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UPDATED: Sat., Jan. 6, 2018, 3:31 p.m.
Never hurtled down a snow- and ice-covered mountain while strapped to two sticks? Or, with both feet locked into a solid plank? January is the month to change all that. January is learn to ski and snowboard month and area resorts are offering a slough of deals for first-timers.
Lookout Pass: Get three lift tickets, three rentals and three lessons for $99. To sweeten the deal, upon finishing the three lessons you get a season pass for the remainder of the season. This offer is only valid to first-time skiers and snowboarders. Cross-over athletes (snowboarder to skier, vice versa) are not eligible for the season pass.
Mount Spokane: Get three lessons, three lift tickets and three rentals for $129. Available on weekends and holidays. Graduates of the course can get a season pass for $99.
Schweitzer Mountain: Get a lesson, lift ticket and rental for $40.
Silver Mountain: If you buy a lift ticket in January (adult $56, youth $41), you get a beginner group lesson and a rental package.
49 Degrees North: Get three lift tickets, three lessons and three rentals for $129. This deal is available on the weekends and holidays. Reservations must be made in advance.
Schweitzer Mountain will install two new chairlifts in 2019, Tom Chasse, president and CEO of the North Idaho resort said on Thursday.
“We think it’s going to be a draw and will bring in more people,” Chasse said.
The lifts will replace the Snow Ghost lift, an aging double chair that services the Outback Bowl on Schweitzer’s back side. One lift will serve lower, intermediate terrain and will roughly top out at the midstation unloading area on the current Snow Ghost chair. The other lift will serve more advanced terrain on the Lakeside Chutes area of the Outback Bowl. Its base will be in an area known as Will’s Runout, and will top out near the Sky House lodge at 6,375 feet.
“We don’t have enough lift capacity right now,” Chasse said.
The Snow Ghost chairlift is the longest and slowest lift on the mountain. Chasse said that the two lifts will improve access for both advanced and intermediate riders.
Construction will begin in summer of 2019, Chasse said. The two lifts will be operational for the 2019-2020 season.
Published: Jan. 5, 2018, 9:08 a.m. Updated: Jan. 6, 2018, 3:31 p.m.


Question: Provide a description of the anti-Trump rally revealed by Robert Mueller's investigation. Respond in 4 sentences.

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CNN and MSNBC cheered and praised an anti-Trump rally that has now been revealed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation to be the work of Russian operatives seeking to meddle in American politics.
MSNBC framed the rally as a protest against Trump’s alleged racism, sexism, homophobia and hate. “The energy here is electric,” MSNBC Correspondent Morgan Radford proclaimed, adding that the protesters were fighting against the “license to carry in terms of hate” prompted by Trump’s election.
CNN reported that the rally was organized by an idealist 20 year-old student from a nearby university.


Question: Explain how Google is using device identification numbers for tracking and targeting in its mobile applications.

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ADOTAS – Google has restrained itself till this point, but as it begins running behaviorally targeted ads across its network of mobile applications, Big G is going to use device identification numbers to assist in tracking and targeting.
Because you can’t drop a cookie in an app, the device IDs are used to not only collect in-app behavioral data, but also to track conversions and enable frequency targeting. Behavioral targeting on the mobile web will still use good, old-fashioned cookies.
“Over time, we’ll be able to enable things like frequency capping, spam filtration, improved conversion measurement and serving ads based on topics of interest, all of which will help us display the most useful in-app ads; minimize the number of irrelevant in-app ads shown; and improve in-app advertising for users, advertisers and developers,” one of those mysterious Google spokespeople told GlickZ.
The device IDs will be given anonymous codes and Google promises that no personally identifiable information will be collected, but users can still opt out at the Android Market or in the Google Search app for iOS-powered devices.
While privacy advocates are likely to go nuts over this development, using mobile device IDs and device fingerprinting for behavioral targeting is becoming increasingly common — arguably such practices are more effective than cookies while keeping anonymous. Check out some of our conversations with Dave Norris of BlueCava for more insight into device fingerprinting.
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The film was originally set to open on the 50th anniversary of Tate's murder. Sony also made a number of other calendar changes, including dating 'Little Women' for Christmas 2019.
Quentin Tarantino's high-profile Charles Manson movie, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, has moved its release date up by two weeks to July 26, 2019.
Sony originally slated the film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt, to open Aug. 9, 2019, which will mark the 50th anniversary of the murders of Sharon Tate and her friends by Manson followers.
Studio insiders say the date wasn't changed because of the anniversary; rather, they say going out in late July gives the film more summer playtime. Nevertheless, shifting the date avoids having to contend with the actual anniversary.
Tarantino wrote the script, and is directing and producing the film. He describes the project as "a story that takes place in Los Angeles in 1969, at the height of hippy Hollywood."
The two lead characters are Rick Dalton (DiCaprio), a former star of a TV Western, and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth (Pitt). Both are struggling to make it in a Hollywood they don't recognize anymore. Meanwhile, Rick's very famous next-door neighbor is Tate.
Dakota Fanning, Luke Perry and Damian Lewis round out the film's ensemble cast, which also includes Emile Hirsch, Clifton Collins Jr., Keith Jefferson, Nicholas Hammond, Margot Robbie, Burt Reynolds, Timothy Olyphant, Kurt Russell, Michael Madsen and Tim Roth.
Sony also made a slew of other changes to its upcoming release calendar, including announcing that Little Women will hit theaters on Christmas Day in 2019. It also announced release dates for Zombieland (Oct. 11, 2019) and Bloodshot (Feb. 21, 2020).
The studio also tweaked release plans for several other films, including Slender Man, which moves up from Aug. 24 of this year to Aug. 10, and Studio 8's White Boy Rick, which will now open Sept. 14 nationwide instead of first going out in select theaters.


