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Given this paragraph about hickory wood, tell me what sporting equipment it might be used for.
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Hickory wood is hard, stiff, dense and shock resistant. There are woods stronger than hickory and woods that are harder, but the combination of strength, toughness, hardness, and stiffness found in hickory wood is not found in any other commercial wood. It is used for tool handles, pickaxe handles, bows, wheel spokes, carts, drumsticks, lacrosse stick handles, golf club shafts (sometimes still called hickory stick, even though made of steel or graphite), the bottoms of skis, walking sticks, and for punitive use as a switch (like hazel), and especially as a cane-like hickory stick in schools and use by parents. Paddles are often made from hickory. This property of hickory wood has left a trace in some Native American languages: in Ojibwe, hickory is called mitigwaabaak, a compound of mitigwaab "bow" and the final -aakw "hardwood tree". Due to its grain structure, hickory is more susceptible to moisture absorption than other species of wood, and is therefore more prone to shrinkage, warping or swelling with changes in humidity.
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Hickory wood may be used to make lacrosse stick handles, golf club shafts, and the bottom of skis.
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Based on this paragraph about Massimo Bray, what language do you think he writes in?
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Massimo Bray is an academic publisher and a magazine editor. He was on the editorial board of the Italian Institute of Human Sciences until 1994. He is the cofounder of Notte della Taranta, which is among the most popular music festivals in Europe. He launched a blog on the Italian-language version of the Huffington Post.
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Massimo Bray likely writes in Italian.
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What state is known as the Lone Star State?
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Texas.
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What is the best hand in Texas Hold'em poker?
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The best hand in Texas Hold'em poker is a royal flush. A royal flush is a hand that consists of the following cards all in the same suit: 10, jack, queen, king, ace.
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Who is the founder of SpaceX?
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SpaceX, also known as Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, was founded by Elon Musk in 2003 in Segundo California.
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Who is the all time leading goal scorer for Manchester United?
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The all time leading goal scorer for Manchester United is Wayne Rooney.
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What is Categorization and Sentiment Analysis
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Categorization and Sentiment Analysis is typically referred in the Customer Experience space where customer interaction data is analyzed to get insights into categories of topics and sentiment associated with those interactions. Some of the use cases that benefit from these insights include Customer Representative/Agent Performance and Training, Workload Management, Product Performance et al
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The Global Climate Emergency report is based on scientific analysis of more than how many years?
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40 years and the report is call "world scientists" submitted by a group of 11258 scientists
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What is the difference between pork roll and taylor ham
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Pork roll and taylor ham are both a processed breakfast meat popular primarily in New Jersey. The primary difference between the two is the geographic location of the person talking about it. They are the same meat, but people from Northern New Jersey call it Taylor Ham. If a person is from Southern or Central New Jersey they will call it Pork roll. Either way it is the same breakfast meat
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Which tastes better, red or green grapes?
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Taste. The infamous grocery store dispute often stems from the taste. The superior grape stems from personal preference. Red grapes are often considered sweeter whereas green grapes are sourer
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Samuel Tilden, Grover Cleveland, Al Gore, and Hillary Clinton share what distinction among U.S. presidential candidates?
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They won the popular vote but lost the electoral college vote
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What is a snook?
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A snook is an inshore fish species. They cannot be commercially fished. If you want to eat a snook, you will need to catch it yourself. Snook catch limits are highly regulated by Florida fish and wildlife.
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What does a funambulist walk on?
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A Tight Rope
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What are the three highest peaks in the UK?
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Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike, and Snowdon are the highest mountains in Scotland, England, and Wales.
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Given this paragraph about the prehistory of Sri Lanka, what are the evidence for prehistoric human colonization in Sri Lanka?
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Evidence of human colonization in Sri Lanka appears at the site of Balangoda. Balangoda Man arrived on the island about 125,000 years ago and has been identified as Mesolithic hunter-gatherers who lived in caves. Several of these caves, including the well-known Batadombalena and the Fa Hien Cave, have yielded many artifacts from these people, who are currently the first known inhabitants of the island.
Balangoda Man probably created Horton Plains, in the central hills, by burning the trees in order to catch game. However, the discovery of oats and barley on the plains at about 15,000 BCE suggests that agriculture had already developed at this early date.
Several minute granite tools (about 4 centimetres in length), earthenware, remnants of charred timber, and clay burial pots date to the Mesolithic. Human remains dating to 6000 BCE have been discovered during recent excavations around a cave at Warana Raja Maha Vihara and in the Kalatuwawa area.
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The oldest prehistoric evidence of human colonization in Sri Lanka goes back to about 125,000 years to a man named Balangoda Man. He was a Mesolithic hunter-gatherer who lived in caves. Furthermore, human remains dating back to 6000 BCE have also been found in several cites in the country.
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What was Jiang's previous position before becoming the president of China?
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Jiang Zemin (17 August 1926 – 30 November 2022) was a Chinese politician who served as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1989 to 2002, as chairman of the Central Military Commission from 1989 to 2004, and as president of China from 1993 to 2003. Jiang was paramount leader of China from 1989 to 2002. He was the core leader of the third generation of Chinese leadership, one of four core leaders alongside Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping and Xi Jinping.
Born in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, Jiang joined the CCP while he was in college. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, he received training at the Stalin Automobile Works in Moscow in the 1950s, later returning to Shanghai in 1962 to serve in various institutes, later being sent between 1970-1972 to Romania as part of an expert team to establish machinery manufacturing plants in the country. After 1979, he was appointed as the vice chair of two commissions by vice premier Gu Mu to oversee the newly-established special economic zones (SEZs). He became the vice minister of the newly-established Ministry of Electronics Industry and a member of the CCP Central Committee in 1982.
Jiang was appointed as the mayor of Shanghai in 1985, later being promoted to its Communist Party secretary, as well as a member of the CCP Politburo, in 1987. Jiang came to power unexpectedly as a compromise candidate following the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, when he replaced Zhao Ziyang as CCP general secretary after Zhao was ousted for his support for the student movement. As the involvement of the "Eight Elders" in Chinese politics steadily declined, Jiang consolidated his hold on power to become the "paramount leader" in the country during the 1990s. Urged by Deng Xiaoping's southern tour in 1992, Jiang officially introduced the term "socialist market economy" in his speech during the 14th CCP National Congress held later that year, which accelerated "opening up and reform".
Under Jiang's leadership, China experienced substantial economic growth with the continuation of market reforms. The returning of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom in 1997 and of Macau from Portugal in 1999, and entry into the World Trade Organisation in 2001, were landmark moments of his era. China also witnessed improved relations with the outside world, while the Communist Party maintained its tight control over the state. Jiang faced criticism over human rights abuses, including the crackdown on the Falun Gong movement. His contributions to party doctrine, known as the "Three Represents", were written into the CCP constitution in 2002. Jiang gradually vacated his official leadership titles from 2002 to 2005, being succeeded in these roles by Hu Jintao, although he and his political faction continued to influence affairs until much later. On 30 November 2022, Jiang died from leukemia and multiple organ failure in Shanghai.
