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Narendra Damodardas Modi (] , born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician who is the 14th and current Prime Minister of India, in office since May 2014. He was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014, and is the Member of Parliament for Varanasi. Modi, a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is a Hindu nationalist and member of the right-wing Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
Can we infer the following?
Narendra Damodardas Modi is responsible for the rise of India in recent years | It's impossible to say |
New Year's Eve is a time to celebrate and enter the new year with a smile on your face. This year, there're plenty of local activities for all ages and interests, so the smiles will come easily. BLUE CONCERT Blues band the Coyotes is playing at the Dance Barn,at 8 Barn View in Sudden Valley, The show will start at 9 p. m. and benefit the charity Bikers Fighting Cancer. Tickets cost $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Call 224-2308 for more information. NEW YEAR'S LAUGHS Ring in the New Year and laugh out the old one at the Upfront Theatre Comic improvisers will hit on all the highlights of the year with The Last Laugh of 2008. The 9 p. m. show will cost $15 and is open to all ages. The 11 P. m. show is open to 21 and older and costs $18, which includes a champagne toast. Call 733-8855 for more information. MAZE For a fun activity earlier in the evening,walk the labyrinth at the Leopold Crystal Bellroom. Wander through the maze, based on the French Chartres Cathedral, for free from 4 to 9 p. m. Call 752-0048 for more information. COUNTRY DANCING At the Bellingham Eagles Hall, live local music will help get the dance started at 8 p. m. Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for students and free for kids 12 and younger. For more information, call 676-1554. If you want to know something about the Coyotes at 8 Barn view, you'd better call _ . A) 676-1554 B) 733-8855 C) 752-0048 D) 224-2308
| D |
Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to grow lettuce from an old lettuce stem
Cut off the end of the lettuce stalk.
Make sure you don't cut the stump too small. About 1-2 inches of leaf should be left. | Place the stem in a small container of water that covers the roots. Use approximately 1/2 inch of water. |
Answer the following question: By the age of almost four, Elijah Edney has never had a haircut in his life. But now he can ' t wait to visit the barber's - for two reasons: losing his two - foot - long golden hair will mean that strangers stop mistaking him for a girl; the hair will be donated to charity to provide a wig for a child with cancer. Mrs. Edney, who works in a restaurant, says, "Elijah has always had beautiful hair, so I let him grow it as he w8nted. It' s like silk. But now it is at a stage where people mistake him for a girl and he wants it cut into a boy's haircut. " Mrs. Edney and her husband want to collect enough money-PS350-to process Elijah's hair for a sick child. She says, "I couldn't bear to see all Elijah's beautiful hair go to waste and my mum mentioned charities that have human hair made into wigs. " Mrs. Edney says, "If we can raise the amount we want, it will mean a family will not have to pay for the wig and can receive it for free. When you've got children yourself, you hope that if they lost their hair someone would do the same for them by donating their hair. " The two-foot-long hair will be donated to the Little Princess Trust to make a wig for children suffering cancer. Elijah keeps telling people he is giving his hair to poor princesses and he is so excited about it. A spokesman for the Little Princess Trust says, "We're very grateful to anyone who decides to have their hair cut to donate it to the Little Princess Trust. As a result of hair donations like this, the charity receives real-hair wigs for free to pass on to families whose children have sadly lost their own hair through cancer treatment. " Why has Mrs. Edney let Elijah's hair grow so long? A) Because Elijah has beautiful hair. B) Because she likes long hair. C) Because Elijah looks nice with long hair. D) Because she wants to donate his hair to charity.
Answer: | A |
TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
PROBLEM: What needs consistency?, Context: The simplest valve gears give events of fixed length during the engine cycle and often make the engine rotate in only one direction. Most however have a reversing mechanism which additionally can provide means for saving steam as speed and momentum are gained by gradually "shortening the cutoff" or rather, shortening the admission event; this in turn proportionately lengthens the expansion period. However, as one and the same valve usually controls both steam flows, a short cutoff at admission adversely affects the exhaust and compression periods which should ideally always be kept fairly constant; if the exhaust event is too brief, the totality of the exhaust steam cannot evacuate the cylinder, choking it and giving excessive compression ("kick back").[citation needed]
SOLUTION: exhaust and compression periods
PROBLEM: Universal's parent company purchased Universal from whom?, Context: Matsushita provided a cash infusion, but the clash of cultures was too great to overcome, and five years later Matsushita sold an 80% stake in MCA/Universal to Canadian drinks distributor Seagram for $5.7 billion. Seagram sold off its stake in DuPont to fund this expansion into the entertainment industry. Hoping to build an entertainment empire around Universal, Seagram bought PolyGram in 1999 and other entertainment properties, but the fluctuating profits characteristic of Hollywood were no substitute for the reliable income stream gained from the previously held shares in DuPont.
SOLUTION: Matsushita
PROBLEM: What, in the article, happened 65 years before YSMI was renamed to YSMU?, Context: On the basis of the expansion and development of Yerevan State University a number of higher educational independent Institutions were formed including Medical Institute separated in 1930 which was set up on the basis of medical faculty. In 1980 Yerevan State Medical University was awarded one of the main rewards of the former USSR – the Order of Labor red Banner for training qualified specialists in health care and valuable service in the development of Medical Science. In 1995 YSMI was renamed to YSMU and since 1989 it has been named after Mkhitar Heratsi, the famous medieval doctor. Mkhitar Heratsi was the founder of Armenian Medical school in Cilician Armenia. The great doctor played the same role in Armenian Medical Science as Hippocrates in Western, Galen in Roman, Ibn Sīnā in Arabic medicine.
SOLUTION: | Medical Institute separated
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Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context (see options)?
Context:
The Canadian parliament's Ethics Commission said former immigration minister, Judy Sgro, did nothing wrong and her staff had put her into a conflict of interest.
Hypothesis: Judy Sgro likes politics.
Options:
(1). Yes;
(2). It's impossible to say;
(3). No; | (2). |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Between 1941 and 1945 , the Nazis killed about three million Ukrainians .
Output: | Between 1941 and 1945 , approximately three million Ukrainian and other gentiles were killed as part of Nazi extermination policies in present-day Ukraine . |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Example input: what is the first event mentioned?, Context: The Russian Revolution is the series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union. Following the abdication of Nicholas II of Russia, the Russian Provisional Government was established. In October 1917, a red faction revolution occurred in which the Red Guard, armed groups of workers and deserting soldiers directed by the Bolshevik Party, seized control of Saint Petersburg (then known as Petrograd) and began an immediate armed takeover of cities and villages throughout the former Russian Empire.
Example output: Russian Revolution
Example explanation: This is a good example, and the Russian Revolution is the first event mentioned.
Q: Who failed to get the Lunar module ready on time?, Context: The problems with North American were severe enough in late 1965 to cause Manned Space Flight Administrator George Mueller to appoint program director Samuel Phillips to head a "tiger team" to investigate North American's problems and identify corrections. Phillips documented his findings in a December 19 letter to NAA president Lee Atwood, with a strongly worded letter by Mueller, and also gave a presentation of the results to Mueller and Deputy Administrator Robert Seamans. Meanwhile, Grumman was also encountering problems with the Lunar Module, eliminating hopes it would be ready for manned flight in 1967, not long after the first manned CSM flights.
A: | Grumman |
Choose from options: Determine if the sentence is true based on the text below:
Oxford Dictionary Online added the term First World problem to their site in 2012.
First World problem is a slang term used to refer to issues in First World nations that are complained about only because of the absence of more pressing concerns. The term was added to the "Oxford Dictionary Online" in November 2012, and to the "Macquarie Dictionary Online" in December 2012.
Choose your answer from:
- Yes.
- It's impossible to say.
- No. | Yes |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
[Q]: The expansion of what further cemented Houston's emergence as a powerhouse commercial city?, Context: By 1860, Houston had emerged as a commercial and railroad hub for the export of cotton. Railroad spurs from the Texas inland converged in Houston, where they met rail lines to the ports of Galveston and Beaumont. During the American Civil War, Houston served as a headquarters for General John Bankhead Magruder, who used the city as an organization point for the Battle of Galveston. After the Civil War, Houston businessmen initiated efforts to widen the city's extensive system of bayous so the city could accept more commerce between downtown and the nearby port of Galveston. By 1890, Houston was the railroad center of Texas.
[A]: bayous
[Q]: What did the King do with Carlton House?, Context: Remodelling of the structure began in 1762. After his accession to the throne in 1820, King George IV continued the renovation with the idea in mind of a small, comfortable home. While the work was in progress, in 1826, the King decided to modify the house into a palace with the help of his architect John Nash. Some furnishings were transferred from Carlton House, and others had been bought in France after the French Revolution. The external façade was designed keeping in mind the French neo-classical influence preferred by George IV. The cost of the renovations grew dramatically, and by 1829 the extravagance of Nash's designs resulted in his removal as architect. On the death of George IV in 1830, his younger brother King William IV hired Edward Blore to finish the work. At one stage, William considered converting the palace into the new Houses of Parliament, after the destruction of the Palace of Westminster by fire in 1834.
[A]: Some furnishings were transferred
[Q]: Which are there more of: preliminary routines or points in the maximum score?, Context: Individual routines in trampolining involve a build-up phase during which the gymnast jumps repeatedly to achieve height, followed by a sequence of ten bounces without pause during which the gymnast performs a sequence of aerial skills. Routines are marked out of a maximum score of 10 points. Additional points (with no maximum at the highest levels of competition) can be earned depending on the difficulty of the moves and the length of time taken to complete the ten skills which is an indication of the average height of the jumps. In high level competitions, there are two preliminary routines, one which has only two moves scored for difficulty and one where the athlete is free to perform any routine. This is followed by a final routine which is optional. Some competitions restart the score from zero for the finals, other add the final score to the preliminary results.
[A]: | points
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Teacher:You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: Carrying a hip flask filled with alcohol in a public place is illegal in many locations in the United States due to open container laws. These laws prohibit possession of an unsealed container of alcohol in public or within the passenger compartment of a vehicle.
Student: | is it legal to carry alcohol in a flask? |
I 've just the same resentful feeling toward him that I have for all the world , if he exists at all .<br>There , I 've shocked you in good earnest now .<br>You should have left me alone , Miss Channing . ''<br>`` God means nothing to you because you 've never had him translated to you through human love , Constance , '' said Miss Channing seriously .<br>`` No , you have n't shocked me -- at least , not in the way you mean .<br>I 'm only terribly sorry . ''<br>`` Oh , never mind me , '' said Constance , freezing up into her reserve again as if she regretted her confidences .<br>`` I 'll get along all right .
This is a conversation.
A: Yes
Mutual Friends is a 2013 independent comedy starring Caitlin FitzGerald, Cheyenne Jackson, Peter Scanavino, Michael Stahl-David, Christina Cole, Jennifer Lafleur, Ross Partridge, Michael Chernus and Vanessa Ray, directed and co-written by Matthew Watts; Amy Higgins (Watts’ wife), Frank Angones, Jessica Sue Burstein, Craig DiFolco, Ross Partridge and Olivia Silver also co-wrote the film.
Mutual Friends is an independent comedy that came out before 2013.
A: No
The March<br>Tom's city had an uptick in police violence. Many felt it was getting out of hand. Tom helped orchestrate a protest march. Everything was by the book and the event went well. It helped shine light on the problem.
The march had 15,000 people in attendance
A: | It's impossible to say |
Women teachers are holding back boy students by blaming them for typically male behavior, according to a new study. Women teachers are always saying that boys are "silly" in class. They refuse to "sit nicely like girls" and are more likely to be addicted to "schoolboy tricks".Women teachers may also keep low expectations of boys' academic achievement and encourage girls to work harder by letting them think they are cleverer than boys. The study suggests that under-performance among boys in most national exams could be linked to lower expectations of their women teachers. The researchers did their research mainly on women teachers, since nearly 90 percent of primary school teachers are female. According to the research, women teachers said they often found boys' play in the classroom or in the playground, such as playing with toy guns. The researcher also found that boys were often punished and urged to follow a more feminine style of play instead of being taught how to play responsibly with their favorite toys by their women teachers. Bonny Hartley, the study's lead author, said, "By seven or eight years old, children of both boys and girls believe that boys are less focused, less able, and less successful than girls -- and think that adults admit this idea. There are signs that these expectations have the potential to become self-fulfilling in influencing children's achievement. Boys are really held back by their women teachers." Which can be the best title for the passage? A) Boys are less clever than girls in school. B) The best way to deal with naughty boys. C) Women teachers should be patient to boys. D) Boys are held back by women teachers.
A: | D |
He then slides on the grips onto the handles of the bike. He completes the tightening of the grips with an alan wrench. last he
inserts plugs into the end of the grips and the handle bars.
A tv is playing in a room. On the the tv two wrestlers are standing in a ring. one wrestler
throw the other wrestler down and wins the match.
Several shots are shown of the ocean leading into a person walking on a rope. More people are shown walking and kneeling on a rope while the camera moves around various angles. the girl
continues to walk on the rope and ends by jumping down.
How to identify a maremma sheepdog
Look at the fur.
The maremma sheepdog has white or cream colored fur. Shades of orange or yellow might also be present.
| If your dog has brown, black, or spotted fur, however, it is not a maremma. The maremma's coat should be long and plentiful. |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Q: How did the pope respond to the request?, Context: Neither John nor the rebel barons seriously attempted to implement the peace accord. The rebel barons suspected that the proposed baronial council would be unacceptable to John and that he would challenge the legality of the charter; they packed the baronial council with their own hardliners and refused to demobilise their forces or surrender London as agreed. Despite his promises to the contrary, John appealed to Innocent for help, observing that the charter compromised the pope's rights under the 1213 agreement that had appointed him John's feudal lord. Innocent obliged; he declared the charter "not only shameful and demeaning, but illegal and unjust" and excommunicated the rebel barons. The failure of the agreement led rapidly to the First Barons' War.
A: obliged
****
Q: Who was responsible for Universal before Junior?, Context: "Junior" Laemmle persuaded his father to bring Universal up to date. He bought and built theaters, converted the studio to sound production, and made several forays into high-quality production. His early efforts included the critically mauled part-talkie version of Edna Ferber's novel Show Boat (1929), the lavish musical Broadway (1929) which included Technicolor sequences; and the first all-color musical feature (for Universal), King of Jazz (1930). The more serious All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), won its year's Best Picture Oscar.
A: his father
****
Q: Which school of architecture became popular first, modern or neoclassical?, Context: After a lull during the period of modern architectural dominance (roughly post-World War II until the mid-1980s), neoclassicism has seen somewhat of a resurgence. This rebirth can be traced to the movement of New Urbanism and postmodern architecture's embrace of classical elements as ironic, especially in light of the dominance of Modernism. While some continued to work with classicism as ironic, some architects such as Thomas Gordon Smith, began to consider classicism seriously. While some schools had interest in classical architecture, such as the University of Virginia, no school was purely dedicated to classical architecture. In the early 1990s a program in classical architecture was started by Smith and Duncan Stroik at the University of Notre Dame that continues successfully. Programs at the University of Miami, Andrews University, Judson University and The Prince's Foundation for Building Community have trained a number of new classical architects since this resurgence. Today one can find numerous buildings embracing neoclassical style, since a generation of architects trained in this discipline shapes urban planning.
A: | neoclassical
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Q: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Where is Genghis Khan buried?, Context: Years before his death, Genghis Khan asked to be buried without markings, according to the customs of his tribe. After he died, his body was returned to Mongolia and presumably to his birthplace in Khentii Aimag, where many assume he is buried somewhere close to the Onon River and the Burkhan Khaldun mountain (part of the Kentii mountain range). According to legend, the funeral escort killed anyone and anything across their path to conceal where he was finally buried. The Genghis Khan Mausoleum, constructed many years after his death, is his memorial, but not his burial site.
A: | close to the Onon River |
IN: What happens next?
How to carry surfboards on the roof of a vehicle
Securely attach racks to the vehicle.
If the racks are so-called " soft racks, " they should consist of more than just a web strap that wraps around the vehicle.
Straps that wrap around the rack and surfboard must be inspected for worn or weak spots.
OPTIONS:
- Buckles on the straps should be the cam-spring type and not d-ring style. No-rust zinc buckles are preferred.
- Expensive picks help to make this job possible. Specially designed tightly-fitting and padded shoulder strap straps are also recommended for this job.
- If clothing shows beneath the booth, wear thin socks. Wrap mesh or tape around under the motors to allow easy entry.
- Pvc ramps are the simplest way to place this on the roof of your vehicle. Alternatively, you can simply block the top lip of a barn door with 6 inches (15.
OUT: Buckles on the straps should be the cam-spring type and not d-ring style. No-rust zinc buckles are preferred.
IN: What happens next?
How to market yourself as a medical transcriptionist
Build your own independent business as a medical transcriptionist.
This is work you can do at home, for several different clients.
Create marketing materials.
OPTIONS:
- Prepare an informative record of your experience in medical transcription, for a client base. Decide on a name for your business that will attract referrals.
- Invest in business cards, postcards, flyers and any other promotional items you can send to healthcare professionals you want to work for. Obtain a list of doctors and other healthcare professionals and organizations.
- You can use marketing materials that you can sell in support of your work. You can also put in ads for medical transcription jobs that you will distribute to your patients.
- Even if you won't run your own business on your own, you will still need a lot of resources. You can use tools like your computer or a word processor to create marketing materials for the clients.
OUT: Invest in business cards, postcards, flyers and any other promotional items you can send to healthcare professionals you want to work for. Obtain a list of doctors and other healthcare professionals and organizations.
IN: What happens next?
How to eat more iron
Eat lean red meat.
Red meat is the largest known food source of easily-absorbed iron content. Organ meats in particular, such as liver, are especially high in iron.
OPTIONS:
- You should skip the ham and fried chicken part of your healthy diet, as this is highly processed and generally takes precedence over other lean sources of iron. Overweight people should eat eight ounces of pork daily for optimal health.
- Don't worry, vegetarians, you have many options, which will be discussed later. Iron in meat is known as heme iron, which comes from the hemoglobin in the animal tissue.
- The body produces more iron in these meat sources than meat due to their high acidity. When eating red meat, it's important to eat fats like fatty meats, eggs, fish, and lean, low-fat dairy products.
- This provides more iron by slightly preventing the heartbeat syndrome (" empanadas ") and lowering blood sugar. These factors can lead to what possible adidipose medications were used for abdominal pains.
OUT: | Don't worry, vegetarians, you have many options, which will be discussed later. Iron in meat is known as heme iron, which comes from the hemoglobin in the animal tissue. |
Charlotte Anley (1796–1893) was a 19th-century English didactic novelist, social and religious writer, composer and lyricist. She was a Quaker, and spent the years 1836–38 in Australia, researching for a report on women's prisons commissioned by Elizabeth Fry.
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true?
Anley's work is known around the world.
OPT:
A). Yes.
B). It's impossible to say.
C). No. | B). |
Detailed Instructions: 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.
Q: Tensions erupted into battle between Patriot militia and British regulars when the king's army attempted to capture and destroy Colonial military supplies at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775. The conflict then developed into a global war, during which the Patriots (and later their French, Spanish, and Dutch allies) fought the British and Loyalists in what became known as the American Revolutionary War (1775 -- 83). Each of the thirteen colonies formed a Provincial Congress that assumed power from the old colonial governments and suppressed Loyalism, and from there they built a Continental Army under the leadership of General George Washington. The Continental Congress determined King George's rule to be tyrannical and infringing the colonists' rights as Englishmen, and they declared the colonies free and independent states on July 2, 1776. The Patriot leadership professed the political philosophies of liberalism and republicanism to reject monarchy and aristocracy, and they proclaimed that all men are created equal.
A: | who aided america in the struggle for independence |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Q: Surely, you have noticed the tall poles along the roadside. Do you know what is on top of those poles? Thats right, wires that carry electric current. These wires carry electric current to your home. But what is electric current? Electric current is actually the flow of electrons. You may recall, an electron is the outer-most particle in an atom. They have a negative charge. Electricity is the continuous flow of these particles. Electrons are able to move through wires. Their speed can even be measured. The SI unit for electric current (or speed) is the ampere (A). Ampere is often shortened to amp. Electric current may flow in just one direction, or it may keep reversing direction. Direct current (DC) flows in only one direction. Direct current is what is used in devices like flashlights. Alternating current (AC) flows in two directions. This is the type of current that flows into your home through wires. <sep>What kind of charge does an electron have?<sep>Negative
A: | Yes |
TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: Tampa, Florida (CNN) -- With Texas Gov. Rick Perry threatening to cement his standing atop the national polls, his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination aggressively sought to undermine his conservative credentials on Monday during the first-ever CNN/Tea Party debate in Florida. Perry repeatedly found himself in the crosshairs, as the field of candidates took turns attacking his positions on illegal immigration, Social Security, and his controversial 2007 push to vaccinate Texas schoolgirls against human papillomavirus, a common sexually transmitted disease that can lead to cervical cancer. Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, whose standing among Republicans has slipped dramatically since Perry entered the race, said she was "offended" by Perry's executive order, which included an opt-out provision for parents who did not want the vaccine.NEW: Perry finds himself in the crosshairs as GOP candidates attack his positionsBachmann accuses Perry of helping a drug company through a vaccination orderRomney on Perry: Being dealt aces does not make a good poker playerPerry calls for Social Security reform but drops "Ponzi scheme" label
Question:_ and Perry squared off on the vaccination situation, with Bachmann saying, "We cannot forget that in the midst of this executive order there's a big drug company that made millions of dollars because of this."
