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Another great post, Matthew. I’ve always thought this was an interesting feud as well.
Thank you. I think it perhaps deserves more attention than it gets.
Brilliant post! You know thy history and truly have a sense of the same!
Thank you very much Jean. You’re too kind.
Shakespeare put these words into the mouth of the Duke of York’s son, a later brother to a warrior King, and again the uncle to a vulnerable boy king. “Gloucester’s Dukedom is too ominous”.
Thank you Paul. I’m glad you enjoyed it.
of the Roses beginning in earnest?
I always find the politics and intrigue of Protectorate periods, during periods with child monarchs, to be fascinating.
The disputes between Humphrey and Cardinal Beaufort were an important factor in creating the unstable environment in which the war of the roses became possible. The dispute was in many ways a rather unseemly squabble over who had authority to do what – so it was personal.
The third important figure you did not mention was John of Lancaster, the Duke of Bedford. After the death of Henry V, Bedford was the regent. However, Bedford, being an experienced military commander focused his energies on the war in France and delegates the government of England to the council (of which Humphrey and Beaufort were both members). This led to some confusion and overlap of powers that were bound to lead to argument (which could only really be settled by Bedford who was rarely in England).
Although it is true to say Humphrey was popular with the common folk; he was seen as unreliable by the majority of the nobility. His divorce and re-marriage offended the more pious members of the English nobility and he had a reputation for a somewhat immoral lifestyle. His second wife was widely hated, which made her a very easy target for Beaufort.
Needless to say the arguments between Humphrey and Beaufort became a lot more serious after Bedford’s death in 1435 – most of the nobility up until this time had probably viewed Bedford as the sensible one and the other two as self serving.
Humphrey – felt that the policy of conquest instigated by Henry V should be continued and the English should put every effort into winning the war.
Beaufort – felt that this was unrealistic given the levels of debt war in France was bound to incur (already a problem at the end of Henry V’s reign). He therefore preferred a policy of seeking a peaceful settlement with France (a policy his protege Suffolk would later pursue).
Bedford in general did not support Humphrey’s call for an aggressive campaign of conquest (Humphrey’s position was a wildly unrealistic pipe dream given the resources available to the English) although he seems to have opted for a policy of maintaining the status quo rather than seeking peace.
It is possible to say that Richard of York was roped into the Humphrey camp (in so far as it was not an enthusiastic pro-war supporter in the initial instance). Suffolk was genuinely (one of the few things he was genuine about) a supporter of the peace camp. However, he was easily outwitted by Charles VII in the peace negotiations (hence the loss of Anjou and Maine). In fairness to Suffolk however, one could make a strong case to say that the loss of Anjou and Maine were Henry VI’s fault – he insisted on retaining his claim to the French throne (Charles VII might have been willing to let Henry keep Anjou and Maine if Henry had given up his claim to the French throne).


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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. - A 10-year-old boy was shot in the leg early Monday afternoon in West Perrine, authorities said.
The shooting was reported shortly before 1 p.m. at 17780 SW 104th Ave, just feet from a park where children play.
"The little boy -- he was shot in the legs -- both of the back of his legs," a witness told Local 10 News reporter Liane Morejon.
Miami-Dade police said shots were heard in the area before the boy was hit by a stray bullet.
A witness said he was shot in the front yard of his home.
"He kept saying it was burning, so that's how they realized he got shot," she said.
The boy was airlifted to Nicklaus Children's Hospital, where he is listed in good condition.
Authorities do not believe the boy was the target of the shooting, but said no one else was injured.
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Question: Write a blog post on the Celeb Boutique controversy following the Colorado shooting.

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Celeb Boutique: National Tragedy = Marketing Synergy!
It's been very difficult trying to turn on the snark and write an article today due to the horrific Colorado shooting that occurred at a midnight screening of 'The Dark Knight Rises.' At last count, 59 people were injured and 14 killed, including a young sports journalist, Jessica Ghawi, who had survived an earlier shooting this summer in a Toronto food court.
I know that people all over the world die everyday, but this recent act of senseless violence (by some lunatic loser that thought he was The Joker) shook me up way more than I expected. Maybe it's because I wanted to see the Batman movie at midnight as well, but didn't because I just got back from a trip (and I'm old). Maybe it's because a fellow writer was killed. But I just couldn't write anything today; every time I even considered writing about the shooting, I couldn't bring myself to do it.
Celeb Boutique did finally issue an apology, but as you can see, the continued hawking of their products didn't help anyone's perception of them to improve. This also may be the first time in history that an emoticon "winky face" can be cited as damning evidence of ill intent.
There will be a lot of anger, both justified and misdirected, for the foreseeable future over what happened last night. For some, it will simply be due to a genuine feeling of despair and outrage over such a senseless act of violence. For others, it will be turned into a political flash point (or a rallying call to fight those they feel are making it into a political statement).
But for right now, while the wound to our national psyche is still raw, maybe it's good that we can all come together and mock the vapid social media department of an overpriced women's clothing store. Celeb Boutique may have done something that was in the poorest and most disgusting taste possible, but the resulting fallout also managed to make me smile for the first time today.
To the Celeb Boutique supporter who continues to post here anonymously: I'll keep deleting your posts...unless you grow a pair and identify yourself.


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During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the Germans invade.


