Question: Describe the current situation in Zimbabwe.

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Zimbabwe faces a deepening economic crisis as hopes fade of a new wave of international investment and aid following historic elections in July.
The poll, the first after the military takeover that led to the ousting of Robert Mugabe, was won by the ageing autocrat’s former righthand man, Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Mnangagwa’s campaign slogan was “Zimbabwe is open for business”, but people in the former British colony say conditions have deteriorated since the election.
Majory Manjoro, a part-time currency dealer in Harare, said life had become unbearable. “Things are getting worse. Everything goes up [in price]. Those in authority need to make sure things get better,” Manjoro, 33, said.
Although the elections in July did not see the systematic violence of those under Mugabe, alleged irregularities during the count and violent repression following the vote have resulted in only lukewarm support for Mnangagwa and the ruling Zanu-PF party from major international powers.
The shooting by soldiers of six unarmed civilians in Harare during opposition protests has made endorsement of the new government difficult, officials privately admit.
Catriona Laing, the outgoing British ambassador, told local reporters the UK was concerned by the 1 August shootings and hoped to see political reform.
This has made the prospects of the multibillion-dollar financial package needed to stave off economic collapse unlikely, which has in turn discouraged private investors.
Mnangagwa faces very significant challenges. The country ran up massive debts during Mugabe’s 37-year rule which need to be repaid or rescheduled. Government revenues barely pay the wages of large numbers of public sector workers.
Few people in Zimbabwe have jobs, and infrastructure is crumbling.
At least 30 people have died in a cholera outbreak caused by sewage leaking from broken pipes into drinking water in Harare.
In Kuwadzana, a poor suburb in Harare, 35-year-old Blessing Mahwata said her business was falling apart due to rising prices.
“This is the toughest time I’m going through. Every time I go back to my suppliers the prices go up and it’s unsustainable,” said Mahwata, who feeds and clothes three children on her earnings as a peanut butter dealer and a part-time domestic worker.
Zimbabwe abandoned its own currency amid runaway inflation nine years ago and now uses US dollars and South African rands, supplemented by bond notes printed by the central bank which command little confidence.
Many commodities are in short supply.
Zimbabwe owes at least $18bn to major international lenders, with arrears of around $1.8bn making it hard to obtain further loans.
There are also 141 entities and individuals in Zimbabwe, including Mnangagwa and Mugabe, currently under US sanctions.
Manisha Singh, the US assistant secretary of state for economic and business affairs, told a House of Representatives hearing earlier this month that the new government has to demonstrate it is “changing its ways” before these can be lifted.
“Our pressure on Zimbabwe remains in place. We are trying to use this pressure to leverage political and economic reforms, human rights observations … We want to see fundamental changes in Zimbabwe and only then will we resume normal relations with them,” Singh said.
China has proved unwilling to provide the immediate funds needed by Zimbabwe, citing concerns over the country’s ability to repay existing unpaid debts.
Mnangagwa recently named Mthuli Ncube, a former chief economist at the African Development Bank and a lecturer in finance at the London School of Economics, as finance minister.
The choice has been welcomed by observers.
Ncube has spoken of the need for radical reforms. Last week, he said at least $15m set aside to buy cars for ministers and parliamentarians would instead be used to fight the cholera outbreak.
In recent days, the price of bread has increased by 10%, owing to an acute shortage of wheat, while fuel prices have also risen.
Authorities have deployed riot police to disperse stallholders in Harare accused of worsening the cholera outbreak by selling contaminated fruit and vegetables.
The vendors have vowed not to move.
“I cannot go off the streets but I fear that something bad might happen to me. They have threatened us countless times but I have no choice … the streets are our home,” said Tafadzwa Sakwe, an electrician who was laid off five years ago and has polished shoes since.
“The economy is deteriorating and prices are rising every day. On a good day I make US$13. I rent a one-roomed apartment in Chitungwiza with my wife and two children. It’s not enough,” he said.
Many in Harare say they are angry that life has not improved since the fall of Mugabe.
“Most Zimbabweans who marched against Mugabe never thought we could be in a worse state, a year later,” said Bright Ndebele, a 27 -year-old unemployed graduate.
“We wanted Mugabe gone so that we can have a better future. This is far below our expectations,” he said.


Question: Describe what happened when Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to eight counts.

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A lawyer representing Michael Cohen, the former longtime fixer and personal attorney for Donald Trump, says his client has information that would be “of interest” to special counsel Robert Mueller and that he would not accept any pardon from the president.
Cohen pleaded guilty Tuesday to eight counts that included campaign finance violations spawned from hush money agreements with two women, Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, who claim to have had affairs with Trump, which he has denied. Speaking to a packed federal courthouse in Manhattan, Cohen said he made those payments "in coordination and at the direction of a candidate for federal office," referring to then-candidate Donald Trump.
Lanny Davis, a lawyer representing Michael Cohen, speaks to "Good Morning America," Aug. 22, 2018.
On “Good Morning America,” Davis accused Trump of committing “a criminal act that corrupted our democracy” in directing Cohen to make those payments and said Cohen would not accept a pardon from President Trump, if offered one.
In addition to the campaign finance violations, Cohen pleaded guilty to a slew of bank fraud and tax evasion charges related to his personal business dealings.
Shortly after Cohen's guilty plea, the president's attorney, Rudy Giuliani, maintained that Trump is not at fault, adding, "There is no allegation of any wrongdoing against the president in the government's charges against Mr. Cohen."
"It is clear that, as the prosecutor noted, Mr. Cohen's actions reflect a pattern of lies and dishonesty over a significant period of time,” Giuliani said.
On "Good Morning America," Davis said Cohen “will tell the truth to everybody who asks him about Mr. Trump,” though it was unclear whether Cohen has agreed to meet with federal investigators.
Cohen's stunning admission marked the end of a monthslong investigation into his personal business practices, the genesis of which can be tied back to Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling during the 2016 campaign. Mueller referred the case to New York's Southern District to investigate.
Cohen served as Trump's fixer and trusted confidant for years, solving the real estate tycoon's legal troubles and once famously boasting that he would "take a bullet" for the president. A gratified patron, Trump praised his personal attorney as a "fine person with a wonderful family."
But as Cohen's legal exposure developed, their relationship soured and arrived at a breaking point last month when Cohen told ABC News that he was prepared to "put family and country first," a suggestion that rocked the White House as speculation of Cohen's flipping on the president reached a fever pitch.
At a campaign rally in West Virginia on Tuesday night, the president made no mention of Cohen's guilty plea.
Cohen, who now faces the possibility of a lengthy prison sentence and substantial monetary forfeiture, is scheduled for sentencing Dec. 12.


