Question: Describe the Republican strategy for the upcoming midterm elections.

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The White House is lowering expectations that Republicans will maintain control of the House in the midterm elections — while positioning President Donald Trump to claim credit for any seats his party gains in the Senate.
“House Republicans’ goal this year is to minimize their losses,” he wrote in the memo, which was distributed to senior administration officials. A copy was obtained by POLITICO.
The warning comes as Republicans try to preserve a 23-seat majority, with dozens of GOP-held seats at risk in the Nov. 6 election. Many Republican officials concede their path to retaining their grip on the speaker’s gavel is narrow and believe they will suffer their greatest losses in suburban areas, where the president has proved to be a drag on GOP candidates.
He noted that dozens of Republican incumbents had retired, creating a plethora of vacant seats for the party to defend. Stepien also highlighted the fundraising challenges confronting the GOP, noting that 92 Democratic challengers outraised incumbent House Republicans during the third fundraising quarter. And he pointed out that the party in power historically suffers significant losses during a president’s first midterm election.
The memo was first reported on by Bloomberg. It comes as Trump prepares to embark on an aggressive cross-country tour through key swing states in the final days leading up to the Nov. 6 election. On Saturday, the president will campaign for Rep. Mike Bost, a downstate Illinois Republican who faces a treacherous path to reelection.
While GOP prospects in the House are uphill, they are brighter in the Senate, where the party could expand its slim majority. Races are largely being fought in Republican-friendly states like North Dakota, Missouri and Indiana, where Democratic incumbents are up for reelection.
Yet it is Trump, Stepien contended, who deserves credit for any potential Senate gains. The key races in play, he argued, were ones in which Trump had far overperformed previous Republican presidential candidates — a dynamic that imperiled Democratic candidates in those states.
“The 2018 Senate map is only (potentially) favorable because of the way President Trump rewrote it in 2016,” Stepien wrote.


Question: Congratulations on your new venture!

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The neighborhood just got a little bit cooler, thanks to this joint venture.
Whitney and Wolfgang Schaefer have been married for two years, and from the day they met, they talked about owning their own shops: she wanted a design shop, and he, a breakfast tavern. “The more we talked about it, the more our separate ideas took on an even more cohesive and unified vision,” says Wolfgang.
So after much debate, they realized life is too short and they left steady jobs at the Milwaukee Art Museum and Anodyne Coffee to follow their dreams.
Wolfgang and Whitney Schaefer inside Orange and Blue Co. Courtesy of Mann Frau.
They scoured the city for a over a year looking for commercial spaces. And it felt almost too good to be true when they happened upon the building they wanted with two distinct spaces, along with a living space upstairs in the neighborhood they coveted. The Schaefers moved from Riverwest to Brewer’s Hill and are thrilled to see the neighborhood continuing to develop, set in motion by stronghold Wolf Peach restaurant.
Orange and Blue Co. shop interior. Courtesy of Mann Frau.
After about a year and half of planning, rehabbing and stocking, Orange and Blue Co. (1809 N. Hubbard St.) opened in June. The lifestyle shop boasts a curated mix of vintage and modern goods and accessories. The ever-changing mix of pieces is meant to inspire others on how to live comfortably and make old things new. The shop also features local designers Directive, Tactile Craftworks, Fern and Nettle, and more. Whitney travels around the country and region to estate sales to select classic items that embody warmth and quality. Items like candles, Turkish pillow covers, wooden bowls, wicker furniture and ceramics are all popular with the steady stream of local foot traffic they’ve been enjoying.
The adjacent Uncle Wolfie’s Breakfast Tavern (Wolfgang’s vision) at the corner of Hubbard and Vine will open in spring/summer 2018. The restaurant will focus on breakfast and lunch only, with an emphasis on good coffee (Anodyne, of course) and simple, seasonal items that appeal to the whimsy of the chef.
The Schaefers also have a toddler in tow. They compare operating businesses to parenting – nurturing both projects together all for the greater good for their family and community.
Orange and Blue Co. exterior. Courtesy of Mann Frau.


Question: Please provide a summarization of Henri de Sainct Didier's The Secrets of the Single Sword (1573).

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This is a translation of the essay at the front of Henri de Sainct Didier’s The Secrets of the Single Sword (1573). I have not translated the epistolary verses or any more of the text at this stage. This is a task for someone with more time available than I currently have available to me.
Translating Sainct Didier is heavy going. Not only am I not a professional (or even really an amateur) French interpreter, making sense of a text more than 400 years old in a language which I understand well enough but in which I’m not particular fluent is very difficult. Add to this Sainct Didier’s writing style, which can be charitably described as excruciatingly complex. I’m used to reading in Middle English and Early Modern English and was once quite well read in Latin (although I’ve forgotten plenty of it). However, Sainct Dider often defeated me. I’m sure that he was trying hard to sound more educated than he actually was.
After this, he spends some time arguing with and mocking mercilessly an Italian fencer named Fabrice. Whether or not this may be the famous Salvator Fabris is entirely open to question.
I may translate more of the text when I can find the time and if there is sufficient interest from other to spur me on.


Question: Explain what happened at the first meeting of Worshipful Bro. Squared.

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We survived Worshipful Bro. Squared's first meeting!
Discussions on how Tony can combat the "Deep County"
"You don't know what you're doing" - "too bad, I'm in charge"
Are we recording, or did I get fired? Yes.
"The deep dark hour of midnight"
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Question: Analyze the cultural significance of Childish Gambino's "This Is America" music video.

