Question: Discuss the results of the municipal vote in Ontario that was held on Tuesday, and the implementation of the ranked-ballot system.

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The country’s first municipal vote to be held under a ranked-ballot system was finally decided on Tuesday, with a mayor declared after 14 rounds of counting.
Under the system, in which voters picked their top three candidates in order of preference, Ed Holder was declared winner over his closest challenger about 18 hours after polls closed Monday evening.
This was the first provincewide election in Ontario in which municipalities were allowed to choose using ranked ballots rather than the traditional first-past-the-post system that rewards a person with the most votes, regardless of whether that translates into a majority.
Only London opted to go that ranked-ballot route after public consultation and passage of a bylaw. Two other communities – Cambridge and Kingston – asked voters during Monday’s election whether they should move to ranked ballots in 2022. Voters in both centres said yes but Cambridge didn’t have a large enough turnout to make the result stick.
Under the ranked system, votes are counted and the last-place person is dropped from the ballot. However, their votes are distributed according to the second and third-place choices voters indicated, provided those candidates have not been eliminated.
To win, Holder had to win a simple majority.
He started off strong, taking about 33,000 votes – or roughly one third of all ballots cast – to lead the balloting on the first round. However, despite coming out as the front-runner through subsequent rounds, he was unable to make much headway through round 11, where he still led against three other challengers.
It was only in the following few rounds that he finally powered his way to more than 57,000 votes and a solid victory over his second-place rival, Paul Paolatto.
Mr. Holder, 64, a former Conservative MP, takes over from Matt Brown, a former one-term city councillor and teacher.
Mr. Brown had been elected mayor in 2014 on a platform of integrity and teamwork but scandal marred his tenure. Among other things, he admitted to an affair with the deputy mayor, leading to a split with his wife. He announced in April he wouldn’t run again.
The mayor-elect campaigned on a platform that included his opposition to a $500-million bus rapid transit project. He said it would cost too much for not enough benefit, and would create traffic chaos during a decade of construction.
In Kingston, almost 63 per cent of those who cast ballots voted to move to a ranked-ballot system. In Cambridge, the split was closer. About 57 per cent were in favour and 43 per cent opposed. However, overall turnout in Cambridge was a low 33 per cent, election officials said, invalidating the result, which required a majority of voters to have weighed in.


Question: Describe your plans to celebrate the anniversary of the Departure on October 14th 2018. Respond in 24 sentences.

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On October 14 2011, 2% of the world’s population—140 million people—disappeared in an event known as the “Sudden Departure”.
On October 14 2018, 25YL will become the place to debate, discuss, and deliberate the details of The Leftovers, the HBO television series that evolved from this singular, catastrophic event.
Throughout the day, the 25YL Site Facebook Group, in conjunction with The Leftovers (T.V. Series) and The Leftovers Chat will host in-depth discussions and open forums, Q&As, and reshares of the brilliant analysis of the show from our team. We will also be running a fun image caption contest using stills from the series, so make sure you wear your creative hats!
8am: Share your thoughts about the character of Kevin Garvey with a reshare of his character profile (written by Caemeron Crain).
11am: …which will lead directly into what should be a spirited debate about this cult/religious group.
4pm: Have a question for our Leftovers guru, Caemeron? Now is your chance! It’s Ask the Writer!
5pm: The winners of our Caption Contests will be announced!
6pm: Indulge in a deep discussion about loss and its ramifications and ripple effects as we reshare Caemeron’s character profile of Nora Durst.
7pm: What is your best/worst/craziest theory about Season 2 Episode 8’s “International Assassin”? Share it here in our “International Assassin” discussion!
8pm: Who is David Burton? Ask him yourself during our very special Q&A session!
Closing: Have a topic you want to bring up? A photo or anecdote to share? Cap off the night with an open forum, your last chance to talk about anything and everything Leftovers-related on the anniversary of the Departure.
Encourage people to share photos, post their own discussions and anything else Leftovers related throughout the day!
This celebration will be happening only on the 25YL Site Facebook Group, so if you haven’t already, head over and join the fun. Share your favourite photos, post your own discussion questions, and indulge everything Leftovers related throughout the day.
TV & Film analysis, cast & crew interviews as well as discussion posts. All articles from 25YearsLaterSite.com are shared here.


Question: Describe the progress ASEAN is making in combating fake news.