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Every few days, it seems, a new Amazon announcement heralds the creation of 1,000 jobs here or 2,000 jobs there — or the quest to put 50,000 jobs somewhere — as the tech giant hires more and more people for more and more tasks.
A new report from Yahoo! Finance puts the numbers in interesting context when it comes to the job-creating power of the Seattle-based company and the rest of the United States as a whole.
Yahoo says that as of June, Amazon employed 382,400, up from 268,900 the year before, according to its quarterly financial reports. That translates into roughly 113,500 net new hires in the past 12 months.
In terms of job creation, if Amazon was a state, those figures would put the company behind only Texas, California, Florida, and New York over that period of time, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Yahoo also points out that it’s not all job creation when it comes to Amazon, especially if you assign its e-commerce dominance some of the blame for the fact that traditional retail is suffering. Department stores, for instance, lost nearly 30,000 jobs last year, according the BLS.
Amazon said during its quarterly earnings call at the end of July that the company’s base of software developers and engineers, as well as its salesforce — particularly in Amazon Web Services and advertising — grew at a faster rate than the overall company growth.
“Most of the growth, especially in the last year, has been in in software development engineering jobs and sales roles, in addition to fulfillment operations talent,” CFO Brian Olsavsky said.
Hey, Odessa, does the new Amazon Echo look a bit like that one from ‘Saturday Night Live’?


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The Massachusetts Democrat was speaking during a radio interview when she made the rare admission, saying she’s “glad” when she reads “that there are companies that have given out” big holiday bonuses following the law’s passage.
“Look, I am glad when I read that there are companies that have given out $1,000 bonuses. There are companies that say they’re going to re-work some of their benefit plans. I’m in favor of all of that. I want to see working families do better, you bet,” admitted Warren.
The Senator immediately went back to her tired script, saying she was in favor of the bonuses but unhappy that the tax cuts resulted in a “giveaway” to American businesses.
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Our universe has been ruled by weirdness for at least six centuries. If the quantum effects in a new experiment aren’t genuine, but are somehow caused by past meddling, then that is how long ago it must have happened – a finding that makes would-be alternatives to quantum theory even more unlikely.
Two qualities seem to describe our everyday world: realism, the idea that things have properties which don’t vanish when we’re not looking; and locality, which means no influence can travel faster than the speed of light.
But the quantum effects we see on tiny scales defy these descriptions. The properties of particles aren’t set in stone until we measure them, and their states can be entangled – such that altering one affects the other much faster than light can travel between the two.
There are loopholes in quantum theory, though. David Kaiser at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his colleagues are trying to close them down – aided by starlight.
Their experiment exploits a standard test for locality: Bell’s inequality. It sets a limit on how often two entangled particles can end up in the same state just by chance – without quantum mechanics or some unknown “hidden variables” to guide them.
The first step is to create a pair of entangled particles – often photons of light – then fire them off in different directions. Usually, a random number generator determines at the very last moment which property of each particle to measure. The detectors used are far enough apart that the arriving particles can’t “cheat” and coordinate their states – unless they can signal each other faster than light.
If the measurements tally more often than allowed by Bell’s rule, then the particles aren’t governed by locality. Previous experiments have shown this consistently, and so backed quantum mechanics.
But it’s still dimly possible that some unknown influence is allowing the particles to affect each other without breaking the principle of locality. To rule this out, Kaiser and his colleagues didn’t use any old random number generator to decide what to measure. After all, it’s even possible that the hidden variables could be tampering with the number generation itself.
Instead, after the photons were shot towards the detectors, the researchers made a measurement of light from a randomly chosen star in the Milky Way. Its colour was what determined which photon property to measure.
“If any physical mechanism were to somehow jigger with the questions that get asked of each particle, those would have to have been put in motion at that star when it was about to emit that light that we measured,” Kaiser says. Light from the closest star they used takes 600 years to reach us, so any hidden variables would have needed to be in play since then.
As in previous tests, Kaiser’s team found that their photons ended up correlated far too often, violating Bell’s inequality and supporting the non-local, quantum notion of reality.
Of course, this loophole can never really be closed. Maybe the outcomes of these experiments were determined by hidden variables 700 years ago, or at the birth of the universe. But Kaiser and his colleagues plan to keep using larger telescopes and more distant astronomical events to rule out the loophole as far back as they can.
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From left: Panelists Elena Tajima Creef, Reiko Tomii, Xtina Huilan Wang, Ryan Wong, and Barbara Lewis joined Museum of Fine Arts director Matthew Teitelbaum and MFA curator Jasmine Hagans (at podium) for “Kimono Wednesdays: A Conversation” at the MFA.
Sue Danielson of Kentucky, with Monet's “La Japonaise” at the Museum of Fine Arts on June 24. The museum had kimonos for people to try on and pose as Camille Monet did in the painting.
With roughly 200 people piled into the Museum of Fine Arts’ Remis Auditorium on Sunday, MFA director Matthew Teitelbaum introduced the afternoon’s program with what can only be described as a rarity among museum directors in the institution’s 145-year history: a public apology.
The director’s apology for the original “Kimono Wednesday” program, which actually took place before he arrived as the MFA’s new director in August, drew a round of applause.
But if the audience appreciated Teitelbaum’s remorse, passions remained raw at “Kimono Wednesdays: A Conversation,” a wide-ranging and sometimes heated panel discussion and Q&A hosted by the MFA to address fallout from last summer’s event. After the original outcry last summer, the MFA reconfigured its “Kimono Wednesdays” program, but protests and counter-protests continued as the program repeated through July.
“The event only replicated what Monet was supposedly criticizing without interrupting the racist legacy of the painting or any criticality of orientalism both in Monet’s time or in our own,” said Xtina Huilan Wang, a panelist who protested last summer’s program.
Museum of Fine Arts director Malcolm Rogers bid farewell to the public.
“La Japonaise” is considered by scholars to be Monet’s wry commentary on an 1870s Parisian craze for all things Japanese.
During the two-hour discussion, attendees took broad aim at Teitelbaum and the museum, accusing it of white supremacy, trafficking in racial stereotypes, and insufficiently grappling with its post-colonial legacy.
Elena Tajima Creef, a women’s and gender studies professor at Wellesley College who moderated the discussion, said that the Monet painting invoked racial stereotypes related to blackface.
“I’d like to know if the museum does now or intends to have conversations about what it means to have access to histories of people who maybe don’t even have access to their own history,” she asked.
Some of the panelists and audience members appeared unaware of the museum’s ongoing efforts to examine the provenances of objects in its collection. Those efforts have resulted in several high-profile objects being returned to their origin countries.
“Can you make that public somehow?” Wang said.
Teitelbaum, who was repeatedly heckled by audience members, appeared visually shaken at times by the term white supremacy. In one particularly tense exchange with an audience member, he refused to answer a question about the museum’s endowment and the racial composition of its board of directors.
Wang, who often dominated the discussion, interrupting audience members and other panelists, tried to define white supremacy more broadly.
Some panelists also took a less combative stance. Independent scholar Reiko Tomii, for instance, discussed the cultural history and uses of the kimono and described the Japanese response to the controversy.
Other panelists included scholar Ryan Wong and Barbara Lewis, who directs the William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black History and Culture at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
“I don’t accept the white supremacy label, but I do accept what you’re saying, that collections are fraught with many histories,” he said.
Malcolm Gay can be reached at malcolm.gay@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter at @malcolmgay.
Clarification: This story was updated to more accurately reflect the remarks made by Xtina Huilan Wang.


