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Today we'll look at a couple more tips for working in Swift. This time, we'll focus on Swift properties. Let's dive in.
In Objective-C, we'd likely use Key-Value Observing to "know" when the value of a property on one of our objects changes.
"Lazy" initialization is a great way to put off expensive work until some later time in our code. Back in Objective-C, if we wanted to "lazily" initialize a property, we might go override it's getter, and check if a private instance variable is nil or not, then populate it if it's not, then return it. Whew!
We can also use this technique to lazily init our UI elements, neat!


Question: Describe the IUPUI Letters public sculpture. Respond in 8 sentences.

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Untitled (IUPUI Letters), a public sculpture, was designed by the New York City firm Two Twelve and is located on the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus near downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. The sculpture can be viewed at the entrance of the IUPUI Campus Center, at the north-west corner of Vermont Street and University Boulevard.
This sculpture consists of five letters. Each of the letters has a height of 7 feet 5 inches and a length of 3 feet 5 inches. The width of each sculpture varies by letter. Widths are the following for each of the letters represented in the sculpture: "I" is 11.5 inches, "U" is 26.125 inches, and the "P" is 25 inches. The fabricator of the letters was ASI Modulex of Indianapolis. They built the sculptures in May 2008 and installed them in June of the same year.


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This is the fourth episode of our Dresden Files Accelerated Edition (DFAE) Playtest game. If you want a little more information about the characters and the situation you’re hearing about in this episode, please listen to the other DFAE Playtest recordings available on this blog. I also wanted to apologize about the sound quality in this episode. There was a lot of cell phone interference during this game and as a result the raw had a lot of clicking in it. I removed as much as possible, but the point at which I was able to completely remove the interference, there was no playable audio left. Please forgive the nuisance of the clicking this time and I will do what I can to keep this issue at a minimum going forward.


Question: Analyze the data from a recent tournament to discuss trends in competitive play. Respond in detail.

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A total of 84 individual players participated (10 of these participated in 2 events).
There were 62 different character/action cards and 14 different BACs used.
Of the 62 character/action cards, 32 were used only once.
The most common character card used was Professor X, a total of 13 times (combining the Trainer and Recruiting Young Mutants versions, 7 & 6 times each respectfully); followed by Constantine – Hellblazer (7 times), Red Dragon, both Lesser and Greater versions (7 times), Wasp – Founding Avenger, Human Paladin – Lesser Emerald Alliance and Parallax (the Source of Terror and Fear versions) (6 times each).
The most common action cards used were Millennium Puzzle and Lantern Ring – Limited Only By Imagination at 4 times each.
Character/action cards from The Avengers vs. X-Men set had the most used by far (20 total), followed by War of Light (9), Uncanny X-Men (7), Age of Ultron (6), D&D and Yu-Gi-Oh (5 each), Justice League and Amazing Spider-Man (4 each) and 2 promos (Iron Fist – The Immortal and Spider-Man – The Amazing ).
Of the 14 BAC used, the most common was Magic Missile (7 times).
5 BACs were only used once.
The sets from which the most BAC were used were from the D&D and Uncanny X-Men sets (4 apiece).
While we now have 8 sets and over 1,100 cards to choose from, based on this data it shows that the cards from the AvX Set are still very viable in tournament play. There are still stalwart cards being used from the Meta (Tsarina, Green Goliath, Gobby and Johnny Storm) – used no more than 4 times each – Johnny Storm only 3 times, but many of the 20 cards used from the AvX set were only once – 12 total. This shows that there are still many winning combos within this set.
Many of the most frequently used cards (4 to 7 times) had key globals. One particular omission was Doomcaliber Knight – Fiendish Fighter: this card was not used at all. The globals from these cards are very familiar to many players: PXG, Human Paladin, Wasp, Mera, BEWD, Red Dragon and Parallax.
The War of Light set, while only having 9 different cards making an appearance, had the most instances per card. Even though AvX had the most cards used, many were only 1 time instances. The cards from the WoL set were used between 3-7 times a piece and only two (Lantern Battery – Power Source and Lyssa Drak – Future Sight) were each used once.
The familiar cards from the D&D set that have made many top 16 team tournament lists are still strong: Red Dragon, Human Paladin and Kobold – Greater Humanoid. Interestingly, Prismatic Spray was used only once.
The most recognizable cards from the Yu-Gi-Oh set were still being used, but not as you’d expect. BEWD and Millennium Puzzle were used 4 times apiece, but it was the Skeletal Warrior version of Doomcaliber Knight that was used (3 times); Jinzo – Trap Destroyer only 2 times and Morphing Jar – Canopic Jar only once.
The Justice League set had the poorest showing. Constantine – Hellblazer is the only standout. There were only 3 other cards used (one time apiece): Black Manta – David, Cheetah – Cursed Archaeologist and Constantine – Antihero.
The latest released set, the Amazing Spider-Man, only had 4 cards used, all except one was used only 1 time: Aunt May – Independent, Black Widow – Stinger, Kingpin – We Do Not Speak His Name and Mary Jane – MJ: the only card used 2 times. This is to be expected as players have not had as much time to test their teams with these new cards. Interesting omission, given all of the discussion and hype, Vulture – Adrian Toomes and Silver Sable – Hero For Hire were not used. I do not expect this to be the case going forward.
Overall, many teams were build for fast, aggressive play. There were a few control teams, but as stated above, many of the familiar control cards were not as frequently used as have been seen in past tournaments. I am pleased to see such a wide variety of cards and combos doing well in competitive play and looking forward to even more interesting brews.