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Dealing with fake news is a balancing act. On the one hand, fake news can be a serious problem as seen in India where fake news has led to numerous lynching incidents. On the other hand, there’s the question of limiting the freedom of the press and hampering its ability to play watchdog.
Member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have gained notoriety for their lack of press freedom over the years. As a result, the most recent results from the 2018 World Press Freedom Index come as no surprise.
Based on a sample size of 180 countries, Indonesia, Singapore, Lao PDR, and Vietnam have maintained their positions at 124, 151, 170 and 175 respectively, with Vietnam being adjudged to have the least amount of press freedom in ASEAN while Indonesia has the most. Countries that saw improvements were the Philippines which moved up the ladder from 133 to 127, Myanmar from 137 to 131, Cambodia from 142 to 132, and Malaysia from 145 to 144. Countries that actually declined with regards to press freedom were Thailand which moved up from 140 to 142, and Brunei from 153 to 156.
ASEAN governments for the most part, have continued prioritising concerns about the spread of false news as opposed to the freedom of the press. In fact, false and misleading news was among the chief topics at the 14th meeting of the ASEAN Ministers Responsible for Information (AMRI) in May. The ministers issued a declaration on a framework to minimise the harmful effects of fake news and agreed that member-countries should work together to improve digital literacy, encourage relevant agencies to develop guidelines for responding to fake news, and to share best practices.
Malaysia, however, seems to be taking a more proactive role in improving its score on the World Press Freedom Index. On 17 August, the Malaysian lower house or Dewan Rakyat, repealed its Anti-Fake News Law (AFNL). The house voted to repeal the law after a three-hour debate.
ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) Board Member Teddy Baguilat commended the move, saying it showed that the Alliance of Hope (Pakatan Harapan)-led government there was serious about repealing controversial laws which had been passed during the previous government’s rule.
It would be a mistake, however, to assume that fake news is not a serious problem and that the term is little more than a political tool. Apart from cases of lynching in India, fake news has divided Indonesia ever since the Jakarta elections in April where governor candidate Basuki Purnama, better known as Ahok, was the victim of thousands of allegedly false reports including some that claimed he insulted the Quran.
Several ASEAN member states already have initiatives in place to combat false news. A civic group in Indonesia called The Anti-Fake News Society of Indonesia (Masyarakat Anti Fitnah Indonesia) has set up a Facebook page where people can report and discuss suspected false information. The group consists of six full-time fact-checkers and a search engine listing legitimate news sites. Malaysia also has the government-run sebenarnya.my. If ASEAN is indeed serious about balancing freedom of the press and stopping fake news in its tracks then perhaps fact-checking initiatives like these are the way forward and not legislation.


Question: Provide a profile of Muhamad Akhir Bin Bahari. Respond in 24 words.

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Muhamad Akhir Bin Bahari (born 22 March 1994) is a Malaysian footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Malaysia M3 League club DDM.


Question: Explain what procedural generation is and its advantages. Respond in 4 sentences.

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In computing, procedural generation is a method of creating data algorithmically as opposed to manually, typically through a combination of human-generated assets and algorithms coupled with computer-generated randomness and processing power. In computer graphics, it is commonly used to create textures and 3D models. In video games, it is used to automatically create large amounts of content in a game. Advantages of procedural generation include smaller file sizes, larger amounts of content, and randomness for less predictable gameplay.


Question: What do you know about David Lynch and Blue Velvet?

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The film career of David Lynch had an unlikely savior after the poorly received 1984 adaptation of Dune. Dino De Laurentiis gave Lynch license to make a personal film with unheard of final cut rights: Blue Velvet.
In this episode we return to the scene of the filmmaking miracle, Wilmington, North Carolina, considered by some to be the loose basis for the town of Twin Peaks.
On this episode we are joined by Heather Divoky, a local artist in the Sarus Festival, opening March 22, 2018. You will be able to see her work “1000” at the Wabi Sabi Warehouse.
Wilmington was the partial basis for the town of Twin Peaks?
A shared David Lynch universe?
Could David Lynch go high concept again?
The Sarus Festival begins March 22nd in Wilmington, NC.
George Lucas wanted David Lynch to Direct Return of the Jedi.
Mysteries of Love is a 2002 documentary on the making of Blue Velvet.
StarNews looks back on the 30th anniversary of Blue Velvet filming in Wilmington.
Den of Geek! re-examines Blue Velvet with its release on Blu-ray.
Need some more location fixes? The Movie District has several present day Google Map locations alongside stills of the locations from the film.


Question: How do I fix the "Error Establishing a Database Connection" error on WordPress?

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 How do I fix the "Error Establishing a Database Connection" error on WordPress?

This error makes your WordPress Admin Dashboard inaccessible and cannot be fixed neither by clearing browser’s cache and history nor deleting your website’s cache.
No matter if you already have or don’t have backup of your site, I will show you how to fix the issue.
This error has been brought to life by a mismatch between these global variables $wp_version and $wp_db_version.
As you might have figured it out earlier, you could’ve just change the value of $wp_db_version to 38590 but this method won’t be valid if you have a different version of WordPress.
However, the steps above can be applied to any version of WordPress. Just download the previous version of your current WP version and it will do.
Now you’re ready to log in into your WP Admin Dashboard.
If you encountered problems during the process or have questions about it, leave a comment below and I will get back to you as soon as possible!


Question: Feeling lost and frustrated with trying to make sense of it all.

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 Feeling lost and frustrated with trying to make sense of it all.

Love is a mindset, love is a choice. Love has nothing to do with the worthiness or the behavior of others and everything to do with our capacity to love. Love has more to do with our ability to express empathy and compassion and faith and hope and kindness and forgiveness and generosity. The ability to love has nothing to do with another and everything to do with our own soul.
This truth is fought by our conscious mind. Our egos resist this idea with every earthly fiber. It is much easier to be a victim of other’s decisions and behaviors. We blame our limitations on our ability to love on the weaknesses and annoyances of others that seem to keep us from it. It seems to be them, but it is not.
Once we accept that the ability to love is completely ours we are free to love as God intended. Our ability for joy and for peace is now without limit! With the unconditional power of love we are now able to bring Heaven to Earth and bring ourselves closer to God.
” The ability to love has nothing to do with another and everything to do with our own soul.” Wow! This is a really good point.
Ann, this really speaks to me in my struggles. Thanks. Love you.


Question: What is the history of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebre? Respond in 4 sentences.

