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Established in 2006 The Boring Company has grown in to the leading HDD company in Nevada by continuing to meet all customer expectations and needs. Based in Las Vegas with 20 years experience in the horizontal directional drilling, trenching and hydro excavation techniques, and 27 years in the cable business through out Las Vegas and surrounding areas.
The Boring Company strives to keep long lasting relationships with our customers through integrity, performance and delivery.
To create and maintain an organization of highly trained individuals for our customers and employees.
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Question: What do you think about the Root + Bloom plant based café and market that's opening in Elmwood this summer?

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 What do you think about the Root + Bloom plant based café and market that's opening in Elmwood this summer?

Buffalo’s first plant based café and market will be coming to Elmwood this Summer. Root + Bloom will be opening at the gazebo behind Thinking Elvish Fantasy Chocolate – 423 Elmwood Avenue. Anyone that is familiar with the eateries that have occupied this space, is aware of the potential that this sizable gazebo possesses. During the warmer months, this is an oasis just off Elmwood, that has not been utilized for years.
According to Sarah and James, the goal of the café is to work in tandem with Thinking Elvish Fantasy Chocolate, which has been in operation at 423 Elmwood since September of 2016. In that relatively short period of time, the vegan-based chocolate shop has made a name for itself in Buffalo. Now, the concept is to tag team with the boutique chocolatier, to round out the vegan offerings.
After graduating from college, the Buffalo couple set out to live in cities such as Boston and LA – places that are very vegan friendly, they say. Then they moved back to Buffalo in 2016, with daughter in tow, which is when they began hosting vegan pop-up dinners. The dinners, called Improveg (improv and veg), proved to be an amazing success. Through their traveling romps, the pop-up dinners, and James’s experience working for a vegan cheese shop in LA, together they learned enough about the vegan lifestyle to formulate a business plan on their own. Now, the final part of the plan is to open the café and market at the gazebo, in hopes of eventually finding their own space.
So… Buffalo… if you want to see this couple hit their strides in Buffalo, then you better get ready to support their dreams this summer. If we all lend a hand, we will assuredly see their aspirations take hold.
Just think of it. They have ditched a four hour commute in LA, to work on a spirited collaboration with Thinking Elvish – it’s a match made in heaven, especially for the vegan community. The gazebo will be “transformational in appearance”, with all sorts of kitschy decorations, along with lots of plants – perfect for attending a dinner featuring whole roasted cauliflower (served florets) hand-rubbed with Cajun sauce and caramelized with maple syrup, and mushroom vegan chorizo mac and cheese. Or maybe you might stop in for brunch to sample a BBQ jackfruit, or jalapeño corncakes?
Currently Sarah and James have embarked upon a “grassroots fundraising initiative” in order to raise the necessary funding to get the vegan café and market off the ground. Their goal is to raise $5K (see here) through friends and family, which seems to be very “doable”. Once the funds are raised, they will continue to formulate their plans for a full weekend brunch menu, and dinner menu (vegan based). They will also be featuring an exciting vegan catering menu. “June 1st, 2018 will be our soft opening evening, with regular brunch and dinner hours beginning after,” they stated. Soon enough Buffalo. Soon enough.
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Question: Provide information on Nikolay Goldobin's career.

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A gifted offensive player with quick hands and blazing speed, Goldobin was selected by the San Jose Sharks in the first round (No. 27) in the 2014 NHL Draft.
He quickly made his mark with San Jose of the American Hockey League in 2015-16, his first full North American pro season, tying for the team lead in goals with 21 in 60 games.
An early-season injury to Logan Couture in 2015-16 resulted in a nine-game stint with the Sharks for Goldobin. In his second NHL game, on Oct. 17, 2015, Goldobin beat Jaroslav Halak of the New York Islanders for his first NHL goal.
The Sharks signed Goldobin in 2014 and assigned him to HIFK Helsinki of Liiga, Finland's top league, where he played 38 games and had 11 goals and 21 points during the 2014-15 season. He also had six points in eight playoff games. Goldobin made his AHL debut with Worcester that season and had five points in nine games.
Before that, Goldobin had two productive seasons with Sarnia of the Ontario Hockey League. In 2012-13, he led OHL rookies with 30 goals and 68 points and was the runner-up to future NHL No. 1 draft pick Connor McDavid in voting for the Emms Family Award, which goes to the league's top rookie. The following season Goldobin finished seventh in the OHL in scoring with 94 points in 67 games.
Goldobin helped Russia to the silver medal at the 2015 World Junior Championship, finishing with three assists and five points - both good for third on the team -- in seven games. Goldobin also played for Russia in the 2012 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Cup, getting a goal and three points in four games at the Under-18 tournament.
Traded to Vancouver by San Jose with San Jose's 4th round pick (later traded to Chicago -- Chicago selected Tim Soderlund) in 2017 NHL Draft for Jannik Hansen, March 1, 2017.


Question: Who is Joan Franka?

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Joan Franka (born 2 April 1990 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch singer with the birthname of Joany Franka Johanna Ayten Hazebroek. Her late father was Turkish, while her mother is Dutch. She represented the Netherlands at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 with You and Me. She became well known in the Netherlands through her participation in the first series of "The Voice of Holland", a talent show.
In September 2010, Joan Franka entered the talent show, "The Voice of Holland" in its inaugural 2010-2011 season where she auditioned with Nickelback's "How You Remind Me". Two of four judges hit their "I Want You" buttons, judges Roel van Velzen and Jeroen van der Boom. She chose to be on van Velzen's team.


Question: Have you heard the news about the discovery of the first exomoon? Respond in 18 sentences.

