Question: Describe how scientists have recently discovered how sharks regenerate their teeth.

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 Describe how scientists have recently discovered how sharks regenerate their teeth.

A new insight into how sharks regenerate their teeth, which may pave the way for the development of therapies to help humans with tooth loss, has been discovered by scientists at the University of Sheffield.
The study has identified a network of genes that enables sharks to develop and regenerate their teeth throughout their lifetime. The genes also allow sharks to replace rows of their teeth using a conveyer belt-like system.
Scientists have known for some time that some fish, such as sharks and rays, develop rows of highly specialised teeth with the capacity for lifelong regeneration. However the genetic mechanisms which enable this to happen were poorly understood.
Now the research team, led by Dr Gareth Fraser from the University of Sheffield’s Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, has identified how a special set of epithelial cells form, called the dental lamina, which are responsible for the lifelong continuation of tooth development and regeneration in sharks.
Humans also possess this set of cells, which facilitate the production of replacement teeth, but only two sets are formed – baby and adult teeth - before this set of specialised cells is lost.
The Sheffield-led team show that these tooth-making genes found in sharks are conserved through 450 million years of evolution, and probably made the first vertebrate teeth. These ‘tooth’ genes, therefore make all vertebrate teeth from sharks to mammals, however in mammals like humans, the tooth regeneration ability, that utilises these genes, has been highly reduced over time.
Dr Gareth Fraser from the University of Sheffield said: “We know that sharks are fearsome predators and one of the main reasons they are so successful at hunting prey is because of their rows of backward pointing, razor-sharp teeth that regenerate rapidly throughout their lifetime, and so are replaced before decay.
Through analysing the teeth of catshark embryos, the researchers characterised the expression of genes during stages of early shark tooth formation. They found that these genes participate in the initial emergence of shark’s teeth and are re-deployed for further tooth regeneration.
The study suggests that at the beginning of the sharks’ evolutionary history, their teeth were most likely continuously regenerated and used a core set of genes from members of key developmental signalling pathways, which were instrumental in sharks evolving to maintain the ability to re-deploy the genes to replace teeth when needed.


Question: What do you know about Jack Thomas?

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John "Jack" Thomas was an All-American lacrosse player at Johns Hopkins University from 1972 to 1974.


Question: How to boot an ISO image from a hard drive using Grub or Lilo. Respond in detail.

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This HOWTO was contributed by Marco Caliari, who also created the miniroot files described here. Thanks, Marco!
The following procedure is useful for testing .iso images, as well as for installations where use of a cdrom (or dvd) may not be practical, possible or efficient.
This procedire also provides a clever way to add the rich set of application Quantian provides in a small space as it requires only slightly more diskspace that the compressed .iso image itself. It can be extended easily to allow a menu-driven selection between several iso files, which could even come from different Knoppix variants.
Other than the .iso, we need at least two files, a kernel and an initrd image. The archive (miniroots.tar.gz) containing all the kernels (linux24, migshm24 and linux26) and the initrd images (minirt24.gz, migrt24.gz and minirt26.gz, respectively) can be downloaded from Debian's Alioth site.
Now, suppose that /dev/hda1 is your root device (which should be formatted for either an Ext2, Ext3 or ReiserFS file system) containing boot as directory: then copy the kernels and the miniroots in boot/ and the .iso in /. Then, you have to modify the Grub configuration file menu.lst (usually in /boot/grub) or the LILO configuration file lilo.conf (usually in /etc), according to your boot manager.
Now you should be ready to reboot.
append="ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 nomce quiet fromhd=/dev/null bootfrom=/dev/hda1/*.iso config=scan home=scan noprompt"
append="ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 nomce quiet fromhd=/dev/null bootfrom=/dev/hda5/*.iso config=scan home=scan noprompt"
Extensions should be straightforward. See the Lilo or Grub or Mini-HOWTOs for more documentation.


Question: Describe Shade.

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Color contrast insights and recommendations at the speed of light.
Shade includes Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 contrast validation.
Always available in your menubar when you need it, and out of the way when you don't.
Shade walks the color wheel and suggests colors to achieve the required contrast.


Question: Describe an incident involving a pitbull attack in Lowell, MA.

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LOWELL -- A dog attack left a woman and her own dog injured Tuesday, according to Lowell police.
The incident occurred at 53 Loring St., according to Police Capt. Paul Laferriere. He said a 29-year-old woman was in the yard with her dog about 10:17 a.m. when a large, unleashed pitbull entered her yard and attacked her dog.
The woman, and the male owner of the pitbull, tried to separate the dogs, which is when the woman was bitten, Laferriere said in an email.
The man and pitbull left the scene, and were located later, he said. Animal control is following up on the attack, Laferriere said.
The woman and her dog both needed medical attention, he said.
In October 2017, a 7-year-old Lowell boy was killed by a pitbull. The Middlesex District Attorney's Office reported the young boy entered a fenced in area on Clare Street one evening where there were two pitbulls. The one pitbull who attacked the child was later euthanized.
Police did not yet have information on whether the pitbull owner in Tuesday's incident will face any charges.


Question: Describe what you see as the current state of feminism in America.