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The Temple of Fortuna Muliebre was an sanctuary in Ancient Rome dedicated to the goddess Fortuna. The temple was inaugurated by Proculo Verginio Tricosto Rutilo in 486 BC. It was founded on the initiative of Roman women who opposed the war of Gaius Marcius Coriolanus against the Volsci, and collected to funds for it. If still in use by the 4th-century, it would have been closed during the persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire.


Question: Have you heard about Steven Spielberg directing the "Ready Player One" movie?

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 Have you heard about Steven Spielberg directing the "Ready Player One" movie?

Steven Spielberg looks to have found his next movie, having attached himself to direct the bigscreen adaptation of “Ready Player One” for Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow.
Ernest Cline penned the popular sci-fi novel, an adaptation of which the studio has been trying to get off the ground for some time with everyone from Robert Zemeckis to Christopher Nolan showing interest at one time or another.
Donald De Line, Dan Farah and Kristie Macosko Krieger will also produce.
Zak Penn wrote the script.
The novel, published in 2011, is set in a not-too-distant future where advanced Internet, gaming and virtual reality technologies have changed the world as we know it and led to the creation of the Oasis, a virtual reality universe that people live in and value more than the real world.
Jesse Ehrman and Racheline Benveniste will oversee for the studio.
Deadline Hollwyood first reported the news.


Question: Describe how Mexico's likely next president is preparing to take on Donald Trump's economic aggression.

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Central American migrants stand atop a freight train in Arriaga, Mexico, waiting for its departure to take them toward the border with the United States, June 7, 2014.
Mexico’s likely next president prepares to take on Donald Trump’s economic aggression - by rail.
In the crook of Mexico’s elbow lies the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the country’s skinniest strip of land where the Atlantic and Pacific are just 200 kilometers apart. Winds from the west power electricity-generating turbines, the lush soil supports lemon, mango and other crops, and it is the heart of a vibrant indigenous Zapotec culture. The brightly colored embroidered blouses and skirts, immortalized by Frida Kahlo, are still daily attire.
But it is also home to some of Mexico’s poorest communities. A powerful earthquake in 2017 caused devastation only four years after a hurricane pummeled the isthmus simultaneously from both shores. Now, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the front-runner in Mexico’s July 1 election, has his sights set on the gateway to Mexico’s deep south. He wants to revitalize a rail corridor across the isthmus that could act as a Panama Canal Lite, opening up a shortcut to the Atlantic.
I can see us perfectly well approaching the Chinese, above all.
The plan is by no means new: talk of reactivating a trade corridor here has swirled for decades. But Gerardo Esquivel, a Harvard-trained economist and development expert who is one of López Obrador’s economic advisers, sees China as a natural fit to make it happen. China is investing in “new Silk Road” trade corridors spanning 65 countries under its Belt and Road Initiative, as well as increasing investment in Latin America beyond its traditional focus on raw materials.
“I can see us perfectly well approaching the Chinese, above all. It’s the type of project they will certainly want to invest in, because they are long-term infrastructure projects with clearly positive returns,” Esquivel says. The project is expected to cost $7 billion in the first year alone and to require a combination of public and private funding.
Esquivel portrays the corridor as an emblematic project, not only providing an alternative route to allow cargo to avoid the Panama Canal more than 2,000 kilometers to the south, but also giving businesses a reason to locate to Mexico’s depressed south.
There is one snag: China has a less than happy history of investing in Mexican infrastructure. Beijing tried to champion another big project four years ago — a high-speed rail link to connect Mexico City and the city of Querétaro. President Enrique Peña Nieto was forced to scrap a contract awarded to a consortium led by China Railway Construction Corp. — an embarrassing two days before a visit to Beijing — after an outcry over transparency. It then emerged that the president’s White House family mansion had been paid for by a contractor who was a member of the Chinese-led train consortium.
That is just the kind of murky, crony corruption scandal that “Amlo,” as López Obrador is widely known, is crusading to eradicate. He is streets ahead of his rivals with 48 percent support, according to a poll of polls. Ricardo Anaya, at the helm of a right-left coalition, has 28 percent and the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party’s candidate, José Antonio Meade, has only 21 percent.
A southerner himself, from the state of Tabasco on the Atlantic side, López Obrador will want to announce the Trans-Isthmus Corridor “on the first day of his government,” Esquivel says. He suggests that Carlos Slim, the telecom mogul with big infrastructure interests, might also be keen; he partnered with López Obrador on the regeneration of the historic city center during Amlo’s five-year tenure as mayor of Mexico City.
However, Marcelo Ebrard, who is spearheading López Obrador’s campaign in northern Mexico, says he expects U.S. investors to be the most interested: “It makes more sense. The U.S. is our main partner,” he says.


Question: Describe Cinestudio. Respond in 5 sentences.

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Cinestudio is an independent film theater located on the campus of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. The theater is a single-screen venue with a seating capacity of approximately 485, a classic McKim, Mead & White design from 1935. Regionally, it is known for its large screen, 70 mm film projection capability, Ultra High Definition 4K Digital Cinema and classic movie palace atmosphere. The Dolby/Altec sound system is legendary. Cinestudio features a spectacular gold austrian screen curtain that rises at every show, real balcony seating, and the gold lion courant insignia.


Question: What is the significance of the Supreme Court's judgment in John Catt's case?

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 What is the significance of the Supreme Court's judgment in John Catt's case?

