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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.
Q: An eagle-eyed cop hit the scofflaw jackpot after pulling over a motorist for a routine infraction — and discovering the driver had more than $12,000 in unpaid tolls and penalties, official said Wednesday.
Oscar Sanchez, 45, was headed east into the Holland Tunnel in Jersey City on Tuesday afternoon when Port Authority Police Officer Tomasz Grel noticed he didn’t have a front license plate and traveled through an E-ZPass lane as the “toll unpaid” sign lit up, authorities said.
Sanchez’s 2001 Mercedes-Benz was pulled over and Grel found that the suspect didn’t have an E-ZPass in his window, officials said. Sanchez insisted that he still pays tolls, even without the E-ZPass, saying, “I don’t have it (an E-ZPass device) but they always charge my tag,” according to the Port Authority.
But a routine driver’s license check showed that Sanchez was wanted for allegedly beating local bridge and tunnel tolls 204 times, officials said. That added up to $2,771 in unpaid tolls and $10,200 in penalties.
The Jersey City resident Sanchez was arrested and charged with alleged theft of service, driving without a front license plate and driving with a suspended license. Sanchez had a valid New York license but records showed his New Jersey driving privileges had been suspended.
He was released without bail and ordered to appear in a Jersey City courtroom on Tuesday of next week. ||||| JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Authorities say a New Jersey man who owes $12,000 in unpaid EZ Pass tolls has had his black Mercedes Benz impounded and is facing charges.
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spokesman Joe Pentangelo said Wednesday that Oscar Sanchez, of Jersey City, was pulled over by agency police on Tuesday because the car didn't have a front license plate.
Pentangelo says the officer discovered Sanchez had an expired driver's license and more than 200 counts of missed EZ Pass toll payments amounting to about $12,000.
Sanchez faces charges including theft of service, operating a vehicle on a suspended license and not having a front license plate.
Sanchez was not immediately available for comment, and it's unclear whether he has an attorney who could speak on his behalf. |||||
A: | A New Jersey man's alleged attempt to avoid adding to his $13,000 debt in unpaid tolls and fines didn't quite work out as planned Tuesday. Port Authority agents pulled over Oscar Sanchez near the Holland Tunnel because his black Mercedes-Benz didn't have a front license plate, a rep tells the AP. He also didn't have an E-ZPass device. Authorities say they soon found Sanchez was driving with an expired New Jersey license and was wanted for $2,771 in unpaid tolls and $10,200 in penalties, per the New York Post. He had allegedly racked up some 200 instances of missed EZ Pass toll payments. He faces various charges, including theft of service, and had his car impounded. |
Teacher:In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: 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 bipartisan group of 11 senators is appealing directly to President Barack Obama to give lawmakers his administration's legal justification for using armed drones or other counterterrorism operations to kill American citizens.
The eight Democrats and three Republicans are also making a not-so-veiled threat that the nominations of officials like CIA director-designate John Brennan and perhaps even Defense Secretary-designate Chuck Hagel could be held up if Obama doesn't fork over the classified memos.
"We ask that you direct the Justice Department to provide Congress, specifically the Judiciary and Intelligence Committees, with any and all legal opinions that lay out the executive branch's official understanding of the President's authority to deliberately kill American citizens," the 11 senators wrote in a letter sent to Obama Monday (and posted here). "The executive branch's cooperation on this matter will help avoid an unnecessary confrontation that could affect the Senate's consideration of nominees for national security positions."
The senators' missive notes that in a May 2009 speech, Obama seemed to endorse the idea that Congress should be permitted to get such information even if the public is denied it.
"Whenever we cannot release certain information to the public for valid national security reasons, I will insist that there is oversight of my actions—by Congress or the courts," Obama said in remarks at the National Archives.
The Justice Department and other government agencies have rebuffed lawmakers' prior requests for such opinions. Last month, a federal judge in New York rejected Freedom of Information Act lawsuits the New York Times and the American Civil Liberties Union brought trying to force disclosure of the same legal memoranda.
The Obama Administration has also argued strenuously against any role for the courts in overseeing the use of lethal force against Americans, even though wiretapping U.S. nationals anywhere in the world requires some authorization from the judiciary branch.
White House spokesmen had no immediate reply to a request for comment on the letter, which was signed by Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Mark Udall (D-Colo.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Tom Udall (D-N.M.), Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Al Franken (D- Minn.)
Wyden signaled a few weeks ago, in another letter, that he intends to make the legal issues surrounding the use of lethal force against Americans a central issue at Brennan's confirmation hearing. That hearing is now set for Thursday afternoon.
In September 2011, a drone strike in Yemen killed Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader Anwar Al-Awlaki, who was a U.S. citizen. The strike was reportedly carried out by the U.S. Other Americans, including Al-Awlaki's teenage son, have reportedly been killed in drone attacks executed by the U.S. However, the Americans killed in those strikes are believed to have been collateral casualties and not the intended targets.
Read more about: Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, John Brennan, Anwar Al-Awlaki, Targeted Killing, Drones, Ron Wyden, Law Of Armed Conflict, Law Of War |||||
Student: | It is legal for the American government to order the killing of an American citizen if a "high-level" official decides that the person is a senior member of al-Qaeda or an associated group who poses "an imminent threat of violent attack" against the US, according to a Justice Department memo obtained by NBC News. But the 16-page document, which details the legal reasoning behind the use of drone strikes against Americans, uses a very broad definition of "imminent." A key part: "The condition that an operational leader present an 'imminent' threat of violent attack against the United States does not require the United States to have clear evidence that a specific attack on US persons and interests will take place in the immediate future." The document is not the same one used to justify the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, but the legal reasoning appears very similar, reports the New York Times. An ACLU director describes the memo as "chilling." At its heart, "it argues that the government has the right to carry out the extrajudicial killing of an American citizen," he says. "It recognizes some limits on the authority it sets out, but the limits are elastic and vaguely defined, and it’s easy to see how they could be manipulated." A bipartisan group of 11 senators wrote to President Obama yesterday urging him to release documents explaining his "authority to deliberately kill American citizens" in drone strikes or other counter-terror operations, Politico reports, and the issue is expected to play a key role in the confirmation hearing of counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan as CIA director. |
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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.
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In some cultures , Santa Claus brings coal to misbehaved children for Christmas .
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Some cultures hold that children who misbehave will receive only a lump of coal from Santa Claus for Christmas in their christmas stockings instead of presents .
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The Imperial Territory of Alsace-Lorraine ( or , or ) was a territory created by the German Empire in 1871 after its victory in the Franco-Prussian War .
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The Imperial Territory of Alsace-Lorraine ( or ; Alsatian : ; Moselle Franconian / ) was a territory created by the German Empire in 1871 , after it annexed most of Alsace and the Moselle department of Lorraine following its victory in the Franco-Prussian War .
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Nargiz Birk-Petersen ( ; ne ́ e Nargiz Abbaszadeh , born 1976 ) is an Azerbaijani television presenter and commentator .
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| Nargiz Ilgar qizi Birk-Petersen ( Azerbaijani : " Nərgiz I ̇ lqar qızı Birk-Petersen " ; ne ́ e Abbaszadeh ( Abbaszadə ) , -RSB- , born 1976 ) is an Azerbaijani television presenter and commentator .
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Teacher: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
Solution: The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini.
Reason: The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
Now, solve this instance: The Khmer ( Cambodians ) account for the vast majority of the population .
Student: | The vast majority of Cambodia 's population is of ethnic Khmer origin ( over 95 % ) who are speakers of the Khmer language , the country 's sole official language . |
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:As a fresh batch of leaked files gave new urgency to worldwide controversy surrounding the publication of US diplomatic communiqués, there was continued mystery over the motivation, intentions and whereabouts of the man at the heart of the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks.
Despite accusations that Julian Assange is on the run, The Independent has learnt that Scotland Yard has been in contact with his legal team for more than a month but is waiting for further instruction before arresting him. Police forces around the globe have been asked to arrest the enigmatic Wikileaks founder, who is wanted in Sweden to answer a series of sexual allegations against him.
But the 39-year-old Australian supplied the Metropolitan Police with contact details upon arriving in the UK in October. Police sources confirmed that they have a telephone number for Mr Assange and are fully aware of where he is staying.
Britain's Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) has received the so-called "red notice" – an international arrest warrant – but has so far refused to authorise the arrest of Mr Assange, who is thought to be in South-east England. Until it does, police forces cannot act.
The delay is said to be a technical one, with sources suggesting Soca needed clarifications about the European Arrest Warrant issued by Swedish prosecutors for Mr Assange, a fast-track system for arresting suspects within the EU. His name was added to Interpol's worldwide wanted list on 20 November, but only publicly revealed on Tuesday night. It has focused even greater attention on the man who has been lying low since releasing 250,000 mostly classified cables from US embassies across the globe.
Outrage at the data breach intensified yesterday, with the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan among those to complain.
Friends of Mr Assange said he has been working through the night to protect his website from repeated attempts by hackers to bring it down. Last night, it emerged that Amazon had agreed to stop hosting Wikileaks after pressure from US senators. Wikileaks had temporarily switched to Amazon's servers during the cyber attacks.
Mr Assange's associates refused to reveal his current whereabouts because death threats have been made against him. His lawyer, Mark Stephens, insisted last night Mr Assange was not hiding. He has conducted brief media interviews from his current location.
He is wanted in Sweden on suspicion of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion, but no formal charges have been filed. Mr Assange has always denied the accusations, saying he had consensual sex with two women during a trip to Sweden in August.
His mother, Christine Assange, spoke of her distress at the Interpol alert issued against her son, adding that she was concerned for his wellbeing. "He's my son and I love him and obviously I don't want him hunted down and jailed," she told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from her Queensland home. "A lot of stuff that is written about me and Julian is untrue."
The enemies he has accumulated abroad rounded on him yesterday. One former adviser to the Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, even suggested Mr Assange should be assassinated. Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, has said the site acted illegally and added there would be "aggressive steps" taken against those who released the information.
Mr Assange's legal team has lodged an appeal with Sweden's highest court against the order to have him returned to Stockholm. Mr Stephens launched a counterattack against Swedish prosecutors yesterday, saying they had failed to meet basic legal obligations such as informing him about the allegations he faces. "Given that Sweden is a civilised country, I am reluctantly forced to conclude that this is a persecution and not a prosecution," Mr Stephens said. "There is no suggestion that he is in any way a fugitive. The police and the security services here know exactly where he is located."
Mr Assange has hinted in the past he may head to Switzerland. He has also been offered safe haven by the government of Ecuador. However, now the Interpol notice has been issued, it will be much more difficult for him to move around the globe unnoticed. ||||| PARIS - For Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder and guiding spirit, it must have been sweet.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was trying to smooth over the embarrassment, while the White House huffed that a criminal investigation was underway. The French government was decrying "the height of irresponsibility," and Pakistan was reckoning with a rebuke from its traditional patron, Saudi Arabia.
Meanwhile, the pasty-faced Assange, a self-appointed knight-errant who has been doing battle with official secrecy since 2006, was in the shadows somewhere - few knew where - undoubtedly savoring the ruckus caused by WikiLeaks' exposure of confidential State Department cables.
In an uncomfortable irony, however, he had to do the savoring in a secret location, because Interpol, the international anti-crime organization, has issued a high-priority "red notice" asking member countries to arrest him.
President Obama's spokesman, Robert Gibbs, has said the U.S. government might want to prosecute Assange, a 39-year-old Australian, for violating U.S. secrecy laws and perhaps even for espionage. But that is not the reason for the notice - at least not yet. Swedish authorities on Nov. 18 asked Interpol to help them take Assange into custody for questioning on accusations of rape and sexual harassment.
The charges were brought by two Swedish women in August after what both described as consensual sexual encounters in Sweden that escalated into something unwanted and illegal. Assange, who has long expressed fear of reprisal from Washington and other governments, denied anything but consensual sex and suggested that the two women were part of a plot to smear his name and undermine his campaign to get government secrets into the open.
Before the women came forward, Assange had sought a Swedish residence visa, hoping to benefit from the country's strong protection of press freedoms. But since then, he has been traveling constantly and staying below the radar, popping up in London, appearing on a videoconference in Amman, Jordan, and answering questions from Time magazine via Skype, reluctant to show himself in flesh and blood.
In the Time Q&A, he said Clinton should resign because of her cable suggesting that U.S. diplomats surreptitiously gather personal data on their counterparts, something Assange said would violate the Vienna Convention on diplomatic activity. Gibbs dismissed that idea as "ridiculous" and said the problem is rather that Assange violated the diplomatic convention.
An underground existence is nothing new for Assange, his associates have pointed out. Driven by his anti-secrecy crusade and convinced that governments are out to get him, he has long avoided fixed residences, borrowing travel funds and sleeping on other people's couches between marathon sessions at the computer.
WikiLeaks announced via Twitter, meanwhile, that it has been the target of repeated hacker attacks since the publication of more than 250,000 leaked State Department communications, a claim in line with Assange's frequent assertions that U.S. intelligence agencies are intruding on his work.
While Assange stayed out of sight, his Stockholm lawyer, Bjorn Hurtig, filed an appeal Wednesday against the Swedish government's arrest order. At the same time, his London attorney, Mark Stevens, said the Stockholm prosecutor's tactics show that she is out to get Assange for more than legal reasons.
"Since Sweden is a civilized country, I have to come to the conclusion that this is persecution and not prosecution," Stevens said in an e-mail to the Associated Press.
One news report suggested that Assange is considering asking for asylum in Switzerland. But that country is known for keeping secrets, so that seemed an unlikely solution. Moreover, WikiLeaks has announced that its next big project is to reveal the confidential documents of a major bank, believed to be Bank of America, which could make the land of numbered accounts an awkward haven for Assange.
A surprising possibility seemed to arise Monday, when a deputy foreign minister of Ecuador, Kintto Lucas, said Assange would be welcome in that South American country. "We are going to invite him to come to Ecuador so he can freely present the information he possesses and all the documentation, not just over the Internet but in a variety of public forms," Lucas announced.
By Wednesday, however, that idea had fallen apart. President Rafael Correa said neither he nor his foreign minister had approved the invitation to Assange and gave a strong impression that they never would.
[email protected] ||||| The U.S. government, apparently aided by freelance computer hackers, chased WikiLeaks from an American commercial computer network and temporarily stopped the leak of embarrassing diplomatic documents. But within hours, the website was back online, publishing from a fortified bunker in Sweden.
FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2010 file photo, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks during a news conference in London. Interpol on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010 placed Assange on its most-wanted list after Sweden... (Associated Press)
A picture of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is shown in this photo of the cover of the Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010 edition of the New York Post, photographed in New York, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010. Police... (Associated Press)
The virtual chase Wednesday was mirrored by a real-life pursuit as European authorities hunted for the site's fugitive founder, Julian Assange, who is wanted in Sweden on rape charges.
Undeterred, Assange continued releasing confidential government documents. Some showed how the Obama administration and Congress helped persuade Spain not to pursue charges against members of George W. Bush's administration for allowing torture of terrorism suspects.
Amazon.com Inc. prevented WikiLeaks from using the U.S. company's computers to distribute State Department communications and other documents, WikiLeaks said Wednesday. The WikiLeaks site was inaccessible for several hours before it returned to servers owned by its previous Swedish host, Bahnhof, which are housed in a protective Cold-War era bunker. Tech blogs have compared it to a lair from a James Bond movie.
"We have been under attack and we have had to move to different servers," WikiLeaks spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson said. "But we have ways and means to bypass any closure in our services."
Amazon's move to evict WikiLeaks from its servers came after congressional staff called the company to inquire about its relationship with WikiLeaks, Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut independent, said Wednesday.
"The company's decision to cut off WikiLeaks now is the right decision and should set the standard for other companies WikiLeaks is using to distribute its illegally seized material," Lieberman said in a statement. He added that he would have further questions for Amazon about its dealings with WikiLeaks.
The White House said it was taking new steps to protect government secrets after WikiLeaks released thousands of sensitive U.S. diplomatic cables. Officials said national security adviser Tom Donilon has appointed a senior aide to identify and develop changes needed in light of the document dump.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard called WikiLeaks' publication of classified documents "an illegal thing to do" on Thursday.
But Gillard did not indicate Australia was about to take legal action against Australian-born Assange. The country's attorney general reiterated that authorities are investigating whether Assange has broken any Australian laws, but have not yet reached a conclusion.
The White House on Wednesday spurned a call from Assange for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to step down if she had any role in directing U.S. diplomats' spying on other foreign leaders. "Mr. Assange's suggestion is ridiculous and absurd, and why anyone would find his opinion here relevant is baffling," said spokesman Tommy Vietor, adding Clinton was doing an "extraordinary" job. The White House said U.S. diplomats do not engage in spying.
Clinton was in Astana, Kazakhstan, enduring repeated comments about the WikiLeaks disclosures as she met with foreign officials at a conference of international leaders.
Among those she met with was Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who had been described in newly released U.S. diplomatic cables as "feckless" and a party animal.
"We have no better friend, we have no one who supports the American policies as consistently as Prime Minister Berlusconi has, starting in the Clinton administration, through the Bush administration and now the Obama administration," she said during a summit of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
The WikiLeaks matter was discussed in virtually all of Clinton's private one-on-one meetings with European leaders and foreign ministers during the summit meeting Wednesday.
Assange remained a fugitive Wednesday, shadowed by the Europe-wide arrest warrant. A German security official, speaking on condition of anonymity because no authorization was given to discuss the legal steps, confirmed that a warrant for Assange had been issued in that country.
Hrafnsson noted the "interesting timing" of the warrant but said Assange had gone into hiding for another reason: "If you think about the threats we've heard about our people, and against Julian, it's very natural and understandable that his location is kept secret."
Assange's London-based lawyer, Mark Stephens, complained his client had yet to receive formal notice of the allegations he faces _ something Stephens described as a legal requirement under European law. The lawyer added that Assange had repeatedly offered to answer questions about the investigation, to no avail.
The exact nature of the allegations facing Assange isn't completely clear. Stephens has in the past described them as part of "a post-facto dispute over consensual, but unprotected sex." Even Swedish prosecutors have disagreed about whether to label the most serious charge as rape.
Formal charges have not been filed, but a detention order issued Nov. 18 at the request of Marianne Ny, Sweden's Director of Public Prosecution, remains in force pending an appeal by Assange. The case is now before Sweden's Supreme Court.
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Associated Press writers Malin Rising in Stockholm; Matthew Lee and Lolita C. Baldor in Washington; Peter Svensson in New York; Robert Burns in Astana, Kazakhstan; Raphael G. Satter in London; and Kirsten Grieshaber in Berlin contributed to this report. |||||
Solution: | With Interpol seeking to bring him into custody on rape charges and people including Sarah Palin and Bill O'Reilly calling for his head, it may be a while before Julian Assange turns up at a press conference—but the Independent claims to know where he is. It reports that the WikiLeaks founder provided Britain's Metropolitan Police with his contact details when he arrived in the country in October; police sources say that they do indeed have a telephone number for Assange, and know where he is staying—likely in southeast England, notes the paper. Authorities there have received the international arrest warrant for Assange, but sources say they aren't authorizing Assange's arrest yet due to some technical questions. He may be planning to seek asylum in Switzerland, despite that country's fondness for secrecy, the Washington Post reports. WikiLeaks itself has also been forced to find a new home. After being evicted from servers it was renting from Amazon, the site shifted back to its old home in Sweden, in servers housed in a Cold War-era bunker. "We have been under attack and we have had to move to different servers," a WikiLeaks spokesperson tells AP. "But we have ways and means to bypass any closure in our services." |
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 was the motive behind Coehlo's decisions?, Context: Passos Coelho also announced that the retirement age will be increased from 65 to 66, announced cuts in the pensions, unemployment benefits, health, education and science expenses, abolished the English obligatory classes in Basic Education, but kept the pensions of the judges, diplomats untouched and didn't raise the retirement age of the military and police forces. He has, however, cut meaningfully the politicians salaries. These policies have led to social unrest and to confrontations between several institutions, namely between the Government and the Constitutional Court. Several individualities belonging to the parties that support the government have also raised their voices against the policies that have been taken in order to try to solve the financial crisis.
Solution: | solve the financial crisis |
Definition: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Input: A woman is escorted by officers near the Bronx Lebanon Hospital in New York after a gunman opened fire there on Friday, June 30, 2017. The gunman, identified as Dr. Henry Bello who used to work at the... (Associated Press)
NEW YORK (AP) — A doctor angry that his career was derailed at a New York City hospital toted an assault rifle past security in search of a colleague he was going to hold responsible. When that person wasn't there, he opened fire anyway, killing a doctor who was only there covering a shift as a favor, authorities said Saturday.
The new details of Dr. Henry Bello's rampage emerged along with an email rant against colleagues he blamed for forcing him to resign from Bronx Lebanon Hospital amid sexual harassment allegations two years earlier. The email was sent to the New York Daily News just two hours before the shooting Friday afternoon that left six other people wounded and Bello dead from a self-inflicted shot.
"This hospital terminated my road to a licensure to practice medicine," the email said. "First, I was told it was because I always kept to myself. Then it was because of an altercation with a nurse."
He also blamed a doctor for blocking his chances at practicing medicine.
Bello had warned his former colleagues when he was forced out in 2015 that he would return someday to kill them.
A law enforcement official told The Associated Press that Bello arrived at the hospital with the assault rifle hidden under his lab coat and asked for a specific doctor whom he blamed for his having to resign, but the physician wasn't there at the time. The official spoke on anonymity because the person was not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation.
It was not clear if Bello knew Dr. Tracy Sin-Yee Tam, 32, who was killed in the shooting on the 16th and 17th floors of the hospital and was, like him, a family medicine doctor. Hospital officials said that Tam normally worked in one of the hospital's satellite clinics and was covering a shift in the main hospital as a favor to someone else.
"It makes you think that anything can happen to anybody," said Tam's neighbor, Alena Khaim, 23, who saw Tam's sister outside the home Friday night overcome with grief, shaking and unable to walk. "She was such a sweet girl. You would never think something like that would happen but it happened."
Judy Beckles-Ross, 46, said she's not surprised Tam volunteered to cover the shift.
"She never said no," said Beckles-Ross, a friend from medical school who knew her for 11 years. "She had a good heart. Anybody that needed help, she would help them."
The six others who were injured — a patient, two medical students and three physicians — largely suffered gunshot wounds to the head, chest and abdomen. One physician remained in critical condition and the rest were stable, officials said Saturday.
Hospital vice president Errol C. Schneer said his staff responded heroically.
"Many of our staff risked their own lives to save patients," Schneer told reporters at the hospital where the 16th and 17th floors remained closed, and staffers were still recovering from the rampage that sent people diving for cover and huddling in patients' rooms while the gunman was on the loose. Adding to the chaos, authorities said, was a fire alarm that went off when Bello attempted to set himself ablaze, the flames extinguished by sprinklers, shortly before he shot himself.
