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New semiconductor memories are quite rare. Today, the semiconductor industry relies on three venerable workhorse technologies: SRAM, DRAM, and NAND. The first two are around fifty years old, while non-volatile NAND (and NOR) flash was invented three decades ago. After around a decade in development, Intel and Micron first announced 3DXP memory in 2015. While this is a new type of memory, the research dates back to the early 2000’s. It appears that 3DXP uses an arsenic doped Se-Ge-Si ovonic threshold switch with a bit-cell formed from a chalcogenide glass (Ge-Sb-Te). The 3DXP memory relies on many techniques and materials pioneered by Numonyx, an joint venture by Intel and STMicro that was acquired by Micron, but the implementation is likely different. Intel and Micron claim that the new type of memory offers attributes of both DRAM and NAND. From a system standpoint, 3DXP is byte-addressable (like DRAM) and non-volatile (like NAND). From a performance standpoint, 3DXP offers worse latency than DRAM, but far better density; it can be vertically stacked (similar to NAND, but with different economics), and has better endurance than NAND.
The first product to use 3DXP was Intel’s P4800X family of SSDs, which offers 375GB or 750GB of 3DXP memory attached via a 4-lane PCIe 3.0 link. The 375GB SSD comprises a proprietary controller that drives seven channels of four 128Gbit 3DXP chips, with about 20% of the physical capacity reserved for ECC, meta-data, and overprovisioning. The P4800X delivers 10X lower latency than comparable NAND-based SSDs and 5-8X better throughput at low queue depths. The endurance of the initial P4800X is 30 drive-writes per day (DWPD), roughly 2X better than NAND-based SSDs. Interestingly, Intel announced that the latest version of the P4800x is rated for 60 DWPD – a 2X improvement over the course of roughly a year. 3DXP SSDs are the fastest currently available storage and initial customers are using 3DXP SSDs for hot storage. For example, Alibaba’s PolarDB uses storage nodes combining five SSDs and a single 3DXP SSD. However, SSDs are merely a stepping stone. The value of 3DXP is masked by the system architecture, specifically the PCIe link and the block-based software interface.
For 3DXP to become a viable complement to DRAM and NAND, it requires a different system and software architecture, which Intel recently announced. As widely expected, Intel will offer 3DXP-based DIMMs (previously codenamed Apache Pass) that use a low-latency DDR4 memory interface, rather than PCIe. The first DIMMs will be available in 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB capacities and work with the next-generation Cascade Lake server processor. Intel has prepared a torturously long marketing name, and for the sake of brevity, we will simply refer to these products as 3DXP DIMMs.


Question: Explain the evidence in the Inspector General’s report that paints an unflattering picture of Jim Comey.

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The picture that emerges of Jim Comey from the Inspector General’s report is one of an astonishingly arrogant weirdo, an FBI director who pompously talked about “norms” while shattering them on his own say-so — from crowning himself the de facto attorney general, thereby sparing Hillary an indictment, to lesser offenses of self-indulgence, such as his richly ironic use of Gmail to conduct official business. Anyone who goes to the trouble of slogging through this mountainous report will wonder how such an unreliable and self-deluded flake could hold any position at the FBI, let alone serve as the chief witness in Mueller’s investigation of a sitting president.
Just read through the section on Comey’s weird interactions with Loretta Lynch and his untrustworthiness as a witness becomes obvious: he can’t give a clear account of a conversation to save his life. His flakiness is so blatant one wonders if the judicial system should throw out every case he ever touched. He appears in the report at times almost pitiful, claiming that he didn’t know Huma Abedin was married to Anthony Weiner. That fact somehow eluded America’s top cop, but then again Comey is “still” not sure if Hillary Clinton paid for Christopher Steele’s dossier.
In keeping with his comic superiority complex, Comey has pronounced himself generally pleased with the report, giving Horowitz a pat on the head in the New York Times for his “professionalism.” Sure, he has his disagreements with him, but, hey, we are all in this voyage of self-discovery together — that’s the ludicrous tone Comey affects. Any other law enforcement figure would hide his head in shame after the release of a report that shows his agency to be a corrupt clown show; Comey uses it to talk about his own rectitude and give a lecture about how all “our leaders need to understand that accountability and transparency are essential to the functioning of our democracy, even when it involves criticism.” He caused a partisan pile-up of historic proportions at the FBI, yet strolls up to the scene like an innocent bystander wondering what others might “learn” from the crash.
That Comey can talk so breezily about the wreckage at the FBI speaks to the depth of his sense of entitlement and the protection he enjoys from the media and official Washington. He lied, leaked, broke rules, violated confidences, treated FBI memos as his own personal property, spied on a presidential campaign, and much else, but knows that he will never pay a real price for any of it, owing to his status as a ruling-class mandarin.
Yet his political sense is not as keen as he seems to think. He is losing his tussle with Trump, and this report may finish him off in that struggle. Comey is simply too compromised a figure for Mueller to build a credible obstruction-of-justice case on; the American people are not going to throw a president out of office for firing a flake.
Strzok and Brennan were thick as thieves. In the end, their anti-Trump bias is the only explanation for why such a scandalously sketchy counterintelligence probe of a rival presidential campaign was launched. It was the probe from nowhere to nowhere, undertaken to prove the partisan speculation of Strzok and Brennan. That’s why the Justice Department won’t identify the evidentiary origin of the investigation. There never was one; it arose out of nothing more than the capacity of Brennan and Strzok to believe the worst about Trump.
But with poetic justice, Strzok’s partisan turning away from the real Hillary probe to the fake Trump one in the final month of the campaign inadvertently destroyed his dream: crucial weeks passed as senior brass ignored her emails on Weiner’s laptop, causing so much anger and turmoil at the field level that Comey had no choice but to acknowledge publicly re-opening the investigation before any leaking from angry agents exposed him. Then, as the IG report notes (by quoting dismayed agents), he closed the investigation as dishonestly as he re-opened it, thereby underlining what a sham the investigation was from the start. The end to this farce came at the ballot box and was wonderfully fitting: the American people delivered the justice Comey wouldn’t.