SOLUTION: Michele Bachmann
PROBLEM: Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) The father of one of the missing Nigerian schoolgirls abducted from Chibok two years ago has told CNN he is overjoyed to see her alive on a new video released by the terrorist group Sunday. Yakubu Kabu confirmed to CNN that he saw his daughter speaking in the new video, which demands the release of Boko Haram fighters in exchange for the kidnapped girls. The Nigerian government has said it is still "in touch" with Boko Haram and "working for the girls' release," the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture said on their official Facebook page. "We are being extremely careful because the situation has been compounded by the split in the leadership of Boko Haram," said Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information of Culture, according to the statement.A Boko Haram militant tells Nigeria to release jailed fighters in exchange for abducted girlsThe man says at least 40 of the girls have been married off
Question:Read more: _ victim -- "I cried for someone to help".
SOLUTION: Boko Haram
PROBLEM: A southern New Jersey woman jailed in an international custody dispute has been freed after spending more than eight years behind bars and is likely to be reunited with her daughter who's been without either parent for nearly a decade. María Jose Carrascosa, a 49-year-old native of Spain, was released from jail Friday night, The Record reported. Carrascosa, formerly of Fort Lee, was paroled last year after moving her daughter, then 5, to Spain when the girl's father, Peter Innes, was granted custody of the child. Freed: María Jose Carrascosa was released from a New Jersey jail on Friday after spending nearly 9 years behind bars for refusing to return her daughter to the United StatesSpanish national María Jose Carrascosa, 49, was jailed in 2006 after refusing to return her daughter to the custody of her father in New JerseyShe was released Friday, in part because her estranged ex Peter Innes wrote a letter asking the court to do what's best for their daughter, now 14Carrascosa, now the focus of widespread media attention in Spain, plans to return to Valencia as soon as possible to be with her daughterThe two have already had a tearful reunion after Carrascosa's release via Skype
Question:I did this so she can return to you in _.
SOLUTION: | Spain
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Answer the following question: World Book Day is a celebration of all things wonderful about books for all ages, with author events, school fancy-dress parades and a PS1 book token given to all school children under 18. It is a yearly event on 23rd April, organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ) to promote reading. In the United Kingdom, the day is recognized on the first Thursday in March. On 3rd March 2016 children of all ages in the UK will come together to appreciate reading. Sometimes, reading a modern novel can be tough ( Booker Prize winner The Luminaries runs to 832 pages! ), especially if reading is not your strong suit. In fact, one in six people in the UK never pick up a book because they've experienced difficulties or are out of the habit of reading for pleasure. The Galaxy Quick Reads series are designed to introduce reluctant readers to bestselling short funny novels, which bring the joy of reading without demanding hours of concentrated time. They cover a range of subjects, from romance to comedy. Jojo Moyes's Paris For One is a romantic adventure in which 26-year-old Nell books a weekend away to Paris with her lazy, neglectful boyfriend. When he fails to turn up, she is alone in the city. That is, until she meets Fabien, who shows her the charms of the French capital -- in more ways than one. Adele Geras's moving story Out In The Dark was set in World War I, in which young Rob came back from the battlefields. Determined to find the officer's widow to return the photo of her and their daughter that the captain kept with him, he traveled several thousand miles but never gave up. Dead Man Talking is a fantastic tale of Pat, who had a terrible fight with his best friend, Joe, ten years ago -- but now hears that Joe is dead, and he must attend his funeral. But Joe is not going quietly that very night -- he's lying in his coffin being very chatty indeed. According to the passage, which of the following statements is TURE ? A) The Luminaries tells a story of a Booker Prize winner. B) Paris For One tells a story of Nell and Fabien. C) Out In The Dark is a story during World WarII. D) Dead Man Talking is a story of Pat and his talkative friend.
Answer: | B |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context?
Context:
How to reduce arguments between your kids<br>Stay calm. Try not to get upset or angry at your kids when they fight. Displaying anger can end up causing the situation to escalate and make your kids even more upset.
Hypothesis: Getting upset can make things worse. | Yes |
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
A CHANT (from Chan"nel T"anker) was a type of prefabricated coastal tanker which was built in the United Kingdom during the Second World War due to a perceived need for coastal tankers after the invasion of France. Some CHANTs were adapted to carry dry cargos. These were known as the Empire F type coasters.
pick from the following.
(1). Yes;
(2). It's impossible to say;
(3). No;
Hypothesis: Some prefabricated coastal tankers from World War II were used for dry cargo.
| (1). |
Question: Context: This coalition took seven months to form, the longest deadlock in Dutch history. It occurred only after negotiations between the CDA and the PvdA failed, first over tax issues, then over the issue of abortion.
Generate a hypothesis.
****
Answer: Hypothesis: Three parties form a Dutch coalition government.
Question: Context: Passions surrounding Germany's final match at the Euro 2004 soccer championships turned violent when a woman stabbed her partner in the head because she didn't want to watch the game on television.
Generate a hypothesis.
****
Answer: Hypothesis: A woman passionately wanted to watch the soccer championship.
Question: Context: On April 27th, Pavolini went on, ahead of his troops, and reached Mussolini. Accompanying him were Angela Curti, the former mistress of Mussolini.
Generate a hypothesis.
****
Answer: Hypothesis: Angela Curti was Mussolini's mistress.
Question: Context: El-Nashar was detained July 14 in Cairo after Britain notified Egyptian authorities that it suspected he may have had links to some of the attackers.
Generate a hypothesis.
****
Answer: | Hypothesis: El-Nashar was arrested in Egypt. |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Q: Sam Farragut is a sociopathic business executive in Southern California who forces a team of advertising agency employees to embark on a dangerous dirtbike trip to the Baja California desert in order to compete for his business . The men are Warren Summerfield , a suicidal middle-aged ad executive who has been fired from the agency ; the straightlaced Paul McIlvain who is inattentive to his wife , and brash art designer Maxon who feels suddenly trapped after his girlfriend announces she is pregnant . There are numerous long sequences of motorcycle riding on desert backroads . Summerfield has been having an affair with McIlvian's wife . He has not told his wife that he was fired and is simply serving out his tenure at the agency while looking for a new position . His wife is actually aware of the affair . Farragut convinces the ad men to make the motorcycle journey on the pretext of looking for a location to shoot a commercial . In reality , Farragut is reckless and looking to involve the men in spontaneous edgy adventure of his own manipulation . After they leave , McIlvain's wife suspects that Summerfield is planning to kill himself for the insurance money , but she can not convince Summerfield's wife to instigate a search . The four men travel deeper into Mexico on isolated dirt roads . At one point Summerfield contemplates plunging off a cliff . After being humiliated by a young American couple in a Baja bar , Farragut tracks them down on the beach while accompanied by Maxon . <sep>Under what pretext does a sociopathic company executive organize the motorcycle trip?<sep>Location for commercial shooting
A: | Yes |
Read the text and determine if the sentence is true (see options at the end):
I ask the Prime Minister, who is perhaps better informed, where the terrible threat would be to Canada, to the Canadian federation, in having Quebec representation in the asbestos dispute in the WTO, even if this is, in the eyes of the Quebec Liberal MPs, asking too much, since they are so used to making no demands?
Sentence: The canadian federation was well informed
Options:
A). Yes.
B). It's impossible to say.
C). No. | B). |
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Ex Input:
The earliest of these are the chambered tombs , although later came the building of stone circles , a trend that would continue into the following Bronze Age .
Ex Output:
The earliest of these are the chambered tombs of the Early Neolithic , although in the Late Neolithic this form of monumentalization was replaced by the construction of stone circles , a trend that would continue into the following Bronze Age .
Ex Input:
A language isolate is a language that is not known to be related to any other language .
Ex Output:
A language isolate , in the absolute sense , is a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical ( or " genetic " ) relationship with other languages , one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common with any other language .
Ex Input:
Brigham Young University ( BYU ) is often called “ The Y ” and is a private research university .
Ex Output:
| Brigham Young University ( BYU , sometimes referred to colloquially as The Y ) is a private research university located in Provo , Utah and owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) .
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Choose from options: Determine if the sentence is true based on the text below:
Remember the Daze was released in theaters 27 years ago.
Remember the Daze is a 2007 drama film released in theaters in April 2008. The film was directed by Jess Manafort. The plot of the movie has been described as "a glimpse into the teenage wasteland of suburbia 1999 that takes place over 24-hours, and the teenagers who make their way through the last day of high school in the last year of the past millennium."
Options are: (I). Yes; (II). It's impossible to say; (III). No; | (III). |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Q: The family Cyperaceae , or the sedges , is a taxon of flowering plants that superficially resemble grasses or rushes .
A: | The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid ( grass-like ) , monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges , which superficially resemble the closely related rushes and the more distantly related grasses . |
[Q]: Polo (Persian: چوگان "chogān") is a team sport played on horseback. The objective is to score goals against an opposing team. Players score by driving a small white plastic or wooden ball into the opposing team's goal using a long-handled mallet. The traditional sport of polo is played on a grass field up to 300 by . Each polo team consists of four riders and their mounts. Polo requires the use of horses.
[A]: Yes
[Q]: Voila is the seventh studio album by the American singer Belinda Carlisle, released in 2007. It was Carlisle's first studio album in over a decade, and is a covers album of "classic French chansons and pop standards", much different from Carlisle's previous English language pop records. Previously Belinda Carlisle was mainly known for English pop songs.
[A]: Yes
[Q]: Gosnell: America's Biggest Serial Killer is an upcoming American film about Kermit Gosnell, an abortion doctor who is reported to have killed hundreds of infants born alive during abortion procedures, and convicted of three counts of murder and whom many consider to be a serial killer. There is an upcoming movie about a man convicted of three counts of murder and he was a doctor.
[A]: Yes
[Q]: The Baiheliang Underwater Museum or "White Crane Ridge Underwater Museum" is an underwater museum built around the White Crane Ridge of Fuling (), in China. It is China's first underwater museum, and is located in Fuling District, Chongqing Municipality, China. The Baiheliang Underwater Museum is located near Beijing, China.
[A]: | It's impossible to say |
Question: Context: The commission's order on the proposed hydroelectric development shall describe the Energy Facility Siting Council's recommendations on the need for the power.
Generate a hypothesis.
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Answer: Hypothesis: A hydroelectric project is proposed or is under construction.
Question: Context: The hullabaloo is over a glacial period dating to about 750 million to 600 million years ago.
Generate a hypothesis.
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Answer: Hypothesis: A glacial period occurred about 750 million to 600 million years ago.
Question: Context: At the time, neither "USA Today" nor "The Observer" was able to verify which of the sixty-plus candidates it was.
Generate a hypothesis.
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Answer: Hypothesis: USA Today is a subsidiary of "The Observer."
Question: Context: Speaking outside the hospital moments after getting her child back, Ciancio said she was confident all along that the baby would be found.
Generate a hypothesis.
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Answer: | Hypothesis: Ciancio was hospitalized for speaking to the baby. |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Every man, woman and child on the planet using micro-blogging site Twitter for a century. For many people that may sound like a vision of hell, but for watchers of the tremendous growth of digital communications it is a neat way of presenting the sheer scale of the so-called digital universe. The explosion of social networking, online video services and digital photography, plus the continued popularity of mobile phones, email and web browsing, coupled with the growing desire of corporations and governments to know and store ever more data about everyone has created an unprecedented amount of digital information and introduced a new word to the nerd lexicon: a zettabyte.
Research published today estimates that the so-called digital universe grew by 62% last year to 800,000 petabytes - a petabyte is a million gigabytes – or 0.8 zettabytes. That is the equivalent of all the information that could be stored on 75bn Apple iPads, which would equal the digital output from a century's worth of constant tweeting by all of Earth's inhabitants.
By way of stark contrast between the output of present day humanity and its pre-digital predecessor, experts estimate that all human language used since the dawn of time would take up about 5,000 petabytes if stored in digital form, which is less than 1% of the digital content created since someone first switched on a computer.This year, the planet's digital content will blast through the zettabyte barrier to reach 1.2 ZB, according to the fourth annual survey of the world's bits and bytes conducted by technology consultancy IDC and sponsored by IT firm EMC. A zettabyte, incidentally, is roughly half a million times the entire collections of all the academic libraries in the United States.
As an increasing number of "old media" stalwarts, such as book publishing, migrate to new online platforms the digital universe is set to expand further. The upgrading of existing digital content - such as the production of high definition television, Blu-Ray DVD and 3D films - will also expand the world's store of electronic information. Consumers, meanwhile, are expected to continue their love affair with social networking, video sharing and their host of devices that can create, store and share content, such as digital cameras and mobile phones.
"There has been mammoth growth in the types of media that make up the digital universe," according to Adrian McDonald, vice president and general manager for UK & Ireland EMC. "A huge increase in video and digital photography – in the old days people would take one photograph, now they can knock off 20 photos and rather than store just one, people store all 20 and then they store all 20 many times across the web. Then there is the fact that the number of devices where information can be generated and stored has also increased."
As a result, over the next decade, the information contained within the digital universe is forecast to expand by a factor of 44, according to the survey.
Mobile phones have dramatically widened the range of people who can create, store and share digital information.
"China now has more visible devices out on the streets being used by individuals than the US does," said McDonald. "We are seeing the democratisation and commoditisation of the use and creation of information."
But the expanding digital universe will present companies with a headache as the generation of content far outstrips the capacity of corporate storage and the world's IT professionals run to keep up with demand for their services. About 70% of the digital universe is generated by individuals, but its storage is then predominantly the job of corporations. From emails and blogs to mobile phone calls, it is corporations that are storing information on behalf of consumers.
Then there are the actions in the offline world that individuals carry out which result in digital content being created by organisations – from cashpoint transactions which a bank must record to walking along the pavement, which is likely to result in CCTV footage.
The vast majority of this information, meanwhile, is "unstructured", which means it has not been specifically created so it can easily be indexed, sorted, catalogued and retrieved.
Corporations are spending increasing amounts of money on technology from companies such as Cambridge-based Autonomy, which allows them to search through such mounds of information. Individuals, however, are likely to rely ever more heavily on the large internet search engines, especially Google, as much of their own personal content will increasingly be stored and searched online.
EMC and IDC first examined the digital universe back in 2007 and estimated that it was equivalent to 161 exabytes, 161,000 petabytes or 161bn gigabytes. At the time they forecast the digital universe would grow to 988 exabytes, just under 1 zettabyte, by this year. The fact that growth has been faster than expected even in that short period of time comes as little surprise to a veteran of the rapidly changing IT industry such as McDonald.
"I'm not that old, but we used to sell memory boards in 16 kilobytes – not even megabytes. And that was a big board which you sold into a serious company. I used to sell systems that were 50 megabytes. Even USB flash memory sticks are larger than that now," he said.
"You talk to a kid these days and they have no idea what a kilobyte is. The speed things progress, we are going to need many words beyond zettabyte." ||||| Photo: Reuters
Humanity’s total digital output currently stands at 8,000,000 petabytes - which each represent a million gigabytes - but is expected to pass 1.2 zettabytes this year.
One zettabyte is equal to one million terabytes, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 individual bytes.
The current size of the world’s digital content is equivalent to all the information that could be stored on 75bn Apple iPads, or the amount that would be generated by everyone in the world posting messages on the microblogging site Twitter constantly for a century.
The rapid growth of the “digital universe” has been caused by the explosion of social networking, online video, digital photography and mobile phones.
Around 70 per cent of the world’s digital content is generated by individuals, but it is stored by companies on content-sharing websites such as Flickr and YouTube.
The latest figures were released in the annual survey of the world’s digital output by IDC, the technology consultancy.
The first survey, which was conducted in 2007, estimated that the digital universe was equivalent to 161,000 petabytes.
Adrian MacDonald, vice president of EMC, the IT firm which sponsors the survey, said: "There has been mammoth growth in the types of media that make up the digital universe.
"A huge increase in video and digital photography – in the old days people would take one photograph, now they can knock off 20 photos and rather than store just one, people store all 20. Then there is the fact that the number of devices where information can be generated and stored has also increased."
As a result the digital universe is forecast to expand by a factor of 44 over the next decade, according to the survey. |||||
Output: | The flood of digital information produced by the world is outgrowing even the language described it. "Zettabyte"—one million million gigabytes, or enough information to fill 75 billion iPads—has now entered the lexicon, and the world's digital output is expected to pass the 1 zettabyte mark for the first time this year, the Telegraph reports. Last year's output was around 800,000 petabytes. "There has been mammoth growth in the types of media that make up the digital universe," especially "a huge increase in video and digital photography," an IT exec tells the Guardian. Experts predict that the world's digital output will increase by a factor of 44 over the next decade, meaning that even "yottabyte"—the next word up from zettabyte—won't be enough to describe it. |
Minoru Suzuki (鈴木 実 , Suzuki Minoru , ring name: 鈴木 みのる) (born June 17, 1968) is a Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist who is currently working for New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) as a freelancer. He is the current NEVER Openweight Champion in his first reign.
Minoru Suzuki is a contracted worker to NJPW and can only work for that company.
A: No
Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Justice is the first solo album by Justin Sane, lead singer of the punk rock band Anti-Flag. The album is entirely his own work, featuring his vocal and guitar work and demonstrating obvious influence from Billy Bragg's earlier recordings. The album is about, exactly as the title simply states, life, love, and justice.
Billy Bragg influenced Justin Sane to be an activist.
A: It's impossible to say
Edward George "Ed" Skrein ( ; born 29 March 1983) is an English actor and rapper. Outside his rap career, he is best known for his roles as Daario Naharis in Season 3 of "Game of Thrones", Frank Martin Jr. in "The Transporter Refueled" and Francis Freeman/Ajax in "Deadpool" (2016).
Edward George "Ed" Skrein enjoys being an actor more than a rapper.
A: | It's impossible to say |
In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Among the entities, try to find the best entity that is most likely to fill in "_" and classify the answers based on options.
It's the home of Catalan culture and some of the leading lights in Spanish fashion and design, boasting a clutch of the world's best restaurants and some of Europe's finest architecture. Barcelona is a world class city and its inhabitants consider it to be every bit as cultured and cosmopolitan as the Spanish capital, Madrid. However the news that it is now also the most popular destination for British stag and hen parties when they venture abroad might lead to some of its city bigwigs spluttering into their cafe con leche. A survey by Asda Money has revealed that 12 per cent of those who went abroad to celebrate their last days of freedom before tying the knot made a beeline for the Spanish city.Study found 12% of those who went abroad visited the Spanish cityAmsterdam placed second on the list of popular destinationsThe Dutch city was followed by Benidorm, Berlin and IbizaBritons average £566 in costs when they attend a hen or stag do overseas
Questions:The second most popular place according to the survey is _, with one in 10 stags and hens who'd partied overseas visiting the Dutch city. (A) Catalan (B) Spanish (C) Europe (D) Barcelona (E) Madrid (F) British (G) Asda Money (H) Amsterdam (I) Dutch (J) Benidorm (K) Berlin (L) Ibiza (M) Britons
(H)
Seafood is very healthy to eat -- all things considered. Fish and shellfish are an important source of protein, vitamins and minerals, and they are low in saturated fat. But seafood's claim to fame is its omega-3 fatty acids, docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), all of which are beneficial to health. The U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans strongly suggest that adults eat two servings of seafood, or a total of eight ounces, per week. Omega-3s are today's darling of the nutrition world, and many observational studies have indeed shown them to benefit a range of conditions such as high blood pressure, stroke, certain cancers, asthma, Type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer's disease.Most Americans eat plenty of protein, but not enough of it is from seafoodAmid concerns over mercury pollution and sustainability, how do you choose?
Questions:One of the things I research is _' meat and protein consumption. (A) DHA (B) EPA (C) U.S. Dietary Guidelines (D) Americans (E) Omega-3s (F) Alzheimer
(D)
Many images from Alice Horlick’s childhood remain sharp in her memory, but the most poignant and abiding are her mother’s fleeting visits home to say goodnight. Alice, 27, now a handbag designer — Kate Moss and the American singer Taylor Swift are fans of her luxury shoulder bags — is the second child of Nicola ‘Superwoman’ Horlick, the woman who famously raised six children while running a multi-million-pound investment company in the Nineties. She also had to cope with a critically ill child, Alice’s elder sister Georgie, who lost a ten-year battle with leukaemia in 1998, aged 12. Each night Nicola, absent during her long working day, would rush home, kiss her children goodnight, then dash off again to spend the night beside Georgie’s hospital bed. This pattern persisted for almost four years.Nicola Horlick raised six children while running multi-million pound firmOne child, Georgie, was critically ill with leukaemia and lost battle in 1998Nicola described her as 'detached' - but they still haven't discussed itAlice, now a handbag designer, says she rarely sees her mother even now
Questions:Any child coping with such loss and change would crave the presence of their mother, but _ kept on working. (A) Alice Horlick (B) Alice (C) Kate Moss (D) American (E) Taylor Swift (F) Nicola ‘Superwoman’ Horlick (G) Alice’s (H) Georgie (I) Georgie’s
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The Puerto Rico Baseball Academy and High School (PRBAHS) is a non-profit organization combining academics and sports programs into one curriculum. Its goal is to prepare its students for higher education, competitive college scholarship opportunities, and the Major League Baseball Draft. The PRBAHS is the only high school in Puerto Rico or the United States with this type of learning environment.
The PRBAHS helps prepare students for competitive college scholarship opportunities. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: Yes
input hypothesis: Bellotto was born in the seventh month.
Context: Gianfranco Bellotto (Camposampiero, 2 July 1949) is an Italian football manager and former football player, who played as a midfielder. He served as head coach several Italian football teams such as Modena, Sampdoria and Venezia. He is well known for his commitment and seriousness. He achieved, among others, a Serie B Championship, a Capodanno Cup and a Red Leaf Cup.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
true or false: Yes
Context:
Rubicon Drinks Ltd (formerly Rubicon Products Ltd) is a soft drink manufacturer based in Milton Keynes, UK. The company specialises in exotic soft drinks, and produces a variety of different flavours of drink, many of which contain sugar or artificial sweeteners, and which come in both still and sparkling varieties. In the United Kingdom, their drinks are bottled and distributed by A.G. Barr plc.