Detectives searched the Bronx home where Bello was most recently living and found the box where the gun came from. Investigators were checking serial numbers and trying to determine where it was purchased.
His former co-workers described a man who was aggressive, loud and threatening.
"All the time he was a problem," said Dr. David Lazala, who trained Bello as a family medicine doctor. When Bello was forced out in 2015, he sent Lazala an email blaming him for the dismissal.
Dr. Maureen Kwankam told the New York Daily News that "he promised to come back and kill us then."
According to New York State Education Department records, Bello graduated from Ross University and had a permit to practice as an international medical graduate that was issued on July 1, 2014, and expired last year on the same day.
In 2004, the doctor pleaded guilty to unlawful imprisonment, a misdemeanor, after a 23-year-old woman told police Bello grabbed her. He was arrested again in 2009 on a charge of unlawful surveillance, after two different women reported he was trying to look up their skirts with a mirror. That case was eventually sealed.
Schneer told the New York Times that the hospital did not know about Bello's criminal history when he was hired.
"At that time, and as a result of a human resources and security department background check, which includes fingerprinting, there was no record of any conviction for sexual abuse," he said.
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Associated Press writers Larry Neumeister, Rebecca Gibian, Steve Peoples and Karen Matthews contributed to this report. ||||| 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. |||||
Output: | Two hours before he stormed through the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital, killing a female doctor and wounding six other people, Henry Bello sent an email to the New York Daily News outlining his disgruntlement that "this hospital terminated my road to a licensure to practice medicine. First, I was told it was because I always kept to myself. Then it was because of an altercation with a nurse." Bello names two doctors by name, saying he emailed one "congratulating her for my termination after she sent out an email to everybody telling them to file complaints against me so I can be terminated for being rude to her." He told her "it remains to be seen if my life is meaningless or disposable." Bello's email to the Daily News never explicitly threatened violence, notes Reuters. Bello asked for a doctor by name, notes the AP; when that person wasn't there, he opened fire anyway. |
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Q: The U.S. will protest what it called the unsafe interception of a U.S. spy plane by a Russian fighter over the Baltic Sea last week, an incident American officials said Sunday was an example of increasingly aggressive air operations by Moscow.
The encounter, which took place on the morning of April 7 but was only publicly discussed by the U.S.in recent days, is the latest incident of escalating friction between Russia and members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
... ||||| A Russian SU-27 fighter jet is shown in this file photo. (Photo: Ted S. Warren, AP)
The Pentagon says a Russian fighter jet intercepted a U.S. reconnaissance plane over the Baltic Sea last week in an aggressive, unsafe maneuver that recalls Cold War tensions.
The U.S. European Command said on Twitter that the U.S. "is raising this unprofessional incident with Russia in the appropriate diplomatic and official channels.''
Defense Department spokesman Mark Wright said Sunday that the Air Force RC-135U reconnaissance plane was flying a routine route in international airspace when a Russian SU-27 fighter jet flew close by "in an unsafe and unprofessional manner.''
"Unprofessional air intercepts have the potential to cause harm to all air crews involved. More importantly, the careless and unprofessional actions of a single pilot have the potential to escalate tensions between countries,'' Wright said.
"The nature of Russian air activity is expanding west into Europe and becoming more aggressive," he said. "This air activity takes place in the context of a changed security environment in view of Russia's aggression against Ukraine.''
The encounter took place April 7.
Russian Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov of the Russian Defense Ministry said "there were no emergency situations" during the interception of the U.S. plane, the Interfax News agency reported.
Russia accused the U.S. plane of approaching Russian airspace with its electronic transponder signal, which identifies a plane, turned off, The Wall Street Journal reported. Navy Capt. Greg Hicks, the U.S. European Command spokesman, said the plane's transponder was operational.
.To dispel rumors: US aircraft flying IAW ICAO flight rules in intl airspace was intercepted by Russian fighter in unsafe manner April 7.1/2 — U.S European Command (@US_EUCOM) April 11, 2015
.The United States is raising this unprofessional incident with Russia in the appropriate diplomatic and official channels. 2/2 — U.S European Command (@US_EUCOM) April 11, 2015
Read or Share this story: http://usat.ly/1FNguQj ||||| WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is protesting an intercept of a U.S. reconnaissance plane by a Russian fighter jet last week, calling it "unsafe and unprofessional" amid what it views as increasingly aggressive air operations by Moscow.
FILE - This March 27, 2008, aerial file photo shows the Pentagon in Washington. The U.S. is protesting an intercept of a U.S. reconnaissance plane by a Russian fighter jet last week, calling it "unsafe... (Associated Press)
Pentagon spokesman Mark Wright on Sunday said the U.S. was filing a complaint to Russia after the April 7 incident over the Baltic Sea.
Russian officials have denied their pilot did anything wrong, according to several news reports.
According to the Pentagon, the U.S. RC-135U plane was flying in international airspace north of Poland. U.S. officials say a Russian SU-27 fighter intercepted the U.S. aircraft at a high rate of speed from the rear, and then proceeded to conduct two more passes using "unsafe and unprofessional maneuvers" in close proximity.
"Unprofessional air intercepts have the potential to cause harm to all aircrews involved. More importantly, the careless actions of a single pilot have the potential to escalate tensions between countries," Wright said.
"This air activity takes place in the context of a changed security environment in view of Russia's aggression against Ukraine," he said.
It isn't the first time the U.S. has protested to Moscow what it considered to be an unsafe intercept. Last April, a Russian fighter jet intercepted a U.S. reconnaissance plane in international airspace over the Sea of Okhotsk. |||||
A: | A Russian fighter jet flying over the Baltic Sea last week flew a little too near a US reconnaissance plane in what the Pentagon calls "an unsafe and unprofessional manner," USA Today reports. Now the US is taking up the matter with Russian authorities, US officials tweeted. "Unprofessional air intercepts have the potential to cause harm to all air crews involved. More importantly, the careless and unprofessional actions of a single pilot have the potential to escalate tensions between countries," says a Pentagon rep. It's a matter of particular concern given the fact that "Russian air activity is expanding west into Europe and becoming more aggressive," the spokesman says, pointing to "the context of … Russia's aggression against Ukraine.'' The Russian plane was moving quickly when it came up behind the US aircraft, passing it twice, US officials say, per the Wall Street Journal. The exact distance between the two planes isn't clear, but it may have been as little as 20 feet, the Journal notes. A Russian military leader said the incident had involved "no emergency situations." A similar incident occurred between a Russian fighter jet and US reconnaissance plane a year ago this month, the AP reports. |
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:Harry has what role?, Context: It criticised Forsyth's decision to record a conversation with Harry as an abuse of teacher–student confidentiality and said "It is clear whichever version of the evidence is accepted that Mr Burke did ask the claimant to assist Prince Harry with text for his expressive art project ... It is not part of this tribunal's function to determine whether or not it was legitimate." In response to the tribunal's ruling concerning the allegations about Prince Harry, the School issued a statement, saying Forsyth's claims "were dismissed for what they always have been - unfounded and irrelevant." A spokesperson from Clarence House said, "We are delighted that Harry has been totally cleared of cheating."
Solution: | Prince |
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to clicker train a cat
Get a clicker.
A clicker is a small plastic box with a metal tab in it. When you press it, it makes a clicking sound.
Pick from: a). Once your cat hears the clicking, you can use the clicker. Clicking the clicker is a way to increase the amount of " click " of treats you give your cat.; b). These are available online or in pet stores, and they cost as little as $1. These are commonly used to train dogs and cats.; c). It gives your cat a signal that it is prepared to attack. If you click it just a couple of times, your cat will bite it and give it a treat.; d). You will hear it clapping, howling, and then repeating a phrase as you pet your cat. The clicker will help you control your cat's movements when you clicker train it.; | b). |
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
A woman is sitting on the edge of a bath tub. she
A: begins shaving her leg with a razor.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
Sunscreen spf value is addressed with a slide on how to pay attention to the proper spf. He addresses the negative impacts of sunburns, especially with children. he
A: then talks about different types of specialty sunscreen to ensure you are safely covered.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
Two men are seen break dancing against one another in the middle of a large stage. people
A: jump and flip around one another while others watch.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
How to buy and download worms 3 on an ipad
Launch the app store.
Look for the app store on your ipad, and tap on it to launch.
Search for worms 3.
A: | Use the search field on the upper right corner. Type in " worms 3 " there and then tap the " search " button on the keypad. |
Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
He sits on the bar of the machine and secures his feet into the foot rest. Then he begins by pulling the rope towards his chest while straightening his legs. then he | continues to use the machine in back and forth motion. |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Problem:The FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup is an international beach soccer competition .
Solution: | The FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup is an international beach soccer competition contested by the men 's national teams of the member associations of FIFA , the sport 's global governing body . |
Part 1. Definition
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Part 2. Example
The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
Answer: The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini.
Explanation: The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
Part 3. Exercise
Kilometre zero ( also written " km 0 " , also mile zero , control stations or control points ) is a point from which distances are traditionally measured to other cities and countries ( often in capital cities ) .
Answer: | In many countries , Kilometre Zero ( also written " km 0 " ) or similar terms in other languages ( also known as zero mile marker , control stations or control points ) is a particular location ( usually in the nation 's capital city ) from which distances are traditionally measured . |
Teacher:In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: When it comes to gifts, President Obama says he gives "nicer stuff that I get," an assertion disputed by First Lady Michelle Obama.
A treasured girlhood Christmas gift for Mrs. Obama was a dollhouse; for the president it was a basketball from the father he met only once. This Christmas, Bo the dog will get a stocking along with the rest of the Obama family.
All this information comes via Oprah Winfrey's upcoming "Christmas at the White House: An Oprah Primetime Special," to be broadcast Sunday at 10 p.m. Eastern Time on ABC.
Here's the inside story of Winfrey's visit to tape the show.
It was pulled together from three main elements: a one-on-one interview with Winfrey and President Obama; Winfrey talking to the First Couple together, and Winfrey getting a tour of the White House Christmas decorations with First Lady Michelle Obama.
Winfrey taped in the Oval Office, the State Dining room and the blue, green and red rooms. There is a special guest appearance by Bo and the White House pastry chef. Winfrey was at the White House on Dec. 3. (Barbara Walters was in on Dec. 1 to tape her interview with Mrs. Obama in a show where she names the First Lady the most fascinating person of 2009.)
Winfrey is a personal friend of the Obamas. She raised money for the presidential campaign and stumped for Obama in the crucial early primary and caucus states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. She asked Obama to evaluate his first year on the job and he give himself a grade. Here's the tease -- Winfrey's not saying what the grade is in order to crank up interest in the show. Perhaps anticipating second guessers of her interview, she said, "This was not about grilling the president, this was really about me wanting to come and experience Christmas at the White House -- their first Christmas with them. So I wasn't here to grill him, I was curious as to what he thought he had done, what kind of job he thought he had done, and ask him for his grade. You'll see what the grade is. The grade might surprise you," Winfrey said in excerpts from the show released on Friday.
During the joint interview with the Obamas -- the first since they sat down together for The New York Times to discuss their marriage -- Winfrey asks them about their gift giving. The couple riff for their pal:
OW: Is there a greater pressure to give a good gift when you're the president or can you get away with a lesser gift if you're the president?
First Lady: What are you gonna get me? You should feel pressure.
President Obama: I have given some good gifts -- you get some nice stuff. Here's the general rule: I give nicer stuff than I get.
OW: Really?
First Lady: No way; I gave you good gifts last year.
President Obama: Absolutely - aw come on, please. You know it's like Mother's Day and Father's Day.
First Lady: We're talking about Christmas, don't become distracted...
President Obama: But that principle applies generally.
On the favorite gift front, Mrs. Obama remembers a metal doll house she received and an Easy-Bake Oven she once had. Obama had two special gifts: his first 10-speed bike and that basketball from his father, who you may recall, skipped out on him when he was a baby. After marrying the president's mother in Hawaii, he moved on to Harvard and then returned to his native Kenya.
If any media personality has a leg up in the Obama White House, it's Oprah Winfrey. On the Sunday show, Winfrey tells how she "lobbied" for her interview, as if she were part of the rank-and-file media pack.
"From the very first day they moved into the White House, I started calling (White House Press Secretary) Robert Gibbs and asking not for the first interview because number one, I didn't think I was going to get the first interview for the first 100 days, but I wanted an opportunity to sit down with them in a comfortable setting that all of America would be familiar and relate to. So I started asking when they first moved in to do a Christmas Special because I wanted to be at the White House during Christmas time and to experience their first Christmas in the White House. So this has been in the making for a very, very long time."
However, there's more to the story. Winfrey did get the first interview with Mrs. Obama as First Lady, on Feb. 17. That day, Mrs. Obama led a White House tour for Winfrey and her friend, Gayle King, yielding a story for the April edition of Winfrey's "O" Magazine, where Winfrey shared the cover for the first time -- with Mrs. Obama. Back then, Mrs. Obama gave Winfrey a personal tour of the White House grounds, including the Jacqueline Kennedy Gardens, the East Colonnade, the Truman Balcony and the Yellow Oval Room, which is part of the First Family's private residence and where the interview took place.
I'm told that Winfrey was probably making a distinction between her magazine interview and TV show interviews. Anyway, this was Winfrey's first sit down with Obama as president. ||||| Obamas Recall Favorite Christmas Gifts
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As the Obamas prepare for their first Christmas in the White House , they're reminiscing on Christmases past in a new one-hour TV special with Oprah Winfrey "Getting that first big kid, 10-speed bike – that's always special," Pres. Barack Obama said of his favorite Christmas gift from his childhood. "I remember that one."But even more profound, the president reflects on meeting his father for the first time at Christmas – an encounter that sparked his love of basketball."He gave me a basketball," he said. "I think there was some cause and effect there in terms of the degree to which I just ended up taking up the sport as a kid who didn't know his dad."As for the First Lady , her favorite Christmas gift was a dollhouse."I remember I really didn't know how to set up a house so I had all the furniture lined up along the walls as opposed to nestled around the fireplace," she said. "But I loved that little doll house."And who's the better gift giver? "I have given some good gifts," the president said. Addressing his wife, he added, "You get some nice stuff. Here's the general rule – I give nicer stuff than I get!"Christmas at the White House: An Oprah Primetime Special – which the talk show host says she pursued "from the very first day they moved into the White House" – will air Sunday, Dec. 13 at 10:00 p.m. on ABC. |||||
Student: | Oprah's Christmas special at the White House airs tomorrow night, in which we learn the first couple's favorite holiday presents. For those who just can't wait: The president picks a 10-speed bike and Michelle a doll house. ("I remember I really didn't know how to set up a house so I had all the furniture lined up along the walls as opposed to nestled around the fireplace. But I loved that little doll house.") And this is Oprah, after all, so Barack digs a little deeper into his psyche. "You know, I do remember the one time I met my father he was visiting during Christmas and he gave me a basketball," he says. "I think there was some cause and effect there in terms of the degree to which I just ended up taking up the sport as a kid who didn't know his dad." People and Politics Daily have excerpts. |
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:TAMPA -- When former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney takes the stage just after 10 pm Thursday night at the Republican National Convention here, he'll have lots of work to do in the 40 (or so) minutes allotted for his acceptance speech.
Virtually everyone gathered here in Tampa -- and by that we mean virtually every person in the Republican political class and the political media -- has an opinion about what Romney should say and how he should say it.
We talked to a number of GOP strategist types over the past 24 hours to get their impressions of what Romney should say tonight. Their takes, plus a few thoughts of our own, are below.
* Mitt the Man: Romney tells his own personal story sparingly -- and not all that well. That has to change tonight for the speech to be deemed a success. While Romney will never reach the rhetorical heights in re-telling his life story of Bill Clinton or Barack Obama, he has to find a way to break through the idea that most people have of him as a buttoned up, entitled rich guy. He has a good example to follow in doing just that; his wife Ann's speech on Tuesday night was an effective re-casting of the Romney narrative from one centered on huge homes and car elevators to one centered on a turned-over sawhorse as a desk and tuna fish as a preferred meal. Even more important than what Romney says about himself, however, may be how he says it. Romney has to look more comfortable in his own skin than he has in past big speeches when talking about himself.
* Religion as Romney's secret weapon?: As a corollary to that first point, we have long argued that Romney is far better off embracing his Mormonism than running from it. For a candidate who has spent the last five-plus years fighting the perception that he lacks any consistent core, Romney's dedication to his faith could fill that void. And yet, as we noted above, he's never been comfortable talking about any aspect of his personal life with his religion at the top of that list. The question for Romney tonight is whether he can borrow a bit of the language -- in sentiment if not in the actual words -- of Paul Ryan's speech on Wednesday in which the Wisconsin Republican noted that while the two men don't share the same church, they share the same values. If Romney doesn't talk about his faith in some somewhat extended way, count us as believing he made a mistake.
* Ignore the room: The biggest mistake a nominee can make in his acceptance speech is to target the few thousand people in the convention hall. Those people are already in Romney's camp; they are the most active of party activists. What Romney needs to do is remember that the real audience for his speech are the millions of people watching it on their TV sets. And for many of those people, it may be their first extended glimpse of Romney ever. That means Romney should largely steer away from throwing red meat to the conservative crowd -- the audience will be amped up for Romney almost no matter what he says -- and instead focusing on telling his story and laying out his vision for moving the country forward.
* The vision "thing": Speaking of laying out a vision, Romney needs to do it. Not a series of policy proposals -- although he probably should do a bit of that too -- but rather a big vision of where he would take the country. To date, Romney has largely run on two conceits: 1. I am not Barack Obama 2. I can bring business principles to governance. To which many voters seem to say "Yes, but....". There's a reason that although the economy continues to be an anchor around the feet of President Obama, Romney isn't soaring. And it's because people want more from Romney. Remember that voters tend to want to cast a vote FOR something/someone rather than just against someone/something. Tonight is Romney's chance to give people a big -- and positive -- vision to vote for.
* Serious man for serious times: Romney will never match President Obama in the charisma department. But, that's not necessarily a bad thing. "Romney just needs to be who he is – an executive who makes decisions and gets results," said Republican consultant Curt Anderson. "We’ve had four years of Mr. Personality and it hasn’t helped our economy. That’s what Romney needs to convey tonight, and I bet he will." Romney has to be careful not to be too workmanlike in his address (see "the vision thing" above) but the more he can project himself as a guy who may not bowl you over as a speaker but who has the resume to make the economy better in office, the better he will do. ||||| Romney's speech will be one of his last chances to sketch a portrait of who he is. | M.Scott Mahaskey/POLITICO Mitt's make-or-break night
TAMPA, Fla. — Mitt Romney is about to face the most important political moment of his life.
The speech Romney delivers at the Republican National Convention’s final night in Tampa will be one of his last opportunities to sketch a portrait of who he is and what he stands for to a country whose battleground states have seen him relentlessly portrayed by the Obama campaign as a heartless corporate raider — a perception that has dented his approval ratings and made it difficult for the GOP to change the campaign narrative.
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In a precious hour before a national television audience, Romney has the opportunity to connect with voters in the convention hall but also well beyond. There is a deeper, softer, and much kinder side to Romney, those who know him insist, but he provides only those closest to him with a view of it. He has run the least biographically anchored campaign of any presidential nominee in recent history, declining to present his own fleshed-out accounts of his time at Bain Capital, his time as a bishop in the Mormon church, or his term as Massachusetts governor.
( Also on POLITICO: All the GOP convention speeches)
That case has been made for him over the first three days of the convention through speeches and videos — and most dramatically through a Tuesday night prime-time appeal from his wife, Ann, — that his experience as an executive, church leader, Olympics chief and dad have created a three-dimensional, attractive candidate, not the caricature Republicans feel the Obama campaign team has created.
The aim has been to “make the argument that all these things have prepared him to make him uniquely qualified to handle all the things” the country is facing, said Romney adviser Russ Schriefer, who has masterminded the convention programming. “There’s lots of different ways that he can tell that story.”
But few will be as important as the speech he delivers himself.
( Also on POLITICO: Text and video of Ann Romney’s speech)
He needs to make his case for the presidency, but he also needs to let the shrinking pool of undecided voters who are watching see who he is and what kind of president he would be. He needs elements of George H.W. Bush’s “thousand points of light,” George W. Bush’s, “They have not led. We will,” and John McCain’s straight talk to describe his own career. But he needs to show his humanity.
Romney’s speeches are usually drafted by committee, then he tears into them, or he writes portions himself.
The words he says tonight will be authentically his, for better or worse.
( PHOTOS: Scenes from the RNC)
With that in mind, here are five ways Romney can use his speech to maximum effect:
1. Go bold. The Romney campaign has used that word frequently to describe the choice of Paul Ryan on the ticket.
But while choosing the controversial Wisconsin congressman was politically risky, Romney has largely reverted back to his no-details posture, the one he’s had for much of the campaign.
The convention speech is not the place for policy planks. But it is the place for Romney to show he can be bigger.
“Republicans have a tendency to ask voters to choose our medicine because it tastes the worst, not because it works the best,” said Republican strategist Alex Castellanos, who worked on Romney’s 2008 presidential campaign.
“We need to explain that if you vote for Romney-Ryan, you are not voting for less, you are voting for more,” he added. “More growth, more jobs, more prosperity, bigger paychecks, and more government revenue to save Medicare and Social Security, too. We need to put the Democrats on the defensive on austerity. We need to explain that Obama is the one asking you to settle for less.”
To make that case, Romney should pitch his own plans, in as much of a positive frame as possible. He needs to explain why picking Ryan wasn’t about getting editorial board headlines with the word “bold,” but that he shares Ryan’s principles, that he believes the nation is headed down the wrong path and that he wants to do what is politically risky but philosophically right.
That kind of language hasn’t been Romney’s strong suit before. But he needs to present voters with the path forward. |||||
Solution: | Tonight is Mitt Romney's big chance to win over millions who may be watching him speak at length for the first time. And if he wants to win, he'll need to make some adjustments, GOP strategists tell the Washington Post, including: Talk about himself—something he doesn't much like to do. It's time to end his image as a "buttoned-up, entitled rich guy" and speak as if he's "comfortable in his own skin," writes Chris Cillizza. On a related note, he should talk about his Mormonism in some depth. (At Politico, Maggie Haberman agrees that talking about his faith "in some specificity" could help.) Offer a "big vision of where he would take the country." He needn't get too bogged down in policy specifics, but he must say more than "I'm not Obama" and "I know business." "Voters tend to want to cast a vote FOR something/someone rather than just against someone/something," Cillizza writes. Acknowledge the fact that he lacks Obama's charisma—and embrace it. "Romney just needs to be who he is—an executive who makes decisions and gets results," says a GOP consultant. "We’ve had four years of Mr. Personality and it hasn’t helped our economy." Everyone's got ideas for Romney tonight: Check out a few more, including a plea to avoid his usual "inauthentic robot rap," at the Week. |
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: Costa Ricans , ( " costarricenses " in Spanish ) are also called ticos .