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Astronomers believe they have discovered the first known moon beyond our solar system, in orbit around a gigantic planet 8,000 light years away.
The so-called exomoon, which is estimated to be the size of Neptune, would also be the biggest known moon, far exceeding anything known to exist in our own solar system. The team behind the apparent discovery said it needed further confirmation but that they had failed to find any other convincing explanation for their data.
“The first exomoon is obviously an extraordinary claim and it requires extraordinary evidence,” said David Kipping, an astronomer at Columbia University in New York who has spent more than a decade hunting for far-flung moons.
He said the moon’s estimated size was on a scale that had “hardly been anticipated” and “defies easy explanation” based on current theories of moon formation.
Kipping and his colleague Alex Teachey made the discovery after analysing data from nearly 300 distant planets discovered using the Kepler space telescope. The planets are revealed by a momentary dimming of starlight as they pass in front of their host star, in what astronomers call a transit.
Kipping and Teachey noticed strange anomalies in the transit data of a gas planet, Kepler 1625b, which is several times the size of Jupiter.
The findings were intriguing enough to win them 40 hours of observation time on the Hubble space telescope, which is four times more powerful, to investigate further.
Using Hubble, they saw a second, much smaller dip in the star’s brightness 3.5 hours after the planet’s transit, hinting at “a moon trailing the planet like a dog following its owner on a leash”. On another transit, the planet appeared 1.25 hours earlier than predicted. This is consistent with the planet and moon orbiting a common centre of gravity, causing the planet to wobble from its predicted location.
The moon is estimated to be only 1.5% the mass of its companion planet, which is close to the mass-ratio between the Earth and its moon. Our moon is thought to have formed through an early collision with a larger body that blasted off material that later coalesced into a ball. However, Kepler 1625b and its moon are gaseous, not rocky, raising questions about how such a moon could have formed in the first place.
Based on the moon’s distance from its star, its surface temperature was estimated to be 80C, which is considered just on the upper end of conditions that could support life. However, astronomers said they had not dwelled on the question of habitability, since the moon is thought to be composed of gas. It would not resemble the fictional exomoon Pandora in the film Avatar, Teachey said.


Question: Have you heard anything about the new HP Elite x3?

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Last year at Mobile World Congress 2016, HP excited the Windows phone fanbase by announcing the Elite x3, a '3-in-1' device that could serve as a phone, laptop, and a desktop. The company didn't officially unveil a second-generation model this year, but it did have one on display.
You can see from the image above that there are a number of design changes. For one thing, the placement of the front camera is now on the left of the speaker, whereas the original model had it on the top-left corner. It also appears to have a thinner bezel.
Perhaps most surprising is that the speaker grille at the bottom is missing. HP uses Bang & Olufsen speakers in all of its premium products these days, so the lack of front-facing speakers feels like a change of pace for the company.
You can see that the chassis has changed as well. There's a new antenna implementation at the top, which might indicate an all-metal body.
Unfortunately, other than the changes to the design - which were spotted by PCWorld - we don't know anything else. Our Managing Editor Andy Weir headed down to the HP booth at MWC to see if he could check out the device, but it was no longer there and employees weren't even willing to talk about it.
The handset is obviously a prototype, so it's always possible that anything could change by the time it's released.


Question: "What do you know about PC Chris?"

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PC Chris greatest person in the world!!!!
PC Chris is the greatest person in the world. He beated Ken at Super Smash Bros. Melee, which is pretty good. PC Chris is 19 years old, lives in New York and his real name is Chris Ziegel or something I can't really make it out from that interview.
PC Chris is an emo. I bet he listens to Fugazi all day. He also has a girlfriend. I don't, and neither does Steven. Dave however, does have a girlfriend, but I have never met her.
Mew2King thinks he is so great. Well, perhaps he is, but certainly not as great as PC Chris. PC Chris can beat Mew2King anytime he wants. He can beat Mew2King with one hand and blindfolded. That's how great PC Chris is.
He looks all emo, but u know what? i don't care. Because I know what PC Chris is really like and that's what it's all about.
There also is a special move called 'the PC Chris'. It has something to do with the Firefox (not the browser lol). Speaking of Browser, I bet PC Chris can beat the Bowser challenge if he really wanted. Too bad PC Chris always sandbags. Anyway if u want to know how to do a PC Chris me and Steven will make a movie to explain it sometime aight? Respect.
I don't know why but everytime I see this interview I just have to rofl at it.
Some people say PC Chris is gay but they don't know what they're are talking about. I once talked to PC Chris about this and he said that if you say that he's gay u r actually gay urself so there u have it n00bs!!!!11!
I met Helios a couple of days ago but I forgot to ask him what he thinks of PC Chris since he has actually met PC Chris in person!!!!
If PC Chris ever comes to Europe (which is where I live) I just have to team up with him. It's inevitable. I would easily give all my money to PC Chris if he used it to go to Europe. Then I could team up with him and we would be invincible. Chris if u read this please contact me so we can team up I just can't wait. My name is Utto and I have an account on Smash World Forums so u know where to find me.
Finally if you want to get the latest news about PC Chris u can sign up for the PC Chris newsletter soon!!!11!!
So that's about it. If u don't think that PC Chris is the greatest person ever, well...just screw you.
This is what you get if u search for PC Chris on Google. Obviously, he's a fake.