The Supreme Court ruling yesterday that the taking and retention of the personal data of John Catt was lawful may have significant consequences for the surveillance of political activism.
The judgment grants extensive discretion to the police in the operation of police databases, and in the collection of intelligence related to ‘domestic extremism’ or other protest activity. It is, in short, judicial approval for the mass surveillance of UK political activism.
The effect of the judgment will mean that it will not be necessary for the police to justify the collection and retention of data on a case-by-case basis, but that any information obtained through ‘overt’ means may be recorded and made available for further processing by police forces without the need for additional regulation or oversight. The Supreme Court found not only that the retention of John Catt’s data was necessary and proportionate, but also that the legal framework provided by the Data Protection Act 1998 (along with published guidance) was sufficient to meet ECHR requirements that the measure must be ‘in accordance with law’.
Lord Sumption, giving the leading judgment, considered the retention of John Catt’s private information amounted to merely a ‘minor’ an invasion of his privacy. It was not ‘intimate or sensitive’ information, nor was it obtained by ‘intrusive’ means – instead it was about ‘overt activities in public places’. This ‘minor’ interference was therefore easily justified, in his view, by the need for police to have operational discretion to prevent and detect crime by collecting information at public demonstrations, and retaining that information on a domestic extremism database known as the National Special Branch Intelligence System.
He stated that the ‘fact that some of the information recorded in the database relates to people like Mr Catt, who have not committed and are not likely to commit offences does not make it irrelevant for legitimate policing purposes… [but the] longer term consequences of restricting the availability of this resource to the police would be very serious’.
Lord Toulson, in a sole dissenting judgment, pointed out that this ‘minor’ infringement included suffering the attention of a police unit concerned with ‘domestic extremism’ (then the National Public Order Intelligence Unit (NPOIU)), which retained over 60 written database entries relating to Mr Catt’s presence at various demonstrations over a period of five years. This occurred despite the fact that John Catt had never been convicted of any criminal offence, and that there was no evidence that he was ever involved in the coordination or planning of violent or unlawful protest, ‘or ever displayed any propensity for violence’.
Lord Toulson stated, ‘if a citizen’s activities are lawful, they should be free from the state keeping a record of them unless, and then only for as long as, such a record really needs to be kept in the public interest’.
The significance of today’s ruling is that it changes the basis on which the retention of data must be justified, from the individual to the general. Applying the reasoning of the Supreme Court ruling, it is only the general purpose of the surveillance that must be justified as being necessary for (widely defined) ‘policing purposes’. In the case of John Catt, the justification included the need to assess risk to public disorder, and to study the ‘leadership, organisation, tactics and methods’ of the ‘extremist’ Smash EDO campaign, and to identify ‘links between protest groups’. Once the operation overall is justified, there appears no need to consider the relevance or necessity of recording the data of any particular individual – as was required by the Court of Appeal ruling in this case. The change results in a much greater level of operational discretion being available to the police, which has the potential to open the door for the use of police data gathering tactics in relation to a much wider group of people.
Alarmingly, our work alongside activists in the growing opposition to extreme energy extraction suggests this scenario may soon become entirely realistic. It is also why we are developing practical tools and advice so anti-fracking campaigners can resist this kind of intensive police surveillance.
The Supreme Court was also required to make a decision on whether intelligence-gathering practices were ‘in accordance with the law’. Unanimously it was satisfied to adopt Lord Sumption’s view that a combination of the Data Protection Act 1998, and the recently updated guidance on the Management of Police Information (MoPI) issued by the College of Policing, provide enough certainty and accessibility in the law to meet the requirements of the European Court of Human Rights.
There are significant problems with this, however, that Lord Sumption does not properly address: neither document, for example, limits the circumstances in which data may be collected beyond the very wide parameters of that which is necessary for the ‘prevention and detection of crime’ (Data Protection Act) or for ‘police purposes’ (MoPI). Nor does either framework effectively limit the processing or use of personal data once it has been obtained and is ‘in the system’. As long as it meets the catch-all requirement that it must be ‘necessary and proportionate’ to a policing purpose, the data may be collated, analysed, or disseminated as the police see fit.
If, as seems likely, John Catt’s case makes its way to the European Court of Human Rights, it will be interesting to see what they make of this ‘accordance with law’ point.


Question: What did President Obama say during his visit to Lawrence, Kansas last week?

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LAWRENCE, KANSAS-President Barack Obama paid a visit to Lawrence, Kansas last week, just two days after his 2015 “State of the Union” address. as part of his “Middle Class Economics” speaking tour. The Chancellor of the University of Kansas, Bernadette Gray-Little, graciously extended the invitation to welcome Haskell Indian Nations University to the special Presidential event held at the Anschutz Sports Pavilion on the campus of KU.
Twelve Haskell Indian Nation University students were invited and given preferred seating on stage with the president. Each 4 year program selected three students to represent them alongside an additional three students in leadership positons on campus. Students representing Haskell in leadership positions included; Beverly Foley (student body president), Aleesta Thorne (Ms. Haskell 2014-15) and Charlie Perry (editor of the Indian Leader Newspaper). The other nine students selected based on their merit in their respective programs included; Dominic Goseyun, Marc Crooked Arm, Allyson Prue, Jacob Dixon, Barbara Wolfin, Peter Henry, Sarah Gowen, Trevor Pueblo, and Christina Davey. University President Dr. Venida Chenault and Stephen Prue were also on hand for the event.
After a brief word from Chancellor Gray-Little Alisa Cole who is a senior at Kansas, and a single, working, mother of three took the stage to introduce the President. In 2013 Cole wrote a letter to the President Obama requesting more assistance for developing families in need of childcare and education. Cole stressed, “It is so important that parents receive help with childcare and pursuing an education.” She went on to speak about the government taking a more proactive approach on the issue.
President Obama took the stage to greet a diverse and enthused crowd of thousands of people eagerly awaited to hear his stance on issues such as; childcare, education, and strengthen the economy. Obama kicked off his speech by informing attendees that 2015 is off to a great start for the American People.
Haskell would profit from the president’s proposed plan by securing a portion of the funding to help maintain The Little Nations Daycare Center. Little Nations opened its doors in 2005 to serve the children of Haskell students. The program currently serves up to twenty-five children ages six weeks to five years old from infant, toddler and preschool with the focus of a comprehensive educational environment.
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by “The Indian Leader,” the newspaper of Haskell Indian Nations University, located in Lawrence, Kansas.


