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Linear predictive coding (LPC) is a method used mostly in audio signal processing and speech processing for representing the spectral envelope of a digital signal of speech in compressed form, using the information of a linear predictive model. It is one of the most powerful speech analysis techniques, and one of the most useful methods for encoding good quality speech at a low bit rate and provides highly accurate estimates of speech parameters. LPC is the most widely used method in speech coding and speech synthesis.


Question: "Queen Nehellenia: I am an angry and jealous and miserable person! I captured all your friends so you’ll be lonely like me. Queen Nehellenia: Come on, hate me. Queen Nehellenia: Why are you crying?! Stop feeling sorry for me!"

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Queen Nehellenia: I am an angry and jealous and miserable person! I captured all your friends so you’ll be lonely like me.
Queen Nehellenia: Come on, hate me.
Queen Nehellenia: Why are you crying?! Stop feeling sorry for me!
Usagi: I’m not! I have cuts all over my body and it hurts!
I was hoping you’d make fun of the way Nehellenia’s character and backstory were changed between seasons.
I was just watching that episode yesterday.
Oh well. At least she’s reborn as a baby.
Manga Usagi was cruel especially when SHE WAS ACTUALLY GOING TO DO THE RIGHT THING BY KILLING GALAXIA AND MAKING SURE THE REST OF THE SENSHI DON’T DIE IN THE FUTURE ANS SHE WOULDN’T HAVE TO DIGHT ALONE AGAIN AS SAILOR COSMOS YET SHE STILL DIDN’T!!!! In the anime it was lest risky, and I like that.
id bet usagi can take it better than me, it will take an hour or two JUST to decide to go through the thorns or not if I’d decided to go through the thorns id die in the first few thorns!:-D keep up the great work chibi jen!!!!
Yeah, that was bound to happen… for crying out loud, STOP CRYING, USAGI-CHAN OR I’LL GODDAMN KILL YO-ahem!!
hahaah this is so funny!!!
I knew she wasn’t really a merry sue! SHE’S A FRAUD!
I hear about the Sailor Moon reboot, but it got pushed to 2014. I am re-watching the english dub, which is what I grew up on, and then I’ll probably try and watch the original japanese version. I know that some episodes and quite a few scenes were cut and there are some other differences. And I want to read the manga as well. Now for the manga that is new, is it just the original story, just with more accurate translations and the original names and some bonus art conent?
One thing is that I really loved the way the version of Sailor Moon I grew up on was drawn. So I hope the art in the new one isn’t too different.
Darn! Well, I hope it’s early 2014 like January or Feburary and that they take this time to fine tune the new Anime and make it shine.
Yay! first strip of the new year! your comics are hilarious, i need to send your link to my friends.
Thanks for the comment NinaBisk :D I’m happy you enjoyed it!
Someone get the girl some Neosporin!
Like! HAHAHA! Seriously, that path of rose thorns was EPIC!
Can I make a suggestion? Did you know that the Italian dub of Stars had the male Starlights “call on their twin sisters” for battle? So…what were the males doing during battle time o.o?
What about something with the inconsistent English Dub attack names?
I LOVE YOUR MOONSTICKS COMICS!!!!! THEY ARE SOOOOOI FUNNY!!! I LOVE THEM!!!!
That would be Usagi: crying because she is so empathetic or because she’s beaten up. I don’t blame her for either accounts. Also, love the “Come on, hate me” line.
LOL! I can not help but laugh at this.
That’s what I thought too, when I watched the episode! Didn’t realize till that moment, that Usagi was such a badass. I would’ve been crying like a baby from all the cuts.
Neherenia: Now you hate me?
oh do a comic of where Pluto comes back and Uranus and Neptune arelike Pluto ur alive and Pluto all what are you talking about ofcourse im alive you guys saw me last time in the super s movie and baby hotaru’s thought bubble speaking of which how come I didn’t appear in that?
This is so funny! even though the actual scene makes me want to cry!
awesoome!!! <3 I can see Usagai doing that!!!
awww..Selena!! Why are you always so adorable XDD?
Bahaha, this is hilarious. I was so excited when I saw your update.
hahaha. Honestly every time I watch this episode, I always wondered how she was not paying just the tiniest bit of attention to the fact that her body was covered in thorn lacerations.
Those suckers itch like crazy!
ahaha XD Yeah.. I think Usagi is a lot stronger than she let’s on.. those thorns looked so painful!


Question: What is going on with poker machine earphones in Victoria? Respond in 25 sentences.

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BRENDAN TREMBATH: Victoria has banned what it calls 'dangerous' gambling technology. The State Government says poker machines with plug in headphones undermine responsible gambling.
An anti-pokies lobby group says other states should follow Victoria's example. But, as Simon Lauder reports, the industry says the state's ban is discriminatory.
SIMON LAUDER: The noise of a poker machine venue is unmistakeable, but now poker machine manufacturers want gamblers to have the option of focussing their ears solely on the machine in front of them.
Victoria's Gaming Minister Michael O'Brien has announced that an interim 12 month ban on poker machine earphones has just been extended. He says it's irresponsible technology which is likely to cause more harm to people who can't control their gambling.
MICHAEL O'BRIEN: We didn't want to see those practices in Victoria and having reviewed the situation, we've issued a 10 year ban on these so-called audio isolation technology devices.
MICHAEL O'BRIEN: We understand there are about 30 I think venues that may have used them. Certainly it was being advertised and promoted into the Victorian market by the manufacturer of this technology, so we certainly saw a real risk this would cross the Murray and come down to Victoria.
And the idea of somebody walking into a gaming venue, and the sounds of silence apart from a number of people sitting at their gaming machines literally plugged into them is just something that we just find was fairly abhorrent and something that we couldn't support as being a responsible gambling practice.
SIMON LAUDER: The Chair of the Interchurch Gambling Taskforce, Dr Mark Zirnsak, says the ban is fantastic news and should be replicated Australia-wide.
SIMON LAUDER: The group representing the poker machine industry has labelled the ban inappropriate and discriminatory. In a submission arguing against the ban, it said there's no evidence that players would experience any harm from using earphones.
Victoria's Gaming Minister Michael O'Brien rejects that.
MICHAEL O'BRIEN: This one just doesn't pass the commonsense test. If gaming manufacturers want to promote a technology which isolates their customers, plugs them into machines, shuts them out from the outside world, and reduces their ability to control their own gambling, then to my mind, that is a very irresponsible position for the industry to take.
SIMON LAUDER: Do you think other states will follow suit and ban earphones for poker machines?
MICHAEL O'BRIEN: Well look I'm not here to lecture other states, but certainly from a Victorian point of view, it's the sort of thing which we just would not accept and I would have thought that other states would have grave concerns.
As I said if you walked into a gaming facility and you saw banks and banks of gaming machines with people plugged into them, silent except for the noise coming out of the headphones, any sort of argument that gaming is a social recreational pursuit is really undermined by the idea that people should be individually plugged into their own machine.
BRENDAN TREMBATH: Victoria's Gaming minister Michael O'Brien, speaking to Simon Lauder.
* EDITOR'S NOTE (3 December 2012): Subsequent to this story being broadcast, the NSW Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority (ILGA) advised that it banned the use of gaming machine headphones in NSW in November 2011.
The authority says gaming machine headphones were placed on the NSW Gaming Machine Prohibited Features Register, which details prohibited features on gaming machines for the information of gaming machine manufacturers.
The Authority says it took the view that any gaming machine in NSW that had the capability to operate with headphones must have the feature disabled as the Authority considered players to be at risk when they immerse themselves in gaming with the use of headphones.
The story transcript has been amended and noted to reflect this.