Question: What is the chemical name and use of fluazinam? Respond in 96 words.

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Fluazinam is a broad-spectrum fungicide used in agriculture. It is classed as a diarylamine and more specifically an arylaminopyridine. Its chemical name is 3-chloro-"N"-(3-chloro-2,6-dinitro-4-trifluoromethylphenyl)-5-trifluoromethyl-2-pyridinamine. The mode of action involves the compound being an extremely potent uncoupler of oxidative phosphorylation in mitochondria and also having high reactivity with thiols. It is unique amongst uncouplers in displaying broad-spectrum activity against fungi and also very low toxicity to mammals due to it being rapidly metabolised to a compound without uncoupling activity. It was first described in 1992 and was developed by researchers at the Japanese company Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha.


Question: Describe Nikki Haley's time as United Nations Ambassador and her current political aspirations.

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In an article for Harper’s Magazine, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley opened up about her lack of experience for the role.
Haley abruptly resigned from her positions ahead of the Midterms, and some have suggested that she plans on running for president in 2020.
In the article, Haley talked about her time working with Trump and admitted that she had little experience for the role.


Question: Provide a brief biography of Tariq Ali Khan. Respond in 3 sentences.

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Tariq Ali Khan (; born 21 October 1943) is a British political activist, writer, journalist, historian, filmmaker, and public intellectual. He is a member of the editorial committee of the "New Left Review" and "Sin Permiso", and contributes to "The Guardian", "CounterPunch", and the "London Review of Books". He read PPE at Exeter College, Oxford.


Question: Explain TCS (theory of constructed self) from the perspective of parenting.

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A few important articles to get you started.
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Why you should think twice before praising a particular LEA (local education authority).
More discussion with a radical unschooler on the subject of education and coercion.
Parents often fear that a child might make the wrong decisions about what to learn.
A charming story for everyone who has a bed-making issue.
Misunderstandings and miscommunication are common occurrences, so it is wise not to jump to negative conclusions.
This piece by Elliot may help some understand TCS ideas about coercion and solving problems.
The criticism sometimes levelled at TCS parents, that they must be doormats, is in terms of education actually more appropriate when applied to conventional parents.
What Karl Popper has to say that is relevant to education.
How to help a child to try school safely.
To ensure that your child loves visiting the dentist, read this!
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Despite having been influenced by our very own David Deutsch, John Holt was not as close to TCS as we might have hoped.
How close is the thing we TCS folk call “coercion” to “coercion” in everyday usage?
Sue Cvach has some advice for parents whose young children seem to be lashing out against their siblings.
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Do not assume that a child is acting irrationally just because he or she wants to go to school.
Sometimes it helps to step back and get things in perspective.
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Did you hate being bossed about by your parents and teachers? Have you developed a life strategy of “my way is the only way” to prevent others coercing you? The problem is that in applying this to your children, you do to them the very thing you hated as a child – and you cause them to grow up to do the very same thing to their own children.
An argument about children's legal rights, addressing the issue of how children might be protected under the law even if their legal rights were the same as adults'.
If so, this might help.
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TCS parents do not force their children to study. They do not try to manipulate them into it. They do not push them. They do pay attention to what seems to interest their children and facilitate their exploration in that sphere, and in any related spheres the parent thinks the children might find interesting. But if children are not pushed, how could they ever become, say, a mathematician? What would this process look like? David Deutsch paints a word picture that may help.
Why I always shudder when I hear such questions.
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Many parents worry that eating a lot of junk food might lead to ill-health. Elliot's post may set some minds at rest.
It is often asserted (usually by school teachers) that if children are not forced to go to school or, at the very least, to study an externally-imposed curriculum, there will be big gaps in their knowledge at the end of their education. Is this true? Is it any less true of children subjected to a standard curriculum? Is it a problem? And if so, which children will be better able to fill any gaps later: those who have been subject to a curriculum, or those who haven't? Mike Fortune-Wood has the answers.
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Don't be misled by the title. This discussion is not just about what to do in a case where a child heates wearing an eyepatch, it is about how to think about problems in such a way that you can solve them.
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Correcting a few common misconceptions about TCS.


Question: Describe the events surrounding Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Danang, Vietnam in 2017.

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"People will die because of it, and it’s a pure hit job," Trump said aboard Air Force One.
Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump talk as they arrive for the family photo session during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Danang, Vietnam, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017. CREDIT: AP Photo/Hau Dinh.
On Saturday, President Donald Trump said that “people will die” because of the Department of Justice and Congress’s investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Trump may have been referring to “people dying” in Syria and elsewhere in the world due to stressed U.S.-Russian relations thanks to investigations into alleged Russian interference in the U.S. election. On Saturday, Putin and Trump issued a joint statement on Syria full of platitudes. The statement said there is a need to defeat the so-called Islamic State and keep military communication between the two countries open. But it also stressed that there is no military solution to the conflict, which is now entering its seventh year.
Feinstein sits on the on the Senate’s intelligence and judiciary committees, both of which are investigating alleged Russian election interference. Earlier this month, she told CNN’s Jake Tapper that she has “not so far” seen evidence that the Trump campaign either received hacked Clinton campaign emails from Russia or asked Russia to publish the emails through intermediaries. She was also clear that the committees’ investigations are ongoing.
Putin made the comments in informal conversations on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Danang, Vietnam, according to Trump.
There is a broad consensus in the U.S. intelligence community that Russian hackers were behind the thousands of emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee last year. Last month, Special Counsel Robert Mueller — who is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election — filed charges against two members of Trump’s campaign: campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Trump business associate Rick Gates. The two were charged with 12 counts, including conspiracy against the United States.
George Papadopolous, a foreign policy adviser for the Trump campaign, also pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his Russian contacts. Papadopolous actively tried to set up a meeting between then-presidential candidate Trump and Putin. Trump himself was at the meeting in March 2016 when he proposed the idea, according to Papadopolous. On Friday, The New York Times reported that Papadopolous also emailed Stephen Miller, then a senior policy advisor to the campaign and still one of Trump’s senior advisors, during the campaign about “an open invitation” from Putin to have Trump visit Russia.
Additional reporting by Joshua Eaton.