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 Write a summary of the Irish government's preparations for Brexit.

On Wednesday next week the Cabinet will meet in Kerry and as the Minister with special responsibility for Brexit I will be bringing a memo to colleagues on Ireland’s preparedness for the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union.
Although Brexit has been one of the most talked-about subjects in Ireland for more than three years now, it hasn’t actually happened yet. However, we are almost two-thirds of the way through the negotiations and in a little over eight months, on March 29th, 2019, the UK will formally leave the EU.
We need to recognise that this is happening – the UK is leaving the EU and some things are going to change.
We know what some of this change looks like and we are planning for it. We must remember, however, that negotiations are still ongoing and this means that we don’t know exactly what change Brexit will bring in all areas. This is why achieving the best possible outcome for Ireland in the negotiations remains a central part of our strategic response to Brexit and is vital in our efforts to minimise the impact on our economy.
We are planning for the best but preparing for all scenarios.
The memo I will bring to Cabinet next week is about being ready for the change that is coming. We are particularly focused on the areas where the Government has direct responsibility and on measures that need to be taken on an east-west basis, such as customs and veterinary controls at ports and airports.
Other changes will be tackled on an EU-wide basis. There are a whole range of areas which will continue to be covered by EU rules and regulations. The UK has chosen to walk away from the certainty and clarity that this comprehensive EU framework provides but we will continue to benefit from the stability of our EU membership.
EU membership has been good for Ireland and we will face any challenges that Brexit brings with the full support of our EU partners.
As a responsible Government we have been preparing for different types of Brexit and we will continue planning for the unlikely case of a “no deal” Brexit. Different scenarios trigger different responses and some of our “no deal” planning will have to remain confidential for now, given that negotiations are ongoing.
It’s important to be clear that the detailed work that I will be presenting to my Cabinet colleagues is not the beginning of our preparations. A huge amount of work has been under way across Government and its agencies since before the UK even voted to leave the EU.
The Government has, for example, already put significant financial supports in place. These include additional funds such as the €300 million Brexit Loan Scheme for business and a separate €150 million low-cost loan scheme for agribusiness. A range of practical supports are also available, such as the Enterprise Ireland Brexit Scorecard and ‘Be Prepared’ grant of up to €5,000. I would strongly encourage all businesses, and especially those trading with the UK, to avail of these supports.
We’ve also been proactive in getting information on Brexit to Irish citizens, businesses and representative bodies. Activities in this area include the All-Island Civic Dialogue meetings and Brexit advisory clinics and road shows around the country such as those organised by Enterprise Ireland and the Local Enterprise Offices, Bord Bia, Intertrade Ireland and Fáilte Ireland.
Every Minister in the Cabinet is working on Brexit to make sure that Ireland is ready for whatever it brings our way. I want people to rest assured that preparations are going on each and every day in Government. This work will continue ahead of any budgetary decisions that may be needed later this year. Our teams have diligently planned but the week ahead will be about the Cabinet moving this contingency planning to an implementation stage.
That means the stepping up of our preparedness work is likely to become more visible from now on. This should not be interpreted as a reflection on the state of play in the negotiations or in any way prejudging the outcome.
Dedicated negotiations on Ireland and Northern Ireland are continuing. This includes work on the backstop, which remains essential for providing certainty that in any circumstances, and no matter what the outcome of the negotiations on the future EU-UK relationship, a hard border will be avoided.
The need to avoid a hard Border is something where we have total agreement – from the UK, Ireland and the EU. The peace that the Belfast Agreement has brought to this island is something that we will fiercely protect.
The last few days saw a step forward with Britain publishing a clear negotiating position allowing Brexit negotiations resume in Brussels between the EU taskforce and UK negotiators next week.
Those talks deserve every chance, and all our support, to succeed.


Question: Describe the recent shooting incident in Chattanooga, TN.

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 Describe the recent shooting incident in Chattanooga, TN.

