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[1]. who sponsors the football club falkirk fc.
[2]. As of August 2017, the current supplier since 2008 is Puma and the club's shirt sponsor is Central Demolition..
[1]. who else has sponsored the club.
[2]. Recent sponsors include Budweiser Budvar, John R Weir Mercedes Group and Beazer Homes..
[1]. where did the club play home games.
[2].
| In the club's early years, Falkirk played its home games at three different sites: Hope Street, Randyford Park and Blinkbonny Park. |
In this task, you will be shown an incorrect English sentence. You need to generate a corrected form of the input sentence.
[Q]: first , theacher is make a right way give to us , so every teacher is make a confidence to students .
[A]: First , teachers find the right way to teach us , and every teacher gives students confidence .
[Q]: Further more by these evidence u will agree
[A]: Further more , with this evidence you will agree
[Q]: for example , there may be eldelery travelers which may cause a slow movements due to their unability to walk fast .
[A]: | For example , there may be elderly travelers with the inability to walk fast , which may cause slow movements .
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Q: In this task you will be given a question and a passage. You need to determine if the answer to the question is contained in the passage. If the answer can be found in the passage you should output 'True'. If the answer cannot be found in the passage you should output 'False'.
Passage: 'The Uniform Time Act of 1966 ruled that daylight saving time would run from the last Sunday of April until the last Sunday in October in the United States. The act was amended to make the first Sunday in April the beginning of daylight saving time as of 1987. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 extended daylight saving time in the United States beginning in 2007. So local times change at 2: 00 a.m. EST to 3: 00 a.m. EDT on the second Sunday in March and return at 2: 00 a.m. EDT to 1: 00 a.m. EST on the first Sunday in November. In Canada, the time changes as it does in the United States.'. Question: 'who died in the lynyrd skynyrd band plane crash'.
A: | False |
In this task, you are given a passage and a question regarding that passage. You must determine whether or not the question is answerable from the given passage. If a question is answerable, output should be 'True', otherwise 'False'. You must not consider any other information that is not provided in the passage while labelling True or False.
Input: Consider Input: Passage: Wealth concentration is a theoretical[according to whom?] process by which, under certain conditions, newly created wealth concentrates in the possession of already-wealthy individuals or entities. According to this theory, those who already hold wealth have the means to invest in new sources of creating wealth or to otherwise leverage the accumulation of wealth, thus are the beneficiaries of the new wealth. Over time, wealth condensation can significantly contribute to the persistence of inequality within society. Thomas Piketty in his book Capital in the Twenty-First Century argues that the fundamental force for divergence is the usually greater return of capital (r) than economic growth (g), and that larger fortunes generate higher returns [pp. 384 Table 12.2, U.S. university endowment size vs. real annual rate of return] Question: Who wrote the book "Capital in the Twenty-First Century"?
Output: True
Input: Consider Input: Passage: BSkyB initially charged additional subscription fees for using a Sky+ PVR with their service; waiving the charge for subscribers whose package included two or more premium channels. This changed as from 1 July 2007, and now customers that have Sky+ and subscribe to any BSkyB subscription package get Sky+ included at no extra charge. Customers that do not subscribe to BSkyB's channels can still pay a monthly fee to enable Sky+ functions. In January 2010 BSkyB discontinued the Sky+ Box, limited the standard Sky Box to Multiroom upgrade only and started to issue the Sky+HD Box as standard, thus giving all new subscribers the functions of Sky+. In February 2011 BSkyB discontinued the non-HD variant of its Multiroom box, offering a smaller version of the SkyHD box without Sky+ functionality. In September 2007, Sky launched a new TV advertising campaign targeting Sky+ at women. As of 31 March 2008, Sky had 3,393,000 Sky+ users. Question: When did Sky launch a TV advertising campaign target towards women?
Output: True
Input: Consider Input: Passage: Following a referendum in 1997, in which the Scottish electorate voted for devolution, the current Parliament was convened by the Scotland Act 1998, which sets out its powers as a devolved legislature. The Act delineates the legislative competence of the Parliament – the areas in which it can make laws – by explicitly specifying powers that are "reserved" to the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Scottish Parliament has the power to legislate in all areas that are not explicitly reserved to Westminster. The British Parliament retains the ability to amend the terms of reference of the Scottish Parliament, and can extend or reduce the areas in which it can make laws. The first meeting of the new Parliament took place on 12 May 1999. Question: What parliament has no power to legislate in any areas?
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In this task, you're given a question, along with a context passage which has extra information available on certain terms mentioned in it. Your job is to determine which sentence(s) from the passage can be used to search for further information needed to answer the question.
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Question: Question: When did the operation that was lead by Yoni Netanyahu take place? Passage:Yonatan "Yoni" Jesner was a 19-year-old Scottish Jew who was killed by a Palestinian suicide bomber on September 19, 2002, in Tel Aviv. Yoni was one of 220 victims of the bombing attacks in 2002. He was killed in the Allenby Street bus bombing. Hamas took responsibility for the attack. Yoni, born in Glasgow, was named after Yoni Netanyahu, who was killed while leading Operation Entebbe to release hostages from Air France flight, hijacked by Palestinian terrorists. Jesner was planning to attend medical school at UCL in London. He was passionate about his Jewish heritage and came to Israel to study in a Jewish yeshiva for a year after finishing high school, where he would eventually decide to stay for a second year. Jesner was a senior counselor in the Bnei Akiva youth movement in Glasgow. After his death, Bnei Akiva raised money to buy an ambulance for Magen David Adom in his memory. Each year, on the eve of the Jewish festival of Sukkot, his Yahrzeit is commemorated by his family. Also, he is remembered at a learning programme run by Bnei Akiva on the Jewish festival of Hoshana Raba.
Answer: Yoni, born in Glasgow, was named after Yoni Netanyahu, who was killed while leading Operation Entebbe to release hostages from Air France flight, hijacked by Palestinian terrorists
Question: Question: When did the war begin that prompted the Navy to build the airport? Passage:In 1950, Admiral Arthur W. Radford, Commander-in-Chief of the United States Pacific Fleet, envisioned an naval base in the Western Pacific to enhance Seventh Fleet capabilities. The Korean War began and the Navy realized it had a need for an air station in the region. Cubi Point in the Philippines was selected, and civilian contractors were initially approached for the project. After seeing the Zambales Mountains and the surrounding jungle, they claimed it could not be done. The U.S. Navy then turned to the Seabees and was told no problem, Can do. The first Seabees to arrive were surveyors of Construction Battalion Detachment 1802. Moblie Comstruction Battalion 3 arrived on 2 October 1951 to get the project going and was joined by MCB 5 in November. Over the next five years, MCBs 2, 7, 9, 11 and CBD 1803 also contributed to the effort. They leveled a mountain to make way for a nearly runway. NAS Cubi Point turned out to be one of the largest earth-moving projects in the world, equivalent to the construction of the Panama Canal. Seabees there moved of dry fill plus another 15 million that was hydraulic fill. The $100 million facility was commissioned on 25 July 1956, and comprised an air station with an adjacent pier capable of docking the Navy's largest carriers. Adjusted-for-inflation, today's price-tag for what the Seabees built at Cubi Point would be $906,871,323.53. After decades of use by American forces, Mount Pinatubo erupted in 1991, burying Cubi Point in 18-36 inches of ash. Despite this, the American government wished to keep the Subic Naval Base and signed a treaty with the Philippine government. The treaty was not ratified, however, failing by a slim margin in the Philippine Senate. Attempts to negotiate a new treaty were soon abandoned and the United States was informed that it was to withdraw within one year. U.S. forces withdrew in November 1992, turning over the facility with its airport to the Philippine government.
Answer: The Korean War began and the Navy realized it had a need for an air station in the region
Question: Question: How old was de Houtman when the large Portuguese galleon was captured? Passage:In 1592, during the war with Spain, an English fleet had captured a large Portuguese galleon off the Azores, the Madre de Deus, loaded with 900 tons of merchandise from India and China, worth an estimated half a million pounds (nearly half the size of English Treasury at the time). This foretaste of the riches of the East galvanized interest in the region. That same year, Dutch merchants sent Cornelis de Houtman to Lisbon, to gather as much information as he could about the Spice Islands. In 1595, merchant and explorer Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, having traveled widely in the Indian Ocean at the service of the Portuguese, published a travel report in Amsterdam, the "Reys-gheschrift vande navigatien der Portugaloysers in Orienten" ("Report of a journey through the navigations of the Portuguese in the East"). The published report included vast directions on how to navigate ships between Portugal and the East Indies and to Japan. Dutch and British interest fed by new information led to a movement of commercial expansion, and the foundation of the English East India Company, in 1600, and Dutch East India Company (VOC), in 1602, allowing the entry of chartered companies in the so-called East Indies.
Answer: | In 1592, during the war with Spain, an English fleet had captured a large Portuguese galleon off the Azores, the Madre de Deus, loaded with 900 tons of merchandise from India and China, worth an estimated half a million pounds (nearly half the size of English Treasury at the time)
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Q: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
You literally don't need to take 'literally' literally: After years of misuse the Oxford English Dictionary gives in and changes word's meaning
Definition added in September 2011 edition, but unnoticed until this week
Commentators and politicians are often ridiculed for using word incorrectly
'It literally made me tear my hair out': The wrong sense has been included in the OED
It is a word that has been misused by so many that its definition has been changed – literally.
The Oxford English Dictionary has revealed that it has included the erroneous use of the word ‘literally’ after the usage became popular.
The dictionary states the definition as ‘in a literal way or sense’ but adds that, informally, it can be ‘used for emphasis rather than being actually true’ such as ‘we were literally killing ourselves laughing’.
The definition was added in the September 2011 edition, but went unnoticed until this week.
Senior OED editor Fiona McPherson commented in jest: ‘It seems to have literally slipped under the radar.’
The move will be a relief to commentators and politicians who have been ridiculed for using the word incorrectly.
Last year, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg described low-rate taxpayers as ‘literally living in a different galaxy’, while in 2007 cricketer Sir Ian Botham said batsmen surviving appeals for leg-before-wicket dismissals had been ‘getting away with murder, literally’.
In 1876, Mark Twain used the word in this way in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
He wrote: ‘And when the middle of the afternoon came, from being a poor poverty-stricken boy in the morning, Tom was literally rolling in wealth.’
However, the oldest documented incorrect use of the word is in 1769 when the author Frances Brooke wrote, in The History of Emily Montague: ‘He is a fortunate man to be introduced to such a party of fine women at his arrival; it is literally to feed among the lilies.’
Miss McPherson said: ‘Our job is to describe the language people are using. The only reason this sense is included is because people are using it in this way.
‘Words have changed their meaning ever since the first word was uttered. Meat used to mean all food but now its sense has narrowed.’
At least, when explaining how people incorrectly use it, the dictionary still seems to slightly scold the person delivering the wrong word.
It says: 'This use can lead to unintentional humorous effects (we were literally killing ourselves laughing) and is not acceptable in formal contexts, though it is widespread.'
Not everyone has been impressed with the change in use over the word.
It says: 'In recent years an extended use of literally has become very common, where literally is used deliberately in non-literal contexts, for added effect
'My impression is that many people don't have any idea of what "literally" means — or used to mean,' Boston University psycholinguist Jean Berko Gleason told the Boston Globe, The Week reported in March.
But the OED prides itself on constantly looking out for new ways words can be interpreted.
In June the leading authority on the English language confirmed that the definition of the word 'marriage' will be changed now a law allowing same-sex couples to get married has been passed.
Language experts said the definition did not change overnight but they will monitor how the word marriage changes over the next year.
An Oxford University Press spokeswoman said: ‘We continually monitor the words in our dictionaries, paying particular to those words whose usage is shifting, so yes, this will happen with marriage.’
As it stands, OxfordDictionaries.com defines marriage as being a ‘formal union of a man and a woman, typically as recognised by law, by which they become husband and wife.’ ||||| Fiona McPherson, senior editor, said the new sense was added to the dictionary in September 2011, but seemed to have gone unnoticed. With her tongue firmly in her cheek, she said: “It seems to have literally slipped under the radar.”
The dictionary states that literally means “in a literal way or sense”. But it now adds that, informally, the word can be “used for emphasis rather than being actually true” such as “we were literally killing ourselves laughing”.
The addition may come as a relief to pundits and politicians who have been ridiculed for using the word incorrectly.
Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, last year described low-rate taxpayers as “literally living in a different galaxy”, while Sir Ian Botham, the cricketer, in 2007 said batsmen surviving appeals for leg-before-wicket dismissals had been “getting away with murder, literally”.
Jamie Redknapp, the Sky TV pundit, once said of the Manchester United footballer Wayne Rooney that he was “literally on fire”.
But Ms McPherson said they were in good company. Mark Twain used the more modern sense of the word in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. In 1876 he wrote: “And when the middle of the afternoon came, from being a poor poverty-stricken boy in the morning, Tom was literally rolling in wealth.”
The oldest documented incorrect use of the word is 1769 when the author Frances Brooke wrote, in The History of Emily Montague: “He is a fortunate man to be introduced to such a party of fine women at his arrival; it is literally to feed among the lilies.”
Ms McPherson said: “Our job is to describe the language people are using. The only reason this sense is included is because people are using it in this way. Words have changed their meaning ever since the first word was uttered. Meat used to mean all food but now its sense has narrowed." |||||
A: | A recent change to the Oxford English Dictionary must have pedants ripping their hair out ... literally. It went unnoticed, but the OED added an additional meaning to the word "literally" two years ago because people use the word for exaggerated effect, the Daily Mail reports. "Our job is to describe the language people are using," said OED Senior Editor Fiona McPherson. "The only reason this sense is included is because people are using it the wrong way." But as the Telegraph points out, using "literally" for emphasis is nothing new. In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain writes that his protagonist "was literally rolling in wealth." The 1769 novel The History of Emily Montague records the earliest known "wrong" use of the word, describing a character as lucky to meet "a party of fine women": "It is literally to feed among the lilies." Besides, says McPherson, word meanings change quite often: "Meat used to mean all food but now its sense has narrowed." |
One usage—the more common among linguists—refers to a variety of a language that is a characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. The term is applied most often to regional speech patterns, but a dialect may also be defined by other factors, such as social class. A dialect that is associated with a particular social class can be termed a sociolect, a dialect that is associated with a particular ethnic group can be termed as ethnolect, and a regional dialect may be termed a regiolect. According to this definition, any variety of a language constitutes "a dialect", including any standard varieties.
If it is possible to answer this question, answer it for me (else, reply "unanswerable"): What is a term for a dialect particular to a social class?
Ah, so.. sociolect
Countries in the top quartile of HDI ("very high human development" group) with a missing IHDI: New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Liechtenstein, Brunei, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Andorra, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Cuba, and Kuwait.
If it is possible to answer this question, answer it for me (else, reply "unanswerable"): Which Caribbean nation is in the top quartile of HDI (but missing IHDI)?
Ah, so.. Cuba
Consistent with the missions and priorities outlined above, the Canadian Armed Forces also contribute to the conduct of Canadian defence diplomacy through a range of activities, including the deployment of Canadian Defence Attachés, participation in bilateral and multilateral military forums (e.g. the System of Cooperation Among the American Air Forces), ship and aircraft visits, military training and cooperation, and other such outreach and relationship-building efforts.
If it is possible to answer this question, answer it for me (else, reply "unanswerable"): What is not an example of another activity that the CAF performs?
Ah, so.. | unanswerable |
Does "Ancient and medieval Hindu texts identify six pramāṇas as correct means of accurate knowledge and truths: pratyakṣa (perception), anumāṇa (inference), upamāṇa (comparison and analogy), arthāpatti (postulation, derivation from circumstances), anupalabdi (non-perception, negative/cognitive proof) and śabda (word, testimony of past or present reliable experts)" contain the correct answer to "What Hindu philosohy is concerned with inference?"
A: yes
Does "The peace treaty proved successful, and the U.S. and Britain never again went to war." contain the correct answer to "What conflict caused Britain to blockade trade?"
A: no
Does "In some cultures, however, dogs are also a source of meat." contain the correct answer to "Dogs had a worth to what type of early humans?"
A: | no |
Regrowth Poetry Competition is open to all published and unpublished, UK and non-UK based male and female writers over 16 years of age. This competition is open to poetry submissions. Poems must be based around the theme of "regrowth, birth, survival, and new life" and in any genre. The poem should be between 5 and 30 lines in length (including title). Entry details, rules and regulations to the competition are listed below: 1. All entries must be sent using the form online. 2. Entry will cost PS4.00. You can pay online via PayPal or credit card. You can also pay by cheque, making it payable to Susan Cawte. The postal address is 412 Thorold Road, Ilford, Essex, IG1 4HF. Multiple entries are allowed. 3. Entries will not be returned. 4. All entries submitted must be work which has not been published elsewhere or submitted to another competition which is currently still open. 5. All entries must be your own work. Any entry found to be _ or printed elsewhere will be disqualified. 6. All entries submitted must clearly state the author's name, address, email address and contact telephone number on the submission. 7. The winner will be notified within one month of the closing date. 8. The closing date for entries is midnight (BST) 30th April 2016. Prizes: 1st: PS50, published story in the magazine, and a feature article about the winning author. 2nd: PS25, story published in the magazine. The 20 shortlisted authors will be listed online in May. Winners will be announced on 1st June 2016. What should be the theme of the poems in the competition? A) Peace. B) Friendship. C) Regrowth. D) Health.
| C |
Ipomea wrightii, or Wright's morning glory, is a species of morning glory.It is generally described as an annual, perennial vine or forb or herb. Wright's morning glory is not native to the United States and is considered as an invasive species. It is found growing in the Southeastern part of the United States.
Can we infer the following?
Ipomea wrightii is an invasive specie | Yes |
Data: A.D. Isidro Metapán, ground, "Metapán, El Salvador"; A.D. Isidro Metapán, numberOfMembers, 10000; A.D. Isidro Metapán, fullName, "Asociación Deportiva"
10000 member strong club AD Isidro Metapan Deportiva - Asociacion Deportiva - plays at Metapan, El Salvador.
Data: Alhambra, powerType, Humphrys, Tennant and Dykes; Humphrys, Tennant and Dykes, location, Deptford; Alhambra, length, 63800.0 (millimetres)
The Alhambra, 63800.0 millimetres long, has a Humphrys, Tennant and Dykes power type that is located in Deptford.
Data: Acharya Institute of Technology, outlookRanking, 63
| Acharya Institute of Technology has an outlook ranking of 63. |
The large external sculptural schemes of Early Gothic churches gave way to more sculpture inside the building, as tombs became more elaborate and other features such as pulpits were sometimes lavishly carved, as in the Pulpit by Giovanni Pisano in Sant'Andrea. Painted or carved wooden relief altarpieces became common, especially as churches created many side-chapels. Early Netherlandish painting by artists such as Jan van Eyck (d. 1441) and Rogier van der Weyden (d. 1464) rivalled that of Italy, as did northern illuminated manuscripts, which in the 15th century began to be collected on a large scale by secular elites, who also commissioned secular books, especially histories. From about 1450 printed books rapidly became popular, though still expensive. There were around 30,000 different editions of incunabula, or works printed before 1500, by which time illuminated manuscripts were commissioned only by royalty and a few others. Very small woodcuts, nearly all religious, were affordable even by peasants in parts of Northern Europe from the middle of the 15th century. More expensive engravings supplied a wealthier market with a variety of images.
