Question: "Such a shame Tim Cook believes coding is more important than learning a foreign language. What a young-minded view."

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 "Such a shame Tim Cook believes coding is more important than learning a foreign language. What a young-minded view."

Apple this morning announced the expansion of its "Everyone Can Code" initiative to 70 educational institutions across Europe, and following the announcement, Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke at Harlow College in Essex, one of the schools that will adopt the new curriculum.
The Guardian shared several of Cook's comments, which covered overuse of technology and boundaries for children.
Cook said he believes there are concepts that can't be taught using technology, and in many courses, technology shouldn't dominate.
Even in computer-aided courses, such as graphic design, technology should not dominate, he said.
According to Cook, Apple cares about children out of the classroom, a topic that's notable as Apple investors recently urged Apple to do more to protect children from smartphone addiction.
Apple in early January said in a statement that it thinks deeply about how its products are used and the impact they have on people, including children. Apple takes its responsibility to protect children "very seriously," and has promised more robust parental controls for iOS devices in the future.
Though he does not have children of his own, Cook says in his own personal life, he "put some boundaries" on his nephew. "There here are some things that I won't allow; I don't want them on a social network," he said.
On the topic of learning to code, Cook spoke passionately, as he has done several times in the past. Learning to code, he says, is more important than learning a foreign language.
Cook said: "I think if you had to make a choice, it's more important to learn coding than a foreign language. I know people who disagree with me on that. But coding is a global language; it's the way you can converse with 7 billion people."
Cook's full commentary, which covers diversity, coding at an early age, and the importance of the press, can be read over at The Guardian.
Is it just me or did the headline got his message wrong?
... says the CEO of a multinational technology company, whose compensation is tied almost entirely to revenue and profit performance.
That's like asking an ExxonMobil exec whether he believes oil use is related to climate change.
Yup. The headline makes it sound as though he believes the exact opposite of what he believes. It’s taken out of its context, because in the context it is clear he thinks tech should not be used all of the time.
* How much experience does he have with coding?
* How much experience does he have with living in another country, learning another language, and getting to know another culture?
* Coding is a shallow term and only addresses the most mundane aspect of creating software.
* Coding is a horrible term and does not do right to the complex task of creating software.
* People can't often converse using natural language, why would coding be better?
* There are many programming languages.
I find this an ignorant remark at best.
Agreed. His opinion is clearly that overuse of technology *is* something he believes in and thinks should be avoided.
Learning to code, he says, is more important than learning a foreign language.
Oh how mistaken he is. If I can repeat my young life, learning more foreign languages would be the top things I would do. Simply learning a language like Chinese can take you to far more places than knowing java/phyton. People do business using human language, not codes.
In education, very few things replace written text. All the power to books!
Of course you don’t. You don’t even get technology.
So when can we expect to see your app, monsieur phony?


Question: What is the process for registering as a write-in candidate for the 2012 US Presidential election? Respond in 4 sentences.

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For those who are thinking about writing-in a candidate for the 2012 Presidency on Election Day, your write-in candidate must have registered as a write-in candidate in order for those votes to be counted.
"that he or she is qualified under the Constitution and laws of the United States to hold the office to which he or she desires to be nominated or elected; that he or she has qualified for no other public office in the state, the term of which office or any part thereof runs concurrent with that of the office he or she seeks; and that he or she will support the Constitution of the United States."
...(1)(c) The officer before whom such person qualifies shall certify the name of such person to the supervisor of elections in each county affected by such candidacy so that the name of such person may be printed on the ballot. Each person seeking election as a write-in candidate shall subscribe to the oath prescribed in this section in order to be entitled to have write-in ballots cast for him or her counted.


Question: Explain how Ethereum's blockchain platform is challenged by other decentralized applications and smart contract solutions.

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 Explain how Ethereum's blockchain platform is challenged by other decentralized applications and smart contract solutions.

A New York and Tel Aviv-based blockchain blogger claimed Qtum and Tron are Ethereum's prime competitors.
Decentralized applications and smart contract solutions offered by Qtum and Tron will challenge Ethereum's "perceived" market dominance, he claimed.
He argued that Qtum’s recently released x86 virtual machine (VM) will provide a much better “value proposition” compared to Ethereum. He explained that Qtum’s VM allows developers to contribute code and applications by being able to use a broader range of programming languages.
Notably, several other blockchain-based platforms developed after Ethereum, which also allow users to deploy decentralized applications (DApps) and utilize smart contracts, have given developers the option of coding in languages they’re more familiar with.
For instance, the Tron (TRX) platform lets users contribute code in the widely-used Java programming language. Ethereum, however, has its own programming language called Solidity which many programmers have never learned to use.
In addition to allowing developers to have more coding options, Vilner noted that Qtum supports segregated witness (SegWit) - which separates transaction signature data from the actual transaction data for more efficient, or faster, processing.
Qtum will also be able to use the Lightning Network (LN) (a second-layer payment solution designed for blockchains to enable faster transactions), Vilner wrote. He then mentioned that Qtum’s developers will launch QtumX in 2019.
However, Qtum’s products and services have not yet been thoroughly tested and whether they will actually be better than what Ethereum (ETH) and Bitcoin (BTC) offer remains to be seen.
According to Vilner, who’s also a CNBC contributor, the controversial Justin Sun-backed Tron platform, which aims to provide a decentralized online content management network, will transform how content producers and content consumers interact and transact.
A closer examination, however, reveals that Tron’s governance model requires appointing 27 block producers, or transaction validators. This means that only these 27 “masternodes” or “supernodes” control many of the actions that may take place on the Tron network.
As CryptoGlobe covered, the EOS platform uses a similar governance model in which 21 block producers (BPs) are selected by the crypto’s community to validate blocks on its network. This has reportedly created serious issues as the BPs have allegedly been “colluding” and many consider EOS to be highly centralized, instead of decentralized and democratic as it claims.