Question: Respond in 39 words. What is a zome?

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The term zome is used in several related senses. A zome in the original sense is a building using unusual geometries (different from the standard house or other building which is essentially one or a series of rectangular boxes).


Question: "Hey Brian, it's been a while since your last post. What were some of you hobbies in 2016?"

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Continuing my review of 2016 in my corner of the wargaming world.
I got a present from overseas – an autographed copy of the first new module for Space Opera to come out in a few decades – another great Star Sector Atlas (The Galactic People’s Republic). If you have not seen it I did a review.
The first miniatures of the month were a regiment of Perry plastic cuirassiers. I painted these as Spanish Coraceros. This unit had maybe a troop uniformed in captured French cuirasses and helmets. I did a whole unit. I also did a unit of Front Rank Catalonian Light Infantry. These guys came out particularly well despite the lace driving me somewhat batty.
Then, as is my want, I went off on a hobby tangent. I unpacked a box full of old GW orcs – some that I had started painting with my son over ten years ago and a whole bunch of second hand ones I had brought at the time. This consumed my hobby time for the next few months for the most part. I decided to base and use them for Kings of War. The first unit was some Boar Boyz that I had pretty much done back in the early to mid-2000s.
AUGUST or perhaps ORCGUST would be more appropriate.
Everything this month was Orcy. An Orc general on a boar, lots and lots of GW Orcs based into Regiment bases. I really wanted to show that Black Orcs Matter – even old ones.
Ancillary units were not neglected. I did a Regiment of Trolls, two Hordes of Orclings and a Regiment of Orc Chariots.
Finished off the month with another unit of Savage Orc Boar/Gore riders and used a spare Grimgor and a chariot to make a Krudger mounted in Chariot.
More Orcs. I got some heroes finished (a flagger, a krudger and a godspeaker) and finally painted my Frothers Unite-UK! miniature of Big Dave the Orc. The Orcs were rounded off with a final Regiment of Orc Boyz (or Ax Regiment in KoW) and I also converted a Papo toy orc into an Orc Giant – Big Fecking Dave.
September was also saw the arrival of a few future additions to our freezer.
This was a quiet month hobby-wise. I didn’t do any miniatures but did do some other bits and pieces. I made a bunch of buildings in the style of the Conflix buildings so popular with gamers around the world. I also made a half-hearted start on turning my GW Bretonnians into a Kings of War army – exactly what one I am not totally sure yet. Check out the Bretonnian Standard Bearer and a unit of mounted Yoemen.
One of my other passions is food. I have been trying out some new recipes this year. Here are two of my favourites. Pork a la Normand and Walnut and Blue Cheese Ravioli.
Finished of the month with another starship deck plan. This was one inspired by the great Scifi TV show The Expanse. I did a freighter suitable for a PC group.
This was the month that we got All Shook Up. New Zealand lived up to it’s reputation for the odd little earth tremor. On November 13th just after midnight we got hit by a 7.5 and a bunch of big aftershocks. A lot of damage but only a few casualties directly related to the quake. We came away with a few things fallen off shelves and about three days later discovered we had a broken water pipe. Being a resourceful country lad I fixed it myself.
I only got one “unit” finished this month. Painted up some Elite Miniatures Spanish as a battalion of Spanish Marine Infantry. Something a little different.
Added two more Spanish units for my Spanish Peninsular Army. A unit of Spanish Light infantry in blue coats and bicornes and also a battalion of Spanish Militia.
Any my lucky last unit of the year was a unit that I am not sure was ever constituted much beyond the planning stages – The Regiment Elisa Napoleon. I made it from Perry plastic French line and Carabineer heads left over from my “Spanish” Cuirassiers (and some from TMPer Virtualscratchbuilder).
This past year I also did a number of product reviews and hopefully will be able to do more in 2017.
Well, that was the hobby year (and a few other things) for me. All in all it was not too bad. What is in store this coming year – well, more Napoleonics of course. I have stacks of metal still sitting there waiting.
War of 1812 Americans and British also need completing. Not to mention the Kings of War Orcs, the toy ship conversions for Pirates and the old Traveller figures. Kings of War Brets and even a horde of Japanese that I think would make a good KoW Kingdom of Men army are on the cards. Of course, all this will probably be out the window and I will start doing ACW or something.
Well, it would be difficult to argue against 2016 being a successful year on the basis of these two posts Brian. Lots of variety in there, with the same for 2017 by the look of it. I’ll be looking forward to the 1812 project in particular.
Wish you all the best for 2017.


Question: Describe your thoughts on James Deane joining the FD series.

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I can’t put into words just how pumped I am for James Deane to be coming to FD with a proper set up, I know a lot of Guys like to say things like “they won’t make it past top 16” or that they will be “bracket fillers” but I feel James will have a massive impact on the series, can’t wait.
James for sure has the skill to do a good. Hope he doesn’t get the typical welcome to FD judging BS. Lays down solid run for qualifying and gets a 63 same run by FD veteran 89. Most FD should be aware of his tandem skills so we should see some upsets with the real battles start.


Question: Respond in 2 sentences. Please describe Penarth Marina.