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Since Trump won the presidency in 2016, America’s become unhinged.
One could say both sides are more polarized now than they’ve ever been (like the fact that there are “two sides” to everything instead of multiple camps), and it’s becoming uglier by the second.
And who’s leading the charge from the far-left?
It’s invaded Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and the highest levels of the U.S. government. We can’t seem to get away from it. And the funny thing is that most people think it’s a joke.
Only one-fifth of Americans identify as feminists. But the vast majority fit the basic definition of the word. According to the survey, just 20 percent of Americans — including 23 percent of women and 16 percent of men — consider themselves feminists. Another 8 percent consider themselves anti-feminists, while 63 percent said they are neither.
And what you see is just pure hate (definitely not Susan B. Anthony’s feminism).
Heck, there’s even one called “Feminist Baby,” for crying out loud.
These books aren’t about equal rights for women. We already won that fight. These books are about hating white men, Trump, traditional morality, and masculinity.
The new feminism wants to dismantle the nuclear family, the housewife, masculinity, gender roles, and true femininity (you know, the kind where women look and act like women).
In short, the new feminism isn’t about “real feminism” at all.
Not true of the new feminists. In fact, the new feminists are more akin to a Karl Marx than Rosa Parks.
The new feminists are advocating for violence, hate, discrimination, prejudice, and censorship — not for women’s rights.
Besides, we already have women’s rights in the States. That was taken care of decades ago. So maybe these new “feminists” should go to some lesser-developed countries if they want to do some real good (I hear Turkmenistan is lovely in the Fall). Because the countries where the idea of feminism actually makes sense are the ones where women can’t have jobs, drive, go to school, or show their faces.
In the states, it’s just not needed.
But you’d think we’re living in medieval times here when you listen to the feminists rage against the machine.
So, Why Is the "Anti-Feminist" Movement Not as Loud?
Well, for starters, the powers that be are suppressing and censoring them. The three biggest influencers of culture (tech, media, and Hollywood) are dominated by radical feminists.
Heck, we even had Madonna threaten to blow up the White House after Trump was elected!
Whoever controls the narrative, controls the culture. And with the narrative being so carefully and aggressively trumpeted by leftists, it’s no wonder why the anti-feminist camp is having such a tough time being heard.
If you do a search for “anti-feminist book” on Amazon you only get 356 results (and MOST of the results are STILL pro-feminist books).
To take it one step further, if you search for an “anti-feminist kids book,” you get ZERO RESULTS.
You can get books on teaching your little girls how to rail against the patriarchy, but if you want one unpacking the ridiculousness of third wave feminism, you can’t find one.
Bottom line: the imbalance in this space is mind-boggling. This is also why I wrote the very first kids book on the topic, and, if you’d like, you can get in here on Amazon.
So, this radical feminism…it’s not just on Amazon.
And the political climate we’re living in right now would suggest that our culture is extremely divided between the radical left and the old-school conservatives. It’s really a battle for the future of America.
Radical feminism is one of socialism’s top battlefield generals. And for being so small numerically, it’s making quite a mess out there.
…America became a great nation, because we were a 'can do’ nation. Now we’re becoming a ‘what can you do for me’ nation. So seeing all those things, plus the rapid rise of political correctness, which is stifling one of the basic tenets of our country — our freedom of speech — just alarmed me significantly.
To be conservative means maximum freedom. It means small government. It means the preservation of the institutions and ideas that lend themselves to human flourishing. In other words, we need to fight for the very things that radical feminism wants to destroy.
Thankfully, the silent majority is starting to speak up. And, no, it’s not just white men doing so.
The new and vocal ‘anti-feminist’ movement is made up of women and men from all ethnicities and socioeconomic backgrounds. Black women like Candace Owens, gay men like Milo Yiannopoulos, atheists like Carl Benjamin, and even trans people like Blair White are fighting against the plague of feminism in the West.
Because you don’t have to be a conservative, Christian, white male to recognize that the "new feminism” is bad for America.
Because people everywhere are sick of being taught to hate white men, hate marriage, and hate the system.
Because people everywhere are sick of hearing about non-issues like mansplaining, manspreading, and the “wage gap” theory.
Because people everywhere don’t think that the “patriarchy” is a real thing or that it’s out to get them.
This begs the question, can the anti-feminist movement make America great again? Can it rip us out of the closing jaws of progressivism and political correctness?
…standing against the wall not bothering anyone in the marketplace of ideas.
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Question: Describe the song "Lil Star" by Kelis. Respond in 4 sentences.

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"Lil Star" is the second international single from Kelis' fourth studio album, "Kelis Was Here" (2006). Released outside US (where "Blindfold Me" served as the second single), the single features Cee-Lo, who is known for being a half of the duo Gnarls Barkley. Following the moderate success of "Bossy", the single has proven to be a return to form for Kelis; it debuted at number eight in Ireland and was also a huge hit in the United Kingdom reaching number three on the UK Singles Chart. The track was hailed by many music fans and critics as Kelis' "comeback" single, despite the fact "Bossy" was written specifically for Kelis' return to music.


Question: What is The Real Housewives of Melbourne? Respond in 3 sentences.

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The Real Housewives of Melbourne (abbreviated RHOMelbourne) is an Australian reality television series that premiered on 23 February 2014, on Arena. It was developed as one of the international installments of "The Real Housewives", an American television series franchise. The series chronicles the lives of several women living in Melbourne, Australia.


Question: Respond in 12 words. Who was John Smith?

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John Smith (4 January 1939 – February 1988) was an English footballer.


Question: Could you please explain how the * selector works to me?

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 Could you please explain how the * selector works to me?

changes the colors of both of our pet dogs.
The same rules that apply to the . operator apply to the .. operator. That is, if there are multiple descendants of the requested type, an XML list is returned, instead of the normal element. The * selector returns all descendants in an XML list.
Originally, elements.* returns a list with all 3 dogs in it. However, only fido and killer have their color attributes as brown. The filtering conditional therefore creates a list with just fido and killer as members.


Question: Write a short description of Roast Beef, a character in the Space Odditorium.

