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Read the text and determine if the sentence is true (see options at the end):
Par 4<br>On the 18th hole, the pro golfer stood at the tee. He swung hard, but his ball landed in the bunker. With the next swing, he recovered and put the ball on the green. He took a deep breath as he lined up his shot. He hit the ball and watched as it is went straight into the hole.
Sentence: He never played golf.
OPT:
(A). Yes.
(B). It's impossible to say.
(C). No. | (C). |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
The organic matter feeds themselves and their hosts, while worms what?, Context: The gut is generally an almost straight tube supported by the mesenteries (vertical partitions within segments), and ends with the anus on the underside of the pygidium. However, in members of the tube-dwelling family Siboglinidae the gut is blocked by a swollen lining that houses symbiotic bacteria, which can make up 15% of the worms' total weight. The bacteria convert inorganic matter – such as hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide from hydrothermal vents, or methane from seeps – to organic matter that feeds themselves and their hosts, while the worms extend their palps into the gas flows to absorb the gases needed by the bacteria. | extend their palps into the gas flows to absorb the gases needed by the bacteria |
TASK DEFINITION: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
PROBLEM: " Sho ̄ kaku " had a damaged flight deck which required three months of repair in Japan .
SOLUTION: " 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 .
PROBLEM: Russian human rights activist and dissident Lyudmila Alexeyeva explained glasnost as a word that " had been in the Russian language for centuries .
SOLUTION: " For centuries " , human rights activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva has explained , the word " glasnost " has been in the Russian language : " It was in the dictionaries and lawbooks as long as there had been dictionaries and lawbooks .
PROBLEM: " Edmontosaurus " was named from a fossil found in the Horseshoe Canyon Formation , in Alberta , Canada .
SOLUTION: | The first fossils named " Edmontosaurus " were discovered in southern Alberta ( named after Edmonton , the capital city ) , in the Horseshoe Canyon Formation ( formerly called the lower Edmonton Formation ) .
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Problem: How to teach freestyle to children
Practice proper breathing outside of the pool.
Have kids learn the proper way to breathe when freestyle swimming through repetition. Before getting in the pool for a lesson, have them practice breathing in through their mouth, then breathing out through their nose.
Answer: Repeat this exercise until the children get used to the pattern. Demonstrate proper swim strokes outside of the pool.
Problem: A rope is strung between two trees. A man walks on the rope. he
Answer: falls several times off the rope.
Problem: A little girl is standing in front of a kitchen island. She is holding a lemon half in her hand. she
| Answer: tries to grind the lemon on a juicer. |
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 Strangers: Prey at Night is a 2018 American slasher film directed by Johannes Roberts and starring Christina Hendricks, Martin Henderson, Bailee Madison and Lewis Pullman. A sequel to the 2008 film The Strangers, it is written by Bryan Bertino (who wrote and directed the first film) and Ben Ketai. Mike and his wife Cindy take their son and daughter on a road trip that becomes their worst nightmare. The family members soon find themselves in a desperate fight for survival when they arrive at a secluded mobile home park that's mysteriously deserted -- until three masked psychopaths show up to satisfy their thirst for blood.
Answer: | is the strangers prey at night a sequel? |
Instructions: In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Input: When 74-year-old Penny Sweat was evicted from the HUD-subsidized Glendale Senior Housing in Salt Lake City last month, she moved to a nonsubsidized apartment at five times her previous rent because she was unaware of her rights. It turns out the manager of the seniors complex, its attorneys and government overseers were unaware, too. Lee Kemp, a hearing-impaired World War II disabled vet, also was evicted, but he contacted Utah Legal Services and was told to stay put. Attorney Marty Blaustein then notified Utah Nonprofit Housing Corp., the building's owner, that Kemp's eviction was not legal and that he had a right to a hearing. That didn't stop Utah Nonprofit Housing's attorneys from then sending Kemp a summons to show cause why he had not moved out. Meanwhile, Sweat's granddaughter called Salt Lake City housing officials, federal housing officials, state officials and several agents of Utah Nonprofit Housing to find out about her grandmother's rights. Nobody knew. Blaustein then took Sweat's case along with Kemp's and demanded her ousting be rectified. Utah Nonprofit Housing President Marion Willey returned from an out-of-town trip and learned HUD procedures were not followed. The eviction was activated because of ongoing personality conflicts among seniors in the complex, he said, and the new building manager decided the problems were with Sweat and Kemp. Several tenants blame other neighbors as perpetrators of the rift, however. Willey said when his building manager called attorneys retained by the company, they erroneously told her she could go ahead and kick out the tenants. When she called HUD to make sure, the inquiry got bogged down in bureaucracy and nobody called her back. Willey says he has offered Sweat and Kemp apartments in another complex operated by his company at their old rates. He also is retaining new attorneys. <sep>Who called HUD to make sure she was allowed to kick out the tenants?<sep>Marty
Output: | No |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Q: what is the last athletic organization mentioned?, Context: After the World Cup, the most important international football competitions are the continental championships, which are organised by each continental confederation and contested between national teams. These are the European Championship (UEFA), the Copa América (CONMEBOL), African Cup of Nations (CAF), the Asian Cup (AFC), the CONCACAF Gold Cup (CONCACAF) and the OFC Nations Cup (OFC). The FIFA Confederations Cup is contested by the winners of all six continental championships, the current FIFA World Cup champions and the country which is hosting the Confederations Cup. This is generally regarded as a warm-up tournament for the upcoming FIFA World Cup and does not carry the same prestige as the World Cup itself. The most prestigious competitions in club football are the respective continental championships, which are generally contested between national champions, for example the UEFA Champions League in Europe and the Copa Libertadores in South America. The winners of each continental competition contest the FIFA Club World Cup.
A: | FIFA |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Q: What term are people in Ireland not using when they talk about a time in their life?, Context: Colloquially, the term university may be used to describe a phase in one's life: "When I was at university..." (in the United States and Ireland, college is often used instead: "When I was in college..."). In Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Nigeria, the Netherlands, Spain and the German-speaking countries university is often contracted to uni. In Ghana, New Zealand and in South Africa it is sometimes called "varsity" (although this has become uncommon in New Zealand in recent years). "Varsity" was also common usage in the UK in the 19th century.[citation needed] "Varsity" is still in common usage in Scotland.
A: university
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Q: Einstein created a way of thinking called a?, Context: It was only the orbit of the planet Mercury that Newton's Law of Gravitation seemed not to fully explain. Some astrophysicists predicted the existence of another planet (Vulcan) that would explain the discrepancies; however, despite some early indications, no such planet could be found. When Albert Einstein formulated his theory of general relativity (GR) he turned his attention to the problem of Mercury's orbit and found that his theory added a correction, which could account for the discrepancy. This was the first time that Newton's Theory of Gravity had been shown to be less correct than an alternative.
A: theory
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Q: What differentiates the stations in Puntland from Somaliland?, Context: The northeastern Puntland region has around six private radio stations, including Radio Garowe, Radio Daljir, Radio Codka-Nabbada and Radio Codka-Mudug. Radio Gaalkacyo, formerly known as Radio Free Somalia, operates from Galkayo in the north-central Mudug province. Additionally, the Somaliland region in the northwest has one government-operated radio station.
A: | private radio stations
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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.
Ex Input:
Jetstar Pacific Airlines is a low-cost airline of Vietnam .
Ex Output:
Jetstar Pacific Airlines Joint Stock Aviation Company ( operating as Jetstar Pacific ) is a low-cost airline headquartered in Tan Binh District , Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam .
Ex Input:
The UEFA Euro 1996 was the 10th UEFA European Football Championship tournament .
Ex Output:
The 1996 UEFA European Football Championship , commonly referred to as Euro 96 , was the 10th UEFA European Championship , a quadrennial football tournament contested by European nations and organised by UEFA .
Ex Input:
Meix-devant-Virton is a municipality in the Belgian province of Luxembourg .
Ex Output:
| Meix-devant-Virton ( in gaumais " Minch-duvant-Ve ̀ rtan " , in walloon " Me ́ ch-divant-Vierton " ) is a municipality of Gaume located in the Belgian province of Luxembourg .
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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.
question:
Spiritualism is a belief that humans can communicate with the spirits of the dead .
answer:
Spiritualism is a religious movement based on the belief that the spirits of the dead exist and have both the ability and the inclination to communicate with the living .
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Bradford is a major city in West Yorkshire , England .
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The City of Bradford is a local government district of West Yorkshire , England , with the status of a city and metropolitan borough .
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Most articles in the journal have an " eLife digest " .
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| Most research articles published in the journal include an " eLife digest " , a non-technical summary of the research findings aimed at a lay audience .
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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.
Example Input: How did the guns function?, Context: After the Dambusters raid in 1943 an entirely new system was developed that was required to knock down any low-flying aircraft with a single hit. The first attempt to produce such a system used a 50 mm gun, but this proved inaccurate and a new 55 mm gun replaced it. The system used a centralised control system including both search and targeting radar, which calculated the aim point for the guns after considering windage and ballistics, and then sent electrical commands to the guns, which used hydraulics to point themselves at high speeds. Operators simply fed the guns and selected the targets. This system, modern even by today's standards, was in late development when the war ended.
Example Output: a centralised control system
Example Input: What 365 day period showed species of plants?, Context: As the terrain is generally arid, the hills have mostly poor soil and support only cacti and succulent plants. During the rainy season the area turns green with vegetation and grass. The eastern part of the island is greener as it receives more rainfall. A 1994 survey has revealed several hundred indigenous species of plants including the naturalized varieties of flora; some growing in irrigated areas while the dry areas are dominated by the cacti variety. Sea grapes and palm trees are a common sight with mangroves and shrubs surviving in the saline coastal swamps. Coconut palm was brought to the island from the Pacific islands. Important plants noted on the island are:
Example Output: 1994
Example Input: Which acronym is the shortest among ANSI, IESNA and ASHRAE?, Context: The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA), in conjunction with organizations like ANSI and ASHRAE, publishes guidelines, standards, and handbooks that allow categorization of the illumination needs of different built environments. Manufacturers of lighting equipment publish photometric data for their products, which defines the distribution of light released by a specific luminaire. This data is typically expressed in standardized form defined by the IESNA.
Example Output: | ANSI
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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.
Let me give you an example: The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
The answer to this example can be: The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini.
Here is why: The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
OK. solve this:
Since 1972 , the Supreme Court has tried to make capital punishment in the United States fairer and more consistent .
Answer: | In a series of decisions since 1972 , the United States Supreme Court has attempted to make the sentence of death in the United States less arbitrary by emphasizing that the judge or jury must be given the opportunity to consider all mitigating evidence before determining the sentence . |
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, 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".
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: No
Why? Based on the passage Timothy plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. So, the given answer is incorrect and the output should be "No".
New input: Our sun and other stars release light energy. At least this is what we see. Our Sun and stars also emit more than just light. Scientists call the type of energy that our Sun and stars release electromagnetic energy. This form of energy travels through space. Electromagnetic energy includes the light we see. It also includes much more. Many of these things we know about, but dont always think about. Electromagnetic energy includes radio waves, microwaves, and X rays. We now have devices in our homes and offices that release these same forms of energy. We use electromagnetic energy to make our lives better. <sep>Where do radiowaves, come from?<sep>The sun and other stars
Solution: | Yes |
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 has the Bamar culture been influenced by close countries other than dance, cuisine, music, and theatre?, Context: A diverse range of indigenous cultures exist in Myanmar, the majority culture is primarily Buddhist and Bamar. Bamar culture has been influenced by the cultures of neighbouring countries. This is manifested in its language, cuisine, music, dance and theatre. The arts, particularly literature, have historically been influenced by the local form of Theravada Buddhism. Considered the national epic of Myanmar, the Yama Zatdaw, an adaptation of India's Ramayana, has been influenced greatly by Thai, Mon, and Indian versions of the play. Buddhism is practised along with nat worship, which involves elaborate rituals to propitiate one from a pantheon of 37 nats.
A: | language |
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 was the benefit of determination for the Americans?, Context: With the Japanese CAP out of position and the carriers at their most vulnerable, SBD Dauntlesses from Enterprise and Yorktown appeared at an altitude of 10,000 feet (3,000 m) and commenced their attack, quickly dealing fatal blows to three fleet carriers: Sōryū, Kaga, and Akagi. Within minutes, all three were ablaze and had to be abandoned with great loss of life. Hiryū managed to survive the wave of dive bombers and launched a counter-attack against the American carriers which caused severe damage to Yorktown (which was later finished off by a Japanese submarine). However, a second attack from the U.S. carriers a few hours later found and destroyed Hiryū, the last remaining fleet carrier available to Nagumo. With his carriers lost and the Americans withdrawn out of range of his powerful battleships, Yamamoto was forced to call off the operation, leaving Midway in American hands. The battle proved to be a decisive victory for the Allies. For the second time, Japanese expansion had been checked and its formidable Combined Fleet was significantly weakened by the loss of four fleet carriers and many highly trained, virtually irreplaceable, personnel. Japan would be largely on the defensive for the rest of the war.
Output: | a second attack from the U.S. carriers a few hours later found and destroyed Hiryū, the last remaining fleet carrier available to Nagumo |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A court fight over retail operations at one of the nation's busiest airports led to a charges Friday that passengers are being gouged on bottled water prices.
Legal papers filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court by boutique retailer Kitson Stores said Hudson Group, which operates many shops at Los Angeles International Airport, is exploiting travelers with "hugely" inflated water prices.
The two sides have been exchanging accusations over business operations and licensing arrangements at the airport, which attracts 70 million travelers annually.
Kitson says New Jersey-based Hudson refused to sell bottled water at the airport's two Kitson shops it operates at $2.55 for a liter. Instead, Hudson charges consumers about $5 a bottle at the stores, the court filing said.
Kitson argues that Hudson is trying to force its stores out of the airport because of the friction over water prices.
"Water is one of the most basic necessities for travelers and Hudson is taking advantage of the post- 9-11 airport restrictions" by inflating water prices, Kitson attorney Steven Bledsoe said in a telephone interview. "We believe that Hudson has breached its contracts with Kitson and has no right to close the Kitson stores."
Hudson attorney Brian Timmons called the Kitson claim a publicity stunt intended to divert attention from its failure to meet contractual obligations.
In a statement, he said Hudson is moving forward with plans to terminate the relationship. Last month, Hudson filed a complaint in Superior Court against the boutique company for breach of contract.
"Kitson is known for selling pricey items in its high end boutiques," Timmons said. "Anyone who thinks that Kitson is really motivated here by an altruistic concern over how much consumers are paying for water at LAX has either never shopped at a Kitson store or is really naive." ||||| These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites. ||||| Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) has become the center in a battle between two retailers over a scarce California commodity: water.
It's the bottled variety that has touched off a legal war between Kitson Stores, an LA-based retailer of trendy high-end fashion, and the Hudson Group, which owns and operates several stores at airports around the country.
More than a year ago, Kitson licensed its name to two Hudson stores inside LAX. Under the agreement, Kitson provides Hudson with the items it wants sold, and Hudson in return gives Kitson six percent of gross sales.
Enter the bottled beverage at the heart of the dispute. Recently, Kitson sent Hudson liter bottles of Smartwater it was already selling at its own stores around Los Angeles for $2.55, but wanted Hudson to sell them inside the airport for the same price.
Hudson, however, refused to accept the shipment.
Inside LAX, a bottle of Smartwater sells for $4.68—a whopping 200 percent mark-up from its retail price outside the terminal (at one Ralph's store, a Smartwater liter sells for a mere $1.49).
With that price tag, getting a drink almost requires taking out a second mortgage. Kitson agrees, and it's one of the reasons the company is suing Hudson for breach of contract.
"Hudson Group is price gouging customers here at LAX as well as all across the nation," said Kitson spokesman Brad Chase. "They make millions and millions of dollars off the backs of air travelers. To lower the price to a fair rate of $2.55 will hit them hard on their bottom line."
Hudson, however, sees it differently.
"They're desperate," said Hudson Group attorney Brian Timmons. He said the water lawsuit is a PR splash which dilutes the real issue: The Kitson-Hudson marriage has been a bad relationship from the beginning.
A deal sours
Last month, Hudson filed suit to end its agreement with Kitson early, claiming breach of contract.
Among other issues, Hudson alleges Kitson founder Fraser Ross violated the terms of their contract by personally appearing at the LAX shops and berating employees. Hudson is seeking over $1 million in penalties and damages, and wants to remove Kitson by the end of March.
Timmons said Kitson didn't even start selling water until after it was threatened with eviction, and did so with the sole purpose of putting pressure on Hudson—something Kitson denies.
"Hudson Group is retaliating against Kitson using petty smears against the founder, specifically because they know that they've been caught price gouging," said Chase, the Kitson spokesman.
According to airport authority rules, a product sold inside terminals cannot be priced more than 18 percent above its "street value," or what it would sell for at the same store outside the airport.
Timmons points out that his client has no outside-the-airport stores to provide a comparison, and said Hudson's prices are similar to other vendors inside LAX. For the sake of comparison, CNBC verified that liter bottles of water selling at Starbucks inside the airport went for $4.95, priced above what Hudson charged for Smartwater.
Price or product?
So why not sell water at Kitson-branded stores? "It's not about the price, it's about the product," said Timmons. He said water is sold in plenty of stores already. "Hudson entered into the brand partnership with Kitson to sell the iconic novelty items at LAX for which Kitson has become known—not to sell water."
When asked by CNBC if perhaps Hudson doesn't want to sell discounted water at Kitson and undercut profits at its other stores, Timmons replied: "Kitson is not after bargain-minded shoppers. And people don't go to Kitson to buy water. So anyone who thinks Kitson is really motivated here by an altruistic concern over how much travelers at LAX are paying for water has either never shopped at Kitson, or is really naïve."
Hudson has claimed both sides have agreed that Kitson will vacate on March 31st, but Kitson's Brad Chase says not quite. "Kitson has no intention of leaving LAX," he said.
The retailer could try to operate its own stores outright at the airport, but that requires an application process with the airport authority to meet the necessary requirements to operate in a high-security environment.
"Fundamentally the way it works at the airport is with a contract," said Chase. "We're being held captive." |||||
Output: | Consumers fed up with the eye-watering price of bottled water in airports have an unlikely champion: Kitson Stores, an LA-based boutique retailer where T-shirts can cost $300. Kitson is in a contract dispute with Hudson Group—which operates dozens of stores at Los Angeles International Airport and hundreds more at airports across the country—and is suing Hudson for "gouging" passengers with bottled water that costs nearly $5, NBC News reports. A Kitson lawyer tells the AP that Hudson, which operates two stores at LAX for Kitson, "is taking advantage of the post-9/11 airport restrictions" and refused to sell liter bottles of water for $2.55 at the Kitson stores it operates because it was making too much money selling water at higher prices elsewhere. According to airport authority rules, products sold in LAX terminals cannot be priced more than 18% above their "street value," NBC notes. With $5 water, "I don't know what street that is, but that's not my street," a Kitson spokeswoman tells Forbes. Hudson, which accuses Kitson of angling to get its own airport retail space, counters that Kitson only started trying to sell water after it was accused of breach of contract when its founder turned up at the airport stores to berate employees. Anyone who thinks that the company is motivated "by an altruistic concern over how much consumers are paying for water at LAX has either never shopped at a Kitson store or is really naive," a Hudson lawyer tells the AP. (A military contractor pleaded guilty last year to massively inflating prices of items, including water.) |
How to buy essential oils<br>Think about why you want to use an essential oil. Different oils suit different needs so it's important to know what you wish to achieve by using essential oil. For example, lavender can be used in a diffuser to relax and reduce anxiety and sage essential oil can be used as an antiseptic in wounds or as an anti-inflammatory.
Can we infer the following?
Buying essential oils is expensive. | It's impossible to say |
Available choices: --Dab the spot with a cloth or paper towel to help speed up the process. If there is any sticky residue, it will solidify over time and will not help with picking the ink out of the fabric. --Apply a pre-wash treatment solution. There are a wide variety of pre-wash treatments available in the cleaning aisle of the grocery store, where you purchase laundry detergent and dryer sheets. --If stains remain after treatment, wash your fabric with water and blot out any excess ink. Keep over-the-counter stain removers on hand even if you only were able to get it out with a professional stain remover. --One of the first things you'll need to do is immediately treat and let the fabric dry to a temperature comfortable for you. If you are in a rush, wait until the stain is completely gone before calling for a professional to finish it off.Choose from options above and answer: What most naturally follows?
How to remove pen marks
Treat the stain as quickly as possible.
The longer you let the ink sit in the fabric, the harder it will be to remove, so take action as soon as you notice the stain. Ideally, the ink will still be wet when you treat the fabric.
Answer: | Apply a pre-wash treatment solution. There are a wide variety of pre-wash treatments available in the cleaning aisle of the grocery store, where you purchase laundry detergent and dryer sheets. |
Given the task definition, example input & output, solve the new input case.
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Example: The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
Output: The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini.
The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
New input case for you: When Nakamura won the 2014 New Japan Cup , Tanahashi had a second rematch against Nakamura at Invasion Attack 2014 on April 6 .
Output: | After Nakamura had won the 2014 New Japan Cup , another title match was booked between him and Tanahashi for the April 6 Invasion Attack 2014 event , where Tanahashi was defeated in his second title defense . |
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
Loudly<br>She opened the back door and propped it. The dog didn't notice. A loud noise got her attention. It was a bird in the backyard. She ran outside to check it out.
Hypothesis: The dog wasn't aware of the propped back door.
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Answer:
Yes
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
Towards Pollution Prevention'', the Standing Committee on the Environment and Sustainable Development recommended that the federal government take action under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act to regulate lead sinkers and jigs by prohibiting the import, sale, manufacture and use of lead sinkers and jigs by May 31, 1997.