Output: | Costa Ricans ( Spanish : Costarricenses ) , also called Ticos , are a group of people from a multiethnic Spanish-speaking nation in Central America called Costa Rica . |
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Let me give you an example: The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
The answer to this example can be: The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini.
Here is why: The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
OK. solve this:
As the air rapidly rises , the hot air is stretched vertically and because of angular momentum , the spinning gets much more intense .
Answer: | As the air rapidly rises , the column of hot air is stretched vertically , thereby moving mass closer to the axis of rotation , which causes intensification of the spinning effect by conservation of angular momentum . |
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
A girl is standing outside in a field talking and hula hooping. Another girl then tries to do the same thing but she isn't successful. the first girl
OPTIONS:
- comes back and does it effortlessly as the second girl still struggles.
- again attempts to hula hoop back and forth.
- then takes off running and hula hoops until there are only two people left.
- steps up and is so frustrated she drops the hula hoop and walks around.
A: comes back and does it effortlessly as the second girl still struggles.
IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
The biker jumped over the ramp. he the biker
OPTIONS:
- rode some fast ramps.
- stood on one foot s grab the rope and start back at top speed.
- jump to another ramp near the camera.
- ride by the track and field trying to catch a man.
OUT: jump to another ramp near the camera.
Question:
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence for the following:
How to add fiber to your child's diet
Serve 100% whole grains.
One easy way to get in more fiber into your child's diet is by serving them whole grains. Items like bread, rice and pasta are usually well received by children and can offer a valuable source of fiber.
OPTIONS:
- Avoid these options at all costs and always try foods high in fiber added to your child's meals. For example, make healthy biscuits whole grain, instead of items that are made with 100% whole wheat flour.
- To help give your child fiber, put whole grains on their plate or alongside their meals. For example, you can serve your child meals cut from whole grains like rice, whole wheat bread, brown rice, quinoa or whole grain pasta.
- Whole grains are a better and more nutritious food compared to refined grains. They're minimally processed which leaves the fibrous part of the grain intact.
- However, not all healthy adults should eat 100% whole grains; raw grains and refined grains are found primarily in everyday meals. Make an oatmeal breakfast.
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Answer:
Whole grains are a better and more nutritious food compared to refined grains. They're minimally processed which leaves the fibrous part of the grain intact.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
How to hook a sand flea
Put some attractor beads on your line.
Sand flea eggs are orange in color; many fishermen believe these eggs are what attract fish to eat sand fleas. They therefore like to thread orange plastic beads on their line before attaching the hook.
OPTIONS:
- Put the hook on the back of one of the eggs. Drop the other two eggs onto the hook.
- Small fluorescent orange bobbers can serve the same purpose as the beads, with the added benefit of keeping the bait just off the bottom. Attach a short monofilament leader.
- Attractor beads can be purchased online and are approximately the same size as a dollar bill. Examine your line for use at any nearby fish supply store.
- If you don't have attractor beads you can wash the beads with a small bucket of water, gently drying the beads in the sun before attaching them to your line. Your line also works better with oily or wet lines.
A: Small fluorescent orange bobbers can serve the same purpose as the beads, with the added benefit of keeping the bait just off the bottom. Attach a short monofilament leader.
How to stop sexually harassing women
Review your company's policy on sexual harassment.
In the us, title vii of the civil rights act of 1964 has made sexual harassment illegal in the workplace. Various state laws may also reinforce or work in conjunction with the national law.
OPTIONS:
- Read your state's rules of evidence to find out about the policy. Every state has specific laws governing sexual harassment and harassment.
- You can be guilty of sexual harassment even if you are not in a management or authority position. If you sexually harass someone in the workplace, you may open yourself up to lawsuits against you from either the harassed woman or from your employer for putting them at risk and tarnishing their image.
- You need to know every law in your state or country to provide a reasonable solution. Some states may prohibit sexual harassment as a protected characteristic as hard facts (like any material facts) are nearly impossible to prove.
- This state does not have a " pass code " that states that topics of sexual harassment in your workplace are not allowed. Many states, such as illinois, have a national boundary with a civil rights act.
You can be guilty of sexual harassment even if you are not in a management or authority position. If you sexually harass someone in the workplace, you may open yourself up to lawsuits against you from either the harassed woman or from your employer for putting them at risk and tarnishing their image.
Problem: Write the next sentence for:
How to prevent a house fire
Inspect your home.
You may need to recruit, or even hire, someone experienced in home electrical wiring, plumbing (gas), heating, and air conditioning to ensure that it is thoroughly inspected. You can also do the checks outlined in the following steps.
OPTIONS:
- Check the wiring by stripping, screwing, or sanding it back down where it matches the rest of the home. This debris will need to be replaced more often.
- Check the condition of your home's electrical system. Look for improperly grounded receptacles.
- Take a look at all visible hardware, underneath, and under the doors and in between corresponding fire exits. Purchase and install fuse boxes and seals.
- In particular : Check windows and doors for cracks, holes, or chips. If they are out of line with your house's exterior, you may need to secure them..
Next sentence: | Check the condition of your home's electrical system. Look for improperly grounded receptacles. |
instruction:
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
question:
Spiritualism is a belief that humans can communicate with the spirits of the dead .
answer:
Spiritualism is a religious movement based on the belief that the spirits of the dead exist and have both the ability and the inclination to communicate with the living .
question:
Bradford is a major city in West Yorkshire , England .
answer:
The City of Bradford is a local government district of West Yorkshire , England , with the status of a city and metropolitan borough .
question:
Most articles in the journal have an " eLife digest " .
answer:
| Most research articles published in the journal include an " eLife digest " , a non-technical summary of the research findings aimed at a lay audience .
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In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Example: Timothy likes to play sports. He spends his time after school playing basketball and baseball. Sometimes Timothy pretends he is a famous baseball pitcher for his favorite team with his friends. He plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. Timothy also plays pretend when he is alone. He has an imaginary friend named Sean. Sean is an elephant who watches television with Timothy. Mandy likes playing baseball but she also likes to paint. Mandy's favorite class at school is art. She likes making pictures of flowers. Her teacher says she is a good artist. She painted a picture of a tree for her teacher. There were red and yellow leaves on it. It had apples on it. When Andrew goes home after baseball, he likes to eat a snack. He eats carrots and bananas. If he is a good boy his mom, Mrs. Smith, sometimes gives him milk and cookies. Afterwards, Andrew finishes his homework. <sep>Who does Timothy play with?<sep>Basketball and baseball
Example solution: 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".
Problem: Though prehistoric remains from the Paleolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Ages have been unearthed in the Manzanares Valley, prior to Madrid's sudden elevation to capital city in 1561 its history was rather undistinguished. Over a period of many centuries crucial in Spanish history, Madrid's significance was negligible. The Romans built their most advanced outpost on the Iberian peninsula, but left nothing of consequence in Madrid. Armies of North African nomads, intent on disseminating Islam, invaded the peninsula in a.d. Within 10 years, they had overrun most of Spain. If Madrid played any role in these pivotal events, no record of it remains. The first solid references to this obscure settlement on the Castilian plateau, guarded by the looming Guadarrama mountain range, appear in the 9th century. The Arabic name for "place of many springs," variously recorded as Magerit, Mayrit or Magrit, eventually evolved into Madrid. The hamlet entered historical chronicles for its military significance; it was located near the main line of resistance to the Christian reconquest. Over centuries of struggle, the defending Moorish army built a full-scale fort, or Alcázar, on the heights of Madrid commanding the Manzanares valley. After several unsuccessful skirmishes, the Christian forces of Alfonso VI captured Madrid in 1083. The Alcázar became a fort of the crown of Castile. During a counter-offensive in 1109, the town was overrun by the Moors, but the Christianized fortress held. The Moors were expelled from the town, but they remained in control of southern Spain for almost four centuries. Meanwhile, Madrid enjoyed brief prominence in 1308 when king Ferdinand IV and his Cortes, an early version of parliament, held a formal meeting in the fledgling town. From then on, the kings of Spain began to visit Madrid, where the air was invigorating and the hunting excellent. Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic monarchs that united all the provinces of Spain, first visited Madrid in 1477. <sep>Who had overun most of Spain?<sep>Armies of North African nomads
| Solution: Yes |
Multi-select problem: How does the next paragraph end?
A large group of people are seen riding exercise bikes while wearing santa hats. The camera pans all around the people working out and shows a man leading in front. the group
pick from the following.
[+] continues to ride around along the stationary bikes while the camera captures them on a coffee table..
[+] continue riding for several more shots as well as many more people exercising away one a side..
[+] continues riding around doing more stunts to make ends meet and ending with men speaking to the camera..
[+] continues to ride together in different shots while following the man in front.. | continues to ride together in different shots while following the man in front. |
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: In which country is India not located?, Context: The aggressive policies of Lord Wellesley and the Marquis of Hastings led to the Company gaining control of all India (except for the Punjab and Sindh), and some part of the then kingdom of Nepal under the Sugauli Treaty. The Indian Princes had become vassals of the Company. But the expense of wars leading to the total control of India strained the Company's finances. The Company was forced to petition Parliament for assistance. This was the background to the Charter Act of 1813 which, among other things:
Output: | Nepal |
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 passport card is a limited travel document, valid only for land and sea travel within North America (Canada, the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Bermuda). It cannot be used for international air travel. The Department of State indicates that this is because ``designing a card format passport for wide use, including by air travelers, would inadvertently undercut the broad based international effort to strengthen civil aviation security and travel document specifications to address the post 9/11 threat environment''.
[A]: can a passport card be used for canada?
[Q]: The cell membrane (also known as the plasma membrane or cytoplasmic membrane, and historically referred to as the plasmalemma) is a biological membrane that separates the interior of all cells from the outside environment (the extracellular space). It consists of a lipid bilayer with embedded proteins. The basic function of the cell membrane is to protect the cell from its surroundings. The cell membrane controls the movement of substances in and out of cells and organelles. In this way, it is selectively permeable to ions and organic molecules. In addition, cell membranes are involved in a variety of cellular processes such as cell adhesion, ion conductivity and cell signalling and serve as the attachment surface for several extracellular structures, including the cell wall, the carbohydrate layer called the glycocalyx, and the intracellular network of protein fibers called the cytoskeleton. In the field of synthetic biology, cell membranes can be artificially reassembled.
[A]: are cell membrane and plasma membrane the same?
[Q]: 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.
[A]: | is there a salary cap in nfl football?
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instruction:
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
question:
A training camp is a place where soldiers or sports players go to learn skills .
answer:
A training camp is an organized period in which military personnel or athletes participate in a rigorous and focused schedule of training in order to learn or improve skills .
question:
A wind farm is a group of wind turbines in the same area .
answer:
A wind farm or wind park , also called a wind power station or wind power plant , is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity .
question:
It is used as a reinforcing material for many polymer products .
answer:
| Glass fibers are therefore used as a reinforcing agent for many polymer products ; to form a very strong and relatively lightweight fiber-reinforced polymer ( FRP ) composite material called glass-reinforced plastic ( GRP ) , also popularly known as " fiberglass " .
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Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to clean aquarium plants
Use your fingers.
Wash your hands thoroughly. Next, gently rub the algae off of plants while the plants are still in the aquarium.
A: Remove any algae that you've rubbed off from the aquarium. Once you have clean plants, maintain their cleanliness on a weekly basis by rubbing the algae off them while they are in the aquarium.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to be a good leader at school
Know your strengths.
Knowing your own strengths and what you care about will help you choose what area of leadership to focus in. Do you love helping people? Consider joining a volunteer organization for the needy.
A: Do you have a passion for writing and enjoy working with a team? Maybe the school newspaper would be a good fit for you. If you're a people person and you'd like to work toward the good of the school community, consider joining the student government.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to transfer photos from a camera to a kindle fire
Connect your camera to your computer.
Plug the usb cable into the camera's usb port. Then plug the larger usb 2.0 end of the cable to a vacant usb slot on your computer.
A: If you're using a usb card reader, remove the memory card from the camera (consult your camera's manual for the card slot's location) then insert the memory card into a compatible slot in a usb card reader. Afterwards, plug the card reader into a vacant usb port on your computer.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to install an underground dog fence
Using a pencil and paper, draw a map of your yard.
Draw where you want the boundaries of your electric fence to be.
Check your transmitter location.
A: | Be sure that it is at least 3 feet from objects such as water heaters as they may get in the way of receiving a strong signal from the wire. Following the manufacturer's instructions, use the screws and hardware given by the manufacturer to mount the transmitter onto the wall. |
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: For much of the world, the Algarve is synonymous with Portugal, yet the Portuguese will tell you the exact opposite: the region has little in common with the rest of the country. The southern stretch of coast is more reminiscent of a North African landscape than a European one. It has no cosmopolitan cities, like Lisbon and Porto, which are farther north. Most of Portugal is known for quaint towns, medieval castles, and grand palaces. The Algarve is more recognizable for impenetrable blocks of tourist apartments, hotels, and meticulously manicured golf courses. And beaches. Think Algarve and the mind pictures long, glorious stretches of golden sands, secluded coves framed by odd ochre-colored rock formations, and deep green waters. With about 160 km (100 miles) of coastline, Portugal's southern province is one of Europe's premier beach destinations. The occasionally chilly ocean is the Atlantic, but the Algarve has a sultry Mediterranean feel. Its consistent climate is the best in Portugal, and one of the kindest in the world: more than 250 days of sunshine a year — more than almost any other international resort area. The moderating effect of the Gulf Stream produces a fresh springtime breeze throughout winter, and in late January and February, white almond blossoms blanket the fields. In summer the heat is intense but rarely unbearable, and regardless, beautiful beaches and innumerable pools are always just a dive away. Magnificent year-round weather has made the Algarve a huge destination for sporting vacations. Superb golf facilities abound — several with tees dramatically clinging to cliffs and fairways just skirting the edge of the ocean — and horseback riding, tennis, big-game fishing, sailing, and windsurfing are immensely popular. Sports, beaches and hospitable weather — not to mention easily organized package vacations — are surely the reasons the Algarve receives as many visitors as the rest of Portugal in its entirety. But it's not just international tourists that descend on the Algarve; many Portuguese from Lisbon and elsewhere in the north have holiday homes and spend their summer vacations here. The coast is neatly divided into the rugged Barlavento to the west and the flat beauty of Sotavento to the east. West is where you'll find the famous orange cliffs and surreal eroded rock stacks. <sep>Which region of Portugal gets the most sunshine on an average year?<sep>Barlavento
Student: | No |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Example input: what 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.
Example output: Russian Revolution
Example explanation: This is a good example, and the Russian Revolution is the first event mentioned.
Q: Which has the least initial expense, fluorescent lamps or incandescent light bulbs, or LED lamps?, Context: Objections to banning the use of incandescent light bulbs include the higher initial cost of alternatives and lower quality of light of fluorescent lamps. Some people have concerns about the health effects of fluorescent lamps. However, even though they contain mercury, the environmental performance of CFLs is much better than that of light bulbs, mostly because they consume much less energy and therefore strongly reduce the environmental impact of power production. LED lamps are even more efficient, and are free of mercury. They are regarded as the best solution in terms of cost effectiveness and robustness.
A: | incandescent light bulbs |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
See one example below:
Problem: The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
Solution: The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini.
Explanation: The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
Problem: The Hart Trophy is given to the most valuable player of the National Hockey League every year .
Solution: | The Hart Memorial Trophy , originally known as the Hart Trophy , is awarded annually to the " player judged most valuable to his team " in the National Hockey League ( NHL ) . |
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: Where does the United Methodist Church have more educational affiliates, in the US or overseas?, Context: Throughout its history, the United Methodist Church has placed great emphasis on the importance of education. As such, the United Methodist Church established and is affiliated with around one hundred colleges and universities in the United States, including Syracuse University, Boston University, Emory University, Duke University, Drew University, University of Denver, University of Evansville, and Southern Methodist University. Most are members of the International Association of Methodist-related Schools, Colleges, and Universities. The church operates three hundred sixty schools and institutions overseas.
Output: | overseas |
Multi-select problem: How does the next paragraph end?
A man is now standing and talking in the field of flowers and the words on the bottom screen say his name is skip richter and he's a horticulturist and the website displays at the bottom in purple letters. the man
Available choices:
A). then takes off running and jumps over a low beam, does some flips and lands on the grass.
B). starts handle painting the palm of his hand.
C). is now holding a floral plant up with his left hand and with his right hand he cuts the flowers off, continues to talk the whole time, and then holds up the flower less plant with his right hand.
D). then stands on a four piece platform high in the air with other people adding and measuring for him as they weld around him, the crowd shows clips of themselves hammering stone across the floor as the man completes his piece in preparation. | C). |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then an example. Follow the example to solve a new instance of the task.
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
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
Why? This is a good example, and the Russian Revolution is the first event mentioned.
New input: Some modern boats are made out of metal, but what is a material that modern and original boats have in common?, Context: Wood has been an important construction material since humans began building shelters, houses and boats. Nearly all boats were made out of wood until the late 19th century, and wood remains in common use today in boat construction. Elm in particular was used for this purpose as it resisted decay as long as it was kept wet (it also served for water pipe before the advent of more modern plumbing).
Solution: | Elm |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context?
Context:
Castro's successful visits to Harlem and the Bronx, his speech to the United Nations General Assembly, and the October 21 march of 3,000 against U.S. policy and subsequent picket lines at Cuba's UN mission in defense of the revolution - all these events dealt blows to the U.S. government's unceasing efforts to isolate and slander Cuba.
Hypothesis: The US made efforts to support Cuba and no desire to slander Cuba. | No |
input hypothesis: parliament rejected it multiple times
Context: Now, we offer a simple way to make this clear, express limit make sense, and that is precisely the understanding we suggest that existed in 1790. The only precedents that existed in 1790 were precedents of setting a term, and then when parliament was asked in 1735, '37, and '39 to extend it, they rejected it, and as amicus historians said, they rejected it because, as a pamphleteer described it, that would be effectively a perpetual term.
true or false: Yes
input hypothesis: Environment Minister David Anderson last week announced his decision .
Context: Environment Minister David Anderson today announced his decision regarding the environmental assessment of the proposed Toulnustouc Hydroelectric Project.
true or false: No
input hypothesis: the film chose feb 2 due to being close to valentine day
Context: Because I Said So is a 2007 romantic comedy film directed by Michael Lehmann and starring Diane Keaton, Mandy Moore, Lauren Graham, Piper Perabo, Gabriel Macht and Stephen Collins. It was released on February 2, 2007. The film received negative reviews from critics.
true or false: It's impossible to say
input hypothesis: Veggies are something that can be browsed.
Context: Farmer's Market<br>Benton was spending his morning at the farmer's market. He browsed through fruits, veggies, and local craft. Benton enjoys supporting local business. He filled bags with fruit and vegetables. Benton considers this a fruitful trip.
true or false: | Yes |
Multi-select problem: How does the next paragraph end?
The camera follows several people on a walkway from a first person perspective. The camera shows sliding down a snowy slope from a first person perspective alongside others. the camera
Possible answers:
(a). pans down the and onto each team in the area.;
(b). shows the two walking along a roof with their long tubes as they travel then water flow and images of water descending or blowing are shown in slow motion as well as falling down or shining their shoes.;
(c). continues to film from several angles.;
(d). shows sliding down a snowy slope from a first person perspective looking backwards.; | (d). |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Example input: what 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.
Example output: Russian Revolution
Example explanation: This is a good example, and the Russian Revolution is the first event mentioned.
Q: What is the first name of the second suitor mentioned?, Context: Several suitors appeared, including Robert Maxwell, Tiny Rowland and Lord Rothermere; however, only one buyer was in a position to meet the full Thomson remit, Australian media magnate Rupert Murdoch. Robert Holmes à Court, another Australian magnate had previously tried to buy The Times in 1980.
A: | Tiny |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
One example is below.
Q: 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
A: No
Rationale: 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: When single father Thurman Williams needed help filling out papers in a custody suit recently, he didn't look to his lawyer for help. He walked to a computerized kiosk at the Lamoreaux Justice Center in Orange and started tapping the keys. As part of a legal experiment, litigants without lawyers across California are using computerized video kiosks to prepare common court filings and seek basic legal advice. The kiosk used by Williams is part of a statewide effort to cope with a flood of litigants who cannot afford or refuse to hire lawyers. Court officials statewide fear the number of self-represented litigants has reached crisis levels and threatens to clog court calendars. Like Williams, more than 6,000 Orange County litigants have initiated court actions on I-CAN! kiosks or accessed the programs on the Internet, using home computers. Similar programs are operating in Sacramento, San Diego and Ventura. A recent study of the kiosks' first 18 months of operation concluded it is too soon to tell if the system will relieve pressure on court calendars. But the report, by UC Irvine's School of Social Ecology, said users were overwhelmingly positive about the free legal assistance. "It's made life a lot easier for me," Williams said. "It's helped keep me from going to the poorhouse." The 29-year-old Orange resident was directed to a kiosk in the Lamoreaux Justice Center by court staff. After putting on headphones and following the directions of a videotaped instructor, Williams filled out a quarter-inch stack of paternity and custody documents. The exercise took 20 minutes; it would have cost him about $800 if he had relied on a lawyer, he said. "It was a lot easier than I thought." Whether they can't afford a lawyer or just want to save money, more Californians are going to court without a lawyer. "I'm just amazed at the numbers," said Commissioner Salvador Sarmiento, who hears between 40 and 90 child-support cases a day in Lamoreaux Justice Center. <sep>Who made this remark: "It's helped keep me from going to the poorhouse."<sep>Salvador Sarmiento
A: | No |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then an example. Follow the example to solve a new instance of the task.
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Timothy likes to play sports. He spends his time after school playing basketball and baseball. Sometimes Timothy pretends he is a famous baseball pitcher for his favorite team with his friends. He plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. Timothy also plays pretend when he is alone. He has an imaginary friend named Sean. Sean is an elephant who watches television with Timothy. Mandy likes playing baseball but she also likes to paint. Mandy's favorite class at school is art. She likes making pictures of flowers. Her teacher says she is a good artist. She painted a picture of a tree for her teacher. There were red and yellow leaves on it. It had apples on it. When Andrew goes home after baseball, he likes to eat a snack. He eats carrots and bananas. If he is a good boy his mom, Mrs. Smith, sometimes gives him milk and cookies. Afterwards, Andrew finishes his homework. <sep>Who does Timothy play with?<sep>Basketball and baseball
Solution: No
Why? Based on the passage Timothy plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. So, the given answer is incorrect and the output should be "No".
