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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: The Channel Islands (Norman: Îles d'la Manche; French: Îles Anglo-Normandes or Îles de la Manche) are an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy. They include two Crown dependencies: the Bailiwick of Jersey, which is the largest of the islands; and the Bailiwick of Guernsey, consisting of Guernsey, Alderney, Sark and some smaller islands. They are considered the remnants of the Duchy of Normandy and, although they are not part of the United Kingdom, the UK is responsible for the defence and international relations of the islands. The Crown dependencies are not members of the Commonwealth of Nations or of the European Union. They have a total population of about 164,541, and the bailiwicks' capitals, Saint Helier and Saint Peter Port, have populations of 33,500 and 16,488, respectively. The total area of the islands is 198 km.
Output: | are the channel islands part of the united kingdom? |
BALTIMORE _ These Maryland lotteries were drawn Monday: Estimated jackpot: $252 million 0-8-0 (zero, eight, zero) 6-5-8-4 (six, five, eight, four) Estimated jackpot: $163 million Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Can we infer the following?
The Maryland lotteries were drawn Sunday. | 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.
Q: CLOSE These are the biggest reasons airline travelers complained to the Department of Transportation this year! Buzz60
According to the suit, Keys tried raising his armrest on a flight from Reno to Los Angeles to access his seatbelt in first class only to lodge his finger under the armrest in a small hole. (Photo: Getty Images)
Actor Stephen Keys, of "Soul Plane" and "Big Time Rush," is suing American Airlines and SkyWest after one of his pinky fingers allegedly got stuck in a plane's armrest for almost an hour on a flight in September.
Keys filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Dec. 5. He is claiming "severe emotional distress and weeks of pain," according to the AFP and NBC Los Angeles. Keys hasn't been able to drive nor play with his children since the incident, per the lawsuit.
According to the suit, Keys tried raising his armrest on a flight from Reno to Los Angeles to access his seatbelt in first class only to lodge his finger under the armrest in a small hole.
“The spring mechanism embedded inside of this hole in the armrest applied intense pressure to plaintiff’s finger, immediately inflicting injury, swelling and pain," the lawsuit alleges.
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Keys' attempts to free his finger caused a scene, the lawsuit states.
"By this time, dozens of passengers became aware of Mr. Keys' perilous condition, causing his dire situation to become a humiliating public spectacle. By the end of it all, he remained entrapped in this nightmarish condition, suffering for nearly an hour," the lawsuit continues.
"The comfort and safety of our passengers is our first priority," SkyWest said in a statement. "We worked with our partner American to reach out to Mr. Keys regarding his bruised finger and look forward to swiftly resolving this matter. Due to the ongoing litigation, we cannot comment further."
American Airlines referred USA TODAY to SkyWest for comment.
SkyWest has partnership agreements with a number of airlines, including American.
Read or Share this story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/2018/12/12/stephen-keys-lawsuit-pinky-finger-armrest-american-airlines-skywest/2287412002/ ||||| A man who alleges one of his pinky fingers was snared in an airline armrest mechanism for nearly an hour during a flight to Los Angeles is suing two airlines, alleging negligence.
Stephen Keys' Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit names as defendants both American Airlines Inc. and SkyWest Airlines Inc. He's seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.
A representative for American, one of several airlines that have flying agreements with SkyWest, referred all comment to SkyWest, which issued a statement this afternoon.
"The comfort and safety of our passengers is our first priority," the SkyWest statement reads. "We worked with our partner American to reach out to Mr. Keys regarding his bruised finger and look forward to swiftly resolving this matter. Due to the ongoing litigation, we cannot comment further."
According to the suit filed Dec. 5, Keys boarded flight 3095 in Reno, bound for Los Angeles, about 12:40 p.m. Sept. 9 and sat in first class.
When Keys raised the right armrest to reach the seat belt strap, his right pinky finger became lodged inside a small hole under the armrest, according to the lawsuit.
"The spring mechanism embedded inside of this hole in the armrest applied intense pressure to plaintiff's finger, immediately inflicting injury, swelling and pain," the suit says.
While trying to remain composed, Keys tried again and again to dislodge his finger, according to his court papers.
"By this time, dozens of passengers became aware of Mr. Keys' perilous condition, causing his dire situation to become a humiliating public spectacle,'' the suit states. "By the end of it all, he remained entrapped in this nightmarish condition, suffering for nearly an hour."
Flight personnel and members of a fire department rescue team were unable to free Keys' finger, which was finally accomplished with the help of an airline mechanic who disassembled the armrest, the suit says.
The injury to his finger left Keys unable to perform such previously routine tasks as driving and playing with his children, according to his complaint, which says he experienced weeks of intense pain and severe emotional distress.
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A: | An actor who suffered what he says was a painful and humiliating experience on a flight from Reno to Los Angeles is suing American Airlines and SkyWest. Stephen Keys says one of his pinky fingers became stuck in an armrest for almost an hour on the September flight, USA Today reports. According to a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Keys' finger got stuck in a small hole in the armrest when he raised it to access his seat belt. "The spring mechanism embedded inside of this hole in the armrest applied intense pressure to plaintiff's finger, immediately inflicting injury, swelling, and pain," the lawsuit states. Keys, who was seated in first class, says he repeatedly tried to free his finger, NBC Los Angeles reports. "By this time, dozens of passengers became aware of Mr. Keys' perilous condition, causing his dire situation to become a humiliating public spectacle,'' the lawsuit states. "By the end of it all, he remained entrapped in this nightmarish condition, suffering for nearly an hour." He was freed after an airline mechanic took the seat apart. Keys, who has appeared in movies including Soul Plane, says he suffered "severe emotional distress and weeks of pain" and has been unable to drive or play with his children since the incident. He is seeking unspecified punitive and compensatory damages from the airlines. (A passenger suing British Airways says he was injured by the obese man next to him.) |
Instructions: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Input: The federation of Australia was the way that the six separate British colonies of New South Wales , Queensland , South Australia , Tasmania , Victoria and Western Australia joined together to become one country .
Output: | The Federation of Australia was the process by which the six separate British self-governing colonies of Queensland , New South Wales , Victoria , Tasmania , South Australia , and Western Australia agreed to unite and form the Commonwealth of Australia , establishing a system of federalism in Australia . |
Teacher: In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
This list contains the top 25 accounts with the most followers on the social photo-sharing platform Instagram. As of May 2018, the most followed user is Instagram's own account, with over 235 million followers. Selena Gomez is the most followed individual, with over 137 million followers. Ten accounts have exceeded 100 million followers on the site.
Solution: who has the maximum number of followers on instagram
Reason: The answer is talking about the Instagram accounts that have the most followers. The question asking about the maximum number of followers. So this is a good example.
Now, solve this instance: Buenos Aires (/ ˌbweɪnəs ˈɛəriːz / or /-ˈaɪrɪs /; Spanish pronunciation: (ˈbwenos ˈaiɾes)) is the capital and most populous city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the South American continent's southeastern coast. 'Buenos Aires' can be translated as 'fair winds' or 'good airs', but the former was the meaning intended by the founders in the 16th century, by the use of the original name 'Real de Nuestra Señora Santa María del Buen Ayre'. The Greater Buenos Aires conurbation, which also includes several Buenos Aires Province districts, constitutes the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas, with a population of around 17 million.
Student: | where is buenos aires located on a world map |
Continue writing the next sentence.
How to choose between arbitration and mediation
Identify the strengths of mediation.
Mediation is a process where you and the other party to the dispute will meet with a neutral third party. This third party is called the " mediator. | " the mediator is not a judge; instead, they try to get each side to listen to each other. Many people find the following to be mediation's strengths : It's not adversarial. |
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? If you are still confused, see the following example:
Timothy likes to play sports. He spends his time after school playing basketball and baseball. Sometimes Timothy pretends he is a famous baseball pitcher for his favorite team with his friends. He plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. Timothy also plays pretend when he is alone. He has an imaginary friend named Sean. Sean is an elephant who watches television with Timothy. Mandy likes playing baseball but she also likes to paint. Mandy's favorite class at school is art. She likes making pictures of flowers. Her teacher says she is a good artist. She painted a picture of a tree for her teacher. There were red and yellow leaves on it. It had apples on it. When Andrew goes home after baseball, he likes to eat a snack. He eats carrots and bananas. If he is a good boy his mom, Mrs. Smith, sometimes gives him milk and cookies. Afterwards, Andrew finishes his homework. <sep>Who does Timothy play with?<sep>Basketball and baseball
Solution: No
Reason: Based on the passage Timothy plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. So, the given answer is incorrect and the output should be "No".
Now, solve this instance: Some of the most unusual effects of Hellenization can be seen in Afghanistan and India, in the region of the relatively late-arising Greco-Bactrian Kingdom (250 BC-125 BC) in modern Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Tajikistan and the Greco-Indian Kingdom (180 BC - 10 CE) in modern Afghanistan and India. There on the newly formed Silk Road Greek culture apparently hybridized with Indian, and especially Buddhist culture. The resulting syncretism known as Greco-Buddhism heavily influenced the development of Buddhism and created a culture of Greco-Buddhist art. These Greco-Buddhist kingdoms sent some of the first Buddhist missionaries to China, Sri Lanka, and the Mediterranean (Greco-Buddhist monasticism). The first figural portrayals of the Buddha, previously avoided by Buddhists, appeared at this time; they were modeled on Greek statues of Apollo. Several Buddhist traditions may have been influenced by the ancient Greek religion: the concept of Boddhisatvas is reminiscent of Greek divine heroes, and some Mahayana ceremonial practices (burning incense, gifts of flowers, and food placed on altars) are similar to those practiced by the ancient Greeks. One Greek king, Menander I, probably became Buddhist, and was immortalized in Buddhist literature as 'Milinda'. The process of Hellenization extended to the sciences, where ideas from Greek astronomy filtered eastward and had profoundly influenced Indian astronomy by the early centuries AD. For example, Greek astronomical instruments dating to the 3rd century BC were found in the Greco-Bactrian city of Ai Khanoum in modern-day Afghanistan while the Greek concept of a spherical earth surrounded by the spheres of planets was adopted in India and eventually supplanted the long-standing Indian cosmological belief of a flat and circular earth. The Yavanajataka and Paulisa Siddhanta texts in particular show Greek influence. <sep>Give an example of how Hellenized artforms were used in Indian art.<sep>The first figures of the Buddha were modeled on Greek statues of Apollo
Student: | 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".
"Femme" is an apt description of the depiction of Madame White Snake and all her incarnations. It refers to a woman who is dangerously attractive, and lures men to their downfall with her sexual attractiveness. In both incarnations of Madame White snake, the authors depict her as bewitchingly beautiful. Toyoo, her human lover in "Lust of the White Serpant" cannot shake the image of her beauty from his mind and dreams of her, and finds himself "disturbed and agitated" by her "ethereal beauty". In "Eternal Prisoner," Madame White Snake's bewitching beauty follows her lover Hsü into his dreams, and the next morning "he was so distracted that he could not concentrate on doing business." Both of these stories align negative connotations with her beauty, suggesting that her sexuality is the cause of their distraction. In addition to distracting sexuality, the irregular characterization of Madame White Snake might be another trait her character has in common with the archetypical noir femme fatale. In her essay analyzing the noir film from a feminist perspective, Christine Gledhill writes "Not only is the hero frequently not sure whether the woman is honest or a deceiver, but the heroine's characterisation is itself fractured so that it is not evident to the audience whether she fills the [femme fatale] stereotype or not". <sep>Who is the her in "Toyoo, her human lover"?<sep>Toyoo's wife | No |
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:An unopened bottle of Coffee-Mate can last up to two years with no refrigeration and can stay fresh for two weeks once it is opened. The product is popular in offices where refrigeration may not be available. Non-dairy creamer can be used by individuals who are lactose-intolerant. Once opened, liquid non-dairy creamer should be refrigerated.
Solution: | does liquid coffee mate have to be refrigerated? |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Ex Input:
What would an engine driver have to do to adjust the more modern type of valve?, Context: Steam engines frequently possess two independent mechanisms for ensuring that the pressure in the boiler does not go too high; one may be adjusted by the user, the second is typically designed as an ultimate fail-safe. Such safety valves traditionally used a simple lever to restrain a plug valve in the top of a boiler. One end of the lever carried a weight or spring that restrained the valve against steam pressure. Early valves could be adjusted by engine drivers, leading to many accidents when a driver fastened the valve down to allow greater steam pressure and more power from the engine. The more recent type of safety valve uses an adjustable spring-loaded valve, which is locked such that operators may not tamper with its adjustment unless a seal illegally is broken. This arrangement is considerably safer.[citation needed]
Ex Output:
seal illegally is broken
Ex Input:
What was the name of the person who joined in on the coup with Xianfeng's empress?, Context: These years saw an evolution in the participation of Empress Dowager Cixi (Wade–Giles: Tz'u-Hsi) in state affairs. She entered the imperial palace in the 1850s as a concubine to the Xianfeng Emperor (r. 1850–1861) and came to power in 1861 after her five-year-old son, the Tongzhi Emperor ascended the throne. She, the Empress Dowager Ci'an (who had been Xianfeng's empress), and Prince Gong (a son of the Daoguang Emperor), staged a coup that ousted several regents for the boy emperor. Between 1861 and 1873, she and Ci'an served as regents, choosing the reign title "Tongzhi" (ruling together). Following the emperor's death in 1875, Cixi's nephew, the Guangxu Emperor, took the throne, in violation of the dynastic custom that the new emperor be of the next generation, and another regency began. In the spring of 1881, Ci'an suddenly died, aged only forty-three, leaving Cixi as sole regent.
Ex Output:
Prince Gong
Ex Input:
by whose rungs did the angels of God ascend and descend?, Context: The papal bull defining the dogma, Ineffabilis Deus, mentioned in particular the patrististic interpretation of Genesis 3:15 as referring to a woman, Mary, who would be eternally at enmity with the evil serpent and completely triumphing over him. It said the Fathers saw foreshadowings of Mary's "wondrous abundance of divine gifts and original innocence" "in that ark of Noah, which was built by divine command and escaped entirely safe and sound from the common shipwreck of the whole world; in the ladder which Jacob saw reaching from the earth to heaven, by whose rungs the angels of God ascended and descended, and on whose top the Lord himself leaned; in that bush which Moses saw in the holy place burning on all sides, which was not consumed or injured in any way but grew green and blossomed beautifully; in that impregnable tower before the enemy, from which hung a thousand bucklers and all the armor of the strong; in that garden enclosed on all sides, which cannot be violated or corrupted by any deceitful plots; in that resplendent city of God, which has its foundations on the holy mountains; in that most august temple of God, which, radiant with divine splendours, is full of the glory of God; and in very many other biblical types of this kind."
Ex Output:
| the ladder which Jacob saw
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Q: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
He agreed with people who wanted to make Kansas a slave state .
A: | Because he was fully sympathetic to those who wanted to make Kansas a slave state , he agreed with the wishes of the proslavery forces in the territory . |
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: Washington (/ ˈwɒʃɪŋtən / (listen)), officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Named after George Washington, the first president of the United States, the state was made out of the western part of the Washington Territory, which was ceded by Britain in 1846 in accordance with the Oregon Treaty in the settlement of the Oregon boundary dispute. It was admitted to the Union as the 42nd state in 1889. Olympia is the state capital. Washington is sometimes referred to as Washington State, to distinguish it from Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, which is often shortened to Washington.
A: | who was the state of washington named after |
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 organism changes from a single zygote to a complex system of tissues and cell types .
Student: | Differentiation occurs numerous times during the development of a multicellular organism as it changes from a simple zygote to a complex system of tissues and cell types . |
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.
One of the things Avedon is distinguished by as a photographer is his large prints, sometimes measuring over three feet in height. His large-format portrait work of drifters, miners, cowboys and others from the western United States became a best-selling book and traveling exhibit entitled In the American West, and is regarded as an important hallmark in 20th century portrait photography, and by some as Avedon's magnum opus.
A: | who is the first photographer that is discussed in the reading from his in the american west series |
IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to cite a dictionary meaning in mla
Begin with the term you have defined in quotation marks.
Only use one set of double quotation marks around the term.
For example: " charming.
OUT: " Add the name of the dictionary in italics. So, it would look like: " charming " Include the edition if you citing an edition other than the first edition.
IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to computerize business operations
Brainstorm and research areas where computerization could be useful.
Take time to consider what could be automated to improve your business operations. Think about labor-intensive work that could be simplified or improved with software.
OUT: Alternately, consider systems that might need to be backed up (like accounting or personnel records). Ask other business owners what they have automated and how it has affected their operations.
IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
The ingredients you will need are bread, cheese, ham, turkey sub kit deli meat, kraft real mayo, spicy brown mustard, seasoning and a knife. spread mayo on both slices of bread
OUT: | then put on mustard and cheese on both slices of bread put ham then turkey meat and add other seasoning to your taste. |
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: A Song of Ice and Fire is a series of epic fantasy novels by the American novelist and screenwriter George R.R. Martin. He began the first volume of the series, A Game of Thrones, in 1991, and it was published in 1996. Martin, who initially envisioned the series as a trilogy, has published five out of a planned seven volumes. The fifth and most recent volume of the series published in 2011, A Dance with Dragons, took Martin six years to write. He is still writing the sixth novel, The Winds of Winter.
Output: | is the game of thrones book series over? |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
[Q]: Why could there be reasonable doubt about the validity of what was stated that she said?, Context: In May 2007, The Daily Telegraph, citing unnamed sources, reported that the Queen was "exasperated and frustrated" by the policies of the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, that she was concerned the British Armed Forces were overstretched in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that she had raised concerns over rural and countryside issues with Blair. She was, however, said to admire Blair's efforts to achieve peace in Northern Ireland. On 20 March 2008, at the Church of Ireland St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh, the Queen attended the first Maundy service held outside England and Wales. At the invitation of the Irish President, Mary McAleese, the Queen made the first state visit to the Republic of Ireland by a British monarch in May 2011.
[A]: unnamed sources
[Q]: Which of the following is a type of DNA: junk, multicellular or dense?, Context: Whereas the chromosomes of prokaryotes are relatively gene-dense, those of eukaryotes often contain regions of DNA that serve no obvious function. Simple single-celled eukaryotes have relatively small amounts of such DNA, whereas the genomes of complex multicellular organisms, including humans, contain an absolute majority of DNA without an identified function. This DNA has often been referred to as "junk DNA". However, more recent analyses suggest that, although protein-coding DNA makes up barely 2% of the human genome, about 80% of the bases in the genome may be expressed, so the term "junk DNA" may be a misnomer.
[A]: junk
[Q]: the update caused what, Context: The 'OtherOS' functionality was not present in the updated PS Slim models, and the feature was subsequently removed from previous versions of the PS3 as part of the machine's firmware update version 3.21 which was released on April 1, 2010; Sony cited security concerns as the rationale. The firmware update 3.21 was mandatory for access to the PlayStation Network. The removal caused some controversy; as the update removed officially advertised features from already sold products, and gave rise to several class action lawsuits aimed at making Sony return the feature or provide compensation.
[A]: | controversy
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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.
How big was his family?, Context: Muammar Gaddafi was born in a tent near Qasr Abu Hadi, a rural area outside the town of Sirte in the deserts of western Libya. His family came from a small, relatively un-influential tribal group called the Qadhadhfa, who were Arabized Berber in heritage. His father, Mohammad Abdul Salam bin Hamed bin Mohammad, was known as Abu Meniar (died 1985), and his mother was named Aisha (died 1978); Abu Meniar earned a meager subsistence as a goat and camel herder. Nomadic Bedouins, they were illiterate and kept no birth records. As such, Gaddafi's date of birth is not known with certainty, and sources have set it in 1942 or in the spring of 1943, although biographers Blundy and Lycett noted that it could have been pre-1940. His parents' only surviving son, he had three older sisters. Gaddafi's upbringing in Bedouin culture influenced his personal tastes for the rest of his life. He repeatedly expressed a preference for the desert over the city and retreated to the desert to meditate. | His parents' only surviving son, he had three older sisters |
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Q: In August 2002 , the USCF ( United States Chess Federation ) decided that " Any USCF member , who has had a normal post-tournament rating of 2200 or higher , has demonstrated a significant level of chess ability and thought , and is automatically awarded the lifetime title of National Master " .