A video was posted to Facebook where you can hear several gunshots and screaming.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) – Chattanooga Police are investigating a shooting that sent 5 people to the hospital.
Police say just before 3 am Sunday morning they responded to reports of multiple people shot on Cowart Street.
They found five victims and multiple shell casings in a parking lot on Cowart St.
Kevin Parks, Kandice Parks, Keosha Strickland, Te Shayla Yearby and Austin Burns were shot.
All of the shooting victims were transported to a local hospital either by Hamilton County EMS or personally opened vehicles.
Investigators with the Violent Crimes Bureau responded to the scene.
All victims are reported to have non-life threatening injuries at this time.
Members of the Violent Crime Bureau are actively investigating this incident.
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Question: Respond in 3 sentences. Describe Rebbie Jackson's debut album

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 Respond in 3 sentences. Describe Rebbie Jackson's debut album

Centipede is the debut album by American singer Rebbie Jackson. Released on the Columbia label in Autumn 1984, the album spawned two top-forty "Billboard" charting hits, the most famous being the title track.
Despite having worked with her family on The Jacksons variety TV show and having been a backing singer for the likes of Betty Wright in the late 70's, Jackson was the last Jackson family sibling to release an album at the age of 34, mostly due to wanting to raise her two young daughters, Stacee and Yashi, in a secure family environment, waiting until she felt they were old enough.


Question: Hey, what's this I hear about a Fitbit community with Inheritance Cycle giveaways?

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 Hey, what's this I hear about a Fitbit community with Inheritance Cycle giveaways?

Today we’re launching our Inheritance Cycle community on Fitbit‘s website! Fitbits are a popular pedometer devices that track various exercise statistics throughout the day! An accompanying Fitbit app syncs your data with your phone and offers the ability to join online communities, where you can compare your exercise with others – and compete!
Our Fitbit community is open to anyone who owns one of the brand’s pedometers! We’ll be running weekly and monthly competitions, rewarding the top performers with various autographed Inheritance Cycle goodies. You can join the action at any point!
Unfortunately, at this time, only those who use Fitbits as a pedometer will be able to participate. Don’t be discouraged if you aren’t able to join our community – there will be many other ways to win signed goodies throughout the year!
Fitbit devices are also available through other retailers and directly from Fitbit’s website.
Winners will be announced in a forum thread in our Fitbit group and contacted by an admin to facilitate the delivery of your autographed goody!
Head on over to our Fitbit community to join in on the competitions!
To allow those who wish to participate time to get a device and join the community, official weekly competitions will not begin until February 13th. Our first monthly competition will begin on March 1st. You can follow the current rankings in our group on the public leaderboard!
This month’s weekly prizes will be an autographed Inheritance Cycle bookplate and Eragon movie bookmark! These prizes will be awarded to the top three performers each week (based on the publicly available leaderboard). You may only win one weekly prize per month.
We are not officially partnered with or endorsed by Fitbit. We operate this community independently utilizing Fitbit’s free community tools. We’re unable to provide support or make changes to the systems that Fitbit has in place. Please contact Fitbit for support and any community-based recommendations.


Question: Describe Larry Fink's photographs and their lasting influence.

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 Describe Larry Fink's photographs and their lasting influence.

This dual background — “I was inculcated with an ideological disdain towards the upper class, and yet, at the same time, a luring involvement with the necessity of pleasure and luxury,” he said — has informed and influenced much of his work.
His crude yet carefully composed black-and-white photographs, of rich men and women celebrating their wealth and power at lavish parties, form an essential document of a slice of American society that is often ignored by photojournalists who are inclined to document the powerless.
Today, history has given Fink's work a new layer of meaning. “I’ve been noticed as a major player in the world of photography, and I like that,” he said. “But nothing is ever complete. This archive is a massive swelter of energy. My stuff is a sort of passing-through document. It’s an archive of my own immersion in gaiety."
Larry Fink's photographs will be on show in Charlottesville, Va. until June 30. The photographer will give a talk on June 11 during the LOOK3 photo festival, which runs from June 10 to 13.


Question: What's new with Google Japan?

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This week, we announced the launch of Google Commerce Search and Google Shopping in Japan. If you'd like to make your items available to Japanese users, you can register a feed for Japan, with prices in Yen. Japanese speakers can learn more about this launch on the Google Japan blog.


Question: What do you think about the Miss America pageant dropping the swimsuit portion of their show?

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Television viewership for the Miss America pageant has mysteriously dried up after the contest discontinued the part of the show where the young ladies scamper about in revealing swimsuits. Instead Americans watched football.
The number of viewers who tuned in to the ABC’s screening of the beauty competition plummeted 36 percent in ratings compared to last year - which was already a record-low performance. Last year’s beauty contest also squared off against the first Sunday of the NFL regular season – but at least there were supple young ladies wearing bikinis back then.
In a bow to the #MeToo phenomenon, the Miss America Organization announced in June that it was eliminating the swimsuit portion of the event as well as tweaking the evening gown section – declaring that candidates "will no longer be judged on outward physical appearance."
Scholars will look back on this moment as one of the most predictable television-rating nosedives in recorded human history.


Question: Describe the air quality initiatives recently announced by the Mayor of London. Respond in 25 sentences.

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 Describe the air quality initiatives recently announced by the Mayor of London. Respond in 25 sentences.