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Riivo Sinijärv (born 27 May 1947 in Tallinn) is an Estonian politician and a former Minister of Foreign Affairs.


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Lorens Pasch the Elder, sometimes spelled Lorentz or Lorenz (March 1702, Stockholm - 27 April 1766, Stockholm) was a Swedish portrait painter.
His father was the decorative painter and village Elder, Danckwardt Pasch (1660-1727), who originally came from Lübeck. His brothers, Danckwardt Pasch the Younger (1690-1759) and Johan Pasch also became painters, as did his children, Lorens Pasch the Younger and Ulrika Pasch.


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Scientific Research Group in Egypt (SRGE) is a group of young Egyptian researchers established under the chairman of the group founder Prof. Aboul Ella Hassanien (Professor of Information Technology at the Faculty of Computer and Information, Cairo University). The main target of the group is establishing a research community for sharing common interests. Therefore the research map of the group consists of multidisciplinary research interests including: Networks, Intelligent Environment, bio-informatics, chemoinformatics, and information security.


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Joel Allen Barber (January 17, 1809 – June 28, 1881) was an American lawyer and politician. He served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district, he was the 15th Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly, and he served one term in the Wisconsin State Senate.


Question: "Should I learn Objective-C or Swift if I want to become an iOS developer?"

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 "Should I learn Objective-C or Swift if I want to become an iOS developer?"

While a rockstar iOS developer would know both Swift and Objective-C, the same wouldn’t apply to someone who says to himself “Now I can be an iOS developer without learning Objective-C”, who is most likely just starting on iOS development.
For someone new to the iOS dev world, I would recommend starting out with Swift rather than Objective-C.
Agreed, but only if you want to be an iOS developer of a super-advanced app right away. As someone starting out with iOS development, you most likely don’t need to talk to C/C++ code or swizzle methods or meddle with the Objective-C runtime. You can get to that when you need to.
I certainly agree that “the community talks in Objective-C” in blogs and in Stack Overflow, but that’s going to change faster than we think, especially with Apple being okay about discussing beta stuff publicly.
This is subjective. To me, Swift code looks more readable than Objective-C, and therefore, easier to pick up for a newbie.
Swift does have some seemingly odd behaviours (like copy semantics of Arrays), but I expect those quirks to either go away or get explained in the near future.
I totally agree with this. However, this cannot be a reason to start off learning iOS development with Objective-C rather than Swift.
I would argue in favour of Swift because it’s the future of iOS and Mac development.
Almost anyone starting a new project is going to use Swift. If you intend to be an independent developer once you learn iOS development, it’s a no-brainer to start off with Swift.
While most iOS dev blogs talk in Objective-C at present, a couple of months later, most of the new snippets that get published there are going to be in Swift.
Most importantly, I believe Swift is going to give us completely new design patterns that wouldn’t be possible in Objective-C. For one, I think KVO is going to look quite different in Swift, thanks to closures and property observers. The Objective-C-way will start to look dated in comparison.
It’s a good idea to skate to where the puck is going to be.


Question: Describe the research interests and background of Thure E. Cerling.

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Thure E. Cerling (b. 1949) is a Distinguished Professor of Geology and Geophysics and a Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of Utah. Cerling is a leading expert in the evolution of modern landscapes including modern mammals and their associated grassland ecologies and stable isotope analyses of the atmosphere. Cerling lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Cerling's research interests are primarily focused on Earth surface geochemistry processes and on the geological record of ecological change. Particularly, working on conservation biology, Cerling has analyzed the modern animal diet and physiology by using stable isotopes as natural tracers as well as studying dietary changes of different mammalian lineages extending over millions of years.


