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After the war in Afghanistan began in 2001, the Taliban started an insurgency, which is known as the Taliban insurgency. The Taliban started to attack the forces of ISAF and NATO, in Afghanistan, and committed many terrorist attacks. In the conflict, the Taliban fight against the Afghan government and its allies. Al-Qaeda is linked to the Taliban. With this, the conflict in the region spread to Pakistan. The related conflict in Pakistan is the insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Because Afghanistan has seen a number of conflicts and wars in recent decades, its economy has changed, and many people depend on growing cash crops, such as poppy seeds which are used to produce illegal drugs such as opium, or heroin. Many people in Afghanistan do not think the problems are caused by the Taliban. Resolving the problem will therefore probably involve more effort than winning against the Taliban. It will also mean that there need to be changes in the economy, and the way in which the country is run. Opium trade. Currently, Afghanistan is one of the biggest producers of opium. While opium also has its uses as a regular drug, it is mainly used as an illegal drug. In 2001, Afghanistan produced only 11% of the world's opium, today it produces over ninety percent. In 2007, 93% of the "non-pharmaceutical-grade" opiates on the world market originated in Afghanistan. This amounts to an export value of about $4 billion; opium farmers earn about a quarter of this amount, the rest goes to district officials, insurgents, warlords, and drug traffickers. The drug trade accounts for half of Afghanistan's GDP. Estimates made in 2006 by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimate that 52% of the nation's GDP, or $2.7 billion annually, is generated by the drug trade. Areas where the security situation is worse produce more Opium; areas that are more stable seem to produce less. Many farmers in rural areas depend on selling poppy seeds. Opium is more profitable than wheat and destroying opium fields could possibly lead to discontent or unrest among the affected population.
Fruitarianism is a diet where people mostly eat fruits, and possibly nuts and seeds, without animal products. Fruitarianism is a strict of dietary veganism. Fruitarians can become a fruitarian for different reasons, including ethical, religious, environmental, cultural, economic, and health reasons. There are many types of the diet. Some people whose diet consists of 75% or more fruit consider themselves fruitarians. Definitions. Some fruitarians will eat only what comes naturally from a plant: foods that can be harvested without killing or harming the plant. These foods consist primarily of culinary fruits, nuts, and seeds.  Some do not eat grains, believing it is unnatural to. Some fruitarians feel that humans shouldn't to eat seeds as they contain future plants,or nuts and seeds, or any foods besides juicy fruits. Others believe they should eat only plants that spread seeds when the plant is eaten. Others eat seeds and some cooked foods. Some fruitarians use beans, peas, or other legumes. Other fruitarians' diets include raw fruits, dried fruits, nuts, honey and olive oil, or fruits, nuts, beans and chocolate.SO different fruitarians do different things. Motivation. Some fruitarians who hold Judeo-Christian beliefs hold that fruitarianism was the original diet of humankind in the form of Adam and Eve, based on the Book of Genesis. They believe that a return to an Eden-like paradise will require simple living a health and diet.  Another common motivation is the desire to eliminate perceived toxicity within the body. For others, the appeal of a fruitarian diet comes from the challenge that the restrictive nature of this diet provides.
Pteropods are free-swimming pelagic sea snails and sea slugs. They are marine opisthobranch gastropods.  Are they a natural group? The monophyly of Pteropoda is the subject of debate. At present, by molecular studies, the group is monophyletic. Pteropoda has two clades Thecosomata, the sea butterflies, and Gymnosomata, the sea angels. The Thecosomata have a shell, while the Gymnosomata ("naked body") do not. The two clades may or may not be sister taxa. If not, their similarity may reflect adaptation to their particular lifestyle. All are pelagic, small, and transparent, and swim using wing-like flaps (parapodia) which protrude from their bodies. The name "sea slug" is most often applied to nudibranchs, as well as to other marine gastropods without obvious shells.
