Question: What does it mean when a device is "certified for Ubuntu"?

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Intel's 7th Gen NUCs Are Now "Ubuntu Certified" - OMG! Ubuntu!
A slate of 7th-gen Intel NUCs are now officially certified for Ubuntu, Canonical has announced.
If you’ve had your eye on an Intel NUC for dev work, IoT shenanigans, or to use as an entertainment hub in the living room, you’ll be pleased to know you can install and run Ubuntu 16.04 LTS without encountering any major issues.
Yes: I did say Ubuntu 16.04 LTS there and not Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, the most recent long-term support release. Only the Xenial Xerus is currently certified for use on these device.
But what does ‘certified for Ubuntu’ even mean?
Although no the latest-and-greatest LTS Canonical isn’t shy about the benefits 2016’s release can offer.
In the press release to announce this new the company highlights the ability to install, deploy, manage and run Snaps as one way Ubuntu can “enhance the versatility of the Intel NUC”.
Intel NUCs — NUC stands for Next Unit of Computing — are small form-factor PCs designed by Intel and — surprise — running on Intel hardware.
Eight generations of Intel NUCs have been released thus far but it’s the seventh generation, which feature Kaby Lake-based Core i3, i5, and i7 CPUs, that are certified for Ubuntu.
Intel NUCs come in various configurations. Some are fully assembled PCs with case, fan, PSU, 4″x4″ Intel NUC motherboard, CPU and Windows 10 OS. Others come in “kit” mode with just the motherboard and CPU.
Some 15 Intel NUCs have been checked for compatibility, including a number of the more industrial orientated SKUs, like the NUC7i5DNK PC, which uses an Intel Core i5-7300U and comes pre-loaded with Windows 10.
If you own an Intel NUC (or plan to buy one) you’ll want to install Ubuntu 16.04 LTS using the certified Ubuntu 16.04 LTS image rather than the regular ISO. That image is available to download here.


Question: What do Democrats care about when it comes to the Kavanaugh hearings?

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Democrats are not interested in the truth but in delaying the process until after the election in hopes of obstructing President Trump. Political cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2018.


Question: Could you tell me about some examples of censorship on television over the years?

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Censors cut phrase "water closet" out of "The Tonight Show"
Lucille Ball's character was pregnant, but was never allowed to say the word "pregnant."
Tweety Bird first appears in "A Tale of Two Kitties." Animator Bob Clampett originally draws him without feathers, but the Hays Office censorship bureau thinks the plucked bird is just a little too naked. So Clampett covers Tweety's titillating flesh with yellow plumage.
Clampett doesn't let this pass quietly, though. In the episode, a cat yells to his partner, "Give me the bird!" To which the other cat responds, "If the Hays Office would only let me, I'd give him the bird, all right!"
Ball's pregnancy during an entire season of "I Love Lucy," the actual word "pregnant" isn't allowed on air. Instead, the show uses phrases that seem equally informative but (somehow) less fraught with sin, such as "with child," "having a baby," and "expecting."
Elvis' first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" is seen by 60 million people (about 80 percent of America's TV owners at the time). His hips, however, aren't so lucky. After his cover of Little Richard's "Ready Teddy" -- complete with trademark gyrations -- the camera switches to a close-up of his face as not to over-stimulate the American public. By the time he appears on the show for the third time (in January 1957), he's only shown from the waist up.
Mary Ann from "Gilligan's Island," Jeannie from "I Dream of Jeannie," and "Gidget" are all barred from baring their navels. Actress Mariette Hartley receives the same treatment in a 1966 episode of "Star Trek," but the show's director, Gene Roddenberry, gets his revenge in 1973. He recasts Ms. Hartley in the pilot for his new show, "Genesis II," and gives her two belly buttons.
It's a tough year for network censors struggling to keep up with the hippie culture's profusion of drug slang. Ed Sullivan requests that The Doors change the lyric "Girl, we couldn't get much higher," since it sounds suspiciously like a drug reference. Meanwhile, "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" has a recurring skit about Goldie, a housewife with her own talk show called "Share a little tea with Goldie." The skit constantly plays on the tea/marijuana connection, which goes straight over the censors' heads. Goldie's opening lines include "Hi[gh]! ... And glad of it!"
"Monty Python's Flying Circus" airs "The Undertaker Sketch," in which an undertaker convinces a man that the best way to dispose of his deceased mother is to eat her (with French fries, broccoli, and horseradish sauce). Bizarrely, the BBC allows this to be shown, but only if the sketch ends with the studio audience storming the stage in disgust.
"The Muppet Show" is banned from TV in Saudi Arabia, due to Miss Piggy's, well, pig-ness. (The Prophet Muhammad declared the flesh of swine "an abomination.") Merchandise bearing her likeness is confiscated from shops and destroyed.
Comedy Central prevents "South Park" from using the image of the Prophet Muhammad in the episode "Cartoon Wars." However, for the benefit of freeze-frame geeks everywhere, Trey Parker and Matt Stone sneak a tiny Muhammad into the opening credits in a shot that shows every resident of the town.
•1957: Before it airs, CBS yanks the pilot episode of "Leave It To Beaver" because of its plot: Wally and the Beav mail-order a baby alligator and are forced to hide it in the tank of the family's toilet. CBS finally decides the show can air, but only if all shots of the toilet seat are excised. The toilet tank is left unharmed, marking the first time a toilet (or half of one, anyway) appears on TV.
•1960: Host Jack Paar walks off the set of "The Tonight Show" in the middle of taping an episode. He would not return for a month. The reason? Censors cut a joke that used the phrase "water closet."
•1971: A major breakthrough occurs as the toilet is finally allowed to perform its function. The first flush is heard, but not seen, on a first-season episode of "All in the Family." TV's first flusher is, of course, Archie Bunker.


Question: Explain the concept of "adversarial images" and how they can be used to trick artificial intelligence.