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The aroma of sour eggnog and dried blood hangs heavy in the brisk winter air as the team puts the finishing touches on the major update. But, what fun are the holidays without a little cheer? So, before that happens, we thought we’d let you open one last present before the New Year!
The new patch will be released on Tuesday, December 20th. Servers will be down starting at 8AM Eastern for *up to* 4 hours.
This patch revolves around some seemingly small changes to melee combat that we expect will have a big impact. In an effort to make combat more enjoyable and less punishing, we’ve removed the stagger that previously happened when you struck a blocking player, and we’ve made it impossible for another player to cancel your charged attacks.
We like the feel and pace this new aggressive twist brings to the combat system and we’re eager to hear your thoughts.
For more in-depth explanation, you can read our recent blog post.
Dev comments: For a full description of our melee combat changes and the reasoning behind them, please check out this blog post.
Dev comments: We’re working to find the right balance of cost and match time availability for Late-Match Airdrops. These contain the most powerful weapons in the game, so we want to hold them back long enough to give value to the lower tiers, but we also want them to be attainable enough to represent a viable strategy. Keep the feedback coming!
Dev comments: We realized consistency for headshot damage is probably a good idea, so we’ve made the headshot bonus for bows match the bonus for firearms.
Dev comments: Throwing was not originally intended to be a guaranteed way to apply a wound, so we’ve closed this loophole. Note that hits which bypass the block from the sides or back will still apply the wound, even if the player is blocking.
Dev comments: We like round numbers and Chemist was feeling a little tepid, so this is a golden opportunity for everybody to feel good about a change.
Dev comments: We like the Bait Crate, but with recent changes to the economy, the 100 FUNC price tag was steep. By making it free to call once, it becomes a guaranteed option to try to hoodwink an opponent and put them at a significant disadvantage.
Dev comments: Brutus was applying a larger bonus than it should have, this has been fixed.


Question: "Hi, I want to set up a Spark cluster on my local machine. What do I need to do?"

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When using the launch scripts this file is used to identify the host-names of the machine that the slave nodes will be running. All you have to do is provide the host names of the machines one per line. since we are setting up everything in our machine we will only need to add "localhost" to this file.
There are a set of variables that you can set to override the default values. this can be done by putting in values in the "spark-env.sh" file. There is a template available "conf/spark-env.sh.template" you can use this template to create the spark-env.sh file. Several variable that can be added is mentioned in the template is self. we will add the following lines to the file.
Here SPARK_WORKER_MEMORY specifies the amount of memory you want to allocate for a worker node if this value is not given the default value is the total memory available - 1G. Since we are running everything in our local machine we woundt want the slave the use up all our memory. I am running on a machine with 8GB of ram and since we are creating 2 slave node we will give each of the 2GB of ram.
The SPARK_WORKER_INSTANCES specified the number of instances here its given as 2 since we will only create 2 slave nodes.
The SPARK_WORKER_DIR will be the location that the run applications will run and which will include both logs and scratch space. Make sure that the directory can be written to by the application that is permission are set properly.
After we have these configurations ready we are good to go. now lets start by running the master node.
Just execute the launch script for the master that is "start-master.sh"
Once the master is started you should be able to access the web ui at http://localhost:8080.
Now you can proceed to start the slaves. This can be done by running the "start-slaves.sh" launch script.
Note: In order to start slaves the master need to be able to access the slave machines through ssh. since we are running on the same machine that is your machine should be accessible through ssh. make sure you have ssh installed run "which sshd". if you don't have it installed install it with the following command.
You will also need to specify an password for the root since this will be requested when running the slaves. If you do not have a root password set use the following command to set an password.
With the slaves successfully started now you have a Spark cluster up and running. If everything went according to plan the web-ui for the master should show the two slave nodes.
You can find the IP and the PORT in the top left corner of the web ui for the master. When successfully connected the web ui will show that there is an active task.
Hope to write more posts regarding Spark in the future. if you want to learn a bit more about Spark there is some great documentations on the Spark site is self here. Go an check it out.


Question: Describe the accomplishments of Muhammad Bayazid Sarker

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Muhammad Bayazid Sarker (born 1 January 1971) is a Bangladeshi economic researcher and central banker. He has been working in Bangladesh Bank (BB) since 1999 and his current position is Joint Director in Chief Economist's Unit. He is also an adjunct assistant professor of business school of Southeast University. In 2007, Sarker developed a theoretical structure of migrants’ sponsored bank [MSB] as an alternative source of external financing for developing economies like Bangladesh. The idea of MSB also presented by Sarker in Kuala Lumpur, April 15, 2008. According to Sarker's developed concept, MSB banking model is equally applicable for developing or emerging economies deficient in both capital and foreign exchange coupled having a good base of non-residents earning abroad.


Question: Describe the recent gameplay changes to the Mine system in Clockwork Empires.

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Welcome back to Chris’s Gameplay Iteration Corner! As usual when I show up here, we’re talking about improvements to gameplay systems.
One of our major goals at the moment is fleshing out some of the less-interesting buildings in the game. Improvements to the pub are in-progress as of the latest build, the chapel and naturalist office have improvements planned, and a major overhaul has gone into the building we’ll be talking about today – the humble Mine!
The old style of mines was more or less a placeholder – a simple window telling you the depth of your mine and what it could output. There was no real choice involved, other than plopping your mine down near a naturalism beacon and assigning a work crew. Depth also had an odd – and unclear – effect; the deeper you went, the longer it took to work in a mine, punishing players who used the same mine for too long of a period.
The original, barebones mine interface.
The new mine – now available in the Experimental branch – allows players to choose from a variety of strata to mine in – each one offers a unique range of products, from clay in the shallower strata to the potential of discovering entirely new ore veins in the depths.
This means that rather than setting and forgetting, you have some choices to make with your mines: They can mine deeper for metal ores, or choose to mine basic raw materials – such as sand – which will always be available in the appropriate stratum should they be needed.
Deeper strata can only be accessed when a certain mine depth is reached and may require certain modules to unlock. Mine depth is increased by deepening your mine, accomplished at a slow rate by regular mining activity, or much faster by using Mineshaft Digging, a new option which creates no output but rapidly increases depth. The lower depths will require building new modules to be able to access, bringing the module-based gameplay that features so heavily elsewhere properly into the Mine. With this system in place, the Mine is starting to become a much more interesting place to work.
There are a few future plans that will really tie the colony together – as part of the Naturalism overhaul, we’ll be changing how survey beacons work and how ores are found, making the two buildings complement each other in what will hopefully be a rather interesting way – more on that later!
Posted in Clockwork Empires	| Tagged but even as Gameplay was the foundation of their wealth, it's not a chris blogpost without an animated gif, so also it was their destruction, they delved too greedily and too deep, whose mine?
I’d be surprised if the lowest levels don’t award some sort of Eldritch Ore or Flesh, with the risk of unleashing heck.
As you have added lamps, how about roads? Still a no-no? They would really improve the look of my colonies!
So I don’t own the game yet… so could someone explain what the significance of the gif? How does the filling bar relate to the post?
There is a colonist in that mineshaft mining, and the job completes when the bar fills up. The colonist will come out with a chunk of ore.
Oh, about how it relates to the post specifically… not sure. Just a final gif showing a new style mineshaft in action?
Looks good and I have been looking forward to it for a while !