Question: Describe the U.S. Treasury's plans to restrict Chinese investments in the United States.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury is considering ways to restrict sensitive Chinese investments in the United States by invoking an emergency powers law and bringing forward some security review reforms for corporate acquisitions, a senior Treasury official said on Thursday.
The efforts were being examined as part of the Trump administration’s “Section 301” intellectual property remedies, which include China-specific investment restrictions, Assistant Secretary for International Markets and Investment Heath Tarbert told an Institute of International Finance Forum.
Asked about reports the Treasury may bring forward parts of a bill to modernize security reviews by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States and use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, Tarbert said a special Treasury office devoted to the China restrictions was considering such avenues.
“We have separate offices in Treasury which are considering those two issues distinctly,” Tarbert said.
A Treasury office that manages CFIUS is separate from the office working on China investment restrictions, he said.
Speaking in Beijing on Friday, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the mooted move was another example of U.S. “hegemonic attitudes”.
“On the one hand the U.S. wants us to open our markets further yet on the other hand it sets restrictions for Chinese trade and investment in the name of national security,” Hua said.
The Treasury investment restrictions are aimed partly at pressuring China to lift requirements for foreign companies to form joint ventures with local firms that lead to technology transfers, a policy the administration deems unfair when the United States has no such restrictions on Chinese firms.
In a major policy shift, China said on Tuesday it would scrap a 50 percent limit on foreign ownership of autos by 2022.
Tarbert said the Treasury was committed to working with Congress to pass the CFIUS legislation, known as the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act, or FIRRMA.
“We think CFIUS modernization is something that needs to be done via statute and should be done in a thoughtful way,” he said.
A congressional aide told Reuters it may be possible to accelerate parts of the CFIUS reform bill with an executive order to fill gaps until the legislation is passed by Congress later this year.
Invoking the 1977 emergency economic powers law would give President Donald Trump broad authority to impose tighter restrictions on Chinese investment in sensitive sectors, by declaring a national emergency related to such investments.
The law was widely used after the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001 to block the assets of militant organizations and other illicit finance networks.
The CFIUS reform legislation is a work in progress. Tarbert said one of its aims was to expand reviews of sensitive transactions that do not involve a full transfer of control, including offshore joint ventures that could compromise national security through technology transfers.
Some lawmakers have raised concerns that could lead to an overly broad definition of transactions and choke off routine business investments.
Another Trump administration official, White House trade adviser Clete Willems, said the legislation would achieve a “balanced approach” that would close loopholes in the current CFIUS law while maintaining an “open investment climate” in the United States.
It was under the export control regime that the Commerce Department this week banned American companies from selling parts to Chinese telecoms equipment maker ZTE Corp (000063.SZ) for seven years, creating a new fissure in Sino-U.S. ties.


Question: Describe the NAVASA organization. Respond in 36 words.

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The National Alliance of Vietnamese American Service Agencies (NAVASA) organization was founded and incorporation as a non-profit in 1985. Duong Hong Duc serves as Chairman of the Board, of 34 community-based (CBOs) and faith-based organizations (FBOs).


Question: What do you know about Pendleton Broad Street railway station?

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Pendleton (Broad Street) railway station was a railway station serving Pendleton, a district of Salford. It was located on Broughton Road (A576) just behind St. Thomas' Church ("Pendleton Church"). It was about 100 yards further up Broughton Road from Pendleton Bridge railway station and nearer Pendleton Church and Broad Street (A6). This station was known as Pendleton Broad Street due to its closeness to the A6 Broad Street some 100 yards away. It was on the Manchester Victoria to Wigan Wallgate line with a spur to the Manchester Victoria to Bolton line so trains to Bolton used it after the closure of Pendleton Bridge in 1966, and "Broad Street" was then dropped from its name.
The line from Windsor Bridge Junction (Salford) and Crow Nest Junction (Hindley), which shortened the route between Manchester and Liverpool, was authorised in 1883, and in 1885 a connection was authorised from the new line at Brindle Heath to the Bolton line at Agecroft.


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Amber Beach () was an annual music festival in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia.


Question: What's going on between President Trump and Sen. Bob Corker?

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The president and a prominent Republican senator joust hours before Trump attends a Senate GOP policy luncheon.
WASHINGTON – Turns out, President Trump's feud with Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker isn't over.
Their war of words escalated on Tuesday as the president insisted the prominent Republican senator "couldn't get elected dog catcher" — and Corker described the president as "utterly untruthful."
Trump attacked Corker over Twitter after the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee defended his previous comment that the White House resembles an adult day care center and criticized his aggressive approach to North Korea.
"Bob Corker, who helped President O give us the bad Iran Deal & couldn't get elected dog catcher in Tennessee, is now fighting Tax Cuts...." Trump tweeted.
Trump then referred to Corker's decision not to seek re-election next year: "Corker dropped out of the race in Tennesse (sic) when I refused to endorse him, and now is only negative on anything Trump. Look at his record!"
Corker — who says Trump did actually offer to support his re-election bid — responded with a zinger: "Same untruths from an utterly untruthful president. #AlertTheDaycareStaff."
Trump hit back again in a pair of tweets.
"Sen. Corker is the incompetent head of the Foreign Relations Committee, & look how poorly the U.S. has done. He doesn't have a clue as ... the entire World WAS laughing and taking advantage of us. People like liddle' Bob Corker have set the U.S. way back. Now we move forward!"
The back-and-forth came hours before Trump and Corker were to attend the weekly Senate Republican policy lunch at the U.S. Capitol.
Prior to the luncheon, Corker offered further critiques of Trump when stopped by reporters on Capitol Hill. He accused Trump of "bullying," "name-calling" and "dividing."
"For young people to be watching ... someone of this mentality ... is something that is debasing to our country," Corker said.
He said he had seen no evolution in Trump's behavior as president. "It appears to me that it's almost devolving."
Earlier, in an appearance on ABC's Good Morning America, Corker said Trump is unnecessarily raising tensions by escalating tensions with North Korea over its nuclear weapons program — and suggested that he let diplomats deal with the problem.
"The president undermines our secretary of State, raises tensions in the area by virtues of the tweets that he sends out and I would just like for him to just leave it to the professionals for a while and see if we can do something that is constructive for our country, the region and the world," Corker said.
The argument between the Republicans isn't necessarily a petty feud. While Republicans have a Senate majority, they control only 52 of the 100 votes. Every vote counts and only a few defectors can deprive the GOP of major legislation, as happened with attempts to repeal and replace President Obama's health care plan.
Trump and Corker have clashed repeatedly, especially after the Tennessean announced he would not seek re-election to a third term.
After a Trump attack on Oct. 8, Corker responded on Twitter: "It's a shame the White House has become an adult day care center. Someone obviously missed their shift this morning."
Later that day, in a New York Times interview, Corker said Trump's rash statements and reckless threats could set the United States "on the path to World War III."
Corker: Trump's public 'castration' of Rex Tillerson threatens U.S.
In addition, Corker has said that Trump did try to talk him into running for the Senate again and offered to help him, but he decided against seeking another term.
Corker also criticized Trump over negotiations on a tax cut bill. The senator questioned a Trump tweet Monday that took one proposal off the table, a call to reduce the amount of money that people can invest in pre-tax 401(k) accounts.
“If you start taking things off the table before you get started, you make that very difficult,” Corker told ABC. “What I hope is going to happen is the president will leave this effort to the tax-writing committees."
Corker also appeared on NBC's Today show, where he questioned the utility of Trump's visit to the GOP policy lunch.
Later Tuesday morning, in an interview with CNN, Corker said Trump “has great difficulty with truth on many issues” and that, if he had it to do over, he would not support him for president.
Corker said he doesn’t want his feud with Trump to turn into a daily issue.


