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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Latino civil rights site in Texas named National Treasure
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"A Texas building connected to the Mexican-American Civil Rights movement has been designated as a National Treasure as part of an effort to restore historic buildings damaged by last year's hurricanes.\nThe National Trust for Historic Preservation announced the unique designation on Tuesday for the LULAC Council 60 Clubhouse in Houston.\nBeginning in the 1950s, the clubhouse served as a meeting place for Mexican-American civil rights leaders who plotted key school desegregation cases and efforts to fight discrimination.\nTuesday's designation comes with a grant to restore three sites damaged by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria.\nOther areas receiving a portion of the $450,000 grant are Dr. James M. Jackson's Office and Surgery in Miami, Florida, and various structures within the Paraíso Las Lunas nature preserve in Caguas, Puerto Rico."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about The Latest: Southern Baptists condemn 'alt-right' movement
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"PHOENIX (AP) — The Latest on the Southern Baptist Convention meeting (all times local):\n____\n3:10 p.m.\nThe Southern Baptist Convention formally condemned the political movement known as the \"alt-right\" during a national meeting in Phoenix.\nThe denomination initially refused to take up a resolution repudiating the movement that emerged dramatically during the U.S. presidential election and mixes racism, nationalism and populism.\nPressure built on Southern Baptists to make some statement against the movement. They did so Wednesday after emotional appeals from attendees.\nThe resolution decries every form of racism, including what the denomination called \"alt-right white supremacy\" as antithetical to the Gospel.\nThe Southern Baptist Convention was formed in the 19th century in defense of slaveholders. It has been working to overcome its history."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about National Book Awards add translation category
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"NEW YORK (AP) — Starting this fall, works in translation will get a spotlight at the National Book Awards.\nThe National Book Foundation announced Wednesday that it has started a category for best translated literature, awarding a work of fiction or nonfiction translated into English and released in the U.S. The new prize should provide a boost for authors from overseas who have struggled to catch on in the U.S.\nThe National Book Awards for decades had four competitive categories: fiction, nonfiction, young people's literature and poetry. The foundation also gives out two honorary prizes at the annual November ceremony."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Lots of black but also pops of glitz in Grammys fashion
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"NEW YORK (AP) — Stars, including Lady Gaga and Kelly Clarkson, turned out on the Grammys red carpet Sunday displaying white roses in solidarity with the Time's Up and #MeToo movements against sexual misconduct on music's biggest night for what is usually the wildest display of fashion during awards season.\nGaga was in a black lace top and leggings with a full skirt and train, white rose in place and her hair swept into a fishtail braid with black pins. Her signature towering platform shoes — black boots this time around— were on her feet. Rita Ora also wowed in black, a gown with a silver embellished lining open on one side to the hip. She, too, had a white rose pinned on.\nThere was lots of black, perhaps spillover from the anti-sexual misconduct message of the recent Golden Globes, but there was also plenty of color.\nElton John didn't disappoint on that score in a geometric-pattern, blue, gold and red sparkler of a jacket from Gucci, encrusted sunglasses to match. Country's trio Midland — Mark Wystrach, Cameron Duddy and Jess Carson — went big in the cowboy hat department, including a topper with a rainbow feather to match a similarly adorned jacket for one.\nMultiple-nominee Sza was accompanied by her grandmother and donned embellished white, her hair loose and natural. Cardi B made a big statement in white with a short tiered dress and train.\n\"It was an interesting choice for her,\" Cosmopolitan's senior fashion editor said of Cardi. \"I loved it. It was very playful and fun.\"\nSam Smith was in a green suit — yes he wore the rose — and a red scoop-neck shirt underneath, while Ne-Yo wore a yellow jacket. In a red tuxedo look, including red bow tie, was DJ Khaled and his adorable, mini-me 1-year-old son, who got a matching red suit.\nKhaled called Asahd: \"My partner in crime, my best friend, my biggest blessing. ... When he smiles it's like God smiling on me.\"\nKhaled's red was a win for Reid as well: \"I thought it was very whimsical and he did it well.\"\nMaren Morris was in a chain-link silver sparkler that brought the wow in a barely there design. Also in silver: A pregnant Chrissie Teigen as she posed with husband John Legend.\n\"My favorite is definitely Chrissie Teigen in her all-silver sequin look. I think she's taking maternity style to the next level.\"\nLana Del Rey, meanwhile, joined Sir Elton in Gucci, an angelic gown in cream with a high slit and crystal star theme, including a star head piece. Ashanti was a princess in long-sleeved gold.\nRapper K. Flay, in a black tuxedo jacket, chose a Time's Up button instead of the flower but noted all such symbols are important expressions of solidarity for women. Songwriter Diane Warren, a 15-time Grammy nominee, wore black and white and went her own way on symbols. She wore white gloves with \"Girl\" on one hand and \"Power\" on the other, explaining: \"I didn't want to wear the rose. I'm a rebel.\"\nNominees The Secret Sisters won for largest white roses, noting it's time for the music industry to step up and better acknowledge sexual misconduct.\nPerhaps the New York vibe — the Grammys hadn't been held here in 15 years — added to the parade of music men and women opting for black, including traditional tuxedos and suits. Women in black went for both edgy and chic.\nCountry star Reba McEntire, the latest pitch person as Col. Sanders for KFC, was among them in a Jovani sleeveless studded gown in black with silver embellishment, white rose in place as a reminder to everybody to \"treat each other like we want to be treated. It's the golden rule.\"\nClarkson's black gown was embellished in silver and gold. Her white rose was long stemmed and she carried it as opposed to pinning it on. Miley Cyrus also opted for the long-stem rose option to go with her black, skinny-legged trouser look.\nNewcomer Julia Michaels was in lavender, her arm tattoos on display in an open-sided long gown. The deep V-neck with a butterfly motif was by Paolo Sebastian.\nVeteran performer Andra Day, nominated for one Grammy, popped in pink trimmed with red, her hair up in a beehive. It was a long tuxedo-style dress with a high side slit. Why did she carry a white rose?\n\"For me, Time's Up means time's up on being silent about it,\" she said. \"I think it also means understanding when we've been taken advantage of and when we've been abused.\"\nJoy Villa, ever provocative on the red carpet, made a statement last year in a pro-President Donald Trump dress. This year, she wore a white gown with a rainbow uterus with fetus on one side and carried a \"Choose Life\" handbag. Oh, and a huge crown topped her head.\n___\nAssociated Press writer John Carucci contributed to this report.\n___\nFor full coverage of awards season, visit: https://apnews.com/tag/AwardsSeason"
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I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about Court error unmasks person of interest in Las Vegas massacre
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"LAS VEGAS (AP) — A court error publicly revealed the name of a man identified as a person of interest in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.\nClark County District Court Judge Elissa Cadish acknowledged that a member of her court staff failed to black out the man's name on one of 276 pages of documents released to news organizations including The Associated Press and Las Vegas Review-Journal.\nAfter the error was recognized, lawyers for the news organizations were told to return the documents. The attorney representing AP and other media did so, but the other lawyer had already transmitted the documents and the Review-Journal published Douglas Haig's name online.\nCadish later ordered the document not be published without redactions, but she acknowledged she couldn't order the newspaper to retract the name.\n\"The reality is, now that it is online, there is nothing I can do,\" Cadish said.\nThe unsealed search warrants in the investigation of the Oct. 1 shooting that killed 58 people revealed Haig as a person of interest authorities spoke to after the shooting. Haig told AP he sold ammo to Paddock and that he had been contacted earlier by investigators in the case.\nA spokeswoman for the FBI in Las Vegas declined to comment and referred calls to the U.S. attorney in Nevada. A spokeswoman for the federal prosecutor's did not immediately respond to messages.\nReporters at the AP never received the document with Haig's name, but the news organization used the name based on the Review-Journal's reporting citing police documents.\nBrian Barrett, AP's assistant general counsel, said the news organization might have viewed it differently if reporters received the documents before the court asked them to be returned.\n\"Once truthful information is in the hands of journalists there are strong First Amendment protections that apply and would allow them to publish,\" Barrett said.\nMichael Parks, journalism professor at the University of Southern California, said if he were in his former position as editor of the Los Angeles Times, he might ask about the origin of documents but wouldn't engage in prepublication censorship if the source was legitimate.\n\"You can't unring the bell. ... It was a mistake, but it's out,\" Parks said. \"Journalists are not in the business of suppressing news. ... We publish it.\"\n___\nMelley reported from Los Angeles. Associated Press reporter Anita Snow contributed to this report from Mesa, Arizona."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Taiwan Tourist Shuttle offers 50% discount on bus fare during summer
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"TAIPEI (Taiwan News)—The Taiwan Tourist Shuttle has offered a 50 percent discount on bus fares across all of its 41 routes to passengers using electronic tickets from July 1 to September 30, the Taiwan Tourist Shuttle said in a news release on July 29.\nTake the longest-haul Kenting Express Line for example. The original fare is NT$352 per person, during this summer, the fare is reduced to NT$176 by using electronic tickets. If you have four people going together, you will be able to save a total of NT$704.\nIn addition, the Tourism Bureau makes arrangements with shops at the destination to provide discounts and goodies. So don’t forget to ask the driver for a bus receipt, which may be used to get a discount or goodies.\n\"The Taiwan Tourist Shuttle is the best way to travel around Taiwan on a limited budget for unlimited fun. It’s environmentally friendly and provides value for your money. Why not take advantage of this special program to have a fun summer vacation!\" Taiwan Tourist Shuttle said. \"This service has become popular among independent travelers and backpackers.\"\nThe Directorate General of Highways said in a press conference today (July 4) that the number of passengers who used Taiwan Tourist Shuttle service in 2016 was 3.71 million, and the number rose to 4.3 million in 2017, adding that the numbers of Taiwan Tourist Shuttle routes also rose from 31 last year to 41 this year.\nThe DGH said the shuttle service covers and links the transportation hubs, such as railway stations and Taiwan High Speed Rail stations, and main tourist attractions.\nFor more information about the Taiwan Tourist Shuttle, please visit its website.\n(video from the Taiwan Tourist Shuttle website)"
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Israel condemns Irish bill banning goods from occupied lands
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"JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is condemning an Irish bill that would outlaw the import of goods from West Bank settlements and plans to summon the Irish ambassador over the legislation.\nIf passed, Ireland would become the first European country to ban settlement products, though several countries already label them.\nThe European Union in 2015 approved guidelines to label settlement products. It said the move was meant to differentiate between Israel, a close trade partner, and the settlements, which it considers illegal.\nAlthough the Irish bill makes a similar distinction, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it aims to harm his country and would bolster an international movement advocating boycotts against Israel.\nThe bill, debated in Ireland's senate Tuesday, must pass several hurdles to become law.\nThe Irish Foreign Ministry had no immediate comment."
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1851
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Pesticides Procurement Research - Market Trends and Spend Analysis by SpendEdge
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"LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 23, 2018--Global procurement intelligence advisory firm, , has announced the release of their ‘ . ’ The insights and data in this report provide a strategic analysis of the supply markets, factors influencing purchasing decisions, procurement best practices, pricing models, supplier landscape, and an analysis of the supplier capability matrix for the . This report breaks down the data and analysis behind the procurement of pesticides and acts as an all-inclusive guide for making smart purchasing decisions.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423006225/en/\nPesticides Procurement Report (Graphic: Business Wire)\n“APAC and South America are the key regions, which is expected to register a promising growth in demand for pesticides,” says SpendEdge procurement analyst Tridib Bora. “Also, the rising population and economic development are the factors, which will lead to an increase in the food production,” added Tridib.\nLooking for more insights from this report?\nSpendEdge sample reports are free of charge and provide insights that focus on cost-saving aspects of procurement and optimization of category spend.\nProcurement analysts at SpendEdge highlight the following top three market trends that are contributing to the growth of the Global Pesticides Market:\nM&A among leading players as strategic initiatives Adoption of GM technology in insect-resistant crop strains Development of formulated herbicide technology for weed control systems\nThis report is available at USD 1000 discount for a limited time only:\nM&A among leading players as strategic initiatives\nThe pesticides market is witnessing an increase in the number of M&A. The presence of limited vendors in the market helps the buyers to exercise greater vigilance and quality control over the manufacturing process.\nAdoption of GM technology in insect-resistant crop strains\nGlobally, the suppliers in the pesticides market are shifting to GM technology to eliminate diseases in crops. The crops which are genetically engineered for insect resistance can help the buyers reduce the production costs.\nDevelopment of formulated herbicide technology for weed control systems\nThe pesticides market is witnessing the introduction of new herbicides for managing weeds in corn and soybeans. The introduction of new formulations will help the buyers utilize various herbicide formulations based on the crop.\nto gain detailed insights into the current market trends.\nGet unlimited access to all our reports. Our Insights platform provides ready-to-use procurement research reports, latest supplier news, innovation landscape, markets insights, supplier tracking, and much more at the click of a button.\nWe also reports to meet clients’ requirements.\nRelated Reports:\nAbout SpendEdge\nSpendEdge shares your passion for driving sourcing and procurement excellence. We are a preferred procurement market intelligence partner for Fortune 500 firms and other leading companies across numerous industries. Our strength lies in delivering robust, real-time procurement market intelligence that helps sourcing and procurement professionals make informed decisions. These innovative procurement solutions help enterprises transform structural capabilities, improve execution efficiency, and fast-track time to savings.\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423006225/en/\nCONTACT: SpendEdge\nAnirban Choudhury\nMarketing Consultant\nUS: +1 630 984 7340\nhello@spendedge.com\nKEYWORD:\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: MANUFACTURING CHEMICALS/PLASTICS NATURAL RESOURCES AGRICULTURE\nSOURCE: SpendEdge\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 04/23/2018 03:15 PM/DISC: 04/23/2018 03:15 PM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423006225/en"
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Ohio infants relocated because of smoke in hospital
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"DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Fire officials say up to 10 infants have been relocated safely away from smoke in a southwest Ohio hospital.\nDayton District Fire Chief James Rose tells the Dayton Daily News that Miami Valley Hospital staffers moved the babies from the Berry Women's Center before firefighters arrived in response to the smoke. He says the smoke came from an overheated motor and that crews were able to clear the smoke with ventilation.\nRose said early Monday that most of the smoke was contained from spreading.\nHe says there were no injuries."
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1853
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Theater for indie, foreign films closes doors after 37 years
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"NEW YORK (AP) — A family-owned movie theater in New York City known as a destination for independent and foreign films has screened its last films.\nOn Sunday, Lincoln Plaza Cinemas closed down after 37 years in operation. The theater's landlord plans to renovate the space and replace it with a new theater complex.\nThe six-screen, underground theater opened in 1981 and was a location for patrons to view art house and foreign films that often did not see wide theatrical release.\nLast week, Sunshine Cinema on Houston Street — another independent theater — closed to make way for a new office building."
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1854
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about England bids for historic 'three-peat' in Six Nations
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"It's a feat that has been beyond some of rugby's greatest teams.\nThe exhilarating Welsh side of the 1970s couldn't do it. Neither could the Philippe Sella-inspired French in their golden age of the mid-to-late 1980s. Clive Woodward's England came close at the start of the 21st century but again fell short.\nOn 20 occasions, a country has won back-to-back titles in the northern hemisphere's top international championship — its name has ranged from the Home Nations, the Five Nations and, currently, the Six Nations — but none have managed three in a row outright.\nHeading into the 120th edition, England's class of 2018 is the latest team aiming to reach that elusive milestone.\n\"We want a 'three-peat,'\" England coach Eddie Jones says.\nThe English have already made history in Jones' two years in charge, winning 18 straight tests to break the national record and match a world-record streak set by New Zealand.\nThrow in two straight Six Nations titles and a rise to No. 2 in the world ranking, no wonder the Rugby Football Union recently tied Jones down to an extra two years, keeping the Australian at the helm until 2021.\nThe hard work might just be starting for Jones, though.\nAfter the honeymoon period, he says England has entered Phase 2 of his tenure. All roads point to Japan for the 2019 Rugby World Cup and Jones wants to be sure England has the necessary strength in depth to sustain a genuine challenge for the trophy.\nThe next seven weeks might answer that.\nThis edition of the Six Nations could just as well be dubbed \"Survival of the Fittest,\" given the injury problems that are wreaking havoc across European rugby.\nEngland says it has 18 players out of contention for various injuries. Wales has fewer players sidelined but they'll arguably have bigger names missing, including Liam Williams, Sam Warburton, Dan Biggar, Rhys Webb, and Taulupe Faletau.\nMorgan Parra and Brice Dulin have just joined France's lengthy injury list.\nIreland coach Joe Schmidt has said he has \"13 guys that were selectable who may or may not get back during the championship.\"\nPutting aside the longer-term questions about player welfare in this brutal age of rugby, the short-term effect is potentially a more competitive Six Nations.\nIreland won consecutive titles before Jones arrived on the scene, and looks to be the biggest danger to England, on the back of a November series in which Schmidt's side beat South Africa — by a record 38-3 — and Argentina in a clean sweep. It was the Irish who ended England's hopes of consecutive Grand Slams with a 13-9 win in Dublin in March.\nScotland's 53-24 win over Australia in November, dovetailed with a narrow loss to New Zealand a week earlier, suggested a team that has developed its attack in recent years could be even more of a threat under new coach Gregor Townsend.\nFrance is also under a recent hire in Jacques Brunel, and has 10 players in its squad under the age of 23, making Les Tricolores as hard to predict as ever.\nIts injury crisis, as well as away matches against England and Ireland in the first three rounds, will likely see Wales fall short.\nItaly, in its second season under Conor O'Shea, is once again the wooden-spoon favorite.\nSo don't discount England's chance of making more history under Jones.\nSuch is his diligence that England's coaching team said last week that it is using a tactic utilized by the U.S. military in the Cold War to help prepare the side for unlikely eventualities in the Six Nations.\n\"We're militarily red-teaming our own side to see what weaknesses we have shown and where we think we can improve,\" defense coach Paul Gustard said about the twice-a-week meetings on 'what if' scenarios.\nThe spark for this was Italy's no-ruck tactic that bamboozled England in a match at Twickenham last year. The English came through that difficulty and won — as has often been the case under Jones.\nExpect, like last year, England vs. Ireland to be the title decider in the final weekend.\n___\nSteve Douglas is at www.twitter.com/sdouglas80"
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Massachusetts high court to examine drug lab misconduct case
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"BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts' top court will examine a case sparked by the misconduct of a former chemist who authorities say was high almost every day she worked at a state drug lab for eight years.\nProsecutors already have agreed to dismiss about 8,000 convictions tainted by Sonja Farak, who pleaded guilty in 2014 to stealing drugs from the lab.\nThe Supreme Judicial Court will now decide whether prosecutors have to dismiss additional cases tied to Farak. The court also will consider whether all cases that passed through the drug lab during Farak's employment should be re-examined, even if she didn't work on them.\nFarak's case is separate from another Massachusetts drug lab scandal that resulted in the dismissal of some 21,000 convictions last year."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about DeVryWORKS Announces 2018 TEACH Partner Award Recipient
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"DOWNERS GROVE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 30, 2018--DeVryWORKS, the workforce solutions group within DeVry University, honored State Auto Insurance with its 2018 TEACH Partner Award. The award recognizes employer partners who exemplify the university’s TEACH values (teamwork, energy, accountability, community and heart) by supporting their employees with professional development opportunities.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180530006017/en/\n(Left to right) State Auto Insurance TEACH Partner winner Katlynn Henry, DeVryWORKS Strategic Account Manager Patrick Wentworth, State Auto TEACH Partner winner Brian Ahearn and DeVryWORKS Vice President Joe Mozden (Photo: Business Wire)\nHeadquartered in Columbus, Ohio, State Auto was founded in 1921 and is now a nearly $2 billion company selling personal and business insurance products in 33 states. Energy and accountability have a unique focus at State Auto. Its coaching programs have replaced the annual performance appraisals and its training sessions are designed to instill confidence, integrity, professionalism and a personal power base centered on honesty, fairness and openness.\n“At State Auto, we believe in bringing together all parts of the organization, breaking out of silos, and giving all associates a voice,” said Mike LaRocco, State Auto president and CEO. “We’re striving to become a truly transformative organization. To do that, we have to change the way we communicate with one another, and that begins with coaching in a culture where everyone is treated as professionals, with respect and trust.”\nDeVry’s TEACH values:\n“At DeVry, our TEACH values define us. We serve each other and our students with passion, respect and care,” said Joe Mozden, vice president of DeVryWORKS. “Helping employees prepare for their future through professional development opportunities is an act of care. Giving support to employees to help fulfill a passion or dream is a value that benefits everyone involved. It takes significant work and dedication, which is why we want to recognize our employer partners who are aligned with our TEACH values.”\nAbout DeVryWORKS\nDeVryWORKS consults with today’s leading companies to build custom talent solutions capable of solving real business challenges. This comprehensive service offers strategic guidance and support to help companies execute around talent acquisition, talent development and skills-gap training.\nDeVry University has decades of experience working in close collaboration with leading companies to ensure students acquire in-demand skills needed in the employees of tomorrow. DeVryWORKS builds on that heritage with tailored partnerships including custom curriculum to target specific education and training needs, on-site class offerings, and qualified candidates emerging from DeVry University with the qualifications sought by growing companies. To learn more about DeVryWORKS strategic solutions to talent business challenges, go to www.DeVryWORKS.com.\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180530006017/en/\nCONTACT: DeVry University\nAnne Unger\n630-353-7009\naunger@devry.edu\nKEYWORD: UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA ILLINOIS OHIO\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: EDUCATION UNIVERSITY CONTINUING OTHER EDUCATION AUTOMOTIVE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES HUMAN RESOURCES TRAINING GENERAL AUTOMOTIVE\nSOURCE: DeVryWORKS\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 05/30/2018 12:00 PM/DISC: 05/30/2018 12:01 PM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180530006017/en"
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Global Forecast-Fahrenheit