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Whitson took off aboard the Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft on Nov. 17, along with spacecraft commander Oleg Novitskiy and flight engineer Thomas Pesquet, a European Space Agency astronaut. All three were scheduled to return to Earth June 2 to close out a 196-day mission.
Instead, Novitskiy and Pesquet will return to a landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan with one empty seat, leaving Whitson behind aboard the station with Soyuz MS-04 commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and NASA astronaut Jack Fischer, who are scheduled for launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on April 20.
Soyuz spacecraft normally carry three crew members to the station but the Russians have opted to reduce their crew size in the near term to save money. As a result, the MS-04 spacecraft will launch with an empty seat. Whitson will take that seat when she returns to Earth with Yurchikhin and Fischer on Sept. 3.
A fresh three-person crew — Soyuz MS-05 commander Sergey Ryazanskiy, Randy Bresnik and ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli — is scheduled for launch July 28.
Between June 2, when Whitson’s two Soyuz MS-03 crewmates land, and the arrival of Ryazanskiy’s crew, the station will be staffed by one Russian, Yurchikhin, and two Americans, Whitson and Fischer. That will enable continued research operations in the U.S. segment of the lab that otherwise would have been curtailed if just one astronaut was available.
It also preserves the option for a contingency spacewalk if a major problem crops up with the U.S. segment of the station.
Whitson, who holds a doctorate in biochemistry, is one of NASA’s most experienced astronauts, making her third visit to the space station. She served as commander of the outpost during her second stay in 2008 and will serve as the lab’s next commander, after three current crew members — Soyuz MS-02 commander Sergey Ryzhikov, Andrey Borisenko and Expedition 50 commander Shane Kimbrough — land Monday to wrap up a 173-day mission.
Whitson also is the world’s most experienced female spacewalker with more than 53 hours of EVA time during eight spacewalks. Assuming a landing Sept. 3, she will have logged 289 days aloft since launch last November, pushing her cumulative total to 666 days over three missions.


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More than a third of the 7,000-odd living species of frogs and toads are found in rain forests around the world. But the fossil record for amphibians from these kinds of wet, tropical environments has been almost nonexistent, leaving paleontologists with few clues to their early evolution.
Scientists discovered a dinosaur feather encased in pieces of Cretaceous-era amber, with a tick tangled up in the plumage. It's the first direct evidence that ticks afflicted dinosaurs and primitive birds.


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Rocco and His Brothers () is a 1960 Italian film directed by Luchino Visconti, inspired by an episode from the novel "Il ponte della Ghisolfa" by Giovanni Testori. Set in Milan, it tells the story of an immigrant family from the South and its disintegration in the society of the industrial North. The title is a combination of Thomas Mann's "Joseph and His Brothers" and the name of Rocco Scotellaro, an Italian poet who described the feelings of the peasants of southern Italy.
The film stars Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, and Claudia Cardinale in one of her early roles before she became internationally known. The score was composed by Nino Rota.


Question: Respond briefly. What is Medeas?

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Medeas is a 2013 American-Italian-Mexican independent drama film directed by Andrea Pallaoro and starring Catalina Sandino Moreno and Brían F. O'Byrne. It is Pallaoro's directorial debut.


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Father’s Day is a special occasion that reminds us to pause and thank the men in our lives who have taken on the responsibility of raising children. As sons and daughters, we recognize the love they have given and the sacrifices they have made, and we celebrate the indispensable role fathers play in our lives and communities.
Fathers have the ability and responsibility to instill in us core values we carry into adulthood. The examples they set and the lessons they impart about hard work, dedication to family, faith in God, and believing in ourselves establish the moral foundation for success that allows us to live up to our full potential. We remember those fatherly moments big and small throwing a baseball, writing an essay, driving a car, walking down the aisle that have shaped us, and we thank our dads for being there with a helping hand and an open heart.
Day in and day out, fathers put their children first, creating loving and supportive environments. Whether by birth, adoption, or foster care, today we honor the incredible fathers in our lives for all they have done and continue to do for us. Fathers inspire us to better ourselves and to be men and women of outstanding character. We recommit ourselves as individuals, families, and communities to promoting and supporting fatherhood, and take this day to express our love and appreciation for fathers across our country.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, in accordance with a joint resolution of the Congress approved April 24, 1972, as amended (36 U.S.C. 109), do hereby proclaim June 18, 2017, as Father’s Day. I call on United States Government officials to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on Father’s Day and invite State and local governments and the people of the United States to observe Father’s Day with appropriate ceremonies.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this sixteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord two thousand seventeen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-first.


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 Describe the process of regenerating Silene stenophylla from frozen tissue.

In what sounds like a Jurassic Park style science fiction narrative, the Proceedings of the U.S. National Academy of Science recently reported that an ancient arctic flowering plant by the name of Silene stenophylla, commonly known as the “narrow-leafed campion,” was brought back to life after over 31,000 years of dormancy — as determined through radiocarbon dating. Russian scientists announced they successfully regenerated this flowering plant from frozen seeds, fruit, and leaves most likely collected by a prehistoric squirrel in its burrow. The burrow is believed to have frozen over quickly prior to the last ice age, preserving DNA intact until its discovery and excavation a few years ago. The material was extracted from beneath 38 metres of permafrost in the northeastern Siberian tundra in 2007.
Stanislav Gubin, a coauthor, has described burrows in the area as a “natural cryobank.” Scientists were able to grow the plant in a conventional flowerpot. Over the course of a year the plant blossomed, fruit was successfully borne, complete with functional seeds. Svetlana Yashina and a team from the Institute of Physiochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, wrote: “The first generation cultivated from seeds obtained from regenerated plants progressed through all developmental stages and had the same morphological features as parent plants.” In other words, the plant cycle continued as would have been expected if it had not been interrupted for over 31,000 years.
The seeds themselves did not germinate, as the embryos had been damaged. Scientists turned to the frozen fruit placental tissue itself, and were able to culture 36 specimens from the tissue. Remarkably, the plants appeared similar to modern day versions of the plant, until flowering, at which time the petals were noted to be significantly longer and more splayed.
If independently verified, this will prove to be by far the oldest plant material ever brought back to life, the record currently is 2,000 years, held by date palms grown from seeds found in Masada, Israel.
Although living material this old is not that surprising, the recovery of viable life from preserved frozen matter is. Many cases of proposed extreme longevity have been disproven in the past, including supposed wheat grown from tombs of pharaohs, and lupines grown from a 10,000 year old lemming burrow in Canada, which were later proven to be modern contaminants by Grant Zazula, a paleontologist from the Yukon Paleontology Program.
Robin Probert, head of conservation and technology at the U.K.’s Millenium Seedbank, hopes that techniques developed in this project may one day be used to resurrect extinct species.
Not everyone is so optimistic about the results. Alastair Murdoch, an expert on seed viability from the University of Reading in England, noted that 98 per cent of poppy seeds are rendered infertile after a mere 160 years of -7 C, the temperature estimated for the campions.
Although revolutionary, this discovery might become the first of many. An estimated 20 per cent of Earth’s land surface area is covered in permafrost, which opens the possibility of a vast collection of preserved life specimens waiting to be discovered, potentially detailing the history of life on Earth.
Though this may sound far-fetched, the idea of freezing plant species indefinitely is not a new concept. In fact, this concept of preserving seeds through freezing has been exploited by the Millenium Seed Bank Project in West Sussex since 2000, and the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a high security, ultra-low temperature collection of over two million plant seeds representing all human food staple species, was founded in Norway in 2008, in case of some sort of global calamity (as a safe house guarding against mass extinction of these species).
Gubin hopes that they can find more preserved tissue from the pleistocene epoch’s layer in the ice, perhaps opening the possibility of bringing back extinct animals from the most recent ice age — animals such as the woolly mammoth.