Question: Respond in 2 sentences. Please provide a brief description of Jacques-Louis Potgieter.

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Jacques-Louis Potgieter (born 2 September 1984 in Pretoria) is a South African rugby union player, currently playing with French side . His regular position is fly-half.


Question: Have you read Perilous Passage?

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Originally published in 2004 ‘Perilous Passage – The Nervous System and the Universe in Other Words’ by Terry Wilson is being republished in 2012. It describes the author’s apprenticeship under the tutelage of the avant-garde artist and writer Brion Gysin; along with a wonderful passage about Wilson’s experiences in South America with ayahuasca. The book is the final part of his ‘Green Base Trilogy’, which includes ‘Dreams of Green Base’ (1986) and ‘‘D’ Train’ (1985). He has also previously published ‘Here to Go’ (2001), a book of interviews with Gysin that documented his life, work and philosophy.
As with all engaging and from-theory literature Perilous Passage – The Nervous System and the Universe in Other Words (2012) employs both its content and its form in order to draw the reader into a novel and interesting relationship with the text: “The “Reader” – under the impression that he is “reading” – receiving these signals from some dissonant strata of our nervous systems” (Wilson 176). The method Wilson utilises stems from his friendship with Brion Gysin (1916-1986) and William Burroughs (1914-1997) who developed the cut-up technique. Before saying something about how the method has been used here, it is necessary to first say something of Gysin and Burroughs in order to put some background into the text.
Brion Gysin was a painter, writer and performance artist, a fringe member of the Beats and good friend of the writer William S. Burroughs. It was Gysin who ‘re-discovered’ the cut-up technique in the 1950s. It involved cutting up a text and rearranging it into novel narratives, and which was part of a wider project of trying to implement artistic methods within literature (in this case collage.) Burroughs put the technique to work in his infamous book Naked Lunch (1959). The two men later collaborated on The Third Mind – a book first published in France in 1977 and in English a year later. It included short fiction pieces, poetry by Gysin and an interview with Burroughs. Taken as a whole, the book showcases the cut-up technique and further develops the theory as the ‘Third Mind’ – which is the product of what is described as the ‘Process’. In Perilous Passage, Wilson uses the Process to recount his own relationship with Gysin, generally centred around the times before and after the artist’s death.
Pseudonyms are utilized throughout the majority of Perilous Passage and it has the effect of dramatising the historical threads of the book; lifting the ‘reality’ of the content into the Third Mind. Subtle pointers, as to the factual underpinnings, become necessary groundings that give the work its stability as creative non-fiction, yet which does not stifle the creative process of the narrative. Passages are, more often than not, short and intense and they elude to glitches of consciousness; moments when the author-reader-character form new conscious strata. These bubbles of thought and conversation manifest across time and space; one moment in Paris, 1976, through Tangiers, then in London, 1965 and so forth. The attraction of this non-linear method, for the reader, is that they are transported along thought processes not normally found in more standard narratives, resulting in an understanding outside the normal flow of space-time.
Snippets of consciousness transform grand, sweeping, narrative ideas. For example, there is a regular intervention of espionage-conspiracy-paranoia in the text: “We are moving to another hotel – (we do this a lot. For security reasons)” (Wilson 123). Rather than this socio-political paranoia creating an arching narrative form – which would demand conclusion – it enters the text as micro-episodes that rely on a moment of convolution – the mash-up of set and setting. Paranoia becomes other than a reliance on the externality of subsequent situations and becomes internalised moments of thought within the text, reliant on the novel constructions but not one another.
The above quote is taken from the final chapter that details Wilson’s experiences in South America doing a course of ayahuasca sessions – following in the footsteps of Burroughs himself who chronicled his own ayahuasca journey in The Yage Letters (1963). Aside from the cultural element of visiting the shamans of Peru, being fleeced for money for one, Wilson’s approach to the experiences is quite literary, so far as he employs Henri Michaux – specifically his book Miserable Miracle (France, 1956) – as a former for them. Michaux, while recognising a multiplicity of elements within his own mescaline experiments, felt the task to be, more often than not, arduous. This sense crops up in Wilson’s descriptions as well but, allied with the Process, his words become other than the experiences and ayahuasca becomes a filter through which the Third Mind is further developed. The lack of grammar in the above quote, for example, explodes any sense of cohesion: “Well, I suppose we’ve all been derailed once or twice in our time, somewhere along the line . . .” (Wilson 188).
Perilous Passage, beyond the character relationships, is about the normal two-dimensional limits of reason-rhyme-narrative-thought, or rather it is about taking those linear limits and twisting them until they snap and shatter; before reconnecting in novel appreciation – appreciation of Gysin, Burroughs and Wilson’s friendships therein. If, as a reader, you wish to be challenged, not in the sense of War and Peace but in the sense of a psychedelic experience perhaps, then Perilous Passage is indeed an excellent read. It shifts the priorities of how your thoughts are constructed in reading and becomes a novel break in consciousness itself. Overall, a fascinating and engaging read.
Sounds like an intriguing book, Rob. The flavour reminds me of Burroughs’ and Gysin’s experiments in the Beat Hotel in Paris, as described in Burroughs’ biography, and the quotes are most Burroughsian – very like snippets from Nova Express and The Ticket That Exploded, his most cut-up-heavy novels.


Question: I need help with plotting a route on my Google Maps application.