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It’s not really clear who exactly this is even for. Glover’s method of engaging in the discourse on race and blackness in America comes with its own baggage. When Atlanta first premiered, Glover said in an interview about the series that he “wanted to show white people [that] you don’t know everything about black culture.” However you want to interpret that sentiment, Glover has long had a fixation on how black people come off to the white gaze. It’s an understandable anxiety, but he’s less concerned about how this fixation distances himself from the actual black people for whom he claims to be making art.
“This Is America” only serves to remind you of how much the death of black people—whether captured on dash cam footage or cell phone videos or used in a “message” video—goes viral in our culture to the point of desensitization. You’d be hard pressed to see anyone try and do the same with the deaths of white people. The commentary around the death of black people is often used for effect, in this case as Glover raps, “We just wanna party / Party just for you / We just want the money / Money just for you.” If this feels like an unfair reading, it’s only because Glover deserves that level of skepticism from any discerning viewer. For as much goodwill as Atlanta has garnered him, the shadow of his hangups in regards to black culture and black people still looms. Artists have a right to grow, but still must answer for the things they have said and done in the past. It was just as recently as 2014 that Glover was on the internet decrying “hashtag activism” as an unproductive endeavor in social justice. It’s fair for him to believe that, but it’s also fair to point out that the “This is America” amounts to not much more. Regardless of Glover’s intended statements in his video, it does what a lot of celebrated black art is doing: portraying violence against black people as entertainment for white people.
It’s hard to decipher any consistent ideology in Glover’s work. This was true in his comedy and in his music as recently as Because The Internet. It was there in his long, exasperating New Yorker profile. The same guy who complained about black women not liking him and making punchlines out of the Virginia Tech massacre and Trayvon Martin’s death is now making political art about black plight. Maybe his position changed, or maybe he’s simply taking the opportunity to be a beneficiary. In that New Yorker profile, when Glover talks about the teenaged rapper Tay-K—whose single “The Race” was one of the breakout rap hits of the year even as he sat in jail on murder charges— he says, “He’s definitely going to die, and it’s sad.” There is a flippancy and remove in the quote that is interesting in that it reveals a black man who’s numb to death in America, but you can’t help but see that same flippancy in “This Is America.” Maybe his jadedness is the point, but then jadedness can’t also be used as a teaching tool. I don’t fully doubt Glover’s sincerity about violence or even about his blackness, but it’s very clear that Glover has a cool antipathy to both things, and it comes out in this video. “This Is America” is full of the same social commentary of Spike Lee’s Bamboozled or KMD’s Black Bastards—Jim Crow and minstrelsy allusions to discuss blackness in front of the white gaze and under capitalism’s control—but with not enough self-awareness about what it’s presenting to an audience.
The counter is always that it’s necessary to send a message about the epidemic of the murder of black people by showing that violence in unflinching terms. But if that’s true, what does it really say about us that the only way we can create empathy for black lives is by constantly depicting black murder. Furthermore, what does it say about us that the goofy irreverence with which black people are murdered in the video has already been fed into the meme production machine. The reception to “This Is America” has turned the mirror on us and the cynicism of the post-Trump age, where anything remotely aligned with our progressive politics is given unquestioned praise while jokes and memes are treated like a form of resistance. If nothing else, it’s achieved that.


Question: Respond in 445 words. Have you heard about London's tube network expanding overseas?

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Londoners may complain about the capital’s tube network, but Buenos Aires is so impressed that it is considering turning to Transport for London to run its commuter system.
London’s publicly owned transport operator is bidding to take control of the Argentinian capital’s metro system, the Guardian has learned, in what would be the first time in recent years TfL has expanded overseas.
The foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, is understood to have raised the potential bid with Argentinian officials during a recent tour of South America, where he promised to seek post-Brexit trade deals.
Under the proposal, TfL would use its expertise to help install a management team to run the Buenos Aires network, with staff potentially drawn from the existing London network.
The news that the publicly owned TfL could export its rail expertise comes as British commuters struggle with the botched implementation of a new timetable for privately run rail services across large parts of the country. In London commuters have experienced widespread cancellations on Thameslink services, which are not controlled by TfL.
The Buenos Aires contract is potentially worth about $3.5bn (£2.6bn) over 10 years, with TfL in line for about a quarter of that sum.
TfL is bidding as part of a consortium that includes the French business Keolis and the Argentinian Corporación América conglomerate. The final bid is due to be submitted within the next few weeks, with the TfL consortium facing competition from the Paris Métro and the local Argentinian provider.
Many UK railway franchises are ultimately controlled by foreign nationalised railway companies, leading to regular complaints that British commuters are subsidising commuters in France, the Netherlands, and Germany.
If TfL’s bid for the Argentinian contract is successful it would represent a rare case of money flowing back from overseas into a publicly owned UK transport organisation.
TfL faces a funding squeeze after losing its £700m central government grant, lower-than-expected passenger numbers, and the decision of the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, to impose a fare freeze during his first four-year term.
As a result, Khan has ordered the creation of Transport for London Consulting, building on a manifesto commitment made during his 2016 election campaign. The new organisation has a brief to pitch for work around the world and reinvest profits in London’s transport network. The organisation says any overseas work will not interfere with its domestic operations.
TfL announced last week it has hired Helen Murphy to run its new consultancy arm and she is due to take up the job next month.
The transport organisation has also signed a deal with a third-party consulting group to license its contactless ticketing system to other metros such as Sydney.


Question: What is a travel class? Respond in 3 sentences.

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A travel class is a quality of accommodation on public transport. The accommodation could be a seat or a cabin for example. Higher travel classes are designed to be more comfortable and are typically more expensive.


Question: Describe Beau Beech's opportunity with the Brooklyn Nets and his approach to training camp.

