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How to avoid stomach pain when taking antibiotics<br>Follow your doctor's instructions exactly. When your doctor writes you a prescription for antibiotics, she will give you specific instructions regarding how to take the medication. Following these instructions exactly can help to reduce your chances of developing stomach pain, as your doctor will most likely give you tips on how to avoid this unpleasant side effect.
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true?
Doctors never give instructions when they write prescriptions.
Pick your answer from: -Yes -It's impossible to say -No | No |
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to make deep fried cookie dough
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Place the butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar in a large mixing bowl.
Using a handheld mixer or a stand mixer with a paddle attachment, beat the butter and sugars on medium speed until the mixture is light and fluffy.
OPT: A). After you are finished, put the dry ingredients into a large bowl. Pour the shortening and oil into the bowl. B). Mix in the flour, the egg and salt. With a separate mixer or stand mixer, beat the sugar, milk and water until light and fluffy. C). Add the vanilla and 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil and mix it for an additional 30 seconds. Turn the mixer down to low speed and add the flour. D). Add the granulated sugar and yeast and mix well. Using a stand mixer with a paddle attachment, beat the sugar and yeast mixture together until the dough is light and fluffy. | C). |
Q: Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Generated: Context: At this year’s Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood, the Trick ‘r Treat maze is one of the scariest frights imaginable. And who would be the perfect person to experience this haunted maze? None other than Nerdist New’s Amy Vorpahl. I had to stop the video multiple times to wipe my eyes from crying I was laughing so hard.
Hypothesis: Amy Vorpahl has three sisters
Q: Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Generated: Context: Neil Tennant (born 1 March 1950 in South Africa) is Arts & Humanities Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Ohio State University. Along with Michael Dummett, Crispin Wright, and a few others, Tennant is one of the most notable figures in the contemporary realism/anti-realism debate. He has also written extensively on intuitionistic logic and other non-classical logics.
Hypothesis: Tennant is the most famous figures in the contemporary debate.
Q: Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Generated: Context: The Sector 15A locality in Noida, India, which is considered an elite enclave of rich industrialists, bureaucrats and professionals was in for a shock when Anant Gupta, son of Adobe India CEO Naresh Gupta was abducted in broad daylight by two unidentified men on Monday. The Noida police was subsequently notified but they were unable to locate the motor-cycle used by the kidnappers as no one was able to take down the registration number of the vehicle. A number of raiding teams have been formed by the police to track down the offenders.
Hypothesis: Noida police were notified of a kidnapping involving the son of the CEO of Adobe India on Monday.
Q: Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Generated: | Context: AT&T Corp. says it will stop selling traditional local and long-distance residential service in seven states, blaming its move on a court decision that it says will result in higher prices for its use of regional networks.
Hypothesis: One of the states is California |
TASK DEFINITION: In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
PROBLEM: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792), written by the 18th-century British proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. In it, Wollstonecraft responds to those educational and political theorists of the 18th century who did not believe women should have an education. She argues that women ought to have an education commensurate with their position in society, claiming that women are essential to the nation because they educate its children and because they could be 'companions' to their husbands, rather than mere wives. Instead of viewing women as ornaments to society or property to be traded in marriage, Wollstonecraft maintains that they are human beings deserving of the same fundamental rights as men.
SOLUTION: what was wollstonecraft's purpose in writing a vindication of the rights of woman
PROBLEM: Boyd is a Scottish surname. It originated from a habitational name from the island of Bute, located in the Firth of Clyde. The surname was very common in Edinburgh in the 17th century. The Scottish Gaelic form of the surname is Boid (masculine), and Bhoid (feminine).
SOLUTION: where does the last name boyd originate from
PROBLEM: London Bridge is a bridge in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. It was built in the 1830s and formerly spanned the River Thames in London, England. It was dismantled in 1967 and relocated to Arizona. The Arizona bridge is a reinforced concrete structure clad in the original masonry of the 1830s bridge, which was purchased by Robert P. McCulloch from the City of London. McCulloch had exterior granite blocks from the original bridge numbered and transported to America to construct the present bridge in Lake Havasu City, a planned community he established in 1964 on the shore of Lake Havasu. The bridge was completed in 1971 (along with a canal), and links an island in the Colorado River with the main part of Lake Havasu City.
SOLUTION: | who bought the old london bridge and where is it now
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Question:
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence for the following:
How to plan a trip to new york city
Identify the things you want to see.
Why do you dream of going to new york city? You probably have a few things in mind already that you're curious about. List them, then take some time and research other places, landmarks, museums, or shows that interest you.
OPTIONS:
- Narrow down your search to the places that seem special to you. Be specific about which shows you'd like to see.
- If you're overwhelmed by all of the options, you can always start with a pre-planned itinerary as a jumping-off point. The city has special ones based on tv shows, classic movies, and beloved children's literature.
- This can make the trip that much more exciting and overwhelming. If you've never visited new york city before, then taking a bus, plane, train, or subway is the perfect place to begin your research.
- Chances are you already have a great attitude about getting tickets to that particular location. Purchase ticket listings in the newspapers or at your local news station to educate yourself about new york city.
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Answer:
If you're overwhelmed by all of the options, you can always start with a pre-planned itinerary as a jumping-off point. The city has special ones based on tv shows, classic movies, and beloved children's literature.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
Then, a man is shown gearing up and putting on several contraptions that he can connect to a belt. he
OPTIONS:
- is then shown washing the windows of the very tall building.
- then wears numerous shoes and accessories to fit into a backpack.
- then puts a shoes on to do stretching.
- then pulls the springs of the bike to the sides.
A: is then shown washing the windows of the very tall building.
A close up of a christmas tree is shown followed by a young child hanging up ornaments. the girl
OPTIONS:
- peels the wrapping paper back and shows off the finished tree.
- then ornaments the tree and sits back and looks at the camera.
- walks back and fourth hanging up ornaments all over a tree.
- continues to lay down ornaments while the camera pans all around her.
walks back and fourth hanging up ornaments all over a tree.
question: Complete the next sentence:
How to get water stains off wood
Put mineral oil on a soft rag and rub it into the stain.
Let it sit overnight and repeat if the stain seems to have diminished.
Rub the stain with mineral spirits on a soft cloth if the mineral oil doesn't work.
OPTIONS:
- Mineral spirits is a mild solvent that can remove a stain that has penetrated into the wax, but not the finish. Wear gloves and apply it in a well-ventilated area.
- They usually have the same effect, though test pure mineral spirits first to see if it reacts with the oil. Apply a flea-repellent product that works well on wood or metal furniture, such as curry powder.
- Take it out after a couple of days and wipe off the mineral spirits. Scrub the oil for several days if the stain remains.
- You can also use a glass bottle and stain the entire wood. Don't use a rag or the bottle of mineral spirits because this can increase the number of stains on wood.
answer: Mineral spirits is a mild solvent that can remove a stain that has penetrated into the wax, but not the finish. Wear gloves and apply it in a well-ventilated area.
Problem: Write the next sentence for:
A man is on a machine standing and using only his arms and feet to move on it. then a woman
OPTIONS:
- on the other side starts moving as well as him using his whole body on the machine.
- is standing and she throws water on him.
- is shown and her arm is shown and they both show how to do the exact same thing.
- gets on it taking the mans place and she uses the machine..
Next sentence: gets on it taking the mans place and she uses the machine.
IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to use teamlab to create a corporate portal for your community
Create a teamlab portal for your community.
Create the community portal for your school, university or social organization of other type using the free web-based platform for business collaboration teamlab. Just give the details you are asked on teamlab home page: your name, contact email and the wished portal name.
OPTIONS:
- Opt to place your hashtags. You can use the default form of linking to find the perfect hashtags.
- By clicking " create portal now " your corporative portal will be created. The login details will be sent to the provided contact e-mail.
- Determine the level of teamlab member you wish to collaborate with. In general, be sure that any child or friend gets participation in teamlab.
- Design a theme for the premises of the business enclosure. This will also contain the required id for the business enclosure within the template and your destination phrase.
OUT: | By clicking " create portal now " your corporative portal will be created. The login details will be sent to the provided contact e-mail. |
Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Input: In its continuing effort to sanitize the Chinese internet, already this year, China has cracked down on homosexuality, raunchy time travel and foul-mouthed internet superstars, now they are going bananas.
According to state media, Chinese streaming services have banned hosts from filming themselves eating the suggestive yellow fruit "in an erotic manner."
This latest regulation comes at a time in which the Chinese webcam industry is exploding in popularity, giving net nanny censors headaches as they try to figure out how to control a platform that is live and operates on a business model centered around attractive women showing off just as much as they can get away with.
These young camgirls -- or online hostesses -- can make some serious cash. Those with enough followers can earn between 10,000 to 100,000 yuan per month, by enticing and teasing their viewers into purchasing virtual gifts, like roses, chocolates and designer bags, and splitting the revenue with the streaming companies.
Beijing Today describes the business from one young woman's perspective:
Ding at first was hesitant to take up camming. During her first week online, she was criticized by her agent for “not communicating enough with her online followers.” Since then, she adjusted her style and won a large following. Her peak show drew more than 600,000 viewers who were eager to watch her change into expensive clothes she bought from South Korea. “My followers are mainly young men who are very vain,” Ding said in an interview with Paper.cn. “The rest are just people who want to hit on a young and beautiful model.”
Partly owing to China's infamous gender gap, there is no shortage of single men ready to do just that . 68% of viewers are between 19 and 35 and over three-fourths are male. One of the biggest streaming sites, YY.com, claims 120 million active users, and revenues of 5.9 billion yuan.
However, in building their audience, not all hosts have kept things PG-13. Already this year, there have been reports of women stripping, posing nude and having sex on their channel to win more followers. China's internet regulator claims that competitive streaming sites are increasingly pushing the boundaries of what is acceptable; thus the crackdown on blowing bananas.
Last month, the Ministry of Culture announced an investigation into all of the major streaming platforms, authoring legislation that requires live-streaming services to monitor ALL of their content 24/7. With thousands of channels and only a limited team of monitors, this seems somewhat unrealistic.
But hey, if you're desperate, you can always switch over to iPanda and watch hours of hardcore action: ||||| The Chinese government has decided that bananas are not to its taste — at least when they are on the internet alongside beautiful young women.
Livestreams that feature “hostesses” eating the fruits seductively will be banned under new rules by the Ministry of Culture, according to state-controlled CCTVNews.
The move comes after the authorities’ review of live-streaming sites in the country, where pornography has been banned since the establishment of the People’s Republic in 1949.
NFL WARNS PLAYERS ABOUT EATING MEAT FROM CHINA
The Chinese government has banned livestream hostesses from eating bananas seductively. Above, a young woman in a YouTube video. (tgmo via YouTube)
Some may think that the idea of forbidding fruits is bananas, but the government says it is a combating content deemed “too vulgar, violent, or too sexual” as sites with buxom young women continue to attract hundreds of millions of users.
Taking a blanket approach to censorship, sites will now be required to have censors watching for possible banana-based crimes 24/7.
No information was immediately available on whether the restrictions would be limited to potassium-rich fruits or extend to strawberries, cucumbers, and kumquats.
Some of the most popular livestreams attract 400,000 viewers. Above, a man at a Beijing internet cafe. (GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images)
Wearing suspenders as a livestream hostess is now also prohibited, according to News Express Daily.
It remains to be seen whether the banana ban will affect the bottom lines of the streaming websites, which state media say make up to $900 million a year for the top sites.
Some of the top hostesses, such as Zhang Qige, reportedly earn up to $150,000 annually and attract upwards of 400,000 viewers to watch them play video games. |||||
Output: | When sexily eating bananas is outlawed, only outlaws will sexily eat bananas. China's state-run CCTV News reports the Ministry of Culture has banned women from "seductively eating bananas" online. Hundreds of millions of users have apparently been logging onto live-streaming platforms to watch such erotic fruit-eating clips, according to the New York Daily News. Possibly related: Pornography has been banned in China since 1949. The Chinese government launched an investigation into the country's increasingly popular live-streaming platforms last month, looking for "content that was too vulgar, violent, or too sexual." It found that the most popular live-stream hosts are "predominately attractive women showing their cleavage." And eating bananas, we guess. Shanghaiist explains that China's live-streaming companies "operate on a business model centered around attractive women showing off just as much as they can get away with." Hosts can reportedly make up to $150,000 a year. But competition is making them push the boundaries of what the government considers acceptable. And now sexy banana eating is officially on the wrong side of that line. According to the BBC, the Ministry of Culture has also banned women from live-streaming while wearing stockings or suspenders. But Chinese social-media users have some questions about the new rules. "How do they decide what's provocative when eating a banana?" the BBC quotes one as saying. "They will all start eating cucumbers, and if that's no good, yams," another user warns. |
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Q: Fax ( short for facsimile ) , or telecopying , is the transmission of scanned printed material ( both text and images ) , to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device .
A: Fax ( short for facsimile ) , sometimes called telecopying or telefax ( the latter short for telefacsimile ) , is the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material ( both text and images ) , normally to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device .
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Q: The University of North Carolina at Greensboro is a public university in Greensboro , North Carolina .
A: The University of North Carolina at Greensboro , also known as UNCG and UNC Greensboro , is a public coeducational and Research university in Greensboro , North Carolina , United States and is a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina system .
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Q: She was widely criticized for her militant tactics , but her work helped to achieve women 's suffrage in Britain .
A: | She was widely criticised for her militant tactics , and historians disagree about their effectiveness , but her work is recognised as a crucial element in achieving women 's suffrage in the United Kingdom .
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Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: Context: Pandanus tectorius is a species of "Pandanus" (screwpine) that is native to Malesia, eastern Australia, and the Pacific Islands. It grows in the coastal lowlands typically near the edge of the ocean. Common names in English include Tahitian screwpine, thatch screwpine., hala tree; pandanus, and pu hala in Hawaiian. The fruit is sometimes known as hala fruit.
Hypothesis: Pandanus" (screwpine) that is native to portuga;
Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: Context: [India], Mar 21 (ANI): The Delhi Police on Wednesday filed charge sheet in connection with Bawana fire case, in which 17 people were charred to death in a massive blaze at a firecracker storage unit in Delhi's Bawana area. Earlier in January, a Delhi court sent the owners of the firecracker factory Manoj jain and Lalit Goyal, accused in the Bawana fire, to judicial custody. On January 20, 17 people were killed in a fire at a firecracker storage unit in Bawana area in New Delhi. Of the 17 killed, 10 were women. A man and woman were also injured. (ANI)
Hypothesis: 17 people passed away during the fire.
Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: Context: Whereas the Government of Canada seeks to achieve sustainable development that is based on an ecologically efficient use of natural, social and economic resources and acknowledges the need to integrate environmental, economic and social factors in the making of all decisions by government and private entities;
Hypothesis: The Government in Canada want to ensure development that will be maintained at a certain rate based on an ecologically efficient use of natural, social and economic resources
Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: | Context: Al-Qaida-linked militants have carried out a series of suicide bombings targeting Western interests in Indonesia since 2002.
Hypothesis: There have been suicide bombings in Indonesia. |
Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: Context: A Matter of Chance is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov written in Russian under his pen name Vladimir Sirin in Berlin in 1924. It was rejected by the newspaper "Rul" and first published by the emigre magazine "Segodnya" in Riga. In 1974 it became part of a collection of thirteen stories called "Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories" published by McGraw-Hill.
Hypothesis: A newspaper called Rul rejected a short story by Vladimir Nabokov in 1924.
Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: Context: Sheehan, whose 24-year-old son, Casey, died last year in Iraq, started her antiwar demonstration along the roadside in Crawford, Texas, on Aug. 6, demanding to meet with the president.
Hypothesis: sheehan does not like the president
Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: Context: Therefore I am very pleased to indicate to the member that within the next couple of weeks we will make available a service charge calculator free of charge on our website, Strategis, that will enable consumers to compare the charges levied against them by a variety of financial institutions and see in a very transparent and rapid way where the best services charges can be obtained.
Hypothesis: I am not pleased to indicate this to the member.
Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: | Context: Singularity is an experimental operating system (OS) which was built by Microsoft Research between 2003 and 2010. It was designed as a high dependability OS in which the kernel, device drivers, and application software were all written in managed code. Internal security uses type safety instead of hardware memory protection.
Hypothesis: Type safety is better than hardware memory protection for internal security. |
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: Allan crouched over his desk once more, pen in hand and mind blank. He contemplated a story, an outline he had laboriously constructed some time ago. He had filled his pen and raised it, the nib descending towards the paper, before the sound came: the gentle, persistent tapping of the gnarled, primeval willow touching the window with long, insistent fingers. His eyes awoke with a passionate, determined flame, though the only light came from the glutted moon. Allan filled page after page, the words escaping from his mind onto the paper. Where before they had marched in regiments, practiced in ranks and followed their leaders' commands, the words now escaped in their true forms, unhindered by any stricture. He continued long into the night, until the eldritch orb had sunk into the waiting hands of the willow, raised perpetually skyward. Arthur looked up from the results of a night's frenzied labors and looked Allan in the eye. "What is this?" he queried, indicating the pages he held in his left hand. "I decided that… since I wasn't having much success with more – traditional – stories, I might see what sort of work I produced if I let my imagination go freely," Allan replied, somewhat less self-assured than he had been the previous night. "What in G-d's name could have possessed you to do such a thing," cried Arthur, nearly raising his voice. "After all I said the day before, why have you abandoned centuries of literary progress for some self-indulgent fantasy?" He shook the papers at Allan, raising them like a belt above the head of a disobedient son. "This is nothing but a glorified Grimm's tale, a miscarried child of Stoker, a creation less fit to be published than to be told around an open fire at the hovel of some peasant!" He spoke the last word with such heavy intonation that Allan shrank back before the physical wave of sound emanating from Arthur's throat. "Do you hate the modern system of literature? Do you personally despise the works the Enlightenment or the progress made since Shakespeare?" For a moment, Allan could hardly do more than shake his head. "No, of course not… I– " "Then why," Arthur barreled on, "do you disregard them all and return to this superstitious babble, this morbid, paganistic drivel? <sep>What awoke the passion in Allan to begin writing that night?<sep>Shakespeare
Output: | 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.
Input: Consider Input: Petroleum jelly, petrolatum, white petrolatum, soft paraffin/paraffin wax or multi-hydrocarbon, CAS number 8009-03-8, is a semi-solid mixture of hydrocarbons (with carbon numbers mainly higher than 25), originally promoted as a topical ointment for its healing properties.
Output: is paraffin wax the same as petroleum jelly?
Input: Consider Input: They are liquids used primarily as a topical antiseptic. They also have many industrial and household uses. The term ``rubbing alcohol'' has become a general non-specific term for either isopropyl alcohol (isopropanol) or ethyl alcohol (ethanol) rubbing-alcohol products.
Output: is ethyl alcohol the same as rubbing alcohol?
Input: Consider Input: Activated carbon, also called activated charcoal, is a form of carbon processed to have small, low-volume pores that increase the surface area available for adsorption or chemical reactions. Activated is sometimes substituted with active.
| Output: is activated carbon the same as activated charcoal?
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Definition: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Input: What does space control instruct to do when freedom is compromised?, Context: Space Control is defined as "operations to ensure freedom of action in space for the US and its allies and, when directed, deny an adversary freedom of action in space. This mission area includes: operations conducted to protect friendly space capabilities from attack, interference, or unintentional hazards (defensive space control); operations to deny an adversary's use of space capabilities (offensive space control); and the requisite current and predictive knowledge of the space environment and the operational environment upon which space operations depend (space situational awareness)" (JP 1-02).
Output: | deny |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Example input: Powdered sugar, also called confectioners' sugar, icing sugar, and icing cake, is a finely ground sugar produced by milling granulated sugar into a powdered state. It usually contains a small amount of anti-caking agent to prevent clumping and improve flow. Although most often produced in a factory, powdered sugar can also be made by processing ordinary granulated sugar in a coffee grinder, or by crushing it by hand in a mortar and pestle.
Example output: is confectionary sugar the same as powdered sugar?
Example explanation: The question is a yes/no question, and it is answerable based on the given passage.
Q: The four-second fall from the Golden Gate Bridge sends a person plunging 245 feet (75 m) at 75 miles per hour (121 km/h) to hit the waters of the San Francisco Bay ``with the force of a speeding truck meeting a concrete building.'' Jumping off the bridge holds a 98 percent fatality rate; As of 2005, it is estimated that 26 people have survived after jumping. Some die instantly from internal injuries, while others drown or die of hypothermia. The Golden Gate bridge's death toll has since been surpassed only by the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge in China. In 2013, 118 potential jumpers were talked down from their attempt and did not jump.
A: | can you jump off the golden gate bridge and live? |
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.
Q: The drinking age in Wisconsin is 21. Those under the legal drinking age may be served, possess, or consume alcohol if they are with a parent, legal guardian, or spouse who is of legal drinking age. Those age 18-20 may also be served, possess or consumer alcohol if they are with a parent, legal guardian, or spouse who is of legal drinking age. Those age 18 to 20 may also possess (but not consume) alcohol as part of their employment.
A: | can you drink alcohol in wisconsin with your parents? |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Eberhard Karls University , Tu ̈ bingen is a public university in the city of Tu ̈ bingen , Baden-Wu ̈ rttemberg , Germany .
| The University of Tu ̈ bingen , officially the Eberhard Karls University of Tu ̈ bingen ( ; ) , is a public research university located in the city of Tu ̈ bingen , Baden-Wu ̈ rttemberg , Germany . |
Definition: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Input: A verdict is a term in law .
Output: | In law , a verdict is the formal finding of fact made by a jury on matters or questions submitted to the jury by a judge . |
What is the most logical next event?
How to select landscape plants
Determine the types of plants that thrive in your climate or region.
The landscape plants you choose should be compatible with the weather and climate of the region in which you live. For example, if you live in a region with snowy weather and freezing temperatures, plant pine trees instead of palm trees, which thrive in tropical regions with warmer weather. | Speak with an associate at your local nursery or gardening shop to determine the types of plants that grow best in your climate. Verify your climate type by visiting the " landscape design " website listed in the sources section of this article. |
IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
Men and women are fighting in a open area inside a building. Man is holding a woman on his arms and kissing her. men
OPTIONS:
- are running around a field with javeline and are playing a game of shot ball versus a person from back.
- are dancing around in a ballroom.
- lies people in a bathtub and washes them with soap.
- is practicnig figting n an open field with other men throwing poles at him.
OUT: is practicnig figting n an open field with other men throwing poles at him.
Question:
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence for the following:
A man is seen pushing a piece of machinery over large grass. a 3d animation
OPTIONS:
- is in progress of a man pushing a piece of machinery over a big thing.
- is shown how the tool works.
- is shown with the man using the tool gradually.
- is followed that shows him pushing the piece of machinery back and fourth.
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Answer:
is shown how the tool works.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
How to eat cattails
Clean the shoots.
After, you will need to rinse them with fresh water. Then, remove bacteria by soaking the spikes in vinegar for twenty minutes.
OPTIONS:
- Finally, rinse them again in fresh water to remove the vinegar. If you do not have access to vinegar, you can roast the spikes over a fire to kill the bacteria.
- This will loosen dirt so they will be easier to bite through. Once the spikes are clean, you can simply roast the food or leach it from the grounds with a roux in a heavy pan.
- Once finished soaking, the spikes of cattails are ready to eat. Wash the spikes with a disinfectant and dry them off.
- The vinegar will disinfect the spikes, making sure there is no fungus growing on them. Dip a soft towel in distilled water and wring it out.
A: Finally, rinse them again in fresh water to remove the vinegar. If you do not have access to vinegar, you can roast the spikes over a fire to kill the bacteria.
How to exercise in bed
Do push-ups.
Push-ups are a classic exercise that can increase arm strength. You can also easily do them from your bed.
OPTIONS:
- Sit in the same position as you would if you were in bed; as long as your back doesn't hurt, and your feet are comfortably on the floor, you're good to do push-ups. To do a push-up, lie on your side.
- Reach into your drawer to find and complete three sets of six to 12 reps each. Doing push-ups with the help of a chair or wall can give you access to very useful exercise pieces.
- To do push-ups, stand with your feet shoulder-width apart. Raise your arms above your head and legs up into the air.
- Place your knees or toes and your hands on the bed, while keeping your back straight. If you're a beginner, it's a good idea to use your knees over your toes.
Place your knees or toes and your hands on the bed, while keeping your back straight. If you're a beginner, it's a good idea to use your knees over your toes.
question: Complete the next sentence:
A person is seen standing on a tennis court bouncing a ball. another man
OPTIONS:
- takes his turn speaking to the camera.
- walks up hitting a birdie.
- is seen standing ready on the other side in front of a large audience.
- is holding the racket next to him.
answer: is seen standing ready on the other side in front of a large audience.
IN: What happens next?
A woman talks in a bar, then she puts ice in a stainless steel glass. Then the woman adds to the cup two measures of liquor, juice and sugar. after
OPTIONS:
- liquid is added to the drink by a paper.
- , she adds honey and cream in the cup.
- , she pour some liquors in the glass and then adds a lemon onto the glass with ice, then she mix the liquors with a lemon wedge.