A: | In August 2002 , this position was codified ( after being recognized as the existing status quo ) by the USCF Policy Board with the passage of a motion stating " Any USCF member who has had a regular post tournament rating of 2200 or higher ( published or not ) has demonstrated a significant level of chess ability and is recognized by being automatically awarded the lifetime title of National Master . " |
Q: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Abstract
We constructed a corpus of digitized texts containing about 4% of all books ever printed. Analysis of this corpus enables us to investigate cultural trends quantitatively. We survey the vast terrain of "culturomics", focusing on linguistic and cultural phenomena that were reflected in the English language between 1800 and 2000. We show how this approach can provide insights about fields as diverse as lexicography, the evolution of grammar, collective memory, the adoption of technology, the pursuit of fame, censorship, and historical epidemiology. "Culturomics" extends the boundaries of rigorous quantitative inquiry to a wide array of new phenomena spanning the social sciences and the humanities. ||||| “The goal is to give an 8-year-old the ability to browse cultural trends throughout history, as recorded in books,” said Erez Lieberman Aiden, a junior fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard. Mr. Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, assembled the data set with Google and spearheaded a research project to demonstrate how vast digital databases can transform our understanding of language, culture and the flow of ideas.
Their study, to be published in the journal Science on Friday, offers a tantalizing taste of the rich buffet of research opportunities now open to literature, history and other liberal arts professors who may have previously avoided quantitative analysis. Science is taking the unusual step of making the paper available online to nonsubscribers.
“We wanted to show what becomes possible when you apply very high-turbo data analysis to questions in the humanities,” said Mr. Lieberman Aiden, whose expertise is in applied mathematics and genomics. He called the method “culturomics.”
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The data set can be downloaded, and users can build their own search tools.
Working with a version of the data set that included Hebrew and started in 1800, the researchers measured the endurance of fame, finding that written references to celebrities faded twice as quickly in the mid-20th century as they did in the early 19th. “In the future everyone will be famous for 7.5 minutes,” they write.
Looking at inventions, they found technological advances took, on average, 66 years to be adopted by the larger culture in the early 1800s and only 27 years between 1880 and 1920.
They tracked the way eccentric English verbs that did not add “ed” at the end for past tense (i.e., “learnt”) evolved to conform to the common pattern (“learned”). They figured that the English lexicon has grown by 70 percent to more than a million words in the last 50 years and they demonstrated how dictionaries could be updated more rapidly by pinpointing newly popular words and obsolete ones.
Steven Pinker, a linguist at Harvard who collaborated on the Science paper’s section about language evolution, has been studying changes in grammar and past tense forms for 20 years.
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“When I saw they had this database, I was quite energized,” he said. “There is so much ignorance. We’ve had to speculate what might have happened to the language.”
The information about verb changes “makes the results more convincing and more complete,” Mr. Pinker added. “What we report in this paper is just the beginning.”
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Despite the frequent resistance to quantitative analysis in some corners of the humanities, Mr. Pinker said he was confident that the use of this and similar tools would “become universal.”
Reactions from humanities scholars who quickly reviewed the article were more muted. “In general it’s a great thing to have,” Louis Menand, an English professor at Harvard, said, particularly for linguists. But he warned that in the realm of cultural history, “obviously some of the claims are a little exaggerated.” He was also troubled that, among the paper’s 13 named authors, there was not a single humanist involved.
“There’s not even a historian of the book connected to the project,” Mr. Menand noted.
Alan Brinkley, the former provost at Columbia and a professor of American history, said it was too early to tell what the impact of word and phrase searches would be. “I could imagine lots of interesting uses, I just don’t know enough about what they’re trying to do statistically,” he said.
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Aware of concerns raised by humanists that the essence of their art is a search for meaning, Mr. Michel and Mr. Lieberman Aiden emphasized that culturomics simply provided information. Interpretation remains essential.
“I don’t want humanists to accept any specific claims — we’re just throwing a lot of interesting pieces on the table,” Mr. Lieberman Aiden said. “The question is: Are you willing to examine this data?”
Mr. Michel and Mr. Lieberman Aiden first started their research in 2004 on irregular verbs. Google Books did not exist then, and they had to scrutinize stacks of Anglo-Saxon texts page by page. The process took 18 months.
“We were exhausted,” Mr. Lieberman Aiden said. That painstaking work “was a total Hail Mary pass; we could have collected this data set and proved nothing.”
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Then they read about Google’s plan to create a digital library and store of every book ever published and recognized that it could revolutionize their research. They approached Peter Norvig, the director of research at Google, about using the collection to do statistical analyses.
“He realized this was a great opportunity for science and for Google,” Mr. Michel said. “We spent the next four years dealing with the many, many complicated issues that arose,” including legal complications and computational constraints. (A proposed class-action settlement pertaining to copyright and compensation brought by writers and publishers as a result of Google’s digitization plans is pending in the courts.) Google says the culturomics project raises no copyright issue because the books themselves, or even sections of them, cannot be read.
So far, Google has scanned more than 11 percent of the entire corpus of published books, about two trillion words. The data analyzed in the paper contains about 4 percent of the corpus.
The warehouse of words makes it possible to analyze cultural influences statistically in a way previously not possible. Cultural references tend to appear in print much less frequently than everyday words, said Mr. Michel, whose expertise is in applied math and systems biology. An accurate picture needs a huge sample. Checking if “sasquatch” has infiltrated the culture requires a supply of at least a billion words a year, he said.
As for culturomics? In 20 years, type the word into an updated version of the database and see what happens. |||||
A: | Google has quietly released a massive database that's as scholarly a tool as it is fun to play with. Called Ngram, this digital storehouse contains 500 billion words from 5.2 million books published between 1500 and 2008 in English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, and Chinese. It lets anyone search for words and short phrases, and chart how they have been used over time. Just a couple of clicks reveals how "women" overtook "men" in usage in the mid-1980s, and how "grill" grew more popular than "fry" in 2004. Harvard researchers teamed up with Google to create this search tool, reports the New York Times. "We wanted to show what becomes possible when you apply very high-turbine analysis to questions in the humanities," said one of the researchers, who called the method "culturomics." Among their findings, published in Science: The names of celebrities faded twice as fast in the mid-1900s and they did in the early 1800s (“In the future everyone will be famous for 7.5 minutes"); and while it took 66 years for technology to be widely adopted in the early 1800s, by 1880, it only took 27 years. |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
[EX Q]: What are the internal layer of pouches on an etioplast called?, Context: If angiosperm shoots are not exposed to the required light for chloroplast formation, proplastids may develop into an etioplast stage before becoming chloroplasts. An etioplast is a plastid that lacks chlorophyll, and has inner membrane invaginations that form a lattice of tubes in their stroma, called a prolamellar body. While etioplasts lack chlorophyll, they have a yellow chlorophyll precursor stocked. Within a few minutes of light exposure, the prolamellar body begins to reorganize into stacks of thylakoids, and chlorophyll starts to be produced. This process, where the etioplast becomes a chloroplast, takes several hours. Gymnosperms do not require light to form chloroplasts.
[EX A]: invaginations
[EX Q]: what name came third?, Context: Artists contributing to this format include mainly soft rock/pop singers such as, Andy Williams, Johnny Mathis, Nana Mouskouri, Celine Dion, Julio Iglesias, Frank Sinatra, Barry Manilow, Engelbert Humperdinck, and Marc Anthony.
[EX A]: Nana Mouskouri
[EX Q]: Which is not a last name, Weinreich or Self?, Context: A psychological identity relates to self-image (one's mental model of oneself), self-esteem, and individuality. Consequently, Weinreich gives the definition "A person's identity is defined as the totality of one's self-construal, in which how one construes oneself in the present expresses the continuity between how one construes oneself as one was in the past and how one construes oneself as one aspires to be in the future"; this allows for definitions of aspects of identity, such as: "One's ethnic identity is defined as that part of the totality of one's self-construal made up of those dimensions that express the continuity between one's construal of past ancestry and one's future aspirations in relation to ethnicity" (Weinreich, 1986a).
[EX A]: | self
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How to prepare filter coffee<br>Fill the machine with water. Most coffee makers will have a water reservoir which you'll need to fill before brewing. Only pour in as much water as you'd like to brew, since the machine will continue to brew until the reservoir is empty.
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true?
The water you pour in must be bottled water.
Select from the following.
- Yes.
- It's impossible to say.
- No. | It's impossible to say |
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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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This order gave the region self-rule and an elected legislative assembly .
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The order granted self-rule to the people of Gilgit-Baltistan , by creating , among other things , an elected Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly and Gilgit-Baltistan Council .
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The National Security Advisor , officially known as the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs , serves as the top advisor to the President of the United States on national security issues .
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The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs ( APNSA ) , commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor ( NSA ) or at times informally termed the NSC Advisor , is a senior aide in the Executive Office of the President , based at the West Wing of the White House , who serves as the chief in-house advisor to the President of the United States on national security issues .
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A hard disk drive ( HDD ) , hard disk or hard drive , is a data storage device for computers which uses magnetic storage to store data .
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| A hard disk drive ( HDD ) , hard disk , hard drive , or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that uses magnetic storage to store and retrieve digital information using one or more rigid rapidly rotating disks ( platters ) coated with magnetic material .
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TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
PROBLEM: Independence with Partition: The British began to see India's independence as inevitable; however, only a few seemed to understand the vital role of the religious groups. Britain prepared a parliamentary democracy with majority rule, but the majority were Hindus — and Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs had been killing each other in war for many centuries. Nehru's Congress Party, largely Hindu with a socialist leadership, wanted a parliamentary democracy. As counterweight, British legislation reserved parliamentary seats for religious minorities, but the Punjab and Bengal had such a complicated mixture of Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs that it was not possible to avoid fights over how separate constituencies were to be formed. The seeds of future trouble were sown. The legislation on reserving seats gave the Muslims the basis for an alternative to an India in which they were only a quarter of the population: Partition. In 1930, the poet Muhammad Iqbal proposed a separate Muslim homeland in the northwest of India. A small group of Indian Muslims at Cambridge came up with the name Pakistan, using the initials of the Punjab, Afghania (N.W. Frontier Province), Kashmir, and Sind (at the same time producing the word pak, meaning "pure"), and adding "stan," the Persian suffix for the word "country. " The Muslim campaign for Partition was led by London-trained Bombay lawyer, Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Meanwhile, Gandhi vehemently opposed any dismemberment of the country, and tried to keep people united by fasting to uphold the spirit of love, and by focussing on the common adversary: the British. Advocating civil disobedience, he led his famous Salt March to the sea, to scoop up salt and circumvent the hated British salt tax. This put more than 60,000 in jail. Against this militancy, World War II did not elicit the solidarity of the first. Indians courageously fought alongside the British troops, in Burma, the Middle East, and Europe, but Gandhi saw the British as a provocation for Japanese invasion and was jailed yet again, for launching a "Quit India" campaign in the year 1942. Some anti-British extremists saw the Japanese as an Asian liberator. Winston Churchill didn't want any Indian independence and so it was probably as well for India that he was defeated by Attlee's Labor Party in 1945. With riots growing ever more bloody in Bengal, Bihar, and the Punjab, India's last viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, kept a mandate to make the British departure as quick and as smooth as possible. Quick it was — six months after his arrival — but not smooth. <sep>In 1930, the poet Muhammad Iqbal proposed a separate Muslim homeland in the northwest of India. This proposal began the birth of what country?<sep>Pakistan
SOLUTION: Yes
PROBLEM: In chapters 3 and 4 we described how the U.S. government adjusted its existing agencies and capacities to address the emerging threat from Usama Bin Laden and his associates. After the August 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, President Bill Clinton and his chief aides explored ways of getting Bin Laden expelled from Afghanistan or possibly capturing or even killing him. Although disruption efforts around the world had achieved some successes, the core of Bin Laden's organization remained intact. President Clinton was deeply concerned about Bin Laden. He and his national security advisor, Samuel "Sandy" Berger, ensured they had a special daily pipeline of reports feeding them the latest updates on Bin Laden's reported location. In public, President Clinton spoke repeatedly about the threat of terrorism, referring to terrorist training camps but saying little about Bin Laden and nothing about al Qaeda. He explained to us that this was deliberate-intended to avoid enhancing Bin Laden's stature by giving him unnecessary publicity. His speeches focused especially on the danger of nonstate actors and of chemical and biological weapons. As the millennium approached, the most publicized worries were not about terrorism but about computer breakdowns-the Y2K scare. Some government officials were concerned that terrorists would take advantage of such breakdowns. On November 30, 1999, Jordanian intelligence intercepted a telephone call between Abu Zubaydah, a longtime ally of Bin Laden, and Khadr Abu Hoshar, a Palestinian extremist. Abu Zubaydah said, "The time for training is over." Suspecting that this was a signal for Abu Hoshar to commence a terrorist operation, Jordanian police arrested Abu Hoshar and 15 others and informed Washington. One of the 16, Raed Hijazi, had been born in California to Palestinian parents; after spending his childhood in the Middle East, he had returned to northern California, taken refuge in extremist Islamist beliefs, and then made his way to Abu Zubaydah's Khaldan camp in Afghanistan, where he learned the fundamentals of guerrilla warfare. He and his younger brother had been recruited by Abu Hoshar into a loosely knit plot to attack Jewish and American targets in Jordan. After late 1996, when Abu Hoshar was arrested and jailed, Hijazi moved back to the United States, worked as a cabdriver in Boston, and sent money back to his fellow plotters. After Abu Hoshar's release, Hijazi shuttled between Boston and Jordan gathering money and supplies. With Abu Hoshar, he recruited inTurkey and Syria as well as Jordan; with Abu Zubaydah's assistance, Abu Hoshar sent these recruits to Afghanistan for training. <sep>President Clinton often spoke of terrorist camps, but did he refer to Bin Laden by name and what was the reason for his choice?<sep>No, he didn't know who he was
SOLUTION: No
PROBLEM: The highest point of a wave is the crest. The lowest point is the trough. The vertical distance between a crest and a trough is the height of the wave. Wave height is also called amplitude. The horizontal distance between two crests is the wavelength. Both amplitude and wavelength are measures of wave size. The size of an ocean wave depends on how fast, over how great a distance, and how long the wind blows. The greater each of these factors is, the bigger a wave will be. Some of the biggest waves occur with hurricanes. A hurricane is a storm that forms over the ocean. Its winds may blow more than 150 miles per hour! The winds also travel over long distances and may last for many days. <sep>What do we know about wavelength from the paragraph?<sep>The horizontal distance between two crests is the wavelength
SOLUTION: | Yes
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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.
According to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a four-year research effort by 1,360 of the world's prominent scientists commissioned to measure the actual value of natural resources to humans and the world, 'The structure of the world's ecosystems changed more rapidly in the second half of the twentieth century than at any time in recorded human history, and virtually all of Earth's ecosystems have now been significantly transformed through human actions.' 'Ecosystem services, particularly food production, timber and fisheries, are important for employment and economic activity. Intensive use of ecosystems often produces the greatest short-term advantage, but excessive and unsustainable use can lead to losses in the long term. A country could cut its forests and deplete its fisheries, and this would show only as a positive gain to GDP, despite the loss of capital assets. If the full economic value of ecosystems were taken into account in decision-making, their degradation could be significantly slowed down or even reversed.' | when did the human population begin to grow at a faster rate than any other time in history |
Q: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Russian human rights activist and dissident Lyudmila Alexeyeva explained glasnost as a word that " had been in the Russian language for centuries .
A: | " For centuries " , human rights activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva has explained , the word " glasnost " has been in the Russian language : " It was in the dictionaries and lawbooks as long as there had been dictionaries and lawbooks . |
How to have fun in a mall with your friends
See what stores your local mall has to offer.
Shopping malls are home to dozens of stores of all types, from high-end department stores to little shops offering unique handmade trinkets. Have a look around with your friends and see which shops you'd all be interested in checking out.
OPTIONS:
- If you have a friend who enjoys gymnastics, see if the mall offers gymnastics lessons. If you don't personally like gymnastics, find a local gymnastics fan club in your area.
- Dealerships and chain stores all offer free, or very cheap, handmade goods that can't be bought in your area. Be wary of other stores that might not be displaying their items, though.
- Check out stores in your neighborhood that specialize in the arts and crafts department, if you don't have any people in mind to hang out with. Consider shopping for specialty items that have to do with you, too.
- You could fill up an entire day just exploring all the different storefronts in a shopping mall. Having trouble finding a place to start? Most shopping malls have a directory board placed near each entrance to familiarize shoppers with the stores in the vicinity.
You could fill up an entire day just exploring all the different storefronts in a shopping mall. Having trouble finding a place to start? Most shopping malls have a directory board placed near each entrance to familiarize shoppers with the stores in the vicinity.
A close up is seen of a bolt being removed with a screw driver. A wheel is removed from a bicycle. it
OPTIONS:
- is repositioned and replaced with a dart thrower.
- is then seen inside a building.
- is then replaced with a new one.
- splits in half on a board.
is then replaced with a new one.
A woman is explaining how to remove wallpaper. She turns around and bends over to pick up a steamer. she
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- puts it back down on the table.
- sets the steamer down then grabs another one and picks it up.
- places the steamer down and shows off the finished product.
- shows how to steam the wallpaper in sections.
shows how to steam the wallpaper in sections.
The man is hunched over on the the ground trying to build a fire by himself. It's all about adding oxygen at the right time once you have started a nice fire. also
OPTIONS:
- , the cameraman goes to stand up to help the guy who's in the crouch position as the camera guy films them and makes notes.
- , the guy rushes to get a bigger one.
- , the man is not lying flat on the ground as he is trying to put firewood into the fire on the ground.
- , if the fire is dead or dying you just hit it with a little bit more oxygen and it will help bring it back up.
| , if the fire is dead or dying you just hit it with a little bit more oxygen and it will help bring it back up. |
How to grow gaura<br>Sow seeds indoors. Plan on starting the seeds indoors five to nine weeks before the date you intend to transfer the seedlings to your outdoor garden. [substeps] For annual varieties, sow the seeds five to six weeks before the anticipated last frost.
Can we infer the following?
Gaura is the best plant.
OPTIONS: [I] Yes. [II] It's impossible to say. [III] No.
The answer is: | [II] |
NACOGDOCHES, Texas (AP) — The football game between Tarleton State and Stephen F. Austin was cancelled on Saturday due to ongoing lightning strikes. After attempting to wait out the weather, officials decided to cancel the game as lighting strikes continued in the area. According to Luke Bolanos, SFA’s sports information director, the game will not be made up.
Can we draw the following conclusion?
This is the rainy season in Nacogdoches, Texas.
Select from:
A). Yes
B). It's impossible to say
C). No | B). |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
CLOSE Witches will host an Oct. 20 hex on Brett Kavanaugh in Brooklyn. Dozens are expected to attend, but thousands have expressed interest in the ritual. Steve Byerly, Ventura County Star
Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed (Photo: getty)
A Brooklyn, New York bookstore is planning an event for people angered by the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court: A public hex.
Witches will host Oct. 20 event, organizer Dakota Bracciale said. The ritual has sold out of tickets and attracted the interest of thousands. It's intended to "to make Kavanaugh suffer," Bracciale told Newsweek.
About 60 people will be in attendance at the event, Bracciale told USA TODAY on Saturday. The ritual will include effigies, coffin nails, graveyard dirt and – of course – a spell.
Bracciale said the bookstore has organized hexes before, including three last year on President Donald Trump.
Not everyone in attendance will believe in the power of the hex – and that's okay, according to Bracciale, who said the event is in part a means of spiritual or emotional catharsis.
