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Q: " Sho ̄ kaku " had a damaged flight deck which required three months of repair in Japan .
A: | " Sho ̄ kaku " herself was unable to conduct further aircraft operations , with her flight deck heavily damaged , and she required almost three months of repair in Japan . |
IN: What happens next?
At the beach, a group of soccer balls lie next to a man who is kicking them at the goal, protected by a keeper. He boots them up and off his knee before shooting wide. he
OUT: finally scores over the keeper.
IN: What happens next?
A females left leg and foot is in a bathtub as the lady shaves her leg. once she
OUT: is done with the front, she turns her legs to the left and right and shaves the sides in an upward motion.
IN: What happens next?
How to clean a crystal chandelier
Turn the light off and let the bulbs cool.
Switch off the light switch that controls the power for your chandelier. Wait until the light bulbs on your fixture feel cool to the touch.
OUT: | You can disconnect the electricity as an extra precaution, but only do this if you are confident in operating your home's circuit breaker or have assistance from a knowledgeable electrician. You should not need to adjust any electric wiring in this process. |
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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.
What century began on the year 1701?, Context: South Slavic historically formed a dialect continuum, i.e. each dialect has some similarities with the neighboring one, and differences grow with distance. However, migrations from the 16th to 18th centuries resulting from the spread of Ottoman Empire on the Balkans have caused large-scale population displacement that broke the dialect continuum into many geographical pockets. Migrations in the 20th century, primarily caused by urbanization and wars, also contributed to the reduction of dialectal differences.
Output: | 18th |
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Q: When Russell Wilson revealed that he and girlfriend Ciara are practicing abstinence, perhaps no one was more surprised than her ex: rapper Future.
Now, the father of Ciara's 1-year-old son is kissing and telling when it comes to the former couple's intimate moments.
WATCH: Ciara and Russell Wilson are Practicing Abstinence, In Case You Were Wondering
"God told me something else. He ain't tell me to wait, I guarantee you that," Future said in an interview with HuffPost Live. "We prayed afterwards though. After we did it, we prayed. That's a true story."
The 31-year-old went on to say, "That's what really got me... I was like, 'Whoa, that sh-t's blowing me away.' That's what sweeped me off my foot. Never had nobody pray after sex."
The revelation comes shortly after Seattle Seahawks quarterback Wilson, who has been dating Ciara since April of this year, said that he and the singer decided to take sex off the table in their relationship.
"God spoke to me and said, 'I need you to lead her,'" Wilson revealed in an interview with San Diego's The Rock Church. "Nobody's perfect, but He's anointed us to do something miraculous, something special."
NEWS: Meet Ciara and Future's Baby Boy
Meanwhile, Future has been busy on a press tour to promote his new album, DS2. In his new docu-series Like I Never Left, he gets candid about the decision to call off his wedding to Ciara last year. (And no, he says it had nothing to do with cheating.)
"I can't have all these different big media outlets cover my wedding and I'm not comfortable," he said. "I'm not comfortable about where I'm at in my career. I'm not comfortable about compromising about just being the person that I am, being the man that I am. I feel like my better judgement is to go back and record and make music."
Mission: accomplished?
For what it's worth, Ciara took to Twitter to issue a non-statement on Future's recent revelations.
Some Person Is So Dishonest and Ignorant That They Don't Deserve A Response. — Ciara (@ciara) July 14, 2015
Now watch Wilson play coy when we asked about his relationship with Ciara back in April. ||||| Seahawks fans believes that the key to turning around their season is having Ciara breakup with Russell Wilson.
They believe Russell plays his best ball after a breakup (or when he has been cheated on) and that the only reason Ciara is with him is because her music career isn’t going that great (we know it isn’t the sex).
They even set up a GoFundMe account to raise $50,000 for them to break up (we don’t entirely understand the logic behind that, but you do you, Seahawks fans).
The GoFundMe campaign which seems to have been removed, the description read:
"Us Seahawks fans would love to see our team winning again.
After seeing how great Future Hendrix career has been since Ciara broke up with him. We think the same thing can happen to Russell Wilson again!!
After his wife cheated on him he won his first Super Bowl. We’re certain his next big breakup will encourage a rebound of epic proportions.
So to do this we’re gonna get Ciara’s career back on track so she has no time to be in a relationship. Donate to save our Seahawks!!
Go 12’s!!!
#FreeRussell " ||||| We've already explained how the love triangle between Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson, rap demigod Future and R&B singer Ciara is the NFL season's greatest subplot.
Now we have the latest comedic chapter in this epic of love, loss and revenge. It comes thanks to a group of Seattle fans hoping to alter the course of history via a short-lived crowdfunding campaign.
You can click the link above to get the full backstory, but the short version goes like this: Future and Ciara used to be engaged, and they have a kid together. But they broke up, and now Ciara dates Wilson. Making everything even more compelling to football fans is that Ciara's past and present beaux are polar opposites: Wilson is a squeaky-clean quarterback who says he communicates with God; Future is a syrup-sipping rapper whose lyrics would make your granny blush.
Better yet, Future has been unstoppable since he and Ciara broke up last year. He released three consecutive mixtapes to wild acclaim, then put out Dirty Sprite 2, this summer's hottest rap album, in July. He and Drake also dropped a much-anticipated mixtape this week.
Now, with the Seahawks off to an 0-2 start this season, it seems a group of Seattle fans couldn't help but notice Future's hot streak.
Wilson and Ciara in July. Image: Richard Shotwell/Invision/Associated Press
So they did what any well meaning supporter would do, according to ForTheWin: Set up a GoFundMe page soliciting donations to help spur a breakup between Wilson and Ciara.
The fans reportedly sought $50,000 to give Ciara's music career a jolt so that "she has no time to be in a relationship." By way of further explanation they offered this: "After seeing how great Future Hendrix career has been since Ciara broke up with him. We think the same thing can happen to Russell Wilson again!!"
Alas, the campaign was short-lived and had been removed by midday Monday. We've contacted GoFundMe for comment, but have yet to hear back from the site.
Meanwhile, there's this astute tweet pointing out that Wilson's Seattle teammate Bruce Irvin looks A LOT LIKE A CERTAIN RAPPER:
Future think he slick pic.twitter.com/G2sZWOyghf — snapchat: seaweave (@KhiryWeaver) September 21, 2015
And the plot thickens yet again! Stay tuned for more updates as events warrant. ||||| Russell Wilson is getting candid about hisCiara. Seattle Seahawks quarterbackis getting candid about his relationship with
In a sit-down with Pastor Miles McPherson of The Rock Church in San Diego, Wilson opened up about his life, his beliefs, and taking sex with his girlfriend off the table.
"I met this girl named Ciara, who is the most beautiful woman in the world," he gushed. "She's the most kind person, the most engaging person."
The couple began dating in April and shortly after, Wilson said he received a message from God regarding his new love.
"She was on tour, she was traveling, and I was looking at her in the mirror," he said. "God spoke to me and said, 'I need you to lead her' and I was like 'Really? Right now?' He goes, 'No, I want you and need you to lead her.'"
Wilson said he asked Ciara, "What would you do if we took all that extra stuff off the table and just did it Jesus' way?" (And yes, the 26-year-old clarified that he was definitely "talking about sex.")
"I knew that God had brought me into her life to bless her and for her to bless me, and to bless so many people with the impact that she has, that I have," he said. "Nobody's perfect, but He's anointed us to do something miraculous, something special."
Apparently, staying abstinent would be a miracle for them both.
"I ain't gonna lie to y'all now," he said, " I need y'all to pray for us. 'Cause I know y'all seen her on the screen now. If there's a 10, she's a 15."
Um, you can say that again.
Ciara, 29, has been busy promoting her new album Jackie and current single (ironically titled "Dance Like We're Making Love") but the couple made time to pose for a sweet snap on the BET Awards red carpet last week.
"Can we really love each other without all that?" Wilson posited, referring to the pair's sex life. "If you can really love somebody without that, then you can really love somebody." ||||| Posted by Darin Gantt on September 13, 2015, 8:43 AM EST
Seahawks safety Kam Chancellor’s fines and forfeitures for his contract holdout have reached $1.87 million and they continue to climb.
But a little less than half that amount may be all that stands between him and a return.
According to Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network, there appears to be some framework for a compromise.
The two sides have talked during camp, even though he wasn’t there, and he’s looking for $9 million in 2016. The Seahawks have reportedly offered $8.1 million. He’s currently scheduled to make $5.1 million next season.
Of course, the difference of $900,000 isn’t the only thing between them, as Chancellor also wants his fines waived. That’s something the Seahawks apparently aren’t willing to completely forgive.
But for a messy situation that has wiped out training camp and spilled into the regular season, there could be room for the two sides to figure out a way forward. |||||
A: | The Seattle Seahawks' 0-2 start has left many fans wondering what the problem is. Poor play calling? Too few touches for star tight end Jimmy Graham? The lack of a new Macklemore album? One group of 12s think they know what's hurting the Hawks: the ongoing relationship between singer Ciara and quarterback Russell Wilson, the Sky Herald reports. Believing Wilson does his best work after a breakup, the fans started a GoFundMe account to raise $50,000 to boost Ciara's music career, thus leaving her with little time for dating. "After his wife cheated on him, he won his first Super Bowl," the GoFundMe page stated. "We’re certain his next big breakup will encourage a rebound of epic proportions." Mashable lends credence to this theory, noting that Ciara's ex—rapper Future—has released three hit mixtapes and a popular album since the two split. Unfortunately for the enterprising home-wreckers, their GoFundMe page was promptly removed. Maybe they'll have better luck raising the $900,000 it will reportedly take to get safety Kam Chancellor back on the field. (Way more than you ever wanted to know about Ciara's sex life with Wilson and Future here and here.) |
Q: In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Sometimes traits can vary from parent to offspring. These changes are due to mutations. Mutations are a random change. Mutations are natural. Some mutations are harmful. In this case, the organism may not live to reproduce. The trait will not be passed onto offspring. Others variations in traits have no effect on survival. Can some mutations be good for a living thing? Other mutations can have great benefits. Imagine being the first moth that can blend into its background. It would have a better chance of survival. A living thing that survives is likely to have offspring. If it does, it may pass the new trait on to its offspring. Thats good news for the offspring. The offspring may be more likely to survive. Mutations are one way living things adapt to new conditions. <sep>Are mutations always harmful?<sep>Yes
A: | No |
Teacher:In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: 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. ||||| BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Council President Donald Tusk told U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday to stop berating NATO allies over military investment levels ahead of what is expected to be a fraught alliance summit.
European Council President Donald Tusk addresses a news conference during an European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium, June 29, 2018. REUTERS/Francois Walschaerts/File Photo
Before flying to Brussels where he arrived on Tuesday night, Trump again chided fellow NATO members for not contributing enough while maintaining a trade surplus with the United States, his latest reprimand on issues that are straining transatlantic relations.
“Dear America, appreciate your allies, after all you don’t have that many,” Tusk, a former Polish prime minister, said after a signing statement on more cooperation between the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
As European Council president, Tusk serves as the chairman when EU leaders meet at summits.
Even while in the air, Trump kept up the attack. He said in a Twitter post that a trade deficit with the European Union “makes it impossible for our farmers and workers and companies to do business in Europe ... and then they want us to happily defend them through NATO, and nicely pay for it. Just doesn’t work!”
The European Union is the top export market for the United States at $501 billion in goods and services in 2016, the latest available figures provided by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Imports totaled $592 billion, leading to a $92 billion goods and services trade deficit with the EU, according to the trade office’s data.
Back in Washington, the top Republican in the U.S. Senate, Mitch McConnell, told reporters he was not worried that Trump would withdraw the United States from NATO. McConnell also said “there is nothing inherently wrong” about Trump meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin while he is in Europe.
Many U.S. presidents have urged European governments to spend more on their militaries. But Trump’s demands have been intensified and blunt to an extent that allies worry it could damage NATO morale and play into the hands of Putin, whom they accuse of trying to destabilize the West.
“Dear President Trump: America does not have, and will not have a better ally than Europe,” said Tusk. “Today, Europeans (collectively) spend on defense many times more than Russia, and as much as China.”
He said that money helped boost U.S. security, as the United States regards Russia and China as threats.
NATO released new estimates for allied defense spending in 2018 on Tuesday, showing that Latvia and Lithuania are set to meet the target of spending 2 percent of economic output on the military. Of the 29 allies, only the United States, Britain, Estonia, Greece and Poland met the goal in 2017. Romania is also on course to hit it in 2018, NATO said.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg stressed that all allies were increasing defense spending in real terms because economies in Europe were growing. He also said Washington strengthens its security and global reach through NATO.
Trump’s Twitter post on Tuesday echoed those on Monday and his criticism at a rally of supporters in the United States last week in which he said that Washington was unfairly carrying almost all the cost of defending Europe.
“Getting ready to leave for Europe. First meeting - NATO. The U.S. is spending many times more than any other country in order to protect them. Not fair to the U.S. taxpayer,” Trump said.
As he left the White House, the Republican president was asked by reporters about Tusk’s comments.
“We do have a lot of allies, but we cannot be taken advantage of. We’re being taken advantage of by the European Union,” he told reporters.
European officials say while U.S. defense spending makes up 70 percent of combined allied governments’ military budgets, just 15 percent of U.S. expenditure is spent in Europe on NATO-related defense. Washington pays about 22 percent of the running cost of NATO, including the headquarters and commonly-funded equipment such as AWACS surveillance planes. ||||| Getting ready to leave for Europe. First meeting - NATO. The U.S. is spending many times more than any other country in order to protect them. Not fair to the U.S. taxpayer. On top of that we lose $151 Billion on Trade with the European Union. Charge us big Tariffs (& Barriers)! ||||| poster="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201807/2905/1155968404_5807668226001_5807622772001-vs.jpg?pubId=1155968404" true Trump says summit with Putin 'may be the easiest' of European meetings
President Donald Trump predicted Tuesday that his upcoming summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin “may be the easiest” of the meetings he has scheduled for his weeklong trip to Europe.
The president departed Tuesday for his trip, which will take him first to Brussels, where he will attend the NATO summit on Wednesday and Thursday. From there, Trump will travel to the United Kingdom, the government of which has been roiled in recent days by the resignation of top Cabinet officials, for bilateral meetings.
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Trump will meet with Putin next Monday in Helsinki.
“So I have NATO, I have the U.K., which is in somewhat turmoil, and I have Putin. Frankly, Putin may be the easiest of them all. Who would think? Who would think?” Trump told reporters as he departed the White House Tuesday morning. “But the U.K. certainly has a — they have a lot of things going on.”
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Trump has faced significant scrutiny for his willingness to meet with Putin amid an ongoing investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and allegations that the Trump campaign colluded in those efforts. The president has insisted that there was no collusion and that the investigation is a “witch hunt.”
The Russian government, and Putin himself, have steadfastly denied any efforts to interfere in the 2016 election, a denial that Trump has at times seemed hesitant to reject even though the U.S. intelligence community has been unanimous in its conclusion that the Kremlin was behind the interference efforts.
With NATO meetings upcoming on Wednesday and Thursday, Trump has renewed his criticisms of the treaty organization, chiefly that its member states do not spend enough on defense, leaving the U.S. to carry too much of the mutual-defense burden. He wrote on Twitter Tuesday that “NATO countries must pay MORE” and “the United States must pay LESS.”
Trump has complained loudly that just a handful of nations spend the agreed-upon 2 percent of their gross domestic product on defense. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has been public in agreeing with Trump and wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that eight of NATO’s 28 member states are expected to meet the 2 percent threshold this year, with a majority on track to do so by 2024. |||||
Student: | President Trump is leaving for his NATO summit in Brussels on Tuesday morning in an apparent good mood—and happy to take some preemptive shots at the world bloc. "Thank you to all of my great supporters, really big progress being made," Trump tweeted. "Economy is ROARING. Supreme Court pick getting GREAT REVIEWS. New Poll says Trump, at over 90%, is the most popular Republican in history of the Party. Wow!" And in multiple tweets, he reiterated a familiar theme, complaining that the US is shouldering an unfair share of defense costs overseas: "NATO countries must pay MORE, the United States must pay LESS," he tweeted. "Very Unfair!" The sentiment already isn't playing well, with European Union President Donald Tusk firing off a zinger off his own Tuesday: “Dear America, appreciate your allies, after all you don’t have that many,” he said after a signing a cooperation pact between the EU and NATO, per Reuters. Trump will attend the NATO summit Wednesday and Thursday, with defense spending expected to be the toughest topic, reports CNBC. Then's he's off to Britain, Scotland, and finally to Finland for another high-profile summit on Monday—with Russian President Vladimir Putin. "So I have NATO, I have the UK, which is in somewhat turmoil, and I have Putin," Trump told reporters Tuesday, reports Politico. "Frankly, Putin may be the easiest of them all. Who would think? Who would think?" |
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How to freeze a row on google sheets on iphone or ipad
Open the sheets app on your iphone or ipad.
The sheets app looks like a green-and-white spreadsheet icon on your home screen, or in a folder on your home screen. It will open up to a list of all your saved spreadsheet files.
Choose your answer from: a. If you have a single spreadsheet file, file by file, set it to " new " and then " data " or " trackback. " see the top menu bar, then your " save " menu, to select your current spreadsheet.; b. If you have google sheets in your mail folder, tap the home button to let the app come to your home screen. If you have google sheets in a recent document folder, tap the " will " switch towards the bottom of the screen.; c. This is the folder where all your files are located. If you're reading an entire document when you open it, it's in that folder.; d. If you're not automatically logged in to sheets, you will have to enter your google email and your password to sign in here. Tap the file you want to edit.;
Answer: | d. |
instruction:
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".
question:
The Principals Committee had its first meeting on al Qaeda on September 4. On the day of the meeting, Clarke sent Rice an impassioned personal note. He criticized U.S. counterterrorism efforts past and present. The "real question" before the principals, he wrote, was "are we serious about dealing with the al Qida threat? Is al Qida a big deal? Decision makers should imagine themselves on a future day when the CSG has not succeeded in stopping al Qida attacks and hundreds of Americans lay dead in several countries, including the US," Clarke wrote. "What would those decision makers wish that they had done earlier? That future day could happen at any time." Clarke then turned to the Cole." The fact that the USS Cole was attacked during the last Administration does not absolve us of responding for the attack," he wrote. "Many in al Qida and the Taliban may have drawn the wrong lesson from the Cole: that they can kill Americans without there being a US response, without there being a price." <sep>On what date did Clarke send Rice a note criticizing U.S. counter-terrorism efforts?<sep>September 5
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Alexander fled Macedon with his mother, dropping her off with her brother, King Alexander I of Epirus in Dodona, capital of the Molossians. He continued to Illyria, where he sought refuge with the Illyrian King and was treated as a guest, despite having defeated them in battle a few years before. However, it appears Philip never intended to disown his politically and militarily trained son. Accordingly, Alexander returned to Macedon after six months due to the efforts of a family friend, Demaratus, who mediated between the two parties. In the following year, the Persian satrap (governor) of Caria, Pixodarus, offered his eldest daughter to Alexander's half-brother, Philip Arrhidaeus. Olympias and several of Alexander's friends suggested this showed Philip intended to make Arrhidaeus his heir. Alexander reacted by sending an actor, Thessalus of Corinth, to tell Pixodarus that he should not offer his daughter's hand to an illegitimate son, but instead to Alexander. When Philip heard of this, he stopped the negotiations and scolded Alexander for wishing to marry the daughter of a Carian, explaining that he wanted a better bride for him. Philip exiled four of Alexander's friends, Harpalus, Nearchus, Ptolemy and Erigyius, and had the Corinthians bring Thessalus to him in chains. <sep>Name all of Alexander's family that are mentioned in this paragraph.<sep>Alexander's father Philip
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Albanian was proved to be an Indo-European language in 1854 by the German philologist Franz Bopp. The Albanian language comprises its own branch of the Indo-European language family. Some scholars believe that Albanian derives from Illyrian while others claim that it derives from Daco-Thracian. (Illyrian and Daco-Thracian, however, might have been closely related languages; see Thraco-Illyrian.) Establishing longer relations, Albanian is often compared to Balto-Slavic on the one hand and Germanic on the other, both of which share a number of isoglosses with Albanian. Moreover, Albanian has undergone a vowel shift in which stressed, long o has fallen to a, much like in the former and opposite the latter. Likewise, Albanian has taken the old relative jos and innovatively used it exclusively to qualify adjectives, much in the way Balto-Slavic has used this word to provide the definite ending of adjectives. The cultural renaissance was first of all expressed through the development of the Albanian language in the area of church texts and publications, mainly of the Catholic region in the North, but also of the Orthodox in the South. The Protestant reforms invigorated hopes for the development of the local language and literary tradition when cleric Gjon Buzuku brought into the Albanian language the Catholic liturgy, trying to do for the Albanian language what Luther did for German. <sep>What three areas of religious texts helped develop the Albanian language?<sep>Vowel shifts
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Problem: 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.
Solution: Russian Revolution
Explanation: This is a good example, and the Russian Revolution is the first event mentioned.
Problem: What set Chopin's preludes apart?, Context: Chopin took the new salon genre of the nocturne, invented by the Irish composer John Field, to a deeper level of sophistication. He was the first to write ballades and scherzi as individual concert pieces. He essentially established a new genre with his own set of free-standing preludes (Op. 28, published 1839). He exploited the poetic potential of the concept of the concert étude, already being developed in the 1820s and 1830s by Liszt, Clementi and Moscheles, in his two sets of studies (Op. 10 published in 1833, Op. 25 in 1837).
Solution: | free-standing |
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? Solve this instance: Writer 's block is when a writer loses the ability to write new material .
Student: | Writer 's block is a condition , primarily associated with writing , in which an author loses the ability to produce new work , or experiences a creative slowdown . |
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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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Live Action Applauds Komen Defunding of Planned Parenthood; Cites Investigations Contact: Kate Bryan, Live Action, 323-454-3304, [email protected] SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 31, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- In response to the news today that the Susan G Komen foundation has ended their financial grant contributions of nearly $700,000 annually to abortion chain Planned Parenthood, Live Action President Lila Rose made the following statement: "We applaud Susan G. Komen for its pro-woman decision to end their financial support of Planned Parenthood, the nation's biggest abortion chain. After a slew of scandals at Planned Parenthood, and the opening of a Congressional investigation, Komen is wise to distance itself from the corrupt abortion giant. In just the last year, Live Action's undercover footage revealed Planned Parenthood workers in 7 clinics aiding and abetting the sex trafficking of young girls, and Planned Parenthood falsely claiming they provide mammograms to women. In reality, our undercover investigation revealed that not a single Planned Parenthood clinic even has the equipment to do a mammogram. Komen realizes that their money to detect, prevent, and cure breast cancer is better spent elsewhere.
"Planned Parenthood misleads women and the public about the services they provide; but it is clear that behind a thin veneer of 'preventative services,' their real focus is abortion. In just the last year, Planned Parenthood was the leading abortion chain in the world, committing over 300,000 abortions, which now account for over 40% of its clinic revenue. Together we stand with Komen and reject Planned Parenthoods corruption and extreme abortion-first ideology." To see the video exposing the false mammogram claim made by Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards, click here. To see the videos that exposed Planned Parenthood's cover-up of child sex-trafficking, visit: liveaction.org/traffick.
To learn more about Live Action, visit: liveaction.org ||||| The nation’s most famous breast cancer charity pulled its grants for screenings from Planned Parenthood
Photo by Bob Levey/Getty Images.