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Beau Beech discusses his opportunity with the Brooklyn Nets and how he’s approaching training camp.
Back in June, Beau Beech told Basketball Insiders about his plan of playing in the NBA. Prior to beginning his collegiate career at the University of North Florida, he told head coach Matt Driscoll that he would be the first player from the program to play in the NBA.
In addition to becoming the first player to make it to the league, he also wanted to become the best player to come out of the university. That promise nearly came true after Beech left as the second-leading scorer in program history.
Beech made a name for himself at North Florida as a shooter. During his senior year, he averaged 15.4 points, 6.4 rebounds, two assists and 1.2 steals per game, while shooting a career-best 42 percent from three-point range.
If you count the Summer League as making it to the NBA, then he’s fulfilled that promise already. Shortly after going undrafted in June’s draft, Beech agreed to play for the Brooklyn Nets’ Summer League team in Las Vegas.
Beech flashed all aspects of his game that made the Nets take a chance on him. At 6’9, Beech played primarily in college at shooting guard and small forward, but has enough size to guard bigger players when needed. He can also shoot over smaller defenders.
In five games with the Nets in Las Vegas, Beech averaged 8.8 points and 3.8 rebounds per game while shooting 33 percent from three-point range. He scored in double figures in three of those contests and wrapped up his Summer League campaign by scoring 15 points on 5-of-7 shooting from three-point range.
Of course, he doesn’t just want to play on their Summer League team. He wants to play in a regular season NBA game. Players who agree to Summer League deals with teams are guaranteed virtually nothing by that team. They play with the hopes that they can make a big enough impression to be brought into training camp.
On August 5, the Nets officially announced that they signed Beech to a contract. Beech will now have the opportunity that he’s always wanted to play in the NBA. A long summer of working out and improving his skill set is nearly over with teams set to open training camps in just a few weeks.
After taking a look at the Nets’ roster, it’s easy to see that Beech faces an uphill battle to make the final 15 (the maximum number of players teams can carry into the regular season). The team currently has 15 players guaranteed on the roster and Beech’s deal is only partially guaranteed.
Under new management, the Nets were extremely aggressive in free agency this summer with the hope of becoming a more competitive team in the Eastern Conference. The team signed Jeremy Lin, Luis Scola, Trevor Booker, Randy Foye and Greivis Vasquez among others. In addition, they pursued restricted free agents Tyler Johnson and Allen Crabbe, but ultimately missed out on them.
Despite facing such a tough battle in order to lock down a roster spot, Beech isn’t giving up. He’s going into training camp on a mission to play as well as he can and learn as much as he can from the team’s existing veteran players.
“[The Nets] signed the roster that they wanted to sign and those players are all very good and I respect all of them,” Beech said. “As a competitor, not having a fully-guaranteed contract, I want a fully-guaranteed contract. That’s my goal and that’s what I want to do. I want to be on this team from day one, but I know the situation at the same time.
It’s important in these situations for players to understand the situation and have an open mind with things. He said he chose to sign with the Nets because he felt very comfortable with their system and that the coaches felt comfortable with him as well. He also understands that the D-League could be in his future as well.
We’ve seen over the years how players have used solid showings in Summer League, training camp and then in the D-League to make their case to be on an NBA roster. Players look at a guy like Tyler Johnson and see that he had to grind his way up through the Miami HEAT’s system, but he was eventually rewarded with a four-year, $50 million contract.
“I know it definitely can be done,” Beech said. “I’m sure if I ask Tyler how he did it, he’d just say hard work. Jeremy Lin on our team is another great example. It seems almost half of the league at this point has played all over the world. I know that nobody wants to go through the whole D-League process; you can ask Tyler and Jeremy and I’m sure they’d agree. But look at where it’s gotten them now. It’s made them stronger and made them better basketball players and they understood what it was going to take to where they are now.
For now, Beech will continue training as he anxiously counts down the days before camp starts. He may already be at a bit of an advantage as several players in the Nets’ camp played with him during Summer League, like Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, Sean Kilpatrick and Yogi Ferrell among others.
He is very excited to spend as much time as he can in the team’s new practice facility. He joked that the facility is so nice that players almost don’t want to leave. The skyline of lower Manhattan and New Jersey can even be seen from the practice court.


Question: Describe the wildlife trafficking activities in Peru.

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A yellow-footed tortoise (Chelonoid denticulata), listed as vulnerable by the IUCN red list, is butchered for the pot while still quivering, its head moves from side to side. The woman cutting up its front-parts remarks: “This animal dies when it’s in the pot.” Biodiversity served up in all its gory detail. The soft-shelled eggs of the taricaya, an Amazon river turtle (Podocnemis unifilis), also listed as vulnerable, are served in pungent heaps to customers in the rubbish-strewn alleys.
Indigenous communities are allowed to hunt and eat wild game but selling the meat is prohibited. But old habits die hard, says Clelia Rengifo, the head of wildlife trafficking control for the regional government of Loreto, Peru’s largest Amazon region which occupies one-third of the country, an area bigger than Germany.
The illicit trade in endangered species – dead or alive – and how to stop it will be discussed at the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to Cites in Johannesburg, South Africa, which began at the weekend. The world’s largest ever wildlife conference opened with calls for changes to the protection levels of 500 species of wild animals and plants.
Peru’s rich biodiversity and poor enforcement makes it a hub for the multi-billion dollar illegal trade which ranks fourth after drug trafficking, arms, and the trafficking of human beings, as one of the largest transnational organised criminal activities.
The sale of living wild fauna in is also illegal in Peru. Yet small parrots, locally known as pihuichos, chirp from plastic washing up bowls. Other containers hold terrapins and infant black caimans, which can grow to more than five metres in length as adults.
Sensing potential clients, a stallholder pulls a tiny pygmy marmoset and a saddle-backed tamarin from her bun as they emit high-pitched shrieks. The two baby ‘pocket’ monkeys fit comfortably in the palm of her hand.
“To catch them they had to kill their mothers,” says Noga Shanee, an activist and the co-founder of the NeoTropical Primate Conservation.
“She knows how to keep them alive but once they’re sold they usually die in a few weeks,” says Shanee, an Israeli who has spent the last decade in Peru rescuing monkeys.
A Belén local who works as an informal tour guide told the Guardian on condition of anonymity that bigger species such as woolly, spider and squirrel monkeys were kept in homes where he sometimes took tourists or collectors working for informal zoos. Collectors from neighbouring Ecuador or Colombia often use small private aircraft to transport animals out of the country, he alleged.
Local traffickers buy animals from ribereños, poor riverside dwellers, as they come to market in Belén. In secret locations large numbers of tortoises, terrapins or parrots are stored for potential clients, he said. He alleged police officers can be bribed for a small quantity of animals, and documents permitting animals to be transported out of Peru can be bought from corrupt officials.
Airport security makes it harder to traffic animals by plane so most are taken upriver along the Amazon to Pucallpa, capital of the neigbouring Ucayali region, and from there by road to Peru’s Pacific coast.
No one has ever been jailed for wildlife trafficking in Peru, confirmed Yovana Murillo of the Wildlife Conservation Society Peru.
Responding to allegations of corruption in the regional government, Rengifo said public servants were very badly paid which “sometimes led to criminal acts”. Enforcement in this trafficking hub compared unfavourably with other Amazon regions. Between January and July 2016, Loreto had seized only 447 live animals around a third of the 1,478 live animals confiscated in neighbouring San Martin region in a similar period (January and August 2016), according to Peru’s environmental police records.
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has identified 383 animal species being trafficked in Peru over the last decade on well-run routes from more than 40 markets in 10 cities including the capital Lima. Supplied by Iquitos and other Amazon cities, parrots or monkeys are often seized at border crossings. But an estimated nine out of 10 trafficked animals die en route, says Murillo.
If they are lucky, rescued monkeys will be taken to Pilpintuwasi Butterfly Farm and Animal Orphanage. Its Austrian owner Gudrun Sperrer, 55, began rescuing animals in Loreto 35 years ago. It is the first places to successfully breed threatened crimson-faced bald uakaris in captivity. The monkeys only live in a small part of the Amazon basin in Peru and Brazil.
Wildlife trafficking has always been rife in Loreto, says Sperrer, but it is getting worse. Traffickers are deliberately encouraging hunters in the village near her refuge to target monkeys with babies, she said.
“The idea is ‘you can eat the mother and sell me the baby’. That will mean future generations are already dead,” she said despondently. Increasing numbers of well-meaning tourists who buy baby animals thinking they can rescue them had worsened the situation, she added.


