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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: Why did the Ottonian dynasty get replaced by the Salian dynasty?, Context: During the early High Middle Ages, Germany was ruled by the Ottonian dynasty, which struggled to control the powerful dukes ruling over territorial duchies tracing back to the Migration period. In 1024, they were replaced by the Salian dynasty, who famously clashed with the papacy under Emperor Henry IV (r. 1084–1105) over church appointments as part of the Investiture Controversy. His successors continued to struggle against the papacy as well as the German nobility. A period of instability followed the death of Emperor Henry V (r. 1111–25), who died without heirs, until Frederick I Barbarossa (r. 1155–90) took the imperial throne. Although he ruled effectively, the basic problems remained, and his successors continued to struggle into the 13th century. Barbarossa's grandson Frederick II (r. 1220–1250), who was also heir to the throne of Sicily through his mother, clashed repeatedly with the papacy. His court was famous for its scholars and he was often accused of heresy. He and his successors faced many difficulties, including the invasion of the Mongols into Europe in the mid-13th century. Mongols first shattered the Kievan Rus' principalities and then invaded Eastern Europe in 1241, 1259, and 1287.
A: struggled to control the powerful dukes ruling over territorial duchies
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Q: Which of the following is NOT a goal of phorphor LED development: higher light output, optical losses, or higher operation temperatures?, Context: Among the challenges being faced to improve the efficiency of LED-based white light sources is the development of more efficient phosphors. As of 2010, the most efficient yellow phosphor is still the YAG phosphor, with less than 10% Stoke shift loss. Losses attributable to internal optical losses due to re-absorption in the LED chip and in the LED packaging itself account typically for another 10% to 30% of efficiency loss. Currently, in the area of phosphor LED development, much effort is being spent on optimizing these devices to higher light output and higher operation temperatures. For instance, the efficiency can be raised by adapting better package design or by using a more suitable type of phosphor. Conformal coating process is frequently used to address the issue of varying phosphor thickness.
A: optical losses
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Q: What did the Church consider Donatism?, Context: In the Roman Catholic Church, obstinate and willful manifest heresy is considered to spiritually cut one off from the Church, even before excommunication is incurred. The Codex Justinianus (1:5:12) defines "everyone who is not devoted to the Catholic Church and to our Orthodox holy Faith" a heretic. The Church had always dealt harshly with strands of Christianity that it considered heretical, but before the 11th century these tended to centre around individual preachers or small localised sects, like Arianism, Pelagianism, Donatism, Marcionism and Montanism. The diffusion of the almost Manichaean sect of Paulicians westwards gave birth to the famous 11th and 12th century heresies of Western Europe. The first one was that of Bogomils in modern day Bosnia, a sort of sanctuary between Eastern and Western Christianity. By the 11th century, more organised groups such as the Patarini, the Dulcinians, the Waldensians and the Cathars were beginning to appear in the towns and cities of northern Italy, southern France and Flanders.
A: | heretical
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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: A currency transaction report (CTR) is a report that U.S. financial institutions are required to file with FinCEN for each deposit, withdrawal, exchange of currency, or other payment or transfer, by, through, or to the financial institution which involves a transaction in currency of more than $10,000. Used in this context, currency means the coin and / or paper money of any country that is designated as legal tender by the country of issuance. Currency also includes U.S. silver certificates, U.S. notes, Federal Reserve notes, and official foreign bank notes.
Student: | when do you have to file a ctr |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Q: The mahi-mahi (/ˈmɑːhiːˈmɑːhiː/) or common dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) is a surface-dwelling ray-finned fish found in off-shore temperate, tropical, and subtropical waters worldwide. Also widely called dorado and dolphin, it is one of two members of the Coryphaenidae family, the other being the pompano dolphinfish.
A: is mahi-mahi a type of dolphin?
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Q: Like Costco and Sam's Club, Bi-Mart stores are membership stores; unlike those chains, its members-only policy started as a workaround to fair trade laws established in the United States in the 1930s by laws such as the Miller-Tydings Act and those related to suggested retail prices. Thus, the membership for an entire family only costs $5 and never expires.
A: do you have to be a member at bi mart?
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Q: Five more types of licenses were created in the 1950s, dealing with liquor-by-the-drink operations, industry agents, salesmen, out-of-state manufacturers of malt beverages, and conventions, group meetings, etc. In 1960, establishments were required to have food sales equal to 25% of their total sales. In the 1970s, the OLCC began enforcing the Oregon Bottle Bill and wines of up to 20% alcohol became allowed with certain licenses. In the 1980s, the number of OLCC commissioners was changed from three to five, to reflect the number of congressional districts. The 1990s saw a flurry of laws passed governing the OLCC's oversight of the newly numerous Oregon wineries and microbreweries. House Bill 4028--passed in 2002--allowed liquor stores to operate on Sunday; they had previously been restricted to six days a week.
A: | can you buy alcohol on sunday in oregon?
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How to file an interpleader<br>Search for forms or templates. An interpleader starts with a complaint, which is in many ways similar to a complaint that would be filed in any other civil lawsuit. Some courts offer forms or templates you can use specifically for an interpleader.
You should review your state's rules of civil procedure to find a general outline of the information that must be included in an interpleader complaint.
A: It's impossible to say
Interview<br>After college, Mary was nervous about landing a good job. She saw an ad for the perfect position. Mary set an appointment to see the hiring manager. Mary nailed the interview and made a great impression. She got the job!
Before the interview, Mary called the hiring manager to confirm that she would be showing up.
A: It's impossible to say
Smith (suspension) was released by the Raiders on Monday Per NFL.com's Ian Rapoport, Smith is a suspect in an alleged domestic violence incident that took place over the weekend. Smith hasn't played in a game since 2015 due to repeat violations of the NFL's substance-abuse policy.
Smith is very close to NFL.
A: | It's impossible to say |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Example Input: Winners receive the FA Cup trophy, of which there have been two designs and five actual cups; the latest is a 2014 replica of the second design, introduced in 1911. Winners also qualify for the Europa League and a place in the FA Community Shield match. Chelsea are the current holders, having beaten Manchester United 1--0 in the 2018 final. Arsenal are the most successful club with 13 titles. Arsenal's Arsène Wenger is the most successful manager in the competition with seven finals won.
Example Output: does winning the fa cup qualify you for the champions league?
Example Input: Petroleum jelly, petrolatum, white petrolatum, soft paraffin/paraffin wax or multi-hydrocarbon, CAS number 8009-03-8, is a semi-solid mixture of hydrocarbons (with carbon numbers mainly higher than 25), originally promoted as a topical ointment for its healing properties.
Example Output: is paraffin wax the same as petroleum jelly?
Example Input: The compound hydrogen chloride has the chemical formula HCl and as such is a hydrogen halide. At room temperature, it is a colorless gas, which forms white fumes of hydrochloric acid upon contact with atmospheric water vapor. Hydrogen chloride gas and hydrochloric acid are important in technology and industry. Hydrochloric acid, the aqueous solution of hydrogen chloride, is also commonly given the formula HCl.
Example Output: | would hydrogen chloride be a gas at room temperature?
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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.
Ex Input:
Trump: There could be riots if I lose nomination
A supporter holds up a sign for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Boca Raton, Fla., Sunday, March 13, 2016. (Photo: Paul Sancya, AP)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Donald Trump called on Republicans to rally around his candidacy Wednesday, and said there could be "riots" if the party somehow conspires to deny him the presidential nomination after he remains way ahead in convention delegates.
"I don't think you can say that we don't get it automatically," Trump told CNN after a night of wins in Florida, Illinois, and North Carolina. "I think you'd have riots. I think you'd have riots. I'm representing many, many millions of people."
Trump's remaining opponents did not seem inclined to give him the nomination. John Kasich predicted that his win in Ohio would propel him to victory in an open convention, while Ted Cruz said he is looking for a one-on-one showdown with the New York businessman.
In any event, the Republicans now have only a three-candidate race: Florida Sen. Marco Rubio pulled out Tuesday night after he lost his home state big to Trump.
"I'm going to be the nominee," Kasich told NBC's Today show.
Cruz, currently second to Trump in terms of Republican delegates, began appealing to Rubio's followers to join an anti-Trump coalition, and also suggested that Kasich exit the race because it is mathematically impossible for him to win the GOP nomination.
"The longer Kasich stays in the race, the more it benefits Trump," Cruz said. "Unlike Kasich, our campaign, number one, has beaten Donald Trump over and over and over again."
The candidates hit the talk shows a day after Trump won primaries in Florida, Illinois, and North Carolina. The New York businessman had a slight lead over Cruz in Missouri, but news networks have not called the race because absentee and provisional ballots remain to be counted.
In the wake of Tuesday's primaries, Trump currently leads in convention delegates with 621, about half of what he needs to clinch. according to the Associated Press. He is followed by Cruz (396), Rubio (168) and Kasich (138).
Anti-Trump Republicans are hoping to block the businessman at the party convention in July, seeking to deny him a majority of delegates on the first ballot. Many delegates who are bound to a particular candidate on the first ballot become free agents on subsequent votes.
Kasich predicted that an open convention would come to pass because "nobody is going to have enough delegates." Kasich also told NBC that neither Trump nor Cruz can win a fall election against the Democrats, and he can.
"They can't come in to Ohio with the philosophy they have and win," Kasich said. "You can't win Ohio, you can't be president."
Trump predicted he would rack up a majority of delegates before the convention opens July 18 in Cleveland. Even if he is a little short, Trump said he should still be awarded the nomination if, as expected, he has a large delegate lead over competitors.
Otherwise, he told CNN, "I think bad things would happen."
Trump, appearing on ABC's Good Morning America, also criticized reports that Republicans who oppose his candidacy are talking about running their own candidate in the fall election.
"A third-party guarantees Democrats will win," Trump told ABC.
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Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said Wednesday that a contested GOP convention could be a disaster if he goes to Cleveland a few delegates shy of 1,237 — and doesn't leave as the party's nominee.
"I think you'd have riots," Trump said on CNN.
Noting that he's "representing many millions of people," Trump told host Chris Cuomo: "If you disenfranchise those people, and you say, 'I'm sorry, you're 100 votes short' ... I think you'd have problems like you've never seen before. I think bad things would happen."
GOP leaders are scrambling to minimize Donald Trump's dominance in the polls, leaving many wondering what would happen if no one candidate wins a clear majority before the national convention. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post)
The billionaire businessman emphasized, though, that he expects to secure the 1,237 delegates needed to win the party's nomination ahead of the Republican National Convention in July.
"I'm a closer," he said. "I get things closed."
[The Stop Trump movement’s last realistic hope is now a contested convention in Cleveland]
Trump woke up Wednesday with 621 delegates.
He walloped Sen. Marco Rubio in the first-term senator’s home state of Florida on Tuesday, forcing Rubio from the race. He also won in Illinois and North Carolina, extending his lead over Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas as the once-unwieldy nominating contest narrowed to a three-person brawl with Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who won his home state's primary.
"I did well in Ohio, but I was running against a popular governor," Trump said Wednesday. He added: "I ran out of a little bit of time. I think if I had a day or two more, it would have been perhaps a little bit different."
[Donald Trump wins big]
Trump and Cruz are in a dead heat in Missouri, which was still too close to call on the morning after the Republican primary. The state has 52 Republican delegates.
"We started out with 17 people; we're down to three," Trump said on CNN. "But this has been a nasty one; I guess that's why your ratings are as high as they've ever been."
Republican front-runner Donald Trump spoke in Palm Beach, Fla., after primary voters took to the polls in five states: Florida, Illinois, Ohio, Missouri and North Carolina. (Reuters)
In a remarkable campaign fueled by anger, Trump has been under steady attack — by rival Republicans, by the Democratic candidates, by progressives, by super PACs determined to derail his candidacy, and by the president, who has twice taken shots at the GOP front-runner in recent days.
[President Obama's brutal assessment of the rise of Donald Trump]
The tone and tenor of of the campaign will eventually shift away from divisiveness and Trump will make peace with the Republican Party, he suggested Wednesday.
"I think there's a natural healing process, once the battle is over, once the war is over," Trump said. "I've gotten along with people all my life; this is actually a little unusual.... I think it will happen again."
He added: "We have to win, and as we win, people will forget and they will feel better. That's the way life is. After we put it away, a lot of feelings will be soothed."
But, Trump said in a subsequent interview on MSNBC: "We don't want to lose the edge. We still have two people left."
[Donald Trump holds a press conference — and doesn’t take any questions]
Asked Wednesday whether he'd consider Rubio for vice president, Trump deflected the question, telling MSNBC: "It's just too early."
Trump noted that he liked Rubio — "until about three weeks ago, when he started getting nasty.... I was very surprised when he started doing his Don Rickles routine on me."
But, he said later on Fox News: "My whole life people have plotted against me, and I'm doing very well."
Speaking by telephone on "Fox & Friends," Trump said he plans to skip the channel's March 21 debate in Salt Lake City to deliver a previously scheduled speech at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference in Washington.
Trump told Fox that he'll be delivering "a major speech in front of a very important group of people that night; it was scheduled a while ago." He said he can't and won't reconsider that commitment.
The Fox News debate was announced this week, and Trump said Wednesday that it came as a surprise.
"I thought the last debate on CNN was the last debate," he said. "I think we've had enough debates. How many times can the same people ask you the same question?"
He added: "I don't mind the process of debating; it turned out that I do it well.... But I think we've had enough."
This post has been updated.
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Liberal leaders: Trump’s candidacy is ‘a five-alarm fire for our democracy’ |||||
Ex Output:
Donald Trump's campaign rallies have made headlines because of violence, but he suggests we haven't seen anything yet if the GOP somehow deprives him of the nomination at the convention. "I think you'd have riots," he said on CNN Wednesday, per USA Today and the Washington Post. "I'm representing many, many millions of people." Trump predicted he'd lock up the necessary number of delegates to secure the nomination anyway—"I'm a closer"—but he warned that the party will be flirting with trouble if it moves toward a brokered convention in the event he comes up shy. "If you disenfranchise those people, and you say, 'I'm sorry, you're 100 votes short' ... I think you'd have problems like you've never seen before. I think bad things would happen."
Ex Input:
On the first day that Sally Ann Okuly felt well enough to leave her house after a motorcycle crash six months ago, she was struck and killed by a car in the crosswalk. News4's Shomari Stone reports. (Published Friday, Nov. 22, 2013)
Sally Ann Okuly survived cancer. And she survived a motorcycle crash six months ago, feeling well enough to leave the house last weekend for the first time in half a year.
But her determination was no match for a car Sunday morning. Okuly was struck by a car and killed as she left her Woodbridge, Va. home for the first time, to cross the street to her favorite convenience store and buy a newspaper and cup of coffee.
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Police say a car driven by Amanda Styles-Mays, 24, crashed into Okuly as she crossed at Opitz Boulevard and Montgomery Avenue. Okuly was crossing with the light and was in the crosswalk.
Styles-Mays has been charged with failure to yield to a pedestrian and reckless driving.
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"One of her favorite things to do was to walk over across that street to the Wawa gas station," said her husband, Bill Okuly.
Sally Ann was also a mother of two. The couple -- who were members of the Rolling Thunder motorcycle club -- was set to celebrate their 41st anniversary Monday.
"She's the most giving person ever," Bill Okuly said.
But, he said, he feels his wife will always stay with him. "Oh yeah, she'll always be there," Bill Okuly said. ||||| Woodbridge, VA (22192)
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Ex Output:
Tomorrow, Bill and Sally Ann Okuly were set to celebrate their 41st wedding anniversary. The reasons why they won't are wrenching: It's not because of cancer (Sally survived that) or a motorcycle crash (which the Woodbridge, Va., woman also survived, six months ago). Last Sunday, Sally decided she was up for leaving her house for the first time since the crash, and headed across the street to a Wawa gas station to get coffee and a paper. She crossed in the crosswalk, with the signal indicating it was safe to do so, but was hit by a car. A Prince William County police rep explains that 24-year-old Amanda Styles-Mays had a green light, but was making a left turn, reports Inside NOVA. "The driver of the Jeep Wrangler did not yield the right of way and proceeded to turn left, striking the pedestrian," he says in a statement. Okuly died the next day; Styles-Mays has been charged with failure to yield to a pedestrian and reckless driving, reports NBC Washington.
Ex Input:
A post shared by America Ferrera (@americaferrera) on Dec 31, 2017 at 4:54pm PST
America Ferrera is adding a new role to her resumé in 2018.
The 33-year-old actress revealed on New Year’s Eve that she and her husband, Ryan Piers Williams, are expecting their first baby.
“We’re welcoming one more face to kiss in 2018!,” Ferrera wrote alongside a photo of her and Williams holding a onesie. “Wishing you #MásBesos [more kisses] in the New Year!”
Williams, 36, added on his own Instagram page, “Making room for new and beautiful things to come in 2018!”
Ferrera and Williams tied the knot in 2011 and recently celebrated their 12-year anniversary in Iceland. ||||| Paul Archuleta via Getty Images America Ferrera has announced that she is expecting her first child with husband Ryan Piers Williams.
America Ferrera has an eventful year planned.
The “Ugly Betty” and “Superstore” actress revealed on New Year’s Eve that she is pregnant with her first child.
Ferrera posted a photo to Instagram on Sunday that showed her and husband Ryan Piers Williams wearing goofy party glasses and holding a baby’s outfit. “We’re welcoming one more face to kiss in 2018!” read the caption.
A post shared by America Ferrera (@americaferrera) on Dec 31, 2017 at 4:54pm PST |||||
Ex Output:
| America welcomed its first baby of 2018 in Guam. Now another America shares her own first-baby news. That would be America Ferrera, who announced she's pregnant on New Year's Eve in what HuffPost calls the "cutest" way. The 33-year-old Ugly Betty and Superstore star put up an Instagram photo Sunday of herself and husband Ryan Piers Williams, showing them both sporting 2018 glasses while Ferrera held up a baby onesie with the words "Mas besos (por favor)," or "More kisses, please," for the camera. Ferrera's photo came with the caption: "We're welcoming one more face to kiss in 2018!" Page Six notes that Williams, 36, posted the photo on his own Instagram, with the caption: "Making room for new and beautiful things to come in 2018!" The couple have been married since 2011.
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How to buy a gerbil
Adopt your gerbils.
There are many gerbils that have been rescued or abandoned that need good homes. Instead of going to a pet shop right away, consider looking for gerbil rescues in your area.
You can start by contacting your local humane society or animal shelter. Many shelters end up with abandoned, lost, or surrendered gerbils.
How to patch test skin
Understand the basics.
Patch tests are used to test how allergic you are when you come into contact with certain substances. Patch tests are different from prick or scratch tests.
A scratch test checks for reactions to common allergens that may give you symptoms from hives to a runny nose. The nurse scratches or pricks the skin to get the allergen under the skin.
Various scissors and combs are laid out on a mat. The salon stylist towels off then rubs hair products through the man's hair with his hands. the stylist
combs out the persons hair and cuts it with scissors.
How to make takoyaki
Prepare your octopus if you have purchased it fresh rather than cooked.
You can purchase octopus at seafood markets or specialty asian stores.
First, you will need to poach the octopus.
| This means you will submerge the octopus in a poaching liquid such as water or stock. Poach for about 13 minutes per pound. |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
How many people were there at the docking?, Context: The joint mission began when Soyuz 19 was first launched on July 15, 1975 at 12:20 UTC, and the Apollo craft was launched with the docking module six and a half hours later. The two craft rendezvoused and docked on July 17 at 16:19 UTC. The three astronauts conducted joint experiments with the two cosmonauts, and the crew shook hands, exchanged gifts, and visited each other's craft. | three astronauts conducted joint experiments with the two cosmonauts |
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: FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2013, file photo, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray testifies before a Senate Committee on Banking hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Cordray has... (Associated Press)
FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2013, file photo, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray testifies before a Senate Committee on Banking hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Cordray has... (Associated Press)
NEW YORK (AP) — Richard Cordray, the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said Wednesday he will leave the position by the end of the month.
Corday was appointed by President Barack Obama. His early resignation will give President Donald Trump a chance to appoint his own director of the powerful agency established in the wake of the financial crisis. A Trump appointee could roll back the protections Cordray and his staff put into place in the agency's first years.
Cordray's resignation is not unexpected. The Ohio native had been widely expected to make a run for governor of his home state in 2018, and he could not hold his position as director of the CFPB and run at the same time.
"It has been a joy of my life to have the opportunity to serve our country as the first director of the Consumer Bureau," Cordray said in a memo addressed to agency employees. He did not give a reason for his resignation.
The CFPB was created as part of the laws passed following the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent recession. The agency was given a broad mandate to be a watchdog for consumers when they deal with banks, credit card, student loan and mortgage companies, as well as debt collectors and payday lenders.
Cordray took the agency's mandate aggressively. The bureau implemented or proposed a myriad of news and regulations for the banking industry, which oftentimes made him a target for the industry's Washington lobbyists and Congressional Republicans who believed Cordray was overreaching in his role. Some Congressional Republicans had urged President Trump to fire Cordray.
Based on Trump's previous appointments, his choice is likely to be far friendlier to the financial industry than Cordray. |||||
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray speaks during the 2017 Cincinnati AFL-CIO Labor Day Picnic on Sept. 4 at Coney Island in Cincinnati. (Kareem Elgazzar/Cincinnati Enquirer via AP)
This story has been updated.
Richard Cordray, one of the few remaining Obama-era banking regulators, said on Wednesday that he plans to step down as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by the end of the month, clearing the way for President Trump to remake a watchdog agency loathed by Republicans and Wall Street.
Cordray’s turbulent six-year tenure at the 1,600-person agency was marked by aggressive efforts to rein in banks, payday lenders and debt collectors that often drew protests from the business community. His frequent clashes with conservatives turned Cordray, an otherwise ordinary Washington bureaucrat from Ohio, into a favorite of Democrats and consumer groups and a villain to Republicans and the financial industry. A federal judge once said that Cordray had “more unilateral authority than any other officer in any of the three branches of the U.S. government, other than the president.”
“It has been a joy of my life to have the opportunity to serve our country as the first director of the Consumer Bureau by working alongside all of you here,” Cordray said in a message to employees. “I trust that new leadership will see that value also and work to preserve it – perhaps in different ways than before, but desiring, as I have done, to serve in ways that benefit and strengthen our economy and our country.”
[Wall Street wins big as Senate votes to roll back regulation allowing consumers to sue their banks]
Republicans had become increasingly exasperated that Cordray, whose term does not end until next summer, had not stepped aside when Trump took office, and instead continued to press for aggressive rules disliked by the business community. Trump has on at least two occasions griped about Cordray in private and wondered what to do about his tenure, according to two financial industry executives who attended the meetings. Under the agency’s current structure, Trump could only fire Cordray for cause.
Cordray did not explain the timing of his decision, but it clears the way for him to potentially run for Ohio governor. It also comes just a month after the CFPB suffered a major rebuke from Republicans in Congress who took the unusual step of blocking an agency rule that would have allowed consumers to sue their banks for the first time. Cordray appealed to President Trump directly not to sign the legislation but was rebuffed.
With Cordray’s departure, the regulatory structure put in place by the Obama administration in the wake of the global financial crisis has been nearly entirely replaced. The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission has been replaced by a former Wall Street lawyer and the Senate is moving to approve Trump’s pick to lead the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, another important banking regulator.
Trump is also remaking the Federal Reserve. He has nominated Republican Jerome H. Powell, a current governor on the Fed board, to replace Janet L. Yellen as chair of the Federal Reserve. His pick for vice chairman of supervision, Randal Quarles, a former private equity investor, is expected to be much friendlier to the banking industry than his predecessor in the role.
Rolling back regulations has been a cornerstone of the Trump administration, which argues that excessive rulemaking strangles economic growth. But Congress has struggled to deliver sweeping regulatory relief to the industry. Earlier this week, Sen. Mike Crapo, the Republican chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, announced a bipartisan deal to free dozens of large financial institutions from some of the most rigorous regulations put in place after the global financial crisis. But those changes are much more modest than what many in the banking industry have called for.
The most efficient way, industry officials say, to remake the rules is through appointing new regulators who can change an agency’s focus, tone and priorities. Cordray’s departure “will complete the Team Trump take over of the regulatory agencies. It should mean by summer there are Republicans running all of the banking agencies,” said Jaret Seiberg, an analyst with Cowen and Co.’s Washington Research Group.
The transformation coming for the CFPB could be significant. The agency was one of the central achievements of the Obama administration following the 2008 financial crisis. Created under 2010’s financial reform bill, known as Dodd Frank, it regulates the way banks and other financial companies interact with consumers, policing everything from payday loans to mortgages. It has extracted billions in fines from big banks, including $100 million from Wells Fargo last year for opening millions of sham accounts that customers didn’t ask for.