When did Rogier van der Weyden die?
1464
Instead, the donated money was expended through "counterfeit drugs, siphoning off of drugs to the black market, and payments to ghost employees". Ultimately, there is a sufficient amount of money for health in developing countries, but local corruption denies the wider citizenry the resource they require.
In addition to ghost employees and the black market receiving drugs, what other way was money expended?
counterfeit drugs
Snapshots usually become available more than six months after they are archived or, in some cases, even later; it can take twenty-four months or longer. The frequency of snapshots is variable, so not all tracked web site updates are recorded. Sometimes there are intervals of several weeks or years between snapshots.
What is the minimum amount of time that elapses before most snapshots are released for viewing?
| six months |
Write the conversation that led to this response. Notable people with the surname include:
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Conversation:
DIALOG:
What is known about the family Grassini?
- Grassini Grassini is a surname.
- Are there any other interesting aspects about this article?
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Write the conversation that led to this response. In March, 2007, Shinwar was the site of the Shinwar massacre.
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Conversation:
DIALOG:
What is Shinwar District?
- Shinwar District Shinwar (, ) is a district in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan.
- Where is it located?
- It is on the main highway from Jalalabad to the Torkham border crossing.
- What is special about it?
- Its population, which is 100% Pashtun, was estimated at 40,147 in 2002, of whom 16,000 were children under 12.
- Is there anything else that is notable?
- The district centre is the village of Shinwar.
- Are there any other interesting aspects about this article?
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Write the conversation that led to this response. Parker made contact with people like Ark Wong, Haumea Lefiti, Jimmy Wing Woo (who developed many of the American Kenpo forms still used today), Jimmy H.Woo (Chin Siu Dek), founder and Grandmaster of Kung Fu San Soo (Tsoi Li Ho Fut) and Lau Bun.
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Conversation:
DIALOG:
What was Ed Parker's relationship with the Chinese?
- Between writing and publishing, however, he began to be influenced by the Chinese arts, and included this information in his system.
- Are there any other interesting aspects about this article?
- He settled in Southern California after leaving the Coast Guard and finishing his education at BYU.
- What did he do in Southern California?
- Here he found himself surrounded by other martial artists from a wide variety of systems, many of whom were willing to discuss and share their arts with him.
- Did he train with any of them?
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Write the conversation that led to this response. In 1862 the island had a population of 124 people, with 45 children attending the local school.
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Conversation:
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What is Coney Island?
- Coney Island, County Sligo Coney Island or Inishmulclohy (), in County Sligo, Ireland, is one of several islands of the same name off the coast of Ireland.
- Are there any other interesting aspects about this article?
- It is an island of approximately 400 acres and is named after the vast quantity of rabbits which can be spotted on the island at any time (coney (, historically ) is an English word for a rabbit or rabbit hair, deriving from the Latin "cuniculus", meaning "rabbit").
- Is there anyone living on the island?
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Problem: Is "Bob was very ill." true if "Bob collapsed on the sidewalk. Soon he saw Carl coming to help. He was very ill."?
Answer: yes
Problem: Is "The captain and all Mr. Singer's crew had best stay in the cabin until the work was over." true if "Mark was close to Mr. Singer's heels. He heard him calling for the captain, promising him, in the jargon everyone talked that night, that not one thing should be damaged on the ship except only the ammunition, but the captain and all his crew had best stay in the cabin until the work was over."?
Answer: no
Problem: Is "He lowered his hands when the wind stopped." true if "Fred covered his eyes with his hands, because the wind was blowing sand around. He lowered them when the wind stopped."?
Answer: yes
Problem: Is "The father carried the sleeping boy in the boy's arms." true if "The father carried the sleeping boy in his arms."?
Answer: | no |
Internet Explorer 10 is included as both a desktop program and a touch-optimized app, and includes increased support for HTML5, CSS3, and hardware acceleration. The Internet Explorer app does not support plugins or ActiveX components, but includes a version of Adobe Flash Player that is optimized for touch and low power usage. Initially, Adobe Flash would only work on sites included on a "Compatibility View" whitelist; however, after feedback from users and additional compatibility tests, an update in March 2013 changed this behavior to use a smaller blacklist of sites with known compatibility issues instead, allowing Flash to be used on most sites by default. The desktop version does not contain these limitations.
Where can Adobe Flash now be used?
most sites by default
In styles that owe as much to videogame pixel art and popculture as to traditional mosaic, street art has seen a novel reinvention and expansion of mosaic artwork. The most prominent artist working with mosaics in street art is the French Invader. He has done almost all his work in two very distinct mosaic styles, the first of which are small "traditional" tile mosaics of 8 bit video game character, installed in cities across the globe, and the second of which are a style he refers to as "Rubikcubism", which uses a kind of dual layer mosaic via grids of scrambled Rubik's Cubes. Although he is the most prominent, other street and urban artists do work in Mosaic styles as well.
The French invader coined his own style of mosaic named what?
Rubikcubism
In developing countries, with high poverty and poor schooling opportunities, child labour is still prevalent. In 2010, sub-saharan Africa had the highest incidence rates of child labour, with several African nations witnessing over 50 percent of children aged 5–14 working. Worldwide agriculture is the largest employer of child labour. Vast majority of child labour is found in rural settings and informal urban economy; children are predominantly employed by their parents, rather than factories. Poverty and lack of schools are considered as the primary cause of child labour.
What is the largest employer of child labour?
| agriculture |
You are given a sentence in English. Your job is to translate the English sentence into Japanese.
So those bacteria, along with the environmental bacteria, free water and oxygen, actually break apart the DNA into smaller and smaller and smaller DNA fragments, until all you have are fragments that range from 10 base pairs to, in the best case scenarios, a few hundred base pairs in length. | これらのバクテリアは環境中のバクテリアと共に水と酸素を奪い DNAをより小さなDNAの破片へと分解しているのですやがて手に入る破片は 10個の塩基対か最大でも数百塩基対までです |
Add punctuation: Botany Peacock flower Poinciana especially Royal poinciana a showy leguminous tree Delonix regia of Madagascar having racemes of brilliant scarlet or orange flowers and bearing a flat woody pod which often grows to a length of 60 cm 2 English feet ft
| Botany: Peacock flower: Poinciana (especially Royal poinciana); a showy leguminous tree, Delonix regia, of Madagascar, having racemes of brilliant scarlet or orange flowers and bearing a flat, woody pod which often grows to a length of 60 cm (2 English feet (ft.)). |
The violent ambush that killed five Dallas police officers and wounded seven more could have been a lot worse, the city's police chief says. Dallas Chief of Police David Brown told CNN Sunday that the slain gunman told police negotiators he wanted to "kill white people, especially white officers." Bomb making materials and a journal were found at Johnson's home during a search Friday. "The material were such that it was large enough to have devastating effects throughout our city and our North Texas area," Brown said. Micah Xavier Johnson, 25, was killed by police in the deadly attack Thursday night during a protest against police killings of African American men. Since the shooting deaths of two black men by white police officers over two days last week, protests have been held across the country. Scores of demonstrators have been arrested, with one flash point being the southern city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where DeRay McKesson, one of the most prominent activists linked to the police reform protest movement Black Lives Matter, live streamed his own arrest. Police defended his arrest as a matter of public safety, but demonstrators told U.S. news outlets they believe McKesson was targeted. McKesson was freed on bond Sunday afternoon after being charged with obstructing a highway. "I remain disappointed in the Baton Rouge police, who continue to provoke protesters for peacefully protesting. There's a lot of work to be done, with this police department specifically,'' he said. But Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards disagreed with McKesson's assessment. The governor told a news conference Sunday that he is proud of the state's law enforcement officers, calling their response to the protests "moderate." In the northern city of St. Paul, Minnesota, where a second man, Philando Castile, was shot to death last week by a policeman after a traffic stop for a broken tail light, hundreds of protesters hurled firecrackers, rocks and bottles at police on Saturday. The heavily armed officers used smoke grenades and... Who is proud of the state's law enforcement officers? Pick the correct answer from the following options: - Philando Castile - De Ray McKesson - not enough information - John Bel Edwards
John Bel Edwards
I have been married twice. My wedding experiences were both very different, even though I cried at both ceremonies. At my first wedding, I had been doing a lot of manual labor in the day prior to the wedding. Unfortunately, I did not have any gloves, and I ended up getting a lot of blisters on my hands. By the evening of the wedding, these blisters were very painful to touch. My bride was wearing what I thought to be an elaborate wedding dress. It was pretty, and it had a lot of buttons on it. Little, white, cloth covered buttons. These buttons were also a part of her sleeves and gloves. During the ceremony, she was holding my hands very tightly, and it hurt. I mean, it really really hurt! I didn’t want to pull my hands away, as the gesture could be misconstrued, and I might hurt her feelings. So, I stood and held hands with her, enduring the pain. Although I managed to remain silent, I couldn’t keep the tears from falling down my face. The more I cried, the harder she squeezed and the more painful it was. She always thought that I was crying due to emotion on our wedding day, and I never told her any differently — I didn’t want to hurt her feelings. Some years after that lengthy incarceration ended, I was fortunate to wed again. I had not done any manual labor before our wedding day. My hands were fine. Also, my bride did not have a lot of intricate buttons on her dress, nor did she wear gloves or even have sleeves. We were wed on a beach, just the two of us. No one else was in attendance. We had written our own vows, in fact, our own ceremony, including our own rituals. And yes, I cried, because I was / am so in love with my bride. I still tear up every morning when I awaken and see her sleeping beside me. Peace Who was holding the author's hand during the first wedding? Pick the correct answer from the following options: - His son - His bride - not enough information - The woman he ended up marrying in his second wedding
His bride
“Teachers like to agree with each other, when we talk about learning. It’s hard to change that, when the model we have wanted to make work has nonetheless been failing for 40 years.” Professor Brian Boyd No area has remained up there in the contentiousness charts in Scotland as the notion of business and education working together to do something better for our young people. Most schools do not ‘partner’ with colleges or universities. Instead, they are production facilities for undergraduates and college entrants. Fewer are set up to systematically provide apprenticeship opportunities as well as learning. At NoTosh, we’ve been working on a few, nascent projects to change the attitudes of schools from being these production facilities into something more of a life support - what metrics of success might we use if schools judged their success on the results of their alumni, five, ten or twenty years down the line, much like universities do? City of Glasgow College have partnered with Newlands Junior College (NJC) to make the experience of a day in college more than what, in other circumstances, is too often perceived as a day off from school. The Junior College is called this, and not a school, for that very reason, to mark it out as a stepping stone between school and full-blown college. NoTosh helped last August to provoke the team around their thoughts of what 'unschool' might look like. The College was backed and founded by Jim McColl, one of Scotland’s top business people. In the future, suggests, McColl, might be be possible to take funding of learning out of its pre-existing silos, particularly for this group of students, about 60 in every city at these ages, who just need a different approach to the traditional comprehensive approach? A crossover funding model that helps learning happen in both ‘school’ or Junior College and college or university might be interesting. In fact, some of the world’s top universities are thinking of such models for their own students: Stanford’s 2025 project talks about the... After the story ends, how have students at Newlands Junior College reacted to partnering with Glasgow College? Pick the correct answer from the following options: - they have a negative reaction - they don't want to bother doing it again - they have reacted favorably overall - not enough information
| they have reacted favorably overall |
Definition: In this task, you will be shown a correct English sentence. You need to generate an incorrect form of the input sentence.
Input: We will continue to invent and produce more sophisticated technology based on our own comfort , which will decrease our ability to perform physical activities .
Output: | We will continue to invent and produce more sofisticated technology based on our own comfort which will decrease our ability to perform physical activities . |
If you visited the Getty Center in July or early August, you may have encountered a group of high school students wearing white lab coats with “Teen Lab” splattered across the back. You might have spotted them testing kinetic sculptures made from recycled materials, sketching in front of artworks in the galleries, or taking Polaroid self-portraits inspired by David Hockney’s photocollages. Online, you may have seen the playful social media stories they created to share their experiments with artistic and scientific processes. The teens were participants in the Getty Teen Lab, a four-week paid internship for high school students. Supported by a generous grant from the Vera R. Campbell Foundation, Teen Lab was the first of several teen-focused initiatives that the J. Paul Getty Museum is launching in 2017 and 2018. The Getty’s Education Department developed Teen Lab in response to several seemingly disconnected questions that many art museums are grappling with today: How can we engage diverse youth in meaningful ways? How can museums help meet the rising demand for K-12 curriculum that integrates Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM)? Can art museums themselves be sites for STEAM learning? To address these questions, we looked at other teen programs and discovered that the most successful models are those that give teens agency and a voice in the museum.(1) For example, many museums have teen councils that program events for their peers or offer opportunities for students to collaborate on projects with artists.(2) The Getty wanted to build on these models by empowering teens to be active creators of educational content. In keeping with this goal, we designed the program using the project-based learning approach, which develops skills and knowledge by inviting students to explore solutions to authentic, real-world problems. After the story the museum probably what? Pick the correct answer from the following options: - not enough information - Cancelled the program. - Continued the programs. - Spent the grant money elsewhere.
Continued the programs.
As a new year is just around the corner, I, like many of you, am taking stock in my life. What I’ve done and what I’d like to do. How I’ve spent my time and how I want to use it going forward. I have goals for blogging, my Jamberry business, my health, homeschooling, and for my family. As I have pondered where I want things to go and how I can successfully make that happen, I have learned that I need to manage my time and energy differently in order to be successful in each area. The main obstacles standing in my way are, ironically, working from home and having my children with me 24/7. But, that was my choice and I’m sticking to it. My goal is to embrace these obstacles by approaching them in different ways. Work at Home Tips for Success Work at home tips can be implemented or not, depending on my needs. I am sure the same will be true for you. You may not need to get healthier or may not want to homeschool your children. So, your daily routine will be different from mine. However, I think these work at home tips can help any individual out there looking for more guidance. Work at Home Tip #1 Be productive. Well, duh! Of course that’s what we would like to do, but have you ever worked all day and by the end of it, you have no idea what you really did? This likely means you are spending your time on things, but not on the most important things. For example, if your goal is to generate income, you want to be carving out time for income generating activities, not reorganizing a shelf or checking a facebook group for information. If your goal is to write a book, you want to be get ideas on paper or develop the plot, not have coffee to discuss your latest and greatest read with your bestie. what do they have goals for? Pick the correct answer from the following options: - not enough information - being with their children 24/7 - being productive - blogging, their Jamberry business, their health, homeschooling and their family
blogging, their Jamberry business, their health, homeschooling and their family
Just a quick review today to talk about these haircare and bodycare products from Yes to… Regular readers of Beauty Best Friend will know that I’m always looking out for new natural skincare and bodycare ranges as I’m passionate about products that don’t contain lots of nasty chemicals. Yes to… is one of these natural brands, based in California their products are always made from at least 95% natural ingredients, are free of parabens, phthalates and SLS, and made with recyclable materials. There are 6 collections, each involves saying ‘Yes to’ a different fruit or vegetable. The products I’ve been trying out are Yes to Grapefruit Rejuvenating Body Wash* and Yes to Carrots Nourishing Shampoo and Pampering Conditioner*. Yes to Grapefruit Rejuvenating Body Wash – the grapefruit range is aimed at those with uneven or dull skintone. This pearlised white shower gel has a gentle zingy grapefruit scent to wake you up in the morning and exfoliating fruit acids help to remove dead skin cells leaving your skin glowing and smooth. The ingredients are 98% natural and the body wash gives a light foam in the shower. I really like it, grapefruit is one of my favourite fruity scents and the large 280ml tube will last me for ages. Yes to Carrots Nourishing Shampoo & Pampering Conditioner – I always avoid sodium laureth sulphate (SLS) in my haircare products as I have a very sensitive scalp and SLS makes it really itchy and sore, so I was really pleased to read that this shampoo and conditioner are SLS free. Made from 97% and 95% natural ingredients respectively this shampoo and conditioner have been formulated for those with a dry scalp and contain carrot seed oil. Both products have a pleasant sweet scent although I wouldn’t say they smell of carrots! My thick hair feels clean and soft after using this duo and my favourite thing is that the conditioner totally prevents my hair from tangling in the shower leaving it manageable afterwards. I can run a brush straight through it when drying without having to get all the knots out first! The speaker believes natural skincare and bodycare products Pick the correct answer from the following options: - Have a lot of SLS chemicals - Contains large amounts of sodium sulphate - not enough information - Are more gentle on skin and hair
Are more gentle on skin and hair
I don't reckon the sun's ever come up quite the same since the day it happened. I've been watching it for years now and to me it still don't look right somehow. Maybe it's just me thinking it, sending myself doolally after what I've done. But I swear every morning it creeps up and it's looking at me, all knowing like. And when you reckon the sun's acting like that over you there isn't a right lot you can do about it, beyond burying yourself away like a mole in the soil. That's what I've been doing more or less in the score or so years that have gone by since. But however tight I shut them curtains to stop that damn sun lighting me up, it still don't stop the inside of my head from pounding out the truth. No way it's ever going to stop harassing me neither, not unless the deaf and dumb lass was to happen right back on my doorstep and give me the chance to tell her that it wasn't never meant to work out this way. The deaf and dumb lass went by the name of Mitzi Barker. Her being deaf and dumb, she was the kind of lass you went up the lane with if you didn't want no-one shouting their gob off about it after. Funny but it's the small things I recall best about her, like the way her hair reeked of bonfires and how that little old checkered dress of hers rode right up her thigh with no help from me. After we'd finished our business we'd head over the trout farm and I'd hunker down and poach us up a couple of rainbows for our tea. That Mitzi Barker, she was thin as an ear of barley and I always figured a good nosh-up was the least I could do for her troubles. The narrator and Mitzi would eat trout: Pick the correct answer from the following options: - Never. - after they had relations. - not enough information - before they would have relations.
| after they had relations. |
In this task, you're given a question, a context passage, and four options which are terms from the passage. After reading a passage, you will get a brief understanding of the terms. Your job is to determine by searching and reading further information of which term you can answer the question. Indicate your choice as 'a', 'b', 'c', or 'd'. If you think more than one option is plausible, choose the more probable option to help you answer the question.