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Officials have asked local residents to stay indoors.
The Milcamps waffle factory in the Brussels neighborhood of Forest caught fire Thursday, leaving large clouds of smoke billowing over the Belgian capital.
Firefighters were alerted to the blaze at about 1 p.m. local time, and it is not clear what caused the fire, newspaper Le Soir reported. De Standaard reported that there were no injuries.
Local mayor Marc-Jean Ghyssels has asked residents to stay inside and keep their doors and windows closed, warning the fumes could be "toxic." Nearby businesses and a school have been evacuated.


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"Let's Go Out" is the debut single by Japanese pop duo Amoyamo. It was released October 31, 2012. The single peaked at number 23 on the Oricon singles chart and charted for five weeks. "Let's Go Out" was used as the twelfth opening song for "Gintama". The single included a cover of "Pray" by Tommy heavenly6, which was the original "Gintama" opening.


Question: What do animal rights activists say about the North Ridgeville police officer shooting the litter of kittens?

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 What do animal rights activists say about the North Ridgeville police officer shooting the litter of kittens?

An Ohio policeman shot to death a litter of kittens on Wednesday, telling a group of screaming children that the animals would be going to “kitty heaven”. But instead of firing the officer, the local police department cleared him of any wrongdoing.
Humane Officer Barry Accorti was responding to a report of a litter of feral cats that were located in the woodpile of a home in North Ridgeville on June 10. The resident who made the call said the cats were bringing fleas to the home and leaving dead wildlife in her backyard. Twenty minutes after the call was made, the officer arrived at the scene. After spotting the five kittens, he told the resident’s distressed children that the cats would be going to heaven. Shortly thereafter, he took a gun from his vehicle and shot the animals to death.
Landon told the Sun News that the incident is heartbreaking and inexcusable, and that a humane officer should never resort to using a weapon unless the animal is in severe pain or attacking the officer.
Landon said that Accorti should be fired and charged with animal cruelty. But instead, Police Chief Mike Freeman cleared the officer of any wrongdoings and concluded that his actions were appropriate.


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Telstra's core could be indirectly targeted.
In a submission [pdf] to the Department of Home Affairs, published late Friday, Australia’s top telco raised significant security concerns about the bill as it is currently drafted.
One of its key concerns is that one of its suppliers will be told to modify a piece of networking equipment or its operating software.
The supplier - served with a technical assistance notice or technical capability notice - would be subjected to secrecy provisions, making it unable to inform its customers of the modification.
Telstra worries the first it will know of the change is when it starts experiencing “service degradation, network faults or other impacts on its business”.
Similarly, it was unlikely that modifying a piece of equipment or its OS could be used to simply target one or more users; there would likely be collateral damage with “non-target users” swept up in ensuing network problems.
Telstra indicated it would be difficult for downstream customers to troubleshoot sudden faults caused by the modification.
But more importantly for Telstra, it would be liable for service outages because the bill only affords immunity to the company served the notice. Others in the line of fire because of that notice are afforded no protections.
In addition to this, Telstra is worried about having to release details of the inner-workings of its network; even though the bill makes it a jailable offence for anyone involved to disclose it, merely having that information shared outside Telstra opens it to greater risk of being accidentally or purposely disclosed or breached.
Telstra said that a notice may require it to “supply sensitive technical information, including software source code and service design documentation”.
“Sharing this type of commercially sensitive information could, of itself, present a security risk if it ends up in the wrong hands,” Telstra said.
Telstra also said that it routinely received “sensitive technical information” from device makers prior to a new handset being launched.
Telstra is worried that the Australian government or law enforcement will demand access to that information via carriers like Telstra.
Because that would put Telstra in breach of contracts it has signed with the device makers, it worried that device makers would simply pull the pin and stop sharing data with Australian telcos.
“This has potential to adversely affect the competitiveness of Australian telco providers in international markets and their ability to deploy the latest technology developments - for example, new smartphones and IoT devices,” it said.
In addition, Telstra is also worried that law enforcement could use the bill as a way to get access to clear text sent over OTT messaging services like WhatsApp or Viber, given there are no existing laws that would otherwise enable this.
“There is still scope under the draft bill … to require access to the clear content of communications sent or received on such services,” Telstra said.
Telstra asked for a specific prohibition to be added to the bill to prevent clear text communications from being targeted.
Telstra said that there remained opportunities to improve the “workability” of the proposed regime of voluntary and forced cooperation with authorities.
It wanted to see a greater level of consultation built into the bill text so that telcos were not asked to do the impossible.
It also asked for the bill to be referred to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security “in order to thoroughly test the draft bill’s provisions and minimise the risk of unanticipated impacts”.