Question: Could you tell me more about Kheyti's Greenhouse in a Box?

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 Could you tell me more about Kheyti's Greenhouse in a Box?

Greenhouse in a Box gives Indian farmers a cheap way to make sure their crops are safe from pests and heat.
For a small farmer in India, the last year might have gone something like this: She plants tomatoes, and the crop is destroyed by pests. Months of extreme heat mean that she can’t plant anything else. When she finally plants another crop, it’s destroyed by drought. After backbreaking labor, she’s still broke, or worse, in serious debt. In 2015, more than 8,000 farmers in India committed suicide, most because of their financial situation.
As climate change increases environmental risks for farmers in the area–from monsoons to heat waves–one startup is testing a potential solution. Kheyti, which recently won the Global Social Venture Competition, makes what it calls the Greenhouse in a Box, a simple, low-cost greenhouse that can sit on a small area of a farm and provide regular crops which guarantees year-round income if everything else goes wrong.
The typical greenhouse available in India was originally designed for farmers in developed countries who grow high-value flowers or vegetables–and it’s well out of the price range of a low-income farmer. The new greenhouse is simpler, with fewer materials and a smaller footprint (it’s roughly half the size of a basketball court or 2% of the land area of a typical small farm in India). Two layers of shade netting on the top reduce the temperature inside by 5-8 degrees Celsius. Insect netting on all sides reduces pest attacks 90%.
The team is now working with Extreme, a course at Stanford University’s d.school that focuses on design for extreme affordability, to bring the cost down further. The current version of the greenhouse costs $2,000 to make, and through a partnership with a bank, the startup is offering it to pilot customers at cost, with a $400 down payment and quarterly payments of $175 over three years. A high-quality cow, by comparison, costs around $800.
On average, farmers should make $475 a quarter from the greenhouse, leaving them a profit of $300 per quarter.
Still, the $400 down payment is more than the poorest farmers can afford. The startup is aiming to be able to offer it for a down payment of $100 or $200.
A drip irrigation system, coupled with the shade that reduces heat and evaporation, helps cut water use 90%. Along with the greenhouse’s ability to protect crops from pests and floods, this means that farmers can grow seven times more produce. But the startup believes that the greenhouse on its own can’t fully address the challenges that farmers face, so it also provides a suite of services.
With the small group of farmers currently testing the greenhouse, the startup’s field officers regularly visit the farms, providing connections to financing, the best supplies, the best place to sell products in the market, and ongoing training. The company is working on an app that may be able to automatically assist a larger group of farmers.
Over the next year, Kheyti plans to continue testing the system with around 300 farmers, gathering data about yields and how much money farmers have to repay their loans. In theory, a farmer should be able to earn $100 a month when the loan is paid off, a 100% increase in average income. In 2018, the company plans to quickly scale up. Because of word of mouth, it already has a list of 3,000 interested farmers. By 2025, it hopes to reach 1 million.


Question: Describe Melvin Eugene Tuten, Jr. Respond in 3 sentences.

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Melvin Eugene Tuten, Jr. (born November 11, 1971) is a former American football offensive lineman and coach. He was most recently the offensive line coach for the Marion Blue Racers of the Continental Indoor Football League. He is also a former American football offensive tackle in the National Football League, and Continental Indoor Football League.


Question: Respond briefly. Please provide a description of William Joseph Long.

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William Joseph Long (North Attleboro, Mass., 3 April 1867 – 1952) was an American writer, naturalist and minister. He lived and worked in Stamford, Connecticut as a minister of the First Congregationalist Church.


Question: "How can I enable the Google Camera port on my Essential Phone?"

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 "How can I enable the Google Camera port on my Essential Phone?"

Those of you following our recent articles about updates to the Google Camera app will notice that there has been a huge amount of new features ported to other devices, but sadly on the Essential Phone, there are many problems. These include the sound cutting out and breaking the stock camera on the device when used which makes the app unusable as a daily driver camera replacement. This is a problem as previously it was shown that the Google Camera port actually does a lot for the Essential Phone’s camera quality.
However, thanks to XDA Senior Member aer0zer0 those on the Essential Phone can enjoy the latest Google Camera port from the Pixel 2, which includes full support for HDR+, portrait mode, and AR stickers. It comes in the form of a Magisk module too, so all you need to do is install it and your Essential Phone can support the Google Camera app and make use of all of its features.
The module makes quite a few changes so that anybody can enjoy the Pixel 2 camera features on their Essential Phone. These changes include the device’s media profiles, SELinux changes, calibration changes, and enabling the Camera2 API. All of these changes can be reverted simply by uninstalling the Magisk module, so nothing is permanently changed and thus any problems can be rectified quickly.
If you want to give it a try, check out the link down below and flash the Magisk module. That’s all you need to do! These changes are Essential Phone specific, so be careful if you try it on another device. You can use it as a template for creating your own module, but it’s very unlikely that it will work out of the box on other devices.


Question: What's the latest news on Na Byung Joon and Fantagio?

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 What's the latest news on Na Byung Joon and Fantagio?

Former Fantagio founder/CEO Na Byung Joon, who was previously dismissed from his position, has submitted a resignation from the company as a whole.
Na Byung Joon was dismissed from his CEO position at Fantagio on December 28 by the JC Group - the largest shareholder of the agency. JC Group's head Wei Jie took over as the sole CEO of Fantagio afterward, with Na Byung Joon remaining simply as a registered director of the company.
Following Na Byung Joon's dismissal, the staff of Fantagio threatened to go on strike, disagreeing with the methods of JC Group. Na Byung Joon has reportedly decided to step down from Fantagio completely in order to "take responsibility for his mistaken decision to partner with a Chinese company." Reports further claimed that Na Byung Joon addressed the staff and label artists of Fantagio through an email on the day of his resignation, explaining his decision in detail.
Last year, Na Byung Joon had disagreements with the JC Group over the establishment of a Fantagio branch in Hong Kong, despite any proposals of concrete business plans. Meanwhile, Fantagio is home to Hello Venus, ASTRO, Weki Meki, Wanna One's Ong Seong Wu, 5urprise, and more.