Question: During what years was the Early Bronze Age? Passage:Iran is home to one of the world's oldest continuous major civilizations, with historical and urban settlements dating back to 7000 BC. The south-western and western part of the Iranian Plateau participated in the traditional Ancient Near East with Elam, from the Early Bronze Age, and later with various other peoples, such as the Kassites, Mannaeans, and Gutians. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel calls the Persians the "first Historical People". The Medes unified Iran as a nation and empire in 625 BC. The Achaemenid Empire (550–330 BC), founded by Cyrus the Great, was the first true global superpower state and it ruled from the Balkans to North Africa and also Central Asia, spanning three continents, from their seat of power in Persis (Persepolis). It was the largest empire yet seen and the first world empire. The Achaemenid Empire was the only civilization in all of history to connect over 40% of the global population, accounting for approximately 49.4 million of the world's 112.4 million people in around 480 BC. They were succeeded by the Seleucid, Parthian, and Sasanian Empires, who successively governed Iran for almost 1,000 years and made Iran once again as a leading power in the world. Persia's arch-rival was the Roman Empire and its successor, the Byzantine Empire.
Links: a. Bronze Age b. Cyrus the Great c. Persepolis d. Central Asia
a
Question: Which team that the Texas A&M women's basketball team faced during the SEC Women's Tournament had the best regular season record? Passage:The 2016–17 Texas A&M Aggies women's basketball team represented Texas A&M University in the 2016–17 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The team's head coach was Gary Blair, who is in his fourteenth season at Texas A&M. The team plays their home games at the Reed Arena in College Station, Texas and will play in its fifth season as a member of the Southeastern Conference. They finished the season 22–12, 9–7 in SEC play to finish in sixth place. They defeated Florida and Missouri before losing to Mississippi State in the semifinals of the SEC Women's Tournament. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament, where they defeated Penn in the first round after rallying from 21 points down, before losing to UCLA in the second round.
Links: a. 2016–17 Florida Gators women's basketball team b. 2017 SEC Women's Basketball Tournament c. 2016–17 Missouri Tigers women's basketball team d. Southeastern Conference
a
Question: Who were the Three Witnesses to the Book of Mormon? Passage:Born near Mehoopany, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, Harris was the son of Emer Harris and Deborah Lott. He was a nephew of Martin Harris, one of the Three Witnesses to the Book of Mormon, and a descendant of Thomas Harris, companion in exile of Roger Williams, and one of the founders of Providence, Rhode Island. Harris was baptized a member of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in September 1842, by Milton Stow, near Nauvoo, Illinois. Harris served as a guard in Nauvoo to protect Joseph Smith against mob violence. He also served in the Nauvoo Legion and witnessed the laying of the cornerstone of the Nauvoo Temple. After being driven with other Latter-day Saints from Nauvoo in 1846, he resided temporarily in St. Louis, Missouri until 1850, when he went to Kanesville, Iowa and then to Utah.
Links: a. Nauvoo Legion b. Martin Harris (Latter Day Saints) c. Nauvoo Legion d. Nauvoo, Illinois
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Part 1. Definition
In this task, you will be presented with a context from an academic paper and a question separated with a
. You have to answer the question based on the context.
Part 2. Example
We evaluate the proposed approach on the Chinese social media text summarization task, based on the sequence-to-sequence model. Large-Scale Chinese Short Text Summarization Dataset (LCSTS) is constructed by BIBREF1 . The dataset consists of more than 2.4 million text-summary pairs in total, constructed from a famous Chinese social media microblogging service Weibo.
Question: Are results reported only for English data?
Answer: No
Explanation: Based on the context, the dataset is constructed from a famous Chinese social media microblogging service Weibo.
Part 3. Exercise
Transfer learning based approaches
Mathur et al. in their paper for detecting offensive tweets proposed a Ternary Trans-CNN model where they train a model architecture comprising of 3 layers of Convolution 1D having filter sizes of 15, 12 and 10 and kernel size of 3 followed by 2 dense fully connected layer of size 64 and 3. The first dense FC layer has ReLU activation while the last Dense layer had Softmax activation. They were able to train this network on a parallel English dataset provided by Davidson et al. The authors were able to achieve Accuracy of 83.9%, Precision of 80.2%, Recall of 69.8%.
The approach looked promising given that the dataset was merely 3189 sentences divided into three categories and thus we replicated the experiment but failed to replicate the results. The results were poor than what the original authors achieved. But, most of the model hyper-parameter choices where inspired from this work.
Related Work ::: Hybrid models
In another localized setting of Vietnamese language, Nguyen et al. in 2017 proposed a Hybrid multi-channel CNN and LSTM model where they build feature maps for Vietnamese language using CNN to capture shorterm dependencies and LSTM to capture long term dependencies and concatenate both these feature sets to learn a unified set of features on the messages. These concatenated feature vectors are then sent to a few fully connected layers. They achieved an accuracy rate of 87.3% with this architecture.
Question: What models do previous work use?
Answer: | Ternary Trans-CNN Hybrid multi-channel CNN and LSTM |
July 1st is the sixth anniversary of Hong Kong's return to Chinese rule.
The rally overshadowed ceremonies marking the sixth anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China on 1 July 1997.
Rate the textual similarity of these two sentences on a scale from 0 to 5, where 0 is "no meaning overlap" and 5 is "means the same thing". | 3 |
In this task, you're given an article, a question which often contains a blank, four options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D") and the answer to that question. Your task is to classify whether the given answer is correct or not by providing "Yes" or "No", based on the article.
Q: Article: We know that the earth has become warmer over the last century. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a group established by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Program, reports that the average surface temperature of the earth has increased during the twentieth century by 0.6deg _ 0.2degC.(The _ 0.2degC means that the increase might be as small as 0.4degC or as great as 0.8degC). This may seem like a small shift, but although regional and short--term temperatures do fluctuate over a wide range, global temperatures are generally quite stable. In fact, the difference between today's average global temperature and the average global temperature during the last Ice Age is only about 5 degrees C. Indeed, it's warmer today around the world than at any time during the past 1,000years, and the warmest years of the previous century have occurred within the past decade. We also know that human activities--primarily the burning of fossil fuels--have increased the greenhouse gas content of the earth's atmosphere significantly over the same period. Carbon dioxide is one of the most important greenhouse gases, which trap heat near the planet's surface. The vast majority of climate researchers agree with these overall findings. The scientific disagreements that do still exist primarily concern detailed aspects of the processes that make up these largely accepted general themes. You can think of this website as a window into the world of scientific research. In this primer, you'll find a general discussion of the physical processes underlying the earth's climate, an outline of the kinds of data that may shed light on how the climate is changing--and the role of human activity in these changes--and a description a some of the questions and uncertainties that researchers continue to explore. This primer is organized into four interconnected sections: the Atmosphere; the Hydrosphere ; the Cryosphere ; and the Biosphere .
Question: We know from the text that "IPCC" _ .
Options: (A) engages in the climate and changes about the earth. (B) is a group by scientists who like to walk around the moon (C) works in the World Meteorological Organization (D) often greets the passers-by from the outer space
Asnwer: A
A: | Yes |
Q: Big Hero 6 (film), distributor, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures; Baymax, series, Big Hero 6 (film); Big Hero 6 (film), starring, Maya Rudolph
A: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures distributed the movie Big Hero 6 which starred Maya Rudolph. Baymax is a character in this film.
Q: Alex Tyus, birthPlace, St. Louis; St. Louis, isPartOf, French First Republic; St. Louis, leader, Francis G. Slay
A: Alex Tyus was born in St. Louis, which is part of the French first republic, led by Francis G. Slay.
Q: A.F.C. Fylde, numberOfMembers, 3180
A: AFC Fylde has 3180 members.
Q: Addis Ababa City Hall, completionDate, 1964; Addis Ababa City Hall, floorArea, 140000.0 (square metres)
A: | Addis Ababa City Hall, with a 140000.0 (square metres) floor area, was completed in 1964. |
Summarize this article in one sentence.
Commodity stocks are those stocks that have prices that move with underlying commodity prices. This correlation is stronger for some stocks than for others. The important thing is that the company be related to the production or use of the underlying commodity. For example, rather than investing in aluminum futures, you could buy stock in companies that mine it. This way you lower your risk but are still participating in the commodities markets. Commodity stock prices will not move directly with commodity prices and may be influenced by other factors like company performance or underlying reserve values. Stocks are far less volatile than futures and they are easy to buy and sell. You could also consider buying mutual funds that invest in a variety of commodity-related stocks. Stocks and bonds are long term and have no expiration date like those of commodities or options. Start looking for commodity stocks to invest in by first locating a commodity that you want to invest in. You can identity this commodity either by simply choosing one that interests you or by following market news for information on potential price volatility. Locate related companies by searching for them on market websites. You can start by looking for companies that produce, refine, or ship your chosen commodity. Alternately, you can look for companies that use your chosen commodity as a primary input to production. Commodity-related stocks can be analyzed fundamentally or technically. Use fundamental analysis to determine if the company is a good value and likely to prosper in the future. Once you've chosen a stock, identify buying opportunities by watching the price movements of the stock to determine the optimum purchase and sale opportunities. Any type of online brokerage account will give you access to buying and selling stocks. Simply place an order for the amount of shares of the commodity stock you want to buy or sell. After you've bought it, track the stock's price and the price of the underlying security to determine when to sell. Cash and margin accounts are available. The latter provides an ability to sell stocks short as well as the ability to borrow money from the brokerage firm. Be aware that leverage increases the profit potential of a trade as well as its risk. When buying stocks of any kind, diversification reduces the risk of loss present in a single company. Consider buying multiple companies in the same industry to reduce the risk of owning a single company; buy companies in different industries to reduce the risk of owning a single industry. | Understand commodity-related stocks. Identify a commodity-related stock. Open an account with a broker. |
In this task, you are given a second sentence. Your task is to generate the first sentence on the same topic but incoherent and inconsistent with the second sentence.
Q: Hence the entire torso is attached to the shoulders by powerful muscles , tendons , and ligaments .
A: | The horse has no collarbone . |
Instructions: In this task you will be given a question and a passage. You need to determine if the answer to the question is contained in the passage. If the answer can be found in the passage you should output 'True'. If the answer cannot be found in the passage you should output 'False'.
Input: Passage: 'Under U.S. law the fleeing felon rule was limited in 1985 to non-lethal force in most cases by Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1. The justices held that deadly force 'may not be used unless necessary to prevent the escape and the officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious bodily harm to the officer or others.''. Question: 'when can police shoot at a fleeing suspect'.
Output: | True |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
Generate the answer for a given question. The question requires common knowledge of English. Make sure that the answer is in detail, long, consistent with the context, and requires general knowledge of English. To be less repetitive, please vary your language for each question. Give a proper explanation to answer, and if necessary, provide the definition of various terms. And conclude your answer if it's long. If you have used other resources (e.g., Merriam Webster's.) to answer the question, include citations in your answer. You don't need to paraphrase the context of your resources, but make sure that your answer is consistent and complete.
I would like to use a noun made of multiple words (like particle board, Mount Everest, or windscreen wiper) in a compound adjective with a hyphen. But I don't know how to hyphenate such a composition. I'm not sure how common this situation is, so here's an example: Machine learning is a single noun made of two words, and I want to use it in a compound adjective with a hyphen. Are either of the following examples correct? I would like to pursue a machine learning-related certification. I would like to pursue a machine-learning-related certification. If not, then what is the correct way to hyphenate compound adjectives like this?.
Output: | Bryan Garner, Garner's Modern American Usage (2003) has a useful discussion of this problem in his lengthy coverage of phrasal adjectives: E. The Compound Conundrum. When the first or last element in a phrasal adjective is part of a compound noun, it too needs to be hyphenated: post-cold-war norms, not post-cold war norms. Otherwise, as in that example, cold appears more closely related to post than to war. In your example, machine learning is the compound noun and related is the additional element in the adjective phrase, so Garner would endorse punctuating it as machine-learning-related. The Chicago Manual of Style, fifteenth edition (2003) takes essentially the same position as Garner: 5.92 Phrasal adjectives. A phrasal adjective (also called a compound modifier) is a phrase that functions as a unit to modify a noun. A phrasal adjective follows these basic rules: ... (2) If a compound noun is an element of a phrasal adjective, the entire compound noun must be hyphenated to clarify the relationship among the words {video-game-magazine dispute} {college-football-halftime controversy}. Words Into Type, third edition (1974) emphasizes the practical goal to be achieved by hyphenating (or not hyphenating): Phrases used as attributive adjectives usually require hyphenation to make clear their relation to the noun they modify. [Examples:] the how-to-study area; a life-and-death struggle If such a phrase modifier is hyphenated at all, it should be hyphenated throughout; but no hyphen should be used between the modifier and the noun. Wrong: low milk-and-cream yielding dam Right: low milk-and-cream-yielding dam Wrong: pay-as-you-go-plan Right: pay-as-you-go plan If there is scarcely any possibility of misreading, hyphens need not be used. [Examples:] a story and a half house; a thirty percent increase; yellow pine timber belt All of these (U.S.) style guides agree that when ambiguity as to what is modifying what might ensue from an unpunctuated adjective phrase, it is better to hyphenate the elements of the phrase than to leave the words open. But the goal is greater clarityand if the hyphens don't clarify anything, they have no business being there. Thus far, my answer has focused on the 'machine-learning-related certification' example in your question. Compound modifiers that incorporate proper nouns of two words or more (such as 'Mount Everestbased climbing expedition') follow a different rule in these style guides: leaving the proper name open, and connecting the compound noun to the adjective with an en-dash instead of a hyphen. I won't go back into the reference works to quote the specific guidelines from each book, but they recommend the approach I have just outlined in this paragraph. |
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How to treat algae in a swimming pool
Test and adjust the pool's ph.
One of the main causes of algae growing in a pool is if the ph of the water gets too high, because this prevents the chlorine from killing the algae. Collect some water from the pool and test the ph levels with a test kit.
Choices: (a). If it is too high (too low) and the ph level goes below a certain threshold (like 7.5 to 7.9), you can use a thermometer to test the ph. Pull the water from the tap to monitor the ph.. (b). This will help to determine if the algae is native to the pool. If you have a ph between 6.0 and 7.0 you will want to visit a lab.. (c). To lower the ph, add some muriatic acid or sodium bisulphate. To increase the ph, add sodium carbonate.. (d). Set the ph level at one of the following frequencies : F5-1.5 Make sure your pool is at least 600c (marine units). This percentage is indicative of algae growth, making it a good idea to maintain your pool's ph.. | (c). |
In this task, you're given a context passage. Your job is to generate relevant questions that can be answered by directly referring to the passage.
Ash put the roast in the oven for Cameron's birthday dinner that evening.
How would Others feel as a result?
Ash took their laptop to be repaired, but the store couldn't do anything about it.
How would Ash feel afterwards?
Flying in an airplane is necessary to travel to far away destinations that are not easily accessible by other modes of transportation . Last summer , I had a girls trip to the Carribean . We had to plan our trip including booking airplane tickets and booking hotels . We booked our airplane tickets online a few months before to get the best fare . We arrive at the airport a few hours beforehand for an international flight . We all pack lightly with one piece of luggage . After waiting at the airport for a while , we boarded our plane . The flight attendants and crew are friendly . We find out seats and try to as comfortable in the cramped seating of a packed flight full of passengers . We try to relax , buckle up for a four hour flight . During the four hour flight , we can sleep on watch TV or listen to music . And the crew will come around with drinks and snacks . After a necessary flight , we arrive at our destination safely .
| Why were they taking this flight?
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Given a text, write a compressed version of it in a single sentence.
Example Input: There's an even better view into the caldera, and no fuss, from the road a short way east from Penelokan (heading towards Suter and Rendang, the turnoff for Besakih).
Example Output: There's a better view into the caldera without hassle from the road east from Penelokan.
Example Input: The ruling elite lived on the high ground, the Yamanote ("bluffs") west and south of the castle. The artisans, tradespeople, and providers of entertainment (reputable and not so reputable) lived "downtown" on the reclaimed marshlands north and east, in the area still known as Shitamachi.
Example Output: The ruling elite lived on high ground, the Yamanote west and south of the castle. The every day workers lived downtown on the reclaimed marshlands north and east, in the area known as Shitamachi
Example Input: Ticket sales and subscriptions cannot finance our complete season; in fact they only count for 53% of our income. Soon, a representative of the IRT will be calling you to take your pledge over the phone.
Example Output: | Ticket sales and subscriptions count for 53% of our income. Soon, a representative of the IRT will be calling you to take your pledge.
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Given the below context: Every year, 12-year old Samuel, 10-year old Jeffrey and 8-year old Michael Douglas visit their grandfather, Mori Tanaka at his cabin. Mori trains his grandchildren in the art of Ninjutsu. As the summer comes to an end, Mori gives each of them a new "ninja" name based on their personalities: 'Rocky', 'Colt', and 'Tum-Tum'. Meanwhile, the boys' father, Sam Douglas, is an FBI agent who stages a sting operation to entrap Hugo Snyder in the sale of warheads. Snyder escapes the trap with the use of his own ninja henchmen. Snyder decides to test Mori's fighting skill. The boys ignore Mori's orders to stay in the house and aid by defeating two ninjas on their own. Snyder threatens Mori's family if he doesn't get Douglas off his back, and Mori chides the boys briefly for interfering in his personal affairs. When they return home, they find their father unenthusiastic to see what they had learned during their visit and more annoyed at their new names. Emily, a friend of Rocky's, compliments his new name and agrees to ride with them to school the next day. Snyder develops a plan to kidnap the boys to use them as leverage to get Douglas to back off. Since the FBI watches them, his assistant Brown contacts his nephew Fester and his buddies Hammer and Marcus to kidnap the boys. Due to Douglas and his FBI crew's presence, they are unable to capture the boys. Guess a valid title for it!
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Answer: 3 Ninjas (film)
Given the below context: A series of murders of rich young women throughout the area of Globe, Arizona bear the distinctive signature of a serial killer. Clues lead Detective Charles Mendoza to visit Paul White, a sound expert installing hi-fi systems in wealthy people's homes. His special talent is to make a noise which echoes through the air cavities in his head and shows him where the sound of the speakers should come from and echo in the room. He is married to Joan, whom, ten years earlier, he had seduced away from Mike DeSantos, who was her then boyfriend. Joan and Paul have a daughter, Danielle, together. Paul, installing equipment at Dr. Sutter's home, proximal to the most-recent murder, is approached by Detective Mendoza-- they have a cordial conversation about sound equipment, but it turns abruptly, when Mendoza asks Paul if he still hunts. Mendoza questions Paul about whether he knew the victim, and then asks him about the tires on his van-- a tread pattern that has been located at the scene of the murder. Mendoza meets with his partner Phil at the police station, where Phil has gathered criminal record information on Paul-- they speculate on what kind of person he might be based on that information. Mendoza, working from photos of the crime scene, begins to identify some aspects of the killer's M/O. Paul visits Fred, proprietor of the local diner-- Fred mentions that Ann Mason has been asking after Paul, ostensibly to work on her satellite system. Guess a valid title for it!
