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Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context?
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How to get rid of cystic acne scars<br>Research and take precautions with home remedies. There are a lot of home remedies that can reduce the look of your cystic acne scars. But, just because something claims to be natural doesn't mean it's safe.
Hypothesis: There are few remedies to get rid of scars. | No |
WASHINGTON - A Pentagon report on Guantanamo prison ordered by President Barack Obama concludes conditions for inmates are in line with Geneva Conventions and other legal obligations, a US official said Friday. The report was due to be delivered to the White House by Saturday as part of a landmark executive order issued by Obama last month mandating the closure of the "war on terror" detention camp. The official, who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity, said the review conducted by Admiral Patrick Walsh found that detainees were treated humanely, in accordance with the Geneva Conventions and other laws recognized by the United States.
Prisoners weren't tortured at Guantanamo bay. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: Yes
The Total Package Tour is a current co-headlining concert tour featuring American bands New Kids on the Block, Boyz II Men and American singer Paula Abdul. It began on May 12, 2017. in Columbus, Ohio and finished on July 16, 2017, in Hollywood, Florida This marks the first time in four years that both bands have toured together, and this will be Abdul's first tour in twenty-five years.
The Total Package Tour has sound OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: Yes
How to record audio in sonar<br>Open sonar. Select " new ", either by clicking the " new " button on the top left corner, as shown in view a or by selecting " file==]new " as in view b. Type in a name. Now select the template you want your new project to be based on.
Select "New" in the bottom left corner to start recording OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | No |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Input: Consider Input: It can be inferred that what property of the island was strongly impacted by the fire that destroyed the fishing factory?, Context: On 13 February 2008, fire destroyed the fishing factory and the four generators that supplied power to the island. On 14 March 2008, new generators were installed and uninterrupted power was restored. This fire was devastating to the island because fishing is a mainstay of the economy. While a new factory was being planned and built, M/V Kelso came to the island and acted as a factory ship, with island fishermen based on board for stints normally of one week. The new facility was ready in July 2009, for the start of the 2009–10 fishing season.
Output: economy
Input: Consider Input: Paul VI did what involving all people of good will in his dialogues with the Church?, Context: Ecclesiam suam was given at St. Peter's, Rome, on the Feast of the Transfiguration, 6 August 1964, the second year of his Pontificate. It is considered an important document, identifying the Catholic Church with the Body of Christ. A later Council document Lumen Gentium stated that the Church subsists in the Body of Christ, raising questions as to the difference between "is" and "subsists in". Paul VI appealed to "all people of good will" and discussed necessary dialogues within the Church and between the Churches and with atheism.
Output: appealed
Input: Consider Input: Which country has a state in which Sanskrit is an official language?, Context: Sanskrit (/ˈsænskrɪt/; Sanskrit: saṃskṛtam [səmskr̩t̪əm] or saṃskṛta, originally saṃskṛtā vāk, "refined speech") is the primary sacred language of Hinduism, a philosophical language in Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism and Jainism, and a literary language that was in use as a lingua franca in Greater India. It is a standardised dialect of Old Indo-Aryan, originating as Vedic Sanskrit and tracing its linguistic ancestry back to Proto-Indo-Iranian and Proto-Indo-European. Today it is listed as one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of the state of Uttarakhand. As one of the oldest Indo-European languages for which substantial written documentation exists, Sanskrit holds a prominent position in Indo-European studies.
| Output: India
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Given the task definition, example input & output, solve the new input case.
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
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.
Output: is confectionary sugar the same as powdered sugar?
The question is a yes/no question, and it is answerable based on the given passage.
New input case for you: The United States men's national soccer team has played in several World Cup finals, with their best result occurring during their first appearance at the 1930 World Cup, when the United States finished in third place. After the 1950 World Cup, in which the United States upset England in group play 1--0, the U.S. was absent from the finals until 1990. The United States has participated in every World Cup since 1990 until they failed to qualify for the 2018 competition after a loss to Trinidad and Tobago in 2017.
Output: | has the us ever gone to the world cup? |
What is the most logical next event?
We see a small dog in a bathtub with the title over the top. A person wets the dog and puts shampoo on it. the person | washes the dog with their hands. |
How to clean beach sand<br>Gather twice as much sand as you'll need. You'll likely lose some sand during the cleaning process. When you collect sand at the beach, gather twice as much sand as you need for your project.
Choose your answer: based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "sand is liked by all"?
Choose your answer from: (1). Yes. (2). It's impossible to say. (3). No.
I think the answer is | (2). |
Continue writing the next sentence in this paragraph:
And sart putting the christmas lights around the tree. Once the lights are ready they are putting red balls on the tree. th little girl on man's shoulders | put the star at the top of the tree. |
[Q]: SHARE COPY LINK Dee Gordon went 5-for-5 with two stolen bases, becoming the first Seattle Mariners player to do that in a 6-3 win over the Oakland Athletics on Tuesday at Safeco Field. Highlights courtesy of Root Sports. TJ Cotterill [email protected] Dee Gordon went 5-for-5 with two stolen bases, becoming the first Seattle Mariners player to do that in a 6-3 win over the Oakland Athletics on Tuesday at Safeco Field. Highlights courtesy of Root Sports. TJ Cotterill [email protected] The Oakland Athletics have no defense which was why Dee Gordon had a record setting performance.
[A]: It's impossible to say
[Q]: How to make a bug terrarium<br>Get a glass or plastic container. Plastic bug containers can be bought at pet supply stores. They come with lids that have air holes and a handle for easy transportation. Pet supply stores can sell plastic bug containers.
[A]: Yes
[Q]: Blue Mountain Lumber said today it may have to relocate a $30 million project offshore in the wake of an Environment Court decision that blocked it from a planned development site on the Coromandel. Blue Mountain Lumber said today it may have to relocate a $300 million project offshore
[A]: No
[Q]: How to fix mistakes made when writing checks<br>Stop writing as soon as you realize you've made an error. Take a moment to assess your error. Here are some common errors that are made when writing checks : [substeps] You write the date using last year, instead of the current one. A frequent mistake is writing a number that is 1 digit less than the correct number.
[A]: | Yes |
TASK DEFINITION: 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.
PROBLEM: It is presented annually by the Australian Film Institute .
SOLUTION: The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards , known as the AACTA Awards , are presented annually by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts ( AACTA ) .
PROBLEM: The Ge 'ez script is an abugida .
SOLUTION: The Ge 'ez script is an abugida : each symbol represents a consonant + vowel syllable , and the symbols are organized in groups of similar symbols on the basis of both the consonant and the vowel .
PROBLEM: White supremacy is the belief that white people are better than other races .
SOLUTION: | White supremacy or white supremacism is the racist belief that white people are superior to people of other races and therefore should be dominant over them .
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Teacher: 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.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
Solution: The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini.
Reason: The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
Now, solve this instance: Holder of a Master 's degree in biochemistry ( 1997 ) and one more in microbiology , Vanessa Proux graduates from University of Technology of Compie ̀ gne in October 2001 ( Doctorate in microbiology ) .
Student: | Holder of a Master 's degree in biochemistry ( 1997 ) and another one in enzyme engineering , microbiology and bioconversion , Vanessa Proux graduated from University of Technology of Compie ̀ gne in October 2001 ( Doctorate in enzyme engineering , microbiology and bioconversion ) . |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Q: The light-independent reactions, or dark reactions, of photosynthesis are chemical reactions that convert carbon dioxide and other compounds into glucose. These reactions occur in the stroma, the fluid-filled area of a chloroplast outside the thylakoid membranes. These reactions take the products (ATP and NADPH) of light-dependent reactions and perform further chemical processes on them. There are three phases to the light-independent reactions, collectively called the Calvin cycle: carbon fixation, reduction reactions, and ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate (RuBP) regeneration.
A: is carbon fixation the same as calvin cycle?
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Q: As of 2017, 24 Hour Fitness has over 4 million members and more than 420 clubs in 18 states, with more than 22,000 employees. Its major competitors in the US are Anytime Fitness, Gold's Gym, Aspen Fitness, and LA Fitness.
A: is la fitness the same as 24 hr fitness?
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Q: Russia has participated in 4 FIFA World Cups since its independence in December 1991. The Russian Federation played their first international match against Mexico on 16 August 1992 winning 2-0. Their first participation in a World Cup was the United States of America in 1994 and they achieved 18th place. In 1946 the Soviet Union was accepted by FIFA and played their first World Cup in Sweden 1958. The Soviet Union represented 15 Socialist republics and various football federations, and the majority of players came from the Dynamo Kyiv team of the Ukrainian SSR. The Soviet Union national football team played in 7 World Cups. Their best performance was reaching 4th place in England 1966. However Soviet football was dissolved in 1991 when Belarus, Russia and Ukraine declared independence under the Belavezha Accords. The CIS national football team (Commonwealth of Independent States) was formed with other independent nations in 1992 but did not participate in any World Cups.
A: | have russia ever been in the world cup final?
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How to avoid strange people
Avert your eyes.
Averting your eyes signals to the other person that you are not interested in a conversation. Even if the other person has already engaged you, a slight diversion in eye contact can signal to them that you do not want to continue the conversation.
The rest of your body language can also play a part. Angle your body away from the person and cross your arms or look down.
How to clean a ceiling fan
See if your vacuum cleaner has a ceiling fan or dusting attachment.
Many vacuums come with a dusting attachment that allows you to affix a brush over the vacuum's hose, making it easy to dust surfaces without having to worry about scattering dust everywhere. You'll need a dusting attachment if you choose to vacuum your ceiling fan.
If your vacuum doesn't have one, they can usually be purchased for around $10. For best results, use a dusting attachment that is wide and flat, not circular.
How to make fabric earrings
Make your template out of thin cardboard.
Draw a simple shape on a thin piece of cardboard. Great starter shapes include circles, triangles, hearts, and leaves.
Cut the shape out using a craft blade or a sharp pair of scissors. Fuse your double-sided interfacing to your fabric.
How to wear long coats
Try a fit-and-flare coat for the illusion of a thinner waist.
For a long coat that hides a thick waist, try a fit-and-flare style. These coats fit tighter around the waist and then flare out at the hips.
| The tops are often double-breasted, and there are strategically placed seams on them to create a thinner look. Solid black and vertical stripes also make people look thinner. |
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".
Mr. Andrews pointed to one of the oak chairs. "You sit there," he commanded, "it's reserved for members of the bar, but it's all right. You're with ME." Distinctly annoyed, slightly bewildered, the banker sank between the arms of a chair. He felt he had lost his individuality. Andrews had become his sponsor. Because of Andrews he was tolerated. Because Andrews had a pull he was permitted to sit as an equal among police-court lawyers. No longer was he Arnold Thorndike. He was merely the man "with Mr. Andrews." Then even Andrews abandoned him. "The judge'll be here in a minute, now," said the assistant district attorney, and went inside a railed enclosure in front of the judge's bench. There he greeted another assistant district attorney whose years were those of even greater indiscretion than the years of Mr. Andrews. Seated on the rail, with their hands in their pockets and their backs turned to Mr. Thorndike, they laughed and talked together. The subject of their discourse was one Mike Donlin, as he appeared in vaudeville. To Mr. Thorndike it was evident that young Andrews had entirely forgotten him. He arose, and touched his sleeve. With infinite sarcasm Mr. Thorndike began: "My engagements are not pressing, but—" A court attendant beat with his palm upon the rail. "Sit down!" whispered Andrews. "The judge is coming." Mr. Thorndike sat down. The court attendant droned loudly words Mr. Thorndike could not distinguish. There was a rustle of silk, and from a door behind him the judge stalked past. <sep>Andrews said the oak chairs were reserved for whom?<sep>Members of the kingdom
No
Porky is looking all over the big city for a hotel room , but due to a convention there are no vacancies . Porky takes the only available vacancy at one hotel , but will have to share with Daffy Duck , who is a very loud , obnoxious and annoying sort . Daffy introduces his invisible kangaroo friend `` Hymie '' , but Porky wo n't believe that . Daffy spends the rest of the night annoying Porky : pestering him with questions , shaking the bed , spilling water from a glass , hogging the blanket and finally literally sending the both of them flying off the bed when Daffy kicks , and startles , Porky with his literally frozen feet . Fed up with his antics , Porky stuffs Daffy in a pillow case and drops him out of the window . As Porky goes back to bed , Daffy returns bandaged , but shakes them off and prepares to get revenge . Daffy tricks the half-asleep pig into stepping out of a window thinking he 's boarding a train . Daffy hides the window saying it 's `` too gruesome '' to watch . Suddenly he hears train noises , and behind the shade , sees the still-drowsy Porky pulling away on an actual train and waving at Daffy . Daffy finds this silly . Then he bounces all around the room , `` Hoo-Hoo ! '' - ing wildly . <sep>Why did Daffy Duck hide the window and say it was too gruesome?<sep>Avoid drama
Yes
"Femme" is an apt description of the depiction of Madame White Snake and all her incarnations. It refers to a woman who is dangerously attractive, and lures men to their downfall with her sexual attractiveness. In both incarnations of Madame White snake, the authors depict her as bewitchingly beautiful. Toyoo, her human lover in "Lust of the White Serpant" cannot shake the image of her beauty from his mind and dreams of her, and finds himself "disturbed and agitated" by her "ethereal beauty". In "Eternal Prisoner," Madame White Snake's bewitching beauty follows her lover Hsü into his dreams, and the next morning "he was so distracted that he could not concentrate on doing business." Both of these stories align negative connotations with her beauty, suggesting that her sexuality is the cause of their distraction. In addition to distracting sexuality, the irregular characterization of Madame White Snake might be another trait her character has in common with the archetypical noir femme fatale. In her essay analyzing the noir film from a feminist perspective, Christine Gledhill writes "Not only is the hero frequently not sure whether the woman is honest or a deceiver, but the heroine's characterisation is itself fractured so that it is not evident to the audience whether she fills the [femme fatale] stereotype or not". <sep>Who is the her in "Toyoo, her human lover"?<sep>Toyoo's wife
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Problem: How to grow african violets indoors<br>Buy pre-rooted african violets at a nursery, greenhouse or retail store. Because many houseplant enthusiasts grow african violets as part of their collection, they are usually easy to find. It's best to grow the violets from a pre-rooted plant, as growing african violets from seeds can be extremely difficult.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Growing african violets from a pre-rooted plant is best."?
A: Yes
Problem: We're working hard to sign up children. We're doing it faster than any other state our size, comparable state. We're making really good progress. And our state cares a lot about our children. My priority is going to be the health of our citizens. These folks have had eight years to get something done in Washington, D.C. on the uninsured.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Our state doesn't care about babies"?
A: No
Problem: The anti-terrorist court found two men guilty of murdering Shapour Bakhtiar and his secretary Sorush Katibeh, who were found with their throats cut in August 1991.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Shapour Bakhtiar and Sorush Katibeh were found with their throats cut in August 1191.
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A: | No |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
A volunteer firefighter is suspected of igniting a string of fires around the town, including a blaze that destroyed a wooden CN Rail bridge in Alberta Tuesday.
Lawson Michael Schalm, 19, is charged with 18 counts of arson in connection with a recent rash of fires, RCMP said Saturday night.
“The community’s in shock right now,” Mayerthorpe Mayor Kate Patrick said. “They’re happy to know that someone has been apprehended, but they’re certainly in shock as to who it is.”
Schalm has worked as a volunteer firefighter with the Mayerthorpe Fire Department, Patrick said. His father Albert was mayor of the town for three years, and now serves as a school trustee with the Northern Gateway school district, Patrick said.
The Tuesday CN trestle bridge fire was so intense that Lac Ste. Anne County firefighters called in provincial forest firefighters, an air tanker, and a helicopter to prevent the blaze from spreading to the surrounding trees.
The resulting thick plume of black smoke prompted the evacuation of two Mayerthorpe schools and a nearby trailer park. The broken rail link has caused logistical headaches for some local businesses.
RCMP spokeswoman Cpl. Sharon Franks said there have been more than 20 fires in the Mayerthorpe area during the last 30 days. More charges may be pending, Franks said.
Most of the recent blazes have been grass fires, Patrick said.
On Friday, firefighters responded to five fires, she said. Four were in the wee hours of the morning, including two brush fires on sports grounds, one in a river valley, and another on the town’s main street. That afternoon, there were flames again on the river bank, Patrick said.
A paramedic found, and extinguished, another small fire near the local legion hall. Firefighters also responded to spot fires near the trestle bridge before Tuesday’s spectacular blaze.
Schalm was involved with the cadets, school theatre productions, and teen drug use prevention programs in his community, Patrick said. A Mayerthorpe Freelancer article from 2014 says cadets can volunteer with the fire department as young as age 15, and can begin responding to fire calls when they’re 17.
Mayerthorpe’s fire chief couldn’t be reached Saturday evening.
Franks said Schalm was not previously known to police. In custody on Saturday night, Schalm is due to appear in Stony Plain Provincial Court on Wednesday. ||||| A former Mayerthorpe mayor says he remains supportive of his firefighter son, who faces 18 counts of arson for a spree of major fires he allegedly started in the Alberta town.
The charges against 19-year-old Lawson Schalm are related to numerous suspicious fires in the area that began on April 19, including a massive one that destroyed the CN trestle bridge.
On Sunday, Mayerthorpe fire Chief Randy Schroeder confirmed Schalm was one of the volunteer firefighters called to actively battle that fire, as well as four other fires during the course of the spree.
"There's an unconditional love for my son," Albert Schalm said, his voice trembling. "No matter how this ends up, there will always be a dinner plate at my table for my son. He is always welcome in my home."
Albert Schalm said his son began working for the Mayerthorpe fire department when he was 15 years old and was considering a possible future with the department.
"We were shocked," he said. "He was planning out his future and where it would go from there, and obviously some of that will be on hold for a while."
Schalm is in custody and is scheduled to make his first court appearance in Stony Plain provincial court on Wednesday.
Fire department shocked, chief says
The CN bridge fire forced the evacuation of nearby schools and a trailer park with 38 mobile homes. Some Lac St. Anne County residents living nearby were also told to be ready to leave on one-hour notice.
Fire chief Schroeder said last week almost three dozen firefighters from four different fire departments in the area were called to help douse the flames, alongside agriculture and forestry services members, helicopters and a water bomber.
The loss of the bridge will impact the lumber and oil industries "extensively," Schroeder said.
He said the fire department is struggling to come to terms with the charges against one of their own.
"We're certainly very shocked, bewildered, wounded and a little hurt on the discovery of this," he said. "The discovery that one of our own potentially lit 18 fires is definitely affecting our station, for sure."
Schroeder and Mayerthorpe Mayor Kate Patrick said in a news release that members of the fire department will undergo "critical incident stress debriefing," and that individual counselling will be available to all members over word of the charges.
Schroeder said the department is still functioning normally and providing service as usual for the community, and also extending their support to the Schalm family.
"We understand that this has got to be a tremendously trying time for his family members," he said.
'There will always be a dinner plate at my table for my son'
Albert Schalm said he hasn't yet been able to speak with his son, but that the community has been supportive of the family.
Schalm was mayor of Mayerthorpe in 2005, when four RCMP officers were shot and killed near the town.
"This is a community that I've poured my heart and soul into. Moving this community forward, that's still going to continue."
- Albert Schalm, father of accused in Mayerthorpe, Alta., arsons
"We're thankful that this is over for the community, and for ourselves and for everybody, and that nobody got hurt, there were no serious injuries. You have to be really thankful for that.
"This is a community that I've poured my heart and soul into. Moving this community forward, that's still going to continue."
Schalm's son was expected to graduate high school in two months, and the family is now focusing on their son's future, Schalm said.
Despite what he calls a "dark period," he said his family's focus will remain on his son, and their Christian faith.
"We refuse to be devastated by this. I refuse to throw my son under the bus. I'm not that kind of dad. My goal is to get him back on the road, get his future going again." ||||| Mayerthorpe’s fire chief said there’s a sense of betrayal following the arrest of a volunteer firefighter in connection with a slew of suspicious fires in the area.
“We didn’t see this coming,” Randy Schroeder said. “The aspect of what we do to protect the community, the lengths at which we strive in order to train…It’s devastating.”
READ MORE: Mayerthorpe junior firefighter charged with 18 counts of arson
On Saturday, Lawson Michael Schalm, 19, of Mayerthorpe, was charged with 18 counts of arson in relation to a recent rash of fires in the area, including the blaze which destroyed a CN trestle bridge.
READ MORE: Massive Mayerthorpe trestle bridge fire being investigated as arson
Schalm is a junior firefighter with the Mayerthorpe Fire Department and was standing alongside firefighters battling the trestle bridge blaze.
“There’s a sense, on behalf of the members, a sense of betrayal, because the fact is we work very hard,” Schroeder said.
Schroeder said Schalm was a great firefighter and had good prospects of becoming a lifelong firefighter.
“It’s heartbreaking,” the fire chief added.
The fact that Schalm served in a volunteer capacity makes this even more upsetting, Schroeder said. Schalm signed on to be part of the volunteer department when he turned 18.
“This member started as a junior at 15 and…our cadet program emphasizes great community service.”
Schroeder said potential firefighters submit a job application, must pass a physical test and character references are checked. If an applicant begins the process after the age of 18, a criminal record check is requested by the department.
He said there is also a sense of shock over the arrest.
“[Schalm] was on five of the scenes – as an active firefighter – that are in question and at least four as a bystander,” Schroeder said. “We didn’t see it coming.”
He said Schalm showed no signs of being involved whatsoever.
“He was part of the attack to a limited basis with his training,” Schroeder said. “He wasn’t qualified for interior attack, but certainly on support lines and on exterior.”
The fire chief wonders what the department could have missed.
“I try not to take it personally. I’m struggling like any of our members with questions of ‘why?’ and ‘how?’ and ‘what did we miss?’ I would like to be able to roll the tape back metaphorically speaking and get a better understanding,” the fire chief said.
#Mayerthorpe fire chief Randy Schroeder and mayor Kate Patrick address the media. #YEG pic.twitter.com/VLF33Uoc02 — Julia Wong (@JWongGlobalNews) May 1, 2016
The mayor called the whole situation “heartbreaking and sad.”
“The community is saddened to hear of the arrest of this person but are happy to know it’s been successfully completed,” Kate Patrick said.
She confirmed Schalm was a member of the Mayerthorpe Fire Department and Lac Ste. Anne Fire Services.
Global News has learned Schalm is the son of former Mayerthorpe mayor Albert Schalm.
“We respectfully wish the community supports their family,” Patrick said.
“They’re well-respected, a very nice family. We want the community to move forward and honestly respect them.”
Theresa Wallace, 16, has known Schalm for several years. The Grade 11 student calls him a “super nice kid.”
“I don’t think he’s capable of this,” Wallace said. “He’s… super laid back. I don’t know, he’s a good kid. He’s shy, totally shy, but once you get to know him he’s super nice,” she said.
Wallace said Schalm, who was set to graduate Grade 12 this year, was involved with school plays and other programs.
“It’s kind of appalling when I found out he got arrested,” she said.
“Everybody is just focusing on if he’s OK. We’re more worried about his well-being than anything else.”