Question: Describe the impact some of the NHL's top rookies are making in the 2015-16 season.

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 Describe the impact some of the NHL's top rookies are making in the 2015-16 season.

When Kane went on his 26-game point streak, Panarin had seven goals and 24 points to play a vital part. He also had a 61.8 shot attempts-for percentage and 2.90 points per 60 minutes during that stretch.
"We had high expectations but he landed in the country running and he's still running," Kelley said. "I think it speaks to the kid and his talent and work ethic. He didn't come to the NHL to see America; he came to play."
That level of play makes him the front-runner for the Calder Trophy at the midway point of the season.
"He's scored some big goals and I'm sure you'll see that more as his career goes on [with] the Blackhawks," Kane said. "He'll become a better player. Sky's the limit for that kid."
Some might point to the fact that prior to joining the Blackhawks in 2015-16, Panarin spent two seasons playing with men in the Kontinental Hockey League for SKA St. Petersburg. Though he did excel, keep in mind his success came on bigger ice in a league that many believe is close to but not equal to the caliber of the American Hockey League.
It's also worth noting that Panarin is 5-foot-11 and 170 pounds, so it isn't as if he can bull his way through defenders. He must find creative ways of working around the opposition, either beating them 1-on-1 or taking them wide. Buffalo Sabres rookie Jack Eichel and Panarin rank Nos. 1-2 in average ice time among rookie forwards, but Panarin leads all rookies in goals, assists, points and power-play points.
Panarin had his second multiple-goal game in as many days on Jan. 6 in a 3-1 win against the Pittsburgh Penguins to become the first Blackhawks rookie to have back-to-back multiple-goal games since Pavel Vorobiev (Oct. 7-9, 2005).
Dylan Larkin, Detroit Red Wings: The 19-year-old continually finds ways to excel no matter who happens to join him on offense. He has spent a lot of time with center Henrik Zetterberg and right wing Justin Abdelkader, but has proved his versatility recently by playing alongside center Riley Sheahan and right wing Brad Richards.
Larkin ranks first in the League in plus/minus. He also is first among rookies in game-winning goals and second in goals while averaging just less than 17 minutes of ice time for first-year coach Jeff Blashill. He might be the fastest skater among all rookies this season.
"I think having speed is huge, especially for a young guy," Larkin said. "When you have speed, you don't have to think as much because your speed can get you out of trouble and make up for a lot of mistakes you might make. For me, when I'm not skating I'm not on my game. When I'm skating I'm making plays and putting defensemen on their heels and that opens up space on the ice."
Max Domi, Arizona Coyotes: Domi continues to excel on the top line alongside center Antoine Vermette and right wing Mikkel Boedker. The 20-year-old is tied for first among rookies in primary assists and third in points, power-play points and points per 60 minutes (2.58). The son of retired NHL player Tie Domi has played a big role in helping the Coyotes stay in the hunt for their first berth in the Stanley Cup Playoffs in four seasons.


Question: Describe the qualifications of Ben LeCompte. Respond in 34 words.

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Ben LeCompte (born February 1, 1993) is an American football punter who is currently a free agent. He played college football at North Dakota State University. He participated in The Spring League in 2017.


Question: Describe the booby traps found at the Oregon property.

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 Describe the booby traps found at the Oregon property.

An FBI agent compared one of the traps to a scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
An Oregon man has been charged with assault on a federal officer after a booby trap armed at a property he previously owned activated, shooting and injuring an officer in the leg.
Gregory Lee Rodvelt, 66, lost possession of the home and property in the southern Oregon community of Williams by a court order Aug. 22.
When Joseph Charter, the lawyer who had been tasked by the court to clean and prepare the property for sale, arrived at the address Aug. 29, however, he saw signs warning that the land was protected by “improvised devices.” He then called Oregon State Police and FBI bomb technicians.
After technicians disabled the van booby traps, they moved toward the house and saw a circular hot tub spa near the gate.
“Upon closer examination, the technicians discovered that the spa was rigged in such a manner that when the gate was opened it would activate a mechanical trigger that would cause the spa to roll towards the person at the gate,” the complaint said.
Later, in interviews with law enforcement, Rodvelt said that the movie inspired this particular trap on the steep property.
When agents finally arrived at the entrance to the house — after disarming many more booby traps — they threw an explosive charge through the front door to take out anything that might be waiting.
As they entered the house, one agent moved a wheelchair that was near the door and unknowingly triggered yet another trap.
During the blast, an agent yelled “I’m hit!” and personnel immediately left the property, transporting the agent to a hospital where an “unknown foreign object” was found embedded in his knee.


Question: What is Trakt and why is it risky to use for streaming content? Respond in 22 sentences.

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 What is Trakt and why is it risky to use for streaming content? Respond in 22 sentences.