- , the woman puts a cup on top and shake it, and serves in a cup with a slice of lemon.
OUT: | , the woman puts a cup on top and shake it, and serves in a cup with a slice of lemon. |
Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Input: Northern Irish actor Jamie Dornan has been tapped to replace Charlie Hunnam as Christian Grey in the Universal and Focus adaptation of “Fifty Shades of Grey.”
Dornan plays Sheriff Graham Humbert in ABC series “Once Upon a Time”; he’s also played a serial killer in BBC Two crime drama “The Fall,” and he appeared in Sofia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette.” The 31-year-old thesp performs in an Irish folk duo and has modeled for Calvin Klein, Christian Dior and Armani. His modeling experience may be useful, as the part will require him to act in explicitly sexual scenes.
PHOTOS: Jamie Dornan, From Model to “Fifty Shades”
Dakota Johnson will co-star as Anastasia Steele, with Sam Taylor-Johnson on board to direct.
Universal and Focus Features declined to comment.
The project was hit with a huge curveball when Hunnam departed after being attached for just a month. Universal said Hunnam’s exit was due to scheduling issues with “Sons of Anarchy” and upcoming movie “Crimson Peak,” but some sources said battles over a rewrite and the actor’s doubts about the role may have played a part in his decision.
PHOTOS: Christian Grey Casting: A Timeline
When Hunnam exited, U and Focus execs decided to go for more of a discovery and brought in Dornan and Billy Magnussen to test with Johnson last Friday. Though the studio considered bringing in more actors to test, as of Wednesday morning sources said no one else had been brought in.
Universal will now work quickly to land thesps for the remaining supporting roles that include Steele’s roommate Kate, a role for which U had already been testing actresses prior to Hunnam’s exit.
Michael De Luca is on to produce the adaptation of E.L. James’ sexy bestseller, which is set to bow Aug. 1, 2014.
Dornan is repped by UTA and United Agents. ||||| Dornan is in negotiations to replace Charlie Hunnam, as Universal hopes to start production in early November.
Jamie Dornan has been chosen as the new Christian Grey for Universal and Focus’ adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Negotiations with the actor now are underway.
Charlie Hunnam infamously backed out of the project a week and a half ago, setting off a feverish pursuit to find his replacement.
PHOTOS: Stars Misaligned: Charlie Hunnam Quits 'Fifty Shades' and 15 Other Casting Near-Misses
The U.K.-based Dornan was first revealed as a contender for the role of kinky billionaire Grey by THR on Oct. 14. He is the star of the U.K. series The Fall and might be best-known to U.S. audiences for playing the Huntsman in ABC's Once Upon a Time. Born in Northern Ireland, he's a former Calvin Klein model and dated Keira Knightley for two years.
Dornan, 31, actually was contacted before Hunnam officially dropped out, and tested Friday opposite female lead Dakota Johnson for director Sam Taylor-Johnson, author EL James and producers Michael De Luca and Dana Brunetti. Tony-nominated actor Billy Magnussen also tested, as did Francois Arnaud from The Borgias, according to sources.
Dornan will now face the blinding spotlight of both fans of the best-selling trilogy and the media. Hunnam and Universal cited a scheduling conflict as the reason for his exit, but THR reported that he was uncomfortable with the frenzy surrounding the project. Universal was forced to hire bodyguards for the Sons of Anarchy actor at a premiere, and two appearances to promote the show were canceled. Hunnam, who also is a writer (he penned the gothic horror screenplay Vlad for Brad Pitt's Plan B and Summit Entertainment), is said to have had issues with Kelly Marcel's adaptation of the book. The script is getting a polish by Patrick Marber (Notes on a Scandal).
Universal was under pressure to begin production Nov. 1 on the high-profile project in order to meet an Aug. 1, 2014, release date. If Dornan's deal closes, he will be signed for three and possibly four Fifty Shades movies based on the erotic book, assuming the first film is successful.
THR also has learned that Universal and Focus had approached Juno Temple to play Anastasia Steele's (Johnson) best friend and Frank Grillo to play Grey's bodyguard. Both actors passed on the roles, according to sources.
RELATED: Charlie Hunnam's 'Fifty Shades' Script Showdown and the Chaotic Final Days
Dornan is repped by UTA. |||||
Output: | Maybe this Christian Grey will be more popular with Fifty Shades fans? Actor and former Calvin Klein model Jamie Dornan has been selected to replace Charlie Hunnam, who dropped out of the movie adaptation of the popular book last week. Dornan, 31, stars in a UK television series (The Fall), but if you live in the US, you might recognize him as the sheriff/huntsman from ABC's Once Upon a Time. (Other identifying fact: He dated Keira Knightley for two years.) He's already been tested with Dakota Johnson, who will play female lead Anastasia Steele, and multiple sources including the Hollywood Reporter and Variety are reporting he's in negotiations, though there's no official word from the studio yet. Hunnam's official reason for dropping the movie is that he had a scheduling conflict, but sources say he was actually uncomfortable with what THR refers to as the "frenzy" surrounding the film (Universal actually had to hire bodyguards for Hunnam at one point). Rabid fans of the book were quite displeased with the casting choices. |
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 long have the dialects been studied?, Context: The Philadelphia dialect, which is spread throughout the Delaware Valley and South Jersey, is part of Mid-Atlantic American English, and as such it is identical in many ways to the Baltimore dialect. Unlike the Baltimore dialect, however, the Philadelphia accent also shares many similarities with the New York accent. Thanks to over a century of linguistics data collected by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia dialect under sociolinguist William Labov has been one of the best-studied forms of American English.[f]
A: | over a century |
Q: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
“The Rise of Competency-Based Education” is Inside Higher Ed's new compilation of articles.
This print-on-demand booklet is free and you may download a copy here.
On Tuesday, Feb. 23, at 2 p.m. Eastern, Inside Higher Ed's editors will discuss the themes of the booklet and take your questions about them in a free webinar. Please sign up here.
This booklet was made possible in part through the financial support of Brightspace by D2L. ||||| Patrick Stewart, 61, has successfully defended his PhD thesis in architecture at the University of British Columbia, despite the fact that it was mostly written without any punctuation marks or capital letters or identifiable grammar.
The National Post reports that Stewart’s dissertation topic was “Indigenous Architecture through Indigenous Knowledge.” Part of that Indigenous Knowledge, it seems, was Stewart’s determination to write in the style of a 19 year-old who has only recently discovered ee cummings. In fact! Here’s a sample:
“in my defense my style of writing is not laziness or lack of knowledge of proper usage of the english language it is a form of grammatical resistance as a deconstructionist in the manner of many writers especially american poet ee cummings he graduated with a master degree in english from harvard university and they called him experimental and innovative not words likely to be used to describe an indigenous writer who breaks all the rules of writing (the behavioural ethics board at the university of british columbia suggested that i hire an editor as it appeared that i did not know the english language) times though they are changing”
“Stewart explains that he ‘wanted to make a point about aboriginal culture, colonialism, and ‘the blind acceptance of English language conventions in academia,’” the National Post adds.
Congratulations to Patrick Stewart on his newly earned PhD.
The fact that his thesis was not originally published on Thought Catalog is the biggest shock of all.
[National Post via Inside Higher Ed. Pic via] |||||
A: | Architect Patrick Stewart's doctoral dissertation has 149 pages, 52,438 words, and, except for a few question marks, no punctuation. As Canada's National Post reports, it also isn't much concerned with things like capitalization, paragraphs, or formatting of any kind, really. But maybe the most remarkable thing about his thesis, called Indigenous Architecture through Indigenous Knowledge, is that despite all that, examiners at the University of British Columbia passed it unanimously. So make that Dr. Patrick Stewart. “I like to say that it’s one long, run-on sentence, from cover to cover,” the 61-year-old tells the newspaper. "There’s nothing in the (UBC dissertation) rules about formats or punctuation." Stewart belongs to indigenous Nisga'a First Nation, and he says his dissertation was a protest of the “the blind acceptance of English language conventions in academia.” A sample: “in my defense my style of writing is not laziness or lack of knowledge of proper usage of the english language it is a form of grammatical resistance as a deconstructionist" The dissertation caught the attention of Inside Higher Ed, while a Gawker post likens Stewart's style to that of a 19-year-old "who has only recently discovered ee cummings." |
The Best Peel-Off Masks to Try Right Now Forget sheet masks. This year's superstar skin-care (and selfie-worthy) treatment is meant to be peeled off (literally) to reveal a gorgeous, glow-y complexion. So in the name of radiant skin (and a new profile photo), we've compiled the best peel-off masks to try this spring, no matter where you are—the tropics, the ski lodge, or simply your couch.
Can we infer the following?
There is a list of the best peel-off masks to try this spring. | Yes |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
[EX Q]: Why could there be reasonable doubt about the validity of what was stated that she said?, Context: In May 2007, The Daily Telegraph, citing unnamed sources, reported that the Queen was "exasperated and frustrated" by the policies of the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, that she was concerned the British Armed Forces were overstretched in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that she had raised concerns over rural and countryside issues with Blair. She was, however, said to admire Blair's efforts to achieve peace in Northern Ireland. On 20 March 2008, at the Church of Ireland St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh, the Queen attended the first Maundy service held outside England and Wales. At the invitation of the Irish President, Mary McAleese, the Queen made the first state visit to the Republic of Ireland by a British monarch in May 2011.
[EX A]: unnamed sources
[EX Q]: What was the smallest denomination present in Warsaw?, Context: Throughout its existence, Warsaw has been a multi-cultural city. According to the 1901 census, out of 711,988 inhabitants 56.2% were Catholics, 35.7% Jews, 5% Greek orthodox Christians and 2.8% Protestants. Eight years later, in 1909, there were 281,754 Jews (36.9%), 18,189 Protestants (2.4%) and 2,818 Mariavites (0.4%). This led to construction of hundreds of places of religious worship in all parts of the town. Most of them were destroyed in the aftermath of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. After the war, the new communist authorities of Poland discouraged church construction and only a small number were rebuilt.
[EX A]: Mariavites
[EX Q]: The U.S. and Canada consume?, Context: During the 1990s after NAFTA was signed, industrial development grew rapidly with foreign investment. Large factories known as maquiladoras were built to export manufactured goods to the United States and Canada. Today, most of the maquiladoras produce electronics, automobile, and aerospace components. There are more than 406 companies operating under the federal IMMEX or Prosec program in Chihuahua. The large portion of the manufacturing sector of the state is 425 factories divided into 25 industrial parks accounting for 12.47% of the maquiladoras in Mexico, which employ 294,026 people in the state. While export-driven manufacturing is one of the most important components of the state's economy, the industrial sector is quite diverse and can be broken down into several sectors, which are: electronics, agro-industrial, wood base manufacturing, mineral, and biotech. Similar to the rest of the country, small businesses continue to be the foundation of the state’s economy. Small business employs the largest portion of the population.[citation needed]
[EX A]: | manufactured goods
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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.
[Q]: Police officers arrest criminals , prevent crime , protect and help the public , and keep public order .
[A]: Police officers are generally charged with the apprehension of criminals and the prevention and detection of crime , protection and assistance of the general public , and the maintenance of public order .
[Q]: Sexual violence a sexual act or attempt to get sex by force , violence , unwelcome harassment or advances .
[A]: Sexual violence is any sexual act or attempt to obtain a sexual act by violence or coercion , acts to traffic a person or acts directed against a person 's sexuality , regardless of the relationship to the victim .
[Q]: The name " Big Bertha " subsequently came to be applied generally by the Allies to any very large German gun .
[A]: | German soldiers bestowed the gun with the nickname " Big Bertha , " which then spread through German newspapers to the Allies , who used it as a nickname for all superheavy German artillery .
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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: Sometimes several swings are hung from one long metal or wooden frame .
Solution: | On playgrounds , several swings are often suspended from the same metal or wooden frame , known as a swing set , allowing more than one child to play at a time . |
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: 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>Did written language exist during The First Dynasty in China?<sep>No
Output: | No |
question: Complete the next sentence:
How to maintain a car at 50 , 000 miles
Rotate and balance your tires every 5 , 000 miles (8 , 000 km).
The best or youngest tires should go on the front of your vehicle. When rotating tires from the back to the front, its important to keep tires on the same side of the car.
OPTIONS:
- Inspect tires for uneven wear and check the tire pressure every few months. Always have your car professionally aligned when you change your tires.
- Rotate and balance your tires every 5 , 000 miles (8 , 000 km). Lean on your shoulders to keep from rolling.
- That way you can see which lane each wheel is turning in while simultaneously keeping the tires in the same lane at the same speed. Put the car into gear instead of shifting.
- Changing your tire positions every 5 , 000 miles (8 , 000 km) impacts the drive and even the wheel, so ensure that the tires on both wheels and driving wheels at the same time. Raise your tires up and down as you steer around major turns.
answer: Inspect tires for uneven wear and check the tire pressure every few months. Always have your car professionally aligned when you change your tires.
Problem: Write the next sentence for:
How to avoid drinking and driving
Plan in advance.
Designating a driver is a very popular tactic to avoid drinking and driving. It is important to plan in advance, because your brain function will slow down and your decision making skills will be impaired once you start drinking.
OPTIONS:
- In addition, you will probably drink all day, so you will probably be in a rush to get home from work or school. Additionally, many driver's have suicidal thoughts.
- The best way to plan when you will be drinking is to set a direct date. Get a specific time by which you will drink.
- Decide before you begin drinking that you will not drive. Figure out who will be getting you home before you leave.
- As a result, plan to drink only when you are done driving. Planning ahead of time will pay off in the long run, even if you don't plan on driving for another week or two..
Next sentence: Decide before you begin drinking that you will not drive. Figure out who will be getting you home before you leave.
context: He starts climbing the rock climbing wall. A man in a yellow hat is talking. He climbs up the wall. several people
OPTIONS:
- walk in the room.
- are climbing up the rock climbing wall.
- pass by getting prepared for the event.
- are walking up the rock staircase.
****
next sentence for the context: are climbing up the rock climbing wall.
IN: What happens next?
She is trying to play the game with not much effort. She hands another racket to a friend. She is not really playing. the other player
OPTIONS:
- puts the ball against the fence again.
- hits the ball and she tries hard to keep it caught.
- is playing the game with her as a buffer.
- is a more serious player as she serves.
OUT: is a more serious player as she serves.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to get rid of people that hate you
Focus on how they make you feel.
It can be tough to recognize when someone is toxic and not in your best interest, especially if it's someone you've known a while. One sure sign of a toxic, negative person is listening to your gut and how they make you feel.
OPTIONS:
- You may dread being around them and exhibit signs of nervousness anticipating meetings like sweat palms, nausea and a general uneasy feeling. Toxic, negative people tend to exude pessimism and can even be physically or verbally abusive.
- If a toxic person pushes you, tries to get under your skin, or hangs out with anyone without having a positive reaction, then then you may be close to a toxic person. For example, say you dislike being asked how the person acts at school.
- Putting your feelings into words can be difficult or painful. Put the words " i feel like this person is toxic " in a list of reasons for feeling badly about yourself.
- If you really like someone, you can also notice how they treat you. Are they affectionate, callous, never take you seriously or use hurtful comments? If so, it's a good sign.
A: You may dread being around them and exhibit signs of nervousness anticipating meetings like sweat palms, nausea and a general uneasy feeling. Toxic, negative people tend to exude pessimism and can even be physically or verbally abusive.
context: How to kill a cricket that's loose in your house
Place cricket traps.
Purchase a few sticky traps (typically meant for rats or mice) and place them around your home wherever you believe there might be crickets. The crickets will walk over the trap and get stuck.
OPTIONS:
- A single cricket may escape, but the exact exact placement of the traps is completely unknown. The furry variety is the easiest to place traps around your house but are cheaper to put around your backyard.
- Try placing them anywhere in the house you associate with the cricket and home you are living in. Stick the traps up in plants to attract the cricket and also on your walls and floors.
- Placing a bit of cornmeal in the center of each trap will help attract the crickets to the traps. Use a beer can to catch the cricket.
- Crickets are safer choices than bats but still require a great deal of sportsmanship. Make sure the traps are in a safe place to put them so that they won't get clogged up by roaches or other bugs.
****
next sentence for the context: | Placing a bit of cornmeal in the center of each trap will help attract the crickets to the traps. Use a beer can to catch the cricket. |
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: Despite meeting some of the requirements such as being surrounded by a body of water, Australia is commonly cited to be too large to be called a what?, Context: Non-Australian citizens who are Australian permanent residents should be aware that during their stay on Norfolk Island they are "outside of Australia" for the purposes of the Migration Act. This means that not only will they need a still-valid migrant visa or Resident return visa to return from Norfolk Island to the mainland, but also the time spent in Norfolk Island will not be counted for satisfying the residence requirement for obtaining a Resident return visa in the future. On the other hand, as far as Australian nationality law is concerned, Norfolk Island is a part of Australia, and any time spent by an Australian permanent resident on Norfolk Island will count as time spent in Australia for the purpose of applying for Australian citizenship.
Answer: Island
Question: What is the landscape of Southampton?, Context: As with the rest of the UK, Southampton experiences an oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb). Its southerly, low lying and sheltered location ensures it is among the warmer, sunnier cities in the UK. It has held the record for the highest temperature in the UK for June at 35.6 °C (96.1 °F) since 1976.
Answer: low lying and sheltered location
Question: Who did the Kingdom of Prussia rule over?, Context: The sovereignty of szlachta was ended in 1795 by Partitions of Poland, and until 1918 their legal status was dependent on policies of the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia or the Habsburg Monarchy.
Answer: | Poland
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You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Powered speakers, also known as self-powered speakers and active speakers, are loudspeakers that have built-in amplifiers. Powered speakers are used in a range of settings, including in sound reinforcement systems (used at live music concerts), both for the main speakers facing the audience and the monitor speakers facing the performers; by DJs performing at dance events and raves; in private homes as part of hi-fi or home cinema audio systems and as computer speakers. They can be connected directly to a mixing console or other low-level audio signal source without the need for an external amplifier. Some active speakers designed for sound reinforcement system use have an onboard mixing console and microphone preamplifier, which enables microphones to be connected directly to the speaker.
Output: | do you need an amp with powered speakers? |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Problem:What type of degree was given to Schwarzenegger?, Context: In 1977, Schwarzenegger's autobiography/weight-training guide Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder was published and became a huge success. After taking English classes at Santa Monica College in California, he earned a BA by correspondence from the University of Wisconsin–Superior, where he graduated with a degree in international marketing of fitness and business administration in 1979.
Solution: | a BA |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Newton was the first one to suggest that gravity is universal. That means gravity affects all objects in the universe. Thats why his law of gravity is called the law of universal gravitation. Universal gravitation means that all objects are affected by gravity in the same way. This is the reason the apple falling from the tree and the Moon being held in orbit is the same. Universal gravitation also means that while Earth exerts a pull on you, you exert a pull on Earth. In fact, there is gravity between you and every mass around you. Even tiny molecules of gas are attracted to one another by the force of gravity. Newtons law had a huge impact on how people thought about the universe. It explains the motion of objects not only on Earth but in outer space as well. <sep>What does the Law of Universal Gravitation entail?<sep>Motion energy's impact
Output: | 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.
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.
Example solution: who has the maximum number of followers on instagram
Example explanation: 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.
Problem: The Yellow Sea is the name given to the northern part of the East China Sea, which is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean. It is located between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula. Its name comes from the sand particles from Gobi Desert sand storms that turn the surface of the water golden yellow.
| Solution: where is the yellow sea located on a world map |
Multi-select problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to remove a cyst on your face
Try using a warm compress.
Wet a washcloth with warm water. Don't use hot water, or it can inflame the skin.
Choices: -- Press the washcloth lightly against the cyst and surrounding area. Leave it on until the washcloth becomes cool to the touch.; -- Put the washcloth over the cyst. Don't scrub on the skin, it will open the cyst and cause problems.; -- Instead, simply gently pat it dry with a towel. Gently work the cyst to your facial area.; -- A heated washcloth can release steam and moisturize the skin, increasing the effectiveness of the insect repellent. Wait until the washcloth is cool to the touch before proceeding.; | Press the washcloth lightly against the cyst and surrounding area. Leave it on until the washcloth becomes cool to the touch. |
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: The "Amen break" is one of music's most beloved and essential samples, ranking up there with "Funky Drummer" and "Think (About It)" as the most used breaks in hip-hop, dance and rock. Snatched from the Winstons' 1969 track "Amen, Brother," the sample has appeared at various speeds in the music of N.W.A, Nine Inch Nails, Oasis and even in the theme of the animated series Futurama.
However, because of statute of limitations on the recording, the primary songwriters behind the track – the Winstons' Richard L. Spencer, who wrote the arrangement for the song and owned the copyright on the track, and drummer Gregory Coleman, who died homeless in 2006 – never received royalties from their indispensable beat. That is, until now.
Related Sampled 'Harlem Shake' Artists Seek Compensation Acts say Baauer used their music without permission in his Number One hit
A U.K. DJ named Martyn Webster started a GoFundMe page in order to pay back Spencer just a little of what he's probably owed for his contribution to music (via FACT). While the page set an early goal of £1,000 (roughly $1,500), the drive has already amassed that almost 10 times over thanks to music fans eager to repay their debt to the "Amen break." Just four days after the GoFundMe to benefit Spencer was posted, over 850 people have donated nearly $15,000.
"If you have ever written or sold any music with the amen break, or even just enjoyed one of the countless hundreds and hundreds of tunes that contain it over various genres and styles of music, please donate towards the good cause of the worldwide music community giving something back to the man behind the legendary breakbeat," Webster writes on the GoFund Me page.
Webster was inspired to fundraise on Spencer's behalf after hearing a BBC Radio program in 2011 where they managed to track down the Winstons' arranger and talk to him about the sample. Spencer expressed frustration that he was unable to pursue legal avenues in order to recoup some of the money the sample has helped generate and hoped that people would "do the right thing" when using the "Amen break" in the future. ||||| Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period.
Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period.
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A: | In 1969, a band called the Winstons recorded a song whose name you probably don't know—even though there's a good chance you've heard about six seconds of it. "Amen, Brother" was an instrumental B-side to a Grammy-winning hit called "Color Him Father," and it contains six seconds of drumming that have been sampled on more than 1,500 tracks, the BBC reports, pointing to data from whosampled.com. Among those who have used the beat are big names like David Bowie, Oasis, NWA, Nine Inch Nails, and Salt-N-Pepa, not to mention those behind the Futurama theme song, Rolling Stone reports. But the Winstons never received any royalties for the usage. The sampling of what's known as the "Amen Break" began in the 1980s, and at the time, the legal rules surrounding it weren't clear. The drummer who played the beat, one GC Coleman, died homeless in 2006 in Atlanta, and frontman Richard Spencer doesn't think Coleman was aware of the song's influence. But there's something of a happy ending to all this: British musicians have started an online fund to repay Spencer for the band's work, and they've collected more than $32,000 on GoFundMe. "If you have ever written or sold any music with the amen break, or even just enjoyed one of the countless hundreds and hundreds of tunes that contain … please donate towards the good cause," the campaign requests. (Jay Z also wants you to pay for music—via his new streaming service.) |
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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.
NEW YORK, New York -- Hillary Clinton unveiled her vision for the economy Monday, placing her focus squarely on boosting the middle class through a three-part plan to create jobs, reduce income inequality and hold financial institutions more accountable.
"Previous generations of Americans built the greatest economy and strongest middle class the world has ever known on the promise of a basic bargain: if you work hard and do your part, you should be able to get ahead," she said in a speech at the New School, a progressive university in New York City. "But over the past several decades, that bargain has eroded. Our job is to make it strong again."
Clinton, in the first major economic policy speech of her campaign, proposed expanding the workforce, especially for women, through both private and public investments, better benefits and lower healthcare costs for workers, and a reformed, more balanced tax code. Her goal, she said, was to create more "pathways" into the middle class.
"The defining challenge of our time is clear," she said. "We must raise incomes for hard working Americans so they can afford a middle class life."
Clinton drew a stark comparison with her counterparts on the Republican side of the race. She took aim first at Jeb Bush, who Clinton pounced on last week for saying that "people need to work longer hours" in an interview with the New Hampshire Union Leader.
"Let him tell that to the nurse who stands on her feet all day, or the teacher who in that classroom or the trucker who drives all night," she said. "They do not need a lecture, they need a raise."
But Bush was not talking about the work ethic of Americans. In a press conference with reporters after a town hall in Hudson, New Hampshire, he said that his words had been "taken out of context" and that he was referring to the need for people to have the opportunity for full-time work.
"If we're going to grow the economy people need to stop being part-time workers, they need to have access to greater opportunities to work," Bush said.
Clinton went on to attack by name Sen. Marco Rubio on his tax reform plan, calling it "bad economics" to cut taxes for the wealthy, and Gov. Scott Walker, whom she said has "made [his] name stomping on workers' rights." Walker will formally enter the race Monday night in Waukesha, Wisconsin, the site of his 2012 recall election victory.