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You’ve never seen anything like it before: 330lbs of sumo wrestling dynamite in space and he goes by the name Roast Beef. He's one more contestant on The Space Odditorium and he's about to learn the tragic fate of his homeworld. It’s the introduction of another forsaken survivor of the Stowan invasion in our award-winning submission to Ghost City Comics 5x5 Festival.


Question: What can you tell me about the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake?

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan, China, killed tens of thousands of people and left millions homeless. About 20,000 deaths -- nearly 30 percent of the total -- resulted not from the ground shaking itself but from the landslides that it triggered.
"Earthquakes can be devastating, horrific and stressful events," said Anna Nowicki Jessee, a postdoctoral research fellow in the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences who developed the model. "The ultimate goal of this work is that fast, regional estimates of landslide occurrence would provide a way for those who are affected to receive the aid they need more quickly and efficiently."
The model, based on data from past earthquakes and landslides, will be incorporated into the U.S. Geological Survey's Ground Failure tool, which will be part of the USGS earthquake reporting system.
By entering data for ground shaking for a specific earthquake -- available anywhere around the globe from the U.S. Geological Survey ShakeMap tool -- scientists will be able to use the model to produce a map showing the probability of landslides in areas near the quake. Available within minutes, the results could provide this information quickly to agencies that assist affected populations.
"The best part for me," Jessee said, "is the idea that this product can be used to actually help people who are impacted by landslides caused by earthquakes."


Question: Explain how the US government is responding to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's controversial comments about Adolf Hitler.

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 Explain how the US government is responding to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's controversial comments about Adolf Hitler.

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte appeared to liken himself to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler on Friday and said he would “be happy” to exterminate 3 million drug users and peddlers in the country.
Although the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama played down the remark, Duterte’s comments triggered shock and anger among Jewish groups in the United States, which could create pressure on the U.S. government to take a tougher line with the Philippines leader.
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter told a news conference following a meeting Southeast Asian defense chiefs in Hawaii that he personally found Duterte’s comments “deeply troubling”, though the matter wasn’t discussed at the meeting.
Duterte told reporters that he had been “portrayed to be a cousin of Hitler” by critics.
Noting that Hitler had murdered millions of Jews, Duterte said, “There are 3 million drug addicts (in the Philippines). I’d be happy to slaughter them.
“If Germany had Hitler, the Philippines would have ...,” he said, pausing and pointing to himself.
U.N. special adviser on the prevention of genocide, Adama Dieng, expressed alarm and urged the Philippines leader to exercise restraint in his use of language, a U.N. statement said.
Dieng also called on Duterte to support an investigation into the reported rise in killings resulting from his anti-drug campaign, the statement said.
In August, Duterte threatened to withdraw the Philippines from the United Nations after it called for an end to the killings.
In Washington, a State Department spokeswoman, Anna Richey-Allen, had repeated concerns about reports of extrajudicial killings but offered no response to Duterte’s comment referring to Hitler.
How relations between the U.S. and the Philippines evolve will depend more on what Duterte does than on what he says, administration officials have said.
U.S. officials had said they would use the defense chiefs meeting in Hawaii to clarify comments by Duterte that throw into doubt his commitment to military ties with the United States, including joint exercises and patrols.
“And like all alliances it depends on the continuation of a sense of shared interests. So far in US-Philippine history we have had that. We would look forward to continuing that but that’s something that we continue to discuss with the Philippine government,” he said.
Since Duterte took office on June 30, more than 3,100 people have been killed since then, mostly alleged drug users and dealers, in police operations and vigilante killings.
Duterte, who was elected in May on the back of a vow to end drugs and corruption in the country of 100 million people, has insulted Obama and in a number of remarks he has undermined the relationship between Manila and Washington.
Jewish groups quickly condemned Duterte’s Hitler comments.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Digital Terrorism and Hate project, called them “outrageous”.
“Duterte owes the victims (of the Holocaust) an apology for his disgusting rhetoric,” Cooper said.
Duterte has said there will be no annual war games between the Philippines and the United States until the end of his six-year term, and his hostility may make Washington’s strategy of rebalancing its military focus toward Asia in the face of an increasingly assertive China more difficult to achieve.
Murray Hiebert, a Southeast Asia expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank in Washington, said Obama was “taking the long view” in dealing with Duterte. Obama leaves office in January.


Question: What is a .17 Rimfire? Respond briefly.

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 What is a .17 Rimfire? Respond briefly.

.17 Rimfire may refer to a number of different cartridges or firearms that use them. The cartridges all use rimfire cases and fire .17 inch (4.5 mm) bullets. While .17 caliber airguns generally use .177 inch projectiles (4.50 mm), .17 caliber firearms, both rimfire and centerfire, generally measure .172 inch (4.37 mm).


Question: Explain how the recent minimum wage hikes have affected businesses, like Applebee's, in New York and how they're dealing with them.

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Matt recently brought you up to date on how liberals’ minimum wage demands have done severe damage to Seattle's and New York’s businesses. He highlighted a New York Post report revealing that, in the wake of the increased rate to $15 an hour, New York lost a staggering 1,000 restaurants.
Applebee's was one of the businesses that has been especially hard pressed by the minimum wage hike. Zane Tankel, the CEO of Applebee’s New York franchise, explained that his restaurants were forced to fire at least 1,000 employees so far thanks to the liberal policy. He shared the unfortunate news with Fox Business's Stuart Varney on Monday.
Instead of typical servers, the CEO explained that they will soon be replaced by concierges, who merely check on customers from time to time to make them feel "warm and comfortable."
"The model now that we're heading towards where we had one server for three or four tables, we're moving towards one server for ten tables, eliminating about two-thirds of our labor ultimately. But it's because of Cuomo, De Blasio, the liberal agenda."
If Applebee's completely follows through with its concierge service, nearly 2,000 employees will be heading for the exit, Newsbusters explains.
Tankel discussed this same issue with Varney in January, back when he had *only* fired 500 employees.
“We can’t raise prices anymore,” he said at the time, rather candidly, so they had to take drastic measures.
The lost workers, he explained, could be replaced with tablets that are placed on customers’ tables.
"Increasing minimum wage is technology's best friend," Tankel concluded.