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Banning "scary black rifles" won't make a dent in the murder rate.
You're more likely to be stabbed, strangled, or beaten to death with bare hands than killed by someone with a rifle.
It’s impossible to know the true number of murders involving “assault weapons,” because the term is so nebulous, and because the FBI only looks at the categories of rifle, shotgun, and handgun. There are also nearly 2,000 gun murders in which the type of firearm used is unknown. But a rough estimate of 328 homicides with all rifles (extrapolated from rifle's share of gun murders where the type of weapon is known) is probably close to the truth.
In any event, keeping in mind the horrors that mass shootings entail, “assault weapons” are not even connected to a significant amount of crime in the United States. Even if confiscating and banning them completely erased homicides with committed with them, and the perpetrators didn't substitute them with other legally available firearms, the effect on homicide rates would be statistically very small.


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The Gaon Digital Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing international songs in South Korea. The data is collected by the Korea Music Content Association. Below is a list of songs that topped the weekly, monthly, and yearly charts, as according to the Gaon 국외 (Foreign) Digital Chart. The Digital Chart ranked songs according to their performance on the Gaon Streaming, Download, BGM, and Mobile charts.


Question: Explain the current situation in Aleppo, Syria.

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This week has brought a breakthrough for the Russian-backed Syrian operation to retake eastern Aleppo, allowing humanitarian relief to be brought to tens of thousands of civilians living in the captured districts, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
“Over the past few days, well-planned and careful action by the Syrian troops resulted in a radical breakthrough. Half of the territory previously held by the militants in eastern Aleppo has been de facto liberated,” Gen. Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the defense ministry, said.
“The most important thing is that over 80,000 Syrians, including tens of thousands of children, have been freed. Many of them at long last were able to get water, food, medical assistance at humanitarian centers deployed by Russia. Those Syrians served as human shields in Aleppo for terrorists of all flavors,” the general stressed.
He added that calls by some Western officials to subject Russia to further sanctions over the operation in Mosul indicated that those countries did not want civilians in Aleppo freed.
Earlier, head of the German Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee Norbert Röttgen, along with other MPs, called on Berlin to impose more sanctions against Russia over the offensive in Aleppo, and open an airlift to the militant-held areas similar to the historic Berlin airlift in the late 1940s. They cited damage allegedly caused to the city by Russian airstrikes. The strikes, according to the Russian military, were paused in mid-October and did not resume.
The German Foreign Ministry said Damascus and “its supporters, above all Russia and Iran, bear the biggest responsibility” for civilian suffering in Aleppo.
The Russian criticism comes as the Russian-run Syria Reconciliation Center reported that over 500 fighters in Aleppo chose to surrender to the advancing Syrian Army.
“Over the past 24 hours, 507 fighters chose to leave the city districts that remain under terrorist control to the safe areas and surrender their weapons. In accordance with the Syrian president’s offer, 484 militants, who are local residents, have been immediately pardoned,” the report said.
This week, Damascus intensified its siege of eastern Aleppo, a city that for years was split between government troops and militant forces. The Syrian Army has captured the north-eastern part of the city.
The operation also put a strain on the ability of armed groups to prevent civilians from fleeing areas under their control. Previously, some of the groups controlling eastern Aleppo, like the Al-Qaeda off-shoot Al-Nusra Front, used deadly force to stop civilians trying to escape.
The military success of Damascus in Aleppo come as US Secretary of State John Kerry is engaged in a last-ditch effort to convince Russia to stop the operation, according to a Washington Post column. The diplomat reportedly wants to keep rebels in control of part of the city before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January and withdraws Washington support from the militants.


Question: Describe the show "Rang Maza Vegla". Respond in 5 sentences.

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Rang Maza Vegla is a Marathi Indian soap opera created and produced by Ekta Kapoor under her banner Balaji Telefilms. The series premiered on 2 April 2012 and aired on Saam TV.
The series revolves around a young protagonist Gargi (Tanvi Palav) who is born and brought up in United States. She comes to India after 18 years to reunite with her grandparents. The series explores how Gargi takes up responsibilities when her family is struck in crisis.


Question: What should the SNP stance be on a referendum for the Brexit deal Prime Minister May brings back from Brussels?