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If it is the shape of a turtle, the size of a turtle, and has the patterning of a turtle, it’s probably a turtle. So when artificial intelligence confidently declares it’s a gun instead, something’s gone wrong.
But that’s what researchers from MIT’s Labsix managed to trick Google’s object recognition AI into thinking, they revealed in a paper published this week.
The team built on a concept known as an “adversarial image”. That’s a picture created from the ground-up to fool an AI into classifying it as something completely different from what it shows: for instance, a picture of a tabby cat recognised with 99% certainty as a bowl of guacamole.
Such tricks work by carefully adding visual noise to the image so that the bundle of signifiers an AI uses to recognise its contents get confused, while a human doesn’t notice any difference.
But while there’s a lot of theoretical work demonstrating the attacks are possible, physical demonstrations of the same technique are thin on the ground. Often, simply rotating the image, messing with the colour balance, or cropping it slightly, can be enough to ruin the trick.
The MIT researchers have pushed the idea further than ever before, by manipulating not a simple 2D image, but the surface texture of a 3D-printed turtle. The resulting shell pattern looks trippy, but still completely recognisable as a turtle – unless you are Google’s public object detection AI, in which case you are 90% certain it’s a rifle.
The researchers also 3D printed a baseball with pattering to make it appear to the AI like an espresso, with marginally less success – the AI was able to tell it was a baseball occasionally, though still wrongly suggested espresso most of the time.
“Our work demonstrates that adversarial examples are a significantly larger problem in real world systems than previously thought,” the researchers wrote. As machine vision is rolled out more widely, such attacks could be dangerous.
Already researchers are examining the possibility of automatically detecting weapons from CCTV images. A turtle that looks like a rifle to such a system may merely cause a false alarm; a rifle that looks like a turtle, however, would be significantly more dangerous.
There are still issues for the researchers to iron out. Most importantly, the current approach to fooling machine vision only works on one system at a time, and requires access to the system to develop the trick patterns. The turtle that fools Google’s AI can’t pull off the same attack against Facebook or Amazon, for instance. But some researchers have already managed to develop simpler attacks that work against unknown AIs, by using techniques that have general applications.
AI companies are fighting back. Both Facebook and Google have published research that suggests they are looking into the techniques themselves, to find ways to secure their own systems.


Question: "Is the flagpole still open to visitors?" Respond in 146 words.

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Visit any time you'd like!
The flagpole and memorial can be visited at any time. The flag may be taken down temporarily during times of maintenance or severe weather. It will also be lowered to half staff during official observances.
* No upcoming maintenance or observations scheduled.
Visible from a considerable distance, the flagpole is located on the company's headquarters campus along Interstate 43 between Milwaukee and Green Bay on Lake Michigan.
A Veterans Memorial featuring the names of Sheboygan County residents killed in active duty is installed at the flagpole's base.
Erecting a flagpole of such height in a location where temperatures frequently fall below zero required a team of experts to ensure structural integrity and maintainability. The pole supports a 70- by 140-foot American flag.
"We proudly fly this flag because we are blessed to live and work in the United States of America."


Question: What happened in Bosnia's election this past Sunday?

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Milorad Dodik secured the job of the Serb member in the tripartite inter-ethnic presidency.
Bosnian Serb nationalist leader Milorad Dodik has claimed victory with 55 percent of votes over moderate incumbent Mladen Ivanic to take the Serbs' seat at the presidency, according to preliminary results from Bosnia's Election Commission.
Meanwhile, the moderate Croat candidate, Zeljko Komsic, defeated nationalist Croat incumbent of Bosnia's tripartite presidency, Dragan Covic, bagging 50 percent of the votes.
Sefik Dzaferovic won the Bosniak seat of the presidency with 38 percent of votes.
Sunday's election saw more than 3.3 million Bosnians cast ballots to elect an array of institutions in the country's complex governing system, which was created by a peace accord that ended the war 25 years ago.
The country consists of two regional mini-states - a Serb-run and a Bosniak-Croat entity - with joint institutions in a central government.
The ballot was seen as a test of whether Bosnia will move towards integration in the European Union and NATO or remain entrenched in rivalries stemming from the 1992-95 war, which left 100,000 people dead and millions homeless.
The campaign was marred by divisive rhetoric and allegations of irregularities that heightened tensions.
In a show of widespread popular discontent with Bosnia's politicians, thousands rallied at anti-corruption protests on Friday in Sarajevo and in the main Serb city of Banja Luka.
Bosnia's Serbs and Croats want to move closer to their ethnic kin in neighbouring Serbia and Croatia, while the Bosniaks want to keep Bosnia together. The issue was at the core of the 1990s war.
The election's main focus was the Bosnian presidency because of the candidacy of Dodik, who advocates eventual Serb separation from Bosnia.
He is a key Balkan ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and his victory would mean stronger influence of Russia.
The West has hoped prospects of EU and NATO membership would encourage nations in the Balkans to solve their disputes stemming from the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia. Russia opposes any more Balkan countries joining NATO.
With Dodik advocating the eventual separation of Serbs from Bosnia, his election to the three-person presidency deals a blow to efforts to strengthen unity in the country.
"The will of the people leaves no doubt what they want," Dodik said, following the preliminary official results, adding that voters "punished" his opponent for his "servile policies toward the West".
"No one can help [the opposition], not even a hundred American or British embassies, as they have been helping them so far. Therefore the will of people is unquestionable," Dodik said at a news conference on Sunday.
Dodik shifted to the race for the Bosnian presidency because of term limits for his current job leading the Bosnian Serb regional mini-state, Republika Srpska.
His ruling coalition hopes to maintain a firm grip on power in the Serb region.
He urged the voters on Sunday to elect a "compact and unified" government that will preserve the unity of Republika Srpska and work to further benefit it.
Liberal candidates who back a civil society free of ethnic divisions have largely been pushed to the margins in Bosnia's political landscape, but moderate candidate Komsic managed to defeat nationalist candidate Covic.
Covic, who received 39 percent of votes, sought the formation of a third government body, a Croat mini-state that would spell further fragmentation for the fragile nation, dashing hopes for Bosnia to be strengthened as a multiethnic union.
He had urged voters to "deliver a clear, new message" that they want to turn Bosnia into a country of "absolute constitutional equality" for all ethnic groups.
Conceding defeat late Sunday, Covic warned of a "never-seen-before" crisis in the country.


Question: What can your KaleidoCamera do?

