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Want to get involved but don't know where to begin?
Using the Paddle Taxi is simple.
First, get plugged into our paddling community. Like us on Facebook and sign up online so you can stay up to date with our operations, stewardship programming and route changes.
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Question: What is Bethlehem Pike? Respond in 3 sentences.

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Bethlehem Pike is a historic long road in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, connecting Philadelphia and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. It began as a Native American path called the Minsi Trail which developed into a colonial highway called the King's Road in the 1760s. Most of the route later became part of U.S. Route 309, now Pennsylvania Route 309.


Question: What is the mystery surrounding the Devil's Kettle waterfall? Respond in 338 words.

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It turns out the water doesn’t disappear at all.
On the Brule River in Minnesota’s Judge C. R. Magney State Park, an unusual waterfall has sparked imaginations for decades. That’s because this waterfall, called the Devil’s Kettle, splits into two: one half of the river flows up to the edge of the falls and tumbles over, but the other half slips into a hole at the top of the falls and disappears.
Recently, scientists were able to solve the mystery of the disappearing side using a simple stream-gauging technique. It turns out, the water doesn’t disappear at all.
Locals in the area claimed that everything from sticks to ping pong balls, road signs to even a car, had supposedly been dropped into the hole over the years and never re-emerged. Others claimed a young man had rappelled 26 feet into the hole and never saw the bottom.
The assumption was that the water split in two and some portion of the river water was leaving the main stream and being diverted elsewhere. Green wasn’t convinced.e wanted to test the theory before trying to solve where the water was going, so he had a state water gauging crew measure the water flow above the falls and right afterwards to see if any of the water actually left the river once it disappeared into Devil’s Kettle.
The measurements showed that none of the water was actually leaving the river, which meant all of the flow that tumbled into the Devil’s Kettle and seemed to disappear actually rejoined the stream at the base of the falls. Green told me they don’t know exactly where it re-emerges, but you can see two distinct “boils” of water at the base of the falls. He suspects the Devil’s Kettle empties out right below where it flows in.
As for the ping pong balls and other detritus supposedly swallowed up over the years, Green told me that explanation was simple: they would have been smashed to smithereens before they ever got a chance to re-emerge.


Question: Do you think the government should continue to share NHS data for immigration enforcement?

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The NHS has said it will continue sharing data with the Home Office for immigration enforcement, despite MPs calling for the government to put an immediate stop to the transfer.
The data-sharing deal, which was put on official footing in January last year and renewed in December, allows the NHS to hand over non-clinical information – such as date of birth or last known address – for suspected immigration offences.
The plan has drawn widespread criticism from patient groups, medics and MPs.
They argue it might stop migrants seeking medical help, drive them into already-stretched A&E departments and damage the public's trust in doctor-patient confidentiality.
At the end of last month, the House of Commons Health Committee wrote to NHS Digital to ask it to put an immediate stop to the agreement, with chair Sarah Wollaston citing concerns that there had been "inadequate consultation".
The response, however, is a resounding – and rather terse – "no", from both NHS Digital boss Sarah Wilkinson and the two other government bodies involved in the deal.
The Home Office and Department of Health wrote a separate joint letter to Wollaston, saying that the deal would continue, while rebuking for failing to include them in her initial correspondence.
Both letters state that the parties take confidentiality seriously and acknowledge the importance of public trust in the health service - while repeatedly leaning on the argument that the information released is non-clinical.
They also suggest that part of the committee's problem with the deal is because it has misunderstood its basis; data is only shared to trace "known immigration offenders" that have ceased contact with the Home Office, they note, not to track down undocumented migrants.
The parties also emphasise that there is as yet no proven direct link between the deal and any adverse effects on health-seeking behaviour; evidence presented to the committee last month is anecdotal.
The parties point to a review (PDF) that the government commissioned from Public Health England (something it did only after the furore around the agreement). That is due January 2019.
Wilkinson added that she had invited Fiona Caldicott, the national data guardian, to carry out an independent review of NHS Digital's public interest assessment.
In the meantime, the data-sharing will go on.
"We will continue to share this very limited set of data with the Home Office," said Wilkinson. "We do not believe it is in the public interest for us to frustrate the Home Office's function of immigration enforcement by suspending this activity."
She also used the opportunity to take a shot at the committee's activities, writing: "We recognise that this is an issue of significant public concern, although we believe that is, to a significant extent, due to misunderstandings about the scope of the data sharing activities, and the lack of a balanced debate on this in which commentators consider, as we are required to, the arguments for as well as the arguments against the provision of this support."


Question: What is the history of Jordanstone railway station? Respond in 40 words.

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Jordanstone railway station served the area to the south of the village of Alyth in the Scottish county of Perth and Kinross. The station was on the Alyth Railway from on the Scottish Midland Junction Railway running between and .


Question: What kind of moth is Dichagyris singularis?

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Dichagyris singularis is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found from Turkmenistan to south-eastern Turkey, parts of the Middle East, Jordan, Israel, Iran and Afghanistan.
Adults are on wing from September to January. There is one generation per year.


Question: "Who is Isaiah Williams?"

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Isaiah Williams (born May 5, 1993) is an American football guard for the Tampa Bay Vipers of the XFL. He played college football at Akron. He signed with the Washington Redskins as an undrafted free agent in 2016.