Question: What is the Toro Toro Formation?

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The Toro Toro Formation is a Late Campanian geologic formation pertaining to the Puca Group of central Bolivia. The porous yellowish medium-to-coarse grained ferruginous (iron-containing) sandstones and mudstones with gypsum intercalations, deposited in a beach environment, preserve many ichnofossils of "Ligabueichnium bolivianum", "Dromaeopodus sp.", Ornithopoda indet., Theropoda indet. and Titanosauridae indet. The formation has provided the earliest known tracksite of dinosaurs in Bolivia. The Toro Toro Formation represents part of the postrift stage in an alluvial to deltaic environment within the Potosí Basin. The formation is a local equivalent of the Chaunaca Formation. The most famous of the dinosaur tracksites is Cal Orcko.


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Sheykh Maruf (, also Romanized as Sheykh Ma‘rūf) is a village in Beygom Qaleh Rural District, in the Central District of Naqadeh County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 238, in 48 families.


Question: Respond in 45 words. Give a brief description of the song "Sunday Girl" by Blondie.

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"Sunday Girl" is a 1978 song written and recorded by the American group Blondie. The track was a no. 1 hit in the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in May 1979, but despite this was not released as a single in the United States.


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Kids Can Press is a Canadian owned publisher of children's books, with a list of over 500 picture books, non-fiction and fiction titles for toddlers to young adults. The Kids Can Press list includes characters such as Franklin the Turtle—the single most successful publishing franchise in the history of Canadian publishing, which has sold over 65 million books in over 30 languages around the world.


Question: Have you heard about the staffer for the Gillum campaign who wore a shirt that called the portion of the country that voted for Donald Trump in 2016, "Dumbf***istan?" Respond in 19 sentences.

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Manny Orozco Ballestas, who was last week named the Gillum campaign's director of youth outreach, donned a shirt last year that called the portion of the country that voted for Donald Trump in 2016, "Dumbf***istan."
The Republican Party of Florida is calling on Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Gillum to fire a staffer who last year posed for a photo with an explicit reference to states that voted to elect Donald Trump in 2016.
Manny Orozco-Ballestas, who was brought aboard the Gillum campaign last week as its director of youth outreach, posted a photo of himself on his Instagram last summer. In the picture, Orozco Ballestas is wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with the 2016 electoral map. The map's key indicates the blue states — the ones that voted to elect Hillary Clinton — are "The United States of America," while red states form a different nation: "Dumbf***istan."
In a press release highlighting the post, which was first reported by the Central Florida Post, a conservative blog, RPOF Chairman Blaise Ingoglia expressed outrage over the photo.
"It is unbelievable to me that Andrew Gillum would not only employ, but promote on social media, a person who calls voters 'dumb f*cks' for electing Republicans," Ingoglia said, calling on Gillum to apologize and then fire Orozco-Ballestas. "It is hypocritical for Gillum to endorse the same kind of hateful, intolerant speech that he likes to denounce."
Also included in the press release was a portion of the Central Florida Post article written by Jacob Engels, a Roger Stone disciple and contributor to the dubious Infowars website.
"Does Manny Orozco-Ballestas just hate the White Republicans or does he hate anyone who is a registered Republican?" the press release quoted Engels.
Meredith Beatrice, a spokeswoman for the RPOF said the party quoted Engels in order to properly attribute his reporting. Beatrice also noted the Party independently confirmed Engels' reporting before disseminating it.
In response to Ingoglia's statement about the controversial shirt, a Gillum spokeswoman said that the campaign won't "be lectured about words by the Party of Trump."
"The anti-Trump shirt he wore before he was hired wasn't funny or in any way related to our campaign and we've addressed that with him," the spokeswoman, Carlie Waibel, told the Times in a statement.
Before joining the Gillum campaign, Orozco-Ballestas was the youth outreach director for Philip Levine's gubernatorial run.
A few minutes after the Republican Party's press release, the Florida Democrats issues their own release hitting Gillum's opponent in the governor's race, titled, "The Top 10 Times Ron DeSantis Refused to Apologize for His Offensive Allies." Included on the Democrats' list were the conservative provocateurs Dinesh D'Souza and David Horowitz.
This story has been clarified to refer to the Central Florida Post as a conservative blog, not an alt-right blog.


Question: What are Kellyanne Conway's comments about the Russia investigation?

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Kellyanne Conway: Our conspiracy with Russia was so inept, we can’t be held responsible for it.
Speaking on Fox & Friends on Friday, President Donald Trump’s counselor complained, “The goal posts have been moved. We were promised systemic, hard evidence of systemic, sustained, furtive collusion that not only interfered with our election process but indeed dictated the electoral outcome.” This is a classic case of projection, since Conway herself is moving the goalposts. After all, who promised “hard evidence of systemic, sustained, furtive collusion”?
While Donald Trump Jr.’s emails, and the meetings between Trump campaign officials and Russian operatives, are indeed “hard evidence” of “furtive collusion”—just not proof of “systemic, sustained” collusion. So is Conway suggesting that chaotic, occasional, and badly disguised collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government is okay?