Kavanaugh isn't the only subject of the gathering's anger. Those in attendance will be targeting "all rapists and the patriarchy which emboldens, rewards and protects them," according to the hex's Eventbrite page.
Oct. 12: Majority of Americans disapprove of Brett Kavanaugh, want further investigation: Poll
Oct. 3: GoFundMe for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh raises more than $500,000
After the hex, a second ritual will be held, according to the listing: "The Rites of the Scorned One." It will "validate, affirm, uphold and support those of us who have been wronged and who refuse to be silent any longer."
Kavanaugh's controversial appointment to the Supreme Court has inspired protests after Christine Blasey Ford publicly accused the judge of sexual assaulting her in high school. Kavanaugh has denied the allegation and was confirmed to the court by a historically narrow margin on Oct. 6.
Bracciale told Newsweek that those in attendance will be "basically Antifa witches ... There are a lot of angry people who are righteously filled with rage that are going to take back our country."
Many of the people in attendance will be sexual assault survivors, Bracciale believes based on feedback from planned participants.
Witchcraft has historically been an outlet for oppressed people to “take matters in their own hands" according to Bracciale.
Tickets for the event cost $10. Organizers say one-quarter of ticket proceeds will go to the Ali Forney Center – a group that supports homeless LGBT youth – and one-quarter will be donated to Planned Parenthood.
Bracciale suggests that those who support the ritual donate to those groups if they are unable to attend.
Witchcraft mixed with political overtones has become an increasing trend, according to an October report by Vox. "Magic as self-care," the article describes the phenomenon.
Read or Share this story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/10/13/witches-brooklyn-plan-hex-brett-kavanaugh/1630491002/ ||||| How To Protect Yourself From Curses And Psychic Attack
How To Protect Yourself From Curses And Psychic Attack
Curses and psychic attack are negative energy directed at us from another person. This person may be a skilled magickal practitioner who has raised energy against you in a planned attack or it may simply be a person who has very negative strong feelings toward you that have "rubbed off" and "stuck" to you. While this is a scary prospect, the truth is that it is very easy to prevent this energy from staying with you for any length of time.
Required Tools:
Your positive attitude
Protective herbs, stones, incense
Directions:
The most important way to protect yourself from the negative energy of others (that is what a curse is, essentially) is to always stay positive and to always be pleasant and polite to others. This seems very simple and it can also be very difficult as many of us are in the habit of worrying, complaining and stressing out over every little thing. But negative energy can be neutralized by positive energy. So, let a smile be your umbrella and a shield!
It also helps to avoid engaging with negative people. Negative energy also neutralizes positive energy, so hanging out with negative people can bring you down and make you a target. Also, if someone makes you feel nervous or fearful, you should trust your instincts. And if someone has boasted to you that they have cursed another person, rest assured they are capable of doing the same to you. The more time you spend with someone, the better they get to know you, the easier it will be for them to harm you, whether magically or otherwise.
It's not always as simple as all that, of course. There are more complicated types of spells that require more complicated countering. Love/fascination/obsession spells, for example, can be very damaging but their energy isn't purely negative. I find the energy of Mars and the waning moon to be helpful in countering this.
There are some simple spells and talismans that are used for protection against various spells. The evil eye can be countered by the hamsa or the image of an eye and many witches create a witches bottle to divert any magic sent their way.
Keeping a clean, uncluttered house prevents negative energy directed at your household from finding a place to settle and fumigation can help clear the area of any lingering negativity. Remember that nature abhors a vacuum, so fill that cleared area with joy to keep the negativity from creeping back in.
Also, watch our spells section for some simple protection spells coming soon.
Additional Comments:
See also How To Break a Curse
For More Information:
If you lean more toward the Wiccan end of the magical spectrum, check out The Witch's Sheild by Christopher Penczak
If you are more Chaos Magick inclined, then Protection and Reversal Magick by Jason Miller might be more useful to you.
LuckyMojo.com's Uncrossing and Jinx-Breaking Page may serve you well if you're into Hoodoo. As might Conjureroot.com's Cleansing and Protection article.
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Did you try this project? Tweak it? Have a different method? Tell us what you think! ||||| The planned ceremony has angered Fox News and rightwing commentators, which is exactly the point says the organiser
A coven of witches will gather in an occult bookstore in Brooklyn, New York, on Saturday to place a hex on the supreme court justice Brett Kavanaugh. Tickets to the event, which cost $10, with half the proceeds going to women’s and LGBT charities, have already sold out.
The event is not out of the ordinary for Catland Books, which describes itself as “Brooklyn’s premier metaphysical boutique and event space”. They have previously held ceremonies to hex Donald Trump as well as a “hex your ex” ceremony on Valentine’s Day.
Dakota Bracciale, co-owner of the store, told the Guardian the event will be an important act of protest and community outreach, even if some attendees are skeptical.
“The whole thing is going to be really cathartic, whether you believe it or not. The right has churches but the left is scattershot. The left is where you’re going to find atheists, secularists, humanists, people who follow non-traditional religions. So how are you going to get all of us together in times of trouble? That’s what we’ve been doing.”
The ceremony has become a talking point for some rightwing commentators, who see it as part of a pattern of leftwing attacks on leading Trump allies. On Fox News last Friday, Tucker Carlson discussed the coven’s plans, taking particular umbrage with their idea to donate 25% of proceeds to Planned Parenthood, which he said would “help them continue to fund their human sacrifice rituals”.
Mad Online Peltz (@peltzmadeline) Tucker: Planned Parenthood performs "human sacrifice rituals" pic.twitter.com/3tde14wHaI
Amy Kremer, the co-founder of the Women Vote Trump Pac, brought the event up in a roundtable on MSNBC, describing it as an escalation of attempts to publicly shame Republicans. “It is a scary time right now. Sarah Sanders has been run out of restaurants. I mean, there’s a list of things going on. Now you’ve got witches that are placing a hex on Brett Kavanaugh.”
The event’s Facebook page has also been flooded with comments opposing the event, many of them proclaiming it an affront to Christianity. “Kavanaugh is a Christian. True Christians have the protection of our heavenly father against others that desire a demon attack against them,” wrote one commenter.
Bracciale says that the store also organises more traditional protests and voter registration drives, but using the language of occult has been more effective in riling up their opponents. “It strikes fear into the heart of Christian fundamentalists. That’s one of the reasons that we do it. Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. We don’t subscribe to this bullshit, pacifist, love and light, everybody just get along thing. If you want to hijack the country, if you want to steal the election, if you want to overturn Roe v Wade, if you want to harm people who are queer, well guess what, we’re not doing civility. If you’re going to be these awful bullies, you have to understand someone is going to punch you back and it might as well be a bunch of witches from Brooklyn.”
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The actual event will involve two rituals. The first will be putting a hex on Kavanaugh. Everyone in the room will focus on an image of the judge while passages are recited and candles burned. Graveyard dirt, coffin nails and effigies will also feature.
The second is the rite of the scorned one, created by Bracciale, which is about welcoming rage. “It’s saying that constant, absolute pacifism only leads to you getting harmed more. Sometimes there has to be an allowance for rage as your ally.”
Some have been critical of those declaring themselves witches, claiming that the subculture is based more on consumerism than spiritualism. But Bracciale differentiates what happens in the bookstore from more basic witches.
“I don’t recognise the supposed witchcraft of $80-Lulu-Lemon-Yoga-pant-wearing white women with chai lattes who rub crystals on themselves, read The Secret and send out good thoughts into the universe. To me that’s not witchcraft. Witchcraft has a deeply rooted history as a tool of resistance and resilience, to survive oppression, disenfranchisement, and being an outcast of society.”
Despite the news network’s negative coverage of the event, Bracciale has agreed to appear on Fox News over the weekend to discuss the event. “I grew up in a house where Fox was blaring 24/7, full volume, I know how they try to derail and distract. If you don’t rise to it then they fall flat.” |||||
| Brett Kavananaugh might want to peruse Witchipedia's entry on protection from curses. It's knowledge he'll apparently need Saturday when a Brooklyn book store hosts a public hexing of the newest Supreme Court justice. Thousands are interested in the sold-out event at Catland Books, though just 60 people will attend, with half of the $600 in proceeds going to support women’s and LGBT charities, reports USA Today. Recited passages will aim to arouse the hex against Kavanaugh and "the patriarchy," reports the Guardian. "Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire," says store co-owner Dakota Bracciale. Last year, Catland Books hosted three events delivering hexes to President Trump, Time reports. (Perhaps they'd have better luck with this manuscript penned by 17-century witches.) |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
[EX Q]: Comanche Indians have trapped the evil of their land in a monster made up of a mixture of other animals . The Comanche have placed a protective spear in the ground to contain the evil . A young boy pulls the spear from the ground while pocketing a rabbit foot talisman . He starts to play with the spear . A Comanche catches the boy , and startled , he runs away with the rabbit's foot . The Native American places the spear back , realizing too late that the rabbits foot is now gone . After that , white men come and start drilling for oil . Skip to current time , a divorced father , Mance Cashen , moves to the area with his new wife , baby , and his son from his first marriage , Willy ( played by ( ( Chris Miller , who is visiting . Willy notices something peculiar in the house and tries to warn his father and step-mother . They do not believe him . Willy is attacked while on a tire swing over a small water hole . The creature grabs his foot and Willy struggles , eventually getting away . He eventually befriends the local drunk , T. C. van Houten . A nice old man with some bad memories who knows something about the evil near the oil well and was in a situation similar to Willy's . In the meantime a Comanche Indian , Chief Sam John , comes to warn Mance of the evil and the need to keep it contained . Sam John informs Mance the evil was originally intended to stop the white man , but it is indiscriminate in whom it kills instead . Mance will have none of it . Willy eventually takes a spear he finds on his property to Sam John and tries to find out what is going on . <sep>What is the name of the old man with whom Willy became friends?<sep>T. C. van Houten
[EX A]: Yes
[EX Q]: NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- A mob killed a Hindu man in the Indian state of Orissa Thursday as another group attacked a church in another part of the state's troubled Kandhamal district, authorities said Friday. Christian activists stage a peace march in Mumbai, India earlier this month. Krishan Kumar, Kandhamal's top administrative official, told CNN the Hindu man was hacked to death at Raikia. Orissa state, which is dominated by tribal people, borders the Bay of Bengal in east-central India, and Kandhamal is located in the center of the state, which has been racked by Hindu-Christian violence. Praveen Kumar, Kandhamal's superintendent of police, said an investigation is under way in both incidents, and did not say whether any suspects were being sought. Twenty-three civilians, excluding police, have died in the Hindu-Christian violence in Kandhamal this month, according to the administrator. "Arrests are continuing," Praveen Kumar said when asked how many people have been held so far in connection with the violence. The latest attacks occurred on a day when India's federal government called upon the state administration to take "effective, focused and firm measures" to control the conflicts. On Thursday, federal Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta asked the Orissa government to ensure effective deployment of paramilitaries in the state. -- CNN's Harmeet Shah Singh contributed to this report. <sep>In which Indian state is Raikia located?<sep>Kandhamal State
[EX A]: No
[EX Q]: The film focuses on various guests staying at New York City's famed Waldorf-Astoria Hotel . Among them are lonely screen star Irene Malvern , in town with her maid Anna for a childhood friend's wedding and the premiere of her latest movie ; war correspondent Chip Collyer , mistaken for a jewel thief by Irene but playing along to catch her attention ; flyer Capt. James Hollis , wounded in World War II and facing perilous surgery in three days ; wealthy shyster Martin X. Edley , who is trying to sign the Bey of Aribajan to a shady oil deal ; Oliver Webson , a cub reporter for Collier's Weekly hoping to expose Edley ; and bride-to-be Cynthia Drew , whose upcoming wedding is endangered by her belief her fianc Bob is in love with Irene Malvern . Also on the scene are Bunny Smith , the hotel's stenographer/notary public , who hopes to escape her low income roots by marrying Edley , and reporter Randy Morton , who loiters in the lobby hoping to stumble upon a scoop for his newspaper . In the opening scene , Randy Morton describes a typical Friday afternoon at the Waldorf . A newlywed couple discover there are no rooms available , and are given use of an apartment by a Mr. Jesup , who is going away for the weekend . Edley finds Jesup in the lobby and tries to involve him in a deal with the Bey of Aribajan , a wealthy oil shiek . Jesup refuses , but Edley knows that Jesup will be gone all weekend and has until Monday morning to get the Bey to sign a contract based on Jesup's presumed involvement . <sep>Which two women are hoping to be married someday?<sep>Bunny Smith
[EX A]: | Yes
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You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
[Q]: Flashbacks reveal that his wife (Salli Richardson) and daughter (Willow Smith) died in a helicopter accident during the chaotic evacuation of Manhattan, prior to the military-enforced quarantine of the island in 2009, when Neville stayed behind on the island as military personnel. Neville's only mitigation for his loneliness is his German Shepherd named Samantha, a.k.a. Sam (given to him by his daughter as a puppy to protect him before she died in the helicopter crash), interaction with mannequins he has set up as patrons at a video store, and recordings of old television broadcasts. At night, he barricades himself and Sam inside his heavily fortified Washington Square Park home to hide from the Darkseekers. One day, while waiting for survivors, Sam follows a deer into a dark building. Neville cautiously goes in after her and finds the deer's corpse along with Sam, but the building is infested by a colony of Darkseekers. Both manage to escape unharmed and the attacking Darkseekers are killed by the sunlight.
[A]: did willow smith play in i am legend?
[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 fluid ounce is distinct from the ounce as a unit of weight or mass, although it is sometimes referred to simply as an ``ounce'' where context makes the meaning clear, such as ounces in a bottle.
[A]: | does a fluid ounce of water weigh an ounce?
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You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Supposedly , the shaman perceives and interacts with a spirit world , and channels these energies into this world .
Output: | Shamanism is a practice that involves a practitioner reaching altered states of consciousness in order to perceive and interact with what they believe to be a spirit world and channel these transcendental energies into this world . |
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 input: The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
Example output: The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini.
Example explanation: The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
Q: Christmas is celebrated all over the world , as a religious holiday or as a time of celebration by Christians and non-Christians alike .
A: | Christmas Day is a public holiday in many of the world 's nations , is celebrated religiously by a majority of Christians , as well as culturally by many non-Christians , and forms an integral part of the holiday season centered around it . |
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: Consider Input: Second Reading : A debate on the general principles of the bill is followed by a vote .
Output: At the second reading , the general principles of the bill are debated , and the House may vote to reject the bill , by not passing the motion " That the Bill be now read a second time " .
Input: Consider Input: Genome editing is a type of genetic engineering .
Output: Genome editing , or genome engineering , or gene editing , is a type of genetic engineering in which DNA is inserted , deleted , modified or replaced in the genome of a living organism .
Input: Consider Input: It originally referred to an oath taken by jurors to tell the truth .
| Output: It originally referred to an oath taken by jurors to tell the truth , i.e. , to say what is true , what is objectively accurate or subjectively honest , or both .
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Problem:The coconut palm is a palm tree in the family Arecaceae ( palm family ) .
Solution: | The coconut tree ( " Cocos nucifera " ) is a member of the palm tree family ( Arecaceae ) and the only known living species of the genus " Cocos " . |
Q: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
William Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management. (Photo: Pawel Dwulit, AP) Story Highlights Ackman's Pershing Square plans to sell its stake in J.C. Penney
Pershing Square had been the No. 1 owner of the retailers' stock
Marks the end of Ackman's failed efforts to cause positive change at the retailer
Activist hedge fund manager Bill Ackman's plan to reshape J.C. Penney has hit another snag: He's selling.
Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management on Monday disclosed it's preparing to sell its 39.1 million shares of the retailer, ending the hedge fund's efforts to create profitable change at the chain. The sale was disclosed in an offering notice filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The sale ends a contentious relationship between Ackman and J.C. Penney as the department-store retailer attempted to remake itself in a world dominated by trendier brands and specialty apparel retailers.
Efforts thus far, including the hiring of former Apple retail head Ron Johnson, have largely failed as consumers were turned off by the company's changes, especially the dramatic reduction of sales.
Shares of the stock fell 18 cents, or 1.4%, in very heavy trading to close Tuesday at $13.17, adding to the 1.1% drop on Monday. The stock is down by a third this year.
A statement from Pershing early Tuesday said the fund was offering the shares for sale at $12.90. Based on that price, Ackman would lose about $470 million in the sale, the Associated Press reports.
Some are curious about the method Ackman is using to sell the shares. Rather than selling on the open market himself, he is hiring Citigroup to underwrite and sell the shares. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed. Investors are wondering why Ackman is willing to pay the underwriting fees to sell the stock so quickly. "Ackman is saying he better get out now before it (the stock) is worth less," says Paul Swinand, analyst at Morningstar. Meanwhile, Citigroup may be making the bet it can get a good price after getting a chance to market the shares, Swinand says.
Seeing Ackman sell isn't surprising, as he resigned from the board on Aug. 13. It's Ackman's investment style to use his ownership stakes in companies to get a louder voice in management and decisions.
The departure of Ackman is a major change in the ownership structure of the company. Pershing Square Capital had been the top single investor in the firm, holding nearly 18% of the shares outstanding, says S&P Capital IQ. After the sale, the largest owner will become Perry Capital, with its 16 million shares, or 7.3% of shares outstanding.
Retail expert Faith Hope Consolo says she's not surprised Ackman is selling. "In such a volatile market, it's probably a smart move," says Consolo, chairman of the retail group at Douglas Elliman Real Estate. "The smartest people in retail are divesting themselves of a lot of stock. Everyone wants to protect their downside."
With Ackman out of the picture, that leaves J.C. Penney CEO Mike Ullman with the task of shoring up the company. Penney's earnings report last week was better than expected, even though revenue fell 12% to $2.7 billion. That was an improvement on the 23% revenue drop during the same period last year. The company also said that the first few weeks of the back-to-school shopping season were encouraging.
The company needs to reconnect with its customers through products and offerings they've come to expect, Swinand says. "Now it's about stemming the losses," and getting to positive cash flow, he says. "It's a matter of crawling back." ||||| Article Excerpt
Hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman moved to dump his entire stake in J.C. Penney Co., ending a failed bet on the retailer that cost his fund more than $600 million, resulted in the loss of thousands of jobs and left the 1,100-store chain still struggling to right itself.
Mr. Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management LP is unloading its 39 million shares—nearly 18% of Penney's stock—with help from Citigroup Inc., which underwrote the sale.
Citigroup reached agreements to sell the shares to new buyers at $12.90 each, a person familiar with the matter said. That was well below their closing price Monday ... |||||
A: | After buying a huge stake in JCPenney and backing a disastrous revamp that has left the chain floundering, Bill Ackman has decided he's done with the company. The Pershing Square hedge fund Ackman runs has announced its intention to unload its 18% stake in the company at a price that's about half what it paid a few years ago, a move that will cost the fund around $490 million, USA Today reports. Ackman quit the JCPenney board earlier this month after a conflict with other directors. Ackman—whose fund was the retailer's biggest shareholder—has made bad bets in the retail industry before, with investments in Target and Borders both souring, the Wall Street Journal notes. "Clearly, retail has not been our strong suit, and this is duly noted," he admitted in a letter to Pershing Square investors last week. Unlike thousands of people who worked at JCPenney before the policies he championed sent sales plunging, however, Ackman still has a job. |
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: Gaslighting is a type of psychological abuse where somebody uses lies or tricks to make another person doubt their memory and mental health .
SOLUTION: Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation in which a person seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or in members of a targeted group , making them question their own memory , perception , and sanity .
PROBLEM: The hamadryas baboon was a sacred animal in ancient Egypt .
SOLUTION: The hamadryas baboon was a sacred animal to the ancient Egyptians and appears in various roles in ancient Egyptian religion , hence its alternative name of ' sacred baboon ' .