Question: Describe the latest developments surrounding Paul Manafort's legal case.

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Robert Mueller turns the screw on Paul Manafort.
Manafort, who was Donald Trump’s campaign manager for part of 2016, is currently under house arrest while facing trial for 23 counts including money laundering, conspiracy and making false statements. In the past, Mueller, the special counsel in the Russia investigation, has claimed that Manafort is a flight risk because of his international connections. A judge has set bail at $10 million, a daunting sum that Manafort has been struggling to meet.
On Monday night, Mueller filed a motion to deny Manafort bail because the former campaign manager allegedly tried in February to tamper with witnesses in his case by talking to them and texting them. The underlying issue is money that Manafort allegedly paid to a group of European politicians called “the Hapsburg group.” That money was allegedly lobbying funds used on behalf of pro-Russian Ukrainian political interests.
This move increases the pressure on Manafort. The open question is whether the latest turn of the screw will force him to make a plea bargain and possibly flip on his previous employer, the president of the United States.


Question: What does it really mean to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?

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It is a wonderful, wonderful thing that the Nobel Peace Prize this year has gone to Nadia Murad. She had been taken as a slave by Islamists the day they raided her village in Sinjar in Northern Iraq and massacred 600 Yazidis. Her story is as shocking as it is eventually uplifting, a triumph of the human spirit over absolute evil in the face of impossible odds.
Nadia Murad is a hero. The world is celebrating her.
But even as the media gushed yesterday telling us the story of Nadia’s life, I couldn’t help but wonder: how does it all matter? Does a Nobel Prize to one Nadia Murad compensate for everything that happened to the Yazidis who perished under the Islamic state? What was the world doing to fight Islamism at the time and what has the world done since that day to fight Islamism?
My concerns were backed up by worries of my own, about Hindus of India, especially those of Assam, Bengal and certain other parts of Western Uttar Pradesh.
The Hindus and Sikhs of Pakistan were tormented until almost all of them converted, fled or were killed. They say that there will not be a single Hindu left in Bangladesh in 30 years. Inside the Republic of India, the Hindus of Kashmir have lost their homes to Islamism already.
Does anyone really believe that one day Hindus will be able to return to Kashmir? The question is: who is next?
So, I couldn’t help wondering: does it really matter if 50 years from now they give a Nobel Peace Prize to the last surviving Hindu from Assam or Bengal or Kashmir? What are we doing to ensure that they can live a life of dignity today?
By throwing at us a whole bunch of Nehruvian nonsense, Indian liberals have always sought to discredit the yearning for a Hindu state. But the need for a Hindu nation is very real. Like the Jews, Hindus have been oppressed and humiliated for centuries. This led to the rise of Zionism, the desire to have one country where Jews would always be safe knowing that they are a majority. The Zionists had no desire to build some kind of Caliphate and rule over the world. They just wanted one piece of land, just one country where they could live with dignity.
After 1000 years of oppression and after the partition of India on religious lines, we Hindus have every right to have a Hindu state. One country where we know Hindus would always be safe. It’s a legitimate demand and in many ways a basic need for survival. Don’t let any ‘liberal’ tell you otherwise.
Now, the idea of a ‘Hindu nation’ has been so systematically maligned for 70 years across all levels of media, academia and intelligentsia that one needs to explain what a Hindu nation is not. A Hindu nation doesn’t mean trampling on the rights of those who do not consider themselves to be Hindus. Nor does it mean a repudiation of that much-abused word in Indian politics: secularism.
Again, Israel is the best example. The State of Israel is by far the most democratic and secular in the Middle East, an open society with high level of gender equality, not just tolerant but accepting and welcoming towards homosexuals, as well as a global leader in science and technology. Don’t forget that almost 20% of Israel’s population is that of Arab Muslims, who have exactly the same rights in Israel like everyone else. Ironically, Arab Muslims living in Israel can vote, can enjoy the freedom of speech, expression and religion, something that they can’t do anywhere else in that part of the world.
What a Hindu nation means is that we protect our culture, our history and our democratic and secular values against all aggressors, both internal and external.
Examples of external aggression would be illegal immigration from Bangladesh (and recently of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar) or foreign-sponsored missionary mafia attempting mass conversions.
Examples of internal aggression would be what happened to the Hindus of Kashmir. Or Naxals who seek to destroy our Republic and impose Mao’s Communist ideology.
Internal aggression also includes systematic attempts to malign Hindu beliefs and traditions in the eyes of the world, creating imaginary divisions within the Hindu fold, deliberate falsification of our history as well as overruling basic property rights of Hindus through a perverted reading of the secular law.
For example, a highly reputed international magazine recently published an article claiming that the Amarnath Yatra is a form of “weaponization” by the Hindus against Muslims of the Kashmir valley! This is nothing but a canard against Hindus. Efforts to smear the sacred “Om” symbol by morphing it into a Nazi hooked cross, creating global paranoia around an image of Hanuman, etc, are all examples of such internal aggression.
A Hindu nation would invest in a robust intellectual majority to resist such attempts to malign our culture in the eyes of the world. And yes, a Hindu nation would have a temple at Ram Janmabhoomi. A real temple, not one that is under the control of the government.
Far from being a Hindu nation, we Hindus today are in such a sorry state that we have to beg for equal citizenship rights. Such as the right to keep our temples and schools from being surrounded, seized and taken over by the government. And not enough Hindus care about that either.
We would all love to live in a Utopia where everyone is open and tolerant and accepting, where people and ideas flow freely. I would sign up for such a world in half a second if I could. We could keep our doors open all the time. But I did not build this world, I just live in it.
We have to choose between surviving as a civilization and a Nobel Peace Prize, one hundred years from now, to the last remaining Hindu.


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 Have you heard of the game A Way Out?