New input: (CNN) -- Sevilla have sacked coach Manolo Jimenez after their disappointing home draw to bottom-club Xerez on Tuesday extended the club's winless run to seven games. Despite lying fifth in the Spanish Primera Liga table, Sevilla were knocked out of the lucrative European Champions League by Russian side CSKA Moscow last week. Jimenez had also secured a Copa del Rey final against Atletico Madrid but it wasn't enough to save the 46-year-old's job. The club's sporting director Ramon Rodriguez admitted the decision had been difficult but said he had "done what I had to." He told the club's official Web site: "It was an unavoidable situation and we had to find a solution, and the pain that it brings. "Tuesday was the end of the story but the decision comes from the image and dynamics of the team. Without doubt we are grateful to Manolo. He is an excellent professional, he has made all this possible and impossible. However it is obvious that he could not get a response out of the team. "Fortunately we believe that there is time. The growth and the ambition of the club is shown in the change of the manager. We are fighting for important things." Xerez's injury-time equaliser on Tuesday meant Sevilla's last league success was against Real Mallorca back in February. Ironically, it is Mallorca who occupy the much-coveted fourth spot in the table that guarantees Champions League football next season. Jimenez took charge in October 2007 when former coach Juande Ramos left to take over at English Premier League team Tottenham. <sep>What was Sevilla's last league success, and where does that team now rank in the Champions League football table?<sep>Real Mallorca's Team- 6th
Solution: | No |
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:Comanche Indians have trapped the evil of their land in a monster made up of a mixture of other animals . The Comanche have placed a protective spear in the ground to contain the evil . A young boy pulls the spear from the ground while pocketing a rabbit foot talisman . He starts to play with the spear . A Comanche catches the boy , and startled , he runs away with the rabbit's foot . The Native American places the spear back , realizing too late that the rabbits foot is now gone . After that , white men come and start drilling for oil . Skip to current time , a divorced father , Mance Cashen , moves to the area with his new wife , baby , and his son from his first marriage , Willy ( played by ( ( Chris Miller , who is visiting . Willy notices something peculiar in the house and tries to warn his father and step-mother . They do not believe him . Willy is attacked while on a tire swing over a small water hole . The creature grabs his foot and Willy struggles , eventually getting away . He eventually befriends the local drunk , T. C. van Houten . A nice old man with some bad memories who knows something about the evil near the oil well and was in a situation similar to Willy's . In the meantime a Comanche Indian , Chief Sam John , comes to warn Mance of the evil and the need to keep it contained . Sam John informs Mance the evil was originally intended to stop the white man , but it is indiscriminate in whom it kills instead . Mance will have none of it . Willy eventually takes a spear he finds on his property to Sam John and tries to find out what is going on . <sep>Who removes and starts to play with the spear?<sep>A little boy
Solution: | Yes |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
One example is below.
Q: 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
A: No
Rationale: 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: Growing up on a farm near St. Paul, L. Mark Bailey didn't dream of becoming a judge. Even when he graduated from North Decatur High School in 1975, sitting on the bench someday seemed more like a leisurely activity than a career. Somewhere along the line, all of that changed. Bailey received his bachelor's degree from the University of Indianapolis in 1978 and a jurisprudence doctorate from Indiana University-Indianapolis in 1982. After several years of private practice from 1982-90, he became the judge of Decatur County Court for a year. The Indiana legislature renamed that judgeship and Bailey was tabbed Decatur Superior Court judge from 1992-98, winning reelection twice. From there, his career continued on the fast track and Bailey was appointed by Gov. Frank O'Bannon to sit on the Indiana Court of Appeals First District, where he works today. Despite his quick climb up the legal ladder, Bailey has always found time to help out in causes he feels strongly about. It was for his dedication to the law and the people that are affected by it that he was recently recognized. The Indiana Pro Bono Commission hosted its annual celebration event, the Randall T. Shepard Dinner, at French Lick Springs Spa in October. More than 100 judges, lawyers and dignitaries were present for the gathering. One of the highlights of the event was the presentation of the first-ever Randall T. Shepard award for excellence in pro bono work. Bailey received the award for his three years of volunteer work at Indiana Pro Bono Commission. The award was named after the chief justice of the Indiana Supreme Court to honor his statewide vision on justice. The qualifications for the award were based upon demonstrated dedication to the innovative development and delivery of legal services to the poor in one of the 14 pro bono districts of Indiana. "This award came as a real surprise to me. It is truly an honor. Just being the first chair of the commission which began the implementation of the pro bono process was somewhat humbling. <sep>What award was named after the Indian Chief Justice?<sep>Randall T. Shepard Aware
A: | Yes |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Input: Consider Input: Once Upon a Time is an American fantasy drama television series on ABC which debuted on October 23, 2011, and concluded on May 18, 2018. The first six seasons are largely set in the fictitious seaside town of Storybrooke, Maine, with the character of Emma Swan serving as the lead, while the seventh and final season takes place in a Seattle, Washington neighborhood called Hyperion Heights, with a new main narrative led by Swan's son, Henry Mills. The show borrows elements and characters from the Disney franchise and popular Western literature, folklore, and fairy tales.
Output: is once upon a time tv show over?
Input: Consider Input: Six Flags Great America is an amusement park located in Gurnee, Illinois. Part of the Six Flags chain, Great America was first opened in 1976 by the Marriott Corporation as Marriott's Great America. Six Flags has owned and operated the park since 1984, making it the seventh park in the chain. The park offers ten themed areas, as well as Hurricane Harbor, a 20-acre (81,000 m) water park, and three specially themed children's areas.
Output: is six flags and great america the same thing?
Input: Consider Input: Take Your Dog to Work Day (TYDTWDay) was created by Pet Sitters International and first celebrated in 1999. PSI created the day to encourage businesses to allow dogs in the workplace for one Friday each year to celebrate the great companions dogs make and promote their adoptions from local shelters, rescue groups and humane societies. PSI believes that through the event dog-less co-workers will be encouraged to adopt when they witness the human-animal bond. The week leading up to Take Your Dog To Work Day is Take Your Pet To Work Week. Take Your Dog to Work Day and Take Your Pet to Work Week are registered trademarks of Pet Sitters International, Inc.
| Output: is there a national bring your dog to work day?
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instruction:
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.
question:
Eudaimonia (Greek: εὐδαιμονία (eu̯dai̯moníaː)), sometimes anglicized as eudaemonia or eudemonia / juː dɪˈmoʊniə /, is a Greek word commonly translated as happiness or welfare; however, 'human flourishing or prosperity' has been proposed as a more accurate translation. Etymologically, it consists of the words 'eu' ('good') and 'daimōn' ('spirit'). It is a central concept in Aristotelian ethics and political philosophy, along with the terms 'aretē', most often translated as 'virtue' or 'excellence', and 'phronesis', often translated as 'practical or ethical wisdom'. In Aristotle's works, eudaimonia (based on older Greek tradition) was used as the term for the highest human good, and so it is the aim of practical philosophy, including ethics and political philosophy, to consider (and also experience) what it really is, and how it can be achieved.
answer:
how does eudaimonia differ from a more contemporary understanding of happiness
question:
The Philippine national flag has a rectangular design that consists of a white equilateral triangle, symbolizing liberty, equality, and fraternity; a horizontal blue stripe for peace, truth, and justice; and a horizontal red stripe for patriotism and valor. In the center of the white triangle is an eight-rayed golden sun symbolizing unity, freedom, people's democracy, and sovereignty. Each ray represents a province with significant involvement in the 1896 Philippine Revolution against Spain; these provinces are Manila, Bulacan, Cavite, Pampanga, Bataan, Laguna, Batangas, and Nueva Ecija (some sources specify other provinces as alternatives to some of these). Three five-pointed stars, one for each of the triangle's points, stand for the three major islands where the revolution started: Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.
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what is the meaning of the flag of the philippines
question:
The National League of Families POW / MIA flag, also known as the POW / MIA flag, consists of a silhouette of a prisoner of war (POW) before a guard tower and barbed wire in white on a black field. 'POW / MIA' appears above the silhouette and the words 'You Are Not Forgotten' appear below in white on the black field.
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| what does the message at the bottom of the pow mia flag mean
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Input: OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Romano Prodi will meet the US President George Bush in his capacity as president of the European commission.
Sentence: Romano Prodi was elected president of the European Commission.
Output: It's impossible to say
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
So, even though statistics come out every week telling us what a total fiasco the employment insurance plan is, how it does not serve the interests of the unemployed in Quebec and Canada, the Liberals say the Quebeckers and Canadians who appeared before the Standing Committee on Finance do not understand the plan when it is the plan that makes no sense at all.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: The Quebeckers say that the Liberals do not understand the plan.
****
Answer:
No
[Q]: The 2007 Atlantic Sun Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Melching Field at Conrad Park on the campus of Stetson University in DeLand, Florida from May 23 through 26. Jacksonville won its third tournament championship to earn the Atlantic Sun Conference's automatic bid to the 2007 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. The tournament was played each day from May 23 through 26. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: It's impossible to say
Problem: How to break up ice on a driveway<br>Choose a deicing product carefully. Not all deicing products are the same, so read the labels and choose the one that is best for your deicing needs. Rock salt (sodium chloride) is the most common deicing product, but keep in mind that this product may contain cyanide in it as well.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Ice can be broken."? OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: Yes
Q: The narrator is talking about a girl named Jen
I want to explore your understanding of what has actually taken place in this ninth-grade biology class that your daughter Alix is presently taking. Is it your understanding that Darwin's theory of evolution will be taught in this class pursuant to the Pennsylvania academic standards?
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
Q: Def Leppard originally had different members
Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in 1977 in Sheffield as part of the new wave of British heavy metal movement. The following is a complete list of all official members, session musicians, featured artists, touring musicians, and live guests of Def Leppard's career
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | It's impossible to say |
Definition: You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
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? |
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.
Input: Fez's secret country of origin is one of the longest running gags on the show. Through all eight seasons, Fez's nationality remains a mystery, even to his closest friends, and the continual hints and clues Fez drops about his country only leave them more confused. In the episode ``Eric's Birthday,'' Kitty, fantasizing about Eric's friends causing trouble, imagines Fez saying, ``in my home country of...wherever it is I'm from; I can never tell...'' Much is revealed in the episode ``Love of My Life,'' where one of Fez's compatriots (played by Justin Long) comes for a visit. In the first teaser, when his friend suggests that he goes home, he says ``Yes, I will go to Brazil...and then catch a flight home.'' In the final teaser, when Hyde finally asks them, ``Where the hell are you guys from?'', his friend says that the name depends on whether you ask the British or the Dutch. But the British won't say it, Fez explains, because they hate the island, and no one understands a word the Dutch say. The friend has a heavy English accent; Fez's explanation to this is that his friend is from the west side of the island. We also see throughout the show that Fez almost says where he is from but then stops right before he says it.
Output: | does fez ever say where he is from? |
TASK DEFINITION: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
PROBLEM: The duchy was split up again after Ernest ’ s death in 1675 , and the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg officially came into existence in 1680 when his eldest son , Frederick , took control of the parts of the country Gotha and Altenburg .
SOLUTION: It was common for the Ernestine duchies to merge and split ; Ernest 's combined duchy was divided again after his death in 1675 , and the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg proper came into existence in 1680 with the completion of this division and the accession of his eldest son , Frederick to the subdivision centered on the towns of Gotha and Altenburg .
PROBLEM: The Belgian Revolution was the secession of the Southern provinces from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands .
SOLUTION: The Belgian Revolution was the conflict which led to the secession of the southern provinces ( mainly the former Southern Netherlands ) from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and the establishment of an independent Kingdom of Belgium .
PROBLEM: The FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup is an international beach soccer competition .
SOLUTION: | The FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup is an international beach soccer competition contested by the men 's national teams of the member associations of FIFA , the sport 's global governing body .
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Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence in this paragraph:
A man is seen using a machine across a long stretch of leaves while moving up and down the lawn. he
Select from the following.
[A]. continues pushing the leaves around the area and moving up and down the lawn..
[B]. stands up in the end and continues walking around while other people are seen walking all along the ground and speaking to him on the camera..
[C]. continues using the machine on a still image while leaves move around towards his face..
[D]. continues moving around while the camera pans into his hands and back on him holding a lawn mower.. | [A]. |
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:
Elizabeth Peña, left, and Esai Morales in a scene from Showtime’s “Resurrection Blvd.” Peña, who won an ALMA for her work on the show, died Tuesday at age 55. (Photo by Randy Tepper / Showtime)
Elizabeth Peña, the actress known for her roles in “La Bamba,” “Rush Hour,” “The Incredibles,” “Jacob’s Ladder,” and “Lone Star,” died Tuesday in Los Angeles after a short illness. She was 55.
The news was first reported by Peña’s nephew, Mario-Francisco Robles, in a post for Latino Review. Peña’s manager, Gina Rugolo, confirmed the actress’s death in a statement. Neither elaborated further on the cause of death. Robles followed Peña’s professional accomplishments with a personal appreciation for his aunt:
She did it all, and she made it look fun. She made it look easy. But I know it wasn’t. I know she had a drive like no other, and that she was a force to be reckoned with when she decided it was time to make it big or … well, nothing. She never considered an alternative. Her singular focus was breathtaking, and awe-inspiring. Tonight, my family is heartbroken. There’s now a void that will never be filled. All we can do now is remember your sharp sense of humor, your endless hunger for life, and your never ending pursuit of happiness. You were a great mother, wife, daughter, sister, and cousin. But you’ll always be my Ñaña, #1 in a category all your own.
In a 35-year career, Peña developed a penchant for oozing an understated, intelligent sensuality with ease. Though rarely a leading lady, she brought a certain magnetism to all of her roles. She was a patient, unflappable therapist in “Transamerica,” and a sultry but well-intentioned seductress in “The Incredibles,” in which she played Mirage.
“News of Elizabeth Pena’s death hits particularly hard, for some reason, maybe because she was consistently outstanding in everything,” tweeted Matt Zoller Seitz, editor-in-chief of RogerEbert.com.
In a Twitter conversation Wednesday night, actress and producer Eva Longoria said Peña wasn’t just a Cuban-American actress — for many years, she was the Latina Actress. When Peña joined the Director’s Guild of America, she was only the fourth to do so. In 1987, Peña starred in the television show “I Married Dora” as a Salvadoran housekeeper who entered a green-card marriage with her employer to remain in the country.
Peña went on to play a wide range of roles that were far from typical; her characters felt vibrant and bubbled with humanity. In the charming and funny “How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer,” she played a mother in her forties experiencing a sexual reawakening opposite America Ferrera and Lucy Gallardo. Peña won ALMA awards for her work in “Tortilla Soup,” “Resurrection Blvd.,” “Rush Hour” and “Contagious.”
“Rest in Peace Elizabeth Pena … you paved the way for so many of us!!” Longoria tweeted.
Peña was aware of her role as a Latina groundbreaker and role model, and she also realized she was called upon to occupy this blurry, amorphous space as a Latina actress. She played Gloria’s Colombian mother on “Modern Family.” In “Lone Star,” she was a teacher on the U.S.-Mexico border.
“In the United States, all Spanish-speaking people are lumped into one category,” Peña told the Dallas Morning News in 1996 (via the Los Angeles Times). “But we’re all so different. Argentinians are completely different from Mexicans. Mexicans are completely different from Cubans. Cubans are completely different from people from Paraguay and Uruguay.”
On Wednesday night, Peña’s friends and colleagues expressed shock and grief and paid tribute to her on social media.
“My heart breaks,” tweeted Wilson Cruz. “She was FANTASTIC!”
“Q triste lo de #ElizabethPena era una dama con mucha alma!” John Leguizamo tweeted. In English: “It’s sad about Elizabeth Peña, a lady with a lot of soul.”
The entire cast and crew are very sad to say goodbye to one of our Modern Family members. RIP to the beautiful & talented #ElizabethPena. — Jesse Tyler Ferguson (@jessetyler) October 16, 2014
#ElizabethPena My heart goes out to her family. ..Truly devastated a very classy and fun Lady to work with. ..Descanse Hermanita triste… — Luis Guzman (@IamLuisGuzman) October 16, 2014
Elizabeth was not only an amazing actress, she was one of the most vibrant, wonderful people I have ever known. My prayers to her family. — Lou Diamond Phillips (@LouDPhillips) October 16, 2014
“I guess I finally found out why I felt so inexplicably heavy-hearted yesterday. I thought it was an unusually gloomy day in LA. I could feel a deep sadness in my bones,” Peña’s “Resurrection Blvd.” co-star, Esai Morales, said in a Facebook post.
He continued: “I just can’t believe she’s gone … I remember crushing on Liz back in our High School days and being inspired by her work and success in this ever so fickle and peculiar business. So you can imagine how happy and privileged I felt to be able to work on screen together (and steal her away from Ritchie…!!)
“Trying to write something deserving of her memory and her larger than life personality isn’t easy through bouts of laughter and tears; but what can I say … ? She was our first — and only, Elizabeth Peña … an artist with a truly gifted soul and a wicked sense of humor. A straight shooter who was uniquely fun, funny and always a pleasure to work with and just be around. A great gal who is gone too soon.”
Loading RIP #ElizabethPeña. An actress I grew up admiring & had the pleasure of working with & hiring on Nothing Like The Holidays. A consummate professional with razor sharp wit. One of the greats. You will be missed. View on Instagram
Recently, Pena just finished work playing Maritza Sandoval on the first season of the El Rey network show “Matador.”
“We are deeply saddened by the passing of our friend and colleague, Elizabeth Peña,” the network said in a statement. “She was a role model, a truly extraordinary performer and an inspiration in every sense of the word. Our thoughts are with Elizabeth’s family and friends during this difficult time. She will be deeply missed.” ||||| Tweet with a location
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Elizabeth Peña died Tuesday of natural causes after a brief illness, her manager says
She is known for appearing as Sofia Vergara's mother in the ABC sitcom "Modern Family"
Peña is survived by her mother, a sister, her husband and two children
Actress Elizabeth Peña has died of natural causes after a brief illness, her manager told CNN. She was 55.
Peña passed away Tuesday, Gina Rugolo said in a statement.
Among her many roles, Peña is known for appearing as the mother of a character played by Sofia Vergara in the ABC sitcom "Modern Family."
She's played on both the big and small screens during her more than three-decade career. She also tried her hand at directing, becoming only the fourth Latina member of the Director's Guild of America when she joined, the statement said.
Other career highlights include roles in "Down and Out in Beverly Hills," "La Bamba," "Rush Hour," and "The Incredibles."
Most recently, Peña appeared in the TV drama "Matador."
"I am stunned and heartbroken, just found out about the passing of my friend Elizabeth Peña. She was such a Life Force it's hard to believe," tweeted actor Lou Diamond Phillips, who starred in "La Bamba."
"Elizabeth was not only an amazing actress, she was one of the most vibrant, wonderful people I have ever known. My prayers to her family," he said.
Peña was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and she graduated from New York's High School of Performing Arts in 1977.
She is survived by her mother, a sister, her husband, and two children. |||||
Solution: | Elizabeth Peña, known for her roles in La Bamba and Lone Star, as well as for playing the mother of Sofia Vergara's character on Modern Family, died yesterday in LA. The 55-year-old's death followed a brief illness, her manager said without elaboration. At the Washington Post, Soraya Nadia McDonald notes that "though rarely a leading lady, [Peña] brought a certain magnetism to all of her roles" and "developed a penchant for oozing an understated, intelligent sensuality with ease." She was a Latina groundbreaker as well: CNN points out that Peña was only the fourth Latina to join the Directors Guild of America. Peña, who was born in New Jersey but lived in Cuba for a while as a child, was a founding member of the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors as well, the Los Angeles Times reports. She also appeared regularly on Matador, a crime drama airing on the El Rey TV network, and had done voice work, including the role of Mirage in Pixar's The Incredibles. Tweeted RogerEbert.com EIC Matt Zoller Seitz, "News of Elizabeth Pena's death hits particularly hard, for some reason, maybe because she was consistently outstanding in everything." |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then an example. Follow the example to solve a new instance of the task.
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
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
Why? This is a good example, and the Russian Revolution is the first event mentioned.
New input: Which trade route connected Northern Europe and Northwestern Russia with the Capsian Sea?, Context: The new Kievan state prospered due to its abundant supply of furs, beeswax, honey, and slaves for export, and because it controlled three main trade routes of Eastern Europe. In the north, Novgorod served as a commercial link between the Baltic Sea and the Volga trade route to the lands of the Volga Bulgars, the Khazars, and across the Caspian Sea as far as Baghdad, providing access to markets and products from Central Asia and the Middle East. Trade from the Baltic also moved south on a network of rivers and short portages along the Dnieper known as the "route from the Varangians to the Greeks," continuing to the Black Sea and on to Constantinople. Kiev was a central outpost along the Dnieper route and a hub with the east-west overland trade route between the Khazars and the Germanic lands of Central Europe. These commercial connections enriched Rus' merchants and princes, funding military forces and the construction of churches, palaces, fortifications, and further towns. Demand for luxury goods fostered production of expensive jewelry and religious wares, allowing their export, and an advanced credit and money-lending system may have also been in place.
Solution: | Volga trade route |
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to assemble a swiffer wetjet
Unwrap the swiffer.
Open the box and unwrap all the pieces. This includes removing any sticky tape from the handle, floor piece, cleaning solution and cleaning pads.
A: Set all these items to the side for easy access. Snap the 3 pieces of the pole together.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to prepare financially for cancer
Get an insurance plan that provides good cancer coverage.
While many plans provide some sort of cancer coverage, not all provide very good coverage. As a result, you should spend time shopping around for plans that have very good cancer coverage.
A: Good plans will typically : Pay 100% of costs after your deductible. Allow you to choose your health care providers and not restrict you to a specific network of doctors and hospitals.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
A man is wearing glasses inside a workshop. He holds up a bike wheel while he talks. he
A: shows how to mount the wheel onto the bike.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to tell if a dragon fruit is ripe
Look for dragon fruit that is red or yellow in color.
When a dragon fruit is not ripe it will be green in color. As the fruit matures and ripens, the outer skin color changes to red or yellow, depending on the variety.
A: | When ripe the outer skin should be bright and even-colored. If the fruit has a lot of dark blotches on the skin, similar to bruises on an apple, then it may be overripe. |
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 April 2017, it was announced that the series had been renewed for a third season of 20 episodes. The first half of ten episodes premiered on March 20, 2018. In June 2018, Freeform canceled the series after three seasons, but ordered two extra episodes to properly conclude the series' story; the second half of the third season is set to air in early 2019. As of May 15, 2018, 43 episodes of Shadowhunters have aired, concluding the first half of the third season.
A: | is there going to be a season 4 shadowhunters? |
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".
See one example below:
Problem: Timothy likes to play sports. He spends his time after school playing basketball and baseball. Sometimes Timothy pretends he is a famous baseball pitcher for his favorite team with his friends. He plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. Timothy also plays pretend when he is alone. He has an imaginary friend named Sean. Sean is an elephant who watches television with Timothy. Mandy likes playing baseball but she also likes to paint. Mandy's favorite class at school is art. She likes making pictures of flowers. Her teacher says she is a good artist. She painted a picture of a tree for her teacher. There were red and yellow leaves on it. It had apples on it. When Andrew goes home after baseball, he likes to eat a snack. He eats carrots and bananas. If he is a good boy his mom, Mrs. Smith, sometimes gives him milk and cookies. Afterwards, Andrew finishes his homework. <sep>Who does Timothy play with?<sep>Basketball and baseball
Solution: No
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".