PROBLEM: The Advertising Council , mostly called the Ad Council , is an American non-profit organization that creates public service announcements on behalf of sponsors , including non-profit organizations and the United States government .
SOLUTION: | The Advertising Council , commonly known as the Ad Council , is an American nonprofit organization that produces , distributes , and promotes public service announcements on behalf of various sponsors , including nonprofit organizations , non-governmental organizations and agencies of the United States government .
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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".
Billy and Sally are brother and sister. Billy is seven and Sally is eight. Their mother, Deborah, likes to have Billy and Sally dress up in costumes and play a game where they are answering the telephone. Usually when they play the game, Billy answers the telephone in a loud voice, and Sally answers the telephone in a quiet voice. On Tuesdays, Billy answers in a quiet voice, and Sally answers in a loud voice. On Fridays, Billy answers in a loud voice and Sally in a quiet voice. Billy has blonde hair. Sally has brown hair. Deborah has blonde hair, and Billy and Sally's father, Bob, has brown hair. He tells them to eat lettuce every time that he sees them, so that they grow big and strong like he is. Deborah likes to add some sugar with the lettuce so that Billy and Sally know what it is like to have sweet tastes in their life. One day, a Wednesday, Billy throws some lettuce into Sally's hair. Deborah laughs an grabs some straw from their farm and puts it in Billy's hair. Billy and Sally live on a farm. They have a goat, named Joey, and a duck, named Quack. They sometimes play a game with the goat where they chase him around the farm. Other times, they play a game with Quack where they wave at Quack and laugh. They have a fun life growing up on the farm. <sep>What games do Billy and Sally play?<sep>Sally has brown hair.
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Tom plays pool in a deserted pool hall , pocketing two balls by lowdown means and then wakes Jerry up by shooting the 10-ball into the pocket where he is sleeping . Jerry awakes just in time to avoid the 10-ball and is carried out to the ball return , where the 10 and the 13 smash the mouse between each other . Jerry is mad and walks up through the pocket , first sees nothing , but after a few steps back to the pocket , he spots Tom perched behind it . Jerry tries to jump into another corner pocket , but Tom aims a cue ball with so much force that it roll's into the pocket , and spins back out of it and it rolls Jerry backwards to Tom , who has made a ramp with his cue stick for the mouse to slide up . Jerry stops at the top of the stick and is then blown down by Tom , who then shoots a stream of balls to make the mouse flat . The whole train rebounds back towards the cat and the balls stack up at Tom's end of the table . Tom shoots all the balls in succession with his cue , and then tries to shoot Jerry , but the mouse hangs onto the cue tip . The cat , as if he were saying `` Have it your way '' , chalks up and shoots the 8-ball using Jerry . The mouse drops off the cue tip and then is upended by the 8-ball rolling in circles , and Tom forces Jerry to jump through the ball rack as if he were a circus performer . Tom then sets it on fire to add an additional level of torment , and when Jerry accomplishes this with poise , Tom discards the flaming rack and shoots the 8-ball across the table and back . <sep>How did Jerry get to the top of the pool stick?<sep>He climbed up the pole
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Zakariya Essabar, a Moroccan citizen, moved to Germany in February 1997 and to Hamburg in 1998, where he studied medical technology. Soon after moving to Hamburg, Essabar met Binalshibh and the others through a Turkish mosque. Essabar turned extremist fairly suddenly, probably in 1999, and reportedly pressured one acquaintance with physical force to become more religious, grow a beard, and compel his wife to convert to Islam. Essabar's parents were said to have made repeated but unsuccessful efforts to sway him from this lifestyle. Shortly before the 9/11 attacks, he would travel to Afghanistan to communicate the date for the attacks to the al Qaeda leadership. Mounir el Motassadeq, another Moroccan, came to Germany in 1993, moving to Hamburg two years later to study electrical engineering at theTechnical University. A witness has recalled Motassadeq saying that he would kill his entire family if his religious beliefs demanded it. One of Motassadeq's roommates recalls him referring to Hitler as a "good man" and organizing film sessions that included speeches by Bin Laden. Motassadeq would help conceal the Hamburg group's trip to Afghanistan in late 1999. Abdelghani Mzoudi, also a Moroccan, arrived in Germany in the summer of 1993, after completing university courses in physics and chemistry. Mzoudi studied in Dortmund, Bochum, and Muenster before moving to Hamburg in 1995. Mzoudi described himself as a weak Muslim when he was home in Morocco, but much more devout when he was back in Hamburg. In April 1996, Mzoudi and Motassadeq witnessed the execution of Atta's will. During the course of 1999, Atta and his group became ever more extreme and secretive, speaking only in Arabic to conceal the content of their conversations. 87 When the four core members of the Hamburg cell left Germany to journey to Afghanistan late that year, it seems unlikely that they already knew about the planes operation; no evidence connects them to al Qaeda before that time. Witnesses have attested, however, that their pronouncements reflected ample predisposition toward taking some action against the United States. In short, they fit the bill for Bin Laden, Atef, and KSM. Going to Afghanistan The available evidence indicates that in 1999, Atta, Binalshibh, Shehhi, and Jarrah decided to fight in Chechnya against the Russians. <sep>Which Morrocans lived in Germany during the 1990s?<sep>Binalshibh
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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: More than 500,000 Japanese children between the ages of 12 and 18 are believed to be addicted to the internet, although the ministry of education here says it is difficult to get accurate figures on the scale of the problem.
"It's becoming more and more of a problem," Akifumi Sekine, a spokesman for the ministry, told The Daily Telegraph. "We estimate this affects around 518,000 children at middle and high schools across Japan, but that figure is rising and there could be far more cases because we don't know about them all."
The ministry is planning a comprehensive research project into internet addiction in the next fiscal year and has asked the government to fund immersion programmes designed to get children away from their computers, mobile phones and hand-held game devices.
"We want to get them out of the virtual world and to encourage them to have real communication with other children and adults," Mr Sekine said.
The ministry is proposing to hold "fasting" camps at outdoor learning centres and other public facilities where children will have no access to the Internet.
The youngsters will be encouraged to take part in outdoor activities, team sports and games, with psychiatrists and clinical psychotherapists on hand to provide counselling should the transition back into the real world prove too traumatic.
Internet addiction is blamed for sleep and eating disorders in growing numbers of young people in Japan, while extreme cases have led to symptoms of depression and deep vein thrombosis, more commonly associated with passengers in cramped conditions on long-haul flights.
Studies suggest that an obsession with online activities is also having an impact on children's school performances. ||||| Kevin Roberts, 44, has written a book documenting the time in his life he says he was addicted to Internet video games.
Ten years ago, Kevin Roberts suffered from an addiction that took over his life.
Roberts, now 44 years old, would sit eight to 12 hours a day in front of the pale blue glow of his computer, playing a videogame. During holidays, he "binged," spending nearly all his waking hours at his keyboard. Finally, a friend who had been through Alcoholics Anonymous told him he displayed all the same characteristics of an addict.
"Like most addicts, I went through a series of self-deception," said Roberts, who documented his struggle with addiction in his book, "Cyber Junkie: Escape the Gaming and Internet Trap."
The story of Roberts, who came to grips with his addiction through years of therapy and spiritual retreats, is not unique. Treatment facilities have sprung up in recent years, but a psychiatric hospital in central Pennsylvania is now set to become the country's first facility of its kind to offer an inpatient treatment program for people it diagnoses with severe Internet addiction.
The voluntary, 10-day program is set to open on Sept. 9 at the Behavioral Health Services at Bradford Regional Medical Center. The program was organized by experts in the field and cognitive specialists with backgrounds in treating more familiar addictions like drug and alcohol abuse.
"[Internet addiction] is a problem in this country that can be more pervasive than alcoholism," said Dr. Kimberly Young, the psychologist who founded the non-profit program. "The Internet is free, legal and fat free."
"[Internet addiction] is a problem in this country that can be more pervasive than alcoholism." - Dr. Kimberly Young
The program is designed to accommodate four adult patients at a time, with each new class slated to begin treatment on the same day. These classes take part in group therapy and are placed inside a wing of the hospital designated for other addicts. These patients will undergo a psychological evaluation and learn ways they can minimally use the Internet and avoid problematic applications.
Young and other experts are quick to caution that mere dependence on modern technology does not make someone an Internet addict. The 20-year-old who divides his time between his girlfriend and "World of Warcraft" likely does not require intensive treatment. The program is designed for those whose lives are spiraling out of control because of their obsession with the Internet. These individuals have been stripped from their ability to function in daily life and have tried in the past to stop but cannot.
The idea that someone can suffer from Internet addiction first surfaced in the mid-1990s, and Young presented her first paper on the issue in front of the American Psychological Association in 1996. But as the Internet's popularity grew and became a staple in most people's lives, so has the recognition that portion of the population shows signs of being addicted.
Most people with a severe Internet addiction have some type of undiagnosed psychiatric disorder or personality problem, according to Dr. Roger Laroche, the medical director of the department of psychiatry at Bradford Regional. Each patient in the program, which costs $14,000 out-of-pocket because insurance does not cover the expense, will be psychologically evaluated after undergoing a 'digital detox.'
A 'digital detox' is when the patient is cut off from any Internet connection or computer use for 72 hours. For many, the thought of being disconnected from the Internet may feel like a vacation.
But for those with the addiction, they can face withdrawals similar to those seen in people addicted to marijuana. These patients can face depression, irritability and in some cases violence, Laroche said.
Young said one of her outpatients once resorted to chewing Styrofoam cups and unloaded punches into a wall during his detox. In 2010, researchers at the University of Maryland conducted a study where 200 students were asked not to use any form of media for 24 hours, Reuters reported. At the end of the study, many students reported feeling withdrawn and suffered anxiety.
Last May, the American Psychiatric Association released its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5, or DSM-5, for the first time listed "Gaming Disorder" in Section III of the manual, which means it requires further research before being formally identified as a disorder.
The association noted evidence that young men from Asian countries in particular become engrossed in Internet games and "certain pathways in their brains are triggered in the same direct and intense way that a drug addict's brain is affected by the substance."
Dr. Allen Frances, the chairman of the DSM-IV and professor emeritus at Duke University has been a critic of formally identifying Internet addiction as a disorder. He said its listing in Section III of the manual means the disorder "wasn't ready for primetime."
He said there’s little doubt that a small population can suffer from some form of Internet addiction, but believes the research is premature. For example, he asks, where do you draw the line at addiction and recreational use?
"If we can be addicted to gambling and the Internet, why not also include addictions to shopping, exercise, sex, work, golf, sunbathing, model railroading, you name it? All passionate interests are at risk for redefinition as mental disorders," he wrote in an op-ed in The Huffington Post titled, "Internet Addiction: The Next New Fad Diagnosis." |||||
A: | Hospital inpatient programs for treating addicts aren't new. But this one is: A Pennsylvania psychiatric hospital will become the first of its kind to offer a program for Internet addicts, reports Fox News. "[Internet addiction] is a problem in this country that can be more pervasive than alcoholism," says the psychologist who founded the 10-week voluntary program at Bradford Regional Medical Center. "The Internet is free, legal and fat free." The program, designed by experts with backgrounds in treating drug and alcohol addiction, costs $14,000 out of pocket and starts with a 72-hour "digital detox." Patients then learn ways to keep their Internet usage to a minimum in daily life and avoid using addictive applications. Meanwhile, Japan has taken a different route for tackling the affliction: The country's government is proposing funding "Internet-free camps" for kids, where they will be forced forgo their XBoxes and iPhones in favor of fresh air and outdoor games, reports the Telegraph. |
Teacher:In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: Born in Tandil, Buenos Aires Province, Macri is the son of Francesco Macri, a prominent Italian businessman in the industrial and construction sectors, and was raised in an upper class home. He received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina and studied at Columbia Business School in New York City. Macri became president of Boca Juniors, one of Argentina's two most popular football clubs, in 1995. In 2005, he created the centre-right Republican Proposal party (Propuesta Republicana, also known as PRO).
Student: | where did the president of argentina go to college |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Q: Playboy.com Sued Can't You See?!? Your Site's Not Blind Friendly!!!
Playboy.com Sued by Man Alleging Website Not Accessible to the Blind
EXCLUSIVE
The blind are leading the blind ... right into a class action lawsuit against Playboy.com for operating a website that can't be enjoyed by the visually impaired.
Donald Nixon just filed the suit, claiming Playboy.com is violating the Americans with Disabilities Act, because its websites -- Playboy.com and Playboyshop.com -- are not compatible with his screen-reading software.
In docs, obtained by TMZ, Nixon says he's legally blind and visually impaired people like him, "cannot fully and equally use or enjoy the facilities, products, and services." He doesn't spell it out, but we're sure Donald's just there for the articles.
He's suing to force the media outlet to make its websites accessible for the blind ... as well as unspecified damages. We've reached out to Playboy.com ... so far, no word back.
BTW ... we've seen this before. Kylie's website was hit with a very similar suit. ||||| Poorly designed websites can be more than frustrating, they can break the law, a legally blind New York man claims in lawsuits against Muhlenberg College, East Stroudsburg University and about 40 other schools in the mid-Atlantic.
Lawsuits filed in federal court in Manhattan last week on behalf of Jason Camacho claim the institutions’ websites do not comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act because they’re not properly designed for the visually impaired to use.
The suits allege that the sites don’t work with screen reading software, which converts text to computerized speech, allowing visually impaired people to access the internet. For that reason, the suits claim, Camacho was unable to obtain information about the schools, which he was interested in attending.
The suits are part of a wave of litigation over website accessibility under the ADA, a 1990 law that requires businesses and institutions to make their services accessible to people with physical disabilities. The U.S. Department of Justice, however, has yet to release long-anticipated guidelines on designing websites to be ADA compliant, leaving organizations and businesses uncertain about what’s required and vulnerable to lawsuits.
An advocate for the visually impaired said access to websites for the blind is a real problem. In addition to the text and images sighted people see, screen reading software depends on tags in a website’s code to describe images or prompt users how to fill out a form.
When those things are missing, blind users lack basic but crucial information about how to interact with a website, making tasks such as completing a purchase or registering for a class impossible, said Chris Danielsen, spokesman for the National Federation of the Blind.
“Most websites have at least a few issues,” Danielsen said. “It’s getting better all the time, but it’s not unusual for blind people to encounter accessibility issues just surfing the web on a daily basis.”
Spokeswomen for Muhlenberg College and East Stroudsburg University said they could not comment on pending lawsuits.
Courts, including the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Pennsylvania, have held that when a website is used in conjunction with a physical facility such as a college, restaurant or store, it must accommodate the disabled, said Shari Lewis, a New York attorney who represents and advises businesses on ADA compliance issues.
But other courts, including the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, have interpreted the law more broadly, finding that people need not ever physically visit a school or business for the ADA to apply to its website. The lawsuits assert that Camacho has the right to sue Muhlenberg and East Stroudsburg in New York where the broader interpretation applies, because their representatives were present at a college fair Camacho attended in Manhattan.
Camacho’s lawyer, Jeffrey M. Gottlieb of New York, was unavailable to discuss the cases this week. Gottlieb has filed about 95 lawsuits alleging ADA violations against companies and universities on Camacho’s behalf.
A study by the law firm Seyfarth Shaw, which specializes in defending against such suits, shows the number of cases is growing. About 800 ADA lawsuits were filed in 2017, while more than 1,000 were filed in the first half of 2018. Most were filed in federal court in New York; 24 were filed in Pennsylvania.
Lewis said the lawsuits have been effective in getting companies to make their websites easier for blind people to use. But, she said, it's difficult for businesses to be sure that they’re not violating the law because the ADA doesn’t specifically address website accessibility.
“The ADA was passed long before there was an internet, and the world is a very different place,” Lewis said.
The complaints against Muhlenberg and East Stroudsburg say most businesses and government entities have embraced guidelines issued by the international standards group World Wide Web Consortium. However, Lewis noted, there are competing standards that differ from the consortium’s guidelines.
While the federal government has adopted the consortium’s standards for its own websites, it has repeatedly put off issuing guidance for private sector organizations on what is required to comply and putting the decision on the courts, Lewis said.
“It’s going to be problematic until we have guidance from the federal government,” she said.
Danielsen, of the National Federation of the Blind, said that while the organization does use legal action to get compliance — it settled a class-action lawsuit against Target over its website for $6 million in 2008 — it doesn’t recommend litigation as a first step.
“We always try to engage with companies or institutions before we file a lawsuit,” he said, adding that it advises members to allow organizations that don’t comply with the ADA an opportunity to correct the problem.
When citizens do sue under the ADA, organizations find that the cheapest option is to settle, Lewis said. Such outcomes can be profitable for the lawyers who file the suits, because the ADA allows them to collect attorney fees. Lewis said in her experience, such suits are typically settled for $10,000 to $30,000 plus attorney fees.
“The law firm is entitled to legal fees and the more you fight them the more fees they get,” she said.
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610-820-6581 ||||| Kylie Jenner Inc. Sued You're Losing the Blind! Makeup Site's Blocking Us
Kylie Jenner's Makeup Site's Not Blind-Friendly According to Lawsuit
EXCLUSIVE
Kylie Jenner needs to get on the horn to her IT guys to update her website ASAP because, as it stands, her blind customers are getting screwed ... according to a new lawsuit.
Antoinette Suchenko says she's been legally blind for more than 20 years, and uses screen reader software to navigate the Internet -- but in the suit she says Kylie's cosmetics site isn't compatible. As a result, she's having a hard time bagging any of Kylie's uber-popular makeup products.
She's not looking for any cash -- Antoinette says she just wants Kylie's site to get up to standards required by the Americans with Disabilities Act. She says doing so will be a major W for Kylie's bottom line ... sales. She's suing Kylie Inc., not KJ herself.
As we reported, a similar suit was filed last year, by someone else, against the DASH Store's website. ||||| Kardashian's Dash Store Sued I See You Don't Like Blind Customers ...
Kardashian's Dash Store Sued
EXCLUSIVE
The Kardashian's Dash store refuses to do business with the blind ... treating them as second-class citizens ... so claims a blind man who's suing the joint.
Andres Gomez says he's legally blind and uses screen reader software to access the Internet. But the software continually came up empty when he tried browsing Dash store's website. He says the site contains barriers and Dash is well aware but refuses to fix it.
Kim, Khloe and Kourtney are not named defendants in the suit.
Gomez accuses the store of violating the American with Disabilities Act because Dash's website fails to sync with his screen reader software and provides no other access for blind customers.
Gomez is suing to get Dash's website to comply with federal law and he also wants cash.
We've reached out to Dash, so far no word back. |||||
A: | A new lawsuit claims there's a big problem with Playboy's website: it's not accessible to the blind. The suit, though, isn't about racy photos. Donald Nixon, who is legally blind, filed the class-action suit on Wednesday, arguing Playboy.com and Playboyshop.com aren't compatible with screen-reading software that translates text into braille or recites it using a speech synthesizer, reports TMZ. Nixon's suit claims the visually impaired "cannot fully and equally use or enjoy the facilities, products, and services" offered, putting Playboy in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which requires businesses to make services accessible to people with physical disabilities. Nixon hopes to force Playboy to become accessible to the blind but is also seeking unspecified damages. The Kardashians' DASH website was hit with a similar complaint in 2016. A year later, a blind woman sued Kylie Jenner's Kylie Cosmetics, arguing its website wasn't compatible with her screen-reader software. A legally blind man sued some 40 mid-Atlantic schools in federal court in Manhattan last week for the same reason, per the Allentown Morning Call. The paper notes the Justice Department has yet to release guidelines on how to make websites compliant with the ADA, and the delay has left businesses in the lurch. (A novel treatment for blindness doesn't come cheap.) |
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: The series has been renewed for a sixth season of 26 episodes which will premiere in Canada in September 2018,and in the UK on July 16, 2018.
Output: is there going to be season 6 of the next step?