Hypothesis: Rubicon Drinks Ltd products are well soughted after in the uk OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
It's impossible to say
Input: OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
George White's Scandals is a 1934 American musical film directed by George White and written by Jack Yellen. The film stars Rudy Vallée, Jimmy Durante, Alice Faye, Adrienne Ames, Gregory Ratoff, Cliff Edwards and Dixie Dunbar. The film was released on March 16, 1934, by Fox Film Corporation.
Sentence: George White's Scandals won an award in 1934.
Output: It's impossible to say
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
High Bridge is a census-designated place (CDP) in Snohomish County, Washington, United States. The population was 2,994 at the 2010 census. High Bridge includes the Echo Lake community and the former Echo Lake CDP, which was superseded by the larger High Bridge CDP in 2010.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: Echo Lake is part of High Bridge.
****
Answer:
Yes
Gordon Hendrick (February 16, 1949) is a former Republican member of the Montana Legislature. He was elected to House District 14 which represents the Superior area. Due to Montana's term limits, he was ineligible to run for re-election in 2012. He was succeeded by Republican candidate Nicholas Schwaderer for the 2013 legislature cycle.
Gordon Hendrick left office because he wanted to do something else OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | It's impossible to say |
[1] The plant suffered in the shade, where did it need to be planted instead?
Options:
- brightness
- sunny delight
- direct sunlight
- bright light
- tanning
direct sunlight
[2] Plant needs direct sunlight to grow well. Plant will suffer if there is less or no sunlight.
[1] Many sea anemones live in what group of tiny marine animals?
Options:
- intertidal zone
- florida keys
- flower bed
- coral sea
- cool
coral sea
[2] Corals are tiny marine animals whose group is called coral sea.
[1] Where will you wait in a reception area when you're suffering?
Options:
- hospital
- people
- motel
- drug store
- hotels
hospital
[2] A reception area is available in hospitals. If you are suffering, you will have to wait in the hospital's reception area.
[1] What does a ferret like to crawl up?
Options:
- great britain
- mother's hair
- petting zoo
- building
- trouser leg
trouser leg
[2] | Ferret legging is game where contestants take live ferrets and shove them down their trouser. Ferret crawl up trouser leg in ferret legging. |
Context:
ZURICH, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Swiss premium chocolate maker Lindt & Spruengli shrugged off the euro zone crisis to post 2012 organic sales growth in line with its long-term target. The maker of Lindor pralines and gold foil-wrapped Easter bunnies said on Tuesday full year sales rose 7.3 percent to 2.67 billion Swiss francs ($2.91 billion). It posted organic growth of 6.8 percent in local currencies. Lindt, which traces its origins to a Zurich confectionery shop in the 1840s said it won new market share in practically every country and category.
Hypothesis: Lindt & Spruengli said full year sales rose by a value which is larger than 7.29 percent. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Yes
Input: OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Bowles will take the title HRH Duchess of Cornwall, changing it to the Princess Consort, when Charles becomes King.
Sentence: Charles will become King in 2025.
Output: It's impossible to say
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
How to make peppermint sauce<br>Place the cream, crushed peppermint candies and water into the saucepan. [substeps] Candy canes can be used as a form of hard peppermint candies. Heat the ingredients over a medium heat.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: Candy cane is one of the ingredients of peppermint sauce
****
Answer:
Yes
[Q]: The motor industry accounts for as much as 40 per cent of the 450,000 installed industrial robots worldwide but their use is changing and applications are expanding. The motor industry is the most important in America when it comes to robotics. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: It's impossible to say
Problem: How to write a financial report<br>Decide on a time frame. Before you begin, you will need to determine the period of time your financial report will cover. Most financial reports are prepared quarterly and annually, although some companies also prepare them on a monthly basis.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "the time frame you choose to prepare the report is set always"? OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
Context:
Democrat Culbert L. Olson, elected governor of California in 1938, was a loyal supporter of Roosevelt's New Deal.
Hypothesis: Roosevelt's new deal was beneficial to California. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
| It's impossible to say |
The economy has developed a lot while the Internet is still not fully used in China. A study shows that about two-thirds of typical Chinese Internet users use the computer for news, often entertainment-related, or for online games, music or movies, all can be downloaded for free. Most prefers messages to e-mail, seldom makes online shopping at all. Although they are now depending on the Internet more often than before to communicate with others who have the same professions, hobbies and political interests, online shopping still remains unpopular in China. Three-quarters of users surveyed have never bought anything over the Internet, and only 10 percent do shopping even once a month. Among those who do buy online, most pay for entertainment while others buy phone cards, or computer hardware or software. "Many people don't trust the quality of goods bought online," the researcher said, "If they buy it in a store and don't like it, they can easily bring it back." The survey was done in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu and Changsha. Results do not necessarily project countrywide because Internet use in the countryside is lower than in cities. The study showed that the typical netizens in the five cities are richer and more highly educated. Males make up two-thirds of the group, and more than 80 percent of users are under 24.Surprisingly, with the ages increase, the percentage decreases. China has more than 200 million people online, however, forty-two percent say they do not use search engines. Others seek entertainment news, as well as information useful for work or study on line. Baidu. com was used by half of those surveyed, compared with a quarter for Google, the leading search engine in the United States. Online purchases still remain unpopular in China mainly because _ . A) many people don't trust the quality of online goods because it is more difficult for sales returns B) most people haven't got computers C) people can't have a look at the goods D) goods bought online are of low quality
| A |
Heineken Light (labelled as "Heineken 3" in Australia ) is a light beer brewed by Heineken for the United States market. It was introduced in 2005. Heineken light reportedly has: 99 calories per 12 oz. bottle and 6.8 grams of carbohydrates. The beer has fewer calories, less carbohydrate, and less alcohol than lager beers such as the Heineken Pilsener. The beer has 3.3% alcohol by volume.
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true?
Heineken Light is enjoyed by athletes.
Available choices:
(A). Yes.
(B). It's impossible to say.
(C). No. | (B). |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. 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.
The Secretary of State is a senior official of the federal government of the United States of America, and as head of the U.S. Department of State, is principally concerned with foreign policy and is considered to be the U.S. government's equivalent of a Minister for Foreign Affairs.
| what is the role of us secretary of state |
In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Constantine Garifallou has seen it all in the 15 years since he moved from Melbourne to Athens, including 'the molotov cocktails', but he's determined to stick it out even if the Greek economic crisis turns ugly. 'We are determined to fight but that's always in the back of your mind that if it all goes to s*** - that you can go back to Australia,' he said. The chef runs Brigante Little Italy Cafe in the heart of Athens, where he lives with his wife Lina and their two sons Alexandros and Maxims, and he is determined to see it out.Cafe owner vows to keep his Greek Australian family in Athens even if protests turn uglyConstantine Garifallou is among 150,000 Australians living in GreeceUp to 15,000 have already returned to Australia in the past two yearsAustralia's Greek community is sending money to family and friends affected by the banks crisisPoliticians insist emigration back to Australia is not the answer to Greece's woes
Question:'Protests and demonstrations can occur in cities across _ with little warning. | Greek |
John Robinson (11 November, 1908 – 6 March, 1979) was an English actor, who was particularly active in the theatre. Mostly cast in minor and supporting roles in film and television, he is best remembered for being the second actor to play the famous television science-fiction role of Professor Bernard Quatermass, in the 1955 BBC Television serial "Quatermass II".
Can we infer the following?
Bernard Quatermass was a supportive role played by John Robinson. | It's impossible to say |
How does the next paragraph end?
How to tell your parents you are bisexual
Be comfortable with your sexuality.
It's one thing to be certain about your sexuality, and another to be comfortable with it. If you are dealing with feelings of guilt, shame, or confusion, it might be a good idea to wait to tell your parents. | It's necessary to accept yourself for who you are before you can expect others to accept you. Try looking at yourself in the mirror and saying " i am bisexual. |
In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
[EX Q]: (CNN) On a recent trip to Havana, I waited in my hotel lobby for my next meeting, sipping a cortado, and scrolling through emails surrounded by bustling businesspeople in every direction. It felt like a hotel in any global business capital. Yet a stark reminder of my surroundings -- aside from the physical realities of the charm of a boutique hotel in Cuba's Habana Vieja neighborhood -- was the immediate lack of any Internet connection as soon as I stepped outside the confines of the hotel. My stay in a casa particular (private house) the remainder of the week only heightened this reality, and my time spent coordinating roaming service yielded spotty results.Cuba's announcement of launching broadband Internet service in two pilot projects in Havana is historic, says Alana TumminoTummino: We're seeing beginning of end of Cuba's Internet isolation, but there's a long way to go
Question:The telecommunications sector has been an important part, or more precisely, a key pillar of President Barack Obama's opening to _, dating back to executive actions for this sector in 2009.
[EX A]: Cuba
[EX Q]: (CNN) Two cousins charged with the killings this summer of four Pennsylvania men pleaded not guilty Thursday to multiple counts of homicide and other charges, according to Assistant District Attorney Gregg Shore, who is prosecuting the cases. Cosmo Dinardo and Sean Kratz, both 20 at the time of the killings, were charged in July with multiple counts of homicide, among other charges, after the bodies of four young men who had gone missing were found mutilated and buried on the Dinardo family's land. The crimes shocked Bucks County, a pastoral community about 40 miles north of Philadelphia. Thursday's hearing came a day after prosecutors filed notices that said the state would reserve the right to pursue the death penalty against the defendants.Prosecutors say they "reserve the right" to pursue the death penaltyThe murders brought national attention this summer to a rural Pennsylvania enclave
Question:All the victims had been lured to the Dinardo property within days of each other, believing they were on their way to buy marijuana from _, Weintraub said in July.
[EX A]: Cosmo Dinardo
[EX Q]: A series of chilling text messages that a suicidal father sent to his increasingly panicked ex-girlfriend in the final moments before he allegedly threw their baby son to his death off a bridge has emerged. As he stood on Connecticut's Arrigoni Bridge with his seven-month-old son Aaden on Sunday night, Tony Moreno, 22, exchanged dozens of texts with his former partner, 19-year-old Adrianne Oyola. In separate messages, he told her: 'Enjoy your new life without us', 'There is no more days [sic]' and 'You're not a parent anymore' - prompting Oyola to frantically ask about her son's whereabouts. Moreno then wrote: 'He's dead', followed by 'And soon I will be too.' Shortly after, the father apparently leaped from the 90ft bridge himself - having already hurled Aaden into the water below.Tony Moreno, 22, admits throwing his seven-month-old son, Aaden, off Connecticut's Arrigoni Bridge - before jumping himself, officials sayOn night of alleged murder, he sent chilling texts to his former girlfriendHe told Adrianne Oyola: 'Enjoy your new life without us' and 'He's dead'An increasingly panicked Oyola begged for information about their childAs Moreno fell silent, she text him: 'Please don't hurt Aaden... Please!!!'On Tuesday, Aaden was found dead in Connecticut River 15 miles awayMoreno was rescued from water and is now alert and stable in hospitalHe has been charged with murder and is being held on $2million bondOyola had obtained a restraining order against Moreno but it was overturned on June 29
Question:He ruled that the pair needed to 'figure out' their relationship for _'s sake and 'grow up and deal with each other as adults' - but did not find that there was no imminent threat to Oyola or Aaden.
[EX A]: | Aaden
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Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) or consumer packaged goods (CPG) are products that are sold quickly and at relatively low cost. Examples include non-durable goods such as packaged foods, beverages, toiletries, over-the-counter drugs and many other consumables. In contrast, durable goods or major appliances such as kitchen appliances are generally replaced over a period of several years.
Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text?
consumer packaged goods are sold slowly. | No |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Let me give you an example: what is the first event mentioned?, Context: The Russian Revolution is the series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union. Following the abdication of Nicholas II of Russia, the Russian Provisional Government was established. In October 1917, a red faction revolution occurred in which the Red Guard, armed groups of workers and deserting soldiers directed by the Bolshevik Party, seized control of Saint Petersburg (then known as Petrograd) and began an immediate armed takeover of cities and villages throughout the former Russian Empire.
The answer to this example can be: Russian Revolution
Here is why: This is a good example, and the Russian Revolution is the first event mentioned.
OK. solve this:
Which is the second historical museum mentioned in this paragraph?, Context: Many of the area's prominent museums are located in the historic cultural center neighborhood around Wayne State University and the College for Creative Studies. These museums include the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Detroit Historical Museum, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, the Detroit Science Center, as well as the main branch of the Detroit Public Library. Other cultural highlights include Motown Historical Museum, the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant museum (birthplace of the Ford Model T and the world's oldest car factory building open to the public), the Pewabic Pottery studio and school, the Tuskegee Airmen Museum, Fort Wayne, the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit (CAID), and the Belle Isle Conservatory.
Answer: | Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History |
In the past ten years, many scientists have studied the differences between men and women. And they all got the same answer: The sexes are different, because their brains are different. And this, the scientists say, makes men and women see the world in different ways. Boys, for example, generally are better than girls at mathematical ideas. Boys also generally are better than girls at the kind of hand and eye movements necessary for ball sports. Girls, on the other hand generally start speaking earlier than boys. And they generally see better in the dark than boys and are better at learning foreign languages. What makes men and women better at one thing or another? The answer is the brain. The brain has two sides connected by nerve tracks. The left side generally is used for mathematics, speech and writing. The right side is used for artistic creation and the expression for emotions . In men and women, different areas in each side of the brain develop differently. In boys, for example, it's the area used for mathematics. In girls, it is the area used for language skills. Another interesting difference is that the two sides of a man's brain are connected by a smaller number of nerves than the two sides of a woman's brain are. 60. The number of nerves connecting the two sides of the brain in men _ . A) is the same as women's B) is different from women's C) is larger than women's D) is twice as large as women's
Answer: | B |
question: Complete the next sentence:
How to protect your lawn from insect damage
Pour 1 cup (237 ml) of water , 1 tsp.
( 5 ml) of liquid dish soap and 1 tsp. ( 5 ml) of vegetable oil in a large bowl.
answer: Mix the ingredients together gently to form your insecticide. Place a funnel at the mouth of a spray bottle and pour your insecticide mixture into the spray bottle.
question: Complete the next sentence:
This woman is playing a solo game of croquet. she
answer: pushes the blue ball through the thin white rings and the ball lightly hits the wooden pole.
question: Complete the next sentence:
The guy puts the lotion on his arms, stomach, chest, waist line and the parts of his back he can reach. the guy
answer: | stands and puts on more of the sun block lotion while other people in the back ground stands/sits on the sand talking. |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
How many strokes does the most complex character commonly used have?, Context: One of the most complex characters found in modern Chinese dictionaries[g] is 齉 (U+9F49) (nàng, listen (help·info), pictured below, middle image), meaning "snuffle" (that is, a pronunciation marred by a blocked nose), with "just" thirty-six strokes. However, this is not in common use. The most complex character that can be input using the Microsoft New Phonetic IME 2002a for traditional Chinese is 龘 (dá, "the appearance of a dragon flying"). It is composed of the dragon radical represented three times, for a total of 16 × 3 = 48 strokes. Among the most complex characters in modern dictionaries and also in frequent modern use are 籲 (yù, "to implore"), with 32 strokes; 鬱 (yù, "luxuriant, lush; gloomy"), with 29 strokes, as in 憂鬱 (yōuyù, "depressed"); 豔 (yàn, "colorful"), with 28 strokes; and 釁 (xìn, "quarrel"), with 25 strokes, as in 挑釁 (tiǎoxìn, "to pick a fight"). Also in occasional modern use is 鱻 (xiān "fresh"; variant of 鮮 xiān) with 33 strokes.
| 32 |
Greenbrook Methodist Church Pantomime Society is holding its AGM. It will take place at the church on Thursday at 7pm. All members, parents and friends are asked to attend, as input is needed regarding an important and urgent decision about the society's next steps.
The AGM is a protest. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
How to get rid of smoke smell<br>Let the book air out. Gently hang an open book over a railing or on a clothesline outside for a few hours to a day. This should cause the smell to decrease.
Let the book air out. Try not toGently hang an open book over a railing or on a clothesline outside for a few hours to a day OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
Martin Harrington is a British Songwriter, record producer and Music Publisher. Harrington has worked with many popular Artists and is a Grammy and Ivor Novello nominated Songwriter. He received an ASCAP award for the song Love at First Sight by Kylie Minogue and BMI awards for Co Writing the song Photograph by Ed Sheeran
Harrington has multiple talents as well as plays multiple instruments. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | It's impossible to say |
*Question*
To Whom It May Concern: Your address was forwarded to us by How to Magazine.All of us here think The International Institute of Not Doing Much is the best organization in the world.You know how to avoid unnecessary activities! As a matter of fact, we closely followed the advice in your article.First, we replaced all our telephones with carrier pigeons.Simply removing the jingle of telephones and replacing them with the pleasant sounds of birds has had a remarkable effect on everyone.Besides, birds are cheaper than telephone service.After all, we are a business.We have to think of the bottom line.As a side benefit, the birds also fertilize the lawn outside the new employees' sauna . Next, we sold the computers off to Stab, Grab, Grit, and Nasty, a firm of lawyers nearby.Our electricity bill went way down.Big savings! The boss is impressed.We have completely embraced paper technology.Now that we all use pencils, doodling is on the increase, and the quality of pencil woman ship is impressive, as you can tell from my handwriting in this letter.By the way, if you can, please send this letter back to us.We can erase and reuse it.Just tie it to Maggie's leg and she'll know where to take it. Now it's very calm and quiet here.You can notice the difference.No more loud chatter on the telephones! All we hear is the scratching of pencil on paper, the sound of pigeons, and the delivery of inter-office correspondence by paper airplane. Wonderful! I've always wanted to work for an insurance company ever since I was a little girl.Now it's perfect. Sincerely yours, Eleanor Lightly Spokeswoman and Company Hair Stylist ABC Activity Insurance: insure against overdoing it Which of the following best describes the life the author is leading? A) A simple, slow-paced life. B) A life of hard work and security. C) A religious, peasant-like life. D) A life away from paper and pencils.
**Answer**
A
*Question*
Alan took an early interest in gardening---first on his grandfather's Yorkshire allotment in Ilkley, and then in his parents' back garden. Small polythene greenhouses appeared in the back garden, and cacti were bought from church markets. Alan left school at fifteen with one `O' level in Art and took a job as an apprentice gardener in Ilkley Parks Department nursery, studying for his City and Guilds in Horticulture in the evening. He went on to horticultural college at Oaklands in Hertfordshire where he studied for one year full-time, being awarded the National Certificate in Horticultural. This was followed by three years at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, resulting in the award of the Kew Diploma. After two years as supervisor of staff training at Kew, Alan entered journalism where he became first a gardening books editor, and then Deputy Editor of Amateur Gardening magazine. He appeared regularly on BBC Radio and Television in programs such as Nationwide , Breakfast Time, Open Air, Pebble Mill, Songs of Praise, Titchmarsh's Travels, and the Chelsea Flower Show. He presented the 100th edition of The Word for Channel 4, and hosted the quiz show Ask the Family. Gardeners' World and the hugely popular Ground Force, second only to Easterners in the BBC1 ratings, are broadcast as far as Australia, New Zealand and North America. After leaving both programs, Alan worked on two other series for the BBC to be transmitted in 2003 and 2004, one of them a landmark series on the natural history of Britain. Alan writes for the Daily Express, Sunday Express, Radio Times and BBC Gardeners' World magazine, and has more than thirty gardening books to his credit. His four novels, as well as a book about his own life, have been best sellers. Alan, 53, gardens organically, and lives with his wife, two daughters and a medley of animals. According to this passage, we can learn that _ . A) Alanaccepted little education B) Alan wrote many books about food C) Alan had never been married D) Alan was first a gardening books editor
**Answer**
D
*Question*
One baby born with a defective windpipe now has hope of breathing normally thanks to 3-D printing technology, NPR reported. Garrett Peterson, now 18 months old, was born with tracheomalacia , leaving him unable to breathe. The condition terrified his parents, who turned to specialist Dr. Glenn Green at the University of Michigan for a possible treatment. Along with Scott Hollister, a biomedical engineer who runs the university's 3-D printing lab, Green designed a device that can hold open Garrett's windpipe until it's strong enough to function independently. After taking a CT scan of Garrett's windpipe to make a replica of it, they made the "splint" with a 3-D printer. "It's like a protective shell that goes on the outside of the windpipe, and it allows the windpipe to be tacked to the inside of that shell to open it up directly," Green told NPR. On January 31, Garrett had his surgery. Surgeon Dr. Richard Ohye opened up Garrett's chest and saw that his windpipe had completely collapsed and one of his lungs was completely white -- a condition Ohye had only seen in dead bodies. After eight hours of surgery and careful placement of a splint on either side of Garrett's windpipe, it was time for the big test: What would happen when they let air flow through the windpipe into Garrett's lungs? Though he still remains in the hospital, Garrett has gotten stronger and needs less assistance breathing in the weeks since his surgery. His parents are overjoyed, saying he's starting to act more interactive and alert. As Garrett grows, the splint will expand and eventually dissolve in his body as his own windpipe strengthens enough to work independently. 3-D printing technology has allowed doctors to help patients in ways that they hope will continue to grow. "We're talking about taking something like dust and converting it into body parts," Green said. "And we're able to do things that were never possible before." We can learn from the passage that _ . A) Garrett is out of hospital with the help of 3-D printing technology. B) The splint will exist in Garrett's body for ever. C) It is difficult to operate the 3-D printer. D) Garrett's condition is critical.