Hypothesis: they prohibited the import of sinkers
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Answer:
Yes
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
There are difficulties about that . ''<br>But difficulties only sharpened the ingenuity of this admirable king .<br>`` The other fellow had a Flying Horse , '' said he .<br>By `` the other fellow '' King Prigio meant an Italian knight , Astolfo , who , in old times , visited the moon , and there found and brought back the common sense of his friend , Orlando , as you may read in the poem of Ariosto .<br>`` Now , '' reasoned King Prigio , `` if there is a Flying Horse at all , he is in the stables of the King of Delhi .<br>I must look into this . ''
Hypothesis: Astolfo did not visit the moon
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Answer:
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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:Who is causing MP3 use to grow?, Context: A test given to new students by Stanford University Music Professor Jonathan Berger showed that student preference for MP3-quality music has risen each year. Berger said the students seem to prefer the 'sizzle' sounds that MP3s bring to music.
Solution: | students |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Let me give you an example: what is the first event mentioned?, Context: The Russian Revolution is the series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union. Following the abdication of Nicholas II of Russia, the Russian Provisional Government was established. In October 1917, a red faction revolution occurred in which the Red Guard, armed groups of workers and deserting soldiers directed by the Bolshevik Party, seized control of Saint Petersburg (then known as Petrograd) and began an immediate armed takeover of cities and villages throughout the former Russian Empire.
The answer to this example can be: Russian Revolution
Here is why: This is a good example, and the Russian Revolution is the first event mentioned.
OK. solve this:
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.
Answer: | inadequate |
Part 1. Definition
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Part 2. 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.
Answer: is confectionary sugar the same as powdered sugar?
Explanation: The question is a yes/no question, and it is answerable based on the given passage.
Part 3. Exercise
Baby back ribs (also back ribs or loin ribs) are taken from the top of the rib cage between the spine and the spare ribs, below the loin muscle. They have meat between the bones and on top of the bones, and are shorter, curved, and sometimes meatier than spare ribs. The rack is shorter at one end, due to the natural tapering of a pig's rib cage. The shortest bones are typically only about 3 in (7.6 cm) and the longest is usually about 6 in (15 cm), depending on the size of the hog. A pig side has 15 to 16 ribs (depending on the breed), but usually two or three are left on the shoulder when it is separated from the loin. So, a rack of back ribs contains a minimum of eight ribs (some may be trimmed if damaged), but can include up to 13 ribs, depending on how it has been prepared by the butcher. A typical commercial rack has 10--13 bones. If fewer than 10 bones are present, butchers call them ``cheater racks''.
Answer: | are pork back ribs same as baby back? |
What most naturally follows?
How to prevent bad breath
Brush your teeth properly.
Brushing your teeth properly is one of the best things you can do in your fight against bad breath. Brush at least twice a day, for at least two minutes and make sure to cover all the areas in your mouth. | Especially focus on where the teeth meet the gums. Use a soft bristled brush and replace it every three to four months. |
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:
“Infowars” host Alex Jones arrives at the Travis County Courthouse in Austin on April 17. (Tamir Kalifa/Austin American-Statesman via AP)
Chobani, the maker of Greek yogurt, is suing right-wing provocateur Alex Jones, claiming he published articles and videos that falsely linked the company to child rape and a tuberculosis outbreak near its plant in Twin Falls, Idaho.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in Idaho state court, says Jones’s Infowars website defamed Chobani and owner Hamdi Ulukaya in reports alleging the company’s practice of hiring refugees had brought crime and disease to the town of 45,000.
“Idaho Yogurt Maker Caught Importing Migrant Rapists,” read an April 11 tweet from Infowars highlighted in the complaint. The tweet linked to a video containing what Chobani said were false statements about the company. The complaint also cited an August 2016 article that suggested Chobani was responsible for a “500% increase in tuberculosis in Twin Falls.”
Chobani said Jones had ignored requests to remove the reports, which as of early Tuesday were still accessible on the “Alex Jones Channel” on YouTube as well as the main Infowars site. As a result, the lawsuit said, some customers had called for a boycott of the company’s products.
Alex Jones was a powerful underground voice for the alternative conservative media, but he became a more mainstream figure in December 2015, when Donald Trump, then a Republican presidential candidate, spent 30 minutes on Jones's radio program, "Info Wars." (Erin Patrick O'Connor,Manuel Roig-Franzia/The Washington Post)
“The Defendants’ defamatory statements have caused and continue to cause harm to Idaho residents, including Chobani employees, their families, and other members of the Twin Falls community associated with Chobani,” read the complaint.
In an audio statement posted on his YouTube channel Monday night, Jones said “sources” in the White House and Congress told him that billionaire George Soros, a frequent target of Jones’s attacks, was behind the lawsuit. Soros is not named in court documents, and there is nothing suggesting he is involved in any way.
Jones vowed to fight the case, saying it was without merit.
“I’m not backing down, I’m never giving up, I love this,” he said in the recording. “They have jumped the trillion-pound great white shark on this baby.”
Jones has made a name for himself peddling outrageous conspiracy fantasies over the years, including claims that the Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax and that the government orchestrated the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Last month, he apologized for promoting “Pizzagate,” a fabricated story that accused Hillary Clinton and her campaign chairman of running a child sex abuse ring out of a Washington pizza restaurant.
Jones has enjoyed a surge in popularity in the past year, buoyed in part by his chummy relationship with President Trump, who appears to have based some of his own conspiratorial views on Infowars stories.
Chobani’s plant in Twin Falls is the largest yogurt-producing facility in the world. Ulukaya, the owner, is a Turkish immigrant known for his refugee advocacy. More than 300 refugees work at the Twin Falls plant and another facility in New York, according to the Idaho Statesman.
The company came into Jones’s crosshairs last summer, after a story about refugees in Twin Falls sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl drew national attention. Several right-wing websites, including Infowars, seized on the news, inaccurately reporting that the girl was raped at knifepoint by a gang of Syrian men. Infowars, Breitbart News and other outlets sought to connect the incident to the refugees employed at the Chobani plant in town.
Authorities in Twin Falls said the girl was sexually assaulted, not raped, and that there was no knife involved in the attack. They also said the suspects, who have since pleaded guilty, were minors from Iraq and Sudan, as The Washington Post has reported.
As recently as mid-April, Infowars was still connecting Chobani’s refugee hiring practices to the crimes, according to the company’s lawsuit.
“Jones is no stranger to spurious statements. He has claimed that the U.S. government orchestrated the 9/11 attacks and the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut,” read the complaint. “Mr. Jones has now taken aim at Chobani and the Twin Falls community.”
Chobani’s lawsuit comes as Jones is fighting a closely watched custody battle in Texas. The case has focused in part on whether Jones’s fire-breathing radio persona reflects how he behaves outside the studio or amounts to a sort of performance art, as The Washington Post has reported. His lawyers in that case have argued he is “playing a character.”
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(Knight also seems to take issue with the fact that Chobani makes Greek yogurt, also known as strained yogurt, although Ulukaya is from Turkey.)
The complaint highlights an April 11 video in which Infowars reporter David Knight connects foreign workers at Chobani to the 2016 sexual assault of a young girl in Twin Falls by three refugee boys, who pleaded guilty to the charges. Though the boys were not accused of rape, the Infowars report claims that the mainstream media failed to cover the "rape" story, and contrasts this to a 60 Minutes profile of Ulukaya's work to help refugees.
In a lawsuit filed Monday, the company said that Alex Jones promoted a false story connecting Chobani founder Hamdi Ulukaya's support for hiring refugees with an unrelated sexual assault incident involving refugee children. The suit was filed in the Idaho District Court in Twin Falls, where Chobani operates one of the world's largest yogurt manufacturing plants. Twin Falls is also home to a refugee resettlement center.
Infowars and Jones did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A spokesperson for Chobani declined to comment on the suit.
The lawsuit also states that Infowars falsely accused Chobani of bringing tuberculosis to Twin Falls, citing a story published by the site that said the town "has seen a 500% increase in tuberculosis" as a result of refugees hired by Ulukaya.
The false stories were designed to cause people to boycott Chobani products, and affected the lives of individuals who worked at the plant and their families, the complaint says. It adds that Infowars ignored repeated requests to take down the stories and seeks at least $10,000 in damages, attorney fees, and an admission that the articles were false.
Infowars has been known to publish false and inflammatory stories, including an article published earlier this month claiming that the Syrian chemical weapons attack was funded by liberal billionaire George Soros. Jones has also claimed that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting, which left 20 children and six staff dead, is "completely fake," and that the attacks on 9/11 are a government hoax.
Just last year, Jones removed all of his posts about the conspiracy theory known as Pizzagate — which falsely claimed that politicians working with Hillary Clinton were trafficking children through a Washington, DC, pizzeria — after a man stormed the restaurant and fired an assault weapon. A criminal complaint said the shooter had texted a friend an Infowars article that Jones had shared about the conspiracy.
Jones later released an apology video, which CNN Money reported was done to avoid a potential lawsuit.
The 43-year-old radio host is currently embroiled in a civil lawsuit over the custody of his children, which has become a national sensation since his attorney said he would defend his client on the grounds that his inflammatory work is "performance art." ||||| Chobani, the Greek yogurt maker, is suing Alex Jones, the right-wing conspiracy theorist who says the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting was a hoax, 9/11 was an inside job by the U.S. government and Chobani imports migrant rapists to Twin Falls.
Chobani sued Jones and his InfoWars website on Monday in Idaho District Court in Twin Falls, where the company operates the largest yogurt plant in the world. The lawsuit said Jones, his network, and InfoWars’ Twitter feed and YouTube channel repeatedly published false information linking Chobani, owner Hamdi Ulukaya and Twin Falls to a sexual assault case involving refugee children at a Twin Falls apartment complex.
Ulukaya, a Turkish immigrant, has drawn threats for advocating for immigrants and refugees. The company employs more than 300 refugees at its plants in Twin Falls and upstate New York.
Twin Falls drew national attention in June 2016 after three refugee boys sexually assaulted a 5-year-old girl in a laundry room at an apartment complex. Right-wing websites, including Breitbart News, fanned flames of several conspiracies, including that a group of Syrian men had attacked the girl, that a rape had occurred, that a knife was present and that city officials attempted to cover up the crime, the Times-News in Twin Falls reported.
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Police and prosecutors said the conspiracies were false. While details remain unclear because the file remains sealed, prosecutors said one of the boys touched the girl while the other two filmed on a cellphone. Police and prosecutors said there was no rape, no knife was present, and authorities followed proper protocol, the Times-News reported. The three boys, ages 14, 10 and 7, each pleaded guilty to one or more felony charges April 4.
The lawsuit highlighted several InfoWars headlines and statements promoted on various platforms that the company said unfairly linked Chobani to the crime. They include:
▪ “MSM [mainstream media] Covers for Globalist’s Refugee Import Program after Child Rape Case.”
▪ "Idaho Yogurt Maker Caught Importing Migrant Rapists."
▪ Allegations that Chobani’s practice of hiring refugees brought crime and tuberculosis to Twin Falls.
Alex Jones and InfoWars ignored Chobani’s repeated requests to remove the inaccurate coverage, the lawsuit said.
“The defendants’ conduct in this matter was extreme, outrageous and warrants punitive damages,” the lawsuit said.
Chobani seeks at least $10,000 in damages, attorney fees and punitive damages.
Chobani also wants InfoWars to acknowledge its inaccuracies. In addition, Chobani said InfoWars violated the Idaho Consumer Protection Act by knowingly misrepresenting facts.
InfoWars did not immediately reply to the Statesman’s request for comment.
Jones’ Monday through Friday radio show is broadcast by about 60 stations nationwide, including KIDO-AM (580) in Boise.
Jones is currently in a child custody battle with his ex-wife in a Texas court. Jones’ attorney said his client’s angry, on-air rants should be considered performance art and should not be used against him in the custody case. |||||
Solution: | Conspiracy peddler Alex Jones has another lawsuit to handle. Greek yogurt maker Chobani has sued Jones' Infowars for publishing what it calls fake and defamatory stories related to the company's plant in Twin Falls, Idaho, reports BuzzFeed. Two examples: One video headlined, "Idaho Yogurt Maker Caught Importing Migrant Rapists" and a story blaming Chobani for a "500% increase in tuberculosis in Twin Falls." Chobani founder Hamdi Ulukaya wants the stories pulled and $10,000 in damages, but Jones says he isn't budging. "I’m never giving up, I love this," he said in an audio statement, per the Washington Post. "They have jumped the trillion-pound great white shark on this baby." Jones accused billionaire George Soros of being behind the suit, just weeks after accusing him of staging a chemical weapons attack in Syria. The migrant rape story stems from an incident in June 2016 in which three refugee boys, ages 14, 10, and, 7, sexually assaulted a 5-year-old girl in a laundry room, reports the Idaho Statesman. Details remain sealed, but prosecutors said one boy admitted touching the girl while the others filmed on a phone. The assault later was conflated by right-wing sites into a gang rape at knifepoint by Syrian men. Jones previously called the Sandy Hook shooting a hoax and said the government staged the 9/11 attacks, though in a recent court hearing in a child custody case, his lawyer argued that Jones' public persona is merely performance art. Ulukaya is a Turkish immigrant who has drawn national attention, both praise and scorn, for his advocacy of refugees. He employs more than 300 refugees at the Idaho plant and another in New York. |
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: Many neurotransmitters are made from amino acids , which are part of your diet and it takes only a few steps to convert them .
Output: | Many neurotransmitters are synthesized from simple and plentiful precursors such as amino acids , which are readily available from the diet and only require a small number of biosynthetic steps for conversion . |
RSC Anderlecht Féminin is a Belgian women's football team, currently playing at the Super League Vrouwenvoetbal. It formely played the Belgian First Division and the BeNe League, that was folded in 2015. The team was founded in 1971 as Brussels Dames 71.
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true?
The football team has players of both genders.
Choose from: [+] Yes; [+] It's impossible to say; [+] No; | No |
In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
Let me give you an example: This list contains the top 25 accounts with the most followers on the social photo-sharing platform Instagram. As of May 2018, the most followed user is Instagram's own account, with over 235 million followers. Selena Gomez is the most followed individual, with over 137 million followers. Ten accounts have exceeded 100 million followers on the site.
The answer to this example can be: who has the maximum number of followers on instagram
Here is why: The answer is talking about the Instagram accounts that have the most followers. The question asking about the maximum number of followers. So this is a good example.
OK. solve this:
Righteousness (also called rectitude) is a theological concept in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. It is an attribute that implies that a person's actions are justified, and can have the connotation that the person has been 'judged' or 'reckoned' as leading a life that is pleasing to God.
Answer: | what is the definition of righteousness in the bible |
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Q: Keith and Jacquelyn Smith danced Friday night at the American Legion on Madison Street in Baltimore, where they had brought his daughter Shavon to celebrate her 28th birthday.
Hours later, about 12:30 a.m., the 52-year-old Harford County man found himself calling 911 and rushing Jacquelyn, 54, to the emergency room. She had been stabbed by a man through their rolled-down car window after giving money to a woman panhandling in the rain in East Baltimore, he said.
Jacquelyn Smith, an electrical engineer at Aberdeen Proving Ground, had her necklace and pocketbook snatched by the woman and the man, who approached under the guise of thanking her for giving the woman money, her husband said. She died two hours after they arrived at Johns Hopkins Hospital, he said.
The pair ran away, but the woman paused long enough to say something, Keith Smith said.
“This girl actually said, ‘God bless you’ ” after the man stabbed Jacquelyn, he said.
Jacquelyn Smith, 54, of Aberdeen was fatally stabbed early Saturday in Baltimore after she rolled down a car window to give money to a panhandler, her husband said.
Mayor Catherine Pugh told members of the City Council at a working lunch Monday that she had spoken with Keith Smith. The council paused to acknowledge Jacquelyn Smith, among others who have died, in a moment of silence during its Monday meeting.
"You've got people who've got warm hearts who want to roll down their windows and give to people," the mayor said. "This incident that occurred this past weekend is unconscionable."
As Baltimore Police cadets canvassed the Johnston Square neighborhood Monday afternoon near the site of the stabbing — East Chase and Valley streets — interim police Commissioner Gary Tuggle called the killing “a heinous murder.”
Detectives do not yet have any leads on the pair’s identities, he said.
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“They’re using this ruse as panhandlers to get the attention of their would-be victims,” Tuggle said. “We also want to caution the public about engaging with panhandlers and recognizing that not all of them have honest intent. Not all of them have real need.”
Keith Smith said the woman appeared to be holding a baby and had a cardboard sign that said “Please Help me feed my Baby.” Although he was reluctant to open the window late at night, he said, his wife held money out from the front passenger seat because she “felt moved to give her some money.”
Smith, who is from Baltimore and whose daughter lives on Valley Street, now wants to get a law passed in his wife’s memory banning panhandling.
The Baltimore City Code already prohibits soliciting money “from any operator or occupant of a motor vehicle that is in traffic on a public street, whether in exchange for cleaning the vehicle’s windows or otherwise.”
“Something needs to be done, because now you don’t know whether or not you’re going to give and this person’s going to take your life or they’re going to say thank you,” Smith said Monday. “There are some desperate people. They don’t need help; they’re trying to hurt you.”
Councilman Robert Stokes, who represents the district where the incident occurred, said the stabbing would deter people from aiding people seeking help — but he acknowledged that keeping people from panhandling would be difficult.
"It's going to be hard now for people to roll their windows down," Stokes said. "A lot of people are not going to give."
Asked what a new police commissioner might be able to do to stop similar violence in the future, Stokes said he wasn't sure because of the limits placed on police by the federal consent decree.
"How do you move people from off the corners? Maybe the ACLU will come in … so we've got to be careful how we do that," Stokes said. "I think the consent decree has made it very hard. I guess some of the officers feel like they've got to be careful how they engage people because they don't want no lawsuits. They don't want to get terminated."
Now you don’t know whether or not you’re going to give and this person’s going to take your life or they’re going to say thank you. — Keith Smith, husband of stabbing victim Jacquelyn Smith
But Stokes said he wasn't making a direct link between Smith's stabbing and the consent decree, calling the crime an "isolated incident."
Kevin Lindamood, president and CEO of Health Care for the Homeless, said he was horrified to hear of the killing and concerned it could further stigmatize homelessness.
“Obviously this is a horrible incident and a crime,” Lindamood said. “As with any crime, we shouldn’t attribute the actions of an individual to an entire group of people. We don’t say that someone from a bank embezzling money means that all bankers are crooked.”
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“The broader realities of homelessness and the conditions that lead people to beg publicly are also tragedies, and I think we have to be very mindful not to lump everybody into a single category,” he added. “Out of a tragedy like this I would encourage us all to redouble our work towards social justice.”
Bishop Roger Tatuem and his wife, Pastor Miriam Tatuem, of the Churchville congregation Helping Hands Ministries, said Jacquelyn and Keith Smith had been members of their church for about four years, and they taught weekly Christian education classes for new members.
As with any crime, we shouldn’t attribute the actions of an individual to an entire group of people. — Kevin Lindamood, president and CEO of Health Care for the Homeless
They struggled to believe the news that Jacquelyn Smith had been killed.
“She was a very strong lady, very strong personality,” Miriam Tatuem said of the Providence, R.I., native. “If she believed in something, she believed in it — she was one of those kind of people who was ride-or-die.”
Miriam Tatuem said Jacquelyn Smith also volunteered on the church’s hospitality committee, where she would help serve church functions, including lunches after funeral services.
She recalled a time Smith helped Tatuem’s son and daughter-in-law prepare for a housewarming party. When they were running behind, Smith jumped into the kitchen and began helping her daughter-in-law with last-minute needs.
“She was always a good helper. Whatever her little hands found to do, she would do it,” Miriam Tateum said. “She was a very giving person.” ||||| BALTIMORE (AP) — Relatives of a Maryland woman who was knifed to death in front of her family while trying to help a panhandler said Monday that she died the way she lived: looking out for others and trying to be kind.
Authorities say Jacquelyn Smith, an electrical engineer from Maryland's Harford County, lowered her car's front passenger side window in Baltimore early Saturday to give money to a young woman who appeared to be holding a swaddled infant and carried a cardboard sign reading: "Please help me feed my baby." Authorities say a man approached the car with the woman for the cash handoff. After a struggle over Smith's wallet, he stabbed Smith and fled on foot with the panhandler.
Smith's grieving 19-year-old son, college sophomore David Hood, described his mother as a strong-willed woman who always taught her children about the importance of generosity and family. He told The Associated Press that she was in the car with her stepdaughter and her husband when she was fatally stabbed in the torso. Her husband, Keith, was behind the wheel at the time.
"I think it was a split second decision of wanting to help somebody else. She really cared for everybody. She loved everyone and was very compassionate," her son said in a phone interview from the family's home in Aberdeen, a suburb some 25 miles northeast of Baltimore.
There have been no arrests in the murder of the Good Samaritan.
Her husband, Keith, told WMAR-TV that she felt moved by the sight of what appeared to be a struggling young mother standing by an intersection on a cold drizzling night. After his wife waved the young woman over, he said a man emerged "out of nowhere" and came walking over to their car alongside the panhandler. With the car's windows down, he said the man asked him if he could thank his wife.
"And within that split second this guy commences to stab my wife," he told WMAR.
The Baltimore Police Department said the male suspect "reached in to grab the female victim's wallet when a struggle ensued." He stabbed her during the struggle, according to a police statement.
A law enforcement team went Monday to the East Baltimore intersection where Smith was slain to hand out flyers and canvass residents. They said the young woman appeared to be about 20 and the man was roughly 30. ||||| BALTIMORE (WMAR) - Police need your help to find two people they say are responsible for the stabbing death of a Good Samaritan Saturday morning.
Baltimore Police are investigating a Friday night incident that left a 54-year-old Jacquelyn Smith dead.
At about 12:34 a.m., patrol officers were called to an area hospital for a report of a walk-in stabbing victim. When they got to the hospital, they found Smith, of Harford County, with a stab wound to her chest.
Despite the doctor’s efforts, she died.
Investigators tell WMAR 2 News, Smith and her family were driving in the 1000 block of Valley Street when they noticed a woman that looked to be about 20 years old, 5'4 and wearing a brown jacket. It looked like she was carrying a baby, or had something wrapped up to look like a baby, and was holding a cardboard sign that said, "Please help me feed my baby."
Smith, who was in the passenger seat, rolled down her car window so that she could give the woman some money and, at that moment, a man, about 30 years old, 6 feet tall with a goatee, approached the car to thank the family for the money.