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A standard moving permit reserves two parking spaces for one day from 7 a.m. - 5 p.m. You can only apply online if your moving date is at least two weeks away, and no more than four weeks away.
You can check to see if the space you want is available. Search our database of Street Occupancy Permits before coming to City Hall.
The street space you want to reserve needs to be an actual parking spot. The spot can be residential, commercial, metered, or something else, but it must be legal to park a vehicle there.
From August 31 to September 2, some common moving locations are blocked off to allow for moving truck dropoffs. They don't require a permit.
If you want a permit in the North End from June 1 - August 31, you must have permission from the City before applying online. Please call the Boston Transportation Department at 617-635-2560.
You must come in person for permits for overnight storage or moving containers. You also need to give us a letter of authorization from the company that owns those containers. The company must hold a bond with the City.
A one-day permit for a moving truck for two non-metered spaces costs $69 and includes two signs. One-day permits for two metered spaces cost an additional $40. You can pay with Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express, or a debit card.
After your application is submitted and approved, we will mail you your permit through the US Postal Service. We mail the permit to the address you provide when you create your account. Please note: this address may be different than your billing address, or the permitted address.
You should receive your permit within 10 days of it being approved.
You or someone you know needs to post signs on the street at least 48 hours before the start time of the permit (7 a.m.). We recommend posting these signs three days before your move.
We also give you a flier to alert your neighbors. Please make copies and place them in doorways and on cars within a half-block of the parking spaces you are using. You need to do this every day for at least two days before your move. If the spaces are metered, you only need to flier one day before your move.
Make sure to clean up any debris left behind and remove any signs or fliers after your move. If you have questions about your application, please email movingtrucks@boston.gov or call the Office of the Parking Clerk at 617-635-2560.
A standard moving permit reserves two parking spaces for one day from 7 a.m. - 5 p.m. If your moving day is at least three days away, but no more than four weeks away, you can apply in person. You can apply for a permit for up to five days in a row.
Do you need a permit for more than five days? After that first five-day period, we require a 48-hour break where the public can use the space again. After that, we are able to issue another permit for up to five days.
Moving truck permits can be purchased at the Office of the Parking Clerk, on the second floor of City Hall. The windows are to the far left. The Parking Clerk's Office is open Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
if there is metered parking.
A one-day permit for a moving truck for two non-metered spaces costs $69, and includes two signs. One-day permits for two metered spaces cost an additional $40.
You can pay with cash, a check (with a valid photo ID), money order, Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express, or a pinless debit card.
If you use a credit card or pinless debit card, there is a non-refundable service fee of 2.5% of the total payment, with a $1 minimum. This fee is paid to the card processor and not kept by the City.
If your debit card requires you to enter your pin to process a payment, you CANNOT use it to pay your fee.
You are responsible for removing any posted signs or fliers after they are no longer needed. You also must clean up any debris from your move. If you have any questions, please email movingtrucks@boston.gov or call the Parking Clerk's Office at 617-635-2560.
Metered spaces: $40 for taking up two metered spaces at $20 a meter.
If a car is parked at your reserved spot, call the Boston police at 617-343-4911. Let them know it’s not an emergency and give them the plate number. If the police can’t reach the car owner, they will arrange for a tow.
If you have any questions, please email movingtrucks@boston.gov or call the Parking Clerk's Office at 617-635-2560.


Question: Describe the dangers of squirrels on the power grid.

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Power outages have been a popular topic lately, with concerns about the Super Bowl, recent storms, and freezing temperatures testing the grid’s strength. Utility companies have worked hard to keep everything running smoothly by replacing broken infrastructure, bringing in extra equipment and crews, and taking advantage of demand response. While there are many causes for outages ranging from fallen branches to cable failure, one of the main causes comes in a cute, fuzzy disguise. Yes, the real electricity enemy, or should I say enemies are squirrels.
Believe it or not, squirrels are among the most frequent causes for why our power goes out. In fact, just this year I have found more than 10 news stories about utilities losing power because a squirrel chewed through electrical wires or went exploring in equipment. It should be mentioned those are just the instances bad enough to be publicly reported, there are far more cases that did not get as much exposure.
Since the beginning of the year, and yes we’re only one month in, 1,400 people in Flower Mound, Texas lost power because a squirrel chewed a circuit line. Two weeks later another 1,131 customers lost power in Denton, Texas from squirrels, and more than 24,000 PG&E customers in Marin County, CA, were affected when a squirrel came in contact with equipment. According to PG&E spokesman Paul Moreno, “Essentially, the squirrel acted as a conductor between isolated pieces of equipment.” These three occasions are just the tip of a lightning bolt for how often our rodent friends gnaw our power away.
Some of the more shocking outages (pun totally intended) include when trading on the NASDAQ market was halted not once, but twice, because squirrels chewed through power lines in 1987 and again in 1994. They have also scurried their way into substation equipment causing transformers to blow up! In June of last year a transformer exploded and started a fire from squirrel interference leaving 10,000 Westar Energy customers without power in Wichita, Kansas. Finally, 3,000 people in Virginia lost power when a squirrel caused a transformer to burst in 2012.
There is some hope to keeping squirrels away from our power lines. In Columbia, MO a company called Critter Guard Inc has two products available- the Line Guard and Pole Guard. These products are placed at the ends of power lines and poles to, “deter squirrels, roof rats and other rodents from gaining access, via the overhead powerlines, to power stations and homes where they inflict costly roof and transformer damages and cause power outages.” There is also a website, Squirrels Ate My Wiring, where people can go and connect with others who have fallen victim to squirrels. Don’t worry; none of the methods cause any injury to the animals, if anything they’re saving them from potential electrocution.
Squirrels in general are pretty harmless, unless you’ve been to a college campus in the Northeast, in which case, you know about the squirrel-on-human attacks. However, despite their furry tails and tendencies to pal up with a moose, they can cause a lot of damage. So next time you look out and see a squirrel scampering across a power line, you might want to go grab a flashlight- your power could soon be going out.
The squirrel threat isn’t limited to the grid. Residential photovoltaic solar installations get their wires gnawed on as well. The lose of power, of course, is limited to as single home, but the expense is still significant. Removal, inspection and repair can cost thousands. Preventive measures can be difficult if solar equipment and roof warranties are taken into consideration. So, commercial solutions to this problem have cropped up as well. We’ve got one that homeowners, installers or solar leasing and financing companies with concerns about squirrels or other varmints (such as pigeons) plaguing their system will want to check out.
With their strong teeth, squirrels can chew through just about any material. Switch to metal garbage cans as well as rodent-proof storage containers to completely protect pet food and trash from squirrels.