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Penarth Marina is both a marina for boats, located in the old Penarth Docks, Wales and also the name generally used to describe the surrounding area of modern housing. The marina is adjacent to the waters of the River Ely and Cardiff Bay, close to the Cardiff Bay Barrage.


Question: Describe the current state of the gaming industry and the impact of blockchain technology on it.

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In 2017, the gaming world is expected to generate close to $110 billion in revenue worldwide with 2.3 billion people playing games every day on different platforms and devices. Mobile gaming is the most lucrative platform creating $42.1 billion, or 42 percent, of the global market, according to Newzoo’s latest Global Games Market Report. But despite the industry’s profitability, only around 4,000 pro gamers are making profits out of their time spent in games and pursued skills.
Modern gaming has reached a point where it is about more than just play. Online video games, virtual reality and esports are creating an ecosystem where players can personalise how they interact with games. By giving players the tools to customise their experiences it keeps them playing and spending for longer.
Yet, according to Dmarket.io – the first decentralised marketplace where players can trade their in-game items globally – only six percent of gamers, or 140 million, are turning over $3 billion trading in-game items. The biggest players in the global in-game items trading market include Steam, Opskins and skins.cash. Dmarket questions why the remaining 94 percent, or 2.16 billion, aren’t involved in global trading at all.
Speaking at the Blockchain Live conference in London, Volodymyr Panchenko, founder and CEO of Dmarket and founder of skins.cash, said that every minute a gamer spends in the game they receive virtual goods such as a pile of crystals, a fancy car or even a washing machine.
It was this market void that inspired the creation of Dmarket to offer a scalable, cross-platform solution that enables gamers to trade any virtual item from any game. The end result didn’t come easy, and was nearly impossible to do, explains Panchenko. The first step involved synchronising all the databases simultaneously with the games, developers, and publishers. Secondly, when the virtual item has been turned into a real commodity who verifies that that particular item belongs to a person?
“Obviously, that’s where the magic of the blockchain comes,” says Panchenko.
Through Dmarket, Panchenko explains that players will be able to trade any virtual item on any game through any platform. Via the blockchain API, the marketplace will connect game developers, giving gamers the opportunity to enter the global economy with their virtual items.
Yet, it’s not just the gaming world that this platform could impact, but also the lives of non-gamers.
According to Panchenko in five years time when searching for an item online to purchase, the results won’t just bring back the names of shops it’s sold at, but also from virtual games.
Additionally, a trader will be able to see how many items were produced and how rare it is. For Panchenko, the blockchain will not just change the gaming world but will impact other sectors too.
Dmarket’s alpha version is expected to launch in October. The second and main phase of their token sale starts on 3 November through to the 17 November with the hard cap set at 100,000,000 Dmarket tokens. During the four-day August token sale, Dmarket raised $10.9 million.


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Have you noticed how some android applications move the content inward when you open the navigation drawer? Isn’t that a cool effect! In this tutorial I am going to show you exactly how you can achieve the same. Below is the effect that we are going to create in this tutorial.
You must know the basics of DrawerLayout, having said that, below is the layout file that we will pay with.
android:text="You are in the drawer"
By default the effect when navigation drawer is opened/closed looks like this.
(I have kept the drawer size small, 200dp, you can set the size equal to whatever you want).
Everything we do from here on is going to be in our JAVA file. So lets get a reference to our views.
Do you notice, when we open the drawer, the screen on the right side goes dark, this is called scrim, we don’t want this, so lets remove it. In your java file add the following line.
By doing this we have removed the scrim colour. If you want to keep the scrim colour or change it to something else, its totally on you.
Now we will move the content towards the positive x-axis whenever the drawer starts moving out. For that we will use the onDrawerSlide function provided by ActionBarDrawerToggle . Create an instance of ActionBarDrawerToggle , and override the onDrawerSlide function.
onDrawerSlide : When ever you start opening the drawer this function is called with arguments drawerView and slideOffset . drawerView is the content of the drawer you defined in the xml file( android:id="@+id/drawer ). slideOffset is a float value that changes when you open or close the drawer, it goes from 0 to 1 as you open the drawer and from 1 to 0 as you close it. So a value equal to 0 means the drawer is completely closed, value equal to 1 means the drawer is completely opened and value equal to 0.5 means drawer is in mid way of opening/closing.
So to slide the content towards right when drawer opens and vice versa, just add the following two lines of code in the onDrawerSlide function.
Also attach the actionBarDrawerToggle to the drawer by passing it in addDrawerListener() .
By doing this we get the following effect, finally the content moved!
The logic used is simple, as the drawer opens, we move the content using setTranslationX() function along the x-axis. We calculate the value that we have to move by multiplying the width of the drawer with the slideOffset .
The final step is scale the content to get the desired effect. As the drawer opens we will scale down the content along x-axis and y-axis, and scale back up as the drawer closes. We know that the value of slideOffset goes from 0 to 1 as we open the drawer, we need to scale the content downwards as we open the drawer, so will subtract the value of slideOffset from 1.
Add the following lines to scale the content.
This is how its looks after scaling the content.
Whops!! Our content is completely disappearing when we open the drawer, although this effect is cool, it is not what we are looking for. The reason why this is happening is because our value of 1 - slideOffset goes from 1 to directly 0. We want it to start from 1 but not go to 0. The solution is to divide the slideOffset by a value which decreases it, so the final value inside the scale functions doesn’t evaluate to 0.
We will divide slideOffset by 6 (I found this optimal value by hit and trial). Update the code as follows.
By doing this we have achieved our desired effect. Yippee!
Play around with the value of scaleFactor , use different values for both X and Y scaling/translation to create different effects.
Sometimes the drawer comes with a shadow, which can be removed by adding the following line.
That is it for this tutorial, here are some other articles that you might be interested in.
I was just thinking a few days back how people achieved this scaling and moving content with drawer. Great post Man!
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I have been thinking of how to implement this in android native code since I have been seeing it in ui/ux trends which I also do. You are of great help. Thanks man. Great Post!
Support like this keeps me going 🔥. Much appreciation.
The awesome, perfect tutorial really. It was exactly what I need today. Thank you a lot.
One thing which I need to implement is: it is opening when I slide to the right side. But I want it opens when I clicked to the button on my custom toolbar. How can I achieve this?


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 When is the Galaxy A8 and Galaxy A8+ (2018) being released?