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Hope you are all well. This post is clearly the most requested one by our friends. We’ll see how to embed a map into your Ionic 2 app, and then moving the view, adjusting the zoom on the map and also how to place a marker on the map.
First of all let’s scaffold out a new app using the ionic-cli.
Now to access the Google Maps Api we need a key.
Follow the instructions here – For Mac & Linux.
Follow the instructions here – For windows.
Now install the plugin using the below command.
Once you have installed the plugin install the ionic-native wrapper for google maps using the below command.
Open up app.module.ts and add the GoogleMap class as shown below.
Now open up home.html and add the below line of code inbetween the <ion-content> tags.
Now open up app.component.html and add the below line of code.
The code is very simple. We have simply created a reference to the div tag in our view and placed a google map in it. Let’s run this code and see what happens.
If everything goes fine, you would see a screen as shown below.
Whoa, we got the map, but wait, isn’t it a bit zoomed out and also we would like to maybe show a particular place on the map when it loads rather than trying to show the whole of the world right..?
Say for example we want to show New york on the map when it loads. The latitude and longitudes of new york can be found using a simple google search.
We are using the LatLng class to create a new LatLng instance. We then pass it on to the CameraPosition instance as the target and few other options like zoom and tilt to enhance the viewieng experience. Then we use the moveCamera() to move the view to the new postion (New York).
Note that we are using GoogleMapsEven.MAP_READY) event to signify whether the map has been loaded into our view.
Now run the app. If everything goes fine, you should see something like this.
Wow.. That’s great right ?
Markers are visual aids which are placed on maps to denote the key places/cities/areas to be noticed in the first glance. In short, they are like thumbtacks placed on a physical map.
To create a marker on a specified location on the map we could use the map.addMarker() function and we could also pass in several options to the marker.
Open up app.component.html and add the below code.
Now run the app. If everything goes fine, you should see a screen as shown below.
As you could see our marker is now placed on New York.
I have dealt with very basic steps in embedding maps into your app in this article. There are a lot of cool stuff that you could do with the google-maps plugin.
Hopefully this was helpful to you guys. If you found it helpful, kindly share it with someone and help them too.
I have follow above codes but output display below one.
PLEASE NEED HELP TO RESOLVE this issues.
Yes but When i open left side menu that menu item didn’t click.
Also that whilte area space if i move my finger than background MAP will be moved.
Where was the problem exactly. because the map doesn’t appear.
Why you have putted Geolocation and Geocoder ?
this is for Current location get and for geocoder return JSON data for the same.
ALSO in app.module.ts file added in providers see below code of it.
First Thank you for this tutorial which is useful.
Please we will change ap.componene.ts or home.ts.
I have read most of the tutorials and they are actual really great and I am very gratefully for that.
I have a problem and hoping you can help me out with it, I am in urgent need of this and not able to find anything on the internet on this topic.
I have created an application that is using google map native and I need to plot a route in between two points on that map.


Question: What is the history of Setra? Respond in 6 sentences.

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Setra is a German bus division of EvoBus GmbH, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Daimler AG.
The name "Setra" comes from "selbsttragend" (self supporting). This refers to the integral nature of the construction of the vehicles back in the 1950s when competitor vehicles still featured a separate chassis and body (often manufactured by separate companies). It is also possible that, with an eye to export markets, the company was mindful that for non-German speakers, the name "Kässbohrer" is difficult to pronounce. Until 1995 the firm operated under the name Kässbohrer-Setra, but in that year economic difficulties enforced its sale to Daimler Benz (between 1998 and 2008 known, especially in the United States, by the name of its holding company Daimler Chrysler). Since 1995, Setra has been a member of the Daimler Benz subsidiary, EvoBus GmbH.


Question: Describe the protests happening in Italy related to the new mandatory vaccine law.

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 Describe the protests happening in Italy related to the new mandatory vaccine law.

Readers from Italy have been contacting us, asking to cover the massive demonstrations happening throughout Italy to protest a new mandatory vaccine law.
This news has been censored from the U.S. corporate media.
No other decree-law has moved so fast in the Italian legislative system, the reasons of such hurry are incomprehensible considering that the Istituto Superiore Di Sanità (the local version of the CDC) has declared that contrary to what stated in the decree itself there is no objective urgency.
There are no epidemics, the number of cases of measles or meningitis in the current year have been substantially lower than the previous year.
Protests are going to increase here, as our Government has announced… a law to introduce 12 mandatory vaccines.
The law…. was announced by our Health Ministry to be as follows: 12 mandatory vaccination needed to have access to pre-school system (age 0-6): no vaccination, no enrollment, no exceptions; for mandatory school (age 0-16) if kids were not vaccinated parents should pay a penalty between 500€ and 7.500€ per year, if you cannot afford it, you’ll be refer to Jouvanile Court, that could suspend your parents rights to get your children vaccinated.
A national protest is envisaged in Rome on June 11.
In other comments posted on Facebook, Elisabetta Bressan suggests that the new mandatory vaccine law has strong financial connections to the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline, which could benefit from over 1 billion euros invested in Italy over the next four years.
This is the press conference of Health Minister, Ms. Lorenzin explaining the DL.
His curriculum vitae is regularly published in the Government’s website, at page 6 you can see he is a member of Glaxo Smith-Kline Foundation board.
Italian courts have already ruled in (at least) two separate cases that vaccines did cause autism.


Question: Describe the recent request of Rep. Brian Babin regarding the refugee resettlement program.

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 Describe the recent request of Rep. Brian Babin regarding the refugee resettlement program.

Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas) released a letter signed by 73 other House members calling for House leadership to include language that would halt the Obama administration's refugee resettlement program in the upcoming omnibus spending bill.
"There is no duty of the federal government more important than ensuring the protection of the American people," the letter stated. "We believe that we would fall short of that duty if Congress fails to exercise greater authority over the Administration's refugee resettlement program. We see this as an important national security concern."
"It is prudent and in the best interest of the American people that language be included in the upcoming FY 2016 appropriations legislation to restore Congressional oversight and authority over the refugee program," they added.
The letter also asked that U.S. funds "continue to be used to provide for the safety of refugees overseas, including housing, food and medical aid."


Question: Describe the Triple Eight team's performance at the Sandown Supercars race.

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Dual Le Mans 24 Hour winner Earl Bamber believes Triple Eight "could fight anywhere in the world" after making his Supercars debut with the Holden squad at Sandown.
The New Zealander has been signed to partner countryman Shane van Gisbergen for the three-event PIRTEK Enduro Cup, alongside his factory Porsche GT duties in the USA.
Bamber won Le Mans twice as part of Porsche's now-parked LMP1 program, and last year's World Endurance Championship with Brendon Hartley and Timo Bernhard.
In a debut he classed as "a pleasure" and "awesome", Bamber took second with van Gisbergen in the middle of a Triple Eight sweep of the Sandown podium.
Its winning Commodore, driven by Jamie Whincup and Paul Dumbrell, lapped up to 12th place and finished 25 seconds clear of the best non-Triple Eight entry in fourth.
"It’s absolutely amazing to be able to come join Triple Eight and Red Bull here," Bamber said.
"It’s been amazing. The car’s been awesome since it rolled off the truck. Car 1 was a rocket, we had to think about it overnight and we managed to turn our car into a rocket as well for Sunday.
"Shane’s been a great mentor as well, teaching me about Supercars and everything to do. Without his advice it would have been a lot more difficult.
"Now [I'm] really finding my feet in the category and can’t wait for Bathurst. We need to keep working hard.
"I see the amount of hard work and I’ve managed to drive in some really top-level teams, but the guys here they’re at the peak and could fight anywhere in the world.
"This shows where they’re at. It’s mega."
Bamber was 14th and second fastest in the two co-driver practice sessions, then finished 16th in Saturday's opening ARMOR ALL Race for the Grid, having pitted for wets amid the storm.
From 11th on the grid on Sunday, he had moved up to sixth by the time he handed over to van Gisbergen on lap 54.
The 28-year-old admitted starting in the pack was "pretty interesting" but relished the running.
"It's been a dream for a long time to be able to come and race Supercars but the calendars never managed to work out," Bamber added.
"I’ve watched the category for many, many years and it’s all stacked up, everything that you could imagine.
"The racing’s awesome. The cars are absolute beasts to drive, [with] lot of tyre management. The door-to-door stuff I’m also used to from 24-hour races.
"I certainly got some welcomes to Australia in Race 1 in the co-driver race. I remembered too when I first came to Australia and raced go-karts, I probably expected a little bit.
"[There's] a lot to learn. It’s a new style of category for me, always trying to learn different stuff, some stuff I can take overseas as well that I’ve seen.
"It’s really awesome and it’s awesome to be with a top-level team. I can’t wait now for Bathurst."
With second to Scott McLaughlin's fourth, van Gisbergen's Virgin Australia Supercars Championship lead grew to 55 points.
Bamber will pair his Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 assault by partnering rookie Brenton Grove in an ex-Triple Eight Commodore in the event's Dunlop Super2 Series round.