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"Global Forecast as of 12:00 GMT Monday, December 11, 2017\n_____\nCity/Town, Country;Monday's Weather Condition;Monday's High Temp (F);Monday's Low Temp (F);Tuesday's Weather Condition;Tuesday's High Temp (F);Tuesday's Low Temp (F);Tuesday's Wind Direction;Tuesday's Wind Speed (MPH);Tuesday's Humidity (%);Tuesday's Chance of Precip. (%);Tuesday's UV Index\nAbidjan, Ivory Coast;Partly sunny;91;76;A shower or two;88;76;SSW;6;69%;74%;8\nAbu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates;Partly sunny;77;66;Partly sunny, breezy;77;62;NW;17;57%;0%;4\nAleppo, Syria;Sunny;56;37;Mostly sunny;61;39;NE;7;50%;0%;3\nAlgiers, Algeria;Plenty of clouds;68;49;Cloudy and cooler;56;47;SSW;6;71%;66%;1\nAmsterdam, Netherlands;A little p.m. rain;36;31;Rain and snow shower;37;30;SSW;9;87%;63%;1\nAnchorage, United States;Cloudy;43;32;An afternoon shower;40;31;NNE;8;74%;79%;0\nAshgabat, Turkmenistan;Plenty of sun;49;28;Sunny, but chilly;44;29;ESE;6;56%;8%;2\nAstana, Kazakhstan;Cold with snow;10;6;Partly sunny, cold;13;-3;ENE;6;69%;21%;1\nAsuncion, Paraguay;Lots of sun, warm;95;68;Sunny and very warm;96;70;E;7;36%;0%;13\nAthens, Greece;Sunny;60;46;Mostly sunny;64;49;W;4;69%;13%;2\nAuckland, New Zealand;Brief a.m. showers;74;64;A shower in places;74;63;SW;12;60%;49%;11\nBaghdad, Iraq;Plenty of sunshine;66;43;Abundant sunshine;66;42;NW;13;41%;0%;3\nBanda Aceh, Indonesia;Showers, mainly late;92;73;Partly sunny;88;72;E;5;69%;42%;8\nBangalore, India;Mostly sunny, nice;85;63;Becoming cloudy;84;65;ESE;4;61%;25%;6\nBangkok, Thailand;Partly sunny;93;78;A shower in places;91;79;S;6;65%;55%;5\nBarcelona, Spain;Windy, morning rain;61;40;Partly sunny;53;38;NNW;10;65%;44%;2\nBeijing, China;Sunshine, but chilly;36;19;Partly sunny, chilly;30;18;NNE;6;13%;4%;2\nBelgrade, Serbia;Not as cool;55;46;Clouds and sun, mild;61;45;SSE;10;66%;28%;2\nBerlin, Germany;Mostly cloudy;40;37;Rain and snow shower;43;31;WSW;15;70%;74%;0\nBogota, Colombia;A few showers;67;46;A stray shower;66;45;NW;6;73%;63%;5\nBrasilia, Brazil;A t-storm, cooler;73;65;A t-storm in spots;77;65;N;6;74%;65%;4\nBratislava, Slovakia;Warmer;55;48;Showers around;52;36;WNW;10;76%;85%;0\nBrussels, Belgium;Chilly with rain;39;32;Rain and snow shower;37;33;SSW;9;82%;55%;1\nBucharest, Romania;Sunny intervals;47;32;Mostly sunny, mild;52;38;WSW;7;72%;0%;2\nBudapest, Hungary;Warmer;54;47;Showers around;59;37;NNW;10;60%;85%;2\nBuenos Aires, Argentina;Sunny and cooler;73;63;High clouds, warmer;84;69;NE;10;48%;0%;5\nBujumbura, Burundi;A t-storm around;84;64;Partly sunny, warm;91;63;SSW;4;35%;42%;11\nBusan, South Korea;Partly sunny, colder;39;23;Mostly sunny, cold;36;28;NW;10;46%;0%;3\nCairo, Egypt;High clouds, breezy;74;55;Sunshine and nice;77;58;N;7;45%;1%;3\nCape Town, South Africa;Increasing clouds;76;59;Mostly sunny;70;58;S;16;52%;11%;12\nCaracas, Venezuela;Partly sunny;80;61;Nice with some sun;81;65;NE;3;59%;9%;7\nChennai, India;Partly sunny, nice;90;76;A shower in spots;89;74;SE;4;74%;52%;5\nChicago, United States;A bit of a.m. snow;41;20;Partly sunny;26;16;NW;17;54%;49%;2\nColombo, Sri Lanka;Partly sunny;89;76;A t-storm in spots;85;75;ENE;6;75%;86%;7\nCopenhagen, Denmark;Inc. clouds;36;33;A snow shower;36;32;W;9;92%;87%;0\nDakar, Senegal;Turning cloudy;82;70;Partly sunny;79;69;N;13;54%;0%;6\nDallas, United States;Sunny and mild;76;40;Sunny and cooler;58;38;WSW;8;42%;2%;3\nDar es Salaam, Tanzania;Mostly cloudy;88;76;Some sun, a shower;87;77;NNE;12;79%;53%;9\nDelhi, India;Clouds and sun;75;54;Hazy sun;73;50;NW;5;69%;1%;4\nDenver, United States;Mostly sunny, mild;60;32;Sunny and mild;65;36;SW;6;18%;2%;2\nDhaka, Bangladesh;Warmer;86;69;Rather cloudy;85;65;NE;5;67%;3%;3\nDili, East Timor;A shower;94;74;An afternoon shower;91;74;SSW;4;65%;60%;11\nDublin, Ireland;Partly sunny, chilly;39;30;Rain and drizzle;42;37;W;11;91%;84%;1\nDushanbe, Tajikistan;Plenty of sun;47;30;Clouds and sun;44;29;NNE;6;40%;40%;2\nGibraltar, Gibraltar;Pouring morning rain;64;47;Mostly sunny;58;49;NNW;9;65%;2%;3\nHanoi, Vietnam;Cloudy;65;61;A shower or two;65;62;NNW;5;75%;88%;1\nHarare, Zimbabwe;Rather cloudy;79;61;A little a.m. rain;78;63;NNE;7;59%;69%;9\nHavana, Cuba;Mostly sunny;71;56;Mostly sunny;73;66;NW;7;53%;21%;3\nHelsinki, Finland;Mostly cloudy;34;31;Breezy with snow;39;29;SW;16;94%;88%;0\nHo Chi Minh City, Vietnam;Mostly sunny;90;73;A morning shower;90;74;SSE;6;68%;61%;7\nHong Kong, China;Sunny and pleasant;73;60;Partly sunny;68;60;ENE;7;56%;16%;4\nHonolulu, United States;A passing shower;82;71;A shower or two;81;67;N;8;62%;81%;2\nHyderabad, India;Sunny and nice;87;59;Sunny and nice;88;63;ESE;4;35%;1%;5\nIslamabad, Pakistan;Cooler with rain;63;46;Periods of rain;62;43;NNW;4;77%;83%;1\nIstanbul, Turkey;Plenty of sunshine;57;52;Clouds and sun;61;51;SSW;7;67%;21%;2\nJakarta, Indonesia;Afternoon showers;89;76;Cloudy, downpours;89;76;SW;8;82%;88%;3\nJeddah, Saudi Arabia;Mostly sunny, nice;86;72;Clouds and sun, nice;87;72;NNW;7;59%;0%;3\nJohannesburg, South Africa;A t-storm in spots;73;57;Pleasant and warmer;83;59;NNW;10;49%;12%;14\nKabul, Afghanistan;Partly sunny;51;26;Mostly sunny;47;26;NNW;5;33%;37%;3\nKarachi, Pakistan;Mostly sunny;78;53;Hazy sunshine;79;53;NW;6;17%;0%;4\nKathmandu, Nepal;Mostly sunny;73;43;Turning cloudy, nice;73;42;W;5;53%;2%;4\nKhartoum, Sudan;Sunny and hot;96;68;Hot with sunshine;96;68;N;10;26%;0%;5\nKiev, Ukraine;Clouds and sun;39;37;Milder with some sun;49;39;SW;10;65%;20%;1\nKingston, Jamaica;Showers;83;77;Heavy showers;84;76;NNE;4;80%;96%;1\nKinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo;A thunderstorm;87;73;More clouds than sun;89;74;W;6;69%;72%;8\nKolkata, India;Mostly cloudy;86;66;Partly sunny;85;64;S;5;71%;1%;4\nKuala Lumpur, Malaysia;A p.m. t-storm;86;76;A p.m. t-storm;89;77;WNW;4;79%;86%;4\nLa Paz, Bolivia;A t-storm in spots;61;37;A t-storm in spots;60;37;ENE;9;52%;55%;15\nLagos, Nigeria;Partly sunny;87;76;A shower in places;87;77;SSW;7;77%;63%;7\nLima, Peru;More clouds than sun;72;64;Mostly cloudy;73;65;SSE;9;70%;37%;11\nLisbon, Portugal;A passing shower;56;47;Mostly sunny;57;46;NNE;10;66%;4%;2\nLondon, United Kingdom;Afternoon snow;38;26;Partly sunny, cold;36;33;SSW;7;81%;57%;1\nLos Angeles, United States;Mostly sunny;83;54;Plenty of sunshine;83;55;NNE;5;13%;2%;3\nLuanda, Angola;Clearing;87;75;Partly sunny, nice;86;75;SSW;6;71%;42%;8\nMadrid, Spain;A shower;51;32;Mostly sunny;50;30;NE;4;61%;8%;2\nMale, Maldives;Mostly sunny, nice;87;80;Partly sunny;88;77;SE;6;63%;14%;7\nManaus, Brazil;Clouds, a t-storm;88;74;A t-storm or two;85;73;WSW;6;87%;77%;2\nManila, Philippines;Clouds and sun;86;77;Partly sunny, nice;90;77;ENE;7;63%;44%;6\nMelbourne, Australia;Partly sunny;75;53;Mostly sunny;80;58;E;7;57%;0%;11\nMexico City, Mexico;Mostly sunny;69;39;Mostly sunny;70;38;NNE;5;18%;0%;5\nMiami, United States;Sunshine;69;49;Sunshine, pleasant;73;53;W;8;44%;8%;4\nMinsk, Belarus;Cloudy;34;31;Partly sunny, milder;42;33;SW;9;84%;44%;1\nMogadishu, Somalia;Mostly sunny, nice;88;75;Mostly sunny;87;75;ENE;13;61%;4%;9\nMontevideo, Uruguay;Cooler;68;56;High clouds, warmer;81;63;NNE;8;51%;0%;6\nMontreal, Canada;Partly sunny, cold;16;12;Snow;26;17;NNW;6;91%;92%;0\nMoscow, Russia;Cloudy;35;23;A little p.m. snow;34;32;S;7;61%;77%;1\nMumbai, India;Mostly sunny, nice;84;70;Hazy sunshine;82;69;N;7;60%;2%;5\nNairobi, Kenya;Some sun, pleasant;79;54;Partly sunny, nice;79;54;NNE;11;47%;2%;8\nNew York, United States;Clearing;42;34;A shower in the a.m.;50;24;W;19;61%;63%;1\nNicosia, Cyprus;Partly sunny;66;48;Sunny and beautiful;70;48;NW;7;61%;0%;3\nNovosibirsk, Russia;Colder;22;7;A little snow;13;3;WNW;5;90%;66%;1\nOsaka-shi, Japan;Partly sunny, cooler;49;33;Partly sunny, chilly;43;35;W;14;45%;3%;1\nOslo, Norway;Snow showers;30;17;A snow shower;23;14;W;5;68%;61%;0\nOttawa, Canada;Mostly cloudy, cold;18;13;Breezy with snow;23;11;NW;14;86%;95%;0\nPago Pago, American Samoa;Spotty showers;83;76;A t-storm around;83;77;WSW;5;80%;97%;11\nPanama City, Panama;Showers and t-storms;83;72;Showers and t-storms;84;73;NW;10;82%;70%;6\nParamaribo, Suriname;A passing shower;87;74;A t-storm in spots;86;75;ENE;7;77%;64%;5\nParis, France;Rain and drizzle;50;33;Partly sunny;42;35;SSW;7;62%;32%;2\nPerth, Australia;Sunshine, not as hot;98;67;Sunny and cooler;81;60;S;16;51%;1%;12\nPhnom Penh, Cambodia;Becoming cloudy;92;73;Partly sunny;89;75;NW;4;62%;14%;6\nPort Moresby, Papua New Guinea;Rain, a thunderstorm;84;73;Cloudy, a t-storm;85;73;NNE;6;80%;68%;3\nPort-au-prince, Haiti;Periods of sun;88;70;A p.m. shower or two;86;72;WNW;4;59%;86%;4\nPrague, Czech Republic;Milder;45;39;A passing shower;43;30;WSW;17;61%;66%;1\nPyongyang, North Korea;Much colder;18;6;Sunny, but very cold;19;3;NW;7;40%;0%;2\nQuito, Ecuador;Morning showers;65;50;A few showers;64;51;SSW;7;70%;87%;4\nRabat, Morocco;Rain, some heavy;61;45;Occasional rain;59;38;ESE;7;59%;57%;2\nRecife, Brazil;Partly sunny;88;78;A morning shower;87;77;E;8;65%;55%;11\nReykjavik, Iceland;Becoming cloudy;35;32;Snow and rain;38;30;SE;6;83%;82%;0\nRiga, Latvia;A snow shower;34;33;A bit of snow;44;35;SSW;12;93%;85%;0\nRio de Janeiro, Brazil;Partly sunny;87;71;Rain and drizzle;76;69;E;8;72%;67%;3\nRiyadh, Saudi Arabia;Nice with sunshine;70;43;Sunshine and nice;75;42;N;7;13%;0%;4\nRome, Italy;A shower or two;62;57;Spotty showers;63;50;SW;12;74%;87%;2\nSaint Petersburg, Russia;Low clouds;34;22;A bit of p.m. snow;38;33;S;13;76%;81%;0\nSan Francisco, United States;Plenty of sunshine;65;49;Plenty of sunshine;64;46;NW;6;49%;2%;2\nSan Jose, Costa Rica;Showers and t-storms;68;63;A t-storm in spots;72;63;ENE;9;71%;45%;6\nSan Juan, Puerto Rico;Partly sunny;83;71;Partly sunny;85;72;SSE;6;67%;4%;5\nSan Salvador, El Salvador;Partly sunny, nice;72;59;Partly sunny;73;60;N;7;64%;14%;6\nSana'a, Yemen;Sunny and nice;79;33;Sunny and pleasant;75;34;ENE;6;5%;0%;6\nSantiago, Chile;Not as warm;82;54;Nice with some sun;77;53;SW;8;56%;41%;12\nSanto Domingo, Dominican Republic;Some sun, pleasant;85;69;An afternoon shower;82;70;SW;5;72%;45%;5\nSao Paulo, Brazil;Spotty showers;51;36;Mostly sunny;55;39;NE;5;70%;8%;2\nSeattle, United States;Areas of morning fog;48;36;Mostly sunny;49;38;N;3;72%;9%;1\nSeoul, South Korea;Sunny, much colder;24;11;Sunny, but very cold;25;13;NW;7;31%;0%;2\nShanghai, China;Sunny, but chilly;50;43;Partly sunny, chilly;50;43;ENE;10;48%;4%;2\nSingapore, Singapore;Thunderstorms;89;78;Showers and t-storms;88;78;NNW;5;81%;92%;4\nSofia, Bulgaria;Not as cold;41;23;Not as cool;50;30;SSW;5;81%;0%;2\nSt. John's, Antigua and Barbuda;A shower or two;83;74;A shower in places;84;75;ESE;4;68%;42%;5\nStockholm, Sweden;A snow shower;34;32;Periods of wet snow;36;23;WNW;9;95%;74%;0\nSydney, Australia;Sunny;81;68;Mostly sunny;81;69;NNE;14;59%;6%;12\nTaipei City, Taiwan;Windy this afternoon;66;61;Rain and drizzle;66;63;E;11;72%;85%;1\nTallinn, Estonia;Partly sunny;28;26;Milder with snow;40;32;WSW;12;82%;88%;0\nTashkent, Uzbekistan;Partly sunny;41;23;Sunny and cold;36;22;ESE;5;83%;15%;2\nTbilisi, Georgia;Partly sunny;51;31;Partly sunny;48;32;N;5;59%;3%;2\nTehran, Iran;Plenty of sunshine;54;33;Mostly sunny;51;33;SSW;7;31%;1%;3\nTel Aviv, Israel;Partly sunny, nice;79;58;Mostly cloudy, warm;79;57;S;4;33%;0%;2\nTirana, Albania;Mostly cloudy;61;52;A shower in places;65;50;ESE;5;65%;59%;1\nTokyo, Japan;Mostly sunny;61;36;Cooler;51;33;NNW;8;46%;4%;3\nToronto, Canada;A little p.m. snow;29;25;Cloudy, some snow;31;16;NW;17;73%;86%;0\nTripoli, Libya;Sunny;69;50;Sunny and nice;71;52;SSE;3;44%;0%;3\nTunis, Tunisia;Mostly sunny, nice;71;50;Clouds and sun, nice;69;49;SSW;9;45%;3%;3\nUlan Bator, Mongolia;Turning cloudy, cold;1;-11;Partly sunny, cold;3;-12;ESE;5;66%;44%;2\nVancouver, Canada;Brilliant sunshine;50;40;Cloudy;49;39;NNE;3;61%;5%;1\nVienna, Austria;Increasingly windy;56;45;Spotty showers;49;34;WNW;13;63%;84%;0\nVientiane, Laos;Mostly cloudy;81;71;Decreasing clouds;81;69;ENE;5;62%;63%;1\nVilnius, Lithuania;Mostly cloudy;35;33;Milder;48;34;SW;14;72%;27%;1\nWarsaw, Poland;Clouds and sun;44;41;Variable cloudiness;53;32;WSW;12;75%;41%;1\nWellington, New Zealand;Breezy with sunshine;70;62;Partly sunny;73;59;NNW;13;59%;29%;6\nYangon, Myanmar;Mostly sunny, nice;90;73;Sunny and humid;91;72;W;6;68%;16%;5\nYerevan, Armenia;Mostly sunny;39;20;Plenty of sunshine;42;21;ENE;3;48%;1%;2\n_____\nCopyright 2017 AccuWeather\n_____\nKeywords: Forecast, Global, 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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Former "Sex and the City" star Cynthia Nixon says on Twitter that she is running for governor in New York
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"NEW YORK (AP) — Former \"Sex and the City\" star Cynthia Nixon says on Twitter that she is running for governor in New York."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Business Highlights
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"___\nAmazon, Buffett and JPMorgan join forces on health care\nThree of corporate America's heaviest hitters — Amazon, Warren Buffett and JPMorgan Chase — have sent a shudder through the health care industry by announcing plans to create a company that would provide their employees with high-quality, affordable coverage. The details are still hazy, but Amazon has a reputation for transforming nearly everything it touches. Insurance company stocks slumped on the news.\n___\nChild experts: Just say 'no' to Facebook's kids app\nBOSTON (AP) — Some child development experts say a Facebook messaging app designed for kids is not the best thing for kids. A group including psychiatrists, pediatricians and educators has sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, arguing that children under 13 aren't ready to have social media accounts, navigate the complexities of online relationships or protect their own privacy. The messaging app for kids was launched in December.\n___\nPfizer, riding tax changes, puts up huge 4Q profit\nPfizer's fourth-quarter profit soared to $12.27 billion thanks to a huge tax benefit related to the U.S. tax system overhaul. The biggest U.S. drugmaker on Tuesday reported an $11.34 billion benefit, mainly from recalculating deferred tax liabilities. Pfizer also said it will take a charge of approximately $15 billion, payable to the Treasury over eight years, to cover taxes on profits held overseas that it plans to bring back to the U.S.\n___\nPutin: Russia list is a hostile move driven by Trump foes\nMOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says a new list including Russian officials and tycoons under a U.S. sanctions law is a hostile and \"stupid\" move spearheaded by President Donald Trump's political foes. He says Russia will refrain from retaliation for now. Putin's reluctance to criticize Trump shows he still hopes for normalizing ties with Washington. At the same time, the U.S. move could help the Russian leader in his re-election bid in March.\n___\nTrump to call for unity in address after divisive year\nWASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is seeking to rally a deeply divided nation in Tuesday's State of the Union address. Aides say he'll speak with optimism about the growing economy and call for new immigration, trade and infrastructure policies. White House officials say Trump will also appeal for bipartisanship, though it's unclear if his rhetoric will be matched by any real overtures to Democrats.\n___\nBudget talks bogged down by immigration, deficit concerns\nWASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional efforts to forge a bipartisan budget deal are moving at a snail's pace just a week after a three-day government shutdown. There are growing worries that the whole effort could languish over Democratic demands to protect \"Dreamer\" immigrants and resistance among GOP conservatives worried that leaders are on a path to busting the budget. The deadlock is deflating hopes that lawmakers will reach a breakthrough before another shutdown deadline next week\n___\nUS home prices post 6.2 percent increase\nWASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home prices rose a sharply in November, lifted by a shortage of homes on the market. Standard & Poor's said Tuesday that its S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller national home price index increased 6.2 percent in November from a year earlier after climbing 6.1 percent in October.\n___\nNEW YORK (AP) — Cheap eats, $1 sodas and crispy chicken tenders helped boost a key sales figure at McDonald's. The world's largest hamburger chain said Tuesday that U.S. sales rose 4.5 percent at established locations during the fourth quarter, thanks to its two-for-$5 deal called McPick 2, its new buttermilk crispy tenders and its expanding delivery service. The Oak Brook, Illinois-based company also reported better-than expected earnings and revenue for the quarter.\n___\nUS stocks drop for a second day in a row, led by health care\nNEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are down sharply in late-afternoon trading, placing the market on course for its worst day since August and its first two-day losing streak in more than a month. Health care and technology stocks account for much of the decline. Banks, industrial companies and energy stocks are also racking up hefty losses. Bond prices are headed lower, sending yields to their highest level in nearly four years.\n___\nThe Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 31.10 points, or 1.1 percent, to 2,822.43. The Dow Jones industrial average had its biggest decline since May, losing 362.59 points, or 1.4 percent, to 26,076.89. The Nasdaq slumped 64.02 points, or 0.9 percent, to 7,402.48. The Russell 2000 index of smaller-company stocks gave up 15.29 points, or 1 percent, to 1,582.82.\nBenchmark U.S. crude slid $1.06, or 1.6 percent, to settle at $64.50 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude, used to price international oils, dropped 44 cents, or 0.6 percent, to close at $69.02 a barrel in London. Wholesale gasoline fell 4 cents to $1.90 a gallon. Heating oil gave up 3 cents to $2.07 a gallon. Natural gas rose 3 cents, or 0.9 percent, to $3.20 per 1,000 cubic feet."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Nielsen's top 20 programs for May 21-27
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"Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for May 21-27. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.\n1. \"NCIS,\" CBS, 12.07 million.\n2. \"Roseanne,\" ABC, 10.58 million.\n3. NBA Conference Finals: Houston at Golden State, Game 6, TNT, 9.47 million.\n4. NBA Conference Finals: Golden State at Houston, Game 5, TNT, 9.32 million.\n5. \"The Voice\" (Tuesday), NBC, 8.78 million.\n6. \"Dancing With the Stars: Athletes,\" ABC, 8.77 million.\n7. \"American Idol\" (Monday), ABC, 8.68 million.\n8. \"The Voice\" (Monday), NBC, 8.67 million.\n9. NBA Conference Finals: Houston at Golden State, Game 4, TNT, 8.37 million.\n10. NBA Conference Finals: Boston at Cleveland, Game 6, ESPN, 8.27 million.\n11. NBA Conference Finals: Boston at Cleveland, Game 4, ESPN, 7.94 million.\n12. NBA Conference Finals: Cleveland at Boston, Game 5, ESPN, 7.51 million.\n13. \"Survivor,\" CBS, 7.33 million.\n14. \"The Middle,\" ABC, 7.09 million.\n15. \"The Big Bang Theory,\" CBS, 6.72 million.\n16. \"NCIS\" (Tuesday, 9 p.m.), CBS, 6.62 million.\n17. \"60 Minutes,\" CBS, 6.32 million.\n18. \"The Big Bang Theory\" (Monday, 8 p.m.), CBS, 6.29 million.\n19. \"Young Sheldon,\" CBS, 6.2 million.\n20. \"Law & Order: SVU,\" NBC, 6.12 million.\n___\nABC is owned by The Walt Disney Co.; CBS is a division of CBS Corp.; Fox is owned by 21st Century Fox; NBC is owned by NBC Universal."
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I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about The Associated Press confirms more than 5 mass graves in Myanmar through videos, interviews with dozens of survivors
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"BALUKHALI REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh (AP) — The Associated Press confirms more than 5 mass graves in Myanmar through videos, interviews with dozens of survivors ."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan leaders met over Nile dam impasse
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"ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The leaders of Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan met in Addis Ababa Monday to discuss contentious issues related to the dam that Ethiopia is building on the Nile River.\nEthiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir met on the sidelines of the African Union summit. The meeting comes after the Ethiopian and Egyptian leaders met less than two weeks ago in Cairo.\n\"The leaders have instructed their foreign ministers and other relevant ministries to deliberate on outstanding issues and report to the head of states within one month,\" said the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry, adding the three leaders have agreed to meet again in a year. The leaders agreed to create a three-nation infrastructure fund to encourage cooperation.\nEgypt fears the $4.8 billion dam could reduce its share of the Nile River waters while Ethiopia asserts it needs the dam for its development. Ethiopia is seeking to assure Cairo the dam on the border with Sudan will not significantly harm it. It appears the main issue is how quickly the reservoir behind the dam will be filled and if the filling will cause Egypt to get less Nile water.\nThe dam is designed to generate 6,400 megawatts, which is expected to more than double Ethiopia's current production of 4,000 megawatts, is now 63 percent completed and this East African nation hopes to become an energy hub in Africa upon its completion.\nWhile Ethiopia has said the dam is a \"matter of life or death\" for its people, Egypt has said water is a \"matter of life or death\" for its people."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about National Hockey League
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"All Times EST EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 29 21 6 2 44 110 74 Toronto 31 20 10 1 41 106 88 Boston 27 14 9 4 32 78 75 Montreal 31 13 14 4 30 85 99 Detroit 29 11 13 5 27 80 97 Florida 29 11 14 4 26 88 104 Ottawa 28 9 12 7 25 77 98 Buffalo 30 7 17 6 20 64 102 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Columbus 30 19 10 1 39 86 73 N.Y. Islanders 30 17 10 3 37 108 100 Washington 31 18 12 1 37 95 91 New Jersey 29 16 9 4 36 89 91 N.Y. Rangers 30 16 11 3 35 99 89 Pittsburgh 32 16 13 3 35 94 104 Carolina 28 11 10 7 29 78 88 Philadelphia 29 11 11 7 29 83 86 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA St. Louis 31 21 8 2 44 104 78 Nashville 29 18 7 4 40 95 84 Winnipeg 30 17 8 5 39 102 86 Dallas 31 17 13 1 35 91 90 Minnesota 29 15 11 3 33 87 87 Chicago 30 14 11 5 33 90 82 Colorado 29 14 13 2 30 92 95 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 31 20 8 3 43 97 68 Vegas 29 19 9 1 39 103 91 San Jose 29 16 10 3 35 79 69 Calgary 30 16 12 2 34 88 94 Vancouver 30 14 12 4 32 81 85 Anaheim 30 12 11 7 31 80 89 Edmonton 30 12 16 2 26 86 99 Arizona 33 7 21 5 19 75 114\nNOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.\nSunday's Games\nChicago 3, Arizona 1\nSt. Louis 3, Buffalo 2, OT\nToronto 1, Edmonton 0\nMinnesota 4, San Jose 3, OT\nMonday's Games\nColorado 2, Pittsburgh 1\nDallas 2, N.Y. Rangers 1, SO\nN.Y. Islanders 3, Washington 1\nFlorida at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.\nVancouver at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.\nCarolina at Anaheim, 10 p.m.\nTuesday's Games\nEdmonton at Columbus, 7 p.m.\nOttawa at Buffalo, 7 p.m.\nToronto at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.\nColorado at Washington, 7 p.m.\nLos Angeles at New Jersey, 7 p.m.\nCalgary at Minnesota, 8 p.m.\nTampa Bay at St. Louis, 8 p.m.\nFlorida at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.\nCarolina at Vegas, 10 p.m.\nWednesday's Games\nDallas at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.\nN.Y. Rangers at Ottawa, 7 p.m.\nBoston at Detroit, 8 p.m.\nNashville at Vancouver, 10 p.m.\nThursday's Games\nBuffalo at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.\nWashington at Boston, 7 p.m.\nN.Y. Islanders at Columbus, 7 p.m.\nNew Jersey at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.\nChicago at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.\nAnaheim at St. Louis, 8 p.m.\nToronto at Minnesota, 8 p.m.\nFlorida at Colorado, 9 p.m.\nTampa Bay at Arizona, 9 p.m.\nNashville at Edmonton, 9 p.m.\nSan Jose at Calgary, 9 p.m.\nPittsburgh at Vegas, 10 p.m."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Indulge in Exclusive Summer Experiences with Trump Hotels
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"NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 30, 2018--Trump Hotels, the luxury hotel brand known for its exceptionally designed hotels in iconic destinations, has kicked off the summer travel season with splash-worthy offers and intuitive amenities that will entice guests to extend their holidays in the sun. From Chicago, to Las Vegas, Miami, Washington, D.C., Virginia or Waikiki, jet setting travelers can look forward to an elevated selection of summer getaways from the award-winning properties to make this summer truly unforgettable.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180530006141/en/\nTrump National Doral Miami (Photo: Business Wire)\nFor a limited time, travelers can plan the perfect summer weekend getaways with all Trump Hotels destinations with the “ Summer Break ” offer and receive 20% off when staying for three or more consecutive nights including a Sunday night. The offer is available when booking now through September 3, 2018 for stays between May 25 and September 3, 2018.\nOther local property offers include:\nTrump International Hotel & Tower Chicago\nThe Spa at Trump takes guests on a garden to spa journey with treatments inspired by the fresh flowers and herbs from The Terrace garden. Guests are invited to celebrate the warm temperatures and summer spirit with a relaxing menu inspired by The Terrace’s budding fruits, vegetables and herbs, and enjoy iconic views of Chicago’s skyline. The Spa at Trump’s new series of services include Mint Tea Manicure/Pedicure, Scents from the Garden Massage, Terrace Citrus Breeze Package and a Fresh Balancing Lemongrass Scrub. A treatment at the spa in Downtown Chicago is the perfect way to relax during a summer getaway, and hotel guests can save up to 20% on a guest room by staying for three nights or more.\nTrump International Hotel Las Vegas\nLas Vegas may be in the middle of a desert, but watering holes abound during the summer months. Trump International Hotel Las Vegas encourages guests to bring the Spa with them to the cabana this summer with massage therapist available poolside. Poolside treatments include Custom Cabana Full Body Massage ($185 for 60 minutes; $210 for 90 minutes), Poolside Bliss Hand and Foot Massage ($85 for 25 minutes; $170 for 50 minutes), and the Sittin’ Pretty Chair Massage ($30 for 10 minutes; $60 for 20 minutes). The pool will also have a DJ performing on the weekends starting Memorial Day Weekend through the summer. Movie Night at the pool will begin the first week after Memorial Day, where guests can go night swimming and watch family friendly movies. This summer, Trump Las Vegas offers up to 25% off of each stay when booking through the link provided: https://www.trumphotels.com/las-vegas/offer/vegas-retreat.\nTrump International Hotel Waikiki\nHawaii is a beautiful tropical vacation hotspot unlike any other in the world, with its stunning sandy beaches, impeccable weather, vibrant culture, delicious food and incredible wildlife thrive year-round. This summer, visitors have a unique opportunity to experience the perfect tropical getaway on Oahu with Trump International Hotel Waikiki. Trump International Hotel Waikiki has a special Limited Time Suite Offer for the hotel’s luxuriously appointed residential-style two- and three-bedroom suites, for a minimum stay of three nights. This offer is eligible for guests who book before June 30, 2018 for a stay from August 29 – December 19, 2018. For more information visit www.trumphotels.com/waikiki.\nTrump National Doral Miami\nA tropical oasis surrounded by four championship golf courses located just minutes from Miami’s world-renowned beaches, Trump National Doral Miami is the perfect summer weekend getaway destination. On Father’s Day, dads will receive 50% off all online bookings on the Gold and Silver golf courses with promo code “ DAD ”. Then, to refresh and rejuvenate after a day on the green, dads can enjoy a variety of Father’s Day Specials at The Trump Spa. Valid through June 30, these dad-doting offerings include The Nineteenth Hole Package, The Dapper Dad Massage, The Black Tie Facial and The Well-Groomed Gent. Those purchasing a spa treatment for Dad can also receive an additional complimentary upgrade for their own appointment. Rounding out the summer season, the resort’s Fourth of July Pool Party and the Labor Day Weekend Rock ‘n’ Roll Pool Party will feature complimentary poolside games, giant floats and a patriotic BBQ, exclusive to club members and resort guests.\nTrump International Hotel Washington, D.C.\nCelebrate the 4th of July all month long at The Spa by Ivanka Trump™ with the 'Red, White, and Bliss' massage treatment. This patriotic-themed treatment includes a hot stone massage with RED Flower product line, all on WHITE luxurious spa linen, leaving guests in complete BLISS. Spa guests can bask in Washington, D.C.'s only Himalayan Salt Chamber post-treatment and experience the same relaxation benefits of spending time in the salty sea air. Available this July at The Spa by Ivanka Trump™ priced at $165 for 50 minutes.\nAlbemarle Estate at Trump Winery (Virginia)\nWith award-winning wines, unparalleled views, and unique events, Trump Winery is a must visit for summer travel. Sprawling across nearly 1,300 acres in the heart of the Monticello Wine Trail, guests will be blown away by the stunning panoramas, rolling Blue Ridge views, 227 acres of vines, and large lakes. The winery invites guests to join for an event lineup that is certain to delight and engage. From June 3-24, guests of the Estate can enjoy the rare opportunity to tour the beautiful gardens at Albemarle Estate, which were originally designed by world famous landscape architects from around the world. The tours are led by the winery’s Garden and Grounds Manager, and tickets are $55 per person. From July 8-22, guests can enjoy a wine tasting series highlighting the winery’s unique variety of wines. Tickets are $55 per person or $200 for the 4 day series pass.\nAbout TRUMP HOTEL GROUP™\nTrump® Hotel Group is the world-renowned hotel brand and management company home to Trump Hotels™, SCION™ Hotels and Resorts and American IDEA™ Hotels. Having started as a luxury hotel brand with a mission of providing extraordinary customer experiences in iconic destinations, the Hotel Group recently announced the expansion of its portfolio into the upscale and midscale segments.\nTrump Hotels is a luxury brand with a mission of providing extraordinary customer experiences. Its exceptionally designed hotels in iconic locations put guests at the heart of each destination. Each property provides a variety of offerings including signature programs designed with the guest in mind, and every hotel has a distinct design that is culturally-relevant, with iconic architecture that is contextual to the destination.\nThe recently launched SCION Hotels and Resorts brand is a 4-star, lifestyle offering that is forward-thinking and designed to connect and engage guests and others with compelling spaces and a strong sense of community. The brand will deliver locally relevant, meaningful and sough-after experiences to those looking for a sense of connection during their travels as well as when they return home.\nAmerican IDEA Hotels is the Company's new midscale brand. With a love for locale, the brand embraces the nuances of each community it serves and offers a peek into the local culture through decor, provisions and information. Every IDEA Hotel is its own.\nTrump Hotel Group's “Never Settle” philosophy permeates its everyday work culture, with dedicated leaders and talented associates priding themselves on impacting the guest experience with exacting standards and keen attention to detail. Led by seasoned hotel industry veteran Eric Danziger, Trump Hotel Group is part of The Trump Organization, helmed by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump.\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180530006141/en/\nCONTACT: Glodow Nead Communications\nHwee Peng Yeo, 415-394-6500\nTrumpHotelsPR@thotelspr.com\nKEYWORD: UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FLORIDA HAWAII ILLINOIS NEVADA NEW YORK VIRGINIA\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: TRAVEL DESTINATIONS VACATION LODGING\nSOURCE: Trump Hotels\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 05/30/2018 01:09 PM/DISC: 05/30/2018 01:09 PM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180530006141/en"
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I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about Australia plans to become leading defense-industry exporter
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"CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia's government announced a strategy Monday to create high-tech jobs and become one of the top 10 defense-industry-exporting countries within a decade through arms sales to liked-minded nations while also keeping those weapons from rogue regimes.\nAustralia will create a 3.8 billion Australian dollar ($3.1 billion) fund to lend to exporters that banks are reluctant to finance, a central defense export office and expand the roles of defense attaches in Australian embassies around the world.\nPrime Minister Malcom Turnbull said that with AU$200 billion budgeted to increase Australian defense capabilities in the next decade, Australia should rank higher than 20th among arms-exporting countries. The planned Australian military build-up was the largest in its peace-time history, he said.\n\"Given the size of our defense budget, we should be a lot higher up the scale than that. So the goal is to get into the top 10,\" Turnbull told reporters.\nDefense Industry Minister Christopher Pyne said Australia would focus on growing sales to its biggest markets including the United States, Britain, Canada and New Zealand, which already import Australian-made equipment including the Bushmaster armored vehicle and the Nulka missile decoy. The five nations belong to an intelligence-sharing network known as the Five Eyes.\n\"We want to support the United States, the U.K., New Zealand, Canada, our European friends and allies, Japan, South Korea, et cetera, in what is a building up of the global military capability of countries like ourself who support the rules-based international order,\" Pyne said.\n\"The defense export strategy is not designed to get into markets where we don't want to be. It's designed to maximize the markets where we perhaps haven't been making the most of our opportunities,\" he added.\nTurnbull said the strategy was about creating hi-tech Australian jobs and not a response to any national threat, such as increasing tensions and the Chinese military build-up in the South China Sea over competing territorial claims.\n\"Apart from North Korea, there is no country in the region that shows any hostile intent toward Australia,\" Turnbull said. \"We don't see threats from our neighbors in the region, but, nonetheless, every country must always plan ahead and you need to build the capabilities to defend yourself, not just today, but in 10 years or 20 years hence. \"\nThe push to increase Australian defense manufacturing jobs came after General Motors Co. in October became the last automaker to quit building Australian cars.\nMost of the new Australian defense spending is on submarines and frigates that will be largely built in Australia.\nAustralian law prohibits military exports that are inconsistent with Australia's international obligations or national interests.\nProspective exports are assessed in areas including impacts on human rights, regional security and Australian foreign policy.\n\"We've got strict controls and those controls make sure we only supply defense assets in the future to like-minded countries that have a strong human rights record and have protections in place.\" Trade Minister Steve Ciobo told Nine Network television.\nAmnesty International said it been urging Australia to publicly report on arms transfers to Saudi Arabia and its allies in the war in Yemen.\n\"While there is reluctance on the government's part to exercise transparency in its arms exports trade, it is unthinkable that it would even contemplate expanding it,\" the London-based rights group coordinator Diana Sayed said in a statement.\nPeter Jennings, executive director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a government-established independent think tank, said the top-10 target was achievable and would create an industry base to support the Australian military."