Question: What have been the biggest shakeups in the MASL Power Rankings this week? Respond in 455 words.

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Week 15 could have been termed the MASL Super Bowl break. There were just seven games and four of the top five teams were idle.
Syracuse, Ontario, Tacoma, and Kansas City did what they had to to keep their playoff hopes on track, but El Paso’s loss in Tacoma has them teetering.
The only changes to the Power Rankings saw the Rampage drop to 10th and Ontario and Tacoma moved up in their stead. The three teams have been trapped in the MASL’s mid-six (#6-10) for the last three weeks. Cedar Rapids and Ontario have languished there longer, while Tacoma was a more recent addition after spending time in the bottom five.
Friday 2/9 San Diego Sockers at Tacoma Stars – A big Pacific battle and a storied rivalry that dates back to 1983.
Saturday 2/10 Baltimore Blast at Milwaukee Wave – A storied rivalry that dates back to 1992, and the first of three meetings between the teams this month that will likely decide home field advantage for the Conference Final.
Sunday 2/11 Harrisburg Heat at Syracuse Silver Knights – Harrisburg gets their second shot at playing spoiler this weekend.
Sunday 2/11 Rio Grande Valley Barracudas at Monterrey Flash – The Flash look to go 16-0.
Sunday 2/11 Soles de Sonora at San Diego Sockers – The Sockers host their own Alumni Night as they try to avenge their loss to Sonora and end what could be a nine game Soles winning streak.
LW: 2 The Blast improved to 9-0 at home and 8-2 in one-goal games with an overtime win over Syracuse.
LW: 6 Syracuse made their 4-0 lead hold up in a 6-4 win over Cedar Rapids, but dropped their fourth straight one-goal game to Baltimore (dating back to last year).
LW: 9 The Stars kept pace with a relatively easy 10-7 home win over El Paso.
LW: 10 The Fury took advantage of some favorable scheduling with blowout wins over Turlock and Rio Grande Valley. Tunisian rookie Ouday Belhadj made a splash with six goals and an assist.
LW: 8 Cedar Rapids couldn’t ascend to the next level, falling 6-4 in Syracuse and dropping back below .500.
LW: 11 The Coyotes didn’t impress in Tacoma, but salvaged the weekend with a wild 14-12 win over the Barracudas.
LW: 13 The Comets kept their glimmer of playoff hope alive with a 7-6 win over St. Louis. Three of their five wins are against St. Louis.
LW: 14 The Ambush dropped another close one, their fourth one-goal loss of the season.
LW: 15 The Barracudas allowed another 27 goals this weekend putting their GAA on the verge of 10.00.
LW: 16 Turlock was 7-3 at home last year, but just 1-7 this year.


Question: What is the history of Colin Kaepernick kneeling during the national anthem? Respond in 3 sentences.

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Kaepernick famously began kneeling for the national anthem in order to protest police brutality and social injustice. Kaepernick’s kneeling stunt caused national outcry when the President of the United States, Donald Trump, began calling for those who kneeled during the anthem to be suspended or fired. The NFL has since revised its national anthem policy, ensuring that players on the field will be standing for the anthem.


Question: "I hate whiteboard puzzles. What should I do?"

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Practicing algorithm puzzles stresses you out: just looking at a copy of Cracking the Coding Interview makes you feel nervous.
Interviewing is worse. When you do interview you freeze up: you don’t have IDE error checking and auto-completion, you can’t use a search engine Google like a real programmer would, there’s a stranger staring you down. You screw up, you make typos, you don’t know what to say, you make a bad impression.
If this happens to you, it’s not your fault! Whiteboard puzzles are a bad way to hire programmers.
They’re not realistic: unless you’re Jeff Goldblum haxoring the alien mothership’s computer just in time for Will Smith to blow up some invaders, you’re probably not coding on a 5-minute deadline.
And the skills they’re testing aren’t used by 95% of programmers 95% of the time. I recently had to do a graph traversal in dependency order—which meant I was all prepared to find my algorithms text book from college. But then I found this library already had a utility called toposort, and vague memories of classes 19 years ago reminded me that this was called a “topological sort”. I didn’t actually have to implement it, but if I did would have done it with textbook in hand, over the course of a couple of hours (gotta write tests!).
Unfortunately, many companies still use them, and you need a job. A programming job. What should you do?
Here are some ideas to help you find a job—even if you hate whiteboard puzzles.
Not all companies do on-the-spot programming puzzles. The last three companies I worked at didn't—one had a take-home exercise that wasn’t about algorithms (a decision I was involved in, and which I now regret because of the burden it puts on people with no free time). Two others just had talking interviews: I talked about myself, they talked about the company, all very relaxes and civilized.
Here’s one list of 500+ companies that don’t do whiteboard puzzles.
The invaluable Key Values job board also tells you about the interview process at the covered companies (see the column on the right when looking at a particular company).
If you are interviewing at a company with whiteboard puzzles, you don’t have to accept their process without pushing back. Just like your salary and working hours, the interview process is also something you can negotiate.
If you have some code you’ve written that you’re particularly proud of and have the ability to share, ask the company if you can share it with them in lieu of a whiteboard puzzle. I once made the mistake of only suggesting this during the interview, and the guy who was interviewing me said he would have accepted it if I’d asked earlier. So make sure to suggest this before the day of the interview, so they have time to review the code in advance.
If all else fails and you’re stuck doing a puzzle, there are ways to take control of the process and make a good impression, even if the puzzle is too hard for you. I cover this in more detail in another post.
Finally, remember whiteboard puzzles have nothing to do with actual programming, even when the work you’re doing is algorithmic. They’re a hazing ritual you may be forced to go through, but they in no way reflect on your ability as a programmer.