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Christopher John McRae (27 June 1863 – 3 September 1924) was an Australian politician.
He was born in Stroud to storekeeper Christopher McRae and Maria Farley. He was educated locally and worked in his father's store before moving to Lismore in 1866. He formed a partnership with his employer and opened a store at Coraki, later running his own business. On 22 January 1890 he married Florence Eliza Mobbs, with whom he had eleven children. He was the inaugural president of the Primary Producers' Union from 1916 to 1924, and in 1919 moved to Sydney to represent the union full-time. In 1923 he was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council, but he died in Yass the following year.


Question: What is Nassarius turulosus?

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Nassarius turulosus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.


Question: Who is Mekon? Respond in 20 words.

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John Gosling (born c.1963, Brighton), currently known as Mekon is a British big beat and industrial musician and electronica producer.


Question: Respond in 70 words. Explain the discovery made at the University of Texas Health Science Center, and how it affects people with diabetes.

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Could this be the end of insulin shots?
The discovery, made at The University of Texas Health Science Center, now called UT Health San Antonio, increases the types of pancreatic cells that secrete insulin.
This article was provided by University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Materials may have been edited for clarity and brevity. And make the name of the source a link back to their website.


Question: Has Seehofer fired her unjustly?

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A scandal over suspected fraud at the Bremen branch of Germany's Federal Office of Migration and Refugees (BAMF) was not nearly as large as initially assumed, according to a media report.
Out of 18,315 asylum decisions made by the Bremen BAMF office since 2000, in only 165 cases did migration officials "seriously violate guidelines," according to Bild am Sonntag.
An example of violating rules is failing to conduct a security background check.
The newspaper cited a previously confidential final report of the BAMF investigation into the Bremen office.
DW reported in June that the BAMF scandal was not nearly as far-reaching as previously thought and involved mostly procedural mistakes rather than wrong asylum decisions and alleged corruption.
The Bremen BAMF office came under heat in April when it was alleged that more than 1,200 asylum applications had been illegally approved between 2013 and 2016.
The former head of the Bremen BAMF is under investigation although she denies any wrongdoing.
Interior Minister Horst Seehofer used the scandal to push for major changes at BAMF and tougher asylum laws. He sacked the then BAMF chief, Jutta Cordt, in May over the scandal.
Hat Seehofer sie zu Unrecht gefeuert?


Question: What do you think of Secretary DeVos' opposition to teacher walkouts? Respond in 19 sentences.

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After spending months rolling back federal guidelines to protect students' rights, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos claims her opposition to teacher walkouts is all about the children.
In GOP-controlled states across America, after years of school budget cuts, teachers are staging walkouts over classroom resources. And Education Secretary Betsy DeVos wants you to know these protests have to end for the sake of the schoolchildren.
"I think we need to stay focused on what's right for kids," she said during a tour of a Dallas middle school, regarding the current teacher standoff in Oklahoma. "And I hope that adults would keep adult disagreements and disputes in a separate place, and serve the students that are there to be served."
This comment is more than a little disingenuous, given that DeVos' agenda has always led to unmitigated disaster for the rights and well-being of students.
As a right-wing megadonor in Michigan, DeVos pushed a disastrous package of school privatization "reforms" that resulted in abysmal levels of student achievement. She later admitted that she never "intentionally" visited schools that suffered under these policies to see what they were like.
At her confirmation hearing, DeVos callously suggested that disability rights policy should be "left to the states," and parents whose state deny their child a quality education can just move. True to her word, when DeVos took office, she rescinded 72 federal guidelines on disability rights law in public schools.
The truth is, the striking teachers DeVos so callously dismissed are the ones who have underprivileged students' best interests at heart.
The walkouts in Oklahoma are not just about salaries. They are about the fact that the state has starved schools of funding. Teachers are being made to work in run-down facilities, and use ancient, crumbling textbooks and equipment. The textbooks are so old, in fact, that one Oklahoma mother recently posted a picture of her elementary school daughter checking out a textbook once used by Blake Shelton in 1982.
None of this is good for students. And yet DeVos would rather the walkouts end and these issues be swept under the rug than actually listen to their concerns.
Teachers cannot teach if they have no money and no resources. But DeVos — who has spent her career trying to turn good education into a luxury — now claims teachers are hurting their students by demanding the tools to do their job.