Question: Who was Andrew Rutherfurd Clark?

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Andrew Rutherfurd Clark, Lord Rutherfurd-Clark (1828 – 26 July 1899) was a Scottish judge


Question: What can you tell me about the Philippines' external debt service burden and debt service ratio?

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 What can you tell me about the Philippines' external debt service burden and debt service ratio?

The Philippines’ external debt service burden fell by 4.6 percent as of end-October, 2017 to $5.839 billion compared to $6.121 billion same time in 2016 despite the weaker peso.
Based on Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) numbers, principal payments decreased by 4.13 percent to $3.76 billion from $3.922 billion. Interest payments were also lower by 5.45 percent to $2.079 billion versus the previous year’s $2.199 billion.
The debt service burden continues to indicate that both the public and private sectors have enough foreign exchange for its maturing obligations. By computing the debt service ratio with debt service burden, foreign debt borrowers show a capacity to settle maturing debt, according to the BSP.
The latest external debt data – which was end-September, 2017 since foreign debt is reported quarterly – show that the country’s outstanding foreign currency debt stood at $72.4 billion.
This was lower by 5.6 percent or $4.3 billion compared to same time in 2016 of $76.6 billion.
The central bank said the peso depreciation encouraged borrowers to turn to domestic financing to minimize exposure to exchange rate volatility.
In October last year, the peso averaged at P51.34:$1. It was the second highest monthly average in 2017 after hitting its weakest point of P51.79 (October 30, 2017).
The BSP said the country’s debt service ratio is still on the solid side back up by external reserves of above $81 billion during the period.
The debt service ratio at 19.5 percent remains below the international benchmark range of 20 percent to 25 percent.
The debt service ratio is a solvency indicator.
The public sector external debt for the January-September, 2017 period reached $37.2 billion and it accounted for 51.4 percent of total debt.
This was slightly lower than the end-June 2017’s $37.5 billion. About $30.4 billion or 81.6 percent of public sector obligations are National Government borrowings.
Private sector debt, in the meantime, accounted for 48.6 percent of the total amounting to $35.1 billion, just a little more than last quarter’s $35 billion.


Question: Provide instructions on how to make home décor with specific instructions on making a Miss Dior Perfume Frame and Flamingo Picture Canvas.

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 Provide instructions on how to make home décor with specific instructions on making a Miss Dior Perfume Frame and Flamingo Picture Canvas.

Most people would just expend energy, time and money on the basic home furnitures like chairs, tables, TV, carpets and lights, and disregard home furnishings like wall frames, paintings, flowers and etc because it tends to look like more time consuming to put together which isn’t. A plain wall makes a home look boring but a well decorated wall simply makes it look organised and stylish regardless of the space.
If you’re in the budget team and want a total home makeover, then adding this wall frames can make a huge difference, so let’s jump right into the making.
To make the Miss Dior Perfume Frame you’ll simply go to Google or Pinterest to search for a printable picture and then save it on your computer, once saved print it out but before that, you must consider the size of the picture make sure it’s not over stretched, as this will increase the pixels and it will distort the image. i’ll recommend using a 14 x 14 frame size.
Now we have the correct size of picture you’ll put it inside the frame, and then close the back of the frame.
Take a Nail buffer and cut it into a small square, and grab a small piece of Ribbon which you’re going to use to tie around the buffer to cover it up, and glue it to the frame.
Now take a white and grey Ribbon tie them together into a bow and glue it onto the Nail Buffer, at this point, the frame is already making sense but hold on, we still have one more step to go, which is the gluing of the cover of perfume. The cover will go right on top of the nail buffer, and there we have a beautiful picture frame.
The Miss Dior Perfume Frame took 15 minutes to arrange, it was so easy to make, literally it was like a 1 + 1 maths!
Go to Pinterest and print out a Flamingo picture and carefully cut it out then place it on top of the canvas and start tracing it.
Making the Flamingo Picture Canvas is more like a primary school work where you’re asked to trace an image. Honestly it was like a patience test, so you’ll need to be on the slow and steady mood so that you don’t make any mistake when cutting and tracing.
Take an E6000 Glue paint it over the neck, legs and upper body of the Flamingo using a small paint brush. Be precise when applying the glue, apply it inside the image because if it gets above the traced line and you apply the glitter it will disfigure the sharp of the bird.
Gently sprinkle the gold glitter till the glue is well covered and let it sit for some minutes and when you feel is dry dust out the excess glitter away, and then move to the final step.
Insert the glue stick into the glue gun and allow it to get really hot, once you’re sure is hot enough then start applying it behind the feathers, try to take them one after the other and apply it in an upright position and then walk your way through to the middle of the Flamingo.
There are 4 layers and 4 different colours of feathers: Black, Gold, White and bright Purple. Apply the feathers evenly and not randomly to avoid bulkiness since we’re going to be adding a golden soft Lace as the finishing touch. Draw an eye and a signature (optional).
All the materials I used didn’t cost much they were affordable and you can find them in any local DIY store around your area or you can just order one of these DIY decor from me lol, Now you’ll say i’m sounding businesslike but is really another way of making life easier for you as the goal here is to create cheap wall arts.
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Question: Who is Mullah Fazal Mohammad? Respond in 1 sentences.