Question: Describe the reaction to Elizabeth Warren's DNA test results.

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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley made fun of Sen. Elizabeth Warren at a charity dinner on Thursday night after the Massachusetts Democrat released the results of her DNA test, which blew up in her face.
Haley made the remarks while she attended the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, which raises money for underprivileged children.
"But I do understand why you invited me," Haley said. "Two years ago President Trump was here and he made some waves with his remarks, apparently no one here could have predicted that."
"So last year, last year you went with Paul Ryan, who’s a boy scout," Haley continued. "And that’s fine, but a little boring. So this year, you wanted to spice things up again, right?" Haley said. "I get it. You wanted an Indian woman, but Elizabeth Warren failed her DNA test."
"Actually when the president found that I was Indian-American, he asked me if I was from the same tribe as Elizabeth Warren," Haley added.
Haley's hilarious zing at Warren came after the Democratic presidential hopeful released the results of her DNA test in an attempt to validate her claims that she is Native American. Not only did the test results not back up her claims, but the results made her a laughingstock.
The results showed that Warren is 0% Native American and is possibly between 1/64th and 1/1024th Mexican, Colombian, or Peruvian.
Even more embarrassing than Warren's roll out of her test results were the dozens of tweets she put out attacking the president, viewed by many as being desperate and pathetic.


Question: "What do you know about the upcoming Digimon Adventure tri. Part 6?"

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 "What do you know about the upcoming Digimon Adventure tri. Part 6?"

We have the title for Digimon Adventure tri. Part 6, the final part of tri.!
Information is minimal at the moment, and there is no poster image yet.
The information we have says Summer 2018, with various reports clarifying that the end card in Japanese theaters specifically said 'Early' Summer 2018.
Update- Toei has confirmed the title, along with confirming there 'is' a poster image for Part 6 during screenings.
Thanks to Victor and his friend Kevin we do have 'some' of the poster details- It's sky blue and has Meiko.
Thanks to yulkyun and Otaku News for the heads up and tyhbjbj for the photo.
Thanks to multiple people for the heads up on the initial news.
Wow, with a title like that, I can't wait for them to have tri. to end on the same epilogue as 02 and disappoint me all over again.
"Bokura no Mirai"? I expected it to be a title with 2 Kanji.
I'm curious about the rumors of the posters.
I'm very expectating about a hint for Part 6.
Oh damn, im very curious to find out news about next and finale OVA... Hope they are good news though.
The title is interesting to me in that while it's a 'concept' like the tri. titles have been, it also feels a bit more literal.
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If/when some more solid information pops up we'll clarify what it is and everyone can post 'whatever' rumors they had prior to that.
I don't know the other rumours... But I have a feeling the poster will showcase Rasielmon and true Ophanimon.
I really doubt Ophanimon will appear in the poster of Part 6. I also doubt that she will play an important role.
In fact, I think the mega evolution of Tailmon is going to have a similar role to Seraphimon in Part 4.


Question: Describe the military service of Queen Elizabeth II.

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The British monarchy has a long tradition of military service, but there has only been one woman from the British royal family to ever serve in the Armed Forces, and she’s the only head of state to have served in World War II.
When WWII ravaged Europe, nearly everyone stood up to defend their homeland. Men, women, farmers, and businessmen did their duty alike. This includes then-Princess Elizabeth. Like her father, who served in WWI, she enlisted on her 18th birthday despite being in the line of succession for the throne and her father’s reluctance.
Princess Elizabeth enrolled in the Women’s Auxilary Territorial Service (ATS), similar to the American Women’s Army Corps, where many women actively served in highly valuable support roles. Responsibilities of the ATS included serving as radio operators, anti-aircraft gunners and spotlight operators, and, her occupation, as mechanics and drivers.
She learned to drive every vehicle she worked on, which includes the Tilly light truck and ambulances. On VE Day, The Princess Elizabeth slipped away with her sister to cheer with the crowds. The war was finally over and no one recognized the Princesses as they walked through the crowds incognito.
Less than a decade later, she would be crowned the Queen of England. Her independent spirit has endured to this day, as she isn’t a fan of being chauffeured around when she can drive herself.


Question: Describe the mood among White House staffers in the wake of President Donald Trump's recent scandals.

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It seems that working for President Donald Trump is increasingly unappealing to the White House staffers who often bear the brunt of his anger as his administration wallows in scandal.
While Trump likes to blame his problems on his communications team or chief of staff, the rank-and-file staffers themselves are beginning to resent Trump and place the blame squarely on his shoulders, according to a recent report by The Washington Post. Many of them are already starting to look for other places of employment, while those who are sticking around are prone to saying that they're doing so to increase their marketability and earning potential after leaving the White House. Many of them perceive the string of scandals from this week — including news reports alleging that Trump shared classified Israeli intelligence with Russian officials and asked former FBI Director James Comey to stop investigating former national security adviser Michael Flynn — as so devastating that they can't imagine Trump's regaining his credibility.
There is particular concern over the news that Comey claimed to have taken notes of many of his conversations with Trump. Republican operatives who have regular contact with the White House describe the mood among staffers as "going through the stages of grief" and say that their mood has "moved to angry." One even argued that the staffers should start keeping diaries and asking themselves, "How long do you put up with it? Every one of those people could get a better-paying job and work less hours."
Until they move on to better (if not necessarily bigger) things, these staffers are frequently resorting to "gallows humor," as the Post reported, a point reinforced by MSNBC producer Jesse Rodriguez on Twitter.
Not surprisingly, the Post also reported that staffers who still remain loyal to Trump are feeling increasingly isolated.


Question: Write a response to a video you've seen of employees throwing iPads around in Walmart.