Problem: I've been thinking about the mindwipe, now two days away. Who said that those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it? I fear that may be true for me. Add this to the reasons I write now: to remember something, perhaps even to learn -- Emil Malaquez arrived after sundown, carrying a small package wrapped in what looked like real paper. His evening dress was formal, expensive, and slightly stained, as that of all forgetful artists should be. He was a jovial man with an easy laugh, and even uglier than Tasha had suggested. I liked him immediately. "Señor Malaquez?" "Please. Call me Emil. You must be Bernardo. Tasha's told me much about you." "All of it outrageous praise?" "All of it." "Ah, she is wonderfully perceptive." He raised an eyebrow, then guffawed. "Has she said as much about me?" "She thinks you are a genius. Do come in." "Thank you." <sep>Could it be said that Mr. Malaquez has a mutual respect for Bernardo?<sep>No
Solution: | No |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then an example. Follow the example to solve a new instance of the task.
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Timothy likes to play sports. He spends his time after school playing basketball and baseball. Sometimes Timothy pretends he is a famous baseball pitcher for his favorite team with his friends. He plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. Timothy also plays pretend when he is alone. He has an imaginary friend named Sean. Sean is an elephant who watches television with Timothy. Mandy likes playing baseball but she also likes to paint. Mandy's favorite class at school is art. She likes making pictures of flowers. Her teacher says she is a good artist. She painted a picture of a tree for her teacher. There were red and yellow leaves on it. It had apples on it. When Andrew goes home after baseball, he likes to eat a snack. He eats carrots and bananas. If he is a good boy his mom, Mrs. Smith, sometimes gives him milk and cookies. Afterwards, Andrew finishes his homework. <sep>Who does Timothy play with?<sep>Basketball and baseball
Solution: No
Why? Based on the passage Timothy plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. So, the given answer is incorrect and the output should be "No".
New input: The National Security Act of 1947 created the position of Director of Central Intelligence (DCI). Independent from the departments of Defense, State, Justice, and other policy departments, the DCI heads the U.S.intelligence community and provides intelligence to federal entities. The sole element of the intelligence community independent from a cabinet agency is the CIA. As an independent agency, it collects, analyzes, and disseminates intelligence from all sources. The CIA's number one customer is the president of the United States, who also has the authority to direct it to conduct covert operations. Although covert actions represent a very small fraction of the Agency's entire budget, these operations have at times been controversial and over time have dominated the public's perception of the CIA. The DCI is confirmed by the Senate but is not technically a member of the president's cabinet. The director's power under federal law over the loose, confederated "intelligence community" is limited. He or she states the community's priorities and coordinates development of intelligence agency budget requests for submission to Congress. This responsibility gives many the false impression that the DCI has line authority over the heads of these agencies and has the power to shift resources within these budgets as the need arises. Neither is true. In fact, the DCI's real authority has been directly proportional to his personal closeness to the president, which has waxed and waned over the years, and to others in government, especially the secretary of defense. Intelligence agencies under the Department of Defense account for approximately 80 percent of all U.S. spending for intelligence, including some that supports a national customer base and some that supports specific Defense Department or military service needs. As they are housed in the Defense Department, these agencies are keenly attentive to the military's strategic and tactical requirements. <sep>Who is the DCI confirmed by and how much power does he or she have?<sep>Confimed by the Senate with limited power
Solution: | Yes |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Let me give you an example: what is the first event mentioned?, Context: The Russian Revolution is the series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union. Following the abdication of Nicholas II of Russia, the Russian Provisional Government was established. In October 1917, a red faction revolution occurred in which the Red Guard, armed groups of workers and deserting soldiers directed by the Bolshevik Party, seized control of Saint Petersburg (then known as Petrograd) and began an immediate armed takeover of cities and villages throughout the former Russian Empire.
The answer to this example can be: Russian Revolution
Here is why: This is a good example, and the Russian Revolution is the first event mentioned.
OK. solve this:
How long was the company allowed to operate?, Context: In the next two years, the company established its first factory in south India in the town of Machilipatnam on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal. The high profits reported by the company after landing in India initially prompted King James I to grant subsidiary licences to other trading companies in England. But in 1609 he renewed the charter given to the company for an indefinite period, including a clause that specified that the charter would cease to be in force if the trade turned unprofitable for three consecutive years.
Answer: | indefinite period, including a clause that specified that the charter would cease to be in force if the trade turned unprofitable for three consecutive years |
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:A 19-year-old man from Virginia who wanted a private meeting with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump climbed his namesake building for nearly three hours before police officers finally grabbed him and hauled him inside Wednesday, officials said. Ray Villeda reports. (Published Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016)
What to Know A man who wanted a private meeting with Donald Trump climbed Trump Tower for hours Wednesday, bringing the bustling midtown area to a halt
Police say he's a 19-year-old researcher from Virginia who arrived in New York City on Tuesday
After finally hauling him in, police found climbing equipment and Gatorade in his backpack, along with several IDs
A 19-year-old man from Virginia who wanted a private meeting with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump climbed his namesake building for nearly three hours before police officers finally grabbed him and hauled him inside Wednesday, officials said.
UPDATE: Trump Tower Climber Obsessed With Political Blog, Parents Tell Police
The man, identified as Stephen Rogata, began climbing Trump Tower, where the billionaire businessman lives and works, at about 3:30 p.m. from an outside atrium attached to the building on East 56th Street, NYPD officials said at a news briefing Wednesday evening.
Hundreds of onlookers watched from the street with bated breath as the man used climbing ropes and several construction-grade suction cups to make his way up the side of the 58-floor building, evading officers the whole way.
WATCH: Police Snatch Climber on Trump Tower
Watch the dramatic moment when NYPD officers finally grab and bring in the man who climbed Trump Tower for hours Wednesday evening, eluding cops the whole way. Read more here. (Published Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016)
Police, meanwhile, cut out metal grates, lowered window-washing rigs and busted glass windows as they slowly closed in on Rogata from different directions.
Police spoke to Rogata as he climbed and tried to coax him in, and informed him at one point that the suction cups could cause the glass to crack. Rogata ignored officers and continued to climb.
Finally, police pulled out an entire window at the 21st floor, creating a single-pane bottleneck for Rogata. He tried to climb past authorities, but two cops grabbed him and yanked him inside. Down below, the quiet crowd burst into thunderous cheers as the man was pulled to safety.
One of the emergency services unit officers who made the grab told reporters they could tell he was getting tired.
"I lowered a safety line to him and explained to him he should lock himself in, God forbid something happens. He was climbing for awhile, I could see he was getting tired," said ESU Officer Christopher William. "'If you lock this in, we will tie it, we will have you.' He refused to take the line."
When William saw the chance to grab the climber safely, he took it. He said Rogata didn't resist after he was hauled in.
Who Is the Trump Tower Climber?
The Trump Tower climber is apparently a troubled teen from Virginia. Jonathan Dienst reports. (Published Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016)
NYPD Chief of Detectives William Aubry said Rogata is a researcher from Virginia who arrived in New York City Tuesday intent on meeting with Trump. He had no intention of hurting anyone, he told police.
Law enforcement sources said he drove up in his parents' car and was staying at the Bowery Grand Hotel. Relatives told police he was being evaluated for some possible mental disability.
"I just want to climb. I just want to talk to Trump," he kept telling officers as he scaled the skyscraper, according to police officials.
Rogata had suction cups and climbing equipment in his backpack and several IDs, along with some Gatorade, according to officials. He was charged Thursday with reckless endangerment and criminal trespass. It wasn't immediately clear if he had an attorney.
Police officials said Rogata posted a video to YouTube on Tuesday indicating why he was climbing Trump Tower. A law enforcement source said he dropped a flier while he was climbing, and it referenced his YouTube video, which was posted under the name Leven Thumps, a character in a series of children's fantasy novels by the writer Obert Skye.
"I am an independent researcher seeking a private audience with you to discuss an important matter. I guarantee that it's in your interest to honor this request," he said. "Believe me, if my purpose was not significant, I would not risk my life pursuing it. The reason I climbed your tower is to get your attention. If I had sought this via conventional means, I would be much less likely to have success because you are a busy man with many responsibilities."
Naked Man Yelling 'Trump, Where Are You?' Brings Times Square to Standstill
A naked man yelling, "Donald Trump, where are you?", climbed to the top of the red TKTS stairs in Times Square Thursday morning, then fell to the ground in an attempt to escape police, photos and video posted to social media showed. Marc Santia reports. (Published Thursday, June 30, 2016)
There were several tense moments during the climb where the man appeared to stop and motion toward cops who were trying to coax him inside. At one point, he reached inside his book bag to get a white baseball cap and a swig of water. A piece of glass taken out by police also nearly fell on him.
Officers threw a blue towel out of a window at another point in an apparent attempt to coax him in.
Donald Trump didn't mention the incident during a campaign event in Florida Wednesday evening, but tweeted later: "Great job today by the NYPD in protecting the people and saving the climber."
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Solution: | The man who scaled Trump Tower using suction cups Wednesday afternoon apparently just wanted to chat. NBC New York identifies the climber as Stephen Rogata, a 19-year-old from Virginia who was taken to Bellevue Hospital for psychiatric evaluation after cops hauled him in from the 21st floor. "I am an independent researcher seeking a private audience with you to discuss an important matter," a man believed to be Rogata says in a brief YouTube video titled "Message to Mr. Trump" posted under the name of children's fantasy character Leven Thumps. "The reason I climbed your tower is to get your attention," Rogata says in the video. "If I had sought this via conventional means, I would be much less likely to have success because you are a busy man with many responsibilities." He urged anybody else watching the video to share it—and to vote for Trump in November. Trump lives at the top of the 58-story tower, but he was away Wednesday for campaign rallies in Virginia and Florida, the New York Daily News reports. "Great job today by the NYPD in protecting the people and saving the climber," Trump tweeted after Rogata was taken away. |
Teacher: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
Solution: The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini.
Reason: The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
Now, solve this instance: It is the only London station that provides an interchange between rail , Underground , and Tramlink services .
Student: | Wimbledon is a National Rail , London Underground , and Tramlink station located on Wimbledon Bridge , Wimbledon in London , and is the only London station that provides an interchange between main line rail , Underground , and Tramlink . |
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.
[EX Q]: A record producer or track producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process. The roles of a producer vary. They may gather musical ideas for the project, collaborate with the artists to select cover tunes or original songs by the artist / group, work with artists and help them to improve their songs, lyrics or arrangements.
[EX A]: what is the function of a music producer
[EX Q]: The Treaty of Tordesillas (Portuguese: Tratado de Tordesilhas (tɾɐˈtaðu ðɨ tuɾðɨˈziʎɐʃ), Spanish: Tratado de Tordesillas (tɾaˈtaðo ðe toɾðeˈsiʎas)), signed at Tordesillas on June 7, 1494, and authenticated at Setúbal, Portugal, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between the Portuguese Empire and the Crown of Castile, along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa. This line of demarcation was about halfway between the Cape Verde islands (already Portuguese) and the islands entered by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage (claimed for Castile and León), named in the treaty as Cipangu and Antilia (Cuba and Hispaniola).
[EX A]: who gave portugal a direct sea route to india
[EX Q]: Viral disease is usually detected by clinical presentation, for instance severe muscle and joint pains preceding fever, or skin rash and swollen lymph glands. Laboratory investigation is not directly effective in detecting viral infections, because they do not themselves increase the white blood cell count. Laboratory investigation may be useful in diagnosing associated bacterial infections, however. Viral infections are commonly of limited duration, so treatment usually consists in reducing the symptoms; antipyretic and analgesic drugs are commonly prescribed.
[EX A]: | the most common treatment for systemic viral diseases is
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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: New Legitimacy: Organized crime was soon to have a formidable adversary in its bid to control Las Vegas — corporate cash. Though Las Vegas had developed a powerful local economy, few major outside investments were made in the city, due primarily to mob infiltration and its inherent ties to illegal activities. That would change dramatically with the 1966 arrival of billionaire Howard Hughes. A legitimate businessman, Hughes was nonetheless eccentric and dramatic, a style suited to the Las Vegas ethos. True to the myth, the reclusive Hughes immediately cloistered himself in the Desert Inn's penthouse. Several weeks later he was asked — then ordered — to vacate the room to make room for high rollers, whereupon he promptly bought the property and fired the management. Thus began Hughes' legendary three-year, $300-million Las Vegas buying spree. When it was over, Hughes owned six casinos, an airport, and an airline, along with numerous plots of land stretching from the Strip to the mountains. Hughes' actions would have beneficial repercussions, both immediate and lasting. Because of the new legitimacy Las Vegas acquired from Hughes' investments, established companies such as Hilton Hotels bought into the gaming business, and their influence helped draw a line in the desert sand between legitimate operations and mob casinos, where illegal skimming of profits was rampant. That, combined with the formation of the Nevada Gaming Control Board, would signal the beginning of the end for heavy mob influence in the city. Las Vegas with a Vision As corporations moved in and the mob was slowly pushed out, a new Las Vegas emerged. The legitimization of gambling led to its increased legalization across the US. What was once a sure thing became much more competitive. Casino operators had to reassess the nature of their business. The first to really do so was Steve Wynn, a Las Vegas resident and owner of the Golden Nugget. In the mid-1980s, Wynn began plans to reinvigorate Las Vegas with a new resort. He bought several Strip properties — the Silver Slipper and Castaways among them — and demolished them to make way for a new kind of resort — Mirage — which became an instant success. <sep>What did Hughes do as soon as he arrived in Vegas in 1966?<sep>He bought several Strip properties
Output: | No |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
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: A proposed explanation for a phenomenon that can be tested is a?, Context: Anthropologists believe the most significant benefit would have been the use of dogs' robust sense of smell to assist with the hunt. The relationship between the presence of a dog and success in the hunt is often mentioned as a primary reason for the domestication of the wolf, and a 2004 study of hunter groups with and without a dog gives quantitative support to the hypothesis that the benefits of cooperative hunting was an important factor in wolf domestication.
Solution: | hypothesis |
IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to do a forest bath
Set aside the time necessary for this therapeutic exercise.
For a single forest bathing session, set aside two to four hours for an excursion that is at least a half-mile long. Keep in mind that this extended time frame involves several stops for becoming aware of your senses, moments of sitting still, and mindful immersion.
OPTIONS:
- You need to recognize every shimmer, aroma, sound, and temperature in your environment, and always set aside at least one hour for this exercise. Carefully note everything or everything about this place.
- This is the importance of this stretching exercise, as you cannot travel that distance without taking deep breaths. Make sure that you are comfortable with it and thoroughly clean all surfaces of all objects such as the changing water, soap and body colors of the water.
- The time frame may be increased, but two consistent hours of exposure to this outdoor therapy environment will maximize noticeable improvements to mood and overall health. It is important to note that like any other therapeutic exercise, forest-bathing will require multiple sessions.
- Know what to do in this gentle cleanse. Take a first step into the water to ensure your body is completely submerged and warm.
OUT: The time frame may be increased, but two consistent hours of exposure to this outdoor therapy environment will maximize noticeable improvements to mood and overall health. It is important to note that like any other therapeutic exercise, forest-bathing will require multiple sessions.
Question:
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence for the following:
How to make vegan eggplant mayonnaise
Steam the eggplant slices until soft.
Put the steamed slices into a blender.
Add the remaining ingredients to the blender.
OPTIONS:
- Blend the mayonnaise, red wine, lemon zest, panko's, green onions, garlic powder, and ginger, to the blender. Blend the mixture until it has a smooth, sugar-free consistency.
- Add the celery, lemon juice, and garlic to a blender. Pulse the mixture to break up any lumps.
- Toss in the garlic cloves, in few dashes. Puree the ingredients with a little water to wash them.
- Affix the lid and blend until smooth. Pour the mayonnaise into a serving container, such as a jug.
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Answer:
Affix the lid and blend until smooth. Pour the mayonnaise into a serving container, such as a jug.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
How to buy autographs on ebay
Click the feedback link under " seller inf.
" positive feedback should be at least 90 %. It is unrealistic to expect 100% approval for high-volume sellers since busy sellers are bound to have some disgruntled or unreasonable buyers.
OPTIONS:
- Not many bands use ebay to sell autographed autographs. You should find this button beneath the description field on the upper left corner of the screen.
- The feedback page is at the top, and you can find a few links below that. Navigate to system preferences and select " shows, " or " cash purchases.
- Click the " me " link, if available. This will tell you if the seller is affiliated with reputable autograph collecting organizations.
- Save any autographed ticket you don't want on ebay. Save your company information if you don't already have it.
A: Click the " me " link, if available. This will tell you if the seller is affiliated with reputable autograph collecting organizations.
How to make a furry mouse toy for cats
Gather materials.
In order to make a furry mouse toy, you will need to use good quality wool felt. This will give the mouse a nice furry feel.
OPTIONS:
- It will also make the fur shiny and strong. You can use any kind of wool felt that you want, but for a toy mouse you will need : 200 mm-10 inch (1.96 inch) length of double sided plastic wrap.
- You can use either wool felt or patterned felt. Wool felt looks nice with a fluffy voice and helps to relax a stiff mouse.
- You will also need scissors and a pencil to cut the wool felt. Cut your wool felt in the shape of a claw.
- You'll also need a handful of other items. These items can be purchased at most craft stores.
You'll also need a handful of other items. These items can be purchased at most craft stores.
question: Complete the next sentence:
How to stop zoning out
Remove distractions.
Distractions are at the bane of meaningful and attentive conversation or productive work. Yet, in today's society, they are everywhere.
OPTIONS:
- Eliminating their distractions is a key concern for every productive person. Eliminate distractions from all potential employment opportunities.
- If you spend sufficient time and effort eliminating distractions, they may not interfere with your interactions with other people. Distracting must be done in moderation and not continuously and efficiently.
- Take a moment to clear your head of them--preferably with a single friend or family member--if you are navigating a cluttered world of distraction. Try counting sheep on a cool afternoon afternoon.
- Wherever you look, there's something vying for your attention, which can make sustained attention skills difficult to develop. You can maximize the success of active listening by decreasing distractions and cutting out multitasking.
answer: Wherever you look, there's something vying for your attention, which can make sustained attention skills difficult to develop. You can maximize the success of active listening by decreasing distractions and cutting out multitasking.
IN: What happens next?
How to make a tuna egg omelet
Preheat your pan.
Use a frying pan or skillet and add about 1 tbsp of cooking oil to it. Warm it over medium heat.
OPTIONS:
- If the pan is too hot at the gas stove, use more oil or a less hot pan. Add 1 tbsp of tuna to the pan and stir it.
- The oil should thicken up and spread while you stir it into the pan. Avoid stirring or heating it too frequently or it may not stick properly to the pan.
- Cut the tuna into pieces before heating. Use a serrated knife to cut each piece into quarters.
- Don't let your pan get so hot that the oil begins to smoke. Once the oil is shimmering and covers the surface of the pan it's ready.
OUT: | Don't let your pan get so hot that the oil begins to smoke. Once the oil is shimmering and covers the surface of the pan it's ready. |
input hypothesis: Party at the NSA is most popular in Europe
Context: "Party at the NSA" is a protest song and charity single originally recorded by electropop music group Yacht released in August 15, 2013. It was written, recorded, and produced by Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans. Inspired by the 2013 global surveillance disclosures, proceeds from the single benefit the international non-profit digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation.
true or false: It's impossible to say
input hypothesis: Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy was only on TV
Context: Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy is a 2017 documentary film broadcast in the United Kingdom by ITV on 24 July 2017 and the United States by HBO on 24 July 2017. It will also air on Seven Network in Australia, CBC in Canada, Three in New Zealand, NRK in Norway, YLE in Finland and TV2 in Denmark. It aired on Aug 20th, 2017 on CBC News Network.
true or false: It's impossible to say
input hypothesis: President Obama wanted the Guantanamo bay prison to be shut down.
Context: WASHINGTON - A Pentagon report on Guantanamo prison ordered by President Barack Obama concludes conditions for inmates are in line with Geneva Conventions and other legal obligations, a US official said Friday. The report was due to be delivered to the White House by Saturday as part of a landmark executive order issued by Obama last month mandating the closure of the "war on terror" detention camp. The official, who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity, said the review conducted by Admiral Patrick Walsh found that detainees were treated humanely, in accordance with the Geneva Conventions and other laws recognized by the United States.
true or false: Yes
input hypothesis: Philip Ramos is the only Assembly member for the 6th District of the New York Assembly.
Context: Philip Ramos (born April 6, 1956) is the Assembly member for the 6th District of the New York Assembly. He is a Democrat. The district includes portions of the town of Islip, including Bay Shore, Brentwood, Central Islip and Islandia in Suffolk County on Long Island
true or false: | It's impossible to say |
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
Game show hosts sits on a stage talking into the microphone on an asian show as asian words stream across the bottom. we
OPTIONS:
- see people start playing their drums and harmonica.
- see the crowd then a host is talking to a young child standing on the stage.
- see black signs with white words.
- see the host and host in on a stage playing the drums.
A: see the crowd then a host is talking to a young child standing on the stage.
IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
A gymnast runs fast, then he jumps long in a stadium full of people. Two men walk holding javelins. After, the gymnast jumps happily. people
OPTIONS:
- show titles of the films.
- performs competitions with medals and awards.
- hug the gymnast while city paved with judges.
- take pictures of the gymnast.
OUT: take pictures of the gymnast.
Question:
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence for the following:
How to choose a natural sunscreen
Look for 10 percent zinc oxide or titanium dioxide.
Natural sunscreens often use ingredients that physically, rather than chemically, block the sun. Because these don't offer a high spf on their own, you need to make sure they have a high enough concentration in the sunscreen to actually block the sun's uv rays.
OPTIONS:
- Leave the sunscreen on your face at all times, or take it off when you're using sunscreen or take a shower. Even sunscreen that is produced with zinc oxide will leave you with zinc oxide in your skin.
- Zinc oxide is a plastic sunlight absorbing agent. It will compensate for your copper and titanium electrolyte needs by protecting you from uv light, as well as using their uv wavelengths.
- Choose a sunscreen that has a 10 percent or higher concentration of zinc oxide or titanium dioxide. These two ingredients are the only fda-approved ingredients for blocking the sun that are often used in natural sunscreens.
- The middle part of a sun protected product may also be the sun itself. Zinc oxide can also be found in petroleum products, including margarine or olive oil.
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Answer:
Choose a sunscreen that has a 10 percent or higher concentration of zinc oxide or titanium dioxide. These two ingredients are the only fda-approved ingredients for blocking the sun that are often used in natural sunscreens.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
How to teach sex education
Familiarize yourself with your local sex education requirements.
Every school, state, province, or country will have its own set of requirements on how sex education can be taught. In most cases, if you are a professional educator, you will most likely be required to follow a certain curriculum provided for you.
OPTIONS:
- In some cases, your school may provide applicants with specialized knowledge on sexuality to ensure the growth of these students and help ensure the training for sex education is more efficient. Check to see what levels your school will require you to complete to ensure you're accepted into the right program.
