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Caddyshack is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Harold Ramis and written by Brian Doyle-Murray, Ramis and Douglas Kenney. It stars Michael O'Keefe, Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, and Bill Murray. Doyle-Murray also has a supporting role. The film was later dedicated to producer Douglas Kenney, who died shortly after the film's release.
Hypothesis: Harold Ramis was not the first choice to direct Caddyshack.
It's impossible to say
Context:
José C. Vales (born 1965, Zamora) is a Spanish writer and translator of English literature. He studied in Salamanca and Madrid. He has translated numerous English and American authors into Spanish, including Dickens, Trollope, Austen, Wilkie Collins, Defoe, Mary Shelley, Arnold Bennett, Eudora Welty, Stella Gibbons, E.F. Benson, and Edmund Crispin.
Hypothesis: José C. Vales was birth on the year 1966
No
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Busby is a census-designated place (CDP) in Big Horn County, Montana, United States. It is on the Northern Cheyenne reservation. The population was 745 at the 2010 census. The town is near the site of the Battle of the Rosebud and the associated Rosebud Battlefield State Park, where General George Custer forces encountered Sioux and Cheyenne forces led by Crazy Horse.
Hypothesis: The Battle of the Rosebud got it's name due to Custer's love of roses.
| It's impossible to say |
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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].
question:
Looking for some beach body inspiration to make sure you get noticed for the right reasons this summer? Experts have created the 'perfect beach body' made up of the celebrity features voted 'most desirable' by Brits. The 'perfect' female beach body is made up of Jessica Alba’s arms, Taylor Swift’s legs and the stomach of Geordie Shore’s Charlotte Crosby. Men, meanwhile, opted for Chris Hemsworth’s arms, Joe Manganiello’s abs and David Gandy’s legs. Scroll down for video The 'perfect' female beach body is made up of Jessica Alba's arms, Taylor Swift's legs and the stomach of Geordie Shore's Charlotte Crosby, while men's consists of Chris Hemsworth's arms, Joe Manganiello's abs and David Gandy's legsWomen chose 'perfect' celebrity features and an ideal body was mocked upAlso consists of Katy Perry's chest and Kate Hudson's beach hairMen love Chris Hemsworth's arms and David Gandy's legs
Question:When it came to hair, women love _'s beachy blonde locks.
answer:
Kate Hudson
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Paris, France (CNN) -- France has denied citizenship to a man because he allegedly forced his wife to wear a full Islamic veil, the French immigration minister said in a statement Wednesday. The man was applying for citizenship in order to join his French wife in France, Immigration Minister Eric Besson said. The man was refused citizenship because he was depriving his wife of the liberty to come and go with her face uncovered, Besson said. The decision, made Tuesday, came exactly a week after a French parliamentary commission recommended a partial ban on any veils that cover the face -- including the burqa, the full-body covering worn by some Muslim women.Immigration Minister says man denied wife liberty of coming going with face uncoveredFrance is scheduled to vote on whether to ban full veilsFrance denied a Moroccan woman's naturalization request in 2008 on the because she wore a burqa
Question:France already has a law against _ girls wearing headscarves in state schools.
answer:
Muslim
question:
Virginia is poised to execute a convicted serial killer who claims he's intellectually disabled using lethal injection drugs from Texas because the state's supply of another controversial drug will expire the day before the execution is supposed to take place. Unless Gov. Terry McAuliffe or the U.S. Supreme Court steps in this week, Alfredo Prieto will be executed Thursday - the first Virginia inmate to be receive the death penalty in nearly three years. The El Salvador native was already facing execution in California for raping and murdering a 15-year-old girl when a Virginia jury sentenced him to death in 2010 for the 1988 killings Rachael Raver and her boyfriend, Warren Fulton III.Alfredo Prieto raped and murdered a 15-year-old girl in CaliforniaHe also murdered a Virginia couple in 1988 and will be executed ThursdayPrieto claims he has a 'significant brain dysfunction' from a malnourished childhood in El Salvador but psychologists say he is brightThe state will use a lethal three-drug cocktail partially supplied by TexasVirginia has executed 110 people since 1976, the third highest state
Question:But a federal appeals court ruled in June that Prieto failed to prove that no reasonable juror would find him eligible for execution, saying that _'s ability to handle everyday tasks was 'at best inconclusive.'
answer:
| Alfredo Prieto
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Write the following list of characters into a correctly formed sentence: Theeldesthadremainedanoldmaidandhadnonestnoryoungones.Itwasherpetideatoseeagreatcity,sosheflewtoCopenhagen. | The eldest had remained an old maid and had no nest nor young ones. It was her pet idea to see a great city, so she flew to Copenhagen. |
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: Box Office: 'Gravity' a Monster With $44.3 Mil; 'Captain Phillips' No. 2 With $26 Mil
UPDATED: Paul Greengrass' Somali pirate pic reverses a dry spell at the box office for star Tom Hanks; Robert Rodriguez' "Machete Kills" -- starring Mel Gibson -- flops.
Adults fueled another strong weekend at the North American box office as Warner Bros.' Gravity stayed at No. 1 with a record $44.3 million and Sony's Captain Phillips opened to a solid $26 million.
From director Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity raced past $100 million domestically to end the weekend with total earnings of $123.4 million. Worldwide, the space epic -- starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney -- has earned $191.4 million.
Gravity isn't as much of a monster overseas, but it is still doing strong business. It dropped only 27 percent in its second weekend, grossing $28 million from 38 markets to come in No. 1 and pushing its foreign total to $68 million.
GUEST REVIEW: Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on 'Gravity'
Gravity slipped only 21 percent in its second weekend domestically -- the lowest decline in history for a film that opened to more than $55 million (The Incredibles was the previous record holder at 29 percent). This doesn't count holiday weekends. It's also the lowest decline of the year to date for a movie playing in more than 2,000 theaters.
"This indicates the ability to open a tentpole in October," said Warner Bros. president of domestic distribution Dan Fellman, who also noted that the film is now playing to younger moviegoers, as well as to consumers who rarely take a trip to the multiplex.
Gravity continues to be a big draw in 3D (82 percent), with Imax theaters alone taking in a record $9 million over the weekend for total sales of $26.5 million. It's the largest second weekend gross in Imax history.
Internationally, Gravity likewise is prospering in 3D. Russia, a huge 3D market, leads with a total $14.5 million, including weekend grosses of $4.3 million.
Gravity was somewhat slowed by the debut of Russian epic Stalingrad, which opened to a record-breaking $14.4 million -- the biggest opening ever for a Russian film. Stalingrad also opened in the Ukraine, grossing $1.2 million.
The other big headline of the weekend was Paul Greengrass' Somali pirate pic Captain Phillips, which reverses a dry spell for Tom Hanks at the North American box office. The critically acclaimed film did better than expected after earning an A CinemaScore, eclipsing the $19.5 million earned a year ago by fellow adult drama Argo.
THR COVER: Inside the Intense 'Captain Phillips' Shoot
Captain Phillips, based on real events and costing $55 million to produce, skewed slightly male (52 percent), while more than 60 percent of the audience was over the age of 35. The film's awards prospects should be boosted by its promising box office performance.
Hanks' last several films have underperformed, particularly Cloud Atlas (2012) and Larry Crowne (2011).
"We couldn't be happier to be a part of this film. To open to $26 million with Gravity being in the marketplace is an extraordinary feat," said Sony president of worldwide distribution Rory Bruer. "It says volumes for the film and its life. It's one of those performances by Tom Hanks that everyone will want to see."
After Captain Phillips, the weekend's only other new wide player was exploitation action film Machete Kills, from writer-director Robert Rodriguez. Machete Kills quickly fizzled, debuting to roughly $3.8 million -- the worst wide opening of the filmmaker's career.
With a cast led by Danny Trejo, Mel Gibson and Michelle Rodriguez, Machete Kills is the third film based on the fake trailers accompanying Grindhouse. Receiving a B CinemaScore, the movie also stars Charlie Sheen (who is credited as Carlos Estevez), Lady Gaga and Antonio Banderas and Cuba Gooding Jr.
Machete Kills placed No. 4 after Gravity, Captain Phillips and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2.
Cloudy 2, from Sony, grossed $14.2 million in its third weekend to place No. 3, pushing the family film's total to $78 million.
New Regency's ill-fated gambling thriller Runner Runner and Warner Bros.' Prisoners tied for No. 5 with $3.7 million each.
Runner Runner, starring Justin Timberlake opposite Ben Affleck, continued to struggle in its second weekend, falling 52 percent to $3.7 million for a tepid domestic total of $14.1 million. Overseas, where the film is doing slightly better, Runner Runner grossed $5.3 million from 55 markets for an international total of $31.3 million and world total of $45.4 million.
Prisoners has grossed $53.6 million for Alcon Entertainment and Warner Bros. in North America. ||||| Nothing blocked the orbit of "Gravity" at the box office this weekend.
The 3-D space drama was No. 1 for a second weekend, collecting an impressive $44.3 million, according to an estimate from distributor Warner Bros. That means its ticket sales dropped only 21% from its debut -- the best second-weekend hold for any movie in wide release this year. After 10 days in theaters, the picture starring Sandra Bullock has already raked in $123.4 million in the U.S. and Canada and is on its way to grossing at least $250 million domestically.
With Alfonso Cuaron's hit still selling tickets at near light speed, newcomer "Captain Phillips" had to settle for the runner-up position this weekend. The Paul Greengrass-directed thriller starring Tom Hanks got off to a slightly better-than-expected start, debuting with a healthy $26 million. Meanwhile, Robert Rodriguez's "Machete Kills," the only other film that hit theaters nationwide this weekend, flopped with an embarrassing $3.8 million.
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Heading into the weekend, prerelease audience surveys indicated "Captain Phillips" would open with about $20 million. But even with "Gravity" still pulling adults to the multiplex, "Phillips" was able to attract an older crowd of its own: Roughly 62% of those who saw the Hanks movie this weekend were over 35. Critics have been enamored with the movie, and filmgoers loved it, too, assigning the picture an average grade of A, according to market research firm CinemaScore.
Produced by Sony Pictures for $55 million, "Captain Phillips" is based on the 2009 saga of a merchant mariner who was kidnapped by Somali pirates while steering a cargo ship around the Horn of Africa. While the film performed best in New York and Los Angeles, Sony said business was also strong in Minneapolis, where there is a high concentration of Somali immigrants.
The film marks the best live-action debut for Hanks since 2009's big-budget "Angels & Demons," which launched with $46.2 million. In recent years, the 57-year-old has struggled somewhat to find his footing at the box office. His 2011 romantic comedy "Larry Crowne," which he directed, co-wrote and starred in, tanked with just $35.6 million in domestic ticket sales. The expensive adaptation of "Cloud Atlas," in which he starred last year with Halle Berry, was a disappointment as well, though fared OK overseas.
The latest entry in Rodriguez's "Machete" film series came in below the lowest industry projections, performing far worse than the original, 2010 "Machete," which opened with $11.4 million. The few who showed up to see the sequel this weekend -- 67% of whom were male -- gave the poorly reviewed film an average grade of B-.
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The movie, acquired last year for $2 million by Open Road Entertainment, stars Danny Trejo as a spy who teams up with the U.S. president (Charlie Sheen, credited as Carlos Estevez) to ward off a terrorist attack on the Capitol.
Though "Machete Kills" had a dismal opening, it wasn't as bad as the debut of a new "Romeo & Juliet" adaptation. Moviegoers had no love for the latest twist on Shakespeare's classic, which collected $509,000 from 461 theaters this weekend.
Starring Hailee Steinfeld of "True Grit" and newcomer Douglas Booth, "Romeo & Juliet" was adapted by "Downton Abbey" creator Julian Fellowes. The film was distributed by Relativity Media, which received a fee to release the movie and didn't pay to advertise it. The picture was the first -- and perhaps now the last -- to be made by Swarovski, the crystal jewelry company.
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Student: | What goes up must come down—but it hasn't happened yet for highly lauded 3D thriller Gravity, which topped the box office for a second weekend with $44.3 million in ticket sales. Tom Hanks-led Somali pirate flick Captain Phillips sailed in to No. 2, grossing a seaworthy $26 million in its debut weekend, the LA Times reports. But it was a far less successful maiden voyage for Machete 2, which flopped with only $3.8 million, putting it at No. 4. It was bested by Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2, which scored $14.2 million in its third weekend, per the Hollywood Reporter. And coming in at No. 5, Runner Runner and Prisoners tied with $3.7 million apiece. |
Read the text and determine if the sentence is true (see options at the end):
Nathan MacKinnon (born September 1, 1995) is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward, an alternate captain of the Colorado Avalanche organization of the National Hockey League (NHL). MacKinnon was selected first overall by the Avalanche in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft.
Sentence: Nathan MacKinnon played many positions during his career
Choose your answer from:
(A). Yes
(B). It's impossible to say
(C). No | (B). |
A question is presented to you in this task, and your job is to write a potentially correct answer.
Example input: where did france surrender ww2?
Example output: Mediterranean Sea
Example explanation: This is a good example and the output correctly answers the question.
Q: where george washington carver go to school?
A: | Tuskegee University |
Please answer the following question: Given the following passage "Some applications standardize on UTC to avoid problems with clock shifts and time zone differences. Likewise, most modern operating systems internally handle and store all times as UTC and only convert to local time for display.", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: Modern operating systems internally don't have to do what twice a year?
Answer: | clock shifts |
QUES: From the start of the 20th century through the 1970s, the American tuna fishing fleet and tuna canning industry were based in San Diego, "the tuna capital of the world". San Diego's first tuna cannery was founded in 1911, and by the mid-1930s the canneries employed more than 1,000 people. A large fishing fleet supported the canneries, mostly staffed by immigrant fishermen from Japan, and later from the Portuguese Azores and Italy whose influence is still felt in neighborhoods like Little Italy and Point Loma. Due to rising costs and foreign competition, the last of the canneries closed in the early 1980s.
What nickname was San Diego given by the tuna canning industry in the 1960s?
What is the answer?
ANS: unanswerable
QUES: Highbury could hold more than 60,000 spectators at its peak, and had a capacity of 57,000 until the early 1990s. The Taylor Report and Premier League regulations obliged Arsenal to convert Highbury to an all-seater stadium in time for the 1993–94 season, thus reducing the capacity to 38,419 seated spectators. This capacity had to be reduced further during Champions League matches to accommodate additional advertising boards, so much so that for two seasons, from 1998 to 2000, Arsenal played Champions League home matches at Wembley, which could house more than 70,000 spectators.
What was the maximum occupancy of Highbury at its peak?
What is the answer?
ANS: unanswerable
QUES: Philadelphia once comprised six congressional districts. However, as a result of the city's declining population, it now has only four: the 1st district, represented by Bob Brady; the 2nd, represented by Chaka Fattah; the 8th, represented by Mike Fitzpatrick; and the 13th, represented by Brendan Boyle. All but Fitzpatrick are Democrats. Although they are usually swamped by Democrats in city, state and national elections, Republicans still have some support in the area, primarily in the northeast. A Republican represented a significant portion of Philadelphia in the House as late as 1983, and Sam Katz ran competitive mayoral races as the Republican nominee in both 1999 and 2003.
Who was the last Republican to be fairly competitive in the mayoral race?
What is the answer?
ANS: | Sam Katz |
Q: Given the following passage "In the 1500s a new type of armor started to become popular due to the advent of firearms, new fighting tactics and the need for additional protection. The kozane dou made from individual scales was replaced by plate armor. This new armor, which used iron plated dou (dō), was referred to as Tosei-gusoku, or modern armor. Various other components of armor protected the samurai's body. The helmet kabuto was an important part of the samurai's armor. Samurai armor changed and developed as the methods of samurai warfare changed over the centuries. The known last use of samurai armor occurring in 1877 during the satsuma rebellion. As the last samurai rebellion was crushed, Japan modernized its defenses and turned to a national conscription army that used uniforms.", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: Why wasn't the armor used by samurai able to stay the same?
A: samurai warfare changed
Q: Given the following passage "In some rare cases, such as with Ethiopia and Qing Dynasty China, the local governments were able to use the treaties to at least mitigate the impact of European colonization. This involved learning the intricacies of European diplomatic customs and then using the treaties to prevent a power from overstepping their agreement or by playing different powers against each other.", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: What were the documents for?
A: to at least mitigate the impact of European colonization
Q: Given the following passage "Muslim sects regarded as heretical, such as the Druze, Ismailis, Alevis, and Alawites, ranked below Jews and Christians. In 1514, Sultan Selim I, nicknamed "the Grim" because of his cruelty, ordered the massacre of 40,000 Anatolian Alevis (Qizilbash), whom he considered heretics, reportedly proclaiming that "the killing of one Alevi had as much otherworldly reward as killing 70 Christians."[page needed] Selim was also responsible for an unprecedented and rapid expansion of the Ottoman Empire into the Middle East, especially through his conquest of the entire Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt, which included much of the region. With these conquests, Selim further solidified the Ottoman claim for being an Islamic caliphate, although Ottoman sultans had been claiming the title of caliph since the 14th century starting with Murad I (reigned 1362 to 1389). The caliphate would remain held by Ottoman sultans for the rest of the office's duration, which ended with its abolition on 3 March 1924 by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and the exile of the last caliph, Abdülmecid II, to France.", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: Who was the first caliph?
A: Murad I
Q: Given the following passage "As of 2011, 235–330 million people worldwide are affected by asthma, and approximately 250,000–345,000 people die per year from the disease. Rates vary between countries with prevalences between 1 and 18%. It is more common in developed than developing countries. One thus sees lower rates in Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa. Within developed countries it is more common in those who are economically disadvantaged while in contrast in developing countries it is more common in the affluent. The reason for these differences is not well known. Low and middle income countries make up more than 80% of the mortality.", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: How many individuals are fatally impacted by the breathing disease yearly?
A: | approximately 250,000–345,000 |
Text: the system design icon, siedle vario, provides fresh proof of this, presenting itself in four new finishes.
Correct capitalization: The system design icon, Siedle Vario, provides fresh proof of this, presenting itself in four new finishes.
Text: the best adult games for free include a large number of table games: including checkers, backgammon and various card games.
Correct capitalization: The best adult games for free include a large number of table games: including checkers, backgammon and various card games.
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Correct capitalization: Transfer from Tourrette Levens to Nice (NCE) lentokenttâ
Text: individuals with surname halphen
Correct capitalization: | Individuals with surname HALPHEN |
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.
Ex Input:
Washington (CNN) -- The District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, and Rhode Island are all to receive a portion of the $3.4 billion remaining in the "Race to the Top" fund for education in those states. "We had many more competitive applications than money to fund them in this round," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Tuesday. "Race to the Top" is an Obama administration initiative to award money to states that show that they have a plan for school reforms in four main areas: turning around low performing schools, adopting college and career ready standards, effective teachers and principals, and using data systems to support student achievement.Nine states plus the District of Columbia are winnersEach will receive a portion of $3.4 billionWinners had to show they have plans for school reforms
Questions:Those finalists all sent representatives to _ in August to present their case to a group of peer reviewers. (A) Washington (B) CNN (C) Florida (D) Georgia (E) Hawaii (F) Maryland (G) Massachusetts (H) New York (I) North Carolina (J) Ohio (K) Rhode Island (L) Race to the Top (M) Arne Duncan (N) Obama
Ex Output:
(A)
Ex Input:
Family and friends who travelled from around the world for an Australian bride's wedding instead face having to attend her funeral after she was allegedly murdered just a week before her big day. Stephanie Scott, 26, was due marry her partner of five years, Aaron Leeson-Woolley, in front of 120 guests in a small town in New South Wales this Saturday. But the English and drama teacher vanished on Sunday while excitedly making final preparations for the wedding. Now police have charged a man with her murder despite not having found her body, leaving her loved ones with the devastating task of continuing the search and making funeral arrangements.Stephanie Scott, 26, was due to marry Aaron Leeson-Woolley this SaturdayShe vanished on Sunday while brimming with excitement about weddingPolice have charged man, 24, with her murder despite not finding her bodyFamily face devastating task of continuing search and planning funeral
Questions:Sunday 10am: She texts her fiancé _ to tell him about her plans for the morning. (A) Family (B) Australian (C) Stephanie Scott (D) Aaron Leeson-Woolley (E) New South Wales (F) English
Ex Output:
(D)
Ex Input:
(CNN) A submarine is joining the Mediterranean Sea search for the black boxes that could reveal what caused the crash of EgyptAir Flight 804. The aircraft disappeared from radar last week on a flight from Paris to Cairo. Searchers have recovered parts of the plane wreckage, including passengers' personal belongings, life vests, aircraft chairs and even body parts. But they're still scouring the Mediterranean for the plane's fuselage, and for the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder -- key pieces of evidence that would likely reveal what went wrong on the flight. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi announced the deployment of the submarine Sunday. It can reach a depth of 3,000 meters (about 9,800 feet), he said.Mourners at a Cairo mosque gather in memory of the plane's pilotEgypt uses submarine to hunt for flight data and cockpit voice recorders
Questions:The jet had routine maintenance checks in Cairo before it left for _, the airline said. (A) CNN (B) Mediterranean Sea (C) EgyptAir (D) Flight 804 (E) Paris (F) Cairo (G) Mediterranean (H) Egyptian (I) Abdel Fattah el (J) Sisi (K) Egypt
Ex Output:
| (E)
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What is the title of this article:
In 1902, the Siemens company developed a tantalum lamp filament. These lamps were more efficient than even graphitized carbon filaments and could operate at higher temperatures. Since tantalum metal has a lower resistivity than carbon, the tantalum lamp filament was quite long and required multiple internal supports. The metal filament had the property of gradually shortening in use; the filaments were installed with large loops that tightened in use. This made lamps in use for several hundred hours quite fragile. Metal filaments had the property of breaking and re-welding, though this would usually decrease resistance and shorten the life of the filament. General Electric bought the rights to use tantalum filaments and produced them in the US until 1913.
Title: | Incandescent light bulb |
Given a paragraph, your job is to generate a question that can be answered from the passage. The answer to your question should be a single entity, person, time, etc. that can be extracted from the passage.
Example: There are a million times more viruses on the planet than stars in the universe. Viruses also harbor the majority of genetic diversity on Earth. Scientists are finding evidence of viruses as a planetary force, influencing the global climate and geochemical cycles. They have also profoundly shaped the evolution of their hosts. The human genome, for example, contains 100,000 segments of virus DNA.
Example solution: How many segments of virus DNA does the human genome contain?
Example explanation: The paragraph states the number of segments of virus DNA does the human genome contain, hence the question asked above is appropriate.
Problem: where is the relevant cross-sectional area for the volume for which the stress-tensor is being calculated. This formalism includes pressure terms associated with forces that act normal to the cross-sectional area (the matrix diagonals of the tensor) as well as shear terms associated with forces that act parallel to the cross-sectional area (the off-diagonal elements). The stress tensor accounts for forces that cause all strains (deformations) including also tensile stresses and compressions.:133–134:38-1–38-11
| Solution: What causes strain in structures? |
This task is about reading the given passage and the question, return an incorrect answer to the given question.
Input: Consider Input: story: Intel Corporation (also known as Intel, stylized as intel) is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California (colloquially referred to as "Silicon Valley") that was founded by Gordon Moore (of Moore's law fame) and Robert Noyce. It is the world's second largest and second highest valued semiconductor chip makers based on revenue after being overtaken by Samsung, and is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers (PCs). Intel supplies processors for computer system manufacturers such as Apple, Lenovo, HP, and Dell. Intel also manufactures motherboard chipsets, network interface controllers and integrated circuits, flash memory, graphics chips, embedded processors and other devices related to communications and computing.
Intel Corporation was founded on July 18, 1968, by semiconductor pioneers Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, and widely associated with the executive leadership and vision of Andrew Grove. The company's name was conceived as portmanteau of the words "int"egrated and "el"ectronics, with co-founder Noyce having been a key inventor of the integrated circuit (microchip). The fact that "intel" is the term for intelligence information also made the name appropriate. Intel was an early developer of SRAM and DRAM memory chips, which represented the majority of its business until 1981. Although Intel created the world's first commercial microprocessor chip in 1971, it was not until the success of the personal computer (PC) that this became its primary business. During the 1990s, Intel invested heavily in new microprocessor designs fostering the rapid growth of the computer industry. During this period Intel became the dominant supplier of microprocessors for PCs and was known for aggressive and anti-competitive tactics in defense of its market position, particularly against Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), as well as a struggle with Microsoft for control over the direction of the PC industry.', question: 'Where is the company's headquarters?
Output: Details about Intel Corporation
Input: Consider Input: story: CHAPTER XXXIII. THE LAST JACOBITE RISING.
While the Kirk was vainly striving to assuage the tempers of Mr Erskine and his friends, the Jacobites were preparing to fish in troubled waters. In 1739 Walpole was forced to declare war against Spain, and Walpole had previously sounded James as to his own chances of being trusted by that exiled prince. James thought that Walpole was merely angling for information. Meanwhile Jacobite affairs were managed by two rivals, Macgregor (calling himself Drummond) of Balhaldy and Murray of Broughton. The sanguine Balhaldy induced France to suppose that the Jacobites in England and Scotland were much more united, powerful, and ready for action than they really were, when Argyll left office in 1742, while Walpole fell from power, Carteret and the Duke of Newcastle succeeding. In 1743 Murray found that France, though now at war with England over the Spanish Succession, was holding aloof from the Jacobite cause, though plied with flourishing and fabulous reports from Balhaldy and the Jacobite Lord Sempill. But, in December 1743, on the strength of alleged Jacobite energy in England, Balhaldy obtained leave from France to visit Rome and bring Prince Charles. The Prince had kept himself in training for war and was eager. Taking leave of his father for the last time, Charles drove out of Rome on January 9, 1744; evaded, in disguise, every trap that was set for him, and landed at Antibes, reaching Paris on February 10. Louis did not receive him openly, if he received him at all; the Prince lurked at Gravelines in disguise, with the Earl Marischal, while winds and waves half ruined, and the approach of a British fleet drove into port, a French fleet of invasion under Roqueville (March 6, 7, 1744). ', question: 'What was his title?