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Doubtless the question that delegates gathering at the SNP conference in Glasgow this weekend will have uppermost in their minds is whether Nicola Sturgeon will fire the starting gun for a second independence referendum. When in June of last year she announced that she was putting on hold the Scottish Parliament’s request to Westminster that it be granted the authority to hold another ballot, she indicated that she would provide an update this autumn. SNP activists might well, therefore, be hoping that during the next few days she will at least provide something of a clue about what she is now thinking.
But, in truth, there may be a more pressing referendum decision facing Ms Sturgeon in the coming weeks. This is what the SNP’s stance should be on holding a referendum on whatever Brexit deal the Prime Minister may bring back from Brussels. There is clearly a possibility at least that Mrs May’s deal (assuming she secures one) will be voted down by the House of Commons when it holds its so-called ‘meaningful vote’ on the outcome of the EU negotiations. If that should happen, then all of the opposition parties will face pressure to indicate what they think should happen next – with one option being to put the issue to the public. They might just even find themselves fighting a general election in which the future of the Brexit process is the central issue.
At first glance it might be thought rather surprising that Ms Sturgeon has so far opted to sit on the fence on the question of a second EU referendum. After all, most SNP supporters are opposed to Brexit; in a recent YouGov poll for the pro-EU referendum People’s Vote campaign, those 2017 SNP voters who said that they would vote Remain in a second EU ballot outnumbered those who stated they would back Leave by nearly four (79%) to one (21%). Equally nearly two-thirds (65%) said that they backed holding a ‘public vote on the outcome’ while only 20% were opposed. Indeed, SNP supporters were at least as keen on the idea as Labour and Liberal Democrat supporters. It would seem that backing a second EU referendum should be an easy choice for Ms Sturgeon to make.
Yet in practice things are rather more complicated. First of all, there is the nationalist fear that dare not speak its name, namely that any second referendum on the terms of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU might be regarded as a precedent for what should happen if Scotland were ever to vote in favour of the principle of independence. The idea that there would need to be a second referendum on the terms of Scotland’s departure from the UK has been one against which the party has long since set its face.
Meanwhile, backing a second referendum with a view to securing a Remain vote has rather more risks than immediately meets the eye. The coalition of supporters that gathered behind Yes to independence in 2014 is not as pro-European as those who backed the SNP in last year’s UK general election. According to the YouGov/People’s Vote poll, only 69% of 2014 Yes voters back Remain in a second referendum, while 31% support Leave, figures that are not dissimilar to how Yes voters were recorded as having voted in the 2016 referendum.
Two points follow. First, backing a EU referendum runs the risk of exacerbating the division over Brexit that exists in the wider Yes movement – and with the polls still showing Yes to be behind, if Ms Sturgeon is ever to lead her country down the path of independence that is a prospect that she needs to avoid. Second, the fact that support for Remain is so high amongst those who voted SNP in 2017 is in part at least a reflection of the fact that, as we showed in the most recent British Social Attitudes report, the party lost ground particularly heavily among those who voted Leave the previous year. In short, there is already evidence that backing Remain can cost the nationalist movement the support of Leave voters.
At the same time, Ms Sturgeon faces a Brexit paradox. She and most of her party may be firmly committed to remaining part of the EU, but in truth she probably regards her shortest route to holding and winning a second independence referendum to be for the UK to leave the EU, only for the endeavour then to come to be regarded as something of a disaster by voters. Indeed, much excitement was created towards the end of the summer when a poll by Deltapoll for the pro-EU Best for Britain campaign reported that 47% said that they would vote for independence should the UK leave the EU, while only 43% stated that they would vote to stay part of the UK. In truth, the results of such hypothetical questions should always be taken with a pinch of salt, while the swing from how the same group of respondents said that they would vote in an independence referendum held now was, at 3%, decidedly small. But still, Ms Sturgeon must be wondering how much effort she should put into rescuing the UK from what she at least doubtless regards as its Brexit folly.
This post is also published on the whatscotlandthinks.org website.


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tool. If you don’t already have a FAS account, you can easily register for one here.
(from the Fedora 24 Beta).
. The default configuration of a VM with 20GB hard drive space and 1024MB of RAM should be enough to execute the test cases.
, run the following command inside your test VM.
command to use for running the test and submitting the results.
And the results will of your test will be automatically be posted in the result matrix.
Congratulations, you’ve now run your first test case for Fedora release validation testing! That’s how we perform test cases and submit results for release validation tests.
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My computer cpu does not support virtualization, but I have three terrabyte disks available to do testing on real hardware (8gigs ram, x64 bit dual core cpu).
Given you describe using virtualization, am I out of luck to use my system for testing ISO’s, etc.?
Yes, you can test on bare metal (real hardware) .
Sumantro described virtualization, because tools like qemu, kvm and virt-manager are very handy, easy to use and don’t require additional hardware.
But it’s really up to the tester; people are certainly allowed to install and give some tries on bare metal. Every test is useful.
I tried to adventure myself doing validation tests, but the process is taking longer to download. It asks me 8 , 10, even 18 hours to finish. There would be another source ? Nothing is wrong with my connection, my ISP is delivering fine.
What about getting it from https://getfedora.org/workstation/prerelease/? That would be the same?
Anyway, on the URL above there are no spins. Thanks!
they will redirect to the correct page for whatever compose we’re currently testing.


Question: Explain the drawbacks of Android 4.2's app verification service.

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Source: NCSU report One of the enhancements in Android 4.2 was a new app verification service that tested applications being installed against a Google service in the cloud to see whether the app was known to contain malware or not. If the results of Xuxian Jiang's research are correct, Google will need to do a lot more work on the feature to make it useful, as only 15 per cent of the known malware samples tested on the service were detected.
Jiang, an associate professor at NC State University, took Nexus 10 tablets running Android 4.2 and, using semi-automated installations, loaded 1260 malware samples from the Android Malware Genome Project onto the devices. Of the 1260 samples only 193 were detected as malware. The researcher also performed a test comparing Google's verification against a range of ten different existing anti-virus applications through VirusTotal, looking at randomly selected malware samples from each malware family. The anti-virus applications run by VirusTotal ranged in efficacy from 100% to 51%, but the Android App verification system scored only 20.4%; VirusTotal was acquired by Google in September 2012.
The researcher noted that the app verification service uses a fragile mechanism of verifying SHA1 values from the app and package name to determine whether a package is dangerous or potentially dangerous; they believe more information needs to be collected to give a more robust system, but cannot say what information should be or how it should be squared with user privacy concerns.
He also notes that the verification system relies on the server component, leaving the client-side of the system completely without detection capabilities; adding those abilities would though be a delicate balance for mobile devices. The researcher is more hopeful that the potential integration of the Google-owned VirusTotal service with the app verification service could provide much better detection results.


Question: Respond in 1 sentences. Who is Carl Zimmermann?