Question: What is the latest news regarding the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election?

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The House Intelligence Committee voted Monday to release a memo detailing alleged surveillance abuses by the FBI and the Justice Department, escalating a political fight between conservatives and the nation's intelligence agencies.
The vote, which proceeded along party lines in the Republican-controlled committee, means that President Trump now has up to five days to review the material and decide whether to keep it secret, though he could agree to the release anytime before that deadline. If he does nothing, the committee can release the memo publicly.
The Justice Department and the FBI are likely to lobby Trump in the interim, hopeful that he will prevent the memo's classified contents from becoming public before lawyers for those agencies can review the material.
The Intelligence Committee also voted along party lines Monday against releasing a rebuttal memo from the panel's Democrats, who denounced both moves upon leaving the closed-door hearing.
"We had votes today to politicize the intelligence process," said Rep. Adam B. Schiff (Calif.), the committee's senior Democrat. He also said the committee is investigating the FBI and the Justice Department, though a Republican disputed that characterization, saying the panel is conducting oversight of those agencies.
Rep. K. Michael Conaway (R-Tex.) said that if the president supports the memo's release, it could happen as soon as Tuesday. He said that the Democrats' counterargument also may be released soon but that he thinks more lawmakers should read it first.
A person familiar with the Democrats' document described it as a point-by-point rebuttal, about 10 pages long, of the GOP memo.
The Republicans' effort was led by the Intelligence Committee's chairman, Rep. Devin Nunes (Calif.), who was not immediately available to discuss Monday's vote. Since Congress began to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, Nunes has focused on alleged abuses of intelligence authorities by government agencies and former Obama administration officials.
The GOP memo has become a flash point in the political battle surrounding efforts to understand the scope of the Russian meddling and whether any of Trump's associates coordinated with the Kremlin. Republicans say the document shows that the investigation may be tainted by political bias. Democrats call it a cynical attempt to undercut the work of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III and the law enforcement agencies behind him.
Current and former intelligence officials have expressed concern that releasing the memo would harm national security.
"I am heartsick, as should anyone be who cares about democracy and our nation's security," said Jeffrey Smith, a former general counsel at the CIA.
The vote occurred hours after FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe — who became a symbol for Trump of what he considers the bureau's political bias — abruptly stepped down. Though McCabe's departure was expected, the timing caught many by surprise. It followed a recent meeting with FBI Director Christopher A. Wray at which they discussed the findings of an ongoing internal probe into McCabe's handling of the bureau's investigations of Hillary Clinton, according to people familiar with the matter.
Trump has attacked McCabe for more than a year, blaming him for what he calls political decisions about investigations.
People familiar with the Intelligence Committee's memo say its main target is the FBI's relationship with Christopher Steele, a British ex-spy who was hired in 2016 by a Washington research firm to examine any connections between Trump and Russian leaders. The work, which was funded by Clinton's presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee, led to a dossier of allegations against Trump and some of his advisers — allegations that the president has denied.
Within the FBI, some of Steele's work was eventually incorporated into a 2016 application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to conduct surveillance on Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser, according to people familiar with the matter. Republican lawmakers have suggested that Steele provided bad information to the FBI, leading to a broader probe of Trump associates.
People familiar with the memo said it does not conclusively say whether Steele intentionally passed suspect information to the FBI or simply made a mistake.
Even before Monday's vote, the memo was straining relations between the White House and the Justice Department, and between the Justice Department and Congress.
The president wants the memo to go public. He has also told close advisers that the document is starting to make people realize that the FBI and the Mueller investigation are biased against him, according to one person familiar with his remarks.
The Justice Department, however, has come out against the memo's release before the agency can review the classified material in it. Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd wrote to Congress last week, warning lawmakers that releasing the memo without giving the Justice Department and the FBI an opportunity to review it "would be extraordinarily reckless,'' because doing so could harm national security and ongoing investigations.
Since that letter was written, Wray was allowed to review the memo, though it has not been reviewed by the FBI's in-house lawyers, according to people familiar with the matter.
The fight over the memo underscores a broader concern among U.S. intelligence agencies that political tussles could cause longtime allies to share fewer intelligence reports. Several U.S. officials said there are growing worries that congressional demands for classified intelligence, followed by efforts to make public some of that information, will lead foreign intelligence partners to restrict what information they share with the United States.
Polls show ‘no one’ cares about the Russia investigation, White House press secretary said. That’s not true.
What does Robert S. Mueller want, and how close is he to getting it?


Question: Provide a description of the species "Adenodictyna kudoae".

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Adenodictyna is a monotypic genus of Asian cribellate araneomorph spiders in the Dictynidae family containing the single species, Adenodictyna kudoae. It was first described by H. Ono in 2008, and has only been found in Japan.


Question: Describe the capabilities of Q. Respond in 4 sentences.

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Q is a computer software package for molecular dynamics (MD) simulation (current release: Q6). Unlike other MD codes, it has specialized since its conception (Marelius et al. 1998) on three specific types of free energy calculations. These calculations are based on the methods: "empirical valence bond" (EVB), "free energy perturbation" (FEP), and "linear interaction energy" (LIE), as well as, more recently, also path integral calculations using the bisection quantum classical path (BQCP) approach.


Question: Respond in 39 words. Who is Obert Bika?

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Obert Bika (born 11 May 1993) is a Papua New Guinean footballer who plays as a midfielder for Lae City Dwellers. He made his debut for the national team on June 17, 2016 in their 2–0 victory over Malaysia.