**Answer**
D
*Question*
Stop wasting your time thinking of reasons for your failures. Instead, realize that the seeds of success were planted within you when you were born. Only you have the power to make those seeds grow. The seeds, and the power to grow them, are contained in the most awesome machine ever created: the human mind. Success is a choice and not a chance. You were born a winner. You were born rich. You can be a success if only you make the right choice. You cannot be successful without first developing your self-confidence. Your level of self-confidence is always based on the degree of control that you are able to exercise over yourself, and thus over your life. People with low self-confidence are people who do not believe that they have any power, or responsibility for their lives. They are always victims. They are leaves tossed by the winds of chance blown about with any sudden change in the weather. You can exercise control over your life only to the degree that you believe you are responsible for everything that happens in your life. Failures think that everything happens by accident and chance. Successful people realize that they are responsible. Everything happens as a result of something. If we can identify the cause, we can control the effect. We are responsible for what we choose to think and believe. One generally rises to the level that one expects. We are responsible for setting our expectations. Our success is dependent upon our level of confidence. In all areas of your life, whether they are financial, physical, or spiritual, you are responsible. Once you recognize this, accept it, and firmly believe it. You are on the road to success. People with low self-confidence are compared to leaves because they _ . A) don't have the power to face their lives B) are ready to change their minds C) can't exercise control over themselves D) are easily affected by windy weather
**Answer**
| C |
In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
(CNN) -- A federal court on Monday sentenced a Somali man to 30 years in prison for acts related to high-seas piracy, according to a statement by the U.S. Attorney's office for the Eastern District of Virginia. "Today marks the first sentencing in Norfolk for acts of piracy in more than 150 years," U.S. Attorney MacBride said in the statement. "Piracy is a growing threat throughout the world, and today's sentence ... demonstrates that the United States will hold modern-day pirates accountable in U.S. courtrooms." Jama Idle Ibrahim pleaded guilty in federal court in August, admitting he had intended to seize a U.S. merchant vessel on April 10 and hold it for ransom.NEW: A Somali man is sentenced to 30 years in prison in high-seas piracy attemptJama Idle Ibrahim is one of a group of would-be pirates who were capturedHe has admitted to trying to seize a U.S. merchant vessel and hold it for ransomUntil this year, the last piracy-related conviction in the United States was in 1861
Question:Ibrahim and five other would-be pirates learned too late that they had instead pulled alongside a _.
U.S.
(CNN) Rep. Keith Ellison's past ties to the Nation of Islam and his defense of its anti-Semitic leader, Louis Farrakhan, are resurfacing as he campaigns to lead the Democratic National Committee. Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, publicly renounced his association with the Nation of Islam in 2006 after it became an issue during his run for Congress, when local Republican bloggers began publishing his old law school columns and photos connecting him to the organization. "I have long since distanced myself from and rejected the Nation of Islam due to its propagation of bigoted and anti-Semitic ideas and statements, as well as other issues," Ellison wrote at the time.Rep. Keith Ellison's past ties to the Nation of Islam are resurfacing as he campaigns for DNC chair.A spokesperson for Ellison told CNN that Ellison "rejects all forms of anti-Semitism."
Question:During that race, Ellison rebuffed any insinuation he was, himself, anti-_.
Semitic
Thousands of people paid their last respects to Israel's former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Sunday as his body lay in state outside the nation's parliament. "He was one of the giants. He was very special," said Ayala Weisel, who said she grew up learning of Sharon as a widely admired soldier who fought for his country. She was one of many mourners who shared memories with CNN on Sunday of Sharon, the towering military and political leader who died Saturday after eight years in a coma. Chaim Friedman, a tour guide, described Sharon as a great leader. "He was known as the bulldozer because he got his way and he made things happen. He's well respected for that," Friedman said. "Sometimes in Israel, you have to do it the straight way, or you have to find the other way to get things done, and he managed to do it.""He was one of the giants," one mourner saysMemorial ceremony, procession and military funeral set for MondaySharon is remembered for his controversial military and political careerIsraeli officials praise him, while some in the Mideast criticize him
Question:He believed strongly that in order for _ to survive, a strong army was needed.
| Israel
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Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Q: DURHAM, N.C. -- Modern humans appear in the fossil record about 200,000 years ago, but it was only about 50,000 years ago that making art and advanced tools became widespread.
A new study appearing Aug. 1 in the journal Current Anthropology finds that human skulls changed in ways that indicate a lowering of testosterone levels at around the same time that culture was blossoming.
"The modern human behaviors of technological innovation, making art and rapid cultural exchange probably came at the same time that we developed a more cooperative temperament," said lead author Robert Cieri, a biology graduate student at the University of Utah who began this work as a senior at Duke University.
The study, which is based on measurements of more than 1,400 ancient and modern skulls, makes the argument that human society advanced when people started being nicer to each other, which entails having a little less testosterone in action.
Heavy brows were out, rounder heads were in, and those changes can be traced directly to testosterone levels acting on the skeleton, according to Duke anthropologist Steven Churchill, who supervised Cieri's work on a senior honors thesis that grew to become this 24-page journal article three years later.
What they can't tell from the bones is whether these humans had less testosterone in circulation, or fewer receptors for the hormone.
The research team also included Duke animal cognition researchers Brian Hare and Jingzhi Tan, who say this argument is in line with what has been established in non-human species.
In a classic study of Siberian foxes, animals that were less wary and less aggressive toward humans took on a different, more juvenile appearance and behavior after several generations of selective breeding.
"If we're seeing a process that leads to these changes in other animals, it might help explain who we are and how we got to be this way," said Hare, who also studies differences between our closest ape relatives -- aggressive chimpanzees and mellow, free-loving bonobos.
Those two apes develop differently, Hare said, and they respond to social stress differently. Chimpanzee males experience a strong rise in testosterone during puberty, but bonobos do not. When stressed, the bonobos don't produce more testosterone, as chimps do, but they do produce more cortisol, the stress hormone.
Their social interactions are profoundly different and, relevant to this finding, their faces are different, too. "It's very hard to find a brow-ridge in a bonobo," Hare said.
Cieri compared the brow ridge, facial shape and interior volume of 13 modern human skulls older than 80,000 years, 41 skulls from 10,000 to 38,000 years ago, and a global sample of 1,367 20th century skulls from 30 different ethnic populations.
The trend that emerged was toward a reduction in the brow ridge and a shortening of the upper face, traits which generally reflect a reduction in the action of testosterone.
There are a lot of theories about why, after 150,000 years of existence, humans suddenly leapt forward in technology. Around 50,000 years ago, there is widespread evidence of producing bone and antler tools, heat-treated and flaked flint, projectile weapons, grindstones, fishing and birding equipment and a command of fire. Was this driven by a brain mutation, cooked foods, the advent of language or just population density?
The Duke study argues that living together and cooperating put a premium on agreeableness and lowered aggression and that, in turn, led to changed faces and more cultural exchange.
"If prehistoric people began living closer together and passing down new technologies, they'd have to be tolerant of each other," Cieri said. "The key to our success is the ability to cooperate and get along and learn from one another."
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This research was supported by the National Science Foundation (SBR-9312567), the Leakey Foundation and the University of Iowa Orthodontics Department.
CITATION: "Craniofacial Feminization, Social Tolerance and the Origins of Behavioral Modernity," Robert Cieri, Steven Churchill, Robert Franciscus, Jingzhi Tan and Brian Hare. Current Anthropology, Aug. 2014. DOI: 10.1086/677209 ||||| Aug. 1, 2014 – A study of 1,400 ancient and modern human skulls suggests that a reduction in testosterone hormone levels accompanied the development of cooperation, complex communication and modern culture some 50,000 years ago.
The research, published in today’s issue of the journal Current Anthropology, “uses craniofacial evidence to propose that lowered testosterone levels could explain the relatively sudden origin of modern behavior about 50,000 years ago,” says University of Utah biology graduate student Robert Cieri.
Cieri conducted the study of the feminization of human skulls and faces with colleagues at Duke University in North Carolina before moving to Utah in 2012. A news release from Duke University is below.
“Humans are uniquely able to communicate complex thoughts and cooperate even with strangers,” Cieri says. “New research on fossilized Stone Age humans from Europe, Africa and the Near East suggests these traits are linked, developed around 50,000 years ago, and were a driving force behind the development of complex culture.”
Homo sapiens, or modern humans, first appeared in the fossil record about 200,000 years ago, but evidence of modern behavior, such as symbolic artifacts and advanced tools are only about 50,000 years old, he adds.
“Human fossils from after modern behavior became common have more feminine faces, and differences between the younger and older fossils are similar to those between faces of people with higher and lower testosterone levels living today,” Cieri says.
He notes that lower testosterone is associated with social tolerance and cooperation in bonobos and chimpanzees, and with less aggression in humans. Cieri speculates that higher population densities could have triggered the shift towards lower testosterone levels, as people increasingly had to work together to succeed, and being highly aggressive became less advantageous.
“Whatever the cause, reduced testosterone levels enabled increasingly social people to better learn from and cooperate with each other, allowing the acceleration of cultural and technological innovation that is the hallmark of modern human success,” Cieri says.
Note: Robert Cieri available only via cell and email through Aug. 15, and only sporadically through Aug. 3. Cell 203-470-7564.
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SOCIETY BLOOMED WITH GENTLER PERSONALITIES, MORE FEMININE FACES
DURHAM, N.C. – Modern humans appear in the fossil record about 200,000 years ago, but it was only about 50,000 years ago that making art and advanced tools became widespread.
A new study appearing Aug. 1 in the journal Current Anthropology finds that human skulls changed in ways that indicate a lowering of testosterone levels at around the same time that culture was blossoming.
“The modern human behaviors of technological innovation, making art and rapid cultural exchange probably came at the same time that we developed a more cooperative temperament,” said lead author Robert Cieri, a biology graduate student at the University of Utah who began this work as a senior at Duke University.
The study, which is based on measurements of more than 1,400 ancient and modern skulls, makes the argument that human society advanced when people started being nicer to each other, which entails having a little less testosterone in action.
Heavy brows were out, rounder heads were in, and those changes can be traced directly to testosterone levels acting on the skeleton, according to Duke anthropologist Steven Churchill, who supervised Cieri’s work on a senior honors thesis that grew to become this 24-page journal article three years later.
What they can’t tell from the bones is whether these humans had less testosterone in circulation, or fewer receptors for the hormone.
The research team also included Duke animal cognition researchers Brian Hare and Jingzhi Tan, who say this argument is in line with what has been established in non-human species.
In a classic study of Siberian foxes, animals that were less wary and less aggressive toward humans took on a different, more juvenile appearance and behavior after several generations of selective breeding.
“If we’re seeing a process that leads to these changes in other animals, it might help explain who we are and how we got to be this way,” said Hare, who also studies differences between our closest ape relatives – aggressive chimpanzees and mellow, free-loving bonobos.
Those two apes develop differently, Hare said, and they respond to social stress differently.
Chimpanzee males experience a strong rise in testosterone during puberty, but bonobos do not. When stressed, the bonobos don’t produce more testosterone, as chimps do, but they do produce more cortisol, the stress hormone.
Their social interactions are profoundly different and, relevant to this finding, their faces are different, too. “It’s very hard to find a brow-ridge in a bonobo,” Hare said.
Cieri compared the brow ridge, facial shape and interior volume of 13 modern human skulls older than 80,000 years, 41 skulls from 10,000 to 38,000 years ago, and a global sample of 1,367 20th century skulls from 30 different ethnic populations.
The trend that emerged was toward a reduction in the brow ridge and a shortening of the upper face, traits which generally reflect a reduction in the action of testosterone.
There are a lot of theories about why, after 150,000 years of existence, humans suddenly leapt forward in technology. Around 50,000 years ago, there is widespread evidence of producing bone and antler tools, heat-treated and flaked flint, projectile weapons, grindstones, fishing and birding equipment and a command of fire. Was this driven by a brain mutation, cooked foods, the advent of language or just population density?
The Duke study argues that living together and cooperating put a premium on agreeableness and lowered aggression and that, in turn, led to changed faces and more cultural exchange.
“If prehistoric people began living closer together and passing down new technologies, they’d have to be tolerant of each other,” Cieri said. “The key to our success is the ability to cooperate and get along and learn from one another.”
This research was supported by the National Science Foundation, the Leakey Foundation and the University of Iowa Orthodontics Department. |||||
A: | Maybe all mankind needed to become more civilized was a kinder, gentler touch, suggests a study out of the University of Utah and Duke University. The new research now links a drop in testosterone to our ancestors' sudden jump into civilized behavior about 50,000 years ago. This is when we started making art, bone and antler tools, projectile weapons, and fishing and birding equipment, as well as using fire, the Telegraph explains. In addition, "Humans are uniquely able to communicate complex thoughts and cooperate even with strangers," the study author says, and the research shows that "these traits are linked ... and were a driving force behind the development of complex culture," and also developed around the same time as the drop in testosterone levels. He believes testosterone levels waned when we started living and working together and realized cooperation was the key to survival. By examining the skulls of 1,400 modern and ancient humans, he found that the heavy ridges and oblong skulls—features linked to higher testosterone—disappeared, and the human face became more feminine and rounded. These nicer, gentler humans were better able to put their newly-rounded heads together and make a giant leap in their evolution, the study suggests. "The key to our success is the ability to cooperate and get along and learn from one another," says the author. (Apparently, the male face also evolved to take a punch.) |
Cover Your Tracks is the second full-length album from the metalcore band Bury Your Dead. It was released October 19, 2004 on Victory Records and features re-recordings of two songs from Bury Your Dead's first full-length "You Had Me at Hello". All songs are named after Tom Cruise movies.
Can we infer the following?
The "Cover Your Tracks" album by Bury Your Dead was released in 2004. | Yes |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Q: March 31, 2013 11:50 PM
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – New Yorkers and visitors from around the world descended on St. Patrick’s Cathedral on this Easter Sunday.
It was standing-room only inside St. Pat’s as Cardinal Timothy Dolan delivered his Easter Mass.
As CBS 2’s Steve Langford and 1010 WINS’ Glenn Schuck reported, Dolan compared Jesus Christ’s resurrection to the rebirth of the Catholic church under a new pope.
“The Church, with a capital C, is undergoing renewal, repair, resurrection. I kind of think we’re seeing it today in a particularly fresh and new way with our beloved new Holy Father,” said Dolan.
play pause Packed Crowd Fills St. Pat's For Easter Mass
1010 WINS' Glenn Schuck Reports
There was also vintage Dolan, cracking jokes about the size of the crowd on hand, Schuck reported.
“Boy oh boy, we’ve got people back there and…the ushers know that to get the collection basket back there, don’t they, monsignor?” said Dolan.
Hundreds got to the famous cathedral early on Sunday. One woman said she drove up last night from Pennsylvania to celebrate the day in New York.
“We think it’s one of the most holy days that we can celebrate and it’s a family tradition for us since we were children to attend Easter services and that’s why we’re here,” the woman told Schuck.
Steve and Susan Turner from Toronto said they got up before dawn to make sure they got a seat inside St. Pat’s.
play pause Christians Around The World Celebrate Easter
WCBS 880's Monica Miller Reports
“Catholic guilt would get the best of us if we weren’t at Mass on Easter Sunday,” Susan Turner told WCBS 880’s Monica Miller.
Turner said this is one of the most important and holiest days of the year for her.
“Spring renewal, starting fresh,” she said.
Before Mass, a group of some 85 high school students from Grand Haven High in Michigan stood together on the steps at St. Pat’s at sunrise to offer their prayer in song.
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Meanwhile, some New York Metro area churches took a high-tech approach to sharing their Easter celebrations.
Marble Collegiate Church on Fifth Avenue held a live-streaming Webcast of its services, as it does every weekend. Marble Collegiate is the oldest Protestant organization in North America.
The historic Trinity Church on Wall Street also put its Easter services online. Trinity was founded in 1697.
And outside St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral on the East Side, there was an annual “release of the doves” ceremony to symbolize love and peace.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo released an Easter message on this holy day.
“Today, New Yorkers across the state will gather with family and friends to celebrate Easter. For New Yorkers of Christian faith, this is a day of reflection as well as an occasion to celebrate rebirth and new opportunities. As we work towards a stronger and more just New York, let us come together in that spirit, so that all can look forward to a brighter future here in the Empire State. To all the New Yorkers celebrating this special Sunday, I offer my sincerest blessings and wish you a happy and warm Easter,” the statement read.
Pope Francis Delivers First Easter Homily
This was also Pope Francis’ first Easter Mass as pontiff.
Francis delivered a plea for peace in his first Easter Sunday message to the world, decrying the seemingly endless conflicts in the Middle East and on the Korean peninsula after celebrating Mass along with more than 250,000 faithful.
After the Mass in St. Peter’s Square, Francis shared in the crowd’s exuberance as they celebrated the belief that Jesus Christ rose from the dead following crucifixion. Aboard an open-topped popemobile, Francis took a lighthearted spin through the joyous gatherers, kissing babies and patting children on the head.
One admirer of the pope and the pope’s favorite soccer team, Argentina’s Saints of San Lorenzo, insisted that Francis take a team jersey he was waving at the pontiff. A delighted Francis obliged, briefly holding up the shirt.
Since the start of his papacy on March 13, Francis has repeatedly put his concern for the poor and suffering at the center of his messages, and the Easter speech he delivered from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica reflected his push for peace and social justice.
He said he wished a “Happy Easter” greeting could reach “every house and every family, especially where the suffering is greatest, in hospitals, in prisons.” Francis prayed that Christ would help people “change hatred into love, vengeance into forgiveness, war into peace.”
As popes before him have, he urged Israelis and Palestinians to resume peace talks and end a conflict that “has lasted all too long.” And, in reflecting on the two-year-old Syrian crisis, Francis asked, “How much suffering must there still be before a political solution” can be found?
The pope also expressed desire for a “spirit of reconciliation” on the Korean peninsula, where North Korea says it has entered “a state of war” with South Korea. He also decried warfare and terrorism in Africa, as well as what he called the 21st century’s most extensive form of slavery: human trafficking.
Francis, the first pope from Latin America and a member of the Jesuit order, lamented that the world is “still divided by greed looking for easy gain.” He wished for an end to violence linked to drug trafficking and the dangers stemming from the reckless exploitation of natural resources.
Earlier, wearing cream-colored vestments, Francis celebrated Mass on the esplanade in front of the basilica at an altar set up under a white canopy.
The sun competed with clouds in the sky Sunday, but the square was a riot of floral color in Rome, where chilly winter has postponed the blossoming of many flowers. Yellow forsythia and white lilies shone, along with bursts of lavender and pink, from potted azalea, rhododendron, wisteria and other plants.
Francis thanked florists from the Netherlands for donating the flowers. He also advised people to let love transform their lives, or as he put it, “let those desert places in our hearts bloom.”
The Vatican had prepared a list of brief, Easter greetings in 65 languages, but Francis didn’t read them. The Vatican didn’t say why not, but has said that the new pope, at least for now, feels at ease using Italian, the everyday language of the Holy See.
Francis also has stressed his role as a pastor to his flock, and, as Bishop of Rome, Italian would be his language.
Many Americans said Francis needs to address the priest sex abuse crisis, and restore the church’s credibility in the United States.
“I would definitely like to see him tackling that as one of his top priorities,” said Demarie Constable of Las Vegas.
In a pre-taped interview with CBS News’ Bob Schieffer for “Face The Nation,” Cardinal Dolan reflected on the meaning of the day and the new pope. Dolan said he’s hopeful Francis will help restore people’s faith in the church.
“More and more people are saying, ‘you know what, I don’t have trouble with God. I don’t have trouble with Jesus. I don’t have trouble with faith. I do have some troubles with the church.’ That’s a major challenge, not only for us as Catholics but for the other revealed religions,” Dolan told “Face The Nation.”
Dolan also discussed the papal conclave, the voting process and what it means to so many to have an Argentinian pope.
“I can’t go anywhere in New York City where I’ve got people from Mexico, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Puerto Rico, who are coming up in tears saying, ‘we have a Latin American Pope.’ It’s a real shot in the arm for us as Catholics,” said Dolan. “That is one of the most exciting events in my whole life and I think it’s going to take me a long time to work through it and to process it. It was a combination of nervousness, intimidation, awe, a real genuine experience of the grace of the Holy Spirit, and at the end, a sense of resolution, peace and excitement.”
(TM and © Copyright 2013 CBS Radio Inc. and its relevant subsidiaries. CBS RADIO and EYE Logo TM and Copyright 2013 CBS Broadcasting Inc. Used under license. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.) ||||| Cardinal Timothy Dolan acknowledged on Sunday that there was still much to do to make the church welcoming to gay and lesbian Catholics.
"We gotta do better to see that our defense of marriage is not reduced to an attack on gay people. And I admit, we haven't been too good at that. We try our darndest to make sure we're not an anti-anybody," he said in an interview to be aired Sunday on ABC's "This Week.".
But the archbishop of New York said he wasn't sure how that outreach might work.
"I don't know. We're still trying. We're trying our best to do it. We got to listen to people," he said. "Jesus died on the cross for them as much as he did for me."
But Dolan, who recently participated in the conclave that elected Pope Francis, reiterated his position that marriage should be defined as between a man and a woman.
"Sexual love... is intended only for a man and woman in marriage, where children can come about naturally," he said.
Still, Dolan acknowledged, "Sometimes we're not as successful or as effective as we can be in translating that warm embrace into also teaching what God has told us about the way He wants us to live."
Read more about: Same-Sex Marriage, Gay Marriage, Timothy Dolan, Jesus ||||| "The Catholic Church welcomes everyone," Cardinal Donald Wuerl said when pressed on gay marriage on "Fox News Sunday."
Wuerl said the church is accepting of and provides counsel to all its members, it would be unable to recognize same-sex marriage. "You're not supposed to be following a moral law apart from what Christ has said to us," he said.
Host Chris Wallace brought up same-sex marriage by asking the cardinal how he would address a "good, gay Catholic" who is committed to the church but openly gay. And Wuerl pledged to "walk with" all members of the church.
Wuerl defended the church from charges of bigotry, saying that it could not accept men and women getting re-married in the same way it could not accept gay marriage.