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Carl Zimmermann (born February 24, 1951) is an American Democratic politician and a former member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 65th District for a single term, 2012–2014.


Question: What's new at Red Rocks?

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In honor of our 77th Anniversary, we’re excited to announce Red Rocks Live, a rare vinyl collection of legendary performances from some of Red Rocks Amphitheatre's most influential artists. This album is a compilation of 20 previously unreleased live recordings from the Red Rocks stage, featuring tracks from U2, the Grateful Dead and many more — making it a must-have for the die-hard Red Rocks enthusiast!
We have issued 5,000 special-edition copies on vinyl.
Retail price is $55, which includes an accompanying digital download card.
The three-LP limited edition vinyl is available at the Red Rocks Trading Post and Visitor Center while supplies last. “Red Rocks Live” also can be ordered here - just click the link below.
A digital version of "Red Rocks Live" is also available for purchase on iTunes, Amazon and other online outlets.


Question: Respond in 86 words. Who is Takumi Tsukamoto?

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is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently signed to Pro-Wrestling Basara. He originally started his career in the Kaientai Dojo promotion in July 2002, but later left the promotion to become a freelancer, before signing with Union Pro Wrestling in 2005. Through Union Pro's working relationship, Kodaka also began working for Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW), where he adopted his current, hardcore wrestling-based style. Kodaka remained affiliated with Union Pro until the promotion folded in October 2015, after which he became a founding member of Pro-Wrestling Basara.


Question: What happened near the Argonaut Rowing Club this morning?

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Toronto police are investigating after a man’s body was pulled from the water near the Argonaut Rowing Club on Friday morning.
At around 8:30 a.m., the Marine Unit said they responded to a call from a passerby who suspected seeing a body in the Martin Goodman Trail and Oarsman Dr. area.
When officers arrived, they extracted a body from the water.
Police said it is too early in the investigation to say whether the death is suspicious.


Question: Describe the John D. Hart House.

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The John D. Hart House is a historic home in Pennington, New Jersey built ca. 1800. It is an example of a clapboard house from Mercer County. Its builder is presumed to be a relation, perhaps a nephew, of John Hart, who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and lived in nearby Hopewell. The house is notable for its similarity to the John White House in Lawrenceville.


Question: What is Roztoka?

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Roztoka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Żmudź, within Chełm County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland.


Question: Hey, do you know where I can find a Carmen Sandiego Funko Pop?

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Question: Respond in 5 sentences. What is Taloyoak?

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Taloyoak or Talurjuaq (Inuktitut syllabics: ᑕᓗᕐᔪᐊᖅ ), formerly known as Spence Bay until 1 July 1992; (2016 population 1,029) is located on the Boothia Peninsula, Kitikmeot, in Nunavut Canada. The community is served only by air and by annual supply sealift. Taloyoak may mean "large blind", referring to a stone caribou blind or a screen used for caribou hunting. The community is situated east of the regional centre of Cambridge Bay, northeast of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Taloyoak is the northernmost community in mainland Canada.


Question: What is happening with the University of Phoenix?

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A student enters the student resource center at the University of Phoenix's San Diego campus. The Pentagon has indefinitely suspended the chain of for-profit schools from receiving new money from the Defense Department’s tuition assistance programs.
Veterans groups today urged the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to follow the Defense Department’s lead in stemming the flow of federal education funds to the University of Phoenix, which was placed on probation this week by the Pentagon after an investigation into Reveal’s exposé on the for-profit school’s recruiting practices.
The Pentagon has barred the university from recruiting at military installations and indefinitely suspended the school from receiving new money from the Defense Department’s tuition assistance programs.
Veterans groups and members of Congress applauded the action but want the Pentagon and VA to do more to defend military personnel and veterans against predatory recruiting practices. They called on the VA to conduct its own investigation.
“The DOD has taken action, and the VA has not. The VA hasn’t stepped up yet, as far as we know, to enforce its own rules on this matter,” said Carrie Wofford, president of Veterans Education Success, a Washington-based nonprofit that aims to protect veterans from being taken advantage of by for-profit colleges.
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America added its voice, saying the VA should restrict the amount of money the University of Phoenix receives through the GI Bill – in the face of growing concerns over the school’s recruiting tactics.
Since 2009, the school has received more than $1.2 billion in GI Bill money. Last year alone, it received $345 million to educate Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, along with $20 million in tuition assistance from the Pentagon.
In a statement, the VA said the Pentagon’s actions “do not have an immediate effect” on students attending the University of Phoenix on the GI Bill, which is administered through the veterans agency.
VA spokesman James Hutton said his department would work with the DOD and state agencies to evaluate the impact, if any, on GI Bill-approved schools. Hutton declined to comment about whether his agency is in the midst of an investigation of the University of Phoenix or is planning to launch one.
In its statement, the VA invited veterans to visit its website to compare eligible institutions. But listings there for the University of Phoenix make no mention of the Defense Department’s action or of any open federal or state investigations of the school.
In its letter to the university placing all of its campuses on probation, the Defense Department acknowledged an investigation by Reveal that showed how the university paid the military for exclusive access to bases – in violation of an executive order restricting access to only sanctioned education events – held recruitment events disguised as job-hunting workshops and improperly used military insignias on “challenge coins” handed out by recruiters.
“Although the University of Phoenix has responded to these infractions with appropriate corrective action at this time, the frequency and scope of these previous violations of the DoD MOU (memorandum of understanding) is disconcerting,” Dawn Bilodeau, who leads the Pentagon’s voluntary education program, wrote in the letter.
The Defense Department also cited separate investigations into the school’s marketing practices by California’s attorney general and the Federal Trade Commission.
The SEC filing requires Apollo Education Group Inc., the University of Phoenix’s parent company, to hand over documents and other information dating back to Jan. 1, 2011, on “a broad spectrum of the business and practices” at the University of Phoenix, including its military recruitment methods.
In another SEC filing, Apollo revealed in August that California’s attorney general launched an investigation and issued a subpoena seeking documents, including those related to the marketing and recruiting of military personnel since July 1, 2010.
The filing said the attorney general was looking into the use of military logos and emblems in the university’s marketing, which generally is prohibited by the Pentagon. In response to Reveal’s questions about custom-engraved challenge coins handed out by recruiters, which featured logos of all military branches, the school said it had pulled them from circulation.
Slottow said it was troubling that the Defense Department used the investigations by the FTC and California as part of its determination to place the university on probation.
However, as Reveal disclosed in its coverage, those agreements were not made with the military’s education wing, but instead through branches that handle entertainment and other kinds of events. Participation in those events precludes recruitment of students, under President Barack Obama’s order, but Reveal showed through internal documents, interviews and undercover video that the university hosted those events with the specific intent to recruit.
The university has 14 days to respond to the action. Defense officials then will determine whether to permanently bar the school from the tuition assistance program.
Students who are currently enrolled at the University of Phoenix will be able to continue using military tuition assistance to finish their coursework, but new students will not be able to do so while the institution is on probation.
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Question: What's causing the sky-high rent prices in California?