Trakt is a great service that allows people to track their TV-show and movie viewing habits through Popcorn Time, XBMC and other popular platforms. There's one problem though. Trakt is heavily used by pirates who may not realize that they're broadcasting their downloading habits to the rest of the world, copyright holders included.
The service allows users to keep track of the videos they watch throughout the week, either manually or automatically via media players such as VLC, XBMC and Popcorn Time.
Trakt processes and stores downloading habits so its users can keep track of what they’re watching. By default it also allows others to see this information as well, and that’s where things start to become problematic.
Trakt appears to be relatively popular among pirates. A quick glance at the most popular movies shows that most are still playing in theater. These could technically all be manual entries, but the “currently watching” lists shows that this isn’t the case.
For example, at the time of writing there were several Trakt users watching the latest box-office hit “Interstellar” via XBMC and Infuse. Also, the overview of the movie “Lucy” shown below lists several Popcorn Time users checking in a pirated copy of the film.
Of course people have to decide for themselves if they want to display their piracy habits to the rest of the world, but they shouldn’t complain if a movie studio comes knocking on their door.
We’ve just spent a few minutes looking through the profiles of several Popcorn Time users, who all display their browsing habits in public. Needless to say, this offers unique opportunities for copyright trolls.
Copyright holders only have to write down a few usernames and ask the court for a subpoena to expose their personal info.
Trakt is very clear about the fact that it helps private parties to enforce and comply with the law, and will have no other option than to hand over the requested information if they’re faced with a subpoena.
So without too much hassle rightsholders can get their hands on pirates’ IP-addresses, email addresses, payment information, a database of files watched and at what times, etcetera.
And then there’s the added risk of running into scammers.
Many “pirating” Trakt users have profile images and usernames that can easily lead to a person’s identity. It took us less than a minute to dig up an email address of a Popcorn Time user, info that scammers could exploit to falsely threaten legal action while posing as a copyright holder.
That’s trouble waiting to happen.
Most pirating Trakt users are probably not aware of the risks above, but in any case it might be wise for the privacy minded to avoid the service.


Question: What is the background of Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez? Respond in 6 sentences.

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Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez (born April 4, 1958) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the conservative National Action Party (PAN). He is a former governor of Jalisco, (2000 - 2006). And Secretary of Agriculture in the cabinet of Felipe Calderón (1 December 2006 – 7 September 2009). In 2006 he was elected to the Senate for PAN, representing the state of Jalisco, with his term running until 2012.
Cárdenas was born in Zapotlán el Grande, Jalisco. He received a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from the Ciudad Guzmán Technological Institute and both a master's degree in Business Planning and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the Polytechnical University of Madrid, in Spain.


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The processes of cell repair and regeneration are critical to an organism’s survival, writes Jessica Snir.
The complex biological processes of tissue repair and regeneration are critical to the survival of an organism.
These processes are set into motion by the immediate inflammatory response following tissue injury, whereby immune cells migrate to the damage site in order to clear wound debris and eliminate possible infection.
A special issue of Science covers some of the latest developments in our understanding of cell regeneration and repair, and provides the stunning videos below.
In the video above, five minutes after laser injury to the vertebrate of a zebrafish larvae, a small number of tissue-resident macrophages (tagged fluorescent red) can be seen gathering at the scene.This is followed by a rapid inflow of neutrophils (tagged fluorescent green) and a subsequent second migration of macrophages to further assist in the repair process.
Following damage to the fluorescent green matrix making up the wing epithelium of the Drosophila pupae, macrophages, whose nuclei are tagged with red fluorescent protein, can be seen rapidly migrating into the damaged tissue and encircling the site of injury where they will eliminate wound debris and fight potential infection.
In the pair of videos above, fluorescent green tagged macrophages can be seen swarming the magenta tagged embryonic epithelium of Drosophila following tissue injury.
The remarkable tissue regeneration of a zebrafish caudal fin post amputation has here been captured over a period of 10 days.
A new study has found an important piece of spinal repair puzzle.


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This is the 44th installment of my monthly feature on Typewolf where I share my favorite type-driven websites from the previous month and then write a little about the typographic details behind the designs. You can check out last month’s post for August here.
Center-aligned text is often misused on the web, but in this instance it’s entirely appropriate as this is a poetry project. The poem text is set in the display cut of Farnham, as opposed to the text version, yet it still reads perfectly well for the short poems. Windsor, the lumpy serif used for the headers, was originally released in 1905 but seems to firmly recall the 1960s and 1970s as it was popular on album and book covers from that era. It has a warm, vintage feeling, especially in the bolder weights where the rounded corners make it feel soft and friendly. Poppins, a geometric sans-serif that is freely available on Google Fonts, is set in uppercase for the navigation, contrasting nicely with the other two typefaces.
Amerigo is an inscriptional typeface with flared stroke endings designed by the famed Dutch designer Gerard Unger. It was released in 1986, but for some reason has been popping up out of nowhere on Typewolf lately, with three uses in the last month. It looks somewhat similar to Albertus but feels much smoother due to the less angular counters. It looks beautiful on the LNM site set against the solid blocks of color and even reads nicely for a few paragraphs of text. Post Grotesk, a sans-serif that fits somewhere between a neo-grotesque and an early pre-Helvetica grotesque, is used for the rest of the copy where its clean forms balance with the dramatic appearance of Amerigo.
Elephant is an unusual sans-serif that applies geometric shapes to the “irregular” grotesque genre, resulting in super quirky letterforms. The quirkiness of the shapes isn’t as prominent in the uppercase (the lowercase g from Elephant is one of the most unique letters I’ve ever seen), which is how the typeface is used on this site. It still feels pretty distinctive though and helps create a memorable brand for this juice company. The rest of the site is set in Monospace 821, which is essentially a monospaced version of Helvetica. Setting body text in a monospaced font isn’t usually the best option for readability, however, the copy on this site is pretty minimal, so it’s not much of an issue.
Canela is probably the most fashionable typeface of the moment, with 18 uses on Typewolf in less than a year. The light weight is used for the headlines here, where it looks elegant and refined. Calligraphic sans-serifs like Chap are also pretty fashionable right now, so it makes for a nice pairing with Canela for the navigation and bylines. The bylines, which you can see an example of in the above screenshot, have added letterspacing which is generally considered a typographic faux pas for lowercase text. Sometimes adding letterspacing to smaller lowercase text can make it more readable, but in this case it may just be inadvertently inheriting the spacing from the uppercase style.
The body copy uses Georgia which feels a little uninspired—once you scroll down away from the headlines, some of the branding is lost and the design starts to feel more like a generic blog template. However, Georgia always reads well and it saves needing to load additional body copy fonts which often requires regular, italic, bold and bold italic styles.