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Reaction to Trump's immigration offer casts doubt on a deal
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"WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's State of the Union offer of a \"down-the-middle compromise\" on immigration did nothing to move Republicans and Democrats closer to a deal, as Democrats accused the president of lacing his speech with racially charged remarks and Republicans dug in on their demands.\nThe reaction to Trump's high-profile overture suggested both parties were settling into a protracted tug-of-war. The standoff left serious doubt whether the two parties could reach an election-year pact to protect hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation, sharpen border security and take other steps to curb immigration. The two parties had not even settled on a deadline for an agreement — a bad sign in an institution that rarely acts unless under pressure.\n\"If the deadline is Feb. 8, we're not going to make it,\" No. 2 House Democratic leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland said Wednesday, noting a looming deadline for approving government funding to avoid another shutdown.\n\"It's going to take work for us to build a consensus,\" Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., the House GOP vote counter, said in an interview Tuesday. Scalise noted that Republicans took \"weeks and weeks\" to craft tax legislation last year.\nEarlier this month, Senate Democrats looking to pressure Republicans to reach an immigration deal forced a three-day federal shutdown. While many Democrats have little appetite to repeat that strategy, party leaders have yet to indicate if they'll let future budget legislation move forward without an immigration accord.\nThe tone of the immigration debate, already testy, seemed to worsen after Trump asserted Tuesday night that \"open borders have allowed drugs and gangs to pour into our most vulnerable communities\" and let millions of immigrants \"compete for jobs and wages against the poorest Americans.\"\nHouse Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Wednesday that Trump used \"insulting words of ignorance and prejudice.\" Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-N.M., who leads the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, said the remarks were \"meant to enflame tensions about immigrants\" and would stir up Trump's conservative base but damage talks.\nRepublicans said Democrats are not making serious offers as they bargain over Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, the Obama-era program that's shielded immigrants in the U.S. illegally who were brought here as children. Trump said last year he was ending the program, claiming executive overreach by President Barack Obama, but gave Congress until March 5 to enshrine it into law.\n\"If Democrats don't figure out a way to negotiate, then the DACA program will end and that's not an outcome I think anybody would like,\" said Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, the second-ranking Senate GOP leader. \"But they will be responsible for it.\"\nEven that March 5 date was in doubt, according to Hoyer, who's been meeting with other leaders. He said Republicans suggested Trump could extend that deadline, though a congressional GOP aide said he was unaware of that option.\nThe urgency of the March 5 deadline was also blunted by a federal judge's decision to temporarily block the end of the DACA program. As a result, U.S. immigration authorities resumed accepting requests to renew DACA permits, which give recipients permission to live and work in the country.\nTrump has proposed a 10- to 12-year track to citizenship for around 1.8 million younger immigrants protected by DACA or eligible for its guarantees. That's enraged GOP conservatives.\n\"The heartburn is the amnesty component,\" said Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., leader of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, referring to Trump's offer of citizenship. Meadows said that plan needs \"a few adjustments that may be major\" before it could pass the House.\nTrump also wants $25 billion for border security, including his prized wall, despite campaign promises that Mexico would fund it. He would end a lottery used to encourage immigration from diverse countries and redistribute some of those visas to applicants with high-skilled jobs.\nHe would also limit relatives that immigrants could sponsor for legal U.S. status to spouses and underage children. He calls that \"chain migration,\" a term immigration advocates find nearly as offensive as the idea of barring them from helping parents, siblings and other relatives.\n\"We will not reach agreement as long as he wants to attack the very underpinning of legal immigration. My sister is not a distant relative,\" said Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., a hard-line advocate for immigration.\nGOP lawmakers were also wary of changes Trump would make, such as potential curbs on visas that allow temporary agriculture or seasonal workers into the U.S.\n\"I favor legal immigration, I want to eliminate illegal immigration,\" said Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D. He said Trump's proposal was \"a good first step.\"\nThe conservative-leaning Cato Institute has called Trump's proposals \"draconian restrictions on legal immigrants\" that would exclude nearly 500,000 legal immigrants annually, cutting their numbers by nearly 50 percent.\nWithout a deal, Democrats risked a backlash from liberal voters furious about any failure to protect the young immigrants known as \"Dreamers.\" Republicans were wary of letting deportations begin in a year in which they'll be defending Senate seats in Nevada and Arizona, swing states with high Hispanic populations.\n___\nAssociated Press writer Andrew Taylor contributed to this report."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about McDonald's says deals, $1 sodas boosted key sales figure
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"NEW YORK (AP) — Cheap eats, $1 sodas and crispy chicken tenders helped boost a key sales figure at McDonald's.\nThe world's largest hamburger chain said Tuesday that U.S. sales rose 4.5 percent at established locations during the fourth quarter, thanks to its two-for-$5 deal called McPick 2, its new buttermilk crispy tenders and its expanding delivery service.\nThe Oak Brook, Illinois-based company also reported better-than expected earnings and revenue for the quarter.\nThe company posted net income of $698.7 million, or 87 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were $1.71 per share, beating the $1.59 per share analysts expected, according to Zacks Investment Research.\nIt had revenue of $5.34 billion, above the $5.26 billion analysts expected.\nAfter the results were released, McDonald's Corp. shares slipped half a percentage to $176.50 in premarket trading Tuesday.\n_____\nElements of this story were generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on MCD at https://www.zacks.com/ap/MCD"
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I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about Weinstein Co. files for bankruptcy protection
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"NEW YORK (AP) — The Weinstein Co. has filed for bankruptcy protection with a buyout offer in hand from a private equity firm, the latest twist in its efforts to survive the sexual abuse scandal that brought down co-founder Harvey Weinstein.\nThe company also announced on Monday that it was releasing any victims of or witnesses to Weinstein's alleged misconduct from any non-disclosure agreement that would prevent them from speaking out.\nIn a statement, the company says it \"expressly releases any confidentiality provision\" to the extent that it has prevented anyone who \"suffered or witnessed any form of sexual misconduct by Harvey Weinstein from telling their stories.\"\nThe Weinstein Co. says it has entered into sale agreement with Lantern Capital Partners, subject to approval by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Russian President Vladimir Putin says the Trump administration's list of businessmen or officials is a 'hostile step'
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"MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says the Trump administration's list of businessmen or officials is a 'hostile step'"
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Study: California gun deaths declined between 2000 and 2015
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"NEW YORK (AP) — Gun deaths have fallen in California over a 16-year period ending in 2015, driven largely by a decline in gang violence and black homicides a recent and rare scientific study of firearm violence has found.\nResearchers at the University of California, Davis published their findings in the May issue of the journal Annals of Epidemiology after reviewing 50,921 firearm deaths recorded in California between 2000 and 2015. The University provided the study results on Monday.\nThe report found 24,922 firearm homicides during that period and 23,682 suicides by gun. Researchers say the number of firearm homicides dropped from 4.19 per 100,000 people in 2000 to a low of 3.13 per 100,000 in 2014 before ticking up slightly in 2015.\nResearcher Veronica Pear attributed the decline in gun homicides to a reduction of gang violence, particularly in Los Angeles County.\nThe study also showed a big drop in the number of black men being killed by guns.\nPear said the number of gun homicides of black men dropped 32 percent from the peak in 2005 at 47 per 100,000 people to 31 per 100,000 in 2015. The homicide rate for Hispanic men was 6.7 per 100,000 in 2015, a 38 percent decline from its peak of 10.8 per 100,000 in 2005.\nThe homicide rate of White and Asian men held steady throughout the period at roughly the same level of roughly 3 homicides per 100,000 annualy.\nPear said she hopes the new research will be used by others studying the cause and effects of gun violence.\n\"We also hope it can serve as a template for researchers in other states to create similar profiles,\" she said.\nFor the last 30 years, the federal government has largely abandoned gun-violence studies after the National Rifle Association prevailed on Congress to significantly restrict funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevent to do the research. The NRA said it does not oppose gun research but is against research that it calls biased, flimsy or aimed at advocacy.\nA few private foundations and California have recently stepped up funding of gun violence studies. California became the first state to publicly support the research when lawmakers voted to fund U.C. Davis' Violence Prevention Research Program with $5 million over five years.\nThe Kaiser Permanente health care consortium announced earlier this month it would spend $2 million to study gun violence among its 12 million members."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Brewers activate Pina from DL for game against Royals
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"KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Brewers activated catcher Manny Pina from the disabled list and put him into the starting lineup for Tuesday night's series opener against the Kansas City Royals.\nThey cleared roster space by optioning catcher Jacob Nottingham to Triple-A Colorado Springs.\nPina, who spent his first two big league seasons with the Royals, was hitting .219 with a homer and three RBIs when he went on the DL retroactive to April 13 with a strained left calf.\nIn other news, shortstop Orlando Arcia got the day off because of stomach pain, though his ailing ankle was fine. Left-hander Boone Logan also threw a simulated game without any trouble from his left triceps strain, and is expected to join Double-A Biloxi on a rehab assignment.\n___\nMore AP baseball: https://apnews.com/tag/MLBbaseball"
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I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about Global Forecast-Fahrenheit
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"Global Forecast as of 12:00 GMT Tuesday, January 30, 2018\n_____\nCity/Town, Country;Tuesday's Weather Condition;Tuesday's High Temp (F);Tuesday's Low Temp (F);Wednesday's Weather Condition;Wednesday's High Temp (F);Wednesday's Low Temp (F);Wednesday's Wind Direction;Wednesday's Wind Speed (MPH);Wednesday's Humidity (%);Wednesday's Chance of Precip. (%);Wednesday's UV Index\nAbidjan, Ivory Coast;Partly sunny;90;77;A shower in the a.m.;88;77;SW;7;79%;66%;9\nAbu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates;More sun than clouds;70;62;Partly sunny, breezy;70;61;NW;18;53%;2%;5\nAleppo, Syria;Plenty of sunshine;55;37;Partly sunny;57;37;W;4;71%;7%;3\nAlgiers, Algeria;Plenty of sun;61;47;More clouds than sun;63;52;SE;5;63%;4%;2\nAmsterdam, Netherlands;Mainly cloudy;45;38;Cloudy, rain ending;47;37;WSW;22;87%;82%;0\nAnchorage, United States;Sunny, but cold;20;6;Cold with sunshine;17;2;N;9;62%;8%;1\nAshgabat, Turkmenistan;Not as cold;41;24;Mostly sunny, chilly;44;27;ESE;5;31%;3%;3\nAstana, Kazakhstan;Plenty of sunshine;8;-13;Mostly cloudy;12;-11;S;7;75%;0%;2\nAsuncion, Paraguay;A shower in the a.m.;90;75;A couple of t-storms;90;75;ESE;6;72%;70%;6\nAthens, Greece;Mostly sunny;64;45;Partly sunny, nice;63;46;SSW;5;65%;2%;3\nAuckland, New Zealand;Turning sunny, humid;78;68;A thick cloud cover;79;70;NE;15;60%;26%;5\nBaghdad, Iraq;Plenty of sun;62;37;Plenty of sun;63;39;N;4;44%;1%;4\nBanda Aceh, Indonesia;Occasional rain;92;75;A downpour;87;73;E;4;75%;74%;7\nBangalore, India;Sunny and nice;85;57;Sunny and pleasant;84;55;ESE;7;37%;0%;8\nBangkok, Thailand;Partly sunny, humid;93;76;A few showers;89;73;S;5;71%;83%;5\nBarcelona, Spain;Sunshine;59;43;Partly sunny;58;44;W;12;68%;5%;3\nBeijing, China;Plenty of sunshine;41;19;Plenty of sunshine;37;18;SW;7;18%;0%;3\nBelgrade, Serbia;Partly sunny, mild;55;33;Partly sunny, mild;54;33;SE;6;67%;4%;2\nBerlin, Germany;Clouds and sunshine;43;35;A little rain;49;35;W;13;74%;86%;0\nBogota, Colombia;Mostly cloudy;68;45;Clouds and sun;68;44;SE;6;67%;34%;10\nBrasilia, Brazil;Showers and t-storms;81;68;Cloudy, a t-storm;79;67;NW;10;71%;82%;5\nBratislava, Slovakia;Cooler;47;31;Becoming cloudy;45;36;SSE;7;80%;38%;2\nBrussels, Belgium;Mostly cloudy;46;41;Cloudy, rain ending;49;35;WSW;15;72%;81%;0\nBucharest, Romania;Partly sunny, mild;53;28;Sun and some clouds;47;27;E;3;70%;0%;2\nBudapest, Hungary;Partly sunny, mild;50;30;Clouds and sun;47;38;S;5;69%;34%;2\nBuenos Aires, Argentina;Sunny and pleasant;87;74;Partly sunny;87;73;ESE;7;57%;3%;11\nBujumbura, Burundi;Variable clouds;82;66;Mostly cloudy;89;66;WSW;4;40%;44%;9\nBusan, South Korea;Mostly sunny, chilly;42;25;Increasing clouds;42;27;NNW;6;53%;29%;3\nCairo, Egypt;Sunny;68;49;Partly sunny;68;50;NNE;6;51%;2%;4\nCape Town, South Africa;Cooler;76;62;Mostly sunny;75;59;SE;21;53%;0%;11\nCaracas, Venezuela;Partly sunny;79;65;A shower in places;80;66;ENE;4;58%;65%;7\nChennai, India;Nice with sunshine;86;67;Sunny and nice;87;65;ENE;7;58%;0%;7\nChicago, United States;Periods of sun;32;29;Milder;44;26;W;14;56%;19%;1\nColombo, Sri Lanka;A t-storm in spots;90;75;A t-storm or two;87;74;NE;8;80%;93%;3\nCopenhagen, Denmark;Clouds and sun;41;35;Periods of rain;40;35;WSW;13;75%;86%;0\nDakar, Senegal;Mostly sunny, breezy;70;62;Breezy with some sun;70;61;N;18;69%;0%;7\nDallas, United States;Mostly sunny;62;44;Partly sunny, breezy;69;53;SSW;16;48%;0%;4\nDar es Salaam, Tanzania;Turning sunny;91;75;Sun and some clouds;89;76;NE;11;71%;22%;10\nDelhi, India;Partly sunny;79;54;Hazy sunshine;75;53;W;12;56%;0%;4\nDenver, United States;Mostly cloudy, mild;63;35;Partly sunny;53;26;ENE;8;36%;48%;3\nDhaka, Bangladesh;Partly sunny, nice;75;55;Hazy sun;80;58;ENE;4;59%;2%;5\nDili, East Timor;A bit of rain;89;76;Cloudy with showers;83;76;WSW;8;78%;77%;4\nDublin, Ireland;Overcast;47;35;Spotty showers;42;35;W;24;77%;82%;1\nDushanbe, Tajikistan;Not as cold;38;24;Not as cool;52;28;SW;5;22%;50%;3\nGibraltar, Gibraltar;Spotty showers;60;57;Breezy with rain;60;55;SE;25;82%;88%;2\nHanoi, Vietnam;Cloudy and cool;55;46;Cloudy and cool;54;50;N;10;64%;29%;1\nHarare, Zimbabwe;A shower or t-storm;77;62;Cloudy, a t-storm;79;64;E;6;69%;66%;8\nHavana, Cuba;Partly sunny, cooler;70;64;Periods of sun;74;63;E;13;56%;1%;2\nHelsinki, Finland;Cloudy, snow showers;28;19;Clouds and sun;26;24;SE;5;83%;71%;1\nHo Chi Minh City, Vietnam;A shower in the p.m.;91;73;Clouds and sunshine;90;72;SW;5;77%;37%;8\nHong Kong, China;Cloudy;58;47;A morning shower;53;45;NNE;12;81%;60%;1\nHonolulu, United States;Periods of sun;83;71;Rain at times;80;71;SW;11;68%;86%;2\nHyderabad, India;Sunny and pleasant;88;58;Mostly sunny, nice;88;59;ENE;6;27%;0%;6\nIslamabad, Pakistan;Decreasing clouds;70;45;Mostly cloudy;71;48;N;4;58%;30%;2\nIstanbul, Turkey;Plenty of sun;56;41;Sunshine;53;39;ENE;7;78%;1%;3\nJakarta, Indonesia;A t-storm or two;88;75;Spotty showers;88;75;W;11;75%;84%;8\nJeddah, Saudi Arabia;Decreasing clouds;82;66;Sunny and pleasant;83;68;NNE;6;46%;2%;5\nJohannesburg, South Africa;A shower or t-storm;75;58;A t-storm in spots;78;60;ENE;7;61%;72%;13\nKabul, Afghanistan;Mostly sunny;47;24;A couple of showers;40;23;NNW;6;51%;80%;1\nKarachi, Pakistan;More sun than clouds;86;59;Hazy sunshine;83;60;W;6;51%;0%;5\nKathmandu, Nepal;Mostly sunny;61;41;Sun and some clouds;66;43;S;5;68%;30%;5\nKhartoum, Sudan;Sunny and pleasant;84;55;Sunny and beautiful;84;57;N;13;22%;0%;7\nKiev, Ukraine;Showers of rain/snow;44;31;Rain and snow shower;37;28;WSW;13;56%;51%;1\nKingston, Jamaica;A p.m. shower or two;88;74;A shower;87;73;NNE;5;64%;75%;6\nKinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo;Partly sunny;91;74;A morning t-storm;90;74;SSW;5;69%;66%;6\nKolkata, India;Sunny and pleasant;81;54;Hazy sunshine;82;55;WNW;6;48%;0%;5\nKuala Lumpur, Malaysia;A stray p.m. t-storm;91;74;A t-storm in spots;91;72;NE;3;78%;69%;10\nLa Paz, Bolivia;Cloudy;57;43;A t-storm in spots;56;43;ENE;6;74%;81%;6\nLagos, Nigeria;Partly sunny;92;75;Partly sunny;91;76;SW;5;73%;26%;8\nLima, Peru;Partial sunshine;76;69;Clouds and sun;76;68;S;8;74%;18%;12\nLisbon, Portugal;Partly sunny;62;46;Periods of sun;61;46;NE;8;67%;7%;3\nLondon, United Kingdom;Partly sunny;46;41;A morning shower;47;37;WSW;17;70%;74%;2\nLos Angeles, United States;Partly sunny;85;55;Mostly sunny, warm;79;53;NE;5;33%;2%;4\nLuanda, Angola;Clouds and sun;86;77;Mostly cloudy;87;77;SSW;6;72%;39%;6\nMadrid, Spain;Mostly sunny;58;33;Partly sunny;59;36;NE;4;56%;9%;3\nMale, Maldives;A t-storm in spots;86;77;A.M. showers, cloudy;85;81;NE;14;77%;100%;4\nManaus, Brazil;A t-storm in spots;88;76;Cloudy, a t-storm;87;73;ENE;7;77%;85%;6\nManila, Philippines;Partly sunny;87;74;A shower in places;88;74;E;5;67%;55%;3\nMelbourne, Australia;A little rain;68;56;A shower in the a.m.;65;51;SSE;14;56%;55%;3\nMexico City, Mexico;Partly sunny;61;40;Partly sunny, nice;70;45;SSE;4;38%;11%;5\nMiami, United States;Not as warm;71;61;Partly sunny;71;65;ENE;13;52%;31%;3\nMinsk, Belarus;Snow, rain mixing in;37;27;Mostly cloudy;32;27;S;9;68%;74%;1\nMogadishu, Somalia;Mostly sunny;85;75;Clouds and sun;85;75;ENE;14;61%;26%;9\nMontevideo, Uruguay;Sunny and pleasant;86;68;Partly sunny, nice;84;66;ENE;7;61%;2%;11\nMontreal, Canada;Mostly cloudy;17;7;Afternoon snow;22;21;S;3;64%;92%;2\nMoscow, Russia;Snow showers;34;27;A little a.m. snow;31;11;NW;10;76%;64%;0\nMumbai, India;Partly sunny;95;64;Hazy sunshine;91;63;NNE;5;41%;0%;6\nNairobi, Kenya;Turning cloudy;85;58;A t-storm in spots;84;58;NE;12;42%;42%;12\nNew York, United States;A bit of p.m. snow;39;23;Mostly sunny, cold;34;30;SSW;8;36%;15%;3\nNicosia, Cyprus;Mostly sunny;63;41;Partly sunny;63;42;S;5;69%;9%;3\nNovosibirsk, Russia;Clearing;5;-9;Mostly sunny;2;-10;SE;6;87%;1%;1\nOsaka-shi, Japan;Chilly with some sun;43;25;Clouding up, chilly;44;31;NE;5;58%;28%;3\nOslo, Norway;Partly sunny;31;24;Periods of snow;34;28;SE;8;82%;88%;0\nOttawa, Canada;Mostly cloudy;17;2;Heavy snow;21;20;SSE;10;71%;92%;2\nPago Pago, American Samoa;Cloudy with a shower;85;80;Mostly cloudy;85;79;NW;11;76%;68%;6\nPanama City, Panama;Partly sunny;91;76;Spotty showers;91;76;NNW;11;68%;78%;8\nParamaribo, Suriname;Sun and some clouds;87;74;A shower in spots;87;75;ENE;8;74%;57%;8\nParis, France;Spotty showers;50;46;Breezy with rain;50;37;W;15;73%;82%;0\nPerth, Australia;Sunny and breezy;84;63;Sunny and pleasant;85;67;ESE;11;37%;0%;11\nPhnom Penh, Cambodia;A shower or two;91;74;A shower in the p.m.;88;73;SW;5;71%;66%;7\nPort Moresby, Papua New Guinea;Clearing;90;76;Brief p.m. showers;87;71;NNW;18;66%;91%;3\nPort-au-prince, Haiti;Partly sunny;91;68;Mostly sunny;91;69;ENE;5;45%;28%;6\nPrague, Czech Republic;Partly sunny;45;31;A little rain;48;38;SW;11;65%;85%;1\nPyongyang, North Korea;Sunny, not as cold;35;9;Plenty of sunshine;30;0;W;5;38%;0%;3\nQuito, Ecuador;Showers around;72;53;A t-storm in spots;72;54;NW;8;52%;66%;8\nRabat, Morocco;Partly sunny;68;46;A passing shower;60;45;S;4;78%;58%;2\nRecife, Brazil;Rain, a thunderstorm;88;79;Spotty showers;88;79;E;10;67%;67%;12\nReykjavik, Iceland;Mostly cloudy;35;27;Partly sunny;32;23;NNE;9;56%;4%;1\nRiga, Latvia;A little snow;34;28;Mostly cloudy;34;30;SSE;4;91%;72%;0\nRio de Janeiro, Brazil;Rain, a thunderstorm;80;73;A little a.m. rain;83;72;WNW;8;64%;75%;10\nRiyadh, Saudi Arabia;Decreasing clouds;62;43;Plenty of sunshine;65;45;ENE;5;25%;0%;5\nRome, Italy;Partial sunshine;58;41;A shower;56;47;S;5;73%;80%;2\nSaint Petersburg, Russia;A little snow;22;14;Clouds and sun;21;8;ESE;7;76%;23%;1\nSan Francisco, United States;Partly sunny;62;47;Partly sunny;61;48;NW;6;78%;1%;3\nSan Jose, Costa Rica;Partly sunny;79;66;Clouds and sun, nice;78;67;ENE;13;63%;3%;9\nSan Juan, Puerto Rico;Partly sunny;82;72;Partly sunny, nice;81;72;E;10;60%;7%;6\nSan Salvador, El Salvador;Periods of sun;78;65;Partly sunny, nice;77;63;N;12;67%;17%;8\nSana'a, Yemen;Mostly sunny, nice;73;41;Mostly sunny, nice;72;40;ESE;5;43%;5%;8\nSantiago, Chile;Sunny and pleasant;88;59;Plenty of sunshine;92;61;SW;7;34%;0%;11\nSanto Domingo, Dominican Republic;Partly sunny;81;70;Mostly sunny;81;69;NNE;7;71%;32%;6\nSao Paulo, Brazil;Mostly sunny;65;38;Mostly sunny;64;36;ENE;4;64%;4%;3\nSeattle, United States;Spotty showers;48;40;A touch of rain;46;42;S;7;76%;80%;1\nSeoul, South Korea;A bit of p.m. snow;30;23;Mostly cloudy;34;18;N;6;41%;0%;1\nShanghai, China;Mostly cloudy;39;30;Cloudy and chilly;37;28;NNW;7;62%;5%;1\nSingapore, Singapore;A t-storm in spots;92;77;A shower;90;76;N;11;76%;69%;10\nSofia, Bulgaria;Mostly sunny, mild;53;23;Partly sunny, mild;49;25;S;4;70%;0%;3\nSt. John's, Antigua and Barbuda;Mostly sunny, nice;80;72;Mostly sunny;80;70;NE;8;57%;25%;6\nStockholm, Sweden;Clouds and sun;32;25;Snow and rain;38;34;SE;10;91%;90%;0\nSydney, Australia;Mostly sunny, nice;84;65;Cooler;70;64;S;20;68%;81%;6\nTaipei City, Taiwan;Rain and drizzle;58;55;Rain and drizzle;62;53;NNE;11;79%;92%;1\nTallinn, Estonia;A little snow;32;27;Clouds and sun;31;27;SE;6;54%;71%;1\nTashkent, Uzbekistan;Mostly sunny, cold;34;20;Not as cold;43;25;SE;4;47%;8%;3\nTbilisi, Georgia;Decreasing clouds;49;28;A p.m. shower or two;45;32;NW;7;73%;83%;3\nTehran, Iran;Turning cloudy, cold;38;25;Sunny, but chilly;42;28;NNE;7;28%;0%;4\nTel Aviv, Israel;Partly sunny;64;47;Sunshine;64;47;NE;5;67%;2%;4\nTirana, Albania;Partly sunny;60;36;Partly sunny;58;38;SE;3;60%;9%;3\nTokyo, Japan;Mainly cloudy;44;28;Mostly sunny, chilly;46;33;N;6;57%;27%;3\nToronto, Canada;Mostly sunny;22;15;Cloudy, not as cold;35;32;SW;18;67%;59%;1\nTripoli, Libya;Mostly sunny;65;48;Plenty of sunshine;64;48;ESE;3;61%;0%;4\nTunis, Tunisia;Mostly sunny;64;43;Mostly sunny, nice;64;46;SSW;3;69%;0%;3\nUlan Bator, Mongolia;Sunny and cold;3;-21;Increasing clouds;2;-24;N;5;75%;44%;2\nVancouver, Canada;Spotty showers;45;33;An afternoon shower;42;36;ENE;4;65%;72%;1\nVienna, Austria;Mostly cloudy, mild;51;32;Turning cloudy, mild;49;35;SSE;5;76%;31%;2\nVientiane, Laos;Not as warm;77;62;Mostly cloudy;75;55;E;6;57%;17%;2\nVilnius, Lithuania;Snow and rain;36;27;Mostly cloudy;36;31;S;7;65%;67%;1\nWarsaw, Poland;Rain and snow shower;42;33;Cloudy;41;36;SSW;10;82%;75%;1\nWellington, New Zealand;Windy, not as warm;76;67;Clouds and sun;76;69;NNW;22;71%;4%;9\nYangon, Myanmar;Plenty of sunshine;94;57;Sunny and nice;88;56;SW;4;48%;0%;6\nYerevan, Armenia;Sun and some clouds;40;20;Mostly sunny;41;30;SE;2;48%;53%;3\n_____\nCopyright 2018 AccuWeather\n_____\nKeywords: Forecast, Global, Fahrenheit"
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Cambodian forest protectors slain after confronting loggers
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"PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A forest protection ranger, a military police officer and a conservation worker have been killed in an ambush in northeastern Cambodia where illegal logging and smuggling are rife.\nKeo Sopheak, a senior environmental official in Mondulkiri province, said the three-person team was attacked late Tuesday afternoon after patrolling in the Keo Siema wildlife conservation sanctuary. The dead civilian was a Cambodian employee of the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society.\nKeo Sopheak said the conservation team had confiscated chainsaws and motorcycles from some Vietnamese logging illegally.\nBut the official said the team was returning from their patrol when they were attacked and killed by Cambodian security forces, who are known to collaborate with illegal loggers who smuggle the wood to neighboring Vietnam.\nFurther circumstances of their deaths were not immediately clear."
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1874
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Man, 24, arrested for trying to climb Buckingham Palace wall
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"LONDON (AP) — London police say they have arrested a 24-year-old-man who allegedly tried to climb a wall outside Buckingham Palace on Sunday night.\nThe Metropolitan Police said Monday the suspect didn't have any weapons on him and \"the incident is not being treated as terrorist related.\"\nHe was arrested on suspicion of trespass and suspicion of possessing a controlled substance.\nThe department said its Royalty and Specialist Protection Command arrested the man after he allegedly stepped over a low fence and tried to scale a wall outside the palace.\nBuckingham Palace is the official home of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, although she is often at one of her other residences.\nPolice say he was given a mental health assessment and released on conditional bail.\nHe must report to London police in January."