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A: | As Pope Francis celebrated his first Easter today, Cardinal Timothy Dolan was singing his praises on ABC's This Week, calling the new pope "a real shot in the arm for us as Catholics"—and calling for a more inclusive approach toward gay Catholics. "The first thing I'd say to them is, 'I love you, too,'" he said. "And God loves you. And we want your happiness." Of the church's outreach, Dolan admits "we haven't been too good at that. We gotta do better to see that our defense of marriage is not reduced to an attack on gay people." But Dolan was firm on gay marriage, notes Politico: "Sexual love is intended only for a man and woman in marriage, where children can come about naturally." Cardinal Donald Wuerl was also pressed on the matter, saying that while "the Catholic Church welcomes everyone" and that he personally would "walk with" all the church's members, "you're not supposed to be following a moral law apart from what Christ has said to us." |
Sakis Rouvas filmed his first cinematographic works in 1996, playing the voice of Quasimodo in the Greek language dubbing of the Disney animated adaptation of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" titled "I Panayia Ton Parision." A Decade later in 2006 Rouvas voiced Lightning McQueen in the Greek dubbing of the animated film "Cars".
Sakis Rouvas has only ever worked in voice acting.
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The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter is a book by Katherine Anne Porter published by Harcourt in 1965, comprising nineteen "short stories and long stories", as Porter herself would say. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction have never been awarded to the same author in one year
A: No
L. M. Singhvi (9 November 1931 – 6 October 2007) was an Indian jurist, parliamentarian, scholar, writer and diplomat. He was, after V. K. Krishna Menon, the second-longest-serving High Commissioner for India in the United Kingdom (1991–97) He was conferred Padma Bhushan in 1998.
L.M Singhvi no longer serves in the UK.
A: | It's impossible to say |
Definition: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Input: When does the video fail?, Context: PlayStation 3 console protects certain types of data and uses digital rights management to limit the data's use. Purchased games and content from the PlayStation Network store are governed by PlayStation's Network Digital Rights Management (NDRM). The NDRM allows users to access the data from up to 2 different PlayStation 3's that have been activated using a user's PlayStation Network ID. PlayStation 3 also limits the transfer of copy protected videos downloaded from its store to other machines and states that copy protected video "may not restore correctly" following certain actions after making a backup such as downloading a new copy protected movie.
Output: | following certain actions after making a backup such as downloading a new copy protected movie |
How does the next paragraph end?
How to manage photos of you on instagram
Launch instagram and visit your profile.
If instagram doesn't automatically open to your profile, tap the profile icon (a silhouette of a person's head and shoulders) at the bottom right corner of the app.
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In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Q: Mr. Trump said he was open to allowing Japan and South Korea to acquire nuclear weapons to deter their rogue neighbor, North Korea. He also declined to rule out using nuclear weapons in a military conflict in Europe, saying, “You don’t want to, say, take everything off the table.”
He first broached the issue of a nuclear-armed Japan and South Korea in an interview with The New York Times last week, putting it in the context of his case that the United States should no longer bear the full burden of defending its Asian allies. He defended his comments in a town-hall-style meeting on Tuesday in Milwaukee, televised by CNN.
“You have so many countries already — China, Pakistan, you have so many countries, Russia — you have so many countries right now that have them,” he said. “Now, wouldn’t you rather, in a certain sense, have Japan have nuclear weapons when North Korea has nuclear weapons?” A senior Japanese government official quickly reiterated that it was Japan’s policy never to possess nuclear weapons.
On Friday, Mr. Obama described the alliance with Japan and South Korea as “one of the cornerstones of our presence in the Asia-Pacific region” — one that was paid for with the sacrifices of American soldiers during World War II, one that has expanded American influence and commerce and one that “has underwritten the peace and prosperity of that region.”
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“You don’t mess with that,” Mr. Obama added.
In summarizing the accomplishments of the Nuclear Security Summits — this was the fourth and final one of his presidency — Mr. Obama acknowledged a tension between his emphasis on nonproliferation and the American military’s relentless efforts to improve the efficiency of its existing stockpile of nuclear warheads. These American technological advances rattle Russia and China, which cite them as a pretext to develop their own new weapons.
“I’ve tried to strike the proper balance,” Mr. Obama said. He noted that he had tried to negotiate a further round of arms reductions with Russia after the New Start treaty. But the return to the presidency of Vladimir V. Putin ended those prospects. In the meantime, he said, the United States needed to make sure its stockpile was “safe and reliable.”
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Mr. Putin boycotted this meeting, which foreclosed the possibility of ambitious agreements, since Russia is one of the world’s two largest nuclear-weapons states, along with the United States.
Earlier on Friday, Mr. Obama argued that his marquee accomplishment in nonproliferation — the nuclear deal with Iran — had “achieved a substantial success.” Because of restrictions that the deal imposed on Iran’s nuclear program, he said, it would now take the Iranians about a year to build a bomb — if it breached the deal — as opposed to two to three months before the diplomatic effort began in mid-2012.
Asked about reports that the Treasury Department would allow Iran to conduct transactions in United States dollars, Mr. Obama did not answer directly, but suggested that Iran could get access to American banking markets indirectly through European banks. The reports have drawn sharp criticism from lawmakers, including the House speaker, Paul D. Ryan, who urged the White House not to go ahead.
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Beyond that issue, Mr. Obama said Tehran could attract more American businesses by adhering not just to the letter of the nuclear deal but to its spirit, which meant not shipping missiles to the militant group Hezbollah, or otherwise destabilizing the region.
The attacks in Brussels and Paris led the president to add a session on terrorism and nuclear security. After banishing reporters and cameras from the room, he showed the leaders a video depicting a terrorist attack in a city involving a nuclear device. Afterward, the leaders discussed how they would handle such an attack.
“Fortunately, no terrorist group has yet succeeded in getting their hands on a nuclear device,” Mr. Obama told them beforehand. “Our work here will help ensure that we’re doing everything possible to prevent that.”
The meeting generated a list of announcements, including the reduction of stockpiles of highly enriched uranium in a variety of countries, including Poland and Kazakhstan, and an agreement to remove separated plutonium from Japan. The nature of these gatherings is that each nation brings along its “gifts,” or proposed offerings, and American officials say that having the leaders all show up for the summit meeting creates a forcing mechanism to get that work done.
But there are also moments that reveal behind-the-scenes disagreements, and one was evident Friday with Japan.
The energy secretary, Ernest J. Moniz, appeared with a senior Japanese official to celebrate the removal of half a ton of highly enriched uranium and separated plutonium, which was shipped to the United States. But the two men took no questions, leaving the Japanese unchallenged about the fact that they are moving ahead on a new plutonium reprocessing plant that should produce up to eight tons of plutonium each year.
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That raises concern that Japan will sit on a large supply of nuclear fuel, always a source of tension with its neighbors. Francie Israeli, an Energy Department spokeswoman, said that Japan had removed some of the most sensitive materials and that “we understand that they intend to balance any future reprocessing activities with consumption or disposition.” ||||| Play Facebook
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President Barack Obama said Donald Trump’s recent comments about nuclear weapons show the Republican presidential frontrunner doesn’t know much about -- not only foreign policy -- but "the world generally.”
At a press conference to conclude the Nuclear Security Summit on Friday, the president was asked for his reaction to Trump’s suggestion that U.S. allies Japan and South Korea manufacture their own nuclear weapons as a defense against North Korean aggression; and Trump's refusal to rule out using nuclear weapons against Europe.
Without mentioning Trump by name, Obama said the comments “tell us the person who made the statements doesn’t know much about foreign policy, or nuclear policy, or the Korean Peninsula or the world generally.”
The president said Trump’s eyebrow raising comments came up “on the sidelines” of the summit that took place in Washington, D.C. this week.
“I said before that people pay attention to American elections. What we do is really important to the rest of the world. Even in those countries that are used to a carnival atmosphere in their own politics want sobriety and clarity when it comes to U.S. elections,” Obama said.
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White House aides had previously panned the remarks, which they point out would reverse decades of bipartisan U.S. foreign policy and would increase nuclear proliferation.
Trump has argued that allowing Japan and South Korea to get the weapons would relieve the U.S. of defending their East Asia allies. Foreign leaders from both countries have dismissed the idea.
“You have so many countries already — China, Pakistan, you have so many countries, Russia — you have so many countries right now that have them,” Trump said during a CNN town hall on Tuesday. “Now, wouldn’t you rather, in a certain sense, have Japan have nuclear weapons when North Korea has nuclear weapons?”
And on Fox News this week, Trump said, "Europe is a big place. I'm not going to take cards off the table."
Obama, who has largely attempted to stay out of the 2016 presidential race, also was asked who he voted for in the Illinois Democratic presidential primary.
“It’s a secret ballot, isn’t it?” he said. |||||
A: | At the end of the Nuclear Security Summit on Friday, President Obama took a question on the man the Economist deems a top global risk: Donald Trump. When asked about Trump's recent suggestion that Japan and South Korea get their own nuclear weapons to deal with any threat for North Korea, Obama said Trump simply doesn't know what he's talking about, the New York Times reports. The remarks "tell us the person who made the statements doesn't know much about foreign policy, or nuclear policy, or the Korean Peninsula, or the world generally," Obama told reporters at the Washington, DC summit. Leaders in the region have also dismissed the suggestion, which analysts say would go against more than 60 years of US policy. Obama said Trump's remarks came up "on the sidelines" of the summit, which focused on the threat of nuclear terrorism and was attended by dozens of world leaders, reports NBC. "I said before that people pay attention to American elections," Obama said. "What we do is really important to the rest of the world. Even in those countries that are used to a carnival atmosphere in their own politics want sobriety and clarity when it comes to US elections." Obama was also asked who he voted for in the Illinois Democratic primary. "It's a secret ballot, isn't it?" he said. (Earlier in the summit. Obama said ISIS getting its hands on a nuclear weapon "would change our world.") |
Teacher:In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: In some prisons, food is a commodity that’s sold, and traded for other items, including contraband
Two years before the 2016 riot, the Conservative government introduced a national prison menu in an attempt to cut costs. They also established “cook chill” production centres, where food is prepped, cooked, and chilled in a centralized kitchen before being shipped to prisons. These centers, as well as the menu changes, reduced the price of food to $5.41 per day for each inmate, saving the government $6.4 million annually. Powdered milk was substituted for fresh milk, bulky meat portions replaced more select cuts, expensive grains were cut out, vegetable selection was reduced, and English muffins were replaced by toast. These changes led to a rise in inmate grievances, the report said.
Alan Zinger, in his first report as correctional investigator, the government’s prison watchdog, asked Correctional Services Canada (CSC) to look into allegations of conflicts between prison kitchen employees and inmate workers, and complaints about food shortages, portion sizes, and the daily protein allotment.
An example of a vegan meal under the Correctional Service of Canada's national menu. (Annual Report of the Office of the Correctional Investigator)
“The immediate triggering events of the Saskatchewan Penitentiary riot appear to be related to unresolved demands regarding inmate dissatisfaction with food… as well as perceived mistreatment of inmate kitchen workers by [Correctional Service of Canada] staff,” said the report released on Tuesday.
A riot involving about 200 inmates at a Saskatchewan prison last year, where one inmate was murdered and eight others hospitalized with injuries, seems to have been caused by tensions over food, according to an annual report from Canada’s correctional investigator probing prison conditions.
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A riot involving about 200 inmates at a Saskatchewan prison last year, where one inmate was murdered and eight others hospitalized with injuries, seems to have been caused by tensions over food, according to an annual report from Canada’s correctional investigator probing prison conditions.
“The immediate triggering events of the Saskatchewan Penitentiary riot appear to be related to unresolved demands regarding inmate dissatisfaction with food… as well as perceived mistreatment of inmate kitchen workers by [Correctional Service of Canada] staff,” said the report released on Tuesday.
An example of a vegan meal under the Correctional Service of Canada's national menu. (Annual Report of the Office of the Correctional Investigator)
Alan Zinger, in his first report as correctional investigator, the government’s prison watchdog, asked Correctional Services Canada (CSC) to look into allegations of conflicts between prison kitchen employees and inmate workers, and complaints about food shortages, portion sizes, and the daily protein allotment.
Two years before the 2016 riot, the Conservative government introduced a national prison menu in an attempt to cut costs. They also established “cook chill” production centres, where food is prepped, cooked, and chilled in a centralized kitchen before being shipped to prisons. These centers, as well as the menu changes, reduced the price of food to $5.41 per day for each inmate, saving the government $6.4 million annually. Powdered milk was substituted for fresh milk, bulky meat portions replaced more select cuts, expensive grains were cut out, vegetable selection was reduced, and English muffins were replaced by toast. These changes led to a rise in inmate grievances, the report said.
In some prisons, food is a commodity that’s sold, and traded for other items, including contraband
In some prisons, food is sold and traded for other items, including contraband, said the report, which recommended an external evaluation of food services that would address inmate concerns.
An audit of food services in prisons is currently underway, and it’s expected to be completed next year, according to the Ministry of Public Safety.
Aftermath of the riot at the Saskatchewan Penitentiary. (Annual Report of the Office of the Correctional Investigator)
Zinger also noted a number of other issues across the prison system, beyond food, including the lack of therapeutic services for women in Canada’s federal prisons. Conditions in secure units in maximum security jails aren’t appropriate for people struggling with serious mental illness, the report said. Zinger criticized the “entirely inappropriate” practice of temporarily housing mentally ill women in all-male treatment facilities and holding them in isolation.
The continued use physical restraints, clinical exclusion, and segregation to manage people who are in psychological distress is also problematic, Zinger’s report said. He noted that keeping inmates in observation cells with nothing but a security gown, a security blanket, fluids and food that can only be consumed without cutlery could actually worsen someone’s psychological issues.
“At (the) Edmonton Institution, I witnessed outdoor segregation ‘yards’ that were actually cages, easily mistaken for a dog run or kennel”
The amount of time and frequency inmates are spending in solitary confinement has dropped in Canada’s federal jails, according to the report, but some segregation cells still lack appropriate ventilation, windows and natural light, and segregation yards are no better.
“At (the) Edmonton Institution, I witnessed outdoor segregation ‘yards’ that were actually cages, easily mistaken for a dog run or kennel,” Zinger wrote. “I was told that these so-called ‘yards’ were built at a time when segregation numbers were double what they are today.”
A regular meal under the Correctional Service of Canada's national menu. (Annual Report of the Office of the Correctional Investigator)
Zinger said he’d seen many instances of inmates not “participating in any sort of educational, vocational or correctional programming,” that would allow them to find a job when released. He also noticed women mostly working in gendered roles, like textiles, laundry and sewing.
Corrections officials said they “welcome” Zinger’s report and pledged to follow through on some of its recommendations, like creating a bulletin about the lessons learned from the Saskatchewan riot to be distributed throughout the department. Federal prison official also say they fully support Zinger’s recommendation to provide care for mentally ill women prisoners at local hospitals, although in the interim, prisons will continue to treat women in all-male regional treatment centres in emergency circumstances. ||||| It's scary dairy for one dangerous offender.
But a Federal Court judge says serving powdered milk in prison isn't actually torture.
"I find that the provision of powdered milk does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment," Justice Alan Diner wrote in a ruling handed down last week.
The judge dismissed an application for a judicial review by a prisoner in an Ontario medium-security penitentiary who lost a grievance over a Correctional Service of Canada policy replacing liquid milk with its powdered equivalent.
The Correctional Service of Canada provides 2,600 calories worth of food a day at a cost of $5.41 per prisoner per day. Some say it's not as tasty as it looks. (Office of the Correctional Investigator)
According to the ruling, Warkworth Institution began providing inmates with powdered milk in August 2015 as part of a Canada-wide effort to standardize the meals of male prisoners. The prison is located about 50 km west of Belleville, Ont.
William A. Johnson claimed the move breached his Charter rights, because "he and other inmates were unable to drink powdered milk and were therefore being denied their daily nutritional intake."
The prisoner claimed that the "majority of society dislikes and/or are unable to drink mixed powdered milk."
Not 'trivial' to those who consume it
In response, the attorney general of Canada argued — in part — that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms "does not protect against trivial limitations of rights."
But the menu in Canadian prisons has proven to be anything but a trivial concern for those consuming it.
In his annual report to Parliament last year, correctional investigator Ivan Zinger said his office has seen a flood of complaints about portion size, quality and selection of food.
Prisoners with special dietary needs can arrange for special meals if they get approval. The Office of the Correctional Investigator's report includes this picture of the vegan menu. (Office of the Correctional Investigator)
He traced the issue to a 2014 decision under the previous Conservative government to find ways of lowering "raw food input costs" in order to square a 2,600-calorie daily diet with a cost of $5.41 per inmate per day.
"Among other measures, powdered milk was substituted for fresh milk, bulky meat portions replaced more select cuts, expensive grains were removed, vegetable selection was reduced and English muffins were replaced with toast," Zinger wrote.
"Not surprisingly, when these changes were first introduced, inmate grievances related to food issues spiked."
Dissatisfaction turned deadly in 2016 during a riot involving 200 inmates in Saskatchewan Penitentiary; quality and portion sizes were cited as a "contributing factor" in the confrontation.
West Coast Prison Justice Society executive director Jennifer Metcalfe says powdered milk is a source of constant frustration for prisoners.
"It seems sort of insignificant to us in the community, but when every aspect of your life is controlled by Corrections, things like powdered milk take on more importance to people's daily lives," she said.
"I know a lot of people really struggle with food in prison."
'Really difficult' to challenge
The federal court decision notes that the Correctional Services of Canada document detailing Johnson's complaint contained information about his convictions and status as a dangerous offender.
The ruling doesn't specify what the nature of his crime was. Johnson argued that his offences were irrelevant to his problem with the menu.
Prison officials told Johnson that if he had an allergy to powdered milk, he could work with a dietitian to come up with a solution, but the ruling said he gave no evidence of "his alleged medical inability to consume powdered milk."
Ultimately, Diner concluded that Johnson had failed to put forward sufficient facts to make his case for a Charter breach.
The Correctional Service of Canada says its prison food — including the milk — meets Health Canada's consumption guidelines for men aged 31 to 52.
Metcalfe says fighting those rules is an uphill battle.
"I think it would be really difficult for a prisoner to successfully challenge something like that, because they would need to have evidence that contradicts the government's evidence about it meeting the guidelines," she said.
"But they can't go out and get a second opinion from a doctor. Every aspect of their life is controlled by Corrections, including what medical professionals they can see."
In addition to losing the case, Johnson was also ordered to pay $250 in costs to the attorney general. |||||
Student: | A Canadian inmate has lost his fight over powdered milk. The prisoner filed a grievance over the Correctional Service of Canada's policy of using the powdered dairy product rather than liquid milk, which was enacted in his facility in 2015, arguing that it violated his rights. William Johnson had claimed that he and other inmates cannot drink powdered milk (noting that the "majority of society dislikes and/or are unable to drink mixed powdered milk") and were thus "being denied their daily nutritional intake." Johnson stated that he previously used non-powdered milk in his cereal and was now prevented from consuming cereal as well. But a Federal Court judge last week dismissed Johnson's application for judicial review, finding that serving powdered milk to prisoners "does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment," as Justice Alan Diner wrote in his ruling. He further found Johnson provided no evidence to substantiate his "alleged medical inability to consume powdered milk." The attorney general argued that Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms "does not protect against trivial limitations of rights." The CBC notes that since a 2014 government decision having to do with lowering prison food costs, there have been many complaints in Canada about what is served in prison, how much of it is served, and how high in quality it is. A 2015 CBC article noted that the food was being blamed for causing malnourishment, vomiting, and diarrhea. Vice News reports things came to a head in 2016, when a riot at a Saskatchewan prison left one inmate dead; a probe into the incident found "inmate dissatisfaction with food" was a triggering cause. (Read about another odd milk story, this one involving aardvark milk.) |
Instructions: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Input: Who got rid of large bills?, Context: Currently printed denominations are $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100. Notes above the $100 denomination stopped being printed in 1946 and were officially withdrawn from circulation in 1969. These notes were used primarily in inter-bank transactions or by organized crime; it was the latter usage that prompted President Richard Nixon to issue an executive order in 1969 halting their use. With the advent of electronic banking, they became less necessary. Notes in denominations of $500, $1,000, $5,000, $10,000 and $100,000 were all produced at one time; see large denomination bills in U.S. currency for details. These notes are now collectors' items and are worth more than their face value to collectors.
Output: | Richard Nixon |
Determine if the sentence is true based on the text below:
University of Maryland Eastern Shore is a great university
University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES), located on 745 acres (3.01 km) in Princess Anne, Maryland, United States, is part of the University System of Maryland. UMES is a historically black university, as well as an 1890 Historically Black Land-Grant University. The University is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. | It's impossible to say |
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Trump Job Approvals and the National Economy
Trump Job Approval Ratings 1/20/19 Approve Disapprove Undecided Overall 41% 54% 5% Economy 40% 55% 5%
A total of 41% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job and 54% disapprove. In December, 40% approved and 57% disapproved.
When it comes to Trump's handling of the economy, 40% of Americans approve and 55% disapprove. In December, 39% approved and 57% disapproved.
Among Americans registered to vote, 41% approve of the way Trump is handling his job as president and 55% disapprove. On Trump's handling of the economy, 40% of registered voters approve and 56% disapprove.
Details from the nationwide survey conducted January 17-20 are available at The National Economy.
Why doesn't most advertising work? Take a look at 10 Rules for More Effective Advertising. ||||| The new Washington Post-ABC News poll is out — and not a minute too soon with the political world going eerily quiet as both candidates prepare for Wednesday night’s debate.
The topline numbers in the poll — President Obama takes 49 percent to 47 percent for Mitt Romney among likely voters nationally but has a 12-point edge among likelies in swing states — are getting plenty of attention but, as always, the Fix likes to dig deeper into the numbers for a few lesser-noticed takeaways from the data.
Eight of our initial takeaways after perusing the full questionnaire are below. You can check all the data out yourself here.
1. The more things change…: The last three weeks have been filled with bad news for the Romney campaign. And yet, at least at the national level, almost nothing has changed. In a Sept. 9 Post-ABC poll of likely voters, Obama took 49 percent to 48 percent for Romney; in the new Post-ABC survey it’s 49 percent Obama, 47 percent Romney. Statistically speaking, nothing changed between those two polls despite Romney’s “47 percent” controversy and a strong Democratic convention. Now, there’s other evidence in the data that suggest slippage for Romney — most notably the gap in swing states — but, at least in the national horse race, the race didn’t change as much as everyone thought it did.