Question: Respond in 5 sentences. Describe the #GetWoke syllabus recently published by Beloit College.

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Beloit College recently published a “#GetWoke” syllabus in an effort to encourage students to familiarize themselves with the anti-Trump resistance movement.
"The question of what it means to protest and organize in the current administration is pressing."
The syllabus then suggests that protesting is “at the heart of what it means to demand the state sees you when you sit at the margins of society,” encouraging students to listen to protest songs such as KRS One’s “Sound of Da Police,” or read texts like “Social Justice Organizing” for inspiration.
Additionally, the college plans to host at least four #GetWoke panels during the upcoming school year, the first of which will be delivered later this month by Moya Bailey, a feminist academic who coined misogynoir, a term derived from intersectional feminist theory to describe the misogynistic experiences of black women in particular.
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Question: Wow, three incredible women have pledged to donate their brains to the Concussion Legacy Foundation! Respond in 23 sentences.

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(PyeongChang) – The Concussion Legacy Foundation announced today that U.S. Olympic bobsledder and gold medal favorite Elana Meyers Taylor and U.S. ice hockey legend, Hockey Hall of Famer, and four-time Olympian Angela Ruggiero have pledged to donate their brains to the Concussion Legacy Foundation to support CTE and concussion research.
Brain Pledge Month is part of the Foundation’s My Legacy campaign to encourage athletes to make a lasting contribution to concussion and CTE research. Brain Pledge Month will last through February, and for the first time is encouraging controls to pledge in addition to people with a sports or military background at ConcussionFoundation.org/pledge.
The Foundation also announced today the brain pledge of a third Olympian, Hayley Wickenheiser, a five-time Olympic medalist for the Canadian women’s ice hockey team. Ruggiero’s U.S. team faced Wickenheiser’s Canadian team in the gold medal game in both the 2002 and 2010 Winter Olympics. They are considered two of the best female hockey players to ever play.
More than 2,800 former athletes and military veterans have pledged to donate their brain to the Concussion Legacy Foundation since 2008, including more than 560 female brain pledges, which represents approximately half of non-football pledges received. Other prominent female athletes that have pledged include U.S. soccer legend Brandi Chastain, former USA Hockey Women’s Player of the Year AJ Griswold, and three-time Olympic gold medalist Nancy Hogshead-Makar.
The Concussion Legacy Foundation is the outreach and recruiting arm of the VA-BU-CLF Brain Bank, a partnership with Boston University and the US Department of Veterans Affairs and led by Dr. Ann McKee. The Brain Bank is now the world’s largest CTE brain bank with subspecialties in concussion, ALS, and other consequences of brain trauma. Nearly 500 brains have been donated, resulting in over 285 CTE diagnoses, which is more than 70 percent of confirmed CTE cases globally. However, fewer than 10 brains have been donated from female athletes, and there are no confirmed cases of CTE in female athletes.
Everyone who pledges their brain to the Concussion Legacy Foundation receives a personalized brain donor card and an informational packet about the brain donation process. Those who take the pledge during Brain Pledge Month are encouraged to spread the word to friends, family and former teammates about the importance of brain trauma research, and to share why they pledged using #MyLegacyPledge.
Elana Meyers Taylor is a world-champion athlete who started competing for the USA Bobsled team in 2007. Since then, she has gone on to win two Olympic medals – bronze in Vancouver in 2010 and silver in Sochi in 2014. In 2015, Meyers Taylor made history by winning the first world championship title in women’s bobsled for the United States. Meyers Taylor was a professional softball player prior to bobsledding, and she has also earned two caps with the U.S. rugby 7s team.
Angela Ruggiero competed in the 1998 Olympic Games as a senior in high school, and medaled in the subsequent 2002, 2006, and 2010 Olympic games. Ruggiero was the first woman to play in a regular season professional hockey game in North America in at a position other than goalie when she played for the Tulsa Oilers in a Central Hockey League game in 2005. She was the fourth woman ever to inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2015. Ruggiero now serves on the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee and is the Chairperson of the IOC Athletes’ Commission, the body that represents all Olympic athletes worldwide. Ruggiero is the co-founder and CEO of the Sports Innovation Lab.


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"It's not simply a change of manufacturer with Aprilia, I've made an important commitment. The contract has positives, I believe in the project"
During a week that saw a real shake up of the MotoGP grid, Andrea Iannone has confirmed that he too will change manufacturer, moving to Aprilia for an all-Italian pairing. “It's not simply a change of manufacturer - but an important commitment on both my and Aprilia's part. I have a particular contract with very positive aspects, which may not just be limited to the two-year period foreseen. I'm pleased; I believe in the project and the challenge, and I'm not scared about starting over again, I hope to work hard to develop the bike along with Aleix. I'm happy with what they think about me and they are 200% committed, we have the same goal and I'm not worried”.
Then it's back to the present, #29 in a strong position right now.
“We need to continue working as we have been doing to develop the bike. I'd like to win a race with the Suzuki and round out the season positively. I get on well with the bike and the team, we'll try to improve session after session”.
He can't have liked the fact he wasn't retained by the Hamamatsu manufacturer; a situation that has similarities with what happened to him in Ducati.
“I'm not so presumptuous to say that they'll regret it. In any case, what's done is done, we need to focus on the fact we have more than half a championship in front of us, during which to develop a bike capable of winning in the future. In Ducati I never went without anything thanks to Gigi, he continued to have me work on development and gave me all the material right to the end. I hope it's the same in Suzuki. The move doesn't change my motivation and desire to win”.