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Answer: White of the Eye (film)
Given the below context: At a St. Louis opera house in 1860, a singer in blackface named Jerry Barton, known as "King of the Minstrels", comes backstage and asks his sweetheart, Lettie Morgan, to elope. Lettie's Aunt Hortense, fearing that Barton is a fortune hunter, tells Lettie she is not the heiress she thought she was and that she has been living off her aunt's charity. With no fortune to hunt, Barton informs Lettie that an artist cannot be burdened with the responsibility of a wife. Outside the opera house, Lettie meets a chorus girl named Honey, who is preparing to leave with her theatrical troupe in a caravan heading West. When the troupe's producer mistakes Lettie for the star, she joins the group as "Mary Varden". The troupe's wagon train is escorted by Captain Tex Autry of the U.S. Cavalry and his singing plainsmen. The troupe misses the wagon train, however, and must travel alone. On their way to San Francisco, the caravan is ambushed by a gang of thieves. Tex and his men arrive on the scene and following a gunfight, the gang is chased off. After Tex saves Lettie from a runaway wagon, he comments on the foolishness of risking his men's lives for a bunch of "crazy showgirls". Angered by his insolence, Lettie decides to walk rather than ride with Tex. Eventually she gets tired and asks Tex if she can ride with him. The troupe arrives safely at Fort Henry, which is run by Colonel Seward. Guess a valid title for it!
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Answer: | The Singing Vagabond |
Given a text, write a compressed version of it in a single sentence.
The firm belief in "manifest destiny" and territorial expansion led ineluctably to the Civil War. As long as the Union was fixed at a certain number of slave states and a certain number of free, both sides could calculate the future. | The firm belief in "manifest destiny" and territorial expansion led ineluctably to the Civil War. Both sides could calculate the future with a certain number of slave states. |
Ghost Notes is the fifth full-length studio album by American rock band Veruca Salt, released on July 10, 2015, through El Camino Records. Produced by Brad Wood, who also produced the band's debut "American Thighs", it is the first to feature the band's original lineup since their second album, "Eight Arms to Hold You" (1997).
Ghost Notes was produced by Brad Wood OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: Yes
View from the Top is a 2003 American romantic comedy film directed by Bruno Barreto, and stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Christina Applegate, Candice Bergen, Joshua Malina, Mark Ruffalo, Rob Lowe, Mike Myers, and Kelly Preston. The film follows a young woman (Paltrow) from a small town who sets out to fulfill her dream of becoming a flight attendant.
View from the Top is a 2002 American romantic comedy film directed by Bruno Barreto, and stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Christina Applegate, Candice Bergen, Joshua Malina, Mark Ruffalo, Rob Lowe, Mike Myers, and Kelly Preston OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
Carol Hernandez is an American journalist from Miami Florida. She won a 1996 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. She won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. She currently resides in Long Island with her husband, and three children, (the oldest being the best and most funny and creative).
Carol Hernandez has more than three children. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | No |
If yeah yeah i've heard that like in China and stuff there is virtually no such thing as rape because if you rape somebody you'd be murdered them you know on the you know street so yeah, can we conclude that "I think that rape isn't really a thing in China because rapists get the shit kicked out of them."?
OPTIONS:
1). yes
2). it is not possible to tell
3). no | 1). |
Fitch upgrades Ford to investment grade
4
Fitch restores Ford credit to investment grade
Gang violence kills 16 in Venezuelan prison
4
Sixteen killed in Venezuela prison
Egypt votes in new constitution
5
Egyptians Vote On New Constitution
Secret Service sees its 'biggest scandal' over prostitutes
2
| Secret Service sex scandal 'regret' |
Use evidence from the fact that chemical splashing can cause harm to the eyes to answer the following question. Choose from options. "Safety glasses should be worn around"
Choose from:
- water.
- bleach.
- air.
- computers. | bleach |
I frankly haven't the slightest idea what the difference is between a moka pot and a cafetiere, but I'm going to pretend I do. "Delicious," I say, setting down my cup. "Way better than that stuff you get at Starbucks." Everyone else nods their heads in agreement, but I can't help but wonder if they're just being polite. Jason is pouring cream into his cup with a practiced hand, letting the white stream fall from the pitcher's lip in a smooth and slender column that blooms across his coffee's surface like a carnivorous plant photographed in stop-motion. "Did you hear about Tibet?" he asks. "Yeah," I say, "Terrible." "What's really shocking," says my boss, "is the complete ignorance of, well, most of America about what's going on right now." "Terrible." chimes in Jason. "and what with the death of newspapers, soon practically no one will be able to easily come by a well-formed opinion." "Did you hear the New York Times might be going bankrupt?" my boss asks. "Now that," Jason says, draining his cup, "would be a tragedy." Our biscotti has arrived and I'm reluctant to take the first piece. Is Dr. Burns paying again? It makes me feel awkward, because and despite the fact that she paid the last time--and this was at her invitation. Jason, for all his savior faire, did not appear to know how a Turkish coffee tasting was really supposed to go last time, and did not question when Dr. Burns ordered for all of us. Tracy, similarly, followed the doctor's lead and silently acquiesced when she took the check from the waiter dressed in a vest and what I took be MC Hammer pants. At any rate, it's not too weird for the boss to pay, right? After last time, I had gone home and dug out a 1984 copy of Emily Post, but that wasn't much help. There was no heading for "Research Assistants" nor did I find a chapter on "Student/Professor Luncheons." What did Jason pour the cream from? Pick the correct answer from the following options: - A moka pot - not enough information - A cafetiere - A pitcher
A pitcher
Apologies again that it’s been a while since I last posted. You may recall that I’d been helping out a local charity with their website? Well that is all completed now but I’ve had some other family stuff going on and with looking after my baby daughter spare time for blogging is pretty scarce at the moment. I haven’t lost my enthusiasm though and am busy planning all sorts of new posts for the future, so watch this space! Today I wanted to tell you all about a fantastic natural brand, Moogoo. Regular readers of Beauty Best Friend may recall that I reviewed their Full Cream Moisturiser last year, but having received this Oil Cleansing Method* cleanser in a goody bag from a blogger event a couple of months ago it fired up my love for them all over again! MooGoo is an Australian natural skincare brand that was first created when the founder adapted a cream used in dairy farms to help a family member with a skin problem. Their products contain lots of natural oils and are not tested on animals – well, apart from the very first of their products that was created for cows! Moogoo Oil Cleansing Method is an all natural cleansing oil that can be used in two ways…. you can use it like a wash-off cleanser by applying a few drops to the face then rinsing it off with warm water, or my favourite method is to massage the oil into the skin then place a warm flannel or muslin over the face to allow the oil to draw any impurities out of the skin, before wiping away the oil. This is a great way of starting off a DIY facial at home! There are four varieties of Oil Cleansing Method, I’ve been using the one for Oily Skin but it’s also available in Normal, Combination and Dry too. The ingredients include ‘drawing oils’ that help to lift dirt and germs off the skin so they can be washed away, plus the Oily one contains Juniper Oil which helps to prevent bacteria on the skin, great for helping keep spots at bay. The author probably believes in Pick the correct answer from the following options: - natural beauty products - local websites - not enough information - family members with animals
natural beauty products
Alona's persistent knocking at the door of room 412 went unanswered for three minutes as she nervously shuffled her feet. Her book bag was super-saturated with textbooks, notebooks, schedules, rough drafts, and various other forms of academic paraphernalia. It was getting heavier. She continued to knock, even though there had as yet been no answer, because the note card tacked to the right of the door indicated that these indeed were Prof. Turgy K. Sigger's office hours. She could see the light under the door and thought she had heard a groan. Just before she decided to give up, slow feet approached from the opposite side, then silence; with a dramatic turn of the knob, the door swung open. "Was this trip really necessary?" asked Prof. Sigger, blinking and brushing his oily, graying hair back into place. "These are your office hours," Alona replied. She nervously smiled, feeling the corners of her mouth twitch. Somewhere in the darkened hall, a janitor coughed. "All right," conceded Prof. Sigger. "Come in." The carpet was smothered by leaning towers of textbooks. Papers lined the left side of the desk, above which was a small note card which read "To Be Graded." On the right side, the oak finish gleamed of the mid-morning light piercing the Venetian blinds. "You've come about your final project," Prof. Sigger stated. "It's only mid-term," Alona reminded him. "Oh yes, yes," continued Prof. Sigger, without conscious embarrassment. "Mid-term grade. I think I have it here. Somewhere." His hands disappeared into the left side of his desk. "You told the class that we would get a C if we maintained that Coca-Cola isn't a crypto-fascist conspiracy." "Oh yes," said Prof. Sigger. "We were discussing social issues, as I remember. I was quoting Marx and some little idiot brought up Rush Limbaugh." "That was me," Alona muttered. Prof. Sigger's office hours probably last how long before school starts? Pick the correct answer from the following options: - a couple of hours - 3 minutes - not enough information - less than 10 minutes
| a couple of hours |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given Wikipedia articles on a range of topics, we ask you to write a question based on the content of the articles that can be answered in a binary manner i.e. True or False.
Truth or Dare (2018 film) -- The film was initially set for release on April 27, 2018, but in January 2018, the date was moved up two weeks, to April 13, 2018, Friday the 13th. The official trailer for the film was released on January 3, 2018.
| is the film truth or dare on netflix |
In this task, you're given a context passage. Your job is to generate relevant questions that can be answered by directly referring to the passage.
Ex Input:
Robin blew the Popsicle stand over when she flew by on her saucer.
Ex Output:
How would you describe Robin?
Ex Input:
Omelettes are one of my favorite breakfast foods, so I grabbed a skillet's from the pantry, place it on the skillet and turned on the heat to medium in order to get ready to cook them. While the skillet was heating up, I cracked two eggs, and the and the contents of the shell into an empty bowl and discarding the white cells. I beat the eggs until the yoke and egg white had combines, then added a few splashes of milk and continued beating. Once I was satisfied with the consistency of the egg of the omelette, then I prepared the contents that will go inside. I already had a bacon that have been cooked previously, so I crushed the bacon with my hands in order to make crumbles. I also grabbed a bag of cheddar cheese from the refrigerator, as well as an onion. I cut a few slivers of onion off, and chop them into fine pieces. Now that I have all of my ingredients prepared, I pour the egg into the preheated skillet and let the egg cover the bottom surface of the skillet. Once I felt the ad was halfway cooked, I use a spatula to lift and flip the egg over to the other side. Immediately after flipping the egg, I placed my crumbled bacon, diced onion, and shredded cheddar cheese on one side of the circular cooking egg. I then use my spatula to close the omelette, flipping the uncovered side of the egg on top of the bacon, cheese and onion that was situated on the other side of the egg. Once the egg was properly closed, I then use a spatula to turn the omelette over so that it may continue cooking on the other side, and turning off the heat. After about 40 seconds of cooking, I then use a spatula to remove the omelette from the skillet, and place it on the plate so I can begin eating.
Ex Output:
When did they add the eggs to the pan?
Ex Input:
After studying very hard for the test, Sasha received a perfect score.
Ex Output:
| How would Sasha feel afterwards?
|
Friday, March 25, 2005 Terri Schiavo's father made a last-minute appeal to have his daughter's feeding tube reinserted Friday. "Terri is weakening. She's down to her last hours," said Bob Schindler, Schiavo's father. "Something has to be done and done quick." Bob Schindler and his wife Mary filed an emergency appeal Friday to have a feeding tube reinserted in their 41-year-old daughter. Earlier Friday, U.S. District Judge James Whittemore rejected the family's previous appeal. On Wednesday, he rejected a similar request. The new appeal will be filed in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, although that court has twice before rejected the family's appeal. The tube was removed on Friday, March 18, 2005.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
Question: Bob Schindler married Mary.
yes
THE French justice minister who returned to work five days after having a baby, only to lose her job, launched a political comeback last week, letting it be known that she will run for mayor of Paris. Rachida Dati, 43, long seen as President Nicolas Sarkozy's favourite among the "Sarko-zettes" - his women ministers - lost his confidence and was ordered to leave the cabinet and instead run for the European parliament. She used the launch of her party's European election campaign to deny she was a Sarkozy creation and to add gravitas to the "bling-bling" image attached to her since she posed in a £15,000 Christian Dior dress at a fashion gala.
Is this true: Rachida Dati has Moroccan origins.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
A: no
Question:
Cyanide is also used by Muru-ami fishermen in the Philippines to drive fish from the coral reefs.
Is this true?
Philippine fishermen use cyanide in fishing.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
Answer:
yes
Problem: In February 1942, the Japanese Imperial Army landed an army of 20 thousand men in Dili (the capital of East Timor) and occupied the then Portuguese colony.
Based on that paragraph can we say the following?
East Timor was a colony of Dili before it was occupied by Indonesia in 1975.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
****
Answer: no
Q: Today marks the 80th birthday of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, whose reign has lasted over 54 years. Her Majesty became the first female to become the sovereign since Queen Victoria, who died in 1901 after a 64-year reign. She was crowned on June 2, 1953, in Westminster Abbey. It was the first coronation that was televised live. She is Queen of sixteen independent nations known as the Commonwealth Realms, which includes the United Kingdom.
United Kingdom includes the Commonwealth Realms.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
A: no
Rising house and stock prices have made many people feel more wealthy and have helped to support consumer spending, a key ingredient of the economy's good health.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
Question: A long spell of low interest rates and low risks for investors has especially encouraged investment in homes.
| no |
snow falls during the winter in some environments
In southern Africa we are more likely to see snow in
Possible answers:
A). January;
B). November;
C). March;
D). July; | D). |
Given the question: Given the following passage "Broadly speaking, government phonology (or its descendant, strict-CV phonology) has a greater following in the United Kingdom, whereas optimality theory is predominant in the United States.[citation needed]", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: what phrase is in bracket?
The answer is: | or its descendant, strict-CV phonology |
TASK DEFINITION: You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
PROBLEM: The Territory of Hawaii or Hawaii Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 12, 1898, until August 21, 1959, when most of its territory, excluding Palmyra Island and the Stewart Islands, was admitted to the Union as the fiftieth U.S. state, the State of Hawaii. The Hawaii Admission Act specified that the State of Hawaii would not include the distant Palmyra Island, the Midway Islands, Kingman Reef, and Johnston Atoll, which includes Johnston (or Kalama) Island and Sand Island, and the Act was silent regarding the Stewart Islands.
SOLUTION: was hawaii a territory before it became a state?
PROBLEM: The passport card is a limited travel document, valid only for land and sea travel within North America (Canada, the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Bermuda). It cannot be used for international air travel. The Department of State indicates that this is because ``designing a card format passport for wide use, including by air travelers, would inadvertently undercut the broad based international effort to strengthen civil aviation security and travel document specifications to address the post 9/11 threat environment''.
SOLUTION: can a passport card be used for canada?
PROBLEM: The term ``Darwinian fitness'' can be used to make clear the distinction with physical fitness. Fitness does not include a measure of survival or life-span; Herbert Spencer's well-known phrase ``survival of the fittest'' should be interpreted as: ``Survival of the form (phenotypic or genotypic) that will leave the most copies of itself in successive generations.''
SOLUTION: | does fitness (as used in biology) and survival have the same meaning?
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Detailed Instructions: You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Problem:Moreover, a fixed/non-current asset can also be defined as an asset not directly sold to a firm's consumers/end-users. As an example, a baking firm's current assets would be its inventory (in this case, flour, yeast, etc.), the value of sales owed to the firm via credit (i.e. debtors or accounts receivable), cash held in the bank, etc. Its non-current assets would be the oven used to bake bread, motor vehicles used to transport deliveries, cash registers used to handle cash payments, etc. While these non-current assets have value, they are not directly sold to consumers and cannot be easily converted to cash.
Solution: | is a fixed asset a non current asset? |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you're given a passage, further information available on a particular linked term from the statement, and a question. Your job is to generate the answer to the question by using the information provided. If there is no clear answer obtainable, output 'none'.
Q: Passage: On November 2, 2015, Clinton got into a Twitter fight with Governor Greg Abbott over Proposition 1. On November 6, 2015, at the First in the South Candidates Forum, Clinton, when asked why Proposition 1 failed, stated that "the far right did, very successfully, is really engender a lot of fear and a lot of anxiety, and create this backlash against this ordinance. And they used the bathroom issue. And yet, you could go to another city in Texas, like San Antonio, and you would know that that was totally without merit, that there was no basis for it. I think this is a reminder that if you stand for equal rights, if you stand against discrimination, you don't just do it once and you're done," and "You've got to keep fighting for it, you've got to keep standing up for it, you've got to keep moving forward." On December 17, 2015, Clinton revealed a comprehensive plan for LGBT rights, including an endorsement of federal ban LGBT conversion therapy for minors. On January 20, 2016, Clinton criticized Senator Bernie Sanders for his comments that the Human Rights Campaign was "part of the establishment." On February 9, 2016, Clinton endorsed Florida's Competitive Workforce Act. On March 11, 2016, in an interview with MSNBC at Nancy Reagan's funeral service, Clinton credited Reagan with starting the national conversation about AIDS. Clinton's comments drew heavy criticism from LGBT groups and the media, who said that the Reagans had ignored the issue, causing Clinton to apologize and retract her statement. On March 24, 2016, Clinton condemned the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act and Senate Bill 175. On April 6, 2016, Clinton condemned the Religious Liberty Accommodations Act. On July 2, 2016, Clinton stated she was proud of The Pentagon's decision to lift the prohibition on openly transgender people serving in the United States military. On October 6, 2016, she was the first major-party presidential candidate ever to write an op-ed for an LGBT newspaper (Philadelphia Gay News). On October 11, 2016, her Twitter account stated conversion therapy for minors should be ended.
Link Information: none Question: Which of the pieces of legislation that Clinton commended on March 24, 2016 was intiated first?
A: | Answer: none |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you will be presented with a context from an academic paper and a question separated with a
. You have to answer the question based on the context.
Problem:this paper proposes to use the most relevant samples from the source dataset to train on the target dataset. One way to find the most similar samples is finding the pair-wise distance between all samples of the development set of the target dataset and source dataset. we propose using a clustering algorithm on the development set. The clustering algorithm used ihere is a hierarchical clustering algorithm. The cosine similarity is used as a criteria to cluster each question and answer. Therefore, these clusters are representative of the development set of the target dataset and the corresponding center for each cluster is representative of all the samples on that cluster. In the next step, the distance of each center is used to calculate the cosine similarity. Finally, the samples in the source dataset which are far from these centers are ignored. In other words, the outliers do not take part in transfer learning.
Question: How do they transfer the model?