Question: Explain how Senator Collins' attempt to mitigate the repeal of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate would not be enough to undo the damage.

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Note: An updated analysis of Collins’ latest proposal is available here.
The tax bill passed by the Senate Finance Committee repeals the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate, the requirement that most people have health insurance coverage or pay a penalty. Senator Susan Collins has argued that the harmful effects of repealing the mandate — higher premiums, more individual market instability, and millions more uninsured — could be mitigated if the President and Congress also adopted two additional pieces of legislation: the bipartisan individual market reform package from Senators Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray and the reinsurance bill from Senators Collins and Bill Nelson. But as we’ve explained, the Alexander-Murray bill — while good policy on its own — would come nowhere close to undoing the damage from individual mandate repeal. The same is true of the Collins-Nelson proposal.
The Collins-Nelson bill would provide $2.25 billion in each of 2018 and 2019 in federal funding for state reinsurance programs. (While states could supplement this federal funding, they wouldn’t be required to do so.) Reinsurance programs reimburse insurers for some or all of the costs associated with the highest-cost claims.
While the Collins-Nelson proposal is a sensible standalone measure, it would come nowhere close to undoing the damaging effects of repealing the mandate. Repealing the mandate would reduce federal spending on coverage programs by over $300 billion over the coming decade, which the tax bill uses to pay for permanent corporate tax cuts. Reversing the coverage losses and other harmful consequences of mandate repeal would require dedicating that amount, or significantly more, to that purpose.
More specifically, the Collins-Nelson bill — or any similar federal reinsurance proposal — would not undo the mandate repeal’s effects on premiums, market stability, or coverage.
Premiums. Without the mandate, fewer healthy people would sign up for individual market coverage, which would increase average costs and therefore premiums in the individual market. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that repealing the mandate would permanently raise premiums by 10 percent, and some major insurers have projected larger effects. As Senator Collins has noted, these premium increases would likely erase — or more than erase — the Senate bill’s tax cuts for millions of people who buy coverage in the individual market.
Based on prior CBO and other estimates, reversing the premium increases that would result from repealing the mandate would require a permanent federal reinsurance program with a net cost of roughly $5 billion per year. While it would require about $10 billion per year in gross federal funding for reinsurance, reinsurance yields offsetting federal savings from reduced costs for premium tax credits. Because premium tax credits adjust in size based on premiums, lowering premiums through reinsurance lowers federal tax credit costs. The Collins-Nelson legislation would let states choose to use these additional savings to help finance their reinsurance programs. Nonetheless, the net cost of a reinsurance program that would lower premiums by 10 percent would be about twice the maximum amount the Collins-Nelson bill could provide. And, as discussed below, even that much larger reinsurance program would come nowhere close to offsetting the mandate repeal’s effects on coverage.
Market stability. As the American Academy of Actuaries commented in its recent letter to Senate leaders about repealing the mandate, “increased uncertainty and instability regarding future enrollment, premium rates, and risk pool profiles if coverage incentives are eliminated would increase the risk of insurers incurring losses. Insurers would likely reconsider their future participation in the market. This could lead to severe market disruption and loss of coverage among individual market enrollees” (emphasis added).
An underfunded, temporary reinsurance program that states can decide whether and how to implement will not reverse the uncertainty and confusion about the overall status of the individual market risk pool resulting from mandate repeal. As a result, it will not meaningfully reduce the risk that insurers will leave the market. Even a much larger reinsurance program would leave insurers in doubt about how to price their insurance products for the state of the overall risk pool: what they should assume, for example, about how many people will leave the market, how much healthier this group is than average, and how quickly the full effects of mandate repeal would be felt.
For comparison, a permanent federal reinsurance program about the size of the temporary Collins-Nelson proposal would increase coverage by fewer than 1 million people, RAND estimates suggest. Even a larger reinsurance program would have far more limited reach in affecting insurance coverage than the individual mandate. The mandate affects enrollment in coverage among people eligible for subsidized and unsubsidized individual market coverage, Medicaid, and employer coverage. By contrast, reinsurance lowers premiums and expands coverage only for unsubsidized individual market consumers.
Pairing mandate repeal with the Collins-Nelson bill, or a similar approach, thus would not change the fact that repealing the mandate would drive up uninsured rates. That would weaken access to care, health, and financial security for millions of people. It would also substantially raise uncompensated care costs, which would ultimately be borne by providers, other health care consumers, and taxpayers.


Question: Explain the history of the Huntington Johnnies minor league baseball team.

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The Huntington Johnnies were a minor league baseball, based in Huntington, Indiana, as a member of the Northern State of Indiana League from 1909-1911. Prior to being named the Johnnies, the team played as the Huntington Miamis in the short-lived Indiana-Ohio League in 1908. The team changed its name for a final time, in 1911, to the Huntington Indians before folding.


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The new Lush Easter 2016 collection has been announced and will be available in stores and online from the 29th February 2016 (although there are some available already at their Oxford Street store I believe).
The Lush Easter 2016 collection includes a range of old easter favourites, revamped or reinvented designs as well as some lovely new products. Some of the products are only available to purchase individually in the Lush Oxford Street store however if you are desperate to get your hand on them some are mixed in with the gift set options. I am happy to see that my favourite of all the Lush bath products, Golden Egg Bath Bomb Bath Melt, has made a return this year.
Are you excited about any of the new Lush Easter 2016 range?
Do you miss any past Lush Easter products?
Remember to read my breakdown of all the Lush Mothers Day 2016 items which are currently stocked in Lush at the moment and make fantastic Mothering Sunday gifts here.


Question: Describe the impact of the shale-oil boom in Midland, Texas.

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 Describe the impact of the shale-oil boom in Midland, Texas.