It has only been a few days since Samsung unveiled the Galaxy A8 and Galaxy A8+ (2018). We’ve already confirmed the price tags for these new premium mid-range handsets. Samsung has now revealed when the devices are going to be released.
Pricing and availability will vary by market. Samsung has only confirmed the Galaxy A8 and Galaxy A8+ (2018) release date for Vietnam at this point in time.
We’ve previously reported that the Galaxy A8 is going to cost €499 and the Galaxy A8+ (2018) is going to cost €599. These are the price tags for Europe. The handset is going to be similarly priced in other markets across the globe.
At the launch event for these handsets in Vietnam, Samsung confirmed that the Galaxy A8 and Galaxy A8+ (2018) will cost 10,990,000VND ($483) and 13,490,000VND ($593) respectively.
The company has started taking pre-orders for the handset from customers in Vietnam. It confirmed at the event that the Galaxy A8 and Galaxy A8+ (2018) will be released in the country on January 6, 2018.
Samsung’s regional arms should start confirming the pricing and availability information for their respective markets in the near future. We can expect the handset to be out in several markets across the globe in January.


Question: Provide an overview of American Sign Language and related research.

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 Provide an overview of American Sign Language and related research.

How does ASL compare with spoken language?
How do most children learn ASL?
Why emphasize early language learning?
What research is being done on ASL and other sign languages?
Where can I find additional information about American Sign Language?
A young boy signs "I love you."
The exact beginnings of ASL are not clear, but some suggest that it arose more than 200 years ago from the intermixing of local sign languages and French Sign Language (LSF, or Langue des Signes Française).Today’s ASL includes some elements of LSF plus the original local sign languages, which over the years have melded and changed into a rich, complex, and mature language. Modern ASL and modern LSF are distinct languages and, while they still contain some similar signs, can no longer be understood by each other’s users.
In spoken language, words are produced by using the mouth and voice to make sounds. But for people who are deaf (particularly those who are profoundly deaf), the sounds of speech are often not heard, and only a fraction of speech sounds can be seen on the lips. Sign languages are based on the idea that vision is the most useful tool a deaf person has to communicate and receive information.
ASL is a language completely separate and distinct from English. It contains all the fundamental features of language—it has its own rules for pronunciation, word order, and complex grammar. While every language has ways of signaling different functions, such as asking a question rather than making a statement, languages differ in how this is done. For example, English speakers ask a question by raising the pitch of their voice; ASL users ask a question by raising their eyebrows, widening their eyes, and tilting their bodies forward.
Just as with other languages, specific ways of expressing ideas in ASL vary as much as ASL users do. In addition to individual differences in expression, ASL has regional accents and dialects. Just as certain English words are spoken differently in different parts of the country, ASL has regional variations in the rhythm of signing, form, and pronunciation. Ethnicity and age are a few more factors that affect ASL usage and contribute to its variety.
Parents are often the source of a child’s early acquisition of language, but for children who are deaf, additional people may be models for language acquisition. A deaf child born to parents who are deaf and who already use ASL will begin to acquire ASL as naturally as a hearing child picks up spoken language from hearing parents. However, for a deaf child with hearing parents who have no prior experience with ASL, language may be acquired differently. In fact, nine out of 10 children who are born deaf are born to parents who hear. Some hearing parents choose to introduce sign language to their deaf children. Hearing parents who choose to learn sign language often learn it along with their child. Surprisingly, children who are deaf can learn to sign quite fluently from their parents, even when their parents might not be perfectly fluent themselves.
Parents should introduce a child who is deaf or hard-of-hearing to language as soon as possible. The earlier any child is exposed to and begins to acquire language, the better that child’s communication skills will become. Research suggests that the first few years of life are the most crucial to a child’s development of language skills, and even the early months of life can be important for establishing successful communication. Thanks to screening programs in place at almost all hospitals in the United States and its territories, newborn babies are tested for hearing before they leave the hospital. If a baby has hearing loss, this screening gives parents an opportunity to learn about communication options. Parents can then start their child’s language learning process during this important early stage of development.
Simple phrases in American Sign Language.
The NIDCD supports research looking at whether children with cochlear implants become bilingual in spoken language and sign language in the same way that (or in different ways from how) hearing children become bilingual in both languages. This research will tell us more about how language development in children with cochlear implants might differ between hearing and nonhearing families and could offer important insights to help guide educational decisions and parent counseling.
An NIDCD-funded researcher is studying Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language (ABSL), a sign language used over the past 75 years by both hearing and nonhearing people in an isolated Bedouin village in Israel. Because it was developed among a small group of people with little to no outside influence and no direct linguistic input, ABSL offers researchers the opportunity to document a new language as it develops and evolves. It can also be used to model the essential elements and organization of natural language.
Another NIDCD-funded research team is also looking at sign language systems that develop in isolation. The research team is learning more about how grammar is built and expanded in situations where there is little linguistic input. In one setting, they are observing “home sign” systems used by deaf children who live in isolation. In another, they are studying a family sign language that has been used and handed down over several generations on a remote fishing island.


Question: Provide a brief biography of Peter Alliss.

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Peter Alliss (born 28 February 1931) is a former English professional golfer, and is a television presenter and commentator, author and golf course designer. Since the death of Henry Longhurst in 1978, he has been regarded by many as the "Voice of golf". In 2012 he was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in the Lifetime Achievement category.
Between 1952 and 1969, Alliss won 20 professional tournaments, including three British PGA Championships, in 1957, 1962 and 1965. He had five top-10 finishes in the Open Championship, coming closest in 1954 at Royal Birkdale when he finished four shots behind the champion Peter Thomson.


Question: "What do you think about the campaign of personal destruction against Judge Brett Kavanaugh?"

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 "What do you think about the campaign of personal destruction against Judge Brett Kavanaugh?"