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Mullah Fazal Mohammad is a citizen of Afghanistan and formerly a Taliban militia commander who was captured on November 25, 2001.


Question: Describe the situation surrounding Nick Ward's NBA draft entry.

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Michigan State sophomore forward Nick Ward will enter his name for the NBA draft but will not hire an agent.
Another Michigan State sophomore plans to test the pro basketball process.
Forward Nick Ward will enter his name for the NBA draft but will not hire an agent, per the school.
Ward — a 6-foot-8, 245-pounder from Gahanna, Ohio — is not projected to be selected by most mock drafts, though a few place him toward the back of the second round of the 60-pick draft that will be held June 21.
“Ward’s per-minute production this season is historically good, but there are a lot of question marks about how his game might translate,” ESPN NBA draft analyst Jonathan Givony said in January. “The NBA isn't really littered with 6-8 guys with just-average athleticism who don't shoot 3s, block shots prolifically, play-make for others, or step outside of the paint defensively.
Ward averaged 12.4 points a game this season and led the Spartans with 7.1 rebounds, ranking eighth in the Big Ten. He shot 64.8 percent from the field, second-best in the conference, and was an All-Big Ten third team selection by the media and an honorable mention selection by the coaches.
Classmate Miles Bridges on Wednesday announced he would enter the draft and has hired Klutch Sports and agent Rich Paul to represent him.
By not hiring an agent, Ward has until May 30 to withdraw his name from the draft and return to MSU for his junior season. He can still participate in the NBA draft combine, which will be held May 16-20 in Chicago.
MSU also is waiting to learn whether freshman forward Jaren Jackson Jr., who is projected as a potential top-5 pick, also will enter the NBA draft. Jackson has until April 22 to make his decision.


Question: Provide a description of Erythranthe floribunda. Respond in 50 words.

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Erythranthe floribunda is a species of monkeyflower known by the common name many-flowered monkeyflower. It is native to western North America from western Canada to California and northern Mexico, to the Rocky Mountains. It grows in many types of habitat, especially moist areas. It was formerly known as "Mimulus floribundus".


Question: Provide an overview of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Completed Dispatched Calls for Service webpage

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 Provide an overview of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Completed Dispatched Calls for Service webpage

Welcome to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Completed Dispatched Calls for Service webpage. This page displays calls for service made to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office that have recently been completed. The data on this page is refreshed automatically.
This information is not intended to be used as official crime data. This program does not provide information about all crimes, and excludes specific incidents such as sexual assaults and child abuse.
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Question: Explain basic SQL queries and commands.

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SQL Queries Practice is important for anyone who wants to improve their SQL writing skills. We humans learn from examples and by actually practising what we read. So this is what we will do today.
We discussed how SQL Select query works and what is a SQL query & the difference between SQL query & SQL Statement. Before that we learned how to install MS SQL Server Management Studio Step by Step in a very brief article. This was all very important before we learn basic SQL queries . In this article , you will find SQL queries for practice with Syntax and examples because what good the article is if it doesn’t have examples for what it’s for. Following are the Basic SQL Queries & Commands for practice today. You can use SQL Fiddle for sql queries practice , if you have not installed SQL Server Management Studio.
Examples and queries that we will see here will run on our University Management System database . If you want to use these SQL queries for practice , create the same database , you need to just copy paste the script from here .
SQL create is the command which is use to create database objects . We can create a SQL relational database , table , schema , views , functions and stored procedures using this command. We will see the Syntax for Create database & table only as we have a understanding of these two database objects. For the rest we will do a hands-on when we discuss them.
Let’s create a SQL relational database , we have a normalized Entity-Relation diagram for a Student management System. We will use that diagram and create an actual database for you to practice it on.
CREATE & DATABASE are the keywords and database_name will be the name of your database.
CREATE & TABLE two keywords then you will put your schema_name with the name of your table. Start by the name of SQL column then it’s SQL datatype and at the end you have to specify whether this column should accept and at last the constraint on the column if any. Last column shouldn’t have comma at the end.
Primary_key is the constraint that we defined on our key column. We will see about constraints and how they are created in our coming articles. Therefore , if you want to learn subscribe us and keep visiting us for the updates.
This is the command that we use to insert data in our tables.
INSERT INTO & VALUES these three keywords and schemaname is optional . However , best practices is to always mention it. The order in which you write colum name in INTO clause , should be followed by the same order for column names in VALUES clause.
You can insert data directly without mentioning the column names in INTO clause . The MS SQL management studio will take the data from VALUES clause and insert the data in order the columns are defined. See Example to clear this up.
The order in which you will write the column names in both INTO & VALUES clause is very important.
You have created a database , table and also inserted the data into it. We have discussed SQL SELECT in previous article.
Can you give alias to other columns? Practice this on your machine for a good hands-on.
If you have to update a row . You have to use UPDATE command.
UPDATE , SET & WHERE three keywords , then column name(s) which you want to update based upon the condition you mention in WHERE.
Let’s see what happens to Students table when we successfully execute this statement.
The Student_ID now has value 2 instead of 1. This is update command.
This command removes the existing database objects .
These are the very basic SQL Queries & Commands and they are also the very fundamental part of our database operations called. CRUD operations.
CRUD operations and these queries will stay with you from the basic query to advance level queries . Therefore , its very essential to have a good practice .
Few terms such as database objects , schema , view, functions & stored procedure which we have used in this post are explained in their own separate articles.
Share this with your friends & fellows the article & movie of course. See you in the next post.


Question: Respond in 54 words. What is The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies?

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The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies is a collection of essays by the French literary theorist Roland Barthes. It is a companion volume to his earlier book, "Mythologies", and follows the same format of a series of short essays which explore a range of cultural phenomena, from the Tour de France to laundry detergents.