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Exemplary applications of our camera add-on: Top Row: Multispectral imaging: unprocessed output (left), a spectral stack of images after processing (middle), a neutral image relit with a flat spectrum (right). Middle Row: High Dynamic Range Imaging: unprocessed output (left), a simulated exposure sweep of contrast ratio 100 : 1 (middle), a tone-mapped version of the HDR image (right). Bottom Row: Light-field imaging: unprocessed output (left), virtual refocusing on foreground (middle) and background (right).
We propose a non-permanent add-on that enables plenoptic imaging with standard cameras which we refer to as KaleidoCamera. Our design is based on a physical copying mechanism that multiplies a sensor image into a number of identical copies that still carry the plenoptic information of interest. Via different optical filters, we can then recover the desired information. A minor modification of the design also allows for aperture subsampling and, hence, light-field imaging. As the filters in our design are exchangeable, a reconfiguration for different imaging purposes is possible. We show in a prototype setup that high dynamic range, multispectral, polarization, and light-field imaging can be achieved with our design.
A. Manakov, J. Restrepo, O.Klehm, R. Hegedus, E. Eisemann, H.-P. Seidel, I. Ihrke. 2013. A Reconfigurable Add-on for Multi-Spectral, High-Speed, Polarization and Light-Field Imaging. ACM Trans. Graph. 32, 4 (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 2013.
Here you can download the presentation for the talk given at SIGGRAPH 2013 and the video recording of the talk.
We show results for the light field design, as well as the filter-based design with filters for HDR, multispectral, and polarization photography.
In the light-field configuration of the KaleidoCamera the diffuser is removed, which enables sub-sampling of viewing directions. The central sub-image is a direct view to the scene (without reflections). The other sub-images are the other views of the scene, flipped because of the mirror-reflection. The corner sub-images are flipped twice because of a double mirror-reflection. Please pay attention to the parallax, for instance, look at the left of the pirate. In the central sub-image it is slightly occluded by Buddha's right shoulder, in the left image in the second row the leg is fully visible, and in the right image it is ocluded.
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In the filter-based configuration of the KaleidoCamera works with the diffuser and interchangeable filters, in this case neutral density filters. The diffuser functions as a back projection screen and enables physical image copying avoiding parallax.
Under filter-based configuration with wide-band spectral filters we are able to reconstruct the spectrum of the scene.
In our experiment we have used two artificial roses and a natural one. The artificial roses' spectrum differs from the spectrum of the natural rose in the blue region as we can see from the second image in the top row.
For polarization imaging it is essential to use a polarization-preserving diffuser, such type of diffusers are commonly used for polarization-based stereo projection. In this case we use linear polarization filters with orientations of 0, 45, 90 degrees. We are able to capture Stokes parameters for every pixel. The logo on the left (central sub-image) is shown on the screen, whereas the logo on the right is printed on paper. The paper acts as a diffuser and destroys the LCD’s light polarization. Thus the logo displayed on the screen is polarized, and the one on the paper is depolarized.
We simulate the image perceived by the eye looking through linear polarizer (in different rotation positions) at the scene. In the position it is possible to cancel polarized light out by the filter (left-most image in the top row).
Here we provide one dataset for each plenoptic function dimension we are able to capture with the KaleidoCamera. Full datasets are available on request however are not being made directly downloadable due to hosting constraints.


Question: Can you tell me about the Ministry for Veterans Affairs in Ukraine?

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The Ministry for Veterans Affairs () was a government ministry in Ukraine that was officially established on 22 November 2018. Its current and first minister is Iryna Friz, who was appointed (also) on 22 November 2018. On the day of her appointment Friz expected the ministry to be fully functional in June 2019. The current Honcharuk Government (since 29 August 2019) merged the ministry with the Ministry of Temporarily Occupied Territories and IDPs.


Question: Respond in 4 sentences. "Do you know anything about the episode 'Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife'?

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"Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife" is the fifteenth episode of the seventeenth season of the American animated television sitcom "The Simpsons". It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 26, 2006, and was watched by around ten million people during that broadcast. In the episode, Homer signs the Simpson family up for a reality show in which the mothers of two families switch places. Marge gets to live with a friendly man named Charles and his perfect son, while Homer, Bart, and Lisa must spend time with Charles' strict wife Verity.


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Oh, what a wonderful Thursday Night Football game last night. My New York Jets stay in the mix by beating those divisional rival Bills thanks to penalties galore and missed opportunities (not what you normally want to hang your hat on if you're a professional football team). That D-line meant business, the run game had a little pep in it's step, the receivers were clicking and ol' Treadwell McCown had some stride in his glide (could be problematic since he's 38, but let's keep them fingers crossed he refrains from getting his block knocked off). Just a super satisfying win for a squad that was expected to put up a goose-egged win column for 2017. They've got the Bucs next week then a bye the week after, but then have the Chiefs, Broncos, Saints and Pats down the pipeline. Gonna be real tough slog, but that's the trials of the pigskin.
And I said it before and I'll say it again, Tony Romo is dynamite in the broadcast booth. He's smooth, smart and quick enough to give a good breakdown of what happens between the hashmarks and on the sidelines. You can even tell Jim Nantz digs what he's doing.
May they miss out on the Sam Darnold sweepstakes? Looks that way, but who knows what kind of crazy wheeling and dealing will come at season's end when you got a dude named Woody pulling the strings.


Question: What is Lithuania doing to help with the relocation of refugees?

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VILNIUS – Lithuania will not slow down the pace of relocation of refugees after expiry of the European Union's (EU) two-year program, says Interior Minister Eimutis Misiunas.
"Lithuania is indeed ready, it is doing everything to be able to relocate. But both Greece and Italy are behind schedule to prepare the necessary documentation (…), they do not collect the necessary information in time," Misiunas told BNS.


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 "I'm amazed by this tiny home – it's got so much to love within such a small space!" Respond in 40 sentences.