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1875
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Science Start-Ups Gain Strong Momentum at the Prince William Science Accelerator
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"PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 23, 2018--Prince William County today congratulated three science start-ups – ISOThrive, LLC, Virongy, LLC and Ceres Nanosciences, Inc., – on recent business successes leading from the Prince William Science Accelerator.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423006276/en/\nPrince William Science Accelerator Lab 1.(Photo: Business Wire)\nAll three start-up enterprises have gained significant momentum, leading to expansion into new commercial lab space, increased R&D and the potential for new employment opportunities. ISOThrive recently expanded into new lab space within the Accelerator, Virongy has extended its lease for another year, while Ceres Nanosciences became the first start-up to successfully graduate into commercial space within Innovation Park, a premier corporate research park anchored by George Mason University’s SciTech Campus.\n“We are very proud of the significant strides being made by our tenant companies at the Prince William Science Accelerator and congratulate all three companies on their commendable progress,” said Jeff Kaczmarek, Executive Director, Prince William County Department of Economic Development.\n“What we are seeing is the gradual realization of the vision, formulated by the Prince William Board of County Supervisors, for Prince William County to be a catalyst for the growth and development of the life sciences ecosystem that our businesses are benefitting from today,” he added.\nISOThrive recently expanded its footprint at the facility, now occupying two lab spaces. Through this expansion, the company will accelerate its work in leveraging the gut microbiome to prevent and treat cancer, with an initial focus on colon cancer. The company intends to recruit three new staff to support this new R&D effort that is expected to result in new U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved cancer treatment modalities. In addition to its new lease, ISOThrive has also opted to extend its existing lease for another three years to support the growth of its initial core business that produces OTC and Medical Food microFood products targeted at a variety of chronic health issues.\n“Locating in the Prince William Science Accelerator has been instrumental to our company’s success. Having easy access to cost competitive, state-of-the-art wet lab facilities, expert technical support, all within a research university setting has allowed us to conduct research, fine tune our business model and achieve a level of commercialization within a relatively short space of time,” said Jack Oswald, Chief Executive Officer, ISOThrive.\nVirongy has recently renewed its lease for another year. The company’s groundbreaking work has received the endorsement of the National Institute of Health through the award of a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant for $220,000. The award supports additional R&D, in addition to funding commercialization efforts. “Locating in the Prince William Science Accelerator has allowed us to cultivate and leverage strategic partnerships with George Mason University. Proximity to the university has also allowed us to recruit from its pool of graduates skilled in life sciences,” said Dr. Yuntao Wu, Founder, Virongy.\nMost recently, Ceres Nanosciences expanded into commercial space within Innovation Park. The company is known for its work in the development of diagnostic products using its unique and proprietary Nanotrap® particles.\nFirst established in 2014, the Prince William Science Accelerator is designed to provide an innovative environment for entrepreneurial research and product development, nestled strategically in Innovation Park near George Mason University, SciTech Campus. Today, the County is home to approximately 9,000 businesses, an increase of 40% over the past ten years.\nWant more Prince William County? Check out our latest video, sign-up for newsletters or visit us at: www.PWCEconDev.org or @PWCDED.\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423006276/en/\nCONTACT: Prince William County, Virginia\nDepartment of Economic Development\nGinny Person\nMain: 703-792-5500\nDirect: 703-792-5518\ngperson@pwcgov.org\nKEYWORD: UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA VIRGINIA\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: HEALTH ONCOLOGY RESEARCH CONSTRUCTION & PROPERTY COMMERCIAL BUILDING & REAL ESTATE SCIENCE GENERAL HEALTH\nSOURCE: The Prince William County Department of Economic Development\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 04/23/2018 02:27 PM/DISC: 04/23/2018 02:27 PM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423006276/en"
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1876
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Israel cancels expulsions of African migrants
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"JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli government has acknowledged it cannot expel African migrants against their will and has canceled all pending deportation orders.\nIn a statement to the Supreme Court on Tuesday, the state says: \"It is not possible to implement expulsions to a third country without (migrants') consent.\"\nSome 35,000 African migrants, mostly from Sudan and Eritrea, are in Israel. The government wants most of them to leave, but has not been able to find a way to expel them lawfully.\nLast month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reached a deal with the U.N. to resettle half of the migrants in Western nations and absorb the rest. But hours later, he called it off, caving in to nationalist critics who said it wasn't enough."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Hits and misses: Notable NKorean assassinations or attempts
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"SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The killing of the North Korean leader's outcast half brother adds to a long list of high-profile assassinations or attempts in which the country is suspected of targeting estranged relatives of the Kim clan, turncoats and South Korean public figures.\nKing Jong Nam told medical workers he had been attacked with chemical spray at the Kuala Lumpur airport before he died, Malaysian officials have said. Leader Kim Jong Un has executed or purged a slew of high-level government officials since taking power in late 2011, and experts believe he might have been trying to eliminate a potential challenger to his leadership. Others think he was enraged over recent news reports that his brother tried to defect to the South in 2012.\nNorth Korea has denied carrying out some of the killings and not commented on others. Some of the most notable assassinations or attempts it is suspected of doing:\nTRAITOR COUSIN\nLee Han-young, a nephew of one of the former wives of the country's second leader Kim Jong Il, was found dead of gunshot wounds in front of a Seoul apartment in 1997. Lee had defected to South Korea through Switzerland in 1982, but Seoul kept his arrival secret until 1996, when his mother also fled the North. Lee had harshly criticized the country and his dictator uncle. The investigation into his death concluded Lee was killed by North Korean agents sent to deliver Pyongyang's payback and the assailants returned to North Korea before they could be captured.\nBLAST IN YANGON\nNorth Korean agents set off a bomb meant for South Korea's leader while he was visiting Burma in 1983. President Chun Doo-hwan narrowly escaped the attack, but more than 20 people were killed, including four of his Cabinet ministers, his ambassador to Yangon and several top aides. One North Korean agent was shot to death by police, a second was hanged in jail and a third reportedly died in prison in 2008. Burma, now known as Myanmar, cut diplomatic ties with North Korea following the blast, but they restored relations in 2007.\nSOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT\nA team of 31 North Korean commandos slipped undetected into South Korea in 1968 and came within striking distance of the Seoul presidential palace. South Korean security forces managed to repel the assault at the last minute. The only commando that was captured said he had come to \"slit the throat of (then-President) Park Chung-hee.\"\nA furious Park established a secret commando team tasked with demolishing the Pyongyang palace of North Korea's founder. Tensions later eased, but the South Korean commando team, incensed that the planned infiltration was aborted, mutinied in 1971, killing their trainers and marching on Seoul before being stopped.\nHIGH-PROFILE DEFECTOR\nIn 2010, two agents posing as defectors were arrested in a plot to assassinate Hwang Jang-yop, a former Workers' Party secretary who remains the highest-level North Korean to seek asylum in the South. South Korean officials said both agents were majors in North Korea's main army intelligence agency and were under orders to slit Hwang's throat. Hwang, who once tutored Kim Jong Il, bitterly criticized the North Korean government after his 1997 defection. North Korea called him a traitor and \"human scum.\" He died six months after the assassination attempt at the age of 87."
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1878
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I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about The top 10 books on Apple's iBooks-US
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"iBook charts for week ending January 28, 2018: (Rank, Book Title by Author Name, ISBN, Publisher :\niBooks US Bestseller List - Paid Books\n1. The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn - 9780062678447 - (William Morrow)\n2. The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen - 9781250130938 - (St. Martin's Press)\n3. Forever My Girl by Heidi McLaughlin - 9780985008697 - (Heidi McLaughlin)\n4. Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff - 9781250158079 - (Henry Holt and Co.)\n5. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng - 9780735224308 - (Penguin Publishing Group)\n6. Origin by Dan Brown - 9780385542692 - (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)\n7. 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson - 9780345816047 - (Random House of Canada)\n8. Darker by E L James - 9780385543989 - (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)\n9. Fall from Grace by Danielle Steel - 9781101884010 - (Random House Publishing Group)\n10. xo, Zach by Kendall Ryan - No ISBN Available - (Kendall Ryan)\n(copyright) 2018 Apple Inc.\n____"
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1879
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Smoker arrested after yelling death threats on plane
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"SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Officials say a woman caught trying to smoke on a Southwest flight has been arrested after shouting she was going to kill everyone on the plane.\nSacramento County sheriff's spokesman Shaun Hampton said Monday that 24-year-old Valerie Curbelo was arrested on the tarmac when the plane landed Saturday.\nHampton says when the crew stopped Curbelo from having a cigarette in the plane's bathroom, she threatened to kill all the passengers and crew and became combative.\nSouthwest said in a statement that the flight from Portland, Oregon, received priority treatment from air traffic control and landed safely in Sacramento.\nIn a jailhouse interview with KOVR-TV, Curbelo, of Sandy, Oregon, said anxiety drove her to smoke.\nShe said she didn't know why she made the death threats, adding that it wasn't typical behavior for her."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Bermuda police confirm they have found the body of missing US student Mark Dombroski, no cause of death announced
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"HAMILTON, Bermuda (AP) — Bermuda police confirm they have found the body of missing US student Mark Dombroski, no cause of death announced."
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie hired by ABC News
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"TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Chris Christie is known for speaking his mind. Now, he'll get paid to do it.\nThe former Republican governor of New Jersey on Tuesday made his first appearance as a political contributor for ABC News. Christie was characterized on \"Good Morning America\" as a friend and adviser to President Donald Trump.\nChristie will appear during the network's coverage of Trump's State of the Union address on Tuesday night.\nChristie said Trump should use the speech to turn the page to things the American people really care about.\nChristie was succeeded after eight years in office on Jan. 16 by Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy."
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1882
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Collector's hidden art to be shown in Switzerland, Germany
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"BERLIN (AP) — A vast trove of art which a German collector kept hidden from the world for decades will be shown simultaneously at museums in Switzerland and Germany later this year.\nCollector Cornelius Gurlitt died in May 2014, months after German authorities announced they stumbled upon more than 1,000 artworks at his Munich apartment while investigating a tax case.\nSwitzerland's Kunstmuseum Bern, which Gurlitt designated as his sole heir, announced Wednesday it would co-host the \"Dossier Gurlitt\" shows together with the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn.\nThe Bern museum will focus on art considered \"degenerate\" during the Nazi period, while the Bonn show will focus on art stolen from Jewish owners.\nThe art will be on show from November through March 2018. It's the first time the collection will be shown to the public."
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1883
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Appcues Launches Native Net Promoter Score Product to Improve Response Quality for Businesses
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"BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 24, 2018--Appcues, the user experience layer, today announced Appcues for NPS, helping businesses accelerate Net Promoter Score (NPS) survey response quality and completion rates through in-product deployments. Two thirds of Fortune 1000 companies today use NPS to gauge customer satisfaction, however, most receive low quality responses as a result of inopportune timing. The significance of Appcues for NPS is it’s delivered natively within a product, supporting a customer-centric strategy that drives users to complete an NPS survey intermittently during their customer lifecycle. By delivering NPS surveys to users in a native, frictionless way, product teams benefit from immediate, authentic product sentiment which contributes to improving the user experience as a whole.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424005416/en/\nAppcues Launches Native Net Promoter Score Product to Improve Response Quality for Businesses (Photo: Business Wire)\nKey benefits of Appcues for NPS include:\nEasy setup and deployment with Javascript Native, in-product surveys that are delivered intermittently during the customer lifecycle supporting a customer-centric strategy A comprehensive dashboard that displays data analysis on customer sentiment and satisfaction Survey reminders that can be set based on customer preference\n“NPS is a metric that product-led companies naturally value as it’s critical in measuring customer satisfaction,” said Jonathan Kim, CEO and co-founder, Appcues. “Companies that hold NPS to a high standard are ones that view their customers as the key to their business success. By natively integrating NPS into the product experience, these companies can leverage the intelligence gained from every interaction to further enhance their business. For this reason, we’re excited to deliver Appcues for NPS as it helps businesses receive more immediate and useful feedback that ultimately leads to a better overall brand experience.”\n“Appcues for NPS took merely minutes to setup and deploy. The tool instantly segmented out users appropriately and the improved response quality that we’ve seen so far is fascinating to our team,” said Neel Desai, Product Manager, ProfitWell. “As a customer-centric business, product sentiment and satisfaction are always top priorities for our product team, so it’s essential that we invest in tools that offer us accurate, data-rich insight into overall product happiness, ultimately improving our brand’s bottom line.”\nTo learn more about Appcues for NPS, visit: https://www.appcues.com/nps-survey-software\nAbout Appcues Appcues is a user experience layer that accelerates growth for companies by helping them put their products to work. By creating unique user interface patterns that are customized and on-brand, Appcues enables anyone to improve conversion and reduce churn by making their product experiences user-friendly and personalized. With Appcues, any company that is investing in its product can make it more usable and feature-rich for customers.\nFounded in 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts, companies depend on Appcues to improve user engagement and product adoption rates. Learn more at www.appcues.com and follow us on Twitter @Appcues.\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424005416/en/\nCONTACT: Appcues\nKate Gundry, 617-797-5174\nappcues@pluckpr.com\nKEYWORD: UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA MASSACHUSETTS\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: TECHNOLOGY DATA MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE COMMUNICATIONS ADVERTISING\nSOURCE: Appcues\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 04/24/2018 09:01 AM/DISC: 04/24/2018 09:01 AM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424005416/en"
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about After impressing at World Cup, Iceland goalie joins Qarabag
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"COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — After impressing at the World Cup, Iceland goalkeeper Hannes Halldorsson has been sold by Danish team FC Randers to Azerbaijan champion Qarabag.\nIceland exited the tournament at the group stage but Randers' sporting director Soeren Pedersen says the performance of the 34-year Icelander \"hasn't gone unnoticed.\" Halldorsson's tournament was highlighted by saving a penalty kick from Lionel Messi in a 1-1 draw with Argentina.\nPedersen said Wednesday that the club got \"a concrete bid from Qarabag, which we have accepted.\" Details of the deal were not released.\nHalldorsson, who played 69 games for the team, said \"it is time for me to try something else and embark on a new adventure.\""
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I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about Ohio man set to appear in court in slayings of 3 women
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"NORTH ROYALTON, Ohio (AP) — Authorities in Ohio say a man charged in the deaths of five people in two cities is set for a hearing on the latest charges.\nPolice say 45-year-old George Brinkman Jr. will be in Parma Municipal Court Thursday. He was charged Wednesday with aggravated murder, kidnapping and tampering with evidence in the deaths of 45-year-old Suzanne Taylor and her daughters, 21-year-old Taylor Pifer and 18-year-old Kylie Pifer. Their bodies were found Sunday in their North Royalton home. Police haven't said how they died.\nBrinkman was charged Tuesday with murder in the slayings of his employers, 71-year-old Rogell Eugene John and 64-year-old Roberta Ray John. Their bodies were found Monday in their North Canton home. Authorities say they apparently were shot.\nIt couldn't be determined immediately if Brinkman has an attorney."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Foy: 'Crown' pay gap issue 'definitely opened my eyes'
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"LAS VEGAS (AP) — Claire Foy says the controversy over her pay for the Netflix series \"The Crown\" has changed her approach to Hollywood.\nFoy says it opened her eyes about what she's \"allowed to have an opinion about.\"\nA producer disclosed last month that Foy, who starred as Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, was paid less than Matt Smith, who played Prince Philip, because Smith was better known.\nFoy was in Las Vegas promoting \"The Girl in the Spider's Web,\" which completed filming this month. It's based on the fourth book in Stieg Larsson's popular Millennium series revolving around hacker Lisbeth Salander, previously been played in movies by Noomi Rapace and Rooney Mara."
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Feminism; the Merriam-Webster Word of the Year for 2017
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"TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The world famous American English dictionary Merriam-Webster released their annual \"Word of the Year\" list on Dec. 11.\nAt the top of the ten most relevant and sought out words of the year was a word that everyone in the English speaking world undoubtedly heard throughout the year; Feminism.\nMerriam-Webster chose the word based on the estimated frequency of its use, and the number of people who sought out its definition. The numbers likewise reflect the social and political influence of the concept, which can be clearly evidenced throughout the year.\nOn the dictionary's website, the list even mentions that arguments surrounding the definition of the word have been the subject of various news stories and debates throughout the year.\nThe frequency of \"feminism\" appearing online and in print media spiked following the Women's March in Washington DC earlier in the year, immediately on the heels of the election of US President Donald Trump.\nThen in the latter portion of the year, the #MeToo hashtag campaign followed revelations about media mogul Harvey Weinstein, which led to another spike in usage and online searches for the term and related topics. The campaign is intended to raise awareness of sexual misconduct and abuse in society, especially abuse which affects women in the workplace.\n\"Feminism\" has also had a sustained presence in the media, with successful productions like \"The Handmaid's Tale,\" and \"Wonder Woman\" among many others, bringing the word into discussions of entertainment.\nFollowing feminism, there were many other interesting words on the top ten list that were heavily searched terms throughout the year. Unsurprisingly, several of the words on the list made it because of their relevance to the statements or actions of current US President Donald Trump and his administration.\nThe complete list is as follows:\n1. Feminism\n2. Complicit\n3. Recuse\n4. Empathy\n5. Dotard\n6. Syzygy\n7. Gyro\n8. Federalism\n9. Hurricane\n10. Gaffe\nFor more info on each word, visit the Merriam-Webster Dictionary's website.\nRegardless of one's position on the topic, the growing influence of feminism across the globe in realms of politics, entertainment, academics, and in online discussions is hardly deniable, and it seems a very apt choice for Word of the Year in 2017.\nIn related news, the announcement of Oxford's Word of the Year in 2017 is just around the corner, and it remains to be seen what the rival British English dictionary's word will be.\n(Image: Pixabay)"
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Taiwanese bakers compete at “Masters de la Boulangerie” championship
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"TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — As of Saturday, 18 master chefs bake-it-out at the Masters Boulangerie bread baking competition in Paris, including three Taiwanese contenders, reported CNA.\nOnly 18 bakers from across the world rose to the top for this exclusive competition and each is competing for the title of WORLD MASTER BAKER.\n(Image from Masters de la Boulangerie Facebook)\nChefs will compete in one of the three categories: Nutritional Bread Making, Gourmet Baking, and Artistic Bread Making. Taiwan is the only country represented in each category.\n(CNA image)\nSo far Taiwanese baker Hsieh Chung-yu (謝忠祐) has competed in the Nutritional Bread Making section.\n(Image from Masters de la Boulangerie Facebook)\nChung wowed judges with his complex butterfly loaf. He used beetroot powder and cocoa to create intricate color variations in the butterfly wings.\n(Image from Masters de la Boulangerie Facebook)\nChung told CNA that he has been preparing for this competition for over nine months and it was not until two months ago that he decided upon a strategy for the competition.\nThe coming days will see Chen Yu-chich compete in the Gourmet Baking category and Wang Peng-chieh compete in the Artistic Bread Making category.\n(Image from Masters de la Boulangerie website)\n(Image from Masters de la Boulangerie website)\n(Image from Masters de la Boulangerie website)"
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Trump to herald 'New American Moment' for US and call on parties to come together, in excerpts of State of Union speech
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"WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump to herald 'New American Moment' for US and call on parties to come together, in excerpts of State of Union speech."
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Chefs, dignitaries pay respects to French chef Paul Bocuse
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"PARIS (AP) — Hundreds of white-jacketed chefs and other French dignitaries are paying tribute to Paul Bocuse, often referred to as the \"pope of French cuisine.\"\nBocuse died Jan. 20 at 91 in Collonges-au-Mont-d'or, where he was born and had his temple to French gastronomy, L'Auberge du Pont de Collonges.\nRenowned chefs lined the pews of the Saint-Jean Cathedral in the culinary mecca of Lyon for Friday's funeral.\nSpeakers celebrated \"Monsieur Paul\" and his contribution to French cuisine and its global image as both refined and convivial. He was a pioneer in branding his cooking and image, and creating a worldwide restaurant empire.\nA fan of butter and fresh produce, Bocuse's specialties included truffle soup topped with a golden bubble of pastry and fricassee of Bresse chicken served in cream with morilles."
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Hawaii man says he's devastated about sending missile alert
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"HONOLULU (AP) — A former Hawaii state worker who sent a false missile alert last month said Friday that he's devastated for causing panic but was \"100 percent sure\" at the time that the attack was real.\nThe man in his 50s spoke to reporters on the condition that he not be identified because he fears for his safety after receiving threats.\nHe says the on-duty call he received on Jan. 13 didn't sound like a drill. However, state officials say other workers clearly heard the word \"exercise\" repeated several times.\nHe said it felt like he had been hit with a \"body blow\" when he realized it was just a drill and he has had difficulty eating and sleeping since.\nThe Hawaii Emergency Management Agency fired him.\nThe man's superiors said they knew for years that he had problems performing his job. The worker had mistakenly believed drills for tsunami and fire warnings were actual events, and colleagues were not comfortable working with him, the state said.\nHis supervisors counseled him but kept him for a decade in a position that had to be renewed each year.\nThe ex-worker disputed that, saying he wasn't aware of any performance problems.\nWhile working at the state warning site in a former bunker in Honolulu's Diamond Head crater on Jan. 13, the man said, he took a call that sounded like a real warning from U.S Pacific Command. He said he didn't hear that it was a drill.\nBut the problems at the agency went beyond the one employee.\nFederal and state reports say the agency had a vague checklist for missile alerts, allowing workers to interpret the steps they should follow differently. Managers didn't require a second person to sign off on alerts before they were sent, and the agency lacked any preparation on how to correct a false warning.\nThose details emerged Tuesday in reports on investigations about how the agency mistakenly blasted cellphones and broadcast stations with the missile warning.\nIt took nearly 40 minutes for the agency to figure out a way to retract the false alert on the same platforms it was sent to.\n\"The protocols were not in place. It was a sense of urgency to put it in place as soon as possible. But those protocols were not developed to the point they should have,\" retired Brig. Gen. Bruce Oliveira, who wrote the report on Hawaii's internal investigation, said at a news conference.\nHawaii Emergency Management Agency Administrator Vern Miyagi resigned as the reports were released. Officials revealed that the employee who sent the alert was fired Jan. 26. The state did not name him.\nThe agency's executive officer, Toby Clairmont, said Wednesday that he stepped down because it was clear action would be taken against agency leaders after the alert.\nAnother employee was being suspended without pay, officials said."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Dodgers put RHP Maeda on 10-day DL with left hip strain
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"LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers placed right-hander Kenta Maeda on the 10-day disabled list Wednesday with a mild left hip strain, leaving the club with four of their five starters from the opening-day roster sidelined with an injury.\nAlso on the DL are Clayton Kershaw (left biceps strain), Rich Hill (left middle finger blister) and Hyun-Jin Ryu (left groin strain). Kershaw is expected to return from the DL on Thursday and start against the Philadelphia Phillies.\nMaeda was removed from his start Tuesday against the Phillies in the second inning. He received a visit on the mound from the team's medical staff on consecutive batters and came out of the game after striking out pitcher Jake Arrieta.\nManager Dave Roberts sounded optimistic that Maeda would miss just one start, but admitted that he would not rush his right-hander's return.\n\"I felt the sensation at the end of my last outing and worked on it between starts,\" Madea said through a team interpreter. \"I thought I could pitch through it but as I was in a game situation, I felt it getting worse and worse and I think my teammates and coaches started to realize that.\"\nThe Dodgers recalled right-hander Dennis Santana from Triple-A Oklahoma City to take Maeda's spot on the active roster. It is Santana's first time on a major league roster.\nRoberts said Santana would be available out of the bullpen immediately and could be in line for a start when the team heads out on a six-game road trip starting Friday at Colorado. Santana has a combined 10 starts at Double-A and Triple-A this season, posting a 2.54 ERA.\n___\nMore AP baseball: https://apnews.com/tag/MLBbaseball"
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I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about Asian shares lower, tracking modest pullback on Wall Street
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"TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares skidded Tuesday following Wall Street's biggest loss in more than four months.\nKEEPING SCORE: Japan's Nikkei 225 index lost 1.4 percent to 23,286.05 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng dropped 0.8 percent to 32,693.43. South Korea's Kospi sank 1.0 percent to 2,569.94. The Shanghai Composite index fell 0.7 percent to 3,497.00 and Australia's S&P ASX 200 gave up 0.9 percent to 6,020.20. Shares were lower in Taiwan, Singapore and Indonesia.\nWALL STREET: The sell-off was led by technology stocks, the biggest gainers in 2017, which accounted for much of the slide. Energy companies also fell as crude oil prices finished lower. Utilities and other rate-sensitive sectors declined as bond yields hit their highest level in almost four years. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 0.7 percent to 2,853.53 and the Dow Jones industrial average also dropped 0.7 percent, to 26,439.48. The Nasdaq composite lost 0.5 percent, to 7,466.51. The Russell 2000 index of smaller-company stocks gave up 0.6 percent to 1,598.11. Losers outnumbered gainers almost five-to-one on the New York Stock Exchange.\nTRUMP: Also on investors' radar: Tuesday night's State of the Union address by President Donald Trump, and a two-day meeting of the Federal Reserve's policymaking committee that wraps up Wednesday. \"This is one of the few prepared speeches that the president will give, so the progress on NAFTA and trade with China is something the market is going to watch carefully,\" said Mike Baele, senior portfolio manager at U.S. Bank Private Wealth Management.\nJAPAN: Data for December released Tuesday showed the jobless rate rising to a still low 2.8 percent and retail sales coming in stronger than expected. But household spending and willingness to spend fell, underscoring the need for wage increases during the annual spring labor negotiations that are underway.\nANALYST'S VIEWPOINT: \"Asian markets are set to see further pullback in the day, caught in the crosswind of the overnight action. In particular, the performance of Apple Inc.'s regional supply chain is expected to come into focus as reports of a production reduction to the company's leading iPhone X floated to the market,\" Jingyi Pan of IG said in a commentary.\nENERGY: Benchmark U.S. crude fell 52 cents to $65.04 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It lost 58 cents, or about 1 percent, to settle at $65.56 a barrel on Monday. Brent crude, used to price international oils, dropped 38 cents to $68.82 a barrel. It fell $1.06, or 1.5 percent, to close at $69.46 per barrel on Monday.\nCURRENCIES: The dollar, which fell sharply last week, declined to 108.76 yen from 108.96 yen late Monday. The euro fell to $1.2376 from $1.2383.\nBITCOIN: The price of bitcoin fell 1.3 percent Monday to$11,018.88, according to the tracking site CoinDesk. Bitcoin futures on the Cboe Futures Exchange fell 2.5 percent to $10,920."
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I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about Congressman: Deport 'illegal aliens' at State of the Union
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"WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican legislator from Arizona said any \"illegal aliens\" who attend Tuesday's State of the Union address should be arrested and deported. More than 20 Democratic lawmakers are inviting \"Dreamers,\" immigrants who were brought to the United States as children and are living here illegally.\n\"Of all the places where the rule of law needs to be enforced, it should be in the hallowed halls of Congress,\" Rep. Paul Gosar tweeted. \"Any illegal aliens attempting to go through security, under any pretext of invitation or otherwise, should be arrested and deported.\"\nA number of Dreamers have been invited to the speech as guests of high-profile Democrats including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and potential 2020 presidential candidates such as New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and California Sen. Kamala Harris.\nPresident Donald Trump has announced plans to end Obama-era protections for such immigrants. He now says he wants to grant them a path to citizenship, but Congress has so far been unable to come up with a legislative solution for an issue at the center of the recent government shutdown.\nDreamers are set to lose protection from deportation in March.\nGosar's suggestion drew a quick rejoinder from Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., who tweeted back: \"This is why we can't have nice things...\""
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I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about Column: Big hits, big goals and a big win for Capitals
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"LAS VEGAS (AP) — Winning a Stanley Cup isn't meant to be easy, something that even the novice hockey fans in Las Vegas now surely understand.\nNo need to tell it to the Washington Capitals. They've spent 43 seasons chasing the elusive Cup, only to find an expansion team — of all things — in the way of finally ending the drought.\nThe battle for hockey supremacy heads to the nation's capital all tied up 1-1 after a pair of games as entertaining as anything on the Las Vegas Strip. The goals keep coming and so do the hits, including one Wednesday night on Evgeny Kuznetsov that both knocked him out of the game and seemed to wake Washington out of its daze.\nTheir top playoff scorer out, the Caps rallied for three straight goals that stopped — at least for a moment — a team that has been virtually unstoppable throughout the playoffs.\n\"It galvanized us as a group,\" Caps coach Barry Trotz said. \"I think it might be a turning point for us.\"\nOn a night when Alex Ovechkin scored the first Stanley Cup Final goal of his 13-year NHL career to give the Caps a lead they somehow managed to hold onto even while being outplayed and outshot by the Knights in the third period, Washington won a final-round game for the first time ever to make the flight back home a lot sweeter.\nFor the Capitals it means service held, with the next two games in far friendlier confines at home.\nFor the Knights, it was a golden opportunity gone awry.\nThey were 7-1 in the playoffs at home, 11-1 overall when scoring the first goal. So when James Neal scored barely eight minutes into the game, the party was on.\nAnd then, suddenly, it was off. At least for now.\nCredit some of that to the resilience of the Caps, who were down a goal when Kuznetsov was knocked out of the game. Give a tip of the hat to Ovechkin, too, who scored the go-ahead goal in the second period.\nBut when the story of this Cup Final is finally written it may hinge on a hit by Brayden McNabb on Kuznetsov as he had the puck along the boards late in the first period. McNabb slammed into Kuznetsov with a high check and Kuznetsov immediately bent over holding his arm with what appeared to be a wrist injury.\nAnother team might have folded in front of the raucous crowd of 18,702. But the Caps have been resilient all the way through the playoffs, and this game was no exception.\n\"It was all about commitment. We blocked shots and played for each other,\" forward Nicklas Backstrom said. \"It's good to win and go back to Washington.\"\nOn a 98-degree day in Las Vegas, the action on the ice was as hot as the weather outside. The Knights dominated play at times and outshot the Caps 39-26, but could not deliver on a 5-on-3 power play in the scoreless third period.\nWhen Alex Tuch was denied on a spectacular stick save with 1:59 to play by Braden Holtby, the Knights would not be lucky on this night in the biggest game of chance on the Strip. Their Game 1 win, after all, included the Caps' Lars Eller missing a wide-open net from point-blank range in the final minutes.\n\"To me it was the hockey gods evening it up from the last game,\" Trotz said. \"Once he made that save I knew we were going to win the game.\"\nLas Vegas pulled out all the stops to make the first two games as memorable off the ice as they have been on the ice. The Imagine Dragons — a Vegas Born group — sang just before the puck dropped and a flyover by the Air Force's latest F-35 jets shook the building, as did the applause later between periods when the pilots appeared in front of the Knight's faux castle to cheer the team on.\nBut just as Game 1 seemed to shift in the Knights' favor after Jonathan Marchessault was knocked to the ice on what appeared to be a late hit by Washington's Tom Wilson, this game seemed to turn on that hit by McNabb with the Knights up 1-0.\nNot only did Washington score three straight goals, one of them came from the player who must be spectacular if the Capitals are forced to play without Kuznetsov for any length of time in the finals.\nOvechkin has toiled for the Capitals since being picked first in the 2004 draft, but had never played in a Stanley Cup Final until Game 1 — and never scored in one until Wednesday.\n\"He's the heart and soul of this team,\" Washington defenseman John Carlson said. \"He does so much and doesn't get credit. We love him to death. He's our leader and it's nice to see him get that big goal for us.\"\nFor the Knights it was a rare whiff in a season like no other. They've been one of the great stories in sports, an expansion team in its first season playing for the championship of the NHL.\nBut every great story needs a great ending, and for the Knights to write one they're now going to have to win at least one game on the road.\n\"It's the Stanley Cup final, it's little things,\" said Knights forward Erik Haula. \"Nobody said it's gonna be a 4-0 series. It's gonna be ups and downs. We've been here before, we've been good on the road. Just put this behind us, just learn from your mistake.\"\n____\nTim Dahlberg is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at tdahlberg@ap.org or http://twitter.com/timdahlberg"
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I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about US Treasury says government borrowing will hit 8-year high
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"WASHINGTON (AP) — With the government's budget deficit rising, the Treasury Department announced Monday that it expects to borrow $441 billion in the current January-March quarter, the largest amount in eight years.\nThe Treasury said this figure compares to actual borrowing of $282 billion in the October-December quarter. It will be the largest borrowing need since the government borrowed $483 billion in the January-March quarter of 2010, a period when the government was using stimulus spending to try to lift the country out of the Great Recession and provide support to the banking system after the worst financial crisis in seven decades.\nThe government's borrowing needs have been rising as federal deficits have increased. The deficit for the 2017 budget year, which ended last September, totaled $665.8 billion.\nPrivate forecasters believe this year's deficit will climb to around $765 billion, and some are forecasting deficits for next year could once again top $1 trillion. Those projections reflect growing costs for Social Security and Medicare as the baby boom generation retires and the costs of the big tax cut that President Donald Trump pushed through Congress last month, a package estimated to boost deficits by $1.5 trillion over the next decade.\nTo cope with the higher borrowing needs, Treasury has asked Congress to raise the borrowing limit, which is currently $20.5 trillion. The government has continued borrowing money during the impasse but Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's will run out of room to use various bookkeeping maneuvers to stay under the current debt limit probably by early March.\nTreasury on Wednesday will release the specific details of what types of securities it plans to sell this quarter to meet its borrowing needs."