Micro black holes are very small black holes. Because they are small, they may shrink and disappear due to Hawking radiation. They may exist in nature as primordial black holes. Detection. If a micro black hole decays, it would create particles that we could see. The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is looking for gamma rays that might come from micro black holes in outer space. Man-made black holes. If two particles with enough energy collide, they may create a black hole. Some scientists think the LHC can create one. Safety. If the LHC did create a micro black hole, it would disappear immediately, and would not be dangerous. Cosmic rays hitting the Earth's atmosphere may already create these. If dangerous micro black holes are created by cosmic rays, then the Earth would already be damaged. Because the Earth is not damaged by black holes, scientists think they are not dangerous. This thought is like the Anthropic principle.
A plasma lamp is a type of gas discharge lamp that is filled with different gases. It uses dielectric barrier discharge, which is also known as plasma discharge. Nikola Tesla invented it to study the properties of plasma, in 1892. He obtained a patent in 1894. Tesla called the lamp Inert Gas Discharge Tube. Plasma globe lamps were popular in the 1980s.
A hacker koan is a funny short story about computer science. Hackers like the artificial intelligence (AI) group at MIT made the term. A book called the Jargon File has many koans called "AI Koans". Most koans are not the same as "kōans" in Zen Buddhism, but both kinds of koans are short, mysterious, and have a hidden meaning. Examples. Uncarved block. Like Zen koans, this might have a real and correct answer. In the story, the room is not really empty when Minsky shuts his eyes, and the neural network might still have assumed something when it is randomly set up. The assumptions are random instead of from a human, but they still exist. This story may be from a real story from "" (chapter 6): Victory. A story like this is in "The Tao of Programming". Enlightenment. Tom Knight might have written this. He helped make the Lisp machine at MIT: To reboot a degraded system is to discard an opportunity to troubleshoot and understand the cause of the failure. Knight, having contributed to the machine's design, presumably has some intuition about the current failure and is thus qualified to reboot it. Emacs and Bolio. This koan is sometimes called an "ice cream koan". The word "koan" sounds like "cone" in the phrase "ice cream cone", so the name is a pun. There is another "ice cream koan" in "The Dharma Bums". This koan talks about AI lab tools from before the GNU project: Books of koans. Eric S. Raymond put the first AI Koans in a book called Hacker's Jargon Dictionary. He says that Danny Hillis created them when he was a student at MIT. "The Codeless Code" is a different book about software engineers at big businesses instead of unix hackers. The stories in it are like traditional Zen koans. Every character is made-up, and most are masters and monks in a place like the Far East. The stories talk about things like making software. The name comes from a book called "The Gateless Gate".
Arin Joseph Hanson (born January 6, 1987), also called Egoraptor, is an American Internet celebrity, animator, cartoonist, comedian, voice actor, songwriter, and rapper. He is known for his popular Internet animations, for the popular YouTube Let's Play show "Game Grumps," and for the video game parody band Starbomb. Career. Hanson has worked on many things other than "Game Grumps": Music. Hanson often works with Starbomb band members from Ninja Sex Party, Dan Avidan and Brian Wecht. He sings guest vocals for their music and appears in their videos.
The Ñuble Province () was one of the provinces of the Chilean region of Bío Bío (VIII). The provincial capital was the city of Chillán. It was the second province in area in the Bío Bío region, after the Bío Bío province, and the second with more people living in it, after the Concepción province. The province was created in 1974, as the historical province of Ñuble was supressed by the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. In 2018 the province was converted in the Ñuble Region. Geography. The Ñuble province is in the northern part of the Bío Bío region with an area of . The capital, Chillán, is at about from Santiago, the national capital. Ñuble is bordered to the north by the Maule region (Cauquenes and Linares provinces), to the east by Argentina, to the south by the Bío Bío province and to the west by the Concepción province and the Pacific Ocean. Administration. As a province, Ñuble was a second-level administrative division, consisting of 21 communes ("comunas"). The city of Chillán served as the provincial capital. The province was administered by a governor.
La Défense () is an area in the Paris Metropolitan Area of Île-de-France, located in the Hauts-de-Seine French department, just west of Paris. It is the largest business district in Europe and is home to 19 skyscrapers and more than 50 other buildings made of glass and steel. The area is 1.6 km2 (560 hectares) big. About 25,000 people live in La Défense, and another 180,000 people work there. Over 8 million tourists visit La Défense every year. To get there, one can start at the Louvre or Arc de Triomphe and head west along the "Axe historique" (Historical Axis) along the Champs-Élysées and Avenue de la Grande Armée. La Défense is at the other end of the axis and has a monument called "Grande Arche". It can also be reached by Paris Métro Line 1, RER Line A, tram T2 run by the RATP, and by SNCF trains, which all stop at an underground railway station called "Gare de La Défense".
