category:1849 births Category:1926 deaths Category:English cricketers Category:Oxford University cricketers Category:19th-century English Anglican priests Category:20th-century English Anglican priests Category:People educated at Harrow School Category:Archdeacons of Norfolk Category:Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford

[1] Sidney Pelham at CricketArchive

[2] Cobbold Family History Trust

[3] _Canon Sidney Pelham_ The Times (London, England), Thursday, Jul 15, 1926; pg. 21; Issue 44324

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[7] “Alumni oxonienses: the members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886; their parentage, birthplace and year of birth, with a record of their degrees. Being the matriculation register of the University” Foster,J (Ed) Vol III p1091 Oxford, Parker & Co,1888

[8] Crockford's 1898 p1050(London, Herbert Cox, 1908

[9] ‘PELHAM, Rev. Sidney’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014

title: Sidney Pelham

question: What made Pelham a first-class cricketer?

answer: He payed for Oxford and appeared in 7 first class matches. He took 21 wickets, however he only scored 24 runs as a batsman. He captained the team at Harrow in 1868.

question: How long was his career in the clergy?

answer: Sidney was the son of John Pelham, who was Bishop of Norwich from 1957 - 1893. Sidney was ordained a Deacon in 1873, going on to become a Priest in 1874. He was eventually appointed as Archdeacon in 1891.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: A page for Sidney Pelham, a first-class cricketer and eventual Archdeacon of Norfolk.