In a shocking move Tuesday afternoon, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the country’s most famous breast cancer charity, pulled its grants for breast-cancer screenings from Planned Parenthood. Komen claims that their reason is that Planned Parenthood is under investigation from Congress, but as it’s well-understood on both the left and the right that the investigation, headed by Rep. Cliff Stearns, is a nuisance investigation that will almost surely turn up nothing, this excuse sounds lame indeed. The likelier explanation is the one offered by Planned Parenthood, that Komen caved under relentless pressure from anti-choice activists who oppose Planned Parenthood for offering abortions as well as low-cost contraception and STD prevention and treatment. In addition, Komen has a history of not playing nice with other women’s health organizations. Planned Parenthood has created an emergency fund to replace the Komen grants, to keep the breast-cancer screening service from being interrupted.
The existence of breast-cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood has always been a thorn in the anti-choice side. Most of Planned Parenthood’s services are related to the choice to be sexually active—contraception, STD screening and treatment, cervical cancer screening—making it easy to write off those services as unnecessary if you follow the strict abstinence-only prescription the Christian right has for women. Breast cancer, however, can strike the lifelong virgin, the married woman who only has sex for procreation, and the dirty fornicator (i.e. the vast majority of American women) alike. Because of this, anti-choicers have tried to create a rift between women’s health advocates who focus on breast cancer and those who focus on reproductive health concerns below the waist. Today, they had a victory with Komen’s act of cowardice.
No matter how much anti-choicers wish otherwise, it’s not feasible to create an approach to women’s health that separates good girl concerns from bad girl concerns. For instance, many women land in gynocologist’s offices seeking contraceptive services and cervical-cancer screenings, and doctors use that opportunity to teach the art of breast self-exam. As noted in my previous post on the Santorums’ pregnancy troubles, even the world of the hated abortion provider and the much-vaunted obstetrician can’t be so easily separated, as the latter is often called upon to have knowledge of pregnancy termination in case of a medical emergency.
In the end, the grant money is less important than the symbolism of Komen buying into the conservative myth of good-girl health care vs. bad-girl health care. In reality, women’s health care can only work if it’s comprehensive health care. Komen has already been under serious scrutiny by those who argue that the organization cares more about shoring up their image than making real progress in the fight for women’s health, and with this move today, they proved their critics right. ||||| FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010 file photo, some of an estimated 45,000 people participate in the Susan B. Komen Race for the Cure in Little Rock, Ark. The nation's leading breast-cancer charity,... (Associated Press)
FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010 file photo, some of an estimated 45,000 people participate in the Susan B. Komen Race for the Cure in Little Rock, Ark. The nation's leading breast-cancer charity,... (Associated Press)
The nation's leading breast-cancer charity, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, is halting its partnerships with Planned Parenthood affiliates _ creating a bitter rift, linked to the abortion debate, between two iconic organizations that have assisted millions of women.
The change will mean a cutoff of hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants, mainly for breast exams.
Planned Parenthood says the move results from Komen bowing to pressure from anti-abortion activists. Komen says the key reason is that Planned Parenthood is under investigation in Congress _ a probe launched by a conservative Republican who was urged to act by anti-abortion groups.
The rupture, which has not been publicly announced as it unfolded, is wrenching for some of those who've learned about it and admire both organizations.
"We're kind of reeling," said Patrick Hurd, who is CEO of Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Virginia _ recipient of a 2010 grant from Komen _ and whose wife, Betsi, is a veteran of several Komen fundraising races and is currently battling breast cancer.
"It sounds almost trite, going through this with Betsi, but cancer doesn't care if you're pro-choice, anti-choice, progressive, conservative," Hurd said. "Victims of cancer could care less about people's politics."
Planned Parenthood said the Komen grants totaled roughly $680,000 last year and $580,000 the year before, going to at least 19 of its affiliates for breast-cancer screening and other breast-health services.
Komen spokeswoman Leslie Aun said the cutoff results from the charity's newly adopted criteria barring grants to organizations that are under investigation by local, state or federal authorities. According to Komen, this applies to Planned Parenthood because it's the focus of an inquiry launched by Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., seeking to determine whether public money was improperly spent on abortions.
Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, has depicted Stearns' probe as politically motivated and said she was dismayed that it had contributed to Komen's decision to halt the grants to PPFA affiliates.
"It's hard to understand how an organization with whom we share a mission of saving women's lives could have bowed to this kind of bullying," Richards told The Associated Press. "It's really hurtful."
Planned Parenthood has been a perennial target of protests, boycotts and funding cutoffs because of its role as the largest provider of abortions in the United States. Its nearly 800 health centers nationwide provide an array of other services, including birth control, testing for sexually transmitted diseases, and cancer screening.
According to Planned Parenthood, its centers performed more than 4 million breast exams over the past five years, including nearly 170,000 as a result of Komen grants.
Komen, founded in 1982, has invested more than $1.9 billion since then in breast-cancer research, health services and advocacy. Its Race for the Cure fundraising events have become a global phenomenon.
For all its mainstream popularity, however, Komen has been a target of anti-abortion groups since it began its partnerships with Planned Parenthood in 2005.
Life Decisions International includes Komen on its "boycott list" of companies and organizations that support or collaborate with Planned Parenthood. In December, Lifeway Christian Resources, the publishing division of the Southern Baptist Convention announced a recall of pink Bibles it had sold because some of the money generated for Komen was being routed to Planned Parenthood.
Aun, the Komen spokeswoman, said such pressure tactics were not the reason for the funding cutoff and cited Stearns' House investigation as a key factor.
That investigation, which has no set timetable, was launched in September when Stearns asked Planned Parenthood for more than a decade's worth of documents.
Stearns, in a statement emailed to the AP on Monday, said he is still working with Planned Parenthood on getting the requested documents. He said he is looking into possible violations of state and local reporting requirements, as well as allegations of financial abuse, and would consider holding a hearing depending on what he learns.
Many of the allegations were outlined in a report presented to Stearns last year by Americans United for Life, a national anti-abortion group, which urged him to investigate.
Democrats and Planned Parenthood supporters have assailed the probe as an unwarranted political ploy.
Komen, while not publicly announcing its decision to halt the grants, has conveyed the news to its 100-plus U.S. affiliates. Richards said she was informed via a phone call from Komen's president, Elizabeth Thompson, in December.
"It was incredibly surprising," Richards said. "It wasn't even a conversation _ it was an announcement."
Richards subsequently sent a letter to Komen's top leaders _ CEO Nancy Brinker and board chairman Dr. LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr. _ requesting a meeting with the board and asserting that Komen had misrepresented Planned Parenthood's funding-eligibility status in some states.
According to Planned Parenthood, the Komen leaders replied to Richards with a brief letter ignoring the request for a meeting, defending the new grant criteria, and adding, "We understand the disappointment of any organization that is affected by these policy and strategy updates."
Aun, in a telephone interview, said Komen was not accusing Planned Parenthood of any wrongdoing.
"We want to maintain a positive relationship with them," she said. "We're not making any judgment."
Richards said Planned Parenthood is intent on raising funds quickly to replace the lost grants so that women in need do not go without breast-screening services. Already, the family foundation of Dallas oilman/philanthropist Lee Fikes and his wife, Amy, has donated $250,000 for this purpose, Planned Parenthood said.
The Komen decision was perplexing to Dottie Lamm, a Denver newspaper columnist and breast cancer survivor. She has done fundraising for Planned Parenthood, participated in several Races for the Cure, and serves on an honorary advisory council for the local Komen affiliate.
"It really makes me sad," said Lamm, wife of former Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm. "I kind of suspect there's a political agenda that got to Komen ... I hope it can be worked out."
Stephanie Kight, a vice president with Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties, said her affiliate in Southern California received a Komen grant for 2011 and was able to obtain an additional grant of $120,000 for 2012 by signing the deal with its local Komen counterpart just before Komen's new criteria took effect. Under the criteria, no further grants will be allowed unless the pending House inquiry is resolved in Planned Parenthood's favor.
Kight said her conversations with local Komen leaders indicated there was a shared sense of frustration over the national Komen decision.
"One of the things these organizations share is the trust of women across the United States," Kight said. "That's what we're concerned about _ not losing the trust of these women, who turn to both of us at their most difficult moments."
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Online:
Susan G. Komen for the Cure: http://ww5.komen.org/
Planned Parenthood: http://www.plannedparenthood.org/
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David Crary can be followed on Twitter at http://twitter.com/CraryAP |||||
Output: | Big news on the women's health front: AP reports that the breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure is cutting its ties with Planned Parenthood. The move, which centers on abortion, will mean the end of "hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants" for breast cancer exams. Komen's explanation: It has new rules that prohibit it from giving money to groups under federal investigation, and Planned Parenthood qualifies because of a congressional inquiry into whether it spent public money on abortions. Planned Parenthood says the charity caved to pressure from anti-abortion groups. "It's hard to understand how an organization with whom we share a mission of saving women's lives could have bowed to this kind of bullying," says President Cecile Richards. "It's really hurtful." At Slate, Amanda Marcotte agrees and calls Komen's move an "act of cowardice." The charity "has already been under serious scrutiny by those who argue that the organization cares more about shoring up their image than making real progress in the fight for women's health, and with this move today, they proved their critics right." Read her full column here. (For an opposing view, click here.) |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Problem:What did women use for protection?, Context: Maintaining the household was the main duty of samurai women. This was especially crucial during early feudal Japan, when warrior husbands were often traveling abroad or engaged in clan battles. The wife, or okugatasama (meaning: one who remains in the home), was left to manage all household affairs, care for the children, and perhaps even defend the home forcibly. For this reason, many women of the samurai class were trained in wielding a polearm called a naginata or a special knife called the kaiken in an art called tantojutsu (lit. the skill of the knife), which they could use to protect their household, family, and honor if the need arose.
Solution: | a polearm called a naginata or a special knife called the kaiken |
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: What if you could drain all of Earths oceans? What would it look like? You might be really surprised. You see that the surface has two main features. It has continents and ocean basins. Continents are large land areas. These are the areas that are mostly above sea level. Ocean basins extend from the edges of continents. They include the ocean floor and Earths deep ocean trenches. You will also notice the ocean floor is not flat. It too has many Continents are much older than ocean basins. Some rocks on the continents are billions of years old. Ocean basins may only be millions of years old. Because the continents are so old, a lot has happened to them! As we view the land around us, we see landforms. Landforms are physical features on Earths surface. These features change over time, but how? There are actually two types of forces at work. <sep>What are two elements of ocean basins?<sep>Basins and continents
Output: No
Input: Consider Input: Mechanical energy is a combination of the energy of motion or position. This type of energy describes objects that are moving or could move. A moving ball can have energy from motion. An arrow can also have the energy of motion. Both are types of mechanical energy. Can you think of some other examples? Where does the energy of motion come from? It comes from the energy created by position. This energy is stored energy. This means it is not moving yet, but it has the potential to move. How can you store energy? The arrow gains energy from the drawn bow. As the arrow is released, the bow releases its stored energy and puts the arrow into motion. Can you think of some other ways to store energy using position? <sep>What kind of energy do objects that are moving or could move possess?<sep>Potential energy
Output: No
Input: Consider Input: Sound waves are mechanical waves. They can travel only through matter. They cannot travel through empty space. This was demonstrated in the 1600s by a scientist named Robert Boyle. Boyle placed a ticking clock in a sealed glass jar. The clock could be heard ticking through the air and glass of the jar. Then Boyle pumped the air out of the jar. The clock was still running, but the ticking could not be heard. Thats because the sound couldnt travel without air particles to transfer the sound energy. Is there any other place where sound cannot be heard? Here is a hint: is there any other place that does not have air molecules? Thats right, in space sound cannot be transferred. So can astronauts hear each other? Yes, they can, because they are in enclosed space stations or pressurized suits.In both cases, they are surrounded by air molecules. If they left their space ship and did not use their electronics, they would not be able to hear each other. Next time you watch a science fiction movie, think about this factoid. When spaceships are destroyed by hostile alien beings, there would be no sound heard. Sound waves can travel through many kinds of matter. <sep>How do astronauts hear?<sep>through the atmosphere of space
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Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Problem:MCALLEN, Texas — Federal authorities have awarded a $145 million contract to a Texas company to build 6 miles of wall along the U.S.-Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley. U.S. Customs and Border Patrol said Friday that SLSCO will begin construction of an 18-foot reinforced concrete levee wall in February in the agency's McAllen Station region. The company will also increase the height of existing fences.
It will be the first section of President Trump's border barriers in the Rio Grande Valley, the busiest corridor for illegal crossings.
The government recently completed construction of a 2-mile, 30-foot tall section of fencing along the border in California.
Mr. Trump has been ramping up anti-immigration rhetoric heading into Tuesday's midterm elections and has ordered troops to the border to meet a caravan of Central American migrants slowly traveling through Mexico.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended Mr. Trump's plan to send troops to the southern border, dismissing criticism that the move is motivated by politics ahead of the midterm elections.
"We've made clear to them they need to undertake every effort they can to stop this illegal migration from entering the United States, and the president's made very clear they will not be permitted to enter our country unlawfully," Pompeo said on "Face the Nation" Sunday.
He disputed that Mr. Trump's emphasis on hardening his immigration policies in recent weeks was aimed at rallying his base.
"I've been involved in scores of conversations about stopping illegal immigration from Mexico and never once has there been a discussion of the political impact in U.S. domestic politics," Pompeo said. "It has always been about securing the safety of the American people and securing our southern border." ||||| A Texas company has been granted a $145 million federal contract to build six miles of wall along the U.S.-Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley.
Galveston-based SLSCO will start construction of an 18-foot, reinforced concrete levee wall in February, the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol said.
The project, which will take place in the agency's McAllen Station region, will also raise the height of existing fences.
The wall will be the first section of President Donald Trump's border barriers in the Rio Grande Valley, which is the busiest corridor for illegal crossings. |||||
Solution: | A Texas company has become the recipient of a US-Mexico border wall contract as federal authorities fulfill President Trump's first and most contentious campaign promise. Per CBS News, US Customs and Border Protection said Friday that the $145 million contract was awarded to Galveston-headquartered construction company SLSCO. The wall will be built of reinforced concrete and reportedly stand at 18 feet tall and span six miles of border in the Rio Grande Valley. The wall will be the first built under Trump in the Rio Grande Valley, a hot spot for illegal border crossings. According to the Dallas News, SLSCO will begin construction in February. A similar project was previously undertaken at California's border with Mexico, where two miles of 30-foot-high fencing were recently completed. SLSCO will reportedly also add to existing fencing as part of its contract. (Meanwhile, staffers at an Idaho school recently dressed up for Halloween as "stereotypical" Mexicans with a cardboard border wall.) |
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Q: Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.
/ Updated By Maggie Fox
Congress sent President Donald Trump a multi-billion dollar poke in the eye Monday, refusing to slash medical spending as Trump proposed and instead giving the National Institutes of Health a $2 billion raise.
The budget agreement, finalized in the wee hours of Monday morning, also defies Trump’s demand for cuts to NASA’s earth science program, which the administration had targeted as part of a wider promise to cut climate change research. And it provides $103 million to fight the opioid abuse epidemic — an area of rare bipartisan agreement that even Trump supports.
The new budget proposal, which needs votes in the House and Senate, would keep the government running until October, when the 2018 budget is supposed to kick in.
Trump had proposed slashing NIH by $1.2 billion for the rest of 2017 to help pay for his proposed increases in defense spending. Instead, Congress gave the NIH an extra $2 billion for the next 6 months, bumping its total 2017 budget to $34 billion.
Oklahoma Rep. Tom Cole, a Republican who chairs the appropriations subcommittee that oversees NIH funding and who sits on the budget committee, said funding medical research is something Republicans and Democrats agree on easily.
Related: Congressional Leaders Reach $1 Trillion Agreement to Avert Shutdown
“We doubled NIH funding in the late 1990s and early 2000s and then we were flat for a dozen years,” Cole told a seminar on biodefense Monday morning. The result was a giant cut in proposed medical research projects that got paid for, he said.
“Instead of funding one in three grants we fell to funding one in six,” Cole said.
He said the agency, as well as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, need regular increases, not cuts.
“The bill includes a total of $73.5 billion for HHS (the Health and Human Services Department), an increase of $2.8 billion above last year’s enacted level and $3.8 billion above the previous Administration’s budget request,” the House Appropriations committee said in a statement.
“It includes specific increases for research related to Alzheimer’s disease, the brain, antibiotic resistance, and the Precision Medicine Initiative. The bill also provides a general increase to all NIH Institutes and Centers to continue progress in developing new treatments and cures,” it added.
Specifically, the bill:
Gives the National Cancer Institute nearly $5.4 billion, including $300 million to the Obama administration’s Cancer Moonshot program
Provides $4.9 billion to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Raises Alzheimer’s research funding by $400 million, to $1.4 billion
Gives $120 million to former president Barack Obama’s BRAIN initiative
Gives $3.2 billion to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Allocates $57 million to prepare for an influenza pandemic
Gives CDC $112 million for “an evidence-based opioid drug overdose prevention program” and $50 million to the Veterans Health Administration for opioid and substance abuse treatment.
The new 2017 budget also preserves the $101 million Teen Pregnancy Prevention program that Trump proposed cutting in half.
It also sets aside $32 million for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Trump’s State Department earlier this year said it would stop giving any money to UNFPA, which got $69 million from the U.S. last year, so the bill provides for the money to go to other global health programs instead.
Related: Proposed Trump Budget Cuts Would Devastate Medical Spending, Experts Say
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gets a small increase, also.
“The agreement includes a total of program level of $7.3 billion for the CDC — $22 million above the fiscal year 2016 enacted level. This includes $6.3 billion in appropriated funds, as well as $891 million in transfers from the Prevention and Public Health Fund,” the Appropriations summary said.
A GOP bill designed to replace as much of the Affordable Care Act as possible had targeted the Prevention and Public Health Fund, which accounts for 12 percent of the CDC budget. But Congress joined Trump in doing everything possible to starve the 2010 Affordable Care Act. “The bill provides no new funding for Obamacare,” the committee said.
And it returns the U.S. to a focus on “abstinence only” education, which many studies have shown is not effective in reducing teen pregnancies or stopping the spread of disease.
Related: Teen Birth Rate Not Low Enough, CDC Says
“The legislation also increases funding for sexual risk avoidance programs for teens (formerly known as abstinence education) by 50 percent,” the committee said.
NASA gets a 1.9 percent increase, with $19.5 billion to spend before October, including $1.9 billion for earth science, and keeps the NASA education office running despite Trump administration proposals to cut it.
The budget also gives a small raise to climate change research. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research gets a 3.5 percent increase to $478 million.
The fight is not over. Trump has indicated he wants to cut overall health spending, including NIH, by 20 percent for 2018. ||||| Kimmel's friends will step in to guest-host while he takes the week off to be with his family.
Jimmy Kimmel is a father once again.
On April 21, Kimmel and his wife, Jimmy Kimmel Live! co-head writer Molly McNearney, welcomed their second child together, William “Billy” Kimmel. But at just 3 days old, the littlest Kimmel had to undergo open-heart surgery at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Fortunately, all went well, and Billy is now home with his parents and older sister, Jane.
Kimmel opens up about the complications on tonight’s show and encourages those watching to donate to the Children’s Hospital. Later in the show, he’ll be joined by guests Dr. Oz and Shaun White, who suffered from the same heart troubles as a child. In fact, the Olympian had to have three open-heart surgeries when he was born — a subject he’ll surely discuss on the show.
Kimmel referenced President Donald Trump’s proposed $6 billion cut in funding to the National Institute of Health and said he was glad “our congressmen made a deal last night not to go along with that.” He said his son was born with congenital heart disease and also expressed that partisans from both sides should come together in providing everyone with access to health insurance.
“If your baby is going to die, and it doesn’t have to, it should not matter how much money you make,” said Kimmel, who teared up during his monologue.
Given the circumstances, Kimmel has decided to forgo his annual appearance at ABC’s May 16 upfront presentation to Madison Avenue ad buyers. Instead, he will remain at home with his family.
Without any sort of announcement or fanfare, Kimmel quietly went to repeats last week when his son was still in the hospital. Assuming there isn’t a writers strike, he will go out on paternity leave for the remainder of this week. If there is a work stoppage, the ABC late-night show, like those on the other networks, is expected to go dark.
In his stead, Kimmel’s friends have lined up to guest-host Jimmy Kimmel Live! Will Arnett is set for Tuesday’s show, with a special appearance from his Gong Show host, Tommy Maitland. Anthony Anderson is on board for Wednesday, while Kristen Bell and David Spade will take over on Thursday and Friday, respectively. The guest list for the week includes Maya Rudolph, Charlie Hunnam, Adam Scott and Guy Ritchie.
Video from Monday’s show is below.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday morning, McNearney tweeted out a photo of Kimmel with their newborn son:
I am thankful to love and be loved by these two brave guys. Both criers. pic.twitter.com/NL0C3K3Q4E — Molly McNearney (@mollymcnearney) May 2, 2017
And many in Hollywood are tweeting well wishes to the Kimmel family:
Things got a bit dusty in the Meyers' house this morning. Love to the entire Kimmel family. https://t.co/1VlaTMn2SP — Seth Meyers (@sethmeyers) May 2, 2017
Thank you @jimmykimmel for your honesty, your words, your bravery. All should watch this!!! https://t.co/HixCTVxqLQ — christina applegate (@1capplegate) May 2, 2017
Hey @jimmykimmel, thanks for this. You are the best of the best. @mollymcnearney & Billy, too. https://t.co/ZrUhgqtk6v — Mindy Kaling (@mindykaling) May 2, 2017
Do watch Jimmy Kimmel talking about his baby son’s heart surgery in a plea for healthcare for all – video https://t.co/tOR5udB2oE — Mia Farrow (@MiaFarrow) May 2, 2017
Watch & prepare to tear up. Thanks @jimmykimmel for sharing your story & reminding us what's at stake w/health care.https://t.co/2kTEeUEG2f — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) May 2, 2017
Well said, Jimmy. That's exactly why we fought so hard for the ACA, and why we need to protect it for kids like Billy. And congratulations! https://t.co/77F8rZrD3P — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) May 2, 2017
Welcome, Billy Kimmel! You have amazing parents – funny, kind, beautiful. Your dad has some good qualities too. @JimmyKimmel @MollyMcNearney — Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) May 2, 2017
Updated 7:31 a.m. Tuesday, May 2: McNearney's and other tweets added. |||||
A: | Jimmy Kimmel is known for his smirks, but Monday night he offered tears instead on Jimmy Kimmel Live with an emotional announcement, per the Hollywood Reporter. The late-night host was absent from his show last week, and he explained that it was because of the birth of his son, William "Billy" Kimmel, with wife Molly McNearney—a story he told through tears, though he assured audience members it had a "happy ending." Kimmel describes how, shortly after his son was born, a "very attentive nurse" not only picked up on the fact that the baby had a heart murmur (a common occurrence with newborns), but also that the infant was "purple." It turns out the baby was born with congenital heart disease and, at just three days old, had to undergo open-heart surgery at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. The surgery went well, and little Billy is now home with his mom and dad and big sister Jane. "Poor kid, not only did he get a bad heart, he got my face," Kimmel joked during audience applause as a picture of his smiling son was shown. He adds the baby is "doing great. He's eating, he's sleeping, he peed on his mother today." Kimmel momentarily got political and thanked members of Congress for voting Monday to give the NIH $2 billion more than usual, despite President Trump's wishes to cut funding. "If your baby is going to die, and it doesn't have to, it should not matter how much money you make," Kimmel said. (Trump himself was on Kimmel's show.) |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Q: A rectifier is a device that can convert Alternating current ( AC ) to Direct current ( DC ) .