"I will fight back against these mean-spirited attacks," she said.
Though Clinton made Republicans her main foil as she laid out her plans, she also differentiated herself from Bernie Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont who has recently been gaining on her in the polls. Sanders' arguments for promoting economic fairness -- in part by reducing the amount of wealth going to the richest Americans -- are helping him to draw crowds numbering in the thousands at his campaign rallies.
Sanders' definition of the "defining challenge" is different from Clinton's. He uses the phrase to describe the wealth gap between poor and working Americans and the wealthy and said in an interview with the Washington Post that he would sacrifice economic growth in favor of redistribution. Though narrowing that gap is part of the plan she described Monday, Clinton distinguished herself from Sanders by emphasizing that the middle class must rise along with corporate profits and executive compensation.
Clinton proposed measures like raising the minimum wage and investing in an infrastructure bank to create jobs, both which Sanders also supports, but also talked about immigration as an "engine of strong growth" and called on companies to expand profit-sharing programs. And while Sanders has called definitively for a breakup of the big banks, Clinton introduced a more nuanced plan to regulate the financial industry.
"We have to go beyond Dodd-Frank," she said. "Too-big-to-fail is still too big of a problem."
Clinton said major financial institutions today are still "too complex" and that a "shadow banking system" of hedge funds and high frequency trading is creating new threats to American consumers.
"While institutions have paid large fines and in some cases, admitted guilt, too often it has seemed that the human beings responsible get off with limited consequences or none at all," she said. "This is wrong and under my watch, it will change."
Clinton laid the groundwork for a separate policy speech on Wall Street reform, as well as a series of more specific announcements in the coming weeks on other economic policies like wage growth, college affordability and paid leave. Clinton will travel to New Hampshire later this week, where she is expected to talk more about incentives to encourage corporate profit-sharing.
CBS News' Catherine Cannon contributed to this report. ||||| The Justice Department is renewing its efforts to charge individuals in corporate investigations, seeking to address long-running criticism, particularly from Democrats, that they treat executive wrongdoing lightly.
In the latest push, Justice Department officials issued a memo Wednesday to prosecutors outlining best practices and recommending that they only consider a company to have cooperated in an investigation if that company... |||||
Output: | Mitt Romney once said corporations are people, in the sense that their profits end up in people's pockets, and the Justice Department now agrees, in the sense that corporations are made up of people that it can prosecute. The department has launched a push to start punishing the people responsible for white-collar crimes instead of just the corporations they work for, reports the New York Times, which describes it as Attorney General Loretta Lynch's first major policy shift. "Corporations can only commit crimes through flesh-and-blood people," Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates tells the Times, saying those people need to be held responsible and "the public needs to have confidence that there is one system of justice and it applies equally regardless of whether that crime occurs on a street corner or in a boardroom." Federal prosecutors nationwide have been told to focus more on individual corporate execs and put more pressure on companies to turn over their names, the Wall Street Journal reports, although the new guidelines aren't binding and it's not clear whether they result in more white-collar wrongdoers being jailed. The Journal notes that the Justice Department shift follows heavy criticism of the Obama administration for punishing HSBC with a $1.9 billion fine for money laundering while failing to prosecute individuals involved. In July, Hillary Clinton said that too often, "the human beings responsible get off with limited consequences or none at all," per CBS News, and promised that would change under her administration. |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Example input: 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
Example output: No
Example explanation: Based on the passage Timothy plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. So, the given answer is incorrect and the output should be "No".
Q: The Romans: Legend says Rome was founded by Romulus, sired with twin brother Remus by Mars of a Vestal Virgin and abandoned on the Palatine Hill to be suckled by a she-wolf. Historians agree with the mythmakers that the site and traditional founding date of 753 b.c. are just about right. Under Etruscan domination, Rome had been a monarchy until a revolt in 510 b.c. established a patrician republic, which lasted five centuries. In contrast to other Italian cities weakened by internal rivalries and unstable government, Rome drew strength from a solid aristocracy of consuls and senate ruling over plebeians proud of their Roman citizenship and only rarely rebellious. Recovering quickly from the Gallic invasion of 390 b.c. , the Romans took effective control of the peninsula by a military conquest reinforced by a network of roads with names that exist to this day: Via Appia, Flaminia, Aurelia. All roads did indeed lead to — and from — Rome. By 250 b.c. , the city's population had grown to an impressive 100,000. Roman power extended throughout the Mediterranean with a victory in the Punic Wars against Carthage (now Tunisia) and conquests in Macedonia, Asia Minor, Spain, and southern France. The rest of Italy participated only by tax contributions to the war effort and minor involvement in commerce and colonization. Resentment surfaced when former Etruscan or Greek cities such as Capua, Syracuse, and Taranto supported Hannibal's invasion in 218 b.c. Rome followed up defeat of the Carthaginians with large-scale massacres and enslavement of their Italian supporters. The Third and final Punic War ended in 149 b.c. , though national solidarity was still a long way off. Under Julius Caesar, elected in 59 b.c. <sep>What did the Romans do after recovering from the Gallic invasion of 390 b.c?<sep>Established a patrician republic
A: | No |
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to cast from a chrome browser
Locate an empty hdmi port on your tv.
Look behind your tv and find the hdmi ports at the back. Your tv may have multiple hdmi ports, just select one.
A: Connect the chromecast dongle to a power source. Plug one end of the usb power cable into your chromecast and the other end of the cable into the power supply and then into a nearby power outlet.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to increase your stripper income
Brand yourself.
The only thing you're selling in a strip club is yourself, so it's important to make your product stand out. If a guy only has enough money for one dance, it's important he chooses to spend that money on you and not another girl.
A: Choose a name that reinforces your brand. If you're marketing yourself as a sophisticated woman, try a name like gigi or isabel.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to clean a long haired hamster
Gather your supplies.
Long-haired hamsters may need more cleaning than short-haired hamsters. If you notice your hamster seems dirty, a dry bath or sand bath is your best option.
A: In the wild, hamster clean themselves using abrasive dirt or sand as water drains their fur of necessary oils. Always go for a sand bath over a water bath.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to convince your parents to let you see a movie
Search the movie online and check its rating.
Go to film review websites such as imdb or rotten tomatoes, and check the movie's rating and the awards it received. Having reliable outside sources that show how good the movie is will help your argument on why you should definitely see this movie.
A: | Ratings are important, but so is their date. A pg-rating in the 70's or 80's is different from a pg-rating today. |
Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to prep for a dance
Pick out your outfit.
Try to get something that matches the theme if there is one. Don't go all out and wear weird clothes you normally wouldn't wear. | It's all about being you, matching, and having fun. Don't go in baggy sweatpants, but don't buy a mini-prom dress and throw on a pair of stilettos. |
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) -- Declaring 2010 "The best year in safety performance in our company's history," Transocean Ltd., owner of the Gulf of Mexico oil rig that exploded, killing 11 workers, has awarded its top executives hefty bonuses and raises, according to a recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. That includes a $200,000 salary increase for Transocean president and chief executive officer Steven L. Newman, whose base salary will increase from $900,000 to $1.1 million, according to the SEC report. Newman's bonus was $374,062, the report states. Newman also has a $5.4 million long-term compensation package the company awarded him upon his appointment as CEO in March 2010, according to the SEC filing. The latest cash awards are based in part on the company's "performance under safety," the Transocean filing states. "Notwithstanding the tragic loss of life in the Gulf of Mexico, we achieved an exemplary statistical safety record as measured by our total recordable incident rate and total potential severity rate," the SEC statement reads. "As measured by these standards, we recorded the best year in safety performance in our Company's history." The company called that record "a reflection on our commitment to achieving an incident-free environment, all the time, everywhere," the SEC filing states. The company did not respond to an e-mail from CNN seeking comment. The April 20, 2010, explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig injured 17 workers and killed 11 others, including nine Transocean employees, according to the SEC filing. It has been called the worst spill in U.S. history. The well was capped three months later, but not before millions of barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf. In January, President Barack Obama's National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling released a report that spread blame for the accident among Transocean, BP -- which leased the rig -- and Halliburton, which installed the rig's cement casing. <sep>What was the worst oil spill in U.S. history?<sep>Deep Horizon rig explosion in 2009
Student: | No |
Generate a context and a hypothesis. | Context: I have said it before, and I will say it again-because this cannot be overemphasized-if people have to wait for a week, two weeks or a very long time before an operation, it is not because of the physician or the hospital, but because the hospital is starved of resources and, as a result, the level of services has dropped.
Hypothesis: People are waiting a long time for an operation but the hospital is hording resources. |
Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to treat a broken foot
Move the patient to a safe location and check for other injuries.
If the patient has also suffered a head, neck, or back injury, move him as little as possible and be extremely careful when doing so. Both the safety of the patient and the rescuer are more important than the immediate diagnosis and treatment of the foot injury. | Remove the shoes and socks of both feet and check for common symptoms of a broken foot. Compare both feet side by side to check for swelling or any other differences in appearance. |
[Q]: Guillermo Luis Franco Farquarson (born 3 November 1976) is an Argentine-born Mexican former football striker. Franco last played for Major League Soccer club Chicago Fire. He also played for the Mexico national team, until his international retirement in September 2010. Guillermo Luis Franco Farquarson has scored at least one goal OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: Yes
Problem: I would like to ask my hon. colleague if he sees any relationship between the justices, their influence by the law schools, by the lawyers of the community of which they are a part and if this is part of the reason that these justices are being given these pay raises that perhaps other frontline bureaucrats and government workers are not entitled to.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "I won't ask my hon. colleague."? OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
Q: The CEO of The Spring League is named Woody Brian.
Johnny Manziel in his days as a Cleveland Brown. (Source: WOIO) Tonight on 19 Sports Overtime: Brian Woods, CEO of The Spring League, prepares for the league’s debut and Johnny Manziel’s role in it. Buckle up, the first game for the elite development league kicks off this Saturday. Join Tony Zarrella and the gang tonight at 8 p.m. on Cleveland19.com, ROKU, Amazon Fire or Facebook. Download the Cleveland 19 News app and First Alert Weather app. Copyright 2018 WOIO. All rights reserved.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
How to diagnose hamster dental problems<br>Look for signs your hamster isn't eating. Overgrown teeth make it difficult for the hamster to eat. This is because the long teeth force the jaws permanently apart, the long teeth grow into the roof of the mouth or pierce the lips, or the teeth develop sharp jagged edges that make eating painful.
Jagged teeth make it difficult for hamsters to eat. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: Yes
input hypothesis: The Summit County Historical Society is only for older women.
Context: Join the Summit County Historical Society for a low tea and a mystery at the Perkins Stone Mansion to discuss the next book in the Mutton Hill Book Club series. The society book club is open to all. The discussion is lively. Perkins Stone Mansion, 550 Copley Road, Akron. 2-3:30 p.m. $10-$15. summithistory.org
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
true or false: It's impossible to say
input hypothesis: foreign aid includes nice cars
Context: That's a place where we can use our generosity to influence in a positive way, influence nations. I believe we ought to have foreign aid, but I don't think we ought to just have foreign aid for the sake of foreign aid. I think foreign aid needs to be used to encourage markets and reform.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
true or false: | It's impossible to say |
Determine if the sentence is true based on the text below:
Tyler is a teenager
Tie Dye<br>His name is Tyler but he prefers to be called by his nickname, Tie Dye. He's a sixteen year old boy who is part of the youth group I lead. Like most teens, Tie Dye is quite the challenge to lead. His home life is unstable and his temperament always reflects that. He's a great guy but he needs to grow up quickly. | Yes |
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
A gymnast swings back and forth from a bar. She flips and turns several times. she
OPTIONS:
- then dismounts before the judges and crowd.
- then lands on the bar.
- moves her arms with strength.
- finally does a front flip.
A: then dismounts before the judges and crowd.
IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to audition for little shop of horrors
Determine which character you will try out for and practice for that part.
Go to auditions with a positive attitude.
Be prepared to sing, dance and read lines from a script.
OPTIONS:
- Know what to expect (as the rest may be doing this there is nothing that you can't memorize. Take a taxi to your first audition or you can have them take some of the action out for you.
- Your character is supposed to exude confidence. We may not always know, but a good character is someone who could be picked out of a crowd.
- Ask a piece manager and let them critique your acting skills. Weigh in what kind of role you're willing to play and try to stick with it no matter what.
- Different directors require different things in auditions. Try to find out ahead of time what the director of your production will require.
OUT: Different directors require different things in auditions. Try to find out ahead of time what the director of your production will require.
Question:
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence for the following:
A tray of chips are shown on a table. A person is dealing cards onto the table. people sitting at the table
OPTIONS:
- are viewed as well as dealing.
- give each other high fives.
- bounce the money over and over.
- continue to play.
****
Answer:
give each other high fives.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
How to avoid an undesired conversation
Be alert.
The best way to avoid someone, and the conversation they may want to have with you, is to be aware of when they are or might be around. Be aware of their schedule as well as of your surroundings.
OPTIONS:
- If they want to spend time with you, they may be busy, tired, or looking for something to do. Notice if they " harass " you when they don't have anything to say.
- If they are somewhere, they will almost certainly start talking. Once they have talked, listen to him or her and try to put a little space between you and them.
- If they have stopped by multiple times, let them know beforehand why. For example, if you feel like your friends are always around and calling and texting, tell them off as soon as possible.
- Pay attention to which routes they take, where they normally hang out, what times they leave and arrive. This way you will know what places to avoid and when.
A: Pay attention to which routes they take, where they normally hang out, what times they leave and arrive. This way you will know what places to avoid and when.
How to bring food to a friend in need
Bring a main meal.
While cookies, muffins, and snacks are great housewarming gifts, people in need will benefit most from a main meal. This is especially true if children are a part of the family.
OPTIONS:
- Let them know they can count on you. If they have a little sister or brother and you feel like you're not the only one who feels threatened, get on board with it! Tell them you will stop feeding them lunch or dinner and instead focus on their favorite food.
- If a person in need is only six days old, bring a main meal. You may want to also include casseroles and crackers depending on your own overall cooking strengths and favorite dishes.
- Bring a main dish so that those eating will be full without needing another meal. For example, bring a casserole, lasagna, or hearty soup.
- Maybe your friend has leftovers from dinner, in which case you can provide as many as you can in the meal. You could include breakfast cereal, fruits, rice, or beans.
Bring a main dish so that those eating will be full without needing another meal. For example, bring a casserole, lasagna, or hearty soup.
Problem: Write the next sentence for:
Two other men direct the pickup truck to get ready for sailing. The men wear their waterproof boots to get ready for wakeboarding. as the motorboat
OPTIONS:
- slides, the adies make sure the boat stays upright.
- begins with a wake skip, the men get off and maneuver the boat to spinner toward the base of the rock.
- sharks pass the boys on shore.
- takes off, the man on the wakeboard follows behind them..
Next sentence: | takes off, the man on the wakeboard follows behind them. |
IN: What happens next?
How to prevent tooth enamel erosion
Brush your teeth twice a day.
In order to keep your teeth healthy, it is important to brush your teeth regularly. Brushing your teeth removes a wide variety of substances that are bad for your teeth, including sugary and acidic foods that can eat away at your tooth enamel.
OUT: Wait to brush your teeth until at least 30 minutes after meals. Acidic foods that you eat can weaken tooth enamel, which can lead to damaging the enamel when brushing.
IN: What happens next?
How to cope with being a social outcast
Confide in a loved one.
Although it can be difficult, it can help to find a supportive person in your life who will be a good listener, like your parents, a favorite teacher, or other loved ones. When young people are hurting because of their relationships with their peers, they should confide in supportive adults.
OUT: Talk about how you feel when you are excluded. Feeling like you are heard and understood can help make you feel better.
IN: What happens next?
A kneeing man talks to the camera. The man uses some shoe polish to polish a pair of black shoes. the man
OUT: | holds up and displays the polished shoes. |
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to recycle food waste
Sign up for a public recycling program.
Most major cities offer recycling programs through their public works department. Though some of these limit donations to paper, cans, and the like, many can handle at least some types of food.
OPTIONS:
- Contact your city government to ask if they offer a curbside composting program, how much it costs per month, how often they retrieve waste, and how you can sign up. After signing up, make sure to read you city's specific recycling guidelines to know what food you can give and how to separate it properly.
- These programs are typically located at a subway stop or station. The program only accepts these donations for $15.00 per container.
- However, examples of public parks may be a great place to deposit carburetor waste, coffee pots or the like. There are also many other kinds of recycling offered in places such as schools, pharmacies, food banks, grocery stores, and college campuses.
- These programs often come with a logo or a name tag, and you can share your name in the program for easy access to your food. Some programs will send out a gift bag of vegetables, chips, and other fruits and veggies.
A: Contact your city government to ask if they offer a curbside composting program, how much it costs per month, how often they retrieve waste, and how you can sign up. After signing up, make sure to read you city's specific recycling guidelines to know what food you can give and how to separate it properly.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
A man is putting kindle into a fire pit. He starts a fire in the fire pit. a kid
OPTIONS:
- digs a hole in the snow with a snowshovel.
- is looking through the phone book trying to find her phone so she can call her mom.
- stands behind him holding a stick.
- is picking cherries from the pit using a shovel.
A: stands behind him holding a stick.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to read a financial report
Identify the time period covered by the financial report.
Usually, the top of the report or statement lists the time period.
Look at the balance sheet.
OPTIONS:
- The balance sheet lists the assets and liabilities of the company. Take a look at how the balance sheet is set up.
- The balance sheet has columns of pay, retirement payments or other complicated figures. It will also have columns of income, expenses and salary reports.
- The line on the top of the report will refer to the payments that you are spending a certain amount of money on. Of course, the balance sheet only lists these expenses, not why they are paid or unpaid.
- The balance sheet is the record of any investments, income flows, and all major financial information. It is sometimes on the front of the report or statement (sometimes on the top).
A: The balance sheet lists the assets and liabilities of the company. Take a look at how the balance sheet is set up.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to find a biotechnology job internship
Do some initial research on the field of biotechnology to learn more about the industry and to explore your interests if you want to specialize within a particular sector.
Review some job openings on biotechnology company websites to read about necessary skills and requirements including education.
Evaluate the coursework that you have completed related to the field of biotechnology.
OPTIONS:
- Do this regardless of whether you have recently graduated from high school or are currently in college completing a degree program. Realize that it is important that you assess your educational background in determining if it has adequately prepared you for a biotechnology job internship.
- Consider your experience as a biotechnology technologist when deciding which field of research to pursue. Begin looking for research positions that fit the field of biotechnology.
- This will include course materials, research sessions, discussion boards and worksheet sets. Become involved in the research projects/courses that you are interested in specifying your interests in the field.
- Examples of courses you can take include biotechnology studies, computer engineering, microbiology, biological chemistry, pharmacology and sociology. Decide if you want to pursue a degree in biotechnology, economics, economics or a combination.
A: | Do this regardless of whether you have recently graduated from high school or are currently in college completing a degree program. Realize that it is important that you assess your educational background in determining if it has adequately prepared you for a biotechnology job internship. |
Change Jar<br>Joy had been adding change to her big glass jar for over ten years. Now was the day she was going to count it up. She wanted to take a beach vacation with her friends for graduation. She needed $480 to be able to go. She was thrilled when she counted the last penny and had almost $700!
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true?
Joy has talked to mark | It's impossible to say |
Definition: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Input: Natural Language Processing ( NLP ) is a field in Artificial Intelligence , and is also related to linguistics .
Output: | Natural language processing ( NLP ) is a subfield of linguistics , computer science , information engineering , and artificial intelligence concerned with the interactions between computers and human ( natural ) languages , in particular how to program computers to process and analyze large amounts of natural language data . |
How to care for a cut
Wash your hands before treating the cut.
You do not want to touch a cut with dirty hands. Before attempting to clean your cut, wash your hands with soap and water.
Lather your hands in soap and wash them for about 20 seconds. Make sure to wash under your fingernails and on the backs of your hands.
A girl wearing an orange hoodie and a girl wearing a black blouse enter a home and go into the kitchen. the girls
are preparing to bake cookies.
How to remove ads from pandora
Install the adblock plus extension in your web browser of choice.
Your browser will be automatically detected and displayed in the " install " button on the website.
In order to use ad blocking software on a mobile device, you must first root or jailbreak it.
Instead of a browser extension, you will need an adblocking app from f-droid or cydia. Click " add extension " from the popup.
How to get rid of unrealistic goals
Determine if your goal is based on external factors.
You should come up with goals that are based on yourself and your own abilities. That means that you alone are responsible for your success or failure.
| If you base your success on the actions and abilities of others, you risk failing not because you weren't good enough, but just because someone else was better. This will frustrate you and you may end up quitting your goal. |
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 do you need to happen if you want the water in the water experiment to have a greater arc?, Context: Mach argued that, in effect, the water experiment in an otherwise empty universe would remain flat. But if another object were introduced into this universe, perhaps a distant star, there would now be something relative to which the bucket could be seen as rotating. The water inside the bucket could possibly have a slight curve. To account for the curve that we observe, an increase in the number of objects in the universe also increases the curvature in the water. Mach argued that the momentum of an object, whether angular or linear, exists as a result of the sum of the effects of other objects in the universe (Mach's Principle).
[A]: an increase in the number of objects in the universe
[Q]: What isn't good enough?, Context: A third type of solution to the problem of the direction of time, although much less represented, argues that the laws are not time-reversal symmetric. For example, certain processes in quantum mechanics, relating to the weak nuclear force, are not time-reversible, keeping in mind that when dealing with quantum mechanics time-reversibility comprises a more complex definition. But this type of solution is insufficient because 1) the time-asymmetric phenomena in quantum mechanics are too few to account for the uniformity of macroscopic time-asymmetry and 2) it relies on the assumption that quantum mechanics is the final or correct description of physical processes.[citation needed]
[A]: A third type of solution to the problem of the direction of time, although much less represented, argues that the laws are not time-reversal symmetric
[Q]: Where was the tax money supposed to go besides Detroit?, Context: Detroit's protracted decline has resulted in severe urban decay and thousands of empty buildings around the city. Some parts of Detroit are so sparsely populated that the city has difficulty providing municipal services. The city has considered various solutions, such as demolishing abandoned homes and buildings; removing street lighting from large portions of the city; and encouraging the small population in certain areas to move to more populated locations. While some have estimated 20,000 stray dogs roam the city, studies have shown the true number to be around 1,000-3,000. Roughly half of the owners of Detroit's 305,000 properties failed to pay their 2011 tax bills, resulting in about $246 million in taxes and fees going uncollected, nearly half of which was due to Detroit; the rest of the money would have been earmarked for Wayne County, Detroit Public Schools, and the library system.
[A]: | Wayne County, Detroit Public Schools, and the library system
|
IN: What happens next?
How to get around rome on the cheap
Walk as much as you can.
Rome is really best seen on foot, anyway. Do not bother to rent a car while you are there.
OUT: Take the subway if you need to get across the city and it is too far to walk. It is much cheaper than a cab, and it works similar to the subway systems in most cities.
IN: What happens next?
How to deal with bullies when you're autistic
Talk to a trusted adult or authority figure.
Bullies will try to convince you that if you " tattle " on them, they will make things worse for you. They may even tell you that you will get yourself in trouble.
OUT: However, talking to someone who has the power to stop the bullying should always be your first course of action. Any aggressive, threatening, or violent behavior should be reported to the police immediately.
IN: What happens next?