This small home is positively brilliant! Sleek and spare, but with a gorgeous layering of light, textures and elevations – I love the transitions from interior to exterior. Smitten!
A very clever design and layout.
So beautiful, clean and full of light!
The view from the bed must be stunning and the way the kitchen is constructed is just genius!
I could move in without changing a thing.
These homes have very nice designed and view of all houses are very neat and pretty.
I am so lucky to see these beautiful designed homes, in these houses have been used very new ideas and technique.
AMAZING – I love the open view and the terraced landscape is superb.
Well, this little gem takes first prize as the most delightful tiny home I’ve come across so far. I would live there in a heartbeat! The house sits so comfortably in it’s setting ~ just perfect.
Best one I have ever seen. Hope someone in US gets a clue that design is important. Very tired of seeing same old cottage on wheels here….
I like the in side of this one ………….
The kitchen is pretty good I have to say and I love the stonework and the setting. What I really really love is that sliding door to the bathroom.
I would love to know where the supplier for that is – I am guessing Italy.
first tiny house with a bidet!
Love this little home. Have seen it one a few different website. would love to have this home to live in here in the States.
The only things missing that I see is a heat source and insulation considerations, not to mention heat loss or gain with that very large expanse of glass.
The heat source is pretty obvious: all of those white tubes in wall recesses and what looks like a towel rack in the bathroom are hot water radiant heat arrays. Somewhere in the mechanical room will be a micro boiler for the radiant heat and DHW. Italy has strict insulation requirements as part of the National Building codes. I know nothing about the design company for this house but it looks well constructed.
Wow, very nice decorated houses, I like very much these types of houses. I want to use these technologies in my house.
Wow, what an incredible design – I love the hidden kitchen, brilliant!
This is a gorgeous house to look at, but I’m not sure if I would like to live in it.
As the kitchen and the bedroom don’t have any division, and the closet doesn’t have a door, the smell of food and spice and the frying grease will stick on the clothes.
I like the door panels, but during summer I’ll miss windows, because opening the panels at night wouldn’t feel safe.
The cabinets at the kitchen look marvelous, but not practical. They are deep drawers, and the kitchen utensils will tend to clutter and pile up.
Oh, come on, don’t believe in anything I’ve just said. I’d love to have a house like that in Turin! I’m just jealous!


Question: What does "bracteolata" mean?

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Shorea bracteolata is a species of plant in the Dipterocarpaceae family. The species name "bracteolata" is derived from Latin ("bracteolatus" = with bracteoles) and refers to the persistent bracteoles of the inflorescence.


Question: Explain the controversy surrounding the Flores Settlement Agreement and Alternatives to Detention programs.

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 Explain the controversy surrounding the Flores Settlement Agreement and Alternatives to Detention programs.

A senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement official told lawmakers that “alternatives to detention” do not have a good record of ensuring migrant families show up at court hearings.
The absconder rate for families in ATD was 28 percent for the first 10 months of FY2018, according to ICE official Matthew Albence.
The Trump administration says the high rate of no-shows is one reason why the Flores Settlement Agreement should be overturned.
Tuesday’s Senate hearing centered on the Flores Settlement Agreement, a federal court order that governs detention policy for unaccompanied alien children and people arrested while traveling in family units. Under Flores, the government cannot keep migrant children detained with their parents for more than 20 days, forcing immigration officials to either separate families or release them pending a court date.
Immigration activists and civil rights groups say the administration’s focus on family detention is misplaced because ATD programs have proven effective at getting migrant families to comply with immigration court orders. As evidence, they frequently cite an Obama administration initiative known as the Family Case Management Program, in which families in certain cities were released and monitored by contracted social workers.
The contractor that administered the program claimed 99 percent of the families under its watch successfully attended their court appearances and ICE check-ins, according to a November 2017 Department of Homeland Security Inspector General report.
However, the duration of the pilot program was much shorter than the average time it takes to complete a case in immigration courts’ “non-detained” docket. That means the high success rate only covered a “very short portion” of the full timeline of the participants’ removal and asylum cases, according to Dan Cadman, a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies.
Migrant families in ATD typically linger for years in immigration proceedings because they are placed in the non-detained docket, which has a backlog of more than 700,000 cases, according to Albence. By contrast, illegal immigrants in detention have an average length of stay of about 40 days before their cases are adjudicated either way, he said.


Question: What inspired Private 'G' to enlist in the army?

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Private ‘G’, a devout Muslim, grew up in a Jewish neighborhood. She decided to enlist after she saw all of her neighbors going to serve.
According to Private ‘G’, recent tensions in Israel caused by young Muslims running through the streets attacking Israeli soldiers with knives does not influence her commitment to serve in the army.
“I am so angry, just like the other soldiers, with these attacks. I am angry that anyone would try to harm these soldiers who are supporting me,” she said.


Question: Explain what Steve Wozniak's thoughts are on blockchain and cryptocurrency.

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 Explain what Steve Wozniak's thoughts are on blockchain and cryptocurrency.

In the 1970’s and 80’s Steve Wozniak imagined personal computers would transform lives – trouble was barely anyone else did.
The co-founder of Apple would eventually become one of history’s great tech visionaries.
Now he believes blockchain and cryptocurrencies will have a similar transformative impact on the world, labelling Bitcoin ‘gold’.
“It takes me back to the early days of personal computers where nobody thought, businesses didn’t at first think, it was going to be worth anything,” he told attendees at the Crypto Invest Summit in Los Angeles this week.
“I really like a lot of the aspects of it (blockchain and cryptocurrencies), basically it lets you for example, I mean you could look at just Bitcoin as the example, the gold, its just like oh my gosh no control anywhere and it really works.
Steve Wozniak talking to members of the Wellington (New Zealand) Apple Users Club in 1985. He’s widely seen as a pioneer of personal computers.
The 68 year old revealed he believes simplicity is currently the only thing standing in the way of mass adoption.
“A lot of the future, even for blockchain applications is very difficult to predict as the technology evolves and gets better and gets very secure and very fast and things like that, so we’re still just at the starting phases.
“People were afraid to use their credit card when the internet first came out… Things like Bitcoin and cyber currencies are a little more difficult to use.
The tech entrepreneur did however warn, just like during the tech ‘bubble’, many blockchain and crypto developers will fail.
“When the internet was gearing up and a lot of companies had ideas on how to change life with internet applications and the like… The early companies were all getting funded, funded, funded, they would change everything in our life and they all went bust.
“Now everything in our life is now on the internet, everything you can do, the internet offers the best solutions.
Does Steve Wozniak own Bitcoin?
Despite comparing it to the early days of Apple, Bitcoin isn’t something Steve Wozniak is investing in. He prefers to experiment.
He owns one solitary Bitcoin and is planning a major Bitcoin ‘adventure’.
“My goal is to travel to another part of the world, like you know that I read articles about, and just take Bitcoin only,” he said at the conference.
“When Bitcoin shot up sky high, oh, oh, oh, everyones commenting on price, I don’t want to be in that world because that’s worries, you’re always watching things.
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Question: Describe a horror game. Respond in 10 sentences.

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Close Your Eyes is a puzzle horror game where your only defense against enemies is to close your eyes. Enemies will not chase you while your eyes are closed. You are being hunted down in an eerie research facility with a backstory shrouded in mystery. The creatures that roam in this facility are tenacious and ruthless. Remember, if you can't see them, they can't see you.
You can't outrun them. You can't hide from them. Your only option is to close your eyes.
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Well, that scared the crap out of me.