After reaching the milestone of one million users back in April, Electronic Arts‘ “A Way Out” has gained more than 2 million players. This is a great achievement for the game and the developer Hazelight Studio considering that it was launched only in March this year.
Andrew Wilson, the CEO of EA announced at the quarterly earnings call that the title was played by more than 2.6 million people between April and June this year. EA’s Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen said that Hazelight’s sales “outperformed” expectations that the game distribution platform had from A Way Out in the second quarter.
A Way Out is available for PC, PS4, and Xbox One units and features a unique co-operative mode, requiring two players to play the game at once. While before the game’s launch, it had been seen that co-op games are out of fad, A Way Out’s success might have rekindled hopes for both – EA and Hazelight Studio.
This is why the developer is going to stick with EA for the launch of its next game as well. The director of Hazelight, Josef Fares describes its relationship with EA as “super-good“. The next title from the studio goes in “full production” very soon but the launch is still far away. Meanwhile, the sales of A Way Out should keep the developer pacified.
If you’re not familiar with the game, it is about two men – Leo and Vincent – constantly finding themselves in stressful situations as they are trying to break out of prison. After escaping from the prison, the two men try to fix what had led to their arrest while also trying to return to normal lives.
In the co-op gameplay, both players have to work in harmony to be able to find a way for both to escape simultaneously. Besides the risky prison break, the game has elements which appeal to your emotional self, making it an intensive and if not a directly relatable title.


Question: What is Naucratis?

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Naucratis or Naukratis (, "Naval Command"; Egyptian:"Piemro") was a city of Ancient Egypt, on the Canopic branch of the Nile river, and 45 mi (72 km) southeast of the open sea and Alexandria. It was the first and, for much of its early history, the only permanent Greek colony in Egypt; it was a symbiotic nexus for the interchange of Greek and Egyptian art and culture.


Question: Write a descriptive essay on the history of comic book horror. Respond in 4 sentences.

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Aided by publishers like Warren and EC, the horror genre built itself into the foundation of sequential art just as vigorously as superheroes, romance or science fiction. When psychiatrist Frederic Wertham published the misguided comics-skewering Seduction of the Innocent in 1954, the moral crusade was in response to the glorious groundswell of murder, corpses and grotesquery on the comics rack. Despite the beating the genre took from the ensuing Comics Code Authority, horror has spent the following decades creeping out of the recesses around mainstream publishing, with Dark Horse, Vertigo, Image, Humanoids and various manga lines filling our nightmares with harrowing new atrocities. In honor of Halloween, this list proudly presents our favorite comic book chillers, thrillers, slow burns and monster mashes, guaranteed to terrify and provoke readers with all the gory gifts this niche offers.


Question: Can you tell me more about Gods Unchained and how to buy packs?

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This is a following article to the first part : Gods Unchained Review – The Hearthstone of Crypto, Part I.
In the previous one, we presented the basics of the game and what are the Gods powers. Now, we’re moving further to explain the card purchasing process. Firstly, Gods Unchained is a TCGs – a Tradeable Card Game – where you obtain cards via opening random packs. The packs are paid and the cheapest one costs $2.4 while the most expensive one is ~$200. The cards are all unique ERC-721 tokens – with 4 different rarities (Common, Rare, Epic, Legendary) and 4 different ‘shine’ levels (Standard, Gold, Shadow, Diamond). Each card have a Purity value and the highest purity value will have shinier in-game graphics. The probably of shining level, rarity and purity is programmed into smart contracts. There’s also another term that you should know: Scarcity. The scarcity value is the other number of cards with the same rarity and shine – but probably a different purity.
Plain – 93.8% of cards have the plain shine level.
Shadow – 5% of cards have the shadow shine level.
Gold – 1% of cards have the gold shine level.
Diamond – 0.2% of cards have the diamond shine level.
There’s also the chance of finding a mythic card. Well, the chance is actually 1 in a million – but you never know. A mythic card is completely different from the others. There are 4 mythic cards that will be revealed every year – and which cannot be used in tournaments. In fact, the last mythic card was put to auction for the amazing amount of 146.28 ETH. This card is now the second most valuable card in the TCG world. And for this year, there are still 2 other cards that can be found even in the $2.40 packs.
Legendary – 0.5% of cards have the legendary rarity level.
How to get Shiny cards?
Purchase a shiny legendary pack – Which costs $1 ETH and will have at least one card that will be Shiny and legendary.
Combining low tiered cards – You can use five standard cards to create one shadow one – and five shadow one to create a gold one. And of course, you will then need five gold ones to create a diamond one. This means that using 125 standard cards you can have your own diamond shiny card. Now, the cheapest card now worths 0.0010 ETH. So, to create your first diamond card you’d need 0.125 ETH. Therefore, with 1 ETH you can create about 8 diamond cards – which can have the common rarity or you may be lucky and get a legendary.
How to buy Gods Unchained Packs?
Rare – Price: 0.012 ETH – Presale Exclusive: The Rare pack contains 5 exclusive Genesis Cards. At least one card is Rare or better.
Epic – Price: 0.075 ETH – Presale Exclusive: The Epic pack contains 5 exclusive Genesis Cards. At least one card is Epic or better.
Legendary – Price: 0.112 ETH – Presale Exclusive: The Legendary pack contains 5 exclusive Genesis Cards. At least one card is Legendary, and one is rare or better.
Shiny Legendary – 1 ETH – Presale Exclusive: The Shiny Legendary pack contains 5 exclusive Genesis Cards. At least one card is Shiny and Legendary, and one is rare or better.
As you can see, there are different benefits for each pack. It all depends on your budget and how much you want to spend. And who knows, maybe you’ll find the next Mythic card. Now, we’ll present a step-by-step small tutorial on how to purchase Gods Unchained packs.
Step 1: Install Metamask Chrome Extension. Metamask is one of the most interesting wallets out there. After you create an account, you will be able to deposit funds directly into your new ETH wallet. A step-by-step tutorial was made by the CryptoCompare team – How to use metamask.
Step 2: Fund your newly created Metamask wallet. Be sure to send an extra $1 to cover the GAS fees. The packages can be bought one by one – but the GAS can prove itself very costly – by 6,18,50 or 100 packs. With about 1.2 ETH you’d be able to purchase 100 rare packs – guaranteeing you an amazing collection of 500 cards that you can later user to create diamond cards.
Step 5: Wait a few minutes, as the transfer may take a while until its completed. Afterwards, click on the ‘Open Cards‘ button. Then, drag and drop the card from the support to the temple stone.
Step 6: Click on the face-down cards and see what you got.
This pack have a total card value of 0.045 ETH – so, if you’re lucky, you can get really good cards. Cards that can increase or decrease in value until the marketplace is live and you could sell it for ETH. Or, you can keep them and create a package to win tournaments and win prizes. It’s up to you.
Hope we helped you understand a bit more about Gods Unchained and perhaps you’ll love the game as much as we do.
This is a following article to the first part, where we presented the basics : Gods Unchained Review – The Hearthstone of Crypto, Part I.