Question: What is the latest news about JonTron and Yooka-Laylee? Respond in 147 words.

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Jonathan Jafari aka JonTron celebrates at the PlayStation 4 Pro midnight launch event at Sony Square NYC on November 9, 2016 in New York City.
The popular YouTube host Jon Jafari’s voice has been removed from the upcoming video game Yooka-Laylee following his incendiary and false claims about race and immigration in the U.S. earlier in March.
“Playtonic is a studio that celebrates diversity in all forms and strives to make games that everyone can enjoy,” the developer said. “As such, we deeply regret any implied association that could make players feel anything but 100% comfortable in our game worlds, or distract from the incredible goodwill and love shown by our fans and Kickstarter backers.
Yooka-Laylee, which will be available for most gaming platforms including Playstation 4, XboxOne and the Nintendo Switch, will be released next month.
Jafari did not immediately respond to a request for comment.


Question: Who is Joscha Schmierer?

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Hans-Gerhart "Joscha" Schmierer (born 1 April 1942 in Stuttgart) is a German politician and author.


Question: Explain the craftsmanship of Nadia Abu Ghattas.

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Nadia Abu Ghattas turned her handicraft hobby into a profession that reflects her love of olive trees.
Palestinian artist Nadia Abu Ghattas puts her jewelry together in her workshop, Bethlehem, Palestine, Jan. 8, 2017.
Palestinian artist Nadia Abu Ghattas has been turning olive leaves into silver-plated rings, bracelets, necklaces and earrings since 2005.
For her, the olive tree is a symbol of the Palestinians’ resilience and their attachment to the land. Just like olive trees, the Palestinian people can survive under difficult conditions.
Abu Ghattas, who lives in Beit Jala, northwest of Bethlehem in Palestine, descends from a family of stone engravers. Growing up in a house surrounded by olive trees, she learned to appreciate the land and trees. From an early age, she noticed that she was good with handicrafts. She worked with fabrics, glass and mosaics to recreate the images of nature around her. Her first attempt at jewelry making was trying to silver plate a plastic button to use as a necklace.
“Ever since childhood, I have been interested in crafts. But I lacked the knowledge to craft the designs I wanted,” she told Al-Monitor. So Abu Ghattas attended a jewelry workshop at Al-Kahf Arts and Crafts Center at the International Center of Bethlehem. She then participated in another workshop that taught her more jewelry-making techniques.
While designing jewelry, Abu Ghattas thought about doing something related to the olive tree, which she sees as a symbol of the city of Bethlehem. She started working on designs based on the shape of the olive leaf. Then she started using leaves from the trees that surround her home.
She also introduces beads, gemstones and even olive pits into her designs.
Abu Ghattas has participated in exhibitions in Italy and Mexico, where her jewelry has received international interest. Locally, she has participated in several exhibitions in Jerusalem and Ramallah.
Abu Ghattas' jewelry is gaining attention both in the Palestinian territories and abroad through online sales. She was the first Palestinian woman to join the Palestinian Precious Metals Union in 2012.
Alaa ElBurai is an independent journalist from Gaza with a bachelor's degree from the Faculty of Information at Al-Azhar University. She is interested in covering cultural and social issues. ElBurai has worked as a correspondent and editor for local and international media outlets such as UltraSawt, Milad News Agency, Alwatan Voice and the Women’s Affairs Center.


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Crestwood is a city in south St. Louis County, Missouri, United States, part of the Metropolitan Statistical Area known as Greater St. Louis. The population was 11,912 at the 2010 census.


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From a constitutional rights perspective, the latest revelation about the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is even more troubling than what’s been reported on National Security Agency (NSA) activities, according to legal experts.
That database, known as DICE, contains roughly a billion records and is accessed by about 10,000 law enforcement agents across the nation. SOD’s wiretap data usually comes from foreign governments, U.S. intelligence agencies or court-authorized domestic telephone surveillance.
But the disturbing part is the DEA requires police who receive the agency’s help to cover up the fact that they were given the tips—and not even tell defense lawyers, prosecutors and judges that their investigations began with the DEA.
Also, Reuters obtained DEA documents showing that federal agents are trained to “recreate” the investigative trail in order to conceal the agency’s involvement in the arrests.
This tactic keeps a defendant from knowing how an investigation began, which opens the door to problems like entrapment and biased witnesses.
“I have never heard of anything like this at all,” Nancy Gertner, a Harvard Law School professor who served as a federal judge from 1994 to 2011, told Reuters.
Gertner and other legal experts said the DEA program seems more disturbing than recent disclosures about the NSA collecting domestic phone records.
When asked about SOD, two senior DEA officials defended the program, claiming the agency’s efforts to “recreate” investigations were both legal and performed almost daily. A former DEA agent, Finn Selander, compared the DEA’s work to money laundering –“you work it backwards to make it clean,” he told Reuters.
This cover-up element is currently being reviewed by the U.S. Department of Justice, which oversees the DEA.
Reuters’ investigation determined that SOD was created in 1994 for the purpose of combating Latin American drug cartels. Its original staff of several dozen employees has grown over the years to several hundred, and it now has the participation of two dozen partner agencies, including the NSA, CIA, FBI, Homeland Security, and IRS. Its work is classified and its exact location in Virginia is a closely held secret.


Question: I heard Google is rolling out a song history feature on the Pixel 2. Do you know anything about it?