Solution: | In the MULT method, two datasets are simultaneously trained, and the weights are tuned based on the inputs which come from both datasets. The hyper-parameter $\lambda \in (0,1)$ is calculated based on a brute-force search or using general global search. This hyper parameter is used to calculate the final cost function which is computed from the combination of the cost function of the source dataset and the target datasets. this paper proposes to use the most relevant samples from the source dataset to train on the target dataset. One way to find the most similar samples is finding the pair-wise distance between all samples of the development set of the target dataset and source dataset. we propose using a clustering algorithm on the development set. The clustering algorithm used ihere is a hierarchical clustering algorithm. The cosine similarity is used as a criteria to cluster each question and answer. Therefore, these clusters are representative of the development set of the target dataset and the corresponding center for each cluster is representative of all the samples on that cluster. In the next step, the distance of each center is used to calculate the cosine similarity. Finally, the samples in the source dataset which are far from these centers are ignored. In other words, the outliers do not take part in transfer learning. |
Teacher:In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: Most taxpayers are allowed a choice between the itemized deductions and the standard deduction. After computing their adjusted gross income (AGI), taxpayers can itemize deductions (from a list of allowable items) and subtract those itemized deductions (and any applicable personal exemption deductions) from their AGI amount to arrive at the taxable income. Alternatively, they can elect to subtract the standard deduction for their filing status (and any applicable personal exemption deduction) to arrive at the taxable income. In other words, the taxpayer may generally deduct the total itemized deduction amount, or the applicable standard deduction amount, whichever is greater.
Student: | when are itemized deductions used in computing taxable income |
Having your marijuana in bags help keep it what?
Options:
- entertainment
- neat
- happy
- intoxicating
- illegal
Let's think now! Step-by-step reasoning: | Bags keep things neat. Mariuana can be kept in bag.
So, the final answer is neat. |
Given the rationale, provide a reasonable question and answer. Step-by-step reasoning process: Law & Order was created by Dick Wolf. Dick Wolf won an Emmy in 2007. Dick Wolf won an Emmy in 1997. The Emmy statuette is of a winged woman holding an atom.
The question and answer: | Are there winged statuettes in the home of the creator of Law & Order?
The answer is yes |
Instructions: You are given a passage. You need to construct a question about the information present in the passage. Construct a question in such a way that (i) it is unambiguous, (ii) its answer is the whole paragraph. Avoid creating questions that can be answered correctly without actually understanding the paragraph.
Input: my mother used to teach weight watchers class,& the two things that i do all the time is ...1)drink a large glass of water right before you eat(the water will take up space in your stomach & you will not eat as much &...2) take 20 minutes to eat what ever you are having. your body will send your brain a message that you have been eating for 20 minutes ...you must be full! also take a 30 minute walk after eating & don't eat after 9:00pm
Output: | What is the best diet for someone who wants to lose 10-15 lbs.? |
QUESTION: Is "Ray" the same as "he" in this sentence?
Tom threw his schoolbag down to Ray after *he* reached the top of the stairs.
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
ANS: no
QUESTION: Is "the police" the same as "they" in this sentence?
The firemen arrived after the police because *they* were coming from so far away.
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
ANS: no
QUESTION: Is "Peter" the same as "his" in this sentence?
Do you suppose that Peter is responsible for the captain ’s illness? Maybe he bribed the cook to put something in *his* food.
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
ANS: no
QUESTION: Is "Jim" the same as "he" in this sentence?
Jim yelled at Kevin because *he* was so upset.
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
ANS: | yes |
In this task, you are given a question and an answer. Answer "Yes" if the given answer correctly answers the question, otherwise answer "No".
[EX Q]: what did chaucer do, Answer: While he achieved fame during his lifetime as an author, philosopher, alchemist and astronomer , composing a scientific treatise on the astrolabe for his ten year-old son Lewis, Chaucer also maintained an active career in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat.
[EX A]: Yes
[EX Q]: what is the capacity of the cowboy stadium, Answer: The stadium seats 85,000, making it the third largest stadium in the NFL by seating capacity .
[EX A]: Yes
[EX Q]: how many people have mariah carey dated?, Answer: Under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola , Carey released her self-titled debut studio album Mariah Carey in 1990; it went multi-platinum and spawned four consecutive number one singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.
[EX A]: | No
|
One of the challenges that every community faces, particularly teams inside a larger community, is the ability to coordinate what goals and ambitions the team is going to work on. Traditionally this has always been somewhat ad-hoc: people join a team and work on whatever they feel like. Ideas are ten-a-penny though. For most teams that work on larger projects (such as events, software, products and more) to actually be productive, coordinating this work can be complex: some projects require coordination across many people with different skill-sets, time-availability and resources. Something I would like us to work towards in the Ubuntu community is encouraging a culture of best-practise in how we plan our work and coordinate our awesome teams to work together on projects. I believe this kind of coordination can help our teams increase the opportunity for success in their work, feel more empowered and productive and provide greater insight to people outside those teams on what the team is doing. An effective way of doing this is to build a Roadmap for each cycle. This provides an opportunity to capture a set of goals the team will work together to achieve in each six-month period. This article outlines how to build such a Roadmap. While at first a roadmap can feel a little like a nod to the gods of bureaucracy, they actually possess many benefits: * Direction – one of the biggest complaints teams often report is a lack of direction. If a team gets into the habit of creating a roadmap at the beginning of a cycle, it gives the team a sense of focus and direction for the coming cycle. * Documented commitments are more effective – a common rule in Project Management training is that actions assigned to people in a shared document are more effective than ad-hoc or private commitments. By documenting who will work on what in a cycle and putting their name next to an action can help seal a sense of accountability for their contributions to the project. * Feeling of success – regularly revisiting a roadmap and... Who wants the Ubuntu community to work together on projects? A. The teams B. not enough information C. The roadmap D. The narrator
A: | D |
Question: Sentence 1: The sudden apparition of the Spaniards. -- William H. Prescott.
Sentence 2: The apparition of Lawyer Clippurse occasioned much speculation in that portion of the world. -- Sir W. Scott.
Does apparition mean the same thing in these two sentences?
OPTIONS:
- different meanings
- the same meaning
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Answer: the same meaning
Question: Sentence 1: We could always call on a friend.
Sentence 2: Call roll.
Does call mean the same thing in these two sentences?
OPTIONS:
- different meanings
- the same meaning
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Answer: different meanings
Question: Sentence 1: I want to see whether she speaks French.
Sentence 2: I saw their laughing and joking.
Does see mean the same thing in these two sentences?
OPTIONS:
- different meanings
- the same meaning
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Answer: | different meanings |
I know that the answer to the question "Mona Lisa Smile was filmed in __" is in "In April 2009, the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear a suit over reverse discrimination brought by 18 white firefighters against the city. The suit involved the 2003 promotion test for the New Haven Fire Department. After the tests were scored, no black firefighters scored high enough to qualify for consideration for promotion, so the city announced that no one would be promoted. In the subsequent Ricci v. DeStefano decision the court found 5-4 that New Haven's decision to ignore the test results violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As a result, a district court subsequently ordered the city to promote 14 of the white firefighters.". Can you tell me what it is?
| New Haven |
Q: In this task, you are given news articles and you need to generate a highlight, i.e., a short summary, with a maximum length of 10 lines.
(CNN) -- "We must be on you but cannot see you." That was one of the very last voice signals transmitted by Amelia Earhart in the summer of 1937, somewhere over the vast Pacific Ocean during her ill-fated flight around the globe. An intense search led by the U.S. Navy was launched to find Earhart and her plane, but after several weeks, nothing was found. "All right, good night." Those were the last words transmitted 17 days ago from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, somewhere over the South China Sea between Kuala Lumpur and Ho Chi Minh City. An international search led by the Malaysian government and Malaysia Airlines and joined by governments and private companies from the United States, Great Britain, China, Australia, Norway, Japan, New Zealand and others have narrowed down a possible search region to a vast chunk of the Indian Ocean southwest of Perth, Australia. "This is probably the one of the largest efforts you'll ever see in terms of maritime surveillance and joint operations," Australian Defense Minister David Johnston said Tuesday. Reports now seem to support the theory, popularized by pilot instructor Chris Goodfellow, that an incapacitating emergency led the pilots to divert the Boeing 777 toward the closest airport (hence turning south) while simultaneously trying to fight an electrical fire of some sort until they were overcome. Experts believe that the jet continued on dumb autopilot until it was, like Earhart's Lockheed Electra, out of fuel, plunging into the sea. Opinion: Flight 370's resting place is best clue . Earhart was lost on July 2, 1937. MH370 disappeared March 8, 2014, more than two weeks ago. In those 77 years, almost everything about the world has changed. Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared just a few years before World War II erupted and a new world order emerged: what is often called the American century. And the three-week search effort for Earhart was entirely American, directed by the Navy. Flight 370 was operated by Malaysia's national airline, en route to Beijing. The flight was the opposite of pioneering, instead a routine long haul of 227 passengers, with a coach class ticket costing about $530. But in this case, the search effort is extraordinary and much more international in scope. This time, it's not just the Americans. The Australians, the Chinese and the Norwegians are deploying their air forces and navies with cutting-edge technologies for weeks on end to help. Pakistani radar, Chinese satellites, even NASA aided the search. Add to that countless hours of analytical personnel. In the end, it was a private British satellite company, Inmarsat, that confirmed the likely flight path and terminus. According to some reports, this is the most expensive search effort in history. Although there was strong criticism against the Malaysian government for delays and missteps during the initial days of the investigation, it seems as if the international community has largely united in focusing massive resources on finding the plane. There was nobody famous on the flight and yet it is somehow unremarkable that dozens of nations are expending millions of dollars to solve the mystery. Together. Pilot: How mechanical problem could have downed Flight 370 . All this stands in stark contrast to Russia's opportunistic conquest of the Crimean peninsula, a major part of the neighboring nation of Ukraine. That sort of nationalist land grab reminds me less of the Cold War than of norms of the 18th century and just about every century of history prior. Certainly, there's something extraordinary and dangerous going on in the Crimea, but a calmer, more patient, more historical assessment distinguishes the reflexive nationalism of a weakened ex-empire from the larger trends in a globalizing world. Or what about the civil war in Syria? Or the heightened tensions on the North Korean peninsula? Or the disputes between Japan and Korea over the "Sea of Japan" versus the "East Sea"? Or the uprisings in Venezuela? All are hot spots where the international community has largely been paralyzed, unable to do much more than call for multilateral inquiries and issue hollow condemnations. So what's left to be seen is whether this unprecedented international coalition assembled to scour the ocean for the remains of Flight 370 is one of the few bright spots in an otherwise devastating tragedy for the families of the 227 passengers and 12 crew members. Or whether this is merely a one-off proposition where each nation is acting in its own self-interest to do what it must for its own citizens, while feigning cooperation for the world stage. I prefer to see the goodness here, that the world can come together and work together when it counts. Sometimes it takes a tragedy to remind us of the everyday miracles of our time. Join us on Facebook.com/CNNOpinion. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Tim Kane.
A: | Tim Kane says international search for Flight 370 is rare bright spot in tragedy .
More than a half-dozen nations have come together in the deep-water search .
Like the disappearance of Amelia Earhart in 1937, Flight 370 is a mystery . |
In this task, you're given an article and an answer. Your task is to generate the question for the answer based on the given article.
Article: There are some strange driving laws in different countries. Vietnam: If you're in Vietnam without a Vietnamese driver's license, you risk a prison sentence of up to 3years. Russia: In Moscow, if your car is dirty enough to draw dust art, you will be fined about 2,000 rubles. Worse yet, it's not legal to wash your car by hand in public places--forcing you to take it to one of the few car wash facilities. Thailand: Drivers--males or females--can't drive shirtless, whether it's a car, a bus or a tuk-tuk. France: France requires its drivers to carry a potable breathalyzer all the time when driving a car. The one-time breathalyzer cost around US $ 5, and if you don't have one, you will be fined US $ 15. Cyprus: Raising your hands in the car can get you fined of US $ 35. The law states a driver can be fined if the person is not in a regular position inside the car or raises his hands from the steering wheel unnecessarily. Japan: Politeness isn't just the culture in Japan; it's part of driving laws. Splashing a person by driving through a puddle with your car will cost you over US $ 60. The country is also strict with its DUI laws---riding with or lending your car to a driver who gets caught drinking can lead to a fine costing thousands of dollars.
Answer: The car wash facilities. | Where should you go to wash your car when you are in Moscow? |
National Basketball Association teams play eight preseason games per year. Today, NBA teams almost always play each other in the preseason, but mainly at neutral sites within their market areas in order to allow those who can't usually make a trip to a home team's arena during the regular season to see a game close to home; for instance the Minnesota Timberwolves will play games in arenas in North Dakota and South Dakota, while the Phoenix Suns schedule one exhibition game outdoors at Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, California yearly, the only such instance an NBA game takes place in an outdoor venue.
If it is possible to answer this question, answer it for me (else, reply "unanswerable"): What is the only NBA game that's played in an indoor venue?
Ah, so.. unanswerable
There has been an increasing gulf between the Premier League and the Football League. Since its split with the Football League, many established clubs in the Premier League have managed to distance themselves from their counterparts in lower leagues. Owing in large part to the disparity in revenue from television rights between the leagues, many newly promoted teams have found it difficult to avoid relegation in their first season in the Premier League. In every season except 2001–02 and 2011–12, at least one Premier League newcomer has been relegated back to the Football League. In 1997–98 all three promoted clubs were relegated at the end of the season.
If it is possible to answer this question, answer it for me (else, reply "unanswerable"): In the 1997-98 season how many new teams had to go back to the Football League?
Ah, so.. In 1997–98 all three promoted clubs were relegated at the end of the season.
Many people from Strasbourg were incorporated in the German Army against their will, and were sent to the eastern front, those young men and women were called Malgré-nous. Many tried to escape from the incorporation, join the French Resistance, or desert the Wehrmacht but many couldn't because they were running the risk of having their families sent to work or concentration camps by the Germans. Many of these men, especially those who did not answer the call immediately, were pressured to "volunteer" for service with the SS, often by direct threats on their families. This threat obliged the majority of them to remain in the German army. After the war, the few that survived were often accused of being traitors or collaborationists, because this tough situation was not known in the rest of France, and they had to face the incomprehension of many. In July 1944, 1500 malgré-nous were released from Soviet captivity and sent to Algiers, where they joined the Free French Forces. Nowadays history recognizes the suffering of those people, and museums, public discussions and memorials have been built to commemorate this terrible period of history of this part of Eastern France (Alsace and Moselle). Liberation of Strasbourg took place on 23 November 1944.
If it is possible to answer this question, answer it for me (else, reply "unanswerable"): How many Malgre-nous were able to desert the Wehrmacht?
Ah, so.. | unanswerable |
I know that the answer to the question "What is the opposite of externally?" is in "Mill's empiricism thus held that knowledge of any kind is not from direct experience but an inductive inference from direct experience. The problems other philosophers have had with Mill's position center around the following issues: Firstly, Mill's formulation encounters difficulty when it describes what direct experience is by differentiating only between actual and possible sensations. This misses some key discussion concerning conditions under which such "groups of permanent possibilities of sensation" might exist in the first place. Berkeley put God in that gap; the phenomenalists, including Mill, essentially left the question unanswered. In the end, lacking an acknowledgement of an aspect of "reality" that goes beyond mere "possibilities of sensation", such a position leads to a version of subjective idealism. Questions of how floor beams continue to support a floor while unobserved, how trees continue to grow while unobserved and untouched by human hands, etc., remain unanswered, and perhaps unanswerable in these terms. Secondly, Mill's formulation leaves open the unsettling possibility that the "gap-filling entities are purely possibilities and not actualities at all". Thirdly, Mill's position, by calling mathematics merely another species of inductive inference, misapprehends mathematics. It fails to fully consider the structure and method of mathematical science, the products of which are arrived at through an internally consistent deductive set of procedures which do not, either today or at the time Mill wrote, fall under the agreed meaning of induction.". Can you tell me what it is?
Answer: | internally |
In the United States, an executive order is a directive issued by the President of the United States that manages operations of the federal government and has the force of law. The legal or constitutional basis for executive orders has multiple sources. Article Two of the United States Constitution gives the president broad executive and enforcement authority to use their discretion to determine how to enforce the law or to otherwise manage the resources and staff of the executive branch. The ability to make such orders is also based on express or implied Acts of Congress that delegate to the President some degree of discretionary power (delegated legislation).
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
can a president make a law without congress?
A: yes
Tom and Jerry are fictional characters that starred in a series of early sound cartoons produced by the Van Beuren Studios, and distributed by RKO Pictures. The series lasted from 1931 to 1933. When Official Films purchased the Van Beuren library in the 1950s, the characters were renamed Dick and Larry to avoid confusion with Tom and Jerry, the famous MGM cartoon series of the 1940s and 1950s. Today, animation historians refer to the characters as Van Beuren's Tom and Jerry. Today, all of these cartoons are in the public domain.
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
is tom and jerry in the public domain?
A: yes
For the combined qualification matches for the 2018 FIFA World Cup and the 2019 AFC Asian Cup, South Korea was drawn with Kuwait, Lebanon, Myanmar, and Laos in Group G of the second round. After winning seven matches without conceding a goal, South Korea qualified for the third round of the AFC qualifiers for the 2018 World Cup. Following a series of poor results in the third round of qualifiers, including defeats to China and Qatar, head coach Uli Stielike was sacked and was replaced by former U-20 and U-23 coach Shin Tae-yong for the remainder of the qualifying round. Under Shin, the team managed to qualify as the second-placed team in their group following two goalless draws against Iran and Uzbekistan, sending South Korea to the World Cup for the ninth consecutive time.
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- no
- yes
is south korea qualified for the world cup?
A: yes
The United States Virgin Islands (USVI; also called the American Virgin Islands), officially the Virgin Islands of the United States, is a group of islands in the Caribbean and an unincorporated and organized territory of the United States. The islands are geographically part of the Virgin Islands archipelago and are located in the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles.
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
is the virgin island part of the us?