Question: Write a commercial script to promote a fictional comedy sketch show.

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Jason Mantzoukas, Sasheer Zamata, Noël Wells, Horatio Sanz, and Dan Deacon join Matt Besser for live scenes about confusing coffee shop measurements, selling celebrity turds on eBay, and a low-budget rock tour. Plus, Lou Reed seeks snacks, and Dan uses his electronic stylings to supplement a trip through the dreamscape.
This episode is sponsored by Blue Apron (www.blueapron.com/improv).


Question: Describe how Universal Basic Income can benefit individuals and society.

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 Describe how Universal Basic Income can benefit individuals and society.

Juha Jarvinen shows that UBI can be a motivator in creating a better life.
Lets face it. Getting money each month just for being alive sounds pretty great. But with that perk comes a whole bunch of backlash.
Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a concept where all citizens of a country are given a monetary stipend each month in order to survive. The practice is being explored in part as a potential solution to job automation in the future.
Fact of the matter is, UBI has its benefits. In a study led by researchers at the World Bank, underdeveloped nations in particular saw a decrease in the consumption of “temptation goods” when given free cash each month. This would include the consumption of alcohol and tobacco.
This is just one experiment in many that countries around the world are conducting. They want to see if a little bit will go a long way in the end.
Thus, Finland recently decided to participate in the worldwide experiment. But instead of it being a “universal” basic income, the country will only offer $590 each month for two years to persons who are unemployed, and will continue regardless of whether or not they find work during that time period.
One major clue they hope to uncover is whether or not those who receive the monthly stipends will essentially use or abuse it. One recipient of this stipend is a man by the name of Juha Jarvinen.
He was one of the 2,000 people selected to participate in the study, led by a Finnish federal agency called Keva. He’s a 37-year old entrepreneur with a wife and six children. In 2010, Jarvinen founded his own business, but it shut down two years later. His wife’s salary, child allowances, and unemployment checks were keeping him afloat.
Now with the incoming monthly stipends, he plans to try his hand again at starting a business. “What will I do in the future? In next two years? I start new business as soon as possible. Now I’m free for that. I really feel I have got back my citizenship,” he wrote.
Jarvinen’s motivation to do something greater for his life demonstrates one side of the coin. The other 1,999 participants will determine whether UBI would be beneficial for the majority of people or not at all.
Is a Universal Basic Income the Answer to Automation-Caused Unemployment?


Question: What is Kwanzaa Crawl?

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Kwanzaa Crawl is a one-day event where people of the African diaspora join together to support the Black-owned Bars in their neighborhoods.
Thousands of Kwanzaa Crawlers will be divided into over 40 different teams, as they travel from bar to bar singing and dancing, dressed in whatever makes them feel unapologetically Black and beautiful.
It's a day of UNITY, FELLOWSHIP, and FUN!
Powered by sisters Kerry Coddett and Krystal Stark, through their organization, Operation Mobilize, Kwanzaa Crawl is a bar crawl that will take place on the first day of Kwanzaa, Thursday, December 26, 2019 in Brooklyn & Harlem, New York. The crawl is focused on the social aspect of building community and aims to facilitate economic empowerment within our community.


Question: Explain why it can be difficult to be vegetarian in China.

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Why is it so Difficult to be Vegetarian in China?
In China the word for vegetable cài 菜 is also the word for “dish” as in “plate of food” (not the actual plate) and that includes meat dishes. This means saying you just want to eat cài might not get you very far if you’re a vegetarian. Your Chinese friends will probably understand it to mean you don’t want a bowl of rice with your (meat) dishes. wǒ men diǎn le jǐ pán cài 我们点了几盘菜 (we ordered several dishes).
So if you’re a vegetarian what should you say? There are two useful adjectives that are used when referring to food or diet. hūn de 荤的 means meat and sù de 素的 means vegetable/ vegetarian. But if you think saying wǒ zhǐ yào chī sù de 我只要吃素的 (I only want to eat vegetarian food) will solve your problems you might be in for a not so nice surprise.
This is because most Chinese don’t really get the concept of vegetarian and, as mentioned above, they will be quite happy to mix small bits of meat/ meat fat in with a pile of green leafy vegetables. This is one thing I really like about China; it is perfectly normal for non-vegetarian people to go to a restaurant and order things like tofu, cabbage and all sorts of other vegetables I’ve never seen in Britain. Saying you want to eat vegetables won’t be interpreted as meaning you’re vegetarian, they will probably assume you’re a meat-eater who just wants to eat a vegetable dish today. The result is that it’s normal to find small bits of pork or animal fat in vegetable dishes that don’t even mention meat in the description.
gān guō huā cài (dry pan cauliflower) is one of my favourite vegetable dishes. Unfortunately for vegetarians, it’s full of little bits of pork.
It’s therefore difficult to even tell someone you’re vegetarian. You could say wǒ bù chī ròu yīn wèi wǒ shì chī sù de 我不吃肉因为我是吃素的 (I don’t eat meat because I’m vegetarian) but that sentence could just as easily translate as “I’m not going to eat meat because I’m a wuss”.
A better alternative is to say wǒ shì sù shí zhǔ yì zhě 我是素食主义者 (I am a vegetarian food ideologist) which is a bit of a mouthful but still one up from calling yourself a big girls blouse. Personally, I’ve never heard a Chinese person call themselves a sù shí zhǔ yì zhě and I’m not entirely convinced that it will always be taken as a serious 100% abstinence from meat.
That’s right, the average Chinese person might not understand the concept of vegetarianism for the sake of vegetarianism, but they do have a long history of Buddhism. And Buddhists don’t eat meat. So quite possibly the fastest and easiest way to find your non-meat-eating credentials taken seriously is simply say wǒ shì fó jiào de. bù néng chī ròu 我是佛教的。不能吃肉 (I’m Buddhist. Can’t eat meat). Even if you’re not Buddhist, just say it anyway. It’s something most Chinese people will have no problem understanding.
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Question: What is the current proposal regarding stopping in separated bike lanes for drivers with accessible parking permits?

