prompt
stringlengths 17
15.4k
| response
stringlengths 1
8.28k
|
|---|---|
Q: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
The question “are we alone in the universe?” has fascinated people for centuries. In 1959 two Cornell University physicists described how we might answer that question through interstellar communication. Philip Morrison and Guiseppe Cocconi analyzed how two civilizations separated by many light years of space might use electromagnetic radiation to communicate.
Electromagnetic radiation is the general term for the more familiar light and radio waves, but also includes gamma rays, x rays, ultraviolet rays, and infrared. All of these forms of electromagnetic rays or waves travel at the speed of light, the fastest possible speed. The only difference between these types of electromagnetic waves is the length or the wave or the “wavelength.” Since the waves all travel at the speed of light, another way to characterize the wave is by the number of waves received per second. This is the frequency of the wave.
Morrison and Cocconi considered how well the types of electromagnetic waves passed through interstellar space. While space is usually described as a vacuum, it does contain some gas and dust. Over great distances that gas and dust absorb many types of radiation but radio waves pass through nearly unimpeded. For interstellar communication, a particular range of radio frequencies, “microwaves” from 1 GHz to 10 GHz, are particularly good choices. At lower frequencies our galaxy emits prodigious amounts of radio waves creating a loud background of noise. At higher frequencies the Earth’s atmosphere, and presumably the atmosphere of other Earth-like planets, absorbs and emits broad ranges of radio frequencies. The result is a quiet “Microwave Window” through which efficient radio communication is possible.
The Microwave Window has another interesting feature to recommend it as a place for interstellar communication: the “Water Hole.” Some atoms and molecules in space emit radio waves at particular frequencies. Hydrogen atoms emit at 1420 MHz (a wavelength of 21 cm). Hydroxyl molecules, composed of one atom of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen (OH), emit at four specific radio frequencies ranging from 1612 MHz to 1720 MHz. When a hydrogen atom combines with a hydroxyl molecule it forms a molecule of water, the most essential molecule for life as we know it. Thus, the range of frequencies from 1420 to 1720 MHz is called the Water Hole. It has been a popular frequency range for many SETI programs.
While the Microwave Window is a “cosmic quiet zone” the existence of the radio emission lines marking the Water Hole illustrates a problem: distinguishing communication signals from natural astrophysical emission. Most cosmic radio sources as “very broadband.” They “broadcast” over a very wide range of frequencies. For example, the radio emission from a quasar would span most of the diagram above and the amount of power would change very slowly over the frequency range. As mentioned above, hydrogen and hydroxyl emit radio waves at particular frequencies. The diagram below shows the power emitted by a cloud of hydroxyl (OH) molecules near a red giant star. The cloud rotates around the star so some of the molecules are moving toward us and some are moving away. The Doppler Effect shifts the frequency of the radio waves to higher (moving toward us) and lower (moving away) frequencies. The resulting spectrum (power vs. frequency) shows two peaks. These features are very narrow compared to most astrophysical sources.
Signals produced by technology for communication can be much narrower than any known astrophysical source. The bottom half of the diagram shows the spectrum of the signal from the Pioneer 10 spacecraft. The frequency scale has been expanded by nearly a factor of 10. The narrow signal component on the left is further expanded by a factor of 100 to show the very narrow frequency components of the data in the signal. This illustrates a clear way to distinguish extraterrestrial communication signals for astrophysical signals: look for very narrow frequency components. Most SETI programs take this approach, breaking the radio spectrum into many millions of very narrow frequency channels
Where to Look
Searching for extraterrestrial signals can be likened to searching for a gold nugget buried in a field. We have identified the field that we will explore: the Microwave Window in the radio spectrum. We have a way to distinguish the gold nugget for other pieces of metal: look for very narrow bandwidth signals. But, with limited resources (telescope time, electronics, etc.) what is the best strategy to search through the field?
There are two basic strategies. We could examine the entire field but only sift through the top few centimeters of soil. If a gold nugget is near the surface anywhere in the field, we’ll have a good chance of finding it. We could study the chemistry and geology of the surface and select particulars spots where we will dig deep looking for gold. If the gold is buried well below the surface, this strategy has the best chance.
In SETI, there are two basic search strategies. Sky surveys sweep a telescope over large areas of the sky looking for strong signals that may come from any direction. Targeted searches point a telescope at the direction of selected stars. By dwelling on a star for long periods of time, a targeted search is sensitive to weaker signals.
We will pursue both strategies with SETI on the ATA. ||||| Nearly four decades after it was received, astronomers still can’t say with 100% certainty that the ‘Wow!’ signal was not an interstellar radio beacon from some far-flung extraterrestrial civilization. But the signal --- which got the Wow! moniker after an astronomer first scribbled those letters in the margins of the incoming data --- was never reacquired.
Even so, Bob Dixon, Ohio State University’s (SETI) Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence program director at the time, once told me that the signal had to have at least originated at a distance from beyond the Moon.
What is known is that the signal was received just after 11 PM local time on August 15, 1977, at OSU’s now defunct Big Ear Radio Observatory. Its position on the sky came from the direction of the star cluster M55 in the constellation of Sagittarius. Yet more importantly, it closely-matched the narrow emission line of hydrogen at 1420 megahertz , a radio-quiet spot long touted as a potential interstellar hailing frequency for E.T. civilizations. And at the time, it was also the strongest such SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) candidate signal ever seen.
“So, ‘Wow!’ was appropriate,” Dan Werthimer, chief scientist at the University of California at Berkeley’s SETI program, told me. But he says it would be more convincing if the signal had appeared one after another along the Big Ear’s two different radio observing beams.
That, says Werthimer, would be more of an indication that it was an artificial radio beacon from an interstellar point source. But we occasionally see Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) that's modulated in just the right way that makes it look like it is consistent with a distant point source, says Werthimer. But as he emphasizes, if the signal were really from E.T. and was in the telescope’s observing sights for at least a few minutes, the source of the signal should have moved from one beam into the other.
“It didn't,” said Werthimer. “So, I'm 99% confident that the signal the OSU guys saw was RFI.”
Still, there’s another possibility and that is that the signal did originate from beyond the moon, but was produced by two active comets orbiting within our solar system. That is, within the vicinity of the ‘Wow!’ signal’s position on the sky.
A 2015 paper published by The Washington Academy of Sciences proposed that during that summer of 1977, comets 266P/Christensen and P/2008 Y2 (Gibbs) “were transiting in the neighborhood of the Chi Sagittarii star group” and produced by a large hydrogen cloud around their nucleus. Because the frequency for the ‘Wow!’ signal fell close to the radio emission for hydrogen, the paper noted that these local cometary hydrogen clouds would be strong candidates as the signal’s source.
The comet hypothesis sounds somewhat plausible, but I still don’t buy it. If this cometary phenomena were at all statistically frequent, researchers would likely have picked up something similar over the last 50 years. And to my knowledge, this is the first time that anyone has argued that such narrowband emission is from a comet.
My personal best guess is that the signal was not RFI. But more likely, it was the product of some very distant or unusual and/or poorly-understood astrophysical phenomenon.
That’s not to say that E.T. isn’t out there somewhere. But the likelihood that we would only receive a lone radio beacon, that’s never repeated and could never be reacquired, also seems implausible.
Most people can live with the fact that there may be no one out there. Some prefer the notion that we are the ultimate undiscovered country in a cosmos teeming with intelligent life. But few like the idea that we narrowly missed E.T.’s one-off phone call.
Werthimer, however, says either the ‘Wow!’ signal’s rise and fall in strength was actually intrinsic to the signal, in which case he says it would have to be RFI. Or if the signal were from a distant source, he says, then it would be constant in power and its rise and fall in strength would be due to Earth’s rotation.
The remote possibility that it’s the real thing is what makes the ‘Wow!’ signal so haunting . You can dismiss it as Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) until the cows come home. But as Werthimer himself reluctantly acknowledged: “We can't rule out E.T.” |||||
A: | In 1977, a radio telescope recorded a 72-second signal coming from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. Stunned, the astronomer who observed it wrote "Wow!" on the readout. Since it couldn't be explained, plenty argued the signal was proof of life beyond our planet. After 40 years, however, a researcher has finally burst their bubble. Antonio Paris of St. Petersburg College last year suggested the 1420 MHz "Wow!" signal actually came from hydrogen gas surrounding a comet—either 266P/Christensen or P/2008 Y2, which were in the area of the signal at the time but only discovered about 10 years ago, per Popular Mechanics. So when one passed by Earth earlier this year, Paris pointed a radio telescope at it. Unlike any other celestial source nearby, 266P/Christensen emitted a radio signal at 1420.25 MHz. Paris then pointed his telescope at three other comets selected at random. All appeared to emit a 1420 MHz signal, which hydrogen atoms naturally produce, per the SETI Institute. A SETI researcher told Forbes last month that the signal was likely radio frequency interference. But this shows that '77's 'Wow!' signal "was a natural phenomenon from a solar system body" and certainly not a message from aliens, Paris writes in the Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. Or, as the London Times puts it, the Wow signal just "officially lost its wow factor." (A coming telescope will be able to view nearby galaxies in "unprecedented" detail.) |
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) -- The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza recently gave President Barack Obama his "Worst Year in Washington" award. Indeed, Cillizza wrote that there was a growing sense among the public that "Obama simply isn't up to the job to which he was elected twice." But while it's hard to argue that Obama has not had a difficult 12 months, the notion that this President is somehow done or a lame duck just doesn't feel quite right. The fact is the office of the president is still the most dynamic change agent in our political system. And unlike Congress or the Supreme Court, which go in and out of session, the President is on 24/7, with significant power at his disposal, a point underscored by recent initiatives on immigration, climate change and Cuba.Aaron David Miller: President Obama is not the appeaser in chief his detractors claimMiller: President doubled down in Afghanistan in 2009, had Osama bin Laden killedObama is a committed internationalist, Miller saysPresident can feel the pull of wanting to leave a positive legacy, he says
Question:"My presidency's entering the fourth quarter," _ said in a press conference Friday.
Output: | Barack Obama |
+ What did Ruskin teach Oscar Wilde?.
+ | When Wilde eagerly attended Ruskin's lecture series "The Aesthetic and Mathematic Schools of Art in Florence", he learned about aesthetics as the non-mathematical elements of painting. |
Consider the question. Kali Rocha as Marcy Burns, Don's wife. Swoosie Kurtz as Beverly Burns, Adam and Don's mother. Christine Woods as Lisa McCaffrey, Adam and Don's main client on a mall construction project. Sherri Shepherd as Joy, the Burns' neighbor who is also the building inspector on Adam's job site. Tim Meadows as Rudy, the Burns' neighbor and Joy's husband.
Who plays adam's mom on man with a plan?
If the answer is 'Swoosie Kurtz'; explain the reasoning: | To answer this question, we should know that: Swoosie Kurtz as Beverly Burns, Adam and Don's mother. |
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].
Israel has been accused of spying on White House nuclear talks with Iran and then leaking details to Republicans in Congress in an effort to scupper the deal. President Obama's administration, along with Russia, China, France, Germany and Britain, have been engaged in highly confidential talks with Iran. However, Israel's security services have been accused of relaying information gleaned from the talks to Republicans in Congress. Scroll down for video Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nethanyahu flew to the United States earlier this month to lobby President Barack Obama, right, about Tel Aviv's concerns over any potential deal with Iran over their nuclear ambitionsIsrael has been accused of spying on the U.S. over Iran nuclear talksThe White House believes Israel used this intelligence to brief opponentsIsrael is concerned about a possible nuclear deal with the Iranian regimeHowever, they have denied spying on the U.S. although admit lobbyingRepublicans in Congress want to oversee any proposed Iranian agreement
Question:The bill would require the president to submit the text of any agreement to _ and would prohibit the administration from waiving any of the congressional sanctions for 60 days.
Congress
A convicted child molester claimed he abducted a young boy who looked like Etan Patz the same day in 1979 that the 6-year-old went missing, a former federal prosecutor told a jury Monday at the trial of another man accused of murder. Key defense witness Stuart GraBois recounted how, once ruling out family members as suspects, he located Jose Ramos in prison in the late 1980s after learning the Ramos had ties to a woman who was once used by the family to walk Etan home from school during a bus driver strike. The former assistant to then-US Attorney Rudy Giuliani described soothing Ramos with small talk before suddenly asking him, 'How many times did you have sex with Etan Patz?'Key defense witness Stuart GraBois, a former prosecutor, testified Jose Ramos told him in 1988 he lured Etan Patz to his home May 25, 1979Ramos, a convicted child molester, claimed he put Etan on subway train after he rejected his advancesRamos, 71, has threatened to plead the 5th if called to testify in murder trial of Pedro HernandezHernandez, 54, confessed he choked Etan after luring him with the promise of a soda and then dumped his bagged bodyRamos served 27 years in Pennsylvania for rape and molestation of three young boys in the 1980s
Question:But with testimony about Ramos' alleged confession and by highlighting his history of molesting children, the defense has sought to portray him as a more plausible suspect than the 54-year-old _.
Pedro Hernandez
Mark Hughes will warn Roy Hodgson against calling up Jack Butland to the England squad next month as the goalkeeper nurses a broken finger. Butland suffered the injury on Friday in training but was Man of the Match for Stoke City on Saturday, brilliantly keeping rampant Norwich City at bay. His early-season form means England will look to give the 22-year-old the nod to be Joe Hart's understudy for games against San Marino and Switzerland. Hughes, however, would rather he stopped in the Potteries. 'He has got to be careful with it,' the manager said. 'It was a big decision to let him play but he is a very positive young man and that's why I didn't have any real fear.Stoke City goalkeeper Jack Butland broke his finger in training on FridayHe then put in a Man of the Match performance for Stoke on SaturdayMark Hughes will nevertheless warn Roy Hodgson against calling up Jack Butland to the England squad next month
Question:Butland said: 'The _ fans have been very supportive and they sing it most games.
| Stoke City
|
Earlier this week, @naval (CEO and co-founder of AngelList) asked a question on Twitter: "The challenge of the next decade is not Artificial Intelligence, but Human Intelligence. Can we retrain the workforce as knowledge workers?"" At the heart of his question is an interesting observation. As automation and artificial intelligence replaces manual jobs, how do we retrain people in the new knowledge economy where information handling and management is in high demand? I thought I would share some experiences, observations, and recommendations based upon when I did this previously in my career. Back in 2004 I was peddling my wares as a journalist, writing for the tech press. I was living in the West Midlands in England and heard about a new organization in nearby Birmingham called OpenAdvantage. The premise was neat: open source was becoming a powerful force in technology and OpenAdvantage was set up to provide free consultancy for companies wanting to harness open source, as well as individuals who wanted to upskill in these new technologies. At the time in the West Midlands lots of industry was being automated and moved out to Asia, so lots of Midlanders were out of jobs and looking to retrain. This required, by definition, retaining the workforce as knowledge workers. OpenAdvantage was funded by the UK government and the University of Central England, had a decent war chest, and was founded by Scott Thompon and Paul Cooper (the latter of which I met when he heckled me at a talk I gave at a Linux User Group once. 🙂 ) So, I went along to their launch event and wrote a piece about them. Shortly after, Paul and Scott invited me back over to the office and offered me a job there as an open source consultant. I took the role, and this is where I cut my teeth on a lot of open source, community, and working with businesses. We had crazy targets to hit each month, so we ended up working with and training hundreds of organizations and individuals across a wide range of areas, and covering a wide berth of open source... According to the above context, answer the following question. After he was hired, how did the writer view open source?
He was enthusiastic
--
WASHINGTON — They called themselves "crusaders" for a reason. The three Kansas militiamen planned to blow up an apartment complex housing Somali refugees during the 2016 presidential election, unleashing what one of them called "Crusades 2.0." But their plan was foiled after their arrest just weeks before the election, highlighting the changing enemy list of a movement founded on the back of anti-government activism a generation ago. And with the election of a president whose policies many militia members support, the urge to confront the government appears to have lost some of its urgency. Instead of railing at the government, they have in recent years turned their venom against new-found foes: Muslims, immigrants, the Antifa. "Some of the militia groups have been refocusing their attention on secondary enemies for the movement," said Mark Pitcavage, who researches extremism at the Anti-Defamation League civil rights group. Often lumped together with other right-wing groups, the anti-government movement comes in different forms. There are the "preppers," so called because they stockpile water, food and other essentials in preparation for civil unrest. There are the "survivalists," people who learn skills to “live off the land” in case of a disaster. There are “sovereign citizens” such as the suspect in the recent shooting at a Waffle House in Tennessee who are opposed to paying taxes and believe they should decide which laws to follow. And then there are the militiamen who conduct regular military-style training to resist a government they see as engaged in a global plot to take away their guns and constitutional rights. The modern militia movement dates back to a series of events in the early 1990s, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Among them: the 1992 election of Democratic President Bill Clinton and an FBI attack the following year on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, an event seen as "evidence of an out of control government willing to attack citizens." Under Clinton, the number... According to the above context, answer the following question. What lifestyle do the people know as survivalists take on?
They learn to live off of natural resources in case there is ever a disaster
--
And once again, high blood pressure is making headlines in the news: the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology (AHA/ACC) have just released new guidelines about hypertension. Since this development is likely to cause confusion and concern for many, I’m writing this post to help you understand the debate and what this might mean for you and your family. By the way, if you’ve read any of my other blood pressure articles on this site, let me reassure you: I am not changing my clinical practice or what I recommend to others, based on the new AHA/ACC guidelines. The core principles of better blood pressure management for older adults remain the same: * Take care in how you and your doctors measure blood pressure (more on that here), * Start by aiming to get blood pressure less than 150/90 mm Hg, as recommended by these expert guidelines issued in 2017 and in 2014, * And then learn more about what are the likely benefits versus risks of aiming for more intensive BP control. Perhaps the most important thing to understand is this: treatment of high blood pressure in older adults offers “diminishing returns” as we treat BP to get lower and lower. Scientific evidence indicates that the greatest health benefit, when it comes to reducing the risk of strokes and heart attacks, is in getting systolic blood pressure from high (i.e. 160-180) down to moderate (140-150). From there, the famous SPRINT study, published in 2015, did show a further reduction in cardiovascular risk, when participants were treated to a lower systolic BP, such as a target of 120. However, this was in a carefully selected group of participants, it required taking three blood pressure medications on average, and the reduction in risk was small. As I note in my article explaining SPRINT Senior, in participants aged 75 or older, pushing to that lower goal was associated with an estimated 1-in-27 chance of avoiding a cardiovascular event. (The benefit was even smaller in adults aged 50-75.) According to the above context, answer the following question. How does the author think the readers will react to the new AHA guidelines?
| They will be confused.
-- |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Q: Johnnie had a set of small volumes of English verse, extensively annotated by his own hand, which Stoddard had brought to her early in their acquaintance, leaving it with her more as a gift than as a loan. She kept these little books after all the others had gone back. She had read and reread them--cullings from Chaucer, from Spenser, from the Elizabethan lyrists, the border balladry, fierce, tender, oh, so human--till she knew pages of them by heart, and their vocabulary influenced her own, their imagery tinged all her leisure thoughts. It seemed to her, whenever she debated returning them, that she could not bear it. She would get them out and sit with one of them open in her hands, not reading, but staring at the pages with unseeing eyes, passing her fingers over it, as one strokes a beloved hand, or turning through each book only to find the pencilled words in the margins. She would be giving up part of herself when she took these back. Yet it had to be done, and one miserable morning she made them all into a neat package, intending to carry them to the mill and place them on Stoddard's desk thus early, when nobody would be in the office. Then the children came in; Deanie was half sick; and in the distress of getting the ailing child comfortably into her own bed, Johnnie forgot the books. Taking them in at noon, she met Stoddard himself. <sep>In what books were the words from Chaucer and Spenser?<sep>Small volumes of English verse
A: Yes
****
Q: The one person who, by his interference, could have settled all doubts was debarred by circumstances from interfering in the matter. Wykham Delandre had quarrelled with his sister--or perhaps it was that she had quarrelled with him--and they were on terms not merely of armed neutrality but of bitter hatred. The quarrel had been antecedent to Margaret going to Brent's Rock. She and Wykham had almost come to blows. There had certainly been threats on one side and on the other; and in the end Wykham, overcome with passion, had ordered his sister to leave his house. She had risen straightway, and, without waiting to pack up even her own personal belongings, had walked out of the house. On the threshold she had paused for a moment to hurl a bitter threat at Wykham that he would rue in shame and despair to the last hour of his life his act of that day. Some weeks had since passed; and it was understood in the neighbourhood that Margaret had gone to London, when she suddenly appeared driving out with Geoffrey Brent, and the entire neighbourhood knew before nightfall that she had taken up her abode at the Rock. It was no subject of surprise that Brent had come back unexpectedly, for such was his usual custom. Even his own servants never knew when to expect him, for there was a private door, of which he alone had the key, by which he sometimes entered without anyone in the house being aware of his coming. This was his usual method of appearing after a long absence. <sep>Who is the one person who could have settled all doubts just by interfering?<sep>Margaret
A: No
****
Q: The world can be divided into three climate zones. The first climate zone is the polar zone. As it sounds, the polar zone is near earths poles. The polar zone has very long and cold winters. Brrr!!!! Near the equator is the tropical zone. The tropical zone is known for being hot and wet. Between these two zones is the temperate zone. Temperatures there tend to be mild. Its not too hot and not too cold. You might expect places near the equator to be hot and wet. Thats not always the case. Sometimes there are other factors at work. These factors can affect the local climate type or a region. Oceans and mountain ranges can have a major impact. They can greatly influence the climate of an area. Many factors influence an areas climate. <sep>What can influence the climate of the area?<sep>Many factors can influence the climate including mountains and oceans
A: | Yes
****
|
In this task, you are given a question. You have to answer the question based on your information.
Christopher Charles Eric "Chris" Woods, is a former England international football goalkeeper, who played in the Football League and Premier League, with the departure of David Moyes, he followed him to Manchester United to replace which former English footballer turned coach, who is currently employed as a goalkeeping coach by the Football Association, working with England's junior teams? | Eric Steele |
Q:Given the following passage "Much of Yale University's staff, including most maintenance staff, dining hall employees, and administrative staff, are unionized. Clerical and technical employees are represented by Local 34 of UNITE HERE and service and maintenance workers by Local 35 of the same international. Together with the Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO), an unrecognized union of graduate employees, Locals 34 and 35 make up the Federation of Hospital and University Employees. Also included in FHUE are the dietary workers at Yale-New Haven Hospital, who are members of 1199 SEIU. In addition to these unions, officers of the Yale University Police Department are members of the Yale Police Benevolent Association, which affiliated in 2005 with the Connecticut Organization for Public Safety Employees. Finally, Yale security officers voted to join the International Union of Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America in fall 2010 after the National Labor Relations Board ruled they could not join AFSCME; the Yale administration contested the election.", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: What does the "E" in GESO stand for?
A: | Employees |
(CNN) -- The ouster of Tunisia's longtime ruler has cast a shadow over the surrounding region, but few analysts were willing to predict Tuesday that the revolt would spread to other countries.
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was Tunisia's president for 23 years before Friday, when weeks of protests forced him into exile in Saudi Arabia. Tunisians complained that the president's family and supporters had grown rich while their living conditions stagnated and their voices were stifled.
But while the governments of nearby nations like Algeria, Libya and Egypt face similar criticism, the level of repression and the concentration of power and corruption were far more extreme in Tunisia, said Nathan Brown, a professor of Middle Eastern politics at George Washington University in Washington.
"I think most regimes in the region are viewed with a mix of disdain and resignation by their population," Brown said. Few may support their government, but "It's not as if there's much that can be done about it," he said.
Neighboring Algeria was also wracked by rioting last week, triggered by the spiraling costs of basic food items after its government slashed price supports for staples like milk, oil and sugar. State-run media reported at least three people had died in the clashes.
Libya's longtime strongman, Moammar Gadhafi, mourned Ben Ali's ouster and warned in a nationally televised speech that Tunisia was facing "unjustified chaos." And in Egypt, at least two people have set themselves afire in public this week -- the same type of protest that triggered Tunisia's demonstrations in December.
1. What president was forced from his post last week?
2. What happened that forced him out?
3. How do the folks residing in that area feel about the leadership?
4. What caused the protesting to start?
5. What other country has been affected by the riots?
6. What drastic thing have been done in another country recently?
7. How long was the outcast leader in leadership?
8. When was he ousted?
9. What staple things are being rioted over?
10. Who raised attention on national television? | 1. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
2. protests
3. Bad
4. the president's family and supporters had grown rich while their living conditions stagnated and their voices were stifled
5. Algeria
6. Self-immolation
7. 23 years
8. Friday
9. milk, oil and sugar (please take longer)
10. Moammar Gadhafi |
Visitors of most nationalities must hold a passport valid for no less than 60 days beyond the duration of stay of their visa, e-Visa, visa exemption period, or residence permit. The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs recommends visitors to hold a passport with at least six months of remaining validity. The passport validity requirement does not apply to citizens of Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland who can enter with a passport expired for no more than five years, citizens of Germany who can enter with a passport or an ID card expired for less than one year, and citizens of Bulgaria who are only required to have a passport valid for their period of stay. An identity card is accepted in lieu of a passport for citizens of Belgium, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Northern Cyprus, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and Ukraine. The validity period requirement also does not apply to nationals of countries whose identity cards are accepted.