READ MORE: Citizen patrol group launched after string of suspicious fires in Mayerthorpe
The community launched a citizens patrol group after the 17 fires in the area were sparked over a period of just six days. Then on Friday, five more suspicious fires were set.
Barry Fulford, a citizens patrol member, said the community is relieved following the arrest.
“Last night was kind of quiet in town. There were no fire trucks, no fires – it was kind of relaxing.”
“It’s a little more comforting,” he said. “It’s a little more settling. A sense of relief I’m sure will take place today.”
The patrol group is still going ahead despite the arrest.
Mayerthorpe, Alta. is located 120 kilometres north of Edmonton.
RCMP are not seeking any other suspects in the fires. They said further charges against Schalm could be laid, but did not elaborate.
With files from Julia Wong, Global News
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| After more than 20 suspicious fires in the space of a few weeks, it didn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out that an arsonist was at work in the small town of Mayerthorpe, Alberta—but the real shock was the suspect's identity. On Saturday, volunteer firefighter Lawson Michael Schalm, 19, was arrested and charged with 18 counts of arson, including one relating to a spectacular fire that destroyed a rail trestle bridge last week, the National Post reports. Authorities say Schalm, the son of an ex-mayor, helped fight at least five of the fires and was a bystander at several others. "We're certainly very shocked, bewildered, wounded, and a little hurt," fire Chief Randy Schroeder says. "The discovery that one of our own potentially lit 18 fires is definitely affecting our station." Schroder tells Global News that the situation is "heartbreaking" and firefighters are struggling to deal with the apparent betrayal by Schalm, who started out as a cadet at 15 and had good prospects of becoming a career firefighter. "I would like to be able to roll the tape back metaphorically speaking and get a better understanding," the chief says. Former mayor Albert Schalm says that while he is shocked by the allegations, his love for his son is "unconditional" and there "will always be a dinner plate at my table" for him." I refuse to throw my son under the bus. I'm not that kind of dad," he tells the CBC. "My goal is to get him back on the road, get his future going again." (This California man filmed himself starting a massive wildfire and is now serving 20 years in prison.) |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Input: Consider Input: Small pneumatic __ can hold only one person., Context: A residential elevator is often permitted to be of lower cost and complexity than full commercial elevators. They may have unique design characteristics suited for home furnishings, such as hinged wooden shaft-access doors rather than the typical metal sliding doors of commercial elevators. Construction may be less robust than in commercial designs with shorter maintenance periods, but safety systems such as locks on shaft access doors, fall arrestors, and emergency phones must still be present in the event of malfunction.
Output: elevators
Input: Consider Input: What shouldn't be much of a worry?, Context: Vinyl records can be warped by heat, improper storage, exposure to sunlight, or manufacturing defects such as excessively tight plastic shrinkwrap on the album cover. A small degree of warp was common, and allowing for it was part of the art of turntable and tonearm design. "wow" (once-per-revolution pitch variation) could result from warp, or from a spindle hole that was not precisely centered. Standard practice for LPs was to place the LP in a paper or plastic inner cover. This, if placed within the outer cardboard cover so that the opening was entirely within the outer cover, was said to reduce ingress of dust onto the record surface. Singles, with rare exceptions, had simple paper covers with no inner cover.
Output: A small degree of warp
Input: Consider Input: Which is smaller, viruses or human nerves?, Context: Persistent infections occur because the body is unable to clear the organism after the initial infection. Persistent infections are characterized by the continual presence of the infectious organism, often as latent infection with occasional recurrent relapses of active infection. There are some viruses that can maintain a persistent infection by infecting different cells of the body. Some viruses once acquired never leave the body. A typical example is the herpes virus, which tends to hide in nerves and become reactivated when specific circumstances arise.
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In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
The American government conducted a major intelligence offensive against China, with targets including the Chinese government and networking company Huawei, according to documents from former NSA worker Edward Snowden that have been viewed by SPIEGEL and the New York Times. Among the American intelligence service's targets were former Chinese President Hu Jintao, the Chinese Trade Ministry, banks, as well as telecommunications companies.
But the NSA made a special effort to target Huawei. With 150,000 employees and 28 billion ($38.6 billion) in annual revenues, the company is the world's second largest network equipment supplier. At the beginning of 2009, the NSA began an extensive operation, referred to internally as "Shotgiant," against the company, which is considered a major competitor to US-based Cisco. The company produces smartphones and tablets, but also mobile phone infrastructure, WLAN routers and fiber optic cable -- the kind of technology that is decisive in the NSA's battle for data supremacy.
A special unit with the US intelligence agency succeeded in infiltrating Huwaei's network and copied a list of 1,400 customers as well as internal documents providing training to engineers on the use of Huwaei products, among other things.
Source Code Breached
According to a top secret NSA presentation, NSA workers not only succeeded in accessing the email archive, but also the secret source code of individual Huwaei products. Software source code is the holy grail of computer companies. Because Huawei directed all mail traffic from its employees through a central office in Shenzhen, where the NSA had infiltrated the network, the Americans were able to read a large share of the email sent by company workers beginning in January 2009, including messages from company CEO Ren Zhengfei and Chairwoman Sun Yafang.
"We currently have good access and so much data that we don't know what to do with it," states one internal document. As justification for targeting the company, an NSA document claims that "many of our targets communicate over Huawei produced products, we want to make sure that we know how to exploit these products." The agency also states concern that "Huawei's widespread infrastructure will provide the PRC (People's Republic of China) with SIGINT capabilities." SIGINT is agency jargon for signals intelligence. The documents do not state whether the agency found information indicating that to be the case.
The operation was conducted with the involvement of the White House intelligence coordinator and the FBI. One document states that the threat posed by Huawei is "unique".
The agency also stated in a document that "the intelligence community structures are not suited for handling issues that combine economic, counterintelligence, military influence and telecommunications infrastructure from one entity."
Fears of Chinese Influence on the Net
The agency notes that understanding how the firm operates will pay dividends in the future. In the past, the network infrastructure business has been dominated by Western firms, but the Chinese are working to make American and Western firms "less relevant". That Chinese push is beginning to open up technology standards that were long determined by US companies, and China is controlling an increasing amount of the flow of information on the net.
In a statement, Huawei spokesman Bill Plummer criticized the spying measures. "If it is true, the irony is that exactly what they are doing to us is what they have always charged that the Chinese are doing through us," he said. "If such espionage has been truly conducted, then it is known that the company is independent and has no unusual ties to any government and that knowledge should be relayed publicly to put an end to an era of mis- and disinformation."
Responding to the allegations, NSA spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said she should could not comment on specific collection activities or on the intelligence operations of specific foreign countries, "but I can tell you that our intelligence activities are focused on the national security needs of our country." She also said, "We do not give intelligence we collect to US companies to enhance their international competitiveness or increase their bottom line."
Editor's note: A longer version of this story will appear in German in the issue of SPIEGEL to be published on Monday. ||||| WASHINGTON — American officials have long considered Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant, a security threat, blocking it from business deals in the United States for fear that the company would create “back doors” in its equipment that could allow the Chinese military or Beijing-backed hackers to steal corporate and government secrets.
But even as the United States made a public case about the dangers of buying from Huawei, classified documents show that the National Security Agency was creating its own back doors — directly into Huawei’s networks.
The agency pried its way into the servers in Huawei’s sealed headquarters in Shenzhen, China’s industrial heart, according to N.S.A. documents provided by the former contractor Edward J. Snowden. It obtained information about the workings of the giant routers and complex digital switches that Huawei boasts connect a third of the world’s population, and monitored communications of the company’s top executives.
One of the goals of the operation, code-named “Shotgiant,” was to find any links between Huawei and the People’s Liberation Army, one 2010 document made clear. But the plans went further: to exploit Huawei’s technology so that when the company sold equipment to other countries — including both allies and nations that avoid buying American products — the N.S.A. could roam through their computer and telephone networks to conduct surveillance and, if ordered by the president, offensive cyberoperations. |||||
Output: | US intelligence agencies hacked into the email servers of Chinese tech giant Huawei five years ago, around the time concerns were growing in Washington that the telecommunications equipment manufacturer was a threat to US national security, two newspapers reported yesterday. The NSA began targeting Huawei in early 2009 and quickly succeeded in gaining access to the company's client lists and email archive, Der Spiegel reported, citing secret US intelligence documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The New York Times also published a report about the documents. A Huawei official objected to activities that threaten network security, saying the articles reaffirm "the need for all companies to be vigilant at all times." The operation, which Der Spiegel claims was coordinated with the CIA, FBI, and White House officials, looked at Huawei president's emails and netted source codes for Huawei products. One aim was to exploit the fact that Huawei equipment is widely used to route voice and data traffic around the world, according to the report. But the NSA was also concerned that the Chinese government itself might use Huawei's presence in foreign networks for espionage purposes. Click for more on the story. |
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Q: Scientists have recorded what is believed to be the largest wave ever in the Southern Hemisphere, a 78.1-foot (23.8 metre) monster the height of an eight-storey building.
A buoy recorded the wave on Tuesday during a ferocious storm in the notoriously wild Southern Ocean near Campbell Island, some 435 miles (700km) south of New Zealand, research body MetOcean Solutions said.
Senior oceanographer Tom Durrant said it wiped out the previous Southern Hemisphere record of 72.3 feet (22.03 metres) from 2012.
“To our knowledge it is largest wave ever recorded in the Southern Hemisphere,” he said, adding that the Southern Ocean was an “engine room” for generating swell waves that move across the planet.
“Indeed, surfers in California can expect energy from this storm to arrive at their shores in about a week’s time,” he said.
Durrant added that even bigger waves topping 82 feet (25 metres) were probably whipped up by the storm, which tracked east through the area on Tuesday, but the buoy was not in the best place to record them.
He said the buoy, installed in March to measure the extreme conditions in the Southern Ocean, also only recorded for a 20-minute burst every three hours to conserve its batteries.
“It’s very probable that larger waves occurred while the buoy was not recording,” he said.
The largest wave ever noted was an earthquake-generated tsunami at Alaska’s Lituya Bay in 1958 that measured 30.5 metres, according to Smithsonian magazine.
Brazilian surfer Rodrigo Koxa was recently acknowledged as having ridden the biggest wave ever surfed, am 80-foot (24.38 metre) giant at Nazare in Portugal last November.
But unlike the wave heights recorded by ocean buoys, the height of this wave was decided by a matter of estimation, based on comparing it to Koxa’s crouching height in photos. ||||| Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The wave was measured by a buoy at Campbell Island in the Southern Ocean
Scientists in New Zealand have documented what they believe is the largest wave ever recorded in the southern hemisphere.
The 23.8m (78ft) wave was measured by a buoy on New Zealand's Campbell Island in the Southern Ocean on Tuesday, the country's weather authority said.
It eclipses a 22.03m wave that was identified south of the Australian state of Tasmania in 2012.
Larger waves have been recorded in the northern hemisphere.
The Meteorological Service of New Zealand (MetService) installed its solar-powered buoy in March. The area is known for big storm activity, but waves had been previously difficult to measure.
Bigger waves possible
The "eight-storey high" wave was generated by a deep low pressure system and 65-knot winds, said MetService senior oceanographer Dr Tom Durrant.
"This is a very exciting event and to our knowledge it is the largest wave ever recorded in the southern hemisphere," he told the BBC.
The buoy operates for 20 minutes every three hours. Dr Durrant said it was possible that even bigger waves were generated by the storm but not recorded.
The World Meteorological Organization does not hold official records on individual wave heights. Instead, it records an average of successive swells - a measure known as the "significant wave height".
During the storm recorded by New Zealand, the significant wave height was 14.9m.
That is a record for the Southern Ocean but below a 19m mark measured by a buoy in the North Atlantic in 2016, Dr Durrant said.
He said storms moved across the Southern Ocean largely unhindered due to a lack of land.
"[It is] the engine room for generating swell waves that then propagate throughout the planet," he said.
"Indeed surfers in California can expect energy from this storm to arrive at their shores in about a week's time." ||||| A solitary buoy in the remote Southern Ocean has recorded a monster wave of 23.8 metres, the largest wave ever measured in the southern hemisphere.
A wave rider buoy moored at Campbell Island off New Zealand's South Island registered the huge wave on Tuesday, according to Tom Durrant, a senior oceanographer at Metocean, part of Meteorological Metservice of New Zealand (MetService).
The biggest wave ever recorded in the southern hemisphere was measured this week off New Zealand. Photo: MetOcean
Since the buoy only registered the first 20 minutes of each three hours, "it's quite possible, even probable, that there were much higher waves during this storm", Dr Durrant said.
It eclipsed the previous record maximum individual 22.03 metres clocked at an Australian buoy south of Tasmania in 2012.
The so-called significant wave height for the event, which is an average of the top third of waves measured from their crest to trough, was registered at 14.9 metres. |||||
A: | The northern hemisphere still has it beat, but the southern hemisphere can now claim a new record when it comes to tallest wave. A solar-powered buoy placed near New Zealand's Campbell Island in the Southern Ocean on Tuesday recorded an eight-story wave that measured 78 feet in height, beating out the 72-foot wave recorded south of Tasmania in 2012. Tom Durrant, an oceanographer with the Meteorological Service of New Zealand, tells the BBC the Southern Ocean is "the engine room for generating swell waves that then propagate throughout the planet. Indeed surfers in California can expect energy from this storm to arrive at their shores in about a week's time." And as far as the Southern Ocean goes, it's "definitely the most under-observed ocean in the world," he tells the Sydney Morning Herald. The buoy has been in place since March in order to observe the extreme conditions that can occur there, and Durrant notes that to preserve its battery life it only keeps records for one 20-minute span out of every three hours. That, combined with the fact the buoy wasn't perfectly positioned during the storm, means it's "probable" a bigger wave actually occurred, reports the South China Morning Post. (The tallest wave recorded took place in Alaska's Lituya Bay in 1958.) |
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Input: If you're flying this summer, be prepared to kiss your family goodbye at the gate. Even if they're on the same plane.
FILE - In this June 17, 2011, file photo, passengers crowd the kiosks to check in and print boarding passes at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco. Airlines are setting aside more rows... (Associated Press)
Airlines are reserving a growing number of window and aisle seats for passengers willing to pay extra. That's helping to boost revenue but also making it harder for friends and family members who don't pay this fee to sit next to each other. At the peak of the summer travel season, it might be nearly impossible.
Buying tickets two or more months in advance makes things a little easier. But passengers are increasingly finding that the only way to sit next to a spouse, child or friend is to shell out $25 or more, each way.
With base fares on the rise _ the average roundtrip ticket this summer is forecast by Kayak.com to be $431, or 3 percent higher than last year _ some families are reluctant to cough up more money.
"Who wants to fly like this?" says Khampha Bouaphanh, a photographer from Fort Worth, Texas. "It gets more ridiculous every year."
Bouaphanh balked at paying an extra $114 roundtrip in fees to reserve three adjacent seats for him, his wife and their four-year-old daughter on an upcoming trip to Disney World. "I'm hoping that when we can get to the counter, they can accommodate us for free," he says.
Airlines say their gate agents try to help family members without adjacent seats sit together, especially people flying with small children. Yet there is no guarantee things will work out.
Not everyone is complaining.
Frequent business travelers used to get stuck with middle seats even though their last-minute fares were two or three times higher than the average. Now, airlines are setting aside more window and aisle seats for their most frequent fliers at no extra cost.
"The customers that are more loyal, who fly more often, we want to make sure they have the best travel experience," says Eduardo Marcos, American Airline's manager of merchandising strategy.
For everybody else, choosing seats on airline websites has become more of a guessing game.
To travelers who haven't earned "elite" status in a frequent flier program, flights often appear full even though they are not. These casual travelers end up paying extra for an aisle or window seat believing they have no other option.
But as flights get closer many of the seats airlines had set aside for those willing to pay a premium do become available _ at no extra cost.
"Airlines are holding these seats hostage," says George Hobica, founder of travel site AirfareWatchdog. "The seat selection process isn't as fair as it used to be."
Airlines are searching for more ways to raise revenue to offset rising fuel costs. In the last five years, they have added fees for checked baggage, watching TV, skipping security lines and boarding early.
Now they are turning to seats.
Since last summer, American, Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines and United Airlines have increased the percentage of coach seats requiring an extra fee. Some _ like those on Delta, JetBlue Airways and United _ come with more legroom. Others, including those on American and US Airways, are just as cramped but are window and aisle seats near the front.
Allegiant Air and Spirit Airlines go one step further, charging extra for any advanced seat assignment. On Spirit, passengers who aren't willing to pay the extra $5 to $15 per flight, are assigned a seat at check-in. The computer doesn't make any effort to keep families together.
"It gets really difficult, unfortunately, because all you end up with is a lot of onesies and twosies," says Barry Biffle, Spirit's chief marketing officer. "If you want to sit together, we would highly encourage you to get seat assignments in advance."
Delta just launched a discounted "Basic Economy" fare on certain routes where it competes with Spirit that doesn't include advance seat assignments.
"Airlines have to be careful. They can only push this so far before they risk incurring the wrath of customers or the government," says Henry Harteveldt, co-founder of Atmosphere Research Group.
Summer brings passengers traveling in larger groups and fewer empty seats. Last July and August, a record 86.4 percent of seats were filled by paying customers. Planes will be "slightly fuller this year," says John P. Heimlich, chief economist at the industry's trade group, Airlines for America. Add in seats occupied by off-duty airline staff and passengers who redeemed frequent-flier miles, and on many flights there won't be a spare seat.
On a July flight from Dallas to San Francisco on American, a recent search showed only 28 of 144 coach seats available for passengers unwilling to pay extra. Of those, 21 were middle seats. There were five spots where a couple could sit together; groups of three or more were out of luck.
It was dramatically different for elite frequent fliers. They could pick from 75 seats including nine rows with four or more seats together.
Another flight _ New York to Los Angeles on Delta _ offered its most loyal fliers almost twice as many seats for free: 111 versus 60.
Booking through sites such as Expedia, Orbitz and Travelocity can add complications. If somebody inadvertently selects an elite seat or one requiring a fee, airline reservation systems won't hold a seat for him. Passengers should confirm selections with the airline.
For those unable to find two or more adjacent seats, new seat assignments can be snagged for free starting five days before departure as some elite fliers are upgraded to first class. Another block of seats is released 24 hours in advance when online check-in starts. Finally, gate agents can sometimes put families in seats set aside for disabled passengers or ask others to move.
If a young child is separated from his or her parent, "we just have to get it done" says Frontier spokeswoman Lindsey Carpenter. "Usually, people are pretty accommodating."
If all else fails, see if nearby passengers are willing to switch. There might actually be some chivalry left on planes. If not, offer to buy them a drink.
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Scott Mayerowitz can be reached at http://twitter.com/GlobeTrotScott. ||||| In a purely business sense, it’s easy to understand why airlines are more or less forcing passengers to pay fees for seat reservations on planes: more fees equal more profits. But the scheme is hated by families — and is likely to be hated even more by passengers who wind up sitting next to nervous, whiny kids who are rows away from their parents. That’s not good for business at all.
Earlier this week, New York Senator Charles Schumer released a statement urging U.S. airlines to do right by families and allow them to sit together in the same row without paying extra fees. The Senator was reacting to a recent Associated Press story detailing the rise of fees for window- and aisle-seat reservations on most planes — a trend that leaves only middle seats for those unwilling to pay the fee and potentially leaves parents far away from their children onboard aircraft. Among Schumer’s comments:
“Requiring parents to pay an additional fee to make sure their kids are sitting next to them and in sight is ridiculous and simply over the top … This ill-conceived ploy to foist more fees on travelers could have profound implications for the safety of children on airlines and it needs to be revisited.”
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The fees aren’t chump change. Schumer writes that a family of four could incur $200 in seat-reservation charges just so they could sit together on both legs of a round trip. He also points out that “children sitting alone in another part of the aircraft or with strangers” is potentially dangerous:
Additionally, these new pricing schemes raise safety concerns for children who are traveling out of direct sight of their parents. Will airlines that charge a premium for consecutive seating assignments assume liability for the safety of a child who isn’t seated next to their parent because of these onerous fees?
The nonprofit Consumer Travel Alliance (CTA), which works on behalf of travelers’ rights, has chimed in to criticize the rise of fees for seat reservations and baggage as well as the decrease in policies allowing passengers with special needs to board planes first. It isn’t just families that are affected by such policy changes:
“Families traveling with infants and toddlers often can’t avoid checking extra bags filled with everything from the many clothes changes needed for small children to diapers, toys, special blankets, and baby bottles,” says Charlie Leocha, director of the Consumer Travel Alliance. “Meanwhile, elderly passengers who lack the upper-body strength to get carry-ons into access overhead bins, also must check baggage and pay extra fees.”
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To address the situation, the CTA suggests that “voluntarily waiving all seat-reservation fees for children aged six and younger would be a good start. Then, gate agents and flight attendants could be encouraged to use common sense in dealing with families, making every effort to seat them together.”
The problem, from the business point of view, is that using common sense may decrease the amount of fees collected. In the CTA’s announcement, the organization notes that it “does not believe the airlines actually hate families.” And yet “their current policies do a poor job of reflecting that.”
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What the airlines seem to not realize is that while their policies may be increasing revenue, they are also making people hate flying. Is that good for business?
Tuttle is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @bradrtuttle. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME. |||||
Output: | From a business point of view, it makes sense to impose extra fees on airline passengers who want an aisle or window seat, admits Brad Tuttle at Time. But consider that the onerous money-making scheme is all but forcing parents to sit apart from their children during flights. "The scheme is hated by families—and is likely to be hated even more by passengers who wind up sitting next to nervous, whiny kids who are rows away from their parents," writes Tuttle. "That’s not good for business at all." Tuttle reviews the recent fallout over the airline plan, including an AP story and an angry reaction from New York Senator Charles Schumer, who wonders whether airlines will "assume liability for the safety of a child who isn't seated next to their parent because of these onerous fees." A travelers' rights group has called for an all-out ban on the practice, and Tuttle seems to agree: "What the airlines seem to not realize is that while their policies may be increasing revenue, they are also making people hate flying." Click for the full article. |
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Western Sydney Wanderers F.C. is an Australian professional soccer club from Western Sydney , New South Wales .
A: | Western Sydney Wanderers Football Club ( colloquially known as Western Sydney , or simply as Wanderers ) is an Australian professional soccer club based in the Western Sydney region of Sydney , New South Wales . |
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Q: Tom Brady, the Gwyneth Paltrow of sports, has a book out now that features approximately four million words about water, and water consumption, and different types of water, and how water can protect you from the sun.
Brady says he drinks up to 300 ounces of water in a day, which is around 2.5 gallons of water. His piss must be as clear as the sparkling depths of Lake Tahoe, but really, a bunch of water consumption for an athlete isn’t all that weird.
What is weird is that Brady 1) differentiates between a bunch of different types of water, 2) wants you to add his quack-ish TB12 electrolyte drops into your drinks, and 3) thinks he gets fewer sunburns because of all the water he drinks.