Jerry Morales, the mayor of Midland, Texas, and a local restaurateur, is being whipsawed by the latest Permian Basin shale-oil boom.
It's fueling the region and starving it at the same time. Sales-tax revenue is hitting a record high, allowing the city to get around to fixing busted roads. But the crazy-low 2.1 percent unemployment rate is a bear. As the proprietor of Mulberry Cafe and Gerardo's Casita, Morales is working hard to retain cooks. As a Republican first elected in 2014, he oversees a government payroll 200 employees short of what it needs to fully function.
"This economy is on fire," he said from a back table at the cafe the other day, watching as the lunchtime crowd lined up for the Asian Zing Salad and Big Mo's Toaster hamburger.
Fire, of course, can be dangerous. In the country's busiest oil patch, where the rig count has climbed by nearly one third in the past year, drillers, service providers and trucking companies have been poaching in all corners, recruiting everyone from police officers to grocery clerks.
So many bus drivers with the Ector County Independent School District in nearby Odessa quit for the shale fields that kids were sometimes late to class. The George W. Bush Childhood Home, a museum in Midland dedicated to the 43rd U.S. president, is smarting from a volunteer shortage.
The oil industry has such a ferocious appetite for workers that it'll hire just about anyone with the most basic skills. "It is crazy," said Jazmin Jimenez, 24, who zipped through a two-week training program at New Mexico Junior College in Hobbs, about 100 miles north of Midland, and was hired by Chevron Corp. as a well-pump checker. "Honestly I never thought I'd see myself at an oilfield company. But now that I'm here -- I think this is it."
That's understandable, considering the $28-a-hour she makes is double what she was earning until December as a guard at the Lea County Correctional Facility in Hobbs. When the boom goes bust, as history suggests they all do, shale-extraction businesses won't be able to out-pay most employers anymore. Jimenez said she'll take the money as long as it lasts.
And this one could go on for a while. Companies are more cost-conscious than ever, and the evolution of oilfield technology continues to make finding and producing oil quicker and cheaper in the pancaked layers of rock in the Permian. It now accounts for about 30 percent of all U.S. output.
There's no question the economic upside is big in the basin, which covers more than 75,000 square miles in west Texas and southeastern New Mexico. Midland saw year-over-year increases of at least 34 percent in sales-tax collections in each of the last four months. Morales said coffers are full enough that he may ask for raises for city workers -- so they don't bolt for the oil fields.
The labor shortage is inflamed by the real-estate market: The supply of homes for sale is the lowest on record, according to the Texas A&M Real Estate Center. The $325,440 average price in Midland is the highest since June 2014, the last time the world saw oil above $100 a barrel. Apartment rents in Midland and Odessa are up by more than a third from a year ago, with the average 863-square-foot unit commanding $1,272 a month.
That's one reason the Ector County Independent School District has more than 100 teaching positions open, said spokesman Mike Adkins. People who move for jobs are stunned by the cost of living. Armin Rashvand's apartment is smaller and costs more than the one he rented in Cleveland before moving last August to run the energy-technology program at Odessa College.
"That really surprised me," he said, because Texas's reputation is that it's affordable. "In Texas, yes -- except here."
Another surprise: Some of his students, with two-year associate degrees, can make more than he does, with his master's in science, electrical and electronic engineering. At Midland College's oil and gas program, which trains for positions like petroleum-energy technician, enrollment is down about 20 percent from last year. But schools that teach how to pass the test for a CDL -- commercial drivers license -- are packed.
"A CDL is a golden ticket around here," said Steve Sauceda, who runs the workforce training program at New Mexico Junior College. "You are employable just about anywhere."
And you can make a whole lot more money than waiting tables at Gerardo's Casita. Jeremiah Fleming, 30, is on track to pull down $140,000 driving flatbed trucks for Aveda Transportation & Energy Services Inc., hauling rigs.
"This will be my best year yet," said Fleming, who used to work in the once-bustling shale play in North Dakota. "I wouldn't want to go anywhere else."
Morales, a native Midlander and second-generation restaurateur, has seen it happen so many times before. Oil prices go up, and energy companies dangle such incredible salaries that restaurants, grocery stores, hotels and other businesses can't compete. People complain about poor service and long lines at McDonald's and the Walmart and their favorite Tex-Mex joints. Rents soar.
"This is my home town. I don't want that reputation," he said. He's not yet quite sure what to do about it as mayor of a city that has been on the oil-industry rollercoaster for nearly 100 years.
He has, though, come up with strategies for his restaurants. For example, he now issues paychecks weekly, instead of twice monthly, and offers more opportunities for over-time hours. He also makes common-sense bids to employees tempted by the Permian's siren call.
His pitch: "If you'll stay with me, I can give you three quarters of what the oil will give you but you don't have to get dirty or worry about getting hurt." And just maybe, when crude crashes, they'll still be employed.


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 Have you seen the latest domino run paying homage to Sonic the Hedgehog?

Though not quite at the speed of sound, this domino run by YouTuber TheDominoKing blasts through over 56,000 individually placed slats in a tribute to the franchise that launched a thousand furry fetishes (and like, remember Sonic Rush on the DS? That one was pretty fun).
Suspiciously missing from the festivities are fan-favorite characters Silver the Hedgehog, Big the Cat, and Charmy the Bee, but it's still a really impressive effort considering the builder admitted on his channel that he's "not a fan of the Sonic games, actually I've never enjoyed playing one".


Question: Have you ever seen Godzilla? Respond in 8 sentences.

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Godzilla (a.k.a. Gojira) is the roaring granddaddy of all monster movies. It’s also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama, made in Japan at a time when the country was reeling from nuclear attack and H-bomb testing in the Pacific. Its rampaging radioactive beast, the poignant embodiment of an entire population’s fears, became a beloved international icon of destruction, spawning almost thirty sequels. A thrilling, tactile spectacle that continues to be a cult phenomenon, the original, 1954 Japanese version is presented here, along with Godzilla, King of the Monsters, the 1956 "Americanized" version.
"GODZILLA" (a.k.a. "GOJIRA") (c) 1954 Toho Co., Ltd. "GODZILLA, KING OF THE MONSTERS" (c) 1956 Toho Co., Ltd. Godzilla, Gojira, the character designs and King of the Monsters are trademarks of Toho Co., Ltd. All rights reserved.
A lifelong movie collector remembers the thrill of discovering the granddaddy of all monsters on Super 8.