Cordray “held big banks accountable. He is a dedicated public servant and a tireless watchdog for American consumers–and he will be missed,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who helped established the bureau. “The new Director of the CFPB must be someone with a track record of protecting consumers and holding financial firms responsible when they cheat people. This is no place for another Trump-appointed industry hack.”
President Obama visits the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with new chief Richard Cordray. The administration faces political objections and legal questions about Cordray's status as a recess appointee. (The Washington Post)
But the CFPB has been controversial among Republicans since its inception. Critics complain that CFPB has made it more difficult for people to get a mortgage loan and has overstepped its power to regulate some industries, including auto loans.
Within minutes of Cordray’s public announcement, one of the CFPB’s staunchest critics, Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Tex.), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, cheered the move.
“We are long overdue for new leadership at the CFPB, a rogue agency that has done more to hurt consumers than help them,” said Hensarling, who has touted legislation that would strip the agency of many of its powers. “The extreme overregulation it imposes on our economy leads to higher costs and less access to financial products and services, particularly for Americans with lower and middle incomes.”
Republicans were particularly frustrated that the CFPB continued to issue new rules over the last year despite the Trump administration’s focus on loosening regulations to spur economic growth. Last month, for example, the agency finalized wide-ranging rules targeting the billions of dollars in fees collected by payday lenders offering high-cost, short-term loans. The rules would radically reshape the industry and even “restrict” the industry’s revenue by two-thirds, according to the CFPB.
Payday lenders and Republicans in Congress called the rules excessive. “We didn’t always see eye-to-eye with Director Cordray and in particular with his actions, which turned the Bureau into a highly partisan agency,” said Dennis Shaul, chief executive of the Community Financial Services Association of America, which represents the payday lending industry.
The group hopes Trump will appoint a replacement who “will listen to customers rather than special interests,” he said.
[Richard Cordray dodges questions — again — about his political ambitions]
Under new Republican leadership, the agency is likely to focus less on writing new rules for the financial industry or extracting big fines, industry experts say. The CFPB has been working on rules concerning debt collectors and bank overdraft fees, for example, but those efforts are likely to stall under the new leadership, said industry officials.
“The CFPB will face substantive changes in the years ahead as policymakers recalibrate the regulatory environment,” said Isaac Boltansky, a Washington policy analyst for the investment firm Compass Point Research & Trading.
Cordray’s decision is likely to renew speculation that he will run for governor of Ohio, where he once served as attorney general. He would have to declare his candidacy by February.
Cordray has repeatedly declined to answer questions about his political ambitions, but his potential opponents have already begun to lash out against him. One website, www.cordray2018.com, initially appears to be pro-Cordray and features a “Cordray for Ohio” slogan at the top and a large picture of the Democrat. But then the site attacks him and calls the CFPB “one of America’s most corrupt government agencies.”
“If Director Cordray decides to run for Governor, which is highly anticipated, the people of Ohio should be wary of his crony behavior and reject his candidacy outright,” said Ken Blackwell, a former adviser to the Trump presidential transition team and former Ohio treasurer. |||||
A: | Richard Cordray, the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said Wednesday he will leave the position by the end of the month. The resignation of Cordray, who was appointed by then-President Obama, will give President Trump a chance to appoint his own director of the powerful agency established in the wake of the financial crisis, per the AP. A Trump appointee could roll back the protections Cordray and his staff put into place in the agency's first years. Cordray's resignation isn't unexpected: The Ohio native had been widely expected to make a run for governor of his home state in 2018, and he couldn't hold his position as director of the CFPB and run at the same time. His memo to employees didn't provide a reason for the resignation. The CFPB was created as part of the laws passed following the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent recession. The agency was given a broad mandate to be a watchdog for consumers when they deal with banks; credit card, student loan, and mortgage companies; and debt collectors and payday lenders. Republicans, however, accuse the CFPB of overreach. "We are long overdue for new leadership at the CFPB, a rogue agency that has done more to hurt consumers than help them," said Rep. Jeb Hensarling upon hearing the news, per the Washington Post. As chair of the House Financial Services Committee, Hensarling has sought to curb the CFPB's power. Cordray's agency suffered a big setback last month when the Senate scrapped a CFPB rule making it easier for consumers to sue banks. |
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An injection for double chin reduction developed by Kythera Biopharmaceutical Inc was unanimously backed by an independent panel of experts on Monday, bringing the drug a step closer to approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Kythera's stock has nearly tripled since it went public in 2012 as investors bet on what could be the first approved drug in the United States to reduce localized fat deposits.
The FDA typically accepts the panel's recommendations.
The drug, ATX-101, is a formulation of synthetically derived deoxycholic acid, which destroys fat under the chin, leaving surrounding tissue largely unaffected.
Other injectables, such as Allergan Inc's Botox and dermal fillers are normally used to smoothen areas of the face.
Fat removal involves more radical procedures - limited to surgeries performed under general anesthesia and liposuction - and higher costs.
Submental, or below the chin, liposuction costs between $2,700-$5,175, according to the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery.
Kythera has not revealed its pricing plans for the injection.
Submental fat, known colloqially as a "double chin" can be caused by a plethora of factors including genetics and lifestyle, and can be resistant to diet and exercise.
The drug is widely expected to win approval by May 13, when the FDA is scheduled to make its final decision.
Analysts estimate it will generate at least half a billion dollars in peak U.S. sales.
Makers of dermatologic and aesthetic drugs, including Nestle SA's Galderma, Allergan Inc, and Johnson & Johnson will likely find ATX-101 attractive and could look to acquire rights to the drug or offer to buy the company, Cowen & Co's Ken Cacciatore said in a client note.
Kythera's stock was halted on Monday, but had jumped about 25 percent on Thursday when an FDA staff review concluded that the drug's benefits outweighed its risks.
The stock closed at $53.13 on Friday.
The drug is also being reviewed by Canadian and Swiss regulators.
Last year, Kythera regained rights to the market the drug outside the United States and Canada from a unit of Germany's Bayer AG.
Westlake Village, California-based Kythera entered into separate license agreements last month with Actelion Ltd and the University of Pennsylvania to develop a potent approach to treat hair loss. (bit.ly/1Ml86Zv)
(Editing by Savio D'Souza and Ted Kerr) ||||| Health FDA panel recommends approval of injections to get rid of double chin March 10, 2015 at 5:29 PM ET
It sounds almost too good to be true – injections of a drug that melt fat away. Could it mean an end to the dreaded selfie double-chin?
Dermatologists seem to think so, and so does a panel advising the Food and Drug Administration. They voted unanimously this week to approve a tiny biotech company’s drug for a very specific and targeted use of its fat-busting drug—to get rid of double chins.
Kythera has been working on the drug, simply known as ATX-101, for years. Now, clinical trials have shown it’s safe, and makes people happier with their double chins.
If approved, it could be offered as an alternative to surgery, says Dr. Susan Weinkle, a dermatologist in Bradenton, Florida, who helped test the drug in patients. The FDA usually follows the advice of its committees, although not always.
“There no other FDA-approved drug like it at all. There is nothing on the market,” Weinkle told NBC News.
ATX-101 is a specially formulated version of a natural compound found in the body called deoxycholic acid. It’s produced as part of the digestive process and its job is to break down fat.
Kythera Biopharmaceuticals
“It causes fat cells to rupture,” Weinkle said. “When you are born you have a certain number of fat cells. During life, these fat cells can be either skinnier or fatter. When you cause a fat cell to rupture, that cell is gone forever.”
California-based Kythera (pronounced KEE-ther-ah) hopes to use the drug to position itself as a medical “aesthetics” company – think cosmetic procedures akin to the widespread use of Botox. The company’s name comes from one of two Greek islands that claimed to be the birthplace of Aphrodite, Greek goddess of love and beauty.
It’s carefully sought approval for ATX-101 for a very limited condition.
Medically, it’s called submental fat. Most people know it as a double chin, and Weinkle says the treatment involves a series of injections one month apart. They’d be done in the doctor’s office.
It’s not painless—most patients reported bruising, pain, numbness and swelling. A few reported scarier problems such as trouble swallowing, although it didn’t last long. Surgery often causes more serious side-effects.
And it’s definitely not for everyone, cautions Dr. Michael Edwards, president of the Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.
“My biggest concern is once it is approved, people will start to use it for other areas of the face or for larger volumes (of fat) in other areas,” Edwards told NBC News.
Weinkle says it takes some skill and training to perform the injections properly. Patients are going to want a very even reduction of fat, there are delicate nerves in the area to be avoided, and the injections must go to a certain depth. “You have to understand the anatomy of the area,” she said.
But once a drug is approved by the FDA and on the market, any physician may prescribe it as he or she wishes. FDA does not consider how doctors may use a drug in their practices. That raises the question of spot reduction clinics.
Edwards worries patients will flock to untrained practitioners who may try to dilute the drug to use it on a larger area—something that could lead to lumpy results at best, and perhaps complications. He stresses that people should only seek treatments from board certified experts who are trained to do the procedure in question.
“If it were my face, or my wife’s face, or my mother’s face I would want somebody who knows what they are doing,” Edwards said.
The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery plans to release a report Wednesday showing a 42 percent increase over the past year in nonsurgical fat reduction treatments. The most popular surgical procedure last year? Liposuction with 342,494 procedures performed. It costs, on average, around $3,000.
“People go through all sorts of shenanigans to get their neck to look the way they want."
Many of those are for the double chin.
“People go through all sorts of shenanigans to get their neck to look the way they want,” Edwards said.
Nonsurgical alternatives include CoolSculpting, Vaser Shape and Liposonix, with more than 135,000 of these procedures done last year. Edwards said they work somewhat well, in carefully chosen patients, but none produce dramatic results.
The same would be true for ATX-101.
“And a lot depends on the patient. It’s not a weight loss treatment,” Weinkle stresses. “This is not for decreasing your overall BMI (body mass index),” she said.
Some patients with very fat necks might end up with wattles of loose skin, and patients whose skin isn’t naturally elastic might also end up with “turkey neck”.
But the process itself appears to be safe, at least when the injection is used to remove very small amounts of fat. The body seems to absorb and excrete the busted-up fat cells, the studies show.
“I personally think it is going to be very exciting,” says Weinkle, who plans to offer the procedure in her office. The company declined any comment and hasn't released any information about potential pricing.
“I can’t wait to inject myself. Which of us doesn’t have a little bit of fat under our chin?”
||||| Kythera Biopharmaceuticals Inc. said on Monday that a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted unanimously to recommend approval of the company’s injectable drug to treat adult submental fat, or what is commonly known as a double chin.
The treatment would be a nonsurgical option for double chin, which the company calls a much-cited but undertreated aesthetic complaint that results in an older and heavier facial appearance, and it would represent a new product category.
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A: | A biotech company thinks it has the answer to double chins—an injection, of course. An FDA advisory panel has cleared a treatment from Kythera Pharmaceuticals called ATX-101, reports the Wall Street Journal. If the FDA goes along with the recommendation, as it usually does, the injections could win final approval in May and be available from dermatologists a month or two later. Reuters offers this explanation of how it works: The drug "is a formulation of synthetically derived deoxycholic acid, which destroys fat under the chin, leaving surrounding tissue largely unaffected." It would be the first such treatment designed to remove specific fat deposits, and the company's stock has tripled since it went public in 2012. Kythera hasn't released pricing, but the treatment—actually a series of shots that would be given in a doctor's office—would presumably be cheaper than than below-the-chin liposuction, which can cost more than $5,000. “My biggest concern is once it is approved, people will start to use it for other areas of the face or for larger volumes (of fat) in other areas,” the president of the Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery tells NBC News. In the wrong hands, it could make things worse, he adds. The FDA panel gave the green light after 19 clinical trials involving 2,600 patients. (When the Quaker Oats guy got a makeover, his double chin went away.) |
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The Earth is tilted 23 1/2 on its axis. This means that as the Earth rotates, one hemisphere has longer days with shorter nights. At the same time the other hemisphere has shorter days and longer nights. For example, in the Northern hemisphere summer begins on June 21. On this date, the North Pole is pointed directly toward the Sun. This is the longest day and shortest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. The South Pole is pointed The hemisphere that is tilted away from the Sun is cooler because it receives fewer direct rays. As Earth orbits the Sun, the Northern Hemisphere goes from winter to spring, then summer and fall. The Southern Hemisphere does the opposite from summer to fall to winter to spring. When it is winter in the Northern hemisphere, it is summer in the Southern hemisphere, and vice versa. What does this mean for you? If you live in North America, July 1 is usually a very warm day. If you traveled to Southern Australia, you would need a heavy coat. At the equator, the seasons never change. As a result, the average daily temperatures remain the same. There is no summer and winter as we know them. <sep>Do the northern and Southern Hemispheres have different lengths' for days and nights?<sep>Yes
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[Q]: Wiktionary is run by the Wikimedia Foundation , which also runs Wikipedia .
[A]: Like its sister project Wikipedia , Wiktionary is run by the Wikimedia Foundation , and is written collaboratively by volunteers , dubbed " Wiktionarians " .
[Q]: West Macedonia is one of the thirteen peripheries of Greece .
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[Q]: There are three species : " Cannabis sativa " , " Cannabis indica " , and " Cannabis ruderalis " .
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[EX Q]: Expansion quickly peaked however, and the European powers who had carved up the New World set about testing each other in dynastic conflicts and colonial rivalry. The English were the main rivals of the Dutch on the high seas, and there were several wars between the two in the 17th and 18th centuries. In 1665–1667 the Dutch sailed up the River Medway and sank the British fleet moored there. The 18th century saw Amsterdam grow into the foremost financial center in the world, but the seeds of decline had already been planted. When the English colonies in New England rose up in revolt against the British, they found ready Ailies in the Dutch. From their colonies in the Caribbean they sent caches of arms and ammunition. The British were furious and went to war in 1780, destroying the Dutch navy and signaling a sudden decline in power and influence from which the Netherlands never recovered. Trade suffered to such an extent that in 1791 the VOC went into liquidation. In the latter part of the century there were anti-Orange demonstrations by pro-French factions in the country, and in 1795 Napoleon Bonaparte took the Netherlands in his epic march across Europe. Under the yoke of another foreign power, and with trade at an all time low, the Golden Age was truly dead. The Return of the House of Orange Napoleon installed his brother Louis as King of Holland and he chose to take the fine Town Hall on Dam Square as his palace — now the Koninklijk Palace. But only four years later he fled the city after civil disturbances broke out when he raised taxes. When Napoleon's bubble burst and French power began to wane, William of Orange emerged from exile and was proclaimed king in 1813. Amsterdam had to work its way out of economic decline, but throughout the 19th century the city grew steadily. Industrialization changed the city. With the building of the Central Station at the end of the century, Amsterdam turned its back on its seafaring past and looked towards the mechanical age for its future. The station was built over the old harbor wall and some of the oldest canals in the city center were filled in to allow better access to motorized vehicles. Dam Square was landlocked for the first time in its history. <sep>The building of the Central Station occurred at the end of which century?<sep>18th
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[EX Q]: Before 9/11, the CIA did not invest in developing a robust capability to conduct paramilitary operations with U.S. personnel. It relied on proxies instead, organized by CIA operatives without the requisite military training. The results were unsatisfactory. Whether the price is measured in either money or people, the United States cannot afford to build two separate capabilities for carrying out secret military operations, secretly operating standoff missiles, and secretly training foreign military or paramilitary forces. The United States should concentrate responsibility and necessary legal authorities in one entity. The post-9/11 Afghanistan precedent of using joint CIA-military teams for covert and clandestine operations was a good one. We believe this proposal to be consistent with it. Each agency would concentrate on its comparative advantages in building capabilities for joint missions. The operation itself would be planned in common. The CIA has a reputation for agility in operations. The military has a reputation for being methodical and cumbersome. We do not know if these stereotypes match current reality; they may also be one more symptom of the civil-military misunderstandings we described in chapter 4. It is a problem to be resolved in policy guidance and agency management, not in the creation of redundant, overlapping capabilities and authorities in such sensitive work. The CIA's experts should be integrated into the military's training, exercises, and planning. To quote a CIA official now serving in the field:"One fight, one team." Finally, to combat the secrecy and complexity we have described, the overall amounts of money being appropriated for national intelligence and to its component agencies should no longer be kept secret. Congress should pass a separate appropriations act for intelligence, defending the broad allocation of how these tens of billions of dollars have been assigned among the varieties of intelligence work. The specifics of the intelligence appropriation would remain classified, as they are today. <sep>Who should concentrate on one entity instead of two separate capabilities?<sep>The CIA offices
[EX A]: No
[EX Q]: The digestive system is the body system that digests food. It digest food in two ways, mechanically and chemically. Both help in the process of turning food into nutrients. The digestive system also eliminates solid food waste. The major organs of the digestive system include the mouth, esophagus, stomach, and small and large in- testines. These organs all work together to help you gain energy from the food you eat. Digestion starts in the mouth. When food is swallowed, it travels through the esophagus to the stomach. In the stomach, digestion continues and a small amount of absorption of nutrients takes place. Most chemical digestion and nearly all absorption of nutrients take place in the small intestine. This organ consists of three parts: duodenum, jejunum, and ileum. The large intestine is the last stop in the digestive system. This is where water is absorbed. The food not digested is released as waste. <sep>What are the parts of the small intestine?<sep>Large Intestine, Esophagus, Bladder
[EX A]: | No
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A majority of ObamaCare customers, 52 percent, are being forced to pay back some of their subsidies during this year’s tax season, according to new data from H&R Block.
Customers are paying back an average of $530, which has caused a 17 percent drop in the average return so far this spring, according to the analysis by the tax services giant.
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The Obama administration had warned that people could end up paying back some of their subsidies because many were relying on previous years’ income when applying for the tax breaks.
H&R Block has predicted that “most filers” would owe some of their subsidies back to the federal government because they were relying on 2012 income.
The new data, which was released Tuesday, only represents about six weeks of tax filings. Still, it could pose a significant challenge for the administration as it faces an already tough tax season.
“It’s costing taxpayers a large percentage of their refund – a refund many of them count on to pay household expenses,” Mark Ciaramitaro, vice president of H&R Block health care and tax services, wrote in a statement.
Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services asked 800,000 people to delay their tax filings because the agency sent out the wrong forms. The average refund so far this year is about $3,000, according to H&R Block.
Officials said last week that less than 10 percent of people had filed their taxes. ||||| These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites. ||||| | People who got a subsidy from ObamaCare to help pay for their health insurance are getting a not-so-pleasant surprise on their taxes: H&R Block reports that 52% of people who got subsidies have to pay back a chunk of that money to the government. The average payback is $530, equating to a 17% drop in returns, reports the Hill. The main reason for the payback? Filers' 2014 income came in higher than expected, and thus the subsidies they received were too high. “It’s costing taxpayers a large percentage of their refund—a refund many of them count on to pay household expenses,” say H&R Block VP Mark Ciaramitaro. The figures are based on only the first six weeks of the filing season and could change. On the upside, about 38% of ObamaCare filers found out they were getting an average credit of $366 because their subsidies were too low, reports Forbes. So far, the average penalty for those without health insurance is $172, and Forbes thinks many filers who learn of the penalty will take advantage of a new special enrollment period (from March 15 to April 30) put into place for just that reason. |
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Unpack your tent supplies.
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WASHINGTON (WJLA) - Youtube is full of clips of this so-called “Knockout Game,” in which an unsuspecting victim gets punched in the head so hard that he or she is knocked out cold.
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And in at least three different cases in New York, New Jersey, and St. Louis, there have been deadly consequences.
Now, a D.C. woman says she was a victim and lived to tell police about it.
The 27-year-old says just after 10 p.m. on Thursday night, she was walking home along a busy strip of 14th Street in Columbia Heights. A group of teens on bicycles came up behind her, and one punched her in the back of the head – hard – before the group took off laughing.
The victim escaped serious injuries, but says she wants her neighbors to be warned that it could happen to them – even on a crowded street. ||||| A terrifying new ‘game’ that’s already caused deaths in Syracuse, St. Louis and New Jersey is sweeping the nation, and it preys upon unsuspecting people walking the streets, anywhere.
A recent report from New York-based CBS 2 shed light on the growing trend, displaying unsettling footage of teens participating in this game – which goes by the name ‘Knockout’ – and involves randomly targeting passersby, with the ultimate goal being to knock them out with one punch as they walk by.
One victim shown in the footage is a 46-year-old man from Hoboken, N.J., who was found dead with his neck broken and head lodged between iron fence posts, according to NJ.com.
Video surveillance shows Santiago walking in an alleyway in broad daylight, and just as he’s about to pass a pack of teenagers, one launches the fatal, knockout blow.
And what’s the point?
“For the fun of it,” one teen said in the video.
“They just want to see if you got enough strength to knock somebody out,” said another.
D.C. has not been spared of this violent trend.
One local woman, who was attacked on 14th Street NW in Columbia Heights on Thursday, tells DCist.com she believes to have been a target of this game, as a group of around eight males on bikes came up behind her, with one hitting her in the head. According to the report, police categorized the attack as “simple assault.”
The woman tells the publication she believes others in the area should be on the lookout for similar types of attacks. ||||| It’s a disturbing “game” that’s terrorizing residents in some Brooklyn communities.
“Knockout,” where a random person is targeted and sucker-punched for no reason other than to knock them unconscious, is a growing trend among bored, clearly misguided, teens.
After a string of attacks in predominately Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn, the NYPD is investigating the incidences as possible hate crimes.
The most recent attack was caught on surveillance video this past Tuesday in Crown Heights. Ten men spotted a man walking alone, punched him and kept on moving.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly says the NYPD is working to see if all these attacks are in fact connected. ||||| NEW YORK — It’s a disturbing new “game” that’s terrorizing residents in East Coast cities. Even more disturbing: There are reports of the game moving West.
The game, according to WPIX in New York City — where the incidents seem to have originated, is called “Knockout.” It involves a group of individuals targeting a random person for an unprovoked sucker-punch, seeking to knock the target unconscious in one blow.
It’s a growing trend among bored teens, police say.
After a string of seven similar attacks were reported in New York, including several attacks in predominately Jewish neighborhoods, the New York Police Department has gone so far as to start investigating the incidents as hate crimes.
WPIX reports that the most recent attack was caught on surveillance video this week in New York’s Crown Heights neighborhood. Ten men spotted a man walking alone, punched him — knocking him unconscious — and kept on moving.
There are widespread reports of similar attacks taking place in the Tri-State area, especially in New Jersey, where a man died of injuries sustained after being knocked out by a random teen in October.
There are reports of similar attacks in St. Louis and in Pittsburgh, where teacher James Addlespurger was knocked out by 15-year-old he did not know on his walk home from school last month. The teen was charged for the assault, which was caught on a security camera.
“The video speaks for itself,” Addlespurger told WTAE-TV. “But I don’t remember it happening when it happened.”
Days after the attack on Addlespurger, a WTAE reporter took to the streets, asking unidentified teens to describe the motivation behind the game.
“It’s for the fun of it,” one teen said. “It’s like when you were a little kid, running around and hitting people. Only now you’re grown, so you can knock ’em out. Even though they shouldn’t be doing it, people do it.”
One New York man told WPIX he believes it all comes down to finding ways to get teens involved in more enriching activities — maybe even after school jobs.