Lacrosse players jog around on the field. The camera zooms in on the back of a spectators head. number 9
OUT: | sets up and hits the ball downfield. |
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Q: Meet the Couple Getting Married 38 Times, All Over the World (PHOTOS)
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Letting Nature Decide
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One Rule About the Dress
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Budgetary Restrictions
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Linked to Loved Ones
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On Saturday, Rhiann Woodyard and Cheetah Platt are getting married in Thailand.They're also getting married in Singapore, Australia, Fiji, and the United States, and they've already been married in Colombia, Spain, Ireland, Morocco, Egypt, Kenya and India. Each of these destinations is a stop on the three-month "wedding tour" they're taking around the world.The couple, who normally live in California, came up with this elaborate plan after they became increasingly frustrated with the mounting costs that came along with wedding planning. In their budget, they could afford an "acceptable wedding," but not their "perfect wedding," Platt tells PEOPLE.On top of that, they couldn't decide what they wanted. They liked night weddings, but they also saw the appeal of getting married during the day. Outdoor weddings were nice, but so were indoor weddings.So, instead of starting a pro-con list to choose, they decided not to decide at all. Instead, they bought a $100 tux and a $100 dress, packed them in their respective backpacks and set off to get married all over the world, as many times as they could.Still, just like a normal wedding, their adventure took some planning. And with a 12-country tour not so easy to pull off, it took them eight months to plan the whole thing, Woodyard says, even though the only components of their trip that they figured out before they left were transportation and lodging.In addition to how to get there and where they're going to sleep, the rest of their trip is up in the air. None of their weddings is planned; rather, they find each "venue" as they go.In Colombia, they set off on a hike in the jungle and found their spot along the way. In Thailand, they decided only the day before where they wanted to wed."We're using nature as the venue," Woodyard says. "In terms of the ceremony, the only rule is that we say our vows."This spontaneous attitude towards marriage may be unconventional, but for them, the mechanics work. Each wedding lasts only two to four minutes, depending on the time constraints dictated by the ceremony's locale.No outside officiator is present during their weddings, either. Both Woodyard and Platt were ordained online and are conducting "self-unifying ceremonies," in which they marry each other. It's a practice that's legal in several states, and "once we found that out," Platt says, "we thought, that is us."While the ceremony is conducted without restrictions, the couple did introduce one special requirement for their travels: They have to wear white – a rule that mostly came about because they thought it was cute."We're dorky and we like to match," Woodyard admits.They also thought it was a way to make the experience even more personal."We wanted this to be really be our wedding," Platt says. "And in our wedding, we wear all white."Most three-month-long international trips are pretty pricey, but Woodyard and Platt were committed to doing this on the cheap. To start, they refrained from being too selective when considering locations, not caring where they went, so long as they went somewhere."If we were picky, it would have been astronomically more expensive," Platt says.They spend about a week in each country, sometimes more or less (a number of cities in Thailand over the course of 12 days, but fewer than 48 hours in Egypt). Their nights are spent in Airbnb rented apartments or cheap hotels, and they fly budget airlines to get from one destination to the next. They also set up their own sort of registry that allowed their friends and family to fund their plane tickets to Morocco, or a few nights' stay in Ireland, rather than gifting a new toaster.Their families aren't only involved financially. It may just be the two of them on this months-long adventure, but both Platt and Woodyard wanted to make sure their loved ones were a part of the experience."We want it to be interactive," Platt says. "We don't want it to be individual."And while their loved ones haven't been able to tag along in their travels, they've still been a part of their experience. Thanks to the Internet, they're in constant communication. So much so, in fact, that Platt says, "It does feel like they're on the adventure with us."And for one of their stops, they'll be able to participate in person. On April 18, the two plan to marry in Big Bear Lake, California, with their friends and family watching.The newly married (and soon to be married again) pair may be seeing the world, but if anything, their three-month-long wedding is only making them want to travel even more.As Woodyard says: "It's been enough time for a wedding and to meet people and to know that we want to go back." Intimate photos and glorious details from more than 40 celebrity weddings Available in stores and on newsstands now, or at www.timeincbooks.com ||||| Your Reaction?
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One Los Angeles couple is following the wedding trend of ditching traditional wedding registry gifts and asking friends and family to pay for their honeymoon instead. But they're doing it for an epic trip: they want to get married 38 times around the world in 83 days.
Cheetah Platt, 30, and Rhiann Woodyard, 32 have been hopping from country to country since February 8, hitting up Colombia, Kenya, India, Morocco, Ireland and Spain along the way, according to BuzzFeed. Their travels are being funded through their Honeyfund.com campaign. They still have some places to check off their list like Singapore, Australia and Fiji.
When the couple—who also happen to be aerial, acrobat, and pole art enthusiasts—first got engaged, they just couldn't make up their minds about where they they wanted to throw their wedding because everything just seemed so expensive. Platt told PEOPLE that their budget allowed for an "acceptable" wedding, but not for the "perfect wedding."
So they hatched an idea: they both got ordained so they could marry themselves in countries throughout the world. Platt and Woodyard also decided they would wear white outfits throughout their whole trip. The only time they didn't was when they went on a safari. They'll keep on traveling until April 28, and plan on throwing a wedding reception in Los Angeles on May 2 that will include, "tag, relay races, ball pits and more!" according to their website. That wedding party is also getting paid for through their Honeyfund.
“It was exactly what I wanted, to travel the world with my wife and marry her again and again and again in so many different ways," Platt said. "That was perfect for me.”
They've been posting photos of their journey on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Here are some highlights; |||||
A: | It's one of the more interesting wedding ideas to make headlines in a while, but it's more precise to call it a weddingS idea. Californians Cheetah Platt, 30, and Rhiann Woodyard, 32, scrapped the traditional notion of spending their money on one ceremony and decided to travel the world to get married multiple times in multiple locales, reports LAist. They've been traveling on the cheap—with help from friends—since Feb. 8 and plan to get hitched 38 times before returning home in late April. Today, for instance, they'll exchange vows in Thailand, reports People. They've already hit Colombia, Spain, Ireland, Kenya, Egypt, and Morroco. The "self-unifying ceremonies" are short, just a few minutes, and don't require a minister because the two were ordained online. They'll file the paperwork to make it legal on their return to California, reports BuzzFeed, which has lots of photos from their travels. (More are on Facebook.) “A lot of women spend a whole lot of time and stress and money on their one day, and then it’s over,” says Woodyard. “I love that I get to marry [Platt] over and over again." (Click to read about how much a more typical US wedding costs these days.) |
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Janay McFarlane, 18, was shot on the way to a store, the same day Obama spoke on gun violence.
Two men are being questioned in connection with the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old Chicago woman Friday, the same day her younger sister attended President Barack Obama's speech on gun violence, officials said.
The pair, 18 and 20, are being questioned by North Chicago police and officials from the Lake County state's attorney's office in connection with the death of Janay McFarlane, according to a statement released Sunday by North Chicago police.
The men were arrested after McFarlane was shot about 11:30 p.m. Friday on the 1300 block of Jackson Avenue in the northern suburb.
McFarlane, 18, of the 8900 block of South Lowe Avenue, was in North Chicago visiting family and friends and was walking with friends when she was shot, said her mother, Angela Blakely. One of the friends may have been the intended target, Blakely said.
Blakely said she knew few details about the investigation but was encouraged by the news.
"I'm just hoping that they do find out who did this to my baby so they can pay for the crime they committed," she said.
McFarlane was killed hours after her sister, Destini Warren, 14, had attended Obama's speech against gun violence Friday.
North Chicago officials said McFarlane's killing is the first in the northern suburb since October. The October slaying was the only homicide for the town last year.
Meanwhile, the mother of a murdered Chicago teenager whose death became the focus of the debate about gun control and gun violence on Chicago's streets is appearing in a video public service announcement asking Congress to work for "common sense" reform of the nation's gun laws.
Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton asked for background checks on all gun sales in the 30-second spot for Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a coalition founded in 2006 by the mayors of 15 U.S. cities to fight illegal guns on city streets.
Pendleton's daughter Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old sophomore at King College Prep High School on the South Side, was shot and killed Jan. 29 a few blocks away from the school. A little more than a week before her death, the teen had been in Washington to perform during festivities surrounding Obama's inauguration.
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Two more CPS students were killed during aweekend that began with a visit from the president to bemoan Chicago’s violent streets.
Frances Colon, 18, a senior at Roberto Clemente High School, was gunned down Friday night in the 1100 block of North Pulaski. She was the unintended target of a shooter, Chicago Police said Sunday.
And Oscar Marquez, 17, a junior at Marine Math and Science Academy and the eldest of four children, died Saturday night after a gunman opened fire on the car carrying Marquez home from a shopping trip.
Six other people were injured in shootings since Friday night.
Judith Vazquez, who serves on Clemente’s Local School Council, called Colon’s death tragic and denounced all the recent shootings in which children have been killed.
“This is happening citywide, not just on the South Side, not just in Hyde Park where the president lives,” she said referring to the fatal shooting of Hadiya Pendleton, 15, a mile from the President Barack Obama’s house a week after she had performed in inauguration events in Washington, D.C. “The violence is bad citywide. It’s affecting the kids as a whole.”
Frances Colon was shot in the shoulder about 7 p.m. in the 1100 block of North Pulaski, police said.
“This girl was on track,” Vazquez said, referring other questions to the school.
Colon, of the 2900 block of West Armitage, was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital at 8:16 p.m. Friday, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. An autopsy on Saturday found that she suffered a fatal gunshot wound in her back and her death was ruled a homicide, according to the medical examiner’s office.
Her family could not be reached Sunday.
Oscar Marquez was returning from buying shoes at a local mall with his cousin when he was shot, his mother, Concepcion Marquez said Sunday in her Tri-Taylor neighborhood home in the 700 block of South Oakley.
His 18-year-old cousin, who was driving the car, was wounded in the arm, she said, and he was expected to be OK.
The cousins were near Western and Cermak about 6:15 p.m. Saturday when a gunman drove up, got out of his vehicle and fired on them, police said. They drove to Rush University Medical Center, but by the time they arrived, Marquez had died, authorities said.
Concepcion Marquez, holding her 18-month-old son in her apartment Sunday afternoon, said she didn’t know who shot her son and police hadn’t told her much. Relatives and friends filled the living room; more continued to drop by.
Oscar liked the Marine Academy and thought about enrolling in the Marine Corps after graduation, she said. Many of his cousins went to school with him, she said, adding that her son was not in a gang.
Fabian Lopez, a fellow junior at the school, said his friend was good at basketball and adored soccer — and despite the Marine Academy’s strict uniform code, wild soccer haircuts, too.
“It’s kind of hard to believe that he’s gone,” Lopez said.
Contributing: James Scalzitti ||||| An 18-year-old Chicago woman was killed on the same day her sister sat on the stage behind President Barack Obama, listening to him push for gun control legislation.
In this photo taken Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, in Chicago, President Barack Obama speaks about the nations struggle with gun violence at an appearance at Hyde Park Academy. An 18-year-old Chicago woman was... (Associated Press)
Janay Mcfarlane was shot once in the head around 11:30 p.m. Friday in North Chicago, Lake County Coroner Thomas Rudd told the Chicago Sun-Times. Mcfarlane, the mother of a 3-month-old boy, was in the Chicago suburb visiting friends and family.
North Chicago police said two people are being questioned in connection with Mcfarlane's death, but no charges have been filed yet.
"I really feel like somebody cut a part of my heart out," Angela Blakely, Mcfarlane's mother, said.
Blakely said the bullet that killed Mcfarlane was meant for a friend.
Hours earlier, Mcfarlane's 14-year-old sister sat feet from Obama at Hyde Park Career Academy, where he spoke about gun violence and paid tribute to Hadiya Pendleton, the 15-year-old honor student fatally shot last month in a South Side park. Police have said it was a case of mistaken identity, and two people have been charged.
Pendleton's death was one of more than 40 homicides in Chicago in January, a total that made it the deadliest January in the city in more than a decade. Pendleton, a drum majorette, had recently performed during Obama's inauguration in Washington and the slaying happened about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from his Chicago home.
Blakely told the newspaper that Janay Mcfarlane had been affected by Pendleton's death.
"She always said after Hadiya Pendleton got killed, 'Momma that's so sad,'" Blakely said. "She was always touched by any kid that got killed. She was always touched by mothers who couldn't be there for their babies because they were gone."
Mcfarlane was supposed to graduate from an alternative school this spring, Blakely said, and wanted to go into the culinary arts.
"I'm just really, truly just trying to process it _ knowing that I'm not taking my baby home anymore," Blakely said. |||||
A: | A Chicago teenager was gunned down just hours after her 14-year-old sister sat on a stage behind President Obama as he gave a speech at her high school about gun violence. Janay McFarlane, the 18-year-old mother of a 3-month-old boy, was shot dead while visiting friends and family in North Chicago, the AP reports. Police are questioning two men aged 18 and 20 in connection with the shooting, which happened as McFarlane was walking with friends, reports the Chicago Tribune. In his speech, Obama paid tribute to Hadiya Pendleton, the 15-year-old Chicago girl shot dead days after performing at his inauguration. After Hadiya's killing, McFarlane said, "Momma, that's so sad,'" her mother says. "She was always touched by any kid that got killed. She was always touched by mothers who couldn't be there for their babies because they were gone." In the two days after Obama made his Chicago speech, two other teenagers were shot dead in the city in separate incidents, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. |
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A woman is seen bending over a table with a tattoo artist rubbing her back from behind and grabbing a tattoo needle. the woman
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Harvard Professor and author Niall Ferguson says John Maynard Keynes' economic philosophy was flawed and he didn't care about future generations because he was gay and didn't have children.
[Editor's Note: 10:21 pm, May 4. Earlier today, two days after he spoke, Professor Ferguson issued an "unqualified apology" for what he termed his "insensitive" and "stupid" remarks. He also acknowledged his remarks were 'doubly stupid" since Keynes' wife suffered a miscarriage.]
Speaking at the Tenth Annual Altegris Conference in Carlsbad, Calif., in front of a group of more than 500 financial advisors and investors, Ferguson responded to a question about Keynes' famous philosophy of self-interest versus the economic philosophy of Edmund Burke, who believed there was a social contract among the living, as well as the dead. Ferguson asked the audience how many children Keynes had. He explained that Keynes had none because he was a homosexual and was married to a ballerina, with whom he likely talked of "poetry" rather than procreated. The audience went quiet at the remark. Some attendees later said they found the remarks offensive.
It gets worse.
Ferguson, who is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, and author of The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die, says it's only logical that Keynes would take this selfish worldview because he was an "effete" member of society. Apparently, in Ferguson's world, if you are gay or childless, you cannot care about future generations nor society.
This takes gay-bashing to new heights. It even perversely pins the full weight of the financial crisis on the gay community and the barren.
Not only is this intellectually void, it's mad. And anyone with a moral conscience should be outraged. It is one thing to take issue with a society fueled by self interest and one fueled by a larger ethic. But it's entirely vulgar to make this argument about sexual preference -- and to do so glibly.
Throughout his remarks, Ferguson referred to his "friends" in high places. They should all be embarrassed and ashamed of such a connection to such small-minded thinking. Ferguson says U.S. laws and institutions have become degenerate. Rather, I dare say, it's Ferguson's arguments which are.
||||| AP ImagesProfessor Niall Ferguson.Harvard professor and famous economist Niall Ferguson reportedly made some bizarre and offensive remarks about economist John Maynard Keynes at an investment conference yesterday.
According to financial writer Tom Kostigen, the editor at large of Private Wealth and Financial Advisor magazines, Ferguson made two startling suggestions about Keynes at the Tenth Annual Altegris Conference in Carlsbad, California:
Keynes’s economic philosophy, Ferguson reportedly suggested, was the result of Keynes’ not caring about future generations.
Keynes didn’t care about future generations, Ferguson reportedly suggested, because Keynes was gay and did not have children.
Dan Jamieson at Investment News, also reported the remarks.
Specifically, Kostigen reported the following:
[I]n front of a group of more than 500 investors, Ferguson responded to a question about Keynes’ famous philosophy of self-interest versus the economic philosophy of Edmund Burke, who believed there was a social contract among the living, as well as the dead. Ferguson asked the audience how many children Keynes had. He explained that Keynes had none because he was a homosexual and was married to a ballerina, with whom he likely talked of “poetry” rather than procreated. The audience went quiet at the remark. Some attendees later said they found the remarks offensive…
Ferguson, who is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, and author of The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die, says it’s only logical that Keynes would take this selfish worldview because he was an “effete” member of society. Apparently, in Ferguson’s world, if you are gay or childless, you cannot care about future generations nor society.
Not surprisingly, Kostigen’s report has already drawn considerable attention to and criticism of Ferguson. We have reached out to Professor Ferguson for comment. We will update this article when we hear from him.
In addition to the offensive suggestion that homosexuals don’t care about the future, Professor Ferguson’s reported remarks are bizarre and insulting to Keynes on two levels.
John Maynard Keynes.
First, this is the first time we have heard a respectable academic tie another economist’s beliefs to his or her personal situation rather than his or her research. Saying that Keynes’s economic philosophy was based on his being childless would be like saying that Ferguson’s own economic philosophy is based on his being rich and famous and therefore not caring about the plight of poor unemployed people.
Second, Keynes’s policies did not suggest that he did not care about future generations. On the contrary… For the sake of both future generations and current generations, Keynes believed that governments should run deficits during recessions and then run surpluses during economic booms. Politicians have never seemed to be able to follow the second part of Keynes’ prescription–they tend to run deficits at all times–but it seems unfair to blame this latter failing on Keynes.
For those who are new to the larger economic debate that is the backdrop to these remarks, here’s a snapshot:
Professor Ferguson and other economists have been loudly and consistently warning the world for years that the deficit spending and debts of most developed countries will eventually end in disaster. Professor Ferguson and other “austerians” suggest that governments should immediately cut spending and balance their budgets, even if this results in a brutal short-term recession and exploding unemployment.
This “austerian” philosophy has been countered by the “Keynesian” philosophy advocated by Paul Krugman and others in which governments enact stimulus and run big deficits during weak economic periods to offset weak private-sector spending and help shore up employment, consumer spending, and social well-being. High debts and deficits are a long-term concern that needs to be addressed, Krugman says, but they do not constitute a near-term crisis that requires immense self-inflicted short-term pain to alleviate.
In the past 5 years, the experience of many countries suggests that Krugman’s philosophy is correct, and, as yet, none of the doom predicted by Ferguson and other austerians has come to pass. Meanwhile, countries like the U.K. and Greece, which have cut spending to try to balance their budgets, have been mired in multiple recessions (or, in the case of Greece, a depression). And, notably, because lower economic output leads to less tax revenue, these countries have not made much progress in balancing their budgets.
Ferguson’s reported remarks would represent a new low in the war of words between these economic camps, and they would likely be very damaging to his reputation. As yet, the remarks have not been confirmed, and we eagerly await Professor Ferguson’s response.
SEE ALSO: The Economic Argument Is Over — Paul Krugman Has Won |||||
A: | It's not your usual criticism of Keynesian economics: Harvard professor Niall Ferguson told a group of financial advisers this week that John Maynard Keynes' policies were flawed because he was gay and childless, and thus didn't care about future generations, reports Tom Kostigen at Financial Adviser. Ferguson also reportedly criticized Keynes' "effete" ways and said he probably liked talking about poetry better than having sex. Assuming the account is accurate, this is "bizarre and insulting," writes Henry Blodget at Business Insider. "This is the first time we have heard a respectable academic tie another economist’s beliefs to his or her personal situation rather than his or her research," he writes. What's more, to suggest that Keynes' policies shortchange future generations suggests a fundamental misunderstanding of them, Blodget argues. If Ferguson's name rings a bell, it might because of the anti-Obama Newsweek cover he wrote last summer that got roundly trashed for inaccuracies. |
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Tory Sanders walked out of the early morning darkness on May 5 and into the glowing lights of the Flying J truck stop. He was on the edge of the small town of Charleston in the Bootheel region of Missouri, nearing the end of a confused, winding journey that would ultimately end with his death.
At the time, though, he seemed like any other traveler. "I just give him a few cigarettes," says Jessica Housman, who was working the deli at the Flying J. "He seemed like a nice guy."
It must have been about 4 a.m., Housman figures, and Sanders sat around for a few hours. The truck stop has a laundry, and he was killing time while he washed a pair of pants. In between bumming L&M 100s from Housman, he began chatting with her and other employees. Eventually, he asked if they would call the police for him. He explained that he believed that he was wanted on a warrant back in his hometown of Nashville, Tennessee; he wanted to clear it up with officers.
It had been a long night for Sanders. The 28-year-old married father of eight suffers from depression and had set out the day before on a road trip to "clear his head," an aunt says. He was apparently driving toward Memphis, where he had family, but made a wrong turn and drifted north into Missouri. He ran out of gas just across the state line near the town of Marston, population 500.
A stranger in an unfamiliar place, Sanders had ditched his green Toyota Avalon there and hitched a ride about 25 miles north to a Walmart. His travels after that are a bit of a mystery, but he eventually popped up another sixteen miles east, at the Flying J in Charleston.
For a city guy who'd spent the past twelve hours or so lost in the low farmlands of southeast Missouri, this latest stop probably seemed about the same as the others. But he had now crossed into Mississippi County, setting himself on a collision course with Sheriff Cory Hutcheson, a rural lawman of growing infamy. Hutcheson was out on bond following his arrest the month before on eighteen criminal charges, including accusations that he'd robbed and assaulted a 77-year-old hairdresser. He was also facing civil lawsuits in federal court, alleging he was responsible for the ghastly stillbirth of a pregnant inmate's baby and the overdose death of a young mom who'd been arrested for DUI after a fender bender.
Those are not the kind of things you know, however, when you're a stranger, lost and stranded nearly three hours from home.
At the Flying J, Sanders seemed clear-eyed and sober to Housman.
"He was very calm," she remembers. "He just sat there in the lounge for at least a couple of hours."
The staff did call police, but only because Sanders himself requested it. Eventually, a Charleston cop pulled up in a patrol car and met Sanders out front. Housman was not outside then and isn't certain what happened next. She assumed Sanders left with the officer. She didn't think much more about it. Even when she heard about a death at the Mississippi County Detention Center, she did not immediately connect the news to the nice man she met that morning.
Now that she has, she thinks of him and his family, and she wonders what happened.
"Everybody deserves an answer," she says.
Across the nation, both media and activists have paid increasing attention to black men and women who end up dead after coming into contact with law enforcement, sometimes for no greater reason than a routine traffic stop. Cases like that of Sandra Bland, who was pulled over in the Houston suburbs for failure to signal a lane change and later found dead in a jail cell in an apparent suicide, have generated serious discussion about why police sometimes escalate at exactly the moment when they should stand down.
As a young black man who initially reached out to officers because he needed help, Sanders fits the pattern of some of the more high-profile cases. But the facts of his final days seem even more disturbing because the sheriff who was present in his jail cell — and by some accounts led the fatal confrontation — was himself under indictment, even while Sanders was facing no charges in Mississippi County. ||||| JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Americans used to getting warnings about the potential dangers of traveling overseas, but this summer, the NAACP put out an extraordinary warning about travel here at home -- in Missouri.
The warning advises "extreme caution," saying travelers could be subject to "discrimination and harassment."
"They're legalizing discrimination in the state of Missouri," says attorney Nimrod Chapel Jr., president of the NAACP in Missouri.
He says a bill recently signed into law by Republican Gov. Eric Greitens is so dangerous that he has a name for it.
"The Jim Crow bill," he says, "because in the eyes of the NAACP that's what it was breathing life into."
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Currently, you can file a discrimination claim in the state of Missouri if things like race, religion and gender are a "contributing" factor to discrimination.
But later this month, alleged victims of discrimination would have to prove it is the "motivating" factor -- and Chapel says that's extremely hard to do.
"You would think that the best evidence would be, like, a memo. 'We discriminated against so-and-so because of who they are.' Nobody writes memos, or when they do it so rare, and then getting that kind of evidence can be very, very difficult," he says.
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"It is wrong, it is flat out wrong," Pat Rowe Kerr says.
Kerr, 64, sued the state of Missouri in 2010 for sex and age discrimination. Last year, a jury awarded her nearly $3 million. Now, she's concerned the new law will make lawsuits like hers tougher to file and will send the wrong message.
"This is just another example of not being progressive, and if we want to be a progressive Missouri, why are we going backwards?" she asks.
Greitens calls the legislation common sense reform, and says the "motivating standard" is currently used by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Meanwhile, the NAACP says it will continue to raise awareness through its travel advisory. ||||| | The NAACP has issued a travel advisory for a US state, a first in the civil rights group's history. The Missouri NAACP first circulated the advisory against travel to the state in June, and the national organization has now voted to adopt it, McClatchy reports. The advisory comes after racist incidents including racial slurs against black students at the University of Missouri and painted on a barbershop's windows, as well as the death of Tory Sanders, a Tennessee man who ended up in Missouri when he made a wrong turn on a road trip, ran out of gas, and ultimately ended up dying in a jail cell in the state. There have also been other incidents of harm to and discrimination against minorities in the state, plus racial disparities in traffic enforcements. But the final straw was legislation passed in Missouri recently that makes it harder to sue for housing or employment discrimination. That law takes effect Aug. 28, and NAACP leaders are urging people to file discrimination complaints before then. Especially disturbing to Rod Chapel, president of the Missouri NAACP, is that the University of Missouri system supported an earlier version of the legislation—which, in an interview with CBS News, he calls "the Jim Crow bill." It requires alleged victims of discrimination to prove discrimination was a "motivating," rather than just a "contributing" factor. Plus, "you have violations of civil rights that are happening to people. They're being pulled over because of their skin color, they're being beaten up or killed," Chapel tells McClatchy. "We are hearing complaints at a rate we haven't heard before." Other issues include 100 hate crimes reported in 2015 and an attorney general's report that shows black drivers in the state are 75% more likely to be pulled over than white drivers. |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
[EX Q]: 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:
[EX A]: 1994
[EX Q]: How does content reach the PlayStation consoles?, Context: PlayStation Plus (commonly abbreviated PS+ and occasionally referred to as PSN Plus) is a premium PlayStation Network subscription service that was officially unveiled at E3 2010 by Jack Tretton, President and CEO of SCEA. Rumors of such service had been in speculation since Kaz Hirai's announcement at TGS 2009 of a possible paid service for PSN but with the current PSN service still available. Launched alongside PS3 firmware 3.40 and PSP firmware 6.30 on June 29, 2010, the paid-for subscription service provides users with enhanced services on the PlayStation Network, on top of the current PSN service which is still available with all of its features. These enhancements include the ability to have demos, game and system software updates download automatically to PlayStation 3. Subscribers also get early or exclusive access to some betas, game demos, premium downloadable content and other PlayStation Store items. North American users also get a free subscription to Qore. Users may choose to purchase either a one-year or a three-month subscription to PlayStation Plus.