A: | yes |
Assigning is very similar to subleasing, but subleasing is only temporary and usually for a short period of time. With subleases, the original tenant is intended to return to the residence. When you assign your lease, you permanently sign over your residence to another tenant. Landlords may prefer a lease assignment over a sublet. Advertise your listing and come up with a handful of names for your landlord. This way, your landlord can choose the best candidate to live on his or her property. Both you and the assignee are responsible for the terms and conditions of the lease. You can request your landlord to release you from these responsibilities in writing. Make sure that you, the new tenant, and your landlord all sign a document stating that the new tenant is now responsible for paying rent, and that you are released from any obligation under the lease. If you do not sign an agreement with the new tenant, they could leave the residence and you would still be obligated to pay the rent that was left unpaid, as well as cover any damages. If your landlord knowingly accepts rent from the assignee, s/he is generally required to honor a lease assignment even if s/he did not give permission for it. If your landlord will not allow a new tenant to completely wipe out your obligation to pay if the new tenant does not pay, make sure that you sign a separate agreement with the new tenant. Although you would still be responsible to your landlord for any unpaid rent, you could sue the new tenant for the unpaid rent. You may be surprised that your landlord is willing to work with you and help you. Before burning bridges, it's best to try an honest, straightforward conversation. Especially if you live in an area with a lot of demand for rentals, your landlord may be willing to just let you off the hook. It never hurts to ask! Explain your situation. For example, if you have gotten a new job or your family is growing, your landlord may be sympathetic to your new situation and agree to let you out of the lease. Offer to pay the next one or two months' rent to help their cash flow. This allows him or her more time to find a renter, or to renovate the residence so they can increase their earnings. Additionally, for a fee (usually one month’s rent) many landlords will help you find someone to assign your lease for the rest of the lease term. If you don’t know your landlord, that’s not a good sign. If requests for information are met with refusal or silence, consider ending your lease based on their lack of responsiveness and clarity. Get any agreement in writing, preferably notarized. Oral agreements are very hard to prove in court, should anything go wrong. Most landlords hesitate to let someone out of a lease because they feel they will lose money while searching for a new tenant. You can lessen their hesitation by helping find a tenant to replace you when you move out. In most states, landlords have an obligation to “mitigate damages” when a lease is broken. This includes a responsibility for them to re-rent a residence if you leave a lease early. For example, if you want to get out of a lease that has five months left on it, your landlord cannot simply let the property sit empty for those five months and then sue you for back rent. S/he must take reasonable steps to re-rent the residence. If your landlord has to rent the residence for a lower price than your rent, you will likely be responsible for paying the difference. If it takes a few weeks for the landlord to find a new tenant, you will likely be required to pay prorated rent for those weeks. If you can find another tenant to rent the residence, your landlord may be happy to let you leave. A buyout clause is a section of your lease that allows you to legally end your lease (usually for a certain amount of money and with adequate notification). Carefully read your lease to see what options you have. If you cannot find your lease, your landlord is required to give you a copy upon request. Other wording for this type of clause includes “early termination” or “early release.” Use caution when taking this route.–It may end up costing you a lot of money in the end. If your landlord will not work with you reasonably, try finding an attorney who will review the contract for you before you agree to a buyout clause. S/he may be able to find legal issues with the contract or with the residence that will allow legal contract termination. Also keep in mind that landlords who wish to avoid a court case may negotiate with an attorney more seriously than with their tenant.
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One-sentence summary -- Assign your lease. Work with your landlord on an agreement. Help your landlord find a new tenant. Remind your landlord that they have a duty to re-rent. Look for a buyout clause. Contact an attorney.
Q: Some people want to learn how to swim for general safety reasons. Others want to learn so that they can safely take their kids to the pool. Still others might want to learn to swim in order to conquer a lingering fear from childhood. Understanding their reasons can help you decide how to proceed with the lessons and what skills to focus on. For example, if your student wants to learn to swim in order to accompany their children to the pool, you might want to spend more time perfecting their freestyle stroke, as this is the best way to reach someone who needs assistance in the water. Helping your student become more comfortable with this stroke can help them feel like they are achieving their goals more quickly. Ask your student about any previous swimming experience. If the adult student already has some swimming experience, ask them to demonstrate some of the skills they already have. Ask them what they feel most comfortable with and least comfortable with so that you can build up their confidence accordingly. Discuss the end results that your student hopes to achieve and come up with a reasonable plan for achieving those goals. Talk about how often you'll meet for lessons each week, whether they should swim on their own for “homework,” and provide a timeline for several important swimming milestones. For example, it might be helpful to plan with your student that they should be able to complete an unassisted lap across the length of the pool by a certain date.
A: Inquire about their reasons for wanting to learn now. Assess their current skill level. Create a goal-oriented timeline.
Article: It can be fun to add a bit of spontaneous movements on stage. People may get tired of watching someone simply sing. Try to add a few fun moves to your routine, like pacing on stage or gesticulating with your hands. You can try walking and then changing direction every time the speaker has a new line. This can help show you're moving through thoughts on stage. You can also try moving your hands to the rhythm of the music. While moving on stage can help, you want to make sure you're aware of your body. In order to help yourself navigate turns, try doing something called spotting. This means you focus your gaze on something off stage, like a member of the audience. This can help keep you grounded in the moment and prevent you from losing track of yourself in the excitement of the movement. You should also focus on what your body is doing. Strive to be aware of your hands and face as you sing. Avoid distracting gestures, like playing with your hair or picking at your fingers. Also, be aware of your posture. Try to stand tall when singing. Not only does this convey confidence, it can help elevate your voice. You may feel nervous on stage and shake slightly. Try to move when you feel this sensation. This can help ground you, and add a little spice to your performance. Swing your hips and do a small dance. This can help make you look like more of a performer, while simultaneously distracting you from stage fright. Try to dance to the beat of the music. Tap your feet and wiggle your shoulders slightly. It's a good idea to strive for an appropriate facial expression when singing. You don't want to be grinning during a sad song or looking weepy during a happy anthem. Try to be aware of your expression. Think about the song as you sing it. You'll be more likely to use the appropriate expression if you're really invested in the words. It may be a good idea to sing in front of a mirror in the weeks leading up to your performance. You can use the mirror to gauge whether you have a tendency to grimace or make an unpleasant face while singing.
Question: What is a summary of what this article is about?
| Incorporate spontaneity wisely. Be aware of your body. Move around when you feel yourself shaking. Be aware of your facial expression. |
Q: Any taxpayer earning over £150,000 will no longer enjoy higher-rate tax relief, which is considered a substantial incentive to save for wealthy workers. From April 2011, anyone who earns £200,000 a year, for example, and pays the typical amount of 6 per cent of their salary into their company pension scheme will lose out on £200 a month or £2,400 a year. Alistair Darling, when he announced the move in the Budget, insisted that just 1.5 per cent of taxpayers - the equivalent of about 450,000 people - would be hit, but experts argued that it would significantly damage the already beleaguered pensions industry, and cause many savers to think twice about investing in a pension.
Alistair Darling is chancellor of UK.
A: no
Q: Other drugs on the market, approved to treat mild to moderate Alzheimer's, are believed to work by inhibiting cholinesterase, an enzyme that breaks down acetylcholine which is a chemical used by nerves to communicate with each other.
Alzheimer's disease is treated using drugs.
A: yes
Q: The man known as just the "Piano Man" has left the hospital and has returned home to his native Germany. According to British tabloids, the man, after losing his job in Paris, travelled to the UK through the Channel Tunnel.
The "Piano Man" came from Germany.
A: | yes |
Industrial production index (2010=100) by seasonal adjustment and industry (DB07) - StatBank Denmark - data and statistics Accessing Data ... ... Please wait
Please remove spaces between words. | Industrialproductionindex(2010=100)byseasonaladjustmentandindustry(DB07)-StatBankDenmark-dataandstatisticsAccessingData......Pleasewait |
The girl who the by works in a skyscraper and in a quonset but has a dimple on her nose.
How would you consider the linguistic integrity of the preceding sentence?
Choose from:
(A). unacceptable
(B). acceptable | (A). |
Jane knocked on the door, and Susan answered it. *She* invited her to come out.
Are "She" and "Jane" the same thing in the aforementioned sentence (choose from options)?
Select from the following.
[A]. no.
[B]. yes. | [B]. |
Answer the following question: Determine the topic of the passage. "The president is further empowered to grant federal pardons and reprieves , and to convene and adjourn either or both houses of Congress under extraordinary circumstances." Topic:
Answer: | President of the United States |
Is the following sentence linguistically acceptable?
Traci gave a lollipop. | unacceptable |
(Q).
Weight gain is a complex issue. But there is little doubt that the current food environment in Western countries – heavy in highly processed salty, sugary, and fatty food – has a big role to play. Most of the salt eaten in our diet has been added to food in the manufacturing process. This is in contrast to the small amount of salt naturally present in most foods or what is added at the table or at home in cooking. Salt can be a desirable taste, increasing the palatability of foods in addition to helping preserve it; that’s why it is commonly added in processed foods. Combining salt and fat together is thought to be a potent combination in helping to promote passive over-consumption foods. Just think of how moreish salty chips can be. Having a greater liking for salty and fatty foods is associated with eating more kilojoules overall, uncontrolled eating, and overweight in children. This link between overconsumption of food and its degree of saltiness is considered stronger than having a liking for sweet and fatty foods. Teasing out further how salt may influence the over-consumption of fatty foods, sensory researchers from Deakin University recruited 48 healthy adults to take part in a tasting panel. Over four lunchtime sessions (following on from a standardised breakfast that morning), each person ate a meal of macaroni and cheese where the fat and salt content had been manipulated. The four meal combinations were low-fat/low-salt, low-fat/high-salt, high-fat/low-salt and high-fat/high-salt. Participants were encouraged to eat as much as they wished until feeling full. Eating rate, meal agreeability, and subjective ratings of hunger and fullness were also taken. Salt promotes over-eating Eleven percent more kilojoules were consumed when the meals eaten were high in salt. And this was irrespective of if the fat content was high or low. The fat content of the meal didn’t result in people eating more food by weight, but because of its greater energy density, that meant more kilojoules were eaten. Why did Deakin University recruit 8 healthy adults? A. not enough information B. To test macaroni and cheese C. To test how salt influences over-consumption of fatty foods D. To access obesity
(A).
C
(Q).
Lancôme Juicy Tubes changed my life. Ok, well that’s a slight exaggeration but it was the first high-end make-up item that I ever bought and it made me feel like I was really getting somewhere. I’d got a good job, was in the process of buying my own house and I could afford to buy premium beauty products. I chose a transparent lemon yellow gloss with tiny flecks of iridescent glitter in, and over the following months I treated myself to several other Juicy Tube variants including a shimmery nude gloss called Pamplemousse which I wore on nights out for years (incidentally Pamplemousse is still going!). Fast forward several (ahem…) years and Juicy Tubes are still going strong, but there’s a new member of the Juicy family vying for attention – the Juicy Shaker.*. Another lip product, this one is a nourishing tinted lip oil which acts a bit like a gloss, and I was sent two of the new shades to try out – Piece of Cake and Show Me The Honey. Juicy Shakers are a bi-phase nourishing lip oil, when the product is allowed to settle the pigment falls to the bottom and the oil rises to the top, giving a split effect. Then you need to shake the bottle to mix the two layers together, giving the product it’s name. The ingredients include sweet almond oil, omega 3 and cranberry oil and really help care for your lips unlike most other glosses. Show Me The Honey is a nude coral shade, it looks rather orange and scary in the bottle but in reality it’s much more of a gentle shade. Piece of Cake is a damson pink, and again looks much darker in the bottle. I found that Piece of Cake matches almost exactly with the natural colour of my lips so it’s perfect for when I want my make-up to look really pared back with glossy supple natural looking lips. Why was the author using Juicy Tubes? A. not enough information B. the author wanted lip oil C. the author wanted hair shampoo D. the author wanted good juice
(A).
B
(Q).
It was a good feast. Celenda's manservant had purchased two of the biggest and strongest oxen in Fena Kef and they now roasted over the hall's two huge braziers. The smell filled Celenda's nostrils. She closed her eyes and laid back on her silk divan, enjoying the sights and sounds. Her finger fiddled with a torn seam on the divan's armrest and her pleasure faded. She would have flogged her seamstress for allowing such a thing but the woman had fled a year ago. She could barely afford clothing acceptable to a woman of her position, though few could say for certain what that position was, so she simply wore less clothes overall. She raised her arms behind her back and let the warmth of the braziers flow over her body. Though the number shrank, many still enjoyed Celenda's frequent celebrations. Some laughed and shouted on one side, some coupled in the dark shadows and behind silk curtains. Most feasted and drank and everyone partook in the red lotus. Celenda beckoned a thin slave boy, one of her last few, and he came holding a bronze bowl. Dried red leaves covered the bottom of the bowl. 'Why is this bowl not full?' she shouted at the boy. He cringed but she could tell he was not really frightened. She could not afford to injure or kill him and everyone knew it. She slapped him, but not hard. If she hit too hard she would find herself with one less slave along with her diminishing supply of the red leaf. Instantly the thoughts of the crumbling villa, the torn furniture, and the diminishing coffers fled from her mind. Euphoria flowed in. She felt it in her fingers and toes. Why was the thin boy summoned? A. Because she was hungry. B. Because they were having a party. C. not enough information D. Because Celenda needed the red lotus.
(A).
| D |
Explanation for the following question's answer: The human eye does not see in a spectrum required to easily view objects in darkness.
Question: Choose the sentence that goes against common sense.
Options:
- Sentence A: "People can see things in the light"
- Sentence B: "People can see things in the dark"
Answer: Sentence B
Chain-of-thought: Helping people makes people happy and not ashamed.
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Question: Of the following two sentences, which one is against common sense?
Options:
- Sentence A: "helping others makes John feel shameful"
- Sentence B: "committing perjury makes John feel shameful"
Answer: Sentence A
Chain-of-thought: A rocket is not a suitable object for a dog to interact with in any sort of way.
Question: Which of these sentences doesn't make sense?
Options:
- Sentence A: "Kevin took the dog to the rocket."
- Sentence B: "Kevin took the dog on the train."
Answer: Sentence A
Explanation for the following question's answer: Crying is a natural response to being sad and many people cry when they are sad to express the feeling.
Question: Of the following two sentences, which one is against common sense?
Options:
- Sentence A: "People only cry when they are angry."
- Sentence B: "People cry when they are sad."
Answer: Sentence A
Chain-of-thought: Swears are a form of words that are not worth any money.
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Question: Which of the following sentences is nonsensical?
Options:
- Sentence A: "My mother buys a swear for me."
- Sentence B: "My mother buys a sweater for me."
Answer: Sentence A
Chain-of-thought: A watch is not worn on one's nose.
| Question: Of the below sentences, which one does *not* make sense?
Options:
- Sentence A: "He wore watch on his wrist"
- Sentence B: "he wore watch on his nose"
Answer: Sentence B |
Definition: In this task, you will be shown an incorrect English sentence. You need to generate a corrected form of the input sentence.
Input: In short , these were critical parts that contradicted the reading materials .
Output: | In short , these were critical parts that contradicted the reading materials . |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task, given a sentence in English Tokens, your task is to convert it into the English language
`` In the next 10 years , during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel , we would be able to totally obliterate them , '' Clinton said .
Output: | "In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them," Clinton said. |
Al Overton (May 20, 1912 – August 1, 1985) was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film "Diamonds Are Forever". He worked on more than 90 films between 1954 and 1975. His son, Al Overton, Jr., was later nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Sound.
Al Overton worked on more than 85 films. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: Yes
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Sings Greatest Palace Music is a 2004 studio album by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. It features new recordings of songs from his Palace Music era (1993–1997), recorded in Nashville, Tennessee with a large group of country session musicians. Guest musicians include Eddie Bayers, Stuart Duncan, Mark Fain, Mike Johnson, Hargus "Pig" Robbins, Andrew Bird and Bruce Watkins.
Prince's palace music area was in the 20th and 21st centuries. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: Yes
NBA 2K9 is a basketball simulation video game developed by Visual Concepts and published by 2K Sports. It is the tenth installment in the "NBA 2K" franchise and the successor to "NBA 2K8". It was released in 2008 for PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Microsoft Windows. Kevin Garnett is the cover athlete of the game. "NBA 2K9" is the predecessor to "NBA 2K10" in the "NBA 2K" series.
NBA 2K9 had a big basketball player on the cover OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | Yes |
USSR Soviet Union was created after the civil war in the country between the Red Army and the white it was in 19181922 White army consisted of several parts and it was socialisms nationalists and some parties have even their thoughts were that it wanted Russia to become independent and they got the help and support of 22 countries
Add punctuation | USSR: Soviet Union was created after the civil war in the country between the Red Army and the white, it was in 1918-1922. White army consisted of several parts and it was socialisms, nationalists and some parties have even their thoughts were that it wanted Russia to become independent and they got the help and support of 22 countries. |
Q:Given the following passage "Court presentations of aristocratic young ladies to the monarch took place at the palace from the reign of Edward VII. These young women were known as débutantes, and the occasion—termed their "coming out"—represented their first entrée into society. Débutantes wore full court dress, with three tall ostrich feathers in their hair. They entered, curtsied, and performed a choreographed backwards walk and a further curtsy, while manoeuvring a dress train of prescribed length. (The ceremony, known as an evening court, corresponded to the "court drawing rooms" of Victoria's reign.) After World War II, the ceremony was replaced by less formal afternoon receptions, usually without choreographed curtsies and court dress.", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: Debutantes are all?
A: | young ladies |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. You are given a sentence and a question in the input. The information provided in the sentence should be enough to answer the question. You're expected to write the correct answer. Do not use any facts other than those provided in the sentence.
Sentence: Under Köppen's climate classification, portions of the city with lower elevations have a humid subtropical climate (Cwa), while portions of the city with higher elevations generally have a subtropical highland climate.
Question: Along with a subtropical highland climate, what climate classification covers Kathmandu?
| Subtropical climate. |
In this task, you are given Wikipedia articles on a range of topics as passages and a question from the passage. We ask you to answer the question by classifying the answer as 0 (False) or 1 (True)
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Question: Passage: Dishwashing liquid -- Hand dishwashing detergents utilize surfactants to play the primary role in cleaning. The reduced surface tension of dishwashing water, and increasing solubility of modern surfactant mixtures, allows the water to run off the dishes in a dish rack very quickly. However, most people also rinse the dishes with pure water to make sure to get rid of any soap residue that could affect the taste of the food.
Question: can dish detergent be used as a surfactant
Answer: 1
Question: Passage: Baby Daddy -- Baby Daddy is an American sitcom created by Dan Berendsen that premiered on June 20, 2012 on ABC Family (later Freeform). The series follows Ben, a man in his twenties, who gets the surprise of his life when a one-night stand leaves his baby at his doorstep. Ben decides to raise his little girl with the help of his brother, Danny, his two close friends, Riley and Tucker, and his sometimes-overbearing mother, Bonnie. The show was inspired by a Bollywood film Heyy Babyy which released in 2007 with the same story line. Six seasons were produced in total, with the 100th, and final episode airing on May 22, 2017.
Question: is baby daddy coming out with season 7
Answer: 0
Question: Passage: Otis Williams -- Williams is best known as the founder and last original surviving member of the Motown vocal group The Temptations, a group in which he continues to perform; he also owns the rights to the Temptations name.
Question: are there any of the temptations still living
Answer: | 1
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In this task, you're given two sentences. Indicate if the first sentence clearly entails the second sentence (i.e., one can conclude the 2nd sentence by reading the 1st one). Indicate your answer with '1' if the first sentence entails the second sentence, otherwise answer with '0'.
[Q]: Sentence 1: Centre-left voters in Italy have chosen Romano Prodi as the candidate who will challenge Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in next year's election. The former European Commission president and Italian PM won 73.5% of votes, according to partial results of primaries. Sentence 2: Romano Prodi wins Italian primaries.
[A]: 1
[Q]: Sentence 1: Contact with the press will be restricted to "perodic meetings", as promised by all three parties, in order to "focus their energies" on the most important issues. Sentence 2: The delegations may only speak periodically to the press, in order to concentrate on the issues.
[A]: 1
[Q]: Sentence 1: Ronaldo turned up for training later in the day. He has been with Manchester United since 2003 and scored 74 goals in 178 games. He has also scored 21 goals for Portugal and has competed for them in Euro 2004 and 2008 as well as the 2006 FIFA World Cup and 2004 Summer Olympics. He returned to the training ground in his £150,000 Bentley. Sentence 2: Ronaldo is Portuguese.