Question: Describe the situation regarding the release of Asia Bibi in Pakistan.

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 Describe the situation regarding the release of Asia Bibi in Pakistan.

The Tehreek-e-Labaik (TLP) party called for the death of the chief justice and two other judges in Pakistan’s highest court after they spared the life of Asia Bibi, 47, who was convicted of blasphemy in 2010.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled in favor of the release of Bibi, who was eight years ago accused and sentenced for “insulting Islam.” As long as she faces no other charges, the woman should be released, the court ordered.
TLP two weeks ago organized a mass anti-blasphemy rally calling on Bibi to be executed as the court waited to release its verdict on her final appeal. The protests took part mainly in the city of Lahore, but demonstrations took place in other areas too, including Karachi and Rawalpindi.
Bibi’s case started when, according to her autobiography, she sought to get some drinking water out of a well on a hot fruit-picking day.
She was then told off by a Muslim neighbor, who turned to other Muslim women in the area to tell them the Christian devotee had dirtied the water by drinking from their cup. Several women called Bibi a “filthy Christian” and told her to convert to Islam.
She was then shoved and spat at, the autobiography claims. Days later, Bibi was accused of blasphemy. She has denied the charge.
Bibi’s case, the first in which a woman has been sentenced to death by hanging for blasphemy in Pakistan, has drawn widespread condemnation. Pope Benedict XVI was among those who calling for her to be freed in 2010.


Question: What was Zack Snyder's original plan for the DCEU?

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What Was Zack Snyder's Original 5 Movie DCEU Plan?
Zack Snyder's time with the DC Extended Universe may be over, but more information is constantly coming out about his original plans for the universe, including the recent revelation that Superman's story was supposed to be 5 movies long. The DCEU is still steadily moving forward without Snyder, but after the failure of Justice League, it's not abundantly clear what direction the franchise will be heading outside of its selection of stand-alone films.
Lost in the shuffle seems to be Man of Steel 2, a movie a number of fans want to see enter production. Henry Cavill is still passionate about the character and all but confirmed to have a part in Shazam, but, despite rumblings, the movie doesn't appear to be any closer to development. The first Man of Steel came out 5 years ago, so how is its sequel not further along?
So that means Man of Steel, Batman v Superman, Justice League Part I, and Justice League Part II had a fifth companion to tell a single Superman arc. Is it possible there was supposed to also be a Justice League Part III? While only 2 Justice League movies were ever announced by Warner Bros, but back in 2015, a rumor briefly circulated claiming that Justice League would be a trilogy. It didn't get much traction at the time, but with what we know now, especially in light of Jay Oliva's recent tweets, a Zack Snyder planned Justice League trilogy makes a lot of sense.
The DCEU has been under fire for the way it developed its shared universe since day one. After Man of Steel served as a standalone introduction, it was announced that Batman would be introduced in the sequel, Batman v Superman. This immediately caused intense debate over why they would introduce major characters like this instead of giving them a solo movie first like Marvel did. Ironically, at the same time, the DCEU was also drawing criticism for simply copying Marvel in its attempt to launch a shared universe franchise.
The absurdity of the idea that all characters need their own solo movie first aside (there are decades of excellent ensemble movies that introduce all their characters just fine), the "Marvel formula" is a new thing when it comes to franchise filmmaking, so the assumption that all franchises need to do the same thing is a bit premature. In fact, when it comes to multibillion-dollar franchises, Marvel's formula is in the minority. The Fast and the Furious movies have been almost exclusively team-ups before finally getting a spin-off with Hobbs and Shaw, and Harry Potter was also all ensemble movies without origin stories for each character.
The reality is Zack Snyder had a full arc plotted out, and there's even evidence in movies with things like the Knightmare sequence, the crosses at the end of the Doomsday battle, and more all serving as set up for something that was supposed to pay off in movies down the line.
The problem, and where claims that DC didn't have a plan should get a little credence, is the fact that Zack Snyder was never allowed to properly execute on that plan. Warner Bros. has spent a majority of the DCEU trying to course correct, cutting 30 minutes from Snyder's cut of BvS to create the inferior theatrical cut, drastically altering Suicide Squad after BvS's reception, ordering pre-production changes to Snyder's original version of Justice League, then, eventually, firing him altogether and having Joss Whedon reshoot the movie into a completely different tone and significantly altered story.
Regardless, the 5 movie plan was drastically changed, and we'll probably only ever see 2 1/2 of them, but after putting the pieces back together, it looks like a Justice League trilogy could have been in the cards.


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Philip Baston or Boston (died 1320?), was an English Carmelite.


Question: What happened during the 2004 International League season? Respond briefly.

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Question: Who is David Perry? Respond in 8 sentences.

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David Perry (born April 4, 1967) is a Northern Irish video game developer and programmer. He became prominent for programming platform games for 16-bit home consoles in the early to mid 1990s, including "Disney's Aladdin", "Cool Spot", and "Earthworm Jim". He founded Shiny Entertainment, where he worked from 1993 to 2006. Perry created games for companies such as Disney, 7 Up, McDonald's, Orion Pictures, and Warner Bros. In 2008 he was presented with an honorary doctorate from Queen's University Belfast for his services to computer gaming. He was the co-founder & CEO of cloud-based games service Gaikai, which was acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment. In 2017 Perry became the co-founder & CEO of a customer intelligence startup called GoVYRL, Inc. developing a new advanced brand dashboard called Carro. In his spare time, following in his father's footsteps, Perry is an avid photographer.