Question: What is the role of teachers and teacher educators in Australia's education system?

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Great article from great colleagues who have a deep and respectful understanding of the complex work and contexts of teachers and teacher educators. To support their advocacy to trust teachers and teacher educators, it’s worthwhile understanding the wider strategic importance of initial teacher education in Australia. To illustrate, approximately 8-10% of students in higher education in Australia are studying Education, while the remaining 90% or so students who are studying other important fields of human endeavour (e.g. Medicine, Law, Engineering, Arts, Science, Dentistry, Nursing, Business, etc) were taught by teachers. And, importantly, those teachers, in turn, were taught by teacher educators.
“So next time a public speaker takes a cheap shot at school teachers, reflect for a moment on just how much our political system, our way of associating, our peaceful streets and national consensus about the norms of public life, are learned from teachers.
… Teachers are, for me, the heroes of this and every Australia Day”.
Rather than just noting teacher’s high workload, I suggest doing something about it. I suggest training teachers to work together, including using technology, so they are not working alone. Also teachers could be trained to use technology for teaching and administrative tasks. Where schools don’t provide the systems needed, educational academics can step in and commission it. The software engineering students in Australian universities can then build the software. As an example, I have an ANU student building an addition module for Moodle for me to add quizzes to videos.
That’d be great if we were allowed to use third-party administration software, but we have to use the clunky, government developed systems.
Sarah, you can change clunky government systems. Martin Dougiamas did not like available teaching software, so he wrote Moodle. I didn’t like the networking systems used by the Australian Government, so I joined the cabal which had the Internet and the World Wide Web adopted. The way to do this is to think like a professional: get together with your colleagues, professional bodies and academics, work out what to do and then do it. You will find plenty of people willing to help. Work out what you want, have the open source community develop it, have academics teach how to use it for training purposes, and have innovation students work on marketing it to schools.
It is to be considered that those who criticise the work of schools and our teachers have little background in education except that they attended a school themselves. In their criticisms, they rely on this background of a different time. Moreover, their knowledge of the complexities of schools and teaching, the chaos of working in an environment of children living life as children and working in an environment where politicians recognise themselves as the clients of the system and not those children and their parents has changed the nature of schooling in the last 30 years.
In my early years as a teacher, I was made to feel that I was the person who had the knowledge and disposition about teaching. I pursued study at night for years to extend my knowledge and build the extensive understanding required to work with children in a school setting. This was respected by parents and colleagues. Now, however, many who have never stepped inside a classroom since leaving one themselves feel they know and can dictate.
This is making staffing our schools a difficult task. Teachers burnout quickly when under rapid fire criticism.
Thanks Glenn. We are desperately hoping that those that seek to find fault with teachers, and who agitate through the media to denigrate the quality of our profession, will start to see some sense in celebrating the achievements of our teachers instead.
Our teachers ARE experts in teaching and learning, and our teacher educators ARE experts in teacher education and educational research. It is about time that we moved forward in education in Australia. The only way we will do this is by listening to them!
Sorry – 3 highly accomplished and well-respected teacher educators and researchers.
Thank you Nan, Donna and Jo-Anne for an important statement about teachers and teaching. Great leaders lead from the front and your contribution is a valuable statement at a time of significant complexity in our world and in our local communities. If we are to continue to attract great people into our initial teacher education programs and hold onto them beyond their early career teaching phase we need to disrupt this sustained and unjustified critique of our teaching profession. In addition, we need to critique the sustained emphasis on graduate teachers who often commence teaching in some of the most challenging teaching contexts with limited resources and limited supports. Our early career workforce is working hard every day to meet the needs of their communities in the most remarkable ways and they do a great job of it! I hope that your message reaches our early career colleagues, pre-service teachers and those thinking about teaching, to inspire them to critique the critique and continue to work towards creating great futures for others. Well done!
Brilliant article, backed up by intuitive comment by peers and others.
When faced with the criticism that students are entering teaching degrees with low tertiary entrance scores, I would argue that some of the best teachers are those who have struggled to learn and therefore will often have a greater understanding of their students’ learning impediments.
Thanks for the support! It is such a shame the media does not elect to publicize this perspective. It is difficult enough to be a good teacher, without demoralizing media coverage. It will become increasingly difficult to recruit bright innovative thinkers to the profession if we don’t enhance the respect in which it is held. Comments such as these certainly help, in that regard.
Very well said, Sue…please know that there are many who value your important work and efforts, and this needs to be elevated and find expression through the media for the profession.


Question: Who was Sheikh Tahir Jalaluddin? Respond in 1 sentences.

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Sheikh Tahir Jalaluddin (8 December 1869, Ampek Angkek, Agam, West Sumatra – 1956) was a famous Muslim ulama in Southeast Asia.