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Colby Hall is an historic building on the campus of Andover Newton Theological School at 141 Herrick Road in the village of Newton Centre in Newton, Massachusetts. It was built in 1866 in a mixture of Second Empire and Romanesque styles. It was named for Gardner Colby (1810–79), who was treasurer of the school and also was the benefactor of Waterville College in Maine, which changed its name to Colby College in his honor. On January 30, 1978. it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
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Question: What is tinea imbricata?

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Tinea imbricata (also known in parts of Indonesia as “Kaskado”) is a superficial fungal infection of the skin limited to southwest Polynesia, Melanesia, Southeast Asia, India, and Central America. The skin lesions are often itchy, and mainly in the torso and limbs. The name is derived from the Latin for "tiled" (imbricata) since the lesions are often lamellar. It is often treated with griseofulvin or terbinafine.


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Podcerkawizna is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Radomsko, within Radomsko County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland.


Question: Explain gene-culture coevolution and how it might apply to humans.

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Did you know that what your ancestors ate affects your genes today?
In humans, anthropologists call this an example of gene-culture coevolution, the hypothesis that human culture and genes interact; changes in culture can drive genetic change (and vice versa). The best example of this is lactose tolerance (the ability to digest dairy), which has independently evolved something like five times in different human groups. People in those groups who were lactose tolerant had a nutritional advantage over those who weren't, and so were better able to survive and pass on their genetic mutations. These mutations work by controlling the small intestine's production of lactase, a digestive enzyme that breaks down lactose, the main sugar in milk.
Digestive enzymes provide some of our clearest evidence of recent selection in our own species. Studying the variation in digestive enzymes between populations provides us with evidence that what we eat (and the variation between populations in what we eat) has actually changed our genes in different ways.
New research by Rutgers University PhD candidate Mareike Janiak (she is a friend) and her colleagues from Kent State University could add another piece to the digestive enzyme puzzle, but from an angle that some might find hard to stomach: her dissertation work is on the gene behind the digestive enzyme that allows primates to eat bugs.
Specifically, she wanted to know how very small insect-eating primates like the tarsier are able to waste so much of their stomach space on material that provides no nutrition.
Insects and other arthropods have hard exoskeletons (outer shells) made of a material called chitin. For a long time, researchers thought that mammals – even ones that ate a lot of bugs – were unable to produce the enzyme, called chitinase, that breaks it down. Sampling the digestive juices of mammals directly to look for chitinase is an invasive procedure. And even after sampling, it wasn't clear whether any chitinase that was found was produced by the animals themselves or came from other sources (like plants in the diet or gut microbes). The benefit to breaking down chitin would be gaining access to all of the nutrients and minerals that are bound up in it. Instead, researchers thought that small, insect-eating primates had fast gut-transit times and would simply pass the indigestible outer shells quickly.
But this didn't sit right with Janiak. If you can break the shell, you can get at the juicy center and get those nutritional benefits. But breaking down the chitin itself would offer more nutrition, which is important for tiny creatures. If natural selection was able to influence human digestive enzymes over time scales of thousands of years, shouldn't it have acted on other primates over time scales of millions of years? Shouldn't insect-eating primates be able to make chitinase?
To answer this question, she used published genomes for some of the primates to look for copies of a gene challed CHIA, which codes for acidic mammalian chitinase – the stomach enzyme that breaks down chitin. She sequenced the CHIA gene for those primates without publicly available genomes. Janiak hypothesized that primates that consume more insects should have working versions of the CHIA gene, while primates that eat fewer insects or none at all should have nonfunctional versions. These results would suggest both that the idea that mammals can't digest chitin was wrong and that the ability to break down chitin was an evolutionary advantage for primates that eat a lot of insects.
Janiak found that our early primate ancestors (which tended to be very small) probably had three working copies of the CHIA gene, while most living primates have only one. The species in her sample that had the most insect-heavy diets (like the tarsier and the galago) also had at least three working copies of the gene, like early primates did. (The tarsier has five copies!) These additional copies suggest that strong selection was at work in the tarsier lineage – those tarsier ancestors that were able to more effectively break down chitin had a nutritional advantage over those that couldn't.
The same might be true for humans. If eating insects was actually an important part of our evolutionary history as a species, this might explain why we still have a functional copy of the CHIA gene. The unsolved mystery here is whether that gene still causes the production of chitinase in the human stomach; researchers have found conflicting results about this in the past. However, those studies were done on people from populations that don't often eat insects (for example, one was a side project on gastric juice samples from Italians obtained for other medical reasons).
The expression of the CHIA gene could be mediated by whether or not a person/population has a history of eating insects. This would mean that populations might vary in their ability to effectively digest insect exoskeletons. If a difference in chitinase production exists, it is likely occurring at the gene expression level - actually eating insects might turn the CHIA gene on. This would be a different genetic mechanism than what happens with lactose tolerance (where a mutation within the gene controls enzyme production) and to figure out whether or not it's happening we will need better sampling of the digestive juices from non-Western populations, some of which feature insects in their diets.