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There are jerks almost everywhere and some can be as the thick-headed as the ones in the video below. A couple of Walmart employees have themselves on video, throwing around iPads while stocking them up for sale.
These are employees from Pikeville, Kentucky, and we can see them playing catch with iPads, throwing them around carelessly.
One of them even intentionally drops it on the ground.
It’s obvious from the video that these guys hate iPads, but they are also tarnishing Walmart’s reputation in the process. The retail giant has fired the guys anyway, and has apologized for the incident.
What the employees have done is nothing short of condemnable. Would you approve of such irresponsible behavior from anyone for that matter? Scribble in your thoughts and make yourself heard.


Question: Explain why Google is FUBAR.

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Late yesterday, Google announced perhaps the biggest change it has ever made to its massive network of web services: Starting in March, your search and surf habits across all of Google’s products will be combined to form the mother of all behavioral profiles. On March 1, Search will know the contents of your email and the videos you watch on YouTube. If you use Google Docs for work, Search will know which company you work for and which industry you work in. Via Google Reader, Search and YouTube will know what content you like to consume. And of course, the kicker: Google’s ad networks — AdSense, AdWords, DoubleClick — will have full access to all of your search and surf habits from every Google web service.
Just so you understand how big this is, Google is by far the largest web property in the US: 153 million Americans hit the search engine alone in 2011 — the single largest website in the US — with YouTube coming in fifth, with 100 million uniques. This story is repeated all over the world, and in some cases it’s even worse: Google “only” has 65% of the search market in the US, but in many European countries (Germany, France, England, etc.) that figure is closer to 90%. YouTube, likewise, is incredibly popular all over the world. The figures for services like Gmail and Google Docs are harder to come by, but they both have hundreds of millions of worldwide users.
This on its own is fairly shocking, but not all that surprising. Personally, I thought Google already did this — I mean, if your entire company is based on targeted advertising, commingling all of your data makes complete commercial sense. If we mix two other factors into the equation, however, it quickly becomes apparent that Google is FUBAR.
Second, it was just two weeks ago that Google turned on Search Plus Your World (SPYW), a massive reworking of its search engine that heavily biases social content from Google+. You will have no doubt noticed that, by default, Google now pollutes your search results with images, likes, and shares from your Google+ Circles. Meanwhile, of course, Google+ is now front and center across almost all of Google’s websites, and on earnings calls Larry Page is bragging that the fledgling social network now has 90 million users (though of course he gives no indication of how many daily users it has, or whether the engagement is anywhere close to Facebook).
Now, it’s obvious where Google is going with this: It wants to be more like Facebook and Apple, both of which have a completely-unified, walled-garden approach — and both of which are enjoying huge leaps in revenue and profits, while Google falls short of quarterly expectations. Nothing happens on an Apple device without Cupertino’s knowledge, and as a result Apple can perfectly tailor its devices for its users (and ratchet up record-breaking quarterly earnings in the process). Facebook — because everything is centralized under the facebook.com domain — enjoys unprecedented access to the surfing habits, likes, shares, and messages of its users. On the other side of the fence, with a slew of discordant, disconnected properties, Google seems to be flailing. SPYW and the March 1 privacy changes are simply the next step in Google’s (rather messy) attempt to weave everything together, before it loses any more ground.
According to Pando Daily, this ultimatum and the complete corporate about-turn that SPYW represents has already resulted in Googlers fleeing the company for more pleasant climes. Remember, Google built its entire empire on a search engine that espoused relevancy above all else. Google’s unofficial corporate motto — “don’t be evil” — is meant to remind Googlers that the consumer, rather than the shareholder, is king. With SPYW, Page’s tyrannical declaration, and the upcoming privacy-destroying switch-throw on March 1, Google has sold its soul to the capitalist devil.
In other words, Google has pushed in all of its chips in an epic gamble to beat Facebook at its own game. Google has abandoned its bread and butter in search of greener, tighter-targeted, socially-relevant pastures. The thing is, though, Google doesn’t actually have a choice in the matter. Going social is the right play. Indexed search has peaked. Apps — be it web apps or native mobile apps — are the future, and the only way to index them is through social sentiment, which Google can’t currently do… until it links all of its services together on March 1.
Why is Google FUBAR, then? Because it is biting the hand that feeds it. Indexed search might have peaked, but it’s still huge, and still propelled Google to over $10 billion in revenue this past quarter. To become Facebook, Google must forsake almost everything that brought it success in the first place. It must irreparably alter its fleet of successful web properties to become more Facebooky. It must alienate users with weird, ungooglesque features. It must force Chrome and Google+ down the throats of users who are simply looking for a brilliant search engine.
The path towards Facebookness is fraught with strife. Facebook, as the incumbent with almost a billion active users, has a huge head start. Facebook can push onwards, continue to reap the truly monumental power of its network effect, and innovate without user backlash. Google on the other hand now has to spend the next year or two maneuvering its gribbly juggernaut between anti-trust, fair trade, and privacy allegations — all while trying to keep the users happy with a search engine that’s no better than Bing. Google is FUBAR.


Question: What's the latest on crypto markets?