A: | A rectifier is an electrical device that converts alternating current ( AC ) , which periodically reverses direction , to direct current ( DC ) , which flows in only one direction . |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then an example. Follow the example to solve a new instance of the task.
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
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.
Why? The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
New input: FGM is also called female genital cutting and female circumcision .
Solution: | Female genital mutilation ( FGM ) , also known as female genital cutting and female circumcision , is the ritual cutting or removal of some or all of the external female genitalia . |
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
The Legend of the Titanic (Spanish: La leyenda del Titanic , Italian: La leggenda del Titanic ) is a 1999 Italian animated film directed by Orlando Corradi and Kim J. Ok. The film is a very loose adaptation of the RMS Titanic sinking and featured several fantasy elements such as anthropomorphic animals.
Hypothesis: The Legend of the Titanic was directed by Kim Ok and Orlando Corradi.
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Answer:
Yes
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
That the fourth report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs in the First Session of the Thirty-sixth Parliament, be deemed to have been laid upon the table in the present Session and concurred in, provided that, for the purposes of this Order, the date ``June 30, 1999'' in the said Report shall be read as ``June 30, 2000''.
Hypothesis: The present Session has been unusually productive.
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Answer:
It's impossible to say
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
Also, in a landmark deal with Disney, iTunes is now offering current and past episodes from two of the most popular shows on television.
Hypothesis: Disney made a deal with Apple about content.
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Answer:
| Yes |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task, you will be presented with a 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".
Einstein and Maric married in January 1903. In May 1904, the couple's first son, Hans Albert Einstein, was born in Bern, Switzerland. Their second son, Eduard, was born in Zurich in July 1910. In 1914, the couple separated; Einstein moved to Berlin and his wife remained in Zurich with their sons. They divorced on 14 February 1919, having lived apart for five years. Eduard, whom his father called "Tete" (for petit), had a breakdown at about age 20 and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. His mother cared for him and he was also committed to asylums for several periods, including full-time after her death. The marriage with Maric does not seem to have been very happy. In letters revealed in 2015, Einstein wrote to his early love, Marie Winteler, about his marriage and his still strong feelings for Marie. In 1910 he wrote to her that "I think of you in heartfelt love every spare minute and am so unhappy as only a man can be" while his wife was pregnant with their second child. Einstein spoke about a "misguided love" and a "missed life" regarding his love for Marie. Einstein married Elsa Lowenthal on 2 June 1919, after having had a relationship with her since 1912. She was a first cousin maternally and a second cousin paternally. In 1933, they emigrated to the United States. In 1935, Elsa Einstein was diagnosed with heart and kidney problems; she died in December 1936. <sep>After Albert and Maric separated, who remained in Zurich?<sep>Einstein
Output: | No |
How does the next paragraph end?
How to write a letter to a friend
Choose your stationery.
If you know that your friend loves colors and designs, consider using a stationery that matches their tastes. If you think your friend won't care either way, you can simply write your letter on some lined paper. | A lot of craft stores, department stores, and dollar stores carry different types of stationery. You can even find sets with matching envelopes. |
What happens next?
How to potty train pet rats
Start by saving a tablespoon of droppings out of your rat's old cage.
Set it aside to put in the litter box, making sure the spoon carries no scent that could distract your rat from the litter box.
Clean your rat's cage thoroughly. | Put in fresh bedding and disinfect any toys or houses that might have dropping on them. Take a small, shallow box and put it in the corner where your rat generally does his duty. |
The consultation on the redevelopment of Wan Chai Sports Ground has been conducted, Secretary for Home Affairs Lau Kong-wah says. Speaking to the media after attending a radio programme today, Mr Lau said a concrete timetable has yet been made on Wan Chai Sports Ground's redevelopment as the plan is still at a preliminary stage. The Home Affairs Bureau will assess the plan's impact on the sports sector once a proposal from the Trade Development Council is released and stakeholders' views are collected, he added.
Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text?
Wan Chai Sports Ground's redevelopment consultation has not yet started
Available options: A. Yes. B. It's impossible to say. C. No. | C. |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context (see options)?
Context:
How to check engine vacuum hoses<br>Check each hose for bulges and swelling. If a hose feels soft or spongy when you touch it, this can indicate damage caused by your car's oil. [substeps] A swollen hose that is cracked and hard is often caused by heat damage.
Hypothesis: engine vacuum hoses were introduced to cars in the 1960's
Pick your answer from:
(1). Yes
(2). It's impossible to say
(3). No | (2). |
Context:
So we've got to enforce our civil rights laws. We've got to deal with things like racial profiling. And we have to keep our military strong. We have the strongest military, and I'll do whatever is necessary, if I'm president, to make sure that it stays that way.
Hypothesis: The agent does not believe in the military
No
Context:
Well, I suppose implicit in the argument that the '76 act, too, should have been declared void, and that we might leave it alone because of the disruption, is that for all these years the act has impeded progress in science and the useful arts. I just don't see any empirical evidence for that.
Hypothesis: The 76 act has been amended
It's impossible to say
Context:
Infestation is a 2009 Horror-Comedy feature film by American writer/director Kyle Rankin. It was produced by Mel Gibson's Icon Entertainment and starring Chris Marquette, E. Quincy Sloan, Brooke Nevin, Kinsey Packard, Deborah Geffner and Ray Wise. It was filmed in Bulgaria.
Hypothesis: Infestation was filmed in the first decade of the year 2000.
| Yes |
Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to apply reflexology to the ears
Have a reflexology chart on hand if possible.
It's great to go into the situation with a reflexology chart. If you forget any of the pressure points on the ears, you can quickly consult your chart. | If possible, bring a reflexology chart into the room where you'll be doing ear reflexology. If you don't have an ear reflexology chart, you can print one from the internet. |
Teacher:In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: Today, we know that the 'transforming principle' Griffith observed was the DNA of the III-s strain bacteria. While the bacteria had been killed, the DNA had survived the heating process and was taken up by the II-R strain bacteria. The III-S strain DNA contains the genes that form the smooth protective polysaccharide capsule. Equipped with this gene, the former II-R strain bacteria were now protected from the host's immune system and could kill the host. The exact nature of the transforming principle (DNA) was verified in the experiments done by Avery, McLeod and McCarty and by Hershey and Chase.
Student: | what is the name of the process that was involved in changing griffiths r bacteria to s bacteria |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Let me give you an 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.
The answer to this example can be: is confectionary sugar the same as powdered sugar?
Here is why: The question is a yes/no question, and it is answerable based on the given passage.
OK. solve this:
The rules for the high jump are set internationally by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). Jumpers must take off on one foot. A jump is considered a failure if the bar is dislodged by the action of the jumper whilst jumping or the jumper touches the ground or breaks the plane of the near edge of the bar before clearance. The technique one uses for the jump must be almost flawless in order to have a chance of clearing a high bar.
Answer: | can you jump off two feet in high jump? |
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.
Example solution: The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini.
Example explanation: The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
Problem: The rules are in the section " Laws of Chess " of the " FIDE Handbook " .
| Solution: The rules of chess are published by FIDE ( " Fe ́ de ́ ration Internationale des E ́ checs " ) , chess 's international governing body , in its " Handbook " . |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Problem:Kenyan citizens employed in the health field can be considered what due to preventable diseases?, Context: Diseases of poverty directly correlate with a country's economic performance and wealth distribution: Half of Kenyans live below the poverty level. Preventable diseases like malaria, HIV/AIDS, pneumonia, diarrhoea and malnutrition are the biggest burden, major child-killers, and responsible for much morbidity; weak policies, corruption, inadequate health workers, weak management and poor leadership in the public health sector are largely to blame. According to 2009 estimates, HIV prevalence is about 6.3% of the adult population. However, the 2011 UNAIDS Report suggests that the HIV epidemic may be improving in Kenya, as HIV prevalence is declining among young people (ages 15–24) and pregnant women. Kenya had an estimated 15 million cases of malaria in 2006.
Solution: | inadequate |
During the years between World War I and World War II, a great lesson was learned by our military leaders and the people of the United States. The lesson was that in the aftermath of World War I, we kind of turned our backs and left them to their own devices and they brewed up a lot of trouble that quickly became World War II.
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true?
World War II was the United States fault. | It's impossible to say |
Q: In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Gravitational Potential Energy is affected by position. Like the leaves on trees, anything that is raised up has the potential to fall. It has potential energy. You can see examples of people with gravitational potential energy in 1.5 Figure below. Gravitational potential energy depends on two things. It depends on its weight, because a large falling rock can do more damage than a leaf falling from a tree. It also depends on its height above the ground. Like the skateboarder, the higher the ramp, the faster he will be going when he reaches the bottom. Like all energy, gravitational potential energy has the ability to do work. In this case, weight has the potential to deliver a force. More important for us is that it has the ability to cause change. What kind of change you may ask? Gravitational potential energy has the ability to cause motion. <sep>Why is the skateboarder, who is up on a ramp, able to move downward to the bottom of the ramp?<sep>He is unstable
A: | No |
Q: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
How does this manifest?, Context: In their theoretical rules, the Cubist architects expressed the requirement of dynamism, which would surmount the matter and calm contained in it, through a creative idea, so that the result would evoke feelings of dynamism and expressive plasticity in the viewer. This should be achieved by shapes derived from pyramids, cubes and prisms, by arrangements and compositions of oblique surfaces, mainly triangular, sculpted facades in protruding crystal-like units, reminiscent of the so-called diamond cut, or even cavernous that are reminiscent of the late Gothic architecture. In this way, the entire surfaces of the facades including even the gables and dormers are sculpted. The grilles as well as other architectural ornaments attain a three-dimensional form. Thus, new forms of windows and doors were also created, e. g. hexagonal windows. Czech Cubist architects also designed Cubist furniture.
A: | shapes derived from pyramids, cubes and prisms |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Ex Input:
What makes one species provide us with a bunch of different meal options?, Context: Interspecific crop diversity is, in part, responsible for offering variety in what we eat. Intraspecific diversity, the variety of alleles within a single species, also offers us choice in our diets. If a crop fails in a monoculture, we rely on agricultural diversity to replant the land with something new. If a wheat crop is destroyed by a pest we may plant a hardier variety of wheat the next year, relying on intraspecific diversity. We may forgo wheat production in that area and plant a different species altogether, relying on interspecific diversity. Even an agricultural society which primarily grows monocultures, relies on biodiversity at some point.
Ex Output:
the variety of alleles
Ex Input:
How was Nintendo Entertainment System software distributed?, Context: To differentiate Nintendo's new home platform from the early 1980s' common perception of a troubled and shallow video game market, the company freshened its product nomenclature and positioning, and it established a strict product approval and licensing policy. The overall system was referred to as an "Entertainment System" instead of a "video game system", which was centered upon a machine called a "Control Deck" instead of a "console", and which featured software cartridges called "Game Paks" instead of "video games". The 10NES lockout chip system acted as a lock-and-key coupling of each Game Pak and Control Deck, deterring the copying or production of NES games which had not first achieved Nintendo's licensed approval. The packaging of the launch lineup of NES games bore pictures of a very close representation of the actual onscreen graphics of the game, which were of sufficiently recognizable quality on their own. Symbols on the launch games' packaging clearly indicated the genre of the game, in order to reduce consumer confusion. A 'seal of quality' was printed on all appropriately licensed game and accessory packaging. The initial seal stated, "This seal is your assurance that Nintendo has approved and guaranteed the quality of this product". This text was later changed to "Official Nintendo Seal of Quality".
Ex Output:
software cartridges
Ex Input:
Who is the Queen married to?, Context: Burke took a leading role in the debate regarding the constitutional limits to the executive authority of the king. He argued strongly against unrestrained royal power and for the role of political parties in maintaining a principled opposition capable of preventing abuses, either by the monarch, or by specific factions within the government. His most important publication in this regard was his Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents of 23 April 1770. Burke identified the "discontents" as stemming from the "secret influence" of a neo-Tory group he labelled as, the "king's friends", whose system "comprehending the exterior and interior administrations, is commonly called, in the technical language of the Court, Double Cabinet". Britain needed a party with "an unshaken adherence to principle, and attachment to connexion, against every allurement of interest". Party divisions "whether operating for good or evil, are things inseparable from free government".
Ex Output:
| king
|
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 Q]: Threats and aspirations to secede from the United States, or arguments justifying secession, have been a feature of the country's politics almost since its birth. Some have argued for secession as a constitutional right and others as from a natural right of revolution. In Texas v. White, the United States Supreme Court ruled unilateral secession unconstitutional, while commenting that revolution or consent of the States could lead to a successful secession.
[EX A]: can a state succeed from the united states?
[EX Q]: Tomalley (from the Carib word tumale, meaning a sauce of lobster liver), crab fat, or lobster paste is the soft, green substance found in the body cavity of lobsters, that fulfills the functions of both the liver and the pancreas. Tomalley corresponds to the hepatopancreas in other arthropods. It is considered a delicacy, and may be eaten alone but is often added to sauces for flavour and as a thickening agent. The term lobster paste or lobster pâté can also be used to indicate a mixture of tomalley and lobster roe. Lobster bisque, lobster stock, and lobster consommé are made using lobster bodies (heads), often including the lobster liver.
[EX A]: can i eat the green stuff in lobster?
[EX Q]: Canadian citizenship is typically obtained by birth in Canada on the principle of jus soli, or birth abroad when at least one parent is a Canadian citizen or by adoption by at least one Canadian citizen under the rules of jus sanguinis. It can also be granted to a permanent resident who has lived in Canada for a period of time through naturalization. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC, formerly known as Citizenship and Immigration Canada, or CIC) is the department of the federal government responsible for citizenship-related matters, including confirmation, grant, renunciation and revocation of citizenship.
[EX A]: | can i get canadian citizenship if my mother was born in canada?
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Fariba Ahmedi, a woman MP from Khandahar who was present at Ahmed-jan's funeral told the Associated Press, "The enemy of Afghanistan killed her, but they should know it will not derail women from the path we are on. We will continue on our way,". Sonja Bachmann, a U.N. political officer who knew Ahmed-jan well told the New York Times that Ahmed-jan "did a good job, she worked in a very low-key way and worked hard to raise awareness about women's issues."
Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text?
Fariba Ahmedi is concerned about women's issues. | Yes |
Q: Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Generated: Context: MLB TV<br>My wife went to a ballgame on Monday. I saw her on tv during the game. I did not dvr the game. I went to MLB tv and subscribed. I was able to play the game on demand and record her.
Hypothesis: My wife drove to the ball game on Monday
Q: Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Generated: Context: Now, what happens is when you begin to get people covered like that -- for instance in diabetes, if you diagnose diabetes early, you could save $50 billion in the health care system of America by avoiding surgery and dialysis. It works. And I'm going to offer it to America.
Hypothesis: The speaker feels they would spend 50 billion by diagnosing early.
Q: Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Generated: Context: Hugh Donald McCutcheon {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 13 October 1969), a native of Christchurch, New Zealand, is the former head coach of the US men's national volleyball team, the former head coach of the US women's national volleyball team, and the current head coach of the University of Minnesota's women's volleyball team.
Hypothesis: He was born in the year 1960+9
Q: Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Generated: | Context: François-Xavier Roth (born 6 November 1971 in Paris) is a French conductor. His father is the organist Daniel Roth. His brother Vincent Roth is a violist. Before turning to conducting, François was a flautist. Roth graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique, where his teachers included Alain Marion and János Fürst.
Hypothesis: The different Roth musicians play different instruments. |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
What did the freehold lease?, Context: Various owners leased it from royal landlords and the freehold was the subject of frenzied speculation during the 17th century. By then, the old village of Eye Cross had long since fallen into decay, and the area was mostly wasteland. Needing money, James I sold off part of the Crown freehold but retained part of the site on which he established a 4-acre (16,000 m2) mulberry garden for the production of silk. (This is at the northwest corner of today's palace.) Clement Walker in Anarchia Anglicana (1649) refers to "new-erected sodoms and spintries at the Mulberry Garden at S. James's"; this suggests it may have been a place of debauchery. Eventually, in the late 17th century, the freehold was inherited from the property tycoon Sir Hugh Audley by the great heiress Mary Davies.
Output: | the old village of Eye Cross |
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
[Q]: Image copyright AFP Image caption The macaque attempted to mate with at least two Sika deer
A male Japanese monkey has been filmed trying to mount and mate with a Sika deer.
Researchers saw the primate attempting to mate with at least two deer in November 2015, during the macaque breeding season.
The macaques regularly bathe in hot springs in snow-covered parts of Japan, and live side-by-side with the deer.
The macaques have previously been observed grooming the deer or riding them in a playful manner.
The curious behaviour is outlined in a study published in the journal Primates.
The monkey seemed to be a low-status male, who guarded his "love interests" by chasing away other male monkeys who came near.
Co-author Alexandre Bonnefoy commented: "The male mounted the deer and displayed some copulation behaviours, which included about 15 sexual movements over a period of 10 seconds, before dismounting."
It's not the first example of inter-species mating. In 2014, reports of an Antarctic fur seal coercing king penguins into sexual relations made headlines worldwide. ||||| Mating season has taken a strange turn for two normally platonic species on Japan’s Yakushima Island.
The Japanese macaque—better known as the snow monkey—has a good thing going with the island’s population of sika deer. As noted by a study in Primates, the monkeys groom the deer, drop food from the trees while foraging (which the deer eat), and poop (which the deer also eat). In return, the deer let themselves be ridden by the macaques—but just as friends. Until one lonely, troopless male was observed attempting to bang two of them.
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Things went as well as one could expect with the first deer, considering deer and monkeys are wildly different species whose respective genitalia aren’t generally designed to interact. As the study notes, “no penetration occurred ... However, ejaculation seemed to occur as the deer was seen licking the seminal liquid after the mount.” Gross!
The lonely monkey made a pass at a second snow deer, but “she attempted to escape/remove the macaque by moving... and displaying threats.” Can’t win ‘em all, bud.
Animals have been observed in the wild boning plenty of things that don’t look like them (like these butterflies) or engaging in sexual behavior that doesn’t result in offspring (bottlenose dolphins sure do love to jerk off). But attempting to bang an extremely distant species is so rare this is only the second time scientists have observed the phenomenon.
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Did this snow monkey think it was doing The Sex with another snow monkey and just goofed it up as badly as one can? Probably not. The study’s authors are proposing a “mate deprivation hypothesis,” which is to say the isolated macaque was a social outcast with no access to a female. Like many a horny idiot of any species, the monkey mistook friendship for flirtation.
Unfortunately, the study ends on a dour note: “We do not know if the male continued to follow the female deer the day after our observations.” I almost feel bad for him.
[Primates, The Guardian] ||||| Monkey’s unusual behaviour is only the second recorded observation of sexual interaction between distantly related wild animals
A male snow monkey has been observed attempting to have sex with female sika deer on Japan’s Yakushima Island, in an unusual example of interspecies mating behaviour.
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It is only the second recorded example of sexual relations between two distantly related species.
Snow monkeys and sika deer generally have a symbiotic relationship, with the deer eating fruits dropped from the trees by the monkeys and the monkeys grooming the deer and occasionally riding on their backs.
The latest paper, published in the journal Primates, describes how a low-ranking male monkey was observed repeatedly performing sexual mounts on at least two different female deer. One doe was seen to bolt and run off, but another female did not appear to object, and licked her side after the monkey ejaculated.
“This individual showed clearly sexual behaviour towards several female deer, some of which tried to escape whilst others accepted the mount,” the paper reports.
Marie Pelé, the lead author based at the University of Strasbourg in France, said: “No ambiguity is possible, it is clearly sexual behaviour.”
The only previous reported case of sexual interactions between two distantly related species, was that of an Antarctic fur seal observed sexually harassing king penguins – and in one instance, eating a bird after having sex with it.
'Sexual depravity' of penguins that Antarctic scientist dared not reveal Read more
“This macaque was a non-troop adult male, in other words low in hierarchy,” said Pelé. “He was therefore probably either peripheral or belonged to a group of peripheral males, as other males were observed in the vicinity of the deer.”
The monkey was also seen guarding the target of his affection and chasing away other male monkeys who came near.
The scientists said that “mate deprivation” was the most likely explanation for the unusual behaviour, after also considering the possibility that the male was learning to copulate or had failed to recognise that the deer was a member of another species.
“The most realistic hypothesis would be that of mate deprivation, which states that males with limited access to females are more likely to display this behaviour,” the researchers conclude. |||||
[A]: One lonely snow monkey in Japan is taking animal sexuality to strange new places. In a study published Tuesday in Primates, researchers documented a monkey having or attempting sexual relations with at least two sika deer. While one of the deer ran off, the monkey mounted another deer and ejaculated on its side, Gizmodo reports. According to the BBC, a co-author of the study says the act "included about 15 sexual movements over a period of 10 seconds." While sex between closely related species does happen, this is only the second time a sexual act between two distantly related species has been recorded, the Guardian reports. (The first was in 2006, involving an Antarctic fur seal and a penguin.) Snow monkeys and sika deer have had an up-until-now platonic relationship. Deer eat fruit dropped by the monkeys (as well as their poop), while the monkeys groom the deer and sometimes ride on their backs. In this case, however, the monkey was displaying "clearly sexual behavior," including chasing other monkeys away from the deer, notes the study. Researchers are blaming "mate deprivation," theorizing that the monkey—who has low social status—was suffering from "limited access to females." The incident happened during snow monkey breeding season. (Meanwhile, a North Korean zoo has a smoking chimp.)
[Q]: Photography by: Splash News/Getty Images
Seal revealed that he and estranged wife Heidi Klum have told their four kids about their sad split.
Although Leni, 7, Henry, 6, Johan, 5, and Lou, 2, are too young to understand exactly what is going on, Seal told Access Hollywood's Billy Bush that the couple tried to explain the situation as best they could without breaking their little hearts.
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"We talk to them, we try to explain as best we could what is going on," Seal said of breaking the news to the kids. "[We're] just explaining to them that things will be different, you know, without going into too much detail. Things will be different."
But although Seal admits things will change, he still feels that the split will bring his family closer.
"A lot of things won't change," Seal continued. "The main thing is to make sure that they [the kids] feel that they're loved. Make sure they understand that their parents love each other and... it has absolutely nothing to do with them."
"In actual fact, it may even improve the amount of time that we spend with them," says Seal. "Quality time." The singer, who is somewhat hopeful for a reconciliation with Heidi, said that no matter what happens, he knows that his relationship with his kids will be better because of the experience."In actual fact, it may even improve the amount of time that we spend with them," says Seal. "Quality time."
Watch a clip of Seal's interview with Billy below. ||||| How Did Seal & Heidi Klum Tell Their Children About The Split?
Seal tells Billy Bush how he and Heidi explained to their children about their split. Tune-in to Access Hollywood Live and Access Hollywood on Friday, January 27 for the full interview. |||||
[A]: Seal and Heidi Klum broke the news about their divorce to a small group people: their four little children, Access Hollywood reports. "We talk to them, we try to explain as best we could what is going on," Seal says. "[We're] just explaining to them that things will be different, you know, without going into too much detail." Makes sense, considering that Leni, 7, Henry, 6, Johan, 5, and Lou, 2 are too young to really understand, OK! reports. How much will their world change? "A lot of things won't change," Seal says. "The main thing is to make sure that they feel that they're loved. Make sure they understand that their parents love each other and... it has absolutely nothing to do with them." He adds that "it may even improve the amount of time that we spend with them. Quality time." (See the video here. Or see why Seal still won't take off his wedding ring.)
[Q]: Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. ||||| Image copyright Edale Mountain Rescue Team Image caption The couple were not on a designated footpath when they became stuck on a ledge near the top of Winnats Pass
A couple who became stuck on a cliffside ledge high in the Peak District were rescued by the emergency services after sending them a selfie.
The couple - believed to be in their 20s - had scrambled up a steep bank and got stuck near the top of Winnats Pass, Derbyshire.
They were saved on Sunday shortly after sending rescue staff a selfie they had taken earlier on that day.
Edale Mountain Rescue believe it was their first-ever "selfie rescue".
Winnats Pass is described as "a steep-sided valley, three-quarters of a mile long with lots of caves".
'Unusual job'
Duty leader and medical officer Steve Rowe said six members of the team went onto the hill with safety equipment to rescue the uninjured pair.
"They had described the location very well, and then one said: 'I've got an idea, I'll send you a picture as well', saying they were in a shadow cave in the background of the picture," he said.
"They had also sent a Whatsapp message with the location so that allowed us to get straight to where we needed to be."
Mr Rowe said a system exists to allow staff to text a missing person and they could then click on a link which gives their location.
But he said this was the first "selfie rescue" he had come across in 15 years.
"It was an unusual job because of the couple's ingenuity at thinking their way out of the situation," he said.
"They've used modern technology. Quite a lot of people get into trouble because they rely on technology, but this couple were able to use their mobile phone and photos for their benefit so it was a good result." ||||| LONDON — A couple who found themselves stranded on a ledge high up in the Peak District were saved by mountain rescue services Sunday after sending them a selfie.
The pair, who haven't been named but are believed to be in their 20s, were found by the Edale Mountain Rescue Team after passing on the picture message.
The emergency services were also able to pinpoint their location via WhatsApp.
The couple got stuck after scrambling up a steep bank near Winnats Pass, a cave-filled valley in the heart of the Peak District.
In what the Edale Mountain Rescue Team called "possibly our first callout via selfie," the couple sent over a photo they'd taken earlier to help pinpoint their location.
The team could then work out where the pair were, get to them, and help them back down to safer ground with the help of a rope system.
Winnats Pass is in the heart of the Peak District. Image: Google MAPS
"Quite a lot of people get into trouble because they rely on technology," duty leader Steve Rowe told the BBC, "but this couple were able to use their mobile phone and photos for their benefit so it was a good result."
Have something to add to this story? Share it in the comments. |||||
[A]: | We've heard about selfies killing people, but one couple trapped on a cliff in the UK may have actually been saved by one last weekend. Mashable reports an unnamed couple stuck Sunday at Winnats Pass guided the Edale Mountain Rescue Team to them with a selfie. The couple were near the top when they were stopped by a "sheer cliff" above them and "dangerous" terrain below, according to the Derbyshire Times. They were sheltering in a cave when inspiration struck. "They had described the location very well, and then one said: 'I've got an idea, I'll send you a picture as well,'" the rescue team's Steve Rowe tells the BBC. The selfie sent to the rescue team was taken earlier in the day and showed the cave the couple was currently occupying directly to the left of one of their heads. According to a Facebook post, the photo helped rescuers get to the couple quickly. And Rowe credited the couple's "ingenuity." Rescuers used ropes to get the couple to safety, bringing a happy end to what they say was "possibly our first callout via selfie." (A tourist shattered a historic statue in a "boneheaded" selfie attempt.)
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Instructions: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Input: What gave the house of representatives 2 more seats?, Context: Reapportionment following the 2010 United States Census gave the state two more seats in the House of Representatives. The legislature's redistricting, announced in 2012, was quickly challenged in court, on the grounds that it had unfairly benefited Republican interests. In 2015, the Florida Supreme Court ruled on appeal that the congressional districts had to be redrawn because of the legislature's violation of the Fair District Amendments to the state constitution passed in 2010; it accepted a new map in early December 2015.
Output: | Reapportionment |
Definition: 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: Unfortunately, because the zooming is rather fast, it is easy to miss the rest of the sentence, so as you correctly note, some viewers got an incorrect impression. It would have been fair for Moore to point out this possible misinterpretation on his website. However, the claim of deliberate distortion is ludicrous for several reasons: a) Moore clearly states that "before he came to Flint", Heston gave an interview. In the excerpt from said interview, we can see that it is from March. If Moore wanted to deceive his viewers, why would he say this, and show the month the interview was published? b) Why should Moore leave the words "Clinton is on the Today Show" visible in the text, which is necessary to correctly interpret the highlighted part? I reviewed the sequence several times and it is perfectly possible to see this text without pausing. c) Both the "soccer mom" interview and the sequences showing the NRA rally make no effort to distort the fact that this rally happened months after the fact. The camera lingers on Bush/Cheney posters, and the protestor is quoted as saying that "we wanted to let the NRA know that we haven't forgotten about Kayla Rolland". You make the hysterical claim that the interview "may be faked" (on the basis that no name is shown for the interviewee), but if Moore had faked it, why the hell should he put this sentence in the protestor's mouth, which directly contradicts the conclusion that the rally happened hours after Kayla's death? Why did Moore, the masterful deveiver, not edit this sequence out? This makes no sense. Opinions may vary on how tasteless it was for Heston to hold a pro gun rally on the location of the nation's youngest school shooting months after the fact, but this sequence of "Bowling" is without doubt the most unfair to Heston. The claims of deliberate distortion don't hold up when viewing the whole scene, though -- as "Hanlon's Razor" states, one should never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence. The somewhat inept editing of the NRA press release has led some viewers to wrong conclusions, which is unfortunate, but Moore's critics have no interest in viewing the matter fairly. Had they done so, Moore himself would probably have apologized for the gaffe. In any case, at no point does Moore make a false statement, in contradiction to claims by critics that his documentary is "full of lies". <sep>When did Heston give an interview?<sep>March
Output: | Yes |
Definition: 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: 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 is a good artist?<sep>Mandy
Output: | Yes |
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
How to disable plugins on web browsers
Launch your google chrome browser.
Do this by double-clicking the browser's icon shortcut on the desktop.
Type in or paste chrome: // plugins/in the address bar at the top of the screen then hit enter.
OPTIONS:
- You will be taken to the plugins window, which lets you configure the plugins that run on chrome. Locate the plugin you want to disable and click on the " disable " button beside it.
- Wait for chrome to disappear from your web browser. After about five seconds, you'll hear a message asking if chrome has completely gone away from your browser.
- For instance, if you want to disable passive os (2.0 , 32 , 100 , 5, etc. ), type 250 or 300 and press enter.
- If the window pops up, you know it's nearby, that's even better. To change connections by opening the terminal window instead.
A: You will be taken to the plugins window, which lets you configure the plugins that run on chrome. Locate the plugin you want to disable and click on the " disable " button beside it.
How to get rid of animal pests with hot pepper spray
Understand how the spray works.
Hot peppers have a compound in them called capsaicin. Mammals are sensitive to capsaicin, and the compound registers on their taste buds as " hot " and serves as an irritant.
OPTIONS:
- It is equally as harmful to wildlife and as another stimulant as the compounds found in your pepper spray. Purchase pepper spray to use on your plants.
- This effect of the spraying keeps the insect elements at bay and improves your canine's overall health. Similar products are available over-the-counter at all pet stores.
- Some animals will not be interested in using the spray. Purchase a kit at your local pet store or nursery.
- This spray is considered to be effective for such garden animal pests as deer, rabbits, voles, squirrels, possums and insects. Take one quart (950ml) of water and put it in a pot.
This spray is considered to be effective for such garden animal pests as deer, rabbits, voles, squirrels, possums and insects. Take one quart (950ml) of water and put it in a pot.
question: Complete the next sentence:
A group of people take part in a jump roping competition. They start with two jump ropes. they
OPTIONS:
- begin by hugging the rope like a team.
- then jack up and down inside each rope.
- switch jumpers a few times.
- take a number and jump twice before jumping on one and tying it.
answer: switch jumpers a few times.
Problem: Write the next sentence for:
A marching group of cadets in dark clothing comes into view in what appears to be a downtown city square. a drum corp
OPTIONS:
- marching band appears playing music over the percussion instruments.
- entering the parade area begins to drum around and shake hands.
- is heard drumming proudly as the cadets march down the street.
- band fills in the parade and begins singing an old song as they continue to march..
Next sentence: is heard drumming proudly as the cadets march down the street.
context: . a white screen with blue and white shapes and black words
OPTIONS:
- appears to say " ssh scoreboard soccer fx from endopro " and also " mt@mtswrestling lacrosse " in a black font.
- appear on the screen that read " zzlestermendacomics ".
- flash across the screen.
- send the ball into a brown pool.
****
next sentence for the context: flash across the screen.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
This woman is making small homemade cakes using her hands and ingredients. First, she mixes the ingredients up together and she adds eggs into it along with flour and milk. she
OPTIONS:
- then mixes the thin manageable mix in the bowl and puts it inside of a square baking pan to let it bake and when it's done, she takes the cake out to cut it into little slices.
- makes it all into a big batch and she uses a man's hands to clean them all out.
- pours some of the stuff into the cup while she talks and then dumping it into food oil.
- canning the cakes and adding more seasonings into the pan to cook them.
A: | then mixes the thin manageable mix in the bowl and puts it inside of a square baking pan to let it bake and when it's done, she takes the cake out to cut it into little slices. |
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: The team made its first Super Bowl appearance in Super Bowl VI, but lost to the Dallas Cowboys, 24 -- 3. The following year, the Dolphins completed the NFL's only perfect season culminating in a Super Bowl win, winning all 14 of their regular-season games, both of their NFL playoff games, and also Super Bowl VII. The 1972 Dolphins were the third NFL team to accomplish a perfect regular season, and won Super Bowl VIII, becoming the first team to appear in three consecutive Super Bowls, and the second team (the first AFL / AFC team) to win back-to-back championships. Miami also appeared in Super Bowl XVII and Super Bowl XIX, losing both games.
Student: | how many times has the miami dolphins won the super bowl |
instruction:
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".
question:
Late on the next Sunday afternoon Gifford had gone for a country walk which he had arranged to bring him round in time for the evening service at the little village church of Wynford standing just outside the park boundary. His way took him by well-remembered field-paths which, although towards the end of his walk darkness had set in, he had no difficulty in tracing. The last field he crossed brought him to a by-road joining the highway which ran through Wynford, the junction being about a quarter of a mile from the church. As he neared the stile which admitted to the road he saw, on the other side of the hedge and showing just above it, the head of a man. At the sound of his footsteps the man quickly turned, and, as for a moment the fitful moonlight caught his face, Gifford was sure he recognized Gervase Henshaw. But he took no notice and kept on his way to the stile, which he crossed and gained the road. As he did so he glanced back. A horse and trap was waiting there with Henshaw in it. He was now bending down, probably with the object of concealing his identity, and had moved on a few paces farther down the road. <sep>What was Gervase doing in the field?<sep>He was covertly setting a trap
answer:
Yes
question:
Energy often changes from one form to another. For example, the drummer transfers motion to sound energy. When the moving drumstick strikes the drum head, the drum starts to vibrate. The motion of the vibrating drum head creates the sound you hear. Any form of energy can change into any other form. Frequently, one form of energy changes into two or more different forms. Have you ever sat in front of a campfire? What are two things you notice? The fire creates light. It is also warm by the fire, meaning it creates heat. The energy of the fire comes from the stored energy in the wood. The wood contains chemical energy. As it burns, the chemical energy is changed into light and heat. Not all chemical energy changes produce light and heat. Our cars use gasoline as a fuel. Gasoline contains chemical energy. When our cars burn gasoline in their engines, it is converted into motion and heat. When energy changes forms, energy is conserved. <sep>What do wood and gasoline have in common?<sep>They both contain chemical energy
answer:
Yes
question:
Alexander earned the epithet "The Great" due to his unparalleled success as a military commander. He never lost a battle, despite typically being outnumbered. This was due to use of terrain, phalanx and cavalry tactics, bold strategy, and the fierce loyalty of his troops. The Macedonian phalanx, armed with the sarissa, a spear 6 metres (20 ft) long, had been developed and perfected by Philip II through rigorous training, and Alexander used its speed and maneuverability to great effect against larger but more disparate Persian forces. Alexander also recognized the potential for disunity among his diverse army, which employed various languages and weapons. He overcame this by being personally involved in battle, in the manner of a Macedonian king. In his first battle in Asia, at Granicus, Alexander used only a small part of his forces, perhaps 13,000 infantry with 5,000 cavalry, against a much larger Persian force of 40,000. Alexander placed the phalanx at the center and cavalry and archers on the wings, so that his line matched the length of the Persian cavalry line, about 3 km (1.86 mi). By contrast, the Persian infantry was stationed behind its cavalry. This ensured that Alexander would not be outflanked, while his phalanx, armed with long pikes, had a considerable advantage over the Persian's scimitars and javelins. Macedonian losses were negligible compared to those of the Persians. At Issus in 333 BC, his first confrontation with Darius, he used the same deployment, and again the central phalanx pushed through. Alexander personally led the charge in the center, routing the opposing army. At the decisive encounter with Darius at Gaugamela, Darius equipped his chariots with scythes on the wheels to break up the phalanx and equipped his cavalry with pikes. Alexander arranged a double phalanx, with the center advancing at an angle, parting when the chariots bore down and then reforming. The advance was successful and broke Darius' center, causing the latter to flee once again. When faced with opponents who used unfamiliar fighting techniques, such as in Central Asia and India, Alexander adapted his forces to his opponents' style. Thus, in Bactria and Sogdiana, Alexander successfully used his javelin throwers and archers to prevent outflanking movements, while massing his cavalry at the center. <sep>How did Alexander change the use of the phalanx at the battle of Gaugamela?<sep>Darius equipped his chariots with scythes on the wheels to break up the phalanx
answer:
| Yes
|
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".
One 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
Solution is here: No
Explanation: Based on the passage Timothy plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. So, the given answer is incorrect and the output should be "No".
Now, solve this: Do not look for the Danteum in the Eternal City. In true Dantean form, politics stood in the way of its construction in 1938. Ironically this literature-inspired building can itself most easily be found in book form. Reading this book I remembered Goethe's quote about frozen music. Did Terragni try to freeze Dante's medieval miracle of song? Certainly a cold-poem seems artistically repulsive. Unflattering comparisons to the lake of Cocytus spring to mind too. While I cannot read Italian, I can read some German. After locating the original quotation I discovered that 'frozen' is a problematic (though common) translation of Goethe's original 'erstarrte.' The verb 'erstarren' more properly means 'to solidify' or 'to stiffen.' This suggests a chemical reaction in which the art does not necessarily chill in the transformation. Nor can simple thawing yield the original work. Like a chemical reaction it requires an artistic catalyst, a muse. Indeed the Danteum is not a physical translation of the Poem. Terragni thought it inappropriate to translate the Comedy literally into a non-literary work. The Danteum would not be a stage set, rather Terragni generated his design from the Comedy's structure, not its finishes. <sep>Goethe's original "erstarrte" is better translated into what?<sep>Originality
Solution: | 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".
Ex Input:
Allan crouched over his desk once more, pen in hand and mind blank. He contemplated a story, an outline he had laboriously constructed some time ago. He had filled his pen and raised it, the nib descending towards the paper, before the sound came: the gentle, persistent tapping of the gnarled, primeval willow touching the window with long, insistent fingers. His eyes awoke with a passionate, determined flame, though the only light came from the glutted moon. Allan filled page after page, the words escaping from his mind onto the paper. Where before they had marched in regiments, practiced in ranks and followed their leaders' commands, the words now escaped in their true forms, unhindered by any stricture. He continued long into the night, until the eldritch orb had sunk into the waiting hands of the willow, raised perpetually skyward. Arthur looked up from the results of a night's frenzied labors and looked Allan in the eye. "What is this?" he queried, indicating the pages he held in his left hand. "I decided that… since I wasn't having much success with more – traditional – stories, I might see what sort of work I produced if I let my imagination go freely," Allan replied, somewhat less self-assured than he had been the previous night. "What in G-d's name could have possessed you to do such a thing," cried Arthur, nearly raising his voice. "After all I said the day before, why have you abandoned centuries of literary progress for some self-indulgent fantasy?" He shook the papers at Allan, raising them like a belt above the head of a disobedient son. "This is nothing but a glorified Grimm's tale, a miscarried child of Stoker, a creation less fit to be published than to be told around an open fire at the hovel of some peasant!" He spoke the last word with such heavy intonation that Allan shrank back before the physical wave of sound emanating from Arthur's throat. "Do you hate the modern system of literature? Do you personally despise the works the Enlightenment or the progress made since Shakespeare?" For a moment, Allan could hardly do more than shake his head. "No, of course not… I– " "Then why," Arthur barreled on, "do you disregard them all and return to this superstitious babble, this morbid, paganistic drivel? <sep>Did Allan write his story in a single session?<sep>Yes
Ex Output:
Yes
Ex Input:
She led the way into the cheerful schoolroom, where big girls and little girls were sitting about, amusing themselves in the quiet of a long Sunday afternoon. Several of the younger children ran to her as she came in, and stood holding fast to the folds of her black habit, staring up at the strangers, while she explained the kind of instruction given, the system, and the order reigning in each department. Finally, she persuaded a little girl, only six years old, to take her dusky face out of the long flowing veil of the nun, and show how quickly she could read a sentence that Sister Winifred wrote on the blackboard. Then others were called on, and gave examples of their accomplishments in easy arithmetic and spelling. The children must have been very much bored with themselves that stormy Sunday, for they entered into the examination with a quite unnatural zest. Two of the elder girls recited, and some specimens of penmanship and composition were shown. The delicate complexion of the little nun flushed to a pretty wild-rose pink as these pupils of hers won the Colonel's old fashioned compliments. <sep>How is the weather of that Sunday afternoon?<sep>Stormy
Ex Output:
Yes
Ex Input:
Mr. Neville ( ( ( Anthony Higgins , a young and arrogant artist and something of a Byronic hero , is contracted to produce a series of 12 landscape drawings of an estate by Mrs. Virginia Herbert for her absent and estranged husband . Part of the contract is that Mrs. Herbert agrees `` to meet Mr. Neville in private and to comply with his requests concerning his pleasure with me . '' Several sexual encounters between them follow , each of them acted in such a way as to emphasise reluctance or distress on the part of Mrs Herbert and sexual aggression or insensitivity on the part of Mr Neville . Meanwhile , whilst living on the estate , Mr. Neville gains quite a reputation with its dwellers , especially with Mrs. Herbert's son-in-law , Mr. Talmann . Mrs. Herbert , wearied of meeting Mr. Neville for his pleasure , tries to terminate the contract before all of the drawings are completed and orders Mr. Neville to stop . But he refuses to void the contract and continues as before . Then Mrs. Herbert's married , but as yet childless , daughter , Mrs. Talmann , who has apparently become attracted to Mr. Neville , seems to blackmail him into making a second contract in Which he agrees to comply with what is described as her pleasure , rather than his a reversal of the position in regard to her mother . A number of curious objects appear in Neville's drawings , Which point ultimately to the murder of Mr. Herbert , whose body is discovered in the moat of the house . Mr. Neville completes his twelve drawings and leaves the house . <sep>Who has several sexual encounters?<sep>Barnett
Ex Output:
| Yes
|
Given the task definition, example input & output, solve the new input case.
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Example: what is the first event mentioned?, Context: The Russian Revolution is the series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union. Following the abdication of Nicholas II of Russia, the Russian Provisional Government was established. In October 1917, a red faction revolution occurred in which the Red Guard, armed groups of workers and deserting soldiers directed by the Bolshevik Party, seized control of Saint Petersburg (then known as Petrograd) and began an immediate armed takeover of cities and villages throughout the former Russian Empire.
Output: Russian Revolution
This is a good example, and the Russian Revolution is the first event mentioned.
New input case for you: what is the first faith mentioned?, Context: In 1542, Luther read a Latin translation of the Qur'an. He went on to produce several critical pamphlets on Islam, which he called "Mohammedanism" or "the Turk". Though Luther saw the Muslim faith as a tool of the devil, he was indifferent to its practice: "Let the Turk believe and live as he will, just as one lets the papacy and other false Christians live." He opposed banning the publication of the Qur'an, wanting it exposed to scrutiny.
Output: | Islam |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Problem:Which of the following is not a part of the US government: the Supreme Court, Congress or Prohibition?, Context: Hoover began using wiretapping in the 1920s during Prohibition to arrest bootleggers. In the 1927 case Olmstead v. United States, in which a bootlegger was caught through telephone tapping, the United States Supreme Court ruled that FBI wiretaps did not violate the Fourth Amendment as unlawful search and seizure, as long as the FBI did not break into a person's home to complete the tapping. After Prohibition's repeal, Congress passed the Communications Act of 1934, which outlawed non-consensual phone tapping, but allowed bugging. In the 1939 case Nardone v. United States, the court ruled that due to the 1934 law, evidence the FBI obtained by phone tapping was inadmissible in court. After the 1967 case Katz v. United States overturned the 1927 case that had allowed bugging, Congress passed the Omnibus Crime Control Act, allowing public authorities to tap telephones during investigations as long as they obtain a warrant beforehand.
Solution: | Prohibition |
Detailed Instructions: In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
Q: The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River by the town of Sandouping, in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, China. The Three Gorges Dam is the world's largest power station in terms of installed capacity (22,500 MW). In 2014, the dam generated 98.8 terawatt-hours (TWh) and had the world record, but was surpassed by the Itaipú Dam, which set the new world record in 2016, producing 103.1 TWh.
A: | where is the largest power dam in the world what is its source of water |
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: (CNN) -- Britain's Chris Froome won the 17th stage of the Tour de France on Wednesday to strengthen his grip on the yellow jersey. Froome completed Wednesday's 32-kilometer time trial in 51 minutes 33 seconds, nine seconds ahead of Spain's Alberto Contador with his compatriot Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver finishing a further second behind in third. "I couldn't believe it when I got over the line and saw I had the fastest time," Froome said after his third stage win of this year's tour. "I went into today thinking I was going to try and limit my losses, thinking about the days to come now. So to go through the finish line with the fastest time, I really didn't see that coming." On mountainous terrain along a frequently twisting route most of the riders opted for their traditional road bikes over the more aerodynamic machines used in time trials. But Froome opted to use both on the stage, switching to a time trial model for the final 12-kilometer descent. The swap proved decisive as the Briton clawed back a 20-second advantage Contador had built up earlier in the stage. The Spaniard now moves up to second overall, four minutes 34 seconds behind Froome with just four stages remaining. Contador's Saxo-Tinkoff teammate Roman Kreuziger is now third and trails Froome by four minutes and 51 seconds. Thursday sees the riders tackle the gruelling 172.5-kilometer 18th stage which concludes with a double ascent of Alpe d'Huez over the last 60 kilometers. <sep>How long did Fromme bike on the 17th stage before the final descent?<sep>32 kilometers
Output: No
Input: Consider Input: The earliest signs of people on Jamaica are the remains of the Arawak, an AmerIndian society that originated on the north coast of South America. Arawak peoples migrated to various Caribbean islands, arriving in Jamaica by the beginning of the eighth century. They were peaceful and lived by "slash-and-burn" farming. For meat, they bred pigs and ate iguana, both native to the island. They were highly skilled in such manual activities as thatching and weaving. In fact, the hammock was an AmerIndian invention that remains with us today; it is an object which, more than any other, evokes an image of a warm sunny day on a tropical isle. The Arawak left a legacy of paintings in places such as Runaway Caves near Discovery Bay, and shards of pottery found at their settlements near Nueva Sevilla and Spanish Town have added a little to our knowledge about them. Over 200 Arawak sites have been identified, and it is said that when the Spanish arrived in Jamaica there were approximately 100,000 Arawak living on the island. They called Jamaica "Xaymaca" ("land of wood and water"). Columbus and the Arrival of Europeans Columbus first arrived in Jamaica on 5 May 1494 at Discovery Bay, where there is now a small park in his honor. He stayed for only a few days but returned in 1502, landing here when the ships of his fleet became unserviceable; he waited at St. Ann's Bay for help to arrive from Cuba. After the death of Columbus in 1505, Jamaica became the property of his son Diego, who dispatched Don Juan de Esquivel to the island as Governor. Esquivel arrived in 1510 and created a base called Nueva Sevilla near St. Ann's Bay, from which he hoped to colonize the rest of the island. The Spanish immediately began subjugating the Arawak population, many of whom died under the yoke of oppression and of diseases carried by the Europeans. A number of them committed suicide rather than live the life created for them by the Spanish. The site of Nueva Sevilla proved to be unhealthy and mosquito-ridden, and in 1534 the Spanish founded Villa de la Vega, today known as Spanish Town. Pig breeding was the main occupation of these early settlers, but they also planted sugar cane and other crops that required large numbers of laborers. The number of Arawak had already fallen dramatically, so the Spanish began to import slaves from Africa to work the land; the first Africans arrived in 1517. <sep>What are three causes of the Arawak's population decline?<sep>Suicide
Output: Yes
Input: Consider Input: Spain's Golden Age: Under Ferdinand and Isabella, Spain underwent a dramatic transformation. In 1492 the royal pair presided over the final conquest over the Moors and discovery of the New World, including the great wealth that feat brought to Spain. Spain flourished during a Golden Age, a century of Spanish economic and political supremacy in international affairs, accompanied by marvels of art and literature. Ferdinand and Isabella were consummate Spaniards, committed to the expansion of the crown. By contrast, their grandson, who assumed the throne in 1516, was born in Flanders in 1500, and Charles I could barely express himself in Spanish. The first of the Habsburgs, he packed his retinue with Burgundian and Flemish nobles. Soon after his arrival in Spain, the young man inherited the title of Holy Roman Emperor, as Charles V. The responsibilities of the crown kept him busy away from the royal residences of Toledo, Segovia, Valladolid, and Madrid. While the monarch was away on one of his many business trips, his increasingly dissatisfied subjects protested violently. A revolt of the comuneros, or townsmen, broke out in a number of Spanish cities, including Madrid. The rebels occupied the alcázar, which had by then been converted to a royal palace. The insurrection was quashed and its leaders executed, but the king got the message. He tried thereafter to pay more attention to his Spanish constituency. <sep>Who were the grandparents of the individual that assumed the throne in 1516?<sep>Toledo and Segovia
| Output: 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".
Example Input: Milwaukee, Wisconsin (CNN) -- President Barack Obama, in a bid to create jobs and boost economic growth, called on Congress on Monday to pass a $50 billion plan to renew the country's transportation infrastructure. His address was the first of two speeches the president is scheduled to make this week to frame his administration's ongoing response to the recession, less than two months ahead of midterm elections in which Democratic majorities in the House and Senate are in jeopardy. "Today, I am announcing a new plan for rebuilding and modernizing America's roads, and rails and runways for the long term," said Obama, who spoke on Labor Day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin -- a state with competitive gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races. "We used to have the best infrastructure in the world. We can have it again," he said to loud cheers from a crowd of union workers. The proposal envisions -- over a six year period -- rebuilding 150,000 miles of roads, 4,000 miles of rail and 150 miles of airport runways. It also would include modernizing the nation's air traffic control system in an effort to reduce delays and travel time. "This will not only create jobs immediately. It's also going to make our economy hum over the long haul," said the president. Obama hopes to work with Congress to enact an up-front investment of $50 billion -- an amount a White House statement said would represent a significant chunk of new spending on infrastructure. The investment would then be paired with what the administration called a framework to improve transportation spending. The long-term plan would include the establishment of an Infrastructure Bank, which would leverage federal dollars and focus on projects that could deliver the the biggest bang for the buck, Obama said. The president stressed the need for Democrats and Republicans to work together on the transportation initiative, which would need to be approved by Congress. <sep>Who were many of the people happy about what the president was saying in his speech about renewing the country's transportation infrastructure?<sep>Congress
Example Output: No
Example Input: Oh no! Your younger sister just mixed up all of your LEGO parts. Now you have to put them all back into the original categories. How will you do this? You sort them by size and shape until they are each back into their specific place in the tray. What do you think you could have called the mess your younger sister created? Thats right, it is a mixture. Fortunately, it was a physical change and she just made a simple mixture. You are able to separate them back into order. Its a good thing she did not toss them into the fireplace. That would have caused a chemical change as they all melted together. If your LEGOs were melted, you would be out of luck for building that next big project. <sep>What is a simple mixture?<sep>The mess your sister made
Example Output: Yes
Example Input: Juzo Murasaki arrives at a work construction area to take on his new job as a construction worker . To his quiet dismay , his supervising boss turns out to be Toru Akai , who with his gang had made Juzo's middle school life a living hell . Akai , however , does n't recognize Juzo . Juzo's more disconcerted when he discovers that Akai lives with his wife , Nozomi Akai and their toddler son above Juzo's new apartment . As Juzo emotionally struggles to handle these unexpected developments , a mysterious and seemingly malicious hooded figure appears . It calls itself Number 13 . As Juzo attempts to control increasing number of flashbacks and a spiral fall into psychological darkness , Akai constantly picks on Juzo and other work colleagues including Seki Hajime , a former middle school student who becomes Juzo's casual friend in spite of Juzo's anti-social tendencies , at work . Meanwhile Akai's wife , Nozomi , attempts to make friends with Juzo and entrusting the care of her toddler son to Juzo . She proudly shows Juzo her husband's school photos . In one class photo , Juzo's space is marked with an X to show he was absent . Juzo suffers a severe flashback to explain his absence that day : in their school's science room , Akai and his friends have thrown acid at Juzo's face . Seki becomes suspicious about Juzo's increasingly odd behavior and goes to inform Arai at the work site , but Arai dismisses him without giving him a chance to speak . During this incident , Seki does n't realize he's being watched by Number 13 , but as soon as he does , Number 13 kills him . <sep>What calls itself Number 13?<sep>The mysterious hood figure
Example Output: | Yes
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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: The temperaments are " sanguine " , " choleric " , " melancholy " , and " phlegmatic " .
A: | The four temperament theory is a proto-psychological theory which suggests that there are four fundamental personality types : sanguine , choleric , melancholic , and phlegmatic . |
Context:
"Some Velvet Morning" is a song written by Lee Hazlewood and originally recorded by Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra in late 1967. It first appeared on Sinatra's album "Movin' with Nancy," the soundtrack to her 1967 television special of the same name, which also featured a performance of the song.
Hypothesis: Some Velvet Morning has no instruments OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
It's impossible to say
Input: OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
How to treat dermal filler infections<br>Identify symptoms of infection. You should monitor your skin for any signs of infection after your dermal fillers. Notice any pain or tenderness that is accompanied by warm skin and swelling near the injection site.
Sentence: Pay attention to any pain.
Output: Yes
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
Kevin gets rejected<br>Kevin is dancing in the club. He is having a great time. He tries to dance with a pretty woman. The woman says no. Kevin gets rejected and goes home.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: Kevin has danced with elizabeth
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Answer:
It's impossible to say
[Q]: GM has initiated criminal investigations in Germany and the US on the basis of their suspicions that Mr Lopez and his team stole confidential information before defecting to VW in March. Germany doesn't work with GM to prosecute criminals. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: No
Problem: ZURICH, June 24 (Reuters) - Shares in Syngenta were seen rising 5-10 percent on Tuesday following a Bloomberg report saying Monsanto had considered buying the Swiss agrochemicals company, traders said. A spokesman for Syngenta was not immediately available for comment. (Reporting by Alice Baghdjian; editing by Blaise Robinson)
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Monsanto later went on to buy the company"? OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: It's impossible to say
Context:
Tower Psychiatric Hospital is a government funded Psychiatric hospital and Psychosocial Rehabilitation Centre in the Raymond Mhlaba Local Municipality area of Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape in South Africa. It provides long term psychiatric care and psychosocial rehabilitation services to the entire Eastern Cape. The hospital has a full time Psychiatrist since December 2015.
Hypothesis: The Psychiatric Hospital has a short-term Psychiatrist. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- 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.
Input: Consider Input: How do chruches of christ worship in song?, Context: Present-day Christian religious bodies known for conducting their worship services without musical accompaniment include some Presbyterian churches devoted to the regulative principle of worship, Old Regular Baptists, Primitive Baptists, Plymouth Brethren, Churches of Christ, the Old German Baptist Brethren, Doukhobors the Byzantine Rite and the Amish, Old Order Mennonites and Conservative Mennonites. Certain high church services and other musical events in liturgical churches (such as the Roman Catholic Mass and the Lutheran Divine Service) may be a cappella, a practice remaining from apostolic times. Many Mennonites also conduct some or all of their services without instruments. Sacred Harp, a type of folk music, is an a cappella style of religious singing with shape notes, usually sung at singing conventions.
Output: without musical accompaniment
Input: Consider Input: What happened earlier, the French invasion in 1672 or Utrecht becoming the centre of the non-Roman Old Catholic Churches in the world?, Context: The fortified city temporarily fell to the French invasion in 1672 (the Disaster Year); where the French invasion was only stopped west of Utrecht at the Old Hollandic Waterline. In 1674, only two years after the French left, the centre of Utrecht was struck by a tornado. The halt to building before construction of flying buttresses in the 15th century now proved to be the undoing of the central section of the cathedral of St Martin church which collapsed; creating the current Dom square between the tower and choir. In 1713, Utrecht hosted one of the first international peace negotiations when the Treaty of Utrecht settled the War of the Spanish Succession. Since 1723 Utrecht became the centre of the non-Roman Old Catholic Churches in the world.
Output: the French invasion in 1672
Input: Consider Input: What did Eisenhower make on the memoir?, Context: In 1948, Eisenhower became President of Columbia University, an Ivy League university in New York City. The assignment was described as not being a good fit in either direction. During that year Eisenhower's memoir, Crusade in Europe, was published. Critics regarded it as one of the finest U.S. military memoirs, and it was a major financial success as well. Eisenhower's profit on the book was substantially aided by an unprecedented ruling by the U.S. Department of the Treasury that Eisenhower was not a professional writer, but rather, marketing the lifetime asset of his experiences, and thus he only had to pay capital gains tax on his $635,000 advance instead of the much higher personal tax rate. This ruling saved Eisenhower about $400,000.
| Output: profit
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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.
Which country has less than 650,000 elevators installed as of January 2008, the United States or China?, Context: As of January 2008, Spain is the nation with the most elevators installed in the world, with 950,000 elevators installed that run more than one hundred million lifts every day, followed by United States with 700,000 elevators installed and China with 610,000 elevators installed since 1949. In Brazil, it is estimated that there are approximately 300,000 elevators currently in operation. The world's largest market for elevators is Italy, with more than 1,629 million euros of sales and 1,224 million euros of internal market.
China
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.
appealed
What is the term used for a picture, description, or imitation of a person in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect., Context: Cross-cultural study of comics is complicated by the great difference in meaning and scope of the words for "comics" in different languages. The French term for comics, bandes dessinées ("drawn strip") emphasizes the juxtaposition of drawn images as a defining factor, which can imply the exclusion of even photographic comics. The term manga is used in Japanese to indicate all forms of comics, cartooning, and caricature.
| caricature
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Given the task definition and input, reply with output. You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
The term hand luggage or cabin baggage (also commonly referred to as carry-on in North America) refers to the type of luggage that passengers are allowed to carry along in the passenger compartment of a vehicle instead of moving to the cargo compartment. Passengers are allowed to carry a limited number of smaller bags with them in the vehicle and contain valuables and items needed during the journey. There is normally storage space provided for hand luggage, either under seating, or in overhead lockers. Trains usually have luggage racks above the seats and may also (especially in the case of trains travelling longer distances) have luggage space between the backs of seats facing opposite directions, or in extra luggage racks, for example, at the ends of the carriage near the doors.
| is cabin baggage the same as hand luggage? |
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.
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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: The Medal of Honor was created during the American Civil War .
A: | The Medal of Honor was introduced during the American Civil War and is the highest military decoration presented by the United States government to a member of its armed forces . |
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? Solve this instance: The oath of office of the President of the United States is an oath that the president as he takes office .
Student: | The oath of office of the president of the United States is the oath or affirmation that the president of the United States takes after assuming the presidency but before exercising or carrying out any presidential powers or duties . |
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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.
What stadium had expansions of several projects in 1944, 1946, and 1950?, Context: In 1922, the number of supporters had surpassed 20,000 and by lending money to the club, Barça was able to build the larger Camp de Les Corts, which had an initial capacity of 20,000 spectators. After the Spanish Civil War the club started attracting more members and a larger number of spectators at matches. This led to several expansion projects: the grandstand in 1944, the southern stand in 1946, and finally the northern stand in 1950. After the last expansion, Les Corts could hold 60,000 spectators.
Output: | Camp de Les Corts |
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Q: Article One of the United States Constitution establishes the legislative branch of the federal government, the United States Congress. The Congress is a bicameral legislature consisting of a House of Representatives and a Senate.
A: | article 1 of the constitution states that congress should have how many houses |
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Problem:"The amount of love I've received is crazy and I didn't expect any of it, but I'm so grateful," the teen said.
The gesture everyone is applauding isn't uncommon for the husband.
"Jon goes to every doctor's appointment, every blood test, every surgery, every radiation," Mackenna's mom told BuzzFeed News. "And, as you can see, if he can't be by my side he is as close as he can get!" ||||| John Newman sits by the door keeping his wife, Marci, company as she remains in isolation after undergoing radiation treatment.
After nearly 18 years of marriage, John Newman has hardly left his wife's side — after all, he vowed to be there "in sickness and in health."
So when Marci, 49, was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in October, John was there for all of the doctor appointments, surgeries and treatments.
A few weeks ago, Marci had an hours-long surgery to remove the cancer. Afterward, she had to undergo radioactive iodine treatment, which helps destroy thyroid cancer cells, their 17-year-old daughter Mackenna explained.
Marci then had to stay in isolation for five days to avoid exposing other people to radiation. She stayed inside a bedroom with the doors closed insider her family's home in Temecula, California.
But John, 45, didn't want her to ever feel alone.
"On the first day my dad sat outside in the backyard and talked to her through the window," Mackenna said. "The last two days is when he set up the little desk to stay with her."
Dressed in his pajamas, along with Marci, John drank his coffee and read his papers. Sometimes he would talk to her or even read a book out loud, but other times it was enough for Marci just to know he was there.
"As long as they're together," Mackenna added.
The gesture was so sweet, Mackenna decided to snap a picture and post it on her Twitter account.
My mom has to stay in her room in isolation for her cancer radiation so my dad set up a desk at her door to keep her company and I'm crying pic.twitter.com/rucH9HfDvk — kenna (@mackenna_newman) April 14, 2017
"My mom has to stay in her room in isolation for her cancer radiation so my dad set up a desk at her door to keep her company and I'm crying," she wrote.
The tweet was shared more than 10,000 times and received 13,200 likes. Hundreds of people responded, some even sharing photos of their own supporters.
"Amazing...may she heal soon. My heart goes out to you and your family. Stay strong you have an amazing Dad," one Twitter user wrote.
"This is my 7 year old sitting in my door way as I was in isolation," another commented. "Thyroid cancer here too. Stay strong and stay positive."
@mackenna_newman This is my 7 year old sitting in my door way as I was in isolation. Thyroid cancer here too. Stay strong and stay positive. pic.twitter.com/CI0Sf7jxpJ — The Network (@AutographNetwrk) April 24, 2017
Mackenna was surprised by the social media response, but not her dad's actions.
"This is how our family is. We take care of each other," Mackenna said. "She knew he would do it for her." |||||
Solution: | A picture a girl took of the back of her father's head has gone viral as it captures a moment that has brought some to tears. John Newman, 45, has been married to 49-year-old Marci Newman for almost 18 years, and he's taking quite seriously his vow to be there for her "in sickness and in health," reports CBS News. Since they learned in October that she had thyroid cancer, he has helped her through the many appointments, treatments, and surgeries that followed. But it was a simple photo their daughter Mackenna posted to Twitter on April 14 that has captured so many hearts. "My mom has to stay in her room in isolation for her cancer radiation so my dad set up a desk at her door to keep her company and I'm crying," she writes below a photo of her father. It shows him sitting at a small desk as he peers through an opening into the room where her mother is in isolation. It's been shared 10,000 times and liked more than 13,000 times. Mackenna explains to CBS that after having radioactive iodine treatment her mom had to sequester herself for five days so as not to expose others to radiation. She says her dad initially sat in the backyard and spoke to his wife through a window, and moved inside for her two final solo days. "The amount of love I've received is crazy and I didn't expect any of it, but I'm so grateful," Mackenna tells BuzzFeed. As for what her father is doing, she says it's just "how our family is; we take care of each other." (See how this man paid for his wife's medical bills.) |
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.
Example solution: The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini.
Example explanation: The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
Problem: The club started on 28 February 1972 , out of the Malmo ̈ FF ice hockey section .
| Solution: The team was founded on 28 February 1972 as Malmo ̈ Ishockeyfo ̈ rening ( " Malmo ̈ Ice Hockey Club " , or MIF ) when the ice hockey division of Malmo ̈ FF became an independent club . |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. 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".
Some of the most unusual effects of Hellenization can be seen in Afghanistan and India, in the region of the relatively late-arising Greco-Bactrian Kingdom (250 BC-125 BC) in modern Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Tajikistan and the Greco-Indian Kingdom (180 BC - 10 CE) in modern Afghanistan and India. There on the newly formed Silk Road Greek culture apparently hybridized with Indian, and especially Buddhist culture. The resulting syncretism known as Greco-Buddhism heavily influenced the development of Buddhism and created a culture of Greco-Buddhist art. These Greco-Buddhist kingdoms sent some of the first Buddhist missionaries to China, Sri Lanka, and the Mediterranean (Greco-Buddhist monasticism). The first figural portrayals of the Buddha, previously avoided by Buddhists, appeared at this time; they were modeled on Greek statues of Apollo. Several Buddhist traditions may have been influenced by the ancient Greek religion: the concept of Boddhisatvas is reminiscent of Greek divine heroes, and some Mahayana ceremonial practices (burning incense, gifts of flowers, and food placed on altars) are similar to those practiced by the ancient Greeks. One Greek king, Menander I, probably became Buddhist, and was immortalized in Buddhist literature as 'Milinda'. The process of Hellenization extended to the sciences, where ideas from Greek astronomy filtered eastward and had profoundly influenced Indian astronomy by the early centuries AD. For example, Greek astronomical instruments dating to the 3rd century BC were found in the Greco-Bactrian city of Ai Khanoum in modern-day Afghanistan while the Greek concept of a spherical earth surrounded by the spheres of planets was adopted in India and eventually supplanted the long-standing Indian cosmological belief of a flat and circular earth. The Yavanajataka and Paulisa Siddhanta texts in particular show Greek influence. <sep>Give an example of how Hellenized artforms were used in Indian art.<sep>Greek astronomical instruments dating to the 3rd century BC were found in the Greco-Bactrian city of Ai Khanoum in modern-day Afghanistan
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Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to build an indoor aquatic turtle pond
Find an appropriate location in your home.
You will need to find a large space in the house to fit the tank. Measure it out to determine how much space you have available. | Try to find a place that will suffer less damage if there is any sort of leak, that is easy to clean, and where the turtle can reside for a long time. If possible, you should also pick a site that will allow your turtle to get some natural light. |
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to view dav files
Download a dav converter.
To open a dav file, you'll need to convert it first to something readable. One commonly used converter for these kinds of videos is the idea share video go application, which you can download from this link :.
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(I). The open word processing program will search for your file. Once it has found it, it will begin converting it to text.
(II). You can download idea share video go for free on a limited trial or purchase it for $29.99. It is advisable to try out the free trial first to make sure that the program will work on your dav file.
(III). Download a video converter from a converter. Consult the following options at the top of the email to help you download a custom converter.
(IV). To install this, simply check the box on the side of the first page of your browser and click. However, you can also browse the debian website that gives you a notification. | (II). |
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Problem:Fresh and dried dill leaves (sometimes called ``dill weed'' to distinguish it from dill seed) are widely used as herbs in Europe and central Asia.
Solution: | is dill weed the same as dill leaves? |
Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Input: “Running for governor, Mitt Romney campaigned as a job creator. But as a corporate raider, he shipped jobs to China and Mexico. As governor, he did the same thing: Outsourcing state jobs to India.”
— Voiceover of new Barack Obama campaign ad
The Obama campaign apparently loves to ding former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney with the charge of “outsourcing.” On several occasions, we have faulted the campaign for its claims, apparently to little avail.
Now, all of the claims have been combined in one 30-second ad, with the added incendiary charge that Romney was a “corporate raider.” Let’s look anew at this material.
The Facts
The phrase “corporate raider” has a particular meaning in the world of finance. Here’s the definition on Investopedia:
“An investor who buys a large number of shares in a corporation whose assets appear to be undervalued. The large share purchase would give the corporate raider significant voting rights, which could then be used to push changes in the company’s leadership and management. This would increase share value and thus generate a massive return for the raider.”
In other words, this is generally an adversarial stance, in which an investor sees an undervalued asset and forces management to spin off assets, take the company private or break it up.
In a previous life, The Fact Checker covered renowned corporate raiders such as Carl Icahn and his ilk. We also have closely studied Bain Capital and can find no examples that come close to this situation; its deals were done in close association with management. Indeed, Bain generally held onto its investments for four or five years, in contrast to the quick bust-em-ups of real corporate raiders. So calling Romney a “corporate raider” is a real stretch.
So how does the Obama campaign justify this phrase? It cites a single Reuters story from last August, about a campaign stop in New Hampshire, written by a stringer. Buried in the article is a reference to Romney as a “former corporate raider.”
“Reuters typically refers to Romney as a ‘former private equity executive’ or something along those lines,” said Ros Krasny, the Boston bureau chief. “Of the hundreds of times we have referenced Romney over the past year or more, honestly, that example from [the stringer] must have just slipped through the net — 10 months ago.”
A better source for Romney’s behavior as an investor might be someone who actually worked on Wall Street, such as former Obama auto czar Steven Rattner. “Bain Capital is not now, nor has it ever been, some kind of Gordon Gekko-like, fire-breathing corporate raider that slashed and burned companies, immolating jobs wherever they appear in its path,” Rattner wrote in Politico this year.
Regarding the outsourcing claims, we have frowned on these before. The Obama campaign rests its case on three examples of Bain-controlled companies sending jobs overseas. But only one of the examples — involving Holson Burns Group — took place when Romney was actively managing Bain Capital.
Regarding the other claims, concerning Canadian electronics maker SMTC Manufacturing and customer service firm Modus Media, the Obama campaign tries to take advantage of a gray area in which Romney had stepped down from Bain — to manage the Salt Lake City Olympics — but had not sold his shares in the firm. We had previously given the Obama campaign Three Pinocchios for such tactics.
The Modus Media case is also not an example of shipping jobs overseas. The company closed one plant in California and transferred the jobs to North Carolina, Washington and Utah. At the same time, it opened an unrelated plant in Mexico. The Obama campaign once trumpeted the fact that we had dinged a conservative Super PAC for making the same leap in logic.
The claim that Romney outsourced jobs as governor is equally overblown.
This concerns Romney’s veto of a bill that would have prohibited Massachusetts from contracting with companies that outsourced the state’s work to other countries. Lawmakers were especially concerned about a $160,000-a-month contract with Citigroup to operate a system of electronic food-stamp cards that included a customer phone service center in India.
Both the liberal editorial page of the Boston Globe and conservative editorial page of the Boston Herald urged Romney to veto the amendment, saying it would cost the state money. Romney agreed, saying the measure did not protect state jobs — the call center might have moved from India to another state — but “had the potential of costing our citizens a lot more money.” The Democratic-dominated Massachusetts legislature did not override his veto, even though it overturned 117 others, suggesting that there was little real support for the measure.
When the food-stamp contract expired, the Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance insisted that those jobs be returned to the United States. But they ended up in a call center based in Utah — just as Romney had predicted.
As we mentioned, we recounted this ancient Massachusetts history before, giving the campaign Two Pinocchios. So we were very surprised that the Obama campaign cited that critical Fact Checker column as a source for the ad in its back-up materials.
The ad also cites as a source a Boston Globe article from last month that merely reports on an earlier ad making similar charges. That’s highly circular reasoning — and is not fair play.
Upon hearing this ad was under consideration for a tough rating, the Obama campaign supplied reams of additional SEC documents regarding Romney’s ownership in Bain after he left for the Olympics, most of which we had examined previously when we first looked at this question. The campaign also supplied SEC documents showing that two of these companies, Modus and SMTC, as well as one called Stream International (a predecessor of Modus), earned money in part by helping other companies subcontract work overseas. Some of this business predated Romney’s departure from Bain, but thus far it seems a slim case for this particular ad.
“Romney can’t run from his record. At Bain and in Massachusetts, he had the chance to keep jobs in America and sent them overseas instead,” said Kara Carscaden, deputy press secretary for the Obama campaign. “Even while he was at the Olympics, Romney owned and profited from Bain, continues to profit from it today and cannot ignore what Bain did during that time. Whether it’s outsourcing public jobs to India or shipping private ones to Mexico and China, Romney’s record is clear.”
The Pinocchio Test
The Obama campaign fails to make its case. On just about every level, this ad is misleading, unfair and untrue, from the use of “corporate raider” to its examples of alleged outsourcing. Simply repeating the same debunked claims won’t make them any more correct.
Four Pinocchios
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Mitt Romney was booed. It was a good day for Mitt Romney.
John Dickerson John Dickerson is a Slate political columnist, the moderator of CBS’s Face the Nation, and author of Whistlestop and On Her Trail.
When the Republican nominee told the NAACP that he was committed to eliminating Obamacare, audience members shouted out. The negative reception might have been momentarily jarring to the candidate, but the moment had a political upside. It offered a chance for a candidate criticized for his malleability to look principled in the face of opposition. That might not have mattered to the audience in the auditorium, but as Romney advisers explain, this speech was not just aimed at the people sitting in their seats or African American voters in general. Like Romney's contentious visit to the largely African-American school in West Philadelphia weeks ago, this speech was aimed at rounding out Romney's image. “I believe that if you understood who I truly am in my heart, and if it were possible to fully communicate what I believe is in the real, enduring best interest of African-American families, you would vote for me for president,” he said.
Hearing this, swing voters might think Gov. Romney has a bigger heart than those mean Democratic ads claiming he sent jobs overseas. At the very least the speech, and the negative reaction it provoked, replaced the outsourcing of American jobs as the political topic of the day. That may be the biggest political benefit of all of Mitt Romney's NAACP speech: He changed the conversation. In an election that is so close, both campaigns seem less concerned about the substance of their argument than that the argument take place on favorable turf. On issues from health care to charges and counter-charges about outsourcing, both Romney and Obama are willing to endure boos, howls from fact-checkers, and even some cries of hypocrisy if it will keep the argument on the topics that do them the most political good.
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Romney was also applauded by the NAACP audience, as his supporters were quick to point out. True, but it's in their candidate's interest to get booed and to have that booing reported. Quiet golf clapping and even sustained applause would rob Romney of explaining how steadfast he is going to be in the interviews that followed. It would weaken the Daniel in the Lion’s Den story. Big deal Daniel, the lion's just purred at you. This is why, when candidate Obama in 2008 told of being grumbled at by auto executives for his position on auto emissions, he left out the part about how they gave him a standing ovation at the end of the speech.
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The boos are particularly helpful in building ties with conservatives who prize constancy in the face of opposition among all political attributes and who have specific concerns about Romney's commitment to repealing the president's health care plan.
It should be noted that the appearance of bravery is distinct from actual bravery. This was not a Sister Soulja moment, named for Bill Clinton's comments at a conference sponsored by the Rainbow Coalition criticizing a popular rap artist for contributing to the coarsening of the culture. Jeb Bush talking about his party's strict views on immigration is the closest thing to a popular GOP official challenging his base.
In this case, Romney was telling leaders of a community disproportionately lacking quality health care that legislation expanding the system is a bad thing. Romney asked the audience to see his heart, but after so quickly dismissing this policy that has deep consequences for the African-American community he offered no alternative health care vision or hint that he understood the depth of the need that Obamacare—as flawed as it may be—was trying to meet. (When Romney later suggested those who had booed simply wanted more "free stuff," that probably made it harder to see his heart.)
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Gov. Romney was also willing to endure a few uncomfortable moments when he recently declared that the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act was a tax. That statement contradicted a senior aide who had labeled it a penalty and contradicted Romney's position as governor of Massachusetts. But it put him in sync with GOP Congressional leaders accusing President Obama of advocating a new tax. As one Republican official argued, the Romney campaign was happy to have an extended debate about the tax issue, even if it momentarily touched on Romney's possible lack of conviction, because all voters would hear was a debate about taxes. Any time the debate is about taxes, argue strategists for both parties, it's a good argument for the Republican candidate. Voters just tend to trust Republicans to give them lower taxes, which they'd prefer. Also, for Romney his pitch to independent voters who don’t like the law is that if he’s elected the tax will disappear. If Obama stays, it won’t.
President Obama is also willing to take his own hits to keep the argument on his turf. His campaign is running a variety of ads charging Romney with outsourcing jobs while the head of Bain Capital. A variety of fact-checking organizations have called the president on it, giving him the most negative ratings possible, challenging his assertions, and saying his campaign can’t back up its claims. Yet, the ads are still running. The Obama campaign is convinced the TV attacks are working because any conversation about outsourcing is one Democrats think they are going to win. The idea is unpopular and voters are likely to believe that the candidate who sells himself as a business guy and whose firm sometimes shuttered factories was the one involved in outsourcing. When Mitt Romney retaliates that Obama is the "outsourcer-in-chief," it's not likely to be that effective because voters are not predisposed to believe that of President Obama. (In addition to the fact that the charge is pretty weak.)
The Obama campaign is also running an ad making a claim about Romney’s position on abortion that is wafer-thin, as Time's Michael Scherer demonstrates. But a fight about women's reproductive issues is a fight Democrats are happy to have; it is more than worth enduring a few boos from the crowd. Though the president makes it sound like he is the overwhelming victim of negative ads, that's not so. President Obama is a long way from the 2008 candidate who used to inveigh against political game playing. Though, even at the time, Obama was willing to say one thing and do another, and his campaign ran more negative ads than any in history. |||||
Output: | The NAACP actually did Mitt Romney a favor by showering him with boos yesterday. Sure, Romney's campaign pointed out that the audience applauded as well, "but it's in their candidate's interest to get booed," argues John Dickerson at Slate. For one thing, "quiet golf clapping … would weaken the Daniel in the Lion's Den story. Big deal Daniel, the lions just purred at you." It also let Romney brag about how steadfast he was being—a big plus for the Etch-a-sketch candidate. But most importantly, those boos "replaced the outsourcing of American jobs as the political topic of the day." Both sides have learned that controlling the conversation is everything. They're "willing to endure boos, howls from fact-checkers, and even some cries of hypocrisy if it will keep the argument" on their turf. So Obama runs his outsourcing attack ads, Pinocchios be damned, and Romney calls ObamaCare a "tax," even if it means RomneyCare taxed Massachusetts. "Let them boo—as long as the message gets through." Click for Dickerson's full column. |
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Q: In mathematics and vector algebra, the cross product or vector product (occasionally directed area product to emphasize the geometric significance) is a binary operation on two vectors in three-dimensional space ( R 3 ) (\displaystyle \left(\mathbb (R) ^(3)\right)) and is denoted by the symbol × (\displaystyle \times ) . Given two linearly independent vectors a (\displaystyle \mathbf (a) ) and b (\displaystyle \mathbf (b) ) , the cross product, a × b (\displaystyle \mathbf (a) \times \mathbf (b) ) , is a vector that is perpendicular to both a (\displaystyle \mathbf (a) ) and b (\displaystyle \mathbf (b) ) and thus normal to the plane containing them. It has many applications in mathematics, physics, engineering, and computer programming. It should not be confused with dot product (projection product).
A: | is dot product the same as cross product? |
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.
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Question: 'The Rains of Castamere', sometimes referred to as 'The Red Wedding,' is the ninth and penultimate episode of the third season of HBO's fantasy television series Game of Thrones, and the 29th episode of the series. The episode was written by executive producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, and directed by David Nutter. It aired on June 2, 2013 (2013-06-02).
Answer: game of thrones which episode is the red wedding
Question: It originated from the days of naval sailing squadrons and can trace its origins to the Royal Navy. Each naval squadron would be assigned an admiral as its head, who would command from the centre vessel and direct the activities of the squadron. The admiral would in turn be assisted by a vice admiral, who commanded the lead ships which would bear the brunt of a naval battle. In the rear of the naval squadron, a third admiral would command the remaining ships and, as this section of the squadron was considered to be in the least danger, the admiral in command of the rear would typically be the most junior of the squadron admirals. This has survived into the modern age, with the rank of rear admiral the most-junior of the admiralty ranks of many navies.
Answer: where did the term rear admiral come from
Question: The Governor General of Canada (French: Gouverneure générale du Canada) is the federal viceregal representative of the Canadian monarch, currently Queen Elizabeth II. The person of the sovereign is shared equally both with the 15 other Commonwealth realms and the 10 provinces of Canada, but resides predominantly in her oldest realm, the United Kingdom. The Queen, on the advice of her Canadian prime minister, appoints a governor general to carry out most of her constitutional and ceremonial duties. The commission is for an unfixed period of time -- known as serving at Her Majesty's pleasure -- though five years is the normal convention. Beginning in 1959, it has also been traditional to rotate between anglophone and francophone incumbents -- although many recent governors general have been bilingual. Once in office, the governor general maintains direct contact with the Queen, wherever she may be at the time.
Answer: | how do you become the governor general of canada
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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.
question:
Ready Player One is a 2011 science fiction novel, and the debut novel of American author Ernest Cline. The story, set in a dystopian 2040s, follows protagonist Wade Watts on his search for an Easter egg in a worldwide virtual reality game, the discovery of which will lead him to inherit the game creator's fortune. Cline sold the rights to publish the novel in June 2010, in a bidding war to the Crown Publishing Group (a division of Random House). The book was published on August 16, 2011. An audiobook was released the same day; it was narrated by Wil Wheaton, who was mentioned briefly in one of the chapters. In 2012, the book received an Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association division of the American Library Association and won the 2012 Prometheus Award.
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was ready player one based on a book?
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A stipulation that this kick must be towards the opponents' goal existed in the rules from 1883 until 2016. This resulted in kick-offs typically involving two people (as pictured), with one tapping the ball forward and the other passing it back to the rest of the team. Now a team may kick the ball backwards explaining why the kicker may be in the other half of the field when kicking the ball.
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do you have to kick the ball forward at kick off?
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According to the current scientific theories, matter is required to travel at slower-than-light (also subluminal or STL) speed with respect to the locally distorted spacetime region. Apparent FTL is not excluded by general relativity; however, any apparent FTL physical plausibility is speculative. Examples of apparent FTL proposals are the Alcubierre drive and the traversable wormhole.
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Q: LOWER TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — A driver was forced to gun his engine and jump a drawbridge that began rising as he crossed it with his family.
Terence Naphys, of West Deptford Township, had paid the toll to cross the Middle Thorofare Bridge with three family members in his vehicle on Aug. 1. The bridge links Cape May with the Wildwoods near the Jersey shore.
As he was crossing the steel grate, it began to rise 3 to 6 feet (0.9 to 1.8 meters) because a vessel was trying to cross, police said.
"My wife said, 'I think the bridge is opening,'" Terence Naphys told KYW-TV in Philadelphia.
"He accelerated, and of course then we landed with a big impact on the concrete on the side," said Jackie Naphys.
Police said the landing caused minor damage to his vehicle. No one was hurt.
Authorities said the operator of the bridge was to blame for the scare.
"An employee for the Cape May County Bridge Commission stated that a large vessel was approaching the bridge and they had no contact with that vessel due to their radio being down," police said in their report.
The bridge tender told police he activated the bridge's lights and gates in anticipation that all vehicles would be clear. However, he wasn't sure because of sun glare.
Terence Naphys said he would never cross the bridge again. ||||| One father is describing one night in August as "terrifying." That night, his family was caught in a drawbridge accident when the bridge started to open. NBC10's Cydney Long spoke to the family about the ordeal.
A family heading to Cape May, New Jersey, found themselves in an improbable situation earlier this month when a drawbridge lifted right underneath their car and they were forced to jump the opening.
Terence Naphys, after paying the $1.50 toll at the Middle Thorofare Bridge that connects the Wildwoods and Cape May via Ocean Drive, was heading across the bridge when a steel metal grate suddenly lifted 3 to 6 feet underneath his car, Naphys told Lower Township police.
Naphys was in the car with his wife, his daughter and his daughter's friend, and he was worried his Toyota RAV4 would fall the 65 feet down into the water. So he accelerated and jumped the gap.
"It's scary what's going through your mind," said the New Jersey resident. "We could have all landed in the water."
Family Forced to Jump Over Opening Drawbridge
A New Jersey family was driving across a Cape May County drawbridge when it opened in front of them. They were forced to jump the gap. (Published Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017)
The car landed on the other side of the bridge and the family was able to drive away without any injuries. But Naphys said his SUV sustained $10,000 in damage that included a bent suspension.
A commercial fishing vessel was trying to pass under the bridge, and its radio communication was down, officials said. The bridge operator could not contact the large boat.
The operator later told police he was blinded by a sun glare when he checked the bridge for cars, expecting Naphys' vehicle to clear in time.
The bridge was built in 1940 and needs as much as $200 million in repairs and renovations, according to Cape May County officials.
Investigators said the incident was an operator error and is under investigation by the Cape May County Bridge Commission.
Naphys isn't sure when he'll have the courage to cross a bridge again.
Lessie Brown, Believed to Be Oldest American, Dies at 114
Lessie Brown of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, died at the age of 114, according to family members. Brown was believed to be the oldest person living in the United States. (Published Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019)
"I will never ever drive that bridge or probably any drawbridge again," he said. |||||
A: | A New Jersey driver was forced to gun his engine of his Toyota RAV-4 and jump a drawbridge that began rising as he crossed it with his family. Terence Naphys, of West Deptford Township, had paid the $1.50 toll to cross the Middle Thorofare Bridge with his wife, daughter, and daughter's friend in his vehicle on Aug. 1, reports the AP. The bridge links Cape May with the Wildwoods near the Jersey shore. As he was crossing the steel grate, it began to rise 3 to 6 feet because a vessel was trying to cross, police said. "My wife said, 'I think the bridge is opening,'" Terence Naphys told KYW-TV in Philadelphia, leaving him in fear of dropping 65 feet into the water. "He accelerated, and of course then we landed with a big impact" on the other side, said Jackie Naphys. Nobody was injured. "It's scary what's going through your mind," Terence Naphys tells NBC 10. "We could have all landed in the water." He estimates that his SUV suffered about $10,000 in damages. Authorities said the operator of the bridge was to blame for the scare. "An employee for the Cape May County Bridge Commission stated that a large vessel was approaching the bridge and they had no contact with that vessel due to their radio being down," police said in their report. The bridge tender told police he activated the bridge's lights and gates in anticipation that all vehicles would be clear. However, he wasn't sure because of sun glare. Terence Naphys said he would never cross the bridge again. |
Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to be safe when using a chemistry lab
Be smart about chemicals and the dangers they pose.
Some chemicals are harmless; others can kill you! Until you are familiar with the chemicals you are using in the lab, always ask an instructor for help. There are a few basic points about chemical safety to bear in mind :
Never mess with an unlabeled chemical. | It may be corrosive and dangerous to your skin, and mixing it with other chemicals could produce toxic fumes or even an explosion. Know the difference between an acid and a base. |
Instructions: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Input: JPMorgan Chase Bank , N.A. , also known as Chase Bank , is a national bank headquartered in Manhattan , New York City .
Output: | J.P. Morgan Chase Bank , N.A. , doing business as Chase Bank , is a national bank headquartered in Manhattan , New York City , that constitutes the consumer and commercial banking subsidiary of the U.S. multinational banking and financial services holding company , JPMorgan Chase . |
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Problem:In the summer of 2016, the satellite network yes officially picked up season 2 of the show, stating it will focus more on real world events. During the fall of 2017 the initial trailer was released, and the official premier date was later announced to be 31 December. A few weeks prior to the airing of season 2, Fauda was renewed for a third season, to air in 2019.
Solution: | is there going to be a third season of fauda? |
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An American-owned tugboat from Italy along with its 16 member crew was hijacked around 11 am EST on Saturday in the Gulf of Aden. The Italian Ambassador, Pierandrea Magistrati, confirmed that "there is a boat that has been hijacked, I believe by Somali pirates." Additionally, Shona Lowe, a spokeswoman at NATO's Northwood maritime command center reported that the Italian-flagged tugboat was hijacked this morning off of Somalia's northern coast. Lowe also confirmed that Italian government officials along with the company that owned the tugboat were trying to secure the release of the crew, ten of which were Italians.
Hypothesis: The Italian Ambassador indicated that a boat had been hijacked.
Yes
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Treatment<br>Ingrid injured her arm in a workplace fall. Her job sent her to a local hospital for treatment. Ingrid was not quite pleased with the care received. She got a second opinion and asked to change doctors. Happily, her job complied and Ingrid received the care she requested.
Hypothesis: Ingrid refused to seek a doctor's advice.
No
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A variety of devices could be powered selectively from a single-power source carried on the body via multiple power supply signals at different frequencies, according to the patent abstract.
Hypothesis: According to the patent abstract, there were multiple power supply handwritten signatures at different frequencies.
| No |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Problem:The Frauen-Bundesliga ( English : Women Bundesliga ) is the main women 's association football league competition in Germany .
Solution: | The Frauen-Bundesliga ( English : Women 's Federal League ) , currently known as the FLYERALARM Frauen-Bundesliga due to sponsorship by FLYERALARM , is the top level of league competition for women 's association football in Germany . |
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.
Ron Antonelli/New York Daily News Jhonny Peralta rounds the bases as CC Sabathia is left wondering what went wrong as the big Yankees ace is beaten in Game 4 of the ALCS, which eliminates the Bombers from the playoffs.
TIGERS 8, YANKEES 1
DETROIT — When it was all over, when the final out was recorded, another historic Yankee October was complete.
But, unlike 27 victorious postseasons before this one, this playoff run didn’t end with a World Series title, a champagne celebration and a parade up the Canyon of Heroes.
BE THE GM! PLAY YANKEES KEEP 'EM OR DUMP 'EM NOW!
No, when this historic Yankee postseason came to a close with an 8-1 loss and a four-game sweep in the ALCS at the hands of the Detroit Tigers, it was accompanied by these mind-numbing “highlights”: a .188 team batting average, the worst in postseason history; a lineup that managed only six runs in four games; and two of the Yanks’ biggest stars - Alex Rodriguez and Robinson Cano - going a combined 6-for-65. It was a complete embarrassment in every sense of the word.
PHOTOS: YANKEES SWEPT OUT OF PLAYOFFS BY TIGERS
“They just kicked our butts, plain and simple,” Mark Teixeira said. “We didn’t get the job done and they played really, really well.”
Joe Girardi, who juggled his lineup all series with no results at all, got emotional afterward, the death of his father nearly two weeks ago still on his mind.
“You work a long time to get to this point every year,” Girardi said. “To have it end abruptly — and it’s going end abruptly for all but one team — it’s really, really difficult.”
Ron Antonelli/New York Daily News
CC Sabathia was torched for six runs in 3.2 innings, recording the same number of outs - 11 — as hits allowed. His counterpart, Max Scherzer, no-hit the Yanks through five, then handed it off to Detroit’s bullpen with two out in the sixth as the Tigers won their 11th AL pennant.
The Yankees completed one of the most anemic postseasons in history, scoring only one run to give them a grand total of six in the series. By comparison, ALCS MVP Delmon Young drove in six runs by himself in the sweep. “We didn’t do our jobs,” Robinson Cano said. “You have to give credit to the Tigers. That’s all you can do.”
It was an ignominious ending to what had been a gritty season for the Yanks, who never surrendered first place in the AL East despite watching their 10-game lead in mid-July disappear by Labor Day. After finally getting rid of the Orioles for good with their five-game victory in the AL division series, the Yankees were ready to start with a clean slate against the Tigers, the team that ended their season in the first round last year.
The Bombers, who scored 804 runs during the regular season — second only to Texas’ 808 among all 30 big-league teams — struggled to do anything against the Tigers.
Ron Antonelli/New York Daily News
The Bombers finished the series hitting .157, a franchise record for futility that had stood since 1963, when the Bombers hit .171 in their World Series loss to the Dodgers. The Yankees hit .188 for the entire postseason, wasting a bevy of solid pitching performances.
“We didn’t swing the bats,” Girardi said. “It wasn’t one guy, it wasn’t two guys; it was a bunch of guys. And it’s hard to win when you don’t score runs.”
The Yankees never held a lead during the four-game sweep as they scored in only three of the series’ 39 innings, one of which was the four-run ninth in Game 1 against struggling closer Jose Valverde.
“It’s something about Detroit,” Alex Rodriguez said. “It seems that they’ve had their way with us. We’ve had some not so good feelings in this clubhouse. I’m not sure whether it’s matchups or what; they just outplayed us.”
Ron Antonelli/New York Daily News
Cano, who ended the season as the hottest hitter in the majors, went 3-for-40 (.075) during the playoffs. Curtis Granderson went 3-for-30 (.100) with 16 strikeouts, while Nick Swisher was 5-for-30 (.167) in what will likely be his final games in pinstripes. Then there was A-Rod, who started Game 4 on the bench before being sent out to pinch-hit in the sixth with the Yanks trailing by five runs. He went 0-for-2 off the bench, finishing his postseason 3-for-25 (.120).
“This was a terrible way for the season to end,” Rodriguez said. “Obviously we’re all very disappointed. You’re crushed; you work eight months to get to this point. I know there are a lot of teams that would love to get in this position in the ALCS with an opportunity to go to the World Series, but we just came up short.”
Sabathia, who extended the Yanks’ season last week with his brilliant Game 5 start against the O’s, didn’t have his best stuff on Thursday. The Tigers scored a run in the first on Young’s RBI single to right, then added another in the third on Avisail Garcia’s bases-loaded infield hit.
In the fourth, Miguel Cabrera belted a two-run homer to left - his first blast of the postseason - to make it 4-0, then Jhonny Peralta followed with another two-run shot to left. Sabathia gave up a double to center by Andy Dirks, the Tigers’ 11th hit of the game, bringing Girardi out of the dugout to end Sabathia’s misery. “I was terrible today,” Sabathia said. “It’s embarrassing to me to be able to come out and not give our team a chance to win.”
The Yank hitters didn’t help, either. Scherzer took his no-hitter into the sixth, striking out nine of the 17 batters he faced through the first five frames. Eduardo Nunez broke up the no-no with a leadoff triple to left in the sixth, scoring on Swisher’s double to right to put the Yankees on the board.
Scherzer went on to issue a two-out walk to Mark Teixeira, ending his day after 98 pitches. Jim Leyland brought in lefty Drew Smyly, one of the few pitchers the Yankees felt A-Rod could handle, so Girardi sent him to the plate to pinch-hit for Raul Ibanez. A-Rod couldn’t get the Yanks any closer, hitting a weak fly to center to end the inning. The Yankees never threatened again, their entire season going up in smoke.
“There’s only one happy team at the end of the season,” Swisher said. “It’s just not us this year.” ||||| 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. ||||| The sun has broken through this afternoon and Game 4 of the American League Championship Series is underway from Detroit's Comerica Park.
Max Scherzer will try and pitch the Tigers into the World Series while CC Sabathia will do his best to keep the New York Yankees alive.
SCORE UPDATE:
FINAL: Tigers 8 - 1 Yankees
Tigers Win Series 4-0
Tigers win 11th AL Pennant
W: Scherzer
L: Sabathia ||||| TicketNetwork is a resale marketplace and is not a box office or venue.
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| It's a tough night to be a Yankees fan. The Detroit Tigers thumped the Yanks 8-1 tonight to sweep the ALCS and advance to the World Series. How bad was it? The Yankees not only failed to win a game, they never even led one, points out the New York Times. "Mowed Down in Motown," says the headline in the New York Post, which notes that this is the first postseason sweep of the Yankees since 1976. "Motown and Out!" says the Daily News, whose story pronounces the sweep "embarrassing." Maybe worse than the hometown abuse is Tom Gage's line in the Detroit News that the Tigers "stepped over the pebble-sized obstacle the Yankees proved to be." The Tigers will face the winner of the Giants-Cardinals series, and Bleacher Report has plenty more on that series as well the Tigers-Yankees here. |
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.
The seed for this crawl was a list of every host in the Wayback Machine
This crawl was run at a level 1 (URLs including their embeds, plus the URLs of all outbound links including their embeds)
The WARC files associated with this crawl are not currently available to the general public. ||||| KHBS NW Arkansas
A 34-year-old Arkansas woman was charged with misdemeanor theft last week after she stole 185 unsold copies of the Springdale Morning News that were left outside a grocery store for a carrier to pick up. She told police she’s a coupon club member and didn’t think she was doing anything wrong. “She was just trying to save some money,” says her lawyer. Since the April debut of TLC’s “Extreme Couponing”, there have been reports of newspaper and coupon thefts in Idaho, Texas, Alabama, Florida, and California.
In one case at the Orange County Register, a woman returned an armload of papers for more because, she said, they didn’t contain inserts. She was seen in her car pulling out the inserts after she traded in the old stack.
“People (clerks and vendors) are telling us the papers are incomplete, with the coupons gone,” said Larry Riley, senior vice president in charge of circulation at The Orange County Register. |||||
| Confused as to why a woman in Arkansas would, allegedly, steal 185 copies of a Sunday newspaper? You must not be an "extreme couponer." Poynter notes that TLC's Extreme Couponing, which debuted in April, has been linked to several reports of newspaper and coupon thefts in Idaho, Texas, Alabama, Florida, California, and now Arkansas. In the most recent case, 34-year-old Jamie VanSickler is accused of taking the 185 unsold newspapers from outside a grocery store where they were to be picked up by a newspaper carrier; she told police she is in a coupon club and didn't think she was breaking the law. "Mrs. VanSickler is shocked and embarrassed by the whole situation, since she obtained permission from Harps prior to taking any newspapers, and she was just trying to save some money," says her attorney in a statement. Apparently you can learn all about extreme couponing at this website, which recently reminded couponers not to steal their coupons. |
TASK DEFINITION: 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.
PROBLEM: The United States has about 20 species of venomous snakes, which include 16 species of rattlesnakes, two species of coral snakes, one species of cottonmouth (or water moccasin), and one species of copperhead. At least one type of venomous snake is found in every state except Alaska and Hawaii.
SOLUTION: what are the poisonous snakes in the united states
PROBLEM: The Second Battle of Panipat was fought on November 5, 1556, between the forces of Hemu, the Hindu general and Chief Minister of Adil Shah Suri, and the army of the Mughal emperor, Akbar. Hemu had conquered Delhi a month earlier by defeating the Mughals led by Tardi Beg Khan at the Battle of Delhi and proclaimed himself Raja Vikramaditya. Akbar and his guardian, Bairam Khan, had immediately marched to Delhi to reclaim the city. The two armies clashed at Panipat not far from the site of the First Battle of Panipat of 1526.
SOLUTION: why was the second battle of panipat fought
PROBLEM: A drill is a tool fitted with a cutting tool attachment or driving tool attachment, usually a drill bit or driver bit, used for boring holes in various materials or fastening various materials together. The attachment is gripped by a chuck at one end of the drill and rotated while pressed against the target material. The tip, and sometimes edges, of the cutting tool does the work of cutting into the target material. This may be slicing off thin shavings (twist drills or auger bits), grinding off small particles (oil drilling), crushing and removing pieces of the workpiece (SDS masonry drill), countersinking, counterboring, or other operations.
SOLUTION: | name two important features a drill should have
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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? Solve this instance: The Tokyo Stock Exchange ( 東京証券取引所 , To ̄ kyo ̄ Sho ̄ ken Torihikisho ) , or TSE , is in Tokyo , Japan .
Student: | The Tokyo Stock Exchange ( 東京証券取引所 , To ̄ kyo ̄ Sho ̄ ken Torihikijo ) , which is called To ̄ sho ̄ ( 東証 ) or TSE / TYO for short , is a stock exchange located in Tokyo , Japan . |
Given the task definition, example input & output, solve the new input case.
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.
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.
Output: who has the maximum number of followers on instagram
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 case for you: 'Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer' is a novelty Christmas song. Written by Randy Brooks, the song was originally performed by the husband-and-wife duo of Elmo and Patsy Trigg Shropshire in 1979.
Output: | who sings grandma got run over by a reindeer |
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:Welcome To Amish Country Furniture Sales at Standupdesks.com.
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Feeling daunted by the vastness of all the possible configurations ? Don't worry. If you need help navigating the site or if you would like to talk with one of our designers while navigating the site, please don't hesitate to call Jim at 330-807-1956. At Amish Country Furniture Sales, you do not have to settle for furniture that looks as if it belongs in a garage, gym or science lab. All of our furniture is hand crafted mostly of solid wood, only a few of our models use a few pieces of the finest real wood veneers for added strength. Every desk is built to last a lifetime, so you know you are buying the finest American made craftsmanship and quality. ||||| If you’re reading this, chances are you’re sitting down, which means you’re probably digging yourself an early grave.
At least, that’s the gist of a few articles that have made the rounds recently. A particularly popular article in Men’s Health cited a study in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise that will make any desk jockey wince. Examining the lifestyles of more than 17,000 men and women over 13 years, the report found those who sit for most of the day were 54% more likely to die of heart attacks. According to Men's Health, that statistic was true even if the people in the study were nonsmokers and regular exercisers.
Another report cited in a recent New York Times Magazine story tracked 123,000 Americans and found the death rate for those who spent six or more hours a day sitting was 20% higher than for men who sat for three hours or less. For women, the difference was 40%. No one's really sure exactly why that's the case. You certainly burn fewer calories sitting than you do standing and moving around, but weight gain isn't necessarily the primary reason that sitting is so bad for you.
If you’re like me, you’ve read those articles and wondered, “OK, what’s the alternative?” Aside from switching occupations (maybe it's time to brush up on those dormant lumberjacking skills), your best bet might be a standup desk. Right now, such desks are tiny niche in the market, but, thanks to those recent articles, things are picking up.
Jim Gattuso, who owns the domain name standupdesks.com, says that traffic to his site has quadrupled in recent weeks. Up until now, though, he had done a pretty good business, mostly for people with back problems. Gattuso started his business about 17 years ago when he was suffering from back pain and was looking for a standup desk. He couldn’t find one, so he contracted with a furniture maker in Ohio’s Amish country. The furniture maker was willing to make a desk, but he had one stipulation: “If I wanted him to build me one, I’d have to have at least three pieces made.” Gattuso kept two for himself and then decided to try to sell the other one on the Internet. It sold so fast that he realized there was a market for such things.
The cult of standup desks may be small, but proponents are vocal. Donald Rumsfeld is said to be a fan as is writer Philip Roth. Rob Schwartz, chief creative officer of ad agency TBWA\Chiat\Day LA, got a standup desk seven years ago because he heard Ernest Hemingway used one. “I figured, he’s a pretty good writer, so maybe I could use one, too,” Schwartz says. Physical issues didn’t play a role in Schwartz’s decision — he doesn’t have a bad back and isn’t worried that sitting all day will cause him to have a heart attack. “You get more done when you’re standing up,” Schwartz says. “When you’re sitting, you’re naturally recessive, you’re receiving, when you’re standing, you’re ready to do something ... I don’t know. I used to be a bartender, so maybe that has something to do with it.”
Jon Paulsen, CEO of The Human Solution, which sells ergonomic office furniture, says that, despite the hype, a sit-down desk won’t kill you. “[Sitting is] not necessarily a bad thing, but doing anything for eight hours a day is bad,” he says. Paulsen, a certified ergonomist, recommends an electronic retractable desk, which can help you easily go from a sitting to a standing position. Desks with adjustable cranks provide too much of a barrier to going back and forth, he says. The important thing is to vary your routine. “It’s a great way to change your posture up,” he says. “As people get older, they find more benefits to moving around during the day.”
Such solutions don’t come cheaply. An electronic retractable desk will run you $1,000 to $2,000, but Paulsen says you can get “a real nice one” for $1,100 to $1,200. What if that’s out of your reach at the moment? Paulsen says make a point of getting up every half hour or so and walk around. “It’s good to take microbreaks,” he says. Such advice may be hard to follow, but, as any stand-up desk evangelist will attest, it's better to look weird than to die young.
For a look at some standup desks, click on the gallery below. ||||| Standing desk prototype #1
I built an elevated platform so I could try working at a standing desk. It's 11.5 inches high, and I built it from .75" x .75" sticks and .5" plywood. I added lots of triangular bracing and then sat on it to make sure it could hold my 27" iMac without collapsing. I just started using it this morning so I can't say how much I like it yet.
I'm standing on a gardener's kneeling pad, which is probably too spongy. I might switch to a yoga mat.
This is a prototype. I am going to use this one for a week, take notes, and make another prototype. (First note for Prototype 2 - a nook under the plywood to hold the external drives and USB hub.)
Here's Donald Rumsfeld at his most charming (which is about as charming as a monitor lizard) defending his standing desk and explaining to the CNN host that Thomas Jefferson had one and that naval officers use them. Go Rummy!
UPDATE: Here is the image I'm using on my desktop. |||||
Solution: | A slew of stories warning about the health risks of sitting too much has led to an uptick in interest about desks that allow people to stand, writes Todd Wasserman at Mashable. Exhibit A: Traffic has quadrupled in recent weeks to standupdesks.com. "Right now, such desks are tiny niche in the market, but, thanks to those recent articles, things are picking up," he writes. The alternatives range from inexpensive makeshift desks to electronic retractable versions that can run up to $2,000. Short of that, an ergonomist (who doesn't quite buy all the recent hype) suggests getting out of yours chair for "microbreaks" every half-hour so or. Mashable provides a photo of gallery of standup desks here, and Boing Boing (which prefers the term "standing desk") has another example here. |
Detailed Instructions: In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
Q: Bartolo Colón (born May 24, 1973), nicknamed 'Big Sexy,' is a Dominican American professional baseball pitcher for the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Cleveland Indians (1997 -- 2002), Montreal Expos (2002), Chicago White Sox (2003, 2009), Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (2004 -- 2007), Boston Red Sox (2008), New York Yankees (2011), Oakland Athletics (2012 -- 2013), New York Mets (2014 -- 2016), Atlanta Braves (2017), and Minnesota Twins (2017).
A: | how many teams has bartolo colon pitch for |
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: 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 is the first name of the man who tracks down the young American couple on the beach?<sep>Paul McIlvain
Output: No
Input: Consider Input: You know that friction also causes heat. Think about when you rub your hands together. It is friction that makes them warm. But why does this happen? Friction causes the molecules on rubbing surfaces to move faster. Faster moving particles have more heat energy. Heat from friction can be useful. Can you think of other places where you might find friction? Friction also lets you light a match. Heat from friction can also cause problems. It can cause a car to overheat. To reduce friction, oil is added to the engine. Oil coats the surfaces of moving parts. This coating of oil makes them slippery. When things are slippery there is less friction. Have you ever seen a sign that says, slippery when wet? This too has to do with friction. Water, like oil, can reduce friction. The wet surface may allow your shoes to slide more easily. <sep>What can be done to prevent friction problems in engines?<sep>Oil is added to the engine
Output: Yes
Input: Consider Input: Boone, Ia. -Poor and elderly people may soon go without legal representation in Boone County. Boone County Legal Aid, which for 31 years has provided legal services to those who couldn't afford them, will close in February if a $10,000 grant from Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino is not awarded. The legal service is one of the few programs in Iowa that offers legal representation to those who qualify without turning to the state for its services. "It is a very sad situation, but that's the fact," said Alan Schroeder, city attorney and supervisor of Boone County Legal Aid. For the past two years using money mostly from the city and county, Schroeder has upheld the outfit alone, taking on about 60 clients a year, and settling cases that range from domestic abuse to bankruptcy. He also has a private practice. If the legal service closes, he's unsure where his clients will go. The city of Boone gave Schroeder $6,300 in July to resolve pending cases, said Kathy Berg, Boone's finance officer. Without that, the program might already be closed. "All governments are having problems with finances," Boone Mayor George Maybee said. "No one else stepped in. The county didn't. The state didn't." Donovan Olson, chairman of the county Board of Supervisors, said the board quit funding the legal service in July because it felt the county didn't need it. Drake University ended its funding after the 2000 spring semester "for a variety of reasons," Suzanne Levitt, the law professor who oversaw the program, said via e-mail. Olson said Schroeder must prove Prairie Meadows is the primary money source for the board to grant the program any more money. Schroeder ran the program without the help of law students or Drake, which had provided as much as two-thirds of the money in some years. <sep>How long has Boone County provided legal aid for the elderly and poor?<sep>10 years
| Output: No
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Instructions: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Input: The Surgeon General of the United States is in charge of the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps ( PHSCC ) .
Output: | The surgeon general of the United States is the operational head of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps ( PHSCC ) and thus the leading spokesperson on matters of public health in the federal government of the United States . |
Write the next sentence in the following story.
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Make a list of local tax attorneys.
Search online for tax attorneys, by typing in " tax attorney " and then your state. If you live in alabama, for example, you would type " tax attorneys in alabama. | " look for attorneys who have offices in your county or city. You can also search through online phone directories, such as yellow pages, yellow book, or switchboard. |
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Get digital access ||||| FILE - In this file photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, Clayton Lockett is pictured in a photo dated June 29, 2011. The body Lockett, who died after a botched execution of what corrections... (Associated Press)
FILE - In this file photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, Clayton Lockett is pictured in a photo dated June 29, 2011. The body Lockett, who died after a botched execution of what corrections... (Associated Press)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The body of an Oklahoma inmate who died after a botched execution of what corrections officials have said was an apparent heart attack was returned from an independent autopsy without the heart or larynx, a state medical official said Monday.
The Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office, which is conducting an independent autopsy on the body of inmate Clayton Lockett, retained the body parts, a practice that is not uncommon, said Amy Elliott, a spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Medical Examiner's Office.
"Oklahoma law reads that the Office of the State Medical Examiner can retain any kind of tissue or samples indefinitely," Elliott said. "And my understanding is it can be the same in Texas."
Dallas County officials did not immediately return messages Monday.
David Autry, Lockett's attorney, said a private doctor is working to complete a second autopsy and has asked Dallas County to preserve all evidence in the case, including the heart and larynx.
"I assume they retained those for additional testing, but we've asked them to preserve all the evidence," Autry said.
Lockett's body has been returned to his family and cremated, Autry said.
Dr. Amy Gruszecki, the medical director of American Forensics, a Dallas facility that conducts independent autopsies, said doctors conducting the autopsy likely found something specific with the heart and larynx that they wanted to further document.
"It's not completely unusual," Gruszecki said. "They might want to do some additional investigation or saw something that was very important to the diagnosis."
Lockett died after his April 29 execution was halted when prison officials noted the lethal injection drugs weren't being administered properly. The doctor inside the death chamber reported a single IV in Lockett's groin became dislodged and the lethal drugs went into his tissue or leaked out of his body.
Oklahoma was using a new three-drug method for the first time, and Lockett writhed on the gurney, gritted his teeth and attempted to lift his head several times before the state's prison director halted the execution. Lockett died anyway, about 43 minutes from what prison officials have said was an apparent heart attack.
Gov. Mary Fallin has ordered an investigation into Lockett's death, and the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has issued a six-month stay of execution for a second inmate who was scheduled to die on the same night as Lockett.
The Oklahoma Medical Examiner's Office will release the official cause and manner of Lockett's death after it receives the results of the autopsy from Dallas County, Elliott said.
Lockett, a four-time felon, was convicted of shooting 19-year-old Stephanie Nieman with a sawed-off shotgun and watching as two accomplices buried her alive in rural Kay County in 1999 after Nieman and a friend arrived at a home the men were robbing.
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Solution: | An Oklahoma inmate who died after a botched execution was returned to his family and cremated without his heart and larynx, which the office conducting an independent autopsy has decided to keep. Officials say medical examiners can retain tissue indefinitely. "It's not completely unusual," the medical director of a facility that performs independent autopsies tell the AP, explaining that doctors probably found an issue with Clayton Lockett's heart and larynx they want to document. "They might want to do some additional investigation or saw something that was very important to the diagnosis," she says. Lockett died of an apparent heart attack 43 minutes after Oklahoma attempted to execute him using a new, three-drug method for the first time. The official cause and manner of his death will be released "very soon" by the Oklahoma Medical Examiner’s Office, a spokeswoman tells the Tulsa World. The independent autopsy is being conducted in Texas, but the spokeswoman says its findings will be treated as a recommendation, not the final determination of what killed Lockett. After his drawn-out death, an inmate scheduled to die the same night was granted a six-month stay of execution. |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Mac OS X Tiger ( version 10.4 ) is the fifth major release of Apple 's Mac OS X.
| Mac OS X Tiger ( version 10.4 ) is the fifth major release of Mac OS X ( now named macOS ) , Apple 's desktop and server operating system for Mac computers . |
Teacher:In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: Story highlights Health officials say dangerous levels of domoic acid in crab
Domoic acid is naturally occurring toxin that can't be cleaned or cooked away
Domoic acid poisoning causes dizziness, vomiting, and in severe cases, death
(CNN) Put down the California crab legs -- they could be poisonous.
"Due to the detection of dangerous levels of domoic acid," Dungeness and rock crabs caught in waters between the Oregon borders and the southern Santa Barbara County line pose a "significant risk to the public if consumed," the California Department of Public Health said in a release.
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Domoic acid is a naturally occurring toxin produced from "some species of the marine diatom Pseudo-nitzschia," the state Department of Fish and Wildlife said.
A massive bloom of Pseudo-nitzschia, brought by warmer water temperatures associated with the El Nino event, is causing high levels of the acid.
Marine animals, such as crabs, that filter their food through seawater may accumulate the toxins. While the toxins, which are colorless and odorless, don't seem to harm the animals accumulating them, people who eat the animals may become poisoned.
Read More ||||| Don’t eat Dungeness crab, California health department warns
Do not — repeat, not — eat crab caught along much of the California coast until further notice. That’s the stunning message issued Tuesday by health officials just days before Saturday’s start of the recreational crab season, which may be delayed.
The California Department of Public Health is warning that potentially deadly levels of domoic acid have been found in Dungeness crab and rock crab caught along the coastline between Oregon and the southern border of Santa Barbara County. As a result, the state Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment is recommending the Dungeness season be delayed and the rock crab fishery be closed.
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The Fish and Game Commission will hold an emergency public meeting at 8 a.m. Thursday in Sacramento, to be live-streamed on Cal-Span.
“Delaying or closing the season is disappointing,” said Craig Shuman, marine regional manager of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, which sets the dates for the season. “But public health and safety is our top priority.”
On the mild side, toxic crabs can cause vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal cramps and headache, according to public health officials who say the symptoms can persist for days.
But severe poisoning can kill a victim, officials report. Short of that, the poisoning can also lead to permanent short-term memory loss, coma, seizures and other symptoms.
The 600-boat commercial crabbing season is scheduled to begin Nov. 15, and crabbers have been pouring into the Bay Area from Alaska, Oregon and Washington hoping to earn half their annual income. And Bay Area restaurants — and customers — expect crabbers to provide tons of crustaceans for the menus.
“It’s going to be devastating” for the crabbers whose livelihood depends on this crucial time of the year, said Mike Dvorak, captain of the High Seas, a vessel big enough to collect 20,000 pounds of varied seafood in a single haul. Crabbers gross about $60 million a year. Halting the crab season would have a lesser impact on boat owners, he said.
“Those who aren’t boat owners will say it’s a disaster,” he said. “They won’t know what to tell their families.”
Chefs like Gordon Drysdale at Scoma’s on San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf say they go through 40 to 60 Dungeness crabs a day. And during the holidays, they go through about 100 daily.
“It’s a big deal for us. We’re all kind of anxious,” Drysdale said. At the same time, restaurants can get high-quality crab from elsewhere, he said. “We’ve had to have crab on the menu every day for 50 years, so everyone’s pretty resourceful.”
Boat owners believe this summer’s warmer coastal water — 60-plus degrees on average, instead of the typical 54 degrees — is behind the toxic bloom.
Health officials say symptoms of poisoning can appear up to 24 hours after someone has eaten toxic seafood, though no illnesses have been reported.
Domoic acid is a naturally occurring toxin related to the rise of a tiny plant called pseudo-nitzschia. Officials say they aren’t sure why the plant has bloomed and tainted the crabs — and they don’t know when it will subside.
“The health advisory will be lifted once the levels are no longer above acceptable levels,” they said.
Nanette Asimov and Paolo Lucchesi are San Francisco Chronicle staff writers. E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Twitter: @NanetteAsimov, @lucchesi |||||
Student: | El Niño—already being blamed for bringing venomous snakes to the California coastline—could be at it again, as state health officials warned of poisonous crabs Tuesday, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The warning to avoid eating any crabs caught along the Northern California coast couldn't come at a worse time, as the recreational Dungeness crab season is scheduled to start Saturday, with the commercial season following a week later. According to CNN, the health department found Dungeness and rock crabs contaminated with high levels of domoic acid during routine testing. Mild symptoms of eating the tainted crabs include vomiting, diarrhea, and headaches, the Chronicle reports. The severe symptoms are permanent memory loss, seizures, and death. CNN reports cooking and cleaning tainted crabs won't make them safer to eat, and state officials will hold an emergency meeting Thursday to debate delaying the start of Dungeness crab season. “Delaying or closing the season is disappointing,” one official tells the Chronicle. “But public health and safety is our top priority.” Commercial crabbers from as far away as Alaska are already arriving in California for the season, which they count on for up to half of their annual income. "It’s going to be devastating," one crabber tells the Chronicle. Boat owners are blaming warm El Niño waters for the increase in domoic acid, and state officials have no idea when the toxic bloom will dissipate. |
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? Solve this instance: Michael Chang did this when he won the French Open in 1989 at the age of 17 .