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Would you be mine? is a song by Italian/Swiss singer-songwriter Diamá, it was released as her third single from her upcoming debut album We're not done on August 19, 2014 exclusively on iTunes 2014 (Mastered for iTunes) andw will be released in all other digital music stores on September 2, 2014. The song, which was produced by producer Jason Grey, was co-written by Jiameé and Diamá herself.


Question: Have Minnesota legislators introduced Sunday liquor sales legislation and what is the potential for its passage? Respond in 30 sentences.

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House Speaker Kurt Daudt (R-Crown) and Representative Jenifer Loon (R-Eden Prairie) have introduced legislation to repeal Minnesota’s longstanding ban on off-sale liquor sales on Sundays. The move should come as no surprise. Several legislators made Sunday liquor sales part of their election campaigns. Speaker Daudt has indicated that he thinks a repeal bill could pass the House in the first 30 days of session.
The move to modernize the liquor comes as a pair of bills. HF0030 aims at full repeal. HF0031 takes an opt-in / local option approach. Both versions would allow for local control.
The local option approach is likely to resonate with legislators across the aisle from Daudt, as well as within his own caucus. House Minority Leader Melissa Hortman (D-Brooklyn Park) has indicated that she is open to the change and favors local control.
In reality, both bills would allow for local control of Sunday liquor sales. HF0030 would allow municipalities to pass local regulations that are more restrictive than those allowed at the state level. Some could, and likely would, pass noon openings or limited hours. This has always been the case. HF0031 would essentially do the opposite. It would allow municipalities to pass local measures of deregulation. This would also likely result in municipalities with noon openings, limited hours, and full bans still in place.
The Minnesota Senate is not as cut and dry as the House of Representatives may appear to be, but there is hope. The large number of new legislators creates a chance for progress on the popular issue. It can be difficult for elected officials to evolve on an issue when they have had a stance several election cycles. New legislators could mean new allies on the issue, but this will only happen if they hear from their constituents. The forces opposed to Sunday liquor sales are probably already whispering in their ears.
New Majority Leader Gazelka (R-Nisswa) has been noncommittal on the issue.
Senator Dahms (R-Rewood Falls) has taken over as the Chair of Commerce and Consumer Protection Finance and Policy Committee. The previous Chair was reluctant to give repeal bills committee hearings while he received considerable donations from the opposition. One can hope that Senator Dahms will be more willing to listen to constituents and turn away donations.
Governor Dayton has been on record as supporting Sunday liquor sales for a while now. Linden Zakula, his Deputy Chief of Staff, recently reaffirmed his position via Twitter.
@keull @kpottermn Governor Dayton’s position is the same as it has been: if it reaches his desk, he will sign it.
Follow #SundaySalesMN on Facebook & Twitter and invite your friends to do the same.


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Gordon Claude "Chris" Griffin (October 31, 1915 – June 18, 2005) was an American jazz trumpeter.


Question: What is Sotina? Respond in 2 sentences.

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Sotina (; , ) is a village in the Municipality of Rogašovci in the Prekmurje region of northeastern Slovenia. The village includes the following hamlets: Bezovkova Graba, Maribor (a small Roma settlement), Bracov Dol, Činčov Breg, Kolarova Graba, Majcov Mlin, Martinova Graba, Patrov Breg, Tomanov Breg, and Turzov Breg.


Question: Describe the cars featured during the 2015 North American International Auto Show.