Question: What cards are banned in Modern and Pauper? Respond in 721 words.

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The list of all banned and restricted cards, by format, is here. The full list of cards banned in Modern is here. The full list of cards banned in Pauper is here.
Wizards of the Coast examines tournament results from each competitive Constructed format. When a format becomes imbalanced, or too many games are not interactive, we examine the cause.
We look for competitively viable decks that frequently win before the fourth turn. The Amulet Bloom deck has reached a performance level that is consistent with those criteria. In the past year, Justin Cohen finished second at Pro Tour Fate Reforged and Benjamin Miller made the Top 8 at Grand Prix Oklahoma City. At the StarCityGames.com Cincinnati Open, with over 1,000 competitors, Bobby Fortanely won and Bill Comminos finished in the Top 8.
This deck frequently wins before the fourth turn. With an Amulet of Vigor, a Summer Bloom, a bounce land such as Simic Growth Chamber, and another land such as Gemstone Mine, the deck can generate seven mana for additional plays on turn two. Primeval Titan, or Hive Mind with a Summoner's Pact, can end the game very quickly. For these purposes, we are treating a turn-three Hive Mind with a Pact (which forces your opponent to pay 2GG next upkeep or lose the game) as a turn-three win.
We looked into which card could be banned to reduce the frequency of the very early wins. When the deck generates seven mana on turn two, there are a lot of cards that could lead to a quick finish. So we focused on the cards that lead to that explosive mana, and that led us to choose between Summer Bloom and Amulet of Vigor.
Since either card would be sufficient, the issue turned to what possibilities remained after either card was banned. Banning Amulet of Vigor leaves a Summer Bloom ramp deck. Banning Summer Bloom allows Amulet of Vigor with tapped lands. While it was not clear that either of these has all the tools to form a competitive deck today, the deck with Amulet of Vigor is more distinctive and has more potential as more tapped lands are printed. Azusa, Lost but Seeking is a potential replacement for Summer Bloom, but it is less efficient—so while there is a deck to play, it won't have frequent turn-three wins.
For those reasons, Summer Bloom is banned from Modern.
We also look for decks that hold a large enough percentage of the competitive field to reduce the diversity of the format.
Antonio Del Moral León won Pro Tour Fate Reforged playing Splinter Twin, and Jelger Wiegersma finished third; Splinter Twin has won two of the four Modern Pro Tours. Splinter Twin reached the Top 8 of the last six Modern Grand Prix. The last Modern Grand Prix in Pittsburgh had three Splinter Twin decks in the Top 8, including Alex Bianchi's winning deck.
We considered what one would do with the cards from a Splinter Twin deck with Splinter Twin banned. In the case of some Jeskai or Temur, there are very similar decks to build. In other cases, there is Kiki-Jiki as a replacement.
In the interest of competitive diversity, Splinter Twin is banned from Modern.
The format currently has poor color balance. Of the ten most played nonland cards, nine are blue; the tenth is Lightning Bolt. We looked into the cause of this.
The Esper Familiars deck uses Sunscape Familiar and Nightscape Familiar to reduce the cost of blue spells, which include "free spells" such as Cloud of Faeries and Snap. Combined with the bounce lands, this means the "free spells" effectively produce mana. Here is a typical winning position: One casts Ghostly Flicker targeting Cloud of Faeries and a Mnemonic Wall, netting mana and getting back the Ghostly Flicker. Once enough mana is produced, the Ghostly Flicker can target a Sea Gate Oracle instead of the Cloud of Faeries, repeatedly looking for Sage's Row Denizen. From there, the flickering mills the opponent's deck.
Because of all the card-drawers here, it is difficult for non-blue decks to defeat this deck. It pushes the metagame to the imbalanced state where blue is heavily overplayed. Cloud of Faeries is likely the most problematic card in the deck.
In the interest of color diversity, Cloud of Faeries is banned from Pauper.


Question: Do you know anything about Skullmonkeys?

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Postel Nunatak () is a nunatak, 1,450 m, standing 8 nautical miles (15 km) southwest of Snake Ridge along the ice escarpment that trends southwest from the ridge, in the Patuxent Range, Pensacola Mountains. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1956-66. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Philip A. Postel, meteorologist at South Pole Station, winter 1967.