Output: Charles
Input: Consider Input: story: Washington (CNN) -- At one time, Susan Rice seemed to be on a trajectory that would take her to the secretary of state's office in President Barack Obama's second term.
But that trajectory changed Thursday when the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations withdrew her name from consideration to succeed current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
In a letter to the president, Rice explained her decision to pull herself out of the running.
"I am highly honored to be considered by you for appointment as Secretary of State," the letter read. "However, if nominated, I am now convinced that the confirmation process would be lengthy, disruptive and costly -- to you and to our most pressing national and international priorities. That trade-off is simply not worth it to our country. ... Therefore, I respectfully request that you no longer consider my candidacy at this time."
A former administration official with knowledge of Rice's decision said this was Rice's decision; the White House did not ask her to stand down.
Obama said that while he regretted Rice's decision to withdraw he would continue to rely on her advice.
Rice's path began decades ago with the help of family friend Madeleine Albright, the woman who became the first female secretary of state.
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Albright, while serving under President Bill Clinton, recommended that he tap Rice for a high-level State Department post on African affairs in the late 1990s.
Albright had previously served with Rice's mother, Lois Rice, on a school board in Washington and watched Rice grow up with her own daughters. ', question: 'Who pulled herself out of the running?
| Output: Madeleine Albright
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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. Among the entities, try to find the best entity that is most likely to fill in "_" and classify the answers based on options.
Q: (CNN) -- From fighting common colds to cancer, Chinese herbal medicines have long been touted for their healing properties. But this week, environmental group Greenpeace says it found many herbs purchased from Chinese and Hong Kong retail stores contain alarming levels of harmful pesticides. One herb, a sample of San Qi flower purchased from popular chain Beijing Tong Ren Tang, contained over 500 times the EU safety limit of a restricted pesticide. Another herb contained over 100 times that limit, according to the report. Beijing Tong Ren Tang did not return calls for comment. Of the 65 herbs sampled by Greenpeace, 51 contained pesticides with 26 having chemicals classified as "extremely or highly hazardous" by the World Health Organization, it said.Greenpeace: Of 65 herbs tested, 26 contained "highly hazardous" pesticidesGreenpeace: One herb contained over 500 times European safe limit of pesticideNEW: Hong Kong Department of Health says it is "concerned about the findings"Scientist says pesticides do not necessarily pose risk; boiling herbs can help
Questions:Wang said the _ government has "no regulation or guidance" regarding the use of pesticides with herbal crops. (A) CNN (B) Chinese (C) Greenpeace (D) Hong Kong (E) San Qi (F) Beijing Tong Ren Tang (G) EU (H) Beijing (I) Tong Ren Tang (J) World Health Organization (K) European (L) Department of Health
A: (B)
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Q: Staff at St James’s Palace could hear Jimmy Savile approaching long before they saw him. The jangling of his gold chains and a trailing cloud of cigar smoke announced his arrival. Just as with the psychiatric hospitals and prisons where he preyed on the vulnerable, the serial paedophile also had a licence to roam in the Prince of Wales’s London base. After inveigling himself into Charles’s life as a mentor and adviser, Savile was granted unprecedented access across all the royal palaces upstairs and downstairs. The DJ was not just at ease with the Queen’s family, but every bit at home with her servants, too.Serial paedophile inveigled himself into Prince Charles' life as a mentorHe was granted unprecedented access across all of the royal palacesEven the Queen couldn’t resist his charm — or so he liked to claimBut Diana found him 'creepy' and recoiled after he once licked her hand
Questions:Reading that again today in the light of Savile’s appalling sexual aggression, _ must surely cringe with embarrassment. (A) St James’s Palace (B) Jimmy Savile (C) Prince of Wales (D) London (E) Charles’s (F) Savile (G) DJ (H) Prince Charles (I) Diana
A: (H)
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Q: A terror-sympathiser linked to hate preacher Abu Qatada has been granted the right to live in the UK despite earlier being branded a risk to national security. The Moroccan-born 56-year-old holds joint French and Algerian nationality but is married to a British woman. However, he was excluded from the country on August 25, 2005 as he represented 'a sufficiently serious threat' to public safety. The father-of-eight, known only as ZZ, previously admitted having sympathy for banned Algerian terror group the GIA - but has had a decision banning him from the UK overturned after citing the Human Rights Act. According to judgement from the Special Immigration Appeals Commission, ZZ 'was not frank' about trips he made to the continent as a GIA activist.The terror sympathiser known only as ZZ was barred from the UK in 2005He tried to sneak into the country on a fake Belgian passport in 2009An appeals tribunal found that much of ZZ's evidence 'lacked credibility'Despite his alleged past, ZZ is no longer regarded a security risk
Questions:No specific measures were mentioned in the recent Queen's speech, but he said: 'We are very clear about what we want which is _ judges making decisions in British courts,. (A) Abu Qatada (B) UK (C) Moroccan (D) French (E) Algerian (F) British (G) ZZ (H) GIA (I) Human Rights Act (J) Special Immigration Appeals Commission (K) Belgian
A: | (F)
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Text: During Microsoft's E3 2015 press conference on June 15, 2015, Microsoft announced plans to introduce Xbox 360 backward compatibility on the Xbox One at no additional cost. Supported Xbox 360 games will run within an emulator and have access to certain Xbox One features, such as recording and broadcasting gameplay. Games do not run directly from discs. A ported form of the game is downloaded automatically when a supported game is inserted, while digitally-purchased games will automatically appear for download in the user's library once available. As with Xbox One titles, if the game is installed using physical media, the disc is still required for validation purposes.
Question: will an xbox 360 game work on an xbox one?
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Text: Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a royal title normally granted to sons and grandsons of reigning and past British monarchs. It is also held by the Duke of Edinburgh, husband and consort of Queen Elizabeth II. The title is granted by the reigning monarch, who is the fount of all honours, through the issuing of letters patent as an expression of the royal will.
Question: is the son of a prince still a prince?
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Text: The Mississippi River has the world's fourth-largest drainage basin (``watershed'' or ``catchment''). The basin covers more than 1,245,000 square miles (3,220,000 km), including all or parts of 31 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. The drainage basin empties into the Gulf of Mexico, part of the Atlantic Ocean. The total catchment of the Mississippi River covers nearly 40% of the landmass of the continental United States. The highest point within the watershed is also the highest point of the Rocky Mountains, Mount Elbert at 14,440 feet (4,400 m).
Question: does the mississippi river flow into the ocean?
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Text: The twelfth season of the American television medical drama Grey's Anatomy was ordered on May 7, 2015, by ABC. It premiered on September 24, 2015, in the United States on ABC. The twelfth season includes the show's 250th episode, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, which is the fifth episode in the season. The season is produced by ABC Studios, in association with Shondaland Production Company and The Mark Gordon Company; the showrunners being Stacy McKee and William Harper. The season commenced airing with the episode ``Sledgehammer'' and concluded with ``Family Affair''.
Question: is grey's anatomy coming back for season 12?
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Given a passage and a query based on the passage, generate an unambiguous, concise and simple answer to the query from information in the passage. Note that the answer may not be present in exact form.
Know Your Rights » Moving Out » Deposits Deposits FAQ. How long does the landlord have to return my deposit? If my landlord didn’t get a statement to me in 21 days, can I still be charged for damages? Can the landlord require me to have the carpets professionally cleaned before I move out? How long does my landlord have to give me my deposit back. 1 Bismarck, ND | 1 attorney answer. 2 Atlanta, GA | 1 attorney answer. 3 Chicopee, MA | 3 attorney answers. 4 Taylor, MI | 2 attorney answers. 5 Escondido, CA | 1 attorney answer. Remember, too, your security deposit isn’t the limit of your liability. While you’re entitled to get some or all of your security deposit back—if you've done little or no damage—if the amount of damage exceeds the amount of your deposit, the landlord can bill—or even sue—you to recover the remaining damages. Does my landlord have to show me receipts for damage repairs deducted from my deposit or charged to me? What is “normal wear and tear”? If the landlord gave me a written lease, a complete move-in checklist, and a specific written statement within 21 days, does this prevent me from requesting my deposit back or disputing the charges? Are you ever going to see it again? Does it mean you don’t have to pay your last month’s rent? What is a security deposit? A security deposit is a fixed amount of money you pay your landlord, or management company, to cover any damage you might cause to the property. The landlord can’t spend that money while you live in the apartment. The new law, which goes into effect January 15, 2017, requires landlords to charge no more than 1 month’s rent for security deposit and nonrefundable fees. Additionally, tenants are allowed up to a 6 month payment plan for the security deposit, any nonrefundable fees, and last month’s rent. How long does the landlord have to return my deposit? RCW 59.18.280 states that the landlord has 21 days from the time the rental agreement ends and the tenant vacates the unit to postmark the return of the deposit or a written statement detailing why portions of the deposit were withheld. The correspondence must be postmarked by the 21st day. The landlord sends you an itemized list of damages and repair costs, along with any remaining balance on your security deposit; When you move out, be sure to give your landlord your new address. They are legally required to send you an itemized list of damages and the balance of your security deposit within a certain time period, but they can’t do that if they don't know where to find you. Information landlords must give tenants. Once your landlord has received your deposit, they have 30 days to tell you: the address of the rented property. how much deposit you’ve paid. how the deposit is protected. the name and contact details of the tenancy deposit protection (TDP) scheme and its dispute resolution service. Get Involved. 1 Join the Tenants Union action alert list Get occasional updates on issues and actions affecting Washington State tenants. 2 Become a Member TU members are the heart and strength of the Tenants Union’s work for housing justice. 3 Volunteer at the TU We need your talents! Query: how long does the landlord have to give back the deposit
It takes 30 days the landlord have to give back the deposit.
the difference is that the hydrosphere is made up of all the water on earth.The most obvious form of water is its liquid state.The hydrosphere also includes water in its… vapor form in the atmosphere and its frozen,solid form in glaciers.The Water in Earth's oceans,sea,rivers,lakes,glaciers,and atmosphere is all part of the hydrosphere.And the ... Start studying Earth Science 4 parts. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Water moves through the hydrosphere in a cycle. Water collects in clouds, then falls to Earth in the form of rain or snow. This water collects in rivers, lakes and oceans. Then it evaporates into the atmosphere to start the cycle all over again. the sphere of living organisms ,where lithospheren hydrosphere and atmosphere meet and interect is called the biosphere . all the water bodies on the earth surface namely ocea…ns, seas, lakes, rivers together with snow and ice are collectively called the hydrosphere. the sphere of living organisms ,where lithospheren hydrosphere and atmosphere meet and interect is called the biosphere . all the water bodies on the earth surface namely ocea … ns, seas, lakes, rivers together with snow and ice are collectively called the hydrosphere The hydrosphere is all the water biomes as one - there is also the atmosphere and the lithosphere. These mean air sphere and soil sphere respectively. These 3 (Hydro, Soil and … Create a free account to save it. includes all living things on Earth as well as the environments where they live. all of the water on earth in oceans, seas, rivers, underground, ice, as well as in the atmosphere. the area from the surface of the earth to the center of the earth including the crust, mantle, and core. The hydrosphere is all the water biomes as one - there is also the atmosphere and the lithosphere. These mean air sphere and soil sphere respectively. These 3 (Hydro, Soil and… Air) all together make the biosphere. What are the physical changes that move water molecules from the lakes oceans and glaciers of the hydrosphere into the atmosphere? all of the water on earth in oceans, seas, rivers, underground, ice, as well as in the atmosphere. Solid, liquid, and gas. Geosphere. the area from the surface of the earth to the center of the earth including the crust, mantle, and core. Query: how does water move between the hydrosphere and atmosphere?
The water moves between the hydrosphere and atmosphere in a cycle, water collects in clouds, then falls to Earth in the form of rain or snow. This water collects in rivers, lakes and oceans. Then it evaporates into the atmosphere to start the cycle all over again.
How long does a judgment stay on your credit report and does the time limit start from the day it is filed or from the day it's paid off? A judgment will remain on a credit report for the full 10 years. The judgment clock will run for a lot longer than the credit-reporting clock. Here’s what I mean: In general, judgments remain enforceable for 10 years (in some states, such as my creditor-friendly state of Rhode Island, it’s 20 years) from the date entered or filed with the courts. Mostly, consumers who ask this question are concerned about how negative information like bankruptcies, judgments, and late payments affects their credit history and score. Luckily, there are set time frames for how long negative information remains on a credit report. In general, negative information more than seven years old from the date of last activity (ten years for bankruptcies) must be removed from your file. We’ve already covered how long collection accounts stay on your credit report and we’ll get to judgments in a minute. How Long Does a Tax Lien Stay On Your Credit Reports? If you fail to pay your taxes, the government could file a tax lien, which shows current and future creditors that the government has a right to your property until you have paid or otherwise gotten rid of the lien. Even though you paid the judgment, the judgment will be listed on your credit report for 7 years after the filing of the judgment. The credit report should include the $0 balance. Part 2 In CA a judgment can remain on your credit report as long as enforceable. Enforceable for 10 tears. Can be renewed indefinitely. Can remain of credit report forever. Experian appears to be the only credit reporting agency that publicizes its policy to not report vacated judgments on its consumer credit reports. Having your judgment set aside or vacated is the only way to possibly have it removed from your credit reports sooner than the “seven years from date filed” date. Judgments will stay on your credit report in the public records section for up to 10 years. The information provided herein is general information only and not legal advice. The information provided herein does not create an attorney client relationship and is not a substitute for having a consultation with an attorney. If the statute of limitations on judgments is longer than 7 years in your state, then that time frame is how long the judgment can remain on your credit report. There are some exceptions to the rules above: New York Residents. A paid judgment can remain on your credit report for no longer than 5 years. So, 7 years from the date of entry, or longer, if your state has legislation which allows it report longer. Here is input from others: A judgment remains on a consumer's credit report for 7 years from the date of entry, or until the governing statute of limitations has expired, whichever is longer. This time period applies to each legal action. Under certain circumstances and certain state's laws, judgments can be renewed. Query: how long does judgment stay on credit report
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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".
Problem:Little is known of the earliest Stone Age inhabitants of Europe's southwestern extremity. The ancient Greeks called them the Cynetes (or Cunetes). Whatever their origins, their culture evolved under the pressure and influence of foreign forces. Among the many invading armies that settled here and contributed to nascent Portuguese culture were Phoenicians, who settled in the area around 1,000 b.c., followed by the Celts, Iberians, Greeks, and Carthaginians. But it was the Romans, who arrived late in the third century b.c., who most greatly influenced all of Iberia. They built towns, industries, roads, and bridges, developed agriculture, and bequeathed the Latin language, of which Portuguese is a direct descendant. The Romans named the southwestern province of the peninsula Lusitania, oddly enough for one of the Celtiberian tribes they defeated, and by the third century a.d. had introduced Christianity. By the beginning of the fourth century the Algarve had a bishop in place, based in Faro. But Rome had already fallen into decay, and soon hordes of northern tribesmen took over the empire. The Algarve fell to the Visigoths in the mid-fifth century. Under Moorish Rule In a.d. 711, the Moors brought powerful armies from North Africa and launched a devastating attack on the Iberian peninsula, conquering much of what would become Spain and Portugal. They imposed Islam and left an indelible influence on the countryside and the population of the Algarve. The Moorish legacy can still be seen in the form of wells and waterwheels, squat white houses, the dark complexions of the people, and in the very name given the region — taken from Al-Gharb, which means "country of the west" (when the Moors conquered the territory, it was the most westerly in the known world). The Moors governed their Iberian kingdoms from across the border in Seville, but the Algarve had its own regional capital and huge, invulnerable fortress. The capital was Chelb (or Xelb), and it was bigger and better defended than Lisbon. Today the town, known as Silves, is a provincial outpost whose only besiegers are busloads of tourists who climb the narrow streets up to the old Moorish ramparts. <sep>Where did the Christian Romans place a bishop, based in Faro?<sep>Lusitania
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Instructions: In this task you will be given a passage and a yes/no question based on the passage. You should answer the question using the information from the passage.
Input: passage: In the United Kingdom and the Crown dependencies, any household watching or recording live television transmissions as they are being broadcast (terrestrial, satellite, cable, or Internet) is required to hold a television licence. Businesses, hospitals, schools and a range of other organisations are also required to hold television licences to watch and record live TV broadcasts. A television licence is also required to receive video on demand programme services provided by the BBC, on the iPlayer catch-up service.
question: do you need a license to watch tv in england?
Output: | Yes |
Given the below context: Lennon first met Yoko Ono on 9 November 1966 at the Indica Gallery in London, where Ono was preparing her conceptual art exhibit. They were introduced by gallery owner John Dunbar. Lennon was intrigued by Ono's "Hammer A Nail": patrons hammered a nail into a wooden board, creating the art piece. Although the exhibition had not yet begun, Lennon wanted to hammer a nail into the clean board, but Ono stopped him. Dunbar asked her, "Don't you know who this is? He's a millionaire! He might buy it." Ono had supposedly not heard of the Beatles, but relented on condition that Lennon pay her five shillings, to which Lennon replied, "I'll give you an imaginary five shillings and hammer an imaginary nail in." Ono subsequently related that Lennon had taken a bite out of the apple on display in her work Apple, much to her fury.Ono began to telephone and visit Lennon at his home. When Cynthia asked him for an explanation, Lennon explained that Ono was only trying to obtain money for her "avant-garde bullshit". While his wife was on holiday in Greece in May 1968, Lennon invited Ono to visit. They spent the night recording what would become the Two Virgins album, after which, he said, they "made love at dawn". When Lennon's wife returned home she found Ono wearing her bathrobe and drinking tea with Lennon who simply said, "Oh, hi." Ono became pregnant in 1968 and miscarried a male child on 21 November 1968, a few weeks after Lennon's divorce from Cynthia was granted.Two years before the Beatles disbanded, Lennon and Ono began public protests against the Vietnam War. They were married in Gibraltar on 20 March 1969, and spent their honeymoon at the Hilton Amsterdam, campaigning with a week-long Bed-In for Peace. They planned another Bed-In in the United States but were denied entry, so they held one instead at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, where they recorded "Give Peace a Chance". They often combined advocacy with performance art, as in their "Bagism", first introduced during a Vienna press conference. Lennon... Guess a valid title for it!
Answer: | John Lennon |
QUES: Then you will sail to Luxor passing by Edfu and the Esna lock again
correct the punctuation.
CORRECTED: Then you will sail to Luxor, passing by Edfu and the Esna lock again.
Question: Rawmaterials that are part of a certification scheme to assure responsible social and environmental practice in forestry or plantation
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Answer: Raw-materials that are part of a certification scheme to assure responsible social and environmental practice in forestry or plantation.
Next to the cathedral is the Museu Gro Vasco named after the famous 15th century Portuguese artist who has also given his name to one of the regions wellknown wines
Can you repeat this sentence, but add in punctuation?
Next to the cathedral is the Museu Grão Vasco, named after the famous 15th century Portuguese artist, who has also given his name to one of the region’s well-known wines.
input: Equipped with 15hp singlephase brushless induction motor diaphragm pump highpressure spray gun with inline filter replaceable spray tip 15M high pressure hose wrench set and other easilybroken spare parts for repairing
fixed: * Equipped with 1.5hp single-phase brushless induction motor, diaphragm pump, high-pressure spray gun with in-line filter, replaceable spray tip, 15M high pressure hose, wrench set, and other easily-broken spare parts for repairing.
input ---- It is a climate as that of Odense that enables research and leads to results some of which I would like to present in the following
output ---- It is a climate as that of Odense that enables research and leads to results, some of which I would like to present in the following.
Add punctuation: Shayne Langloss from Faroe Islands of PCMAGCOM After our technical detection and feedback research from Vietnam Hungary Czech Republic Mozambique Faroe Islands I need to say that DLL Suite is the most outstanding DLL Fixer in this field with its high efficiency and effect
A: | Shayne Langloss from Faroe Islands of PCMAG.COM: After our technical detection and feedback research from Vietnam, Hungary, Czech Republic, Mozambique, Faroe Islands, I need to say that DLL Suite is the most outstanding DLL Fixer in this field with its high efficiency and effect. |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given an article. Your task is to summarize the article in a sentence.
Problem:Chancellor George Osborne has fought moves to introduce such a tax, warning it would harm the City.
The Labour Party has also been against a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT).
But Mr McDonnell believes it could rein in the excesses of the financial sector and help pay for improvements to the NHS and other public services.
He told a fringe meeting at the Labour conference in Brighton that he had reached an agreement with Shadow Business Secretary Angela Eagle to launch an "open" debate in Labour with a view to making a Financial Transaction Tax party policy.
He told the Unite meeting that his conference speech on Monday "won't be one of my normal rants" and "might be stultifyingly boring" because he would be setting out a series of "economic initiatives" Labour had planned.
He has long campaigned for a Financial Transaction Tax and revealed that he had a furious row with his predecessor as shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, when he tried to secure a Commons debate on the issue.
David Hillman, of the Robin Hood Tax campaign, which has gathered more than a million signatures on its petition, told the meeting there was nothing "dangerous or radical" about the idea, which he said had support from across the political spectrum in Europe.
The point of the tax, which would be levied on stock and foreign exchange trades, would be "to have the banks and hedge funds pay for, or at least contribute to paying for, the immense economic damage their gambling, essentially it was gambling, had caused," he said.
Mr McDonnell said he would use his speech to "demand" access to the financial models used by the Office for Budget Responsibility and the Bank of England to help Labour formulate an alternative economic policy and calculate the rate at which a Robin Hood tax could be set.
"I think that should be open to all parties in Parliament" to test their own ideas "in advance of getting into government," he added.
He will also announce a review of Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs to find out how it could beef up its efforts to collect the billions of pounds avoided by UK companies and individuals every year.
Mr McDonnell said he wanted to examine every aspect of HMRC, "its operations, effectiveness and also look at its range of policies and the instruments that it has available to it to ensure that we maximise our tax take and at the same time it's done on a fair and just basis".
During his Labour leadership campaign, Jeremy Corbyn claimed £120bn could be recovered from tax avoidance and evasion - enough to pay off the deficit without cutting welfare or public spending.
But critics, including the then shadow chancellor Chris Leslie, said it was not a plausible policy and would not work.
Solution: | John McDonnell looks set to use his first Labour conference speech as shadow chancellor to push for a "Robin Hood" tax on stock market trading. |
Given a text, write a compressed version of it in a single sentence.
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Question: Though these muscle hijackers did not travel much after arriving in the United States, two of them, Waleed al Shehri and Satam al Suqami, took unusual trips.
Answer: Though these hijackers were ill-traveled in the United States, Waleed al Shehri and Satam al Suqami had unusual trips.
Question: For the Clear Skies benefits analysis, we do not have the time or resources to conduct primary economic research targeted at the specific air pollution-related benefits provided. As a result, we rely on the transfer of benefits estimates from existing studies.
Answer: We do not have the time or resources to conduct primary economic research targeted at the specific air pollution-related benefits provided for the clear skies benefits analysis.
Question: A new version of the annoying yet popular toy and a new presidential candidate from the awkward yet enduring political family are aggressively courting acclaim.
Answer: | A version of the annoying toy and new candidate for president from a strange but enduring family are courting acclaim.
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In this task you will be given a question and a passage. You need to determine if the answer to the question is contained in the passage. If the answer can be found in the passage you should output 'True'. If the answer cannot be found in the passage you should output 'False'.
One example: Passage: 'The size of a matrix is defined by the number of rows and columns that it contains. A matrix with m rows and n columns is called an m × n matrix or m-by-n matrix, while m and n are called its dimensions. For example, the matrix A above is a 3 × 2 matrix.'. Question: 'who came up with eating turkey on thanksgiving'.
Solution is here: False
Explanation: The passage does not mention anything about Thanksgiving turkeys so the passage does not answer the question. The output is 'False', so this is a good example.
Now, solve this: Passage: 'The climate of Russia is formed under the influence of several determining factors. The enormous size of the country and the remoteness of many areas from the sea result in the dominance of the continental climate, which is prevalent in European and Asian Russia except for the tundra and the best extreme southeast. Mountains in the South obstructing the flow of warm air masses from the Indian Ocean and the plain of the west and north makes the country open to Arctic and Atlantic influences.'. Question: 'first ascent of the north face of the eiger'.
Solution: | False |
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Having friends may well keep you healthier and help you deal with stress better. Some studies show that people with close friends have a greater ability to fight disease than people who are alone. Place friendship in the first place. Find the time to be with friends even if it means letting the lawn go unmowed or the dishes unwashed for a while. When you can't get together, use the phone to keep in touch. Open up to close friends. Keeping a deep friendship requires a level of "heartfelt" intimacy .Don't be afraid to express your inner fears and disappointments. Listen to your friends when they have problems,but offer advice only when it's wanted. Help raise friends' selfesteem when they are sad about a job loss, or other such events. Have different friends for different activities, such as going to the movies,singing in a choir,and joining in a bowling league. Don't wait for a friend to ask for helps. When a friend has the flu,offer to go to the store or drive his or her children to their afterschool activities. Never take a friendship for granted. Like a good marriage,friendship needs care and patience. Become a joiner. Find a group that matches your interests. Talk to strangers. Conversations started in museums, laundry rooms,or bookstores can lead to firm friendship. _ in an adulteducation course. A classroom is an ideal place to meet others with similar interests. According to the passage,you'd better offer advice to your friends _ . A) at any moment B) only when they are happy C) only when they want it D) only when you are glad
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C
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William Shakespeare is the most famous playwright . Although he died in 1616, people still go to see his plays. Among the most popular are Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Hamlet -- the story of a prince who struggles to respond to the crimes around him. Shakespeare, who was born in 1564, was an actor as well as a writer. Most of his ideas for plays were taken from history, people's conversation, ancient stories, and also from other writers. He wrote not only about kings and queens and princes, but also about friends and ordinary people. He wrote about the cruelty of war and the bravery of heroes, as well as about jealousy, joy, hate, ambition and love. His stories live on. The tragedy Romeo and Juliet was reborn as the musical West Side Story and more recently as the movie Romeo and Juliet with the wonderful performance of Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. He invented a number of great characters: powerful magicians, thrilling witches, smart women and both wise and wicked men. He also invented some great phrases. If you've ever said, "Oh, for goodness sake!" you can thank Shakespeare for that. "To be, or not to be: that is the question," Hamlet says. "Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it is morrow," says Juliet to her Romeo. Don't be surprised if you don't understand everything when reading Shakespeare or watching one of his plays because the meanings of many words have changed over the years. And Shakespeare's characters speak in poetry, so their speeches can be complicated. It does help to find out a little bit about the story before reading a Shakespeare play. It's worth the effort. As Shakespeare wrote, "All the world is a stage." And in his plays you'll find that an entire world is waiting for you. Which of the following is a reason why it's difficult to understand some of Shakespeare's plays? A) There are many new words in his plays. B) He wrote his plays using uncommon words. C) The characters in his plays speak in poetry. D) Most of the words in his plays are outdated.