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The “Blade” is light, sleek and — at an acceleration of 0-60 m.p.h. in 2.2 seconds — incredibly fast, just like you’d want any supercar to be. But a few things set this wondrous machine apart from others of its kind, foremost among them its method of manufacture.
The car, made by San Francisco–based startup Divergent Microfactories, has a chassis created entirely using a 3-D printer, Engadget reports. The 3-D printing reduces the overall weight of the car by 90%, the manufacturer claims, coupled with the use of carbon fiber for most of the car’s body rather than steel or aluminum. As a result, the whole vehicle weighs just under 1,400 lb.
“How we make things is much more important than how we fuel them and whether they have a tailpipe or not,” Kevin Czinger, CEO of Divergent, said in an interview with Forbes.
Czinger has also put some thought into how the car is fueled, however, with Blade carrying a 700HP engine that can run on compressed natural gas — thereby also making it one of the most environment-friendly automobiles around.
The company will produce a certain number of cars initially, but eventually plans to sell its technology to smaller manufacturers to make their own vehicles.
“We have got to rethink how we manufacture, because — when we go from 2 billion cars today to 6 billion cars in a couple of decades — if we don’t do that, we’re going to destroy the planet,” Czinger adds.
Acura introduces the new NSX at the (NAIAS) on January 12, 2015 in Detroit.
The Mercedes-Benz F 015 Coupe is presented during the media preview at the Cobo Arena on Jan. 12, 2015 in Detroit.
Smart shows off their Electric Drive Coupe during the media preview on Jan. 13, 2015 in Detroit.
Chevrolet unveils a new concept car bolt during a press preview on Jan. 12, 2015 in Detroit.
The Infinity Q60 concept car is displayed during the press preview on Jan. 13, 2015 in Detroit.
Ford Motor Co., Executive Chairman Bill Ford, left, and President and COO Mark Fields stand next to the new Ford GT on Jan. 12, 2015 in Detroit.
The Honda Motor Co. UNI-CUB B personal mobility device is demonstrated on Jan. 13, 2015 in Detroit.
Toyota shows off their FT-1 concept car during the media preview on Jan. 13, 2015 in Detroit.
The Bentley GT Speed Convertible is displayed at the Mercedes exhibit on Jan. 13, 2015 in Detroit.
Harkening back to the Sixties, the Touring Carrozzeria explores the idea of an Italian Barchetta merged with a British sports car in the MINI Superleggera Vision. Jan. 12, 2015 in Detroit.
Lexus unveils its 2016 GS F during a press preview on Jan. 13, 2015 in Detroit.
Scheduled for release in 2016, the Infiniti Q60 Coupe will have a turbocharged 3.0-liter V6 in a stunning aluminum body on Jan. 12, 2015 in Detroit.
Acura introduces the new NSX on Jan. 12, 2015 in Detroit.


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It is well established that humpback whale mothers with newborn calves favor shallow waters in their breeding grounds. Research from the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo indicates that this appears to be a tactic employed by mothers to avoid energetically costly associations with males.
Adam Pack, a UH Hilo professor and expert in North Pacific humpback whales in the Hawaiian Islands, points out in an article in Science Trends that it is not known how this shallow water preference varies as a calf ages and grows and whether mothers, who are less likely to ovulate than females without a calf, employ other tactics to avoid males when in deeper waters.
In 2017, Pack and a team of colleagues measured the lengths of 96 humpback whale calves in waters off Maui, Hawaiʻi ranging in size from 3.8 to 7.6 meters. They found that the depth of water that a mother and her calf occupy is positively related to the size of the calf, so individual females tend to be found in deeper waters as their calves mature. To confirm this, the team also examined the habitat preferences of 72 mother-calf pairs who were resighted over various intervals within a breeding season.
“Interestingly, the team also found that when mother-calf pairs were in deeper waters they had a preference for rugged seabed terrain,” writes Pack.
The researchers suspect that this kind of terrain provides more “acoustic camouflage” from males than does flat terrain as it tends to be noisier from snapping shrimp. The team posits that this might help mothers avoid harassment from males seeking mating opportunities by making it less likely that they are overheard communicating with their calves.
“This final bit is very intriguing as it may indicate a strategy evolved in mothers for mitigating male harassment while preparing (in deeper waters) for emigration back to the feeding grounds,” writes Pack.
In addition to Pack, two other UH researchers involved in the study were UH Mānoa’s Louis Herman and UH Hilo’s Carley Lowe.
For more, go to UH Hilo Stories.


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The 2016 season for the cycling team began in January at the Tour de San Luis. As a UCI WorldTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.


Question: "Why is movie theater popcorn so expensive?"

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Movie theater popcorn apparently costs more per ounce than fillet mignon.
You’re probably aware that if you go to the movies these days, you should probably show up well fed. Concession stand snacks and drinks are downright expensive, and if you see a lot of movies, you’ve probably considered sneaking your own into the theater.
Movie theaters tend to frown on people bringing their own food and drinks in with them, so we at The Inquisitr don’t recommend it. But be prepared to spend a lot on them if you decide to play by their rules.
Movie theater popcorn, for example, could cost you over five dollars for a small bucket, which is more per ounce than a fillet mignon. University of California-Irvine professor Richard McKenzie says that he doesn’t know why it costs so much, as it’s probably a trade secret and he’s likely to tell us all.
Richard McKenzie has gone on record as saying that movie theater popcorn should cost less than 10 cents per ounce, meaning that at current prices, we’re paying over 1,200 percent what it’s worth.
The irony of it all is that you probably want something to snack on while you’re watching your movie, and the enticing aroma of movie theater popcorn is nearly intoxicating. The smell makes us crave it, and we willingly let our wallets drain for it.
Patrick Corcoran of the National Association of Theater Owners says it’s not mandatory for anyone to stop at the concession stand and buy food or drinks, but the theater is happy when they do.
The extra cost of movie theater popcorn and other snacks helps the theater make a profit when they’re likely paying most of the cost of the ticket to the movie studio, which in turn pays the actors and advertising fees. Concession snacks are sold at 100 percent profit, and the aroma of movie theater popcorn is intended to lure you in for that very reason. The theater makes next to nothing on the movies you see, and the money has to come from somewhere.
Does this change your mind about the price of movie theater popcorn?


Question: What is Uniemyśl?

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Uniemyśl () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Lubawka, within Kamienna Góra County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, near the border with the Czech Republic.


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Ivan Rudskoi (; ; also known as EeOneGuy () born on ) is a Ukrainian web-based videoblogger, best known for his Let's Play commentaries, comedy videos and vlogs on YouTube.


Question: What is the song "I Will Never Let You Down" by Rita Ora?