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UPDATE (3/30/18): We have updated this post and its screenshots to reflect how Facebook reorganized and removed some settings this week.
In addition to raising questions about Facebook's role in the 2016 presidential election, this news is a reminder of the inevitable privacy risks that users face when their personal information is captured, analyzed, indefinitely stored, and shared by a constellation of data brokers, marketers, and social media companies.
Of course, you could choose to leave Facebook entirely, but for many that is not a viable solution. For now, if you'd like keep your data from going through Facebook's API, you can take control of your privacy settings. Keep in mind that this disables ALL platform apps (like Farmville, Twitter, or Instagram) and you will not be able to log into other sites using your Facebook login.
From there, click the "Edit" button under "Apps, Websites and Games." Click "Turn Off."


Question: What is the latest news on Jeff Sessions and Rod Rosenstein?

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions told White House Counsel Don McGahn last weekend that he would consider resigning if President Donald Trump fires Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the Washington Post reported Friday evening, citing sources familiar with the conversation.
Sessions’ call with McGahn came at the height of Trump’s rage over the FBI raid on his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen. Sessions called McGahn not to threaten his resignation, but to inquire about a meeting between Trump and Rosenstein, according to the Washington Post. Sessions was relieved that the meeting was not contentious and said that Trump firing Rosenstein would force him to consider leaving as well, per the Washington Post.
Rosenstein reportedly told Trump in that meeting that he was not the target of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe or the Cohen investigation, prompting Trump’s anger with Rosenstein to cool off.


Question: What is Meadows Embankment? Respond in 4 sentences.

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Meadows Embankment is a tram stop on the Nottingham Express Transit (NET) network. The stop is situated in the Meadows area of the city of Nottingham just to the north of the Wilford Toll Bridge across the River Trent. It is situated on reserved track and comprises a pair of side platforms flanking the tracks. The stop is on line 2 of the NET, from Phoenix Park via the city centre to Clifton, and trams run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day.


Question: Explain the impacts of the Ontario government's lack of action on the affordable housing crisis in Toronto.

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 Explain the impacts of the Ontario government's lack of action on the affordable housing crisis in Toronto.

Almost half of Toronto tenants are paying too much in rent and are one health emergency or lost job away from losing their homes, in a city where rental rules favour profits over people, according to a new study.
Where Will We Live? Ontario’s Affordable Rental Housing Crisis, released Tuesday by the Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario, found that 46.9 per cent of Toronto renter households are spending 30 per cent or more of their income on rental costs and that a tenant would have to earn $24 an hour to comfortably pay the going rate.
The 30-per-cent line is a common benchmark used to determine if rental housing is in fact affordable, or if tenants will have enough to afford a decent quality of life once their rent is paid.
In Toronto last year, the average rent for a one-bedroom condominium was about $1,800, while the average rent for a one-bedroom apartment was $1,200, according to the report, which analyzed rental rates from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp., as well as demographics and cost of living.
Ontario landlords can charge whatever they want for empty apartments, and unless the rules are changed the number of affordable units will continue to shrink, Hale said.
“It is extremely difficult and getting worse,” said Hale.
With a provincial election looming June 7, the study also contains recommendations for candidates on how to better protect Ontario tenants. Included in their list: the creation of more affordable, purpose-built rental homes; new social housing and the preservation of existing stock; recognizing housing as a legal right; and decreasing financial incentives for landlords that result in them pushing out existing tenants.
The advocacy centre is also calling for all candidates to commit to cost-matching any money put forward by the federal government, as part of the national housing strategy, a 10-year, $40-billion plan created with the goal of lifting 530,000 families out of unaffordable and substandard housing and reducing chronic homelessness by 50 per cent.
Hale said continuing to allow landlords to put whatever price they want on empty units will only encourage landlords to push out lower-income tenants and contribute to rising rental rates across the province.
Part of the problem is a lack of available apartments. Toronto’s vacancy rate for one-bedroom apartments was at about 1 per cent last year. Purpose-built rental units, or apartments that were designed strictly as rental stock, have counted for less than 9 per cent of new homes built across the province since the 1990s, the authors reported.
Groups representing landlords have warned that telling property owners exactly what they can charge could backfire, or result in less rental housing. The Federation of Rental-housing Providers of Ontario, in the build-up to a provincial decision to eliminate an exemption that allowed landlords in buildings built after 1991 to freely raise the rent, argued that rent control was not the solution to the city’s affordable housing issues and that clamping down put development dollars at risk.
A dearth of affordable rental housing was why Barb Livesay moved to Parkdale about four years ago. She became a member of tenant advocacy group Parkdale Organize last year, after her landlord told residents that their rent would be going up 3 per cent each year, over three years, to cover the cost of repairs.
“We can’t afford the increases in rent that the landlords are asking for and we know the government won’t do anything about it,” said Livesay, 59, who relies on the Ontario Disability Support Program and Canada Pension Plan to pay about $800 for a bachelor apartment.
Livesay ended up taking part in what was dubbed a “rent strike,” where tenants withheld their rent and held public rallies to protest that proposed increase. The landlord eventually agreed not to raise the rent.
Everybody should have access to affordable housing, said Livesay.


Question: What are the applications of blockchain technology? Respond in 714 words.