Question: What is seaweed?

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Caulerpa corynephora is a species of seaweed in the "Caulerpaceae" family.


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Please note: the Catio Tour, including registration and host applications, are organized through the Cats Safe at Home program.
The Catio Tour, held annually in September, is designed to educate our community about how outdoor cat enclosures keep pet cats and wildlife safer. We hope to inspire people to build one for their cats. Catios offer pet cats healthy exercise time as well as safety from outdoor hazards like cars, predators and poisons.
If you missed any of the past five Catio Tours you can purchase the post-event version of the Guidebooks for $5 each. You'll see photos and be able to read about the different catios on the tours. Click here to purchase.
The Catio Tour is organized through the Cats Safe at Home campaign. Click here to learn more.
Do you already have a cool catio?
FCCO and the Audubon Society of Portland have formed a truly unique partnership to motivate a change in our community. Both organizations agree that by having fewer pet cats roaming freely it is better for the cats and for wildlife. We created the Catio Tour to offer inspiration for those looking for ways for their cats to have safe outdoor time.


Question: Hi there, I'm interested in conflict resolution and mediation, and I'd like to become a leader in the field. What steps should I take?

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 Hi there, I'm interested in conflict resolution and mediation, and I'd like to become a leader in the field. What steps should I take?

There’s a difference between being in a field, and being a leader in a field. A leader is not only good at what they do; they do it in such a way that makes them a model for others to follow. They ask questions and forge new paths, advancing their field in new and exciting ways.
Leaders are influential. They conduct studies, they give talks and presentations and workshops, and they train newcomers to their field.
What can you do to become a leader in conflict resolution and mediation?
Leaders seek to improve and innovate their profession. They study what they do and how it can be done better. They seek to understand why problems exist and how to eliminate them.
Take a close look at a mediation issue you find interesting, intriguing, or problematic. What is the cause of the issue? Societal? The court system? Mediation itself? Confirm your answers with studies: surveys, analysis, tests.
When you have confirmed the cause of the issue, ask yourself what can be done to improve it. Formulate a SMART (specific, measurable, action-oriented, realistic, time-based) plan and implement what you can. Your new way of doing things will differentiate you from other mediators.
Track your results and publish them in industry publications so others can benefit from your work.
Leaders have something to say, and aren’t afraid to say it. Public speaking skills are essential to an influential leader.
Begin by offering to speak at local Rotary or Lions club meetings, or at your chamber of commerce. Keep it simple at first; just talk about mediation in general, how it works and why the results are so positive.
When you are ready, sponsor a mediation workshop or informational class. The increased interactivity with students will further hone your ability to think and speak on your feet.
Finally, give a presentation at an industry conference. This is the best place to present your study of a problem and your innovative plan for its remedy; conferences are attended by industry leaders and newcomers alike, so your ideas will be heard.
Every time you speak, you are improving your public speaking skills as well as establishing your identity as a leader in the field of mediation.
Leaders lead. They help others acquire the training, skills, and knowledge they need to make their shared profession a high-quality one.
Options for providing training, skills, and knowledge include conducting workshops and classes on your own or a regular teaching gig at a dispute resolution center.
Leadership takes work, but you can do it. Most professional mediators do not set out to become such; they simply love what they do and care about it enough to go the extra mile… and, one day, discover they’ve become a leader.
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Question: Describe Shade.

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Color contrast insights and recommendations at the speed of light.
Shade includes Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 contrast validation.
Always available in your menubar when you need it, and out of the way when you don't.
Shade walks the color wheel and suggests colors to achieve the required contrast.


Question: Have you heard about Polisis, the AI-powered automated framework for privacy policies analysis?

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 Have you heard about Polisis, the AI-powered automated framework for privacy policies analysis?

It has been known for a while that the overwhelming majority of Internet users doesn’t read privacy policies and terms of service before agreeing to them. Those few that do usually skim over them.
That’s mostly because these documents and agreements are extremely long and – intentionally or unintentionally – written in a way that makes them unintelligible to the great majority of users.
Companies’ privacy policies and terms of service also change through time, and often in a direction that’s unwelcome to many users. But most users simply don’t have the time to peruse these compendiums each time a change is made, even if they are able to understand the legalese in which they are written.
There have been several efforts to decipher these documents and present the most crucial information to users in a way they can understand it without having to waste too much of their precious time.
TOS;DR (Terms of Service; Didn’t Read) is one well-known example, but it depends on humans reading the documents and pointing out the crucial things in them.
The initiative has shared their insight on the privacy policies and terms of service of some of the most widely used online services, but it will take a lot of time and effort to do the same for a never-ending stream of less-used and newly introduced offerings.
“Short notices based on information extracted from privacy policies have been shown to be useful and more usable, but face a significant scalability hurdle, given the number of policies and their evolution over time. Companies, users, researchers and regulators still lack usable and scalable tools to cope with the breadth and depth of privacy policies,” a group of researchers from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), the University of Wisconsin and the University of Michigan, have noted.
Their solution to the problem? Polisis, an AI-powered automated framework for privacy policies analysis, and PriBot, a free-form Question Answering system for privacy policies.
“At the core of Polisis is a privacy-centric language model, built with 130K privacy policies, and a novel hierarchy of neural-network classifiers that caters to the high-level aspects and the fine-grained details of privacy practices,” the researchers explained.
For more technical details on how they went about creating it I suggest reading their paper, but users who want to immediately take advantage of what Polisis can offer can go here and here.
Nevertheless, it seems to offer a pretty good snapshot of the information that is of significance to end users.
They also noted that the Polisis framework could ultimately be used to enable comparative shopping applications that advise the consumer by comparing the privacy aspects of multiple applications they want to choose from.