Input: Consider Input: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, or simply Rogue One, is a 2016 American epic space opera film directed by Gareth Edwards. The screenplay by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy is from a story by John Knoll and Gary Whitta. It was produced by Lucasfilm and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the first installment of the Star Wars Anthology series, set immediately before the events of the original Star Wars film. The cast includes Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Riz Ahmed, Ben Mendelsohn, Donnie Yen, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk, Jiang Wen and Forest Whitaker. Rogue One follows a group of rebels on a mission to steal the plans for the Death Star, the Galactic Empire's superweapon.
Output: is rogue one the sequel to force awakens?
Input: Consider Input: The ``flavourings'' are believed to include cloves, soy sauce, lemons, pickles and peppers.
| Output: is soy sauce and worcestershire sauce the same thing?
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Question: Dubai's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum inaugurated a free zone for e-commerce today, called Dubai Internet City. The preliminary stages of the project, the only one of its kind according to its designers, are estimated at $200 million. Sheikh Mohamed, who is also the Defense Minister of the United Arab Emirates, announced at the inauguration ceremony that "we want to make Dubai a new trading center." The minister, who has his own website, also said: "I want Dubai to be the best place in the world for state-of-the-art technology companies." He said companies engaged in e-commerce would be able to set up offices, employ staff and own equipment in the open zone, including fully-owned foreign companies. The e-commerce free zone is situated in north Dubai, near the industrial free zone in Jebel Ali, the top regional and tenth international leading area in container transit. The inauguration of Dubai Internet City coincides with the opening of an annual IT show in Dubai, the Gulf Information Technology Exhibition (Gitex), the biggest in the Middle East. <sep>What is the full name and title of the Defense Minister of the United Arab Emirates?<sep>Sheikh Mohamed Al Maktoum
Answer: No
Question: (CNN) -- Japan's prime minister conceded defeat in parliamentary elections Sunday, signaling the return to power of the Liberal Democratic Party and ending the brief rule of the disappointing upstart Democratic Party of Japan. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda pledged to step down as party president after exit polls showed a smashing loss in lower house voting. The party, once seen as a breath of fresh air in Japanese politics, came to be regarded as increasingly ineffective. "We got a regrettable result," Noda said. "The result is everything in the politics. The biggest responsibility lies on me. I will quit as the partly leader of DPJ." The move clears the way for the return to power of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the current leader of the conservative-leaning Liberal Democratic Party, or LDP. "The Japanese people will be keenly looking whether the LDP can meet with their expectations," Abe said in interviews after the polling. The LDP ruled the country almost continuously since its establishment in 1955 until it was forced from power three years ago by the DPJ. Public broadcaster NHK said the LDP and its coalition partner, the new Komei party, gained at least 302 seats in the 480-seat lower house. CNN's main affiliate, TV Asahi, reports the LDP/Komei coalition gained at least 312 seats. The official count is expected to be released Monday. The LDP is inheriting a struggling economy, regional tensions and questions over Japan's role in Asia. "The economy is at the bottom. It's our first mission to turn it around," Abe said. <sep>As the current prime minister quits as the party leader who can return to power?<sep>Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
Answer: Yes
Question: IBM opened a sprawling and sophisticated semiconductor factory here on Wednesday that cost more than $2.5 billion to build and equip, the largest single capital investment the company has ever made. The factory, which opens as the computer chip business is in a slump, is a costly and risky move for IBM. But it is also an expression of confidence by the company that it can remain a technology leader in the highly competitive global semiconductor industry, and a commitment that the best place to execute that strategy is in upstate New York. IBM is an exception among computer makers in that it still invests heavily in research to advance the design, manufacture and materials used in semiconductor chips. It is spending more than $500 million a year on semiconductor research and development. The factory will produce a wide range of specialized semiconductors used in everything from the largest mainframe computers to cell phones and video-game consoles. The new plant is part of IBM's push to gain a strong lead in chip-making beyond the personal computer business, where Intel and East Asian chip producers hold the advantage. "The core of our strategy is to lead in technology and attack the high-performance segments of the market," said John Kelly, senior vice president in charge of IBM's technology group. An advantage to having the semiconductor fabricating factory here, Kelly explained, was that it was very close to its research laboratories in nearby Westchester County, N.Y. To stay ahead in advanced chip technology, he said, moving innovations out of the labs and into the factory as fast as possible is crucial. "What we call the lab-to-fab time should be as close to zero as possible," Kelly said. "If our strategy were anything but to be on the leading edge, we'd have put the plant in Asia." The new factory, which will begin normal production early next year, will employ about 1,000 people. <sep>Where was the largest single capital investment IBM made have been built?<sep>Westchester
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Question: Edwards failed to qualify for the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, and the 1994 Games in Lillehammer, Norway. He got a five-year sponsorship from Eagle Airlines, a small British charter company, to support his attempt to reach the 1998 Games in Nagano, Japan, but failed to qualify for those as well.
Answer: did eddie the eagle participate in 1992 olympics?
Question: Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
Answer: can the president serve more than two terms?
Question: A timing belt, timing chain or cambelt is a part of an internal combustion engine that synchronizes the rotation of the crankshaft and the camshaft(s) so that the engine's valves open and close at the proper times during each cylinder's intake and exhaust strokes. In an interference engine the timing belt or chain is also critical to preventing the piston from striking the valves. A timing belt is usually a toothed belt -- a drive belt with teeth on the inside surface. A timing chain is a roller chain.
Answer: | is the cambelt the same as the timing belt?
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In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Q: Who would make laws on interstate commerce/, Context: Federal law originates with the Constitution, which gives Congress the power to enact statutes for certain limited purposes like regulating interstate commerce. The United States Code is the official compilation and codification of the general and permanent federal statutes. Many statutes give executive branch agencies the power to create regulations, which are published in the Federal Register and codified into the Code of Federal Regulations. Regulations generally also carry the force of law under the Chevron doctrine. Many lawsuits turn on the meaning of a federal statute or regulation, and judicial interpretations of such meaning carry legal force under the principle of stare decisis.
A: | Congress |
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.
A ravine usually has steep sides , and they are 20-70 % in gradient . | A ravine is generally a fluvial slope landform of relatively steep ( cross-sectional ) sides , on the order of twenty to seventy percent in gradient . |
How to get free virus protection software<br>Find out which version of windows you are running. In general, most free anti-virus programs are intended for use with windows operating systems; however, new versions are updated for the latest windows versions. [substeps] For example, if you are still running windows xp, make sure you do not download a version only intended for windows 8 and higher.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Windows XP could have problems with, or may not even be able to run, programs made specifically for Windows 8 and higher."? | Yes |
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:Among the national teams, Germany and Brazil have played the most World Cup matches (109), Germany appeared in the most finals (8), semi-finals (13), quarter-finals (16), while Brazil has appeared in the most World Cups (21), has the most wins (73) and has scored the most goals (229). The two teams have played each other twice in the World Cup, in the 2002 final and in the 2014 semi-final.
Solution: | have any teams played each other twice in the world cup? |
The Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem or Basilica di Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, (Latin: "Basilica Sanctae Crucis in Hierusalem" ) is a Roman Catholic minor basilica and titular church in rione Esquilino, Rome, Italy. It is one of the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome.
Rome has more than a dozen Pilgrim Churches. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
Merrill Meeks Flood (1908 – 1991) was an American mathematician, notable for developing, with Melvin Dresher, the basis of the game theoretical Prisoner's dilemma model of cooperation and conflict while being at RAND in 1950 (Albert W. Tucker gave the game its prison-sentence interpretation, and thus the name by which it is known today).
the basis of the game was developed while he was at RAND in 1950 OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: Yes
How to be in control<br>Calm yourself in the moment. If you are upset and you start losing control of your behavior, quickly take steps to master yourself. Pick a few ways to calm down and practice them when you're by yourself.
You should know how to calm yourself before it is needed. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | 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".
Q: (CNN) -- Tito Joseph "TJ" Jackson, who on Wednesday was named temporary guardian of Michael Jackson's three children, was inspired by his famous uncle to form a singing group with his brothers. TJ had been placed in charge of the children when the kids' grandmother, Katherine, left home on July 15 and will watch the children while the legal proceedings play out in a California court. TJ Jackson, 34, is the son of Tito Jackson and the late Delores Martes Jackson. TJ and his older brothers, Taj and Taryll, form the R&B group 3T. Jackson is married with three children, a boy and two girls. Judge suspends Katherine Jackson as guardian of Michael Jackson's children A 1995 article in People described the brothers' childhood as normal despite their famous father, uncle and aunts. Taj Jackson told the magazine: "My mom made sure that we had a real childhood, with birthday parties, baseball, family outings, all that stuff." They were close to their Uncle Michael. "He's like a third parent to us," Taj told People in 1995. Eventually the brothers went along on one of his tours and decided to form a singing group and were recording their first album in 1994 at the time of their mother's death. Initially it was believed Delores Martes Jackson, who had divorced from Tito Jackson in 1993, drowned in a swimming pool, but the case was reopened, and her sons in 1995 filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against a man they accused of killing her. Three years later, Donald Bohana was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 15 years to life in prison, according to People magazine. <sep>Who is the brother of Tito Jackson?<sep>Tiju
A: No
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Q: Registration fees for Illinois lawyers could jump as much as $49 a year if lawmakers adopt two separate measures to bolster pro-bono services and support for lawyers with drug and alcohol problems. The Illinois Supreme Court is pushing for legislation that would allow it to dedicate money raised through the fee hikes to legal services to the poor. The justices are floating a $42 increase to shore up financing for pro-bono work, as the normal funding mechanism for legal services has fallen short in recent years. Currently, support for non-profit legal aid groups comes from interest generated on the Lawyers' Trust Fund, which pools clients' money that attorneys hold for such matters as escrow funds. But low interest rates and a sagging economy mean there is less money being generated. After hours of discussion, the high court agreed that raising the registration fees would be the best way to address the declining revenues, Chief Justice Moses W. Harrison II said. The judges were reluctant to raise those fees but eventually decided that supporting probono services was important enough "and lawyers had a responsibility to contribute" to the cause, Harrison said. Last year, the high court raised the base fee for active attorneys to $180 from $140. Lawyers in their first three years of practice or who are inactive pay $90, and retired lawyers pay nothing. Legislation circulated by the high court's lobbyist specifies that the hike would apply to attorneys "paying full annual registration fees." In 2001, there were 57,392 active attorneys in Illinois and 74,311 on the full roll, according to the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission. The hike would raise roughly $2.4 million. Last year, interest on the trust fund totaled $4.5 million, but service and handling fees consumed $538,000 of that amount. This year's returns are projected to be anywhere between $700,000 and $1 million short of that mark, said Ruth Ann Schmitt, the executive director of Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois. Harrison said the fee hikes are designed only to counter the shortfall in interest income, not add to the total amount available. "Our legal services are already stretched to the breaking point," Schmitt said. "We have a tough time raising enough money to properly fund services that our clients need." Neither the Illinois State Bar Association nor The Chicago Bar Association has taken a stance on the proposed hikes. <sep>Why were judges initially reluctant to raise registration fees?<sep>Low interest rates and a sagging economy meant there was less money being generated
A: Yes
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Q: Once upon a time I had a dog named Toodles. He was black and white and had long floppy ears. He also had very short legs, but really big paws. Every Saturday we would go to the park and play Toodles' favorite game. Toodles loved playing fetch. One Saturday, Toodles ran over to the pond because he saw ducks swimming there. He ran all around the pond, barking at the ducks. The ducks ignored him, and kept swimming. Toodles wasn't having it! He jumped into the pond and started swimming toward the ducks, chasing around his new playmates. One of the ducks, braver than the others, poked Toodles with his beak - and then bit him right on one of his floppy ears! Toodles barked and ran out of the pond because the duck hurt his ear. Soaking wet, he ran toward where I was eating a sandwich on the grass and curled right up in my lap so I could make him feel better. After that, whenever he would see a duck, Toodles would run the other way. <sep>What was Toodle's favorite game?<sep>He loved to play fetch
A: | Yes
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When entering into force in 1994, the EEA parties were 17 states and two European Communities: the European Community, which was later absorbed into the EU's wider framework, and the now defunct European Coal and Steel Community. Membership has grown to 31 states as of 2016: 28 EU member states, as well as three of the four member states of the EFTA (Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway). The Agreement is applied provisionally with respect to Croatia--the remaining and most recent EU member state--pending ratification of its accession by all EEA parties. One EFTA member, Switzerland, has not joined the EEA, but has a series of bilateral agreements with the EU which allow it also to participate in the internal market.
A: | is switzerland a member of the european economic area? |
What happens next?
How to become an er physician
Go to college.
You need at least 3 years of undergraduate school or a bachelor's degree to enter medical school.
You can major in pre-medicine or a related area such as physics, biology or chemistry since these majors include all the prerequisites, but a science major is not required.
Select from the following.
+You need at least a bachelor's degree from duke university. The duke university of medical school of medicine comers undergraduate degree to it with a bachelor's degree to it as well as an engineering degree.;
+Earn a high grade point average (gpa). Medical school is competitive, so you want the highest gpa you can earn.;
+However, you should at least have a bachelor's degree in specific fields. Your coursework should be best suited for midmedical medicine as well.;
+Ensure you meet the prerequisite requirements; this can include grades in math, science, foreign language, physical sciences, and medicine. Apply to clinical for an entrance exam and internship with the medicine crew and medical data clinic.; | Earn a high grade point average (gpa). Medical school is competitive, so you want the highest gpa you can earn. |
Teacher:In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: The 2060s decade will begin on January 1 , 2060 and will end on December 31 , 2069 .
Student: | The 2060s ( pronounced " twenty-sixties " ) is a decade of the Gregorian calendar that will begin on January 1 , 2060 , and will end on December 31 , 2069 . |
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After more than a year of effort, attorneys with Northwest Justice Project earlier this week told 25 families in a mobile home park here that they can keep their homes and no longer need to fear eviction. The East Wenatchee City Council has entered into an Interlocal Agreement with the Wenatchee Housing Authority authorizing the Authority to purchase and maintain the Mobile Park Plaza mobile home park. Located just north of the Wenatchee Valley Mall, the park had been threatened with closure for more than a year. "We cannot say enough about how relieved we are that this is over," said Manuel Luna, one of the residents of Mobile Park Plaza. "We were afraid that no solution would be found, and that our families would have no place to go. We are very grateful for the help of our attorneys. Without them, we would not have saved our homes. We are also thankful for the help of the Housing Authority, the City Council and Mayor Steve Lacy." Formerly owned by local businessman Dan Jennings, Mobile Park Plaza had been home to 45 low-income families, many of them Latino farm workers. In October 2000 Jennings gave the park residents notice of his intent to close the park effective November 30, 2001. While some park residents decided to move, others, including 25 families, organized an informal association to relocate or save their homes. Unable to afford private legal counsel, the families asked for help from legal services attorneys at the Northwest Justice Project and Columbia Legal Services. In the succeeding months, these attorneys worked with representatives of the Greater Wenatchee Housing Authority, the state Office of Community Development, Chelan County, the City of East Wenatchee, state legislators, Jennings and others to secure funding and find a solution. "There seemed to be a never-ending set of obstacles," said Patrick Pleas, an attorney with Northwest Justice Project. "Mr. Jennings had financial considerations, the City had growth and economic development considerations, and the State and Housing Authority had their own concerns. Thankfully, hard work and good will from all parties allowed us to find a solution that works for everyone." Northwest Justice Project and Columbia Legal Services are non-profit organizations that provide civil legal assistance to low-income individuals and families throughout Washington state. Members of the state's Access to Justice Network, these organizations work with thousands of volunteer attorneys to ensure that justice is available to those who face critical legal problems and can't afford private legal counsel. <sep>The Mobile Park Plaza mobile home park would have closed without the help of whom?<sep>Without the people of Wenatchee
Output: | No |
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".
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Island dwarfism , or insular dwarfism , is the reduction in size of large animals over a number of generations .
Answer: | Insular dwarfism , a form of phyletic dwarfism , is the process and condition of large animals evolving or having a reduced body size when their population 's range is limited to a small environment , primarily islands . |
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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.
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.
Output: | what is the function of a music producer |
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Q: Which language does not contain a second to third evolution, only a beginning to and end evolution?, Context: The other directly attested Old Iranian dialects are the two forms of Avestan, which take their name from their use in the Avesta, the liturgical texts of indigenous Iranian religion that now goes by the name of Zoroastrianism but in the Avesta itself is simply known as vohu daena (later: behdin). The language of the Avesta is subdivided into two dialects, conventionally known as "Old (or 'Gathic') Avestan", and "Younger Avestan". These terms, which date to the 19th century, are slightly misleading since 'Younger Avestan' is not only much younger than 'Old Avestan', but also from a different geographic region. The Old Avestan dialect is very archaic, and at roughly the same stage of development as Rigvedic Sanskrit. On the other hand, Younger Avestan is at about the same linguistic stage as Old Persian, but by virtue of its use as a sacred language retained its "old" characteristics long after the Old Iranian languages had yielded to their Middle Iranian stage. Unlike Old Persian, which has Middle Persian as its known successor, Avestan has no clearly identifiable Middle Iranian stage (the effect of Middle Iranian is indistinguishable from effects due to other causes).
A: Avestan
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Q: What happens if the capacitor can handle maximum amount of reversal?, Context: For maximum life, capacitors usually need to be able to handle the maximum amount of reversal that a system will experience. An AC circuit will experience 100% voltage reversal, while under-damped DC circuits will experience less than 100%. Reversal creates excess electric fields in the dielectric, causes excess heating of both the dielectric and the conductors, and can dramatically shorten the life expectancy of the capacitor. Reversal ratings will often affect the design considerations for the capacitor, from the choice of dielectric materials and voltage ratings to the types of internal connections used.
A: 100% voltage reversal
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Q: Which is not related to Estonian genetically?, Context: Estonian has been influenced by Swedish, German (initially Middle Low German, which was the lingua franca of the Hanseatic League and spoken natively in the territories of what is today known as Estonia by a sizeable burgher community of Baltic Germans, later Estonian was also influenced by standard German), and Russian, though it is not related to them genetically.
A: | Russian
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Multi-select problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to select annuity payments
Decide if a retirement annuity is right for you.
Annuities are financial investment options for those who want secure, steady, and guaranteed income during their retirement. An annuity is an illiquid asset, meaning that it cannot easily be sold or exchanged for cash.
1). Only some investments are considered " safe ", meaning that you can exchange money for an annuity on a regular basis. The other half of major investments in the early phases of retirement are considered " undoable ", which means that there will be no way to cash these investments back later on.;
2). However, there are other types of annuities that are typically smaller and will not necessarily provide the same apr as annuities. Most annuities are found in retirement savings bonds and are accepted as iras.;
3). When you cash out of your annuity, you have the option to take a lump-sum payment, or you can choose to have guaranteed payments that are scheduled for a set period of time. Understand how annuities are taxed.;
4). In addition, annuities are small purchases that are not fully invested and rarely come to full value. After acquiring an annuity, you have the option of seeing how much you make each month, where you deposit your investments, and how long you can observe interest payments.; | 3). |
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".
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Geary County is in the Junction City , KS Micropolitan Statistical Area .
Answer: | Geary County comprises the Junction City , KS Micropolitan Statistical Area , which is included in the Manhattan-Junction City , KS Combined Statistical Area . |
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At the same time , three heavy cruisers and two destroyers under the command of Rear Admiral Aritomo Goto ̄ were to bomb Henderson Field to destroy the CAF and the airfield .
Output: | At the same time , but in a separate operation , three heavy cruisers and two destroyers under the command of Rear Admiral Aritomo Goto ̄ were to bombard Henderson Field with special explosive shells with the object of destroying the CAF and the airfield 's facilities . |
Teacher:In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: A spinster is an older word for an unmarried woman .
Student: | Spinster is a term referring to an unmarried woman who is older than what is perceived as the prime age range during which women should marry . |
What is the most logical next event?
How to write a transcript
Block out time to transcribe.