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, today announced he is introducing air quality alerts at bus stops, Tube stations and road-sides across the capital to notify Londoners during the worst incidents of air pollution.
Tackling London’s poor air quality is a priority for Sadiq Khan and he has just finished an initial consultation on a comprehensive package of measures to clean-up the capital’s filthy air.
Nearly 15,000 people responded to this consultation and 79 per cent of respondents stated that they wish to receive information when air pollution is high or very high so that they can take action to protect their health and reduce its impact.
Having listened to Londoners, the Mayor has taken swift and decisive action to implement a new programme of air quality advice and alerts for the public.
2,500 bus countdown signs and river pier signs across London.
140 road-side dot matrix message signs on the busiest main roads into London, with instructions to switch engines off when stationary to reduce emissions.
Electronic update signs in the entrances of all 270 London Underground stations.
Depending on the alert level and communication channel, different information and guidance will be provided including: advising people to walk, cycle or use public transport if possible to help improve air quality; to reduce strenuous activity if someone experiences symptoms; or advising asthma sufferers and other vulnerable groups that they may need to use their reliever inhaler more often.
This is the first step towards London putting in place a comprehensive air pollution incident plan, which will also provide critical information to emergency and support services similar to the existing heatwave plan for England. This will ensure improved coordination during the very worst air pollution incidents and that the most vulnerable Londoners are better prepared.
Figures revealed by Sadiq Khan during the first month of his mayoralty highlighted that the previous Mayor failed to take sufficient action on over a hundred occasions when air quality was moderate, high or very high in London during 2014, 2015 and 2016.
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said: “Unlike my predecessor, I believe that Londoners have a right to know about the quality of the air that they breathe. These new alerts will allow them to take precautions and help them plan ahead to avoid the worst instances of air pollution.
The alerts will use a three-day ahead forecast about air pollution levels provided by airTEXT. More vulnerable Londoners with particular health needs will continue to have access to the airTEXT service enabling them to get regular forecasts via text, voicemail, email, mobile app and online.
The Mayor will also use his Twitter account and other social media channels to make people aware of moderate air quality incidents, which occur around 40 times a year.
The first round of the Mayor’s Clean Air consultation, which closed on Friday, July 28, proposes a range of measures including new charges for the oldest most polluting vehicles entering central London from 2017, an expanded Ultra Low Emission Zone, and a diesel scrappage scheme. A further more detailed consultation will take place later this year and some measures could be implemented as early as 2017.
Forecasts will be provided by airTEXT. airTEXT is a London borough-led free service for the public providing air quality alerts by SMS text message, email and voicemail and three-day forecasts of air quality, pollen, UV and temperature across Greater London. airTEXT is operated by Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants (CERC) Ltd in partnership with London boroughs, the GLA, Public Health England and the Environment Agency.
TfL is making existing air quality data more usable by making it available in an API format whereby third party app developers can use it. There will be a hackathon to support the development of new apps and innovative ways of using this data.
Capital’s poor air quality leads to around 1000 London hospital admissions for asthma and COPD every year.
Two million Londoners – including more than 400,000 children – are living in areas exceeding legal air pollution limits.


Question: I heard that Lazada is launching an online grocery shopping and delivery service soon. Can you tell me more about it?

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 I heard that Lazada is launching an online grocery shopping and delivery service soon. Can you tell me more about it?

The largest e-commerce platform in the Philippines, Lazada, is launching an online grocery shopping and delivery service later this year. This was announced by Lazada Philippines CEO Inanc Balci at the 10th Filipina Entrepreneurship Summit on Tuesday, March 6.
Balci made the announcement after a member of the audience asked him how she can sell her salads online, and how the company can guarantee the product’s quality and freshness during delivery.
“We’re actually launching our Lazada grocery business either end of this year or early next year so fresh produce could also be sold in Lazada starting with Metro Manila customers. So we’ll have cold warehouses in and out of Metro Manila so you can put your products there and by two hours, your order will be delivered,” Balci said.
If Lazada pushes through with the plan, it will not be the first e-commerce company to offer online grocery shopping. MetroMart, an on-demand grocery deliver service, launched in 2016. Last year, two startups, Pushkart.ph and Singapore-based HonestBee, started offering online grocery shopping and delivery.
As of this writing, MetroMart has over 90,000 registered users. This proves that online grocery shopping is fast gaining acceptance and popularity in the country.
Lazada is the top e-commerce platform in the country, with more than 62 million page views per month. Fast-growing rival Shopee is a distant third, behind fashion marketplace Zalora, with nearly 4 million page views per month.
Lazada’s entry to the online grocery business is another bold and strategic move aimed at keeping its competitors at bay. Global e-commerce giant Amazon recently launched a fast delivery service called Prime Now in Singapore last year. The service delivers Amazon’s products, as well as fresh goods, to Singaporean homes within two hours.
Recently, Shopee opened its doors to Taobao sellers, allowing its users to buy goods directly from China.


Question: Have you heard about Yves Behar's new Love turntable? Respond in 29 sentences.

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 Have you heard about Yves Behar's new Love turntable? Respond in 29 sentences.

Love is a new turntable that sits on top of your records.
Yves Behar designed the turntable.
And spins around the groove of a record like a hand on a clock.
The device attaches to a base.
An infrared sensor in the bottom of LOVE will scan the record to determine its size and where each new song begins.
The player wirelessly connects to speakers and an app.
Using audio recognition software, the app will tell you what song is playing.
It also lets you skip tracks.
Turntables, even those with five-figure prices, operate on the same basic premise: a stationary needle follows the grooves of a spinning record, translating vibrations into electrical signals, which are then translated into sound. Love flips that. The oblong player, designed by Yves Behar, spins around your vinyl like the hand of a clock. It's weird. Really weird. Audiophiles might even call it blasphemous. So just wait until they hear Love can skip tracks, connect to Bluetooth, and be operated with your phone.
The player, now raising money on Kickstarter, features a flat base that holds the record, and the tonearm that spins around it. The tonearm revolves around a spindle that supports its weight, and only the needle touches the vinyl. "There's no weight on the grooves," Pinhas says. The "intelligent" turntable responds to commands from a Bluetooth-connected phone app.
The underside of the Love player sports an infrared sensor that scans the record and assigns each song a track number. Tap the app (or the Love) once and it starts the first song. Tap it twice, and it skips to the second. And so on. A glowing number reminds you which track you’re enjoying.
Love uses song recognition technology similar to Shazam and assigns each track a title. It’s a small detail that shifts an analog gadget like Love closer to the digital listening experience most people are accustomed to. Behar expects to see more gadgets striking this balance between old and new, analog and digital. “There’s this new convergence of quality and new technology that doesn’t betray the original craft of a product,” he says. That idea might not sit well with those who vinyl for its charmingly archaic qualities, but then again, Pinhas didn't design Love for traditionalists.