Question: What is an example of a work by J.D. Salinger?

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Mrs. Hincher is an unpublished short story by J.D. Salinger.


Question: Who is Anthony S and what was Kanye West texting him about?

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Turns out the “Anthony S.” that Kanye West was texting back and forth with during Wednesday’s tweetstorm was none other than Anthony Scaramucci.
Sources close to the duo tell The Blast that Kanye and The Mooch are actually good friends.
We’re told the two, who first met on Trump’s campaign trail, have been texting back and forth and speaking fairly frequently. Our Mooch sources say that Kanye views him as a “back channel” and an outlet where he can freely express his conservative views.
West has received loads of heat this week for repeatedly doubling down on his love of President Donald Trump – much of which came from prominent black voices within the hip-hop community, such as Snoop Dogg.
As for the Kanye/Scaramucci lovefest, we’re told The Mooch is also a big Kanye fan.


Question: Compare and contrast K-State's strategy to using the Army's strategy against Oklahoma.

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The Sooners survived after a fourth-quarter interception by Kenneth Mann followed by a CeeDee Lamb touchdown in overtime. But Army pushed the Sooners harder than most expected.
Behind quarterback Kyler Murray, they are averaging 526.3 yards and 48.6 points per game. The Sooners have the nation’s seventh-rated offense and have scored as many as 63 points in a game this season.
But there was Army, dominating time of possession with its triple-option offense.
Snyder would love to follow that blueprint when K-State takes on Oklahoma on the road Saturday.
It’s hard to envision K-State copying Army’s strategy. The Wildcats don’t use the triple option, and they are playing with slightly more tempo than they have in the past under new offensive coordinator Andre Coleman.
But they will try to mimic Army in their own way.
Behind running back Alex Barnes, the Wildcats have eclipsed 260 rushing yards in back-to-back games. They also held the ball for 37:52 during a 31-12 victory over Oklahoma State.
They think they can simulate much of what Army accomplished against Oklahoma.
Most weeks, K-State would take scoring drives no matter how long they last. This time around, they are hoping to methodically move the ball into the end zone.
It’s rare to see football players from power conferences openly talk about emulating a service academy. The way Army and Navy play feels prehistoric compared to most modern offenses, particularly in the high-flying Big 12.
But the Wildcats would love to turn back the clock and use Army’s old-school style against Oklahoma.
But the Army model is still mighty useful to study.


Question: What's your take on the globalization of pizza? Respond in 29 sentences.

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Pizza on show: a sculpture by Tom Friedman at the New York Contemporary Art Fair in March 2013.
The art of the Neapolitan pizza maker, who twirls dough in the air, was included in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list this year. A well-deserved recognition for a food item that has conquered the world without becoming standardized. The CNRS anthropologist Sylvie Sanchez looks at the history of the global spread of pizza, in the wake of Italian emigration.
It’s a fascinating slice of history! When Sylvie Sanchez, an anthropologist at the Institut Interdisciplinaire du Contemporain, decided to take on the challenge of retracing the history of pizza, she found herself immersed in “real detective work,” combing through archives, record books, personal experience accounts… Her goal: to understand how an iconic Italian food item conquered the world, becoming absorbed by other cultures. The results of her study, first published 10 years ago, were recently re-released.
To reconstruct the story of how it spread, Sanchez decided to follow the major migrational movements from the “Boot” towards two other countries: France and the US. “The history of pizza,” she says, “is the story of multiple trajectories of Italian migrants who left their homeland starting in the late 19th century.” Nearly 26 million Italians emigrated between 1850 and 1900. Retracing their paths, Sanchez identified three main destinations: southern France, and more specifically Provence, and the US, primarily New York and Chicago.
A pizza restaurant in New York in the 1950s. The US is today the world's largest pizza consumer.
In the process, the researcher discovered the mechanisms behind the assimilation of this culinary creation. Much more than a simple food item, the Italians were exporting a part of their culture, and one that turned out to be widely popular. In both the US and France—respectively the world’s first and second largest pizza consumers at 13 kg and 10 kg per capita per year, far ahead of the Italians themselves, who “only” eat 5 kg annually—pizza became an integral part, not without a few deviations from the original recipe, of a whole Western lifestyle.
Yet the real boom in pizza consumption on a worldwide scale is more recent, dating from the 1960s. “Until then, it suffered from a stigma,” Sanchez reports. “A simple bread-like base covered with tomato or oil, it was considered a dish for poor people, especially back in Italy.” The Italian immigrants made it a symbol of their cultural identity in the melting pot of the US, while in France they transformed it into a regional speciality like so many others. A quick meal, fast and efficient, pizza became a part of the “American way of life”—so much so that the Americans even claimed to have originated the concept.
A family pizzeria in Naples. The word "pizza" appeared in the Neapolitan dialect in the 16th century, but then only referred to only a dough, simply brushed with fat.
In 2008 Neapolitan pizza was granted the EU Traditional Specialty Guaranteed label: from its consistency to its color, from the rising of the dough to the wood fire cooking, pizza bearing this label—which should be eaten, according to the rule book, fresh from the oven—“has no inventors, no fathers, no masters, but is the fruit of the creativity of the Neapolitan people,” as a famous quote says. This was rectified in December 2017 by the inclusion of Neapolitan pizza "twirling"—or the art of the pizza maker—on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list.
But the most astonishing part of the story, as Sylvie Sanchez emphasizes, is that “the dissemination of pizza throughout the US, France and the world was what saved it.” In her view as an anthropologist, cultural elements that remain rigid and resist change are the ones that disappear from society. “The globalization of pizza led to national and even regional adaptations,” she says, “due to a systematic and ongoing effort of differentiation.” In other words, exogenous borrowings, rather than representing the alignment of one people with the cultural practices of others, are often a source of new hybrid forms.
Pizza offers an apt illustration of the expression of cultural change, arising from a paradox: having originated in Italy, it found success outside of its native country. Its bread-dough base and varied toppings have allowed it to espouse all cultures without losing its identity, making it at once an exotic food, a recession-proof product, a street snack and a meal to be shared. Not bad for a simple disc of dough.