- For example : In the united states, the u.s, department of health & human service identifies 28 evidence-based curriculums that are eligible to be taught. Your school or program may provide you materials and information from these curriculums.
- There are usually often a variety of course materials including guides, pamphlets, etc. Your local doctor or hospital may even provide maps.
- This may include instructing your students on how to behave, how to avoid hitting or stinging another student, how to use genital control in public, or how to treat homosexuals. Look into the sexual educator's certification.
A: For example : In the united states, the u.s, department of health & human service identifies 28 evidence-based curriculums that are eligible to be taught. Your school or program may provide you materials and information from these curriculums.
How to start a decorating business
Visit high-end spaces.
Visiting spaces that have been designed by a professional interior designer or decorator will help train your eye, enabling you to learn more about the most desirable trends.
Pay attention to color schemes, space planning, and small details.
OPTIONS:
- Ask the decorator about trendy or bold furnishings. If your taste is outside of that concern, walk into the space you're interested in.
- Think about which of these items you want to establish an overall decorating business in-order to attract more clientele. Build a portfolio of your product for meaningful visitors.
- Keep a notebook with you and record your observations, both positive and negative. This is a great way to grow and learn as a decorator.
- Look for spaces that already have a lot of color in them, while also letting you explore features in multiple rooms or areas. Avoid spaces with huge ceiling fans or light fixtures.
Keep a notebook with you and record your observations, both positive and negative. This is a great way to grow and learn as a decorator.
Problem: Write the next sentence for:
How to have the courage to speak up
Stop feeling guilty.
Speaking up for yourself may cause you to step out of your comfort zone. You may feel leery about doing so because you don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.
OPTIONS:
- However, if you look out for your well-being, while still being respectful towards others, you have every right to take care of your needs. When you say " no " to someone, don't focus on what you said no to, but instead think about what you said yes to.
- You may fear you will hurt others in the future if you speak out. However, no one cares what happens in the future.
- It is important to stand back and ask yourself why you did something so you can take responsibility for your actions. Determine what you wish you could change about yourself.
- The reality is, not everything you tell yourself is 100% true. Reacting in a negative way can lead to feelings of depression or self-doubt later..
Next sentence: | However, if you look out for your well-being, while still being respectful towards others, you have every right to take care of your needs. When you say " no " to someone, don't focus on what you said no to, but instead think about what you said yes to. |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Example: what is the first event mentioned?, Context: The Russian Revolution is the series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union. Following the abdication of Nicholas II of Russia, the Russian Provisional Government was established. In October 1917, a red faction revolution occurred in which the Red Guard, armed groups of workers and deserting soldiers directed by the Bolshevik Party, seized control of Saint Petersburg (then known as Petrograd) and began an immediate armed takeover of cities and villages throughout the former Russian Empire.
Example solution: Russian Revolution
Example explanation: This is a good example, and the Russian Revolution is the first event mentioned.
Problem: what name in the passage ends with n?, Context: In economics, notable Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winners Milton Friedman, a major advisor to Republican U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Conservative British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, George Stigler, Nobel laureate and proponent of regulatory capture theory, Gary Becker, an important contributor to the family economics branch of economics, Herbert A. Simon, responsible for the modern interpretation of the concept of organizational decision-making, Paul Samuelson, the first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and Eugene Fama, known for his work on portfolio theory, asset pricing and stock market behaviour, are all graduates. American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author Thomas Sowell is also an alumnus.
| Solution: Herbert A. Simon |
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: MALS was formed here more than 30 years ago. Today, 14 staff attorneys, 26 office workers and 21 University of Memphis third- year law students work out of rented offices in the old Claridge Hotel building at 109 N. Main. Offices are spartan. There are no lush rugs or stylish furniture. The large table in the conference room is simple varnished wood. Offices are small and mostly plain, except for the eclectic mix of pop art, African statuary and neon that adorns litigation director Webb Brewer's space. Brewer, who has been at the agency 20 years, said there is a need for lawyers of all stripes to help with the problems of the poor. "The private bar could meet more of the need through pro bono work, but there are still cases that involve the systemic problems for low-income people that we would need to do," said Brewer. "The legal system marketplace just doesn't serve low-income people too well, except in fee-generat-ing type cases," Brewer said. "If a poor person gets run over by a bus, an attorney might take that case because they might be able to recover part of the damage award as attorney fees. But so many of the cases we handle have to do with basic rights and a decent life. There is just no profit motive." Larry Pivnick, law professor at the University of Memphis Law School and director of political programs at MALS, said Legal Services is a great learning laboratory for law students. "There are thousands and thousands of people who have problems that never get an opportunity to appear in court," Pivnick said. "Some people may not be particularly articulate. Courts have rules that clients don't always understand." Brewer said a major focus of the agency's work involves housing. "Although a lot of our work is grant-driven, we find that the lack of safe and decent affordable housing and the prevalence of predatory lending are the biggest problems in our client population," Brewer said, referring to clients such as James. <sep>Webb Brewer's office is located in what old hotel?<sep>They are located in the Claridge Hotel
Output: | Yes |
Teacher:In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: On October 15, Vermont inmate Roger Brown died of metastatic cancer at the prison infirmary in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. He wrote in his diary that prison medical staff provided him with ibuprofen, Tylenol and gel shoe inserts to manage his pain and never told him about the cancer that was causing it.
Here's a diary entry he wrote on Sept. 23:
“Saturday. Awake all night again. Back pain real bad. Breakfast, lunch, waiting for yard. Agony still. So much ibuprofen starting to scare me, not taking care of the pain. Supper.”
Brown was one of more than 200 Vermont inmates sent to state prison in Pennsylvania due to a shortage of beds in Vermont.
According to his diary, he spent weeks asking staff in Pennsylvania for medical care and receiving little more than over the counter drugs.
There's no evidence in the diary that Roger Brown knew he had cancer.
“Can't sleep at night. Hip on fire. Painful. I think it's broken,” he wrote on Sept. 25.
The diary was mailed to VPR, and Brown's widow confirmed that the handwriting in the diary belonged to her late husband.
“This is government-funded suffering, and death in some ways," says Anna Stevens, the outreach director for the advocacy group Vermonters for Criminal Justice Reform. "You know, he did not get the medical treatment or care that he clearly, clearly needed.”
Corresponding with current and former inmates and their families, Stevens says she's heard similar stories.
“Seeking help, seeking support, be it medical, be it mental, be it about addiction, anything - is kind of a very slow very arduous, relatively unattentive process,” she says.
State corrections officials refused to comment on Roger Brown's specific case because they haven't yet completed a required review of his death.
Benjamin Watts is the health services director for Vermont's Department of Corrections.
He says there's a full review that puts together a timeline and all available facts of the case, “which is reviewed very closely, usually numerous times by me, the director of nursing, and the chief of mental health who work as part of the health services division to get a sense of what the root cause of the issue was, whether there were any policy and procedure violations, and what steps could be taken to improve health care services going forward.”
Roger Brown's diary entries, July-October 2017
Watts and other top Vermont corrections officials interviewed for this story said the department faces challenges delivering high-quality care to all of the state's inmates, but they denied allegations that there is an "empathy gap" between staff and inmates.
Commissioner Lisa Menard says providing health care for inmates incarcerated by the state of Vermont is a duty her department takes very seriously.
Because case specifics are protected by patient privacy laws, and because prisons are inherently insulated from public view, it's hard to tell how those health care services are measuring up.
Roger Brown was serving time for lewd and lascivious conduct with a child and was scheduled for release in April 2019.
In online comments, some Vermonters have expressed the opinion that inmates gave up their rights by committing crimes — and that prison health care standards should not be a major concern.
Tom Dalton, the executive director of Vermonters for Criminal Justice Reform, says that attitude undermines democracy itself.
“You know how we treat the least popular among us says a lot about how seriously we take our constitutional protections and our legal protections,” Dalton says. “When someone's convicted of a crime and they become incarcerated, they're paying the penalty for their crime. But the penalty is the incarceration, it's not added suffering due to medical neglect.”
By the end of September, Brown's condition was deteriorating.
“Couldn't sleep at all again last night,” he wrote. “After going to medical, my back has been in spasms ever since. Lunch, supper. Pill line again tonight. Still no pain medication.”
A few days later, Brown stopped writing in his diary because he was in too much pain.
His roommate Clifton Matthews took over.
“Roger continues to go downhill. I'm frantic. I can't get the staff to do anything,” he wrote sometime between Oct. 7 and 12.
Matthews tried for more than two weeks to get help for Brown.
This is the last entry, from Oct. 14.
“Roger continued to fail all day. He is down to bones and moans. I'm frantic. I get officer Bilous to look in on Roger. He agrees and we move him up to medical under another medical emergency. That is at 7 p.m. By 8 p.m. we get him admitted to the infirmary. This is the last time I saw Roger alive.
"We were continually rebuked and refused medical attention, told repeatedly it was all in his head, even at the point where he could no longer stand or sit up.”
On October 15, 2017, Roger Brown died in prison in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. His cause of death was listed as metastatic cancer. He was 68.
Camp Hill prison officials refused to be interviewed about Brown's case, but they released the following statement:
"Mr. Brown's Vermont DOC medical record was delivered to the State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill along with the inmate on June 12, 2017. At the time of reception, this inmate received a complete medical evaluation and was provided any necessary treatment in accordance with DOC policy."
Pennsylvania is also conducting a review of Brown's death.
Two weeks after Brown died, a Vermont inmate who was recently transferred to an in-state prison from the Pennsylvania prison also died of cancer. His name was Tim Adams.
Vermont DOC officials are expected to conduct a review of his death too. ||||| MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont inmate who died of cancer at a Pennsylvania prison wrote in a diary that he repeatedly asked for medical care but was denied and given ibuprofen and Tylenol for his pain.
Sixty-eight-year-old Roger Brown died Oct. 15 at the state prison in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.
The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections is reviewing the death. The Vermont Department of Corrections will do the same.
In a diary obtained by The Associated Press, Brown wrote about burning pain in his rib cage, back and hip that prevented him from sleeping and became unbearable.
VTDigger first reported on the diary.
A Pennsylvania corrections spokeswoman says the department provides "the level of care needed no matter the inmate, no matter their condition." |||||
Student: | A Vermont inmate who died of cancer at a Pennsylvania prison wrote in a diary that he repeatedly asked for medical care but was denied and given ibuprofen and Tylenol for his pain. Sixty-eight-year-old Roger Brown died Oct. 15 at the state prison in Camp Hill, Penn. The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections is reviewing the death. The Vermont Department of Corrections will do the same. In a diary obtained by the AP, Brown wrote about burning pain in his rib cage, back, and hip that prevented him from sleeping and became unbearable. A Pennsylvania corrections spokeswoman says the department provides "the level of care needed no matter the inmate, no matter their condition." Vermont Public Radio has entries from Brown's diary, including this one, from Sept. 23: "Saturday. Awake all night again. Back pain real bad. Breakfast, lunch, waiting for yard. Agony still. So much ibuprofen starting to scare me, not taking care of the pain. Supper." It notes that there's nothing in the diary to suggest Brown was ever aware he had cancer. His roommate began writing in the diary in early October: "Roger continues to go downhill. I'm frantic. I can't get the staff to do anything." (This is another graphic look at prison health care.) |
Q: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
enduring questions about the nature and production of knowledge happened during what?, Context: Sociocultural anthropology has been heavily influenced by structuralist and postmodern theories, as well as a shift toward the analysis of modern societies. During the 1970s and 1990s, there was an epistemological shift away from the positivist traditions that had largely informed the discipline.[page needed] During this shift, enduring questions about the nature and production of knowledge came to occupy a central place in cultural and social anthropology. In contrast, archaeology and biological anthropology remained largely positivist. Due to this difference in epistemology, the four sub-fields of anthropology have lacked cohesion over the last several decades.
A: | an epistemological shift away from the positivist traditions |
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Q: SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — A father was killed and his 9-year-old daughter critically injured Sunday while walking along a Florida beach when a small plane crash landed on the Gulf Coast only feet from the surf, authorities said.
This Sunday, July 27, 2014, photo provided by the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office shows emergency personnel at the scene of a small plane crash in Caspersen Beach in Venice, Fla. Authorities say a father... (Associated Press)
This Sunday, July 27, 2014, photo provided by the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office shows emergency personnel at the scene of a small plane crash in Caspersen Beach in Venice, Fla. Authorities say a father... (Associated Press)
Wendy Rose, a spokeswoman for the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office, said the pilot and his only passenger weren't hurt when the Piper aircraft lost power and touched down Sunday afternoon on a beach in Venice, Florida, as the two from Georgia were waling along the sand.
"A man and one of his children who were walking on the beach were apparently injured by the plane," said Rose, adding the 36-year-old man from Georgia was later pronounced dead.
She said events began unfolding about 2:45 p.m. Sunday when the Venice airport received a distress call that the plane was unable to return to the airport.
"They were contacted by a pilot whose small plane was in distress. He knew he couldn't make it back to the airport and was going to try to land on the beach. And he did land at the edge of the water on the beach," Rose said.
She said the girl was airlifted to a children's hospital where she was in critical condition. Details of her injuries weren't immediately released
New photos and video footage from the beach showed the Piper Cherokee, its nose pointed down and nearly touching white sands only feet from what appeared to be a gentle lapping surf. The left wing appeared to extend slightly over the water's edge. A police boat was anchored nearby and a law enforcement officer stood beside the aircraft. Bystanders gawked from a distance.
Kathleen Bergen, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration, told The Associated Press in an email that the FAA was investigating. She said the plane reportedly lost power and landed on the sand near Caspersen Beach in Venice but she had no further details as of Sunday evening.
National Transportation and Safety Board investigators have headed to the site.
"We don't know exactly what caused the crash but the NTSB is en route and will investigate," added Rose, a community affairs manager for the sheriff's office.
Rose later released a statement identifying the dead man as 36-year-old Ommy Irizarry and the injured girl as Oceana Irizarry, 9. Rose said that while they were from Georgia, it wasn't immediately known exactly where they were from in the neighboring state.
The statement said 57-year-old Karl Kokomoor was the pilot and his passenger was David Theen, 60, both of Englewood, Florida. ||||| A father from Georgia was killed and his 9-year-old daughter critically injured while walking along Venice’s Caspersen Beach when a small plane crash landed Sunday on only feet from the surf, Sarasota County authorities said.
Wendy Rose, a spokeswoman for the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office, said the pilot and his passenger weren’t hurt when the Piper aircraft lost power and touched down Sunday afternoon.
“A man and one of his children who were walking on the beach were apparently injured by the plane,” said Rose, adding the man was later pronounced dead.
The man who died was identified as 36-year-old Ommy Irizarry. His daughter, Oceana, was taken by BayFlite to All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg and was listed in critical condition. Both are from Georgia, but officials did not provide a city.
The were hit by the plane or debris, officials said.
The pilot was identified as 57-year-old Karl Kokomoor and his passenger as 60-year-old David Theen, both of Englewood.
Rose said events began unfolding about 2:45 p.m. Sunday when the Venice Municipal Airport received a distress call that the plane couldn’t make it back to the airport.
“They were contacted by a pilot whose small plane was in distress. He knew he couldn’t make it back to the airport and was going to try to land on the beach. And he did land at the edge of the water on the beach,” Rose said.
Photos and video footage taken at the scene showed the Piper Cherokee, its nose pointed down and nearly touching white sands only feet from a gentle lapping surf. The left wing appeared to extend over the water’s edge. A police boat was anchored nearby and a law enforcement officer stood close by. Bystanders gawked from a distance.
Kathleen Bergen, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said the agency was investigating. She said the plane reportedly lost power and landed on the sand near Caspersen Beach in Venice but she had no further details as of Sunday evening.
National Transportation and Safety Board investigators have headed to the site.
“We don’t know exactly what caused the crash but the NTSB is en route and will investigate,” added Rose, a community affairs manager for the sheriff’s office. |||||
A: | A man walking along a beach in Florida with his young daughter yesterday afternoon was killed by a crash-landing light plane. Police say 36-year-old Ommy Irizarry from Georgia was killed and his 9-year-old daughter, Oceana, was critically injured when the 1972 Piper Cherokee touched down at the edge of the water on Venice's Caspersen Beach, the Tampa Tribune reports. It's not clear whether Irizarry was hit by the plane or by debris, police say. A woman who witnessed the crash was hospitalized with chest pains, ABC reports. The light plane's 57-year-old pilot and his passenger were not injured in the crash, says a police spokeswoman. Before the crash, the Venice airport was "contacted by a pilot whose small plane was in distress," she says. "He knew he couldn’t make it back to the airport and was going to try to land on the beach. And he did land at the edge of the water on the beach." A Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman tells the AP that the plane apparently lost power and the FAA is investigating the crash. |
Context:
Scott Stevens, the Idaho meteorologist who claimed that a weather manipulating conspiracy (possibly under the control of Japanese Yakuza mafia) caused Hurricane Katrina, has quit his job at KPVI-TV in Pocatello.
Hypothesis: he also claimed that the japanese yakuza mafia wants to target louisiana
It's impossible to say
Context:
Essentially there were a lot of people in the community who were standing and speaking at this meeting because they wanted to warn the school board that they were not in favor of any legal action coming against the community, against the school board. They were afraid for their tax dollars.
Hypothesis: most of the community' members went with their kids to the meeting.
It's impossible to say
Context:
Talent Show<br>Trisha went to a very large high school. She wanted a way to make more friends. Trisha had a very special talent. When the yearly talent show approached she entered. Trisha won the talent show with her performance of a Beatles song.
Hypothesis: Trisha is not in college.
| Yes |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Real Valladolid Club de Fu ́ tbol is a Spanish football team ( also known as Pucela ) .
| Real Valladolid Club de Fu ́ tbol , S.A.D. , or simply Real Valladolid ( -RSB- ) or Valladolid , is a football club based in Valladolid ( Castile and Leo ́ n , Spain ) from where the nickname " Pucela " is derived . |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Let me give you an example: what is the first event mentioned?, Context: The Russian Revolution is the series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union. Following the abdication of Nicholas II of Russia, the Russian Provisional Government was established. In October 1917, a red faction revolution occurred in which the Red Guard, armed groups of workers and deserting soldiers directed by the Bolshevik Party, seized control of Saint Petersburg (then known as Petrograd) and began an immediate armed takeover of cities and villages throughout the former Russian Empire.
The answer to this example can be: Russian Revolution
Here is why: This is a good example, and the Russian Revolution is the first event mentioned.
OK. solve this:
Based on the passage, we can infer that if two people differed in scientific ways, what would we observe on their genome maps?, Context: Craig Venter and Francis Collins of the National Institute of Health jointly made the announcement of the mapping of the human genome in 2000. Upon examining the data from the genome mapping, Venter realized that although the genetic variation within the human species is on the order of 1–3% (instead of the previously assumed 1%), the types of variations do not support notion of genetically defined races. Venter said, "Race is a social concept. It's not a scientific one. There are no bright lines (that would stand out), if we could compare all the sequenced genomes of everyone on the planet." "When we try to apply science to try to sort out these social differences, it all falls apart."
Answer: | bright lines (that would stand out) |
Instructions: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Input: Besides personality and mood, what do psychologists study?, Context: Many different disciplines have produced work on the emotions. Human sciences study the role of emotions in mental processes, disorders, and neural mechanisms. In psychiatry, emotions are examined as part of the discipline's study and treatment of mental disorders in humans. Nursing studies emotions as part of its approach to the provision of holistic health care to humans. Psychology examines emotions from a scientific perspective by treating them as mental processes and behavior and they explore the underlying physiological and neurological processes. In neuroscience sub-fields such as social neuroscience and affective neuroscience, scientists study the neural mechanisms of emotion by combining neuroscience with the psychological study of personality, emotion, and mood. In linguistics, the expression of emotion may change to the meaning of sounds. In education, the role of emotions in relation to learning is examined.
Output: | emotions |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context (see options)?
Context:
The Dark Eyes of London is a 1939 British horror film directed by Walter Summers, starring Béla Lugosi and Greta Gynt. The film is an adaptation of the 1924 novel of the same name by Edgar Wallace. The film is about a scientist named Dr. Orloff who commits a series of murders for insurance money, while periodically disguising himself as the blind manager of a charity to further his scheme.
Hypothesis: Wallace consulted with Summers about the film.
Pick from:
+Yes.
+It's impossible to say.
+No. | It's impossible to say |
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: What a time of it Dawson's Landing was having! All its life it had been asleep, but now it hardly got a chance for a nod, so swiftly did big events and crashing surprises come along in one another's wake: Friday morning, first glimpse of Real Nobility, also grand reception at Aunt Patsy Cooper's, also great robber raid; Friday evening, dramatic kicking of the heir of the chief citizen in presence of four hundred people; Saturday morning, emergence as practicing lawyer of the long-submerged Pudd'nhead Wilson; Saturday night, duel between chief citizen and titled stranger. The people took more pride in the duel than in all the other events put together, perhaps. It was a glory to their town to have such a thing happen there. In their eyes the principals had reached the summit of human honor. Everybody paid homage to their names; their praises were in all mouths. Even the duelists' subordinates came in for a handsome share of the public approbation: wherefore Pudd'nhead Wilson was suddenly become a man of consequence. When asked to run for the mayoralty Saturday night, he was risking defeat, but Sunday morning found him a made man and his success assured. <sep>Besides the duelists, who else received the town's honors?<sep>President
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.
Pangaea or Pangea (/ pænˈdʒiːə /) was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras. It assembled from earlier continental units approximately 335 million years ago, and it began to break apart about 175 million years ago. In contrast to the present Earth and its distribution of continental mass, much of Pangaea was in the southern hemisphere and surrounded by a superocean, Panthalassa. Pangaea was the most recent supercontinent to have existed and the first to be reconstructed by geologists. | when did all the continents combine into the pangaean supercontinent |
Input: OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
He met U.S. President, George W. Bush, in Washington and British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, in London.
Sentence: He met the British Prime Minister in Washington.
Output: No
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
An Inconvenient Penguin is a short film, released online in Amazon's UnBox store on August 11, 2008. The film is a spoof of "An Inconvenient Truth" and "March of the Penguins". It was produced by Precipice Productions and stars Lance Reifschneider, Rasika Mathur, Jenny Mollen, and Eric Matikosh.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: The short film that came out in unbox store in august was short of 11 mintutes. It i called an inconvenient penguin.