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A food truck, who was offering free food to utility workers, was kicked out of town for not having a permit. But he couldn't get a permit, because city hall was closed.
Green Cove Springs, FL — After Irma devastated Florida, most restaurants and stores were shut down in certain areas. Green Cove Springs was one of those places. So, when Jack Roundtree, owner of the Triple J BBQ food truck, arrived in town, not only was he welcomed with open arms — he was desperately needed. As he sold BBQ to paying customers, Roundtree used the extra money to feed utility workers for free for all their hard work. However, once officials saw a man who’d dare sell food in their town without paying them first, police were called in to make quick work of this entrepreneurial good samaritan.
Shut down and get out of town—is what Roundtree was told by local authorities for both providing charity and a much-needed product and service. Why was Roundtree told to get out of town, you ask? Well, he hadn’t paid the local government for the ‘privilege’ to sell food to those in need inside Green Cove Springs.
Roundtree is no outlaw. In fact, Green Cove Springs actually encouraged him to sell his BBQ during their monthly Saturday-in-the-Park event before the hurricane. But not this time.
Even if he would’ve gone to city hall to buy a permit to sell during the Irma aftermath, however, he couldn’t—they were closed.
“It was interesting to learn that Roundtree and his truck were encouraged to serve customers during Green Cove’s monthly Saturday-in-the-Park event without a permit, but during Irma’s aftermath, not so much.
So, instead of allowing Roundtree to offer free food to utility workers and sell food to people during their time of need, and just get a permit after government employees decided to return to work—they just kicked him out of town.
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The irony here is that he was kicked out of town for failing to get a permit by government workers because the other government workers who would’ve given him this permit, were not at work.
In a report from the Institute for Justice, Communications Coordinator, Matt Powers explains that Roundtree is not alone.
Cities across the country often impose strict regulations that make it nearly impossible for food trucks to operate. In 2011, IJ launched its National Street Vending Initiative to fight these laws.
In Baltimore, the Institute for Justice (IJ) is challenging a ban on food trucks parking within 300-foot of a brick-and-mortar business that sells the same type of food. In Chicago, IJ is challenging regulations that bans food trucks from operating within 200 feet of a brick-and-mortar business serving food and forces them to install GPS tracking devices that broadcast their every move. And IJ is challenging a Louisville, Kentucky, law banning food trucks from operating within 150 feet of any restaurant selling similar food.
These strict regulations are ostensibly designed for food safety, but in reality, serve to raise revenue for the state and limit established restaurants’ competition. They also stifle economic growth.
It is not only during times of crisis that food trucks contribute to their communities. According to IJ’s report Streets of Dreams mobile vending businesses help people escape poverty and unemployment through affordable start-up costs which creates the initial economic opportunity for upward mobility. IJ’s report, Seven Myths and Realitiesfound the presence of food trucks can actually help local restaurant industries by attracting new customers and serving as incubators for new restaurants. Cities should embrace food trucks and liberate them from onerous regulations so they can enjoy the benefits these businesses bring.
When people in need are denied food they are willing to purchase because government workers aren’t in the office to sell the maker of that food a permission slip, something is wrong in the land of the free.
As TFTP reported earlier this month, this problem is everywhere. It stifles local economic growth, persecutes the poor the hardest, and turns hard-working entrepreneurs into criminals, ripe for the extortion of state.
Luckily, thanks to Martin Flores, who filmed an innocent hot dog vendor named Beto get robbed by a Berkely police officer for selling hot dogs, Americans are seeing the harsh reality that is making a living in a police state.


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Rita Barisse (12 May 1917 – 25 April 2001) was a British journalist, writer and translator. She was the second wife of the writer Jean Bruller, also known as Vercors, and collaborated with him on works released under that pen name.


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Plans for a major new nuclear power station in Wales have taken a crucial step forward as UK regulators approved the project.
The Office for Nuclear Regulation and two other government bodies gave the green light on Thursday for the Japanese reactor design for Horizon Nuclear Power’s plant at Wylfa, marking the end of a five-year regulatory process.
Attention will now turn to financing the Hitachi-backed project on the island of Anglesey, which was the site of Britain’s oldest nuclear plant until it closed two years ago.
During a visit by UK ministers to Japan last December, it emerged that London and Tokyo were considering public financing for Wylfa. This would be a significant break with the UK government’s previous approach.
Hitachi has already spent £2bn on development. Last week the consortium said it needed a financial support package by mid-2018 or it could stop funding development.
Japan’s Toshiba has bowed out of the race to build nuclear plants in the UK, confirming last week that a South Korean nuclear firm had been chosen to buy its venture to build a plant in Cumbria.
If Horizon is successful with Wylfa, it hopes to build a second new nuclear power station at Oldbury in Gloucestershire. The plants will use Hitachi’s advanced boiling water reactor (ABWR), which has been approved for use at Wylfa.
The Welsh plant would have a capacity of 2.7GW, similar to the 3.2GW of the nuclear power station that EDF is building at Hinkley Point in Somerset.
Ministers said last week that nuclear can and would compete with rival technologies, such as offshore wind, the price of which has reached a record low.
Richard Harrington, energy minister, said it was “very naive” and “very simplistic” to suggest that because the guaranteed price for wind was lower there would be no more nuclear projects.


Question: "Hey, now that I'm thirty and finally have my act together, do you want to date me?"

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I get it though, now that you’re on the downside of 30, the wrinkles are starting, the body is sagging and you have stretch marks and that c-section scar from pushing out that bad boy’s rugrat. I know it was impossible to see that that deadbeat irresponsible jerk was actually a deadbeat irresponsible jerk, but that’s not my problem. While you were waiting for those texts that never came I was busy getting my career in order and maximizing my credit score. Now my biggest issue is deciding which color Audi I’m going to buy. Why in the world would I choose to take on you and your problems?
In your twenties you barely gave me the time of day. Meanwhile you were jumping in bed with any guy with a neck tattoo or a prison record. Why would I date you? I know where you’ve been, and I hope you’ve been tested. From the trail of bad boys and the mistreatment you tolerated, no, invited into your life and seeing all the drama you created for yourself, I can only conclude that you don’t need a nice guy, you need therapy! I’m a simple guy and like my life uncomplicated. You are the human embodiment of drama and chaos, I’d have to be crazier than, well… YOU to take on your baggage.
Face it, you’d get sick of me and my nice guy ways. I’ll remember your birthday and our anniversary and I’ll buy you flowers on both. I’ll treat you with respect and you’ll get bored. I know damn well you’re going to end up cheating on me, and I don’t plan on giving you half my stuff when you do. I work hard for what I have and now that I’ve achieved a little success I would love someone to share my life with. But that’s not going to be you. You thought I wasn’t worthy of you back then and I feel you’re not worthy of me now.
Long suffering nice guy tired of the game.	Read more articles from Leo on Thought Catalog.