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Blockchain's transparency, tamper-proof record and decentralized nature make the cryptocurrency vehicle more secure than any repository under the control of one entity.
Blockchain can be used to secure everything from financial transactions to voting and medical records.
Blockchain, the vehicle of cryptocurrency, is a technology that no one can own or control but anyone can use. It has potential applications for just about any enterprise involved in record-keeping, documentation, registrations and transactions.
Although the cryptocurrency bitcoin was created in 2009, the idea behind the blockchain technology it was built on dates back to the 1990s. Since bitcoin's launch, blockchain has gained increasing broad recognition in the tech investment world. With venture funding aplenty, numerous blockchain applications have been developed and many more are in the works.
Even in its early stages, blockchain is acquiring such renown for potential that any business associating itself with the term can attract new investment overnight, prompting some to use "the B word" so casually that they've also attracted attention from regulators.
Core blockchain software lives on the internet, available to anyone with a modem, just as Linux operating software is available free as an open-source item. It enables the creation of decentralized, publicly accessible digital ledgers — sequential chains of blocks of data. Blockchain is like a digital safe-deposit box, yet its security comes not from secrecy or exclusive access but from being tamper-proof.
With blockchain, no one's in charge, because everyone's in charge. Everyone knows what's going on, and no one can change the record. Blocks of data are immutable, so blockchains are permanent audit trails.
Proponents argue that blockchain's role as a transparent, tamper-proof record and its decentralized nature make it more secure than any repository under the control of one entity, because central sources are far easier to hack. With blockchain there's no custody or control by a central source, such as a financial institution.
Cutting out the middleman was a key founding principle of bitcoin, which cuts out banks, and it's the premise for many evolving or anticipated uses of blockchain. Consequently, some blockchain applications might prove disruptive, posing an existential threat to companies whose business model is based on being a central source.
Financial markets systems. An 80-plus member consortium of banks, regulators and technology partners — led by blockchain tech start-up R3 CEV — are developing a blockchain-platformed operating system called Corda.
Payment platforms. JPMorgan Chase has launched a new interbank payments platform based on a private blockchain for Ethereum, a form of cryptocurrency.
Digital rights management. Spotify acquired start-up Mediachain Labs last year to use blockchain technology for music copyright-attribution protocols. And Eastman Kodak is seeking to develop publicly accessible repositories for stock photographs and their copyrights.
Decentralizing the sharing economy. Arranging P2P lodging and ride-sharing — without paying middlemen, i.e., Airbnb, Uber and Lyft.
Medical records (private blockchain). Might blockchain finally enable long-predicted secure lifetime medical record-sharing across providers?
Securing Internet of things (IoT) devices. There are more than 8.4 billion internet-enabled devices, from refrigerators and doorbells to wearable fitness monitors and prototypical self-driving cars. Proponents argue that blockchain technology could be used to reduce the risk of many IoT devices being compromised by a single point of failure, such as a server.
P2P e-commerce. Peer-to-peer of all sorts, potentially threatening eBay.
Not surprisingly, much of the venture funding for blockchain thus far — from notables including Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund (Peter Thiel) and Andreessen Horowitz — has been concentrated in bitcoin-related enterprises. But some of this money is for other applications, including ecommerce, media, identification and private blockchain.
Venture investment in blockchain start-ups began in 2012 and grew apace in 2016 and 2017. According to a report by CB Insights, a tech-funding research firm, Google and Goldman Sachs are among the most active corporate investors. Other investors include Visa, PNC, Deloitte, Transamerica, Wells Fargo, Capital One and U.S. Bancorp.
Manufacturing. Manufacturers develop products for the cryptocurrency industry, including specialized, powerful computer-processing chips and other hardware used by "miners"— independent operators who collectively validate and thus enable transactions. Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices and Taiwan Semiconductors are a few examples.
As applications evolve, a broader range of blockchain-related investment opportunities among public companies are expected to emerge.
Today blockchain is a tech market buzzword. Tomorrow it could be a household word.


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It’s not every day we get to see nature up close and personal, but thanks to new arial footage, we were able to catch a glimpse of three killer whales – otherwise known as orcas – swimming in Seattle’s Elliot Bay on Monday, April 9th. The video is a sight to behold, as well as an important reminder that we must protect amazing wildlife like orcas and other threatened and endangered wildlife.
Like many other natural wonders, killer whales can be difficult to find — meaning videos like these don’t come around too often. In the clip from ABC News’ Facebook page, we can see the whales’ distinct black and white coloring maneuvering in and out of the water. Though it’s unclear where they are going, it looks like they are headed north.
Check out the stunning footage below – and prepare to weep with wonder.
Just like us, Twitter users were delighted to see them, too.
So, where else in Washington are orca sightings common? The salmon-rich waters of the San Juan (which is off the coast of Washington state) is a notoriously good spot to catch them in action. Tours regularly depart from San Juan for shore-based whale-watching in the months of April and October.
Washington also recently passed a series of orca protection bills, which is a step in the right direction. The new laws are aimed at reducing noise pollution and giving orcas enough buffer between boats. Anything we can do to help these beautiful creatures counts. Now excuse us while we watch this video 90 more times today.


Question: Describe the story of George P. Burdell at Georgia Tech. Respond in detail.

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Back to school season is a good time for looking ahead at the year to come and looking back at days past. To reminisce about the times and the people we held dear...and sometimes, those who never existed at all.
George P. Burdell was a student enrolled at Georgia Tech in 1927. He wasn’t real, but rather, the result of a practical joke carried out by an actual student, William Edgar Smith. When Smith was accepted, he was accidentally sent two registration forms instead of one. Spotting an opportunity to seize the day, he filled out both forms—one for himself and one for a creature of his imagination who went by the name of George P. Burdell. The name was taken from the president (and former UGA football captain) of the Richmond Academy of Augusta, Ga.—George P. Butler—where Smith went to high school.
Smith was able to make the ruse last by enrolling Burdell in classes and turning in assignments for him (with some help from friends). The elaborate prank lasted all the way to graduation day, when Burdell earned his degree in Mechanical Engineering. Presumably they didn’t take attendance back in those days.
Other students have fueled the Burdell story to this day. After graduating, he flew 12 missions in a B-17 Bomber in Europe during World War II (and several wars since), served on MAD magazine’s Board of Directors from 1969 to 1981, and even showed up in the polls for TIME magazine’s “Person of the Year” award in 2001. The alum is beloved back at school, with a Facebook profile and page dedicated to his legacy, and there’s even a store in Georgia Tech's student center named "Burdell's." He also has a Georgia Tech faculty page, where he’s listed as: “Helluva Engineer and Namesake of the future Burdell Center.” Burdell is said to have joined the staff in 2005. His contact info and office hours are noticeably absent.
Despite changing technology in registration, students have continued to successfully enroll Burdell several times throughout the years, and each year on April 1st, the school throws a birthday celebration for the “Spirit of Georgia Tech,” George P. Burdell.
And earlier this year, even President Obama got in on the action when he spoke at the college—he began his statements with: “Now, I understand George P. Burdell was supposed to introduce me today. But nobody could find him.” That Burdell. So elusive.