The male suspect then reached in to grab the Smith's wallet, which is when a struggle began. Police say the man stabbed Smith in the torso before he and the female suspect that was holding the sign ran away.
WMAR-2 News spoke with Smith's family on Monday who says she was an electrical engineer with the Department of Defense. In addition to her husband Keith, she is survived by two sons as well as her stepdaughter who described her as a strong and caring woman.
54 y/o Jacquelyn Smith was murdered in East #Baltimore this wknd after she rolled down her window to give some money to a woman trying to feed her baby. Smith’s husband Keith tells @WMAR2News - his wife just wanted to help and in a second, she was stabbed in the chest. pic.twitter.com/UcyEZSWz0c — Brian Kuebler (@BrianKuebler_) December 3, 2018
Now, Baltimore residents say they are on high alert after hearing this tragic story.
"I'm not going to stop my car. You know, the way times are you don't know who to stop the car for," said Odella Taylor, an East Baltimore resident.
"Think twice, look twice. I go to work early in the morning and my guards is up," said East Baltimore resident, Ellison Taylor.
Police echoed that advice saying crimes like these can happen at any time.
"Always be aware of your surroundings. It doesn't matter if it's the middle of the day or the middle of the night, if you're driving, if you're walking, if you see something or someone that's suspicious, call 9-1-1, our officers work 24 hours a day," Jeremy Silbert of The Baltimore Police Department told WMAR 2 News.
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Homicide detectives are looking for the suspects. Call Baltimore Police at (410) 396-2100 or contact the Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7Lockup. Remember, you can always stay anonymous. |||||
A: | Jacquelyn Smith's husband was driving, with the Maryland woman in the passenger seat and her stepdaughter in the back, when Smith rolled down her window to give money to a panhandler standing near a Baltimore intersection early Saturday as the trio returned home from celebrating a birthday. The young woman appeared to be holding a swaddled infant and had a sign reading, "Please help me feed my baby," the AP reports. But as Smith was handing her money, a man approached the car and started struggling with Smith over her wallet. He ultimately stabbed her in the torso, then ran off with the panhandler, police say. Smith's husband, Keith, rushed her to the emergency room, but she died hours later, the Baltimore Sun reports. Police are still searching for the suspects, who made off with Smith's pocketbook and necklace. The man who approached the car asked Keith Smith if he could thank his wife before the struggle ensued, and after the stabbing, Smith says, the woman posing as a panhandler paused before running off: "This girl actually said 'God bless you,'" he says. Jacquelyn Smith, 54, leaves behind two sons, WMAR reports. Her 19-year-old son says she was always looking for ways to be kind to others. "I think it was a split second decision of wanting to help somebody else. She really cared for everybody. She loved everyone and was very compassionate." (Another Good Samaritan was killed after pulling over to help someone.) |
Read the text and determine if the sentence is true (see options at the end):
How to treat sexually transmitted diseases during pregnancy<br>Describe your symptoms. Consider if you have had any new sexual partners. If so, it is a good idea to get tested for stis just to be on the safe side.
Sentence: sexual partners have been had by dan
Choices: A. Yes. B. It's impossible to say. C. No. | B. |
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:
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
Ex Output:
Yes
Ex Input:
Dr. Benjamin Stone is a hotshot young surgeon who longs to leave the drudgery of a Washington , D.C. emergency room and finally leaps at his chance at more money and less death as a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills . On his last day , Ben's relationship with his co-workers is presumed to be anything but a warm one . None of his colleagues will join him for a drink and a cake in his honor has an iced portion of the phrase `` Good riddance , asshole '' sliced out . Ben's cross-country drive in a 1956 Porsche 356 Speedster is interrupted when he crashes in the rural hamlet of Grady , South Carolina . The crash damages the fence of local Judge Evans , who sentences him to community service at a nearby hospital . Ben offers to pay for the fence , but the stern judge increases his community service each time he talks back . Defeated , he reports to the hospital , where Nurse Packer humbles him by ordering him to clock in and out , as would a factory worker . Though upset , Ben quickly makes friends with Mayor Nick Nicholson , the town cafe's proprietor/head waitress , and Melvin , the local mechanic tasked with repairing Ben's car . Ben soon finds his clinic work to be much more laid-back than the emergency room . He has simple cases such as spots before the eyes , fishing hook impalings , and even reading mail for a young illiterate couple , whose baby he later delivers . The experience also humbles Ben when he mistreats a case of mitral valve regurgitation leading to late cyanosis in the child . <sep>Did Ben have a job?<sep>Yes, in a hospital
Ex Output:
Yes
Ex Input:
Comanche Indians have trapped the evil of their land in a monster made up of a mixture of other animals . The Comanche have placed a protective spear in the ground to contain the evil . A young boy pulls the spear from the ground while pocketing a rabbit foot talisman . He starts to play with the spear . A Comanche catches the boy , and startled , he runs away with the rabbit's foot . The Native American places the spear back , realizing too late that the rabbits foot is now gone . After that , white men come and start drilling for oil . Skip to current time , a divorced father , Mance Cashen , moves to the area with his new wife , baby , and his son from his first marriage , Willy ( played by ( ( Chris Miller , who is visiting . Willy notices something peculiar in the house and tries to warn his father and step-mother . They do not believe him . Willy is attacked while on a tire swing over a small water hole . The creature grabs his foot and Willy struggles , eventually getting away . He eventually befriends the local drunk , T. C. van Houten . A nice old man with some bad memories who knows something about the evil near the oil well and was in a situation similar to Willy's . In the meantime a Comanche Indian , Chief Sam John , comes to warn Mance of the evil and the need to keep it contained . Sam John informs Mance the evil was originally intended to stop the white man , but it is indiscriminate in whom it kills instead . Mance will have none of it . Willy eventually takes a spear he finds on his property to Sam John and tries to find out what is going on . <sep>What was Willy's father and step-mother response, when Willy warn them?<sep>They do not believe him
Ex 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 2012 D.C. United is the seventeenth season for D.C. United playing in Major League Soccer .
A: | The 2012 D.C. United season was the club 's seventeenth season of existence , and their seventeenth consecutive season of playing in Major League Soccer , the top division of American soccer . |
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 Communist Party of India ( Marxist ) is a Communist party in India .
Solution: | The Communist Party of India ( Marxist ) ( abbreviated CPI ( M ) ) is a communist political party in India adheres to Marxist – Leninist theory . |
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: For example , at porn seller HotMovies.com , there are only 655 bisexual movies out of a showing of more than 90,000 movies .
A: | However the genre remains a very small proportion of the pornographic DVD market ; for example at porn retailer HotMovies.com , there are only 655 bisexual titles out of a catalogue of more than 90,000 films . |
Problem: Just when we thought Pharrell Williams couldn’t get any cooler, he becomes the first guy to star in Chanel ’s upcoming handbag campaign. Williams has already appeared in a short video by Karl Lagerfeld and even walked the Chanel runway, and now he’s modelling the Gabrielle bag from the fashion house’s spring collection. Set to join Kristen Stewart, Caroline de Maigret and Cara Delevingne in the campaign - with Lagerfeld taking on the role of photographer - Williams star turn is set to debut on Monday 3 April.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Pharrell Williams will be showing off the Gabrielle bag on the first business day in the fourth month of the year. "?
A: Yes
Problem: Christopher Wheeler Christopher Wheeler is a U.S. Banking Analyst at Atlantic Equities LLP. Mr. Wheeler joined Atlantic Equities LLP in 2015, bringing extensive experience to its bank coverage. A qualified Chartered Accountant, Mr. Wheeler held a number of planning roles at Barclays Bank in the 1980s before becoming its first Head of IR. He joined Lehman Brothers in 1988 to cover European banks and has subsequently had senior bank research roles at Fox-Pitt, Kelton, Bear Stearns and Mediobanca.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "He used to work at Fox-Pitt."?
A: Yes
Problem: How to act in thailand<br>Avoid getting angry or raising your voice in public places. In thailand, the people are not confrontational. [substeps] Showing anger may embarrass a thai person and will not help you in your endeavors.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Thai people don't get angry in public places."?
A: | It's impossible to say |
Scream Magazine is a Norwegian magazine established in 1990 which pertains to heavy metal and hard rock music. The editor of the magazine since 1990 has been Frode Øien. In October 2005, the magazine celebrated its 100th issue and its 15th anniversary.
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true?
Scream is published in many languages
Select from: (a). Yes. (b). It's impossible to say. (c). No. | (b). |
Q: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
The documents include the original 47-page classified report of Hitler’s health culled from post-war interviews with his six chief doctors and another 178-page report from one of the six physicians, Dr. Erwin Giesing, that include diaries of what he heard Hitler say, such as, “Churchill and Roosevelt are neither politically nor militarily a factor.”
The Hitler cache, which also includes his purchase papers of two Mercedes, is up for sale May 8-9 at Alexander Historical Auctions , a well-known seller of Americana and historical items. Firm President Bill Panagopulos told Secrets that the documents have rarely been publicly seen.
The classified doctor’s report includes several X-rays of Hitler’s skull and extensive details about his health. Panagopulos said it quotes Hitler doctor Theodore Morrell confirming that Hitler and Braun had sex though they slept in separate beds and that he was injected with semen from young bulls to spark his libido. Under the section “Sex Characteristics,” the classified report said:
“Sexual organs showed no indications of abnormality or pathology and secondary sex characteristics were normally developed. Hitler was very fond of the society of attractive women, particularly during the years of his rise to power. In later years his libido was apparently sublimated with the increase in...responsibility. Morrell believes that Hitler, although not strongly inclined to sexual activity, did have sexual intercourse with Eva Braun, though they were accustomed to sleep in separate beds.”
Panagopulos said the report also notes that Hitler “suffered from uncontrollable flatulence” due to his veggie diet, something the German leader took pills for.
The longer report from Giesing noted Hitler’s cocaine use to clear his sinuses and that the doctor had to cut the dosage because the father of the “Final Solution” craved it because it made him happy.
Giesing’s papers include his hand drawn map of the Wolf’s Den, Hitler’s eastern World War II hideout and site of an attempted 1944 assassination that showed where the Fuhrer Bunker was as well as the cabins reserved for his henchmen Hermann Goring and Martin Bormann.
Panagopulos said that the documents should fetch $2,000 each. ||||| Sold
Description: "HITLER AS SEEN BY HIS DOCTORS"
Fascinating printed report, 47pp. legal folio, [n.p., Military Intelligence Service Center], Nov. 29, 1945, a classified report containing a highly-detailed compilation of data obtained from Adolf Hitler's six chief physicians, along with ten x-rays of various views of Hitler's skull and several EEGs. The report is the result of interrogations of doctors Theodore Morrell, Erwine Giesing, Waletr Loehlein, Karl Weber, A. Nissle and E. Brinkmann who each specialized in different areas of treatment. The report opens with a complete physical description of Hitler and his medical history, with neurological data, spinal root functions, psychiatric observations, etc. The report includes many startling revelations - and leaves much out. Some examples: no mention is made of the extensive use of cocaine to treat Hitler's sinuses and throat ailments; he suffered from uncontrollable flatulence and was treated with pills containing strychnine; Morrell's believe that Hitler had relations with Eva Braun; injections of extracts of seminal vesicles, testis and prostata of young bulls; rapid coronary sclerosis detected; and much more. First three pages detached and quite chipped, else balance very good. Obviously, multiple copies of this report were prepared, but this is the first such example we have seen. |||||
A: | Adolf Hitler was a blowhard in more ways than one. He frequently used cocaine, ingested some 28 drugs at a time, and suffered from "uncontrollable flatulence," according to his medical records. Someone with enough bucks and a high bid can have those fascinating files, about to be offered in an online auction. The records—including ten X-rays of Hitler's skull, sketches of the inside of his apparently cocaine-eroding nose, and notes about "cleansing enemas" and bull-testicle extract injections to pump up his libido—are being sold through the Alexander Historical Auctions. They include a classified military report on Hitler's health, as well as tests and notes compiled by his six chief physicians. Though the classified report makes no mention of Hitler's love of cocaine, one of his doctors notes he used it frequently to "clear" his sinuses and "soothe" his throat—and craved it because it made him "happy." Bids are being accepted next week. Each document could sell for as much as $2,000, a spokesman believes. |
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: It must be given before they are interrogated , in accordance with the " Miranda " ruling .
Solution: | The Miranda warning ( often shortened to " Miranda " , or " Mirandizing " a suspect ) is the name of the formal warning that is required to be given by law enforcement in the United States to criminal suspects in police custody ( or in a custodial situation ) before they are interrogated , in accordance with the " Miranda " ruling . |
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.
See one example below:
Problem: 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.
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 University of Nottingham found that British people became more racist after the riots .
Solution: | Research conducted by the University of Nottingham suggested that race relations in Britain deteriorated in the period following the riots and that prejudice towards ethnic minorities increased . |
Teacher:In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: (CNN) -- Cuba will pardon more than 2,900 prisoners, the government said Friday, though U.S. subcontractor Alan Gross is not among those who will be freed. The decision to release the prisoners follows "numerous requests" from their family members and religious institutions, and is a humanitarian gesture, said Cuban President Raul Castro. Among those who might be freed are prisoners over the age of 60, along with those who are sick, female or young with no previous criminal record. With some exceptions, prisoners convicted of spying, terrorism, murder and drug trafficking will not be released. Those who will be freed have already served a "important" part of their sentences and exhibited good behavior, according to an official statement published on the state-run website Cubadebate. The jailed American, Gross, will not be among those pardoned, the Cuban Interests Section in Washington said. Gross was jailed in December 2009, when he was working as a subcontractor on a U.S. Agency for International Development project aimed at spreading democracy. Castro has accused him of importing satellite equipment to connect dissidents to the Internet, and this year Cuba's highest court upheld the 15-year sentence imposed on Gross for committing crimes against the security of the state. He has maintained his innocence and said he was trying to help connect the Jewish community to the Internet. Castro, speaking to the National Assembly, said that 86 prisoners from 25 countries would be among those released in coming days. He cited the upcoming visit of Pope Benedict XVI as one of the motivations behind the move, which he said showed the "generosity and strength of the revolution." The pope has said he plans to visit Mexico and Cuba before Easter. <sep>Why was Alan Gross sentence to jail?<sep>Castro accused him of importing satellite equipment to connect dissidents to the Internet
Student: | Yes |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
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— Representative Gabrielle Giffords , an Arizona Democrat, and at least 17 others were shot Saturday morning when a gunman opened fire outside a supermarket where Ms. Giffords was meeting with constituents.
Six of the victims died, among them John M. Roll, the chief judge for the United States District Court for Arizona, and a 9-year-old girl, the Pima County sheriff, Clarence W. Dupnik, said.
Ms. Giffords, 40, whom the authorities called the target of the attack, was in critical condition Sunday morning at the University Medical Center in Tucson , where she was operated on by a team of neurosurgeons on Saturday. Dr. Peter Rhee, medical director of the hospital’s trauma and critical care unit, said Saturday that she had been shot once in the head, “through and through,” with the bullet going through her brain.
President Obama , speaking at the White House, confirmed that a suspect was in custody and said that the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation , Robert S. Mueller III , was on his way to Arizona to oversee the investigation.
Investigators identified the gunman as Jared Lee Loughner, 22, and said that he was refusing to cooperate with the authorities and had invoked his Fifth Amendment rights. Mr. Loughner was in custody with the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Saturday night, the Pima Country sheriff’s office said.
Mr. Loughner had exhibited increasingly strange behavior in recent months, including ominous Internet postings — at least one showing a gun — and a series of videos in which he made disjointed statements on topics like the gold standard and mind control.
Pima Community College said he had been suspended for conduct violations and withdrew in October after five instances of classroom or library disruptions that involved the campus police.
The authorities were seen entering the Loughner family house about five miles from the shooting scene. Investigators said they were looking for a possible accomplice, believed to be in his 50s.
The shootings raised questions about potential political motives, and Sheriff Dupnik blamed the toxic political environment in Arizona. There were immediate national reverberations as Democrats denounced the fierce partisan atmosphere in Ms. Gifford’s district and top Republicans quickly condemned the violence.
Mark Kimble, an aide to Ms. Giffords, said the shooting occurred about 10 a.m. in a small area between an American flag and an Arizona flag. He said that he went into the store for coffee, and that as he came out the gunman started firing.
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Ms. Giffords had been talking to a couple about Medicare and reimbursements, and Judge Roll had just walked up to her and shouted “Hi,” when the gunman, wearing sunglasses and perhaps a hood of some sort, approached and shot the judge, Mr. Kimble said. “Everyone hit the ground,” he said. “It was so shocking.”
The United States Capitol Police, which is investigating the attack, cautioned lawmakers “to take reasonable and prudent precautions regarding their personal security.”
Because of the shootings, House Republicans postponed all legislation to be considered on the floor this week, including a vote to repeal the health care overhaul. The House majority leader, Representative Eric Cantor , Republican of Virginia , said lawmakers needed to “take whatever actions may be necessary in light of today’s tragedy.”
Speaking of Ms. Giffords’s condition, Dr. Rhee said at a news conference, “I can tell you at this time, I am very optimistic about her recovery.” He added, “We cannot tell what kind of recovery, but I’m as optimistic as it can get in this kind of situation.”
Ms. Giffords remained unconscious on Saturday night, said her spokesman, C. J. Karamargin.
Several aides to Ms. Giffords were wounded, and her director of community outreach, Gabriel Zimmerman, 30, was among those killed. The girl who died was identified as Christina Green, a third grader. The others killed were Dorothy Morris, 76; Dorwan Stoddard, 76; and Phyllis Schneck, 79.
Ms. Giffords, who represents the Eighth District, in the southeastern corner of Arizona, has been an outspoken critic of the state’s tough immigration law, which is focused on identifying, prosecuting and deporting illegal immigrants, and she had come under criticism for her vote in favor of the health care law.
Friends said she had received threats over the years. Judge Roll had been involved in immigration cases and had received death threats.
The police said Ms. Giffords’s district office was evacuated late Saturday after a suspicious package was found. Officers later cleared the scene.
Ms. Giffords, widely known as Gabby, had been speaking to constituents in a store alcove under a large white banner bearing her name when a man surged forward and began firing. He tried to escape but was tackled by a bystander and taken into custody by the police. The event, called “Congress on Your Corner,” was outside a Safeway supermarket northwest of Tucson and was the first opportunity for constituents to meet with Ms. Giffords since she was sworn in for a third term on Wednesday.
Ms. Giffords was part of the Democratic class of 2006 that swept Democrats into the majority in the House. She narrowly won re-election in November, while many fellow Democrats were toppled and the House turned to Republican control.
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“I saw the congresswoman talking to two people, and then this man suddenly came up and shot her in the head and then shot other people,” said Dr. Steven Rayle, a witness to the shootings. “I think it was a semiautomatic, and he must have got off 20 rounds.”
Dr. Rayle said that Ms. Giffords slumped to the ground and that staff members immediately rushed to her aid. “A staffer had his arm around her, and she was leaning against the window of the Safeway,” the doctor said. “He had a jacket or towel on her head.”
At least one of the other shooting victims helped Ms. Giffords, witnesses said.
Television broadcasts showed a chaotic scene outside a normally tranquil suburban shopping spot as emergency workers rushed to carry the wounded away in stretchers. Some of the victims were taken from the site by helicopter, three of which had arrived.
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Law enforcement officials said that the congresswoman had received numerous threats.
Congressional leaders of both parties issued statements throughout the day expressing outrage at the shooting as well as concern and prayers for Ms. Giffords and her family.
The new House speaker, John A. Boehner , said: “I am horrified by the senseless attack on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and members of her staff. An attack on one who serves is an attack on all who serve.
“Acts and threats of violence against public officials have no place in our society. Our prayers are with Congresswoman Giffords, her staff, all who were injured and their families. This is a sad day for our country.”
Senator John McCain , Republican of Arizona, issued one of the strongest statements, saying: “I am horrified by the violent attack on Representative Gabrielle Giffords and many other innocent people by a wicked person who has no sense of justice or compassion. I pray for Gabby and the other victims, and for the repose of the souls of the dead and comfort for their families.”
He added, “Whoever did this, whatever their reason, they are a disgrace to Arizona, this country and the human race.”
Ms. Giffords is a centrist Democrat who won re-election in part by stressing her strong support for gun rights and for tougher immigration controls, including tighter border security, even though she opposed the controversial Arizona law.
Last March, after the final approval of the Democrats’ health care law, which Ms. Giffords supported, the windows of her office in Tucson were broken or shot out in an act of vandalism. Similar acts were reported by other members of Congress.
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In August 2009, when there were demonstrations against the health care measure across the nation, a protester who showed up to meet Ms. Giffords at a supermarket event similar to Saturday’s was removed by the police when the pistol he had holstered under his armpit fell and bounced on the floor.
In an interview at the Capitol this week, Ms. Giffords said she was excited to count herself among the Democrats who joined the new Republican majority in reading the Constitution aloud from the House floor. She said she was particularly pleased with being assigned the reading of the First Amendment.
“I wanted to be here,” she said. “I think it’s important. Reflecting on the Constitution in a bipartisan way is a good way to start the year.”
As a Democrat, Ms. Giffords is something of anomaly in Arizona and in her district, which has traditionally tilted Republican. Last year, she barely squeaked to victory over a Republican challenger, Jesse Kelly. But she had clearly heard the message that constituents were dissatisfied with Democratic leaders in Washington.
At the Capitol last week, Ms. Giffords refused to support the outgoing Democratic House speaker, Nancy Pelosi of California , in her symbolic contest with the Republican, Mr. Boehner of Ohio . Instead, she cast her vote for Representative John Lewis , a Georgia Democrat and hero of the civil rights movement.
“It’s not surprising that today Gabby was doing what she always does: listening to the hopes and concerns of her neighbors,” Mr. Obama said during a news conference Saturday, calling her a “friend of mine” and an “extraordinary public servant.” “I know Gabby is as tough as they come,” he said. “Obviously, our hearts go out to the family members of those who have been slain.” “We’re going to get to the bottom of this, and we’re going to get through this,” he said.
The shooting mobilized officials at the White House and throughout the highest levels of government, including the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department.