“People need to do more constructive stuff with their time,” the man said. “If people are working and trying to get their money together, they wouldn’t have time for this nonsense. It’s crazy.” |||||
A: | A terrifying new "game" is sweeping across the nation: "Knockout." Just like it sounds, it involves targeting a stranger on the street and rendering him unconscious with one punch, WPIX reports. Videos of the attacks are increasing on YouTube, WJLA reports. The NYPD is investigating a series of attacks in Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn as possible hate crimes; officers think they may be related to the game. There have been reports of similar attacks recently in other US cities and even London, KDVR reports; victims have actually died of their injuries in Syracuse, St. Louis, and New Jersey, CBS Local reports. One teen described the "game" this way: "It’s for the fun of it. It’s like when you were a little kid, running around and hitting people. Only now you’re grown, so you can knock ’em out. Even though they shouldn’t be doing it, people do it." Another says in one "knockout" video, "They just want to see if you got enough strength to knock somebody out." The "game" may have spread to DC, where a woman tells DCist eight males surrounded her on bikes Thursday night and one hit her on the back of the head. |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
The digestive system is the body system that digests food. It digest food in two ways, mechanically and chemically. Both help in the process of turning food into nutrients. The digestive system also eliminates solid food waste. The major organs of the digestive system include the mouth, esophagus, stomach, and small and large in- testines. These organs all work together to help you gain energy from the food you eat. Digestion starts in the mouth. When food is swallowed, it travels through the esophagus to the stomach. In the stomach, digestion continues and a small amount of absorption of nutrients takes place. Most chemical digestion and nearly all absorption of nutrients take place in the small intestine. This organ consists of three parts: duodenum, jejunum, and ileum. The large intestine is the last stop in the digestive system. This is where water is absorbed. The food not digested is released as waste. <sep>What two things does the digestion system do for the body?<sep>Turns food into energy and Absorbs Water
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In her storage room-turned-office, Jennifer Baum works under an expanding leak that is causing the ceiling to turn brown and crumble. Mold grows in the buckets positioned to catch the water. She shrugs it off. Outside her office she has taped up a clear plastic suit, and a sign that reads, "All employees must don protective gear before coming in." Such is life in limbo. Nearly a year after Sept. 11, the Legal Aid Society-the lawyers for New York's poor and homeless-remains, well, homeless. The nonprofit has been barred from returning to its 90 Church St. headquarters, across from the World Trade Center site, because of environmental concerns. Legal Aid has uncomfortable company. More than 11,500 New Yorkers continue to work out of temporary space, according to analysis by Manhattan-based real estate brokerage TenantWise.com Inc. and Crain's New York Business. That's 8% of the 137,000 workers who lost their offices or access to them when the Twin Towers collapsed. Legal Aid's 450 displaced attorneys and staffers have spent the past 12 months spread among previously unused spaces-some unused for good reason-in the nonprofit's other offices. It could be another year and a half before they return to their old desks. They have contended with difficult working conditions as demand for Legal Aid's services is on the rise because of Sept. 11 and the deteriorating economy. The civil division is spread among a few boroughs. Their papers and documents, some 20,000 boxes worth, are stuck in a storage facility in Linden, N.J. "I am counting the days till we can have all the parts back in one place," says Steven Banks, Legal Aid's associate attorney in chief. In the memories of the exiled workers, the old office has achieved mythical proportions. They say the wood paneling and rugs had the ability to cool emotions and lift spirits. The Legal Aid office on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, where 65 displaced workers have cobbled together space amid the faded and scratched walls, looks more like a bargain basement. <sep>How much more time will it take for the workers of Legal Aid Society to return to their old offices?<sep>12 months
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The Glory of Melaka: In the early days, if you were not a pirate or a mosquito, Melaka was not much of a place to live. The land was infertile, just a swampy plain, the river small and sluggish. But it had a sheltered harbor, protected from the monsoons by neighboring Sumatra. Later, the strategic location and deep-water channel close to the coast brought in the bigger vessels of the trade-wind traffic crossing the Indian Ocean. The first to realize the larger commercial potential, as so often throughout the country's subsequent history, were the Chinese. In 1409, under a new directive from Emperor Chu Ti to pursue trade in the South Seas and the Indian Ocean, a Chinese fleet of 50 ships headed by Admiral Cheng Ho called in at Melaka. They made Parameswara an offer he could not refuse: port facilities and an annual financial tribute in exchange for Chinese protection against the marauding Thais. In 1411, Parameswara took the money to Beijing himself, and the emperor gratefully made him a vassal king. Twenty years later, the Chinese withdrew again from the South Seas trade. The new ruler of Melaka, Sri Maharajah, switched his allegiance to the Muslim trading fraternity by marrying into the Muslim faith, wedding the daughter of a sultan in Sumatra. Islam won its place in Malaya not by conquest — as had been the case in North Africa and Europe — but by trade, dynastic alliances, and peaceful preaching. Bengali peddlers had already brought the faith to the east coast. In Melaka and throughout the peninsula, Islam thrived as a strong, male-dominated religion of individuality, offering dynamic leadership and preaching brotherhood and self-reliance — all qualities ideally suited to the coastal trade. At the same time, Sufi mystics synthesized Islamic teaching with local Malay traditions of animistic magic and charisma, though Islam did not become the state religion until Muzaffar Shah became sultan of Melaka (1446–1459). But the key figure in the sultanate was Tun Perak, bendahara (prime minister) and military commander. He expanded Melaka's power along the west coast and down to Singapore and the neighboring Bintan islands. He also had orang laut pirates patrolling the seas to extort tribute from passing ships. After Ailied district chiefs had repelled assaults from Thai-controlled armies from Pahang, Tun Perak personally led a famous victory over a Thai fleet off Batu Pahat in 1456. <sep>Name few regions from the story?<sep>Las Islas Filipinas
No
For much of the world, the Algarve is synonymous with Portugal, yet the Portuguese will tell you the exact opposite: the region has little in common with the rest of the country. The southern stretch of coast is more reminiscent of a North African landscape than a European one. It has no cosmopolitan cities, like Lisbon and Porto, which are farther north. Most of Portugal is known for quaint towns, medieval castles, and grand palaces. The Algarve is more recognizable for impenetrable blocks of tourist apartments, hotels, and meticulously manicured golf courses. And beaches. Think Algarve and the mind pictures long, glorious stretches of golden sands, secluded coves framed by odd ochre-colored rock formations, and deep green waters. With about 160 km (100 miles) of coastline, Portugal's southern province is one of Europe's premier beach destinations. The occasionally chilly ocean is the Atlantic, but the Algarve has a sultry Mediterranean feel. Its consistent climate is the best in Portugal, and one of the kindest in the world: more than 250 days of sunshine a year — more than almost any other international resort area. The moderating effect of the Gulf Stream produces a fresh springtime breeze throughout winter, and in late January and February, white almond blossoms blanket the fields. In summer the heat is intense but rarely unbearable, and regardless, beautiful beaches and innumerable pools are always just a dive away. Magnificent year-round weather has made the Algarve a huge destination for sporting vacations. Superb golf facilities abound — several with tees dramatically clinging to cliffs and fairways just skirting the edge of the ocean — and horseback riding, tennis, big-game fishing, sailing, and windsurfing are immensely popular. Sports, beaches and hospitable weather — not to mention easily organized package vacations — are surely the reasons the Algarve receives as many visitors as the rest of Portugal in its entirety. But it's not just international tourists that descend on the Algarve; many Portuguese from Lisbon and elsewhere in the north have holiday homes and spend their summer vacations here. The coast is neatly divided into the rugged Barlavento to the west and the flat beauty of Sotavento to the east. West is where you'll find the famous orange cliffs and surreal eroded rock stacks. <sep>Is the Algarve weather most intense during the winter or summer months?<sep>Hot
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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".
Ex Input:
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 award was announced at a dinner held in Kilgore's honor?<sep>University of Mississippi School of Law's 2010 Public Service Award
Ex Output:
No
Ex Input:
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>What park had been threatened with closure for more than a year?<sep>Mobile Park Plaza
Ex Output:
Yes
Ex Input:
Tim had always a red bike. His birthday party was coming up and he hoped that his parents would finally get him the bike. When his friends came over for the party, Tim was very worried that he wouldn't get the bike. He looked at all the presents and none of them seemed big enough to have a bike in them. Tim was sad. When it was time to open the presents he opened them one at a time. The first present was not a bike. The second present was not a bike. The third present was the biggest one. Tim knew if the bike was going to be in any of the presents it was going to be in this box. Tim opened it and there was no bike inside. Just as Tim tried not to look too upset, his Dad brought in the biggest present of them all. His Dad had been hiding the present all along. Tim opened it and his new bike was inside the box. Tim put the bike together with his Dad's help. <sep>What event was Tim at when he finally got his bike?<sep>Breakfast
Ex Output:
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How to cultivate bamboo
Decide on a type of bamboo.
While it isn't necessary to research each of the 1200-plus varieties of bamboo, deciding on clumping or running bamboo should be the first step in cultivating bamboo. Clumping bamboo will work best for container gardens or small areas.
Running bamboo works best when it's intended to fill in a large area of a landscape or needed to create a natural fence between properties. Consult local garden centers for information about the different varieties of bamboo available.
A woman grooms an angry poodle who is collared and tethered to a pole attached to a black grooming table. a brown poodle
is being combed by a woman in a yellow walled room on a black grooming table.
An empty room of spin bikes are shown and a woman appears in the corner talking. While talking, she begins touching a machine, lifting its seat and talking about it specific functions. she
finally gets n the bike and begins working out, while talking and adjusting the machine.
An intro appears on the screen for a video bout a man who will be playing the rums. the man
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Teacher: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
Solution: The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini.
Reason: The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
Now, solve this instance: He was replaced by General Henry G. Winkelman who decided that in the north the Grebbe Line would be where the battle was to be fought , partly because it would be easier to counterattack .
Student: | He was replaced by General Henry G. Winkelman who decided that in the north the Grebbe Line would be the main defence line where the decisive battle was to be waged , partly because it would there be easier to break out with a counteroffensive if the conditions were favourable . |
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]: Madame White Snake: East Asian Femme Fatale of Old The Chinese legend of Madame White Snake, the snake demon that takes human form and becomes the wife of a man, has exerted a lasting influence over East Asian folktales and fiction for centuries. Two quintessential novellas, "The Lust of the White Serpant" from Ugetsu Monogatari by the Japanese author Ueda Akinari and "Eternal Prisoner under Thunder Peak Pagoda" a traditional Chinese story, are both relatively complex and demonstrate not only the evolution of the White Snake figure to become a more believable human, but also what aspects may have given her enduring appeal. While both these stories are ostensibly morality tales about the dangerous beauty of this femme fatale, the true source of pleasure from these narratives is the femme fatale's transgressive behavior, not her eventual punishment for it. Early tales of Madame White Snake appeared in China as early as the Song Dynasty, and initially her portrayal was fairly direct, as a villainous demon who drains the life force out of her human husband. But over time, characterizations of her became more complex, and the persona of Madame White Snake became more sympathetic, and perhaps even a model of the ideal Confucian wife, particularly in "Pagoda". Whalen Lai notes, "She was a loving wife, a caring mother, rescuer of her family from the first flood, and, at that point, a general benefactor of man. She took on the virtues of a traditional Chinese female, particularly forbearance". But if she were really an ideal wife, why could she not live happily with her human mate? Her dangerous sexuality is the key. Femme fatale might seem an unusual term to apply to a character from pre-modern Chinese and Japanese literature who may exemplify the virtues of an ideal Confucian wife, since it is primarily associated with film characters, particularly those of the film noir genre. But this term, which is relatively speaking, a neologism (The earliest uses were around the beginning of the 20th century <sep>What are the stories "The Lust of the White Serpant" from Ugetsu Monogatari by the Japanese author Ueda Akinari and "Eternal Prisoner under Thunder Peak Pagoda" a traditional Chinese story, about?<sep>While both these stories are ostensibly morality tales about the dangerous beauty of this femme fatale, the true source of pleasure from these narratives is the femme fatale's transgressive behavior, not her eventual punishment for it
[A]: Yes
[Q]: Energy is stored in chemical compounds. This energy is called chemical energy. Chemical energy is a form of potential energy. When bonds between atoms are broken, energy is released. The wood in fireplaces has chemical energy. The energy is released as heat and light when the wood burns. Most living things get their energy from food. When food molecules are broken down, the energy is released. It may then be used to do work, like playing ball or studying science. If you have ever heard, "Eat a good breakfast", thats why. You need energy to do things during the day. To do those things you need energy. You get your energy from the food you eat. That energy is stored in your body until you need it. How did you get to school today? If you walked, you used chemical energy from the food you ate. What if you rode the bus or were driven in a car? Where did that energy come from? <sep>Does food have potential energy?<sep>Maybe
[A]: No
[Q]: While this process moved along, diplomacy continued its rounds. Direct pressure on the Taliban had proved unsuccessful. As one NSC staff note put it, "Under the Taliban, Afghanistan is not so much a state sponsor of terrorism as it is a state sponsored by terrorists." In early 2000, the United States began a high-level effort to persuade Pakistan to use its influence over the Taliban. In January 2000, Assistant Secretary of State Karl Inderfurth and the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Michael Sheehan, met with General Musharraf in Islamabad, dangling before him the possibility of a presidential visit in March as a reward for Pakistani cooperation. Such a visit was coveted by Musharraf, partly as a sign of his government's legitimacy. He told the two envoys that he would meet with Mullah Omar and press him on Bin Laden. They left, however, reporting to Washington that Pakistan was unlikely in fact to do anything," given what it sees as the benefits of Taliban control of Afghanistan." President Clinton was scheduled to travel to India. The State Department felt that he should not visit India without also visiting Pakistan. The Secret Service and the CIA, however, warned in the strongest terms that visiting Pakistan would risk the President's life. Counterterrorism officials also argued that Pakistan had not done enough to merit a presidential visit. But President Clinton insisted on including Pakistan in the itinerary for his trip to South Asia. His one-day stopover on March 25, 2000, was the first time a U.S. president had been there since 1969. At his meeting with Musharraf and others, President Clinton concentrated on tensions between Pakistan and India and the dangers of nuclear proliferation, but also discussed Bin Laden. President Clinton told us that when he pulled Musharraf aside for a brief, one-on-one meeting, he pleaded with the general for help regarding Bin Laden." I offered him the moon when I went to see him, in terms of better relations with the United States, if he'd help us get Bin Laden and deal with another issue or two." The U.S. effort continued. <sep>What did President Clinton's visit with Pakistan include?<sep>Tensions between Pakistan and India
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In 1962, Armstrong was transferred to astronaut status. He served as command pilot for the Gemini 8 mission, launched March 16, 1966, and along with David Scott, performed the first successful docking of two vehicles in space by mating his Gemini 8 with an uninhabited Agena rocket.
Can we infer the following?
Other astronauts tried to do this before this time but failed
Choose from:
(1). Yes
(2). It's impossible to say
(3). No
The answer is: | (2). |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
The first United States space station was launched in what year?, Context: Apollo ran from 1961 to 1972, and was supported by the two-man Gemini program which ran concurrently with it from 1962 to 1966. Gemini missions developed some of the space travel techniques that were necessary for the success of the Apollo missions. Apollo used Saturn family rockets as launch vehicles. Apollo/Saturn vehicles were also used for an Apollo Applications Program, which consisted of Skylab, a space station that supported three manned missions in 1973–74, and the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, a joint Earth orbit mission with the Soviet Union in 1975. | 1973 |
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: Between 1901 and 2017, the Nobel Prizes including the Economic Prizes were awarded 585 times to 923 people and organizations. With some receiving the Nobel Prize more than once, this makes a total of 24 organizations, and 892 individuals. The prize ceremonies take place annually in Stockholm, Sweden (with the exception of the peace prize, which is held in Oslo, Norway). Each recipient, or laureate, receives a gold medal, a diploma, and a sum of money that has been decided by the Nobel Foundation. (As of 2017, each prize is worth 9,000,000 SEK, or about US$1,110,000, €944,000, £836,000 or ₹72,693,900.) Medals made before 1980 were struck in 23 carat gold, and later in 18 carat green gold plated with a 24 carat gold coating.
Output: do you get money when you win the nobel peace prize?
Input: Consider Input: The World Cup is a gold trophy that is awarded to the winners of the FIFA World Cup association football tournament. Since the advent of the World Cup in 1930, two trophies have been used: the Jules Rimet Trophy from 1930 to 1970, and the FIFA World Cup Trophy from 1974 to the present day.
Output: do fifa make new world cup trophy every 4 years?
Input: Consider Input: Seawater, or salt water, is water from a sea or ocean. On average, seawater in the world's oceans has a salinity of about 3.5% (35 g/L, 599 mM). This means that every kilogram (roughly one litre by volume) of seawater has approximately 35 grams (1.2 oz) of dissolved salts (predominantly sodium (Na ) and chloride (Cl ) ions). Average density at the surface is 1.025 kg/L. Seawater is denser than both fresh water and pure water (density 1.0 kg/L at 4 °C (39 °F)) because the dissolved salts increase the mass by a larger proportion than the volume. The freezing point of seawater decreases as salt concentration increases. At typical salinity, it freezes at about −2 °C (28 °F). The coldest seawater ever recorded (in a liquid state) was in 2010, in a stream under an Antarctic glacier, and measured −2.6 °C (27.3 °F). Seawater pH is typically limited to a range between 7.5 and 8.4. However, there is no universally accepted reference pH-scale for seawater and the difference between measurements based on different reference scales may be up to 0.14 units.
| Output: is sea water and salt water the same thing?
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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.
F.T.C. Hands Google Big Win: The Federal Trade Commission found that Google did not violate antitrust and anticompetition laws, clearing the way for the company to further dominate the Web search field.
WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday handed Google a major victory by declaring, after an investigation of nearly two years, that the company had not violated antitrust or anticompetition statutes in the way it arranges its Web search results.
By allowing Google to continue to present search results that highlight its own services, the F.T.C. decision could enable Google to further strengthen its already dominant position on the Internet.
It also enables Google to avoid a costly and lengthy legal war of attrition like the antitrust battle that Microsoft waged in the 1990s. That fight took an enormous toll on Microsoft and opened the door for competitors like Google to become the technology sector’s new leaders. Now, a weakened Microsoft was among those most vocal in complaining that Google was unfairly abusing a monopolistic position to thwart its rivals.
Google, which attracts 70 percent of all search queries in the United States, has used its search business, which generates billions of dollars in profit annually from advertising, to expand into businesses that include maps, restaurant reviews and travel bookings. Competitors worry that the F.T.C.’s decision will allow Google to continue to make inroads at their expense.
The decision sets up a potential conflict with European officials, who are working with Google to resolve similar concerns about the way the company operates its search engine in Europe, where it is even more dominant than in the United States.
Web search has become vital to the success of many businesses. Being ranked higher in search results can mean a great deal more traffic and revenue; being ranked lower can hurt both. Google has long claimed that it uses a neutral algorithm for search queries, something that competitors disputed.
But Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the F.T.C., said that “While not everything Google did was beneficial, on balance we did not believe that the evidence supported an F.T.C. challenge to this aspect of Google’s business under American law.”
The five-member commission voted unanimously to close its investigation without bringing charges, although some staff members argued vigorously that Google should face sanctions for using online search results to draw consumer traffic to its own services. The F.T.C. said it had found that Google’s practices improved its search results for the benefit of users and that “any negative impact on actual or perceived competitors was incidental to that purpose.”
Google did agree to make some minor changes to its search practices related to search advertising. The F.T.C. said those commitments were enforceable if the company violated them, but the agreement avoided a formal consent decree or litigation, weapons that the F.T.C. had available.
One F.T.C. commissioner, J. Thomas Rosch, said in a partial dissent that the commission would not be able to hold Google to its promises in any meaningful way, as it might do through a contempt proceeding or a fine.
Competitors said the war was not over. Fairsearch.org, a group of Google rivals including Microsoft, said Thursday’s action left the F.T.C. “without a major role in the final resolution to the investigations of Google’s anticompetitive practices by state attorneys general and the European Commission. The F.T.C.’s inaction on the core question of search bias will only embolden Google to act more aggressively to misuse its monopoly power to harm other innovators.”
In a less-watched part of the investigation, which will have a less direct impact on consumers, the commission found that Google had misused its broad patents on cellphone technology, and it ordered Google to make that technology available to rivals. That order may benefit phone manufacturers that use either Google’s Android operating system or competing systems. Some F.T.C. officials said that in the long run, the sanctions could be a bigger victory for consumers, encouraging the development of more innovative devices.
But the broadest impact of the F.T.C.’s action is to present more competitive challenges to companies that do specialty searches, for things like travel or shopping. Consumers will continue to see what has now become familiar on Google — the presence of results that link to Google’s other businesses. When a consumer searches for “airfare to Los Angeles,” for example, the most prominent results are generated by Google’s own travel business, rather than by the likes of Expedia, Priceline or Kayak.
On the company’s Web site, David Drummond, a senior vice president at Google and its chief legal officer, wrote, “The conclusion is clear: Google’s services are good for users and good for competition.”
Mr. Leibowitz, the F.T.C. chairman, called Google’s lifting of content from other Web sites “the most troubling of its business practices related to search and search advertising.” The company agreed to stop taking its rivals’ content, particularly reviews of things like restaurants or consumer products, for use in its own specialized search results.
Yelp, a consumer review site, complained that Google took parts of its reviews and placed them in its own results. When competitors objected, Google threatened to remove them entirely from results, something Mr. Leibowitz said “is clearly problematic and potentially harmful to competition because it might harm incentives to innovate.”
Google also agreed to stop contractual restrictions that prevented small businesses from advertising on competing search platforms.
Last year, some F.T.C. staff members pushed hard in reports to the commission that the company’s actions constituted “unfair methods of competition,” an area that, like that of antitrust, is policed by the F.T.C. But the trade commission faced a struggle in proving malicious intent — that Google changes its search algorithm to purposely harm competitors and favor itself.
Antitrust lawyers say anticompetitive behavior cannot be proved simply by showing that a change in the algorithm affects other Web sites and causes sites to show up lower in results, even though studies have shown that users rarely look beyond the first page of search results. ||||| Google will resolve a 20-month antitrust probe by U.S. regulators tomorrow with a voluntary agreement and a consent decree.
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Google Inc. (GOOG) will resolve a 20-month antitrust probe by U.S. regulators today with a voluntary agreement and a consent decree on the company’s alleged misuse of patents, three people familiar with the matter said.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is poised to announce that Google has agreed to voluntarily change some business practices and settle allegations it misused patents to thwart competitors in smartphone technology, said the people, who asked not to be named because the decision isn’t public.
The FTC is expected to close its investigation into whether Google, operator of the world’s most popular search engine, skews its search results to favor its own services without enforcement action, the people said. The FTC’s decision not to take action is a blow to competitors including Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), Yelp Inc. (YELP) and Expedia Inc. (EXPE) and comes at a time when the European Union is seeking a “detailed commitment” on search to end its probe into allegations that Google discriminates against rivals.
As part of its voluntary concessions, Google will make changes in the way it uses content from other websites and allow advertisers to export data to other platforms, the people said.
Photographer: Tony Avelar/Bloomberg Google has blocked Microsoft’s new Windows Phones from operating properly with YouTube, while enabling its own Android phones to access YouTube, said Microsoft vice president and deputy general counsel Dave Heiner in a blogpost. Close Google has blocked Microsoft’s new Windows Phones from operating properly with YouTube,... Read More Close Open Photographer: Tony Avelar/Bloomberg Google has blocked Microsoft’s new Windows Phones from operating properly with YouTube, while enabling its own Android phones to access YouTube, said Microsoft vice president and deputy general counsel Dave Heiner in a blogpost.
Peter Kaplan, a spokesman for the FTC, and Niki Fenwick, a Google spokeswoman, declined to comment on the resolution of the probe.
Google Opponents
The expected FTC decision was drawing criticism from Google opponents, including the FairSearch.org coalition, an alliance that includes Microsoft and Expedia.
“If the FTC fails to take decisive action to end Google’s anti-competitive practices, and locks itself out of any remedies to Google’s conduct that are offered in Europe later this month, the FTC will have acted prematurely and failed in its mission of protecting America’s consumers,” according to a FairSearch.org blogpost published yesterday.
In another blogpost yesterday, Microsoft vice president and deputy general counsel Dave Heiner accused Google of anticompetitive practices, including continuing “to prevent Microsoft from offering consumers a fully featured YouTube app for the Windows Phone.”
Microsoft has complained about the issue both to the EU and the FTC, Heiner said. Google has blocked Microsoft’s new Windows Phones from operating properly with YouTube, while enabling its own Android phones to access YouTube, Heiner said in the posting.
“These restrictions are just one example of where we believe Google is impeding competition in the marketplace,” Heiner wrote in the posting.
To contact the reporter on this story: Sara Forden in Washington at [email protected].
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Michael Hytha at [email protected]. ||||| Google is agreeing to license certain patents to mobile phone rivals and stop a practice of including snippets from other websites in its search results as part of a settlement to end a 19-month investigation into the search leader's business practices, the Federal Trade Commission said Thursday.
U.S. antitrust regulators added that they have found no evidence to claims that Google unfairly favors its own services in search results.
Google did agree to license patents deemed to be "essential" for rival mobile devices such as Apple Inc.'s iPhone, Research in Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry and smartphones running on a Microsoft Corp.'s Windows software. Some of the patents in question came as part of Google's $12.4 billion acquisition of device maker Motorola Mobility Holdings earlier this year.
Regulators say Google is also promising that upon request, it will exclude snippets copied from other websites in its summaries of key information, even though the company had insisted the practice is legal under the fair-use provisions of U.S. copyright law. Despite the fair-use practice, Google already had scaled back on the amount of cribbing, or "scraping," of online content after business review site Yelp Inc. lodged one of the complaints that triggered the FTC investigation.
The FTC's investigation focused on allegations that Google has been abusing its dominance in Internet search.