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Answer:
It's impossible to say
[Q]: The discography of Limp Bizkit, an American nu metal band, consists of five studio albums, three compilation albums, one remix album, one live album, one extended play, 26 singles, three promotional singles, 27 music videos and two video albums. Limp Bizkit formed in 1995 in Jacksonville, Florida. The band has sold an estimated 50 million albums worldwide. Limp Bizkit was helped by MTV to become stars. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: It's impossible to say
Problem: How to lose weight over 40<br>Enjoy a colorful variety of fruits and vegetables. Every person needs at least 1-1.5 cups (240-260 ml) of fruit and 2.5-3 cups (605-680 ml) of vegetables every day. Eating whole fruits and vegetables including raspberries, kale, squash, blueberries, pineapple or peppers can help you get your daily allowances.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Watery fruits are the best"? OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: It's impossible to say
Q: Chic Mystique was a top 25 hit in European countries
"Chic Mystique" is a song by American disco and R&B act Chic. Written and produced by guitarist Nile Rodgers, it was the second single from the album "Chic-Ism" and was a number-one hit on the "Billboard" Hot Dance Club Play in the U.S. and achieved a moderate success in many European countries where it was only a top 25 hit.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: Yes
Q: Robert Kennedy drew from the speeches of Martin Luther King.
Mr. Speaker, Robert Kennedy once said each time a person stands up for an ideal, strikes out against injustice, they send forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centres of energy, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of resistance.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | It's impossible to say |
Given the task definition, example input & output, solve the new input case.
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Example: The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
Output: The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini.
The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
New input case for you: A cue stick ( or simply cue ) , is a kind of stick used for sports like pool , snooker and carom billiards .
Output: | A cue stick ( or simply cue , more specifically billiards cue , pool cue , or snooker cue ) , is an item of sporting equipment essential to the games of pool , snooker and carom billiards . |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context?
Context:
The idea of pension funds as funds that are more or less guaranteed by government, through Canada deposit insurance and so on, and all the other things that the federal government has introduced to protect one's pension funds are not available if foreign investments are made although, admittedly, you are only losing 30 per cent.
Hypothesis: From pension fund you are gaining 40% | 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.
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 One and Only Ivan is an American fantasy film based on the children's novel of the same name and directed by Thea Sharrock. The screenplay was written by Mike White and Sam Rockwell stars as the voice of the titular Ivan.
| Solution: is the one and only ivan a movie? |
Definition: In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Input: After what seemed an eternity to Tibo, they arrived at the mouth of a cave between two rocky hills. The opening was low and narrow. A few saplings bound together with strips of rawhide closed it against stray beasts. Bukawai removed the primitive door and pushed Tibo within. The hyenas, snarling, rushed past him and were lost to view in the blackness of the interior. Bukawai replaced the saplings and seizing Tibo roughly by the arm, dragged him along a narrow, rocky passage. The floor was comparatively smooth, for the dirt which lay thick upon it had been trodden and tramped by many feet until few inequalities remained. The passage was tortuous, and as it was very dark and the walls rough and rocky, Tibo was scratched and bruised from the many bumps he received. Bukawai walked as rapidly through the winding gallery as one would traverse a familiar lane by daylight. He knew every twist and turn as a mother knows the face of her child, and he seemed to be in a hurry. He jerked poor little Tibo possibly a trifle more ruthlessly than necessary even at the pace Bukawai set; but the old witch-doctor, an outcast from the society of man, diseased, shunned, hated, feared, was far from possessing an angelic temper. Nature had given him few of the kindlier characteristics of man, and these few Fate had eradicated entirely. Shrewd, cunning, cruel, vindictive, was Bukawai, the witch-doctor. <sep>Were the walls and the floor of the cave smooth?<sep>Yes
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.
Q: Ha Long Bay is located in northeastern Vietnam, from E106 ° 55' to E107 ° 37' and from N20 ° 43' to N21 ° 09'. The bay stretches from Yen Hung district, past Ha Long city, Cam Pha town to Van Don District, bordered on the south and southeast by Lan Ha Bay, on the north by Ha Long city, and on the west by Bai Tu Long Bay. The bay has a 120 km long coastline and is approximately 1,553 km2 in size with about 2,000 islets. The area designated by UNESCO as the World Natural Heritage Site incorporates 434 km2 with 775 islets, of which the core zone is delimited by 69 points: Dau Go island on the west, Ba Ham lake on the south and Cong Tay island on the east. The protected area is from the Cái Dăm petrol store to Quang Hanh commune, Cam Pha town and the surrounding zone.
A: is halong bay in north or south vietnam
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Q: One of the earliest factories was John Lombe's water-powered silk mill at Derby, operational by 1721. By 1746, an integrated brass mill was working at Warmley near Bristol. Raw material went in at one end, was smelted into brass and was turned into pans, pins, wire, and other goods. Housing was provided for workers on site. Josiah Wedgwood in Staffordshire and Matthew Boulton at his Soho Manufactory were other prominent early industrialists, who employed the factory system.
A: where were the first american factories and what was produced in them
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Q: 'Ring a Ring o' Roses' or 'Ring Around the Rosie' or 'Ring a Ring o' Rosie' is a nursery rhyme or folksong and playground singing game. It first appeared in print in 1881, but it is reported that a version was already being sung to the current tune in the 1790s and similar rhymes are known from across Europe. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7925. Urban legend says the song originally described the plague, specifically the Great Plague of London, or the Black Death, but folklorists reject this idea.
A: | where does the song ring around the rosies come from
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In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
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Question: The United States has about 20 species of venomous snakes, which include 16 species of rattlesnakes, two species of coral snakes, one species of cottonmouth (or water moccasin), and one species of copperhead. At least one type of venomous snake is found in every state except Alaska and Hawaii.
Answer: what are the poisonous snakes in the united states
Question: Built by King Henry VIII on the site of a leper hospital dedicated to Saint James the Less, the palace was secondary in importance to the Palace of Whitehall for most Tudor and Stuart monarchs. The palace increased in importance during the reigns of the early Georgian monarchy, but was displaced by Buckingham Palace in the late-18th and early-19th centuries. After decades of being used increasingly for only formal occasions, the move was formalised by Queen Victoria in 1837. Today the palace houses a number of official offices, societies and collections and all ambassadors and high commissioners to the United Kingdom are still accredited to the Court of St James's.
Answer: where did the royal family live before buckingham palace
Question: Constantinople (Greek: Κωνσταντινούπολις Konstantinoúpolis; Latin: Constantinopolis) was the capital city of the Roman / Byzantine (330 -- 1204 and 1261 -- 1453), and also of the brief Latin (1204 -- 1261), and the later Ottoman (1453 -- 1923) empires. It was reinaugurated in 324 AD from ancient Byzantium as the new capital of the Roman Empire by Emperor Constantine the Great, after whom it was named, and dedicated on 11 May 330 AD.
Answer: | how long was constantinople the center of the roman empire
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Q: 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.
In India, the Panchayati Raj now functions as a system of governance in which gram panchayats are the basic units of local administration. The system has three levels: Gram Panchayat (village level), Mandal Parishad or Block Samiti or Panchayat Samiti (block level), and Zila Parishad (district level). It was formalized in 1992 by the 73rd amendment to the Indian Constitution. Currently, the Panchayati Raj system exists in all states except Nagaland, Meghalaya, and Mizoram, and in all Union Territories except Delhi.
A: | 73rd amendment to the constitution of india deals with |
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: Its boundaries are the Carpathians in the north and east, the Transdanubian Mountains and Croatian mountains in the southwest, and approximately the Sava river in the south.
Example Output: where is the great hungarian plain located on a map
Example Input: In camp at Kill Devil Hills, they endured weeks of delays caused by broken propeller shafts during engine tests. After the shafts were replaced (requiring two trips back to Dayton), Wilbur won a coin toss and made a three-second flight attempt on December 14, 1903, stalling after takeoff and causing minor damage to the Flyer. (Because December 13, 1903, was a Sunday, the brothers did not make any attempts that day, even though the weather was good, so their first powered test flight happened on the 121st anniversary of the first test flight that the Montgolfier brothers had done, on December 14, 1782.) In a message to their family, Wilbur referred to the trial as having 'only partial success', stating 'the power is ample, and but for a trifling error due to lack of experience with this machine and this method of starting, the machine would undoubtedly have flown beautifully.' Following repairs, the Wrights finally took to the air on December 17, 1903, making two flights each from level ground into a freezing headwind gusting to 27 miles per hour (43 km / h). The first flight, by Orville at 10: 35 am, of 120 feet (37 m) in 12 seconds, at a speed of only 6.8 miles per hour (10.9 km / h) over the ground, was recorded in a famous photograph. The next two flights covered approximately 175 and 200 feet (53 and 61 m), by Wilbur and Orville respectively. Their altitude was about 10 feet (3.0 m) above the ground. The following is Orville Wright's account of the final flight of the day:
Example Output: how many times did it take the wright brothers to fly
Example Input: Emery boards are generally less abrasive than the metal nail files, and hence, emery boards may take longer to file down nails than metal nail files. However, nail files may play a role in disease transmission if they are used on more than one person without adequate sterilization. Emery boards are usually less expensive than metal nail files, therefore emery boards can be economically disposed of after use on a single person. The nail can be smoothed and shaped accurately by taking light, even strokes in one direction across the top of the nail. Twenty to thirty easy strokes can typically shorten excessively long fingernails, while five to ten strokes are sufficient for shaping the nails.
Example Output: | what is the difference between emery board and nail file
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In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
question:
Passover commences on the 15th of the Hebrew month of Nisan and lasts for either seven days (in Israel and for Reform Jews and other progressive Jews around the world who adhere to the Biblical commandment) or eight days for Orthodox, Hasidic, and most Conservative Jews (in the diaspora). In Judaism, a day commences at dusk and lasts until the following dusk, thus the first day of Passover begins after dusk of the 14th of Nisan and ends at dusk of the 15th day of the month of Nisan. The rituals unique to the Passover celebrations commence with the Passover Seder when the 15th of Nisan has begun. In the Northern Hemisphere Passover takes place in spring as the Torah prescribes it: 'in the month of (the) spring' (בחדש האביב Exodus 23: 15). It is one of the most widely celebrated Jewish holidays.
answer:
when is passover and how long is it
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The immune system is a host defense system comprising many biological structures and processes within an organism that protects against disease. To function properly, an immune system must detect a wide variety of agents, known as pathogens, from viruses to parasitic worms, and distinguish them from the organism's own healthy tissue. In many species, the immune system can be classified into subsystems, such as the innate immune system versus the adaptive immune system, or humoral immunity versus cell-mediated immunity. In humans, the blood -- brain barrier, blood -- cerebrospinal fluid barrier, and similar fluid -- brain barriers separate the peripheral immune system from the neuroimmune system, which protects the brain.
answer:
how many immune systems does the body have
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The origin of the person of Jonas Bronck (c. 1600 -- 43) is contested. Some sources claim he was a Swedish born emigrant from Komstad, Norra Ljunga parish in Småland, Sweden, who arrived in New Netherland during the spring of 1639. Bronck became the first recorded European settler in the area now known as the Bronx and built a farm named 'Emmanus' close to what today is the corner of Willis Avenue and 132nd Street in Mott Haven. He leased land from the Dutch West India Company on the neck of the mainland immediately north of the Dutch settlement in Harlem (on Manhattan Island), and bought additional tracts from the local tribes. He eventually accumulated 500 acres (200 ha) between the Harlem River and the Aquahung, which became known as Bronck's River or the Bronx (River). Dutch and English settlers referred to the area as Bronck's Land. The American poet William Bronk was a descendant of Pieter Bronck, either Jonas Bronck's son or his younger brother. More recent research indicates that Pieter was probably Jonas' nephew or cousin, but certainly of the same family.
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| where does the bronx get its name from
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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.
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: Which word used in singular has nowadays the meaning of Grand Old Party?, Context: The ancient history of Kathmandu is described in its traditional myths and legends. According to Swayambhu Purana, present-day Kathmandu was once a huge and deep lake names "Nagdaha" as it was full of snakes. The lake was cut drained by Bodhisatwa Manjusri with his sword and the water was evacuated out from there and he established a city called Manjupattan and made Dharmakar the ruler of the valley land. After sometimes, a demon named Banasur closed the outlet and the valley was again a lake. Then lots Krishna came to Nepal, killed Banasur and again drained out water. He has brought some Gops with him and made Bhuktaman the king of Nepal.
Solution: | Gops |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Let me give you an example: Timothy likes to play sports. He spends his time after school playing basketball and baseball. Sometimes Timothy pretends he is a famous baseball pitcher for his favorite team with his friends. He plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. Timothy also plays pretend when he is alone. He has an imaginary friend named Sean. Sean is an elephant who watches television with Timothy. Mandy likes playing baseball but she also likes to paint. Mandy's favorite class at school is art. She likes making pictures of flowers. Her teacher says she is a good artist. She painted a picture of a tree for her teacher. There were red and yellow leaves on it. It had apples on it. When Andrew goes home after baseball, he likes to eat a snack. He eats carrots and bananas. If he is a good boy his mom, Mrs. Smith, sometimes gives him milk and cookies. Afterwards, Andrew finishes his homework. <sep>Who does Timothy play with?<sep>Basketball and baseball
The answer to this example can be: No
Here is why: Based on the passage Timothy plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. So, the given answer is incorrect and the output should be "No".
OK. solve this:
Powell contended that it was not inconsistent to want to foster cooperation even with an organization like the Indonesian military, which has a history of human rights abuses. "If you get young officers, expose them to a military organization that is within a democratic political institution, such as the United States, then that rubs off on them," he said. In Malaysia, Powell met with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who has led the country since 1981. The Malaysian foreign minister, Syed Hamid Albar, later told local reporters that Powell had proposed that American and Malaysian officials review the idea of forming a regional training center in Malaysia to coordinate antiterrorism activities. His brief stop in Malaysia also highlighted the moral ambiguities of the effort to prevent terrorism and its emphasis on cooperation with governments that the United States has often criticized. The United States once distanced itself from Mahathir for strong-arm tactics with political rivals, and human rights groups criticize him for arresting and jailing scores of suspected militants, including some who may be linked to al-Qaida, without trial. Powell said his discussions with Mahathir "touched on the case" of his former deputy, Anwar Ibrahim, who is serving a 15-year sentence on charges of sodomy and abuse of power after trials that Powell said the United States had "always felt" were flawed. The assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, James Kelly, met on Tuesday morning with Anwar's wife, Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, for what she later told Malaysian reporters was a discussion about both the detention of her husband and six supporters, and the campaign against terrorism. <sep>What issue does Malaysia seem to continue to have trouble with?<sep>Weapons
Answer: | No |
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence in this paragraph:
A computer generated woman in a computer generated house walks into a wallless bathroom. she
Options are: (I) looks at her feet and walks to the toilet, puts lotion on her hands, brushes her teeth then reappears in the bathroom. (II) removes and replaces items on the wall using hula hoops. (III) uses a toothbrush to start a small powder at the bottom of a large paper bag. (IV) sits on a toilet appearing, with parts of her blurred out and appears to be in distress. | (IV) |
Detailed Instructions: You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Problem:The seventh season of the American ABC fantasy-drama Once Upon a Time was ordered on May 11, 2017. It consisted of 22 episodes, airing on Fridays, having premiered on October 6, 2017.
Solution: | will there be a season 7 of once upon time? |
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:Hidden within a rock from space is a mineral previously unknown to science: panguite.
The new mineral was found embedded in the Allende meteorite, which fell to Earth in 1969. Since 2007, geologist Chi Ma of Caltech has been probing the meteorite with a scanning electron microscope, discovering nine new materials, including panguite.
Ma and his team have determined that panguite was one of the first solid materials to coalesce in our solar system, roughly 4.567 billion years ago. The mineral’s name is a reference to Pan Gu, a primitive, hairy giant from Chinese mythology who separated yin and yang with a swing of his enormous axe, thereby creating the Earth and sky.
Panguite’s primordial nature means that it was actually around before the Earth and other planets formed, meaning it can help scientists learn more about the conditions in the cloud of gas and dust that gave rise to our solar system.
Geology geeks can note that the mineral’s chemical name is (Ti4+,Sc,Al,Mg,Zr,Ca) 1.8 O 3 , meaning that it contains some familiar elements like oxygen, magnesium, and aluminum, but also some more exotic ones like zirconium and scandium. Zirconium in particular is a key element that can help scientists decipher the environment before and during the solar system’s formation.
The International Mineralogical Association’s Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature, and Classification has approved the new mineral and its name and a paper describing its properties was published online June 26 in American Mineralogist.
Image: Chi Ma/Caltech ||||| The new mineral, panguite, occurring with the scadium-rich silicate called davisite was found embedded in a piece of the Allende meteorite.
A fireball that tears across the sky is not just a one-time skywatching event — it can reap scientific dividends long afterward. In fact, one that lit up Mexico's skies in 1969 scattered thousands of meteorite bits across the northern Mexico state of Chihuahua. And now, decades later, that meteorite, named Allende, has divulged a new mineral called panguite.
Panguite is believed to be among the oldest minerals in the solar system, which is about 4.5 billion years old. Panguite belongs to a class of refractory minerals that could have formed only under the extreme temperatures and conditions present in the infant solar system.
The name of the titanium dioxide mineral, which has been approved by the International Mineralogical Association, honors Pan Gu, said in Chinese mythology to be the first living being who created the world by separating yin from yang (forming the earth and sky). [Infographic: The Science of Meteorites]
"Panguite is an especially exciting discovery since it is not only a new mineral, but also a material previously unknown to science," study researcher Chi Ma, a senior scientist at Caltech, said in a statement.
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Until now, panguite had neither been seen in nature nor created in a lab. "It's brand-new to science," Ma told LiveScience in an interview.
The scientists used a scanning-electron microscope to view the panguite within a so-called ultra-refractory inclusion embedded within the meteorite. Inclusions are the minerals that get trapped inside meteorites as they are forming. The ultra-refractory type includes minerals that can resist high temperatures and other conditions in extreme environments, such as those thought to exist as our solar system was forming.
High-tech lab analyses revealed panguite's chemical composition and crystal structure, which Ma said is new, and as such, could be explored for novel engineering materials.
The Allende meteorite, where the mineral was hidden, is the largest of a class of carbonaceous chondrites found on Earth. Chondrites are primitive meteorites that scientists think were remnants shed from the original building blocks of planets. Most meteorites found on Earth fit into this group. (When meteors hit the ground they are called meteorites.)
Before they reach terra firma, most meteorites are fragments of asteroids (space rocks that travel through the solar system), while others are mere cosmic dust shed by comets. Rare meteorites are impact debris from the surfaces of the moon and Mars. The Allende meteorite likely came from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, scientists say.
Studying panguite and other components of the Allende meteorite are essential for understanding the origins of the solar system, Ma said. In fact, Ma's team has discovered nine new minerals, including panguite, in the Allende space rock.
The new mineral is detailed in the July issue of the journal American Mineralogist.
Follow LiveScience on Twitter @livescience. We're also on Facebook & Google+. |||||
Solution: | A mineral new to science but older than our planet has been found in fragments of a meteorite that smashed into northern Mexico in 1969. Panguite was found in bits of the Allende meteorite by Caltech researchers who used an electron-scanning microscope to study minerals that were trapped inside the meteorite as it formed, LiveScience reports. The new titanium oxide mineral, believed to be some 4.5 billion years old, was named after Pan Gu, a giant from Chinese mythology who created the world by separating yin and yang. Panguite contains familiar elements like oxygen and magnesium, as well as more exotic ones like zirconium and scandium, Wired notes. "Panguite is an especially exciting discovery since it is not only a new mineral, but also a material previously unknown to science," noted the lead researcher. The mineral's chemical composition and crystal structure is unique and could be explored for new building materials, he says. |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context?
Context:
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – A water main break could take several hours to fix on the west side. According to Citizens Energy, the 12-inch main broke at 4014 W. Washington St., causing the road to buckle. Officials initially closed both westbound lanes between Collier Street and Wischer Avenue. One westbound lane reopened, and water has been turned off at the break. Eastbound traffic was unaffected.
Hypothesis: A water main break is easy to fix | No |
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to encourage good study habits in a child
Pick a spot away from the television.
Eliminate all the distractions you can, starting with the tv. Turn the tv off when study time begins and make this a consistent rule.
A: It's loud and colorful, and there's no way your child can study well in front of it. Help your child find a place to work in a room without a tv.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to man braid
Start with a fade or undercut.
This is where your hair is longer at top and shaved down the sides. You will need this to get the right look.
A: Gather a triangle-shaped section from your hairline. Place your thumbs to either side of your temples, right where your hair starts to get long.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to sauté green beans
Bring a large pot of water to a boil.
Fill a large saucepan about half full with water, estimating the amount needed to fully cover the full batch of green beans. Set the saucepan on your stove over medium-high to high heat, and let it reach a rolling boil.
A: Do not add the green beans before the water reaches a boil since doing so would cause the green beans to overcook. If desired, you can add 1 tbsp (15 ml) of salt to the boiling water.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to submit photos to google maps on an iphone
Open the google maps app.
It looks like a map with a g in it.
Tap on the search bar.
A: | It's at the top of your screen. Type in the name of a location. |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
“Justine didn’t have to die.”
Those were the first public words from Minneapolis Police Chief Janee Harteau on Justine Damond, a 40-year-old Australian woman who was shot and killed by a Minneapolis police officer responding to a 911 call by Damond herself.
“Based on the publicly released information from BCA, this should not have happened,” Harteau told reporters Thursday evening, referring to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, which is investigating the shooting at the request of Minneapolis police.
The publicly released information isn’t too detailed.
Damond had called 911 twice shortly before 11:30 p.m. to report what she believed might be a woman being raped in the alley behind her house in south Minneapolis. Officer Matthew Harrity drove his squad vehicle with the lights off, as he and Officer Mohamed Noor headed down the alley behind the 5000 block of Washburn Avenue South.
According to what Harrity told BCA investigators, there was a loud noise and then Damond approached Harrity’s side of the vehicle. Noor opened fire across Harrity and through the driver’s side window, fatally striking Damond. She was unarmed.
That was enough for Harteau.
Harteau acknowledged it was rare for a chief to speak so strongly so early in an investigation into an officer’s conduct.
“Rare, but each situation is different, and I can certainly speak on what the public knows,” she said. “The death of Justine should not have happened.”
Harteau’s remarks came so many days after the shooting because she was on vacation, backpacking in what she called a “remote” mountainous area with only sporadic cellphone coverage.
“For a chief, this is a nightmare, not only to have an event like this occur but to not be here,” she said in response to repeated questions from several reporters. She added: “But I assure everyone in this community that there wasn’t anything that didn’t get done.”
She said the impact of the shooting, which has drawn international attention, particularly from Australia, has not been lost on her.
“This has had a negative impact on the trust we’ve built,” she said.
More than once, Harteau implied that blame should fall squarely on Noor. “We are talking about one individual’s actions,” she said.
Harteau said she had spoken with Damond’s family and promised them “justice.”
Noor has expressed sympathy through an attorney but has refused to speak with BCA investigators — his constitutional right. However, he could face discipline or even lose his job if he refuses to speak with Minneapolis police internal affairs investigators.
Harteau said she hopes Noor will talk.
“I would prefer Officer Noor would speak, whether it be to our internal process or the BCA,” she said. “There are questions that need to be answered.” ||||| Video (01:55) : In her first public remarks since returning from a hiking trip in Colorado Thursday, Minneapolis Police Chief Janee Harteau condemned the actions of officer Mohamed Noor.