Rabbi Stephanie Aaron, who in 2007 officiated at the wedding of Ms. Giffords and the astronaut Mark E. Kelly, and leads Congregation Chaverim in Tucson, said the congresswoman had never expressed any concern about her safety. “No fear. I’ve only seen the bravest possible, most intelligent young congresswoman,” Rabbi Aaron said. “I feel like this is really one of those proverbial — seemingly something coming out of nowhere.”
At Ms. Giffords’s district office, a group of about 50 people formed a prayer circle. Chris Cole, a Tucson police officer whose neighborhood beat includes the district office, said of the shooting, “This kind of thing just doesn’t happen in Tucson.”
Behind the office, in the parking lot, campaign volunteers stood around a car with the door open, listening to a live radio broadcast of a hospital news conference updating the congresswoman’s condition. A cheer went up when it was announced that she was still alive.
The volunteers included Kelly Canady and her mother, Patricia Canady, both longtime campaign workers. Patricia Canedy had worked for Ms. Giffords since she served in the State Senate while Kelly, her daughter, moved to Tucson 13 years ago and was active in last year’s campaign and in the health care debate.
“She’s one of those people who remembers you. She always spoke to me by my first name,” Kelly Canady said. “She loved everybody. She was very easy to talk to. She was one of the main reasons I will stay involved in politics.” ||||| Officials familiar with the investigation into a shooting rampage in Arizona say the suspect claims he acted alone.
At least five people were killed and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head in the episode, which unfolded as the Democratic congresswoman was greeting constituents in her district in Tucson, Arizona.
Police say the shooter is in custody. He has been identified by officials familiar with the investigation as Jared Loughner, 22.
Officials say Loughner told authorities at the scene he had acted alone, although it is not certain that is the case.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity, saying they are not authorized to provide details.
Giffords underwent surgery after the attack. The dead include a federal judge and a nine-year-old girl. |||||
Solution: | Though it was initially reported that Jared Lee Loughner told officials he acted alone in today's shootings, one sheriff isn't so sure: In a press conference tonight, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said he was "not convinced" that the suspect acted alone. He declined to say why, but did add that Loughner had a criminal record and mental issues, reports the Arizona Republic. The New York Times reports that officials are looking for a second suspect. Click for more on Jared Lee Loughner, who reportedly posted "goodbye" on MySpace this morning. |
[Q]: Pedro Avilés Pérez was a Mexican drug lord in the state of Sinaloa in the late 1960s. He is considered to be the first generation of major Mexican drug smugglers of marijuana. He was also the first known drug lord to use an aircraft to smuggle drugs to the United States. Pedro Aviles Perez isconsidered a second generation Mexican drug smuggler
[A]: No
[Q]: Mouth Open<br>At night time, my mouth was falling open frequently. I purchased a mouth guard in the hopes it would help. In the middle of the night, I awoke with pain in my jaw. I tried changing position several times, to no avail. I finally removed the guard and gave up. they slept in odd positions
[A]: It's impossible to say
[Q]: Bejucal is a municipality and town in the Mayabeque Province of Cuba. It was founded in 1874. It is well known as the terminal station of the first railroad built in Cuba and Latin America in 1831. It also hosts one of the most popular and traditional carnival fest in Cuba: "Charangas de Bejucal". Last year had the highest attendance at the "Charangas de Bejucal".
[A]: It's impossible to say
[Q]: William Newton Byers (February 22, 1831 – March 25, 1903) was a founding figure of Omaha, Nebraska, serving as the first deputy surveyor of the Nebraska Territory, on the first Omaha City Council, and as a member of the first Nebraska Territorial Legislature. William Newton Byers had black hair.
[A]: | 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".
Jake was walking to the park to play baseball with his friends. He loved being outside on sunny days, and now that school was over for the year, he was playing baseball every day. The more he played, the better he got. Only Frank was better than he was. He liked playing third base, but he often played in the field. He was carrying his favorite mitt that his Grandfather had bought him. His Grandfather had taught him to catch. He loved spending time with him when he was younger, but he had moved last year. Now he only saw his Grandfather in the summer. Jake was really excited to show him his skills when he came to their next game. He could throw really fast now. He was sure his Grandfather would want to sit in the front to watch him. He knew he would jump up and down. Jake happily ran the rest of the way to the park thinking about how much fun he was going to have playing baseball this year. <sep>Did Jake's grandfather teach him how to catch with the mitt he bought him?<sep>No
A: | No |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
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Question: The House of Representatives elects the Speaker of the House on the first day of every new Congress and in the event of the death, resignation or removal from the Chair of an incumbent Speaker. The Clerk of the House of Representatives requests nominations: there are normally two, one from each major party (each party having previously met to decide on its nominee). The Clerk then calls the roll of the Representatives, each Representative indicating the surname of the candidate the Representative is supporting. Representatives are not restricted to voting for one of the nominated candidates and may vote for any person, even for someone who is not a member of the House at all. They may also abstain by voting ``present''.
Answer: can the president of the united states fire the speaker of the house?
Question: Until the mid-2000s, sales of beer for off-premises consumption were prohibited statewide before noon on Sundays, a remnant of a royal decree during the Colonial era, and between 3--6 a.m. any day. Changes to the law made in the last years of Governor George Pataki's administration loosened those restrictions, and now beer sales are only prohibited from 3--8 a.m. Sundays. Counties are free to adjust those hours in either direction, all the way to midnight and noon, and allow 24-hour beer sales on other days of the week.
Answer: can you buy beer on sunday in new york?
Question: Although rhubarb is a vegetable, it is often put to the same culinary uses as fruits. The leaf stalks can be used raw, when they have a crisp texture (similar to celery, although it is in a different family), but are most commonly cooked with sugar and used in pies, crumbles and other desserts. They have a strong, tart taste. Several varieties have been domesticated for human consumption, most of which are recognised as Rheum x hybridum by the Royal Horticultural Society.
Answer: | is it safe to eat raw rhubarb stalks?
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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: Aristotle was the founder of formal logic , pioneered the study of zoology , and helped to develop scientific method .
Student: | Among countless other achievements , Aristotle was the founder of formal logic , pioneered the study of zoology , and left every future scientist and philosopher in his debt through his contributions to the scientific method . |
Q: The album Carryin on the Family Names is an album that had two number one singles including A Texas State of Mind.
"A Texas State of Mind" is a song written by Cliff Crofford, John Durrill and Snuff Garrett and recorded by American country music artists David Frizzell and Shelly West. It was released in August 1981 as the second single from the album "Carryin' On the Family Names". The song reached #9 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
A: No
Q: cross-examine has been used by earl
They refuse to testify at a deposition, and my suggestion to them was that if we were capable of resolving something as a result of this conference, that they would then attend a deposition, because I believe the defendants would have a right to cross-examine them or otherwise examine them prior to them taking the stand. And based upon that, they would then testify in court.
A: It's impossible to say
Q: Vera chooses to have affairs with unmarried men. She wants to be loved but doesn't know how to make it happen.
Home wrecker<br>Vera is a very insecure girl that doesn't think highly of herself. Therefore she has a hard time forming genuine romantic relationships. Instead she chooses to have affairs with married men. She wants to be loved but doesn't know how to make it happen. So she has settled on being a homewrecker and a lifelong mistress.
A: No
Q: A deposition is impending.
I understand those things could come up in the course of the deposition, and I'll rule on those as I can if I'm not instantly available. So whether I'm sitting at trial or not -- and likely it will be a day when I'm sitting in trial -- we'll deal with it.
A: | Yes |
How to dehumidify a car<br>Vacuum up lots of water with a wet/dry vac. If your car is soaked or if there's a lot of standing water, you'll want to start by getting that out. Use a wet/dry vac to remove the excess water.
A wet/dry vac can remove excess H2O from a vehicle. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: Yes
Then I put on her last winter 's party dress .<br>It was such a pretty pale yellow thing , with touches of black lace , and it did n't matter about its being a little old-fashioned , since it fitted me like a glove .<br>Finally I stepped back and looked at myself .<br>I saw a woman in that glass ... a tall , straight creature with crimson cheeks and glowing eyes ... and the thought in my mind was so insistent that it said itself aloud : `` Oh , I wish Sidney could see me now ! ''<br>At that very moment the maid knocked at the door to tell me that Mr. Elliot was downstairs asking for me .
Mr. Elliot was asking for me downstairs. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: Yes
I agree with that. I agree with that. I think that one of the problems that we have faced in the world is that we are so much more powerful than any single nation has been in relationship to the rest of the world than at any time in history, that I know about, anyway.
Though I agree with that, I may or may not disagree with other things. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | It's impossible to say |
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".
Let me give you an 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
The answer to this example can be: No
Here is why: Based on the passage Timothy plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. So, the given answer is incorrect and the output should be "No".
OK. solve this:
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>They hear through air molecules in their spaceships.
Answer: | Yes |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Problem:Hall Pass
'Hall Pass' review: Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis star in Farrelly brothers beer commercial
Iovino/Warner Bros 'Hall Pass' stars Owen Wilson (r.) and Jason Sudeikis (l.) as two boy-men who get a free pass from their wives.
With Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis. Comedy about bored middle-aged husbands. Directors: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly (1:45). R: Nudity, sexuality, language, crude humor. At area theaters.
Ever catch yourself thinking, "Man, I wish beer commercials lasted just 104 minutes longer"?
The Farrelly brothers are ready to make your dreams come true.
At this point, we're so well-conditioned by ads and Judd Apatow movies that it almost seems reasonable to believe two clueless boy-men like Fred (Jason Sudeikis) and Rick (Owen Wilson, the cast standout) would be married to pretty, endlessly patient Grace (Christina Applegate) and Maggie (Jenna Fischer). And, that they freely ogle every other woman in sight while out with their wives.
So, naturally, there's no reason to doubt anyone's sanity when the ladies become so scared of losing their spouses, they suggest a "hall pass" — one week off, in which the guys can do whatever they want.
And what do these self-deluded wanna-be studs do?
Exactly what you'd expect: golf, eat "naughty" brownies and make perpetual fools of themselves, with the complete encouragement of their equally moronic buddies (including Stephen Merchant and J.B. Smoove, both underused).
As the recent rush of guys-gone-wild comedies proves, there's always room for another wish-fulfillment fantasy. But most of the time, the Farrellys play things as safe as possible — an ironic choice for a movie that pretends to be about taking risks.
The best laughs are the sharpest, as when the brothers take wicked swipes at suburban conformity and middle-aged frustrations.
But these are just brief distractions from the generic lessons to be learned about the importance of loyalty and love and making sure you don't alienate any members of the ticket-buying public.
What a strange turn of events for filmmakers once celebrated for pushing the limits of popular culture. But as you watch their latest, with its desperate gross-out jokes replacing actual edge, you'll remember that "There's Something About Mary" was 13 long years ago.
What's most depressing isn't the laziness of the Mars/Venus setup, in which men and women don't just occupy different planets but unrelated galaxies. And it's not the frantic, scattershot script, which seems designed to appease a thousand focus groups. What's depressing is the realization that Bobby and Peter Farrelly are no different from their confused heroes, stuck in a midlife rut they don't know how to escape. ||||| Maybe it's finally time for Peter and Bobby Farrelly , the filmmaking sibs who brought us the very salty treat of "There's Something About Mary," to give up on the raunch and give into the romance. After scoring big in 1998 with "Mary" — the zipper issue, the "hair gel" mix-up, the roving troubadours — their raw inventive edge has never been quite as sharp. "Hall Pass," starring Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis , continues that creative slide into everyday crude (because watching a guy poop in a sand trap is neither clever nor funny). Caught in a tug-of-war between the filmmakers' cleaned up conventional romance à la 2005's "Fever Pitch" and the grosser stuff found in 2000's split personality spoof "Me, Myself & Irene," the film is a messed-up mix of both.Wilson's Rick is a mostly happy guy, married with children. His biggest infraction these days is getting caught doing the occasional girl watching. Fred (Sudeikis) is his best friend, also married, also with the roving eye problem.Their wives — Jenna Fischer 's Maggie is paired with Rick, Christina Applegate 's Grace with Fred — are fed up. But after a consulting their friend, relationship guru Dr. Lucy ("The View's" Joy Behar ), instead of getting mad, the girls give the guys a "hall pass" from marriage — seven days to do what they please with whomever they please with no guilt or punishment in the offing.To cheat or not to cheat, that is the question. But is it cheating if the wife approves in advance? Maybe that's the question. Regardless, after the pass is issued, the dilemma becomes trying to figure out where to find someone to seduce. The shape of things to come is laid out when Rick and Fred's contingent of envious buddies wonder whether Olive Garden or Applebee's has more chicks on the prowl.While the guys try to remember how to be players, the girls head to the Cape and find a little action of their own.Temptations do come along, and that is where the comedy should come alive. Mildly amusing or marginally offensive is about as good as it gets. For Rick, there's the baby sitter (Alexandra Daddario) he wants to avoid and the barista (Nicky Whelan) he might like to bed. For Fred, there are the leftovers. Then along comes trouble in the form of Richard Jenkins ' playboy, their guide to the club scene where everything really gets "crazy" (A: Those are sarcastic air quotes, and B: I really hope this very fine actor got paid bookoo bucks to suffer the indignities, and the tan, required here).Given the guys' tendency to get sidetracked by all-you-can-eat specials, it doesn't take much for them to veer off course. The wives are doing much better at the Cape. There's a minor league baseball team in town with some major talent. Flirtations ensue, soul-searching follows. Can epiphanies be far behind?The screenplay by Pete Jones , Kevin Barnett and the brothers throws a lot of balls up in the air. The directors do better juggling some than others. Though Wilson and Sudeikis are the center of attention, the film is often more engaging when Fischer and Applegate's characters begin digging through their problems.Meanwhile, Sudeikis, an "SNL" fixture, apparently drew the short straw. He's saddled with most of the dirty business of talking trashy.Director of photography Matthew F. Leonetti, who last worked with the Farrellys on 2007's "The Heartbreak Kid," has given the film a warm and cozy look. It starts with the very charming scene that has Rick reading to his kids on a very comfy couch.Comfy is exactly the vibe that Wilson gives off pretty much all the time. He has a self-deprecating appeal that tends to make even his quirkiest characters in the most forgettable films embraceable. For all the off-colors they wave, the Farrellys have a winning sentimental side too. It's time for them to get past their Peter Pan potty-mouth days. ||||| The bodily fluids that Peter and Bobby Farrelly let fly and sometimes squirt in their movies, along with the assaults visited on their hapless male characters and those men’s various body parts, might suggest that these filmmaking brothers are stuck in a developmental quagmire. They don’t just like to play around in human messes, those both ickily literal and situational; they also revel in them. Yet while all this foul play can make you blanch, these excesses are affirmations of the humanity that comes with the yuks. Their characters poop, therefore they are — or at least the guys are.
Like most of the Farrellys’ central male figures, the two in the brothers’ latest film, “Hall Pass” — Rick (Owen Wilson) and Fred (Jason Sudeikis) — are overgrown innocents if also adult, here with the middle-age paunch and wrinkles to prove it. They’re light-years ahead of the happy fools in “Dumb and Dumber,” as evidenced by their totems of conventional grown-up life: wives, children, unremarkable jobs, pleasant houses, sport jackets, pleated slacks, $10 haircuts and sensible cars. They live in a picture-perfect Nowheresville (with Georgia passing for Rhode Island and Cape Cod) where Rick sells real estate, and Fred peddles insurance. They’re nice, unremarkable, close to dull, even in their shared habit of cheering at the all-American parade of health provided by the young breasts and bottoms that swing by everywhere they look
Each is an attentive and practiced ogler. To the chagrin of his wife, Maggie (Jenna Fischer), Rick likes to make like Regan in “The Exorcist,” swiveling his head at whatever tasty item comes within view. For his part, the more timorous Fred takes mental snapshots of women for future reference and perhaps use, opening and closing his eyes like a camera shutter with comic exaggeration, as the movie freezes and starts, and his vocalized clicks fill the soundtrack. Like Maggie, Fred’s wife, Grace (Christina Applegate), doesn’t appreciate her husband’s goggling eyes. But men will be men, though the message here seems to be that boys will be boys, at least in American comedies, that longtime playground of the eternal man-child.
If this sounds uninspired, it assuredly is, yet the setup mostly turns out to be something of a diversionary tactic meant to throw you off the Farrellys’ real game plan. The story kicks in when a relationship guru (Joy Behar) suggests that the wives give their husbands a week off from marriage — a hall pass — which, after not much anguish, they do. Their decision isn’t believable, but the Farrellys have never let niceties like realism get in the way of their jokes. They’re oblivious as well to camera movement, blocking, lighting and all the filmmaking rest, remaining stubbornly visually unevolved, the monotony of the two shots, over-the-shoulder shots and master shots the visual equivalent of bad minimalist music.
Once the funny and not-so-funny start to flow, you might not care, though it would be nice if the Farrellys did care about the banality of their images, just a little. The laughs start percolating after the wives split, natch, and their husbands, accompanied by a troika of jesters — Gary (the peerlessly funny Stephen Merchant), Hog-Head (Larry Joe Campbell) and Flats (J B Smoove) — hit the singles scene, first by going to ... Applebee’s. They quickly move elsewhere only to end up in a postdinner stupor, an unpromising start to a week that finds them trolling more promising waters, including a coffee shop where a barista, Leigh (Nicky Whelan), flaunts a derrière admired by Rick and, to judge from the shots of her rear, the similarly awed filmmakers.
At one point the Farrellys have Ms. Whelan drop her top for the seemingly obligatory shot of bared and proffered breasts. She doesn’t appear uncomfortable obliging them. Hey, she has a speaking part in a Hollywood movie. Some women (and men) in the audience might feel less sanguine about this display, a cheesecake moment that arrives just when the story teeters toward unbearable sentimentality. In “Hall Pass” the Farrellys are exploring nominally adult realms, like marital fatigue and cheating, but too often these apparent good intentions get the best of them and their timing. Mr. Wilson, a naturally amusing screen presence, looks uneasy delivering relationship lines that could have been fed to him by Dr. Phil. He and the big-baby-faced Mr. Sudeikis were born to trade quips and suffer mutual comic humiliation.
The Farrellys aren’t the only contemporary filmmakers who have a tough time making marriage funny, even if it is heartening to see them try. And this movie is certainly an improvement over their last, an uncharacteristically malicious and sexist remake of “The Heartbreak Kid.” “Hall Pass,” unlike most American comedies without Katherine Heigl and a wedding dress, at least gives women almost equal time and space if, of course, not the good jokes. Once upon a time, in the 1930s and ’40s, wives (and exes) were funny, as in “His Girl Friday” and “The Awful Truth,” romantic comedies that found men and women negotiating, in between pratfalls and quips, the new equality between the sexes in what the philosopher Stanley Cavell has called “a struggle for mutual freedom.”
Did greater equality make women unfunny or does it now just seem that way to male comedy writers? Whatever the case, it’s dispiriting that the draggiest, soppiest scenes in “Hall Pass,” as well as the most disgusting gag, involve women. By contrast the biggest bellyaching laugh pivots on a scene in which Rick has to be rescued (like a girl!) from a hot tub by two very differently endowed naked men. The sight of Rick recoiling from a stranger’s monumental penis encapsulates in one raucously comic, shocking, concise image many of the male anxieties that ripple through this movie and in the larger world.
Yet how much more potentially subversive that moment might have been if Rick had instead stared, really stared, at that other font of male anxiety, that which can scarcely be mentioned much less seen in American movies (except for gross-out effect, as in “The Heartbreak Kid”), that true chamber of secrets: a vulva.
“Hall Pass” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). Gun violence, coarse language, bodily fluids and equal-opportunity full-frontal nudity.
HALL PASS
Opens on Friday nationwide.
Directed by Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly; written by Pete Jones, Peter Farrelly, Kevin Barnett and Bobby Farrelly, based on a story by Mr. Jones; director of photography, Matthew F. Leonetti; edited by Sam Seig; production design by Arlan Jay Vetter; costumes by Denise Wingate; produced by Bradley Thomas, Charles B. Wessler, Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly; released by Warner Brothers Pictures. Running time: 1 hour 45 minutes.
WITH: Owen Wilson (Rick), Jason Sudeikis (Fred), Jenna Fischer (Maggie), Christina Applegate (Grace), Nicky Whelan (Leigh), Stephen Merchant (Gary), Larry Joe Campbell (Hog-Head), J B Smoove (Flats), Joy Behar (Dr. Lucy) and Richard Jenkins (Coakley). |||||
Solution: | The Farrelly brothers’ new film, Hall Pass, tells the story of two men given a week off from marriage. Don’t expect any surprises: “The Farrellys are exploring nominally adult realms, like marital fatigue and cheating, but too often these apparent good intentions get the best of them and their timing,” writes Manohla Dargis in the New York Times. Plus, they’re “oblivious to camera movement, blocking, lighting and all the filmmaking rest.” “Ever catch yourself thinking, ‘Man, I wish beer commercials lasted just 104 minutes longer?’" asks Elizabeth Weitzman in the New York Daily News. “The Farrelly brothers are ready to make your dreams come true.” The film continues its directors’ “creative slide into everyday crude (because watching a guy poop in a sand trap is neither clever nor funny),” notes Betsy Sharkey in the Los Angeles Times. “For all the off-colors they wave, the Farrellys have a winning sentimental side, too. It's time for them to get past their Peter Pan potty-mouth days.” |
IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
A woman fills the container of an iron with water, after she reads the tag of a shirt to set up the iron temperature. then
OPTIONS:
- , a woman puts the iron temperature with the iron temperature getting into a small raised surface and joins the metal to form a straight line.
- , she irons a utensil on the iron causing sparks to fly in the air.
- , the woman gives a press of a button and tiny sunny bolts appear until hits the washer and the denim shirt turns a dull shade of gray.
- , the woman iron the shirt carefully.
OUT: , the woman iron the shirt carefully.
Question:
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence for the following:
How to submit photos to google maps on an iphone
Open the google maps app.
It looks like a map with a g in it.
Tap on the search bar.
OPTIONS:
- It's at the top of your screen. Type in the name of a location.
- This button is located on the upper right corner of the app. Tap on " help " to access google maps.
- This will redirect you to google maps. Tap on the profile picture you want to send your photos to.