The campaign of personal destruction unleashed on Judge Brett Kavanaugh is revealing the depths to which the Democrats and their journalistic handmaidens have fallen.
Wait a minute! They haven't fallen, they have leaped...into an abyss of lies, innuendo, and outright cruelty. This is an operation undertaken against a man admired by virtually everyone who has professionally or socially known and associated with him for decades.
There no factual basis at all. It is intended to scare parents of the girls he has coached – an activity that he and his children have enjoyed together. This evil message affects the Kavanaugh girls and their friends.
Brett Kavanaugh testified the other day that he might never coach girls' basketball again.
He shouldn't – at least not until further investigation has concluded.
"I love coaching more than anything I've ever done in my whole life," Kavanaugh said in his opening statement on Thursday. "But thanks to what some of you on this side of the committee have unleashed, I may never be able to coach again."
He just might be right. Oh, not the part about blaming Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee – that's just to avoid placing blame on his wholly sympathetic accuser – but the may-never-coach-again part. The nation is newly vigilant on who coaches and trains its children given recent scandals in gymnastics and other sports.
USA Today and its parent Gannett are no longer respectable institutions. If they do not delete this tweet and article (they already have been up half a day!) and fire the author, they have assumed the position of the bottom of the propaganda media.
This is part of a psy-ops campaign to intimidate Kavanaugh into withdrawing by hurting his children and destroying his reputation. It is clear to anyone with half a brain that a lesson is intended to be sent to anyone considering accepting a future SCOTUS nomination by a Republican president that he will be ruined.


Question: What is Alex Azar's record on drug pricing?

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 What is Alex Azar's record on drug pricing?

His record suggests he’s unlikely to push pricing policies that would hit pharmaceutical companies’ pocketbooks.
President Donald Trump tweeted Monday that his nominee for HHS secretary, Alex Azar will “be a star for … lower drug prices!” But the record of the former top executive for Eli Lilly, which tripled the price of a top-selling insulin drug while he led its U.S. operation, suggests a different story.
Lilly is one of three drug companies targeted by a class-action lawsuit that accuses the company, then under Azar’s watch, of exploiting the drug pricing system to ensure higher profit for insulin and has been fined in Mexico for colluding on the pricing of the drug .
Azar, who spent almost a decade at Eli Lilly, rising to become president of the drug giant’s U.S. operations before leaving earlier this year, doesn’t deny drug costs are a consumer issue. But his record there and as a top official in George W. Bush’s administration suggests he’s unlikely to push pricing policies that would hit pharmaceutical companies’ pocketbooks.
In recent years, Azar has defended pricing practices, and argued against the approaches to reduce costs to consumer s as Trump endorsed during his campaign, such as allowing the government to negotiate drug prices and importing medicines from oversees.
Instead, Azar has followed the pharma messaging playbook on drug pricing — deflecting attention to other parts of the health system, and even other countries, blaming them for the high drug costs paid by U.S. patients. He’s also justified drug prices as the cost of innovation.
Trump’s focus on drug pricing in announcing Azar’s nomination didn’t win over doubters, who no longer believe he is serious about going after the industry he once slammed as “getting away with murder.” But it will make it easier for critics to pounce on what will likely be the toughest barrier for Azar to overcome during his confirmation process in the Senate.
Sen. Bernie Sanders said Monday he will “vigorously oppose” the nomination of Azar.
“During Mr. Azar’s tenure at Eli Lilly, this multi billion-dollar corporation dodged taxes while charging Americans outrageously high prices for life saving prescription drugs,” Sanders said.
Sanders and Rep. Elijah Cummings commenced an investigation into Eli Lilly’s rising prices for insulin last year, spurring attorneys generals in Washington and New Mexico to look into the matter. The lawmakers questioned why the prices of the diabetes medicine whose main patent expired 75 years ago have seen huge jumps in recent years, with competitors often raising prices in tandem. One of Eli Lilly’s insulins, Humulin R U-500, rose 325 percent in price from 2010 to 2015.
Cummings tweeted that picking Azar is “like a fox guarding the hen house,” and a “slap in the face,” to Americans waiting for action on lower drug prices.
Azar contends the outrage over drug pricing “erupted because we have seen a complete fundamental restructuring of health insurance,” with a shift to high-deductible plans that puts the burden of drug costs on employees and individuals, he said at a conference in May.
While Azar makes a valid point, changing insurance policies without addressing drugmakers’ markups of existing drug prices, or high launch prices for new medicines, “is avoiding the elephant in the room.” said Ameet Sarpatwari, who studies drug prices at Harvard Medical School.
Even Azar acknowledged in his speech that if insurance companies reduced consumers’ out of pocket charges for medicines, those costs would show up elsewhere, likely in premium increases.
Azar has also attacked government regulators and payers for devaluing pharmaceutical innovation, suggesting that if the U.S. cuts pharma profits, it will see decreased investment in new drugs and fewer new cures.
“The narrow focus of costs of medicine to the exclusion of innovation would be self-defeating in the long run,” Azar said in a 2014 speech.
Sarpatwari worries such views will lead Azar to promote the idea that making it quicker and easier for drug makers to introduce new medicines will reduce pharmaceutical costs. Researchers have found that drug companies don’t price their products any cheaper when FDA lets them use the accelerated approval process or other tactics to speed drugs to market. Former FDA Commissioner Robert Califf recently said that despite claims by the Trump administration that faster drug approvals lead to lower cost drugs, there is no direction relationship between the cost of development and price of drugs.
Nonetheless, in June, Azar told Fox Business that getting more new drugs to market to increase competition among brands would help bring U.S. prices down. Yet there’s only one example the drug industry can point to in the U.S. where brand competition has led to lower prices — and many where competitors simply raise prices in tandem. For example, Democrats recently launched a probe into the rising price of multiple sclerosis drugs where drugs introduced decades ago have raised prices to match their newer competitors.
And while Azar expresses support for competition, one of the major factors keeping generic versions of insulin off the market have been drug company tactics known as evergreening — making incremental tweaks to their insulin versions or the devices that deliver it, to extend their monopolies for decades.
An article published in The Lancet in late 2015 found that most of the recent innovation in the insulin market has centered on improvements in delivery devices, blocking generics by agents that are indirectly related to the drug.
Azar has also opposed other ideas to encourage competitive drug pricing. He’s spoken out against studies known as comparative effectiveness research, used to determine which drugs are most cost-effective for treating patients with a disease. He argues that all options should be available since different patients may need different medicines. The problem however, is that if payers must make all drugs available, they have little leverage to negotiate lower drug prices with industry.
The result is that despite Trump’s tweets praising Azar as a champion for lower costs , few fighting for lower drug prices are pinning their hopes on action by Azar.
“This nominee has impeccable big pharma credentials but non-existent credentials when it comes to concerns on drug prices,” said Peter Welch, co-chair of the House Democrats Drug Pricing Task Force.