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C
*Question*
Davos----the highest Alpine resort in Europe offers all the amenities of a small town, while nestling in landscape of unspoilt natural beauty and marvelous mountain splendor . Davos is ideal for an active holiday in a magnificent mountain setting. Whether in summer or winter, you can almost enjoy every type of sport. Skiing, snowboarding, cross-country skiing and ice-sports in winter. Hiking, running, mountain biking, golfing and water sports in summer. Tennis, squash, horse-riding, hand-gliding and paragliding are year-round attractions, Spengler Cup Ice Hockey Tournament and the UBS Snowboard World Championships are just a few of the highlights from an impressive palette of sporting attractions. During the last 35 years, Davos has firmly established itself as a successful and competitive international congress venue , despite its slightly distant location. World Economic Forum for example, is held here annually. The town's strong point lies in its contrast to the conventional congress resort, offering an inviting combination of education and relaxation far from the hustle and bustle of city life. Davos boasts a long skiing tradition. At the turn of the 19thcentury it was mainly the British, who together with a few local people influenced the beginning of Alpine ski sport. The world's first ski lift was opened at Bolgen in 1934. Parts of this lift are now exhibited in the Davos Winter Sports Museum. But Davos was not just one of the pioneers of Alpine skiing. It was also one of the first resorts to recognize and support snowboarding as a sign of the times rather than just an insignificant passing trend. By the beginning of the 1990's,Davos had already gained a reputation as a snowboarding Mecca ,a reputation which has grown with every passing year. Wonderful winter days can be spent without skis. At the coldest time of year, 84 km of well-prepped winter walking paths offer an irresistible invitation to discover the fresh Davos countryside. Thy snowshoe hiking, definitely different way to cheer up on... What would be the best title for the passage? A) Davos--the highest Alpine resort in Europe B) Davos--an ideal place for finding peace. C) Davos--the best town in the world. D) Davos--a paradise for day-dreamers
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*Question*
Scientists in Colombia have trained a team of rats to help remove land mines from the countryside. Land mines are small bombs hidden in the ground and designed to explode when someone steps on them. When trained, the rats can smell special metals in the mines and then signal to their human team. Then why use rats for such an important job? In the past, dogs have been used to find bombs. Rats have a good sense of smell and can respond to orders, just like dogs do. But rats are much lighter than dogs. They stand less of a chance of setting off the mines, which explode under a certain amount of weight. What's more, the best rats are cheaper to keep than dogs. It costs about the same amount of money to take care of one dog as it does 70 rats. The rats have already been used in Tanzania, an African country with many land mines. Luisa Fernanda Mendez and her team in Colombia are training the even lighter Wistar rats. These are the white rats with red eyes that scientists often use in laboratory experiments. " _ even train their babies to perform their jobs, which saves us a lot of time, " Mendez said. Colombia has the second-highest rate of deaths from land mine accidents in the world. Last year, land mines killed 695 people -- 56 of whom were children. A criminal group called the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, as well as other organizations, have placed the mines. FARC are strongly against Colombia's government. The group has placed mines all around its own bases and in many places in the countryside. In the past, the Colombian government hired peasants and poor farmers to find mines. Many of them died trying to find the well-hidden bombs. Colombian police official Erick Guzman hopes the team of rats can come to the rescue . "These rats will be a great help," he said. The advantage of rats over dogs in finding bombs is that _ . A) they are cleverer. B) they run faster C) they have a better sense of smell D) they don't make mines explode as easily
**Answer**
| D |
Stream of consciousness rationale: One of the meanings of stumble is find or encounter by chance. One might go somewhere if they find or encounter something or someone. Involuntary may mean following someone found or encountered by chance.
The question and answer pair are described below. | Q: I had to go somewhere involuntarily is the same as?
Options:
- arriving
- might drive car
- drive
- stumbling down
- get somewhere
A: stumbling down |
QUESTION: Where can a child learn about the adventures of a talking monkey?
Options:
- rain forest
- tropical areas
- pet store
- library
- story book
ANSWER: Story books are used to teach children. Story books have fictional characters like talking monkey.
The answer is story book
q: Many people have a mailbox where near the road?
Options:
- downtown area
- front yard
- porch
- basement
- hardware store
a: Front yard is a garden space between home and street. One can have mailbox in front yard as it is near to the street.
The answer is front yard
QUESTION: Having a car in the city seemed to be more trouble than it was worth, the man still had to walk to and from the what after commuting?
Options:
- driveway
- the event
- scrap heap
- parking garage
- repair shop
ANSWER: Parking garage is used to park a car. Parking garage is a part of the house.
The answer is parking garage
q: Where can you can find snack food and ice cream shaped like a mouse?
Options:
- disneyland
- kitchen
- underground
- space shuttle
- friend's house
a: Disneyland has Micky mouse character so it has ice cream and snack food shaped like micky mouse to attract the children mostly.
The answer is disneyland
QUESTION: Where are people most likely to ride a bicycle beside canals?
Options:
- university
- netherlands
- schoolyard
- road
- garage
ANSWER: Amsterdam is famous for it’s canals. Amsterdam is the capital city of Netherlands.
The answer is netherlands
QUESTION: Tuna surprise is not an especially flavorful dish in fact it is quite what?
Options:
- sneaky
- bland
- water buffalo
- predictable
- known about
ANSWER: | Tuna surprise is a bland dish in reality.
The answer is bland |
In this task, you're given a question, a context passage, and four options which are terms from the passage. After reading a passage, you will get a brief understanding of the terms. Your job is to determine by searching and reading further information of which term you can answer the question. Indicate your choice as 'a', 'b', 'c', or 'd'. If you think more than one option is plausible, choose the more probable option to help you answer the question.
Let me give you an example: Question: When did the operation during which the 704th dropped supplies to allied troops near Nijmegen begin? Passage: The group was occasionally diverted from strategic missions to carry out air support and interdiction missions. It supported Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy by attacking transportation targets, including bridges, along with airfields and strong points in France. On D Day, the squadron and the rest of the 446th Group led the first heavy bomber mission of the day. The 446th aided ground forces at Caen and Saint-Lôduring July by hitting bridges, gun batteries, and enemy troops. During Operation Market Garden, the attempt to seize a bridgehead across the Rhine in the Netherlands, the 704th dropped supplies to allied troops near Nijmegen. It struck lines of communications during the Battle of the Bulge. During Operation Varsity in March 1945, it supplied ground and airborne troops near Wesel. The squadron flew its last combat mission on 25 April 1945 against Salzburg, Austria. The group had flown 273 missions and had lost 58 aircraft during the war,
. Links: a. Allies of World War II b. Wesel c. Operation Market Garden d. Air Support.
The answer to this example can be: c
Here is why: The passage describes the 704th's actions during Operation Market Garden.
OK. solve this:
Question: What is the zip code of the city where Allred was in private practice between 1921 and 1923? Passage:Born on March 29, 1899, in Bowie, Texas, the son of Renne and Mary (Henson) Allred Sr., Allred graduated from Bowie High School in 1917. He enrolled at Rice Institute (now Rice University) but withdrew for financial reasons. He then served with the United States Immigration Service. He served in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919. He received a Bachelor of Laws in 1921 from Cumberland School of Law (then part of Cumberland University, now part of Samford University). He was in private practice in Wichita Falls, Texas from 1921 to 1923 and from 1926 to 1931. He was district attorney in Wichita Falls from 1923 to 1926. He was Attorney General of Texas from 1931 to 1935. He was Governor of Texas from 1935 to 1939. He was an ardent Democrat and supporter of the New Deal policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Links: a. Texas b. United States Navy c. Bowie, Texas d. Wichita Falls, Texas
Answer: | d |
Answer the questions at the end based on the text.
The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher, founded in 1857 as The Atlantic Monthly in Boston, Massachusetts.
The publication is majority owned by Emerson Collective, an organization led by the billionaire philanthropist and investor Laurene Powell Jobs, which purchased its stake in 2017 from businessman and publisher David G. Bradley, who retains a minority interest and remains the operating partner.
Created as a literary and cultural commentary magazine, it has a reputation in the 21st century for a politically moderate viewpoint in its reporting. The magazine has notably recognized and published new writers and poets, as well as encouraged major careers. In the 19th century, it published leading writers' commentary on abolition, education, and other major issues in contemporary political affairs, and continued to publish leading intellectual thought. The periodical was named Magazine of the Year by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) in 2016.
The first issue of the magazine was published by Phillips, Sampson and Company on November 1, 1857. Phillips, Sampson and Company was a very well known publishing firm, led by Moses Dresser Phillips, and "The Atlantic Monthly's" successful launch in the midst of the Panic of 1857 was due in no small part to the firm's established name, Phillips, Sampson and Company's recruitment of popular contributors, and Moses Dresser Phillips's marketing and distribution efforts.The magazine's initiator, and one of the founders, was Francis H. Underwood, an assistant to Moses Dresser Phillips. Underwood received less recognition than his partners because he was "neither a 'humbug' nor a Harvard man". The other founding sponsors were prominent writers, including: Ralph Waldo Emerson; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Harriet Beecher Stowe; John Greenleaf Whittier; and James Russell Lowell, who served as its first editor.
1. What was founded in 1857 in this article?
2. Where?
3. Who first published the magazine?
4. Who was the head of that group?
5. Who was one of the founder's of the magazine?
6. Were there others?
7. Can you name one?
8. were there others?
9. Who?
10. Were these founders famous?
11. Why?
12. Who was the least famous?
13. Why?
14. What honor was given the magazine in 2016?
15. by whom?
16. What famous problem was going on in 1857?
17. Did this hinder their success?
18. Who owns the publication?
19. Who is the head of that?
20. Who own it before that?
21. Did he get completely out? | 1. The Atlantic
2. Massachusetts
3. Phillips, Sampson and Company
4. Moses Dresser Phillips
5. Francis H. Underwood
6. yes
7. James Russell Lowell
8. yes
9. Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. most of them were
11. most were prominent writers
12. Francis H. Underwood
13. he was "neither a 'humbug' nor a Harvard man"
14. Magazine of the Year
15. American Society of Magazine Editors
16. the Panic of 1857
17. no
18. Emerson Collective
19. Laurene Powell Jobs
20. David G. Bradley
21. no |
Input:
Are these paraphrases?
The Casimcea River is a tributary of the Cartal River in Romania .
The river Cartal is a tributary of the Casimcea River in Romania .
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
Output:
[no]
Input:
Are these paraphrases?
Zehava , Zehava 's father , won land from the `` Merida '' , and Kirwan himself won even more land .
Zehava , the father of Zehava , won land from `` Merida '' , and Kirwan himself won even more land .
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
Output:
[yes]
Input:
Are these paraphrases?
Thimilarmadam is a small town in Sri Lanka , within the northern province .
Thimilarmadam is a small town in Sri Lanka 's northern province .
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
Output:
| [yes] |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task you will be given a passage and a yes/no question based on the passage. You should answer the question using the information from the passage.
passage: Marvel's The Avengers (classified under the name Marvel Avengers Assemble in the United Kingdom and Ireland), or simply The Avengers, is a 2012 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sixth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was written and directed by Joss Whedon and features an ensemble cast that includes Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, and Jeremy Renner as the titular Avengers team, alongside Tom Hiddleston, Clark Gregg, Cobie Smulders, Stellan Skarsgård, and Samuel L. Jackson. In the film, Nick Fury, director of the spy agency S.H.I.E.L.D., recruits Tony Stark, Captain America, the Hulk, and Thor to form a team that must stop Thor's brother Loki from subjugating Earth.
question: is the avengers the same as avengers assemble?
Output: | Yes |
Teacher: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".
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: MALS was formed here more than 30 years ago. Today, 14 staff attorneys, 26 office workers and 21 University of Memphis third- year law students work out of rented offices in the old Claridge Hotel building at 109 N. Main. Offices are spartan. There are no lush rugs or stylish furniture. The large table in the conference room is simple varnished wood. Offices are small and mostly plain, except for the eclectic mix of pop art, African statuary and neon that adorns litigation director Webb Brewer's space. Brewer, who has been at the agency 20 years, said there is a need for lawyers of all stripes to help with the problems of the poor. "The private bar could meet more of the need through pro bono work, but there are still cases that involve the systemic problems for low-income people that we would need to do," said Brewer. "The legal system marketplace just doesn't serve low-income people too well, except in fee-generat-ing type cases," Brewer said. "If a poor person gets run over by a bus, an attorney might take that case because they might be able to recover part of the damage award as attorney fees. But so many of the cases we handle have to do with basic rights and a decent life. There is just no profit motive." Larry Pivnick, law professor at the University of Memphis Law School and director of political programs at MALS, said Legal Services is a great learning laboratory for law students. "There are thousands and thousands of people who have problems that never get an opportunity to appear in court," Pivnick said. "Some people may not be particularly articulate. Courts have rules that clients don't always understand." Brewer said a major focus of the agency's work involves housing. "Although a lot of our work is grant-driven, we find that the lack of safe and decent affordable housing and the prevalence of predatory lending are the biggest problems in our client population," Brewer said, referring to clients such as James. <sep>The director of political programs at MALS said that there are a lot of people who don't get the opportunity to what?<sep>Get into nursing
Student: | No |
In this task, you are given an article. Your task is to summarize the article in a sentence.
[EX Q]: The chief secretary to the Treasury was speaking in regard to Starbucks, which last week said it would voluntarily pay more UK corporation tax.
Mr Alexander told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that the government was continuing efforts to tackle tax avoidance.
He said this work was taking place both in the UK and abroad.
"Taxation for big companies, or for anyone in society, can't be, and mustn't be, a voluntary arrangement," said Mr Alexander.
"Thinking of the tax system as if it is like the church plate going around on a Sunday morning is completely the wrong way to think about it."
He added: "Paying tax is not a voluntary choice, it is not something you can just chose to do willy nilly because you think it will please your customers, it is an obligation."
Coffee chain Starbucks announced on Thursday of last week that it would pay about £20m in UK corporation tax [tax on its profits] over the next two years, following a public outcry over how little it pays.
The company has paid just £8.6m in corporation tax in its 14 years of trading in the UK, and nothing in the last three years, despite UK sales of nearly £400m in 2011.
Two other multinational companies which have also been criticised for paying too little corporation tax - Amazon and Google - both said they would not be following Starbucks' voluntary contribution lead.
London Mayor Boris Johnson on Sunday defended companies, such as Starbucks, for seeking to minimise the level of tax they paid in the UK.
In an interview on Sky News, he said: "Imagine that you are the corporate finance director of one of these companies.
"Your job is to look at the law as it stands. Your fiduciary duty to your shareholders is to minimise your tax exposure."
Mr Johnson added that Starbucks should be praised for announcing that going forward it would voluntarily pay UK corporation tax.
"Now that Starbucks has stepped up to the plate and announced they are going to be making this payment I think rather than everybody sneering at them, people should welcome that," he said.
"My point is it is a bit unfair to bash the companies and then sneer at them when they try to do good."
Mr Alexander also reiterated that the government had announced in last week's Autumn Statement that it was giving HM Revenue & Customs more funds to tackle tax avoidance and evasion.
He said the aim was to get an additional £9bn in tax revenues per year.
Mr Alexander added that the government, together with Germany and France, was putting additional funds into the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, to aid work on establishing global agreements to prevent companies avoiding tax by moving profits from one country to another with a lower tax rate.
"At a time of austerity, everyone has an obligation to to play by the tax rules," he added.
[EX A]: Danny Alexander has told multinational firms that paying tax is an obligation, not "a voluntary choice" they can make to please their customers.
[EX Q]: The 23-year-old joined City in the summer having spent his entire career at Wolves, and impressed in the Grecians' win at Leyton Orient.
It was McAlinden's first league start since the end of August, as he deputised for the concussed Lee Holmes.
"He's earned it, he's done very well in training and I think he's settling," Tisdale told BBC Radio Devon.
"He's beginning to get some confidence, it always happens when you leave a club you've been at for years and years like he has with Wolves.
"Suddenly you're at a new place and your career's changing direction, he's got to find his feet and he's doing that."
[EX A]: Exeter City manager Paul Tisdale says Liam McAlinden is now starting to get used to life at Exeter City.
[EX Q]: The double Olympic champion, 35, retired from cycling after London 2012.
She is now training as a jockey with a view to riding in next March's amateur Foxhunters' Chase at Cheltenham.
"Making it to Cheltenham in such a short space of time could be the hardest thing I've ever done," Pendleton said.
Pendleton started training nine months ago under the guidance of Alan and Lawney Hill and instructor Yogi Breisner.
The former cyclist rode in a number of flat races during the summer and went over jumps for the first time last weekend in a point-to-point event which saw her pull up two fences from the finish.
She plans to ride regularly in point-to-point races during the winter before hoping to compete at Cheltenham.
Pendleton told the Guardian: "I trust Alan and Lawney and Yogi totally and if we're coming close to Cheltenham and they say 'You're just not ready,' I'll take their advice.
"I understand the challenge is ridiculous but I'd really like to get there.
"A lot of young, eager, fearless individuals are trying to get to the Foxhunters' and I'm none of those.
"So if I get to line up at that race I will be so happy. If I clear one fence I will be delighted. If I make it back in one piece I will be thrilled. It will be phenomenal. It will be like winning the Olympics."
[EX A]: | Competing as a jump jockey at the Cheltenham Festival will be like winning the Olympics, former sprint cyclist Victoria Pendleton has said.
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Q: Yes, absolutely. And if you are experiencing that right now, I’m so sorry for you, but it gets better. Hear me out. I was once dating this girl from college who showed genuine interest in me and for that and many other reasons, I really liked her. Well, you could say I loved her. We had been together for a week. One day, we went on a trip. It was all fun and games and laughing. I had the best time of my life. We were walking on the beach of a lake during sunset. We were talking and suddenly, I felt her tone getting more and more depressed. At some point, she concluded that “we need to take a break.” Trying to understand her arguments for that, the break turned into a breakup. Now, one-week-into-a-relationship-with-awesome-girl me couldn’t handle this sudden change of affairs. I spent weeks reliving this day, especially the conversation on the beach, and trying to figure out where it went wrong. I even got into an episode of mania. Having to see her every day in college was torture. It was probably the worst breakup in my life. I seriously considered transferring to another university. Several weeks into the breakup, I decided, with the aid of my friends, that I have to move on. To be honest, I relapsed a lot. One time, I actually sat down with her and said I still have feelings for her. What really helped me to get out of this was the thing I hated the most at that time: taking a break. I avoided her, in real life and on social media, and eventually, I forgot that she even existed. I developed new hobbies and made new friends. Now, I healed properly and we’re back to being friends (Yes, it’s possible to stay friends with your ex). It was a bad experience to live through indeed, but it really changed me into a more stable, more productive person. In a way, I’m thankful to this girl for who I am today. Stay strong! According to the above context, answer the following question. Who went on a trip.
OPTIONS:
- just the girl
- The author and the girl
- not enough information
- just the author
A: The author and the girl
input: OPTIONS:
- not enough information
- mad
- disgusted
- Grateful Now, answer this question: Thanks for the A2A Josh: Tough one to reduce to just a single incident but I’ll try. I grew up in North Central Indiana, about 50 miles south of South Bend. It was common to have frequent snow accumulation in the winter and blustery, freezing temps. It seems like this was particularly true during my childhood in the 70’s and 80’s. My family was blue collar through and through. We lived in the heartland in a town of just a few hundred with a sawmill and an on again off again gas station as our only two businesses. My dad worked in a factory for roughly 45 years. He apparently started that job right out of high school. My mom was an incredibly hard worker and Still is to this day. She did factory work, restaurant management and everything in between. It was this Protestant work ethic that led to one of the frequent tasks that my brother and I had to do which was not fun but ultimately was a very good deed. As I said, winters were often snowy and harsh. So my mom would make my brother and me shovel driveways and sidewalks for a couple of elderly residents. We did this of course, after we did our own driveway. Some people had motorized snowblowers but we did not. Standard snow shovels were our tools. I remember us whining about the chore, wishing we could just play in the snow or get out of it altogether. I don’t remember being overly conscious of the relief this provided for our elderly neighbors. I just remember that Mom would be disappointed if we didn’t do a good job. Later in life I would have great appreciation for the things required of me by my parents. Factory work and summer farm jobs helped us learn the value of hard work and would set us on a road to appreciation of future job opportunities that were less taxing. I still remember hating shoveling snow. But I’m forever grateful that I did it. According to the above context, answer the following question. After the end of the story he is probably feeling how toward his father?
A:
output: Grateful
Problem:OPTIONS:
- The New York Times.
- not enough information
- Parkland.
- Sandy Hook.
I normally do not post certain types of things on my blog or on social media, like political messages, but today I feel compelled. I’ve been thinking for the last few days about the most recent school shooting in Parkland, and my overwhelming emotion right after grief is rage. I am so angry it makes me cry and for those of you out there who know me, angry-cry is the end-stage, top-of-the-gauge level of angry for me. I am angry that as a nation, we continue to wring our hands and bemoan each mass shooting but we don’t take any action to stop the next one. I am angry that our elected officials have failed us in the most spectacular way possible by being unable to work together or to set aside special interests to protect the lives and safety of Americans, including our most vulnerable citizens, our children. I am angry that time and time again, we the people and our elected officials weigh the value of human lives against countless other things (Second Amendment, special interests, party disagreements, inertia, whatever) and the value of human life comes up short in the calculations. I am angry at myself for believing at any point in the last several years that I could trust lawmakers to address this epidemic and I am angry at myself for feeling so helpless that I have not personally taken action. This stops now. I am angry that in 2012, 20 6-7 year old children and 6 adults were murdered in Sandy Hook and in the 5+ years since, we have done nothing meaningful to stop this. To me, this is tantamount to saying that we as a nation are OK with this. I don’t think we are, but that’s the message we’re sending if we don’t force our government to do something. According to the New York Times, there have been 239 school shootings nationwide since Sandy Hook with 438 people shot, 138 who died. According to the above context, answer the following question. According to the text, where did the most recent shooting take place?
****
A: | Parkland. |
Given the question: When Marco Polo travelled to Hangzhou, China 700 hundred years ago, never had he thought he'd be creating a job of social media ambassador in the 21st century in China. On May 20, one lucky foreigner would be selected to become the modern-day Marco Polo, getting a free 15-day trip to the scenic city of Hangzhou in China, and rewarded $55,000 in the next year for working part-time to promote the city to the global audience. Five finalists from Australia, Romania, U.S., Switzerland and France were in the final race. They came from a pool of 700 applicants from around the world, carefully selected by the Hangzhou Tourism Commission on their familiarity with China, social media presence and adventurous spirit. Located about 100 miles southwest to Shanghai, Hangzhou is home to 844 million population and among China's richest cities as measures by per-capita GDP. Traditionally, Hangzhou is known for its charming West Lake, a UNESCO world heritage site with traditional Chinese stories and tales, and the Grand Canal, which travels from Hangzhou to Beijing and was a key route of transportation in ancient China. The city's mild climate and charming environment drew 97 million tourists last year, contributing to 6.5% of the city's GDP. The lucky winner would start an all-expense-paid trip to Hangzhou, which, in addition to visits to tourist sites and tastings of delicious food, also would include a four-day ride along the Grand Canal and three evenings spent at a local resident's home. "It is in fact a part-time job. How you work that out efficiently is your problem," Liam Bates, perhaps the strongest competitor because of his fluent Chinese, said. "We will see how hard it is to meet these numbers." The purpose of Hangzhou choosing a social media ambassador is to _ . A) keep Marco Polo in people's memories B) attract more foreign tourists to China C) encourage more foreigners to speak Chinese D) explore a new route of transportation
The answer is: | B |
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: How forth coming were authorities?, Context: Although little was officially announced by Chinese authorities about the signals of the new system, the launch of the first COMPASS satellite permitted independent researchers not only to study general characteristics of the signals, but even to build a COMPASS receiver.
Output: | little was officially announced |
Detailed Instructions: Given a passage and a query based on the passage, generate an unambiguous, concise and simple answer to the query from information in the passage. Note that the answer may not be present in exact form.