Google's rivals, including Microsoft Corp., say the search company has been highlighting its own services on its influential results page while burying the links to competing sites. Google Inc. has fiercely defended its right to recommend the websites that it believes are the most relevant. The FTC said it saw no evidence of wrongdoing in those recommendations.
Google's stock rose $4.11 to $727.36 in afternoon trading Thursday. Microsoft is down 28 cents at $27.34. |||||
A: | Google is resolving the FTC's antitrust probe into its business practices today after 19 months, the AP reports. As part of the settlement, Google will voluntarily license patents deemed "essential" to its rivals in the mobile phone industry, including Apple, Research in Motion, and Microsoft. The investigation was centered on allegations that Google was abusing its Internet search dominance, and the company also agreed to remove content from other websites in its search results upon request. Google had already scaled back that practice, known as "scraping," even though it says it's legal under copyright law's fair-use provisions. The FTC said today that antitrust regulators found no evidence that Google gives itself an unfair edge in search results; rivals had accused it of highlighting its own services while burying links to others. Bloomberg calls the settlement "a blow to competitors," and the New York Times calls it a "victory for Google." |
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.
BB cream stands for blemish balm, blemish base, beblesh balm, and in Western markets, beauty balm.
what does bb stand for in bb cream
The Phantom of the Opera (French: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra) is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux. It was first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois from 23 September 1909, to 8 January 1910. It was published in volume form in late March 1910 by Pierre Lafitte. The novel is partly inspired by historical events at the Paris Opera during the nineteenth century and an apocryphal tale concerning the use of a former ballet pupil's skeleton in Carl Maria von Weber's 1841 production of Der Freischütz. It has been successfully adapted into various stage and film adaptations, most notable of which are the 1925 film depiction featuring Lon Chaney, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical.
what is the history of the phantom of the opera
As of April 30, 2018, debt held by the public was $15.3 trillion and intragovernmental holdings were $5.7 trillion, for a total or 'National Debt' of $21 trillion. Debt held by the public was approximately 77% of GDP in 2017, ranked 43rd highest out of 207 countries. The Congressional Budget Office forecast in April 2018 that the ratio will rise to nearly 100% by 2028, perhaps higher if current policies are extended beyond their scheduled expiration date. As of December 2017, $6.3 trillion or approximately 45% of the debt held by the public was owned by foreign investors, the largest being China (about $1.18 trillion) then Japan (about $1.06 trillion).
| how much of the united states is owned by other countries
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Teacher: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
Solution: The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini.
Reason: The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
Now, solve this instance: Constitutional economics tries to explain the selection of constitutional rules " limiting the choices and activities of economic and political agencies . "
Student: | Constitutional economics is a research program in economics and constitutionalism that has been described as explaining the choice " of alternative sets of legal-institutional-constitutional rules that constrain the choices and activities of economic and political agents " . |
I wonder how he expects us to put forward a strong position on these issues if we are not part of the World Trade Organization or if we were not in a position, with meetings like Seattle, where we can pull together different countries from around the world that have a similar position to ours.
they are talking about animalss only OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
How to buy fractional shares<br>Choose companies you like. One of the benefits of investing through a direct stock purchase plan (dspp) is that you can invest directly in a company you personally like or believe in. While not all companies have dspps, many do.
Investing through a direct stock purchase plan can be benefits. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: Yes
How to small talk for successful business networking<br>Introduce and initiate. Go ahead and initiate with a hello! Even if you recognize, or slightly know someone, re-introduce yourself. Be aware of how he introduces himself (you may know him as charles, but maybe he goes by chuck) and use his name throughout your interaction.
dont say a greeting first OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | No |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
How is a husband referred to?, Context: Knights Grand Cross and Knights Commander prefix Sir, and Dames Grand Cross and Dames Commander prefix Dame, to their forenames.[b] Wives of Knights may prefix Lady to their surnames, but no equivalent privilege exists for husbands of Knights or spouses of Dames. Such forms are not used by peers and princes, except when the names of the former are written out in their fullest forms. Clergy of the Church of England or the Church of Scotland do not use the title Sir or Dame as they do not receive the accolade (i.e., they are not dubbed "knight" with a sword), although they do append the post-nominal letters.
no equivalent privilege exists for husbands
Dame Enid Lyons is considered to be who?, Context: Menzies continued the expanded immigration program established under Chifley, and took important steps towards dismantling the White Australia Policy. In the early 1950s, external affairs minister Percy Spender helped to establish the Colombo Plan for providing economic aid to underdeveloped nations in Australia's region. Under that scheme many future Asian leaders studied in Australia. In 1958 the government replaced the Immigration Act's arbitrarily applied European language dictation test with an entry permit system, that reflected economic and skills criteria. In 1962, Menzies' Commonwealth Electoral Act provided that all Indigenous Australians should have the right to enrol and vote at federal elections (prior to this, indigenous people in Queensland, Western Australia and some in the Northern Territory had been excluded from voting unless they were ex-servicemen). In 1949 the Liberals appointed Dame Enid Lyons as the first woman to serve in an Australian Cabinet. Menzies remained a staunch supporter of links to the monarchy and British Commonwealth but formalised an alliance with the United States and concluded the Agreement on Commerce between Australia and Japan which was signed in July 1957 and launched post-war trade with Japan, beginning a growth of Australian exports of coal, iron ore and mineral resources that would steadily climb until Japan became Australia's largest trading partner.
first woman to serve in an Australian Cabinet
What year, exactly, did the Yongle Emperor take the throne from the Jianwen Emperor?, Context: In his usurpation of the throne from the Jianwen Emperor (r. 1398–1402), the Yongle Emperor was aided by the Buddhist monk Yao Guangxiao, and like his father, the Hongwu Emperor, the Yongle Emperor was "well-disposed towards Buddhism", claims Rossabi. On March 10, 1403, the Yongle Emperor invited Deshin Shekpa, 5th Karmapa Lama (1384–1415), to his court, even though the fourth Karmapa had rejected the invitation of the Hongwu Emperor. A Tibetan translation in the 16th century preserves the letter of the Yongle Emperor, which the Association for Asian Studies notes is polite and complimentary towards the Karmapa. The letter of invitation reads,
| 1402
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What happens next in this paragraph?
How to install snow chains
Identify the drive wheels of the vehicle.
Snow chains are intended to help you gain traction in the wheels that push the vehicle. Depending on the application, that may be the front wheels, the rear wheels, or all four.
Pick from:
1). Don't forget to consider your driving situation as well. If the trucks are small, there may be a back wheel and a front wheel with four..
2). When you've found the exact direction you'd like your snow chains to move, measure the vehicle's tire depth (km) and the truck's bore depth (km) through the road. Measure the surrounding area with a measuring tape and have the vehicle visual visually (through keyhole)..
3). Refer to your vehicle's owner's manual if you are unsure which wheels are the drive wheels. Front wheel drive cars (fwd) will use snow chains on the front wheels..
4). Drive wheels can be incredibly difficult to attach to the vehicle from the ground. If either way you can safely attach snow chains to the tires inside your car is to be selected.. | 3). |
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.
He is best known for his frequent collaboration with Robert Zemeckis, composing for such major hit films as the Back to the Future trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Forrest Gump, as well as the superhero films Captain America: The First Avenger, The Avengers, and the upcoming Avengers: Infinity War. His other film scores include The Delta Force, Predator and its sequel Predator 2, The Abyss, Stuart Little, The Mummy Returns, Lilo & Stitch, Night at the Museum and more recently, Ready Player One. He is a two-time Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominee, and a three-time Saturn Award and Primetime Emmy Award recipient.
A: | who wrote the music for back to the future |
Part 1. Definition
In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
Part 2. 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.
Answer: 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.
Part 3. Exercise
As its members wrote just a handful of songs on the albums, most songs Three Dog Night recorded were written by outside songwriters. Notable hits by outside writers include Harry Nilsson's 'One' (US #5), the Gerome Ragni-James Rado-Galt MacDermot composition 'Easy to Be Hard' (US #4) from the musical Hair, Laura Nyro's 'Eli's Comin'' (US #10), Randy Newman's 'Mama Told Me Not to Come' (US #1), Paul Williams' 'Out in the Country' (US #15), 'The Family Of Man' (US #12), and 'An Old Fashioned Love Song' (US #4), Hoyt Axton's 'Joy to the World' (US #1) and 'Never Been to Spain' (US #5), Arkin & Robinson's 'Black and White' (US #1), Argent's Russ Ballard's 'Liar' (US #7), Elton John and Bernie Taupin's 'Lady Samantha' and 'Your Song', Daniel Moore's 'Shambala' (#3), Leo Sayer's 'The Show Must Go On' (US #4), John Hiatt's 'Sure As I'm Sittin' Here' (US #16), and Bush's 'I Can Hear You Calling'.
Answer: | did three dog night write their own songs |
IN: What happens next?
How to use a propane torch
Choose the right propane torch for your needs.
Most propane torches consist of a small gas tank fitted with a regulator, with or without an electric igniter. If yours doesn't have an igniter, you'll need to use a striker to light the torch.
OPTIONS:
- In order to use a propane torch, you'll have to use either a regular propane igniter or a gallon-sized gas torch. Because of their small size, propane torches aren't combustible.
- Electric ignalizers work by either heating up the propane until it melts and burns, then leaving the propane to warm up for longer. You also want to use striker filters to ensure that the torch is clean and free of obstructions.
- If you need low heat, opt for a propane torch with a flame-spreading tip, which will allow you to diffuse the flame to lower its heat. When using a high heat for repairing chain-link fences and the like, consider using an oxygen-fuel torch.
- However, you cannot use one that is powered by conventional propane fuels. There are several types of propane torches and will have their own unique labels to help differentiate yours from the others.
OUT: If you need low heat, opt for a propane torch with a flame-spreading tip, which will allow you to diffuse the flame to lower its heat. When using a high heat for repairing chain-link fences and the like, consider using an oxygen-fuel torch.
IN: What happens next?
She is then shown talking to a young girl with a pink sweater and black skirt and multiple games of rock paper scissors are being played between her and two other girls. The girl with the pink sweater wins and she sits on the girls face. afterwards
OPTIONS:
- she receives a celebration from the girls and friends afterwards as her victory is shown.
- , the three girls stand together and start talking to the camera.
- she talks to the boy with the hoodie and the girls all cheer with her and hold a handshake before her walk off.
- a real girl comes and puts makeup on her face real quick and the girls begin talking to their discuss before turning their attention to each other rubbing lipstick on they face and talking to their friends.
OUT: , the three girls stand together and start talking to the camera.
IN: What happens next?
A woman is seen speaking to the camera and leads into her holding up a box as well as a pair of scissors and a piece of tape. the woman
OPTIONS:
- secured the scissors and used the tape to tie them in place while still speaking to the camera.
- takes the scissors and twists the tape tightly around the box and the woman puts on makeup taking off liner.
- then mixes up ingredients together and then starts putting icing on the cake.
- then pulls out wrapping paper and begins wrapping the box with tape and paper.
OUT: | then pulls out wrapping paper and begins wrapping the box with tape and paper. |
A set of pool balls are on the table as the camera begins lifting up to see the eyes of the shooters. an aerial view of the room
OPTIONS:
- shows an audience who is watching an event on tv.
- then appears before a boy hits an orange solid ball into the corner pocket.
- is immediately revealed as two boys run up and shake hands with the targets with a smile showing the boys we have captured them.
- shows various shots up close of pool balls hitting the hang pins over and over again.
then appears before a boy hits an orange solid ball into the corner pocket.
How to tell if you can see ghosts
Research paranormal activity.
There are centuries of findings to look through on the topic of hauntings. Before you go running off to find ghosts, make sure you know what you're looking for.
OPTIONS:
- It can be helpful to know that ghosts are peaceful creatures. They can also be thought of as peaceful creatures that be able to live in places that they never have to live.
- Look for a place that has a large number of ghost activity. Exploring works for people with down syndrome, but it can have health benefits as well.
- You will want to research the common forms ghosts come in, and places where they are typically found. A basic definition of a ghost is a human or animal figure that has been seen, but can't be physically present.
- Make sure to go there on your own and make sure to research " paranormal activity. " this will give you some good sources to start with and give you many other resources.
You will want to research the common forms ghosts come in, and places where they are typically found. A basic definition of a ghost is a human or animal figure that has been seen, but can't be physically present.
How to tell your parents you are bisexual
Be comfortable with your sexuality.
It's one thing to be certain about your sexuality, and another to be comfortable with it. If you are dealing with feelings of guilt, shame, or confusion, it might be a good idea to wait to tell your parents.
OPTIONS:
- Telling your parents is easier said than done, as it will sound less like an accusation. Being gay/bi is not one of the most socially accepted sexuality testing tests.
- Find someone who is willing to share and empathize with you and your sexuality. In most cases, these trusted individuals will be sympathetic, and they'll be able to give you the patience you need to be mindful of what others think of your sexuality.
- It's necessary to accept yourself for who you are before you can expect others to accept you. Try looking at yourself in the mirror and saying " i am bisexual.
- Don't feel pressured to reveal your bisexuality right off the bat. If you have been seeing other people, you will feel less guilty afterwards if you tell your parents about your sexuality.
It's necessary to accept yourself for who you are before you can expect others to accept you. Try looking at yourself in the mirror and saying " i am bisexual.
How to know if weight loss supplements really work
Review published clinical research.
You typically can find articles about published research online that has tested the weight loss claims of specific weight-loss supplements. Keep in mind that researchers define " clinically meaningful weight loss " as at least 5 percent of total body weight over the course of a year.
OPTIONS:
- Unfortunately, it may be difficult to find significant studies on the supplements in which you're interested. When you do find studies, look critically at who conducted the research and for what purpose.
- Ask for an advance notice from a registered dietitian. A registered dietitian can advise you on whether you will be taking the supplements or not and may help you determine whether you will need an advance and what qualifies as a requirement.
- Confirm that the claims have been published in journals in which information regarding weight and deficiencies is published, rather than found online. Try to lower your cholesterol.
- You should avoid the following references as you'll look for testimonials. Only any of these references (or references that discuss weight loss) suggest that weight loss supplements have been taken in the past, at least.
| Unfortunately, it may be difficult to find significant studies on the supplements in which you're interested. When you do find studies, look critically at who conducted the research and for what purpose. |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Problem:The name " Cairo Stone " is also used to mean only those pieces kept in Cairo .
Solution: | The fragments are also sometimes described collectively as the " Cairo Annals Stone " , although the term " Cairo Stone " is also used to mean only those fragments of the Royal Annals now in Cairo . |
THE persistence and severity of the drought in the Murray-Darling Basin has been described as "unprecedented" after late summer inflows to the river system fell to a 117-year low. The "bleak'' outlook for next three months was adding to the grim news, the Murray-Darling Basin Authority said. Irrigation water for Australia's food bowl will be dependent almost entirely on rainfall as basin states hold back water for critical human needs. "The persistence and severity of this drought, particularly over the past three years, is unprecedented,'' authority chief executive Rob Freeman said as he delivered the basin's latest drought update.
Can we infer the following?
The forecast for the next few months is not what they wanted to hear.
Available options: A). Yes; B). It's impossible to say; C). No;
The answer is: | A). |
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? If you are still confused, see the following example:
Powdered sugar, also called confectioners' sugar, icing sugar, and icing cake, is a finely ground sugar produced by milling granulated sugar into a powdered state. It usually contains a small amount of anti-caking agent to prevent clumping and improve flow. Although most often produced in a factory, powdered sugar can also be made by processing ordinary granulated sugar in a coffee grinder, or by crushing it by hand in a mortar and pestle.
Solution: is confectionary sugar the same as powdered sugar?
Reason: The question is a yes/no question, and it is answerable based on the given passage.
Now, solve this instance: The turkey vulture (Cathartes aura), also known in some North American regions as the turkey buzzard (or just buzzard), and in some areas of the Caribbean as the John crow or carrion crow, is the most widespread of the New World vultures. One of three species in the genus Cathartes of the family Cathartidae, the turkey vulture ranges from southern Canada to the southernmost tip of South America. It inhabits a variety of open and semi-open areas, including subtropical forests, shrublands, pastures, and deserts.
Student: | is there such a thing as a turkey vulture? |
From the section Image copyright Google Image caption A 100m cordon has been put in place around Netley Household Waste Recycling Centre A recycling centre was evacuated after a suspected hand grenade was discovered by staff, police say. Bomb disposal experts were called to the Netley Household Waste Recycling Centre, near Southampton, Hampshire police said. A 100m cordon was put in place around the centre, in Grange Road, after police were called shortly after 13:40 BST. Police said the device was then removed and the cordon lifted at 15:40 BST.
The staff were the ones to discover the device.
A: Yes
In 1969, he drew up the report proposing the expulsion from the party of the Manifesto group. In 1984, after Berlinguer's death, Natta was elected as party secretary.
Berlinguer is immortal.
A: No
(CNN) -- Malawians are rallying behind Madonna as she awaits a ruling Friday on whether she can adopt a girl from the southern African nation. The pop star, who has three children, adopted a son from Malawi in 2006. She is seeking to adopt Chifundo "Mercy" James, 4. "Ninety-nine percent of the people calling in are saying, 'let her take the baby,' " said Marilyn Segula, a presenter at Capital FM, which broadcasts in at least five cities, including the capital, Lilongwe.
Capital FM broadcasts in at least three cities.
A: | Yes |
How to check a potential tenant's credit<br>Obtain the applicant's personal information. To run a credit check, you'll need certain personal information from the applicant. Get the following : [substeps] Full legal name date of birth social security number previous address landlord contact information Get permission to do a credit check.
This article is discussing how to steal someone's credit information.
A: No
Broken fingernail<br>Today I was letting my nails dry. Yet unfortunately one of my nails broke. It was devastating. My nails were ruined. I knew I had to fix them.
Three nails broke.
A: No
How to lubricate a bike<br>Choose a wet lube if you ride in the rain. If you live in a rainy environment or frequently ride on wet, muddy trails, go for a wet chain lube. It's thicker, so heavy downpours and mud won't wash it away.
There is no such thing as wet chain lube.
A: | No |
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
He’ll have hundreds of millions of dollars, the bully pulpit, Air Force One and high-profile supporters from Warren Buffett to Lady Gaga behind him. But President Obama’s chances of re-election could come down to a single strategic question: To what degree can the history of 2004 be repeated in 2012?
On Politics The Times’s political editor on 2012.
Or to break the question into its most important component parts:
Can Mr. Obama overcome the bad economy, and perhaps even turn it to his advantage in certain ways, in the same way President George W. Bush overcame and in a sense turned to his advantage the bloody, expensive and increasingly unpopular war in Iraq eight years ago?
And can Mr. Obama do to his opponent – for now let’s say Mitt Romney – what Mr. Bush did to Senator John Kerry in 2004?
The parallels are sufficient enough that Mr. Obama and his team have studied, and to a striking degree are replicating, the Bush re-election playbook.
Already they are building a narrative in which Mr. Obama made politically brave decisions to do what was right for the economy, even if those decisions were unpopular. It’s a theme that echoes Mr. Bush’s argument in 2004 that he did what it took to keep the country safe, and that even if you disagreed with him, you knew where he stood.
As for defining the opponent, Mr. Obama’s supporters are already hard at work hammering home the idea that Mr. Romney is an inveterate flip-flopper, a man without core or convictions who says and does whatever is necessary to advance his political interests. It’s an approach that bears a passing similarity to the Bush re-election campaign’s efforts to paint Mr. Kerry as an inveterate flip-flopper, a man without core or convictions who. … You get the idea.
The similarities –- and differences — between the two re-election efforts are a regular topic of conversation and debate among strategists in both parties. “Politics is infused with rich ironies,” said Mark McKinnon, who was Mr. Bush’s media strategist in 2000 and 2004, noting that Mr. Obama had reached the White House in large part by running against Mr. Bush’s record and policies.
At the heart of both approaches is an insight frequently invoked by Karl Rove, Mr. Bush’s strategist, in 2004: an election is a choice, not a referendum. By that, he meant that an incumbent’s job is not to prove he is perfect – it is to prove that he’s better than the other guy.
Mr. Obama’s aides now see their job in much the same way.
“If someone is going to beat us, they’re going to be thoroughly known when they win,” said David Axelrod, Mr. Obama’s longtime strategist. “They’re not just going to win by default. It’s way too glib to say that not being Obama is going to be sufficient.”
But it is way too early to know if the strategy will work for Mr. Obama as it did, albeit barely, for Mr. Bush.
Matthew Dowd, who was a Bush strategist in 2004 but voted for Mr. Obama in 2008, said Mr. Bush had somewhat better job-approval numbers during his re-election campaign than Mr. Obama does now. As a result, he said, Mr. Obama is at greater risk of facing voters who have already made up their minds to vote against him almost no matter who the alternative is.
“If he doesn’t get some lift in his approval numbers, it will be hard to make this a choice election,” said Mr. Dowd, who met with Mr. Obama late last year as the White House sought to regain its footing following the big Democratic losses in the midterm election.
The Obama team, he said, “wants to make Mitt Romney into the Republican version of John Kerry.”
Mr. Obama stacks up relatively well against Mr. Romney and other Republicans in polls of head-to-head matchups in battleground states. But where Mr. Bush successfully cultivated an image as a decisive leader in a way that sharpened the comparison to Mr. Kerry, Mr. Dowd said, Mr. Obama could have trouble drawing as sharp a contrast.
“The value that the American public is looking for is a strong and decisive leader at a time of anxiety and challenge,” Mr. Dowd said. “In order to make the contrast, you have to have that value yourself, and Obama doesn’t have it.”
Nicolle Wallace, who was communications director in the Bush White House and a senior aide to Senator John McCain’s 2008 campaign, said Mr. Obama’s chances of replicating the Bush strategy also would be hurt by opposition to specific policies, like the health care bill and the economic stimulus spending.
“Obama at his core seems sensitive to the idea that this is going to be a referendum on him,” she said. “You see it in some of their thin-skinned responses to criticism. To me they’re revealing some of their feelings of vulnerability on that question.”
Mr. McKinnon, who left Mr. McCain’s campaign in 2008 because he admired Mr. Obama and did not want to work against him, said that once Mr. Bush and his team settled on a message in 2004 built around national security, they stuck with it, day in, day out. Mr. Obama, he suggested, has yet to find the re-election story line he can use to project his strengths and draw contrasts to Mr. Romney or whoever wins the Republican nomination.
“We decided even if our strategy was flawed, it was better to have one we stuck with rather than a strategy a month,” he said of the Bush 2004 campaign. “Team Obama clearly gets that they need to compare and contrast and they need discipline. The question is, will they have a compelling message and narrative?” ||||| A beleaguered president seeks re-election. His challenger, a candidate with Massachusetts roots and a presidential demeanor straight out of central casting, has to fight through a primary contest fending off charges of flip-flopping. In the end, the challenger's strength also proves his vulnerability.
FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2011, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at a fundraiser in St. Louis. Democrats in and around Obama’s campaign are targeting Republican Mitt Romney by drawing on lessons... (Associated Press)
Election 2012 is looking a lot like the presidential race of 2004.
Democrats in and around President Barack Obama's campaign are preparing to run against former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney _ the man they believe likely to emerge from the Republican contest _ by borrowing from the playbook George W. Bush and Republicans used to defeat Sen. John Kerry seven years ago.
As candidates, Kerry and Romney are remarkably similar. Both are wealthy men, products of Massachusetts politics, eloquent on the stump but perceived as remote or aloof on the campaign circuit.
Even before Romney has won a single nominating contest, Obama's camp is singling him out as a fickle politician and is preparing to go straight at Romney's perceived strength _ his record as a businessman in the face of a flat-line economy. It was a strategy Republicans employed against Kerry, who faced flip-flopping claims himself and whose strength as a decorated Vietnam veteran running in the first post-Sept. 11 election was undermined by attack ads.
A key feature of the Obama strategy is Romney's tenure as head of Bain Capital, a private equity firm he co-founded in 1984 that saved and launched businesses such as Staples and Domino's Pizza but sliced jobs elsewhere through cost-cutting and consolidation.
It's not the first time Romney's tenure at the helm of Bain Capital has come under attack. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy pulled away from Romney during his 1994 Senate race in Massachusetts by airing a series of ads that featured workers from an Indiana paper plant that Bain took over, laying off employees, cutting wages and reducing benefits.
"Basically, he cut our throats," a worker said in one of the ads.
"When we made the decision to define him to voters of Massachusetts and took a hard line in doing so, we had a lot of success," said Democratic consultant Tad Devine, who crafted the ads for Kennedy and later served as a senior adviser to Kerry's presidential campaign.
Obama advisers are keenly aware of Kennedy's line of attack and are counting on similar results.