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
can you travel to turkey with a french id card?
A: yes
In 1758, Carl Linnaeus created the first hierarchical classification in his Systema Naturae. In his original scheme, the animals were one of three kingdoms, divided into the classes of Vermes, Insecta, Pisces, Amphibia, Aves, and Mammalia. Since then the last four have all been subsumed into a single phylum, the Chordata, while his Insecta (which included the crustaceans and arachnids) and Vermes have been renamed or broken up. The process was begun in 1793 by Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, who called the Vermes une espèce de chaos (a sort of chaos) and split the group into three new phyla, worms, echinoderms, and polyps (which contained corals and jellyfish). By 1809, in his Philosophie Zoologique, Lamarck had created 9 phyla apart from vertebrates (where he still had 4 phyla: mammals, birds, reptiles, and fish) and molluscs, namely cirripedes, annelids, crustaceans, arachnids, insects, worms, radiates, polyps, and infusorians.
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
is a bird an animal yes or no?
A: yes
Although phylogenetically they are closer to felines and viverrids, and belong to the feliform category, hyenas are behaviourally and morphologically similar to canines in several elements of convergent evolution; both hyenas and canines are non-arboreal, cursorial hunters that catch prey with their teeth rather than claws. Both eat food quickly and may store it, and their calloused feet with large, blunt, nonretractable claws are adapted for running and making sharp turns. However, the hyenas' grooming, scent marking, defecating habits, mating and parental behaviour are consistent with the behaviour of other feliforms.
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
is the hyena part of the dog family?
A: no
Hershey also has plants in Stuarts Draft, Virginia; Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Hazleton, Pennsylvania; Memphis, Tennessee; Robinson, Illinois, and Guadalajara, Mexico.
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
are all hershey products made in the usa?
A: | no |
Continue writing the following text.
My pastor enjoyed the program a lot less than the University because the | University was fun. |
Given a sentence in English, provide an equivalent paraphrased version from the original that retains the same meaning.
[Q]: Assuming that the causal relationships are linear , this background knowledge can be expressed in the following structural equation model ( SEM ) specification .
[A]: Assuming that the causal relationships are linear , this background knowledge can be expressed in the following SEM specification ( Structural Equalization Model ) .
[Q]: Earlier in 209 , Sun Quan Sun married Quan ’ s younger sister , Lady Sun , to strengthen the alliance between him and Liu Bei .
[A]: Earlier in 209 , Sun Quan married Sun Quan 's younger sister Lady Sun to strengthen the alliance between him and Liu Bei .
[Q]: They could instead have been relatives , perhaps members of a family bonded by blood to serve Dracula .
[A]: | They could have been relatives instead , perhaps members of a family connected by blood to serve Dracula .
|
Some random thoughts: The important part for answering this question is: The production team behind Full House did not want people to know that Michelle was played by a set of twins, so the girls were credited as "Mary-Kate Ashley Olsen" for most of the show's run (making it appear as if a single actress had the first name Mary-Kate and the middle name Ashley).
Generated quizz based on thoughtsQ: The production team behind Full House did not want people to know that Michelle was played by a set of twins, so the girls were credited as "Mary-Kate Ashley Olsen" for most of the show's run (making it appear as if a single actress had the first name Mary-Kate and the middle name Ashley). Although the two were credited separately as "Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen" during the closing credits in the series' first season (they were not officially added to the opening title sequence until season two but were credited in the syndicated versions of the season one opening titles), it was not until the eighth and final season that the twins were credited as "Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen" in the opening titles. Despite the fact that the Olsens are fraternal twins, their physical appearances were nonetheless similar enough so that few could tell the difference between the two over the course of the show's run. In season one, Mary-Kate was used more often due to the fact Ashley cried when she was put on set for a scene.
Answer this question based on the passage: which olsen twin was in full house more?
A: Michelle was played by a set of twins , so the girls were credited as `` Mary - Kate Ashley Olsen '' for most of the show 's run ( making it appear as if a single actress had the first name Mary - Kate and the middle name Ashley )
Some random thoughts: The relevant sentence in the passage is: The pilot episode, "Winter Is Coming", was first shot in 2009; after a poor reception in a private viewing, HBO demanded an extensive re-shoot (about 90 percent of the episode, with cast and directorial changes).
Generated quizz based on thoughtsQ: The first and second drafts of the pilot script by Benioff and Weiss were submitted in August 2007 and June 2008, respectively. Although HBO liked both drafts, a pilot was not ordered until November 2008; the 2007 -- 2008 Writers Guild of America strike may have delayed the process. The pilot episode, "Winter Is Coming", was first shot in 2009; after a poor reception in a private viewing, HBO demanded an extensive re-shoot (about 90 percent of the episode, with cast and directorial changes).
When did they start filming game of thrones?
A: 2009
Some random thoughts: The relevant information is: Eight # 11 seeds have advanced to the Elite Eight: LSU in 1986, Loyola Marymount in 1990, Temple in 2001, George Mason in 2006, Virginia Commonwealth in 2011, Dayton in 2014, Xavier in 2017, and Loyola Chicago in 2018.
Generated quizz based on thoughtsQ: In the men's Division I, the lowest-seeded team ever to reach this round in the modern 64 team tournament era was # 12 Missouri in 2002, who upset # 5-seed Miami (Florida), # 4-seed Ohio State, and # 8-seed UCLA before losing to # 2-seed Oklahoma in the West regional that year. Eight # 11 seeds have advanced to the Elite Eight: LSU in 1986, Loyola Marymount in 1990, Temple in 2001, George Mason in 2006, Virginia Commonwealth in 2011, Dayton in 2014, Xavier in 2017, and Loyola Chicago in 2018.
Answer this question based on the passage: when was the last time an 11 seed went to the elite eight?
A: 2018
Some random thoughts: To answer this question, we should know that: Rory McCann (born 24 April 1969) is a Scottish actor, best known for portraying Sandor "The Hound" Clegane on the HBO series Game of Thrones and Lurch in Edgar Wright's crime-comedy Hot Fuzz.
Generated quizz based on thoughts | Q: Rory McCann (born 24 April 1969) is a Scottish actor, best known for portraying Sandor "The Hound" Clegane on the HBO series Game of Thrones and Lurch in Edgar Wright's crime-comedy Hot Fuzz.
Based on this passage, who plays the character dog in game of thrones?
A: Rory McCann |
In this task, you are given a question. You have to answer the question based on your information.
Navier–Stokes equations were partially named after which French engineer? | Claude-Louis Navier |
Given a text, write a compressed version of it in a single sentence.
The heavily decorated, including those who won the Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, Navy Cross, Air Force Cross, Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Star, or Purple Heart;
The heavily decorated, including those who won the Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, Navy Cross, or Purple Heart;
Little ones, like Baby Jessica, caught in the struggle between adoptive and birth parents. Older kids, like Tracy and Kerry, left homeless after a recent murder-suicide in Indianapolis claimed Mom and Dad.
Little ones caught in the struggle between adoptive and birth parents. Older kids, left homeless after a murder-suicide in Indianapolis claimed parents.
"If I have one cavil with the book, it is that there is no conceivable reason for the subtitle to use an before historical."
| It's that there is no conceivable reason for the subtitle to use an before historical.
|
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. Given a sentence in English, provide an equivalent paraphrased version from the original that retains the same meaning.
There is a National Highway connecting Washim , Kanergaon , Akola , Amrawati , Hingoli and Nanded .
| There is a national motorway connecting Washim , Kanergaon , Nanded , Amrawati , Hingoli and Akola . |
[-] What are the different tones in the Khmer language?
[-]
| Another unique result is that the syllable is spoken with a low-rising or "dipping" tone much like the "hỏi" tone in Vietnamese. |
Read this: Osmotic diarrhea occurs when too much water is drawn into the bowels. If a person drinks solutions with excessive sugar or excessive salt, these can draw water from the body into the bowel and cause osmotic diarrhea. Osmotic diarrhea can also be the result of maldigestion (e.g., pancreatic disease or Coeliac disease), in which the nutrients are left in the lumen to pull in water. Or it can be caused by osmotic laxatives (which work to alleviate constipation by drawing water into the bowels). In healthy individuals, too much magnesium or vitamin C or undigested lactose can produce osmotic diarrhea and distention of the bowel. A person who has lactose intolerance can have difficulty absorbing lactose after an extraordinarily high intake of dairy products. In persons who have fructose malabsorption, excess fructose intake can also cause diarrhea. High-fructose foods that also have a high glucose content are more absorbable and less likely to cause diarrhea. Sugar alcohols such as sorbitol (often found in sugar-free foods) are difficult for the body to absorb and, in large amounts, may lead to osmotic diarrhea. In most of these cases, osmotic diarrhea stops when offending agent (e.g. milk, sorbitol) is stopped.
What foods that have a high dairy content are less likely to cause diarrhea?
What is the answer? (If it cannot be answered, return "unanswerable") | unanswerable |
Answer: One of the Vivek Express trains , the one from Dibrugarh to Kanyakumari. Now, what could be the question and solution-maybe?
Ques: Vivek Express is a chain of express trains on the Indian Railways network. These trains were announced in the Railway Budget of 2011-12 by the then Railway Minister. These trains were started to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, to be held in 2013. One of the Vivek Express trains, the one from Dibrugarh to Kanyakumari; is the longest route on the Indian Railways network, in terms of distance and time, and is the 9th longest in the world.
Answer this question: which is the longest running train in india?
CoT: The important part for answering this question is: One of the Vivek Express trains, the one from Dibrugarh to Kanyakumari; is the longest route on the Indian Railways network, in terms of distance and time, and is the 9th longest in the world.
---
Answer: the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha. Now, what could be the question and solution-maybe?
Ques: The Chief Election Commissioner heads the Election Commission of India, a body constitutionally empowered to conduct free and fair elections to the national and state legislatures and of President and Vice-President. Chief Election Commissioner of India is usually a member of the Indian Civil Service and mostly from the Indian Administrative Service. It is very difficult to remove the authority of the Chief Election Commissioner once appointed by the president, as two-thirds of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha need to vote against him for disorderly conduct or improper actions.
Based on this passage, who has the power to remove chief election commissioner?
CoT: The relevant information to answer the above question is: It is very difficult to remove the authority of the Chief Election Commissioner once appointed by the president, as two-thirds of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha need to vote against him for disorderly conduct or improper actions.
---
Answer: the Caucasus Mountains. Now, what could be the question and solution-maybe?
Ques: Kefir or kephir (/ kəˈfɪər / kə-FEER), alternatively milk kefir or búlgaros, is a fermented milk drink that originated in the Caucasus Mountains made with kefir "grains", a yeast / bacterial fermentation starter. It is prepared by inoculating cow, goat, or sheep milk with kefir grains. Traditional kefir was made in goatskin bags that were hung near a doorway; the bag would be knocked by anyone passing through to help keep the milk and kefir grains well mixed.
Answer this question: where did the first kefir grains come from?
CoT: The relevant information is: Kefir or kephir (/ kəˈfɪər / kə-FEER), alternatively milk kefir or búlgaros, is a fermented milk drink that originated in the Caucasus Mountains made with kefir "grains", a yeast / bacterial fermentation starter.
---
Answer: 1 July 2007. Now, what could be the question and solution-maybe?
| Ques: A smoking ban in England, making it illegal to smoke in all enclosed work places in England, came into force on 1 July 2007 as a consequence of the Health Act 2006. Similar bans had already been introduced by the rest of the United Kingdom: in Scotland on 26 March 2006, Wales on 2 April 2007 and Northern Ireland on 30 April 2007.
Answer this question: when did the smoking ban come in in england?
CoT: The important part for answering this question is: A smoking ban in England, making it illegal to smoke in all enclosed work places in England, came into force on 1 July 2007 as a consequence of the Health Act 2006.
--- |
Detailed 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.
Q: It could easily pass for a Bond villain lair or a secluded retreat for those who like to castaway and immerse themselves in nature. Moonhole, a resort nestled under a rocky arch surrounded by the turquoise Caribbean waters, boasts five quaint houses now available for holidaymakers to rent. True to its nautical theme, the idyllic cluster of properties on the Grenadine island of Bequia was built incorporating whalebone, driftwood and shells into each building's structure for a rustic feel. Travellers can explore the stunning Bequia area by day, either by scuba diving, snorkelling, kayaking, fishing or hiking round the impressive landscape.Moonhole is located on the island of Bequia and consists of five villas offering spectacular sea viewsThe unique cluster of stone houses were built by adventurous couple Tom and Gladdie Johnston in the 1960sNow only five of the original 17 houses are available to stay in and come complete with 12 staff members
Questions:A further 16 more houses were built, including a commissary and office as well as living quarters for the growing _ staff. (A) Bond (B) Moonhole (C) Caribbean (D) Grenadine (E) Bequia (F) Tom (G) Gladdie Johnston
A: | (B) |
Continue writing the next sentence.
How to survive a coyote attack
Make your environment inhospitable for coyotes.
Most coyotes are no longer afraid of humans and there are reports of increased coyote sightings in urban and suburban areas. In other words, a coyote who does not immediately run away when encountering humans has probably become habituated to the presence of people. | You can help prevent coyotes from wandering into your neighborhood by attending to the environment in several ways. Keep trees and shrubbery neatly trimmed to eliminate hiding places for coyotes. |
Does "This afternoon the wind knocked The flag down." appear to be an accurate statement based on "This morning, Joey built a sand castle on the beach, and put a toy flag in the highest tower, but this afternoon the wind knocked it down."? | yes |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Mac OS X Tiger ( version 10.4 ) is the fifth major release of Apple 's Mac OS X.
| Mac OS X Tiger ( version 10.4 ) is the fifth major release of Mac OS X ( now named macOS ) , Apple 's desktop and server operating system for Mac computers . |
To answer the question, consider the following: A corpus cavernosum penis (singular) (cavernous body of the penis) is one of a pair of sponge-like regions of erectile tissue, the corpora cavernosa (plural) (cavernous bodies), which contain most of the blood in the penis during an erection.
the penis
A corpus cavernosum penis (singular) (cavernous body of the penis) is one of a pair of sponge-like regions of erectile tissue, the corpora cavernosa (plural) (cavernous bodies), which contain most of the blood in the penis during an erection. Such a corpus is homologous to the corpus cavernosum clitoridis in the female; the body of the clitoris contains erectile tissue in a pair of corpora cavernosa (literally "cave-like bodies") with a recognisably similar structure.
Based on this passage, the location of the corpora cavernosa is the?
The relevant sentence in the passage is: The 2012 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the European Union (EU) "for over six decades (having) contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe" by a unanimous decision of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
the European Union
The 2012 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the European Union (EU) "for over six decades (having) contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe" by a unanimous decision of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
Based on this passage, who won noble prize for peace in 2012?
To answer this question, we should know that: That' 70s Show is an American television period sitcom that originally aired on Fox from August 23, 1998, to May 18, 2006.
August 23 , 1998
| That' 70s Show is an American television period sitcom that originally aired on Fox from August 23, 1998, to May 18, 2006. The series focused on the lives of a group of teenage friends living in fictional Point Place, Wisconsin from May 17, 1976 to December 31, 1979.
When did that 70's show first air? |
input: Induction cooking
Induction compatible cookware for an induction cooking surface can nearly always be used on other stoves. Some cookware or packaging is marked with symbols to indicate compatibility with induction, gas, or electric heat. Induction cooking surfaces work well with any pans with a high ferrous metal content at the base. Cast iron pans and any black metal or iron pans will work on an induction cooking surface. Stainless steel pans will work on an induction cooking surface if the base of the pan is a magnetic grade of stainless steel. If a magnet sticks well to the sole of the pan, it will work on an induction cooking surface. An ``all-metal'' cooker will work with non-ferrous cookware, but available models are limited.
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
will a cast iron skillet work on induction
****
output: yes
input: Coffee-Mate
An unopened bottle of Coffee-Mate can last up to two years with no refrigeration and can stay fresh for two weeks once it is opened. The product is popular in offices where refrigeration may not be available. Non-dairy creamer can be used by individuals who are lactose-intolerant. Once opened, liquid non-dairy creamer should be refrigerated.
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
does liquid coffee creamer have to be refrigerated
****
output: yes
input: Spaceship Earth (Epcot)
Spaceship Earth is a geodesic sphere that serves as the symbolic structure of Epcot, at the Walt Disney World Resort. One of the most recognizable structures of any theme park, it is also the name of the dark ride attraction that is housed within the sphere that takes guests on a time machine-themed experience using the Omnimover system.
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
can you go inside the ball at epcot
****
output: yes
input: Shallot
Its close relatives include the garlic, leek, chive, and Chinese onion.
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
is a shallot the same as a leek
****
output: | no |
A question is presented to you in this task, and your job is to write a potentially correct answer.
who the voice of jack skellington? | Danny Elfman |
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. Who is proud of the state's law enforcement officers?
John Bel Edwards
--
I have been married twice. My wedding experiences were both very different, even though I cried at both ceremonies. At my first wedding, I had been doing a lot of manual labor in the day prior to the wedding. Unfortunately, I did not have any gloves, and I ended up getting a lot of blisters on my hands. By the evening of the wedding, these blisters were very painful to touch. My bride was wearing what I thought to be an elaborate wedding dress. It was pretty, and it had a lot of buttons on it. Little, white, cloth covered buttons. These buttons were also a part of her sleeves and gloves. During the ceremony, she was holding my hands very tightly, and it hurt. I mean, it really really hurt! I didn’t want to pull my hands away, as the gesture could be misconstrued, and I might hurt her feelings. So, I stood and held hands with her, enduring the pain. Although I managed to remain silent, I couldn’t keep the tears from falling down my face. The more I cried, the harder she squeezed and the more painful it was. She always thought that I was crying due to emotion on our wedding day, and I never told her any differently — I didn’t want to hurt her feelings. Some years after that lengthy incarceration ended, I was fortunate to wed again. I had not done any manual labor before our wedding day. My hands were fine. Also, my bride did not have a lot of intricate buttons on her dress, nor did she wear gloves or even have sleeves. We were wed on a beach, just the two of us. No one else was in attendance. We had written our own vows, in fact, our own ceremony, including our own rituals. And yes, I cried, because I was / am so in love with my bride. I still tear up every morning when I awaken and see her sleeping beside me. Peace According to the above context, answer the following question. Who was holding the author's hand during the first wedding?
His bride
--
In the shadow of the Seattle Space Needle, almost alien crystalline forms wrap their deft tendrils through the Chihuly Garden and Glass. Every single petal, bowl, stem and branch of cascading glass has been handblown under the guidance of Washington State native Dale Chihuly (in fact he grew up in nearby Tacoma), and we couldn’t quite believe our eyes. Having discovered this exhibit through the magic of Jaime’s instagram (she’s a self-named Angloyankophile who grew up in Seattle before moving to London) I knew we would have to visit. My photos don’t do the undulating forms any kind of justice; but they might just convey the incredible scale of the exhibition. I’d always been curious to learn more about Chihuly, after being introduced to his incredible sculpture suspended over the V&A Museum information desk, a glowing confection of green and white glass whisps. In 1968, after receiving a Fulbright Fellowship, he went to work at the Venini glass factory in Venice, observing the team approach to blowing glass, which is critical to the way he works today. In 1971, Chihuly cofounded Pilchuck Glass School in Washington State. With this international glass center, Chihuly has led the avant-garde in the development of glass as a fine art. His work is included in more than 200 museum collections worldwide. He has been the recipient of many awards, including twelve honorary doctorates and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has also lost an eye to his passion, and now mostly directs the sculpture design and assembly. It was truly amazing. In 1999, Chihuly started an ambitious exhibition, Chihuly in the Light of Jerusalem; where more than 1 million visitors attended the Tower of David Museum to view his installations. In 2001, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London curated the exhibition Chihuly at the V&A. Chihuly’s lifelong fascination for glasshouses has grown into a series of exhibitions within botanical settings. According to the above context, answer the following question. What entity did Chihuly help found
the Pilchick Glass School
--
“Teachers like to agree with each other, when we talk about learning. It’s hard to change that, when the model we have wanted to make work has nonetheless been failing for 40 years.” Professor Brian Boyd No area has remained up there in the contentiousness charts in Scotland as the notion of business and education working together to do something better for our young people. Most schools do not ‘partner’ with colleges or universities. Instead, they are production facilities for undergraduates and college entrants. Fewer are set up to systematically provide apprenticeship opportunities as well as learning. At NoTosh, we’ve been working on a few, nascent projects to change the attitudes of schools from being these production facilities into something more of a life support - what metrics of success might we use if schools judged their success on the results of their alumni, five, ten or twenty years down the line, much like universities do? City of Glasgow College have partnered with Newlands Junior College (NJC) to make the experience of a day in college more than what, in other circumstances, is too often perceived as a day off from school. The Junior College is called this, and not a school, for that very reason, to mark it out as a stepping stone between school and full-blown college. NoTosh helped last August to provoke the team around their thoughts of what 'unschool' might look like. The College was backed and founded by Jim McColl, one of Scotland’s top business people. In the future, suggests, McColl, might be be possible to take funding of learning out of its pre-existing silos, particularly for this group of students, about 60 in every city at these ages, who just need a different approach to the traditional comprehensive approach? A crossover funding model that helps learning happen in both ‘school’ or Junior College and college or university might be interesting. In fact, some of the world’s top universities are thinking of such models for their own students: Stanford’s 2025 project talks about the... According to the above context, answer the following question. After the story ends, how have students at Newlands Junior College reacted to partnering with Glasgow College?
| they have reacted favorably overall
-- |
Student A:Now That's What I Call Music (also simply titled Now or Now 1) is the first album from the popular Now! series that was released in the United Kingdom on 28 November 1983. Initial pressings were released on vinyl and audio cassette. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the album and series, the album was re-released on CD for the first time in 2009. However, alternative longer mixes of Only For Love, Double Dutch and Candy Girl were included in place of the original shorter single mixes from 1983. A double vinyl re-release followed for Record Store Day on 18 April 2015. In July 2018, the album was newly remastered and re-released on CD, vinyl and cassette to commemorate the release of the 100th volume of the series.
Based on this passage, when did now thats what i call music come out?
Student B:OK... To answer this question, we should know that: Now That's What I Call Music (also simply titled Now or Now 1) is the first album from the popular Now! series that was released in the United Kingdom on 28 November 1983.
28 November 1983.
Problem:In the early 1980s complaints about violence and gore in films such as Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Gremlins, both of which received PG ratings, refocused attention on films seen by small children and pre-teens. According to author Filipa Antunes, this revealed the conundrum of a film which "could not be recommended for all children but also could not be repudiated for all children uniformly," leading to speculation that the rating system's scope, in particular its PG classification, "no longer matched a notion of childhood most parents in America could agree on." Steven Spielberg, director of Temple of Doom and executive producer of Gremlins, suggested a new intermediate rating between "PG" and "R". The "PG-13" rating was introduced in July 1984, with the advisory "Parents Are Strongly Cautioned to Give Special Guidance for Attendance of Children Under 13 -- Some Material May Be Inappropriate for Young Children". The first film to be released with this rating was the 1984 John Milius war film Red Dawn. In 1985, the wording was simplified to "Parents Strongly Cautioned -- Some Material May Be Inappropriate for Children Under 13". Around the same time, the MPAA won a trademark infringement lawsuit against the producers and distributors of I Spit on Your Grave over a fraudulent application of its R rating to the uncut version of the film, and forced its member studios and several other home video distributors to put MPAA ratings on the packaging of MPAA-rated films via a settlement that would come into effect by fall that year.
Based on this passage, what 1984 film had the first pg-13 rating?
Solution:OK... The relevant information to answer the above question is: The first film to be released with this rating was the 1984 John Milius war film Red Dawn.
the 1984 John Milius war film Red Dawn.
Student A:On Christmas morning, 1909, in a quaint Midwestern town, Jim Dear gives his wife Darling an American cocker spaniel puppy that she names Lady. Lady enjoys a happy life with the couple and befriends two local neighborhood dogs, Jock, a Scottish terrier, and Trusty, a bloodhound. Meanwhile, across town, a stray mongrel called the Tramp lives on his own, dining on scraps from Tony's Italian restaurant and protecting his fellow strays Peg (a Pekingese) and Bull (a bulldog) from the local dogcatcher. One day, Lady is saddened after her owners begin treating her rather coldly. Jock and Trusty visit her and determine that their change in behavior is due to Darling expecting a baby. While Jock and Trusty try to explain what a baby is, Tramp interrupts the conversation and offers his own thoughts on the matter, making Jock and Trusty take an immediate dislike to the stray and order him out of the yard. As Tramp leaves, he reminds Lady that "when the baby moves in, the dog moves out."
Based on this passage, what kind of dog is jock on lady and the tramp?