Problem:provides for benefits under the AutoNation, Inc . policies and Plans . If You Transfer From One AutoNation . Location to Another AutoNation Location . If you transfer from one AutoNation location to . another, your eligibility status transfers with you to your new location . If you were enrolled in benefits at your previous AutoNation, Inc. also provides group life insurance, short-term disability insurance for accidents or illness, and long-term disability insurance. To help ensure a reliable source of income later in life, many employees rely on employer-provided retirement plans. AutoNation, Inc. offers defined contribution pension plans. As a graduate of Georgia State University, you have access to exclusive benefits when purchasing or leasing a vehicle with AutoNation. AutoNation employees receive health, life, and disability insurance. This information about the Health Insurance benefit at AutoNation is the result of research by Glassdoor editorial staff, and was not provided directly by a representative of AutoNation. The description here may not reflect the current AutoNation Health Insurance benefit. AutoNation will use the savings from tax reform to invest in its future and its employees, through enhancing its benefits programs, including launching an innovative cancer program to assist employees and family members who were recently diagnosed with cancer, and investing in progressive training programs that will allow its associates to better serve its customers and drive their career advancement. AutoNation is a big corporation, probably the biggest in the business in United States. They offer some benefits and the pay plan is not as aggressive as others in the industry Was this review helpful? AutoNation benefits and perks, including insurance benefits, retirement benefits, and vacation policy. Reported anonymously by AutoNation employees. Best Jobs in America NEW! Other car buying sites send your contact information to multiple dealerships. With AutoNation, you are buying direct. No middle man, no headache. As an American Express® Card Member, you have access to exclusive benefits when purchasing or leasing a vehicle with AutoNation. Receive a $200 gasoline gift card after spending $1000 or more on your American Express Card towards the purchase or lease of a new or pre-owned vehicle at AutoNation by 4/30/18. its not a very good job. I had no sales training and on my first day I was told to get out there and sell cars. And if I hadn't sold a car by the end of the day I should stay until I do. And that's what it was like every single day. Reconciliation Analyst (Former Employee) – Irving, TX – August 12, 2017. AutoNation is not a place to work if you want fulfillment, its just a job. It's a massive company with plenty of mind-numbing work to give you if you'd like it. The pay will never be great, but the job security is pretty good. Query: autonation benefits autonation
Solution: | Benefits of autonation are it provides group life insurance, short-term disability insurance for accidents or illness, and long-term disability insurance. |
Instructions: 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: Victoria Milligan is trying to ignore the fact that it is Father's Day tomorrow. 'We haven't planned anything,' she says. 'It's another one of those difficult dates we just have to get through.' Her 'we' used to be a particularly blessed family of six that included her 'gorgeous husband', senior Sky executive Nick, their seven-year-old son Kit and daughters Amber, 14, Olivia, 12, and Emily, who should be ten. But Emily died at the age of eight in a horrific speedboat accident in Cornwall that also killed her father. The family were thrown overboard into the water in the picturesque Camel Estuary on a gloriously sunny May Day Bank Holiday, suffering terrible injuries as the out-of-control boat circled over them at high speed.Nick Milligan and Emily, eight, killed in speedboat accident in May 2013Wife Victoria recalls the horror in her first in-depth interview since tragedySaid 'all her identity was lost' on that day and has 'stabbing pain in heart'Remembering incident on May Bank Holiday said it was a 'surreal dream'
Questions:The family had been enjoying a particularly joyous _ weekend two years ago — swimming and fishing in rock pools. (A) Victoria Milligan (B) Father's Day (C) Sky (D) Nick (E) Kit (F) Amber (G) Olivia (H) Emily (I) Cornwall (J) Camel Estuary (K) Day Bank Holiday (L) Nick Milligan (M) Wife Victoria (N) Said
Output: | (K) |
(1) Together with Frederick Murray Trotter and others he helped create new maps and memoirs of the districts of Brampton , Whitehaven , Gosforth and Cockermouth in Cumberland .
(2) Together with Frederick Murray Trotter and others , he helped create new maps and memoirs of Brampton , Whitehaven , Cumberland , Gosforth , and Cockermouth .
Do these two sentences mean the same thing?
Pick from: (a). no. (b). yes. | (a). |
Given an English sentence, convert it into the french language.
[Q]: His account of the ball itself is also very informative : " They blow a strong bladder and tie the neck of it as fast as they can , and then put it into the skin of a bull 's cod and sew it fast in . "
[A]: Son récit sur la balle elle-même est également très instructif : " Ils gonflent une vessie solide et noue son extrémité le plus rapidement possible , puis ils la mettent dans la peau du pénis d' un taureau et coudent rapidement le tout " .
[Q]: In public statements made during his rule , Hitler continued to speak positively about a Nazi vision of Christian German culture , and his belief in an Aryan Christ .
[A]: Dans des déclarations publiques faites au cours de son règne , Hitler a continué de parler positivement d' une vision nazie de la chrétienne culture allemande , et sa croyance dans un Christ aryen .
[Q]: Warren heard of the heavy fighting at Morton 's Ford about midday and immediately started riding to the front .
[A]: | Warren entend le combat difficile à Morton' s Ford à la mi-journée et part immédiatement à cheval vers le front .
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You are given a sentence and your task is to generate another sentence that supports the given input.
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Question: Consider that human evolution progresses at a very, very slow pace.
Answer: Human evolution shows that evolutionary changes typically occur at a slow pace.
Question: Amino acid A functional group which consists of a carbon with a carboxylic acid, "-COOH" and an amine, "-NH 2 .
Answer: Amino acids contain both a carboxylic acid group and a(n) amine group.
Question: Territorial (ter ih TOR ee ul) The description of an animal that claims a particular area of land or water as its range or territory, and defends it against intruders.
Answer: | Animals that defend their area are generally known as territorial.
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Given a passage and a query based on the passage, generate an unambiguous, concise and simple answer to the query from information in the passage. Note that the answer may not be present in exact form.
Q: Xanax doesnt flush out with water and it takes a long time to fully metabolize. I took one dose prior to a dental appt and had it show on a pre-employment screen about 4-6 weeks later and that is supposed to be the detection time for chronic use but I took only one dose (1mg) prior to a dental appt because that is the ONLY time I use Xanax so I know exactly when I took it and how long it had been. I have panic attacks, and never take these besides this one time. Answer. Xanax, or alprazolam, is an anti-anxiety medication that is in a class of compounds called benzodiazepines. As you know, it can be an effective treatment for a number of anxiety disorders, such as panic disorders. However, it also has a high potential for abuse and/or dependence. In older or obese people, or those with liver disease, Xanax’s half-life is longer, as long as 40 hours. It takes several half-lives to eliminate a drug completely. So for most people, there may still be a small fraction of Xanax in your blood two days or more after taking a single pill. In order to address your particular concerns and questions regarding this medication, I recommend that you schedule an appointment to speak with your doctor, so that he or she can address your individual case. Having said that, the average half-life of xanax is approximately 11 hours. This means that half of the medication will have left the body by that time. On the other hand, it is important to note that everyone metabolizes medications differently, so this half-life can range from 6 to 26 hours, depending on the person and the dose and frequency of the use of the medication. However, Xanax remains in the bloodstream long after its anti-anxiety effects have worn off. Xanax’s average half-life is 11 hours. This means that it takes an average of 11 hours for the body to eliminate half the Xanax dose. I know everyone is different but this is my story. I don't take Xanax but I took 1 mg a day for 7 days straight and than stopped completely, my system was totally clean before I started taking them. My job does test so I had purchased some drug screen urine test cards for benzos just to see how long it would take before it got out of my system. I figured probably 72 hours, well it actually took 8 days for my tests to start reading a negative result. Here's what my pdoc told me to help the xanax get in your system quicker. Take a drink of water and make sure your mouth is wet. Chew up the xanax and then stick it between your upper lip and teeth. Leave there. It will kick in about 10 to 15 mins if not sooner. I do this when having a really bad attack. Xanax is a little bitter but you can actually get used to it. When it's been long enough take another drink of water and swallow it all. This helps it to get into your blood stream much quicker rather than going through your stomach lining. I hope this helps. As for how many to take a day I would talk to your dr about that. deleted_user 12/03/2007 I used to take Klonopin, then Ativan and my recent doctor finally put me on Xanax, which is truly a lifesaver. Zocdoc › Answers › I took 2mg xanax 1 time. How long will it stay in my system? I have panic attacks, and never take these besides this one time deleted_user 12/02/2007. I take 1 mg twice a day so I think one of mine is like 4 of yours but I wouldn't suggest taking that many if your not used to it, as far as how long it takes it usually takes mine about 15 to 30 min. Sometimes just the fact that I took one makes me feel better instantly. Details: I took .5 of alprazolam two days ago and 1mg of it yesterday. (Two .25 pills two days ago and four .25 pills yesterday). I am 5'7 and 170 pounds with a very high metabolism, I am moderately active and I drink an immense amount of water normally. Seeing as I am very athletic I have very little fat on me. Query: how long does it take for daily xanax to leave your system
A: | Xanax’s average half-life is 11 hours. This means that it takes an average of 11 hours for the body to eliminate half the Xanax dose. |
What is a question about this article? If the question is unanswerable, say "unanswerable".
Politically, The Sun in the early Murdoch years, remained nominally Labour. It supported the Labour Party led by Harold Wilson in the 1970 General Election, with the headline "Why It Must Be Labour" but by February 1974 it was calling for a vote for the Conservative Party led by Edward Heath while suggesting that it might support a Labour Party led by James Callaghan or Roy Jenkins. In the October election an editorial asserted: "ALL our instincts are left rather than right and we would vote for any able politician who would describe himself as a Social Democrat."
What were the Sun's political leanings early on under Murdoch? | nominally Labour |
Problem: Given the following passage "New domestic housing in many parts of the world today is commonly made from timber-framed construction. Engineered wood products are becoming a bigger part of the construction industry. They may be used in both residential and commercial buildings as structural and aesthetic materials.", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: Timber is made of?
A: wood
Problem: Given the question: Given the following passage "On May 26, 2009, Microsoft announced the future release of the Zune HD (in the fall of 2009), the next addition to the Zune product range. This is of an impact on the Xbox Live Video Store as it was also announced that the Zune Video Marketplace and the Xbox Live Video Store will be merged to form the Zune Marketplace, which will be arriving on Xbox Live in 7 countries initially, the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Italy, Germany, Ireland and Spain. Further details were released at the Microsoft press conference at E3 2009.", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: When did other details on the Zune get disclosed to the public?
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The answer is:
Microsoft press conference
input question: Given the following passage "Democratic Party candidates were consistently elected to local office, increasing the city's ties to the South and its dominant party. In 1861, Mayor Fernando Wood called on the aldermen to declare independence from Albany and the United States after the South seceded, but his proposal was not acted on. Anger at new military conscription laws during the American Civil War (1861–1865), which spared wealthier men who could afford to pay a $300 (equivalent to $5,766 in 2016) commutation fee to hire a substitute, led to the Draft Riots of 1863, whose most visible participants were ethnic Irish working class. The situation deteriorated into attacks on New York's elite, followed by attacks on black New Yorkers and their property after fierce competition for a decade between Irish immigrants and blacks for work. Rioters burned the Colored Orphan Asylum to the ground, but more than 200 children escaped harm due to efforts of the New York City Police Department, which was mainly made up of Irish immigrants. According to historian James M. McPherson (2001), at least 120 people were killed. In all, eleven black men were lynched over five days, and the riots forced hundreds of blacks to flee the city for Williamsburg, Brooklyn, as well as New Jersey; the black population in Manhattan fell below 10,000 by 1865, which it had last been in 1820. The white working class had established dominance. Violence by longshoremen against black men was especially fierce in the docks area. It was one of the worst incidents of civil unrest in American history.", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: Which proposal had failed????
output answer: to declare independence from Albany and the United States after the South seceded
Given the following passage "Bush focused his campaign on national security, presenting himself as a decisive leader and contrasted Kerry as a "flip-flopper." This strategy was designed to convey to American voters the idea that Bush could be trusted to be tough on terrorism while Kerry would be "uncertain in the face of danger." Bush (just as his father did with Dukakis in the 1988 election) also sought to portray Kerry as a "Massachusetts liberal" who was out of touch with mainstream Americans. One of Kerry's slogans was "Stronger at home, respected in the world." This advanced the suggestion that Kerry would pay more attention to domestic concerns; it also encapsulated Kerry's contention that Bush had alienated American allies by his foreign policy.", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: Who tried to portray their opponent as someone who had alienated American allies by his foreign policy?
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Answer: Kerry
Q: Given the following passage "The practice of playing one or two preseason exhibition games by each team before the start of the regular season was discontinued when the NBC contract was initiated, and the regular season was extended from 14 games, the length that it had been since 1996, to 16 from 2001 to 2010, and since 2016. From 2011 to 2015, the regular season league expanded to 18 games, with each team having two bye weeks and the option of two preseason games.", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: Were there more regular season games in 2001 or 2011?
A: 2011
[Q]: Given the following passage "In 1901 the accession of Edward VII saw new life breathed into the palace. The new King and his wife Queen Alexandra had always been at the forefront of London high society, and their friends, known as "the Marlborough House Set", were considered to be the most eminent and fashionable of the age. Buckingham Palace—the Ballroom, Grand Entrance, Marble Hall, Grand Staircase, vestibules and galleries redecorated in the Belle époque cream and gold colour scheme they retain today—once again became a setting for entertaining on a majestic scale but leaving some to feel King Edward's heavy redecorations were at odds with Nash's original work.", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: what place is mentioned second?
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[A]: | London |
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: Doctor is an academic title that originates from the Latin word of the same spelling and meaning. The word is originally an agentive noun of the Latin verb docēre (dɔˈkeːrɛ) 'to teach'. It has been used as an academic title in Europe since the 13th century, when the first doctorates were awarded at the University of Bologna and the University of Paris. Having become established in European universities, this usage spread around the world. Contracted ``Dr'' or ``Dr.'', it is used as a designation for a person who has obtained a Doctorate (e.g. PhD). In many parts of the world it is also used by medical practitioners, regardless of whether or not they hold a doctoral-level degree.
Student: | is a person with a phd a doctor? |
Question: this alien people has become precisely in the course of the 19th century a disproportionately important and in many spheres actually dominant constituent of our life …... herder said that ‘the ruder nations of europe were willing slaves of jewish usury'.
Answer: --> This alien people has become precisely in the course of the 19th Century a disproportionately important and in many spheres actually dominant constituent of our life …... Herder said that ‘the ruder nations of Europe were willing slaves of Jewish usury'.
Question: create your own edible universe with fragrant, crunchy-crisp herbs from the garden, and get the taste and experience right up close.
Answer: --> Create your own edible universe with fragrant, crunchy-crisp herbs from the garden, and get the taste and experience right up close.
Question: 7 language schools in turkey, ranging from 195 € to 1091 € for a 2 weeks turkish course including accommodation.
Answer: | --> 7 language schools in Turkey, ranging from 195 € to 1091 € for a 2 weeks Turkish course including accommodation. |
In this task, you are given a passage and a question regarding that passage. You must determine whether or not the question is answerable from the given passage. If a question is answerable, output should be 'True', otherwise 'False'. You must not consider any other information that is not provided in the passage while labelling True or False.
Example Input: Passage: About 61.1% of Victorians describe themselves as Christian. Roman Catholics form the single largest religious group in the state with 26.7% of the Victorian population, followed by Anglicans and members of the Uniting Church. Buddhism is the state's largest non-Christian religion, with 168,637 members as of the most recent census. Victoria is also home of 152,775 Muslims and 45,150 Jews. Hinduism is the fastest growing religion. Around 20% of Victorians claim no religion. Amongst those who declare a religious affiliation, church attendance is low. Question: How many Victorians are non-religious?
Example Output: True
Example Input: Passage: Another major division within Islamism is between what Graham E. Fuller has described as the fundamentalist "guardians of the tradition" (Salafis, such as those in the Wahhabi movement) and the "vanguard of change and Islamic reform" centered around the Muslim Brotherhood. Olivier Roy argues that "Sunni pan-Islamism underwent a remarkable shift in the second half of the 20th century" when the Muslim Brotherhood movement and its focus on Islamisation of pan-Arabism was eclipsed by the Salafi movement with its emphasis on "sharia rather than the building of Islamic institutions," and rejection of Shia Islam. Following the Arab Spring, Roy has described Islamism as "increasingly interdependent" with democracy in much of the Arab Muslim world, such that "neither can now survive without the other." While Islamist political culture itself may not be democratic, Islamists need democratic elections to maintain their legitimacy. At the same time, their popularity is such that no government can call itself democratic that excludes mainstream Islamist groups. Question: Why do Islamists need democratic elections?
Example Output: True
Example Input: Passage: There are also several smaller freight operators and numerous tourist railways operating over lines which were once parts of a state-owned system. Victorian lines mainly use the 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in) broad gauge. However, the interstate trunk routes, as well as a number of branch lines in the west of the state have been converted to 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge. Two tourist railways operate over 760 mm (2 ft 6 in) narrow gauge lines, which are the remnants of five formerly government-owned lines which were built in mountainous areas. Question: To what gauge have some lines been changed in the west of Victoria?
Example Output: | True
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You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
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) Squeals of delight echo around the room at Vanderbilt's Children's Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. Nine-year-old cancer survivor Bryce Greenwell turns to his mother, Jenny. "Did you know about this?" he asks, hands cupped to his face in surprise. "Yes," she says with a nod, smiling from ear to ear. "Oh, my gosh, he has missed you guys so much!" pet therapist Michelle Thompson says as she hands Swoosh, her trained toy Pomeranian, over to two eager boys. "Did you miss him? He talks to me about you boys all the time." "I haven't seen him in a long time," says 7-year-old Mitchell Montalbano, who recently graduated from chemotherapy treatment, cancer-free. "Swoosh, what have you been up to?"Two boys who were treated for cancer treasured their time with therapy dog SwooshA new study looked at the impact of therapy dogs on children and their parents
Question:"It was after those first few visits with _ that he would say, 'OK, you know, I'm not going to die.
Output: | Swoosh |
next question: What would you do to a television after you finish using television?
Options:
- entertainment
- choosing
- change channel
- fall asleep
- turning off
reasoning: | After you finish using television, you would be turning it off. The answer is turning off. |
Stream of consciousness rationale: Blowing means letting air our of the mouth. The opposite of blowing is sucking. Sucking can only happen when blowing is not happening.
The question and answer pair are described below. | Q: John didn't know why it was called blowing. You didn't blow. There was no blowing. What was done instead of blowing?
Options:
- sucking
- breathe in
- inhale
- breathing in
- sucking
A: sucking |
Input: OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
The Sound and the Fury is an American drama film directed by James Franco. It is the second film version of the novel of the same name by William Faulkner. The previous adaptation, directed by Martin Ritt, was released in 1959. The film was released in a limited release and through video on demand on October 23, 2015, by New Films International.
Sentence: The Sound and the Fury received many positive reviews
Output: It's impossible to say
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
Paul Hausser (7 October 1880 – 21 December 1972) was a high-ranking commander in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II who played a key role in the post-war efforts by former members of the Waffen-SS to achieve historical and legal rehabilitation.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: Paul Hausser studied engineering while in college
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Answer:
It's impossible to say
[Q]: The Loudest Engine is the third studio album of London-based Australian indie rock band Howling Bells. The album was released through Cooking Vinyl on 9 September 2011 to mostly positive reviews. It was produced by Mark Stoermer and recorded at Battle Born Studios, in Las Vegas from September to October 2010. Howling Bells continues to tour and record music to this day. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: It's impossible to say
Problem: Shitanshu Hargovindbhai Kotak (born 19 October 1972 in Rajkot) was an Indian first-class cricketer. A left-handed batsman, he has been a prolific run scorer for Saurashtra. Now he is the coach of Saurastra Cricket Team & soon will join Gujarat Lions IPL team as Assistant Coach.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Shitanshu Hargovindbhai Kotak is a kind man"? OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: It's impossible to say
Q: 2gether were modelled on the backstreet boys only
2gether (usually stylized as 2ge+her, 2Ge+Her or 2GE+HER; pronounced "Together") was an American fictional boy band whose composition, songs, and formation story is a satirical approach to the boy bands of the 1990s such as New Kids on the Block, 'N Sync and Backstreet Boys. They were part of a self-titled MTV TV movie and spin-off television series.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
Q: The Red Sea and Gulf of Aden are the only bodies of water to which Djibouti is connected.
Djibouti, officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Eritrea in the north, Ethiopia in the west and south, and Somalia in the southeast. The remainder of the border is formed by the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden at the east.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | It's impossible to say |
Teacher:In this task you will be given a question and a passage. You need to determine if the answer to the question is contained in the passage. If the answer can be found in the passage you should output 'True'. If the answer cannot be found in the passage you should output 'False'.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: Passage: 'A Song of Ice and Fire is a series of epic fantasy novels by the American novelist and screenwriter George R.R. Martin. He began the first volume of the series, A Game of Thrones, in 1991 and had it published in 1996. Martin, who initially envisioned the series as a trilogy, has published five out of a planned seven volumes. The fifth and most recent volume of the series published in 2011, A Dance with Dragons, took Martin five years to write. He is still writing the sixth novel, The Winds of Winter.'. Question: 'what is the difference between senate and house of rep'.
Student: | False |
Detailed Instructions: Given a sentence in English, provide an equivalent paraphrased version from the original that retains the same meaning.
Problem:Dingwall and Tingwall in England , Thingwall in Norway , Tynwald on the Isle of Man and Tingvoll in Scotland bear names of the same root and significance .
Solution: | Dingwall and Tingwall in England , Thingwall in Norway , Tynwald on the Isle of Man , and Tingvoll in Scotland bear names of the same root and meaning . |
In this task you will be given a question and a passage. You need to determine if the answer to the question is contained in the passage. If the answer can be found in the passage you should output 'True'. If the answer cannot be found in the passage you should output 'False'.
Example Input: Passage: 'A bindi (Hindi: बिंदी, from Sanskrit bindu, meaning 'point, drop, dot or small particle') is a colored dot worn on the centre of the forehead, commonly by Hindu and Jain women. The word bindu dates back to the hymn of creation known as Nasadiya Sukta in the Rigveda. Bindu is considered the point at which creation begins and may become unity. It is also described as 'the sacred symbol of the cosmos in its unmanifested state'. A bindi is a bright dot of some colour applied in the centre of the forehead close to the eyebrows worn in the South Asia (particularly amongst Hindus in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka) and Southeast Asia among Bali and Javanese Hindus and ethnic overseas Indian Hindus. A similar marking is also worn by babies and children in China and, like in South and Southeast Asia, represents the opening of the third eye. Bindi in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism is associated with ajna chakra, and Bindu is known as the third eye chakra. Bindu is the point or dot around which the mandala is created, representing the universe. The bindi has a historical and cultural presence in the region of Greater India.'. Question: 'what is the meaning of the hindu red dot'.
Example Output: True
Example Input: Passage: 'Lionel Andrés 'Leo' Messi (Spanish pronunciation: (ljoˈnel anˈðɾeθ ˈmesi) (listen); born 24 June 1987) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for Spanish club Barcelona and the Argentina national team. Often considered the best player in the world and regarded by many as the greatest of all time, Messi is the only player in history to win five FIFA Ballon d'Or awards, four of which he won consecutively, and a record-tying four European Golden Shoes. He has won 29 trophies with Barcelona, including eight La Liga titles, four UEFA Champions League titles, and five Copas del Rey. Both a prolific goalscorer and a creative playmaker, Messi holds the records for most official goals scored in La Liga (360), a La Liga season (50) and a club football season in Europe (73), a calendar year (91), as well as those for most assists made in La Liga (139) and the Copa América (11). He has scored over 600 senior career goals for club and country.'. Question: 'how many goals has messi scored for club and country'.
Example Output: True
Example Input: Passage: 'Milwaukee has a continental climate with wide variations in temperatures over short periods, especially in spring and autumn. The warmest month is July, when the average high temperature is 81 ° F (27 ° C), and the overnight low is 63 ° F (17 ° C). The coldest month is January, when the average high temperature is only 28 ° F (-2 ° C). Low temperatures in January average 13 ° F (-11 ° C).'. Question: 'what is the average temperature in the winter in wisconsin'.
Example Output: | True
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Answer the following question: Given the following passage "According to this narrative, shortly after the birth of young prince Gautama, an astrologer named Asita visited the young prince's father, Suddhodana, and prophesied that Siddhartha would either become a great king or renounce the material world to become a holy man, depending on whether he saw what life was like outside the palace walls.", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: Who was the person, Asita, who visited the father?
Answer: | astrologer |
Consider this response: The station was built as part of the Meråker Line railway line and it opened on 17 October 1881.
What was the preceding dialog? | DIALOG: -- What is Hommelvik Station?. -- Hommelvik Station Hommelvik Station is a railway station located in the village of Hommelvik in the municipality of Malvik in Trøndelag county, Norway.. -- Where is it located?. -- It is east of the city of Trondheim.. -- What is the station used for?. -- The station is located on the Nordland Line, and it is served hourly by the Trøndelag Commuter Rail service to Steinkjer Station and Trondheim Central Station.. -- Who manages the station?. -- The unstaffed station is operated by Norwegian State Railways.. -- When was it built?. -- |
Find the right ending to this passage.
(Financial Times) -- China's premier has waded into an intensifying trade dispute with Europe, warning that EU investigations into Chinese-made solar panels and telecommunications equipment would backfire by hurting European consumers. "The cases over these two types of products will hurt Chinese industries, business and jobs and also damage the vital interests of European users and consumers," Li Keqiang said en route to Berlin on Sunday during his first foreign trip since becoming premier. "We express firm opposition." Mr Li's comments mark the first time that China's top leadership has weighed in on the trade disputes, and come as the solar case -- the EU's biggest ever trade investigation -- enters a critical phase.
"At this stage, any potential temporary measures are an emergency response to rebalance the market place for | Europe companies facing life-threatening dumping and unfair competition from China's solar panel industry," he added. |
Read the text and determine if the sentence is true:
Nassau County is a suburban county on the western side of Long Island in the U.S. state of New York. At the 2010 census, the county's population was 1,339,532, estimated to have increased to 1,361,500 in 2016. The county seat is in the Village of Garden City, within the boundaries of the Mineola 11501 zip code.
Sentence: Garden City's population has increased since the 2010 census. | It's impossible to say |
Question. Where do kids throw a ball around?
Options:
- street
- playground
- loud
- gymnasium
- bowling alley
Answer. playground
What step-by-step reasoning justifies that answer? | Reasoning: Playground is a place where kids play. Throwing around a ball is a kind of way kids play. |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. 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.
Minneapolis (CNN) The mayor of Minneapolis said she wants to hear from the officer who fatally shot Justine Ruszczyk. But so far, officer Mohamed Noor has exercised his constitutional right to not speak to state investigators, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said Tuesday. And, it's not clear if or when he will. "He has a story to tell that no one else can tell," Mayor Betsy Hodges said in a news conference Tuesday. "We can't compel him by law, but I wish that he would make that statement." The news conference capped a day of developments in a case that's raising questions about police training, use of force and body camera policies. The shooting has led newscasts in Australia, where Ruszczyk is originally from.A county attorney, not a grand jury, will decide whether either of the officers will be chargedFamily shown documents from case ahead of public release, council member says
Questions:Those documents were shared with _'s family Tuesday night, she said. (A) Minneapolis (B) CNN (C) Justine Ruszczyk (D) Mohamed Noor (E) Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (F) Betsy Hodges (G) Australia
| (C) |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Input: Consider Input: Between 1901 and 2017, the Nobel Prizes including the Economic Prizes were awarded 585 times to 923 people and organizations. With some receiving the Nobel Prize more than once, this makes a total of 24 organizations, and 892 individuals. The prize ceremonies take place annually in Stockholm, Sweden (with the exception of the peace prize, which is held in Oslo, Norway). Each recipient, or laureate, receives a gold medal, a diploma, and a sum of money that has been decided by the Nobel Foundation. (As of 2017, each prize is worth 9,000,000 SEK, or about US$1,110,000, €944,000, £836,000 or ₹72,693,900.) Medals made before 1980 were struck in 23 carat gold, and later in 18 carat green gold plated with a 24 carat gold coating.
Output: do you get money when you win the nobel peace prize?
Input: Consider Input: The World Cup is a gold trophy that is awarded to the winners of the FIFA World Cup association football tournament. Since the advent of the World Cup in 1930, two trophies have been used: the Jules Rimet Trophy from 1930 to 1970, and the FIFA World Cup Trophy from 1974 to the present day.
Output: do fifa make new world cup trophy every 4 years?
Input: Consider Input: Seawater, or salt water, is water from a sea or ocean. On average, seawater in the world's oceans has a salinity of about 3.5% (35 g/L, 599 mM). This means that every kilogram (roughly one litre by volume) of seawater has approximately 35 grams (1.2 oz) of dissolved salts (predominantly sodium (Na ) and chloride (Cl ) ions). Average density at the surface is 1.025 kg/L. Seawater is denser than both fresh water and pure water (density 1.0 kg/L at 4 °C (39 °F)) because the dissolved salts increase the mass by a larger proportion than the volume. The freezing point of seawater decreases as salt concentration increases. At typical salinity, it freezes at about −2 °C (28 °F). The coldest seawater ever recorded (in a liquid state) was in 2010, in a stream under an Antarctic glacier, and measured −2.6 °C (27.3 °F). Seawater pH is typically limited to a range between 7.5 and 8.4. However, there is no universally accepted reference pH-scale for seawater and the difference between measurements based on different reference scales may be up to 0.14 units.
| Output: is sea water and salt water the same thing?
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Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task you will be given a question and a passage. You need to determine if the answer to the question is contained in the passage. If the answer can be found in the passage you should output 'True'. If the answer cannot be found in the passage you should output 'False'.
Passage: 'Purchasing power parity (PPP) is a neoclassical economic theory that states that the exchange rate between two countries is equal to the ratio of the currencies' respective purchasing power. Theories that invoke the purchasing power parity assume that in some circumstances (for example, as a long-run tendency) it would cost exactly the same number of, for example, US dollars to buy euros and then buy a market basket of goods as it would cost to directly purchase the market basket of goods with dollars. A fall in either currency's purchasing power would lead to a proportional decrease in that currency's valuation on the foreign exchange market.'. Question: 'what is the area code for houston tx'.
| False |
Question: What was Victoria's nickname following Alberts death?
Is "Her seclusion earned her the nickname "widow of Windsor"." the correct answer? | yes |
In this task, you will be presented with a question and you have to answer the question based on your knowledge. Your answers should be as short as possible.
[EX Q]: What is the capital of the home country of the 6th place finisher in the 2011 London Marathon ?
[EX A]: Tokyo
[EX Q]: What is the song title of the artist that is a Finnish hip hop group that was active between 1998 and 2005 ?
[EX A]: Freestyler
[EX Q]: The most recent host is located in what city ?
[EX A]: | Athol
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In this task, you are given an article. Your task is to summarize the article in a sentence.
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Question: Pte James, from Llangollen in Denbighshire, was one of four recruits to die from bullet wounds at the army base between 1995 and 2002.
Pte Helen Miller said she had been pressured by a senior officer 20 years ago to say her friend was happy.
She said all leave had been cancelled at the Surrey base after her death.
She said she had been told by an unnamed sergeant major at the time to "behave myself, to stop being hysterical. I was told a couple of times 'you wont go to the funeral if you carry on'.
"I think they were trying to keep us quiet. It was damage limitation." she said.
John Beggs, representing Surrey Police, asked Pte Miller about a statement she had made in 2002 in which she said she always thought Pte James had killed herself.
Pte Miller told the inquest: "Now, whether I believe it, I have no idea about what happened to her on that day."
Giving evidence from abroad via video link, she said: "I find it very strange that she would open up to me and then out of nowhere, kill herself, without talking about it and without getting upset."
On Thursday, the hearing was told Pte James had been in relationships with two male recruits at the barracks.
"She had found herself in a situation where she didn't want to finish with one of them", WO1 Sarah Ditchfield said.
Peter Mant, representing Pte James's family, asked Pte Miller if relationship problems could have caused her friend to take her own life.
She said: "No. Everyone had boyfriend trouble".
It was not something that was causing her "great upset", but was more "indecisiveness", she told the hearing.
Pte Miller said: "I think it was a struggle for her at Deepcut."
She told the inquest recruits had talked about the death of Pte Sean Benton from Hastings who was found with five gunshot wounds in June 1995.
They discussed how they would kill themselves, if they were to do it.
Pte Miller said: "It was the general consensus to shoot yourself [in the head] would be the easiest way to do it.
"Cheryl was part of that conversation. It was a conversation many were having, not Cheryl alone."
An initial inquest into Pte James's death in 1995 recorded an open verdict but that was overturned by the High Court, which ordered the new hearing.
The inquest continues.
Who were the Deepcut four? Background to the deaths and timeline of events
Answer: A friend of Pte Cheryl James who died at Deepcut barracks has told an inquest "they were trying to keep us quiet" after her death.
Question: Barnsley 1-1 Aston Villa
Birmingham 2-2 Preston
Blackburn 0-1 Sheffield Wednesday
Brentford 4-1 Reading
Bristol City 1-0 Leeds
Burton 1-1 QPR
Cardiff 0-2 Derby
Huddersfield 2-1 Rotherham
Ipswich 0-0 Brighton
Nottingham Forest 1-1 Fulham
Wigan 2-1 Wolves
Answer: Match reports from all of Tuesday's Championship fixtures, with Huddersfield beating Rotherham to return to the top of the table.
Question: The Markit/CIPS Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for the sector rose to 58.1 in June from 55.9 in May. A reading above 50 indicates expansion.
Markit added that confidence in the sector about the coming 12 months was at its highest for 11 years.
Residential house building remained the fastest growing area in the construction sector.
Looking ahead, nearly two-thirds of construction firms expect to see a rise in their activity as a result of increased investment spending among developers and robust demand for new residential projects.
Construction firms are also hiring staff at the fastest pace in six months the survey found.
Tim Moore, senior economist at Markit said the extent of the recent rise in construction optimism was "partly down to relief that pre-election uncertainty has now passed".
He added that the rise in output also suggested firms were confident that underlying demand would continue to recover.
Earlier in the week, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revised UK economic growth for the three months to March up to 0.4% from an original estimate of 0.3%, based on stronger than previously calculated activity in the construction industry.
The upbeat construction survey contrasts with the Markit/CIPS PMI reading for the manufacturing sector, which indicated growth slowed to its lowest pace in more than two years in June.
The manufacturing PMI reading fell to 51.4 in June from 51.9 the month before.
Markit's survey for the UK's services sector is due to be released on Friday.
Answer: | Activity in the UK's construction industry grew last month at its fastest pace since February, a survey suggests.
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Detailed Instructions: In this task, you will be shown a correct English sentence. You need to generate an incorrect form of the input sentence.
Problem:I held the map and tried to find all the famous points that he/she had marked on it .
Solution: | I held the map and tried to find all the famous points that had marked on it . |
Question: Given the following passage "The Silk Road transmission of Buddhism to China is most commonly thought to have started in the late 2nd or the 1st century CE, though the literary sources are all open to question.[note 41] The first documented translation efforts by foreign Buddhist monks in China were in the 2nd century CE, probably as a consequence of the expansion of the Kushan Empire into the Chinese territory of the Tarim Basin.", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: what place is mentioned last?
Answer: Tarim Basin
[Q]: Given the following passage "According to this narrative, shortly after the birth of young prince Gautama, an astrologer named Asita visited the young prince's father, Suddhodana, and prophesied that Siddhartha would either become a great king or renounce the material world to become a holy man, depending on whether he saw what life was like outside the palace walls.", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: What would have to happen for Siddhartha's fate to change?
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[A]: whether he saw what life was like outside the palace walls
input: Please answer the following: Given the following passage "Louis-Philippe was overthrown by a popular uprising in the streets of Paris in 1848. His successor, Napoleon III, and the newly appointed prefect of the Seine, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, launched a gigantic public works project to build wide new boulevards, a new opera house, a central market, new aqueducts, sewers, and parks, including the Bois de Boulogne and Bois de Vincennes. In 1860, Napoleon III also annexed the surrounding towns and created eight new arrondissements, expanding Paris to its current limits.", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: The central market is a type of?
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output: public works project
Please answer this: Given the following passage "The interface of Windows 8 has been the subject of mixed reaction. Bright wrote that its system of hot corners and edge swiping "wasn't very obvious" due to the lack of instructions provided by the operating system on the functions accessed through the user interface, even by the video tutorial added on the RTM release (which only instructed users to point at corners of the screen or swipe from its sides). Despite this "stumbling block", Bright said that Windows 8's interface worked well in some places, but began to feel incoherent when switching between the "Metro" and desktop environments, sometimes through inconsistent means. Tom Warren of The Verge wrote that the new interface was "as stunning as it is surprising", contributing to an "incredibly personal" experience once it is customized by the user, but had a steep learning curve, and was awkward to use with a keyboard and mouse. He noted that while forcing all users to use the new touch-oriented interface was a risky move for Microsoft as a whole, it was necessary in order to push development of apps for the Windows Store. Others, such as Adrian Kingsley-Hughes from ZDNet, considered the interface to be "clumsy and impractical" due to its inconsistent design (going as far as considering it "two operating systems unceremoniously bolted together"), and concluded that "Windows 8 wasn't born out of a need or demand; it was born out of a desire on Microsoft's part to exert its will on the PC industry and decide to shape it in a direction—touch and tablets -- that allows it to compete against, and remain relevant in the face of Apple's iPad."", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: What do both Bright and Warren say about the interface design?
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Answer: inconsistent
Problem: Given the following passage "The names for the nation of Greece and the Greek people differ from the names used in other languages, locations and cultures. Although the Greeks call the country Hellas or Ellada (Greek: Ἑλλάς or Ελλάδα) and its official name is the Hellenic Republic, in English it is referred to as Greece, which comes from the Latin term Graecia as used by the Romans, which literally means 'the land of the Greeks', and derives from the Greek name Γραικός. However, the name Hellas is sometimes used in English as well.", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: What people use the name Hellas?
A: English
input: Please answer the following: Given the following passage "Slack (2003) compares three groups that conducted biological research at Yale during overlapping periods between 1910 and 1970. Yale proved important as a site for this research. The leaders of these groups were Ross Granville Harrison, Grace E. Pickford, and G. Evelyn Hutchinson, and their members included both graduate students and more experienced scientists. All produced innovative research, including the opening of new subfields in embryology, endocrinology, and ecology, respectively, over a long period of time. Harrison's group is shown to have been a classic research school; Pickford's and Hutchinson's were not. Pickford's group was successful in spite of her lack of departmental or institutional position or power. Hutchinson and his graduate and postgraduate students were extremely productive, but in diverse areas of ecology rather than one focused area of research or the use of one set of research tools. Hutchinson's example shows that new models for research groups are needed, especially for those that include extensive field research.", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: what groups research shows that new models are needed
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output: | Hutchinson's |
Detailed Instructions: 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.
Problem:Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award -- Since its inception, the award has been given to 31 different players. Michael Jordan is a record six-time award winner. Magic Johnson, Shaquille O'Neal, Tim Duncan and LeBron James won the award three times in their careers. Jordan and O'Neal are the only players to win the award in three consecutive seasons (Jordan accomplished the feat on two separate occasions). Johnson is the only rookie ever to win the award, as well as the youngest at 20 years old. Andre Iguodala is the only winner to have not started every game in the series. Jerry West, the first ever awardee, is the only person to win the award while being on the losing team in the NBA Finals. Willis Reed, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Larry Bird, Hakeem Olajuwon, Kobe Bryant, and Kevin Durant won the award twice. Olajuwon, Durant, Bryant, and James have won the award in two consecutive seasons. Abdul-Jabbar and James are the only players to win the award for two different teams. Olajuwon of Nigeria, who became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1993, Tony Parker of France, and Dirk Nowitzki of Germany are the only international players to win the award. Duncan is an American citizen, but is considered an ``international'' player by the NBA because he was not born in one of the fifty states or Washington, D.C. Parker and Nowitzki are the only winners to have been trained totally outside the U.S.; Olajuwon played college basketball at Houston and Duncan at Wake Forest. Cedric Maxwell is the only Finals MVP winner eligible for the Hall of Fame who has not been voted in.
Solution: | has the mvp ever gone to the losing team |
Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Input: Travis Kalanick stepped down Tuesday as chief executive of Uber, the ride-hailing service that he helped found in 2009 and built into a transportation colossus, after a shareholder revolt made it untenable for him to stay on at the company.
Mr. Kalanick’s exit came under pressure after hours of drama involving Uber’s investors, according to two people with knowledge of the situation, who asked to remain anonymous because the details were confidential.
Earlier on Tuesday, five of Uber’s major investors demanded that the chief executive resign immediately. The investors included one of Uber’s biggest shareholders, the venture capital firm Benchmark, which has one of its partners, Bill Gurley, on Uber’s board. The investors made their demand for Mr. Kalanick to step down in a letter delivered to the chief executive while he was in Chicago, said the people with knowledge of the situation. ||||| Image copyright ERIC PIERMONT/AFP/Getty
Uber boss Travis Kalanick has resigned as chief executive after pressure from shareholders.
His resignation comes after a review of practices at the firm and scandals including complaints of sexual harassment.
Last week he said he was taking an indefinite leave of absence following the sudden death of his mother in a boating accident.
Mr Kalanick will remain on the board of the ride-hailing firm.
Five major Uber investors demanded Mr Kalanick's immediate resignation as chief executive, the New York Times said.
Mr Kalanick reportedly said: "I love Uber more than anything in the world and at this difficult moment in my personal life I have accepted the investors request to step aside so that Uber can go back to building rather than be distracted with another fight."
Uber's board said in a statement: "Travis has always put Uber first. This is a bold decision and a sign of his devotion and love for Uber.
"By stepping away, he's taking the time to heal from his personal tragedy while giving the company room to fully embrace this new chapter in Uber's history. We look forward to continuing to serve with him on the board."
Analysis: Dave Lee, BBC North America technology reporter, San Francisco
Surely the most dramatic fall from grace the start-up world has ever seen, a scalp so big it will have chief executives across this city sitting bolt upright, and thinking: "If Travis can get booted out of Uber… no-one is safe."
What started out as a PR inconvenience has left the company without, to name just a few, a chief executive officer, chief operating officer, chief technology officer and chief financial officer. Uber is in tatters, engulfed by its own aggression.
Mr Kalanick embodied his company's prevailing attitude: success at all costs. It saw Uber dominate the ride-sharing world, his chutzpah enabling the company to attract investment so effectively that last year Uber alone raised more money than the entire UK start-up scene.
But in doing so he didn't play fair. He created a company that deceived local regulators, neglected the well-being of employees, wound-up drivers, troubled investors, obtained a rape victim's medical records and allegedly stole trade secrets from a rival.
All this time Uber's investors will have been weighing things up. What's more risky to their investment - removing the man who made Uber what it is, or keeping him on? For the first time it's become the latter - and Mr Kalanick is out the door.
Dan Primack, business editor of the Axios news service, was one of the first to report the investor demands for Mr Kalanick to go.
Mr Primack said a group of investors, but particularly Bill Gurley of venture capitalist firm Benchmark, had put pressure on Mr Kalanick to resign.
"It's important to note: Travis controlled the board in terms of votes, so really, it was a vey big uphill climb for [Mr] Gurley and the other investors to get this done," Mr Primack said.
Uber's future prospects were now "pretty bright", Mr Primack added.
The firm has been searching for a chief operating officer, but now can seek out Fortune 500 chief executives to take over the top spot, he said.
Scandals
The ride-hailing company has had a series of recent controversies, including the departure of other high-level executives.
Eric Alexander, the former head of Uber's Asia-Pacific business, left after a report that he had obtained the medical records of a woman who was raped by an Uber driver in 2014.
Mr Alexander reportedly shared them with Mr Kalanick, senior vice-president Emil Michael and others.
Mr Alexander was fired earlier this month, and Mr Michael later left Uber.
Board member David Bonderman made a sexist remark at a meeting about workplace practice recommendations last week and then resigned as a director.
In February Uber said it was investigating "abhorrent" sexual harassment claims made by former Uber engineer Susan Fowler.
This month Uber said it had fired more than 20 staff and had taken action against others following a review of more than 200 HR complaints that included harassment and bullying.
There has also been a lawsuit from Google's parent company, Alphabet, over alleged theft of trade secrets related to driverless cars. |||||
Output: | The bumpy ride is over for Uber's Travis Kalanick: After a shareholder revolt, Kalanick has stepped down as chief executive of the company he co-founded in 2009. Sources tell the New York Times that the resignation came after "hours of drama" on Tuesday, with five of the company's biggest shareholders demanding he step down immediately. "I love Uber more than anything in the world and at this difficult moment in my personal life I have accepted the investors' request to step aside so that Uber can go back to building rather than be distracted with another fight," said Kalanick, who has dealt with multiple scandals involving the company this year as well as the death of his mother in a boating accident last month. Kalanick, who announced last week that he was taking an indefinite leave of absence, will remain on the company's board. At least 15 other top execs, including key Kalanick allies, have already left the company this year, the Washington Post reports. The surprise resignation caps what is "surely the most dramatic fall from grace the start-up world has ever seen," according to BBC technology analyst Dave Lee. Kalanick's aggressive, "success at all costs" mentality attracted a lot of investment, but he "created a company that deceived local regulators, neglected the well-being of employees ... obtained rape victims' medical records, and allegedly stole trade secrets from a rival," Lee writes. |
As a new year is just around the corner, I, like many of you, am taking stock in my life. What I’ve done and what I’d like to do. How I’ve spent my time and how I want to use it going forward. I have goals for blogging, my Jamberry business, my health, homeschooling, and for my family. As I have pondered where I want things to go and how I can successfully make that happen, I have learned that I need to manage my time and energy differently in order to be successful in each area. The main obstacles standing in my way are, ironically, working from home and having my children with me 24/7. But, that was my choice and I’m sticking to it. My goal is to embrace these obstacles by approaching them in different ways. Work at Home Tips for Success Work at home tips can be implemented or not, depending on my needs. I am sure the same will be true for you. You may not need to get healthier or may not want to homeschool your children. So, your daily routine will be different from mine. However, I think these work at home tips can help any individual out there looking for more guidance. Work at Home Tip #1 Be productive. Well, duh! Of course that’s what we would like to do, but have you ever worked all day and by the end of it, you have no idea what you really did? This likely means you are spending your time on things, but not on the most important things. For example, if your goal is to generate income, you want to be carving out time for income generating activities, not reorganizing a shelf or checking a facebook group for information. If your goal is to write a book, you want to be get ideas on paper or develop the plot, not have coffee to discuss your latest and greatest read with your bestie. According to the above context, answer the following question. how many kids does the author have?
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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.
President Obama acknowledged Wednesday that he was disappointed with the wave of losses that Democrats endured in the midterm elections but said he viewed the result as a sign that Americans want change in Washington and want elected officials to "get stuff done," rather than as a repudiation of his policies.
Speaking at length to reporters, Obama resisted taking responsibility for the outcome, in contrast to his response to the last midterm elections in 2010, when he admitted his party suffered a "shellacking.”
“The American people sent a message, one that they’ve sent for several elections now: They expect the people they elect to work as hard as they do,” he said Wednesday. “They expect us to focus on their ambitions and not ours. They want us to get the job done. All of us, in both parties, have a responsibility to address that sentiment.”
But Obama signaled that he wouldn’t adopt a new strategy for dealing with Congress. He repeatedly invited Republicans to work with him but, short of that outcome, said he plans to march ahead on his own a range of issues including reform of the immigration system, climate change and the implementation of his landmark healthcare law. That likely means through executive actions rather than legislation.
On immigration, he said he would act before the end of the year, though he would still rather see Congress pass a bill he can sign.
“If, in fact, there is a great eagerness on the part of Republicans to tackle a broken immigration system, then they have every opportunity to do it,” he said. “My executive actions not only do not prevent them from passing a law that supersedes those actions, but should be a spur for them to actually try to get something done.”
Obama has invited congressional leaders to meet with him Friday, and he outlined three issues where he saw a chance for Republicans and Democrats to work together in the lame-duck session of Congress before the year ends: passage of a federal budget, taking on Islamic State militants in the Middle East and the response to the deadly Ebola virus.
To that end, he asked Congress on Wednesday for more than $6 billion in emergency funding to beef up the fight against Ebola in the three West African countries it is has ravaged and to monitor the U.S. system for preventing the spread of the deadly virus at home.
The request included $4.5 billion for equipping healthcare workers and clinics to fight the Ebola outbreak, while some $1.5 billion would go into a contingency fund to cover future needs. The U.N. has said it will take at least $1 billion to fight the outbreak in West Africa.
He also said he would have a top military official brief leading lawmakers about the fight against Islamic State militants, and that he would continue discussions about a new congressional authorization to attack the extremists that is "right-sized and updated," rather than relying on legal authority that Congress granted the president more than a decade ago to fight Al Qaeda.
Obama also mentioned certain amendments to his signature healthcare law that he’d be willing to accept, possible peace offerings in the hours after Republicans swept key congressional races and set themselves up to take over both chambers of Congress early next year. He said he wouldn't consider major changes like a removal of the provision requiring every person to have health insurance. But he said he would be "open and receptive" to ideas for making "responsible changes."
The Republican wins in key states coincided with votes in support of raising the minimum wage, giving hope to Obama that he might be able to work on that issue with GOP leaders.
White House officials also say Obama will raise the idea with congressional leaders of reforming the corporate tax structure to pay for infrastructure improvements, and that he’s open to discussing all the options that might make such a thing palatable to Republicans.
Still, hours after a sound defeat for Democrats in gubernatorial and congressional races around the country, the president didn't appear to be contemplating any personal change in response.
"Every election is a moment for reflection," he said. "Everybody in this White House is going to look and say, "What do we need to do differently? ... But the things that motivate me every single day ... those things aren't going to change."
Republicans read the results of the election differently, talking about the perils of overreach during Obama's remaining tenure. In his home state of Kentucky, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said the president’s contemplated action would be like “waving a red flag in front of a bull.”
But McConnell extended an offering of his own, insisting that Republicans would not engage in brinkmanship over the federal debt ceiling as they did in 2011 or consider another government shutdown as they did in 2012.
For his part, Obama said he was savoring the possibilities of his remaining time in office, and vowed to work like he is playing the final period of a competitive basketball game.
Obama said he wants to be able to say, "We played that fourth quarter well.”
For more White House coverage, follow @cparsons ||||| After election night's blow to the Democratic Party with the Republican takeover of the Senate, President Obama says that he can work with the GOP on the areas they agree on, such as creating new jobs. (AP)
After election night's blow to the Democratic Party with the Republican takeover of the Senate, President Obama says that he can work with the GOP on the areas they agree on, such as creating new jobs. (AP)
After a stinging rebuke at the polls, President Obama vowed Wednesday to respond to the frustrations of the American electorate by using his final two years to forge compromises with newly empowered congressional Republicans and break the political gridlock that has defined Washington over the past several years.
“I hear you,” Obama said at a White House news conference, a day after voters gave the GOP unilateral control over the legislative branch and dealt a blow to Obama’s agenda after six years in office.
“Obviously, Republicans had a good night, and they deserve credit for running good campaigns,” the president said. But he emphasized that there was a message for both parties in the results — and the two more years of divided government they will produce: “The American people . . . expect the people they elect to work as hard as they do. They expect us to focus on their ambitions and not ours. They want us to get the job done. All of us in both parties have a responsibility to address that sentiment.”
Despite his nod to shared responsibility, however, Obama sounded less introspective and remorseful in the wake of the Democrats’ resounding midterm election defeat this year than he did four years ago, when he described the outcome as a “shellacking” for Democrats. The president noted that two-thirds of those eligible did not vote Tuesday, suggesting the lack of a broad GOP mandate, and he reminded reporters that the policies he has championed, including an increase in the minimum wage, were endorsed by voters in a number of states.
Obama pledged to work with his rivals on areas including taxes, infrastructure and trade, and the hopeful notes he sounded were matched by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), whose reelection puts him in line to become majority leader early next year. The president called McConnell on Wednesday to congratulate him on his victory and discuss areas of common ground, and Obama will meet with the bipartisan congressional leadership at the White House on Friday.
Republicans won big on Tuesday night. Here are the takeaways from the exit poll data. (Pamela Kirkland/The Washington Post)
“We’ll see whether we can work with the president. I hope so,” McConnell said at a news conference in Kentucky. “We’re going to pass legislation. Some of it he may not like, but this gridlock and dysfunction can be ended.”
Even as both sides suggested an openness to new cooperation, there are several immediate stumbling blocks, including potential White House action on immigration, the ongoing standoff over the stalled Keystone XL oil-sands pipeline and Obama’s appointment of a new attorney general. All have the potential to quickly reignite the toxic political environment even before McConnell takes the Senate gavel.
Republicans vehemently oppose Obama’s pledge, first issued in the summer and reiterated Wednesday, that he intends to use his executive authority to stem deportations of some undocumented immigrants before the end of the year.
Obama has argued that he has been forced into taking executive action because Congress failed to act on the problem by approving a comprehensive legislative overhaul of border-control laws. But McConnell on Wednesday compared the idea to “waving a red flag in front of a bull.”
“I hope he won’t do that,” McConnell said. “That would poison the well.”
But Obama is facing a revolt among Hispanic supporters who have escalated their calls for the White House to provide relief for the nation’s more than 11 million undocumented immigrants. Obama’s decision in September to delay his administrative relief until after the election — at the request of Senate Democrats fearful of the electoral ramification in conservative states — intensified anger among immigration advocates.
“You lost the Senate anyway,” Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) said at a news conference in Chicago on Wednesday. “The politics are over. The Senate has been lost. You’re still president of the United States of America, and it’s time for you to act boldly.”
The question for Obama is whether he feels the rout of Democrats — which Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) on Wednesday called “a real ass-whuppin’ ” — constrains or liberates him. Inside the West Wing, presidential advisers said the election results could give the president greater latitude to act unilaterally on immigration, because Republicans can pursue their own immigration bill if they do not like it.
Obama also made clear that he would resist any efforts by his opponents to undercut his landmark policies on health care and the environment. And McConnell acknowledged that Obama remains “a player” even as Republicans pursue their own initiatives.
“The veto pen is a pretty powerful tool,” McConnell said. But he urged Obama to follow the leads of Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, “who are good examples of accepting the government you have rather than fantasizing about the government you think you have.”
More broadly, White House officials were mapping out a new strategy even before the final results had come in Tuesday. In the weeks before Election Day, Chief of Staff Denis McDonough had been leading a planning process to determine what the administration could achieve during the rest of the year and in early 2015 if the GOP took control of the Senate, according to a senior administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal deliberations.
Senior Obama aides gathered for their regular 7:45 a.m. meeting with McDonough on Wednesday, and the session ran long as staff members discussed the dramatic shift in power on Capitol Hill. When Obama joined them in the Roosevelt Room nearly two hours later, the official said, the president made a point to remind them of the power of the office and emphasized that they still have an opportunity to improve the lives of the American public.
“The United States government is the most powerful force on the planet,” the president told them, the official recalled. Using the same phrase he would repeat later in his news conference, Obama told his aides he intended “to squeeze every last drop out of the last two years.”
Still, the election results were sobering for Obama. GOP candidates won seats currently held by Democrats in Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Montana, North Carolina, South Dakota and West Virginia — more than enough to seize control of the Senate for the first time since 2007. In a year in which several Republican governors initially appeared vulnerable, the party ended up winning gubernatorial races all across the country, including big blue-state surprises in Maryland and Massachusetts.
The poor showing has led some Obama allies to call for a shake-up of the White House staff, but the president and White House press secretary Josh Earnest played down the idea of a major staff overhaul.
Manchin said the responsibility for the Democrats’ trouncing “started at the White House and this administration, and it went all the way to leadership. . . . I think that people felt that the Democrats didn’t work, did not reach out, basically played politics all the way through.”
In recent months, Obama has set aside between 45 minutes to an hour each week to call lawmakers, according to aides, though the White House kept details of those conversations private to protect members’ confidence. But on Wednesday the White House released the names of 25 Republican and Democratic officials the president phoned Tuesday night, eager to telegraph the kind of outreach he will be pursuing in a changed political landscape.
The list included several Republican lawmakers Obama will probably be negotiating with in the next two years, including Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.) and James M. Inhofe (Okla.) and Sen.-elect Shelley Moore Capito (W.Va.), as well as Republican gubernatorial winners from Alabama, Arkansas and Oklahoma.
Ed O’Keefe contributed to this report. |||||
Output: | Day one of the new political reality in DC yielded words of cooperation from the White House and soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, along with signals that the bipartisan friction wasn't magically going away. “I want you to know, I hear you," said President Obama, referring to the US electorate. But he said the message applied to Republicans as well, reports the New York Times. “The American people sent a message—one that they’ve sent for several elections now. ... They want us to get the job done.” Obama said he is "eager" to work with the GOP-controlled Congress, but emphasized that he remains ready to sidestep lawmakers on issues such as immigration and climate change through executive action, reports the Los Angeles Times. On immigration, for instance, he said would make good on a promise to act before the end of the year. “My executive actions not only do not prevent them from passing a law that supersedes those actions, but should be a spur for them to actually try to get something done.” Earlier, McConnell struck a "bipartisan note," in the words of the Washington Post. "When the American people choose divided government, I don’t think it means they don’t want us to do anything,” he said. “We ought to start with the view that maybe there are some things we can agree on to make progress for the country.” He promised there would be no government shutdowns or defaults on the national debt—but he also warned that executive action on immigration could seriously damage bipartisan relations. |
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Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: What is the population of the city that has a historic site that is the largest of its subject in the world ?
Student: | 1,461 |
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How to get the hottest guy in the fourth grade to like you
Dress your best.
Guys love cute girls in the class/grade. But please don't use much makeup or something like that. | Do you want to look like a clown at school? Be nice to everyone. Guys are more accepting and open to friendly girls. |
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 US Open is held annually, starting on the last Monday in August, and lasting for two weeks into September, with the middle weekend coinciding with the Labor Day holiday. The main tournament consists of five event championships: men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles, and mixed doubles, with additional tournaments for senior, junior, and wheelchair players. Since 1978, the tournament has been played on acrylic hard courts at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows -- Corona Park, Queens, New York City. The US Open is owned and organized by the United States Tennis Association (USTA), a not-for-profit organization. Net proceeds from ticket sales, sponsorships, and television deals are used to promote the development of tennis in the United States.
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Laylat al-Qadr (from Arabic: لیلة القدر ), variously rendered in English as the Night of Decree, Night of Power, Night of Value, Night of Destiny, or Night of Measures, is in Islamic belief the night when the first verses of the Quran were revealed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad. It is one of the nights of the last ten days of Ramadan. Muslims believe that on this night the blessings and mercy of God are abundant, sins are forgiven, supplications are accepted, and that the annual decree is revealed to the angels who also descend to earth, specially the Angel Gabriel, referred to as 'the Spirit', to perform every and any errand decreed by God. Islam holds that God Almighty alone answers our supplications and that He alone receives them and forgives humanity and gives them what they ask for and that on this particular night Muslims should actively seek God's forgiveness and engage in various acts of worship.
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Unlike the previous two trilogies, whose films were released approximately three years apart, the sequel films are planned to be released two years apart. Star Wars: The Last Jedi is set for release on December 15, 2017, with Rian Johnson as screenwriter and director. Episode IX was to be directed by Colin Trevorrow; however, in September 2017, Lucasfilm announced that he had departed from the project, and shortly after announced that Abrams would return to direct the film and co-write it with Chris Terrio. The film is scheduled to be released on December 20, 2019.
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Example conversation: Write the response (start with "Response:") DIALOG:
What can you tell me about Bishmizzine?
- One of the many Lebanese villages where the number of inhabitants is a speck compared to the number of villagers abroad.
- Where did the villagers go when they went abroad?
- Global emigration occurred as far back as the mid 19th century with records showing young men and families migrating to the new world mainly Australia and the Americas (North and South).
- Why did they settle there?
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Response: This emigration was greatly hastened after the economic ill fortunes of the silk textile factories after the advent of cheap artificial silk by the far east.
Example conversation: Write the response (start with "Response:") DIALOG:
Who was Francis John Lys?
- Francis John Lys Francis John Lys (1863–1947) was a British lecturer and academic administrator.
- What did he lecture or do in his career?
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Response: He was Provost of Worcester College, Oxford (1919–46) and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University from 1932 until 1935.
Example conversation: Write the response (start with "Response:") DIALOG:
What is the story of the film Gunhed?
- Gunhed (film) In the early 2030s, a new material called Texmexium (more powerful than nuclear energy) enabled the world to be controlled by a new generation of super computers.
- Is there anything else interesting in the story?
- Due to fear of misusing Texmexium, it was guarded within hyper-nuclear facilities that powered every major city.
- Is there anything else important?
- Concurrently occurring was the world's depletion in raw materials to create new all-powerful computers; conductive plastics and computer chips have out-valued gold and gave rise to tech scavengers that seek their fortunes through acquiring and selling computer parts despite the extreme dangers.
- Is there anything else I should know about the story?
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Response: During the year 2005, the Cybortech Company built one of the most advanced robotics development facilities upon a small Asian island simply called 8JO.
Example conversation: Write the response (start with "Response:") DIALOG:
Who are some players that Tina Takahashi has coached?
- Dave Shapiro (Juv, Ntl champ), Torin Macfadyen (U18 Ntl champ, U15 Ntl Champ), Sean Macfadyen (Masters Pan Am champ ’07, QC Open ’ 09 , RMC Int’l 2009, Sr.
- What other players has she coached?
- Prov Team member) Stewart Tanaka (Sr.
- Has she coached any other players?
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| Response: Ntl medalist), Thomas Filter ( Jr. |
Text: The Crittenden--Johnson Resolution (also called the Crittenden Resolution) was a measure passed by the 37th United States Congress on July 25, 1861 after the start of the American Civil War, which began on April 12, 1861. Also known as the War Aims Resolution, it was passed by both houses of Congress in July 1861 in an attempt to define limited conservative goals for the Union effort during the Civil War, especially the restoration of the Union as it was with no mention of slavery. The dual goal was to retain the loyalty of Unionists in the slave-holding border states and also to reassure Northerners who would fight to save the Union but not to free the slaves.
Question: did the crittenden resolution define the war aims of the north? | yes |
Instructions: In this task, you are given a passage and a question regarding that passage. You must determine whether or not the question is answerable from the given passage. If a question is answerable, output should be 'True', otherwise 'False'. You must not consider any other information that is not provided in the passage while labelling True or False.
Input: Passage: Tymnet was an international data communications network headquartered in San Jose, CA that utilized virtual call packet switched technology and used X.25, SNA/SDLC, BSC and ASCII interfaces to connect host computers (servers)at thousands of large companies, educational institutions, and government agencies. Users typically connected via dial-up connections or dedicated async connections. The business consisted of a large public network that supported dial-up users and a private network business that allowed government agencies and large companies (mostly banks and airlines) to build their own dedicated networks. The private networks were often connected via gateways to the public network to reach locations not on the private network. Tymnet was also connected to dozens of other public networks in the U.S. and internationally via X.25/X.75 gateways. (Interesting note: Tymnet was not named after Mr. Tyme. Another employee suggested the name.) Question: How were X.75, ASCII, and other interfaces used?
Output: | False |
In this task, you are given a passage and a question regarding that passage. You must determine whether or not the question is answerable from the given passage. If a question is answerable, output should be 'True', otherwise 'False'. You must not consider any other information that is not provided in the passage while labelling True or False.
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Question: Passage: The development of plate tectonics provided a physical basis for many observations of the solid Earth. Long linear regions of geologic features could be explained as plate boundaries. Mid-ocean ridges, high regions on the seafloor where hydrothermal vents and volcanoes exist, were explained as divergent boundaries, where two plates move apart. Arcs of volcanoes and earthquakes were explained as convergent boundaries, where one plate subducts under another. Transform boundaries, such as the San Andreas fault system, resulted in widespread powerful earthquakes. Plate tectonics also provided a mechanism for Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift, in which the continents move across the surface of the Earth over geologic time. They also provided a driving force for crustal deformation, and a new setting for the observations of structural geology. The power of the theory of plate tectonics lies in its ability to combine all of these observations into a single theory of how the lithosphere moves over the convecting mantle. Question: What happened as a result of hydrothermal vents and underwater volcanoes that are transform boundaries?
Answer: False
Question: Passage: Many types of Turing machines are used to define complexity classes, such as deterministic Turing machines, probabilistic Turing machines, non-deterministic Turing machines, quantum Turing machines, symmetric Turing machines and alternating Turing machines. They are all equally powerful in principle, but when resources (such as time or space) are bounded, some of these may be more powerful than others. Question: Turing machines are commonly employed to define what?
Answer: True
Question: Passage: After al-Nimeiry was overthrown in 1985 the party did poorly in national elections, but in 1989 it was able to overthrow the elected post-al-Nimeiry government with the help of the military. Turabi was noted for proclaiming his support for the democratic process and a liberal government before coming to power, but strict application of sharia law, torture and mass imprisonment of the opposition, and an intensification of the long-running war in southern Sudan, once in power. The NIF regime also harbored Osama bin Laden for a time (before 9/11), and worked to unify Islamist opposition to the American attack on Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War. Question: When was al-Nimeiry accepted?
Answer: | False
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Ques & Ans: Passage: The oldest living U.S. president is George H.W. Bush, born June 12, 1924 (age 93 years, 261 days). On November 25, 2017, he also became the longest-lived president, surpassing the lifespan of Gerald Ford, who died at the age of 93 years, 165 days. The second oldest living president, Jimmy Carter, has the distinction of having the longest post-presidency in U.S. history, currently at 37 years, 39 days. He surpassed the previous record, held by Herbert Hoover (31 years, 230 days) on September 7, 2012. The youngest living president is Barack Obama, born August 4, 1961 (age 56 years, 208 days).
Question: Based on this passage, who was the longest living president of the united states?
George H.W. Bush
Stream of consciousness: To answer the above question, the relevant sentence is: The oldest living U.S. president is George H.W. Bush, born June 12, 1924 (age 93 years, 261 days).
Ques & Ans: Context: The Burning of Washington was a British invasion of Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, during the War of 1812. On August 24, 1814, after defeating the Americans at the Battle of Bladensburg, a British force led by Major General Robert Ross occupied Washington and set fire to many public buildings, including the White House (known as the Presidential Mansion), and the Capitol, as well as other facilities of the U.S. government. The attack was in part a retaliation for the recent American destruction of Port Dover in Upper Canada. Throughout the history of the United States, the United Kingdom is the only country to have ever captured Washington, D.C.; the Burning of Washington also marks the only time since the American Revolutionary War that a foreign power has captured and occupied the United States capital.
Question: when did the british burn down washington dc?
August 24 , 1814
Stream of consciousness: To answer this question, we should know that: On August 24, 1814, after defeating the Americans at the Battle of Bladensburg, a British force led by Major General Robert Ross occupied Washington and set fire to many public buildings, including the White House (known as the Presidential Mansion), and the Capitol, as well as other facilities of the U.S. government.
Ques & Ans: Pinellas County is a county located in the state of Florida. As of the 2010 census, the population was 916,542. The county is part of the Tampa -- St. Petersburg -- Clearwater, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. Clearwater is the county seat, and St. Petersburg is the largest city.
Answer this question: what is the largest city in pinellas county?
St. Petersburg
Stream of consciousness: | The relevant information is: Clearwater is the county seat, and St. Petersburg is the largest city. |
Explain simply why relief is the correct answer to: John didn't know what to get for anyone. Buying Christmas presents was stressful for him, and finishing was whaat?
Options:
- relief
- happiness
- very sad
- lack of money
- debt. Explanation: | Finishing a stressful work can give relief. Reief is a feeling. Finishing purchase of christmas gifts can give relief. |
Instructions: Given a context passage, generate a question from the passage such that its answer is shortest continous span from the passage.
Input: The figure of a limp woman with long curly hair is seen drifting underwater, and a voiceover questions the end of a life that never truly existed. This life ended in murder, the victim herself unsure of who her killer was and why she was killed. Her death was only metaphorical, for in her place a new life begins.The story starts with Patience Phillips (Halle Berry), a timid woman who can't stand up for herself. She lets people walk all over her, and has wasted her artistic talent working for a cosmetic company as a graphic designer. George Hedare (Lambert Wilson) runs the company with his supermodel wife, Laurel (Sharon Stone). Laurel knows that Patience is capable, but seems mostly indifferent, only using her in own power struggles with her husband. George, an abusive boss in general, finds plenty of opportunity to mock Laurel.The company is about to launch BeauLine, a new anti-aging product that Laurel had secretly been using for years. The advertisement is designed by Patience but George, unsatisfied, demands that she redesigns it. Upset and frustrated, Patience returns home and sees a cat looking up at her. Shaking her head, she goes to sleep, but her loud neighbours keeps her up and she is unable to rest. Next morning, the cat is on her window ledge. When she approaches, she realizes the cat has climbed up to a higher ledge and was potentially stuck. To try and reach the cat, Patience climbs out her window ledge, and a passing detective mistakens her intentions as suicidal. He ends up rushing into her apartment and pulling her back in. Patience would have thanked him but realizes she is late for work, in her hurry to leave she drops her wallet. The detective, Tom Lone (Benjamin Bratt), tracks her down to her workplace and returns it to her, and both agree to a coffee date.Later that night, Patience goes to the production factory to deliver her artwork, and she accidentally hears that the BeauLine has unsafe health problems. Stunned, she backs into several tools, revealling her presence. Two men chase her into a large waste water pipe, where she is trapped, and they flush her into the river, where she drowns. The cat that has been appearing in front of Patience appears by her body and gathers several other cats around her.Patience eventually drags herself unsteadily up and returns home. Her movements are off and uncontrollable, and she ends up breaking the glass through her own window. When her neighbours start their usual loud party again, she yells at them to quiet but they again ignore her. The old Patience would have backed down, but now she strodes down, knocks on their door, and promptly beats up the host and destroys the music equipment in front of many shocked guests. When she wakes up the next morning, she almost dismisses everything as a dream until she sees the broken glass. Unfortunately, her memories of what happened before that are blank, and so she cluelessly returns back to work.At work, George loudly yells at Patience in front of all her coworkers for not handling in her project. She tunes him out, which angers him further, and when she apologizes he only continues. Patience than apologizes for wasting her time in the company, and is fired, but as soon as George leaves her colleagues swarm around her in congratulations. Patience packs up her things and while she and her friends are walking home, two dogs instantly begin barking at her and she instinctively hisses at them. When questioned, she explains her behaviour as allergies. When they pass by a jewelry store, Patience's attention is caught by a beautiful collar-like necklace, but is reminded of her new unemployed status and leaves longingly. Once home, she sees the same cat again, and finally close enough she was able to find the address on the cat's owner.The cat belonged to an older woman named Ophelia, a former professor who lived alone in a house full of cats. She explains that the cat constantly appearing in front of Patience is named Midnight, a rare Egyptian
Output: | What does the skincare cream, Baeu-line, reverse? |
Answer the following question about this sentence:
The woman gave the man her phone number.
What is the cause?
OPTIONS:
- She was attracted to him.
- She was repulsed by him.
Ans: **She was attracted to him.**
Answer the following question about this sentence:
The mother needed help looking after her children.
What is the effect?
OPTIONS:
- She sent the children to daycare.
- She gave up custody of the children.
Ans: **She sent the children to daycare.**
Answer the following question about this sentence:
The girl's mouth ached.
What is the cause?
OPTIONS:
- She lost a tooth.
- She swallowed her gum.
Ans: | **She lost a tooth.** |
A question is presented to you in this task, and your job is to write a potentially correct answer.
[EX Q]: what is time zone in hawaii?
[EX A]: Hawaii–Aleutian Time Zone
[EX Q]: where does drogba play now?
[EX A]: Côte d'Ivoire national football team
[EX Q]: who play luke skywalker?
[EX A]: | Mark Hamill
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Determine if the sentence is true based on the text below:
hunger could actually hurt
Choose from:
[1]. Yes;
[2]. No;
[3]. It's impossible to say;
Jane ate without pausing. Hunger was an unknown experience. She had never imagined it could actually hurt.
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[Q]: The pharmaceutical company recalled the drug.
What is the cause?
[A]: Users reported dangerous side effects.
[Q]: The bodybuilder lifted weights.
What is the effect?
[A]: Her muscles became fatigued.
[Q]: The mother scolded her daughter.
What is the cause?
[A]: Her daughter burped at the kitchen table.
[Q]: The boy found the television show boring.
What is the effect?
[A]: | He shut it off. |
next question: John tried his best to care for Kate, but Kate kept throwing herself into danger. He couldn't stand her what for her own safety?
Options:
- unfeeling
- disregard
- indifferent
- neglect
- apathetic
reasoning: | Disregard means ignorance. Ignorance of safety is dangerous. The answer is disregard. |
Generate the answer for a given question. The question requires common knowledge of English. Make sure that the answer is in detail, long, consistent with the context, and requires general knowledge of English. To be less repetitive, please vary your language for each question. Give a proper explanation to answer, and if necessary, provide the definition of various terms. And conclude your answer if it's long. If you have used other resources (e.g., Merriam Webster's.) to answer the question, include citations in your answer. You don't need to paraphrase the context of your resources, but make sure that your answer is consistent and complete.
Possible Duplicate: When do I use 'I' instead of 'me?' A friend of mine asked me for advice about an e-mail he was writing. There was a sentence like this: I and my partners we are interested in investing in your product. I figured it was wrong, so I suggested: I and my partners are interested in investing in your product. This looks grammatical to me but sounds strange. Also, I have seen a lot of people writing this: Me and my partners we are interested in investing in your product. which I believe is not grammatical. So, which one of the options above is correct? Also, what would be a better choice of words?.
'I and someone are interested' is grammatically correct. It is the convention in English that when you list several people including yourself, you put yourself last, so you really should say 'Someone and I are interested.' 'Someone and I' is the subject of the sentence, so you should use the subjective case 'I' rather than the objective 'me'. 'Someone and I' clearly means two people, so you should use 'are' and not 'is'. If it was 'Someone or I ...' then you would use 'is', because only one person is interested, either 'someone' or 'I'. It is not uncommon to hear people say 'Me and someone are ...', but this is wrong because it's the wrong case. When an educated person hears 'Me and Billy is going to the ball game', he immediately thinks this is either a child or a very uneducated person speaking. 'I and someone we ...' is incorrect because it is redundant. 'We' is simply another way of saying 'I and someone'. It adds no new information to the sentence, and so there is no reason to include it. You can't just string together alternative ways of expressing the same idea: If you really need it for clarity or emphasis, you have to surround it with some additional words, like a 'that is', or sometimes just punctuation that show its purpose in the sentence. You could say, 'We, that is, Bob and I, are interested ...' All that said, 'I and someone' or 'Someone and I' sounds strange to me, and I suspect most English speakers, because it is an unusual use of the word 'someone'. When 'someone' is used in a list with identifiers of other people, we usually say 'someone else'. Like, 'Bob and someone else are interested ...' rather than 'Bob and someone are interested ...' (I have no idea why this is so; it's just the convention.) 'Someone' without 'else' is normally only used when it's the only person: 'Someone is interesteed ...'
You won't catch the train if you don't leave in time You won't catch the train if you won't leave in time I'm pretty sure the correct version is 'You won't catch the train if you don't leave in time', but I'm trying to explain it to someone and I don't know how to explain it. I also don't know how to google it. Can you please help me with a simple explanation or a link that explains it?.
As implied in the comments, the specific meaning of the two are slightly different (albeit both grammatically correct). It helps to break down the contractions. You will not catch the train if you do not leave on time This phrase is neutral in its blame: not catching the train will happen if you, for whatever reason, do not leave on time. You will not catch the train if you will not leave on time This places blame more directly on addressee: 'will not' implies that the addressee plays a causal role in themselves being late for the train, as if they refuse to leave at the correct time.
I was googling the reason for why it's called 'shotgun' to ride beside the driver when it suddenly hit me - why on Earth is the firearm called 'shotgun'?! Is there any other kind of a gun than one used for shooting?! Why is it called 'shotgun' instead of just a 'gun' or a more technical term (9-gauge, barrel gun etc.)?.
| The 'shot' in shotgun refers to the ammunition that the gun fires. Whereas a pistol or rifle fires bullets (single metal balls), a shotgun fires a shell packed with shot (hundreds of tiny metal balls).
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Given a passage and a query based on the passage, generate an unambiguous, concise and simple answer to the query from information in the passage. Note that the answer may not be present in exact form.