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I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about Ex-NBA player Rasual Butler, wife die in Los Angeles crash
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"LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former NBA forward Rasual Butler and his wife were killed in a single-vehicle rollover crash in Los Angeles.\nThe crash happened around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday in the Studio City area and left a swath of damage along a major thoroughfare.\nCoroner's Assistant Chief Ed Winter says the 38-year-old Butler and 31-year-old Leah LaBelle Vladowski were pronounced dead at the scene. Autopsies are pending.\nButler was drafted in 2002 by the Miami Heat and played for a total of eight NBA teams including the Los Angeles Clippers, Chicago Bulls and San Antonio Spurs.\nButler's wife was an R&B singer signed to Epic Records. She placed 12th on the third season of \"American Idol\" in 2004."
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1898
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Expanded Conference Glance
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"All Times EST EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Home Away Div Tampa Bay 50 34 13 3 71 176 128 17-5-1 17-8-2 9-3-1 Boston 48 29 11 8 66 157 119 16-6-4 13-5-4 10-1-2 Washington 50 30 15 5 65 155 141 19-7-1 11-8-4 9-4-3 Toronto 52 29 18 5 63 167 146 14-8-2 15-10-3 6-4-1 Pittsburgh 52 28 21 3 59 156 155 18-7-1 10-14-2 10-4-0 New Jersey 49 25 16 8 58 147 147 13-8-3 12-8-5 5-6-1 Columbus 50 27 19 4 58 133 140 16-8-1 11-11-3 8-5-2 Philadelphia 50 24 18 8 56 144 146 13-9-4 11-9-4 5-3-4 N.Y. Rangers 50 25 20 5 55 153 151 17-8-3 8-12-2 7-6-3 N.Y. Islanders 52 25 22 5 55 173 189 13-8-3 12-14-2 7-7-1 Carolina 50 23 19 8 54 139 155 11-7-4 12-12-4 6-5-3 Detroit 49 20 21 8 48 128 147 11-10-7 9-11-1 6-9-2 Florida 48 20 22 6 46 136 159 11-8-3 9-14-3 6-4-1 Montreal 50 20 24 6 46 130 159 12-10-5 8-14-1 9-6-2 Ottawa 48 15 24 9 39 125 168 9-11-5 6-13-4 5-8-3 Buffalo 50 14 27 9 37 115 166 6-13-3 8-14-6 3-5-2 WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Home Away Div Vegas 49 33 12 4 70 168 130 19-3-2 14-9-2 12-1-1 Winnipeg 51 30 13 8 68 167 137 18-3-1 12-10-7 7-5-2 Nashville 48 29 12 7 65 146 125 16-5-3 13-7-4 10-4-2 St. Louis 52 31 18 3 65 151 131 18-10-0 13-8-3 7-4-1 San Jose 50 26 16 8 60 146 140 14-7-3 12-9-5 12-2-3 Dallas 51 28 19 4 60 155 137 17-8-1 11-11-3 7-10-0 Los Angeles 50 27 18 5 59 142 121 12-9-3 15-9-2 6-9-3 Minnesota 50 27 18 5 59 147 142 17-4-4 10-14-1 8-8-0 Anaheim 51 25 17 9 59 144 142 14-9-3 11-8-6 8-5-5 Colorado 49 27 18 4 58 160 143 18-7-1 9-11-3 7-6-1 Calgary 50 25 17 8 58 139 139 12-12-3 13-5-5 8-6-3 Chicago 50 24 19 7 55 148 137 12-10-3 12-9-4 6-7-2 Edmonton 49 22 24 3 47 135 157 11-13-1 11-11-2 10-2-0 Vancouver 50 20 24 6 46 131 162 9-13-3 11-11-3 5-9-1 Arizona 50 12 29 9 33 118 172 6-15-3 6-14-6 1-7-5\nNOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.\nTuesday's Games\nMinnesota 3, Columbus 2, SO\nPittsburgh 5, San Jose 2\nFlorida 4, N.Y. Islanders 1\nAnaheim 3, Boston 1\nCarolina 2, Ottawa 1\nNew Jersey 3, Buffalo 1\nWinnipeg 3, Tampa Bay 1\nSt. Louis 3, Montreal 1\nChicago 2, Nashville 1\nLos Angeles 3, Dallas 0\nVegas 4, Calgary 2\nVancouver 4, Colorado 3, OT\nWednesday's Games\nToronto 5, N.Y. Islanders 0\nDetroit 2, San Jose 1, SO\nWashington 5, Philadelphia 3\nThursday's Games\nToronto at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.\nMontreal at Carolina, 7 p.m.\nSt. Louis at Boston, 7 p.m.\nFlorida at Buffalo, 7 p.m.\nAnaheim at Ottawa, 7 p.m.\nPhiladelphia at New Jersey, 7 p.m.\nVegas at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.\nLos Angeles at Nashville, 8:30 p.m.\nTampa Bay at Calgary, 9 p.m.\nDallas at Arizona, 9 p.m.\nColorado at Edmonton, 9 p.m.\nChicago at Vancouver, 10 p.m.\nFriday's Games\nWashington at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.\nDetroit at Carolina, 7 p.m.\nSan Jose at Columbus, 7 p.m.\nVegas at Minnesota, 8 p.m.\nSaturday's Games\nOttawa at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.\nAnaheim at Montreal, 1 p.m.\nDetroit at Florida, 7 p.m.\nPittsburgh at New Jersey, 7 p.m.\nSt. Louis at Buffalo, 7 p.m.\nColumbus at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.\nColorado at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.\nToronto at Boston, 7 p.m.\nN.Y. Rangers at Nashville, 8 p.m.\nMinnesota at Dallas, 8 p.m.\nTampa Bay at Vancouver, 10 p.m.\nChicago at Calgary, 10 p.m.\nArizona at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m."
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1899
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Amid heightened tensions, President Trump recognizes North Korean defector in attendance at State of the Union
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"WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid heightened tensions, President Trump recognizes North Korean defector in attendance at State of the Union."
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1900
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about At age 87, waiting and hoping for execution of wife's killer
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"NEW CONCORD, Ohio (AP) — At age 87, Norman Stout may not have a lot of time left to see the execution of the man who killed his wife more than three decades ago. He's determined to be there if possible.\n\"I want to make damn sure that it finally is accomplished,\" Stout said.\nThe state of Ohio wants the execution to happen, as well, and says it finally has the means to put condemned killer John Stumpf to death after years of trying to obtain lethal drugs.\nWhether that three-drug combination is constitutional is before a federal appeals court whose ruling will help decide whether Stumpf's execution — now scheduled for November of next year — can take place at last.\nStumpf was sentenced to die in 1984 for the slaying of Mary Jane Stout, shot four times at the couple's home outside of New Concord in eastern Ohio, about 70 miles (110 kilometers) east of Columbus.\nOf the more than two dozen Ohio inmates with active execution dates, Stumpf has been on death row the longest — more than 12,000 days. Six presidents have served. More than 30 new countries have come into existence. The population of the U.S. has grown by a third.\nStumpf's situation is not unique. Six Alabama inmates have been on death row more than 30 years, including one inmate who arrived there in 1979. Texas houses more than a dozen inmates whose capital crimes occurred more than three decades ago. Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson cited long delays faced by victims' families when he pushed for eight executions in 11 days in April. Ultimately, four men were put to death.\nAs has been the case elsewhere, court appeals and Ohio's struggle to find lethal drugs have helped delay Stumpf's execution. That includes a reprieve from Gov. John Kasich in May when he moved Stumpf's execution from January of next year to November to allow more time for legal arguments over Ohio's new lethal injection process.\nThe 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati heard arguments Wednesday for and against that process and is expected to rule soon. Ohio's first execution in more than three years is set for late next month.\nSeemingly endless appeals and roller-coaster rulings are a hallmark of death sentences in the U.S., frustrating proponents who say capital punishment moves far too slowly to ensure justice. But, opponents argue, those same appeals protect suspects' constitutional rights and sometimes free the innocent.\nComplicating matters, drugmakers and distributors have put the drugs used for decades off limits, setting off a scramble to find alternatives and often delaying executions while they search and argue in the courts.\nAt issue in Ohio is the effectiveness of the first drug in the state's three-drug method, a sedative called midazolam that has been used in problematic executions in Arizona, Arkansas and Ohio in which inmates didn't appear fully sedated before the second and third drugs took effect.\n\"More politics,\" said Norman Stout, recalling his reaction when he heard of the latest delay.\nStout is waiting for a conclusion to the events of May 14, 1984, which he recalls as if they happened yesterday. He and his wife, Mary Jane, had just finished dinner when two men came to the door asking if they could use the phone. Once inside, they announced a robbery. As Stumpf held the couple at gunpoint, Clyde Wesley ransacked the house, according to court records.\nWhen Norman Stout made a move toward Stumpf, the gunman shot him twice in the head. Five fragments of lead remain beneath his skin.\nAfter Stout regained consciousness, he heard two male voices in the next room, then the four shots that killed his wife. Stumpf, sentenced to death by a three-judge panel, has always maintained Wesley shot Mary Jane Stout.\nWesley is serving 35 years to life. The driver of the car that day, Norman Edmonds, served about 10 years before being paroled to his home state of Texas.\nAt Wesley's trial, prosecutors argued Wesley shot Mary Jane Stout, while Wesley testified it was Stumpf. Wesley received a life sentence with parole eligibility; his next hearing is in 2027.\nOver the years, courts upheld and later rejected Stumpf's argument that it was improper for prosecutors to argue that Stumpf shot Mary Jane Stout yet contend at a separate trial that Wesley was the triggerman.\nStumpf, now 56, has no current appeals pending, said David Stebbins, his public defender, who declined to comment further.\nNorman Stout met his wife while stationed at the now-closed Sampson Air Force Base in western New York state. After a teaching stint in Rochester, the couple moved to Ohio, where Norman Stout was a heavy equipment operator until the shooting.\nMary Jane Stout was an avid collector of Holly Hobbie memorabilia. Norman Stout expanded her collection in her honor and now maintains a gallery in New Concord full of hundreds of Holly Hobbie figurines, plates, greeting cards, puzzles and board games.\nShowing a visitor around, Norman Stout speaks evenhandedly of his shooting and his wife's death. But it's clear he has little sympathy for arguments about the risk of execution to Stumpf.\n\"I can't imagine the pain that my wife went through when she was shot,\" he said. \"I want him to feel some pain.\"\n___\nAndrew Welsh-Huggins can be reached on Twitter at https://twitter.com/awhcolumbus. His work can be found at http://bigstory.ap.org/content/andrew-welsh-huggins"
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1901
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Miranda, "Game of Thrones" #MeToo figure take Webby Awards
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"LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lin-Manuel Miranda, \"Game of Thrones\" and a key figure in the #MeToo movement are among the winners of this year's Webby Awards.\nMiranda won the Webby for public service and social activism for his work raising money for charities assisting Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.\nSusan Fowler, the former Uber employee whose harassment revelations helped lead to the ouster of the company's CEO and bolstered the #MeToo movement, was named Webbys person of the year.\nThe awards, which honor internet excellence, were announced Tuesday and will be presented May 14 at a New York ceremony hosted by comedian Amber Ruffin.\nWinners from music include Jay-Z, Katy Perry and Lada Gaga.\n\"Game of Thrones\" won for best overall online presence, and the video game phenomenon Fortnite won for best multiplayer competitive game."
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1902
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Wednesday's Major League Linescores
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"AMERICAN LEAGUE Toronto 000 002 002—4 6 1 Boston 001 012 02x—6 11 1\nGaviglio, Oh (7), Tepera (8) and Maile; Rodriguez, Barnes (7), Johnson (9), Kimbrel (9) and C.Vazquez. W_Rodriguez 6-1. L_Gaviglio 2-1. Sv_Kimbrel (18). HRs_Toronto, Hernandez (8). Boston, Nunez (4), Martinez (18).\n___\nChicago 000 000 001—1 5 2 Cleveland 205 200 00x—9 13 0\nLopez, Volstad (3), Avilan (4), Rondon (5), Fry (6), N.Jones (7), Soria (8) and Narvaez; Kluber, Beliveau (7), Marshall (8), B.Taylor (9) and Gomes. W_Kluber 8-2. L_Lopez 1-4. HRs_Chicago, Sanchez (3). Cleveland, Ramirez (17), Encarnacion (13).\n___\nHouston 000 020 001—3 7 0 New York 100 022 00x—5 8 1\nKeuchel, McHugh (6) and Stassi; L.Severino, Robertson (8), Chapman (9) and Romine. W_L.Severino 8-1. L_Keuchel 3-7. Sv_Chapman (12). HRs_Houston, Stassi (5).\n___\nINTERLEAGUE Washington 001 000 100—2 7 0 Baltimore 000 000 000—0 4 0\nScherzer, Doolittle (9) and P.Severino; Hess, Castro (7), Hart (8), Wright Jr. (9) and Sisco. W_Scherzer 9-1. L_Hess 2-2. Sv_Doolittle (13). HRs_Washington, Harper (18).\n___\nNATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis 000 000 200—2 8 1 Milwaukee 000 010 20x—3 10 1\nReyes, Gant (5), Lyons (7), Tuivailala (7) and Kelly; Guerra, Jeffress (7), Hader (8), Knebel (9) and Kratz, Pina. W_Jeffress 5-0. L_Tuivailala 1-1. Sv_Knebel (5). HRs_St. Louis, Bader (5). Milwaukee, Yelich (7).\n___\nCincinnati 000 402 001—7 12 0 Arizona 301 000 000—4 13 1\nRomano, W.Peralta (6), Hughes (7), Garrett (7), Iglesias (8) and Barnhart; Corbin, Salas (7), Chafin (8), McFarland (9) and Murphy. W_Romano 3-6. L_Corbin 5-2. Sv_Iglesias (9). HRs_Cincinnati, Schebler (6), Duvall (10). Arizona, Goldschmidt (7), Murphy (7).\n___\nChicago 100 000 000—1 9 1 Pittsburgh 110 000 00x—2 9 0\nHendricks, Rosario (6), Mazzoni (7), Wilson (7) and Contreras; Musgrove, Crick (8), F.Vazquez (9) and Cervelli. W_Musgrove 2-0. L_Hendricks 4-4. Sv_F.Vazquez (10). HRs_Pittsburgh, Harrison (2)."
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1903
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Dramatic finals of Scripps National Spelling Bee to begin
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"OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — The dramatic final rounds of the Scripps National Spelling Bee are set to begin.\nForty-one spellers advanced to Thursday's finals out of a field of 516 — by far the largest in the 93-year history of the competition. Scripps started a wild-card program this year that created a path to nationals for spellers who didn't win their regional bees, and some of the finalists got to the bee that way.\nThe past 13 champions and 18 of the last 22 have been Indian-American, and that trend could easily continue. Most of the consensus favorites in this year's bee have Indian heritage."
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1904
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I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about US helps shore up Swiss drugs maker Roche in 2017
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"GENEVA (AP) — Swiss pharmaceuticals company Roche saw a modest 3 percent rise in its underlying profits last year, largely as a result of a strong performance in the United States.\nRoche, which does not break out its fourth-quarter results, also projected sales growth in the high single-digits in percentage points in 2018.\nThe Basel-based company, which employs 94,000 worldwide, said core operating profit rose to 19.01 billion Swiss francs ($20.4 billion) in 2017, up from 18.42 billion francs a year earlier. Net profit fell 9 percent to 8.825 billion francs as a result of a series of charges.\nRoche said recently launched multiple sclerosis medicine Ocrevus, cancer immunotherapy Tecentriq and lung cancer treatment Alecensa contributed 1.4 billion francs in new sales, or nearly two-thirds of growth in the pharmaceuticals division."
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1905
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I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about AP WAS THERE: The Vietnam War's Tet Offensive
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"EDITOR'S NOTE — Early on the morning of Jan. 31, 1968, as Vietnamese celebrated the Lunar New Year, or Tet as it is known locally, Communist forces launched a wave of coordinated surprise attacks across South Vietnam. The campaign — one of the largest of the Vietnam War — led to intense fighting and heavy casualties in cities and towns across the South.\nWhile battles raged for more than a month in some places like the city of Hue, the Tet Offensive was from a strictly military standpoint a defeat for the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces. Yet the campaign had a profound impact on the U.S. war effort, stunning leaders in Washington and leaving the American public questioning their country's involvement in the overseas campaign.\nFifty years after their original publication, The Associated Press is making available four stories from Jan. 31, Feb. 2 and Feb. 21, 1968, written by AP journalists Peter Arnett, Edwin Q. White and John Lengel documenting the offensive. The package includes a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by the AP's Eddie Adams.\n___\nJan. 31, 1968\nBy PETER ARNETT\nSAIGON (AP) — The Communists have paid with nearly 5,000 dead in their frenzied guerrilla strikes at Saigon and other major centers throughout South Vietnam this week, the U.S. Command said Thursday.\nA soaring general casualty toll was announced as the third day of the coordinated Communist campaign brought new clashes in outlying sections of Saigon and heavy action in other parts of the country.\nSome Viet Cong soldiers and agents were reported circulating openly in some crowded sections of Saigon, knocking on doors and telling occupants, \"We have come to liberate Saigon.\" There were reports that the Communist National Liberation Front was claiming formation of a revolutionary council to run Saigon.\nCommand spokesman said 4,959 enemy were killed in action from 6 p.m. Monday to midnight Wednesday. Another 1,862 persons were seized as Viet Cong suspects.\nU.S. casualties for the period were listed as 232 killed and 929 wounded. South Vietnamese government casualties were 300 killed and 747 wounded, a spokesman said.\nOther allied casualties were put at three killed and 22 wounded.\nSouth Vietnamese authorities said 660 Viet Cong were killed in Saigon alone in less than two days of fighting. There was no immediate word on the number of civilian casualties in the capital or elsewhere across the nation, but they were believed to have been heavy.\nDowntown Saigon was quiet early Thursday, but skirmishing continued in suburban areas, and bands of Viet Cong, some disguised in government uniforms, roamed the city.\nThe Communists captured part of Hue, the old imperial capital 400 miles north of Saigon, and seized control of half of Kon Tum in the central highlands. Two other major cities along the coastline in the north, Nha Trang and Qui Nhon, came under fresh mortar attacks and ground probes.\nPresident Nguyen Van Thieu declared martial law throughout the nation in the wake of the Wednesday attacks against the U.S. embassy and military and civilian installations from Hue to the Mekong Delta.\nTraffic began to move on Saigon streets on Thursday, and some shops and offices cautiously opened their doors. Military and police patrols were heavy throughout the city, however, and streets were crisscrossed by barbed-wire barricades and checkpoints.\nDuring the morning Thursday, a Vietnamese police precinct station in Saigon's Chinese sector, Cholon, came under heavy attack, and sharp exchanges of fire were reported in areas of Gia Dinh, the province that surrounds Saigon.\nTroops and aircraft also swept parts of sprawling Tan Son Nhut air base on the edge of the capital, where heavy fighting occurred Wednesday.\nDuring the night, one spectacular clash took place in the old French national cemetery only about 12 blocks from downtown Saigon. Persons living in the area said roving bands of Viet Cong surged through, pounding on doors and trying to arouse residents. Government troops rushed in, and the Viet Cong slipped into the cemetery, where many heroes of Vietnam's wars are buried.\nHelicopter gunships were called in, and the cemetery and nearby residential streets were hit by rocket and machine-gun fire before the Viet Cong fled. There was no report on casualties from that clash.\nSimilar incidents occurred in other areas of the capital. Small paper red, green and yellow Viet Cong flags were found fluttering in parts of the city at daylight Thursday.\n___\nFeb. 2, 1968\nBy EDWIN Q. WHITE\nSAIGON (AP) — Widespread, savage fighting ranged into the fifth day in key South Vietnamese cities Saturday.\nThe U.S. Command reported 12,704 enemy had been killed since Monday evening in allied counterattacks that were said to be crushing the biggest Communist offensive of the war.\nFresh fighting broke out in parts of Saigon, and masses of civilians were reported fleeing a battle in a northern suburb of the capital.\nAt Hue, the old imperial capital far to the north, South Vietnamese forces reported capturing an airfield inside the city's walled citadel.\nThe Communists launched heavy ground assaults on at least six provincial capitals and district towns in the rice-growing Mekong Delta below Saigon and in the provinces just north of the city.\nEnemy gunners hit the U.S. air base at Da Nang with 40 rocket rounds. Damage to the base and its planes were reported light. It was the third attack on the base in the last five days.\nThe Viet Cong killed six American missionaries in the Central Highlands, a missionary organization announced.\nThe U.S. Command said enemy fighters were killed at a rate of 124-plus per hour during the 102-hour period from 6 p.m. last Monday through Friday midnight, making the total 12,704. Allied forces also reported they detained 3,576 enemy suspects.\nA total 983 allied troops were killed in the 102-hour period, including 318 Americans and 661 South Vietnamese. Allied wounded totaled 3,483, of whom 1,639 were Americans and 1,792 South Vietnamese.\nWhile the Communists held parts of several cities and towns across the country, President Nguyen Van Thieu declared:\n\"The back of the Viet Cong attack has been broken. We can consider they have been totally defeated.\"\nThieu and U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker appeared on television Friday to tell the people that the guerillas and their North Vietnamese allies were being beaten with unprecedented losses.\nA battalion of South Vietnamese Rangers was reported moved into Saigon to reinforce security units.\nThe U.S. Command reported heavy contact with the Viet Cong about daybreak Saturday in the Gia Dinh area on the northern edge of Saigon. It said the enemy was blocked by a South Vietnamese force on the northeast and a U.S. force on the southwest.\nThe Viet Cong were said to be trying to escape past the South Vietnamese troops, some of them in small boats on the Saigon River.\nIn the Chinese Cholon section of the capital, fighting broke out in front of a children's hospital. Cholon was hit by six Viet Cong mortar shells during the night.\nAt Hue, a main gate of the citadel was reported wrested from Communist control. The U.S. Command said the enemy withdrew into the northern part of the old walled areas under repeated strafing and rocket raids by allied fighter-bombers.\nAmong the targets of the allied planes were anti-aircraft guns the Communists had mounted on the towers of the citadel's outer wall.\nEarlier, the U.S. Command had reported that the enemy was holding onto two corners of the citadel.\nThe allies reported killing more than 300 enemy in bitter fighting at Hue, Friday.\nOne illustration of the tremendous property damage the Communist offensive has caused was a report from President Johnson on the toll of aircraft at American fields across Vietnam. He said 16 planes and 23 helicopters were destroyed and about 100 other planes so severely damaged that they would have to be replaced.\nThe average cost of American warplanes is estimated at $2 million.\n___\nFeb. 2, 1968\nBy JOHN LENGEL\nHUE, VIETNAM (AP) — Four battalions of Communist troops control most of the streets of Hue, Vietnam's ancient imperial capital. They are resisting allied forces with machine guns, mortars and rockets.\nThe enemy fire was so intense today that two U.S. helicopters attempting to run the gauntlet to collect wounded were shot down over the city.\nU.S. Marines and infantrymen and South Vietnamese troops are battling more to maintain their positions than to oust the enemy.\nThe Viet Cong-North Vietnamese force deployed through the city holds a major part of the old walled Citadel, formerly the seat of kings but now a pile of ruins, and the headquarters of the South Vietnamese army's 1st Infantry Division.\nSouth Vietnamese troops hold a small part of the Citadel. The Americans are fighting from a half-block square compound that houses U.S. advisory headquarters.\nThe city is now in its fourth day of virtual siege. Refugees have poured in, swelling the normal 40,000 population enormously. Civilian casualties are believed to be extremely high.\nThe allies also control the bridge across the Perfume River that joins the city.\nThe Communists burst upon Hue four days ago, and both the province chief, Lt. Col. Phan Van Khoa, and a senior American civilian adviser for pacification may be in enemy hands, Americans at this compound believe.\nA platoon of U.S. Marines fought its way to within sight of the American adviser's house three days ago, but Viet Cong soldiers were surrounding the building.\nAmerican and South Vietnamese planes strafed and rocketed Communist positions in the heart of Hue today. There were reports they had been ordered not to drop bombs because of the civilians.\nAt one point during the afternoon, American Marines and U.S. Army advisers were directing huge volumes of fire onto the street from this three-story building on the western edge of the town. They were trying to cover the dash of four armored trucks to evacuate wounded Americans at a boat ramp at the edge of the Perfume River.\nIn addition to the senior pacification adviser, concern is also felt for nine other American civilians in the city.\nSome of the U.S. Marine companies have reportedly suffered heavy casualties. At least 10 Marines are known to have died, and another 108 have been wounded.\nThere have been heavier casualties among the South Vietnamese troops, U.S. advisers say.\nNo one really controls the city. There are islands of government resistance and islands of Viet Cong strength.\nThe South Vietnamese battalions are fighting in the northwest portion of the city, where the old imperial Citadel is located. Viet Cong flags can be seen flying from some of the ancient battlements.\nThe intense fire has ripped the branches from the trees and stripped the bark. The streets leading from the American compound are completely deserted and littered with debris.\nThe roof has been blown off the high school across from the compound.\nThe Viet Cong are thought to be in control of the province headquarters, the central market and the main hospital.\n\"We had only one street, the street we were standing on,\" said Marine Lance Cpl. Dwight Foster of Marianna, Ark., after one foray.\nFoster and his platoon were caught in a big firefight and pulled back to the third floor of an old hotel which is part of the U.S. compound. It had previously been the non-commissioned officers club.\nFoster and his men peeked out of windows, fired at the Communists and ducked back.\nWhen a sniper appeared across the street, a tank opened up with a barrage of .50-caliber machine-gun fire. The scene was repeated all over the compound.\n___\nFeb. 21, 1968\nBy PETER ARNETT\nSAIGON (AP) — Suddenly, no place was safe.\nSaigon became as dangerous as the Ca Mau Peninsula. The idyllic resort of Da Lat in the central highlands became a prison for vacationers as 4th Vietnam suffered its bloodbath in the first days and nights of the lunar new year.\nNearly 140,000 persons died in 10 days, official figures show — a bloodletting that must rank with the great slaughters of Vietnam's tortured 4,000-year history.\nThe catalyst was a bold Communist attack on all the city strongholds below the 17th parallel.\nThe resultant conflict has changed the pattern of the war.\nIt emerged from the jungles, swamps and villages where it was fought for years, and came to the cities. Black-clad guerrillas who dwelt in the dark rain forests of the Communist war zone marched across broad paddy fields and unprotected hamlets into the capital itself.\nTurmoil and destruction invaded the homes of hundreds of thousands who thought they had escaped war's horrors in the security of the major towns.\nTwo weeks of carnage indicated that all that had gone before might merely be the curtain raiser to the main event.\nThe Communists swarmed over a metropolitan Vietnam that was sleeping off the happiest holiday of the year.\nIronically, the allied high command was well aware that the Communists were on the move somewhere. Driblets of intelligence collected in all parts of the country indicated the drift of Communist units toward the cities.\nLittle notice was taken. The euphoria of the lunar new year had overtaken everyone except the American field forces that clung tightly to their firebases in expectation of a lunar truce, and the Communists, who had no intention of observing the holidays or the truce.\nThey struck while Saigon rocked to firecrackers and the revelries of Vietnamese holiday bacchanal.\nJungle soldiers who had never worn shoes dug their toes into thonged rubber sandals to protect their feet against the hard city streets.\nWeapons and ammunition that had been surreptitiously buried inside coffins during mock funerals in previous weeks were dug up from city cemeteries.\nThe Communist infrastructure, those hundreds of outwardly loyal citizens who comprise the hidden apparatus of the enemy, led to assembly points the troops they had concealed.\nThe attacks were coordinated on a master plan. First, the sappers launched suicide assaults against the most important buildings. Then shock troops lashed at peripheral military installations. The battle was on — at Saigon, at My Tho, in the Delta, the Highlands, the Coastal Plains.\nThe cities and towns not attacked in the first day were hit the second or third day.\nDeath plucked at every layer of Vietnamese and American life. It sometimes came to those who panicked.\nA wealthy Chinese importer gunned his late-model French car through a Saigon intersection instead of heeding the stop whistle of a U.S. military policeman. He was shot dead by the nervous sentry.\nTwo American employees of Pacific Architects and Engineering, Doyle V. Clark, 33, from Covina, Calif., and Billy C. Stein, Sacramento, Calif., both entomologists, leaped into their Jeep when fighting erupted near their home beside the Saigon gold course. Both were killed 20 yards from their gate.\nA neighbor, Mike Mealey, a young Californian, elected to stay under his bed for 29 hours. He survived.\nThe communists sometimes picked their victims at random. At the Central Highlands city of Ban Me Thuot, they overran the Christian and Missionary Alliance and killed five American missionaries, three men and two women.\nYet inside the city they occupied the home of a U.S. education specialist, Dr. Jane Ford, and let her live. They used her home as a command post.\nIn the delta city of Chau Phu, the Viet Cong pushed half a dozen American nurses into the bathroom and locked them in for the 36 hours they held the houses. But in a nearby province, New Life hamlet specialist Hugh Lobit, a big, rangy Texan in his mid-30s, was gunned down in his favorite pacified village.\nOther foreigners just disappeared, like a reputed millionaire Australian who made his money in duck feathers, Keith Hyland, a trim, debonair 54, who visited his factory in the Chinese suburb of Cholon. He was captured by the Viet Cong and hasn't been seen since.\nOr civilian and official Mike Benge, from Heppner, Ore., an expert on Montagnard affairs, who disappeared into Viet Cong captivity in the Central Highlands.\n___\nThe AP Corporate Archives contributed to this report."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Breakthrough Augmented Reality Designed for the Mass Market (Consumer and Enterprise)
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"NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 24, 2018--PogoTec, Inc. (PogoTec™), an innovator in electronic wearables that attach to eyewear with a special focus on enhancing visual experiences, today unveiled the design of PogoAR™ – a unique approach to augmented reality.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424005772/en/\nWithout (Photo: Business Wire)\nPogoAR is being developed as a first-of-its-kind binocular augmented reality (“AR”) system that works seamlessly with most existing eyewear styles to provide a convenient, fashionable and easily portable AR platform. PogoAR is being built with a proprietary binocular vision system, while maintaining the fashionable look when attached to eyewear. With PogoAR, eyewear (new and old) can be made AR-ready by attaching a small proprietary AR system to the top of the eyeglass frame.\n“There are 2.6 billion wearers of prescription eyewear in the world today and far more if non-prescription sunglasses are included and every year over 300M pair of new eyewear are sold,” said Brendan Sheil, PogoTec’s Chief Executive Officer. “PogoAR is a natural extension of PogoTec’s product strategy, enabling consumers with another innovative wearable device attachable to eyewear.”\nPogoTec combines its deep expertise in eyewear, electronics, vision and optics with patent-pending intellectual property to deliver a high-quality AR experience. PogoAR is being designed for the consumer and enterprise markets.\nThe company recently announced the hiring of Svetlana Samoilova as Vice President of Augmented Reality (AR). Ms. Samoilova was previously Senior Director of Engineering of HoloLens at Microsoft where she was responsible for system integration of HoloLens, engineering of advanced and new technologies, early prototyping, HoloLens peripherals, firmware development and hardware design verification. Samoilova also spent more than eight years at Apple Inc. as Director of Mobile Devices of the iPod/iPhone division.\n“Augmented Reality is changing the way we see our world and the market for AR is growing significantly,” said Samoilova. “I’m excited to lead the team that is creating the first consumer friendly, lightweight and economical binocular AR system that is attachable to nearly all eyewear.”\nWith PogoAR one or two SKUs can attach to the vast majority of eyeglass frame styles. PogoAR can work with clear prescription eyeglasses and non-prescription sunglasses. Multiple patent applications have been filed.\nPogoTec launched PogoCam™ – its first electronic wearable device attachable to eyewear – this past November. PogoCam is a small, lightweight, easily removable eyewear camera that captures photos and HD videos. PogoAR represents the company’s next exciting initiative, positioning itself uniquely in the anticipated $100B+, high-growth augmented reality marketplace.\nAbout PogoTec\nPogoTec™, Inc. is currently a privately-owned company incorporated in Delaware. PogoTec is an innovator in electronic wearables that attach to eyewear with a special focus on enhancing visual experiences. PogoTec’s product offerings consist of PogoCam: the small, light, and easily removable eyewear camera perfect for every lifestyle; PogoTrack: a proprietary attachment meant for attaching electronic wearable devices to eyewear while maintaining the fashion look of eyewear; and PogoLoop: a proprietary universal adapter which is attachable to virtually all eyewear. PogoTec is developing a breakthrough AR system attachable to most eyewear (new and old). PogoTec’s AR system is being designed for the consumer market and enterprise. PogoTec’s management team and Board of Directors have extensive experience in creating and commercializing innovation. PogoTec has been extremely diligent in protecting its intellectual property and has numerous patent applications filed around the world with multiple patents already granted and others anticipated shortly. This IP is broken into six comprehensive IP families. For more information about PogoTec, please visit www.PogoTec.com.\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424005772/en/\nCONTACT: Ketchum Zito\nDeborah Kostroun, 201-403-8185\ndeborah.kostroun@ketchumzito.com\nKEYWORD: UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA CALIFORNIA\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: TECHNOLOGY CONSUMER ELECTRONICS HARDWARE AUDIO/VIDEO OTHER TECHNOLOGY HEALTH OPTICAL MOBILE/WIRELESS RETAIL SPECIALTY\nSOURCE: PogoTec, Inc.\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 04/24/2018 09:00 AM/DISC: 04/24/2018 09:01 AM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424005772/en"
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Australian leader calls on convicted archbishop to resign
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"CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia's prime minister has called on an Australian archbishop to resign after becoming the most senior Roman Catholic cleric to be convicted of covering up child sex abuse.\nAdelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson was sentenced in a Newcastle court on Tuesday to 12 months in detention for failing to report to police the repeated abuse of two altar boys by a pedophile priest north of Sydney during the 1970s.\nPrime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Wednesday he was surprised that Wilson had not resigned when he was convicted in May.\nThe Adelaide Archdiocese did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday\nWilson stood down from his position as archbishop days after he was convicted in May. He has not said whether he was considering an appeal."