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He was the mayor of Shanghai and then became Communist Party secretary
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Why do you get dental erosion?
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Dental erosion is caused by dietary factors , physical factors and indigestion and reflux disease. Dietary acids include carbonated drinks, acidic fruits and juices and sweets. Teeth should not be brushed straight after eating , you should wait 30 minutes after eating before brushing.
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Which fictional LAPD detective is Titus Welliver known for playing?
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Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch is a fictional character created by American author Michael Connelly. Bosch debuted as the lead character in the 1992 novel The Black Echo, the first in a best-selling police procedural series now numbering 24 novels.
The novels are more or less coincident in timeframe with the year in which they were published. Harry, as he is commonly known by his associates, is a veteran police homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. He was named after the 15th-century Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch.
Titus Welliver portrayed the title character from 2015 to 2021 in Bosch, a television series adapted from the novels, and from 2022 in its spin-off series Bosch: Legacy.
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Titus Welliver played Harry Bosch in the TV series Bosch and also in spin off Bosch:Legacy.
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What's the best BBQ place in Austin
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Texas BBQ is one of the most famous and popular food choices for both visitors and locals. The Franklin BBQ in Austin gets the highest hypes all these years after former President Obama's visit. Its long waiting line has not pushed foodies and pilgrims away. Other popular but less crowded places includes Terry & Blacks BBQ, County Line, and Rudy's BBQ.
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Given this paragraph about ESPN's SportsCenter in 2009, in what west coast city did ESPN begin producing it's 1:00 a.m. Eastern Time edition of SportsCenter?
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On April 6, 2009 (starting with the 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time edition, which was anchored by Hannah Storm and Sage Steele), SportsCenter debuted a new graphics package that saw the "rundown" graphic – shown during the daytime editions – being shifted to the left side of the screen. On that same date, SportsCenter began producing its 1:00 a.m. Eastern Time edition of SportsCenter live from ESPN's production facilities in the newly constructed L.A. Live complex (just across from the Staples Center) in Los Angeles. The set is virtually identical to the setup at the main facilities in Bristol, and the late-night West Coast broadcast would be produced as simply another edition of the program. Neil Everett and Stan Verrett were appointed as the primary anchors for the Los Angeles-based editions of SportsCenter. A new BottomLine ticker was also unveiled that day on four of the five ESPN networks (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Classic and ESPNU); the redesigned ticker was quickly dropped, reverting to the old BottomLine design – which had been in use since April 2003 – due to an equipment failure (however, this ticker was operational for the 2009 NFL Draft and the 2009 NBA draft). After technical issues with the revamped BottomLine were fixed, the new BottomLine was reinstated on July 8.
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Los Angeles is the west coast city that ESPN began producing it's 1:00 a.m. Eastern Time edition of SportsCenter.
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how do i heal my mind
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slow down your breathe
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What is Categorization and Sentiment Analysis
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Categorization and Sentiment Analysis is typically referred in the Customer Experience space where customer interaction data is analyzed to get insights into categories of topics and sentiment associated with those interactions. Some of the use cases that benefit from these insights include Customer Representative/Agent Performance and Training, Workload Management, Product Performance et al
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What is constitution?
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A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organisation or other type of entity and commonly determine how that entity is to be governed
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What rock icon was the founder of The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Long-haired Men?
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David Bowie.
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Why is lacrosse considered the fastest game on two feet?
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During both mens and women's lacrosse games, the ball moves very quickly over a large field, both by passing between players as well as the players running the ball themselves from the defensive to offense ends of the field.
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Who was Christopher Columbus?
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Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator who completed four voyages across the Atlantic ocean. Scholars believe he was born between August 25th and October 31st 1451 and he is know for the expeditions that inaugurated a period of exploration in Europe that resulted in the colonization of many countries in the Americas that lasted for centuries. Many places in the western hemisphere bear his name including Colombia (the country), British Columbia (province in Canada), District of Columbia (capital of the US) and Columbus (city in Ohio). Christopher Columbus died on May 20th, 1506.
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What is terrain cartography?
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Terrain cartography or relief mapping is the depiction of the shape of the surface of the Earth on a map, using one or more of several techniques that have been developed. Terrain or relief is an essential aspect of physical geography, and as such its portrayal presents a central problem in cartographic design, and more recently geographic information systems and geovisualization.
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Pultizer Prize 2022 is given which field
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Journalism, Books, Drama and Music
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What are the biggest cities in Germany?
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The biggest cities in Germany are Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Cologne. Berlin is the biggest city with almost 3.7 million inhabitants. The second biggest city is Hamburg with 1.9 million inhabitants.
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Based on this passage, in what field did Raisa earn her PhD?
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In June 1955, Gorbachev graduated with a distinction; his final paper had been on the advantages of "socialist democracy" (the Soviet political system) over "bourgeois democracy" (liberal democracy). He was subsequently assigned to the Soviet Procurator's office, which was then focusing on the rehabilitation of the innocent victims of Stalin's purges, but found that they had no work for him. He was then offered a place on an MSU graduate course specializing in kolkhoz law, but declined. He had wanted to remain in Moscow, where Raisa was enrolled in a PhD program, but instead gained employment in Stavropol; Raisa abandoned her studies to join him there.
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Based on this passage, Raisa did not earn a PhD. She abandoned her graduate studies in Moscow in order to join Gorbachev in Stavropol.
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Which country produces the most pineapples?
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The Philippines produces the most pineapples, followed closely by Costa Rica.
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Why did Major League Baseball introduce new rules for 2023?
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Major League Baseball has long grappled with a stigma that its games were boring because they were too long without much action.
There were multiple reasons for games to swell to over 3 hours long on average, but notably were more pitching changes, long delays between pitches, batters who would step out of the batters box between pitches, evolving batter strategies to be home-run or strikeout, and increased coach mound visits.
In 2023, Major League Baseball implemented a number of drastic rule changes in its top flight league that had shortened game times to 2 hours, 30 minutes in lower levels called the Minor Leagues. These changes included a pitch clock, limiting the number of pickoff attempts. To increase the amount of offense generated, they eliminated the defensive shift and increased the size of the bases, effectively shortening the distance between bases to encourage more stolen base attempts.
Through the first week of the 2023 season, the average length of game is down to 2 hours, 30 minutes like the Minors, batting averages are up 15 points to .245, and the number of stolen bases doubled in comparison to the year before.
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What are the best hiking trails near Seattle, Washington?
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Washington state is famous for breathtaking nature with scenic lakes, enormous mountains, and picturesque ocean views. Some of the best hiking trails near Seattle, Washington are:
- Rattlesnake Ledge Trail: in North Bend, Washington only 30 mins away from Seattle. Given how close and beautiful this trail is to the city, no wonder this is one of the most popular hiking trails in Washington. The trail is moderately challenging with 5.3 miles roundtrip and 1,459 ft of elevation. The mountain trail provides 3 levels of panoramic views of Mount Si and Mount Washington looming above RattleSnake lake, which is also a popular swimming and kayaking destination in the summer.
- Wallace Falls via Woody Trail: a 4.9 miles out and back trail near Gold Bar, Washington, less than an hour away from Seattle. It's a scenic trail meandering along the Wallace River, with the lush vegetation and forest moss. You can see the Wallace Falls from 3 view points at Lower Falls, Middle Falls and Upper Falls. Most of the trail to Middle Falls doesn't have much elevation, the substantial elevation gain is between Middle Falls and Upper Falls.
- Lake 22: in Mount Baker Snoqualmie National Forest, about 2 hours drive from Seattle. Lake Twenty-Two Trail is a beautiful hike to an alpine lake through old growth forests. The trail is challenging with 6.8 miles roundtrip and 1,473 ft of elevation. When you reach the destination, you can loop around the turquoise lake and take in the enormous view of Mount Pilchuck.
- Colchuck Lake: in Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, near Leavenworth about 3 hours drive from Seattle. It features a beautiful scenery in the Alpine Lakes area of Washington state. The trail is challenging with 8.5 miles round trip and 2,349 ft of elevation. The hike can be technical with steep terrain over boulders and water streams. However, you will be rewarded with a breathtaking view of a emerald blue glacier lake and towering snow mountains.
- From Seattle, visitors can also go to 3 beautiful National Parks with hundreds of trails such as Mount Rainier National Park (ranked 6/59), Olympic National Park (ranked 12/59), and North Cascades National Park (ranked 36/59)
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What is the difference between speed and velocity?
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Speed and velocity are different terms. Speed is a measurement of distance over time. Velocity is a measurement of distance over time in a direction. Speed is scalar and can only be positive. Velocity is a vector and can either be positive or negative. For example, an object moving at a speed of 50 km/h tells us only how quickly it is moving but not its direction. An object with a velocity of +50 km/h tells us its speed and that it is moving forwards. Conversely, an object with a velocity of -50 km/h tells us its speed and that it is moving backward.
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To which family does the Chasenella belong to
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Chasenella is a genus of harvestmen in the family Sclerosomatidae from Borneo.
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Given this paragraph about the Pearl Mill Village Historic District, tell me where it is located.
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Pearl Mill Village Historic District is a national historic district located at Durham, Durham County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 26 contributing residential buildings built by owners of Pearl Cotton Mills. The mill village dwellings are either two-story duplex type built about 1905 or a one-story bungalow constructed about 1924.
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The Pearl Mill Village Historic District is in Durham, North Carolina.
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What are the five smallest countries in Europe?
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The five smallest countries in Europe are Andorra, Monaco, San Marino, Vatican City, and Liechtenstein.
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Given this text about Major League Baseball, how many games do teams play in the regular season and how many games are played in the World Series.
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Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization and the oldest major professional sports league in the world.[B] MLB is composed of 30 teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), with 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada. Formed in 1876 and 1901 respectively, the NL and AL cemented their cooperation with the National Agreement in 1903. They remained legally separate entities until 2000, when they merged into a single organization led by the Commissioner of Baseball. MLB is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan. It is considered one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada.
Each team plays 162 games per season, and six teams in each league advance to a four-round postseason tournament that culminates in the World Series, a best-of-seven championship series between the two league champions first played in 1903. The New York Yankees have the most championships: 27. The reigning champions are the Houston Astros, who defeated the Philadelphia Phillies, 4–2, in the 2022 World Series.
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Each team will play 162 games per regular season, with the two top teams playing a best of seven in the World Series Championship.
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What is the Role of the Fourth Official in Football?
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The main role of the Fourth Official in football is assisting the referee in his control of the match. All the officials should do so under the FIFA Football Laws of the Game
The 4th Official would officiate if any of the other three match officials (referee or assistant referees) are unable to continue to administer the rules and regulations.
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What is an interception in American football? Write your response as if you are American explaining it to a coworker from another country.
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The player that is under center is called the quarterback. His job is to throw or handoff the football to an eligible member of this own team. Usually, the ball is given to the running back, wide receiver, or tide end. An interception occurs when the quarterback throws the football to his intended team mate and a member of the opposing team catches the football instead. When this occurs, the opposing team gains possession of the football and their offense goes out into the field and they have an opportunity to drive the football down the field with the goal of scoring a touchdown or field goal.
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| 6,730 |
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Given this short paragraph about Belize, how many people live there and what is notable about its population density?
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Belize, formerly known as British Honduras, is a Caribbean country located on the northeastern coast of Central America. Belize is bordered on the northwest by Mexico, on the east by the Caribbean Sea, and on the south and west by Guatemala. It has an area of 22,970 square kilometres (8,867 sq mi) and a population of 408,487 (2019). Its mainland is about 290 km (180 mi) long and 110 km (68 mi) wide. It has the lowest population and population density in Central America.
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Belize has a population of 408,487 people and has the lowest population density in Central America.
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How did Washington become a state?
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Washington, officially the State of Washington and often referred to as Washington state to distinguish it from the USA's capital, Washington, D.C., is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. Named for George Washington—the first U.S. president—the state was formed from the western part of the Washington Territory, which was ceded by the British Empire in 1846, by the Oregon Treaty in the settlement of the Oregon boundary dispute. The state is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean, Oregon to the south, Idaho to the east, and the Canadian province of British Columbia to the north. It was admitted to the Union as the 42nd state in 1889. Olympia is the state capital; the state's largest city is Seattle.
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Washington became the 42nd state of the United States of America in 1889. The United States Congress passed an act enabling the territories of Washington, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana to seek statehood.
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Where was Mazzy Star formed?
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"Mazzy Star is an American alternative rock band formed in 1988 in Santa Monica, California, from remnants of the group Opal. Founding member David Roback's friend Hope Sandoval became the group's vocalist when Kendra Smith left Opal.
Mazzy Star is best known for the song ""Fade into You"", which brought the band some success in the mid-1990s and was the group's biggest mainstream hit, earning extensive exposure on MTV, VH1, and radio airplay. Roback and Sandoval were the creative center of the band, with Sandoval as lyricist and Roback as composer of the majority of the band's material until his death in Los Angeles on February 24, 2020, from metastatic cancer. Mazzy Star's founding drummer Keith Mitchell, originally part of Opal, died on May 14, 2017 from cancer."
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Mazzy Star was formed in Santa Monica, California in 1988
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What is the standard tuning for a 6 string guitar?
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From the highest tone to the lowest, the tuning of the 6 strings is E B G D A E.
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How soon should you make coffee after grinding the beans?
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For best results, no matter the brewing method, you should make your coffee within twenty minutes of grinding the coffee beans.
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What film released and set in 1985 features Doc Brown's Delorean time machine that takes Marty McFly back to 1955 where he inadvertently prevented his birth by intervening when his mother and father first met and fell in love?
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Back to the Future
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What is the best way to tune a snare drum?
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The best way to tune a drum depends on which system the drum uses for tension. Newer technologies such as Dialtune's cable tuning system allow a drummer to quickly and evenly tune a drum head by turning separate dials for the top and bottom head.
Traditional lug and tension rod drums use a drum key and require more attention to detail. For these drums, start by getting all tension rods finger-tight. Bring the snare drum up to tension with a full turn of a drum key of each one, moving in a star pattern around the drum. Use a drumstick to tap around the drum by each tension rod and listen for a consistent sound.
Once you have the overall sound in the range you’re looking for, test the pitch by tapping around the drum. For the snare’s resonant head, detune it like the batter head. Tune it ‘tabletop tight’: so flat you could confidently rest a drink on it (don’t do this, though). Bring up each tension rod another quarter turn. You want to hear the wires, but not so much that it overwhelms the attack. Tap the head beside each tension rod, then start to even out the pitch with the tension rods so they all match.
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Given the reference text about Rafael Nadal, tell me how many singles grand slam titles he has won, which grand slam tournament he has won the most, and the main strength of his tennis game.
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Rafael Nadal Parera (Catalan: [rəf(ə)ˈɛl nəˈðal pəˈɾeɾə], Spanish: [rafaˈel naˈðal paˈɾeɾa]; born 3 June 1986) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He is currently ranked world No. 14 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). He has been ranked world No. 1 for 209 weeks, and has finished as the year-end No. 1 five times. He also holds the record for most consecutive weeks in the Top 10 of the ATP Rankings, having never left the Top 10 from April 2005 to March 2023, a total of 912 weeks. Nadal has won a joint-record 22 Grand Slam men's singles titles, including a record 14 French Open titles. He has won 92 ATP singles titles, including 36 Masters titles, with 63 of these on clay courts. Nadal is one of only two men to complete the Career Golden Slam in singles. His 81 consecutive wins on clay is the longest single-surface win streak in the Open Era.
For over a decade, Nadal has dominated men's tennis along with Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic as the Big Three, collectively considered by many to be the three greatest male tennis players of all time. At the start of his professional career, Nadal became one of the most successful teenagers in ATP Tour history, reaching the world No. 2 ranking and winning 16 titles before turning 20, including his first French Open and six Masters events. Nadal became the world No. 1 for the first time in 2008 after defeating Federer in a historic Wimbledon final, his first major victory off clay. He followed up his win with an Olympic singles gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. After defeating Djokovic in the 2010 US Open final, then-24-year-old Nadal became the youngest man in the Open Era to achieve the Career Grand Slam, and the first man to win majors on three different surfaces (hard, grass, and clay) in the same year (Surface Slam).
After two injury-plagued seasons, Nadal made a stellar return in one of the greatest comeback seasons of all time in 2013; reaching 14 finals, winning two majors and five Masters events including the US Open Series sweep (Summer Slam). He continued his dominance at the French Open, securing six titles, two US Open titles, an Australian Open title, and an Olympic doubles gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics with Marc López. Nadal surpassed his joint-record with Djokovic and Federer for the most major men's singles titles at the 2022 Australian Open, and became one of four men in history to complete the double Career Grand Slam in singles. He appeared in the Top 10 of the ATP rankings continuously from April 2005 to March 2023 – a record spanning 18 years.
As a vigorous left-handed player, one of Nadal's main strengths is his forehand, which he hits with extremely heavy topspin at difficult angles. He is one of the best at breaking serve, regularly appearing among the tour leaders in percentage of return games, return points, and break points won. Nadal has won the Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award five times, and was the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year in 2011 and 2021. He is also a recipient of the Grand Cross of the Order of Dos De Mayo, the Grand Cross of Naval Merit, and the Medal of the City of Paris. Representing Spain, he has won two Olympic gold medals, and led the nation to four Davis Cup titles. Nadal has also opened a tennis academy in Mallorca, and is an active philanthropist.
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Rafael Nadal has won 22 singles grand slam titles. The majority of his grand slam wins have been at the French Open, where he has won 14 times.
The main strength of his tennis game is his forehand because of his ability to hit the ball with extremely heavy topspin at difficult angles.
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What is a short hiking trail in Tiburon?
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One short hiking trail in Tiburon, California is off Gilmartin Drive. It's easy to spot but unmarked! The trail is a local favorite and takes you to an overlook with views of San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge. You can check out the views while swinging from Hippie Tree, the giant eucalyptus tree.
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here is a blurb about byte pair encoding for encryption, what benefits does this concept have besides compression?
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Byte pair encoding (BPE) or digram coding is a simple and robust form of data compression in which the most common pair of contiguous bytes of data in a sequence are replaced with a byte that does not occur within the sequence. A lookup table of the replacements is required to rebuild the original data. The algorithm was first described publicly by Philip Gage in a February 1994 article "A New Algorithm for Data Compression" in the C Users Journal.
A variant of the technique has shown to be useful in several natural language processing (NLP) domains, for applications such as tokenisation, as seen in Google's SentencePiece and OpenAI's GPT-3. Here, the goal is not data compression, but tokenisation of text in a given language to produce a variable sequence of terms from a fixed-size vocabulary of tokens. Typically, most words will be encoded as a single token, while rare words will be encoded as a sequence of a few tokens, where these tokens represent meaningful word parts. This translation of text into tokens can be found by variants of byte pair encoding, such as subword units.
Byte pair encoding lends itself to NLP tasks due to its simplicity and speed; BPE is suitably effective for the tokenisation of terms, does not require large computational overheads, and remains consistent, making it reliable.
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An alternate use for byte pair encoding besides compression would be tokenization. Tokenization can be used in Natural Language Processing to encode tokens of words for simplicity and speed in NLP tasks.
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What is the best way to evaluate the performance of my marketing spend?
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The primary purpose for evaluating the performance of marketing spend tends to be toward informing decisions around how to reallocate that marketing spend in future periods, in order to improve business performance overall. In this regard, we can look at this problem as a decision support problem space. Historically, marketers have used a range of approaches ranging from marketing mix modeling, to marketing attribution, to controlled experiments, and more. None of these approaches are perfect, but a combination of these approaches combined with a rigorous decision feedback loop (e.g. in the spirit of the Observe, Oriented, Decide, Act loop) can help marketers improve their marketing performance management, and hence their marketing performance, over time.
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What are the names of the three largest United States Virgin Islands?
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St. Croix, St. John, and St. Thomas.
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What’s the best way to cook scrambled eggs?
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Heat a pan to medium heat and melt some butter. Crack eggs into the pan and break the yolk so that the mixture in the pan has a nice variation. Continue slowly stirring the eggs. Every 30 seconds, remove the pan from the heat. Then return to the heat for 30 seconds. Continue this process and continue stirring until the eggs reach your preferred consistency.
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What is Schalke 04 famous for?
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Fußballclub Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 e. V., commonly known as FC Schalke 04 (German: [ɛf tseː ˈʃalkə nʊl fiːɐ̯] (listen)), Schalke 04 (German: [ˌʃalkə nʊl ˈfiːɐ̯] (listen)), or abbreviated as S04 (German: [ˈɛs nʊl fiːɐ̯] (listen)), is a professional German football and multi-sports club originally from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The "04" in the club's name derives from its formation in 1904. Schalke have been one of the most popular professional football teams in Germany, even though the club's heyday was in the 1930s and 1940s. Schalke have played in the Bundesliga, the top tier of the German football league system, since 2022, following promotion from the 2. Bundesliga in 2021–22. As of 2022, the club has 160,000 members, making it the second-largest football club in Germany and the fourth-largest club in the world in terms of membership. Other activities offered by the club include athletics, basketball, handball, table tennis, winter sports and eSports.
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FC Schalke 04 (full name Fußballclub Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 e. V. ) is a German football and multi-sports club that was founded in 1904 in Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club won seven times the German Championship, five times the German Cup / DFB-Pokal and 1997 the UEFA-CUP, when it beat Inter Milan in the finals. The club receives from football fans all over the world renown for its youth academy, which constantly develops famous players. Benedikt Höwedes, Manuel Neuer and Mesut Özil, who won the World Cup with Germany in 2014, were formed in the Schalke 04 youth academy. Since 2011 the youth academy is called Knappenschmiede in reference to the mining industry that was very strong in the past in the area of Western Germany. A Knappe is a miner after completion of his apprenticeship.
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What is the smallest country in the world?
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The smallest country in the world is Vatican City, with an area of less than .5 square kilometers. It is fully encircled by the Italian capital of Rome, and has existed as a sovereign nation since 1929. Due to its small size it is considered to be a microstate.
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| 6,759 |
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What is a tender?
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If an organization asks firms to send in tenders to supply something, they are asking for firm written offers to do the work to an agreed standard and at a stated price.
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Why are cats better than dogs?
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Cats are much better pets than dogs. Cats are softer and fluffier and prefer the company of their owner. Dogs just enjoy the company of any human. Cats also are much lower maintenance and don't require multiple walks per day or that you pick up their poop while it's warm. Cats clean up their own waste. Cats are the best pets.
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| 6,762 |
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Who directed the episode of Game of Thrones where Jon Snow and Tormund Giantsbane go to ask the wildlings to settle beyond the Wall, but end up encountering White Walkers and the Night King?
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Season five, episode eight entitled "Hardhome"
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Why are the New England Patriots the greatest NFL team ever?
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The New England Patriots dominance over the NFL has never been matched. They have had the longest duration of success lasting over 20 years. Since 2001 they have made the playoffs 18 times, winning the Division 17 times, winning the AFC championship 9 times and winning the Super Bowl 6 times
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A farmer is on his way to market. He's going to sell a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage. On the way, he comes to a river crossing. The river is too wide to ford, so he has to take a tiny boat across. The boat is so small that he can take at most one of the three items with him in the boat at a time. Left alone, the wolf would devour the goat, and the goat would devour the cabbage. How can the farmer safely transport all three items across the river?
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The wolf and the cabbage can be left together with no risk to either. So the farmer first takes the goat across. He returns to the near side, retrieves the cabbage, then takes it across to the far side. Then he returns to the near side with the goat. At the near side, he leaves the goat and takes the wolf to the far side, leaving the wolf with the cabbage. Finally, he returns to the near side to take the goat across for a second time. Problem solved!
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| 6,767 |
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the first person was on the moon?
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Apollo 11 was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17, and Armstrong became the first person to step onto the Moon's surface six hours and 39 minutes later, on July 21 at 02:56 UTC. Aldrin joined him 19 minutes later, and they spent about two and a quarter hours together exploring the site they had named Tranquility Base upon landing. Armstrong and Aldrin collected 47.5 pounds (21.5 kg) of lunar material to bring back to Earth as pilot Michael Collins flew the Command Module Columbia in lunar orbit, and were on the Moon's surface for 21 hours, 36 minutes before lifting off to rejoin Columbia.
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What magazine was Alex Prager the director of Photography for?
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In 2011 Kathy Ryan, director of photography for The New York Times Magazine commissioned Prager to shoot 12, 1 minute films with some film actors from that year, inspired by "cinematic villainy". Prager won a News and Documentary Emmy Award for New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Arts, Lifestyle & Culture for her Touch of Evil short films.
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Alex Prager was the director of photography for the New York Times Magazine.
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In music, what key is the relative minor to the key of B major?
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G# minor is B major's relative minor.
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| 6,771 |
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What is meditation?
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Meditation is the practice of focusing on the mind on a particular object, such a the breath, to calm the mind and bring clarity. Through various meditation practices individual bring attention and awareness to mental activity. It is through this awareness that mental clarity is achieved.
Meditation has been known to reduce stress and anxiety as well as bring a greater sense of ease within individuals.
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| 6,773 |
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Why do people love Air Jordan shoes
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Michael Jordan is the best basketball player of all time. His talents and abilities we mimicked and idolized by millions of kids all over the globe. His shoes represented to the kid or adult who bought them that they too could be like Jordan...if they had the shoes. The different editions of shoes kept the demand from the public high and every new edition kept the consumers buying. They also created a cult following of collectors who would buy only to hold so that they could sell the at higher prices when certain editions were no longer available. Jordans became so popular that they had to do special edition versions of the earlier editions. This created an even larger community of collector types who would buy them up in bulk to create new markets for the coveted shoes. I, personally, am a huge fan of the 3's and 4's edition.
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| 6,774 |
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What are questions you can ask to get to know someone?
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Questions you can ask to get to know someone are the following:
1. What is your name?
2. What is your age?
3. What are your hobbies?
4. Did you go to college? What college?
5. What do you do for work?
6. Do you have any brothers or sister?
7. What is most important to you in a relationship?
8. Do you like to read? What was the last book you read?
9. Have you ever done any traveling? Where?
10. What is your favorite restaurant? Where?
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Is it possible to perform in local theater while also pursuing a demanding career?
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Yes, however there are many implications that should be thought through, as theater (even at the local, unpaid volunteer level) is a time-consuming and rigorous hobby. 1) Career choice. Restaurants, retail and other careers that required nights and weekends regularly often conflict with rehearsal and performance schedules, which are often all on nights and weekends. 2) Travel. Planned, infrequent travel can usually be planned around. But if your career requires spontaneous travel on a moments notice, it may be difficult for you to commit to the rehearsal and performance schedule, which is often planned months in advance.
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| 6,776 |
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Given the reference text about The Sun Also Rises, when was the book written and who wrote it?
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The Sun Also Rises is a 1926 novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway, his first, that portrays American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. An early modernist novel, it received mixed reviews upon publication. Hemingway biographer Jeffrey Meyers writes that it is now "recognized as Hemingway's greatest work" and Hemingway scholar Linda Wagner-Martin calls it his most important novel. The novel was published in the United States in October 1926 by Scribner's. A year later, Jonathan Cape published the novel in London under the title Fiesta. It remains in print.
The novel is a roman à clef: the characters are based on people in Hemingway's circle and the action is based on events, particularly Hemingway's life in Paris in the 1920s and a trip to Spain in 1925 for the Pamplona festival and fishing in the Pyrenees. Hemingway presents his notion that the "Lost Generation"—considered to have been decadent, dissolute and irretrievably damaged by World War I—was in fact resilient and strong. Hemingway investigates the themes of love and death, the revivifying power of nature and the concept of masculinity. His spare writing style, combined with his restrained use of description to convey characterizations and action, demonstrates his "Iceberg Theory" of writing.
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The Sun Also Rises was written in 1926 by Ernest Hemingway.
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Is Star Wars based on a book?
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No, the Star Wars universe originated from the film series created by George Lucas beginning with 'Star Wars: A New Hope' in 1977. A number of books have been written based on the films or in the storyline created from them, but the original material was a film.
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| 6,779 |
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Where did the first limited-overs cricket match take place?
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In the 1960s, English county teams began playing a version of cricket with games of only one innings each and a maximum number of overs per innings. Starting in 1963 as a knockout competition only, limited-overs cricket grew in popularity and, in 1969, a national league was created which consequently caused a reduction in the number of matches in the County Championship. The status of limited overs matches is governed by the official List A categorisation. Although many "traditional" cricket fans objected to the shorter form of the game, limited-overs cricket did have the advantage of delivering a result to spectators within a single day; it did improve cricket's appeal to younger or busier people; and it did prove commercially successful.
The first limited-overs international match took place at Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1971 as a time-filler after a Test match had been abandoned because of heavy rain on the opening days. It was tried simply as an experiment and to give the players some exercise, but turned out to be immensely popular. limited-overs internationals (LOIs or ODIs—one-day internationals) have since grown to become a massively popular form of the game, especially for busy people who want to be able to see a whole match. The International Cricket Council reacted to this development by organising the first Cricket World Cup in England in 1975, with all the Test-playing nations taking part.
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Melbourne Cricket Ground
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| 6,782 |
When was the Stansfeld's death
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Stansfeld began his career as a civil servant in HM Customs and Excise. In 1877, he moved to Oxford, and later matriculated as a student at Exeter College, where he studied Medicine, attaining his BA in 1889, MA in 1893 and qualified as a doctor in 1897. In 1897 he started the Oxford Medical Misson in Bermondsey, London, where he founded the Stansfeld Oxford & Bermondsey Club in the same year. In 1909, he decided to take Holy Orders and studied part-time at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. He was appointed Vicar of St Anne's Church, Thoburn Square, Bermondsey in 1910, and then returned to Oxford in 1912 as Rector of St Ebbe's, Oxford then a slum district until his retirement in 1926. Stansfeld died at Spelsbury, Oxfordshire, aged 85 in December 1939. He campaigned successfully for the erection of a children's playground and public baths in St Ebbe's. His philanthropy is commemorated by a blue plaque in Paradise Square, unveiled in June 2009.
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Stansfeld died at Spelsbury, Oxfordshire, aged 85 in December 1939
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| 6,783 |
Is there an answer to the universe?
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According to the novel Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the answer to life, the universe and everything is 42.
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| 6,784 |
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What are examples of famous plays written by William Shakespeare?
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Famous plays written by William Shakespeare include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth.
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| 6,785 |
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How are racial categories used historically?
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Racial categories have historically been used as a way to enable an oppressive figure or group to discriminate against other groups or individuals which were seen as different from that of the oppressor. In nineteenth and early twentieth century Europe, artwork was a common form of racialization which targeted countries in the Middle East and Asia. The artwork, predominantly paintings, were portrayed in order to instill prejudice in the Western populations through sexualizing and manipulating images. One of the most prominent examples of Orientalist work in art is a piece by Eugène Delacroix titled Women of Algiers in their Apartment. Dating back to 1834, it portrays three women resting in a harem in exotic clothing while an African woman is dressed in plain clothing, depicting her role as a servant. Fine textiles, hookahs, and other paraphernalia adorn the room, which represents a European fantasy of an exotic scene. Attempts to portray these cultures as strange, foreign and exotic through Orientalism led to intolerance towards the Arab and Asian communities in Europe and the United States. Others argue that Delacroix, who travelled in North Africa sketching extensively, was depicting a realistic scene of the era based on his first-hand knowledge and experience. In such an interpretation the clothing, for example, is consistent with the times, as Arab North Africans dressed differently from Europeans, and kept black slaves who would not have been treated as equals.
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Historically, oppressive groups use racial categories to discriminate against other groups that are different from them.
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| 6,788 |
Name some famous books on philosophy?
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Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.
The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant.
The Republic by Plato.
Discourses by Epictetus.
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| 6,789 |
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Who won the WNBA championship in 2018?
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Seattle Storm
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| 6,790 |
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Given this paragraph about the Ain Elzarga Wetland, why is this location one of the most important wetlands in the region?
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Ain Elzarga Wetland is a Ramsar-protected wetland of Libya. It was established in 2000 and covers an area of 33 hectares (82 acres). Ramsar says of it: "A small natural sebkha or depression with at least one natural connection to the sea, wet all year round but with increasing water levels and salinity during summer. The sebkha, with mudflats and salt marsh community, is surrounded by dunes from east to west and rocky hills to the south and east. The site is one of the most important wetlands in the area of the El Kouf National Park for migratory waterbirds. The birdwatching and ecotourism potential is considerable but undeveloped. Unsustainable hunting and destruction of vegetation, especially during summer, are considered threats.
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The Ain Elzarga Wetland is an important wetland due to being the home for migratory waterbirds.
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| 6,792 |
What is bicycling and why would someone do it? Is bicycling healthy and joyful or is it painful and a waste of time? How many bicycles should you have? Which part of the world do you find the most people bicycling?
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Bicycling is a form of human powered movement that typically involves sitting or standing on a machine with two wheels that can be propelled forward by using one's arms or legs. The bicycle was invented in the early 1800 (1817) by a German inventor named Drais. The early bicycles were built from wood and soon after used heavy steel for the frame and wheels. These steel bikes were called Boneshakers because when you road on them you would feel every stone and bump through your bones. Bicycling exists in nearly every corner of the world, on every continent and it is done by all people. In many countries, bicycling is the primary mode of transportation for people, especially in urban settings. Bicycling is also a professional sporting competition where men and women race against one another in large groups in front of cheering crowds. Bicycling is a very efficient form of converting power generated by a human into forward motion. While most humans can't run faster than 10 miles per hour for more than a few miles, humans can go much faster and often hundreds of miles when using a bicycle. Because modern bicycles use pneumatic tires and have many gears, it is considered a very healthy form of exercise. People who love bicycling often have many different bicycles for different conditions, such as dirt or gravel, pavement, snow and even sand.
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| 6,793 |
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Why do we have fences?
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Fences are used to physically show where your home lot start and where it ends. It is also used to give you privacy from your neighbors and private space you can enjoy with friends, family and pets. Fences can be decorated with plants or lights, or they can be painted to match another exterior color (e.g. house bricks). Fences are made out wood planks that are nailed to perpendicular 2.x4 planks of wood with steel nails.
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| 6,794 |
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Given the reference text below, what is the official name of the church San Vincenzo?
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The Basilica of Santa Maria della Sanità is a basilica church located over the Catacombs of San Gaudioso, on a Piazza near where Via Sanità meets Via Teresa degli Scalzi, in the Rione of the Sanità, in Naples, Italy. The church is also called San Vincenzo or San Vincenzo della Sanità, due to the cult of an icon of San Vincenzo Ferrer, also called locally O' Monacone (the big monk).
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The church called San Vincenzo is officially known as the Basilica of Santa Maria della Sanità, located over the Catacombs of San Gaudioso.
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| 6,795 |
What caused the unprecedented five-game winning streak?
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Richmond enjoys an unprecedented five-game winning streak with Zava on the team, culminating in a win away at Old Trafford against Manchester United. Sam takes the team to celebrate at his yet-to-open Nigerian restaurant, Ola's. Ted is disturbed to learn that his ex-wife Michelle is dating their former couple's therapist, Dr. Jacob; both Sharon and Sassy validate his concern that it is an ethical violation. Jamie feels overshadowed by Zava's stardom; Roy offers to train him. Rebecca visits her mother's psychic Tish, who tells her she will one day be a mother; Rebecca angrily rebuffs Tish as a fraud, but is later stunned when Sam hands her one of the green matchbooks he is giving out to the team, in line with one of Tish's premonitions. Colin introduces his boyfriend Michael to the team as just a friend, but Trent spots them kissing in private while leaving the restaurant.
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While we don't know exactly what caused the winning streak, it seems clear that a key part of the winning streak was related to Zava being on the team. We know that Jamie is overshadowed by Zava's stardom which tells us that Zava is a star, and we see that Zava was mentioned in relation to the winning streak. Therefore, we can guess that Zava joining the team helped the team to go on a five-game winning streak.
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| 6,797 |
Who wrote Howl's Moving Castle?
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Howl's Moving Castle is a fantasy novel by British author Diana Wynne Jones, first published in 1986 by Greenwillow Books of New York. It was a runner-up for the annual Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, and won the Phoenix Award twenty years later. It was adapted into a critically acclaimed 2004 animated film of the same name, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
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Howl's Moving Castle is a fantasy novel by British author Diana Wynne Jones.
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| 6,799 |
Are spicy foods healthy?
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Eating spicy foods has several health benefits, as various studies had shown that spicy foods can help boosting metabolism, lowering mortality rate, decreasing blood pressure, and even fighting cancer cells. However, overeating spicy food or eating super spicy food could lead to side effects, such as acne and stomach pain, to some people.
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| 6,800 |
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What is Barter?
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This is a way of paying for things, without using money, by exchanging goods
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| 6,802 |
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I don't like how my coffee tastes. What are some reasons that the coffee I brew isn't good?
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- Using too much or too little coffee can make the coffee too strong or weak.
- Grinding coffee too finely can make it too strong and bitter, or too coarsely can make it weak. Use the right grind for your brewing method; finer for drip coffee, coarser for french press.
- The quality of the coffee beans affects the flavor of the brewed coffee. Fresh high-quality beans can improve the coffee's flavor.
- Fresh-ground coffee will typically make better brewed coffee than previously-ground coffee
- The temperature and quality of the water can affect the coffee's flavor. Hard water can negatively impact the coffee's flavor.
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| 6,803 |
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Who won the 2018 NHL Stanley Cup Finals?
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The Washington Capitals won the 2018 Stanley Cup on June 8th, 2018. They defeated the Las Vegas Golden Nights 4 games to 1 in a best of 7 game series. The Capitals were coached by Barry Trotz and led by team captain, Alex Ovechkin, who won the Conn Smythe Trophy as Most Valuable Player.
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| 6,805 |
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Given a reference text about Friedrich Rudolf Ludwig Freiherr von Canitz, when and where was he born?
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Friedrich Rudolf Ludwig Freiherr von Canitz (27 November 1654 – 11 August 1699) was a German poet and diplomat. He was one of the few German poets of his era that Frederick the Great enjoyed.
Biography
Canitz was born in Berlin, Brandenburg. He was influenced by Boileau. He attended the universities of Leiden and Leipzig, travelled in England, France, Italy and the Netherlands, and on his return was appointed groom of the bedchamber (Kammerjunker) to Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, whom he accompanied on his campaigns in Pomerania and Sweden.
In 1680 Canitz became councillor of legation, and he was employed on various embassies. In 1697 Elector Frederick III made him a privy councillor, and Emperor Leopold I created him a baron of the Empire. Having fallen ill on an embassy to the Hague, he obtained his discharge and died at Berlin in 1699.
He wrote verse in a restrained, sober style. He was considered as one of the poets who “produced verse that was specifically aimed at entertaining and flattering princes and high courtiers.” Although he liked making verse in many languages, he never published any of them. Canitz's poems (Nebenstunden unterschiedener Gedichte), which did not appear until after his death (1700), are for the most part dry and stilted imitations of French and Latin models, but they formed a healthy contrast to the coarseness and bombast of the later Silesian poets.
A complete edition of Canitz's poems was published by U. König in 1727; see also L. Fulda, Die Gegner der zweiten schlesischen Schule, ii. (1883).
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Friedrich Rudolf Ludwig Freiherr von Canitz was born in Berlin on November 27, 1654.
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| 6,806 |
What does costco do?
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Costco wholesale is a membership warehouse that offers direct to consumer pricing for products bought in bulk. The majority of Costco's revenue is generated from memberships not from the products they sell. They also offer brand-name merchandise at steeply discounted prices. With a Costco membership you can also purchase products online directly and have then shipped directly to you. Competitors to Costco are Sam's Club, Walmart, Amazon, Kroger, HEB, Home Depot, and Lowes.
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| 6,809 |
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Why do people like the color green?
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It is a neutral color. When people look at something green, it is natural for them to think about trees, grasses, and anything in nature. It is naturally a delightful color and make people feel relaxed. People came from living in the wild millions of years ago. A prosperous season after the rain brings "dead" plants back to the green colors. It means lives are coming back, life is becoming abundance again.
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| 6,811 |
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Who is Paulina Flores Arias
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Paulina Flores Arias (born 1980 in Culiacán, Sinaloa) is a Mexican model, who after winning the national title of Nuestra Belleza México, represented her country in the 2000 Miss World pageant, held in London, England, on November 30, 2000. Paulina is currently a professional fashion model, and has been represented by several national and international modeling agencies.
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| 6,812 |
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Who is Eric Brewer? What is he known for?
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Eric Allen Brewer is professor emeritus of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley and vice-president of infrastructure at Google. His research interests include operating systems and distributed computing. He is known for formulating the CAP theorem about distributed network applications in the late 1990s.
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| 6,815 |
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What are common methods for processing coffee?
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Natural, washed and honey are three common methods for processing coffee. Honey wash often comes in three varieties, yellow, red, and black based on the amount of pulp left on the bean. There are other less common processing methods like carbonic maceration, acetic and lactic, Kenyan processing among others.
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| 6,817 |
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What class of locomotive was the No. 13?
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The OA class is a solitary steam locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Wellington and Manawatu Railway (WMR) in New Zealand. Ordered in 1894, it entered service in August of that year as No. 13 and was the first narrow gauge Vauclain compound in the world. In 1908, the WMR and its locomotive fleet were purchased by New Zealand Railways Department (NZR) and incorporated into the national rail network, and, although No. 13 bore a likeness to members of the O class, it was sufficiently different that it warranted separate classification. The designation of OA was created and it was numbered OA 457. It operated for another two decades until it was withdrawn in December 1929 in Auckland. The locomotive was known to WMR staff as "The Lady".
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The No. 13 locomotive was an OA class.
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| 6,818 |
Is Realpolitik diplomacy strategy based on pragmatism or idealism?
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Realpolitik (German: [ʁeˈaːlpoliˌtiːk]; from German real 'realistic, practical, actual', and Politik 'politics') is the approach of conducting diplomatic or political policies based primarily on considerations of given circumstances and factors, rather than strictly following explicit ideological notions or moral and ethical premises. In this respect, it shares aspects of its philosophical approach with those of realism and pragmatism. It is often simply referred to as pragmatism in politics, e.g. "pursuing pragmatic policies" or "realistic policies".
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Pragmatism
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| 6,819 |
Why is Alien the greatest space horror film of all time?
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For one thing, it does a fantastic job of making the crew of the Nostromo relatable and human. We spend a lot of time with them before any seriously suspenseful or horrific things happen. We understand they're a tight crew, and care about each other, and that they already feel some animosity towards the mining company that sent them out into space. This makes it a lot more scary and sad when eventually most of them become prey to the alien.
Secondly, the main villain in Alien is not only way scarier than almost any other creature villain ever made, the way they build up both her backstory and her eventual full reveal is amazing. When we first see the small chestburster alien, neither we nor the crew have any idea how big, terrifying, and lethal she will become. From her sticky, slick sheen to her cunning and silent hunting skills, she is truly an unstoppable force. If I were trapped on a spaceship with that creature, I don't know what I'd do.
And finally, Alien just feels more "real" with its universal and timely themes of greed and fear of the unknown. There are numerous actual stories of mining companies betraying their field employees and endangering their lives for a quick buck; isolated teams of workers going crazy, suffering from unseen maladies, and falling into chaos and disarray; and of course, the tale of predator and prey is perhaps the oldest one of all. Its visceral, brutal, claustrophobic terror felt imminently possibly in the 1970s when it was made, and has only increased with time.
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I strongly believe in having a growth mindset and being a lifelong learner. However, I am a very busy person and I always find it hard to find time in the day to dedicate to educating myself on a variety of topics. I would love to read more, but I simply don't have the time to be able to do this today regularly. What are some ways that I can consume content to learn and exercise my mind, using the least amount of time as possible?
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Time management is very hard for many people. Having a growth mindset is a fantastic way to continue to better yourself through all of life's troubles and tribulations. Here are a few ways that you can educate yourself either on the go, or with minimal time commitment:
1. TED (and TEDx) Talks - TED Talks are popular videos that present a great idea in 18 minutes or less. While TED talks are intended for a global audience, TEDx talks are intended for smaller audiences and are usually presented at a local level. TED and TEDx talk videos are readily available for consumption, for free from the website www.ted.com, via a mobiule app, as well as on Spotify, YouTube and many other content platforms.
2. Podcasts - Podcasts are a series of on-demand episodes, delivered orally, focused on a specific theme. Podcasts can be accessed from many types of devices and are readily available from many popular platforms, including Spotify, Apple Podcasts and iHeartRadio. Podcasts are focused on any number of topics, and can easily be listened to while on the go.
3. Newsletters - Newsletters are printed or electronic reports that are made available by many organizations to a subscribed audience. They are often written in short, digestible formats to provide the highlights of a variety of topics, and typically contain links to learn more, if desired. They usually take only a few minutes to read and are readily available from news sources like the Wall Street Journal, CNN, Fox News, as well as many websites and LinkedIn groups.
In addition to these ideas, simply dedicating a small amount of time each day to learning and improving yourself can go a long way. Try to dedicate 15 minutes every day, ideally at the same time each day, toward this and before long, it will become a habit.
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List some of the best life changing self-help books
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Atomic Habits by James Clear
Power of discipline by Daniel Walter
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg
High Performance Habits by Brendon Burchard
Getting Things Done by David Allen
What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast by Laura Vanderkam
How to Change by Katy Milkman
Start With Why by Simon Sinek
The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle
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Why was the 2023 Women's NCAA basketball championship controversial?
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LSU beat Iowa to win the NCAA women's basketball championship in slightly controversial game. Many fans and pundits observed overly tight officiating resulting in many of the key stars on both teams with quick fouls and spending time on the bench altering the flow of the game requiring more bench players to play than expected. Particularly impactful was a questionable technical foul on Iowa player Caitlin Clark in the second half. Additionally, near the end of the game Angel Reece the LSU star mocked Iowa start Clark as her team won mimicking her soon to be placed championship ring on her hand. The 'trash talk' drove discussion on sportsmanship online among fans and journalists
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Given this paragraph about Mahatma Gandhi, can you tell me why did he go to London?
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Gandhi had dropped out of the cheapest college he could afford in Bombay. Mavji Dave Joshiji, a Brahmin priest and family friend, advised Gandhi and his family that he should consider law studies in London. In July 1888, his wife Kasturba gave birth to their first surviving son, Harilal. His mother was not comfortable about Gandhi leaving his wife and family, and going so far from home. Gandhi's uncle Tulsidas also tried to dissuade his nephew. Gandhi wanted to go. To persuade his wife and mother, Gandhi made a vow in front of his mother that he would abstain from meat, alcohol and women. Gandhi's brother Laxmidas, who was already a lawyer, cheered Gandhi's London studies plan and offered to support him. Putlibai gave Gandhi her permission and blessing.
On 10 August 1888, Gandhi aged 18, left Porbandar for Mumbai, then known as Bombay. Upon arrival, he stayed with the local Modh Bania community whose elders warned him that England would tempt him to compromise his religion, and eat and drink in Western ways. Despite Gandhi informing them of his promise to his mother and her blessings, he was excommunicated from his caste. Gandhi ignored this, and on 4 September, he sailed from Bombay to London, with his brother seeing him off. Gandhi attended University College, London, where he took classes in English literature with Henry Morley in 1888–1889.
He also enrolled at Inner Temple with the intention of becoming a barrister. His childhood shyness and self-withdrawal had continued through his teens. He retained these traits when he arrived in London, but joined a public speaking practice group and overcame his shyness sufficiently to practise law
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Gandhi travelled to London in the late 1880s to study law. He first took English literature classes and then enrolled in Inner Temple with the intention to become a barrister.
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Which TV show from the 80s and 90s features a bar owned by a former baseball player?
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Cheers
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