Question: Describe the Cambridge Half Marathon.

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 Describe the Cambridge Half Marathon.

The winner of Cambridge's 2018 half marathon has been disqualified after it was revealed he did not complete the race.
Another runner, known as just "Jack", ran the race using Mr Rawlings chip and number, breaking race rules.
The spokeswoman was unable to comment on whether this would affect Mr Rawling's ability to run in future races.
As a result of the imposter's disqualification, second place runner William Mycroft in the 25-29 years age category will take the number one spot with a time of one hour, seven minutes and 11 seconds.
The 13.1 mile course starts at Midsummer Common and takes a one lap loop through the city centre, Trumpington and Grantchester.


Question: Describe the purpose and usage of the unveil() system call.

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The first call to unveil removes visibility of the entire filesystem from all other filesystem-related system calls (such as open(2), chmod(2) and rename(2)), except for the specified path and permissions.
The unveil system call remains capable of traversing to any path in the filesystem, so additional calls can set permissions at other points in the filesystem hierarchy.
After establishing a collection of path and permissions rules, future calls to unveil can be disabled by passing two NULL arguments. Alternatively, pledge(2) may be used to remove the unveil promise.
Make path available for read operations, corresponding to the pledge(2) promise rpath.
Make path available for write operations, corresponding to the pledge(2) promise wpath.
Make path available for execute operations, corresponding to the pledge(2) promise exec.
Allow path to be created and removed, corresponding to the pledge(2) promise cpath.
A path that is a directory will enable all filesystem access underneath path using permissions if and only if no more specific matching unveil() exists at a lower level. Directories are remembered at the time of a call to unveil(). This means that a directory that is removed and recreated after a call to unveil() will appear to not exist.
Non-directory paths are remembered by name within their containing directory, and so may be created, removed, or re-created after a call to unveil() and still appear to exist.
Attempts to access paths not allowed by unveil will result in an error of EACCES when the permissions argument does not match the attempted operation. ENOENT is returned for paths for which no unveil permissions qualify.
unveil() use can be tricky because programs misbehave badly when their files unexpectedly disappear. In many cases it is easier to unveil the directories in which an application makes use of files.
The addition of path would exceed the per-process limit for unveiled paths.
A directory in path did not exist.
An invalid value of permissions was used.
An attempt to increase permissions was made, or the path was not accessible, or unveil was called after locking.
The unveil() system call first appeared in OpenBSD 6.4.
readlink(2) partially bypasses unveil restrictions required by realpath(3). Future changes intend to repair this problem.


Question: Respond in 26 words. What is the Islington area known for?

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The Islington area of North London, England, has been represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom through several parliamentary constituencies:


Question: What is the latest news about the Egyptian election results?

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Twenty-five million of the 60 million registered voters turned out during the three days of polling that ended on Wednesday, state-owned newspaper Al-Ahram reported. Twenty-three million voted for Sisi.
The Akhbar el-Youm newspaper did not report the full turnout but said Sisi won 21.4 million votes.
Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, who was re-elected with about 92% of the vote.
According to the Al-Ahram newspaper, in addition to 23 million who cast valid votes, 2 million spoiled their ballot papers.
Sisi’s sole challenger was Mousa Mostafa Mousa, who previously declared that he “was not here to challenge the president” and who entered the race at the last minute after five other potential challengers were blocked from getting on the ballot.
Mousa conceded his loss on Wednesday night, telling a TV station he had hoped for 10% of the vote. “But I know the immense popularity of President Sisi,” he said.
Other, more heavyweight would-be challengers were all sidelined, detained or pulled out.
As army chief, Sisi ousted Egypt’s first freely elected president, Islamist Mohamed Morsi, after mass street protests in 2013, then went on to win his first term in 2014 with 96.9% of the vote.
Turnout of 47% in that year’s election was higher than this year’s 40% despite appeals from Sherif Ismail, the prime minister, for voters to fulfil their patriotic duty.
Boycotters who cannot show good reason for not going to the polls could a face a fine of up to 500 Egyptian pounds (£20), the electoral commission has warned.
At a news conference, election commission official Mahmud al-Sherif said there had been no violations of Egypt’s election law.
Opposition groups had called for a boycott of this week’s vote, which they labelled a facade. There were no presidential debates and Sisi himself did not appear at any official campaign events, although he spoke at a number of ceremonies.
Morsi’s removal had ushered in a deadly crackdown that killed and jailed hundreds of Islamists. The initial attack on Morsi’s supporters expanded to include liberal and leftist secular activists.


Question: Describe changes to the Thomas the Tank Engine show. Respond in 11 sentences.

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 Describe changes to the Thomas the Tank Engine show. Respond in 11 sentences.

Thomas the Tank Engine is to introduce a "homeless" Kenyan train to teach children about refugees.
A new series of the show will feature the Island of Sodor’s first black female character, developed on the advice of the United Nations.
In the updated version, Nia, the Kenyan engine, will join other recently introduced international characters including Ashima from India and Shane from Australia.
Gender-balanced storylines were developed with the assistance of Tolulope Lewis-Tamoka, the UN Women’s Africa Programme Adviser.
“We see that Nia doesn’t have a home, so she has to stay in Sodor, where Thomas works side by side with her to get jobs done,” she told the Radio Times.
The series will air in 33 languages across more than 110 countries. Lewis-Tamoka said in future the show could be an “awesome platform” for issues including violence against girls, equal pay and girl’s education.
In 2013, the Labour MP Mary Creagh complained that Thomas was perpetuating "negative stereotypes" and said it needed more female engines in order to encourage girls to be train drivers.
The new show has been backed by the family of Rev Wilbert Awdry, who wrote the original stories to entertain his young son in the 1940s. The stories were turned into an animated series in 1984, narrated by Ringo Starr.
“We’re always a bit possessive about Grandpuff’s creation, but we understand the need to change things around abit,” said his daughter Clare Chambers.


Question: Hey, what's up?