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Question: Check out the picture of 3mb on drew’s Wiki page. He looks like a different person. Theodore Teddy Long, former manager, general manager and creator of impromptu tag team matches. Camacho, former tag team partner of Hunico (who is now Sin Cara), last seen on NXT feuding with Adam Rose. Drew McIntyre is out to fulfil a prophecy against NXT Champion Bobby Roode at Takeover: Brooklyn III - Duration: 3 minutes, 39 seconds. The latest update on Drew McIntyre confirms that we won’t be seeing the former WWE NXT Champion for a long, long time. SmackDown: Teddy Long strips Drew McIntyre of the - Duration: 3 minutes, 50 seconds. Drew McIntyre, who was last seen as part of the cult-favorite 3MB and was at one point in the storyline Vince McMahon's Chosen One and former Intercontinental Champion. He was also troubled by some out-of-the-ring issues during his early days in the company. Jinder Mahal, another member of 3MB. Although Heath Slater has not been released (as of yet), 3MB is officially dead. Featured Videos. Drew McIntyre makes his WWE debut against Zack Ryder: SmackDown, October 12, 2007 In his WWE debut, Drew McIntyre battles a long-haired Zack Ryder on SmackDown. Drew McIntyre vs. Wesley Blake: WWE NXT, May 24, 2017 Two of NXT's roughest competitors go toe-to-toe as Drew McIntyre slugs it out with Wesley Blake. Drew McIntyre promises to take back our NXT from Bobby Roode: WWE NXT, July 26, 2017 - Duration: 2 minutes, 46 seconds. WWE releases Drew McIntyre, Teddy Long and 8 others tweet share Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email It used to be a tradition that there would be a big mass release of unused or unpopular WWE talent every year almost immediately following WrestleMania. NXT TakeOver: WarGames stole the show during Survivor Series weekend, and Drew McIntyre’s WWE NXT Championship match with Andrade “Cien” Almas contributed towards said show-stealing. Almas defeated McIntyre in somewhat-shocking fashion, and while the match served its purpose in crowning a new NXT Champion, the bigger story here was the biceps injury McIntyre suffered during the closing moments of the match. Query: how long is drew mcintyre out
Answer: Drew McIntyre is out for 3 minutes, 39 seconds.
Question: The time it would take to reach its surface also depends on how fast we travel. If we travel at the speed of light, it would take us less than an hour – 48 minutes to be precise. That would be enough time to resist any hunger pangs and save us from giving in to expensive plane food. A rocket ship would take roughly 2.2 years, provided it goes at top speed all the way. And if you take a cab, traveling at 65 miles per hour, it would take you roughly 850 years! The staggering fare is another issue! The Fuel Instead of taking the direct path to Jupiter, it made two gravitational assisting flybys of Earth and one of Venus to pick up speed, finally arriving at Jupiter on December 8, 1995. That’s a total of 2,242 days. So why did Galileo take so much longer to get to Jupiter? It’s because you need to be going slow enough that when you reach Jupiter, you can actually enter orbit around the planet, and not just speed on past. And now, after this long period of Jupiterlessness, we’re about to have another spacecraft arrive at the massive planet and go into orbit. NASA Eyes Mission to Jupiter Moon Europa. Complex and beautiful patterns adorn the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa, as seen in this color image intended to approximate how the satellite might appear to the human eye. The data used to create this view were acquired by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in 1995 and 1998. The Voyager Spacecraft, the most sophisticared space missions yet attempted by humans, took years to get to Jupiter & Saturn. As of 1999 May, Voyager 1 was nearly 6 billion miles from earth; it takes over 20 hours to send a signal and receive a reply. cost to drive from Jupiter, FL to West Palm Beach, FL; reverse driving time from West Palm Beach, FL to Jupiter, FL; halfway between Jupiter, FL and West Palm Beach, FL; places to stop from Jupiter, FL to West Palm Beach, FL; hotels near West Palm Beach, FL; flight duration from Jupiter, FL to West Palm Beach, FL Answer 1: Since the Earth and Jupiter are both revolving around the sun, the distance between them is always changing. The average distance between the Earth and Jupiter is 483 million miles. If you could travel at the speed of light, it would only take you 43 minutes to get to Jupiter. Since people cant travel at the speed of light, you would probably have to take a rocket ship to Jupiter instead- which would take you about 2.2 years if it was going at top speed the whole way. There have been several probes sent from Earth to Jupiter as of 2014, and it took them between three and five years to get to Jupiter. A few of the missions sent to Jupiter include Cassini, Voyager I and II, Ulysses, and Pioneer 11. It would take 850 years traveling 65 miles per hour to reach Jupiter from Earth. Learn more about Planets So, how long does it take to get to Jupiter? Around 600 days if you want to just do a flyby and aren’t planning to stick around, or about 2,000 days if you want to actually get into orbit. Podcast (audio): Download (Duration: 5:45 — 2.4MB) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS. Podcast (video): Download (Duration: 5:47 — 96.0MB) Well, it's not easy to get to. Space is kind of infinite and it takes a long time to get to places. Check out these transit times to each of our planets, according to the Planetary Science Institute. Voyager 1 took only 546 days, arriving on March 5, 1979, and Voyager 2 took 688 days. So, if you’re going to do a flyby, you’ll need about 550-650 days to make the journey. But if you actually want to slow down and go into orbit around Jupiter, you’ll need to take a much slower journey. Query: how long would it take to get to jupiter
Answer: It would take 850 years traveling 65 miles per hour to reach Jupiter from Earth.
Question: Lance Corporal is the 3rd rank in the United States Marine Corps , ranking above Private First Class and directly below Corporal. A lance corporal is a Junior Enlisted at DoD paygrade E-3, with a starting monthly pay of $1,886. Marines generally receive a promotion to Lance Corporal after one or more years of service. Once the rank of Lance Corporal has been achieved, they may qualify for promotion to Corporal by receiving a qualifying score on a composite skills and leadership assessment. The paper reported that 92 percent of lance corporals who had spent a year at their current rate didn't have the composite, or cutting, score they needed to be promoted. -- Hope Hodge Seck can be reached at hope.seck@milit ary.com. The paper reported that 92 percent of lance corporals who had spent a year at their current rate didn't have the composite, or cutting, score they needed to be promoted.-- Hope Hodge Seck can be reached at hope.seck@milit ary.com. Follow her on Twitter at @HopeSeck. Show Full Article At minimum you still have to meet time-in-service and time-in-grade requirements. To make E-4 requires at least 12 months in the service and 8 months as an E-3. To make sergeant (E-5) requires at least 24 months in the service and 12 months as an E4-. Promotion to E-2 and E-3 generally comes more or less automatically so long as you do a competent job and stay out of trouble. To make E-2 you must have been in the service for at least 6 months. To make E-3 you must have been in the service for at least 9 months and in the E-2 grade for at least 8 months. Promotions to these ranks aren't competitive, meaning your promotion doesn't come at somebody else's expense. A Lance Corporal is most often promoted from Private First Class (PFC), although promotion from lower paygrades may occur with sufficient display of leadership and experience. If the Marine entered the Navy as an E-2, then they are all but guaranteed to promote to E-3 after nine months. While this will result in longer promotion waits for many lance corporals, it could have a benefit for corporals looking to make sergeant: Previously, they needed to have reached the 12-month mark at the start of the quarter in which they want to be promoted. Marine Corps sergeants have a pay grade of E-5, with the E standing for enlisted. To make sergeant you must climb through the lower ranks: Private (E-1), private first class (E-2), lance corporal (E-3) and corporal (E-4). A new change to Marine Corps policy will require some Marines to wait longer before they are eligible for promotion. The new guidelines stipulate that, as of April 1, Marine lance corporals and corporals must spend 12 months in their current rank before they can be looked at for promotion to corporal or sergeant. The current rules require just eight months' time-in-grade for lance corporals, though corporals must already serve 12 months in their rank before promotion to sergeant. Query: how long do you have to be a lance corporal for promotion
Answer: | After one or more years of service you have to be a lance corporal for promotion.
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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.
Problem:Opposition leader Boris Nemtsov speaks to the media during a gathering of opposition supporters in central Moscow March 17, 2012.
Medics carry the body of Boris Nemtsov, who was shot dead, in central Moscow February 28, 2015.
MOSCOW Boris Nemtsov, a Russian opposition politician and former deputy prime minister who was an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin, was shot dead meters from the Kremlin in central Moscow late on Friday.
Nemtsov, 55, was shot four times in the back, the Interior Ministry said. A police spokeswoman on the scene said he had been walking on a bridge over the Moskva River with a Ukrainian woman.
Putin condemned the killing and took the investigation under presidential command, saying it could have been a contract killing and a "provocation" on the eve of a big opposition protest that Nemtsov had been due to lead in Moscow on Sunday.
Police cars sealed off the bridge close to the red walls of the Kremlin and Red Square, and an ambulance was on the scene.
"Nemtsov B.E. died at 2340 hours as a result of four shots in the back," an Interior Ministry spokeswoman said by telephone.
A police spokesman on the scene said Nemtsov had been shot at from a passing white car that fled the scene. The woman was being interviewed by police.
Mikhail Kasyanov, a fellow opposition leader, told reporters at the bridge: "That a leader of the opposition could be shot beside the walls of the Kremlin is beyond imagination. There can be only one version: that he was shot for telling the truth."
Kasyanov, a former prime minister under Putin, called Nemtsov a "fighter for the truth".
OPPOSITION TO WAR IN UKRAINE
Nemtsov had been quoted as saying he was concerned that the president might want him dead over his opposition to the conflict in Ukraine. Sunday's opposition march is intended as a protest against the war in east Ukraine, where pro-Russian rebels have seized a swathe of territory.
Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told Russian news agencies that the president had expressed his condolences and ordered the security agencies to investigate. He said Putin had called it a "brutal murder".
Another opposition figure, Ksenia Sobchak, said Nemtsov had been preparing a report on the presence of Russian troops in Ukraine. The Kremlin strongly denies allegations by Kiev and Western capitals that it has sent troops and advanced weaponry to back the rebels.
Peskov said Putin had called it a "brutal murder".
Like other opposition leaders, Nemtsov was a fighter against corruption. In other reports, he condemned massive overspending on the Sochi Winter Olympics by the Russian authorities and listed the many state buildings, helicopters and planes that Putin has at his disposal.
Nemtsov was also one of the leaders of mass rallies in the winter of 2011-12 that became the biggest protests against Putin since the former KGB spy rose to power in 2000.
Nemtsov briefly served as a deputy prime minister under president Boris Yeltsin in the late 1990s, when he gained a reputation as a leading liberal reformer.
(Reporting By Alexander Winning and Vladimir Soldatkin; Writing by Timothy Heritage; Editing by Kevin Liffey) ||||| Investigation is under way into the murder of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, as some blame President Vladimir Putin's administration. (Reuters)
Investigation is under way into the murder of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, as some blame President Vladimir Putin's administration. (Reuters)
Boris Nemtsov, a towering figure in Russian post-Soviet politics and a biting critic of President Vladimir Putin, was gunned down steps from the Kremlin late Friday, authorities said. The drive-by shooting had the potential to open a violent new chapter in Russian political life.
Nemtsov, a physicist-turned-politician who was seen in the 1990s as a possible heir to President Boris Yeltsin, was one of the loudest voices condemning Russia’s sharp turn toward confrontation with the West in the past year. The killing sent immediate shock waves through Russia, where he became the highest-profile opposition leader to be slain in a nation where such figures are sometimes imprisoned or pushed to emigrate.
There was no immediate information on who killed the 55-year-old politician as he walked across a central Moscow bridge shortly before midnight on an unusually warm winter’s night. Putin said it bore the marks of a contract killing intended to embarrass the Kremlin, a spokesman said. Opposition leaders said they were sure that it was an attempt to intimidate them.
The killing was a dramatic and bloody turn for Russia’s oppressed opposition movement, which has struggled to find its footing during a wave of nationalistic fervor unleashed by the annexation of Ukraine’s semiautonomous Crimean region last year. Many leaders have been marginalized with prison terms or other forms of harassment, and public rhetoric has grown extremely aggressive toward those who deviate from the majority line.
The shooting came a day before a rally at which opposition leaders had been hoping to breathe fresh life into their cause. Nemtsov was one of the main organizers.
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Politically motivated slayings are not unknown in Russia, but not once in the 24 years since the breakup of the Soviet Union has such a high-profile figure been the victim. Shaken opposition leaders said in the hours after Nemtsov’s slaying that they were newly fearful, but they vowed to carry on. It was not immediately clear whether they would hold the rally on Sunday.
Just hours before his death, Nemtsov told Ekho Moskvy radio that Putin had pushed Russia into an economic crisis through his “mad, aggressive and deadly policy of war against Ukraine.”
The killing took place as Nemtsov walked in the heart of Moscow across the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge, less than 100 yards from the walls of the Kremlin and within sight of Red Square, one of the most secure areas in all of Russia. Police and secret services have a heavy presence in the region. There was no word on whether Putin was in the Kremlin at the time; he typically sleeps at a presidential residence on the outskirts of Moscow.
“Nemtsov’s murder is a terrible tragedy for Russia,” said former finance minister Alexei Kudrin, one of the few Putin allies who is also publicly critical of him.
Nemtsov was a political star in the early post-Soviet days, when most Russians still dreamed of democracy — a young, energetic and smart politician who charmed voters and won high approval ratings as a regional governor and then as Russia’s deputy prime minister. For a time, he was seen as a likely heir to Yeltsin, who served from 1991 to 1999 as the first president of the Russian Federation.
Instead, Putin assumed the presidency in December 1999 and set about relentlessly marginalizing his opponents. He has held power in one capacity or another since then.
Nemtsov received a doctorate in physics in 1990 and then served as a lawmaker for three years. Yeltsin appointed him governor of Nizhny Novgorod province in 1991.
1 of 20 Full Screen Autoplay Close Skip Ad × The life and protests of Boris Nemtsov View Photos The sharp critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin was shot and killed in central Moscow, the Interior Ministry said early Saturday. Caption The Russian opposition leader was shot and killed in central Moscow, the Russian Interior Ministry said early Saturday. March 15, 2014 Boris Nemtsov addresses demonstrators during a rally in Moscow to oppose President Vladimir Putin’s policies in Ukraine. More than 10,000 people turned out to oppose what many called an invasion of the Crimean Peninsula. Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Buy Photo Wait 1 second to continue.
He was a key architect of Russia’s no-holds-barred moves toward capitalism, instituting free-market economic policies and simplifying the nightmarish and corrupt processes of registering new businesses.
Nemtsov was so popular that the Yeltsin camp of reformers briefly considered running him for president in 1996, but nothing came of the effort. Nemtsov reluctantly accepted the office of first deputy prime minister after Yeltsin was reelected in 1997.
As deputy prime minister, Nemtsov spearheaded a program of economic “shock therapy” designed to haul Russia out of its post-Soviet doldrums. He sought to make bidding on government contracts more competitive and transparent. His efforts earned him the ire of Russia’s notorious oligarchs, the powerful businessmen who were accused of looting the nation’s assets after the fall of the Communist government.
More recently, Nemtsov had been working on a report that he said would prove that Russian soldiers were fighting alongside pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine, where a bloody 11-month-conflict has claimed nearly 5,800 lives. The Kremlin has hotly denied any direct involvement, which Russian opinion polls suggest would be deeply unpopular.
He had angered the government two years ago when he charged that billions of dollars had been stolen from funds designated for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, his home town. He blamed “Putin’s friends” for the alleged embezzlement, which he described as “a real threat to Russia’s national security.”
Flashing police lights illuminated the night Saturday on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge, which runs from the base of St. Basil’s Cathedral to an island in the Moscow River where major opposition rallies were held in 2011 and 2012. Nemtsov was shot four times, Interior Ministry spokeswoman Yelena Alexeeva told journalists at the scene. Authorities were questioning witnesses, including a Ukrainian woman with whom Nemtsov was walking across the bridge when he was shot, Alexeeva said.
Images broadcast after his slaying showed his body lying face-up on the sidewalk of the bridge as emergency personnel appeared to attend to him.
Putin quickly condemned the killing and said he was directing Russia’s top security officials to take personal charge of the investigation, a measure of the shock waves that it sent through the political establishment.
“Putin noted that this cruel murder has every sign of being a contract killing, which has a solely provocative nature,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian news agencies.
Russian opposition leaders said Saturday that they were fearful that Nemtsov’s slaying was only the first in a new era of political repression.
“This murder, politically, it hits the spot, because if the message is to send a scare throughout the opposition movement, this is one thing to do,” said Vladimir Milov, an opposition leader who alongside Nemtsov had been planning the Sunday rally.
“Scared or not scared, we will carry on,” he said.
Milov said he did not think it would be the last killing of an opposition leader in Russia.
“This is a new level, but as sad as it may sound, we have to expect a continuation. Because this is just how Russia operates now,” he said.
In 2012, Putin warned publicly that his opponents were prepared to murder one of their own so they could blame him for the death.
“They are looking for a so-called sacrificial victim among some prominent figures,” Putin, a former KGB agent, told a gathering of the All-Russia Popular Front, a group organized to support him, ahead of Russia’s 2012 presidential election. “They will knock him off, I beg your pardon, and then blame the authorities for that.”
In comments that took on a new significance Saturday, Nemtsov said earlier this month that he was worried that Putin would have him killed.
“A bit” worried, Nemtsov told the Sobesednik magazine. “Not as much as my mother, but still.”
“If I were very fearful,” he said, “I probably wouldn’t head an opposition party. I probably wouldn’t be involved in what I do.”
Branigin reported from Washington. Kathy Lally in Washington and Natasha Abbakumova in Moscow contributed to this report. ||||| MOSCOW (AP) — Boris Nemtsov, a charismatic former deputy prime minister turned Russian opposition leader, was shot and killed in Moscow Saturday, officials said. He was 55.
FILE - In this file photo taken on Saturday, March 15, 2014, Boris Nemtsov, a former Russian deputy prime minister and opposition leader addresses demonstrators during a massive rally to oppose president... (Associated Press)
FILE - In this file photo taken on Thursday, May 30, 2013, Boris Nemtsov, a former Russian deputy prime minister and opposition leader, presents a report claiming widespread corruption during preparations... (Associated Press)
Nemtsov's death comes just a day before a planned protest against President Vladimir Putin's rule. The Kremlin said that Putin will personally oversee the investigation.
Nemtsov was a sharp critic of Putin, assailing the government's inefficiency, rampant corruption and the Kremlin's policy on Ukraine, which has strained Russia-West ties to a degree unseen since Cold War times.
The Russian Interior Ministry, which oversees Russia's police force, said that Nemtsov was shot four times from a passing car as he was walking a bridge just outside the Kremlin shortly after midnight.
Nemtsov served a deputy prime minister in the 1990s and once was seen as a possible successor to Boris Yeltsin, Russia's first elected president. After Putin was first elected in 2000, Nemtsov became one of the most vocal critics of his rule. He helped organize street protests and wrote extensively about official corruption. |||||
Solution: | One of Vladimir Putin's most vocal critics has been shot dead in Moscow—and guess who's taking personal charge of the investigation? The Kremlin says Putin himself will handle it, reports AP. Authorities say a gunman in a passing car shot Boris Nemtsov four times in the back as he walked near the Kremlin about midnight local time, reports Reuters. Nemtsov served as a deputy prime minister under Boris Yeltsin and had emerged in recent years as an opposition leader. Among other things, he has alleged corruption among Kremlin insiders and was to lead a rally in Moscow tomorrow. The Washington Post adds some strange context to the killing. A few years ago, Putin asserted that his opponents would murder one of their own so they could blame him for it. After he made the comments, Nemtsov himself called on Putin to prevent it. “If the head of the federal government, who controls all intelligence agencies, makes a public statement that he has information about such a provocation and such a crime, he must do everything to prevent it and not just publicly scare Russians,” he told Interfax. |
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PROBLEM: College football players who are considering entering the NFL draft but who still have eligibility to play football can request an expert opinion from the NFL-created Draft Advisory Board. The Board, composed of scouting experts and team executives, makes a prediction as to the likely round in which a player would be drafted. This information, which has proven to be fairly accurate, can help college players determine whether to enter the draft or to continue playing and improving at the college level. There are also many famous reporting scouts, such as Mel Kiper Jr.
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Choose the next sentence.A new buildup of Russian troops along the Ukraine border raised concerns Tuesday that Moscow might be contemplating another intervention like the one that annexed Crimea earlier this year. According to a NATO official, Russia now has about 20,000 troops stationed "in an area along the entire border with eastern Ukraine." The buildup nearly doubled the troop deployment in the last week by adding 8,000 more forces to 12,000 already there, the official said. It comes a week after the United States and the European Union increased economic sanctions on Russia for supporting pro-Russian separatists fighting Ukraine government forces in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, along the border with Russia.
OPTIONS:
- Crimea and Ukrainian officials allege that a Russian-made missile shot down the plane from rebel-held territory, killing all 298 people on board.
- Donetsk and Ukrainian officials allege that a Russian-made missile shot down the plane from rebel-held territory, killing all 298 people on board.
- European Union and Ukrainian officials allege that a Russian-made missile shot down the plane from rebel-held territory, killing all 298 people on board.
- Flight MH17 and Ukrainian officials allege that a Russian-made missile shot down the plane from rebel-held territory, killing all 298 people on board.
- Kiev and Ukrainian officials allege that a Russian-made missile shot down the plane from rebel-held territory, killing all 298 people on board.
- Luhansk and Ukrainian officials allege that a Russian-made missile shot down the plane from rebel-held territory, killing all 298 people on board.
- Moscow and Ukrainian officials allege that a Russian-made missile shot down the plane from rebel-held territory, killing all 298 people on board.
- NATO and Ukrainian officials allege that a Russian-made missile shot down the plane from rebel-held territory, killing all 298 people on board.
- Russia and Ukrainian officials allege that a Russian-made missile shot down the plane from rebel-held territory, killing all 298 people on board.
- Russian and Ukrainian officials allege that a Russian-made missile shot down the plane from rebel-held territory, killing all 298 people on board.
- U.S. and Ukrainian officials allege that a Russian-made missile shot down the plane from rebel-held territory, killing all 298 people on board.
- Ukraine and Ukrainian officials allege that a Russian-made missile shot down the plane from rebel-held territory, killing all 298 people on board.
- United States and Ukrainian officials allege that a Russian-made missile shot down the plane from rebel-held territory, killing all 298 people on board.
- pro-Russian and Ukrainian officials allege that a Russian-made missile shot down the plane from rebel-held territory, killing all 298 people on board.
| U.S. and Ukrainian officials allege that a Russian-made missile shot down the plane from rebel-held territory, killing all 298 people on board. |
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In this task, you are given an article. Your task is to summarize the article in a sentence.
Input: Consider Input: Almost 69% of code red calls were responded to within eight minutes in October, exceeding the 65% target.
Around 5% of all 999 calls were subject to the target that month, compared to 40% before the year-long trial began.
Deputy Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the new system was working, but opposition parties dispute the claim.
"We know that change can be difficult in the health service - for staff and the public," said Mr Gething.
"However, the initial figures from this pilot suggest that the new clinical response model is ensuring that patients are getting the right care, in the right place, at the right time."
Tracey Myhill, chief executive of the Welsh Ambulance Service, said: "We've made a really solid start on this ground-breaking new pilot, and today's figures are testament of that."
Welsh Lib Dem leader Kirsty Williams said she was concerned that the "vast majority" of emergency calls were no longer subject to any time-related targets or had any performance data published.
She said: "This new targeting regime may make life easier for Labour ministers, giving them one less negative headline every month, but in reality people are being left in the dark as to how well their ambulance service is actually performing."
Plaid Cymru health spokesperson Elin Jones and Ms Williams both pointed out that ambulances in three health board areas - Hywel Dda, Cwm Taf and Powys - still failed to meet the 65% threshold for code red calls responded to in eight minutes.
"The Labour government is still struggling to meet its watered-down targets," Ms Jones added.
"It is wrong of the government to call its performance a success."
The Welsh government denied Ms Williams's claim about the lack of data on non-red calls, pointing out that response data on amber calls had also been published.
Conservative shadow health minister Darren Millar congratulated the ambulance service on the figures.
"Whilst the targets are lower than those elsewhere in the UK this is a significant achievement and hardworking staff should be commended," he said.
But Mr Millar added: "The answer to sustained improvement in performance does not lie in the Labour approach of scrapping targets and record breaking NHS budget cuts; instead we need to see extra investment in the ambulance service and our wider unscheduled care system."
Output: Ambulances in Wales have met a key time target for responding to the most life-threatening emergencies after a change to the way calls are classed.
Input: Consider Input: The Senegal striker, who joined from French club Angers, headed in the hosts' second in between two Bobby Reid goals in a rampant first-half display.
In a much quieter second half, Adam Hammill shot over for the visitors, who were second best throughout the match.
But Ryan Hedges' scrappy effort gave the Tykes a consolation goal late on.
The result saw the Tykes - who were without injured summer signings Lloyd Isgrove, Liam Lindsay and Zeki Fryers - lose their first game of the season for the fifth year in a row.
Bristol City finished three points above the relegation places last term in 17th - four points below Barnsley - but were sharper and more energetic in the first half.
Both sides had hit the bar when the game was goalless, before an inspired Reid got his first on the rebound after Diedhiou's parried effort, and the pair combined again for the second, with Reid poking in the third.
Victory for Robins head coach Lee Johnson came against his old side, whom he left to take charge at Ashton Gate in February 2016.
Bristol City boss Lee Johnson:
"The lads love and Bobby (Reid) and Fam (Famara Diedhiou), you can see they have struck a good relationship off the pitch as well as on it because they are two good people.
"They were both excellent and their work rate and energy made it easier for the midfield and the defenders.
"Fam is actually very selfless, but he definitely wants to score goals. The leap for his header and leap was unbelievable, it's a great start for him."
Barnsley boss Paul Heckingbottom:
"In that first 10 minutes, we both hit the bar and there was nothing in it. But the first goal changed the nature of the game.
"When we look back over that spell, every chance they created there was something fundamentally wrong.
"Our problem is that even with 11 new players we are still way short of where we want to be."
Match ends, Bristol City 3, Barnsley 1.
Second Half ends, Bristol City 3, Barnsley 1.
Foul by Josh Brownhill (Bristol City).
Andy Yiadom (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Bristol City 3, Barnsley 1. Ryan Hedges (Barnsley) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Stefan Payne (Barnsley) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by George Moncur.
Attempt saved. Adam Hammill (Barnsley) right footed shot from more than 35 yards is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Alex Mowatt.
Attempt missed. Josh Brownhill (Bristol City) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Callum O'Dowda.
Adam Hammill (Barnsley) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt blocked. Callum O'Dowda (Bristol City) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Offside, Bristol City. Marlon Pack tries a through ball, but Gustav Engvall is caught offside.