Student B:OK... The relevant sentence in the passage is: Lady enjoys a happy life with the couple and befriends two local neighborhood dogs, Jock, a Scottish terrier, and Trusty, a bloodhound.
a Scottish terrier.
Problem:Robert Andrew "Robbie" Kay (born 13 September 1995) is an English actor whose credits include Fugitive Pieces, Heroes Reborn, Pinocchio, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, and Peter Pan in the Once Upon a Time television series.
Who plays peter pan on once upon a time?
Solution:OK... The relevant sentence in the passage is: Robert Andrew "Robbie" Kay (born 13 September 1995) is an English actor whose credits include Fugitive Pieces, Heroes Reborn, Pinocchio, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, and Peter Pan in the Once Upon a Time television series.
Robert Andrew `` Robbie '' Kay.
Student A:Although they served as Crowell's backing band for several years, The Cherry Bombs did not record an album of their own until a 2004 reunion (at which point "Notorious" had been added to the band's name). The album, also titled The Notorious Cherry Bombs, produced a hit on the country music charts in "It's Hard to Kiss the Lips at Night That Chew Your Ass Out All Day Long".
Who sang it's hard to kiss the lips?
Student B:OK... To answer this question, we should know that: The album, also titled The Notorious Cherry Bombs, produced a hit on the country music charts in "It's Hard to Kiss the Lips at Night That Chew Your Ass Out All Day Long".
The Cherry Bombs.
Student A:Passage: Today, they are mostly used in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, to commemorate their servicemen and women killed in all conflicts. There, small artificial poppies are often worn on clothing leading up to Remembrance Day / Armistice Day, and poppy wreaths are often laid at war memorials. In Australia and New Zealand, they are also worn on Anzac Day.
Question: Based on this passage, why do the british wear a red flower?
Student B: | OK... This is the relevant information: Today, they are mostly used in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, to commemorate their servicemen and women killed in all conflicts.
to commemorate their servicemen and women killed in all conflicts. |
Does "The coffee got full of ink." appear to be an accurate statement based on "I couldn't find a spoon, so I tried using a pen to stir my coffee. But that turned out to be a bad idea, because it got full of ink."? | yes |
The Empire Icon Award is an honorary Empire Award presented by the British film magazine "Empire". The Empire Icon Award was first introduced at the 11th Empire Awards ceremony in 2006 with Brian Cox receiving the award. The award was absent from the 12th, 17th and 18th Empire Awards ceremonies. Hugh Jackman is the most recent winner in this category.
Hugh Jackman has won the Empire Icon award.
A: Yes
Bouck's Island is a farm near Breakabeen, New York within the town of Fulton, Schoharie County, New York near Fultonham, New York. Bouck's Island was the home of former New York governor William C. Bouck. Congressman Joseph Bouck was born on Bouck's Island and Wisconsin Congressman Gabriel Bouck once lived there.
Congressman Bouck has lived there
A: Yes
Lakeshore Technical College (or LTC) is a technical and community college located in Cleveland, Wisconsin, which is centrally located between the lakeshore cities of Sheboygan and Manitowoc. It is a member of the 16 schools in the Wisconsin Technical College System. The college was originally named Lakeshore Technical Institute (LTI).
LTC ranks first among the Wisconsin Technical College System in graduation rates.
A: | It's impossible to say |
Giant sunflowers? Maybe you like potatoes, tomatoes, or carrots.Or maybe you prefer green leafy house plants, tiny plants in a container, wildflowers that you can dry to save, or a butterfly garden. Whatever you hope to grow, knowing some gardening basics will give you a much better chance of success. First you will need to choose a good location for your garden.A sunny location usually works best, since all plants need some sunlight and most plants like lots of it.However, there are some plants that need only indirect sunlight, and these plants will do best in shady spots. Check soil too.The best kind of plant soil is called loam ; it is loose soil that crumbles easily.Water drains through it well, and it has lots of nutrients to feed your plants.Soil that sticks together might have too much clay in it.Very loose, dry soil might have too much sand.You can improve the soil in your garden by adding organic materials such as compost, or leaves.ks5u Climate--Check a map of planting zones to choose plants that are right for your area. Mulch --After you have planted your plants, add a layer of mulch on top of the soil.Mulch keeps the soil damp, keeps out pests, and adds more nutrients to the soil. Water - Water your plants early in the day.Plants need about 1 inch of water each week on average. Fertilizer - If you are planting a big garden, use about 1/2 pounds per 100 square feet.If you are just planting a few plants, get a little container of plant food and follow the directions on the label.Plant fertilizer contains the chemicals that make up a plant's diet. Which of the following statements is TRUE? A) Not all plants need sunlight. B) Water your plants at night C) As much fertilizer as possible is needed to any plant. D) Good soil is easy to break up with many nutrients.
D
Our village carpenter , John Hill, came one day and made a dining table for my wife. He made it just the right size to fill the space between the two windows. When I got home that evening, John was drinking a cup of tea and writing out his bill for the job. My wife said to me quietly, "It's his ninth cup of tea today." But she said in a loud voice, "It is a beautiful table, dear, isn't it?" "I will decide about that when I see the bill, " I read: One dining table, 10 November, 1989. Cost of wood: $17.00 Paint: $1.50 Work: 8 hours ($1 an hour) $8.00 Total: $36.50 When I was looking at the bill, John said, "It's been a fine day, hasn't it? Quite sunny." "Yes," I said, "I'm glad it is only the 10thof November." "Me, too," said John. "You wait. It'll be a lot colder by the end of the month." "Yes, colder.... And more expensive! Dining tables will be $20 more expensive on November 30th, won't they, John?" John looked hard at me for half a minute. Was there a little smile in his two blue eyes? I gave his bill back to him. "If it isn't too much trouble, John," I said, "Please add it up again and you can forget the date." I paid him $26.50and he was happy to get it. Why did the writer say that dining table would be$ 20 more expensive on November 30th? _ A) Because it was difficult to make dining tables in cold weather. B) Because paint would be more expensive. C) .Because the cost of wood would be more expensive. D) .Because he thought John would certainly add to the cost of the dining table.
D
Q: Today, paper-making is a big business. But it is still possible to make paper by hand, since the steps are the same as using big machines. You should use paper with small amounts of printing. Old envelopes are good for this reason. Colored paper also can be used, as well as small amounts of newspaper. Small pieces of rags or cloth can be added. These should be cut into pieces about five centimeters by five centimeters. Everything is placed in a container, covered with water and brought to a boil. It is mixed for about two hours with some common chemicals and then allowed to cool. Then it is left until most of the water dries up. The substance left, called pulp , can be stored until you are ready to make paper. When you are ready, the pulp is mixed with water again. Then the pulp is poured into a mold. The mold is made of small squares of wire that hold the shape and thickness of the paper. To help dry the paper, the mold lets the water flow through the small wire squares. After several more drying steps, the paper is carefully lifted back from the mold. It is now strong enough to be touched. The paper is smoothed and pressed to remove trapped air. You can use a common electric iron used for pressing clothes. It is suggested that we "should choose paper with small amounts of printing" to _ . A) make paper by ourselves B) renew the old envelopes C) make various colored paper D) create our own newspaper
A: A
"I left Tangier, my birthplace, the 13th of June 1325 with the intention of making the pilgrimage to Mecca... to leave all my friends both female and male, to abandon my home as birds abandon their nests." So begins an old manuscript in a library in Paris-the travel journal of Ibn Battuta. Almost two centuries before Columbus, Ibn Battuta set off for Mecca, returning home three decades later as one of history's great travelers. Driven by curiosity, he journeyed to remote comers of the Islamic world, traveling through 44 modern countries, three times as far as Marco Polo. Little celebrated in the West, his name is well known among Arabs. In his hometown of Tangier, a square, a hotel, a cafe, a ferry boat, and even a hamburger are named after him. Ibn Battuta stayed in Mecca as a student for several years, but the urge to travel soon took over. In one adventure, he traveled to India seeking profitable employment with the sultan of Delhi.On the way, he described his group being attacked in the open country by 80 men on foot, and two horsemen. "We fought... killing one of their horsemen and about twelve of the foot soldiers... I was hit by an arrow and my horse by another, but God in his grace preserved me... ". In Delhi, the sultan gave him the position of judge, based on his _ study at Mecca. But the sultan had an unpredictable character, and Ibn Battuta looked for an opportunity to leave. When the sultan offered to finance a trip to China, he agreed. IbnBattuta set off in three ships, but misfortune struck while he was still on the shore. A sudden storm grounded and broke up two ships, scattering treasure and drowning many people and horses. As he watched, the third ship with all his belongings and slaves (one carrying his child), was carried out to sea and never heard from again. After a lifetime of incredible adventures, Ibn Battuta was finally ordered by the sultan of Morocco to return home to share his wisdom with the world. Fortunately, he agreed and wrote a book that has been translated into numerous... What is Ibn Battuta's main character reflected in this article? A) optimistic B) sympathetic C) submitted D) committed
| D |
Does "Presence of alkaline metal ions has also detrimental effect to the loss tangent of the glass, and to its electrical resistance; glasses for electronics (sealing, vacuum tubes, lamps...) have to take this in account." contain the correct answer to "Reaction with what causes dealkalization?"
A: no
Does "In September 2007, during a lawsuit with patent holding company Burst.com, Apple drew attention to a patent for a similar device that was developed in 1979." contain the correct answer to "Apple was involved in a lawsuit with which company in 2007?"
A: yes
Does "It is a simple system, which consists of only three protein subunits: the ABC protein, membrane fusion protein (MFP), and outer membrane protein (OMP)[specify]." contain the correct answer to "What three protien subunites are in the chennel transupport system?"
A: | yes |
Hawthorne is a census-designated place (CDP) in Mineral County, Nevada, United States. At the 2010 census, the population was 3,269, a decrease since the 2000 census, when it was 3,311. It is the county seat of Mineral County. The nearby Hawthorne Army Depot is the primary economic base of the town.
Can we draw the following conclusion?
Hawthorne has a population of 3,926 as of 2019.
Pick from:
-- Yes;
-- It's impossible to say;
-- No; | It's impossible to say |
IN: What happens next?
How to understand computers
Decide what you need the computer for.
There are different kinds of computers you could buy :
Desktop computer: has a computer tower, and a separate monitor. More wires, and size, built for home use.
OPTIONS:
- Large size computers: have programmers on desks who design and use computers. External hard drives are usually found in the back of a computer.
- If you are using a computer at home for just checking email, or typing documents, and don't need a lot of portability, then you should go for a desktop. If you don't customize and upgrade your desktop, an all-in-one desktop would do as well.
- Mac: has an external operating system on it. Laptop cpu: has a glass or ceramic front to cover the firewall.
- Desktop desktop model (fx): it can either be portable or use wireless. Desktop desktop png: it has an external hard drive built in.
OUT: If you are using a computer at home for just checking email, or typing documents, and don't need a lot of portability, then you should go for a desktop. If you don't customize and upgrade your desktop, an all-in-one desktop would do as well.
IN: What happens next?
How to become a school administrator
Earn a bachelor's degree in education.
Most school administrators begin their careers as teachers, and although this is not always a requirement, a degree in education nearly always is.
You can earn an associate's degree at a community college before entering a four-year school, if desired.
OPTIONS:
- Be sure that your degrees are from accredited institutions. Work with a college adviser to specify a particular grade level group and/or subject matter for your degree plan.
- Though you will have to start in a traditional school environment, a bachelor's degree will give you little experience in the classroom. Chances are you won't get directly hired if you are a thoroughly knowledgeable teacher.
- You'll need to study for the ged exam, take the sat, and know how to use your connections at your school to ensure that you live up to the requirements set forth by your school administrators. Make a master's degree in education.
- Add options like educational opportunities and information systems if one is available to you. Most of the coursework in middle school are done by students supervised by a tutor.
OUT: Be sure that your degrees are from accredited institutions. Work with a college adviser to specify a particular grade level group and/or subject matter for your degree plan.
IN: What happens next?
How to balance sugar on the atkins diet
Read ingredient labels carefully to find hidden sugars.
Words like dextrose, fructose, high fructose corn syrup and " natural flavors " often indicate added sugar. Always check for hidden sugars in prepared sauces and salad dressings.
OPTIONS:
- Every recipe will treat sugars differently, but often, foods with added sugars are called refined sugars and cause fructose crystals to build up. Fill a coffee (usually, a blended drink) or coffee shaker halfway with water and cook the contents until firm, without stopping.
- According to sources online and at restaurant kitchens, it is estimated that sugar (best known as sugar sweetener) in room temperature dishes is 70% sugar. Limiting the amount you allow your body to react to certain foods and activities can prevent this from happening.
- Be wary of labels such as " sugar free, " " reduced sugar " or " no added sugar. " these foods may still contain a significant amount of sugar.
- Check the packaging for hidden sugars. In some sauces, sugar residue is listed.
OUT: | Be wary of labels such as " sugar free, " " reduced sugar " or " no added sugar. " these foods may still contain a significant amount of sugar. |
Recently the news broke that Microsoft are acquiring GitHub. Effusive opinions flowed from all directions: some saw the acquisition as a sensible fit for Microsoft to better support developers, and some saw it as a tyrant getting their grubby fingers on open source’s ecosystem. I am thrilled for Microsoft and GitHub for many reasons, and there will be a bright future ahead because of it, but I have been thinking more about the reaction some of the critics have had to this, and why. I find it fascinating that there still seems to be a deep-seated discomfort in some about Microsoft and their involvement in open source. I understand that this is for historical reasons, and many moons ago Microsoft were definitely on the offensive against open source. I too was critical of Microsoft and their approach back in those days. I may have even said ‘M$’ instead of ‘MS’ (ugh.) Things have changed though. Satya Nadella, their CEO, has had a profound impact on the company: they are a significant investor and participant in open source across a multitude of open source projects, they hire many open source developers, run their own open source projects (e.g. VSCode), and actively sponsor and support many open source conferences, events, and initiatives. I know many people who work at Microsoft and they love the company and their work there. These are not microserfs: they are people like you and me. Things have changed, and I have literally never drunk Kool-aid; this or any other type. Are they perfect? No, but they don’t claim to be. But is the Microsoft of today a radically different company to the Microsoft of the late nineties. No doubt. Still though, this cynicism exists in some. Some see them as a trojan horse and ask if we can really trust them? A little while ago I had a discussion with someone who was grumbling about Microsoft. After poking around his opinion, what shook out was that his real issue was not with Microsoft’s open source work (he was supportive of this), but it was with the fact that they still produce... The narrator believes that: Pick the correct answer from the following options: - Microsoft is too greedy - not enough information - Microsoft is a better company now - Microsoft is worse than it was before
Answer: | Microsoft is a better company now |
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:If you do not have the instructions, bite on gauze or a piece of clean cloth to control bleeding. If pressure does not stop the bleeding, try biting down on a moistened tea bag for 10 to 15 minutes. Avoid spitting, using any form of tobacco, and using straws, which can make bleeding worse. If moderate to severe bleeding has not slowed or stopped, continue direct pressure while getting help. Do all you can to keep the wound clean and avoid further injury to the area. Bleeding after wisdom tooth being remove, for hours, uses the tea bags but still gets bit bleeding? Dr. Daniel Quon Dr. Quon Try this: Dampen the tea bags in hot tap water, and squeeze most of the water out from the tea bag. Place the hot moist tea bag directly over the extraction site(s). If you are biting on the tea bag with your teeth, you are likely not getting the benefit of direct pressure over the extraction site. Try to avoid ...Read more. These first aid procedures should be performed regardless of you using natural remedies to stop bleeding. If it is a smallish cut or scrape, you can maybe avoid it. In any case, use your best judgement. Natural Remedies To Stop Bleeding Home remedies for bleeding vary from using everyday household things like ice and tea bags to specific herbs with healing properties. Here are what we consider the most trustworthy (without side effects) home remedies to stop bleeding. Try this: Dampen the tea bags in hot tap water, and squeeze most of the water out from the tea bag. Place the hot moist tea bag directly over the extraction site (s). If you are biting on the tea bag with your teeth, you are likely not getting the benefit of direct pressure over the extraction site. Natural Remedies To Stop Bleeding. Home remedies for bleeding vary from using everyday household things like ice and tea bags to specific herbs with healing properties. Here are what we consider the most trustworthy (without side effects) home remedies to stop bleeding. 1. Ice. Icing is the most commonly known natural remedy to stop bleeding. Before you try to stop the bleeding: Wash your hands well with soap and water, if available. Put on medical gloves, if available, before applying pressure to the wound. Before you try to stop the bleeding : Wash your hands well with soap and water,if available. Put on medical gloves,if available,before applying pressure to the wound. If gloves are not available,use many layers of fabric,plastic bags,or whatever you have ... Tea bag to stop bleeding - Can I use a chamomile tea bag to help stop the bleeding from a tooth extraction if that's all I have? Regular tea is bette. Its the Tannin in the tea that helps control bleeding. I don't think chamomile tea has much if any tannin Perhaps turmeric if: Topical tea tree oil can not possibly cause bleeding but turmeric is a natural blood thinner. However, even large doses of turmeric are not known to cause bleeding unless combined with other medicines or herbs that thin the blood or unless one has a hereditary tendency towards increased bleeding. Tea bags work like charm to stop bleeding. It doesn’t matter what kind of tea it is, it can be regular or green or whatever flavor is lying around your house. Just take a tea bag, moisten it with water (don’t drench it) and press it on top of the wound. Hold for a minimum of 10 minutes. This should stop the bleeding. Query: how does tea bags help stop bleeding
Solution: | Take a tea bag, moisten it with water, don’t drench it and press it on top of the wound. Hold for a minimum of 10 minutes. This should stop the bleeding. |
Q: 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".
Reuters Holdings PLC said Michael Reupke resigned as general manager to pursue unspecified interests, a move the news organization termed an "amicable separation." Mr. Reupke, 52 years old and a 27-year Reuters veteran, had been the information-services company's general manager for only six months. His appointment to that post, which has senior administrative, staff and policy responsibilities, followed a several-year tenure as Reuters's editor in chief. No successor was named, and Mr. Reupke's duties will be split among three other senior Reuters executives, the company said. In a telephone interview, Mr. Reupke said his departure was for "personal reasons," which he declined to specify. "There is no business reason for my departure," nor any disagreement over policy, he added. He also rejected reports that his departure stemmed from disappointment the general manager's post hadn't also led to a board directorship at the London-based news organization. Mr. Reupke was one of three executives on Reuters's eight-person executive committee who didn't also serve on the company's board of directors. "If I were choosing the people of tomorrow, I would have chosen the people who are now on the board," he said. A Reuters spokesman said the departure reflects "no change in strategy or profits." Mark Shepperd, an analyst at UBS Philips & Drew in London, said, "I suspect (the departure) will be fairly irrelevant for the company. I would be very surprised if his departure signals any change in strategy or change in profit expectations." On London's Stock Exchange, Reuters shares rose five pence to 913 pence ($14.43). In the U.S. over-the-counter market, American depositary shares for Reuters, each representing three shares in the London market, closed unchanged at $43.875. The senior of the three executives who will assume Mr. Reupke's duties is Nigel Judah, 58, finance director and a Reuters board director. Peter Holland, 45, deputy general manager, becomes director of corporate affairs. And Patrick Mannix, 46, international technical manager, becomes director of group quality programs. <sep>Name one person Reupke referred to as "The people of tomorrow."<sep>Reupke
A: | No |
Given the below context: Three sailors – Gabey, Chip, and Ozzie – begin their shore leave, excited for their 24 hours in New York. Riding the subway, Gabey falls in love with the picture of "Miss Turnstiles", who is actually called Ivy Smith, and fantasizes about what she's like in real life. The sailors race around New York attempting to find her in the brief period they have. They are assisted by, and become romantically involved with, two women, and pair up: Ozzie with Claire, an anthropologist; and Chip with Hildy Esterhazy, an aggressively amorous taxi driver. Claire claims that she's found her passionate "Prehistoric Man" in Ozzie at the Museum of Anthropological History. Hildy invites Chip to "Come Up to My Place". Finally finding Ivy, Gabey takes her on an imaginary date down his home town "Main Street" in a studio in Symphonic Hall - not realising that she is also from the same town. Later, Chip sincerely falls for Hildy telling her "You're Awful" – that is, awful nice to be with. That evening, all the couples meet at the top of the Empire State Building to celebrate a night "On the Town". But when an ashamed Ivy walks out on Gabey to get to her late night work as a cooch dancer, the friends tell a despondent Gabey, "You Can Count on Me", joined by Hildy's annoying, but well-meaning roommate, Lucy Schmeeler. They have a number of adventures before reuniting with Ivy at Coney Island just as their 24-hour leave ends and they must return to their ship to head off to sea. Although their future is uncertain, the boys and girls share one last kiss on the pier as a new crew of sailors heads out into the city for their leave ("New York, New York" reprise). Guess a valid title for it!
| On the Town (film) |
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: Activities that indicate the incision should be protected include: 1 Rising from a seated position. 2 Sneezing. 3 Coughing. 4 Bearing down during a bowel movement. 5 Vomiting. Inguinal hernia repair surgery recovery from california specialists. Generally these things do not heal on their own but bruce could better answer that. Hernia surgical mesh implants fda. After one month, all the swelling was gone, i had my innie back and completely healed. Injecting a special long acting steroid into the scar can help reduce inflammation and is often jan 17, 2012 umbilical hernia recovery day 1 procedure first that i didn't take any medications for 36 hours before surgery. A: It takes between 1 and 2 weeks to recover from a laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair, the most common type of surgical hernia repair. The less common open inguinal hernia repair takes around 3 weeks to recover from. Side Effects, Complications and Revision Surgery. Transvaginal mesh operations usually result in minor pain or discomfort for a few days after the operation. Bleeding may occur for a few hours after surgery, but most women leave the hospital on the same day as the procedure. Surgical mesh is a loosely woven sheet which is used as either a permanent or temporary support for organs and other tissues during surgery. Surgical mesh is created from both inorganic and biological materials and is used in a variety of surgeries. Though hernia repair surgery is the most common application, it can also be used for reconstructive work, such as in pelvic organ prolapse. Permanent meshes remain in the body, whereas temporary ones dissolve over time. For example, TIGR Matrix test I had surgery on 7/07/17 to repair an incisional hernia. I'm back to exercising and normal routine but my stomach looks like I'm 4 months pregnant.... Hello,Patients are typically healed within 6 weeks of surgery and residual swelling in the abdomen resolves between 4-6 months post op. I recommend... Make sure your surgeon knows all the prescription and over-the-counter medications you take, including natural or nutritional supplements. You may also be given a prescription for pain medication to take after surgery, in case you need it. Fill it before your surgery, so you don’t have to think about it after. The Day of Surgery From 2005 to 2010, the FDA received more than 4,000 reports of adverse events caused by the implants. The FDA has stated that complications from mesh were not rare, and studies indicated that mesh complications occurred in up to 20 percent of patients. However, not all complications require revision surgery. If you’re considering this procedure, you probably wonder how much time it will take to heal and complete the surgery. The amount of time that it takes to complete a dental implant procedure often depends upon your specific situation. Upper vs. Lower Jaw. Bone anywhere in your body will usually take a few weeks to heal, and the same is true of your jawbone. The upper jaw is comprised of softer bone, meaning dental implants in this area typically take longer to heal. The lower jaw bone is typically much more dense, making it possible to heal from dental implant surgery faster. Dental Implant Techniques Once the skin stretching is completed, you'll most likely have more surgery to replace the tissue expander with a permanent implant. Surgery is usually scheduled about 4 to 6 weeks after the last amount of liquid has been added to the expander. Surgery to insert the permanent implant takes about an hour. If radiation therapy is part of your treatment plan, most surgeons prefer that the radiation happen while you still have the tissue expander. Query: how long does it take for surgical mesh implants to heal
A: It takes between 1 and 2 weeks to recover from a laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair, the most common type of surgical hernia repair.
****
Q: Upon satisfactory completion of training, students will be registered with the State of Georgia as a Certified Nurse Assistant, receive a CNA certificate and be qualified to assume entry level positions in a variety of health care settings. CNA Classes in Atlanta GA Please share/like/bookmark: The ever-increasing demand for CNAs in Atlanta Georgia is partly responsible for the rise in pay rate over the last five years. Nurse Aide Training Programs in Georgia. 1 CNA Courses in Richmond County. 2 CNA Classes in Laurens County. 3 Nursing Assistant Training Programs in Columbia County. 4 Nurse Aide Training Courses in Burke County. 5 CNA Programs in Candler County. 6 Nursing Assistant Training Classes in Tattnall County. 7 CNA Training Classes in Gwinnett County. Does It take A long Time To Transfer CNA license Out Of State … Does it take a long time to transfer CNA license out of state once applied for reciprocity? … I would contact the state department that certifies NA in Georgia to get that … Add a comment. Submit · just now. Report Abuse. Add your answer. Does it take a long time to transfer CNA … Renewing a CNA License. In order to remain a CNA, one must renew his or her certification every 2 years. The individual qualifies to do so under the circumstances that he or she has performed at least 8 hours of nursing work for pay within the 2 year period. The nurse aide’s certification number may be found on the front of the nurse aide’s certification letter. The Georgia Nurse Aide Program requires a minimum of 85 hours, which includes classroom, lab and clinical rotation, for all approved nurse aide training program courses in the State of Georgia. Pearson Vue has administered the Georgia Written/Oral and Skills examination since July 1, 2007. CNA Classes in Georgia: CNA Classes Augusta, GA; CNA Classes in Atlanta GA; CNA Classes Marietta, GA; CNA Classes Roswell, GA; CNA Classes Savannah, GA; Other Georgia cities: Please scroll down below or use CTRL+F (Command+F on Mac) to search this page. Certification Requirements . There are several nurse aide programs located across the state of Georgia. The Red Cross CNA Training Program prepares individuals with the information and the experience needed to become a Nurse Assistant who will provide quality care for residents in long-term care facilities, hospitals, home health care and hospice settings. The current cost of a six week long CNA class being held at a community college is approximately $1,000 and it includes tuition, books, supplies such as blood pressure cuff and uniforms, as well as the Georgia CNA exam fee. This sub-section will help you more efficiently navigate the certified nurse aide requirements in Georgia versus spending endless hours sorting through the rugulatory board website. Find what you need including CNA training program information, exam information, application materials and several additional resources to help you figure out how to become a CNA in Georgia. Query: how long is a cna program georgia
A: The Georgia Certified Nurse Aide Program requires a minimum of 85 hours.
****
Q: “There is absolutely nothing athletic about racing.”. And when you get one of these guys fired up enough, he'll pull out the big gun. It's the one ace in the hole that the NASCAR haters love to pull out: “It's not a sport, and drivers aren't athletes.”. These words are like a verbal mushroom cloud to racing fans. NASCAR Nextel cup race cars are very heavy and have about 750 horsepower. Other specifications include: Busch series race cars are similar to the Nextel cup cars. They have less horsepower due to the carburetor. They also have a shorter wheelbase and spoiler. “It's not the same as a football player or a basketball player or a baseball player, but there is a very huge physical aspect to it that people don't see.”. I got a small taste of what it's like to be on a race track in a real NASCAR car. For the few minutes I was in there, I can say there was a physical toll. NASCAR Jackets Every racing fan knows that a NASCAR jacket is a must-have for race day. Shop the latest official NASCAR men's jackets, jackets for women, and kids' jackets from NASCAR.COM SUPERSTORE. We offer jackets from Chase Authentics, JH Designs, and more featuring your favorite NASCAR drivers like Dale Earnhardt Jr., Tony Stewart, Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Austin Dillon, and more. A quandary that is just as divisive as any political platform or race. But this isn't an issue of red and blue states or Republicans and Democrats; rather, it's about NASCAR. Since the American racing series peaked in popularity around the early 2000s, two camps seem to have sprung up. NASCAR Jackets. Every racing fan knows that a NASCAR jacket is a must-have for race day. Shop the latest official NASCAR men's jackets, jackets for women, and kids' jackets from NASCAR.COM SUPERSTORE. We offer jackets from Chase Authentics, JH Designs, and more featuring your favorite NASCAR drivers like Dale Earnhardt Jr., Tony Stewart, Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Austin Dillon, and more. Back to the main NASCAR page. Nextel Cup Race Cars. NASCAR Nextel Cup race cars are loosely based around production sedans from Dodge, Chevrolet, Ford, and Toyota. By rule, the race cars are required to have three stock parts from the manufacturer including the roof, the hood, and the trunk lid. The body of the car must meet specific templates provided by NASCAR. These templates are adjusted to try and keep any manufacturer car make from getting an advantage or disadvantage over the other cars. NASCAR Nextel cup race cars are very heavy and have about 750 horsepower. Other specifications include: Fuel - 110 octane All about NASCAR race cars including horsepower, weight, Busch, Nextel Cup, and Crafstman Truck Series cars. Parents and Teachers: Support Ducksters by following us on or . All of the cars in the major NASCAR racing series are precision machines that are designed with care and lots of $'s. Many of the engine parts and body are hand constructed and formed for specific needs on specific racetracks. This car specialization and the price involved is one reason that many race teams are formed. Query: how heavy is a nascar
A: | NASCAR Nextel cup race cars are very heavy and have about 750 horsepower.
****
|
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Glasgow Coma Scale or GCS is a scale that is used to measure the consciousness of a person .
| The Glasgow Coma Scale ( GCS ) is a neurological scale which aims to give a reliable and objective way of recording the state of a person 's consciousness for initial as well as subsequent assessment . |
Part 1. Definition
In this task, you will be given a passage to read. A fill in the blank question will be given to you. Your answer should fit the blank appropriately.
Part 2. Example
The music was composed by Hitoshi Sakimoto , who had also worked on the previous Valkyria Chronicles games . When he originally heard about the project , he thought it would be a light tone similar to other Valkyria Chronicles games , but found the themes much darker than expected . An early theme he designed around his original vision of the project was rejected . He redid the main theme about seven times through the music production due to this need to reassess the game . The main theme was initially recorded using orchestra , then Sakimoto removed elements such as the guitar and bass , then adjusted the theme using a synthesizer before redoing segments such as the guitar piece on their own before incorporating them into the theme . The rejected main theme was used as a hopeful tune that played during the game 's ending . The battle themes were designed around the concept of a divorced from a fantasy scenario by using modern musical instruments , constructed to create a sense of atonality . While Sakimoto was most used to working with synthesized music , he felt that he needed to incorporate live instruments such as orchestra and guitar . The guitar was played by Mitsuhiro Ohta , who also arranged several of the later tracks . The game 's opening theme song , ( もしも君が願うのなら , Moshimo Kimi ga Negauno Nara ) , was sung by Japanese singer May 'n . Its theme was the reason soldiers fought , in particular their wish to protect what was precious to them rather than a sense of responsibility or duty . Its lyrics were written by Seiko Fujibayashi , who had worked on May 'n on previous singles . fill in the blank : The music was composed by Hitoshi __________________ , who had also worked on the previous Valkyria Chronicles games
Answer: Sakimoto
Explanation: This a good example. The actual line from the passage is The music was composed by Hitoshi Sakimotos, In the given sentence, it is stated clearly that Sakimoto answers the question correctly.
Part 3. Exercise
Scholars have long debated whether traditional Egyptian religion ever asserted that the multiple gods were , on a deeper level , unified . Reasons for this debate include the practice of syncretism , which might suggest that all the separate gods could ultimately merge into one , and the tendency of Egyptian texts to credit a particular god with power that surpasses all other deities . Another point of contention is the appearance of the word god in wisdom literature , where the term does not refer to a specific deity or group of deities . In the early 20th century , for instance , E. A. Wallis Budge believed that Egyptian commoners were polytheistic , but knowledge of the true monotheistic nature of the religion was reserved for the elite , who wrote the wisdom literature . His contemporary James Henry Breasted thought Egyptian religion was instead pantheistic , with the power of the sun god present in all other gods , while Hermann Junker argued that Egyptian civilization had been originally monotheistic and became polytheistic in the course of its history . In 1971 , Erik Hornung published a study rebutting these views . He points out that in any given period many deities , even minor ones , were described as superior to all others . He also argues that the unspecified god in the wisdom texts is a generic term for whichever deity the reader chooses to revere . Although the combinations , manifestations , and iconographies of each god were constantly shifting , they were always restricted to a finite number of forms , never becoming fully interchangeable in a monotheistic or pantheistic way . Henotheism , Hornung says , describes Egyptian religion better than other labels . An Egyptian could worship any deity at a particular time and credit it with supreme power in that moment , without denying the other gods or merging them all with the god that he or she focused on . Hornung concludes that the gods were fully unified only in myth , at the time before creation , after which the multitude of gods emerged from a uniform nonexistence . Hornung 's arguments have greatly influenced other scholars of Egyptian religion , but some still believe that at times the gods were more unified than he allows . Jan Assmann maintains that the notion of a single deity developed slowly through the New Kingdom , beginning with a focus on Amun @-@ Ra as the all @-@ important sun god . In his view , Atenism was an extreme outgrowth of this trend . It equated the single deity with the sun and dismissed all other gods . Then , in the backlash against Atenism , priestly theologians described the universal god in a different way , one that coexisted with traditional polytheism . The one god was believed to transcend the world and all the other deities , while at the same time , the multiple gods were aspects of the one . According to Assmann , this one god was especially equated with Amun , the dominant god in the late New Kingdom , whereas for the rest of Egyptian history the universal deity could be identified with many other gods . James P. Allen says that coexisting notions of one god and many gods would fit well with the multiplicity of approaches in Egyptian thought , as well as with the henotheistic practice of ordinary worshippers . He says that the Egyptians may have recognized the unity of the divine by identifying their uniform notion of ' god ' with a particular god , depending on the particular situation . fill in the blank : Scholars have long __________________ whether traditional Egyptian religion ever asserted that the multiple gods were , on a deeper level , unified .
Answer: | debated |
LONDON, July 28 (Reuters) - Italy's Elio Verde beat Peru's Juan Postigos in the Olympic men's Judo 60kg last 64 at the 2012 London Games on Saturday. Verde won 0100-0001 at ExCeL in London to reach the next round. Results Table Elio Verde (Italy) beat Juan Postigos (Peru) 0100-0001 Kenny Alexander Godoy Godoy (Honduras) beat Zakari Gourouza (Niger) Betkil Shukvani (Georgia) beat Arnie Dickens (Australia) 0103-0000 Ludwig Paischer (Austria) beat Jacob Nel Gnahoui (Benin) 0100-0000
Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text?
The Olympic men's Judo 60kg was an Olympic game. | Yes |
Part 1. Definition
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'.
Part 2. 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'.
Answer: 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.
Part 3. Exercise
Passage: 'After many experiments, first with carbon filaments and then with platinum and other metals, Edison returned to a carbon filament. The first successful test was on October 22, 1879; it lasted 13.5 hours. Edison continued to improve this design and on November 4, 1879, filed for U.S. patent 223,898 (granted on January 27, 1880) for an electric lamp using 'a carbon filament or strip coiled and connected to platina contact wires'. This was the first commercially practical incandescent light.'. Question: 'who was the inventor of the light bulb and when was it developed'.
Answer: | True |
In this task you will be given a question and a passage. You need to determine if the answer to the question is contained in the passage. If the answer can be found in the passage you should output 'True'. If the answer cannot be found in the passage you should output 'False'.
Input: Consider Input: Passage: 'Texas hold' em (also known as Texas holdem, hold' em, and holdem) is a variation of the card game of poker. Two cards, known as the hole cards, are dealt face down to each player, and then five community cards are dealt face up in three stages. The stages consist of a series of three cards ('the flop'), later an additional single card ('the turn' or 'fourth street'), and a final card ('the river' or 'fifth street'). Each player seeks the best five card poker hand from any combination of the seven cards of the five community cards and their own two hole cards. If a player's best five-card poker hand consists only of the five community cards and none of the player's hole cards, it is called 'playing the board'. If you play the board on the river, then you can do no better than tie the other player(s) in the game if no player can make a better hand than the board represents, using either or both hole cards. Players have betting options to check, call, raise, or fold. Rounds of betting take place before the flop is dealt and after each subsequent deal.'. Question: 'what does the name mia mean in the urban dictionary'.
Output: False
Input: Consider Input: Passage: 'As of 2014, it was often reported in popular media and in the scientific literature that there are about 10 times as many microbial cells in the human body as there are human cells; this figure was based on estimates that the human microbiome includes around 100 trillion bacterial cells and that an adult human typically has around 10 trillion human cells. In 2014, the American Academy of Microbiology published a FAQ that emphasized that the number of microbial cells and the number of human cells are both estimates, and noted that recent research had arrived at a new estimate of the number of human cells -- approximately 37.2 trillion, meaning that the ratio of microbial-to-human cells, if the original estimate of 100 trillion bacterial cells is correct, is closer to 3: 1. In 2016, another group published a new estimate of the ratio being roughly 1: 1 (1.3: 1, with 'an uncertainty of 25% and a variation of 53% over the population of standard 70-kg males').'. Question: 'where does the rio grande river start and end'.
Output: False
Input: Consider Input: Passage: 'In the United States, jurisdiction-stripping (also called court-stripping or curtailment-of-jurisdiction), refers to Congress' constitutionally-granted authority to determine the jurisdiction of federal and state courts.'. Question: 'congress has the power to control the judicial branch by'.
| Output: True
|
What came before. Devices running older versions of macOS (before Mavericks) or iOS (below 7) may be unable to sign into iCloud after the iCloud password has been changed: the only resolution for this issue is to upgrade the OS, which may be impossible on a device that does not meet the newer OS minimum requirements. | Conversation transcript:
[+] Where are the ICloud data centers?.
[+] Also it was reported that Apple was going to relocate all of its services employees to the Apple Campus (1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California), as many other employees would be moving to the Apple Park..
[+] What are the system requirements for ICloud?.
[+] iCloud account creation requires either an iOS device running iOS 5 or later or a Mac running OS X Lion v10.7.5 or later, as well as an internet connection and a compatible web browser..
[+] Is ICloud available on Windows?.
[+] Also, certain features have their own minimum requirements of OS versions..
[+] What features of ICloud are available on Windows?.
[+] For example, using iCloud Photo Sharing requires OS X Mavericks v10.9 or above on a Mac..
[+] Are there any other system requirements for ICloud?.
[+] |
Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- The Pakistani Taliban vowed Thursday to carry out attacks against India to avenge the death of a man executed by Indian authorities for his role in the 2008 terrorist assault on Mumbai.
Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, a Pakistani, was hanged Wednesday in Pune, a city southeast of Mumbai. He was the lone surviving gunman from the attacks in India's financial capital in November 2008 that killed more than 160 people.
Read more: Who are the Pakistani Taliban?
Ihsanullah Ihsan, the spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, said the militant group would conduct various attacks in India in response to the execution. He didn't provide further details.
The Pakistani Taliban, who are closely linked with their namesake in Afghanistan and with al Qaeda, operate in the ungoverned area that sits on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Read more: Mumbai attack survivor: 'It's like a dead man living'
India has requested extra protection for its diplomats in Pakistan following the execution, said J.P. Singh, an official at India's Ministry of External Affairs.
India executes last Mumbai gunman
He said the ministry had no immediate comment on the threat from the Taliban.
The Taliban spokesman said they are demanding that Kasab's body be returned to Pakistan for an Islamic burial. He criticized the Pakistani government, saying it had failed by not requesting the return of the body.
Read more: The Mumbai attacks: Getting the story amid chaos
Indian authorities said Wednesday that Kasab had been buried in the "surrounding area" of the jail where he was hanged. They didn't say what kind of burial rites had been performed.
Answer the following questions:
1. Who was hanged?
2. Who vowed to get revenge for his death?
3. How?
4. Where did the initial incident happen?
5. Who said the terroists would attack India in retaliation for the death of Kasab?
6. Where do the Pakistani Taliban work from?
7. What makes it a good place for their malcious work?
8. Do they have ties with other groups?
9. What did India ask for to secure their officials in Pakistan?
10. Who reported this?
11. Who does he represent??
12. What did that organization say about the hostile words of the Taliban?
13. Why were the terrorists salty at the Pakistani politicians?
14. Will this be the final intentiona death by the Indian government for the Mumbai incident?
15. Has the gunman been laid to rest?
16. Did they perform any traditional rituals?
17. How many people were slaughtered in the terrorist attack in Mumbai?
18. When did this occur?
19. When in '08? | 1. Mohammed Ajmal Kasab
2. Pakistani Taliban
3. carry out attacks against India
4. southeast of Mumbai
5. Ihsanullah Ihsan,
6. border of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
7. ungoverned area
8. with al Qaeda
9. extra protection for its diplomats in Pakistan
10. J.P. Singh
11. India's Ministry of External Affairs.
12. no immediate comment
13. saying it had failed by not requesting the return of the body.
14. various attacks
15. buried in the "surrounding area" of the jail where he was hanged
16. didn't say what kind of burial rites had been performed.
17. 160 people
18. 2008
19. November |
In this task, you are given a question. You have to answer the question based on your information.
The Holt Government refers to the federal Executive Government of Australia led by what politician who was the 17th Prime Minister of Australia from 1966 to 1967?
Harold Edward Holt
Thomas Latimer attended medical school at what NHS hospital in Paddington, in the city of Westminster, London?
St Mary's Hospital
Who was the "king's engineer" to the King of Portugal, Naples, Sicily and Sardinia and Duke of Milan?
| Tiburzio Spannocchi
|
Given the following passage "Wood has a long history of being used as fuel, which continues to this day, mostly in rural areas of the world. Hardwood is preferred over softwood because it creates less smoke and burns longer. Adding a woodstove or fireplace to a home is often felt to add ambiance and warmth.", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: What can be put in a fireplace?
| Wood |
Dick Turpin is a 1933 British historical drama film directed by Victor Hanbury and John Stafford it starred Victor McLaglen, Jane Carr, Frank Vosper, James Finlayson and Cecil Humphreys. The film depicts the adventures of the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin and his legendary ride to York. It is based on a historical novel by Harrison Ainsworth.
Dick Turpin is a movie about a man's journey to New York.
A: Yes
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Canelo Álvarez, billed as "The One", was a boxing light middleweight championship superfight. The bout was held on September 14, 2013, in the MGM Grand Garden Arena, at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, on Showtime PPV. Mayweather received $41.5 million for this fight before taking into account pay-per-view sales.
Floyd Mayweather is a boxer.
A: Yes
Rodolfo Rincón Taracena (1957 – 20 January 2007) was a Mexican journalist and crime reporter for "Tabasco Hoy", a newspaper based in Villahermosa, Tabasco in southeastern Mexico. He was known for his direct reporting style, and wrote extensively about local drug trafficking and the growing presence of organized crime in his homestate.
Rodolfo Rincon Taracena transformed the mentality of the residents in southeasterm Mexico with his direct reporting style and his fearlessness in the face of organized crime.
A: | It's impossible to say |
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? If you are still confused, see the following example:
Powdered sugar, also called confectioners' sugar, icing sugar, and icing cake, is a finely ground sugar produced by milling granulated sugar into a powdered state. It usually contains a small amount of anti-caking agent to prevent clumping and improve flow. Although most often produced in a factory, powdered sugar can also be made by processing ordinary granulated sugar in a coffee grinder, or by crushing it by hand in a mortar and pestle.
Solution: is confectionary sugar the same as powdered sugar?
Reason: The question is a yes/no question, and it is answerable based on the given passage.
Now, solve this instance: Foods that are claimed to be negative in calories are mostly low-calorie fruits and vegetables such as celery, grapefruit, lemon, lime, apple, lettuce, broccoli, and cabbage. There is no scientific evidence to show that any of these foods have a negative calorific impact. Celery has a thermic effect of around 8%, much less than the 100% or more required for a food to have ``negative calories''. A stalk of celery provides 6 calories to the body, but the body expends only half of a calorie digesting it. Even proteins, which require the most energy to digest, have a thermic energy of only 20%--30%.
Student: | does it really take more calories to digest celery? |
In this task, you are given a passage and a question regarding that passage. You must determine whether or not the question is answerable from the given passage. If a question is answerable, output should be 'True', otherwise 'False'. You must not consider any other information that is not provided in the passage while labelling True or False.
Input: Consider Input: Passage: To measure the difficulty of solving a computational problem, one may wish to see how much time the best algorithm requires to solve the problem. However, the running time may, in general, depend on the instance. In particular, larger instances will require more time to solve. Thus the time required to solve a problem (or the space required, or any measure of complexity) is calculated as a function of the size of the instance. This is usually taken to be the size of the input in bits. Complexity theory is interested in how algorithms scale with an increase in the input size. For instance, in the problem of finding whether a graph is connected, how much more time does it take to solve a problem for a graph with 2n vertices compared to the time taken for a graph with n vertices? Question: How is time not required to solve a problem calculated?
Output: False
Input: Consider Input: Passage: The Rhine emerges from Lake Constance, flows generally westward, as the Hochrhein, passes the Rhine Falls, and is joined by its major tributary, the river Aare. The Aare more than doubles the Rhine's water discharge, to an average of nearly 1,000 m3/s (35,000 cu ft/s), and provides more than a fifth of the discharge at the Dutch border. The Aare also contains the waters from the 4,274 m (14,022 ft) summit of Finsteraarhorn, the highest point of the Rhine basin. The Rhine roughly forms the German-Swiss border from Lake Constance with the exceptions of the canton of Schaffhausen and parts of the cantons of Zürich and Basel-Stadt, until it turns north at the so-called Rhine knee at Basel, leaving Switzerland. Question: How much water does the Aare give to the Rhine?
Output: True
Input: Consider Input: Passage: The Cestida ("belt animals") are ribbon-shaped planktonic animals, with the mouth and aboral organ aligned in the middle of opposite edges of the ribbon. There is a pair of comb-rows along each aboral edge, and tentilla emerging from a groove all along the oral edge, which stream back across most of the wing-like body surface. Cestids can swim by undulating their bodies as well as by the beating of their comb-rows. There are two known species, with worldwide distribution in warm, and warm-temperate waters: Cestum veneris ("Venus' girdle") is among the largest ctenophores – up to 1.5 meters (4.9 ft) long, and can undulate slowly or quite rapidly. Velamen parallelum, which is typically less than 20 centimeters (0.66 ft) long, can move much faster in what has been described as a "darting motion". Question: What shape does the Aboral usually have?
| Output: False
|
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.
Periodization is the process or study of categorizing the past into discrete, quantified named blocks of time[1] in order to facilitate the study and analysis of history. This results in descriptive abstractions that provide convenient terms for periods of time with relatively stable characteristics. The dominant usage of the word Renaissance refers to the cultural changes that occurred in Italy that culminated in the High Renaissance around 1500-1530. This concept applies dominantly to the visual arts, and the work of Michelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo da Vinci. Trying New Things: Renaissance Periodization Diet Templates. There is no denying that Renaissance Periodization has had some incredible success with athletes and weekend warrior types of all flavors. I’m seeing more weightlifters and powerlifters with abs, and I’ve stopped seeing so many people #cleaneating and #waroncarb flag flying. If you’re a professional athlete or a professional of any sort that has a schedule that more amenable to your own whims (work from home, flexible start, stop, and break times) then you probably will have far less trouble doing the RP style templates. It’s not hard to make all the food, it’s not hard to take it with you. Here are the reasons why: (disclaimer: I’m not being paid to talk it up or anything; these are my true opinions unsolicited) 1 The auto template is extremely easy to follow. 2 It stresses a healthy balance of all macronutrients, teaching the user / dieter how to utilize them to maximize results and performance. Renaissance Periodization – in depth look and preliminary review. 1 The auto template is extremely easy to follow. Simple, to the point, no guess work (unless you want to get creative, which is totally doable but complicates things in that you need to count your macros and do some math). Trying New Things: Renaissance Periodization Diet Templates Tue, Apr 5, 2016 There is no denying that Renaissance Periodization has had some incredible success with athletes and weekend warrior types of all flavors. The Second Stage: may be called slave society, considered to be the beginning of class society where private property appears. 1 Class: here, the idea of class appears. 2 Statism: the state develops during this stage as a tool for the slave-owners to use and control the slaves. Periodization is the process or study of categorizing the past into discrete, quantified named blocks of time in order to facilitate the study and analysis of history. This results in descriptive abstractions that provide convenient terms for periods of time with relatively stable characteristics. However, determining the precise beginning and ending to any period is often arbitrary. It has changed over time in history. To the extent that history is continuous and ungeneralizable, all systems Trying New Things: Renaissance Periodization Diet Templates Tue, Apr 5, 2016. There is no denying that Renaissance Periodization has had some incredible success with athletes and weekend warrior types of all flavors. I’m seeing more weightlifters and powerlifters with abs, and I’ve stopped seeing so many people #cleaneating and #waroncarb flag flying. Query: how does renaissance periodization work
The dominant usage of the word Renaissance refers to the cultural changes that occurred in Italy that culminated in the High Renaissance around 1500-1530.
Popular Posts. 1 How Long Does Mail Take. 2 How Long Does The Flu Last. 3 How Long Does Suboxone Stay in Your System. 4 How Long Does It Take To Get Mri Results. 5 How Long Does It Take To Digest A Meal. 6 How Long Does It Take To Become An Architect. 7 How Long Does It Take To Lower Blood Pressure. How Long Will a New Furnace Last? November 3, 2016. A new furnace is a big investment. Asking how long it will last is a great question to answer before you put down the money for a new furnace. An Atlanta heating company can help you with the install of your new furnace, but first, let’s take a look at how different factors will affect its lifespan when you compare it to an older furnace. Simply put, today’s higher-efficient gas furnaces will not last as long as the old gravity furnace. Not because they were designed to fail, but because they were designed for efficiency. And as a result, more technology means more can go wrong. No one can guarantee how long your furnace will last, but by taking these measures, you can greatly impact its expected life span. If you have any questions about your heating system or what you can do to increase furnace life, contact Griffith Energy Services, Inc. Exterior fiberglass, steel and wood doors will last as long as the house exists, while vinyl and screen doors have a life expectancy of 20 and 40 years, respectively. Closet doors are expected to last a lifetime, and French doors have an average life of 30 to 50 years. The average lifespan of a gas furnace is 15 to 25 years. However, lifespan depends on a number of factors, including when the furnace was built, the materials it is made out of and... Star Gazing Law of Averages. Today's furnaces can easily operate for 20-30 years, though the average life expectancy is 16-20. How often your furnace is used determines wear and tear to parts involved in starting and stopping the system, such as fans and electronic ignitions. If your furnace came with your existing home, you can’t know how well it was cared for, and earlier neglect by previous owners is beyond your control. So when you ask “how long can my furnace last?,” the short answer is 25 to 40 percent longer than average—if you treat it well. The Longer Answer Today’s furnaces versus those of 40 or 50 years ago will average between 13 and 20 years of useful life. The average furnace lasts 15 to 20 years. This life span is typical of a furnace with a stainless or aluminized steel heat exchanger. In contrast, old furnaces with heavy metal heat exchangers last... The average furnace lasts 15 to 20 years. This life span is typical of a furnace with a stainless or aluminized steel heat exchanger. How old is your furnace? If it's 12 or more years old, then it may be time to say goodbye, says Richard Ciresi, president of highly rated Aire Serv Heating and Air Conditioning in Louisville, KY. Query: how long will a furnace last?
The average furnace will last for 15 to 20 years.
At least 3 million Americans are receiving special tax reform bonuses Thanks to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, at least 270 companies have already announced wage and salary increases, bonuses, or 401(k) match increases, according to a list compiled by Americans for Tax Reform. However, many Americans are shouldering the negative impacts of the health insurance tax, and relief should not be assigned on a case by case basis. Across the country, the health insurance tax hits 11 million households that purchase health care through the individual insurance market. Full List of Obama Tax Hikes. 1. A 156 percent increase in the federal excise tax on tobacco: On February 4, 2009, just sixteen days into his Administration, Obama signed into law a 156 percent increase in the federal excise tax on tobacco, a hike of 61 cents per pack. The median income of smokers is just over $36,000 per year. Obamacare Employer Mandate Tax (takes effect Jan. 2014): If an employer does not offer health coverage, and at least one employee qualifies for a health tax credit, the employer must pay an additional non-deductible tax of $2000 for all full-time employees. FedEx (Memphis, Tennessee) – commits more than $3.2 billion in wage increases, bonuses, pension funding due to the recent tax cuts. Pay raises, bonus increases, pension plan increases, and at least $1.5 billion in capital expenditures: Thanks to what has been dubbed as the ‘Netflix tax’ – a tax on online streaming services – some Americans are now seeing an increase in their monthly Netflix bill. To date, this new tax is levied in Chicago, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Florida. Next year, it is estimated that this number could increase to nearly half of the counties in the country. The health insurance tax is set to go into effect at the end of the year, and will total $14.3 billion in higher taxes in 2018. Clearly, this will contribute to the lack of coverage options. At least 3 million Americans are receiving special tax reform bonuses . Thanks to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, at least 270 companies have already announced wage and salary increases, bonuses, or 401(k) match increases, according to a list compiled by Americans for Tax Reform. The list, found at www.atr.org/list is being continuously updated. At least 3 million Americans are receiving special tax reform bonuses. This number does not even include those receiving pay increases or increased 401(k) contributions from their employer due to tax reform. Recent examples include: Mountaire Corporation (Millsboro, Delaware) – $1,000 or $500 bonuses based on length of service and increased 401(k) matches. The Congressional Budget Office recently estimated that six million American families will be liable for the tax, and as Americans for Tax Reform has pointed out, 100 percent of Americans filing a tax return (140 million filers) will be forced to submit paperwork to the IRS showing they had “qualifying” health insurance for every month of the tax year. Obamacare Tax on Medical Device Manufacturers (Tax hike of $20 bil/takes effect Jan. 2013): Medical device manufacturers 409,000 people in 12,000 plants across the country. This law imposes a new 2.3 percent excise tax on total sales, even if the respective company does not earn a profit. Query: how many americans are receiving bonuses or pay increases because of the recent tax cut
| 3 million Americans are receiving bonuses or pay increases because of the recent tax cut.
|
Please answer the following question: Given the following passage "A computer's memory can be viewed as a list of cells into which numbers can be placed or read. Each cell has a numbered "address" and can store a single number. The computer can be instructed to "put the number 123 into the cell numbered 1357" or to "add the number that is in cell 1357 to the number that is in cell 2468 and put the answer into cell 1595." The information stored in memory may represent practically anything. Letters, numbers, even computer instructions can be placed into memory with equal ease. Since the CPU does not differentiate between different types of information, it is the software's responsibility to give significance to what the memory sees as nothing but a series of numbers.", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: what is the memory viewing a bunch of at the end?
A: | numbers |
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: Don McLean is selling the original manuscript and lyrics to pop anthem American Pie, including a 'lost verse', which included a line about the music being 'reborn'. The singer-songwriter's 16-page collection is expected to fetch up to $1.5million (£1,006,303) at auction today, which offers tantalising new details about the famous anthem, originally released in 1971. In an interview published by Christie's auction house New York, where the manuscript is up for grabs today, McLean says American Pie is about 'heading in the wrong direction'. Scroll down for video Original song: Christie's curator Tom Lecky holds the 16-page notes and manuscript for singer Don McLean's American Pie at Christie's auction house in New YorkOriginal lyrics to U.S. pop anthem American Pie up for auction todayNotes on Don McLean's 60s hit expected to fetch up to $1.5millionThe 16-pages also includes deleted verse about music being 'reborn'.
Question:_'s New York is estimating that the American Pie manuscript will sell for $1million to $1.5million.
Answer: Christie
Question: Carlos Tevez helped Boca Juniors reclaim top spot in the Argentine Primera Division in his first game back with the Buenos Aires giants for 11 years. The returning hero was given a rock star’s reception by the ecstatic fans in the Bombonera stadium for the visit of Quilmes but did not quite give a headliner’s performance as his side claimed a 2-1 win. His strike partner Sebastian Palacios gave Boca a first-half lead and then youngster Jonathan Calleri grabbed the plaudits by scoring a beautiful chipped rabona lob to double the lead, although Quilmes reduced the defect later in the second half through Alexis Canello.Boca Juniors got the better of Quilmes on Saturday to regain top spot in the Argentine Primera DivisionCarlos Tevez made his first appearance for the club in 11 years after re-signing from Italian giants JuventusTevez was given a rapturous reception by the home crowd, with Argentina legend Diego Maradona in attendanceThe 31-year-old played his part as Boca edged out Quilmes at the Bombonera StadiumDespite not playing a headline role, Tevez was at his industrious best as he helped his side secure victoryJonathan Calleri stole the show though, with a stunning rabona lob in the second half as Boca won 2-1
Question:The 31-year-old further thrilled supporters with a deft flick of the back heel on the left hand side of the area, freeing himself of a _ defender and making for the byline.
Answer: Quilmes
Question: Chelsea have sounded out Atletico Madrid boss Diego Simeone about becoming the club's permanent manager next summer. The Blues sacked Jose Mourinho on Thursday afternoon after a shocking season which saw nine defeats in their first 16 Premier League games. And with former boss Guus Hiddink taking over until the end of the season on a caretaker basis, Roman Abramovich and his board have identified Simeone as the man they want for the long term. Are Chelsea right to sack Jose Mourinho? Are Chelsea right to sack Jose Mourinho? Now share your opinion Chelsea have been in talks with the Argentine's camp over the past week, with it costing £15million to break his contract in the Spanish capital.Chelsea have sacked Jose Mourinho after a disastrous start to the seasonRoman Abramovich wants Diego Simeone to be the club's long-term bossGuus Hiddink will take charge of Chelsea until the end of the seasonIt will cost Chelsea £15m to buy Simeone out of his Atletico Madrid dealFormer Argentina midfielder is unsure about a move to Stamford BridgePep Guardiola has told Chelsea they need to sign 10 new players
Question:Abramovich may be forced to pay _ more than £40m after the Portuguese manager signed a four-year deal last summer.
Answer: | Jose Mourinho
|
Stream of consciousness rationale: The important part for answering this question is: The amendment supersedes Article I, § 3, Clauses 1 and 2 of the Constitution, under which senators were elected by state legislatures.
The question and answer pair are described below. | Q: The Seventeenth Amendment (Amendment XVII) to the United States Constitution established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states. The amendment supersedes Article I, § 3, Clauses 1 and 2 of the Constitution, under which senators were elected by state legislatures. It also alters the procedure for filling vacancies in the Senate, allowing for state legislatures to permit their governors to make temporary appointments until a special election can be held.
Answer this question based on the passage: who elected members of the senate before the 17th amendment?
A: state legislatures |
In this task, you will be given a passage to read. A fill in the blank question will be given to you. Your answer should fit the blank appropriately.
Input: Consider Input: Valkyria Chronicles 3 was adapted into a two @-@ episode original video animation series in the same year of its release . Titled Senjō no Valkyria 3 : Taga Tame no Jūsō ( 戦場のヴァルキュリア３ 誰がための銃瘡 , lit . Valkyria of the Battlefield 3 : The Wound Taken for Someone 's Sake ) , it was originally released through PlayStation Network and Qriocity between April and May 2011 . The initially @-@ planned release and availability period needed to be extended due to a stoppage to PSN during the early summer of that year . It later released for DVD on June 29 and August 31 , 2011 , with separate Black and Blue editions being available for purchase . The anime is set during the latter half of Valkyria Chronicles III , detailing a mission by the Nameless against their Imperial rivals Calamity Raven . The anime was first announced in November 2010 . It was developed by A @-@ 1 Pictures , produced by Shinji Motoyama , directed by Nobuhiro Kondō , and written by Hiroshi Ōnogi . Sakimoto 's music for the game was used in the anime . The anime 's title was inspired by the principle purpose of the Nameless : to suffer in battle for the goals of others . A subtitle attached to the project during development was The Road to Kubinka , which referenced the Kubinka Tank Museum in Moscow . The game 's main theme was how the characters regained their sense of self when stripped of their names and identities , along with general themes focused on war and its consequences . While making the anime , the production team were told by Sega to make it as realistic as possible , with the consequence that the team did extensive research into aspects such as what happened when vehicles like tanks were overturned or damaged . Due to it being along the same timeline as the original game and its television anime adaptation , the cast of Valkyria Chronicles could make appearances , which pleased the team . The opening theme , Akari ( Light ) -Tomoshibi- ( 灯 @-@ TOMOSHIBI- ) , was sung by Japanese singer Faylan . The ending theme , Someday the Flowers of Light Will Bloom ( いつか咲く光の花 , Itsuka Saku Hikari no Hana ) , was sung by Minami Kuribayashi . Both songs ' lyrics were written by their respective artists.Two manga adaptations were produced , following each of the game 's main female protagonists Imca and Riela . They were Senjō no Valkyria 3 : Namo naki Chikai no Hana ( 戦場のヴァルキュリア3 名もなき誓いの花 , lit . Valkyria of the Battlefield 3 : The Flower of the Nameless Oath ) , illustrated by Naoyuki Fujisawa and eventually released in two volumes after being serialized in Dengeki Maoh between 2011 and 2012 ; and Senjō no Valkyria 3 : -Akaki Unmei no Ikusa Otome- ( 戦場のヴァルキュリア3 -赤き運命の戦乙女- , lit . Valkyria of the Battlefield 3 -The Valkyrie of the Crimson Fate ) , illustrated by Mizuki Tsuge and eventually released in a single volume by Kadokawa Shoten in 2012 . fill in the blank : Valkyria Chronicles 3 was adapted into a two @-@ episode original video animation series in the same __________________ of its release .
Output: year
Input: Consider Input: Egyptian gods were involved in human lives as well as in the overarching order of nature . This divine influence applied mainly to Egypt , as foreign peoples were traditionally believed to be outside the divine order . But in the New Kingdom , when other nations were under Egyptian control , foreigners were said to be under the sun god 's benign rule in the same way that Egyptians were . Thoth , as the overseer of time , was said to allot fixed lifespans to both humans and gods . Other gods were also said to govern the length of human lives , including Meskhenet , who presided over birth , and Shai , the personification of fate . Thus the time and manner of death was the main meaning of the Egyptian concept of fate , although to some extent these deities governed other events in life as well . Several texts refer to gods influencing or inspiring human decisions , working through a person 's heart — the seat of emotion and intellect in Egyptian belief . Deities were also believed to give commands , instructing the king in the governance of his realm and regulating the management of their temples . Egyptian texts rarely mention direct commands given to private persons , and these commands never evolved into a set of divinely enforced moral codes . Morality in ancient Egypt was based on the concept of maat , which , when applied to human society , meant that everyone should live in an orderly way that did not interfere with the well @-@ being of other people . Because deities were the upholders of maat , morality was connected with them . For example , the gods judged humans ' moral righteousness after death , and by the New Kingdom , a verdict of innocence in this judgment was believed to be necessary for admittance into the afterlife . But in general , morality was based on practical ways to uphold maat in daily life , rather than on strict rules that the gods laid out . Humans had free will to ignore divine guidance and the behavior required by maat , but by doing so they could bring divine punishment upon themselves . A deity carried out this punishment using its ba , the force that manifested the god 's power in the human world . Natural disasters and human ailments were seen as the work of angry divine bas . Conversely , the gods could cure righteous people of illness or even extend their lifespans . Both these types of intervention were eventually represented by deities : Shed , who emerged in the New Kingdom to represent divine rescue from harm , and Petbe , an apotropaic god from the late eras of Egyptian history who was believed to avenge wrongdoing . Egyptian texts take different views on whether the gods are responsible when humans suffer unjustly . Misfortune was often seen as a product of isfet , the cosmic disorder that was the opposite of maat , and therefore the gods were not guilty of causing evil events . Some deities who were closely connected with isfet , such as Set , could be blamed for disorder within the world without placing guilt on the other gods . But some writings do accuse the deities of causing human misery , while others give theodicies in the gods ' defense . Beginning in the Middle Kingdom , several texts connected the issue of evil in the world with a myth in which the creator god fights a human rebellion against his rule and then withdraws from the earth . Because of this human misbehavior , the creator is distant from his creation , allowing suffering to exist . New Kingdom writings do not question the just nature of the gods as strongly as those of the Middle Kingdom . They emphasize humans ' direct , personal relationships with deities and the gods ' power to intervene in human events . People in this era put faith in specific gods who they hoped would help and protect them through their lives . As a result , upholding the ideals of maat grew less important than gaining the gods ' favor as a way to guarantee a good life . Even the pharaohs were regarded as dependent on divine aid , and after the New Kingdom came to an end , government was increasingly influenced by oracles communicating the gods ' will . fill in the blank :Egyptian gods were involved in __________________ lives as well as in the overarching order of nature .
Output: human
Input: Consider Input: Tom Araya – bass , lead vocals Jeff Hanneman – lead and rhythm guitar Kerry King – lead and rhythm guitar , backing vocals Dave Lombardo – drums fill in the blank : Tom Araya – bass , __________________ vocals
| Output: lead
|
A question is presented to you in this task, and your job is to write a potentially correct answer.
what timezone is texas san antonio in?
Central Time Zone
what kind of government did benito mussolini have?
Dictator
what is the postcode for seoul south korea?
| 139-799
|
David Gauntlett makes a good point in his newest book (Making Media Studies: The Creativity Turn in Media and Communications Studies) and that is that traditional forms of media studies are no longer applicable. Gone are the days of massive institutions and production companies, gone are the traditional audiences and simplistic texts. In, is the new age media companies, the everyday media makers, the consistent consumers and the fantastical mess of The WWW. While universities are pumping out the same content areas since the 1980’s (e.g. institutions, production, audiences and texts) that are only relevant to a handful of media forms (cinema, television, online broadcasting and publications), the rest of the world is moving on. David Gauntlett so rightly says that creativity in media, should also refer to thinking creatively about the subject. What are the new ways of running media and communication studies? How has the subject itself changed? What approaches and methods can help media and communications studies to become innovative and useful in spheres beyond itself? David Gauntlett encourages a kind of call to arms, an acquiescence of the incapacities of the old system and a redirected gaze to the future needs of media students and media studies programs. Inspired by Tim Ingold’s book Making, David believes media studies should have making at it’s front and centre. He also believes the ability to do things with media should be embraced over and above the ability to talk about what others do with media, or what media does to us. The notion is that media studies should be hands on, that it should be all about ideas and critical engagement and this should be expressed through actual making. To borrow three key distinctions from the anthropologist Tim Ingold: 1. It’s about learning WITH media rather than ABOUT media. 2. There is an intent to move FORWARD rather than looking BACKWARDS at how things are. 3. It’s aims are TRANSFORMATIONAL rather than DOCUMENTARY. What did David write? Pick the correct answer from the following options: - A book - A study - not enough information - A story
A book
"They've got cameras everywhere, man. Not just in supermarkets and departments stores, they're also on your cell phones and your computers at home. And they never turn off. You think they do, but they don't. "They're always on, always watching you, sending them a continuous feed of your every move over satellite broadband connection. "They watch you fuck, they watch you shit, they watch when you pick your nose at the stop light or when you chew out the clerk at 7-11 over nothing or when you walk past the lady collecting for the women's shelter and you don't put anything in her jar. "They're even watching us right now," the hobo added and extended a grimy, gnarled digit to the small black orbs mounted at either end of the train car. There were some days when I loved taking public transportation, and other days when I didn't. On a good day, I liked to sit back and watch the show, study the rest of the passengers, read into their little ticks and mannerisms and body language, and try to guess at their back stories, giving them names and identities in my head. It was fun in a voyeuristic kind of way. And luckily, today was a good day. I watched the old Vietnamese woman with the cluster of plastic shopping bags gripped tightly in her hand like a cloud of tiny white bubbles. My eyes traced the deep lines grooving her face, and I wondered about the life that led her to this place. I watched the lonely businessman staring longingly across the aisle at the beautiful Mexican girl in the tight jeans standing with her back to him. He fidgeted with the gold band on his finger, and I couldn't tell if he was using it to remind himself of his commitment or if he was debating whether he should slyly slip it off and talk to her. Who fidgeted with his wedding ring? Pick the correct answer from the following options: - Maxican man - the businessman - not enough information - the hobo
the businessman
In spite of the fact that people brag about being able to multi-task, the reality is that the human mind can only focus on one thing at a time. When you pay attention to one thing the mind automatically blocks out all other stimuli. Multi-tasking is simply jumping from focal point to focal point; but, you are still only focusing on one thing at a time. The payoff from trying to multi-task is not worth the toll it takes on the individual making the effort. David Meyer, PhD, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan states the following: Doing several tasks simultaneously may seem like the height of efficiency – and it would be, if a person had more than one brain. In the real world, multitasking actually wastes time and reduces work quality. Many studies have shown that multitasking slows down the mind and makes it less effective. Dividing and distracting the mind causes rapid mental course changes, the inability to effectively focus, and creates stress – which increases with every additional task that is added to the mix. Imagine a dog who is trying to chase three different balls thrown in different directions. He runs two steps in one direction, three steps in another, and one step in the third. He ends up running in circles. The mind is the same. The more time you spend changing mental direction the less time you have to actually focus on a single task. The more directions or mental tasks you add, the less effective you become. But . . . that is not the whole story. Another facet of multi-tasking is worrying about events, projects, or situations that have nothing to do with where your focus should be at the moment. Worrying about what has happened, or may happen changes nothing. All it does is drain your mental and emotional resources, making you less effective at the task at hand. Let your subconscious handle it. The subconscious mind is one of the most powerful tools that we possess. It is unnecessary to make an effort to keep everything at the “top-of-mind” because everything that happens... David Meyer probably believes that Pick the correct answer from the following options: - Multitasking is hard - not enough information - It is better to multitask - People are too busy
| Multitasking is hard |
QUES: The Gregorian reform contained two parts: a reform of the Julian calendar as used prior to Pope Gregory XIII's time and a reform of the lunar cycle used by the Church, with the Julian calendar, to calculate the date of Easter. The reform was a modification of a proposal made by Aloysius Lilius. His proposal included reducing the number of leap years in four centuries from 100 to 97, by making 3 out of 4 centurial years common instead of leap years. Lilius also produced an original and practical scheme for adjusting the epacts of the moon when calculating the annual date of Easter, solving a long-standing obstacle to calendar reform.
What did Lilius's calendar plan to reduce in every 400 years?
ANS: number of leap years
QUES: Frustrated by the wasted effort, and with demands for action from their citizens, the allied force decided to attack the center of Russian strength in the Black Sea at Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula. After extended preparations, the forces landed on the peninsula in September 1854 and fought their way to a point south of Sevastopol after a series of successful battles. The Russians counterattacked on 25 October in what became the Battle of Balaclava and were repulsed, but at the cost of seriously depleting the British Army forces. A second counterattack, ordered personally by Nicholas, was defeated by Omar Pasha. The front settled into a siege and led to horrible conditions for troops on both sides. Smaller actions were carried out in the Baltic, the Caucasus, the White Sea and in the North Pacific.
Who defeated Nicholas's second counter strike at the Battle of Balaclava?
ANS: Omar Pasha
QUES: According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reports, in 2010 the Raleigh Police Department and other agencies in the city reported 1,740 incidents of violent crime and 12,995 incidents of property crime – far below both the national average and the North Carolina average. Of the violent crimes reported, 14 were murders, 99 were forcible rapes and 643 were robberies. Aggravated assault accounted for 984 of the total violent crimes. Property crimes included burglaries which accounted for 3,021, larcenies for 9,104 and arson for 63 of the total number of incidents. Motor vehicle theft accounted for 870 incidents out of the total.
How many incidents of violent crime were there in 2011?
ANS: unanswerable
QUES: The Canadian Army is headed by the Commander of the Canadian Army and administered through four divisions—the 2nd Canadian Division, the 3rd Canadian Division, the 4th Canadian Division and the 5th Canadian Division—the Canadian Army Doctrine and Training System and the Canadian Army Headquarters.
How many divisions are there in the non-Canadian Army?
ANS: | unanswerable |
The FBI's chief tool against organized crime is the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. The FBI is also charged with the responsibility of enforcing compliance of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 and investigating violations of the act in addition to prosecuting such violations with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). The FBI also shares concurrent jurisdiction with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in the enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act of 1970.
What act is the FBI required to enforce?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Historically, the channel's programming consisted mainly of featured classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. Pictures (covering films released before 1950) and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (covering films released before May 1986). However, TCM now has licensing deals with other Hollywood film studios as well as its Time Warner sister company, Warner Bros. (which now controls the Turner Entertainment library and its own later films), and occasionally shows more recent films. Turner Classic Movies is a dedicated film channel and is available in United States, United Kingdom, France (TCM Cinéma), Spain (TCM España), Nordic countries, Middle East and Africa.
What company owns TCM and Warner Bros.?
Time Warner
At the end of the Late Middle Ages, professional actors began to appear in England and Europe. Richard III and Henry VII both maintained small companies of professional actors. Their plays were performed in the Great Hall of a nobleman's residence, often with a raised platform at one end for the audience and a "screen" at the other for the actors. Also important were Mummers' plays, performed during the Christmas season, and court masques. These masques were especially popular during the reign of Henry VIII who had a House of Revels built and an Office of Revels established in 1545.
What did Henry VIII build in 1545 for the benefit of the theatrical arts?
| House of Revels |
As part of a Jewish family, we celebrate Hanukkah instead of Christmas as the
Christmas is strange to us.
Aaron owns a Macaw, but Matthew won't go near it, so
Aaron is more likely to love birds.
Your grade is less important in the math category than in the grammar category because colleges ignore the
| math score. |
I had something that might have been a little supernatural. So I was trying to sleep one time, and I sleep under the blankets 99% of the time. I sleep downstairs, so hearing noise is pretty normal. Also, my door doesn’t lock, or even latch the door handle, so you can just push it open. So I was laying down, maybe at 60% in terms of how close I was to falling asleep, so I just had to lay down for like 5 more minutes. But there are a lot of noises, and they freak me out even though I just sorta pretend that they’re definitely a cat or my dog or something. So, I’m already slightly spooked, but I’m ignoring it and going to sleep anyway. But then, I hear my door open. That isn’t too weird, I do have cats, so even though by this point my fear is intense, I just sorta blow it off and keep trying to sleep. And then, something that’s never happened in a situation like this, I feel something moving towards me on my bed. It feels like a cats movements, with light feet making slight reverberations on the bed. So my fear goes away entirely, and I’m like “Oh okay, it’s just the cat, that’s good.” And I lift my blankets off my head to let my cat under with me, and because the fear seemed to make the atmosphere under there very hot and tense, and then I look at my bed and there’s nothing. So I just pretend nothing happened and go to sleep, but that still sticks with me and even though it’s kinda underwhelming I still think it was very strange since I wasn’t at the “edge of consciousness” stage of going to sleep, so I feel like the chances I imagined it aren’t too high. How long does it take the author to fall asleep Pick the correct answer from the following options: - not enough information - all night - 15 to 20 minutes - 49 to 59 minutes
| 15 to 20 minutes |
Given the below context: A small Myotis was captured at a cave in Latvia between 2007 and 2010; pending genetic testing, it is suspected to be M. alcathoe. However, this record had not been confirmed in the subsequent national report to EUROBATS in 2014. Luxembourg A single male was caught in 2011 and confirmed as M. alcathoe on the basis of genetic data. Elsewhere in the country it has been recorded on the basis of acoustic data. Poland The species was recorded in four caves in southern Poland in 2005 and 2006, and later at several other sites in the south of the country. It is known from 182 to 1,294 m (597 to 4,245 ft) above sea level, most often in beech forest (Fagus sylvatica), but also in several other forest types. Romania A single M. alcathoe was captured in 2007 in a nature reserve in the eastern Carpathians; the reserve contains riverine and conifer forest. The species was additionally recorded in a forested valley containing a small stream in Alba County. Russian part of Caucasus Bats collected in the Russian part of the Caucasus and in Abkhazia (a breakaway part of Georgia) from 2003 to 2009 may represent M. alcathoe. They are small and morphometrically distinct from other local Myotis mystacinus-like bats. The affinity of these bats to M. alcathoe has recently been confirmed by the genetic and morphological analyses. Serbia The species was reported on the basis of three specimens shortly before 2009, but is probably rare. Slovakia Here, M. alcathoe is known from a single site, a cave in old deciduous forest at 525 m (1,722 ft) altitude. Slovenia A single specimen was recorded in Slovenia in 2007, although it is not clear how many bats previously recorded as Myotis mystacinus belong to this species. Several additional specimens were later found in Kočevski Rog (SE Slovenia). Spain Guess a valid title for it!
----
Answer: Alcathoe bat 4
Given the below context: Finds in the nearby Karain Cave indicate occupation during the Paleolithic era as far back as 20,000 BC, and archeological evidence shows a port existed at Syedra, south of the modern city, during the Bronze Age around 3,000 BC. A Phoenician language tablet found in the district dates to 625 BC, and the city is specifically mentioned in the 4th-century BC Greek geography manuscript, the periplus of Pseudo-Scylax. The castle rock was likely inhabited under the Hittites and the Achaemenid Empire, and was first fortified in the Hellenistic period following the area's conquest by Alexander the Great. Alexander's successors left the area to one of the competing Macedonian generals, Ptolemy I Soter, after Alexander's death in 323 BC. His dynasty maintained loose control over the mainly Isaurian population, and the port became a popular refuge for Mediterranean pirates. The city resisted Antiochus III the Great of the neighboring Seleucid kingdom in 199 BC, but was loyal to the pirate Diodotus Tryphon when he seized the Seleucid crown from 142 to 138 BC. His rival Antiochus VII Sidetes completed work in 137 BC on a new castle and port, begun under Diodotus.The Roman Republic fought Cilician pirates in 102 BC, when Marcus Antonius the Orator established a proconsulship in nearby Side, and in 78 BC under Servilius Vatia, who moved to control the Isaurian tribes. The period of piracy in Alanya finally ended after the city's incorporation into the Pamphylia province by Pompey in 67 BC, with the Battle of Korakesion fought in the city's harbor. Isaurian banditry remained an issue under the Romans, and the tribes revolted in the fourth and fifth centuries AD, with the largest rebellion being from 404 to 408.With the spread of Christianity Coracesium, as it was called, became a bishopric. Its bishop Theodulus took part in the First Council of Constantinople in 381, Matidianus in the Council of Ephesus in 431, Obrimus in the Council of Chalcedon in 451, and Nicephorus (Nicetas) in the Third Council of Constantinople in... Guess a valid title for it!
----
Answer: Alanya
Given the below context: In the final two weeks before the test, some 250 personnel from Los Alamos were at work at the Trinity site, and Lieutenant Bush's command had ballooned to 125 men guarding and maintaining the base camp. Another 160 men under Major T.O. Palmer were stationed outside the area with vehicles to evacuate the civilian population in the surrounding region should that prove necessary. They had enough vehicles to move 450 people to safety, and had food and supplies to last them for two days. Arrangements were made for Alamogordo Army Air Field to provide accommodation. Groves had warned the Governor of New Mexico, John J. Dempsey, that martial law might have to be declared in the southwestern part of the state.Shelters were established 10,000 yards (9,100 m) due north, west and south of the tower, known as N-10,000, W-10,000 and S-10,000. Each had its own shelter chief: Robert Wilson at N-10,000, John Manley at W-10,000 and Frank Oppenheimer at S-10,000. Many other observers were around 20 miles (32 km) away, and some others were scattered at different distances, some in more informal situations. Richard Feynman claimed to be the only person to see the explosion without the goggles provided, relying on a truck windshield to screen out harmful ultraviolet wavelengths.Bainbridge asked Groves to keep his VIP list down to just ten. He chose himself, Oppenheimer, Richard Tolman, Vannevar Bush, James Conant, Brigadier General Thomas F. Farrell, Charles Lauritsen, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Sir Geoffrey Taylor, and Sir James Chadwick. The VIPs viewed the test from Compania Hill, about 20 miles (32 km) northwest of the tower. The observers set up a betting pool on the results of the test. Edward Teller was the most optimistic, predicting 45 kilotons of TNT (190 TJ). He wore gloves to protect his hands, and sunglasses underneath the welding goggles that the government had supplied everyone with. Teller was also one of the few scientists to actually watch the test (with eye protection), instead of following orders to lie on the ground... Guess a valid title for it!
----
Answer: | Trinity (nuclear test) |
Q: In this task, you're given a question, a context passage, and four options which are terms from the passage. After reading a passage, you will get a brief understanding of the terms. Your job is to determine by searching and reading further information of which term you can answer the question. Indicate your choice as 'a', 'b', 'c', or 'd'. If you think more than one option is plausible, choose the more probable option to help you answer the question.
Question: Was the MVP of the series born before the MVP of the 1981 series? Passage:The Lakers opened the series with a 115–109 victory at the Boston Garden. In Game 2, the Lakers led 113–111 with 18 seconds left when Gerald Henderson stole a James Worthy pass to score a game tying layup and the Celtics eventually prevailed in overtime 124–121. In Game 3, the Lakers raced to an easy 137–104 victory as Magic Johnson dished out 21 assists. After the game, Larry Bird said his team played like "sissies" in an attempt to light a fire under his teammates. In Game 4, the Lakers had a five-point game lead with less than a minute to play, but made several execution errors as the Celtics tied the game and then came away with a 129–125 victory in overtime. The game was also marked by Celtic forward Kevin McHale's takedown of Laker forward Kurt Rambis on a breakaway layup which triggered the physical aspect of the rivalry. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar would go after Larry Bird later on in the third quarter, and 1981 Finals MVP Cedric Maxwell further antagonized the Lakers by following a missed James Worthy free throw by crossing the lane with his hands around his own neck, symbolizing that Worthy was "choking" under pressure. In Game 5, the Celtics took a 3–2 series lead as Larry Bird scored 34 points. The game was known as the "Heat Game", as it was played under 97 °F-heat, and without any air conditioning at the infamous Boston Garden. In Game 6, the Lakers evened the series with a 119–108 victory. In the game, the Lakers answered the Celtics rough tactics when Worthy shoved Cedric Maxwell into a basket support. After the game, a Laker fan threw a beer at Celtics guard M.L. Carr as he left the floor, causing him to label the series "all-out-war." In Game 7, the Celtics were led by Cedric Maxwell, who had 24 points, eight rebounds, and eight assists as they came away with a 111–102 victory. In the game the Lakers rallied from a 14-point deficit to three points down with one minute remaining, when Maxwell knocked the ball away from Magic Johnson. Dennis Johnson responded by sinking two free throws to seal the Celtics' victory. Larry Bird was named MVP of the series.
Links: a. Kevin McHale (basketball) b. Cedric Maxwell c. Magic Johnson d. Larry Bird
A: | b |
I can't afford to get bogged down in the weeds. But at least you know she did leave. Maybe a coincidence maybe the two girls talked on the phone decided they 'd both had enough.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "the two girls had both had enough"? OPTIONS:
- Yes
- No
- It's impossible to say
It's impossible to say
``Clever''. Klug means ``clever''. Would you say that Abie was clever?
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Abie was clever"? OPTIONS:
- Yes
- No
- It's impossible to say
It's impossible to say
How did Selden know that the hound was following him? We know he ran a long way. He was screaming for a long time before he fell and we could hear that he was running as he screamed.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Selden was running as he screamed"? OPTIONS:
- Yes
- No
- It's impossible to say
Yes
Joseph spat and spluttered blood. He had lost the two centre top teeth and with the tip of his tongue he could feel that the two on either side were also loose.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "the two teeth on either side were also loose"? OPTIONS:
- Yes
- No
- It's impossible to say
| Yes |
In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
[Q]: (CNN) The internet still wants Justin Timberlake to apologize to Janet Jackson for Nipplegate, but it looks like she's doing just fine. The announcement that Timberlake will perform in Super Bowl LII's halftime show on February 4 in Minneapolis has reignited criticism that the "Cry Me A River" singer didn't do right by Jackson after her "wardrobe malfunction" during their halftime Super Bowl XXXVIII performance in 2004. Related: Justin Timberlake to perform at his first Super Bowl since 'Nipplegate' For those who need a refresher, Timberlake ripped off Jackson's bodice and revealed her right breast while the two were performing his hit "Rock Your Body" at the end of the halftime show. The stunt occurred just as Timberlake sang the last line,"I'm gonna have you naked by the end of this song."Some want Timberlake to apologizeBoth he and Jackson have had successful careers since 'Nipplegate'
Question:In 2012, _ quietly married Qatari billionaire Wissam Al Mana.
[A]: Janet Jackson
[Q]: What party poopers. Wrexham were all set to celebrate their 150th birthday and had their eye on a rather nice present - the FA Trophy. Coasting at 2-0 with just a quarter-hour remaining here at Wembley, Wrexham had their celebrations well underway. Then, North Ferriby United decided to roll up, gatecrash and ruin everything. Goals from Louis Moult and Jay Harris had the Welsh side in complete control but North Ferriby, who play a division below, forced extra time through Liam King’s penalty and Ryan Kendall’s late leveller. Players of North Ferriby United celebrate after winning the The FA Carlsberg Trophy on penaltiesGoalkeeper Adam Nicklin was the hero as North Ferriby came back from two goals down to beat Wrexham on penalties to win the FA TrophyLouis Molt and Jay Harris goals had fired the Welsh side into the leadLiam King scored a penalty to give United a lifeline before substitute Ryan Kendall equalised late in normal timeKendall's header made it 3-2 before Moult's stunning strike set up penalties, which Ferriby triumphed 5-4
Question:_ of Wrexham scores the first goal of the game as they took control early on in the final.
[A]: Louis Moult
[Q]: (CNN) Britain's stunning vote to leave the European Union is both historic and world-changing. But what does it really mean for folks living on the other side of the Atlantic? Potentially, everything -- the economy, national security, even the race for president. Here are five ways Brexit will affect Americans: It could hurt the economy The UK is the world's fifth-largest economy and one of the United States' largest trading partners, so if it catches a cold, we may get a little sick, too. When the pound dropped to 30-year lows as the results came in and British stocks got pounded, it was no surprise when Wall Street tumbled more than 500 points right after the opening bell Friday morning. So yes, your 401k's probably a little smaller right now.Brexit isn't just a big deal for Europe: it affects America tooIt might be a threat to the U.S. economy
Question:Looks like the pound's going to be down for a while, so yes, your upcoming _ vacation just got a lot cheaper.
[A]: | UK
|
Sheree Victoria Murphy (born 22 August 1975) is an English actress and television presenter, best known for her roles as Tricia Dingle in the ITV soap opera "Emmerdale", Eva Strong in the Channel 4 soap opera "Hollyoaks" and Dakota Davies in the Australian soap opera "Neighbours".
Can we draw the following conclusion?
Sheree Victoria Murphy is a good actress
Select from:
(a). Yes;
(b). It's impossible to say;
(c). No; | (b). |
Detailed Instructions: This task is about reading the given passage and the question, return an incorrect answer to the given question.
See one example below:
Problem: "story" : "Honolulu is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Hawaii. It is an unincorporated part of and the county seat of the City and County of Honolulu on the island of Oahu. The city is the main gateway to Hawaii and a major portal into the United States. The city is also a major hub for international business, military defense, as well as famously being host to a diverse variety of east-west and Pacific culture, cuisine, and traditions.
Honolulu is the most remote city of its size in the world and is the westernmost major U.S. city. For statistical purposes, the U.S. Census Bureau recognizes the approximate area commonly referred to as "City of Honolulu" (not to be confused with the "City and County") as a census county division (CCD). Honolulu is a major financial center of the islands and of the Pacific Ocean. The population of the city of Honolulu was 337,256 as of the 2010 census, while the Honolulu CCD was 390,738 and the population of the consolidated city and county was 953,207.
"Honolulu" means "sheltered harbor" or "calm port". The old name is said to be Kou, a district roughly encompassing the area from Nuuanu Avenue to Alakea Street and from Hotel Street to Queen Street which is the heart of the present downtown district. The city has been the capital of the Hawaiian Islands since 1845 and gained historical recognition following the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan near the city on December 7, 1941.", "question: " "What does Honolulu mean?"
Solution: Macau
Explanation: This answer for the given question is not present in the passage and is irrelevant to the given question. So, it is a good example.
Problem: story: Logan had lots of toys. He had balls, dinosaurs, race cars, and even robots! Logan had so many toys he had a room for his toys. There he could play with whatever he wanted, when he wanted, and not even have to pick them back up. Logan had all kinds of balls. He had red ones, green ones, blue ones and even a pink one he hid from his sister. His robots were so cool they could change shape, fly, or race. Some even saved the world in his imagination. Logan loved his dinosaurs. He had one with big sharp teeth, one with little tiny arms, one with purple spots, and even one that his dad said didn't eat anything but plants and vegetables. Logan's favorite toys were his race cars. That was because when his dad came home from work he always went to the toy room with Logan to play with his race cars. Logan had so much fun he even lets his sister in his toy room so she can play dad too! The toy room was Logan's favorite room in the house. He spends all the time he can in his room with all his friends and family and he has so much fun.', question: 'Did he have race cars?
Solution: | toy room |
Given the following passage "In the UK, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency approves drugs for use, though the evaluation is done by the European Medicines Agency, an agency of the European Union based in London. Normally an approval in the UK and other European countries comes later than one in the USA. Then it is the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), for England and Wales, who decides if and how the National Health Service (NHS) will allow (in the sense of paying for) their use. The British National Formulary is the core guide for pharmacists and clinicians.", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: An adjective that describes anything relating or covering a nation is called?
A: | National |
A: And now it's election time again so they're trying to lower them. B: Oh. A: So they're just talk about lowering them but they never do, they just keep raising them. B: I've never seen taxes really go down.
Can we infer the following?
taxes would really go down | No |
Grande dame of cooking still going strong at 90: Julia Child celebrates in San Francisco. How does it feel to turn 90 and have attained the status of an icon, a living legend? "It feels just like it felt before," Julia Child says with the throaty laugh familiar to millions who cut their culinary teeth on her "French Chef" television series. The show, along with her seminal book, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" (1961), revolutionized the way America cooks and eats. While making light of the difference a day -- or another decade -- makes, Child intends to enjoy her birthday thoroughly. First, there will be all the public observances, including a sold-out dinner Thursday at San Francisco's tony Fifth Floor restaurant, which -- like dinners that night at 19 other venues across the country -- will benefit the scholarship fund of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (which Child co-founded). Friday to Sunday, the action moves to Napa, with both members-only and public events at COPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts, of which she is an honorary board member. Aug. 15, her actual birthday, will see her in Maine at an annual gathering of nieces, nephews, their offspring and friends, who for many years have rolled a joined birthday celebration for several members of the group into a jolly reunion. The schedule Child and her assistant of 14 years, former pastry chef Stephanie Hersh, have laid out is not exactly a senior-citizen routine, even though Child has always been candid about her age and realistic in assessing her own capabilities. When the Pasadena native moved back to California from her long-time home in the Boston area last year, she also made the move from a condominium she and her late husband, Paul, had purchased many years ago to a progressive retirement home. She is in the most active of the four levels available, but should the need arise, she can move on to assisted living facilities within the same complex.
When is Julia Child's actual Birthday?
You couldnt survive without your skin. It has many important functions. The main function of the skin is controlling what enters and leaves the body. It prevents the loss of too much water from the body. It also prevents bacteria and other microorganisms from entering the body. The skin helps maintain a constant body temperature. It keeps the body cool in two ways. Sweat from sweat glands in the skin evaporates to cool the body. Blood vessels in the skin dilate, or widen. This action increases blood flow to the body surface. This allows more heat to reach the surface. The heat is then able to radiate off the body. The opposite happens to retain body heat. Blood vessels in the skin constrict, or narrow. This decreases blood flow to the body surface. This reduces the amount of heat that reaches the surface. When this happens, less heat can be lost to the air.
Is skin important and what are the main functions of the skin on your body?
Joe's parents are farmers and they have a huge farm with cows, chickens, and ducks. Joe loves the farm and all the things he gets to play around and play on. One day, Joe's father told him not to get near a tractor that was sitting in the field. His father was worried that Joe would climb on it and hurt himself. Joe went out to the field and was feeding the horses and cows. When he was done, he saw the tractor his father told him not to get near. He knew that climbing on the tractor wouldn't hurt anything, so he did. He climbed on to the seat and sat there. Then, he pretended he was his father and pretended that he was driving the tractor. Joe's father saw him playing on the tractor and called for him. Joe heard his father calling for him and got off the tractor really fast. When he did that, he fell off and hurt his arm. Joe was in pain and his father came running to check on him and picked him up and sat him on a bench and asked him why he did that. Joe looked at his father and said, "I wanted to be like you." Joe's father gave him a hug and asked him if he wanted to ride with him on the tractor. Joe did and after he got a bandage on his arm, he and his father rode in the field on the tractor.
| Why Joe's father told him not to get near a tractor? |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
What is OSUT?, Context: Training in the U.S. Army is generally divided into two categories – individual and collective. Basic training consists of 10 weeks for most recruits followed by Advanced Individualized Training (AIT) where they receive training for their military occupational specialties (MOS). Some individuals MOSs range anywhere from 14–20 weeks of One Station Unit Training (OSUT), which combines Basic Training and AIT. The length of AIT school varies by the MOS The length of time spent in AIT depends on the MOS of the soldier, and some highly technical MOS training may require many months (e.g., foreign language translators). Depending on the needs of the army, Basic Combat Training for combat arms soldiers is conducted at a number of locations, but two of the longest-running are the Armor School and the Infantry School, both at Fort Benning, Georgia.
| combines Basic Training and AIT |
Detailed Instructions: Write the right answer to the question based on the context passage.
Q: I was fencing wire at Flat Broke Acres and trying to tighten up the wire a bit. I lost the grip of the fencing wire and the pliers smacked me in the mouth.
This is what I hit myself in the mouth with. The curved end glance off my left front central incisor.
It hurt some, my lips were lacerated, I scared my wife when I came in to take a look at it in the mirror but the pain to come was far worse. Tooth was intact thank goodness and was a bit wobbly and I said to myself yup, this could be a problem. A month or two later I hit it again when I was putting a portable step fence panel in the bed of the truck and it bounced and split the bridge of my nose and hit the tooth again. did not break or get displaced. Thank goodness I have a particularly thick head.
Tooth trauma is a strange thing. It can blow up anywhere up to a year later. So almost 6 months later I was flying to a meeting in Orlando and of course the tooth decided to react to changes in atmospheric pressure just so I could experience the exquisite pain of barodontalgia. Kind of pain that makes you want to pry the top of your head off with a pitchfork because it would take your mind off the pain.
Problem was it did not resolve after landing or anytime during the 4 days I was at the meeting. A combo regimen of acetaminophen and ibuprofen manage the pain well enough until I could get home and have it seen to. Pain did not end but the Xray showed no fracture or endodontic lesion. Strange. Then as suddenly as it occurred, the pain ceased. Strange x 2. Snapped another film and there was no pathology. Tooth was vital on pulp testing. So I did nothing more.
I chalked it up to it being a karmic reminder about patients and dental pain as I've never had a cavity let alone a dental abscess. It let me feel your pain. Question: Who hit themselves in the mouth?
A: | narrator |
PART3theexcitingWesternnovel:
PART 3 the exciting Western novel:
Theseincludedtheeliminationoflargelandholdings,publicownershipofpublicservicesandthepromotionofcooperatives.
These included the elimination of large land holdings, public ownership of public services and the promotion of cooperatives.
InfacthemadeanapplicationforachairinanyofthenewQueen'sCollegesofIrelandin1846andinSeptemberofthatyearDeMorgan,Kelland,Cayley,andThomsonwereamongthosewritingtestimonialsinsupport.
In fact he made an application for a chair in any of the new Queen's Colleges of Ireland in 1846 and in September of that year De Morgan , Kelland , Cayley , and Thomson were among those writing testimonials in support.
AlthoughyoumaynotbeusingVisualBasicandDELPHI,theapproachforalldevelopmentenvironmentswillbesimilar.KeyFeatures
| Although you may not be using Visual Basic and DELPHI, the approach for all development environments will be similar. Key Features |
Write the conversation response.
- Finite automata and regular language.
- Given two deterministic finite automata "A" and "B", it is decidable whether they accept the same language..
- Are there any other interesting aspects about this article?.
- | As a consequence, using the above closure properties, the following problems are also decidable for arbitrarily given deterministic finite automata "A" and "B", with accepted languages "L" and "L", respectively: For regular expressions, the universality problem is NP-complete already for a singleton alphabet. |
Choose your answer: Is "In contrast, the theory of special relativity postulates that light propagates at the speed of light in all inertial frames, and examines the implications of this postulate." a good answer to the question "In all reference frames, how is the the speed of light?"
Possible answers: [-] yes; [-] no; | no |
Definition: 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.
Input: Ok, if I say 'this car is too expensive' or 'this car is very expensive', then I can not express the connotation of 'expensive'. However, if I say 'this car is damn expensive' then I better convey the connotation of 'expensive'. So my question is: What is the English idiom about 'expensive' that expresses the idea that 'It is so expensive that you feel like you got ripped-off and/or overcharged and/or unmeaningfully expensive'? For example, 'damn expensive' could be ok but is there any other term?.
Output: | exorbitant is also used for extremely unreasonable prices. An example of using it, quoting the Oxford dictionary: some hotels charge exorbitant rates for phone calls |
Do you need useful and interesting books? Here we've got plenty for you. Successful Fishermen Fishing is a healthy hobby. You can enjoy fresh air when you go fishing in the countryside. This book will teach you how to choose fishing places and how to make good fishing rods easily. Many kinds of fishing skills are shown in the book. Read it and you will become a more successful fisherman. Best Learners This book can give you the answers to the questions most often asked by parents, teachers and students themselves. Read this book and learn: *What the three difficulties in study are and what to do with them. *What to do if you are not interested in a subject you are studying. *Twenty-six simple exercises to help you study easily and fast. You will get more from this book. For younger students, you can buy Learn to Study for Beginners. It is easier to understand. How to Keep Pets A pet can be our best friend. Do you have pets in your house? Are they in good shape? This book not only offers you many colorful pictures of lovely pets, but also provides you with the knowledge about: *How to choose right pets for yourself. *How to build houses or nests for your pets. *How to feed the pets and how to keep them clean. Buy this book and you will learn more. We have many other books on sale. For more information, enter www. Knowbetter. com. If you buy two or more books at a time, you'll get 10% off. There are many pictures in _ according to the passage. A) Best Learners B) Successful Fishermen C) How to Keep Pets D) Learn to Study for Beginners
A: | C |
Given the task definition, example input & output, solve the new input case.
In this task, you will be given a passage to read. A fill in the blank question will be given to you. Your answer should fit the blank appropriately.
Example: The music was composed by Hitoshi Sakimoto , who had also worked on the previous Valkyria Chronicles games . When he originally heard about the project , he thought it would be a light tone similar to other Valkyria Chronicles games , but found the themes much darker than expected . An early theme he designed around his original vision of the project was rejected . He redid the main theme about seven times through the music production due to this need to reassess the game . The main theme was initially recorded using orchestra , then Sakimoto removed elements such as the guitar and bass , then adjusted the theme using a synthesizer before redoing segments such as the guitar piece on their own before incorporating them into the theme . The rejected main theme was used as a hopeful tune that played during the game 's ending . The battle themes were designed around the concept of a divorced from a fantasy scenario by using modern musical instruments , constructed to create a sense of atonality . While Sakimoto was most used to working with synthesized music , he felt that he needed to incorporate live instruments such as orchestra and guitar . The guitar was played by Mitsuhiro Ohta , who also arranged several of the later tracks . The game 's opening theme song , ( もしも君が願うのなら , Moshimo Kimi ga Negauno Nara ) , was sung by Japanese singer May 'n . Its theme was the reason soldiers fought , in particular their wish to protect what was precious to them rather than a sense of responsibility or duty . Its lyrics were written by Seiko Fujibayashi , who had worked on May 'n on previous singles . fill in the blank : The music was composed by Hitoshi __________________ , who had also worked on the previous Valkyria Chronicles games
Output: Sakimoto
This a good example. The actual line from the passage is The music was composed by Hitoshi Sakimotos, In the given sentence, it is stated clearly that Sakimoto answers the question correctly.
New input case for you: By the autumn of 1990 , after the first democratic elections in Croatia , the municipal government finally approved the project . An architectural competition was planned for January 1991 . Political turmoil in the country , followed by the breakup of Yugoslavia and the Croatian War of Independence ( 1991 – 1995 ) , caused the project to be put on hold again . In 1994 President of Croatia Franjo Tuđman said to Jakov Bienenfeld , Council member of the Zagreb Jewish community , that they should build the new synagogue at the site of the former synagogue , which will be funded by the Croatian government . Bienenfeld declined the offer believing to be inappropriate when 1800 Catholic churches are left destroyed at the time , during Croatian War of Independence . In the meantime , the Jewish Community of Zagreb sought to legally reacquire its property . The Croatian denationalization law was enacted in 1996 , and the Praška Street parcel was finally returned to the community on December 31 , 1999 . By 2000 , reconstruction activities were invigorated again . An investment study was submitted to the Government of Croatia and the City of Zagreb in July 2004 and revised in October 2004 . The architecture competition was planned for 2005 . However , a 2005 rift in the Jewish Community of Zagreb resulted in formation of a splinter Jewish community , Bet Israel , led by Ivo and Slavko Goldstein . In September 2006 , the Government of Croatia formed a construction workgroup . It was decided that the project , estimated at the time at HRK 173 million ( US $ 30 million ) , would be partially financed by the Government of Croatia and the City of Zagreb , and that both Jewish organizations should be represented in the workgroup . However , the involvement of Bet Israel was deemed unacceptable by the Jewish Community of Zagreb , which is the sole owner of the Praška Street property , and which also sees itself as the sole legal representative of the Zagreb Jewish community . As a consequence , the community and its president , Ognjen Kraus , refused further participation in the project under the set conditions . Further disagreements existed about the design and character of the new building . Facsimile reconstruction , while feasible , was not seriously contemplated . There was a general agreement that the new building should also have a cultural as well as commercial purpose . While the Jewish Community of Zagreb envisioned a modern design reminiscent of the original synagogue , the Bet Israel advocated building a replica of the original synagogue 's facade , perceiving it as having a powerful symbolism . Opinions of architects , urban planners , and art historians were also divided along similar lines . In 2014 and 2015 , the Jewish Community of Zagreb presented new plans for a 10 @,@ 600 m2 ( 114 @,@ 000 sq ft ) multi @-@ purpose Jewish center and synagogue in Praška Street .1806 Great Coastal hurricane The 1806 Great Coastal hurricane was a severe and damaging storm along the East Coast of the United States which produced upwards of 36 in ( 91 cm ) of rainfall in parts of Massachusetts . First observed east of the Lesser Antilles on 17 August , the hurricane arrived at the Bahamas by 19 August . The disturbance continued to drift northward and made landfall at the mouth of the Cape Fear River in North Carolina on 22 August . The storm soon moved out to sea as a Category 2 @-@ equivalent hurricane on the Saffir – Simpson hurricane wind scale , persisting off of New England before dissipating south of Nova Scotia on 25 August as a markedly weaker storm . Several French and British military ships were damaged out at sea . In the Carolinas , salt , sugar , rice , and lumber industries suffered considerably , and several individuals were killed . Wharves and vessels endured moderate damage , with many ships wrecked on North Carolinan barrier islands . A majority of the deaths caused by the hurricane occurred aboard the Rose @-@ in @-@ Bloom offshore of Barnegat Inlet , New Jersey , with 21 of the ship 's 48 passengers killed and $ 171 @,@ 000 ( 1806 USD ) in damage to its cargo . Upon arriving in New England , reports indicated extreme rainfall , though no deaths were reported ; in all , the hurricane killed more than 24 individuals along the entirety of its track . fill in the blank : By the autumn of 1990 , after the first democratic elections in __________________ , the municipal government finally approved the project .
Output: | Croatia |
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'.
Q: Passage: 'In 2008, Mourinho moved to Serie A club Internazionale. Within three months he had won his first Italian honour, the Supercoppa Italiana, and completed the season by winning the Serie A title. In 2009 -- 10, Inter became the first Italian club to win the treble of Serie A, Coppa Italia and the Champions League, also the first time Inter had won the latter competition since 1965. He is one of only five coaches to have won the European Cup with two different teams, along with Ernst Happel, Ottmar Hitzfeld, Jupp Heynckes and Carlo Ancelotti. He won the first ever FIFA World Coach of the Year Award in 2010. He then signed with Real Madrid in 2010, winning the Copa del Rey in his first season. The following year, he won the La Liga and became the fifth coach, after Tomislav Ivić, Ernst Happel, Giovanni Trapattoni and Eric Gerets, to have won league titles in at least four different countries: Portugal, England, Italy and Spain. After leaving Madrid in June 2013, Mourinho returned to England to manage Chelsea for a second spell, during which they won another league championship, but was sacked on 17 December 2015, after a poor run of results left Chelsea just outside the relegation zone. Following several months out of the game after losing his job at Chelsea for the second time, Mourinho was confirmed as the new manager of Manchester United on 27 May 2016.'. Question: 'how long has jose mourinho been a manager for manchester united'.
A: | True |
instruction:
Given a context passage, generate a question from the passage such that its answer is shortest continous span from the passage.
question:
The homeground of FC Kuusysi is Lahden kisapuisto.
answer:
What is the home arena of FC Kuusysi?
question:
Heroes of Gaia (Chinese: ; pinyin: Yingxiong Zhi Cheng), known in the separate European version as Castle of Heroes, is a massively multiplayer online fantasy browser-based strategy game developed by the Chinese developer Snail Games and published in the United States by its U.S. publishing division, Snail Games USA.
answer:
Who worked on Heroes of Gaia?
question:
SpyParty is an indie video game currently being developed by Chris Hecker.
answer:
| Which company developed SpyParty?
|
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task, you are given an article. Your task is to summarize the article in a sentence.
Or you may need it simply to pay the bills.
Yet last week the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) suggested that equity release - once "a dirty word" - still has problems with its public image.
More than that, it implied that consumers are paying too much for a product whose effect can be to eat up all their savings, leaving nothing to pass on to their descendants.
But the industry is fighting back. It argues that the fees it charges are justified, and says there's never been a better time to take out a policy.
So what's the problem with equity release - and what should home-owners consider before signing up to it?
If you are approaching retirement - or just need some cash - you can raise money against the value of your house.
Traditionally, equity released worked like this: a finance company purchases a proportion of your house. In exchange for cash they actually own a stake in the property, but they only get their money back (plus any profit from rising house values) when you die or move out and the property is sold. This is known as a home reversion plan.
These days 99% of equity release products are based on a different model: a lifetime mortgage. The homeowner retains full ownership of the property but borrows money using the house as security, just like a normal mortgage. But the mortgage term is only up when you die, meaning your estate pays back the money not you. In the meantime interest accumulates on the loan, just like with a traditional mortgage.
It all sounds like a win-win, both for the customer and the provider.
But if that is the true, why did only 21,000 UK homeowners take out equity release plans last year?
Given that 3.4m homeowners in England alone are between the ages of 65 and 74, that means that less than 0.5% of likely customers are currently signing up.
Here's the first problem: When you take out a lifetime mortgage, the interest rate you pay is higher than an ordinary residential mortgage.
The cheapest currently available is 5.4%, which is fixed for life.
But, also unlike a residential equivalent, lifetime mortgages involve compound interest.
So, assume your house is worth £300,000, and you take out £100,000 in an equity release plan, at the age of 60.
After year one, the amount you owe will be £105,400.
That sum will then be used as the baseline to calculate the following year's interest, and so on.
After 20 years -should you reach 80 - you will owe £286,293. True, the house may have gone up in value, but if not, you will have just £13,707 left to pass on.
Live just one year more, and you will have nothing left at all.
How compound interest eats your money
"People don't understand the way it builds up," says Merryn Somerset Webb, the editor in chief of Money Week.
"They find it very difficult to grasp the the concept of compound interest. It just needs to be clearer," she says.
The industry argues that lifetime mortgages are expensive, because providers are, in effect, making a triple bet: On house prices, interest rates, and how long you will live.
"We can't do anything about compound interest," says Nigel Waterson, chairman of the Equity Release Council.
"As Einstein said, it's the most powerful force on the planet." It's simply the cost of providing consumer protection, he says, such as guaranteeing that home-owners will not be responsible for any negative equity.
Those most likely to think of equity release as a dirty word are, of course, the children likely to be disinherited.
But if you have no one to pass your house on to, equity release could suit you perfectly.
Cyril and Jenny Barrett, from Oxfordshire, have no children, and didn't want the taxman to benefit from their death.
So in May this year they took out a lifetime mortgage on their £500,000 bungalow.
They are both in their late 60s. They decided to withdraw £158,000, to spend on a new kitchen, and a camper van.
"We have nobody to leave our house to. It's quite a problem for us actually," says Cyril.
Given their mortgage rate of 5.8%, they will owe their provider £501,766 in 20 years' time, more than the house is currently worth.
But any debt will be written off.
"It does seem too good to be true," says Jenny. "I'm waiting for the day they come and tell us something bad."
The companies who provide lifetime mortgages argue that the benefit homeowners are likely to get from rising prices will more than compensate for hefty charges.
"The rising value of their home can help offset the interest owed through equity release, which should ease fears that some have of eroding their housing equity," says Simon Chalk, of provider Age Partnership.
He advises those who want to pass money on to their children to take out no more than 20% of the equity.
Take someone whose house is worth £250,000, and who takes 20% in cash. Twelve years later, the amount they owe the lender will have doubled.
But assuming house prices rise at an annual rate of at least 2%, they will still own more than £200,000 of equity. This they can pass on, subject to Inheritance Tax.
Indeed part of the industry's argument - to be published in full next week - is that house prices are subject to the same compounding principle that applies to the charges - but this time to the benefit of home-owners.
Does all that mean equity release remains a dirty word?
"There's a gulf between the industry and the client that hasn't yet been bridged," says Merryn Somerset Webb.
But Nigel Waterson remains defensive.
"These days equity release is a safe and well-regulated product," he maintains.
In the months ahead the FCA will be examining how this market might be made to work more effectively.
But right now it's hard to imagine what new product might emerge, or whether this industry can silence its critics, permanently.
Output: | Whether you're considering a cruise, a new kitchen, or just giving money to the children, the thought of liberating that cash from the value of your house is enticing. |
In this task, you are given an article. Your task is to summarize the article in a sentence.
They found, when malaria parasites enter the bloodstream, they alter their plan of attack if they face competition from other strains of the infection.
However, it means they have less resources left to spread the disease.
Malaria, which is spread by mosquitoes, kills about one million people every year.
The scientists found the malaria parasites focus on producing cells that replicate quickly to cause infection, rather than cells capable of being taken up by a feeding mosquito and spreading the disease.
Since malaria infections usually consist of multiple, competing strains of the parasite, this attack strategy is the best way to beat the competition, the scientists said.
However, it means the parasites pay a high price, as they therefore have fewer resources left to spread the disease.
Laura Pollitt of Edinburgh University's school of biological sciences said: "Our results explain a long-standing puzzle of parasite behaviour.
"We found that when parasites compete with each other, they respond with a sophisticated strategy to safeguard their long-term survival.
"They opt to fight it out in the bloodstream rather than risk everything on the chance of infecting mosquitoes in the short term."
The research, published in the American Naturalist, was funded by the Wellcome Trust, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and the Natural Environment Research Council. | Edinburgh University scientists have claimed malaria is particularly deadly because the parasites which carry it battle other infections for survival. |
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Saturday slammed China's militarization of disputed South China Sea islands, insisting that weapons systems recently deployed in the area were meant to intimidate and coerce Beijing's neighbors. The comments came during a speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual Asian defense forum in Singapore. In the speech, Mattis laid out the broader U.S. strategy for a "free and open" Indo-Pacific region. "China's policy in the South China Sea stands in stark contrast to the openness our strategy promotes. It calls into question China's broader goals," Mattis said. Specifically, the Pentagon chief mentioned China's deployment of anti-ship and surface-to-air missiles, electronic jammers, and the landing of a bomber aircraft at the Paracel Islands off the coast of Vietnam. "Despite China's claim to the contrary, the placement of these weapon systems is tied directly to military use for the purposes of intimidation and coercion," Mattis added. Though much of the world is focused on an upcoming summit between North Korea and the United States, this year's Shangri-La Dialogue has focused primarily on the region's long-term future and how to deal with a more assertive China. Beijing has begun projecting power beyond its borders, most notably through the construction and militarization of islands in disputed areas of the South China Sea. China claims nearly the entire South China Sea, despite overlapping claims by countries including Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and Taiwan. Last week, the United States disinvited China from the Rim of the Pacific exercise (RIMPAC), a major international maritime exercise to be held later this year, citing Beijing's behavior in the South China Sea. Mattis on Saturday referred to that disinvitation as an "initial response" to China, but he did not outline any additional steps that might be taken. "The U.S. will continue to pursue a constructive, results-oriented relationship with China, cooperating when possible and competing vigorously where... What made Jim Mattis want to slam China? Pick the correct answer from the following options: A. because of their breaking trade agreements B. not enough information C. because of their law against more than one child D. because of their militarization of the South China Sea
D
The young man (boy, really) played with his fingers in the garish light cast from the lone bulb in the concrete bunker. He scratched at an imaginary itch on his right hand (just below his thumb) to take his mind off the man in the lab coat who sat across from him at the beaten, scarred, wood table. It didn't work. And whoever this man in the lab coat was, he was insistent about paperwork. He had three inches clipped onto a weathered clipboard which he flipped through with precision. "Can I offer you a glass of water?" asked the boy's captor in a calm, sensitive tenor. The boy, Kurt, continued to scratch the imaginary itch, which had leapt magically from his right hand to the left. Eventually the falseness of the itch would be deduced, and the lab coated man would disappear out of the cell and return with... God knows what. He had seen torture hundreds-if not thousands-of times on TV, and he was glumly certain that there would be no commercial breaks for him. "Can I offer you a glass of water?" The question was repeated without urgency, like a forgetful waiter. The itch now leaped with the dexterity of a trained flea onto the boy's leg, and the dutiful fingers followed. He watched as the man in the lab coat, without name tag or company insignia, studied his stack of papers attached to the clipboard. Several yellow forms near the top half inch were labeled 27B. The man frowned and wrote a note on the top page. "Note: Find out who isn't duplicating 27B in Pink." "I'm sorry," he said, "I wasn't listening. Was that a yes or no to the water?" Kurt remained in his chair, almost motionless, except for the itching-and-scratching routine. It had leapt again, this time onto his scalp, and the twitching fingers followed. He wondered how long he could keep this up without drawing blood. The man in the lab coat: Pick the correct answer from the following options: A. is a doctor B. sales water C. is bored D. not enough information
A
(Question)
Pirate gold. Coins, rings, ingots. Necklaces of emeralds and opals and sapphires. Chalices, bracelets, daggers inlaid with diamonds and lapis and ivory. Malone rolled over in the soft hotel bed. Not just gold but the things it would buy. A two-story house of brick and wrought iron. Greek columns in front and coaches parked in the drive. Built high on the center of Galveston Island, away from the deadly storms of the Gulf, away from the noise and stink of the port. White servants and negro slaves. Fair-haired women to sit at the piano in his parlor. Dark-skinned women to open their legs to him in the secrecy of the night... He sat up in a sweat. I will think no evil thoughts, he told himself. Outside, the sun rose over New Orleans. Horse-drawn carts creaked and rattled through the streets, and chickens complained about the light. The smell of the Mississippi, damp and sexual, floated through the open window. Malone got up and put a robe on over his nightshirt, despite the heat. He turned up the gas lamp over the desk, took out pen, ink and paper, and began to write. 'My dearest Becky...' * He smelled the French Market before he saw it, a mixture of decayed fruit, coffee, and leather. He crossed Decatur Street to avoid a side of beef hung over the sidewalk, swarming with flies. Voices shouted in a dozen different languages. All manner of decrepit wooden carts stood on the street, their contents passed from hand to hand until they disappeared under the yellow canvas awnings of the market. Beyond the levee Malone could see the tops of the masts of the tall ships that moved toward the Governor Nicholl's Street Wharf. Who wrote a letter? Pick the correct answer from the following options: A. not enough information B. Governor Nicholl C. Malone D. Becky
(Answer)
| C |
In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Among the entities, try to find the best entity that is most likely to fill in "_" and classify the answers based on options.
[Q]: You might think close season speculation in England is over the top. You probably like it that way. But it's nothing compared to Italy. From the moment the referees blow the final whistle in Serie A, the papers, TV and radio debate potential new faces, managerial movement and formation fiddling. Some of it is pure fantasy football. But there are only so many friendlies and transfer rumours you can put up with and thankfully the 2015-16 Serie A season kicks off this weekend. Juventus swatted Lazio aside in the Supercup (Italy's Community Shield equivalent) in Shanghai on August 8. But that wasn't just another ruthless display from the Turin giants, it was the clarion call for a grateful public: calcio is back.The new 2015-16 Serie A season begins in Italy this weekendJuventus are bidding for a fifth consecutive Serie A title this seasonAfter embarrassing campaigns, AC Milan and Inter have been rebuildingIt's not too late to sign up for MailOnline's new Fantasy Football game
Questions:The electrifying Frenchman has already become a star turn for _ and has been given the Bianconeri's famous No 10 shirt. (A) England (B) Italy (C) Serie A (D) Juventus (E) Lazio (F) Supercup (G) Community Shield (H) Shanghai (I) Turin (J) AC Milan (K) Inter (L) MailOnline (M) Fantasy Football
[A]: (D)
[Q]: Rio Ferdinand believes Louis van Gaal's decision to return Wayne Rooney to his favoured attacking role has led to the Manchester United's upturn in performance levels. Writing in his column in The Sun ahead of the Manchester derby on Sunday, Ferdinand, now at Queens Park Rangers, revealed his belief that Rooney playing as a striker is fundamental to United hitting fifth gear. He praised Van Gaal for moving his captain further up the field after a spell in the centre of the pitch at the start of the year but admitted the return to form and fitness of Ander Herrera, Marouane Fellaini and Michael Carrick has also been important.Rio Ferdinand says Manchester United need Wayne Rooney in attackHe believes Rooney's form has been key to their upturn in performancesFerdinand said United's 2-1 win at Anfield shows they are 'on to something'Manchester United vs Manchester United: The expert view of the derbyCLICK HERE for all the latest Manchester United news
Questions:Ferdinand also pointed to the return of midfield player Michael Carrick (left) as a help to _. (A) Rio Ferdinand (B) Louis van Gaal (C) Wayne Rooney (D) Manchester United (E) The Sun (F) Manchester (G) Ferdinand (H) Queens Park Rangers (I) Rooney (J) Van Gaal (K) Ander Herrera (L) Marouane Fellaini (M) Michael Carrick (N) Anfield
[A]: (D)
[Q]: Washington (CNN)Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's surprise announcement that he'll "actively explore" a presidential bid Tuesday morning did little to dissuade his potential Republican opponents from the race. Following the news, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who might make a White House bid, offered the clearest pitch yet for his own candidacy. "I think I have a unique ability to deal with the threats we face at home and abroad and the challenges here, which is finally getting the government to work and dealing with a dangerous world," he told reporters on Capitol Hill. He said to "stay tuned" for his plans.Sen. Rand Paul welcomed Bush into the race: "The more the merrier!"A spokesman for Sen. Marco Rubio said Bush's decision would have no impact on his ownSen. Ted Cruz said the voters would decide on their eventual nominee
Questions:None of the _ senators noted one of Bush's biggest liabilities in a GOP presidential primary, however — his support for policies anathema to conservative Republicans. (A) Washington (B) CNN (C) Florida (D) Jeb Bush (E) Republican (F) South Carolina (G) Lindsey Graham (H) White House (I) Capitol Hill (J) Rand Paul (K) Bush (L) Marco Rubio (M) Ted Cruz
[A]: | (E)
|
Jyutping is a romanisation system for Cantonese developed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK), an academic group, in 1993. Its formal name is The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Cantonese Romanisation Scheme. The LSHK promotes the use of this romanisation system.
The name "Jyutping" (itself the Jyutping romanisation of its Chinese name, 粵拼) is a contraction consisting of the first Chinese characters of the terms "Jyut6jyu5" (, meaning "Cantonese speech") and "ping3jam1" ( "phonetic alphabet"). The Jyutping system marks a departure from all previous Cantonese romanisation systems (approximately, 12 including Robert Morrison's pioneering work of 1828, and the widely used Standard Romanization, Yale and Sidney Lau systems) by introducing z and c initials and the use of eo and oe in finals, as well as replacing the initial y, used in all previous systems, with j.
There are nine tones in six distinct tone contours in Cantonese. However, as three of the nine are entering tones (入聲, Jyutping: "jap6sing1"), which only appear in syllables ending with "p", "t", and "k", they do not have separate tone numbers in Jyutping (though they do in Cantonese Pinyin; these are shown in parentheses in the table below). Jyutping and the Yale Romanisation of Cantonese represent Cantonese pronunciations with the same letters in: But they differ in the following: What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What is a romanisation system for Cantonese?
2. When was it created?
3. By who?
4. What kind of group is that?
5. Do they have another name?
6. Do they want people to use the system?
7. How many tones are in Cantonese?
8. How many tone contours?
9. How many are entering tones?
10. What syllables do they show up in?
11. Where do they have separate tone numbers?
12. Where don't they?
13. What does the Jyutping system depart from?
14. How many were there?
15. Who did some work in 1828?
16. What kind of work was that?
17. Which system introduces Z and C initials?
18. does it replace the Y
19. With what?
20. What does it use in finals?
Answer: 1. Jyutping
2. 1993
3. the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong
4. academic
5. yes
6. yes
7. six
8. six
9. three
10. ending with "p", "t", and "k",
11. Cantonese Pinyin
12. Jyutping
13. all previous Cantonese romanisation systems
14. approximately, 12
15. Robert Morrison
16. pioneering
17. Jyutping system
18. yes
19. j.
20. eo and oe
CHAPTER IV
KARI
Thus began my life in London in the house of my uncle, John Grimmer, who was called the Goldsmith. In truth, however, he was more than this, since not only did he fashion and trade in costly things; he lent out moneys to interest upon security to great people who needed it, and even to the king Richard and his Court. Also he owned ships and did much commerce with Holland, France, yes, and with Spain and Italy. Indeed, although he appeared so humble, his wealth was very large and always increased, like a snowball rolling down a hill; moreover, he owned much land, especially in the neighbourhood of London where it was likely to grow in value.
"Money melts," he would say, "furs corrupt with moth and time, and thieves break in and steal. But land--if the title be good--remains. Therefore buy land, which none can carry away, near to a market or a growing town if may be, and hire it out to fools to farm, or sell it to other fools who wish to build great houses and spend their goods in feeding a multitude of idle servants. Houses eat, Hubert, and the larger they are, the more they eat."
No word did he say to me as to my dwelling on with him, yet there I remained, by common consent, as it were. Indeed on the morrow of my coming a tailor appeared to measure me for such garments as he thought I should wear, by his command, I suppose, as I was never asked for payment, and he bade me furnish my chamber to my own liking, also another room at the back of the house that was much larger than it seemed, which he told me was to be mine to work in, though at what I was to work he did not say. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who would say "Money Melts"?
2. What was he called?
3. What did he believe people should invest in?
4. What's one thing that could be done with that investment?
5. What's another?
6. How were they related?
7. Where would they live?
8. Who arrived the day after the nephew?
9. What was one place the nephew in charge of furnishing?
10. And the other?
Answer: 1. John Grimmer
2. the Goldsmith
3. land
4. hire it out to fools to farm
5. sell it to other fools
6. John was his uncle
7. in London
8. unknown
9. his own chamber
10. a room at the back of the house
Following a referendum in 1997, in which the Scottish electorate voted for devolution, the current Parliament was convened by the Scotland Act 1998, which sets out its powers as a devolved legislature. The Act delineates the legislative competence of the Parliament – the areas in which it can make laws – by explicitly specifying powers that are "reserved" to the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Scottish Parliament has the power to legislate in all areas that are not explicitly reserved to Westminster. The British Parliament retains the ability to amend the terms of reference of the Scottish Parliament, and can extend or reduce the areas in which it can make laws. The first meeting of the new Parliament took place on 12 May 1999.