"In his professional life, he was an expert in stripping down companies and leading them to bankruptcy and profiting from these ventures, with a lot of jobs lost in the process," said Obama strategist David Axelrod, previewing a potential line of attack.
"Whenever you're running for president of the United States and you represent yourself in a certain way and you say here's my core asset, then you need to be able to stand by your record," Axelrod added in an interview. "It was problematic for him then; it will be problematic for him now."
Republicans concede that Romney could be vulnerable. But they say the Romney camp should be ready for the onslaught.
Michael Dennehy, a New Hampshire-based Republican strategist, said he remembers Kennedy's anti-Romney ads as being "just brutal and very, very effective."
"To some extent it will be effective again," he said. "The variable is how Romney responds and what they have learned from that 1994 race for Senate."
Dennehy, who helped run Sen. John McCain's presidential races in 2000 and 2008, added: "I think we can expect from Obama's campaign a very scorched-earth approach. It's the only way he can win."
Top Romney strategist Eric Fehrnstrom said Obama, faced with a stagnant economy, is grasping for ways to win. "Now, they are employing a 'kill Mitt' strategy," he said. "I suspect they'll go through many other strategies before they realize this election is a referendum on Obama's failed leadership on jobs."
For now, the Obama camp is focusing on portraying Romney as a finger-to-the-wind politician who changes his convictions to meet the political circumstances. They cite his embrace of mandatory health insurance when he was governor of Massachusetts and his criticism of Obama's health care bill, which relies on the same mandate, or his previous stance in favor of abortion rights against his current opposition to abortion.
"I will give him this, he is as vehement and as strong in his convictions when he takes one position as he is when he takes a diametrically opposite view," Axelrod said last week. On Wednesday, Axelrod pounced again, declaring on CBS that Romney appeared to have "no core to him."
No doubt Romney stands as the Republican to beat for his party's nomination. He has maintained a steady position as other Republicans rise and fall around him. Democrats in Obama's circle believe that barring an unexpected development, Romney will be the nominee. As a result, their sideline denunciations are designed to begin a story line they intend to build upon in the general election.
Gerry Chervinsky, a Massachusetts pollster who conducted public surveys during the Kennedy-Romney contest and during Kerry's presidential bid, said attacks on Romney's shifting stances aren't likely to damage him because he confronted them in 2007 and 2008 when he first ran for president.
"The Romney business issue, however, I think would score points," he said. "Teddy (Kennedy) had excellent info and made terrific TV spots and definitely left the impression that Romney's business record was based on laying people off to make big bucks."
Once the ads ran, Romney was unable to recover and lost to Kennedy. But the damage was not permanent. Romney ran for governor in 2002 and won.
So far, with the exception of former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, Republicans running against Romney have not tried to turn Romney's business experience against him.
During a debate last week, Huntsman described Romney as "somebody who breaks down businesses, destroys jobs as opposed to creating jobs and opportunity, leveraging up, spinning off, enriching shareholders."
"The whole discussion around this campaign is going to be job creation _ how can you win that debate given your background?" Huntsman asked him.
Romney parried the question, noting that Bain Capital had launched Staples and Sports Authority.
"We didn't take things apart and cut them off and sell them off," Romney said. "We instead helped start businesses." ||||| | Barack Obama has an unlikely role model in his bid for re-election: George W. Bush, circa 2004. So says the AP and New York Times, who separately report that Obama strategists are so struck by the similarities between Bush's campaign against John Kerry and the 2012 race that they are borrowing from Bush's political playbook. For one thing: The White House already is attacking Mitt Romney as a Massachusetts flip-flopper, much as Bush did to Kerry. "Politics is infused with rich ironies,” says Mark McKinnon, Bush's media strategist back then. Like Team Bush, Team Obama intends to prove the political adage that an election usually boils down to a choice between two individuals instead of being a referendum on policy, writes Richard W. Stevenson in the Times. Not that policy doesn't matter: Bush in some ways turned the Iraqi war to his advantage with the message that he made politically unpopular decisions to keep the country safe. Obama might well take the same approach with his equivalent of a war—the tanking economy. |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
The Battle of Fort Sumter (April 12--13, 1861) was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War. Following the declaration of secession by South Carolina on December 20, 1860, its authorities demanded that the U.S. Army abandon its facilities in Charleston Harbor. On December 26, Major Robert Anderson of the U.S. Army surreptitiously moved his small command from the vulnerable Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island to Fort Sumter, a substantial fortress built on an island controlling the entrance of Charleston Harbor. An attempt by U.S. President James Buchanan to reinforce and resupply Anderson using the unarmed merchant ship Star of the West failed when it was fired upon by shore batteries on January 9, 1861. South Carolina authorities then seized all Federal property in the Charleston area except for Fort Sumter.
| was the battle of fort sumter the first battle? |
Instructions: In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
Input: The Act also created 13 judicial districts within the 11 states that had then ratified the Constitution (North Carolina and Rhode Island were added as judicial districts in 1790, and other states as they were admitted to the Union). Each state comprised one district, except for Virginia and Massachusetts, each of which comprised two. Massachusetts was divided into the District of Maine (which was then part of Massachusetts) and the District of Massachusetts (which covered modern-day Massachusetts). Virginia was divided into the District of Kentucky (which was then part of Virginia) and the District of Virginia (which covered modern-day West Virginia and Virginia).
Output: | what bill divided the united states into 13 judicial districts |
This undated photo distributed on Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017, by the North Korean government shows what was said to be the test launch of an intermediate range Hwasong-12 in North Korea. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korea News Service via AP Korean Central News Agency
Can we infer the following?
North Korea has missiles.
Options are: --Yes. --It's impossible to say. --No.
The answer is: | Yes |
Continue writing the next sentence.
A woman stares blankly at the camera. she | takes a drink of tea. |
Q: You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the spring of 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It succeeded the First Continental Congress, which met in Philadelphia between September 5, 1774, and October 26, 1774. The Second Congress managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence. It eventually adopted the Lee Resolution which established the new country on July 2, 1776, and it agreed to the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The Congress acted as the de facto national government of the United States by raising armies, directing strategy, appointing diplomats, and making formal treaties such as the Olive Branch Petition.
A: | was the declaration of independence written at the second continental congress? |
In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
Q: The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy with a diameter between 150,000 and 200,000 light-years (ly). It is estimated to contain 100 -- 400 billion stars. There are probably at least 100 billion planets in the Milky Way. The Solar System is located within the disk, 26,490 (± 100) light-years from the Galactic Center, on the inner edge of the Orion Arm, one of the spiral-shaped concentrations of gas and dust. The stars in the innermost 10,000 light-years form a bulge and one or more bars that radiate from the bulge. The galactic center is an intense radio source known as Sagittarius A *, likely a supermassive black hole of 4.100 (± 0.034) million solar masses.
A: how many planets in our milky way galaxy
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Q: The Canada Act 1982 (1982 c. 11) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that was passed (as stated in the preamble) at the request of the Parliament of Canada, to 'patriate' Canada's constitution, ending the necessity for the British parliament to be involved in making changes to the Constitution of Canada. The Act also formally ended the 'request and consent' provisions of the Statute of Westminster 1931 in relation to Canada, whereby the British parliament had a general power to pass laws extending to Canada at its own request.
A: when did canada gain its independence from britain
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Q: The mechanism of enzyme catalysis is similar in principle to other types of chemical catalysis. By providing an alternative reaction route the enzyme reduces the energy required to reach the highest energy transition state of the reaction. The reduction of activation energy (Ea) increases the amount of reactant molecules that achieve a sufficient level of energy, such that they reach the activation energy and form the product. As with other catalysts, the enzyme is not consumed during the reaction (as a substrate is) but is recycled such that a single enzyme performs many rounds of catalysis.
A: | how does an enzyme cause a reaction to increase in rate
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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 far did England get in 1978?, Context: England failed to qualify for the World Cup in 1974, 1978 and 1994. The team's earliest exit in the competition itself was its elimination in the first round in 1950, 1958 and most recently in the 2014 FIFA World Cup, after being defeated in both their opening two matches for the first time, versus Italy and Uruguay in Group D. In 1950, four teams remained after the first round, in 1958 eight teams remained and in 2014 sixteen teams remained. In 2010, England suffered its most resounding World Cup defeat (4–1 to Germany) in the Round of 16, after drawing with the United States and Algeria and defeating Slovenia 1–0 in the group stage. | failed to qualify |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
How were people ranked within a community?, Context: The original Latin word "universitas" refers in general to "a number of persons associated into one body, a society, company, community, guild, corporation, etc." At the time of the emergence of urban town life and medieval guilds, specialised "associations of students and teachers with collective legal rights usually guaranteed by charters issued by princes, prelates, or the towns in which they were located" came to be denominated by this general term. Like other guilds, they were self-regulating and determined the qualifications of their members. | they were self-regulating and determined the qualifications of their members |
How to celebrate saint george's day<br>Mark your calendar. St. george's day is celebrated annually on the 23rd of april. This is st. george's recorded day of death, so the holiday is used to memorialize his life and deeds with feasts, fellowship and a national pride.
Choose your answer: based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "This is only celebrated in the United kingdom"?
Pick from: a). Yes; b). It's impossible to say; c). No;
I think the answer is | b). |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
NEWS
A controversial bill handing US president Barack Obama power over privately owned computer systems during a 'national cyber-emergency', and prohibiting any review by the court system, will return this year.
"We're not trying to mandate any requirements for the entire internet, the entire internet backbone," said Brandon Milhorn, Republican staff director and counsel for the committee. The legislation was first introduced in June by Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine). Lieberman, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, is chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
The revised version includes new language saying that the federal government's designation of vital internet or other computer systems "shall not be subject to judicial review". Another addition expanded the definition of critical infrastructure to include "provider of information technology", and a third authorised the submission of "classified" reports on security vulnerabilities.
For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Internet 'kill switch' bill will return on CNET News. ||||| A protester is carried away after being shot in Sheik Zuweid in the northern Sinai area of Egypt in this image taken from TV on Thursday Jan. 27, 2011. The man later died of his injuries . Violence... (Associated Press)
Almost simultaneously, the handful of companies that pipe the Internet into and out of Egypt went dark as protesters were gearing up for a fresh round of demonstrations calling for the end of President Hosni Mubarak's nearly 30-year rule, experts said.
Egypt has apparently done what many technologists thought was unthinkable for any country with a major Internet economy: It unplugged itself entirely from the Internet to try and silence dissent.
Experts say it's unlikely that what's happened in Egypt could happen in the United States because the U.S. has numerous Internet providers and ways of connecting to the Internet. Coordinating a simultaneous shutdown would be a massive undertaking.
"It can't happen here," said Jim Cowie, the chief technology officer and a co-founder of Renesys, a network security firm in Manchester, N.H., that studies Internet disruptions. "How many people would you have to call to shut down the U.S. Internet? Hundreds, thousands maybe? We have enough Internet here that we can have our own Internet. If you cut it off, that leads to a philosophical question: Who got cut off from the Internet, us or the rest of the world?"
In fact, there are few countries anywhere with all their central Internet connections in one place or so few places that they can be severed at the same time. But the idea of a single "kill switch" to turn the Internet on and off has seduced some American lawmakers, who have pushed for the power to shutter the Internet in a national emergency.
The Internet blackout in Egypt shows that a country with strong control over its Internet providers apparently can force all of them to pull their plugs at once, something that Cowie called "almost entirely unprecedented in Internet history."
The outage sets the stage for blowback from the international community and investors. It also sets a precedent for other countries grappling with paralyzing political protests _ though censoring the Internet and tampering with traffic to quash protests is nothing new.
"We are concerned that communication services, including the Internet, social media and even this tweet, are being blocked in Egypt," State Department spokesman P. J. Crowley tweeted on the social network website Twitter. "We are closely monitoring the situation in Egypt. We continue to urge authorities to show restraint and allow peaceful protests to occur."
China has long restricted what its people can see online and received renewed scrutiny for the practice when Internet search leader Google Inc. proclaimed a year ago that it would stop censoring its search results in China.
In 2009, Iran disrupted Internet service to try to curb protests over disputed elections. And two years before that, Burma's Internet was crippled when military leaders apparently took the drastic step of physically disconnecting primary communications links in major cities, a tactic that was foiled by activists armed with cell phones and satellite links.
Computer experts say what sets Egypt's action apart is that the entire country was disconnected in an apparently coordinated effort, and that all manner of devices are affected, from mobile phones to laptops. It seems, though, that satellite phones would not be affected.
"Iran never took down any significant portion of their Internet connection _ they knew their economy and the markets are dependent on Internet activity," Cowie said.
When countries are merely blocking certain sites _ like Twitter or Facebook _ where protesters are coordinating demonstrations, as apparently happened at first in Eqypt, protesters can use "proxy" computers to circumvent the government censors. The proxies "anonymize" traffic and bounce it to computers in other countries that send it along to the restricted sites.
But when there's no Internet at all, proxies can't work and online communication grinds to a halt.
Renesys' network sensors showed that Egypt's four primary Internet providers _ Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt, Etisalat Misr _ and all went dark at 12:34 a.m. Those companies shuttle all Internet traffic into and out of Egypt, though many people get their service through additional local providers with different names.
One exception to this block was Noor Group, which includes the Egyptian Stock Exchange among its customers, with inbound transit coming in from Telecom Italia.
Italy-based Seabone said no Internet traffic was going into or out of Egypt after 12:30 a.m. local time.
"There's no way around this with a proxy," Cowie said. "There is literally no route. It's as if the entire country disappeared. You can tell I'm still kind of stunned."
The technical act of turning off the Internet can be fairly straightforward. It likely requires only a simple change to the instructions for the companies' networking equipment.
Craig Labovitz, chief scientist for Arbor Networks, a Chelmsford, Mass., security company, said that in countries such as Egypt _ with a centralized government and a relatively small number of fiber-optic cables and other ways for the Internet to get piped in _ the companies that own the technologies are typically under strict licenses from the government.
"It's probably a phone call that goes out to half a dozen folks who enter a line on a router configuration file and hit return," Labovitz said. "It's like programming your TiVo _ you have things that are set up and you delete one. It's not high-level programming."
Twitter confirmed Tuesday that its service was being blocked in Egypt, and Facebook reported problems.
"Iran went through the same pattern," Labovitz said. "Initially there was some level of filtering, and as things deteriorated, the plug was pulled. It looks like Egypt might be following a similar pattern."
The ease with which Egypt cut itself also means the country can control where the outages are targeted, experts said. So its military facilities, for example, can stay online while the Internet vanishes for everybody else.
Experts said it was too early to tell which, if any, facilities still have connections in Egypt.
Hpowever,
Cowie said his firm is investigating clues that a small number of small networks might still be available.
Meanwhile, a program Renesys uses that displays the percentage of each country that is connected to the Internet was showing a figure that he was still struggling to believe. Zero.
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On The Web: http://renesys.com/blog/ |||||
Output: | The complete shutdown of nearly all online services just after midnight in Egypt is unprecedented in its scale, reports the AP. While governments around the world have disrupted online service during unrest (such as Iran did during protests in 2009), what sets Egypt's move apart is how apparently coordinated the effort was—the country's four primary Internet providers all went dark at 12:34am—and that all manner of devices were affected, from mobile phones to laptops. "Iran never took down any significant portion of their Internet connection. They knew their economy and the markets are dependent on Internet activity," said an Internet security expert, adding that what was happening in Egypt was "almost entirely unprecedented in Internet history." Could the Internet similarly be turned off in the United States? "It can't happen here," said the security expert. "How many people would you have to call to shut down the US Internet? Hundreds, thousands maybe?" Not that politicians aren't trying—a controversial bill that would give the president an Internet "kill switch" in the event of a "national cyber-emergency" resurfaced earlier this week. |
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Q: Disney’s “Ralph Breaks the Internet” recharged for its second consecutive weekend atop the North American box office, generating a healthy $25.8 million.
That marks a decline of just 53%, and pushes the animated sequel’s domestic haul past $100 million. Overseas, “Ralph” earned $33.7 million this weekend, taking its international total to $87 million. Keeping in line with end of the year traditions, major studios largely sat out the post-Thanksgiving frame. The only new nationwide release, “The Possession of Hannah Grace,” opened in line with industry estimates and brought in $6.5 million from 2,065 locations.
“The Possession of Hannah Grace” follows “Pretty Little Liars” star Shay Mitchell as a morgue worker who realizes a disfigured cadaver has been possessed by a demon. Neither critics nor audiences have embraced the R-rated supernatural thriller (it carries a 19% on Rotten Tomatoes and a C- CinemaScore), though reviews don’t always influence horror buffs. Sony’s Screen Gems distributed the movie, and Broken Road handle production. The movie, which was entirely shot on a small and inexpensive Sony a7s II, carries a $10 million production budget.
However, a handful of holdovers dominated the domestic market. Illumination and Universal’s “The Grinch” returned to second place, stealing $17.7 million and taking its stateside tally to $203.5 million. Benedict Cumberbatch’s take on the green grouch who loathes Christmas has picked up a sizable $268 million globally.
“Creed II,” the second movie in the Rocky Balboa spinoff series, dropped to third and brought in $16.8 million during its second weekend of release. The boxing drama has now amassed $81 million.
In fourth, “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” added $11.2 million for a domestic total of $134 million. While it has struggled to gain the same traction as the first “Fantastic Beasts,” the sequel in the “Harry Potter” prequel series has seen promising returns overseas. “Crimes of Grindelwald” has made $385.3 million from foreign markets, taking its worldwide tally past $500 million.
Rounding out the top five is “Bohemian Rhapsody” with $7.9 million. Fox’s Freddie Mercury biopic has picked up an impressive $164.3 million in North America.
At the specialty box office, Fox Searchlight’s “The Favourite” saw another strong weekend when it expanded to 34 theaters. Yorgos Lanthimos’ absurdist period drama made $1.1 million this weekend for an impressive screen average of $32,500. The Oscar hopeful that centers on the drama between two cousins jockeying to be the court favorites during the reign of Queen Anne launched last weekend with the best per-theater average ($105,600) in two years. The cast includes Rachel Weisz, Emma Stone, and Olivia Colman. Fox Searchlight plans to bring the film to around 80 theaters as it continues its gradual platform release.
Other indie releases were less fortunate. Warner Bros.’ “Head Full of Honey” failed to impress when it opened in four locations in New York and Los Angeles. The drama that sees Nick Nolte portray a widower with Alzheimer’s made just $2,250 per location.
Meanwhile, Orion Pictures’ zombie musical “Anna and the Apocalypse” brought in $50,000 when it debuted on five screens, averaging $10,000 per theater.
In notable milestones, National Geographic’s “Free Solo” became the fourth documentary this year to cross $10 million at the domestic box office. The non-fiction film about the first free solo rock climb of Yosemite’s El Capitan is now the fourth-highest grossing documentary this year, behind “Won’t You Be My Neighbor” ($22.6 million), “RBG” ($14 million), and “Three Identical Strangers” ($12.3 million).
The 2018 box office continues to outpace last year, with revenues up 10% from 2017, according to Comscore. This weekend’s totals were up a strong 11.8% compared to the same outing last year when the second frame of “Coco” made $27.5 million.
“Typically the post-Thanksgiving weekend is a snooze-fest in theaters,” said Paul Dergarabedian, a senior media analyst with Comscore. “While this year was comparatively quiet, it still had the advantage of a strong slate of very popular holdovers, plus the continually expanding roster of awards season films.”
Multiplexes won’t see a huge boost in ticket sales until Dec. 14 when “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” “The Mule,” and “Mortal Engines” open nationwide. The following weekend will be one of the more competitive frames with “Mary Poppins Returns,” “Aquaman,” and “Bumblebee” looking to entice moviegoers during a crowded Christmas race. ||||| Lionsgate and Summit’s Robin Hood earned $4.7 million in its second weekend for a poor $21.727m 12-day domestic cume. Truth be told, a 49% drop after Thanksgiving almost qualifies as “leggy,” but the numbers are too small (and the budget, around $100m, is too big), for any optimism. The Taron Egerton/Jamie Foxx/Ben Mendelsohn flick earned $15m its major overseas expansion, bringing its global cume to $48m worldwide. It didn’t get an overseas rescue, so it’s pretty much time to call it on this unrequested (but just good enough for me to wish it were good) reboot actioner.
Universal/Comcast expanded Green Book into 1,063 theaters over Thanksgiving (after a 25-theater platform the weekend prior) and ended up with a halfway decent $8 million ten-day cume. The (depending on who you ask) crowd-pleasing or controversial Jim Crow-era dramedy earned another $3.9m (-29%) in its third weekend for a $14m 17-day cume. That’s a fine hold, but the Viggo Mortensen/ Mahershala Ali period-piece will still need long legs (and some Oscar love… the National Review Board victory helps) to stick around. That’s especially true with the upcoming Christmas blitz.
Paramount/Viacom Inc.’s Instant Family earned another $3 million (-40%) on its third Friday for a likely $6.9m (-44%) weekend and $45.67m 17-day cume. That’s halfway decent for the frankly terrific Mark Wahlberg/Rose Byrne foster family comedy, and you really ought to check this one out over the next two weeks. Ditto Fox’s Widows, which is a top-notch crime drama/heist flick that should end up in the Oscar race. The Viola Davis (and friends) flick earned $1.274m (-59%) on its third Friday for a likely $4.11m (-50%) weekend and $32.77m 17-day total. Alas, like Green Book, this one may need Oscar attention to save its butt.
In other Oscar movie news, A Star Is Born has now earned $193 million domestic and $262m worldwide. Boy Erased (which is… okay even if The Miseducation of Cameron Post is the better gay conversion therapy drama) will have $5.5m by tonight. First Man is essentially done with $44.7m domestic and $99.9m worldwide (alas). The terrific Can You Ever Forgive Me? is winding down with $6.8m by tomorrow while The Old Man and the Gun is slowly crawling over the $11m mark. The Hate U Give is essentially done and it won’t crack $30m domestic. Dammit…
Oh, and Crazy Rich Asians bombed in China (“But to me, it was Tuesday…”) with a $1.2 million debut weekend. No matter, the $30m rom-com has $64m overseas and $174m domestic. Speaking of crazy rich (if not Oscar glory), Venom has earned $262m in China (-39% in its fourth weekend… which is incredible for a Hollywood export) and has $844m worldwide. Barring a fluke in either direction, the Tom Hardy/Michelle Williams flick should end its run with an unthinkable $875m worldwide cume. Yes, it could be just over/under the $873m worldwide total of Batman v Superman and the $881m global cume of Spider-Man: Homecoming. |||||
A: | Ralph Breaks the Internet surfed to a second straight week of box-office dominance by banking another $25.8 million—just a 53% ebb that put it over $100 million, Variety reports. Holdovers filled out the domestic top five with The Grinch ($17.7 million) followed by Creed II ($16.8 million), Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald ($11.2 million) and Bohemian Rhapsody ($7.9 million). Horror pic The Possession of Hannah Grace eked out $6.5 million despite ho-hum reviews (just 17% on Rotten Tomatoes) and—your movie factoid of the week—Crazy Rich Asians tanked in China with a $1.2 million bow, per Forbes. |
Teacher: In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
This list contains the top 25 accounts with the most followers on the social photo-sharing platform Instagram. As of May 2018, the most followed user is Instagram's own account, with over 235 million followers. Selena Gomez is the most followed individual, with over 137 million followers. Ten accounts have exceeded 100 million followers on the site.
Solution: who has the maximum number of followers on instagram
Reason: The answer is talking about the Instagram accounts that have the most followers. The question asking about the maximum number of followers. So this is a good example.
Now, solve this instance: The humanities use methods that are primarily critical, or speculative, and have a significant historical element -- as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences, yet, unlike the sciences, it has no central discipline. The humanities include ancient and modern languages, literature, philosophy, geography, history, religion, art and musicology.
Student: | what is considered a discipline in the humanities |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Q: Tim had always a red bike. His birthday party was coming up and he hoped that his parents would finally get him the bike. When his friends came over for the party, Tim was very worried that he wouldn't get the bike. He looked at all the presents and none of them seemed big enough to have a bike in them. Tim was sad. When it was time to open the presents he opened them one at a time. The first present was not a bike. The second present was not a bike. The third present was the biggest one. Tim knew if the bike was going to be in any of the presents it was going to be in this box. Tim opened it and there was no bike inside. Just as Tim tried not to look too upset, his Dad brought in the biggest present of them all. His Dad had been hiding the present all along. Tim opened it and his new bike was inside the box. Tim put the bike together with his Dad's help. <sep>Which present that Tim opened was the biggest and was the bike in there?<sep>The biggest present was the bike
A: | No |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Example Input: Who, between Phillip Jackson and Vincent Harris, did NOT design the Gurkha Monument?, Context: The headquarters of the MoD are in Whitehall and are now known as Main Building. This structure is neoclassical in style and was originally built between 1938 and 1959 to designs by Vincent Harris to house the Air Ministry and the Board of Trade. The northern entrance in Horse Guards Avenue is flanked by two monumental statues, Earth and Water, by Charles Wheeler. Opposite stands the Gurkha Monument, sculpted by Philip Jackson and unveiled in 1997 by Queen Elizabeth II. Within it is the Victoria Cross and George Cross Memorial, and nearby are memorials to the Fleet Air Arm and RAF (to its east, facing the riverside). A major refurbishment of the building was completed under a PFI contract by Skanska in 2004.