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A coalition of cycling, pedestrian, and accessibility advocates is gearing up to fight a proposal that they claim could mean the death of safe bike infrastructure in the city.
The proposal, which will be debated at this week’s city council meeting, would make it legal for drivers with accessible parking permits to temporarily stop in physically separated bike lanes if they’re loading or unloading someone with mobility challenges.
Burns Wattie, a member of the coalition, warned that the proposal would create “an extremely dangerous situation” for road users of all types. Wattie, a cyclist who often drives his wheelchair-using son in an accessible vehicle, said that allowing drivers to stop in protected bike lanes would force cyclists into traffic, and encourage wheelchair users into a space frequented by riders.
“You’d think as the operator of a wheelchair van that I should be delighted with this proposition, but I am not,” he said.
The coalition argues that instead of changing the bylaw, the city should focus on designing streets to ensure that all road users have their own safe, separated space. They suggested providing unloading and loading zones for people with accessibility issues on side streets or at the rear of buildings.
The controversial recommendation to allow stopping in separated bike lanes stems from a review of the cycle tracks on Sherbourne and Wellesley streets. The report that went to the public works committee last month noted that although Wheel-Trans vehicles are allowed to load or unload passengers in separated bike lanes, private vehicles carrying people with accessibility issues are not.
“This is an impediment to those with accessible permits who require barrier-free mobility from a private vehicle,” the report said.
There are more than 120,000 active accessible parking permits in Toronto, according to the provincial ministry of government and consumer services. The fine for stopping improperly in a separated bike lane is $150.
Vehicles are already allowed to stop in painted bike lanes if they’re “actively engaged” in loading or unloading a person with mobility issues, but that rule doesn’t apply to physically separated bike lanes.
In an email, Jacquelyn Hawyard Gulati, the city’s acting director of transportation infrastructure management, stressed that the proposal, which she said was “consistent with practice in other jurisdictions,” would allow temporary stopping, not parking, in separated bike lanes. She rejected the idea it would create unsafe situations.
“The current condition where those with disabilities can no longer access their destinations at some locations because of the creation of cycling facilities has created a conflict. The proposed change aims to address this conflict,” she wrote.
“Pitting one vulnerable group against another will not provide long-term constructive and successful conclusions,” she said.


Question: What happened to the Garoña nuclear power plant?

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 What happened to the Garoña nuclear power plant?

Spain's Garoña nuclear power plant was officially shut down at the weekend, ending four years of uncertainty over its future.
The 446 MWe boiling water reactor at Garoña began operation in 1971 and is suitable for operation until 2019 given certain technical upgrades. Four years ago the Spanish government issued an operating licence lasting only until 5 July 2013.
Despite a change in government, plant operator Nuclenor did not apply for a new licence, instead biding its time as the new ministers outlined reform to the Spanish energy sector. One aspect of this was a new tax regime including new charges for electricity generation and used nuclear fuel which would have cost Garoña about €150 million ($192 million) each year - about 30% of the plant's revenue and clearly too much when combined with €120 million ($154 million) in upgrades necessary to operate until 2019.
As the smallest and oldest nuclear generator in Spain, Garoña's closure only means the loss of 6% of national nuclear generating capacity as eight other reactors continue to generate with total capacity of 7002 MWe. However, Garoña's reliable operation over the last five years saw it achieve an average capacity factor of 93%; replacing its production with equally reliable fossil fuels will cause Spain to emit 10-18 million tonnes more carbon dioxide in the next six years.
The reactor was idled in mid-December 2012 to avoid a full year of retroactive tax charges for which it would have been liable if it was operating on 1 January. Nuclenor played for time in the hope of policy change, appealing to government to keep the reactor in an idle state for an extra year. This was ultimately unsuccessful and Garoña was officially declared shut on 5 July. The reactor is now being prepared for decommissioning.
The loss of the plant comes at a cost to its northern home province of Burgos, where it supported about 1500 jobs and contributed €280 million ($360 million) per year to the economy, according to a study sponsored by Nuclenor. During 2009-12 the company had also spent €50 million ($64 million) to support longer operation.


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Nicola "Nicky" Spinks (born 22 April 1967) is a British long-distance runner, specialising in fell running, who set women's records for the major fell-running challenges the Ramsay Round, the Paddy Buckley Round and the Bob Graham Round. She held the women's records for all three Rounds simultaneously until 2016, and is the holder of the overall record for the double Bob Graham Round and the only person ever to complete doubles of the other two Rounds.


Question: Can you tell me about Mi Familia Perfecta? Respond in 2 sentences.

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Mi familia perfecta is an American telenovela created by José Vicente Spataro that premiered on Telemundo on 9 April 2018 and concluded on 13 July 2018. The series revolves around of the Guerrero family, a family so united, as dysfunctional, formed by five siblings who were left alone when their father died and their mother was deported.


Question: Describe a walk you take in your city.

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 Describe a walk you take in your city.