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Hello again everyone! Christopher Scott, Premier Field Engineer here. Recently I have started publishing some of my PowerBi report templates and received some positive feedback, so I decided to keep them going. This next template was designed to provide data insights into a filtered System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) collection. Below is a detailed summary of each page as well as some important configurations and the download links for the template and PowerBI desktop.
These reports are scoped by collection so that they can be generated for individual organizations\collection owners that fall under a larger entity.
you will be prompted for the “SCCM_SQL_Instance”, “SCCM_DB”, “CollectionID” and “AV_Software”. Fill these fields with the appropriate SQL Information, SCCM Collection ID and Antivirus Software information for your environment and click ok.
Replace the “SCCM_SQL_Instance”, “SCCM_DB”, “CollectionID” and “AV_Software” fields with the appropriate SQL Information, SCCM Collection ID and Antivirus Software information for your environment and click ok. Click ok to continue and Run to allow the Native queries to run and import the data.
Page 1 is an Overview page for client imaging dates. The bar graph and corresponding table give a visual timeline of when clients were imaged over a period of time. The Date slider on the top left can be used to filter that period to a specific range. On the bottom right, I’ve added a last refresh timestamp to ensure the data is an accurate reflection of the environment.
This report page is generally used to determine when clients should be refreshed.
Page 2 shows the Update Compliance for the collection specified against each Software Update Group assigned to it. On this page starting from the top left I provide a count of systems in the collection and the number of devices reporting as non-compliant (In terms of Update Compliance only), Those numbers are broken down to provide a percentage calculation for quick insight. Also on the left hand side is a table of clients and the Antivurus versions (or Definition versions) installed on each client. Lastly on the left hand side is the number of machines reporting to SCCM as Unknown. These are machines that little or no inventory and usually have been powered off or disconnected for extended periods, but not limited to those situations.
Inside the Box 1 (The Top outlined box pane) I break down the overall Deployment status with a summarized compliancy table and pie chart. Box 2 (The bottom outlined box pane) provides detailed deployment status first summarzied in the pie chart and then broken out in the graph by individual deployment.
This has been a favorite for my customers as it provides a high level insight into the compliance of the desired collection.
I hope this report gives you the necessary data points to empower your organization. Please feel free to comment below with any feedback or ideas that you would like to see templated or improved.


Question: Respond in 2 sentences. What is Alloplectus?

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Alloplectus is a genus of Neotropical plants in the flowering plant family Gesneriaceae. A recent revision of the genus includes five species, with the majority of species in the genus as traditionally circumscribed being transferred to "Crantzia", "Glossoloma", and "Drymonia".


Question: Explain what the consequences of economic elites having an independent impact on US government policy might be.

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April 11, 2015 "ICH" - Most Americans have no idea any of these events are occurring or have only vague, US government/press-created notions of them, but many who are cognizant – principally the abandoned people themselves – express confusion. Why would eight countries, including Russia, China, and India, carry out risky missions to save their own citizens, as well as foreign nationals, stuck in Yemen, but the US would staunchly refuse to do so? All we ever hear from the US government and press is that the US is so incredibly good and altruistic. So, how could this be happening?
“…economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.
Those who effect US policy have, in pursuit of their commercial and power interests, killed millions of people in the Middle East just during the last thirty years. They continue today by (in addition to many other illegal campaigns) helping the vicious Saudi dictatorship conquer Yemen through a war of aggression and terrorism.
That the interests of most American citizens – non-elites – would have little to no impact on any of this is not only unsurprising and not confusing, but is explicitly demonstrated through meticulous study.
As many great scholars of the topic have noted, it is up to anyone who dislikes this dynamic to change it.


Question: Describe the features and use cases of the Serene tool.

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I use a number of mountaineering references here on Summit Route, much to everyone's confusion. Mountaineering, like information security, involves risk management and the application of best practices to reduce the inherent risks.
Rock climbing is one aspect of mountaineering, and it requires you to secure your ropes to an anchor (ex. a tree, crack, or rock feature). The acronym SERENE is used as a checklist to review your anchor. The anchor needs to be Solid, Equalized, Redundant, Efficient, and No Extension (SERENE). This doesn't check the quality of the rope, your harness, the weather, your current physical state, or many other things that will affect your safety, but it's a simple series of checks for one thing that ensures you're applying best practices.
DEP/NX: Denies execution on the stack.
ASLR/PIE: Loads the binary into a random place in memory.
CFG (Windows only): Restricts what execution paths can be taken.
x64: Allows a 64-bit memory space to be used for ASLR/PIE.
I do not collect copies of files, but I still advise that you should not drag and drop sensitive files to sites no matter what their stated policies are.
My primary use case for making Serene is when I evaluate products at the company I work at. I want to get an idea of the software development practices, so this tool gives me some quick insight into that.
As you can see it follows all the best practices that Serene checks for. This also shows how Serene tells you that DEP is not applicable (N/A) to these files because all 64-bit processes have DEP applied by default. Furthermore, Windows Defender includes a number of MUI files which do not include code and therefore don't play into the security of the applications, so they are ignored.
Google Chrome on macOS can be analyzed by dragging and dropping the Google Chrome icon in the Applications directory, which ends up being a .app file containing the executables.
As you can see this time I show NX and PIE which are the equivalents of DEP and ASLR on Windows, and don't show CFG, which has no relevance to macOS. Only some install files are missing PIE and 32-bit, so it's not too worrying.
Windows executables are PE files and can be checked using the Visual Studio tool dumpbin. Run dumpbin /headers yourfile.exe First look at FILE HEADER VALUES for the machine to determine if it is 64-bit or 32-bit. Next, look in the OPTIONAL HEADER VALUES for the Dll Characteristics section for the phrases Dynamic base (ASLR), NX compatible (DEP), and Guard (CFG).
To manually check macOS mach-o files, use the XCode tool otool. Run otool -hv yourfile. First look at the cputype to see if it is X86_64 to determine if it is 64-bit. Next check the flags to see if it contains PIE. Determining if it has NX is identified by the lack of MH_ALLOW_STACK_EXECUTION (probably called something else, as I just check for that bit in the binary and don't know what the tool calls it).
On macOS, I don't currently handle mach-o files containing multiple architectures, which is an admittedly large limitation. I also do not yet support ELF files, which I hope to one day handle.
It only works with x86 and x86-64 executables, not ARM.
Anything compiled with Golang will not have ASLR/PIE. This is a decision by the language creators as Golang is a secure language, but if the process imports a C library, it exposes itself to possible issues. As such, I didn't want to skip Golang binaries.
On Windows, an executable can enable DEP without it being compiled into the binary.
If you don't have permissions to read a file, Serene may lock up and you'll need to refresh the page.
Finally, there are all sorts of ways an application can be insecure or more secure than Serene shows. This is only identifying one set of features.
This is really just some improvements to a project of mine from 2012 called SlopFinder.


Question: What can you tell me about Power Rangers HyperForce? Respond in 17 sentences.