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Now Playing is a feature that Google debuted on the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL. It allows the phone to constantly listen for music and display the song info on the Ambient display, lock screen, and in the notifications. This is a super handy feature for those times you hear a song and don’t have time to use Shazam or ask Google Assistant. However, there’s one problem: you can’t see a history of all the identified songs. That should be changing soon.
The feature doesn’t appear to be enabled, at least according to XDA Recognized Developer Quinny899 who installed the APK on his Google Pixel 2 XL running Android 8.1 Oreo. That’s because it’s currently disabled by default and controlled by a phenotype flag titled ambient_music_enable_history.
Once this new feature rolls out, there will likely be a new button in the notification for a recognized song to view the history. We believe this is the case as the code that checks against this phenotype flag includes a “NotificationActionBuilder” method.
It always felt like a major oversight not to have a history of Now Playing. Several developers have created apps that can display the song history. We’re glad Google seems to be fixing this problem natively.
It should be noted that this APK does not install on Android P DP1 because of an error. According to the logcat message, the package com.google.intelligence.sense is unable to be upgraded as it is a “persistent app.” Hopefully, Google will roll out a fix for users of the Developer Preview. Perhaps once it’s actually installable on the build we’ll be able to see the feature in action.


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Truda Carter (1890–1958), was a designer who, alongside her first husband John Adams, was associated with the Art Deco pottery that characterized Poole Pottery during the inter-war years of the Twentieth Century.


Question: Explain the concept of neoliberalism and how it impacts people's lives.

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This Is Hell! | We are all trapped in the moral logic of neoliberalism.
We are all trapped in the moral logic of neoliberalism.
We have the freedom to do what they expect us to do, or else suffer the disproportionate consequences. We have just enough freedom to make us blameworthy if we fail or if we choose wrong, but not enough freedom to make a significant difference in the system. So I view it as a kind of moral entrapment.
Writer Adam Kotsko explains how neoliberalism swallowed the world - selling a compromised version of freedom for the price of a life in isolation and precarity, robbing politics of the promise of collective action or universal ideals, and imposing its own cruel moral logic deep in the brains of its subjects.
Adam is author of Neoliberalism's Demons: On the Political Theology of Late Capital from Stanford University Press.
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Thacholf, Thachulf, Thaculf, or Thakulf (died 1 August 873) was the Duke of Thuringia from 849 until his death. He held the titles of "comes" (count) and "dux" (duke) and he ruled over a "marca" (march). He may have been the son of Hadulf, son of Thankulf.
Thachulf was placed in charge of the Sorbian March in 849 with the title of "dux Sorabici limitis", giving him military command over the counts with lands bordering the Sorbs. On account of his knowledge of Slavic customs, he was petitioned by the Sorbs with the offer of hostages for peace to protect them from the warmaking of Ernest, Duke of Bavaria, but he had been wounded in battle the day before the arrival of the Slav embassy and so could not be of assistance. Hiding his injury from the Slav delegates, he sent men to the other leaders of the Frankish host proposing terms with the Slavs, but the other generals suspected him of a "coup" to assume supreme command of the army and so ignored his representatives and made war anyway, being badly defeated in the process.


Question: Describe the wildlife trafficking activities in Peru.

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A yellow-footed tortoise (Chelonoid denticulata), listed as vulnerable by the IUCN red list, is butchered for the pot while still quivering, its head moves from side to side. The woman cutting up its front-parts remarks: “This animal dies when it’s in the pot.” Biodiversity served up in all its gory detail. The soft-shelled eggs of the taricaya, an Amazon river turtle (Podocnemis unifilis), also listed as vulnerable, are served in pungent heaps to customers in the rubbish-strewn alleys.
Indigenous communities are allowed to hunt and eat wild game but selling the meat is prohibited. But old habits die hard, says Clelia Rengifo, the head of wildlife trafficking control for the regional government of Loreto, Peru’s largest Amazon region which occupies one-third of the country, an area bigger than Germany.
The illicit trade in endangered species – dead or alive – and how to stop it will be discussed at the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to Cites in Johannesburg, South Africa, which began at the weekend. The world’s largest ever wildlife conference opened with calls for changes to the protection levels of 500 species of wild animals and plants.
Peru’s rich biodiversity and poor enforcement makes it a hub for the multi-billion dollar illegal trade which ranks fourth after drug trafficking, arms, and the trafficking of human beings, as one of the largest transnational organised criminal activities.
The sale of living wild fauna in is also illegal in Peru. Yet small parrots, locally known as pihuichos, chirp from plastic washing up bowls. Other containers hold terrapins and infant black caimans, which can grow to more than five metres in length as adults.
Sensing potential clients, a stallholder pulls a tiny pygmy marmoset and a saddle-backed tamarin from her bun as they emit high-pitched shrieks. The two baby ‘pocket’ monkeys fit comfortably in the palm of her hand.
“To catch them they had to kill their mothers,” says Noga Shanee, an activist and the co-founder of the NeoTropical Primate Conservation.
“She knows how to keep them alive but once they’re sold they usually die in a few weeks,” says Shanee, an Israeli who has spent the last decade in Peru rescuing monkeys.
A Belén local who works as an informal tour guide told the Guardian on condition of anonymity that bigger species such as woolly, spider and squirrel monkeys were kept in homes where he sometimes took tourists or collectors working for informal zoos. Collectors from neighbouring Ecuador or Colombia often use small private aircraft to transport animals out of the country, he alleged.
Local traffickers buy animals from ribereños, poor riverside dwellers, as they come to market in Belén. In secret locations large numbers of tortoises, terrapins or parrots are stored for potential clients, he said. He alleged police officers can be bribed for a small quantity of animals, and documents permitting animals to be transported out of Peru can be bought from corrupt officials.
Airport security makes it harder to traffic animals by plane so most are taken upriver along the Amazon to Pucallpa, capital of the neigbouring Ucayali region, and from there by road to Peru’s Pacific coast.
No one has ever been jailed for wildlife trafficking in Peru, confirmed Yovana Murillo of the Wildlife Conservation Society Peru.
Responding to allegations of corruption in the regional government, Rengifo said public servants were very badly paid which “sometimes led to criminal acts”. Enforcement in this trafficking hub compared unfavourably with other Amazon regions. Between January and July 2016, Loreto had seized only 447 live animals around a third of the 1,478 live animals confiscated in neighbouring San Martin region in a similar period (January and August 2016), according to Peru’s environmental police records.
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has identified 383 animal species being trafficked in Peru over the last decade on well-run routes from more than 40 markets in 10 cities including the capital Lima. Supplied by Iquitos and other Amazon cities, parrots or monkeys are often seized at border crossings. But an estimated nine out of 10 trafficked animals die en route, says Murillo.
If they are lucky, rescued monkeys will be taken to Pilpintuwasi Butterfly Farm and Animal Orphanage. Its Austrian owner Gudrun Sperrer, 55, began rescuing animals in Loreto 35 years ago. It is the first places to successfully breed threatened crimson-faced bald uakaris in captivity. The monkeys only live in a small part of the Amazon basin in Peru and Brazil.
Wildlife trafficking has always been rife in Loreto, says Sperrer, but it is getting worse. Traffickers are deliberately encouraging hunters in the village near her refuge to target monkeys with babies, she said.
“The idea is ‘you can eat the mother and sell me the baby’. That will mean future generations are already dead,” she said despondently. Increasing numbers of well-meaning tourists who buy baby animals thinking they can rescue them had worsened the situation, she added.