Carl Nolte March 17, 2018 Updated: March 17, 2018 10 a.m.
Sunday is always my favorite day — a leisurely breakfast, a second cup of coffee, the Sunday papers, maybe a morning walk.
Like a lot of people, I have mixed feelings about a walk in the city these days. The Sunday before, my companion and I had walked the streets of Washington, D.C., and marveled at how clean they were. On returning back home, it was clear how much of San Francisco was a mess, particularly downtown with its crowds of lost souls roaming filthy streets.
So I decided to avoid the heart of the city and head west, down the hill, across Mission and Guerrero streets, up through Noe Valley, toward the hills. It was a pleasant surprise, even to a grizzled native son.
I went to Billy Goat Hill, an old favorite. Not far away, I found a secret street that led nowhere in particular. I took it and ended up in a Glen Park bookstore where a quartet was playing a jazz version of “On the Street Where You Live,” surrounded by stacks of books.
Both San Franciscos are on display, often within walking distance of each other. How can this be? I don’t know, but if I were an urban doctor, I’d refer this city to a psychiatrist. It clearly has a split personality.
Let me tell you about my little walk. I headed up 30th Street, past where the J streetcar screeches around the curve. Up the hill, past little Victorian Noe Valley cottages. Working folks used to live there. Now a little old house with a view would sell for more than $2 million. That’s crazy.
Thirtieth Street dead-ends at the foot of steep Billy Goat Hill, with grass as green as Ireland in springtime. It is too steep for a road but there is a switchback trail, and at the top, an amazing view and two big old trees with a kind of swing. Kids get on it and swing out with the city at their feet.
Carvings on a tree at Billy Goat Hill.
I’m a former kid myself, and I remember how we knew all the names of the plants that grew on these grassy San Francisco hillsides. Not the scientific names, but any city kid can point out the licorice plant, the scissors plant, the tricky pee weed, so named because if you ate it you’d wet the bed that night. The big kids told us that, so it must be true.
Leaving Billy Goat Hill, I followed streets just to see where they led, down and around corners to the edge of Glen Park. I had college friends who lived in that neighborhood. They rented a ramshackle old place and lived in glorious youthful poverty that would be impossible these booming days.
But around one corner I came on Penny Lane, a complete surprise. It is a mostly unpaved country road in the middle of the city. It leads past backyard fences next to a 20-foot-tall wire sculpture and branches off in two small, landscaped foot paths.
And the paths eventually lead to Bird & Beckett books on Chenery Street, where Barbara Hunter was playing a flute solo as part of Sunday afternoon jazz.
All this is in the middle of a cold, hard city that seems indifferent to urban squalor. Yet all three of these Sunday places were made better by caring San Franciscans.
Billy Goat Hill used to be a dead-end place used as a dump: old refrigerators, old stoves, junk. Neighbors, now organized as Friends of Billy Goat Hill, persuaded the city to turn the 3.5-acre site into a park and worked to improve it for everybody.
Glen Park neighbors turned Penny Lane from an eyesore into an urban treasure. They had work days, cleared weeds and built a landscape at the end of the street where they lived. Even small children got to help. Bird & Beckett is kept alive by owner Eric Whittington and neighborhood patrons who buy books there instead of getting them cheaper on Amazon.
There are people like that in many corners of the city — people like Joan Carson and Nancy Windesheim, who organized volunteers and got the city to rebuild the Esmeralda Slide Park in Bernal Heights. “It is taking responsibility for something in your neighborhood,” Windesheim said.
There are more than 200 volunteer community groups in the city, caring for parks, urban gardens, even streets. “Citizen involvement is a very powerful thing to see,” said Charlie McCone of the city’s Parks Alliance, which coordinates volunteer efforts.
Two different worlds in the same city. It’s an urban puzzle.


Question: Describe the painting "Salome" by Franz Stuck. Respond in 2 sentences.

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Salome is a 1906 painting by the German artist Franz Stuck. It depicts Salome, daughter of Herod II and Herodias, dancing with joy as the head of John the Baptist is brought to her by a servant.


Question: "How did Aledmys Diaz become the fourth best hitter in the National League?"

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Who is Aledmys Diaz and why is he hitting .345?
The St Louis Cardinals shortstop played just 14 games at Triple A last season, and yet he’s now fourth in National League batting average. How did he get so good?
Four years ago, while in the Netherlands with his Cuban national baseball team, Aledmys Diaz walked away. From everything and everyone he knew.
And because of those decisions, the St Louis Cardinals are watching him grow into one of the best hitters in baseball.
The game last week wouldn’t start for another two hours, but Cardinals manager Mike Matheny already liked what he saw from his shortstop: Diaz’s name in lights on the outfield scoreboard at Angels stadium, second on the list for hitters in the National League.
“We didn’t necessarily anticipate that,” Matheny said from his seat in the visitors dugout.
No one did. How could anyone have predicted that Diaz, who played just 14 games at Triple A last season, would be the first major leaguer to bat .500 in his first 50 at-bats? Or that, entering Monday night’s game, he’d be fourth in the NL with a .352 average?
He was not just fourth in the NL. He was fourth for all of baseball.
How did this happen? How does a player, who wasn’t exactly lighting up the minors, suddenly become one of the best hitters in baseball?
Diaz doesn’t have the hype of two other NL rookie shortstops; Colorado’s Trevor Story mashed an MLB-record seven homers in his first six games, and Los Angeles’ Corey Seager already showed his star power in the 27 games he played with the Dodgers last season.
Ask the average baseball fan who Aledmys (pronounced ah-led-miss) Diaz is, and you might get a “who?” in return. But not in St Louis.
Diaz had a decent camp this spring, showed some signs with the way the ball came off his bat that he was on the right track – to Triple A, where he could play and keep working on his hitting and fielding. Then injuries knocked out some players. Roster spots needed to be filled, including shortstop. The guy who started last season in Double A got the call, and his impact was immediate and firm.
Makeup is a fancy baseball word for the intangibles that aren’t measured by insider stats like WAR or OPS, or even the more mundane batting average. It doesn’t quantify bat speed or soft hands or arm strength. It’s how a player conducts himself on and off the field. How does he handle adversity? Success? Teammates? Pressure?
Everything in Diaz’s life up until now has prepared him for the realities of making – and, even tougher – staying in the majors. The dream of playing for a major league team didn’t cross his mind as a young child growing up in Cuba, where you can’t easily get big league games on TV. The goal was making the Cuban national team. He idolized those players, wanted to be like them.
He didn’t know much about baseball in America until he made the Cuban National Series, and started playing against teams from all over the world – including the United States. He was impressed by what he saw, started thinking about his place in the game. He saw players like Yoenis Cespedes, who defected from Cuba in 2011, make it to the majors.
After Diaz defected, he made it to Mexico, where he was soon reunited with his father, Rigoberto, who, as an agronomy teacher, traveled extensively outside of Cuba – and had a visa. First, Diaz had to establish residency in Mexico, and then be cleared by MLB before he could sign a contract with a club. Six months, he thought it would take.
Instead, documents listed his birthday as January 8 1990 instead of August 1. Possibly a clerical error: 8/1/90 became 1/8/90. Regardless, MLB ruled he could not sign for a year because he lied about his birthday.
His stay in Mexico lasted 18 months. Diaz gave up all he knew – his country, his family – for the chance to play in the United States, and he was barely playing at all.
He worked out for scouts from different teams, including the Cardinals, who liked what they saw. Finally, in March of 2014, they signed him to a four-year, $8m contract and sent him to Double A.
A sore shoulder, likely the result of him going from sporadic showcases for teams to playing every day, cost him a month of playing time. When he came back, he didn’t exactly tear up the league. Mozeliak takes on some of the responsibility.
Patience, from both Diaz and the Cardinals. But midway through last season, it seemed St Louis’ was wearing thin. They took him off the 40-man roster, making him eligible for another team to pick him up.
Diaz took it upon himself to learn English, taking advantage of the classes and tutoring the Cardinals organization offered. He fell in love with movies, especially action ones, since there was less dialogue and he could pick up the plot easier. Communicating with his coaches and teammates is important to Diaz, who is married and expecting his first child. He lost his fear of speaking on the field and in the clubhouse, and gained confidence.
He is still a work in progress. Matheny loves his skill set, the instincts, the two-strike approach, power, putting the ball in play. Diaz’s 10 errors are tied for the lead in the majors, but he has also made gold glove-esque plays, showing his range.
One St Louis has to solve, much like opposing pitchers still need to figure out Diaz. He isn’t thinking about that. He’s the least impressed of anyone by what he’s done so far.