[EX A]: downloadable
[EX Q]: What did the messengers vote on?, Context: On 20 June 1995, the Southern Baptist Convention voted to adopt a resolution renouncing its racist roots and apologizing for its past defense of slavery. More than 20,000 Southern Baptists registered for the meeting in Atlanta. The resolution declared that messengers, as SBC delegates are called, "unwaveringly denounce racism, in all its forms, as deplorable sin" and "lament and repudiate historic acts of evil such as slavery from which we continue to reap a bitter harvest." It offered an apology to all African-Americans for "condoning and/or perpetuating individual and systemic racism in our lifetime" and repentance for "racism of which we have been guilty, whether consciously or unconsciously." Although Southern Baptists have condemned racism in the past, this was the first time the predominantly white convention had dealt specifically with the issue of slavery.
[EX A]: | resolution
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Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to buy a waterproof digital camera
Establish the purpose of the camera before you start shopping for a non-disposable camera.
Waterproof cameras differ greatly in use and price. Common uses include photographs of hiking, boating, swimming, snorkeling and scuba-diving.
OPTIONS:
- If you plan to carry your camera and other camera gear during your trip, you may want to avoid this issue. However, if you are headed out to a party or other event, you may want to keep the camera in a waterproof case.
- Before you begin shopping, decide how much material you are willing to spend on a waterproof camera. Durable digital cameras require to be waterproof, so prices are not usually a factor.
- You'll need to assess the color, lightness, stability and contrast of the camera before selecting a waterproof camera. To assess the camera model, refer to the instructions for the model and online camera association website.
- For example, you should know to what depth you need to be able to use it. If you only need it for the pool and outdoor sports, a depth of 10 feet (3.0 m) should be adequate, but if you need it for scuba diving, its depth should be substantially more.
A: For example, you should know to what depth you need to be able to use it. If you only need it for the pool and outdoor sports, a depth of 10 feet (3.0 m) should be adequate, but if you need it for scuba diving, its depth should be substantially more.
IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
A gate opens and a calf runs out closely followed by a man on a horse. the man on the horse
OPTIONS:
- blows a whistle through his nose as the horse gets slowed down by the man on the horse.
- runs through the gate, then the calf jumps over the fence and then the man before him on the horse continues on a straight course over tall shrubs and trees.
- throws a lasso around the calf's neck yanking the calf back to land on it's back.
- starts lifting end attached ropes to the calf and running back into the gate.
OUT: throws a lasso around the calf's neck yanking the calf back to land on it's back.
Question:
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence for the following:
How to make fishball sauce (street style )
Make a cornstarch slurry.
Place 3 tablespoons of water and 3 tablespoons of cornstarch in a small bowl. Use a fork, spoon or small whisk to completely combine the water and cornstarch.
OPTIONS:
- The slurry will appear thin and white. The cornstarch will help your sauce thicken and the slurry will prevent the sauce from becoming lumpy as it cooks.
- Stir the mixture well with a small whisk, so the slurry gets thick. If you're making homemade-style guacamole-soy sauce, remove the starter from the refrigerator and place the head aside in a larger bowl.
- Drizzle about 1 cup of black glue on top of the bowl for extra coverage. Pour in the cornstarch over the water to cover it all.
- If you don't have cornstarch handy, or if you're a lady, you can make your own just in preparation for the boiling process. The cornstarch should take approximately 2-3 minutes to combine and form into a paste.
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Answer:
The slurry will appear thin and white. The cornstarch will help your sauce thicken and the slurry will prevent the sauce from becoming lumpy as it cooks.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
An empty room of spin bikes are shown and a woman appears in the corner talking. While talking, she begins touching a machine, lifting its seat and talking about it specific functions. she
OPTIONS:
- then takes off the seat of the bike and shows off her leg in the end.
- then rearranges it while using a hand hold machine to do the work.
- finally gets n the bike and begins working out, while talking and adjusting the machine.
- speaks about the head of the machine, how to adjust the tires spin lever and where to remove the tire.
A: finally gets n the bike and begins working out, while talking and adjusting the machine.
They continue wrestling and are having a lot of fun doing it falling down and bouncing around. One of the wrestlers wearing blue makes a shot in a basketball net. the two people
OPTIONS:
- continue wrestling in their sumo suits.
- on stage are standing around them playing some sport and being more fun.
- keep wrestling behind the referee trying to get him to make a shot to compete with the other fight moving on.
- also make a shot in a court room near each other where they are holding scrolls.
continue wrestling in their sumo suits.
Problem: Write the next sentence for:
How to cover a chair
Contact the company who made the furniture to see if they suggest a certain type of slipcover.
If the chair is in an unusual shape or is heavily upholstered, it may not work with a standard slipcover. Searching for the type of furniture and the term " slipcover " in online forums may also work.
OPTIONS:
- Once you have identified the chair or wooden furniture that you would like to cover, call on the company or manufacturer of your slipcover item. Ask how long they have maintained the furniture.
- Cardboard or leather slipcovers are available at many home improvement stores or lumber stores. Self-adhesive slipcovers come in two basic types.
- Remove the bottom edge of the cover first. Measure the wood and determine its height in inches.
- Measure your chair to see if you can find a slipcover that will work. Make sure to include the height, width and depth of the chair..
Next sentence: | Measure your chair to see if you can find a slipcover that will work. Make sure to include the height, width and depth of the chair. |
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Florida State running back Dalvin Cook has been charged with misdemeanor battery after allegedly punching a 21-year-old woman in the face several times during an argument outside a bar last month.
Florida State issued a statement Friday afternoon saying Cook, a 19-year-old sophomore from Miami, has been suspended from the program indefinitely.
State attorney Willie Meggs signed the probable cause warrant Friday. Cook turned himself in at 8:37 p.m. ET on Friday, Leon County Jail records show.
Meggs told ESPN.com that he had met with the woman, who is not a Florida State student, and a female witness earlier Friday. Cook's accuser presented Meggs photos of her injuries.
Dalvin Cook turned himself in at Leon County Jail in Tallahassee on Friday night. Courtesy of Leon County Jail
"I found the women to be very credible," Meggs said.
The alleged incident occurred the night before former Seminoles quarterback De'Andre Johnson punched another woman at a different bar near the FSU campus on June 24. Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher dismissed Johnson from the team Monday night, hours after the state attorney's office released surveillance video showing Johnson punching a 21-year-old FSU student in the face.
"Recent events at Florida State University involving members of my football team have brought a lot of attention to the school and program. It is important to me that our fans and the public be aware that I do not tolerate the type of behavior that was captured on video and that was most recently alleged," Fisher said in a statement Friday. "We spend a good deal of time educating our student-athletes about appropriate behavior and their responsibilities as representatives of Florida State. The majority of our players are exemplary, but clearly we must place an even stronger emphasis on this, and I personally promise we will.
"I remain committed to educating our young men and holding them accountable for their actions."
In a separate statement, FSU president John Thrasher said he was "extremely disappointed" to hear about the allegations, calling them "especially disheartening" considering they came just days after Johnson's dismissal.
"I have asked Coach Fisher and Athletics Director Stan Wilcox to develop a plan to help our student-athletes understand the consequences of these kinds of actions," Thrasher said. "This will include Coach Fisher meeting immediately with his team to reiterate, in no uncertain terms, our expectations of them. I also plan to meet with the team, and we will be asking professionals who deal with these matters, including State Attorney Willie Meggs, to speak with them."
The woman who said Cook punched her told ESPN.com that her bottom lip was split and her nose was sore the next day. The woman said she identified Cook as the man who struck her in a photo lineup with two Tallahassee Police Department investigators on July 1. She told police she wanted to pursue criminal charges against him.
The alleged incident between Dalvin Cook and a 21-year-old woman took place June 23 outside the bar Clyde's and Costello's. ESPN
The woman, who lives in Tallahassee, told ESPN.com that she was approached by a man who was not Cook outside the bar Clyde's and Costello's shortly after it closed on June 23. The woman said the man asked for her phone number, which she refused to give him.
"I told him I had a boyfriend and wasn't interested," said the woman, who spoke to ESPN.com on the condition she not be identified.
The woman said the man returned to the parking lot with Cook and an argument became heated, and then Cook punched her in the face several times. Her friend ran to a nearby TPD car, which wasn't occupied, so the woman called 911.
"They kept telling me they were football players," the woman said. "They kept telling me to Google them. They told me they were football players and they could buy me in two years."
Attempts by ESPN to contact Cook on Thursday were unsuccessful.
A TPD incident report indicates an officer arrived at Clyde's and Costello's at 2:24 a.m. on June 23. An incident report by TPD on Wednesday was heavily redacted.
In a statement to ESPN.com, TPD spokesman David Northway said state law "does not allow TPD to provide any details in the active and on-going investigation."
Justin Rossi, 28, of Tallahassee, said he told police that he witnessed the incident. Rossi said he tried to stand between the two women and a group of five to seven men to try to calm the situation. An officer was working security in the parking lot at the time but went inside the bar at closing, Rossi told ESPN.com.
"When the cop went inside, the girl got punched in the mouth," Rossi said.
Cook, who was named a "Mr. Football" in Florida as a senior at Miami Central High School in 2013, was FSU's leading rusher last season, gaining 1,008 yards with eight touchdowns. He ran for a career-high 177 yards with one touchdown in FSU's 37-35 victory over Georgia Tech in the ACC championship game.
Dalvin Cook was FSU's leading rusher last season, gaining 1,008 yards with eight touchdowns. AP Photo/Kelvin Kuo
On June 26, 2014, Cook was one of three FSU football players questioned in connection with a BB-gun battle that damaged cars and homes at an apartment complex in Tallahassee. The incident prompted a full-scale response from local law enforcement, which included the county sheriff's office helicopter, based on witnesses' initially fearing a more serious shootout. Cook was charged with criminal mischief and given pretrial intervention in December, which he completed on June 16.
And last July, Cook was named as an "associate" in an aggravated assault case in which police were investigating whether two men brandished a firearm at a neighbor. The incident happened at Cook's apartment, but one of the accusers told ESPN's Outside the Lines that he didn't believe the weapon belonged to Cook.
Because the most recent incident occurred outside Clyde's and Costello's, it's unclear whether video footage exists. In Johnson's case, Meggs charged him with misdemeanor battery after reviewing video of the incident. Surveillance cameras inside that bar appeared to show Johnson punch a woman in the face while they argued. He pleaded not guilty on July 2 and has a case management conference in a Leon County court on July 22.
Johnson's attorney, Jose Baez, told NBC's "Today" on Tuesday that his client punched the woman after she called him racial epithets and provoked him. Baez said Johnson was not the initial aggressor but is "owning this" and trying to learn from the experience.
Baez said Johnson accidentally made contact with her while they waited to order at the bar. Baez said Johnson tried to "de-escalate the situation," but the woman "kneed him in the groin area" and "took another swing before he retaliated."
ESPN reporter Paula Lavigne contributed to this report. ||||| Dalvin Cook warms up pre-game before the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. on Thursday Jan. 1 2015. (Photo: Joe Rondone)
Florida State running back Dalvin Cook turned himself into Leon County Jail Friday night hours after the State Attorney's Office charged him with misdemeanor battery for allegedly punching a woman several times outside of a downtown Tallahassee bar June 23.
He bonded out of the Leon County Jail around 1:30 a.m. Saturday.
Cook, 19, was suspended indefinitely from the football team Friday afternoon.
"It is important to me that our fans and the public be aware that I do not tolerate the type of behavior that was captured on video and that was most recently alleged," FSU coach Jimbo Fisher said in a statement released early Friday evening.
"We will do better. I will not tolerate anything less."
The 21-year-old woman, who is not an FSU student, and a friend were speaking with a group of five to seven football players outside of Clyde's & Costello's after it closed at 2 a.m. when she refused to give her phone number to an FSU football player not named in court records.
At the time of the incident the victim did not know who Cook was but believed he was the older brother of the player.
She told that player she had a boyfriend and he walked away while yelling obscenities at her.
Cook, a sophomore, came over originally trying to calm the situation down, court records say. At another point FSU sophomore wide receiver Travis Rudolph also joined the argument.
The woman pushed Rudolph and he did not react other than to continue arguing. Cook asked if she'd pushed Rudolph and punched the woman after she replied, knocking her into a parked car.
Cook continued to swing at her, hitting her at least one other time as he was being restrained. The blow knocked her to the ground. The group of football players then walked away, court records say.
The woman had a bloody lip and dirt on her knee and was intoxicated, police noted in court records.
State Attorney Willie Meggs said he met with the victim and one of the witnesses Friday.
"I found them very credible," Meggs said. "They have a good recall of the events of the evening, and they are pretty confident in their identification."
The woman six days later was able to pick Cook out of a photo lineup.
On July 1, police interviewed Cook, Rudolph and freshman quarterback Deondre Francois, who was also at the altercation.
Cook said he did not remember getting into an argument and said he did not hit anyone, and Rudolph said he was unaware of a fight taking place. Francois said he remembered the argument and Rudolph being hit by one of the women, but no other violence.
The victim, whose name and personal information were listed in the report, plans to press charges, according to the report. She could not be reached for comment by the Tallahassee Democrat.
In an interview with ESPN, the woman said, "They kept telling me they were football players. They kept telling me to Google them. They told me they were football players and they could buy me in two years."
The incident occurred the day before former FSU freshman quarterback De'Andre Johnson punched a woman at Yianni's nightcub. Johnson was charged with misdemeanor battery.
Johnson was dismissed from the team on Monday after video of the incident was published by the Tallahassee Democrat.
Cook, from Miami, is FSU's starting running back who rushed for more than 1,000 yards as a freshman last season.
Cook was also named in a 2014 aggravated assault case in which two men were alleged to have brandished a BB gun at a neighbor. He was charged with criminal mischief and completed a diversion program this summer. ||||| | This is unfortunately not a repeat of an earlier story: A football player for Florida State University faces charges of punching a woman in the face at a bar. This time it's Dalvin Cook, a 19-year-old sophomore running back, reports the Tallahassee Democrat. Police say he punched the woman multiple times outside a bar in Tallahassee on June 23 and charged him with misdemeanor battery. He has been suspended from the team. The following night, FSU quarterback De'Andre Johnson was seen on surveillance video punching a different woman at a different bar. He's been kicked off the team. The 21-year-old woman in the Cook case tells ESPN that a man, not Cook, approached her outside the bar and asked for her phone number. She refused, and she says the man returned with Cook, who punched her when a heated argument erupted. "They kept telling me they were football players," the woman says. "They kept telling me to Google them. They told me they were football players and they could buy me in two years." |
Teacher:You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: In 2003, the United States withdrew remaining non-training troops or armament purchase support from Saudi Arabia, with 200 of these support personnel remaining, primarily at Eskan Village, a base which is owned by the Saudi Arabian government itself, in support of the US Military Training Mission (USMTM) in Saudi Arabia and the US Office of Program Management for the Saudi Arabian National Guard (OPM-SANG).
Student: | does the us have a military base in saudi arabia? |
In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
Example input: 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.
Example output: who has the maximum number of followers on instagram
Example explanation: The answer is talking about the Instagram accounts that have the most followers. The question asking about the maximum number of followers. So this is a good example.
Q: The Six Flags chain originated in 1957 with the creation of The Great Southwest Corporation by Angus G. Wynne and other investors. Construction of 'Six Flags Over Texas' started in 1960, and the park was opened the next year for a short (45-day) season. The first park initially featured a Native American village, a gondola ride, a railroad, some Wild West shows, a stagecoach ride, and 'Skull Island', a pirate-themed adventure attraction. There was also an excursion, inspired by the historical La Salle Expeditions in the late 1600s, called 'LaSalle's River Adventure', aboard French riverboats through a wilderness full of animated puppets. Over time, all of those attractions, except for the railroad, would be replaced by others, such as roller coasters, swing rides, log flumes, and shoot-the-chute rides, as well as an observation tower.
A: | what was the original name of six flags |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Q: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, or simply Rogue One, is a 2016 American epic space opera film directed by Gareth Edwards. The screenplay by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy is from a story by John Knoll and Gary Whitta. It was produced by Lucasfilm and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the first installment of the Star Wars Anthology series, set immediately before the events of the original Star Wars film. The cast includes Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Riz Ahmed, Ben Mendelsohn, Donnie Yen, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk, Jiang Wen and Forest Whitaker. Rogue One follows a group of rebels on a mission to steal the plans for the Death Star, the Galactic Empire's superweapon.
A: is rogue one the sequel to force awakens?
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Q: Salt water chlorination is a process that uses dissolved salt (2,500--6,000 ppm) as a store for the chlorination system. The chlorine generator (also known as salt cell, salt generator, salt chlorinator or SWG) uses electrolysis in the presence of dissolved salt (NaCl) to produce hypochlorous acid (HClO) and sodium hypochlorite (NaClO), which are the sanitizing agents already commonly used in swimming pools. As such, a saltwater pool is not actually chlorine-free; it simply utilizes added salt and a chlorine generator instead of direct addition of chlorine.
A: can you use chlorine in a saltwater pool?
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Q: The Xbox One gaming console has received updates from Microsoft since its launch in 2013 that enable it to play select games from its two predecessor consoles, Xbox and Xbox 360. On June 15, 2015, backward compatibility with supported Xbox 360 games became available to eligible Xbox Preview program users with a beta update to the Xbox One system software. The dashboard update containing backward compatibility was released publicly on November 12, 2015. On October 24, 2017, another such update added games from the original Xbox library. The following is a list of all backward compatible games on Xbox One under this functionality.
A: | do games from xbox 360 work on xbox one?
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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: Where dis students live?, Context: The first degrees from the college were awarded in 1849. The university was expanded with new buildings to accommodate more students and faculty. With each new president, new academic programs were offered and new buildings built to accommodate them. The original Main Building built by Sorin just after he arrived was replaced by a larger "Main Building" in 1865, which housed the university's administration, classrooms, and dormitories. Beginning in 1873, a library collection was started by Father Lemonnier. By 1879 it had grown to ten thousand volumes that were housed in the Main Building.
A: | dormitories |
Problem: Moreover, Canada encourages an expansion of religious freedom in China, including Tibet, and I do not doubt that Canada would welcome a dialogue between Chinese authorities and the Dalai Lama, a world spiritual leader who earned the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for his dedication to peace and human rights.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "The Dalai Lama wants Canada to pressure China in to accepting Tibet and allowing religious freedom."?
A: It's impossible to say
Problem: PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – A bill aimed at keeping food delivery drivers safe is headed to the governor’s desk. The Rhode Island Senate approved a bill Wednesday which would make assault of a delivery driver a felony. Penalties include up to 3 years in prison, a $3,000 fine, or both. If a weapon is used, punishment could be more severe. The bill has already been approved by the full House of Representatives.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "The bill was fast tracked"?
A: It's impossible to say
Problem: Three leading Japanese banks have announced an alliance forming the world's largest financial group. Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo and the Industrial Bank of Japan say their operations will be integrated by the spring of 2002.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "This will change Japan's banking"?
A: | It's impossible to say |
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: As Philip marched south, his opponents blocked him near Chaeronea, Boeotia. During the ensuing Battle of Chaeronea, Philip commanded the right wing and Alexander the left, accompanied by a group of Philip's trusted generals. According to the ancient sources, the two sides fought bitterly for some time. Philip deliberately commanded his troops to retreat, counting on the untested Athenian hoplites to follow, thus breaking their line. Alexander was the first to break the Theban lines, followed by Philip's generals. Having damaged the enemy's cohesion, Philip ordered his troops to press forward and quickly routed them. With the Athenians lost, the Thebans were surrounded. Left to fight alone, they were defeated. After the victory at Chaeronea, Philip and Alexander marched unopposed into the Peloponnese, welcomed by all cities; however, when they reached Sparta, they were refused, but did not resort to war. At Corinth, Philip established a "Hellenic Alliance" (modeled on the old anti-Persian alliance of the Greco-Persian Wars), which included most Greek city-states except Sparta. Philip was then named Hegemon (often translated as "Supreme Commander") of this league (known by modern scholars as the League of Corinth), and announced his plans to attack the Persian Empire. <sep>What were the two groups that Philip and Alexander fought against?<sep>Athenian hoplites, the thebans
Student: | Yes |
[Q]: Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for his intervention, but I want to clarify that Bill C-11 does not make any changes to the current automotive tariff policy; rather it continues to ensure that all auto manufacturers in Canada, auto pact and non-auto pact companies, import parts duty free. The hon. member intervened to support Bill C-11.
[A]: It's impossible to say
[Q]: Given the serious nature of the situation, ought not the government immediately mandate the Standing Committee on Human Resources Development to carry out a thorough investigation on the scandal of quotas and harassment of which both the unemployed and the employees of Human Resources Development Canada are victims? Human Resources Development Canada is run privately and not governed by Canada
[A]: No
[Q]: Pallipattu (Tamil:பள்ளிபட்டு) is a town in Tiruvallur district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It is located 113 kilometres (70 miles) from Chennai, 40 kilometres ( 25 miles) from Chittoor district , 51 kilometres (32 miles) from Tirupathi, 36 kilometres (22 miles) from Tiruttani, 50 kilometres (32 miles) from Arakkonam and border place of the state of Andhra Pradesh Pallipattu is only accessible by hiking.
[A]: It's impossible to say
[Q]: Miles of Australia's most pristine coastline have been declared a disaster zone following a large oil spill from a storm-damaged cargo ship. At least 60 kilometres of Queensland's southeastern shore were contaminated when at least 42 tonnes of oil spilled into the ocean from MV Pacific Adventurer on Wednesday night. The ship, which had sailed into cyclonic weather, lost 31 containers aboard, one of which pierced the ship's hull and a fuel tank. Anna Bligh, the Queensland premier, has declared Moreton Island, Bribie Island and southern parts of the Sunshine Coast disaster zones. they are talking about frogs only
[A]: | No |
Part 1. Definition
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Part 2. 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.
Answer: Russian Revolution
Explanation: This is a good example, and the Russian Revolution is the first event mentioned.
Part 3. Exercise
People who go through the university are called?, Context: The University of Houston System's annual impact on the Houston area's economy equates to that of a major corporation: $1.1 billion in new funds attracted annually to the Houston area, $3.13 billion in total economic benefit and 24,000 local jobs generated. This is in addition to the 12,500 new graduates the U.H. System produces every year who enter the workforce in Houston and throughout the state of Texas. These degree-holders tend to stay in Houston. After five years, 80.5% of graduates are still living and working in the region.
Answer: | graduates |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Q: Where was Hugo Gotius able to teach?, Context: Politically, Calvin favoured a mixture of aristocracy and democracy. He appreciated the advantages of democracy: "It is an invaluable gift, if God allows a people to freely elect its own authorities and overlords." Calvin also thought that earthly rulers lose their divine right and must be put down when they rise up against God. To further protect the rights of ordinary people, Calvin suggested separating political powers in a system of checks and balances (separation of powers). Thus he and his followers resisted political absolutism and paved the way for the rise of modern democracy. Besides England, the Netherlands were, under Calvinist leadership, the freest country in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It granted asylum to philosophers like Baruch Spinoza and Pierre Bayle. Hugo Grotius was able to teach his natural-law theory and a relatively liberal interpretation of the Bible.
A: | Netherlands |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
The first Polish store opened in July 2012 at the Złote Tarasy shopping mall in Warsaw and is operated by M.H. Alshaya Co. It was the first Victoria's Secret franchise store in Europe, and it opened just a day before the first British store in London.
are there victoria's secret stores in europe?
Two-stroke oil (also referred to as two-cycle oil, 2-cycle oil, 2T oil, 2-stroke oil or petroil) is a special type of motor oil intended for use in crankcase compression two-stroke engines.
is 2 cycle and 2 stroke the same thing?
The ring finger is the finger on which it is the custom in a particular culture for a wedding ring to be placed during a wedding ceremony and on which the wedding ring is subsequently worn to indicate the status of the wearer as a married person. It is commonly the finger between the middle finger and the little finger, and is so named because in some cultures it is the finger on which one usually wears a wedding ring after marriage. In some cultures the wedding ring is worn on the ``ring finger'' of the left hand and in others it is on the right hand. Traditionally, a wedding ring was worn only by the bride/wife, but in recent times more men also wear a wedding ring. It is also the custom in some cultures to wear an engagement ring on the ring finger.
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Detailed Instructions: In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Problem:Mary loved walking through the woods with her dog, Max. Max and Mary would go on all sorts of adventures together. They really loved looking for blueberries together and then falling asleep next to each other in the tall grass. One day, as Mary was picking the blueberries, she turned around to find that Max was not there. She became worried and ran off to look for her dog. She looked in all of their favorite spots...next to the stream, in their secret hiding place behind the raspberry bushes, and even inside the old cabin that sat in the woods. But poor Max was nowhere to be found. Nonetheless, Mary would not give up. She kept looking and she found him not very far away. He had seen a squirrel and run to chase it. When Mary called Max's name he left the squirrel and happily returned to Mary, wagging his tail as he went. <sep>Does Mary care about Max?<sep>Yes
Solution: | Yes |
Overwatch is an American digital comic series published online by Blizzard Entertainment and republished by Dark Horse Comics' digital service, featuring events surrounding the characters of the "Overwatch" universe. The title was launched on April 21, 2016, and has continued to be published with no set schedule.