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Dionysos is an opera by Wolfgang Rihm based on Friedrich Nietzsche's "Dionysian-Dithyrambs". The composer wrote the libretto and subtitled his work: "Opernphantasie nach Texten von Friedrich Nietzsche / Szenen und Dithyramben" ("Operatic fantasy after texts by Friedrich Nietzsche / Scenes and dithyrambs). It premiered at the Salzburg Festival on 27 July 2010.


Question: Explain how converting a coal-fired power plant to one powered by green energy could impact the pensions of current or future retirees, and discuss how unions have struggled to secure pensions in the past.

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Green energy vs. jobs and pensions?
The Sept. 12-14 Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco, convened by California Gov. Jerry Brown, drew thousands of delegates from many countries to the Moscone Center. Summit delegates were primarily elected officials, business and nonprofit representatives, mainstream environmentalists, scientists and academics.
Thousands protested outside the summit. Those outside were not right-wing climate science deniers, but Indigenous activists and critics of “market-based” approaches protesting their exclusion from the summit.
Trumka raised concerns about “climate strategies that leave coal miners’ pension funds bankrupt, power plant workers unemployed, construction workers making less than they do now,” as well as the impact of a shift to green energy on coal mining jobs.
The biggest threat to employment among union miners has not been the struggle to defend the environment, but rather the mine bosses’ drive for profit. The bosses have closed union mines in favor of unorganized mines, a shift that has cost miners their lives. Mountaintop removal — also known as strip-mining — has devastated the economy and the landscape of states like West Virginia.
Did Trumka think he was going to convince this gathering of corporate philanthropists and capitalist politicians to promise new, union jobs to his constituents in conjunction with a profit-motive-oriented approach to saving the environment?
Pensions are legally understood to be “deferred wages” — money already earned when the retiree was on the job. How would converting a coal-fired power plant to one powered by green energy impact the pensions of current or future retirees? The problem is how changes in the capitalist economy impact funding.
In 1946, Trumka’s United Mine Workers (UMWA), under the leadership of President John L. Lewis, pioneered the first union pension plan. The UMWA negotiated what’s now known as a “defined benefit” that a miner was guaranteed each month upon retirement. However, retirees were not paid directly by the employers they had worked for, but from a multiemployer pension fund to which the coal barons were required to contribute a negotiated amount.
The UMWA defined benefit plan became a template for other unions to secure a decent living for their members in their retirement years. Defined benefit pensions were won through struggle — the United Auto Workers struck Chrysler for 104 days in 1950 — and are now under siege by bosses who want to replace them with 401(k) plans that cost the bosses less and do not guarantee a set monthly income for the retired worker.
When they first won pensions, unions demanded that pension funds be kept independent from the companies’ finances. That way the funds could not be raided if a company had a cash flow problem in an economic downturn, and the funds would still be there if a company went out of business.
Company contributions, however, were affected by how many workers were on the payroll. This worked fine with a stable workforce, where a steady stream of new workers replaced workers who retired, quit or died on a more or less one-for-one basis.
The problem now is that, due to downsizing, outsourcing and other factors that shrink the workforce, the number of UMWA retirees outnumbers active mineworkers by more than 12 to 1. Also, mine owners who go bankrupt or are out of business make no contributions. Lastly, the funds are invested in the stock market, leaving pensions vulnerable to fluctuations in a volatile market.
For all these reasons, the income from company contributions has failed to keep up with the outflow. This failure puts pensions and retiree health benefits in jeopardy. Many union-negotiated plans, such as the Teamsters’ multiemployer plan, are now underfunded.
So now Trumka is stoking fear that measures to combat climate change will end up costing more jobs in coal, in addition to creating unemployment in hard-hit mining communities that will cause the pension fund to be even more underfunded. Yet these measures are urgently needed to slow climate change.
Isn’t the real problem capitalist restructuring? The goal of restructuring is to drive down the cost of labor by squeezing maximum productivity from the fewest number of workers and at the lowest possible wage. Isn’t the capitalist drive for profit also responsible for the over reliance on fossil fuels that created global warming in the first place?
It’s absolutely right to programmatically combine the fight for climate justice with the fight for full employment. Trumka, however, frames the issue the wrong way. Intentionally or not, he ends up pitting jobs and pensions against the future of the planet.
Union workers have more in common with the protesters outside the summit, who marched for “climate, jobs and justice” and opposed environmental racism and capitalism.