2. Obama’s economy problem (still): Forty seven percent of people approve of the way President Obama has handled the economy while 52 percent disapprove. While those numbers are better than where he was in an early September poll (45% approve/53% disapprove), they still aren’t good. And, the intensity is all on the side of those who disapprove of what Obama has done with the economy; 41 percent strongly disapprove of the job he has done while just 23 percent strongly approve.
3. A move toward national optimism: As we have seen in a few recent national polls, the Post-ABC poll now shows an appreciable movement toward those willing to say the country is lurching in the right direction. Thirty eight percent said things are now going in the right direction, the highest that number has been in Post-ABC polling since January 2011. In just the last month, the “right direction” number has jumped nine points. It’s not immediately clear why people are suddenly feeling better about the country’s path — the economic indicators remain mixed — but there is now enough data from enough different sources to conclude there is some clear movement toward optimism.
4. The massive likability gap: In an election full of tight margins, Obama continues to hold a massive edge over Romney on the question of who is the “more friendly and likable person”. Sixty-two percent named Obama while 29 percent chose Romney, a massive 33-point gap that Romney has been unable to diminish even with a convention that was designed to soften the image of him as a ruthless businessman. At issue is how much the likability question will matter to voting behavior. We are of the belief that people vote for president less on issues than on their sense of whether a candidate “gets” them. If that’s true, then the likability gap is meaningful. But, there is also an argument to be made that in difficult economic times like these, who you like as a candidate is less important than who you think can get the job done.
5. An overregulation boomlet?: The broader context of this race — as it has been in every race since the early 1990s (at least) — is over how much government is enough and what, exactly, should the government do (and what shouldn’t it). That’s what makes the Post-ABC question on whether the bigger problem facing the country is “unfairness in the economic system that favors the wealthy” or “overregulation of the free market that interferes with growth and prosperity” so interesting. In the latest numbers, 42 percent said overregulation was the bigger problem — the highest that number has been since we started asking the question in January. And, for the first time since January, less than a majority (49 percent) said that unfairness in the economic system was the bigger problem. It’s one poll question amid a sea of data but an interesting one in the ongoing debate over when/how/where people want government.
6. Romney’s wealth isn’t an issue: Perhaps the most surprising finding in the Post-ABC poll is that a majority of voters now see Romney’s wealth as a good thing. Fifty one percent said Romney’s financial stature is a “positive because it suggests he has achieved the American dream” while 42 percent said it was a “negative because he benefited from opportunities that are not available to most people.” That’s a major shift from a February Post-ABC poll when 43 percent saw Romney’s wealth as a positive and 46 percent saw it in a negative light. The findings also suggest that if Romney had embraced the idea of his wealth earlier — and more publicly — he might not have spent the last six months playing defense on it.
7. Obama as heavy debate favorite…: Almost six in ten (56 percent) of respondents said they expect the incumbent will emerge as the winner of the three presidential debates this month while just 29 percent said Romney would be victorious. What those numbers mean is that if Romney is able to string a few sentences together and generally look as though he belong on stage with Obama, he will get a bit of a bump from the general electorate. And/but…
8. …Obama as heavy general election favorite: The narrowness of the horse race in the Post-ABC poll is contrasted with the fact that 63 percent of registered voters believe Obama will win the election while just 31 percent think Romney will be the next president of the United States. We explored this phenomenon in a recent column but, in short, the expectation that Obama will win should benefit the incumbent; people like to be with a winner and the more he looks like one, the more likely he is to get those handful of people who haven’t made up their minds yet. |||||
Student: | So much for President Obama's unassailable lead: A handful of new polls are calling a close presidential race on the eve of Obama's first debate with Mitt Romney, CNN reports. CNN's latest poll found that 50% favor Obama and 47% favor Romney, a difference within the survey's margin of error. An ABC News/Washington Post poll found 49% for Obama and 47% for Romney, and the American Research Group counted 49% for Obama and 46% for Romney. These numbers are all national, of course—not swing state. But at least nationally, there is "a strong suggestion that whatever bounce President Obama received from his convention has, as expected, faded away," says a CNN pollster. "That's why they call them 'bounces.'" Among the interesting CNN poll factoids: Romney and Obama are liked equally on the economy, Obama has a 52%-45% edge on foreign policy, women prefer Obama by 53%-44%, and Romney has a 50%-47% lead among men—but that's less than he had before the conventions. |
Definition: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Among the entities, try to find the best entity that is most likely to fill in "_" and classify the answers based on options.
Input: (CNN) -- A new virus in the same family as SARS -- found for the first time in humans in the past year -- has infected 49 people, most of them in the Middle East. Of those, 27 people have died, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. The virus previously was called the novel coronavirus, or nCoV. However, the WHO this week gave it a new name: Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, or MERS-CoV. Should I be concerned about new virus? Your questions answered It's part of a family called coronaviruses, which cause illnesses ranging from the common cold to SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, as well as a variety of animal diseases. However, the new virus is not SARS.MERS-CoV has sickened 49 people and killed 27, World Health Organization saysThe cases have a link to the Middle East, especially Saudi ArabiaExperts say the virus could show up in the United States
Questions:That means it's not yet known how humans contract _. (A) CNN (B) SARS (C) Middle East (D) World Health Organization (E) nCoV (F) WHO (G) Saudi Arabia (H) United States
Output: | (E) |
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Q: Obama spokesman: That Romney birth certificate joke is “gutterball politics”
posted at 4:17 pm on August 24, 2012 by Allahpundit
In case you’re wondering what it takes to offend a campaign whose allies have accused Romney of tax evasion based on anonymous “sources” and blamed him for leaving a steelworker’s wife to die from cancer uninsured, here you go. Turns out Obama, whose major contribution to deficit reduction this past year was the fiscal joke known as the “Buffett Rule,” is running a serious, substantive campaign while Romney, who just took up the sword of entitlement reform by picking Paul Ryan, is all about smears and distractions. The things you learn on MSNBC.
Two points. One: I don’t get why Romney would step on his own message to make a birth certificate joke. He’s spent the past week neck-deep in culture-war quicksand thanks to Todd Akin and is looking at another week of it once the Democratic convention opens. He could have used today to talk about unemployment or his energy policy or whatever, but instead he chose to throw the press some chum with this. (One of his aides told BuzzFeed that the line wasn’t in Romney’s prepared remarks but was delivered off-the-cuff. I’ll bet.) The point, I guess, is to prove that he’s capable of being politically incorrect by tweaking the media on a subject that makes them hyperventilate like almost nothing else, but anyone who cares much about that was voting for him already. It’s hard enough for Romney to break through the media’s wall of nonsense to reach voters. Why hand them another brick?
Two: This is the perfect ending to a week marked by criticism from Jake Tapper and, more tepidly, Chuck Todd that the media isn’t doing its job. From the moment this sentence escaped Romney’s lips, it was a metaphysical certainty that it would dominate political coverage for the rest of the day, with MSNBC’s pants-wetting expected to last well into the evening. No one expected otherwise even though everyone understands that few votes, if any, will shift because of this. When I started reading blogs years ago, it was relatively rare for reporters to admit that the media is biased or prone to trivial treatment of momentous events; whenever a reporter or editor actually ‘fessed up — the example that sticks in my mind was Daniel Okrent acknowledging the patently obvious fact that the NYT is a liberal newspaper — it was big news, a moral victory for conservatives who demanded that the press own up to its prejudices. These days, my sense is that they’re more willing to own up (they have to be since there are so many more critics online cataloging them) but that they’ve started to use their candor almost as an excuse to be as trivial as they want. Sure, they’ll spend three days navel-gazing about Romney’s dumb joke, but as long as Todd or Bob Schieffer or some other big name TV journalist sighs afterward and admits that it’s silly to spend three days on this, well, then that’s proof that they have “integrity” after all. Three cheers for progress.
Two clips for you here, one of Obama’s flack checking the various talking-point boxes and the other, via the Examiner, of MSNBC being very MSNBC-ish.
Related Posts: ||||| Romney says "birther" joke wasn't a swipe at Obama
(CBS News) In an interview with CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley on Friday, Mitt Romney played down the remarks he made about President Obama's origins, arguing that they amounted to a joke and not a "swipe" at the president.
"No, no, not a swipe," Romney said. "I've said throughout the campaign and before, there's no question about where he was born. He was born in the U.S. This was fun about us, and coming home. And humor, you know -- we've got to have a little humor in a campaign."
Romney was on the campaign trail in his home state of Michigan Friday when he made a crack at the "birther" suspicions that ultimately drove Mr. Obama to release his long-form birth certificate to prove he was born in the United States.
"I love being home in this place where Ann and I were raised, where both of us were born. Ann was born in Henry Ford Hospital. I was born in Harper Hospital," Romney said in Commerce, Michigan earlier Friday. "No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place that we were born and raised."
Romney told Pelley that taking the stage in Michigan Friday was an emotional moment for him and his wife Ann.
"You just felt, you know, you felt sort of everything that happened to us here - how we grew up, how we met here, the sacrifices that our families made - coming to Michigan, you know, it all sort of just washed over me as we got up on that stage," he said. "It was a very emotional feeling. It's a feeling of coming home."
While Romney's remarks may have amounted to an off-the-cuff joke, they elicited a swift and harsh response from the Obama campaign.
"Throughout this campaign, Governor Romney has embraced the most strident voices in his party instead of standing up to them," Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt emailed reporters. "It's one thing to give the stage in Tampa to Donald Trump, [Arizona] Sheriff [Joe] Arpaio, and [Kansas Secretary of State] Kris Kobach. But Governor Romney's decision to directly enlist himself in the birther movement should give pause to any rational voter across America."
The Obama campaign also capitalized on the incident with a fundraising pitch to supporters. In an email with the subject line, "A new low for Mitt Romney," campaign manager Jim Messina asked supporters to "take a moment or two to think about [Romney's remark], what he's actually saying, and what it says about Mitt Romney. Then make a donation of $5 or more to re-elect Barack Obama today."
The joke, in fact, was a departure from the way Romney has typically handled the "birther" issue.
"I think the citizenship test has been passed. I believe the president was born in the United States. There are real reasons to get this guy out of office," Romney said in April 2011. Romney this year defended his alliance with Donald Trump, an outspoken "birther," but Romney made clear he disagreed with Trump on the issue.
When Pelley asked Romney if he agrees Mr. Obama is the "legitimate president of the United States," Romney responded, "I've said that probably 30 times by now, and 31 certainly won't hurt."
More from Pelley's interview with Romney will air Friday and Monday, August 27 on the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley. Additional excerpts will air during CBS News' primetime coverage of the Republican National Convention, Tuesday, August 28 through Thursday, August 30, beginning at 10 p.m. ET each night. ||||| COMMERCE, Mich. — In a speech to thousands of supporters at a family orchard outside Detroit Friday afternoon, Mitt Romney tried a joke as he touted his family roots in the state — and got himself in trouble in the process.
After he and Mrs. Romney both took turns talking about how excited they were to be “home” in Michigan, Romney said, ““Nobody ever has to see my birth certificate. They know this is the place where I was born and raised.”
The line, which prompted laughter and then cheers from the roughly 5,000 people gathered here, was an apparent reference to the long-debunked conspiracy theory that President Obama was born in Africa, and therefore not Constitutionally qualified to be president.
But the Romney campaign quickly pushed back against questions about whether Romney was invoking “birtherism.”
“The governor has always said, and has repeatedly said, he believes the president was born here in the United States,” said adviser Kevin Madden. “He was only referencing that Michigan, where he is campaigning today, is the state where he himself was born and raised.”
A campaign aide told BuzzFeed, on condition of anonymity, that Romney did not plan the birth certificate joke in advance, and that it was an “off-the-cuff reference to him being a homegrown guy of Michigan” that was wrongly interpreted by the press.
Still, a spokesman for the Obama campaign seized on the opportunity to decry Romney for extremism.
“Throughout this campaign, Governor Romney has embraced the most strident voices in his party instead of standing up to them,” said spokesman Ben LaBolt. “It’s one thing to give the stage in Tampa to Donald Trump, Sheriff Arpaio, and Kris Kobach. But Governor Romney’s decision to directly enlist himself in the birther movement should give pause to any rational voter across America.”
Meanwhile, the reaction from the crowd of Republicans here was largely enthusiastic, with some laughing it off as a politically incorrect joke, and others treating it as a welcome attack on what they believe to be the coverup of the president’s birthplace.
Asked what he made of Romney’s line, Jim Barzakov, a retiree from Berryville, MI, expressed frustration with reporters’ fixation on the issue.
“What is it with this birth certificate? It’s every question I get from you guys!” he said. “You must be all liberals! What kind of a question is that?”
He then said the meaning of the line was simple: “It says Romney has his birth certificate; Obama can’t find his.” Asked about the certificate the White House released last year, Barzakov dismissed it as a “photoshop certificate.”
Therese Cayline, who works at a real estate management company in Waterford, MI, said she doesn’t consider herself a “birther” — but raised several of the talking points espoused by skeptics of the president’s birth certificate.
“[Romney] was born and raised in Michigan and as far as Obama goes, his grandma was there at his birth and his grandma has never been outside Kenya,” Cayline said. “So I find it ironic that he won’t show the real birth certificate.”
But Laura Barnett, 22, from Wesfield, MI, said the birth certificate line was just a joke, not to be taken too seriously.
“I think people, if they want to make it controversial, they can,” Barnett said. “But I think Romney was just being a little funny. I know the racism is serious and it’s very controversial like I said but I think there’s always room for some humor.” |||||
A: | Mitt Romney's joke at a rally today that "no one's ever asked to see my birth certificate" is living on. (It was "off the cuff," an aide tells BuzzFeed.) Some reaction: Obama campaign: Romney has long "embraced the most strident voices in his party instead of standing up to them." His "decision to directly enlist himself in the birther movement should give pause to any rational voter across America." Romney himself: "No, no, (it's) not a swipe" at Obama, he tells CBS. "I've said throughout the campaign and before, there's no question about where he was born. He was born in the US. This was fun about us, and coming home. And humor, you know—we've got to have a little humor in a campaign." Greg Sargent, Washington Post: "Maybe this will get chalked up to Romney’s awkwardness and get dismissed, but it looks to me like a major mistake. Coming just after days spent debating Todd Akin’s 'legitimate rape' remark, this is again a reminder of the extreme voices in the GOP, which Romney has at times been slow to denounce." Allahpundit, Hot Air: "In case you’re wondering what it takes to offend a campaign whose allies have accused Romney of tax evasion based on anonymous 'sources' and blamed him for leaving a steelworker’s wife to die from cancer uninsured, here you go." Still, he thinks it was silly of Romney to have handed the media such easy pickings. |
Cape Vakop ( ) is a headland between Hound Bay and Luisa Bay on the north coast of South Georgia. It was charted by the Second German Antarctic Expedition, 1911–12, under Wilhelm Filchner. The name appears on a chart based upon surveys of South Georgia in 1926–30 by DI personnel, but may represent an earlier naming.
Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text?
Cape Vakop ( ) is a headland between GreyHound Bay and Luisa Bay on the north coast of South Georgia | No |
Terry Alexander (born April 15, 1955 in Marietta, Georgia) is the current hitting coach of the Bristol Pirates and previously served as head coach of Jacksonville University's baseball team from 1991 to 2013. He was the school's most successful and longest-tenured head coach, compiling a record of 713-590-2 record in 22 seasons.
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true?
Terry Alexander talked to amy | It's impossible to say |
In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
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Question: A mother has told how she went into labour and gave birth inside a timber hut during a cyclone as 155mph winds raged round her. Marishan Magelan has revealed how neighbours risked their lives to help her as she delivered her first child, daughter Angelina, during Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu, South Pacific. The 20-year-old, who lives in the village of Imaiyo, said she could not believe it when her contractions started at the same time reports of Cyclone Pam came through. The severe tropical storm, regarded as one of the worst natural disasters in the history of Vanuatu, killed 16 people - and left many injured and thousands homeless.Category five Cyclone Pam killed 16 people in Vanuatu, South PacificMarishan Magelan was heavily pregnant when village received warningNeighbours helped hold walls up while Marishan gave birth to Angelina
Question:Happily, she is now doing well and _ has managed to patch up the hut she lives in.
Answer: Marishan Magelan
Question: (CNN) One person has died and 11 others are hospitalized after eating packaged salads linked to a listeria outbreak. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday that the salads were sold under a variety of names and came from a processing facility in Springfield, Ohio, run by Dole. The dozen who were hospitalized come from six states -- Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Indiana. The fatality was in Michigan. Reports about these infections started coming in July. An investigation began in September, the CDC said, but the source of the infections was unknown until this month when lab tests confirmed listeria in salads collected from the Springfield facility.Twelve people hospitalized, with one person dying from a listeria infection tied to packaged saladDole shuts down plant that made salads and has pulled all products made from that plant
Question:The _ estimates there are about 1,600 illnesses and 260 deaths per year due to listeriosis infections.
Answer: CDC
Question: There were furious scenes in the Greek parliament today as politicians ripped up papers outlining the terms of the country's €86 billion bailout deal and threw them at Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Politicians gathered in Athens this afternoon to debate the draconian reforms Tsipras agreed to implement during crunch overnight talks with eurozone leaders earlier this week. The harsh austerity measures Greece would have to put in place to release the bailout fund have been widely condemned, with even the International Monetary Fund branding them unfair. As a midnight deadline looms for Greek MPs to vote on whether to accept the controversial plans, it now looks increasingly likely that Tsipras' own hard left Syriza party will reject them, after more than half of the party's members slammed the deal, branding it 'humiliating' and 'destructive'.Tsipras agreed to harsh austerity terms as part of an €86 billion bailoutHad a deal not been struck, Greece faced crashing out of the EurozoneBut many in ruling Syriza party are furious at way PM handled negotiationsIMF condemned bailout, saying Greek debt will reach 'unsustainable' 200%
Question:The eurozone is also set to extend the time frame over which _ pays back its debt.
Answer: | Greek
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Generate a context and a hypothesis. | Context: The ivory ban was imposed by CITES in 1989 after a wave of poaching across Africa saw elephant numbers fall from an estimated 1.3 million to a few hundred thousand.
Hypothesis: The ban on ivory trade has been effective in protecting the elephant from extinction. |
input hypothesis: Basketball is not played at Alumni Hall and Madison Square Garden.
Context: The 1986–87 St. John's Redmen basketball team represented St. John's University during the 1986–87 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team was coached by Lou Carnesecca in his nineteenth year at the school. St. John's home games are played at Alumni Hall and Madison Square Garden and the team is a member of the Big East Conference.
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Sabancı University (Turkish: "Sabancı Üniversitesi" ), established in 1994, is a young foundation university located on a 1.26 million squaremeter campus which is about 40 km from Istanbul's city center. Its first students matriculated in 1999. The first academic session started on 20, 1999 (1999--T) .
Hypothesis: Sabanci is Turkish. OPTIONS:
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Yes
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Dance India Dance is an Indian dance competition show that airs on Zee TV, produced by Essel Vision Productions. The show is the national TV version of the Zee Bangla dance reality show "Dance Bangla Dance" which also has Mithun Chakraborty as the Grandmaster.
Sentence: Mithun Chakraborty appears on other shows that air on Zee tv.
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Bel Ami (; also known as "Pretty Boy", and "'Pretty Man", is a South Korean romantic comedy television series starring Jang Keun-suk, IU, Lee Jang-woo and Han Chae-young. Based on the same-titled 17-volume manhwa by Chon Kye-young, it aired on KBS2 from November 20, 2013 to January 9, 2014 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes.
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Hypothesis: IU had more lines than Jang Keun-suk.
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[Q]: The William Martin Armistead House is a historic building at 1510 Hyde Park Street in Sarasota, Florida, United States. It was owned by William Martin Armistead who was prominent in the advertising industry. On March 30, 2009, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The William Martin Armistead House has an elevator. OPTIONS:
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[Q]: "I'm Not the One" is a song by the American rock band The Cars, from their fourth album, "Shake It Up". It features Ric Ocasek on lead vocals, Benjamin Orr singing the 'You Know Why' phrase, with the whole group repeating "going round and round" as backing vocals throughout the song. The Cars released multiple albums before the album featuring "I'm Not the One". OPTIONS:
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[A]: | Yes |
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.