Matthias was the apostle who replaced Judas Iscariot. This was stated in the Acts of the Apostles. Unlike the other apostles, his appointment was not made personally by Jesus. After the betrayal of Judas, the disciples of Jesus needed to choose a new apostle. To do this they nominated 2 men - Joseph Barsabbas and Matthias.
Oedipina maritima (commonly known as the maritime worm salamander) is a species of worm salamander that lives on the island of Escudo de Veraguas. It has no natural predators, as only a few animals live on the island, but it is endangered due to deforestation. Population. There are only eight known adult specimens and two clutches of eggs. Threats. The only threat to the salamander is deforestation.
Boys' Life is a magazine made by the Boy Scouts of America. It was first published in 1911. There are two versions of "Boys' Life". The first version is made for the youngest members of Cub Scouting. These are the 6-to-10-year-old Cub Scouts and first-year Webelos Scouts (a rank in Cub Scouts). The second version is made for 11-to-18-year-old boys, which includes second-year Webelos through 18-year-old Boy Scouts, Varsity Scouts and Venturers. The publisher picks which version to send by looking at if the subscriber is in Cub Scouts or Boy Scouts. In June 2007, "Boys' Life" earned four Distinguished Achievement Awards from the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP). One of those awards is　Periodical　of the Year. The magazine's mascot is Pedro the Mailburro, who answers readers' letters. Boys' Life has a comic strip about Pedro.
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Babatunde Osotimehin (6 February 1949 – 4 June 2017) was a Nigerian public servant and United Nations official. Osotimehun was appointed on 19 November 2010 as the new Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, for a four-year term. He was reappointed to this position on 21 August 2014.  He assumed the position on 1 January 2011 and became the organisation's fourth Executive Director. He held the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. Before, he was Nigeria's Minister of Health. He left this office in March 2010 when Acting President Goodluck Jonathan dissolved his cabinet.
Roger LaVerne Smith (December 18, 1932 – June 4, 2017) was an American television and movie actor, singer and screenwriter. He starred in the television detective series "77 Sunset Strip" and in the comedy series "Mister Roberts". Smith, who went on to manage the career of Ann-Margret, his wife of 50 years. Smith was born in South Gate, California. He studied at the University of Arizona. In an interview with "The New York Post", Ann-Margret said that he had Parkinson's disease. Smith died of complications from Parkinson's disease at the Sherman Oaks Hospital in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles on June 4, 2017 at the age of 84.
Zhang Tianfu (,  21 September 1910 – 4 June 2017) was a Chinese agronomist and expert in tea processing, known for promoting processing of oolong. In 1936, he introduced the tea processing machines from Japan, facilitating the automation of the domestic tea industry. From 1942 to 1944, he resumed teaching at Fukien Christian University. He was targeted at the start of the Anti-Rightist Movement and subsequently was exiled to Chong'an until 1962. The Cultural Revolution followed, and Zhang was exiled to Shouning. Despite his exile, Zhang continued scientific research. He was rehabilitated in 1980.
In mathematics, a fixed-point theorem is a theorem that a mathematical function has a fixed point. At that fixed point, the function's input and output are equal. This concept is not one theorem itself; it is a way to describe many other theorems.
Helen Dunmore FRSL (12 December 1952 – 5 June 2017) was a British poet, novelist and children's writer. She was born in Yorkshire, Northern England. She was known for her novel "Zennor in Darkness" (1993). In 2017, Dunmore published her last book, "Birdcage Walk", before writing an article about mortality for the Guardian after she was diagnosed with cancer. She died on 5 June 2017 in Bristol, aged 64.