Example Output: Vincent Harris
Example Input: For what reason would it be easy to burn a chair?, Context: Wood has always been used extensively for furniture, such as chairs and beds. It is also used for tool handles and cutlery, such as chopsticks, toothpicks, and other utensils, like the wooden spoon.
Example Output: Wood
Example Input: Which casino closed in the same month as the Revel?, Context: In the wake of the United States' economic downturn and the legalization of gambling in adjacent and nearby states (including Delaware, Maryland, New York, and Pennsylvania), four casino closures took place in 2014: the Atlantic Club on January 13; the Showboat on August 31; the Revel, which was Atlantic City's second-newest casino, on September 2; and Trump Plaza, which originally opened in 1984, and was the poorest performing casino in the city, on September 16.
Example Output: | Trump Plaza
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How to become an insurance broker in florida<br>Identify opportunities in your area. Becoming an insurance broker is a time intensive process that will require hard work and money so making this career move is an investment. [substeps] The u.s. bureau of labor statistics projects that from 2014 to 2024 there will be 9% job growth for insurance brokers.
Can we draw the following conclusion?
The US bureau of labor statistics projects that jobs for insurance brokers will decrease by 10% from 2014 to 2024.
Select from:
[I] Yes.
[II] It's impossible to say.
[III] No. | [III] |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
In what position do nonprofits find themselves?, Context: Competition for employees with the public and private sector is another problem that Nonprofit organizations will inevitably face, particularly for management positions. There are reports of major talent shortages in the nonprofit sector today regarding newly graduated workers, and NPOs have for too long relegated hiring to a secondary priority, which could be why they find themselves in the position many do. While many established NPO's are well-funded and comparative to their public sector competetitors, many more are independent and must be creative with which incentives they use to attract and maintain vibrant personalities. The initial interest for many is the wage and benefits package, though many who have been questioned after leaving an NPO have reported that it was stressful work environments and implacable work that drove them away. | Competition for employees |
CIOs Graeme Thompson and David Chou discuss what it takes to build a reputation as a data-driven organization that customers can trust, and why every business leader needs to understand the importance of data trustworthiness and security. How do I listen to this podcast? You can listen to this podcast episode right now using the player at the top of this page. And you can subscribe to this podcast series from your favorite podcast app on your mobile device to listen to any time, so you won't miss an episode. Just click the desired podcast app's button below to subscribe.
Can we infer the following?
The podcast features two CIO's
Available choices:
[i] Yes.
[ii] It's impossible to say.
[iii] No.
The answer is: | [i] |
How to make the best use of your storage space in farmville<br>Buy as many items as you can. This will enable you to that you can rack up those experience points quickly. It's important to buy the items that you think will add the most aesthetically to your farm, as well as considering experience points.
Farmville is for adults. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: It's impossible to say
Diamond Dawgs in town for the MSU World Series. A weekend of relaxed practicing, scrimmaging and home run derby fun. MSU head coach Andy Cannizaro spoke about the 2017-2018 team. "It's going to be a really interesting group this year. We have several talented young guys," Andy Cannizaro said. "Justin Foscue and Jordan Westburg had outstanding falls for us this year. Tanner Allen had a really nice fall as well as Josh Hatcher." Copyright 2017 MSNewsNow. All rights reserved.
MSU head coach is Jordan Westburg OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
Strong coffee<br>I was feeling rather tired. So I decided to make some coffee. I put the k cup in the machine and made it strong. When I tasted it it kicked in instantly. I was then awake all night.
The coffee I made was tasty OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | It's impossible to say |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Input: Consider Input: Was Viardot's comment real?, Context: With his health further deteriorating, Chopin desired to have a family member with him. In June 1849 his sister Ludwika came to Paris with her husband and daughter, and in September, supported by a loan from Jane Stirling, he took an apartment at Place Vendôme 12. After 15 October, when his condition took a marked turn for the worse, only a handful of his closest friends remained with him, although Viardot remarked sardonically that "all the grand Parisian ladies considered it de rigueur to faint in his room."
Output: sardonically
Input: Consider Input: Which of the following is not a dog tail shape: straight, sickle, or Braque du Bourbonnais?, Context: There are many different shapes for dog tails: straight, straight up, sickle, curled, or cork-screw. As with many canids, one of the primary functions of a dog's tail is to communicate their emotional state, which can be important in getting along with others. In some hunting dogs, however, the tail is traditionally docked to avoid injuries. In some breeds, such as the Braque du Bourbonnais, puppies can be born with a short tail or no tail at all.
Output: Braque du Bourbonnais
Input: Consider Input: How wide an area does Dominion service?, Context: Electricity in the Richmond Metro area is provided by Dominion Virginia Power. The company, based in Richmond, is one of the nation's largest producers of energy, serving retail energy customers in nine states. Electricity is provided in the Richmond area primarily by the North Anna Nuclear Generating Station and Surry Nuclear Generating Station, as well as a coal-fired station in Chester, Virginia. These three plants provide a total of 4,453 megawatts of power. Several other natural gas plants provide extra power during times of peak demand. These include facilities in Chester, and Surry, and two plants in Richmond (Gravel Neck and Darbytown).
| Output: nine states
|
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Q: A Christmas card is a greeting card , given around Christmas .
A: | A Christmas card is a greeting card sent as part of the traditional celebration of Christmas in order to convey between people a range of sentiments related to Christmastide and the holiday season . |
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".
Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States. Millions of men and women readied themselves for work. Some made their way to the Twin Towers, the signature structures of the World Trade Center complex in New York City. Others went to Arlington, Virginia, to the Pentagon. Across the Potomac River, the United States Congress was back in session. At the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, people began to line up for a White House tour. In Sarasota, Florida, President George W. Bush went for an early morning run. For those heading to an airport, weather conditions could not have been better for a safe and pleasant journey. Among the travelers were Mohamed Atta and Abdul Aziz al Omari, who arrived at the airport in Portland, Maine. Boston: American 11 and United 175. Atta and Omari boarded a 6:00 A.M. flight from Portland to Boston's Logan International Airport. When he checked in for his flight to Boston, Atta was selected by a computerized prescreening system known as CAPPS (Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System), created to identify passengers who should be subject to special security measures. Under security rules in place at the time, the only consequence of Atta's selection by CAPPS was that his checked bags were held off the plane until it was confirmed that he had boarded the aircraft. This did not hinder Atta's plans. Atta and Omari arrived in Boston at 6:45. Seven minutes later, Atta apparently took a call from Marwan al Shehhi, a longtime colleague who was at another terminal at Logan Airport. They spoke for three minutes. It would be their final conversation. <sep>What were the targets of their attack?<sep>The Potomac River
No
During the transition, Bush had chosen John Ashcroft, a former senator from Missouri, as his attorney general. On his arrival at the Justice Department, Ashcroft told us, he faced a number of problems spotlighting the need for reform at the FBI. In February, Clarke briefed Attorney General Ashcroft on his directorate's issues. He reported that at the time, the attorney general acknowledged a "steep learning curve," and asked about the progress of the Cole investigation. Neither Ashcroft nor his predecessors received the President's Daily Brief. His office did receive the daily intelligence report for senior officials that, during the spring and summer of 2001, was carrying much of the same threat information. The FBI was struggling to build up its institutional capabilities to do more against terrorism, relying on a strategy called MAXCAP 05 that had been unveiled in the summer of 2000. The FBI's assistant director for counterterrorism, Dale Watson, told us that he felt the new Justice Department leadership was not supportive of the strategy. Watson had the sense that the Justice Department wanted the FBI to get back to the investigative basics: guns, drugs, and civil rights. The new administration did seek an 8 percent increase in overall FBI funding in its initial budget proposal for fiscal year 2002, including the largest proposed percentage increase in the FBI's counterterrorism program since fiscal year 1997. The additional funds included the FBI's support of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah (a onetime increase), enhanced security at FBI facilities, and improvements to the FBI's WMD incident response capability. In May, the Justice Department began shaping plans for building a budget for fiscal year 2003, the process that would usually culminate in an administration proposal at the beginning of 2002. On May 9, the attorney general testified at a congressional hearing concerning federal efforts to combat terrorism. He said that "one of the nation's most fundamental responsibilities is to protect its citizens from terrorist attacks." The budget guidance issued the next day, however, highlighted gun crimes, narcotics trafficking, and civil rights as priorities. <sep>Who testified at a congressional hearing that, "one of the nation's most fundamental responsibilities is to protect its citizens from terrorist attacks"?<sep>Ashcroft predecessor
No
When 74-year-old Penny Sweat was evicted from the HUD-subsidized Glendale Senior Housing in Salt Lake City last month, she moved to a nonsubsidized apartment at five times her previous rent because she was unaware of her rights. It turns out the manager of the seniors complex, its attorneys and government overseers were unaware, too. Lee Kemp, a hearing-impaired World War II disabled vet, also was evicted, but he contacted Utah Legal Services and was told to stay put. Attorney Marty Blaustein then notified Utah Nonprofit Housing Corp., the building's owner, that Kemp's eviction was not legal and that he had a right to a hearing. That didn't stop Utah Nonprofit Housing's attorneys from then sending Kemp a summons to show cause why he had not moved out. Meanwhile, Sweat's granddaughter called Salt Lake City housing officials, federal housing officials, state officials and several agents of Utah Nonprofit Housing to find out about her grandmother's rights. Nobody knew. Blaustein then took Sweat's case along with Kemp's and demanded her ousting be rectified. Utah Nonprofit Housing President Marion Willey returned from an out-of-town trip and learned HUD procedures were not followed. The eviction was activated because of ongoing personality conflicts among seniors in the complex, he said, and the new building manager decided the problems were with Sweat and Kemp. Several tenants blame other neighbors as perpetrators of the rift, however. Willey said when his building manager called attorneys retained by the company, they erroneously told her she could go ahead and kick out the tenants. When she called HUD to make sure, the inquiry got bogged down in bureaucracy and nobody called her back. Willey says he has offered Sweat and Kemp apartments in another complex operated by his company at their old rates. He also is retaining new attorneys. <sep>Who called HUD to make sure she was allowed to kick out the tenants?<sep>Penny
| No
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How to change windows 8 microphone
Find the speaker icon on the taskbar.
It should be on the right side of the task bar, right next to where the time and date are displayed.
Right-click on the icon.
OPTIONS:
- The audio source icon will appear on the lower left-hand corner of the taskbar. Directly below the audio source icon on the taskbar is a small button that is labelled.
- Select properties on the dialog box. Copy the text link next to your desired microphone location.
- At this point you can modify your microphone settings by default. Click on options on the taskbar.
- This will bring up a menu that says things like: playback devices, recording devices, and sounds. Select " recording devices " from the menu.
This will bring up a menu that says things like: playback devices, recording devices, and sounds. Select " recording devices " from the menu.
How to find out why a horse is crow hopping
Know what it is.
Crow hopping is like a small buck. It is just enough to get you slightly out of your seat, and forward.
OPTIONS:
- Of course if you need to move your stirrups forward, it can give you still less mobility. Because it feels terrible if you hit the ground, the crow hop trick can work.
- Crow hopping is primarily useful if you are trying to find the correct location to stand. Find a stable and stand on it.
- However, if you're not riding a very small horse, using this idea might seem crazy to you. Horses commonly trot on their hind quarters without stopping.
- It can be very uncomfortable, especially if you are not expecting it. Always be aware of your horse, and its habits.
It can be very uncomfortable, especially if you are not expecting it. Always be aware of your horse, and its habits.
Two people wearing scuba gear are underwater. They look at each other, remove their mouth pieces, then kiss. the man
OPTIONS:
- is removing the man's eye pieces.
- in the red shirt yells again and easily flips the man back in the water.
- pulls the woman up and onto a ladder and ties her shoe.
- places his mouth piece back in.
places his mouth piece back in.
How to have a great day with your boyfriend or girlfriend
Brainstorm ideas together.
It's easy to get carried away when you have free time, but try not to be selfish when choosing what to do. Miscommunication and unmet expectations can upset your partner and ruin even the best plans.
OPTIONS:
- Instead, brainstorm five or six ideas your partner can work on for the day. However, you can pick things that you both really love-books, art, flowers, etc.
- Talk with your partner to find mutual interests you can enjoy together. You and your partner will naturally feel more connected when you do these things.
- Thinking ahead together can make any kind of situation much easier. Your partner may be annoyed that his parents died while you were still in school and it's a terrible experience to see them process their grief.
- Be sure to brainstorm ideas that can bring you together in a meaningful, mutually good way. You might try writing a letter or card to your partner to say goodbye.
| Talk with your partner to find mutual interests you can enjoy together. You and your partner will naturally feel more connected when you do these things. |
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]: Paul put the despised watch away And laid out before him his array Of stones and metals, and when the morning Struck the stones to their best adorning, He chose the brightest, and this new watch Was so light and thin it seemed to catch The sunlight's nothingness, and its gleam. Topazes ran in a foamy stream Over the cover, the hands were studded With garnets, and seemed red roses, budded. The face was of crystal, and engraved Upon it the figures flashed and waved With zircons, and beryls, and amethysts. It took a week to make, and his trysts At night with the Shadow were his alone. Paul swore not to speak till his task was done. The night that the jewel was worthy to give. Paul watched the long hours of daylight live To the faintest streak; then lit his light, And sharp against the wall's pure white The outline of the Shadow started Into form. His burning-hearted Words so long imprisoned swelled To tumbling speech. Like one compelled, He told the lady all his love, And holding out the watch above His head, he knelt, imploring some Littlest sign. The Shadow was dumb. <sep>What were the hands of the watch studded with?<sep>Garnets
[A]: Yes
[Q]: Einstein and Maric married in January 1903. In May 1904, the couple's first son, Hans Albert Einstein, was born in Bern, Switzerland. Their second son, Eduard, was born in Zurich in July 1910. In 1914, the couple separated; Einstein moved to Berlin and his wife remained in Zurich with their sons. They divorced on 14 February 1919, having lived apart for five years. Eduard, whom his father called "Tete" (for petit), had a breakdown at about age 20 and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. His mother cared for him and he was also committed to asylums for several periods, including full-time after her death. The marriage with Maric does not seem to have been very happy. In letters revealed in 2015, Einstein wrote to his early love, Marie Winteler, about his marriage and his still strong feelings for Marie. In 1910 he wrote to her that "I think of you in heartfelt love every spare minute and am so unhappy as only a man can be" while his wife was pregnant with their second child. Einstein spoke about a "misguided love" and a "missed life" regarding his love for Marie. Einstein married Elsa Lowenthal on 2 June 1919, after having had a relationship with her since 1912. She was a first cousin maternally and a second cousin paternally. In 1933, they emigrated to the United States. In 1935, Elsa Einstein was diagnosed with heart and kidney problems; she died in December 1936. <sep>How long were Einstein and Maric married before their second child was born?<sep>16 years
[A]: No
[Q]: In short, the United States has to help defeat an ideology, not just a group of people, and we must do so under difficult circumstances. How can the United States and its friends help moderate Muslims combat the extremist ideas? Recommendation: The U.S. government must define what the message is, what it stands for. We should offer an example of moral leadership in the world, committed to treat people humanely, abide by the rule of law, and be generous and caring to our neighbors. America and Muslim friends can agree on respect for human dignity and opportunity. To Muslim parents, terrorists like Bin Laden have nothing to offer their children but visions of violence and death. America and its friends have a crucial advantage-we can offer these parents a vision that might give their children a better future. If we heed the views of thoughtful leaders in the Arab and Muslim world, a moderate consensus can be found. That vision of the future should stress life over death: individual educational and economic opportunity. This vision includes widespread political participation and contempt for indiscriminate violence. It includes respect for the rule of law, openness in discussing differences, and tolerance for opposing points of view. Recommendation: Where Muslim governments, even those who are friends, do not respect these principles, the United States must stand for a better future. One of the lessons of the long Cold War was that short-term gains in cooperating with the most repressive and brutal governments were too often outweighed by long-term setbacks for America's stature and interests. American foreign policy is part of the message. America's policy choices have consequences. Right or wrong, it is simply a fact that American policy regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and American actions in Iraq are dominant staples of popular commentary across the Arab and Muslim world. That does not mean U.S. choices have been wrong. It means those choices must be integrated with America's message of opportunity to the Arab and Muslim world. <sep>Which parents can be offered a vision that might give their children a better future?<sep>Arab parents
[A]: | No
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Given his history, you wouldn't think Chris Brown would want to associate himself with violence and destruction.
But Breezy clearly likes courting controversy: On Halloween, the 23-year-old R&B star and his pals dressed up with beards, turbans and fake guns—seemingly trying to look like stereotypical Arab terrorists—as they swung by Rihanna's Halloween bash at Greystone Manor in West Hollywood.
"Ain't nobody F--king wit my clique!!! #ohb," Chris tweeted, linking to an Instagram shot of himself and four pals posing threateningly for the camera.
In the picture, Brown holds a large (presumably) fake assault rifle in the air, surrounded by his crew draped in fake ammo.
Although Brown himself provided no commentary on his questionable costume, Mama Breezy was quick to weigh in on Twitter.
"HALLOWEEN IS FOR FUN NOTHING MORE THAN JUST FUN," Joyce Hawkins wrote. "GET A LIFE PLEASE."
OK, Mom. We still think Chris might've been safer with a less threatening ensemble. There's always next year.
(Originally published on Nov. 1, 2012 at 6:15 a.m. PT)
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||||| PICTURES: LeAnn Rimes Dresses as "Sandy" From Grease Days After Superstorm
Sexy or insensitive?
On Wednesday,LeAnn Rimes shared her 2012 Halloween getup to her 300,000-plus Twitter followers. Her choice? Sandy.
PHOTOS: Best and worst Halloween 2012 costumes in Hollywood
The country singer, 30, channeled Olivia Newton-John's character from Grease -- as she appears transformed at the very end of the beloved 1978 musical film, sexed-up in tight spandex, luscious curls and platform wedges. Her husband Eddie Cibrian was Danny, Sandy's bad-boy love from the T-Birds, whom she strives to impress with a more mature, edgy look.
"Danny and Sandy #Halloween," Rimes explained beneath a pic in which she leans in for a kiss from Cibrian, 38, with a pompadour wig, black t-shirt and jeans.
Credit: twitter.com
PHOTOS: LeAnn's skimpiest bikinis ever
It's a surprising choice of costume, given that another Sandy, Superstorm Sandy, wreaked major havoc in NYC, New Jersey and surrounding areas just days ago, with over 50 people confirmed dead, widespread power outages, a transit shutdown and extensive damage throughout the region.
In another pic, Rimes and Cibrian posed with Mason, 9, and Jake, 5, his sons with ex-wife Brandi Glanville. "Family of the Grease days, Indiana Jones and a tribute to our navy seals," Rimes said.
The Grammy winner is on the comeback trail after checking herself in a rehab center in August for anxiety.
PHOTOS: LeAnn and Eddie's romance
"I feel like I am starting over even though I've had all these years behind me," Rimes recently told Katie Couric. "How many people get to [start] over again in this day and age?"
Adds Rimes, "People look at you and go, 'Why are you struggling?' No one can quite understand why you hurt so badly." |||||
Solution: | Chris Brown, that bastion of good judgement, is once again courting controversy. The singer attended a Halloween party thrown by Rihanna, but the latest Brown-Rihanna meeting isn't what has fans peeved—it's his costume choice. E! reports that Brown and four friends went as a posse of Arab-style terrorists, complete with beards, turbans, and weapons, as evidenced by an Instagram shot and Brown's accompanying tweet: "Ain't nobody F--king wit my clique!!! #ohb." Sure, it's just a costume, but "given his history, you wouldn't think Chris Brown would want to associate himself with violence and destruction," writes Rebecca Macatee. Meanwhile, Leann Rimes stirred up her own batch of controversy by dressing as Sandy from Grease—days after the storm of the same name. US Weekly has pictures. Hubby Eddie Cibrian got his Danny on to complete the effect. |
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: To send someone to Coventry is an English idiom meaning to deliberately ostracise someone. Typically, this is done by not talking to them, avoiding their company, and acting as if they no longer exist. Victims are treated as though they are completely invisible and inaudible. The Coventry in the phrase is the cathedral city in the West Midlands.
Solution: | what does it mean to send someone to coventry |
How to debone a trout
Remove the head of the trout.
Filleting should be done when you wish to serve only the finest cut of the fish, rather than cooking it whole. Start by cutting through the neck of the trout at the groove of the gills.
Angle the blade of your knife so that you're cutting toward the head rather than the body to preserve the meat. Always use a filleting knife or other sharp blade when preparing fish.
How to get an unsecured personal loan
Learn the basics of unsecured personal loans.
Amounts for unsecured loans range anywhere from $1 , 000 to $50 , 000. People get them to fund any number of endeavors, from credit card consolidation to cross-country moves or even adoptions.
Creditors review your credit score to determine if you qualify for an unsecured loan and at what interest rate. Interest rates do tend to be higher for unsecured loans, so plan to pay them off as quickly as possible.
A woman wearing butterflies wings costume playing beerpong. a woman
is wearing a catty costume is standing behind the table.
`a cookie is shown on a plate. Ingredients are being added to a glass bowl and being mixed together. chocolate chips
| are added to the dough. |
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: (OPRAH.com) -- Chris Rock is an Emmy-winning comedian, devoted husband and loving father --but it's time to get to know a new side of this funnyman. Meet Chris Rock, hair expert. It's a detour he took after an innocent carpool ride left Rock with an idea he just couldn't shake. "I was with my daughter one day, and we're in the car and she's with one of her friends in the back seat, a little white friend," he says. "She was just kind of raving about her friend's hair a little too much for my comfort [saying]: 'You've got great hair. Oh, your hair's so good.'" Not wanting to make her comments a big deal, Rock says he tried to play his them off. "[I said]: "Oh, baby, your hair's beautiful. Come on,'" he says. "If I would have really reacted, then she would have a complex about her hair." Still, Rock couldn't let it go. "It sparked something in me," he says. Oprah.com: Oprah's hair throughout the years! What Rock discovered is a $9 billion industry that affects the daily activities, wallets, self-esteem -- and even the sex lives -- of black women. Because women spend so much time and money on their hair, Rock says men are forced to adopt a hands-off policy. "You cannot touch a black woman's hair. You are conditioned not to even go there," he says. "When I was a dating guy, I dated women from different races. Anytime I was with an Asian or a Puerto Rican girl or a white girl, my hands would constantly be in their hair. <sep>Which women do not allow men to touch their hair, according to Chris Rock?<sep>White women
SOLUTION: No
PROBLEM: { { Plot } } 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 is Tom able to blow Jerry down the stick?<sep>Because he is much bigger than the mouse
SOLUTION: Yes
PROBLEM: Rolfe put down the little dog he had been holding, and went out into the hall. The dog accompanied him, frisking about him in friendly fashion. Rolfe first examined the bedroom that he had seen Inspector Chippenfield enter. It was a small room, containing a double bed. It was prettily furnished in white, with white curtains, and toilet-table articles in ivory to match. A glance round the room convinced Rolfe that it was impossible for a man to secrete himself in it. The door of the wardrobe had been flung open by the inspector, and the dresses and other articles of feminine apparel it contained flung out on the floor. There was no other hiding-place possible, except beneath the bed, and the ruthless hand of the inspector had torn off the white muslin bed hangings, revealing emptiness underneath. Rolfe went out into the hall again, and entered the room next the bedroom. This apartment was apparently used as a dining-room, for it contained a large table, a few chairs, a small sideboard, a spirit-stand, a case of books and ornaments, and two small oak presses. Plainly, there was no place in it where a man could hide himself. The next room was the bathroom, which was also empty. Opposite the bathroom was a small bedroom, very barely furnished, offering no possibility of concealment. Then the passage opened into a large roomy kitchen, the full width of the rooms on both sides of the hall, and the kitchen completed the flat. <sep>Why did Rolfe stop his search in the first room?<sep>The was no place to rest
SOLUTION: | No
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How to grow gooseberries<br>Get potted gooseberry clippings from a nursery. Gooseberry clippings from a nursery can be purchased year round, will likely come potted, and can be planted anytime between autumn and spring. Potted gooseberry plants will often be simpler to plant as they should already have small root systems established.