- Tap on google maps on the navigation bar below the search bar at the bottom of the screen. Select a location to add photos to.
****
Answer:
It's at the top of your screen. Type in the name of a location.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
A man in a yellow jacket and orange helmet is shown ocean kayaking. Other kayakers are shown battling through waves and riding them. a set of photos
OPTIONS:
- show the kayakers navigating the ocean and crashing into waves.
- are shown of water goers.
- are shown of the kayaked crew.
- appear and it intercuts with urging credits.
A: show the kayakers navigating the ocean and crashing into waves.
Two men in sneakers and sweatpants stand on the other side of a glass walled gym room and hit a tennis ball against a wall. the men
OPTIONS:
- play bouncing the tennis balls between bars located on the floor.
- get onto sequences and hit the ball back toward the net.
- in the beige polo attempt to hit the object while gesturing to other men holding tennis rackets, and bring the balls to the rag ball area.
- hit the tennis ball after it bounces off the wall as onlookers watch through the glass wall.
hit the tennis ball after it bounces off the wall as onlookers watch through the glass wall.
question: Complete the next sentence:
A group of girls are on a sandy beach. They are engaged in a game of volleyball. they
OPTIONS:
- lob the ball back and forth over the net.
- kick the ball back and forth over the net, trying to score.
- punch at the pins of the pins with the mini weapons they have become.
- hit the volleyball back and forth over a net, trying to catch the ball.
answer: lob the ball back and forth over the net.
IN: What happens next?
As the camera walks, it was showing the well maintained hedges, at the center of two hedges is a narrow path leading to a wider field surrounded by more hedges. on one side of the hedge
OPTIONS:
- a dog is shown and it is sitting and running around the small yard.
- was a bike drawn on the ground, in mind it's a bike antique.
- is a man in black shirt, he is standing on a ladder, he is trimming the hedges.
- begins the path, the camera follows the path around to the back of the house towards the house.
OUT: | is a man in black shirt, he is standing on a ladder, he is trimming the hedges. |
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:He had devoted his enormous energies to the destruction of what Republicans called the " Slave Power " .
Solution: | He had devoted his enormous energies to the destruction of what Republicans called the Slave Power , that is the efforts of slave owners to take control of the federal government and ensure the survival and expansion of slavery . |
Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to get bigger chest muscles (pecs )
Do push ups.
This often-neglected exercise focuses on building up your shoulder and upper chest muscles. Lie face-down on the floor and start with your hands about shoulder-width apart, with your legs stretched behind you.
Available choices: A. Push your body up from the floor with your hands until your elbows are straight, then lower yourself until your arms reach a 90 degree bend. Do 3 sets of 15 push-ups, or as many as you can before growing fatigued.; B. Your elbows should be bent at a 90 degree angle and your hands should rest squarely on your shoulders. Your feet should be planted firmly on the floor, but not so bent that they are bending below your hips.; C. Lift one leg up off the floor and bring it down to your ankle in a hard, controlled motion. Turn over on to your other side, keeping your torso balanced on your forearms.; D. Pull yourself up until your front chest is above the floor ( Do arm press-ups. The arms will do most of the weight-bearing (control) for you.; | A. |
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: Jenner thought that the pus in the blisters that milkmaids received from cowpox ( a disease similar to smallpox , but much less virulent ) protected them from smallpox .
Student: | Noting the common observation that milkmaids were generally immune to smallpox , Jenner postulated that the pus in the blisters that milkmaids received from cowpox ( a disease similar to smallpox , but much less virulent ) protected them from smallpox . |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Q: Clarence Clemons Dies, an 'Immeasurable' Loss Says Bruce Springsteen
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He was the "Big Man" that Bruce Springsteen leaned on, both figuratively and literally, to provide the soul and heart of the legendary E Street Band. Now, that light has gone out. Clarence Clemons, the larger-than-life sax man in the world's greatest backing band, died Saturday of complications from a stroke suffered last week, a spokesman said. He was 69. He was the "Big Man" that Bruce Springsteen leaned on, both figuratively and literally, to provide the soul and heart of the legendary E Street Band. Now, that light has gone out. Clarence Clemons, the larger-than-life sax man in the world's greatest backing band, died Saturday of complications from a stroke suffered last week, a spokesman said. He was 69.
"Clarence lived a wonderful life. He carried within him a love of people that made them love him. He created a wondrous and extended family. He loved the saxophone, loved our fans and gave everything he had every night he stepped on stage. His loss is immeasurable and we are honored and thankful to have known him and had the opportunity to stand beside him for nearly forty years. He was my great friend, my partner, and with Clarence at my side, my band and I were able to tell a story far deeper than those simply contained in our music. His life, his memory, and his love will live on in that story and in our band."
Clemons and Springsteen have been tethered together for 40 years, starting with a mythical rainy night in Asbury Park in 1971 when the horn player sat in with the unknown and struggling songwriter at a local bar. He was soon in Springsteen's backing band and was a part of his debut, 'Greetings From Asbury Park.'Springsteen released a statement on his website following his friend's death:In the E Street Band, his horn playing was an essential part of the scrappy yet huge sound on records like 'Thunder Road' and 'Jungleland.' It's Clemons who 'The Boss' leans on on the cover of perhaps his most iconic album, 'Born to Run' and he raved about the artwork in Clemons' memoir, 'Big Man: Real Life and Tall Tales.'"When you open it up and see Clarence and me together, the album begins to work its magic," Springsteen wrote. "Who are these guys? Where did they come from? What is the joke they are sharing? A friendship and a narrative steeped in the complicated history of America begins to work and there is music already in the air."And while guitarist Steven Van Zandt gets to cozy up with Springsteen night after night, trading backing vocals during their marathon concerts, it's always Clemons who has been introduced last by the E Street Band's boss.That level of respect has been shared by E Street devotees for decades.Clemons did not depend solely on Springsteen, though, and scored a hit of his own alongside Jackson Browne with 1985's 'You're a Friend of Mine.' He also did a bit of acting in the 1980s, on TV in 'Diff'rent Strokes' and films like 'Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.'Fans of the gritty HBO drama 'The Wire' will remember his 2-episode stint as Roman.In 1989, about 17 years into his tenure in E Street, Springsteen called and informed Clemons he was breaking up the band. He was on tour with Ringo Starr at the time and Clemons said the Beatle looked on with concern, believing the saxophonist was being told about a death."[Springsteen] said he wanted to try something new, do something different," Clemons explained in the Phoenix Gazette. "It was quite a shock; you go through all the emotions of a divorce, all the emotions, instantly. I didn't say much to him. I just said, 'Good luck.' But before long I started to see the good side."Ten years later, Springsteen reformed the band and they've produced some of their most inspired work in their history, including the post-9/11 'The Rising' and 2007's rollicking 'Magic.'Clemons is the second member of the band to pass away in recent years. In 2008, organ and accordionist Danny Federici lost a fight with melanoma, a type of skin cancer.While he allowed fans into his world as a musician, Clemons didn't speak much about his personal life. The Norfolk, Virginia native was married five times in his lifetime and is survived by four sons, Clarence III, Charles, Christopher and Jarod. ||||| Clarence Clemons is in a better place.
The saxophone player, who rose to fame as a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band in the 1970s, died on Saturday, his former manager confirms to Us Weekly. He was 69 years old.
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Clemons recently underwent two brain surgeries after suffering a "serious stroke" on June 12.
"While all initial signs are encouraging, Clarence will need much care and support to achieve his potential once again," Springsteen, 61, wrote on his website prior to Clemons' passing. "He has his wonderfully supportive wife, Victoria, excellent doctors and health care professionals, and is surrounded by friends and family."
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Known by fans as The Big Man, Clemons worked with many artists throughout his career, including Jackson Browne ("You're a Friend of Mine"), Aretha Franklin ("Freeway of Love") and Lady Gaga ("Edge of Glory" and "Hair").
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In addition to his music career, Clemons has also dabbled in the world of acting. He made his television debut in Martin Scorsese's 1977 musical, New York, New York, in which he portrayed a trumpet player. He also appeared in films such as 1989's Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, 1993's Fatal Instinct, 1998's Blues Brothers 2000 and 1999's Swing. |||||
A: | Clarence Clemons, the saxophonist who found fame as a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, has died. He was 69 years old. Clemons suffered a stroke last Sunday, and the New York Times reports that the cause of death was complications from that stroke. The paper calls Clemons "a central part" in the Boss' music, citing his contributions to songs like "Born to Run." Clemons had also dabbled in acting, appearing in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and Fatal Instinct among other films, notes Us Weekly. The "Big Man" also worked with a number of artists beyond Springsteen, including Aretha Franklin ("Freeway of Love") and Lady Gaga ("Edge of Glory," "Hair"). Click for more. |
Bakhtar Afghan Airlines was an airline from Afghanistan, which offered domestic flights. The company was founded in 1967 as Bakhtar Alwatana, a name it kept until 1985, when it was renamed Bakhtar Afghan Airlines. In 1985 the company absorbed Ariana Afghan Airlines and became Afghanistan's sole airline company. In 1988 the Ariana and Bakhtar brands merged.
Can we draw the following conclusion?
By 1986 the name Bakhtar Alwatana had been abandoned by the airline. | Yes |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Problem:KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Two U.S. soldiers were killed Saturday when an Afghan army solider opened fire on them in eastern Afghanistan, an Afghan official said.
Attahullah Khogyani, spokesman for the provincial governor in Nangarhar province, said that two other U.S. soldiers are wounded in the attack, which took place in the Achin district. He said the Afghan soldier was killed after the attack.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a statement that a Taliban loyalist had infiltrated the Afghan army "just to attack foreign forces."
A statement from the U.S. military said merely that the military was "aware of an incident in eastern Afghanistan."
White House spokesman Raj Shah told reporters traveling with the President Donald Trump in New Jersey that Trump was "following the emerging situation in Afghanistan."
Such insider attacks have happened before in Afghanistan. In March, another Afghan soldier was killed after he opened fire on foreign forces at a base in Helmand province, wounding three U.S. soldiers. ||||| (CNN) Three US soldiers were killed and another wounded during a joint US-Afghan military operation Saturday in Nangarhar province, US officials told CNN.
The Pentagon named the three soldiers Monday as Sgt. Eric M. Houck, 25, of Baltimore; Sgt. William M. Bays, 29, of Barstow, California; and Cpl. Dillon C. Baldridge, 22, of Youngsville, North Carolina.
On Monday evening Vice President Pence was at Dover Air Force Base to attend the dignified transfer of the three soldiers.
Pence stood with his hand over his heart as the flag draped caskets were brought off the plane.
An American official said the soldiers were shot in an apparent insider attack, also known as a " green-on-blue " incident because of the color-coding system used by NATO. During such assaults, members of the Afghan security forces are known to target US and other NATO soldiers.
The shooter in Saturday's incident was an Afghan army commando, Nangarhar provincial spokesman Attaullah Khogyani said. He said the assailant was killed by Afghan forces.
Three US troops were killed Saturday in Achin District.
The shootings occurred in the Achin District, where US and Afghan troops have been carrying out a monthslong offensive against a local affiliate of ISIS, officials said.
Taliban claim responsibility
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said the militants claimed responsibility for the attack.
"A Mujahid (freedom fighter) infiltrator of the Islamic Emirate who had enrolled himself in the Kabul government's army attacked American soldiers in Lata Band area of Achin District in Nangarhar province today in the afternoon," said a written statement in Pashto obtained by CNN. "The American invaders were there to support their Afghan slaves."
Cpl. Dillon C. Baldridge
Sgt. William M. Bays
Sgt. Eric M. Houck
US President Donald Trump was briefed on the shootings, and Vice President Mike Pence said Saturday that details of the attack would be forthcoming.
"When heroes fall, Americans grieve," Pence said Saturday. "Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of these American heroes."
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer acknowledged the deaths in his Monday briefing.
"The incident is currently under investigation, but our thoughts and our prayers are with the families of these American heroes who lost their lives in this tragic event," Spicer said.
A US military spokesman in Afghanistan said the military "will release more information when appropriate."
Soldiers' families mourn
Houck had two children, 5 and 3, and was due to come home next month, his father, Mike, told CNN affiliate WBAL
"He is a hero," Mike Houck told the station.
"You realize that important person you love is never coming back into your life," he added. "He'll always be in my heart. He'll always be in my thoughts."
Baldridge was also supposed to return home this summer. Family members told CNN affiliate WRAL he went to Afghanistan in October and was due back in August.
Russell Holloman, the principal of Franklinton High School, said Baldridge, who graduated in 2012, was a kindhearted and giving person.
"He made an early commitment to the military during his high school career and maintained that focus and selfless dedication after graduation," Holloman said in a statement. "Our community has truly lost a hero."
Afghan police killed in another incident
In Kabul, meanwhile, the US military command said an unspecified number of Afghan police were killed and wounded in a "friendly fire" incident during a joint Afghan-US operation overnight Saturday.
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US Forces Afghanistan said members of the Afghan Border Police in Helmand province were killed and wounded during an operation involving US and Afghan defense and security forces.
The deaths occurred when a US aircraft fired on Afghan police, said Omar Zawak, spokesman for the governor of Helmand.
US Forces Afghanistan was investigating the incident.
Two US service members killed in April
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US and coalition casualties in Afghanistan have become rarer in recent years, falling dramatically since the Afghan government assumed responsibility for combat operations in 2014.
But in late April, two US service members were killed and another wounded while conducting a joint raid in the Achin District, a Pentagon spokesman said. The operation was targeting ISIS-K, the terrorist group's Afghanistan affiliate.
Achin District is the primary base of operations for ISIS in Afghanistan and has been the site of multiple joint US-Afghan counterterrorism missions. A US Army Special Forces soldier was killed fighting the terrorist group there in early April.
The district is also where the United States dropped one of its most powerful bombs , killing close to 100 ISIS fighters, according to Afghan officials.
Beginning in 2016, Afghan security forces backed by US military advisers launched a major offensive against ISIS. Gen. John W. Nicholson, commander of US Forces Afghanistan, has said the terrorist group has lost about half its fighters and been ejected from two-thirds of its territory.
The latest counter-ISIS push began in March of this year.
US officials estimate ISIS has 600 to 800 fighters in the country, mostly former members of other regional terrorist groups, such as the Pakistani Taliban and Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. ISIS is believed to be behind a series of terrorist attacks, including the recent fatal attack on a hospital in Kabul.
There are about 8,400 US troops in Afghanistan. The US counterterrorism mission is separate from the NATO-led effort to train, advise and assist the Afghan army and police force in the fight against the Taliban. |||||
Solution: | Three US soldiers were killed Saturday when an Afghan army solider opened fire on them in eastern Afghanistan, US officials tell CNN. One other US soldier was wounded in the attack, which took place in the Achin district. An Afghan official said the Afghan soldier was killed after the attack. The AP reports the Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said in a statement that a Taliban loyalist had infiltrated the Afghan army "just to attack foreign forces." A statement from the US military said merely that the military was "aware of an incident in eastern Afghanistan." White House spokesperson Raj Shah told reporters traveling with President Trump in New Jersey that Trump was "following the emerging situation in Afghanistan." Such insider attacks have happened before in Afghanistan. In March, another Afghan soldier was killed after he opened fire on foreign forces at a base in Helmand province, wounding three US soldiers. |
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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Question: An emergency telephone is a special telephone that can be used in an emergency situation .
Answer: An emergency telephone is a phone specifically provided for making calls to emergency services and is most often found in a place of special danger or where it is likely that there will be a need to make emergency calls .
Question: The Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch is a group of Christians .
Answer: The Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch , also known as the Antiochian Orthodox Church and legally as the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East , is an autocephalous Greek Orthodox Church within the wider communion of Eastern Orthodox Christianity .
Question: Sea snakes , or " coral reef snakes " , are venomous elapid snakes .
Answer: | Sea snakes , or coral reef snakes , are a subfamily of venomous elapid snakes , the Hydrophiinae , that inhabit marine environments for most or all of their lives .
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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.
Many FIPS standards are modified versions of standards used in the wider community ( ANSI , IEEE , ISO , etc . ) | Many FIPS specifications are modified versions of standards used in the technical communities , such as the American National Standards Institute ( ANSI ) , the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE ) , and the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ) . |
Canada is officially a bilingual country but, with nearly 60% of the population speaking English as their mother-tongue, and only 24% speaking French as their first language, some people are questioning whether Canada is truly a bilingual nation or rather, a bilingual nation on paper only. French is not the only linguistic minority in Canada, and some of the languages spoken, in order of popularity, are Chinese, Italian, German, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Ukrainian, Arabic, Dutch, Tagalog, Greek, Vietnamese, Cree and Inuktitut.
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true?
People speak French in Canada.
Choose your answer from: 1. Yes 2. It's impossible to say 3. No | 1. |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
One example: Powdered sugar, also called confectioners' sugar, icing sugar, and icing cake, is a finely ground sugar produced by milling granulated sugar into a powdered state. It usually contains a small amount of anti-caking agent to prevent clumping and improve flow. Although most often produced in a factory, powdered sugar can also be made by processing ordinary granulated sugar in a coffee grinder, or by crushing it by hand in a mortar and pestle.
Solution is here: is confectionary sugar the same as powdered sugar?
Explanation: The question is a yes/no question, and it is answerable based on the given passage.
Now, solve this: The 2011 NBA Finals was the championship series of the 2010--11 season of the National Basketball Association (NBA) in which the Western Conference champion Dallas Mavericks defeated the Eastern Conference champion Miami Heat 4 games to 2 to win their first NBA championship. The series was held from May 31 to June 12, 2011. German player Dirk Nowitzki was named the Finals MVP, becoming the second European to win the award after Tony Parker (2007) and the first German player to do so. The series was a rematch of the 2006 NBA Finals, which the Heat had won in six games.
Solution: | did the dallas mavericks ever win the nba championship? |
Q: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Michael Strahan is in the running to be Kelly Ripa's full-time co-host on "Live!" (Getty Images / )
If Michael Strahan lands the coveted gig sitting next to Kelly Ripa every morning permanently, it doesn't necessarily mean he'll give up his duties at Fox Sports.
Strahan is in the running for the job of co-host of the morning talk show "Live!" While it is a daily gig that requires getting up awfully early and being super perky, Strahan is expected to keep working at Fox as one of the hosts of its popular NFL pregame program "Fox NFL Sunday" should he land the job.
Doing double duty is nothing new for Strahan. He successfully managed to star in the short-lived Fox sitcom "Brothers" without it affecting his position at "Fox NFL Sunday."
However, juggling "Live!" and "Fox NFL Sunday" may be a little trickier and will certainly mean less sleep and more travel for Strahan. "Live!" shoots in New York City, while "Fox NFL Sunday" is produced out of Los Angeles.
It has been almost a year since Regis Philbin left "Live!" and since then there have been 59 different co-hosts. Many, including Alec Baldwin and Jonah Hill, sat in for fun but for others it has been an audition. Besides Strahan, some of the big names who have sat next to Ripa include Neil Patrick Harris and Seth Meyers, who has already said he's not interested.
If Strahan does get the job, don't be surprised if he mistakes Howie Long for Kelly Ripa one day or vice versa.
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Kelly Ripa will get new partner next month
Kelly Ripa rules out her husband as 'Live!' co-host
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Former NFL star and current Fox Sports personality will assume ABC chair formerly held by Regis Philbin
By Ben Grossman -- Broadcasting & Cable, 8/21/2012 3:30:00 PM
ABC is expected to announce in early September that Michael Strahan will take over as the cohost of Live! alongside Kelly Ripa, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the situation.Even when he assumes the new role, Strahan is expected to remain in his role with Fox NFL Sunday, as first reported by Joe Flint in the Los Angeles Times. The long-running ABC franchise originates weekdays from New York, while Fox's popular NFL studio programming is in Los Angeles.Strahan, a former defensive star in the NFL, was also the star of a (brief) sitcom for Fox, Brothers.The ABC morning show has been without a permanent sidekick for Ripa since Philbin left the show in late 2011. It has used a constant flow of guest hosts -- including Strahan and other finalists for the permanent job, like Seth Meyers -- since then.An ABC spokesperson declined to comment for this story.With additional reporting by Paige Albiniak |||||
A: | Kelly Ripa is finally getting a permanent replacement for Regis Philbin after nearly year, and Broadcasting & Cable says it's former NFL star Michael Strahan. ABC wouldn't confirm, but the network is expected to make the announcement in a few weeks. Strahan has been one of the many guest co-hosts to work with Ripa on the Live! show. Football fans who like him on Fox NFL Sunday might not have to worry: The Los Angeles Times speculated a few days ago that he would probably keep that gig even if he got the ABC job. |
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.
See one example below:
Problem: 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.
Explanation: The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
Problem: " Megasthenes lived with Sibyrtius , satrap of Arachosia , and often speaks of his visiting Sandracottus , the king of the Indians . "
Solution: | Arrian explains that Megasthenes lived in Arachosia , with the satrap Sibyrtius , from where he visited India : Megasthenes lived with Sibyrtius , satrap of Arachosia , and often speaks of his visiting Sandracottus , the king of the Indians . " |
Q: 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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/ Updated By Corky Siemaszko
How many Americans are using prescription opioid painkillers? About one in three.
That's the stunning number in a new survey released Monday from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which calculated that a whopping 91.8 million Americans used drugs like OxyContin or Vicodin in 2015.
And nearly five percent of the adults surveyed told researchers they took these drugs without their doctor’s permission, the study reported.
They didn’t get their meds from some seedy drug dealer, either.
“The most commonly reported sources were friends and relatives for free,” the study reported. “Or a physician.”
The NIDA study was released on the same day that the presidential opioid commission, chaired by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, released its first report and recommendations for tackling an opioid plague that killed more than 15,000 people in 2015, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The study urged President Donald Trump to "declare a national emergency" and noted that "America is enduring a death toll equal to September 11th every three weeks."
“As access to prescription opioids tightens, consumers increasingly are turning to dangerous street opioids, heroin, fentanyl alone or combined, and mingled with cocaine or other drugs," the commission stated in an interim report to Trump.
NIDA said the treatment of pain is at the root of the problem.