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"I Will Never Let You Down" is a song by British singer Rita Ora, released on 31 March 2014, through Roc Nation and Columbia Records. The song debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart, making it Ora's fourth overall UK number-one single (and third as a solo artist) within three years.


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How do I disable vibration?
I'm using a PS3 controller with Xinput Wrapper & I'm not sure how to disable that stupid vibration.
That's easier said then done. I'm looking through the text & I don't know what to do.
2: extract the "LilyPad-Scp-r5350.dll" into the "plugins" folder inside your pcsx2 directory, and "xinput3_1.dll" inside the pcsx2 main directory alongside with the pcsx2.exe, and "LilyPad.lily" to anywhere you want.
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Question: Explain the problem with sugary drink consumption among children and adults.

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Data shows plateau in consumption at levels way higher than recommended.
Amid epidemics of obesity and all the problems that come with it, health experts have been sounding the alarm to cut way back on sugary drinks, particularly for kids. Pediatricians recommend kids drink no more than one 8-ounce sugary drink a week.
But that message, somehow, isn’t getting through.
Enlarge / Sugary drink consumption among kids from 1999 to 2010.
According to data from a 2003-2004 report, kids got an average of about 216 calories from sugary drinks a day, which had fallen to 155 by the 2009-2010 report. In today’s 2011-2014 report, that number hadn’t budged much, coming in at 143. That shakes out to about 7.3 percent of kids’ overall calorie counts per day.
For adults, the daily calorie tallies from sugary beverages went from 188 in 2003-2008 to 151 in 2009-2010. The latest report has the number at 145. That’s about 6.5 percent of adults' total calorie intake per day.
Health experts currently recommend that no more than 10 percent of a person’s daily calories should come from added sugars (those not naturally found in foods, such as fruit). The latest estimates suggest that Americans get an average of 13 percent of their calories from added sugars—and the major reason is sugary beverages.
It’s well known that over-indulging in added sugars is linked to obesity, as well as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and cavities. But sugary drinks pose a particularly difficult challenge to getting people to cut back on their sugars—people may not consider sodas and sweet drinks as part of their daily calorie intake, and they may not pay attention to how much they’re drinking.
It also doesn’t help that sugar and beverage industries have actively meddled in research and policy-making to downplay the health risks of their products and encourage sales—a topic Ars has covered several times.
This post has been updated to include the statement from the ABA.


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After months of dribbling out incomplete document requests made by frustrated GOP lawmakers, President Trump may be about to override Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and use his presidential authority to declassify several caches of information related to the DOJ/FBI's ongoing Trump-Russia counterintelligence operation, according to former IBD Bureau Chief Paul Sperry.
Sperry tweeted on Sunday that President Trump may declassify: 20 redacted pages of a June, 2017 FISA renewal, "and possibly" 63 pages of emails and notes between "Ohr & Steele," and FD-302 summaries of 12 interviews - In reference to twice-demoted DOJ official Bruce Ohr and/or his wife Nellie, both of whom were working with opposition research firm Fusion GPS to investigate Trump.
As Cristina Laila of the Gateway Pundit notes, Rosenstein and then-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe both signed off on a June 2017 FISA surveillance warrant renewal on former Trump aide Carter Page.
Meanwhile, several frustrated GOP lawmakers have called for the full release of the requested documents - with Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-NC) and Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) calling for their declassification recently, and Meadows and other members drawing up articles of impeachment against Rosenstein, only to withdraw them shortly thereafter.
It has come to the point that @realDonaldTrump himself needs to & should declassify the Carter Page FISA warrant applications & ONLY redact sources & methods that must be redacted. There is NO good reason why the public has not yet seen this information.
Potentially groundbreaking development here. The Carter Page FISA docs should be declassified and further unredacted (protecting only sources and methods) so Americans can know the truth.
Let's see if the president will follow suit and declassify documents that could only help his case. Then again, the DOJ is likely to scream "sources and methods!" and claim that the lives of countless intelligence officials will be forever compromised.


Question: Respond in 17 sentences. What can you tell me about the Open Home Gateway Forum?

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Following a successful public demonstration at the 88th Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meeting November 2013, ISC’s Open Home Gateway Forum team has submitted its code for package signing and validation to the OpenWrt project. ISC is now disbanding the Open Home Gateway Forum since this code has been completed.
Comcast and ISC created the Open Home Gateway Forum (OHGF) to address problems in managing large numbers of home gateway devices. The Open Home Gateway Forum (OHGF) team created and demonstrated enhancements to OpenWrt that enabled a robust process for remote configuration and software upgrade. This could allow an ISP to securely update home gateway devices, and might be leveraged more broadly by OpenWrt to provide automatic software updates. This is important since so much customer premise equipment never receives a software update, creating significant future security vulnerabilities. This new feature can mitigate the risk of software never being updated, which has recently been in the news in an article by Bruce Schneier and in a malware attack affecting Internet devices.
The remote configuration and update process uses cryptographic signatures and checksum verification to ensure the integrity of the update source as well as the validity of the software downloaded. These extra security measures protect the home gateway from downloading or installing software delivered by or tampered with by any unauthorized party.
As the largest cable Internet Provider in North America, Comcast has a vested interest in solving this problem. One way they have chosen to address it by funding the development of a transparent open source solution.
OpenWrt is a highly extensible GNU/Linux distribution that runs on over 80 different manufacturer’s embedded systems. OpenWrt is an open source project, meaning that the source code is freely available, and they welcome contributions from contributors anywhere in the world. Many of the millions of home gateways connected to the Internet run software based on OpenWrt. Improvements made in OpenWrt can have a wide-ranging impact.
After working with the OHGF team, OpenWrt is continuing to add support for detecting and recovering from interrupted installs and is working on a way to safely do home gateway kernel upgrades. For more information about OpenWrt, or to contribute or download the software distribution, see http://www.openwrt.org.