Can we draw the following conclusion?
Gooseberry clippings grow best in October
Select from:
- Yes.
- It's impossible to say.
- No. | It's impossible to say |
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: The Pilgrims or Pilgrim Fathers were early European settlers of the Plymouth Colony in present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. The Pilgrims' leadership came from the religious congregations of Brownist English Dissenters who had fled the volatile political environment in England for the relative calm and tolerance of 16th -- 17th century Holland in the Netherlands. The Pilgrims held Puritan Calvinist religious beliefs but, unlike other Puritans, they maintained that their congregations needed to be separated from the English state church. As a separatist group, they were also concerned that they might lose their English cultural identity if they remained in the Netherlands, so they arranged with English investors to establish a new colony in North America. The colony was established in 1620 and became the second successful English settlement in North America (after the founding of Jamestown, Virginia in 1607). The Pilgrims' story became a central theme of the history and culture of the United States.
Student: | who were the pilgrims and what did they want |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
One example: Powdered sugar, also called confectioners' sugar, icing sugar, and icing cake, is a finely ground sugar produced by milling granulated sugar into a powdered state. It usually contains a small amount of anti-caking agent to prevent clumping and improve flow. Although most often produced in a factory, powdered sugar can also be made by processing ordinary granulated sugar in a coffee grinder, or by crushing it by hand in a mortar and pestle.
Solution is here: is confectionary sugar the same as powdered sugar?
Explanation: The question is a yes/no question, and it is answerable based on the given passage.
Now, solve this: Canadian citizenship is typically obtained by birth in Canada on the principle of jus soli, or birth abroad when at least one parent is a Canadian citizen or by adoption by at least one Canadian citizen under the rules of jus sanguinis. It can also be granted to a permanent resident who has lived in Canada for a period of time through naturalization. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC, formerly known as Citizenship and Immigration Canada, or CIC) is the department of the federal government responsible for citizenship-related matters, including confirmation, grant, renunciation and revocation of citizenship.
Solution: | can i get canadian citizenship if my mother was born in canada? |
How to choose an oral surgeon<br>Talk to your dentist. Your dentist is the best person to recommend an oral surgeon for you since they know exactly what sort of oral trouble you're having. Once your dentist recommends one or more oral surgeons based on your specific needs, you can go forward with the process of evaluating each surgeon.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "the trouble in your mouth is well known by your doctor"? | Yes |
The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey (ACLU-NJ) is a nonpartisan, not-for-profit civil rights organization in Newark, New Jersey, and an affiliate of the national American Civil Liberties Union. According to the ACLU-NJ's stated mission, the ACLU-NJ operates through litigation on behalf of individuals, lobbying in state and local legislatures, and community education.
The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey is a nonpartisan, not-for-profit civil rights organization in chilly Newark, New Jersey, and an affiliate of the national American Civil Liberties Union.
A: It's impossible to say
It was no accident that the three major urban transit companies in Quebec, namely the Socit de transport de la Communaut urbaine de Montral, Socit de transport de Laval and Socit de transport de la rive sud de Montral, as well as most if not all their unions and employees are asking that we support a progressive and innovative policy.
Quebec has more than five major urban transit companies.
A: No
Whereas the Government of Canada seeks to achieve sustainable development that is based on an ecologically efficient use of natural, social and economic resources and acknowledges the need to integrate environmental, economic and social factors in the making of all decisions by government and private entities;
Economic and social factors are integrated in most of Canada's policies.
A: | It's impossible to say |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
(CNN) -- A Christian evangelical group said Thursday that a Bible school -- backed by American evangelist Franklin Graham -- was destroyed in the latest bombing raid to hit South Kordofan, an oil-rich Sudanese province that borders the newly created independent country of South Sudan. At least eight bombs were dropped in the area Wednesday during the school's first day of classes, according to a statement by Samaritan's Purse, Graham's Christian humanitarian group, which supports the school. Two bombs landed inside the compound -- located in the region's Nuba Mountains -- destroying two Heiban Bible College buildings and igniting grass fires across the area, the group said in a statement No injuries were reported. "It was a miracle that no one was injured," the statement added. Graham, who has called on the international community to take out Sudan's air assets and establish a no-fly zone in the region, said in a statement Thursday that he blamed Sudan's air force for the strike. At least four churches have been destroyed since August, the group said. "We are deeply concerned for the welfare and lives of the people of South Kordofan and we condemn the bombing of churches and Christian facilities," added Graham, son of the famed Rev. Billy Graham. More than 78,000 people have fled South Kordofan and Blue Nile states since August of last year after an armed rebellion took root, the United Nations reported. The Sudanese government is thought to have responded to the rebellion by conducting sustained air raids with the use of Russian-made Antonov bombers, which have raised concerns over civilian casualties. Decades of civil war between the north and south, costing as many as 2 million lives, formally ended with a U.S.-brokered peace treaty in 2005. <sep>How many Heiban bible college building were destroyed?<sep>2
Output: | Yes |
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Thank you for reading 5 free articles. You can come back at the end of your 30-day period for another 5 free articles, or you can purchase a subscription and continue to enjoy valuable local news and information. If you are a current 7-day subscriber you are granted an all-access pass to the website and digital newspaper replica. Please click below to Get Started. ||||| UPDATE: Michael Ramos made his first appearance in court after being arrested on charges of malicious wounding after the clashes and violence in Charlottesville, Va more than a week ago.
Ramos appeared before a magistrate judge in Monroe County at his extradition hearing. Ramos asked a judge questions about what would happen to him if he's extradited to Charlottesville, Va. after thinking about the judge's question about signing a waiver on extradition. Ramos said, "I don't want to stay here for three months."
The authorities released a wanted poster for Alex Michael Ramos, 33, of Marietta, Ga. after the violence in Charlottesville, Va. The charge of malicious wounding is a felony punishable by one to five years in prison.
CBS46 talked with a Georgia man wanted for beating a counter-protester during the violent clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia.
We were there as he turned himself in to authorities.
Michael Ramos is charged with beating Deandre Harris. The attack occurred on the same day a car ran through a crowd, killing a woman who was protesting white supremacists.
The 33-year-old construction worker says he and his family have been getting death threats. He knows he could do jail time, but he wanted you to hear his side of the story.
"I'm going to turn myself in because I think it's the right thing to do," says Ramos.
But before he drove to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office to surrender his freedom, Ramos spoke freely for about 20 minutes.
"I wanted to get my story out," says Ramos. "You guys do some good news, you guys put out some true media stuff. I've watched and observed your station."
When asked if he was with the white supremacist group, Ramos said, "Absolutely not."
When asked if he was with the neo-Nazi group, he also said, "Absolutely not."
When asked why he was there in the first place, Ramos said, "I was there because, pretty much, I'm a conservative...there were some non-racist members who were going to a free speech rally."
When asked if it was deliberate or defensive when people saw him attack Harris, Ramos said, "These men attacked us...I thought I was going there in a defensive mode, defending people from being attacked."
"I hit the man one time," says Ramos. "Before I got there, men beat him with sticks and shields. I had nothing to do with that."
When asked if he'd like to apologize for hitting Harris, Ramos said, "If he apologized to me for attacking and taunting us, maybe."
When it was pointed out that at one point in the tape, Ramos was trying to get them to stop, he said, "You can hear me say, 'Let him go, let him go,' because they were going at him one more time and it's obviously not fair."
He also blames the Charlottesville Police Department.
"They're absolutely, 110 percent at fault," says Ramos. "Did nothing to stop it."
Minutes after our interview, Ramos turned himself into authorities in the sheriff's department parking lot with Monroe County deputies walking him into the jail for processing.
"I'm not going to expect the best, " says Ramos. "If they put me away for something, I'm expecting a trial, a fair trial. Other than that, I'm not scared."
Police say Ramos could have a hearing Tuesday on a malicious wounding charge out of Virginia.
He's not the only one in trouble with the law as an 18-year-old man is facing the same charge.
Copyright 2017 WGCL-TV (Meredith Corporation). All rights reserved. ||||| One of the suspects in the beating of a young African-American man during the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., was arrested in Georgia on Monday.
Alex Michael Ramos, 33, was charged with malicious wounding in the Aug. 12 attack on DeAndre Harris, 20, a teacher’s aide and aspiring rapper, who was beaten by a group of people with wooden boards and pipes.
Mr. Ramos was being held Tuesday in Forsyth, Ga., about an hour south of Atlanta.
The attack was captured on video, and the images were shared widely on social media and used to highlight the mayhem that broke out at the white-power rally when the police did not step in to keep order. The video images helped the authorities identify at least two of the suspected assailants, Mr. Ramos and another man, Daniel P. Borden, who was arrested in Ohio on Friday. At least four more of the assailants have yet to be identified.
The case has become a focal point of debate on social media. Right-wing activists blame Mr. Harris for his injuries and have posted his home address and telephone number online. Mr. Harris, who sustained a broken wrist and a head wound that required 10 staples, cannot return to work because seeing large groups of people make him anxious, his lawyer, S. Lee Merritt, said. ||||| This is a set of web collections curated by Mark Graham using the Archive-IT service of the Internet Archive. They include web captures of the ISKME.org website as well as captures from sites hosted by IGC.org.These web captures are available to the general public.For more information about this collection please feel free to contact Mark via Send Mail |||||
Solution: | A Georgia man is in custody and set to be extradited to Virginia for his alleged role in the beating of a black man during the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville. The Daily Progress reports that 33-year-old Alex Michael Ramos turned himself in to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office on Monday night and was charged with malicious wounding after the assault of Charlottesville resident DeAndre Harris, a 20-year-old special education assistant. Video of the Aug. 12 incident that's gone viral shows Harris being beaten by a group of men who'd attended the white nationalist rally in Emancipation Park. Harris' attorney says the assault started when Harris, who went to the rally to protest the white nationalist groups, stepped in to help a friend who'd gotten into an argument with a white supremacist. The New York Times notes Harris was attacked with wooden boards and pipes. On his GoFundMe page, which drew more than $165,000, Harris detailed the incident and his injuries, which included a concussion and an ulnar fracture. Ramos spoke with CBS46 before he turned himself in, noting he was "absolutely not" a white supremacist (he says he's a Puerto Rican conservative who went to support free speech), that Harris was "attacking and taunting" people, and that he hit Harris "one time" and wasn't part of the beating with "sticks and shields." He also casts blame on local cops, saying in a video that police shouldn't have forced white nationalists into the streets with counterprotesters. Another man, 18-year-old Daniel Borden, was arrested in Ohio on Friday for his alleged part in the beating. "People are carrying real hate in their hearts for the Black Community and I refuse to just let it happen," Harris wrote on his GoFundMe page. His attorney says he plans on filing a suit. |
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 signature (/ˈsɪɡnətʃər/; from Latin: signare, ``to sign'') is a handwritten (and often stylized) depiction of someone's name, nickname, or even a simple ``X'' or other mark that a person writes on documents as a proof of identity and intent. The writer of a signature is a signatory or signer. Similar to a handwritten signature, a signature work describes the work as readily identifying its creator. A signature may be confused with an autograph, which is chiefly an artistic signature. This can lead to confusion when people have both an autograph and signature and as such some people in the public eye keep their signatures private whilst fully publishing their autograph.
Output: | can an x be used as a signature? |
Detailed Instructions: In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
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Problem: 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
Explanation: The answer is talking about the Instagram accounts that have the most followers. The question asking about the maximum number of followers. So this is a good example.
Problem: Hydrogen peroxide is a chemical compound with the formula H O. In its pure form, it is a pale blue, clear liquid, slightly more viscous than water. Hydrogen peroxide is the simplest peroxide (a compound with an oxygen -- oxygen single bond). It is used as an oxidizer, bleaching agent and antiseptic. Concentrated hydrogen peroxide, or 'high-test peroxide', is a reactive oxygen species and has been used as a propellant in rocketry. Its chemistry is dominated by the nature of its unstable peroxide bond.
Solution: | what is the chemical composition of hydrogen peroxide |
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 would it be best to use the USPS for packages here as opposed to another service?, Context: In 1899, the local postage stamps were overprinted "Guam" as was done for the other former Spanish colonies, but this was discontinued shortly thereafter and regular U.S. postage stamps have been used ever since. Because Guam is also part of the U.S. Postal System (postal abbreviation: GU, ZIP code range: 96910–96932), mail to Guam from the U.S. mainland is considered domestic and no additional charges are required. Private shipping companies, such as FedEx, UPS, and DHL, however, have no obligation to do so, and do not regard Guam as domestic.
A: | no obligation to do so, and do not regard Guam as domestic |
How to collect child support from an incarcerated parent<br>Contact your state's attorney general's office. Every state has established child support enforcement agencies that help parents collect child support. In many states, the attorney general's office helps parents.
Can we draw the following conclusion?
Child support is due because the parent is in jail. | It's impossible to say |
"Hot Hot Hot!!!" is the name of a 1988 single by British rock band The Cure from their album "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me". The song reached number 45 in the UK whereas it was more successful in Ireland, where it reached number 18, and in Spain, entering the Top 10.
Can we draw the following conclusion?
"Hot Hot Hot!!!" is a song made by The Smiths.
Pick from:
+ Yes.
+ It's impossible to say.
+ No. | No |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Example Input: In a series of flash-forwards in the final episode, April and Andy ask Leslie and Ben for advice regarding the prospect of having children, which Andy very much wants but April does not. They decide to try for it and their son Jack (short for Jack-o-Lantern) is born on Halloween 2023. By 2025 the couple is expecting their second child.
Example Output: do april and andy get together parks and recreation?
Example Input: In the Netherlands, Father's Day (Vaderdag) is celebrated on the third Sunday of June and is not a public holiday. Traditionally, as on Mother's Day, fathers get breakfast in bed made by their children and families gather together and have dinner, usually at the grandparents' house. In recent years, families also started having dinner out, and as on Mother's Day, it is one of the busiest days for restaurants. At school, children handcraft their present for their fathers. Consumer goods companies have all sorts of special offers for fathers: socks, ties, electronics, suits, and men's healthcare products.
Example Output: do they celebrate father's day in the netherlands?
Example Input: As a vertically integrated company, Luxottica designs, manufactures, distributes and retails its eyewear brands, including LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, Apex by Sunglass Hut, Pearle Vision, Sears Optical, Target Optical, Eyemed vision care plan, and Glasses.com. Its best known brands are Ray-Ban, Persol, and Oakley.
Example Output: | are oakley and ray ban owned by the same company?
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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".
The Washington Supreme Court is asking the Legislature to approve a $90 surcharge on a court filing fee to help provide legal help for the poor in civil cases, Chief Justice Gerry Alexander said Wednesday. "Some might say, why should we support this when we face tough financial times?" Alexander asked in his State of the Judiciary address to a joint session of the Legislature. "It seems to me in America, where we rejoice in the fact that we are a nation devoted to the rule of law, we should not ration access to justice." The recommendation comes from the court's Task Force on Civil Equal Justice Funding, created in 2001 to look for ways to cope with the sparse amount of money available for such cases. As the task force was studying the issue, $900,000 was cut from state support for civil equal justice services. That prompted the state's two main legal services providers - Columbia Legal Services and Northwest Justice Project - to cut their staffs, Alexander said. The change would increase the cost of filing a lawsuit in Superior Court to $200. The total fee would be split, with 54 percent going to counties and 46 percent going to the state for a newly created equal justice account. Alexander also requested money for five additional Superior Court judgeships and one additional District Court judgeships, arguing that increased caseloads require more judges. Two of the Superior Court judges and the District Court judge would be in Clark County, with one Superior Court judge added in the joint district that serves Benton and Franklin counties and one each in Kittitas and Kitsap counties. <sep>What prompted the state's two main legal services providers to cut their staffs?<sep>The $800,000 cut
No
A day at the beach. When Sam woke in the morning, he was super excited! Today was the day! It was Sunday, the day that Sam's mom and dad had promised to take Sam to the beach. Sam's grandma had given a pail and shovel to Sam to use in the sand. At breakfast Sam was so excited he was wiggling in his seat! Mom told Sam that they would leave when the big hand on the clock was pointing to the 10, and the little had was pointing to the 12. Mom asked Sam if he would like to help make sandwiches for the trip, and Sam said that he wanted to help. Dad said, "let's make a game of it, we need to make a sandwich for each of us. There are three of us, so we need three sandwiches. Let's count as we make the sandwiches!" Sam counted as mom made the sandwiches, one for dad, one for mom and one for Sam. Then mom started to make another sandwich! "Mom!" said Sam, "we have three sandwiches and that makes one sandwich for each of us." Sam's mom laughed, "You're right Sam!" Sam's mom said she was being silly. <sep>What was Sam's game with the sandwiches?<sep>Counting
Yes
Paul put the despised watch away And laid out before him his array Of stones and metals, and when the morning Struck the stones to their best adorning, He chose the brightest, and this new watch Was so light and thin it seemed to catch The sunlight's nothingness, and its gleam. Topazes ran in a foamy stream Over the cover, the hands were studded With garnets, and seemed red roses, budded. The face was of crystal, and engraved Upon it the figures flashed and waved With zircons, and beryls, and amethysts. It took a week to make, and his trysts At night with the Shadow were his alone. Paul swore not to speak till his task was done. The night that the jewel was worthy to give. Paul watched the long hours of daylight live To the faintest streak; then lit his light, And sharp against the wall's pure white The outline of the Shadow started Into form. His burning-hearted Words so long imprisoned swelled To tumbling speech. Like one compelled, He told the lady all his love, And holding out the watch above His head, he knelt, imploring some Littlest sign. The Shadow was dumb. <sep>What were the hands of the watch studded with?<sep>Garnets
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What happens next in this paragraph?
How to help bad knees with yoga
Practice mountain pose to improve your alignment and get you warmed up.
This is perhaps the most basic standing pose in yoga, and will strengthen your thighs and knees. This pose is also good for people suffering from knee osteoarthritis. | Stand straight with your feet together on a yoga mat or exercise mat. Make sure your big toes are touching and your heels are slightly apart. |
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
In some cultures , Santa Claus brings coal to misbehaved children for Christmas .
Some cultures hold that children who misbehave will receive only a lump of coal from Santa Claus for Christmas in their christmas stockings instead of presents .
A dopamine reuptake inhibitor ( DRI ) is a drug .
A dopamine reuptake inhibitor ( DRI ) is a class of drug which acts as a reuptake inhibitor of the monoamine neurotransmitter dopamine by blocking the action of the dopamine transporter ( DAT ) .
The PlayStation ( often known as the PS1 or the PSX ) is a video game console made by Sony .
| The PlayStation ( officially abbreviated as PS and commonly known as the PS1 or its codename PSX ) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment .
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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.
In the Philippines, the Philippine ZIP code is used by the Philippine Postal Corporation (Philpost) to simplify the distribution of mail. While in function it is similar to the ZIP code used in the United States, its form and usage are quite different. The use of ZIP codes in the Philippines is not mandatory, however it is highly recommended by Philpost that they be used. Also, unlike American ZIP codes, the Philippine code is a four-digit number representing two things: in Metro Manila, a barangay within a city or city district (as in the case for Manila), and outside Metro Manila, a town or city. Usually, more than one code is issued for areas within Metro Manila, and provincial areas are issued one code for each town and city, with some rare exceptions such as Dasmariñas, which has three ZIP codes (4114, 4115, and 4126) and Los Baños, which has two ZIP codes (4030 and 4031 for the University of the Philippines Los Baños).
what is a postal code in the philippines
The ABC islands are the three western-most islands of the Leeward Antilles in the Caribbean Sea that lie north of Falcón State, Venezuela. In order from west to east they are Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire. All three islands are part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, although they remain outside the European Union. Aruba and Curaçao are autonomous, self-governing constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, while Bonaire is a special municipality of the Netherlands proper.
what are the abc islands of the caribbean
Ash Wednesday derives its name from the placing of repentance ashes on the foreheads of participants to either the words 'Repent, and believe in the Gospel' or the dictum 'Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.' The ashes may be prepared by burning palm leaves from the previous year's Palm Sunday celebrations.
| where did they get the ashes for ash wednesday
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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.
Kosta Karageorge should be standing on the Ohio Stadium turf today, recognized as one of 24 senior football players at their final home game as an Ohio State Buckeye.
But the walk-on defensive tackle remained missing last night, and he won’t be there for the game against Michigan.
Karageorge, 22, was last seen walking out of his E. 7th Avenue apartment around 2 a.m. Wednesday.
Now, his face is on more than 5,000 fliers blanketing windshields, utility poles and walls near his apartment; around Lennox Town Center; and near the area in Grandview Heights to where his cellphone was last traced.
More than 150 people gathered at Stauf’s Coffee Roasters on Grandview Avenue yesterday to get the word out that Karageorge is out there somewhere.
Jeremiah Webber, who coached Karageorge as a wrestler at Thomas Worthington High School, organized the effort.
“I’m very scared for him,” Webber said. “I’m worried. I’m trying to remain optimistic. We love him, and we want him home.”
Columbus police are treating his disappearance as a missing-person case, with nothing to indicate there was foul play. Adult men are allowed to go missing, said Sgt. David Pelphrey, a Police Division spokesman, but the family has concerns, and police are ramping up their response.
Karageorge is described as
6 feet, 5 inches tall and weighing 285 pounds. Although pictures show Karageorge with hair, friends and family say he recently shaved his head, so he’s bald with a short beard. He sometimes uses his middle name and goes by “Alex.”
Last night, a group of former OSU football players said they’re offering a cash reward for information that helps police find Karageorge. Matt Finkes, a defensive player from the mid-1990s, announced on his Twitter page that the alumni are putting $1,000 toward the reward.
Karageorge’s parents called Columbus police on Wednesday evening after he didn’t return to his apartment and didn’t show up for football practice that day.
According to the police report, Karageorge’s mother, Susan, said her son texted her at 1:30 a.m. Wednesday to say, “I am sorry if I am an embarrassment but these concussions have my head all f---ed up.”
His sister Sophia Karageorge said her brother has a history of sports-related concussions, and the family is worried that he might be disoriented because of one he suffered a month ago. Karageorge also wrestled for three years for the Buckeyes.
Webber said he’s not sure what that text meant.
Karageorge “is a very competitive person,” Webber said. “He holds himself to very high standards ... He always wants to make people proud.”
In a statement, team physician Dr. Jim Borchers said: “First and foremost, our primary concern is for the health, safety and welfare of Kosta. While we are not able to discuss or comment about the medical care regarding our student athletes, we are confident in our medical procedures and policies to return athletes to participation following injury or illness.”
Head coach Urban Meyer said in a statement that his thoughts were with the family of Karageorge, a “hard worker on the field and pleasant off the field.”
“We pray that he is safe and that he is found soon,” Meyer said.
Friends from Thomas Worthington, current and former co-workers of Karageorge’s parents, and strangers came out to help yesterday.
Paul Santuoso and Cat Silveria have lived in Grandview for only about a year and don’t know Karageorge. But, they said, a friend went missing when they lived in Florida, and they remembered how many people helped search for him.
“We were inspired to help,” said Santuoso, 27.
Friends of the Karageorges said parents Susan and George would be the first to help if someone else were in their position.
“It’s every parent’s worst nightmare,” said Kristy Morehart, who worked with Karageorge’s mother.
Anyone with information about Karageorge’s whereabouts is asked to call 614-747-1729 or Columbus police at 614-645-4545.
@allymanning ||||| COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The search continued for Ohio State football player Kosta Karageorge on Friday afternoon, 60 hours after he was last seen leaving his Columbus apartment about 2 a.m. early Wednesday morning.
A walkon defensive lineman who joined the football team in August, Karageorge formerly wrestled at Ohio State for three years. His family has said Karageorge suffered several concussions in the past and at times would become disoriented.
For the first time, Ohio State's athletic department released an acknowledgement that Karageorge, who missed football practice on Wednesday and Thursday, is missing.
Included in the statement was a quote from Dr. Jim Borchers, the doctor for the football team.
"First and foremost, our primary concern is for the health, safety and welfare of Kosta," Borchers said in the statement. "While we are not able to discuss or comment about the medical care regarding our student-athletes, we are confident in our medical procedures and policies to return athletes to participation following injury or illness."
Head coach Urban Meyer, at a Beat Michigan pep rally on Friday, asked the crowd to keep Karageorge and his family in their thoughts and prayers. Meyer said he did not know much about the situation.
In the release, Meyer said, "Our thoughts continue to be with the family of Kosta Karageorge and we pray that he is safe and that he is found soon. He is a young man who joined the football team in August and was a hard worker on the field and pleasant off the field.