Question: Provide an overview of the village of Garhi in Rajasthan, India.

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Garhi is a small village and tehsil in Rajasthan, approximately 38 kilometres south of the Banswara District administrative seat which is 600 km from the Rajasthan capital of Jaipur. It is located at 23°36'0N 74°8'0E with an altitude of 148 metres (488 feet). It has basic facilities available nearby, such as banks, senior secondary school for girls and boys, teachers' training school


Question: Who is Morris Molinari? Respond in 12 words.

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Morris Molinari (born 4 April 1975) is a former Italian football defender.


Question: What does the Ninth Circuit ruling say about Arizona voting regulations?

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Nader v. Brewer, 531 F.3d 1028 (9th Cir. 2008) is a 2008 decision by the Ninth Circuit ruling that certain Arizona voting regulations were unconstitutional under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.


Question: Describe the dispute between Toni Preckwinkle and the Cook County Sheriff's Office regarding budget cuts.

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The Cook County Sheriff’s Office is pushing back against the number of layoffs requested by Board President Toni Preckwinkle, who has ordered countywide budget cuts after her sweetened beverage tax was blocked in court.
Sheriff spokeswoman Cara Smith on Wednesday said 125 positions will be cut instead of the 925 that Preckwinkle's office requested two weeks ago. Most of those will come from 113 recruits who were training to become correctional officers.
Nearly 70 recruits were expected to report to a training academy on Monday, she said, and almost 50 were already five weeks into their training when they received pink slips.
Smith said Sheriff Tom Dart won’t cut more.
The sheriff’s cuts represent a total of $17.9 million, Smith said. That’s less than the $21.9 million demanded by Preckwinkle.
All county departments and agencies have been asked by Preckwinkle to cut 10 percent from their budgets after a county judge last month put a temporary hold on a penny-per-ounce tax on sweetened beverages. Preckwinkle pushed the tax through the county board in November to help balance the county’s budget.
But the Illinois Retail Merchants Association sued the county and asked a judge to put a hold on the tax, which the group claims is vague and unconstitutional.
Preckwinkle, speaking on WBEZ’s Morning Shift last week, said she is unable to get county commissioners to sign off on raising other taxes, like property taxes, and her only option is making cuts.
The 925 represented 15.4 percent of the sheriff’s total workforce, Smith said, which Dart found unacceptable. Preckwinkle had asked for each department to cut 10 percent from their budget in response to the county not collecting $17 million a month from the tax.
Preckwinkle’s office had no comment on the sheriff’s cuts. She will be presiding over a County Board meeting Wednesday.
The lawsuit against the sweetened beverage tax brought by the Illinois Retail Merchants Association is scheduled to be back in court Friday. The county had been counting on the tax to generate nearly $270 million over the next two years.


Question: Who was John Joseph McGuigan? Respond in 2 sentences.

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John Joseph McGuigan (29 October 1932 – 12 August 2004) was a Scottish footballer who played as an inside-forward in the 1950s and 1960s. He started his career in the Scottish Football League with St Mirren before moving to England in 1955, where he played for several Football League clubs, including Southend United, Newcastle United, Scunthorpe United, Southampton and Swansea Town.


Question: Explain the incident involving the two black men arrested at a Philadelphia Starbucks.

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Two black men arrested for sitting at a Philadelphia Starbucks without ordering anything settled with the city Wednesday for a symbolic $1 each and a promise from officials to set up a $200,000 program for young entrepreneurs.
The arrest of Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson on 12 April touched off a furore in the US over racial profiling. They were led away in handcuffs after the manager called police, saying the men refused to buy anything or leave. After spending hours in jail, they were released and no charges were filed.
The men said they were waiting at the coffee shop in the city’s well-to-do Rittenhouse Square neighborhood for a business meeting with a third man about a potential real estate opportunity.
The mayor said Nelson and Robinson approached the city about working together to “make something positive come of this”. The entrepreneur program will be for Philadelphia public high school students.
During the uproar, the Starbucks chief executive Kevin Johnson came to Philadelphia to apologize to the men. He also announced that more than 8,000 Starbucks stores in the US would close on the afternoon of May 29 so nearly 175,000 employees can get training in unconscious bias.


Question: Have you ever worked as a scareactor for Halloween in Los Angeles?