In her first public appearance since a Minneapolis police officer shot and killed Justine Damond, Chief Janeé Harteau said the department will work on regaining the public’s trust, acknowledging that “Justine didn’t have to die.”
The shooting and any possible misconduct are still under investigation by the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, but Harteau repeated several times at a news conference Thursday that the death was unnecessary and the officers should have turned on their body cameras, casting the shooting by officer Mohamed Noor as “one individual’s actions” and not reflective of the department.
“Based on the publicly released information from the BCA, this should not have happened,” Harteau said, referencing a preliminary investigative report released earlier in the week. “On our squad cars you will find the words ‘To protect with courage and serve with compassion.’ This did not happen.”
“I believe the actions in question go against who we are as a department, how we train and the expectations we have for our officers,” she continued. “These were the actions and judgments of one individual.”
Harteau stopped short of calling the shooting was legally unjustified, saying “that’ll be part of the criminal investigation.”
The brief but expansive news conference gave no more information as to why Noor shot Damond after she called 911 to report a possible sexual assault last Saturday in south Minneapolis. The death of the 40-year-old spiritual teacher, who was engaged to be married, drew international attention and widespread mourning. In an interview Thursday, Mayor Betsy Hodges also reiterated calls to reform the city’s body camera policy.
Minneapolis Police Chief Janee Harteau made her first remarks Thursday since the high-profile shooting death of Justine Damond. Behind Harteau was Assistant Chief Medaria Arradondo.
Harteau’s news conference, attended by several members of the Australian media, spanned from Noor’s training to why Harteau had been absent from public eye since the shooting. Harteau said she did not know Noor well, and had only spoken to him in passing, but that he “absolutely” performed well in his training. She dismissed claims from critics such as former Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, who on Wednesday called Noor, who is Somali-American, “an affirmative action hire.” “This is about an individual officer’s actions. It is not about race or ethnicity,” Harteau said. “We have a very robust training and hiring process. This officer completed that training very well, just like every officer. He was very suited to be on the street.”
Harteau emphatically maintained that based on what she knows, both officers body cameras should have been running. Plans are in place to enhance the current policy for when they should be on — and that’s in multiple scenarios, she said, “Certainly when you’re going to have interaction when you’re dispatched to a call.”
However, she said the program is only eight months old, so “It’s not second nature for officers to put those cameras on yet.”
Harteau said she spoke with Damond’s fiancé, Don Damond, who told her he worried the shooting would send a message to the community that it’s unsafe to call 911.
“Although disheartening, I understand the fear and why it exists,” she said. “This has had a negative impact on the community trust we’ve built. Moving forward, we will work toward regaining the trust with everything we do.”
Harteau said she wishes Noor would reconsider his decision to refuse to be interviewed by investigators, because “there are questions that need to be answered and he is the only one that has those answers.”
Noor’s partner that night, Matthew Harrity, told investigators that as he was driving in an alley he was startled by a loud sound near their squad, according to a BCA report released Tuesday.
Damond approached the driver’s side window of the squad car “immediately afterward,” according to the BCA. Noor shot from the passenger seat, across his partner and through the window, striking Damond in the abdomen. She died at the scene 20 minutes later.
Asked about firing the shot from inside the squad, Harteau was succinct: “That’s not how we train.”
The BCA has declined to provide any additional information into the investigation. A spokesman for the Hennepin County attorney’s office said Thursday that the BCA has not provided a timeline for when the investigation will be completed.
Harteau has been out of town since the shooting, and she said Thursday she was backpacking in remote mountains on a personal trip, but receiving briefings.
Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges expressed similar sentiments to Harteau Thursday, saying that the fatal police shooting of Justine Damond should not have happened — and that the lack of body camera footage from the incident is unacceptable.
“Given the facts that we know that the investigators have given us, those body cameras should have been on,” Hodges said in an interview. “Why weren’t they?”
Hodges said she expects the police department “to make any and all changes needed to our policy so that we can be sure we will have bodycam footage when we need it,” and to take the events surrounding Saturday’s shooting into consideration when making those changes.
Earlier this week, Damond’s family hired Twin Cities attorney Robert Bennett, who is known for working on high-profile police misconduct cases. He recently represented Philando Castile’s mother in a lawsuit, settled for $3 million, over the police shooting death of her son.
Bennett said Damond’s relatives are seeking a transparent investigation, body camera policy reform and changes in how officers are trained and selected. He added that they also want swift discipline — including possible termination — for Noor.
Following the criminal investigation, Bennett said it is likely Damond’s family here and in Australia will consider a lawsuit.
“I can’t conceive the circumstances where they wouldn’t,” he said.
Staff writers Hannah Covington, Brandon Stahl and Miguel Otárola contributed to this report. |||||
Output: | "Justine didn't have to die," Minneapolis Police Chief Janee Harteau said Thursday in her first public comments on the shooting of an Australian bride-to-be who had called 911 to report hearing a possible sexual assault. The chief described the fatal shooting as "unnecessary" and said she had spoken to the family of Justine Damond and promised them justice. Harteau recently returned to the city after a vacation backpacking in a remote area. "For a chief, this is a nightmare, not only to have an event like this occur but to not be here,” she said, per the Pioneer Press. "But I assure everyone in this community that there wasn’t anything that didn’t get done." Harteau said the actions of officer Mohamed Noor, who shot Damond when she approached a squad car, went against "how we train and the expectations we have for our officers." But she rejected former Rep. Michele Bachmann's claim that the Somali-American officer was an "affirmative action hire," the Star Tribune reports. "This is about an individual officer’s actions. It is not about race or ethnicity," the chief said. "We have a very robust training and hiring process. This officer completed that training very well, just like every officer." She did not provide further details on the shooting, but said she hopes Noor will start talking to investigators. (Here's why Noor doesn't have to ever talk to them.) |
Continue writing the next sentence in this paragraph:
A group of people have stretched a tightrope across a gym. they | take turns trying to balance and walk on the rope. |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context (see options)?
Context:
Here's what I do: We take over Medicaid children from the states so that every child in America is covered. And in exchange, if the states want to -- they're not forced to, they can choose to -- they cover individuals up to 300 percent of poverty. It's their choice.
Hypothesis: There is just no way for every child in America to be covered
Options:
[-] Yes.
[-] It's impossible to say.
[-] No. | No |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Problem:SYDNEY (AP) — A 35-year-old surfer was taken to a hospital after a shark snapped his board, tore his hip and flung him into the air Sunday off the Australian east coast.
Abe McGarth was surfing at Iluka on the north coast of New South Wales state Sunday when what he described as a 3.5-meter (11-foot) great white shark attacked the board from underneath, a police statement said.
"As a result of the impact, the board has snapped. The injured victim has gone into the air and then re-entered the water," the statement said.
"He has told police the shark began to circle and then turned away," police said.
McGrath grabbed half his board and surfed to shore, police said. McGrath's friends drove him to Ballina Hospital. He was then flown to Lismore Hospital for further treatment and discharged Sunday night.
The shark's teeth tore McGrath's wetsuit and left a gash on his right hip.
McGrath's friend Bryce Cameron was on the beach during the attack. If McGrath had been sitting on the board instead of lying on it when the shark struck, he would have lost his leg, Cameron said.
"The board has snapped in half straight away and that is when the shark's teeth hit his leg," Cameron told Sydney's The Daily Telegraph newspaper.
"He is pretty much the luckiest man on Earth right now," Cameron added.
A 37-year-old surfer had a similar lucky escape two weeks ago when he was attacked by a 3-meter (10-foot) great white shark off the southeast Australian coast.
Marcel Brundler was left with a superficial scratch on his back, a torn wetsuit and teeth marks in his board when he was attacked near Lorne in Victoria state. ||||| A SURFER has been described as “the luckiest man on earth” after a shark snapped his board in half before biting his hip on the NSW north coast this morning
Byron Bay local Abe McGrath, 35, was lying on his board off Main Beach, about 300m north of the Illuka Wall, just after 6am when a shark “latched” its jaws onto his surfboard.
Fellow surfer Bryce Cameron, 34, said the shark, believed to be a 3.5m juvenile white pointer — also known as a great white shark — came up from underneath Mr McGrath, snapping his board in half then piercing his hip.
“He was laying on his board and he got attacked from below really aggressively, the force of the attack snapped his board,” Mr Cameron, who was on the beach and about to head into the water when the attack occurred, said.
media_camera Surfer Abe McGrath is “stoked” to be alive after the encounter.
“The impact lifted him up. The shark was coming from the deep and hit (Abe’s board) with its nose and opened its mouth and latched on the board.
Mr Cameron said shark got the majority of the board in its mouth.
“He got a good look at it. He said it was a 3.5m white pointer. In the big scheme of things that is a juvenile but it is still big enough to kill.”
media_camera Mr McGrath’s surfboard was snapped in half. Picture: Instagram/Brickson
“Abe was left floating in the water with a couple of teeth marks on his body. He scrambled in the water and got washed in by the next wave.”
“He is pretty much the luckiest man on earth right now. He was lying on his board, but if he had been sitting on it he would have lost a leg.”
Mr McGrath was “stoked” to be alive and OK after the ordeal, Mr Cameron said.
“He was stoked, he wasn’t in shock yet, he was really happy to be alive and in front of his mates. We were all giving him big hugs and felt pretty lucky to have him there.”
media_camera Elijah Colbey was the only other surfer in the water when the attack happened.
Elijah “Hobbit” Colbey was the only other surfer out in the ocean with Mr McGrath when the shark attack happened.
“We were 50m apart and it was just me and him out there,” he said.
“A good wave rolled past, we were both watching it, and then I looked back and saw Abe skimming across the water splashing.
“Then I hear f**k off, f**k off and then my nickname Hobbit being called out.
“I started paddling towards him for help and then my mind clicked to it being the worst possible outcome.”
media_camera Main and Bluff beaches were closed after the attack.
Mr Colbey said a wave brought Mr McGrath, who is an experienced fisherman, back in to where he could stand up.
“I grabbed his two broken bits of surfboard and we looked at each other and counted our blessings that we could actually walk away,” he said.
“He was very stoked to be able to walk up the beach with me … we could look back on it and be very stoked but also shaken up and in shock.”
The pair then went to get a first aid kit to treat the gash on Mr McGrath’s right hip.
“I put a gauze bandage on him and wrapped it around his body and drove him to hospital,” he said.
They first went to Ballina Hospital, where he was treated for the bite, before being transferred to Lismore Hospital.
“He needed a few stitches and to have a bit of an x-ray for his hip,” Mr Colbey said.
Main and Bluff beaches were closed as a result of the attack.
NSWDPI confirmed it was investigating “a reported shark bite at Iluka today”. |||||
Solution: | A 35-year-old surfer was taken to a hospital in Australia on Sunday after a shark snapped his board, tore his hip, and flung him into the air, the AP reports. Abe McGrath was surfing at Iluka, off Australia's east coast, when what he described as an 11-foot great white shark attacked the board from underneath, a police statement said. "As a result of the impact, the board has snapped. The injured victim has gone into the air and then re-entered the water." McGrath says "the shark began to circle and then turned away," per police. McGrath grabbed half his board and swam to shore, then his friends drove him to Ballina Hospital. He was then flown to Lismore Hospital for further treatment and discharged Sunday night. The shark's teeth tore McGrath's wetsuit and left a gash on his right hip. McGrath's friend, Bryce Cameron, who was on the beach during the attack, says if McGrath had been sitting on the board instead of lying on it when the shark struck, he would have lost his leg. "The board has snapped in half straight away and that is when the shark's teeth hit his leg," Cameron tells Sydney's Daily Telegraph. "He is pretty much the luckiest man on Earth right now." A 37-year-old surfer had a similar lucky escape two weeks ago when he was attacked by a 10-foot great white shark off Australia's southeast coast. Marcel Brundler was left with a superficial scratch on his back, a torn wetsuit, and teeth marks in his board when he was attacked near Lorne in Victoria state. |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context (see options)?
Context:
"I guess you have to expect this in a growing community," said Mardelle Kean, who lives across the street from John Joseph Famalaro, charged in the death of Denise A. Huber, who was 23 when she disappeared in 1991.
Hypothesis: Mardelle Kean had green eyes.
Select from the following. i. Yes ii. It's impossible to say iii. No | ii. |
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:Triumph and Disaster: The 20th century saw a stupendous release of energies that had been pent up for the 250 years of Tokugawa isolation. By 1930 raw-material production had tripled the figure of 1900, manufactured goods had increased twelve-fold, and heavy industry was galloping towards maturity. Britain led the World War I Ailies in large orders for munitions, while Japan expanded sales of manufactured goods to Asian and other markets cut off from their usual European suppliers. Merchant shipping doubled in size and increased its income ten-fold as the European fleets were destroyed. Setbacks in the 1930s caused by the European postwar slump were only a spur to redouble efforts by diversifying heavy industry into the machine-making, metallurgical, and chemical sectors. Even the terrible 1923 Tokyo earthquake, which cost over 100,000 lives and billions of dollars, provided another stimulus due to the construction boom that followed. Riding the crest of this economic upsurge were the zaibatsu conglomerates — a dozen family-run combines, each involved in mining, manufacturing, marketing, shipping, and banking. These tightly controlled commercial pyramids were the true heirs to the old feudal structures. Japan's progress toward parliamentary democracy was halted in the 1930s by the growing nationalism being imposed on government by the generals and admirals. They proclaimed Japan's mission to bring progress to its backward Asian neighbors in language not so very different from that of the Europeans in Africa or the US in Latin America. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Soviet Union was regarded as a major threat to Japan's security, and the army felt it needed Manchuria and whatever other Chinese territory it could control as a buffer against Russian advances. In 1931 the Japanese occupied Manchuria. And then in 1937, with the popular support of ultra-right-wing groups, the army overrode parliamentary resistance in Tokyo and went to war against the Chinese Nationalists. By 1938, they held Nanking, Hankow, and Canton. Japanese expansionist policies were leading to direct confrontation with the West. Japan hoped that war in Europe would divert the Soviet Union from interference in East Asia, giving Japan a free hand both in China and, through its alliance with Germany, in French IndoChina after the defeat of France. The US responded to the Japanese invasion of IndoChina with a trade and fuel embargo, cutting off 90 percent of Japan's supplies. The result was the attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor (7 December 1941) and total war. <sep>What were a few of the tightly controlled commercial pyramids in Japan?<sep>Mining, manufacturing, marketing, shipping, and banking
Solution: | Yes |
Definition: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Input: Sonoma County survivalist charged with mysterious killings on Jenner beach
Investigators believe 38-year-old Shaun Gallon is responsible for the double murder of a couple in Jenner in 2004. Investigators believe 38-year-old Shaun Gallon is responsible for the double murder of a couple in Jenner in 2004. Photo: Sonoma County Sheriff's Office Photo: Sonoma County Sheriff's Office Image 1 of / 15 Caption Close Sonoma County survivalist charged with mysterious killings on Jenner beach 1 / 15 Back to Gallery
A Sonoma County survivalist who has long been known for strange and violent behavior, and who already stands accused of gunning down his brother, has been charged with murdering a young engaged couple in August 2004 as they lay in sleeping bags on a beach in Jenner.
Shaun Michael Gallon, the lead suspect in the Jenner case for the past year, faces two counts of murder in the gunshot killings of Lindsay Cutshall, 22, of Fresno, Ohio, and her 26-year-old fiance, Jason Allen of Zeeland, Mich.
Gallon, 39, is eligible for the death penalty or life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted, but Sonoma County prosecutors have not said whether they will seek execution. Prosecutors also charged Gallon with attempted murder in a separate package bomb case in Monte Rio in 2004.
Sonoma County Chief Deputy District Attorney Spencer Brady said Gallon was never ruled out as a suspect in the cold-case murders.
“After he was in custody for the death of his brother, the Sheriff’s Department developed new evidence that linked him to the 2004 murders of Jason and Lindsay,” Brady said. He added that prosecutors wouldn’t elaborate on the new evidence entailed until Gallon’s preliminary hearing.
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The Sonoma County public defender’s office, which is representing Gallon, could not immediately be reached for comment Wednesday.
The charges, filed last week, are a major step in a long-running cold case. Sonoma County sheriff’s investigators spent more than a dozen years pursuing the beach gunman, searching for suspects across the country while looking at gun records and eyeing serial killers.
Gallon was long considered a “person of interest” in the slayings, but the break in the case did not come until March 24, 2017, when Gallon allegedly killed his younger brother in Forestville, shooting him several times.
Investigators said Gallon, after being arrested, told police enough to tie him to the killings of Cutshall and Allen. But prosecutors held off on filing charges as detectives continued to dig into the case.
The allegations say Gallon, who was 25 at the time, shot the pair with a .45-caliber Marlin rifle at close range as they slept on secluded Fish Head Beach near the mouth of the Russian River.
The couple had been working that summer at a Christian youth camp along the American River in El Dorado County and had gone on a three-day sightseeing trip up the coast that would have taken them through Forestville.
Investigators said Cutshall and Allen didn’t know Gallon, though it’s unclear whether they might have had an interaction with him before their deaths.
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A motive has been elusive in the beach killings, as in the shooting of Gallon’s brother.
On that day, the mother of the two men called for help, saying 36-year-old Shamus Gallon had been shot with a rifle at the home where the family lived on the 9800 block of River Road. The family had moved to the home from Guerneville after the brothers’ father killed himself in 2013.
The mother reported that Shaun Gallon had left the house with the rifle and driven away in his minivan, officials said. He was swiftly apprehended and charged with murder.
It wasn’t Gallon’s first brush with the law. He was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon for shooting an arrow at a man in Guerneville, just west of Forestville, on Jan. 27, 2009.
Gallon, described by investigators in that case as a survivalist, served a three-year sentence — spending some of his time at San Quentin State Prison — after wounding James McNeil of Monte Rio, who was sitting in a parked convertible on Mill Street when an arrow came through the soft top of the car and grazed his head.
Gallon had convictions in his 20s for resisting arrest, weapons possession, theft, drunken driving and hunting abalone without proper paperwork, records show.
The new attempted-murder charges stem from a package bomb that exploded on June 10, 2004, when 27-year-old Parvoneh Leval picked up a box left on her boyfriend John Robles’ car. Leval was treated for severe cuts and bruises on her hand and arm.
Cutshall and Allen were killed sometime after nightfall on Aug. 14, 2004, and before sunrise Aug. 16, officials said. Their bodies were found in their sleeping bags Aug. 18. Both were shot in the head. Cutshall and Allen were killed just weeks before they were to return to the Midwest to get married.
Detectives on the case pursued a number of possible motives in the killings — from sexual assault to murder-suicide, all of which were ruled out.
Megan Cassidy is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @meganrcassidy ||||| Read a 2014 Sonoma Magazine story on the 10-year anniversary of the killings and the life-changing effect they had on former Sheriff Steve Freitas here . ____ For past coverage of the slayings go here
Shaun Michael Gallon, the Forestville felon named more than a year ago as the lone suspect in the shooting deaths of a young Midwestern couple on a Jenner beach in 2004, has been charged by Sonoma County prosecutors with the two murders, marking a pivotal moment in a shocking case of violence that vexed sheriff’s detectives for years.
Gallon, 39, has been held in Sonoma County Jail since he was arrested in March 2017 in the slaying of his younger brother in their family home. His detention led to jailhouse interviews with investigators in the Jenner case, according to the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office, and just weeks later, in May 2017, then-Sheriff Steve Frietas identified Gallon as the gunman who killed Lindsay Cutshall, 22, and her fiance, Jason Allen, 26, as they lay in sleeping bags at secluded Fish Head Beach.
Gallon, who was known in the Russian River area where he grew up for strange behavior and run-ins with law enforcement, was interviewed by sheriff’s officials at the time but never detained in connection with the case.
Sheriff Rob Giordano said the Jenner killings were “horrific” for the Cutshall and Allen families and for Sonoma County — a cold case that defined careers for many of the hundreds of Sheriff’s Office personnel involved in the search for the gunman.
“Unfortunately, there are evil people in our community, not many, but he is one of those people,” Giordano said. “I’m just really glad he’s off the street now.”
On Friday, prosecutors filed documents in Sonoma County Superior Court charging Gallon with killing Cutshall and Allen. He was arraigned on those charges Monday morning in a brief court hearing. Prosecutors also charged him with one count of attempted murder in a separate case dating to 2004, when he is alleged to have left on top of a car a package bomb that exploded, injuring a Monte Rio woman. He did not enter a plea.
Sonoma County Chief Deputy District Attorney Brian Staebell said prosecutors received an essential set of reports from the Sheriff’s Office on May 1, including documents from 13 years of investigative work, and after reviewing the files they were able to charge Gallon with the killings.
“It was a very thorough investigation,” Staebell said.
Prosecutors, led by Chief Deputy District Attorney Spencer Brady, are still reviewing whether to seek the death penalty in connection with the double murder.
Details in a spate of criminal cases against Gallon dating to 2004 cast him as a darkly troubled man, a self-taught survivalist and weapons fanatic who in 2009 shot a man with a hand-fashioned bow and arrow. In addition to the bombing, Gallon now stands accused of shooting to death three people, including his brother, Shamus Gallon, in their family home in Forestville last year, and Cutshall and Allen on the Jenner beach 14 years ago.
His suspected motives remain unknown.
“There is no question that he suffers from mental illness,” Sonoma County Public Defender Kathleen Pozzi said.
Pozzi said she’s still not convinced Gallon was involved in the Jenner killings, and she may file a motion requesting the two murder cases and attempted homicide case be handled separately because they are unrelated. |||||
Output: | A man already accused of killing his brother is now charged with the 2004 murders of an engaged couple found in sleeping bags on a California beach. Baffled authorities have continually sought the culprit in the August 2004 shooting deaths of 22-year-old Lindsay Cutshall of Ohio and 26-year-old Jason Allen of Michigan in Jenner, but with little success. After 39-year-old Shaun Gallon was arrested for allegedly shooting his younger brother to death in Forestville in March 2017, however, the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department "developed new evidence that linked him to the 2004 murders," Chief Deputy District Attorney Spencer Brady tells the San Francisco Chronicle. While Brady wouldn't elaborate on the evidence, NBC Bay Area reports Gallon told police information that only the couple's killer would know. He was named as a suspect in the killings last May. At the time of their deaths, Cutshall and Allen had left the Christian summer camp they were working at for a three-day sightseeing trip that would've taken them through Forestville, 20 miles from Jenner. They were both shot in the head at close range weeks before they were to return to the Midwest to get married. It isn't clear what contact, if any, they had with Gallon. In addition to murder charges, Gallon also faces attempted-murder charges related to a package bomb that injured a woman in Monte Rio in June 2004 as she tried to remove it from her boyfriend's car. "Unfortunately, there are evil people in our community, not many, but he is one of those people," a sheriff tells the Press Democrat of Gallon. "I'm just really glad he's off the street." |
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