Question: Can you provide a summary of what is Core Image used for and how to use custom filters with it?

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I have always found image processing interesting and fun. However, despite having a decent amount of experience with it, I had never worked much with the tools for iOS. I decided to play around with them a bit, and to my delight, most of the iOS image processing libraries are incredibly simple to use. This topic has a lot of surface area, so I won’t be able to do it justice in a single post. However, this post should be enough to allow you to get started with image processing in iOS.
Let’s start with the pillar of image processing–image filters.
Image filters are responsible for taking an image, manipulating it, and producing a different output image. Fancy filters might be able to take in multiple images as input, but for the most part, it’s one image in, one image out.
Most filter functionality is centered around the CIFilter Core Image class. CIFilter has static methods such as filterNames (above). However, to apply an image filter, you instantiate a CIFilter instance and pass in a filter type. Filter types are defined by Strings constants, which is very un-Swift-like as it allows for run time errors.
let inputCIImage = CIImage(image: inputImage)!
let blurFilter = CIFilter(name: "CIGaussianBlur")!
For some strange reason, there are a few different approaches for instantiating filters and applying them to images. The above example is just one approach. It’s a bit ugly and has forced unwrapped optionals, but it is easy to understand and walk through. Both the input image and any filter parameters can be set via the setValue function, where you pass in a value and a parameter type constant (defined here). Some filters have several parameters; some have none. Usually you can omit them and a default parameter value is used.
Below are some other interesting filters that are provided out of the box with Core Image.
The CICMYKHalftone filter adds a nice halftone effect, simulating what printed media might look like.
let filter = CIFilter(name: "CICMYKHalftone")!
The CICrystallize filter quantizes the image into uniform colored polygons.
let filter = CIFilter(name: "CICrystallize")!
In addition to these, there are many other filters provided by Core Image out of the box. For a more complete reference, refer to the docs.
One way to produce effects that aren’t captured by one of the provided filters is to combine filters. You might imagine applying a set of filters in sequence, feeding the result of one as the input to the next. Core Image has special support for this and allows you to combine filters in such a way that the amount of processing required is minimized (e.g., it doesn’t necessarily have to compute a full output image for each filter applied).
Notice how this time, we instantiated and applied the filters differently than we did in the first example. Instead of creating a CIFilter instance, we called applyingFilter directly on the input CIImage instance. This is another way you may want to write your filtering code. I think this approach is nicer, but it isn’t obvious that a CIFilter instance is being created, so I opted to use the other approach in the earlier examples.
If the provided Core Image filters (or some combination of them) doesn’t produce the effect you’re looking for, you can write your own custom filter. This functionality was new in iOS 8, and it’s pretty slick. This topic can get very complex quickly, so I’ll just touch on the basics. I may write a more detailed post on writing custom filters in the future.
In order to write a custom CIFilter, you need to write a custom CIKernel. The kernel tells the filter how to transform each pixel of the input image. There are three different types of kernels that you can write: color kernels, warp kernels, and general kernels. I’ll briefly cover color kernels in this post, as they are the easiest to understand.
To write a custom color kernel, you create an instance of CIColorKernel and provide it with the custom kernel code. It’s a bit strange because the kernel code must be written in GLSL, an OpenGL shading language. You provide your GLSL code as a string to the CIColorKernel constructor. This is, again, kind of terrible because it will blow up at runtime if your GLSL code has any errors.
Notice the GLSL function defined as a raw String. This function takes in a single pixel, represented by the __sample variable, and it must transform the input pixel into its output value. In our example, we wanted to remove the red color channel and divide the blue channel by two. That is what the above GLSL code is doing. This function will be executed for each pixel of the input image.
This post just scratched the surface of what’s possible using Core Image. If you’re interested in learning about it further, I recommend picking up this eBook. The material in it is excellent.
Thank you for your Core Image Tutorial !
It is a very easy to understand for Core Image Basics.
However, I got a crash in your “custom filter” code.
Why did I get a crash?
Did some “Core Image Kernel Language” change?