Transcribing will probably take you longer than you imagined. On average, it takes 4 to 6 hours to transcribe one hour of a recorded proceeding.
OPT: 1. Pay close attention to specific geographic times when you record the transcript. For example, if you moved from texas to kansas, the transcript might capture the most significant events, such as a breakup.. 2. For judges, scheduling a full hour is probably better than hiring them to take notes or signing up. They are also required to pay their own fees for transcribing and writing.. 3. The time will vary based on your typing skills as well. It may also take longer to transcribe if there are multiple voices on the recording or you are an inexperienced transcriber.. 4. At first, you'll record your transcript on your computer. However, you could use a computer with a videotape recorder.. | 3. |
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 rules for the high jump are set internationally by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). Jumpers must take off on one foot. A jump is considered a failure if the bar is dislodged by the action of the jumper whilst jumping or the jumper touches the ground or breaks the plane of the near edge of the bar before clearance. The technique one uses for the jump must be almost flawless in order to have a chance of clearing a high bar.
Solution: | can you jump off two feet in high jump? |
How to pack a bike to ship
Acquire a bicycle-specific box from your local bike shop.
If the shop is not able to provide you with a free used box, you can usually purchase a brand new box for a small fee.
Remove, or cover, any existing shipping labels on pre-used boxes.
OPTIONS:
- Remove the bike's handlebar, pedals, seat post and front wheel. Most of these parts can be removed by hand, although you may need to employ a small wrench in order to remove the pedals.
- If you will be shipping a bike to a city or county construction site, it is a good idea to bring any pre-existing shipping labels you have no need to design. Use cans and lids to pack the bike.
- These will make it easier to ship your bike to save time. Walk around your bike several times a day for optimal results.
- Freeze an unused bike-specific package, sealed case, or short case in the freezer. Freeze the packages overnight before mailing them or to save money.
Remove the bike's handlebar, pedals, seat post and front wheel. Most of these parts can be removed by hand, although you may need to employ a small wrench in order to remove the pedals.
A girl walks into frame holding a toothbrush and is seen talking to the camera and presenting her tooth brush and tooth paste. she
OPTIONS:
- wets her toothbrush and places the toothpaste on the toothbrush and brushes her teeth.
- begins brushing her teeth and looks down and smiles.
- then rubs up and down the toothbrush quickly and then substance is shown on the brush end.
- speaks to the camera several more times and begins brushing.
wets her toothbrush and places the toothpaste on the toothbrush and brushes her teeth.
Two men are sitting on a table plaing rock paper scissors and the losers gets a slap. Men are sitting in a room with posters hanging on the wall. men
OPTIONS:
- are standing in a haishovelette holding scissors and playing rock paper scissors.
- are crowded in a field playing table tennis.
- are playing rock paper scissors in a room.
- are playing rock back and forth and the bunch of men are laughing and joking.
are playing rock paper scissors in a room.
How to deal with having ptsd (post traumatic stress disorder )
Get a proper diagnosis.
The first step you can take towards fighting your ptsd is to verify that you actually have this mental illness. Ptsd is an anxiety disorder and the symptoms can often overlap with other similar conditions.
OPTIONS:
- Make sure you know what you're on and help any family members you get involved with to deal with this disorder. Get a physical examination by your doctor to determine what medications are currently in your system.
- See a mental health provider for a thorough differential diagnosis so that you can get the adequate treatment for what's bothering you. In order to receive a diagnosis of ptsd, you must have a history of exposure to a traumatic event that meets specific stipulations.
- Many individuals diagnosed with ptsd lose their sense of self-worth and they may begin to own less of themselves. It's vital to get a diagnosis from a psychiatrist or therapist as soon as possible.
- Getting a diagnosis of ptsd from a doctor will have to take priority over diagnosis of ptsd. People with ptsd do not experience any physical symptoms.
| See a mental health provider for a thorough differential diagnosis so that you can get the adequate treatment for what's bothering you. In order to receive a diagnosis of ptsd, you must have a history of exposure to a traumatic event that meets specific stipulations. |
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It was fought between two brothers , Hua ́ scar and Atahualpa , sons of Huayna Capac , over who would be the next emperor .
A: | The Inca Civil War , also known as the Inca Dynastic War , the Inca War of Succession , or , sometimes , the War of the Two Brothers was fought between two brothers , Hua ́ scar and Atahualpa , sons of Huayna Capac , over the succession to the throne of the Inca Empire . |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Input: Consider Input: Billy had a pet turtle that he took good care of, everyday. His turtle's name was Tumble. Tumble liked to walk around outside in the garden and dig small holes to sleep in. Billy loved Tumble and would visit him outside when he got home from school. Tumble's favorite food was oatmeal. So, every day after school, Billy would make Tumble a big bowl of oatmeal and take it outside for Tumble to enjoy. Tumble would see Billy and walk up to him as fast as a turtle can go. Billy would put the bowl down and wait for Tumble to come up to the bowl to eat from it. When Tumble reached the bowl, he put his nose on it. But, the oatmeal was too hot to eat. Billy reached down and blew on the hot oatmeal, to cool it down for Tumble to eat. Once the oatmeal was cool enough, Tumble could dig in and eat his big bowl of oatmeal. Billy loved to watch as Tumble ate his bowl of oatmeal, because Billy took good care of Tumble, everyday. <sep>What were some of Tumble's favorite things?<sep>He loved digging holes in the garden and oatmeal
Output: Yes
Input: Consider Input: Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America: Their Friendship and Their Travels edited by Oliver Zunz, translated by Arthur Goldhammer (University of Virginia Press; 2011) 698 pages; Includes previously unpublished letters, essays, and other writings Du systeme penitentaire aux Etats-Unis et de son application en France (1833) - On the Penitentiary System in the United States and Its Application to France, with Gustave de Beaumont. De la democratie en Amerique (1835/1840) - Democracy in America. It was published in two volumes, the first in 1835, the second in 1840. English language versions: Tocqueville, Democracy in America, trans. and eds., Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop, University of Chicago Press, 2000; Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Arthur Goldhammer, trans.; Olivier Zunz, ed.) (The Library of America, 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-54-9. L'Ancien Regime et la Revolution (1856) - The Old Regime and the Revolution. It is Tocqueville's second most famous work. Recollections (1893) - This work was a private journal of the Revolution of 1848. He never intended to publish this during his lifetime; it was published by his wife and his friend Gustave de Beaumont after his death. Journey to America (1831-1832) - Alexis de Tocqueville's travel diary of his visit to America; translated into English by George Lawrence, edited by J-P Mayer, Yale University Press, 1960; based on vol. V, 1 of the OEuvres Completes of Tocqueville. L'Etat social et politique de la France avant et depuis 1789 - Alexis de Tocqueville Memoir On Pauperism: Does public charity produce an idle and dependant class of society? (1835) originally published by Ivan R. Dee. Inspired by a trip to England. One of Tocqueville's more obscure works. Journeys to England and Ireland 1835 <sep>When was The Old Regime and the Revolution published, was it successful?<sep>1835 and yes
Output: No
Input: Consider Input: "What goes up must come down." You have probably heard that statement before. At one time this statement was true, but no longer. Since the 1960s, we have sent many spacecraft into space. Some are still traveling away from Earth. So it is possible to overcome gravity. Do you need a giant rocket to overcome gravity? No, you actually overcome gravity every day. Think about when you climb a set of stairs. When you do, you are overcoming gravity. What if you jump on a trampoline? You are overcoming gravity for a few seconds. Everyone can overcome gravity. You just need to apply a force larger than gravity. Think about that the next time you jump into the air. You are overcoming gravity for a brief second. Enjoy it while it lasts. Eventually, gravity will win the battle. <sep>What happens when you climb a set of stairs?<sep>You are overcoming gravity
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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".
question:
The 1933 double eagle, a $20 gold piece with a mysterious history that involves a president, a king and a Secret Service sting operation, was auctioned Tuesday last night for a record price for a coin, $7.59 million, nearly double the previous record. The anonymous buyer, believed to be an individual collector who lives in the United States, made the winning bid in a fiercely contested nine-minute auction at Sotheby's in Manhattan. Eight bidders were joined by 500 coin collectors and dealers in an auction house audience seemingly devoid of celebrity bidders, while an additional 534 observers followed the bidding on eBay. As auction houses prepare for their fall seasons in an uncertain economy, the sale price "suggests that the marketplace for important items is enormously strong," said David Redden, a vice chairman at Sotheby's, who was the auctioneer. "This is an astonishing new record for a coin," he said. In an unprecedented move, the auction proceeds were split by the U.S. Mint and a London coin dealer, Stephen Fenton, who had won that right in court after having been arrested by Secret Service agents for trying to sell the coin in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan in 1996. Henrietta Holsman Fore, the director of the U.S. Mint, who witnessed the sale, said, "The monies we receive will go toward helping to pay down the debt and to fight the war on terrorism." Fenton commented that the double eagle had been on "a long historic journey, with a very satisfying ending." He added, "I am thrilled with the price." The previous numismatic record holder was an 1804 U.S. silver dollar, which sold for $4.14 million in 1999. Sotheby's partner in the one-lot auction was Stack's Rare Coins, with which it shared the customary 15 percent commission. "I have never seen as much interest in the sale of any coin in my 30 years in the business," said Lawrence R. Stack, the company's managing director. "This is the Mona Lisa of coins," said Beth Deisher, editor of Coin World, the largest weekly coin publication in the United States, with a circulation of 85,000. "It is unique. Forbidden fruit." Collectors' Web sites have surged with speculation about the sale price, and enthusiasts even organized betting pools. <sep>Who is the managing director of Stack's Rare Coins?<sep>Fenton
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Have you are burned something on the stove or in the oven? Do you know why things burn? It all has to do with temperature. Changes in matter are affected by temperature. For example, what if you place a cake in the oven and you leave it in too long? What do you think will happen? Thats right, it will probably burn. The same thing will happen if the oven setting is too high and you apply too much heat. In either case, heat has affected the rate of change in matter. Its probably obvious that when the temperature is increased a chemical change, like cooking, will occur faster. What about a physical change? Are physical changes affected by temperature? Most of us have seen steam rising off a wet road after a summer rainstorm. This happens because the road surface is very warm. The warm road and warm air temperature causes the water to evaporate quickly. The liquid water is turning into water vapor, but it is still water. The evaporation of water is a physical change. So yes, temperature affects the rate that physical change occurs. <sep>Why do things burn?<sep>Cooking faster
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Catherine V. "Ginny" Kilgore of Oxford, an attorney with North Mississippi Rural Legal Services, has been recognized for her dedication to serving the indigent. Kilgore - who oversees delivering legal services to the disabled and elderly in 39 north Mississippi counties - is recipient of the University of Mississippi School of Law's 2002 Public Service Award. The award was announced recently at a dinne r, held in Kilgore's honor and hosted by law school Dean Samuel M. Davis, who presented her with an engraved plaque. "Ginny Kilgore is a public servant in the truest sense," said Davis. "Her selection continues the tradition of this award in recognizing those who have labored in the trenches, with little or no compensation but with great professional and personal satisfaction in helping to bring justice and equality to those who need it most." "This award means a great deal to me," Kilgore said, pointing to others so honored. "The work of those who received the award before me has been so important; I feel very honored." After earning bachelor's and master's degrees in education and a few years teaching, Kilgore enrolled at the UM law school. Upon graduation in 1975, she entered private law practice in Oxford, joining NMRLS in 1978. Since then, she has earned promotions from managing attorney, senior attorney, then director of the Council on Aging project. Since 1990, she has worked in the Administrative Law Unit and Resource Development, and directed the Elder Law Project, serving the northern half of the state. She also is an adjunct professor in the UM law school's Civil Law Clinic. She held a similar post a few years ago in the school's Elder Law Clinic. Kilgore says she's found her niche. "I've always thought it was important to do work to help people. I really enjoy it. The issues I've dealt with through the years have been on the side of helping people maintain the basics of life - home, healt h care, jobs and family." She says her desire to serve others was sparked early, growing up in a single-parent home, aware that her widowed mother faced certain challenges as she supported her four children through public school and college. <sep>What did Ginny Kilgore receive at a dinner as recognition for laboring with little or no compensation to residents in the 39 north Mississippi counties?<sep>University of Mississippi School of Law's 2005 Public Service Award
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Shelly Beach is a coastal suburb of the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia, located east of Tuggerah Lake and bordering the Pacific Ocean south of The Entrance. It is part of the Central Coast Council local government area. It is 66 km south of Newcastle & 93 km north of Sydney. Shelly Beach is considered one of the most popular surfing beaches on the Central Coast.
Can we infer the following?
Shelly Beach was named after its founder
Possible answers: a). Yes; b). It's impossible to say; c). No;
The answer is: | b). |
Q: 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 something opposite of worst?, Context: The Pitchfork online music publication ranked My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy as the world's best album of the decade "so far"—between 2010 and 2014—on August 19, 2014, while Yeezus was ranked in the eighth position of a list of 100 albums. During the same week, the song "Runaway" (featuring Pusha T) was ranked in the third position in the publication's list of the 200 "best tracks" released since 2010.
A: | best |
context: How to redeem yourself
Determine what you did wrong.
Wrongdoing (or betrayal) can include a number of different situations. In general it means that you've broken some sort of agreement (formal or informal) with someone or something.
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next sentence for the context: Examples of possible wrongdoings-you might have wronged your spouse through cheating, broken someone's trust by lying, or gone against your moral or ethical code by stealing something. Acknowledge your wrongdoing before the other person finds out.
context: How to teach an autistic child to write
Teach the child how to hold a crayon the correct way.
This can be taught before the child learns to read or write, such as when they are drawing with you. Start by holding the crayon yourself as an example.
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next sentence for the context: Then place the crayon in your child's hand and wrap their fingers around it correctly. Guide their hand to trace a shape or write their name.
context: A group of team members are on a field playing a game. they
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next sentence for the context: are playing a game of field hockey together.
context: How to prevent yourself from being stung by bees
Be cautious of what you bring outside.
Sugary drinks and fruits attract bees. Try to bring foods with low sugar content in an area were you think there may be bees.
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next sentence for the context: | Cola and other types of sugar-syrup drinks will attract bees. If you're not sure whether the drink you have is alright, stick to water. |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Q: Coleco Industries Inc., a once high-flying toy maker whose stock peaked at $65 a share in the early 1980s, filed a Chapter 11 reorganization plan that provides just 1.125 cents a share for common stockholders. Under the plan, unsecured creditors, who are owed about $430 million, would receive about $92 million, or 21 cents for each dollar they are owed. In addition, they will receive stock in the reorganized company, which will be named Ranger Industries Inc. After these payments, about $225,000 will be available for the 20 million common shares outstanding. The Avon, Conn., company's stock hit a high in 1983 after it unveiled its Adam home computer, but the product was plagued with glitches and the company's fortunes plunged. But Coleco bounced back with the introduction of the Cabbage Patch dolls, whose sales hit $600 million in 1985. But as the craze died, Coleco failed to come up with another winner and filed for bankruptcy-law protection in July 1988. The plan was filed jointly with unsecured creditors in federal bankruptcy court in New York and must be approved by the court. <sep>What will unsecured creditors receive as a result of Coleco's Chapter 11 reorganization plan?<sep>92 billion
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There's a man standing in a kitchen and washing his hands in steel kitchen sink. He takes a pump from the liquid hand soap from the sink counter. he
OPTIONS:
- then takes a clean glass glass, puts ice in the glass, and aims the cup over the process to the bottom of the sink.
- measures the jug of water, chargers it with the pump then sprays down the sink.
- then turns on the water and and washes his hands.
- removes the wire and keeps washing his hands.
then turns on the water and and washes his hands.
How to track tornadoes
Watch doppler radar for severe storm cells.
Doppler radar detects the speed and movement of a storm by using radio wave pulses and it is highly accurate. There are different colors to signify the intensity of a storm.
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- Doppler radar does not detect larger goose bumps, compared to doppler radar in humans. Doppler radar maps use higher frequency signals and are written to better identify an object than radar charts.
- Greens indicate light rain, yellows and oranges are moderate to heavy rains, and red means very heavy rain or hail. Use a weather app on your phone, visit weather websites like weather.com and weather underground, or watch your local news for up to date doppler forecasts.
- Doppler radar radar does not fire at specific types of people. Telethycline repelled asleep minutes before a storm appeared.
- Tornadoes usually report telling you the direction of megaheros. This message will be in your radar's dialogue box after it summarizes the storm status.
Greens indicate light rain, yellows and oranges are moderate to heavy rains, and red means very heavy rain or hail. Use a weather app on your phone, visit weather websites like weather.com and weather underground, or watch your local news for up to date doppler forecasts.
The video leads into several shots of javelin athletes throwing poles down a large track. many people
OPTIONS:
- watch in still video as the athletes run up and down the track.
- are shown mentally preparing for the javelin race and why they are doing it.
- watch in the stands as they throw the poles, doing several flips and other stunts.
- are shown running down the track throwing the javelin and watching where their pole lands.
are shown running down the track throwing the javelin and watching where their pole lands.
How to report insurance fraud
Learn the importance of reporting insurance fraud.
Every uncaught instance of insurance fraud translates into higher premiums down the road for consumers. Even when you are not directly the victim of the fraudulent activity, it can still mean more money out of your pocket in higher premiums when you go to renew your policy.
OPTIONS:
- Be absolutely sure you have notified any insurance agents you previously visited. This way, investigators from the department of health and human services can confirm that you were not unduly negligent in letting your deductible extend beyond the limit on your card utilization.
- Having insurance doesn't translate into income, and you likely won't be covered by your payments at all if you don't have insurance. Like anything, fraud is always a risk.
- There are many forms of insurance fraud that can be handled differently. The amount of money you can use to pay off debt alone, as well as the frequency and severity of the fraud, can dramatically change your situation.
- Each time that insurance companies and proper authorities can stop fraudulent activity, it can save you money in the long run. This means that each and every consumer has a vested interest in reporting insurance fraud.
| Each time that insurance companies and proper authorities can stop fraudulent activity, it can save you money in the long run. This means that each and every consumer has a vested interest in reporting insurance fraud. |
What happens next in this paragraph?
How to find the surface area of cylinders
Visualize the top and bottom of a cylinder.
A can of soup is the shape of a cylinder. If you think about it, the can has a top and a bottom that are the same.
Pick from: A. To get the surface area of a cylinder, first focus on the top and bottom circles of the can. Many cans of soup bend in half to make a flat surface. B. Both of these ends are the shape of a circle. The first step to finding the surface area of your cylinder will be to find the surface area of these circular ends. C. The top should be solid for a tin can, and the bottom should be solid for a tube can. Then, look at the top and bottom of the form. D. Remember the first two measurements from step 7 when shopping for your cans: the top and bottom of the cylinder should be almost exactly the same. A can of soup is also known as a " works surface. | B. |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Q: What ship has a distinct advantage over carriers?, Context: The aircraft carrier dramatically changed naval combat in World War II, because air power was becoming a significant factor in warfare. The advent of aircraft as focal weapons was driven by the superior range, flexibility and effectiveness of carrier-launched aircraft. They had higher range and precision than naval guns, making them highly effective. The versatility of the carrier was demonstrated in November 1940 when HMS Illustrious launched a long-range strike on the Italian fleet at their base in Taranto, signalling the beginning of the effective and highly mobile aircraft strikes. This operation incapacitated three of the six battleships at a cost of two torpedo bombers. World War II in the Pacific Ocean involved clashes between aircraft carrier fleets. The 1941 Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was a clear illustration of the power projection capability afforded by a large force of modern carriers. Concentrating six carriers in a single unit turned naval history about, as no other nation had fielded anything comparable. However, the vulnerability of carriers compared to traditional battleships when forced into a gun-range encounter was quickly illustrated by the sinking of HMS Glorious by German battleships during the Norwegian campaign in 1940.