Question: Why are Indians so outraged by foreign criticism? Respond in 52 sentences.

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US President Barack Obama says India’s investment climate is unsatisfactory and limits foreign direct investment in too many sectors. Time magazine has run a cover story calling Prime Minister Manmohan Singh an ‘underachiever’. The outraged reaction of many Indians can only be called juvenile.
Such criticisms are so commonplace – most Indian critics have been saying the same thing for years – that they should not be news at all. Yet, many Indians have responded with an outpouring of angst, outrage and conspiracy theories. These are like the angry tears of a spoiled child. Come on, grow up.
Indian analysts and columnists have cried themselves hoarse about policy paralysis. So why get hot under the collar at the belated American discovery of India? Too many Indians yawn at criticism by their countrymen but go ballistic if a foreigner repeats the same criticism. This suggests a deep inferiority complex, a hangover from colonial times.
The government came out with an official reaction trashing Obama. Whatever for? Corporate affairs minister Veerappa Moily said international lobbies like Vodafone were spreading false stories, and Obama was not properly informed about India’s strong economic fundamentals.
Ridiculous! Capital goods production has been plummeting in India for a year, clear proof that not even Indian industrialists are investing. Many of them have said they are investing abroad because conditions are easier there. When such complaints are pouring in from every corner of India, it is hilarious for Moily to claim it is all a plot of Vodafone.
Industry minister Anand Sharma declared, “policymaking is a sovereign right,” and claimed that India actually had a very good investment climate that was attracting foreigners in a big way.
This will induce many sniggers, because Sharma himself was foiled by his coalition colleagues last year while trying to promote foreign investment in multi-brand retail. Instances like Sharma’s humiliation are precisely what Obama is complaining about.
Suppose Manmohan Singh gives an interview to an American journalist, and suppose he repeats the criticisms Indian businessmen routinely make about the US. The American media would ignore Singh’s remarks as old hat. Obama’s remarks merit the same treatment.
US businessmen say the US corporate tax rate at 35% is one of the highest in the OECD, and hurts their competitiveness. US income tax, capital gains tax and estate duty are so high that some US businessmen – like Eduardo Saverin, co-founder of Facebook – have migrated to Singapore, which has far lower taxes. Recent US legislation (including the healthcare law) has hugely increased the regulatory and financial burden of US corporations.
For instance, compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley law costs corporations $2 billion per year, and results in annual reports hundreds of pages long. Indian companies like TCS originally aimed to list their shares in the US, but found Sarbanes-Oxley so burdensome that they decided to list instead in Europe.
Indian businessmen have other gripes. US protectionism is one of them. The US has started squeezing IT companies badly in the issue of visas to Indian software engineers. The US imposes social security taxes on Indian engineers on deputation to the US, but refuses to refund these when they return home.
State Bank of India and ICICI Bank will tell you how difficult it is to get additional bank branch licences in the US. If Manmohan Singh gives an interview to US business journalists, he will surely mention some of these grievances. Yet, there will be no reaction from US politicians or media. We should be just as mature.
Most bizarre has been the India reaction to Time magazine’s cover story on Manmohan Singh. Once a great magazine, Time is now dying and has rapidly declining US readership. Its cover story on Singh was limited to its Asian edition – it was not considered important enough for other editions. Yet, many Indian readers reacted as though this was a major US foreign policy move against India.
A certain ex-Major general wrote, “I see the US as annoyed with India in an election year at having missed [out] on huge business in arms and nuclear reactor supply. US and Europe are in serious recession. The US has backed a wrong horse in Pakistan and its Af-Pak policy is in shambles.
Many others also see some sort of American political plot behind the Time cover story. I am astounded at so much ‘ bhav’ being given to a dying American magazine that was once a big name. This reminds me of Simranjit Singh Mann’s demands during the Khalistani agitation in Punjab.
As part of the greater autonomy for Punjab that he sought, he demanded that Amritsar should be made a major international airport receiving flights from Pan American Airways. He did not know that Pan American Airways, once the spearhead of US civil aviation, had gone bust and died!
Foreign politicians and magazines are merely mirroring what many Indian critics have been saying for years. If you do not like the image that you see in the mirror, do not blame the mirror. Blame yourself.


Question: "What was the history of the Newark Falcons?"

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The Newark Falcons were an American soccer club based in Newark, New Jersey that was a member of the American Soccer League. The club was previously known as Elizabeth Falcons, based in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and for a season as Falcons-Warsaw. After the 1958–59 season, the club became simply Falcons S.C. and became known as Falcons-Warsaw before the 1962–63 season. After the 1963–64 season, the team became the Newark. The team disbanded during the 1966–67 season.


Question: Explain 5 reasons why you would choose Extra over Divi.

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 Explain 5 reasons why you would choose Extra over Divi.