Question: Please draft a blog post about Red Pulse not honoring the RPX tokens on first come, first serve basis and join Shahzeb Ahmed's petition to ensure that the block 1445025 is honored by Red Pulse.

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RPX team said 100 times that send NEO on exact atomic hour of the second round. The enthusiastic followers of Red Pulse read their instructions and followed their words. Unfortunately, All of those people who followed them got punished for believing in their words. The Slack was blocked to new participants and the general channel was shut down by their moderator, which gave us no reason to stay on the slack at all. But, the moderator posted 3 Minutes before the second round that the round will begin 5 Minutes later.
THIS IS UNFAIR TO THOSE WHO WERE PREPARED. Unfair to those who were loyal and punctual. Everyone who spent 1 week running their GUI app lost today. I sent the transaction exactly within 3 Millisecond of the second hour and my Block was 1445025. They should have told us the block if that was set in their smart contract. This should have been a fair chance to all. We want Red Pulse to cancel any other block and honor the correct block for the RPX tokens on first come first serve basis.
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Question: Describe the 2014–15 network television schedule for the five major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. Respond in 3 sentences.

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The 2014–15 network television schedule for the five major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers prime time hours from September 2014 to August 2015. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 2013–14 season.
NBC was the first to announce its fall schedule on May 11, 2014, followed by Fox on May 12, 2014, ABC on May 13, 2014, CBS on May 14, 2014 and The CW on May 15, 2014.


Question: Provide an overview of Northeastern Illinois Golden Eagles men's basketball.

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Northeastern Illinois Golden Eagles men's basketball formerly represented Northeastern Illinois University in intercollegiate men's basketball. The team participated in NCAA Division I beginning with the 1990–91 season.


Question: Tell me about Gustavo Alonso Brand Villegas.

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Gustavo Alonso Brand Villegas (born 3 August 1961) is a Venezuelan football (soccer) referee, best known for having supervised one match during the 2004 Copa América in Peru. He also refereed at the Copa Libertadores 2006 (two matches) and the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (two matches).


Question: Do you know anything about Cole Green railway station?

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Cole Green railway station was a station at Cole Green, Hertfordshire, England, on the Hertford and Welwyn Junction Railway. It was a passenger station from 1858 until 18 June 1951, also serving the hamlet of Letty Green.
It is now a picnic spot on the Cole Green Way footpath and cycle trail.


Question: What do I need to view this page? Respond in 4 sentences.

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You need at least Flash Player 10 to view this page.
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Question: Respond in 46 words. Describe David Holston.

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David Holston (born January 26, 1986) is an American professional basketball player for JDA Dijon Basket of France's LNB Pro A. He played college basketball at the Chicago State University (CSU). In 2019, he was named the Most Valuable Player of the French LNB Pro A.


Question: Describe how humans can recognize 5,000 different faces.

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 Describe how humans can recognize 5,000 different faces.

The next time an old friend meets your greeting with a quizzical who-are-you stare, you’re right to take offence: new research suggests the average person can recognise 5,000 different faces.
“We were quite surprised by how high the top end was,” said Mike Burton, a professor of psychology who led the research at the University of York. About 2% of the population are thought to experience “face blindness” or prosopagnosia.
“We’ve studied faces for years and years and the main thing we always find is that there’s a huge difference between our ability to recognise familiar versus unfamiliar faces. People are surprisingly bad at checking a real face against a photo ID, and yet we recognise friends and colleagues over a huge range of conditions,” said Burton.
The scientists asked volunteers to spend an hour recalling as many faces as they could from their private lives, covering old school friends, work colleagues, past partners and colleagues. They then moved on to famous faces: actors, musicians, sports stars, politicians and so on. By recording how the volunteers’ recall rates slowed down, the psychologists estimated when they would run out of faces.
In the next part of the study, the volunteers were shown thousands of photographs of famous people and tested on how many they recognised, even if they could not name the person. The scientists only counted an individual as recognised if the volunteer knew them from two different pictures.
The researchers arrived at the 5,000 figure by combining the results from both parts of the study. While the number may seem high, given that humans evolved in small groups, it may simply reflect the social importance of recognising friends and foes and vast number of faces we are now exposed to. Details of the work are published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
“Given the social lives of our ancestors, the ability to recognise thousands of individuals might seem like overkill,” said Rob Jenkins, a psychologist at University of York and co-author on the study. “But there are plenty of examples of overkill in nature. The venom of some spiders can kill a horse, even though the spider presumably has no ambitions to eat the horse.” Equipped with such impressive facial recognition skills, it may be that we have little choice but to remember so many.
Burton said the research could ultimately improve automatic face recognition technology. Today’s best systems are good at spotting “strangers” but cannot outperform a human when it comes to recognising people the person is familiar with. “If we want to make the next step, we’ll need to start copying that,” said Burton.