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During August, the monthly volume posted by the majority of leading cryptocurrency markets continued to decline. Despite such, the ETC and Dash markets again defied the trend to post an increase in trade volume, with XRP also bucking the downward trend this month.
Trade volume for BTC pairings declined by 5.34% during August – falling from $131 billion USD last month to $124 billion during the last thirty days, according to Satoshi Pulse.
USDT saw the smallest volume fluctuation of the major cryptocurrency markets this month, with $82.9 billion worth of Tether changing hands during the last thirty days – a 3% drop in trading activity when compared with July.
ETH has maintained its position as the third most traded cryptocurrency, however, saw a drop from July’s $53 billion in thirty-day trade volume to post $45.75 billion for August. The nearly 14% drop marked the third consecutive month of declining volume for Ethereum.
EOS also posted its third consecutive month of declining volume, with August’s $18.1 billion down nearly 11.3% from July’s $20.4 billion.
Bitcoin Cash saw a drop in trading activity during August, dropping 31.3% from July’s $14.85 billion to post $10.2 billion in thirty-day volume.
Of the top ten most traded cryptocurrencies during August, ETC, XRP, and Dash were the only markets to post an increase in volume month-over-month.
Ethereum Classic climbed from eighth to sixth after experiencing an increase in thirty-day trading volume for the fourth month in a row – with August’s $7.9 billion comprising an approximately 18% increase over July’s $6.7 billion for ETC.
XRP has maintained its position as the 7th most traded cryptocurrency market, with August’s $7.8 billion comprising a 13% increase in trade volume over July’s $6.9 billion.
LTC experienced a slide back down to eighth after ranking sixth for two consecutive months after posting $7.14 billion in thirty-day trade volume – a 16.7% drop in trading activity when compared with July’s $8.57 billion.
Dash has continued to climb the rankings, with August’s $5.26 billion elevating Dash to ninth position and comprising a 5.2% month-over-month gain from the $5 billion in thirty that propelled DASH into the top ten most traded markets last month.
Despite posting a 9.1% drop in monthly trade volume, Qtum has crept back into the top ten most traded markets with $4 billion after dropping to 11th last month with $4.4 billion.
The TRX Markets have continued to slide down the rankings, sitting at eleventh for August with $3.45 billion – a 36.7% drop from last month’s $5.45 billion. TRX was the sixth most traded cryptocurrency market during May, however, slid to ninth during June and July.
CKUSD has climbed from fourteenth to rank twelfth for August after posting $3.36 billion in monthly trade volume – a roughly 16% increase over July’s 2.9 billion.
ZEC posted among the strongest volume gains produced by a leading cryptocurrency market during August, with $2.9 billion worth of Zcash exchanging hands during the last thirty days – an approximately 35% increase over July’s $2.15 billion. ZEC ranked thirteenth for August, up from sixteenth last month.
Ontology saw the strongest percentage gain in trade volume of the leading crypto markets, with August’s $2.34 billion comprising a 41% increase over July’s $1.66 billion. The increase in trading activity has elevated ONT from the twentieth to the fourteenth most ranked cryptocurrency market by thirty-day trade volume.
XLM has maintained its position as the fifteenth most traded cryptocurrency, despite August’s $1.94 billion comprising a 15.65% drop from July’s $2.3 billion.
ADA saw a significant drop in trading activity during August, sliding from thirteenth in July to sixteenth this past month with $1.84 billion – a 40.65% drop from last month’s $3.1 billion.
NEO saw the largest drop in trade volume of the major cryptocurrency markets, sliding from twelfth to seventeenth after posting a thirty-day volume of $1.83 billion – a 46.2% drop from July’s $3.4 billion.
Do you think that the majority of the leading cryptocurrency markets will continue to posting declining volume month-over-month? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.


Question: What impact will the Metro Bus project have on Islamabad? Respond in detail.

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ISLAMABAD: As Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif broke ground on the Peshawar Morr-New Islamabad International Airport section of the Metro Bus on Saturday, nearby work continued on removing obstacles in the path of this progress: dozens of trees.
According to an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) study of the MBS project conducted by the National Engineering Services Pakistan (NESPAK), around a thousand trees of up to 110 years are set to become prey to the Metro Bus Service (MBS) which is being extended from Peshawar Morr to connect the city to the New International Airport (NIIA).
The trees which stand to be affected by the project include Shisham, Sirris, Phulahi, Kikar, Sukh Chain, Jacaranda, Fiddlewood, Amaltas, Mulberry, Paper Mulberry, Eucalyptus and Citrus. Moreover, there are a number of shrubs and herbs such as Lantana, Phog, Bhekar, Malla, Sanatha, Pataki and Arind.
Moreover, scores of fauna species including mammals, amphibians and reptiles lying along the MBS route are also expected to be affected by this development.
The project would see the bus move at either along the road, over or under it at various points through underpasses and bridges. The project would have 10 stations – connected through pedestrian bridges – which would be equipped with platforms, screen doors, escalators, turnstiles for automatic fare collection and other standard amenities for passengers. In addition to these stations, the plan has left space for adding four stations along its route in the future.
According to the EIA report, the construction of the MBS and its planned route are considered to be the best option for providing safe, efficient and reliable public transport with the lowest cost and have the least environmental impact in the long run.
Despite that, the project would see over 960 trees between the ages of five to 110 years being uprooted. Further, faunal species including mammals, amphibians and reptiles would be affected.
The report says that the total environmental impact of the project would cost the state – and hence taxpayers – Rs10 million.
These costs, included in the project concept (PC-I), would pay for environmental monitoring and miscellaneous items. The cost of replanting trees removed for the project has been worked out to around Rs11.87million.
Due to the extensive urbanisation, most of the wild animals in the area have largely migrated to the surrounding Margalla Hills. However, some wildlife such as wild boars, jackals, foxes, mongoose, rats, Indian hares and porcupines still inhabit the densely wooded green belts along the Kashmir and Islamabad Highways – right in the path of the project.
Moreover, reptiles including the spine-tailed lizard, fringed toed lizard, Indian Monitor and amphibians such as the common frog and common toad while birds including house sparrow and house crow will be affected.
Moreover, the report underlines that the use of heavy machinery during the construction of the project would cause air and noise pollution apart from generating solid waste. It would also generate municipal wastewater from construction activities, accidental leaks, spills of hazardous chemicals, health safety issues of workers, contamination of water bodies, removal of vegetation besides relocation of public utilities.
The EIA report notes that public movement and daily routine activities of locals visiting educational facilities including NUST, FAST, International Islamic University and Al-Huda educational institute would also be affected. Further, the construction, excavation and vibrations caused by work on the project may affect the stability of nearby buildings.


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Question: Respond in 3 sentences. Describe Ollagüe Airport.

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 Respond in 3 sentences. Describe Ollagüe Airport.

Ollagüe Airport (, ) is an extremely high elevation airport in the Chilean altiplano. It is east of Ollagüe, a railroad and industrial town in the Antofagasta Region of Chile. Ollagüe is southwest of Chile's border with Bolivia.


Question: Provide a summary of Herman Melville's novel "Redburn: His First Voyage".