Divi is an excellent theme that can build practically any type of website you could ever need, but Elegant Themes has another theme called Extra that is often overlooked. Divi and Extra both use the Divi Builder, but Extra has a few additional features that might make you choose it instead. In this article we’ll take a look at 5 reasons you might choose Extra over Divi.
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The Category Builder lets you build your homepage using specialized category modules. This is great for magazine or blog layouts, or any type of layout where you want to display blocks of posts with specific categories. Just as with any page or post, you can display the sidebar on the right, left, or choose no sidebar.
Category Builder modules include posts, blog feed masonry, blog feed standard, featured posts slider, posts carousel, tabbed posts, ads, images, text, and code.
Multiple modules can be used within your layouts with specific categories chosen for each, creating some interesting magazine and blog layouts.
Lots of pre-made layouts are included to help you get started. Just like using the standard Divi Builder you can easily rearrange the modules, duplicate them, change the columns in a row, etc. It can also display specialty sections.
This is one of the built-in layouts. Simply choose your categories and you’re done. Of course you can easily modify the layout to make it your own.
The default category for the Category Builder is optimized for blogging and creates an elegant blog homepage.
Extra has several blog post features to make your posts stand out and look great, including the standard Divi post formats plus a new one for maps, sharing buttons, navigation, author box, related posts, and a review system for product reviews.
Here’s a look at each of the blogging features. These features appear on each post by default unless you choose the disable them on a specific post.
The Review Box allows you to create your own review structure and include a score for each element of the structure.
This displays under the text of the post. It gives an overall score from the individual scores you’ve provided.
It adds a score to the featured image. The score includes a line that works as a bar graph, providing the number and a visual indication of the product’s score.
The bottom of the post (or under the Review Box if you’re using it) includes social sharing buttons and star ratings where readers can share and rate your posts.
The ratings are displayed within the post’s meta on both the homepage and within the post itself.
Next and Previous buttons display under the share and rate links. They provide the names of the posts as well as buttons with arrows and labels.
Next is an Author Box. The content for the Author Box comes from the user’s profile.
Related posts are displayed under the Author Box in each post. It displays the featured image, title, and publish date.
You can customize the sidebars for each post and page individually. Post settings let you choose the sidebar location (right, left, or no sidebar), the sidebar/widget area to display, set as featured post, and select features to hide.
Page settings include a sidebar location for right, left, or none, which sidebar to display, and hide meta. Other features include redesigned WooCommerce integration for nicer product pages, 8 page templates, and more.
Header Elements add a bar across the top and includes social icons, search bar, and a trending bar. You can enable or disable them individually. The menu for your pages is added to this top bar if you choose to use the bar.
Easily create a mega menu to display recent or featured posts. It includes the featured image, meta, large images for the two latest posts, and thumbnails for the others.
Extra includes 9 custom widgets for displaying ads, authors, login, recent comments, post, reviews, tweets, videos, and social follows.
Most are standard (recent comments), but some are highly specialized (recent videos or tweets).
What About Divi Child Themes, Plugins, and Layouts?
Divi does have the advantage of having lots of third-party child themes and plugins, but Extra has more out of the box and any customizations you can make to Divi can be made to Extra. Divi layouts that only require the Divi Builder also work with Extra, so a lot of third-party designs can be used with your Extra website.
Divi is a great choice for an all-purpose theme, but Extra is more focused on blogs and magazines – providing features you don’t get with Divi. If you’re building a blog or magazine, these features alone might be enough to choose Extra over Divi.
We’d like to hear from you. Do you use Extra instead of Divi? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.


Question: Describe the three ways to thread-safely handle state and the advantages and disadvantages of each method.

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 Describe the three ways to thread-safely handle state and the advantages and disadvantages of each method.

A Gem from this month's extracted tips (from Brian Goetz's talk): "There are three ways to thread-safely handle state: don't share or don't mutate or coordinate access". You've probably tried all three techniques at times, but without necessarily explicitly thinking that these were your alternatives.
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What's nice about explicitly listing these three alternatives is that you can hold that in mind, and everytime you consider a concurrency implementation, you can think through these options (the order listed in the quote is also the order of increasing likelihood of generating issues, ie the first is easiest to maintain as least likely to cause bugs).
Of course there are corresponding overheads - both "don't share" and "don't mutate" techniques tend to increase copies of data, which incurs runtime and garbage collection costs that both impact latency. You gain high throughput for lower maintenance costs, but it's very hard to maintain high throughput together with low latency with those two techniques. If you need low latency, you need "coordinate access" and, more specifically, coordinate access using lock-free techniques.
Now almost on to our usual links to tools, articles, news, talks, but first a couple of goodies: for those of you interested in following the JCrete conference, #JCrete will be used to tag related items, including (live) periscope broadcasts; and finally LinkedIn's Zhenyun Zhuang's article on SSD-Friendly Applications, linked below, is an absolute must-read if you use SSDs, and I/O performance is important to you. And if you need the tips from that or any other of this month's articles and talks, as ever they are extracted into this month's tips page.
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Question: Describe the situation in Hungary regarding the refugee crisis. Respond in 32 sentences.