[A]: | 0
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You are given a sentence and a question in the input. The information provided in the sentence should be enough to answer the question. You're expected to write the correct answer. Do not use any facts other than those provided in the sentence.
Input: Consider Input: Sentence: Then she looked at Roberto and said, Hello.
Question: What did Miss Washington say when she first saw Roberto and his mother?
Output: Hello.
Input: Consider Input: Sentence: He never got lonely on the range, with his horse Steve to keep him company and the nice view.
Question: The name of the horse was what?
Output: Steve.
Input: Consider Input: Sentence: To keep up this population growth, the KMC-controlled area of 5,076.6 hectares (12,545 acres) has expanded to 8,214 hectares (20,300 acres) in 2001.
Question: How many acres of land did the KMC control in 2001?
| Output: 20,300 acres.
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Oh, yes, I accidentally insulted a bully. It was awesome. This was about a month ago. It was the last day I worked. Memorial Day at the city rec center is SLOW, especially when it's beautiful outside, but for some reason, we had two front desk attendants: me, and “bully #1”. Bully #1 clearly had a major distaste for me. She hated my tattoos, the way I would get into a heated debate one day with a police officer patron, then have a fantastic conversation with him days later about legalizing marijuana. She hated that I was liked, but still could give fuck-all about what others thought of me. Bully #2 was our financial director, who got stuck as the manager on duty that day. I honestly never had a clue she didn't like me. She was intense and sarcastic with everyone. I liked her style. On this day, I really got the feeling they were trash talking me pretty hard, the way they kept disappearing, talking over me, laughing like mean girls. I blew it off, because I was down an internet rabbit hole, trying to wrap my brain around some concepts. I was looking at a word, and while I like to think I know exact definitions, sometimes I ask people their take on it. Many psychological terms have some subjective meaning. I spun around in my chair, locked eyes with #2, and asked her: “What do you know about Machiavellianism?” I swear to God, all I wanted was her take on it (she's a smart cookie), and all hell broke loose. I now realize that she thought I was passive-aggressively accusing her of said word. They got really nasty (behind my back, of course). They retreated to the back for awhile, and left me by myself. Cue loud, mean girl laughter. When #1 resumed her post next to me at the front desk, I calmly told her, “I'm cashing out, and leaving. I'm uncomfortable.” And I did. It was noon. We were closing at 1. I figured those bitches could handle it on their own. The writer locked eyes: Pick the correct answer from the following options: A. about a month ago B. on Memorial Day C. after spinning around D. not enough information
| C |
Do these mean the same?
By adding sufficient oxygen to compensate for the metabolic consumption , removing the carbon dioxide and reinhaling the gas , most of the volume is conserved .
By adding sufficient oxygen to compensate for the metabolic usage , removing the carbon dioxide , and rebreathing the gas , most of the volume is conserved . | yes |
In this task, you are given a passage and a question regarding that passage. You must determine whether or not the question is answerable from the given passage. If a question is answerable, output should be 'True', otherwise 'False'. You must not consider any other information that is not provided in the passage while labelling True or False.
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Question: Passage: Notable alumni in the field of government and politics include the founder of modern community organizing Saul Alinsky, Obama campaign advisor and top political advisor to President Bill Clinton David Axelrod, Attorney General and federal judge Robert Bork, Attorney General Ramsey Clark, Prohibition agent Eliot Ness, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King, 11th Prime Minister of Poland Marek Belka, Governor of the Bank of Japan Masaaki Shirakawa, the first female African-American Senator Carol Moseley Braun, United States Senator from Vermont and 2016 Democratic Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders, and former World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz. Question: Who serves as Attorney General as well as top political advisor to the President?
Answer: False
Question: Passage: Civil disobedience is usually defined as pertaining to a citizen's relation to the state and its laws, as distinguished from a constitutional impasse in which two public agencies, especially two equally sovereign branches of government, conflict. For instance, if the head of government of a country were to refuse to enforce a decision of that country's highest court, it would not be civil disobedience, since the head of government would be acting in her or his capacity as public official rather than private citizen. Question: What type of person can not be attributed civil disobedience?
Answer: True
Question: Passage: Some forms of civil disobedience, such as illegal boycotts, refusals to pay taxes, draft dodging, distributed denial-of-service attacks, and sit-ins, make it more difficult for a system to function. In this way, they might be considered coercive. Brownlee notes that "although civil disobedients are constrained in their use of coercion by their conscientious aim to engage in moral dialogue, nevertheless they may find it necessary to employ limited coercion in order to get their issue onto the table." The Plowshares organization temporarily closed GCSB Waihopai by padlocking the gates and using sickles to deflate one of the large domes covering two satellite dishes. Question: Name one way the Plowshares organization temporarily close GCSB Waihopai?
Answer: | True
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Instructions: In this task, you are given a sentence and a question, you would be asked to create the answer which is contained in the sentence provided.
Input: Sentence: The human genome has three times many more alu elements than the chimpanzee genome. Question: The human genome has how many more alu elements than the chimpanzee genome?
Output: | three times |
Food is not sold at the recycling center.is the reasoning for what question and answer pair? | Q: Which of the following two sentences does not make sense?
Options:
- Sentence A: "The local recycling center is a good place to buy fresh fruit and vegetables."
- Sentence B: "The local farmer's market is a good place to buy fresh fruit and vegetables."
A: Sentence A |
Instructions: In this task, you're given a context passage. Your job is to generate relevant questions that can be answered by directly referring to the passage.
Input: And you can read about that one thing in Judges 6:36 - 40 . And God keeps his promises you guys ! He doesn't speak just to hear the sound of his voice . He kept his promise to Moses and Gideon , Noah and Elijah , Mary and the disciples , and to Paul and Silas .
Output: | Why is she telling people God keeps his promises ? |
It has become increasingly common for academics to use social media to communicate with wider audiences. Twitter, like many other social platforms, typically measures success in terms of numbers of followers, likes and retweets, but this only tells us something about the spreading of messages but not necessarily whether the content of the messages is understood or embraced. One way to ascertain this is through network and language analysis, which, used together, can tell us how effective the communication is. Economists tweet less, mention fewer people and have fewer conversations with strangers than a comparable group of experts in the sciences, and use less accessible language with words that are more complex, with more abbreviations and with a more distant tone. Their tweets are less personal and less inclusive than those used by scientists. This is what appeared in April 2017 when we gathered data on tens of thousands of tweets from the Twitter accounts of both the top 25 economists and 25 scientists as identified by IDEAS and Science, including the top three economists at the time, Paul Krugman, Joseph Stiglitz, and Erik Brynjolfsson and, on the other side, the top three scientists, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Cox, and Richard Dawkins. At that time those accounts covered roughly two thirds of all the following. The timing is significant because 2016 has been declared the year of post-truth politics, the year in which appeals to emotions (pathos) superseded the significance of factual evidence-based information (logos), affecting people’s constructions and interpretations of events. This has been accompanied by the growing prominence of political “alt” movements (e.g. UKIP, the Alt-right) and their aggressive, provocative, and populist narratives, and “fake news” leading to political shock events such as Brexit and the Trump election. The relatively low traction of economists in these public debates has been and continues to be an important issue. Does the public not trust economists? Don’t they understand... The analysis lasted A. couple hours B. not enough information C. few years D. couple days
C
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SHE moved through the crowded streets like she owned the place. Hell, if things went as planned in the coming months, she might in fact own the place. Or some other place if that's what she wanted. If things went as planned, there was no limit to what she could have. She smiled to herself as a crowd of sunburned, middle-aged men broke ranks to let her pass on her way toward Mallory Square. They had no idea who she was, but she liked to think that they could sense her strength and that it intimidated them. Not enough to stop them from staring openly at her chest of course, but what did she expect? They were still men. Duval Street, Key West's main tourist drag, buzzed with early evening activity. The sun had set less than an hour ago, and the throngs moving up from the nightly sunset ritual in Mallory Square now wandered about, trying to choose between the dozens of bars and restaurants vying for their attention. She moved against the general flow and seemed to know exactly where she was going. She knew these streets well and had planned out her route ahead of time. But something bothered her. That nagging feeling in the back of her brain that she'd long ago learned to heed even though it was wrong as often as it was right. You couldn't survive in her world without learning to pay attention to such feelings, and she'd more than survived - she'd prospered beyond the dreams of any young hacker or con artist. Heeding the subliminal warning, she changed plans and stepped out into the crawling Duval Street traffic. A purple taxi honked angrily but she just smiled as she strode across the street and stared intently at a display of cheap, tasteless T-shirts in a storefront window. Why she changed her plan? A. She spotted a taxi. B. The streets were too crowded with pedestrians. C. She felt something wasn't right. D. not enough information
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C
Ques: One spring it stopped raining in early March and didn't start again. There was one very well-off bunny in the village who had a large burrow and lots of food saved up. He wasn't worried about the drought at all. The other bunnies, though, looked at the purple-red nettles withering in the fields and the mayweed that hadn't even flowered and wondered if they were going to have enough food to get them through the next winter. The very well-off bunny was named Albertus, but everybody called him Big Al--at least they called him that when they were sure he couldn't hear them. Big Al was in fact a very large bunny with long, white, silky fur. He had lots of land that his parents had left to him, and he never let any of the other bunnies gather food there. The story was that Big Al had sat on the one bunny who tried to make off with some of his carrots until the small bunny begged for mercy. After Big Al let him up, the small bunny moved to another village. One morning a dozen or more bunnies sat around the village square, licking the dew off the dried and wrinkled clover to quench their thirsts, and talking about the drought. There was still a bit of a cool breeze from Possum Creek, a mile or so away. Sophie Bunny, who was large and sleek, with a black circle around one eye, was there with her husband Lenny and their youngest, Ralph, who still lived at home with them. "I don't mind telling you," Lenny said, "I'm getting a little scared by all this." Lenny was a small, tan bunny with buck teeth and big cheeks like a chipmunk. "No need to be afraid," said the short, overweight Reverend Billy Bunny, the village's spiritual leader. "The Easter Bunny will provide." He sat, as he usually did, by the thick green hawthorn bush in the middle of the square--although the bush was neither as thick nor as green as it had once been. Where did the dozen or so bunnies sit? A. In the fields B. not enough information C. In a large burrow D. In a square with the bush
Ans: D
Question: Oh dear. Another tale of woe from me… When I met my ex, I was in foster care. I was a very confused 17 year old, and she took an interest in me, and we would talk about all my problems with my own family, and everything that was going wrong with me. I even ‘came out’ to her at one point. We spent a lot of time together and gradually, I thought I might not be gay after all, as I had feelings of love for her. Eventually, we started dating and I tried to suppress my gay feelings. Eventually, I proposed. We were engaged for just over a year and I got married at the age of 19. I have to admit, when the wedding plans got firmed up and much closer to the date, I started to feel that I was in fact still gay but so much money had already been spent, and plans made that I was too afraid to pull out. Don’t get me wrong, I still love my ex wife a heck of a lot, but as my very best friend. I hate to use the phrase, but with everything that has gone on with me the last few years, she has been ‘my rock’. We separated after about 8 years, when our daughter was 7 years old, and I told her why. I just couldn’t go on living the lie. I hate myself for doing it to her. Selfishly, I wouldn’t change things though, as I have my daughter and I love her, and I love being a parent. We had ‘Unexpected Song’ played as she walked down the aisle at the church; the lyrics really summed up how we felt about each other and how we had gotten together… Unexpected Song Michael Crawford YouTube. The author wanted to believe: A. That if he got married he wouldn't be gay. B. not enough information C. That maybe he was just confused about being gay D. That he wasn't gay because he loved a woman
Answer: | D |
Answer the question from the given passage. Your answer should be directly extracted from the passage, and it should be a single entity, name, or number, not a sentence.
Passage: Non-revolutionary civil disobedience is a simple disobedience of laws on the grounds that they are judged 'wrong' by an individual conscience, or as part of an effort to render certain laws ineffective, to cause their repeal, or to exert pressure to get one's political wishes on some other issue. Revolutionary civil disobedience is more of an active attempt to overthrow a government (or to change cultural traditions, social customs, religious beliefs, etc...revolution doesn't have to be political, i.e. 'cultural revolution', it simply implies sweeping and widespread change to a section of the social fabric). Gandhi's acts have been described as revolutionary civil disobedience. It has been claimed that the Hungarians under Ferenc Deák directed revolutionary civil disobedience against the Austrian government. Thoreau also wrote of civil disobedience accomplishing 'peaceable revolution.' Howard Zinn, Harvey Wheeler, and others have identified the right espoused in The Declaration of Independence to 'alter or abolish' an unjust government to be a principle of civil disobedience. Question: What famous Indian's actions were considered civil disobedience? | Gandhi's |
Q: In this task, you are given news articles and you need to generate a highlight, i.e., a short summary, with a maximum length of 10 lines.
(CNN) -- Defending Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic has been named as the top men's seed for this year's tournament, with French Open winner Maria Sharapova heading the women's singles seedings. World number one Djokovic retains the top seeding at the All England Club despite his defeat to Rafael Nadal in the French Open final earlier this month. The Spaniard is seeded second ahead of six-time champion Roger Federer, who is seeking a first grand slam win since the 2010 Australian Open. Great Britain's Andy Murray, a losing semifinalist for the last three years, is seeded fourth. However, the Scot's preparations suffered a blow on Wednesday when he was beaten by Janko Tipsarevic at The Boodles exhibition tournament in Buckinghamshire. It was Murray's second successive defeat on grass, following his surprise early exit from the Aegon Championships at Queen's Club last week. France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who suffered an injury scare when he injured a finger at the Aegon Championships, is seeded fifth for Wimbledon. He will not be joined by fellow Frenchman Gael Monfils as the world number 15 has failed to recover from a knee injury in time for the championships. The Wimbledon women's singles seedings reflect the current WTA Tour rankings, with world number one Sharapova selected top. She is followed by world number two Victoria Azarenka of Belarus and Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska, with reigning Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova seeded fourth. Australia's Sam Stosur is the fifth seed, with four-time Wimbledon champion Serena Williams seeded sixth. Meanwhile, two-time Wimbledon champion Nadal was named as the flag carrier for Spain at the London 2012 Olympics on Wednesday. Sharapova and Djokovic were handed similar roles for Russia and Serbia respectively earlier this month.
A: | Champion Novak Djokovic is top men's seed for Wimbledon .
Serbian is ahead of Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer .
Fourth seed Andy Murray loses warmup match .
Maria Sharapova is top seed in women's singles, with Serena Williams sixth . |
Q: You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa (Italian: Torre pendente di Pisa) or simply the Tower of Pisa (Torre di Pisa (ˈtorre di ˈpiːza)) is the campanile, or freestanding bell tower, of the cathedral of the Italian city of Pisa, known worldwide for its unintended tilt. The tower is situated behind the Pisa Cathedral and is the third oldest structure in the city's Cathedral Square (Piazza del Duomo), after the cathedral and the Pisa Baptistry.
A: | is the leaning tower of pizza in rome? |
Q: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
(CNN) At one of Nevada's infamous legal brothels, a 20-year-old woman recently signed up for work -- but not to have sex.
Instead, Katherine Stone, who dreams of one day becoming a lawyer, planned to sell something other women working at the bordello couldn't offer: Her virginity.
Like the brothels themselves, Stone's choice has been controversial, particularly for those who believe a woman's virginity should only be shared for love.
But in Stone's eyes, that's exactly what she's doing.
'I love my family'
In 2014, Stone's family home in Seattle, Washington, was destroyed by a fire. Without insurance, Stone and her family found themselves forced to remain in the scorched property.
Then came the day when she noticed an ad on Facebook, and "I found out all about the brothels and the money," Stone says. "It made me think, 'Wow, it's a chance at fixing all that I need to fix.'"
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While prostitution is practiced across the United States, Nevada is the only state where it's a legal activity. Any Nevada county with a population below 700,000 can host a brothel and, as of 2015, there were 19 brothels operating in the state.
Brothel tycoon Dennis Hof owns seven of Nevada's legal bordellos, and that's who Stone turned to last year for help.
Hof -- who says he receives two to three similar requests a week -- agreed to sell Stone's one-time service with the understanding that he'll take a 50% cut from the profits of the final bid.
In an effort to salvage her family's damaged home, Stone packed her bags and left home for the first time to live at one of Hof's brothels.
"People say you are suppose to do it for love," Stone says of the cultural ideals around losing one's virginity. "But if you think about it, I am doing it because I love my family."
'I obviously value myself'
Like the brothels themselves, Stone's decision has been controversial. "I read an article about myself online that made me cry," Stone recalls. "It was a Christian lady; she said I had no self-respect, which I disagree with completely. I mean, I obviously value myself."
At the moment, Stone says, her virginity bid is a little over $400,000 -- and she's still waiting to accept an offer.
"I'm waiting for a man who I feel a connection with so that the experience can be special for both of us," she says. "It's really not just about the money."
While she waits, Stone is still "contracted by Dennis Hof to legally provide services to gentlemen who are seeking experiences" other than intercourse, she says. "I have done small simple parties. Massage parties, stuff that has been very PG-13. My first experience I had here was the scariest one. It was all really new."
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Even after her virginity is auctioned, Stone says she has no intentions of leaving the ranch. "I anticipate to continue working at the ranch for the next five years," she says. "I plan to go to law school in the future."
'I have the right to choose'
Hof himself has been heavily criticized, with some lambasting him for exploiting women in need. The businessman and reality TV personality employs over 500 women at his ranches in Nevada, with roughly 30 working every weeknight at the famous Moonlite Bunny Ranch.
As for Stone's contract, "it's controversial; there is not any question about that," Hof says. But, he continues, "It is her choice. I don't think it is a good idea for a girl to drink six tequilas and lose her virginity on the bathroom floor in a frat house ... If she wants to (sell) it, I think that's great."
If that sounds like something a pimp would say, Hof wouldn't disagree. "In the strictest sense, I am a pimp," he says. "I am a guy that brings customers to a girl. The difference is I have a license to do this."
Stone would argue she has the same.
"I have the right to choose what I do with my body," she says. "And in this troubling economy, do you blame me?" ||||| After a devastating fire claimed her home, a young Washington woman has made an important decision many have viewed as extremely controversial.
20-year-old Katherine Stone has decided to auction off her virginity for the sake of her family.
Stone’s family home in Seattle was destroyed in a fire in 2014. They had no insurance so due to financial complications, they were forced to stay on the burned out property.
Later, Stone came across a Facebook ad for a legal brothel in Nevada. Prostitution is legal in some counties in the state.
Stone turned to Dennis Hof, who owns at least seven brothels in Nevada, each one of them legal.
“I talked to my people and I talked to her and she convinced me that this is something she wanted to do,” Hof told InsideEdition.com.
With support from her mother, Stone said goodbye to her old home and made her way to one of Hof’s brothels, where she now lives.
“I was definitely scared throughout the whole thing,” Stone told InsideEdition.com. “I was intimidated because I was brand new to the sex industry.”