For the next three hundred years, Scotland was directly governed by the Parliament of Great Britain and the subsequent Parliament of the United Kingdom, both seated at Westminster, and the lack of a Parliament of Scotland remained an important element in Scottish national identity. Suggestions for a 'devolved' Parliament were made before 1914, but were shelved due to the outbreak of the First World War. A sharp rise in nationalism in Scotland during the late 1960s fuelled demands for some form of home rule or complete independence, and in 1969 prompted the incumbent Labour government of Harold Wilson to set up the Kilbrandon Commission to consider the British constitution. One of the principal objectives of the commission was to examine ways of enabling more self-government for Scotland, within the unitary state of the United Kingdom. Kilbrandon published his report in 1973 recommending the establishment of a directly elected Scottish Assembly to legislate for the majority of domestic Scottish affairs. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Where did a sharp rise in nationalism occur?
2. When was this?
3. Who was the incumbent at that time?
4. Was he a Tory?
5. Did this country govern itself?
6. Who controlled it?
7. Was the fact that it was controlled important to the citizens?
8. What happened that stifled talk of devolving?
9. When was the modern vote for devolving passed?
10. What was the name of the legislation that created the current method of ruling?
Answer: | 1. Scotland
2. the late 1960s
3. Harold Wilson
4. unknown
5. no
6. the Kilbrandon Commission
7. yes
8. Kilbrandon's report
9. before 1914
10. Parliament |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
The Chancellor is the third-oldest major state office in English and British history; it originally carried responsibility for the Exchequer, the medieval English institution for the collection and auditing of royal revenues which dates from the Anglo-Saxon period and survived the Norman conquest of England. The earliest surviving records which are the results of the exchequer's audit, date from 1129 -- 30 under King Henry I and show continuity from previous years. The Chancellor controlled monetary policy as well as fiscal policy until 1997, when the Bank of England was granted independent control of its interest rates. The Chancellor also has oversight of public spending across Government departments.
| when (which century) was the position of chancellor of exchequer established |
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
To view our videos, you need to enable JavaScript. Learn how . install Adobe Flash 9 or above. Install now . Then come back here and refresh the page.
Access to our video is always free for Time Warner Cable video customers who login with their TWC ID.
To get you to the stories you care about, we are offering everyone 10 video views per month.
Time Warner Cable video customers: Sign in with your TWC ID to access our video clips.
The victim of an alleged hate crime in Union Square last week has died, and the medical examiner is ruling the death a homicide.
Officials say 62-year-old Jeffery Babbit passed away on Monday from a brain hemorrhage after suffering a skull fracture.
Police say Babbit was punched by 31-year-old Martin Redrick, during an attack on three people.
According to officials, Redrick allegedly walked out of the Union Square subway station and began shouting racist threats before he hit Babbit and two others.
Babbit went to Bellevue Hospital, where officials say he eventually slipped into a coma.
His neighbors say they're in shock.
"Very peaceful, very friendly, very helpful for example, like a neighbor. Very, very good people," said one neighbor.
"He was really kind-hearted, and it's really unfortunate that happened," said another.
"This is a crime, and I cannot tell you how I would like to get my hands on that man. God forgive me," said a third.
Redrick, who also goes by the name Lashawn Martin, is being held on $1 million bail and is due back in court on Tuesday, according to police.
Officials say Redrick is charged with second and third degree assault, but those charges may be upgraded. ||||| For more than a decade, Jeffrey Babbitt traveled two or three times a week from his home in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, to a comic book store called Forbidden Planet just below Union Square in Manhattan. There, he bought the latest copies of “X-Men” or “Doctor Who,” or sometimes just chatted up the employees, who over the years had become good friends.
For Mr. Babbitt, 62, who friends said was a retired train conductor, the store offered an escape into fantasy and a bit of a respite from home, where he cared for his 94-year-old mother, Lucille Babbitt.
“He was just a really, really, really sweet guy,” said Jeff Ayers, a manager at the store who has known Mr. Babbit for years. “One of our staff just had a baby and he was dying to see pictures.”
Mr. Babbitt was walking through Union Square near Forbidden Planet last Wednesday when he was punched in the face seemingly at random by an assailant who, the police said, declared his intention to “punch the first white man I see.”
After he was hit, Mr. Babbitt fell to the ground, striking his head on the pavement, the police said. The attacker, whom the police identified as Lashawn Marten, then struck two men who came to Mr. Babbitt’s aid, they said.
Mr. Babbitt was taken to Bellevue Hospital Center, where, the police said, he was eventually declared brain dead and died on Monday morning.
In a neighborhood that had long ago moved past its rough-and-tumble days, the seemingly random act of violence at 3 p.m. in a bustling park came as a shock. The police said that Mr. Marten, 40, had a long history of arrests, some for assault and drug offenses in New York City and in Newburgh, N.Y.
He was arrested shortly after the attack and charged with three counts of assault. With Mr. Babbitt’s death, those charges will most likely be upgraded by a grand jury that is to hear the case on Tuesday, according to the police.
Mr. Marten, who is black, has also gone by the alias Martin Redrick and listed a different birth date, the police said. He was living in supported housing for formerly homeless people and those with psychiatric disabilities provided by the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services, said Shelley Ruchti, the group’s chief communications officer. She declined to describe the reason for his living there.
On Monday evening, many residents at Mr. Babbitt’s modest brick apartment building on Ocean Avenue in Sheepshead Bay had something nice to say about him, and could only shake their heads at the senselessness of his death.
“He was as good as good can be,” said Audrey Feifer, 75. “This should never have happened, no matter what color this person is.”
Ms. Feifer said Mr. Babbitt, who she said moved to the neighborhood from Florida about 20 years ago, used to insist on giving her rides to bus stops or to buy doughnuts.
Inside the apartment that Mr. Babbitt shared with his mother, Ms. Feifer said, he kept model steam locomotives, stacks of magazines about trains, and many comic books. He often wore shirts showing pictures of fairies and once drove Ms. Feifer out of state to join him at a Fairy-Con gathering, a festival for people who celebrate fairies.
A sister, his only sibling, helped Mr. Babbitt care for their mother, but she died from cancer about two years ago, Ms. Feifer said, and Mr. Babbitt took over all the caretaking responsibilities.
He did not seem to mind, neighbors said.
“He’d say, ‘Hi, Mom!’ so loud everybody could hear it,” said Igor Sapozhnikov, 56. “He loved his mother, and his mother loved him very well.”
Mr. Babbitt’s mother was at his bedside at least part of the time he was in the hospital, said Mr. Ayers, who visited him there. Many neighbors wonder who will care for her now.
Mr. Babbitt’s death came as the police said they were looking for a suspect in another bizarre and possibly racially motivated attack on the M60 bus in Harlem on Friday, Aug. 30.
In that unrelated attack, a man hurled a racial epithet at a 31-year-old Queens man, calling him a “cracker,” before knocking him to the ground and punching him. The victim, whose name was not released, sustained a broken nose and a fractured eye socket. The suspect, described by the police as a black man in his late 30s, fled on foot and had not been located.
At Forbidden Planet, employees were left bereft by Mr. Babbitt’s death, said Mr. Ayers, who broke into tears several times during a short interview.
Mr. Ayers had spoken to Mr. Babbitt the day before the attack when he came to the store looking to pick up a copy of a comic art book called “The Art of Grimm Fairy Tales” that he had ordered. The order had not yet arrived, and Mr. Babbitt was slightly annoyed, Mr. Ayers said.
“He’s been hounding me for weeks and weeks for this book,” he said.
Mr. Ayers said employees were also concerned about Mr. Babbitt’s mother. He said they planned to set up a fund to help continue her care.
“We’re a community here,” he said. “These are people whose lives we’re tied to.” ||||| | The death of a man who suffered a skull fracture and brain hemorrhage in Manhattan after being punched has been ruled a homicide, NY1 reports. Jeffrey Babbitt (some outlets use the spelling "Jeffery Babbit"), 62, was walking in Union Square around 3pm last Wednesday when Lashawn Marten allegedly punched him in the face in an apparently random attack, the New York Times reports. Marten, who is also reportedly known as Martin Redrick, said he wanted to "punch the first white man I see," police say. When two men came to help Babbitt, who hit his head on the pavement when he fell, Marten allegedly hit them, as well. Marten was arrested and charged with three counts of assault, but in light of Babbitt's death yesterday, those charges will probably be upgraded by a grand jury, which is hearing the case today, police say. Marten was allegedly yelling racist threats as he walked out of the subway station before the attack. Police are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime, Gothamist reports. |
Does "The first historical mention of the use of hops in beer was from 822 AD in monastery rules written by Adalhard the Elder, also known as Adalard of Corbie, though the date normally given for widespread cultivation of hops for use in beer is the thirteenth century." contain the correct answer to "In what year were hops first known to be used in beer?"
A: yes
Does "The vocabulary (mainly abstract and literary words), principles of word formations, and, to some extent, inflections and literary style of Russian have been also influenced by Church Slavonic, a developed and partly russified form of the South Slavic Old Church Slavonic language used by the Russian Orthodox Church." contain the correct answer to "What language does the Russian Orthodox Church use?"
A: yes
Does "In The Sensory Order: An Inquiry into the Foundations of Theoretical Psychology (1952), Hayek independently developed a "Hebbian learning" model of learning and memory – an idea which he first conceived in 1920, prior to his study of economics." contain the correct answer to "In what year was the book published in which Hayek developed Hebbian learning?"
A: | yes |
Q: In English, the letter Q is usually followed by the letter U, but there are some exceptions. The majority of these are anglicised from Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Inuktitut, or other languages which do not use the English alphabet, with Q representing a sound not found in English. For example, in the Chinese pinyin alphabet, qi is pronounced /tʃi/ by an English speaker, as pinyin uses ``q'' to represent the sound (tɕh), which is approximated as (tʃ) in English. In other examples, Q represents (q) in standard Arabic, such as in qat, faqir and Qur'ān. In Arabic, the letter ق, traditionally romanised as Q, is quite distinct from ك, traditionally romanised as K; for example, قلب /qalb/ means ``heart'' but كلب /kalb/ means ``dog''. However, alternative spellings are sometimes accepted which use K (or sometimes C) in place of Q; for example, Koran (Qur'ān) and Cairo (al-Qāhira).
Can we conclude that is there a word with q but no u?
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
A: yes
A complete blood count (CBC), also known as a complete blood cell count, full blood count (FBC), or full blood exam (FBE), is a blood panel requested by a doctor or other medical professional that gives information about the cells in a patient's blood, such as the cell count for each blood cell type and the concentrations of hemoglobin. A scientist or lab technician performs the requested testing and provides the requesting medical professional with the results of the CBC.
is full blood count the same as complete blood count?
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
+++++
Answer: yes
The .45 Colt, which is sometimes mistakenly called .45 Long Colt (.45 LC) (11.43×33mmR) cartridge, is a handgun cartridge dating to 1872. It is a black-powder revolver round developed for the Colt Single Action Army revolver. This cartridge was adopted by the U.S. Army in 1873 and served as an official US military handgun cartridge for 14 years. While it is sometimes referred to as .45 Long Colt or .45 LC, to differentiate it from the very popular and ubiquitous .45 ACP, and historically, the shorter .45 S&W Schofield, it was only an unofficial designation by Army quartermasters. Current catalog listings of compatible handguns list the caliber as .45 LC and .45 Colt. Both the Schofield and the .45 Colt were used by the Army at the same period of time prior to the adoption of the M1887 Govt.
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
is 45 colt the same as long colt?
A: yes
Problem: Text: Common examples include the gases carbon monoxide (CO), nitric oxide (NO), and hydrogen chloride (HCl).
Question: do all gases have a subscript of 2?
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
A: no
IN: Is it true that does harry potter win the goblet of fire?
When he returns, Moody takes him to his office, and reveals himself to be Voldemort's 'faithful servant'; he was the one who put Harry's name into the Goblet of Fire, and has been guiding him through the tournament from behind the scenes to ensure that he would grab the Portkey first. Before Moody can kill Harry, Dumbledore, McGonagall and Snape intervene. They learn that Moody is in fact Barty Crouch Jr., Mr. Crouch's son, disguised by Polyjuice Potion. Crouch had sentenced Crouch Jr. to life imprisonment in Azkaban over alleged ties to the Death Eaters but smuggled him out as a last favour to his dying wife. Crouch Jr. was the one who set off the Dark Mark at the Quidditch World Cup, doing it to scare the Death Eaters he felt had abandoned Voldemort. Eventually, Voldemort had gotten in contact with Crouch Jr. and had him impersonate Moody as part of his plan. Crouch Jr. also admits to killing Crouch Sr., to prevent him telling Dumbledore about Voldemort. The real Moody is found inside Crouch Jr.'s enchanted trunk and rescued. Harry is then declared the winner of the Triwizard Tournament and given his winnings.
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
OUT: yes
IN: Is it true that does full employment means we are at 100 employment?
Full employment means that everyone who wants a job can have work hours they need on ``fair wages''. Because people switch jobs, full employment means a stable rate of unemployment around 1 to 2 per cent of the total workforce, but does not allow for underemployment where part-time workers cannot find hours they need for a decent living. In macroeconomics, full employment is sometimes defined as the level of employment at which there is no cyclical or deficient-demand unemployment.
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
OUT: | no |
In this task, you are given a question. You have to answer the question based on your information.
The Western front allowed victory of Germany, which is a holiday celebrated on which date? | 8 May 1945 |
sweet old metal (desk) table lamp, painted a soft red nuance. it has an adjustable arm, and can also be hung on the wall.
Please write the text above using proper case. | Sweet old metal (desk) table lamp, painted a soft red nuance. It has an adjustable arm, and can also be hung on the wall. |
Magnets are able to place a force on certain materials. This force is called a magnetic force. The force a magnet exerts is a little different from the forces you may normally think about. You exert a force on a book when you lift it. You also exert a force on the pedals of your bicycle. In both those cases, those forces cause a change. The change you see in both these cases is called motion. Magnets, too, can produce change. They can produce motion just like you do. Unlike you, magnets do not have to touch something to exert a force. A magnetic force is exerted over a distance. Thats right, a magnet can push or pull certain items without ever touching them. Thats how the maglev train works. Do you know another type of force that does not require objects to touch? These forces are known as non-contact forces. Another type of non-contact force you may be familiar with is gravity. Gravity too can cause changes in motion. Gravity holds our moon in orbit without touching it.
The force magnets put on certain materials is called what?
Assisting Zionist causes Einstein was a figurehead leader in helping establish the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which opened in 1925, and was among its first Board of Governors. Earlier, in 1921, he was asked by the biochemist and president of the World Zionist Organization, Chaim Weizmann, to help raise funds for the planned university. He also submitted various suggestions as to its initial programs. Among those, he advised first creating an Institute of Agriculture in order to settle the undeveloped land. That should be followed, he suggested, by a Chemical Institute and an Institute of Microbiology, to fight the various ongoing epidemics such as malaria, which he called an "evil" that was undermining a third of the country's development. Establishing an Oriental Studies Institute, to include language courses given in both Hebrew and Arabic, for scientific exploration of the country and its historical monuments, was also important. Chaim Weizmann later became Israel's first president. Upon his death while in office in November 1952 and at the urging of Ezriel Carlebach, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion offered Einstein the position of President of Israel, a mostly ceremonial post. The offer was presented by Israel's ambassador in Washington, Abba Eban, who explained that the offer "embodies the deepest respect which the Jewish people can repose in any of its sons". Einstein declined, and wrote in his response that he was "deeply moved", and "at once saddened and ashamed" that he could not accept it.
How did Einstein feel when he had to decline the offer of becoming Israel's president?
When 74-year-old Penny Sweat was evicted from the HUD-subsidized Glendale Senior Housing in Salt Lake City last month, she moved to a nonsubsidized apartment at five times her previous rent because she was unaware of her rights. It turns out the manager of the seniors complex, its attorneys and government overseers were unaware, too. Lee Kemp, a hearing-impaired World War II disabled vet, also was evicted, but he contacted Utah Legal Services and was told to stay put. Attorney Marty Blaustein then notified Utah Nonprofit Housing Corp., the building's owner, that Kemp's eviction was not legal and that he had a right to a hearing. That didn't stop Utah Nonprofit Housing's attorneys from then sending Kemp a summons to show cause why he had not moved out. Meanwhile, Sweat's granddaughter called Salt Lake City housing officials, federal housing officials, state officials and several agents of Utah Nonprofit Housing to find out about her grandmother's rights. Nobody knew. Blaustein then took Sweat's case along with Kemp's and demanded her ousting be rectified. Utah Nonprofit Housing President Marion Willey returned from an out-of-town trip and learned HUD procedures were not followed. The eviction was activated because of ongoing personality conflicts among seniors in the complex, he said, and the new building manager decided the problems were with Sweat and Kemp. Several tenants blame other neighbors as perpetrators of the rift, however. Willey said when his building manager called attorneys retained by the company, they erroneously told her she could go ahead and kick out the tenants. When she called HUD to make sure, the inquiry got bogged down in bureaucracy and nobody called her back. Willey says he has offered Sweat and Kemp apartments in another complex operated by his company at their old rates. He also is retaining new attorneys.
| Who was unaware of the tenants rights? |
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.
Right to privacy -- Although the Constitution does not explicitly include the right to privacy, the Supreme Court has found that the Constitution implicitly grants a right to privacy against governmental intrusion from the First Amendment, Third Amendment, Fourth Amendment, and the Fifth Amendment. This right to privacy has been the justification for decisions involving a wide range of civil liberties cases, including Pierce v. Society of Sisters, which invalidated a successful 1922 Oregon initiative requiring compulsory public education, Griswold v. Connecticut, where a right to privacy was first established explicitly, Roe v. Wade, which struck down a Texas abortion law and thus restricted state powers to enforce laws against abortion, and Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down a Texas sodomy law and thus eliminated state powers to enforce laws against sodomy.
do any of the amendments to the u.s. constitution expressly grant individuals the right to privacy
Chevrolet Traverse -- The second-generation Chevrolet Traverse is offered in several different trim levels (all of which are available in front-wheel drive (FWD) or all-wheel drive (AWD), except for the base L, which is only available with FWD, and the top-of-the-line High Country, which is only available with AWD), and each offering their own distinct level of standard equipment:
does the chevy traverse come in 4 wheel drive
9-1-1 (TV series) -- 9-1-1 is an American procedural drama television series created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Tim Minear which follows the lives of Los Angeles first responders: cops, paramedics, firefighters and dispatchers. The series premiered on January 3, 2018, on Fox, during the 2017--18 television season. The series is produced by 20th Century Fox Television, with Murphy, Falchuck, Minear and Bradley Buecker as executive producers. Minear also serves as showrunner and Buecker directed the premiere episode. On January 16, 2018, Fox renewed the series for a sixteen-episode second season. The season is set to premiere on September 23, 2018.
| was the tv show 9-1-1 cancelled
|
An introduction to the ZWave protocol digiWavedk
A: An introduction to the Z-Wave protocol » digiWave.dk
121 And he began to speak unto them by parables A certain man planted a vineyard and set an hedge about it and digged a place for the winefat and built a tower and let it out to husbandmen and went into a far country
A: 12:1 And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.
There are small springs waterfalls and fountains in these enclosed spaces because our water is alive and in a complete state of consciousness that sings Yes sing our water and as you laze in your secluded patios you will be serenaded of life by the water as it springs from our fountains with melodies of deep love that harmonize all the cells in your body and balance
A: There are small springs, waterfalls and fountains in these enclosed spaces because our water is alive and in a complete state of consciousness that sings. Yes, sing our water and as you laze in your secluded patios you will be serenaded of life by the water as it springs from our fountains with melodies of deep love that harmonize all the cells in your body and balance.
Your W file analysis report will then be displayed directly below in this browser window
| A: Your W?? file analysis report will then be displayed directly below in this browser window. |
instruction:
A question is presented to you in this task, and your job is to write a potentially correct answer.
question:
what year lebron james came to the nba?
answer:
2003–04 NBA season
question:
who plays kenneth on 30 rock?
answer:
Jack McBrayer
question:
when michael jordan got drafted?
answer:
| 1984 NBA Draft
|
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Q: Grande dame of cooking still going strong at 90: Julia Child celebrates in San Francisco. How does it feel to turn 90 and have attained the status of an icon, a living legend? "It feels just like it felt before," Julia Child says with the throaty laugh familiar to millions who cut their culinary teeth on her "French Chef" television series. The show, along with her seminal book, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" (1961), revolutionized the way America cooks and eats. While making light of the difference a day -- or another decade -- makes, Child intends to enjoy her birthday thoroughly. First, there will be all the public observances, including a sold-out dinner Thursday at San Francisco's tony Fifth Floor restaurant, which -- like dinners that night at 19 other venues across the country -- will benefit the scholarship fund of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (which Child co-founded). Friday to Sunday, the action moves to Napa, with both members-only and public events at COPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts, of which she is an honorary board member. Aug. 15, her actual birthday, will see her in Maine at an annual gathering of nieces, nephews, their offspring and friends, who for many years have rolled a joined birthday celebration for several members of the group into a jolly reunion. The schedule Child and her assistant of 14 years, former pastry chef Stephanie Hersh, have laid out is not exactly a senior-citizen routine, even though Child has always been candid about her age and realistic in assessing her own capabilities. When the Pasadena native moved back to California from her long-time home in the Boston area last year, she also made the move from a condominium she and her late husband, Paul, had purchased many years ago to a progressive retirement home. She is in the most active of the four levels available, but should the need arise, she can move on to assisted living facilities within the same complex. <sep>As Julia Child turns 90, she will celebrate in San Francisco. The celebration will host many sold out dinners that will benefit which dear charity of Child's?<sep>COPIA
A: No
****
Q: (OPRAH.com) -- Chris Rock is an Emmy-winning comedian, devoted husband and loving father --but it's time to get to know a new side of this funnyman. Meet Chris Rock, hair expert. It's a detour he took after an innocent carpool ride left Rock with an idea he just couldn't shake. "I was with my daughter one day, and we're in the car and she's with one of her friends in the back seat, a little white friend," he says. "She was just kind of raving about her friend's hair a little too much for my comfort [saying]: 'You've got great hair. Oh, your hair's so good.'" Not wanting to make her comments a big deal, Rock says he tried to play his them off. "[I said]: "Oh, baby, your hair's beautiful. Come on,'" he says. "If I would have really reacted, then she would have a complex about her hair." Still, Rock couldn't let it go. "It sparked something in me," he says. Oprah.com: Oprah's hair throughout the years! What Rock discovered is a $9 billion industry that affects the daily activities, wallets, self-esteem -- and even the sex lives -- of black women. Because women spend so much time and money on their hair, Rock says men are forced to adopt a hands-off policy. "You cannot touch a black woman's hair. You are conditioned not to even go there," he says. "When I was a dating guy, I dated women from different races. Anytime I was with an Asian or a Puerto Rican girl or a white girl, my hands would constantly be in their hair. <sep>Which women do not allow men to touch their hair, according to Chris Rock?<sep>White women
A: No
****
Q: Water flowing over Earths surface or underground causes erosion and deposition. Water flowing over a steeper slope moves faster and causes more erosion. How water transports particles depends on their size. When water slows down, it starts depositing sediment. This process starts with the largest particles first. Runoff erodes the land after a heavy rain. It picks up sediment. Runoff carries most of the sediment to bodies of water. Mountain streams erode narrow, V-shaped valleys and waterfalls. Erosion and deposition by slow-flowing rivers create broad floodplains and meanders. Deposition by streams and rivers may form alluvial fans and deltas. Floodwaters may deposit natural levees. Erosion and deposition by groundwater can form caves and sinkholes. Stalactites and stalagmites are mineral deposits. They build up in caves as water continues to drip. <sep>What kind of deposits build up in caves as water continues to drip?<sep>Oil deposits
A: | No
****
|
Q: bird christmas tree decorations archives - best christmas gifts ideas
A: bird Christmas tree decorations Archives - Best Christmas Gifts Ideas
Q: but, at some time, he decided that he "should" really also work on the obedience, so he took a couple of months where the nosework was put aside.... he was aiming at a national championship, and he knew his top dog could win the nosework disciplines - but all the formal obedience was not quite as good. for good reasons!
A: But, at some time, he decided that he "should" really also work on the obedience, so he took a couple of months where the nosework was put aside.... He was aiming at a National Championship, and he knew his top dog could win the nosework disciplines - but all the formal obedience was not quite as good. For good reasons!
Q: complaints do not entitle buyer to a price reduction or cancellation of the agreement.
A: Complaints do not entitle BUYER to a price reduction or cancellation of the agreement.
Q: 12:12 destroyers have come on all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of yahweh devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace.
A: | 12:12 Destroyers have come on all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of Yahweh devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace. |
A question is presented to you in this task, and your job is to write a potentially correct answer.
what did farrah have surgery for?
Anal cancer
where did bernie madoff work?
Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities
who all was richard burton married to?
| Elizabeth Taylor
|
Subsets and Splits