Question: What is the debate surrounding free speech on college campuses?

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Colleges and universities across the country are struggling with the question of who decides what is acceptable speech on campus. When does a controversial topic become hate speech? When should it be allowed as free speech?
Two Cornell researchers say psychological science’s extensive study of bias offers an important lens through which to view these conflicts, as we strive to understand and reduce them.
There is no alternative to free speech, say co-authors Stephen Ceci and Wendy Williams in “Who Decides What Is Acceptable Speech on Campus? Why Restricting Free Speech Is Not the Answer.” Their analysis appeared May 2 in Perspectives in Psychological Science as the lead article in the issue.
Since the 1950s, psychological science has demonstrated that many types of bias can prevent opposing sides from accepting the validity of each other’s arguments, the authors say.
Selective perception makes opponents on an issue literally see things differently. In 1954, researchers showed a film of a 1951 football game – Princeton versus Dartmouth, well-known for its competitive, rough play – to two groups: one of Princeton fans and the other of Dartmouth boosters. Each team’s supporters saw the majority of flagrant violations as having been committed by opposing players.
For people with selective bias, “it’s not just that they interpret their perceptions differently; they actually see different things,” Ceci said.
In “myside” bias, people look for evidence that supports their opinions and ignore or downgrade evidence that contradicts them. “Blind-spot bias comes from deep identification with a cause. We believe we are especially enlightened, while our opponents’ affiliation with the opposite side leads them to be biased,” Ceci said. Similarly, naïve realism makes people feel their views are grounded in reality but their opponents’ are not.
These and many other biases explain why a sizable percentage of students favor banning nearly every controversial topic, the authors said.
and 51 percent said it was OK to prevent others from hearing a speaker.
“In such a climate, the heckler’s veto reigns supreme and any expression that is offensive to any subgroup on campus would be banned,” Williams said.
College experiences should involve challenging our beliefs, even when those experiences go beyond our comfort level, and no campus group has the right to determine for the entire community what can be discussed, the authors said.
Universities can take several steps to help students avoid the biases that prevent them from valuing other points of view and to reduce extremist views and confrontations, they said.
Role-playing exercises could be woven into controversial seminars in which supporters of each side are asked to switch sides. And universities could organize civil debates on controversial topics.
Students should be made to understand they are entering a place that believes deeply in the importance of dialogue and free speech, Ceci said.


Question: What is the Diamond Jo Casino?

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The Diamond Jo Casino is a gambling casino and entertainment complex located in the Port of Dubuque, in Dubuque, Iowa. The casino is owned and operated by Las Vegas-based Boyd Gaming, which also owns the Diamond Jo Casino - Worth in Northwood, Iowa. It is a member of the Iowa Gaming Association, and its license is held by the Dubuque Racing Association, which operates Q Casino. Beginning operations on May 18, 1994, the Diamond Jo was a 3-level, , 1,500-passenger vessel in Dubuque's Ice Harbor. The boat was a dockside that did not cruise, the casino became land-based when its new facility opened December 11, 2008.


Question: What is going on in Raqqa, Syria?

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Raqqa’s civilians complain about the lack of electricity and water services.
RAQQA (Kurdistan 24) – Raqqa, the former Islamic State (IS) capital, is still in ruins months after the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) took back the town from IS in October 2017 and will not be rebuilt without a political solution.
During a visit to Raqqa in March, Raqqa’s civilians complained to the author about the lack of electricity and water services.
Nevertheless, an assessment in June by the NGO Reach shows the city’s services are slowly improving with electricity now available for over eight hours a day, while civilians still get water from water trucks, as a result of the efforts of the Raqqa Civil Council (RCC) and projects by the US-led coalition.
“The Coalition continues to provide early recovery and stabilization assistance in Syria, including removing explosive remnants of war, rehabilitating schools and supporting psychosocial programs, rehabilitating water and power networks to get services switched back on, repairing medical infrastructure, and funding rubble removal,” a US official told Kurdistan 24.
However, civilians in Raqqa want the US and the West to do more to help Raqqa after the city was badly damaged in an air campaign. They want not only services, but also reconstruction.
“They are the ones who control the land, and as a result, we are protected by America, but they are avoiding their responsibilities,” Abdul Hadi, a 54-year-old civilian, told Kurdistan 24 in March.
“They should look at us as brothers in humanity, and I would welcome any human regardless of their religion, or race. Europe, the US, and the superpowers should look at our problems and invest in them,” he added.
However, several sources confirm that donors are often reluctant to invest in stabilization efforts in Raqqa fearing that the Syrian government could return in the future, amid talks by US President Donald Trump of suddenly withdrawing troops from Syria.
Moreover, there are ongoing rumors of talks between Damascus and the Kurds over the future of Syria.
It’s becoming clearer that there will be no political solution any time soon now that Assad is winning more territory in southern Syria. Some cross-border NGOs that are operating in northern Syria without permission from Damascus are already thinking about ways to work through Damascus.
Despite this, the UAE last week pledged to contribute $50 million to support stabilization efforts in Raqqa.
“You are in for tough times because nobody is lining up to rebuild Raqqa. And it could be years that every single day you are hit in the face with the same level of destruction that you had the day before. That – because we are not going to empower any part of the Assad regime,” Karen Decker, the (now former) director of the Syria Transition and Response Team (START), said in March in an event hosted by CSIS.
START has a small team in northern Syria that is responsible for foreign assistance in the region.
“I think it behooves us to be honest in the conversations we have with our partners on the ground. They can be the best partners in the world, and we’re still not going to rebuild Raqqa,” she said.
“That’s not what’s stopping us. Downtown Raqqa, there is no next after stabilization, until you get to a point where we can open that opportunity up to the Europeans,” Decker noted.
But many European countries fear infuriating Turkey, which is blackmailing Europe with Syrian refugees and is opposed to giving more support to Syria’s Kurds. In 2017, Turkey launched a crackdown on NGOs for operating in northern Syria.
Turkey is heavily opposed to the SDF-backed RCC because it sees the SDF as affiliated to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Both the SDF and the US deny these links.
Turkey backs its own Syrian opposition council for Raqqa and has undermined efforts by the US to include members of the Syrian opposition council in the RCC.
“An underlying issue with everything in northern Syria is that the local authorities are not recognized independent authorities,” Nadim Houry, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) director of its terrorism and counterterrorism program, told Kurdistan 24.
“It is not [certain] how long local authorities will get support. There are no diplomatic representatives, and no legal entity,” he said.
The fact that local authorities in northern Syria are not recognized internationally also prevents locals or Damascus from investing in Raqqa.
“People want to invest here, but because of the lack of stability and political recognition, they are hesitating. Also, the Syrian government is spreading fear by saying it will return,” a local Syrian source who worked with NGOs in northern Syria stated.
This is very different from Iraq, officials say.
“International actors are generally more ready and able to support stabilization programs in Iraq because there is a UN coordinator and the work is done in partnership with the Iraqi government and at its invitation,” a US official told Kurdistan 24 on the basis of anonymity.
This, while NGOs operating in Raqqa are not invited by the Syrian government and their cross-border activities are considered illegal by Damascus.
“To date, there has been more stabilization assistance invested in areas liberated from IS in Iraq than in Syria,” the US official added.
“I believe rebuilding is postponed until [a] final solution for [the] Syria conflict is guaranteed and blessed by Israel, the US, and Russia and without big objection from Turkey and Iran,” a local Syrian source that worked with NGOs on the situation in Raqqa said.
It’s possible that the Helsinki summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart last week could be the start of new agreements on Syria. Putin has called on European countries to help rebuild Syria, but so far, they have resisted his calls.
“Until then, Raqqans, like other Syrians with destroyed homes, have to find another shelter or gradually, with their bare hands, stick two stones together every day,” the Syrian source said.