"He has been an important player in practice for us, right up until the time he was reported missing. If anyone knows anything about his whereabouts, please help his family and contact the authorities."
Several football players also began writing on Twitter about their hopes for Karageorge's return on Thursday and Friday. Several former OSU football players also said they have gathered $1,000 for any tip to Columbus police that would lead to finding Karageorge.
Karageorge, 22, is 6-foot-5 and 285 pounds, with a shaved head and a slight beard. He does not have his ID on him and was last seen wearing black sweatpants over jeans, a black hooded sweatshirt with "FOC" on the hood and a black beanie.
Family and friends planned to gather Friday afternoon in Grandview, near the area where Karageorge's cell phone was last pinged around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, to attempt to find him. Police have also been searching for Karageorge. ||||| Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. |||||
A: | Police in Columbus, Ohio, are searching for an Ohio State University football player who disappeared on Wednesday after an ominous text to his mom. “I am sorry if I am an embarrassment but these concussions have my head all f---ed up," wrote Kosta Karageorge, according to the Columbus Dispatch. The 22-year-old senior was last seen leaving his apartment about 2am Wednesday, apparently upset, and he failed to show up at football practice the next day. His family says he has a history of concussions and sometimes gets disoriented, reports Cleveland.com. “We’re very concerned that he’s not himself and that he maybe doesn’t know what’s going on,” his sister says in a previous Dispatch story. Karageorge is a 6-foot-5, 285-pound defensive lineman who joined the football team only this year as a walk-on. He had previously wrestled for OSU for three years. "While we are not able to discuss or comment about the medical care regarding our student-athletes, we are confident in our medical procedures and policies to return athletes to participation following injury or illness," says the football team's doctor in a statement. Former players are raising money for a reward. Karageorge was supposed to be on the field today to be recognized with the team's other seniors. |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is a 2017 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team Guardians of the Galaxy, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sequel to 2014's Guardians of the Galaxy and the fifteenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Written and directed by James Gunn, the film stars an ensemble cast featuring Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Michael Rooker, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, Elizabeth Debicki, Chris Sullivan, Sean Gunn, Sylvester Stallone, and Kurt Russell. In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, the Guardians travel throughout the cosmos as they help Peter Quill learn more about his mysterious parentage. | is there a sequel to the guardians of the galaxy? |
In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
Let me give you an example: This list contains the top 25 accounts with the most followers on the social photo-sharing platform Instagram. As of May 2018, the most followed user is Instagram's own account, with over 235 million followers. Selena Gomez is the most followed individual, with over 137 million followers. Ten accounts have exceeded 100 million followers on the site.
The answer to this example can be: who has the maximum number of followers on instagram
Here is why: The answer is talking about the Instagram accounts that have the most followers. The question asking about the maximum number of followers. So this is a good example.
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Black Adam is a fictional DC Comics supervillain and occasional antihero; an adversary of the superhero Captain Marvel, also known as Shazam. Black Adam was created by Otto Binder and C.C. Beck in 1945 as a one-shot villain for the first issue of Fawcett Comics' The Marvel Family comic book; however, Black Adam was revived as a recurring character after DC Comics first licensed and then acquired the Fawcett characters and began publishing Captain Marvel / Marvel Family stories under the title Shazam! in the 1970s.
Answer: | what's the difference between shazam and black adam |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
The principal bridesmaid, if one is so designated, may be called the chief bridesmaid or maid of honor if she is unmarried, or the matron of honor if she is married. A junior bridesmaid is a girl who is clearly too young to be married, but who is included as an honorary bridesmaid. In the United States, typically only the maid/matron of honor and the best man are the official witnesses for the wedding license.
Output: | can you call a married woman maid of honor? |
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
How to become a catholic priest<br>Meet the basic requirements. In the roman catholic church, a priest must be male and unmarried. Many eastern catholic churches will ordain married men, generally in their native country.
Choose from: *Yes; *It's impossible to say; *No;
Hypothesis: Becoming a priest is easy.
| It's impossible to say |
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In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
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Speaking at the 1959 inauguration of the monument he’d commissioned to commemorate the victims of the civil war, Spanish dictator Francisco Franco left little doubt that it was really built to celebrate his victory.
His vanquished enemies had been obliged to “bite the dust of defeat,” Franco said then, according to Paul Preston’s biography of the general who ruled Spain for 36 years after defeating Republican forces in the 1936-1939 conflict, a precursor to World War II.
Valle de los Caidos monument. Photographer: Denis Doyle/Getty Images
Fifty years later, Franco’s flower-strewn tomb at the same site has become a pilgrimage destination for Spaniards still harboring sympathy for his fascist regime. On a recent Sunday, a small group of people gathered around the grave after mass to pay their respects, some crossing themselves or kneeling to touch the tombstone. Nearby, a priest sprinkled holy water on three men.
Now Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is seeking to put a stop to the tributes. His Socialist government said Friday that it had issued a decree allowing for Franco’s body to be removed from the site and transferred to a place of his family’s choosing. It’s a decision that threatens a backlash in a country whose political fault-lines reach back to the civil war.
Forced Labor
Without Franco’s tomb, the basilica will serve its original purpose, which is to commemorate the remains of some 34,000 victims from both sides of Spain’s civil war that are also buried there, the government said.
Extracting Franco’s remains from a memorial built using forced labor from 20,000 political prisoners brings to an end a 40-year struggle to come to terms with Franco’s legacy, said Alejandro Quiroga, a professor in Spanish history at Newcastle University in England. It represents another step in attempts to address the grievances of the families of an estimated 200,000 Spaniards who were killed for opposing his regime.
“There’s no doubt that this will at least normalize a situation that by European standards is abnormal and extraordinary,” Quiroga said. “It’s unthinkable that in any other place where there’s been a fascist dictatorship that you could have this kind of celebration of a dictator in a monument constructed by slaves.”
The move will play well with Sanchez’s supporters but it illustrates how, nearly 80 years after the end of a bloody civil war, Spain’s fledgling democracy is still deeply polarized. Unlike in Germany or Italy, Spain’s fascist regime wasn’t ousted by force and the payoff for a peaceful transition to democracy after Franco’s death in 1975 is that the perpetrators of atrocities, including mass executions and labor camps, have never faced trial. For years, Spaniards held an unofficial “pact of silence” -- it was best to let sleeping dogs lie, was the thinking.
It’s an idea that still holds sway today. About 41 percent of Spaniards approve of the idea of removing Franco’s remains while 38.5 percent are opposed, according a July 15 Sigma Dos survey carried out for El Mundo. Yet even with a majority in favor of the measure, 54 percent don’t think that now is the moment to do it, the poll found.
Towering Cross
Commissioned by Franco, the 262-meter (860-foot) basilica is longer than St. Peter’s in Rome and took 18 years to build. Its 150-meter-high cross towers from a rocky escarpment surrounded by pine, poplar and oak trees on the edge of the Guadarrama mountain range an hour’s drive northwest of Madrid.
Franco’s grave commands the central point in the basilica, under a mosaic dome on the far side of the altar from the tomb of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, the founder of Spain’s fascist movement known as the Falange.
Nowhere is opposition to Franco’s exhumation expressed more vehemently than here, where hundreds come to attend mass each Sunday. Mercedes Laso, 64, said the government was attempting to rewrite history.
“I don’t care either way about Franco but they should leave his remains alone,” Laso said. “They want to change the result of the civil war after having lost it.”
Concrete Achievement
Others argued that it would be a profanity to dig him up after so many years or that it was a smokescreen to distract from other issues such as poverty and immigration. Taking selfies outside the church, Nerea Lerida, 22, said she’d made the 250 kilometer (155 mile) trip from Ciudad Real to visit the monument before the government acts on its plans.
“He built this place for himself so he should be allowed to remain here,” Lerida said.
For Sanchez, who governs with a minority after ousting Mariano Rajoy in a no-confidence vote following a corruption scandal involving the conservative People’s Party, it’s a chance to notch up a concrete achievement. With just 84 seats out of 350 in Spain’s parliament, Sanchez is struggling to implement his agenda, such as a levy on banks to cover pension payments or increasing the budget-spending ceiling.
Under the previous Socialist government, symbols of Franco’s regime were removed from public spaces and streets renamed. A commission on the monument’s future concluded Franco should be removed and Primo de Rivera relocated within the mausoleum, but the recommendations were ignored after the People’s Party took power in 2011.
“It’s about time they did this,” said Cristina Garcia, a 37-year-old engineer from Madrid. “It can remain as a monument but it shouldn’t be a place of pilgrimage for fascists. You can’t turn the page without reading it first.” ||||| Spain has taken another step towards dealing with the legacy of the civil war after the government approved the exhumation of the remains of Francisco Franco, which have lain in the Valley of the Fallen mausoleum near Madrid since his death in 1975.
The council of ministers voted in favour of the move, which was opposed by the rightwing People’s and Citizens parties. However, the decree only needed a simple majority to pass. The Socialist party of the prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, the leftwing Podemos and the Catalan and Basque nationalist parties all voted in favour.
The decree means that after a dispute lasting many years, the removal of the former dictator’s remains will go ahead, probably later this year, despite opposition from Franco’s family.
His grandson, Francisco Franco Martínez Bordiú, said: “The government has taken this opportunistic, cowardly and vengeful decision. This is just a trick to win votes for the left.”
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Pablo Casado, the leader of the People’s party, which emerged from the reformist wing of the old Franco regime, criticised Sánchez for “reopening old wounds” in an effort to “cover up the fact that he is incapable of governing”.
The Citizens party, which is going head to head with the People’s party for the rightwing vote, also criticised the move.
“It seems that some want to return to the fratricidal battles between reds and blues, of confrontation and division, which is what bipartisan politics likes,” said Albert Rivera, the party leader. He claimed this type of politics was as obsolete as “listening to music on cassette or vinyl”.
While the opposition argued the decision would only reopen old wounds, these have never healed for millions of Spaniards.
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Flowers placed on the tomb of Francisco Franco inside the basilica at the Valley of the Fallen monument. Photograph: Andrea Comas/AP
While Franco has lain in splendour 37 miles (60km) outside Madrid, until recently, an estimated 140,000 of his opponents lay in unmarked graves around the country, buried where they were summarily executed during and after the civil war. The last of these executions was carried out in 1975.
In order to smooth the transition to democracy after Franco’s death, all parties agreed to a “pact of silence”, leaving the crimes of the civil war and its aftermath as unfinished business.
As a result, for decades before and after the transition, the “vanquished” in the civil war have had to live alongside the “victors”, often knowing their neighbours or local mayor are the people who murdered members of their family or confiscated their property.
No one has been prosecuted and, despite plans to establish a truth commission, those who committed crimes under the dictatorship are protected by an amnesty.
There has been no attempt at reconciliation regarding the civil war and it is only in recent years, when the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory was formed in the realisation that the witnesses to this history would soon be dead, that the issue has been addressed and the nation shaken from its collective amnesia.
Every day, fresh flowers are laid on Franco’s grave, but the fact it exists as a monument is seen as an insult to the millions who suffered and were driven into exile by his regime. While it is a crime in Germany to venerate Hitler and the Nazis, in Spain, there is a Francisco Franco National Foundation dedicated to his memory.
The exhumation is expected to be carried out in secret to avoid protests and it is not yet clear where the remains will be reburied. The government has given the family 15 days to come up with a proposal.
However, wherever his final resting place, what the furore about his removal makes clear is that, while the dictator may be long dead, his legacy is very much still with us. |||||
Output: | Spain is taking a major step toward dealing with its fascist past by exhuming the body of former dictator Francisco Franco, the Guardian reports. Buried at a monument for the nation's civil-war dead near Madrid, Franco remains a magnet for fascist sympathizers who spread flowers on his grave—but many see him as an insult to the roughly 200,000 Spaniards who died opposing his regime. Now the Socialist party led by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is having the fascist leader exhumed against the wishes of Franco's family. "The government has taken this opportunistic, cowardly and vengeful decision," says Franco's grandson, Francisco Franco Martínez Bordiú. "This is just a trick to win votes for the left." Clearly, there's a history here—a history of unhealed wounds. To ease Spain's transition to democracy when Franco died in 1975, the country agreed on a "pact of silence" that left civil-war crimes unpunished. But that meant some Spaniards lived alongside neighbors they knew had killed their family members or taken their property. Under the last Socialist government, symbols of Franco's era were removed and streets renamed, but a plan to have his body taken from the Valley of the Fallen Mausoleum went unheeded when the People's Party took over in 2011, per Bloomberg. Now the exhumation will take place, reburial location unknown. "It's about time they did this," says a 37-year-old woman in Madrid. "It can remain as a monument but it shouldn’t be a place of pilgrimage for fascists." |
Definition: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Input: Who likes to wear facial hair?, Context: Externally, Orthodox Jews can be identified by their manner of dress and family lifestyle. Orthodox women dress modestly by keeping most of their skin covered. Additionally, married women cover their hair, most commonly in the form of a scarf, also in the form of hats, bandanas, berets, snoods or, sometimes, wigs. Orthodox men wear a skullcap known as a kipa and often fringes called "tzitzit". Haredi men often grow beards and always wear black hats and suits, indoors and outdoors. However, Modern Orthodox Jews are commonly indistinguishable in their dress from those around them.
Output: | Haredi men |
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 Swiss Federal Council ( , , , ) is the group of seven people who are the federal government of Switzerland .
A: The Federal Council ( , , , ) is the seven-member executive council that constitutes the federal government of the Swiss Confederation and serves as the collective head of state and of government of Switzerland .
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Q: The song was Jackson 's fifth # 1 single on the " Billboard " Hot 100 .
A: The song became Jackson 's fifth number-one single on the " Billboard " Hot 100 , and the final of seven top five singles from the album , making her the only artist to achieve seven top five singles from one album .
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Q: NOW is a free weekly newspaper / magazine published in Toronto , Canada .
A: | Now ( styled as NOW ) , also known as NOW Magazine , is a free alternative weekly newspaper and online publication in Toronto , Ontario , Canada .
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How to wax facial hair (girls )<br>Consider buying honey wax/sugar wax/some kind of waxing-related hardening liquid. Honey wax is very good, takes the hair off clean, and leaves skin incredibly soft and smooth. Although a little more expensive, it is worth it! If you buy some wax, other than make it, most come with big cuttable cloth pieces.
Can we draw the following conclusion?
Wax will harden quickly once applied to the face.
Select from: [i] Yes [ii] It's impossible to say [iii] No | [ii] |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Q: The FAA is supposed to regulate the?, Context: The FAA has been cited as an example of regulatory capture, "in which the airline industry openly dictates to its regulators its governing rules, arranging for not only beneficial regulation, but placing key people to head these regulators." Retired NASA Office of Inspector General Senior Special Agent Joseph Gutheinz, who used to be a Special Agent with the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Transportation and with FAA Security, is one of the most outspoken critics of FAA. Rather than commend the agency for proposing a $10.2 million fine against Southwest Airlines for its failure to conduct mandatory inspections in 2008, he was quoted as saying the following in an Associated Press story: "Penalties against airlines that violate FAA directives should be stiffer. At $25,000 per violation, Gutheinz said, airlines can justify rolling the dice and taking the chance on getting caught. He also said the FAA is often too quick to bend to pressure from airlines and pilots." Other experts have been critical of the constraints and expectations under which the FAA is expected to operate. The dual role of encouraging aerospace travel and regulating aerospace travel are contradictory. For example, to levy a heavy penalty upon an airline for violating an FAA regulation which would impact their ability to continue operating would not be considered encouraging aerospace travel.
A: | airline industry |
How to get your writing published in a teen magazine
Read magazines.
Familiarize yourself with a variety of teen magazines. If you're interested in publishing with a magazine then you need to know their target audience, what topics they cover, and general writing style.
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- Your magazine should include helpful sources, to help keep your work current, or to delve into their viewpoints from non-mainstream sources. Make sure that there is an article or digital article you should start in your magazine before going forward.
- Seventeen is geared towards teenage girls and covers a variety of topics, including beauty, romance, quizzes, and fashion. Boy's life, the official magazine of the boy scouts of america, has articles about sports and electronics, as well as stories about young men in bsa.
- College magazines are the only magazines that teach students what writing works, so you must find a magazine that is dedicated to a particular subject, genre, or interest. The classic magazine content yourself is 101 pages by 10w.
- Reading magazines about teen magazines will keep you up to date on whatever kinds of articles they choose to explain about the subject and setting of your magazine. Thoroughly research the published magazine and be concerned when you read about certain literary devices, books, and pages.
Seventeen is geared towards teenage girls and covers a variety of topics, including beauty, romance, quizzes, and fashion. Boy's life, the official magazine of the boy scouts of america, has articles about sports and electronics, as well as stories about young men in bsa.
How to take an open book exam
Understand the rationale behind an open book exam.
Open book exams do not rely on learn-and-regurgitate learning. Instead, you will have the information in front of you, but what you will be asked is typically quite involved.
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- You will be asked to describe your year from the date of the exam. By contrast, you will be asked about how far your years have grown over the course of a few months and how far past it was before.
- Open exams are meant to teach students how to take information and apply it in a thoughtful, deep manner. In an open book exam, the focus is not on memorizing information but applying that information.
- Read books on different topics before you begin outlining the topic. You may want to start with low-level books, like how much wine or soda is in a cup of coffee, about how much water is in a paper cup, and so on.
- Your instructor will provide you with detailed information regarding what the exam is about, and whether it means studying or not. In general, you will have to ask questions about how to improve grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Open exams are meant to teach students how to take information and apply it in a thoughtful, deep manner. In an open book exam, the focus is not on memorizing information but applying that information.
How to decorate a laundry room
Group cleaning supplies together.
Separate your must-have cleaning items into different types, like pre-wash or treatment items, stain-removing items, and post-wash items. Organize them in their own containers for quick access and to prevent damage if something leaks out.
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- If you're in a rush, only make the mess you need later on. Plan ahead and allow yourself a portion to have to work with when you're rearranging your laundry for safe cleaning purposes.
- Transfer bulk items to manageable sizes. Buying in bulk can ease the financial strain associated with your chores, so divide dry items into smaller, refillable containers.
- Keep larger items in a separate container for instance, dividers with lids or cardboard boxes with spaces between them for protection. Keep smaller items and piles of smaller items in separate containers for maximum durability.
- Start by working one cleaning pile at a time and organizing the chemicals and rubbing alcohol into each layer. Once all the cleaning and treatment materials are together, take your cleaning (er) bucket and hot water (for regular use), or load your laundry.
Transfer bulk items to manageable sizes. Buying in bulk can ease the financial strain associated with your chores, so divide dry items into smaller, refillable containers.
How to find grocery coupons online
Use online search engines to find coupons.
Type " printable grocery coupons " into the search engine, and look through the sites that you're offered. Usually, these searches will result both in retail stores' and manufacturers' coupons, as well as coupon collecting sites.
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- You can perform a free search, using the sites that you've already visited. For example, if you had bought two packs of coupons, but can't find them in the column filled to the left of your name, search using the labeled coupons site.
- Remember to include the retail coupons type, not the punchline. With these sites, you can describe exactly what's included and what's not, and that is what the coupons will be distributed for.
- Some stores even may ask for credit cards at prices similar to what you would get at a grocery store. Check these out and see if you can find a coupon collecting site.
- There are a variety of online coupon sites that offer printable coupons available on demand. Some coupon sites offer an array of coupon selections, an online version of the newspaper inserts.
| There are a variety of online coupon sites that offer printable coupons available on demand. Some coupon sites offer an array of coupon selections, an online version of the newspaper inserts. |
What is the most logical next event?
How to change headlight light bulbs on 2002 toyota rav4
Buy your replacement bulbs (the auto-parts store will have a book or touchscreen where you can look up the model type).
Park in a well lighted place and pop the hood.
You don't need any tools.
pick from the following. [-] Simply press the spark plug lever and watch the windows close fully. Turn the ignition or switch the radio on.; [-] You can use a screwdriver to pop the hood and check the owner's manual. Put the bulb in carefully and then put back the bumper stickers that you removed.; [-] Even if one bulb is burned out, plan to replace both bulbs. The other bulb is bound to go soon anyway.; [-] Remove the rear corner with a flat tip of a screwdriver. Tear off a strip of blue plastic, about the width of a water bottle, and carefully place it over the headlight bulb.; | Even if one bulb is burned out, plan to replace both bulbs. The other bulb is bound to go soon anyway. |
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 system of belief operated outside of organized religion while still acknowledging a source of creation?, Context: A number of novel ideas about religion developed with the Enlightenment, including Deism and talk of atheism. Deism, according to Thomas Paine, is the simple belief in God the Creator, with no reference to the Bible or any other miraculous source. Instead, the Deist relies solely on personal reason to guide his creed, which was eminently agreeable to many thinkers of the time. Atheism was much discussed, but there were few proponents. Wilson and Reill note that, "In fact, very few enlightened intellectuals, even when they were vocal critics of Christianity, were true atheists. Rather, they were critics of orthodox belief, wedded rather to skepticism, deism, vitalism, or perhaps pantheism." Some followed Pierre Bayle and argued that atheists could indeed be moral men. Many others like Voltaire held that without belief in a God who punishes evil, the moral order of society was undermined. That is, since atheists gave themselves to no Supreme Authority and no law, and had no fear of eternal consequences, they were far more likely to disrupt society. Bayle (1647–1706) observed that in his day, "prudent persons will always maintain an appearance of [religion].". He believed that even atheists could hold concepts of honor and go beyond their own self-interest to create and interact in society. Locke said that if there were no God and no divine law, the result would be moral anarchy: every individual "could have no law but his own will, no end but himself. He would be a god to himself, and the satisfaction of his own will the sole measure and end of all his actions".
A: Deism
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Q: Who, between Mary and Aquinas, was NOT Doctor Angelicus in 1567?, Context: Popular opinion remained firmly behind the celebration of Mary's conception. In 1439, the Council of Basel, which is not reckoned an ecumenical council, stated that belief in the immaculate conception of Mary is in accord with the Catholic faith. By the end of the 15th century the belief was widely professed and taught in many theological faculties, but such was the influence of the Dominicans, and the weight of the arguments of Thomas Aquinas (who had been canonised in 1323 and declared "Doctor Angelicus" of the Church in 1567) that the Council of Trent (1545–63)—which might have been expected to affirm the doctrine—instead declined to take a position.
A: Mary
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Q: what is the third group mentioned?, Context: Most Greeks are Christians, belonging to the Greek Orthodox Church. During the first centuries after Jesus Christ, the New Testament was originally written in Koine Greek, which remains the liturgical language of the Greek Orthodox Church, and most of the early Christians and Church Fathers were Greek-speaking. There are small groups of ethnic Greeks adhering to other Christian denominations like Greek Catholics, Greek Evangelicals, Pentecostals, and groups adhering to other religions including Romaniot and Sephardic Jews and Greek Muslims. About 2,000 Greeks are members of Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism congregations.
A: | Greek Orthodox Church
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Teacher:In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: " Enterprise " earned 20 battle stars .
Student: | " Enterprise " earned 20 battle stars , the most for any U.S. warship in World War II , and was the most decorated U.S. ship of World War II . |
TASK DEFINITION: You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
PROBLEM: Avril Phaedra Douglas ``Kim'' Campbell PC CC OBC QC (born March 10, 1947) is a Canadian politician, diplomat, lawyer and writer who served as the 19th Prime Minister of Canada, from June 25, 1993, to November 4, 1993. Campbell was the first, and to date, only female prime minister of Canada, the first baby boomer to hold that office, and the only prime minister born in British Columbia. She currently is the chairperson for Canada's Supreme Court Advisory Board.
SOLUTION: has canada ever had a woman prime minister?
PROBLEM: The minimum drinking age in Pennsylvania is 21 years. Minors are prohibited from purchasing, possessing, or consuming alcohol, even if it is furnished by the minor's immediate family. Persons over the age of 18 are permitted to serve alcohol, so an exception is made in the possession portion of the law in this respect. Many states have exceptions for consuming alcohol made for religious or medicinal purposes, but Pennsylvania does not have exceptions for either.
SOLUTION: can you drink with your parents in pennsylvania?
PROBLEM: More famously, Harley-Davidson attempted to register as a trademark the distinctive ``chug'' of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle engine. On February 1, 1994, the company filed its application with the following description: ``The mark consists of the exhaust sound of applicant's motorcycles, produced by V-twin, common crankpin motorcycle engines when the goods are in use.'' Nine of Harley-Davidson's competitors filed oppositions against the application, arguing that cruiser-style motorcycles of various brands use the same crankpin V-twin engine which produces the same sound. After six years of litigation, with no end in sight, in early 2000, Harley-Davidson withdrew their application.
SOLUTION: | does harley davidson have a patent on their sound?
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