A: battleships
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Q: What happened earlier, the French invasion in 1672 or Utrecht becoming the centre of the non-Roman Old Catholic Churches in the world?, Context: The fortified city temporarily fell to the French invasion in 1672 (the Disaster Year); where the French invasion was only stopped west of Utrecht at the Old Hollandic Waterline. In 1674, only two years after the French left, the centre of Utrecht was struck by a tornado. The halt to building before construction of flying buttresses in the 15th century now proved to be the undoing of the central section of the cathedral of St Martin church which collapsed; creating the current Dom square between the tower and choir. In 1713, Utrecht hosted one of the first international peace negotiations when the Treaty of Utrecht settled the War of the Spanish Succession. Since 1723 Utrecht became the centre of the non-Roman Old Catholic Churches in the world.
A: the French invasion in 1672
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Q: Which happened earlier, the 1926 Imperial Conference issued the Balfour Declaration or the declaration was given legal substance under the 1931 Statute of Westminster?, Context: The ability of the Dominions to set their own foreign policy, independent of Britain, was recognised at the 1923 Imperial Conference. Britain's request for military assistance from the Dominions at the outbreak of the Chanak Crisis the previous year had been turned down by Canada and South Africa, and Canada had refused to be bound by the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne. After pressure from Ireland and South Africa, the 1926 Imperial Conference issued the Balfour Declaration, declaring the Dominions to be "autonomous Communities within the British Empire, equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another" within a "British Commonwealth of Nations". This declaration was given legal substance under the 1931 Statute of Westminster. The parliaments of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, the Irish Free State and Newfoundland were now independent of British legislative control, they could nullify British laws and Britain could no longer pass laws for them without their consent. Newfoundland reverted to colonial status in 1933, suffering from financial difficulties during the Great Depression. Ireland distanced itself further from Britain with the introduction of a new constitution in 1937, making it a republic in all but name.
A: | the 1926 Imperial Conference issued the Balfour Declaration
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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.
Example Input: In the epilogue, Greg reveals that he wrote the book as an explanation to his prospective college, the University of Pittsburgh, about why he fell back on schoolwork during his last school year. After his conversation with Earl, he had decided to retire from film-making, but on writing down his experience, decides that he shouldn't. He realizes that he was always unhappy because he was trying to be someone he wasn't, but was content when he was just himself. He makes up his mind to apply to film school within the next six months. The book ends with him wondering if he should put Rachel in his next film.
Example Output: what happens at the end of me earl and the dying girl
Example Input: The Green Bay Packers Board of Directors is the organization that serves as the owner of record for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). The Packers have been a publicly owned, non-profit corporation since August 18, 1923. The corporation currently has 360,760 stockholders, who collectively own 5,011,558 shares of stock after the last stock sale of 2011 -- 2012. There have been five stock sales, in 1923, 1935, 1950, 1997, and 2011. Shares in 1923 sold for $5 apiece (approx $72 in 2017), while in 1997 they were sold at $200 each and in 2011, $250 each.
Example Output: how does ownership of the green bay packers work
Example Input: Roanoke Island is an island in Dare County on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, United States. It was named after the historical Roanoke Carolina Algonquian people who inhabited the area in the 16th century at the time of English exploration. About eight miles (12 km) long and two miles (3 km) wide, Roanoke Island lies between the mainland and the barrier islands near Nags Head, with Albemarle Sound on its north, Roanoke Sound at the eastern end, Croatan Sound to the west, and Wanchese CDP at the southern end. The town of Manteo is located on the northern portion of the island, and is the county seat of Dare County. Fort Raleigh National Historic Site is on the north end of the island. There is a land area of 17.95 square miles (46.5 km) and a population of 6,724 as of the 2000 census.
Example Output: | name the bodies of water that surround roanoke island
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You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
All the RIRs formed the Number Resource Organization to coordinate with each other .
Output: | Collectively the RIRs have created the Number Resource Organization formed as a body to represent their collective interests and ensure that policy statements are coordinated globally . |
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Q: The Airbus A318 is a European airliner designed and built from the Airbus A319 .
A: | The Airbus A318 is the smallest member of the Airbus A320 family of short- to medium-range , narrow-body , commercial passenger twin-engine jet airliners manufactured by Airbus . |
MELBOURNE will look to avoid stumbling against Carlton, just as it did in late 2016, when the rivals clash in Round 2 at the MCG. Melbourne's slim finals chances were dashed by the Blues in Round 22 last season but after a season-opening win against St Kilda, hopes are high at Demonland. The Demons have only won their first two games of the season twice since 1995. LIVE stream every game of every round of the 2017 Toyota AFL Premiership Season on FOX SPORTS. Get your free 2-week FOXTEL PLAY trial and start watching in minutes. SIGN UP NOW >> Follow the action in our live blog!
Can we draw the following conclusion?
It will cost the viewer twenty dollars a month after their free two week trial. | It's impossible to say |
Teacher:In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: Dr. Benjamin Stone is a hotshot young surgeon who longs to leave the drudgery of a Washington , D.C. emergency room and finally leaps at his chance at more money and less death as a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills . On his last day , Ben's relationship with his co-workers is presumed to be anything but a warm one . None of his colleagues will join him for a drink and a cake in his honor has an iced portion of the phrase `` Good riddance , asshole '' sliced out . Ben's cross-country drive in a 1956 Porsche 356 Speedster is interrupted when he crashes in the rural hamlet of Grady , South Carolina . The crash damages the fence of local Judge Evans , who sentences him to community service at a nearby hospital . Ben offers to pay for the fence , but the stern judge increases his community service each time he talks back . Defeated , he reports to the hospital , where Nurse Packer humbles him by ordering him to clock in and out , as would a factory worker . Though upset , Ben quickly makes friends with Mayor Nick Nicholson , the town cafe's proprietor/head waitress , and Melvin , the local mechanic tasked with repairing Ben's car . Ben soon finds his clinic work to be much more laid-back than the emergency room . He has simple cases such as spots before the eyes , fishing hook impalings , and even reading mail for a young illiterate couple , whose baby he later delivers . The experience also humbles Ben when he mistreats a case of mitral valve regurgitation leading to late cyanosis in the child . <sep>Which car was Melvin supposed to repair?<sep>Porsche 356 Speedster
Student: | Yes |
How to identify signs of dementia<br>Know the general symptoms. [substeps] Memory loss is the first and earliest sign of dementia. It is, however, more than just forgetting where you put your keys.
Can we infer the following?
Forgetting where you put your keys is the first sign of dementia. | No |
Do you make these errors when using high-potential (hi-pot) testers or insulation resistance testers? • Using without isolating first. The hi-pot injects a high voltage into cabling. Normally, you isolate a circuit to protect yourself from the premises source. In this case, you isolate the circuit to protect others (and connected equipment) from your portable source. • Isolating the cable at one end only. You must isolate it at each end, else you’re providing ...
Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text?
errors are found in testers | Yes |
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
[EX Q]: The subsolar point on a planet is when its sun looks like it is directly overhead ( in zenith ) .
[EX A]: The subsolar point on a planet is the point at which its sun is perceived to be directly overhead ( at the zenith ) ; that is , where the sun 's rays strike the planet exactly perpendicular to its surface .
[EX Q]: Gaslighting is a type of psychological abuse where somebody uses lies or tricks to make another person doubt their memory and mental health .
[EX A]: Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation in which a person seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or in members of a targeted group , making them question their own memory , perception , and sanity .
[EX Q]: The iPod Classic is a portable media player made by Apple Inc .
[EX A]: | The iPod Classic ( stylized and marketed as iPod classic and formerly just iPod ) is a portable media player created and formerly marketed by Apple Inc .
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Q: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Courtesy of CBS
On Thursday, Charlie Sheen was rushed to the hospital by ambulance for abdominal pains. It is the latest in a series of bizarre incidents for the 45-year-old actor, whose Two and a Half Men costar Jon Cryer recently said is gossip fodder on the set of their top-rated CBS sitcom ("I'm checking TMZ, as I do everyday, to know if I have to go to work at all").
THR looks back at Sheen's top five scandals of the past five months: 1.: CBS entertainment chief Nina Tassler tells TV critics in L.A. that the network has “a high level of concern” for the star. “This man is a father. He's got children. He has a family. So obviously there's concern on a personal level." 2.: Numerous Internet reports surface claiming that Sheen went on a bender in Las Vegas with porn stars and didn’t show up to work. His rep, Stan Rosenfield, laughed off the rumors in a statement: “Charlie Sheen arrived at work today and is there as I send this. Memo to Chicken Little: The sky remains in place.” 3.: Twitter and other blogs are abuzz that Sheen has died in a snowboarding accident, prompting his exto Tweet: "He is alive and on his way over to see his daughters. Thank u all for your concern." 4.: Escort Capri Anderson - who was in the posh Plaza Hotel suite room Sheen trashed (while naked) in October 2010 - claims he grabbed her neck during the rampage. But Sheen's attorney said her claims were "a blatant attempt to cash in on his celebrity." As for Sheen's wild Plaza Hotel night, he told Extra: "If a guy has one bad night, everybody goes insane and panics. I'm not panicking." 5.: Sheen files for divorce from his(with whom he has two sons). Sheen had previously pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault in exchange for probation and rehab stemming from their ugly 2009 Christmas Day brawl in which he threatened to kill her. ||||| Advertisement Advertisement
Charlie Sheen 911 Call Made by 'Real Housewives' Neighbors Adrienne Maloof-Nassif and Dr. Paul Nassif were contacted by someone at the "Two and a Half Men" actor's house before he was rushed to the hospital. Read more
Police Report to Be Filed Against Charlie Sheen Today Capri Anderson, who was with the actor when he reportedly trashed a NYC hotel room in October, says he "put his hands around my neck." Read more ||||| Charlie Sheen has spoken out for the first time since his latest trip to the hospital led him to check into rehab.
“I’m fine,” the Two and a Half Men star tells RadarOnline via text message Friday afternoon. “People don’t seem to get it.... Guy can’t have a great time and do his job also?”
Sheen’s text came around the time the actor’s publicist released a statement, according to the report, saying that Sheen was voluntarily checking into rehab after the actor was hospitalized Thursday morning for a reported hernia.
Sheen’s text ended with: “Bunch of turds.”
CBS, Warner Bros. TV and Men creator Chuck Lorre released a joint statement announcing that the hit CBS sitcom would be put on production hiatus while Sheen was in rehab.
"We are profoundly concerned for his health and well-being, and support his decision," the statement said. |||||
A: | Charlie Sheen's worried family will likely seek a court-ordered conservatorship over the way wayward actor to force him into rehab, reports Radar. CBS officials, meanwhile, have yanked Sheen's hit TV program off the air and a permanent shutdown could cost the network millions as Sheen grapples with the effects of his latest cocaine-smoking, booze-guzzling bender. Sheen, 45, is back home after being rushed to a local hospital last week. "Charlie is coughing a lot, and he doesn't seem to care what he is doing to his body," said a source. "He thinks he's invincible, and that he can do as much drugs as possible with no ramifications." Parents Martin and Janet Sheen hope they could use a conservatorship over Sheen's finances and personal affairs to finally force him to get the help he needs and save his life. Early reports said Sheen was being treated at home by a rehab professional. But his dad knows that "Charlie isn't rehabbing at home," says a friend. "That term just doesn't exist. Charlie is calling the shots, he hasn't surrendered to sobriety, and until that happens, this cycle won't end." Network officials are replacing Sheen's Two and A Half Men with extra episodes of replacement sitcoms for a couple of weeks, and have been told Sheen could be out of the show for up to three months, according to the Hollywood Reporter. "I'm fine," the clueless Sheen texted last week. "Guy can’t have a great time and do his job also?” |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Performances by Dave Matthews Band, Justin Timberlake, Pharrell and Ariana Grande will be among the highlights of a blockbuster free concert scheduled for Scott Stadium on Sept. 24.
“A Concert for Charlottesville” promises to energize and uplift the community in a celebration of inclusion.
Dave Matthews Band, host of the “Evening of Music and Unity,” generated the idea of the multi-act show following the violent demonstrations at UVA on Aug. 11 and in downtown Charlottesville on Aug. 12.
“A Concert for Charlottesville” will feature Dave Matthews Band, Pharrell Williams, Justin Timberlake, Ariana Grande, Chris Stapleton, Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes, The Roots, Cage the Elephant and special guests. The concert is produced by Live Nation, Starr Hill Presents and the University of Virginia.
For Dave Matthews Band, formed in Charlottesville in 1991, “A Concert for Charlottesville” will be the iconic band’s only live performance of 2017.
While tickets are free, attendees are encouraged to make a donation to the “Concert for Charlottesville Fund” at the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation. Donations can be made here. Beneficiaries of the fund will include victims of the events in Charlottesville on Aug. 11 and 12, and their families, first responders, and organizations devoted to the promotion of healing, unity and justice locally and nationwide.
Tickets will be allocated initially to residents of the greater Charlottesville area, and also to UVA students, faculty and staff. An online ticket request period is currently underway at www.concertforcharlottesville.com and will end on Monday, Sept. 11, at noon. Service charges may apply. A limited number of tickets will also be available at a walk-up, no-service-charge box office at John Paul Jones Arena on Friday, Sept. 15, at 10 a.m.
University officials said plans have been put into place to assure that the David A. Harrison III Field at Scott Stadium will be ready to host the next football game after the concert, the Bicentennial Celebration football game between UVA and Duke on Oct. 7.
This is only the fourth concert at Scott Stadium in the past 16 years. Dave Matthews Band performed in 2001; the Rolling Stones held a concert there in 2005; and U2 performed in Scott Stadium in 2009.
For more information visit the concert site. ||||| HEAL CHARLOTTESVILLE The Heal Charlottesville Fund was founded in response to the white supremacist attacks in Charlottesville in August of 2017. Throughout the summer, Charlottesville was terrorized by white supremacists and Ku Klux Klan members, culminating in two days of violent clashes and a car attack. Our community was deeply saddened by the loss of Heather Heyer, Lt. H. Jay Cullen, and Trooper Berke Bates. A generous outpouring of support resulted in the creation of three funds: Heal Charlottesville, Concert for Charlottesville, and Unity Cville. These Funds are housed at the Community Foundation and are coordinating their work to help injured individuals, ensure trauma counseling services for the community, and address the impacts of structural racism.
Overview of Distributed Funds
We are extremely grateful to all who responded to the events of last summer by making a generous financial gift. Please find the complete list of contributors here . More than 3,000 people made a contribution to the Heal Charlottesville or Concert for Charlottesville Funds. We received gifts from across the country, from individuals and businesses alike, and at all levels of giving. The Charlottesville community is deeply grateful for your overwhelming show of support. |||||
| Dave Matthews Band will take the stage in their hometown for a concert to benefit the victims of violence in Charlottesville, Va. The Sept. 24 concert at the University of Virginia will be the only live performance of the year for the band, which was first to suggest such a event, according to the school. A slew of other performers will also appear for "an evening of music and unity," including Justin Timberlake, Pharrell Williams, Ariana Grande, and The Roots, per Variety. Tickets can be requested through the concert website until Monday and are free, though donations to the concert fund are strongly encouraged. |
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]: The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States of America. It consists of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard. The President of the United States is the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces and forms military policy with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), both federal executive departments, acting as the principal organs by which military policy is carried out. All five armed services are among the seven uniformed services of the United States.
[EX A]: how many branches of the armed forces are there
[EX Q]: South Dakota (/-dəˈkoʊtə / (listen)) is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux Native American tribes, who compose a large portion of the population and historically dominated the territory. South Dakota is the 17th most expansive, but the 5th least populous and the 5th least densely populated of the 50 United States. As the southern part of the former Dakota Territory, South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889, simultaneously with North Dakota. Pierre is the state capital and Sioux Falls, with a population of about 174,000, is South Dakota's largest city.
[EX A]: where is south dakota located in the united states
[EX Q]: In chemistry, a group (also known as a family) is a column of elements in the periodic table of the chemical elements. There are 18 numbered groups in the periodic table, and the f-block columns (between groups 3 and 4) are not numbered. The elements in a group have similar physical or chemical characteristics of the outermost electron shells of their atoms (i.e., the same core charge), as most chemical properties are dominated by the orbital location of the outermost electron. There are three systems of group numbering. The modern numbering group 1 to group 18 is recommended by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). It replaces two older naming schemes that were mutually confusing. Also, groups may be identified by their topmost element or have a specific name. For example, group 16 is variously described as the oxygen group and chalcogens.
[EX A]: | what does the group number in the periodic table tell us
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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".
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>Due to the legitimization, competitiveness, and new Las Vegas what were casinos force to do?<sep>Casinos needed to assess their business model and become more competitive to survive | Yes |
Teacher:You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: Twelve people have won all four major annual American entertainment awards in a competitive, individual (non-group) category of the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards. Respectively, these awards honor outstanding achievements in television, recording, film, and theater. Winning all four awards has been referred to as winning the ``grand slam'' of American show business.
Student: | has anyone ever won an oscar and a grammy? |
In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
One example: This list contains the top 25 accounts with the most followers on the social photo-sharing platform Instagram. As of May 2018, the most followed user is Instagram's own account, with over 235 million followers. Selena Gomez is the most followed individual, with over 137 million followers. Ten accounts have exceeded 100 million followers on the site.
Solution is here: who has the maximum number of followers on instagram
Explanation: The answer is talking about the Instagram accounts that have the most followers. The question asking about the maximum number of followers. So this is a good example.
Now, solve this: In human anatomy, the deltoid tuberosity is a rough, triangular area on the antero lateral (front-side) surface of the middle of the humerus to which the deltoid muscle attaches.
Solution: | where is the deltoid tuberosity of the humerus located |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is getting flak online for a report that says he made a joke about the news of the Syria strikes coming “in lieu of after-dinner entertainment.”
According to Variety, Ross recalled when he found out about the decision to strike Syria at Mar-a-Lago, when President Trump told Chinese President Xi Jinping about the strike.
Ross added, “It was in lieu of after-dinner entertainment.”
The crowd laughed, Variety reports, and Ross then said, “The thing was, it didn’t cost the president anything to have that entertainment.”
Katie Couric was in attendance and tweeted about the remark as well.
As one of the attendees noted, Ross cracked a bunch of jokes during the event, but this one earned some less-than-positive reactions on Twitter:
Perhaps instead of a standup comic or lounge singer? https://t.co/ml9CJLlYOl — Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) May 1, 2017
This is a most unfortunate quote and headline for Wilbur Ross https://t.co/QtkhPjZqTu — Blake Hounshell (@blakehounshell) May 1, 2017
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Have a tip we should know? [email protected] ||||| Syrian missile attack was 'after-dinner entertainment,' Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says
In this image provided by the White House, taken April 6, 2017, Deputy National Security Adviser Dina Powell, right, joins President Donald Trump, and others, as he receives a briefing on the Syria military strike from his National Security team after the strike at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. (Photo: AP via White House)
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross likened the U.S. attack on a Syrian airbase to "after-dinner entertainment" for those who were at Mar-a-Lago that week, according to a new report.
The way Ross describes it, on April 6, in the middle of President Trump's summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, "just as dessert was being served, the president explained to Mr. Xi he had something he wanted to tell him, which was the launching of 59 missiles into Syria. It was in lieu of after-dinner entertainment."
After the audience at the Milken Institute Global Conference laughed, per Variety, Ross continued: "The thing was, it didn’t cost the president anything to have that entertainment."
Even if the strikes were the "entertainment," they certainly did cost the president something.
The cost of a Tomahawk missile, per the Navy budget for fiscal year 2017, is $1.355 million. Given that the strike used 59 missiles, that comes out to roughly $79.9 million for just the missiles alone.
Ross's remarks to the conference were just the latest in unusual public remarks from the Commerce secretary on the Syria strike.
Ross was in the secured conference room at Mar-a-Lago where Trump and other administration officials huddled during the strike, though he's not necessarily charged with national security interests as head of the Commerce Department.