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true?
Overwatch was first published by Dark Horse Comics.
Options are:
i. Yes;
ii. It's impossible to say;
iii. No; | iii. |
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: Lucy Ann Johnson vanished from her Surrey home more than 50 years ago. While her daughter thought she was likely dead, she recently located her in the Yukon.
It’s not the ending Linda Evans ever expected.
When her mom, Lucy Ann Johnson, went missing in Surrey more than 50 years ago, Linda was only seven or eight. She never heard from her again.
“Honestly, I thought she was dead because there’s been no contact. Nothing,” said Evans.
But that all changed in the past two weeks.
After The Leader ran a story earlier this month about Johnson’s disappearance – one of Surrey RCMP’s oldest missing person’s cases – Evans, now in her late 50s, got on her computer and started doing some research herself.
She knew her mother was born in Alaska, and on a whim, thought she’d see if anyone up north knew who she was. She placed an ad in the Yukon News detailing Lucy’s name and place and date of birth, as well as her grandparents’ names.
She began getting emails. And then phone calls – one of them from a woman claiming she thought she knew Lucy. In fact, said the woman, she was pretty sure the woman Evans was searching for was her mother also.
A flurry of correspondence followed and it was confirmed. Lucy, who is now 77, is alive and well and living in the Yukon.
According to the Surrey RCMP, Lucy was originally reported missing by her husband in 1965, but police learned later she hadn’t been seen since 1961. Her husband later admitted she actually had gone missing years earlier than he’d said.
Believing the young mom may have been a victim of crime, police began a thorough investigation, which included excavating the family’s yard near 103 Avenue and 145A Street. Her husband was considered a suspect at one point, but never charged.
Evans never dreamed she’d find her mother alive.
“I’m still walking around in shock,” she said, giddy at the news.
“The police phoned me and said ‘we found your mom’ and I said ‘no, I found my mom’,” she laughed.
Evans has since learned she has four new-found half-siblings – three brothers and a sister. (Her only other brother, Daniel, passed away in his teens).
She is now saving her money so she can travel to visit Lucy.
“I have a lot of questions,” says Evans. “And they’re all ‘Whys?’”
Though she missed out on many years with her mom, she has no hard feelings towards her – she’s long past that. But she would like to let her mom know she has five more grandchildren and 10 grandkids she’s never met.
“I just hope I can be part of her life,” Evans says.
“I’ll just give her a big hug and hope the words come easy.” ||||| Lucy Johnson was last seen by a neighbour in September 1961 in Surrey. (Surrey RCMP)
A woman who went missing from her Surrey, B.C., home more than 50 years ago has been found alive in Yukon.
Lucy Johnson was reported missing on May 14, 1965. She had last been seen by a neighbour in September 1961 in the 10300 block of 145A Street in Surrey, a city of about 500,000 that's part of metro Vancouver.
During the initial police investigation, police believed she had met with foul play. Her husband at the time, Marvin Johnson, was considered a suspect.
Police considered charges against him and excavated his yard looking for clues into her disappearance, but found nothing. Marvin Johnson died in the late 1990s.
Over the years, investigators compared DNA samples from unidentified remains to the DNA of the couple's children, but they never found a match.
A few weeks ago, at the end of June, Johnson's disappearance was highlighted by Surrey RCMP as a cold case — part of their "missing of the month" series.
Around the same time that the police's public appeal went out, Johnson's daughter, Linda, took out advertisements in newspapers in northern B.C., where her mother had past links.
Johnson was originally from Alaska — she had lived in Skagway, Bennett, and Pennington — and had also lived in the Yukon community of Carcross before moving south and marrying in 1954.
Cpl. Bert Paquet, spokesman for Surrey RCMP, told CBC News that a tip soon came in to police — from another daughter.
"We received a phone call from a woman in the Yukon who called and claimed that she had seen the picture of the missing person in the free newspapers, and said the missing person we were looking for was actually her mother," he said.
Lucy Johnson, now 77 years old, has been living in Yukon and has another family.
Paquet said the suspicion that originally fell on Marvin Johnson has now been cleared, and two linked families have been connected.
"The original daughter of Lucy Johnson, who went above and beyond to promote and try to generate tips all over B.C., actually somehow connected with a [half] sister, who she did not know she had at the time," he said.
"The stars aligned, the timing was perfect."
Paquet says the experience has been emotional for both families, who have asked for privacy during this time.
With files from the CBC's Meera Bains |||||
A: | When Lucy Johnson was reported missing in Surrey, BC, in 1965—four years after she actually disappeared—police suspected her husband. They even dug up his yard, but no trace of the woman was ever found. That is, until Johnson's daughter, Linda Evans, who was seven or eight when her mom vanished, decided on a whim to place ads in northern BC newspapers last month asking for information on her long-lost mom, who had links to the north, the Surrey Leader reports. Not expecting to hear much news about the 52-year-old mystery, she was amazed to find an entirely new family instead. "The original daughter of Lucy Johnson, who went above and beyond to promote and try to generate tips all over BC, actually somehow connected with a stepsister, who she did not know she had at the time," a police rep explains to the CBC. It turns out Johnson, now 77 with another family—including three sons and a daughter—was alive and well in Yukon. "The police phoned me and said 'we found your mom' and I said 'no, I found my mom,'" says Evans, who hopes to visit her mom to get some answers. But mainly, "I just hope I can be part of her life," she says. |
I was hunting in Iowa last year with a sheriff from one of the counties there, and he pointed to a house in back of us, and said, "See the house over? We just did a drug bust a week earlier, and the guy we arrested had an AK-47 lying on the bed right beside him. "
A government employee has told me something before OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: Yes
Gabby<br>Gabby planned on attending a local dance academy this summer. All the courses for the local dance academy were full. She was told to keep checking her email account for a sudden opening. Gabby waited over five days to hear back from the dance academy. She received an email update on the six day inviting her to join.
Gabby does not like dancing, she's just good at it. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: It's impossible to say
Mirage Studios is an independent American comic book company founded in 1983 by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird in Dover, New Hampshire, and currently based in Northampton, Massachusetts. They are best known for the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" comic book series and the subsequent franchise it has spawned.
Mirage Studios has employed bush OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | It's impossible to say |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Example: Powdered sugar, also called confectioners' sugar, icing sugar, and icing cake, is a finely ground sugar produced by milling granulated sugar into a powdered state. It usually contains a small amount of anti-caking agent to prevent clumping and improve flow. Although most often produced in a factory, powdered sugar can also be made by processing ordinary granulated sugar in a coffee grinder, or by crushing it by hand in a mortar and pestle.
Example solution: is confectionary sugar the same as powdered sugar?
Example explanation: The question is a yes/no question, and it is answerable based on the given passage.
Problem: The NFL's cap is a hard cap that the teams have to stay under at all times, and the salary floor is also a hard floor. Penalties for violating or circumventing the cap regulations include fines of up to $5 million for each violation, cancellation of contracts and/or loss of draft picks. Violating the salary floor regulations does not result in any fines or competitive penalties; instead, deficiencies are placed into a pool and distributed among all players who were on the regular roster of the offending team during a four-year floor cycle, prorated according to time on the roster in said period.
| Solution: is there a salary cap in nfl football? |
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: Milwaukee, Wisconsin (CNN) -- President Barack Obama, in a bid to create jobs and boost economic growth, called on Congress on Monday to pass a $50 billion plan to renew the country's transportation infrastructure. His address was the first of two speeches the president is scheduled to make this week to frame his administration's ongoing response to the recession, less than two months ahead of midterm elections in which Democratic majorities in the House and Senate are in jeopardy. "Today, I am announcing a new plan for rebuilding and modernizing America's roads, and rails and runways for the long term," said Obama, who spoke on Labor Day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin -- a state with competitive gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races. "We used to have the best infrastructure in the world. We can have it again," he said to loud cheers from a crowd of union workers. The proposal envisions -- over a six year period -- rebuilding 150,000 miles of roads, 4,000 miles of rail and 150 miles of airport runways. It also would include modernizing the nation's air traffic control system in an effort to reduce delays and travel time. "This will not only create jobs immediately. It's also going to make our economy hum over the long haul," said the president. Obama hopes to work with Congress to enact an up-front investment of $50 billion -- an amount a White House statement said would represent a significant chunk of new spending on infrastructure. The investment would then be paired with what the administration called a framework to improve transportation spending. The long-term plan would include the establishment of an Infrastructure Bank, which would leverage federal dollars and focus on projects that could deliver the the biggest bang for the buck, Obama said. The president stressed the need for Democrats and Republicans to work together on the transportation initiative, which would need to be approved by Congress. <sep>Who were many of the people happy about what the president was saying in his speech about renewing the country's transportation infrastructure?<sep>Republicans
A: No
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Q: Dr. Benjamin Stone is a hotshot young surgeon who longs to leave the drudgery of a Washington , D.C. emergency room and finally leaps at his chance at more money and less death as a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills . On his last day , Ben's relationship with his co-workers is presumed to be anything but a warm one . None of his colleagues will join him for a drink and a cake in his honor has an iced portion of the phrase `` Good riddance , asshole '' sliced out . Ben's cross-country drive in a 1956 Porsche 356 Speedster is interrupted when he crashes in the rural hamlet of Grady , South Carolina . The crash damages the fence of local Judge Evans , who sentences him to community service at a nearby hospital . Ben offers to pay for the fence , but the stern judge increases his community service each time he talks back . Defeated , he reports to the hospital , where Nurse Packer humbles him by ordering him to clock in and out , as would a factory worker . Though upset , Ben quickly makes friends with Mayor Nick Nicholson , the town cafe's proprietor/head waitress , and Melvin , the local mechanic tasked with repairing Ben's car . Ben soon finds his clinic work to be much more laid-back than the emergency room . He has simple cases such as spots before the eyes , fishing hook impalings , and even reading mail for a young illiterate couple , whose baby he later delivers . The experience also humbles Ben when he mistreats a case of mitral valve regurgitation leading to late cyanosis in the child . <sep>Where did Judge Evans live?<sep>Grady, South Carolina
A: Yes
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Q: The dermis is the inner layer of skin. The dermis has blood vessels and nerve endings. The nerve endings explain why your skin is sensitive. You can sense pain, pressure, and temperature. You cut your finger and it starts to bleed. What has happened? If your skin bleeds, it means you have cut the dermis layer and damaged blood vessels. The cut really hurts. It hurts because of the nerve endings in this skin layer. The dermis also contains hair follicles and two types of glands. Hair follicles are structures where hairs originate. Each hair grows out of a follicle. Hair passes up through the epidermis. It then extends above the skin surface. Oil glands produce an oily substance. The oil is secreted into hair follicles. <sep>Why does the cut really hurt?<sep>Because of the nerve endings in this skin layer
A: | Yes
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In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Input: Consider Input: The world can be divided into three climate zones. The first climate zone is the polar zone. As it sounds, the polar zone is near earths poles. The polar zone has very long and cold winters. Brrr!!!! Near the equator is the tropical zone. The tropical zone is known for being hot and wet. Between these two zones is the temperate zone. Temperatures there tend to be mild. Its not too hot and not too cold. You might expect places near the equator to be hot and wet. Thats not always the case. Sometimes there are other factors at work. These factors can affect the local climate type or a region. Oceans and mountain ranges can have a major impact. They can greatly influence the climate of an area. Many factors influence an areas climate. <sep>In which zone are temperatures neither too hot nor too cold?<sep>Central
Output: No
Input: Consider Input: A stranger in town meets pretty young Susan Martinez De La Cruz and accompanies her to a barbecue , where wealthy Jason Carberry is saying a few words for the recently departed Robin Randall , a citizen who got shot . Jason objects to the stranger's presence , being Susan's guardian and protective of her . He challenges him to a shootout , but the stranger pulls his pistol before Jason's can even clear the holster . Calaveras Kate , a saloon singer who's in love with Jason , is relieved when the stranger declines to pull the trigger . Rafael Moreno suddenly rides into town and picks a fight with the stranger . Their brawl continues until the arrival of Judge Wallace Wintrop and his niece , Sheila , who have come to town from back East and deplore all this random violence out West . The stranger is recognized as Reb Randall , the dead man's brother . He is looking for the killer , who could be Rafael , or could be Jason , or could even be Billy Buckett , the coward of the county . The women hold their breath to see if the men they love will survive . <sep>What did Jason do for Susan?<sep>Became her guardian
Output: Yes
Input: Consider Input: You might want to know how cold it is. You may need to know how fast the wind is blowing. Maybe it rained last night? Do you know how much? Does it feel humid to you? You have heard all these questions before. To answer these questions, we need data. That data comes from special tools. These tools collect data about the weather. You can see some of the common tools listed below: A thermometer measures temperature. An anemometer measures wind speed. A rain gauge measures the amount of rain. A hygrometer measures humidity. A wind vane shows wind direction. A snow gauge measures the amount of snow. <sep>How can you measure the direction and velocity of the wind?<sep>Thermometer
| Output: No
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Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Problem:Police are asking anyone who may have come across a Toronto fire captain, who went missing in New York and was found in California six days later, to come forward and help fill in the details about his trip.
"If we could have somebody call that we can prove actually met Danny on his journey across the country that would be tremendous help to us," Maj. John Tibbitts of the New York State Police said at a news conference on Wednesday afternoon.
Maj. John Tibbitts said Filippidis was travelling to the Lake Placid area to speak with police on Wednesday afternoon. (CBC)
American authorities suspect he may have received a head injury at some point during his journey across the country.
Sgt. Shaun Hampton with the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department said Constantinos (Danny) Filippidis was showing signs of serious memory loss when he called police from the city airport on Tuesday morning identifying himself as someone missing from New York.
Missing man's route a mystery
The route Filippidis, 49, took to get there from the ski slope in Lake Placid, N.Y., where he went missing six days earlier, however, remains a mystery.
Hampton said Filippidis told police he got a ride to downtown Sacramento in a big rig, but did not remember details of the vehicle or the circumstances leading to his departure.
He also said Filippidis told police he recalled getting a haircut and buying an iPhone before calling authorities, but could not remember details of how he got to the Sacramento airport.
Hampton said Filippidis showed no signs of impairment, is not facing any charges, and has now been released from a local hospital.
Frank Ramagnano, the president of the Toronto Professional Fire Fighters Association, said he was told when Filippidis was found he was wearing the same clothes he had on when he went missing a week ago. (Michael Charles Cole/CBC)
Frank Ramagnano, president of the Toronto Professional Fire Fighters Association, told CBC News on Tuesday that he understood there was "some indication" that Filippidis had travelled in "some form of truck."
"His car is in New York state. His car was there, his keys are there," Ramagnano explained. "I'm told that he had the same clothes [on] that he was skiing with on Wednesday ... full jacket, pants — apparently helmet and goggles as well."
At the news conference on Wednesday, Tibbitts would not comment on the reports of a truck transporting the missing man to California.
"He's telling us that he really doesn't have a clear picture of what's happened in the last six days. I've got no reason to disbelieve him at this time," he said, adding that Filippidis was en route to the Lake Placid region at that moment, and that he would be sitting down with New York State police at some point on Wednesday.
Tibbitts said police would be asking permission from Filippidis to gain access to his medical records from the hospital in Sacramento.
Over 6,000 people helped in search
Capt. John Streiff, of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers, told media on Wednesday that conditions during the search on Whiteface Mountain were "cold, frigid, rugged mountain territory."
He said in total, over 6,000 people, "that's all searchers and everyone involved," had helped in the search effort for the last six days.
"Other than a few lower leg injuries and small bruises we came off very safely for such an arduous operation," he said. "Co-operation, cohesion and the team work — from search management perspective it went very, very well. We actually looked back on it as a great training opportunity."
Capt. John Streiff, of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers, said over 6,000 people were involved in the search for Filippidis. (CBC)
According to Ramagnano, about 100 Toronto firefighters travelled to the area to help with the search, and an equal number of their colleagues agreed to backfill their shifts.
"We use the word 'brother' and 'sister' in the fire department, and to me things are just words until you actually partake in the action, and that's what you saw here," he said.
Tibbitts said that Filippidis told his wife and a friend that he was "surprised and overwhelmed with the efforts that were made" to find him. ||||| In this Feb. 13, 2018 photo provided by the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department in Sacramento, Calif., via the New York State Police, Constantinos (Danny) Filippidis is shown. Filippidis, who went... (Associated Press)
In this Feb. 13, 2018 photo provided by the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department in Sacramento, Calif., via the New York State Police, Constantinos (Danny) Filippidis is shown. Filippidis, who went missing while skiing in Lake Placid, N.Y., on Feb. 7, 2018, was found at a California airport six days... (Associated Press)
In this Feb. 13, 2018 photo provided by the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department in Sacramento, Calif., via the New York State Police, Constantinos (Danny) Filippidis is shown. Filippidis, who went missing while skiing in Lake Placid, N.Y., on Feb. 7, 2018, was found at a California airport six days... (Associated Press) In this Feb. 13, 2018 photo provided by the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department in Sacramento, Calif., via the New York State Police, Constantinos (Danny) Filippidis is shown. Filippidis, who went... (Associated Press)
WILMINGTON, N.Y. (AP) — Police on Wednesday were trying to piece together how a 49-year-old skier whose disappearance sparked a massive search on a snowy New York mountainside ended up six days later in California, confused and still in ski clothes.
Toronto firefighter Constantinos "Danny" Filippidis told investigators he doesn't know what happened after he was reported missing Wednesday, Feb. 7, from Whiteface Mountain during an annual ski trip with colleagues. The search ended Tuesday when Filippidis turned up in Sacramento, California, some 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers) west of the Adirondacks.
"At this point, we want to assist Danny in getting back the last six days of his life," said New York State Police Maj. John Tibbitts.
Filippidis was heading back to the Lake Placid, New York, area on Wednesday. Tibbitts said the firefighter had agreed to be interviewed by state police but that he's not aware that Filippidis broke any laws.
Frank Ramagnano, president of the Toronto Professional Firefighters' Association, told reporters at a news conference Tuesday evening that Filippidis appeared to be "confused and was unable to give direct answers."
"He had phoned (his wife) and called her by a nickname. She quickly recognized the voice and that it was him," Ramagnano said. "Then they lost contact and he contacted her again and they kept him on the phone and asked him to call 911 to get him help as soon as possible."
Filippidis told deputies he remembered little, but thought he'd suffered a head injury, rode in a "big rig-style truck" and slept "a lot," Sgt. Shaun Hampton of the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department told the Post-Standard of Syracuse.
Filippidis said he bought an iPhone to call his wife and told deputies that a truck dropped him off in downtown Sacramento, where he got a haircut, Hampton said.
Tibbitts said it was too early in the missing person investigation to comment on details provided from others. He also declined to estimate the cost of the six-day search, which involved a helicopter and up to 140 people a day, some combing the snow with hands.
Police distributed a picture of Filippidis taken in California on Tuesday, hoping people who recognize him can help solve the mystery.
"He wants to find out where he was as badly as we want to find out where he was," Tibbitts said. |||||
Solution: | A Toronto fire captain's skiing trip to upstate New York turned into a cross-country trip to California—and authorities say he has no idea how. Constantinos "Danny" Filippidis, who was reported missing in the Whiteface Mountain area Feb. 7, turned up 2,500 miles away, confused and still wearing his ski clothes, the AP reports. Sgt. Shaun Hampton of the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department says the 49-year-old called police from Sacramento's airport Tuesday morning, identifying himself as a missing person, reports the CBC. Hampton says Filippidis, who showed no signs of impairment, said he remembered little, but he believed he had suffered a head injury and could recall riding in a "big rig-style truck." When colleagues last saw him, he said he was going for a final ski run by himself. Hampton says Filippidis bought an iPhone early Tuesday and made a confused call to his wife, who recognized his voice and urged him to call 911. Authorities say thousands of people, including around 100 Toronto firefighters, assisted in the search in rugged terrain around the ski resort, where Filippidis had left his car in the parking lot. Frank Ramagnano, chief of the Toronto firefighters' union, says Filippidis appears "confused and was unable to give direct answers." Authorities are asking anyone who might have seen the firefighter during the time he was missing to come forward with information. New York State Police Maj. John Tibbitts says Filippidis doesn't appear to have broken any laws, but he has agreed to be interviewed by police and "wants to find out where he was as badly as we want to find out where he was." |
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: Force is a vector. What then is a vector? Think about how you would give directions to a friend. You would not say, just walk half a mile. The person may walk a half mile in the wrong direction! More information is needed. You may say, follow this particular road for a half mile. You may say, look for the green house on Sumter St. In both examples, you provided a direction. You also gave the distance. In other words, you provided a vector. You did not just give a distance. Both pieces of information are needed to find a location. This is just like describing forces. To explain forces, both size and direction are needed. Notice the girl in Figure 1.1. She is pushing the swing away from herself. Thats the direction of the force. She can give the swing a strong push or a weak push. <sep>What is the direction of force in which the girl is pushing a swing in Figure 1.1?<sep>Away from herself
A: | Yes |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
One example: what is the first event mentioned?, Context: The Russian Revolution is the series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union. Following the abdication of Nicholas II of Russia, the Russian Provisional Government was established. In October 1917, a red faction revolution occurred in which the Red Guard, armed groups of workers and deserting soldiers directed by the Bolshevik Party, seized control of Saint Petersburg (then known as Petrograd) and began an immediate armed takeover of cities and villages throughout the former Russian Empire.
Solution is here: Russian Revolution
Explanation: This is a good example, and the Russian Revolution is the first event mentioned.
Now, solve this: What is the general name they call the scientists in the text study the sciences, Context: Anthropology and many other current fields are the intellectual results of the comparative methods developed in the earlier 19th century. Theorists in such diverse fields as anatomy, linguistics, and Ethnology, making feature-by-feature comparisons of their subject matters, were beginning to suspect that similarities between animals, languages, and folkways were the result of processes or laws unknown to them then. For them, the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was the epiphany of everything they had begun to suspect. Darwin himself arrived at his conclusions through comparison of species he had seen in agronomy and in the wild.
Solution: | Theorists |
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to transfer an ira from one bank to another
Choose between a traditional ira and roth ira.
If you don't already have another ira with another institution, you'll have to open a new account before making a transfer. You'll need to factor in your overall financial plan when you choose a new ira.
Options:
(i) Another option is the personal ira which is a form of roth ira from which you can transfer assets. A personal ira costs about 20 to 35 dollars.
(ii) If you currently hold a roth ira, you'll need to open a roth ira with your new bank. You can't transfer or roll over a roth ira to a traditional ira.
(iii) If you already have a roth ira, go ahead and transfer the ira into a new one. If you just want to transfer the ira to another institution, the transfer will probably be permanent-whether the new account is for your own personal or financial reasons.
(iv) Just because a traditional ira has free variable funds doesn't mean you can transfer some out-of-pocket contributions. This is because you'll likely have to add that in to your account before moving on. | (ii) |
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: So far no team has yet managed to reach the championship game in their home stadium, or even come close. Only two NFL teams have reached the Super Bowl hosted in their home market: the San Francisco 49ers, who played Super Bowl XIX in Stanford Stadium, rather than Candlestick Park, and the Los Angeles Rams, who played Super Bowl XIV in the Rose Bowl, rather than the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Besides those two, the only other Super Bowl venue that was not the home stadium to an NFL team at the time was Rice Stadium in Houston: the Houston Oilers had played there previously, but moved to the Astrodome several years prior to Super Bowl VIII. The Miami Orange Bowl was the only AFL stadium to host a Super Bowl and the only stadium to host consecutive Super Bowls, hosting Super Bowl II and III. MetLife Stadium, which hosted Super Bowl XLVIII, is the home stadium of two NFL teams: the New York Giants and the New York Jets.
A: | has any team won the superbowl in their own stadium? |
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 beneficial to London's economy?, Context: London is one of the leading tourist destinations in the world and in 2015 was ranked as the most visited city in the world with over 65 million visits. It is also the top city in the world by visitor cross-border spending, estimated at US$20.23 billion in 2015 Tourism is one of London's prime industries, employing the equivalent of 350,000 full-time workers in 2003, and the city accounts for 54% of all inbound visitor spend in UK. As of 2016 London is rated as the world top ranked city destination by TripAdvisor users.
A: Tourism
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Q: In what year did the second presidential debate occur at Washington University Athletic Complex?, Context: Washington University has been selected by the Commission on Presidential Debates to host more presidential and vice-presidential debates than any other institution in history. United States presidential election debates were held at the Washington University Athletic Complex in 1992, 2000, 2004, and 2016. A presidential debate was planned to occur in 1996, but owing to scheduling difficulties between the candidates, the debate was canceled. The university hosted the only 2008 vice presidential debate, between Republican Sarah Palin and Democrat Joe Biden, on October 2, 2008, also at the Washington University Athletic Complex.