Despite her fears, she said all of the ladies who work at Hof’s brothel are supportive.
“It’s just a good environment; we have fun here,” she said.
The current bid for Stone's virginity has reached $400,000, but no offers have been accepted just yet.
According to Hof, she is looking for Mr. Right.
“She hasn’t found the right situation,” said Hof. “She’s had guys that she’s liked that didn’t have enough money and she’s had guys that had enough but she didn’t like them.”
Hof said due to Stone’s situation, he won't accept any of the profits.
Stone said she’s waiting for someone to make her feel comfortable with what she’s doing and, while there have been negative criticisms online, Stone won't let it affect her.
“The whole time I’ve been here, I’ve come to terms with what I’m doing,” she said. “I’m definitely ready."
Copyright (c) 2016 CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved. |||||
A: | The reasons for losing one's virginity are as old and as myriad as humanity itself, but they usually have to do with being addled by some combination of love, lust, alcohol, or the vague desire to spread your DNA around the planet. Gentle reader, meet 20-year-old Katherine Stone of Washington state, who says she would like to lose hers so that she might rebuild her family's home, which burned down uninsured in 2014. And given that family homes aren't cheap, Stone is now selling her virginity to the highest-yet-still-at-least-not-totally-terrible bidder; bids are currently north of $400,000. "People say you are supposed to do it for love," Stone tells CNN. "But if you think about it, I am doing it because I love my family." To do it, Stone, who says she wants to be a lawyer, enlisted the help of brothel impresario Dennis Hof, who runs seven perfectly legal establishments of ill repute in Nevada. Hof, while acknowledging that helping Stone find a paying suitor is "controversial," adds that "it is her choice. I don't think it is a good idea for a girl to drink six tequilas and lose her virginity on the bathroom floor in a frat house. ... If she wants to (sell) it, I think that's great." Stone currently resides at Hof's Kit Kat Ranch while she waits for her knight in golden armor. "I'm waiting for a man who I feel a connection with so that the experience can be special for both of us," she says. "It's really not just about the money." It's unclear whether Hof is taking a cut of Stone's proceeds. But, he tells KSAT, "she hasn’t found the right situation. She’s had guys that she’s liked that didn’t have enough money and she’s had guys that had enough but she didn’t like them." (This is not the first time that virginity lost in Vegas hasn't stayed in Vegas.) |
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Q: Television drama's whole point is to bring you through an often slow start, followed by a complex development to a point where there are two or three potential dénouements before, "Cut!", it is the end of the episode and you will have to await the "right answer" in the following week's show.
This post came to me at 10pm last night, on Day 16 of this challenge, after a day of holidaying in London and with my head (and feet) too weary to put finger to touchscreen.
Mrs Mc and I had just watched another live instalment of Broadchurch, murder mystery extraordinaire, particularly since in the second series there is no actual fresh murder to investigate. The verdict is about to be given on the accused killer from Series 1 when the inevitable happens... Cue title music.
This moment has even gained a moniker in British homes, based on the theme tune to the real masters of the four-times-a-week cliffhanger, London-based soap opera Eastenders. It's call a "ba...ba...ba...ba, ba, ba-ba-ba-ba" (YouTube will provide overseas readers with auditory explanation).
Eastenders is such a master of writing in the perfect pace that every 28 minute episode ends with a tantalising screen freeze on the latest shocked face / smirking baddy / confused victim. For really big stories the cliffhanger can last significantly longer. This week, to celebrate the show's 30 year birthday, we will finally find out the answer to a question unanswered for the past 14 months: "Who killed Lucy Beale?"
Now, most classrooms do not involve murder, incest, dodgy deals and danger, but "good teaching" encourages a type of pacing that totally ignores the ingredients that have millions in the edges of their seats every day: the good old cliffhanger. In fact, we see teachers giving away the punchline at the beginning: "Today we are learning this:...". Question: What was the soap opera admired by British people that the author says is a master of writing?
A: Eastenders
Rationale: The seventh sentence of the passage clearly states that Eastenders is master of writing. So, the answer is Eastenders.
Q: The Transylvanian city of Brasov is usually just a day trip from Bucharest. People spend maybe an hour or so to wandering around the town square, and buy a drink before hopping back on their transport back to the capital city of Romania.
But, thanks to an epic tip-off from the travel ninja Shikha at Why Waste Annual Leave and a few other Brasov devotees, instead of following the crowds, we booked a couple of leisurely nights there. At the end of our day trip, instead of returning to Bucharest and getting stuck in the Sunday evening traffic, we checked into our hotel and waved our guide off.
Yes, you can easily ‘do' Brasov in an afternoon – it's a popular stop off at the end of a day trip after visiting the "home" of Dracula – Bran castle, and the beautiful Peles castle – but having the leisure to linger was exquisite.
In addition to trying local dishes, we also ate lunch at McDonalds. Yes, yes, as a blogger we shouldn't pretend to eat anything other than caviar washed down with champagne and unicorn tears, but we were hungry and couldn't be bothered to find somewhere. (For the record, we both opted for a Big Mac and a diet coke.)
For the first half day, we wandered around whilst the skies were beautifully blue…
…learned a lot of local history, admired the Hollywood style sign in the hills…
…slipped into a couple of churches (not to mention dodged giggling kids racing around on miniature cars)…
…some hidden, and some hidden in plain sight…
…and admired the sign from our cosy hotel, as it lit up at twilight
Our only full day dawned fairly murky for the most part, it was a Sunday so a lot of things were closed, so after hitting 20,000 steps and getting lost a few times in the less pretty corners of the city… Question: Who ate at the McDonald's in Brasov, Transylvania?
A: | the author |
Q: In this task, you are given news articles and you need to generate a highlight, i.e., a short summary, with a maximum length of 10 lines.
New Delhi (CNN) -- Here's the best way to understand the new India in 30 seconds. Watch this commercial—or better yet, if you don't understand Hindi, read on. A smarmy-looking politician addresses a rural gathering, promising to give the people access to water. His speech is interrupted by a boyish young man, a villager, who pulls out his smartphone and plays a YouTube video for all to see: it's the same politician, making the same promises at the last election, years ago. "I might be from the village," cries out the young man, "but don't think you can fool me!" The commercial—marketing an Indian mobile service provider—cuts to its familiar Hindi jingle, loosely translated as "no making fools of us anymore, no making fools of us." The story struck me because it weaves together some important trends and forces in India as the nation undertakes the biggest elections in world history. The first trend is the immense proliferation of Internet-enabled smartphones. In most Western countries, people have discovered the Internet and grown with it in stages: from painfully slow dial-up connections, to broadband, to Wi-Fi, to 4G mobile Internet. India's story has been very different. Until recently only a small elite—about a tenth of the population—could access the Internet, mostly through PCs. Even today, there are only 57 million broadband subscribers in the country, according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, or TRAI. By comparison, there are about 900 million mobile subscribers—a recent boom. Many of these mobile users are buying cheap smartphones and data packages to access the Internet. The offshoot is the opposite of what happens in the West: Hundreds of millions of Indians have never used a PC—and likely never will—but they can now begin to access the Internet on their phones. The Internet is aspirational in India; it's the new motorbike or washing machine. The second trend is the rise of rural India. Again, according to TRAI, 40% of mobile subscribers are now in villages and small towns. Even with the recent boom, rural subscriptions are still growing at more than twice the rate of urban ones. These rural subscribers, as the commercial shows, often don't speak English. But there's no longer a great shame in being unable to speak the language of their colonial masters; instead, there's a new pride and confidence in India's many regional dialects and languages. There's new rural money, and a yearning to be stakeholders in their futures and to fight for more accountable government. The third trend is India's youth bulge. More than 100 million voters in India's elections are first-timers who turned 18 in the last five years. Half of all Indians are under age 30; the average age in India is 28. Many of these young, brash Indians have cast off the fatalism of their forefathers. Growing up in an India of fast growth and development, they have more confidence in their culture, identity and language. Put that together with trends No. 1 and No. 2, and the result is amplified. For the first time in India's history, a majority of Indians are connected and engaged. They know about the skeletons in every politician's closet—and that information is power. Some suggest that these trends mean India's elections will be fought and decided on social media. Politicians have taken their cue, rushing to every platform available: Twitter, Facebook and Google Hangouts. The numbers seem staggering at first. Facebook says Narendra Modi, the front-runner to be India's next prime minister, is the second most "liked" politician in the world (13 million likes), after U.S. President Barack Obama (40 million likes). According to Twitter, there has been a 600% increase in political Tweets from India in the last year. Since January the two biggest parties, the BJP and the Congress, have grown their Twitter followings by 55% and 351% respectively. India's Internet and Mobile Association says a strong social media campaign could swing up to 4% of votes. Commentators have cited that data to brand India's elections the country's first-ever "social media election." For now, I'm skeptical. Some of the outreach attempts have been amateur at best: As Vox.com pointed out, the BJP's Twitter handle last week auto-tweeted anyone who mentioned the party on Twitter, including me and hundreds of others. In any case, the number of actual social media users represents a tiny percentage of the Indian electorate. Facebook says it has 100 million users in India: it sounds like a lot but it accounts for less than a tenth of Indians. One reason for this -- apart from limits to Internet access -- could be that Twitter and Facebook remain English language services, relatable to a small subset of Indians. Unlike China, which has a Chinese-language microblogging service called Sina Weibo, with hundreds of millions of users, India for now has no such indigenous, umbrella platform. Why? India is no monolith. There are dozens of languages, and an equal number of different Indias. Despite India's growth and increased connectivity, which suggests a more unified nation, the country may actually be becoming more regional-focused, with more pride in local languages, trends and politicians. This is also why I think it's far too early to call India's elections for any one politician or party. The three trends of mobile reach, the rural rise and the youth bulge are each combustible forces bubbling in a cauldron of uncertainty. Indians may want accountability and change, but it's too soon to tell which way that will manifest itself. It remains unclear whether Indians will vote for their regional interests, or cast their ballot thinking about a macro national picture. Watch India's elections very closely. They're immensely consequential—for India, and the world. But placing too much importance on social media chatter could be misleading. Calling these elections too early could be embarrassing, too. It is, as the ad-jingle goes, a fool's errand.
A: | A commercial shows India voter catching a politician recycling old, unfulfilled promises .
Ravi Agrawal: The power of mobile technology is helping shape India's elections .
He says other key trends include the new prominence of rural areas and of young voters .
Agrawal: It's a mistake to try to predict the outcome based on these trends . |
Do "A man's life and a horse's life" and "they" point to the same thing in the following sentence?
A man's life and a horse's life are worth more than some foxes' tails ; al least *they* ought to be. | yes |
*Ans* yes
*Question* Yes / no, is the following a verifiable fact?
"Bluetooth devices use a wireless connection to connect devices."
*CoT* Bluetooth technology uses a signal to connect devices without a wire, especially for handsfree answering of phones.
*Ans* no
*Question* Is the following sentence factually correct?
"THE MEMBERS OF THE Bridgwater ARE TOWN IN SEDGEMOOR."
Options:
- yes
- no
*CoT* SEDGMOOR IS LOW-LYING AREA OF LAND IN SOMEREST,ENGLAND.
*Ans* no
*Question* | Yes / no, is the following a verifiable fact?
"Autopilot The Autopilot helps fly the airplane while the pilots run the appropriate ..."
*CoT* Autopilot The police said in a statement that Mr. Patel, who had owned the car for about five months before the stunt, admitted that what he had done .. |
Lee Hong-gi (; ] ; Japanese:イ•ホンギ) is a South Korean singer-songwriter, actor, writer, and fashion designer. He is best known for his singing abilities and being the main singer of the South Korean rock band F.T. Island. Lee released his first solo extended play "FM302" in South Korea on 18 November 2015 and his Japanese album "AM302" on 9 December 2015.
Lee Hong helped write his best known song FM302
A: It's impossible to say
Stanisław Kiecal (September 14, 1886 – October 15, 1910), better known in the boxing world as Stanley Ketchel, was a Polish American professional boxer who became one of the greatest World Middleweight Champions in history. He was nicknamed "The Michigan Assassin." He was murdered at a ranch in Conway, Missouri, at the age of 24.
Stanisław Kiecal was murdered at a ranch in Conway, Missouri, in 1911
A: No
Shirley's World is a television series aired first by American Broadcasting Company during the U.S. 1971-72 television season. The sitcom was co-produced by the British ITC Entertainment and American producer Sheldon Leonard; it starred Shirley MacLaine as a photojournalist and John Gregson as her editor at "World Illustrated" magazine.
Shirley's World was the only role where Shirley MacLaine played a photojournalist.
A: | It's impossible to say |
Does "spring" mean the same thing in these two sentences?
I spent my spring holidays in Morocco.
You can visit me in the spring, when the weather is bearable. | the same meaning |
Question:
Use evidence from the fact that panting is when an animal hangs its tongue out of its mouth to adjust to hot temperatures to answer the following question. OPTIONS:
- seven
- whales
- the sun
- canines "Animals cope with the differing temperatures in different ways. When its hot out, which animals pant?"
Answer:
canines
Question:
Use evidence from the fact that grey clouds are a source of precipitation to answer the following question. OPTIONS:
- yellow
- gold
- blue
- gray "A sky that is mostly this color will likely be precipitating:"
Answer:
gray
Question:
Use evidence from the fact that as energy required for an activity increases , pulse will increase to answer the following question. OPTIONS:
- higher
- lower
- normal
- fluctuating "After exiting the gym, the man's heart rate was most likely?"
Answer:
| higher |
Question: and uh then we just had about an inch and a half or two inches of rain in less than an hour it was just coming down by the bucketfulls and a great deal of lightning it it wasn't uh it wasn't conditions to being out in it and i had just gotten home we had a lot of tornado warnings also
We had a couple inches of rain.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
Answer: yes
Question: It is not yet clear how Congress and the president can squeeze all the tax goodies each insists upon into a $135 billion bag (and come up with an honest $50 billion in new revenues to bring the net price down to $85 billion).
Congress will resolve this conundrum by simply borrowing the needed money.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
Answer: it is not possible to tell
Question: Your triumph downstairs excited you.
I was excited, too, and enjoyed looking on.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
Answer: | it is not possible to tell |
In this task, you're given an article, a question which often contains a blank, four options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D") and the answer to that question. Your task is to classify whether the given answer is correct or not by providing "Yes" or "No", based on the article.
Q: Article: Warm weather brought by El Nino has had mixed effects on animals in usually snowy places in North America, including New England, according to an Associated Press article. Some animals seem to benefit from having a chance to gather more food before winter, and from expending less energy in daily survival mode. Others, like snowshoe hares, are put at center stage in predators' view when they lack snow for disguising their white fur -- not a good thing for them, of course. Black bears, on the other hand, have been keeping busy gathering nuts and apples, when they would normally have settled into their winter homes by now. Vermont and Massachusetts officials have asked residents to wait till snow falls to take out their bird feeders for the sake of safety, the article said. "We suggest waiting for 6 or more inches of snow that lasts before taking out your bird feeders, especially if you have been visited in the past by bears or if there are sightings of bears in your neighborhood,"Forrest Hammond, Vermont Fish and Wildlife's bear biologist, said in the article."Due to lack of snow and frozen ground, birds are able to seek food in fields and forests for theirnatural foods." Snow amounts can also determine how comfortable bears are and how quickly they consume their accumulated fat during hibernation , noted Hammond in the article. This is because snow covers and traps them in their winter homes, and also hides them from predators.
Question: What may upset snowshoe hares because of El Nino?
Options: (A) Their being caught more easily. (B) Their failing to gather more food. (C) Their consuming more energy. (D) Their losing sight of their enemies.
Asnwer: A
A: Yes
****
Q: Article: The old lady was glad to be back at the block of flats where she lived. Her shopping had tired her and the basket had grown heavier with every step of the way home. In the lift her thoughts were on lunch and a good rest, but when she got out at her own floor, both were forgotten in her sudden discovery that her front door was open. She was thinking that she must tell her daily maid the next morning to lock the door, and then she remembered that she had gone shopping after the maid had left and she knew that she had turned both keys in their locks. She walked slowly into the hall and at once noticed that all the room doors were open, yet following her regular practice she had shut them before going out. Looking into the living room she saw a sight of confusion over by her writing desk. It was as clear as daylight then that burglars had forced into the house during her absence. Her first thought was to go round all the rooms looking for the thieves, but then she decided that at her age it might be more reasonable to have someone with her, so she went to fetch the doorman from his basement .By this time her legs were beginning to shake, so she sat down and accepted a cup of a very strong tea, while she telephoned to the police. Then her sense regained, she was ready to set off with the doorman's help to search for any thieves who might still be hiding in her flat.
Question: When she saw the front door was open, the old lady forgot about _ .
Options: (A) her basket and desk (B) her keys and lunch (C) her lunch and rest (D) her maid and child
Asnwer: C
A: Yes
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Q: Article: Before my first summer vacation at college, my roommate Ted asked to me to work with him on his father's farm in Argentina. The idea of spending two months in Argentine was exciting. Then I began having second thoughts. I had never been far from New England, and I had been homesick my first few weeks at college. What would it be like in a strange country? What about the language? The more I thought about it, the more the idea worried me. In the end I turned down the invitation. As soon as Ted asked somebody else to go, I began kicking myself. I had turned down something I wanted to do because I was scared, and had ended up feeling depressed. That unhappy summer taught me a valuable lesson out of which I developed a rule for myself: do what makes you anxious; don't do what makes you depressed. At the end of my senior year, I began to think about becoming a writer. But my professor was urging me to aim at teaching. I hesitated. The idea of trying to live by writing was a lot scarier than spending a summer in Argentina. Back and forth I went, making my decision, unmaking it. Suddenly I realized that every time I gave up the idea of writing, that downhearted feeling went through me. Giving up on what I really wanted to do depressed me. Right then I learned another lesson. To avoid that kind of depression meant having to bear a certain amount of worry and concern. When I first began writing articles, I was frequently required to interview big names. Before each interview I would get butterflies in the stomach and my hands would shake. One person I particularly admired was the great composer Duke Ellington. On the stage and on television, he seemed the very model of confidence. Then I learned Ellington still got stage fright. If the highly honored Ellington, who had appeared on the bandstand some 10,000 times over 30years, had anxiety attacks, who was I to think I could avoid them? I went on doing those frightening interviews. Then I realized to my astonishment that I was even looking forward to the interviews. What had happened to those butterflies? Well, in truth, they were still there, but there were fewer of them. I had benefited, I discovered, from a process psychologists call "extinction". If you put an individual in an anxious situation often enough, he will eventually learn that there isn't anything to be worried about, which brings me to a conclusion: you'll never get rid of anxiety by avoiding the things that caused it. The point is that the new, the different, is definitely scary. But each time you try something, you learn, and as the learning piles up, the world opens to you.
Question: We can infer from the passage that the author _ .
Options: (A) finds it difficult to make decision (B) has found out what causes anxiety (C) was inspired by Duke Ellington's stage fright (D) no longer feels anxious about new experiences
Asnwer: B
A: | No
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