“Our results are consistent with findings that pain is a poorly addressed clinical and public health problem in the United States and that it may be a key part of the pathway to misuse or addiction,” the group stated in the study.
NIDA’s recommendations included "better prevention and treatment of the underlying disorders are necessary to decrease pain and the morbidity and mortality associated with opioid misuse,” the study said.
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“Simply restricting access to opioids without offering alternative pain treatments may have limited efficacy in reducing prescription opioid abuse.”
It could also “lead people to seek prescription opioids outside the health system or to use nonprescription opioids such as heroin or illicitly made fentanyl, which could increase health, misuse, and overdose risks.”
Trump launched the commission on March 29 to tackle a drug problem that kills an estimated 78 Americans per day.
In their report, the Christie-led commission made several recommendations. Among other things, they suggested expanding treatment facilities across the country, educating doctors about the proper way to prescribe pain medication, equipping all police officers with the anti-overdose remedy naloxone, developing new fentanyl detection sensors, and improving data-sharing among law enforcement agencies.
"Since 1999, the number of opioid overdoses in America have quadrupled," the presidential commission stated. "Not coincidentally, in that same period, the amount of prescription opioids in America have quadrupled as well."
The commission’s first report on the federal response to the opioid crisis was supposed to be released 90 days after Trump launched it in March. But it was delayed twice while the Republican-led House and then the Senate tried and failed to repeal and replace Obamacare.
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Critics said the Obamacare repeal plans the GOP was pushing would have gutted existing programs that have been helping legions of substance abusers kick their habits.
Meanwhile, the Democrats accused Christie and the Trump administration of "dragging its feet" on the issue.
“There’s money available,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Sunday. “The commission is supposed to put (forward) the best ways to spend that, and they haven’t done that."
Christie insisted the delays were necessary because they got far more input from the public than they had expected.
Criminal justice professor Brian Levin said the feeling among many academics is that Trump’s commission is "window dressing."
“Like many initiatives coming out of the administration, it’s hampered by the chaos around management,” Levin, of the California State University San Bernardino, told NBC News. “Moreover, there seems to be a concentration on rhetoric and law enforcement responses at a time when resources from health and addiction are on the chopping block.”
Levin, a former New York City police officer who walked a beat in Manhattan at the height of the crack epidemic, said arresting more people won’t end the opioid crisis.
“The research indicates that enforcement alone, absent a systematic medical and counseling response, is due to fail,” Levin said. |||||
A pharmacy technician poses for a picture with Hydrocodone and acetaminophen tablets, also known as Vicodin, in 2010 at the Oklahoma Hospital Discount Pharmacy in Edmond, Okla. (Sue Ogrocki/AP)
What's the dollar value of pain? Or more accurately: What's the value of getting rid of it or avoiding it completely?
That's the question posed by a team of Icelandic and American economists in a working paper published this week by the National Bureau of Economic Research. It's not just an academic inquiry — the opiate epidemic currently ravaging many U.S. communities owes much of its existence to the more aggressive stance toward pain that pharmaceutical companies, doctors and patients started adopting in the 1990s.
The question of "how did we arrive at a place where 60,000 people a year die from drug overdose," in other words, is at least partly a question of "how far would we go to avoid pain?"
But if you're an economist, answering that question is surprisingly difficult. You can't simply flat-out ask people how much they'd pay to avoid pain. Most people aren't used to thinking of their suffering in dollar terms. People who haven't experienced severe or chronic pain are likely to underestimate the value of being pain-free. There's often a gap between what people say on questions like these, and what they actually do.
So for this paper, the researchers used a technique that's been used to study the implicit "cost" of a number of different ailments, like migraines, cancer and arthritis. They analyzed data from over 22,000 Americans over the age of 50 who had taken part in the Health and Retirement Study, a federally-funded survey of older Americans, between 2008 and 2014.
That survey asked respondents three key questions. First, how satisfied they were with their life overall. Second, how much money they made in the past year. And third and most crucially: "Are you often troubled with pain?"
Triangulating a dollar value for pain from these three variables requires some statistical jiu-jitsu. To heavily oversimplify it, you can use the three numbers to estimate how much money it would take for a person currently suffering pain to rise to the same level of overall life satisfaction as somebody not experiencing pain. Conversely, for a person not experiencing pain you can estimate how much money you'd have to take away for them to have the same life satisfaction as a pain-sufferer.
As the study's authors put it, you get an implicit answer to this question without having to actually pose it to people: "Consider your overall satisfaction with life being often troubled by pain, what would you be willing to pay to be just as happy but without pain?"
The answer: between $56 and $145. A day. Which works out to between $20,000 and $53,000 a year. Recall that the median household income is about $56,000, and the trade-off becomes stark: Some people would theoretically be willing to give up their entire livelihoods to be pain-free.
These results control for a number of other factors that could presumably influence this trade-off, like marital status, age, race, and various health conditions. The authors nonetheless found that two considerations have a lot of influence on the numbers: pain severity (the more pain you're in, the more you'd pay to make it stop) and overall income (if you have more money to burn, you'd pay more to get rid of pain).
Still, the overall well-being cost of pain is staggering, particularly when you stack it against the cost of products designed to make pain go away: prescription opiates. At current prices, according to drug price aggregator GoodRX, you can purchase a 120-pill supply of Oxycodone for about $20 (without insurance). That works out to a generous day's supply of four pills for a total of 68 cents. Insurance coverage would drive the price down to practically zero. All you need is a doctor's prescription.
Imagine you're a rational pain-sufferer, willing to pay upwards of $100 a day to ease your suffering. Along comes a product that offers the promise of doing that for less than 1/100th of that price. What are you going to do?
This new study has limitations, of course. It focused exclusively on older Americans — the math might be different for young folks. The pain price estimates are just that — estimates, based on survey data that may be subject to its own forms of error.
But it nevertheless underscores the huge gap between what people appear to be willing to pay to get rid of pain and the actual price dealing with pain via opiate painkillers. |||||
A: | Chronic pain can be downright unbearable, and opioids to treat it can be hard to quit. In fact, with opioid addiction claiming more lives than ever, the US is experiencing what President Trump has just called a national emergency. Researchers found that in 2015, one in three Americans took opioid painkillers—sometimes prescribed by physicians, sometimes not, reports NBC News. And with aging populations in the US and beyond, researchers are now helping governments put a price on pain so that officials can decide how much of a spending priority to make pain management and research into pain management. In short, the new research says that for people who are 50 and older in the US, avoiding chronic pain is worth anywhere from $56 to $145 a day, reports Quartz. Specifically, researchers looked at three things: each respondent's life satisfaction, income, and pain level. To "heavily oversimplify it," as the Washington Post puts it, the numbers represent either how much extra money a person suffering from chronic pain would need to make every day to enjoy the life satisfaction of someone not in pain, or how much a person not experiencing pain would have to lose to experience the life satisfaction of someone in pain. The range adds up to $20,000 to $53,000 a year, which almost reaches the country's $56,000 median household income. Not surprisingly, wealthier people and those in the most pain are willing to pay more for pain management. (The opioid epidemic may be considerably worse than previously calculated.) |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
[Q]: Hundreds of thousands of years before China was to become the world's longest-running civilization, the prologue was enacted by means of the flicker of a carefully tended fire. Peking Man, a forebear of Homo sapiens, achieved a mastery of fire. We might call it the first Chinese invention. Not that he devised flint and steel, matches, or any other way of creating fire. Peking Man simply learned how to capture flame, perhaps from a forest fire, and keep it alight. He thus enjoyed two revolutionary luxuries: light and heat. Technologically and sociologically, it was a phenomenal breakthrough: with fire, communities could live year 'round in one cave, in which cooking and even smelting could be pursued. And so, by 600,000 b.c., about 50 km (31 miles) southwest of present-day Beijing, the ancestors of mankind were ready to settle down. Several hundred thousand years later, when Marco Polo reached the capital of China, he was astonished by a further development in fire technology. The Chinese, he announced, used black stones dug out of mountains as fuel. Europeans did not yet have a word for "coal," nor had they discovered a use for it. The First Dynasty The confluence of mythology and history in China took place around 4,000 years ago during what is referred to as the Xia (Hsia) Dynasty. This was still the Stone Age, but the people are thought to have made silk from thread produced by the worms they cultivated on the leaves of their mulberry trees. And written language (which evolved as early as 4,500 to 5,000 years ago) was already in use, originally by oracles and then by official scribes — China's first scholars. During the second of the quasi-legendary dynasties, the Shang (from about the 16th to 11th centuries b.c.), the Chinese developed an interest in art. Careful geometric designs as well as dragon and bird motifs adorned bowls and implements. And with the arrival of the Bronze Age, the Chinese created bronze vessels of such beauty and originality that, until modern times, archaeologists refused to believe they were cast 3,000 years ago. The Shang Dynasty gave rise to the concept of one Chinese nation under one government. <sep>During the Shang Dynasty, the Chinese developed an interest in what type of designs?<sep>Bowls
[A]: No
[Q]: Plants also detect the daily cycle of light and darkness. Do you know how plants respond to these changes? Some plants open their leaves during the day. It is during these hours the plant can collect sunlight. At night, the plant closes its leaves to prevent water loss. Many plants respond to the change in the length of the day. As days grow shorter, some plants respond by going dormant. Dormant is when a plant suspends its growth. It does this in order to survive. Shorter days signal the coming of winter. Winter in most areas means extreme cold. It is also very dry in the winter months. As winter approaches, some plants respond by their leaves changing color. After the change in color, they fall off. This dormancy period helps trees. It allows them to survive the cold and dry winter. Plants only want to grow when conditions are right. <sep>Do some plants' leaves fall off in the winter months?<sep>No, they fall off in the autumn only
[A]: No
[Q]: The protagonist Preetam ( ( ( Ganesh , on a visit to Eva Mall amidst a heavy wind , spots a pretty girl , Nandini . While staring at her , he inadvertently falls into a manhole . Nandini rescues him from the pit , but in the process loses her heart-shaped watch she had just bought . While accompanying his mother to Madikeri , Preetam confronts a man named Jaanu . Jaanu , who has been following Nandini , beats up Preetam thinking that he is in love with Nandini . Preetam , unaware that Jaanu has vowed not to allow any one near Nandini , trashes Jaanu and his gang in return . In Madikeri , Preetam meets Nandini unexpectedly . He identifies himself and expresses his love towards her and offers to tie the watch as an indication for their marriage . Nandini , who is already engaged rejects his request . Still , Preetam vows to marry Nandini if she meets him again . In the meantime , Preetam discovers that his host in Madikeri , Col. Subbayya is Nandini's father , who is pretty much deaf , and Nandini's marriage is a just a week away . Dejected , Preetam throws Nandini's heart-shaped watch away . But Nandini calls him over the phone and taunts him to return . Delighted , Preetam goes in search of her watch and brings it back . While searching it , he spots a rabbit , Which he calls Devadas , and brings it along with him . Since Nandini's friends are due to arrive from Mumbai for the marriage , Preetam takes Nandini to the railway station . The train from Mumbai is delayed by five hours , so Nandini and Preetam decide to visit a nearby hill-temple . <sep>Who falls into a manhole?<sep>Col. Subbayya
[A]: | No
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In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
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Question: How does Leibniz feel about the absolutist position?, Context: Arguing against the absolutist position, Leibniz offers a number of thought experiments with the purpose of showing that there is contradiction in assuming the existence of facts such as absolute location and velocity. These arguments trade heavily on two principles central to his philosophy: the principle of sufficient reason and the identity of indiscernibles. The principle of sufficient reason holds that for every fact, there is a reason that is sufficient to explain what and why it is the way it is and not otherwise. The identity of indiscernibles states that if there is no way of telling two entities apart, then they are one and the same thing.
Answer: there is contradiction
Question: What area was acquired after 1815?, Context: With Burma preoccupied by the Chinese threat, Ayutthaya recovered its territories by 1770, and went on to capture Lan Na by 1776. Burma and Siam went to war until 1855, but all resulted in a stalemate, exchanging Tenasserim (to Burma) and Lan Na (to Ayutthaya). Faced with a powerful China and a resurgent Ayutthaya in the east, King Bodawpaya turned west, acquiring Arakan (1785), Manipur (1814) and Assam (1817). It was the second-largest empire in Burmese history but also one with a long ill-defined border with British India.
Answer: Assam
Question: Beavers are keystone species that create what to protect against predators?, Context: The Zipingpu Hydropower Plant (simplified Chinese: 紫坪铺水库; traditional Chinese: 紫坪鋪水庫) located 20 km east of the epicenter was damaged. A recent inspection indicated that the damage was less severe than initially feared, and it remains structurally stable and safe. The Tulong reservoir upstream is in danger of collapse. About 2,000 troops have been allocated to Zipingpu, trying to release the pressure through spillway. In total, 391 dams, most of them small, were reported damaged by the quake.
Answer: | dams
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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.
Q: When would all troops leave?, Context: The Prussian Army, under the terms of the armistice, held a brief victory parade in Paris on 17 February; the city was silent and draped with black and the Germans quickly withdrew. Bismarck honoured the armistice, by allowing train loads of food into Paris and withdrawing Prussian forces to the east of the city, prior to a full withdrawal once France agreed to pay a five billion franc war indemnity. At the same time, Prussian forces were concentrated in the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine. An exodus occurred from Paris as some 200,000 people, predominantly middle-class, went to the countryside.
A: | once France agreed to pay a five billion franc war indemnity |
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: Ethical egoism is the normative ethical position that moral agents ought to do what is in their own self-interest. It differs from psychological egoism, which claims that people can only act in their self-interest. Ethical egoism also differs from rational egoism, which holds that it is rational to act in one's self-interest. Ethical egoism holds, therefore, that actions whose consequences will benefit the doer can be considered ethical in this sense.
Student: | how does egoism define what is morally right |
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: It was thought that physical punishment , such as whippings , only made prisoners worse .
A: | The hard corporal punishment , such as whippings , used in other penal stations was thought to only serve to harden criminals , and did nothing to turn them from their immoral ways . |
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.
Input: Not all nation states have codified constitutions, though all such states have a jus commune, or law of the land, that may consist of a variety of imperative and consensual rules. These may include customary law, conventions, statutory law, judge-made law, or international rules and norms. Constitutional law deals with the fundamental principles by which the government exercises its authority. In some instances, these principles grant specific powers to the government, such as the power to tax and spend for the welfare of the population. Other times, constitutional principles act to place limits on what the government can do, such as prohibiting the arrest of an individual without sufficient cause.
Output: | what is the difference between common law statutory law and constitutional law |
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.
Input: Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles, (Spanish: Condado de Los Ángeles) is the most populous county in the United States, with more than 10 million inhabitants as of 2017. Its population is larger than that of 41 individual U.S. states. It is the third-largest metropolitan economy in the world, with a Nominal GDP of over $700 billion -- larger than the GDPs of Belgium, Saudi Arabia, Norway and Taiwan. It has 88 incorporated cities and many unincorporated areas and at 4,083 square miles (10,570 km), it is larger than the combined areas of Delaware and Rhode Island. The county is home to more than one-quarter of California residents and is one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the U.S. Its county seat, Los Angeles, is also its most populous city at about four million.
Output: | what is the difference between los angeles and los angeles county |
Question:
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence for the following:
How to find more time in your work day
Look over your calendar for the past year to find meetings, conferences, committees and other work obligations that took a large chunk of your working hours but were wastes of time.
Resign, withdraw or do whatever is necessary to avoid wasting time by participating in the future.
If your job requires you attend, think of ways you can multi-task while you are there.
OPTIONS:
- In a year or two, you could transfer all work to another part of your work day. That way, your regular work will be largely in another part of your day.
- Send someone else to attend in your place if you feel the company should be represented. Limit the amount of time you spend corresponding to email.
- Organizing documents and keeping records may open your doors a wider range of ways to spend time while you are there. Be the taskling that you are today.
- For example, you could sign up for an internship, sublet your apartment for a school dance or a seasonal trip. Be sincere when looking for meetings and committees.
****
Answer:
Send someone else to attend in your place if you feel the company should be represented. Limit the amount of time you spend corresponding to email.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
We see a newscaster speak in a studio. on the right
OPTIONS:
- person wears a red blouse and ties her shoes.
- , kids play in a sand pit.
- two men are shown toasting slices of bread.
- there is a lady speaking in sign language with her hands and the weather cycles above her.
A: there is a lady speaking in sign language with her hands and the weather cycles above her.
How to whiten teeth
Use whitening toothpaste if you're on a tight budget.
A tube of whitening toothpaste typically costs less than $10 at the drugstore or local supermarket.
Look for a toothpaste with the american dental association (ada) seal of approval.
OPTIONS:
- This means the toothpaste you use to whiten is positive for your teeth. For many people, it doesn't matter if your mouth looks clean or not.
- Ada-approved whitening toothpastes use abrasive particles to polish teeth along with chemicals that bind to stains and remove them. Studies have proven that these toothpastes are no harder on your enamel than other toothpastes.
- Ada seals of approval will denote that whitening toothpaste has not been used for up to four decades. The ada seals of approval will generally have a different seal over the results of whitening purposes.
- This seal of approval means the product does not contain sulfates, which can taint or cause tooth decay. Look for a denture seal that is made of a harder substance known as enamel.
Ada-approved whitening toothpastes use abrasive particles to polish teeth along with chemicals that bind to stains and remove them. Studies have proven that these toothpastes are no harder on your enamel than other toothpastes.
question: Complete the next sentence:
How to grow rosemary indoors
Select a strong, high-quality rosemary plant with recent growth.
The quality of the mother plant will determine the quality of the propagated plant. Recent growth indicates that the plant has not grown dormant, so you should be able to spur new growth from a cutting.
OPTIONS:
- Rosemary plants are native to usda hardiness zones 3-9, so a plant with good acrylic soil or high ground temperatures may produce a healthy plant. Buy a plant's propagation guide.
- This type of rosemary is also known as a " lilies " plant. Its leaves, or bulbs, are purple, whitish, and have an insect-like appearance.
- Snip several 2 1/2-inch (6 1/3-centimeter) stems from the rosemary. Choose the most recently grown stems, since these have the greatest growing potential.
- Cut in the middle of the plant, about half an inch (1.25 cm) above the leaf node. Snip the end so that the smaller node is pointing in the direction of the drainage hole.
answer: Snip several 2 1/2-inch (6 1/3-centimeter) stems from the rosemary. Choose the most recently grown stems, since these have the greatest growing potential.
Problem: Write the next sentence for:
How to find out if your immigration case is still open
Call the department of justice.
To check the status of your deportation or removal proceeding, you should call the department of justice toll-free at 1-800-898-7180. Make sure to call from a " touch tone " phone and not a rotary phone, as the system only works with touch tone phones.
OPTIONS:
- If your drug offenses were contested, then call 21 deportation or annulment airlines at the federal line (800) 660-5753 (8226). Once at the mexican border checkpoint, use the u.s.
- Compose your response before you present your case. Respond to questions as they arise, by recording as many factual and verbal conversations with the person or company you're suing as possible.
- If you have a rotary phone, dial 9-1-1 immediately. Check online to see if you live.
- You can also call 240-314-1500 if the toll-free number is busy. Information is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week..
Next sentence: You can also call 240-314-1500 if the toll-free number is busy. Information is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
Two men are jousting inside a gym. they
OPTIONS:
- push and pull in an attempt to win this competition as spectators watch.
- both back away towards the camera.
- fight over a few discs.
- aim their swords at one another.
OUT: | aim their swords at one another. |
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Q: Surprise! Lady Gaga shocked fans when she announced the release of her new single, "The Cure," at the end of her 90-minute performance at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California, on Saturday, April 15.
Midway through her 18-song set, the six-time Grammy winner, 31, played the new track for the first time, sending her Little Monsters into a frenzy on social media. "I've been so excited for this next part of the show because I've been trying to keep it a secret for so long," she told the packed crowd. "I've been in the studio and I'd like to debut a brand new song, 'The Cure.'"
Later in the evening, as fans began to head for the exit, Gaga had one final surprise. "My new single is out tonight on iTunes. It's called 'The Cure,'" she announced. "I love you!"
The Cure A post shared by xoxo, Joanne (@ladygaga) on Apr 16, 2017 at 1:43am PDT
"The Cure" is a bit of a departure from Mother Monster's previous releases. The song blends R&B and dancehall in the verses before the pop-friendly chorus kicks in. "If I can't find the cure / I'll, I'll fix you with my love," she belts. "And if you say you're OK / I'm gonna heal you anyway / Promise I'll always be there / Promise I'll be the cure."
Like her Super Bowl halftime show in February, Gaga's Coachella gig spanned her career and included hits such as "Just Dance," "Born This Way" and "Bad Romance." Gaga replaced Beyoncé as this year's headliner after Beyoncé announced she's pregnant with twins.
Listen to "The Cure" below!
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A: | Lady Gaga didn't just headline at Coachella on Saturday, she surprised her fans by debuting a new song. Gaga set up "The Cure" about halfway through her 90-minute set at the music festival in California, reports US Weekly. "I've been so excited for this next part of the show because I've been trying to keep it a secret for so long," she told the crowd. You can see the performance here. Pitchfork collects other samples from the show here. (Gaga is the first female headliner at Coachella in a decade.) |
Q: The school is popular
The Abbottabad University of Science and Technology (also named "AUST"), is a public university located in Havelian (12 km from Abbottabad), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The University offers admissions in "Bachelors", "Masters", "MS/M. Phill" and "PHD" programs.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: It's impossible to say
Q: Do not use fitted
How to keep your eyes healthy when using decorative lenses<br>Use only fitted and prescription decorative lenses. All contact lenses are considered medical devices. For this reason, it's important to get your decorative lenses from your eye doctor.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
Q: No one has ever died on the railway system.
The terror attacks, it was clear, had blasted a hole in the dam holding back Mumbai's reservoir of woes. While the protesters seemed to be reacting to a tragedy that had left at least 164 people dead and 308 injured, they were really venting the frustrations of having to cope with life in a city with an infrastructure so stretched that simply getting to work and back is an ordeal. At peak hour, the commuter trains - which carry six million people each day - are packed with up to 5,000 commuters, even though they're built for 1,800. Every day, an average of 11 people die on the railway system, either because they fall off the trains or because they're hit by passing locomotives as they cross the tracks.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
Q: The prime minister should assign someone else to take on meeting with the education sector.