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Saban Brands' Power Rangers HyperForce marks the first licensed property to live-stream a tabletop role-playing game with the social video company.
Saban Brands is launching Power Rangers HyperForce, an interactive tabletop role-playing game (RPG) with Amazon’s game broadcasting and social video company Twitch. Power Rangers HyperForce will stream live on Hyper RPG, a leading channel on Twitch.
The launch arrives in anticipation of Power Rangers’ 25th anniversary in 2018 and marks the first licensed property to live-stream a tabletop RPG with Twitch.
Power Rangers HyperForce will premiere on October 24 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. PT and will be available live on www.twitch.tv/hyperrpg. Airing weekly, each of the series’ 25 episodes will feature three hours of tabletop role playing and real-time interaction with viewers.
Developed by Saban Brands and Hyper RPG, Power Rangers HyperForce is set in the year 3016 and follows a team of Time Force Ranger cadets as they band together to defeat an ancient evil. Through a Twitch extension developed by Hyper RPG, viewers will be able to connect their user ID to a Ranger. Users can then send that Ranger on missions, boss battles and raids, as well as trade items with other players. As viewers level up their Ranger through missions, avatars will unlock energy that can be gifted to the RPG players in real-time, helping them as they battle the bad guys.
The RPG game cast includes fan favorites like Peter Sudarso (the Blue Ranger in Power Rangers Ninja Steel) and Paulie Schrier (Bulk in Power Rangers), as well as special guests like Erin Cahill (the Pink Ranger in Power Rangers Time Force).
Twitch launched in 2011 and has since grown to host 15 million daily active users as well as two million unique creators broadcasting each month. In addition to streaming live RPG series, Twitch hosts wildly popular eSports events where top professional gamers compete on platforms including Sony Playstation, Microsoft Xbox and PCs.
In anticipation of this year’s feature film Power Rangers, Twitch ran a 17-day long Power Rangers marathon on its Twitch Presents channel, streaming all 23 seasons and 831 episodes of the television series. The campaign garnered nearly 13 million total channel views and more than seven million chat messages.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers first launched in 1993 and is currently in its 24th season with Power Rangers Ninja Steel. The show airs in 150 territories worldwide.


Question: Describe the incident at Lyon airport involving a car on the tarmac?

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The driver eventually abandoned his car on the airport tarmac and tried to flee on foot but was surrounded by officers.
French police have arrested a man after he rammed his car through the glass doors of a terminal and onto the tarmac at Lyon airport.
The airport was forced to temporarily close its runway as police tried to stop him.
Officers said the car had come onto the runway during a high-speed pursuit by police cars and a helicopter as it drove in the wrong direction along a nearby motorway.
The driver eventually abandoned his car on the airport tarmac and tried to flee on foot but was surrounded by officers and arrested.
All flights in and out of Lyon Saint-Exupery airport were temporarily suspended.
A police source said the man's motives were not yet known.


Question: What is swing in music? Respond in 107 words.

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In music, the term swing has two main uses. Colloquially, it is used to describe the quality or impression or effect ("feel") of a changing pattern in a propulsive rhythm created by the musical interaction between the performers, especially when the music prompts a visceral response such as foot-tapping or head-nodding (see pulse), which sense is called "groove". The term, and swung note(s) and swung rhythm, is also used more specifically, to refer to a technique (most commonly associated with jazz but also used in other genres) that involves alternately lengthening and shortening the first and second consecutive notes in the two part pulse-divisions in a beat.


Question: Have you heard about Radiohead's upcoming Toronto shows?

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On July 19 and 20, Radiohead are playing their first shows in Toronto since the 2012 stage collapse that killed the band’s drum tech Scott Johnson prior to their scheduled performance at Downsview Park.
On Wednesday night, Radiohead drummer Philip Selway appeared on BBC Newsnight to talk about the incident. “It’s very frustrating. The court case broke down on a technicality,” Selway said, referring to how the court case against Live Nation and other parties allegedly responsible for the incident came to a standstill last fall. “So there have been no real answers. Without the answers we can’t ensure that an accident like this can’t happen again.” Watch a clip of the interview below and watch the whole episode here.
Last September, after it was announced that the court would stay the charges against Live Nation and other implicated parties, the band shared a statement in disbelief. They wrote that the decision “is an insult to the memory of Scott Johnson, his parents and our crew.” To learn more about the case, read “Waiting on Justice for the Radiohead Stage Collapse That Killed Scott Johnson” on the Pitch.
Radiohead are currently on their North American tour.
This article was originally published on July 18 at 11:07 p.m. Eastern. It was last updated on July 19 at 6:38 p.m. Eastern.


Question: Respond in 27 sentences. Describe the Walls of Ston in Croatia.

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Ask any one to name a great wall and the chances are that the word China will appear somewhere in their answer. However, a small under visited town in Croatia has a well kept secret – a wall hundreds of years old which is the longest complete fortress system around a town in Europe –and the second in the world. Yet very few seem to have heard of the Walls of Ston.
Ston is one of the most under visited places in Europe considering its historic legacy. It is a little isolated, on the Peljesac Peninsula which is situated 60 km away from the nearest large city, Dubrovnik which itself has a population of under fifty thousand.
Yet Ston and its neighboring village of Mali Ston have a secret which is visible to all. Connecting the two is a simply amazing wall, more than five kilometers in length. The walls circle the village of Ston and then climb up the hill to reach the Pozvizd Fortress. They then follow a narrow strip of land (an isthmus) to meet with the walls of the village of Mali Stan.
When they were built, starting in the fifteenth century, they were heavily fortified – there are thirty rectangular towers and ten round ones dotted along the five kilometre stretch. What was it that they were built to protect? Apart from serving as a first line of defense for the fairly distant city of Dubrovnik they were constructed to protect a precious commodity – salt.
Although they have not been used militarily for centuries they are still a sight to behold. In the middle ages the area became a center for salt mining which continues to this day. Before falling in to disrepair the walls that surrounded to town were to protect the then Dubrovnik Republic – a city state of the Venetian mode. The walls form an irregular pentagon and took around two centuries to buid.
As well as drawing on the talents of local master builders such as Zupan Bunic (1455) and Paskoje Milicevic 1488-1506 the walls were partly built by an Italian, Bernardin in 1461 and a Frenchman, known as Olivier between 1472 and 1478.
There is a port in Mali Ston and this was in full working order at the end of the fifteenth century and this also has fortifications dating from the same period as the wall, with a gate, a tower and several arsenals. Ston had to undergo many years of renovation and they reopened to the public in 2009. Its sheer size means that this has been the largest and most expensive historical renovation since the Croatian War of Independence (called Domovinski rat or the Homeland War) which lasted four years, ending in 1995.
Although original restoration had been started in 1960 by Lukša Beritic, a conservationist based in Dubrovnik it was not until 2003 that the final push to fully restore the walls began.
Yet it was not the war which caused the work to take so long. The main reason is that the renovations were carried out in as similar way as possible to the manner in which the walls were originally built. The stone was sculpted piece by piece in the manner the medieval masters would have recognised.
The walls of Ston may be the main reason to visit this beautiful part of Croatia but here is a big however. If you an oyster fan you should not leave before you have tried the Ston oysters. Although partisan, the locals insist that their locally cultivated oysters are the best in the world.