Student: | Chang 's most significant youngest-ever record came in 1989 when he won the French Open at the age of , to become the youngest male player ever to win a Grand Slam title . |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Let me give you an 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.
The answer to this example can be: is confectionary sugar the same as powdered sugar?
Here is why: The question is a yes/no question, and it is answerable based on the given passage.
OK. solve this:
Although a machine endowed with superhuman strength and futuristic weaponry, he often displayed human characteristics, such as laughter, sadness, and mockery, as well as singing and playing the guitar. With his major role often being to protect the youngest member of the crew, the Robot's catchphrases were ``It does not compute'' and ``Danger, Will Robinson!'', accompanied by flailing his arms.
Answer: | does the robot from lost in space talk? |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Q: Where do Northwestern play?, Context: Northwestern fields 19 intercollegiate athletic teams (8 men's and 11 women's) in addition to numerous club sports. The women's lacrosse team won five consecutive NCAA national championships between 2005 and 2009, went undefeated in 2005 and 2009, added more NCAA championships in 2011 and 2012, giving them 7 NCAA championships in 8 years, and holds several scoring records. The men's basketball team is recognized by the Helms Athletic Foundation as the 1931 National Champion. In the 2010–11 school year, the Wildcats had one national championship, 12 teams in postseason play, 20 All-Americans, two CoSIDA Academic All-American selections, 8 CoSIDA Academic All0District selections, 1 conference Coach of the Year and Player of the Year, 53 All-Conference and a record 201 Academic All-Big Ten athletes. Overall, 12 of Northwestern's 19 varsity programs had NCAA or bowl postseason appearances.
A: NCAA
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Q: What does the S in "OAS" stand for?, Context: Further conventions were adopted at the regional level under the aegis of the Organization of American States (OAS or OEA), the African Union, and in 2003, at the universal level under that of the United Nations Convention against Corruption.
A: States
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Q: Humans are?, Context: Underlying the process is muscle movement throughout the system through swallowing and peristalsis. Each step in digestion requires energy, and thus imposes an "overhead charge" on the energy made available from absorbed substances. Differences in that overhead cost are important influences on lifestyle, behavior, and even physical structures. Examples may be seen in humans, who differ considerably from other hominids (lack of hair, smaller jaws and musculature, different dentition, length of intestines, cooking, etc.).
A: | hominids
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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.
[Q]: At the age of 11, Houston started performing as a soloist in the junior gospel choir at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, where she also learned to play the piano. Her first solo performance in the church was 'Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah'. When Houston was a teenager, she attended Mount Saint Dominic Academy, a Catholic girls' high school in Caldwell, New Jersey, where she met her best friend Robyn Crawford, whom she described as the 'sister she never had'. While Houston was still in school, her mother continued to teach her how to sing. Houston was also exposed to the music of Chaka Khan, Gladys Knight, and Roberta Flack, most of whom would have an influence on her as a singer and performer.
[A]: what inspired whitney houston to become a singer
[Q]: The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, was an agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first constitution. Its drafting by a committee appointed by the Second Continental Congress began on July 12, 1776, and an approved version was sent to the states for ratification on November 15, 1777. The Articles of Confederation came into force on March 1, 1781, after being ratified by all 13 states. A guiding principle of the Articles was to preserve the independence and sovereignty of the states. The federal government received only those powers which the colonies had recognized as belonging to king and parliament.
[A]: who had power under the articles of confederation
[Q]: Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) or small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are businesses whose personnel numbers fall below certain limits. The abbreviation 'SME' is used by international organizations such as the World Bank, the United Nations and the World Trade Organization (WTO).
[A]: | what is the definition of small and medium enterprises
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Determine if the sentence is true based on the text below:
Eggs can't be eaten in the morning.
How to eat a breakfast that is good for your brain<br>Make eggs for breakfast. By making eggs for breakfast, you can provide your brain with all kinds of benefits. Eggs are a great source of protein, as well as choline, a b vitamin found in eggs. | No |
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Q: The Denver Post is in open revolt against its owner.
Angry and frustrated journalists at the 125-year-old newspaper took the extraordinary step this weekend of publicly blasting its New York-based hedge-fund owner and making the case for its own survival in several articles that went online Friday and are scheduled to run in The Post’s Sunday opinion section.
“News matters,” the main headline reads. “Colo. should demand the newspaper it deserves.”
The bold tactic was born out of a dissatisfaction not uncommon in newsrooms across the country as newspapers grapple with the loss of revenue that has followed the decline of print.
The move at The Post followed a prolonged, slow-burning rebellion at The Los Angeles Times, where journalists agitated against the paper’s owner, the media company Tronc. Newsroom complaints about Tronc’s leadership helped lead to the sale of the newspaper to a billionaire medical entrepreneur, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, who had been a major shareholder in Tronc.
For many publications that do not attract a patron-like owner, however, the difficult times are likely to continue, and midsize newspapers have been hit especially hard. Hoping to avoid the slow trudge to irrelevance or bankruptcy, the Denver paper took the stuff of newsroom conversation and made it public in dramatic fashion. ||||| The photo on the left shows 142 members of The Denver Post’s newsroom staff in the newspaper’s lobby as it existed on May 15, 2013. The photo illustration on the right shows the toll that layoffs and constant turnover have taken on the staff in the five years since. On Monday, at least two dozen more journalists will be leaving The Post because of layoffs.
At The Denver Post on Monday, more than two dozen reporters, editors, photographers, videographers, page designers, digital producers and opinion staff will walk out the door. Our marching orders are to cut a full 30 by the start of July.
These heartbreaking instructions raise the question: Does this cut, which follows so many in recent years that our ranks have shriveled from more than 250 to fewer than 100 today, represent the beginning of the end for the Voice of the Rocky Mountain Empire?
The cuts, backed by our owner, the New York City hedge fund Alden Global Capital, also are a mystery, if you look at them from the point of view of those of us intent on running a serious news operation befitting the city that bears our name. Media experts locally and nationally question why our future looks so bleak, as many newspapers still enjoy double-digit profits and our management reported solid profits as recently as last year.
We call for action. Consider this editorial and this Sunday’s Perspective offerings a plea to Alden — owner of Digital First Media, one of the largest newspaper chains in the country — to rethink its business strategy across all its newspaper holdings. Consider this also a signal to our community and civic leaders that they ought to demand better. Denver deserves a newspaper owner who supports its newsroom. If Alden isn’t willing to do good journalism here, it should sell The Post to owners who will.
A flagship local newspaper like The Post plays a critically important role in its city and state: It provides a public record of the good and the bad, serves as a watchdog against public and private corruption, offers a free marketplace of ideas and stands as a lighthouse reflective and protective of — and accountable to — a community’s values and goals. A news organization like ours ought to be seen, especially by our owner, as a necessary public institution vital to the very maintenance of our grand democratic experiment.
Yes, for years now, large media chains have struggled to responsibly downsize newsrooms. But some have done so less responsibly than others.
Here in Colorado, Alden has embarked on a cynical strategy of constantly reducing the amount and quality of its offerings, while steadily increasing its subscription rates. In doing so, the hedge fund managers — often tellingly referred to as “vulture capitalists” — have hidden behind a narrative that adequately staffed newsrooms and newspapers can no longer survive in the digital marketplace. Try to square that with a recent lawsuit filed by one of Digital First Media’s minority shareholders that claims Alden has pumped hundreds of millions of dollars of its newspaper profits into shaky investments completely unrelated to the business of gathering news.
Coloradans feel the insanity of it in their bones. And what a sad history.
In 2009, the large chain that owned the Rocky Mountain News closed that storied paper’s doors. In 2010, Alden bought the chain of papers that features The Denver Post. The hedge fund gained a talented team of journalists reporting from all over the state, the nation and some of the biggest hotspots in the world, a winner of numerous Pulitzer Prizes, including newsroom-wide awards for its coverage of the massacres at Columbine and, more recently, a theater in Aurora.
Since Alden took control, the decline of local news has been as obvious as it’s been precipitous. The editor who oversaw coverage of the Aurora theater shooting, Gregory L. Moore, decamped in 2016, unable to endure the new fund’s directives any longer.
This year began with The Post recovering from more bloodshed as it packed up to leave its namesake city, its journalists clinging to the hope that a newly launched initiative to charge for online content would improve its fortunes. Before journalists were even in their new headquarters, our publisher and former editorial board member, Mac Tully, resigned.
Still more reductions came, and they did so as fast and as chilling as a high-desert storm.
The cuts come despite constant adaptation and innovation within our organization that grew our online reach exponentially.
This in a city that has seen more than 100,000 newcomers since Alden took control, and in a country where other cities Denver’s size and smaller enjoy larger newsrooms and papers. (The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s newsroom, for example, has upwards of 170 managers and staff.)
This in a state and region thrumming with energy and enthusiasm for its future.
This in a market filled with hyper-educated citizens ready and able to afford great journalism should it be offered them.
The inevitable result is that the reduction in quality leads to a reduction of trust. So when errant politicians and public figures push back against even the most credible of reports, they find a fertile environment for doubt.
Yes, other media chains and operations haven’t been spared the same market realities Alden faces. The transition from print to digital publication is a challenging one.
Another factor: Critics on both sides of America’s ever-widening political divide heap blame for the loss of readership on claims — too many of them credible — that newsrooms have lost sight of their responsibility to be truly objective. Such criticisms help fuel spectacularly successful social media companies, which also reap profits from links to traditional newsroom offerings.
Another regrettable result of the fracturing of newsrooms has been the rush by political interests to lavish investments in echo-chamber outlets that merely seek to report from biased perspectives, leaving the hollowed-out shells of newsrooms loyal to traditional journalistic values to find their voice in the maelstrom.
Still we take the moment to acknowledge fundamental truths. When newsroom owners view profits as the only goal, quality, reliability and accountability suffer. Their very mission is compromised. The course correction that needs to come for the benefit of communities across the land depends on owners committed to serving their readers and viewers and users.
We get it that things change. We get it that our feelings are raw and no doubt color our judgment. But we’ve been quiet too long.
We believe without question that if community leaders and our readers care about our mission, and what our newsroom ought to be instead of this shadow of what it once was, it’s time for their voices to be heard.
The smart money is that in a few years The Denver Post will be rotting bones. And a major city in an important political region will find itself without a newspaper.
It’s time for those Coloradans who care most about their civic future to get involved and see to it that Denver gets the newsroom it deserves.
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A: | "The smart money is that in a few years the Denver Post will be rotting bones." If you think the Post's newsroom staff was horrified to read such a prediction, you'd be wrong: Staffers wrote that line. It's found in a weekend editorial that calls for the 125-year-old paper to be saved amid what its journalists see as its long road to destruction, paved by the "vulture capitalist" owner it has had since 2010. That owner, New York City hedge fund Alden Global Capital (which owns Digital First Media, which owns the Post and others) has called for 30 positions to be eliminated by July, exacerbating its already "shriveled" ranks, which once numbered in excess of 250 and now is below the 100-mark. The Washington Post reports the order to further cut staff came in mid-March, though Digital First Media was said to have described itself as "solidly profitable" last year. The paper's editor-in-chief, Lee Ann Colacioppo, tells the Washington Post the explanation she was given for the cuts in the face of profitability is that the paper wasn't on budget. "We get it that things change," reads the editorial. "We get it that our feelings are raw and no doubt color our judgment. But we've been quiet too long. ... If Alden isn’t willing to do good journalism here, it should sell the Post to owners who will." The editorial was accompanied by a slate of columns, with the whole package conceived by editorial page editor Chuck Plunkett, who tells the New York Times he informed neither Digital First Media execs nor Colacioppo of the articles, which were posted online Friday and then ran in Sunday's edition. |
Detailed Instructions: You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Problem:The United States two-dollar bill ($2) is a current denomination of U.S. currency. The third U.S. President (1801--09), Thomas Jefferson, is featured on the obverse of the note. The reverse features an engraving of the painting The Declaration of Independence by John Trumbull. Throughout the $2 bill's pre-1929 life as a large-sized note, it was issued as a United States Note, National Bank Note, silver certificate, Treasury or ``Coin'' Note and Federal Reserve Bank Note. When U.S. currency was changed to its current size, the $2 bill was issued only as a United States Note. Production went on until 1966, when the series was discontinued. Ten years passed before the $2 bill was reissued as a Federal Reserve Note with a new reverse design. Two-dollar bills are seldom seen in circulation as a result of banking policies with businesses which has resulted in low production numbers due to lack of demand. This comparative scarcity in circulation, coupled with a lack of public knowledge that the bill is still in production and circulation, has also inspired urban legends about its authenticity and value and has occasionally created problems for those trying to use the bill to make purchases.
Solution: | is the 2 dollar bill still in circulation? |
Read the text and determine if the sentence is true:
To break the grinding cycle of debt and poverty, Yunus loaned $27 to Begum and more than 40 of her neighbours in the village of Joba. He allowed them to pay him back over the next year as their businesses started to produce stable profits.
Sentence: Yunus loaned $1 to Begum and more than 40 of her neighbours in the village of Joba. | No |
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to choose a network marketing company
Understand how these companies are marketed.
Most network marketing companies have a video presentation either online or on dvd which is shared person to person. These videos are created by professional marketing companies and include a lot of hype and excitement.
OPTIONS:
- Many may make you feel that if you don't join " now " you will be missing out on a lot of money. Don't let the hype tempt you into joining a company that may not be right for you.
- You might have a presentation hosted by a company which has extensive marketing coverage for the industrial space and this would serve to personalize the marketing. Audiences tend to find presentations on video much more interesting than an online presentation.
- This is why many network marketing companies have developed their websites even though they are already familiar with the program. Consider this : Professional marketing companies host the executive screening and been profitable for years on fitness leagues for a top time presenter like incandescent senaset.
- Youtube has a montage of their marketing strategies and can be helpful if you need a party room for brainstorming. They tell you how they are met with customers and then provide their favorite product or service.
A: Many may make you feel that if you don't join " now " you will be missing out on a lot of money. Don't let the hype tempt you into joining a company that may not be right for you.
IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to saute mushrooms
Clean your mushrooms.
Before sautéing your mushroom, clean them thoroughly. This will remove any potential contaminants.
OPTIONS:
- Sweep the mushrooms vigorously under cool running water, and shake well to remove excess water. Mushrooms are generally dry when sautéing.
- Mushrooms should be cleaned one at a time. Wipe each mushroom with a damp paper towel.
- You can do this using a spoon in order to avoid bacteria. You can use any type of soft cheese, such as sautéed corn, chicken or cheddar.
- Also wash your hands so that you don't accidentally ingest any spices that might affect the flavor or texture of the mushrooms. Place your mushrooms in the oven and let them cook until they turn pink.
OUT: Mushrooms should be cleaned one at a time. Wipe each mushroom with a damp paper towel.
Question:
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence for the following:
How to make a player fall in love
Be on guard.
If you've fallen for a player it's likely that he's already talked to you and made you feel special. That's what players do, and chances are you are not the only girl he's talking to.
OPTIONS:
- Try to mimic some of his behavior: don't react in a mean way, but pretend to like him, rather than trying to seduce him. Try to make sure the player is really hurting, as men usually don't like girls who show up just to get the ball back.
- You'll want to be prepared, stay ready, and be prepared to dive in headfirst once you're in his place. Look for signs that the two of you have chemistry.
- A player will try to impress you with his outward appearance, his ego, and his money. Take some time to try and get to know him on a more personal level.
- He may be looking for more than just a relationship, or want even more than a friendship. Make sure that you pay attention to a player and see what his habits are.
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Answer:
A player will try to impress you with his outward appearance, his ego, and his money. Take some time to try and get to know him on a more personal level.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
A young girl is seen speaking to the camera and looking off into the distance. she
OPTIONS:
- swings a bat around her neck continuously while kicking away at a pinata and following a person.
- continues speaking and leads into a woman cutting her hair.
- walks around the track a bit and begins doing tricks while swinging her stick around.
- then begins twirling an object around on her body.
A: continues speaking and leads into a woman cutting her hair.
How to get your significant other to treat you right
Prioritize respect.
There's a saying that " love is all you need ", but along with that, everyone needs respect. If there's no respect, is there love? Often, respect is a two-way street; if it's not given, it's not received.
OPTIONS:
- Be sure to treat your partner with respect just as much as you want him or her to respect you. Most importantly, have respect for yourself.
- You need to show your partner who you are, whoever you are, and who they really are. Respect means being respectful, loving, and accepting of people.
- Respect can be different on your part depending on how the two people treat each other, but you need to think about both sides of the coin and find what it is that people truly value to you. Respect doesn't necessarily mean love.
- This verse says, " i love all things i do and everything i care about. " every effort, whether good or bad, should be rewarded without exoneration.
Be sure to treat your partner with respect just as much as you want him or her to respect you. Most importantly, have respect for yourself.
Problem: Write the next sentence for:
How to freeze shrimp
Pick the shrimp meat from the shells.
Cooked shrimp keeps best if it's been shelled before freezing. Pull off the shells and tails with your hands and snap off the head, if you didn't remove it while cooking.
OPTIONS:
- Avoid leaving cooked shrimp out on the counter for more than 2 hours. If you don't have time to shell all the shrimp at once, put them in the fridge between breaks.
- These shrimp try to hide their food and can end up spoiling during the freezing process. The shrimp will cook quickly and will be cast dry for the meat next time you cook it.
- To start, you have to peel and cut the meat into bites, then place it into a freezer bag, seal it, and snap off the bottom portion to save room for piping shrimp. Usually, you'll need to take your shrimp to the store, especially if they've cracked open.
- Shrimp arms are the sides of the shrimp, leading in the direction of the head. This teaches you how to become less squeamish when handling shrimp..
Next sentence: | Avoid leaving cooked shrimp out on the counter for more than 2 hours. If you don't have time to shell all the shrimp at once, put them in the fridge between breaks. |
Problem: Write the next sentence for:
How to get immunized before traveling to thailand
Call your primary doctor.
Make an appointment with your primary doctor. Let them know about your travel plans to thailand.
OPTIONS:
- They may suggest doing some research or consulting among other travelers to ensure that you are safe traveling. They may also discuss your current travel regimen so that they can help explain your objectives.
- Let them know about what you plan to do during the trip to thailand. Go up to their office in the airport or go see a walk-in clinic.
- The doctor can help you figure out if you have a condition that will cause you to get immunized. Keep your dmv id and passport secure.
- Your primary care doctor may be able to provide the vaccinations you need, but if not, then he/she can refer you to a travel clinic. If you do not have a primary doctor, local health departments also sometimes provide travel vaccinations, or they can recommend a clinic to you..
Next sentence: Your primary care doctor may be able to provide the vaccinations you need, but if not, then he/she can refer you to a travel clinic. If you do not have a primary doctor, local health departments also sometimes provide travel vaccinations, or they can recommend a clinic to you.
context: How to stop sweating in your sleep
Check the temperature of your bedroom.
One of the most common causes of sweating in your sleep is a room that is too hot or bedding that is too warm. Try lowering the temperature in your room, using a fan, or using less bedding.
OPTIONS:
- If your night sweating is more than occasional and is not relieved by adjusting the temperature in your room or the bedding you use, you might have night sweats. If this is the case, you will need to look into medical treatment.
- Subtract the temperature to the nearest " cool temperature. " Be sure to quickly turn off your thermostat in your bedroom.
- A room thermometer can help you keep track of how hot your room is. When you check it, change your bedding as well.
- Putting down your window shades or curtains to block out light is a smart, effective way to do this. You can also consider using something light-blocking, such as a tube lamp, to block sunlight in your room.
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next sentence for the context: If your night sweating is more than occasional and is not relieved by adjusting the temperature in your room or the bedding you use, you might have night sweats. If this is the case, you will need to look into medical treatment.
IN: What happens next?
How to be a supportive girlfriend
Recognize when something is bothering them.
You need to pay attention not only to their words but also to their attitude and body language. Be aware when something seems to be bothering them.
OPTIONS:
- Try to avoid taking it personally when they are in a bad mood; chances are, it has nothing to do with you. Therefore, you should avoid making the situation worse by being rude or angry in return.
- When the two of you are in public, give them space and look for signs that it is bothering them. If they are arguing about something, try to find a way to defuse the situation.
- One good way to recognize when something is bothering someone is to pay attention to them. Are they trying to tell you something is wrong? Refrain from critiquing their body language.
- Recognize when they make fun of you, argue with you, try to guilt trip you into doing things that you would never do, push you away, or call you names. And, if something is bothering them, you have to address it.
OUT: Try to avoid taking it personally when they are in a bad mood; chances are, it has nothing to do with you. Therefore, you should avoid making the situation worse by being rude or angry in return.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to obtain a property easement
Survey your land.
Before negotiating for an easement, you should check whether or not you actually own the land you want to use. For example, you might be storing equipment near the boundary line of your property.
OPTIONS:
- If so, you might want to make sure that you know how much land you are storing and how much to use it for. Ask neighbors and potential tenants whether they own similar land to yours.
- Surveys can be found online and on internet directories or in publications by farmers in your area. They can also be identified in the county courthouse where the deed is located.
- Next, you might want to determine if you can find your property through surveys. Survey your land if you own it as a sole proprietorship.
- You should double check to see if the land you are using is actually part of your parcel. You can look for a survey that has already been performed.
A: You should double check to see if the land you are using is actually part of your parcel. You can look for a survey that has already been performed.
IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
He throws darts at a board, trying to hit the target while the crowd claps. Another competitor appears, doing the same. the winner
OPTIONS:
- walks onto the stage as camera flash, celebrating.
- takes a bow, presenting medals for having won.
- walks off the board and everyone celebrates.
- 's name is belenais grey and he is showcased demonstrating how to shoot dart traps.
OUT: walks onto the stage as camera flash, celebrating.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to be more aware of your health
Recognize any existing problem.
Whatever health issues you might currently have, it's important to acknowledge them. This might include that you're overweight, your head hurts, you have stomachache, your back hurts all the time, and so forth.
OPTIONS:
- If you don't recognize those feelings, at least give yourself a break and think about treating this particular issue. Realize that there is nothing much you can do about your health, and you are more likely to get in trouble if you fail to control these problems.
- Acknowledgement of what needs attending to is an important start. Don't neglect mental health--it's as vital as bodily health and the two are intricately connected.
- Regardless of their weight, you can recognize these issues. Mental health diagnosis can help you find a treatment that matches your current health.
- This will help you get over any long-term problems you may have. Think about whether you regularly experience any current health problems.
A: | Acknowledgement of what needs attending to is an important start. Don't neglect mental health--it's as vital as bodily health and the two are intricately connected. |
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: 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.
Example output: is confectionary sugar the same as powdered sugar?
Example explanation: The question is a yes/no question, and it is answerable based on the given passage.
Q: According to the theory of relativity, no information can travel faster than the speed of light in vacuum, but this does not mean that the refractive index cannot be lower than 1. The refractive index measures the phase velocity of light, which does not carry information. The phase velocity is the speed at which the crests of the wave move and can be faster than the speed of light in vacuum, and thereby give a refractive index below 1. This can occur close to resonance frequencies, for absorbing media, in plasmas, and for X-rays. In the X-ray regime the refractive indices are lower than but very close to 1 (exceptions close to some resonance frequencies). As an example, water has a refractive index of 6999999999740000000♠0.99999974 = 1 − 6993260000000000000♠2.6×10 for X-ray radiation at a photon energy of 6985480652946099999♠30 keV (0.04 nm wavelength).
A: | can a refractive index be less than 1? |
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