Is the Prime Minister aware that his Minister of Human Resources Development is not even capable of meeting with Quebec's education sector, including students, because the latter are demanding that the Government of Quebec be present at these meetings, and that the federal government has no other choice now but to rethink its decision?
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | It's impossible to say |
Problem: Boat<br>Nelson loved to ride on boats. He enjoyed the wind on his face. After many rides, he fell off the boat. He barely escaped the cold ocean as well. Now, Nelson wears a life jacket every time he gets on a boat.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Nelson likes warm wind better than cold wind."? OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: It's impossible to say
Q: It doesn't matter what product you choose to deice a driveway.
How to break up ice on a driveway<br>Choose a deicing product carefully. Not all deicing products are the same, so read the labels and choose the one that is best for your deicing needs. Rock salt (sodium chloride) is the most common deicing product, but keep in mind that this product may contain cyanide in it as well.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
One year on since he was elected to office as President of Paraguay, Fernando Lugo is making headlines in the country he leads, but for all the wrong reasons. Newspapers and TV programmes have been dominated by stories of women coming forward to claim they had a child with the former Catholic bishop. This "political soap opera", complained one of these reports, is "paralysing the government". Three women have made allegations so far and there were reports in the Paraguay media that there may be more claims to come.
The president of the US is a catholic bishop OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
input hypothesis: The designer cost a lot of money.
Context: Design<br>Tim and Alice were getting married. They bought a brand new home. They hired an interior decorator. They loved the work the designer did. They were very happy with their new home.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
true or false: It's impossible to say
Context:
How to have the courage to speak up<br>Stop feeling guilty. Speaking up for yourself may cause you to step out of your comfort zone. You may feel leery about doing so because you don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.
Hypothesis: You might feel apprehensive to speak up for yourself because you don't want to make anyone else feel bad. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Yes
Problem: NSW flooding: Photos reveal devastation in Lismore and Murwillumbah Updated Major floods have hit the New South Wales far north coast, with tens of thousands of people evacuating Murwillumbah and Lismore, the main areas hit. Photos have revealed the devastation as waters continue to rise in the wake of ex-cyclone Debbie, with flooding also wreaking havoc further north in Queensland. Lismore area Murwillumbah area Topics: floods, disasters-and-accidents, weather, emergency-planning, emergency-incidents, lismore-2480, nsw, australia, north-lismore-2480, murwillumbah-2484 First posted
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Major floods hit the New South Wales far south coast."? OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | No |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
One example is below.
Q: 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.
A: is confectionary sugar the same as powdered sugar?
Rationale: The question is a yes/no question, and it is answerable based on the given passage.
Q: The term ``Grand Slam'' was first applied to Bobby Jones' achievement of winning the four major golf events of 1930: The Open Championship, the U.S. Open, the U.S. Amateur and the British Amateur. When Jones won all four, the sports world searched for ways to capture the magnitude of his accomplishment. Up to that time, there was no term to describe such a feat because no one had thought it possible. The Atlanta Journal's O.B. Keeler dubbed it the ``Grand Slam,'' borrowing a bridge term. George Trevor of the New York Sun wrote that Jones had ``stormed the impregnable quadrilateral of golf.'' Keeler would later write the words that would forever be linked to one of the greatest individual accomplishments in the history of sports:
A: | has anyone won the grand slam in golf in one year? |
Context:
At approximately 3:20 p.m., an unnamed caller reported sight of the suspects on a near street, East 27th Street, causing police to create a blockade, surrounding the suspect. This is where the other two officers were shot, this time in an exchange of gunfire while attempting to take the alleged shooter of the two officers into custody. The suspect was killed by police gunfire. The suspects name was Lovelle Mixon, aged 26, who had a warrant issued for his arrest after his bail was revoked for violation of parole. All four of the officers were taken to Highland Hospital in critical condition where they all later died of their injuries. There names were: Sargent Erv Romans, aged 43, Sargent Dan Sakai, 35, John Hege aged 41 and Mark Dunakin, 40.
Hypothesis: The suspect was killed by gunfire by Lovelle Mixon.
No
Context:
Apart from the new substances entering the market, the phase out of existing ones, which have been definitely identified as damaging the ozone layer, is far from complete.
Hypothesis: The ozone can be repaired if we stop using the equipment mentioned
It's impossible to say
Context:
Chantal Delsol ("a.k.a.:"Chantal Millon-Delsol), born 16 April 1947 in Paris, is a French philosopher, political historian and novelist. Founder of the Hannah Arendt research institute founded in 1993. She is openly catholic, and a disciple of Julien Freund and Pierre Boutang, describes herself as a "liberal-conservative".
Hypothesis: Chantal Delsol used to go to church every sunday
| It's impossible to say |
context: Several people parasail on a body of water surrounded by other boats, foliage and houses in the distance. several people in swim trunks
****
next sentence for the context: sail in a body of water with multi colored parasails.
context: A male athlete wearing blue top ran to the lane, started hopping after passing the white line and jumped to the sand, hit the sandy ground then stood up, then walked to the track field. a male athlete in red and blue uniform
****
next sentence for the context: started to run to the field, hopped when passed the white line then jumped towards bed of sandy ground, he hit the ground, fell on his side and stood up and walked towards the field.
context: A person is ripping up a roof with a tool. the tool
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next sentence for the context: is being shown on a table.
context: How to plan a shopping spree
Grab a piece of paper or a notebook and a pen.
Make sure that there are quite a few blank pages because you have to plan everything very precisely for a perfect day.
Write the date of your trip, and how you will be getting there.
****
next sentence for the context: | Beforehand, make sure you have checked all bus routes, train railways and times, depending how you are travelling. It is a good idea to write these routes/times down and keep them with you in case you get lost or lose track of time. |
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
/ Front page / News Update: 12:25PM RENWICK road in Suva will be closed from this afternoon and is expected to reopen again to the public tomorrow afternoon. The Fiji Roads Authority in a statement is advising travellers in Central Suva that Renwick Road will be closed from the corner of Ellery Street to Greig Street from 6pm today to 6pm tomorrow January 15, 2017. The closure is to allow installation works for a pedestrian crossing on Renwick Road. Motorists are requested to use alternative routes in the city.
Choices: (i) Yes. (ii) It's impossible to say. (iii) No.
Hypothesis: Renwick road will close at noon and reopen at noon the next day.
| (iii) |
IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
The person sprays down the stainless steel sink with detergent in a spray bottle. A sponge is used to scrub the sing with the cleaning solution. the faucet
OUT: is turned on and is used to rinse out the sink.
IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to start a business working with seniors
Brainstorm general ideas.
If you're not yet sure what kind of business you want to start or how you want to work with seniors, evaluate your own strengths and weaknesses. Figure out what you have to offer seniors and come up with several ideas that you think would work for your business.
OUT: You also want to look at what's currently available so you can carve out a niche for your products and services in the market. If the market is already saturated with other businesses offering the same products or services, you'll have a difficult time getting established.
IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to ship packages from home
Choose a suitable box and pack your item (s).
Your box should fit your item (s) well. It shouldn't be too large, but there should be space for padding on all sides of the item (s).
OUT: | For padding, you might use newspaper, packing peanuts, bubble wrap, and so on. If you don't have a box, you might be able to salvage one for free from you workplace. |
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
President Obama appeared Saturday in a public service announcement with NBA MVP Steph Curry to highlight the importance of mentoring young children in their communities.
The PSA aired on "NBA Countdown" on ABC and is available on the White House’s homepage.
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Curry’s Golden State Warriors celebrated a record-setting 73rd regular-season win this week and are the favorites to repeat as NBA champions.
In January, The National Mentoring Partnership launched the “In Real Life” campaign as a response to Obama’s “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative, a call to action to address opportunity gaps facing young boys and men of color, according to White House officials.
Obama’s “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative has brought in celebrities including Nicki Minaj, Busta Rhymes, Common and Janelle Monae to discuss criminal justice reform in the U.S.
Administration sources say Obama’s initiative coordinates investments between businesses, foundations and community groups to create support programs that keep young people out of the criminal justice system and improve access to higher education.
Obama launched the program in 2014. ||||| Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry has a rather cordial relationship with President Barack Obama. The two have played a round or two of golf together and the President even poked fun at Curry's celebrations when the Warriors were honored at the White House for winning the 2015 NBA championship.
With Obama and Curry having such a friendly buddy-buddy relationship, the White House got the Warriors star and the President to team up to promote the importance of being a mentor. For the campaign, Obama was Curry's mentor, which led to some funny moments like the President beating the Warriors guard in Connect 4 and teaching Steph proper shot mechanics.
Kudos to both Obama and Curry for promoting such an important message and doing it in such a hilarious manner. For more info on becoming a mentor visit Mentor.gov. ||||| The interactive transcript could not be loaded.
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This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. ||||| | Steph Curry made more three-pointers this season than any player ever while leading the Golden State Warriors to the most wins in NBA history. But when the President of the United States offers jump-shooting tips, you listen. The Hill reports a PSA about mentorship starring Curry and President Obama was released by the White House Saturday. In the clip, Obama serves as Curry's mentor, helping him with his resume ("You don't need this little clip art"), beating him in Connect Four, and even improving his jump shot ("elbow in…make sure it's on your fingertips"). The PSA is promoting Obama's 2014 My Brother's Keeper initiative, which aims get boys and young men of color out of the criminal justice system and into higher education. CBS notes that Curry and Obama have a "cordial relationship," with Curry having visited the White House following the Warriors 2015 NBA Championship and even playing a few rounds of golf with the president. |
TASK 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".
PROBLEM: Early in chapter 5 we introduced, along with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, two other men who became operational coordinators for al Qaeda: Khallad and Nashiri. As we explained, both were involved during 1998 and 1999 in preparing to attack a ship off the coast of Yemen with a boatload of explosives. They had originally targeted a commercial vessel, specifically an oil tanker, but Bin Laden urged them to look for a U.S.warship instead. In January 2000, their team had attempted to attack a warship in the port of Aden, but the attempt failed when the suicide boat sank. More than nine months later, on October 12,2000, al Qaeda operatives in a small boat laden with explosives attacked a U.S. Navy destroyer, the USS Cole. The blast ripped a hole in the side of the Cole, killing 17 members of the ship's crew and wounding at least 40. The plot, we now know, was a full-fledged al Qaeda operation, supervised directly by Bin Laden. He chose the target and location of the attack, selected the suicide operatives, and provided the money needed to purchase explosives and equipment. Nashiri was the field commander and managed the operation in Yemen. Khallad helped in Yemen until he was arrested in a case of mistaken identity and freed with Bin Laden's help, as we also mentioned earlier. Local al Qaeda coordinators included Jamal al Badawi and Fahd al Quso, who was supposed to film the attack from a nearby apartment. The two suicide operatives chosen were Hassan al Khamri and Ibrahim al Thawar, also known as Nibras. Nibras and Quso delivered money to Khallad in Bangkok during Khallad's January 2000 trip to Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok. In September 2000, Bin Laden reportedly told Nashiri that he wanted to replace Khamri and Nibras. Nashiri was angry and disagreed, telling others he would go to Afghanistan and explain to Bin Laden that the new operatives were already trained and ready to conduct the attack. Prior to departing, Nashiri gave Nibras and Khamri instructions to execute the attack on the next U.S.warship that entered the port of Aden. <sep>Who provided the funds for the attack on the USS Cole?<sep>Nashiri
SOLUTION: No
PROBLEM: Paul put the despised watch away And laid out before him his array Of stones and metals, and when the morning Struck the stones to their best adorning, He chose the brightest, and this new watch Was so light and thin it seemed to catch The sunlight's nothingness, and its gleam. Topazes ran in a foamy stream Over the cover, the hands were studded With garnets, and seemed red roses, budded. The face was of crystal, and engraved Upon it the figures flashed and waved With zircons, and beryls, and amethysts. It took a week to make, and his trysts At night with the Shadow were his alone. Paul swore not to speak till his task was done. The night that the jewel was worthy to give. Paul watched the long hours of daylight live To the faintest streak; then lit his light, And sharp against the wall's pure white The outline of the Shadow started Into form. His burning-hearted Words so long imprisoned swelled To tumbling speech. Like one compelled, He told the lady all his love, And holding out the watch above His head, he knelt, imploring some Littlest sign. The Shadow was dumb. <sep>What were the hands of the watch studded with?<sep>Topazes
SOLUTION: No
PROBLEM: For most lawyers, full waiting rooms and appointments booked out to mid-July would equate to a lucrative law practice. But Frank Smith drives a 6-year-old car with 140,000 miles on it, and paying his senior paralegal minimum wage the last few months has put him in the red. Hoped-for federal grants haven"t come through, so he"s had to raise his rates. As of last week he charges $50 an hour minimum instead of $25 for the services of his yearling Northern Utah Legal Aid Foundation. That"s in a lawyer"s market where fees range in the $150 to $250 an hour range in the Ogden area, and up to $400 an hour in the Salt Lake area. Smith"s one-lawyer foundation basically helps the folks who have too much money to qualify for the federally funded Utah Legal Services, but not enough money to afford a lawyer. <sep>Frank Smith had to raise his rates due to the lack of what?<sep>Clients
SOLUTION: | No
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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.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Santa Barbara County sheriff's deputies who checked on Elliot Rodger three weeks before he killed six college students were aware he had posted disturbing videos but never viewed them before or after determining he was not a threat to himself or others, the department disclosed Thursday.
The statement from the sheriff's office corrected an earlier assertion that deputies were unaware of the videos when they checked on him on April 30. It also provided new details on the sequence of events during that pivotal visit to Rodger's apartment, a time when he was planning the rampage that would end with him apparently taking his own life after being wounded by police.
The guns he used in the killings last Friday were stashed inside his apartment at the time, but police never searched the residence or conducted a check to determine if he owned firearms because they didn't consider him a threat.
The statement does not explain why the videos were not viewed or whether the deputies knew anything about the contents beyond a description of them being "disturbing."
The sheriff's department also revealed new details about the timeline leading up to the killings. It said Rodger uploaded his final video to YouTube, titled "Day of Retribution" and detailing his plans and reasons for the killings, at 9:17 p.m. on the day of the shootings. One minute later, he emailed a lengthy written manifesto to his mother, father and therapist that also detailed his plans and contempt for everyone he felt were responsible for his sexual frustrations and overall miserable existence.
The first gunshots were reported at 9:27 p.m. The rampage was over and Rodger dead just eight minutes later.
It was another 25 minutes before the therapist saw the emailed manifesto and 11 more minutes until the sheriff's office was contacted at 10:11 p.m.
The timing indicates that Rodger stabbed to death three people in the apartment sometime earlier — his two roommates and a third man who might have been another roommate or a visitor at the time of the attack.
Rodger wrote in the manifesto about the April 30 visit by the deputies and said it prompted him to remove most of his videos from YouTube. He re-posted at least some of them in the week leading up to the killings. He wrote that the deputies asked him if he had suicidal thoughts, but "I tactfully told them that it was all a misunderstanding and they finally left. If they had demanded to search my room that would have ended everything."
According to the statement from the sheriff's office, four deputies, a police officer and a dispatcher in training were sent to Rodger's apartment after being informed by the county's mental health hotline that Rodger's therapist and mother were concerned about videos he posted online.
The visit lasted about 10 minutes, during which officers found him shy and polite. The deputies questioned him about the videos. Rodger told them he was having trouble fitting in socially and the videos were "merely a way of expressing himself."
Like many other states, California has a law intended to identify and confine dangerously unstable people before they can do harm. It allows authorities to hold people in a mental hospital for up to 72 hours for observation.
Because the deputies concluded Rodger was not a threat to himself or others, they never viewed the videos, searched his apartment or conducted a check to determine if he owned firearms, the statement said.
That sequence of events is different from a statement Sunday from spokeswoman Kelly Hoover, who said "the sheriff's office was not aware of any videos until after the shooting rampage occurred."
In a typical mental-health check, only two deputies would be dispatched. But deputies who were familiar with Rodger as a victim in a January petty theft case were in the area and also decided to go to his apartment.
Hoover did not respond immediately to an email seeking more information on why the deputies didn't watch the videos, the content of the videos and what specific information was relayed from the mother that prompted the check at his apartment. ||||| Sheriff's deputies who conducted a welfare check on Elliot Rodger less than a month before his deadly rampage in Isla Vista knew of "disturbing" videos Rodger posted online but did not watch them, officials said.
Santa Barbara County sheriff's officials released new details Thursday about the April 30 welfare check, which is part of the investigation into the May 23 attack that left six UC Santa Barbara students dead and 13 other people injured.
Four deputies, a UC Santa Barbara police officer and a dispatcher in training went to Rodger's apartment on the night of April 30 for the welfare check, officials said Thursday.
The visit occurred after a person who identified himself as a friend of Rodger called a county mental health staff member. Based on that call and information from Rodger's mother, sheriff's officials said, the staffer requested the welfare check.
Sheriff's officials did not detail what information the deputies had when they made the visit. But a Rodger family friend told The Times that his mother had contacted his therapist in April, concerned over bizarre videos her son had posted on YouTube. The family friend said the therapist contacted a mental health service, who referred the matter to police.
The Sheriff's Office did not detail the content of the videos, describing them only as "disturbing." It’s unclear whether the videos posted back in April included some of the recordings Rodger posted on YouTube on the day of the rampage. The family friend said the videos Rodger's mother saw in April were less menacing than the now-infamous video he posted May 23 in which he threatens violence.
Typically, only two deputies respond to welfare checks, sheriff's officials said. But the group who went to Rodger's Seville Road apartment included deputies who were "familiar with Rodger" from a January incident, when he accused his roommate of stealing $22 worth of candles.
When the group spoke to the 22-year-old outside his apartment, the department said, he was "shy, timid and polite."
"When questioned by the deputies about reported disturbing videos he had posted online, Rodger told them he was having trouble fitting in socially in Isla Vista and the videos were merely a way of expressing himself," the statement said.
"Based upon the information available to them at the time," the statement continued, "sheriff's deputies concluded that Rodger was not an immediate threat to himself or others, and that they did not have cause to place him on an involuntary mental health hold, or to enter and search his residence. Therefore, they did not view the videos or conduct a weapons check on Rodger."
One of the deputies called Rodger's mother and, after briefing her on the interaction, passed the phone to Rodger, officials said. Rodger "told her he was fine and that he would call her later." Deputies gave Rodger contact information about local services he could use "if he needed help," and left.
The interaction lasted about 10 minutes, officials said.
Sheriff's officials have remained tight-lipped about the rampage, calling it "one of the most complex investigations" in the department's history. But they said Thursday that based on the information reviewed so far, "the deputies who responded handled the call in a professional manner consistent with state law and department policy."
Rodger wrote of the April 30 interaction in a 137-page document in which he outlined what he called his "Day of Retribution," saying he had three semiautomatic weapons hidden in his bedroom at the time and had written up plans for the assault.
"I tactfully told them that it was all a misunderstanding, and they finally left. If they had demanded to search my room ... that would have ended everything," he wrote. "For a few horrible seconds I thought it was all over. When they left, the biggest wave of relief swept over me."
Rodger wrote that he immediately took most of the videos off YouTube, but planned to restore them before his attack.
Some law enforcement and mental health experts questioned why officials didn't review the video during the April 30 check.
"If somebody was concerned about them enough to report them it would seem to me to be part of the checkup," said Ann Eldridge, vice president of the local chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
Although seeing the videos might not have changed the outcome, it would have been part of a thorough investigation, said Rick Wall, a former Los Angeles police captain who oversaw that department's mental health team.
Authorities say that Rodger fatally stabbed three men — Cheng Yuan "James" Hong, 20, George Chen, 19, and Weihan "David" Wang, 20, all students at UC Santa Barbara —- inside his apartment before driving his BMW down the streets of Isla Vista on May 23, , firing out the window and veering his car toward pedestrians. Three other UC Santa Barbara students were killed: Katherine Cooper, 22; Veronika Weiss, 19; and Christopher Michaels-Martinez, 20. Authorities say Rodger took his own life.
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Teacher:In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: Why might have inspired Bell to research speech, specifically?, Context: Bell's father, grandfather, and brother had all been associated with work on elocution and speech, and both his mother and wife were deaf, profoundly influencing Bell's life's work. His research on hearing and speech further led him to experiment with hearing devices which eventually culminated in Bell being awarded the first U.S. patent for the telephone in 1876.[N 4] Bell considered his most famous invention an intrusion on his real work as a scientist and refused to have a telephone in his study.[N 5]
Student: | Bell's father, grandfather, and brother had all been associated with work on elocution and speech |
In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
Let me give you an example: This list contains the top 25 accounts with the most followers on the social photo-sharing platform Instagram. As of May 2018, the most followed user is Instagram's own account, with over 235 million followers. Selena Gomez is the most followed individual, with over 137 million followers. Ten accounts have exceeded 100 million followers on the site.
The answer to this example can be: who has the maximum number of followers on instagram
Here is why: The answer is talking about the Instagram accounts that have the most followers. The question asking about the maximum number of followers. So this is a good example.
OK. solve this:
The Yellowstone River is considered to be one of the greatest trout streams of the world and is officially classed as a blue ribbon stream in Montana from the park to the confluence with the Boulder River east of Livingston and from the mouth of Rosebud creek near Rosebud, Montana to the North Dakota border. The lack of dams along the river provides for excellent trout habitat from high inside Yellowstone Park, downstream through Gardiner, the Paradise Valley, Livingston, and to Big Timber, a stretch of nearly 200 miles (320 km). The Yellowstone varies in width from 74 feet (23 m) to 300 feet (91 m), so fishing is normally done by boat. The most productive stretch of water is through Paradise Valley in Montana, especially near Livingston which produces brown trout, rainbow trout and native Yellowstone cutthroat trout as well as Rocky Mountain whitefish. From Billings downstream to the North Dakota border, anglers seek burbot, channel catfish, paddlefish, sauger, smallmouth bass, and walleye. The pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus), an endangered species endemic to the waters of the Missouri and lower Mississippi River basins, is also found in the Yellowstone.