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 Describe the situation in Hungary regarding the refugee crisis. Respond in 32 sentences.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Thursday that his country did not want to accept Muslim refugees, as he defended his tough approach to border control on the frontline of Europe's migration crisis.
Orban spoke in Brussels at meetings between European Union leaders and Hungary's prime minister after images of a drowned Syrian child on a Turkish beach grabbed world attention this week and said that it was not a moral argument for opening Europe's doors.
"If we would create ... an impression that 'just come because we are ready to accept everybody,' that would be a moral failure. The moral, human thing is to make clear: 'Please don't come,'" Orban told reporters.
In a later news conference, Orban said the history of Ottoman rule meant Hungarians would not accept large-scale Muslim immigration, a point made recently by neighboring Slovakia.
"We don't want to, and I think we have a right to decide that we do not want a large number of Muslim people in our country," Orban said. "We do not like the consequences of having a large number of Muslim communities that we see in other countries, and I do not see any reason for anyone else to force us to create ways of living together in Hungary that we do not want to see. That is a historical experience for us."
In a pugnacious performance typical of a right-wing leader who has often clashed with liberal sentiment in Brussels, Orban rejected criticism of the razor-wire fence he has thrown up along the EU's external frontier with Serbia.
Orban met European Council President Donald Tusk, who appealed for greater European solidarity and more help for refugees.
Tusk took issue with remarks Orban made in a German newspaper in which he noted that most asylum-seekers were Muslim at a time when Europe's Christian culture was weak.
"For a Christian," Tusk said, "it shouldn't matter what race, religion or nationality the person in need represents."
Thousands of people desperate to reach Western Europe rushed into a Budapest train station Thursday after police ended a two-day blockade, setting off a wave of anger and confusion as hundreds shoved their way onto a waiting train.
But instead of heading to the Austrian border, the overloaded train stopped at Bicske, a town northwest of Budapest that holds one of the country's five camps for asylum seekers, facilities the refugees want to avoid because they don't want to pursue asylum claims in economically depressed Hungary. As the train platform filled with police came into view, those inside chanted their disapproval and their determination to reach Germany, their almost unanimous goal.
The crowd, angrily waving train tickets to Vienna and Munich, refused police orders to board buses to the asylum center, pushing their way past police and back onto the train. A day-long standoff ensued in which police and charity workers took turns handing food and water to the passengers, only to have them tossed out train windows in protest.
"We don't need food and water! Just let us go to Germany!" one man shouted. Children held up handwritten signs reading, "Let's Go Germany."
One man threw his wife and infant son onto the tracks, screaming in Arabic, "We won't move from here!" Police surrounded the prone family, pulled the husband away and handcuffed him as he wailed. His wife and diaper-clad boy, apparently uninjured despite their stumbling descent onto the tracks, were freed and allowed to rejoin other refugees.
The scene of desperation was just one of many that unfolded Thursday as tempers flared in Hungary's war of wills with refugees trying to evade asylum checks and reach Western Europe, a showdown with consequences for the entire continent.
About 100 police kept watch on the train, escorting media – including Al Jazeera reporter Andrew Simmons – from the platform, but didn't remove the refugees by force.
The head of police border control, Col. Laszlo Balazs, said 16 people voluntarily checked into the asylum center, while about 500 others refused. He said officers were using loudspeakers to inform those who would not comply of "their legal obligations."
"Nobody can avoid identity checks. Everyone must submit themselves to this measure, and the police are keeping this train in place until they do," he said.
Back at the Budapest train station, announcements in Hungarian and English – but not Arabic, the language of most of those gathered inside – declared that all services from the station to Western Europe had been canceled. A statement in English on the main departures board said no more trains to Austria or Germany would leave "due to safety reasons until further notice!"


Question: What games should I play this weekend?

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Visit the holy grounds of the Nordic Gods. Make sacrifices and recruit powerful yet unpredictable Berserker troops into your army.
A loyal canine friend who will stay by your side, even on the battlefield.
Skip the rise to power and get straight into Reforged Editions expanded kingdom management.
Feed your men a better variety of food by hunting wild boar but beware, startle these creatures and they're liable to attack.
Out of luck and out of pennings. Commit yourself to an honest day's work in a quarry, mine or farmstead.
There is no greater weapon than the element of surprise; catch your enemies off guard with an ambush attack. Though you must keep your wits about you, or you could be the target of an ambush yourself.
Companions that leave the player's party from discontent may now strike out on their own as adventurers, gathering their own forces and making their mark on the world.
Discover assassination plots, interfere in affairs of religion and more with these new sandbox quests.
New ambient sounds and scene contribute to a richer experience in historical Dark Age Britain.
Dozens of new weapons and armours as well as updates to old visuals.
Improved enemy AI, incorporating tactics and formations add a new dimension to battles. Shock troops such as the Berserkir fight like animals but in the heat of battle may not distinguish friend from foe.
Customise your kingdom's colour, ransom prisoners to the enemy and raise your peasants as a levy army in times of need.
New scenes and Raid game mode. Improvements to the UI and additional options for server admins to take control of the invaders in Invasion mode.
Special player traits and the ability to spread rumours to influence people throughout the land. More lively scenes with domestic animals walking around. Extra information about your companions and the option of a second player outfit for use outside of battle, as well as much more roleplay and many more immersive features.
Set your own goals to become an Infamous Raider, Strong King, Beloved Warrior and more. Customise your difficulty options to cater your own experience and challenge.
Detailed map including the British Isles, Frisia, Denmark and Norway.
Scenes, many based on archeological information, that allow the player to enjoy the true beauty of the Dark Ages.
21 Kingdoms and 6 unique cultures.
A Dark and harsh world, where laws are weak and men forge legends.
A system of character creation complete with personality and background options that will affect how the player relates to the world around him and the characters within it.
Completely new art work to immerse you like never before in the Viking world.
Build, buy and even name your own ships.
Several historical types of boats: Langskip, Knorr, Snekkja, Karvi and more. Each has its own characteristics, which are also affected by the quality of the materials, with which it was constructed.
Coastal assault! You can lead your boat or your fleet in rapid assaults from the sea.
And more: waves, storms, the option to create your own Viking expedition or hire a ship for travel.
A battle system based on what we know historically about warfare in the Viking Age.
Different kinds of troops: permanent companion soldiers or landed classes called to war for specific situations.
Tactic camera for an overview of the battlefield.
Special units such as clerics, horn blowers, standard bearers and more.
Wounds and critical hit system.
Hundreds of new items, weapons and armors!
Several factions to choose from including Vikings, Saxons, Irish, Britons and Picts.
Units/items with special capabilities are also present in multiplayer, along with berserk rage.
Optional item Deadly Bow to transform any mode.
Multitude of modes including dynamic sea battles, coastal assaults, warlords, deathmatch, team deathmatch, Capture the Flag, Conquest, Battle, and Siege.


Question: What is the Medal of Honor? Respond in 24 words.

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The Medal of Honor is the United States of America's highest military honor.
Medal of Honor or Medal of Honour may also refer to: