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sentence: the new exhibition, which opened on 2 August, is titled A Becoming resemblance.

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sentence: it's the product of two years of correspondence between Dewey-Hagborg, whose discipline combines her expertise in technology, computer science and art, and Manning, a trans woman and pioneering dissident whose sentence was commuted by Barack Obama when he had just three days left in office.

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sentence: by algorithmically analyzing DNA extracted from Manning and using it to create 30 portraits of what someone with that genomic data might look like, Dewey-Hagborg has created a trenchant, if somewhat cerebral, commentary on not only the malleability of DNA data - the many ways it can be interpreted, and the inherent determinism of those interpretations - but also identity.

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sentence: manning, who was born Bradley Edward but has spoken openly about identifying as a woman as early as adolescence, was convicted in 2013 on 20 charges, including six Espionage Act violations, computer fraud and theft.

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sentence: from prison, her image was repressed, so much so that there was just one photo - a granular, black-and-white SELFIE in which Manning, visibly uneasy, sits in a driver's seat wearing a platinum blonde wig - with which she became associated.

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sentence: in 2015, Dewey-Hagborg was coming off the massive success of her 2012 project, Stranger Visions.

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sentence: in it, the artist produced portraits of strangers from forensic artifacts like cigarette butts and chewing gum, extracting DNA from the detritus to conjure an image of what these folks might look like.

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that was when she received an email from Paper Magazine.


sentence: "they were conducting an interview with Chelsea Manning while she was in prison and they wanted some kind of portrait to accompany that article," Dewey-Hagborg explained at a press preview of the new exhibition.

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sentence: and she couldn't be visited and she couldn't be photographed at that time, so they reached out to Chelsea and asked if she'd be interested in having a DNA portrait made.

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sentence: the artist and her incarcerated muse became unlikely pen pals, exchanging several letters over the course of two years.

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sentence: they even created a comic book, suppressed Images, illustrated by Shoili Kanungo, that envisioned a future where the president would commute Chelsea's sentence and she'd be able to see the exhibition in person.

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sentence: that Obama would indeed call for Manning's release just days after the book went public was a welcome sort of serendipity after seven brutal years at a military prison in Kansas.

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sentence: there's also something profound and powerful about the exhibition opening now, as Donald Trump wages war on government leakers and transgender troops while finding new, tweetable ways to further inflame the stark divisions he's been called on to mend.

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sentence: when asked about the peculiar timing of it all, Dewey-Hagborg said that "things happen for a reason."

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sentence: in an artist statement written on the gallery's wall, Manning's super-sized signature below it (the "i" in her last name dotted with a heart), called for an end to the "automatic factionalism that gender, race, sexuality, and culture have been the basis of."

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sentence: on the opposite wall is her mitochondrial DNA sequence - a centipede of Cs and Gs and As, written in pencil.

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sentence: by including the 200 letters (or nucleotides, per the artist's sophisticated scientific lexicon), Dewey-Hagborg hoped to illustrate how astoundingly similar, at least in biological makeup, we all are.

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sentence: "what I'm hoping that people will take away from this is that our genome doesn't care about who we are, and how open genetic data is to interpretation, how subjective it is," said Dewey-Hagborg, whose 2007 video work, Spurious Memories, is also on display.

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"DNA data can tell so many different stories, so this is 30 of those stories."


sentence: the final piece in the exhibition, which is contained in a single room, is one page from the aforementioned graphic novella.

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sentence: it shows Manning, emerging, King Kong-esque, from the United States Disiplinary Barracks with a speakerphone in hand.

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sentence: "when they chill your speech, then they've won," it reads.

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"so never shut up."


sentence: "it came directly from a letter that she wrote to me," the artist, who hails from Philadelphia, said.

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sentence: "I get goosebumps still talking about it."

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sentence: manning hasn't seen the exhibition in-person yet - as was so presciently imagined in the comic book - but when she does, she'll be greeted in the center of the room by the masks, her own genomic simulacra congregated like hordes of protesters.

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sentence: that was purposeful, too, as is everything in the exhibition, down to the height (5 "2, Manning's stature) at which her genetic haplogroups were written in pencil.

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sentence: "in the past, I've had them on the wall but I wanted them to feel like a crowd," Dewey-Hagborg said of the portraits.

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sentence: "I wanted it to feel like a mass movement that was forming with Chelsea, like the movement that was behind freeing her as well."

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northwestern Professor and Oxford University Employee Wanted for Homicide


sentence: a nationwide manhunt is underway for a Northwestern University professor and an Oxford University employee who are wanted as suspects after a man was found fatally stabbed inside a luxury Chicago apartment, police said.

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sentence: on Monday, first-degree murder warrants without bail were issued for Wyndham Lathem, 42, and Andrew Warren, 56, for their alleged involvement in the death of Trenton H. James Cornell-Duranleau, Cook County court records show.

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sentence: the documents say Cornell-Duranleau, 26, died after being stabbed multiple times.

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sentence: a community alert released by the Chicago Police Department says the body was discovered on July 27.

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sentence: officers received a call and arrived at the Grand Plaza Apartments and found the victim with several lacerations on his body.

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sentence: Cornell-Duranleau was pronounced dead on the scene and detectives are investigating the stabbing as a homicide while police actively search for the two suspects, officials said.

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sentence: Lathem has been an associate professor of microbiology and immunology at Northwestern University since 2007.

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Alan K. Cubbage, the vice president for university relations, said in an emailed statement that Lathem is now on administrative leave and has been banned from entering Northwestern University campuses.


sentence: "this is now a criminal matter under investigation by the appropriate authorities, and Northwestern University is cooperating in that investigation," Cubbage said.

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Warren is a senior treasury assistant at Oxford University.


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sentence: the statement added that Warren's colleagues were shocked and want him to turn himself in.

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sentence: chief Communications Officer of the Chicago Police Department Anthony Guglielmi said he strongly encourages the suspects to surrender to authorities.

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sentence: "police have an idea of their whereabouts but our efforts to locate that are intensifying," Guglielmi said.


sentence: Guglielmi said local, regional and national authorities are helping find the suspects.


sentence: Guglielmi said police received a call from the Grand Plaza building manager who had just received a cryptic tip that said something had occurred in apartment 1008.

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sentence: police described the scene as very gruesome.

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sentence: Guglielmi said it is unclear if the incident also occurred on July 27.

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sentence: Lathem and Warren were confirmed to be at the building by security cameras, he said.


sentence: "we believe Professor Latham and the victim had a relationship," Guglielmi said.

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sentence: the management team at Grand Plaza released a statement to residents saying, "Police are currently working on the timeline and background of the victim and are exploring a variety of motives, including a possible domestic incident."

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sentence: "we'll complete WADA roadmap in near future" - Russian Deputy PM Mutko

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sentence: Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko has said it will not take long to implement the remaining World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) criteria for the reinstatement of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RusADA).

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sentence: "a certain stage of fulfilling the road map criteria has been carried out, RusADA obtained the right to plan and test in cooperation with UKAD (UK Anti-Doping).

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the WADA roadmap was updated in this regard, "Mutko stated on Thursday.


sentence: the PM was commenting on the second part of WADA's Roadmap to Code Compliance, which describes the criteria for the reinstatement of RusADA and which recently published on the organization's website.

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according to Mutko, it does not contain anything that could cause concern for Russia.


"everything has been announced, everything will be implemented.


sentence: and the results will be presented to the International Olympic Committee [IOC] and WADA in the near future, "he added.

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sentence: one of the criteria mentioned in the list, however, states that Russian anti-doping authorities must publically accept the reported outcomes of the WADA-sanctioned investigation by Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren on alleged state-sponsored doping in Russian sport.

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sentence: referring to the matter, Mutko said: "we are conducting the investigation, as our anti-doping system admitted a failure.

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all measures have been implemented.


sentence: but there were no state programs, and we will not admit something that didn't exist. "

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sentence: Mutko's words echoed those of Vitaly Smirnov, the head of Russia's Independent Public Anti-Doping Commission.

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sentence: talking to Russian outlet RSport earlier in the day, Smirnov admitted past problems in Russian anti-doping bodies, but added: "we have said on numerous occasions, that the report contains controversial positions and regulations.

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sentence: no one plans to accept this report unconditionally, "Smirnov added.


sentence: RusADA was suspended from carrying out doping controls within Russia by WADA in November 2015 in the wake of the doping scandal.

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sentence: it was, however, permitted to plan and coordinate testing under the supervision of international experts and UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) this June.

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sentence: following a visit to the organization's headquarters in Moscow in July, WADA Director General Olivier Niggli stated that RusADA is "moving in the right direction" to be reinstated.

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sentence: Aldi is selling no more eggs for the time being

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this was announced by the corporate group.


it is a purely precautionary measure, and beyond that, no adverse effects on health can be assumed, said the announcement.


sentence: with immediate effect, only eggs that have been proven to test negatively for fipronil-containing anti-lice agent may be delivered to Aldi.

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sentence: with the move, Aldi wanted to create clarity and transparency for its customers.

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sentence: the start-ups that will help your company avoid becoming the next Uber

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Amy Errett wanted to gauge employee happiness at her e-commerce start-up, but surveys weren't working.


responses were often vague, unhelpful or, worse, deceitful.


sentence: and even if she promised anonymity, some workers didn't trust the process.

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sentence: "it just never had consistency and objectivity," said Errett, who runs the 75-person San Francisco e-commerce hair care company Madison Reed.

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sentence: so she called in outsiders for help.

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sentence: a new breed of human resources start-ups is cropping up to help companies figure out how their employees feel.

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sentence: by building and licensing software that has the specific purpose of measuring employee engagement, they allow companies to do snap polls, target specific teams and demographic groups, offer employees anonymity and complaint hotlines, and in some cases allow whistle-blowers to bypass C-suite executives and go straight to the board of directors.

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sentence: "you've now got tools such as strava and Fitbit for tracking your health, but where's the Fitbit for your company?" said Jim Barnett, co-founder and chief executive of Redwood City start-up glint, whose software analytics tools are used by companies to measure employee engagement.

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sentence: Errett said she gained more insight into what her employees were thinking and feeling in three years using glint.

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sentence: in addition to the snap surveys and polls of specific teams, it offers a heat map of the company showing at a glance which units have the most complaints and which managers have low approval scores - allowing her to drill down on why.

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sentence: companies are coming to realize they must stay on top of their workplace culture, lest they become the next Uber, which has been enmeshed in scandal since a former employee published a blog post describing an environment of harassment where those who spoke out were punished.

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sentence: for start-ups such as glint, this desire for oversight is a lucrative business opportunity.

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sentence: the global governance, regulation and compliance industry could be worth more than $118.7 billion by 2020, according to finance tech insights website Let's Talk Payments.

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sentence: Denver, Colo., start-up Convercent, which helps companies prevent and detect bad behavior, saw an uptick in interest and activity earlier this year amid Uber's fall into disrepute.

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sentence: Convercent has nearly 600 clients, including Airbnb, Microsoft, and Tesla.

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sentence: Uber recently signed up as a client.

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sentence: like glint, Convercent lets companies send customized "pulse" surveys, gather confidential responses in real time, and view heat maps of its problem areas.

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sentence: it also offers an anonymous texting hotline that lets employees report bad behavior.


sentence: and if the chief executive is implicated, complaints go straight to the board of directors.

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sentence: "the court of public opinion has usurped regulators," said Patrick Quinlan, the founder and chief executive of Convercent.

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sentence: if a company is found to treat its employees poorly or behave unethically, even if regulators don't step in, it can face costly consequences from consumer boycotts, employee attrition and lawsuits, Quinlan said.

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sentence: Ruby Tuesday, the restaurant chain with more than 25,000 employees across 500 locations, has used Convercent for more than a year to ensure employees are aware of policies and procedures and offer an easy way to reach its corporate headquarters.

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sentence: previously, if an employee wanted to report a problem, he or she had to find a phone number or email for corporate headquarters, lodge a formal complaint, and hope it was taken seriously.

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sentence: it was often an intimidating and uncomfortable experience, said James Vitrano, Ruby Tuesday's general counsel, who said there was no good way of tracking employee complaints.

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sentence: now that the company is using Convercent, though, problems that were previously hidden from executives who sat in offices cities or states away - such as discrimination, harassment or unfair wage practices - can be more quickly identified and addressed.

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sentence: "I can get closer to that holistic, 360-degree view into the employment experience," said Vitrano, who oversees Ruby Tuesday's risk management group.

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sentence: "and we're protecting our shareholders from employment litigation."

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sentence: companies started taking ethics, values and employee engagement more seriously in 2002 after accounting firm Arthur Andersen collapsed because of ethical violations from the Enron scandal, Quinlan said.

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sentence: but it wasn't until "social media came into its own" that companies realized they couldn't stop their dirty laundry from going viral online.


sentence: "prior to using technology to monitor ethics, people used hope as a strategy," he said.

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sentence: both glint and Convercent offer their software as a service, charging companies recurring fees to use their products.

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sentence: it's a business model and opportunity that has the approval of venture capital investors, who have propped up both start-ups.

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sentence: Convercent raised $10 million in funding in February from firms such as Sapphire Ventures and Tola Capital, bringing its total capital raised to $47 million.

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sentence: glint secured $10 million in November from Bessemer Venture Partners, bringing its total funding to $60 million.


sentence: these investments hardly come as a surprise, given the interconnected nature of companies, culture and venture capital.

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sentence: there's a growing body of research showing today's employees expect more from their workplaces than before.

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sentence: in competitive markets such as Silicon Valley, high salaries and interesting projects are merely table stakes.

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sentence: employees want to feel that they're accepted and valued and that they're giving their time to a company with a positive mission.

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sentence: "when people are happy to be at a company, feel their voices are heard, and that the work they are doing is rewarding, they are more committed to making that company successful," said Nina McQueen, vice president of global benefits and employee experience at LinkedIn, which uses both Convercent and glint.

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sentence: investors achieve returns when their portfolio companies do well; companies do well when employees are committed and engaged.

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if third-party analytics tools promise to increase employee commitment and engagement, it's no wonder they're finding backing.


sentence: having data on employee engagement is important, according to workplace culture experts.

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sentence: but the data are useless unless a company's custodians take action.


sentence: in fact, if a company asks employees for their feedback, it can set an expectation that change is on the way.

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sentence: and if change doesn't come fast enough, or at all, it can breed disappointment and make employees disengaged.

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sentence: "if you're going to ask for 4,000 suggestions, you need to be prepared to have 4,000 conversations," said Russell Raath, president of consulting at business management firm Kotter International, who has seen companies make the mistake of relying too much on data collection.

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"because if you don't follow through, employees will wonder, 'Did you really hear me?


do you care?


and if you don't care, why should I care? '"


sentence: Madison Reed, which now does monthly employee surveys, has been able to take action the same day a problem is reported on glint, according to Errett.

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sentence: and, after gathering feedback from employees frustrated by the speed of decision-making and the quality of communication, she was able to reorganize several teams within the company and add communication training to address the issues.

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sentence: over at Ruby Tuesday, the company is getting new insight on its employees, and it's hoping that in the long run, this will convert to better retention of workers in an industry known for high turnover.

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sentence: "if you're not committed to creating a culture of transparency, you're going to lose people," Vitrano said.

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sentence: "and if you lose people, you're going to lose customers.

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sentence: and when you lose customers, you're going to lose companies. "


sentence: the NCAA's elimination of two-a-day practices makes for a long day for the Bruins


sentence: it's pushing 11 p.m. as a throng of UCLA football players linger to chat on one side of the team's new on-campus practice fields.

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sentence: some have peeled off their jersey tops, revealing backs slick with sweat from the toil of the first day of training camp.

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sentence: for a good chunk of the team, these idle minutes constitute a midday break.

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sentence: players enrolled in summer classes will head back to their dorms after the three-hour practice to study for final exams before returning to the WASSERMAN Football Center for meetings at 6: 30 the following morning.

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sentence: "this is a grind for these guys the next three days," Bruins coach Jim Mora said not long before Monday turned into Tuesday.

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sentence: the NCAA's elimination of two-a-day practices, designed to lighten the load on players, has actually lengthened their days - at least until finals end Friday.

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sentence: that's why UCLA's first three practices were scheduled to begin at 7: 15 p.m. to accommodate players' already crammed schedules.

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sentence: the trade-off from no two-a-days is more one-a-days, the Bruins pushing up the start of camp nearly a week from last season and holding practices during summer school for the first time during Mora's six seasons in Westwood.

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sentence: they are scheduled to hold 18 practices through Aug. 20 before beginning formal game preparations for their opener against Texas A & M on Sept.


sentence: mora said he supported the NCAA's rule change even if it did add another item to players' busy itineraries.


sentence: "we're putting this enormous load on them for three or four days and it's very challenging," Mora said.

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"and they've just pushed through it; they grind, they're great kids.


sentence: I think once we get to Saturday and we'll have more time, it will really be great. "

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sentence: UCLA will close its practices once camp is finished, no easy task given the clear sight lines of its fields from an adjacent parking lot and the adjoining Luskin Center, an upscale hotel that has already been pelted with footballs that cleared a protective net behind a goalpost.

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sentence: Bruins players are scheduled to occupy the hotel beginning this weekend, but Mora acknowledged that there could be an issue once those rooms are vacant during the season.

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sentence: "we will have security," Mora said.

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sentence: "that is a real concern and it's not far-fetched to think that people can rent a room and sit up there and videotape a practice.

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sentence: if you have videotape of a practice, it's a pretty good deal.


but we'll have security there and we'll have security up in Parking Lot 8.


we'll do the best we can with what we got.


I'm not going to worry too much about it.


sentence: we have a plan in place. "

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sentence: Facebook to step up fact-checking in fight against fake news

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sentence: Facebook is to send more potential hoax articles to third-party fact checkers and show their findings below the original post, the world's largest online social network said on Thursday as it tries to fight so-called fake news.

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sentence: the company said in a statement on its website it will start using updated machine learning to detect possible hoaxes and send them to fact checkers, potentially showing fact-checking results under the original article.

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sentence: Facebook has been criticized as being one of the main distribution points for so-called fake news, which many think influenced the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

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sentence: the issue has also become a big political topic in Europe, with French voters deluged with false stories ahead of the presidential election in May and Germany backing a plan to fine social media networks if they fail to remove hateful postings promptly, ahead of elections there in September.

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sentence: on Thursday Facebook said in a separate statement in German that a test of the new fact-checking feature was being launched in the United States, France, the Netherlands and Germany.

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sentence: "in addition to seeing which stories are disputed by third-party fact checkers, people want more context to make informed decisions about what they read and share," said Sara Su, Facebook news feed product manager, in a blog.

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sentence: she added that Facebook would keep testing its "related article" feature and work on other changes to its news feed to cut down on false news.

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sentence: building a graphic novel: a Castle in England's story

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sentence: in its recent past, the diminutive Scotney Castle has featured in a Squeeze music video and been a bolthole for Margaret Thatcher during the 1970s and 1980s.

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sentence: but Scotney has witnessed 700 years of tumultuous history from its cosy seat in Bewl River valley in Kent, now inspiration for a graphic novel written by Jamie Rhodes, a mop-haired Yorkshireman with a penchant for historical documents.

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sentence: "I find it so beautiful to look at the handwriting of someone who has been dead for 300 years," he says wistfully.

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sentence: "what a personal connection, to hold that letter in my hand."

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sentence: spanning the middle ages to the Edwardian era, A Castle in England documents the families that lived in Scotney, with each story illustrated by a different, upcoming UK artist - Isaac Lenkiewicz, Briony May Smith, William Exley, Becky Palmer and Isabel Greenberg.

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sentence: it is not Rhodes's first book based on an archive: he also wrote 2014's Dead Men's Teeth and Other Stories, a collection inspired by documents in the British Library - a project he found unexpectedly emotional.

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sentence: "I welled up at just the thumbprint on the side of a letter, written by a double agent in the 1700s who was working for the Jacobites," he says.

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"that's his thumbprint!


sentence: and letters always smell like smoke because, back then, you lit a fire for light.

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sentence: to someone 300 years in the future, the smell makes it feel like they're there, too.

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sentence: AH, I love archives! "

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sentence: for someone so smitten with old papers, getting support from the National Trust and Arts Council England and living in a castle for almost four months ("I overstayed my welcome a little bit, to be honest") seems too good to be true.

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sentence: Rhodes spent his days exploring the Victorian "new" castle, going through the archives and studying the manor's many treasures and curios, such as the mounted hyena heads on the walls and bottles that had spent centuries in the moat.

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sentence: he wandered the grounds and the ruins of the old castle, talking to rangers, gardeners and sometimes the artists at work on his book's illustrations.

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then at night, he'd "drink whiskey and get writing."


sentence: the intimate history of Scotney is relatively unknown, as the National Trust had only gained full access in 2006 when the final heir, Elizabeth Hussey, died.

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sentence: when Rhodes arrived a decade later, staff were only starting to tackle the archive, which he describes as "hundreds of years of aristocrats going: 'Oh, stick it in the loft'."

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sentence: diaries, letters from the days of the English empire, maps outlining who owned what: "you'd think land disputes would be boring," says Rhodes, "but there was this one birch tree two families were fighting over.

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just let it go, guys! "


sentence: some of the stories in the collection use the castle as a jumping-off point to delve more broadly into English history, including The labourer, which follows a man who leaves the newly built castle to join the 1381 Peasants' Revolt.

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sentence: "there is a record of a riot happening at the castle in 1380, in this book called the Knightly Families of Kent and Sussex," says Rhodes.

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sentence: "the Peasants' Revolt started in that area and I thought, a riot is a good place to start.

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maybe the two are connected? "


sentence: other stories are rooted firmly in the history of the castle - such as The Priest, which tells the tale of the Jesuit priest whom the Darrell family hid for seven years during the English Reformation.

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sentence: or The Smuggler, which features 18th-century contrabander Arthur Darrell, who is thought to have staged his own funeral by filling a coffin with rocks (a discovery made years later when his coffin was unearthed).

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sentence: the Darrells are Rhodes's favourite Scotney family: "the gentlemen seemed to be quite roguish, always getting into debt and spending money on things they couldn't afford.

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sentence: different generations of Darrell men solved their debt crises by marrying rich old women - I imagine them as a bunch of handsome guys, with a knack for wooing heiresses. "

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sentence: with his assignment in the castle over, Rhodes is on the hunt for other singular writing experiences.

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sentence: he has completed a two-week stint in the Finnish wilderness for a graphic novel about Elämänmäki, the site of an early 20th-century sanatorium that has since been reclaimed by nature.

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sentence: but Scotney holds a special place for him.

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"I was sad to leave," he says.


sentence: "it was like: 'AH, I've got to go deal with fucking real life now.'"

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sentence: campaign launched: over 300-year-old Lady Chapel in Rhöndorf encased

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sentence: by encasing the 301-year-old Lady Chapel in Rhöndorf, the town of Bad Honnef launched their campaign to introduce a new umbrella brand (Thursday's Rundschau).

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sentence: Mayor Otto Neuhoff and his marketing team, led by Nelson Artz, want to keep the logo and slogan a secret still, until Thursday.

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sentence: at the end of August, as the climax of the campaign, there is to be a festival on the island of Grafenwerth.

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"too beautiful for us,


sentence: are you? "the campaign authors have been asking this, on posters on the Rhöndorf chapel, since yesterday.

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sentence: "we don't really think that (of course!)," they write on their website, activated yesterday.

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sentence: "but we are using this initiative to get your attention.

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and to bring home that some things are better than they seem.


sentence: in actual fact, we are firmly convinced that we, as residents of Bad Honnef, are well aware of the beauty and attractiveness of our town. "

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sentence: the initiative is about more than "just" a logo and a slogan, it continues.

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sentence: "a stand-alone pledge has to be formulated, one that lends the town an unmistakable unique selling point."


sentence: ultimately, it is in competition with other municipalities.

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sentence: the town of Bad Honnef has given itself a moderate five-figure amount for the costs of its new umbrella brand and the campaign.


sentence: military reform in Turkey - Erdogan's fear of the army

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sentence: every year in Ankara at the beginning of August, the highest military council (Yas) advises on retirements and promotions in the officer corps.

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sentence: so too this week.

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at first glance, a normal procedure.


sentence: but nothing is routine in the Turkish armed forces one year after the coup attempt.

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sentence: the meeting was no longer held in the general staff building as previously, but rather in the Prime Minister's official residence.

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sentence: taking part in the discussions chaired by the head of government were now also the five vice premiers, as well as the ministers for defence, the interior, justice, and foreign affairs.

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sentence: the civilians were thus in the majority in the Yas.

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sentence: the government is tightening the reins on the military.

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sentence: chief of Staff Hulusi Akar remains in office, but the commanders of the army, the air force and the marines were removed.

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sentence: since the failed coup, head of state Erdogan has fired 169 of the 326 generals and admirals.

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sentence: over 10,000 soldiers were removed from the ranks of the army - mostly due to alleged connections to the movement of exiled preacher Fethullah Gülen, whom Erdogan sees as the mastermind behind the coup attempt.

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sentence: as of this week in Ankara, trials are being held against 486 people who are said to have been directly involved in the coup attempt.

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sentence: already on the day after the coup, Erdogan described the attempt at overthrow as a "gift from God," since it gives him the opportunity to "completely cleanse" the armed forces.

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but does Erdogan really have control over the army?


sentence: at the end of February, the newspaper "Hürriyet" published an article with the headline "unease in the military headquarters."

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sentence: there are concerns among the general staff of an increasing "Islamisation" of the army, which manifests itself, among other ways, in the lifting of the headscarf ban for female soldiers, wrote the paper.

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the big clean-up of the army and the security forces is continuing anyway.


sentence: in the middle of July, Erdogan fired, by decree, an additional 7395 public servants, among whom were 2303 policeman and 546 soldiers.

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sentence: in doing so, it seems as if Erdogan has tamed the military.

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sentence: previously, the generals were deemed the true authorities in the country.

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sentence: three times they staged a coup, invoking their role as guardians of the secular state order.

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after an election victory in 2002, Erdogan has been pushing back the strength of the military bit by bit, not least by invoking the reform guidelines of the European Union.


sentence: former officers say that Erdogan is purposefully promoting Islamisation of the armed forces.

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sentence: in the magazine "Vocal Europe," an unnamed officer, who sought asylum abroad after the attempted coup out of fear of persecution, warned that the Turkish army would be "full of extremists and Salafists" in a few years.

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sentence: if that is true, Nato would not be able to be indifferent to such a development.

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sentence: in any case, after the purges, there is doubt in the alliance concerning the Turkish army's readiness for action.

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sentence: the governance structures and operational capabilities are "weakened," say Nato diplomats.

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Washington Changes the Green Card Rules


sentence: there is going to be new US immigration plan to modify Green Card rules, President Donald Trump said, quoted by the media.

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sentence: it envisages reducing legal immigrants to 50,000 per year, stricter rules for obtaining temporary work visas and restrictions on family-oriented visas.

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sentence: the new rules are proposed by the Republicans and are supported by the president.

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the draft law is due to be discussed in the two chambers of Congress.


sentence: "this law will reduce poverty, raise wages and save billions of dollars for taxpayers, and will do this by changing the way the US issues Green Cards to citizens from other countries.

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sentence: the law will reduce chain migration and replace the current scheme.

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sentence: this new application process will benefit candidates who speak English, have financial resources to support themselves and show skills that will benefit our economy, "said Trump, quoted by the American media.

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sentence: Minister wants line renovated for Rennsteig shuttle

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sentence: in recent months, there have been constant arguments about the future of the Rennsteig shuttle - now it is said to be moving very quickly.

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sentence: there are plans to build on the dilapidated stretch of track, on which the tourist trains travel, before the end of the year still.

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sentence: in order to ensure the long-term future of the Rennsteig shuttle, construction works should begin on the line this year already, according to reports from the Ministry of Transport.


sentence: "in taking the decision to continue to commission and to renovate the Ilmnau-Rennsteig line, the state acknowledges that this is an important connection, above all for tourism," stated Transport Secretary Klaus Sühl on Friday in Erfurt.

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sentence: he estimated the costs for the repairs to the line to be around 2.5 million euros.

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sentence: the state is taking on 75 per cent of this amount.

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sentence: the contract, on the basis of which, the shuttle is to be commissioned by the state in the future as well, is currently being finalised, explained Sühl.

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sentence: the ministry and Süd-Thüringen Bahn, as operators, are said to already be in agreement over the technical details.

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sentence: "the timetable, the vehicles used and the quality standards have thus been negotiated," said Sühl.

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sentence: the planned contract between the ministry and the train company is being concluded for a period of eleven years.

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the Rennsteig shuttle should therefore be commissioned as normal from December 2017.


sentence: the Rennsteig shuttle is a train connection between the stations of Ilmenau and Rennsteig, beloved above all by tourists.

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sentence: in past months, as part of a pilot operation, there were tests to see whether the line gets used by a large enough number of people for it to continue to be commissioned as normal in the future.

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sentence: the line is very run-down in places.


sentence: the rise of sex robots is real, and we should be concerned

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sentence: just when you thought 2017 couldn't get any weirder along comes a new report on the technological developments in the sex robot sector.

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yep.


sentence: sex robots are a big deal right now.


sentence: recently, the Foundation for Responsible Robotics (frr) released a report looking at the development of sex robots over the next five to 10 years.

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sentence: according to Noel Sharkey, emeritus professor of robotics and artificial intelligence at the University of Sheffield and co-founder of the frr, we need to start taking their rise seriously.

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sentence: customers can choose the robot's eye colour, nipple shape and fingernail type.

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sentence: "people snigger about them, but the companies are actually shipping quite a lot and we are going to see them a lot more," Mr Sharkey said at the launch of the new report.

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sentence: modern sex dolls have evolved out of their blow-up counterparts into robots with a silicon skin that is warm to the touch - with deliberately human-like responses achieved by artificial intelligence.

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sentence: the user can also "customise" their robot to suit their persuasions, choosing everything from the robot's eye colour, nipple shape to fingernail type or colour.

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sentence: but it gets even more disturbing, with many of the robots possessing "personalities" that would make a Stepford Wife look progressive.

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sentence: modern sex dolls have evolved into robots with a silicon skin.


sentence: the RealBotix robot, for example, allows users to customise their robots according to the traits they find appealing, such as shyness.

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sentence: then there are the Roxxxy Gold sex robots, developed by True Companion, which come with pre-programmed personalities, including "frigid Farrah" that gives the impression of shyness and "Wild Wendy" with an "adventurous" personality.

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sentence: "Roxxxy Gold has a personality which is matched as much as possible to your personality," the True Companion website enthuses.

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so she likes what you like, dislikes what you dislike, etc.


sentence: she also has moods during the day just like real people!

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sentence: she can be sleepy, conversational or she can 'be in the mood'! "

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sentence: there are many disturbing aspects to the rise of sex robots - not least of which is the replacement of real, human relationships - but the subservient female traits, the rapey connotations of making a move on frigid (read: resistant) Farrah, are the most concerning.

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sentence: on its website, True Companion likened Roxxxy to a vibrator, but for men.

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sentence: "if woman (sic) can have a vibrator, why can't men have a Roxxxy?" the website states.

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sentence: however, these sex robots are not a mere fetish or just another sex toy.


sentence: their emergence and increasing sophistication points to something darker and deeper within our culture, a retreat from the ideal of gender equality toward a desire for sex with subjugation as an optional add-on.

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sentence: most men, naturally, are not going to keep sex robots, and while the frr noted their increasing popularity, they remain, for now, on the outskirts of consumer culture.

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but what seeps in from the fringes can be highly instructive as to the tenor of the era we're living in.


sentence: and many people aren't weird or offensive until the free market gives them the permission to be so.

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sentence: there is little coincidence that these sophisticated sex robots have emerged at a time when women's rights are under threat across the globe, when there is a president in the White House who has bragged about sexually assaulting women.

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sentence: the most chilling aspect of the TV series The handmaid's Tale isn't the graphic imagery, the noosed bodies and gouged eyes, but just how realistic that vision feels.

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the Republic of Gilead is a leap, but, right now, it doesn't feel like a large one.


sentence: the aim behind these sex robots is to create as much of a physical likeness to actual women (albeit with porn star proportions) as technologically possible.

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sentence: their creators want them to feel human to the touch, for them to mimic the movement of a real body.

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sentence: but, pointedly, when it comes to their "personalities" the robots do not represent real women.

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they cannot break up with their companion, or walk out.


sentence: they have no agency or back-story, nothing to suggest independence or anything that may disrupt the fantasy of total servitude.

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sentence: they are pleasant slaves, in other words.

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or to put it into 2017 parlance: handmaidens.


sentence: Trump's great feat?

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making Mitt Romney seem the epitome of common sense


sentence: it has become a truism of the Trump era that the political divisions that have polarised the US electorate have, on a micro-scale, torn families apart.

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sentence: around Christmas and Thanksgiving, newspapers in the US abounded with advice columns on how to deal with the horror of Trump-voting relatives.

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we are all supposedly straining to burst our filter bubbles.


sentence: less remarked on is the power of Trump to bring families together.

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sentence: I mention this because my cousin, a left-leaning poet who lives in Chicago and who's long been at loggerheads with Republicans in our family, has been visiting me in New York this week.

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sentence: she reminded me that unity against a common enemy can have a powerful effect.

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sentence: with Trump in the White House, everyone she knows, including the Republican sibling she had been bickering with about politics for decades, is suddenly and peculiarly on the same side.

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sentence: around the dinner table this is surely a good thing; but it strikes me that, in a broader context, it carries significant risks.

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sentence: the left has been invigorated by Trump, but the warping effect of his presidency has the power to push us all rightwards.

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sentence: when we talk about "normalisation" and Trump, we are referring to the scary possibility that his antics may one day cease to appal.

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sentence: there is an even scarier long-range scenario, however, in which what Trump "normalises" are rightwing Republicans who, held up against his standards, suddenly seem the epitome of reasonable.

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sentence: I find myself actively nostalgic these days for Mitt Romney's quaint version of crazy - the dog on the car roof, the 14% income tax (but at least we knew what his tax return looked like) - both of which, compared to Trump, seem very mild offences indeed.

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sentence: when Trump goes, the next Republican candidate will merely have to be sane to qualify as an immeasurable improvement.

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sentence: while my cousin was in town, we took our kids to the carousel in Central Park, the biggest of the carousels run by the New York parks department, and the best three bucks you can spend in the city if you don't require caffeine.

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sentence: the horses are thunderously huge, the fibre-glass designs on the central cylinder - all gurning clowns and animals twisting to look over their own shoulders in terror - utterly sinister, and the tinkling music oddly transporting.

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sentence: so many of the cliches of a city disappoint: views from tall buildings get old, skylines grow too familiar to offer much of a thrill, and the reality of the city doesn't live up to the dream.

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sentence: thirty-five years later and I'm still not entirely over the day I discovered Swiss Cottage is not, in fact, a Swiss cottage - the theme pub, Ye Olde Swiss Cottage, doesn't count - but a large roundabout in north London.

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sentence: the Central Park carousel, however, is still a weirdly magical experience, to the extent that two two-year-olds, an 11-year-old and two women in their 40s can go on it and all have a great time.

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sentence: if I could have rated the carousel I would have given it full marks, but thankfully nobody asked.


sentence: in a department store this week, on the other hand, I was required, before swiping my credit card, to rate my transactional "experience" on a scale of one to five stars.

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sentence: in the coffee shop at the corner of my street it's the same thing, plus the option to match the rating with a 15% tip - this for buying something over the counter.

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sentence: the effect of this is not only to slow down what should be a neutral exchange, but to put pressure on the server to inject personality into a situation where none is required.

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sentence: the poor woman in the department store stood grinning apologetically while, wearily, I gave the experience of handing her my credit card five stars.

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sentence: Oscar Pistorius taken from jail to hospital with chest pains

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sentence: this is the second time Pistorius has left jail for a hospital visit.


sentence: last year he was taken to the hospital for treatment to cuts on his wrists, which prison authorities said he sustained after falling in his cell.

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sentence: Pistorius was convicted of murder after an appeal by prosecutors against an initial manslaughter verdict.

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sentence: he killed Steenkamp in the early hours of Valentine's Day 2013 by shooting her multiple times through a toilet cubicle door at his Pretoria home.

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sentence: Pistorius claimed he mistook his girlfriend for a nighttime intruder hiding in the cubicle.

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sentence: prosecutors have announced their intention to appeal again, this time against Pistorius' six-year sentence, which they say is too lenient.

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sentence: the National Prosecuting Authority said it will appeal to South Africa's Supreme Court, and the appeal could be heard this year.


sentence: Pistorius faces having his sentence increased to 15 years if prosecutors are successful.

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there is no death penalty in South Africa.


sentence: when farmer Arnold found a curious egg

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sentence: as the last amongst the schools in Blumberg, the fourth graders from Fützen and Epfenhofen were let go for the holidays and sent forth for secondary schools.

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three of the graduating students will be going to the Gymnasium secondary school, and four to the Realschule.


sentence: school headteacher Angelika Sitte greeted parents and public representatives in the Biesental community centre in Epfenhofen on Tuesday evening.

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sentence: as a symbol for the school graduation, the 29 students from the fourth grade, under the leadership of Sophia Schumacher and Regine Meder, chose an eagle that is growing up in the chicken yard, but will be then released into the wild.

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sentence: added to this, the lively bunch performed a musical with the title "The Eagle in the Chicken Yard."

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sentence: farmer Arnold found a curious egg and had his chickens hatch it.


sentence: instead of a chick, a small eagle emerged.

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sentence: yet hopes of making a chicken out of it were dashed; the eagle spread its wings out on a high mountain and vanished.

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sentence: afterwards, grades three and four performed a chicken dance, staged by Yvonne Frank.

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the hens danced in competition with the young Roosters, who were wearing top hats.


sentence: the eagle stands for integration, said headteacher Angelika Sitte.

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sentence: the young animals may well be different from the other young animals (chicks), but belongs amongst them.

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sentence: though it will never be like a chicken.

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it is its destiny to be free.


sentence: she wished for every fourth grader that he / she would feel accepted in his / her new school.

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sentence: there followed a word of thanks to her colleagues, the former headteacher Michael Müller, who is always filling in when there are teacher shortages, and the parent representatives.

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the time as chicks is now over, explained class teacher Sophia Schumacher.


sentence: she releases her students only very reluctantly, after two years of teaching, for it has been a really fantastic time.

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in the end, she was able to depend on the fourth graders.


sentence: to close, all the students raised a song, with Summertime and Holiday Time.

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sentence: that brought out a lot of joy from the children.

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there are already eight first graders registered for the new school year.


two Bulgarians Were Detained For Illegal Camping in Greece


sentence: two Bulgarians were detained for illegal camping in Greece, the Foreign Affairs Ministry announced, quoted by bTV.

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sentence: a group of illegally camping people, including the two Bulgarians, was detained by the police in Sithonia in the morning of August 1.

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sentence: the same day they were released, while an investigation is currently underway.

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the ministry of foreign affairs reported bTV that Bulgarians were later released.


sentence: the Greek authorities have tightened control over free camping and are already imposing serious fines on anyone who is caught resting in a place not intended for the purpose.

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sentence: checks will continue throughout the season.

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sentence: the ministry said that the court may impose a fine.

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sentence: software update for diesel vehicles: what those affected now need to know

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sentence: how exactly is the software update taking place?


sentence: do diesel drivers have to take part in the initiative?

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sentence: the most important questions and answers at a glance.

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sentence: at the Diesel summit, BMW, Daimler, Opel and the VW Group offered software updates for around 5.3 million cars in total.

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sentence: they are intended to improve exhaust emission properties for cars classed under Euro emissions standard 5, and, some under Euro 6.


sentence: euro 4 diesel or worse are excluded.


Anja Smetanin from ACE Auto Club Europa gives her assessment:


is the new initiative compulsory?


sentence: no, the brokered software updates are voluntary.


sentence: "the compulsory updates prior to this apply only to vehicles that have emissions test scamming software," says Anja Smetanin.


the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) has ordered that they be retrofitted.


sentence: how and from when are customers being notified of updates?

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sentence: the manufacturers have announced that there will be swift implementation in the coming months, but have not specified any precise deadline yet.

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Daimler has advised those affected to write to them.


sentence: if an inspection is due anyway, this will be settled during the course of that.

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how long are the retrofittings likely to drag on for altogether?


"difficult to say," says Smetatnin.


sentence: it depends on the commitment of the manufacturers and political pressure.

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sentence: "for we have seen that thus far, car manufacturers have not been acting of their own accord when it comes to matters of the environment."

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how long should the update last?


sentence: the retrofitting itself could last only three to four hours in the garage.

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sentence: it could be more laborious getting an appointment.

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sentence: what do car drivers do who don't drive a car by BMW, Daimler, Opel or the VW Group?

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the ACE advises waiting.


sentence: foreign manufacturers would apparently follow suit, said Smetanin.


sentence: is there now the threat of a massive price collapse in Euro 4 cars?


the ACE fears that.


sentence: but just in those regions where there are threats of driving bans.

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sentence: in rural areas, there have as yet been no drops in value for older diesel cars.


the ACE advises still waiting before selling.


sentence: ll Cool J receives Kennedy Center honours

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the Kennedy Awards Gala is one of the most glamorous events in Washington.


the first honours ceremony under President Trump promises to get political.


sentence: one of the award winners does not want to come - out of protest.

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sentence: ll Cool J (49) is the first rapper to receive one of the coveted awards of the renowned Kennedy Center.

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as the cultural establishment announced on Thursday, singers Gloria Estefan (59) and Lionel Richie (68), as well as choreographer Carmen de Lavallade (86) and the TV producer Norman Lear (95) are also among those being honoured.


sentence: the awards are handed over at the beginning of December.

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sentence: as is tradition, US President Donald Trump will host a reception and will take part in the presentation of awards, together with his wife Melania.

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for this reason, the award-winner Lear, made famous by a series of TV shows, already announced that he would not be attending the gala.


sentence: he said to the "New York Times": "this presidency has decided to completely turn its back on the arts and human rights - even take funding away from them - and that upsets me."

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sentence: the 59-year old Estefan stressed that she would use the conversation with Trump to make her point of view clear.

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sentence: the Kennedy Center, named after former president John F. Kennedy, is the biggest cultural establishment in the US capital.

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former prizewinners include Meryl Streep, Aretha Franklin, Robert De Niro, George Lucas, Tom Hanks and Sting.


sentence: we're making the city liveable

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sentence: Roland Wacker, municipal architect in Haslach, is going into retirement next year.

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sentence: the post has already been advertised - suitable applicants, though, are few and far between.

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sentence: WACKER has been municipal architect for 31 years.

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sentence: and he still finds the work a lot of fun, as he conveys in the press meeting.

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sentence: he reports of varied, but also demanding, tasks that await his successors.

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sentence: at the same time, it surprises him that up until now no application has satisfied the job profile.

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sentence: the city is looking for an architect or civil engineer at the earliest possible opportunity.

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sentence: this should then allow enough time for induction training - observing usual notice periods.

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sentence: as Haslach serves as the lower board of building regulations for the joint association of administrations, applicants have to hold appropriate qualifications.


sentence: for the town wants to maintain this role at all costs.

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if it could no longer fulfil it, citizens would have to travel to Offenburg for advice.


sentence: but accessibility for citizens is important to the town and to him too, says Wacker, who reports of a good working atmosphere and a cheerful mood between authorities and citizens.

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sentence: in more than 30 years in office, Wacker has amassed several significant projects that he looks back on with pride.

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sentence: "we're making the city liveable," is something he is certain of, re: the building authorities and his colleagues.

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sentence: but in the future too, there are diverse projects on the agenda: the redesign of a former Hukla plot and of the Niederhofen carpark, for example, have been initiated.

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sentence: the Kinzig bridge between Bollenbach and Steinach is being renovated, and refurbishment of the stadium is still a topic.

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the latter alone will cost as much as 1.5 million euros "if we do it properly," estimates Wacker.


sentence: "all in all, there are great tasks awaiting my successor.


sentence: the work here is fun. "

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there is a lot of scope for creativity for a municipal architect.


with Haslach's own building yard and garden nursery, there is a lot that can be responded too with a high level of flexibility.


sentence: "one can affect a lot," says Wacker, and the design of the green spaces is often mentioned with praise by citizens and visitors.

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sentence: since the old town as a whole has protected building status, it is important "to have an eye for what fits in" if new buildings are approved, stresses the outgoing municipal architect.

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sentence: in any case, the municipal architect bears a lot of responsibility.

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sentence: he is master of construction: "in the end, everything here passes by my desk."

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sentence: for support and coordination, he can count on years-old colleagues: Markus Neumaier (building construction) has been there ten years, Manfred Schöner (civil engineering), already 15 years.

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sentence: WACKER also hopes that his successor will stay a long time: "we are looking for someone who really identifies with the post and wants to stay."

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sentence: for continuity is important not only for a good working atmosphere, but also for the future design of the city.


sentence: anyone who wishes to take over from Roland Wacker should, according to the city of Haslach, be able to demonstrate completed studies as graduate engineer or a bachelors degree with a specialisation in architecture and should have good specialist knowledge in the fields of building regulations and planning laws.

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sentence: the municipal planning and building control office is in charge of building construction and civil engineering, urban land-use planning, land acquisition affairs, management of municipal property, the municipal depot with building yard and city nursery, and the lower board of building regulations, including preservation of sites of historic interest.

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sentence: bicycle thrown onto cables: southern railway closed

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sentence: according to police, the as-of-yet unknown perpetrator had thrown the blue bicycle onto the cables from the railway track overpass in the area of Leobener Straße (B116).

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these were so badly damaged in the course of this that the approaching freight train had to be stopped.


investigators are proceeding on the assumption that there were two male perpetrators and have been looking for them since last night.


sentence: a pink scooter and bicyclist were observed near to the scene of the incident by witnesses.

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sentence: "this goes far beyond a roguish prank," said ÖBB spokesman Christoph Posch to the APA.

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sentence: the perpetrator or perpetrators put themselves and the rail traffic in great danger.

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sentence: in addition to the damage to the locomotive and facilities, as well as the time in delays and the costs for the rail replacement services, the perpetrators could also be faced with railway customers' penalty fees.

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sentence: altogether, one can expect a "considerable" sum, said the spokesman.

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the damage was repaired on Friday afternoon and the rail traffic on the southern railway stretch was able to be operated without obstructions.


almost ten passenger trains were cancelled on Friday afternoon, two of them were long-distance trains.


freight trains were not cancelled, although they were delayed.


sentence: according to ÖBB spokesman Christoph Posch, around 200 metres of overhead lines had to be replaced.

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sentence: insulators and masts were also damaged.

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sentence: red meat, dairy, and chocolate could help relieve IBD

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sentence: red meat and chocolate may sound like a nightmare for your digestive system.


sentence: but a new study claims quite the opposite: a diet rich in meat-based protein and dairy treats could help relieve symptoms of sufferers of inflammatory bowel disease.

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sentence: the incurable condition, which affects around 1.3 million in the US and 300,000 in the UK, causes stomach cramps and bloating, recurring or bloody diarrhea, weight loss and extreme tiredness.

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sentence: while sufferers are usually advised to dodge meat and dairy to soothe their symptoms, researchers at Washington University found protein's essential amino acid tryptophan helps develop immune cells that foster a tolerant gut.

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sentence: lead investigator Dr Marco Colonna explained immune cells patrol the gut to ensure that harmful microbes hidden in the food don't sneak into the body.

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sentence: cells that are capable of triggering inflammation are balanced by cells that promote tolerance, protecting the body without damaging sensitive tissues.

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sentence: when the balance tilts too far toward inflammation, inflammatory bowel disease can result.


sentence: in experiments it was found a kind of tolerance-promoting immune cell appears in mice that carry a specific bacterium in their guts.

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sentence: and the bacterium needs tryptophan - one of the building blocks of proteins - to trigger the cells' appearance.

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sentence: Professor Colonna said: 'we established a link between one bacterial species - Lactobacillus reuteri - that is a normal part of the gut microbiome, and the development of a population of cells that promote tolerance.

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sentence: the more tryptophan the mice had in their diet, the more of these immune cells they had. '

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sentence: he suggested if the same works in humans, a combination of L. reuteri and a tryptophan-rich diet may foster a more tolerant, less inflammatory gut environment.

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sentence: postdoctoral researcher Dr Luisa Cervantes-Barraganwas studying a kind of immune cell that promotes tolerance when she discovered that one group of study mice had such cells but another group of the same strain but housed separately did not.

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sentence: she suspected the difference had to do with the mice's gut microbiomes - the community of bacteria, viruses and fungi that normally live within the gastrointestinal tract.

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sentence: the guts of the mice were DNA sequenced and it was found six bacterial species present in the mice with the immune cells but absent from the mice without them.

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sentence: mice reared in a sterile environment so they lacked a gut microbiome and do not develop this kind of immune cell were given L. reuteri and the immune cells arose.

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sentence: to understand how the bacteria affected the immune system, the researchers grew L. reuteri in liquid and then transferred small amounts of the liquid - without bacteria - to immature immune cells isolated from mice.

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sentence: the immune cells developed into the tolerance-promoting cells.

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sentence: when the active component was purified from the liquid, it turned out to be a byproduct of tryptophan metabolism known as indole-3-lactic acid.

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sentence: when the researchers doubled the amount of tryptophan in the mice's feed, the number of such cells rose by about 50 percent but when tryptophan levels were halved, the number of cells dropped by half.

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sentence: Dr Cervantes-Barragan explained people have the same tolerance-promoting cells as mice, and most of us shelter L. reuteri in our gastrointestinal tracts.

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sentence: it is not known whether tryptophan byproducts from L. reuteri induce the cells to develop in people as they do in mice, but defects in genes related to tryptophan have been found in people with inflammatory bowel disease.

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sentence: she said: 'the development of these cells is probably something we want to encourage since these cells control inflammation on the inner surface of the intestines.

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potentially, high levels of tryptophan in the presence of L. reuteri may induce expansion of this population. '


sentence: Jose Mourinho thinks Manchester United have signed a 'genius' in Nemanja Matic

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sentence: Manchester United have signed a "genius" in Nemanja Matic, believes Jose Mourinho, after the midfielder made his debut against Sampdoria on Wednesday evening.


sentence: the £40m signing from Chelsea started the 2-1 win in Dublin, United's final preseason game before the Uefa Super Cup against Real Madrid on Tuesday, and impressed in the holding role as the likes of Paul Pogba and Andreas Pereira marauded forward at will.

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sentence: however, having been left out of the Blues' preseason tour of Asia, Matic was severely lacking match fitness and only managed 45 minutes, something Mourinho admitted needed to be improved before the start of the Premier League season.

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sentence: "he needs time but his experience, intelligence, a genius in the way he thinks - he thinks football," Mourinho said.

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"we will help him to be ready sooner rather than later."