Northern England, also known as the North of England, North Country or simply the North, is the northern part of England. People have different ideas about which parts of England are in Northern England, but it usually includes the counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, County Durham, Lancashire, Northumberland, Westmorland and Yorkshire, as well as parts of Lincolnshire. There are big cities in Northern England, but there are also large mountains and lakes. The biggest Northern cities are Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Sheffield. Northern England has a long history: it was where many battles between England and Scotland were fought, and it was the place where the Industrial Revolution began. Nowadays, most of the industry is gone and Northern England is poorer than Southern England. However, Northern England still has its own culture and way of speaking, and many Northerners are proud of the region. Area. The area roughly spans from the River Trent to the Scottish border in the north. However, people disagree about where the southern border is. Some people say Northern England starts near Birmingham, while some people say it only starts at the River Tees. The government says that Northern England is made up of three statistical regions: the North East, North West and Yorkshire and the Humber. These have a combined population of around 14.9 million as of the 2011 Census and an area of 37,331 km2 (14,414 sq mi).  Geography. Northern England contains much of England's national parkland but also has large areas of urbanization, including the conurbations of Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Teesside, Tyneside, Wearside, South and West Yorkshire.
, formerly , was a Japanese Buddhist nun, writer and activist. Setouchi was known for her biographical novels written as first-person narratives. She is known for her 1998 translation of "The Tale of Genji". She was awarded the Women's Literary Prize in 1963 for "Natsu no Owari". Setouchi died of heart failure in Kyoto, Japan, on 9 November 2021, at the age of 99.
Cheick Ismaël Tioté (; 21 June 1986 – 5 June 2017) was an Ivorian footballer. He played as a defensive midfielder. He played in Europe for Dutch team FC Twente and English club Newcastle United before moving to China to represent Beijing Enterprises. He won the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations with the Ivory Coast national team.  On 5 June 2017, Tioté died in Beijing, China after suffering from cardiac arrest in training, aged 30. Source: "Scores and results list the Ivory Coast's goal tally first." Honours. Anderlecht Twente Ivory Coast
Anna Jókai (Hungarian: "Jókai Anna") (24 November 1932 – 5 June 2017) was a Hungarian author, poet and teacher. She began her writing career in 1974 and, during the 1980s, she participated in the Hungarian liberation movement. Between 1990 and 1992, she was the chairperson of the Hungarian Writers' Union. Awards. In 1994 and 2014, she received the Hungarian Kossuth Award.
Nnedi Okorafor (full name: Nnedimma Nkemdili Okorafor; also known as Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu; born April 8, 1974) is a Nigerian-American writer. She writes fantasy and science fiction. Background and personal life. Okrafor was born in the United States. Her parents are members of the Igbo group from Nigeria. She has visited Nigeria many times since she was very young. While she studied Homewood-Flossmoor High School in Flossmoor, Ill., Okorafor was a good tennis player and did very well studying science. Later, she found out she had scoliosis. This condition and surgery to fix it ended Okorafor's student athletic career. It made it difficult for her to walk. She started writing as a hobby while she recovered from surgery. Her novels and stories show both her West African life and her American life. In 2001 Okorafor graduated of the Clarion Writers Workshop in Lansing, Michigan. She earned a PhD in English from the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is an associate professor of creative writing and literature at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). She lives in both Buffalo and Olympia Fields, Illinois with her family. Writing and awards. Okorafor received a 2001 Hurston-Wright literary award for her story "Amphibious Green." She then published two books for young adults, "The Shadow Speaker" (Hyperion/Disney Book Group) and "Zahrah the Windseeker" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). "Zahrah" won the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. "The Shadow Speaker" was a winner of the Carl Brandon Parallax Award, a Booksense Pick for Winter 2007/2008, a Tiptree Honor Book, Okorafor's children's book "Long Juju Man" was the 2007–08 winner of the Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa. Okorafor's first novel for adults, "Who Fears Death" (DAW/Penguin Books), won the 2011 World Fantasy Award for Best
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (14 June 1736-23 August 1806) was a French physicist, known for his research on the properties of electricity. He also did research on the friction of fluids. Today, the SI unit for electric charge, the coulomb is named after him. He is one of the 72 people to have his name written on the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station (ドーム前千代崎駅, どーむまえちよざきえき) is a railway station of Osaka Municipal Subway in Nishi-ku, Osaka, Japan. There is Dome-mae Station(ドーム前駅, どーむまええき) which Hanshin Electric Railway possess near Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station. This is the nearest station to Kyocera Dome Osaka.  Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line  Taisho (N11) Dome-mae Chiyozaki (N12) - Nishi-Nagahori (N13)  Hanshin Namba Line  Rapid Express, Semi-Express, Suburban Semi-Express, Local  Kujo (HS44) Dome-mae (HS33) - Sakuragawa (HS42)
The Reuss is a river in Switzerland. The length is . The drainage basin is . It is the fourth largest river in Switzerland (after the Rhine, Aare and Rhône). The upper Reuss forms the main valley of the canton of Uri. The course of the lower Reuss runs from Lake Lucerne to where it connects with the Aare at Brugg.