Question: Respond in 4 sentences. Could you tell me about Mirza Kuchek Janghli District?

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Mirza Kuchek Janghli District () is a district (bakhsh) in Sowme'eh Sara County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 24,862, in 6,479 families. The District has one city: Gurab Zarmikh. The District has two rural districts ("dehestan"): Gurab Zarmikh Rural District and Markiyeh Rural District.


Question: Describe the US Supreme Court Case between the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association and Monsanto Company.

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The US Supreme Court upheld biotech giant Monsanto’s claims on genetically-engineered seed patents and the company’s ability to sue farmers whose fields are inadvertently contaminated with Monsanto materials.
The high court left intact Monday a federal appeals court decision that threw out a 2011 lawsuit from the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association and over 80 other plaintiffs against Monsanto that sought to challenge the agrochemical company’s aggressive claims on patents of genetically-modified seeds. The suit also aimed to curb Monsanto from suing anyone whose field is contaminated by such seeds.
The group of plaintiffs, which included many individual American and Canadian family farmers, independent seed companies and agricultural organizations, were seeking preemptive protections against Monsanto’s patents. The biotech leviathan has filed over 140 lawsuits against farmers for planting the company’s genetically-engineered seeds without permission, while settling around 700 other cases without suing.
None of the plaintiffs are customers of Monsanto and none have licensing agreements with the company. The group argued that they do not want Monsanto’s genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) and want legal protection in case of inadvertent contact with the company’s products.
The appeals court decision was based on Monsanto’s supposed promise not to sue farmers whose crops - including corn, soybeans, cotton, canola and others - contained traces of the company’s biotechnology products.
In a June 2013 ruling, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, DC said it was inevitable, as the farmers’ argued, that contamination from Monsanto’s products would occur. Yet the appeals panel also said the plaintiffs do not have standing to prohibit Monsanto from suing them should the company’s genetic traits end up on their holdings "because Monsanto has made binding assurances that it will not 'take legal action against growers whose crops might inadvertently contain traces of Monsanto biotech genes (because, for example, some transgenic seed or pollen blew onto the grower's land).'"
The panel’s reference to “traces” of Monsanto’s patented genes means farms that are affected by less than 1 percent.
The plaintiffs asked Monsanto to pledge not to sue, but the company rebuffed the request, saying, "A blanket covenant not to sue any present or future member of petitioners' organizations would enable virtually anyone to commit intentional infringement."
Monsanto’s GMO seeds are designed to withstand the company’s own ubiquitous herbicide, Roundup. Recently, questions have begun to arise from the bioengineered seed’s resistance to pestilence, which has caused some farmers to increase their use of traditional pesticides.
"Monsanto never has and has committed it never will sue if our patented seed or traits are found in a farmer's field as a result of inadvertent means," said Kyle McClain, the Monsanto's chief litigation counsel, according to Reuters.
"The lower courts agreed there was no controversy between the parties," McClain added, "and the Supreme Court's decision not to review the case brings closure on this matter."
Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association President Jim Gerritsen expressed disappointment that the Supreme Court reaffirmed the previous ruling, refusing to hear the case.
"The Supreme Court failed to grasp the extreme predicament family farmers find themselves in," said Gerritsen, an organic seed farmer in Maine. "The Court of Appeals agreed our case had merit. However ... safeguards they ordered are insufficient to protect our farms and our families."
In addition to Monday’s news and the appeals court decision against them, the plaintiffs - many of them non-GMO farmers and who make up over 25 percent of North America’s certified organic farmers - also lost a district court case.
The case is Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association, et al., v. Monsanto Company, et al. Supreme Court Case No. 13-303.


Question: Describe the divorce case of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. Respond in 21 sentences.

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LOS ANGELES — The long-running divorce case of one-time Hollywood power couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt has hit a new level of drama.
Jolie, the star of "Maleficent," alleged in a court filing Tuesday that her estranged husband hasn't paid any "meaningful" child support for a year and a half during their ongoing, and at times contentious, divorce — and said she is planning to seek a court order to force his hand.
"[Pitt] has a duty to pay child support. As of present, [Pitt] has paid no meaningful child support since separation," wrote Jolie's attorney, Samantha Bley DeJean, in a two-page brief filed in Los Angeles Superior Court and obtained by NBC News.
"Given the informal arrangements around the payment of the children's expenses have not been regularly sustained by [Pitt] for over a year and a half, [Jolie] intends to file an RFO for the establishment of a retroactive child support order." (An RFO is a request for a court order.) The court filing did not define what is "meaningful" support.
Pitt’s spokesman did not immediately comment. A source close to the actor insisted, "Brad has fulfilled his commitments."
Mindy Nyby, a spokeswoman for Jolie, said the "aim of Angelina's routine filing is to promote closure to the marriage in a way that clears a path toward the next stage of their lives and allows her and Brad to recommit as devoted co-parents to their children."
Under California law, each parent is responsible for providing for the children based upon the agreement reached between the couple. It is not clear what, if any, agreement Pitt and Jolie have reached.
Jolie's lawyers are asking to appear before a judge to schedule a status conference in the case to address the financial issue amid the couple's separation.
Jolie, 43, filed for divorce from Pitt, 54, in September 2016, citing irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split. The Oscar-winning actress and activist for refugees around the world has six children with her actor husband. They range in age from 9 to 16.
The breakup between the couple — once known by fans as "Brangelina" — has been very public, and at times, ugly. Around the time Jolie filed for divorce, Pitt was accused of being rough with one of his children on a private plane that was en route from Europe to Los Angeles.
The incident was reported to authorities but the FBI and Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services both cleared Pitt of any wrongdoing after reviews of evidence and interviews with those involved.
In 2017, lawyers sought to seal records pertaining to the couple's six minor children in the ongoing divorce and child custody case.
Pitt's lawyers alleged in court documents Jolie and her attorneys have compromised the children's privacy through court filings in a bid to undercut Pitt in the couple's custody battle.