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1908
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I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about Russia's Communist nominee for president shuns party dogma
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"LENIN STATE FARM, Russia (AP) — The Communist Party's candidate for president would seem to be an odd choice: He's a millionaire and proud of it. He also openly rejects the basic tenets of Communism.\nPavel Grudinin is the Russian party's first new nominee in 14 years as it hopes to rejuvenate itself and broaden its appeal from its traditional base of aging voters who are nostalgic for the old Soviet Union.\nNot that Grudinin — or any other candidate — has much of a chance of unseating incumbent President Vladimir Putin when Russia votes on March 18.\nThe presence of Grudinin and other official candidates are largely viewed as a Kremlin ploy to boost voter participation in an election that has a foregone conclusion of a Putin victory.\nA low turnout would be seen as an embarrassment for the Kremlin. That's why opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was leading a grass-roots campaign for nearly a year before being formally barred from running, has been urging his supporters to boycott the election and dent its legitimacy.\nIn contrast, Grudinin is urging voters to come to polls and bring change through political means.\nThe 57-year-old agricultural college graduate runs what is still known as the Lenin State Farm, a sprawling collective farm just outside the Moscow beltway to the south of the capital.\nWith his bushy mustache and salt-and-pepper hair, Grudinin's looks are often compared to those of a young Josef Stalin. Grudinin worked on the farm in the mid-1980s, and was appointed its director a decade later.\nWhile most of the collective plots outside Moscow were sold off years ago to property developers, the Lenin State Farm evolved into a successful private business, growing vegetables and raising livestock. Its signature product is strawberries, accounting for a third of all of them produced in Russia.\nWhile metal or wooden strawberries adorn lampposts, fences and farm buildings in the town, Grudinin's self-promoted image of a farmer is not the whole story. He admits that his company over the years has made only a third to half of its income from agricultural production, which he blames on a lack of government subsidies and low wages for consumers who cannot afford his organic produce.\nIn fact, the Lenin State Farm makes most of its money from property deals, leasing and selling land for shopping centers.\nCorruption is rampant in the Moscow region, home to some of Russia's most expensive real estate, and many international corporations doing business here refuse to pay officials under the table.\nBut Grudinin views his deals with companies like the Swedish furniture giant Ikea as a badge of honor, citing it as proof that he does not pay bribes.\nGrudinin owns 44 percent of the farm and runs it with 33 other shareholders. The Communist-capitalist prides himself on reinvesting the profits back into the business or creating housing, education and other benefits for the community.\nThe small town that bears the same name as the farm is dominated by two Disneyland-like castles with spires and a futuristic building that looks like a sports arena but is actually a high-tech, 1.7 billion ruble ($30 million) school that the farm built for residents.\n\"We spend this money in line with socialist principles: We spend it on people,\" he says.\nGrudinin boasts that he is fighting corruption just like opposition leader Navalny — but \"not only with words but also with deeds, by not paying bribes.\"\nWhile Grudinin refuses to recognize Navalny as the only viable alternative to Putin, he is willing to appropriate some of the opposition leader's agenda.\n\"We have too many bureaucrats, and no one is responsible,\" Grudinin said recently on state television. \"If I tell the rich 'instead of buying yachts, you should pay a higher income tax here, just like they do abroad,' then maybe we will replenish the budget and we will modernize education and health care.\"\nGrudinin, who has declared 157 million rubles ($2.8 million) in income in the past six years, is no political novice. He sat on the local council in the early 2000s and was a member of the ruling United Russia Party until 2010.\nIn Putin's first presidential election in 2000, Grudinin was one of 100 proxies for him, representing or speaking on his behalf in the campaign.\nAsked if it feels strange now to run against Putin, Grudinin replies: \"I wouldn't say I'm running against Putin. I stand for a different path for the country's development.\"\nAlthough openly critical of the current political order by saying that \"people don't trust the authorities\" and that \"corruption has taken the upper hand,\" Grudinin is careful not to blame it all on the man who has been leading Russia for the past 18 years. Putin is just part of the system, he says.\nThat line echoes the rhetoric of his predecessor, long-time Communist Party chairman Gennady Zyuganov, who has run in four presidential elections since 1996.\nOnce a searing critic of President Boris Yeltsin, the 73-year-old Zyuganov and the Communists have been coopted by the Kremlin. These days, the Communists support all crucial Kremlin directives, such as the annexation of Crimea, while dissenting on minor issues, which allows Putin to maintain a facade of democracy.\nWhile running against Yeltsin in 1996, Zyuganov spooked Russia's oligarchs and foreign investors by promising to renationalize the strategic sectors of the economy while still allowing private property. Grudinin rejects calls to ban private ownership of land — once a key tenet of Communism.\nUnlike Russia's oligarchs who make headlines by buying foreign sports teams or giant yachts, Grudinin's investments like those in the town of 5,000 people have made him a popular figure.\nPavel Samoilov, who works in a car repair shop, says he would love to work for Grudinin but the jobs on the farm are hard to get.\n\"People in the regions are much worse off than what they say on television,\" says Samoilov, 33. He says he admires Putin's foreign policy but says he has \"allowed the country to come to ruin.\"\nPutin enjoys national approval ratings of over 80 percent. While Grudinin once was polling second to Putin, he has since fallen to share the second and third spots with perennial candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who has run for president six times.\nMany of those who admire Grudinin still do not see him as a leader.\nMaria, a 40-year-old mother of two who wouldn't give her last name, sounded ecstatic about the well-equipped local school and kindergarten and likes Grudinin. But she won't vote for him.\n\"We need to vote for Putin because he is a strong leader,\" she said. \"This is Putin's place.\""
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I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about China says its activities in Arctic will bring opportunities
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"BEIJING (AP) — A top Chinese diplomat sought Friday to allay concerns about his country's increasingly prominent activities in the Arctic, saying Beijing won't interfere in the interests of nations in the region.\nVice Foreign Minister Kong Xuanyou (SHWEN'-yo) said China is interested in participating in scientific studies and the exploitation of new sea routes that have opened up with the receding of sea ice.\nThe involvement and contributions of the Chinese government and companies would \"bring opportunities to the Arctic,\" Kong said at a news conference called to introduce the government's first comprehensive report on its Arctic policy.\n\"Regarding the role China will play in the Arctic affairs, I want to emphasize two points. One is that we will not interfere; second is that we will not to be absent,\" Kong said. \"Not being an Arctic country, China will not interfere the affairs that are exclusive to the Arctic countries and inside Arctic region.\"\nChina's presence in the Arctic has raised fears among some countries, mainly that it is seeking to grab resource-extraction opportunities resulting from climate change.\nIt has established especially close relations with Iceland's support, with whose support it was granted observer status in 2013 at the Arctic Council, whose core members are Canada, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Russia, the United States and Iceland.\nIceland has granted the state-owned China National Offshore Oil Company permission to explore in Iceland's waters and is cooperating on an observatory to study the magnetic phenomena known as the Northern Lights. China also operates a research station in Norway.\nSuspicions about China's role in the region manifested themselves in 2011, Iceland blocked an attempt by a Chinese businessman a 300 square kilometer (120 square mile) chunk of its territory to build an eco-resort. Public sentiment ran strongly against the proposed deal, in part because no foreign buyer had ever bought so much land.\nSuspicion also lingered when the Aurora Observatory was announced for a sparsely populated region 250 miles (400 kilometers) northeast of Iceland's capital, Reykjavik.\nPascal Heyman, a former official at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, said in 2014 that the Chinese might want to use the equipment to keep an eye on NATO airspace."
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1910
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Ferry that sank in Pacific was ordered not to carry people
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"WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The Kiribati government says a ferry that sank this month near the remote Pacific nation had been damaged and was ordered not to carry passengers before it sailed.\nAuthorities say about 80 people are missing, although they haven't confirmed the exact number. A New Zealand military plane used its radar system to find seven survivors on a small wooden dinghy Sunday.\nGovernment spokesman Tearinibeia Enoo-Teabo said Wednesday that Kiribati maritime authorities had ordered the MV Butiraoi, a 17.5-metre (57-foot) wooden catamaran, not to carry any passengers because it was seriously damaged. It's unclear if the damage to the navigational system, rudders and hull had been repaired.\nHe says investigators are going to the island to find out more about the passenger count and why the ferry left despite the orders."
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1911
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Sean Hannity's Twitter page compromised, vanishes for hours
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"NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News host Sean Hannity's Twitter account was compromised and was unavailable for a few hours on Saturday, inspiring speculation by his conservative followers that a government cabal they call the \"deep state\" or a rogue employee could be to blame.\nAfter Hannity's verified Twitter account posted a message that simply and cryptically said \"Form Submission 1649,\" visitors said they were getting a \"Sorry, that page doesn't exist\" error message. By the time Hannity's account was back up later in the morning, speculation was rampant about the mysterious disappearance.\nFox News referred questions to Twitter, which confirmed the account had been compromised.\n\"While we normally do not discuss individual accounts, for privacy and security reasons, we have permission from the account owner to confirm that account was briefly compromised,\" Twitter said by email, without elaborating.\nSome Hannity followers blamed shadowy \"deep state\" government figures looking to take down Hannity, who's a big supporter of President Donald Trump.\n\"The Deep State is in panic!\" tweeted Alex Jones, a far-right radio show host. \"Hannity disappears from Twitter after eerie tweet.\"\nWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange took to Twitter to observe how Hannity had his account \"mysteriously disappear.\"\nOther users were rooting for the theory that a rogue Twitter employee was behind the deactivation. That was Twitter's explanation for an 11-minute outage that took down the Republican president's twitter account in November.\nAt the time, Twitter blamed a customer support worker on his or her last day on the job and said it was implementing safeguards to prevent the situation from happening again."
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1912
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Nets hire Prigioni as assistant coach, Splitter as pro scout
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"NEW YORK (AP) — The Brooklyn Nets have hired former NBA player and Argentine guard Pablo Prigioni as an assistant coach.\nThe Nets also announced Tuesday that former Spurs center Tiago Splitter was hired as a pro scout.\nPrigioni spent most of his professional career in Spain and won a bronze medal with Argentina in the 2008 Olympics before coming to the New York Knicks in 2012 as a 35-year-old rookie. He spent four years in the NBA with the Knicks, Rockets and Clippers.\nSplitter helped San Antonio win the 2014 NBA championship before spending the final two seasons of his seven-year career with Atlanta and Philadelphia. The Nets said Splitter, who also played for Brazil's national team, will have added duties related to player on-court development.\n___\nFor more AP NBA coverage: https://apnews.com/tag/NBAbasketball"
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1913
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I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about In tax push, Trump's team uses a dubious growth estimate
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"WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department just gave Republicans ammunition that their tax cuts would pay for themselves.\nBut the one-page memo relies on a mathematical gimmick: It includes an assumption that tax cuts and other Trump administration policies would cause the economy to expand at a 2.9 percent annual pace over 10 years. Economic growth at that level would, in theory, be enough to keep the national debt from rising.\nBut most analyses have concluded that the Senate tax overhaul would add at least $1 trillion to budget deficits in the next decade because the analyses foresee significantly less growth resulting from the tax cuts.\nThe Treasury Department report enables President Donald Trump to claim that the Senate tax overhaul would pay for itself, even though outside analyses show otherwise.\nWhen the same report tries to estimate how much growth the tax cuts would actually produce, it also finds that the national debt would likely increase by at least $1 trillion during the next decade.\nMany economists and tax experts were quick to dismiss the Treasury memo.\n\"It's a joke,\" David Kamin, a law professor at New York University and former economic policy aide in the Obama White House, said on Twitter.\nSen. Ron Wyden, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, said, \"It's no more than a thinly veiled attempt by the Trump administration to cover up an economic agenda that showers corporations with goodies while taking money and health care away from those who need it most.\"\nMost economic analyses — including one by Congress' Joint Committee on Taxation — assume that the tax cuts would cause the debt to rise significantly because the cuts would fail to deliver significantly faster growth.\nAn analysis of the Senate plan released Monday by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center found that even after factoring in additional economic growth, deficits would rise by $1.5 trillion over the next 10 years when including the additional interest costs.\nA separate analysis by the Penn Wharton Budget Model found a similarly sized increase in budget deficits.\nNone of the top academic economists surveyed by the University of Chicago said the tax cuts would likely generate enough growth to pay for themselves.\nThe Treasury Department report, though, might provide a tool for Republican lawmakers to sell to a skeptical public tax cuts that largely help corporations and the wealthy. Both Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan have said that the tax cuts wouldn't add to budget deficits."
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I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about Montenegro: Immunity lifted for 2 alleged coup suspects
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"PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Montenegrin lawmakers have voted to lift the immunity of two senior opposition politicians allegedly involved in a pro-Russian plot to overthrow the government over its NATO bid.\nThe move paves the way for the detention of Andrija Mandic and Milan Knezevic, key opposition leaders suspected in the Oct. 16 coup attempt that included plans to kill a then-prime minister and take over power.\nSeveral hundred opposition supporters protested outside the parliament building on Wednesday as lawmakers from the ruling coalition unanimously approved the motion.\nMontenegro's special prosecutor said the two are suspected of criminal conspiracy and inciting \"acts against constitutional order and security of Montenegro.\"\nSome 20 people — including two Russian citizens — have been accused in the foiled coup said to be orchestrated by Russian and Serbian nationalists."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials
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"Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:\n___\nJan. 31\nThe Boston Herald on U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy's Democratic rebuttal to the State of the Union:\nDemocratic leaders chose wisely to pass last night's torch to a new generation — and to a Kennedy, no less.\nAnd while U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy's Democratic rebuttal to the State of the Union, delivered from the Diman Regional Technical School in Fall River, contained a good many of the false choices such speeches are prone to, it also struck a tone his party would be wise to emulate.\n\"We all feel the fault lines of a fractured country,\" Kennedy said \"We hear the voices of Americans who feel forgotten and forsaken.\"\nIt was a message certainly not delivered by the party's presidential nominee in 2016 — and wasn't that the problem?\nBut the speech was more. And it was more than a whacking around of the president, although it surely was that too. It was a celebration of the American way of life and of the newly found activism of the past year.\n\"You fight your own quiet battles every single day,\" Kennedy said. \"You serve, you rescue, you help, you heal. That — more than any law or leader, any debate or disagreement — that is what drives us toward progress.\"\nIt's also what wins elections — if only the gerontocracy that is the Democratic congressional leadership would step aside and allow a new generation to take charge.\nOnline: http://www.bostonherald.com/\n___\nJan. 31\nLos Angeles Times on Berkshire Hathaway, Amazon and JPMorgan Chase forming a company to address health care costs for their U.S. employees:\nBerkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett is known as a \"value\" investor — someone who buys into companies that are selling for less than they're really worth. When his company provides its workers health care benefits, however, Buffett isn't paying for value. Instead, employers like Berkshire, which owns a diverse portfolio of financial and industrial companies, are paying ever-higher amounts for their workers' policies and getting less coverage in return.\nThat problem helped drive Berkshire Hathaway to announce plans Tuesday to join forces with online retail giant Amazon and Wall Street powerhouse JPMorgan Chase & Co. to create an independent venture that aims to reduce their health care costs while improving employee satisfaction. Notably, they said the new company will be \"free from profit-making incentives and constraints.\"\nWhat this new company will do, though, is anybody's guess. \"Our group does not come to this problem with answers,\" Buffett conceded. Nevertheless, it's a welcome signal that companies are finally trying to rein in the rising cost of health care, rather than simply passing more of the pain on to their employees.\nFor a country that spends so much on health — Milken Institute health care economist Hugh Waters pegged it at $3.3 trillion in 2016, or $10,348 per person — we've managed to do surprisingly little about rising costs besides complain. Fears of rationing care keep federal and state governments from responding aggressively to higher drug and treatment costs, and a whole host of factors have led millions of Americans to fall into the trap of costly and preventable chronic illnesses, such as diabetes.\nWith more than 1.2 million employees worldwide combined, Amazon, Berkshire and JPMorgan Chase have the kind of bargaining power that could make a dent in what their workers are spending on hospitals, prescription drugs and outpatient care. But let's be realistic. Even employers this large don't have a lot of leverage over the sole manufacturer of a blockbuster drug, or the only obstetrician in a rural county, or the dominant hospital chain in a region.\nThat's why the other aspect of the companies' effort — using technology to help employees better manage and obtain care — may be more promising. Because part of the solution is to reduce the demand for care by helping Americans stay healthier, and to increase competition by helping people shop more intelligently for health care services. The latter is extremely hard today, given the complexity and opacity in health care pricing. If these companies struck a blow for transparency in that area, we'd all be better off.\nAmazon already sells plenty of medical devices and fitness products, and it's reportedly looking to compete with local pharmacies for the retail sale of prescription drugs. If this new effort helps Amazon's more than 540,000 employees stay healthier and find high-quality, lower-priced services, it could ultimately offer consumers something better than step trackers and Ace bandages. But we won't know until we see the answers the three companies and their new venture eventually have to offer.\nOnline: http://www.latimes.com\n___\nJan. 30\nThe Washington Post on \"#ReleaseTheMemo\":\nFar Be it from us to oppose the disclosure of sensitive government information, subject to appropriate, and appropriately limited, national security considerations. Sunlight can indeed be the best disinfectant. Yet no one should confuse the House Intelligence Committee's decision to release a much-ballyhooed \"memo,\" written by Republican staff and purportedly describing malfeasance at the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation, with a good-faith exercise in legislative oversight.\nThis looks instead like a mischievous attempt to discredit the institutions responsible for assisting special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's investigation of Russia's interference in the 2016 election and any connection Donald Trump's campaign might have had to it. Promoted by the actions of committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the \"#ReleaseTheMemo\" campaign is not just partisan but hyperpartisan, a pet cause of GOP House ultras and their media cheering section that appalls more sober Republicans in the Senate and executive-branch agencies.\nNo doubt there is cause for legitimate concern in the politically tinged text messages exchanged by now-sidelined FBI official Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page, who, in conducting an extramarital affair, discussed both that and their worries that Mr. Trump might win in 2016, in writing. There might similarly be cause for concern if the Justice Department unduly relied on dubious, Democrat-funded sources in its request for a warrant to conduct surveillance on Carter Page, a Trump campaign official whose murky ties to Russia aroused suspicion in intelligence circles in the United States and abroad. These are said to be the issues raised in the now-notorious memo — though for all we know, the actual accusations, if and when we finally see them, may prove to be overblown, not \"shocking,\" as Republican House members claim. The committee's Republican majority has denied Democrats a chance to publish their competing take on the intelligence simultaneously with the GOP version of events, which does not inspire confidence in the objectivity of the latter.\nThe way for Congress to investigate all of this should have been aggressively but soberly, seeking cooperation from the agencies involved and maintaining a bipartisan spirit on the committee. Instead, Mr. Nunes has maximized the hullabaloo surrounding the events in a manner plainly calculated to inflame public opinion. The release of the memo, in fact, constitutes the apparent first-ever exercise of the Intelligence Committee's declassification authority concerning such documents. And the GOP majority acted in the face of a Justice Department official's warning that release of the material \"would be extraordinarily reckless\" in terms of potential harm to intelligence-gathering, unless the department and FBI had an opportunity to review it in advance.\nDamage is also being done to the political independence, real and perceived, of federal law enforcement. House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) might have called a halt to this, but instead on Tuesday he chose to enable it, endorsing the release of the memo while feebly insisting that it is \"completely separate\" from Mr. Mueller's inquiry. Now the White House has less than five days to object to the release of the memo or approve it, which means that the last check against any possible abuse of this process will be the good judgment of President Trump.\nOnline: https://www.washingtonpost.com/\n___\nJan. 31\nThe New York Times on the university where Larry Nassar worked:\nLarry Nassar had a day of reckoning last week for his years of molesting young gymnasts and other athletes, and he will spend the rest of his life in prison. But the leaders of Michigan State University, where he worked, have yet to take full responsibility for their failures to protect those girls, or to even learn what went wrong and regain the trust of the public.\nTo ensure real accountability, the university's board of trustees, who pick the university's president, oversee its administration and set policy, should resign to make way for new leadership unencumbered by the Nassar scandal and the recent report by ESPN that the university concealed allegations of sexual violence by members of its prized football and basketball programs. If the trustees refuse to do so, Michigan's governor, Rick Snyder, and its Legislature ought to remove them.\nFor about two decades, university officials — administrators, coaches, trainers, even police officers — either dismissed or silenced Dr. Nassar's victims, allowing him to abuse several generations of athletes at the university and U.S.A. Gymnastics. When one victim filed a complaint with M.S.U. in 2014, the inquiry said his action was medically appropriate. So officials continued to let him treat young women, even while campus police followed up on the complaint.\nSeparately, ESPN quoted a former sexual-assault counselor at Michigan State who described a pattern of disturbing behavior in which senior university officials hid information about sexual-assault complaints against student-athletes and protected them from punishment.\nWhat is particularly distressing about all of this is that Michigan State's leaders seem to have learned little from the abysmal response by universities like Penn State and Baylor to reports of sexual abuse in sports programs. Its eight trustees stood behind its embattled president, Lou Anna Simon — who was aware of the 2014 complaint — until just before her resignation last week. She was embattled because she did not appear to take the Nassar scandal seriously and seemed callous toward the victims. Even her resignation letter struck a tone of defensiveness. \"As tragedies are politicized, blame is inevitable,\" she wrote. The board's vice chairman, Joel Ferguson, defended Ms. Simon on a radio show last week by arguing, among other things, that she was a great fund-raiser and \"there's so many more things going on at the university than just this Nassar thing.\"\nThe university resisted commissioning an independent investigation and gave the public the impression that it had hired Patrick Fitzgerald, a respected former United States attorney, to run one. It turned out that Mr. Fitzgerald was representing, not investigating, the school. Belatedly, on Friday, the board said it would \"bring in an independent third party to perform a top-to-bottom review of all our processes relating to health and safety.\"\nBut the term \"health and safety\" suggests that this inquiry may not be as comprehensive as the one Penn State commissioned from Louis Freeh, the former F.B.I. director, after the university failed to stop the abuse of boys by Jerry Sandusky, the assistant football coach.\nMichigan State's board on Wednesday appointed John Engler, a former Republican governor, as interim president. Many faculty members and students, angered at not being consulted, opposed the move, and some disrupted a board meeting where the decision was made.\nThe first thing the board ought to do is commission a thorough and impartial investigation by someone of Mr. Freeh's stature. The university cannot outsource its responsibility to the state attorney general, the federal Department of Education and the National Collegiate Athletic Association — all of which have said they are investigating the university. While the state attorney general can bring criminal charges and the Education Department and N.C.A.A. can demand policy changes, only Michigan State's leaders can make far-reaching changes to the university's culture and practices.\nUniversity trustees, who are elected to staggered eight-year terms, have no credibility to help the university regain trust. Mr. Snyder could remove the trustees by conducting a public inquiry, and the Legislature could do so after impeachment proceedings. Both could take months. The two trustees who are up for re-election this year have said they will not run again, but all of them should leave.\nMany young Americans probably cannot remember a time when sports did not play an outsized role in campus life and university administration. But the federal and state governments created Michigan State, Penn State and other land grant universities more than a century ago to extend higher education to more Americans. Now more than ever, the leaders of these universities need to place that core mission at the top of their priority list, above winning championships and signing lucrative TV contracts.\nOnline: https://www.nytimes.com/\n___\nJan. 27\nThe News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina on Democrats and gerrymandering:\nThe term \"gerrymander\" arose from an 1812 Massachusetts state Senate district so convoluted for partisan advantage that a cartoonist depicted it as a salamander. Since the mapmaking was done under the control of Gov. Elbridge Gerry, the new political creature was labeled a gerrymander.\nTwo centuries later, it's clear the artist saw the outline of the wrong reptile. For what politically contorted districts really resemble is a chameleon. When the party in power shifts, the districts change color.\nRepublicans and Democrats alike decry gerrymandering when they are in the minority and then impose it with gusto once they regain control. The phenomenon has recently been intensified by advances in computer-assisted mapmaking and Republican willingness to stretch the tactic to the verge of creating a one-party state.\nThis aggressive gerrymandering has fed political polarization at the federal and state level, contributing to gridlock and a loss of public confidence in the democratic process. But now there are signs that the excess may bring an end to politicians picking their voters.\nFederal courts in Wisconsin, North Carolina and Maryland and the state Supreme Court in Pennsylvania have all found partisan gerrymandering a violation of constitutional rights. Ultimately, the U.S. Supreme Court will have to decide the legality, but it's encouraging that the high court even is considering it. Traditionally, gerrymandering was considered a spoil of political victory and perfectly legal unless it violated the civil rights of minorities. Now gerrymandering in any form is coming under legal scrutiny.\nWhile politicians on both sides await the outcome of the legal challenges, it is not too early for Democrats in North Carolina to commit to ending gerrymandering here.\nRepublicans, who enjoy veto-proof majorities in both legislative chambers and dominate the state's congressional delegation 10 to 3, won't give up the redistricting power that supports their advantage. It's up to Democrats to pledge now that they will support an end to gerrymandering should they regain the majority.\nNorth Carolina State Sen. Jeff Jackson, a Charlotte Democrat, has moved in that direction by proposing an amendment to the state Constitution that would establish an independent redistricting commission. Republicans, however, dismiss the proposal because it allows the governor an appointment that could tilt the commission in his party's favor. Since Gov. Roy Cooper is a Democrat, as most North Carolina governors have been, some Republican lawmakers are scoffing at the idea.\nThe Republican skepticism is understandable. Any commission that includes a partisan advantage defeats the purpose of such a commission. The key is to create a commission in which partisanship is balanced and softened by the inclusion of nonpartisan members. In California, for instance, the 14-member Citizen Redistricting Commission consists of five Republicans, five Democrats and four commissioners of neither major party.\nOne better approach to redistricting is found in Iowa, where partisanship has been drained out of the process almost entirely. Iowa's legislative and congressional districts are drawn by a nonpartisan state agency without regard to voter registration data or previous election results. The legislature has up to three opportunities to approve the districts. If it fails, the state Supreme Court decides, but since the nonpartisan approach was adopted in 1980 the legislature has always approved the maps.\nJackson is willing to try whatever improves North Carolina's contentious and unfair approach, an approach that has triggered 16 legal challenges since 2000, according the N.C. League of Women Voters.\n\"I'm open to any ideas - so long as we finally end the corruption of gerrymandering on which both parties have relied,\" Jackson said.\nHis Democratic colleagues should share his open commitment to finding a better way. Wayne Goodwin, head of the N.C. Democratic Party, should push to have nonpartisan redistricting as part of the party's platform and make candidates pledge to support it as a condition of party support.\nGiven the direction of the political tides - and court rulings potentially forcing less gerrymandered maps - Democrats may win control of the legislature before the next redistricting in 2021. But it will be a loss for everyone if under Democratic control the gerrymander, chameleon-like, turns blue.\nOnline: http://www.newsobserver.com\n___\nJan. 31\nThe Telegraph of London on President Donald Trump's first State of the Union address:\nFor a president who enjoys confrontation, Donald Trump's first state of the union address was unusually emollient and conciliatory. After a year in office, he seems ready to try to generate some of the plaudits he feels should be forthcoming for the country's economic success. In truth, much of the increase in employment dates from before he became president but the art of politics is to claim credit even when it is not fully deserved.\nStill, Mr. Trump's tone and demeanour were noticeably different in the Capitol on Monday night, as though he was making a deliberate, almost Herculean, effort to be nice. It could all be undone with a moment's tweeting, of course; but if the president really is serious about mending the deep societal divisions in America, which he personifies, then he should surely be encouraged in that endeavour.\nAs was noted by observers, his speech contained less about himself than any other he has made. He used the word \"we\" 130 times and \"I'' just nine. For Trump watchers who see him as an egomaniac this must have come as a shock. For Democrats whose recovery relies upon exploiting the deep antipathy to the president among a section of the population, it must have been alarming.\nMr. Trump shored up his base by promising to keep open Guantánamo Bay (which Barack Obama failed to close after eight years) and reaffirming his pledge to crack down on immigration. But he showed a willingness to pivot to the centre, easier now Steve Bannon, his former chief strategist, has left the White House. With midterm elections later this year, Mr. Trump is playing a better political game than his detractors expected.\nOnline: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/"
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about London fire commissioner says the edges of high-rise building in inferno not safe
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"LONDON (AP) — London fire commissioner says the edges of high-rise building in inferno not safe."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about African leaders nearly demanded public apology from Trump
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"ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — African leaders this week came close to demanding that President Donald Trump publicly apologize for his vulgar remark about the continent \"that defies all forms of diplomatic etiquette,\" according to a draft declaration obtained by The Associated Press.\nThe draft declaration, created during an African Union summit, says heads of state and government are \"deeply appalled\" by Trump's reported comparison of African countries to a dirty toilet.\nIt warns that the strategic partnership between Africa and the U.S. is at risk because of Trump's \"racist and xenophobic behavior.\"\nThe African leaders appear to have changed their mind on the draft declaration because of a Trump letter to them pledging his \"deep respect\" and saying Secretary of State Rex Tillerson would make an \"extended visit\" to the continent in March."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Wednesday's Major League Linescores
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"INTERLEAGUE Boston 000 000 201—3 9 1 Washington 000 000 000—0 6 1\nRodriguez, Barnes (7), Kelly (8), Kimbrel (9) and Vazquez; Fedde, Grace (2), Kintzler (6), Madson (7), Kelley (8), Herrera (9), Miller (9) and Severino. W_Rodriguez 10-3. L_Madson 2-4. Sv_Kimbrel (26).\n___\nTampa Bay 000 000 000—0 4 0 Miami 000 002 01x—3 6 0\nAndriese, Weber (3), Wood (8) and Sucre; Urena, Rucinski (6), Hernandez (8), Ziegler (9) and Holaday. W_Rucinski 4-1. L_Weber 0-1. Sv_Ziegler (10). HRs_Miami, Riddle (5).\n___\nAtlanta 000 011 000—2 9 0 New York 013 100 10x—6 7 0\nTeheran, Gohara (6), Vizcaino (8) and Suzuki; Sabathia, Green (7), Betances (8), Holder (9) and Higashioka. W_Sabathia 6-3. L_Teheran 6-6. HRs_Atlanta, Camargo (9). New York, Higashioka (3), Judge (24), Stanton (21).\n___\nDetroit 101 000 000—2 9 1 Chicago 010 101 20x—5 7 0\nLiriano, Coleman (7), Lewicki (8) and McCann; Quintana, Bass (7), Farrell (8), Morrow (9) and Contreras. W_Quintana 7-6. L_Liriano 3-5. Sv_Morrow (19). HRs_Detroit, Castellanos (14), Hicks (8). Chicago, Contreras (7), Bote (1)."