Answer: | what kind of fish are in yellowstone river |
Instructions: In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Input: During this time, Alexander adopted some elements of Persian dress and customs at his court, notably the custom of proskynesis, either a symbolic kissing of the hand, or prostration on the ground, that Persians showed to their social superiors. The Greeks regarded the gesture as the province of deities and believed that Alexander meant to deify himself by requiring it. This cost him the sympathies of many of his countrymen, and he eventually abandoned it. A plot against his life was revealed, and one of his officers, Philotas, was executed for failing to alert Alexander. The death of the son necessitated the death of the father, and thus Parmenion, who had been charged with guarding the treasury at Ecbatana, was assassinated at Alexander's command, to prevent attempts at vengeance. Most infamously, Alexander personally killed the man who had saved his life at Granicus, Cleitus the Black, during a violent drunken altercation at Maracanda (modern day Samarkand in Uzbekistan), in which Cleitus accused Alexander of several judgemental mistakes and most especially, of having forgotten the Macedonian ways in favour of a corrupt oriental lifestyle. Later, in the Central Asian campaign, a second plot against his life was revealed, this one instigated by his own royal pages. His official historian, Callisthenes of Olynthus, was implicated in the plot; however, historians have yet to reach a consensus regarding this involvement. Callisthenes had fallen out of favor by leading the opposition to the attempt to introduce proskynesis. <sep>How many plots of Alexander's death were there?<sep>Less than two
Output: | No |
How to cite shakespeare
Use parenthetical citations for shakespearean works.
Parenthetical citations are citations that appear inside regular parentheses within the body of your paper. No matter which citation style you're using, shakespeare works are unique in how they are cited.
OPTIONS:
- They are always cited with parenthetical citations that appear in the text of your paper. They are not indicated by a footnote or endnote.
- Footnotes typically outline the author and the version of the work, followed by a period in between the two classes, for example. Use an inverted parenthesis for renaissance works.
- With parenthetical citations, include the parenthetical number, author name, date of publication and the year of publication in parentheses. Don't abbreviate these details in parenthetical citations.
- The citation for shakespeare is shakespeare 1501. The year in which the lines start with a period appear in parentheses after a period (from 1936 to 1959).
They are always cited with parenthetical citations that appear in the text of your paper. They are not indicated by a footnote or endnote.
question: Complete the next sentence:
How to prevent crime around rental properties
Meet or exceed state and local housing safety standards.
Check the guidelines for building security such as window locks and deadbolts and make sure your units are up to code.
You typically can find a copy of the local housing regulations at your city housing office.
OPTIONS:
- Contact the department of housing and urban development and ask for a copy. If you believe you might be falling into the same trap, consult your local government for an application form.
- You also may be able to find this information on government websites, which are less of a concern. Make sure your apartment building or complex is regularly inspected by an inspector.
- If not, ask the staff at your residence or city housing agency what you can and cannot change. Laws concerning rent and mortgage payments vary by state, so it's best to speak with someone or find out from them before crossing any state or local laws.
- They also may be available in the local library or on your city's website. Typical requirements include peepholes and deadbolt locks.
answer: They also may be available in the local library or on your city's website. Typical requirements include peepholes and deadbolt locks.
Problem: Write the next sentence for:
How to make a jewelry tree
Choose your vase.
Find a vase online, a thrift store, or home and garden retailer. The opening should be narrow to support your branches.
OPTIONS:
- The flower heads should protrude into the vase, and the flowers must be bigger than you are. Simply pull the inside (ie: make a u-shape) of the vase upside down and pull the flowers from the center.
- The vase should offer vertical access to the trunk. The canopy is what keeps your tree off of ground.
- Using the pointy end of a plant or herb, position the base in the center of the vase. Lay the branches vertically in the vase.
- The height will also play a factor in which branches you will be using. Choose a colour that compliments the palette of your room or that will highlight your jewelry..
Next sentence: The height will also play a factor in which branches you will be using. Choose a colour that compliments the palette of your room or that will highlight your jewelry.
context: A group of four girls jump rope. The first group of people jumps rope with a fourth person. a different group
OPTIONS:
- of people jump rope alone.
- of people jumps rope with a fourth person.
- of four in red and black jump rope.
- of people jump rope with wearing gloves.
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next sentence for the context: of four in red and black jump rope.
IN: What happens next?
How to remove moles without surgery
Make an appointment with a dermatologist.
Going about mole removal the safe way is a decision you won't regret. It's extremely important to have your mole examined by a professional rather than trying to remove it yourself, even if you just want it removed for cosmetic reasons.
OPTIONS:
- When you see a physician, he or she will be able to tell whether the mole is potentially cancerous. If it is, professional removal is the only safe method, since other methods won't adequately deal with the cancer cells.
- Your dermatologist will prescribe you treatment and recommend treatments that you could try. In the first few months of treatment, your acne should go away on its own.
- Tell a particular doctor if you have had a mole before. They can provide you with advice regarding how to improve on your mole if you decide you want to leave it alone for a certain amount of time.
- Undergoing a mole removal can affect the outcome of your mole's beauty. Talk to a dermatologist about this appointment so you can make sure the treatment will go without a hitch.
OUT: When you see a physician, he or she will be able to tell whether the mole is potentially cancerous. If it is, professional removal is the only safe method, since other methods won't adequately deal with the cancer cells.
question: Complete the next sentence:
A view of islands and the evening sky are shown. A woman uses a canvas to paint the images in various colors. she
OPTIONS:
- then uses a straw to draw money to get the paint out.
- perfectly creates a painting of the evening sky, complete with trees.
- adds tissue paper, then a poster from a magazine.
- finishes then picks up a leaf blower.
answer: | perfectly creates a painting of the evening sky, complete with trees. |
Teacher: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
Solution: The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini.
Reason: The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
Now, solve this instance: Raw milk is milk which is not pasteurized .
Student: | Raw milk or unpasteurized milk is milk that has not been pasteurized , a process of heating liquid foods to decontaminate them for safe drinking . |
Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
A man is seen standing with his arms up and then begins a gymnasts routine. The man continues swinging around on the uneven bars and jumping off to finish. the man | walks away while his score is shown and his routine is shown again in slow motion. |
Determine if the sentence is true based on the text below:
James Hardie Industries Plc has over 5000 employees.
SYDNEY James Hardie Industries Plc (JHX.N), the world's biggest fiber cement products maker, said on Thursday it expects the U.S. housing construction market to improve as it posted a 15 percent jump in fourth quarter sales. Sales were $376.4 million for the three months to March 31, compared to $326.8 million for the same period the previous year. The company's net operating loss for the quarter grew to $186.8 million from $69.5 million a year earlier because of an increase in asbestos adjustments. (Reporting By Byron Kaye; Editing by Diane Craft) | It's impossible to say |
Detailed Instructions: You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Problem:Scarlett is a 1991 novel by Alexandra Ripley, written as a sequel to Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel, Gone with the Wind. The book debuted on The New York Times bestsellers list, but both critics and fans of the original novel found Ripley's version to be inconsistent with the literary quality of Gone with the Wind.
Solution: | is there a sequel to the book gone with the wind? |
Definition: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Input: KABUL -- Gunmen killed 10 members of a medical team, including six Americans, traveling in the rugged mountains of northern Afghanistan, demonstrating the reach of insurgents far from their traditional havens and shocking the expatriate community here.
The attack was one of the deadliest on civilian aid workers since the war began in 2001. That it occurred in Badakhshan province, a scenic mountain redoubt considered a peaceful refuge from the war, added to growing concern that the Taliban has seized on northern Afghanistan as its latest front.
The dead have not been officially identified, and the bodies not yet returned to Kabul, but Afghan and Western officials said the victims were thought to be members of a medical team working with a Christian charity group that has decades of experience in Afghanistan. That team, from the International Assistance Mission, lost contact with its office in Kabul on Wednesday, two days before the attack, said Dirk Frans, the group's executive director.
"We've got a team that has gone missing, and then there are 10 people found dead. At the moment we're working on the assumption that this is the same team," Frans said.
The Taliban quickly asserted responsibility for the killings, saying the medical workers were "foreign spies" and were spreading Christianity. But police officials have not ruled out robbery as a motive, as the victims were stripped of their belongings after they were shot.
The team members -- six Americans, one German, one Briton and four Afghans -- were returning from neighboring Nurestan province, where they had spent several days administering eye care to impoverished villagers. They were traveling unarmed and without security guards, Frans said.
The dead are thought to include the team's leader, Tom Little, an optometrist from New York who had worked in Afghanistan over the past four decades. Little, a fluent Dari speaker, had been thrown out of the country by the Taliban in 2001 during a crackdown on Christian aid groups. Three of the victims are thought to be women, including Karen Woo, a British surgeon who had written on her blog about the possible risks of traveling to the area.
Two of the Afghans were unharmed.
The group is registered as a Christian nonprofit organization. Although its members do not shy away from this affiliation in this conservative Muslim country, Frans and others said they do not proselytize. In their work since 1966 on health and economic development projects, under King Zahir Shah, the Russians, the mujaheddin government and the Taliban, Frans said, "all along we've been known as a Christian organization. That has been a nonissue."
"This is truly a bedrock institution in Afghanistan," said Andy M.A. Campbell, the Afghanistan country director for the National Democratic Institute. "They have been around for decades."
Others who have worked with the group described it as culturally sensitive to the Muslim values of Afghanistan and staffed by foreigners committed to long-term development work in the country. "This is not a Mickey Mouse organization," said a person who has worked for and evaluated the organization's projects in the past.
The Taliban has targeted foreign aid workers in the past but such attacks are relatively rare, and insurgents have allowed some aid groups safe passage into areas they control. In August 2008, gunmen killed three women from the International Rescue Committee and their Afghan driver in Logar province. Four years earlier, 11 Chinese road workers were shot to death in Kunduz province. ||||| A female British doctor is understood to be among at least 10 people murdered by gunmen in the far north of Afghanistan on Friday.
The group included eight foreigners – one of them a Briton – six Americans and a German working for a project run by a small Christian aid organisation called International Assistance Mission (IAM).
A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility saying the attack was on "Christian missionaries" who were carrying bibles. It is possible the Taliban were simply exploiting early media reports about killings they in fact had nothing to do with.
A British doctor called Karen Woo was known to be on the expedition and played a major part in organising it, including by running fundraising events in London and Kabul to pay for the "Nuristan Medical Expedition 2010".
She was set to return to the UK to marry her fiance Mark "Paddy" Smith, a British security worker. Speaking from Afghanistan last night, Smith said their relationship "just made sense". "It was one of those crazy relationships. Nothing is normal in Afghanistan, but when we met it just made sense. You know when something is right and this was just right," he said.
Woo's brother, David, said that the couple planned to live in the UK and start a family together. "Karen was a lovely, vibrant and energetic woman, determined to get the most out of life," he said. "She and Mark just clicked. She said he was the one. Their long-term plan was to come back to the UK and start a family together."
Woo, from London, had established an organisation called Bridge Afghanistan to help run medical projects in the country.
Writing on the expedition's Facebook page, Woo described herself as the team doctor and said she would run the mother and child clinics inside Nuristan. She wrote that the team also included an eye doctor and a dental surgeon.
According to IAM the group were returning from a several week long trip to provide basic health in a remote area of Nuristan province when they were attacked by gunmen in a forested area of Badakhshan, the most north-eastern of Afghanistan's provinces.
Their bullet-riddled bodies were discovered by local officials on Friday next to three shot-up vehicles.
Dirk Frans, the director of the Christian organisation, said IAM had last been contacted by the group via satellite phone on Wednesday.
In a short statement on its website, the organisation said the victims were likely working on the organisation's "eye camp team" project in Nuristan at the invitation of local communities and were returning to Kabul when they were attacked.
"At this stage we do not have many details but our thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends of those who are presumed killed. If these reports are confirmed we object to this senseless killing of people who have done nothing but serve the poor. Some of the foreigners have worked alongside the Afghan people for decades."
General Agha Noor Kemtuz, the local police chief, told the Observer they were having lunch in heavily forested area at around 2pm when around 10 gunmen arrived and took all their money before shooting them one by one.
"They had been warned by locals not to stay in the forest because it is not safe," he said.
He said the only surviving member of the party was an Afghan man called Safiullah whose life was saved after he desperately recited passages from the Koran as the gunmen were executing the other people.
General Kemtuz said there had been 11 people in the party including three Afghans and eight foreigners.
Whilst the US embassy confirmed it believed several Americans were among the dead, the British embassy was unable to confirm whether any British citizens were killed.
"We are aware of the reports and are actively investigating them with local authorities and others in country," a spokeswoman for the embassy said.
Woo described the trip into the remote area of Nuristan in gruelling terms, saying much of it would be done on foot and with pack horses, travelling 120 miles and climbing 16,000ft at one point.
"The expedition will require a lot of physical and mental resolve and will not be without risk but ultimately, I believe that the provision of medical treatment is of fundamental importance and that the effort is worth it in order to assist those that need it most," she wrote.
With local officials reporting that almost everything of value was removed from the vehicles, it is widely assumed that robbery was the main motivation for the attackers.
However, a spokesman for the Taliban told the Associated Press that the hardline insurgent movement killed the group because they were "preaching Christianity" and "spying for the Americans".
The NGO, which has been operating in Afghanistan since 1966, describes itself as a non-profit Christian organisation that works on health projects and economic development.
However, there are many such Christian aid organisations operating in Afghanistan all of whom take enormous care not to be seen to be proselytising or seeking to convert Afghans. Such allegations, including some in May against Norwegian Church Aid, can quickly stir up enormous public controversy. |||||
Output: | Many of the details surrounding the execution of 10 aid workers, including six Americans, in Afghanistan are still being sorted out. But one of the victims, British surgeon Karen Woo, knew the dangers. "The trek will not be easy," she wrote beforehand of the journey to Nurestan, which entailed a 120-mile hike in the mountains. "The expedition will require a lot of physical and mental resolve and will not be without risk but ultimately, I believe that the provision of medical treatment is of fundamental importance and that the effort is worth it in order to assist those that need it most," wrote Woo, who was engaged to be married. She was traveling with a Christian group known as the International Assistance Mission when they were stopped, robbed, and murdered. The Taliban has claimed responsibility. The Washington Post and the Guardian have more details on Woo. |
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".
Although Bin Laden, Atef, and KSM initially contemplated using established al Qaeda members to execute the planes operation, the late 1999 arrival in Kandahar of four aspiring jihadists from Germany suddenly presented a more attractive alternative. The Hamburg group shared the anti-U.S. fervor of the other candidates for the operation, but added the enormous advantages of fluency in English and familiarity with life in the West, based on years that each member of the group had spent living in Germany. Not surprisingly, Mohamed Atta, Ramzi Binalshibh, Marwan al Shehhi, and Ziad Jarrah would all become key players in the 9/11 conspiracy. Mohamed Atta was born on September 1, 1968, in Kafr el Sheikh, Egypt, to a middle-class family headed by his father, an attorney. After graduating from Cairo University with a degree in architectural engineering in 1990, Atta worked as an urban planner in Cairo for a couple of years. In the fall of 1991, he asked a German family he had met in Cairo to help him continue his education in Germany. They suggested he come to Hamburg and invited him to live with them there, at least initially. After completing a course in German, Atta traveled to Germany for the first time in July 1992. He resided briefly in Stuttgart and then, in the fall of 1992, moved to Hamburg to live with his host family. After enrolling at the University of Hamburg, he promptly transferred into the city engineering and planning course at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, where he would remain registered as a student until the fall of 1999. He appears to have applied himself fairly seriously to his studies (at least in comparison to his jihadist friends) and actually received his degree shortly before traveling to Afghanistan. In school, Atta came across as very intelligent and reasonably pleasant, with an excellent command of the German language. When Atta arrived in Germany, he appeared religious, but not fanatically so. This would change, especially as his tendency to assert leadership became increasingly pronounced. According to Binalshibh, as early as 1995 Atta sought to organize a Muslim student association in Hamburg. In the fall of 1997, he joined a working group at the Quds mosque in Hamburg, a group designed to bridge the gap between Muslims and Christians. Atta proved a poor bridge, however, because of his abrasive and increasingly dogmatic personality. But among those who shared his beliefs, Atta stood out as a decisionmaker. <sep>What took Atta to Germany and how long was he there?<sep>Completing course on Germannearly 7 years | Yes |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Example Input: What are digital albums?, Context: In 2014 artist Jack White sold 40,000 copies of his second solo release, Lazaretto, on vinyl. The sales of the record beat the largest sales in one week on vinyl since 1991. The sales record was previously held by Pearl Jam's, Vitalogy, which sold 34,000 copies in one week in 1994. In 2014, the sale of vinyl records was the only physical music medium with increasing sales with relation to the previous year. Sales of other mediums including individual digital tracks, digital albums and compact discs have fallen, the latter having the greatest drop-in-sales rate.
Example Output: mediums
Example Input: One actress that was in the movie Mission Impossible-Ghost Protocol is?, Context: In India, it was reported that the Indian Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) censored kissing scenes featuring Monica Bellucci, Daniel Craig, and Léa Seydoux. They also muted all profanity. This prompted criticism of the board online, especially on Twitter.
Example Output: Léa Seydoux
Example Input: What broadcast system does not cause a perceptible speedup when broadcasting 24 frames per second film content?, Context: Standard 35mm photographic film used for cinema projection has a much higher image resolution than HDTV systems, and is exposed and projected at a rate of 24 frames per second (frame/s). To be shown on standard television, in PAL-system countries, cinema film is scanned at the TV rate of 25 frame/s, causing a speedup of 4.1 percent, which is generally considered acceptable. In NTSC-system countries, the TV scan rate of 30 frame/s would cause a perceptible speedup if the same were attempted, and the necessary correction is performed by a technique called 3:2 Pulldown: Over each successive pair of film frames, one is held for three video fields (1/20 of a second) and the next is held for two video fields (1/30 of a second), giving a total time for the two frames of 1/12 of a second and thus achieving the correct average film frame rate.
Example Output: | PAL
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Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence in this paragraph:
A person is seen sitting at the top of the water and moving themselves slowly to the bottom. The person is then seen swimming around under the ocean while the camera captures their movements. the person
OPTIONS:
(1). is then seen jumping back to the top and climbing back up the side.;
(2). continues moving around under the water and ends with swimming backwards and crashing into the water on the side.;
(3). moves around demonstrating proper kicking and turns.;
(4). continues to move along the water and eventually dive into the ocean.; | (3). |
Part 1. Definition
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Part 2. 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.
Answer: is confectionary sugar the same as powdered sugar?
Explanation: The question is a yes/no question, and it is answerable based on the given passage.
Part 3. Exercise
The Leaning Tower of Pisa (Italian: Torre pendente di Pisa) or simply the Tower of Pisa (Torre di Pisa (ˈtorre di ˈpiːza)) is the campanile, or freestanding bell tower, of the cathedral of the Italian city of Pisa, known worldwide for its unintended tilt. The tower is situated behind the Pisa Cathedral and is the third oldest structure in the city's Cathedral Square (Piazza del Duomo), after the cathedral and the Pisa Baptistry.
Answer: | is the leaning tower of pizza in rome? |
Write the next sentence in the following story.
How to discipline an employee
Conduct your own investigation.
Before you bring any disciplinary action against an employee at any stage of progressive discipline, it's important that you review the evidence against the employee.
Ask yourself who is actually at fault in the situation. | It's possible that the situation is more complex than you initially thought. Consider whether the employee had full control over his performance--for example, did the employee fully understand the roles and assignments of his position? Ask to speak in private. |
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: When did Apple announce a battery replacement program?, Context: Apple announced a battery replacement program on November 14, 2003, a week before a high publicity stunt and website by the Neistat Brothers. The initial cost was US$99, and it was lowered to US$59 in 2005. One week later, Apple offered an extended iPod warranty for US$59. For the iPod Nano, soldering tools are needed because the battery is soldered onto the main board. Fifth generation iPods have their battery attached to the backplate with adhesive.
Output: | a week before a high publicity stunt and website by the Neistat Brothers |
In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
Let me give you an example: This list contains the top 25 accounts with the most followers on the social photo-sharing platform Instagram. As of May 2018, the most followed user is Instagram's own account, with over 235 million followers. Selena Gomez is the most followed individual, with over 137 million followers. Ten accounts have exceeded 100 million followers on the site.
The answer to this example can be: who has the maximum number of followers on instagram
Here is why: The answer is talking about the Instagram accounts that have the most followers. The question asking about the maximum number of followers. So this is a good example.
OK. solve this:
American Idol is an American singing competition television series created by Simon Fuller, produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment, and distributed by FremantleMedia North America. It initially aired on Fox from June 11, 2002 to April 7, 2016 for 15 seasons. On March 11, 2018, the 16th season made its debut on ABC.
Answer: | how many years was american idol off tv |
IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
Man is standing in a alrge green field showing a woman how to shoot an arrow and the woman pulls out a gun from the pockets and shot to the board. man
OUT: is standing next to a tree holding a camera.
IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to imagine
Daydream.
Daydreaming is a process that helps form connections and recall information without distractions. Rather than being a mindless activity, daydreaming actually fosters a state of high engagement in the brain.
OUT: Often your best ideas seem to come out of nowhere while you're daydreaming. Avoid distractions like computer/video games, the internet, a movie, etc.
IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to make good quotes
Figure out your themes.
Brainstorm a list of the top themes you want to address with your quote. Give yourself fifteen minutes to jot down the themes or issues you want to address with your quote.
OUT: | You can use point form, such as single words or short phrases that indicate a theme. If you are writing a sports quote, your key themes might include: performance, athleticism, endurance, perseverance and nutrition. |
Part 1. Definition
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Part 2. Example
The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
Answer: The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini.
Explanation: The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
Part 3. Exercise
Oil refining is the name for a number of processes from chemical engineering , which transform crude oil into useful products such as different fuel oils , Liquefied petroleum gas , gasoline , kerosene or diesel oil .
Answer: | Petroleum refining processes are the chemical engineering processes and other facilities used in petroleum refineries ( also referred to as oil refineries ) to transform crude oil into useful products such as liquefied petroleum gas ( LPG ) , gasoline or petrol , kerosene , jet fuel , diesel oil and fuel oils . |
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