Question: Describe the incident between the Kurdish militia YPG, David Gindo, and Elias Naser.

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 Describe the incident between the Kurdish militia YPG, David Gindo, and Elias Naser.

David Gindo (L) and Elias Naser, who were allegedly shot by members of the Kurdish militia YPG in the Khabur region in Syria. David was killed, Elias survived (AINA photo).
(AINA) -- A joint statement issued by the Assyrian Federation of Germany and the Assyrian Federation of Sweden claims the assassination of an Assyrian military commander in Syria was carried out by members of the People's Defense Units (YPG), a Kurdish military group in eastern Syria.
On April 22nd commander David Gindo and Elias Naser were shot (AINA 2015-04-23). David Gindo was killed immediately. Elias Naser was critically wounded and left for dead, but he survived. He is unable to speak because one bullet hit his throat.
According to testimony from Mr. Naser, written while in hospital a few days after the attack, the assassins were members of the YPG. He specified the pseudonyms of three of them.
Mr. Naser said they voluntarily left with the 5 YPG members, expecting to go to a secret location for a meeting with another Assyrian. They were blindfolded en route and when they arrived at a location unknown to them they were accused of collaborating with both ISIS and government forces. David Gindo was severely beaten before being shot execution style. Elias Naser was shot in the throat and after he fell forward was shot in the back.
When the YPG members left Mr. Naser crawled 500 meters to a road where he was picked up and taken to hospital. He is now recuperating in a secret location, with his wife and children.
ROJAVA, April 29, 2015 - On April 22, 2015, Commander of the Zerevani forces, Khabur Dawid Cindo, was martyred as a result of an attack, and his fellow fighters were wounded. We in the General Command of the People's Defense Units, Syriac Military Council and Khabur Zerevani Forces, consider this assassination as an attack against peoples in the region who share a new form of brotherhood and peaceful life. This attack has happened at a time that Syriac, Kildani, Assyrian and all Christian people are remembering the Seyfo Genocide with sorrow; at a time that our Units have gained significant victories against terrorist attacks of Daesh in Khabur area, Til Temr town where tens of our hero combatants have been martyred expressing a historical resistance.
Declaring for the public opinion, we will work decisively to bring the killers to justice, as we have put up a special committee for investigation on this incidental case; the results will be revealed once the process is completed.
It is not clear if the motive for this attack was political or criminal. The YPG gunmen stole 750,000 Syrian Pounds, 35 AK47s and few PKC machine guns from Mr. Naser's home.
On the night of April 22 two local Assyrian leaders from the Khabur area in Syria were taken from their homes and attacked by members of the Kurdish militia known as YPG.
David Gindo and Elias Naser were important leaders for the Assyrians of Khabur with Naser being the leader of the Assyrian militia in the area. It is through his miraculous survival from the attack the perpetrators of the heinous act have been identified.
On April 22nd, shortly after 23:00, Mr. Elias Naser and Mr. David Gindo arrived at Mr. Naser's home where they were confronted by five individuals from YPG demanding to speak with them. All five used pseudonyms, three of which were Kamal, Hamza and Dlovan.
The uninvited Kurdish guests sat with the two Assyrian leaders and drank tea, informing them that YPG leaders wished to speak with them about the looting, and that their colleague Riadh Gabriel was already at a secret location for a meeting concerning the matter. Trusting in what they were told, Mr. Elias Naser and Mr. David Gindo agreed to go with the YPG men. On route to the destination they were told that they must be blindfolded because the location of the meeting must remain a secret.
Once they arrived at the location they were tied with ropes and David Antar Gindo was tortured and beaten. The YPG men falsely accused Mr. Elias Naser and Mr. David Gindo of collaborating with ISIS and the Assad regime. These baseless accusations were a pretext to take control of the Khabour Assyrian Council of Guardians, starting with the elimination of its leadership.
After the YPG gunmen badly beat David Gindo, they took him and Elias Naser to an off road spot near the village of Jumayla, adjacent to the Euphrates damn (also called the Assad damn). The YPG men first executed point blank and in cold blood, David Antar Gindo, and then they turned their guns on Elias Naser. The time was, recalls Elias, around 2:30 am.
Fortunately for Elias Naser, the fatal shot intended to kill him struck him in the throat, and he fell forward as if dead. Though the YPG gunmen shot and kicked him in the body, Elias Naser remained motionless and was left for dead. Passing in and out of consciousness, Elias Naser waited until his attackers had left, freed his hands from the cords that bound him and crawled a distance of 500 meters to a main road where he was taken by a passing car to hospital.
The YPG gunmen also stole a sum of 750,000 Syrian Pounds, 35 AK47s and few PKC machine guns from Mr. Naser's home.
Presently, Elias Naser is recuperating in a secret location, thankful to be alive but nonetheless mourning the loss of his friend David Antar Gindo.
The Assyrian Federation of Sweden and the Assyrian Federation of Germany condemn the heinous act by the armed wing of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) which is the Syrian arm of the PKK. The decision to eliminate the two Assyrians is political and aimed at further weakening the Assyrian presence in the area.
It is becoming evident that the Assyrians are squeezed between ISIL and Kurdish political groups eager to occupy Assyrian villages and land. We also call upon Western governments to send direct aid and support to Assyrians in Syria and Iraq.