Question: What's the story behind the disagreement between Haley and the president on US policy towards Russia? Respond in 9 sentences.

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Everybody, apparently, except her boss.
Soon after, Haley reflected on Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and said the American president wanted to look Putin in the eye in order to “let him know that, ‘Yes, we know you meddled in our elections. Yes, we know you did it, and cut it out.’” Trump then pointed in the opposite direction, suggesting he was satisfied with Putin’s “vehement” denial of wrongdoing.
It’s as if Haley is working in an entirely different administration – because as far her boss is concerned, there’s no reason to believe Russia did anything wrong at all.
Indeed, Haley referenced the importance of economic sanctions on Russia, neglecting to mention the fact that the administration in which she serves was supposed to implement that policy weeks ago, but hasn’t.
As we discussed a while back, Haley and the president often fail to stay on the same page. On U.S. policy towards Syria, for example, Haley’s stated line was largely the opposite of what we heard from other leading Trump administration officials. A month earlier, when the president dismissed the need for a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians, Haley said the exact opposite a day later, telling reporters, “We absolutely support a two-state solution.” Even Haley’s line on U.S. policy towards Venezuela also contradicted Trump’s State Department.
But the Russian espionage operation against American elections was the most serious attack on the United States since 9/11, and by all appearances, Trump and his U.N. ambassador don’t even agree on the basics of what happened.


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Road Rash is a violent motorcycle racing video game developed and published by Electronic Arts released initially in 1991 for Sega Genesis, then ported to Amiga and other platforms. In 1994 a remake was created for the 3DO and this version was ported to Windows in 1996.
This was the first entry in the Road Rash franchise and one of my favorite games! The chain was my weapon of choice when I played. As my friends know, watching me play any sort of racing game is hilarious because I am the worst video game driver ever.
The basic plot of the game is you play as a biker and compete in illegal races to win money. The races are on linear tracks and you are pitted against other bikers who will attack you and try to knock you off your bike.You can either ride clean by racing well or play dirty and take out your opponents with weapons or your bare hands. The road also features hazards that can trip you up, as well as traffic in both directions. Should you get knocked off your bike you have to run on foot to retrieve it. The bike will also suffer damage that you will have to repair. You can also get fines from cops if they can catch you, that is. Winning or placing in races can net different sums of money and lets you move through the ranks to harder races worth more money. You in turn use your money to buy a better bike, repair damage, or pay your fines. Run out of money or get busted and it’s the end of the road for you.
Road Rash was well received upon its release and landed at #88 on The Top 100 Games of All Time poll. This game features arcade-like gameplay and is not intended to be a motorcycle simulation. Just a violent and exciting racing game. It is incredibly fun, so put on your leathers and I’ll see you at the starting line.
And you, what do you think? Is it too too violent or it's just fun? Do you prefer the Windows version or the original Amiga version? Let us know what you think, just leave a comment below.


Question: Explain the vulnerability of Infineon Trusted Platform Module (TPM) cryptographic processors used to secure encryption keys and steps to address it.