Question: What happened in the court case between Georgia's Secretary of State and the Green and Constitution Parties?

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 What happened in the court case between Georgia's Secretary of State and the Green and Constitution Parties?

U.S. District Court Judge Richard W. Story ruled Thursday that Georgia’s requirement that political organizations seeking to put a presidential candidate’s name on a statewide ballot have to get signatures from one percent of registered voters is unconstitutional.
The Green Party of Georgia and the Constitution Party of Georgia has filed suit against Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp over the requirement, which in 2012 required 50,334 signatures for presidential ballot access. Story ruled that a presidential candidate must submit 7,500 signatures on a petition that otherwise complies with state law to be put on the ballot.


Question: Describe the ongoing legal dispute between Matt Barnes and Gloria Govan.

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Matt Barnes and ex-wife Gloria Govan are headed to court once again to fight over money and custody, but now she’s revealing that the ex-NBA star allegedly assaulted her in front of their children and is using it to gain leverage in the situation.
According to documents obtained by The Blast, the former “Basketball Wives” star wants Barnes held in contempt of court for violating their custody order after allegedly flying their two children to Oakland multiple times without her approval.
In documents filed by attorney Mark Gross, Govan also says Barnes took her 9-carat engagement ring and wedding band and hawked them to buy himself and their kids diamond necklaces. She wants the court to force Barnes to reimburse her for the value of the rings.
She claims Barnes is a danger to the children, and includes a deposition from August 2017 where under oath she claimed Barnes slapped her with the back of his hand while they were driving with the children in the car back in 2014. She also claims during a fight with fiancé Derek Fisher that Barnes became so enraged he spat on and tried to shove her.
To be clear, the 2014 allegation of assault is different than when Barnes was arrested for domestic violence in 2010 and Govan went on record saying he had never hit her.
As we reported, Barnes recently filed a lawsuit against Govan and her family accusing them of bilking him out of $300,000 and making a fraudulent purchase on a house. She is also suing him for defamation.
This war is not ending anytime soon.


Question: Have you heard any news about Turki al-Binali?

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The United States-led coalition said on Tuesday it had killed ISIS’ self-proclaimed top cleric in an air strike in May on a Syrian town near the Iraqi border.
“Coalition forces killed Turki al-Binali, the self-proclaimed ‘Grand Mufti’ or chief cleric of ISIS in an air strike May 31 in Mayadeen, Syria,” the coalition said in a statement, using an acronym for the extremist group.
Rumors of Binali’s death had circulated after the strike, but there was no official confirmation until the statement.
ISIS confirmed the death of the grand Mufti and prominent leader of its Bahraini branch Turki al-Binali after a coalition air raid targeted militiants earlier this month.
Binali was also known as Abu Humam al-Athari, Abu Sufyan al-Salim and Abu Hudhayfah al-Bahraini.
Binali was one of the most prominent leaders of ISIS in the Libyan city of Sirte, where he lectured and prepared religious sessions in the mosques for ISIS members.
He moved to Sirte in Libya in 2013, and preached at the Rabat Mosque in October 2013, when he urged the residents of the city to pledge allegiance to the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. He then appeared in the city of Raqqa in July 2015 where he performed the Eid prayer before returning to Libya again.
Binali returned to Sirte after the death of al-Anbari in an American raid in the east of Derna in 2015, in order to reorganize the ranks of ISIS and make administrative arrangements on behalf of Baghdadi.
Binali (34 years-old) grew up in the Bahraini city of Muharraq. He pursued his elementary and complimentary education at al-Iman School and then completed his secondary education at the literature department of al-Hidaya school.
He then went to the College of Islamic and Arabic Studies in Dubai for a year and a half, until the UAE government raided his house in Sharjah and arrested him before deporting him to Bahrain.
Binali was the imam of a mosque in the Muharraq market before being dismissed because of his heresy and extremist sermons. He worked as a teacher at the Omar bin Abdul Aziz school in al-Hala city, but was quickly fired.
In 2015, Bahrain's Ministry of Interior revoked his citizenship as part of the procedures for maintaining the security and stability in the country facing extremism threats.


Question: Hey there! Do you know of any other interesting Python 2 to Python 3 changes that can be tricky?

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Walking Randomly » Which Python 2 -> Python 3 changes caught you out?
@michiexile: ‘I’m teaching Python3 this semester, and suddenly kinda enjoy it. I was caught by dict.keys() not being a normal iterable tho’.
If you find yourself working on a project that makes heavy use of it, you’ve got work ahead of you for your Python 3 conversion. Cython is usually the solution.
Your scoping one is nicely illustrated though! Thanks!
Have you worked on an Image Processing algorithm which creates a large Laplacian Matrix?
I’m wondering if it can be solved efficiently with the NAG library.
The above link describe the Matrix pretty accurately.
This is what I need, a solve which is quick (Uses SSE, AVX), memory efficient with API to preconditioners.
When working with CSVs, csv.reader accepts a `delimiter` argument in case you want to use tabs or pipes or something like that instead of commas.
If you use `from __future__ import unicode_literals` in a module where you try to use this argument, Python 2 will complain that `delimiter` should be a str, not a unicode. If you use a bytestring literal (e.g., b’\t’) to try to make Python 2 happy, Python 3 will complain that it should be a string, not bytes.
Before you start looking around for a while in the docs for six, like I did, it turns out the solution is just to wrap your string literal in a str() call (e.g., str(‘\t’)) so each version sees what it wants to see.
Good exercise. Hopefully we’ll all be doing more of this in 2015!
The unicode / str thing always seems to generate more work than the “advertising” would have you believe.
Even though I know about it, that map() and .items() return iterators rather than lists still trips me up. Especially when I want to insert print calls.