Peyton Sawyer -- Mia visits Peyton, and Peyton is concerned that Mia is not focused on her work. She suggests to Mia that she listen to a CD of songs she could possibly sing. They clash because Mia writes all of her own songs. Eventually, Peyton gives up on Mia and asks her to leave the label. Meanwhile, Peyton deals with stomach pains. She sees a doctor about it, and tells the doctor about Ellie's cancer. Her tearful face after the phone call predicts trouble ahead. Peyton later finds out that she does not have cancer, but is actually pregnant. She tells Lucas first, and Haley finds out in her own time, but Peyton seems hesitant to share her news with Brooke because she knows how much Brooke has wanted a family. Peyton eventually tells Brooke, and Brooke is happy for her. Peyton has her first ultrasound, but is upset because she thinks that Lucas is too busy to come and has forgotten. Lucas surprises her by coming, and the two get to hear their baby's heartbeat for the first time. Later, Lucas and Peyton learn that Peyton has placenta praevia and that having this baby could mean the end of Peyton's life. Lucas, afraid of losing her and raising a child that has to go through the same motherless state Peyton did, tries to guilt her into an abortion. They get past this and decide to have the baby. Lucas tells her that he wants to get married to her sooner, not because she might die beforehand, but because he loves her, and wants her to be his wife. Lucas and Peyton get married at the lake where they met. Haley is the minister. After the reception, Lucas and Peyton go home and Peyton collapses on the floor while waiting for Lucas's surprise. Lucas walks in the house and finds Peyton unconscious on the floor in a pool of blood. Peyton is rushed to the hospital by a blood-covered Lucas, who begs her not to leave him. Peyton goes through an emergency caesarean section, and falls into a coma. The caesarean section is successful and she has a daughter named Sawyer Brooke Scott. She later awakes with Lucas and Brooke by her side. Karen brings in Sawyer, and Nathan, Haley, Jamie and Julian join them. Dan visits Peyton and she, after some hesitation, allows Dan to hold Sawyer. She and Lucas then leave Tree Hill. | does peyton have a miscarriage on one tree hill |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Most seat belt laws in the United States are left to the states. However, the first seat belt law was a federal law, Title 49 of the United States Code, Chapter 301, Motor Vehicle Safety Standard, which took effect on January 1, 1968, that required all vehicles (except buses) to be fitted with seat belts in all designated seating positions. This law has since been modified to require three-point seat belts in outboard-seating positions, and finally three-point seat belts in all seating positions. Initially, seat belt use was voluntary. New York was the first state to pass a law which required vehicle occupants to wear seat belts, a law that came into effect on December 1, 1984. Officer Nicholas Cimmino of the Westchester County Department of Public Safety wrote the nation's first ticket for such violation. New Hampshire is the only state that has no enforceable laws for the wearing of seat belts in a vehicle.
| do any states not have seat belt laws? |
The following is a list of female cabinet ministers of Thailand. Thailand is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and the southern extremity of Burma.
Thailand does not have male cabinet ministers. OPTIONS:
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A: It's impossible to say
Brandon Hughes (born September 25, 1980), better known by his stage name 6 Tre G is an American hip hop recording artist, record producer, and CEO from Fayette, Alabama. He is also the founder and CEO of Mazerati Records. 6 Tre G has released many studio albums Don Mazerati, Boss Muzik, El Trapo and many more.
6 Tre G is a musical artist and has several other roles in the entertainment industry. OPTIONS:
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A: Yes
Francis Cutler Marshall was a Brigadier General in the United States Army during World War I. He served as commanding officer of the 2nd Infantry Brigade, 1st Infantry Division. He was awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal for his achievements in this command during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.
Francis Cutler Marshall has been seen by Bill. OPTIONS:
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Duel Personality is a 1966 Tom and Jerry cartoon produced and directed by Chuck Jones. It is the first Tom and Jerry cartoon released in 1966, and the first Tom & Jerry cartoon (both regarding Tom and Jerry produced by Chuck Jones, and Tom and Jerry cartoons produced altogether) with Dean Elliott as the music composer.
Can we draw the following conclusion?
Duel Personality is the last Tom and Jerry cartoon released in 1996 | No |
Teacher:In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: (CNN) -- Amazon's new Fire Phone isn't a phone. It's a shopping mall. Not that boring shopping mall slowly dying on the edges of suburban America, but a gorgeous mall with infinite selection and endless opportunities for entertainment, from books to movies and everything in between. The price starts at $199 with a two-year contract, or $649 without a contract. The Fire Phone may well give its competitors a run for the money. Malls are social spaces, and so is Fire Phone. Its five cameras and assorted sensors are exactly what is needed to create immersive interactive experience. And what better thing to socialize around than using it to identify new products, deals and scoops? The only piece missing from Amazon's new mall is food, but you can be sure that soon, there will be an Amazon Fresh truck waiting around the corner or an Amazon aerial drone hovering just over the horizon ready to deliver your order.Paul Saffo: Amazon isn't playing catch-up, it's changing the game in mobile spaceSaffo: Fire Phone shifts focus of mobile devices to satisfying our shopping urgesHe says features of Fire Phone will turn stores into de facto showrooms for AmazonSaffo: Get ready, the next phase will be "augmented reality" shopping
Question:I wouldn't be surprised if some stores attempt to ban _ entirely.
Student: | Fire Phone |
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.
[EX Q]: Strait of Gibraltar crossing -- The Strait of Gibraltar crossing is a hypothetical bridge or tunnel spanning the Strait of Gibraltar (about 14 km or 9 miles at its narrowest point) that would connect Europe and Africa. The governments of Spain and Morocco appointed a joint committee to investigate the feasibility of linking the two continents in 1979, which resulted in the much broader Euromed Transport project.
[EX A]: is there a bridge from spain to gibraltar
[EX Q]: Space (punctuation) -- The International System of Units (SI) prescribes inserting a space between a number and a unit of measurement and between units in compound units, but never between a prefix and a base unit.
[EX A]: do you put space between number and unit
[EX Q]: Star Alliance -- Although Star Alliance invited Lineas Aereas Azteca in 2005 to join in mid-2007, the airline filed for bankruptcy. TAP Air Portugal joined on 14 March 2005, adding African destinations to the network. In April 2006 Swiss International Air Lines, the alliance's sixth European airline, and South African Airways (its first African carrier) became the 17th and 18th members.
[EX A]: | is swiss air a member of star alliance
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Teacher:You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO code: GBP), commonly known as the pound and less commonly referred to as Sterling, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha. It is subdivided into 100 pence (singular: penny, abbreviated: p). A number of nations that do not use sterling also have currencies called the pound. At various times, the pound sterling was commodity money or bank notes backed by silver or gold, but it is currently fiat money, backed only by the economy in the areas where it is accepted. The pound sterling is the world's oldest currency still in use and which has been in continuous use since its inception.
Student: | is pound sterling the same as british pound? |
Before Gardens After Gardens is the third album by Big Sir. The album features contributions by The Mars Volta’s Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Deantoni Parks, Rx Bandits’ Matt Embree and Steve Choi, bassist Jonathan Hischke and Beastie Boys producer Money Mark.
Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text?
Before Gardens After Gardens was one of the first three album by Big Sir. | Yes |
Question:
Don Brash leader of the New Zealand National Party said that the White Crusaders of the Racial Holy War are "a small, fascist underbelly, hell-bent on causing division and destroying New Zealand's egalitarian ethos."
Is this true?
Don Brash is the leader of the New Zealand National Party.
Answer:
yes
Question:
Chancellor Schroeder has presided over three years of almost zero growth in the economy and an unemployment rate that has remained stubbornly above four million people.
Is this true?
More than four million people have remained stubbornly unemployed in the last three years.
Answer:
no
Question:
This weekend, March 25 and 26, was a big weekend in the Ottawa area for Canadian Idol want a Be's. Canadian Idol is a national singing competition that is organized by CTV Inc. a Canadian broadcasting communications company for Canadian citizens. The television show, greatly based on "American Idol," has been on going for several seasons. In the past auditions have been know to have line-ups of thousands of people, however, this year after taking a tour around the new location it appears that line ups were manageable. Having the auditions at the St. Laurent Shopping mall [1] makes this easier said Idol's security coordinator Rick Paciorek.[2] Organizers have decided to change the way the auditions will "rock and roll."
Is this true?
Canadian Idol is a competition for singers.
Answer:
| yes |
*Ans* natural habitat
*Question* The fox walked from the city into the forest, what was it looking for?
Options:
- pretty flowers.
- hen house
- natural habitat
- storybook
- dense forest
*CoT* Forests are one of the main natural habitats of foxes.
*Ans* military service
*Question* People using a machine gun are a part of what?
Options:
- quake 2
- arsenal
- in a
- armory
- military service
*CoT* Only military people are given machine guns to serve country. Militiray services have many guns including machine guns.
*Ans* gain weight
| *Question* When people eat more food than they need on a daily basis, what tends to happen?
Options:
- become angry
- obesity
- gain weight
- agree or disagree
- pay bills
*CoT* Each person has a basic specific calorie requirement based on their lifestyle. When people eat more than their requirement, the extra calories get stored in the form of fat in the body. Due to increased fat in the body, people usually gain weight. |
How to select annuity payments<br>Decide if a retirement annuity is right for you. Annuities are financial investment options for those who want secure, steady, and guaranteed income during their retirement. An annuity is an illiquid asset, meaning that it cannot easily be sold or exchanged for cash.
Can we infer the following?
Annuity payments are confusing to many. | It's impossible to say |
Given the task definition, example input & output, solve the new input case.
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Example: Timothy likes to play sports. He spends his time after school playing basketball and baseball. Sometimes Timothy pretends he is a famous baseball pitcher for his favorite team with his friends. He plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. Timothy also plays pretend when he is alone. He has an imaginary friend named Sean. Sean is an elephant who watches television with Timothy. Mandy likes playing baseball but she also likes to paint. Mandy's favorite class at school is art. She likes making pictures of flowers. Her teacher says she is a good artist. She painted a picture of a tree for her teacher. There were red and yellow leaves on it. It had apples on it. When Andrew goes home after baseball, he likes to eat a snack. He eats carrots and bananas. If he is a good boy his mom, Mrs. Smith, sometimes gives him milk and cookies. Afterwards, Andrew finishes his homework. <sep>Who does Timothy play with?<sep>Basketball and baseball
Output: No
Based on the passage Timothy plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. So, the given answer is incorrect and the output should be "No".
New input case for you: At 9:48, a representative from the White House shelter asked if there were any indications of another hijacked aircraft. The deputy director for operations mentioned the Delta flight and concluded that "that would be the fourth possible hijack." At 9:49, the commander of NORAD directed all air sovereignty aircraft to battle stations, fully armed. At 9:59, an Air Force lieutenant colonel working in the White House Military Office joined the conference and stated he had just talked to Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley. The White House requested (1) the implementation of continuity of government measures, (2) fighter escorts for Air Force One, and (3) a fighter combat air patrol over Washington, D.C. By 10:03, when United 93 crashed in Pennsylvania, there had been no mention of its hijacking and the FAA had not yet been added to the teleconference. The President and the Vice President The President was seated in a classroom when, at 9:05, Andrew Card whispered to him: "A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack." The President told us his instinct was to project calm, not to have the country see an excited reaction at a moment of crisis. The press was standing behind the children; he saw their phones and pagers start to ring. The President felt he should project strength and calm until he could better understand what was happening. The President remained in the classroom for another five to seven minutes, while the children continued reading. He then returned to a holding room shortly before 9:15, where he was briefed by staff and saw television coverage. He next spoke to Vice President Cheney, Dr. Rice, New York Governor George Pataki, and FBI Director Robert Mueller. He decided to make a brief statement from the school before leaving for the airport. The Secret Service told us they were anxious to move the President to a safer location, but did not think it imperative for him to run out the door. Between 9:15 and 9:30, the staff was busy arranging a return to Washington, while the President consulted his senior advisers about his remarks. No one in the traveling party had any information during this time that other aircraft were hijacked or missing. Staff was in contact with the White House Situation Room, but as far as we could determine, no one with the President was in contact with the Pentagon. <sep>Who told the president that "America is under attack"<sep>Andrew Card
Output: | Yes |
If you’re an Austin Powers fan, you might have a sense of withdrawal, considering there hasn’t been another movie in the series since 2002’s Goldmember. Well now you can get a taste of the nostalgia thanks to Mike Myers. He stopped by Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday as Dr. Evil. Apparently, the diabolical mastermind was another person fired from Trump‘s cabinet. He went on to describe all the people who did evil-like things while he was there, including Steve Bannon and Ben Carson. Watch the hilarious bit for yourself in the clip below! Also On 101.1 The Wiz:
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true?
dr. evil was hired by ben carson to raid trumps cabinet
OPT:
--Yes;
--It's impossible to say;
--No; | It's impossible to say |
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.
Q: Maddy's mother, after therapy, reveals that right after Maddy's father (a police officer) and her brother died, Maddy got very sick, and her mother, not wanting to lose her, decided she had SCID, and needed to be kept away from the world. In the end, Maddy and Olly happily reunite in New York, where she sent him on a mini scavenger hunt in a used bookstore.
A: | does maddie die in the movie everything everything? |
Instructions: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Input: It was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan on August 11 , 1947 , just days before independence .
Output: | The national flag of Pakistan was adopted in its present form during a meeting of the Constituent Assembly on August 11 , 1947 , just three days before the country 's independence , when it became the official flag of the Dominion of Pakistan . |
Given the question: I promised Michael I wouldn't mention this until the season was over.Now l think it's time. Early last season, I wrote a column about an art of kindness I had seen Jordan do to a disabled child outside the stadium.After it ran,I got a call from a man in the western suburbs.He said,"I read what you wrote about Jordan.but I thought I should tell you another thing I saw." Here it comes, I thought. It always does. Write something nice about a person, and people call you up to say that the person is not so nice. A few weeks later Jordan and I were talking about something else before a game, and I brought up what the man had said. Was the man right? Had Jordan really been talking to those two boys in that poor and dirty neighborhood? "Not two boys," Jordan said. "But four." And he named them. He said four names. And what did they talk about? "Everything," Jordan said. " Anything. I've asked to see their grades so that I can check to see if they're paying attention to their study. If it turns out that one or two of them may need teaching, I make sure they get it." It's just one more part of Michael Jordan's life,one more thing that no one knows about, and one more thing Jordan does fight for. The NBA season is over now, and those boys have their memories. So do J! When the expert reviewers begin to turn against Jordan as they surely will, I'll think about those boys under the streetlight, waiting for the man they know to come. For someone they can depend on. The writer wrote this story about Jordan and his young friends because _ A) he thought highly of Jordan's deeds B) he hated to see Jordan do something bad C) he believed it was time to help the disabled D) he felt sure he needn't keep the promise then
The answer is: | A |
The Cuban Embassy in Washington, DC, is the diplomatic mission of Cuba to the United States of America. It is located at 2630 16th Street Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Adams Morgan neighborhood. The building was originally constructed in 1917 as the Cuban embassy, and served in that capacity until the United States severed relations with Cuba in 1961.
The Cuban Embassy in Washington, DC was originally planned to be built in a different state.
A: It's impossible to say
The Sherbino Mesa Wind Farm is located in Pecos County in west Texas. The first 150 megawatts (MW) of the project, which has a potential capacity of 750 MW, is in operation. Phase I utilizes 50 Vestas V-90 Mk.5 wind turbine generators, each with a rated capacity of 3 MW. BP will operate phase I of the project.
The Sherbino Mesa Wind Farm was visited by Dan.
A: It's impossible to say
Ernest Guiraud (] ; 26 June 1837 – 6 May 1892) was a French composer and music teacher born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is best known for writing the traditional orchestral recitatives used for Bizet's opera "Carmen" and for Offenbach's opera "Les contes d'Hoffmann" ("The Tales of Hoffmann").
Ernest Guiraud spent his whole life in Louisiana
A: | It's impossible to say |
Instructions: In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Input: You may be wondering, how can a glacier get so big? Why does it move? These are both good questions. In the winter months, precipitation falls as snow. This solid form of water builds up on the ground as long as the temperatures stay cold enough. As the temperature rises, the snow starts to melt. The frozen water changes state back into a liquid state. Nearer the poles, summer does not last very long. If the summer is long enough and warm enough, all the snow may melt. This is what typically happens now. The earth was a little cooler 12,000 years ago. As a result, during the summer months, that amount of snow did not melt. It may have only been an inch or so of snow that melted. The following winter, snow fell on top of this left-over snow. This next winters snowfall had a head start. Year after year, the snow that did not melt became thicker and thicker. Inch by inch the snow started to build up. Over many years, layer upon layer of snow compacted and turned to ice. <sep>How do glaciers form?<sep>Layer upon layer of snow compacted and turned to ice
Output: | Yes |
Logic ==> Stress is a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or demanding circumstances. You might feel stress after doing housework for hours.
stress
Question ==> What might you feel after doing housework for hours?
Options:
- anger
- not boredom
- stress
- boredom
- anxiety
** People always tend to let others down. People who let others down cant support them.
let down
** She felt like she never had any support, people always seemed to what?
Options:
- marriage
- ignore
- let down
- aid
- neglect
Detailed logic: Apartment is a community having 10 to 20 homes or a block of apartments. Kitchenette is a small kitchen with usually limited appliances and do not have stovetops or regular ovens. A kitchenette is common in apartment dwellings that are stacked on top of each other.
apartment
Question for this logic: A kitchenette is common in what dwellings that are stacked on top of each other?
Options:
- house
- dormroom
- one story apartment
- apartment
- hotel room
Logic ==> Politicians find the information of their political enemies as their ultimate is goal is always to get power.
power
Question ==> They were finding information on their political enemies, what did they hope to gain?
Options:
- understanding of
- get answers
- happiness
- gaining knowledge
- power
** We eat in a restaurant. We tend to forget the shopping bag in a restaurant.
restaurant
** Someone left their shopping bag behind when they grabbed a bit to eat, where is the bag likely?
Options:
- atlantis
- retail store
- closet
- grocery store
- restaurant
Detailed logic: Needle is used to take blood from body. Needle can cause a drop of blood to fall.
needle
Question for this logic: | What could cause a drop of blood to fall?
Options:
- human body
- needle
- a bite
- vein
- person |
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
Westminster, Ellesmere Port is a suburb of the town of Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England. It is located to the north of the town centre and it is the location of the M53 motorway. Westminster is famous for its terraced houses and the Joseph Groome Towers, three thirteen-storey tower blocks built as public housing . It is also known as the wezzy.
Hypothesis: Joseph Groome Towers was intended for people to live in. | Yes |
How to overcome a fear of escalators
Look ahead, rather than down, when on the escalator.
Avoid making eye contact with the moving stairs and keep your gaze straight ahead as you ride the escalator. This will help you stay still on the escalator so you can get to your destination.
OPTIONS:
- Use safety equipment to limit your appearance when you get off the escalator. One way you can control your movements on the escalator is to wear a helmet and/or safety glasses.
- This will also reduce any dizziness you might feel when riding the escalator. Hold the railing or someone's hand.
- Stay on the escalator if you are moving to your left, right or left. If you are worried about reaching something the first time you get on the escalator, try looking down as you ride.
- You can also use a timer to monitor your eye movements because it will help you check how many steps you take to reach your destination. You can also feel proud of the way you are walking and be proud of how you are standing.
This will also reduce any dizziness you might feel when riding the escalator. Hold the railing or someone's hand.
How to get around bangkok during rush hour
Use the sky trains.
A recent addition to bangkok transport, the sky train was built to combat the intense traffic situation. If you are out on the street during rush hour, always opt to travel in the sky train.
OPTIONS:
- These trains are designed to relieve passengers and help them reach the peak of their commute when they arrive back from rush hour. As soon as possible, look for city-specific accommodations in bangkok that are a to-have for polite tourists.
- This is the type of train that can bond bangkok to thailand without the added inconvenience of driving on buses. Sky train trains are also very easy to transport if you are traveling with friends, so do not worry too much about jostling.
- The bus systems and trains in bangkok are often congested, so more fast trains should be available. If you're comfortable enough coming from bangkok at rush hour on the bus, you could alternate to fast train on a regular basis, depending on the times.
- Covering all the major stops in the city, the sky train will take you to your destination in just a fraction of the time that you would spend of the road. The disneyland space-agedness feeling that it provides makes your journey on the sky train just as interesting as the attractions in your destination.
Covering all the major stops in the city, the sky train will take you to your destination in just a fraction of the time that you would spend of the road. The disneyland space-agedness feeling that it provides makes your journey on the sky train just as interesting as the attractions in your destination.
People are playing snare drums in a line. People are standing still next to them. they
OPTIONS:
- are playing the drums with their hands.
- go to the right to pick up the sticks.
- begin to march forward while continuing to play the drums.
- are participating in a game.
begin to march forward while continuing to play the drums.
A drink is being poured into a glass followed by a woman grabbing a glass and pouring mixtures into it. she
OPTIONS:
- holds it in her mouth and begins mixing it with the liquor.
- adds ice into the glass to help speed the drink up.
- mixes it together in a blender and lathers it up.
- creates an alcoholic drink by pouring several different mixes together and the camera zooming in on the drink.
| creates an alcoholic drink by pouring several different mixes together and the camera zooming in on the drink. |
Q: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Newly released deputy chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood Khairat el Shater attends a pro-democracy rally at Tahrir Square in Cairo March 4, 2011.
Members of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi shout slogans and hold up posters during a rally marching back towards Rabaa al-Adawiya Square where they are camping, in Cairo August 2, 2013.
CAIRO The Muslim Brotherhood on Monday rejected pleas from international envoys to "swallow the reality" that Mohamed Mursi will not return as Egypt's president.
The envoys from the United States and the European Union, trying to resolve a political crisis brought on by the army's overthrow of the Islamist Mursi a month ago, visited jailed Brotherhood deputy leader Khairat El-Shater in the early hours of Monday.
But he cut the meeting short, saying they should be talking to Mursi, Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad said. People briefed on the meeting described it as long, in some moments intense, but constructive and useful.
From the other side, a senior military source said the army and interim government would offer to free some jailed Muslim Brotherhood members, unfreeze its assets and give it three ministerial posts, in a move to end the crisis.
A source involved in the diplomatic initiative said the releases from prison were expected within hours.
The releases would be a confidence building measure, and the Brotherhood would be expected to make goodwill gestures to show they have good intentions.
The army spokesman, Ahmed Ali, said no deal had been reached between the Brotherhood, the military and the government to end Egypt's political crisis.
Several thousand Islamist supporters marched through downtown Cairo calling for Mursi's reinstatement and denouncing the army general who led his overthrow.
Marchers chanted: "Mursi, Mursi" and "We are not terrorists", and waved pictures of the ousted leader.
The protest showed tensions still running dangerously high in Egypt despite the mediation effort by the United States, the European Union, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
"Things should move soon, otherwise we shall miss this opportunity. This is all still incredibly fragile." said a source involved in the diplomatic initiative.
MINIMUM DAMAGE
Mursi became Egypt's first freely-elected president in June 2012, 16 months after the overthrow of U.S.-backed strongman Hosni Mubarak, who had ruled for nearly 30 years.
But fears that he was trying to establish an Islamist autocracy, coupled with a failure to ease economic hardships afflicting most of Egypt's 84 million people, led to huge street demonstrations, triggering the army move.