Here’s what Tommy says about water and sunburns, as noted by SB Nation’s Matt Ufford:
When I was growing up, and playing outside in the sun, I got sunburned a lot. I was a fair-skinned Irish boy, after all. These days, even if I get an adequate amount of sun, I won’t get a sunburn, which I credit to the amount of water I drink. I always hydrate afterward, too, to keep my skin from peeling. When I once told that to my sister, she said, “You mean I don’t have to use all those moisturizers and facial products to keep my skin looking good? I should just drink as much water as you do? I think you should market your [stupid water drop things] as a beauty product.” I just laughed.
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Okay, maybe Brady uses SPF as well, but this quote (which is highlighted as a block-quote in the book) sure makes it seem like ol’ TB thinks all he needs for sun protection is water, water, and water. Please, please, do not follow this advice! Use sun protection of some sort. Especially if you spend as much time outside as a professional athlete does.
Brady goes on to provide a detailed explanation of mineral water vs. spring water:
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Aside from the quackery, Brady’s book contains some walk-throughs of stretches and exercises and a handful of recipes, some of which look fairly edible. I’d maybe keep it on my bookshelf if I ever felt like fitness was something I might care about, but more likely than not, most people will align themselves with Bill Belichick’s general philosophy:
Please, please, please use real sun protection. Thanks. ||||| Tom Brady has a new book. You've probably heard about how Bill Belichick actually made a joke about it or how Brady tells people that drinking water prevents sunburn in it. In addition to some extremely questionable scientific claims and some excellent photos of Tom Brady contemplating the meaning of life while eating a kale salad, it also includes some recipes. I read the recipes, and we even made two of them in our test kitchen. A lot of coconut oil and a few vegetables I have never heard of were involved. So, in case you don't feel like shelling out $30 for recipes that tell you to then shell out more money for the expensive ingredients of these organic meals, here are some thoughts and general observations from Touchdown Tom's foray into the cooking business.
1. Tom, have you ever read a cookbook before? Exact timing is, you know, pretty helpful. In his fresh veggie lasagna (which he makes with “CHEESE” and “WALNUT MEAT,”) he tells us to "soak the tomatoes in the water for 2-6 hours (until soft)."
Tommy, dude, that is a FOUR HOUR gap. You can't get any more specific with that timeframe? Think of all the things one could do with four hours other than stare at tomatoes. Later on, he tells us to put the mixture for avocado ice cream (more on that later, don’t worry) in the freezer “until ice cream reaches desired thickness.” What’s the desired thickness? How long does the desired thickness normally take? Do we need to leave it in the freezer overnight? We’ve already been lured into making this avocado ice cream, Tom. Cut us a break and let us know exactly how to achieve the thickness level that will make it as un-unappealing as possible.
2. Among the obvious foods Tom abstains from, he also avoids “eating anything that comes in a box or a bag, as well as foods containing white flour or added sugars.” Yes, that means cereal. And essentially anything that’s not a raw vegetable because of PLIABILITY! his favorite word that he uses roughly 907 times throughout the book. ((By the way: Pliability (n): The quality of being easily bent, flexibility/Tom Brady's reason for sticking to this confusing regimen.)
3. I do truly appreciate his Alkalizing Green Juice recipe, not necessarily because of the juice itself (which we attempted to make in the office, but our juicer was not delivered in time, so as a result, we have a dream duo of pick-me-up mid-day work snacks left over: kale and turmeric) but because of the accompanying photos. He decorates all of his green juice and smoothie photos with those very fun swirly-colored straws that people use in their mason jars of specialty lavender lemonade vodka drinks at weddings, and the image of Brady starting his day with an alkalizing smoothie and a swirly straw makes me smile.
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4. “Even for athletes who play professional sports, an occasional tomato or mushroom won’t harm you.” I'll just leave that there.
5. The Salmon Burger with Avocado Salad actually sounds pretty good! No cheese-in-quotation-marks required.
6. Avocado ice cream is not ice cream. Call it pudding. Or health mush. Or “blended avocadoes.” It smells like, (in the words of Joe Fauria,) “Mother Earth,” and looks (according to me) like the remnants of the 'Mad Pooper.' And it tastes like actual dirt.
Yum.
So let’s not trick people into thinking it’s dessert just because you’re making us add a crap-ton of expensive cacao powder from the Park Slope food co-op in there. The final product was met with skepticism, fear and dread and the most positive review we were given was: "Well, it's not the worst thing you'll ever eat." ||||| At that moment, he writes, “My brain is thinking only lengthen and soften and disperse.”
Mr. Brady attributes much of his unusually long N.F.L. career and the relatively little playing time he has lost to injuries to this kind of gnomic self-talk and his muscular pliability. But most of us are not pliable, he tells us, and our workouts are not helping. Standard weight training and conditioning exercises, such as running and sprints, tighten and harden our muscles, he writes, opening us to injury.
Instead, we should do less weight training or conditioning and more of… something else. It involves “targeted, deep-force muscle work,” Mr. Brady writes. “Think of a deep, rigorous massage, but much more focused, and in my case using complex techniques based on an understanding of the biomechanics of what it takes for me to throw a football and function at peak levels as an athlete who accelerates, decelerates, runs, cuts, and more, as well as the daily acts of living that complement my off-field life.”
Got it? Me, neither. Thankfully, Mr. Brady and Mr. Guerrero amplify and simplify their instructions as the book continues. Mere massage does not produce pliability, they write. You must contract muscles while also stretching and pummeling them, preferably with high-tech, vibrating foam rollers or vibrating spheres, Mr. Brady writes. These are available at The TB12 Method online store for $150 and up.
The problem with this notion is that exercise science has never heard of muscle pliability.
“It’s balderdash,” says Stuart Phillips, a professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and an expert in muscle physiology.
In scientific terms, he says, muscles that are soft tend to be muscles that are sick. “When folks do little or nothing, as, for instance, during bed rest, then their muscles get very soft,” he says. |||||
A: | Tom Brady released his first book this week. It's ... interesting. Sports Illustrated reports The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance contains "some extremely questionable scientific claims and some excellent photos of Tom Brady." That questionable science starts with "pliable" muscles, which the Patriots quarterback credits for his longevity in football, according to the New York Times. Brady claims running and weight-lifting lead to dense, easily injured muscles. Pliable muscles—a non-scientific term that one expert calls "balderdash"—apparently absorb stress to decrease the likelihood of injury. Brady says you can get pliable muscles through "targeted, deep-force muscle work" and "the daily acts of living that complement my off-field life." Brady's advice on nutrition starts well enough (avoid sugary foods and processed carbs) before warning of foods like strawberries, tomatoes, and salmon. It's unclear why. The book comes with a number of recipes, and Sports Illustrated tried a few out, quickly becoming exasperated with Brady's inexact instructions (soak tomatoes* for "2-6 hours"). But perhaps the most eye-popping claim in the book: Water can prevent sunburns. Deadspin reports Brady claims to drink about 2.5 gallons of water per day and credits that for not getting sunburns like he did when he was a kid. He then goes on to highlight the benefits and drawbacks of various types of water, from tap to mineral to carbonated. But in the end, as the Times puts it, Brady's book is, if nothing else, "large and handsome" like the quarterback himself. *Ed. Note: Weren't we supposed to avoid these? |
Q: 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.
Analytical psychology is the school of psychology that came from the ideas of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung .
A: | Analytical psychology ( sometimes analytic psychology ) , also called Jungian psychology , is a school of psychotherapy which originated in the ideas of Carl Jung , a Swiss psychiatrist . |
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Q: This list contains the top 25 accounts with the most followers on the social photo-sharing platform Instagram. As of May 2018, the most followed user is Instagram's own account, with over 235 million followers. Selena Gomez is the most followed individual, with over 137 million followers. Ten accounts have exceeded 100 million followers on the site.
A: who has the maximum number of followers on instagram
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Q: 'The New Colossus' is a sonnet that American poet Emma Lazarus (1849 -- 1887) wrote in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty. In 1903, the poem was cast onto a bronze plaque and mounted inside the pedestal's lower level.
A: | what is the poem on the statue of liberty |
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There are three known chambers inside the Great Pyramid. The lowest chamber is cut into the bedrock upon which the pyramid was built and was unfinished. The so-called Queen's Chamber and King's Chamber are higher up within the pyramid structure. The main part of the Giza complex is a setting of buildings that included two mortuary temples in honour of Khufu (one close to the pyramid and one near the Nile), three smaller pyramids for Khufu's wives, an even smaller 'satellite' pyramid, a raised causeway connecting the two temples, and small mastaba tombs surrounding the pyramid for nobles.
Output: | who were the three pyramids of giza built for |
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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.
Example: The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
Output: The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini.
The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
New input case for you: Firozabad district is a district in Uttar Pradesh , India .
Output: | Firozabad district forms one of the western districts of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh , which has Firozabad Town as its district headquarters . |
In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
Q: Jordan played three seasons for coach Dean Smith at the University of North Carolina. As a freshman, he was a member of the Tar Heels' national championship team in 1982. Jordan joined the Bulls in 1984 as the third overall draft pick. He quickly emerged as a league star, entertaining crowds with his prolific scoring. His leaping ability, demonstrated by performing slam dunks from the free throw line in slam dunk contests, earned him the nicknames Air Jordan and His Airness. He also gained a reputation for being one of the best defensive players in basketball. In 1991, he won his first NBA championship with the Bulls, and followed that achievement with titles in 1992 and 1993, securing a 'three-peat'. Although Jordan abruptly retired from basketball before the beginning of the 1993 -- 94 NBA season to pursue a new venture in minor league baseball, he returned to the Bulls in March 1995 and led them to three additional championships in 1996, 1997, and 1998, as well as a then-record 72 regular-season wins in the 1995 -- 96 NBA season. Jordan retired for a second time in January 1999, but returned for two more NBA seasons from 2001 to 2003 as a member of the Wizards.
A: | when did michael jordan play in the nba |
In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
Q: 'I'm Lovin' It' is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Justin Timberlake. The song was produced by The Neptunes and is credited as being written by Pharrell Williams, Tom Batoy, Andreas Forberger and Franco Tortora.
A: | who did the mcdonalds jingle i'm lovin it |
Q: You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
The Constitution provides that justices ``shall hold their offices during good behavior'' (unless appointed during a Senate recess). The term ``good behavior'' is understood to mean justices may serve for the remainder of their lives, unless they are impeached and convicted by Congress, resign, or retire. Only one justice has been impeached by the House of Representatives (Samuel Chase, March 1804), but he was acquitted in the Senate (March 1805). Moves to impeach sitting justices have occurred more recently (for example, William O. Douglas was the subject of hearings twice, in 1953 and again in 1970; and Abe Fortas resigned while hearings were being organized in 1969), but they did not reach a vote in the House. No mechanism exists for removing a justice who is permanently incapacitated by illness or injury, but unable (or unwilling) to resign.
A: | can a seating supreme court justice be removed? |
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President Barack Obama is applauding the Supreme court's decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act. Obama says the court "has righted a wrong, and our country is better off for it."
Obama says he has directed Attorney General Eric Holder to work with others in his administration to make sure federal law reflects the court's decision.
He also says that nothing in the decision changes how religious institutions define and consecrate marriage.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
President Barack Obama has telephoned his congratulations to the plaintiffs in a gay marriage case before the Supreme Court.
Obama telephoned gay rights advocate Chad Griffin, who had the couple in a California gay marriage case listen in.
The White House confirmed that Obama placed the call as he flew to Africa aboard Air Force One. ||||| The plaintiffs who challenged California's same-sex marriage ban before the Supreme Court were discussing the ruling during an appearance Wednesday on MSNBC when the interview was interrupted by a phone call. The caller? President Barack Obama.
The plaintiffs comprise two couples: Kris Perry and Sandy Stier and Jeff Zarrillo and Paul Katami. Initially, only Perry and Stier were participating in the interview when Human Rights Campaign President Chris Griffin appeared on camera holding a phone.
"The President's on the line from Air Force One," Griffin announced, putting the call on speaker phone. Zarrillo and Katami then joined the others on the set.
Watch: |||||
Output: | The four plaintiffs in the Prop 8 case got a call of congratulations from President Obama this morning, and the rest of us got to listen in because it happened on live TV. One of the couples in the case, Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, were being interviewed on MSNBC when Chris Griffin of the Human Rights Campaign appeared on camera with them to announce that Obama was calling from Air Force One, reports Talking Points Memo. "We're so proud of you guys," said the president, via speakerphone. Soon the other couple, Jeff Zarrillo and Paul Katami, arrived to listen in—and Obama even got an invite to the mens' wedding. Earlier, Obama pronounced that the court decision, which allows gay marriage to go forward in California, "has righted a wrong, and our country is better off for it," reports the AP. |
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question:
What styles influenced the styles used in the region?, Context: Increasing military and cultural contacts with the Muslim world, including the Norman conquest of Islamic Sicily in 1090, the Crusades, beginning 1096, and the Islamic presence in Spain, may have influenced Medieval Europe's adoption of the pointed arch, although this hypothesis remains controversial. Certainly, in those parts of the Western Mediterranean subject to Islamic control or influence, rich regional variants arose, fusing Romanesque and later Gothic traditions with Islamic decorative forms, as seen, for example, in Monreale and Cefalù Cathedrals, the Alcázar of Seville, and Teruel Cathedral.
answer:
Gothic traditions with Islamic decorative forms
question:
Were there fewer major or heavy attacks in December?, Context: Five nights later, Birmingham was hit by 369 bombers from KG 54, KG 26, and KG 55. By the end of November, 1,100 bombers were available for night raids. An average of 200 were able to strike per night. This weight of attack went on for two months, with the Luftwaffe dropping 13,900 short tons (12,600 t) of bombs. In November 1940, 6,000 sorties and 23 major attacks (more than 100 tons of bombs dropped) were flown. Two heavy (50 short tons (45 t) of bombs) attacks were also flown. In December, only 11 major and five heavy attacks were made.
answer:
heavy
question:
What were examples of assemblages that participated in an action that indirectly helped create changes in the way people spoke and wrote?, Context: Translation has served as a school of writing for many authors. Translators, including monks who spread Buddhist texts in East Asia, and the early modern European translators of the Bible, in the course of their work have shaped the very languages into which they have translated. They have acted as bridges for conveying knowledge between cultures; and along with ideas, they have imported from the source languages, into their own languages, loanwords and calques of grammatical structures, idioms and vocabulary.
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| monks who spread Buddhist texts in East Asia, and the early modern European translators of the Bible
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Problem:What came as a result of Russia's ban?, Context: Sevastopol fell after eleven months, and formerly neutral countries began to join the allied cause. Isolated and facing a bleak prospect of invasion from the west if the war continued, Russia sued for peace in March 1856. This was welcomed by France and the UK, where the citizens began to turn against their governments as the war dragged on. The war was officially ended by the Treaty of Paris, signed on 30 March 1856. Russia lost the war, and was forbidden from hosting warships in the Black Sea. The Ottoman vassal states of Wallachia and Moldavia became largely independent. Christians were granted a degree of official equality, and the Orthodox church regained control of the Christian churches in dispute.:415
Solution: | Wallachia and Moldavia became largely independent |
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You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
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?
Why? The question is a yes/no question, and it is answerable based on the given passage.
New input: The queen can be moved any number of unoccupied squares in a straight line vertically, horizontally, or diagonally, thus combining the moves of the rook and bishop. The queen captures by occupying the square on which an enemy piece sits.
Solution: | can the queen move like the horse in chess? |
What is the most logical next event?
How to protect your computer
Choose malware and virus protection offered by the major players in the field.
For help in this area, access microsoft's security center to learn more. Maintain your firewall protection. | Do not allow it to be turned off for even an extremely short time. Understand the protections built into your computer's operations are there to help you. |
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.
Let me give you an example: This list contains the top 25 accounts with the most followers on the social photo-sharing platform Instagram. As of May 2018, the most followed user is Instagram's own account, with over 235 million followers. Selena Gomez is the most followed individual, with over 137 million followers. Ten accounts have exceeded 100 million followers on the site.
The answer to this example can be: who has the maximum number of followers on instagram
Here is why: The answer is talking about the Instagram accounts that have the most followers. The question asking about the maximum number of followers. So this is a good example.
OK. solve this:
Whitman has also lent her voice to several animated films and television series, including as Rose / Huntsgirl in American Dragon: Jake Long, Katara in Avatar: The Last Airbender, Tinker Bell in the Disney Fairies franchise, Little Suzy in Johnny Bravo, April O'Neil in the 2012 generation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Yuffie Kisaragi in the video game Kingdom Hearts II.
Answer: | who does the voice of katara in avatar |
Definition: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Input: " Scrub " means low shrubs , mixed with grasses , herbs , and geophytes .
Output: | Shrubland , scrubland , scrub , brush , or bush is a plant community characterised by vegetation dominated by shrubs , often also including grasses , herbs , and geophytes . |
Q: Wal-Mart has had to appeal many sex-discrimination lawsuits.
Wal-Mart Stores has asked a US federal appeals court to review a judge's order approving class-action status for a sex-discrimination lawsuit.
A: It's impossible to say
Q: Mr. Speaker is 50 years old.
Mr. Speaker, to answer the member's first point about lower unemployment, the Minister of Finance in budget plan 1999 on page 64 projects that employment insurance benefit payments will rise from $11.8 billion to $13.8 billion by 2000-01, an extra $2 billion for employment insurance payments.
A: It's impossible to say
Q: The C. D. Howe Institute had not been created yet in 1962.
As the C.D. Howe Institute notes, the tendency to employ this kind of one-time initiative to lower the reported surplus has the effect of biasing initiatives against tax cuts and into program spending and, in particular, into program spending of the type that can be delivered through some sort of foundation or fund.
A: It's impossible to say
Q: The narrator wants to incentivize people to build new kinds of technology
I'm really strongly committed to clean water and clean air, and cleaning up the new kinds of challenges like global warming. He is right that I'm not in favor of energy taxes. I am in favor of tax cuts to encourage and give incentives for the quicker development of these new kinds of technologies.
A: | Yes |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Example Input: The Solanaceae, or nightshades, are an economically important family of flowering plants. The family ranges from annual and perennial herbs to vines, lianas, epiphytes, shrubs, and trees, and includes a number of important agricultural crops, medicinal plants, spices, weeds, and ornamentals. Many members of the family contain potent alkaloids, and some are highly toxic, but many, including tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant, bell/chili peppers, and tobacco are widely used. The family belongs to the order Solanales, in the asterid group and class Magnoliopsida (dicotyledons). The Solanaceae consists of about 98 genera and some 2,700 species, with a great diversity of habitats, morphology and ecology.
Example Output: are tomatoes a member of the nightshade family?
Example Input: General speed limits in Germany are set by the federal government. All limits are multiples of 5 km/h. There are two default speed limits: 50 km/h (31 mph) inside built-up areas and 100 km/h (62 mph) outside built-up areas. While parts of the autobahns and many other freeway-style highways have posted limits up to 130 km/h (81 mph) based on accident experience, congestion and other factors, many rural sections have no general speed limit. The German Highway Code (Straßenverkehrsordnung) section on speed begins with the requirement which may be rendered in English:
Example Output: is there no speed limit on the autobahn?
Example Input: The top of the tower is currently known as the Blackpool Tower Eye. At a height of 380 feet (120 m), the Eye is the highest observation deck in North West England. It was previously known simply as the Tower Top, until it reopened on September 2011. Reopening after major renovation, new owner Blackpool Council brought in Merlin Entertainments to manage the attractions, with Merlin deciding to incorporate the tower into its range of ``Eye'' branded attractions.
Example Output: | is blackpool ballroom at the top of the tower?
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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.
This list contains the top 25 accounts with the most followers on the social photo-sharing platform Instagram. As of May 2018, the most followed user is Instagram's own account, with over 235 million followers. Selena Gomez is the most followed individual, with over 137 million followers. Ten accounts have exceeded 100 million followers on the site.
Solution: who has the maximum number of followers on instagram
Why? The answer is talking about the Instagram accounts that have the most followers. The question asking about the maximum number of followers. So this is a good example.
New input: Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen, and down the mountain side. The summer's gone, and all the roses falling, It's you, it's you must go and I must bide. But come ye back when summer's in the meadow, Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow, And I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow, Oh Danny boy, oh Danny boy, I love you so! But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying, And I am dead, as dead I well may be, Ye'll come and find the place where I am lying, And kneel and say an 'Avé' there for me; And I shall hear, though soft you tread above me, And all my grave will warmer, sweeter be, For you will bend and tell me that you love me, and I shall sleep in peace until you come to me!
Solution: | the words to the song oh danny boy |
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Q: There are seven types of sea turtles : Kemp 's Ridley , Flatback , Green , Olive Ridley , Loggerhead , Hawksbill and the leatherback .
A: | The seven existing species of sea turtles are the green sea turtle , loggerhead sea turtle , Kemp 's ridley sea turtle , olive ridley sea turtle , hawksbill sea turtle , flatback sea turtle , and leatherback sea turtle . |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Input: Consider Input: What determines the model of forces?, Context: For certain physical scenarios, it is impossible to model forces as being due to gradient of potentials. This is often due to macrophysical considerations that yield forces as arising from a macroscopic statistical average of microstates. For example, friction is caused by the gradients of numerous electrostatic potentials between the atoms, but manifests as a force model that is independent of any macroscale position vector. Nonconservative forces other than friction include other contact forces, tension, compression, and drag. However, for any sufficiently detailed description, all these forces are the results of conservative ones since each of these macroscopic forces are the net results of the gradients of microscopic potentials.
Output: gradient of potentials
Input: Consider Input: What area was acquired after 1815?, Context: With Burma preoccupied by the Chinese threat, Ayutthaya recovered its territories by 1770, and went on to capture Lan Na by 1776. Burma and Siam went to war until 1855, but all resulted in a stalemate, exchanging Tenasserim (to Burma) and Lan Na (to Ayutthaya). Faced with a powerful China and a resurgent Ayutthaya in the east, King Bodawpaya turned west, acquiring Arakan (1785), Manipur (1814) and Assam (1817). It was the second-largest empire in Burmese history but also one with a long ill-defined border with British India.
Output: Assam
Input: Consider Input: Why was it unclear that who was the original inventor?, Context: In the late 1980s, key breakthroughs in GaN epitaxial growth and p-type doping ushered in the modern era of GaN-based optoelectronic devices. Building upon this foundation, Dr. Moustakas at Boston University patented a method for producing high-brightness blue LEDs using a new two-step process. Two years later, in 1993, high-brightness blue LEDs were demonstrated again by Shuji Nakamura of Nichia Corporation using a gallium nitride growth process similar to Dr. Moustakas's. Both Dr. Moustakas and Mr. Nakamura were issued separate patents, which confused the issue of who was the original inventor (partly because although Dr. Moustakas invented his first, Dr. Nakamura filed first).[citation needed] This new development revolutionized LED lighting, making high-power blue light sources practical, leading to the development of technologies like BlueRay, as well as allowing the bright high resolution screens of modern tablets and phones.[citation needed]
| Output: Both Dr. Moustakas and Mr. Nakamura were issued separate patents
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Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence in this paragraph:
A man riding a horse and swinging a rope around is seen chasing after a calf and eventually grabbing the animal with his rope. he
Select from:
[-] ties its legs together while its still running and continues to ride the horse out of the camera view.
[-] holds the calf down and another man comes out to help the man tie up the calf.
[-] holds the calf over his head and ties its leg up while the horses tail ropes follow.
[-] lets the calf go and runs and rope ends up on the horse. | holds the calf down and another man comes out to help the man tie up the calf. |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
This afternoon, New York Representative Anthony Weiner went ballistic on the House floor at his Republican colleagues over their reject-it-all attitude toward health care. Striding angrily to the mike, Weiner shouted: "You guys have chutzpah. The Republican party is a wholly owned subsidiary of an insurance industry. That's the fact." Not ten seconds into his rant, he was interrupted by (what sounds like) Rep. Dan Lungren, who objected and asked the Speaker to "take down" Weiner's words. Weiner strode away angrily, then, after agreeing to retract his offending words, took the mike again. "How much time do I have remaining?" he began, enunciating clearly. "Make no mistake about it: Every. Single. Republican. I. Have. Ever. Met. In my entire life is a wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry." ||||| Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) is trying to turn his floor charge that the Republican Party "is a wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry" into a campaign fundraiser.
Weiner reiterated his charge in a post on the liberal Daily Kos Web site with a link to his fundraising page on ActBlue, a liberal fundraising network.
Weiner withdrew his initial charge on the House floor only to amplify it on his second try.
"Make no mistake, every Republican I have ever met in my entire life is a wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry," he said. Weiner withdrew that remark as well after Republicans objected again. |||||
| New York congressman Anthony Weiner laid into the GOP's attitude in health care in a fiery diatribe on the House floor. "You gotta love these Republicans," Weiner said. "I mean, you guys have chutzpah. The Republican Party is a wholly owned subsidiary of insurance companies." Offended GOP Rep. Dan Lungren only got an encore when he asked the Democrat to withdraw the remarks, notes New York. "How much time do I have remaining?" Weiner asked after agreeing to retract his previous words. "Make no mistake about it," he said, enunciating clearly, "every single Republican I have ever met in my entire life is a wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry." Weiner was unapologetic about the remarks in a Daily Kos post afterward, which, CQ Politics notes, also contained a plea for donations and a link to a fundraising page. |
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Q: Another term for black is?, Context: The US racial or ethnic classification "black" refers to people with all possible kinds of skin pigmentation, from the darkest through to the very lightest skin colors, including albinos, if they are believed by others to have West African ancestry (in any discernible percentage), or to exhibit cultural traits associated with being "African American". As a result, in the United States the term "black people" is not an indicator of skin color or ethnic origin but is instead a socially based racial classification related to being African American, with a family history associated with institutionalized slavery. Relatively dark-skinned people can be classified as white if they fulfill other social criteria of "whiteness", and relatively light-skinned people can be classified as black if they fulfill the social criteria for "blackness" in a particular setting.
A: | African American |
Q: the dance academy is expensive
Gabby<br>Gabby planned on attending a local dance academy this summer. All the courses for the local dance academy were full. She was told to keep checking her email account for a sudden opening. Gabby waited over five days to hear back from the dance academy. She received an email update on the six day inviting her to join.
A: It's impossible to say
Q:
Kate was standing on a kids chair to reach a high shel
Close<br>Kate was standing on a kids chair to reach a high shelf. She was trying to get off the chair. But the chair began to flip. She jumped off the falling chair to keep from falling. She sat on the chair laughing with her hand over her racing heart.
A: Yes
Q: The agent is unsure if he spoke clearly or not in his last order. They are uncertain if the people that were meant to understand their direction in fact understood that they would be on call.
I said, though, very clearly in the last order, I thought, in the September 12th order, that I would be available. And I thought, when I heard that the reporters, quite frankly, appeared for depositions, that when I was on a break, I was going to hear an accumulated list of questions that were objected to and that I would have to rule on those questions.
A: It's impossible to say
Q: We must protect the environment.
No excuses. You must conform. In other words, there are practical things we can do. But it starts with working in a collaborative effort with states and local folks. If you own the land, every day is Earth Day. People care a lot about their land and care about their environment.
A: | Yes |
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence in this paragraph:
An athletic woman stands ready before a track holding a bar far above her head. she
OPT:
(A). then does several straight back flips over the bar and lands on a mat below her.;
(B). runs down and throws the pole off into the distance and is shown again in slow motion.;
(C). gives the bar several times and prepares it by raising both arms up.;
(D). begins her run demonstrating how to perform back flips in the sand.; | (B). |
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In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
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'THIS COULD'VE BEEN THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE': Zeek Taylor of Eureka Springs.
Unlike most, if not all, courthouses across the state, thein Eureka Springs is typically open to issue marriage licenses on Saturdays. In the wake of invalidating the state's constitutional ban of same-sex marriage , same-sex couples lined up this morning in the courthouse only to be told by the deputy county clerk that she wouldn't issue licenses to straight or same-sex couples today because her boss, the county clerk, was out of town.We'll have more soon from KUAF's Jacqueline Froelich and photographer Kat Wilson, who're in Eureka Springs for the: Jacqueline Froelich reports thatrequested an attorney general's opinion this morning on whether she could issue licenses to same-sex couples. When she didn't hear back, she made the unilateral decision to not issue them and closed the office. Around 50 couples and some supporters, including attorney, were gathered. The police came to the courthouse and asked everyone to disperse. Now, according to Froelich, the courthouse seems to be opening back up again.The Association of Arkansas Counties has scheduled a conference call for county clerks and county attorneys at 2 p.m. today to discuss ramifications of the Piazza ruling.The e-mail notice of the conference call went to all parties with a copy of Judge Piazza's summary judgment and finding that the law prohibiting issuance of licenses to same-sex couples is unconstitutional. ||||| click to enlarge Rett Peek
Kat Wilson
FIRST SAME-SEX COUPLE MARRIED IN ARKANSAS: Kristin Seaton (left) and Jennifer Rambo
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AFTER 42 YEARS: Dick Titus and Zeek Taylor, of Eureka Springs, were wed.
The first same-sex couples in Arkansas have received marriage licenses in Eureka Springs.The first to marry were27, and, 26, both of Fort Smith. Minutes after the couple received a license, Fayetteville ministeraccepted their certificate and performed the marriage. They'd been together for four years.After Circuit Judge Chris Piazza overturned the state's ban on same-sex marriage yesterday, Rambo and Seaton got in their car to head to Little Rock, hoping to be married this morning, the AP reported . When they learned the Pulaski County Courthouse wouldn't be opened, they headed to Eureka Springs, where they slept in their Ford Focus after arriving at 2 a.m. They woke up every 30 minutes to make sure they were at the front of the line.A deputy county clerk had earlier refused to issue licenses . The county clerk was away, and the deputy, Lana Gordon, said she was concerned yesterday's ruling didn't apply to Carroll County. She'd asked the attorney general's office for an opinion; when she didn't receive one, she closed the courthouse and sent the 100 or so people away. Minutes later, another deputy clerk in training, Jane Osborne, announced she would issue licenses. Osborne was "happy to do it," she said. She had been scheduled to handle voting duties that day and switched jobs with the other clerk. As we reported earlier today , the Association of Arkansas Counties has scheduled a conference call for county clerks and county attorneys at 2 p.m. today to discuss ramifications of the Piazza ruling.The e-mail notice of the conference call went to all parties with a copy of Judge Piazza's summary judgment and finding that the law prohibiting issuance of licenses to same-sex couples is unconstitutional.So a lot of other people are going to be married on Monday.More to come! ||||| LITTLE ROCK — A Pulaski County circuit judge on Friday declared Arkansas’ ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional.
Judge Chris Piazza issued the ruling in a lawsuit filed by several same-sex couples. He did not stay his ruling, which an attorney for the plaintiffs said apparently clears the way for same-sex couples to marry.
The state attorney general’s office said it would appeal the ruling to the state Supreme Court and would seek a stay.
In a 13-page, single-spaced order, Piazza said Arkansas’ constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman and a state law barring same-sex marriages from being performed or recognized violate inalienable rights guaranteed under both the federal and state constitutions.
“Arkansas’ marriage laws discriminate against same-sex couples in violation of the Equal Protection Clause because they do not advance any conceivable legitimate state interest necessary to support even a rational-basis review,” Piazza said in the order.
The judge said the Arkansas Constitution states that “all men are created equally free and independent,” but that in passing Amendment 83, voters “singled out same-sex couples for the purpose of disparate treatment. This is an unconstitutional attempt to narrow the definition of equality.”
Amendment 83 passed in 2004 with 75 percent of the vote, a fact often cited by its supporters. Piazza wrote that “the fact that Amendment 83 was popular with voters does not protect it from constitutional scrutiny” and that the U.S. Constitution guarantees rights that cannot be submitted to a vote.
He rejected the argument that the state has an interest in seeing that children are raised by opposite-sex couples rather than same-sex couples, noting that banning same-sex marriage does not prohibit gays from having children.
“The only effect the bans have on children is harming those children of same-sex couples who are denied the protection and stability of parents who are legally married,” Piazza wrote in the order.
The judge also said that excluding same-sex couples from marriage with no rational basis violates their right to privacy. He noted that the Arkansas Supreme Court cited a right to privacy in rulings that struck down a state law banning sodomy and a state law banning adoption by unmarried, cohabiting couples.
Piazza cited several historic cases in his order, including U.S. v. Windsor, in which the U.S. Supreme Court last year struck down a section of the Defense of Marriage Act defining marriage as between a man and a woman, and Loving v. Virginia, in which the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967 struck down Virginia’s ban on interracial marriage.
Referencing the plaintiff in the latter case, Piazza wrote, “It has been over 40 years since Mildred Loving was given the right to marry the person of her choice. The hatred and fears have long since vanished and she and her husband lived full lives together; so it will be for the same-sex couples. It is time to let that beacon of freedom shine brighter on all our brothers and sisters. We will be stronger for it.”
Jack Wagoner, attorney for the plaintiffs who challenged Arkansas’ gay marriage ban, called it a “beautifully written opinion.”
“He pretty much ruled as broadly as he possibly could, striking it down on pretty much every conceivable ground that we raised in our pleadings, and that’s good for (standing up on) appeal,” he said.
Aaron Sadler, spokesman for Attorney General Dustin McDaniel, said Friday, “We respect the court’s decision, but, in keeping with the attorney general’s obligation to defend the state constitution, we will appeal. We will request that Judge Piazza issue a stay of his ruling so as not to create confusion or uncertainty about the law while the Supreme Court considers the matter.”
McDaniel recently said he personally supports gay marriage but will continue to defend the same-sex marriage ban as attorney general.
Jerry Cox, the president of the Christian conservative Family Council and the leader of the effort to get Amendment 83 on the ballot, said Friday he was “extremely disappointed” by the ruling and surprised that Piazza did not issue a stay to avoid confusion.
“The marriage of one man to one woman has been a cornerstone of western civilization for over a thousand years, and it is simply not right for a judge in Little Rock to try to pull that foundation from under our society,” he said.
Cox said he is optimistic that the state Supreme Court will overturn the ruling. He said the court “has not been kind” to the Family Council’s issues in rulings such as the one on adoption by unmarried, cohabiting couples, but noted that with the nonpartisan judicial election set for May 20, “we may have a little bit different makeup on the court by the time this case is heard.”
Groups around the country that support gay marriage hailed the ruling.
“This victory is an essential step on the journey toward full equality for all,” Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin, an Arkansas native, said in a statement.
Evan Wolfson, president of Freedom to Marry, said in a statement, “With nearly 70 marriage cases now making their way through the courts, and five federal appellate courts now hearing arguments and soon to rule, today’s decision out of Arkansas underscores that all of America is ready for the freedom to marry,”
Since the U.S. Supreme Court issued its U.S. v. Windsor ruling in June, federal judges have struck down same-sex marriage bans in Utah, Oklahoma, Virginia, Texas and Michigan. Those rulings have been stayed pending appeals. |||||
Output: | Arkansas today issued its first gay-marriage licenses thanks to a rather bold deputy clerk in training, the Arkansas Times reports. The day after a judge struck down a state ban on gay marriage, about 50 couples arrived at the Eureka Springs courthouse this morning—and were told by the deputy county clerk that she wouldn't give out licenses because the county clerk was away. Apparently, she had called an attorney general for an opinion and, not hearing back, made the decision to shut down the courthouse, adds the Times. Police even asked everyone to leave. But minutes later, deputy clerk in training Jane Osborne reopened the doors and said she was "happy to do it." The first to marry were Jennifer Rambo, 26, and Kristin Seaton, 27, who'd slept outside the courthouse overnight in their Ford Focus and woke up every half hour so they wouldn't miss the opening. Rambo's reaction when the license was issued, according to the AP: "Thank God." Formidable forces had opposed them, including a state law banning same-sex marriage and a 2004 constitutional amendment that passed with 75% approval, Arkansas News notes. But "the fact that Amendment 83 was popular with voters does not protect it from constitutional scrutiny," wrote county circuit judge Chris Piazza in his ruling. The state plans to appeal his decision. |
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Q: CLOSE 2-year-old Eden Carlson's road to recovery has defied the odds and is possibly the first medical case of its kind. USA TODAY
Eden Carlson's parents were told she wouldn't ever walk or talk again. Thanks to oxygen and hyperbaric therapies, she's doing both. (Photo: Eden Carlson Miracles, YouTube)
A 2-year-old from Arkansas who nearly drowned in her family's swimming pool is on the mend thanks to a type of oxygen therapy.
In February 2016, Eden Carlson broke through her baby gate and headed into the family pool. Her mother, who believed the child was safe playing with older siblings, was in the shower, WDSU News reports. Eden was found after struggling in cold water for at least 10 minutes, without a heartbeat, the station reports. She was not expected to survive, but she did.
Eden was left with severe brain damage. She couldn't speak or walk. Her parents were told she would never talk, walk, eat on her own or react to her surroundings. They couldn't accept that, and looked at other options.
Fifty-five days after Eden's near drowning, Paul Harch of Hyperbaric Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine started hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Oxygen administered at sea-level pressure filled Eden's nose for 45 minutes, twice a day. Eden started hyperbaric oxygen therapy about a month later, breathing pure oxygen in a pressurized chamber, five days a week. The treatment isn't new, but it is experimental and not approved by the FDA.
In May, the miraculous happened: Eden laughed. She moved her arms, hands and eyes. She could speak. Today, she's able to climb up stairs on a play set by herself. The new responses happened gradually, but to much surprise.
Her brain damage started to reverse — what could be a first in medical history.
“The startling regrowth of tissue in this case occurred because we were able to intervene early in a growing child, before long-term tissue degeneration,” Harch said in a statement.
Eden's mom, Kristal Carlson, says the treatments saved her daughter, and could help others suffering from brain injuries.
"She’s getting so much better all the time," Carlson told USA TODAY. "In a couple of years, it’s going to be like she never had an accident."
Harch and Edward Fogarty, at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine, documented her progress in a report published in Medical Gas Research.
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The accident took place in February 2016. Two-year-old Eden Carlson had managed to get through a baby gate and fall into the family swimming pool and was in the 5 degree Celsius water for up to 15 minutes before being discovered.
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After being resuscitated and treated in hospital for just over a month, she was unresponsive to all stimuli. She was immobile and constantly squirmed and shook her head. MRI scans showed deep injury to the brain’s gray matter, as well as loss of white and gray matter.
In a bid to reverse the brain damage, researchers at the LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine and the University of North Dakota School of Medicine began treating her with two types of oxygen therapy.
This includes normobaric oxygen therapy, where levels of oxygen given are the same as at sea level, and hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), where they are given pure oxygen at pressures higher than that of the atmosphere within a special chamber.
Fifty five days after the drowning accident, doctors started giving Eden normobaric oxygen for 45 minutes twice per day. This appeared to make her more alert and awake, and she stopped squirming. She started laughing more and was able to move her arms and hands, and grasp with her left. Scientists also noted eye-tracking movements and some speech.
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After 78 days, Eden began HBOT therapy, with 45 minute sessions five days per week for four weeks. After 10 sessions, her mother said she was almost back to normal other than motor function. After 39 sessions—coupled with physical therapy—Eden was able to walk and her speech had returned to normal. Her cognitive abilities had improved and motor function was almost restored to pre-drowning levels.
An MRI scan a month after the 40th HBOT session showed almost complete reversal of the brain damage initially recorded. Researchers believe the oxygen therapy, coupled with Eden having the developing brain of a child, had activated genes that promote cell survival and reduce inflammation—allowing the brain to recover. The case report is published in the journal Medical Gas Research.
Paul Harch, who treated Eden, said in a statement: “The startling regrowth of tissue in this case occurred because we were able to intervene early in a growing child, before long-term tissue degeneration. Although it’s impossible to conclude from this single case if the sequential application of normobaric oxygen then HBOT would be more effective than HBOT alone, in the absence of HBOT therapy, short duration, repetitive normobaric oxygen therapy may be an option until HBOT is available."
Concluding, the researchers say that to their knowledge, this is the first reported case of gray matter loss and white matter atrophy (types of brain damage) reversal with any therapy and that treatment with oxygen should be considered in similar cases. “Such low-risk medical treatment may have a profound effect on recovery of function in similar patients who are neurologically devastated by drowning."
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A: | When a 2-year-old girl in Arkansas managed to make her way through a baby gate and fall into the family swimming pool, she was submerged in 41-degree water for as many as 15 minutes before she was found. Having technically drowned and suffered a heart attack, Eden Carlson was resuscitated after the February 2016 accident but completely unresponsive to stimuli for a month. Now, in what appears to be a world first, per Newsweek, researchers at the LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine and the University of North Dakota School of Medicine report in Medical Gas Research that they have managed to reverse much of her white and gray matter brain damage using two types of non-invasive oxygen therapy. "The startling regrowth of tissue ... occurred because we were able to intervene early in a growing child, before long-term tissue degeneration," says Paul Harch, who treated her, in an LSU release. MRI showed deep gray matter injury and both gray and white matter loss, and Eden was unresponsive, couldn't walk or talk, and constantly squirmed. Since researchers started giving her normobaric oxygen therapy (sea-level amounts of oxygen) and hyperbaric oxygen therapy (pure oxygen at higher pressure) for 45 minutes twice a day, she stopped squirming, appeared more alert, began to laugh, and can now talk, climb stairs, and play, reports USA Today. An MRI after her 40th HBOT session showed "near-complete reversal of cortical and white matter atrophy." "She’s getting so much better all the time," her mother says. (Drowning doesn't always involve dying.) |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Leaving their designated places before the ball leaves the shooter's hands, or interfering with the ball, are violations. In addition, the shooter must release the ball within five seconds (ten seconds in the United States) and must not step on or over the free throw line until the ball touches the hoop. Players are, however, permitted to jump while attempting the free throw, provided they do not leave the designated area at any point. A violation by the shooter cancels the free throw; a violation by the defensive team results in a substitute free throw if the shooter missed; a violation by the offensive team or a shot that completely misses the hoop results in the loss of possession to the defensive team (only if it is on the last free throw). | can you step over the free throw line? |
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 the Patimokkha?, Context: Vinaya is the specific moral code for monks and nuns. It includes the Patimokkha, a set of 227 rules for monks in the Theravadin recension. The precise content of the vinayapitaka (scriptures on Vinaya) differs slightly according to different schools, and different schools or subschools set different standards for the degree of adherence to Vinaya. Novice-monks use the ten precepts, which are the basic precepts for monastics. | Vinaya |
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said he is prepared to receive detainees held by the US military at the Guantanamo Bay camp in Cuba. US President Barack Obama has ordered the closure of the controversial camp, in which around 240 inmates are held, by next year. Mr Chavez made his offer at a summit of South American and Arab countries. It is highly unlikely the Pentagon will take him up on it, however, given the poor state of US ties with Venezuela.
Sentence: Hugo Chavez and Obama had a fight are both black
Output: It's impossible to say
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Halperin v. Kissinger was a court case filed by Morton Halperin against National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, who approved wiretapping Halperin's home and White House office, starting in 1969. Halperin dropped the case after Kissinger publicly apologized on November 13, 1992.
Sentence: Halperin v. Kissinger was studied by washington
Output: It's impossible to say
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The Bank of Italy, the ultimate arbiter of Italian banking mergers, has been engulfed by scandal since police wire taps revealed Fazio and his wife advised a local banker in a bid for bank Antonveneta against Dutch bank ABN AMRO.
Sentence: The Bank of Italy is based in Venice.
Output: It's impossible to say
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How to break a lock<br>Determine whether your padlock has a single-or double-lock shackle. In most cases, this will be impossible to determine by just looking at the padlock. Check its packaging, contact its manufacturers, or research it online to discover what kind of shackle it has.
Sentence: In every single case, this will be impossible to determine by just looking at the padlock.
Output: | No |
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In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
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Which of these Greeks knows more about physics: Joseph Sifakis or John Iliopoulos?, Context: As of 2007, Greece had the eighth highest percentage of tertiary enrollment in the world (with the percentages for female students being higher than for male) while Greeks of the Diaspora are equally active in the field of education. Hundreds of thousands of Greek students attend western universities every year while the faculty lists of leading Western universities contain a striking number of Greek names. Notable modern Greek scientists of modern times include Dimitrios Galanos, Georgios Papanikolaou (inventor of the Pap test), Nicholas Negroponte, Constantin Carathéodory, Manolis Andronikos, Michael Dertouzos, John Argyris, Panagiotis Kondylis, John Iliopoulos (2007 Dirac Prize for his contributions on the physics of the charm quark, a major contribution to the birth of the Standard Model, the modern theory of Elementary Particles), Joseph Sifakis (2007 Turing Award, the "Nobel Prize" of Computer Science), Christos Papadimitriou (2002 Knuth Prize, 2012 Gödel Prize), Mihalis Yannakakis (2005 Knuth Prize) and Dimitri Nanopoulos.
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John Iliopoulos
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What part of Bentham influenced Peel?, Context: Peel, widely regarded as the father of modern policing, was heavily influenced by the social and legal philosophy of Jeremy Bentham, who called for a strong and centralized, but politically neutral, police force for the maintenance of social order, for the protection of people from crime and to act as a visible deterrent to urban crime and disorder. Peel decided to standardise the police force as an official paid profession, to organise it in a civilian fashion, and to make it answerable to the public.
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philosophy
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When could have paper making began?, Context: The pulp papermaking process is said to have been developed in China during the early 2nd century AD, possibly as early as the year 105 A.D., by the Han court eunuch Cai Lun, although the earliest archaeological fragments of paper derive from the 2nd century BC in China. The modern pulp and paper industry is global, with China leading its production and the United States right behind it.
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| 105 A.D
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Hunting season<br>Jimbo loved to go hunting. He usually saw pheasant and pigeons when hunting. Once, Jimbo saw a deer. He eventually scared it off. This was a huge disappointment for Jimbo.
Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text?
Instead of being scared off, the deer came to Jimbo and stayed next to him.
OPTIONS:
1). Yes.
2). It's impossible to say.
3). No. | 3). |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Problem:Heidi Klum won this round. And every round, for that matter. She is not, as the The Donald would say, a loser.
The supermodel has spoken up about her video that makes fun of Donald Trump, who wears the synthetic hairs of your old Barbies on his head and recently decided to assess Klum's attractiveness.
Klum sat down for an interview Tuesday with Access Hollywood alongside her America's Got Talent co-hosts Spice Girl Mel B and Howie Mandel. She talked about how bizarre it was to see her physical appearance even mentioned in relation to the 2016 presidential election.
Klum also explained that assigning a numerical value to the worth of a woman is disrespectful, and that women are so much more than their looks.
"I was just making light of the situation because it was kind of funny. But really, the whole entire situation about women is not really funny, you know, to put a number on a woman," she said. "We juggle so many things and I feel that, you know, women who support their families, who have children, who make their lunches, drive them all over the place, work at the same time, I mean, we do so many things, so in my book, every woman is a 10."
Mel B — who knows a thing or two about girl power — also chimed in about Trump's comments. Mandel was not asked for his opinion — but interrupted to say, "They're women. Hear them roar."
Have something to add to this story? Share it in the comments. ||||| Heidi Klum isn't clear about why Presidential candidate Donald Trump chose to mention her in a recent interview.
"Personally, I have no idea what I have to do with the election," Heidi told Access Hollywood guest correspondent Scott Evans backstage at "America's Got Talent" on Tuesday. "Why do I come into play with this election? Like that doesn’t make sense to me to be honest with you."
The "AGT" judge, supermodel and mother of four originally made light of Trump's comment to the New York Times that she is no longer a "10," in a short video on Twitter. The clip showed her posing for a photographer while sporting a T-shirt with a "10" pinned to it, only for a man in a Trump mask to rip it off mid-shoot, revealing "9.99" written on the top.
WATCH: Heidi Klum’s Response To Donald Trump: ‘In My Book, Every Woman Is A 10’
"I was just making light of the situation because it was kind of funny I thought, and I just thought, make it even more funny. But really, the whole entire situation about women is not really funny, you know to put a number on a woman, especially women. We juggle so many things and I feel that, you know, women who support their families, who have children, who make their lunches, drive them all over the place, work at the same time, I mean, we do so many things, so in my book, every woman is a 10," Heidi said.
-- Access Hollywood Staff ||||| “I have many women executives and they are paid at least as much as the men,” he said. “I find women to be amazing.”
The billionaire braggart known for saying unfiltered things is trying to be diplomatic. Sort of.
It has suddenly hit Trump that he’s leading the Republican field in a race where many candidates, including the two joyless presumptive nominees, are sputtering. He’s got the party by the tail — still a punch line but not a joke.
The Wall Street Journal huffed that Trump’s appeal was “attitude, not substance,” and the nascent candidate is still figuring out the pesky little details, like staff and issues, dreaming up his own astringent campaign ads for Instagram on ISIS and China.
The other candidates, he says, “have pollsters; they pay these guys $200,000 a month to tell them, ‘Don’t say this, don’t say that, you use the wrong word, you shouldn’t put a comma here.’ I don’t want any of that. I have a nice staff, but no one tells me what to say. I go by my heart. The combination of heart and brain. When Hillary gets up there she reads and then goes away for three days.”
As he headed off this weekend to see the butter cow in Iowa — “Iowa is very clean. It’s not like a lot of places where you and I would go, like New York City” — Trump is puzzling over a conundrum: How does he curb the merciless heckler side of himself, the side that has won over voters who think he’s a refreshing truth teller, so that he can seem refined enough to win over voters who think he’s crude and cartoonish? |||||
Solution: | One day after releasing a video poking fun at him, Heidi Klum continued to fire back at Donald Trump's comment on her allegedly fading looks, saying it's disrespectful to assign numerical values to women, Mashable reports. It started when Trump told the New York Times that Klum was "no longer a 10." Klum responded with a video in which she accepts that she's now a "9.99." In an interview with Access Hollywood yesterday, Klum—who can't figure out what her attractiveness has to do with the upcoming election anyway—said it doesn't matter what Trump says because all women are tens anyway. "I feel that women who support their families, who have children, who make their lunches, drive them all over the place, work at the same time, we do so many things, so in my book, every woman is a 10." |
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Barcelona's emblematic statue of Christopher Columbus pointing out to sea could be toppled under a proposal from far-Left councillors, who say it is an inappropriate celebration of Spain’s colonial legacy.
The CUP party group of councillors in Barcelona has proposed replacing the statue of the Italian explorer who claimed the discovery of the Americas with a symbol of “American resistance against imperialism, oppression and indigenous segregation”.
As well as knocking Columbus himself from the top of his ornate pillar at the start of Barcelona’s La Rambla boulevard, the CUP demands the removal of “all the ornaments at the base of the column which glorify the conquest of America”. ||||| Spain Call to topple Christopher Columbus statue from its Barcelona perch Leftwing councillors say city should not be celebrating his colonial legacy and call for memorial reflecting ‘American resistance to imperialism’ The monument has been part of Barcelona’s skyline since 1888. Photograph: Artem Dunaev/Getty Images/EyeEm
A group of anti-capitalist councillors in Barcelona are hoping to topple the statue of Christopher Columbus that has stood at the foot of La Rambla for more than a century, arguing that the city should not be celebrating the explorer’s colonial legacy.
The 197ft (60-metre) high memorial, topped with a bronze statue of the Genoan pointing out to sea, has been part of Barcelona’s skyline since 1888. Its base pays homage to Columbus’s colleagues and his patrons, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.
In proposals to be submitted to the city council on Friday, the three CUP Capgirem councillors call for the statue to be taken down along with “all the decorations at the base of the column that glorify the conquest of America and its ‘museumification’ through historical interpretation”.
Far more fitting, they say, would be a memorial reflecting “American resistance to imperialism, oppression and indigenous and African-American segregation”.
The image of Columbus is not the only monument on their hitlist: the councillors also want the statue of the merchant and slave trader Antonio López y López, Marquis of Comillas, removed from its plinth outside the post office building. In its place, the trio propose a monument to commemorate the victims of the slave trade.
Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Columbus monument at the foot of La Rambla. Photograph: Nikada/Getty Images
Their suggestions, however, go well beyond statuary. As well as removing Spanish flags from municipal buildings in Barcelona, they would also like to see 12 October – the national holiday on which Spain celebrates Columbus’s landfall in the Americas – turned into an ordinary working day.
They say the date not only marks “an intolerable act of colonialism and imperialism”, but also “the genocide of the indigenous American population by colonist-conquistadors, and an act of aggressive Spanish nationalism against all the peoples that it oppresses and has oppressed”.
Last is a demand for the council to ban fascist events in the city.
The notion of celebrating 12 October is increasingly distasteful to some in Spain, especially those on the left.
Last year, Barcelona’s mayor, Ada Colau, said the country should not be marking “a genocide” with an €800,000 (£700,000) military parade, while José María González, the Podemos-backed mayor of the southern city of Cádiz, tweeted: “We never discovered America; we massacred and suppressed a continent and its cultures in the name of God.”
||||| | Just a couple of years after the Statue of Liberty was dedicated in New York Harbor, a statue of Christopher Columbus was erected to grace Barcelona's skyline—and while the former represents freedom and friendship, local council members say the latter should be torn down for symbolizing the worst of colonialism, reports the Guardian. The officials are formally requesting that the nearly 200-foot bronze figure, which went up in 1888, be dismantled, as well as all the adornments at the base of the column—including effigies of Columbus' sponsors, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, per the Telegraph—that "glorify the conquest of America and its 'museumification' through historical interpretation." Instead, the far-left officials say, a better tribute would be some kind of structure signifying "American resistance to imperialism, oppression, and indigenous and African-American segregation." That's not all the CUP Capgirem members are looking to eliminate. Also on the hit list: a statue of a slave trader outside Barcelona's post office, the Spanish flags that adorn municipal buildings, and Columbus Day celebrations on Oct. 12. Other Spanish officials have voiced displeasure at the holiday in the past, with the mayor of the port city of Cadiz tweeting last year, "We never discovered America; we massacred and suppressed a continent and its cultures in the name of God." The request has been met with some scorn by other parties, with one local leader sniffing, "Next thing you know, the CUP will ask for a statue of Kim Jong Un pointing at Ithaca." Meanwhile, Barcelona's deputy mayor said Tuesday that taking down the Columbus statue "is not part of the changes we currently have planned." (A stolen Columbus letter was found in a US institution.) |
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".
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Question: Jake was walking to the park to play baseball with his friends. He loved being outside on sunny days, and now that school was over for the year, he was playing baseball every day. The more he played, the better he got. Only Frank was better than he was. He liked playing third base, but he often played in the field. He was carrying his favorite mitt that his Grandfather had bought him. His Grandfather had taught him to catch. He loved spending time with him when he was younger, but he had moved last year. Now he only saw his Grandfather in the summer. Jake was really excited to show him his skills when he came to their next game. He could throw really fast now. He was sure his Grandfather would want to sit in the front to watch him. He knew he would jump up and down. Jake happily ran the rest of the way to the park thinking about how much fun he was going to have playing baseball this year. <sep>Did jake walk to the park everyday to play baseball with his friends during school days?<sep>No
Answer: No
Question: We were cornered in a sort of way already. But these butchers up the cavern had been surprised, they were probably scared, and they had no special weapons, only those little hatchets of theirs. And that way lay escape. Their sturdy little forms--ever so much shorter and thicker than the mooncalf herds--were scattered up the slope in a way that was eloquent of indecision. I had the moral advantage of a mad bull in a street. But for all that, there seemed a tremendous crowd of them. Very probably there was. Those Selenites down the cleft had certainly some infernally long spears. It might be they had other surprises for us.... But, confound it! if we charged up the cave we should let them up behind us, and if we didn't those little brutes up the cave would probably get reinforced. Heaven alone knew what tremendous engines of warfare--guns, bombs, terrestrial torpedoes--this unknown world below our feet, this vaster world of which we had only pricked the outer cuticle, might not presently send up to our destruction. It became clear the only thing to do was to charge! It became clearer as the legs of a number of fresh Selenites appeared running down the cavern towards us. <sep>Where are the Selenites in relation to the narrator?<sep>Beneath
Answer: No
Question: Simply put, energy is the ability to a cause change. Energy can cause many types of change. Think about when you have a lot of energy. You are able to do a lot of things. When you dont have a lot of energy, you may sit around and do very little. A similar thing happens to particles of matter as energy is added. The more energy there is, the faster the particles of matter move. Energy is also the reason you are able to move around. In fact, matter is always in motion. It can even change from one form to another. For example, electrical energy can be converted into heat energy. You see this every time you use the toaster. Energy causes a change in matter when you lift your arm. Energy can be used to move matter. You use energy to take a step to move forward. Thanks to energy, your body moves. The energy of moving matter is called kinetic energy. <sep>True or false. Matter is able to change forms despite, usually, not being in motion?<sep>False. Matter is always in motion
Answer: | Yes
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Example Input: The Fifty Shades trilogy was developed from a Twilight fan fiction series originally titled Master of the Universe and published episodically on fan-fiction websites under the pen name ``Snowqueen's Icedragon''. The piece featured characters named after Stephenie Meyer's characters in Twilight, Edward Cullen and Bella Swan. After comments concerning the sexual nature of the material, James removed the story from the fan-fiction websites and published it on her own website, FiftyShades.com. Later she rewrote Master of the Universe as an original piece, with the principal characters renamed Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele and removed it from her website before publication. Meyer commented on the series, saying ``that's really not my genre, not my thing... Good on her--she's doing well. That's great!''
Example Output: is fifty shades of grey fanfiction of twilight?
Example Input: The Jack Russell Terrier is a small terrier that has its origins in fox hunting. It is principally white-bodied and smooth, rough or broken-coated but can be any colour.
Example Output: is a jack russell considered a small breed?
Example Input: The Originals, a one-hour American supernatural drama, was renewed for a fifth season by The CW on May 10, 2017. The 2016--17 United States television season debut of The Originals was pushed to midseason, as with the fourth season premiere. On July 20, 2017, Julie Plec announced via Twitter that the upcoming season would be the series' last. The fifth season consists of 13 episodes and debuted on April 18, 2018. The series finale aired on August 1, 2018.
Example Output: | is there a season 5 of the origionals?
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In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Who brought the excluded sport back?, Context: The Maroons compete in the NCAA's Division III as members of the University Athletic Association (UAA). The university was a founding member of the Big Ten Conference and participated in the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball and Football and was a regular participant in the Men's Basketball tournament. In 1935, the University of Chicago reached the Sweet Sixteen. In 1935, Chicago Maroons football player Jay Berwanger became the first winner of the Heisman Trophy. However, the university chose to withdraw from the conference in 1946 after University President Robert Maynard Hutchins de-emphasized varsity athletics in 1939 and dropped football. (In 1969, Chicago reinstated football as a Division III team, resuming playing its home games at the new Stagg Field.)
Output: | Chicago |
IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
A man is seen standing in a field with a dog while holding onto toys. the man
OUT: then begins throwing the toys while the dog chases after them.
IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
Several clips are shown of athletes running down a large track into a pit of sand. more people
OUT: are shown running down the track performing impressive jumps as well as celebrating afterwards.
IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
A close up a chair is shown while the camera pans out backwards and text moves across the screen. The camera follows closely into the chair and leads into a woman sitting comfortable on the chair. the woman
OUT: | adjusts the seat and leads into several more close ups of the chair being shown. |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Problem:Focused crawls are collections of frequently-updated webcrawl data from narrow (as opposed to broad or wide) web crawls, often focused on a single domain or subdomain. ||||| Iran ’s judiciary on Monday sentenced to death an imprisoned American convicted of espionage for the Central Intelligence Agency . The punishment shocked his family and was imposed against a backdrop of increasingly bellicose relations with the United States over the disputed Iranian nuclear program .
The sentence against the American, Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, 28, a former Marine, was likely to become a new point of contention, and possible bargaining leverage, in Iran’s struggle against the West over its nuclear program. A tightening vise of sanctions, which threaten vital oil sales and with them the nation’s economy, has left Tehran feeling besieged and pushed relations with the United States and its allies to the lowest ebb since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
In retaliation, Tehran announced on Sunday that it had begun to enrich uranium at a second site, after having threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz to shipping, a measure that would severely curtail oil shipments.
The details of the case against Mr. Hekmati have been cloaked in secrecy since he was detained in August in Iran, to which his family said he had traveled to visit his grandparents. Official confirmation that he was even in Iranian custody was not provided until last month. The White House and the State Department, noting that Iranian prosecutors have a history of coercing confessions, denied that Mr. Hekmati was a spy and called for his immediate release. The C.I.A. declined to comment.
Tommy Vietor, a spokesman for the White House’s National Security Council, said, “We strongly condemn such a verdict and will work with our partners to convey our condemnation to the Iranian government.”
Iran has a record of arresting and convicting Americans suspected of spying, then freeing them later after bail money has been paid. But rights activists said Mr. Hekmati’s case was the first in the nearly 33-year history of estranged relations with the United States in which Iran’s Islamic authorities had ordered the execution of an American citizen.
“This whole case is very politically motivated,” said Hadi Ghaemi, the executive director of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, an advocacy group based in New York that has been monitoring Mr. Hekmati’s case. “There’s absolutely no evidence against him.”
In a statement released by Mr. Hekmati’s parents and posted on www.FreeAmir.org, a new Web site, his mother, Behnaz, and father, Ali, said they were “shocked and terrified by the news that our son, Amir, has been sentenced to death.”
Denying that he was a spy, the parents said, “We believe that this verdict is the result of a process that was neither transparent nor fair.” They added, “His very life is being exploited for political gain.”
Iran’s official news media portrayed Mr. Hekmati’s prosecution and punishment in totally different terms, saying he had admitted to investigators that he had been sent to Iran by the C.I.A. after a decade of training and that he had been assigned to infiltrate the Intelligence Ministry. Accounts in the state-run media called his presence in Iran part of an “intricate American plot to carry out espionage activities in the Islamic republic.”
Mr. Hekmati, who was born in Flagstaff, Ariz., and spent part of his youth in Flint, Mich., where some members of his family still live, has not been allowed to communicate with relatives or legal counsel either in Iran or the United States. He is part of a population of an estimated one million Iranian-Americans who have extensive family ties in Iran.
The death sentence, ordered by the Islamic Revolution Court Branch 15 in Tehran, can be appealed within 20 days. But Iranian experts in the United States said the sentence might never be carried out.
The court’s order suggested that Iran was willing to go to new lengths to increase its leverage in dealing with what it views as American-led hostility over the nuclear program, which Iran says is for peaceful purposes but the United States, the European Union and Israel regard as a cloak to attain a nuclear weapon.
Over the past few years, Iran has endured four rounds of Security Council economic sanctions, the mysterious assassinations of its nuclear scientists, computerized sabotage of its uranium enrichment centrifuges and the death of its top missile expert in an unexplained explosion after having ignored repeated demands by the United Nations to stop enriching uranium. |||||
Solution: | An American has been sentenced to death in Iran for spying for the CIA. Former US Marine Amir Mirzai Hekmati, 28, was convicted of "cooperating with a hostile nation." Hekmati, who also has Iranian citizenship, was shown on state TV last month confessing that he spied for the CIA. His confession was the key evidence against him, reports the Telegraph. His family in the US said he's no spy, and that he was in Iran visiting grandparents. The US State Department is demanding his release. |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
The Secretary of State is a senior official of the federal government of the United States of America, and as head of the U.S. Department of State, is principally concerned with foreign policy and is considered to be the U.S. government's equivalent of a Minister for Foreign Affairs.
| what is the role of us secretary of state |
By The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump affirms plan to deliver State of Union despite Pelosi’s request to postpone, says it would be ‘very sad’ to delay. Copyright © 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This website is not intended for users located within the European Economic Area.
Can we infer the following?
Trump affirms plan to deliver State of Union despite Pelosi’s request to postpone, says it would be sad to delay. | Yes |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Input: Consider Input: As a vertically integrated company, Luxottica designs, manufactures, distributes and retails its eyewear brands, including LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, Apex by Sunglass Hut, Pearle Vision, Sears Optical, Target Optical, Eyemed vision care plan, and Glasses.com. Its best known brands are Ray-Ban, Persol, and Oakley.
Output: are oakley and ray ban owned by the same company?
Input: Consider Input: Frontal fog forms near a front when raindrops, falling from relatively warm air above a frontal surface, evaporate into cooler air close to the Earth's surface and cause it to become saturated.
Output: can there be rain and fog at the same time?
Input: Consider Input: Lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis /ˌkɒnvəˈleɪriə məˈdʒeɪlɪs/), sometimes written lily-of-the-valley, is a sweetly scented, highly poisonous woodland flowering plant that is native throughout the cool temperate Northern Hemisphere in Asia and Europe. Other names include May bells, Our Lady's tears, and Mary's tears. Its French name, muguet, sometimes appears in the names of perfumes imitating the flower's scent.
| Output: is the plant lily of the valley poisonous?
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Problem:In the United States, a person must be aged 35 or over to be President or Vice President, 30 or over to be a Senator, and 25 or over to be a Representative, as specified in the U.S. Constitution. Most states in the U.S. also have age requirements for the offices of Governor, State Senator, and State Representative. Some states have a minimum age requirement to hold any elected office (usually 21 or 18).
Solution: | is there an age limit to run for congress? |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Q: The Grand Canyon of northern Arizona in the United States, with an average depth of 1,600 m (one mile) and a volume of 4.17 trillion cubic metres, is one of the world's largest canyons. It was among the 28 finalists of the New7Wonders of Nature worldwide poll. (Some referred to it as one of the 7 natural wonders of the world.) Copper Canyon in Chihuahua, Mexico is deeper and longer than the Grand Canyon.
A: | is the grand canyon the second largest canyon in the world? |
Read the text and determine if the sentence is true:
Figures released today show that the number of organs donated by New Zealanders in 2006 has decreased by four to a new record low of 25. In 2005 the number of organs donated equalled 29, a previous record low in New Zealand. Before 2005 the number of organ donations averaged 40, an already low number by international standards.
Sentence: New Zealanders are fair. | It's impossible to say |
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Q: In positive psychology , researchers are studying what gives a person satisfaction in life .
A: | In positive psychology , social scientists study what might contribute to living a good life , or what would lead to people having increased positive mood and overall satisfaction with their life . |
WASHINGTON (AP) – Rex Tillerson is out as secretary of state. President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday morning that he’s naming CIA director Mike Pompeo to replace Tillerson. Pompeo is to be replaced at CIA by Gina Haspel, Pompeo’s deputy at CIA. She would be the first woman in that role. Tillerson had just returned from a shortened trip to Africa hours before Trump’s announcement. Trump offered no explanation for the change. (© Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
Can we infer the following?
Donald Trump is not well liked
Options are: a. Yes b. It's impossible to say c. No
The answer is: | b. |
Read the text and determine if the sentence is true:
Prosecutors in South Africa are set to announce whether they will drop corruption charges against African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma. Mr Zuma is widely expected to become the country's next president after elections later this month. He is accused of graft, racketeering and money-laundering in connection with an arms deal signed with western companies in 1999. The 66-year-old denies the charges and says they are part of a political plot. Mr Zuma was first charged in 2005, but has yet to face trial.
Sentence: Jacob Zuma is president of South Africa | No |
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]: On to the Twentieth Century: The British extended their control over the peninsula by putting together the whole panoply of colonial administration — civil service, public works, judiciary force, police force, post office, education, and land regulation — with teams of British administrators, teachers, engineers, and doctors to go with it. At the same time, the tin industry, dominated by Chinese using labor-intensive methods in the 19th century, passed increasingly into Western hands, who employed the modern technology of gravel pumps and mining dredges. Petroleum had been found in northern Borneo, at Miri, and in Brunei, and the Anglo-Dutch Shell company used Singapore as its regional depot for its oil supplies and exports. But the major breakthrough for the Malay economy was the triumph of rubber, when Singapore's new garden director, Henry Ridle ("Rubber Ridley" to his friends, "Mad Ridley" to all doubting Thomases) had developed new planting and tapping methods and painstakingly spread his faith in rubber around the peninsula. World demand increased with the growth of the motor-car and electrical industries, and sky-rocketed during World War I. By 1920, Malaya was producing 53 percent of the world's rubber, which had overtaken tin as its main source of income. The Malay ruling class again took a back seat. Together with effective control of the rubber and tin industries, the British now firmly held the reins of government. The sultans were left in charge of local and religious affairs, content with their prestige, prosperity, and security. The census of 1931 served as an alarm signal for the Malay national consciousness. Bolstered by a new influx of immigrants to meet the rubber and tin booms of the 1920s, non-Malays now slightly outnumbered the indigenous population. The Great Depression of 1929 stepped up ethnic competition in the shrinking job market, and nationalism developed to safeguard Malay interests against the Chinese and Indians rather than the British imperial authority. Though hampered by the peninsula's division into the States and the Straits Settlements, relatively conservative Muslim intellectuals and community leaders came together at the Pan-Malayan Malay Congress in Kuala Lumpur in 1939. In Singapore the following year, they were joined by representatives from Sarawak and Brunei. Teachers and journalists urged the revival of the common Malay-Indonesian consciousness, split by the Anglo-Dutch dismemberment of the region in the 19th century. This spirit became a factor in the gathering clouds of war. <sep>What caused the Malay ruling class to take a back seat?<sep>Auto and electrical industry demand for rubber, which dramatically increased during World War I
[A]: Yes
[Q]: Dr. Benjamin Stone is a hotshot young surgeon who longs to leave the drudgery of a Washington , D.C. emergency room and finally leaps at his chance at more money and less death as a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills . On his last day , Ben's relationship with his co-workers is presumed to be anything but a warm one . None of his colleagues will join him for a drink and a cake in his honor has an iced portion of the phrase `` Good riddance , asshole '' sliced out . Ben's cross-country drive in a 1956 Porsche 356 Speedster is interrupted when he crashes in the rural hamlet of Grady , South Carolina . The crash damages the fence of local Judge Evans , who sentences him to community service at a nearby hospital . Ben offers to pay for the fence , but the stern judge increases his community service each time he talks back . Defeated , he reports to the hospital , where Nurse Packer humbles him by ordering him to clock in and out , as would a factory worker . Though upset , Ben quickly makes friends with Mayor Nick Nicholson , the town cafe's proprietor/head waitress , and Melvin , the local mechanic tasked with repairing Ben's car . Ben soon finds his clinic work to be much more laid-back than the emergency room . He has simple cases such as spots before the eyes , fishing hook impalings , and even reading mail for a young illiterate couple , whose baby he later delivers . The experience also humbles Ben when he mistreats a case of mitral valve regurgitation leading to late cyanosis in the child . <sep>Did Ben have a job?<sep>Yes, in a hospital
[A]: Yes
[Q]: Imagine a glass of your favorite drink that never became empty. Now think about what really happens. You take a drink and there is less in the glass. You keep drinking and soon it is all gone. Good thing you have more to refill your glass. What if there would never be any more of your favorite drink. What would you do? Now you know the difference between renewable and non-renewable. Its too bad that many things here on Earth will run out. This includes some of our natural resources we depend on. Things like oil will not last forever. There is a limited supply. Someday, we will run out, so then what? At current rates of use, coal will last about 300 years. Petroleum will be used up in just a few decades. <sep>What will happen to oil and why?<sep>It will run out because its nonrenewable
[A]: | Yes
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Q: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Pedestrians pass by the International Monetary Fund headquarters building in Washington on Sunday, May 15, 2011. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, 62, leader of the International Monetary Fund and a possible candidate... (Associated Press)
Benjamin Brafman, lawyer for Dominique Strauss-Kahn, leader of the International Monetary Fund, enters criminal court in New York City on Sunday, May 15, 2011. Strauss-Kahn, a possible candidate for president... (Associated Press)
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, is lead from a police station Sunday, May 15, 2011 in New York. Strauss-Kahn, a possible candidate for president of France, was pulled... (Associated Press)
International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn, left, is seen through a window as he is checked into Municipal Court, Monday, May 16, 2011 in New York. Strauss-Kahn is accused of sexually assaulting... (Associated Press)
Benjamin Brafman, lawyer for International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn, arrives outside a police precinct in New York, where Strauss-Kahn is being held, Sunday, May 15, 2011. Strauss-Kahn... (Associated Press)
Benjamin Brafman, lawyer for International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn, arrives outside a police precinct in New York, where Strauss-Kahn is being held, Sunday, May 15, 2011. Strauss-Kahn... (Associated Press)
International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn, left, is seen through a window as he is checked into Municipal Court, Monday, May 16, 2011 in New York. Strauss-Kahn is accused of sexually assaulting... (Associated Press)
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, is lead from a police station Sunday, May 15, 2011 in New York where he was being held. The arraignment for Strauss-Kahn, who's accused... (Associated Press)
French consul general Philippe Lalliot, left, talks with others in the lobby of a police station where it is believed Dominique Strauss-Kahn is being questioned in New York, Sunday, May 15, 2011. Dominique... (Associated Press)
FILE - In this April 15, 2011, file photo International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn attends the IMF/World Bank spring meetings in Washington. Strauss-Kahn, 62, seen as the strongest... (Associated Press)
FILE - In this file photo from April 16, 2011, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn attends the IMF/World Bank spring meetings in Washington. The arrest of Strauss-Kahn... (Associated Press)
A pedestrian walks past the entrance to the International Monetary Fund headquarters building in Washington on Sunday, May 15, 2011. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, 62, leader of the International Monetary Fund... (Associated Press)
Benjamin Brafman, lawyer for International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn, arrives outside a police precinct in New York, where Strauss-Kahn is being held, Sunday, May 15, 2011. Strauss-Kahn... (Associated Press)
Benjamin Brafman, lawyer for Dominique Strauss-Kahn, leader of the International Monetary Fund, enters criminal court in New York City on Sunday, May 15, 2011. Strauss-Kahn, a possible candidate for president... (Associated Press)
Benjamin Brafman, lawyer for Dominique Strauss-Kahn, leader of the International Monetary Fund, enters criminal court in New York City on Sunday, May 15, 2011. Strauss-Kahn, a possible candidate for president... (Associated Press)
The American and French flags hang over the Sofitel hotel Sunday, May 15, 2011 in New York where International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, 62, was staying Saturday and is accused of an... (Associated Press)
The French flag hangs over the Sofitel hotel Sunday, May 15, 2011 in New York, where International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, 62, was staying Saturday and is accused of an alleged assault... (Associated Press)
Benjamin Brafman, an attorney for International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn, enters criminal court in New York, Sunday, May 15, 2011. Strauss-Kahn, a possible candidate for president of... (Associated Press)
French consul general Philippe Lalliot sits in the lobby of a police station where it is believed Dominique Strauss-Kahn is being questioned in New York, early Sunday, May 15, 2011. Dominique Strauss-Kahn,... (Associated Press)
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, is lead from a police station Sunday, May 15, 2011 in New York where he was being held. Strauss-Kahn, a possible candidate for president... (Associated Press)
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, is lead from a police station Sunday, May 15, 2011 in New York. Strauss-Kahn, a possible candidate for president of France, was pulled... (Associated Press)
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, is lead from a police station Sunday, May 15, 2011 in New York where he was being held. Strauss-Kahn, a possible candidate for president... (Associated Press)
International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn is seen in a vehicle while being escorted away from a police station, Sunday, May 15, 2011 in New York, N.Y. Strauss-Kahn is accused of sexually... (Associated Press)
International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn, center, is brought into the Municipal Court, Monday, May 16, 2011 in New York. Strauss-Kahn is accused of sexually assaulting a maid in his hotel... (Associated Press)
International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn, center, is brought into the Municipal Court, Monday, May 16, 2011 in New York. Strauss-Kahn is accused of sexually assaulting a maid in his hotel... (Associated Press)
A collection of French newspapers displaying headlines referring to the head of IMF, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, in Paris, France, Monday, May 16, 2011. The International Monetary Fund's managing director... (Associated Press)
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, is lead from a police station Sunday, May 15, 2011 in New York. Strauss-Kahn, a possible candidate for president of France, was pulled... (Associated Press)
FILE - In this April 15, 2011, file photo International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn attends the IMF/World Bank spring meetings in Washington. Strauss-Kahn, 62, seen as the strongest... (Associated Press)
A pedestrians walks by the International Monetary Fund headquarters building in Washington on Sunday, May 15, 2011. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, 62, leader of the International Monetary Fund and a possible... (Associated Press)
Benjamin Brafman, an attorney for Dominique Strauss-Kahn, enters criminal court in New York, Sunday, May 15, 2011. The leader of the International Monetary Fund and a possible candidate for president... (Associated Press)
Benjamin Brafman, an attorney for Dominique Strauss-Kahn, enters criminal court in New York, Sunday, May 15, 2011. The leader of the International Monetary Fund and a possible candidate for president... (Associated Press)
The French flag hangs over the Sofitel hotel Sunday, May 15, 2011 in New York, where International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, 62, was staying Saturday and is accused of an alleged assault... (Associated Press)
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, is taken away from a police station Sunday, May 15, 2011 in New York, where he was being held. Strauss-Kahn, a possible candidate for president... (Associated Press)
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, is taken away from a police station Sunday, May 15, 2011 in New York, where he was being held. Strauss-Kahn, a possible candidate for president... (Associated Press) ||||| A French writer who claims Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexually assaulted her nine years ago is to file an official complaint, her lawyer has announced.
Tristane Banon previously described the attack, which happened when she was in her early 20s, in a television programme in 2007, when she called Strauss-Kahn, whose name was bleeped out, a "rutting chimpanzee."
She says she consulted a lawyer at the time, but was persuaded not to take action by her mother, a regional councillor in the Socialist party and friend of the Strauss-Kahn family. Banon is goddaughter to Strauss-Kahn's second wife.
Banon's lawyer, David Koubbi, said: "We are planning to make a complaint. I am working with her."
Strauss-Kahn was remanded in custody today after appearing in a New York court accused of a sexual attack on a hotel maid.
The 62-year-old head of the International Monetary Fund – who was widely tipped to be France's next president – was refused bail by the judge, Melissa Jackson, who ruled he might attempt to flee the US. His offer to post bail of one million dollars was turned down.
DSK, as he is known in France, will now stay in prison until his next court hearing on May 20. He faces charges of attempted rape, sex abuse, a criminal sex act, unlawful imprisonment and forcible touching and could face up to 25 years in prison.
Strauss-Kahn denies the charges.
Koubbi said Banon, now 31, was "literally blown over" when she heard the claims Strauss-Kahn had attacked a hotel chambermaid in New York. "At the same time, she was certainly not surprised," he said.
Across France, after the shock of Strauss-Kahn's arrest, came speculation, self-pity and conspiracy theories.
For some, the story of Strauss-Kahn's fall from presidential hopeful to prison cell was a combination of sordid tale and Shakespearean tragedy. For others the story was so extraordinary it smacked of a set-up.
Only three weeks ago, Strauss-Kahn evoked such a possibility in an interview with French newspaper Libération when he said he thought he was under surveillance and named the three principal difficulties he foresaw if he was to stand for the presidential elections.
"Money, women and the fact I am Jewish." He added: "Yes, I like women ... so what?" He said he could see himself becoming the victim of a honey trap: "a woman raped in a car park and who's been promised 500,000 or a million euros to invent such a story ..."
But not in his or his Socialist party's worst nightmares, nor in President Nicolas Sarkozy's wildest dreams, could anyone imagine Strauss-Kahn, nicknamed with almost tacit admiration the 'Great Seducer', being at the epicentre of what was described as a "political earthquake".
Jean-Marie Le Guen, a Socialist party MP who has known Strauss-Kahn for 25 years, said the story was "not credible" and inconsistent with what he knew of the politician's character. "Seduction, yes, but no way would he use constraint or violence. A certain number of facts, and certain aspects of the story we are hearing from the press, make this not credible."
He said Strauss-Kahn had not fled the scene of the alleged crime as reported but had lunched in New York before catching a flight booked weeks previously.
France-Soir reported that when plain-clothed police officers approached the politician in the first-class section of the Air France plane bound for Paris, he looked up at them and asked: "What's the matter?"
Le Guen said his friend knew he would be the target of mud-slinging but added: "What they are asking us to believe … it's just hallucinations. I'm a doctor and I know this can happen. We knew there would be hyper-violent attacks on him [Strauss-Kahn]. We could hear the knives being sharpened in preparation."
Libération editor Nicolas Demorand suggested France was having its first sex scandal "à l'anglo saxonne" and was "brutally entering a zone of public debate which, up to now whether because of the cultural exception, the 'latin' identity or democratic weakness has been confined to rumours and gossip among a small inner circle".
"Politicians … enjoy a particular tolerance on this subject," he wrote. "Part of the shock comes also from the unusual scene, until now unthinkable here: police arresting a top-level politician on a matter of morals."
There is sympathy for Strauss-Kahn's third wife, television journalist Anne Sinclair, who Le Guen said was bearing up with "strength and courage".
In a spasm of self-flagellation, political commentators spoke of the affair as a disgrace and humiliation for France, referring to the country as "the victim" in the affair. Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, the ecology minister, did at least mention the 32-year-old chambermaid allegedly attacked by Strauss-Kahn. "As well as the presumed victim, the chambermaid, there is a proven victim … France. We should remember the facts are very serious; in France we tend to treat things like this a little bit lightly," she told news agency AFP.
Of the pictures of Strauss-Kahn being led in handcuffs by New York police, criticised by some, including Le Guen as "hyper violent", Kosciusko-Morizet said the French politician was a suspect like any other. "I have confidence in American justice … it's so French to see conspiracies everywhere, it's something I believe that's in our culture."
The Socialist party was holding an emergency meeting to decide on how to react to the crisis in its ranks. Two months from the closing date for the party's primary election in October, Strauss-Kahn was the opposition's main hope of unseating Sarkozy. |||||
A: | Another woman is filing a complaint of sexual assault against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the IMF chief currently being held in New York on charges of sexually assaulting a hotel maid. French writer Tristane Banon says Strauss-Kahn did the same to her nine years ago, and described Strauss-Kahn as acting like a "rutting chimpanzee," the Guardian reports. Banon, who was in her 20s at the time of the attack, says she was persuaded not to take action by her mother, who was a friend of the Strauss-Kahn family and a Socialist regional counselor. "We are planning to make a complaint," says her lawyer. "I am working with her." Banon is Strauss-Kahn's second wife's goddaughter. Back in New York, Strauss-Kahn today pleaded not guilty and was ordered held without bail until his next court hearing, reports the AP. Until his arrest in New York, Strauss-Kahn was regarded by the French Socialist party as their main hope for unseating Nicolas Sarkozy as president. Click for more on the NYC case. |
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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".
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. <sep>Whose loss from the body is prevented by the skin?<sep>Heat
Output: | Yes |
In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
Q: The Chinese have long valued ivory for both art and utilitarian objects. Early reference to the Chinese export of ivory is recorded after the Chinese explorer Zhang Qian ventured to the west to form alliances to enable the eventual free movement of Chinese goods to the west; as early as the first century BC, ivory was moved along the Northern Silk Road for consumption by western nations. Southeast Asian kingdoms included tusks of the Indian elephant in their annual tribute caravans to China. Chinese craftsmen carved ivory to make everything from images of deities to the pipe stems and end pieces of opium pipes.
A: | where did ivory come from on the silk road |
What most naturally follows?
How to build a dog crate
Measure your dog.
To start concretely planning the dimensions of your crate, you'll need to accommodate your dog's size. Measure your dog's height (from its feet to the top of its head) and length (nose tip to the tip of its tail). | Decide on the dimensions of your crate. Once you've measured how big your dog is, you'll need to plan the size of your crate accordingly. |
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
A team from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control boarded the ship when it docked in St. Maarten to oversee the cleaning operation and try to determine what caused the outbreak, Carnival said.
Hypothesis: everyone onboard was in good health | No |
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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.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov ( January 29 , 1860 - July 15 , 1904 ) was a Russian writer who wrote short stories and plays .
Output: | Anton Pavlovich Chekhov ( Russian : , ; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904 ) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer , who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history . |
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Q: The Gnat was used by RAF 's Red Arrows as a team plane .
A: | In the United Kingdom , the Gnat became well known due to its prominent use as the display aircraft of the RAF 's Red Arrows aerobatic team . |
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.
One example is below.
Q: This list contains the top 25 accounts with the most followers on the social photo-sharing platform Instagram. As of May 2018, the most followed user is Instagram's own account, with over 235 million followers. Selena Gomez is the most followed individual, with over 137 million followers. Ten accounts have exceeded 100 million followers on the site.
A: who has the maximum number of followers on instagram
Rationale: The answer is talking about the Instagram accounts that have the most followers. The question asking about the maximum number of followers. So this is a good example.
Q: Bumblebee is a fictional character from the Transformers franchise. In most incarnations, Bumblebee is a small, yellow (with black stripes) Autobot with most of his alternative vehicle modes inspired by several generations of the Chevrolet American muscle cars (with the live-action film versions being very real Camaros: the original vehicle mode was based on a classic European Type 1 Volkswagen Beetle). The characters and related events are described, below, using in-universe tone. He is named after a genus of bee which inspired his paint scheme.
A: | what type of car is bumblebee in transformers 1 |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
A bit is a unit of?, Context: USB data is transmitted by toggling the data lines between the J state and the opposite K state. USB encodes data using the NRZI line coding; a 0 bit is transmitted by toggling the data lines from J to K or vice versa, while a 1 bit is transmitted by leaving the data lines as-is. To ensure a minimum density of signal transitions remains in the bitstream, USB uses bit stuffing; an extra 0 bit is inserted into the data stream after any appearance of six consecutive 1 bits. Seven consecutive received 1 bits is always an error. USB 3.0 has introduced additional data transmission encodings.
data
What did the principle of inertia do for general relativity?, Context: The concept of inertia can be further generalized to explain the tendency of objects to continue in many different forms of constant motion, even those that are not strictly constant velocity. The rotational inertia of planet Earth is what fixes the constancy of the length of a day and the length of a year. Albert Einstein extended the principle of inertia further when he explained that reference frames subject to constant acceleration, such as those free-falling toward a gravitating object, were physically equivalent to inertial reference frames. This is why, for example, astronauts experience weightlessness when in free-fall orbit around the Earth, and why Newton's Laws of Motion are more easily discernible in such environments. If an astronaut places an object with mass in mid-air next to himself, it will remain stationary with respect to the astronaut due to its inertia. This is the same thing that would occur if the astronaut and the object were in intergalactic space with no net force of gravity acting on their shared reference frame. This principle of equivalence was one of the foundational underpinnings for the development of the general theory of relativity.
one of the foundational underpinnings
Why might a mixed race native American need to be officially adopted?, Context: The social identity of the children was strongly determined by the tribe's kinship system. Among the matrilineal tribes of the Southeast, the mixed-race children generally were accepted as and identified as Indian, as they gained their social status from their mother's clans and tribes, and often grew up with their mothers and their male relatives. By contrast, among the patrilineal Omaha, for example, the child of a white man and Omaha woman was considered "white"; such mixed-race children and their mothers would be protected, but the children could formally belong to the tribe as members only if adopted by a man.
| the child of a white man and Omaha woman was considered "white"
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Read the text and determine if the sentence is true:
Par 4<br>On the 18th hole, the pro golfer stood at the tee. He swung hard, but his ball landed in the bunker. With the next swing, he recovered and put the ball on the green. He took a deep breath as he lined up his shot. He hit the ball and watched as it is went straight into the hole.
Sentence: He never played golf. | No |
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to stand on a skateboard
Decide whether you would be more comfortable riding regular or goofy.
There are two common stances used in skateboarding: regular and goofy. In a regular stance, the left foot is situated at the front of the board, whereas in a goofy stance the right foot is up front.
OPTIONS:
- The goofy stance is for your body to push off the board. Goofy stance means for the board to swing back.
- Determine which stance is more natural for you by considering whether you're right or left handed. Most right handed skaters ride in a regular stance.
- The former styles are especially comfortable for skateboarders. However, for a goofy stance, the front foot is usually right at the edge of the board.
- On straight forward piston style, the left foot is on the ground and the right foot is on the deck. In a goofy stance, the front foot is on the ground and the back foot is on the deck.
A: Determine which stance is more natural for you by considering whether you're right or left handed. Most right handed skaters ride in a regular stance.
IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to do drywall repair
Purchase a joint compound.
The two commonly available joint compounds are lightweight and all-purpose. Lightweight compound dries quicker than all-purpose and requires less sanding.
OPTIONS:
- When building drywall, smaller fibers are cleaner and easier to chip away. However, denser fibers are heavier and can require sanding.
- Specialized joint compound dries faster if only two components are purchased. Simple joint compound dries faster if two components are purchased together and the resulting compound has some durability.
- Begin mixing the compound into the drywall. Mix the compound and let it sit for thirty minutes to one hour.
- Joint compound comes in a variety of container sizes, but be advised that smaller containers may cost just as much as the larger ones. If resealed properly, joint compound can be kept for up to 9 months for other around-the-house repairs if you end up with leftover compound.
OUT: Joint compound comes in a variety of container sizes, but be advised that smaller containers may cost just as much as the larger ones. If resealed properly, joint compound can be kept for up to 9 months for other around-the-house repairs if you end up with leftover compound.
Question:
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence for the following:
How to become more social online
Consider which medium of social forum you are most comfortable with.
Realize too that sometimes you have to be out of your comfort zone to learn new ways to associate with somebody new.
Keep an open mind.
OPTIONS:
- Remember you are a person, so you can people not only let you interact but put you in a rhythm. So, tell yourself that you want to become more social, that you are an individual and that you want to make new friends, then you must open yourself up to social exposure and acceptance by others.
- Sometimes you don't want to talk to someone, but they say they do. A lot of them just want to help.
- There are many different methods for you to spend time online and socialize with others. For example, think of such sites as facebook, blogs, video chat, instant messengers, and so forth.
- Don't think of networking as a " comfort zone. " it is unlikely that you will be able to connect with someone new.
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Answer:
There are many different methods for you to spend time online and socialize with others. For example, think of such sites as facebook, blogs, video chat, instant messengers, and so forth.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
How to culture microworms
Find a microworm starter culture.
Because these worms don't lay eggs, you will need a few live adult microworms to start your culture. Remember that not all nematode species are a good food source, and some may even make your fish sick.
OPTIONS:
- If you don't feed your fish live organisms, you may have to make a vegetarian or plant-based culture. Get your aquarium water and weather conditions in mind.
- If you can find a microworm starter culture, you can work out the right approach. A frozen batch of frozen worms is best, but you can also purchase an over-the-counter worm starter at your local pet store or online.
- If your local fish store sells live food, check for microworms there. Try getting in touch with other local hobbyists through aquarist clubs.
- Buy a fast moving microworm tank. The quicker you start getting to know the microworms, the easier it will be for them to grow.
A: If your local fish store sells live food, check for microworms there. Try getting in touch with other local hobbyists through aquarist clubs.
How to use web content as research material
Assess the purpose of your internet research.
Do you need objective facts or are you looking for subjective opinions or descriptions? If you're looking for subjective material, then a personal home page may be appropriate for research material. If it's facts you're looking for, then it's not.
OPTIONS:
- A personal page might offer an objective reader with grain-based data. Often, an objective reader takes in subjective information and quotes from medical journals, newspapers, magazines, books, videos, tv and more.
- The internet is no place to hide facts from yourself. You need to be prepared to be careful with these things.
- If it's science, then a personal blog may suffice. In fact, online research takes a number of factors into account.
- Question what entity would provide the most credible information for your purposes. Would it be a government site or perhaps a university? Maybe it's a newspaper? Primary source material is often found on.
Question what entity would provide the most credible information for your purposes. Would it be a government site or perhaps a university? Maybe it's a newspaper? Primary source material is often found on.
Problem: Write the next sentence for:
A person's hands are seen close up on a tool and begins moving the handle around and taking the tool apart. the person
OPTIONS:
- continues measuring the tool and running the tool along the tool.
- then puts the tool down to two pieces and begins rubbing it all along the carpet and shows off more products.
- unscrews some items and tightens the inside and moves the screwdriver around while holding the tool.
- now is using a knee joint and using a smaller tool to build this shape..
Next sentence: | unscrews some items and tightens the inside and moves the screwdriver around while holding the tool. |
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Ex Input:
The earliest of these are the chambered tombs , although later came the building of stone circles , a trend that would continue into the following Bronze Age .
Ex Output:
The earliest of these are the chambered tombs of the Early Neolithic , although in the Late Neolithic this form of monumentalization was replaced by the construction of stone circles , a trend that would continue into the following Bronze Age .
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A language isolate is a language that is not known to be related to any other language .
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A language isolate , in the absolute sense , is a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical ( or " genetic " ) relationship with other languages , one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common with any other language .
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Brigham Young University ( BYU ) is often called “ The Y ” and is a private research university .
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| Brigham Young University ( BYU , sometimes referred to colloquially as The Y ) is a private research university located in Provo , Utah and owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) .
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[Q]: Wiktionary is run by the Wikimedia Foundation , which also runs Wikipedia .
[A]: Like its sister project Wikipedia , Wiktionary is run by the Wikimedia Foundation , and is written collaboratively by volunteers , dubbed " Wiktionarians " .
[Q]: West Macedonia is one of the thirteen peripheries of Greece .
[A]: Western Macedonia ( , " Dytiki ́ Makedoni ́ a " ) is one of the thirteen regions of Greece , consisting of the western part of Greek Macedonia .
[Q]: There are three species : " Cannabis sativa " , " Cannabis indica " , and " Cannabis ruderalis " .
[A]: | Three species may be recognized : " Cannabis sativa " , " Cannabis indica " , and " Cannabis ruderalis " ; " C. ruderalis " may be included within " C. sativa " ; all three may be treated as subspecies of a single species , " C. sativa " ; or " C. sativa " may be accepted as a single undivided species .
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After arriving in New York City, Einstein was taken to various places and events, including Chinatown, a lunch with the editors of the New York Times, and a performance of Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera, where he was cheered by the audience on his arrival. During the days following, he was given the keys to the city by Mayor Jimmy Walker and met the president of Columbia University, who described Einstein as "The ruling monarch of the mind." Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor at New York's Riverside Church, gave Einstein a tour of the church and showed him a full-size statue that the church made of Einstein, standing at the entrance. Also during his stay in New York, he joined a crowd of 15,000 people at Madison Square Garden during a Hanukkah celebration. Einstein next traveled to California where he met Caltech president and Nobel laureate, Robert A. Millikan. His friendship with Millikan was "awkward", as Millikan "had a penchant for patriotic militarism," where Einstein was a pronounced pacifist. During an address to Caltech's students, Einstein noted that science was often inclined to do more harm than good. This aversion to war also led Einstein to befriend author Upton Sinclair and film star Charlie Chaplin, both noted for their pacifism. Carl Laemmle, head of Universal Studios, gave Einstein a tour of his studio and introduced him to Chaplin. They had an instant rapport, with Chaplin inviting Einstein and his wife, Elsa, to his home for dinner. Chaplin said Einstein's outward persona, calm and gentle, seemed to conceal a "highly emotional temperament," from which came his "extraordinary intellectual energy." Chaplin also remembers Elsa telling him about the time Einstein conceived his theory of relativity. During breakfast one morning, he seemed lost in thought and ignored his food. She asked him if something was bothering him. He sat down at his piano and started playing. He continued playing and writing notes for half an hour, then went upstairs to his study, where he remained for two weeks, with Elsa bringing up his food. At the end of the two weeks he came downstairs with two sheets of paper bearing his theory. Chaplin's film, City Lights, was to premier a few days later in Hollywood, and Chaplin invited Einstein and Elsa to join him as his special guests. <sep>Where and Why was Einstein introduced to the famous actor?<sep>Both noted for pacifism
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Mayor of New Hope comes out as transgender News Mayor of New Hope comes out as transgender The appointed mayor of a small town in Collin County announced in an open letter to her citizens that she is transgender.
- The appointed mayor of a small town in Collin County announced in an open letter to her citizens that she is transgender.
Jess Herbst is the mayor of New Hope, Texas. It’s a town of 600 people east of McKinney.
Mayor Herbst posted a letter on the town’s website explaining her transition from Jeff to Jess and her decision to live her life as a female.
“I do hope that it helps people understand that we are just normal people like everyone else,” she said.
Herbst has served as city alderman since 2003 and was just appointed as mayor last May. She's now coming out as transgender, something she says she's known about her whole life. But until recently, most residents knew her as Jeff.
“For the last six months, the only time I've ever dressed as a man was at city council meetings,” she explained.
Herbst was appointed mayor in May because the previous mayor died and finally decided she wanted to tell the town what she says she's known most of her life.
Growing up as a young boy in Texas, she always knew she was transgender and started telling family members about eight years ago as more information on the transgender community came out.
“When I would go to school and I would see here's the girls, here's what they're doing, here's how they're dressing, here's how they're acting, I wanted to be in that group,” Herbst said. “But I wasn't allowed to be.”
While hundreds have showered her with emails of support, others are hesitant.
“For him, congratulations,” said Marry Ann Whitehead. “But in the role he plays in the community, I'm not sure how that would be a positive thing.”
“I'm a heterosexual, but I don't go running around telling everybody I'm a heterosexual or what I do with my wife,” said resident Steve Tittle. “It's just your personal business, so keep it personal.”
Herbst says while everyone is entitled to their opinions, she welcomes the opportunity to address anyone's questions or concerns.
“Just get to know me before you judge me,” the mayor said.
Although not everyone is on board with the mayor's decision to come out as transgender, many said they have no problems with Herbst as mayor as long as it doesn't affect her ability to do the job.
Herbst is up for re-election in 2018. She says as of right now she still plans to run. ||||| On the town website, she also invited the public to make comments in the town’s public meeting on Jan 31.
Ms. Herbst, 58, said in a telephone interview that after posting her statement on Jan. 23, she attended the council meeting for the first time dressed as a woman.
“It was phenomenally positive; everyone was supportive,” she said. “We had a fairly packed crowd for a tiny town — there were 15 or 20 people there. I explained to the people who had not just had a chance to see the website, and everybody said, ‘O.K.,' and we went on and had a meeting.”
But as an elected official who was later appointed as mayor, Ms. Herbst said that she was given a “very stern lecture” by the town attorney about laws that govern elections and canvassing, and that she was told not to change her name before the coming election cycle.
Ms. Herbst also said she has received thousands of messages of support, and three negative ones.
Replies to announcements on her Facebook page and the town’s website appear to be supportive, with residents praising her for coming forward in a state where, in most parts, it is legal to discriminate against people on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
In January, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, one of the most powerful Republican officials in the state, put Texas on the front lines of the nation’s culture wars when he announced the filing of a bill that would require people in government buildings and public schools to use the bathroom that corresponds with their “biological sex.”
Critics said the bill discriminated against transgender people.
Terri Burke, the executive director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, said Mayor Herbst was showing “tremendous courage in discussing her identity with the public. ||||| Jess Herbst, who became mayor of tiny New Hope last May, came out in an open letter to the town’s residents.
The mayor of a small Collin County town has become the first known openly transgender elected official in Texas history.
Jess Herbst, who became mayor of New Hope last May, came out as trans in an open letter to residents on the town’s website. Herbst had been elected to the Town Council as an alderman and was appointed mayor after the previous mayor died.
“As your Mayor I must tell you about something that has been with me since my earliest memories. I am Transgender,” Herbst wrote, adding that two years ago, she began hormone replacement therapy. “At the time, I did not imagine I would hold the Mayor’s position, but here I am.”
Herbst couldn’t immediately be reached for further comment. New Hope is a suburb of McKinney with a population of 670, according to the 2010 census. And Collin County is considered one of the most conservative suburban areas in Texas, with President Donald Trump winning by 17 percentage points in the general election.
Herbst’s open letter comes as transgender rights have been thrust into the state and national spotlight thanks to a slew of so-called bathroom bills, including Texas’ Senate Bill 6, by Lois Kolkhorst, R-Brenham. In early January, Herbst took to Facebook to criticize Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick for pushing SB 6, which he’s made one of his top priorities for the 2017 session.
“Mr. Patrick: Let me get this straight, are you saying that right now, without your bill being passed, anyone can assault someone in the bathroom without breaking the law?” Herbst wrote. “That [sic] some some kind of weird screwed-up loophole if so.”
Herbst also railed against “transphobic” bathroom bills in a post on her personal website last year.
Although gay and lesbian elected officials have held public office across Texas for decades, no transgender person has done so. In 2010, Houston’s Phyllis Frye became the nation’s first transgender judge, after being appointed to the position by then-Mayor Annise Parker. Last year, Houston’s Jenifer Poole became the first transgender candidate to win a party primary in Texas, but she was defeated in the general election.
Nell Gaither, president of Trans Pride initiative, a Dallas nonprofit, said she doesn’t know Herbst personally but was proud of her decision.
“I’m happy that our society is progressing to the point that she can feel empowered to come out and be her true self in public office, knowing that she will continue to be welcomed and valued for her skills and capabilities,” Gaither said.
In her open letter, Herbst said she has lived in New Hope with her wife and two daughters since 1999 and previously served as alderman, road commissioner and mayor pro-tem.
Herbst noted that trans people “have made great strides in the last few years,” adding that thanks to celebrities like Caitlyn Jenner and Laverne Cox, “society finally has a chance to see and learn about who we are.”
“It is gender identity not sexual preference that applies to me,” she wrote. “I love my wife, and she loves me, we have no intention of change. My daughters have been adamant supporters of me and are proud to tell people their father is transgender.”
Herbst invited residents to email her, visit her website, or speak at a Town Council meeting if they have concerns. The council was scheduled to meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, and meets on the last Tuesday of every month.
Correction: The story originally stated that Herbst was elected mayor last May. Herbst, who had served as mayor pro tem, was elected alderman and appointed mayor after the previous mayor died. The Observer regrets the error. ||||| An open letter to the citizens of New Hope.
As the new mayor of New Hope, I would like to tell you all what a privilege it is to serve you. Since 2003 I have had the privilege of being an alderman, road commissioner and mayor pro-tem. In May of 2016, I became your mayor.
My wife has lived in New Hope since she was 2 years old. Along with our 2 daughters, we have lived here since 1999, on the same farm my wife was raised. I was born and raised in Greenville, Texas.
As your Mayor I must tell you about something that has been with me since my earliest memories. I am Transgender. Twoyears ago, with the support of my wife, daughters and son-in-law, I began Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT). At the time, I did not imagine I would hold the Mayors position, but here I am.
I know that transgender people are just coming to light in our society, and we have made great strides in the last few years. Celebrities like olympic gold medalist Caitlyn Jenner, Laverne Cox from the show ‘Orange is the new Black’ and popular shows like ‘Transparent’ , society finally has a chance to see and learn about who we are. It is gender identity not sexual preference that applies to me. I love my wife, and she loves me, we have no intention of change. My daughters have been adamant supporters of me and are proud to tell people their father is transgender.
I am self employed and all of my customers have been understanding and supportive.
I live my life as a female now, and I will be performing my duties to the town as such. I have written a blog documenting my decision process and experiences as transgender and I think you would find it contains much insight. The site is JessHerbst.Com
I’m not especially sensitive to the pronoun I’m called, and I expect people to take time to make the change. I use the name Jess, a simple change from Jeff.
I will continue as Mayor and hope to do the very best for the town. Please feel free to email me questions or comments, my email is [email protected]. The Monthly Town Council meetings are on the last Tuesday of every month, at Town hall on Rockcrest. The meeting begins at 7:30pm. There is a spot for public comment at the beginning of each meeting if you wish to address me, or the council about this or any other town matter. I encourage you to do so, it really is the best way for the council to know what issues need addressing.
Thank you for your attention.
Jess Herbst
Mayor, Town of New Hope ||||| | Eight months after taking office, the mayor of a North Texas town has announced that she is transgender. Jess Herbst of tiny New Hope is believed to be the first openly transgender mayor in Texas, reports the New York Times. In an open letter posted Jan. 23 on the town website, she writes, "As your mayor I must tell you about something that has been with me since my earliest memories. I am Transgender." She says she began hormone replacement therapy two years ago "with the support of my wife, daughters and son-in-law." The former Jeff Herbst, 58, adds that she had no idea she would become mayor when she began her gender conversion, which she chronicled on her website. Herbst served in local government for years before being appointed to her current post last May, after the mayor died. The announcement came as a bill is wending its way through the state legislature that would force people to use bathrooms in government buildings according to "biological sex." Herbst has called such measures "transphobic" on her website, per the Texas Observer. Herbst began living as "Jess" last September and dressed as a woman at a town council meeting for the first time on Tuesday. Reaction was "phenomenally positive," she tells the Times. Some residents interviewed by Fox4 had doubts. "In the role he plays in the community, I'm not sure how that would be a positive thing," says one, using a male pronoun to refer to Herbst. Herbst says she hopes stepping forward "helps people understand that we are just normal people like everyone else." |
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Q: The White House and leading lawmakers have rejected Edward Snowden's plea for clemency and said he should return to the United States to face trial.
Dan Pfeiffer, an Obama administration adviser, said on Sunday the NSA whistleblower's request was not under consideration and that he should face criminal charges for leaking classified information. Dianne Feinstein and Mike Rogers, respectively the heads of the Senate and House intelligence committees, maintained the same tough line and accused Snowden of damaging US interests.
The former NSA employee this week appealed for clemency and an opportunity to address members of Congress about US surveillance. He also asked for international help to lobby the US to drop the charges against him. The White House, stung by domestic and international criticism, has shown growing appetite to rein in some of the NSA programmes that Snowden exposed but it has not softened its hostility to the 30-year-old fugitive.
Pfeiffer told ABC's This Week that no clemency offers were being discussed following Snowden's appeal in a letter released by a German lawmaker who met him in Moscow.
Feinstein, a Democratic senator from California, remained implacable. "He's done this enormous disservice to our country. I think the answer is 'no clemency'," she told CBS's Face the Nation.
The former NSA contractor could have blown the whistle on excesses by contacting the House and Senate intelligence committees, Feinstein said. "We would certainly have seen him … and looked at that information. That didn't happen."
Snowden has passed a trove of information to the Guardian and other media outlets since fleeing to Hong Kong in June before relocating to Russia, which granted him a year's asylum. In a one-page letter given to Hans-Christian Stroebele, a lawmaker with Germany's opposition Green Party, Snowden asked for charges to be dropped, saying: "Speaking the truth is not a crime. I am confident that with the support of the international community, the government of the United States will abandon this harmful behavior."
An increasing number of public figures are calling for Snowden to be offered asylum in Germany, following his revelation that the NSA tapped chancellor Angela Merkel's phone.
"Snowden has done the western world a great service. It is now up to us to help him," Heiner Geissler, the former general secretary of Merkel's Christian Democrats, wrote in Der Spiegel magazine. More than 50 public figures echoed the call.
House intelligence committee chair Mike Rogers. Photo: J Scott Applewhite/AP
That cut little ice with Rogers, a Michigan Republican and former FBI agent. He echoed Feinstein's response on Face the Nation, saying the leaker had violated an oath of secrecy and stole information. "He needs to come back and own up," Roger said.
Rogers also accused Snowden of cooperating with Russian intelligence – "the Russians are not allowing him to stay in the country just because they think he's a nice guy" – and of helping three al-Qaida-linked groups to change the way they communicate in order to evade US intercepts, putting troops' lives at risk in Afghanistan.
Rogers, the NSA's strongest congressional supporter, said the media and public's focus should be not on supposed surveillance excesses but on efforts to counter terrorism and cyber attacks. "The bad guys candidly are not US intelligence agencies," he said. "They are the good guys at the end of the day."
The House intelligence committee chairman said pressure to rein in surveillance risked repeating previous curbs which had disastrous consequences.
"We did this in the 1930s and … that led to a whole bunch of misunderstandings that led to World War II that killed millions and millions of people. We did the same darn thing that led up to the [9/11] Osama bin Laden effort."
Rogers scorned European protestations over US spying as theatrical, saying US allies did plenty spying themselves: "I think there's going to be some best actor awards coming out of the White House this year, and best supporting actor awards coming out of the European Union."
He added: "Espionage is a French word, after all." ||||| MOSCOW—A website that offered National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden a job said he isn't its employee, deepening the mystery over Mr. Snowden's new employer.
Mr. Snowden's lawyer Anatoly Kucherena said last week that his client would start working for a major Russian website on Friday.
Mr. Kucherena refused to name the site but... |||||
A: | Edward Snowden says he hopes international pressure will persuade the US government to stop "persecuting" him with espionage charges but he appears to have as much hope of receiving clemency as he does of getting his old job back. The NSA leaker "violated US law," White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer says. "He should return to the US and face justice." Snowden released a manifesto yesterday denouncing mass surveillance and saying that telling the truth shouldn't be considered a crime, NBC reports. "We have a moral duty to ensure that our laws and values limit surveillance programs and protect human rights," Snowden wrote. But the White House's rejection of clemency was backed by the leaders of the House and Senate intelligence committees, with Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein accusing Snowden of doing an "enormous disservice to our country," reports the Guardian. For now, Snowden will remain in Russia, where has been granted temporary asylum and reportedly started a new job. A major Russian website that offered Snowden a job earlier this year says he isn't working for them and other leading Internet firms also deny having him on the payroll, the Wall Street Journal notes. |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
One example is below.
Q: what is the first event mentioned?, Context: The Russian Revolution is the series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union. Following the abdication of Nicholas II of Russia, the Russian Provisional Government was established. In October 1917, a red faction revolution occurred in which the Red Guard, armed groups of workers and deserting soldiers directed by the Bolshevik Party, seized control of Saint Petersburg (then known as Petrograd) and began an immediate armed takeover of cities and villages throughout the former Russian Empire.
A: Russian Revolution
Rationale: This is a good example, and the Russian Revolution is the first event mentioned.
Q: What type of musician is Ritchie Blackmore?, Context: Numerous examples show influence in the opposite direction, including popular songs based on classical music, the use to which Pachelbel's Canon has been put since the 1970s, and the musical crossover phenomenon, where classical musicians have achieved success in the popular music arena. In heavy metal, a number of lead guitarists (playing electric guitar) modeled their playing styles on Baroque or Classical era instrumental music, including Ritchie Blackmore and Randy Rhoads.
A: | lead guitarists |
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
UNITED NATIONS North Korea has complained to the United Nations about a film starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, accusing the United States of sponsoring terrorism and committing an act of war by allowing production of a movie about a plot to kill its leader, Kim Jong Un.
"The Interview" - due to be released later this year - is about an American television-show host and his producer who land an interview with Kim Jong Un, and are then recruited by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency to assassinate the North Korean leader, according to Internet Movie Database (IMDb).
The letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon from North Korea's U.N. Ambassador Ja Song Nam, dated June 27 but made public this week, does not mention the name of the movie but talks about a plot that "involves insulting and assassinating the supreme leadership."
"To allow the production and distribution of such a film on the assassination of an incumbent head of a sovereign state should be regarded as the most undisguised sponsoring of terrorism as well as an act of war," Ja said.
"The United States authorities should take immediate and appropriate actions to ban the production and distribution of the aforementioned film; otherwise, it will be fully responsible for encouraging and sponsoring terrorism," he wrote.
Ja attached a June 25 story by the official KCNA news agency slamming the film with similar rhetoric.
Actor Rogen said on Twitter the same day: "People don't usually wanna kill me for one of my movies until after they've paid 12 bucks for it."
(Reporting by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Bernadette Baum) ||||| North Korea has lodged a formal protest at the United Nations against a Hollywood comedy about an assassination bid on leader Kim Jong-Un and asked Washington to block the film's release.
"The Interview" stars Seth Rogen and James Franco as two tabloid television journalists who land an interview with Kim in Pyongyang and are then tasked by the CIA with killing him.
The film is due to be released in the United States on October 14.
In a letter addressed to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, and seen on Wednesday, North Korea's UN envoy Ja Song-Nam says allowing the film to be made and seen constitutes "the most undisguised sponsoring of terrorism as well as a war action."
"The US authorities should take immediate and appropriate action to ban the production and distribution of the film, otherwise it will be fully responsible for encouraging and sponsoring terrorism," the letter says.
North Korea asked that the letter be circulated as an official document to members of the UN General Assembly and Security Council for their consideration.
Last month, North Korea denounced the film as a "wanton act of terror" and warned of a "merciless response" unless it were pulled from distribution.
In a statement carried by North Korea's official KCNA news agency, a foreign ministry spokesman said the film was the work of "gangster moviemakers" and should never be shown.
Rogen poked fun at the threat on Twitter, writing: "People don't usually wanna kill me for one of my movies until after they've paid 12 bucks for it."
"The Interview" is not the first Hollywood film to mock a North Korean leader.
In the 2004 satirical action comedy "Team America," Kim's father Kim Jong-Il was portrayed as a speech-impaired, isolated despot. ||||| | North Korea continues to do a fine job of promoting an upcoming flick with Seth Rogen and James Franco. Pyongyang has taken its complaint about The Interview all the way to the United Nations, reports Reuters. In the movie, Rogen and Franco play a TV producer and host who land an interview with Kim Jong Un and get hired by the CIA to kill him. In a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, the North declares that the premise "should be regarded as the most undisguised sponsoring of terrorism as well as an act of war." (The North used similar language in an earlier diatribe.) Rogen is taking this about as seriously as you might expect: "People don't usually wanna kill me for one of my movies until after they've paid 12 bucks for it," he tweeted a while back. The movie is out in October, notes the Telegraph. |
Q: Sweden's civil protection agency says the country needs more spider-dropping resources to fight serious wildfires like the ones last year and improve co-operation between the rescue services.
STOCKHOLM - Sweden's civil protection agency says the country needs more water-dropping resources to fight serious wildfires like the ones last year and improve co-operation between the rescue services. Agency head Dan Eliasson says the path ahead is "to get us the skills and ability" to use water-dropping planes before the summer.
A: No
Q: Canada is part of the agreement reached in Kyoto.
If the federal government in its infinite wisdom-since it always knows more than anyone else about all issues relating to the environment-were to decide that we need to make an additional 5%, 6% or 7% reduction to industrial emissions, to toxic emissions in the atmosphere, under the agreements negotiated at Kyoto, on a uniform basis across Canada, this would be easily complied with by Alberta, where the emissions have increased in recent years.
A: Yes
Q: Times University ranks the top 100 universities every year
De Montfort University (DMU) is a public university in the city of Leicester, England. It ranked 53rd in the Times University rankings for young universities in 2016. University staff include the second highest number of National Teaching Fellows of all UK universities.
A: It's impossible to say
Q: Paul's father preferred to hunt alone.
Manly Weekend<br>Paul and his father loved to go hunting together. They had a special area of a nearby forest they frequented. They decided to take a weekend and hunt in their favorite spot. When they arrived they were told that the area was quarantined. Paul and his father decided to take a trip to Vegas instead.
A: | No |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Kentucky, being a border state, was among the chief places where the ``Brother against brother'' scenario was prevalent. Kentucky officially declared its neutrality at the beginning of the war, but after a failed attempt by Confederate General Leonidas Polk to take the state of Kentucky for the Confederacy, the legislature petitioned the Union Army for assistance. After early 1862 Kentucky came largely under Union control.
was kentucky part of the union in the civil war?