Question: Describe how capitalism leads to the rise of right-wing populism and its consequences. Respond in 51 sentences.

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directly related to this, i suggest people view the film “what the health” (by the same filmmakers as those who created COWspiracy – both on Netflix, thanks to Leonardo DiCaprio). most of us are aware that the pharma-pseudo-kill and medi-kill corporations are controlled by the same profit motives as other corporations. many of us are NOT aware, however, that the so called health organizations (i.e. the american heart association, the american cancer society, the american diabetics association, etc) are also controlled by the same profit-bound entities.
aware that a plant based, vegan diet and lifestyle can prevent and reverse most if not all major and minor diseases, they nonetheless continue to promote animal products. the naked question poses itself – are they acting on behalf of animal agriculture because of huge donations they receive from these self-same animal industries?
it seems that if we want to live long, healthy, fulfilling lives, (as social activists, etc), we need to take our health and longevity into our own hands (consuming from the abundance of the plant universe – organic, whole foods, fruits, veggies, etc). only by doing so will we have the energy, stamina, vitality and mental clarity to work to take the reigns of society into our own hands, both are essential and interrelated by a million plant-food fibers.
as usual – excellent! i hope you like the comment i left.
Capitalism has hollowed out this country and left behind a substantial number of fearful people. They are fearful of the future, fearful for the future of their children, and fearful for themselves. Rather than look for solutions in rational inquiry (fear and reason cannot coexist), they lash out at the Other. Centuries ago, with the Enlightenment, the West sold its soul to the Devil. We spent a long time enjoying the fiddle music but now the Devil has come to collect his debt and we don’t understand why the temperature is suddenly rising.
1. I hadn’t heard of the term “janitors insurance,” but upon looking it up I found it is the same as “dead peasants insurance,” a term that has been around for a while. Wal-Mart, among others, is notorious for using that. For readers not familiar with this, what these terms refer to is the practice of corporations taking out life insurance in the name of employees and cashing in should they die. Lovely.
2. Although what Hoffer describes does not apply to all mass-movement leaders, it does to many, in particular those of right-wing “populist” and fascist movements. Yes, there have been left-wing leaders to whom this description would fit.
This, incidentally, touches upon a theory I have long nurtured as to why talk radio skews so heavily to the far Right. Namely, that listening to talk radio means listening to an “authority” tell you what you should think. This appeals to many on the Right, who often are intellectually capable of doing little more than echoing talking points. Folks on the Left are far more prone to arguing and debating, and thus have no need for an “authority” to spoon-feed them. I am generalizing here, I know that, and obviously there are exceptions both ways. But the need for communion that Hoffer describes can be partially fulfilled though the shared experience of a broadcaster.
Hoffer’s vivid description reminds us of why collective leadership is needed (as opposed to the leadership of a single person) and that a collective leadership must continually cultivate newer members to assume leadership roles with regular turnover in leaderships and accountability. We will have to liberate ourselves, not wait for somebody to do it for us.
When there is no organized Left to provide answers and organization during periods of economic turmoil, the resulting vacuum will be filled by the Right. Thus the rise of a Trump who would have gone nowhere as a joke candidate in better times, or the vote for Brexit, or the rise of neo-fascism in Hungary, or the rise of religious fundamentalism paired with neoliberalism and scapegoating in Poland and Turkey.
Once again, Alcuin, you have given us much reflect upon seriously.
Yoda: “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
I contend that capitalism, which dissolves all that is solid, leads straight to fear.
The rise of right wing populism is totally predictable if one has a proper understanding of capitalism.
Unfortunately for all of us, the right wing populist solution to the problem is more capitalism.
of the capitalist monster bird is myopic, to say the least.
Daniel, you certainly aren’t paying attention. Perhaps you could actually read some of the material on this blog before commenting.
Anger, Daniel, only leads to your suffering. What fear leads you to your condemnation of the Republicans and Democrats? Do you really think that they are listening to your diatribe against them? Confront your fear and then come up with a positive solution. Angry diatribes against Republicans and Democrats are the easy way out and far too common on both the Left and the Right.
May you find the light within.


Question: Describe the film "Doughboys in Ireland"

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Doughboys in Ireland is a 1943 American musical war film directed by Lew Landers and starring Kenny Baker, Jeff Donnell and Lynn Merrick. The film offered an early role for future star Robert Mitchum, who appeared in many films that year. A group of American troops are stationed in Ireland, where they come into conflict with the locals.


Question: What kind of financial services is Swissquote offering?

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Swissquote is is an online banking service provider based in Switzerland. Back in July 2017 they became the first online bank in Europe to launch bitcoin trading account for their clients. One year on from offering this innovative new product Swissquote have seen profits surge 44%.
The Swissquote Group posted a profit of 25.7 million CHF ($26.01 million) in the first half of 2018, Incredibly this was a 44% increase on 2017 figures. This increase has believed to be attributed to the metric rise of the cryptocurrency markets throughout 2017. Swissquote reported to have seen an increase in both customer accounts and overall trading activity.
Other Swiss financial institutions have been focusing on the integration of cryptocurrency based products, with Falcon Private Bank also offering bitcoin and cryptocurrency portfolios after agreeing a partnership with Bitcoin Suisse AG.
SIB, the Japanese banking giants also announced they will be launching a cryptocurrency trading platform in the near future.
The number of customer accounts in the commercial sector increased by 16’278, and the activity of the customers increased, as we learned. In the first half of the year, customers spent an average of 11.8 transactions, compared with just one transaction in the same period of the previous year.
Since launching their new bitcoin products Swissquote has gone on to add support for a further 4 cryptocurrencies; Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Ethereum and Ripple, as well as adding an exchange traded product (ETP) in the first quarter of 2018.