After the strike, he noted that the attack took out 20% of the Syrian air force, a number that was later confirmed by the Pentagon.
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Both politicians and pundits have made many bizarre remarks about the U.S. strike on a Syrian air base last month, from President Trump’s childlike description of the chocolate cake he was eating at the time to Brian Williams repeatedly praising the “beautiful” war footage on MSNBC.
Now Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has pulled off an impressive feat: combining the Marie Antoinette element of Trump’s remarks and the callousness of Williams’s commentary. During a speech on Monday, Ross recalled the scene at Mar-a-Lago on April 6, when Trump dined with Chinese president Xi Jinping as two navy destroyers launched 59 Tomahawk missiles into Syria.
“Just as dessert was being served, the president explained to Mr. Xi he had something he wanted to tell him, which was the launching of 59 missiles into Syria,” Ross said. “It was in lieu of after-dinner entertainment.”
Ross was addressing the annual Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, which Bloomberg describes as a gathering for “four thousand of the wealthiest, most influential leaders in the world.”
The crowd chuckled at Ross’s remark, according to Variety, and he added: “The thing was, it didn’t cost the president anything to have that entertainment.”
The “entertainment” might not have cost Trump anything, but USA Today calculates that the Tomahawk missiles alone cost about $79.9 million. The strike was launched after Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s forces killed at least 87 people with chemical weapons, and the Syrian military claimed that at least seven people were killed and nine wounded in the U.S. strike. ||||| Speaking at the Milken Institute Global Conference on Monday, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross recalled the scene at Mar-a-Lago on April 6, when the summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping was interrupted by the strike on Syria.
“Just as dessert was being served, the president explained to Mr. Xi he had something he wanted to tell him, which was the launching of 59 missiles into Syria,” Ross said. “It was in lieu of after-dinner entertainment.”
As the crowd laughed, Ross added: “The thing was, it didn’t cost the president anything to have that entertainment.”
Ross, a billionaire financier, is new to government service. In the lunchtime conversation with David Rubenstein, co-CEO of the Carlyle Group, Ross reflected on his first impressions of public service.
“I’ve been heartened,” he said. “I thought the quality of people in the government was not as high as it has turned out to be. There are actually quite a lot of very good, very serious, very intelligent people wanting to do their best. It’s just they’ve been trapped in a fundamentally dysfunctional system.”
The president’s tax cut proposal has been a hot topic among the business community at this year’s conference. Rubenstein asked Ross whether it was realistic to expect a tax plan to pass this year.
“I certainly hope so,” he said. “God knows Congress has debated the issue enough times. It’s really a question of, ‘Is there the willpower to do it?’ If the Republican side can get itself unified, then it will work, even if the Democrats remain as determined as they seem to be to block any kind of progress.” |||||
| Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was trying to be funny, but his recollection of his boss' decision to launch an airstrike on Syria is not going over well. At a conference Monday, Ross publicly recounted the move made by President Trump while he was entertaining Chinese President Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago in April. "Just as dessert was being served, the president explained to Mr. Xi he had something he wanted to tell him, which was the launching of 59 missiles into Syria," Ross said, per Variety. "It was in lieu of after-dinner entertainment." The crowd chuckled, and he added, "The thing was, it didn’t cost the president anything to have that entertainment." USA Today does some quick math, calculating that at $1.355 million per missile, the strike cost about $80 million just for those alone. Ross' flippancy about the military action is now being roundly panned in the media, and not just from the left. "Yeesh," is the one-word tweet from Allapundit of the conservative Hot Air site, per Mediaite, which rounds up a bunch. "Oh, Wilbur Ross. No," tweeted Chris Cillizza at CNN. At New York magazine, Margaret Hartmann is reminded of Trump's own recollection of the decision, in which he talked about the "most beautiful piece of chocolate cake" they were having at the time, as well as MSNBC's Brian Williams waxing poetic on the beauty of the missiles. Ross, she writes, "has pulled off an impressive feat, combining the Marie Antoinette element of Trump’s remarks and the callousness of Williams’s commentary." |
"Ocean Spray" is a song by the Manic Street Preachers, which was released as a single on 4 June 2001, the third single to be released from the album "Know Your Enemy". James Dean Bradfield wrote both lyrics and music for the song. It reached number 15 in the UK Singles Chart.
Can we draw the following conclusion?
Ocean Spray has been covered by manson
Pick from:
[a]. Yes;
[b]. It's impossible to say;
[c]. No; | [b]. |
Vladimir Oiunovich Oidupaa (Russian: Владимир Ойунович Ойдупаа , Tuvan: Ойдупаа Владимир Ойун оглу, "Oidupaa Vladimir Oiun oglu" ] , 6 September 1949 – 25 September 2013) was a Tuvan musician, who performed Kargyraa and played bayan. He is considered one of the leading figures in the contemporary Tuvan music.
Can we draw the following conclusion?
Vladimir Oidupaa never learned to play music
Choose from: -- Yes. -- It's impossible to say. -- No. | No |
Teacher:In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: Story highlights Health officials say dangerous levels of domoic acid in crab
Domoic acid is naturally occurring toxin that can't be cleaned or cooked away
Domoic acid poisoning causes dizziness, vomiting, and in severe cases, death
(CNN) Put down the California crab legs -- they could be poisonous.
"Due to the detection of dangerous levels of domoic acid," Dungeness and rock crabs caught in waters between the Oregon borders and the southern Santa Barbara County line pose a "significant risk to the public if consumed," the California Department of Public Health said in a release.
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Domoic acid is a naturally occurring toxin produced from "some species of the marine diatom Pseudo-nitzschia," the state Department of Fish and Wildlife said.
A massive bloom of Pseudo-nitzschia, brought by warmer water temperatures associated with the El Nino event, is causing high levels of the acid.
Marine animals, such as crabs, that filter their food through seawater may accumulate the toxins. While the toxins, which are colorless and odorless, don't seem to harm the animals accumulating them, people who eat the animals may become poisoned.
Read More ||||| Don’t eat Dungeness crab, California health department warns
Do not — repeat, not — eat crab caught along much of the California coast until further notice. That’s the stunning message issued Tuesday by health officials just days before Saturday’s start of the recreational crab season, which may be delayed.
The California Department of Public Health is warning that potentially deadly levels of domoic acid have been found in Dungeness crab and rock crab caught along the coastline between Oregon and the southern border of Santa Barbara County. As a result, the state Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment is recommending the Dungeness season be delayed and the rock crab fishery be closed.
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The Fish and Game Commission will hold an emergency public meeting at 8 a.m. Thursday in Sacramento, to be live-streamed on Cal-Span.
“Delaying or closing the season is disappointing,” said Craig Shuman, marine regional manager of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, which sets the dates for the season. “But public health and safety is our top priority.”
On the mild side, toxic crabs can cause vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal cramps and headache, according to public health officials who say the symptoms can persist for days.
But severe poisoning can kill a victim, officials report. Short of that, the poisoning can also lead to permanent short-term memory loss, coma, seizures and other symptoms.
The 600-boat commercial crabbing season is scheduled to begin Nov. 15, and crabbers have been pouring into the Bay Area from Alaska, Oregon and Washington hoping to earn half their annual income. And Bay Area restaurants — and customers — expect crabbers to provide tons of crustaceans for the menus.
“It’s going to be devastating” for the crabbers whose livelihood depends on this crucial time of the year, said Mike Dvorak, captain of the High Seas, a vessel big enough to collect 20,000 pounds of varied seafood in a single haul. Crabbers gross about $60 million a year. Halting the crab season would have a lesser impact on boat owners, he said.
“Those who aren’t boat owners will say it’s a disaster,” he said. “They won’t know what to tell their families.”
Chefs like Gordon Drysdale at Scoma’s on San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf say they go through 40 to 60 Dungeness crabs a day. And during the holidays, they go through about 100 daily.
“It’s a big deal for us. We’re all kind of anxious,” Drysdale said. At the same time, restaurants can get high-quality crab from elsewhere, he said. “We’ve had to have crab on the menu every day for 50 years, so everyone’s pretty resourceful.”
Boat owners believe this summer’s warmer coastal water — 60-plus degrees on average, instead of the typical 54 degrees — is behind the toxic bloom.
Health officials say symptoms of poisoning can appear up to 24 hours after someone has eaten toxic seafood, though no illnesses have been reported.
Domoic acid is a naturally occurring toxin related to the rise of a tiny plant called pseudo-nitzschia. Officials say they aren’t sure why the plant has bloomed and tainted the crabs — and they don’t know when it will subside.
“The health advisory will be lifted once the levels are no longer above acceptable levels,” they said.
Nanette Asimov and Paolo Lucchesi are San Francisco Chronicle staff writers. E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Twitter: @NanetteAsimov, @lucchesi |||||
Student: | El Niño—already being blamed for bringing venomous snakes to the California coastline—could be at it again, as state health officials warned of poisonous crabs Tuesday, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The warning to avoid eating any crabs caught along the Northern California coast couldn't come at a worse time, as the recreational Dungeness crab season is scheduled to start Saturday, with the commercial season following a week later. According to CNN, the health department found Dungeness and rock crabs contaminated with high levels of domoic acid during routine testing. Mild symptoms of eating the tainted crabs include vomiting, diarrhea, and headaches, the Chronicle reports. The severe symptoms are permanent memory loss, seizures, and death. CNN reports cooking and cleaning tainted crabs won't make them safer to eat, and state officials will hold an emergency meeting Thursday to debate delaying the start of Dungeness crab season. “Delaying or closing the season is disappointing,” one official tells the Chronicle. “But public health and safety is our top priority.” Commercial crabbers from as far away as Alaska are already arriving in California for the season, which they count on for up to half of their annual income. "It’s going to be devastating," one crabber tells the Chronicle. Boat owners are blaming warm El Niño waters for the increase in domoic acid, and state officials have no idea when the toxic bloom will dissipate. |
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: The UEFA Euro 2024 ( officially the 2024 UEFA European Football Championship ) will be the 17th UEFA European Football Championship tournament .
Output: | The 2024 UEFA European Football Championship , commonly referred to as UEFA Euro 2024 or simply Euro 2024 , will be the 17th edition of the UEFA European Championship , the quadrennial international men 's football championship of Europe organized by UEFA . |
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: A woman holds up a sign at a vigil for the victims of Wednesday's attack, at Trafalgar Square in London, Thursday, March 23, 2017. The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an attack by a... (Associated Press)
LONDON (AP) — Khalid Masood, who attacked Britain's Parliament, killing four people and wounding some 50, was born Adrian Russell Ajao, London's top counterterror officer said Friday.
Mark Rowley revealed the name in a briefing outside Scotland Yard in which he also announced two more "significant" arrests had been made. That brings the total number of people in custody for the Wednesday attack to nine.
"We remain keen to hear from anyone who knew Khalid Masood well, understands who his associates were and can provide us with information about places he has recently visited," Rowley said. "There might be people out there who did have concerns about Masood but did not feel comfortable for whatever reason in passing those concerns to us."
The 52-year-old attacker was born in southeastern England and had most recently been living in the central city of Birmingham.
Masood drove his car into crowds of people on Westminster Bridge on Wednesday afternoon, killing three and wounding some 50, before stabbing a police officer to death at the Houses of Parliament. He was shot dead by police.
Rowley said two police officers targeted in the attack have significant injuries. Two other people also remain in critical condition, one with life-threatening injuries.
The latest victim, who died in the hospital on Thursday, was 75-year-old Leslie Rhodes from Streatham, south London. ||||| The 52-year-old Kent-born attacker had been convicted of violent offences and may have been a late convert to Islam
Detectives are piecing together the history of the Westminster terrorist Khalid Masood, a 52-year-old ex-convict who used a string of aliases and reportedly converted to Islam only in later life.
Masood was described by police as a criminal with a 20-year record of offending, who had once been investigated for extremism but was assessed as low risk. Reports have emerged that his birthname was Adrian Russell Ajao. He was earlier named as Adrian Elms.
London attack: police investigate terrorist Khalid Masood as death toll rises – live Read more
As police search for any evidence of a wider conspiracy, eight people remain in custody after properties across the UK were raided, while a picture emerged of the killer’s apparently nomadic lifestyle.
The death toll from his assault on the capital rose to four on Thursday night when a 75-year-old man, named as Leslie Rhodes from Streatham, south London, had his life support withdrawn at King’s College hospital.
The police said on Friday morning that two people remained in hospital in critical condition, with one of these considered to have “life-threatening” injuries, after Masood drove his car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge before running into the parliamentary estate armed with two knives and fatally stabbing PC Keith Palmer before himself being shot dead. Fifty people have been confirmed as injured, with 31 requiring hospital treatment. Two police officers remained in hospital with significant injuries.
On Thursday night, thousands of people gathered to commemorate the victims of the attack in Westminster, and to hear speeches by the capital’s mayor and other leaders aimed at preventing terrorism from spreading division and hatred.
The vigil in Trafalgar Square, central London, was held to honour the dead and injured, Sadiq Khan said, but also “to send a clear, clear, message – Londoners will never be cowed by terrorism”.
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Earlier, prime minister Theresa May told MPs Masood had been previously known to MI5: “Some years ago, he was once investigated in relation to concerns about violent extremism. He was a peripheral figure. The case is historic – he was not part of the current intelligence picture.”
Amber Rudd, the home secretary, later added that Masood had spent time in jail, but not for terrorist offences, while the Metropolitan police said “Masood” was in all likelihood not his birth name.
The names of two people who died after Masood mowed them down on Westminster Bridge also emerged.
They were Kurt Cochran, 54, a US tourist from Utah celebrating his 25th wedding anniversary, and British-born Aysha Frade, 43, who worked at sixth-form college and had been walking over the bridge to pick up her daughters from school.
In the frenzied attack on Wednesday, Masood also stabbed to death PC Keith Palmer, a 48-year-old husband and father.
The prime minister said Palmer was “every inch a hero and his actions will never be forgotten”, while a crowdfunding appeal for his family has raised more than £364,000.
The attack was stopped when armed officers assigned to protect the defence secretary, Michael Fallon, shot Masood, who is believed to have been intent on entering parliament. Palmer died at New Palace Yard on the edge of the parliamentary estate, near Parliament Square, raising questions about security for legislators.
The original incident, in which Masood drove a Hyundai Tucson 4x4 into crowds at one of London’s busiest tourist spots, left 40 people injured, 29 of whom were taken to hospital.
In an emergency statement to the Commons, May said people from around the world had been caught up in the attack. “In addition to 12 Britons admitted to hospital, we know the victims include three French children, two Romanians, four South Koreans, one German, one Pole, one Irish, one Chinese, one Italian, one American and two Greeks,” she said.
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She also sounded a note of defiance, telling MPs: “Today we meet as normal, as generations have done before us and as future generations will continue to do, to deliver a simple message: we are not afraid and our resolve will never waver in the face of terrorism.”
May’s spokesman said she had received phone calls from world leaders including Angela Merkel, François Hollande and Donald Trump, offering their condolences and support, and had herself signed a book of condolence in parliament. She later visited the injured in hospital.
Police said Masood had been inspired by Islamic State. But he hid his extremism from his neighbours, coming across as a keen gardener and family man.
The domestic intelligence service will face questions over why Masood dropped off the radar after being investigated in relation to concerns over violent extremism.
An MI5 team has been set up to see what lessons can be learned from the case and to look at the decision to not put him under surveillance. The police and security services monitor an estimated 3,000 Britons, mainly Islamists, regarded as capable of terrorism, but it emerged he was not on this list.
Isis claimed responsibilty for the attack, although the claim could not be verified. Amaq, the news agency it uses to broadcast propaganda, issued a statement describing the attacker as a soldier of Islamic State, without naming him.
Police revealed that Masood, born in Kent on Christmas Day 1964, had a string of criminal convictions. In a statement, the Met said: “He was known to police and has a range of previous convictions for assaults, including GBH, possession of offensive weapons and public order offences.
“His first conviction was in November 1983 for criminal damage and his last conviction was in December 2003 for possession of a knife.”
The investigation is being led by SO15, Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism command. Police staged raids across Birmingham, including Masood’s recent home in Winson Green, and at properties in London, Carmarthenshire and Brighton.
Neighbour Iwona Romek said Masood was a keen gardener, who lived in the modern mews house with his wife and young child. Romek, 45, said her experience of him was of a “nice man”.
She said the family had moved out suddenly in December 2016 and added: “I used to see him outside doing his garden. Never any trouble.”
It is believed that Masood rented the Hyundai car that he turned into a weapon of terror from the depot of a car hire firm, Enterprise, in Spring Hill, Birmingham.
Police still believe the attack was carried out by Masood alone, but are looking into whether others helped him. The eight arrests were all on suspicion of acts of preparation of a terrorist act, a key indication that police are investigating the possibility of a wider conspiracy.
A 39-year-old woman was arrested in east London, while two women aged 26 and 21 were detained in Birmingham. Five men aged 23, 26, 27, 28 and 58 were arrested in Birmingham.
PC Palmer’s family released a statement paying tribute to the police officer, who had a five-year-old daughter. They said: “Dedicated to his job and proud to be a police officer, brave and courageous. A friend to everyone who knew him. He will be deeply missed. We love him so much.”
As a mark of respect, Palmer’s shoulder number – 4157U – is to be retired and not reissued to any other officer, Scotland Yard said.
The Met has put extra officers on the streets and has extended the shifts they work from eight to 12 hours, until further notice. Forces outside London are also increasing their presence on the streets, to provide reassurance and to deter not only any further Islamist attacks but hate crimes against Muslims.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission began an investigation into the shooting of the suspect, which is mandated by law.
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Student: | Khalid Masood, the man responsible for the attack outside Britain's Parliament that killed four people and wounded 50, was born Adrian Russell Ajao, London's top counterterror officer said Friday. Mark Rowley revealed the name in a briefing outside Scotland Yard in which he also announced two more "significant" arrests had been made. That brings the total number of people in custody for the Wednesday attack to nine. "We remain keen to hear from anyone who knew Khalid Masood well, understands who his associates were, and can provide us with information about places he has recently visited," Rowley said, per the AP. Masood, 52, was born in southeast England and had most recently been living in Birmingham. ISIS issued a statement Thursday claiming responsibility for the attack and calling Masood a "soldier." Police say he had criminal convictions going back decades, the Guardian reports. "His first conviction was in November 1983 for criminal damage and his last conviction was in December 2003 for possession of a knife," police said in a statement. Rowley said two police officers targeted in the attack have significant injuries. Two other people also remain in critical condition. The latest victim, who died in the hospital on Thursday, was 75-year-old Leslie Rhodes from Streatham, south London. Police have also identified an injured woman who was pulled from the Thames after Masood drove into crowds on Westminster Bridge. |
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How to write teen angst poetry<br>Find inspiration. You should start by finding inspiration for your poetry by drawing on your own experiences and feelings. Ask yourself, " what makes me angry in my life? " or " what moment or event triggered my confusion or frustration? " you could then focus on the moment or event in your poetry.
Choose your answer: based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Angst poetry is about being excited"?
pick from the following.
(i). Yes;
(ii). It's impossible to say;
(iii). No;
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[EX A]: hunting
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[EX A]: the restoration of the Preachers
[EX Q]: What nation did this affect?, Context: It threatened the collapse of large financial institutions, which was prevented by the bailout of banks by national governments, but stock markets still dropped worldwide. In many areas, the housing market also suffered, resulting in evictions, foreclosures and prolonged unemployment. The crisis played a significant role in the failure of key businesses, declines in consumer wealth estimated in trillions of U.S. dollars, and a downturn in economic activity leading to the 2008–2012 global recession and contributing to the European sovereign-debt crisis. The active phase of the crisis, which manifested as a liquidity crisis, can be dated from August 9, 2007, when BNP Paribas terminated withdrawals from three hedge funds citing "a complete evaporation of liquidity".
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Sullivan County Airport will never be available to the public. | No |
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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.
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Solution: | et was played by a kid with no legs? |
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