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Next: Is security on the verge of a fuzzing breakthrough?
Researchers have discovered a serious vulnerability in Infineon Trusted Platform Module (TPM) cryptographic processors used to secure encryption keys in many PCs, laptops, Chromebooks and smartcards.
An early warning something might be up emerged on 30 August 2017 when the Estonian Information System Authority (RIA) issued an alert about a “theoretical” problem affecting 750,000 national ID cards issued after October 2014.
The RIA didn’t go into detail but the fact that cancelling the country’s national elections was floated had security people worried.
Last week we got confirmation from Infineon that the problem was serious enough to demand firmware updates from computer vendors, including HP, Fujitsu, Lenovo, Acer, Asus, LG, Samsung and Toshiba.
In cryptographic terms, this one’s a biggie: a flaw in the way the public key encryption key pair is generated makes it possible for an attacker to work out private 1024-bit and 2048-bit RSA keys stored on the TPM simply by having access to the public key.
According to the researchers, a factorisation attack based on the “Coppersmith” method on a 512-bit key could at worst be achieved on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2 CPU hours at a cost of fractions of a cent, on a 1024-bit key in 97 CPU days for $40-$80, and on 2048-bit in 140.8 CPU years for $20,000-$40,000.
That probably still puts attacks against 2048-bit keys out of the range of all but the most serious attackers. 1024-bit keys have also been regarded as too weak for some time – security strength guidelines published by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has graded 1024-bit RSA keys “disallowed” since the start of 2013.
The currently confirmed number of vulnerable keys found is about 760,000 but possibly up to two to three magnitudes more are vulnerable.
Do Trusted Platform Modules matter?
First introduced in 2009, a TPM is a cryptographic chip standard built on to the motherboard of many (but by no means all) PCs and laptops as a secure place to store system passwords, certificates, encryption keys and even biometric data.
The principle is simple: storing keys inside the TPM is a lot better than keeping them on the hard drive or letting them be managed by the operating system, both of which can be compromised.
Microsoft’s BitLocker uses a TPM. They can also be used for authentication (checking a PC is the one it claims to be) and attestation (that a system’s boot image hasn’t been tampered with), for example on Google’s Chromebooks.
The vulnerability was first reported to Infineon in February this year, but the headache now is working out which devices are (or are not) affected.
Many computers, especially older ones, don’t have TPMs and others use chips from vendors other than Infineon.
Windows users can check for the presence of a TPM by typing Win+R to open Run followed by the command tpm.msc (if one is not present you’ll see a message stating this), with the manufacturer code stated at the bottom of the dialogue box. This interface can also be used to regenerate keys, which might be necessary at some point.
Beyond that, the best place to start assessing the flaw’s impact is on the website of the affected vendor and Microsoft’s help page.
According to the latter, what is now designated CVE-2017-15361 was given a “workaround” update in last week’s monthly Windows patch update, which should be applied before any firmware update from the TPM maker.
And it’s not just PCs: a labyrinth of other devices could also be caught up in the issue, for example around 2% of YubiKey hardware tokens. Likewise, Google Chromebooks, almost all of which seem to use Infineon’s TPM but will, thankfully, update automatically without user intervention.
Sophos products that manage BitLocker encryption on affected hardware may be impacted. Sophos customers should check Knowledge Base article 127650 for information.
Customers who use smartcards to authenticate to Sophos SafeGuard products should check Knowledge Base article 127704 for information.
1 – This needs to be run with elevated (admin) permissions. If you can simply win+R => tpm.msc and not get a message similar to “You don’t have permission to open the TPM console,” then you are browsing the web while logged into your computer as an Administrator of your computer, and this is a far bigger problem than whether your TPM is vulnerable to the attack described here.
2 – The manufacturer code for Infineon is “IFX”. For Intel: “INTC”.
The article wasn’t advocating running in admin mode by default!. You’re correct that tpm.msc requires admin privileges although the same can be achieved in standard mode by running devmgmt.msc.
You have your times way off. It is hours, days, years.. Not hours times 3. The scaling is not correct if you look at 512 -> 1024 -> 2048.. How would decrypting a 2048-bit encryption only take marginally longer than 1024? And the same with 512 to 1024.. Also 140 CPU hours does not cost 20-40 k USD.
2048 bit RSA keys – 140.8 CPU years, (the cost of $20,000 – $40,000).
You are correct, we have amended the article, thanks.
Ouch – my bad. Many thanks for pointing this out.


Question: Describe what happened in the Paris suburb of Creteil when a car was driven into a crowd in front of a mosque.

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A man has been arrested after trying to drive a car into a crowd in front of a mosque in the Paris suburb of Creteil, police said, adding that no one was injured.
Police said the man’s motives were unclear, and that he had not succeeded in driving into the crowd because of barriers placed in front of the mosque.
According to Le Parisien newspaper, the man said he had wanted to avenge attacks linked to Islamic State that have killed dozens in Paris over the past years.
According to the newspaper, the man, who was driving an SUV, tried several times to drive at the worshippers outside the mosque but was prevented by the high pavement and barriers.
“We saw the car drive three times round the mosque – it was very strange – and suddenly it drove very fast. As far as I could see, it was clearly trying to knock down the pedestrians,” a witness told the newspaper.
After crashing into another car, the man fled the scene but was arrested at his home.
Last week, a British man was charged with terrorism-related murder and attempted murder after allegedly driving a rented van into a crowd of Muslims leaving a mosque on the night of 19 June.


Question: What do you know about Santiago Porteiro?

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Santiago Porteiro (born 12 December 1979 in Madrid) is a Spanish racing driver. He has competed in such series as World Series by Nissan and Formula Nissan 2000.


Question: Describe the current situation of police officers in the Dominican Republic.

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The Dominican Republic's National Police force is back in the news again, as an image of the precinct in Los Mina Vieja has scandalized social media due to the level of decay in which it currently finds itself.
Last October, a member of the Caribbean island's police recorded a Youtube video decrying his "onion salary," and how he was forced to survive on a pittance of a mere 100 dollars a month, in a country whose economy is the fastest-growing in Latin American, increasingly making life extremely expensive for natives as a large influx of moneyed foreigners elevate the cost of everything on the island, from real estate to the price of a bottle of water.
Sonia Mateo, a prominent senator for the ruling party, has currently created a splash among Dominican netizens after decrying that her salary as a senator was so meager that she couldn't even afford a "little apartment" in the capital, or even a bottle of water.
The Dominican Senate gave itself a raise this week, so that Senator Mateo could finally buy herself that bottle of water and drink it comfortably in her new apartment, but the average Dominican police officer will still continue earning 1/60th of what a Senator makes, despite the level of corruption and inefficiency which the grave economic situation of sometimes-malnourished officers exacerbates.
Just today, jealousy drove a man to stab his lover and three other women. Could it have been prevented? The country's Attorney General just today also announced that his office will be taking a much more proactive approach to crime prevention, but already some are decrying that he is merely creating extra bureaucracy where fat cats will get paid 60 times more than those who are risking their lives to actually prevent crime.
The Dominican government simply does not have its priorities straight, and that the people would tolerate senators jacking their own salaries up as citizens die and police officers are forced to work in dilapidated precincts only serves to lower their morale and reduce their willingness to solve crimes.