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Economic illiteracy has an astoundingly high cost. In Venezuela, children are dying of hunger but the country’s president, Nicolas Maduro, has a bizarre new idea for making food affordable again. His latest plan is to simply shave three zeros off of the currency to control hyperinflation, so that a dozen eggs will cost 250 bolivars rather than 250,000. The bolivar remains largely worthless, so everyone will just recalculate its value. This is your brain on socialism.
California’s leaders haven’t destroyed the economy here because, thankfully, they aren’t in charge of monetary policy. But they have created a housing crisis thanks to myriad policies that make it difficult — at times, nearly impossible — for those “greedy” developers to build new homes, condos, and apartments even as the state’s population grows. They can’t figure out why the rent is too darned high and U-Hauls (heading east) are so hard to come by.
To most normal Americans, supply and demand is a concept as basic as gravity. To the Left, it’s something that can be overcome by central planning. So listening to the state’s Democrats debate housing policy is as mind-twisting as listening to Venezuela’s leaders argue about changing the numbers on the currency. It’s almost unfathomable, actually. And, in fairness, California’s leading Republicans don’t have a firm grasp on the concept, either.
The latest debate centers on a relatively modest bill by Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, to simply give developers a “by right” approval process to build high-density housing projects within a half-mile of transit stops and a quarter mile of bus lines. It would pre-empt localities, which are reluctant to permit virtually any sort of development. The word reluctant is an understatement. They are the prime impediment to home construction in a state filled with impediments.
The bill at least acknowledges that, you know, a little more housing supply might help reduce prices. Of course, in typical California fashion, it only allows private companies more latitude if they build the particular kinds of projects the planners prefer. For years now, California policy makers have imposed hurdles on building the single-family homes that most California families want while favoring multifamily housing and densely packed homes with zero lot lines.
But even those projects run aground at the local level. And the increased push for local rent control ordinances, the lawsuit-encouraging California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and rampant NIMBYism (Not In My Back Yard) has taken a toll. It can take decades to get all the permits needed and to deal with the endless lawsuits filed by environmental groups to build large-scale, planned communities that would seriously address the shortage.
My favorite story about California’s housing crisis involves San Francisco’s housing market. In a city where modest apartments routinely cost $4,000 a month, thousands of landlords have pulled apartments from the market and let them sit vacant. Who foregoes that kind of rent? People who understand that under rent control and the city’s tenants’-rights laws that it’s nearly impossible to evict tenants, or later convert apartments into condos or to raise the rent if market conditions change. It’s far safer to leave them empty, which has sparked calls by San Francisco’s leaders to impose taxes and penalties on those who do so.
Sen. Wiener’s Senate Bill 827 doesn’t propose fixing any of these broad problems. It just tweaks the law to allow a few more targeted projects, yet you’d think that he was proposing some far-reaching measure that would make a dent in the state’s estimated 3.5-million housing unit backlog. As the Sacramento Bee reported, the League of California Cities’ lobbyist opposes the bill because “it lets developers choose ‘McMansions’ or 10-story buildings.” Yeah, imagine letting developers decide what they will develop without a government dictate.
Tenants’ activists were “offended” by the bill. “It’s a massive giveaway to land owners and developers that will cause a tsunami or mass gentrification of communities of color and low-income residents while giving nothing back to local communities,” one told the Bee. Most gubernatorial candidates oppose the bill for local-control reasons. On the other side, Republican candidate Travis Allen said that Californians want “more single-family homes,” which is largely true, except that shouldn’t limit developers from building higher-density projects for those who want them.
The newspaper described it as “extreme rent control,” which could be spreading across the state city by city if it passes. And Democratic activists are making such a measure one of the litmus tests for party leaders (along with single-payer health care). Nothing will destroy supply and drive up rental costs more than statewide rent-control ordinances, which quite obviously punish those who try to create new housing and manage only to destroy a functioning marketplace.
The housing statistics are daunting. The median home value in the state has topped a half-million dollars. California’s cost-of-living-adjusted poverty rate is the highest in the nation due primarily to housing costs, according to the Census Bureau. Homeless encampments are spreading. It’s a simple supply and demand issue, yet even a bill to address the situation in an infinitesimal way is a huge controversy. And the Left is on the march to make things worse.
Maybe we can pass an initiative that lops there zeroes off the cost of every home and apartment and see if that does the trick.


Question: What were the Islanders doing during the 1986–87 season?

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The 1986–87 New York Islanders season was the 15th season for the franchise in the National Hockey League.