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Pat Lane enjoyed the biggest win of his career yet with the Avanti Isowhey Sports rider beating Nathan Elliott of Kenyan Riders Downunder to the 2016 Grafton to Inverell title and pull on the first NRS leader's jersey of the season.
Avanti Isowhey Sports teammate Pat Shaw then won the sprint for third place to cap off the race which was won in record time by Lane.
"I am over the moon to come away with that one," said Lane. "To get the record is also great, but I would have been equally happy to win the slowest Classic – just winning is incredible!
"Nathan did most of the work today, he was just awesome. I tried to go ahead but could not get rid of him. Nathan’s a good mate of mine – I train with him all the time – so to come into the finish together was just awesome."
Two-time defending champion Sean Lake was eighth as Avanti placed all but one of their riders, Sam Chrome, inside the top-ten to dominate the race.


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The Hobos are a Latvian rock group formed in 1991 by Rolands Ūdris (vocals), Mārtiņš Burkēvics (bass guitar), Egons Kronbergs (guitar) and Vilnis Krieviņš (drums). Their debut album was hailed by many prominent critics as the best thing to come out of Latvian music scene in the last decade.


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The left sure gets angry when people point out the many flaws of socialism.
A student government diversity leader has vowed to work “tirelessly” to shut down conservative Dennis Prager’s upcoming talk at the University of Wyoming.
Why does a die-hard SJW have such a violent name like “Hunter”?
Gee, it’s almost like they’re afraid to debate their position on it’s merits.
The speech given by Mr. Prager. It was well received.


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Charles Lenmore Richards (October 3, 1877 – December 22, 1953) was a United States Representative from Nevada.


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Most of the U.K.’s big mobile carriers give the police automated access to their customers’ metadata, the Guardian reported on Friday.
British data retention laws, notably the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), ensure that operators must hang onto call records so they can be queried without a warrant by the authorities — but they don’t say the cops should get direct access. Nonetheless, that seems to be what EE, Vodafone and Three allow, with O2 being the only standout.
The Guardian compared this direct-access program with the Prism scheme in the U.S. Indeed, though Edward Snowden’s revelations have been wide-ranging, the first one to emerge was about the NSA accessing Verizon call records — more of a scandal in the U.S., which doesn’t have U.K.-style data retention laws.
RIPA has recently been implicated as a mechanism for the police to secretly figure out the identity of journalists’ sources. According to a separate Guardian report on Sunday, the government will alter the law so that any requests relating to journalistic sources must be approved by a judge.
As over half a million RIPA requests were made by UK public authorities in 2013 alone, it’s not hard to see why an automated system is preferable for efficiency reasons, though I’d argue that the fact it has to do with customer privacy means the practice is ethically questionable.
“Our policy is to review all the requests we get manually and that’s just the way it works,” an O2 spokeswoman told me on Monday, quite proudly.
Vodafone, meanwhile, said in a statement: “The overwhelming majority of the RIPA notices we receive are processed automatically in accordance with the strict framework set out by RIPA and underpinned by the Code of Practice. This reduces the risk of human error, while ensuring that all written demands sent to us comply with legal due process.
Why hide it on the forehead? Why not under the arm where no one looks, unless it’s a good looking woman in a sleeveless dress.


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One-time Playmate of the Year Karen McDougal may be just about to learn some of the finer points of contract law, courtesy of her former lover, Donald Trump. McDougal conducted a bombshell interview with Ronan Farrow of the New Yorker – and neither Trump nor his tabloid friends are likely to take it sitting down.
Hush money wasn’t the only thing in McDougal’s contract with AMI – it also laid out plans for her to author a regular aging-and-fitness column. McDougal’s contract with AMI was a limited life-story rights agreement granting AMI exclusive ownership of her account of any romantic, personal, or physical relationship she has ever had with any “then-married man.” Despite the ambiguous language, the then-married man in question was clearly Donald Trump – a detail that has some limited potential to help McDougal out in the inevitable lawsuit.
Well, she should be. Karen McDougal signed a contract that pretty clearly obligated her to keep her mouth shut about her affair with Donald Trump. She agreed that any disputes over that contract would be resolved in a mandatory arbitration process – and not in open court. Now, McDougal has been affected by #MeToo, the Stormy Daniels story, and her own health. She wants to speak out, and is apparently willing to risk the legal consequences of violating the shady deal she made with the tabloid.
She’s damn right it’s different. McDougal, by her own account, was not the victim of sexual harassment or assault; she was involved in a consensual relationship with a prominent man. She signed away her rights to publicize that story for a $150,000 payday. Now, she’s having some seller’s remorse. I can’t blame her for wanting to out Trump as the sleazemaster that he is, but it’s kind of a stretch for McDougal to cast herself as some sort of feminist pioneer. Her choice to speak out may be a smart one, but it’s not paving the way for anything other than stricter clauses in future hush-money contracts.
While Karen McDougal isn’t likely to get the part as Trump’s Victim Du Jour, she is a shoe-in for Smart, Opportunistic Woman Who May Beat An Overconfident Slimeball At His Own Game.


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Jürgen Klopp has had to issue another vote of confidence in Loris Karius after the Liverpool goalkeeper erred in a pre-season friendly win over Tranmere Rovers.
Karius, whose calamitous display in the Champions League final contributed to defeat by Real Madrid in May, made a mistake in his second appearance since that fateful night in Kiev. The 25-year-old spilled a free-kick by Oliver Norburn into the path of Johnny Smith who reduced Liverpool’s lead to 3-1. Rafael Camacho, Sheyi Ojo and Adam Lallana had given the visitors a 3-0 interval lead at Prenton Park but, after wholesale changes by Klopp, Smith and Rovers’ Amadou Soukouna made the final score 3-2.
Klopp was irritated by Liverpool’s second-half display and by the continued focus on his German keeper, although that was unavoidable after an untimely error even in a pre-season friendly against League Two opposition. The Liverpool manager has firmly backed Karius following the Champions League final and insisted concussion influenced his performance against Real Madrid. However, with Roma’s valuation of Alisson proving prohibitive and Simon Mignolet’s future at Anfield uncertain, Klopp arguably has little choice but to back his compatriot.