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Minorities hear division in Trump call for unity
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"President Donald Trump's call for unity in his first State of the Union address struck an us-versus-them tone for many minorities.\nFor many people of color, Trump's address before Congress hardly reflected a shift in his ideology, or his bruising style of governance. It was not lost on them that the president simply softened the way he said what he's been saying all along, and sought to add a veneer of tolerance by using the stories of several people of color to illustrate his points.\nThe speech was a reminder for some of Trump's fraught record on race as president, though he has denied accusations that he is a racist.\nDemocratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey says Trump \"isn't doing anything real to bring us together.\""
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Trial set for ex-cop accused of supporting Islamic State
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"ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The first law enforcement officer in the U.S. ever to be charged with a terrorism offense is again scheduled for trial.\nJury selection begins Monday afternoon in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, in the case against Nicholas Young, who was a police officer in the region's Metro system when he was arrested last year in a government sting.\nProsecutors say Young bought nearly $250 in gift cards he intended for the Islamic State group, giving the cards to an individual who turned out to be an FBI source.\nYoung's lawyers say the sting amounts to entrapment after their client was under surveillance for six years.\nDocuments show Young had been under surveillance since 2010.\nThe trial had been expected to begin last week but was delayed when new evidence emerged."
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I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about Samsung Begins Mass Production of 10nm-class 16Gb LPDDR4X DRAM for Automobiles
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"SEOUL, South Korea--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 24, 2018--Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, today announced that it has begun mass producing 10-nanometer (nm)-class* 16-gigabit (Gb) LPDDR4X DRAM for automobiles. The latest LPDDR4X features high performance and energy efficiency while significantly raising the thermal endurance level for automotive applications that often need to operate in extreme environments. The 10nm-class DRAM will also enable the industry’s fastest automotive DRAM-based LPDDR4X interface with the highest density.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424006733/en/\nSamsung 10nm-class 16Gb LPDDR4X DRAM for Automobiles (Photo: Business Wire)\n“The 16Gb LPDDR4X DRAM is our most advanced automotive solution yet, offering global automakers outstanding reliability, endurance, speed, capacity and energy efficiency,” said Sewon Chun, senior vice president of memory marketing at Samsung Electronics. “Samsung will continue to closely collaborate with manufacturers developing diverse automotive systems, in delivering premium memory solutions anywhere.”\nMoving a step beyond its 20nm-class ‘Automotive Grade 2’ DRAM, which can withstand temperatures from -40°C to 105°C, Samsung’s 16Gb LPDDR4X is Automotive Grade 1-compliant, raising the high-end threshold to 125°C. By more than satisfying the rigorous on-system thermal cycling tests of global auto manufacturers, the 16Gb LPDDR4X has enhanced its reliability for a wide variety of automotive applications in many of the world’s most challenging environments.\nAdding to the degree of reliability under high temperatures, production at an advanced 10nm-class node is key to enabling the 16Gb LPDDR4X to deliver its leading-edge performance and power efficiency. Even in environments with extremely high temperatures of up to 125°C, its data processing speed comes in at 4,266 megabits per second (Mbps), a 14 percent increase from the 8Gb LPDDR4 DRAM that is based on 20nm process technology, and the new memory also registers a 30 percent increase in power efficiency.\nAlong with a 256 gigabyte (GB) embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS) drive announced in February, Samsung has expanded its advanced memory solution lineup for future automotive applications with the 10nm-class 16Gb LPDDR4X DRAM, commercially available in 12Gb, 16Gb, 24Gb and 32Gb capacities. While extending its 10nm-class DRAM offerings, the company also plans on bolstering technology partnerships for automotive solutions that include vision ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems), autonomous driving, infotainment systems and gateways.\nAbout Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.\nSamsung inspires the world and shapes the future with transformative ideas and technologies. The company is redefining the worlds of TVs, smartphones, wearable devices, tablets, digital appliances, network systems, and memory, system LSI, foundry and LED solutions. For the latest news, please visit the Samsung Newsroom at http://news.samsung.com.\n*Editor’s Note: 10nm-class is a process node between 10 and 19 nanometers\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424006733/en/\nCONTACT: for Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.\nJohn E. Lucas, APR, 925-872-2287\nj.lucas@partner.samsung.com\nKEYWORD: UNITED STATES ASIA PACIFIC NORTH AMERICA CALIFORNIA SOUTH KOREA\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: TECHNOLOGY CONSUMER ELECTRONICS DATA MANAGEMENT ELECTRONIC DESIGN AUTOMATION HARDWARE INTERNET NANOTECHNOLOGY SEMICONDUCTOR MOBILE/WIRELESS AUTOMOTIVE PERFORMANCE & SPECIAL INTEREST GENERAL AUTOMOTIVE\nSOURCE: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 04/24/2018 10:00 PM/DISC: 04/24/2018 10:00 PM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424006733/en"
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about London residents demands answers in deadly high-rise blaze
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"LONDON (AP) — With smoke still swirling around the charred remains of Grenfell Tower in west London, residents and community leaders demanded to know Wednesday how a ferocious fire could have swept through the high-rise apartment block with such speed that it killed at least 12 people.\nThe anger was particularly strong since activists had warned just seven months ago that fire safety procedures were so lax that only a catastrophic blaze would bring the scrutiny needed to make the building safe.\nWHAT HAPPENED?\nFire and police officials have not specified what went wrong, but extensive video footage shows the flames climbing the exterior of the building at a remarkable pace.\n\"I've never seen a fire like that in my life,\" said Joe Ruane, the former deputy chief fire officer for U.S. Air Force bases in Britain. \"I've never seen that in a residential block.\"\nThe 24-story public housing complex is owned by the local government council in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea and was completed in the 1970s. It is managed by the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organization, which spent 10 million pounds ($12.8 million) refurbishing the building over the last two years.\nThe renovation project included installation of insulated exterior cladding, double-glazed windows and a communal heating system. Investigators need to look at what materials were used in the project and who approved their use, Ruane said. But he said the speed with which the fire spread suggests that more than one fire protection safeguard failed.\n\"It's not just one thing,\" Ruane said. \"It's multiple issues.\"\nWHAT WAS THE FIRE PROCEDURE AT THE BUILDING?\nSome residents suggested that Grenfell Tower's policies were to blame for the disaster.\nA newsletter put out by the building's tenant organization told tenants to follow a \"stay put\" policy and remain in their apartments during a fire unless the blaze was inside their apartment or in their hallway or until they were told to evacuate by officials.\nThis policy is in place \"because Grenfell was designed according to rigorous fire-safety standards,\" according to the 2014 newsletter about the renovation project. New front doors in each apartment could withstand a fire for up to 30 minutes, \"which gives plenty of time for the fire brigade to arrive,\" the newsletter said.\nThat policy, often followed in high-rise hotels, may be effective in lesser fires. In this case, however, the fire seemed to climb the exterior of the tower so quickly that it overwhelmed protective systems like fire doors. People who initially remained in place may have been unable to escape later because the hallways and fire escapes were filled with heavy smoke and flames.\nThe London Fire Brigade said crews were on the scene within six minutes of the first reports of the fire, but they were unable to reach people on higher floors to prevent fatalities.\nWHO IS TO BLAME?\nWhile investigations are underway to determine what went wrong, tenants said repeated complaints were ignored. Survivor Edward Daffarn said the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organization, or KCTMO, which manages the Grenfell Tower as well as other buildings in the area, is responsible because it ignored numerous warnings.\nThe management organization's annual accounts for the year ending March 31, 2016, indicate that the company has been cited for fire-safety issues in the past.\nFollowing an October 2015 arson fire at one of the buildings it manages, the 14-story Adair Tower, the London Fire Brigade issued an enforcement notice to install self-closing devices on the front doors of all 78 apartments and to improve fire safety in staircases used for escape, the organization said in the report.\nThe Fire Brigade issued a similar notice for another KCTMO-managed building, Hazelwood Tower. The upgrades were scheduled to be completed by 2016, the report said.\nThe Grenfell Tower disaster is uncomfortably similar to a fast-moving blaze at another London-area public housing project, Lakanal House, that killed six people, including three children, eight years ago. In that July 2009 fire, smoke and flames quickly engulfed the 14-story building. A coroner's inquest found that a series of failures contributed to the loss of life and made a number of recommendations to help prevent future disasters.\nInvestigators probing the Grenfell Tower fire will have to look at which of those recommendations were implemented in the building and which were not, said Jim Fitzpatrick, a former firefighter who now serves in the House of Commons.\n\"These will be matters for the scientists and the engineers ... to find out exactly how the fire started, why it spread so quickly and what could have been done to prevent it,\" Fitzpatrick told Sky News.\nA local community organization, the Grenfell Action Group, had warned about fire dangers at the building since 2013. In a series of blog posts, the group raised concerns about testing and maintenance of fire-fighting equipment and blocked emergency access to the site.\n\"All our warnings fell on deaf ears, and we predicted that a catastrophe like this was inevitable and just a matter of time,\" the group said in a blog post Wednesday.\nKCTMO said it is cooperating with investigators and that it was aware of tenant complaints. \"We always take all concerns seriously and these will form part of our forthcoming investigations,\" it said in a statement.\nThe Kensington and Chelsea Council promised a full investigation into Wednesday's tragedy and a public accounting. The UK government also ordered checks at tower blocks that have had or are going through similar renovations as those at Grenfell Tower."
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about GOP congressman, Capitol police, others wounded in shooting
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"WASHINGTON (AP) — A top Republican congressman, members of the U.S. Capitol Police, a congressional aide and a lobbyist were injured when a gunman opened fire at a baseball practice. The assailant later died after the incident.\n— Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., House Majority Whip and third in leadership. Elected in 2008, he represents a district in Louisiana that includes New Orleans suburbs and the southwest part of the state.\n— Matt Mika, former aide to Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., who said Mika is a graduate of Adrian College and a former baseball player who worked as a volunteer at Wednesday's practice to help the congressional team get ready for the game. His family released a statement saying paramedics told them Mika was shot multiple times and is in critical condition. Mika is director of government relations for Tyson Foods Washington, D.C., office and has worked for the company for more than six years.\n— Zachary Barth, legislative aide for Republican Rep. Roger Williams of Texas. Williams says Barth is doing well and is expected to make a full recovery.\n— Special Agents David Bailey and Crystal Griner, members of the U.S. Capitol Police whose actions Speaker Paul Ryan credited with saving lives.\nThe shooter in the attack has been identified as James. T. Hodgkinson, a resident of Illinois. After an exchange of gunfire with police, the shooter died."
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Sanders: Sickened at shooting attack by possible supporter
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"WASHINGTON (AP) — The man who shot a congressman and four other people had apparently volunteered for Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign, the Vermont senator said before assailing violence as \"unacceptable in our society.\"\n\"I am sickened by this despicable act,\" Sanders said Wednesday.\nSanders, 75, unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination against Hillary Clinton. Sanders, an independent, ran a passionate, anti-establishment campaign that won support from many younger, liberal voters and gave Clinton a closer race than many expected, but he eventually backed her candidacy.\nThe senator spoke hours after a man identified as James T. Hodgkinson of Belleville, Illinois, opened fire on Republican lawmakers, aides and others practicing baseball in suburban Alexandria, Virginia. Officers shot Hodgkinson, who later died.\nSanders issued a two-paragraph statement on the shooting and read it nearly verbatim on the Senate floor. He ignored a reporter's attempt to ask him questions, walking briskly out of the Capitol after a vote.\n\"Violence of any kind is unacceptable in our society, and I condemn this action in the strongest possible terms,\" Sanders said. \"Real change can only come about through nonviolent action, and anything else runs against our most deeply held American values.\"\nRobert Becker, director of Sanders' Iowa campaign, said staff workers could not recall Hodgkinson. Hodgkinson was said to have been among 1,000 volunteers around Davenport, but Becker said, \"Nobody has a recollection of this guy coming in.\"\nConservatives immediately seized on Hodgkinson's support for Sanders, with commentator Ann Coulter, a frequent voice on conservative cable news and talk radio, describing the gunman as \"some nut Bernie Sanders supporter.\"\nOther conservatives praised Sanders for not using his time on the Senate floor to call for tougher gun restrictions.\nUnlike some liberals, Sanders has a complicated record on guns.\nSanders has opposed some gun restrictions, including the Brady Bill requiring background checks for individuals buying firearms. Clinton criticized Sanders on the issue as her husband, Bill Clinton, signed the bill in 1993.\nThe issue played well for Clinton with liberals, particularly African-American voters who ultimately tilted the nomination to her.\nSanders defended his record on gun restrictions, arguing that residents of the more rural states like Vermont view guns differently than many urban voters.\nMark Longabaugh, who worked on Sanders' presidential campaign, said the senator struck the right tone in his comments after the shooting, avoiding finger-pointing and not arguing for any legislative action.\n\"I think it's a sad state of affairs for people to exploit a tragedy like this for their own political ends,\" he said.\n___\nBarrow reported from Atlanta."
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Faldo expanding junior program to other major champions
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"SAN DIEGO (AP) — Nick Faldo wanted his \"Faldo Series\" to have a global reach, and he thought he achieved that last year when he took four juniors from his program to South Africa to play against four juniors from the Ernie Els & Fancourt Foundation.\nTurns out that was just the start.\nOne year later, he is in the final stages of the \"Major Champions Invitational,\" which will have close to 20 teams represented by major champions. Each team will have two boys and two girls from their junior programs, each wearing team colors with their champions' name on the side of the sleeve.\nIt is scheduled for March 12-14 at Bella Collina, not far from Orlando, Florida, where the Arnold Palmer Invitational is being played.\nJordan Spieth, Henrik Stenson, Adam Scott and Rory McIlroy are among those who will be sending juniors, along with Annika Sorenstam and Justin Rose. The Seve Ballesteros Foundation is supporting a team representing the great Spaniard, while Southern Company will have a team in honor of the late Payne Stewart.\nFaldo ran into McIlroy last year in South Africa during the early stages of planning. He said McIlroy asked him the age limit, and Faldo told him it likely would be between 16 and 21.\n\"He said, 'I've got a really good 15-year-old.' And I said, 'Guess what? The age limit is now 15,'\" Faldo said. \"The bottom line is they have a player they think should be there, then they should be invited.\"\nFaldo said the players in town for Bay Hill likely will come by for the 54-hole event that ends on Wednesday, or at least for a dinner. He said Stenson has agreed to do a clinic, and Sorenstam and Scott also have offered help.\n\"The idea is there's no heavy lifting,\" Faldo said.\nHe said the tournament will offer world amateur ranking points.\n\"What I think is cool is we all do our bit for communities in our areas of the world,\" Faldo said. \"This is a carrot of the kids. 'Hey, you impress me, we've got this event going on.' Our goal in one year is we get this established. We will have hand-picked some of the best amateurs in the world.\"\nFaldo said the ultimate goal is for the participants to make a name for themselves down the road. He referenced Hideki Matsuyama, who twice won the Asia Pacific Amateur, which awards a spot in the Masters. Matsuyama made the cut both times he played as an amateur.\n\"That gets on the radar very quickly,\" he said.\nA one-hour show of the tournament will be broadcast on Aug. 11, on CBS Sports, preceding coverage of the PGA Championship.\n___\nBAD TIMING: Golf has a short history of having a large audience fall into its lap only for the product to be far from appealing.\nThe most recent example was the Farmers Insurance Open. The final round at Torrey Pines was supposed to go off the air at 6:30 p.m. EST, a half-hour before the Grammys on CBS. The round took longer, mainly because of 25 mph Santa Ana wind; C.T. Pan having to go back to the tee twice on the par-3 third hole because of a tee shot into the hazard (he was two shots behind and made 8); and the final threesome hitting it off the map, which required rulings and drops on the 14th hole.\nThat set the stage for J.B. Holmes, who likely will be remembered more for taking 4 minutes to make a decision in the 18th fairway than for his four PGA Tour victories or the two winning Ryder Cup teams on which he played. Torn between a 3-wood (too much) and a 5-wood (not enough) to get over the water for a chance at eagle to get into a playoff, viewers tuning in ahead of the Grammys saw Holmes stand at his bag and do nothing. And then he laid up.\nIt wasn't a good look.\nIt was reminiscent of the final round of the 2005 U.S. Women's Open, the only compelling sporting event on TV that Sunday with three teens in contention — Michelle Wie (15), Morgan Pressel (17) and Paula Creamer (18). The rough was so nasty at Cherry Hills that Wie shot 82 and Creamer shot 79. Lorena Ochoa duck-hooked her tee shot into the water on 18. Pressel shot 75 and had to watch from the 18th fairway as Birdie Kim holed a bunker shot to win.\nGo back a little further. Ty Votaw, then commissioner of the LPGA Tour, was in the media center an hour before the \"Battle at Bighorn\" on Monday night in 2000 that featured Tiger Woods and Annika Sorenstam against David Duval and Karrie Webb.\nHe said — and he was right — there would be more eyeballs on the LPGA Tour than ever.\nThirty minutes before it began, a vicious Santa Ana wind arrived without warning and Bighorn turned into a brute. The golf wasn't pretty, and it finished 80 minutes over schedule.\n___\nPRO-AM MODEL: The Waste Management Phoenix Open is among at least eight PGA Tour events that is keeping four amateurs for the Wednesday pro-am and switching to a new model that the tour hopes will lead to a more productive time for players and their amateurs.\nFor tournaments that have four amateurs in a group, players can sign up to go only 9 holes, and then swap out the other 9 with a different player. Players still have the option to play all 18 holes with four amateurs if they don't mind the long rounds (five-plus hours) or need to see the entire course.\nThe format was texted last year at the FedEx St. Jude Classic and was deemed a success.\n\"We think the amateurs are going to enjoy getting to spend time with two professionals,\" said Andy Pazder, the tour's chief of operations.\nSo what happens if the amateurs get Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Jordan Spieth or another big star? Pazder said that during the test run at the St. Jude Classic, Mickelson and Rickie Fowler were among those who went 9 holes before switching out and the amateurs had no complaints.\nThe two players who are splitting up the pro-am are packaged that way during the draw party.\n___\nFOWLER AT TORREY: Rickie Fowler is the star of plenty of commercials for Farmers Insurance. It's been a different story in the Farmers Insurance Open.\nFowler grew up an hour away from Torrey Pines — it's the closest PGA Tour stop to his hometown of Murrieta — and was one of only three amateurs to make the cut there in the 2008 U.S. Open. In his rookie year, he tied for fifth at Torrey. The next three years, he never finished out of the top 20.\nBut with rounds of 72-72, Fowler missed the cut on Friday for the third straight year, and the fourth time in the last five years. The exception was a tie for 61st.\n___\nDIVOTS: KPMG, Dow, Kia Motors America and XL Catlin have pledged support to launch the LPGA Women's Network, a digital platform to help nurture female interest in the game for golfers of all skill levels and backgrounds. ... This was the eighth consecutive year that the winner at Torrey Pines began the tournament on the South Course. ... Golf's only true mixed event is in Australia this week. Men and women tee off alternately at Beach Golf Links in the Vic Oates Open and play for equal money. ... Phil Mickelson makes his 29th start at the Phoenix Open, breaking the record he shared with Gene Littler.\n___\nSTAT OF THE WEEK: Five of the seven winners from the fall earned a spot in the Masters. The four winners to start 2018 were already exempt.\n___\nFINAL WORD: \"I'm very motivated to get back to the No. 1 spot, and I know that the only way to get back to the No. 1 spot is win.\" — Jason Day."
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about BC-US--Gold, US
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"New York (AP) — Gold futures trading on the NY Merc Tuesday:\n(100 troy oz.; dollars per troy oz.)"
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about US home prices post 6.2 percent increase
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"WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home prices rose a sharply in November, lifted by a shortage of homes on the market.\nStandard & Poor's said Tuesday that its S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller national home price index increased 6.2 percent in November from a year earlier after climbing 6.1 percent in October.\nSeattle saw 12.7 percent price increase, Las Vegas 10.6 percent and San Francisco 9.1 percent. Washington D.C. prices rose just 3.3 percent, lowest among the 20 metropolitan areas measured.\nThe national housing index has registered annual gains of 5 percent or more for 16 months.\nDavid Blitzer, chairman of the index committee at S&P Dow Jones Indices, noted that housing construction is running well below historical levels. \"Without more supply, home prices may continue to substantially outpace inflation,\" he said.\nThe national index is running 6.1 percent above the peak it reached in July 2006 — before prices went into a 27.4 percent freefall — a collapse that tipped the American economy into the worst recession since the 1930s. The national home-price index hit bottom in February 2012 and has bounced back 46.2 percent since then.\nThe higher prices and shortage of inventory may be denting sales. And a December cold snap may have kept buyers out of the market. The Commerce Department reported last week that new-home sales skidded 9.3 percent in December. And the National Association of Realtors said sales of existing homes dropped 3.6 percent last month."
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1928
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I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about Germany charges 2 Syrians for joining Nusra Front, IS group
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"BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors have charged two Syrian men with fighting for terror organizations in their home country.\nAbdulmalk A., 30, is accused of joining a combat unit of the Nusra Front extremist group in 2012. The charge says he became a commander for the extremist group in eastern Syria, where he participated in the capture of gas fields and the town of Tabka, including its military airport. In 2014, he allegedly joined the Islamic State group and engaged in combat operations.\nAnas Ibrahim A.S., 26, is accused of also joining the Nusra Front in 2012 and participating in the takeover of an ammunition depot belonging to Syrian President Bashar Assad's troops.\nFederal prosecutors said Monday that both men, whose last names were not released, were arrested in Germany in May."