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WASHINGTON � In what the government describes as a bizarre coincidence, one U.S. intelligence agency was planning an exercise last Sept. 11 in which an errant aircraft would crash into one of its buildings. But the cause wasn't terrorism -- it was to be a simulated accident.
Security has become the new norm in Greater Boston.
Children's responses may shed light on human anxiety, resiliency.
The US effort to win over Muslim hearts and minds is failing.
New chemical, biological threats spur nation's top minds.
For those deported after Sept. 11, the losses are wrenching.
A Sept. 11 narrative by former Massport chief Virginia Buckingham, plus an essay by Christopher Hitchens.
How culture has changed since Sept. 11, including a gallery of art inspired by the attacks.
A look at how the lives of six Americans were altered.
Terrorism comes to God's country.
How have bin Laden and his terrorist group eluded US forces?
New York and DC one year later.
The US looks back at the terrorist attacks.
A year later, still hurting.


Question: What did the Trump administration propose in regards to government restructuring?

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 What did the Trump administration propose in regards to government restructuring?

The Trump administration on Thursday released a blueprint for a massive overhaul of the federal bureaucracy, one that if implemented would touch virtually every agency and the way all Americans receive government services.
Merging the Education and Labor departments.
Reorganizing safety-net programs into a Department of Health and Public Welfare.
Creating a governmentwide public-private partnership office to improve services to citizens, and stewardship of public resources.
Relocating more staff and offices outside the National Capital Region.
Dramatically shrinking the Office of Personnel Management.
Revamping the Army Corps of Engineers.
The plan, led by Mulvaney and based on the agency reorganization proposals he assigned governmentwide in April 2017, is also believed to be influenced by long-standing thinking among conservatives that welfare programs should be funded and managed together.
The notion of creating an Education and the Workforce Department out of the current Education and Labor departments would also deliver on Trump’s campaign promises to focus on jobs for the non-college-bound.
In addition, the plan scales back the Office of Personnel Management. It would move OPM’s security clearance functions fully to the Defense Department, transfer its human services functions to the General Services Administration and locate workforce policymaking at the White House.
Many of these moves would require approval by Congress. Such reorganizational authority was sought by President Obama first in 2012 and again in 2013; he had hoped to merge six agencies—Commerce, the Export-Import Bank and the Small Business Administration among them—into a Department of Business and Trade.
Mulvaney, when asked last year by Government Executive whether he had studied Obama’s plan, said he had not. Instead, the White House appears to be drawing from the playbook of House Republicans in the 1990s when they proposed merging Education and Labor.
Such a switch drew a thumbs-down from Joseph A. Califano Jr., who was President Carter’s Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare before it was renamed HHS when Education became its own department in 1980. “In putting food stamps with Congress’s agriculture committees, we thought they understood the benefits to farm states of the program—financially, to their families and farms—and would be more supportive of it than it would be if the program were viewed as just for poor people,” he told Government Executive last week.


Question: What is your opinion of illegal immigrants committing robberies in the US?

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 What is your opinion of illegal immigrants committing robberies in the US?

Deport them back to Europe!
If it was MS 13 the robbery victims would have been hacked to death with a machete.These guys are bad enough though.
Build the Mid-Atlantic ridge WALL now and Europe will pay for it!


Question: Have you heard about Lionel Hutz joining President Trump's legal team?

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 Have you heard about Lionel Hutz joining President Trump's legal team?

Lionel Hutz, Attorney at Law, today indicated that he would decline an offer to join President Trump's under siege legal team.
Mr. Hutz, who has mainly appeared before the courts as a lawyer, had previously guaranteed to prove President Trump "guilty of being extremely innocent".
Talks were believed to be progressing well despite some reticence from Mr. Hutz at the prospect of facing Bob Mueller. "Uh oh! Bob Mueller you say! He's kinda had it in for me ever since I ran over his dog...well actually replace the word 'kinda' with 'repeatedly' and the word 'dog' with 'son'", Mr. Hutz is understood to have replied.
However, the ongoing fallout from Rudy Giuliani's media appearances this week are believed to have convinced Mr. Hutz that President Trump's legal defence is now a lost cause and potentially harmful to his professional reputation.
At the time of writing, Mr. Hutz had reportedly asked Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders if she would be interested in buying an "awfully cosy, rustic" 2 bed house.


Question: Who is Professor Jayashankar? Respond in 8 sentences.

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Kothapalli Jayashankar. popularly known as Professor Jayashankar (6 August 1934 – 21 June 2011)was an Indian academic and Social Activist. He was a leading ideologue of Telangana Movement.. He has been fighting for a separate state since 1952. He often stated that unequal distribution of river water was the root cause of separate Telangana movement. He was the former Vice-Chancellor of Kakatiya University and an activist in the Separate Telangana Movement. Prof. Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University (PJTSAU) named in honour and memory of Professor Jayashankar, is the only Farm University of Telangana state which came into being in the event of the bifurcation from Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University. worked as principal in ckm arts and science college warangal


Question: Describe Ormetica guapisa.

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Ormetica guapisa is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by William Schaus in 1910. It is found in Costa Rica.


Question: What are some cool robots being released in 2016?

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 What are some cool robots being released in 2016?