Question: Describe the Woodward Lofts development project.

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Woodward Lofts LLC closed last month on the Suburban Packaging building on Tower Grove Avenue just North of Vandeventer. The sale moves forward a plan to convert the massive warehouse into 160 market-rate apartments with 200 enclosed parking spaces and ground-floor retail. The project is expected to be completed in 2018.
New renderings from Trivers show a rooftop terrace with pool, with housing units and common spaces grouped around exterior courtyards. Parking spaces will be inside the structure.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the building is the former home of the Woodward & Tiernan Printing Company, which was the 5th largest printing company in the country in the 1920s.
An initial $16 million permit was applied for in April for the $30 million project.


Question: What do you know about the 1995 King of the Ring event? Respond in 39 words.

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King of the Ring (1995) was the third annual King of the Ring professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It took place on June 25, 1995, at the CoreStates Spectrum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.


Question: Respond briefly. Name three species of plant pathogenic fungi in the genus Pyrenophora.

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The fungal genus Pyrenophora includes 191 species, including the following plant pathogenic species: "P. teres", "P. graminea" and "P. tritici-repentis".


Question: Do you know anything about Willa Cather's short story "A Resurrection"? Respond in 2 sentences.

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"A Resurrection" is a short story by American writer Willa Cather. It was first published in "Home Monthly" in April 1897.


Question: What's the story with Port Authority official badges?

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Official badges for officials of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey would be barred under legislation NJ lawmakers advanced Thursday.
TRENTON — Official badges for officials of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, like the one a former commissioner was recorded using in a traffic stop, would be barred under legislation New Jersey lawmakers advanced Thursday.
The Democrat-led Senate Transportation Committee approved the measure with little debate in committee, and it goes next to the floor for a vote. The bill would bar New Jersey Transit and the Port Authority from issuing to board members badges that can be mistaken for those used by law enforcement.
It comes about five months after video surfaced showing former Port Authority Commissioner Caren Turner delivering an at-times profane speech to a police officer during a traffic stop in Tenafly. She resigned this year and apologized.
Port Authority Chairman Kevin O'Toole had ordered a review of the practice of giving badges to commissioners and said in June that commissioners volunteered to give up their badges. He cited a "lack of utility."
On March 31, Tenafly police pulled over a vehicle carrying Turner's daughter over expired registration. Turner showed up and tried to pull rank on the officers, eventually shouting an expletive at them, according to police dash cam video.
In a statement, Turner apologized but said she wasn't trying to use her post to get special treatment. She said police should "review best practices with respect to tone and de-escalation, so that incidents like this do not recur."
An effort to reach Turner on Thursday was unsuccessful.
It's unclear exactly how many badges targeted by the law are in circulation. The governors of New York and New Jersey control the Port Authority by appointing commissioners to its board, with each picking six. They serve for a six-year term and are unpaid.
A spokesman for the Port Authority, which operates airports, bridges, ports and tunnels in the New York area, said previously that the badges were given to commissioners for purposes of identification. O'Toole said in June the agency was moving instead toward ID cards for commissioners.
An identical measure has been introduced in New Jersey's Assembly, though the bill cannot be enforced unless New York passes similar legislation.


Question: What can you tell me about Adrian Howells?

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Adrian Howells (9 April 1962 – 16 March 2014) was a British performance artist associated with one-to-one performance and intimate theatre. He performed in the United Kingdom and internationally (including in Israel, Singapore, Canada, Japan, Germany, Italy and other countries). He was a pioneer of one-to-one performance, in which an artist repeats and adapts a score for a performance for a single audience member, or audience-participant, and repeats the action serially across a run of several days. The process and outcomes in Howells' signature works were frequently modelled on activities associated with the service industries or the tertiary sector of the economy, such as washing the audience-participant's hair or clothes, or giving an audience-member a bath, replicating in some ways the labour of a hairdresser, laundry worker, or caregiver; or he appropriated and adapted intimate interpersonal experiences in carefully mediated situations, like talking around a script or score in a setting such as a Japanese rock garden in "The Garden of Adrian" (2009), or holding hands, listening to music, and spooning in silence in "Held" (2008).


Question: What is the song "Punxsie" by Divinyls about?

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"Punxsie" is a song by Australian rock duo Divinyls. It was released in late 1988 as the third and final single from their third album "Temperamental". Despite the moderate successes of the album's first two singles "Back to the Wall" and "Hey Little Boy", "Punxsie" did not chart in Australia.


Question: Describe the Asian Investment Infrastructure Bank (AIIB) and the significance of its formation. Respond in 19 sentences.