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I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about Stratasys Sets New Standards for Realism, Color and Speed in Rapid Prototyping With Next-Generation Polyjet 3D Printers
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"MINNEAPOLIS & REHOVOT, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 23, 2018--Stratas y s Ltd. (NASDAQ: SSYS), a global leader in additive technology solutions, today further pushed the envelope of what’s possible with 3D printed prototypes - empowering customers to deliver highly realistic, vibrantly-colored parts at speeds up to 5x - 10X faster and more cost effective than traditional manufacturing. Designed to shrink development cycles and time-to-market, the enhanced Stratasys J750 3D Printer - alongside the new Stratasys J735 3D Printer - enables designers and engineers to build highly realistic prototypes with streamlined design-to-prototype workflows, thus decreasing both time-to-market and time-to-revenue.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005543/en/\nStratasys vivid colors, color matching, and clear with texture functionality is well-suited to meet the 3D printed prototype demands of auto manufacturers (Photo: Business Wire)\nNow offering in excess of 500,000 color combinations via a new vivid color package, highly accurate color matching, and advanced clear with texture functionality - the PolyJet-driven systems create prototypes that look, feel and operate like finished products. Eliminating costly requirements for painting, assembly, or post-processing – both systems shrink prototype cycles by producing parts that are both reliable and consistent, print-after-print. Enhanced GrabCAD Print software - now also available for the Connex3 3D Printer - further improves workflows and functional prototyping for parts requiring ABS-level plastic simulation and tear-resistant rubber-like parts.\n“With the new vivid colors solution on the J750 3D Printer, we are able to produce prototypes with incredible realism, such as the transparent multi-color covers for our tail lights. This can offer the texture and color-matching requirements to meet our design approval process,” says Reinhard Schiechel & Dr. Tim Spiering, Audi Model shop and 3D printing center. “This ability to produce transparent multi-color prototypes that so closely mimic the final part, in a single print, might significantly reduce time and cost required for each design process. Consequently, we could free capacities to run through more iterations and improve overall design, while accelerating our time-to-market.”\nThe newly advanced J750 and J735 are engineered to power prototype creation in industries ranging from automotive and consumer goods to research and education. Building true representations of final products for successful design verification, functional performance testing and fit/form applications, both PolyJet 3D Printers simulate parts with full color and textures - ranging from rigid to flexible, transparent to opaque. Additionally, two new materials - VeroYellowV and VeroMagentaV - deliver enhanced red/orange/yellow colors with next stage translucency, a perfect match for consumer goods and models used to represent automotive lights and housing. These advanced colors are available both on the J750 and J735 3D Printers - and now the Connex3 3D Printer.\n“Some of the biggest challenges designers and manufacturers face are 3D printed prototypes that fail to deliver the realism necessary to make them actionable. The advanced Stratasys J750 and newly announced Stratasys J735 3D Printers were engineered to eliminate these roadblocks,” said Rich Garrity, President Americas, Stratasys. “When combined with a GrabCAD Print solution that further improves design-to-3D print processes - it’s now easier than ever before for manufacturers to create better prototypes, more accurately and on-demand. This shrinks the entire design-to-final part manufacturing process.”\nThe power of PolyJet is actively being used by award-winning stop-motion animators at LAIKA – who count on Stratasys to ensure naturalistic facial animation for its puppets - as seen in such critically-acclaimed films as “Coraline” and “Kubo and the Two Strings.” According to Brian McLean, Director of Rapid Prototype for LAIKA, enhanced colors and voxel-level control are essential for the characters in their unannounced, and highly anticipated new stop-motion animated film.\n“Being able to have a 3D printer like the Stratasys J750 that’s dimensionally-accurate, repeatable and with an improved range of color has allowed us to break down creative, and technical barriers,” McLean noted. “For our next film, unannounced, we used Stratasys’ new color 3D printing technology and another voxel slicing software package. This combination of hardware and software allowed us to achieve a level of detail and subtlety in facial animation that was previously unattainable.”\nTaking the power of the Stratasys J750 and J735 3D Printers - and now the Connex3 - one step further is GrabCAD Print™, allowing designers to 3D print directly from native CAD formats and saving time typically used to convert and fix STL files. The software also has new ability to 3D print VRML files to power more realistic textures, images and graphics on-part. Detailed views of model, tray and slice preview further shrink time-to-design to make adjustments before going to final 3D print.\nStratasys is exclusively showcasing its advanced solutions - alongside its wealth of part realism, clear with texture functionality and advanced part profiles - this week at Rapid + TCT 2018: the 3D printing and additive manufacturing event at the Fort Worth Convention Center in Fort Worth, TX. For more information, please visit Stratasys at Booth No. 1104.\nStratasys (NASDAQ: SSYS) is a global leader in additive technology solutions for industries including Aerospace, Automotive, Healthcare, Consumer Products and Education. For nearly 30 years, a deep and ongoing focus on customers’ business requirements has fueled purposeful innovations—1,200 granted and pending additive technology patents to date—that create new value across product lifecycle processes, from design prototypes to manufacturing tools and final production parts. The Stratasys 3D printing ecosystem of solutions and expertise—advanced materials; software with voxel level control; precise, repeatable and reliable FDM and PolyJet 3D printers; application-based expert services; on-demand parts and industry-defining partnerships—works to ensure seamless integration into each customer’s evolving workflow. Fulfilling the real-world potential of additive, Stratasys delivers breakthrough industry-specific applications that accelerate business processes, optimize value chains and drive business performance improvements for thousands of future-ready leaders. Corporate headquarters: Minneapolis, Minnesota and Rehovot, Israel. Online at: www.stratasys.com, http://blog.stratasys.com and LinkedIn.\nNote Regarding Forward-Looking Statements\nThe statements in this press release relating to Stratasys’ beliefs regarding the benefits our customers will experience from the J750, J735, and GrabCAD Print are forward-looking statements reflecting management’s current expectations and beliefs. These forward-looking statements are based on current information that is, by its nature, subject to rapid and even abrupt change. Due to risks and uncertainties associated with Stratasys’ business, actual results could differ materially from those projected or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: the risk that customers will not perceive the benefits of the J750, J735, and GrabCAD Print to be the same as Stratasys does; and other risk factors set forth under the caption “Risk Factors” in Stratasys’ most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on February 28, 2018. Stratasys is under no obligation (and expressly disclaims any obligation) to update or alter its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as otherwise required by the rules and regulations of the SEC.\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005543/en/\nCONTACT: Stratasys Corporate & North America\nCraig.Librett@stratasys.com\n+1 518 424 2497\nJoe.Hiemenz@stratasys.com\n+1 952 906 2726\nor\nEurope, Middle East, and Africa\nIncus Media\nJonathan Wake / Miguel Afonso, +44 1737 215200\nstratasys@incus-media.com\nor\nGreater China, Southeast Asia, ANZ, and India\nAlison.Yin@stratasys.com\n+ 86-21-33196051\nor\nJapan and Korea\nAya.Yoshizawa@stratasys.com\n+81 3 5542 0042\nor\nMexico, Central America, Caribe and South America\nYair.Canedo@stratasys.com\n+52 55 4169 4181\nor\nBrazil\nGP Communications\nCaio.Ramos@GPcom.com.br\nNando@GPcom.com.br\n+55 (11) 3129 5158\nKEYWORD: UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA MINNESOTA MIDDLE EAST ISRAEL\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: TECHNOLOGY ELECTRONIC DESIGN AUTOMATION HARDWARE SOFTWARE HEALTH DENTAL OTHER HEALTH MANUFACTURING AEROSPACE AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURING CHEMICALS/PLASTICS ENGINEERING PACKAGING DEFENSE OTHER DEFENSE\nSOURCE: Stratasys Ltd.\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 04/23/2018 10:00 AM/DISC: 04/23/2018 10:01 AM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005543/en"
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Melania Trump tweets that she's 'feeling great'
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"WASHINGTON (AP) — After nearly three weeks out of sight, Melania Trump tried to put to rest speculation about her health and even her whereabouts as she continues to recover from medical treatment for a kidney condition. It didn't completely work.\nMrs. Trump tweeted Wednesday that she's \"feeling great\" and is at the White House working hard for children and American families. But she still didn't make a public appearance, leaving some skeptics still wondering about her condition and plenty more.\nThe first lady's tweet landed while her husband was participating in a White House event that seemed tailor-made for a first lady, as famous athletes joined President Donald Trump and his daughter and senior adviser Ivanka Trump on the South Lawn to promote youth sports and fitness.\n\"I see the media is working overtime speculating where I am & what I'm doing,\" Mrs. Trump said on Twitter. \"Rest assured, I'm here at the @WhiteHouse w my family, feeling great, & working hard on behalf of children & the American people!\"\nThe first lady's absence from public view has spawned all sorts of wild theories on social media and elsewhere: Has she moved back to Trump Tower in New York City? Is she cooperating with the special counsel's Russia investigation? Is her health in jeopardy? Has she entered the witness protection program? And so on.\nMrs. Trump has not appeared in public since the wee hours of May 10, when she accompanied the president to a military base in Maryland to welcome home three Americans who had been released from detention in North Korea.\nFour days later, the White House announced that the 48-year-old first lady had successfully undergone an \"embolization\" procedure to treat a benign kidney condition, and that there were no complications. She spent five nights at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in nearby Bethesda, Maryland. Some doctors familiar with the procedure but not involved in her care said people treated with embolization typically are sent home the same day or the next.\nFirst ladies are under no obligation to make their medical histories public, and the White House has said nothing more about Mrs. Trump's condition.\nOn Friday, the president tried to assure reporters that his wife was doing fine.\nAsked about the first lady's health before he boarded the presidential helicopter on the South Lawn, Trump pointed to the second floor of the White House and said: \"She's doing great. Right there. She's doing great. She's looking at us, right there.\"\nDespite Trump's assurances, reporters didn't see any sign of the first lady watching from above.\nMrs. Trump is often viewed as a reluctant first lady, but her lengthy absence from public view comes after what was probably her most high-profile period in the role to date.\nIn April, she alone represented the administration at the Houston funeral of former first lady Barbara Bush. She joined the president to host the Japanese prime minister for talks at the Trumps' estate in Florida. That was followed by the French president's three-day state visit to the White House, which included the first state dinner planned under her watch for more than 100 guests.\nMrs. Trump capped it off in early May with a splashy Rose Garden rollout for her \"Be Best\" campaign to teach kindness to children. Trump watched from the audience.\nHer popularity is rising, according to a recent CNN poll that found 57 percent of those surveyed saying they have a favorable impression of her, up from 47 percent in January.\nA week after the first lady announced \"Be Best,\" she was in the hospital.\nShe's been heard from — including tweets about the Texas school shooting, the newest Medal of Honor recipient and Memorial Day — but not seen since.\nThe first lady's longtime friend, Paolo Zampolli, thinks \"she wanted to spend some quality time with her family.\"\nHer spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, said the first lady has been meeting with her staff on the \"Be Best\" initiative and working on upcoming projects like the annual White House picnic for members of Congress in June and Fourth of July festivities.\nGrisham said the first lady would like to be \"out and about promoting her initiatives\" but \"her health comes first.\"\nJean Harris, who teaches political science and women's studies at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania, said people so far seem to be giving the first lady \"her space for a whole bunch of reasons.\"\nBut Harris said Mrs. Trump could end up being hurt by the fact that she made the long-waited announcement about her initiative — and then disappeared.\n\"If there's not that follow-up, I think people will begin to be a bit more critical than they have been,\" Harris said.\n___\nFollow Darlene Superville on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/dsupervilleap"
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I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about Quantzig’s client, a wireless communication provider, reduced churn rates by 10% - Request proposal now!
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"LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 4, 2018--Quantzig, a pure-play analytics solutions provider, has announced the completion of their latest churn analytics study on the wireless communication industry. A world-famous wireless communication provider wanted to profile customers who are vulnerable to churn and develop effective retention strategies.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180704005123/en/\nWireless Communication Provider Leverages Quantzig’s Churn Analytics to Tap into the Behavior of the Customers. (Graphic: Business Wire)\nAccording to the experts at Quantzig, “Organizations in the wireless telecommunication space should look to guarantee better security in terms of maintaining and handling data.”\nOver the past couple of years, wireless communication has proven to be effective for the sustenance of businesses as it enables effective communication with end-users globally. Due to the increasing innovations in the telecom industry, firms have started opting for the Internet of Things in their applications to restructure their operations and bring effective services. Besides, the rapid growth of the wireless telecommunication market can be credited to the growing internet penetration, ease of admission to smart mobile devices, and advances in wireless technology.\nto see how Quantzig’s solutions can help you.\nThe churn analytics solution helped the client to understand the customer’s behavior and establish processes to identify early signs of churn. The client was able to see a sizable reduction in churn.\nThis churn analytics solution provided benefits that helped the client to:\nIdentify the key areas to enhance the business value Optimize sales and marketing campaigns To know more about the benefits of churn analytics,\nThis churn analytics solution offered predictive insights on:\nUnderstanding customer needs and preferences Boosting their retention capabilities To gain relevant insights and understand the scope of our research,\nView the complete churn analytics study here:\nAbout Quantzig\nQuantzig is a global analytics and advisory firm with offices in the US, UK, Canada, China, and India. For more than 15 years, we have assisted our clients across the globe with end-to-end data modeling capabilities to leverage analytics for prudent decision making. Today, our firm consists of 120+ clients, including 45 Fortune 500 companies. For more information on all of Quantzig’s services and the solutions they have provided to Fortune 500 clients across all industries, please contact us.\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180704005123/en/\nCONTACT: Quantzig\nAnirban Choudhury\nMarketing Consultant\nUS: +1 630 538 7144\nUK: +44 208 629 1455\nhello@quantzig.com\nhttps://www.quantzig.com/contact-us\nKEYWORD:\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: TECHNOLOGY TELECOMMUNICATIONS MOBILE/WIRELESS\nSOURCE: Quantzig\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 07/04/2018 08:36 AM/DISC: 07/04/2018 08:36 AM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180704005123/en"
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1932
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I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about Lawyer: Expel 'dirty dancing' foreigners from Cambodia
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"PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Ten Westerners arrested in Cambodia for allegedly posting photos on social media showing themselves engaged in sexually suggestive dancing may have offended local standards of morality, but should be expelled from the country rather than jailed, their lawyer said Tuesday.\nThe 10 — from the United Kingdom, Canada, Norway, the Netherlands and New Zealand — were arrested last Thursday when police raided a party at a rented villa in the northwestern town of Siem Reap and found people \"dancing pornographically\" at an event organizers called a pub crawl. Siem Reap is near the famous Angkor Wat temple complex.\nLawyer Sourng Sophea said he did not know what conditions were like for his detained clients since he had not yet met them in jail. They face up to a year in prison if convicted, and if they go to trial, it would likely happen in the next few months. He said the families of some of the detainees have contacted him by phone from overseas, but none had come yet to visit.\nSourng Sophea said some of the photos posted by his clients showed them at a party, some drinking by a swimming pool and some of the women in bikinis, but none showed them having sex or exposing themselves. According to the law, he said, they should be deported or have their visas canceled, but should not be held in pretrial detention.\n\"I admit that they have done something wrong according to morality in Cambodian society, but their crimes did not warrant them being charged or put in jail,\" Sourng Sophea said by phone.\nHe said that when the 10 had been taken into custody but not yet charged, he sent a three -page note to the Siem Reap provincial police and prosecutors, asserting that they had not committed any serious wrongdoing, were innocent of producing pornography, and should be released, but was turned down."
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I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about Police: No suspects in shooting deaths of 4 men in house
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"READING, Pa. (AP) — Police in a small Pennsylvania city haven't identified any suspects in a quadruple homicide that's believed to be among the deadliest shootings in the area in recent history, officials said Monday.\nThe victims, all men, were shot several times, and their bodies were found Sunday evening in the first-floor apartment of a row home, said James Marasco Jr., deputy chief of the Reading Police Department. The department does not believe the killings were random, he said.\n\"We cannot remember any time in recent history when this many people were shot at one time,\" Marasco said.\nThree of the victims have been identified: Jarlyn Lantigua-Tejada, 20; Juan Rodriguez, 23, and Joshua Santos, 20. The fourth man has not yet been named, though he is believed to be in his early 20s.\nAbout a dozen mourners gathered in front of the apartment around noon Monday. They lit white prayer candles near the doorway of the building and released white, star-shaped balloons as music played and police shuffled in and out of the home.\nOne woman struggled to stand after falling to her knees on the sidewalk in a fit of tears. She screamed, \"Why?\" The crowd grew visibly angry with the throng of news crews at the scene, cursing at reporters and pushing camera lenses away.\nAnabell Dealba, 34, said she knew one of the men through her husband and went to the home Monday with her two children so they could pay their respects. She said people in the neighborhood called one of the men \"King Spaz.\"\n\"I can't believe this really happened,\" she said as one of her sons stood at the front door of the building and peered inside at police. \"The kids are really hurt by the whole thing. It puts you in a bad place as a mom.\"\nOne of her sons, Jose Santiago, said he was stunned when his father called him last night to tell him his friend was dead.\n\"He's a little too smart to be in this situation,\" said Santiago, 19, tears welling up in his eyes.\nNeighbors described a chaotic scene Sunday night as police cruisers descended on the home and officers canvassed the area, knocking on doors to see if residents knew anything about what happened. A woman who didn't want to give her name said officers pulled three body bags from the house around 3 a.m.\nOfficials are urging people to contact authorities with any information about the shooting.\nIt was the second quadruple shooting in the state on Sunday. In the western Pennsylvania community of Melcroft, a gunman killed four people and injured a fifth person at a car wash. Family members say the shooter was a jealous ex-boyfriend of one of the victims.\nReading has a population of about 88,000 people and is roughly 50 miles northwest of Philadelphia."
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1934
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I am asking in the domain of entertainment. Tell me about Promotional products company Geiger buying UK's BTC Group
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"LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — U.S. family-owned promotional products company Geiger is buying the largest family-owned promotional products distributor in the United Kingdom.\nCEO Gene Geiger said Monday the merger with BTC Group expands the company's footprint in Europe. The new company, Geiger BTC Group, will have nearly 400 employees.\nFinancial terms weren't disclosed.\nGeiger told the Sun Journal newspaper that the two companies have collaborated in the past, and that BTC's owners let it be known that they were ready to sell.\nBoth management teams are staying in place.\nGeiger will be CEO of the parent company and Frank Murphy, BTC Group's managing director, will run the U.K. subsidiary when the deal closes next month."
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1935
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I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about BC-US--Cocoa, US
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"New York (AP) — Cocoa futures trading on the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) Tuesday: (10 metric tons; $ per ton)\nOpen High Low Settle Change Mar 1994 Up 25 Mar 1944 1988 1943 1970 Up 24 May 1971 2010 1967 1994 Up 25 Jul 1982 2022 1981 2008 Up 27 Sep 1999 2038 1998 2024 Up 28 Dec 2027 2061 2023 2048 Up 29 Mar 2044 2081 2044 2069 Up 29 May 2055 2090 2055 2078 Up 27 Jul 2097 2097 2081 2088 Up 26 Sep 2074 2109 2074 2097 Up 24 Dec 2108 Up 21"
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about The Latest: 41 advance to finals of National Spelling Bee
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"OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — The Latest on the Scripps National Spelling Bee (all times local):\n6:05 p.m.\nForty-one spellers have advanced to the finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee out of a field of 516, by far the biggest in the 93-year history of the competition.\nThe finalists were announced Wednesday after two days of onstage spelling during which nearly 200 spellers were eliminated for getting words wrong. Scores on a written spelling and vocabulary test determined who advanced to the finals.\nThere were no perfect scores on the test. Bee executive director Paige Kimble says, \"We thought it was an easy test. We were wrong.\"\nThe top scorers were Shruthika Padhy, Aisha Randhawa and Karthik Nemmani.\nShruthika already came into the bee as one of the favorites, having finished in seventh place last year.\nThe past 13 champions and 18 of the last 22 have been Indian-American.\n5:19 p.m.\nWith the Scripps National Spelling Bee extended to three days this year, longtime pronouncer Jacques Bailly finally needed some help.\nBailly's understudy for the past 16 years, the Rev. Brian Sietsema, filled in for him during portions of Wednesday's competition.\nSietsema is a Greek Orthodox priest from Michigan, as well as a former linguistics professor and lexicographer.\nBailly is the longtime public face of the bee. He says it was hard to take his first-ever break, but he knew it was necessary.\nThis year's bee nearly doubled in size because Scripps started a wild-card program that allowed kids who didn't win their regional bees to get to nationals. More than 500 spellers competed over two days of preliminary rounds. No more than 50 finalists were to be announced later Wednesday."
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about UNICEF: More illiteracy in young people facing instability
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"UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. children's agency says nearly 30 percent of young people between the ages of 15 and 24 in countries affected by conflict and disaster are illiterate, triple the global rate.\nUNICEF said in a report released Wednesday that among these 59 million young people, girls are at the biggest disadvantage.\nIt says four impoverished African countries with a history of instability have the highest rates of young people unable to read or write — Niger with 76 percent, Chad with 69 percent, South Sudan with 68 percent and Central African Republic with 64 percent.\nNew UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore says: \"These numbers are a stark reminder of the tragic impact that crises have on children's education, their futures, and the stability and growth of their economies and societies.\""
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about National Hockey League
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"All Times EST EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 29 21 6 2 44 110 74 Toronto 31 20 10 1 41 106 88 Boston 27 14 9 4 32 78 75 Montreal 31 13 14 4 30 85 99 Florida 30 12 14 4 28 90 105 Detroit 30 11 13 6 28 81 99 Ottawa 28 9 12 7 25 77 98 Buffalo 30 7 17 6 20 64 102 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Columbus 30 19 10 1 39 86 73 N.Y. Islanders 30 17 10 3 37 108 100 Washington 31 18 12 1 37 95 91 New Jersey 29 16 9 4 36 89 91 N.Y. Rangers 30 16 11 3 35 99 89 Pittsburgh 32 16 13 3 35 94 104 Carolina 28 11 10 7 29 78 88 Philadelphia 29 11 11 7 29 83 86 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA St. Louis 31 21 8 2 44 104 78 Nashville 29 18 7 4 40 95 84 Winnipeg 30 17 8 5 39 102 86 Dallas 31 17 13 1 35 91 90 Minnesota 29 15 11 3 33 87 87 Chicago 30 14 11 5 33 90 82 Colorado 29 14 13 2 30 92 95 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 31 20 8 3 43 97 68 Vegas 29 19 9 1 39 103 91 San Jose 29 16 10 3 35 79 69 Calgary 30 16 12 2 34 88 94 Vancouver 30 14 12 4 32 81 85 Anaheim 30 12 11 7 31 80 89 Edmonton 30 12 16 2 26 86 99 Arizona 33 7 21 5 19 75 114\nNOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.\nSunday's Games\nChicago 3, Arizona 1\nSt. Louis 3, Buffalo 2, OT\nToronto 1, Edmonton 0\nMinnesota 4, San Jose 3, OT\nMonday's Games\nColorado 2, Pittsburgh 1\nDallas 2, N.Y. Rangers 1, SO\nN.Y. Islanders 3, Washington 1\nFlorida 2, Detroit 1, OT\nVancouver at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.\nCarolina at Anaheim, 10 p.m.\nTuesday's Games\nEdmonton at Columbus, 7 p.m.\nOttawa at Buffalo, 7 p.m.\nToronto at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.\nColorado at Washington, 7 p.m.\nLos Angeles at New Jersey, 7 p.m.\nCalgary at Minnesota, 8 p.m.\nTampa Bay at St. Louis, 8 p.m.\nFlorida at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.\nCarolina at Vegas, 10 p.m.\nWednesday's Games\nDallas at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.\nN.Y. Rangers at Ottawa, 7 p.m.\nBoston at Detroit, 8 p.m.\nNashville at Vancouver, 10 p.m.\nThursday's Games\nBuffalo at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.\nWashington at Boston, 7 p.m.\nN.Y. Islanders at Columbus, 7 p.m.\nNew Jersey at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.\nChicago at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.\nAnaheim at St. Louis, 8 p.m.\nToronto at Minnesota, 8 p.m.\nFlorida at Colorado, 9 p.m.\nTampa Bay at Arizona, 9 p.m.\nNashville at Edmonton, 9 p.m.\nSan Jose at Calgary, 9 p.m.\nPittsburgh at Vegas, 10 p.m."
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1940
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about North Carolina School District Expands Access to Books with Online Literacy Platform from Fuel Education
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"HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 23, 2018--Although every elementary school has different student needs its teachers must support, each needs an extensive library of books for its students. Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) in Cary, NC, the 15 th largest school district in the United States, has 114 elementary schools. Curating a vast library to address different reading levels, interests, and languages at each school was expensive, and students could only check out books when school is in session. To give students access to a vast library of books they can access anywhere and at any time, WCPSS turned to the online literacy platform Big Universe® from Fuel Education® (FuelEd ® ) for its elementary schools.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005454/en/\n(Photo: Business Wire)\nBig Universe provides schools with an affordable, comprehensive literacy solution featuring a ready-made library of more than 13,000 high-quality leveled eBooks from well-known publishers. The mobile platform includes integrated tools such as embedded assessments, a student recommendation engine, analytics to demonstrate reading growth, and engaging reading practice opportunities. With Big Universe, WCPSS is leveraging eBooks in several different ways across the district.\nBig Universe is a big part of the district’s summer Reading Camp for students in grades 1-3. As part of the state’s Read to Achieve Act, the district hosts the camp for students who are not reading on grade level based on state assessments. During the three-week camp, students read books around a central theme, participate in read-aloud sessions, and complete “I-Wonder” projects during which they create their own research question around the theme and read books to find the answer.\n“Big Universe was a perfect answer to two questions: ‘How do we give these hundreds of students at our reading camp access to books?’ and ‘How do we give all students – whether they are in summer reading camp or not – access to books over the summer?’” said Sherri Miller, Director of K-12 Literacy at WSPSS. “Now we have fewer students losing ground over the summer because they can access books anywhere, 24/7 with any device, including a family member’s phone.”\nMiller says the online platform has also helped the district’s educators incorporate reading across the curriculum. Using Big Universe’s search functions, Wake County’s elementary curriculum developers search for titles at different reading levels that relate to a lesson, create custom-curated bookshelves, and embed the link to the bookshelves into lessons. This has been especially helpful in science and social studies lessons, as well as English Language Arts. The district implemented an English Language Arts curriculum called Expeditionary Learning Education (EL Education), that requires students to engage in independent reading both for pleasure and to learn about topics being studied. Big Universe’s search functionality has also helped English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers provide students with books in different languages.\nMost importantly, the online nature of the platform gives students access to books anytime – before school, during school, after school, on holidays and in the summer. When the local YMCA and Boy & Girls Club and the City of Raleigh, all of which serve WCPSS students, said they wished they had access to books for more literacy-focus programming, Miller told them every WCPSS elementary school student has access to Big Universe. So as long as the organizations are able to provide internet access and devices, students have access to thousands of books.\n“Big Universe has become a big part of our elementary school instruction because as our needs grow, so does the platform’s functionalities and selection of titles,” said Miller. “They seek our input. When we needed more books, decodable readers to help students practice phonetic patterns, or text-to-speech features, they listened. Many of the product features Big Universe has added came to fruition because they reached out to their end-users. To us, they’re not a vendor. They’re a partner.”\nClick here to read more about how the WCPSS uses Big Universe.\nAbout Fuel Education\nFuel Education ® partners with school districts to fuel personalized learning and transform the education experience inside and outside the classroom. The company provides innovative solutions for pre-K through 12th grade that empower districts to implement successful online and blended learning programs. Its open, easy-to-use Personalized Learning Platform, PEAK™, enables teachers to customize courses using their own content, FuelEd courses and titles, third-party content, and open educational resources. Fuel Education serves more than 2,000 school districts, offering one of the industry’s largest catalogs of K–12 digital curriculum, certified instruction, professional development, and educational services. To learn more, visit fueleducation.com and Twitter.\n©2018 Fuel Education LLC. All rights reserved. Fuel Education, FuelEd, and Big Universe are trademarks of Fuel Education LLC or its affiliates. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005454/en/\nCONTACT: Fuel Education\nMedia:\nBeth Halloran, 703-436-3263\nbhalloran@fueleducation.com\nor\nRachael Ballard, 410-975-9638\nRachael@kehcomm.com\nKEYWORD: UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA VIRGINIA\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: EDUCATION PRIMARY/SECONDARY OTHER EDUCATION PRESCHOOL\nSOURCE: Fuel Education\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 04/23/2018 08:00 AM/DISC: 04/23/2018 08:01 AM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005454/en"
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1941
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Afghan clerical council condemns wave of deadly attacks
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"KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan council of 100 prominent clerics has condemned the militant attacks that have killed scores across the country this month.\nQyamuddin Kashaf, chief of the clerical council, told the clerical gathering held on Tuesday in Kabul that suicide attacks target only the innocent.\nHe said suicide bombings are against Islam and against humanity. After the conference, the clerics lined up to donate blood to the hundreds of injured in Kabul hospitals.\nBut the clerics refused to discuss the Taliban and the rival Islamic State extremist group and would not comment on President Donald Trump's statement in which he ruled out peace talks with the Taliban.\nTrump on Monday railed against \"atrocities\" in Afghanistan and the United States would not engage in any future talks with the Taliban."
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1942
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I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about British defense minister: Russian aggression to NATO growing
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"BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Britain's defense minister says Russian aggression toward NATO is increasing and the alliance was right to have agreed to a \"very high readiness taskforce.\"\nMichael Fallon said Thursday that Russia had annexed Crimea, threatened the Baltic states, and interfered in the democratic processes in Western Europe with \"propaganda and other means,\" in the past three years.\nHe also accused Russia of \"aggression in the eastern Mediterranean, prolonging the conflict in Syria,\" adding \"the threat to NATO particularly to the southeastern flank is growing.\"\nHe said the alliance had rightly agreed to \"a very high readiness taskforce which is ....demonstrating the rapid response that NATO requires.\"\nFallon is on a two-day visit to Romania, where he has stressed that Britain, which will leave the European Union, remains committed to European security."
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1943
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I am asking in the domain of entertainment. Tell me about Man who shot congressman was living in van, called a loner
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"ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The gunman who wounded a top Republican congressman and several others during an early morning baseball practice had apparently been living out a white cargo van for months and was frequently seen working on a computer at a nearby YMCA, where he kept mostly to himself.\nJames T. Hodgkinson shot House Rep. Steve Scalise on Wednesday before he was fatally shot by police who had been guarding the House majority whip on the Alexandria, Virginia, baseball field, officials said.\nAuthorities believe the 66-year-old had been living out of a van in northern Virginia since March after leaving his southern Illinois home. The man expressed grievances online about President Donald Trump and Republicans, but authorities said they're still working to determine a motive.\nHodgkinson was spotted regularly over the past several weeks at the YMCA next to the site of the shooting, sitting with a computer in the lobby or at a table in an exercise area that looked out onto the baseball field.\nFormer Alexandria Mayor Bill Euille, who chatted with Hodgkinson at the gym, said he assumed the man was homeless because he wore pretty much the same outfit every day and carried a bag full of extra clothes. Hodgkinson rarely joined in the political discussions often set off by the television in the room and never showed any signs that he was troubled, Euille said.\n\"I never saw him get mad when people were talking good, bad or ugly about any of the political parties,\" Euille told The Associated Press. \"He was just a very calm, rational person, I thought,\" he said.\nStephen Brennwald, another YMCA member, said he never saw Hodgkinson talk to anyone and figured the man was a \"loner.\" Brennwald thought it was odd he never saw Hodgkinson exercise or wear workout clothes and considered asking a staffer about him but never did, he said.\n\"There's just no way that I would have guessed that this guy would be shooting at law enforcement and a congressman,\" said Brennwald, an attorney.\nHodgkinson, who was armed with a handgun and a rifle, died from multiple gunshot wounds to his torso, the FBI said. Federal investigators are working to trace his weapons to find out where they were purchased and other details about their history.\nTexas Rep. Roger Williams said one of his aides, Zack Barth, was shot but was doing well and expected to recover fully. Two Capitol Police officers sustained relatively minor injuries. A former congressional aide was hospitalized.\nThe FBI said authorities are speaking with people who knew Hodgkinson or who may have encountered him. FBI agent Tim Slater said the FBI needs the public's help in piecing together Hodgkinson's whereabouts and activities while he was in Alexandria.\n\"We're just not sure at this time\" how he spent his time, he said.\nKristina Scrimshaw, a bartender at the Pork Barrel BBQ restaurant a few blocks from the shooting scene, said Hodgkinson had become something of a regular in recent weeks. He always drank Budweiser from a can and drank alone, barely speaking to anyone, including the bartenders.\n\"I didn't like him from the beginning,\" she said. \"Nothing I can really put my finger on, but he was just not a pleasant person.\"\nThe gunman's brother told The New York Times that the man was upset about Trump's election and recently went to Washington to protest, but Michael Hodgkinson said he didn't know why the man stayed in the area.\n\"I know he wasn't happy with the way things were going, the election results and stuff,\" the shooter's brother told the newspaper.\nUntil recently, Hodgkinson ran a home-inspection business out of his house in southern Illinois.\nHis Facebook page shows he was a fan of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who last year made an unsuccessful bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. Sanders acknowledged Wednesday that Hodgkinson had apparently been among many volunteers on his 2016 campaign.\nA search of online newspapers shows that Hodgkinson frequently wrote letters to his local newspaper, the Belleville News-Democrat, which published nearly two dozen of them between 2010 and 2012. Many included complaints about the same theme: income inequality.\nHodgkinson also had arrests in his background for a series of minor offenses and at least one more serious matter. Court records show that his legal trouble started in the 1990s with arrests for resisting police and drunken driving.\nIn 2006, he was arrested on a battery charge after allegedly punching a woman in the face, then striking her boyfriend in the head with the wooden stock of a 12-gauge shotgun before firing a round at the man, according to a sheriff's department report.\nWhile trying to drive away from that confrontation, the report said, Hodgkinson used a pocket knife to cut a seat belt. The charges were dismissed later that year, according to the court clerk.\nThough no other legal problems are listed in St. Clair County, which includes Belleville, since 2011, Hodgkinson did come to the attention of local law enforcement as recently as last spring.\nOn March 24, Bill Schaumleffel recalled hearing shots being fired outside his house, which stands about 500 feet behind Hodgkinson's home. When he went outside, he saw Hodgkinson shooting a rifle into a cornfield. He was squeezing off five or six rounds at a time, according to the report of the incident, and fired about 50 shots in all.\n\"I yelled, 'Quit shooting toward the houses,'\" Schaumleffel said.\nWhen Hodgkinson refused to stop, Schaumleffel called the sheriff's department.\nSt. Clair County Sheriff Rick Watson said Wednesday that Hodgkinson showed the deputy all required firearms licenses and documentation for the high-powered hunting rifle, which he said he was simply using for target practice.\nThe deputy cautioned Hodgkinson about shooting around homes, given that the rounds can travel up to a mile. No charges were filed.\n___\nRicher reported from Richmond, Virginia. Sarah Rankin in Richmond; Matt Barakat in Alexandria, Virginia; Don Babwin in Chicago; John O'Connor in Springfield, Illinois; Jim Suhr in Kansas City, Missouri; Jake Pearson in Washington and Associated Press Researcher Rhonda Shafner in New York also contributed to this report."
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1944
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I am asking in the domain of entertainment. Tell me about Udinese fires coach Oddo after 11 straight losses
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"UDINE, Italy (AP) — Udinese has fired coach Massimo Oddo after 11 straight losses in Serie A.\nThe decision was expected after Sunday's 2-1 loss to Crotone left the team four points above the relegation zone.\nThe 41-year-old Oddo replaced Luigi Delneri in November and won his first five league matches, including a 3-1 victory at Inter Milan.\nUdinese has not immediately announced a replacement but former Juventus defender Igor Tudor is favored to take over until the end of the season.\nThe former Croatia international began his senior coaching career in 2013 at Hajduk Split, where he won the Croatian Cup. He has also coached PAOK Thessaloniki, Karabukspor and Galatasaray."
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