A table may have multiple foreign keys, and each foreign key can have a different parent table. Each foreign key is enforced independently by the database system. Therefore, cascading relationships between tables can be established using foreign keys.
can i have two foreign keys in one table?
The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range in western North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch more than 3,000 miles (4,800 km) from the northernmost part of British Columbia, in western Canada, to New Mexico, in the Southwestern United States. Located within the North American Cordillera, the Rockies are somewhat distinct from the Pacific Coast Ranges, Cascade Range, and the Sierra Nevada, which all lie farther to the west.
| are the rocky mountains part of the northeast region?
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Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to reset a dell laptop
Back up and save all your personal data to a disc, usb flash drive, cloud storage service, or any backup program of your choice.
Resetting your laptop will wipe and erase all personal data from your computer.
Connect your laptop to a power source.
OPTIONS:
- Make sure that your connection has power and that the cable is plugged into an outlet. Exit the computer and verify that the power adapter is in working position.
- This will help prevent your computer's battery from losing its charge during the reset process. Swipe in from the right side of your screen and tap on " settings.
- If you have an iphone, the power adapter works just fine. A wire connection works equally well, so try the aap converter if you have one.
- For the maximum performance, the battery needs to be at level 30. Be sure all the devices and internal units are connected to the same power source.
A: This will help prevent your computer's battery from losing its charge during the reset process. Swipe in from the right side of your screen and tap on " settings.
IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to help stop cruelty towards animals
Avoid products that are tested on animals.
A variety of products, from cosmetics to pharmaceutical drugs, are tested on animals. Animal rights advocates disagree with the use of such products for a variety of reasons.
OPTIONS:
- Testing causes painful physical side effects for animals, lab conditions are often cramped and unpleasant, and animals are often killed or die unintentionally during the process. Know what products are likely to be tested on animals and avoid such products.
- However, research shows that animal rights organizations make two primary materials good for animals. However, one important material is that animals are protective, creative and free from electrical devices.
- Ask for or buy any products that seem to be on a poor shelf or in different temperatures. Natural oils, like coconut oil, olive oil, and sunflower oil are also labeled as " human " products and may have medicinal or scientific implications.
- There are many flavors that are tested, including : Some yeast, which contains preservatives, free from any ones that are contributing to a dog's species. These are used to regulate the amount of yeast.
OUT: Testing causes painful physical side effects for animals, lab conditions are often cramped and unpleasant, and animals are often killed or die unintentionally during the process. Know what products are likely to be tested on animals and avoid such products.
Question:
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence for the following:
How to install a pci card
Unplug your computer.
Power down your computer and then unplug the power cable and all the other cables that are connected to the back. If you were recently using your computer, wait a few minutes for it to cool before proceeding.
OPTIONS:
- Run the " update windows " predrivers (ftp) utility program. " ftp " utility programs come in a variety of different names including apkgb (free-to-use) and vlc (private-to-use).
- Note: some pci cards may require you to install drivers before installing the card, but these are rare. Always read the card's documentation before installing.
- Note any data on your printer or other device. You will need to change the data in order to work with it.
- Remove your usb drive from the usb compartment on your computer. This can be done by using a screwdriver to crack the " on " and " off " lock device, and then slide your usb drive out of the drive compartment.
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Answer:
Note: some pci cards may require you to install drivers before installing the card, but these are rare. Always read the card's documentation before installing.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
Three hispanic men are laying the foundation of the pool with a cement gun. a man that is dressed in white
OPTIONS:
- shorts and a red t-shirt starts washing his hands and reading the paper.
- cargoes into the pool.
- with a tattoo on his arm is tallying the cabanas and setting up the bases.
- is doing the cement finish as the other men lay the cement with a gun.
A: is doing the cement finish as the other men lay the cement with a gun.
There's a man on stilts jumping and doing stunts in an indoor gym. There are several spectators and judges watching him perform. after the man
OPTIONS:
- is done his routine he enters a different gym and leaps into a recumbent position.
- finishes with the jump, he walks around to the other side of the gym to check his feet before cheering.
- finishes his stunts, he gets off the stilts and the judges write down the scores.
- is finished jumping the ropes, he gets up and walks away.
finishes his stunts, he gets off the stilts and the judges write down the scores.
Problem: Write the next sentence for:
How to imagine
Daydream.
Daydreaming is a process that helps form connections and recall information without distractions. Rather than being a mindless activity, daydreaming actually fosters a state of high engagement in the brain.
OPTIONS:
- It allows the mind to process various information at once without distracting others from your thoughts. Basically, you're fixating on what is happening or something that is going on in the moment.
- To truly engage with daydreaming, think about the situation you are in and all the people you may meet in that scenario. Imagine how you would see a bunch of random people.
- This involves using willpower and determination to not think about something unpleasant or frightening. It involves awareness of every aspect of your surroundings and feelings.
- Often your best ideas seem to come out of nowhere while you're daydreaming. Avoid distractions like computer/video games, the internet, a movie, etc..
Next sentence: | Often your best ideas seem to come out of nowhere while you're daydreaming. Avoid distractions like computer/video games, the internet, a movie, etc. |
Given the task definition, example input & output, solve the new input case.
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Example: Timothy likes to play sports. He spends his time after school playing basketball and baseball. Sometimes Timothy pretends he is a famous baseball pitcher for his favorite team with his friends. He plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. Timothy also plays pretend when he is alone. He has an imaginary friend named Sean. Sean is an elephant who watches television with Timothy. Mandy likes playing baseball but she also likes to paint. Mandy's favorite class at school is art. She likes making pictures of flowers. Her teacher says she is a good artist. She painted a picture of a tree for her teacher. There were red and yellow leaves on it. It had apples on it. When Andrew goes home after baseball, he likes to eat a snack. He eats carrots and bananas. If he is a good boy his mom, Mrs. Smith, sometimes gives him milk and cookies. Afterwards, Andrew finishes his homework. <sep>Who does Timothy play with?<sep>Basketball and baseball
Output: No
Based on the passage Timothy plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. So, the given answer is incorrect and the output should be "No".
New input case for you: The factory is highly automated and designed to shift flexibly to produce many different kinds of chips to suit demand. "The diversity is the big difference with this plant," said Richard Doherty, president of Envisioneering, a research firm. "It gives IBM the capability to make so many different kinds of custom chips, and the world is going to custom chips." The 140,000-square-foot plant is a testament to advanced manufacturing technology. The 300-millimeter silicon wafers -- about the size of a standard pizza -- are shuttled around the facility in enclosed plastic pods, which ride on overhead tracks. They drop down from wires automatically into machines, sheathed in stainless steel and glass, for each stage of processing and fabrication. Throughout the 500 processing steps, which typically last 20 days, the wafers are not touched by human hands. The circuits etched into the chips are less than one thousandth the width of a human hair. Human operators are there to monitor the systems, catch errors and fine-tune the production process for maximum efficiency. Because each of the hundreds of processing machines is self-enclosed, and essentially airtight, the uniforms operators wear are less constricting than in the previous generation of chip plants, which looked like space suits. The operators at the East Fishkill factory wear light nylon uniforms, light blue shoe coverings and translucent hair nets made of paper. They look more like workers in a bakery. Yes, said Richard Brilla, director of the new facility, "but the donuts are a lot more costly here." Each wafer, holding hundreds of chips, is worth $6,000 to $10,000 apiece, depending on what insulation, circuitry and materials are used. <sep>What enables IBM to make different kinds of custom chips?<sep>Hundreds of processing machines
Output: | No |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Problem:Tweet with a location
You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more ||||| Tweet with a location
You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more ||||| poster="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201610/1301/1155968404_5182976620001_5182928408001-vs.jpg?pubId=1155968404" true Trump: 'Too much is being made' about what I said in the debate
President Barack Obama said it’s not a joke, Hillary Clinton said it’s a threat to democracy, and first lady Michelle Obama said you don’t keep American democracy in suspense. But Donald Trump on Monday said it's being overblown.
Indeed, the Republican presidential nominee on Monday morning said too much is being made about his refusal to say during the final presidential debate that he would accept the outcome of the election.
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“Yes, I think too much is being made,” Trump told Bo Thompson on WBT-AM’s “Charlotte’s Morning News.” “But, you know, everybody had me winning the third debate and the second debate handily, easily. And when I made that statement, I made it knowingly, because what’s happening is absolutely ridiculous.”
After initially telling debate moderator Chris Wallace he would look at the results in November before determining whether he would accept the outcome, preferring to leave the nation “in suspense,” Trump teased his critics at an Ohio rally the next day, Oct. 20, by pledging to respect the results — “if I win.”
He later clarified that he would “of course” accept the outcome but maintained that he reserves his right to challenge “a questionable result.”
“You have — first of all, you have a media that as you see has obviously been very unfair, which is, I guess, fine, but it’s not really appropriate,” he said Monday. “But you have a media that’s a very, very — you know, it’s really a pile-on, the likes of which nobody’s ever seen, because I’m going to protect the people, and the media are the exact opposite and they represent the, you know, opposite.”
Clinton on Monday continued to hammer Trump for publicly toying with the idea of refusing to concede if he loses. Speaking with radio host Sam Sylk, the Democratic nominee re-upped her line that Trump's response during the debate was "horrifying."
"We can be disagreeable with each other on issues without threatening our democracy. And he has threatened our democracy by saying that he will only accept the results of the election if he wins," she said. "That is horrifying. And so I’m hoping that everybody, no matter what the issue is you care about, turns out and votes and repudiates that kind of attack on our fundamental institutions." |||||
Solution: | It's become de rigueur to become outraged at almost anything Donald Trump does or says these days, but reaction to his latest remarks about the election have been completely overblown, according to Trump himself. Besides his "nasty woman" comment from last Wednesday's debate, Trump also came under fire for proclaiming he was going to keep America "in suspense" about whether he'd accept the election results. And he doubled down the next day, noting he most certainly would accept the results "if I win." Despite all of the ensuing commotion from his comments, however, Trump told WBT-AM on Monday that he "knowingly" said what he said "because what's happening is absolutely ridiculous," and added that the din is a lot of ado over nothing, Politico reports. "Yes, I think too much is being made" of it all, he told host Bo Thompson, adding that the "very unfair" media has continued its Trump "pile-on, the likes of which nobody's ever seen" and that he is "going to protect the people." Hillary Clinton did some doubling down of her own Monday, telling radio host Sam Sylk that her opponent's remarks were "horrifying" and that "we can be disagreeable with each other on issues without threatening our democracy." And she kept up that train of thought on Twitter, where she called Trump's statements "a direct threat to our democracy" and added that "while Donald Trump is assaulting our democracy, millions of people are standing up for it—registering, voting early, and volunteering." |
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Q: The Chinese stock market behaves differently from most other big markets in the world in normal times. During a big selloff, things can get really weird. Photo: Getty Images.
Chinese shares made their biggest daily gain in six years Thursday, a tentative step toward restoring confidence in Beijing’s suite of measures to rescue its stock market.
The Shanghai Composite rose 5.8% to 3709.33, after losses in eight of the previous 10 trading days. The smaller Shenzhen market rose 3.8%. Still, both indexes have lost around a third of their value in the past month. The small-cap ChiNext board, which has shed some 38% from its June highs, rose 3%.
... ||||| BEIJING/SHANGHAI Beijing's increasingly frantic attempts to stem a stock market rout were finally rewarded as Chinese shares bounced around 6 percent on Thursday, but the costs of heavy-handed state intervention are likely to weigh on the market for a long time.
The rebound came after China's securities regulator, in its most drastic step yet to arrest the slump, banned shareholders with large stakes in listed firms from selling. The banking regulator said separately it would allow lenders to roll over loans backed by stocks.
The CSI300 index of the largest listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen raced higher to close up 6.4 percent, while the Shanghai Composite Index bounced 5.8 percent for its biggest daily percentage gain in six years.
But China's malfunctioning stock markets remained semi-frozen, with the shares of around 1,500 listed companies worth around $2.8 trillion - roughly half the market - suspended, and many of those still trading propped up by state-directed buying.
"The authorities are capable of slowing the selling and extending market support," said Mark Konyn, chief executive officer at Cathay Conning Asset Management Ltd in Hong Kong.
"However, this high level of intervention comes at a significant cost. Such intervention locks up ownership of shares, reduces liquidity and creates an overhang that could plague the market for years."
More than 25 percent has been knocked off the value of Chinese shares since mid-June, and for some global investors the fear that China's market turmoil will destabilize the financial system is now a bigger risk than the crisis in Greece.
"We are inclined to believe that Beijing will escalate policy responses until they start working," said economists at Credit Suisse in a research note.
"If market conditions do not stabilize, we expect a statement of 'whatever it takes' from the Chinese government, given that social stability is at stake and financial systemic risks are evident."
The United States has voiced worries the stock market crash could get in the way of Beijing's economic reform agenda.
REFORM DERAILED?
The plunge in China's previously booming stock markets, which had more than doubled in the year to mid-June, has created a major headache for President Xi Jinping and China's top leaders, who are already grappling with slowing growth.
Beijing, which had made handing a "decisive" role to the market a centerpiece of its economic reforms, has responded with a battery of support measures, including an interest rate cut, suspension of initial public offerings and enlisting brokerages to buy stocks, backed by cash from the central bank.
"The government will be able to stabilize the market because they have a lot of tools in the toolbox," said Christopher Moltke-Leth, head of institutional client trading at Saxo Capital Markets.
"But it is concerning that the Chinese government doesn't allow market forces to work, and that's something China must change over time."
The Global Times, an influential tabloid published by the Communist Party's official newspaper, invoked the "national team" in an editorial rallying support behind the authorities' efforts to turn the market tide.
"While there are disaster victims everywhere in China's stock market, the other scene is that the 'national team' is truly taking action," the paper said.
"BIG FIST"
The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) said on its website late on Wednesday that holders of more than 5 percent of a company's stock would be barred from selling for the next six months.
The CSRC, which warned on Wednesday of "panic sentiment" gripping a market dominated by ordinary retail investors, said it would deal severely with any shareholders who violated the restriction.
The prohibition is unlikely to have much impact on foreign investors. No Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (QFII), one of the main channels of foreign investment in China, holds more than 5 percent of a Shanghai or Shenzhen listed company. Foreign investors with more than a 5 percent stake in Chinese firms are all strategic investors.
As the daily barrage of official measures to prop up the market continued, the banking and insurance regulators announced a series of moves to ease margin lending requirements and terms on stock-backed loans.
Two Chinese development banks said they would not sell Chinese stocks, but would look to increase their holdings.
In the latest salvo against short sellers, who bet on falling prices, official news agency Xinhua said police were investigating suspected "malicious" selling of shares. The probe showed that the authorities would "punch back" with a "big fist" against illegal activities, Xinhua said on its microblog.
Some analysts believe more government action will be necessary in the coming days, as investors seeking to cut their risk exposure head for the exit on the back of any bounce.
"It is far from calling it a victory for the rescuers as more than half of listed companies are not trading in the market," said Du Changchun, analyst at Northeast Securities in Shanghai.
(Additional reporting by David Stanway, Winni Zhou Nicholas Heath in Beijing, Samuel Shen, Pete Sweeney, Brenda Goh in Shanghai, Umesh Desai, Saikat Chatterjee and Michelle Chen in Hong Kong and Jason Lange and Douwe Miedema in Washington; Writing by Dean Yates and Alex Richardson; Editing by Will Waterman) |||||
A: | Just as the doom-and-gloom stories about the Chinese stock market were reaching a fevered pitch comes this: China stocks just had their best day in six years, reports the Wall Street Journal. The Shanghai Composite rose nearly 6% and the smaller Shenzhen market about 4%. But don't celebrate too much: Reuters says the rebound was the result of the "most drastic" government move so far—the nation's securities chief barred shareholders who hold large stakes in companies from selling—and warns that the "costs of heavy-handed state intervention are likely to weigh on the market for a long time." And with about half of all stocks on the two markets suspended, it's not clear whether the Beijing moves will be "enough to reverse the broader selloff," notes the Journal. |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context (see options)?
Context:
The New-York based company said, Tuesday, that profits totaled a record $946 million, or 75 cents a share, in the January-March period, up from $794 million, or 61 cents a share, a year earlier.
Hypothesis: The company did not make as much money last year
Available options:
[A]. Yes.
[B]. It's impossible to say.
[C]. No. | [C]. |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Input: Consider Input: A married couple and their three young adult children , a son and two daughters , live in a large compound with a garden and a swimming pool . A tall fence surrounds the property and the children have never been on the other side of it , for their parents have kept them unaware of the outside world , even of the existence of the telephone . They are taught different meanings for everyday words . For example , they are told that a `` zombie '' is `` a small yellow flower , '' and that `` sea '' is a chair . The parents promise that each child will be ready to venture outside the compound once she or he has lost a dogtooth . Although the children are told they have a brother just on the other side of the barrier , he never appears . The only non-family member to come into the house is Christina , a young woman who works as a security guard at the father's factory . She is driven by the father to the compound traveling both ways blindfolded where she performs sexual favors for the son . Dissatisfied with his preference for intercourse , Christina seeks oral sex from the elder daughter in exchange for a headband. The elder daughter obliges but does not recognize the significance of performing cunnilingus . Later , she gives the headband to her younger sister , in exchange for being licked on the shoulder , Which is marked by an unexplained scar . The parents have tricked the children into believing that overhead planes are merely toys . They allow the children to search for toy planes that they have planted on the grounds , and the child that finds the toy owns it . <sep>How many people does the headband belong to over the course of the story?<sep>Three
Output: Yes
Input: Consider Input: Earthquakes seemed to outline a special feature of earth's crust. Earthquakes let scientists know where the crust was moving. This led to the discovery that the Earths crust was broken up into regions, or plates. Earthquakes happen most often along these plate boundaries. This was evidence that continents can move. The movements of the plates are called plate tectonics. The Earths crust is divided into plates. There are about a dozen large plates and several small ones. Each plate is named for the continent or ocean basin it contains. Scientists know he plates are in motion. They now know the direction and speed of this motion . Plates dont move very fast. They move only a few centimeters a year. This is about the same rate fingernails grow. So you might wonder, what could cause this motion? What supplies the energy to cause this change? <sep>How fast do plates move?<sep>A few centimeters a year
Output: Yes
Input: Consider Input: Sam Farragut is a sociopathic business executive in Southern California who forces a team of advertising agency employees to embark on a dangerous dirtbike trip to the Baja California desert in order to compete for his business . The men are Warren Summerfield , a suicidal middle-aged ad executive who has been fired from the agency ; the straightlaced Paul McIlvain who is inattentive to his wife , and brash art designer Maxon who feels suddenly trapped after his girlfriend announces she is pregnant . There are numerous long sequences of motorcycle riding on desert backroads . Summerfield has been having an affair with McIlvian's wife . He has not told his wife that he was fired and is simply serving out his tenure at the agency while looking for a new position . His wife is actually aware of the affair . Farragut convinces the ad men to make the motorcycle journey on the pretext of looking for a location to shoot a commercial . In reality , Farragut is reckless and looking to involve the men in spontaneous edgy adventure of his own manipulation . After they leave , McIlvain's wife suspects that Summerfield is planning to kill himself for the insurance money , but she can not convince Summerfield's wife to instigate a search . The four men travel deeper into Mexico on isolated dirt roads . At one point Summerfield contemplates plunging off a cliff . After being humiliated by a young American couple in a Baja bar , Farragut tracks them down on the beach while accompanied by Maxon . <sep>What extreme action does Summerfield contemplate after traveling further into Mexico on isolated dirt roads?<sep>Affair with others wife
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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.
One example is below.
Q: The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
A: The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini.
Rationale: The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
Q: Elizabeth Louise Kendall ( born 1971 ) has been the MP for Leicester West since 2010 .
A: | Elizabeth Louise Kendall ( born 11 June 1971 ) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Leicester West since 2010 . |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Ex Input:
The Bengals are one of the 12 NFL teams to not have won a Super Bowl as of the 2017 season; however, they are also one of 8 NFL teams that have been to at least one Super Bowl, but have not won the game.
Ex Output:
did the cincinnati bengals ever win a superbowl?
Ex Input:
Radiator Springs is a fictional town in the Cars series created as a composite of multiple real places on historic U.S. Route 66 from Kansas to Arizona. It appears in the 2006 Pixar film Cars and the associated franchise, as well as a section of the Disney California Adventure theme park.
Ex Output:
is there a real town called radiator springs?
Ex Input:
Mehran Karimi Nasseri (Persian: مهران کریمی ناصری pronounced (mehˈrɒn kjæriˈmi nɒseˈri); born 1942), also known as Sir, Alfred Mehran, is an Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Terminal One in Charles de Gaulle Airport from 26 August 1988 until July 2006, when he was hospitalized for an unspecified ailment. His autobiography has been published as a book, The Terminal Man, in 2004. His story was the inspiration for the 2004 Steven Spielberg film The Terminal.
Ex Output:
| was the movie terminal based on a true story?
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Teacher: In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
This list contains the top 25 accounts with the most followers on the social photo-sharing platform Instagram. As of May 2018, the most followed user is Instagram's own account, with over 235 million followers. Selena Gomez is the most followed individual, with over 137 million followers. Ten accounts have exceeded 100 million followers on the site.
Solution: who has the maximum number of followers on instagram
Reason: The answer is talking about the Instagram accounts that have the most followers. The question asking about the maximum number of followers. So this is a good example.
Now, solve this instance: An archipelago among the Greater Antilles, Puerto Rico includes the main island of Puerto Rico and a number of smaller ones, such as Mona, Culebra, and Vieques. The capital and most populous city is San Juan. Its official languages are Spanish and English, though Spanish predominates. The island's population is approximately 3.4 million. Puerto Rico's history, tropical climate, natural scenery, traditional cuisine, and tax incentives make it a destination for travelers from around the world.
Student: | why is puerto rico a part of the us |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Q: Dirk Diggler was born as Steven Samuel Adams on April 15 , 1961 outside of Saint Paul , Minnesota . His parents were a construction worker and a boutique shop owner who attended church every Sunday and believed in God . Looking for a career as a male model , Diggler dropped out of school at age 16 and left home . He was discovered at a falafel stand by Jack Horner . Diggler met his friend , Reed Rothchild , through Horner in 1979 while working on a film . Horner slowly introduced Diggler to the business until he became noticeable within the industry . Diggler became a prominent model and began appearing in pornographic films , after Which his career took off . He had critical and box office hits Which led him to stardom . The hits and publicity led to fame and money Which led Diggler to the world of drugs . With the amount of money Diggler was making he was able to support both his and Rothchild's addictions . The drugs eventually caused a breakup between Diggler and Horner since Diggler was having issues with his performance on set . After the breakup Diggler tried to make a film himself but the film was never completed . He then attempted a music career Which was also successful but led him deeper into drugs because of the amount of money he was making . He then starred in a TV show Which was a failure both critically and commercially . Having failed and with no work , Diggler returned to the porn industry taking roles in low-budget homosexual films to help support his habit . <sep>Who were Reed Rothchild friends with before meeting Diggler?<sep>Steven Samuel Adams
A: | No |
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