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Redburn: His First Voyage is the fourth book by the American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1849. The book is semi-autobiographical and recounts the adventures of a refined youth among coarse and brutal sailors and the seedier areas of Liverpool. Melville wrote "Redburn" in less than ten weeks. While one scholar describes it as "arguably his funniest work", scholar F. O. Matthiessen calls it "the most moving of its author's books before "Moby-Dick"".


Question: What is the United Kingdom national Quidditch team?

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The United Kingdom National Quidditch Team, colloquially known as Team UK, is the official national Quidditch team of the United Kingdom.


Question: Describe the Signs of Forest Decline in Western U.S.

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 Describe the Signs of Forest Decline in Western U.S.

Huge, destructive fires are more common with climate change, and the loss of regeneration threatens to exacerbate global warming.
There are warning signs that some forests in the western U.S. may have a hard time recovering from the large and intense wildfires that have become more common as the climate warms.
After studying 14 burned areas across 10 national forests in California, scientists from UC Davis and the U.S. Forest Service said recent fires have killed so many mature, seed-producing trees across such large areas that the forests can't re-seed themselves. And because of increasingly warm temperatures, burned areas are quickly overgrown by shrubs, which can prevent trees from taking root.
"With high-severity fires, the seed source drops off," said study co-author Kevin Lynch, a forest researcher at UC Davis. "We aren't seeing the conditions that are likely to promote natural regeneration."
Historically, severe fires were uncommon in the forests covered by the study, largely made up of yellow pines and mixed conifers, but extended drought and heatwaves have exacerbated fire conditions across the West. The changing climate is also seen as a factor in recent wildfires in the Southeast, which is also mired in drought.
For the study, published Wednesday in the journal Ecosphere, the researchers surveyed 1,500 plots in burned areas at different elevations in the Sierra Nevadas, Klamath Mountains, and North Coast regions. There was no natural conifer regeneration at all in 43 percent of the plots, they reported.
"[O]ur data support growing concern that the well-documented trend toward larger and more severe fires is a major threat to conifer forest sustainability in our study region," the authors wrote. They said the study results could apply to mixed conifer forests across the West.
Welch said the study was aimed at helping forest managers decide where to apply limited funding to replant forests that aren't regrowing on their own.
"There aren't enough of the right kind of trees growing back, the sugar pines and the ponderosa pines," he said, describing the native species that are ecologically and commercially valuable.
Firs and cedars dominated in the study plots where there was regeneration, but those trees are much less resistant to future fires. Decades of logging of old fire-resistant trees and fire suppression shifted the composition of the forests, making them more dense. Add in the drying and warming climate, and it's a recipe for intense fires.
"Pretty much everyone agrees that's the climate change signal," he said.
That meshes with findings in other recent studies, said Ellis Margolis and Collin Haffey, U.S. Geological Survey forest scientists in New Mexico who were not involved in the new study.
"The story from recent fires is that, due to a warming and drying climate, combined with increased fuels from a century of fire exclusion, high-severity burn patches in dry conifer forests have been increasing in size," they said in an email response. "Importantly, some of these large, severe burn patches have no surviving trees within them."
Some areas are being scorched repeatedly because wildfires are also becoming more frequent. Those re-burns have killed off even more of the mature seed trees.
"The loss of seed sources and increasing moisture stress after fires, both related to climate change, does not bode well for the future of large areas of dry conifer forests," they said.
A wide-ranging 2015 study by other federal researchers suggested that entire forests could succumb to mega-disturbances like fire and insect outbreaks, and that climate change is already driving the transition of forests to shrub and grasslands in drier parts of the U.S. like the Southwest.
The new study offers some clues about short-term forest response, but regeneration after big fires can be a centuries-long process, according to Park Williams, a forest researcher with Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
"Prior to the modern era, fires in this region seemed to typically be low-intensity," he said. "In the more intense fires that we've been seeing recently, the patches killed by the fire are tending to be far larger and it could take a very long time for the native tree species to repopulate these areas. With climate getting warmer in the coming centuries, it seems more likely that many large burned forest areas in the Southwest U.S. will be recolonized by shrub species that can reproduce quickly and tolerate heat and drought."
Alistair Jump, a forest ecologist in the U.K. who has studied forests on three continents, said recent forest die-offs around the world should be seen as part of a global forest crisis. The massive changes aren't just a symptom of climate change—they could drive changes in the global carbon cycle that would speed the buildup of heat-trapping pollution.
"Mortality events might be perceived as local. Even on a vast scale they are easy to dismiss as the problem of another state or country," he said. "However, the drivers of such events are substantially global (changing climate and its interaction with pests and disease) and many of their impacts are global. Consequently, we need a coordinated global approach to address the problem.
"There's a band of very dedicated people working on this issue across the globe but with staggeringly little recognition of the seriousness of the problem from most of our political leaders. In short, we risk a very significant exacerbation of our environmental problems at a global scale if we continue to overlook large scale mortality across the world's forests."


Question: Provide a brief description of Sebastian Wille.

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Sebastian Wille (born 11 September 1966 in Kiel) is a German medical specialist, university professor and assistant medical director at the Clinic and Polyclinic of Urology at the University Hospital Cologne. Wille covers the whole diagnostic and therapeutic spectrum of urological disorders. His scientific focus is the reconstructive urology and the urological dysfunction of the lower urinary tract, including male and female incontinence. Wille was significantly involved in the invention of the Wille capsule.


Question: Respond in 32 sentences. Write a tutorial that explains how to use PHPs type validation in collections and value objects.