Lake Thun () is a Alpine lake in the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland named by the city of Thun. It is on the northern shore. The 2,500 km² catchment area often causes local flooding after heavy rainfalls. This occurs because the river Aare, which drains Lake Thun, can only hold some of the extra runoff. The lake is fed by water from Lake Brienz to the southeast, which is 6 metres higher than Lake Thun. It is also fed by various streams in the Oberland, including the Kander.
Gerzensee is a lake in the Canton of Berne, Switzerland. The surface area is . It gives the name to the village of Gerzensee.
Mönchaltorf is a municipality of the district Uster in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. History. It also holds the record for the longest Apfel Strudel.
Bigge is a river in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It flows into the Lenne in Finnentrop.
Weil am Rhein () is an German town in Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg. It is on the east bank of the river Rhine. It is close to where the Swiss, French and German borders meet.
In English, an Auxiliary verb is a verb that changes or helps another verb. Auxiliary means "extra" or "different". Auxiliary verbs like do can be used to make a question. These verbs are usually used with other verbs. Basic examples. Below are some sentences that use auxiliary verbs from English, Spanish, German, and French, with the auxiliary verb in bold: a. Do you want tea?  b. He has given his all.  c. He cogido tu lápiz.  (I) have grabbed your pencil = 'I have taken your pencil.' d. Das wurde mehrmals gesagt.  That became many times said = 'That was said many times.' e. Sie ist nach Hause gegangen.  She is to home gone = 'She went home/She has gone home.' f. J'ai vu le soleil.  I have seen the sun = 'I have seen the sun/I saw the sun.' f. Nous sommes hébergés par un ami.  We are hosted by a friend. These auxiliaries help make a question, show tense, or make passive voice. Auxiliaries like these usually appear with a normal verb that carries the main meaning of that part of the sentence.
Alkmaar is a municipality in North Holland in the Netherlands. In 2019, 108,582 people lived there. On 1 January 2015, the former municipalities of Graft-De Rijp and Schermer were merged into the municipality of Alkmaar.
Gelderner Fleuth is a river in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It flows into the Niers near Geldern.
Giuliano Sarti (2 October 1933 – 5 June 2017) was an Italian professional football player. Sarti played in the position of goalkeeper. Throughout his successful career, he played for several Italian clubs, although he is mostly remembered for his success with Fiorentina, and as the goalkeeper of the "Grande Inter" side of the 1960s that conquered both Italy and Europe. Sarti died in Florence, Italy on 5 June 2017 at the age of 83.
Adnan Khashoggi (, ; 25 July 1935 – 6 June 2017) was a Saudi Arabian international businessman and uncle of Princess Diana's lover Dodi Al-Fayed. He was best known for arms dealing. He is estimated to have had a peak net worth of around US$4 billion in the early 1980s. Khashoggi died on 6 June 2017 at St. Thomas' Hospital in London. He was 81.
Barbara Alexandra "Sandra" Reemer (17 October 1950 – 6 June 2017) was a Dutch Indo singer and TV presenter of Dutch, Chinese and Javanese origian. She was born in Bandung, Java, Indonesia. She has represented the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest on three separate occasions, tying with Corry Brokken for most appearances representing the country. In 1972, she sang the song "Als het om de liefde gaat" in a duet with Dries Holten, which reached fourth place in the contest. Sandra Reemer died on 6 June 2017 from breast cancer in Amsterdam, Netherlands at the age of 66.