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At the level I’m at in my acting career most shoots last 1-3 days and normally have 5-10 takes for each setup. So, you can imagine how different it would feel to play the same character for 7 weeks with 700+ takes an hour of the same scene. This is what happens when you take a “scareactor” job for Halloween.In Los Angeles Halloween jobs for actors are posted all over the casting boards. In the past I’ve scanned right past these jobs but this year I decided to audition for Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights.
Horror Nights combines the theme park rides with haunted houses and mazes. The auditions consisted of a demonstration of your ability to scream then asking you to improv both killing and being killed. Upon being hired you must attend an orientation to work for Universal and one for Horror Nights then you have Scare Academy where you learn safety and how to scare and get an overview of the entire event as well as you have a separate rehearsal night for your maze.
Universal’s scareactor positions are covered by AGVA (the American Guild of Variety Artists) which is a sister union of SAG-AFTRA. Joining AGVA means that you get union benefits like mandatory breaks and regulated pay. The unusual benefits to working for Universal are the availability of amenities like community workouts, movie screenings, free tickets to the park, discounts and free parking at city walk.
Being a scareactor is dangerous though, more often the actors hurt themselves than being punched by a scared guest. Hitting yourself with a door or pulling muscles happen often so there are extensive medical personal that work at Universal to make sure you are healthy at all times. The makeup, costumes, and sets are phenomenal and are all treated just like any other Universal TV or film production. They hire a makeup staff of 30+ industry professionals that use pigments, prosthetics and prozaide transfers to turn 500 actors into zombies, demons, and monsters in a period of 3 hours every afternoon. This year they also added the addition of costume contact lenses to make me and the other demons in my area movie accurate. Universal is known for taking classic and current horror films and bringing them to life in terrifying mazes.
My job the last 2 months has been portraying Mia from the remake of Evil Dead. When I scare people their reactions are so varied some people laugh, fall, or make jokes. Working as a scareactor is a very interesting look at sociology and how people react to fear. There is no other job out there I know where is it acceptable to be cursed at, sexually harassed by guests, or yelled at all in good fun. The job is exhausting and from the time you are hired in August till the event ends in November it never gets easier and each night is treated like the first night. My experience has been wonderful and if you are an actor that’s new to LA or looking for a short term commitment with a steady paycheck I’d highly recommend it. Did I mention how awesome it is when you have celebrities, or the cast of the film you’re portraying, or friends you recognize come through and you get to scare them!? Being a demon isn’t so bad.
The following is a list of Halloween Haunts in Los Angles that hire actors.
Some of these start to hire as early as July, though actors come and go and they continue to rehire throughout the season.
I love a good haunted house so I look forward to you scaring the pants off of me next year!


Question: Respond in 52 sentences. Explain the Enneagram type Seven, its characteristics, and any helpful advice for personal growth.

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Sevens are extroverted, optimistic, versatile, and spontaneous. Playful, high-spirited, and practical, they can also misapply their many talents, becoming over-extended, scattered, and undisciplined. They constantly seek new and exciting experiences, but can become distracted and exhausted by staying on the go. They typically have problems with impatience and impulsiveness. At their Best: they focus their talents on worthwhile goals, becoming appreciative, joyous, and satisfied.
Enneagram Seven with a Six-Wing: "The Entertainer"
Enneagram Seven with an Eight-Wing: "The Realist"
When moving in their Direction of Disintegration (stress), scattered Sevens suddenly become perfectionistic and critical at One. However, when moving in their Direction of Integration (growth), gluttonous, scattered Sevens become more focused and fascinated by life, like healthy Fives. Learn more about the arrows.
Level 1 (At Their Best): Assimilate experiences in depth, making them deeply grateful and appreciative for what they have. Become awed by the simple wonders of life: joyous and ecstatic. Intimations of spiritual reality, of the boundless goodness of life.
Level 2: Highly responsive, excitable, enthusiastic about sensation and experience. Most extroverted type: stimuli bring immediate responses—they find everything invigorating. Lively, vivacious, eager, spontaneous, resilient, cheerful.
Level 3: Easily become accomplished achievers, generalists who do many different things well: multi-talented. Practical, productive, usually prolific, cross-fertilizing areas of interest.
Level 4: As restlessness increases, want to have more options and choices available to them. Become adventurous and "worldly wise," but less focused, constantly seeking new things and experiences: the sophisticate, connoisseur, and consumer. Money, variety, keeping up with the latest trends important.
Level 5: Unable to discriminate what they really need, become hyperactive, unable to say "no" to themselves, throwing self into constant activity. Uninhibited, doing and saying whatever comes to mind: storytelling, flamboyant exaggerations, witty wise-cracking, performing. Fear being bored: in perpetual motion, but do too many things—many ideas but little follow through.
Level 6: Get into conspicuous consumption and all forms of excess. Self-centered, materialistic, and greedy, never feeling that they have enough. Demanding and pushy, yet unsatisfied and jaded. Addictive, hardened, and insensitive.
Level 7: Desperate to quell their anxieties, can be impulsive and infantile: do not know when to stop. Addictions and excess take their toll: debauched, depraved, dissipated escapists, offensive and abusive.
Level 8: In flight from self, acting out impulses rather than dealing with anxiety or frustrations: go out of control, into erratic mood swings, and compulsive actions (manias).
Level 9: Finally, their energy and health is completely spent: become claustrophobic and panic-stricken. Often give up on themselves and life: deep depression and despair, self-destructive overdoses, impulsive suicide. Generally corresponds to the Bipolar disorder and Histrionic personality disorder.
The type most prone to addictions: stimulants (caffeine, cocaine, and amphetamines), Ecstasy, psychotropics, narcotics, and alcohol but tend to avoid other depressants. Wear body out with effort to stay "up." Excessive cosmetic surgery, pain killers.
Recognize your impulsiveness, and get in the habit of observing your impulses rather than giving in to them. This means letting most of your impulses pass and becoming a better judge of which ones are worth acting on. The more you can resist acting out your impulses, the more you will be able to focus on what is really good for you.
Learn to listen to other people. They are often interesting, and you may learn things that will open new doors for you. Also learn to appreciate silence and solitude: you do not have to distract yourself (and protect yourself from anxiety) with constant noise from the television or the stereo. By learning to live with less external stimulation, you will learn to trust yourself. You will be happier than you expect because you will be satisfied with whatever you do, even if it is less than you have been doing.
You do not have to have everything this very moment. That tempting new acquisition will most likely still be available tomorrow (this is certainly true of food, alcohol, and other common gratifications—that ice cream cone, for instance). Most good opportunities will come back again—and you will be in a better position to discern which opportunities really are best for you.
Always choose quality over quantity, especially in your experiences. The ability to have experiences of quality can be learned only by giving your full attention to the experience you are having now. If you keep anticipating future experiences, you will keep missing the present one and undermine the possibility of ever being satisfied.
Make sure that what you want will really be good for you in the long run. As the saying goes, watch what you pray for since your prayers may be answered. In the same vein, think about the long-term consequences of what you want since you may get it only to find that it becomes another disappointment—or even a source of unhappiness.