A: 2000
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Q: In the early 2000s what marked rock bottom for the public transportation system?, Context: Melbourne has an integrated public transport system based around extensive train, tram, bus and taxi systems. Flinders Street Station was the world's busiest passenger station in 1927 and Melbourne's tram network overtook Sydney's to become the world's largest in the 1940s, at which time 25% of travellers used public transport but by 2003 it had declined to just 7.6%. The public transport system was privatised in 1999, symbolising the peak of the decline. Despite privatisation and successive governments persisting with auto-centric urban development into the 21st century, there have since been large increases in public transport patronage, with the mode share for commuters increasing to 14.8% and 8.4% of all trips. A target of 20% public transport mode share for Melbourne by 2020 was set by the state government in 2006. Since 2006 public transport patronage has grown by over 20%.
A: | privatisation
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Read the text and determine if the sentence is true:
The guiding principles contained in the legislation are designed to ensure that the mediator-arbitrator recognizes the directions which have been provided to the employer by the Government of Canada in terms of financial performance and service standards, while at the same time balancing these issues with the importance of good labour relations within the workplace.
Sentence: At the same time refusing to balance issues. | No |
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Problem: what is the first event mentioned?, Context: The Russian Revolution is the series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union. Following the abdication of Nicholas II of Russia, the Russian Provisional Government was established. In October 1917, a red faction revolution occurred in which the Red Guard, armed groups of workers and deserting soldiers directed by the Bolshevik Party, seized control of Saint Petersburg (then known as Petrograd) and began an immediate armed takeover of cities and villages throughout the former Russian Empire.
Solution: Russian Revolution
Explanation: This is a good example, and the Russian Revolution is the first event mentioned.
Problem: What as not a major consideration?, Context: Historically, AC motors were used for single or double speed elevator machines on the grounds of cost and lower usage applications where car speed and passenger comfort were less of an issue, but for higher speed, larger capacity elevators, the need for infinitely variable speed control over the traction machine becomes an issue. Therefore, DC machines powered by an AC/DC motor generator were the preferred solution. The MG set also typically powered the relay controller of the elevator, which has the added advantage of electrically isolating the elevators from the rest of a building's electrical system, thus eliminating the transient power spikes in the building's electrical supply caused by the motors starting and stopping (causing lighting to dim every time the elevators are used for example), as well as interference to other electrical equipment caused by the arcing of the relay contactors in the control system.
Solution: | car speed and passenger comfort |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Their skin hasn't always been so flawless.
GALLERY. » ||||| See more of Ariel Desiree McRae on Facebook ||||| When it comes to love, it's not about the money.
Quinn and Ariel McRae dated for two years before tying the knot. But a saleswoman where the couple bought Ariel's rings tried to put a damper on the festivities by calling the jewelry "pathetic."
"My husband doesn't have a lot, neither of us do," McRae explained in a Facebook post about the encounter. "We scrape and scrape to pay bills and put food in our bellies, but after almost 2 years of dating we decided that we couldn't wait anymore, so we didn't."
"I wasn't even thinking about rings, I just wanted to marry my best friend," she continued, "But he wouldn't have it. He scraped up just enough money to buy me two matching rings from Pandora."
The two headed to the store and picked out a pair of rings they could afford — two rings for $130.
McRae was was thrilled to get her rings, and then, the couple encountered a saleswoman.
"While we were purchasing my rings... another lady that was working there came over to help the lady selling them to us," she wrote. "She said, 'Y'all, can you believe that some men get these as engagement rings? How pathetic.'"
"I watched my now husband's face fall," she continued.
Quinn was already upset that he couldn't get his fiancé a more expensive ring, so the saleswoman's words crushed him.
"He was so upset at the idea of not making me happy enough and of me not wanting to marry him because my rings didn't cost enough money or weren't flashy enough," she explained.
"Y'all I would have gotten married to this man if it had been a 25¢ gum ball machine ring" she proudly posted. "When did our nation fall so far to think the only way a man can truly love a woman is if he buys her $3,000+ jewelry and makes a public decree of his affection with said flashy ring?"
McRae quickly shot down the pretentious saleswoman, calmly saying, "It isn't the ring that matters, it is the love that goes into buying one that is."
"My husband was so afraid of me not wanting him because he couldn't afford a piece of jewelry," she posted. "But here I am though, courthouse married, $130 ring set, the love of my life by my side and happier than I could ever imagine."
Looks like this marriage is off to a pretty perfect start.
Mashable reached out to McRae for a comment, and will update the story when she replies. |||||
| Quinn and Ariel McRae don't have a lot of money. They say they "scrape and scrape to pay bills and put food in our bellies." What they do have is love, lots of it, and they decided it was high time after two years of dating to tie the knot, reports Mashable. So they pulled together $130, marched to a store in Martin, Tenn., and found a ring set from Pandora they could afford. Then a saleswoman interjected, telling the person they'd been working with, "Y'all, can you believe that some men get these as engagement rings? How pathetic." Taking to Facebook to recount their story, McRae says she watched her now-husband's face fall. But she stayed calm and replied, "It isn't the ring that matters, it is the love that goes into buying one." McRae doesn't stop there. "Y'all I would have gotten married to this man if it had been a 25¢ gum ball machine ring," she writes. "When did our nation fall so far to think the only way a man can truly love a woman is if he buys her $3,000+ jewelry and makes a public decree of his affection with said flashy ring?" Her post has amassed more than 55,000 shares and 75,000 likes, and Yahoo7 Be reports that many comments applaud her response. "My ring is CZ too!" one person writes. "I'm still just as much married as I would've been with a real [diamond]!" McRae, meanwhile, reports that she's now "courthouse-married" with a $130 ring set and "happier than I could ever imagine." (This $125,000 engagement ring is now being fought over in court.) |
Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: Context: The probe looked into the October 2000 shooting-deaths of 13 Arabs, during violent demonstrations in northern Israel that erupted days after the start of a Palestinian uprising.
Hypothesis: it happened on august 7
Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: Context: Well, I'm not for photo licensing. Let me say something about Columbine. Listen, we've got gun laws. He says we ought to have gun-free schools. Everybody believes that. I'm sure every state in the union has got them. You can't carry a gun into a school. And there ought to be a consequence when you do carry a gun into a school.
Hypothesis: The speaker addresses a political topic
Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: Context: In documents they filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, government lawyers argued that three inmates who committed suicide last month by hanging themselves coordinated their actions by using attorney-client confidentiality to communicate with each other. Government officials said that among papers marked "Attorney Client Privilege" were instructions on how to tie knots and a classified memo on camp activities and inmate locations.
Hypothesis: Less than seven inmates died.
Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: | Context: Mini golf<br>Ann and her friend went mini golfing. The two had fun back and forth. Ann was winning at first. But then she hit the ball and it went in the water. She thought it was hilarious and got another ball.
Hypothesis: ann has no friends |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Q: A peace treaty is different from an armistice , which is an agreement to cease hostilities , or a surrender , in which one side agrees to give up its arms .
A: | It is different from an armistice , which is an agreement to stop hostilities ; a surrender , in which an army agrees to give up arms ; or a ceasefire or truce , in which the parties may agree to temporarily or permanently stop fighting . |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input 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.
In Japan , reigning emperors are known simply as " the Emperor " and he is now referred to primarily by his posthumous name , Emperor Sho ̄ wa ( 昭和天皇 ) .
Output: | In Japan , reigning emperors are known simply as the Emperor and he is now referred to primarily by his posthumous name , Sho ̄ wa ( 昭和 ) , which is the name of the era coinciding with his reign ; for this reason , he is also known as the Sho ̄ wa Emperor or Emperor Sho ̄ wa . |
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: Davis went to Haiti in 1982 and wrote about how a living person can be turned into a zombie by two special powders being rubbed into a wound .
A: | Davis traveled to Haiti in 1982 and , as a result of his investigations , claimed that a living person can be turned into a zombie by two special powders being introduced into the blood stream ( usually via a wound ) . |
Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Input: City doubles number of walls that spray back
To all the late-night revelers who answer nature’s call on city walls: Beware. Again.
The Public Works Department is doubling the number of walls painted with pee-repellent paint. In July, DPW installed nine in the Tenderloin, the Mission and South of Market. Eight more will be added this week. The surfaces make urine bounce right back onto the shoes and pants of unsuspecting relief-seekers. And, so far, it seems to be working.
“So far so good,” Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru said. “We have had a daily monitoring program, and it seems to be 95 percent successful. There’s only one alley in the Mission that we have had trouble with.”
The monitoring system consists of one lucky individual conducting a smell and sight test — anything that smells putrid or looks moist is noted. The trial period for the pee wall program ends in December, and the city will assess its effectiveness then.
But it’s already been proved to work in Europe. The paint was first used in Hamburg’s St. Pauli quarter, where beer drinkers often can’t be bothered to find a bathroom. The experiment captured the attention of San Francisco officials.
Historically, public urination has been an issue in San Francisco. Legislation banned it in 2002 but that really didn’t work, despite the threat of a $50-to-$500 fine. The Pit Stop program, which provides public restrooms, has contributed to a 17 percent drop in steam cleaning requests since last summer. But city officials wanted to do more.
“It went really well in Hamburg,” Nuru said. “Based on that, I think this program is really going to work. It should deter people.”
Photo: Scott Strazzante, The Chronicle Image 1 of / 4 Caption Close Image 1 of 4 Buy photo Wayne Howard stands in the corner by a wall that has been coated with pee-repelling paint at the 16th and Mission Street Bart Plaza in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, July 30, 2015. Wayne Howard stands in the corner by a wall that has been coated with pee-repelling paint at the 16th and Mission Street Bart Plaza in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, July 30, 2015. Photo: Scott Strazzante, The Chronicle Buy this photo Image 2 of 4 Buy photo Two walls have been coated with pee-repelling paint at the 16th and Mission Street Bart Plaza in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, July 30, 2015. Two walls have been coated with pee-repelling paint at the 16th and Mission Street Bart Plaza in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, July 30, 2015. Photo: Scott Strazzante, The Chronicle Buy this photo Image 3 of 4 Using the wall at 16th Street and Mission as an example, Public Works director Mohammed Nuru demonstrates how the walls deflect liquid onto the clothes of those that urinate on the walls. Using the wall at 16th Street and Mission as an example, Public Works director Mohammed Nuru demonstrates how the walls deflect liquid onto the clothes of those that urinate on the walls. Photo: Cameron Robert, The Chronicle Image 4 of 4 Using the wall at 16th Street and Mission as an example, Public Works director Mohammed Nuru demonstrates how the walls deflect liquid onto the clothes of those that urinate on the walls. Using the wall at 16th Street and Mission as an example, Public Works director Mohammed Nuru demonstrates how the walls deflect liquid onto the clothes of those that urinate on the walls. Photo: Cameron Robert, The Chronicle City doubles number of walls that spray back 1 / 4 Back to Gallery
Signs over the walls read, “Hold it! This wall is not a public restroom. Please respect San Francisco and seek relief in an appropriate place.” They don’t explicitly state that the wall will fire back, so some surprises are in store for the unwitting relief-seeker.
Paint and installation costs a couple of hundred dollars for each wall. The coating, Ultra-Ever Dry, comes from Ultra-tech, a Florida company in the chemical cleanup and waste management business that also provided the paint for Hamburg.
The paint coats an object and creates a surface chemistry and texture with patterns of geometric shapes that have peaks, or high points, that repel most water-based and some oil-based liquids.
If it continues to work, even more walls will be painted around the city.
Lizzie Johnson is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: [email protected] Twitter: @lizziejohnsonnn ||||| If it’s not winter’s salt and grime, it’s mud and everyday dirt. Keeping your car clean can be a chore – a backbreaking one if you prefer to do it yourself.
But Nissan is testing a car that can keep itself clean, thanks to special paints that repel water and oils. Similar technology could eventually allow manufacturers to do away with windshield wipers by effectively fending off water, frost and grime. Meanwhile, new coatings can also help keep a car’s interior cleaner, something especially useful for parents – or those actively involved in sports like camping and trail biking.
The Nissan Technical Center in Rolle, Switzerland, is in the midst of testing a specially prepared version of the maker’s little European Note model. The subcompact hatchback has had a layer of a special coating, called Ultra-Ever Dry, applied over its conventional paint finish. Developed by UltraTech International, it’s technically known as a super-hydrophobic and oleophobic paint. In other words, it actually repels both oil and water.
That means that most common dirt, grime and oil won’t stick to the vehicle’s sheet metal. The Ultra-Ever Dry finish even works with rain, frost and sleet, Nissan reports, after preliminary testing.
"The Nissan Note has been carefully engineered to take the stress out of customer driving,” said Geraldine Ingham, the chief marketing manager for the hatchback. "We are committed to addressing everyday problems our customers face and will always consider testing exciting, cutting edge technology like this incredible coating application."
Nissan is testing a version of its Note subcompact, which has a layer of a special coating to make it repel water and oil. Nam Y. Huh / AP
For the moment, the maker says it has no plans to offer the coating as a standard feature, but “will continue to consider (it) as a future aftermarket option.”
The maker did come up with another interesting paint technology a few years back, a self-healing paint. Dubbed Scratch Shield, it uses an elastic resin mixed into a conventional paint formulation that, when exposed to sunlight, would fill in small scratches within a matter of hours. Unfortunately, few motorists have been willing to pay the premium for the special formulations and Nissan now offers Scratch Shield in only a few markets and not the U.S.
The Japanese maker isn’t the only one looking at hydrophobic coatings – which could prove an interesting alternative for keeping windshields clear and clean. Italian designer Leonardo Fioravanti recently rolled out a wiper-less Hidra concept vehicle, which relies on both aerodynamic design to minimize what actually comes close to the windshield – and a special coating designed to keep things from sticking if they do come into contact with the glass.
Under a hydrophobic outer coat, a second, nano layer “pushes” dirt off to the sides, while a third layer essentially helps clean off grime. An additional, electrically conductive layer provides the power needed to make it all work.
The designers claim the technology behind the Hidra wiper-less windshield could prove reasonably cost-competitive and could wind up in production in a few years, marking the most significant improvement in rain gear since the first hand-operated wipers were introduced more than a century ago.
British sports car maker McLaren, meanwhile, has lifted a page from fighter jet construction. It is experimenting with a system that uses high-frequency sound waves to create a sonic barrier to prevent water and dirt from reaching the windshield.
Cleanliness is only one reason makers would like to eliminate the windshield wiper. The devices also create plenty of aerodynamic drag, which reduces a vehicle’s fuel economy.
Manufacturers also are looking at ways to keep things clean inside their vehicles. Most fabrics are now treated with dirt- and liquid-resistant coatings – or can be ordered with an optional treatment package. Ford says it also tries to design vehicles so it’s easy to wipe or vacuum food or spilled beverages out of cracks and crevices.
And to that effect, the new Honda Odyssey minivan this year began offering an optional, built-in vacuum cleaner tucked into its rear cargo compartment.
Of course, one challenge is to prevent messes in the first place, says General Motors, which has been conducting research on ways to keep passengers, especially children stuck in back seats known to industry engineers as “the puke zone,” from getting car sick.
“We know through other scientific research that even if our eyes are focused on a fixed point – if we can see the outside passing by in the window – our brain is telling us that we are moving,” explained Don Shreves, GM’s Human Factors engineering group manager said. “But if our eyes are at a downward angle and do not see the view outside the vehicle, our bodies become sensitive to motion and increase the chance of sickness.”
Among other things, the research has shown GM engineers that passengers are less likely to get sick when DVD screens are mounted overhead. |||||
Output: | San Francisco's experiment with pee-repelling paint is working out so well that the city says it will expand the trial in an attempt to prevent further public urination. Since treating nine of its walls with a liquid-repelling coating that causes urine to bounce back at anyone seeking relief, the city has been sending an unfortunate individual to smell the city's walls and look for moist areas. "So far so good," says Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru. "We have had a daily monitoring program, and it seems to be 95% successful," though he adds there's one particular alley "that we have had trouble with." As a result, officials will apply the Ultra-Ever Dry paint from Florida company Ultra-tech to eight more walls this week, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. Once the program's trial period wraps in December, city officials will review the effectiveness of the paint, which has worked "really well" in Hamburg, Germany, says Nuru. "Based on that, I think this program is really going to work. It should deter people." Signs on the coated walls state: "Hold it! This wall is not a public restroom. Please respect San Francisco and seek relief in an appropriate place." But as they don't explain that the texture produced by the paint creates peaks that repel most water-based and some oil-based liquids, "surprises are in store for the unwitting relief-seeker," notes the Chronicle. Last year, NBC News reported Nissan was testing a vehicle coated with Ultra-Ever Dry paint, meaning soon you may never have to wash your car again. (San Francisco should probably add the stuff to its light poles.) |
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: First, Crystal Travis helped a family escape a house fire on Christmas Eve in Cleveland County, North Carolina. Then, later in the afternoon, her husband Roger Travis performed CPR on a baby on the side of road.
You could call it a Christmas miracle. As far the couple is concerned, they simply reacted to what was happening in front of them.
"I was the right person at the right time for that person in need," Roger Travis told CNN.
Good Samaritan act #1: House fire
The harrowing day began when Crystal and her 14-year-old daughter Tori were driving home from visiting a relative.
Crystal insists the situation is "not as sensational as everyone says -- we just stopped to help when we saw fire."
Crystal saw flames coming from a house but could not tell if something was burning in front of the house or if the house itself was on fire, she said.
She said she cut across yards to reach the house. As she drove onto the lawn, a woman ran out of the house clutching a baby and handed it to a neighbor, she said. Realizing what was going on, Crystal said she and her daughter jumped out of the car and into action, calling out to ask if anyone needed help.
Meanwhile, a man appeared at the door and began throwing clothing and gifts onto the lawn, she said. Crystal and Tori gathered the items and carried them to safety to keep the path clear. Then, propane tanks exploded, shaking the ground and sending everyone running away from the house, Crystal said.
Crystal called 911 and waited for firefighters and first responders to arrive. CNN reached out to Cleveland County officials for comment but has not yet heard back.
As the two left the scene, coughing and wheezing from smoke inhalation, Tori called her father to share what happened. They decided to meet Roger Travis at Applebee's.
Good Samaritan act #2: Suffocating baby
On his way to Applebee's, Roger Travis said he saw a car in the median in front of the mall. A former volunteer firefighter and first responder in Cleveland and Catawba counties, his instincts kicked in and he pulled over.
He saw a baby on the ground surrounded by people asking if anyone knew CPR, he said. The little boy was not breathing and a woman who appeared to be the mother was panicked, he told CNN.
Roger pushed past the crowd and helped a firefighter administer CPR. They kept working until the baby started breathing and making noises, he said.
The mother thanked Roger as the baby was brought to the ambulance. "I told her the best thing she can do right now is to get in the car with that baby."
The Hickory Fire Department confirmed the incident.
Like his wife, Roger resists being called a hero.
"A hero puts themselves in harm's way, sacrifices their life for someone else," he said. "I'm just doing what I was trained to do." ||||| 0 Local husband, wife save lives at separate locations on Christmas Eve
CLEVELAND COUNTY, N.C. - The Travis family had a Christmas Eve to remember.
A Cleveland County husband and wife, driving to meet each other, came across two separate, dangerous situations on Sunday.
The wife helped one family escape from a house fire, while the husband saved a baby's life on the side of the road.
It was a case of them being in the right place at the right time, the couple told Channel 9.
Crystal Travis and her daughter were driving when they saw flames erupting through the roof of a home. They jumped out to help the family with small children to safety.
"I couldn't really tell at first and then I realized this house is on fire,” Crystal Travis said. “Then, all of the sudden, the propane tank on the porch explodes. It shakes the ground, and you can just feel it. There's smoke everywhere. It's hard to breathe."
The family told Channel 9 they are OK, and they managed to save some of their Christmas gifts from inside the home.
"It was just all really fast, really chaotic,” Crystal Travis said. “Just really glad they were able to make it out."
While Crystal Travis and her daughter helped one family, she didn’t know that her husband was helping another family 20 miles away.
Roger Travis was driving near Hickory Mall when he says he saw people trying to perform CPR on a baby.
That's when he used his EMT skills to revive the child.
"It looked like there was a traffic accident in the front of the mall,” Roger Travis said. "We did get a pulse. The child was crying."
Some people may call it a coincidence, but the Travises consider it to be a Christmas miracle.
"We were like, ‘What are the odds? This is the craziest day ever,'” Crystal Travis said.
"God put us at the right moment, at the right time, for the people that needed us the most,” Roger Travis said.
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© 2018 Cox Media Group. ||||| CLEVELAND COUNTY, N.C. – Roger Travis says that divine intervention must have been at play this Christmas Eve.
Otherwise, what are the chances that he and his wife would affect the lives of two families following life-threatening situations?
Roger Travis and his wife, Crystal, were driving from separate directions to meet each other on Christmas Eve.
While driving to meet her husband, Crystal stopped after seeing flames erupting through the roof of a home.
“All of a sudden, the propane tank on the porch explodes. It shakes the ground, and you can just feel it,” Crystal Travis told WSOC. “There’s smoke everywhere. It’s hard to breathe.”
She immediately got out of her car and ran to help the family escape from the flames.
“It was just all really fast, really chaotic. Just really glad they were able to make it out,” she said.
She had no way of knowing that her husband, Roger, had also stopped about 20 miles away to help others in need.
Roger Travis says he was driving near Hickory Mall when he saw people trying to perform CPR on a baby following a car accident.
Travis, who is an EMT, immediately stopped and was able to restart the baby’s heart.
“God put us at the right moment, at the right time, for the people that needed us the most,” Roger Travis said. |||||
A: | They were driving to meet up with each other on Christmas Eve, but first, a husband and wife made two separate pit stops to help save a few lives. In a Good Samaritan play in two acts, KFOR reports that Crystal Travis kicked things off Sunday in Cleveland County, NC, when she saw flames coming out of a home. Travis, who was on her way home after visiting a relative with her 14-year-old daughter, says they pulled over and helped a family with a baby escape, as well as drag Christmas gifts away from the burning residence, CNN reports. "It was just all really fast, really chaotic," she tells WSOC, noting there was "smoke everywhere" and that a propane tank on the porch exploded at one point. After first responders arrived, Travis' daughter called husband and dad Roger Travis, and they decided to meet at a nearby restaurant. Then Roger Travis found himself in the same role as his wife and daughter: that of serendipitous stranger. He says he was driving past a local mall when he saw a car on the median, and when he pulled over, he saw a baby on the ground who wasn't breathing, per CNN. Roger Travis, an ex-volunteer firefighter and first responder, says he and a firefighter on the scene administered CPR until the baby started making noises and once more drawing breaths. The Travises are calling their joint rescues a "Christmas miracle," per WSOC. "What are the odds? This is the craziest day ever," Crystal Travis says. Her husband adds, "God put us at the right moment, at the right time, for the people that needed us the most." (A man saved a dog, then his wife had to save them both.) |
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Netflix will stream Casting JonBenét, a film dealing with the unsolved murder of JonBenét Ramsey, as Entertainment Weekly reports. Last year, several series examined the crime leading up to the 20th anniversary of the six-year-old's murder in December 1996.
Related PHOTOS: Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey? 8 Possible Suspects From her immediate family to the kindly neighborhood Santa Claus, a brief look at the cases for – and against – the murder's most popular suspects
Casting JonBenét will make its world premiere during the Sundance Film Festival later this month. Netflix plans to stream it in the spring and it will also have a limited theatrical release. Netflix acquired the worldwide rights to the documentary.
The documentary is described as "a sly and stylized exploration of the world's most sensational child-murder case." Directed by Kitty Green, it was shot over 15 months. She and her team traveled to Boulder, CO, the Ramsey's hometown, to speak with people there to gain insight on the crime and how its aftermath has affected the community.
It's the latest in a string of projects that have addressed the murder, including Lifetime's Who Killed JonBenét? and CBS' The Case of: JonBenét Ramsey. The latter has elicited two lawsuits following the docuseries' September airing, which culminated in experts from the show theorizing that Ramsey's older brother Burke may have accidentally killed his sister. Last week, Burke Ramsey filed a lawsuit against CBS, the show's producers and the experts that appeared in the series for $750 million. Earlier he filed a $150 million lawsuit against one of the experts, Dr. Werner Spitz, who is also named in the CBS suit. ||||| The nation’s endless fascination with JonBenét Ramsey’s tragic demise will continue in 2017: Netflix has acquired Casting Jon-Benet, a documentary about the still-unsolved case to premiere later this year.
Directed by Kitty Green, the documentary will premiere at Sundance later this month but was acquired by Netflix prior to its debut. While the recent JonBenét Ramsey offerings have focused on the sordid details of her murder and have mostly been concerned with pinning the blame on her brother Burke, this documentary focuses on the lingering effects of her death and her unsolved murder on the community at large.
From Variety:
“Casting JonBenet” is an exploration of the still-unsolved death of six-year-old American beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey in 1996 in Colorado. Over 15 months, the filmmakers traveled to the Ramseys’ Colorado hometown to elicit responses and reflections from the local community. The film examines how this crime and its resulting mythologies have shaped the attitudes and behavior of successive generations of parents and children.