Segway says the company's new home robot, built with Intel and Ninebot will be ready for purchase in the second half of 2016.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg resolved to build his own home butler with artificial intelligence in 2016. Just “a simple AI to run my home and help me with my work.” he said in a post last weekend on Facebook. Seems reasonable. “You can think of it kind of like Jarvis in Iron Man,” he wrote, referring to the computer program in the blockbuster movie.
But who said Zuckerberg was the only one who gets to build his own personal manservant this year?
At the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas, companies from Segway to Ford jumped into the butler business by showing off new products (some only half-baked) for opening doors, turning on lights, tracking daily schedules like pill rituals, and keeping a watchful eye over the house.
None of the automated assistants can do everything that a loyal human staffer would. But with so many being created open-source, meaning consumers can program them too, maybe by the time CES 2017 rolls around, they’ll have learned a little something more.
Segway and Intel teamed up with Chinese Ninebot to build a door-answering talking butler. The robot can also retract its head, so that when it’s not on butler duty, it can take you around town as a ‘personal transporter’ (read: hoverboard).
A front-facing camera on the bot means the robot can be a surveillance camera when you’re not home, or it can show you who’s arrived when it answers the door. The robot has mechanical arms that can be attached that would let it do things like wave or lift small objects. But you would need technical know-how to program it.
Segway says the robot will be available for early user testing in late 2016 or early 2017, but it didn’t disclose a price.
This butler was built to keep humans on track: from making sure people take their pills, to monitoring coffee inventory and keeping exercisers in check. Mother, a $300 nagging device comes with four sensors that can snap onto things or people and be programmed to monitor fitness, home temperature, keeping track of keys, and sleeping patterns. If you don’t do what you’re asked, Mother can light up, notify your smartphone, and beep to let you know. Programs like pill-reminders and sleep tracking are pre-loaded, but the device is also open-source for developers.
French Buddy is billed as a ‘companion,’ but also performs some very butler-like tasks. It can receive your Skype calls by turning Buddy’s face into a screen. The bot keeps watch around the house and can send alerts to your smartphone when it sees a problem. Because the machine has facial recognition, it can also serve as a messenger by relaying messages between different people in the house and reminding owners what to do and when. Buddy is open-source too, if you want to program it to do more. Oh, and this butler’s multilingual, with English and French on board. Prices start around $650.
A model of Ford's voice activated in-car connectivity system, called SYNC.
Ford, in partnership with Amazon and smart home app Wink, wants to be your butler before you’ve even stepped foot in the house. The company unveiled a new system that can remotely control devices in your house: lights, heat and security—all from the car. Fortune reports their Sync Connect platform launches on new Ford Escapes in spring 2016.
Tipron, to be available later this year for $1,000 to $2,000, is a wandering bot projector. The robot streams video via Wi-Fi or its HDMI port. Tipron can coordinate with Chromecast and Amazon Fire sticks, or screen video from a smartphone on any wall. Built waist-high and with one massive eye (lens) for a head, the robot also includes a five megapixel camera and built-in speaker. But if it’s not quite cute enough, there’s always the Haier R2D2 Moving Refrigerator, available in Japan for around $8,500, that also has a built in projector and can carry a six pack.
Kitchen appliance maker Gourmia just got a little bit more butler-like with a chef robot that can fry, grill, cook all kinds of meals for $300. Built for the countertop, at about the size of a rice cooker, the Gourmia GCR1700 will mix and stir everything for you with the press of a few buttons. It’s kind of like a space-age Crock-Pot that can do anything from traditional stews to scrambled eggs and sauces.
Want to fly to work? Now you can. The Ehang 184 Chinese Drone transporter can carry up to 220lbs and fly for 23 mins. After it’s programmed, you can just tell your butler to ‘take off’ and ‘land,’ and with a few clicks on a tablet, you’re there. Of course, since at 440-pounds the drone is well over the 55-pound limit for the new federally required $5 small drone registration, you’ll have to get the FAA to issue you a paper license for the butler before you start flying.


Question: What was Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night?

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 What was Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night?

World War II introduced the international community to a host of new horrors: Adolf Hitler’s concentration camps dedicated to death, Japan’s air-led destruction that turned Pearl Harbor into a scene of fiery explosions and death, and bombings that decimated entire cities, monuments, and landscapes throughout Europe.
Yet one of the most unforgettable moments of the war came during its final days. As the Allied Forces accepted Germany’s surrender, attention turned to Japan, the one enemy still standing. The world’s first nuclear bombs brought Japan to its own surrender and showed nations around the world just how deadly a single bomb could be.
Although the United States was responsible for unleashing these new and terrifying weapons, it wasn’t the only nation prepared to use an ultimate means of destruction.
Like the United States in the years and months before the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan was also preparing for the possibility of waging an entirely new type of war on its enemies. However, Japan didn’t want to target just any Allied nation – its political and military leaders wanted to strike on U.S. territory yet again, this time on its mainland.
Upon the request of Japan’s Emperor, military experts developed a plan named Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night, a plan that would devastate Southern California with biological warfare. Though the intended operation was never enacted, its development was careful and its intentions severe.
The secrets of Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night detail what might just have happened had World War II come to a different end, one in which Japan was named the victor.
Urban aerial of San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico.
After Japan’s successful attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, war was no longer a possibility; it was a certainty, and it was one that Japan eagerly anticipated. The nation, its leaders, and its military were all prepared to wage war on the United States – and biological warfare was at the heart of those plans. In the months that followed Pearl Harbor, the Japanese began readying different plans for biological-based attacks meant to cripple the U.S. population.
As Japanese troops took to the battlefield against American forces, military leaders had prepared biological attacks for any scenario. Japan was not a nation afraid of striking the enemy’s health. In March of 1942, as the Battle of Bataan raged on, Japanese forces were ready to unleash 200 pounds of plague-ridden fleas in 10 different attacks on U.S. soldiers.
The American troops surrendered at Bataan, and the fleas were never used. Two years later, in July 1944, the Japanese again readied the exact same biological weapon during the Battle of Saipan. Fortunately for the U.S. forces, the fleas were killed on their way to the battlefield when the American submarine Swordfish sank a Japanese submarine. The Japanese tried once more to use a biological weapon during the Battle of Iwo Jima, during which the troops were planning to drop pathogens on invading U.S. forces.
One Japanese pilot, Shoichi Matsumoto, recalled that orders were to send two gliders over the invaders and release disease that would shower the American troops – yet once again, this plan failed when the gliders took off and never reached their intended destination.
The men of Unit 731.
Though each one was shelved or never succeeded, these planned attacks wouldn’t have been Japan’s first foray into biological warfare. In fact, the Japanese military had relied on biological weaponry years before World War II broke out – the nation had a special military unit named Unit 731 created for and solely devoted to biological and chemical warfare that dated back to the early 1930s.
Unit 731 began its work in Manchukuo when Japan took control of the Chinese state. The Unit was tasked with researching potential biological and chemical weapons, and the effects they would have when unleashed on enemy populations. So, Unit 731 got to work under the leadership of Shirō Ishii, experimenting various diseases and dangerous chemicals on men, women, children, and even infants. The Japanese didn’t just conduct these cruel experiments on captured prisoners or injured enemy soldiers; instead, they ran the potentially deadly tests on anyone they could find.
Thanks to the efforts of Unit 731, the Japanese military was quickly ready to put all of the research to use and wreak biological havoc. The Second Sino-Japanese War provided the perfect opportunity: Japanese soldiers placed the bubonic plague, cholera, smallpox, botulism, anthrax, and even more varied, dangerous diseases inside bombs that were meant for use against the Chinese military.
As the war and its conflicts pitted the Japanese and Chinese against one another, Japan unleashed it’s biological weapons – and the effects were deadly. In 2002, researchers estimated the number of Chinese individuals, both in war and during Unit 731’s human experimentation, at approximately 580,000. With this astounding and effective new type of warfare, the Japanese were eager to enact similar damage upon the United States during World War II.