Bailey Wright (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Stefan Payne (Barnsley).
Offside, Barnsley. Alex Mowatt tries a through ball, but Andy Yiadom is caught offside.
Gustav Engvall (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Adam Jackson (Barnsley).
Substitution, Bristol City. Aden Flint replaces Jens Hegeler.
Substitution, Bristol City. Gustav Engvall replaces Bobby Reid.
Substitution, Barnsley. Stefan Payne replaces Ike Ugbo.
Attempt missed. Bobby Reid (Bristol City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Josh Brownhill.
Jason McCarthy (Barnsley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Callum O'Dowda (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jason McCarthy (Barnsley).
Attempt missed. Joe Bryan (Bristol City) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Famara Diedhiou.
Famara Diedhiou (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jason McCarthy (Barnsley).
Foul by Josh Brownhill (Bristol City).
Andy Yiadom (Barnsley) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Bristol City. Callum O'Dowda replaces Jamie Paterson.
Foul by Famara Diedhiou (Bristol City).
Andy Yiadom (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Ryan Hedges (Barnsley) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ike Ugbo.
Foul by Korey Smith (Bristol City).
George Moncur (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Korey Smith (Bristol City) because of an injury.
Corner, Barnsley. Conceded by Jens Hegeler.
Josh Brownhill (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Andy Yiadom (Barnsley).
Attempt missed. Angus MacDonald (Barnsley) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Adam Hammill with a cross following a set piece situation.
Output: Bristol City's record £5.3m signing Famara Diedhiou scored a debut goal as they began the Championship season with a confident home win over Barnsley.
Input: Consider Input: Neilson was furious at the tackle, which came late in the 3-3 draw at New Douglas Park, and went to see referee Steven MacLean after the game.
Crawford was booked for the incident, but Neilson believed it should have been dealt with more harshly.
"I thought it was a terrible tackle and there's no place for it," Neilson said.
"We're lucky Jamie wasn't seriously injured.
"The referee's not called it the way I thought it should be. I asked him his opinion on it and he said at the time he didn't think it was, but we've reviewed it on the video and it wasn't great.
"He's one of our key players and teams target him, we know that and he has to take the hits. When the hits go overboard, it's up to the referee to protect the players."
Neilson was relieved that his side managed to battle back from being 3-1 down in the second half to secure a point, thanks to Callum Paterson's goal with four minutes remaining.
The Hearts manager was frustrated with the way his side fell behind, though, having opened the scoring through Walker.
Hamilton struck back with a Crawford free-kick and a Rakish Bingham double after the interval.
Walker reduced the deficit with a penalty after Dan Seaborne was judged to have fouled Don Cowie.
"We showed great spirit to come back, but we shouldn't be coming places and scoring three goals and only coming away with a point," Neilson told BBC Scotland.
Hamilton player-manager Martin Canning was frustrated that his side could not protect a two-goal lead, leaving them just one point above bottom side Dundee.
"It's the same old story, but we performed reasonably well," Canning said. "To go a goal down, they showed character to come back and then to go 3-1 up. I wouldn't expect us to lose points from there.
"That's what I've just said to the players, we can't keep saying we're performing well but not winning games, because there will come a point this season when we're not performing well. We need to pick up points when we're playing well."
Canning, though, had no complaints about the penalty awarded against Seaborne, even though the defender looked to have lost his footing.
"It looked like Dan Seaborne slipped, and when you slip in the box and bring somebody down you concede a penalty," he said.
"On first viewing I wouldn't have any complaints, he's slipped over and impeded Don Cowie and the referee decided its a penalty."
| Output: Hearts manager Robbie Neilson said that Jamie Walker was fortunate not to be badly injured after a challenge from Hamilton's Ali Crawford.
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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].
[EX Q]: A California man who created a stir on social media after claiming he was served a deep fried rat in his chicken tenders at a LA KFC has been left red-faced after lab results were revealed on Monday. An independent lab confirmed the 'rat tender' security guard Devorise Dixon bought at a unspecified Los Angeles location was really chicken. Dixon's lawyers turned the 'hard and rubbery' tender in for testing on Friday and KFC announced the favorable finding for the Colonel on Monday. KFC spokesperson Rodrigo Coronel admitted on Monday that Dixon's 'sensational' claim did 'receive considerable publicity', according to ABC.Devorise Dixon got attention after claim he got a fried rat at California KFCSaid manager confirmed it was a rodent, apologized, and offered free mealDixon's lawyers turned in tender for testing at independent lab on FridayCompany announced lab results confirmed meat was chicken on MondayKFC wants Dixon to apologize and 'cease making false claims' about brand
Question:_ also tweeted: 'We firmly believe this is a bogus claim, nothing more than a hoax, & an unacceptable allegation about the quality of our food.'
[EX A]: KFC
[EX Q]: It’s the story that has swept the Internet and cast a light on the seedy underbelly of a world of stripping and prostitution. Narrated by former Hooter’s waitress, turned stripper and hooker, Aziah King, under the twitter name Zola, hers was a remarkable account of a weekend in Florida with a girl named Jess that slid from stripping to prostitution and culminated in kidnap, murder and attempted suicide. Zola’s breathless twitter posts – 148 in all – have even gained the attention of Hollywood, with Selma director Ava DuVernay praising her storytelling ability, while twitter has blown up with suggestions of who could play the lead characters in the movie of the tale.Jarrett Scott one of the men at the center of the Zola story told DailyMail Online that it’s almost all fakeJarrett, 22, ex-boyfriend of Jessica Swiatkowski, said the Florida trip descended into a tawdry weekend he wanted no part inSince Zola posted story on Twitter, Jess issued rebuttal with both girls casting themselves as pimp and the other as prostituteThe one point on which they all agree is that Aziah and Jess met while Aziah was Jess’s waitress at Hooters in Novi, MichiganZola claims in the tale that she traveled FL with a girl named Jess to dance at strip clubs, but eventually ended up pimping Jess outStory has swept the Internet and cast a light on the seedy underbelly of a world of stripping and prostitution
Question:In the lengthy post, she said that it is true that she met Aziah, or _, while eating with a good friend at Hooters.
[EX A]: Zola
[EX Q]: Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) -- Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych will return to work on Monday, after taking ill amid political unrest that has paralyzed the eastern European country. Yanukovych went on sick leave on Thursday with "acute respiratory disease," his office said. He is now feeling "good" after treatment and his condition has been assessed as "satisfactory," a statement on the presidential website said. Ukraine has been plunged into a deep political crisis that in the last week saw the Prime Minister and Cabinet resign, a controversial anti-protest law repealed, and the President signing off on a contested amnesty bill for anti-government protesters.Yanukovych is said to be feeling good after treatmentYanukovych went on sick leave Thursday with "acute respiratory disease"Thousands of protesters remain out in Kiev streets on SundayUkraine rattled by protests, then clashes, since November
Question:Despite concessions last week from _, including repeal of the controversial law, Ukraine's opposition parties continue to call for constitutional reforms to shift power away from the president.
[EX A]: | Viktor Yanukovych
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question: Complete the next sentence:
How to clean and maintain a canary habitat
Change the cage liner.
To prevent droppings and bacteria from building up, replace the canary's cage liner every day. Newspaper or cob bedding are good liners for canaries.
answer: Do not use cat litter or wood shavings as cage liner. These can cause breathing problems for canaries.
question: Complete the next sentence:
Two sumo wrestlers compete in a ring on front a crowd, the short sumo takes out the ring to the bigger one and a picture is shown. The sumos eat asian food with other people. then
answer: , the sumos continue wrestling and again the little sumo takes out the big one.
question: Complete the next sentence:
How to clean a dog's wound
Calm the dog down.
Once you notice that your dog is injured, get control of him and calm him down if he's over-excited. Soothe your dog by petting him gently and speaking to him in a low, calm voice.
answer: | Make sure to stay calm yourself, even if you're worried. Your dog can read your body language and knows your voice intonations very well. |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context (see options)?
Context:
Mastermind or Master Mind is a code-breaking game for two players. The modern game with pegs was invented in 1970 by Mordecai Meirowitz, an Israeli postmaster and telecommunications expert. It resembles an earlier pencil and paper game called Bulls and Cows that may date back a century or more.
Hypothesis: Mastermind is nothing like the game Bulls and Cows.
Options are:
(a). Yes.
(b). It's impossible to say.
(c). No. | (c). |
input: Please answer the following: Given the below context: Since 2004, the municipal boundaries of Istanbul have been coincident with the boundaries of its province. The city, considered capital of Istanbul Province, is administered by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (MMI), which oversees the 39 districts of the city-province.The current city structure can be traced back to the Tanzimat period of reform in the 19th century, before which Islamic judges and imams led the city under the auspices of the Grand Vizier. Following the model of French cities, this religious system was replaced by a mayor and a citywide council composed of representatives of the confessional groups (millet) across Istanbul. Beyoğlu was the first area of the city to have its own director and council, with members instead being longtime residents of the neighborhood. Laws enacted after the Ottoman constitution of 1876 aimed to expand this structure across the city, imitating the twenty arrondissements of Paris, but they were not fully implemented until 1908, when Istanbul was declared a province with nine constituent districts. This system continued beyond the founding of the Turkish Republic, with the province renamed a belediye (municipality), but the municipality was disbanded in 1957. Small settlements adjacent to major population centers in Turkey, including Istanbul, were merged into their respective primary cities during the early 1980s, resulting in metropolitan municipalities. The main decision-making body of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality is the Municipal Council, with members drawn from district councils. The Municipal Council is responsible for citywide issues, including managing the budget, maintaining civic infrastructure, and overseeing museums and major cultural centers. Since the government operates under a "powerful mayor, weak council" approach, the council's leader—the metropolitan mayor—has the authority to make swift decisions, often at the expense of transparency. The Municipal Council is advised by the Metropolitan Executive Committee, although the... Guess a valid title for it!
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output: Istanbul
input: Please answer the following: Given the below context: As The Primitives, Tweedy and Farrar were highly influenced by punk bands such as The Ramones and The Sex Pistols. However, they began to listen to country music because punk rock was not well received in the Belleville and St. Louis music scenes. While they originally were introduced to country by their parents, it wasn't until this time that they began to listen to it for leisure. Farrar typically wrote songs about Middle America, while Tweedy wrote about more mainstream topics such as relationships. Farrar took influence from authors such as Kurt Vonnegut and Jack Kerouac, whom he read while working at his mother's bookstore. As the lead singer of Uncle Tupelo, Farrar's lyrics would be front-and-center during performances, but the band's musical style was mostly driven by Tweedy and Heidorn (seen in the music's Minutemen-influenced start-stop arrangement). Jeff Tweedy said in an interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: We probably have more influences than we know what to do with. We have two main styles that have been influences. For instance, we like Black Flag as much as early Bob Dylan and Dinosaur Jr. as much as Hank Williams ... To us, hard-core punk is also folk music. We draw a close parallel between the two. We'll play both in the same set if we get a chance. We don't have any biases as far as music is concerned. Tweedy in particular was inspired by the Minutemen, and wrote a song about D. Boon following Boon's death in a van accident. The band has released songs originally performed by Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Carter Family, Lead Belly, Gram Parsons, The Soft Boys, The Louvin Brothers, Texas Tornados, and The Stooges. Releasing March 16–20, 1992 when alternative music was breaking through was a move inspired by Neil Young's decision to release the challenging albums On the Beach and Tonight's the Night immediately after the commercially successful Harvest. Critic Michael Corcoran likened the band's musical style to "Bob Mould fronting Soul Asylum on a speeded-up version of a Gram... Guess a valid title for it!
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output: Uncle Tupelo
input: Please answer the following: Given the below context: The Namesake depicts the struggles of Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli (Irrfan Khan and Tabu), first-generation immigrants from the East Indian state of West Bengal to the United States, and their American-born children Gogol and Sonia. The film takes place primarily in Kolkata, New York City and New York state suburbs. The story begins as Ashoke and Ashima leave Calcutta and settle in New York City. Through a series of miscues, their son's nickname, Gogol (named after Ukrainian author Nikolai Gogol), becomes his official birth name, an event which will shape many aspects of his life. The story chronicles Gogol's cross-cultural experiences and his exploration of his Indian heritage, as the story shifts between the United States and India. Gogol becomes a lazy, pot smoking teenager indifferent to his cultural background. He resents many of the customs and traditions his family upholds and doesn't understand his parents. After a summer trip to India before starting college at Yale, Gogol starts opening up to his culture and becomes more accepting of it. After college, Gogol uses his "good name" Nikhil (later shortened to Nick). He works as an architect and dates Maxine, a white woman from a wealthy background, who is clueless about their cultural differences. Gogol falls in love with Maxine and introduces her to his parents, who struggle to understand his modern, American perspectives on dating, marriage and love. They are hesitant and guarded when meeting her. Gogol gets along with Maxine's family and feels closer to them than he does his own family. Guess a valid title for it!
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output: The Namesake (film)
input: Please answer the following: Given the below context: Soon after composing "Halo", Tedder worked with Kelly Clarkson on her fourth studio album, All I Ever Wanted (2009), for which they wrote "Already Gone" together. When the song came out, critics noted a resemblance to Beyoncé's "Halo". Clarkson, however, initially stated that she was unaware of any similarities between the two songs. She eventually realized their resemblance when she listened to both recordings closely; the similarities are most notable in the backing tracks, which in both cases feature a melancholy piano, loud drums, and handclaps. Clarkson tried to prevent "Already Gone" from being included on All I Ever Wanted, but it was impossible to make last minute changes, as her album was already being printed when I Am... Sasha Fierce was released. She accused Tedder of using the same arrangement on both "Already Gone" and "Halo", and complained that people would, incorrectly, assume she was stealing it from Beyoncé.Clarkson was furious, and confronted Tedder on the phone. In response, Tedder commented that he would never give two artists the same musical arrangement, and that her criticism was "hurtful and absurd". He asserted that the concept, melodies, and lyrics of "Already Gone" and "Halo" are completely different. Calling "Already Gone" one of the best songs he had ever composed, Tedder challenged people to "listen [to the two ballads] and form their own opinions". Clarkson also tried to stop her label, RCA, from releasing "Already Gone" as a single because she respected Beyoncé, but they went against her will and released it. She said, "It's one of those things I have no control over. I already made my album. At this point, the record company can do whatever they want with it." Clarkson later told James Montgomery of MTV News that it was unfortunate "Already Gone" and "Halo" sound so similar, but noted that at least they have different vocal melodies. Guess a valid title for it!
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output: | "Halo" (Beyoncé song) |
WHITE HOUSE — The United States is escalating trans-Atlantic and North American trade tensions, imposing a 25 percent tariff on steel imports and a 10 percent tariff on aluminum imports from the European Union, Canada and Mexico beginning on Friday. The U.S. also negotiated quotas or volume limits on other countries, such as South Korea, Argentina, Australia and Brazil, instead of tariffs, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross also told reporters Thursday by telephone. China's foreign ministry said on Friday all countries should protect the normal trade order, when asked about U.S. decision. President Donald Trump said Thursday that the days of the U.S. being taken advantage of in trade deals "are over'" in a harshly worded statement responding to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's criticism of new steel and aluminum tariffs. He intensified his criticism of Canada Friday for what he says are the country's "highly restrictive" trade practices. Trump has repeatedly said measures such as tariffs are necessary to protect American jobs and industries in key manufacturing sectors. "The president's actions are about protecting American steel, American aluminum," a White House spokesman, Raj Shah, said on Fox News. "They're critical for national security." But the negative reaction from some of America's most important strategic allies has been quick and fierce. European Union Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said shortly after the tariffs took effect they were illegal and the 28-nation bloc would initiate a settlement dispute case with the World Trade Organization. "We can do so. We have the right to do so. I think we must do so, as well, to show that we cannot just take these tariffs and stand silent and we do not accept these kind of imposed illegal tariffs," said Malmstrom. Without elaborating, Malmstrom also said the EU would explore "rebalancing measures," which typically are retaliatory actions. Trudeau called the tariffs "totally unacceptable" and vowed retaliation. "This decision is not only unlawful, but it is... According to the above context, answer the following question. What did the United States impose a on?
Answer: Steel Imports
The parking lot for the Center for Addictions Treatment was in the back of the building, as was the front door. The entrance opened on the only addition to the original farmhouse, a smallish room where the receptionist sat at one of two desks. The area was called the secretarial pod. The entrance to Ray's office, both medication and technician area, was right behind the secretary's desk. To the left was another door, kept closed, which led down the hallway to the client sleeping rooms, the dining room and the kitchen. There was a phone right inside the front door (or the back door, depending upon who you asked). When Ray wanted to smoke, he would lean out the front door, propping it open with his back in such a way that he could see down the hallway if he propped that door open as well and answer the phone should it ring. Smoking was prohibited inside the building, a policy which grew increasingly unpopular with both the staff and the clients as the course of the year wore on. By December, Ray would have to do weekly fire drills around three a.m. as a way of politely reminding his anti-social and policy impaired population that any building more than a century old was actually little more than well formed kindling. After enough of those, any problem he had been having with people smoking in the building usually went away. Given the right incentives, even this population could be relatively self-regulating. The telephone rang before Ray was even half-finished with his cigarette. "Admit it now, Ray." She sounded petulant. "Fine, I admit it. Do I get the booby prize?" "That depends on whether you intended a double entendre or not." "Of course I did." "Then you lose. Get your mind out of the gutter." He took a drag on his cigarette, then made himself sound insulted. "I'm not the one sitting around naked and calling strange men in the middle of the night." According to the above context, answer the following question. Which most likely describes Ray?
Answer: someone who should have his lungs checked
The violent ambush that killed five Dallas police officers and wounded seven more could have been a lot worse, the city's police chief says. Dallas Chief of Police David Brown told CNN Sunday that the slain gunman told police negotiators he wanted to "kill white people, especially white officers." Bomb making materials and a journal were found at Johnson's home during a search Friday. "The material were such that it was large enough to have devastating effects throughout our city and our North Texas area," Brown said. Micah Xavier Johnson, 25, was killed by police in the deadly attack Thursday night during a protest against police killings of African American men. Since the shooting deaths of two black men by white police officers over two days last week, protests have been held across the country. Scores of demonstrators have been arrested, with one flash point being the southern city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where DeRay McKesson, one of the most prominent activists linked to the police reform protest movement Black Lives Matter, live streamed his own arrest. Police defended his arrest as a matter of public safety, but demonstrators told U.S. news outlets they believe McKesson was targeted. McKesson was freed on bond Sunday afternoon after being charged with obstructing a highway. "I remain disappointed in the Baton Rouge police, who continue to provoke protesters for peacefully protesting. There's a lot of work to be done, with this police department specifically,'' he said. But Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards disagreed with McKesson's assessment. The governor told a news conference Sunday that he is proud of the state's law enforcement officers, calling their response to the protests "moderate." In the northern city of St. Paul, Minnesota, where a second man, Philando Castile, was shot to death last week by a policeman after a traffic stop for a broken tail light, hundreds of protesters hurled firecrackers, rocks and bottles at police on Saturday. The heavily armed officers used smoke grenades and... According to the above context, answer the following question. What is probably true about about Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards?
Answer: | He will not have visited prominent activists DeRay McKesson anytime soon. |
The run-up to the launch of China's first lunar orbiter at the end of this month has caught the country's imagination, with more than two thirds of the nation hoping to see the launch live on TV, according to a survey. According to the survey by China Youth Daily and www.qq.com, almost the entire nation hopes to catch images of the event at some point, with 99 percent of the 10358 respondents saying they expected to witness the satellite launch and 68.9 percent said they were certain to watch the live broadcast of the launch. On www.qq.com and www.sina.com, two popular web portals in the country, internet users have contributed some 2,000 poems and 5000 drawings on the theme of Chang'e I. "The satellite launch means much more than just saying 'hello' to the moon. Maybe in the future we could also send some people to accompany sister 'Chang'e'," said a college student in the survey. Remarkably, many people expect to visit the moon one day, with 93.4 percent of respondents saying they expected to do so. Chang'e I is named after Chang'e, a famous character from Chinese mythology. She ascended from earth to live on the moon as a celestial being after drinking an elixir. There is also another connection between the moon and China. In the 1970s, a crater on the moon was named after a Chinese stargazer, Wan Hu, who is said to be the first astronaut in human history. Legend says about 600 years ago, around the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Wan Hu, a local government official, tried to fly into space with the help of a chair, two big kites and 47 self-made gunpowder-filled rockets. According to the legend after the rockets were lit there was a huge bang and lots of smoke. When the smoke cleared Wan was nowhere to be found. China's first astronaut flew into space in 2003 with the launch of the Chinese-made spaceship Shenzhou V. China became the third country, after the Soviet Union and the United States, to carry out manned space missions. Why was Wan Hu said to be the first astronaut in human history? A) Because a crater on the moon was named after his name. B) Because he was the first to go to the moon in his own "spaceship". C) Because of his courage for scientific experiment to the moon. D) Because he made the first rocket in human history.
C
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In the near future, daily newspapers and monthly magazines will probably disappear. Electronic media can provide the same information faster and cheaper. The Internet, together with laptops and cellphones, makes it possible that almost everyone can at any time and in almost any place get some news for free or for few fees. You'll browse the computer newspapers or magazines just like switching on TV. An electronic voice will tell you stories about the latest events. You'll even get to choose the kind of voice you want to hear. Want more information on the brief story? A simple touch makes the entire text appear. There are the predictions from the experts working on the newspapers of the future. Pictured as part of home-based media and entertainment systems, computer newspapers and magazines would unite printed and broadcast news, offering information and analyzing video images of news events. The continuing loss of readers will result in a small number of advertisements in newspapers. It makes no sense to spend millions of dollars to print ads. With the development of technology, more and more electronic medium have been created until now, but replacing the traditional newspapers and magazines has a long way to go, because the _ to computer newspapers and magazines from journalism may be much stronger. Since it is such a cultural change, it may be not until the present journalists, who aren't used to it, die off that the newspaper industry is not considered as an industry any longer. Anyway, technology is making the traditional newspapers and magazines disappear gradually. We can infer from the passage that _ . A) all technological developments are very important B) traditional newspapers and magazines will disappear soon C) new things will replace the old ones in the future D) traditional newspapers and magazines will be more popular
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C
Ques: Although he will always be remembered for starring "Superman," the greatest role of actor Christopher Reeve's life was as a champion of sufferers of spinal cord injuries and an supporter of stem cell research. Unlike the man of steel, he wasn't faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than an engine and he couldn't leap tall buildings in a single bound. But the courage and determination Reeve showeed in trying to overcome his paralysis from a 1995 horse-riding accident went beyond any of the achievements of the comic book hero. "He became a real-life Superman. His heroism, his courage was extraordinary," Colin Blakemore, the chief executive of Britain's Medical Research Council said. "Like many people who suffer some terrible injuries, Christopher Reeve was totally changed by that experience and brought the kind of energy and enthusiasm that made him successful as a film star to an entirely different issue, with huge effect." Reeve, 52, died of heart failure on October 10, 2004 after having treatment for an infected pressure wound without realizing his dream of walking again. But in the nine years since his accident, he made personal progress to regain respect and admiration, founded the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation, a non-profit research organization, and used his fame to raise millions of dollars for research into spinal cord injuries. He also provided hope and inspiration to other patients and made speeches to support scientists to be allowed to conduct stem cell research in the hopes of eventually curing paralysis and other illnesses such as diabetes and Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. "He has been our champion. If you think of spinal injuries, you automatically recall a picture of Christopher Reeve," said Paul Smith, executive director of the Spinal Injuries Association in England. It is because of Reeve that spinal cord injuries and stem cell research are so widely discussed, according to Smith. The fact that it happened to Reeve showed it can affect anyone, even Superman. Reeve... Which of the following words can best describe the characteristics of Reeve? A) strong-willed and caring B) tough and persuasive C) caring and reliable D) sympathetic and considerate
Ans: A
Question: The rise of multinational corporations , global marketing, new communications technologies, and shrinking cultural differences have led to an unparalleled increase in global public relations or PR. Surprisingly, since modern PR was largely an American invention, America's relations is being threatened by PR efforts in other countries. Ten years ago, for example, the world's top five public relations agencies were American-owned. In 1991, only one was. The British in particular are becoming more sophisticated and creative. A recent survey found that more than half of all British companies include PR as part of their corporate planning activities, compared to about one-third of U.S. companies.It may not be long before London replaces New York as the capital of PR. Why is America lagging behind in the global PR race? Firstly, Americans as a whole tend to be fairly provincial and take more of an interest in local affairs. Knowledge of world geography, for example, has never been strong in this country. Secondly, Americans lag behind their European and Asian counterparts in knowing a second language. Less than 5 percent of Burson--Marshall's U.S.employees know two languages. Ogilvy and Mather have about the same percentage. Conversely, some European firms have half or more of their employees fluent in a second language. Finally, people involved in PR abroad tend to keep a closer eye on international affairs. In the financial PR area, for instance, most Americans read the Wall Street Journal. Overseas, their counterparts read the Journal as well as the Financial Times of London and The Economist, publications not often read in this country. Perhaps the PR industry might take a lesson from Ted Turner of CNN (Cable News Network). Turner recently announced that the word "foreign" would no longer be used on CNN news broadcasts. According to Turner, global communications have made the nations of the world so interdependent that there is no longer any such thing as foreign. It could be inferred that the author of the passage is _ . A) an American B) a Briton C) Ted Turner D) an Asian
Answer: | A |
Add punctuation to the following sentence: On Friday we can expect cloudless weather Morning temperatures will be around 21 C During the day they will reach a maximum of 40 C Low temperatures at night will be around 22C Southerly winds increase and are brisk with strong gusts at noon
| On Friday we can expect cloudless weather. Morning temperatures will be around 21 °C. During the day they will reach a maximum of 40 °C. Low temperatures at night will be around 22°C. Southerly winds increase and are brisk with strong gusts at noon. |
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