Is this an attempt to capitalize on the mini true-crime boom that kicked off with “Serial” and intensified with Netflix’s Making a Murderer? Probably not. The Ramsey case has consumed the national imagination for the twenty years it’s gone unsolved; it feels crass to say that a new take on the case is refreshing, but examining the impact of the case through this lens is a perspective that we have yet to see.
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“Netflix is the ideal home for showcasing Kitty’s sharply-rendered vision of a mythic American tragedy to a global audience, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the crime,” Netflix VP of Original Documentary Programming Lisa Nishimura said. While Burke Ramsey is probably less interested in seeing this documentary come to light, this will likely be provocative and dare I say it, well-done.
Casting JonBenét will premiere sometime in the spring of 2017. ||||| Kitty Green directed the documentary, which will debut on the streamer in the spring.
The first Sundance acquisition of 2017 goes to Netflix.
The streamer has acquired worldwide rights to Kitty Green's documentary Casting JonBenet, which will have its world premiere in the Documentary Competition of the Park City, Utah-based fest.
Casting JonBenet centers on the sensationalized murder case and the still-unsolved death of 6-year-old American beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey. Filmmakers traveled to Ramsey's Colorado hometown to ask residents to reflect on their personal experiences with the trial and the strange mythology that continues to surround the tragedy.
Green also produced the doc, along with Scott Macaulay and James Schamus. Meridian Entertainment financed the feature through its production pact with Schamus' Symbolic Exchange.
Screen Australia, Film Victoria, the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, Cinereach, Rooftop Films and Garbo NYC provided additional financing for the doc.
Casting JonBenet will launch on Netflix and in limited theatrical release in the spring.
Ramsey's unsolved murder has sparked multiple true-crime offerings as of late.
CBS aired six-part docuseries The Case of: JonBenet Ramsey, pegged to the 20th anniversary of the trial, while A&E had a two-hour documentary special, The Killing of JonBenet: The Truth Uncovered. Additionally, in November, Lifetime aired a TV movie titled Who Killed JonBenet? that starred Eion Bailey as the detective who originally investigated the case. ||||| Netflix has acquired worldwide rights to Kitty Green’s documentary “Casting JonBenet,” which will have its world premiere later this month in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the Sundance Film Festival.
Netflix noted that the Sundance premiere will be the first time a non-fiction work from the company will compete at the festival. The film will launch on Netflix and in limited theatrical release in the spring of 2017.
“Casting JonBenet” is an exploration of the still-unsolved death of six-year-old American beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey in 1996 in Colorado. Over 15 months, the filmmakers traveled to the Ramseys’ Colorado hometown to elicit responses and reflections from the local community. The film examines how this crime and its resulting mythologies have shaped the attitudes and behavior of successive generations of parents and children.
Producers are Green, Scott Macauley, and former Focus Features topper James Schamus. The film was financed by Meridian Entertainment through its production deal with Schamus’ Symbolic Exchange, with additional support from Screen Australia, Film Victoria, the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, Cinereach, Rooftop Films, and Garbo NYC.
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“Casting JonBenet” is a Forensic Films/Matricide Pictures/Symbolic Exchange production. Green’s credits include “Ukraine Is Not a Brothel” and “The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul,” which premiered at Sundance in 2015, where it was awarded the short film non-fiction jury prize.
Macaulay’s credits include “Raising Victor Vargas.” Schamus was a producer on “Brokeback Mountain” and “The Ice Storm.” “For Scott and me, working with Kitty, a visionary filmmaker whose originality is matched by her empathy, has been one of the great privileges of our careers,” Schamus said.
“Kitty boldly embraces the tradition of innovative risk-taking within the documentary filmmaking mode with her remarkable work on ‘Casting JonBenet,'” Netflix VP of Original Documentary Programming Lisa Nishimura added. “Netflix is the ideal home for showcasing Kitty’s sharply-rendered vision of a mythic American tragedy to a global audience, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the crime.” ||||| | Interest in the JonBenet Ramsey case was resurrected with the 20th anniversary of the 6-year-old's December 1996 death, and now Netflix is joining the revival. Per Variety, the company has acquired the rights to Casting JonBenet, a documentary by Kitty Green set to debut at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah later this month. After its premiere in Park City, the film—which Netflix says will be its first nonfiction flick to make a Sundance showing—will air on Netflix and in some theaters nationwide in the spring. The filmmakers plumbed the community of Boulder, Colo., where the Ramsey family lived when JonBenet was killed, documenting locals looking back on the unsolved crime and analyzing its effect on families there. "Netflix is the ideal home for showcasing Kitty’s sharply rendered vision of a mythic American tragedy to a global audience," a Netflix programming exec says. Rolling Stone and the Hollywood Reporter note the film joins a glut of recent JonBenet coverage, including Lifetime's Who Killed JonBenet?, A&E's The Killing of JonBenet: The Truth Uncovered, and CBS' The Case of: JonBenet Ramsey, which spurred a lawsuit from JonBenet's brother, Burke (the special theorized Burke may have accidentally killed her). Wondering if Netflix's cinematic coup is an attempt to cash in on the obsession with true-crime hits like the Serial podcast and Netflix's own Making a Murderer? Megan Reynolds doesn't think so. "The Ramsey case has consumed the national imagination for the twenty years it's gone unsolved," she writes for Jezebel. "It feels crass to say that a new take on the case is refreshing, but examining the impact of the case through this lens is a perspective that we have yet to see." (New DNA tests are in the works in JonBenet's 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.
One example: The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
Solution is here: 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".
Now, solve this: The Darmstadt University of Technology ( ; TUD ) is a university in Darmstadt , in Germany .
Solution: | The Technische Universita ̈ t Darmstadt ( unofficially Technical University of Darmstadt or Darmstadt University of Technology ) , commonly referred to as TU Darmstadt , is a research university in the city of Darmstadt , Germany . |
Read the text and determine if the sentence is true:
Long-distance telephone company MCI Inc., on Friday, touted its $6.75 billion deal to be bought by Verizon Communications Inc., but said it would thoroughly analyze a revised $8 billion bid by Qwest Communications International Inc.
Sentence: Qwest is competing with Verizon to buy MCI Inc. | Yes |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Example input: Powdered sugar, also called confectioners' sugar, icing sugar, and icing cake, is a finely ground sugar produced by milling granulated sugar into a powdered state. It usually contains a small amount of anti-caking agent to prevent clumping and improve flow. Although most often produced in a factory, powdered sugar can also be made by processing ordinary granulated sugar in a coffee grinder, or by crushing it by hand in a mortar and pestle.
Example output: is confectionary sugar the same as powdered sugar?
Example explanation: The question is a yes/no question, and it is answerable based on the given passage.
Q: In Topeka, I-70 intersects a child route, I-470, twice. The second time it is intersected, the Kansas Turnpike merges, making I-70 into a toll road. This is one of only two sections of I-70 that are tolled (the other is along the Pennsylvania Turnpike), with the maximum toll distance costing $17.50 as of 2016. I-70 carries this designation from Topeka to Bonner Springs. It is the eastern terminus of the turnpike, and from there to 18th Street and extending on to the Kansas eastern border, the highway is free.
A: | is i 70 in kansas a toll road? |
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:Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. ||||| FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2006, file photo, IOC medical commission chairman Arne Ljungqvist responds to a question during a press conference on doping test on Austrian athletes, in Turin, Italy. Transgender... (Associated Press)
FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2006, file photo, IOC medical commission chairman Arne Ljungqvist responds to a question during a press conference on doping test on Austrian athletes, in Turin, Italy. Transgender athletes should be allowed to compete in the Olympics and other international events without underdoing... (Associated Press)
LONDON (AP) — Transgender athletes should be allowed to compete in the Olympics and other international events without undergoing sex reassignment surgery, according to new guidelines adopted by the IOC.
International Olympic Committee medical officials told The Associated Press on Sunday they changed the policy to adapt to current scientific, social and legal attitudes on transgender issues.
The guidelines are designed as recommendations — not rules or regulations — for international sports federations and other bodies to follow and should apply for this year's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
"I don't think many federations have rules on defining eligibility of transgender individuals," IOC medical director Dr. Richard Budgett said in a telephone interview. "This should give them the confidence and stimulus to put these rules in place."
Under the previous IOC guidelines, approved in 2003, athletes who transitioned from male to female or vice versa were required to have reassignment surgery followed by at least two years of hormone therapy in order to be eligible to compete.
Now, surgery will no longer be required, with female-to-male transgender athletes eligible to take part in men's competitions "without restriction."
Meanwhile, male-to-female transgender athletes will need to demonstrate that their testosterone level has been below a certain cutoff point for at least one year before their first competition.
"It is necessary to ensure insofar as possible that trans athletes are not excluded from the opportunity to participate in sporting competition," the IOC said in a document posted on its website that outlines the guidelines. "The overriding sporting objective is and remains the guarantee of fair competition."
"To require surgical anatomical changes as a precondition to participation is not necessary to preserve fair competition and may be inconsistent with developing legislation and notions of human rights," it added.
The guidelines, first reported by Outsports.com, were approved after a meeting in November in Lausanne, Switzerland, of Olympic officials and medical experts.
Budgett said there were no plans for the guidelines to be sent for approval by the IOC executive board.
"This is a scientific consensus paper, not a rule or regulation," he said. "It is the advice of the medical and scientific commission and what we consider the best advice."
Former IOC medical commission chairman Arne Ljungqvist, who was among the experts involved in drafting the new guidelines, said the consensus was driven by social and political changes.
"It has become much more of a social issue than in the past," he told the AP. "We had to review and look into this from a new angle. We needed to adapt to the modern legislation around the world. We felt we cannot impose a surgery if that is no longer a legal requirement."
"Those cases are very few, but we had to answer the question," he added. "It is an adaptation to a human rights issue. This is an important matter. It's a trend of being more flexible and more liberal."
Under the new rules, a man transitioning to a woman must undergo hormone therapy and demonstrate that the total level of male testosterone in the athlete's blood has been below 10 nanomols per liter for at least a year prior to competing.
The previous rule stated that, in addition to reassignment surgery, the athlete required a minimum of two years of hormone treatment. How long it will take the athlete to reach the new cutoff limit will depend on individual cases, Ljungqvist said.
"If you change sex, you will have to have a hormone level below 10 for 12 months," he said. "That does not mean a 1-year guarantee. You don't go below 10 from day one. It takes quite some time. It can take more than one year or two years."
The transgender issue gained extra prominence after former Olympic decathlon champion Bruce Jenner announced last year that he had transitioned to a woman, Caitlyn Jenner.
The IOC document also cited the case of hyperandrogenism, or presence of high levels of testosterone in female athletes.
Indian sprinter Dutee Chand was suspended by the IAAF in 2014 due to hyperandrogenism and missed the Commonwealth Games and Asian Games.
But the Court of Arbitration for Sport suspended the rule last year, saying the IAAF had failed to prove that women with naturally high levels of testosterone had a competitive edge. Chand was cleared to compete, and the court gave the IAAF until July 2017 to present new scientific evidence.
The IOC statement urged the IAAF and others to go back to CAS with arguments in favor of reinstating the rule.
"To avoid discrimination, if not eligible for female competition, the athlete should be eligible to compete in male competition," the IOC said.
The issue of gender verification gained global attention after South African runner Caster Semenya was ordered to undergo sex tests after winning the 800-meter world title in 2009. She was eventually cleared to compete by the IAAF and won silver in the 800 at the 2012 London Olympics.
The IOC used to conduct gender verification tests at the Olympics, but those chromosome-based screenings were dropped before the 2000 Sydney Games because they were deemed unscientific and unethical. |||||
Solution: | Transgender athletes should be allowed to compete in the Olympics and other international events without undergoing sex reassignment surgery, according to new guidelines adopted by the International Olympic Committee. IOC medical officials say they changed the policy to adapt to current scientific, social, and legal attitudes on transgender issues. The guidelines are designed as recommendations—not rules or regulations—for international sports federations and other bodies to follow and should apply for this year's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. "I don't think many federations have rules on defining eligibility of transgender individuals," the IOC's medical director tells the AP. "This should give them the confidence and stimulus to put these rules in place." Under the previous guidelines, introduced in 2003, athletes who transitioned from male to female or vice versa were required to have reassignment surgery followed by at least two years of hormone therapy in order to be eligible to compete. Now surgery will no longer be required, with female-to-male transgender athletes eligible to take part in men's competitions "without restriction." Meanwhile, male-to-female transgender athletes will need to demonstrate that their testosterone level has been below a certain cutoff point for at least one year before their first competition. "The overriding sporting objective is and remains the guarantee of fair competition," the IOC said in a document posted on its website explaining the new guidelines. |
Q: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Police vehicles prevent the access to the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris, France, Monday, June 19, 2017. Paris officials say : Suspected attacker 'downed' after driving into police car on Champs-Elysees.... (Associated Press)
PARIS (AP) — The Latest on Paris security operation on Champs-Elysees (all times local):
9:45 p.m.
French officials say that a man on the radar of authorities has been killed after ramming a car carrying explosives into a police vehicle in Paris' Champs-Elysees shopping district, prompting a fiery blast. France's anti-terrorism prosecutor has opened an investigation.
No police officers or passers-by were hurt in the incident Monday afternoon, the Paris police department said. It is unclear why the attacker drove into police, though officials said the incident was apparently deliberate.
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6:30 p.m.
Foreign tourists were confused and rattled by a car attack on Paris' Champs-Elysees — but aren't letting that deter them from enjoying the City of Light.
A Brazilian couple with son in stroller and grandmother couldn't understand why they were blocked at the Grand Palais exhibition hall and barred from accessing the Champs-Elysees, where they had walked freely earlier in the day.
They were visibly shocked when informed.
"I'll go back to my hotel now," said Alexander Ferreira. He said they were in London shortly after the recent big attack there.
"It's not safe now, not just in France but in Europe. No one place is safe in the world."
However, he said the family would still visit the Eiffel Tower Monday night.
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6 p.m.
Visitors to an art exhibit of Auguste Rodin's works in central Paris were confined inside the Grand Palais for an hour after an attacker rammed into a police convoy on the nearby Champs-Elysees.
Victoria Boucher and daughter Chrystel said they're hoping the Champs-Elysees reopens soon. They came in from the suburb of Cergy-Pontoise for a Paris visit and weren't afraid to go to the famed avenue.
Chrystel said that "we were better off inside than outside." But both agreed as the mother said, "unfortunately we now are used to this."
"The show must go on," the daughter said in English. "They won't win."
The attacker was killed in Monday's incident.
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5:50 p.m.
France's interior minister says the attempted attack on security forces on the Champs-Elysees shows the threat is still very high in the country and justifies the state of emergency.
Gerard Collomb says he will present a bill Wednesday at a Cabinet meeting to extend the state of emergency from July 15, its current expiration date, until Nov. 1.
He says the current situation in France shows a new security law "is needed" and the measure would "maintain a high security level" beyond the end of the state of emergency.
France has been under a state of emergency since the November 2015 attacks by Islamic extremists in Paris.
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5:45 p.m.
Two French police officials say the man who rammed into a police convoy on Paris' Champs-Elysees was a 31-year-old man from a Paris suburb who had been flagged for extremism.
The officials identified the man as from the suburb of Argenteuil, and said he had an "S'' file, which means authorities had been aware of potential links to extremism.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing investigation into Monday's incident.
The interior minister said the man was killed in the incident.
--By Lori Hinnant
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5:30 p.m.
France's interior minister says that a driver who rammed a car carrying explosives into a police convoy on the Champs-Elysees avenue has died after the "attempted attack" on security forces.
Gerard Collomb told reporters near the scene Monday that the man's motives weren't immediately clear.
Bomb squad officers are at the scene on the city's most famous avenue, which is popular with tourists. It was the second major incident on the avenue this year.
An attacker defending the Islamic State group shot and killed a police officer on the Champs-Elysees in April, days before a presidential election, prompting an extensive security operation.
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4:55 p.m.
A French security official says that the attacker on Champs-Elysees avenue is probably dead and the bomb squad is on the scene.
Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet says the driver whose car exploded as he tried to ram a police vehicle is "most probably" dead.
Brandet said bomb squads were still securing the scene. He said the attacker appeared to have acted deliberately.
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4:45 p.m.
France's anti-terrorism prosecutor has opened an investigation into the ramming of a police vehicle on Paris' Champs-Elysees avenue.
Authorities say a driver has rammed his car into a police vehicle in the Champs-Elysees shopping district. They say he has been arrested after being injured in a subsequent apparent clash with police.
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4:30 p.m.
The French national gendarmerie service says the driver of a car that rammed a law enforcement vehicle has been arrested.
The tweet Monday confirmed an attack had taken place on Paris' famed Champs-Elysees.
Police had earlier warned people to avoid the neighborhood, one of the French capital's most popular with tourists. Paris police said neither gendarmes nor passers-by were injured.
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4:25 p.m.
Two French police officials have told The Associated Press that a suspected attacker drove into a police vehicle on the Champs-Elysees shopping district in Paris, and is now lying on the ground immobilized.
It is unclear the attacker has been killed or why he drove into the police Monday. The officials weren't authorized to be publicly named.
The suspect is wearing a white shirt and dark shorts and prone on his stomach on the avenue.
Police ringed the area as tourists and other onlookers gathered.
--By Elaine Ganley and Lori Hinnant
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4:20 p.m.
Paris police say a security operation is underway in the Champs-Elysees shopping district and are urging people to avoid the area.
The police department tweeted the warning Monday without providing further details. The high-end neighborhood is popular with tourists.
The reason for the operation remains unclear.
A subway station in the area is closed.
An attacker defending the Islamic State group shot and killed a police officer on the Champs-Elysees in April, days before a presidential election, prompting an extensive security operation. France is under a state of emergency after a string of deadly Islamic extremist attacks. ||||| Handguns, assault rifle and gas canister found in car used in ‘attempted attack’ on avenue in Paris, French officials say
France’s anti-terror prosecutor has opened an investigation after a car carrying firearms and a gas canister rammed into a police van on the Champs Élysées in central Paris.
The French interior minister, Gérard Collomb, said the driver of the car was killed in what he described as “an attempted attack” on a convoy of police vehicles on the avenue, the scene of two terror attacks in three months.
Police sources told French media the attacker was a 31-year-old French national from the Paris suburb of Argenteuil whose name was on a terror watchlist because of his known links with suspected extremists.
Collomb said arms and a gas canister were found in the car. Police sources said the weapons included handguns and an AK47 assault rifle. Bomb disposal experts were at the scene.
Collomb told reporters the attempted attack on security forces showed the terror threat was “still very high in our country” and justified extending to November the state of emergency France has been under since late 2015.
A still image taken from social media shows police officers engaging with a suspect outside a car. Photograph: Social media/Reuters
No other injuries, including to the police officers inside the van, were reported in the ramming, which a police source told BFM TV resembled a “kamikaze attack”.
Eric Favereau, a journalist with the newspaper Libération who was on a motorbike behind the convoy, said he saw the police vans at a standstill near the Grand Palais exhibition hall and a car blocking their path, followed by an explosion.
Favereau said he saw flames coming from the car and police smashing its windows and dragging the driver out. He said some police then pulled the man on to the ground while others used fire extinguishers to put out the blaze.
Police cleared the area and cordoned off the Champs Élysées, also closing a nearby metro station. The area, popular with tourists, has been on high security alert since a police officer was shot and killed on the the avenue in April.
Days before the first round of France’s presidential election, Karim Cheurfi, a convicted criminal who carried a note defending Islamic State, used a Kalashnikov rifle to kill the police officer before being shot dead himself.
France has been on its highest possible level of terror alert since the 2015 Charlie Hebdo and Paris attacks and the Nice truck attack of July 2016 that claimed nearly 230 lives. Thousands of troops and armed police have been deployed to guard tourist hotspots. |||||
A: | An anti-terror investigation has been opened in France after a man rammed a car carrying firearms and a gas canister into a police van on Paris' famed Champs Élysées Monday afternoon. The driver, reportedly a 31-year-old French national who had known links to suspected extremists and was on a terror watchlist, was killed in the incident; no other injuries were reported. France's interior minister described the incident as an "attempted attack" on a convoy of police vehicles that were on the avenue, the Guardian reports. An explosion followed the collision, and a journalist on the scene says he saw police break the car's windows in order to pull the driver out. Bomb squad officers were on the scene, the AP reports. |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Yesterday evening, Gawker.com published a story about the CFO of Conde Nast texting an escort. It was an editorial call, a close call around which there were more internal disagreements than usual. And it is a decision I regret.
The story involves extortion, illegality and reckless behavior, sufficient justification at least in tabloid news terms. The account was true and well-reported. It concerns a senior business executive at one of the most powerful media companies on the planet.
In the early days of the internet, that would have been enough. “We put truths on the internet.” That has been the longstanding position of Gawker journalists, some of the most uncompromising and uncompromised on the internet. I cannot blame our editors and writers for pursuing that original mission.
But the media environment has changed, our readers have changed, and I have changed. Not only is criticism of yesterday’s piece from readers intense, but much of what they’ve said has resonated. Some of our own writers, proud to work at one of the only independent media companies, are equally appalled.
I believe this public mood reflects a growing recognition that we all have secrets, and they are not all equally worthy of exposure. I can’t defend yesterday’s story as I can our coverage of Bill O’Reilly, Hillary Clinton or Hulk Hogan.
We are proud of running stories that others shy away from, often to preserve relationships or access. But the line has moved. And Gawker has an influence and audience that demands greater editorial restraint.
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Gawker is no longer the insolent blog that began in 2003. It does important and interesting journalism about politicians, celebrities and other major public figures. This story about the former Treasury Secretary’s brother does not rise to the level that our flagship site should be publishing.
The point of this story was not in my view sufficient to offset the embarrassment to the subject and his family. Accordingly, I have had the post taken down. It is the first time we have removed a significant news story for any reason other than factual error or legal settlement.
Every story is a judgment call. As we go forward, we will hew to our mission of reporting and publishing important stories that our competitors are too timid, or self-consciously upright, to pursue. There will always be stories that critics attack as inappropriate or unjustified; and we will no doubt again offend the sensibilities of some industries or interest groups.
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In light of Gawker’s past rhetoric about our fearlessness and independence, this can be seen as a capitulation. And perhaps, to some extent, it is. But it is motivated by a sincere effort build a strong independent media company, and to evolve with the audience we serve. ||||| 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. |||||
| A pair of controversial videos were at the center of two of this week's public apologies: Bad Samaritan: “I want to offer a public apology to the families of the kids that got injured or deceased in the car accident. I never intended it to be a video that came across as a gore video. I wanted to put the video out there so other kids could see it and learn from the mistake of speeding and driving recklessly.”—Paul Pelton, an Ohio man charged after filming the aftermath of a deadly car accident instead of helping the victims. Wrong tone: “Our top priority is the passionate care that we provide. In our video, one of our staff members speaks in a way that does not reflect that compassion. This is unacceptable, and I personally apologize for the staff member’s tone and statements."—Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, after an undercover video surfaced of a staffer talking about fetal organs. Bad timing: “We apologize to readers and mourn with the victims’ relatives and loved ones."—Ria Novosti, state-owned news agency in Russia, after posting a happy-go-lucky news quiz ("Congratulations! Your answer is correct") about the crash of a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine on the one-year anniversary. Making matters worse is that many blame Russia, at least pro-Russian rebels, for the crash. Jumping the gun: "An associate accidentally discarded a bag of goldfish that had just arrived at the store and appeared to all be deceased. When a customer noticed the mistake, an associate was able to recover the few live fish and place them into a tank. We regret the mistake and are reviewing our policies to avoid future errors.”—PetSmart, after an employee in Michigan tossed live fish in the trash. Unposted: "The point of this story was not in my view sufficient to offset the embarrassment to the subject and his family. Accordingly, I have had the post taken down. It is the first time we have removed a significant news story for any reason other than factual error or legal settlement."—Nick Denton of Gawker, explaining why he made the rare move to pull a salacious story. |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
The most common marine fish in the Sound include porgy, butterfish, winter flounder, summer flounder, windowpane flounder, fourspot flounder, northern and striped sea robin, little skate, menhaden, Atlantic silversides, black seabass, blackfish (tautog), cunner, bluefish, and smooth dogfish. Frequently Atlantic bonito and false albacore, both members of the tuna family, enter the sound and can be caught by anglers from small boats and shore. Many species have declined rapidly since 1975 due to over fishing. Winter flounder may not be currently present except for rare, small local populations. Tautog and summer flounder are also less numerous. Anadromous fishes include striped bass, white perch, alewives, blueback herring, and American and hickory shad. Although several shark species likely infrequently wander in and out of the Sound, e.g. blue shark, mako shark, hammerhead shark & thresher shark, there are only four species of sharks which are regularly found in the area. These are the sand tiger shark, the sandbar shark, the spiny dogfish and the smooth dogfish. | do sharks live in the long island sound? |
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