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Until March 31 countries can submit for membership of the Asian Investment Infrastructure Bank (AIIB), a financial institution proposed by China, which has the purpose of being a multilateral framework to finance infrastructure projects in the wide Eurasian region. In recent weeks many Western countries have submitted for membership, the US rejected application as it fears strong cooperation between Asia and Europe will weaken the US dollar hegemony. On April 15 the final list of the founding members will be disclosed.
In October 2013 the initial idea for the AIIB was first put forward by Chinese President Xi Jingping “on constructing a 21st Century Maritime Silk Road to promote maritime cooperation”. The strategic vision has currently developed into the New Silk Road Economic Belt, of which the AIIB is one segment. Another segment is, for example, the Silk Road Infrastructure Fund.
As early as February 2014, Xi held a meeting with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to establish better ties between China and the Gulf, for free trade and to secure China’s oil supplies.
That same month China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi went on a flurry of trips to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Saudi Arabian crown prince, the Iranian Foreign Minister, as well as many nations in the Gulf and North Africa. West Asia is the region where more than 30 ports of various sizes and functions allow China to both import 60% of its annual requirements of oil and export goods destined for Europe, the premier market for “Made in China”, as well as transport to and from Africa.
It was agreed Beijing will finance a three hundred kilometers high-speed rail between the cities of Eilat and Ashdod, connecting the Red Sea coast to the Mediterranean.
As explained in a study by the Center for Research in International Affairs in Herzliya, the Chinese focus to build new ports and the high-speed rail in West Asia will, inter alia, service an alternative transport route that could continue to operate in the event of a crisis blocking shipping in either the Suez Canal or Strait of Hormuz.
Also in February 2014, Xi and Putin reached a consensus on the construction of the Belt and Road project, as well as its connection with Russia’s Euro-Asia railways.
In May 2014 Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visited four African nations; Ethiopia, Nigeria, Angola and Kenya to boost ties. Chinese vice-minister for foreign affairs told reporters that about 60 agreements have been signed during Li’s trip, which ”highlights the great importance we attach to China-Africa relations”. Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has said Li’s visit would be a “game changer” and the region requires “a strong partner who will not only support it in economic ventures but also in peace settlement”. It’s estimated 85 % of Africa’s export to China are raw materials, such as oil and minerals.
The AIIB is very much about developing infrastructure in Asia. For China the New Silk Road Economic Belt strategic vision is about importing (/securing) resources such as oil, have strong export channels and to strengthen ties with trading partners. The main significance of the AIIB is non-US cooperation which will further weaken the US dollar hegemony and change the international monetary environment in the years to come.


Question: Describe the special counsel probe led by Robert Mueller.

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Our analysis of special counsel probes in the modern era, starting in 1979,1 puts Mueller’s investigation in select company for producing criminal charges at all — a majority of the investigations over the past four decades ended without charges being filed against anyone.
The total number of individuals charged in the investigation is now up to 18,2 including an indictment and two guilty pleas from last fall. One of the defendants from last fall, Rick Gates, is reportedly finalizing a plea deal, which would signal that he’s ready to cooperate with the investigation.


Question: Describe the mushroom species Coprinellus heptemerus. Respond briefly.

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Coprinellus heptemerus is a species of mushroom in the family Psathyrellaceae. It was first described as "Coprinus heptemerus" by mycologists M. Lange and Alexander H. Smith in 1952, and later transferred to the genus "Coprinellus" in 2001.


Question: Respond in 38 sentences. Write an essay on gun violence in Nevada.

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Every time there is a mass shooting, people talk about gun violence, but that’s all that ever happens: talk.
The governor has convened a school safety task force, but school shootings are just a small part of the overall gun violence problem that we are having in Nevada. We have an epidemic of accidents, suicides, homicides and mass shootings. Looking at the school safety issue alone will do nothing to address other mass casualties from right here in Nevada such as the shootings at the Carson City IHOP, the church in Fallon, and in Las Vegas. This issue hits us where we live.
In the short term, there are some very easy first steps. We need to ban bump stocks, and we need to institute “red-flag laws” that stop those who might do harm to themselves and others from accessing firearms. These are easy steps to take, and there is wide agreement on them.
But the larger problem is that as a society we need to show that we actually care about the issue. Each time we have a shooting and then do nothing about it, we continue to send a message that there is nothing wrong with a daily body count of innocent Americans.
Most frustrating is that we can do something. As a country we have tackled tough issues before. Drunk driving, car accidents and cigarette smoking are all examples of intractable problems that we have greatly improved. We solve problems systemically, through a combination of research, legislation and social pressures. Outrageously, we don’t even allow research into one of the most serious violence problems in our society. We need to think about gun violence using science. According to a recent research paper by the RAND Corporation, we haven’t even begun to study the issue. That must change.
In one area, we have done some research and found smart solutions. Florida saw a dramatic drop in child deaths with the passage of child access prevention laws. If we can save the lives of children using commonsense solutions, we should treat all gun violence with this approach. We also need to pass a law in Nevada to mimic the success Florida has seen in saving children’s lives.
One of the biggest issues of gun deaths are those caused by suicides. Nearly 20,000 Americans use a gun to end their lives every year. Suicide interventions are proven successful if the potential victim reaches out for help while they are closest to committing the act. One possible idea to deter this act would be to label guns and ammunition with suicide prevention information, similar to what the surgeon general has placed on cigarette packaging for years. Nevada has a very high suicide rate. Guns make suicide much more lethal. If we want to protect Nevadans we have to research this issue and develop many different interventions, rather than just shrugging it off while the morgues fill up.
Nevada passed a law mandating background checks, but the law, supported by Nevadans across the state, has been neutered by cynical politicians. We have solutions, yet we refuse to even talk about it. There are ways, perhaps many, to reduce gun deaths while still allowing the freedom of gun owners to shoot, hunt and collect firearms. We must get over our cynical pandering and fearmongering about guns to get something done. Now. There are commonsense ways to balance the Second Amendment and public safety.
In the long run we need to create an environment that promotes responsibility by gun owners and social conditions to lower gun deaths in the country. We can create legislation and social programs, paid for by an excise tax on gun and ammunition purchases, that will help Nevadans deal with this issue.
Gregory Shorts is a father of two, a college professor and a U.S. Navy veteran and the democratic candidate for Assembly District 25.