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If the array were to contain a value that is not of the expected type, we would still get the fatal error mentioned earlier.
Again, this ensures that the ratings property will always contain floats without us having to loop over all the contents to validate them. So now we can easily do some math operations on them in getAverageRating(), without having to worry about invalid types.
One of the downsides of using this feature as typed arrays is that we can only define one such array per method. Let’s say we wanted to have a Movie class that expects a list of air dates together with a list of ratings in the constructor, instead of setting them later via optional methods. This would be impossible with the method used above.
Another problem is that when using PHP 7, the return types of our get() methods would still have to be “array”, which is often too generic.
Notice how we’re still using a list of typed arguments with a variable length in our constructor, which saves us the trouble of looping over each rating to check its type.
This way we get additional validation of individual collection members, still without having to loop over each injected object.
By now you might be wondering how you could make changes to the values of your collections and value objects after initial construction.
While we could add methods to facilitate edits, this would quickly become cumbersome because we would have to duplicate most methods on each collection to keep the advantage of type hints. For example, an add() method on Ratings should only accept a Rating object, while an add() method on AirDates should only accept a DateTimeImmutable object. This makes interfacing and/or re-use of these methods very hard.
Instead, we could simply keep our collections and value objects immutable, and convert them to their primitive types when we need to make changes. After we’re done making changes, we can simple re-construct any necessary collections or value objects with the updated values. Upon (re-)construction all types would be validated again, along with any extra validation we might have defined.
// Remove the 2nd rating.
This way we can also re-use existing array functionality like array_filter().
If we really needed to do edits on the collection objects themselves, we could add the necessary methods on a need-to-have basis wherever they are required. But keep in mind that most of those will also have to do type validation of the given argument(s), so it’s hard to re-use them across all different collection classes.
Optionally we could make our collection final, to prevent any child classes from messing with the values property in ways that could undo our type validation.
While still far from perfect, it has steadily been getting easier to work with type validation in collections and value objects with recent releases of PHP.
Ideally we’d get some form of generics in a future version of PHP to further facilitate the creation of re-usable collection classes.
A feature that would greatly improve the usage of value objects would be the ability to cast an object to different primitive types, in addition to string. This could easily be implemented by adding extra magic methods comparable to __toString(), like __toInt(), __toFloat(), etc.
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Question: Compare the policies of Jean-Luc Mélenchon with those of Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron.

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 Compare the policies of Jean-Luc Mélenchon with those of Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron.

Will the real Jean-Luc Mélenchon stand up? On Tuesday, Mélenchon, the rising star of the French presidential election, will appear in the eastern city of Dijon. Simultaneously a 3D hologram of the veteran hard-left politician will be beamed to six other French cities. He may not literally be there, but just days from France’s heavily contested leadership vote “JLM” will be attempting to show that his programme has more substance than his ethereal appearance might suggest.
In an election where historic and “never before” moments have become commonplace, the spectacular rise of Mélenchon has crossed a new line. Pollsters agree he is now a serious challenger to Les Républicains candidate François Fillon, who is in third position. Whether he can go further is anyone’s guess.
The favourites to make the second-round runoff on 7 May remain far-right Front National candidate Marine Le Pen and the independent centrist Emmanuel Macron. But with up to one-third of France’s 47 million voters undecided, and another 30% so disillusioned with French politics that they say they will abstain, the field is still wide open.
Two months ago any suggestion that Mélenchon, head of La France Insoumise (Unbowed France), could be a serious contender for the Elysée would have been thought laughable. Now it is no joke. Mélenchon’s popularity is running level with the beleaguered, scandal-hit Fillon in some polls, higher in others.
Le Monde says France is in the unusual situation of having four presidential candidates, any one of whom could win. Like Le Pen, Mélenchon is appealing to young voters with his hologram meetings, his upbeat election messages and his entertainingly forthright approach to televised debates.
Les Echos, France’s financial newspaper, described Mélenchon as “the new French risk”. Mélenchon would dramatically raise public spending, partly through taxing salaries above €400,000 (£339,000) at 90%. He wants to renegotiate EU treaties and quit Nato, the World Trade Organisation, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, all of which are viewed by La France Insoumise as instruments of a failing globalised capitalism.
The candidate responded in typical style last week to dire warnings of what voting for him might mean. “Once again, they are announcing that my election win will set off a nuclear winter, a plague of frogs, Red Army tanks and a landing of Venezuelans,” Mélenchon blogged.
Mélenchon has been here before. In 2012 he was polling third with 17% two weeks before the first-round vote. In the end he finished with 11.1% of the vote.
Moroccan-born Mélenchon is a divorced father of one, who refuses to discuss any aspect of his private life. His parents split up and he moved to Normandy when he was 11. He later studied philosophy, and was a Trotskyist student activist before working as a French teacher and a journalist. He signed up to the Socialist party in the 1970s and was elected to the Senate in 1986, becoming the youngest member of the upper house. Marie-Cécile Naves, a political and policy analyst, said Mélenchon portrays himself as an outsider but is in fact more than familiar with France’s corridors of power.
Naves said that, with four frontrunners, the election was extremely hard to predict. Pascal Perrineau, president of Sciences Po’s political research institute Cevipof, agrees. He refused to be drawn on what might happen next Sunday, saying the campaign was too volatile.
“Never forget the French are a people who cut off heads. We did this. Literally,” Perrineau said.
Hold an in-out referendum on EU membership. Leave the Schengen passport-free area and the euro. Make employers who hire foreigners, including EU citizens, pay an extra tax of 10% of the employee’s salary. Reduce income tax for the lowest earners. Reduce the level of legal immigration to 10,000 people a year.
Renegotiate the EU treaties and put these to a referendum. Raise the minimum wage and civil servants’ salaries. Limit fat-cat pay by fixing maximum salaries, with 90% tax on earnings more than €400,000.
Reform the Schengen agreement to tighten control of the EU’s external borders. Slash 500,000 public sector jobs in five years, cut public spending, reduce taxes and break the power of the trade unions. Cut immigration to a “strict minimum” through the use of quotas.
More flexibility on labour laws and a loosening of the 35-hour week. Cut public spending by €60bn and scrap 120,000 public sector jobs by 2022. Cut the number of MPs. Maintain the Schengen travel area.
Universal basic income, initially for low-paid workers and students. Five-year investment plan worth €100bn for urban and environmental renovation. A tax on banks’ “super-profits”. In Europe, switch emphasis from the free market to greater social protection.. Set up a new “humanitarian visa” system for refugees.
• This article was amended on 16 April 2017. In an earlier version we incorrectly attributed comments by Marie-Cécile Naves to another analyst, Virginie Martin. This has been corrected.