Speaking about the talks in recent days, Brotherhood spokesman Haddad said the envoys "still carry the position that we should swallow the reality and accept that the military coup has happened and try to recover with minimum damage".
"We refuse to do so," Haddad told Reuters.
There was no agreement on how to start talks, he added.
The state news agency said earlier that diplomats, including U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns and European Union envoy Bernardino Leon, had met Shater after midnight at the Tora Prison where he is being held south of Cairo.
Shater is seen as the political strategist of the group that propelled Mursi to office last year, and was arrested on charges of inciting violence after Mursi's downfall.
He told the envoys that only Mursi could "solve the mess" and the only solution was "full restoration of constitutional legitimacy and reversal of the coup", Haddad said.
"They invited him for discussions but he ended it abruptly ... then he walked out of the room," Haddad said.
Mursi is being held at an undisclosed location, facing an investigation into accusations including murder. Most of the rest of the Brotherhood's leadership is also in custody.
In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said Burns had no plans to meet Mursi. She suggested no breakthroughs were imminent.
"There is clearly much more work to do. We have the goal of helping the Egyptians get back to a democratically elected, inclusive government," Harf told reporters.
VIOLENCE ON HOLD
The diplomatic push has so far helped to hold off further bloodshed between Mursi's backers and the security forces.
An EU source in Brussels said the mediators were still trying to build confidence between the various sides and did not want to raise expectations.
"The real thing at this stage is to bring people together so they can actually meet and discuss these issues and for that you have to build up some trust and that can be done by very concrete measures, releasing people, dropping charges, not pressing charges, not moving into the squares, lowering the tension," the source said.
Thousands of Mursi supporters remain camped out in two Cairo sit-ins, which the government has pledged to disperse. The government said on Sunday it would give mediation a chance but warned that time was limited.
Almost 300 people have been killed in political violence since Mursi's overthrow, including 80 shot dead by security forces in a single incident on July 27.
During Monday's march, protesters sprayed graffiti on walls and statues calling army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who led Mursi's overthrow, a murderer and a traitor.
Security forces made no attempt to disperse a crowd estimated by reporters at several thousand strong.
"The military came and stole our country, they stole everything," said Mahmoud Isuafi, a businessman from the Nile Delta city of Mansoura. "I want democracy. Where is my vote? I can no longer elect my leader so I protest instead."
The military has laid out a plan that could see a new head of state elected in roughly nine months. The Brotherhood, which spent decades in the shadows before Mubarak's downfall, says it wants nothing to do with it.
However, diplomats say the Brotherhood knows Mursi will not return as president and wants a face-saving formula for him to step down that guarantees it a stake in the political future.
Two U.S. senators, Republicans Lindsey Graham and John McCain, arrived in Cairo at President Barack Obama's request to meet members of the new government and the opposition.
Before leaving on the mission, Graham said the Egyptian military must back out of politics quickly or risk a cut of the $1.5 billion in aid it receives from Washington each year.
(Additional reporting by Tom Finn, Shaimaa Fayed and Shadia Nasralla in CAIRO and Lesley Wroughton in WASHINGTON; Writing by Angus MacSwan; Editing by Michael Georgy and Robin Pomeroy) ||||| Image caption A government helicopter dropped leaflets on protesters in Rabaa al-Adawiya square in Cairo urging them to go home
US senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham are due to arrive in Cairo as diplomatic efforts to end Egypt's political crisis intensify.
US and EU envoys have been meeting officials from the military-backed government and supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi.
Their talks took place amid mounting tension over plans to break up two mass sit-ins by Morsi loyalists in Cairo.
A government helicopter dropped leaflets urging people to leave.
The pamphlets, which were dropped over the Rabaa al-Adawiya square, pledged protesters would face no action if they had not committed a crime whilst demonstrating.
More than 100 Morsi supporters have been killed in clashes since the president was overthrown by the military on 3 July.
Meanwhile a court in Cairo said it would start the trial of Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie and two of his deputies on 25 August.
Mr Badie and several other senior Brotherhood figures were arrested on charges of inciting violence and complicity in the deaths of anti-Morsi demonstrators during rallies in July.
A Brotherhood spokesman rejected the charges last month as "nothing more than an attempt by the police state to dismantle" the protests.
Prevent bloodshed
Mr McCain and Mr Graham are expected to land in the Egyptian capital on Monday evening for two days of negotiations.
Over the weekend, US deputy secretary of state, William Burns, already held separate talks with members of Mr Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood and the Egyptian Foreign Minister, Nabil Fahmy.
The European Union's envoy, Bernardino Leon, also joined the meeting with Mr Fahmy.
Few official details have been given, but the hope is clearly to prevent further violence and bloodshed, correspondents say.
The foreign ministers of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates are also involved in the diplomatic push, and are reported to have visited a Muslim Brotherhood leader.
Meanwhile further talks took place between army chief Gen Abdul Fattah al-Sisi and a prominent group of Islamic clerics.
According to an army statement, Gen al-Sisi told the clerics a peaceful solution could be reached if all sides rejected violence.
However, the preachers were heavily criticised by Morsi loyalists for taking part in the meeting; they say nothing short of Mr Morsi's reinstatement will end their protests.
On Saturday, the interior ministry renewed its call for the demonstrations to end peacefully, and said this would allow the Muslim Brotherhood to return to a role in the democratic political process.
Thousands of Morsi supporters have been defying warnings from the authorities to abandon the sit-ins in Cairo at Nahda Square and outside the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque, in the east of the capital.
The protesters and their families have been camping there for weeks, demanding the ousted president's reinstatement. ||||| CAIRO — Three top officials of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood will go on trial on Aug. 25, on charges of inciting members of their group to kill rioters in front of its headquarters during the upheaval that led to President Mohamed Morsi’s ouster on July 3, a Cairo court ruled on Sunday.
Although the authorities have detained dozens of Brotherhood members since Mr. Morsi’s fall from power, the case against the group’s spiritual leader, his deputy and another key figure is the first to be scheduled for trial.
The pending prosecutions are a new blow to the Brotherhood, which emerged as the country’s strongest political movement after the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, but has seen all of its newfound power stripped away in a matter of weeks.
The scheduling of the trial will most likely further complicate intensive political and diplomatic efforts to persuade Mr. Morsi’s supporters to break up two large sit-ins in Cairo that they have committed to maintaining until he is restored to power.
Egypt’s new military-backed government has said it would not let the sit-ins continue indefinitely, but many fear that efforts to forcefully disperse the protesters would unleash new violence. Envoys from the European Union, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and the United States have tried to help broker a solution.
The prosecutions could be an effort to put more pressure on the group to strike a deal to end the current crisis, said Shadi Hamid of the Brookings Doha Center.
The case concerns events during the final days of Mr. Morsi’s tenure, when hundreds of rioters — equipped with stones, Molotov cocktails and firearms — attacked the Muslim Brotherhood’s headquarters in Cairo and tried to burn those inside alive.
Police officers in the area during the attack did not intervene, and a few men inside the darkened building fired guns from the windows. Health officials said eight people were killed outside the building, and a video posted online showed one badly beaten man being dragged from the building.
Accused of incitement to murder in the case are the Brotherhood’s supreme guide, Mohamed Badie; his deputy, Khairat el-Shater; and another official, Mohamed Bayoumi.
Three other defendants in the case have been charged with murder and arms possession, and an additional 29 people have been accused of using force, terrifying residents and attacking a police officer, state news media reported.
Mr. Hamid said the prosecution represented an escalation of the military’s campaign against the Brotherhood.
“It reflects a real desire on the part of some in the organization to use this opportunity to destroy the Brotherhood,” he said.
Even under Mr. Mubarak, whose security services routinely detained and tortured Brotherhood members and other Islamists, the supreme guide was mostly left alone.
A serving supreme guide of the Brotherhood has not been arrested since 1981, before Mr. Mubarak came to power.
In a separate case, the prosecutor general ordered the detention of Mr. Morsi’s former chief of staff and his deputy for 15 days for investigation into charges that they incited the detention and torture of protesters by Brotherhood members in 2012.
Mr. Morsi, who has been detained in an undisclosed location since his ouster, is also under investigation for purported collaboration with the Islamist militant group Hamas and his escape from prison during the uprising that led to Mr. Mubarak’s ouster.
Also Sunday, authorities at Cairo airport denied entry to Tawakkul Karman, the Yemeni activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, who had flown to Egypt to join a pro-Morsi sit-in, state news media reported. They did not give a reason for refusing entry to Ms. Karman, a member of Yemen’s largest Islamist party, who won the prize in 2011 for her role in the uprising that led to the fall of that country’s president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, and who has recently spoken out against Mr. Morsi’s removal from power. |||||
A: | A month after Mohamed Morsi was driven from power in Egypt, three leading Muslim Brotherhood figures face an impending trial. A Cairo court ruling yesterday will send Brotherhood supreme guide Mohammed Badie, deputy Khairat al-Shater, and top official Mohamed Bayoumi to court on Aug. 25 for allegedly inciting the killing of rioters outside the organization's headquarters. Badie's arrest marked the first for a Brotherhood supreme guide since 1981, the New York Times notes. The trial could mark an effort to shut down continuing protests by Brotherhood backers, including a pair of sit-ins, says an expert, adding that some opponents see it as an "opportunity to destroy the Brotherhood." Meanwhile, demonstrations continue, with thousands of Morsi supporters taking to the streets in a Cairo march today, Reuters reports. "We are not terrorists," they chanted as they called for the former leader's reinstatement. Security forces didn't move to halt the protest, but a government helicopter dropped literature at the sit-ins urging protesters to leave. Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham are set to arrive in Cairo today, the BBC reports; they join other US and EU officials in a push for resolution. |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Example Input: Thelma James was a prime candidate for a real estate ripoff: She is 68, has precious little money and can't read or write. "I won't lie to you. I was so-o-o excited," the widow and former duplex dweller said of the purchase of her first home, a sagging frame structure on Snowden. "I was glad to get me a house." When James realized she had been swindled she turned to Memphis Area Legal Services, which represented her in a lawsuit. Now, James's monthly house notes have dropped from $796 - more than twice her monthly income - to an affordable $247. Some of the people who took advantage of her through a questionable loan program were sent to jail. "I don't know what I would have done without Legal Services," said James. "They solved a lot of my problems." James is one of more than 3,000 clients served last year by MALS, which provides assistance for civil matters, such as domestic abuse and family-related problems, Social Security and Supplemental Security Income, veterans, housing and consumer fraud cases. Like James, most clients are elderly or female. Some are handicapped. Some need medical care or veteran's benefits. Some are trying to escape eviction or an abusive marriage. And 87 percent live at or below poverty level. Shelby County Mayor A C Wharton recently said Legal Services is important for those who, because of poverty or other struggles in life, think justice is an empty word. "They must be given reason to believe that the law is for them too," said Wharton, a former executive director of MALS. But MALS faces a funding crunch next year, brought on by a $200,000 shortfall from three revenue sources. <sep>How does James fit into the usual clientele of MALS?<sep>She's illiterate
Example Output: Yes
Example Input: Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States. Millions of men and women readied themselves for work. Some made their way to the Twin Towers, the signature structures of the World Trade Center complex in New York City. Others went to Arlington, Virginia, to the Pentagon. Across the Potomac River, the United States Congress was back in session. At the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, people began to line up for a White House tour. In Sarasota, Florida, President George W. Bush went for an early morning run. For those heading to an airport, weather conditions could not have been better for a safe and pleasant journey. Among the travelers were Mohamed Atta and Abdul Aziz al Omari, who arrived at the airport in Portland, Maine. Boston: American 11 and United 175. Atta and Omari boarded a 6:00 A.M. flight from Portland to Boston's Logan International Airport. When he checked in for his flight to Boston, Atta was selected by a computerized prescreening system known as CAPPS (Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System), created to identify passengers who should be subject to special security measures. Under security rules in place at the time, the only consequence of Atta's selection by CAPPS was that his checked bags were held off the plane until it was confirmed that he had boarded the aircraft. This did not hinder Atta's plans. Atta and Omari arrived in Boston at 6:45. Seven minutes later, Atta apparently took a call from Marwan al Shehhi, a longtime colleague who was at another terminal at Logan Airport. They spoke for three minutes. It would be their final conversation. <sep>How long was the phone call Between Atta and Marwan al Shehhi<sep>1 minute
Example Output: No
Example Input: As his car slid downtown on Tuesday morning the mind of Arnold Thorndike was occupied with such details of daily routine as the purchase of a railroad, the Japanese loan, the new wing to his art gallery, and an attack that morning, in his own newspaper, upon his pet trust. But his busy mind was not too occupied to return the salutes of the traffic policemen who cleared the way for him. Or, by some genius of memory, to recall the fact that it was on this morning young Spear was to be sentenced for theft. It was a charming morning. The spring was at full tide, and the air was sweet and clean. Mr. Thorndike considered whimsically that to send a man to jail with the memory of such a morning clinging to him was adding a year to his sentence. He regretted he had not given the probation officer a stronger letter. He remembered the young man now, and favorably. A shy, silent youth, deft in work, and at other times conscious and embarrassed. But that, on the part of a stenographer, in the presence of the Wisest Man in Wall Street, was not unnatural. On occasions, Mr. Thorndike had put even royalty— frayed, impecunious royalty, on the lookout for a loan—at its ease. The hood of the car was down, and the taste of the air, warmed by the sun, was grateful. It was at this time, a year before, that young Spear picked the spring flowers to take to his mother. A year from now where would young Spear be? It was characteristic of the great man to act quickly, so quickly that his friends declared he was a slave to impulse. It was these same impulses, leading so invariably to success, that made his enemies call him the Wisest Man. He leaned forward and touched the chauffeur's shoulder. "Stop at the Court of General Sessions," he commanded. What he proposed to do would take but a few minutes. A word, a personal word from him to the district attorney, or the judge, would be enough. <sep>What was the weather like?<sep>Predator
Example Output: | No
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In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Q: (CNN) -- Investigators pleaded for help from the public Wednesday in their search for two kidnapped Tennessee girls and the man accused of abducting them and killing their mother and sister. The FBI added the suspect, Adam Mayes, to its list of 10 most wanted fugitives and added $100,000 to the reward fund offered for a break in the case. Mayes has been charged with killing Jo Ann Bain and her eldest daughter, Adrienne, in late April, but authorities believe he is still holding Bain's younger daughters, 12-year-old Alexandria and 8-year-old Kyliyah. "From an investigative standpoint, we keenly and firmly believe that Adam Mayes is out here somewhere with these two young children," said Mark Gwyn, director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. "And it's going to be up to the public to help us if we're to bring these children back home and place him in custody where he needs to be."NEW: The case leaves a "dark cloud" over a Tennessee town, counselor saysNEW: "It's going to be up to the public to help us," TBI chief saysMayes is now on the FBI's 10 most wanted listMayes is believed to be near Guntown, Mississippi
Question:_ and Teresa Mayes have been married for 11 years and lived in Guntown, she said.
A: | Adam Mayes |
In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Input: Consider Input: (CNN) The Marine Corps' fighting ability is undermined by the more than 30,000 active Marines and veterans involved in a private Facebook group being investigated for allegedly posting explicit photos of women in the military without their consent, a former Navy secretary told CNN on Friday. "There's no good excuse," Ray Mabus said on CNN's New Day. "The Marine motto is 'semper fidelis,' always faithful, and what these Marines did was to be unfaithful to their fellow Marines." "Marines look after each other, Marines have each other's back. Look at what the commandant of the Marine Corps said about this, this makes us a less effective fighting force," Mabus said, referring to a video statement posted Tuesday by Gen. Robert Neller.Ray Mabus: "What these Marines did was to be unfaithful to their fellow Marines"Investigation should determine how "Marines United" group developed, he said
Question:"These Marines, these veterans, that have participated in this have attacked fellow Marines, and that is inexcusable in a fighting force, and particularly in the _, who are so special."
Output: Marines
Input: Consider Input: Plenty of photographers are there to document a baby's birth - but one recently got to capture the touching moment when her friends met their adopted baby for the first time. Kristen Prosser, 31, a photographer from Minnesota, went to the hospital with David and Sarah Olsen as they traveled to bring home the newest addition to their family, Tilly Pearl Olsen. David and Sarah first found out that they had matched for an adoption on Tuesday of last week. Early Wednesday morning, they flew from the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area to Florida, where their new little girl was waiting. 'It was one of the most special moments of my life,' Kristen wrote on Facebook, where she shared the beautiful photos. 'I was so privileged to watch this all unfold. What a perfect example of unconditional and sacrificial love.'Kristen Prosser, from Minnesota, documented the beautiful moment for her friends, David and Sarah OlsenThe couple adopted Tilly Pearl last weekThey also have two biological sons, one of whom has spina bifida
Question:Shot in black and white, _ looks like her heart is melting as she cradles her daughter.
Output: Sarah Olsen
Input: Consider Input: A passenger on board a Jet Airways flight opened the emergency exit and leapt onto the tarmac in a worrying security breach at Mumbai Airport in India. Jet Airways' Chandigarh to Mumbai flight 9W469 had landed around five minutes earlier before a man, who has been named locally as Akash Jain, sprang into action. He is reported to have opened the emergency exit in the middle of the plane, and jumped 15 feet down onto the tarmac. Scroll down for video Shortly after landing a Jet Airways passenger was reported to have opened the emergency exit and then made his way to the terminal and out of Mumbai Airport (file photo)In around 10 minutes, man had jumped out of plane and left the airportAfter landing on the tarmac, 30-year-old, who has been named locally as Akash Jain, was given directions to terminalAirport bosses said to be angry with how the security breach was reported
Question:Mid-day have reported that _ jumped off the plane at around 3.05pm, and by 3.16pm he was caught on CCTV leaving the airport.
| Output: Akash Jain
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Incite Productions, or Incite Productions Inc., is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit documentary production company based in Boulder, Colorado. It is the producer of Seoul Train, the critically acclaimed PBS documentary on North Korean refugees. Members of the board of Incite Productions are Jim Butterworth and Lisa Sleeth.
Choose your answer: based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Jim Butterworth and Lisa Sleeth are a part of the company responsible for the documentary called Seoul Train."?
Available options:
(A). Yes;
(B). It's impossible to say;
(C). No;
I think the answer is | (A). |
Multi-select problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to mail packages faster
Use a sturdy box (or envelope) with packing or strapping tape on all the seams.
If the envelope or box opens in transit, the post office will need to reassemble it, and it will take a lot longer.
Print your return address and the recipient's address.
Available options: (a). Start with the first letter, followed by the standard home address in your outgoing mail box. If you don't already have this address, print it and type your address into the address bar next to your mailing address and your travel address.; (b). Use the 9-digit zip code. Go to usps.com () and look up the recipient's address.; (c). Lay the envelope down on its side in a location that is inconspicuous to the recipient. Tape your mailing address and the recipient's address on the outside of the envelope or box.; (d). If there are any things you'd like to attach to the envelope or box, be sure to print them out and label them so the mail can be printed correctly. Make blank labels on the back of the envelope (if applicable).; | (b). |
How to change wage garnishment
Review the garnishment notice.
The notice you received about the garnishment should contain contact information for the creditor who took out the garnishment.
Make a note as well of any deadlines included on the notice.
You may have a limited time to contact the creditor before the garnishment begins. Typically you'll have more ability to work out a deal with the creditor if you can get ahold of them before the garnishment begins.
The woman surrounded by hula hoops begins to hula hoop for brief seconds before she stops and shakes hands with a guiness book record keeper. the woman
smiles at the achievement and then does an interview.
How to refresh an ipad
Press and hold the sleep/wake and home buttons.
The sleep/wake button can be found on the top-right side of the ipad. The home button is the large button in the bottom-center.
Hold both buttons after the screen turns off. The screen will turn off after a few moments.
How to live with an allergy to latex
Don't touch or inhale latex.
Latex is found in many products and even in some plants. Coming into contact with latex is enough to trigger a reaction in someone with an allergy.
| To help you avoid having an allergic reaction to latex, you'll want to avoid the two most common forms of latex contact : Direct contact with latex is the most common way an allergic reaction can occur. Depending on how allergic you are to latex, even a light touch could cause a reaction. |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
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Question: The most heat-treatable alloys are decided but only?, Context: Conversely, most heat-treatable alloys are precipitation hardening alloys, which produce the opposite effects that steel does. When heated to form a solution and then cooled quickly, these alloys become much softer than normal, during the diffusionless transformation, and then harden as they age. The solutes in these alloys will precipitate over time, forming intermetallic phases, which are difficult to discern from the base metal. Unlike steel, in which the solid solution separates to form different crystal phases, precipitation hardening alloys separate to form different phases within the same crystal. These intermetallic alloys appear homogeneous in crystal structure, but tend to behave heterogeneous, becoming hard and somewhat brittle.
Answer: Conversely
Question: WHat is second mentioned location?, Context: Cork was one of the most rail-oriented cities in Ireland, featuring eight stations at various times. The main route, still much the same today, is from Dublin Heuston. Originally terminating on the city's outskirts at Blackpool, the route now reaches the city centre terminus of Kent Station via Glanmire tunnel. Now a through station, the line through Kent connects the towns of Cobh and Midleton east of the city. This also connected to the seaside town of Youghal, until the 1980s.[citation needed]
Answer: Ireland
Question: From what country is the superhero advertised by Walt Disney Studios?, Context: 20th Century Fox, Lionsgate, Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios and Walt Disney Studios paid for movie trailers to be aired during the Super Bowl. Fox paid for Deadpool, X-Men: Apocalypse, Independence Day: Resurgence and Eddie the Eagle, Lionsgate paid for Gods of Egypt, Paramount paid for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows and 10 Cloverfield Lane, Universal paid for The Secret Life of Pets and the debut trailer for Jason Bourne and Disney paid for Captain America: Civil War, The Jungle Book and Alice Through the Looking Glass.[citation needed]
Answer: | America
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